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Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-15
Moscow Reports
Counter Attack

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against Russia, thus producing a
two front war in defiance of ac-
cepted German military principles.
However, Lozovsky did not note
the fact that actually the Germans
have only one land front at pres
ent.
The Soviet spokesman also took
occasion to deny reports that the
government has any intention Of
evacuating Moscow.
Nazi propagandists in Berlin
meanwhile displayed an unusually
aggressive tone toward the United
States. The Berlin press chorused
a charge that President Roosevelt
had ordered American naval vessels
to shoot at German submarines and
authorized spokesmen echoed the
charge, limiting that Germany was
prepared for counter-steps.
The Russo-German war front sit
uation was reported from Moscow
and Berlin as follows:
NORTHERN FRONT Berlin
claimed German troops are pushing
aggressively toward Leningrad but
did not specify their exact position;
Russian communiques merely said
the Nazi thrust was being resisted.
CENTRAL FRONT - A German
offensive was reported by Berlin
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-15
Expelled Germans
Sail for War Zone
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was the German consul general in
San Francisco, and Johannes Bor-
chers, who was the German consul
general here.
They had wanted to sail in Jap
anese liner for the Orient where
they had been assigned new posts.
They missed a boat Sunday because
the British were inexplicably slow
in granting them safe conducts
and until last night were under the
impression that they had permis-
sion of the state department to re-
main until July 81 when he next
Japanese boat sails. Then some
thing happened that reversed their
plans and a few hours later they
were flying to New York with their
wives, their assistants, 129 pieces
Of luggage, and four dogs. The state
department would not comment.
Considerable mystery surrounded
the sailing of the West Point. A
heavy police guard around the Hud-
son river pier prevented all un-
authorized persons from even ap-
preaching the former United States
luxury liner America, hardly recog-
nizable in her dress of battleship
gray.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-15
Phone Co. lnsfaIIs
New Desert Line

Launching a new project in its
faSt-moving program to aid in ma
tional defense and handle growing
traffic, the Southern California Tel
ephone company started work this
week on new desert long distance
line, involving a expenditure of
more than $4,000, according to S
S. Campbell, telephone company
manager.
This undertaking, covering con-
structlon of a pole line along an
88-mile route from Yermo to Cadiz,
both in San Bernardino county, and
the str!nging of additional wires
from Cadiz to Daby, is in addition
to three other larger long distance
schedules previously announced and
will provide twenty-four talking cir
cults.
The other long distance Jobs are
construction of an underground toll
route between Santa Ana and Del
Mar at cost of ST. 100000, the plac-
ing OF an underground cable between
Los Angeles and Newhall at a cost
OF S326,0O0 and the building of new
facilities between Newhall and Yer
mo, including a pole line and re-
peater stations, at an expenditure
of $716,000
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-15

Churchill paid tribute to Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden and Brit
aims ambassador to Russia, Sir
Stafford CrippS for the swift con-
clusion of the Anglo-Russian agree
ment.
He said that Eden had been in
strumental in establishing sub
stantial agreement between Russia
and Poland, adding that "negotia-
tions have not yet reached a con-
clusion but I am most hopeful that
aided by the craftsmanship of Gen.
Wladislaw Sikorski Polish premier
another important step will soon be
taken in mayshalling the people of
the world against the criminals who
have darkened its lift and menaced
its future"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-15
WEATHER

Southern California - Generally
clear Tuesday and Wednesday ex-
cept low clouds and fog early We'd
nesday morning along beaches, lit
tie change in temperature, mid-day
temperature near 78 beaches and
generally near 100 upper coastal
valleys, gentle variable winds coast
al areas.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-15
Japan Indicates
Treaty with Reds
May Be Torn Up

TOKYO, July Is. (UP)-A Japan
ese government spokesman, COM
planning today that Russia had min
ed many areas of the Siberian coast,
intimated that apan might find It
necessary to abrogate its three monh
old neutrality treaty with Russia
because of the situation precipitat-
ed by the Russo German war.
At the same time, inspired news
paper articles reflected increasing
Japanese interest in the possibility
of American and British aid to
Russia against Germany, Japan's
ally.
Iichi Kishi, speaking for the gov
ernment information board, dis
closed that the japanese embassy
at Moscow had been advised by the
Russian admiralty that Russia had
established mine fields in many
zones of the Russian Pacific coast.
Presumably, Kishi said, Russia
took its action on the ground that
German warcraft might appear off
the Siberian coaS.
However, Japanese are unable to
imagine German warcraft in these
waters" Kishi added. I'm any case
the mining measures are not very
pleasant to Japan"
In reply to a suestion, Kishi said
that the Russo-Japanese neutrality
and friendship pact still stood.
But 1 am unable to comment on
the future" he added
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-15
Peace Proposals
All Unofficial

