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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
DIVORCE GRANTED

A final divorce was granted in
Imperial county superior court Fri
day to Neomi Walton in her suit
against Joe Walton.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
Scanning |. Y.
News Horizon
SOROPTINIST HOSTESS

Mrs. Harvey Kenyon will be hos
tess to the Soroptimist club Mon
day evening at her home on North
Tenth. Miss Florence Glenn will
have charge of the program.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
DIVORCE AWARDED

BOISE. Ida, July 4-OUP) - A
divorce decree was granted late
yesterday 10 Mrs. Margaret Betty
Thomas, pianist for Sir Thomas
Beecham, conductor of the London
Philharmonic orchestra.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
General Calls for
Labor Strife's End

Continued from Page One)
con program, then added
Now that we've broken the i"n.
now that we've got together, let's
stav together. Let's keep this going.
Let's ask management to sit in with
US. Let's make our team all-Ameri-
can
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
(NEA Rddiophoto)
Nj IL

The men and women on the home
front, he said, celebrate the day
by running without interruption
the assembly lines which turn out
these weapons to be shipped to all
the embattled points cf the globe"
Not to waste one hour, not to
stop one shot. not to hold back one
blcw-that is the way" the Presi-
dent said, TO mark our national
holiday in this year of 1912"
Across West Executive avenue from
the White House, Secretary of State
Cordell Hull simultaneously issued
a message of hope and inspiration
to the nation.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
TO CONFER DEGREE

Fl Centro's Masonic ledge. No.
384, will confer a degree at a meet
ing in the temple at 7:3o p. m.
Monday, Charles H. knights said
Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
ALBERT mccoy
ILL IN SAN DIEGO

Mrs. Marion Mccoy left Friday
for San Diego to be near her son,
Albert, who is i'll at San Diego
hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05

Complete Standardization of all
petroleum products used by United
States armed forces may result
from experiments being conducted,
in part, in Imperial Valley, the Ell
Centro Kiwanis club was told Fri
day noon at the Barbara Worth
hotel.
Walter Ainslee was the speaker.
He is chairman of the war advisory
committee on fuels and lubricants,
representative of the automotive
and petroluem industries and pres
entity is under orders by the us.
Army quartermaster corps He is
in the valley with a crew of 10
men conducting experiments upon
which the nation may base future
Standardization policies in his field
Ainslee was presented b. Pro-
gram Chairman Gordon Scrven at
a club meeting presided over by
Harold Tyler in the absence OF
President George Kirk. Another
feature of the meeting was enter
tainment by Ventriloquist Donald
Pipes and his "Blockhead" dummy.
ALL-ROUND FUELS
Ainslee pointed out the need for
Standardization of fuels, oils and
greases used by the army and other
service branches, and said that
present experiments are intended
to develop the best all-round greaS-
es, lubricants and gasoline, as well
as to determine relative factors CT
various types of vehicles and flo-
tation 'of tires under varying con-
ditionS.
Once the products are standard
ized, Ainslee said, the government
hopes to have them produced "
all petroleum companies. 50 that
supply and shipment problems may
be simplified. One result OF such
Standardization in production. ne
admitted, may be that all petroleum
products after the war will be iden-
tical. but he voiced the belief that
this condition will not remain for
long period.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
BRUSH FIRE CONTROLLED

SONORA, Calf, July 4-CUP)-
A brush fire that burned over 300
acres was brought under control to-
day by state forestry creSs Of Gala
veras and Tuolumne counties. Dam
age was negligible.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
ROMMEL CHECKED

In North Africa, the armies of
Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel was
again attempting to attack the
British eighth army on the Ell Ala
mein front. so miles west of Alex
andris. but the British were push
ing back not only on the ground
but in unprecedented" air attacks
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
DRUNK CHARGE

P. Palma. 35, was in city jail
Saturday on a charge of drunken
ness. The Mexican was picked up
by police in the 400 block on Broad
way Friday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
SPIRIT OF VICTORY

