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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-16
Retail Sales
f or N. W. Gain
Department Stores
Report Increases

IAN FRANCIsCO-The Pacific
Northwest and the Utah-Idaho
ara was the white spot today in
retail sAles reports gathered for
The 18th federal reserve district
~ The Federal Reserve hank.
Oregon and Washingtoa
showed . IL PER ccat gain In
department store salcs In Feb
runry ever February Of 1853.
With Utah and southern
Ianhe recorded . 10 per cent
increase N ~ period.
Forty three department stores
n the district showed an increase
n sales while ~ reportd = de-
crease. Portland was up Is per
cent over year ago. Seattle IL
par cant and Salt Lake City IL
per cent Southern California
towns outside of Los Angeles
likewise noted 4 10 per cent In
ersass and Los Angeles marked
up four per cent rise. but other
California cities and areas showed
declines.
Adjusted for the season. and
taking the years 1e23-25 a. an
average Of 100. Oakland led the
12th District In sales in January
and February with m index of
11S and 125. respectively. against
. national average Of % and 20.
. district index Of % and % and
"a and 81 for California.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-16
Tillamook Couple S
Burial 10 Be Here

Double grsveside services will
be held at Mountain View burial
park Saturday at 4 p. m. for Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Marley Kuhn of
Tillamook, Ore.
Mrs. Ruth Henton Kuhn leaves
her father. John r Marley: two
brothers. Percy Cyrus Msnley and
Hugh Elton Msnley, all Of Fair
month. w. Va. and an aunt. Jessie
Morris Manley of Dupont. Wash.
Kuhn is survived by his father
Burton Warren Kuhn Of Tillicum
Wash. and two brothers, Frank
Roderick Kuhn Of Dupont and
Keith Kuhn Of Tillicum.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-16
Toe Tenner
Is Free Man

Joe Tenner. convicted in Superior
Judge Fred C. Remains depart
ment of superior court two years
ago on a charge Of accepting the
earnings OF fallen woman.
walked out Of state pcnitentiary at
Walla Walla Friday free man.
Tenner. bandleader-composer
and former ziegfeld Follies and
Follies Bergere star. said he spent
much of his time in prison COM
posing songs. He said he planned
to reorganize his band and begin
a tour Of the nation.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-16
Capt. Strickland
Carrying on Probe

Preparation Of Z defense FOR
James Hampson. ss-year-old Fife
milk truck driver. charged with
the murder Of Miss Virginia Rifle
b well In progress, II was learned
Friday.
Making Investigations for Hamp-
con and his attorney. Frank Hale,
IL Capt. John 8. Strickland. for
mer captain Of detectives on the
Tacoma police force. Arguments
on . demurrer Of Hale will be
heard by Judge Ernest M. Card
Saturday morning.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-16

Oregon, a few days ago to become
manager Of the Montgomery
Ward Tacoma store. He started
from a California appointment,
was moved to Klamath Falls, then
Baker, and finally Tacoma.
In California I always had an
ambition to go to Puget Sound"
said Mr.. Whitney. Il am very
happy over the realization of that
ambition and am particularly
pleased to be situated in Tacoma.
1t seems TO me there is every
thing here to create business
the new shipyards, Fort Lewis,
McChord field, the Narrows
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-16
New MANAGER
Arrives Here
Transfer North
Pleuses Whitney

The further north I move the
better I like II" said w. L. Whit
ney when he arrived from Baker.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-16
Hearing Is Held on Alaska S
Fishing Employment Bills

WAsHINGTON-oe Jurch Seattle representing
Fish and Allied Workers America C1o) Thursday
aion to compel the Alaskan fishing industry
residents.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
Herb Lowderrnilk
VIII Seek Seati.,
State Assembly

