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Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-30
DorIun
Regime
Shok
BY HARRISON SALISBURY

OnlIeu freSS StdI1 Correspondent
Admiral Jean Francois Darlan's
regime as active head of the Vichy
government is being challenged, au-
thentic advices from Europe re-
| ported Thursday, by a clique OF
young French cabinet officers head
ed by Interior Minister Pierre
| PuCheu
The Darlan-Pucheu test of
! strength, it is said, also involves
bitter competition between two
huge French banking institutions
for the profits growing out of the
! Franco-German industrial "collab-
Grafton" program. SO far Marshal
Henri Philippe Petain is said to
have supported Darlan, preventing
the Pucheu group from seizing con-
| troll
The Pucheu group was SAID to
constitute what is known as the
SYnarchy' faction, favoring
frank dictatorship in France pledged
to work in close political as well
as economic collaboration with Ger
many.
Pucheu is an aggressive 42-year-
old political figure with strong in
duStrial and financial connections
who entered the Vichy government
in the key spot of interior minister
less than three months ago.
LAVAL CONTACTED
Puncheu is said to have aligned
the bulk of the younger, more ag-
gressive Vichy cabinet ministers on
his side and has launched negotia-
tons with Pierre Laval attempting
to bring the former vice premier
back into the Vichy government to
handle direct negotiations with
Germany.
Cabinet ministers siding with
Puncheu were said to include Min
lister of Finance and Economy Yves
Bouthillier: Secretary of State Jac-
ques Benoist Mechin who now ham
dies Franco-German negotiatiOns
Communications and Transport
Minister Jean Berthelot; Industrial
Production Minister Francois Le-
hideux; Propaganda Secretary Paul
Marion; and Jacques Barnaud who
handles Franco-German economic
negotiations.
The group repeatedly represents
and supports the Great Worms
banking interests which formerly
were dominant in financing French
trade.
Darlan'S group is regarded as
more conservative military cliuue.
1t also is tied in with the Banuue
de Paris Et Pays Bas which thu
far has provided the chief financ-
ing for French-German economic
collaboration.
Darlan is supported by the mill
tary members of his cabinct-Gen.
Charles Huntziger, secretary OF war;
Gen. Jean Marie Bergeret, Air Min
lister and Admiral Rene Platon, CO.
lonial minister.
He might also count on. the sup
port of Gen. Maxine Weygand az |
though Weygand's loyalties are to
Petain.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-30

DENVER. Colo. oct. 30. CUPp--
Brother Leo. for A years q famous
Catholic educator and lecturer, to-
day revealed he had renowned his
VOWS because ne no longer had to
worry about tomorrow
He said he had received papal
dispcnsation to dotf the robes Of
the Order of Christian Brothers
which he dOnned when he was 1G,
and to resume his lay name ot
Francis Joseph Meehan.
ny retirement WAS not motiyated
by any feeling Of antagonism,' hc
said Il have reached the stage
where l don't have to worry about
tomorrow or the day after tomorrow
and I want to enjoy Colorado sun
shine and long walks
His plans, he said, are very def
mite. They may include n trip east.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-30
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-30
Father Seeking
Runaway Son Here

T. T. Black of Ontario was in
Imperial Valley Thursday searching
for his runaway son, Leslie, IA,
who disappeared last Friday.
The father said the boys mother
is i'll and greatly worried about her
son. The boy is five feet, seven
inches in height, weighs ITO pounds,
has gray eyes and light brown hair,
and light complexion. He told
his father he wished to go to Mex
leo. Black asked anyone who sees
the boy to telephone Sheriff Robert
Ware at the sheriff's office in Ell
Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-30
DECREE GRANTED

An interlOcutory divorce decree
was granted in superior court We'd
neSday to Lucille Cecilia SWarthout
in her suit against Gordon A. SWar-
thout. She accused him of extreme
cruelty.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-30
OBTAINS DIVORCE

Charlotte A Durham wednesday
was granted an interlocutory divorce
from George Louis Durham.
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Thousands SOUGHT
By Navy for
Officers in Fleet

