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Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03


Smashing battles were reported on
the Russian front in which Soviet
reports said two Nazi infantry divi-
sions of about 10000 men were wip-
ed out and two regiments, one an
armored force, were crushed.
Developments:
A new crisis faced Vichy with
indications the Germans may be
demanding control of strategic
French naval bases IN Africa, pre-
sumably including Dakar and pos
sibly return of Pierre Laval to the
government.
Japan's attitude took a suddenly
more menacing tone. A cabinet
minister said only spark was
needed to touch off a conflagra-
ton.
German accounts insisted a great
new "annihilation" battle had start
ed south of Kiev and that Russian
forces encircled east of Smolensk
are being further compressed but
the official news agency admitted
heavy new Soviet tank attacks have
been launched on the central front.
Russian reports said the 253rd
and 137th German infantry divi-
sions have been smashed as we'll
as the 111th motorized regiment and
the antiaircraft regiment of the
18th armored division. Leningrad
was said to be in no immediate
danger.
NORWAY AROUSED
The Germans declared a state
of emergency in Norway, imposing
severe regulations upon the popu-
lace due to spreading dissatisfac-
ton.
At Vichy it was strongly suggest
ed the Germans have submitted
virtual ultimative demands for an
arrangement to protect" French
Continued on Pacc 6; Col -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
Father of Valley
Men Dies in Texas

I. N. johnson of Dallas, Tex.
father of Duke and Walton Johnson
of Ell Centre, Norval Johnson and
Mrs. Ben Jones of lCalipatria, died
Friday morning at his home, it
was learned in Ell Centre Saturday.
Walton, Norval and Mrs. Jones
were in Dallas at the time, while
Duke was en- route south after va
cationing in Washington state. The
latter's office was endeavoring Sat
urday to relay word to him.
Johnson had lived in Texas many
years but had visited California
and Imperial Valley frequently.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
Next Draft Call
Takes317 Men

Imperial county will send 3l7
young men into the selective SER
vice army between Aug. and 6,
under the provisions of Californ-
las 14th draft call issued Saturday
by State Selective Service head
quarters.
The north-end draft board will
send 1853 men and the south-end
159, the announcement said.
Throughout the state, the 14th call
is expected to take 1,472 men into
he army.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03

is using the films to poison the
minds of the American people in
order to plunge us into the blood
lest war in history"
The eight major movie compan-
les are controlled by Harry and
Jack Cohn, George J. Schaefer,
Barney Balaban, Adolph Zukor,
Joseph Schenck, Daryl Zanuck,
Samuel Goldwyn, the three Warner
brothers, Arthur Loew, Nicholas
Schenck, Sam Katz and David
Bernstein, Nye charged. He said
this mighty engine of propaganda
is in the hands of men who are
peculiarly susceptible to these emo
tionS."
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
Work Begins on
New Water Main

Installation of a new water main
to serve the California; Central
Fibre corp. near Ell Centros north
east limits began Saturday.
The $4,000 job, besides offering
improved water protection to the
company, will extend distribution
facilities to aid in development of
that section of the city.
Director of Public Works Walter
Heinecke expected the job to be
completed within two weeks. BY
agreement, the company supplied
all the materials = estimated at
three quarters of the total cost
and the city furnished the labor
The new line is about a half mile
long.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03

in history"
Nye said the government might
be compelling" the film producers
to whip up the warrior spirit in
our young men" and to glorify
war. He criticized such pictures as
Sergeant York" and THE Great
Dictator" along with other anti
Nazi films, and said the movie in
dustry has orders from somewhere
that a minimum of 10 per cent of
newsreels must be devoted to war
pictures"
Nye said the senate investigation
was needed to determine whether
the government of the United
States, like the government in Hit
ler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
STOPPED BY REDS, NAz|S TURN TO Africa
Inside Perils

DENVER, Colo, Aug. 2 up
Edwin Green, Los Angeles, told
the Second American Congress
on General Semantics today that
"all known ferns Of democratic
government can be destroyed
from within if public opinion
permits"
In a paper entitled "notes on
the Construction of Chaos"
Green said that the tOtalitar-
ian countries employ the press
Or dissemination of prop
agganda based on doctrines
which lack a verifiable cores
pondence between their initial
postulates and empirical find
ings."
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
s economic Front
SILK BANNED
TO CIVILIANS

throwing out of work approximately
175,O0O employees in silk mills, which
will suspend civilian production
when stocks of thrown silk-a semi
processed stage ready for weaving
or knitting-are consumed.
Officials said that plans are ,un-
der way to expand the naton's
production of synthetic fibers such
as rayon and Nylon. Present ca
pacity, however, will have to be ex-
panded from about 476,000,0 900
pounds annually to at least 525,-
100000 pounds to replace silk man
ufacture and there is a shortage
of machinery and materials needed
for such an expansion program.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
Conscience Drives
Man TO Suicide

