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Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16

WASHINGTON. July Is. CUP)--
RepreS Ntatives of the countrys
nine auto manufacturers discussed
speedy reconversion plans with the
War Production Boards automo-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
DIVORCE GRANTED

A final divorce decree was grant,
ed in Imperial county superior
court Friday TO Eugene V. Murray
in the suit against Bessie Murray
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
CALENDAR
SATURDAY

G. T.. party, 1880, Imperial church.
SUNDAY
Services in churches.
MONDAY
rOastmasters 6:l5 California hotel.
carpenters 1880, Labor Temple.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
TAKES VACATION

Fire Chief Corn Reed announced
that Clyde Lott. a member CT the
fire department, is spending his
two weeks vacation at Marine.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16

Ten years ago this month small
feathered character named Donald
Duck made his film debut in Walt
Disney short titled The Wise Lit
tie Hen" Now Walt is starring
Donald in a full-length featun'
film. The Three Caballeros."
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
OBTAINS DECREE
OF DIVORCE

An introductory divorce decree
was granted in Ell Centre Friday
to Johnnie Stewart in the suit she
filed against Jack Stewart
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
VISITS IN CALEXICO

Lieut.. (j.g) Gene Kyle joined his
wife in Calexico this week end for
visit at the home of her parents
Mr.. and Mrs w. A. Campbell.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
Kiwanians Hear
Federal Water
Plans Discussed

There is philosophy of gov
eminent in Washington to central
lie the nations economy by con-
trolling water and power through.
Ir..aA.a
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16

Oub Tie OIlUtu States,
Harry Horton, chief coun
Imperial Irrigation Dist
address at the Kiwanis
con on Friday, touching
now before congress.
He pointed out that d
political speech. for he bI
certain individual memJ
parties on Capitol Hill a
toward this new way of lifd
He gave the Central VALID 49,
ect bill as an example of the d
ency.
This bill which effects the san
Joaquin Valley, contains clause
that allows the government to cut
off irrigation water from the Centrai
Valley project ito any farmer VINO
does not sell his property In ex-
cess of l60 acres, the speaker said.
Horton emphasized that the bill
goes further and forces the sale OF
land at the price the government
sets as well as telling farmers TO
whom the acreage may be sold.
He also discussed the background
of The international Boundary COM
mission which was created by treaty
at the time of the Gadsen Pur-
chase in 1853
He explained that although
congressional budget committee re-
fused to vote funds for a sewage
system in the Tia Juana river, the
commission composed of one Amer
lean, one Mexican, the Secretary Of
State of the United States. and the
Secretary of foreign Affairs of Mex
leo, went ahead and completed the
project through WPA funds
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16

They were commenting on the
terrific shellacking Germany il
taking on all three fronts. mo
wonder" commented Lloyd Nolan.
This is the first TIM, they're
shooting without a script"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-07-16
HOLLYWOOD
by ERSKINE JOHNSON

Lamar is cover d up she can be
felt in a scene"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
Strange Bedfellow

Smoked-filled rooms are nothing new in our political life The heavy hands of men with votes or money to deliver have often tipped the scales at both parties conventions. But certainly nobody ever classified such practices among the pret- tier ornaments of our political system. These practices weren't any prettier at the 1944 Democratic convention simply because it was big labor rather than big business or big-city political bosses that played the dominant role The C. l. O. Political Action Committee was new on the scene this year and, promising mil lions of votes, was powerful Its role was not unexpected and might have ex- cited no particular comment except for one interruptions element it had col lected.
 This element is the 'late" Communist Party. Last winter the Communists, in a sudden burst of enthusiasm for demo- cracy, dissolved their political entity and moved into the New York State American Labor Party, potent organization which carried the state for President Roosevelt ir 1040 They were led into the A. L. P. by Sidney Hillman, and the move split the party. MT. Hillman is also head man of the c. I. O. Political Action Commit tee, which is as hard to separate from A. L. P. activities as paper from wall, His Communist activities antedate the A. L. P. split by many years, for his inter est in and obvious sympathy for the movement are almost as old as the Rus sian revolution.
 Under these circumstances, it must be embarrassing to many Democrats that Mfr. Hillman took the play away from the Hymns, Hagues, Kellys and the solid south at Chicago and spoke the deciding word in the vice presidential selection. It must have embarrassed Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, after his long, de- magogic feud with the Communists, first to receive their blessing and then find himself respectfully consulting one or their close associates. Obviously it was embarrassing to the vice president Of the United States and two members Of Lhe Presidents cabinet, who, as Peter Edson revealed in an Illuminating convention story, rode freight elevators and sneaked up back stairs to confer with the C, l. o. P. A. c. leaders.
 It must even be embarrassing to the President and his running mate to be De. holden to a group which has incorporated into itself the neVer-idle Communists who heckled and picketed the President ana dangerously ohstructed our war prepara' ton before Germany attacked Russia And 1t must distress the majority Of c, ], Q. nnembers-or any American Of either party, for that matter-to see such an alien, devious, unpredictable, deylllshly clever organization so influentially mixed up with a convention in which its lntef' est is only expedlent,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
Life Insurance And Air Travel