Herbert Loudermilk, FL Centre
insurance man, Wednesday an
nonnced his candidacy for state as
Sembly from this district.
LoWdermilk, bearing the endorse
ment of the Democratic Central
committee, the Young Democratic
club and the Women'S Democratic
club OF the county, will be running
Ia Tor George Luckcy of Draw
10y, Democratic candidate for the
state senate.
LOWdermilk came to Imperial
Valley more than ID years ago from
Arizona, where he engaged in the
banking business in Phoenix and
Tucson Tor a number of years. He
anne originally from North Caro-
lima.
A war veteran, he has been active
in American Legion work both in
Arizona and California. He served
rs department adjutant and state
finance officer in Arizona and was
once adjutant in the Ell Centre
chapter He is secretary treasurer
of the Imperial county Insurance
AGENTS association and field Secrc-
tary Of the Building Contractors
association.
LOWdcrmlik is married and lives
at TAI SandalWood drive.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12

nations armed forces.
1t released 80 seven year old
Northrup attack bombers to private
aircraft interests for resale to the
Allies. Nincty-three similar bomb
crS now arc en- route to Hou!ton
Me, for shipment to Britain and
France via Canada
The navy previously had turned
in 80 dive bombers for resale to
the Allies and earmarked 40 more
similar proposal
The Northrups are two scatter
planes, carry five 3O-calibrc ma
chime guns, and have facilities tol
20 small or four large bombs. The
army does not use this model IL
its combat SquadronS today.
The army is making a cleanup
survey of all of its surplus arma-
ments, which do not fit into the
high commands present modern
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
Turkish
Fleet
Sails
Is+anbuI Brea axis
Off Relations
With Italy

ISTANBUL, Turkey, June
y. (UPi-Turkey broke off
commercial relations w t h
Italy today, ordered its ships
to take shelter in the near
est Turkish ports, and was report
ed to have sent its battle fleet
steaming through the sea of Mar
mora toward the Dardanelles.
1t was reported that the German
and Italian ambassadors and the
Bulgarian and Hungarian ministers
had held an emergency meeting at
Ankara, the capital. to consider the
situation and the likelihood that
Turkey might enter the war on the
Allied side.
News of the breaking of the COM
mercial relations with Italy came
officially from Ankara. Turkish
Italian commercial relations had
been based on a clearing agreement
Immediately afterward came the
news that all Turkish ships had
been ordered to proceed at once to
the nearest Turkish port to await
orders. Turkish ships had been re-
stricted to Turkish waters by a
previous government order.
The Turkish fleet repeatedly had
been ordered from its base at the
east end of the sea of Marmora
and was steaming toward the OAR
danelles, which lead into the Med
iterranean.
Shippers ana inhabitants of GER
tair. Istanbul suburbs received no.
LITIGATION today TINT anti-aircraft
and coastal defense batteries in
certain sections would start firing
practice today for an indefinite per-
iod.
Two British merchantmen in Is
tanbul harbor received orders to
remain in port. but other British
and French ships in the Black Sea
continued their voyages. planning
to put in at Istanbul on their re-
turn.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12

escaped from the crash at 3 am.
with minor back injuries, but physi-
clans were still unable to deter
mine the extent of Vests injury.
When the truck he was driving
went out of control less than hun
dred yards from the Colorado river
bridge on Highway 81 and plunged
into d concrete retaining wall, West
was caught in the drivers seat. The
impact drove the engine almost
into his lap and caught ms legs
in the wreckage.
1T was more than an hour before
We could get HIM out" Highway
Patroman T. O. Alleger reported
He was in great pain most of the
time, although a doctor eaScd his
suffering somewhat with an injec-
ton
West recalled passing the Cali
fornia Quarantine station and way
ing sleeplly. He even recalled strlk-
ing the cement based stop sign H.
the center of the road, erected TO
warn Arizona motorists TO ndlt fOr
inspection. But it was only hay
recollection and the next second
the truck had sWerved to the left
crashed and TUNED over on its
side.
1T is miracle there wasn't a
fire" Alleger said. There was gas
oline all over the place, dripping
from the trucks tanks. We mar
Shalled all the fire eXtinpuishcrs
we could locate and stood by ready
to night it."
The trucks steering colGmn haG
u be sawed in two and croWbars
USED TO pry the engine off VESTS
legs. West suffered badly manglcu
right foot and possibly a broker
leg, scalp injuries and an arm in
jury, X-rays VIII be needed to
determine the extent of his hurts.
Only a few minutes kept West
from escape. He was to leave the
wheel and turn the machine over
to the relief driver in a few more
miles.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12

