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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-31

"Todays small home Is really
fit for a king" says W. c. Bell,
chairman OF Western Homes Fonn-
dation. once song and story
made castles of small homes, ex-
tolling the virtues Of simple living
as a sort OF sentimental compenss-
ton for lack of luxury. STAN
dsrds of American living and
American methods OF production
and distribution have made 1t pos
sible TO build a four-room castle
which differs from the 4O-room
only in size.
From foundation 10 roof peak,
the finest construction materials
70 into the low-cost home. The
highest architectural talent in the
land has contributed to the design
services offered by local retail
lumber dealers at minimum cost.
Research and craftsmanship cost
ing millions have perfected the
standard equipment units of heat
ing. refrigeration. plumbing. light
ing. for the small home as for the
large.
The Phelps home shown here
is an outstanding example of a
low-cost home designed to be any
mans castle. 1t u well planned
for every requirement of convent
ence. with an exterior that lends
itself to slight alterations of detail
or color Combinations to express
individuality
Retail lumber dealers whose ad-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-31
OH. SHORTAGE

The current threat OF fuel short
ages emphasizes the Importance
of insulation as an effective con-
seryation measure Of our national
resources.
The consumption Of fuel can be
materially reduced BY reducing
heat loss. Insulation Is termed u
good national and personal invest
ment.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-31
Proceeds of Dance
For Polish REFUGEES

Polish lodge. group i5s. will hold
a dance Saturday night. Aug. 2
in Polish hall. East 5oth 81. All
soldiers in uniform. women and
girls will be admitted free. :
Proceeds from the dance will
no used to help Polish refugees.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-31
Tacoma Lodge Will
Picnic on Wednesday

Members Of Tacoma lodge No. s.
A. o. U. W. will meet Wednes-
day evening at Eagles hall. 18th
and Fawcett ave, at I o'clock, for
a short business session. at the
close OF which all will go to Point
Defiance park for picnic. Mem
bers are asked TO meet at the new
picnic ground and TO bring their
own CUBS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-31

You help yourself when you buy
~. s. Defense Bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-07-31
War in Europe
A Year Ago
July so, l940

Britain frightened blockade n
AXIS powers by extending contra
hand control on both imports and
exports 10 al ports q Europe and
specified ports of North Africa
and Atlantic Islands
Castor Henri-Hsye. mayor Of
Versailles. succeeded Count Rene
SAINT -Quinten as French smbas-
ssdor 70 Washington.
Italian hombers raided Gibral-
tar
British patrol yacht Gulzsr VAS
sunk.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-08
Jackson Requests
Uniform Terms for
6hip Saboteurs

WASHINGTON. May 8 (UP) -
Attorney General Robert H. Jack
son today recommended federal
courts impose uniform sentences OF
seven years for officers and five
years for seamen convicted of sab
ptagiisk axis ships in the United
States.
Jackson said the uniform SEN
fences were sought ito avoid any
lnintended determinations"
He said the officers and seamen
who acted within the jurisdiction
bf this country must be punished
although it was recognized that
he sabotage was directed by Rome
and Berlin.
we do recognize, of course. that
he guilt Of these individual is in
tluded IN larger offense against
american sovereignty by the for
isp governments involved" Jack
on said.
This department does not con-
sider that any orders to violate our
aw issued by officers or govern
nents not subject TO the jurisdic-
Ion of our courts should be ac-
fepted in mitigation of sentence.
Any theory that foreign ma
ionalS~ In this country are still
subject to authority of foreign gov
frnments and that such nations
nay violate our law with impunity
pn orders from abroad. we hope
xill be- emphatically rejected"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-08
War Games S Will
Involve Million

alton in the field. He also will COM
mand another exercise from Nov
3 to Nov. 30 when Clements of the
first and third armies maneuvef
in the Fort Bragg-Fort Jackson
area in North and South Carolina
The fourth army viii hold separ-
ate maneuvers around Fort Lewis,
Wash, from Aug. Is to Aug. 80
The seventh and 40th divisions OF
the third corps Will oppose the
third and 4lst divisions of the nintn
corps.
Richardson noted tnat while 550,-
600 men are parti0ipat. in a sin
gle maneuVer, morS than 800, ,000
other troops will be undergoing
regular mobilization training or will
be manning the services and ths
temporary and permanent estab-
lishment of the army.
These maneuyero are certainly
the largest in our history and. I
believe, the largest OF any plase
in the world" he said. European
exercises in peacetime usually in
volve between 100,0sC and 200 O0G
men"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-08