Thousands of young college grad
yates are being sought by the Navy
Department to train for commits
sions as Naval Reserve ensigns, to
supply an increasing deficiency in
officer personnel to man the ships
of all types which are expected to
come off the ways during the next
several years.
Word has gone out to all Naval
Reserve district headquarters to re-
cruit as many men as possible for
this branch of the Reserve and
have them ready to begin their
training within a short time. The
new requirements are somewhat
sitter than those which were pro-
vided for the group of young COL
lege men who were taken into the
service last year because at that
time all that a candidate had to do
was to have at least two years of
college work.
But the experience in training
these young men, it was said, indi-
Gated that two years of college
work was not sufficient to make
them good naval officers and par
ticularly it was said that not few
of them did not have sufficient
mathematical background to be able
to master the Navy's celestial navi-
CATION course. The candidates must
now have college degree, prefera-
bly, bachelor of science, and with
engineering background. But with
all of these requirements it is not
anticipated that the department will
have any great difficulty in filling
the quota.
The present plan is to send the
candidates to training station for
one month, after which they may
leave, if they like, or be dismissed
II the Navy determines that they
are not officer material. The re-
mainder will be sent to classes at
Annapolis, the U. S. S. Prairie State
IN the North River, New York, and
at Northwestern University, where
the Navy now maintains special
schools for them. 1t is possible
that other schools may be estab-
lished so that as many may be COM
missioned as possible.
While enGstments now are being
received at the Washington Navy
Yard from young men who are
interested in this service, 1t was
said that 1t may be some waeks
before they are called for their
first trial duty at the training sta
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Has Drills Increased

Drills and exercises Of the 121st
Observation Squadron, the new air
unit of the District National Guard,
have been stepped up, in prepara-
tion for possible early induction into
the Federal service. 1t was said at
local headquarters that the unit
henceforth will hold drills on Tues
day night and Sunday morning.
The Tuesday night drill will be
largely section and classroom in
struction by the officers and nom
commissioned officers, in the tech
nical work of airplane construction,
operation and maintenance, as we'll
as the military duties. The Sunday
work will consist largely of infantry
drill and instruction in the school
of the soldier, and this will be given
on the parade ground in the Mall
between Fourth and Sixth streets
NV.
The organization is said now to
be recruited up to its full strength,
and the increased tempo of instruc-
ton is taken with view to having
the organization in the best of mill
tary shape by the time its training
field is completed and it is ordered
to active duty. While it's present
complement is completed, it was
said that when it is called to active
duty. about 80 additional men will
be added. But these may not come
until they arrive at their training
station and may be made up of men
brought into the service through the
selective draft system. However,
officers indicated that they might
be permitted to recruit them in
Washington between the time they
are lnducted into the service and
the time that they depart for their
training center. At any rate, in or
der to be prepared, they say that
they have a long waiting list OF
volunteers who have indicated a de-
sire to enlist in the new air outfit
1t was said that some vacancies
are being kept open now for men
who are attending the aviation cadet
schools, who will be returned to the
outfit upon completion of their
courses, and when these report ev-
cry billet will be filled.
Special instruction is being OBJ
tanned by three members of the out
fit, who have been assigned for a
short period to the 104th Observa-
ton Squadron, Baltimore, Md,
National Guard duty, which is on
active duty at Logan Field, Balti-
more. They; are Staff SergtS. Fred
Moulden, Gray Ethridge and For
rest Harding.
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Observation Squadron
Doubles Training Duty
District of Columbia Guard Unit
Has Drills Increased
ined that u,hiIe these

1t was explained that while these
men are still on the inactive list,
they are employed as care takers of
the equipment, and during this
period are getting first-hand in
formation which will Mt them to
take care of the new plane which is
expected here within a short time.
At that time, it was said the Sunday
activities of the outfit will be shifted
to Hybla Valley flying field, below
Alexandria, Va, where flying in
struction will get on in earnest. AS
soon as the unit has mastered this
phase of the training with the one
plane, and more men are qualified
1t is expected that additional planes
will be sent here by the War Depart
ment, SO that the organization can
conduct regular maneuvers, in ad-
dition to the individual flying in
structions, and training in observa-
ton duties, as well as the instruction
IN firing from the air.
The local outfit, along with the
other aero outfits has been trans
ferred from the divisional COM
mands, and now are part of the
Army. At first, it was said the
squadrons were attached to the
National Guard Divisions, and even
under the present setup they can be
detached for special duty and as
signed to operate with the divisions
in maneuvers and in actual field
operations.
This explains why the local outfit
will not be sent to operate with the
29th National Guard Division at Fort
Meade, Md, where all of the ma
tional troops of this area are taking
their training. 1t is planned to
send the local outfit to Columbia
S. c., when they are inducted into
the service. The date for this in
duction is said to be uncertain al
this time, and it will not be effected
| until the training facilities, in
Guiding hangers for the equipment
and barracks for the men are
completed.
Maj. James H. Higgs, who has
been instrumental in organizing the
present unit, and who, it is under
stood, is to take command, after
induction into the Federal service
has returned to the city, after a trip
to the West Coast.
Maj. Stewart w. Towle, jr., U. S
A, assigned here as inspector in
| structor of the local outfit, while
flying over Washington last week, II
was said, was forced down by en-.
gine trouble, and made a landing
! at the new Gravelly Point airport
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Disabled Veterans
Executive Meetinq
Opened 10 Members

