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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-29
AMERICAN BOYS
MAKING BIG HIT
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had been posted notices reading:
For His Majesty's Forces Only" 1t
was explained that they were as
welcome anywhere as British SOL
diers were and they are coming in
droves now" according to a can
teen manager. ..
American Experts
Many of the Americans are ex-
pert at billiards, smoker and table
tennis but the British game of darts
finds them five-thumbed.
A strong guard has been posted
about the American zone to keep
out sightseers and the soldiers are
under instructions to discuss no
matters of military moment with
civilians.
The action was taken as the re-
suit of reports that large numbers
of civilians we're crossing the Dor
der from neutral Fire to see the
American troops.
All installations about the camps
of the AEF were put under close
guard and troops were warned es-
pecially against discussing with
anyone they met such matters as
the details of their voyage to the
European war zone.
Determined to guard against
leaks of military information by any
means, army authorities also dis
cussed arrangements for censoring
the letters which the troops are
writing home.
They planned to issue detailed in
structions concerning matters which
must not be discussed in letters.
Major Gen. Russell P. Hartle
the troop commander who brought
the AEF across the ocean, said ir
his first interview at his headquar-
tiers here.
Will Garry Fight
once challenged, we will carry
the fight to the challenger"
He expressed supreme confldencf
in his men who are from the middle
west, and are regulars, volunteers
and selectees.
After completing the preliminary
details of settling this first contln'
gent of the AEF in the British Isles
the 52-year old Maryland borr
soldier who won the nickname
"Scrappy" at the start of his 30
year army career, gave his first
statement to the correspondents who
accompanied the AEF from the
United States.
He said that his men would in
tensify over here the training they
had undergone in the war zones
of Louisiana and elsewhere in the
south.
Gen. Hartle said he was especial
" pleased with the treatment given
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-29

the American troops by British
fighting men, from the highest Of
ficers to privates.
A number of British troops are
CHARTERED in the scattered camps
taken over by the Americans, and
there seems to be mutual feeling
of cordially and admiration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-29
Blame Your. Lazy
Liver Bile If

mental dullness. half alive feeling often
result when liver bile doesn't flow freely
epery day into your intestines. So take
Or. EDWARDS Olive Tablets to insure
gentle yet thorough bowel movements.
Olive Tablets are wonderful to stir up
liver bile secretion aud tone up rnusou.
lar Intestinal action. -, SOC. COZ.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-29

When she first went to New York,
Nancy Coleman, who makes her
scheen bow in Warner Bros "Kings
Row." lived in a theatrical club for
girls which was the basis of the
play, Stage Door,"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-29
YOUNG "vETERAN" ENLISTED
AT IA

East st. Louis, Ill.-(UP)-Sergt.
Albert A. Thompson Of the U. S.
Army claims to be the youngest
veteran" He told friends he en-
listed when he was IL Ia years old
Nov. 10, 1928. He said he was ''bia
4or his age"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-29
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OVER ZONE Line

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Brazil is nationalixins it, schools,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04
VOLUME XL, No. 1876
A BIGGER
EMPIRE

This, the annual Inland Empire edition of the Post
Press newspapers, is issued this year with three-tod
purpose:
1. To tell the part Imperial Valley is playing i'll
the effort the world has known the American
effort by production the farms and in the cities
g To spotlight the enviable economic position of our
valley where completion of great projects and clearing
away of all major local economic problems has brought
about situation in which farm lands are increasing
in value community is the doorstep of new growth
and our hands are set to new developments.
3. To coincide with the annual Imperial County Fair
which opens next Saturday. and to supplement
to this fair which is truly the shoWWndoW Of Imperial
Valley.
The help of the whole community of Imperial Valley
has been the preparation of this edition. the second
ed the size of the Inland Empire Edition from 40 pages
last year 46 pages this year and have made
effort improve the sections in content they have been
increased in size.
Conceived last year in the thought of presenting re
port of the progress and forecast of the future for I'M
peral Valley this edition has met such genuinely Wiling
response that believe has already become an accepted
institution and with that belief in mind have spared
effort to present here true picture OF the Imperial
Valley we know-the valley in which we have the sin
cerest of faith
Those who read this edition in other parts of the coun
will not be fortunate readers at nome
for we who live in Imperial Valley with own
eyes the things described here More through
the show window of the Imperial county fair living illus
traton of the present in which Imperial Valley lives and
the future to which it looks forward.
We give you the annual Inland Empire Edition, and
with it toast to the Imperial County Fair, may its sue
cess to come be as great it's success to date.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04

mately ,000,00O.O00 of the nation
al income this year will be roll
ing around with no place to go
That is the difference between the
money Americans will get in their
salary checks and pay envelopes
and the goods which they may
buy. This money, Morgenthau said
IS an inflationary threat to prices
Ordinarily American could go to
the furniture store, auto salesman,
radio dealer, dry goods or sporting
goods store. Now many goods are
restricted or in some cases, entirely
absent.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04


