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Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08

IT'S victim was an Ell Centre faith
er, Dewey Smalling, janltor at Cen
tral Union High school, and its SUD-
iect was Arlis Smalling, his SON.
who is a Japanese prisoner OF war
captured at Guam.
Prisoners of the japanese are not
allowed to write letters nome, yet
the rumor which gained wide cir
culation in El Centro Saturday SUD
Young Smalling had written to ms
father. The elder Smalling SAID he
had received no letter.
Censors examine minutely every
letter passing between even allied
nations in the war, yet gossip Salo
there was a message under the pos
tage stamp-most obvious OF all
places-on the supposed letter the
elder Smalling had allegedly recelV-
ed. Smalling told Sheriff Robert w.
Ware that, since he had received
no letter, obviously there could
have been no message under pos
tage stamp which was non-eXlstenI
The letter which was tigment
of gossip told how pleasant life was
in a Japanese concentration camp
said the spreading rumor, but un-
der the postage stamp was another
story Cstill according to rumor.
II was. said the rumor, MY tongue
Continued on Page 6; Column II
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08
0CD TO Distribute
Anti-Raid Goods

WASHINGTON, March 7. CUP)-
The Office of Civilian Defense to-
day arranged for distribution-some
months hence-of $100, 1000, 900 worth
of antiair raid material. Plans pro-
ceeded for practice blackouts of
whole coastal areas.
The gas masks, decontamination
and firefighting equipment and re-
lated items will be spread extreme
~ thin" Director James M Lands
revealed yesterday.
1t was understood months might
elapse before some of it-esNecially
civilian gas masks-would reach the
public.
Officials said they did not anti
cipate any early need for the masks
since use of gas by the enemy is
unlikely. If any token" bombin,,
raids are made, they felt the enemy
most likely would use incendiary
bombs.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08
MINERS MILK
Lewis Goes Dairying

were made members. Ga GassaWaN
q coal miner from Kentucky, is its
president.
District so was chartered by the
UNIV to organize chemical workers
and others associated in the manu-
facture of coal by-products. 1t has
the entire nation as its field and
claims about $1,000 members.
Included in its membership are
workers in plants making lirft'E
perfume soap, insecticides ami Dut-
tons. Officials said buttons are the
link between miners and dalrymen.
Chemical Dy-proGucts o. coal go m
to the making of buttons. so uoeS
caSein. a by-products OF milk.
Lewis emphasized the oreaniZa-
ton drive is strictly a UNIV project
not a CIO enterprise, and will be
financed by the miners
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08
R. R. Commission
Defense Agency

SAN FRANCISCO, March 7 -
(UP)-Govelnor Olson today des-
ignated the California Railroad
Commission an official agency Of
the state council of defense and
empowered it to deal with all de-
fense matters pertaining to trans
portation and utility agencies un-
der its jurisdiction.
The commission Olson directed
to sumit to him suggestions, plans
and recommendations dealing with
the emergency"
The state department of finance
recently allocated SITS, 493 from the
state emergency and transportation
funds to defray cost of studies re-
quested by federal, state and mill
tary agencies.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08
Women Join Up to
Ferry warpIanes

NEW YORK. March 7 (UP) -
Jacquelin Cochran has completed a
very successful" recruiting tour OF
% states to select women pilots to
ferry warplanes from English fac
cries to airfields in the British
Isles. it was learned today.
Miss Cochran, holder of the wo-
mems coast forecast airplane speed
record and the first woman to ferry
bomber across the Atlantic to
Great Britain. is expected to lead
the first group of rs of $4,000-a-
wear United States women pilots,
who will serve under the British
Air Transport Auxiliary and the
Royal Air forcc.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08

HOOD WAS JIIt IIISC WIl4Itoo UOI"I
before Rep. John H. Tclans COM
mittee investigating wartime mi
grafton problems, particularly re-
moval of japanese from the Pa
cific coast.
There is cooperation and coor-
dination between the intelligence
service and the FBI," Hood said.
I'VE have been advised of this by
those agencies and we do not feel
that Mayor BoWron's statement
is a true statement of the
facts"
He answered the mayors state
ment that the FBI was not the
proper authority to deal with mat
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08

