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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-10-03

Mrs. Carrie Stiers and Arthur
Collyer. Sumpter, visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Lee Carter and family Satur-
day afternoon.
Mrs. Nora Flowers. Mrs. Bertelle
Smith. Mrs. Lena Staebler, Mrs
Freedia Crawford, Mrs. Bernadine
Day and Mrs. Grace Heath were in
Whitaker Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lea Carter and
daughter Beverly visited Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Foster and sons Donald
and Arnold, Ypsilanti, Saturday
evening.
Miss Virginia Collyer. Sumpter.
visited her sister. Mrs. Maggie Car
ter and daughter Beverly Friday.
Mrs. Maggie Carter and infant
daughter Beverly returned home
day. Mrs. Carter underwent an op-
Grafton Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs Eugene Wagar,
Belleville. visited Mrs. WILDER Sher-
man, Monday.
Visitors at the Lea Carter home
Sunday were Miss Virginia Collyer.
Sumpter. Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd But
Ter and daughter Janet. Romulus,
Edward Fischer. Denton, Miss Dor
othy NovaK, BelIeviIIe. and MT. and
Mrs. Tavern Miller and daughter
Joyce, Ypsilanti.
Mrs. Maggie Carter visited Mrs.
Sauna Simon and family Monday
evening.
Melvin Flower spent Sunday at
the home of his daughter Mrs. Lee
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-10-03
Al Committee MEETING

John Cosner attended a coming
committee meeting in Ann Arbor
Tuesday.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-10-03
Parents OF Dauahter

Parents OF Daughter
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Briggs &C
companied Mr. and Mrs. Donald
Briggs and son William. Belleville,
to Tecumseh Hospital Sunday. TO
see their first granddaughter who
was born Saturday to Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Haughn, near Tip
ton. Mrs Haughn before her mar
riage was Miss Velma Briggs.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-10-03
STUDY Greun Meeta

On Wednesday, September "A the
Study Group met in the Church An
mex. Mrs Prout was the leader and
the book Dangerous Opportunity
was finished. Twelve mem bers were
present. The president appointed
the nominating committee for cleo
ton of officers. Mrs. Prout read the
Missionary Prayer for the Benedic-
ton.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-10-03

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On most noeelsl = OIL CUSHIONED oRANEsHEFI
PINS AND JOURNALS = srURoI-ITt CONNECTING
RODS sTtPoN PARKING BRAKE = ssoAoRlM
WHEELS = FUZZY ADJUTAsIt STEERING posi-
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
Hitchhiker Shoots
Coast Motorist

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30. CUP)
Shot and robbed by a hitch tinker
Chester Broders, Al, Los Angeles
was in st. Luke's hospital today
with a bullet wound in his chest.
Doctors expected him to recover.
Broders was brought here from
Thornton Beach in San Mnteo
county where he said he was
wounded by the hitch-hiker who
looked like an Indian"
Broders said he picked up the
man at Vallejo while he was driv-
ing back to Los Angeles from an
oregon vacation AS they passed
Thornton Beach, Broders proposed
a swim. When Broders was un-
dressing, the hitch-hiker drew a
gun, forced him to lie face down
on the sand and took SIS, his
watch and car keys. Then he
kicked Broders in the head and
shot him.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
Concrete Barges
MAY Hau! Oil

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. CUP)-
Chairman Emory S. Land of the
Maritime Commission said today
that the gasoline shortage could be
alleviated to a large extent by
construction of reinforced con-
crete barges to haul oil to the
eastern seaboard.
He told the special senate COM
mittee investigating the oil short
age that the barges could be built
faster than pipelines and would
require less steel. One hundred
barges, capable of being towed by
tankers, would require only 10O,-
900 tons of steel compared to thhe
100000 needed to build pipelines
to serve the east coast.
Land said that first deliveries on
100 barges could be made in Janu-
airy, at the rate of about 20 q
month.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
knudsen to Speed
Arms Production
From New Position
Reorganization Puts
Defense Effort on
New Foundation

