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Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-10
RooseveIt.W Wins
Illinois Ballots

Sen. James Slattery, who seeks
reelection to the senate seat of the
late Sen. j. Hamilton Lewis which
he had filled by appointment. C
Wayland Brooks, Chicago attorney
had claimed the COP. senatorial
nomination from Rep. Ralph
Church.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-10
BatcheIder to
Meet with 4-H

Four-H baby beef club members
will meet at the county courthouse
Thursday night to discuss plans for
rext years projects according to
Lee Landerman, assistant county
agent
D. T. Batchelder, extension spc-
ciallSt i'll animal husbandry, Will
meet with the HI club group to
aid them in the organization of
their 1871 program, Landerman said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-10
Rust Situation to
Be Told at Meet

The wheat rust situation in I'M
perial county will be outlined by
Lee Landerman, assistant county
agent at meeting of the Acacia
farm center Friday night at Acacia
school, according to Harvey Corf-
man, center director.
Othe" speakers on the program
are. Mrs. L. V. Upholt, and Charles
Hit of the U. S. Immigration
Service.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-10

modern coil springs all around
for extra riding comfort. In addition,
Olds gives you more style, more
quality and more prestige. Yet
the Oldsmobile Sixty costs only
few dollars more than de luxe
models of lowest priced cars, and
figures show Olds is very cConom-
ical to run. See it! Drive it - today!
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-10

inches from bumper to bumper. Big
and roomy inside. It's powered by
big, 95 H. P. Econo- Master engine,
and it's the lowest priced car with
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-10
Heber P..T.A.
Group Meets at
Hazel Griffee Home
HERER NOTES

Mrs. Herbert Lee and baby daugh-
ter, Kay Nell, returned to Heber Fri
day from Dallas, Texas, where the
baby has undergone an operation
at a large hospital there.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-10

Mrs. Carmen Gibson, music super
visor, held practice session at
Heber school Wednesday for the
program to be given by the schools
during Education Week
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-21
By WALLACE CARROLL

LONDON, Oct. 81. CUP)-Speedy
single -engined German warplanes
bucked through one of the heaviest
daylight barrages of the war today
and dumped bombS-one of which
damaged the United States embassy
on London and other objectives.
The Nazi raiders apparently were
using their fastest planes and COM
ing over singly or by twos in an
effort to escape the intense anti
aircraft fire along the Thames es-,
tuary.
The planes lodged through the
clouds and maneuvered skillfully
but many of them were turned back
by the ground guns and by British
fighter planes which sought them
out as they approached the city.
Air cannon and machine gun fire
could be heard.
Bombs were dropped on the capt.
tai, however although crowds Cor
the most part ignored the raiders
and continued through the streets
on their routine business. One eX-
plosion destroyed a house and dam
aged two others near the United
States embassy, breaking windows
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-21
North Italy Feels
Wrath Of British
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD

ROME, Oct. 81. CUP) - British
airplaneS bombed northern Italy,
where Premier Benito Mussolini is
making an inspection tour, and
italian North and East Africa dur
ing the night, a high command
communique disclosed today.
Seven persons were killed and
Is wounded in British raids on
northern Italy, industrial heart of
the country, high command COM.
munique said.
Mussolini is now on an ispection
tour in the north. Because of mill
tary secrecy surrounding his move
ments, it was not known where
he spent the night after leaving
the village of Ronchi del Vegionari
for another part Of the northern
area.
Coming into Italy from SWit2er-
land according to the communi1ue,
the British planes dropped bombs
on Verona, in the provinces of
Pavia and Alexandria, and on the
commune of Borgio Verezzi, near
Savona and other parts of the adj
jacent country side.
In raids on italian Africa, British
planes bombed Decemeere killing one
person and wounding II and damag-
ing a barracks, and bombed Asmara,
Gura, Agordat and Massawa in
Eritre without doing damage, the
high command said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-21
BritiSh h
Speed
Attacks
BY SIDNEY ]. WILLIAMS

