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WEATHER
Maximum Monday 105. Minimum
Tuesday 64. 5 p.m. Monday 90, liti
midity 25. 5 a.m. Tuesday 68, hu
midity 47. Noon Tuesday 98, hu
midity 17.
BANK DEBITS
F.l Centro Business Barometer
Monday $1,517,511.88
Las Year $930,811.81
VOLUME XL, No. 270
Oil for the lamps—and stoves and ships—of eastern America. That is the objective of this
pipeline, which will stretch from Longview, Tex., to Salem, 111., when it is finished. But its 300,000
barrel daily yield will take care only of vital needs; it will not alleviate the present shortage of oil
in the east for normaal uses.
AMBLING
|\ EPORTER
Ancient History—
At, the breakfast meeting held
Tuesday morning in El Centro by
oil company moguls to plan for the
scrap rubber campaign, Dan Carter
did semething quite in keeping with
the campaign.
He stretched his memory away
back to NRA days and declared that
his present feud with M. O. Simms
started then.
Not to be cutdone, Simms
stretched his memory just as far
back into the past and corroborat
ed Carter’s statement. They agreed
that far, and then went on with
their feuding. You see, they simply
couldn't agree on what the NRA
fight was about.
Quite In Keeping—
Lt. and Mrs. Fred R. Rutledge,
former El Gentians announced the
recent birth of twin daughters by
sending friends a gay description
of the twin type peep delivered F.
O. B. in Santa Maria. In describ
ing the model, they said.
' Models released June 10. Each
has two lung power, tree squealing,
streamlined body, and changeable
seat covers. Due to existing pri
ority rating on these models, the
ma'nagement assures the public
there will be no new models thi".
year.”
That’s Stretching It—
A small boy, impelled by patriot
ism and commercialism alike, haul
ed a little wagon load of scrap
rubber into Imperial county filling
station- and demanded payment
from the*attendant.
The attendant sorted the articles.
Among them he found a belt which
contained no more rubber than a
bit of fresh air.
"This belt, hasn’t any rubber in
it, Sonny,” the attendant said. "I
can’t pay ycu for that.”
"OK. Mister," said the bov hi
a tough voice, “You wanted rubber
didn’t you? Either you pay me
for that belt or you den’t get noth
in’ else in that wagon.”
The attendant paid up for belt
and all.
And El Centro isn’t the only city
that had experiences. Read these
notes collected by the United Pre s
The government wants scrap rub
ber. Here it comes.
At Albany, Ore., E. J. Derry and
Howard Atkeson passed up the
trout anil bass and angled for dis
carded tires in a small fishing
stream. Haul: three boatloads,
totaling 1500 pounds.
At Napa, Cal., R. Van Hoosear
Sonoma county milling operator,
delivered 16 truckloads 62,860
pounds—of worn out tires to a ser
vice station.
At Spokane, Wash., the Athletic
Round Table (which initiated the
"Bundles for Congress” idea when
congress voted itself pensions'
urged its members to pay club dues
with rubber floor mats from their
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FDR Will Ask Draft for
Teen-Age Youths in *43
WASHINGTON, June 16 (UP)—
The administration, barring change
in plans, expects to ask congress
early in 1943 to lower the minimum
draft age from 20 to 18, a con
gressional source reported
President Roosevelt was under
stood to have told congressional
leaders there would be no further
revis’on of the selective service law
this year, as far as he is concern
ed, after congress completes action
on the dependency allotment bill.
Only house approval of the con
ference report is needed to send
that measure to Mr. Roosevelt The
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Six Pages
Equipment Lease
Snarl Revealed
District Three Road Maintainer on
Job for Seeley Contractor but Preble
Denies Any Knowledge of Deal
The red hot subject of leasing county road district
equipment for use on federal construction jobs in Imperial
county became hotter Monday when it was ascertained
that a road maintainer from district No. 3 was in use at
the federal airport at Seeley without official permission
of the county board of supervisors,s
us is legally required.
County Supervisor A. Y. Preble
in a supervisorial board meeting
Monday flatly denied that he had
leased or rented any equipment of
road district No. 3 for use on fed
eral construction jobs. However, a
road maintainer from district No.
3 was seen on the job Monday at
the airport site at Seeley and it
was ascertained that Vinson. Prin
gle and Webb, construction con
tractors, agreed to pay $7.75 an hour
for its use. Preble is said to be
equipment superintendent for Vin
son, Pringle, and Webb at a salary
of S2OO per month as well as county
supervisor and head of road district
No. 3.
