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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-02
OUR BOMBERS HAVE
PUNCH TO WIN WAR

(Oroville Mercury-Register)
When we predicted that the war with
Japan would be won by clouds of Amerl-
can airplanes we weren't far wrong, but
we didn't tell half of it. We are to have
clouds of airplanes-mostly bombers-
over every battlefield in the world.
Already we have them going out from
England to bomb occupied Europe and
German cities, over Egypt, over the Med
iterranean, in Alaska, over Japan, over
the Coral Sea, over the Russian front and
over China. To those already there will
be fed constantly increasing stream OF
more and more bombers, until their pow
er will be tremendous in all the theatres
of war
Our contribution can reach all these
fronts under their own power, far above
the reach of U-boats, Independent of the
diminishing supply of cargo vessels. Mel
ther do they compete with the ships need
ed to supply our eXpeditionary forces,
now established in many parts of the
world.
This type of warfare is made to order
for us Americans, for We can build bonn
bers faster than all the rest of the world
combined They are rolling off our as
semby lines in mass production, and
they are going to win the war, assisted
as they will be by powerful armies and
navies They will provide the chief punch
the Furnishing blows that will make the
enemy vulnerable.
Whether the war will be long one
is to be determined in the next few
months in Egypt and in Russia and IN
China, but final victory will be ours, due
largely to our superiority in the air, made
possible by our mechanical bent and the
isolated security of our factories
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-02
By LEON KAY

CAIRO. July ,. CUP) - British
Imperial forces, fighting desperate
ly in a decisive battle for the Nile
against the full might of the Ger
man and italian African armies, are
holding on the Alamein line go
miles west of Alexandria, a Middle
Eastern communique said today.
Driving through binding sand
storms in low level attacks, bombing
and fighter planes, which include
many of American make, carried
out concentrated attacks in the
Alamein area" the communique
said.
Germany and Italy claimed a
break through at FL Alamein. The
communique indicated that at least
they were opposite IT'D
Strong German tank formations
made a temporary break in the
British line only to be hurled back
and engaged by British mobile tank
columns which raced into action.
NOT UNFAVORABLE"
In the southern part of the line,
near the Qattara salt bogs, British
units were fighting as far as II
miles west of the main British line,
the communique revealed.
The communique, summing up
its report of yesterdays fighting,
said:
THE results were not unfavorable
to u.s."
The communique, a joint one rep
reSenting the Royal air force as
well as the Middle Eastern COM
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-02
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT


IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIAN
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF'
IMPERIAL
No. 3348
Notice of Time and Place Appointed
for Proving Will and Hearing
Application for Letters
Testamentary -
In the Matter of the Estate of
WALTER M. PAINE, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that petit
ton for probate of the will of Walter
M. Paine, deceased, and for the
issuance to WILLIAM TAFT PAINE
OF letters teStamentary, has beens
filed in this court and that Friday
the l7th day of July, 1912, at tWos
pm, of said day, at the courtrooms
Department Two of said court, att
the Court House in the City of ELI
Centro, County of Imperial, States
of California, has been set for thes
hearing of said petition, when andB.
where any person interested may
appear and contest the same, and
show cause, if any they have, why J
said petition should not be granted.
Dated June 10, 194I.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY G. o. Kenyon,
Deputy Clerk.
(No. 24) (J24-J5 inc)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-02
French Navy Units
Al Alexandria Hub
Of Vichy Anxiety

