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Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-01
MPLS. FLAX FUTURES
chicago GRAIN

Chicago. March I. (UPi--Grain futures
displayed strength on the board of trade
Thursday in an active session despite
some reluctance to make commitments
until after the President speech. Strong
cash markets. an increase in March sub
sidy TO millers, renewed flour demand
and action by the Canadian wheat board
banning the shipment of course grains
were all factors.
Wheat finished the day up L TO l cent
a bushe; corn up * TO = oats up 4 10
r.: rye up ] to u cents. and barley up
x TO ] cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-01

fairways and greens messed" for
the matches.
Pairings for the flights follow:
CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT:
Jersey Birchfield VS.. Bob Albright;
Sgt. R. McManus VS.. Roy Burnett.
Loverioge Marsh VS.. Charles
Arnold; Capt. r. Conrad VS.. Vic
Blalack
Jerry Fox VS.. Elmer Sears; E.
wentworth VS.. Cliff Allen.
Les Rogers VS.. Newt BraZeltcn;
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-01

ANAHEIM, Cal, March l. (UP)-
The Los Angeles baseball squad was
set for a day CT heavy batting and
fielding practice in preparation for
the preseason opener against the
Ell Toro, California, Marines here
Sunday.
Manager Bill Sweeney reported
the arrival Of Leonard Rice, a
catcher with the Cincinnati Reds
last year. Rice is a member of the
Chicago Cubs, however, and will
only work out with the Pacific
Coast league champions.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-01
OKEHS JUDGES RETIREMENT

WASHlNGlON MdrCn L. NUP)--
President Roosevelt has approved
the retirement of Federal Judge
Frank H. Norcross Of Nevada. Nor
cross had told the President that
he wanted to retire effective May
l, when he will have completed II
years on the federal bench. The
President expressed his apprecia-
ton {. for the faithful and able
service you have rendered as a
member of the federal judiciary"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-01
POULTEY q EGGS

POULTRY PRICES. tAll ToInIs Imperial
Valley OPA Maximum set Oct. IL, 1943)
First price-At ranch to wholesaler OF re-
taller. Second price-Delivered TO whole
saler or retailer. Third price-At ranch
to consumer:
Broilers. Leghorns, under pa pounds
3Qc; 2A to 3 pounds. 29c; fryers, 10 4
pounds, 29c; roasters, all weights, &c;
fowl. Leghorn. all weights, 35hc; colorei
all weights. 25Ikc; Cucks, all sizes, &c
rabbits, under pounds, 22-24c.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-01
SAN FRANCISCO.

SAN FRANCISCO, March /.
(UP)-California's annual confer
vation week will be observed March
7 to IA with schools and other Or
ganizations taking part in programs
assisted by the state fish and game
commission, the California conser-
Vation council announced Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-01

Los Angeles. March /. UP)-
Eggs: Wholesale prices consumer grade:
Large. Grade A 41-i1l4. Grade 37-37 y
medium. Grade A 36ia -37;.; small Grade
a 34-34l4.
Retail prices 10 consumers (cartonl
Large Grade IA 50-54, Grade = 1851,
Grade 44-45: medium. Grade AA '5-4S,
Grade 4 45-4S: sma2. Grade A 42-45.
Candled graded eggs to retailer:
eases: Large. Grade A. 4f45. Grade a
80. Grade Z 3s-4O: med.Urn. Grade IA
sg-aG. Grade A 42-43. Gi3Ge b $40;
snail. Grade a 36-5S
Butter unchanged IT ceiling prices.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-01
HOOP RESULTS
By UNITED PRESS

Army 81, Maryland 34
Long Island U. 43, Oklahoma 33.
Wayne "a, Detroit 81
Inc lana 65, Illinois 55.
CanisiuS 81, Syracuse 46.
N. Y. L. 95, Temple 54.
Akron 80, Wooster 45.
Roswell N. M. AAF SIS, Texas
Tech 46.
Loyola of New Orleans 73, Camp
Plauche 80.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-01
Coast Leauue