izatiOn program.
One authority told the United
FresS that the Allies already have
bought 100000 30-calibre British
Enfield rifles. about $50 French and
British 75S, large stocks of old 30
calibre World war machine guns,
nortars, shell and munitions.
The sale of the surplus war
stoeks, other than planes, is being
handled through a subsidiary of the
U. S. Steel corp. The firm is tax
'ng S37600,0G0 worth of the mater
ialS and is r"-Seliing them to the
Allies without profit. Authority to
do this was voted yesterday by the
senate, CT to IS. but the legisla-
ton has not been completed
President Roosevelt turned to fur
Their study of the WORK he has out
lined for his advisory defense COM
mission. He luncilcd with Sindcy
Hillman, CLIO vice president and
labor representative on the defense
board. Hil.man, who has been ill.,
was unable to start work with other
commission members.
A commission spokesman, discus
sing the visit here yesterday OF
EdSel Ford, said that the manu-
tacturer discussed the mass pro-
of airplane engines rather
than aircraft.
Ford conferred with William S.
knudSen, the commissions produc-
ton co-ordinator. Considerable in
terest in the Ford plans followed the
recent prediction of Henry Ford
that his company could turn out
1000 planes daily III an emergency.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
Paris Prepares to
elast- Ditch
Fight Against Foe
Refugees Swarm Roads
From City, Soldiers on
March Into Battle Zone

PARIS, June IL. (U)-
The city of Paris grimly but
calmly prepared today to
face the onslaught of Ger
man armed forces from three
sides.
The police issued an official order
of requisition, affecting all bakers,
pharmacists, and food shops in
Paris and the Seine departments.
presumably to meet any emergency
All night the thousands of refug-
ees had moved southweStward from
| the capital and-in the opposite
direction-trucks had dashed thru
the city carrying soldiers toward
the battle-ground.
dispatches from Berlin said that
the German armies we're 1919 miles
of Paris on the northwest; closer
than at any time during the World
war when advance cavalry reached
MeauX, 20 miles from the capital)
By dawn the evacuation of the
capital seemed to have been COM
pleted and the business districts
were comparatively quiet. Many
persons remained in Paris, how
ever, and some of them strolled
along the boulevards where they
could still buy the combined edi-
ton of LIE Journal, LIE Matin, and
LIE Petit Journal.
Look out for a bombardment OF
fake news the headlines warned
ParisienS.
A few bicyclists and a few per-
sons with push carts or carrying
bundles still were leaving the city
this morning. About 100 persons
were waiting for a bank to open
across the street from the United
Press office on the Rue Des Ital-
lens.
Smoke from fires outside the city,
especially in the northeast, could
be seen.
The blackout during last night
Continued on Page 8, Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
ID 6 Sends More Planes
TO Allies. Builds Ships.
Speeds War p PREPARATIONS

WASHINGTON, June 12-(UP)-'
The united States went full speed
2hcad today on its own defense
program ard prepared for resale
to the Allies, another lot of 80 OLD
attack bomberS.
The total of U. S. army and navy
planes definitely destined for the
Allies is now 1853.
President Roosevelt made plans
10 place all government navy yards
and arsenalS on "a hour day,
three shift basis, to accelerate re-
armament.
Acting Secretary of Navy Lewis
Compton announced that contracts
totaline 1927 1913, 600 for % new ships
under the 1941 fiscal year program
have been awarded in the largest
transaction of its kind in the ma
tons history. The navy already
has 66 WarShipS under construction
m its own and private yards
The war department suspended
courses for regular army officers
at the war college here and at
the command and general staff
schools, Fort Leavenworth, Kan,
to free the officer for work in the
army expansion program.
Secretary of War Harry H. Wood
ring laid plans for defense of Alas
ka, announcing that field artillery
and infantry forces soon will be
sent there.
The war department turned over
to private manufacturers technical
equipment for the quantity pro-
auction of smokelesS powder AM
monia ana small arms for this
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
State 10 Retire
ANY Who Join Army

SACRAMENTO, June r. (UP)-
AS a means of cooperating in any
United States defense program. the
state board of equalization today
adopted resolution directly af-
fecting the status of employees who
might desire to join armed forces
of this country.
The resolution, introduced by FREQ
F. Stewart, Oakland board men,
Der, provided that employees should
be granted leaves of absence with
pay if they desire to participate in
short training courses. A prefer
red list" also would be established
for employees who join United
States forces" to the end that their
Jobs will be opened to them on
their return"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
Naval District
Calls Few Reserves