LONDON, Oct. 81. UP)-British
bombing squadrons, in a suddenly
intensified aerial offensive, bombed
German and italian targets over a
550-mile front between Berlin and
industrial northern Italy during the
night, it was announced today.
Military targets over Germany
generally, and the invasion ports
along the English Channel, were
bombed. Big British raiding fleets
cruised over Berlin and the indus
trial triangle of northern italy. Ma
val guns on the Kentish coast of
England joined in bombardment
of German guns and concentration
bases on the French side.
Zurich and Berne, Switzerland,
had two air raid alarms during the
night and Geneva had one. The
Swiss general staff, in a commu-
nique, charged that British planes
had violated Swiss territory several
times, flying over the Jura from
tier southeastward, and said that
Swiss anti-aircraft guns at several
points fired on them. (The Jura Alps
are on the Swiss French frontier)
bombing planes carried out exten-
sive operations ranging from Ber-
lin to northern ITALY," an air min
istry communique said Targets
were attacked in both these areas
as well as in other parts of Ger
many. Attacks also were made on
invasion ports"
The raids, including the first
attacks in several weeks on italy
proper, came after persistent re-
ports that Air Marshall Sir Charles
Portal, new chief of air staff, would
at once order intensified offensive
tactics on assuming his duties this
week.
Reports by United Press reporters
and other observers along the Eng
lish southeast coast indicated that
the Royal Air Force had made one
Of its biggest raids OF the war on
the invasion ports.
At dusk a series of tremendous
bomb crashes told watchers along
the Kent coast that British planes
were bombing the invasion area
Every 10 to IL minutes from then
on for many hours there was a
similar series of explosions, in evi-
dence that the British planes we're
attacking in steady waves. The
ground shook as the bombs explod-
ed, % miles and more away. Flashes
of bombs, parachute flares and the
bursting shells from German anti
aircraft guns could be seen through
the slight mist that diInmed the
moonlight.
Observers estimated that at times
bombs fell at the rate of 100 a
minute.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-21
Germans Again
Threaten SIeS

the American embassy.
Nazi authorities, in a sharply in
tensified tightening of news con-
troll, announced that effective at
once no news of military nature
of any sort, might be sent from
Germany between the hours of II
pm. and 6 am. daily q pm. to 8
pm. PSTD
Protesting against the British
raids on Berlin, the Nazis said at
the same time that their planes
had dropped 100000 pounds of
bombs on England yesterday and
that their submarines had sunk
$4,000 tons of British shipping in
48 hours.
A high command Communique
said that during the night German
planes, raiding London, caused
heavy destruction and fires on both
sides of the Thames. Arms factories
in the Midlands and ports on the
west coast were successfully bombed,
it was said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-21
Jup pan Hits Snuq
In Oil Proposal

Japan temporarily" to attend
ceremonies commemorating the o.
600th anniversary of the founda-
tion of the japanese empire, "and
also to consult the government. re-
garding his mission
A Batavia dispatch to the news
paper Asahi said that during Ko-
bayashi's absence Tomotsune Ota,
a foreign office expert attached to
his suite, would continue negotia-
tions.
(The United Press reported sever
al days ago from Bandoeng that
according to sources there a hitch
had been encountered in Japan's
negotiations for oil, particularly
because Japan wanted Netherlands
Indies crude oil and the Indies
wanted to export only refined oil
in order to protect its important
refining industry.
(The United Press reported from
London yesterday that Japan was
pressing Indies authorities to an
nul their existing contracts which
allocate all East Indies aviation
gasoline to Great Britain, and to
give Japan the gasoline. So far,
it was said, Indies authorities had
refused to break their contracts.)
Emperor Hirohito attended to-
day big military review in cele-
hration of the empires 2,6OOth
200 tanks and 500 airplanes took
part.
Newspapers in their comment on
the review emphasized the army's
responsibilities in the present world
situation. Hochi said:
"The Japanese army's duties
have more than doubled with the
conclusion of the new alliance with
Germany and italy, which aims at
the construction of a new world
order.
A Domei dispatch from Canton
said that the Japanese army and
navy commanders in chief in south
China, celebrating the second an
niversary of the capture of Canton,
said in joint statement: "Estab-
lishment of new world peace is
now in sight under the leader
ship of Japan, Germany and italy.
Japan is fully determined to real
ize the liberation of all Asiatic
races with the ultimate object of
establishing new Asia for Asia
tics
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-21
BY II. O. THOMPSON

TOKYO, Oct. 81. CUP)-Reports
of serious hitch in Japanese nego-
tiations to obtain oil from the
Netherlands East Indies were fol-
lowed today by foreign office an
nouncement that Seizo Kobayashi,
chief of the Japanese negotiators,
was returning to Tokyo
The foreign office insisted that
negotiations were progressing salts
factorily and will be continued dur
/. ing Kobayashi's absence by MEM
bers of his suite and the japanese
consul general.
A Domei news agency dispatch
first reported Kobayashi's return.
Domei said Kobayasfi, who is
minister for commerce in the cabi-
net, would leave Batavia, Neither
lands East indies, tomorrow in the
liner Nich;ren Maru, to return to
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-21
Forced Trade Deals Reveal German
Weakness as War Goes On, Expert
Says: Loss Of Prestige Predicted

