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Evening star., 1942-08-12
Organized Nazi Drive
Being Made Against
Christian Church
Abolition Is Lone-Ronee
Aim Of Administrators,
Allied Group Finds
a, the Associated Press.

a, the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. l2.-Abolition Of
Christianity is a deliberate long
range objective of NaA administra-
tors in occupied countries, the In
ter allied Information Committee
asserted in a 10000 word report is
sued last night on religious perse-
cution in Europe.
The design may not always be
obvious, and in Belgium it is more
subtly concealed than in Poland, the
report said But it concluded that
Ngion is a carefully planned, pro-
gressive attack on the Christian
churches and religious organizations
generally"
The report, based on what the
committee described AS carefully
Cocumented and verified informa-
ton. said that in Poland the num-
Der of priests executed by the Ges-
tapo" or tormented to death in Ger
man prisons and concentration
camps Is estimated at 500 It said
there were about 5000 Polish priests
IN German concentration camps at
present.
7 Dioceses Liquidated.
In the Polish city of Poznan only
three of II churches and chapels
now are open. and seven whole do
ceses have been liquidated, the re-
port continued Polish churches
have been converted to many non
religious purposes. in many in
stances being used to quarter
troops.
The committees researc hes
brought to light the imprisonment
Of many clergymen and priests in
Czechoslovakia, 800 being moder-
ate estimate"
Even high dignitaries and dis
tinguished lay workers of churches
Gin Czechoslovakia) were not spared
physical torment and spiritual pres
sure of the most severe character" ;"
the report said Among them was
Karel Cardinal Kaspar, the Arch
bishop of Prague, who died in
June, 1941. About the same time
the leading Catholic intellectual,
Alfred Fuchs, was tortured to death,
and his widow received his ashes"
Nazi methods were milder in the
Low Countries, France and Luxem-
bourg.
PAPER Supplies Withheld.
The first step in the west usually
was to withhold paper supplies of
religious publications on the pre-
tense there was a shortage Then
religious education was suppressed,
Evening star., 1942-08-12
Great Impersonotor
Is Held in Philadelphia
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA When Is per
sons finished testifying against Ed
ward Goldsmith 30, police held him
on charges of obtaining money un-
der false pretenses and for imper-
sonating:
A Board Of Health inspector, city
detective, fire marshal, police in
spector, Federal Bureau Of Investi-
CATION agent and special Govern
ment agent in charge of purchasing
automobiles.
Evening star., 1942-08-12
Swiss Have Ruid Alarms

ROME (From Italian Broadcasts)
Aug. II (P)-The Italian radio said
today Swiss communique an
nounced that air raid alarms were
sounded last night in several sec
tons of Switzerland.
Evening star., 1942-08-12

Store Hours: Thursday 1880 to Pm.
Other Days $50 Am. to Pm. Store
Closed All Day Saturdays This Month
Evening star., 1942-08-12
Semi-Annual Sale SdUings
3.Pc. 18th Century
BEDROOM
s79

In Beautiful Mahogany Teneers!
Fine cabinet work combine with charming 9th
century styling in this suite Note the expensive
curved front GrocefuI panel bed, oroer 5
drower chest chest and either 44-inch dresser
or vanity (ploteeoss mirrors, Glowing rono9-
any veneers on well-seosoned 9umwood.
Evening star., 1942-08-12
Look at This LOU Sale Price!
3-Piece MODERN
BEDROOM
$79

IN Pinsfrits Walnut Veneers!
Gracious styling in Modern nnonner. Concealed
drawer pulls amphosizs the glowing veneers Ion
seasoned ournwood). Dresser hos four drawers
vanity seven both with distinctive plote-
CLOS. mirrors, Dustproof drawers with center
guides and dovetoii ends.
LANSBURGHS-Furnture floor
Evening star., 1942-08-12
Paper Supplies Withheld.

The first step in the west usually
was to withhold paper supplies Of
religious publications on the pre-
tense there was a shortage. Then
religious education was suppressed,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
Rubber Salvage
Details Studied

