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Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
F|iers' Bodies
Found in Wreck

WENDOVER, Utah, March 18.
tUP)-The bodies of six fliers were
discovered Friday in the wreckage
of four-engined bomber, missing
since January 26, Wendover field
public relations office reported Sat-
urday.
John Stow, Nevada sheep rancher
provided the information that led
searcherS TO the wrecked plane
Snow in the mountains had hidden
the wreckage during the intensive
search conducted by military and
civilian air patrol planes, officers
said.
The dead included: Second 1t.
Duray w. Dorsey, San Bernardino,
Calf.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
Argentina Stills
United Press Wire

BUENOS, AIRES, March 18. (UP)
The Argentine department of
posts and telegraph Friday night
issued an order cancelling United
Press franchises for the reception
and transmission of news to and
from Argentina by all means of
communication.
The announcement was broadcast
by the state board at 8 p. m. last
night and 1t was understood that
the order would be effective at noon
Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
Employers Get
Reduction in
JobIess Levies

SACRAMENTO. March Ia. CUP)
Some $4,000 California employers
will be granted reductions this year
in contribution rates to the unem-
ployment insurance fund, T. H.
Mugford, member of the state en-
ployment stabilization commission,
said Saturday.
Reductions from last years total
collections will be about $4,000 900,
Mugford said. The reduced rates
are being granted to employers who
have maintained reserve accounts
with the department of employ
ment, he added.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19

johnson with taking their ration
coupons from them, juggling their
accounts at his plantation COM
missary, threatening their lives,
and reducing them to virtual slav-
cry.
The plea of guilty came after the
court refused motion to dismiss
the nine counts against the planta-
ton owner. Johnson pleaded guilty
to two of the counts and Federal
Judge Harry j. Lemley said the
remaining seven would not be press
ed.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
Bombers Collide:
Three Men Killed

SANTA ANA. Calf. March 18
(UP)-Three men were killed and
one parachuted to safety when
two navy torpedo bombers collided
and burned Friday near Ell Toro
Marine air base, the navy announced
Saturday.
Names of the men were withheld.
The planes were in a group of
Is or 18 in the air at the time, ac-
cording to an eyewitness, DR.. Fred
Csenburg U.C.L.A. English pro-
feSSOr
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
Navy Reports
Two Subs Lost

WASHINGTON, March l8. CUP)
The navy Saturday announced
the loss of the U. S. submarines
Capelan and Sculpin with crews
numbering approximately $50 men,
including a submarine division COM
mander.
These losses raised to % the
number of American submarines
lost in this war. They also in
creased to l45 the total of American
naval vessels of all types which
have been lost
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
y AMBlINe
u EpoRTER
SWWE POSIES
POOR BICYCLE JIM

Bicycle Jim Smith is a pitiful
object these days. He avoided a
traffic accident while plying his
trade as traffic officer He avoid
ed an accident in way but he
broke his own leg
That was bad enough but you
ought to see Bicycle Jim in the
hospital. His face is as black as
thunder cloud and his ailing leg
is all bound up. He waves it like
a crutch all day long and means
about wanting to goshome.
The minute he goes home he will
begin to plan how he got out of
the house to go somewhere else.
There's no pleasing some people.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
Cadet Filler Dies
In Arizona Crash

TUCSON, Ariz., March 10. .CUP)
Aviation Cadet Sylvester F.. Hitler,
20, son of Nathan A. Hitler, Gordon,
Neb., was killed Friday night when
his training plsne crashed and
burned one mile northwest of the
Mariana army air field, Col. Charles
A. BackeS, commanding officer at
the base, announced Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
S1,0l9,000,000 for advance

s1,019,000,0OO for advance
bases.
Among the Individual authOri-
ZatiOns, based on estimated costs
are:
SaltOn Sea, 100000
HOltville,, S3,500,000
Ell Centre, S1,70O, 900.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
Valley Must Wait
Ruling on Hay
Pay