LONDON, July 2. tUP)-Gef-
many, apparently feeling for infor-
nation, said today that there was
no knowledge at Vichy of report
ed British ultimatum demanding
the scuttling of the French naval
squadron at Alexandria.
1t was added that the alternative
to scuttling, under the reported
ultimatum, was the sinking of the
ships by the British navy.
Vichy revealed that Adm. Jean
Francois Darlan, Vichy commander
in chief of all armed forces, had
sent secret instructions to Vice Adm.
Godefroy, commanding the French
Warships and the German controlled
Paris press expressed fear that
Britain would scuttle the ships if
the French crews refused to move
them.
There was a notable stir in Vichy
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, chief
of state, conferred yesterday with
Gen. Eugene BridouX, secretary of
state for war Gen. Jean Equin
air secretary of state, flew to Tou-
louise, an important southern French
air base, to study the problem of
supplying the French air force
with military equipment"
FRENCH CONFER
After his conference with BridouX
Petain conferred at length with
Gen. Francois Fougere, of the
French legation in Morocco, and
Maj. Jean Malcolm, president of
the Vichy French Legion" in Tuni-
sia, which adjoins Italian Libya.
Today, incidentally, was the sec
ond anniversary of the installation
of the Petain government at Vichy.
The French squadron is interned
at Alexandria with the breach blocks
of its guns removed. These have
been deposited with the Swiss lega-
ton at Cairo as neutrality guarantor.
In the squadron are the 1913 bat
tleship Lorraine, 22,l89 tons, with
eight 134-inch guns, the 10,000-ton,
3-inch gun cruisers Duquesne and
Touryille, the 1888 ton 8-inch gun
cruiser Suffren, six destroyers or
more, including the 1873 ton lie
Fortune, Basque and Forbin and
three of the 1919 ton Simoun class
and one or more submarines, in
Guiding the 1879 ton Protee.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-02
REFLECTIONS on POLITICS
lWall Street JournaD

(Wall Street J0urnal)
In the congressional and gubernatorial
campaigns now just getting we'll under
way, certain candidates are being at
tackled on the ground that they were
'isolationists.'
In the spearhead of this attack, and
certainly the most vocal part of it, are
groups made up of men and women whose
views are of the left, in some cases the
extreme left.
We do not question the right of any
one to hold leftist views, to urge those
views and to attempt to defeat any cam
didate who differs with them.
But there is one puzzling phase OF this
situation. The ''isolationist" charge is
being pressed most vigorously by the left
lists against candidates whose views fall
into the conservative classification. Where
aleftist disagrees with one of the inter-
ventionist school the attack on him IS
either absent or nominal.
OF course this is no new manifestation
in our political history.
Recalling the days of World War l, it
was the liberals who were the Outstand-
ing opponents of America getting into
the hostilities In the following elections.
it was the conservatives who attempted
to capitalize the situation to throw the
liberals out of office 1t did not work
very we'll, for the liberals, including the
elder La Toilette and Senator George
Norris of Nebraska were reelected
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-02

mand, said that in addition to
front line attacks planes bombed
an Axis landing ground near Sidi
Barrani, toward the Libyan 'front.'
ier, and damaged many enemy
planes in addition to destroying sew
en-.
AERIAL SUPERIORITY
Heavy bombers (Which might
have included United States Army
air corps planes) continued even
greater scale attacks on enemy
units during the night, it was noted,
and in evidence that the Royal all
force holds at least aerial superior
ity it was added that there was COM
paratively little enemy aerial activ-
ity.
Torpedo carrying planes scored
two hits on an Italian merchant
man in the Ionian sea between Italy
and Greece, it was said and fighter
planes downed q German Messer-
schmitt-109 plane and damaged
others.
Loss of five planes in all British
operations was admitted.
40-MILE LINE
The battle for the Nile was be-
ing fought ON a sun baked, dust
clouded line stretched 40 miles from
FL Alamein, 60 miles west of Alex
andria, to the salt-bogged attara
depression.
Tanks, armored cars, artillery,
anti-aircraft units and infantry
men were engaged in the second
day of the bitter battle which start
ed at dawn yesterday with German
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-02
BY BRYDON c. TAVES

MELBOURNE, July 2. tUP)-Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's air force has
opened an offensive in a new the
atre of the Australian campaign
with a heavy and successful attack
on the Japanese base at Kendari,
in Celebes island of the Neither
lands East Indies, it was announced
today.
Other planes attacked the enemy
base at Dill, in Portuguese-Dutch
Timor Island md hit at enemy bases
in the Lac -Salamaua area of north
ern New Guinea and the Bougain-
vile island area of the Solomons
to the east.
1t was an Indication of the vast
range of MacArthur's front-the
one days operations of his planes
extended some $500 miles from west
TO east.
SURPRISE ATTACK
In their attack on Kendari, on
the east side of the southeastern
arm of Celebes, in the main Neither
lands Indies, the Allied planes swept
on in a low level surprise attack.
The target took the long range
Allied bombers $50 miles northwest
of Darwin, was the airdrome and
the supply installation area. Allied
reconnaissance planes had secuted
Kendari June "a and brought back
information which permitted the
charting of the attack.
The air force commander OF an
important area led the Kendari
raid personally and reported:
Il saw bombs hit among a group
of grounded japanese planes and
saw the incendiary bombs start
fires. 1t was a most successful raid.
FIRES STARTED
Many heavy bombs were dropped
and crew member commented:
I'VE threw incendiarieS out OF
every hole available. The Japs will
have a job dousing those fires
SO completely were the japanese
surprised by the attack, in which
the same technique was used as III
the raid on Tokyo, that there was
no fighter interception and even
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-02
Another Brazilian
Vessel Torpedoed

