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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
Dutch Indies
Grid for War

HANOI, French Indo- China,
July 23.-The Japanese am
bassador 10 Vichy has demanded
use of facilities for Japan in
southern Indo-China. IL was off,
cially announced today.
There were no details.
The announcement said the
Japanese envoy TO the Petain
regime made his request in q
formal manner.
II was not known whether any
affirmative time-limit was in
volved.
VICHY, July 23.-Amid re-
ports that japan is planning q
coup in Indo-China. while Ger
many asserts that Britain also
is aiming blow at that colony.
Marshal Henri Petain today re-
affirmed Frances determination
TO defend her empire against all
aggression.
Addressing students at the
military academy at Aiken
Provence. the French chief of
state said:
I'VE are obliagted to protect
our colonies-the whole Of our
colonial empire-on which our
neighbors have their eyes.
I'VE must be able to defend
them, so our military prepara-
tions must not he abandoned.
We must be ready for all even
Qualities"
BATAVIA. July 23.-QNS)--
The Netherlands East Indies
government today requested
royal assent for the possible use
OF militia men outside the is
lands.
Aneta. The Netherlands In
dies news agency. pointed out
that in report Iuly-12-to
1the-fegfsfative assembly. the
government foresaw the possi-
bility of diSpatching an expert
tlonary force abroadD
BERLIN, July 23.-0NS)-
japanese Ambassador Hirosi
Oshima. it was understood to-
day, conferred with German
Foreign Minister Joachim Won
Ribbentrop somewhere on the
Eastern Front"
Information in Berlin indj-
Gated that Oshima and Won Rib
bentrop discussed Japan's future
role in the light of Tokio's
cabinet changes. also reports
that Britain plans some move
into French Indo- China.
Vichy and Berlin, German au-
thoritieS revealed. are in close
contact on defense measures. in
case of British coup.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
Adrift for IL Days
Four IT, S. Nurses Taken to Naval Hospital Aftel
Rescue; Were on Torpedoed Ship

June 5 aboard 7OOO-tOn Nor
weglan vessel IN convoy Their
ship. carrying copper oil and
three bomberS. dropped out Of the
convoy June % with engine
trouble.
A heavy fog lifted the next
morning and the boat was tor
pedoed first at 7:15 and then
again two minutes later. II sank
in eight minutes.
After the vessei" plunged 70 the
bottom, the submarine came 10
the surface and It's officers asked
the name Of the ship. the port il
had put out from. its capacity and
cargo and whether its destination
was Belfast The ships officers
refused 10 answer.
SIGNALS ANSWERED
The subs officers then offered
TO take the girls on board, but
those in charge of the ship en-
iphatically declined the offer. The
sub officers said they would send
ship and then dived.
The nurses said they thought
they were nearing Greenland on
the evening of July ) when the
lookout spotted a ship and then
other vessels which turned out e
be United States naval units
I'VE signalled several times
and were using our last fare
when an American destroyer
came alongside" the statement
SAID.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
BRITISH AsSAILED

Typical OF Japanese press COM
ment was an editorial in the news
paper Yomluri which said British
Far Eastern policy is becoming
more active"
The paper said the mission ~
Duff Cooper. replaced a few days
Continued on Page Elght)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
VICTORY CLAIMED

But an earlier official statement
claimed a new victory for German
and Finnish troops. further i'm.
periling Leningrad on the northern
sector of the Russian battle front
The NAH forces broke Soviet TO.
SiStance east of Lake Ladoga anc
penetrated deep into Russian
territory, the report said
simultaneously a second smash,
ing air raid on Moscow was an.
nounced.
German bombeTS yesterday
heavily attacked the Black Sea
port al Odessa also. Terrific ex.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23

nc gave champagne party al the
Flint Athletic CLUB the night of
ms fourth adventure into matri-
Y1OpN
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
SUSPENSION. AT LEAST