Official board minutes show that
the board granted permission for
Supervisor I. Schlatter of Calexico
to rent a shovel from road district
No. 1 to the contractors at $590 a
month. Supervisors B. VI. Graham
of Brawley was granted permission
to rent the company a level for
75 cents a day. Both these last
named deals were in order and
according to the regulations as ex
plained to the board by Deputy Dis
trict Attorney Charles G. Halli
day. There was no mention of the
deal for the road maintainer from
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Married Men Get
Draft Deferment
WASHINGTON. June 16—(UP>—
The hcuse today completed con
gressional action on a bill provid
ing financial assistance for depend
ents of enlisted men of the foul
lowest grades in the armed forces
and authorizing deferment of mar
ried men with legitimate home ties.
The measure was sent to the
White House fcr presidential ap
proval when the house adopted the
conference report on it.
The legislation sets up a schedule
of allowances and allotments, in
cluding SSO a month for the wife of
one of the lower rank service men
$22 from the man's pay and S2B
from the government.
The government also would ccn
tribute sl2 a month toward support
of a child, plus $lO a month for
each additional child. Smaller al
lowances wculd be made for other
dependents such as parents or
brothers or sisters.
house is expected to act tomorrow
It was believed that any sugges
tion for lowering of the minimum
draft age at the present time would
create considerable c / troversy
Some legislators were sa'd to fear
possible repercussions in the No
vember elections.
The war department has urged
that it be allowed to draft 18 and
19 year olds ever since the selective
service law first was enacted two
years ago Lust year it renewed its
plea for permission to induct teen
age youths but, as >n 1940, in vain.
The Army feels that young men
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Lawmakers Reject
Limit on Incomes
WASHINGTON, June 16 (UR)
—The house ways and means
committee today shelved the
administration's proposals to
limit the annual income of
single Americans to $25,000 and
of married couples to $50,000.
The committee adopted a
motion to “defer the proposal
for further study.” Mciri’rers
interpreted tile action as kill
ing the proposal so far as ori
gin 1 house action on the tax
b’H is concerned.
They explained that the post
ponement came at a time when
except for disposal of the sales
tax issue, tiie new tax bill is
about ready to go to thu floor-
"Share Your Car"
Campaign Ready
El Centro's chamber of commerce
was all set Tuesday to begin a
•'share your car” campaign with the
ultimate purpose of cutting down
on use of rubber.
The chamber was officially des
ignated by Mayor Bob Hatton as
the agency to hantile group riding
in El Centro after E'atton end
Corn Reed, fire chief, attended a
meeting of defense transportation
officials in Los Angeles last week.
Secretary Ben Herring said that
the campaign will probably take
the form of a crusade in which all
service clubs, churches and other
organizations will be asked to con
stantly keen the importance of sav
ing rubber before their members.
Because there are no large indus
trial centers where a great num
ber of men are employed in the
valley, the local application of the
plan will probably be confined to
group riding to defense construc
tion jobs and to other towns where
three or four men are working.
Even if four or five men work
ing hi El Centro would alternate the
use cf cars, each faking the entire
group to work for a period, the re-
nake better soldiers than older men
with family responsibilities, who
lave grown cautious with age.
Official estimate that lowering
he minimum draft age from the
present 20 to 18 would add about
2,000,000 men to the reservoir of
potential draftees.
In this connection, the war man
power commission in a statement
today virtually set a maximum of
10,000 000 men in the armed forces.
It said the goal for men in the
armed forces was 6.000,000 to 7,-
000,000 by the end of 1943 and
"eventually'’ might reach 10,000,000.
TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1942
HEAVY FIGHTING RAGES
IN ALEUTIAN STRUGGLE
Scrap
Heap
Grows
31,180 Pounds of
Rubber Collected
During First Day
Nipples from baby’s bottle
. . . grandma’s overshoes . . •
shower curtains . . . tires and
tubes . . . hot water bottles . .
These articles and many
more went into the scrap rubber
salvage campaign Monday to run
up an Imperial county total in ex
cess of 31.180 pounds for the first
day’s effort.
Service station men all over the
county unloaded, weighed, and re
ceipted literally thousands of articles
containing rubber. The whole con
tribution will be added to the stag
gering gross receipts expected to be
collected in the county in the two
weeks scrap rubber salvage cam
paign launched by President Roose
velt to stave off gasoline rationing
because of a shortage of rubber tires.
Some cities were unable to sub
mit a total for Monday as their
system had not been perfected as
yet. in Calipatria almost every sta
tion in town had around a truck
load of scrap rubber but the total
had not been run up by noon Tues
day.
In El Centro, Imperial, and Holt
ville areas the total was 18,510
pounds In Brawley the total was
10,000 pounds, in Calexico 5,500
pounds, and in Westmorland 7,170
pounds. Some of the scrap col
lected in Imperial and Holtville
had not been totaled.
