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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-23
Civic Club to Meet

The Oakland Civic club will hold an
important meeting next Tuesday aft
ernoon at 2:30 in the home economics
building of the high school, according
to Mrs. w. W, Grant, club member.
All members are urged to be pres
emit,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-23

Mrs. Ralph Weber, who suffered
a severe and painful injury when she
fell at her home, is now convalescent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-23
Obligation to File

The most important change in the
provisions is that regarding the obi
cation to file a return.
Basing that obligation on gross in
come will mean that every regularly
employed single person making SIG
a week or more, or whose total income
amounted last year to $500, will have
to fill out and file income-tax blanks.
And every married person making
$40 week or an annual income of
$4,000 will be in the same boat.
A defense tax of ten percent of the
federal income tax will be charged.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-23
INCOME TAX TO INCLUDE
NUMBER OF new WORKERS
Thousands Will Be Called Upon
to Pay Their First Federal
Levy Due to New Schedules

Thousands of Marylanders who
never before paid a Federal income
tax will have to dig down into their
pockets between now and March IL
for the benefit of the United States
Treasury, the Bureau of Internal Rev
enue has warned.
And almost al lof the nearly 100000
persons who paid Federal income tax
last year will find that the new SEIZED
ules will cost them more money.
Principal Changes
According to NJ. Hampton Magru,
der, collector of internal revenue fol
Maryland, the following are the prin.
cipal changes effective in the tax or
1910 incomes:
The requirement to file a Federal
income tax return will be based solely
on gross income.
Every single person with a gross
income of $500 or more, and every
married couple with gross income OF
$4,000 or more, will be required to file
a return, whether or not their net in.
come justifies a tax.
The personal exemptions which may
be claimed against net income are re.
duced to $500 in the case of single per-
sons, and. $4,000 in the case of married
couples, or heads of families.
Taxpayers with a surtax net in
come met income less personal exemp.
ton and credit for dependents) Of
more than $4,000 will pay surtaxes al
higher rate.
Every taxpayer, after his income
tax has been computed, will pay al
additional ten per cent of it as ode
Tense tax"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08

: the Royal air force naQ QealC lur-
ious blow at Berlin in an attempt
to reduce Nazi pressure against
Leningrad and the other threatened
Soviet cities of Kiev and Odessa.
The German high command
claimed that speed troops had
crashed through to the River Neva
southeast of Leningrad on a broad
front and swept forward to capture
Schlisselburg, the railroad point on
Lake Ladoga through which most
of the lines connecting Leningrad
with the Soviet hinterland run.
This advance, oerlin claimed,
forged semi-circle of steel around
the southern approaches to the big
Russian industrial center, second
largest city in the Soviet Union.
To the north Firms have advanced
down the Karelian Isthmus to with
in sight of the tall factory CHM
neys of Leningrad. Across Lake La
doga, said Berlin, the Firms have
advanced down the wider isthmus
Between Lake Ladoga and Lake
Omega to cut off access to Lenin-
grad by water from the east.
The encirclemsnt of Leningrad-
if confirmed by Moscow-means that
Russia now is cut off from one of
it's largest centers of industrial pro-
means also that the Red banner
Baltic fleet bases in the gulf of Fin
land-Kronstadt, Hangoe and the
islands off Estonia-are deprived of
direct land connections with the
main body of Russia.
The German high command did
not Immediately make available de-
tails of what apparently was one of
the bitterest battles of the war
the pushing of the Nazi spearhead
through the outer Russian defenses
to complete the isolation of Lenin-
grad.
1t is known that the whole area
through which the NaZi forces re-
ported their penetration bristled
with defenses and was guarded by
thousands of trained troops backed
up by recruits of the peoples army.
A terrific air onslaught by the
luftwaffe against these defense pos
itions has been underway for sew
eral days.
Continued on Page 6, Col u
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08