SAN JOSE, Cal, Aug. 2 CUP)-
Ralph Serbantes, %, committed
suicide last night after he CON
fessed" he killed" Mike Flores. 30.
Gilroy restaurant employe, but to-
day it was disclosed Flores was
alive and only slightly wounded.
Serbantes. shot and killed him
self at Decoto. Alameda county
authorities said Serbantes first told
his mother he had murdered
Flores by slashing Flores throat
last Thursday.
Today Dick Goodrich, Gilroy chief
of police, said he held a warrant
against Serbantes signed by Flores.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
z 4%,t!4s 4sot4ts
It's All In The Mind

All lht
IF the repeal of the 18th amend
ment was repugnant to any reader,
pray skip this item, for it reveals
a personal vice and any reflection
, upon the integrity of this column
would be deplorable.
However, regardless of any re-
Election, the incident in mind is too
good to pass over.
Now it is RR's secret habit to
mix a mild potion in the evenings
Z before dinner and sit and sup on
doorstep while playing with the
dog. Returning from holidays a
week ago RR mixed a potion from
a bottle in the icebox and for five
evenings in succession followed a
similar procedure. The potions tast-
ed good enough and maybe RR
: might have mixed a few extra, just
for good measure.
Friday evening for some reason
RR examined the particular bottle
more closely, smelled of it and
took an experimental sip Some
blighter had substituted cider and
an old topper like RR didn't even
know the difference!
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03

fective sink, 1 found seven men
in the hallway.
I was taken by car to the old
police presidium at the Alexander
Platz in the middle of Berlin. A
member of the secret police there
informed me that I would have to
be their guest" probably over the
weekend, until certain papers ar
rived from another department.
That evening I was called up for
preliminary questioning. Informa-
ton as to why I was being held
was refused. 1 also was refused
reading matter and my eye glasses
were taken from me Ito prevent
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
Reporter Describes Term
In Nozi Prison os Spy

Editors Note-Here is the story
of Richard c. Hottelet, Brooklyn
born United Press correspondent
who spent almost four months
in Berlin jails, charged with sus-
picion of espionage. He was re-
leased on July s, exchanged for
a German prisoner in the United
States and arrived in New York
yesterday aboard the naval trans
port West Point.
BY RICHARD c. HOTTELET
NEW YORK, Aug. 2 (UP)-The
doorbell of my Berlin apartment
rang at 7 a. m. on Saturday morn
ing, March 15. Instead of the
plumber I expected, to fix Il de-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (UP)-
The United States ordered today
that the use of silk in the man
ufacture of hosiery and other ci-
william items be abandoned in fa-
vor of production of silk powder
bags and parachutes for the army
and navy.
The office of production manage
ments priorities division issued the
order, effective at midnight tonight,
after the army and navy advised
that their min:...uil. requirements
for silk during the next two years
would equal stocks now on hand
in the United States.
The order will have the effect of
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03

suicide" My first formal question
ing did not take place until the
following Tuesday. Those first three
days were the hardest and longest
I ever spent.
In addition to a stool. the only
furnishings we're a cot with spring
mattress, a small shelf and a toilet
in the corner.
Obviously various foreigners had
occupied the cell before me Some
one, probably an Englishman, had
scratched into the wall. Home
sweet home, mother, dear mother
where are your" There were also
Continued on Page O, Column -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
Woman Couldn't Pay Union Dues, So
Couldn't Get Job Back; State Says
She Refused Employment Aid Refused

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2 (UP)-
Mrs. Blanche Stillman of Hunting
ton Park today was denied unem-
ployment insurance for working
time lost before her baby was born
The California employment COM
mission upheld a decision of de-
partment of employment referee
withholding payment of unemploy-
ment compensation to Mrs. Still
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
US. Warns Vichy
OF PenaItiesIf
Germany Appeased
Warning Comedies
With French Study OF
African Situation

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.
(UP)-The United States
today sharply warned the
Vichy government today that
future American relations
with France will be guided by the
degree of resistance which France
shows to the Axis powers in French
territories.
Acting Secretary of State Sum-
Continued on Page 6, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
Produce Man Dies
In Los Angeles

