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Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
jAPS' Atrocities REVEALED
u. S, CENSORSHIP Draws FIRE
AirIman's S Widow
Recounts
Husbands Tale
Fiier Who Fled
Japs Died
In Coast Crash

LOS ANGELES, Jan. %. CUP)-
Mrs. Marajen Stevick Dyess, widow
of Lieutenant Colonel William e.
DyeSS, whose story Of Japanese bru-
tality to American war prisoners
shocked the nation, Friday said she
knew her husband had suffered the
first time she saw him after his
escape from an enemy internment
camp.
Dyess was killed Dec %, 1943,
when his P-33 plane crashed in
Burbank, Cal. He was attached to
the Los Angeles air defense fighter
wing where he had been assigned
Nov. 7.
SAW STORY IN EYES
Il saw it in his eyes-that suffer-
ing-when 1 first greeted him."
Mrs. Dyess said, referring to their
meeting in Champaign, ILL.,, when
Dyess finally returned after escap-
ing from his Jap captors.
Il had felt all along that he and
his men were benig mistreated, and
when I saw him again l knew"
The 19-year-old widow said Col
Dyess had been beseiged by rela-
tives and friends of men on the ILL
lated Bataan peninsula, but "he
couldn't tell them a Single thing
it hurt him So"
During the four and a half
months they were together before
his death, 1t. Col. Dyess told her
much of the story of his suffering
and that of the others. But he left
out the grueSome details, Mrs.
DyesS said.
He kept those from me-" she
said.
Mrs. Dyess did not reveal details
of her husbands story, saying "he
had to tell someone, but 1 am not
Continued on page 6, col. 2,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
Bodrds Join Forces to Scan
County's Mon Power Needs

The problem of maintaining man
power as well as selective service
quotas was the subject of a discus
sion in joint meeting of the FL
Centro selectiVe service board and
the Imperial county USDA War
Board, Thursday afternoon.
The joint meeting was held to
clarity the position of each groups
problems. The War Board, through
Investigations made by the farm
labor office, has been checking ap-
plications for deferment and the
present deferral status of all men
between the ages of 18 to 25 as
well as any other selective service
registrantS they are requested to
investigate. Their recommendations
are submitted to the Selective SerV-
ice board which is not under obli-
gaticn to follow the recommended
tionS. However, in 80 per cent
of the cases referred for investiga-
ton have followed the war board's S
suggestions.
CLEARS STATUS
Recent national Selective service
regulations do not permit deferment
of any class of labor whether war
industry or agriculture, there being
no essential industry acknowledged
under the rules. However, the Sc
lective service board will continue
to use the war boards recommended
tions to take those men upon whom
the strain would be the least as
regarding their replacement in ag-
ricultural employment.
From this meeting the important
statement of policy and county in
tereSt was issued. The statement
said in effect that the boards recog-
nize that the war must be won as
quickly as possible. To win the war
the armed forces needs in men
and materials must be met first
and while a great deal is dependent
upon agriculture it must still be
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28

secondary in consideration.
Civilian life may and can get
along sacrificing from what is de-
sirable 100 per cent, but anything
less than the maximum required by
the armed forces could be means
of prolonging the war and ultimate
victory for indeterminate periods"
The statement further pointed
cut that, "in Imperial county the
selective service boards have the
responsibility for furnishing the re-
quired men for the armed services
and the county USDA war board
has the responsibility of seeing that
agricultural needs are taken care of
insofar as possible. There is hardly
a case which comes before either
agency which does not have les
sening effect on the efficiency of
the ether. In an effort to achieve
the maximum efficiency possible,
these two agencies are endeavoring
to cooperate and correlate their ac-
tivitieS as set OFT in the following
statement:
The water has been squeezed out
of the man power barrel long ago.
Each man absorbed into the armed
forces by the selective service from
this county now affects agricultural
production. Individuals in many
cases feeling these effects give i'm
preston to an impression that their
individual situation has been given
insufficient consideration. Such a
condition is not the aim of either
agency.
MUST FILL GAP
'"NoW that each man taken by the
draft creates a gap" that must
be filled in or closed up, grave con-
sideration must be given to the
matter of either deferring, say an
18-year old boy with no dependents
and inducting in his place a 30
year old man capable Of doing the
same work but, if inducted, means
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
Polio Campaign
Gains Speed