Such record would have
brought al least a 9o-day suspen-
sion of The motorists license and
probably one-yesT revocation,
Scavarda explained
Meanwhile. 4-year-old Janet, and
Juanits. II. who died within 30
hours of each other. were 10 ne
buried in Oakview Cemetery
ROYAL Oak. today. following serV-
ices in a Van Dyke funeral home
Unaware OF their deaths. their
l3-yeaT-old brother. Burt, lies
critically injured in Saratoga Cen
eral Hospital. trying 10 comfort
his parents De NrlendtS car also
struck Burt. As the three walked
through a roadside field
Less than one month ago Dc
Nriendt was convicted of reckless
driving by Warren Township JUS
tice OF the Peace John C. Munro
and gwen a 9O-day suspended SEN
tcnCp
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
Fight for Leninsrad
Germans Battle Reds in Forest Near ExCapital
Nozis Say, Reporting Moscow, Odessa Raids
BY PIERRE J. HUSS
Inll N.w. s.r,,e. slsn corrs.pondsa,

BERLIN. July ~ - German
troops have reached the Lenin-
grad area, il was indicated today
IN an official announcement say
ing that strong Red army rear
guards had been compelled 70
surrender near the old CzariS,
capital
The Soviet troops were caught
in a forest N the Lenlngrad
area" the announcement said. and
were forced 10 yield when subjected
TO a heavy artillery barrage
Direction Of the German drive
toward Leningrad whether from
the south. or the west along the
Gulf of Finland. or from the
Finnish front on the north was
not stated in the announcement
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23

blossoms and huge fires" in the
western part Of the city were oh.
served. according 10 the Germans
and oil tanks along the water
front were blasted.
-Four thousand Russian soldiers
were killed in the Zhitomir sector
of the Ukraine front when the
remnants of several trapped Soviet
divisions we're wiped out, the Ger,
mans announced
Russia was said 10 have lost loo
planes yesterday while the Ger
mans lost only seven.
CLAIM 81 TANKS
A communique issued from
Reichsfuehrer HitlerS headquar
tiers told Of steady gains in al
sectors.
In the Ukraine. Rumanian. Hun
garian and Slovak troops con
tinued pursuit OF the fleeing
enemy. the report said.
On the Eastern Front. II wa,
claimed. panzer units destroyed 9.
Soviet tanks south OF kiev in The
Ukraine, while German Speedboat
in the eastern Baltic sank a SeFie
Speedboat and an auxiliary cruiser
in a clash with Russian nava
units.
German authorities said the new
raid on Moscow last night was ap
proXimatelV as extensive and VIC
lent az the first.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
DEFENSE ORDERS DUE

He said the government in
tended 10 place enough defense
orders 10 allow workers 10 switch
over from auto production 10
manufacture of tanks, airplaneS
and guns AT a rapid rate.
The President maintained that
The order reducing output was not
a matter of curtailment but one
of substitution. He indicated that
no production was actually being
curtailed but that manufacturing
for defense was heinC substituted
Continued on Page Eighty
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
Death Driver S
; Convictions
Unreported
picture on Page SeNenl

As relatives prepared today II
bury Janet and Juanita CreSS. sis.
tiers killed by a drunken motorist
state police reeyaled that the 81
year-old death driver. Cyriel De.
Vricndt has three previous reck'
less driving convictions.
If DeVriendt's record had bene
reported 10 the secretary ri states
office. as required by law. he
would not have been driving ar
AT the time the sisters
were killed. according 10 State Po'
lice Capt. {. J. Scavarda.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
Japs Protest
u. S. Canal Ban
By JOSEPH DYNAN

IntI News Service stan Correspondent
TOXIC. July PA charge
United States de-
lberately discriminating against
japanese vessels by preventing
them from passing through the
Panama Canal was aired by the
japanese (DomeD news agency
today.
According TO the agency the
accusation was set forth by in
formed quarters in the japanese
capital. Domei added:
"Some quarters assert the
real reason Is the United states
IL attempting TO prevent the
Japanese from observing the
nature OF repairs now goingt on
In the canal"
CHARGES UNITED FRONT
The charges about the Panama
Canal-one OF the most important
of all United States defense out
posts followed an editorial out.
burst accusing American. British
and Soviet diplomats of trying
10 form a united front against
Japan"
This. In turn. followed an Of.
fetal Japanese warning that Toxic
would take immediate measures
to counter any British military
move in French Ipdo-China.
Japanese news paper sale
Britain, by assigning Alfred Duff
Cooper TO a far eastern mission
and by Strengthening Singapore
defenses. was assuming Leadership
in the alleged front against Nippor
and thus creating a "disturbanc,
in Japan'S far eastern policy"
The Singapore radio. accord
ing 10 a Reuters dispatch.
broadcast an official denial of
japanese reports British forces
had violated the ndo-ChineSe
frontier. or were preparing TO
invade lndo-China. Shanghai
reports. meanwhile. told of
japanese troop notifications
along the Soviet Siberian bor-
derS and al other strategic
centers in the Far East
BRITISH ASSAILFD
Typical OF Japanese press com.
ment was an editorial in the news.
paper Yomiuri which said British
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23