SAN FRANCISCO, June H. CUP)
Headquarters of the twelfth naval
district said today limited num-
Der" of naval reservists had been
called for duty in certain categor-
les" to fill vacancies.
The headquarters said the num-
Der called was negligible and the
call affected only those who had
volunteered for such duty.
1T certainly is not wholesome
call, and is scarcely worth mention
ing the headquarters spokesman
said.
He said an earlier statement of
the call apparently had been misin-
terpreted to make it appear the
order was an urgent summons to
a large number of reservists.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12

Jne frenCn capital, reported Cne
Nazi divisions had crashed down
the Disc valley to within 1872 miles
of Paris after a bloody but com
pletely successful" offensive from
the north.
1 The Germans claimed their arm
les had cut Paris off from all COM
munications northwest, north and
northeast, and were in a position
to capture the city soon or merely
flow around it, as military wisdom
might dictate.
French military sources, however,
inferentially denied the German
claim in an announcement that
French armies were fighting Stub
bornfy on a defense line about 18
miles north of Paris while the
French air force hammered furious
ly at German advance units and
rear communication lines.
East of the embattled and barri-
caded capital, the German mech
anlzed legionS rolled over the bat
tlegrounds of the World war, thru
the cathedral town of Rheims, into
the rolling country side-dotted with
white crosses of two decades ago
at Chateau Thierry and on thru
the historic valley of the River
Marine.
West of Paris, the Germans took
Rouen, battled their way across
the River Seine at several points
and. the Nazi high command re-
ported, encircled Allied troops on
the coast between Dieppe and LIE
Havre.
The German high command said
that 10000 Allied troops had sur
rendered in the st. -Caux
pocket on the channel coast,
where much booty was captured.
The German press again called
attention to progress OF the Ger
man forces through the Rethel Sec
tor of northern France. NeWSpa-
pers in Berlin said that it provided
an increasing threat that the
French Maginot. Line would be
thanked and turned by attack from
the rear.
The British and French forces
still fought back with all of the
power that Generalissimo Maxine
Weygand could throw into the de-
Tense lines and British bombing
planes raided the crowded indus
trial area of northern Italy.
In London the government sale
Britain must expect bombing at
tackS any time and that German
parachutists were expected to lead
an attempted invasion of the Brit
Continued on Page 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
Russia Promises
Hell p for Sweden

LONDON, juno - tUP)-USually
reliable Scandinavian sources here
said today that Soviet Russia had
informed the Swedish government
il could count on Soviet assistance
~ the event Of aggression against
Sweden.
Soviet representatives have. also
told scandinavian Officials, it was
said, that Russia would view with
grave concern" any further German
movements to The north
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
Peg Taken Out
OF Flax Market

Active flax trading will be re-
,umcd juno IA almost a month
;iter exchanges pegaed the price at
sl7612. Argyle MeLqc.. IAN of the
Southwest FlaXSeed association an
l0urr2d Wednesday after COM
ngnicu,ion from the Minneapolis
exchange
MeLachlan said trading probably
"sN,6 open lover, somewhere in the
g. SO 10 $40 bracket. but expected
a boost thereafter if trading is ac-
tive
Pr.cc" WCro p2gcd May 10 at the
'eQucst OF the secretary of a9ri-
culture when a sharp drop in prices
was Threatened because of the Eur
araan situation, Quotations were
taken off the boards June because
there WAS no trading at the pegged
Dllco.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12

chinery ordered by Amtorg. the
Soviet trading company in this
country, were being held on the
docks there.
Since soon after the Russian
Finnish war began, there has been
moral embargo on shipment TO
Russia of American airplanes. av-
iation gasoline, and technical equip
ment used In the aviation industry.
This embargo, like the one prev.
iouSly applied on the same materials
to Japan, was put into effect on
the grounds that Russia had bombed
civilians from the air.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
Red Envoy Protests U.S..
Ban on Goods to Russia