Imperial Valley must car
ry on for 10 days or two
weeks before wage ceilings
are set for the hay harvest
season already under way, it was
revealed at wage rate hearing
held in Ell Centre Saturday.
Several hundred growers, en-
ployes, and contractors assembled
in Imperial county superior court
to give testimony in hearing con-
Quoted by Dave Davidson; chair
man of the California wage board,
War Food &C cministration He said
the wage board will make recon-
mendationS to the War Food AL
ministration and the final ruling
may be expected within two weeks.
1t will be possible to pay less than
the ceiling but never more than
the ceiling to be set.
MAP PROGRAM
Davidson explained at the OPEN
ing of the hearing that it was held
for one purpose only, to determine
the ceiling beyond which wages
could not go in the hay harvest
this year. Other ramifications of
the wage problem we're not to be
considered at this time. He at
tempted to get testimony from men
engaged in all phases of hay har-
vest, carefully questioning each
person as to the type of work ne
does, the wages he received in the
past, the hours he worked, the
length of the season, whether the
work was skilled or unskillec, the
total amount earned in a year, how
he occupied his time while not
engaged in hay harvest, and what
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
Planter Draws Sentence
On Peond9e Charges

HELENA, Ark, March 18.
(UP)-Albert Sidney John.
son, one armed wealthy plan
tation owner, who sat silently in
court and listened to white and
Negro employees tell of his beating
them and threatening their lives
If they left. abruptly changed his
plea to guilty Saturday and was
sentenced to two and a half years
in federal prison on a peonage
charge.
Eleven employees had charged
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
ITALIANS MAY WRITE

NAPLES. March l8 cUP) -Italians
in liberated areas will be able TO
send letters TO relatives In the
United States and South America
beginning Monday, the Allied mill
tary government announced Satur-
day. The mail will be limited 10
letters and postcards.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
Honor Roll

Additional names left out of
servicemen's list in Post-Press
Newspapers Special edition:
Vernon Holmes (A)
Lewis Bernard Brown (AA CR)
Henry Leroy Rood CA F.
w. D. Hudgins CN)
B. E. Hudgins (N
A. B. Hucgins (N
James Stephen Carson, listed as
Navy, discharged, is in. Air
Force.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19

Lemley ordered johnson immed-
lately imprisoned, refusing a re-
quest that he be allowed time -
get his business affairs in order.
Johnson, so years old and the
father of eight children, pleaded
guilty to federal charges in the
cases of two Negroes, Clyde Miller
and Shelly Mckinney, whom the
government charged he forced 70
remain on his farm in unwilling
Servitude.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
WINGED WORDS

F.. E. Alexander sent us this poem
and we think it's good. He said
If we didn't like it we could consign
it to the waste basket. But we
think you will enjoy it, too.
The bullets were flying.
The big guns were roaring,
And high overhead
The bOmberS were soaring.
While down in the valley
The doughboyS fought,
Defending the freedom
Their fOrefatherS bought.
They have what it takes,
That the Japs haven't got.
They can lick them anywhere,
believe it or not not"
The Japs are a bit tough,
But the Yankees are tougher;
And TOTO we'll knows
They are going to get rougher.
So he fleeS to his temple
hIlu 10 TlS ancestors ne prayS.
"Oh, Grandfather, Dear Grand
father,
Please support us these days.
"For we by divine right
Must rule this old sphere,
So, Grandpa, protect us,
For we are goners l fear.
For the Yanks are a coming,
They're well on their way.
And whenever they get here
Therell be the devil to pay"
Now, our boys have slogan,
And to each other they say,
Sure, I'll meet you again
Down Tokyo way"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19

WASHINGTON, Mar. 18.
(UP)-Early house action
probably the middle of next
week-was seen Saturday for bill
authorizing an appropriation of
$1,644,373,024 for the construction
of additional naval shore facilities,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
CITY CLERK GAVIN GOES
TO HOSPITAL FOR CHECK

City Clerk Neal Gavin entered
the U. S. Naval hospital at San
Diego Friday for physical check
up and possible surgery.
During his absence the duties of
the clerks office will be handled
by Irwin Maupin. Mr.. Gavin ex-
pected to be in the hospital several
weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
POPULATION BOOSTED

SAN FRANCISCO, March IL.
UP)-Records of ration books is
sued during the last two years re-
veal that California's food con-
sumers have increased 1877 per cent,
or 1,O14,00O persons while the rest Of
the nation showed 81 per cent
decrease, A. G.. Lorenz, Los Angeles,
chairman of the state war councils
food and nutrition committee said
here
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19
WEATHER

Maximum Friday SO, minimum Saturday 40; am.
Saturday 81, humidity So; noon Friday IS, humid
ity Al; pm. Friday 80, humitity %.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-19

