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Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF INTENDED SALE

Notice IS HEREBY given that
sgd DARWIN, residing at and
whose address is, 14l9 Olive Street,
FL Centre California, intended
Vendor, intends to sell TO MAGGIE
BROS. CO, INC, a Corporation,
whose principal place of business Is,
and whose address is, 100 Main
Street. FL Centre, California, in
tended Vendee, the following de-
scribed property to wit:
The Business known as VALLEY
BEVERAGE COMPANY, together
with all Of his interest in and to
the Eastside Beer Distributorship,
all stock in trade, goodwill of said
business, and accounts receivable.
The character of the merchandise
or property intended to be sold
is q stock in trade consisting of
Leer and accounts receivable from
the business of intended Vendo.
and as above stated, and other prop"
erty as above stated.
Said sale is to be held on the
27th day of April, 1912, at the hour
of ten o'clock A M. of said day at
the office of Lee Nuffer, 2Oi5 Reh-
kopf Building, Ell Centre, California,
when and where the purchase price
and consideration fer said sale is to
bC paid
lated this 18th day of April 1912.
SYp DARWIN,
Doing Business as Valley
Beverage Company. Intended
Vendor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL SIS.
On this 18th day of April 1912,
before me L. LEE NUFFER. a No
tary Public in and for said State
and County, personally appeared
sgd DARWIN, known to me to be
the person whose name is sub
scribed to the within instrument
and acknowledged to me that he
executed the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, l have
hereunto set my hand and Notarial
Seal the day and year first above
written.
l.. LEE NUFFER,
Notary Public in and for
said State and County.
(SEAL) (A2O
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
Russians Predict
Bad News for Japs

KUIBYSHEV, Russia, April 20.
CUP)-The Russian army newspaper,
Red Star, today foresaW a turning
point in the Pacific war and said
the United Nations could be ex-
pected to Wrest the initiative from
the japanese in an offensive from
new Australian bases.
Reviewing the past four months
Of the Pacific war, Red Star pointed
out that japanese communications
lines had been heightened while the
Allies rapidly were increasing their
land strength and gaining air su-
periority in the south Pacific.
Following a short pause in oper-
ations while heavy reinforcements
are arriving in Australia, the Allies
may be expected to Wrest the mi
tiatiVe from the Japanese and
launch an offensive from Australia, a"
it said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
BY UNITED PRESS

Adolf Hitler was SO Monday, and
one of his first birthday presents,
according to the Tokyo radio, was
a message from Emperor Pu vi of
Manchukuo:
Congratulations on the occasion
of your 57th birthday"
II was assumed that, as Hitler.
like other dictators, is sensitive to
the encroaching years, he would
receive the message in corrected
form.
The German radio said Hitler was
spending his third war birthday on
the Russian front.
From the Polish government in
exile in London, Hitler received the
birthday announcement that Poland
was making UP list of more than
100 O00 German officials through
out Poland for arraignment after
the war"
Included are all the high German
officials in poland and those who
have aided them in shooting hostag-
es. maltreating prisoners and starv-
ing Jews in Ghettos.
UNIQUE MAN
Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi prop
aganda minister, broadcast in a
b -ttday message that Hitler is
Germans great and unique man. =
Hitler, he said is a man who day
and night gives instructions for the
conduct of the war in Russia.
Herman Goering, NaZi No. 2 and
Hitlec's official heir, went even
further.
The bold strategy which led to
the destructive battles against the
Soviet masses was exclusively the
work of Adolf Hitler" he said.
NEW SACRIFICES
Both Goebbels and Goering work
ed through their messages the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
SERFDOM IN 1912 A. D.

