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Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
Running Water

1t takes more than bombshell
to upset the even tenor of C. r.
Kirkpatrick existence. A little
thing like a customer demanding
roast elephant wouldn't even ruffle
him.
Kirk, who has been dishing out
food around Sixth and Main as
long as RR can remember, runs
into some peculiar situations but
the tops of all turned up last week.
SAn elderly gentleman came into
the store carrying an ancient shaw
ing mug and wearing benign ex-
preston.
He waited patiently for Kirk to
wait on him and then asked:
would you mind putting a little
hot water in this?"
would you mind sort of washing
it out bit?"
Kirk did SO, filled the mug with
hot water, the old gentleman bowed
politely, smiled and walked OF.
Anybody else would have dropped
his job and trailed The man with
the mug to see if he tried to shave
with a store window as a mirror.
But not Kirk. He went right on
working
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
. AMBlINe
1\EpOR1ER
Sugar-COated Pill


With the careful air Of research
chemist, C. d. (BilD Allen ladled
out the various ingredients ano
prepared a batch of strawberry ice
cream.
Sugar cream :. Now need
q dash of vanilla extract! he
mumbled to himself professionally
The dash went in and the prod
uct emerged not long afterwards,
pink and shiny and delicious.
There was some difference OF opln-
ion regarding that last adjective,
for with the first spoonful in his
mouth Bill remarked.
These strawberries taste a little
mouldy . E.. :"
1t was Pauline Allen, however,
who got on the right track with:
There is an elusive taste about
this ice cream that somehow re-
minds me of broken bones and
sprained ankles
Say" put in Margery Allen, who
was also puzzled by that peculiar
taste, what bottle did you take
the vanilla extract from?"
Instead of extract, Bill had dump
ed in a liberal allowance of lini-
ment! But that didn't stop some OF
the other members of the family
from consuming it.
Harold Kendall, who ate two
dishes, remarked:
: i've had sore arm. This might
help it."
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22

OPM Chief William S. Knudsen
says the United States can out
build any two other nations
and here's why. Left: M-3 light
combat tanks roll out Of Ameri-
can Car and Foundry Co. plant
at Berwick, Pa. Below: Cyclone
and Wright airpIane engines
u n d e r construction at Wright
Aeronautical Corp. Paterson.
N. j. The tanks are coming
from a plant which formerly
made subway cars. II now has
a contract for $40 million worth
Of these tough little LAND de-
stroyers The Wright Aeronau-
+ical Corp. achieved a record
output for March. Engines turn
ed out then totaled 100000
horsepower. The picture below
shows vertical lathes which turn
out crankcases.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22

of the four extras failed TO mate
rialize. They will be sent later
Possibility of a slow up in the
selective service program, at least
in the valley, was noted on one
hand but was contradicted on the
other by the order for sending out
more questionnaires. II was learned
that the southend board probably
will not send any more men until
June The June Shipments were
expected to be chiefly Negro. In
this event, the southend may fail
to send the 178 quota slated at ilrst
by June 80. Roughly SO more men
must go 10 reach that point.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22

: The allied stand at Thermopylae
and southwark on the slopes of
Mount ParnasSus where fighting
was reported in progress may de-
termine whether any part of the
evacuation which now seems newt
ably to face the allies can be car
ried out successfully.
The fighting lines were less than
80 miles from Athens. Over the
whole area Nazi Stuka and level
bombers ceaselessly worked to turn
the orderly allied retirement into
disorderly retreat.
German military spokesmen claim
ed the retreat of British forces in
Greece has been turned into pre-
cipitate flight with the Nazi air
force harassing the entire line Of
withdrawal, embarkation ports and
ships clearing Greece for the open
seas.
The Nazi spokesman claimed there
was no longer any semblance of
! war of position in Greece and the
flight of British forces had been
accelerated by advance of German
troops beyond Larisa and Lamia.
London reported three Axis sup
ply ships, totalling $4,000 tons, en-
route to. supply Axis forces in the
Balkans, had been torpedoed AMI
| sunk
Istanbul said German speedboat
forces had landed on the Island of
Samothrace, just outside Turkish
| territorial waters and attacked the
island of Lemnos, garrisoned by
Greeks, and possibly British, troops
SPAIN APPEASED
British attention was divided be-
tween the climactic Balkan battle
and new threats throughout the
world.
Prime Minister winston Church.
i'll, responding to acid comments In
the House of Commons, said Brit
ain desired no break with Spain and
| Vichy heard reports Gen. Francisco
Franco again had rejected German
proposals to join in an attack on
Gibraltar.
On the Greek war front, the allied
forces faced tremendous odds in
battling constant air attack and
| the pressure of Germany's iron
panzer divisions.
London indicated the climactic
test would come in attempting to
defending 40-mile line running
from near Thermopylae to the
mountains near the gulf of Corinth,
thus establishing rear-guard de-
tense along the peninsula leading
to Athens and possibly permitting
the Greek army in the west to pull
back from the German pincers.
TRIPOLI BLASTED
The navy was joined by naval
planes and the RAF in the attack
on Tripoli, the Axis base for the
current land campaign through
Llbya, into Egypt and against the
Suez canal. The RAF alone dropped
10 tons OF bombs on the coastal
base. communique issued at Cairo
said, while the 15-lnch guns of big
British warShipS battered the har-
Dor.
The attack on Tripoli was design
ed to weaken the Axis drive into
Egypt, which Berlin and Rome
said was making progress in the
Sollum sector again after consider
! able delay. Cairo reported Raj
bombers were hammering again at
the Axis lines in North Africa,
causing much damage to trans
ports and columns.
The Nazi threat of action against
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22