SCOUTS HELP
The Boy Scouts entered the cam
paign with a vim Tuesday when
Hugh Wilcox, scout executive, said
the E! Centro troops will make a
house to house canvass. They will
tour the eastside district Thursday,
the area north of Main street Fri
day, and the area south of Main
street Saturday. Housewives were
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duction in rubber use would be
noticeable, Herring said.
Group riding, together with the
accumulation of scrap in the rub
ber drive, might stop plans for na
tion-wide raticaing of gasoline,
Herring reminded, and is of utmost
importance.
One phase of the group riding
which the chamber has been vol
untarily carrying out for a short
period of time has already brought
good results. In the last 30 dayr
over 100 people have gotten rides
to Los Angeles and San Diego
through the El Centro office.
County Board In
Study of Budgets
Imperial county supervisors Mon
day began their annual struggle
with the preliminary county bud
gets and planned their program so
the budgets may be adopted and
the annual tax rate set by Sept 1.
They will meet Thursday for con
centrated study of the prel ininary
budgets prepared by the heads of
county departments
On July 6 the supervisors will be
gin sitting as a board of equaliza
tion and will meet daily for three
weeks so that taxpayers may ob
ject to their tax bills if they are
not satisfied with them
Sedition Suspect
Held for Contempt
IOS ANGELES, June 16— (UP)
Ellis O. Jones, on trial with Robert
Noble on sedition conspiracy
charges, was cited for contempt to
day by Federal Judge Ralph E. Jen
ney.
Jones, co-promoter with Noble of
“Friends of Progress," aga. i re
fused to idehtify a certain "United
States senator" who Jones said had
written him a letter praising the
Noble-Jones organization.
He Was Simply
Obeying Orders
LOS ANGELES, June 16
(UP) Pvt. Sam J. Pontello's
dilligence on guird duty prov
ed very embarrassing to him
today.
Pontello, a member of the
California State Guard Marine
< orps, was instructed by Sgt.
Claude McKee to challenge all
comers three times and then
fire if they didn't halt.
So. Pvt. Pontello alertly
shouted three times at a run-,
ning figure at the corps’ San
Pedro base last night, then
fired.
The running figure proved to
be Sgt. McKee- McKee was tak
en to the San Pedro receiving
hospital with a wound in the
leg. Pontello was held tempor
arily on suspicion of assault
with a deadly weapon-
Army Needs Scrap
Rubber to Keep Up
U.S. War Machine
Success of Campaign
Is Military Necessity
Declare Officials
WASHINGTON, June 16.
(UP) • Undersecretary of
War Robert P. Patterson, re
vealing that the army has
already been forced to cut its
rubber consumption by 25 per cent,
today said success of the national
rubber collection drive was a ‘mili
tary necessity."
The army conservation program
is reaching a point "where further
savings will be difficult and may
affect detrimentally the task of
organizing our armed forces," he
said.
Although the program generally
has not resulted in loss of efficiency,
he said, the changes in tank con
struction to cut the amount of rub
ber in treads and padding have cre
ated additional noise, greater diffi
culty in production, an increase in
driving problems and more mainten
ance difficulties.
Patterson joined other officials in
urging the donation of every bit of
scrap rubber available to the war
effort and a reduction in civilian
use to a "bare minimum.”
In an address last night, Sen.
Harry S. Truman, D„ Mo., charged
that an “orgy of consumption" of
crude rubber by civilian users in
1941 was the chief cause for failure
to build up stockpiles.
Petroleum Coordinator Harold 1,.
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Son on War Front
Writes to Parents
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Judd of El
Centro were happy Tuesday because
they received a letter from their
son, Lieut. Dan Judd, now in the
air corps in the Hawaiian islands.
He said the excitement there was
terrific and declared the United
States gave the Japs a beating re
cently. Judd said he was unable to
give details but explained that the
morale of the Americans was won
derful.
“I see Leonard Moore often.”
Judd wrote, “and he is feeling fine.
Be sure to tell his folks that he is
just fine.” He said he had seen
Preston Goar and Howard May, al
so of El Centro, frequently and that
they are well. He had not seen
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hawk for some
time, he wrote, as they had moved
to the mainland.
Baseball
NATIONAL
St Louis Oil 001 000
Ne w York 010 101 000
Pollet & W Cooper; Hubbell &
Dunning.
Cincinnati 000 300 110-5-7-0
Boston 000 000 000-0-7-2
Vandermeer & Hemsley; Javery
Errickson & Kluttz.