increase in expenses would threa-
ten initiation.
At the same time Germany is un-
able to enlarge her barter system
about whose success German econo-
mistS have been so unduly en-
thuSiastic, as substitute for the
use of gold British bombings of
German industriai centers have
damaged extensively the output Of
manufactured goods. while scarcity
OF raw materials and the transfer
of Workingmen to the army have
added to Germany's handicaps.
Thus, the Germans are short of
domestic manufacturers to exchange
for all the urgently needed inn
ports from JugoslaVia and other
Balkan markets. The only alter
native is to compel the Balkans,
where possible, to accept Germany's
future promises to pay, at least in
part.
Before the treaty with Jugoslavia
"NA%' AaAesN'S' CIV tiiC Vi ldSU WEEK,
Germany already had been taking
80 per cent of Jugoslav exports. The
new agreement gives Germany only
10 per cent more material, indicat-
ing the primary cause of the ne
gotiations was not to augment Ger
man supplies, which under normal
conditions could have occurred
anyway.
The confession of economic and
financial difficulties. within Ger
many, which the Jugoslav treaty
indicates, cannot increase German
prestige in the Balkans and else
where. Rather. it must cause con-
elusions of fundamental weaknesses
within the Reich. despite Hitler's
display Of military power. Conf
dence in a final German victory
thus should decline.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-21
Bombs Hit U.S.. Oil
Company Holdings

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 81. CUP)
Bombing planes, presumably Ital-
ian, inflicted only minor damage
on holdings of the Standard Oil
Co. of California and the Texas
company, on Bahrein island in the
Gulf of Persia Saturday, company
officials say.
Standard oil representatives, how
ever, informed the home office here
that only a water main and an oil
pipeline had been broken; that none
of the buildings or refining units
had been hit, and that there had
been no fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-21
4 Berlin Areas
Heavily Bombed

BERLIN, Oct. 81. (UP)-British
bombs smashed into four sections
of Berlin, damaging apartment
houses, stores. hospitals, and resi-
dences, the Nazi press reported to-
day in angrily threatening retailia-
ton on Great Britain.
The attack on the capital was
part of wide British bombing Of
fensive. The British were officially
reported to have hit a railroad OBJ
jective in western Germany and
to have caused at least seven deaths
in Holland, where the official news
agency said Rotterdam and other
towns were heavily bombed.
Berlin newspapers said several
were killed and wounded in the
raids on Berlin when two high
explosive bombs hit a west end
apartment house.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-21
Passive Resister'
Jailed in India

WARDHA, India, Oct. 81. up
Vinobra Bhave, Mohandas K. Gan
dhi's one man passive resistance
movement, today pleaded guilty to
a charge of obstructing the recruit
ing of soldiers and collection of
war funds, and was sentenced to
three months in prison.
Bhave was sent out by Gandhi
to make passive resistance speeches
TO test the attitude of the British
government in India.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-21
BY ]. w. L. MASON
United Press War Expert

Increasing German economic
weakness under the strain of wal
is indicated by terms of the new
Nazi trade agreement with Jugo-
slavia and by Berlin's announce
ment Monday that similar CONNER
cial treaties will be negotiated with
other southeastern European coun-
tries, Despite Berlin's denial Mon
day of dureSS, there is reason to
believe German diplomats are using
threats to obtain what they want
because the trade conditions are
SO disadvantageouS to the Balkan
producers.
The Germans are compelling Ju-
goslavia to forego present payments,
in large measure, for exported
goods, and are demanding credit to
Too, Jugoslavia has agreed to a re-
Too, Jugoslavia has agree to a re-
valuation of the rate of monetary
exchange with Germany that gives
Nazi currency an advantage of 20
per cent. No nation would accept
such conditions of international
trade unless irresistible pressure
were brought to bear on its gov
ernnent.
The new rate of exchange means
JugoSlavia will have to sell its
goods to Germany at lower cost
than to other foreign purchasers.
The same concession has been fore
ed on Rumania where oil now is
being sold to Germany at a special
ly reduced price.
Germany cannot afford to pay
cash for all imports at present
because to do SO would be to
threaten the Nazi financial stabili-
ty. The war is costing Germany
about twice as much as it is cost
ing Great Britain and any large
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-21
BY FREDERICK C. OECHSNER