CIerk Roy TOMBSTONE announced
that state headquarters had author
lied him to send out an additional
five per cent, which brings the to-
tai to half of the approximately
$500 men who registered.
Meanwhile, three more men left
the valley Monday from the south
end division and IA from the north
end division for induction centers.
The southend trio was Walter Men.
doza OF Calexico, Boyd Moss of
Winterhaven and John Pyburn of
Yuma. They were requirements.
The northends quota of l3 men
for this call was boosted TO II by
a replacement request, but three
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22

be expected considering the wealth.
er conditions"
A state of emergency was in ef-
feet in Massachusetts, where a fire
Monday destroyed a Catholic church
coast guard station, casino and
several beach dwellings.
New York state had eight serious
fires and numerous smaller ones.
Fire fighters used a two-way
radio communication system in
battling flames on an 8,O00-acre
tract southeast of Pittsburgh, Pa.
A railroad bridge was destroyed in
New Hampshire, many homes were
burned down in Maryland and the
Great Smoky Mountains national
park in North Carolina received
heavy timber damage.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22

Judge S. Gould, to whose court
the case was transferred from Judge
Emmett Wilson'S court, sustained
union demurrers to the Maggie re-
quest for permanent orders restrain
ing the union from tactics designed
to ban the company from Los An
geles markets unless Maggie signed
a closed shop agreement with the
unions.
In addition Judge Gould dismiss
ed all contempt of court proceed
ings initiated against the union Of
ficials for ignoring Judge Wilson,
order to cease picketing the Maggie
plant until the request for a per-
manent restraining order was de-
cided.
His decision was based, Judge
Gould said, on the supreme court
decision in the Howard automobile
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
Animal Control
Reduces Losses

Predatory animal control work in
the Imperial Valley will be discon-
tinued on April 80, according to
B. A. Harrigan, county agricultural
commissioner.
Harrigan reported losses to sheep
men were much lighter during the
past year than any previous year.
More than 200 coyotes were killed
under the control program.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
Hopper Infestation
Liqhter Than in 40

GrasshopDer infestations in the
Imperial Valley this season are not
as widespread as last year, accord
ing to 5. A. Harrigan, county agri-
cultural commissioner. but are very
heavy in isolated sections.
Harrigan's office, which has al
ready distributed several tons Of
poison bran, reported that the
northend is hardest hit by this
years infestation.
Harrigan reported additional pois
on bran is available for distribu-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22

compilation of information was
wholly inaccurate and leading TO
erroneous conclusions" he said the
following types of .''miSinformation"
had been employed by the governor:
|. Asserted losses were computed
on property not involved which
was not tax decided and over which
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22

loss of timber and property would
persist for the duration of the
drouth.
Many sections of the east have
not had heavy rain since the middle
of March. The public was barred
from woodlands in Connecticut.
Similar action was predicted in
Massachusetts.
The fires formed a patchwork of
Scared areas in New Jersey, Mass
achusetts, Connecticut, New York,
Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland,
Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New
Hampshire and Vermont.
In New Jersey alone, more than
$4,000 acres of timber had been
destroyed but State Fire Warden
Leroy Fales said the situation was
improving and was as good as could
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
County Preparing
Annual BUDGET

It's budget time in Imperial coun-
ty.
Supervisors Monday instructed
County Clerk w. j. McClelland to
write the head of each county de-
partment TO prepare annual bud
gets and file them with the board
not later than May Is.
AS usual the board ordered de-
partment heads to make no in
creases over the expenditures bud
geted for the current year.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
Tvs More to Get
Druft Questions

