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Evening star., 1940-05-10

,, the Associated Press.
BERLIN, May 10.-The German
high command announced tonight
that German troops had broken
border resistance on the Belgian
MISUNDERSTANDING front.
The communique stated:
German troops at $50 am. went
over the Dutch, Luxembourg and
Belgian borders. Enemy opposition
in the border area was broken
everywhere In the first attack, in
the closest collaboration with the
air force"
Adolf Hitler sent his troops into
Belgium and Holland shortly before
dawn and personally took command
Of military operations.
BY noon the German radio an
nounced that The Hague. Neither
lands capital, had been occupied by
German forces. The announcement
said detachments of the German
Navy occupied the capital at noon.
A fort nearby also was reported
seized.
"a dispatch from The Hague .
two hours after the Berlin radios
announcement said that German
leaflets dropped in The Hague by
plane told the residents today
that strong German forces have
surrounded the city and that re-
eistonca iS insanity ~
Command COmmuniaue,
The high command communique,
issued daily, was datelined this time
from the 'Fuehrer's headquarters"
and said:
I'm view of the Immediately i'm
pneding extension of the war area
by evening onto Belgian and Dutch
territory and the threat to the Ruhr
territory connected Herewith, the
German Western Army at daybreak
May 10 started over the German
western borders along the broadest
front for attack. :
simultaneously, the air force at
tackled an enemy airport with great
success and strong units have taken
a hand in land fighting in support
Of ground troops.
ITO conduct general operations of
the defense force. the Fuehrer and
supreme commander has gone to
the front"
(The Chicago Daily News For
eign Service reported German
forces were landed along the
Dutch coast at dawn this morn
ing from fleet of transports
under guard of Nazi warships
and the whole Dutch coast was
occupied by noon, it is claimed
hereunder the very noses of
the British. The Germans then
laid mines along the coast to
hamper allied operations in those
waters.
German forces were ferried
in hundreds Of hat-bottomed
motorboats across the regions
which the Dutch had flooded as
Aprotective measure. Each boat
accommodated 16 men,
''Darted" Over Borders.
Steam-rolling its way into Holland,
Belgium and Luxembourg by COM
bination of the land and air forces
that proved SO effective against Po-
land, Norway and Denmark, the
armed forces of the Third Reich,
under Adolf Hitler's personal direc-
ton, "darted over Germany's west
ern borders along the broadest front
for attack" as q high command
communique briefly put it.
At the same time German Tight
ing planes, with Hollands hitherto
neutral air no longer = hindrance
darted straight for the heart Of Eng
land.
Other units Of bonbers and hsht-
(eoo 4BlfM. paee A.3D
Evening star., 1940-05-10
Troop rain BLASTED, ,
Resistance Declared
Strong Along Rivers
Invaders Dropped From Air
Fight Way Into Part
Of Rotterdam

ROTTERDAM lP.-Germanys plane and para
chute troops, attempting to fight their through
Rotterdam driven back into dangerous position
late today by the attacks of reinforced Dutch troops
and the pounding of Dutch artillery.
Strong detachments of Netherlands marines made
repeated rshes into the enemy positions the Ryer
Nieuwe Mas and the fighting fierce.
Dutch ncendiary shells set fire to the large Mas
Hotel from which the Germans operating on the
left bank Of the stream which divides Amsterdam The
fire spread rapidly threatening the thin German lines
AMSTERDAM, May 1o-The Netherlands officially an
nounced today that her defense forces had shot down at
least 70 German planes, blown up German armored train
at Veno and offering strong resistance along rivers
just inside the Eastern part of the country from Germany
The described of four successfully
attacked reported while attempting the
Mas River bridge at Veno the border between the Province
troops
the invaders the e and Mas Rivers short distance
within the Netherlands and maintained positions at Dejl
German of the air spanned the strong land and
defenses of the Netherlands today landing by
seapane the side OF
the nation, fought its way into part of Rotterdam.
The troops occupied Roterdam waalhayen Airport after
eyeling aerial bombardmen aghted
the Neuwe Mas River the center Rotterdam occupied
big bridge the captured the Mas railway station
in the city.
Heavy fighting in going in Rotterdam The Germans
the left Of the Mas far have been unable to be-
of the stubborn Dutch resistance
Troops trying advance along the left bank of the river from
Waahaven Airport also said to have been checked
Army Stoutly Resisted.
the other Holland the water line
fed by dykes the Netherlands rsne defenders
resisting army country along
Rhine and swarmed ahead IS miles to the vicinity of the
Ijssel River, Arnhem.
amazing methods of warfare enabled
the Netherlands defense
system and into Rotterdam scarcely than 100 miles
from the British coast the home of 100000 people
Rotterdam taken completely by surprise at d040
pm T) by the of hundreds of German planes
the city.
Virtually the entire population sreamed into the streets in
nightclothes.
The Waalhaven Airport south of the city, converted into
series craers by air bombs and the hangers knocked to the
ground. gs
Although antacraft batteries constant barrage
the succeeded landing their by parachute and
overwhelming the Dutch defenders.
Barricades Are Thrown Up in Streets
thrown the streets of Rotterdam The
Germans using abandoned streecars for shelters
The Germans who landed in the river had both light and
heavy easily damed the few Dutch soldiers
guarding the big bridge took railway station the left
bank with little trouble
police inspector who the station drew revolver and
shot Immediately Other police killed wounded
in trying to resist. :
Amsterdam only trip
of Rotterdam the stock exchange closed Dutch Naz and
newspapers shut down by order
Evening star., 1940-05-10
War Bulletins