Cecil Cummings, prominent pro-
duce operator in Imperial Valley
for many years, died early Saturday
morning in Los Angeles.
Funeral particulars were not i'm
mediately available.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
Red Revolution
Peril Described

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2. (UP)-Investigation of
American activities in northern California opening with
hearing in San Francisco within the next few weeks,
planned today by state legislative committee following
adjournment of a weeks sessions here.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03

Company
Maybe it made Percie Thacker a
bit cooler and more comfortable
to receive a letter from Richmond,
Va, this week, on the theory that
misery loves company.
1t was from his sister and in
closed a clipping from the Rich
mond Times-Dispatch concerning
Richmond weather. A postscript
Continued on Page 6, col. 50
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
japan Gives VI p
Raw Silk Cargo
In Hurry to Whisk Big Liner to Safety,
Nipponese Sacrifice $1,000. 900 Cargo
To Get Out from Und er Attachments

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2. (UP) - Longshoremen
swarmed the libelharassed japanese liner Tatua
Maru today, unloading cargo OF silk that Will be
welcome addition to short and soonto-be-frozen U. S.
stocks There were 1888 bales of silk, worth almost $
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
Movi ies Blasted
AS War Mon9ers

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 2. UP)-U. S. Senator Gerald Nye
of North Dakota last night criticized the motion picture
industry engine of propaganda The Republi-
soationist called for senate investigation to deter
mine whether the government is using the movies "to
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
Workers Quit on
Defense Proj jects
Wage Disputes Keep 1000 from Work
On Ammunition Plants. Others Forced
Into IdIeness by Strike Action

SANDUSKY, o., Aug. g OP)-Army authorities re
ported today that approximately 1000 construction work
ers on partially completed government defense plants
in northern Ohio had refused to report for work because
wage disputes Shortly after 1000 construction work
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
Single Duty

Single Duty
Absent minded department.
s Andy Preble dressed for a quick
"trip to Phoenix and arrived at des-
tination before realizing he had
on the left of one pair of shoes
and the right of another!
GA dilemma that RR will never
face. We've only got one pair0
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
Squeeze Applied
To Force DQkor
From vichy Govt
Soviet Reports Smashing Battles, Says
Two Conn ple+e Divisions Of 10000 Men
Destroyed by Fierce Counter Attack
By UNITED PRESS

Adolf Hter-his blitz forces begged down after SIX
weeks terrific battle in Russia and facing rising tension
in occupied Europe-Saturday appeared to be touching
off new alarms involving French naval bases in Africa
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03
WEATHER

Maximum temperature 100, minimum 50; 5 am.
temperature So, humidity 81; noon temperature 103
humidity "a; pm. temperature 1O5, humidity FL.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-03

L. A. HAY-U. S. No. 1, S17.5O-1s U. s. No. 2
leafy, SI6-I7.5O; U. S. No. 2 $135O-14.5O; Mpls.
Sept Flax, S1.89.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07
RolIin' Around
ST|EE-LEGGED SKATERS
TO E0AAkN=RAGE

Paradise Gardens. 6927 Harper al
Helen. on Monday evenings from
7 to 8 under the direction OF
Buster" Davis.
The semi-annual meeting of the
Board of Control of the Roller
Skate Rink Operators Association
of America will be held here this
week. At that time dates will be
set for the national championships
in Memphis.
Lincoln Rink will hold a Good
fellows Benefit Party on Deem
Der II. Part of the proceeds taken
in that night will go to this or
ganiZation.
Guardian Angel School. the
Newman Club and Lincoln School,
are set dates for parties soon al
Eastwood Park. Besides this plans
are already being made for their
Christmas and. New Years Eve
parties. On the latter night skat-
ing will be from s until 3.
Club night at Rouge Park Roller.
dfeme= is set for "Wednesday.
Approximately 100 members oil
the Arcadia Olde Tymer's Club
will hold their first party on De,
cember 16 at Arcadia. Specia
music and special "old time" dance
steps will feature the occasion
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07
Supposedly Through

