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Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
Size of Japanese
Fleet in Battle
Told by British

LONDON. March 17-CUP) A
statement by Lord Strabolgi in the
House of Lords today revealed
Japan'S fleet in the battle of Java
comprised II cruisers. five aircraft
carriers, destroyers and 25 sub
marines.
Strabolei said Dutch Premier
p S Gerbrandy had complained TO
the admiralty because of the failure
of the official American British
communique tc reveal the size of
the force which the united nations
squadrCa opposed.
Strabolgi urged that further in
formation on the Java battle be
made public and said tho admiralty
had erred en- the side of rcticencc
1T has to be most carefully read
for one TO realize2 the tremendous
odds to which our vessels were eX-
posed. he said. and which shed
an even greater luSter on our feat
in driving them away"
The official COmmuniquc on the
Java battle reported that - I'll
tied nations WarShips, including five
cruisers and seven destroyerS. were
lest and that approximately eight
japanese WarShipS We're sunk or
damaged.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17

officials allocatcd Is over The first
announced quota El Centro was al
lotted II of them Most of these,
t was agreed, will go for trucks be-
ing used in construction Of the fed
er1l airport west of FL Centro.
Retread and recapped tires can
he al'0cated to trucks only, the
board members said, and are not
available for passenger cars. Own
els of emergency cars, those of doc
tors nurses. police, and firemen
must obtain new tires rather than
reuead or recapped ones.
Factories are still manufacturing
school buses but cannot guarantee
tC equip them with rubber. The
factories will deliver the buses, it
was understood, if the purchasers
will put on the rubber
Roy Johnston, Ell Centro rationing
board clerk, will interview the pub
liz at city hal on Monday and
Wednesday afternoons only.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
Contracts Let on
234 New Ships

WASHINGTON. March II up
The maritime commission today
brought to 145S the number of
emergency cargo vessels contracted
for by awarding contracts for 234
ships and two shipyards to Higgins
Industries. Inc. of New Orleans,
La, and the w A. Bechtel Co. of
San Francisco, California
The Higgins contract, largest sin
gle order since the Liberty Ship
program began February. l94l. calls
for 200 vessels to be built in a Ship
yard to be constructed near New
Or'eans. These vessels will be built
On an assembly line and must be
completed and delivered by Dec 81.
I943.
The New Orleans shipyards will
house % shipways, with six new
ways to be set up at the new Bech-
el plant in Sausalito. Cal.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
HedId Announces
County Completing
Japanese Records

Imperial-~county records of the
alien Japanese residents neared
completion Tuesday as officials OBJ
tanned exact addresses in IJce of
post office box and rural route
numbers a few of them gave in the
last registration in the county court
house.
1t was necessary to call a few
Japanese back for more exact data"
District Attorney Elmer Heald said
Tuesday We sent notices to them
and they brought in the requested
information"
Heald also said that some land
lords had cooperated satisfactorily
and agreed not to rent or lease land
q alien japanese.
We obtained a record of all Jap
aneSe residents in the county and
descriptions of an farming property
HaSed or rented to them," Heald
aid We needed these records in
Imperial county and since similar
federal records arc not available to
IS, we had TO get a separate county
record These records will be valu-
able when the Japanese evacuation
is ordered" "
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17

since C>t lalG-but the thirc
IN the last i months began at
p. m. EWT in the departmental
auditorium
Secretary of War Henry L. Stim.
sen reach.ne into the historical
sold fish bowl" which has been
used for every manpower lottery
since July 20 1917 drew the first
number
During tha lew minutes preceding.
Big Gen Lewis 3 Hershey. Sc
lecuve service director. spoke on
the significance Of the event which
came shortly after announcement
Of American troops II Australia.
1000 NUMBERS
With 7 600 capSuled order mum
bers to be drawn. Selective service
officials expected the lottery TO
last all night. as did the first two
lotteries held under the Selective
service act Of 1910 on Oct 90 1910
and July = 1871
TonightS lottery Will determine
the order IN which men in the age
groups 20 thrcueh u and 36 through
a. who registered Feb. l6 will be
called for EXAMINATION on their
eligibility for the armed forces
Their serial numbers already have
been made available by $500 local
draft boards
CALL IN JUNE
However. none OF these men will
be called to the colors until early
summer probably in June. although
many of them Will receive question
naires as soon as local order lists
and other details have been organ
lied.
But thereafter the mCl receiving
order numbers tonight will be
called considerably faster than men
already on local draft board ros-
ters The procedure will work as
follows:
If a Iccal board is called upon
TO provide 100 men for induction,
it will draw men from the old order
list and the new order list accord
ing to the number of registrants il
has available IN each group.
If for instance the board has
100 men available from the original
list and 600 from the new list, the
proportion would be nine to one
Ten men would be called from the
old list and 80 from the new list.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
Spring Offensive
BV Axis Nations
Believed Nearinq