NEW YORK, May 10 R.-Two
squadrons Of Naxi planes, loaded
with soldiers, were said to have
made . daring attempt to cap
ture Queen Wilhelmina," an at
tempt which evidently has met
with failure and sudden death
for the perpetrators"
Evening star., 1940-05-10

Recapture Of the important
Dutch airdrome near The Hague
from German invaders was re-
ported by DIR. Alexander Loudon,
Netherlands Minister to the
United States, after . lengthy
conference with President Roose-
velt ut the White House early
this afternoon. The Minister
said his .country's defenders also
had shet down some - German
planes and destroyed . Naxi
parachute detachment which
landed on the Hook .of Holland.
Evening star., 1940-05-10

BERLIN (R.-The Berlin
radio announced tonight that
German troops had taken Maas-
tricht, Holland, and Malmedy,
Belgium. The Naxls crossed the
Mas River with . few men on
the west Dutch German frontier
At several points, the announce
ment said.
Evening star., 1940-05-10

BERLIN, May 10 R).-An Of
ficial announcement tonight said
almost 1eo enemy" airplanes
either had been shot Down In
serial battles or destroyed on the
ground. Seven German airplanes
were reported missing.
Evening star., 1940-05-10

(See CUDAHY, Page A-20
Evening star., 1940-05-10
Border Resistance
In Low Countries
Broken, Germans Say
Hitler Tokes Personal
Commend Of Forces
In Invasion

fTert OF the German memo
randum to Belgium : and the
Netherlands on page A-4.J
Evening star., 1940-05-10
Weather Forecast

Fair tonight; tomorrow cloudy, followed
by light showers; little change IN tenn
perature; lowest tonight about so. TEN.
peratures today-Highest, 66, at pm;
lowest. 48, at 6 am.
From the United States weather Bureau report.
Full details on Page Az
Evening star., 1940-05-10

(CsnD1ste Inlsz. Pags A-2.)
Evening star., 1940-05-10

(See LONDON, Page A-5D
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
YES MEN IN CONGRESS
(Orange NeUS)

AS congressman 90. Harry Sheppard
has done fair job. He belongs to that
group of patient and enduring bondsmen
who take the administration program
without protest and probably without
thought. LII return for service rendered,
he is granted the administration dole of
projects and benefits for his district. He
is not without bargaining capacity and
has probably brought home more than
the average share of the swag.
Congress, of course. is loaded with
such useful nonentities who do little
harm in ordinary times but who do moth
ing to energize the processes of democ-
racy, who contribute nothing to the de-
termination of policy and, in times of
crisis, bar their constituents from any
part in the direction of government.
When there is supreme court to pack,
such congressman stand obediently by
and if democracy goes to the dogs it is
not their concern. If the traditions of the
country are violated by third-term ambi-
tions, they subscribe in a low voice, hop
ing that they will not be heard in the
home area. They submit to trade treaty
atrocities, to the wrecking of business and
the taxpayer and come home with
little string of WPA minnows and snug
ly proclaim: 'See what | DONE"
This is time Of crisis, an unfortunate
time for the nonentities 1t is a time in
which the people will look upon the
handiwork of their servants and see
whether it be good or bad
1t is to be doubted whether, this year.
the people will be impressed by minnOWs.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
7 THE PATH
DICTATORSHIP