WASHINGTON, July Is CUP) =
Acting Secretary of State Sumner
Welles said today that the state
department has received several re-
ports on unofficial German peace
proposals.
Welles' remark was in response to
press conference questions about q
statement of Mayor Fiorello H. La
Guardia of New York that some
German peace proposals had been
forwarded to an American peace
organization in Washington.
Welles said that the state depart
ment from time to time had re-
ceiVed reports of such purported
German offers but that there was
nothing official in their character
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-15
New Shipyards
Planned on Coast

SAN FRANCISCO, July IA. CUP)
Tentative plans to build a new
merchant vessel shipyard on the
shores of the Oakland estuary were
disclosed today. The project needs
only approval of the U. S. maritime
commission for the construction 60
ahead, it was announced.
A company to be known as the
West Coast Shipbuilding company.
headed by Walter w. johnson.
Berkeley, planned to build the yard.
Part of the plant VIII be on the
Oakland side of the estuary, at
the foot of Broadway. The other
part will be directly across the es-
tuary on the present site of the
Standard Coal Company of Califor-
mia, Alameda, according to De Lam
cey Smith, attorney for johnson.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-15
Capt. Frank 0swaIt
Recovering aiS.F.

Captain Frank Oswalt of the Cali
fornia Highway patrol is recovering
rapidly after a throat operation
performed in San Francisco a week
ago.
His wife wrote friends in El Gen.
tro that his physical condition is
EXCELLENT and he is feeling cheerful.
Captain Oswalt this spring was
transferred from Imperial county to
Salinas because he believed the
northern climate would benefit his
health.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-15
Daylight Saving
Power Requested

WASHINGTON, July Is. up
President Roosevelt today asked
congress for authority to establish
daylight saving time for all or such
parts of the nation and of the year
as he deemed practicable.
Mr.. Roosevelt explained in a let
ter to Speaker Sam Rayburn tina.
the need for saving electrical ener-
gy for the defense program varies
from section to section and that
flat year-round national daylight
saving time would work unnecessary
hardships on industry and individ-
uals.
The presidents message was ac-
companied by a draft of the pro-
posed legislation.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-15
Marshall Warns
Against Tragedy
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reserve unless a national emergency
existed"
In the opinion of the war de-
partment such an emergency now
exists"
He said that the army planned to
release some selectees, particularly
those % years old and more. at the
end of one year of service if con-
gress authorizes an extension
Men on whom an undue hard
snip would be imposed could also be
released-that is transferred to the
reserve he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-15
ContoIouPe DeoI
Reports Success

compared with the last season to-
tai of 1888.
Forty-two states were billed for
Imperial Valley cantaloupes but
"a more cities in the states received
cantaloupes than was the case last
year.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-15
EIks Elect Grand
Exalted Ruler

PHILADELPHIA, July Is CUP) =
Judge John S. McClelland of At.
lanta today was elected grand exalt.
ed ruler of the Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-15

to have cut through the last Stain
defenses east of Vitebsk. supposedly
leaving the path fairly clear toward
Moscow 300 miles distant; in the
southern part of the central sector
the Russians reported a counter
offensive east of Bobruisk had swept
the Germans back 20 miles west of
the Dnieper river.
Southern front-GermanS admit
ted heavy Russian tank assaults in
an attempt to plug holes in the
Stain Notifications protecting Kiev
but insisted thai the Russian arm
ored forces had been beaten off;
Russian reports offered no detail
on operations on this front.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-08-29
Gibbons Almost Human