Committees collecting funds for
the infantile paralysis drive tight
ened their lines throughout I'M
perial county Friday and prepared
to rush the campaign to a quick
finish.
Miss Josephine Eady is the
chairman of the CaleXico COM
mittee and Howard Demeke took
charge of the drive in inland, Mrs.
Irene Mattox, county chairman, ar
nounced Friday.
Meanwhile Mrs. Dorothy Ehmke,
chairman of the Ell Centre COM
mittee, announced the names of her
committee members. They are
Olin Gresham, Mrs. Elmer Heald,
Mrs. Edmund Giles, Leo DeCclleS,
and Arthur E. Prince.
The schools, the business estab-
liShments, the produce sheds, and
the service clubs all are helping us
collect money for the drive" Mrs.
Ehmke said I'VE are getting 100
per cent cooperation from them be-
cause they realize the need to have
funds available to treat the victims
of infantile paralysis.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
81 Centro
Lead er
Killed
Car Collision
Proves Fatal
To WV. Tison

w. w. Jake Tison, 48, died Fri
day from injuries suffered at 9:20
pm. Thursday at Seventh anG
He'll streets, El Centre, in a colli-
sion between his car and one driven
by 17-year-old William Ernest Cot
ter of Imperial
The Ell Centro businessman was
unconscious when lifted from his
car as it rested on its back across
the sidewalk ON the south side of
He'll street, Ell Centre police said,
and he did not regain conscious
ness before his death shortly after
IL am. Friday. Tisons physician
said he suffered a fractured skull,
chest injuries, and a fractured leg.
QUESTION BOYS
Ell Centro police took Cotter and
three boys in the car with him at
the time of the fatal accident co
the district attorneys office Friday
for questioning. Cotter's compan-
ions were Robert Walter PortloW,
Continued on page 6, col. Q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
u. s. Shuts Off
Oil to Spain

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. CUP)-
A sudden stiffening of United
States attitude toward Gen Fran
cisco Frances Spanish regime was
reflected Friday in reliable reports
that the state department had sus-
pended Caribbean oil shipments to
Spain for the month of February.
Well-informed officials said the
suspension was ordered to permit
complete denomination of
Spain's relations to the overall
allied war picture.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
DEMANDS ACTION

Chairman Andrew J. May, CD,
Kentucky, of the house military
affairs committee, said I'VE ought
to quit fooling around with islands
and outposts and steam right into
Tokyo and blow it into HadeS. This
shows the kind of barbarian enemy
we are fighting"
Representative Clair Engle, 3D..
California, said the disclosures con-
firm the opinion of west coast resi-
dents that Japanese ARE nothing
but a savage, uncivilized people and
not just 'Sun-burned, Yankees"
Il am glad the army and navy
have finally seen fit to let the
American people know what type of
enemy they are fighting so we can
get down to business and get this
thing over with" Engle added.
New Zealand Minister Walter
Nash communicated with Hull after
reading the atrocity report. Later
he told reporters:
1T is one of the crueleSt things
ever heard of in history"
A similar reaction was voiced by
Senator Charles o. Andrews, CD.
Florida who said:
ITS the most grueSome thing
l can imagine. 1t makes even more
certain that we must fight this
war to the finish. Japan will have
to live up to accepted standards
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
Raj Asoin Hits
Berlin Areas

LONDON, Jan. %. CUP)-A huge
force of British four-engined bomb
ers hit Berlin with at least 1000
to 1900 tons of explosives Thursday
night in a resumption of the OBJ
Iteration offensive against the en-
emy of the German war effort.
Two big formations of the RAF's
heavyweights, each hundreds strong,
thundered out across the English
east coast in different directions,
but late reports indicated both con-
verged over the battered capital for
the 18th block buster assault since
last Nov. 18.
An horr-long procession took off
from Britain just after 5 P. M. Q2
noon EWT) yesterday in daylight
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
Ell CENTRIC WOMAN'S.
FATHER SUCCUMBS