Gen. Hugh 3. Johnsoh
America. Fighting Thinker
Writes Daily for the 1imcs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
In The Times Today

,Conunued on Next Page, Col. 81
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23

charges. Blair SAID
"She did nine-tenthS OF the
drinking"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23

Continued on Page Eight
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
Labor Troubles
Vexing Business,
Meyer Declares
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worried about initiation and the
seeming inability or non-interest of
the government to take steps to
stop it."
In the middle west and mountain
regions Meyer found the residents
thinking little about war. He said
their chief interest was to get high
er prices for their farm products
and enough materials to keep their
factories going. Il found everywhere
the almost unanimous opinion that
we should stay out of the war. l
believe the east is more concerned
about the japanese crisis than we
are in the west" he declared.
Il saw great deal of farm coun-
try in driving through the differ
ent sections and, with the excep-
ton of few very fertile areas close
to the large markets, it is my con-
viction that Imperial Valley is the
best farming area in the United
States and has the greatest future
J before it. I found land prices gen.
orally low and not much out of
line with prices here where we can
! produce so much more per acre"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
Leningrad Menaced
By Nazi Column

continued from Page One)
accounts of brisk Soviet counter
attacks on the central and Ukraine
sectors. The high command re-
ported the Luftwaffe is pounding
the areas to the rear of the Rus
sian central and southern positions.
possibly to hamper the red army's
attacks.
The DNB agency reported that
the Luga battle occurred in lex
tremely difficult terrain" made
made worse by constant rains
which made many roads and for
est tracks almost impossible
Soviet vehicles and heavy guns.
it was said, were stuck in the mud,
and at one point 70 guns which
the retreating Russians could not
remove fell into German hands.
The high command reported that
the LuftWaffe is attacking rail-
road lines in the Kharkov area
due west of Kiev and other COM
munications lines southwest of
Moscow. These operations are
proceeding according to plan"
the communique said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
CONTINUED from Page One)


The Russian army in the main
attack is the central one OF Mar
shal Semyon Timoshenko. One arm
of a pincers, under Gen. Ivan Rak-
ovsky, is striking at Smolensk. The
other, the left arm. under Gen. I.
A. Konev. is aimed at Bobruisk. l60
miles southwest Of Smolensk and
80 miles northwest of Gomel A
third Russian army is believed strik-
ing direct at the Germans in the
Gomel area.
Russia has not mentioned its op-
erations and military men are
afraid of over-optimism but there
are reports that at points the Ger
man retirement has been disorder
ly.
Rakovsky's men were striking with
a powerful spearhead of tanks ana
armored cars.
Now both flanks Of Field Mar
shal Books army in the area north
of the marshes seemed to be threat
ened. All reports indicated that
operations were proceeding salts
factorily to the Russians.
When Books army advanced to
Gomel, the Germans complained OF
.all-pervading dust, Since then there
have been heavy rains which have
muddied roads, impeding the Ger
mans who are moro heavily motor
ized than the Russians.
If the Russian operations con-
tinue to develop successfully, mill
tary experts said, they have hope
of inflicting the first big defeat on
the Germans. If they do not, the
Germans will seek to cut off or
envelop Russian salients.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
FDR Confers on
Wartime Needs

WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (UP)-
President Roosevelt began series
of conferences today TO increase
the implementation of his re-stated
policy of marshalling the full force
of America to crush Hitlerism and
check its insane violence"
Returning to the capital from
Hyde Park where he made his
most forceful denunciation of Nazi
Germany to date, Mr.. Roosevelt
received at the White House the
congressional reaction to his call
for Americans ito do everything in
our power to crush Hitler and his
NaZi forces"
White House aides arranged q
forenoon conference for him with
Vice President Henry A. Wallace
Senate Majority Leader Alban W.
Barkley, and other legislative lead
ers in the capital.
He conferred with Secretary of
State Cordell Hull before the con-
ference.
The talk with Hull may give
point to the reference in his Labor
day address to the necessity of pro-
yiding more safeguards for war
materials flowing from the United
States to the nations resisting the
axis powers. American tankers
loaded with gasoline now are en-
route to Vladivostok and are about
to traverse the narrow waters of
the Sea of Japan. On the Atlantic,
dozens Of vessels are threading
through hazardous waters toward
Britain, with food, raw materials,
and fabricated weapons.
Instructions issued from the
White House during the next few
days will determine what Mr..
Roosevelt meant when he declared
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
Japan Makes New
Protest to j. s.