A three-month study in Siamese
forests of the Gibbon, least known
of the apes, showing that this ami
NAL may be mans closest relative,
has been announced at Pennsylvania
State college
Gibbons are little fellows, IL
pounds being around top weight.
But, this report shows, they have a
real family life, they all but own
property as individuals, and if they
are going to fight they first do a
lot OF loud talking.
They cannot be said to have a
code of morality on the human
scale, yet the parallel is remarkably
close. The males in general showed
a tendency to stick to one mate.
Isolated males in what resembled
the bachelor status were seen, also
groups of aged males, who kept to-
gether like members of club.
The family groupings and habits
of life appeared such that para
mours from the outside were unlike
ly to get in. This is in contrast to
the promiscuity of some other
branches of the monkey family.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-08-29
Colombia Third in s. A,

Lizards, alllgators, porcuplnes,
opossums, foxes, squirrels, mon
keys, punas and jaguars are ami
mails common in one part of South
America or another. The birds in
clude parrots, storks, spoonbillS.
eagles, kites and hawks.
Colombia ranks third in popula-
ton among the nations of South
America 1t has about twice as
many people as Chile, but not so
many as Brazil or Argentina.
The jewels known as emeralds
are obtained in Colombia, and it
also has riches of gold, platinum
and oil. The emerald mines were
III operation before the first Spanish
soldiers and settlers arrived. They
were forgotten for about three CEN
turtles but were opened again in
modern times by American COM
panies. An emerald is worth as
much as a diamond of the same
size, sometimes being even more
valuable.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-08-29
Something on the Ball

Baseball was about 30 years old
before baseball pitchers learned how
to put something on the ball. Soon
freak deliveries like the fadeaways.
spitballs, emery balls. shine balls.
fingernail balls and knuckle balls
were wrecking batting averages on
every diamond in the country. Sci
ence accomplished this University
professors demonstrated that it was
all matter of air pressure. When
you throw ball without any spin.
the air is churned up behind it and
suddenly creates pressures one way
or another that pulls the ball off it's
course. Throw the ball forward with
a spin and one side of the ball is
turning backward and the other side
is turning forward. In other words.
spinning ball follows its nose. If
the nose is spinning to the left, the
ball curves left, if down, it causes
a drop and if up, it spins upward.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-08-29
Carageen Moss Helpful
In tuberculosis Cases

Carageen moss is a fine red sea-
weed found chiefly on the south and
west coasts of Fire. This is most
beneficial to people who suffer from
bronchial troubles and mild forms
of tuberculosis. Many readers may
be surprised to learn that quantities
OF carrageen moss were used dur
ing the last war to treat soldiers
suffering from the effects of gas
poisoning. Some OF it was taken to
the war hospitals in Flanders from
the coast of Normandy, where it
grows In fair abundance.
In no part of the world, however,
has seaweed been exploited to such
good purpose as in the Far East,
where it has long been the staple
food of the peasants. In Japan it
IS consumed not only in the raw
state, but it is also made into nour-
ishing soups and stews, jams and
other sweet CONNECTIONS. Chemists
have even produced substitutes for
tea and sugar from the same plant.
DR.. +. H. Baker. the well-known
scientist and dietitian in the United
States, attributes the great age and
vital health of many Japanese peas
ants to their regular diet of sea-
weed food. This, he declares. has
also given these people the most
perfect teeth in the world and ex-
ceptionally fine hair.
The japanese also use seaweed
for making clothes and shoes and
domestic furnishings. And large
factory recently established outside
Tokyo turns out about five tons of
seaweed wool every day. This
new product resembles the genuine
article to remarkable degree, only
1t is more hard wearing. Further
more, the cost of manufacture is
considerably less than that of
making synthetic wool out of staple
fiber.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-08-29
Twenty Ton Stones Dug
From Earth in Mexico

For years natives of southern
Mexico have told stories of mon
Strous stone heads buried in the
earth. In 1888 Matthew William
Stirling, heading a joint expedition
of the Smithsonian institution and
the National Geographic society, un-
earthed in Vera Cruz a carved stone
head six feet high. Last year, hack
ing around in the Tabasco jungle,
he discovered five more heads, sew
eral bigger than the Vera Cruz find.
Recently the National Geographic
society released a picture of one of
them, estimated to weigh 20 tons
or more. 1t is feet l inch high,
20 feet, 10 inches around. Flat
faced, Manufactured, almost ear
less, capped by a queer headpiece,
it looks something like a subthyroid
football player.
The diggers do not know how old
the great faces are, who carved
them or what their significance
was. They will try to find out.
They guess that the carvings must
have served some purpose in awe
some religious rites. The heads
have no apparent kinship with any
known Magyar sculpture. Biggest
mystery: TabaSco heads are made
of basalt, and the nearest known
source of basalt is 100 miles away.
The people who made them must
have done tall job of Transports
ton.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-08-29
Million Volt X-Ray Unit
Takes Picture in Minutes