With only handful of little P-40
fighter planes to challenge JapanS
bombers. dive -bombers and fighters,
MacArthur's dauntleSs arm n
caught the Japanese by complete
surprise and caused havoc in Subic
bay, Japan's chief means of sup
ply for the Bataan front Is to 20
miles south.
They destroyed one 10.000-ton
ship, one 8,000-tonner, and two
lOO-ton motor launches.
The feat of MacArthur's planes
provided the second evidence in "a
hours to support what military eX-
perts have been claiming for weeks
that American fliers are superior
to the Japanese.
Is JAPS DOWNED
Almost complete humiliation of
a Japanese attacking force of 18
heavy bombers by unit Of the
American fleet and accompanying
fighter planes, revealed in navy
communique last night, was said
by the experts to be solid proof OF
the Americans superiority in the
air.
Given only half a chance, they
said. American airmcn will best
the enemy.
In almost every major air en-
eagement in the southwest Pacific
that has been announced the Japa-
nese have come off poor second
with Americans. That was true
again in the navy announcement
last night of its second successful
action in about a month in the Gill
bert islands area-2,500 miles south
west of the Hawaiian islands.
The nav"'s communique revealed
that a strong American naval force
an aircraft carrier, cruisers and
destroyers-Was operating west OF
the Gilbert islands recently" when
attacked by Is heavy enemy bomb
ers in two groups of nine each.
American airmen took off from the
carrier and anti-aircraft guns on
the surface ships went into action.
The results after engaging the
enemy closely and vigorously"
Sixteen of the 18 japanese bomb
crS shot down.
Only two American fighter planes
lost Only one American pilot lost
No damage to American surface
ships.
In addition, the navy has a new
hero-Licut. junior grade) Edward
H. OHare, U. S. Navy fighter pilot
WHO single handed, shot down
six of the japanese planes.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04

doubt, however, tnat the DaICle Vi
Java would go against the defend
erS eventually unless unexpected
reinforcementS can reach that
Dutch East Indies island
United Press war correspondent
w. H. McDougall reported from
Java japanese dive bombers and
fighter planes were leading power
full enemy thrusts against the al
lied defense lines on all three in
vasion fronts
japanese air superiority was
marked, the dispatches indicated
The Dutch reported that the
principal distinctions" of facili-
ties on Java already had bee.l made
to keep them out of Japanese
hands.
The Japanese again directed
heavy air raid at the Dutch base
near Bandoeng and dispatches
made clear that damage was con-
siderable, including number of
planes lost on the ground. These
reports, and the fact that Ameri-
can bombers such as flying fort
resses, have not been mentioned in
United Press dispatches during the
last two days indicated a situation
similar to that existing during the
battle for Crete.
PLANES, SHIPS LOST
Whether the American bombers
had been withdrawn from Java
due to inability to protect them
as was the case in Crete-was not
indicated definitely but there
seemed to be little doubt that the
enemy was taking full advantage
of superiority in the air The
Dutch also acknowledged that they
had lost much of their naval
strength, especially heavy ships
and thus there was little hope of
preventing japanese reinforce
monts' from coming by sea.
The extent of japanese gains
on Java was uncertain, but the
Dutch communicate acknowledged
that reinforcementS rushed to the
fronts had been unable to prevent
enemy advances. A Tokyo propa-
ganda broadcast said that the Jap
aneSe were within 18 miles of the
capital of Batavia after cutting the
Batavia Bandoeng railroad. Tokyo
claimed that there are IS 900 Jap
aneSe troops in Java.
RANGOON TOTTERS
On the Burma front, the Japa-
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04