MlClee, DOWney CnallenBeQ IeSul-
mony given by j. J. Pelley, presi-
dent of the association of Ameri-
can Railroads. Pelley asserted there
are 10000 tank cars in the United
States which could transport 100000
barrels of Oil to the east coast a
day.
"If those 10000 cars are not there
and Pelley said they are there, it
is very serious blow to the morale
of our defense program" Downey
asserted.
Pelley's figures were based on a
survey made year ago and brought
up to date by few checks, DoWney
said. AT that time, he added, there
were undoubtedly" 10000 surplus
tank cars in the United States.
The truth is that we are using
$4,000 to 10000 more tank cars than
we were using a year ago." Downey
said. The big step up in oil use has
occurred in ,he last six months"
The Californian said that his at
tention was called to the situation
when oil interests in his state pro-
tested at their inability to get tank
cars He inserted letters and tele-
grams from California oil compan-
les saying that they could not get
any cars.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
3He|d on Arizona
Statutory Charge

Captured near Holtville in their
flight to San Diego, three men
were held in the Imperial county
Jail Monday on a charge of rape
brought by Florence, Ariz, officials,
Before the alarms was spread,
the men drove through the in
spection station at Yuma. They
were stopped by a road blockade
east of Holtville at 3 am. Monday.
The prisoners are Arthur Claunch.
II, who said he was with the U. S..
Army at March Field; Warren Vie
mer, 20, Tucson boxer; and Alfred
R. Miller, 10, who said he was with
the Army at Hamilton Field.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
Bv RICHARD C. HOTTELET

SOMEWHERE IN LOUISIANA,
WITH THE SECOND ARMY
MOVING SOUTH, Sept. CUP) -
l rode today in the worlds most
modern tank and saw what the
United States army believes is its
strongest single weapon and the
answer to Adolph Hitler's panzer
divisions.
The first armored division of the
red" forces moved out of bivouac
today to advance 10 assembly points
from which it will attack the blue"
seventh corps sometime Tuesday in
field maneuvers. And I was allowed
to ride with one of several columns
of the 3O-ton Ms type medium
tanks.
The army dressed me in the reg
ular tank corps field uniform of
olive drab coveralls and two-pound
crash helmet, a lightly steel plated
football helmet.
I was assigned to occupy the seat
of the 75-MM gunner, one of the
crew of seven, commander, driver,
radio operator, and four gunners-
but I cannot reveal by exact posi-
ton in the tank because that is a
military secret.
The 30-ton tank, first of which
rolled off the assembly lines less
than three monthes ago, is to land
seas It is fast. It's radial air-cooled
warfare what the cruiser is on the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
Farm Bureau LAYS
Plans for Meetinu

Membership plans and arrange
ments for the annual meeting Dec.
6 were completed by Imperial Coun-
ty Farm Bureau directors at their
regular September session Saturday
afternoon.
Directors were instructed to con-
slider a statewide plan for increas-
ing membership. The plan, explain
ed by C. o. Hoober, was devised by
officials of the state federation.
Final action was postponed until
the October meeting.
Election of officers will take place
during the morning session at the
annual meeting, President Baxter
Loveland said. The luncheon will
take place at noon and the speak
ing program was scheduled immed-
lately after the luncheon.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
WiIIkie
Defend S
Films
HoI|ywood's S Top
Figures Feature
In New Inquiry

WASHINGTON, Sept. s.
(UP) "A senate interstate
commerce subcommittee was
ready today to investigate
charges that the motion pic
ture industry has produced pro-
paganda films designed to excite
war hysteria.
The investigation scheduled to
start tomorrow resulted from a res
olution by Sens. Gerald P. Nye,
R., ND, and Bennett C. Clark, D.
Mo, isolationists leaders.
Wendell L. Willkie, Republican
presidential candidate in 1910, who
will serve as counsc1 for the motion
picture interests, arrived here to-
day.
Nye will be the first witness.
= Among I'm industry leaders ex-
pected to testify were Nicholas
Schenck, Harry Warner, Barney
Balaban, Daryl Zanuck, and Alex
ander Korda.
The Fight for Freedom, Inc, has
attacked the investigation as "a
barefaced attempt at censorship and
racial persecution"
Chairman D. Worth Clark, D.,
Ida, has said that the original pro-
posal for an investigation has been
broadened to include charges that
the movie industry is dominated
by four major companies.
In this connection, Assistant At
torney General Thurman w. Ar
mold, in charge of the justice de-
partment's antitrust division, may
be called to testify. Arnold direct
ed the governments antitrust ac-
ton against the big four" which
resulted in their indictment. The
case was settled, however, when
the government and the companies
signed a consent decree, ending
practices against which the gov
ernment had complained.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08

