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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-08-27
Sterilization Of Wages.
Farm Prices Seen by F. D.

Labor Day. He added that mes
sage would be sent 10 Congress al
the same time.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he didn't
think there was time for legisia-
ton 10 carry out the new steps
for combating the high cost OF
living. He emphasized that the
new program is still in the talk
ing stage.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-08-27
Royal Canadian Air
Force Officer MISSING

LONDON - The air ministry
said Wednesday that Sgt. p. J.
Fernie Of the Royal Canadian air
force WAS missing In action and
that Flying Officer X. NJ. Coffin
! of Balboa. Canal Zone. a member
Of the Raj. had been wounded in
action.
Fernie Was born In California
and his father lives In kamloops.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-08-27

WASHINGTON - presi dent
Roosevelt said wednesday that
forthcoming steps 10 control the
cost Of living will include -tsbiii-
zation of farm prices as well rs
wages.
The President said the new
anti-inflation program may be
announced in q nationwide radio
address BY him sometime around
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-08-27
Churchill Spent Most Of Time
In Cockpit on Flight to Russia
Pointing Out Sights Of Interest

LONDON - Prime Minister
Winston Churchill spen; most Of
the 22e flying hours Of his fight
10 Russia and his tour Of The
middle east in the cockpit Of his
four-motored Consolidated B-24
plane, Pilot William Van Der
klcot. Sarasota. Fla. said We'd
nesday.
Since July Z. Van Der Rloo;
had flown Churchill 1900 miles
IN the American-msde British
ferry command plane. with Jack
! Rundels. Of san Francisco. a. sec
md pilot Bob williams Of st
johnson. New Brunswick, vas
flight engineer.
Z calculate Churchill spent
twc-fhirds Of the trip IN the
cockpit yan Der kleet said
After Ne had ct his plane
down ~ . ferry command air
- drome.
He was obviously interested In
|, everything connected with flying
and with either Rundels or me
at one stick he often took over
: the other.
Pointed Out place.
Especially over Europe he
pointed out . large number of
places which he knew and told Ne
about
He knows IN awful lot
= about airrlane>- Ne can dis
cuss technical details and You
can bet his fscts are right
] have reason 20 believe he
enjoyed the trip"
Van Der kioot said the wealth
e. was perfect and the trip un-
eventful with not an enemy plane
spotted along the entire route.
The longest hop Was the 400
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
Vatican Warned of
Accepting Envoy
From Jap Regime

LONDON, April 81. (UP)-An Of
ficial spokesman said today that
the government had warned the Vat
lean, before it accepted the creden-
tials of a Japanese envoy, that ac-
ceptance would be widely inter-
preted as being the result of Axis
pressure and a conformation of Jap
ans treacherous and unprovoked
attack"
The spokesman said Britain had
been informed by the Vatican that
negotiations for establishment of
diplomatic relations with Japan
were opened in 1912 and it was
decided to establish relations lin
order to safeguard the spiritual in
terestS of the Roman Catholic Or
der"
He said the Vatican said this &C
ton should not be regarded as con-
nected with temporal interests" or
in any way due to outside pressure.
Replying to questioners, the
spokesman admitted the British
government had pointed out to the
Vatican that its official recogni-
ton of Japan had not been revealed
until Japan was plotting against
the United States and her forces
We're perpetrating terrible barbar-
ity" contrary to all international
law
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
Tokyo SaysS.F.i
Utter Disorder at
Air Raid Alert