Jacksonville RegiSter)
Not since ancient times when warning
tribes uprooted their vanquished oppo-
nents and carried them off into captiv-
ity, has Europe witnessed the organized
slavery which is now being carried out
on grand scale.
The New Order" makes no apologies
for this state of affairs. The removal of
hundreds of thousands of persons-most-
~ those too young or too old to fight
from their homelands. the breaking up
of families. the establishment of forced
labor. are part of the permanent scheme
of things as nazidom sees it. Since all
races or nations are regarded as inferior
in rank, peopled by creatures with no
more claim to respect or justice than
cattle, it is but logical to find the Hitler
hierarchy exploiting non-German. Eur
ope with cOld-blooded thoroughness.
Today in Germany there are 100000
Poles and 100000 Belgians serving what
uses their nazi masters have put them
to Hitler's dupe, Mussoini, has deliver
ed up 300, 600 italian men and women into
German hands, with another 100000
promised for the near future. The Ber-
lin radio is now boasting that no fewer
than 100000 nOn-GermanS will soon be
toiling in German fields and factories
under their Prussan task masters.
This system bears certain resem-
blance to that found in the insect world
by which ants establish colonies of aphis
to produce food for the ants-except that
the ant deserves a worthier comparison
and is a stranger to the conscious, DELHI
crate inhumanity which the axis order
eXtols
Slavery in Europe in 1912 is no figure
of speech, but fact. Until the slave
holders power is crushed, in Europe and
Asia, the menace to the free nations re-
mains We can neither trade, nor live,
with world half slave. This the cham
pions of the New Order" admit. They
agree the world must be fashioned after
their pattern or ours. We have accepted
their challenge and will fight until vic
tory is ours
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
Occupied France
Bombs Pro-Lay
Meet in Theater

VICHY, France, April 20. up
Occupied France greeted with a
bomb last night the first collabor-
ationist mass meeting since Pierre
Laval assumed power Saturday as
head of a government pledged to
cooperation with Germany.
The Paris radio announced today
that an unidentified man threw a
bomb in the Rennes theater while
800 persons were listening to a col
laborationist meeting at which JAG
ques Doriot, a leader on the Laval
side, presided.
Paris did not say what casualties
there were, if any.
CAS- heard at London, Paris said
that one person was wounded when
the bomb was thrown from the sec
ond gallery while Doriot himself
was speaking
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20

the ground Capt. Brewster G.. Gal
,lup of Cornell, Calf, Technical
Sergent Ezra R. Smith of Sum-
ner, III. and Honorio Punongbayen,
P. l., rushed up and gathered the
colorS in their arms.
Not content with saving their
country'S flag from touching the
ground the group of soldiers i'm
mediately set about repairing the
pole and the severed halyard. Amid
the bursting shells the repairs we're
completed and the lag was soon
waving proudly and defiantly at
the top of the island proclaiming
to friend and foe that Corregidor
still stands"
Wainwright commended the trio
for gallant service to the colors
when informed of the incident.
LUZON FIGHTS ON
The most cheering weekend news
came from the mountain country
of Luzon, north of Corregidor. A
small mobile forts raided enemy
outposts in San Nicolas, Natividad
and TaYug in Pangasinan province.
destroying large amounts of mill
tary stores and inflicting heavy cas-
ualtieS on the enemy
1t was more evidence that even
if the Japanese succeed in destroy
ing the major centers of resistance,
their conquest of the islands will be
a long way off. Guerilla warfare
will continue, Filipinos have vowed,
and the job of the enemy will be a
hazardous and uneasy one.
On the islands of Panay and Ce-
bu-the object of the most recent
japanese offensives-the defenders
continued stubborn resistance
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
VICTORY FOR REASON
(William Allen White)


If you believe in government OF the
people, for the people and by the people,
throw up your hats in the air. For the
department of agriculture has decided
that the western farmers do not need
to pillow up their volunteer wheat. They
can harvest it if they want to.
This victory was the direct result of
popular agitation, intelligent agitation,
we'll directed and based upon reason and
not upon destructive, poisonous viru-
lence that hampers good government.
When Washington realized what it was
doing by insisting on blowing up that
wheat, Washington reversed its policy.
Remember, it is easy to cuss the gov
eminent. But it takes brains and force
and hard work to convince the govern
ment of what is right, when the govern
ment is wrong.
But lying down and whining and baby
ing when you have the right on your
side is cowardly. Also, it plays the enc
my's game But to stand up and fight
like man for your rights and to try
earnestly and openly to make your prl-
vate sentiment public opinion-there is
the citizens duty.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
THE WORLD TO COME