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20
(UP)-William S. Knudsen
was expected today to take
over personal direction of
the production of planes,
tanks and munitions in new drive
to speed the defense and British
aid programs.
This was one of the most import
ant developments arising from
President Roosevelts creation of a
new supply priorities and alloca-
tons board-in effect a ministry
of supply'-which will determine
how raw materials shall be rationed
among the armed forces, the "coun-
tries resisting aggression" and ci-
villain needs.
Knudsen was named member of
the new board which is headed by
Vice President Henry A. Wallace,
and he also retained his post as
director general of the office OF
production management. But in the
reshuffling of top executives, the
dictatorship of the OPM's key pro-
duction division was left open.
Former OPM production director
John d. Biggers was appointed by
the president to work in London
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29

ease tension with the United States
to be on a fairly compre-
hensive scope and was marked by
statement of the official Japanese
news agency that adjustment of
Japanese-American relations is
necessary preliminary to ushering
in a peaceful era in the Pacific.
The cabinet emergency meeting
at Tokyo, with experts on military,
naval and American affairs present,
was described officially as devoted
to seeking permanent peace in the
Pacific and to discussion of the
causes underlying tense relations
with the United States. Japan
Thursday had opened negotiations
with President Roosevelt presumab-
ly in an effort to reach an under
standing.
There still was no definite indi-
cation as to how far Japan might
go in further loosening her ties
with the axis or compromising her
program for expanding Tokyos
domination in East Asia. For the
time being it appeared that efforts
were being made to avoid a show
down with the British American
front in the Pacific.
TALLINN CAPTURED
On the eastern war front, of
ficial Nazi reports said that Ger
man forces had captured flame
SCARED Tallinn and a Baltic port
in Estonia, crashed through Russian
defense positions southwest of Len
lngrad and pushed eastward to cut
the Leningrad- Moscow railroad at
several points.
While the Moscow communique
said only that fighting continued
all along the front, reports of the
Nazi official news agency told of
gains on both sides of the Gulf of
Finland and progress in the land
campaign to encircle Leningrad.
The main action was said to have
been on the Narva-Luga front,
stretching between two towns about
30 miles southwest of the city, al
though some Nazis. had claimed
Continued on Page 6, Col. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29

of five years of labor and $100,000,- :
900 in money, after the last of Bu-
denny's men had crossed, leaving
nothing but stripped fields and
leveled factories for the Germans.
In all, it was indicated, the Rus
slams destroyed about $250,000,000
worth of property in the Dnieper
dam area, for they blew up not
only the dam and the power plant
but the big aluminium, ferro-man-
ganese. electric, chemical and met
allurgical factories linked with
them, and the great bridge across
the rapids just below the dam. Some
property was removed.
An American engineer, Col. Hugh
Cooper, was the chief consultant
in the building of the dam and
power plant. Many Americans work.
ed on the project. The dam locked
the foaming, turbulent Dnieper be-
tween walls of concrete $500 feet
long and ITO feet high.
The flooded Dnieper some 15C
miles of territory, and an unbroken
Russian army backed by powerful
reserves, now lay between the Ger
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29

A 13-year-o!oi Ell Centro boy
was sent to a military school at
the close of a juvenile court hear
ing late Thursday for his part
in a series Of burglaries, petty
thefts, shop lifting, Peeping Tom
expeditions and annoying pranks.
Two other boys OF similar age,
also involved in all the burglaries,
were ordered to follow a strict
constructive program worked out
by juvenile authorities.
Officials said number of other
boys were connected with one or
all of the three boys in shop lift
ing, petty thefts, and Peeping Tom
expeditions.
The 73-yeas -old, considered a
ringleader, confessed to inveStigat-
ing officers that he had burglariz-
ed IA Ell Centro homes while the
owners were away on vacation.
Since most of the home owners
have not yet returned, officers
said, they had no way of making
an accurate check to ascertain
what is missing. Most of the bur-
glaries occurred at night.
One man shot at the youngster
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
14Burg|aries, Many Petty 1hefts.
Other Misdemeanors Cleared Up with
Disciplinary Action Against Boys

while he had his arm through a
broken window glass working at the
lock the boy said. A bullet hole
was in the boys shirt. He disap-
peared before the house owner
could get outside the house, off
icers said.
In describing his activities the
boy told officers that he watched
newspapers to find out when peo-
pie were away on vacation, or tele-
phoned to see if anyone was home
before he entered the house. He
Knocked on the door to make
certain the house was empty. He
telephoned one victim and called
on another in person to inquire
what progress had been made in
solving the burglaries of their
homes.
Entrance to houses was gained
by forcing locks, cutting screens
breaking windows, and using pass
keys, the officers said. On two
occasions the boy watched Off
GERS checking over the premises
after burglary.
Loot consisted of rifles, pistols
ammunition, money, keys, jewelry
baseballs a gold mesh bag, letters
pass book.
Among the other activities OF
the 13-year-old and some of his
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
Murderer Fights
Return 10 East