WASHINGTON, July 2. CUP)-
A small Brazilian merchant vessel
has been torpedoed off the north
ern coast of South America, the
Navy announced today This an
nouncement brought to six the to-
tai of Brazilian ships reported from
here as sunk.
The Navy said 'it is understood
there were no casualties The ships
crew has been landed at a port in
the West Indies, the Navy said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-02
Macarthur Opens
Aerial Offensive

gun fire was light.
1t was believed here that the at
tack meant that the japanese might
be building up Kendari. Their big
gest base in the northeastern zone,
Rabaul, in New Britain island, is
proving something of a liability.
SICKNESS PREVALENT
Not only is it within practical
range of Allied bomber planes but
there is a volcano nearby which
exudes corrosive dust calculated to
make maintenance of airplane mo-
tors and truck motors difficult.
1t has been reported also that
the Japanese are suffering many
casualties at Rabaul from Malaria,
dengue fever and dysentery.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-02
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
SITTING AS A BOARD OF
EQUALIZATION

Notice is hereby given as required.
that the City Council Of the City OF
FL Centro will convene on July l.,
1912 at 7:30 pm, at the City Hall
of the City of Ell Centro, to sit as a
Board of Equalization for the pur-
pose of Equalizing the tax roll, and
will continue to sit as Board OF
Equalization from day to day until
the equalization of the tax roll is
completed.
Dated this 26th day of June, 1912
(Signed) ROBERT w. HATTON,
Mayor of the City OF FL
Centro.
Attest:
(Signed) NEAL II. GAVIN,
City Clerk.
mo. 25) (J28-J5)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-02
GERMANS RETREAT

The Russians held their flanks,
let the Germans fall through the
center and beat off efforts to widen
the breach. Then the Russians
attacked frontally and from botn
flanks.
After a 14-hour battle, the Ger
mans retreated in disorder beyond
their original positions and at least
1900 were left dead in one of the
sectors they had penetrated.
All six regiments the Germans
had thrown into the attack were
hammered badly and more than
$500 were wounded.
During the battle, Russian Stor-
movik planes routed seven march,
ing enemy columns.
Though the battle was on a large
scale, it was too early to conjecture
whether it presaged a general of
1enslVe on the central front aimed
at Moscow.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-02
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

What difference is there between a
person in a bathing suit on beach and
on a street $50 feet away? = Robert
Moses, New York park commissioner op-
posing ordinance prohibiting appearance
in bathing suit on a street.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-02
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
N o Il l G +
No. 1858

N " L u
No. 1858
In the Matter of the Petition of
WALTER F.. BEILBY.
Notice is hereby given that WAL
TER F.. BEILBY has filed in this
court a Petition TO establish the
place and date of his birth, The
hearing of which has been fixed by
said Court for Friday, the 10th day
of July, 1912, at o'clock PM, at
the Court room thereof, at the court
house in said County of Imperial.
and all persons interested in said
estate are notified then and there
to appear and show cause, If any
there be, why the said Petition
should not be heard and order made.
Dated June g. 1942.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY MAXINE CONSOLE,
Deputy.
(No. 26) (J30-J9 inc.j
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-02
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The fOlIOIotng edit
oriois are presented as interesting Opin-
ions Uoiced by editors elselchere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion Of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-02

attack on the British Ell Alamein
line.
1t seemed impossible that the bat
tie could end in any way but by
a knockout.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-02
Hold Last Line