(UP)-Manager Dolph Camilli re-
ported on the fourth day of spring
training that the Oakland Oaks
condition was far ahead of last
year"
Camilli said he may try his hand
at a little pitching this year. The
first base spct will te handled by
Vic Ficetti, last years schoolboy
catch
SAN JOSE, Cal, March |. CUP)-
sgd Cohen, left-handed pitcher,
was appointed coach and first as
sistant of the Portland Beavers.
Cohen won lG and lost 13 last sea-
son.
Sharing mound duties with Cohen
in the third day of training were
pitchers Jack Using and Clarence
Federmeyer.
SAN FRANCISCO, Ma oh /.
(UP)-The San Francisco Seals re-
ported that Roy Nicely, illfielder
traded from the Jersey City Giants
for Mike Skaff, will report to the
team on Monday.
Two new additions to the squad
are Harry Martin, %, pitcher who
Just served 81 months in the navy,
and Frank Murray, 12. a semi-pro
infieider from South San Francisco
SACRAMENTO March l (UP)--
Manager Earl Sheely Of the Sacra-
mento Solors said the club might
be short of infielders during the
1945 season.
Only Gene Handley and Jimmy
Grant have signed for infield posts,
Sheely said.
SAN FERNANDO, Cal, March /
UP)-Manager Bill Skiff hoped for
clear skies SO that he would be able
to put his 90 Rainier baseball play
ers through an intensive batting
and fielding drill.
New arrivals in camp we're vet
eran hurler Johnny Babich and
Charles (Chuck) Aleno, former Gin
cinnati infielder, who was sent to
Seattle as part of deal in which
ace Rainier pitcher Al Libke went
to the Reds.
ONTARIO, Cal, March l. CUP)-
Hollywood baseball club officials
expressed more worry over the draft
status of several CT their star per-
formers than over the rainy skias
that have hampered practice the
last two days.
Some joy was generated by Man
ager Buck Fausett when he was in
formed in a telephone conversation
by hard hitting first b a m n
Butch Moran that reports he was
being called up for physical were
untrue.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-01
L. A. GRAIN

Les Angeles. March !. up
No. ! hard or soft .hle heat, bulk,
So. 49,. SO; grading barley. 46 pounds,
bulk. s.. 35-2. 10; No. oats, IS pounds
bulk. s.. 267lz; No. yellow corn,
bulk. 81 Az. 81; 10. California milo,
sacked. s.. .321a-2 3T1z
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-01
L. A. HAY

Los Angeles. MaFch /. tCPI-
U. :. No. /, so. .oo-32. 90; u. s. No. Z
green or L. s. No. leafy, S27. 00-2S. O0i
U. S. No. ., S23. .oO-24. 90.
No. l barley hay, S27.Do-2s. 90; No. ]
oat hay, SIS. sc. 90.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-01
DRIVER ESCAPES EXPLOSION

OXFORD, Mass, Mar. /. (UP)-
When Gas Acetylene Supply Co.
truck caught fire, six gas tanks eX-
ploded, the vehicle was destroyed,
yet driver Arthur Fontaine escaped
uninjured
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-01
Cards of Thanks

WE WISH TO THANK our many
friencs for the kindness shown
during the illness and death OF
Alfred Malcolm Mealey; also Tor
the lovely floral offerings,
Mrs. A. M. Mealey,
J. C. Mealey and Family
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Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-01

Winter Sunshine golf tournament at Barbara worth
Country club got off flying and vigorous start thurs
day after parngs announced following the tourna-
nent Calcutta at the clubhouse Wednesday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-01
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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
About Sub-Stondord Wages

What, by the way, is sub standard wage?
The National War Labor Board is trying to make up its mind. DR..
George W. Taylor, public member, thinks SIS cents al hour is the point
below which n one should be required to work, though there are
millions of toners in this country getting much less The Labor mem
.bers have suggested 72 cents an hour as the proper figure.
How would you like to live SIS cents a hour? Or 72 cents ali
hour? How many War Bonds would you be able to buy on that kind of
money? What kind of a home would you have? How well would you
be able to are for your family?
A standard wage is one that permits ordinary, decent American
living conditions. A sub-standard wage is something below that. Well,
isn't that plain?
Apparently the WLB doesn't think sofor it is toying with the idea
of fixing the sub-standard mark at something like go cents, according
to the newspapers.
Meanwhile, down, in the deep South some scores of non-com-
plane. cases are still hanging fire. The Board has been unable to
convince many southern employers that they should pay more than
80 cents al hour. Even in the New England states some of the textile
mills pay less than SO cents.
The WLB Labor members had this to say about it:
ITO date, the Board has refused to attack this problem in a forth
right fashion. 1t has evaded the issue and sought to circumvent or post
pone an adequate solution by creating wholly unsatisfactory admin
israhve stopgaps. The Board has persisted in this conduct despite
powers granted in statutes and executive orders, despite its own brave
words that action would be taken to meet the problem of eliminating
subsandards of living. 1t is late indeed = but not to late - for the
board to act courageousy and effectively
No, it is not too late for the Board to act, but there appears to be
very little likelihood that it will act effectively O that it will eliminate
substandard wages.
Which brings us back to the fundamental fact: Decent wages,
honest American living standards, will not be obtained by government
fiat. Neither the War Labor Board, nor Congress, nor any other agency
of government will abolish poverty wages. Only by organizing into
strong Labor Unions can working people do that. The working people
themselves must lead the way, statutory help comes later-usualy
much later-Washngton Teamder.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
POLITICA