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 30. up
Attorneys for Salvatore Trapino,
47-year-old Sacramento machinist,
argued today against his extradi-
ton to New York to face second
degree murder charges on grounds
that his record during 18 years of
bfsldence showed complete re-.
habilitation.
Following Trapino's arrest last
month on charges of disturbing the
peace. his wife disclosed to Off
GERS that he was wanted in New
York for the Staying of Joseph
Ballo, Nov. 10, 1922. She is suing
her husband for divorce. Ballo was
shot to death with a shotgun at
Plattekill, Ulster County.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29

The tWo-motored plane was one
of a new series being test-flow1
for the United States army.
North American officials described
the test hop as one of series of
routine flights.
The twin-motored plane took off
at ll:14 a. IN. Tor a two and one
half hour test flight.
At 1l19 a m. it started in for a
landing. apparently having encoun-
tered some difficulty Immediately
after the takeoff.
Coming in from the east, the
plane turned first right. then left
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
Laval Takes Turn
For Worse as New
Purge Continues
French Parliament
Ordered from Vichy
Under New Decree

VICHY, France, Aug 20
(UP)-Pierre Laval, wound
ed by an assassin at Yer
sailles Wednesday, took a
sudden turn for the worse
today and surgeons, at bedside
conference at the Versailles civil
hospital, considered the advisability
of removing a pistol bullet lodged
one inch beneath his heart.
Marcel Deaf, Lavals collabora-
zionist aide, whose abdominal wall
was punctured by a bullet, was in
even worse condition.
Both we're denicd visitors today
after surgeons had re-examined
them.
Continued on Page 6; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29

Hawk even begged Governor Olson
to ignore outside pleas for mercy.
One such plea was made in Hawks
behalf by the widow of the man
he killed.
Hawk was convicted of beating
Lee Arris, a San Diego mechanic, to
death at Knights Landing, Yolo
County; Lininger of poisoning a
man at Red Bluff, Tehama County
Brought together for the first
time in the prison death row, Hawk
and Lininger became fast friends
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
Roosevelt Hints
Speech May Reveal
Trend OF Policies

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 up
President Roosevelt limited today
that his Labor day radio address
to the nation and the world may
include an important statement on
international affairs.
The president pointed out that La
Dor day will be the second annivers-
airy of the present world conflict,
and added that he plans a speech
on that day.
That speech may present for the
first time some inkling of Mr..
Roosevelts reaction to the conver-
sations initiated yesterday by the
japanese ambassador, Kichisaburo
Nomura, with the president and
Secretary of State Cordell Hull, at
the personal instance of japanese
Prime Minister Prince Konoye.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
Suspect Confesses
Rapist-Murder Of
7 Women in East
30 -Year-Old Negro
Held for Sayings
In U. S. Capital

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29
(UP) - Police announced
early today that the recent
wave of sex-slayings in the
capital had been solved by
the confession of a 30-year-old Ne
gro that he had raped and choked
to death six Washington women
and one New Yorker.
Acting Police Superintendent Ed
ward j. Kelly said that Jarvis
Roosevelt Catoe, former houseman
and undertaker's assistant, had ad-
mitted Staying New York waitress,
pretty war department clerk, IA
bride of one month, and four Negro
women. He also admitted raping
four other women.
New York police, who flew here
yesterday to question Catoe, an
nounced last night that he had
admitted raping and strangling Mrs.
Continued on Page 6; Column 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29