Pittsburgh 001 000 000-1- 6-0
Philadelphia 020 010 20x—5-12-0
Hamlin, Lannn-.g, Wilk’e & Lopez,
Phelps; Podgajny & Livingston.
AMERICAN
New York 021 030 000—6-10-1
Detroit 100 *23 OOx—7- 9-3
Donald, Branch, Lindell & Dic
key; Benton, Henshaw & Tebbetts.
PHONE 3GO
Valley
Honors
Flag
Elks Celebration
Combines With
Town Meeting
“The hope we can extend
to the peoples of this world is
America’s ideal of this wan,”
said Major Elmer Heald of
California’s state guard at
the El Centro combined Elks Flag
Day ceremony and town meeting
Monday night.
Heald, who is Imperial county's
district attorney, delivered the prin
cipal patriotic speech of the evening
as El Centro’s citizens gathered to
honor the nation's banner and wel
come 25 new Americans.
The district attorney used the
newly made Americans who received
their final papers Monday night as
an example of the many national
ities that can live in peace under
a federation, and voiced the solemn
hope that the many nations that
have joined together now to battle
aggression may sometime join as
a federation of peaceful states.
"The flag is an symbol of a group
of sovereign states,” Heald said. For
every state in the union is <’de
per.dent of each other and its citi
zens are qualified not only to par
ticipate in national government but
also in state, county and local city
government.
EX-ALIENS PRESENTED
The class of former aliens was
presented by Edmund Gies, natural
ization inspector and citizenship
certificates were given by W. J.
McClelland, county clerk.
Another group, Company I, Eighth
Regiment of the California state
guard, was presented to the over
flowing of spectators who came to
watch and participate in the color
ful ceremony.
Lt. John Kepley led the company
through a series of intricate preci
sion maneuvers, which displayed the
quality of the voluntary training
imparted in less than two years since
organization of the guard began.
Bill Duflock was the master of
ceremonies for the evening and he
traduced Norman C. Deaton, secre
tary of the only fraternal organiza
tion that holds a mandatory celebra
tion of Flag Day every year. Deaton
reviewed the history of the flag
from the time that John Cabot plac
ed the Red cross of England on
American soil in 1497 to the present.
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2 I. V. Men Stage
Chance Reunion
"Charles sent you his watch ”
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hancock
stared in amazement at their son's
watch held toward them by Bea
man Ward, member of the Merchant
Marine, home for a visit with rel
atives in Ei Centro.
Ward described a chance meeting
with Charles Hancock, United
States Marine, on a tropical island
about a month ago He said he was
walking along a country road when
a truck load of U. S. Marines
passed him- Ward recognized Han
cock as he passed in the truck and
Ist Summer School
Under Way in E.C.
Imperial Valley’s first summer
school began Monday night with an
enrollment of more than 60 and
enrollments were to be accepted
throughout the week, Dean Glenn
Kieffer of Central Junior college in
El Centro said Tuesday.
A total of 22 enrolled in the
morning civics class, 19 in the typ
ing A class, 10 in the bookkeeping
class, 8 in the shorthand class, and
4 in the physics class. The enroll
ments in the night classes were
not compiled because many had not
paid the required fees. Dean Keiffer
said
Unless there is a change in the
enrollment hours, he said, beein
ning typing will be offered five
nights a week from 7 p m. to 9 p.m.
and beginning shorthand five
nights a week from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.
THE POST PRESS
Mediterranean
•envoy in Port
After Sea Battle
Losses Heavy on Both Sides as War's
Conflicts Reach Peak of Fury on All
Front; Secrecy Shrouds Alaska
By UNITED PRESS
Fighting on land, on sea and in the air reached perhaps
the greatest peak of the war on world-wide battlefronts
Tuesday as American armed forces pressed their battle to
break a Japanese hold on the distant Aleutian islands.
The British, taking a terrific?
beating on the Libyan land front,
landed a big convoy at Malta and
Tobruk which may turn the tide of
battle on the desert. London an
nounced that the convoy "escaped
from very heavy attacks” by su
perior Axis naval and air forces
in a Mediterranean battle in which
units of the American Army air
corps participated. A communique
called Axis claims of from 20 to
30 Allied ships sunk “fantastic,” but
admitted that undisclosed losses
were suffered.
The United states operations,
which already had cost the enemy
at least six or seven ships sunk or
damaged off the Aleutians, were
continued in fog that still clouded
the outcome of action hundreds of
miles west of our base at Dutcn
harbor.
The blows struck at the Japanese
In the north in addition to more
than 50 enemy ship casualties in
the Midway and Coral Sea battles
may prove of tremendous import
ance in turning the tide of the Paci
fic war, but a realistic appraisal of
the results canno- oe attempted
until the trend of the Aleutian
fighting is more definite.