ANOTHER It's questonnaires prepared for mailing
tuesday at Ell Centre Selecve Service headquarters which
when filled out and classified will that half of those
who registered in the southend division military service
last October will have been considered for the army
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
|. v. Firm Loses
L. A. Labor Fight

The Sam Maggie company Of Ell Centro Tuesday lost
its Los Angeles superior court suit to prevent the Team
union and the Produce Drivers and Movers union
using hot cargo and secondary boycott pcketng
force the company to become a closed shop
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
Olson Accused Of
Auditing Abuses

SACRAMENTO, April %. (UP) = State Controller
Harry Riley today accused Gov Culbert Olson and the
department of finance with misuse auditing authority
and garing of fact" in attempting to show mis-
management taxdeeded lands under supervision of the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
He Named It

.5Then there was the prize remark
of the month, uttered by an El
Centro three-year-old that dubbed
a centipede a cooperative bug.
How he ever got the idea his
parents didn't know, but the name
fits. With as many legs as a cent?
pede has, you gotta have coopera-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
Brotton Sued for
S100. 900 Damages
Filipino Wounded in {. {. Gambling Hall
Seeks Judgment Against S special Office
Names Municipal Corp. Defendant

Freddie Taporco Filipino shot and wounded by Special
Police Officer Arch Braton in Ell Centro gambling
last March g. Tuesday filed suit for 100000 damages
against Bratton and list of defendants including Doe
Muncnal cOrnOratiOn.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
III States Fight
iimberIdnd Fire
BY UNITED PRESS

Civilians and soldiers fought seemingly endless batt
against numerous small fires in the parched woodland
of II eastern states Tuesday.
of the big outbreaks had been brought under
troll forestry officials said the danger of continues
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
Evacuation Last
Hope i'm Face Of
Superior Numbers
Germans Declare Retreat Has Turned TO
Disorsanized Flight With Bombers
Harassins Troopships in Harbors
: By UNITED PRESS

The Greeks and their British allies stood again at Their
mopylae Tuesday, fighting to hold off the German
saugh Greece after the Royal had hurled tons
OF high explosives upon the Axis base of TripOli.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
Citv Authorizes $4,000
From Gas Tax Money for
Main Street Underposs
Four-+o-One Council Vote Sees Bratton
Opposed TO Project Mayor Explains
Highway Commission Requested Action

Thirty-five thousand dollars in Ell Centros gasoline
tax money available Tuesday to the state highway
commission the city share for construction of un
derpass beneath the railroad tracks Main street.
AuthortY for the commission to the funds was
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
CANTALOUPES

CANTALUUPES
Los Angeles: Supplies light; de-
mand slow: l. v. pony crates, 54s,
S4.5O-5; Gas, 81; Std 45c. 81; Std.
flats 15s S2.75; irregular flats
S1.25-1.75.
L. A. hay u. S. No. 1 $780, 1900.
U. S. No. 2 leafy S16.50-17.50. No. 2
SAILS. Mpls Sept. flax S1.87.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-05
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II only more ships would come
and take away wheat. there would
be more room FOR wheat storage
here. Tacoma. along with other
terminals where storage facilities
are already crowded, Is under a
virtual embargo.
That is. railroads serving inland
wheat shipping oenters are refus-
ing 10 load cars with wheat for
Puget Sound delivery unless II is
shown in advance that there Is
space here where the wheat can
be unloaded and stored.
Once upon a time the railroads
didn't mind II a shipper wanted 10
pay demurrage on a box "a that
was tied up in some congestion of
this sort. But not so today.
The railroads want all their
cars working on freight hauling all
the time: demurrage has no at
traction.
Port OF Tacoma facilities and
flour mill storage here is under.
stood to be about at capacity now
and outside warehouse spacs
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Spokane Weekend
Death Toll Four

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES report
ed Monday at least four persons
died in accidents in and near Spo-
kane during the weekend.
An automobile collision at a
Spokane street intersection cost
the lives of William Wiese. %.
Spokane, and Ralph Lang. Rose
Lake, Ida. Wiese and Lang were
passengers in a car driven by
Ellis Scoles. also of Spokane.
Scoles was charged with negligent
homicide.
Sgt. Gale B. Dial, Fort George
Wright. was instantly killed when
a machine driven by John Mauvis,
26, overturned on the highway is
miles northwest of here. State
patrolmsn Paul Harlow blamed
speed for the accident, and Mauvis
was charged with negligent homi-
eide.
Michael William Clark. six-week-
old son of Nj. and Mrs. Lyle Clark,
Spokane, smothered to death in
his crib.
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Parking Meters Versus Trucks;
Tacoma Councilmen in Quandary