lis popular these days to talk about
iopponents' actions leading toward
Utorship. Sometimes, perhaps, they
But more often they do not.
|snator George w. Norris attack on
bill in congress is a case
|soint. The bill, Sen. Norris said, is
|are prelude to dictatorship What's
II, he added, children still unborn will
~ up to find that q. the most i'm
liant thing in their lives is service in
|cript army and .. children will
|N and see nothing except world
mated by militarism, where rulers
more for training their people in the
/ of warfare than in the arts of
ne senator's blistering attack on COM
|Qry military training failed to take
|ral things into consideration. Chief
Ing them is the fact that the cOnscrip
|sbill now in congress springs out of
necessity to train men who
right now, of war age. We are not
|Iting the desirability of the present
I'VE don't know enough about its
$-but we believe that some form of
eription is necessary.
ore than that, however, we believe
Eno conscription law such as this
Ia be continued in effect after the
kency is over Military training, yes.
Military training of youngsters who
hot yet embarked on their life work,
y lives would not be interrupted by
Eription just when they are getting
ed on their own.
Il to dictatorship-we fail to see how
hry training, with its physical de-
bment, technical education and disci-
|, can rob any youngster of the abil-
/ b think as an American. 1t has not
e out of the soldiers in our standing
liz any such serfs as Sen. Norris would
/ you believe. Why would it harm
Ifs2
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
SOMEONE CALLS
OUR HAND
EDITOR, THE POST-PRESS:

EDITOR, THE POST-PRESS:
You ask for letters from your readers,
and while | have on numerous occasions
refraned with great difficulty from tax
ing blast at you, your editorial headed
preparedness" in the Post issue of Aug
ust demands that someone call your
hand.
In the first place the German drive
that woke us up to the urgent need OF
preparedness started less than three
months ago, and some of the appropria
tions are less than a month old, instead
of three months as YOU claim. And in
spite of the very recentness of these APP
preparations, millions of dollars worth
! of contracts for war materials have al
ready been let and more are being let
daily
| suppose that if you decided this week
that YOU wanted a new home you would
expect to have it ready to move into next
week
The real causes for delays where de-
lays have occurred have been the petty
snlplngS OF those who are so preiudced
against the New Deal that they are ready
to fight any and every suggestion that
comes from the President. Yaur frequent
cracks at the New Deal sound lot more
like prejudice than rational reasoning.
CHARLES SMITH, Calipatria
Editors Note: The editorial to rhich
Mr.. Smith refers rds rritten With War-
plane constructor in mind. 1t uas in May
that congress appropriated billions of
dollars for construction of these planes
Yet on August 9-the day after the edi-
toriai in question Was printed-Secretary
of War StinisOn told congress that only
80 planes had been ordered out of the
1000 prOUided in the multi-bilIOn dollar
Legislation. Said Secretary of War Slim,
son, himself a Neu Deal cabinet mem
Der: II hare received no eUidence that at
any time has there been any tendency on
the part of industry to hold back :"
If, as this NeW Dealer says, industry is
not to bIdme-then UhO is?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
ANCES MILLION TO ONE
AINST HEAT DEATH

ont LET this scourge of so-called heat
his get you down. If you're healthy
halfway sensible, the chances are
illion to one against heat prostratlon,
llone death from the heat.
ieat death is a misnomer, anyway.
{ is usually nothing more than a con-
biting factor. Take the case of the
Amonth-old child who died Saturday,
fyone called it a heat death. The
n was that the child was suffering
u manutrition-ha not had enough
he proper kind of food. The boy had
n i'll almost since birth.
Il take most those other eases of So
I'd heat deaths. More than nine times
Iof ten, you'll find that the supposed
I'm had been drinking heavily, was in
health without proper treatment, or
in the old age brackets.
e are entirely too apt to label death
II death, and think of it as being
ed solely by the heat, without exam
the real causes, which often may be
I'D in the supposedly contributing fac
roper precautions can raise the
ICES against heat prostration into the
pms for healthy, sensible persons.
/ the first step toward such precau-
IA should be mental conditioning, a
kation that real heat deaths or pros
/ ions in Imperial Valley are scarcer
they are in other areas usually re-
led as having cooler climates.
ke person who drinks heavily during
Feather, defies the sun at the hottest
sof the day, fails to live up to even
most elementary health rules, is
ay inviting disaster.
|ut. for the love of Pete, let's not
he everything on "the heat. Human
kdness is a lot more to blame.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