Mrs. Bess Stacy of the Desert
Printing company in Ell Centro and
former Calexico resident, was call
ed to Ontario Thursday on account
OF the death of her father.
Her father, Judge Clements, for
mer jurist of Nebraska, suffered a
stroke of paralysis early this Weel,
and did not regain consciousness
after the attack. He died Wednes-
day night
Funeral arrangements we're not
complete Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28

and the second force, taking two
hours to cross the coast, left after
dusk.
Radio Berlin said the bombers
made terror attack" on the Ger
man capital after renting at Hell
goland Bay. apparently in an at
tempt to confuse the Nazi defenses.
The broadcast said night fighters
and ainti-aircraft batteries shot
down a large number of the raiders.
1t was the first attack by British
heaVy bombers on Europe since
they dropped 2,240 short tons of
explosives on the German indus
trial center of Magdeburg and
smaller forces hit Berlin and
northern France the night of JAN
81.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28

some arrangements must be made
TO take care of his family of per-
hapS four or five and arranging
to take care of the operation of his
30 to 100 acre ranch SO that pro-
duction will not cease Cogni-
zance must oe taken Of the fact
that the armed forces must have a
greater proportion of 13 to "a year
old men than the older age groups"
The joint statement called at
tention to the laxity of employers
who have asked for deferment of
men and then failed to report the
releasing of the men, and of the
registrants in failing to report the
changes in employment status. In
justices may result from careless
ness
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
III DIE IN CRASH

KEY WEST, Fla, Jan. %. lUPD
"A navy board of inquiry Friday
investigated the crash of navy
patrol while attempting to land at
he naval air station here Wednes-
day night in which II fliers were
killed and two injured. The navy
said the plane was returning from
a patrol flight VIXEN the crash
occurred, The dead included: AL
bert Martinez Moran, seaman &c,
Delano, Cal.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
British Retain
Hold in ItuIv

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL
giers, Jan. %. (UP)-Tank-led Ger
man forces communicating the
allied beachhead below Rome were
repulsed by British troops, holding
a sector 10 miles north of Anzio.
who destroyed three tanks and took
100 prisoners, it was announced
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
Information Wanted

Did anyone notice Pat Patton
when he had that traffic accident
with his Wife's automobile while
she was out of town?
Pat won't tell. He insists he
didn't have an accident. Friends
point silently to the condition o1
the car, one side caved in and the
glass broken. Pat says nothing
being a strong, silent man for q
change.
Maybe he kicked the car OF
Whackcd it with a hammer.
All we are after is information
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
Which Is Which

Bert Holt, 18-year- son of Mr..
and Mrs. Herb Holt, signed up for
the army while in Los Angeles this
week. He wanted to join his
brother, Sgt. Bob Holt, who is in the
army.
How would you like to join the
navy" a naval officer asked Bert.
Il signed UP for the army" Bert
insisted
Anyway, I think you're in the
navy" the officer said. Wen call
you later"
Bert is trying hard to find out
just what he is in, spending his
time comforting with Keyes Mitch
ell, navy recruiting officer, abou..
the merits of the navy as opposed
to the possibility of joining Sgt.
Bob one of these days.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
SLAYER EXECUTED

SAN QUENTIN, Cal, Jan. 26
(UP)-Farrington G. Hill, confessed
killer of a Hollywood hotel clerk
and Las Vegas gambling club
Cashier, was executed in the San
Quentin prison gas chamber Fri
day. Hill entered the chamber al
l0:02 am. and was pronounced
dead at 1913 am.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
RETAINS FARM POST

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 90. CUP) -
Gov. Earl Warren announced Fri
day that he has reappointed Henry
Churchman, San Diego business
man, to the board of directors of
! the 22nd district agricultural as
sociation, which includes San Diego
county. Churchman'S new term
expires Jan. Is, 1947.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
ZOO Yankee Prisoners
Tortured to Death at
Batoan and corrisedor
Military Authorities Reveal Horrors After
Nips Refuse Further Aid to Living;
Errased Lawmakers Public Demands Revenge