The spirit OF liberty and free
dom which inspired preceding gen.
erations to found and build up to
their present high state of devel-
cpment our free institutions" he
said. is the spirit that will win
the wal"
The President in his statement
r9ted that freedom lovers all over
the world were struggling to de-
feat "tyrannies unequalled in hu-
man history"
ON the desert sands in Africa.
along the thousands of miles OF
battle lines in Russia, in New Zea-
land and Australia and the Islands
of the Pacific. in war torn China
and all over the seven seas he
said. free men are fighting desper-
ately-and dying-to preserve the
liberties and the decencies OF mod
ern civilization
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
OBTAINS DIVORCE

An interlocutory divorce was OBJ
tanned Friday by Paul A. Benson,
who sued Dorothy v. Benson.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
BROAD PROGRAM

The experiments in Imperial Val
ley. the speaker declared. are part
of a broad program to determine
the reaction of different produ; t.
under all conditions of heat, cold
and climate. The intention Is T.
develop one series of products which
will most nearly give complete sat
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05

Continued from Page One
of their own.
The American raid came at a
time when land fighting on the
/ Egyptian and Russian fronts still
was intense but not decisive.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05
ON HOME FRONT

men.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-05

SURE! We've seen them
smile when they look over the
work we deliver to them. We
do a lot of prid',ful smiling
ourselves before the job has
left our shop. Lots of shops
have the facilities to turn
out good printing ours
more than most. The ele-
ment in the finished job that
spells the difference and
brings the smiles is the
thought and craftsmanship
that goes into it.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
Ledhy' S Wife
Dies in ViChy

VICHY, France. April n CINS).
Mrs. William D. Leahy. wife OF
the American ambassador to the
French government at Vichy, died
today.
The ambassadors wife had been
in i'll health for some time and had
undergone an operation recently.
When notified to return ia
Washington for consultation fol-
lowing the return of Pierre Laval
to the Vichy government last
week. Admiral Leahy requested
permission to delay his trip until
his wife recuperated sufficiently to
accompany him. The request was
granted.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
The War Today

BURMA-Chinese forces hold
Yenangyaung. western oil
town. after freeing 1000 Brit
ish troops. page L.
JAPAN a panese bombing
cities in Eastern China in
search for bases of planes
which raided Toxic. Yoko-
hama. Kobe and Nagoya. New
air alerts reported in central
and western Japan. page u
FRANCE-How Laval's threats
forced Petain TO yield told.
Page 2D Germans execute so
French hostages, 20 at ST.
Nazaire in reprisal for recent
British commando raid at
base there. page IL
AUSTRALIAN a Arthur
names general headquarters
staff. page p
RUSSIAN axis intensity air
blows on Leningrad and Muir
mansk. page p
PHILIPPINES - Panay defend
ers withdraw. Dive bombers
pound Corregidor. page D.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
Princess Elizabeth. 16.
Makes Public Debut

LONDON, April, 81 CUP).-
Princess Elizabeth. heir pre-
sumptive to the throne, celebrated
her sixteenth birthday today. max
ing her official debut in public
life.
Tonight she entertains $50 Off
GERS and men of the Grenadier
Guards. She was appointed their
colonel-in-chief a few weeks ago
The grenadiers will parade for her
A small private dance in honor
of the princess coming out" will
be held later. She is expected to
attend a number of official en-.
gagements soon.
Princess Elizabeth's previou:
birthdays were observed only al
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21

family gatherings. King George
and Queen Elizabeth have decided
that she has now reached the age
for official engagements.
Recently suggestions have been
made that Princess Elizabeth be
named Princess of Wales" AL
though the kings eldest son is
usually designated Prince of
Wales, a similar honor never has
been bestowed upon a female heir
apparent to the throne.
Unless a male heir is born TO
King George and Queen Elizabeth,
Princess Elizabeth will succeed her
father on the throne. The queen
observed her forty-frst birthday
last August.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
Gen. Brereton Cited
For Bombing FLIGHTS

A UNITED STATES AIR BASE
IN INDIA, April n (INS).-
Maj. Gen. Lewis III. Brereton.
commander of the United States
Air Forces In India, and the com.
Tat crew members of two flying
fortresses today were awarded
silver stars for 'gallantry in
action and achievement in opera
tons against the enemy"
They took part in the initial
operations of the United States
Air Force in India. attacking Jap
anese warships at Port Blair, IN
the enemy-held Andaman Islands.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
Japs Get Vichy Ships,
Free French Report