WASHINGTON. Aug. 13.-A sub
surface row between titans of the
oil industry is finding covert ex-
preston in an innocent-looklng bill
now pending in Congress.
This bill is a brief amendment to
the stolen property act of 1884.
1t seeks to close U. S. markets to
any properties which have been
appropriated by a foreign govern
ment; it has passed the Senate
and is up for consideration in the
House.
Back of it is a scrap between the
Standard and Sinclair oil interests
arising from the fact that Sinclair
settled its claim against Mexico
while Standard did not.
Sinclair settled for S8,500,000 and
q contract permitting it to buy 20
100000 barrels of Mexican oil over
a four-year period. Complaint of its
rivals is that this oil is coming in
fast enough to depreSs the u. S.
market. and that much of it is in
fact oil taken from the wells of the
other appropriated companies. The
pending bill is supposed to block
such importation.
Sinclair officials. however, say
that under their contract all the
oil they get must come either from
the wells they themselves formerly
owned or from wells originally
owned by the Mexican government
Anyway. they argue. their oil inn
ports run to less than $4,000 barrels
a day. whereas total U. s. oil inn
ports have been swinging between
100000 and 100000 barrels daily.
The really interesting part about
the scrap though. is that it stems
from Sinclair'S breaking of the
united front" maintained by Am
erican oil companies against Mex
leo: and behind the breaking OF
that front there is an odd little
story.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 3117

IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE AND GUARDIANSHIP OF
RAMON SANCHEZ, AN INCOM-
PETENT PERSON.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO EN-
CUMBER REAL PROPERTY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Mariana Guizar as guardian OF
Ramon Sanchez, incompetent, has
filed his verified petition praying
for an order authorizing cucumber
ing the real property hereinafter
described by giving a deed of trust
thereon and that Friday the 23rd
day of August. 1910, at IL o'clock
A. M. i'm the Superior Court of the
State Of California, in and for the
county of Imperial, in Department
I. thereof, has been fixed as the
time and place for hearing said
petition when and where any per
sons interested in said estate may
appear and object TO granting said
petition.
Reference is hereby made to said
petition for further particulars as
TO the terms and conditions of the
proposed encumbranee.
Said real property is situated in
the City of Ell Centro, County of
Imperial. State of California, and
particularly described as:
Lot G of Block 18 of the Town
site of Ell Centre, according TO
Map No. 953, on file in the
Office of the County Recorder
of San Diego County.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk and Clerk of said
Superior Court.
BY Maxine Console,
Deputy
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
BY PAUL HARRISON
IF Corresponds

NEA service stair Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 12.-Half
the stunt men in Hollywood are
working in a picture that RKO
called I'm Still Alive" and are
having some of the most terrify-
ing experiences in their careers,
They're acting.
The story is about stunt men and
is reminiscent Of The Helen Twelve
trees-Jack Woody romance. ANY,
way, a stunt man (Kent Taylor
marries a star LINDA Hayes, and
the picture is full OF jolly dare
devils crashing planes and wrecking
cars and toasting departed COM
rades at the Grave -diggers' club.
There probably are 800 self
styled stunt men in Hollywood,
most of whom are inexperienced
extras who's risk their necks for
a SIS bill. Actually, there are only
% acknowledged specialists in peril
experts entitled to a daily mini
mum of $35 and on up to $1,000.
Most of the II hired for this picture
play themselves in straight drama
tic or semi-comic roles. They dread
the acting and wish the director
would hurry up and get to the
good old falls and crashes.
OF course, when the excitement
begins, one of them will have to
double for Kent Taylor, who is
exclusively an actor, although in
the picture he plays stunt man
who doubles for actors.
The studios publicity on this
flicker will assure the fans that it's
all very realistic-for example. that
the .Grave-diggers' club is re-
plica of one in Hollywood to which
these fellows belong. That part is
utter nonsense. Stunt men never
would be SO melodramatic. The
nearest thing they have to a club
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
Paul HARRISON S Notes
On Hollywood S FoibIes and Fads