SAN FRANCISCO, April 81 up
Tokyo radio said today San Fran
cisco was "terror-stricken, and in
utter disorder" during last Sun
days three-hour yellow" alert here.
A Japanese broadcast recorded
here by CHS listening station said
Believing that a squadron of
japanese planes had come for re-
venge, the people of San Francisco
were totally struck with terror
from air raid warnings sounded
at 1870 O'Clock Sunday afternoon,
information available from the
United States indicated"
(Tokyo radio said it got its infor-
nation from Lisbon. The alert was
called at 20 O'Clock Sunday morn
ing, not afternoon)
For three hours and a half
communication was cut of and
both officials and civilians remained
in utter disorder, according to the
information"
(San Francisco communications
suffered no lapse during the alert.
The civilian defense council said
the response of volunteer workers
during the alert was excellent, with
no confusion or disorder
1.-THE United States department
of the navy and army are keeping
silent regarding the cause of the
air raid warning in San Francisco"
CThe fourth army explained the
alert was caused by the appearance
of an unidentified target off the
vest coast. There, was no blackout)
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
Germans Execute
Innocent Hostages
In French REVENGE

NICHY. France, April 81 CUP)-
German military authorities have
executed 20 more French hostages
at st. Nazaire in reprisal for the
recent British commando raid on
the important submarine base
there it was made known today.
News of the executions was re-
ceiyed here shortly after Chief of
Government Pierre Laval left sud-
denly for tar1S at D am. to con-
tact the Germans on his collabor-
ationiSt program.
The hostages, completely inno-
cent of the bombing. were taken
from a concentration camp at
which Free French sympathizers
and alleged Communists were
held.
london reported that the Ger
mans intended to shoot 80 more
innocent French patriots Thurs
Gay unless those responsible for
the train wreck were arrested.
CThirty-five hostages had been
shot at Calais last week, and thus
the total of new killings, in a Ger
man repression campaign. was
brought TO IS, with 80 more fac
ing death)
In their st. Nazaire killings, the
Germans ordered the sub-prefect
to choose 20 of his fellow towns
men to face a German firing squad.
He refused so the Germans pick
ed their victims themselves, in
Guiding a prominent labor leader
named Blanchard
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21

KUIBYSHEV, Russia, April 81.
UP)-GuerrillaS we're authorita-
lively reported today to have cap
tured four villages on the northern
front, killed 783 Germans, includ-
ing a lieutenant colonel, destroyed
four tanks and blown up six am
munition and fuel dumps.
The size of their successes indi-
Gated the guerrillaS were becoming
most formidable The alarmed Ger
mans we're sending punitive expedi-
tions, supported by planes and
tanks, but the guerrillas either am
pushed these hunters, or cluded
them and continued their deStruc-
tive forayS.
A dispatch to The army newspaper
Red Star said that Russian naval
assault planes using a new night
bombing sight device, had destroyed
II German Junker and MesSer-
schmitt planes aground at Baltic
airport.
GUNS SILENCED
On the Leningrad front, advices
said, the Russians have captured II
bunkerS in one sector, where Soviet
artillery destroyed Il German firing
points and three bunkers and sill
enced two batteries.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
vichy Turns Over
Vessels to laps
From Indo-China

LONDON, April 81 CUP) = Free
French diplomatic sources said to-
day they had confirmed the report
that the Vichy government had
turned over to Japan 10000 tons
of merchant shipping in French
ndo-China for use against the
United States and allied nations.
They said the arrangement had
been completed five or six weeks
ago, at about the time French sup
plies were going to German forces
in Libya, adjoining French Tunisia
in north Africa, for use against
the British.
(The United States state depart
ment last night made known that
it had sent a strongly worded pro-
test to Vichy concerning reports
that the French had put several
merchantmen at Japan's disposal
in Indo-China.
On commenting state depart
ment officials said they had no
knowledge of London reports that
$4,000 tons of ships had been turn
ed over to Japan. Latest London
reports put the figure at 60,000o
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No 291d