WASHINGTON, March 7-tUP)
Secretary CT Navy Frank Knox
aid today that the navy was in
estigating with a great deal OF
gor" the circumstances surround
9 a news story by a British ccr-
Dondent about American fleet
transport movements in the
southwest Pacific.
Knox, emerging from a wal
council meeting with President
Roosevelt, was questioned about a
story sent to the London Daily
Mail by one Of that newspaper S
correspondents, Waiter Farr, VINO
travelled with A. U S. convoy.
You may be sure" the secretary
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08

IIIg may Dc requlTed, the cOunclIS
national marketing committee said
reduced automobile use and in
creased gasoline production as a
by-product of new war products
had actually increased the normal
supply.
B. L. Majewski, committee chair
man, said a transportation shortage
may make rationing desirable in
the Pacific northwest and on the
east coast, but described these con-
ditions as local and temporary and
said they do not effect the rest of
the country.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08

Majewski attacked punitive ra-
tioning intended to limit use, of
tires already on cars owned by the
American public"
Properly used, tires now on cars
will run for two or three years or
more" he declared.
We believe 1t would be a great
mistake to slow down the automo-
tive transportation system at this
time and thereby the whole tempo
OF business and industry. merely
as means OF equalizing conditions
all over the country"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08

ters involving military informatlop
by pointing out that almost 20G
of our men are reserve officers IN
the army"
Hood said all infolmatiCl rela-
tive to the war effort and obtained
by his men was referred immed-
lately to the army and navy in
telligence services.
Since September, 1889" he SAID
"and not only since declaration of
war, the three agencies have been
IN constant collaboration en- ma
tiCnal defense matters"
Hood reported that since Dec. Z,
1872 enemy aliens have been ar
rested in the Los Angeles area.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08
NEWS REPORT
? NCERS NAVY

said, that we are checking or
that-and that we're doing it with
a great deal of vigor."
American correspondents were
believed to have travelled with the
same convoy. but nothing has been
heard from them
Asked if ne was taking the mat
ter I'D with British authorities
Knox replied: we certainly are
Knox said the British cores
pondents was enjoying the cour-
tesy of an American ship with the
understanding that anything ne
dispatched would be subject to OF
ficial scrutiny. The secretary
withheld further comment pending
complete investigation.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08
ALLIES MASS IN AUSTRALIA FOR OFFENSIVE
p AMBLINe
X EpoRTER
You Name It

You Name It
One of the proudest fishers
all Imperial Valley was Mrs
Lanier
She caught a 16 inch fish
was so elated that she boa
bit
See this lovely bass l caug
she would say.
Eyebrows were lifted, Skeptical
eyes went over the fish.
That's not a bass" one friend
finally informed her. Its a cat
fish" That worried her.
Later on she showed it to Glen
Edgar with a remark about it being
a bass.
That isn't a bass" he said cold
ly. IT'S a carp"
Now she doesn't know what she
caught
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08

as a result of the virtual loss OF
Java. from which the enemy may
strike southeastward against New
Guinea as a stepping stcne for in
vaSion thrusts at Australia.
In Java, the Dutch still were
fighting. but they were tired, out
numbered and without hope of i'm
mediate reinforcement. Even wire
less communication with the noun
tain stronghold of Bandoeng was
severed, possibly as result of jap
aneSe entry into or Dutch with
drawal from that temporary capi-
tai
The last dispatch transmitted by
the Aneta news agency from Band
oeng by wireless said the enemy
had broken through the first line
of defenseS of a volcanic mountain
side north of the city and was at
tacking in greatly superior numbers
behind steady aerial bombing.
Shortly thereafter Tokyo radio
reoprted that the Japanese were
within few miles of Bandoeng
and that the Dutch were retreat
ing southwark through the noun
tains, possible in hopes of eyacu-
ating some troops from the south
| coast.
BASE SURROUNDED
The Tokyo broadcast said that
SCerabaja naval base was sur
rounded and Vichy radio reported
that japanese parachutists had
seized MADEIRA island off Soera-
baja. The Japanese asserted that
the collapse of Java's defenses was
matter of "a few days"
Australian as well as Dutch dis
patches were generally in line with
the japanese claims, although
fighting continued in the noun
tains The Dutch said that condi-
tlonS, including enemy pir con-
troll, had SO exhausted the defend
erS that they apparently could not
continue sufficient resistance.
Tokyo propaganda brdadcasts
tcld of mass" air attacks on Band
oeng and Berlin reported that
Dutch forces north of that noun
tain stronghold had been "cut off,
as the battle developed. From
Australia came reports that Dutch
counteroffensive had failed at the
decisive moment due to lack of air
strength and that BG4ldoeng was
virtually besieged" by Japanese
forces that might soon blanket the
island under the silence of occu-
patton
TANKS IN BURMA
In Burma, American-m tanks
were aiding the British in counter
thrustS about 10 miles northeast
OF Rangoon where all reports indi-
Gated that the Japanese invasion
drive had been stalled for days.
In the Philippines, a small Jap
anese force. accompanied by tanks,
'anded at Calapan on the island
Of Mindoro. Immediately south of
Luzon island, a war department
communique reported
In the southwest Pacific it was
reported that a big American con-
voy was maSSing men and material
not only for defense of Australia
but for offensive action that al
ready may have been started at
sea.
Although Japanese planes again
bombed the New Guinea ports OF
Moresby and Lac, dispatches from
Honolulu and from a London Daily
Mail correspondent in Australia in
dicated that the fight was being
carried to the enemy with SHARP
Continued on Page 6, col q
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08