WASHINGTON. June 12-CUP)-
1t was understood on good author
ity today that Constantine Ouman-
sky. Soviet ambassador, had lodged
a strong protest with the state de-
partment against stoppage of ship
ments of American goods to the
Soviet Union.
Oumansky talked with Secretary
of State Cordell Hull for more than
an hour. Neither would comment
afterWard, except to say that the
conversation covered several aspects
of Soviet -American relations.
Reliable sources, however. said
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12

the ambassador had protested a.
gainst what Russia considered an
embargo on shipments of virtually
all kinds of American goods to her.
The government was disclosed last
week to have quietly begun stopping
certain export shipments of machine
tools on the grounds that they
would be needed in this countrys
defense program.
This stoppage of certain ship
mentS of tools was first revealed
when some Japanese orders were
held up Today from Tacoma.
Wash, came word that some ma
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
Yamatoda Tells of
Alleged kidnapping
By Oswald, Others
Japanese Gambling Gar
Says Rival Ordered
Him Out OF Country

Los ANGELES, June II.
(UP) - IIideichi Yamatoda,
japanese gambling figure,
today testified at the kidnap
conspiracy trial Of Sterling
Oswalt, former Ell Centre police
chief. and eight others that he was
promised a police escort to the har-
Dor if he agreed TO give up his gam
bling interests here ana go back to
Japan.
Yamatoda told of being arrested
here and being taken to Ell Centre
BY automobile During the trip, he
sad, he repeatedly was threatened
by OSWalt ard members of rival
gambling syndicate. He was want
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12

trial section Of northern Italy, said
that the bombers attacked Turin and
Genoa during reconnaissance opera
tons from the British Isles.
One British bomber was missing
after the raids, the ministry said.
Genoa is approximately 525 miles
in a direct line from Britain.
dispatches from Turin said the
outskirts of that city were bombed.
Turin is a city of $4,000 population
on the River Pc, near France, and
is one of the chief industrial cities
of Italy Genoa with $4,000 popu-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12

lation is the capital of Liguria, and
the chief trading port of Italy)
The air ministry said that
throughout today British airplanes
had made raids on the German right
wing armies on the lower Seine
river in France and particularly
southeast of Rouen, where German
conveys and mechanical columns
were attacked.
Road functions were wrecked and
woods were set ablaze by bombs,
which sometimes were dropped at
the rate of 100 per minute.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
Troops to Alaska

WASHINGTON, June - cUP)-
Secretary of War Harry II. Wood
ring announced today that force
OF field artillery and infantry soon
Will be sent to ANCHORAGE Alaska,
to protect the new army air bases
being established in Alaska.
In addition Woodling sad
company of engineers and other
small auxiliary elements Will be
organized and moved to Anchorage
from Fort Lewis. Wash. and other
west coast stations.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12

Public Works for recommendation
Addressing the meeting were DR..
Charles Bursch. head of the school
planning department of the state
department of education and d. C.
Willctt, acting chief of the state
of public works.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12

ed at a conference of 81 trustees
in FL Centre Tuesday morning and
afternoon, said boards would retain
engineers to make their own sur
veyS where damage was $4,000 and
under. Where damage exceeded
that amount applications would be
made to the state department OF
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
School Trustees
Planning Repairs

School trustees in districts where school buildings
fered earthquake damage prepared Wednesday to either
hire registered engineers to survey buildings or appeal TO
the State Department of Public Works
Superintendent Of Schools E. L. Hiteman who nrosd-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
Capital Cut Off
On Three Sides,
Berlin Announces
Nazis Say Lesions Only I2Miles from
City; French Say Defense Line Formed
10 Miles Away; Invaders Advancing
BY UNITED PRESS =

cmactc battle for Paris ragged today at the core OF
fighting front stretching from the coast of Scand
navia to the plateaus of East Africa.
Adolf Hitlers armies, sweeping in semi-circe around
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
DriverPaysin Agony
For Minute o. Sleep as
Truck Hits Concrete Wall
Los Angeles Truck Pilot Pinned Beneath
Wreckase Of Vehicle While Rescuers
Work DesPerately TO Remove Debris

An hour and ten minutes of agony, with his crushed
legs pinned in wreckage the price Los Angeles truck
driver paid Wednesday for split second of sleep.
Homer West, the driver, and Leonard Bowcutt of Ell
Monte relief driver were in hospital Yuma Bowcutt
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
Italy Industrial
CenterS Bombed

LONDON June II. (UP) = British heavy bombers
bombed military detectives at the city of in northern
Italy and other targets at the port of Genoa the air min
stry said today
The air ministry statement, first detailed explanation