Not all of the things in the world OF
the future will be shaped around the
peace conference table after this war is
over. Some of them are being shaped
right now, in America, in England, IN
Australia and China and Burma.
Australia is perhaps one of the out
standing examples There are thousands
of American men there, most of whom
have never before been beyond the 'front.'
iers of their own country. They are see
ing at first hand the customs, the prob
lens and the accomplishments of ma
ton heretofore strange to them. They
are developing an understanding, many
Of them. which will be carried on after
the war in greater good will between
the two nations
The Australians, too, are learning
things. They are seeing American eftlcl..
ency at work They are getting taste OF
American dislike Tor OuLmoded customs,
and of American distate for silly formal
tiles inherited from the past. The effect
upon Australia of the Americans quar-
tered there will be large.
Everywhere around the globe, men
from different nations are fighting side
by side playing together, suffering To-
gether, comparing views and ideas get
ting slant at one another's PHILOSOPHERS.
Their knowledge of one another cannot
help breaking down much of the lnsular
nationalism which has made so many OF
the worlds troubles in the past.
The world of tomorrow is being made
today.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
miles to the south.
GUERULAS ACTIVE

NJ
Latest dispatches from Lieut..
Gen. jonathan M Wainwright in
the Philippines told today of
stubborn resistance" on the SOU
them fronts of the archipelago a
successful raid oy guerilla forces in
LuZon, ard effective artillery and
antiaircraft action by the Corregi-
dor garrison.
The japanese, wary of Corregi-
doris gunners. are keeping for the
most par at "eXtremenly high
attitudes"
The Corregidor garrison added
three more heroes to its long list
Of men who have participated in
daring deeds. AS a result of the
trio's action. the American flag
still waves over the fortress.
The last communique of the war
department described their action
in detail-hoW they risked their
lives to keep the flag from falling
to the ground and then repaired
the flag pole'so that it could again
fly as the symbol of the gallant
resistance the are staging.
IALYARD -
oar flag was 4 casualty for q
few minutes yesterday the COM
muniuue said Normally the u. S.
flag flies from a 100-foot pole at
the highest point on the besieged
island fortress. During an intense
bcmbardment from an enemy bat
ter in Bataan a shell fragment
struck the pole and cut the halyard.
Slowly the flag began its des-
cent. However, before it reached
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
FRENCH UNEASY

london also reported unrest in
Vichy France and said heavily arm
ed patrols were guarding the streets
of the great Toulon naval base on
the Mediterranean.
MOSCOW asserted that German
naval experts had arrived at Mar
settles to take over the Vichy Bat
tleship Dunquerque, 26,500 tons, and
heavy cruiser Duplex, 1888 tons.
1T quoted Stockholm sources that
German crews had replaced French
men in the cruiser Joan of Arc,
6,49G tons and two destroyers, and
said Laval has undertaken to hand
over the entire fleet.D
Chief of government Laval called
his cabinet to meet at 1890 am.
EWT in the presence of Marshal
Henri Philippe Petain, and to make
a declaration on his foreign and
domestic policies in a national radio
speech at pm. EWT.
Laval took pains to emphasize that
ne had taken office under Petain
and said, Il must lean on Marshal
Petain's wisdom and experience"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
By ROBERT p. MARTIN

CHUNGKING, April 20. up
Chinese forces rushed to the west
en Burma front to relieve hard
pressed British Imperials have re-
captured Yenang-Yaung in the r.
raWaddy valley oil fields, liberated
several thousand" encircled British
troops, and killed more than 500
japanese in two days of bitter fight
ing, a Chinese headquarters COM
muniquc disclosed today
The Chinese reinfOrcementS were
believed to have eased temporarily
a tense Allied situation in the heart
of the destroyed oil fields.
The communique said the Chinese
forces had been moved into the
Yenangyaing area from Kyaupa-
dung, 50 miles to the northeast and
only 100 miles below Mandalay.
After two days of bitter fighting,
Chinese troops from Kyaukpadung,
sent to rescue trapped British forces,
have recaptured Yenangyaung from
japanese hands, the communicate
said. Several thousand British
troops have been released from an
enlightenment which had been made
by superior number of japanese"
FEW CASUAL[IIaI-.
Despite the ferocity of the fight
ing, the Chinese suffered only ap-
proXimately 100 casualties, the COM
munique revealed.
yoc thn fret cno1 1ru,
against the japanese on the IRA
Waddy front since the weary British
evacuated Prone, 100 miles below
Yenangyaung and started their
slow retreat toward the oil fields
Only yesterday it was revealed
that Chinese troops under Lieut..
Gen. Joseph w Stilwel had been
sent to the Irrawadcy area TO aid
the British. The number of rein
forcements was not disclosed.
A continued critical Sino-British
situation on the Sittang, SalWeen
and Irrawaddy river fronts was
bringing sharp demands for a Uni
fled Allied command and a timely
ccunteroffenSive.
COLLAPSE SEEN
The semi-official Chinese central
news agency, urging immediate re-
Inducements, said only a supreme
command could prevent the collapse
of Allied resistance in Burma. In
dependent retreats, it said, con-
stantly exposed the TANKS of Allied
units on other fronts.
The agency did not suggest wheth-
er the supreme commander should
be Stilwell, or the British comman-
der, Gen. Harold r. L. Ct. Alexan-
der
Central also urged a strengthen
ing of American volunteer group
and Royal air force units to offset
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF


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
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 test.-
mentary has been Tiled in this
court, and that the oath day Of
April, 1912, at 2 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,s has
been set for the hearing of said Pc
tition, when and where any person
interested may appear and contest
the same, and snow 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. q (A10-2l inc)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
Japon Shakes 10
Army Directors
BY UNITED rRESS

Japan announced Monday 40
hours after its broadcast of an al
lied airplane raid on key cities, that
Lieut.. Ger. Akira Muto had been
removed from his command of the
military affairs bureau of the jap
anese war office and had been or-
dered to the front.
1t was announced that Mai Gen
KenryO Sato had been named to
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
WAITER JUMPS TO
DEATH IN l.. A.

LOS ANGELES, April %. GJPl-
Robert Hammond, 50, San Francisco
waiter, jumped to his death from
the top of the third street tunnel
early today, police reported. Detec-
tives Tom Corey and Stan Boyce,
who described the jump as deliber-
ate, said Hammond left no notes or
clues 10 explain his act.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
Allied Bombers
DAMAGE Jap Ships

GEN. MACARTHURS HEAD
QUARTERS, Australia, April 20.
UP)-United States and Australian
planes damaged ships, airdrome in
stallatiOns and antiaircraft en-
placements and destroyed or dam
aged numerous japanese planes in
a heavy attack yesterday on Rabaul,
in the Bismarck island invasion
zone, a dispatch from an advanced
Allied air base said today.
Several heavy bombing planes and
four Navy-O fighters were destroy
ed aground and two more were
damaged by near misses. Hits were
made on runWays and airdrome
buildings.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
Chinese Relieve
Crisis II, Burma

Japans aerial superiority and said
the Allies should enlist the assis-
lance of Burmese natives.
These demands followed an an
nouncement from New Delhi. India,
that five Japanese four engined
flying boats were destroyed or dam
aged in a Royal air force raid Sat
urday on Port Blair in the Andaman
islands.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
THFRELL STILL BE
BAD NEWS FOR US

As this is written, the news totals ur
pretty favorably for the United Nations.
Tokyo has been bombed. The Raj con-
tlnnes its big-scale raiding of Germany
and German-occupied territory MacAr-
thur Is whipping a first class offensive
force into shape in Australia English
and American land troops in Britain are
getting into top shape for some event at
which we can as yet only guess The
surprising Russians are providing new
nightmares for the NaziS.
The only black spot Cat the time of
this writing, we repeaD is the continued
Japanese advance in Burma. That, of
course, is plenty black-more serious than
most OF us have considered it. Serious
as it is, however. the other news of the
last few days has outweighed it to throw
the balance into the Allies favor.
Don't think this state of affairs is going
TO continue indefinitely.
It's not time yet to begin shouting over
a victory we have not yet achieved.
There's more bad news coming, so let
us not get into the frame of mind in
which it will be too much of shock. Let
US expect it, for it is virtually inevitable,
and resolve that in spite of what may
happen to darken the outlook momentar-
lily, we shall continue the program which
sibe
We firmly believe that whatever bad
news comes to us now will be, by COM
parison, only momentary. 1t is vital that
we guard against allowing any such mo-
mentary shocks to weigh too heavily upon
our minds We must continue to do as
we have done up to now-consider our
losses in the light of additional incen-
tives to greater effort.
We know that our armed forces are
far more powerful now than they were
two or three months ago. We have had
the promise in action, and not merely in
words, of an offensive which eventually
will sweep our enemies TO destruction.
Surely, in the light of that promise, we
can steel ourselves to endure whatever
is necessary before that offensive reach
es its full power.
We've still got a job to do. 1t may be
tougher than ever, before it gets easier.
So. whatever comes remember still that
our resolve must be, eve Can Take It.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
Hitler Passes
53rd Birthdu CIV