WASHINGTON. May 8. (UP)-
The war department today an
nounced plans for the greatest
maneuvers in the nations history
to test the efficiency of 100000
regulars, selectees and guardsmen
under conditions of mechanical
warfare.
The war games will start May "a
and build up to a climax in the
fall.
Maj. Gen. Robert c. Richardson,
ir.. chief of the Bureau of public
Relations, said that al OF the armys
manpower will be thrown into the
field exercises.
Hardened b. months of basic
mobilization training, tke troops
Will participate in simulated battles
in which the most advanced tech
niaues of modern warfare will be
employed he said.
Combined elements of the four
field armies, the four new armored
divisions, the CHG air force, par
achute troops, and thousands OF
civilians being enlisted in the new
aircraft warning network will par
ticipate
Richardson said the tactical high
point will come when $4,000 troops
OF the second and third armies
clash in simulated battle arouno
Beauregard La, from Sept. to
Sept. 80. Gen. George c. Marshall,
Chief OF staff, will direct this oper
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-08
Nazis Use Flame
In Latest Attack
On Tobruk Troops
By JAN IL. YTNDRICH

IN BESIEGED TOBRUK, Libya
May 3 CDelayed - (UP) British
imperials fighting off axis thruSts
into the outer deienses of Tobruk
today smashed and attack by hood
ed German infantrymen, carrying
flame throWers, and tanks that tow
cd flame throwing apparatus.
Australian troops again took a
leading role in the defense of Tob-
ruk and reported the new German
tactics in which tanks towed flame
throwers into action.
This douhle-edged weapon, how
ever, proved vulnerable to accur-
ate fire by artillery and machine
guns and when bullets hit the tow
ed flame-throwers they exploded,
setting the tanks afire.
On Saturday morning, the COM
inand of an Australian platoon
told me, the enemy sent the hooded
soldiers with flame throwers into
action in an attempt to smoke out
Australian infantry from dugouts
under concrete outposts. He said
that three infantrymen wearing
cows and capes approached one
outpost about 1000 yards from a
defense battery.
The Germans shot 50-foot
flame down a hole in the concrete
outpost, unaware that it was not
occupied by defense troops he said.
Heavy fire by defesne troops else
where broke up the attacks.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-08
Admiral Confirms
Low Ship Sinking
Rafe for Britain

WASHINGTON, May 8. (UP)-,
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land,
chairman of the maritime commits
sion, today corrobofated in testi-
mony before the senate commerce
committee figures indicating low
rate of sinkings of shipments from
the United States to Great Britain.
Chairman Josiah w. Bailey. d. N.
c., said that Land stood by figures
he furnished Sen. Arthur H. Van
denberg, r., Mich, yesterday, show
ing only II ships bound from U. S.
ports to the United Kingdom and
European ports were sunk between
Jan. and April 30.
Bailey added that the ADMIRAL
emphasized his 1lgures ware based
on reported sinkings," although
ne maintained the figures he sup
piled were complete. on the basis
OF the best available information.
Bailey said Land also stood by
q recent statement that sinkings
all over the world were at the rate
of 100000 tons a year. On this
point also he emphasized that this
figure was not for an actual year
but were estimated from a recent
shorter period when the losses were
accelerated.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-08
Italians Advise
Retire ating Iroqi

might be heading for early defeat
in the first decisive phase of the
battle for the middle eastern oil
fields.
Belief grew that the Iraqi revolt
against the -Iraqi treaty had
gone off half cooked and that, be-
cause of the landing of British
troop reinforcements at Basra, Ra-
shid Ali had precipitated fighting
which Germany had expected-and
for which it arranged-but he acted
too quickly.
1t seemed certain that Rashid Ali
had expected German aid.
Dispatches from Cairo reported
that RashiG's troops had awaited
German help anxiously, and that
they had even been leaving signal
flares burning each night at air
fields to guide German troop-car-
rying planes.
A Daily Mail correspondent said
it was reported that Rashid had
sent message after message to Ber-
lin, complaining that help was be-
ing dangerously delayed and that
he had expressed to Italy his un-
easiness at the non-arrival of Ital-
ian funds he was expecting.
A British military informant at
Cairo was quoaed:
The revolt was set off prema-
turely. But do not conclude that it
is all over merely because things
look good now. The axis has been
working for years on Iraq and one
reverse is not going to put them
out of court"
British experts were deeply Su-
spicious OF the agreement reached
between the French Vichy govern
ment and Germany.
There was no tendency at all to
believe that Germany in a burst of
generosity had made concessions to
Vichy without exacting an ade-
quate return.
Speculation turned TO the posi-
bility that Admiral Jean Francois
Darlan, Vichy vice premier might
have entered a secret agreement
which would permit German planes
to use Syrian air bases for an at
tack on Iraq.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-08
King
Keeps
Score
By NED RUSSELL