How 10 regulate truck loading
when downtown Tacoma is policed
by parking meters still had the
city fathers in a quandary Mon
day after another session with
Roy J. Clark. secretary-manager
of the Tacoma and Pierce County
Allied Truckers.
Clark attended TO protest any
provision in the parking meter
ordinance to make truckers pay
nickels into the machines. 1t had
been proposed to allow free load
ing up to IL a. m. and then charge
trucks like other autos.
The truck man said his organiza-
ton wants some arrangement for
an unlimited parking privilege, but
is willing to have each company pay
something for the privilege. They
now pay 81 per truck for common
carrier permits. Clark would have
that fee increased TO $3.50 and
unlimited parking privileges in
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No Change Seen
In VichY Stand

NICHY. France Observers
Monday believed no change in
French-American diplomatic rela-
tons would result from the gov
ernment's reaction TO new axis
demands for closer collaboration.
The government az study
ing a statement of Acting
Secretary of state Sumner
NelIes. limiting that a break
In relations would follow II
France acceded To new Ger
man demands. There was no
official comment.
cot was understood that Ger
many had demanded the right 10
protect" French African pos
sessions, particularly strategic
Dakar, and the return Of Pierre
Laval to power.)
A special Sunday meeting OF
the council Of ministers approved
the stand of Marshal Henri Philippe
Petain and Vice-Premier Admiral
Jean Francois Darlan in resisting
encroachment from any direc-
ton" on French colonial pos
sessions.
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Jas. Simpson
Passes at 81
Wos Retired N. P.
Master Mechanic

James Simpson. 81. Of 1911 No.
Cedar st. retired general master
mechanic from the Northern Pa
cinc railroad. died Saturday in a
local hospital
Funeral services vill b held
Tuesday at 1870 ?. m. from the
Buckley-King chapel. with Rev.
Harold L. Booch and Ivanhoe Com
mandery. Knights Templsr. offici-
ating Burial viii be in Mountain
View burial park.
Active pallbearers will be Harry
Lyddon, c. II. Palmer. r. 3. King,
". r. Dunkerley, c. G. Jennings
and. r NJ. Crosby.
Honorary pallbearers will be c.
L. Allen. Roland Riebe. Carl
Seraggin, Harry Micklethwait,
Herbert Love. William Bosch,
Hugh Borman and George Ern-
strom.
Simpson. who completed AZ
years OF service with the railroad
prior to his retirement in 1880,
was a native Of Shrewsbury, Eng.
He came to United States "a years
ago, and had been a resident Of
Tacoma 81 years.
Other than Ivanhoe Command
cry, he was a member of Destiny
lodge No. 1877, F. & A. NJ, Coun-
ell and Royal Arch Masons Of
Fargo. N. D, Afifi Temple Shrine,
the order of Eastern Star in sta
pies, MINI, of which he was past
patron, and Tacoma chapter, o.
f. s., and Tacoma court. Amar-
anth. He also was a member of
the First Congregational church.
a life-member of the Tacoma Gun
club. and a member of the North
ern Pacific Veterans association.
Surviving are one son. Willard
W. Of st. Paul, MINI; one daugh-
ter, Miss nellie Simpson of Taco
ma; one grandson. Arthur James
Simpson, II, of Seattle. and two
daughters : in = law. Mrs. Arthur
James Simpson of Seattle and
Mrs. Willard Simpson of st. Paul
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cluded with II.
Poruand's arrangement. where
by truck owners pay IS a year
each for hoods to put over the
meters when they park. also was
opposed by Clark. The hoods, he
protested, would take to much
time of truck drivers. OF other
cities contacted, Corporation
Counsel Howard Carothers said,
Eugene. Ore. also rents hoods to
truck firms at s6 a year each and
Astoria allows free parking only
up TO 10 a. m.
The session adjourned in a gen
eral vein Of Illustration, with the
councilmen anticipating more pro-
tests from deliverymen in outlying
parts Of the city, from rural
owners of farm trucks. or the
many business people using their
cars for many calls. though not
actually doing a trucking bust
ness.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-05
Col. Ladd Of "Can-Do," Nominated
For Boost to Brigadier General