Comdr. Joel D. Thacker, of the
District of Columbia Department,
Disabled American Veterans, an
nounced the Department Executive
Committee meeting which will be
held Wednesday at the District
Building at 8 pm. will be open to
all members. Subjects for discus
sion and action of the Executive
Committee will be the massing of
the colors at Washington Cathedral,
May 25, at 3:45 pm, the Memorial
Day parade and exercises at Airing
ton National Cemetery on May 30,
and the "Old Timers Night, which
is scheduled by the department for
the near future
National Service Director Millard
w. Rice will make a brief address.
Federal Chapter members enter
tanned their wives and friends at a
dinner meeting at the Capitol Park
Hotel last week. There were brief
addresses by Past National Comdr
E. Claude Babcock, National Service
Director Millard w. Rice and De-
partment Comdr. Thacker. Comdr.
Kenneth G. Brady, who presided,
announced a similar affair would be
held June>3.
Comdr. Mary Hargraves, Of the
Wolnen's Auxiliary, announced De-
partment Comdr. Thacker and the
officers of the auxiliary will make a
special visit to Mount Alto Hospital
next week.
The last meeting of the auxiliary
was designated as characterization
Meeting" and was held at 3o72 M
street NV. Department Comdr.
Thacker was the guest speaker. The
program was in charge of Mrs.
Leroy Westbury and Miss lone
Schrick. Mrs. H. Koehler and Mrs.
o. Ermer were initiated. The aux
iiary voted to have its colors at
Washington Cathedral on May Is
for participation In the massing of
the colors. Department Junior Vice
Comdr. Leroy Westbury and Comdr
Harry G. Hargraves, Of National
Capital Chapter. were also guests.
Evening star., 1941-05-18

quota are urged to send the poppies
Immediately to the department
poppy chairman, Mrs Mary Killeen
BIT N street NV.
Units and their chairmen are re-
ouested by the department presi-
dent, Mrs. McCabe, to send their
reports to the department chairmen
monthly, with copies for their re-
spective divisional vice presidents
Sergeant Jasper Unit was presided
over by the president, Mrs. Louise
Goodacre.
Mrs. Kathleen Abreo, American
ism chairman, announced she had
presented 100 flag codes to the grad
uating class of the Americanization
School, and on May % will present
scholarship awards to the grad
uating class of Central High School.
The unit Endorsed the organiza-
ton of a girl cadet corps in Central
High School.
The unit will participate in Il Am
An American Day" services on May
1S at the Departmental Auditorium,
at pm.
Initiation ceremonies were held
for seven new members.
Miss Iva Smathers, poppy chair
man. reported that 5000 poppies,
which is the units quota for Mem
orial Day, have been completed.
The next meeting is June at the
new Colonial Hotel at 8 pm.
James E. Walker Unit celebrated
its 18th anniversary and annual Of
fetal visitation of the departmental
officers on May at the Mu-So-Lit
Club, 1927 r street NV.
The guest speaker was Miss Mary
M. Smith, student at Dunbar High
School and one of the contestants
participating in the American Leg
ion Oratorical Contest. Her topic
was The Constitution, a Guarantee
of Human Rights"
Mrs. Ellen L. Warren, department
membership chairman, presented
Mrs. Helen B. Wanton, unit men,
bership chairman, with a handbag
for having attained the goal of re-
porting 100 per cent membership
fees by March 81. Twenty dollars
was donated by the unit towards the
purchase of an incubator to be given
to a local hospital by the American
Legion Auxiliary.
Music was rendered by Mr.. Dallas
CAN'T accompanied by Duplain
Cant; and the Capital City Choral
Society, accompanied by Mrs. Fair
fax Lomack, music chairman of the
Walker Unit.
The birthday cake was cut by
Mrs. Carrie r. Cant, unit president,
followed by refreshments.
Evening star., 1941-05-18
I'd Division Association
The association will meet M;