Taking a picture through four
inches of steel in less than two min
utes. a job formerly requiring an
hours exposure. is possible with the
new million-volt X-ray outfit in the
research laboratory of the General
Electric company.
Though three similar million-volt
X-ray units are in use in hospitals,
this is the largest to have an IN
dustrial application. Just as the
physician or the surgeon is able
by X-rays to look inside the body
of his patient, so engineers can look
into the casting from which, for
example, huge turbine will be
made. Defects which might cause
failure of the machine, possibly with
fatal results, are detected before
there is trouble. Up until now, the
largest industrial equipment in the
world is 400,000-volt unit in
Schenectady, which the new appara-
tus supersedes.
With the 400 ,OOO-volt unit, three
hours and a half were required to
make a picture through five inches
of steel. With the new one, oulv
five minutes are required The ex-
posture time must be increased 2l2
times per inch of steel to be pic
tuTed.
The giant unit is housed in spe-
cial building of its own. Unique
construction features are employ ed
to make it the safest possible build
ing for the operation of high-voltage
X-ray equipment.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-08-29
Vitamin-DeficiencY Disease

Except for pellegra in the South,
acute vitamin-defciency disease is
not problem of any real conse-
quence in the United States. The
serious problem is widespread
Latent deficiency" Even when
people have money enough to buy
all the kinds of food they choose,
their diet still may lack enough vita
minis. To provide an adequate vita
min intake, the Nutrition Group
calculates that each adult civilian
should have daily 5000 Interna-
tional Units of Vitamin A. 2.5 to 80
milligrams of Bl; 2.5 milligrams Of
b; Is milligrams of NICOTINE acid;
rs milligrans of Vitamin c. The
diet should also contain proportion
ate amounts of other parts of the
B complex.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-08-29
New Instruments Explore
Atomic Nuclear Cores

In the field of the science of the
atoms nucleus or core. a sensation
al advance was made. DR.. Alfred
0. Nier, young chemist of the Uni
versity of Minnesota, succeeded for
the first time in isolating a very
minute amount Of uranium-235. The
pure element was deposited on plat
mum plates, by a "masS-spectro
graph" which separates atomic
twins by their weights.
Physicists at Columbia university,
then, proved conclusively that if was
this uranium-235 which, bombarded
with neutrons, explodeS. A single
atom of this uranium is penetrated
by a single neutron particle. So
excited becomes the nuclear heart
of uranium-235 atom that it breaks
into two parts, and energy of nearly
200 100000 volts is liberated
AS soon as one pound Of pure
uranium-235 is prepared, a revelu-
ton may occur in human society,
since man will have tremendous
power at his disposal. j
Hro1. L. /. RdDl ana MS co-WOrkeTS
at Columbia university discovered a
remarkable method of making the
atoms broadcast radio waves. The
startling consequence of this discov-
cry is the conception that the hu-
man bodies themselves are radio
broadcasting stations, as are all OBJ
jects. dead or alive.
But 10 one yet knows how to find
the radio waves coming out OF the
human brain or the body as whole.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-08-29
Microscope Sees Things
Without Help of LIGHT

For mems deepest thrust into the
infinitesimal, he can thank a micro
scope that sees things without the
help OF light. This is the electron
microscope. With it, in Camden,
N. j., Berlin, London, Toronto and
Pasadena scientists studied things
80 times smaller than thew could
see decade ago.
With microscopes using visible or
ultraviolet light, magnifcations of
a sort up to 5000 diameters have
been obtained, but the really useful
upper limit has lowered around
1000 diameters. With microscopes
using electron beams, useful magni-
fications have jumped to lOO, 900 di-
ameters and more. Light is a train
OF waves; to pick some tiny body
out of the unseen, the waves must
find it big enough to get hold of.
II the body is much smaller than
the wave length, it will slip through
like a mosquito through a fishing
net. Electron beams are also wave
trains, but their wave lengths are
thousands of times shorter than
those OF light. So, in effect, they
give scientists collecting net of
far finer mesh
High electronic magnifcations
QO5,OOO diameters) of vinylchloride
polymer, a rubberlike synthetic,
show nothing of dots which sci
entlsts assume to be actual mol
ecules; 25,OOO-diameter pictures of
soft face-powder granules reveal the
Jagged projections which make
them cling to the skin. Electron
photographs of typhoid germs and
Intestinal bacteria disclose delicate.
wavy filaments which may be their
means of locomotion.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-08-29
Law of Gravity