void. infantry; Simon Bolivar
Buckner Jr. Charles Tillman Hsr-
MS u. ordnance. Davenport john
son. air corps.
He also nominated Adna Ro-
mama Chaffee, who holds tenn
porary rank. 20 be a permanent
major general.
To be ~brigsdier generals Homer
Ray Oldfield. coast artillery. Geo.
Ralph Meyer. coast artillery. Al
bert Eyer Brown. infantry Alex
ander McC. Patch Jr.. infantry.
Orlando War. field artillery. Geo.
F. Stratemeyer. air corps Muir S.
Fairchild. air corps: Frayne Baker
temporary appointment.
The following lieutenant colonies
were nominated to be c~olonels:
Charles Augustus French, coast
artillery: John Albert Hoag. field
artillery; Oscar A. Eastwood,
chemical warfare: Earl II. Metz
ger. coast artillery: Max S. Muir
ray, infantry. Matthew J. Gunner.
infantry. and Joseph Leonard
Stromme. air corps.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-05
Japanese Moiorship
Set 10 Leave Seattle

SEATTLE - Seventeen persons
came here Monday from Van
couver. B. c.. and boarded the
japanese m~otorship Heian ,Maru.
posted to sail at 3 P. m. directly
for the Orient.
Despite seven libels against its
cargo, the Nippon Yusen Kaisya
liner unloaded all its freight. in
GLIDING an $s4O. 900 silk cargo.
Omission of the regular Van
couver call forced the passengers
to come here.
Sixty-nine Canadian-bound pass
engers went to Vancouver Satur-
day from here aboard another ship.
They said 5000 Germans had en-
tered Tokyo in recent months and
that propagandists ere encourag-
ing japanese hatred Of Great
Britain and the United States.
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Col Jesse A Ladd. commander
of the 18th fcan-Dol Infantry Of
the 81 Division AZ Fort Lewis was
nominated BY President Roosevelt
Monday for promotion to the rank
Of brigadier general. It was an
nounced al Washington. .. c.
Also nominated to the rank Of
bngadier general vas Col. Mark
y. Clark. now in Washington. D..
c. but who served at Fort Lewis
until his transfer last September.
He vas A lieutenant colonel at
that time.
other nominations follow:
The nominations for major gen
erals Charles Henry White. in
fantry: John Porter Lucas. field
artillery: oscar Wolverton Girls
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-05
Little Business,
But Large Crowd
AT City Council
BY ROBERT CULLEN

City council business proved
light Monday when an ominous
number Of citizens gathered in the
council chamber turned out to be
just a group of women visiting to
see the performance but without
protest or a cause TO further.
A petition was submitted by
Floyd w. Brassfield, chairman of
the Forget-Me-Not sale OF the
Disabled American Veterans, for
permission TO hold the sale Sept. T.,
5 and s. The matter was referred
TO Commissioner Holmes East
wood.
On the advice Of Clarence n.
Boyle, assistant corporation
counsel. the city fathers turned
down a claim Of $50 filed by
Myrtle Hudson. of Route 5,
Box 667. Puyallup. who fell IN
the sidewalk at l407I Pacific
ave June IS.
Boyle ADVISED that since the ran
was caused apparently by a hole
where a glass plate in the side
walk was missing. responsibility
would lie with the owner OF the
abutting property in whose inter-
est the sidewalk skylight was in
stalled.
Utilities Commissioner Y. ID.
o'Neil introduced an ordinance to
authorize a contract for education
of children Of city employees re-
siding near the LaGrande power
plant on the Nisqually river. A
contract for $1,000 would be
signed by the city officials and the
Eatonville school district for two
years. the 1941-42 and the 1912
43 terms.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-05
Case Cut Short,
Goodwin in South

OLYMPIA-Hearing of the di-
vorce action of Mrs. Emma NJ.
Wolf. Olympia socialite, against
Homer L. Wolf. was cut short
Monday by the failure Of VOLTS
counsel. William Goodwin Of Ia
coma, to appear in court.
Goodwin, deputy prosecutor of
Pierce county. is in California on
his vacation)
In a legal gesture TO locate Wolf
who has been missing for over a
month. Mrs Volts attorney asked
for written proof that Goodwin had
teen retained by the missing man.
The court ordered Goodwin to
bring written evidence within 10
days of his authority. above VOLTS
name and present address.
Mrs. Wolf filed the action after
Wolf had disappeared from his
boat in Olympia harbor on June
20. 1871. He was at first thought
drowned. but John S. Lynch, j..
Thurston county prosecutor. issued
a grand larceny warrant for his
arrest.