that American shipments to Vlad-
ivostok put Japan in an embarras-
sing position. Foreign Commissar
" NJ. Molotoy replied that Japan
had no ground for anxiety and that
any attempt to interfere with Rus
sian trade with America would be
regarded as an unfriendly act The
same day Secretary OF State Cordell
Hull in Washington said the United
States would insist on the freedom
of the Pacific. although he has not
admitted receiving any representa-
tions from Japan about Vladivos-
tok shipments)
In reply to a question, Kishi said
Japan was concerned with the
route taken by American supply
ships and the use these supplies
might be put to.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
PROLONG VACATION

Dr.. George Thomas, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church Of FL
Centro, and Mrs. Thomas were in
E. Centro briefly Tuesday before
continuing their vacation by a trip
to visit relatives in Arizona. They
Will visit in Globe, Phoenix, Miami
and Tucson and be back Sept 10.
They left Il Centre July %, at
tended the Presbyterian synod in
Oakland, and Dr. Thomas took a
tWo-week course at the church
seminary in San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
kazis Admit Russ
0ffensives ALONG
All Vital Fronts

BERLIN, Sept. 2. (UP)-Russian
offensives from the central sector
to the lower Ukraine were admitted
in authorized quarters today but
the high command said merely that
operations were proceeding ac-
cording to plan
The reticent communique issued
from Adolf Hitler's field headquar-
ters dealt with accounts of German
air force operations.
Dive bombers were reported to
have sunk a Russian gunboat in the
Dnieper river and to have set fire
to three others. The communique
said railroads in the Charkov area
and southwest of Moscow had been
raided.
Informants here said 50-ton tanks
were leading the Russian counter
drive in the central sector.
Along the entire stretch of the
Dnieper river there is heavy fight
ing, it was said. The Russians were
apparently attempting to establish
solid bridgeheads on the western
bank OF the lower Dnieper.
The increasingly numerous Ger
man reports of Russian counter
attacks, supported b. artillery and
naval units. in the lower Ukraine
led neutral observers to suggest that
great battle was now in progress
and might continue some days be-
fore there were definite reports OF
its trend.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
Germany Transfers
Whole Divisions
To Russian Front

MOSCOW, Sept. 2 UP)-Ger-
many is transferring entire divis-
ions of troops from occupied France,
Belgium and Holland to the east
ern front to bolster its lines and
replace its terrific losses in man
power, the high command asserted
today as authorized dispatches re-
vealed that the Red army was
counter heavily.
Asserting that a regiment of the
l6lst German division had been
routed the high command quoted
a German prisoner that the divis-
ion had only recently arrived from
the Toul area of France.
1t then added its claim that men
were being withdrawn from Hol-
land and Belgium as we'll as France
to fill gaps in the German armies.
The communique said Russian
planes had been raiding enemy har-
bors in the Black Sea and enemy
troops in the Black Sea area and
had disabled one enemy ship and
destroyed 83 tanks and more than
so armored cars.
OF the general situation, the
communique said only that fight
ing continued throughout last night
on the entire front.
But there seemed no doubt that
the Red army, which Adolf Hitler
claimed long ago to have broken,
was counter attacking all the way
from the Leningrad area to the
lower Ukraine.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
Wheat, Ships Burn
|, In Million Dollar
Fire; Man Missing
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from the barge. They set out in a
rowboat but caugh. fire. Both
leaped into Carquinez straits. G..
Heating, a Southern Pacific fire
man, pulled Conaca out of the
water but there was no trace of
the cook. Conaca was removed to
Crockett hospital for treatment of
first and second degree burns.
The flames consumed the barge,
valued at $4,000, and the old
whaling boat Port Saunders, which
had been used as a steam plant
for the fish reduction operations
of the Port Costa Packing Co. and
the Santa Ynez Fish Co. on the
dock. Machinery. stored fish oil
and other property of the two fish
plants were destroyed.
The fire also reached and burned
10 railroad cars standing on a
nearby siding. Seven of the cars
were loaded with wheat, two with
sardine oil, and one was empty.
The wheat was being stored by
the Archer, Daniels and Midlands
Co., under government contract
for trans-shipment to China. The
grain was described as high yitamin
Montana wheat brought here by
railroad to be placed in freighters
for the voyage across the Pacific
The $4,000 barge was used to fun
mel the wheat from the railroad
cars to the dock warehouse in
which it was piled 10 feet high
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02