WASHINGTON, June 1l-UP)-
President Roosevelt today planned
to announce details of his scrap
rubber salvage campaign as gov
ernment officials rushed plans for
construction of the worlds largest
oil pipeline to relieve the petroleum
shortage in the east.
War production board officials
predicted the new pipeline-to ccl-
meet LongvieW, Tex, and Salem,
Ill.-would be started next month
and ready for operation Dec. |, 1t
will be $50 miles long and con-
structed Of 24-inch pipe. 1t will
be able to carry between 25OO0O
and 100000 barrels daily of gasolile
OF crude oil.
WPB Chairman Donald Nelson
and the Office of petroleum coordl-
nator said the pipeline was being
constructed to provide essential re-
quirementS on the Atlantic sea-
board. The latter emphasized that
it would not be used to restore
motoring as usual"
Nielsen said the new line prob
ably would be used primarily Tor
fuel oil rather than gasoline.
The Presidents scrap rubber col
lection drive is designed to head OIL
nationwide gasoline rationing as a
rubber conservation measure.
Mr.. Roosevelt discussed the rub
ber and gasoline situations yeSter-
day with Nelson, Petroleum Coordl-
nator Harold l.. Ickes, Price Ad-
ministrator Leon Henderson, ana
Archibald MacLeiSh, director OF the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
Donohue Memorial
Goes 10 Hi pass

AS memorial to the late John
w. Donohue, a desk and chair
will be presented to Hipass Health
camp Sunday at meeting OF Boyce
Aten post and auxiliary in the
mountain resort west CT Ell Centre
A plate engraved with the word,
In memory Of John w Donohue,
commander of Boyce Aten post No.
25 in 194l- 49, is affixed to the
desk
A group of Donohue's friends
wished to give memorial for him
and asked MIS-. Donohue where she
would like to have it installed. She
selected Hipass Health camp be-
cause Donohue always was SO in
terested in it Sc wished the me-
mortal to be something useful to
the camp. The desk and chair Will
be used in the camp directors OIL
flee.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11


nen available. They firm the
county division of the water COM
mittee of the state council of de-
tense.
In case of enemy action against
the arteries through which the
water flows, any or all of the dis
tricts would lend help to repair
damage.
Under the setup men and equip
ment would be pooled and immed-
lately thrown into action where
needed. Dredges, sand bags, picks
and shovels, huge pipes could be
rushed from one city to another for
possible breaches in the system.
Fl. w. FaWcett, Ell Centre water
commissioner, was unanimously
elected coordinator for the county,
which with San Diego, will make up
zone No. seven of the u zones
which comprise California.
FaWcett will be free to call upon
any other local defense agencies
for help during an emergency.
More direct control over the
water supplies Of the cities will be
the outcome of the organization and
the inventory by the superintend-
ents will show officials how well
certain districts are set up for an
emergency and avoid possible dupli-
Continued on Page 8; Column a.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11

This was one of the three plans
set forward at the meeting called
by Governor Culbert Olson OF help
California citizens get around the
rubber situation.
The other two plans-maximum
walking and best use of mass trans
Lortation-Will not have much ef-
feet here because of the distances
between towns and the lack Of
street car or bus lines.
So it's up tG the citizens to take
best advantage Cf their autos by
carrying as many others as posi-
Bile when taking trips. This should
be carried out on trips to the noun
tainS or neighboring vacation
grounds the mayor was informed.
The Automobile Club CT South
eln California has volunteered to
take over the job of getting as many
people as possible rides in the val
ley Hatton said.
Already the chamber OF commerce
has been urging outgoing citizens
tc make arrangements to carry as
many passengers as they can and
to list when they are going and how
many can be taken.
Hatton and Fire Chief Corn Reed
attended the Los Angeles meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11

The agreement was disclosed in
official announcements at Washing
ton-Where Soviet Foreign Minister
Vyacheslav lMolotov has been a
White House guest-and in London,
where a 20-year mutual aid treaty
was signed by Russia and Britain.
Most spectacular point in the an
nouncements was a three-way agree
ment on the urgent task OF OPEN
ing a second front against the AXIS
in Europe in 1912, presumably with
American armed forces now mass
ing in the British Isles participat-
ing on a big scale.
But in the long view, the primary
points in the agreements included !:
A pledge by Britain and Russia
to fight to the end against Hitler
and his satellites and an American
effort to speed up war materials to
the Soviet Union.
2O-YEAR PLAN
A 20-year treaty under which Brit
ain and Russia agree to collaborate
to prevent any future aggression by
Germany or her present allies and
to aid each other in event either
is the victim of aggression in Europe.
Thus the treaty had no application
to the Far East or to delicate rela-
tions between Russia and Japan.
The treaty further provided for
collaboration with all peace-loving
nations in setting up new system
of guarantee postwar peace, the
security of nations and peoples both
economically and politically. There
was no mention of boundary lines
in the future, but both nations prom
ised not to seek territorial gains.
The treaty which, in effect, cover
ed the broad principles of the At
lantic charter framed by President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister Chur-
chill was not involved directly in
the visit of Molotov to Washington
"a closely guarded secret until the
Soviet foreign minister had depart
ed
The Washington agreement mere
ly expressed unity OF views on the
necessity of a second European
front in 1912 and on speeding up
war supplies to Russia.
But it also said that there was
agreement on the fundamental
problems of American and Rus
sian cooperation in safeguarding the
peace and security of freedom-lov-
ing peoples after the war-thus in
directly emphasizing Washington's
support of the principles of the new
British Russian treaty.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
Melon Demand
Continues Good