The association will meet May %
at the Willard Hotel at pm.
1t is requested that all members
participate in the exercises at the
1st Division Monument at $50 am.
on May 80.
There will be memorial services at
the I'd Division Monument, at Seven
teenth street and Constitution ave-
nue., at 2:15 pm. May 30. The prin-
cipal speaker will be Representative
Bertrand w. Gearhart of California.
The services will be broadcast from
Station WINK. The Army, Navy,
Marine Corps and United States
Marine Corps Band will participate
in the services. The department
commander of the v. F. w. and his
staff, the department commander of
the D. A. v. and his staff, the de-
partment commander of the Army
and Navy Union and his staff,
the department commander Of the
American Legion and his staff. the
national guard Of honor of the
American Legion, the Gold Star
Mothers, the national commander Of
the Catholic War Veterans and the
department commander of the Mill
tary Order of the Purple Heart and
his staff will participate. The public
Is invited.
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Auditorium Exercises
Tonight 10 Observe
lam American Day
Legion Auxiliary
And Other Patriotic
Groups to Participate

In recognition of the proclama-
ton issued by President Roosevelt,
designating the third Sunday in
May Of each year as st Am an
American Day." the American Le-
gion Auxiliary, Department of the
District of Columbia, together with
other patriotic and civic groups, will
observe today in exercises at the
department auditorium at pm.
The massing of the colors will be
under the direction of the American
Legion. The National Guard of
Honor, all posts and auxiliaries will
attend with their colors.
The principal speaker will be So
icitor General Francis Biddle.
Mrs. Rae r. zaontz, department
radio chairman, announces exer-
cises will also be broadcast over the
Columbia network at 12:45 pm
E. S. T.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fields, department
Evening star., 1941-05-18
National Legion Commander
7oSpeok on Radio ! Tonight
Citizenship Recognition Program
On Mutual Network at o:45
MEETINGS THIS WEEK.

Monday - Co-ordinated Child
Welfare Meeting, Department
Headquarters, 8 pm; Quentin
Roosevelt, Potomac Boat
Club, 8 pm; Gardner, lunch
con meeting, Army and Navy
Club, 1890 pm; Department
of Justice, F. B. I. Assembly
Room, s pm; Gas Light, 1927
Wisconsin avenue NV, 8 pm.
Tuesday-National Press Club,
Press Club, $50 pm: Second
Division, New Colonial Hotel,
8pm.; Bunker Hill, 300 Mon
roe street NE, 8 pm; Pepco,
Pepco Building, 8 pm; Coo
ley-McCullough, 802 F street
NV, 8 pm.
Wednesday - Stanley Church
DePue, Hayloft, 8 pm.
Thursday-Department Execu-
tive Committee, District
Building, 8 pm; James E.
Walker, 1916 Twelfth street
NV, 8 pm; U. S. S. Jacob
Jones No. 2, anniversary din
ner, Casino Royal, 7:30 pm.
Friday-Bureau Engraving, 713
D street NV, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Temporary Promotion
OF Reserve Officers
Studied by Army

The War Department General
Staff is studying means of making
temporary promotion of Reserve
officers on active duty. No indica-
tions were given as to the possible
lines the study might take, but it
was pointed out temporary promo
tions for Reserve officers can be
decided upon more easily than those
of Regular officers, because by far
the majority of reservists are on
troop duty, thus permitting COM
manding officers to make recon-
mendat tions on the basis of leader
ship ability, upon which Gen.
George G. Marshall, chief of staff,
places paramount emphasis.
The War Department announced
last week that all Reserve officers,
who were fully qualified for promo
ton under the provisions of Para
graph 31a, Army Regulations No.
140-5, on May /, may be promoted
without regard to vacancies occur
ing within the peacetime procure
ment objectives for Reserve officers.
The reservists, however, will be in
formed that should they desire to
refuse promotion when offered, they
may do so without jeopardy to their
eligibility for promotion at future
date
District Cavalry officers will as
senble today at Fort Myer, Va, at
8 am. for instruction in equitation.
Rail transportation will be the sub
ject of the Infantry Conference
Tuesday evening Field Artillery
officers will discuss Wednesday
evening the conduct of lateral fire.
Military Intelligence Department
officers will hold their conference
Friday evening.
The following District officers
have been relieved from assignment
TO the 1920 Service Unit and are
assigned to the units indicated: 1t.
Col. Saul c. Woldenberg to Division
Surgeons Office, 80th Division, and
Capt Thomas A. Hurney and First
I&sA1bert E. Meisenbach, jr, Winsor
@. Moore, Charles M. Musso, jr.,
Alexander Prayer, Ernest T. Sheen,
and John A. Swartwout, all to the
73d General Hospital.
Evening star., 1941-05-18