is a public bar-and-cafe called the
Spare Rib on Santa Monica boule-
ward. It's just place where the
BOYS drop in occasionally to talk
about forthcoming jobs and ex-
change tips and prices. The first
one called in by studio to discuss
q stunt names price, and there
after no one will underbid him.
In some ways these men live the
most exciting and satisfactory lives
in moviedom. Their work is never
drudgery: each assignment is
challenge. and the better the stunt
man. the less likely he is to be
injured. Buddy Mason mentioned
that in 20 years he has spent only
about six weeks in hospitals) Ihey
make a good living. yakima Ca
mutt. who doubles in westerns,
earned $21, 900 last year,
All but one of the % are mar
ried, and their romanceS seem 10
endure lot better than those OF
other Hollywoodsmen. When age
begins to add danger to their trade
they usually enter some profitable
sideline. CFloyd Criswell, whom L
saw on the set, owns So motorcy-
cles, a fleet of police cars, some am
balances and patrol wagons Which
he rents to the studiosO
The stunters are well known, llk-
ed and thoroughly respected by all
of Hollywood But studios are not
anxious to publicize the stunt men
who do so much doubling for the
stars. Cliff Bergere, famed racing
driver and veteran of l3 Indianapo-
lis events, is the best known OF the
dare devil brigade. He's in this
picture.
Like actors, most stunt men are
typed. Bergere explained that hes
seldom called for anything except
an automobile job-collision, roll
over. or dive off a cliff. Alan Pom
eroy, heavy-set, almost middle ag-
ed, is the man every director thinks
of first for motorcycle work. JIM
nv Fawcett, one-time circus aero
bat. ball player and vaudeville tum-
bier. is the best net-diver In town
And SO on through the list.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
M. A. No. O53O83
District Land Office
Los Angeles, California

OuiiC Aoro
Notice is hereby given that the
Tvcrete Chemical Corporation, by
Louis A. Tyce, president, of Chula
Vista, California, has made appll-
cation for patent to the White
CRYSTAL No. l placer mining claim.
embracing ER SEA NEA Sec. 10
and White Crystal No. 2 placer
mining claim, embracing SWA NWA
NWA Sec. Is; SEA NEA NEA Sec.
l6 all in r. II S., r. 9 f.. SBM
containing 40 acres, in the Ell Gen.
tro Mining District, Imperial Coun-
ty. California. There are no ad-
Joining or conflicting claims. The
location notices are recorded in
Book 359, page l48 and Book 358,
page 1886, and amended notices are
recorded in Book AGO page 488,
Book AGO, page 489. and Book All,
page 563. official records of 1mper-
ial County, California.
PAUL B. WITMER.
Register.
(J11-A2O incD
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
Willis Thornton's Editorial On:
The World Turned Upside Down

August. 1910. Our isolated position"
is now freely challenged Our free
dom from entagling alliances" no
longer means what it did then.
Those 1914 editors meant formal
military alliances like those which
drew the French in after the Rus
slams. the Germans in after the
Austrians.
Today there are no cheering as
surances" that we are lin no peril
of being drawn into the European
quarrel" Today our stock exchanges
are not closed, but open-and list
less. Today gold is not being ex-
ported to Europe, but accumulates
hereto suffocation. There is no
rise in wheat and corn. no wave
of business failures. Only that
vague premonition that "a war
which involved all Europe could
not but have its effects among us"
remains as truth magnified.
Today even the definition of DE
ing drawn into" Europes war has
changed. In those simple days, one
was "in' or mot in But today,
with Germany claiming influence
in every country and trying to ex-
ercise it. many countries which are
ceratinly not "in" the war can
scarcely claim that they are mot
in" either. For in today's war the
military phase is only the active
phase of war which every country
is being compelled to participate.
if only to resist effects among US"
which strike deeply at our chosen
and accustomed way OF life.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13

When CORVALLIS troops marched
out Of yorktown to surrender to
the beseiging Americans, tn Q r
gands played a tune called "The
World Turned Upside Down"
So it must have seemed to these
veteran British regulars. laying
down their arms to the rabble of
rebels that they had held in such
contempt
But if the world seemed upside
down on that October day of 1881
let us thing a moment of how
upside down it is today as com
pared with early August only =:
years ago. War had just broken
out in Europe. Beyond a feeling
that this was Big Stuff, Americans
cared little. knew less Of what lay
behind that war.
On August 3. the Literary Digest
had rallied enough to make its
first survey of newspaper opinion
on the European war. They led
off the weeks issue thus:
Our isolated position and free
dom from entangling alliances in
spire our press with the cheering
assurance that We are in no peril
Of being drawn into the European
quarrel But the closing of our
stock exchanges the expectation of
gold TO Europe. the rise in wheat
and corn. the failure Of business
firms. help TO remind our editors
that war which involved all Eu-
rope could not but have its effects
among us
That was August, 1914. Now it is