I. A. HAY-U. S. No. l s31 $3.50; u. S. No. Ieafy
l. v. S3o.5O-32.5O; No. 2 $29.O0- $780, Sept. flax
S2.S6N.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-22
OPA Chart Shows
Cost Index Wrong
Government Index, Dealing Only With Prices Fails To
Show Increase In Cost Of Living Due To Deterior-
alton Of Quality-Labor's Contention Supported

LabOr's contention that the gov
ernment's living index does
not accurately reflect hidden price
increases consumers are paying is
supported up to the hilt by surveys
made by the Office of Price Admin
istration.
Its standards division has prepared
for circulation among staff members
charts disclosing how consumers are
being gouged as a result of the de-
terioration of the quality of merchan-
disc.
One chart presents an analysis of
materials in two shoes, one made in
l94l and the other in l943. Al
though the shoes were 'smade by
the same manufacturer, sold as the
same style number, and at the same
price, and look the same," the 1913
shoe, it is asserted, will give 80 per
cent less wear than the l94l shoes.
AZ Per Cent Increase
s'This," the caption added, sis a
AZ per cent increase in the cost of
the 1913 shoe to the consumer, due
solely to the deterioration of its
wearing qualities. 1t is a hidden
price increase"
The other charts show typical
changes in quality of women's coats
and of women's, misses and juniors
suits between the spring of 1912 and
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-22
)rting gains W arm w orkersOf BattleAhead

more profitable to dispose of their
stocks through back doors to boot.
leggers.
Following Cochran's denunciation
the 0. P. A. took note of the adulte-
ration and substitution evil. Reduc-
tons were ordered in the price OF
many new brands which have recent
ly appeared on the market and for
which consumers were charged much
more than they formerly paid for old
established brands.
Most of the new brands are what
the trade calls ''blends,'' a polite
term for aduIteration. They contain
a small percentage of aged whisky
and the remainder is water and al
cohol.
The o. P. A. price on these de-
coctions is $2.65 fifth of a gallon
high enough to permit more
than ample profits to distillers and
distributors. BOttled-in-bond whisky
of 100 proof may be sold at $3.50
for a fifth.
Senator Frederick Van Nuys
(Dem., Ind), who heads a committee
investigating liquor skul1duggery, an
nounced his intention to introduce leg
islation forcing 100000 gallons of
whisky out of storage. If the bill gets
through, distillers will be forced to re-
lease the liquor and to pay $1,4OO,-
100000 into the Treasury and the IL
quor shortage" will cease to exist.
Van Mugs also said he will spon-
sOr measures calling for honest lab
cling of liquor and striking at va
riOus forms of skullduggery.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-22
Liquor Interests
Playing WithFiire
Cochran Warns
Widespread Abuses Provide
Ammunition For Prohib-
itioi1ists Scion Warns

Whether they know it or not, the
liquor interests may be riding for a
fall. That warning was sounded this
week by Congressman John ]. Coch-
ran (Dem., Mo-, who was active i'm
the fight for repeal of prohibition.
He had particularly in mind the
shenanigans of Washington liquor
dealers, but asserted his criticism had
national application.
Those of us who are interested
in preventing a return of prohibi-
tiOn," he said, ''are deeply concern
ed by disclosures of widespread
abuses in the liquor traffic. This is
particularly true right here i'm
Washington, which is fertile field
for the prohibitionists to become
active.
ut must be remembered that it does
not take a constitutional amendment
to dry up the District, and no one
knows this better than the profes-
siona1 prohibitionist. An act of Con
gress alone would be sufficient"
Cochran complained of ''black
market" operations, the disappear.
ance of established name brand
WHISTLES, of wholesale adulteration
and price chiseling, all of which.
he declared, create hostility toward
the liquor business. He might have
added there has been a painful alb
sence of official action.
Two WASHINGTON wholesalers have
been indicted by the Federal Trade
Commission for oppressive practices
and they now face license revocation
proceedings. One has paid a fine o.
100000 to escape criminal prosecu-
ton on profteering charges.
In nearby Baltimore, agents of
the state liquor control body dis
covered thousands of bottles of
whisky stored in the back rooms of
dealers who had refused to make
sales to customers. Dealers find ii
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-22
Social Security
Board Advocates
Unified Program
Favors Early Action To
Prepare Home Front For
Postwar Period