Drug and Bugle Corps OF the jewish
War Veterans Association. Commu-
nifty singing will be conducted by
William r. Schumacher
The baseball team of Fort Stevens
Post will play the Cooley-McCul-
Tough Posts team today at O'Clock
on the north diamond of the Ellipse
A meeting of Post Sons of the
Legion Squadron will be held Fri
day at 8 pm. at 1924 Georgia
avenue NV. The meeting date
has been advanced in order not
to conflict with the squadron's
special program for Memorial Day.
U. S. S. Jacob Jones Post will
celebrate their 22d anniversary,
May %, pm, at Casino Royal
Cafe with dinner, floor show and
dancing. Make reservations with
the commander, Shepherd 2635-W.
The Braille class meets on May
20 at Red Cross Chapter House.
This is the last class this season.
Internal Revenue Post will meet
May 26 at 1926 Massachusetts,
avenue NV, with Comdr. Russell
S. Jeffreys presiding. There will
be entertainment and refreshments.
The post will hold its annual
boat ride on the S. S. Potomac,
June 81.
New post members are Albert
Wright, Morris 2. Gutenberg, Vic
tor J. Swenson and Louis Rosen-
berg
There will be an Executive Com
mittee meeting tomorrow.
Bunker Hill Post will meet at its
club house, 800 Monroe street NE,
May 20. with Comdr. Mack Myers
presiding. Entertainment and re-
freshments will be furnished. A
discussion of funds for the New
American Legion Home will be held.
The post will hold crab feast on
May %, at the club house. Call
Georgia 1926 for reservations.
The post will participate in the
parade on Memorial Day and at the
services at Arlington National Gene
terry.
Entertainment Officer McGill and
his committee are making plans for
an all-day outing to be held next
month at one of the beaches nearby.
The post will sponsor a boy in
the Soap Box Derby.
The Executive Committee met last
Wednesday. Plans were completed
for decoration Of the graves and
services to be held at the graves
Of deceased comrades.
The Legion Home Committee of
Vincent B. Costello Post will meet at
the home of James S. Brent, 3151
Adams Mill road NV. tomorrow at
8 pm. Past Comdr. Henry S. Heinie
called this meeting to formulate
plans for solicitation of post mem
bers.
Costello Post Junior baseball team
will play today the I'd Division post
team at 3 pm. on the west diamond
of the Ellipse.
The James Reese Europe will have
the annual inspection by Chief In
spector John R. Anderson in the
near future.
The post will turn out at the an
nual joint memorial at the Eb-
enezer M. E. Church on Sunday
night, May IS.
The post anniversary will be held
in June.
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Plan Memorial Services

Sergt. william H. Carney Camp,
Sons Union Veterans of the Civil
War will hold memorial services at
Holy Name Guild, 1727 Thirteenth
street NV. Wednesday at 8 pm.
Mrs. Julie West Hamilton will be
guest speaker. The commander Is
Henry o. Atwood.
Evening star., 1941-05-18

e m p o y m e n t
chairman, of all
S t a t e S Hotel,
issues a call to
all department
and unit officers,
chairmen an d
members to CO.
operate with the
D. c. Employ
ment Center by
having u n e m =
ployed members
register at 808 E
street NV.
All units that
have completed
Evening star., 1941-05-18
MEETINGS THIS WEEK.

Monday - Internal Revenue
Post, 1903 Fourteenth street
NV; Police-Fire Post, 800
Monroe street NE; Junior
Drum and Bugle Corps, Ma
tional Guard Armory.
Tuesday-Military Order of the
Cootie, 935 G place NV.
Wednesday-General Edwards
Post, 729 Fifteenth street
NV.
Friday-Follow Me Defense
Post, 427 Garfield avenue,
Hyattsville, Md.