When Pope Plus XII says that a return to the past is vain we had
all better begin looking ahead. Those were his words to the Roman
nobility when they presented him with a traditional New Years gift
But said the Pope comfortingly, even the nobility has its task" in The
brave new world :. Ell SALVADORS fake election last week had The
expected result; it was won by General Salvador Castaneda Castro.
Provisional President Aguirres man, who received 81, 74 votes.
Several hundred courageous Salvadoreans registered their protest
against the dictatorship, however, by casting votes for the four OPP
not combat the machinery established to insure General Casanedas
election. Elections were staged in the hope Of fooing hemisphere
republics into thinking that FL Salvador had gone democratic 49,. IN
SWITZERLAND German "a books have taken a sharp drop in price.
"Break-through in the West" has been reduced from $175 to so cents
Victory over France" and From the Karawanken Mountains to
Crete" have been similarly cut. in Defiance of All Powers" which
contains the high commands philosophy, is now selling for 80 cents =.
RUSSIA BARS Entry of Catholic Priests" a headline in the New
York Times NJ longer indicates that religion is considered an opiate
for the masses but simply that the Soviet is meeting its own clerical
requirements. Il am confident" said Ivan v. PoIyansky, chairman of
the Soviet Council on Religious Cults, that RusSas own talented and
Woodworking clergy is capable of serving the needs of the faithful,
especially a the training of new priests is already proceeding" :.
GREATER GREECE and George for King" was one of the songs sung
last weeks alegedy spontaneous demonstration in Athens, which was
actually organized by the Greek Chamber of Commerce. Street haw-
banners showed King George bearing a "a of bully beef, a bottle of
wine, and a loaf of bread in his outstretched hands :. FRIENDS OF
FASCISM will be glad to know that Jorge Ubico, ex-dictator of Guae-
mala, is safe in New Orleans. He says he will remain in the United
States until the end of the war, when he will take up residence in
Spain. Ubico'S regime was overthroWn last year after a fourteen-year
reign of terror in which civil liberties were ruthlessy suppressed
and schools and highways built to create a facade of democratic pro-
Fgress-From The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
In THE WIND
From THE NATION

Man-poWer: While the press be-
means the exodus Of workers
from war industries, the War Pro-
5uction Board estimates that war
shortages are due to the following
causes: 5tep-ups in production
schedules, 46 per cent; design
changes, 26 per cent; labor short
ages, % per cent; facilities short
ages, II per cent. And the conser-
vative Bureau of Labor Statistics
announces that the quit rate in
all manufacturing for August, Sep
TENDER, and October of 1914 was
lower in war industries than in
manufacturing as a whole.
Politics: This advertisement APP
peared in the Savannah, Georgia,
Morning News of December 10:
For Congress, First Georgia Dis
trict. Vote for H. w. Shepard,
White J~effersonian Democrat, in
Real Election November 5, 1916.
Favors restricting the franchise to
the white race. Opposes policing
the world with American con-
scripts
Ballyhoo: On the day we learn
ed that the British Broadcasting
Corporation, acting on orders
from the government, has refused
TO permit Juan Negrin to broad
cast his address to the anti-Franco
meeting in New York January 2,
d reader called our attention to
the fact that the dust jackets of
books from England carry a blurb
for the B. B. c. that ends with
these words: ''The voice Of British
is the voice of freedom"
Journalism: The Baton Rouge
State-Times of December 20 ran
Westbrook Pegler's column thus:
The Dies committee educated the
public in many ways. The terms
'fellow-traveler, Trojan horse
and transmission belt" all part of
the Communist jargon, entered the
common language, designating
co~nspirators or dupes who col
Continued on Comic Page)."
Festung Europa: A Copenhagen
woman, watching some new Ger
man recruits, remarked: They're
only children!" AS punishment for
her insult to the Wehrmacht, the
Gestapo forced her to stand at at
tention for three hours, repeating,
They're not children, they're he
roes."
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
SHORTAGE OF COAL Is
HELD EXAGGERATED