Estate of NORMAN w. HINDLE:,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un-
dersigned, GEORGE A. COOK,
Administrator with will annexed of
the estate of NORMAN w. HINDLE,
deceased, to the creditors of and all
persons having claims against the
said deceased, that within six
months after the first publication
of this notice they either file them
with the necessary vouchers in the
office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of the State of California,
in and for the County of Imperial,
or exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers to the said George A.
Cook, as administrator with will an
neXed of said estate, at the office
of D. B. Roberts, POT Bank of Am
erica Building, sixth and Main
Streets, Ell Centre California, the
same being the place for the trans
action of the business of the said
estate in the County of Imperial,
State of California.
Dated at Ei Centre, California,
this 28th day of March, 1912.
GEORGE A. COOK,
Administrator with will an
neXed of the Estate of
NORMAN w. HINDLE,
mo. 25) M31. AT, IA, 2D
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21

submarine bases against the allie
But at the same time he was
quoted that he would tolerate" no
Allied interference if he began a
fight to take over Free French
territory, and adding that he in
tended to do SO.
Informants pointed out that, re-
CARELESS of any expression by Laval
of a desire to continue relations
with the United States, a Vichy
attack on Free France, especially
in Africa, would be of invaluable
aid to Germany and italy and would
align Viehy in fact if not in theory
in war against the United Nations,
with whom the Free French are
allied.
The British foreign office, in
an analysis of Lavais declaration
of policy, said he was trying to
drive wedge between Britain and
the United States and would try
both to collaborate with Germany
and win the friendship of America.
IF anything should happen in
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
LAVAL CASTS
The DIE

History has place for men like
Pierre Laval, and it is not a nice place.
In our lifetimes we shall see the French
traitor take his place in the pages of his
tory, there to be warning to future
leaders that the men who go contrary
to the wishes of their people shall never
win honor.
For Pierre Laval is no representative
of the French nation, nor of the French
people. In the years before the war he
pretended for the sake of political pres
tige that his interests were the inter-
ests of democratic France: Yet even as
he pretended, he so weakened his nation
that it fell easy prey to the German
conqueror. Now he no longer pretends,
for it is not to the French people he looks
for power-it is to the German bayonets.
Pierre Laval is premier of France be-
cause Hitler wants him there, not because
the French people want him there. With
his ascendency, there no longer becomes
an occupied and an "unoccupled''
France, in the full meaning of those
words. France today, from north to
south and east to west, is vassal OF Nazl
Germany. Laval has made it so.
What shall be the reckoning?
For Laval, disgrace and failure. For
the French people, rebirth under the true
Tricolor That is our belief. because we
believe that the moment will come when
the French people, helpless now, will
arise TO put an end to one of the most
inglorious careers of modern history.
Laval, we believe. is today preparing his
own grave, literally and figuratively.
Vidkun Quisllug of Norway was an
outright traitor, but Lavals treachery
was worse than his, for the Frenchman
attempts still to make his people believe
that his interest is in France.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
Nv UNITED PRESS

Pierre Laval. established as over
lord of Viehy France by Nazi pres
sure. is committed to attack Free
France and especially the vitality
important Free French territory in
Africa. private advices received in
the United States said Tuesday.
These adyieeS, received from a
source believed to be unimpeach-
able, said Laval had made it plain
that as chief of the Vichy govern
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
Soviet GueriIIds
HdrQSS Germans

AS the spring thaW progressed
to the northern front, aerial fight
ing increased, with the Germans
consistently getting the worst of
it. Dispatches from Murmansk said
so German planes had tried to raid
that important port for American
and British supplies, and Is were
shot down, besides II being damag-
ed. One plane succeeded in dropping
bombs, which struck no military
objective. Several Soviet planes were
damaged, but none was destroyed.
100 NAILS DOWNED
Radio Moscow reported that 1000
German planes were destroyed dur
ing March and 500 in the first two
weeks of April. The German air
force eSSayed an important" attack
against the Russian northern fleet,
Radio Moscow said, and lost Is
planes. Many more were damaged.
The northern fleet, which has
sorely punished the Germans all
winter, was reported in the last few
days to have sunk four more large
German transports, tanker OF
5000 tons and a traWler.
Officially, the Soviet said there
were no substantial changes in the
front. Last midnight's communique
reported the capture of an import
ant point of resistance" after two
days fighting, the killing of 1900
Germans and the seizure of large
amounts of booty.
The communique said 81 German
planes were destroyed on Sunday,
the Russians losing 10, and that
from April to April II, the Ger
mans had lost 112 planes. The
Russians lost 33 aircraft during
that period.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 1928
Notice of Time and Place Appointed
for Proving Will and Hearing
Application for Letters
Testamentary.
In the Matter of the Estate of
JOSEPH H. McKIM, Deceased.
NOTICE is. HEREBY GIVEN that
a petition for probate of the will of
JOSEPH H. McKIM, deceased, and
for the issuance to JOSEPH l.. Nc
KIM of letters testamentary, has
been filed in this court, and that
Friday the Oath day of April, 1912,
at 200 O'Clock pm, of said day, at
the courtroom of Department No.
2 of said court. at the Court House
in the City of Ell Centre, County of
Imperial, State of California, has
been set for the hearing of said
petition. when and where any per-
son interested may appear and con-
test the same, and show cause, il
any they have, why said petition
should not be granted.
Dated April 10, 1912.
w. J. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY MAXINE CONSOLE,
Deputy Clerk.
(No. y tAl4-24 incD
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
Laval Planning Attack