Demand for Imperial Valley can
taloupes was good Thursday and
the high quality continued as more
and more of the melons ripened.
Continued cold nights were be-
lieved to be one of the most i'm
portant factors contributing to the
high quality of the product. County
Agricultural Commissioner b. A.
Harrigan said.
Judging from conditions and the
market at present." Harrigan said
Il wouldn't be surprised to see the
demand increase in the next few
weeks"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
Federal Officials
Agree to Import
Mexican Laborers
Negotiations Under Way
BY State Department
To Alleviate Shortage

PHOENIX, June II. (UP)
Federal authorities have
accepted in principle the
plans for relieving shortages
of farm labor in the south
west by importing Mexican laborers
and negotiations are under way
with the Mexican government, Earl
Maharg, secretary of the Arizona
Farm Bureau Federation, said to-
day.
The state department is handling
the negotiations, following a con-
ference held by Secretary cf Agri-
culture claude r. Wickard and at
tended by Paul V. McNutt, chair
man of the man power board, and
representatives OF the labor and
state departments.
Maharg, who returned yesterday
from series of conferences in
Washington on the labor situation,
said the plans proposed by growers
of the Pacific southwest were &C
cepted in principal
The plans call for supervision of
all imported MeU IAN labor by the
farm placement bureau and the
farm security administration. Part
of the salaries of the workers would
be deducted to be returned to them
Oh their return to Mexico. The fed
eral agencies would be responsible
for the return of the laborers to
Mexico.
Maharg said, under ruling by
McNutt, all employment would be
routed through federal channels. He
said farmers would be expected to
anticipate their labor needs well
in advance and notify the farm
placement bureau of those needs.
Any labor requirements that the
farm placement bureau could not
fill would be relayed to the bureau
OF immigration and naturalization
and, thus, Mexican laborers would
be brought into this country only
as a last resort and only in the
volume specified by the farm place
ment service, Maharg said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
Grand juryProbe:
Flax Fire Series
At Central Fibre
Fire Chief, Others in
Testimony Relating
To Investigation Here

Imperial county grand jur-
Ors Thursday considered evil
denc'e in the series of mystery
fires which destroyed ap-
proximately $4,000 worth Of
flax straw at the California Central
Fibre plant in El Centre between
Sept. /, l941 and Jan. l8, 1912.
Fire Chief c. S. Reed Of Ell Centre
and several members of the Ell Cen
tro police department were ques-
tiond by the grand jurors Thursday
morning They entered the grand
jury room carrying records, maps,
photographs and folders used in
connection with their hiveStiga-
tionS.
Six fires broke out in the flax
straw at the plant in El Centro's
casts ide industrial district between
Sept. /, l94i and Jan. l8, 1912.
Approximately 1000 tons OF straw
went up in smoke. All the fires
were discovered burning during the
dark. A total of six stacks burned
in the six fires.
FL Centro firemen ard police car
lied on intensive Investigations In
an effort to ascertain who set the
fires, as they were convinced they
We're incendiary in origin.
The first fire occurred Sept. l,
l941, the second Oct. 81 194l, the
third Nov. 80, l94l, the fourth Jan.
10, 1912, the fifth Jan. l3, 1912, and
the sixth Jan. l8, 1912,
Grand jurors gave no indication
of what they intended to do.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
Petain Expresses
Faith in Laval

VICHY. June 11-UP)-Marshal
Henri Philippe Petain speaking at
luncheon, today affirmed his alb
solute confidence III Pierre Laval,
French chief of government.
The S6-year-old chief of state,
speaking extemporanecusly, said
that complete entente or un-
derstanding exists between him and
Laval.
(Petain's statement may have
been in response to Washington dis
patches yesterday based on authori-
tative information, that Petain ap-
pears to be holding out against
complete capitulaticn to Germany
on Lavals part and that the aged
chief of state has reversed his pre-
vious belief that Germany would
win the WalD
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
Fl Centran Hurt
In Auto Accident