While administration officials
were raising a scare about coal
shortages and ordering reductions
in consumption, a United Mine
Workers spokesman declared
there's nc ground for hysteria."
There's no overall scarcity of
coal" he said. Our reserves are
adequate and our members stand
ready to produce all that's needed.
Shortages impend only in GER
IAN types of coal, and we can
easily lick those. For example,
supplies Of coal for steel mills are
running low.
so take care Of that situation,
our people in the mines of South
ern West Virginia, Eastern Ken
lucky and Tennessee have agreed
to do extra work on two Sundays
January % and February IL
to build up stocks. W. will do it
in any other instances of emergen-
cies that may arise"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
THOMAS HEAD OF u. S.
DELEGATION IN
LONDON FARLEY

Philip Murray announced that
he will not be able to head the
Go delegation to the London
world labor meeting Feb. 6. Nego-
tiations on the steel wage case will
force him to remain in this coun-
try, he said.
r. j. Thomas, president of the
UAW-CIO and a delegate to the
preliminary meeting last Deem
Der, will head the Go group,
Murray said, Sidney Hillman will
also be a delegate, taking the
place Of Frank Rosenblum, vice
president of the Clothing Workers,
who was designated earlier.
Go will leave a two-man con
limitations committee behind in
London, Murray said, to work out
details on the new world labor
federation expected to come from
the meeting. These two men will
be Michael Ross, of the Marine
and Shipbuilding Workers, and
Martin c. Kyne, vice-preSident,
Retail & Wholesale Employees.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
MANY BILLS OF
IMPORTANCE TO LABOR
INTRODUCED IN
CONGRESS

Observation-Disclosures more
than a thousand new bills have
been introduced in the new ses-
sion of Congress-many of them
of direct and vital interest to la
Dor.
1t is significant that more than
half of the measures deal with af-
fairs of veterans of the present
and past wars. Mostly they in
crease present benefits or propose
new ones
Of especial interest to labor is
a bill by Rep. Ludlow of Indiana
repeating the Smith onnally Act
and another by Rep. Hairless OF
Arizona repeating that section of
the act which makes it unlawful
for unions to contribute to polite
al campaign funds.
CongressWoman Mary Norton of
New Jersey has a bill requiring
payment to women of equal wages
for equal work, and another for
cooperation between the states
and the Federal government in es-
tablishing and maintaining safety
regulations and proper working
conditions.
Rep. Woodruff of Michigan and
Rep. Randolph of West Virginia
would prevent aliens from voting
or holding office in trade unions.
Rep. Hobbs of Alabama rein
troduced his amendment to the
anti-racketeering law SO as tc
make it apply to the activities OF
labor unions.
A score or more bills call fol
higher old-age pensions, while
Dingell of Michigan reintroducec
the Wagner-Dingel bill for a COM
plete overhaul and liberalization
Of the Social Security system. Thi!
has the backing of the American
Federation Of Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
The League for lndustrioI
Democracy in 4Ofh Yeor

On September IL, 1905, in Pecks restaurant, lao Fulton Street
New York, a small group met together and observed that the recent
remarkable increase in the Socialist vote in America should serve as
some indication to the educated men and women of this country that
socialism is a thing concerning which it is no longer wise to be in
different" On this note of academic optimism the intercollegiate
Socialist Society was born. Jack London ws the first president, Upton
Sinclair one of the two vice presidents, and Harry w. Ladder under
graduate representative o the executive. Forty years later the League
for Industrial Dmocracy, successor to the J. S. S, is holding an ami
versary dinner-on February 8, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York.
Upton Sinclair will broadcast a speech from California. The leagues
interchangeable director, Harry w. Ladder, will be honored with a pre-
senaion. Chief speakers will be Professor Frank Scott, national chair
man of the Canadian c. c. F, a Socialist party headed for power, and
Arthur Creeeh Jones, Labor Member of Parliament from England. The
recent Socialist vote" of 1914 looks small in comparison with the
100000 poned in 1904, but the forces of progress which are cutting
new channels through walls of tradition and dogma, more than justify
the vision of the pioneers of forty years ago. The Nation congratulates
the league and its director and urges its readers who arr in the New
York area to attend the celebration of IFS forteth year-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31