tire roof and iron balconies of a
four-story apartment house were
torn off by the conclusion of a
high explosive bomb.
Dust and heavy tiles lie on the
sidewalk while the entire front of
the house shows hundreds of pock-
marks" the account said. Smashed
tables and chairs in the front yard
of a small public house are piled
in wild disorder"
One German was quoted as tell
ing of fearful crash" as a bomb
landed. Our first thought" he
said, was: quick, out of the Gel
lar The light in the cellar had
gone cut but several of 'us had
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
Berlin Terms RAfR Roid
Most Disgusting Yet

BERLIN, Sept. 8. U.P) - The
German press today quoted civilian
descriptions of the fearful crash"
of British bombs in a Royal Air
Force raid on Berlin during the
night and denounced the attack as
"lout's trick" and a crime"
In angry outbursts, German news
papers, for the first time since the
heavy British air raids on Berlin
last fall, promised vengeance as the
official news agency reported that
81 civilians had been killed.
Describing the damage in the
capital, the newspaper Nachtaus-
gabe said that in a northern Sec
ton of the city virtually the en-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08

celebration at Riverside. In addi-
ton, Col. Jose M. Gutierrez, Mexi-
can consul, may attend to outline
plans linking the Mexicali Charros,
a group of horsemen from south
of the border, with the De Anza
Caballeros on the northern side.
If these plans materialize, the De
ANA trail ride will begin far south
of the international border, and end
at Riverside, Col. Gutierrez will dis
cuss, also, the lMexicali Mardi Gras,
held three days before Lent in
February.
Continued on Page 6; Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
Hess May Again
Make Headlines

LONDON, Sept. 8. (UP)-Rudolph
Hess, No. Nazi, may return to
the headlines again next month
when Harry Pollit, Britain's No.
Communist, summons him as de-
fense witness in a libel action
brought by the Duke of Hamilton
on whose estate Hess landed after
his flight from Germany May 10.
The duke is suing Pollit for state
ments in pamphlet entitled why
is Hess Here?" Pollit announced
that he would call Hess when the
case is heard, probably during the
second week in October
But if Pollit's attorneys want to
subpoena Hess, they must find him.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08


In Ell Centro Sunday night two
young boys were walking home
from a show. A car drove up beside
them and stopped. A man ordered
them to hand over their money
The boys displayed the few pennies
they had. Keep it., said the bandits
we're not thaC bad off,"
George Palmer was stopped Sum
day night at Seventh and c streets
in Brawley by two men in car.
One of them flourished a nickel
plated pistol, Palmer told Brawley
police. and ordered him to give them
all the money he had.
Palmer silently turned his empty
pockets inside out.
Were better off than you are,
one of the bandits called as the
car sped away.
Brawley and Ell Centre police
Monday attempted to ascertain if
the two attempted hold-ups could
have been the work of the same
men.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08

SoiiiiilciSS, dIlIlOullCcu MOliudy Ilido
the Roads to Romance associations
meeting at Idyllwild Friday will be
devoted to a program under the
direction Of L. H. Dove, Cavalcade
president, assisted by Tom Allen,
program chairman. The Roads to
Romance association is a tourist
and publicity agency embracing al
most all southern California coun-
ties.
Motion pictures taken last year
will present the Cavalcade usually
to the association members, and
other films will show the De ANA
Trail ride and the De Anza Days
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08

treasury steps any Communist or
ganization to which 1 belong"
He said the defense employees re-
ferred to by Dies were being inves-
tigated like all other government
employees"
Henderson pointed out that the
letter to the president and the
charges against himself and his
employees were made by Dies alone
and not by his committee.
The record is perfectly clear
with respect to Mr.. Henderson S
own connection with these Com
munist enterprises" Dies wrote tile
president.
Dies did not name the organiza-
tions to which he referred.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
LEN|NCRAD R|NGED BY STEEL, NAz|S SAY
Nazi Paper Says
U.S.. Seeks War