rSOcletleS ana associations were ar
rested for internment in a series
/ of raids near airports and military
posts. Considerable contraband also
was seized.
The largest number of seizures
was in the Sacramento area where
% persons were arrested. Twenty
were seized in the Salinas Watson
vile district, II IN Marin county,
and l3 in the Oakland-EaSt Bay
area.
The raiders today centered their
operations around Stockton and
/ Sacramento.
These japanese apparently fell
within the first of five categories
set up by the Western Defense COM
mand for future evacuation-the
potentially dangerous" aliens AMI
citizens who might try their hand
at sabotage or fifth column work.
OTHER ALIENS
The other four classes are alien
Japanese, japanese born in the
I United States, German aliens and
Italian aliens. They will be moved
by degrees to evacuation centers il
the Owens and Palo Verde valleys
for eventual distribution at sites
remote from the vital coast line.
The arm" meanwhile reassured
the aliens they will receive consider
ate treatment compatible with mill
tary precautions. The nationals OF
the belligerent countries were told
to remain calm and not to dispose
hastily of their property.
Keep your balance said the
Western Defense Command. Con
Unue your work on your crops until
such time as the exclusion of enemy
aliens and Japanese Americans from
strategic areas is officially ordered.
Exclusion has not yet been ordered.
EVIDENCE OF LOYAI ~
The army reiterated the depart
ment of agriculture's statement that
the best possible evidence of Loyal
" To the United States would be
the continuation of farming opera
tiOns.
san Diego county already has
Continued on Page 6; Column u
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08
EVIDENCE LOYAL TY
Three Months Ago
Attack on Hawaii

Saturday, March 7, Was
the third monthly dnniUer-
Sary of Pearl HarbOr and
Americas entry into World
Var No. 2.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08
Japanese Rolling
Across Java i'm
Wake Of Planes
Loss of Dutch Possession Leaves Only
Three Possible Bases for Action by
United Nations TO Regain Territory
BY UNITED PRESS

The United Nations reported massing offensive
strength southwest Pacific Saturday in effort
to offset Japan's apparent triumph in Java.
Australia India and China emerged main bases for
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08
FBI ReneWs Jap
Alien RoundupS

SAN FRANCISCO, March 7. (UP)-Federa agents
continued their roundup of p0tentay dangerous axis
aliens today preparation for the eventual evacuation OF
all Japanes1 from four Pacific coast states.
At least 81 Japanese affiliated with secret military
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08
Cos RdtioninQ
Not N Necessurv

CHICAGO, March 7. (UP)-The petroleum industry
war council today declared that gasoline rationing is un
ec3ssary because there surplus and is increasing
Replying to recent statements by government spokes
that ratonng may be required the councils national
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08

Famous Names
Perhaps you have been wonder
ing how Luray Mouser happened
to have his first name.
It's an interesting story. Some
of his ancestors were said to have
discovered the cayerns of Luray
near LuraV, Va.
Some members of the Mouser
family thought this interesting fact
should be handed down III the fam
lily via the name route. He was
the one selected to carry the ira
dition
He was irritated no end Friday
when someone dumped a whole
pile of literature on the court
house steps. literature written about
the beautiful caverns of Luray.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08
It's Untrue, But
Gossip Goes Or
Rumor Gives False Story Wide Circle
OfHearers Desp pite Repeated Warnings
AGAINST Spreading Improved Reports