ment, one of his principal policies
would be an aggressive military
campaign against Free France, es-
pecially in Africa.
They said also that because OF
deep hatred of Laval throughout
France he might be the target of
an assassin soon. They asserted that
80 per cent of the French people
detested Lavalis policies and as
the result terrorism and harsh re-
preston might provide the head
lines from France before long.
Laval was quoted as having said
that he would never voluntarily in
itiate a rupture in relations with
the United States.
He was said to believe that with
himself in power. the Nazis would
have more confidence in Vichy and
permit continuance of Vichy- United
States relations.
1t was added that he was pre-
pared to give guarantees that no
French island or other part of the
French empire would be used as
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
japanese Report
New Raid Alarm

been sounded in central Japan at
5 PM "a am. EWT.
This meant presumably that in
western Japan, where the japanese
navy has its strongest bases, the
alarm still continued.
It had been 70 hours since Japan
flashed that Allied airplanes. raid
ing Tokyo and three other key
cities, had given the country of
the sun goddess its first taste of
the deadly medicine which Japan
had administered to the ill-defend-
ed countries it had attacked.
Admission that. Saturdays raid
damaged japanese railroads was
contained Tuesday in a German dis
patch from Tokyo that the minis
ters of railways and transportation
had reported transportation only
slightly disrupted" They said rail-
road postal service was resumed
soon after the raid
Berlin did not say whether any
hostile planes had appeared over
Japan Tuesday.
Central Japan, where some alarms
were sounded, is the heart of Jap
ans war industry.
Whether there were any planes,
the alarms made even palmer jap
ans extreme nervousness at the
thought of being on the receiving
end of aerial bombs.
Even before Tuesdays alarms,
Japan had opened a new bombing
offensive on eastern China in the
obvious belief that American planes
were now based in China and might
strike again at any moment at
Tokyo and other great cities.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
A DIFFERENT KIND
OF SUMMER COMING
1t won't be the same, this summer.

A lot of old habits are going 70 he
broken, and the breaking of them will be
good thing for Imperial Valley.
Tires aren't what they were a year ago.
SO lot of people won't be making the
weekend trips of yore to San Diego, Los
Angeles and the mountains.
San Diego, Los Angeles and the NOUN
talns aren't what they were. either. what
with acute housing problems complicat-
ed by vast influXes of wartime workers.
so there will be another good reason why
lot OF valley people won't be going over
either for week-ends or for the whole
summer.
There will be more stay-at-homes in
the valley this summer than ever before
IN history, if today's indications hold
true. A lot of them are people who
haven't spent summer here in so long
time that they still think in terms of
1880 July when they consider the sum-
mertime here.
They're due for surprise
Summer isn't what it used to be in
Imperial Valley, and that is one thing
that can't be credited to the war. It's
development of pre-war ingenuity, so
recent that a lot of steady valley citi-
Zens Still-becauSe of summers spent
elsewhere-have failed to realize it.
This summer, we're willing to wager,
lot of people are going to be surprised
to find that summer can be fun in the
valley. The discovery will do lot to
stabilize the valleys year. putting II
full months into it.
The trend has been in that direction
for several years. The war emergency
serves only to speed it up.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
BY UNITED PRESS