WASHINGTON, JAM %. (UP)-This government, out
ragged by japanese determination of at least 100 Amer
lean prisoners, has given up hope of getting relief
supplies to surviving prisoners in japanese hands, the
White House said Friday
The documented story of Japanese brutality toward
prisoners in the Philippines published by the
army and navy Thursday night. Friday White House
Secretary Stephen T. Early explained the timing of the
release
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
y AMBlINe
EpoRTER
This Is Evidence

This is Evidence
The boys at the Ell Centre fire
hall have a sure way CT knowing
who makes the coffee.
If the coffee is strong it can
stand alone, they know Woody
RoCtt or SWede johnson, or both OF
them, have been on the business
end of a coffee measuring spoon.
If the coffee is so weak it is ELI
gible for an cid age pension, they
know Chief Corn Reed has been
putting thimblesfull of coffee in the
old black pot.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
THE WEATHER

FORECAST FOR IMPERIAL
INTELLECTUALLY clear Friday
night, increasing high clOudiness
and warmer Saturday; somewhat
cooler Friday night with light to
moderate fr0sts. Lowest tempcra-
ture 20 degrees.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
Former Director
OF owl Claims
$4,000 Met Death
Denounces Washington Officials
For Wi+hhoIdinq All Facts

NEW YORK, Jan. %. (UP)-American and Filipino
prisoners of who have been murdered by Japanese
total than 25 000 Palmer Hoyt former OWL domestic
branch director declared Friday signed magazine arti-
ce in which he criticized censorship practices
The article, to be published next week in the American
Magazine military authorities for holding up the
release of much vital news usually the contention
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
Warren Prison
Bill Nears
Vote in Senate

SACRAMENTO Jan. 28. (UP)-
Objections that some features of a
servicemens voting bill pending be-
fore the state legislature are un-
workable were voiced in the as
Sembly elections committee Friday
as Gov. Earl WaTens prison reform
bill headed toward a possible senate
vote late in the day.
M. j. Donaghue, Los Angeles
county registrar of voters, contended
that even with proposed extension
of the absent voting period from
rs to SIS days many servicemen sta
toned overseas would not have time
to vote by mail.
LIMIT ON WEIGHT
The committee also was told that
secretary of war Henry Stimson
and secretary of navy Frank Knox
had set limit of $40 ounce on
mailed ballots, while the California
direct primary ballot and voting in
structionS would weigh about three
ounces.
An amendment to the soldier
voting bill proposed by Governor
Warren TO authorize use of light
weight ballot papers was recon-
mcnded by the committee. However,
witnesses before the committee de-
clared that most ballot supplies al
ready were purchased.
The committee refused to adopt
an amendment sponsored by Secre-
tary of state Frank M. Jordan for
combining the May and August
primaries, and suggested Jordan
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28

The time has come" he said,
"to release factual, carefully au-
thenticated reports on Japanese
atrocities. The government can no
longer expect to get further relief
to American prisoners of war in
the hands of the Japanese"
The army-navy report, based on
sworn statements of two army Of
ficers and navy officer who eS-
capped from Davao after 361 days
of suffering, dealt only with Japa-
neSe treatment of prisoners cap
tured at Bataan and Corregidor
1t was a story of deliberate starva-
ton, torture, and murder. Early'S
statement appeared to indicate that
additional reports detailing similar
horrors in other areas might be
forthcoming later.
EarlyS statement, which followed
close on congressional demands for
ultimate vengeance against the jap
aneSe, also caused speculation thai
there may be no further exchanges
of civilian internees between this
country and Japan.
1t was pointed out that in the
past supplies of medicine, clothing
and food for war prisoners twice
were sent to Japan aboard the
exchange ship Gripsholm. This
avenue of relief, in view of Early
statement apparently has been
closed
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28
PLAN FALLS THROUGH