Field Marshal Erwin RommePs
German and Italian forces threw
the full weight of their superior
armored units against a new Brit
ish front line.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-02

advanced.
"a concentrated blow" failed, how
ever, to crush the defenders, who
were fighting desperately from
trenches and dugouts, Red Star re-
ported, and the strong bayonet
charges of daredevil marines halt
ed the enemy.
Izvestia, organ of the Soviet su-
preme council, said the Russians
were defending every inch of the
narrowing territory at Sevastopol
with their bare hands, if necessary.
1t admitted that the Germans, feed
ing fresh troops into the battle to
replace the dead, seadily were tight
ening their ring.
DECEIT TRIED
The Germans, Izvestia said, have
gone back to their old tactics of
Wedging small groups of tommy
gunners behind Soviet lines. They
whistle, whoop and shoot at once
to make the Russians believe they
are encircled.
Three men from a Soviet marine
battalion were detailed to take care
OF one such group. The marines
killed 80 Germans who had filtered
in behind the Russians, and the
rest fled.
Dispatches to Red Star from
Gzhatsk, 112 miles west of Moscow,
said the Germans a few days ago
broke a long quiet by opening up
with 100 guns and sending infantry
charging in three directions.
Considerable forces trying tc
storm sectors defended by Soviet
guard troops were repulsed. On two
neighboring sectors, however, around
an important Soviet stronghold de-
Tended by a small garrison, the
Germans penetrated Russian de-
fenses some two miles deep and
a mile wide.
Evening star., 1942-06-29

the Bureau of Mines, it is considered
an authoritative reference work.
During his association with the
bureau, DR.. Stewart served for about
10 years on the Interdepartmental
Patent Board Before entering the
Government service he established
in association with the late DR.
George w. Johnston, clinical labor
atory, said to be the first one here.
DR.. Stewart was member of the
Sons of the American Revolution
Washington Academy of Sciences,
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, Society of
the War of 1872, Society of the Co.
lonial Wars. the American Chemical
Society, past master of Harmony
Lodge, No. IT: 32d degree Mason, a
member of the Shrine and the Co.'S
mos Club.
Born in Washington.
He was born in Washington. Sep
tember 3, 1863 A graduate of Cen
trail High School, he attended Leip-
zig University in Germany, where
he received the degrees of master of
arts and doctor of philosophy. While
in high school he was the first COM
manding officer of all the Washing
ton cadets.
He was married in 1903 to Florence
Behrends, who survives. He also is
survived by three children, William
B. Stewart, Miss Marion Stewart
and Ensign Henry Howell Stewart
U. S. N. r.
Evening star., 1942-06-29
Plane Smashup Kills
Capt. A. B. Norrod, J.,
Ex-Aide Of RFC
Mi|itory Funeral PIonned
For Army Pilot, Victim
Of Mississippi Crosh

Capt. Albert B. Norrod, jr., 81,
former employe of the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corp. here, was killed
Saturday in an airplane crash near
the Columbus Miss Army Flying
School, it was announced there yes
terday.
His father, an employe of the
General Accounting ONCE, and
mother, live at TOT Twentieth street
NV.
Capt. Norrod was plotting a single
engine training plane from Co
lumbus to New Orleans, when the
crash occurred near Brookville, Miss
Col. L. c. Mallory, commanding Of
ficer of the flying school, indicated
he would appoint a board to investi-
gate the cause of the crash, which
also killed staff Sergt. Robert S
Landreth Of Camp Claibourne, La.
Born in Knoxville, Tenn. Capt
Norrod attended school in Pineville
KY, and was graduated from the
University Of Tennessee at Knox
vile. He moved here several year.
ago with his parents to work at the
RFC.
Holder of a reserve commission a.
second lieutenant after taking
ROTC training in college, Capt
Norrod advanced to the rank Of frs,
lieutenant when he took training
four years ago at Randolph Field
Tex. He was called to active duty
about two years ago.
Serving here first for few month.
in the intelligence division of the
Army Air Corps, Capt. Norrod was
Evening star., 1942-06-29
Wilbur J. Carr Funeral
To Be Held Here Tomorrow