Fire-fearful Japan had a new
series of air raid alarms Tuesday.
Berlin radio reporting a dispatch
of the official news agency said
the dread alarm had been sounded
in various areas Of western and
central Japan Tuesday afternoon,
Tokyo time, and the all clear had
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
Wife of j. 5. Envoy
To vichy Succumbs

VICHY. April 81. CUP) = Mrs.
William D. Leahy, wife of the U. S.
ambassador to Vichy, died today at
the Rosary clinic here where she
underwent a serious operation 10
days ago.
Ambassador Leahy, recalled to
the United States last week for
consultation on the state of French
American relations, had left his
departure indefinite pending Mrs.
Leahy's recovery.
She appeared to be recovering
when she was stricken with an en-
bolism, causing death within Is
minutes. The ambassador reached
her bedside just before she died.
The embassy had no information
as to the exact date of Leahy's de-
parture for the United States.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL
Notice of Time and Place Appointed
for Proving Will and Hearing
Application for Letters Tesla

IOI TEONiHS VIII dhu IlCnih'6
Application for Letters Tesla
mentary.
In the Matter of the Estate of
MARY M. WILLARD, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that a
petition for probate of the will of
MARY M WILLARD, deceased, and
for the issuance to FRIEDRICH
A. WILLARD of letters tesla
mentary, has been Tiled in this
court, and that the Oath day of
April, 1912, at O'Clock pm, of
said day, at the courtroom of said
court, at the court house in the
City of Ell Centre, County of I'M
perial, State of California, has
been set for the hearing of said Pc
tition, when and where any person
interested may appear and contest
the same, and SHOW cause, If any
they have, why said petition should
not be granted.
Dated April 9th, 1912.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
by MAXINE CONSOLE,
Deputy Clerk.
mo. % '.~ (Al0-2l ine)
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21

future in the nature of break
with the United States, Laval clear
ly wants to be able to point to the
complete lack of provocation in his
spoken words and impress the
French people that the break was
due to American lack of under
standing of France and her lead
ers,' it was said
The statement said that others
before Laval had tried TO separate
Britain and America, but had only
drawn them more completely to-
gether.
1T is interesting that Laval, re-
putedly SO cunning, should think
that he can succeed where others
failed" it was added.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
Mercy Staying of
Wife Charged

WATERFOWL, N. Y, April 81
(UP)-Daniel w. Cahill, former
state superintendent of buildings
and eX-mayor of WATERFOWL, was
held by authorities today in con-
nection with the mercy Staying of
his wife, Mrs. Kay Storm Cahill.
District Attorney Carl j. Hynes
said Cahill, who is 70. tried TO COM
nit suicide after strangling his
wife He is expected to recover.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 20234
S II M M q N S

-.
JAMES H. PHILLIPS, Plaintiff,
VS..
PHOEBE ELLEN PHILLIPS, Dc
PENDANT.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO PHOEBE ELLEN PHIL
LIPS, Defendant.
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
TO APPEAR and answer the Com
plant in an action entitled as above,
brought against you in the Superior
Court of the County of Imperial,
State of California, within ten days
after the service on you of this
Summons - if served within this
county; or within thirty days if
served elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract,
or he will apply to the Court for
any other relief demanded in the
Complaint.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this 9th day of February,
1912.
w. J. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY DOROTHY S. REYNOLDS
Deputy Clerk.
Ms 12-19-26)
(No. pa (M 81, A7-14-21-23
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-04-21
Yankee Eagles Bag
Three Jap bombers

SAN FRANCISCO, April 81. CUP)
-Chungking radio said today the
American volunteer group shot down
three japanese bombers in aerial
battles in Burma during the past
four days. The broadcast was re-
corded by CHS listening station.