Gtorge Straits, 6l-year-old El
Centro Greek resident, was in an
e. Centre hospital Thursday for
treatment of injuries suffered when
a part from a truck penetrated his
nose and gouged his eye
The accident occurred when
Straits drove his car into the back
of truck obscured by a dust
cloud on the Acacia canal read 7l2
miles northeast of El Centre We'd
nesday, Highway Patrolman Ed
ReveS said. Straits thought sew
eral trucks ahead of him had pass
ed out of the way but one driven
by Abelardo Lopes Cbeso, l6, El
Centre, had not gone on
It was too soon to determine whe-
ther Straits will be able to sec
again, physicians said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
Women Will T Train
As Mechanics

SACRAMENTO, June 1l-(UP)-
Women from all parts of California
will begin training next Monday at
the Sacramento NYA center, third
training school in California to be
converted exclusively to womens
courses.
The center has trained more than
1000 men for air mechanic jobs and
200 for bay area shipyards. The
women will spend four hours per
day in actual production at the
NYA state fair grounds shop, learn
ing welding, machine shop, forge
work, sheet metal and other types
CT aircraft work. Another four hours
will be spent in related classroom
work under the state department
Of vocational education.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
Axis Rushes New
Drives; Great U.S..
Victory Recounted
Three Fronts ResOund
To Fierce Fighting as
Land Warfare Flares
BY UNITED PRESS

The Axis threw fresh mass
es of men and weapons into
strong drives on the Russian,
Libyan and Chinese battle
fronts Thursday while reports from
the Pacific indicated that the Amer
lean naval-air victory over the jap
anese fleet was even more decisive
than had been reported.
American airmen including pilots
of big flying fortresSes returned to
their Hawaiian bases with first
hand accounts of dumping tons of
bombs upon the enemy fleet in the
battle of Midway, scoring direct
hits on aircraft carriers and many
other ships.
They estimated the japanese fleet
totaled more than so ships OF all
types and, from the filters accounts,
it appeared that the enemy losses
might have been higher than the IA
to 18 vessels officially reported sunk
or damaged.
The crippled japanese fleet fled
westward in panic from sea litter
ed with wrecked ships and thousands
of bodies, the pilots said. One eSti-
mate placed the Japanese dead at
10000 or more.
AXIS MAKES HEADWAY
Axis armies were making some
headway on the Russian, Libyan and
Chinese battlefronts in new strong
drives, but only at the cost OF ter
rifle casualties and without achiev-
ing any victories thus far which
altered the course OF the struggles.
In Libya, the Germans claimed
the capture early Thursday OF the
desert bastion of Bir Hacheim, 48
miles south of Tobruk and the an
chor of the British defense line,
after a 12-day siege by Col Gen.
Erwin Rommels German tanks and
dive -bombers and the Italian Ariete
armored division.
Free French forces under Gen.
eral Pierre Koenig, Alsatian leader
of the Foreign Legion, and British
units have repulsed II Axis attacks
upon Bir Hacheim and refused at
least a half dozen italian demands
for surrender.
The British did not confirm Ber-
Inns announcement of the fall OF
, Bir Hacheim and it was significant
/ that Thursdays Italian communique
made no mention of it, indicating
that if it actually has been taken
it fell to German tank forces after
failure of the Italians to overwhelm
/ it,
LINE ENDANGERED
A British communique issued In
Cairo said earlier that Bir Hacheim
was being firmly held after repuls-
Continued on Page 8; Column 81
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11

were sent to the bottom.
The merchant vessel carried q
crew of 60 and l2 volunteers for
Allied ambulance service with the
British forces in Libya. II was sunk
about l65 miles off the coast June
2.
The Navy said there was no loss
of life in the sinkings.
Charles Pagan, 20, Robert w. Mel
son, 25, both of Seattle, Wash.
Harry A. Blackwell. 80. Boston, ana
Marshall Phelps, 30. Wilkesbarre,
Pa, all ambulance service volunteers.
together with 10 seamen from the
torpedoed merchantmen. sailed
gasoline powered lifeboat TO within
20 yards OF the New England coast,
where II ran out OF gas.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
Three Candidates
File Petitions

Petitions for three candidates for
offices in Imperial county were fil-
ed in the county clerks office
Thursday.
The petition of Roy Kuns, justice
of the peace at Calipatlia, was
filed. He will run for reelection
T. M. Adams will run for justice
of the peace at Winterhaven and
William H. Ray for constable at
Winterhaven. Adams is a former
bailiff of Imperial county superior
court and a longtime resident OF
Imperial VALLEY.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11