LONDON. April 81 (UP).-
Free French diplomatic sources
said today they had confirmed that
the Vichy government had turned
over to Japan $4,000 tons of mer-
chant shipping in French Indo-
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 Trench Tunisis
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21

in North Africa. for use against
the British.
CThe United States state de-
partment last night made known
that 1t had sent a strongly
worded protest to Vichy con-
corning reports that the French
had put several merchantmen at
Jspan's disposal in Indo-China.)
II was pointed out that the re-
ported transfer Of Vichy merchant
ships In French Indo-C China was
before Pierre Laval
took office.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
This Is Krug
Description Is Given Of
Maxi Filler

Here Is the official description
of German Lieut.. Peter Krug, as
broadcast by the police teletype:
Twenty-one years of age, al.
though older looking; 5 feet 81
inches; 157 pounds; brown eyes
and brown wavy hair straight
nose and round chin: very erect
walk and speaks with a decided
German accent. sF
Any one having information on
Krug is requested to call the FIJI
office, Randolph 2905.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
Strong Forces Ready
In India, WaveII SAYS

NEW DELHI. India. April II
(UP) India will be defended by
powerful air and land striking
forces against Japanese invasion
Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell said
today in a broadcast TO the people
Powerful air striking forces
will attack enemy ships as they
approach and on land a striking
force will he concentrated rap
idly against any threatened
point" the British commander
in India said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21

Fl, all day Saturday anc
assisted in his escape from
FIJI agents Sunday morning.
CALL FROM WOMAN
81 got q call about 8 o'clock
Saturday corning from q
woman friend of mine" (Mrs.
Margareta Bertelmann) Stephan
related. "She said something
terrible had happened which she
couldn't tell me over the tele-
phone.
az went to her house like she
instructed me and there was
Krug. He was dressed In cover
ais. He needed to shave and
wash, and he looked tired.
"Krug told me he'd stolen the
coveralls from q Canada n
workman at the concentration
camp before he escaped over the
wire barricade.
81 took him back to my res
taurant and fed him. He was
plenty hungry. Then he told
me the rest of his story.
TOOK TRAIN TO TORONTO
AFTER leaving the prison
camp on April Is, he took
train to Toronto. But I don't
know what he used for money.
At Toronto, he told me, he went
to a priest and told him he was
a Frenchman and q member of
the Normandie crew. He put
the story over, because he's q
very smart boy and could speak
French well. krug had some
forged papers, too.
THE priest gave him q bus
ticket TO Windsor and S1.25.
krug got to Windsor Friday
afternoon and began looking
Continued on Page Fiye)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
Detroiter Reveals
Of Fugitive
Tells Of Playing Host to Officer
Who Fled Internmen+ Camp
By JAMES MELTON

Max Stephan, 49-year-old German res
taurant owner, had an entire cell block at
county Jail today in which to reminisce on his
II hours as host to his hero-an escaped Nazi
flier from a Canadian concentration camp.
Stephan, since 1888, has operated the German
American Restaurant at 1909 East Jefferson avenue,
where, the FIJI say frequent Bund meetings have
been held He apparently is unimpressed by the
federal charges against him.
Instead he talked to voluminously and with some
pleasure how he sheltered uftwae Lieut. Peter Krug
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
Britain TO Ration Fuel

LONDON. April 81 QNS).-
Fuel rationing will be put into
effect in Britain as soon as pos
sible. il was announced officially
today. Coal, coke. gas. electricity
and paraffin will be rationed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21

LONDON. April 81 QNS).-A
spokesman for the British govern
ment announced today that the
war situation will be debated at
a secret session of Commons this
week.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
in THE
NEWS
April IA, 1912