If a person were to take two round
balls each FIVE inches in diameter,
with one heavier than the other, and
dropped from the same elevation
under favorable weather conditions,
the two balls will strike the earth al
the same time since conditions were
fixed so the resistance was the
same on each. The earth's pull on
every small particle of like mass is
equal The force on the heavier ball
is greater than on that of the lighter
ball but since the mass of the heaV-
Ter ball is greater than that of the
lighter ball in the same proportions,
the accelerations on the two balls
viii be equal, consequently their
velocities are equal.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-08-29
Rope and Wheel

The rope and the wheel were sim
pie mechanical devices of primitive
man to tighten his burdensome
struggle to survive. The origin of
both is shrouded in antiquity. Vines
swinging from trees presumably
were utilized as ropes in the first
crude hosting and hauling devices.
Sections of hollow logs were doubt
less used as wheels in the first me
chanical transportation of objects
too heavy for backs of man or beast.
Down through the ages, from pre-
historic times to this day of me-
chanical and electrical civilization.
there has been little change in the
principles of application of the rope
and the wheel to the job of lifting
and moving material. But many
changes have been made in the rope
and the wheel themselves.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-08-29
Nicotine Acid Saved
Pellagra-Ridden South

Third of the B vitamins on the
national defense list is NICOTINE acid
(Which is not to be confused with
nicotine ITSELF This is the stuff
which has saved so many lives in
the pellagra-ridden South. and it is
important in maintaining normal
function of the skin and digestive
tract. The chart calls for l8 MILL
grams for a moderately active man
of l54 pounds, % for a very active
individual, and Is for moderately
active woman of 123 pounds. Best
sources are yeast, wheat germ,
dried whey, salmon, liver, kidney
and heart. 1t is also in turnip greens,
collards, kale, milk, peas, potatoes
and tomatoes.
With vitamin c, the backyard
garden FORCES to the front. This
element is the scurvy preventive
and is necessary to keep teeth, gums
and capillaries in good condition.
The committee recommends rs mil
hgrams or $500 international units
for the hypothetical 154-pounder of
moderate activity. Top of the gar
den list for c is the green pepper.
one of which supplies $500 units.
And brussels sprouts come next
with 5000 units in six sprouts. A
small tomato supplies $40 units, but
various greens, such as turnip, kale,
mustard, all have upward of 1000
units per portion. Cabbage. pota-
toes and asparagus are other good
vegetable sources. Oranges and
lemons are the traditional vitamin c
foods, but many fruits are rich in it.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-08-29
Old Age Disease

Most widespread U. S. mental dis
order, according to expert opinion, is
dementia praecox, or schizophrenia
(split personality. DR.. Neil Avon
DAYTON of Boston Tufts college,
has statistics telling a different
story. Mental disease No. is senile
psychosis, the madness of old age.
Causes: hardened arteries. thread
bare nervous system, WORKOUT
brain. tired heart, courageous for
tune" From 1917 to 1888, there was
an average of 1000 senile psychotics
per 100. 900 population; schizophren-
ics averaged only 538. Mental dis
order" concludes DR.. Dayton, is a
disease of old age.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1941-08-29
REMAINS TAKEN TO
CLEVELAND FOR BURIAL

William y. Quick. 81. died ut hi>
LONE. 31SJ Twenty street. Mon
day. following reccni operation. He
leaves his wife. June. two >On> Rich
ard and Ronald. and his mother. Mrs.
Ida Quick of Cleveland. Deceased wis
Il roller ut the Great Lakes Steel Cor
pO. alton and had lived III this vicinity
about IL years.
He was member of WyandOtte
lodge. No. 40. +. X ~ NJ Funeral ger
vices were conducted by Rev. Sur>aW
of the GlpnwOod Methodist church al
The Nixon funeral home Tuesday even
ing. Burial took place in Brooklyn
Heights cemetery. Cleveland. ON We'd
ne>dav.