league, speaking IN LOS Angeles
Tuesday night, said japanese agents
in Ell Centro had distributed book
lets containing a timetable of To-
kyo's war plans, forecasting the
Pearl Harbor attaca the first week
in December.
Just who these Ell Centro agents
were was not revealed, but it was
presumed locally that they might
have been included in the large
number of aliens arrested in the
valley during the first days of the
war.
Ham said that he had done colln-
espionage work against the Jap
anese government for many years,
insinuating himself at one time into
he Japanese consular service in
Hawaii. He said that he had un-
covered details of the Japanese
plot against the United States two
years before Pearl Harbor, but that
official Washington had refused to
listen TO him.
On the day he last tried to tell
government officials of his dis
,overy, Haan said, he was shunted
aside, because it was half-holiday
That day was Saturday, Decembe:
), one day before the Pearl Harbor
attack.
The timetable which Haan said
lie obtained from Japanese agents
IN El Centre, not onlT set the first
week of December as the time to
attack Pearl Harbor, but gave the
1ates for other offensive moves by
Japan. According to this time
able, the Japs are two weeks
1head of their schedule in prosecut-
ng the war against the United
States. The fall of Singapore and
he Philippines all were predicted
in this booklet. Haan said, and
,alled for a major attack on con-
tinental United States in April,
,942 next month";.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04
Feud
FIur S
Here
CaIipa+ria Sire ct
Echoes TO Shots
In Old Vendetta

CALIPATRIA, March a.
The second phase Of a
Texas-born gun feud was
fought on Calipatria's Main
street Tuesday night, send
ing Calipatria residents to cover
as gun fire sounded.
No one was injured but both
sides of the feud we're taken to
the Calipatria Jail and held in
separate cells to keep them from
finishing it while in custody, Chief
of Police Harold Dickerson said
Wednesday.
Owen B. Smith arrived in Cali
patria from Big Springs, Texas,
at pm. Tuesday. AS he drove along
Main street 10 minutes later two
shots were fired at him from a car
which sped past him. Smith left
his car and sought shelter in a
grocery store. Others in the Vicin-
ity also sought shelter.
Victor l.. Porter, said to have
been shot and crippled for life by
d DulltG ltlCD dI llllil W ACliiiOiA 40
Texas, fired on Smith while his
brother, Cecil L. Porter drove the
Porter family car. A bullet nicked
the Smith car but the other shot
went wild, Chief Dickerson said.
Smith married Porter girl who
left him in Texas and journeyed
with her parents and brother to
Calipatria to pick peas. With her
YVES her daughter, Smiths child.
I'll kill Owen Smith if it is the
last thing 1 ever do DickerSon
quoted Victor Porter as saying after
he was taken to Jail. He Shot me
in the shoulder and crippled me for
life. I was in class IA ready to
go to the army. He shot me and
now 1 am in class and no good
to anyone"
Smith had a telegram which told
him his daughter was i'll and urged
him to visit her in Calipatria. The
daughter was not i'll and Smith said
Victor Porter sent it to toll him
to Calipatria SO he could kill him.
Smith. horse trader. is out on
81 600 bail for shooting Porter last
Halloween night during a family
fight in Big Springs, Texas.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04
yCommittee
To Direct Japanese
Excavations Here

Officials Wednesday made plans
to set up an Imperial county COM
mittee to handle the agricultural
problem created By the evacuation
of the Japanese alien and American
born japanese farmers.
The Imperial county beard Of sl-
pervisorS, the district attorneys Of
flee, and the agricultural commits
sioner's office all had staff members
working on the details of the COM
mittee and studying the situation
Wednesday.
we must set up a system to
handle the agricultural problem
created by the evacuation" Heald
said. I'VE must save the crops and
prevent any loss of the food and
other agricultural products growing
in Imperial Valley"
Details of the committee and the
proposed plans were not sufficiently
complete to be announced Wednes-
Gay, Heald said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04

of higher incomes.
HenderSonS associates said they
were perfectly willing to push ra-
tioning beyond present levels of
passenger automobiles, tires and
sugar-hut only when necessary.
I'VE have no plans to ration on
a broad scale" Henderson said when
advised of Morgenthau'S proposals.
OPA officials said complete ration
ing of consumer goods would be
even more drastic than the system
used in Great Britain, now in its
third year of war
MorGenthau estimates approx
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04
Reds Batter Path
Toward Main Nazi
Base for Ukraine
MOSCOW, March 4. (UP)