thought th,.C Germans would be
willing to undergo new sacrifices to
strengthen Hitler's hand for q vic
tory which, as Goering put it, will
assure greater Germany's might and
glory for all the future
Weekend birthday announce
ments from Germany included one
that tHo-thirdS of Germany'S 66
cigarette factories would be closed
within the next two weeks in order
to release men for war work, and
that 300 of the existing 500 brands
would disappear from the market.
1t was said however, that the fac
tories closed would be the smaller
ones and that total production would
remain the same because bigger
factories would receive larger quotas
of tobacco.
NO POTATOES
Bulgaria announced the abolition
of ''potato day" To save bread, Bull
garians had been eating potatoes
instead one day a week. Now. ii
was explained the potato shortage
- ~ ttibbty l)obttJOto ttic llOJ
able.
Stockholm reported that Vidkun
Quisling Norwegian puppet, had
ordered that al confidential docu-
ments must be individually num-
bered henceforth. The reason was,
it was explained, that the British
radio recently broadcast a conf
Dental order before the Quisling
official to whom 1t was addressed
had received it,
Belgian quarters in London re-
ported that the Germans, fearing
an Allied invasion, had evacuated
the entire civilian population Of
the Sambre- Meuse rivers district
in Belgium and laid mines in the
area. .-..
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20


whether, as seemed probable, there
was a direct connection between
Muto's removal and the bombing of
Tokyo and other Japanese cities
Saturday by planes which the Jap
anese Identified as Americans.
NERVE CENTER
The Japan year book calls The
military affairs bureau the real
center of military administra long
A special communique C jap
anese Imperial headquarters midi
Gated that Japan had now about
made up its mind, after Two Gays
of worried uncertainty that car
rier-based planes made the Satur-
day attack on Japan's great cities.
"A hostile naval unit, with three
aircraft carritrs as its center, ap-
peared on April 10 at a distant
point off the eastern coast of
japan proper" it said. But fear
ing a japanese counterattack it
fled with out approaching Japanese
shores
STORIES CONFLICT
"On the same day approximately
10 enemy airiraft of North Ameri-
can BIS type appeared over Tokyo
and other areas, flying singly or
in pairs
Hostile planes which managed to
escape flew to China
Damages caused lin the raid
were extremely slight :"
Previous Japanese versions spoke
of 60 planes.
However another Tokyo broad
cast revealed that the damage was
sufficiently serious to cause a
meeting today of vice ministers in
the Japanese cabinet TO discuss
damage sustained in the raid and
remedial measures, and regulation
for control of rumors."
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Peter
Edison

WASHINGTON, April 20-Para-
phrasing a Will ROBBERS crack OF the
last war. what washington needs
is more women who will do any
thing for the cause except marry
a co-ordinator. The way Will SAID
il was that some girl confessed
she'd do anything for her country
except marry a second lieutenant
But that was the last war, which
was won BY second lieutenants,
and in this one the question, SO
far as Washington in concerned
is whether the war at nome can be
won by co-ordinatorS or will 1t be
czars? Don't call them commissars
vet. CommiSSars are still supposed
to be nasty men
The drift in washington
since the war began has been
away from the co-ordinator
towards the idea that what
the country needs is more cars
or, i'm plain words, bosses.
The office OF Defense Housing
Co-ordinator has been abolished
Charles F. Palmer held that one
as long as he or perhaps anyone
else possibly could, trying to CO.
ordinate the activities Of II assort-
ed government housing agencies
without having any authority. In
Palmer's place is a boss. an admin
istrator, John B. Blandford, Jr',
who heads a National Housing Au-
thority that Say-SO.
Lieut.. Gen. William S. Knudsen
was little more than a co-ordinator
when he was head of the late OPM,
though his title was co-director
Either way, he haG no authority
and in his place today there is the
War Production Board with a boss
Donald M. Nelson.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The folloIolng edit
orials are presented as interesting opin-
ions UOiced by editors eiseUhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-20
CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

Survival is what our problem is, sur
vival of what we have all lived for for
great many generations. - President
Roosevelt.