the National Liberation Movement
carries democracy, unity and
equality of all South-Slavic peo-
pies in the Balkans.
The Serbian people in Yugo-
slavia support the National Liber-
alton Movement. Exceptions are
only Hitler's collaborators and for
mer pro-fascist office-holders. The
chauvinistic propaganda Of this
group is harmful to the United
States and to Yugoslavia, and is
contradictory to the ideals for
which this war is being waged.
Zavko Buncick, President Serb
ian Democratic Congress Widow
dan"
Rev. Strahinja Maletich, Exec
Secretary United Committee OF
South-Slavic Americans.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
STATEMENT OF TIE
SERBIAN DEMOCRATS
THE UNITED STATES

The petition of the Serbs Nation
al Federation and the Serbian Ma
tional Defense submitted to the
Acting Secretary of State Mr.. Jo-
seph Grew and Pres Roosevelt
by Bishop Dionisie, of the Serbian
Orthodox Diocese of the United
States and Canada, Mr.. Louis
Christopher, president of the Ser
bian National Federation and Mr.
Michael Duchich, president of the
Serbian National Defense on Jan
uary %, 1915, has neither the APP
proval nor consent of the democ-
ratio Serbs in America.
1t is w~ell-known that Serbs in
Yugoslavia not only support. the
National Liberation Movement
under leadership of Marshal Tito,
but also compose the majority of
that movement.
A group of former adherents of
the discredited p~ro-fascist regime
of Milan Stojadinovic formed in
this country a chauvinistic organ
ization which was supported by
former Ambassador Constantine
Fotich. At the Congress of this
organization, held in Chicago on
June %, 1943, they submitted to
the government of the United
States a resolution demanding
withdrawal of recognition of
Yugoslavia as a state. That group
propagates hate and disunity
among the Yugoslavs and calls for
the creation of "a Greater Serbia
in which Croatians, Slovenes and
others would be subject peoples.
They oppose Marshal Tito because
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
MORE SCARCITY TALK

James F. Byrnes, assistant president of the United States, is scar
ing the daylghts out of the people on the coal question again. He fears
d serious shortage of fuel and he therefore wants offices and homes
10 keep the temperature down to SO degrees He is also investigating
excess runs on railroads and other excessive uses of coal in a effort
TO curb them.
Ii MIR. Bynes only knew the true situation in the nation, he would
have nj fears-and that is: give the miners the chance to dig coal and
they'll dig all the country needs, and more.
Working four II three days a week won't produce the coal this
nation needs. The operators won't work much more because they say
they haven't got contracts for coal. 1t looks as though something went
haywire somewhere, especially in view of the fact the operators got
a 17-cent per ton increase in their coal prices in order to keep the
miners busy six days a week.
Mr.. Byrnes, why not investigate a little deeper? Why not order the
mines to be operated six days a week, a other industry is doing? Why
try to solve a problem by ignoring the source of the trouble. Tempo
rary expedients won't work.
If 625 900 tons of coal will be needed in 1915, the miners will
produce tiff given the chance by their employers.
There are no ifs, ands, n butts about thati-The Progressive Miner
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-01-31
"WE4ERE WAS YOU
WHEN WE NEEDED
YOU?"

The sheriff's office in New York
county urges jail sentences for D..
P. A. violaters. Attorney General
Biddle tells the Judiciary Commit
tee of the Senate that those who
speculate in railroad transporta-
ton should be put behind the bars
and that he is preparing legisla-
ton to crack down on other black
marketeers with equal severity.
This is all very interesting, but
we feel like the old darkey work
ing in a cotton field on an I'M
usually hot day. He looked up al
the blazing sun and exclaimed
Where was you last January
when we needed your
We agree with the sheriff OF
New York county, but we wonder
why the Attorney General didn't
develop his enthusiasm for JAN
sentences when the o. P. A. was
first launched.-Labor.