had met between Aug. 25 and TODAY
at both northern and southern head
quarters on the eastern front in
conferences "lnalXcd b. the unalter-
able determination Of both peoples
and their leaders to continue the
war until a victorious conclusion" "
The axis leaders we're said to have
discussed "all military and political
questions affecting the development
and duration of the war"
(The latest Hitler -Mussolini con-
ference followed the rendezvous OF
President Roosevelt and Prime Min
lister Winston Churchill Mr. Roose-
velt and Churchill issued an eight
point statement of their postwar
aims after "NaZi tyranny has been
crushed" and the dictators today
stated their own aims for the post
war new orderD
The destruction of the Bolshe-
visit danger and plutocratic exploit
tation will create the possibility of
peaceful, harmonious and fruitful
collaboration by all the peoples of
the European continent in political
as we'll as economic ana cultural
spheres, the communique on the
meeting said.
1t added that the discussions were
carried on lin the spirit of COM
radeship and the community of
fate of the axis partners"
The communique said that par
ticipating in the conferences were
German oreign Minister Joachim
yon Ribbentrop, Filippo Anfuso,
italian foreign office chef de cabi-
net, who represented Italian For
eign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano,
Filed Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief
of the German supreme command,
Gen. Ugo Cavallero, italian chief
of staff, and other ranking German
and italian military officers. (Ciano
has been reported i'll for some time)
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29

posi- O111Ce, All 1tUtTaI, SIdIt, CCu1IVy
and city offices will close at noon
Saturday and not reopen until
Tuesday morning.
Drive carefully, observe traffic
regulations and the dictates of good
sense, don't try to go too far or
too fast" was the warning advice
issued Friday by Sgt. Cliff Reed OF
the California Highway patrol in
Imperial Valley.
He warned motorists to take par
ticular care on their return trips
when they will be tired and in ID
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29

and embraced religion while await
ing execution. 1t was Hawks wish
they die together, and the state
complied.
They entered the chamber to-
gether at 1904 am. Nine minutes
later they were pronounced dead
and were embarked on the new
adventure each had sought.
They had spent all Of last night
listening to radio newscasts, seeking
information on the wars of the
world they were leaving behind
Neither made any attempt TO sleep
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
japan MOVES TOWARD PEACE in PACIFIC
Vast Quagnnire i'm
Path Of Germans

MOSCOW, Aug. 20. (UP) - The
waters of the broad Dnieper river,
third largest in Europe, flooded
over hundreds of square miles OF
the lower Ukraine today, formid-
able barrier to the Germans, as
Marshal Emyon Budenny organized
his army for new stand on the
east bank with the hundreds OF
thousands of men he had safely
withdrawn from the western side.
In vivid testimony to the Spar
tan firmness of the scorched earth
policy, Russia had blown up the
great power dam, built at the cost
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
Senate Tax Bill
Near Complexion

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. CUPD-
The Senate Finance Committee
pushed the 100000 tax bill
almost to the verge of completion
today but postponed its final ac-
ton until later in the day.
AT a morning session, it up
held II to 5, its previous action to
require earners of income in eight
community property states to re-
port such income individually and
pay taxes on it, instead of divid
ing it equally as is now permitted
This vote came after the commit
tee rejected, 10 to 7, motion to
postpone action on the issue until
another tax bill is prepared.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
State Guard Chief
Dies Suddenly

LODI, Cal, Aug. 20 CUP)-Investi-
eating officers today theorized that
Capt. William B. Roe. So, executive
officer of the California state guard,
suffered heart attack and lost
control of his car near here yester-
day. He was dead when passing mo-
toriSts reached him.
Roe's heavy car swerved off the
highway, ploweG tnrough a small
vineyard, leaped a six-foot ditch
and rolled so feet into a signboard,
finally stopping on its side. He was
alone and enrotlte from Sacrament
to to San Diego on state guard bus
mess.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
lavina Proyazek
In Improvement

LaVina Provazek, injured in a
traffic acident at Boulevard last
Jan. 5, now is at her home in Ell
Centre after being a hospital pa
tient for seven months and 20 days.
She is rapidly learning to talk
again and must learn to walk again.
Her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
ProVazek, hope to get a wheel chair
SO their daughter may get out into
the sunshine more while waiting for
her strength to return.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29

mans and the great Don river in
dustrial basin to the east,
The days first war communique
announced the evacuation of the
power dam area and the city of
Dniepropetrovsk after a fierce bat
tie in which stalwart Russian rear
guards held back the Germans for
days while the last of the army OF
the Ukraine crossed to the east
bank of the Dnieper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29

1t then tipped sharply downward
and plunged to earth at a 45-degreo
angle.
The plane Immediately burts into
flames.
The injured men we're taken 10
Centinela hospital at Inglewood and
Immediately were placed in an OPP
Grating room.
Wild was reported in critical con-
dition from burns and other injur-
les. Penrose also suffered serious
burns and his condition Likewise
was reported critical.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
Gas Executes 7
Who Asked Death