MOSCOW, March a. CUP)
Russian forces in the Uk-
raine have advanced through
some of the most heavlly-de-
Tended German-held territory
to within 30 miles of the main
nazi supply base at DnepropetroVsk.
1870 miles southwest of Kharkov,
dispatches from the front said to-
day.
Marshall Semyon x. Timoshen-
kos cavalry and infantry, led by
way through mile after mile OF
mine fields soWn in the muddy,
black earth Close on their heels
are soviet tank units and mech
anized troops.
At Staraya Russa. farther north,
where the Germal 18th armv is
encircled a methodical process OF
determination was being pursued
One Soviet Init has killed 5000
Germans and taken much booty
Another unit. Storming a nazi
stronghold, wiped out more than
100 enemv troops and third re-
ported killing 305.
Russian troops continued to
tighten their encicclement Of Star
ava Russa occupying six more in
habited places, including one Ger
man strong point which fell after
20 days resistance. The red army
found 795 dead Germans
The Germans, their supply lines
cut. again dropped munitions and
food by parachute to their sur
rounded comrades. Although snow
storms swept the countryside, huge
Junkers transport planes attempted
to crash-land reinforcemoltS while
Russian guns bombared the ayr
field
Scores of Germans. including a
company of the 26Cth German
building unit. a battery of the
209th artillery regiment and de-
tachment of the 30th division. were
reported to have surrendered. They
said thousands of others were held
back only by the threats of the
German officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04
$50 Die, Arms Plant
Blasted By British
In Raids on Paris

LONDON, March 4. CUPp-Brlt-
'sh bOmbers, attacking French in
1ustries producing war materials
for Germany, flattened buildings
like packs of cards" in a two-hour
aid on industrial targets in the
Paris suburbs during the night, Air
Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair told
the house of commons today
(Vichy reported $50 persons killed
md 1900 wounded in the raid
Describing the operations as
highly successful" the British
spokesman said Royal air force pill
Dts reported that several heavy
bombs blew buildings hundreds OF
feet into the air
Our casualties were laht" he
said. In all our operations last
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04

N. Y and Frank Carlson, r., Kans.
Rep Harold Knutson r., Mimi,
predicted without qualification that
there will be a sales tax"
Committee members generally ap-
peared skeptical of Morgenthau's
Withholding tax plan by which en-
ployerS would withhold 10 per cent
Of an employees taxable income
income after personal and depend
ent exemptions are deducted-.a5
advance payment on his annual in
come tax. The same system would
be applied by banks and corpora
tions to persons receiving dividends
and trust benefits from them
Morgenthau said he wanted that
authority to arm the treasury with
a powerful weapon against runaway
initiation
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04
jAPS Gain SKY CONTROL TO
BATTER DEFENDERS OF java
Command Shifted

LONDON, March 4 (UP) -
Vice Admiral c. f. L. Helfrich
has been entrusted with "spe-
cial mission" and has been sue
ceeded as commander of the
Netherlands Indies naval forces
by Acting Rear Admiral J. ]. A.
Van Staveren, il was announced
today.
A British foreign office an
nOuncement said Netherlands
Indies land forces would be
commanded by Lieut.. Gen. Helm
Ter POorten, following the de-
parturc of Gen. Archibald Wa
vell,, former supreme cOmman-
der of united nations southwest
Pacific forces. Gov. Gen.
Starkeborgh Van Stachouwer
will continue exercising civil
authority, it said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04
Wound Fatal for
BrawIey Mexican

Joe Leyva, %, BraWley resident
who said he shot himself in the
side during a drunken scufflc last
weekend, died in the Imperial coun-
'p hospital Wednesday morning.
Before his death be told Deputy
Sheriff Herbert Hughes that he had
Tie gun in his pocket while with a
group of friends in Brawley and
during scuffle with them he ac-
cidentally pulled the trigger
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04
OPA Opposes Morsenthou
Total Rotionins Project

WASHINGTON, March 4 rUP) -
Office of price administration Of
ficials baked today at treasury pro-
poSalS for complete rationing of
consumers goods and said Price Ad-
ministrator Leon Henderson would
oppose any whirlWind introduction
OF such a plan.
Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morgenthau. Jr, suggested such ac
ton before the house ways and
means committee yesterday as a
step to curb the threat of dan
gerous initiation" He believes ra-
tioning Is an important partner of
heavier taxes to take up the slack
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04
Relatives to Take
Erring Mother