SaHtef was iast supposed 10 be
out" He didn't believe ii and
hired lawyer within 80 minutes
of his notification by Commissioner
Edward J. Fry And never
missed a day at the office
After Bowling was returned to
office by Fry the commissioner
decided some one must have erred
in trying 10 cut two men off his
small staff while other state de-
partments looked overloaded
He told Sauter to stay. Sauter
never had 10 go 10 bat on his
suit against the Civil Service Com
mission.
Michigan's Horsemen's Relief
Fund is highly praised by Keene
Daingerfield Jr. in a recent issue
of The Thoroughbred Record
II you. too, have the idea of buying
a little farm as hedge against
initiation and as a hideout-come
the revolution--why not follow
the lead of Bing Crosby, who is
reported TO have purchased a 40
000-acre breeding farm in the Ar
gentine? After all, that's as
practical as most of the farms the
city farmers are buying.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07
Indoor Tennis
is 128

One hundred and twenty-eight
players, believed TO be the largest
field ever 10 enter a Detroit indoor
tennis championship tournament,
begins play in the mems singles
Monday in the new tennisium in
the Agricultural Building, FAIR
Grounds. First matches are due
at 8 a. m.
Slxty-four women start Wednes-
day, with the junior and boys
events deferred 10 December II.
Other numbers include mems and
women's doubles and mixed dou-
bles.
kimbark Peterson, seeded 2,
has w. j. Sander as his first OPP
ponent. Ed DeVine caught Wal
Ter Vier. Jim Tobin, seeded /,
meets John Blossom, one of the
better players from the st. Clair
Chandler Park district.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07
Rally Gives Trojans
TT Tie With Uddns

Los ANGELES. Dec. 6.-uNS)
The l.. c. l.. A. football team
fought Southern California eleven
TO standstill today, and forced
the Trojans 10 resort 10 a des-
perate passing game TO come from
behind 10 earn z 10 7 tie.
In the opening minutes OF the
third quarter. the Trojan defend
ers were unable 10 halt an often
sive that brought a touchdown
on a shovel pass from Witerfield
TO Vic Smith. Smelling converted.
Paul Taylor began throwing for
Y. s. c. Immediately after the
kickoff. His passes carried tiIr
Trojans TO the Bruin 3. Two line
plays failed, but Bobby Robertson
scored on a third. Bob Jones
booted the conversion that tied the
game.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07
CY0 Boxing
Tourney Starts
January 7
II Finalists Meet
at Fair Grounds
January 23

Metropolitan Detroit, long rec
ognized as the amateur boxing
capital of the Midwest, will have
hundreds OF boys competing i'm the
seventh annual Catholic Youth Or
ganization boxing tournament in
January
The CYO meet. so far. is the
only major boxing tournament
definitely booked for Detroit this
Winter. AS a result all the lead
ing fight clubs are concentrating
on It, A record entry is antics.
pated.
The event will get under way on
Friday, January 2, and will wind
up with II championship bouts at
the State Fair Coliseum on Friday,
January %. Eight or nine pre-
1iminary shows will be held at par
ish centers to pare the big starting
field down 10 "a Survivors for the
finals.
Among the clubs which are eX-i
pected to send strong teams 10 the
CYO wars are Annunciation,
Blessed Sacrament. HamtramckI
Boys Club Ecorse Boys Club, |
Detroit Boys Club. Dearborn Boys I
Club. Hamtramck and highland
Park recreation departments, Holy
Redeemer, Gene Tunney- Boys,
Club, River Rouge Community
Center, Franklin Settlement, Fort
Wayne A, C.. Briggs. Hudson and
Chevrolet.
Any boy who wishes 10 compete
in the tourney, but has no place IN
which 10 train, is asked TO commu-
nicate with The CYO central office
CHERRY 1867 land officials viii ar.
range for him TO work out AT "a
convenient fight center under able
supervision.
Entries for the tournament close
at midnight Saturday, December
20. There will be no extension OF
this deadline. Application blanks
may be obtained now from the
CYO office on the fifth floor of the.
Chancery Building. 1894 Washing
ton Boulevard from the Detroit
headquarters Of the Michigan A. +
L., 13l Adams Avenue West, in the
fuller Hotel Building; or from any
OF the leading amateur fight cen
tiers IN Detroit and vicinity.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07
Bowling Green Five
Edges Out Dynamits

BOWLING GREEN, O.. Dec 6.
In a game which featured long
shots, Bowling Green State Uni
versity outScored the Detroit Tech
quintet tonight 81 10 80
In the final 10 minutes. after
the count was knojted at "a each.
the long shots of Don Mason.
Bowling Green guard. opened the
game up and the home' club held
the lead the rest o fthe way.
a Ted Rybiski was the pacemaker
FOR Detroit with IL points, fol-
lowed by Bill Lit with 10.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07
Titans 10 Award
Letters TO 3
Football Men
Annual Bust tuesday
viii Also Bring More
Honors to Baponis