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal, Aug 20 (UP)-Eager
for DEATH Eldon Hawk and John w. Linnger 40, died
today in the San Quentin prison gas chamber Convicted
for separate MURDERS they united in hope of find
ing a better, beautiful life beyond the grave
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
A Neck and Neck Race

" WYNN "h' ANtNN
Steady increases in the num-
ber of jobs allotted them at Camp
Seeley were to blame for the pre-
, sent deadly race between Captain
j. F.. Howard and Lieut.. Farris.
Each is trying to get the most.
OF course, they'll get them anyway
but a race gives dull duty a reck-
less element
Howard's jobs at the present
writing include assistant quarter
master, purchasing and contract
ing, commissary sales, rail trans
port, salvage, signal officer, sum-
mary court officer post ordinance
officer, post property engineer off
icer.
FarriS accumulated post librar-
ian, detachment commander, po-
lice and prison officer, fire mar
shal, mess officer, athletic and
recreation officer.
Practically Il dead heat,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
Bomber Crashes;
One Dies, 2Hurt

LOS ANGELES, Aug 20 (UP)-A North American av-
aton B25 attack bomber crashed and burned at munich
pal airport today killing and I'M urng two Radio
James Knight killed Pilot w D. (Tex) Wild and
Co-Pilot Paul Penrose were injured.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
Tokyo Ministers
Seek Formula to
War
Japanese Move Comes in Face Of Maxi
Gains on Russian Front; Major City
Captured, Defense Positions Pierced
= BY UNITED PRESS -

Japans cabinet debated peaceful settlement of okyos
difficulties with the United States Friday in light OF direct
negotiations with President Roosevelt and new German
military successes on the Russian front Japans effort to
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
Hit Ter, II Duce
Bore War Aims
Axis Rulers Meet in Conference TO
Counter RooseveI+-ChurchiII Farley;
Sav We'll Remove Causes Of Conflict

BERLIN, Aug. 20 (UP)-Adolf Hitler and Benlto Mus
solin declaration of axis aims, said today that the
new order for postwar Europe far possible will re
move the which the past have given rise to Euro
mean wars" communque disclosed that the dictators
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
Stores Close on
Labor Day.
Motorists Warned to Use Care During
Last of Summers Long Week-Ends as
Manv Plan Final Visits 'Outside-

The annual Labor day holidays began early in lmperla
Valley this year with residents starting to leave for coas
and mountain resorts shortly after noon Friday.
In Ell Centre the Labor day observance will be marke
Monday by a general closing of all establishments Th
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29

Well, Do Tell
Taking it by and large, the I'M
perial county sheriffs office has
been asked to do some mighty pc
culiar things. In fact, everyone
in the place should be pretty well
insulated against shock. But now
and then something still shocks
them.
Thursday a teletypc from the
San Diego sheriff's office asked
that someone be sent to side
road west of Winterhaven to a
grove of trees to get a mans suit
left hanging there after a mar
riage ceremony performed the day
before.
: Highway Patrolman AL Alleger
on duty in Winterhaven, found the
suit as per directions.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
? 4Ms5!Hs 4s.s4ts
Marital Trouble

RR's concrete heart went out in
sympathy to Mr.. and Mrs. Milt
Taylor, those luckless newlyweds
subjected to hilarious razzing by
a large group of their friends.
! That parade down Main street
Thursday night was part of the
razzing. Taylor, barefoot and with
his trousers rolled up, was forced
! to load his wife in a wheelbarrow
and wheel her along Main street
from Eighth to Fourth. The friends
all so of them, went along.
The friends gave them a nice
wedding present, but, boy, they
certainly earned it!
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
Still Missing

Still Missing
The city construction crew
should have known better than
to leave $50 pounds of lead near
their work at Eighth and Olive
No wonder it disappeared,
Don't they know that Jack
Tackett lives on that corner an6
is a lead bullet moulder of the
first water?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
TEMPERATURE

Maximum Thurs. 104, minimum
Fri. 68; 5 p. m. Thurs. 98, humidity
38; 5 a. m. Fri. SO, humidity 50;
Noon Fri. 98, humidity ~.
L. A. Hay: u. S. No. l $3.50; u. S.
No. 2 leafy 1. v. S15-15.5O; No. 2
S12-13; Mpls. Sept. flax $1.94.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-29
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