Funeral services for Wilbur John
Carr, former Assistant Secretary OF
State and Minister to Czecho-
slovakia, who died Friday night at
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Balti-
more, will be held at II am. tomor-
row at his late home, 1900 wyoming
avenue NV. Private burial will be
in Rock Greek Cemetery.
The honorary pallbearers will be
Secretary of State Hull, Secretary of
War Stimson, Chief Justice Stone,
former Justice McReynolds, Vladimir
Hurban, Minister of Czechoslovakia;
Daniel C. Roper, former Secretary
of Commerce, and DR.. Cloyd Heck
Marvin, president of George WASH
ington University.
Coming from Ohio for the funeral
will be his brother, Alva Carr, and
Mrs. Carr. Besides his brother, Mr..
Carr is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Edith Carr
Evening star., 1942-06-29

assigned to accompany 1t. Gen. Ar
mold and Assistant Secretary of War
Patterson on special mission to
California. He then spent year at
Cochran Field, Georgia. assisting in
the training of Royal Air Force
pilots stationed there.
Last December, while on assign
ment addressing college students in
Georgia, Mississippi, Florida and
Louisiana, to interest them in the
air corps, he was promoted to a
captaincy. He had been a member
of the training staff at Columbus
only few months.
Funeral services will be held at
noon Wednesday at Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery, where Capt. Nor
rod will be buried with full military
honors. His parents are the only
survivors.
Evening star., 1942-06-29

The more you lend, the quicker
the end. Buy War bonds now.
Evening star., 1942-06-29
DR.. Andrew Stewart,
Ex-Member Of Bureau
OF Mines Staff, Dies
Scientist and Author Held
Membership in Many
Organizations

Dr. Andrew Stewart, 70, retired
member of the staff of the Bureau
of Mines. died yesterday at his home,
1442 Clifton street NV, after an
illness of year.
Funeral services will be held at
10 am. tomorrow at the home, with
the Rev. Clyde Brown officiating
Burial will be in Rock Greek Gene
terry.
Honorary pallbearers will include
George Steiger. DR.. Edwin B. Beh-
rend, Herman Gasch, r. A. Cattell,
Prof. Arthur johnson, Harry Fowler,
DR.. Clifford Seibel and Frank G.
Stewart.
At the time OF his retirement in
1888 DR.. Stewart was assistant to
Mr.. Cattell. chief engineer of the
Helium Division of the Bureau of
Mines.
Author of Reference Volume.
He was author of various publica-
tions, including About Helium,' a
history and explanation of helium, its
production and uses. Published by
Evening star., 1942-06-29
Sir Charles Figured
In LeqoI Fiohts Here

Sir Charles Henry Augustus Fred
erick Lockhart Ross. baronet of
Balnagown, Scotland, who had
gay career, spent good part of his
time while a Washington resident
IN replying to legal suits filed
against him by his first wife, Lady
Patricia, who sued for separate
maintenance in District Court here;
by Paul Shapiro, Washington mov-
ing man, who sought 100000 dam
ages in District Court for a beating
allegedly administered by Sir
Charles and by the British govern
ment, in 1881, for s430,000 income
tax q
The Scotsman lived here at 1919
Massachusetts, avenue NV. He
was represented in the mainten-
ance action, which took place in
1881, by Breckenridge Long, now
Assistant Secretary of State. He
entertained the court during the
divorce proceeding by telling some
Of the stories from his active life.
from fighting in the Boer War to
publishing newspaper in London,
Lady Patricia. who married the
Scotsman in 1901 in her native
city of Louisville, was awarded at
first maintenance of 5000 monthly
alimony but this was rescinded by
the court after private settlement.
When Sir Charles was arrested, he
was held in 100000 bond, which
he could not raise, but it was low
cred to $50 900, which he was able to
post. While he made a vain search
for the 100000. he was held as a
prisoner in the Mayflower Hotel by
United States Deputy Marshal John
Clarkson.
Lady Patricias suit followed a
divorce won by Sir Charles at
Sonora. Mexico, in 1927. 1t was
testified during the trial here that
he had sought a divorce in Louis
vile in 1924, but failed to receive
it becsuse he was British subject.
The Shapiro incident had its in
ception March IL, 1884, when the
moving man, manager of the Acme
Moving & Storage Co., went to the
Ross house on Massachusetts, ave-
nue. to discuss a business tranSac-
ton. Mr.. Shapiro in filing the suit
claimed that the baronet became
enraged during the conversation,
beat him with his fists and then
choked him.