Football monographs will be
awarded TO % members of the
1871 University of Detroit squad
when the Alumni Association pre-
SCENTS its annual grid bust at the
Hotel Statler Tuesday evening.
The list of letter winners was an
nounced Saturday by Gus Dorais,
director of athletics.
Those who will receive mono
grams are All-Anerica Capt. Vim
cent Banon John Biringer,
Robert Burke, Ken Elliott, Joe
Gensheimer, George Ghesquiere,
AL Goodrich, Robert Harrington
John Hart, Don Hughes, Howard
Heating, Robert Keene, Art Link,
Elmer Madarik. Paul Mclaughlin,
Tom Mclaughlin. Jack Pearl
Richard Pugh, George Reno. e
Rice, Charles Ruth. Al Schmidt
and Meryl Toepfer.
For nine seniors this will be the
third which they have won
on the gridiron. The three-letter
winners. are Banonis, Biringer,
Goodrich, Heating. Mclaughlin,
M c L oughlin, Pugh. Rice and
Toepfer.
The affair will be dedicated
especially TO Captain Banonis. the
first Ail-America lihen1an in the
history of the school.
Features of Tuesdays event wiz
be the announcement of the re-
suits of the voting for the 1912
captain and the comforting OF Tho
1941 Loyalty Award.
Coach Dorais also announced
the list of Frosh numeral winners
Saturday. They are Ed Cichor-
acki. Bill Cosgrove, John Cutting,
Donald Daley. Tom Dorais, Eu-
gene Douvan, Paul Fenlon, James
Finney Jr., Dick Franklin, Robert
Greiner, Joe Hafner, John Hamil-
ton, Tom Hetu, Bob Ivory. Martin
Kerwin, Bill Kliber, Frank kolod-
tziejski, Louis KrZysiak, John Kur-
kowski. Bill Lorenz, Bob Macduff.
Tom McNally, Gene Mutual, Joe
Naggi, Ed O'Hare, Charles Pad
dock Jr., James Risdon, Tom
Senffner, Andrew SMELL. Peter
Sullivan, Ed Tomas, Lester Vein
berg Robert Riethmiller and Joe
Woods.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07
Sullivan Handy Lad

Birdie TebbettS and Billy Sulli-
van will still be around with Dixie
Parsons added 10 the catching
sian" With f6bbettS sharing hon
orS with frankie Hayes as being
the best receivers in the league
and Parsons showing promise,
Sullivan is valuable man 10
have. Besides being a capable
catcher Sullivan can play first or
third, Parsons can't be farmed
out again so IT will be a case of
either playing or diSposing of the
young backstop.
Buck Newsom. who two years
ago shared topnotch pitching
honors with Bob Teller, Is on the
block. With a 2.96 earned run
average for 1871, AL Benton is
rated the clubs No. | finger.
Tommy Bridges will again be used
Sparingly - every fifth or sixth
day.
Besides Benton and Bridges the
Tigers will be depending on
Johnny Corsica. Harold New
houser and Paul Trout for the
majority of the clubs wins. What
is 10 become of Schoolboy Rowe
is questionable. At Jacksonville
no other club expressed interest
in the big Highlander.
The Tigers also have Virgil
Trucks, Harold Manders, Hal
White, Mueller. Roy Henshaw,
Bud Thomas and Earl Cook. Hen
shaw, once a Cub star left-hander
was drafted from Jersey City. He
will be used for relief duty. as will
Thomas and Cook.
Freddie Hutchinson. Of course.
Joined the navy. And the Tigers
may buy Bill Lee from the Cubs,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07
Honor City Champion
Eleven at BANQUET
ON AoNpay

The city champion Cooley High
School football squad will be
honored at banquet given by the
Strathmoor Business Association
Wednesday.
Fritz CriSler. y. of M. coach.
will be guest speaker and guests
OF honor will include Tom Har-
mon. Frank Cody, Bill Rogell. Geo
llelsinger of Michigan State, Joe
GembiS Of Wayne and Ellison
Rynearson OF Michigan State
Normal.
The banquet will be neld in the
Goodwill Dining Rom al 1892
Grand River at Z T. m.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-07

Schooners and yswls, trip which
would take the fleet around one
of the islands like West or Middle
Sister or Pelee.
On the second day of the three
day series a slightly shorter course
would be used with the regulation
nine-mile or perhaps 12-mile tri-
angle being used on the final day
when most yachtSmen- already are
making their plans to sail for
home.