LONDON, May 8 tUP) - British
night fighters, battling under an al
most full moon while King George
sat at their headquarters keeping
score. shot down % German bomb
ers last night. record for any
nighS, Of the war.
Anti-aircraft gunners shot down
another raider, making the total
% for the night, 73 for the past
seXen nights. and 81 night and day
raiders shot down SO far this
month.
Three Of last nights total were
shot down over German airports in
northern France, which British
night fighters now patrol, waiting
To ambush Germans returning To
their bases from raids on Britain.
The roar OF the night battles
scarcely had subsided before Ger
man Messerschmitt fighters were
2ooming over the Thames estuary
in daylight. British fighters met
tlAm and the sky soon was criss-
crossed with vapor trails. German
planes machine-gunned southeast
coast areas but dropped no bombs
The people there dropped to the
groulnd or ducked into shelters to
escape the bullets. British fighters
chased most of the raiders out to
sea amid bursts of machine gun
ming and cannonading..
The king, paying his first visit to
a night fighter station, wished the
pilots luck as they went out to
battle, and then sat in the opera
ton room watching the reports
come in. He inspected the new
Am eri C n made Douglas Dbl
night fighters for the first time,
climbing onto the wing of one while
a pilot showed him the controls
and special characteristics, then
sat in the cockpit of a British
Beaufort night fighter, lingering
the controls. These two types both
tWin-engined light bombers con-
Verted into night fighters, were re-
sponsible for the nights victories.
Two of the pilots who had chat
ted with the king just before their
take-offs, each brought down a
German raider.
The air ministry said many other
uo!l!ppe VI 'po5gtugp oIoM sI9pIgI
tc the % shot down, and that some
newly trained pilots had their first
air battles last night.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-08
BY j. w. T. MASON
United Press War Expert

Constant increase this spring in
the number of German night raider
planes being shot down over Great
Britain indicates that air defense
in the dark shows signs of begin
ming to overtake offensive power
That goal has not yet actually
beefr reached but greater strides
toward its realization have been
made in the last Two months than
during the entire previous period
of the war.
The British victory last summer
over the German air offensive dem
onstrated that in daylight combat,
defense had advanced to the point
where large scale attack was too
hazardous. That is why the Ger
mans are compelled TO cease using
big air forces, which at times had
reached 1000 planes in a single
days operations.
During these daylight attacks,
the British defense consistently
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-08
By FREDERICK KUH

LONDON, May 8 CUP) = Two
high italian army officers have ar
rived at Baghdad to advise Pre-
mier Rashid All AL Gallant and his
general staff on the conduct of
their military operations against
the British, trustworthy sources
said today.
British dispatches from Cairo re-
ported that Iraqi troops were re-
treating in disorder in large num-
bers on Baghdad.
There was every indication that
the situation was in hand, from
the British viewpoint, and that the
regime of RaShid Ali Al Gallant
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-08
British Solving
|Niqht Raid Peril