Cossin reached the ultimate in the realm of the rdl
culous-and of EMBELLISHMENTS IN Ell Centro ..,..
# was gossip fabricated out Of pure untfuth "lVout
on nossbe foundation fact+he sort of gossip against
; E r loadar in America has warned time and again
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08
FBI Challenges
Disunity Charge

LOS ANGELES, March Z. (UP)-Richard Hood, TO-
chief of the Federal Bureau of investigations today cha
lenged Mayor Fletcher BOwrons statement before con
gressiona committee that there lack of coorrauol
between the FBI and army and navy intelligence services
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08

Too Generous
Bob Rayburn declared that RR
did not give a true report of the
Gen. Douglas Macarthur story
about fighting planes.
What you should have said, y
Bob insisted, was, that Macarthur
was trying to get a priority num-
Der so he could get one of those
fighter planes
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08

Too, Too Sweet
Big Jim Dawson, sometimes af-
fectionately known as Windy"
looks as sweet as peaches in that
swanky background he has fixed
up for himself at Seventh and
Main.
Here he sits, all posed in the Gen.
ter a a V-shaped arrangement OF
cars
All he needs to make the place
look like a boudoir is little scat
tering of pink and blue bows.
The Crack Shot
Walter Bryant believes in train
ing youngsters in defense and Of
fense. His four-year-old son had
a bow and arrow. He shot at trees
and such uninteresting things.
That grew tiresome AS he was
wandering around, the boy sud-
denly came up behind a Negro
gardner bending over a flower bed.
Ping!
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08
WEATHER

Maximum temperature Friday 81, minimum Satur-
day 46; I'm. temperature Saturday 81, humidity
%; noon temperature Saturday 65, humidity 13;
5 pm temperature Friday 8O humidity II.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-08

Butter-LOs Angeles Extra &c; Grade A Cream
sic; Manufacturing Milk 81; Route Gathered
Cream 39c.
IA HAY-U s. No. l S74-2A so: U. s. NJ
leafy l. V. S22.5O-23.5O; No. S2O-21; Sept Flax
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-11

been with the 18th Infantry for
the past Is months. AS present
he is overseas.
Four other sons, including Al
Trombley, Mount Clemens pa
trolman, arc eligible for the
draft.
Only God can be believ ID
without risk.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-11
Food-tor-War Old Theme
10 Illinois Ancient

ELDRED, H., Sept. l1.-(P)
Over in Hurricane Hollow,
Warren Becky. "a. is fattening
his pigs in his third food-for-vic-
tory war effort.
Back in the Civil War days
when his cousins and uncles were
in the Union blue, serving with
the old 6fst Regiment, Warren
tried to enlist at the age of Ia.
The examining surgeon told him
he was too light to carry SOL
dier's kit, but he could help the
army by raising food.
Refrigeration and transporta-
ton being what they were then,
Warren and his father chose to
raise navy beans. They found
eight bushels of seed. enough to
plant a field on the Hurricane
Hollow farm.
This not only furnished the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-11

n snipers under her. She says
she is determined to shoot every
fascist she finds in Russia -
partly because she hates the
breed and partly to avenge the
death Of her husband, who was
killed in action six months ago.
Lieut.. Pavlichenko is a dele
gate to the International Stu
dent Assembly here. She says
that though the law exempts
Russian students from the draft,
many more than are n e e d e d
have volunteered. But the So
Wet government accepts only a
small percentage, and urge S
most students to 60 on study
ing because of the need for tech
nicians.
She has no intention Of stay
ing in the army after the war
is won, but expects to return to
the university and continue her
studies in history-her favorite
subject.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-11
Draffees Take
Physical Tests
Group Sent to
Induction Station

A large group of selectees left
the USO Club on Broadway this
morning for the Detroit Induc-
ton station where all will I'M
dergo Army physical examina-
tions.
Those accepted will be in
Quoted and placed in the Army
of the United States reserve.
They will be called TO active
service about two weeks hence.
Francis st. Denis, WPA rec
reational director, was leader of
the group that included some of
Mount Clemens best know n
men. A list of those accepted
will appear in The Daily Mont
tor-Leader on Monday.
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Rotarians Honor
Retired President

George Hargreaves, immedi-
ate past president of the Rotary
Club, yesterday was welcomed
into the Past Presidents club
by William T. Kelly. DR.. Leslie
Rutter was in charge.
After being examined by Drs.
George Moore and A. A. Thomp-
son, Hargreaves was welcomed
into the Past Presidents club
by William T. Kelly. DR.. Leslie
Rutter was in charge.
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'Spotters Keep Score for Russia's Ace Girl Snipe