Inc crew OF tne American lrelSnC-'
er fought 45-minute gun duel with
the German submarine before their
vessel caught fire and they were
forced to abandon it. One man of
the crew of l6 was killed. The sub
marine attacked in the early morn
ing about two weeks ago, In the
3helling one hfeboat was destroyed
and one riddled.
The U-boat commander provided
the survivors with water and gave
first aid treatment TO one of the
wounded.
The wooden fishing craft were
sunk by an Axis submarine about
IS miles off the New England coast
June 2. The attacker shelled the
craft and the crews-totaling a.
abandoned their boats before they
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
House Turns Back
Economy Maneuver

WASHINGTON, June 11-(UP)-
The house today narrowly defeated
a big partisan economy drive to
cut in half the proposed WPA ap-
preparation for the l943 fiscal year
beginning July l.
The economy move failed by only
four votes, 1l9 to 1913.
The proposed cut was embodied
in am amendment by Rep. John
Taber, r., N. Y, to reduce the di-
rect appropriation frcm $280,000,-
900 to $ll2,000,000. President Roose-
welt requested the larger sum.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11

raid warning equipment The object
of the test is to ascertain if the
warning can be heard all over town,
Fire Chief c. S. Reed, head of El
Centro's civilian defense council,
said. If you don't hear the whistles
and horns when they blow for 80
seconds Monday noon telephone
131, give your address, and say you
did not hear the horns and whistles.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
Germans Moving
Dutch TO Russia

LONDON. June IL (UP) - Ger
man authorities have set up a cor
poration to supervise migration of
100000 Dutch to conquered Rus
sian territories in compensation
for the colonies which the Nazis
claimed the Netherlands have lost
for all time" Anetha, Dutch news
agency said today.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11

office of facts and figures.
Indications were that the l2 900
salvage committees set up under
projected WPB campaign to collect
all scarce materials would admin
lister the rubber drive. The oil in
dustry has offered to cooperate
through its thousands OF gasoline
filling stations which probably will
be used as collection points.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11

H. Harris Perlman, of Philadelhia.
He said the tests, conducted with
SIS women addicted to cigarette
smoking, indicated the quantity OF
nicotine secreted in the milk was
in direct ration to the number of
cigarettes smoked. The supply of
milk, however, was apparently un-
affected.
Women tested, Perlman explain
ed were between 10 and 36 years
of age. They were divided into three
groups, those who smoked from one
to four cigarettes daily; those who
smoked between five and 10 cigar
cites and a third group which smok-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11

scheduled test and all you need
to do is listen. Defense officials
hope you can't help doing that.
After weeks of negotiating, the
United States Army granted per-
mission for the test to be held
promptly at noon Monday under
rigid specifications and regulations,
Two sets of horns and two
whistles comprise Ell Centros air
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11

I'd from IL to 20 or more daily. They
were advised to inhale, or at least
to blow smoke through their nos
rils to accentuate nicotine absorp-
ton.
Pcrlman said the absence of de-
monstrable bad affects of nicotine
On the milk supply might be due
to development of a tolerance to
The drug, both in the mothers and
5he babies. The mothers, he said
lad developed such tolerance
through prolonged smoking before
pregnancy, and the babies developed
it through their mothers blood be-
fore birth.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11

The Army will not permit use
of the actual warning signal in
tests, Chief Reed said, the equip
ment will sound for 30 seconds
for the test.
emember--if the whistles
and horns give a fluctuating sound
there is a sure huff air raid. So
govern yourselves accordingly.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
U.S., BRITAIN, RUSSIA AGREE ON 2ND FRONT
It's q Test Hope!

Watch out for the real Mccoy
El Centro's air raid warning
equipment will be tested at noon
Monday but if the whistles and
horns give Ia fluctuating sound,
then that's an actual raid--so
walk, don't run, to the place you
are supposed to be
But if it is just a 30-second non
fluctuating blast of the horn at
noon Monday, then it's simply the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
Nicotine Leaves
Babies UnhQrmed

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. June II. (UP)-Cigarette
smoking during pregnancy and while nursing newborn
babies is reflected nicotine secretions in the mothers
milk but tests have proved it unharmfu to the
infants the pediarics section Of the American Medical
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-11
Group Motoring
Comes to vdIIev
Three Alternatives for California as
Whole Leave Only One for Valley On
Account of Special Problems Here

About the only relief in sight for Imperial Valley resi-
dents from the rubber shortage group riding from
place to the other Mayor Bob atton said Thursday after
pOrtatiOn officials Los Angeles.