BERLIN, Sept. 8. U.P.)-The
Hamburger Fremdenblatt. often
eXcellently informed on official
viewpoints, today charged that
the United States has given
Germany "a thousand fold pro-
vocation" for war but that the
Reich, "aware of its inevitable
final triumph, has never let it.
self be disturbed"
The Fremdenblatt, comment
ing on the Greer incident, as
serted that "it takes two parties
to make the type of incident
Roosevelt IL seeking--those who
provoke and those who are will
ing to be provoked"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
Secret Bombsight
Info Sent Germany,
Attorney Declares
Espionage Trial in.
New York Opens With
Dramatic Charges

NEW YORK, Sept. 8. (UP)
= United States Attorney
Harold M. Kennedy charged
today at the trial of 16 per-
sons accused as Nazi spies
that one OF them had given Ger
many details of the famed Norden
bombsight.
The trial was resumed in Brook
lyn federal court after week long
recess. The defendants, with II
others who have pleaded guilty, were
charged with conspiracy to provide
Germany with United States de-
fenSe secrets.
Kennedy gave a long, dramatic
Continued on Page 6, Col. o
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
Mrs. Charles Loud
Dies at Pomona

Funeral services for Mrs. Charles
Loud, mother of Henry L. Loud OF
Ell Centro, were conducted Monday
afternoon from the Todd Reeves
mortuary, Pomona.
Mrs. Loud died Saturday in Po-
mona, her son having been sum
moned Wednesday to that city by
his mothers serious illness.
In addition to her son, Mrs. Loud
is survived by a daughter, Mrs.
Agnes Loud Stafford of Pomona
and by three granddaughters: Mary
and Libby Stafford of Pomona and
Margaret Loud Jackson of Port
land, Oregon.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08

flashlampS at hand"
Berliners bombed out of their
homes, the newspaper reported.
were given temporary refuge In
schools and other public buildings
where coffee and sandwiches were
distributed.
The Nachtausgabe concluding It's
account, said:
These shameful acts will be
revenged and the German sword
will strike with fearful sharpness
until the British wor.G incendiaries
finally are brought to their knees"
1t termed the raid "one Of the
rottenest. most disgusting" yet
against Berlin.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
Father Joins !
Sons in U.S.. Navy

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8. CUP)-
Tomorrow will be a great day for
the Clarence Patten family and
for the United States Navy.
Patten, So, and the father of
seven sailors aboard the U. S. S.
Nevada, will become a fireman first
class in special ceremonies aboard
the batlleship and become the
eighth and final member of his
family to enter the navy.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
State Guard Here
Mustered in Soon

Members of the Imperial Valley
unit of the California State Guard
will be mustered in as soon as
medical examinations are complete,
District Attorney Elmer Heald said
Monday.
To date more than 200 men en-
listed in the various valley cities,
Heald said. The number is eX-
pected to be increased by men who
have been out of the valley during
the summer.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
Nazis in Paris
Arrest 100 Jews

VICHY, Sept. 8. (UP)-German
authorities in Paris today arrested
100 prominent Jews and held them
as hostages for maintenance of
order in the city.
The drastic action by the Nazi
occupation officials has been mount
ing steadily.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
Admission Day
Holiday Planned

Tuesday, anniversary of Califor-
MAS admission to the union, will
be holiday for state, county, and
city offices for banks, title COM
panies, and the library.
Otherwise business will proceed
as usual in Imperial Valley. The
Post-Press will publish on schedule
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08

Dies, in a letter to President
Roosevelt, asked for the "immed-
late severance from the govern
ment's payroll" of Henderson, Rob-
ert A. Grady, head consultant of
OPACS (now split into two divi-
sions in the new defense set up) !;
Tom Tippett, assistant chief of rent
section of OPACS; Dewey H. Pal
mer, consultant of OPACS; Mildred
Edie Brady, principal specialist in
consumer education of OPACS; E.
j. Lever, principal field representa-
tive of OPMs labor division.
Henderson denied he is or ever
was "a member of any Communist
dominated or controlled organiza-
ton" He promised to "eat on the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08

airplane engine can take it across
rough country at 25 miles an hour.
It carries one 75-MM, and one
37-MM gun, four 30-caliber ma
chineguns and TWO portable sub
machineguns. It's armor plate can
withstand the impact of 75-MM
shell from 1000 yards.
The noise of the powerful motor
and the clanking armament rever-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
THIS IS NO JOY RIDE
Scribe Bounces, but Not Merrily

berate between the white interior
walls of the tank with deafening
intensity. My shouts to a crewman
two feet away were lost in the
roar. The commander communi-
Gates with the driver by telephone.
The air-cooling system OF the
engine pumps fresh air into the
tank but still it was hot down be-
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08