Union Army with a lot of
BEANS" Beeby chuckled, "but
paid off the mortgage my father
had given when he bought the
farm in 1857"
The Beeby farm was green
with beans for doughboys in
1917 and 1918, but in this third
war the veteran farmer is pro-
ducing meat.
They seem to need pork for
the army and | am going to help
ait can, he said. Becky had
been coasting along with two or
three sows. but this year he's
upped his lot to seven.
Becky rents his crop land to
neighbors and feeds his pigs on
the rent crops. His kid brother,
Henry, aged 70, drives to town
for supplies and helps with the
housekeeping.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-11
Larceny Nets
90.Day Term
Builder Admits
Petty Charge

Harold Paschke, 43-year-old
Harsens Island contractor, was
in the county Jail today serving
a 90 days Jail sentence imposed
by Justice Frank f. Jeanette
after he pleaded guilty Tuesday
to petty larceny.
Paschke admitted taking S35
from Lounett Bright, of Erin
township, for work he later fail
ed to perform. Assistant Prose
cutor Howard r. Carroll repre-
sented the state.
Paschke faces circuit court
trial on a charge of larceny by
conversion. Willard Wallace,
trustee of the Church of Christ
in St. Clair Shores. charges
Paschke fleeced the church out
of $500.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-11
BY ANN FRANCE WILSON


NEA Service staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 =
Lyudmila Pavlichenko doesn't
care if anyone believes she &C
tually killed 800 Germans. But
IL you take the trouble to ask
her she'll tell you how she
knows the exact number and
how it is definitely known that
Lieut.. Vladimir Pavlichenko,
her visitor here, popped
off 152 Nazis with 154 bullets.
AS a sniper, she explains, she
had two spoilers assigned to
her. Since every shot fired be-
trays the position of the sniper
to the en- y, sniper only
shoots to kill. The spoilers, arm
ed with field glasses, point out
the objective to the S n p e +,
whose rifle h s telescope
sight. They watch the target;
note whether the bullet went
wild, wounded the enemy or
killed him. That's how the snip
ers' scores are kept, she says.
The 26-year-old sharpshooter
told me her story in the home
of Gen. Alexander Belyev, head
of the Soviet Purchasing Com
mission. First of all, she doesn't
like to he rallied q "pl1errilla ="
She's a real soldier, a full-fledg-
ed lieutenant in the Soviet Ar
my with 600 (the number is a
military secreD men and Wom-
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ADMITS CHARGE

Irwin Hoyt, as, of AZ Fessen-
den, paid fine and costs total
ing S7.45 after he pleaded guilty
to drunk and disorderly charge
upon arraignment before Justice
Frank Z. Jeanette this morning.
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Thomas Trombley
Joins u S. Marines

Thomas Trombley, 81, son of
Mrs. George 7. Trombley, 1886
Trombley, Harrison township, is
with the u. S. Marines at San
Diego, Calf. today following his
enlistment on Monday.
Another son, Anthony, 81, has
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-11
DOG RITES CHILD

Joyce Pelkey, 8. of 70 Gibbs
was bitten about the mouth and
left shoulder by a neighbours dog
yesterday, her parents told pol
ice.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-19

Detroiters,I interviewed today by the
Times inauiring reporter on the question:
"Will an A gas ration book be enough for
your" agreed almost TO the man, that il
wouldn't.
One man. the only one. Arnold Kraaz
of 1449 Leverette avenue, war worker
with a son in the army, was we'll satisfied
with his "A" book:
"Tf my son can walk IS miles q day In
the army guess I can walk three miles Ia
work and back II have To. No, sir. that
four gallons a week IL plenty for me-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-19

has done and is doing to aid the
Allied cause. Most important, OF
course, is her work al the AC
Spark Plug division, where she is
a machine operator making parts
Tor the powerful machine guns
pouring of the assembly line al
triple the speed called for in the
original war department contract.
In addition TO operating a ma.
chine. she has educated herself 70
fill in on any of the many other
jobs in her department. Thus
when another operator is off on
the swing shift and a particular
JOB needs doing Barbara Ann is
available TO lend a helping hand.
'T decided several months ago
I could make myself more valu-
able In the war effort n 4 could
do more than one thing I'm the
department, and I am certainly
happy I've been able 20 M I'm
on Important Jobs when one Of
the other girls happened 20 be.
tContinued on Page xs)