There was major figlying on
other fronts throughout the world,
however, with the Axis forces stem
med in Russia but holding the in
itiative in Libya, the Mediterranean
and China.
Developments on the main fronts
included:
RUSSIA— Soviet dispatches indi
cated that the Germans are being
held on the vital Kharkov and Sev
astopol sectors after suffering heavy
losses, but battles continue; Berlin
reports German air attack on Mos
cow defenses.
L’BYA British driven from El
Gazala stronghold west of Tobruk
but break through Axis trap and
establish strong defense around To
bruk. Axis claims that large British
force was trapped are denied.
MEDITERRANEAN Axis com
muniques claim three-day battle of
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whistled and called to him. The
truck stopped and the two friends
had a reunion while the other Ma
rines waited.
They met several times after that
and Hancock asked Ward to take
his watch to h's parents Hancock
left Jan. 6 and was at Dutch Har
bor in Alaska for some time before
being sent to the tropics
Nation's Biggest
Lottery Smashed
DETROIT, June 16. (UP) —Two federal grand jury in
dictments naming 63 individuals and one corporation from
10 states, Cuba, and Panama, and uncovering what inves
tigators believed “th? biggest lottery operation in the coun
try” were announced today by U. S. District Attorney John
I C. Lehr. >
The indictments, charging mail
I fraud and conspiracy in connec
tion with operation of the Repubhc
de Cuba hospital funds lottery,
Havana, Cuba, were returned June
1 but were ordered suppressed by
Federal Judge Ernest A. O’Brien to
i facilitate arrest of the defendants
at 11 am today
The indictments climaxed a two
vear nationwide investigation led
by Postal Inspectors Ernest J
Mansf'eld, of Jacksonville, Fla., and
Tennyson Jefferson of Boston, Mass
Mansfield said he believed the
lottery operation was ‘‘the biggest
in the countrv," The “gross take’
from it, he said, amounted to ap
proximately $1,000,000 a year in the
EL CENTRO, CALIF.
House Okays Fund
Bill With Money
For Guayule Work
Catch-All Measure Cut
Below Estimates for
Government Dep’ts.
WASHINGTON, June 16.
(UP) —The house today pass
ed by a voice vote and sent
to the senate an omnibus de
ficiency and supplemental
appropriations bill of $53,548,099, of
which $8,235,000 was earmarked for
the development of guayule and
other rubber-bearing plants.
House action came two hours af
ter the bill had been approved by
the appropriations committee.
Rep. John Z. Anderson, R.. Calif.,
told the house that he believed
guayule plants would provide “a
substantial supply of rubber in the
next few years.”
Rep. John Taber, R., N. Y„ rank
ing minority member of the appro
priations committee, disagreed with
Anderson, but saitl the rubber situ
ation was so critical that “we can
not afford to take any chances.”
The largest single item in the
catch-all bill was a $38,688,000 ap
propriation for the post office de
partment for the balance of the
fiscal year ending June 30.
"The unprecedented volume of
mail and postal business have caus
ed deficiencies in postal appropria
tions,” the committee's report said.
“At the time the original 1942 pos
tal appropriations were made by the
congress, more than a year ago, the
revenues were estimated at $795,-
000,000 and the expenditures at
$846,000,000.
"Due to increased business, the
revenue for the fiscal year 1942 will
approximate $860,000,000, an increase
of $65,000,000 over the original esti
mate, and the expenditures are esti
mated at $878,000,000, an increase
of $32,000,000 over the original esti
mate.”
The committee, in recommending
a total appropriation of $53,548,099,
trimmed the estimate of the budget
bureau by $1,417,400. The committee
| cut $915,000 from the budget esti
mate of $9,750,000 for emergency
, rubber planting projects, and it dis
allowed another $600,000 which the
budget bureau had requested for
reimbursement of President Roose
velt’s blank check emergency fund.
The $600,000 was advanced by the
President to the department of
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United States alone.
The indictments, which also nam
ed 21 co-conspirators, mast of them
from Detroit and Michigan, charg
ed a conspiracy to mail and trans
port tickets of some 45 different
lotteries and a scheme to defraud
through use of the mails.
Named as ringleaders of the
group by the postal inspectors were
defendants Park Mulhnix of New
Jersey. Loyal T Sprague and Tyler
Sprague of Illinois, Louis Leven
stein and Charles Weinberg of New
Jersey; William D-unison, I eigh
Lawrence Kaplan and Ixruis Puts
lano of New York, and Harry Prelv
felt of Nahant, Maas. ,