The state department for some
time had been attempting to make
arrangements for a third Grip
sholm exchange, but Secretary of
State Cordell Hull recently dis
closed there had been little progress.
In any event, the army-navy re-
port left no doubt that the Japa-
nese government brutally had dis
carded all civilized rules in the
treatment of prisoners captured in
the Philippines.
The story aroused congressman
and government officials alike to
deep anger which, many of them
declared. can be quenched only by
the visiting of retributive justice
if not now, after the war-against
responsible Japanese from the en-
peror down.
There was little demand, how
ever, for an -for-an-eye policy
toward Japanese in American
hands. AS of January 7, the war
department said, only 377 japanese
fighting men had been taken pris-
oner since the start of the war.
indicative of American treatment
of war prisoners is the fact that
none of the 377 japanese prisoners
has died
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-28

Maximum Thursday 68, minimum
Friday Al; 5 am. Friday 45, humid
ity 80; noon Friday 81, humidity 5S;
pm. Thursday 81, humidity as.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-09-15
INDIA A BENEFICIARY
OF WAR FUND

"In my country, the hatred of the
mothers-the mothers who have seen
their children die in the streets for
lack of foods silent cursing."
So Jamnadas Mehta, president of
the Indian Federation of Labor, told
Leo Perlis, director of the National
CIO War Relief Committee, in ex-
pressing his country's thanks for the
100000 gift to India during last
October's famine from the CIO-AFL
jointly sponsored war relief program,
carried on through British War Re-
lief, member agency Of the National
War Fund
The Indian labor leaders view OF
the future is somber.
''The hatred born of starvation and
suffering will inevitably lead to more
bloodshed unless a powerful worlo
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-09-15
AFL REVIEWS FIGHT
FOR POST WAR BILL
DEFEATED In SENATE

Washington, d. C.-The American
new in the House of Representatives
its fight for the prompt enactment of
an effective postwar reconversion
law, including uniform, national
system of unemployment compensa-
tion for disemployed war workers and
returning soldiers.
Defeat of the Murray -Gilgore- -Tru-
man bill in the senate merely spurred
organized labor into making greater
efforts than before for the adoption
of this all-important legislation.
A bill similar to the Murray-Kil-
gore Truman measure is being spon-
sored in the House by Rep. Emman-
uel Celler and its terms will be ag-
gressively supported by the Fedora
ton.
Unfortunately, the Celler Bill has
been referred to the House Judiciary
committee while another group, the
House Ways and Means committee is
expected to be given consideration of
the postwar bill adopted by the SEN
ate-known as the George Bill.
This George Bill is considered
wholly inadequate by the American
| Federation of Labor because it fails
to set up a national system of unem-
ployment compensation with uniform
benefits and attempts to deal with
postwar unemployment on a State
| by-State basis.
A combination of eact onary
Southern Democrats with large ma
jority of Republican Senators sue
ceeded in killing off the Murray-Kil-
gore Truman Bill and putting across
the George Bill.
Warnings by organized labor that
confusion and suffering would be
caused unless effective legislation
were adopted to meet the postwar
unemployment problem went un-
needed
Under the George Bill states which
have weekly unemployment benefits
as low as So week would be per-
mitted to continue such systems in
effect.
How workers family could get
along on such amounts until new
peace-time jobs are created was a
question that went unanswered
How sufficient purchasing power
could be mustered to spur increased
postwar production while millions of
families are condemned to such slow
, starvation also was left UP in the air
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1944-09-15
WARTIME GAINS
SHOULD BE HELD
MILLER SAYS

Washington, D. C. (ILNS) Labor
Day, 1914, dawns upon an America
in which women form one-third of the
total civilian labor force, declared
Miss Frieda S. Miller, new director
of the Women's Bureau, U. S. De-
partment of Labor, in a special mes
sage.
Says WOmen's Ability Proved
Pointing out that the 1S,590,000
women at work represent the peak
employment of their sex in the history
of our country, Miss Miller said that
Labor Day this year means another
opportunity and another day to pro-
duce the ammunition, tires, radar and
radio equipment, the giant BIS
bombers, and other materials of war
so urgently needed by the invasion
forces"
In paying tribute to this vast army
of women workers, Miss Miller said
with the realization that Labor Day
1945, may see a world at peace
women in every line of activity are
conscious of the tremendous job to be