TOKYO. Sept. .. CUP)-Premier
Prince Fuminaro Konoyes govern
ment made new representations
against American war shipments to
Russia today and promised to con-
slider demands for stronger meas
ures against interference with Jap
anese expansion in Greater Asia.
The new Japanese representa-
tionS to the United States and Rus
sia, particularly against oil Ship
mentS now en- route to Vladivostok
were made after receipt of 'unsatis-
factory" preliminary replies to
earlier protests by TOKYO, a spokes-
man said.
The demands for stronger meas
ures" to defeat anti-JapaneSe man
euvers" by America, to defeat all
forms of aid to the Chungking gov
ernment and to carry on the Jap
anese program of expansion south
ward in line with Japan'S loyalty
to the spirit of leadership" of the
Axis were made by the East Asia
league of SO nationalist groups.
Konoye replied that he would
consider the demands in carrying
out government policy and presum-
ably in connection with the repre-
sentationS to Washington and Mos
COW.
Actually, the spokesman said, the
two countries merely expressed
opinions about Japans represen-
tations. Japan does not consider
them to be final replies" and hence
the new representations he said.
The spokesman, Ichi Kishi, said
that "the Washington intermediary
expression of opinion is slightly diff
ferent from Russias."
Russia announced last Wednes-
day that Japan had complained
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
Rambling Reporter

CONTINUED From Page One)
Lewis had TO ride home in the
Mitchell family hack. SO Lewis went
to Escondido and bought scads OF
groceries for his family and the
relatives.
He forgot to take the groceries
out of his car before returning to
the valley.
It's a wonder he didn't absent
mindedly bring his wife and kids
home, too.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
BRAWLEY COUPLE
RETURNS HOME

Deputy Sheriff Frank Raney and
Mrs. Raney returned during the
weekend to their home in Brawley
after spending their vacation in
the San Bernardino mountains.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
Mrs. CeciIe Turner
Dies at BrawIey

BRAWLEY, Sept. 2.-Mrs. Ceclle
Turner. wife of Pike Turner, died
in Brawley Sunday.
She is survived by her husband;
a daughter, Charleen Merle, and
three sons, Albert Allen, Curtis Rus
sell, and William Carey.
The body was taken to the
Hopes funeral home pending fun
eral arrangements.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
Russians Advance
AGAINST Germans

But so far the initiative appeared
to be still with the Russians The
Germans had dug in along big
part OF this front The Russians
are driving into the German defense
lines, and are apparently driving
through them.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
GEM CLUB TO MEET

The Imperial Valley Gem and
Mineral society was scheduled to
hold its annual primary election
in the court house in Ell Centre
at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday. Two candi-
dates selected for each office will
be elected at the finals Sept. 7.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
Shell Oil Labor
Agreement Souahf

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. ?. CUP)
Federal Conciliator Omar Hoskins
today invited representatives OF
Shell Oil Co. and the CIO Oil Work
ers union to meet with him tomor-
row to discuss their contract dead
lock.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
Is RECOVERING

Mrs. w / Waldrop, former I'm
perial Valley resident. is recovering
at her home in San Diego after
breaking both her arms in fall
near her home a week ago She
slipped while mailing a letter. Her
daughter, Mrs. Zona Stevenson, was
away at the time of the accident.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
ARMY BOYS VISIT
VALLEY

Wilfred and Vernon Allen, sons
Of Mr.. and Mrs w H. Allen Of
Brawley Roy Moser, Brawley resi-
dent. and Eddie Maloney visited
in Imperial Valley during the holi-
days from the Army air base at
Tucson. AriZ.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-02
VACATION ENDS

Mr.. and Mrs. Thurman Scroggins
of Imperial are home from their
vacation which they spent with
relatives in Wilmar Mrs. Scrog-
gins, who has been ill., is feeling
much better.