brought down about 10 per cent o.
the enemy planes. This proportio,
of losses was shown to be too higf
for the Germans 10 withstand.
Not only was the toll of plane;
and pilots excessive from the
standpoint of replacement but also
10 per cent loss IN daytime fight.
ing affects the morale of the air
men. When that happens, many OF
them evade combat and drop theii
bombs at random with no military
purpose accomplished.
CHECK NIGHT RAIDS
The British air command ma:
estimated night raiding will be
checked as daylight bombings have
been, If little more than per cent
of the enemy planes can be destroy
ed consistently. The reason for
halving the percentage of losses
to break up the night assaults is
based on the knowledge that far
fewer pilots are competent to fly
in the dark than in daylight.
Special training is necessary for
night navigation which requires
more than the average ability among
pilots. The Germans do not take
naturally to night flying and M-
garded night bombing as being so
inefficient they had not schooled
their airmen in that form OF COM
bat before the war.
SUPPLY LIMITED
Only after the failure of their
daylight attempts last summer to
gain air mastery over Great Brit
ain did the Germans start inten-
sive night training. Their supply OF
good night fliers being thus limited,
q per cent loss is thought to rep
resent as high a prop rortion of cas-
ualtieS to capable night aviators
as 10 per cent loss to daylight pilots.
Wednesday night, the British re-
port % German planes were shot
down The actual number of planes
participating in the attacks is not
known but the British say probably
between 300 and 400 were used.
If 400 was the maximum number,
then last nights casualties were
nearly per cent.
For the first seven days of May,
the Germans lost 73 planes in night
Allowing the Germans 400
planes nightly, the casualty aver
age for the entire week would be
slightly less than 21a per cent.
NIGHTS SHORT
The curve of attainment. how
ever, shows an upward swing with
Wednesday nights successes reach
ing the maximum yet attained The
short nights in the northern lati-
tuoes are limiting the time allowed
the Germans to hide in the dark.
while moonlight is giving the Brit
lsh visibility for their targets.
1t seems apparent the British
aviators have been receiving i'm
proved instruction in combat tao
Tics under the moon. Previously.
bright nights had been judged ia
Vorable to the Germans because of
heir dislike of blind flying. Now,
however, the moon is becoming an
aid to the British for spotting the
enemy. If it continues so, British
civilians may we'll hope for an
eventual end of mass bombings in
.he dark.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-08
Imperial Valley Press

ESfatiished April 20, 1901
published every afternoon except
sstkday and Sunday (Saturday
ssteS 1oon Issue now succeeded
by the sunday Post-Press, es-
tsblishei 1880 by the Imperial
Valley Publishing company, 626
State street. I'll Centre. Calf.
Paul jenkins. publisher; A. c.
Johnston. vice-president and gen.
erai manager. r.. A. Fitzhugh,
secretary and managing editor.
west Holiday Co, Inc. National
Advertising Representatives.
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post office as second class mat
Tor.
Subscription rates; In California.
81 per copy.
In conjunction with the Post
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paid In advance. 3 months, $2.10;
months. s4.O0. one year, $3.50;
o6sids California 81 90 per month.
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-08
SERVE WITH BRITISH

LONDON, May 3 up = Robert
Fl. Hutchinson. chairman of the
American Eagle club. said in
luncheon speech today that he es-
timated 10000 Americans now are
serving in the British and empire
armed services and the merchant
navy.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-08
SHIPPING LOSSES
REPORTED HEAVY

LONDON, May (UP) British
and allied shipping losses for the
month of April-on which an ad-
mlralty communique is expected
Tuesday-will be close to 100000
tons, making the month one of the
worst of the war, reliable quarters
said today.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-08
BOMBS SCORE HITS
ON NAZI CONVOY

CAIRO, May (UP)-Royal air
force planes attacked an enemy
convoy in the Mediterranean and
scored direct hits on two merchant
ships, one of which was left smok-
ing, and RAF communique said to-
day. Both ships were seen to be
listing badly.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-08
BUSINESS AS USUAL

WASHINGTON, May 8 CUP) -
Ine house today passed and sent
TO the senate the administrations
bill to establish mandatory priori-
ties and rationing of materials
needed for defense production.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-08
LINERS TORPEDOED

NEW YORK, May 8 (UP)-Mari-
time circles learned today that the
British liner Ixion and the Nor
wegian freighter Eastern Star had
been torpedoed approximately $50
miles east of the southern tip Of
Greenland.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-08
WMD PARTIEs PROEED

HOLLYWOOD, May 8 CUP)-The
husband Of a prominent movie ac-
tress was called before the county
grand jury today to testify regard
ing alleged wild parties.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-06
Applications
Completed
For Benefits

Al Vance county farmers who
are eligible for payment for com
pl1ance with the 1910 AAA sill con
serEatjon program have completed
their applications for the benefits
due them and the last of the appli-
cations We're sent 10 Washington
yesterday, il was stated this NOM
ing by J, W. Sanders, Vance county
farm agent.
It has been estimated that between
100000 and 500, 600 will be received
III Vance county for compliance with
the sol conservation program Of
1910, and more than $4,000 Of this
sum has already been distributed
among farmers Of the county who
completed their applications at
earlier dates.
Additional payments under the
federal AAA program arc expected
to raise the farm benefit payments
IN this county to more than SIPS, 900.
Cotton parity payments, the total
exceeding S25 900, have practically
all been distributed.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-06
NOTICE or SALE.