Many of the life insurance companies of this country have discriminated against those travelling on the regularly scheduled commercial airlines. Some of the leaders have amended their applica- tion blanks, but the majority still ask the prospective purchaser of life insur- ance if he intends to "take ascenSionS in the future" or if he has taken an aerial flight as a fare-paying passenger on commercial airline" during the past year.
 In view of the figures given in the an nual report of the Civil AeronauticS Board for 1943 in which they state that there were Is fatalities per hundred million passenger miles, it would seem that air transportation has taken it's place among the leaders in safe means of travel. If one compares the average rate for the past five years of 2.3 for the airline as against the consistent 40 of automobile travel generally, it might be said that airline travel is almost twice as safe as travel on the highways. Three weeks ago the National Safety Council awarded honor certificates to 16 airlines for hay ing carried passengers one billion and quarter miles in l943 without fatal ac- cident.
 It is hard to understand why the life insurance companies still persist in in- cluding these "scare clauses" in their ap- plication blanks. Since in the future, business men will travel by air to an in- creasing extent, insurance companies would certainly find it advantageous to themselves to eliminate scheduled air travel considerations from their applica- tions, As it is they are rendering dis tinct disservice to themselves, prospec- tive policy-holders and, in particular, the has rolled up an impressive record for ef- ficiency and safety.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
What Is American Industry?

Following the first bomb attack on Japan by the huge new Superfortresses, General Arnold declared: "The use of the B-29 Superfortress in combat brings &C., tuality to an air forces plan made years in advance for truly global aerial warfare. It proves that our planners and engin- eers, coupled with the capacity of Amer ican industry, are an unbeatable combi- nation"
 What is American Industry?" Do SuperfortresseS pour out of super factor ies at the direction of few officials in Washington with super brains? No! The Superfortresses are momentary manifes- tations Of the imagination and produc- tive genius of free men-mOmentary be- cause where men are free their work is an endless series of miracles. Thus the Model T was yesterdays miracle, just as the Superfortress is today's miracle, while tomorroW's miracles are but dreams locked in the minds of unknown indiv- iduals. This is American industry, free industry.
 If industry in this country ever ceases to be free, 1t will no longer be truly American. And it will no longer produce miracles from the dreams of individuals. People should be wary of elaborate plans to strengthen the grip of government ownership and control of basic industries such as electric power, oil, mining, and other resources which are the foundation of all American industry. If govern, ment ownership is accepted as the solu- ton of postwar problems, free industry American industry-will go out, and il- diyidual freedom will eventually go with 1t,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
Good Advice

The public has become so used to con stantly improved service with steadily declining rates in the field of public util. tiles. that it oyerlooks the pfedicament Of many public service companies. Former United States Senator Arthur D, Nelson, of st, Paul, Minn,, Illustrates the situa, ton by citing the problem Of the 6,4oO smaller telephone companies serving an area of approximately two-thirds of the United States, He points out that the Federal wage and hour laws may shortly increase labor costs alone by 3S Is per cent, while taxes and all other operating expense mount steadily
 Many public utility companies under drastic public regulation, have been lear ful of asking the necessary return TOT their services, The Senator shows that arrangements must go before regulatory bodies and justify necessary increases n order to prevent the elimination of oper- Rting concerns absolutely indispensable to the welfare of the nation,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
ONE THAT WAS MISSED
(Ney Haven Register)