1t Was Close
Five-year-old Billie Jean Bathe,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. t.
Battle of Calexico, never runs out
of word even if she can't think
of the right one.
"Oh, mother, mother" she scream
ed excitedly, come and see the big
nightmare flying around outside. "
1t was a horSefly.
On top of George Bucklin's desk
at irrigation district headquarters
was letter from the REA signed:
Mr.. Duck"
Just as George finished reading
the letter and read the signature,
a Mr.. Pellikan was brought into
the office
George must have looked amused
because the man said coldly: Il
spell it with Ok!
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
Senate Subcommittee Sets Staqe
For Movie War Propaganda Quiz
2 t%sk7Hs tsok4ts

A New Sideline-
Manager Max Orendorff was fig
uring Monday on putting up new
sign at his headquarters at 345 Olive
street, to read:
international Harvester Co., I'M
plements and Puppies for Sale But
after thinking it over he had about
decided to re-Word the sign, making
it, implements for Sale, Puppies
Given Away
The sign was not Max biggest
problem. The puppies were. Ihe
problem developed Saturday morn
ing, along with a mysterious Whim-
pering from under the firms load
ing platform. Max investigated.
A small friendly airedale welcom-
ed him to the dark receSseS under
the platform. She kept weather
eve cooked in the direction, however
when he made MS way farther under
the structure. In a minute he found
out why
She had nine Eyes, nine-9) wrig-
Cling black puppies there.
So far, Max hasn't found out to
whom the mother belongs.
I'm going to have to write to
Los Angeles" he moaned, for an
extra appropriation to take care
of them" Then he frightened. "Un-
less, of course,'' he added, "you
want them"
RR hastily denied any such de-
sire.
Then maybe you know some
body who wants a puppy?" Max per-
sisted.
Well?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
CdvoIcode Gives
Previ eW Friduv

Southern California will have a preview Friday al
Idywd of the Desert Cavalcade of Imperial Valley and
it's sister events the De Anza Cabaros ride from CalexcC
to Riverside and Rversides De Anza Days celebration
c. F. Reynolds secretary of the Caexco chamber OF
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
Henderson SCOTS
At Dies Charge

WASHINGTON, Sept 8. (UP)-Price Control Admin
isrator Leon Henderson submits to the civil service
mission today charges by Chairman Martin Dies, D.. Tex
of the house committee unAmerican activities that Hen
derson and five defense aides have Communistic afia
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
Downey Blasts
Oil Statements
Statements Of Surplus Railroad Tank
Cars Based on Vague and Misleading
Information, Calf. Senator Declares

WASHINGTON, Sept g. (UP)-Sen Sheridan Downey,
d. Calf charged today that assertions there 10000
railroad tank available to alleviate the east coast
line shortage based vague and misleading state
ments. Appearing before the oil investigating
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
industrial CITY
Cut Off Claims
Berlin Dis patch
RAF Hammers at German Capital with
Biggest Bombs. Leaves Huge Firesin
Heart of Area; Odessa, Kiev Hold Out
BY UNITED PRESS

The Naz high command claimed Monday that Lenn-
grad baston of the north has been rnged by Ger
troops severng its communications with the rest OF
Russia This military feat reported few hours after
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
Victims Broke,
So Thugs Depart
It pays to have no money.


Being without money the best possible state for
two Ell Centre boys and BraWey adult Sunday night
They were held up but the bandits felt for them
The bandits said sympahetcay, Were better off than
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
TEMPERATURE

Maximu mSun. 107, minimum
Mon. G3; pm. Sun. 81, humidity
20; Sam. Mon. 66, humidity sc;
Noon Mon. 81, humidity II.
l.. A. Hay: U. s. No. S17.50; u. s.
No. 2 leafy I. v. S15.50-16.5O; No. 2
$13-14; MpIs. Sept. Flax S1.98.