Pursuant to an order lsa>ed 10y tho
Clerk OF t0e superior Court of Vance
County, North Carolina, III the Spe
cial Proceeding doCkcted in the u
,icc of the said Clerk entitled
"Blanchc Allen, Widow Of w. II. Al
len, Deceased, Gladys b, Allen,
minor, age 10; William II, Allen,
minor, age II; Dorothy Allen, minor.
age Is, and Annie Ruth Allen, minor,
age II, by their Next Friend, r. G.,
kittrell, Petitioners, Elk Parte', anC
by the authority Of the said order,
the undersigned Commissioner vii.
tftcr tOr sale at public auction, tc
the highest bidder, for cash, at the
Courthouse door IN Henderson, NUrli.
Carolina, al ~ O'Clock, Noon, on
Monday, April 7, l94l, the following
described real estate:
Beginning at a stake, ID. W,
Hardee's corner on said Standpip,
Street; and run thence along saIC
Standpipe Street in a N~ortheasterll
direction so feet TO the cOrner OF
Eliza Switzerland; thence along hel
line and al right angles to SAID
street $50 feet to a stake corne il.
the land of w. L. Scoggins, then II.
i Southeasterly direction parallel II
Standpipe Street so feet to the line
Of D. W. Hardee's; thence along said
Hardee's line $50 feet to the place OF
beginning. See deed from ". l. Scog
gins to Leo M. Allen, and recorded
IN Book 81, at page asa, Vance Coun-
~, North Carolina.
This the 9th day Of March, 1914.
T. P. GHOLSON,
Commissioner.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-06
Post Office
Receipts Up
In February

Receipts OF the Henderson post Of
ice tor February amounted 10 So,
40l.75, compared with S~4,27478 il
February last year, Oh Il gam OF
Sl2697, Postmaster J. Il. league an
nounced today.
For the FIRST two months OF tie
ycur the oiiIc" has had receipts ui
S6.85l 10, compared with So,aG7.1t
,or the like period of 1910. ol a gam
this year Of S28367 so fax.
The Henderson office thus con.
tnucs Il record OF long standing OF
l.aNIng each month showed an M
crease over the comparative mont
81 the year before. With a few eX
options, this record hao been con
tInucd for several years.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-06
LICENSE

Utah Green, 81, and Bessie Lee
Mason, q, Doth OF Ioung5VIllc, were
granted license to marty al the
Vance Registry office Wednesday,,
records there showed today.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-06
PLEADS GUILTY

Mrs. W. d. Moser today pleaded
guilty in city court before Mayor
Henry T. Powell to a charge of he
ing drunk on the public streets, ana
prayer for judgment was continued
upon payment of the costs.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-06
A YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four

|. TO eat, and TO drink. and TO be
merry is from the Bible, or from
Shakespeare
2. Does the United States lease or
own the Panama Canal Zone?
3. Who Is supposed to have driven
the snakes out of Ireland?
4, Who wrote the book Little
Man, What Now"
). In the population of Brazil do
Indians or Whites predominant OF
are they about equal2
6, Which State leads in the pro-
ductlon of white potatoes?
7. Name the president Of Mexico.
8, How wide is the track of a
standard gauge railroad?
9. Are employees of the U. S. Gov
eminent covered under the Social Sc
Curity Act?
10. The sun is the chief body of
what system?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-06

Oliver Wendell Holmes speaks
somewhere Of mcnds which travel
upon dead facts.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-20
Stories in
Stamps
March Is Hitler's
Month for Action

HITLER marches IN March, and
- the stamp albums add new
issues. The " Fuehrer is a stu
dent of astrolosy, believes the
stars are most favorable 10 his
ventures during this month. Here
are few March dates, important
In Killers career.
The elections Of March s, 1883,
gave Hitler an overwhelming ma
Ioriiy in the Reichstsz.
The Saar territory, taken from
Germany by the Versailles treaty,
voted return 70 the Reich. effec-
tive March !, 1898. Germany cele-
orated with q stamp issue.
Hitler denounced the Versailles
treaty, reintroduced compulsory
military service In the Reich,
March l6, 1885.
German troops entered demili-
tarized Rhineland, and Hitler de-
nounced Locarno treaty, March 7,
1896.
On March II, 1898, Hitler took
over Austria; special stamp marked
anschluss.
German troops occupied Czecho-
sloYakia, after republic was dis
f solved. New personal delivery
stamps. above. issued for Bohemia
and Morsyia protectorates.
The invasion of Norway was
planned for March. 1910, was post
poned upon advice o. Maj military
seadezG