Texas relatives of Mrs. Jean Ran
del, who tried to throw her two
kear-old son Gnto the colorado
river at Winterhaven last Sunday,
will come to Ell Centro to get the
woman and boy they telegraphed
Sheriff Robert w. Ware Wednesday
The woman still insists that she
has no clear memory of what hap
pened on the bridge Sunday but
did say she had planned to throw
the boy in the river and then jump
IN herself
Guards on the bridge saw the
woman throw the child over the
rail and succeeded in catching him
ry the foot. The younSter was un-
harmed and is being cared for by
the county juvenile home.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04

States warShips.
Husky Americans from the cities
and farms shouted boisterouSly that
they we're looking for action when
they arrived amid such extreme
secrecy that they already are being
dubbed the ghost army"
United States warshipS helped eS-
cort the latest AEF convoy to Ire
land. The reinforcementS will aug
ment the first AEF'.
FROM MIDWEST
The new troops we're sturdy men
from Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Illinois and South Dakota One de-
tachment belonged to famous
unit known in the last war as the
Rainbow DIVISION" which was COM
manded by Gen. Douglas MacAr-
thur.
First two men off the liner that
arrived first were the commanding
officer and his friend-Master Sgt.
Dorance w. Mann, both from Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa.
The troops poured down the gang
planks onto British soil, hopeful
they would see action without much
delay in line with President Roose-
velt's prediction that there will be
American offensive action in the
future.
In contrast with the arrival OF
the first AEF contingent earlier
this year, there we're no ceremonies
when the Americans landed today.
There was only personal word
Of greeting from Maj Gen. Russell
P. Hartle, commander of the Amer
lean forces in Northern Ireland, to
the commanding officer of the first
troop transport to dock.
TRAINING STARTS
No sooner we're the men disem-
barked--it took hours to get them
all aShore-than they we're sent OFT
for rigorous training in the rolling
glenS of Ulster, which British SOL
dierS say is the toughest seasoning
ground in the world.
Il never thought "a years ago
that l would come over again,
said Master Sergeant Mann, AS.
Il remember we landed at Liver
pool on Dec. 81. 1917" Mann said.
This time l rode little higher
up in the ship, and me and my pals
had bunks-no Hummelshine, the
last time over"
Manns face was grave as he
walked down the gangplank carry
ing full gear.
Il used to be mail carrier IN
civilian life, and like to walk, he
said. Because I like to walk I ike
to march. And travelling on a troop
transport is old stuff to me.
Major General Russell Hartle'
welcomed Mann to Ireland
I'm very glad to see you again.
sir" the sergeant responded,
Mann was in five major engage
mentS in the first World War-the
Marine, Chateau Thierry, Toul, Ar
gonne and ST. Mihiel. After the
armistice he was stationed near
Coblentz with the American army
of occupation
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04

Enough members of the house
ways and means committee - to
which Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, jr.. presented
his program yesterday-to form the
nucleus of a strong bloc insisted
that despite the treasury's Opposi'
ton the general sales tax was very
much alive. President Roosevelt has
opposed a sales. tax, contending that
1t places a disproportionate burden
upon the low income brackets.
Shall the average American help
pay for the war by taxes on what
he earns or on what he spends?
That is question to which the
committee will devote considerable
discussion, said Reps. A. Willis
Robertson, D., Va, Daniel Reed, r.,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04
Japanese Fired

SACRAMENTO. March 4. CUPD-
The State Board of Equalization
today completed severance action
for 20 employees of japanese an
cestry, following approval of res
olutions last week that further
work from the group was "inimical
10 state service
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04
FL Centre Spy
Operations old

Ell Cenro Wednesday had been revealed as one OF the
key points from which japanese agents have been 4pera
ing for years in planning the attack upon Pearl Harbor
and plotting hopedfor ultimate aout war against the
United States Klsoo K HAM official of the Sino Korean
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04
Many Thousand
yunkS i'm ireland

A NORTH IRELAND PORT, March A. (UP)-Man%
thousands of American fighting men from Mdwestern
plains poured into Northern Ireland to bolster the Amer
expedonary force today after rough but unevenu
crossing of the north Atlantic under escort of United
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-04
Congress Facing
Sales Tax Fight

WASHINGTON, March a. (UP)-Frst major congress
siona fights the administrations $7600000000 tax
program today expected to center the treasury
opposition general saos tax and its proposal to col
part of the income tax earnings at