Qeok nhfs Hedrst'
TNHE basic American sys-
tenn Of private enter
prise--which It's social.
istic and c0mmunistic enemies
In the past have called con.
temptuously ~the capitalistic
System"-is the system that
h today doing the wonder.
work of the world In war pro-
auction.
The wisdom of the found
ing fathers, who left enter
prise perfectly untrammeled
In It's development, was never
more justified by It's fruits
than 1t il today.
The advertised~statement
Of the General Motors COrpo-
ration under the heading
"GOOD NEWS FROM THE
PRODUCTION FRONT" is a
concrete instance that the
American system works per-
fectly in peace as well as In
great national crises.
General Motors was built
up by PRIVATE INVEST
MENT and INDIVIDUAL
EFFORT.
It Is INDIVIDUAL INDUS
TRIALlSM i'm all It's strength
and prestige.
The close relation of this
giant (and successfully peace
time enterprise to the needs
Of the country today Is Illus
trated I'm the following state
ment of General Motors:
"The same engineering
knowledge, mass produc-
ton technique and 'knoW-
hotc' that produced high
quality automobiles and
trucks By the millions hare
non been successfully APP
piled to the production IF
aridtion engines, navg Die
sci engines, tanks, guns, air
plane parts and Gmmuni-
ton"
This "KNOW-HOW" has
been the essence of our free
enterprise system since the
formation of the republic.
This "KNOW-HOW" was
developed in the great school
that has developed all that is
worth while I'm our civilization
that is, INDIVIDUAL I'M
TIATIVE, PERSON Al
AGE, SELF-RELI.
ANCE and the hope Of a
|, FAIR PROFIT on invest
ments.
Today this great enterprise
General Motors) has con-
tracts In hand for:
One-third Of the machine
guns; more than one-third OF
the army trucks; more than
half of the navy's Diesel en-
gines; two-fifths of the avia.
ton engines; more than one
fourth of the tanks; three
separate types of complete
airplanes.
This NOW HO W.
learned In the pre-war com
petitive field, has resulted In
an increase i'm value of wal
products of $56,619,168 i'm tn,
first quarter of 194l to S261,
084,959 in the first quarter Of
1912.
From an exclusive pro
Queer of automobiles Genera
Motors shifted over, almos
overnight as 1t were, to tn,
production of FORTY-TWC
kinds of major war materials
This was because the brain
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
The Weather

The sun win set NJ s:ie D. m today,
and rise tomorrow a. $40 a. m.
The moon rose at 1855 a m. today.
ana VIII set tomorrow ~ i.fs q. m.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
Jittery Japan
Hears New
Raid Alarms
Believed Still On
in Vicinity Of
Big Naval Bases
ny ni,ed Press

Fire-fearful Japan had a new
series of air raid alarms today.
Berlin radio reporting a dis
patch Of the official news agency
said the alarm had been sounded
in western and central Japan this
afternoon, Toxic time. and the all
clear had been sounded in central
Japan at ) p. m. a a. m. EWT)
This meant, presumably, that in
western Japan. where the Japa-
nese navy has its strongest bases,
the alarm still continued.
Berlin did not say whether any
hostile planes had appeared over
Japan today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
SEARCH GOES on

Although Stephan stated he put
Krug on a Chicago bus Sunday
morning John S. Buags, LOCAL FBI
chief, said the search has not been
Abandoned in Detroit.
This was after Joseph O'Malley,
of 8275 Epworth boulevard, driver
of the bus. said nobody answering
Krug's description had been aboard
between Detroit and Chicago.
About 20 customers who were
in the restaurant when Stephan
was arrested by FBI agents were
brought TO headquarters and ques-
toned but were later released.
Whether any besides Stephan and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
Ndzis Butcher
SO French in
7 Repriisd|s
80 Hostages Killed
at Rouen. 20 More
at St. Nazaire
BY RALPH HEINZEN
United Press star Correspondent


VICHY, France. April 21.-Ger-
man military authorities have ex-
ecuted 20 more French hostages
at st. Nazaire in reprisal for the
recent British commando raid on
the important submarine base
there, IL was made known today.
News of the executions was re-
ceived here shortly after chief of
government Pierre Laval left sud-
denly for Paris at 5 a. m. TO con-
tact the Germans on his coiiabo-
Irationist program.
Thirty hostages had been shot
at Rouen yesterday in revenge for
the derailing of a German troop
train in which "A German soldiers
were killed.
tINS reported that German
authorities IN occupied France
have directe d that French
civilians in the future be carried
on all Nazi troop trains to pre-
vent recurrence of attacks
against troop-laden trains)
TAKEN FROM CAMP
The hostages, completely inno-
cent of the bombing. were taken
from a concentration camp at
which Free French synpathizers
and alleged Communists" were
held.
London reported that the
Germans intended 10 shoot so
more innocent French patriots
Thursday unless those response
BILE for the train wreck were
arrested.
(Thirty-five hostages had been
shot at Calais last week. Thus
the total of new killings, in a
German repression campaign,
CONTINUED on Next Page, Col. a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
PYINMANI STILL HELD