es~RF"E-Wf
 New Haven official inquiries into the number of juke boxes in the city which are not licensed according to law and paying a small fee into the municipal treasury have raised some question as to the standing of the law under which the fee is de- manded, Some of the operators Of the devices evidently intend to cons test 1t,
 What seems strange, however, is not so much the failure to date of the city to mine this source of reyg epue for all there Is ip 1t, as t IS the federal taEers overlooking of 1t and the survival of enough of t to be worth local taxing,
 Automobile owners have to pay 2 federal "use" tax on a car which they are not allowed to drive enough te keep the battery charged, Alcoholic FefFeshmeDt when bought il a certain type of outlet is taxed not only tp the bottle but tp the check, If the iDdiyidual keeps in his home a device for calling the grocer or the doctor jn aD emergency eE the updertakef, he must pay a feds eTal tax on the privilege, How the tageFs eyer happened to overlook the juke boxes, except for an excise tax oD tho sale Of devices and records, which raise some persons blood pressure to point where . call to the doctor or the undertaken may be necessary, tax and Rll Is Q puzzle,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
Back To Guam

Thirteen hundred and seventeen days after the first American soil fell to the Jap aggFessor, the Americans came back t0 reclaim 1t, Tn those 1917 days, defeat and Encouragement have turned to de. teFmined confidence, weakness has turned to strength Foot by foot the Americans have dgiven back their enemies lH island after islRnd, By sea and air they nave followed them and haFFled them, taking hard blows but dealing harder,
 At last they have come back to Guam where on Dec, n, l94l, the garrison 0F a few hundred Americans fell to an ln' vadlng force Of 5000, The retuFn was more than the latest strategic move ID the steady advance toward Tokyo, though etFategieally Guam is . pFlEe. v ls the largest island between Hawaii and Japan and the Philippines, the bottom Fung Of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
It then became the job of the bosses to carry out instructions.

It then became the job of the bosses to carry out instructions. DOUGLAS A COMPLICATION This became rather complicated because they had a letter endors- ing not only Truman but also Jus tice Douglas. So they adopted the strategy of saying they had a letter approving Truman. keep ing absolutely mum about the fact that Douglas, too, was men, toned.
 For instance, Mayor Kelly of Chicago, in a showdown wiht R. J. Thomas of the United Automobile Workers. said:
 "R. l., we've got to have the Michigan deIegati0n with us for Truman, and I want you to swing it. You want to go along with the boss, don't you? Well, ! can tell you he's absO' lutely for Truman and have a letter ot prove t. Do you want 70 SC elt?"
 "Yop're right ! dO," replied the doBbting Thomas.
 Mayor Kelly hesita1ed. " ! haven't got 1t with me-" he said, but I'II show it to you tom0rorw."
 Meanwhile, Assistant Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman told his Colorado delegation:
 When the President writes Iet- ter endorsing Wallace. and when certain people here tell me he's for Truman. ' prefer to believe that the President is telling the truth"
 So for about two days, the boss eS were in a dilemma. They had a letter endorsing both Truman and Douglas, but they only want ed to put across Truman.
 lA second and concluding cole umn giving the inside Of the Chi. eagO snerFy-g0-rOupd will appear ip tOn,0rrOw's Dem0crat.)
 (copyright. ie44. by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28

A statement that found its way into the Congressional Record shows that re- ceipts from current motor tax rates are more than adequate to buy the highway users a fair share of necessary postwar highway improvements, During the past twenty-five years the United States has built up the most perfect highway system in the World, Of course, the work has been granted an intermission during the war; nevertheless, the toll gate has gone, and so has the toll bridge, More important still is the fact that there is nothing in the statistics and the balance sheets to indicate that taxes should be raised on the family 'bus-eVen when the time comes around for the owner of the ear to use his own judgment as to how much gas to buy at the service station,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
Current Comment