BERLIN, Oct 81. (UP)-Angry
Nazis, charging that British planes
had bombed two hospitals in a
raid on Berlin during the night
and admitting that high explosive
bombs had struck at four points in
the city, threatened a thousandfold
revenge on England today.
Though a formal communique,
charging that the British were con-
Quoting a terror campaign against
Berlin civilians, said that only in
cendiady bombs had been dropped,
the official news agency announced
hours later that four sections had
been hit by explosive bombs.
Bombs struck in the residential
west end, the agency said, destroy
ing an apartment house and causing
casualties in killed and wounded
Conclusion of an explosive bomb
broke windows in the apartment
of Donald Heath, first secretary of
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-21
Hitler Sends Small, Fast Planes on
Bombing Mission TO London; Guns
Turn Attackers Back in Fierce Fire

at the embassy.
A bomb dropped in recent Ger
man raid exploded near the Ameri-
can embassy, shaking the building
and breaking windows, it was dis
closed today.
The bomb destroyed house
Square, and severely damaged two
near the embassy, in Grosvenor
others.
Grosvenor Square was Uttered
with debris and splinters of trees
People in the Square dropped
prone as the bomb struck. None
was wounded.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-21

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Evening star., 1940-06-06
Chicago Grain
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June 6.-While dealer
waited anXiously for news tha
might give some definite clue as t.
the outcome OF the Somme battle
grain prices today drifted aimlessly
but after dipping about cent re.
covered all of the loss and close,
higher in some cases.
Trading was at a standstill much
OF the time due to uncertainty re.
gardIng the war and hesistancv O.
many dealers to enter the marke;
with prices at or near minimum
quotations permitted by tradin,
rules. Few or no transactions wer,
made in the oats, rye or soy bean,
pits, where prices were at the mini.
NUNS. Wheat sagged to within
fractions of these minimums at ont
stage.
The closing rally in the wheat anc
corn pits was attributed to scattered
short covering and some PURCHASING
credited to professors. Wheat CLOSED
unchanged to p higher. compared
with yesterdays finish: July. 7912-ss
September. 80-301s; corn. 30 lower
to Il higher; July, 627s SO: Septem.
Der, 6las-l2; oats, unchanged te
IS up.
Evening star., 1940-06-06

and Harvard Law School. During
1917-1919 Mr.. Olds served as counsel
for the purchasing department of
the British Wal Mission to the
United States, and in 1918 was a
special assistant in tne United States
War Department here Since 1919,
as a member of the law firm of
White & Case, he has engaged in
legal work related to matters of
organization and administration of
corporate business enterprises.
Bank Trustees Named.
Fifteen trustees were elected for
the ensuing year at the annual
meeting of shareholders of the East
Washington Savings Bank yester-
day. Officers will be elected at the
first meeting of the board Tuesday.
The trustees elected yesterday are
John c. w. Beall, T. Earle Bourne,
James A. Donohoe, Gratz E. Dun
KUN, Lewis Flemer, John Ford, w.
P. c. Hazen, Ernest E. Herrell, Ed
ward B. Hughes, jr.; Francis j.
Kane, Morris E. NARROW, Henry H.
Mckee. William N. Payne, jr.; Will
liam. F. Simpson and Lambert o.
Turner
Dividend Is Declared.
A semi-annual dividend of 50 per
share was declared at the quarterly
meeting of directors of Smiths
Transfer & Storage Co. Friday, it
was announced today. Arthur Clar-
endon Smith, president, reported an
increase in all branches of the
business.
Evening star., 1940-06-06
Stock Averages
BY VICTOR EUBANK.
Associated Press Financial Writer

T2SSOC!d dleO fTeSS FINANCIAL Writer.
NEW YORK, June 6.-Wall Stree
felt a bit better about the war toda,
and traders lifted steels and selecte,
issues fractions to a point or more
Best bidding came in the fna
hour. Quotations slipped shad
near the finish and, here and thers
minus signs were to be seen.
The ticker tape barely moved ex
cept at intervals until the closinj
stretch when a handful of low
priced stocks appeared in block
running to 10000 shares for Pack
ard. WHY'S Overland also was lively
Notwithstanding the late furry
the session was one of the sloWes
for about year Transfers approx
lmated 100000 shares.
European bulletins still left tn
outcome of the raging Somme bat
tie in doubt, but speculative force
seemed heartened by indications tn,
French were putting up strong re
slstance to the Nazi push Cloudinj
the picture was a new bombinj
thrust at England and British re
talllatory air raiding Of the Ger
mans. The question of Italys entr.
into the conflict persisted as re
stralnlng market influence.
Free sterling rebounded sharpl,
IN terms of the dollar on report,
the British treasury might take step.
to eliminate this currency from in
ternatlonal dealings. The French
franc also pushed up briskly.
Business news concerning broad.
enlng operations in number O
heavy industries served as a pror
to sentiment.
Shares attracting support include,
United States Steel. Bethlehem, Re
public, Youngstown Sheet, Dougla
Aircraft, Sperry, United Aircraft
Chrysler, General Motors, Anaconda
American Telephone, Westinghouse
Du Pont, Eastman Kodak, Grea
Northern, Standard Oil Of New
Jersey, American Woolen, Goodrich
Sears-Roebuck and Internationa
Paper.
j. c. Penney Jagged, along witt
U. S. Gypsum, U. S. Rubber pre
ferred and Glenn Martin.
Evening star., 1940-06-06
Bituminous Output
OFF Slightly in Week