Chinese forces are still holding
Pyinmani. although japanese ar
tillery is bombarding points to the
north.
On the Salween front the Chi
nese are holding back the enemy
40 miles south of Likaw.
The spokesman denied reports
that the United Nations command
in Burma was not unified, stating
that the British were in supreme
command. although Chinese troops
are engaged in action everywhere.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
Naturalized Citizen
Faces S Years, Fine
for ConceaIine Foe
BY HENRY CANTN

A German restaurant proprietor
and a defense workers wife are
federal prisoners here today on
charges of harboring an escaped
Nazi flying officer, Who is the OBJ
ject of the first far-flung manhunt
for an enemy prisoner in this coun-
try since the outbreak of the war.
The fugitive is luftwaffe Lieut..
Peter Krug. 81. who fled Cana
dian concentration camp April 10,
miraculously landed safely in
Detroit, Friday night and just as
neatly eluded F'BI agents Sunday
morning.
However, he escaped the Oman
trap here only with the aid of
Max Stephan. 40, owner of a
restaurant at 1909 East jefferson
avenue, and Mrs. Margareta Ber-
lehman, about 50. of 259 South
Philip avenue, FBI agents said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
STRIKE AIR FIELDS

Dispatches of the Chinese GEN.
trail news agency said the Japa-
.nese planes concentrated on air
fields.
Admission that Saturdays raid
damaged japanese railroads was
contained today in a German dis
patch from Toxic that the minis
tiers Of railways and transportation
had reported transportation "only
slightly disrupted" They said rail-
road postal service was resumed
soon after the raid"
japanese dispatches said ITEM
porary air raid precautions" were
suspended in all parts of Japan
yesterday and Toxic homes and
streets were lighted normally last
night. This meant that for more
than az hours Japan had been
under an emergency blackout.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
CHINA BOMBED

Even before today's alarms.
Japan had opened 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 Toxic and other great
cities.
Five formations Of Japanese
planes made raids over a wide
area yesterday. They centered
their attacks in Kiangsi province
and bombed at least four cities
Yushan, Khan. Yukiang and Yukan.
YuShan is 1875 miles from
Toxic and 1850 miles from Kobe
and Osaka, the heart of Japanese
war industry.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
BRITISH CLAIM CREDIT

THE British continued to
claim joint credit for recapture
of Yenangyaung. stating that
the town was retaken after a
joint attack by British forces
from the south and Chinese
from the north.
Reinforced Japanese forces
around Bawlaje and Loik aw
were said TO be exerting heavy
pressure on British troops.
american volunteer fiiers
attached 10 the Chinese army
were credited with shooting
down one japanese plane yes
terday)
Chinese troops are now fighting
on three major Burma battle
fronts. il was announced-the val.
legs of the Irrawaddy, Sittang and
Salween rivers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
HOW 7 HID NAu HERE
AND HELPED ESCAPE
Rescued
BritOnS to
Join Allies

Init News Service stan Correspondent
CHUNCKING, China. April n.
Seven thousand trapped British
troops who were rescued when
Chinese forces in one of the blood
lest battles of the war recaptured
the city of Yenangyaung and its
surrounding oil fields are fit and
ready TO fight again. a Chinese
military spokesman announced to-
day.
The city was retaken Sunday
after bitter fighting, it was an
nounced.
The Chinese and British are still
in control OF Yenangyaung and are
combating a new japanese attack
three miles south Of the city.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21
TODAY-In The Times

Continued on Next Page, Col. 5,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-21

FORECAST
For Detroit
and vicinity:
Somewhat
warmer
today and
tomorrow;
gentle TO
moderate
winds.
I