It is Of the utmost importance that the small producer who has no war contracts be allowed to pros dlee essential civilian goods. Let him get started now, -Maury Maverick, WIPE vice chair' man,
 Tn general, 1t may be assumed thet British and American troops VIII not talk or give information, Much valuable time ean be lost tn useless inteTF0gatlop,
 -dermsp document captured
 tn France, We all wonder how we will ever get out Of this hell It Is no lopgeF Q decent war, t Is wholesale plyFS der and bucthertng Of men, dlsS grace to the 2otb century And Tor What9
 Letter to hts wife found on
 German killed ln France, The stakes for which We shall be playing iD the postsgaF battle against unemployment will be ae great as those of WaF, and the hMe factor will be no less iE0poFtant,
 -0ommittee for Economic Des
 VelOpmept,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28

ladder of islands that leads up to Japan itself. It has an excellent harbor and good airfields.
 But it has more for a nation that is peace-loving but proud, that by natural inclination and long habit has been fierce tc guard its own. Pearl Harbor may have been repaid with interest in a cumulative string of smashing victories. But on Guam part of America is being re- gained, and Americans who died to pro- tect American soil are being avenged there.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28

Sydney HillrnHn and Phil Murray of the CIO also had told Han- negan that labor was thumbs down on ByrneS. At Hannegan's suggestion, they went to Byrnes himself and, in less blunt lan- guage told him the same thing.
 Byrnes, always unseIfish where the Presidents wishes are con- cerned, withdrew.
 FINAL INSTRUCTIONS
 FROM PRESIDENT
 This left as the chief Vice. Presidential contenders: Senator Barkley of Kentucky, Senator Truman of Missouri. and Vice. President Wallace himself.
 Justice Douglas, as the conven- tion opened, had been mentioned in the secret Roosevelt letter to Kannegan, but he had developed almost no popular support. At that time, of course. no one ex- except insiders knew about the White House letter.
 However, the convention began to hear whispers about the let ter almost the day the conven- tioned opened, July l9. That also was the day that Flynn. Hanneg gan, Kelly and Hague got their final instructions to go for Tru- man.
 Those instructions were de. liyered to a room in the Black" stone hotel. when Ed Flynn got the President by phone in his railroad ear, and asked him again point blank about Truman
 Douglas. Mayor Kelly, Mayor Hague and Bob Hanpegan also participated in the converss- ton.
 They did not tell the President, he intimated to Wallace friends later, how much delegate strength Wallace had. Had he known this, FDR indicated after all the shouting was over, his decision might have been different. How eyer, there is no escaping the fact that FDR himself nadine the final choice regarding Truman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28

There is plenty of "secopd front" in the European war zone, particularly that part of Europe in which modern warfare IS being fought by American, Canadian and British soldiers, They may lose 2 lot of modern fighting machines and materials, but we can reproduce those thousands of men ln old'fashloned land are lighting N bspd I.I, to ., hand . We n hayspt Ss,. Hitler will yell out ounconditional sur. FeDdeF"-s0oneF than you may expect,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
POsT. WAR CARS
0Hartford TImss)

The automobile manufacturers have taken occasion D the past te WaTp the public that t need not exs
 neet, immediately after the shooting stops, ears that will incorporate the improvements that gre expected as 8 result Of discoveries made during WaE, The demand for tganspeFtes tati0p will be 50 great that ears closely RppF0xllDating the gel2 models will be the first to go 0n ihe market, But the public Will not De satisfied too l0ng with thet state q affairs, Tie automobile business is highly competitive and it Will sugs prise most people if eaTs With peW types q engines designed te use neg
 types 0f fuel neW aad nlore eo'1ls
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
Views Of The Press

fortable bodies and what-haye you. are not made available within a fea- sopablly short time after recopyer' sion,
 Nor need the cars be expensive Taxes are going to be high for years to come, and new cars, if the mas j0rity of the people are to own them, must be offered within price ranges the people can afford. As roads illl- prove and techpologists provide new spring suspension and other rlde- easing improvements, lighter cars than we have been accustomed to may be expected.
 It is interesting indeed that the Ford Motor Company should an. nOunee that 1t intends to supplement- It's present models with an "inex- pepsiye" line after the war, P0rd's Model T reV0lutionized the autov motive industry, because 1t made t possible for everybody to own Q ear. If the Ford Company again puts out a lOWrprleed car, attractive iD apv peaFanee and economical to drive, other companies will do likewise, The Ford announcement would seem to presage sti6 competition ip fBtuEe and no lack Of good ears, for people Of ordinary means to select from,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
.
 SPOTLIGHT
GI Vote Is
 Dewey Weakness
Bv s. BURTON HEATH