Early action to prepare for the war
end situation on the home front, when
many people will be hunting work, is
the urgent recommendation of the So
cial Security Board in its eighth an
nual report to Congress, made public
today.
''In addition to the current plans
of Government and industry for
highlevel production and full en-
ployment, we should provide full
insurance protection" says Chair
man Arthur ]. Altmeyer, "for the
war workers and servicemen who
will be looking for jobs, and for
the countless other men and women
likely to be displaced by those who
have been away"
mo one can doubt" says the re-
port, "that victory will bring sharp
and sudden changes in all the factors
in American life with which the So
cial security program is concerned.
Whether that time comes sooner or
later, it is now none too soon to design
and implement the social security pro-
visions which will be needed then"
The Board recommends immedi-
ate action to provide insurance
against the loss or interruption of
wages for any of the common
causes that threaten the livelihood
of working people and are beyond
the individuals control; in short,
IN oo-,nuoI, o,,e:xo ra~noro~., sc sx,exru
ance protection which would pro-
vide benefit payments in part-com-
pensatiOn for wages lost on ac.
count of sickness or disability, tenn
porary or permanent, as well as on
account of unemployment, old age,
and death.
Urging the appropriateness of &C
ton now, the Board points out that
with employment and earnings at re-
cord levels, millions of workers can
and want to contribute toward making
better provisions against sickness, dis
ability, unemployment, and old age.
For many older workers, such an OPP
portunity may not come again"
Furthermore, says the Board, ssby
creating a reservoir of future pur-
chasing power, to be drawn upon
where and when it is needed, the ex-
tension of social insurance to addi-
tional groups of workers and addi-
tional risks would add substantially
to the Nations resources for wealth
ering the inevitable readjustments
of the postwar years. At the same
time increases in insurance contri-
buttons would lessen current inf1a-
tiOnary pressures."
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-22

We're it not for the labor press,
the labor n1Ovement sVOuld not be
,0hat it is today, and any man sOhO
tries to injure a labor paper is a
traitor to the cause.
Samuel COmners.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-22
New Record Set
In Profit Field

WASHINGTON : Corporation
profits for the third quarter of last
year were $5,7O0,000000 before taxes,
the highest for any quarter in
American economic history and 1910
above the same quarter of 1912" the
Dept. of Commerce announced this
week.
Even after deduction of taxes big
business did all right for itself with
corporation profits Slightly more
than $2000,000,000, go above the 1912
quarter"
Corporation profits after taxes are
expected to reach the "all-time high"
of about $8,OOO,OOO,OOO for the year,
the department said. Profits before
taxes are also expected to set new
rtcord, it said, estimating them at be-
tween $22,0O0,0O00OO and $23,0O0,-
100000.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-22

We must establish proper priOri-
ties on the home front as well as on
the battlefront. Buy more War
Bonds.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-22

This is the season for strengthen
ing our faith in our country, in
our cause, in our fighters-by buy
ing War Bonds.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-22
Street Car Workers
Win $35O,OOO Raise

DALLAS, Tex-Streetcar workers
in Dallas, successfully organized for
the first time in their history by the
Amalgamated Assn. of Street & Elec-
trio Railway Employees (AFL), have
won wage increases totaling $350,00O
year and retroactive back pay of
100000 for 1000 maintenance and
operating worker. They are employed
by Dallas Railway & Terminal Co.
The contract provides maintenance
of membership with checkoff of union
dues, time-and-a-half overtime with a
6-day work week and equal pay for
men and women.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-22

More than 5000 articles in which
cotton is used are purchased for
our armed forces.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-22

the spring of 1913.
A woman's spring coat selling at
$31.75 wholesale this year was in
quality equal only to a coat selling
for $22.75 a year earlier. Similarly,
1943 suit selling at $22.75 whole
sale was equal in quality only to
one selling for $16.75 a year ear
lier.
Since the government reports only
prices, organized labor has argued, its
index does not show the increases in
living costs resulting from deteriora-
ton of quality.
The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1944-01-22
Red Cross Issues Call
For More Blood Donors

WASHINGTON-With Army and
Navy requests for 100000 add
tional pints of blood to be collected
for the armed forces during the COM
ing year, Chairman Norman H. Da-
Wis of the American Red Cross, call
ed upon organizations including la
Dor unions to furnish "at least one
regular blood donor for every star
in their service flag"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22
l/C~