The National Coal Association,
from incomplete car-loading reports
from the railroads. estimates BIZ
luminous coal production in the
United States for the week ended
June l as approximately 100000
net tons. Production for the cor
responding week: 1899, 5,778,000
tons: 1898. 4,691 900 tons. Percent
age of increase: 1889, Bis per cent;
1888, 62.0 per cent.
The report of the Bituminous Coal
Division of the Department of the
Interior shows production of 1870
900 tons for the week ended May 18
and 100000 for the week ended
May 25, 1910.
Production calendar year to June
/: 1910, 1873 $500 tons (subject to
revision; corresponding period 1899,
1875, ,729,OO0 tons; increase, 38.9 per
cent.
Evening star., 1940-06-06
Commodity Credit Corp.
To Need More Funds
BY the Associated Press

by the ASSOCIATED Press.
Commodity Credit Corp. officials
told the House Banking Commit
tee today that they needed a $780,
100000 increase in their borrowing
power to handle loans they expect
20 be asked to make on 1910 crops
Secretary Wallace wrote letter
to Speaker Bankhead last month
saying there was an urgent need
for the increase from 5000 100000 to
ST 100000, 900.
Carl Robbins, c. C. c. president,
said that as of March Is, the cor
poration's balance available for new
loans was only S33 100000 He said
officials expected to make loans
this year on 100000 bales of cot
ton, 26e000000 bushels of corn, 14O,-
100000 bushels of wheat, plus S40.-
100000 in tobacco loans and $780,
100000 in loans on other crops.
He told the committee that since
the corporation was credited six
years ago it had suffered an actual
loss of slightly less than S25,000.00O,
although complete liquidation of its
paper at given times would have
been considerably higher.
Evening star., 1940-06-06
Bureau Issues Report
On Cotton Imports
BY the AssociateG Press

BY the Associated Press.
The Customs Bureau said yester-
day that imports of cotton staple
1's inches or more from September
90, 1899, to May 25, filled 24.2S5 ,O25
pounds of the 1856, ,42O-pound
quota for the year ending next Sep
tember 20.
Principal imports in this classi-
fication were 23,898,655 pounds from
Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Su-
dan and 374,199 pounds from Peru.
Imports of staple under rs inches
amounted to 4,598,797 pounds of the
4,516,882-pound annual quota and
included 3.275,755 pounds from Mex
leo, 972,561 pounds from India and
290072 pounds from Brazil.
Imports of cotton card strips and
waste amounted to 2,850,779 pounds
Of the 5,482 259-pound annual
quota, including 2,557,944 pounds
from the United Kingdom and
239 500 pounds from Canada.
Evening star., 1940-06-06
RenauIt Visit Arouses
Business Speculation
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 6.-Louis Re-
nault, French automobile manufac-
turer, arrived from Europe today on
Pan-American Airways Lisbon Clip
per.
1t was understood he was en-
route to Washington on official busi-
ness and would confer with French
Embassy officials in the National
Capital.
1nasmuch as Renault's factories
in France are turning out motors
suitable for aircraft, there was spec
ulation that his errand here might
be in connection with the purchase
Of American aircraft and parts for
France
Evening star., 1940-06-06
Treasury Financing Plan
Due Next Monday
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
Secretary Morgenthau said TO-DAY
ne would announce next Monday
whether the Treasury would refund
or redeem in cash S352.993 of
treasury bonds which have alrsadv
been called for redemption on
June IS.
The Treasury Secretary said inter-
national developments in the next
lew days, as they affect financial
markets, would determine his action.
No other financing, he added. was
contemplated this month.
1t is understood that if market
conditions are favorable the Treas
ury Will offer holders of the old Sc
curltleS new Treaury obligation in
exchange. AS an alternative. the
treasury may Use its quarterly June
10 income tax receipts to pay off the
bonds and reimburse itself by selling
more short-term Treasury bills.