Albany, July 2s.7When Governor Dewey denounced the C.I.O. Political Action committee the other day without naming 1t. for criticizine the New York soldier vote law. he was striking at one phase of what many Democrats think may re-elect President Roosevelt-the comman- Ider-in-chief issue.
 Democrats claim and Republicans fear that the great bulk of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
HOW JAMAICAN GOT TRUMAN LETTER

Later, Chairman Hannegan, charged with running the first convention of his life while the President would be on a train speeding across the continent, de- cided he wanted a letter to re- jnforee his hand. So he wrote the President a note, asking if Truman or Douglas would be satis" factory, This was on Thursday, July l3,
 Leo Crowley, Foreign Economic Administrator, heard about the note and told Hanpegan t was a mistake. This got back to the White House, and Crowley was called in for conference, He res jterated his view to the President that the latter, having written one letter urging delegates to vote for Henry Wallace, should not write another letetr for Truman and Douglas,
 The President replied that HannegRp's n0te was merely 0pe Nf inquiry, and he had 2 right te RnsWeF t. He dld, ROoseyelts
 reply, though actually written OD Jwly ll, was p0st,datea July
 %, tN make t RDpeRF t0 have been written the dRV the e0p'
 VeHtian opened,
 On July It also, 1t became known that War Moblllzer Jlm- my ByFDes had his lightning rod up for the Vice Presidency, PDR indicated to his political advisers, before he left Washington, that he was so fond of Ryfpas he couldn't bear to tell him that he wasn't acceptable, He asked them to help take Ryrpes out Of the race, lIsyTBes had taken vigorous stands against the Rptlrpell teE and RnjSlyBehlRg bills),
 Came the day before the cons YeDtioD, Ed Flynn, meeting Hap' negan emerging from the Black stone Hotel, told him that New York couldn't take Byrpes for Vice President, that ByFnes would allensts the decisive Negro vote,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28

and Whst ls more to be aepleTed, they send Q lot Of innocent people to the hospital beesuse of tbelE Feeklessness,
 It Is also true that on the path way Of life many a tTaffie wreck occurs because Of the Vsnltlng ans hItlop Of certain people to get ahead Of everyone else, Men are sent to jail because they are not willing to stay iD line and take llfe's rewards as they come, But quite apaFt from those eFlmlnalig W' eliDed, there is q multitude 0f pe0. pie whose ambition 10 exceed and sHTpass others, te yield power, 70 accumulate money, to achieve hlgh position, causes them to eNeeed fbe speed limits, to break every rule eg
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28

Of driver who IS always on the edge Of every tFaffie line, hopk' ing his horn con,
 inuppsly and taking every 0p. pogtunity 8 D q every risk to pass every car going at Q noFIpal Fate Of speed, The hos,
 pitsls are full Of elaaps like this,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28

the road, end to involve themselves, and often others, iD Baffle eollls' Ions,
 The man who wants to be rich and has no e0nseienee about how he makes his money Is one 0f these, The fools who believe they can oyeFWhelm weaker nations and build 8 WoElds wide empire on force are probably the most tFeubles0Hle and misehlev' Olls q all,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28

uniformed vote will go to the Pre- si dent be. cause his wal lea d CT ship is sid c red q known quantity while that oi Mir. D c W e } would have tc be ken on faith and hope Similar colisid- erations may in- huence the votes of many stay at-homes " ho have men in the armed fareac
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28

Victory will be opportunity, no more and no less, and It's glgpi1v canoe for use and for our children Wlll be wholly dependent upon the use to which we put t,
 -DE Everett Case, president
 Colgate V,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
HEED TIE RULES OV THE ROAD
By EARL ', DOUGLASS. D. D.

Traffic experts tell ns that one 0f
 the great causes Of automeplle scs cjdents is the unaeeouptable aeslIe of some people to pass eyeFypooy else on the road, There IS a ype
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
A Thought for Today

The path of the just Is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day-PrOverbs 4:1S.
 Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price: she is sought, therefore, for her own sake Cicero