Paffaire Dorsey, the long list Of
filmdom fracases has passed from
the semi-harmless to the semi-lethal-
weapon stage.
Exactly what the weapons were in
this case the injured parties, Jon
Hall, masculine version Of Dorothy
Lamour, and Eddie Norris, eX.hus-
band of Ann Sheridan, can't quite re.
member, so their alleged assailants,
Mr.. and Mrs. Dorsey and Allan Smiley
(who in less contentious moments is
a long-distance horse fancier), were
indicted on somewhat minor charge
of assault with intent to commit
bodily harm.
The affray did not take place in
night club-as most of them debut
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22

er Club had had
prize ring they might have stayed
right there, checking such hard
ware as they may have had on 4
hand at the ringside and working
off excess vim and soda in gentle
manly fisticuffs. r.
Instead, they retired Of that is
the world to Dorsey's Sunset
Plaza home, and soon afterwards
the sun, rising over Sunset Plaza, {"
beheld a balcony scene unlike the
one in Romeo and Juliet. Maybe
il would help 10 call the sun as
witness, since the accounts OF
practically everybody else are
strikingly at odds
Claiming TO have been laid low Tin
the midst of a friendly argument
about cigaretteS-of all things) by
blow from "a blunt instrument"
welded at him on the Dorsey balcony,
Sarong-Man Hall came to with head
that resembled a model for an adj
vanced class in anatomy and a nose
slightly unhinged at the tip
Norris, member of the Hall team,
says he was kicked into docility and
then dragged downstairs, his head
going bumpty bump on each step.
Meanwhile, blond actress named
Jane Churchill, supposed to be third
cousin of the Prime Minister, and
Mrs. Dorsey are alleged to have been
doing their best TO disrobe and dis
member each other.
Also present, among others who
unintentionally were witnesses TO this
ferocious fracas of the FINLAND was
the gentleman who first appealed TO
the law, Antonio IcaZa, a Panamanian
actor. Little has been heard since
of or from this gentleman from
Panama, whose entry into the coun-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22

And how did it all start? over
some alleged passes made at Mrs.
Dorsey by Hall, who declares he was
just patting her back.
Curiously enough, on this same
night Prince" Mike Romanoff, the
synthetic nobleman, was tangling not
many blocks away with that old-time
favorite of the motor tracks, Barney
Oldfield-seems they couldn't decide
whose car was interfering with whom
and Actor Charlie Bickford was rub
a-dubbing a couple of unknowns for
uttering what he considered unpatri-
otto remarks in the presence Of others
in the Somerset House restaurant.
And, you will recall, it wasn't so
long ago that Enrol Flynn went down
under OnePunch Dan Topping's be-
ringed fist. Enrol rose again to shake
the hand that had smitten him-while
Dams wife, Sonia Henie, looked on
approvingly-and then, few days
later, went into the Mocambo Club,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22

premises a prize
ring where any
OF the said stars
can fall or take
falls out of one
another, as I h e
spirit moves.
Mr.. Hover RS
plan is probably
OF without its
faint of CONNER
cali S m, b u I
there is sound
sense a n d even
some hum an l.
tarianism in ii,
too. For wit h
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22

rHE boxing racket being what 1t is
namely in a blue funk-pessi-
mistic promoters could do worse
just now than look to Hollywood's
cafe society for some rather promis-
ing new material.
For the movie capitals playboys
have been heaving at one another OF
late in a way which, under proper
auspices, would make a fight fans
mazooma pop right out of his pocket.
Moreover, the promoters had better
move in on this new territory quickly
if they are going to move at all, be-
cause there have been signs that bis
tro bonifaces are beginning TO realize
that the bar, the dance floor and the
music, sweet and hot, are not their
only possible sources of income.
Inspired perhaps by the re-
cent Tommy Dorsey-Jon Hall
shindy. Mr.. II u. Hover. en-
terprising proprietor of Ciro's,
a midnight planetarium of Hol- "
lywood stars, has announced his \
intention of setting up on the N
A
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-22

Filmlond's Fomous Froeoses. Like fhe
Heavyweight DorseY-HoII Smuggling. Are
Now So Regular Thof an Open Prize
Ring Hos Appeored-So MaYbe The
Sfor.spongIed Scraps Will Become
Public Institution
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1944-02-11

Mily mas tn dT1me deda,
ktery umrel dobfe veda,
re do nebe sc dostane
a jeho Stack vnukGm zGstane.
(KONEC.)