Continued from page one
aircraft carrier was being hunted
in the vicinity of New Guinea but
had not been located definitely.
Prime Minister John Curtin of
Australia denied that the Japanese
have made new landings on that
sland springtcard for attack On
the Australian mainland. One
rumor was that the japanese had
landed On the south coast of New
Guinea prepara ;5ry TO atIcking
Port Moresby, the Australian base
which controls Torres strait
Australians. commenting upon tha
announcement by Secretary Of War
Henry L StimSCn that U. S. forces
have arrived IN Australia said that
the united nations strategy was TO
mass neavy forces On the subcon-
tinent first to stop the Japanese
and then to take the offensive
against them.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17

one of the most grueSome motion
pictures ever seen in this or any
other town
The film. which hundreds saw
during the Imperial County fair.
was brought here by County Health
Inspector Lawrence Niles and Coun-
ty Pound Master Harold Schweitzer
in the hope that it would convince
FL CentranS of the very real dam
ser that is caused when dog owners
neglect or refuse to have their pets
immunlzed against rabies.
1t shows not only the effects of
rabies on the dogs themselves. bus
records with gripping realism the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
Flood Peril Seen
In Arizona Runoff

PHOENIX, March II cUPD
Flood dangers may develop when
storgae dams on the Verde and Salt
rivers overflow this spring with wa
ter from melting SHOWS on the
higher elevations, weather bureau
experts forecast today.
Snowfall this winter has been
greater than in 1940-41. one of the
Wettest seasons in history. Rain in
any great volume would fill the
reservoirs ana probably send a flood
toward the loWlands, possibly in
undating Phoenix.
Meanwhile, a col rain was re-
ported falling in many sections and
siX-inch snowfall was recorded at
Flagstaff, center of the storm.
Light snow fell in the Globe
Miami district and the higher ele-
Va Gtions to the south.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17

preme command in Australia eli
makes the most colorful career in
mcdern U S. military history He
has gone throueh the entire gamut
OF military honors. rising in y
Years from lieutenant to the Ul
tied States ArmyS youngest chief
of staff.
All his life he has been identified
with the Philippines where he saw
his first overseas service in 1903
MacArthur's shift heightened en-
thuSiaSm stirred by the war depart
ment'S disclosure asst night that
"ccnslderaole numOers" of American
troops have arrived in Australia.
They constitute the second
american eXpeditionary fcrce" of
ficially announced to have landed
on foreign shores. The first arrived
in north Ireland on Jan. c6
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17

action of this dread disease on hu-
man beings An actual case of a
little boy who had been bitten DIV
a rabid dog was filmed just a few
hours before the child died what
medical science calls the most hor-
rible death known
Mayor Hatton and the health of
ficerS urged parents to attend the
council meeting and view the pic-
ture.
Dog owners and officials who OBJ
Ject to enforced vaccination of pets
have only to see this picture to
change their attitude toward rabies .
Schweitzer said
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
LULL IN BURMA

The lull in Burma continued.
Lieut. Gen. Harold Alexander. Brit
ISL commander. said that new tao
tics and strategy have been devised
70 meet the Japanese threat. The
japanese were moving slowly up to-
ward the Tharrawaddy oil fields
and Prone 80 miles n1rth north
west Ct Rangoon. A second column
was advancing along the Sittan3
river. Tokyo reported that Bassein,
a small por, 100 miles west of Ran
goon, has been encircled and that
japanese columns are now 100 miles
north Of RangCon.
The usually inaccurate Vichy
radio reported that a new offen-
Sive has been launched against Ba
taan defense positions in the Philip
pines There was no Official con
flrmatlon that the long lull on the
Bataan front has been broken.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
New Alien Zones
Include 8 States
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tinued full production on vital agri-
cultural lands of Japanese and
others vacating the military zones,
was placed in operation by the
Farm Security Administration.
The program, ordered by the
Western Defense Command and
Fourth Army, establishes supervi-
sion for fair disposition of evacuat-
ed land and aid to qualified farmers
in taking over the land.
Fifty field agents began opera
tions today in service centers'
opened at offices of the u S. en-
ployment service in Washington,
oregon and southern Arizona.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
Nations Welcome
Macarthur News
As Best Since War
Continued rom Page One

CONTINUED trom Page One
forces abroad When he SAID.
There's ec.ne q be something
happenlne down there now
Chairman Ton CCnnally. D, Tex
Of the senate fogeiEn relations COM
mittee spoke 1or congress. He said
1t Is fortunate for the civilized
world toat Macarthur is there"
Its spleuGldt" cried Walter
Nash. New Zealand's minister to
Washington
ANECDOTE RECALLED
CnucklIne Britishers told over
again the message which they like
to believe Macarthur sent to the
governor Of California after the
Japanese submarine shelled a south
ern California oil refinery. That
messd5e, according to the yarn tOlG
in London was. Hold out 80 days
and will send YOU reinforcements.
ITS really a damned fine show, -
the British military commentator
in LonGCn exclaimed. for COM
mander like that to be placed at
the head Of the troops in Australia.
1t shows that We are all really il
the party I can't think of anyone
better and I'm sure the Australians
feel the same way"
BEST NEWS YET
Chairman Carl Vinson of the
house naval affairs committee call
ed the Macarthur appointment the
best news of the war" and added
we've got 10 hold Australia and
now we will hold it"
CnaiIh.an robert R. Reynolds Of
the senate military affairs commit
tee said: L am thoroughly convinc-
ed as are the commanders of the
United Nations. that Macarthur is
one of the worlds outstanding gen.
era.s. I Is most fortunate that this
has happened"
In Washington the house broke
into applause when Chairman J.
Buell. Snyder D. Pa of the military
appropriations subcommittee an
nCurced NacArthur's new assign
ment.
! want 70 add" said snyder, to
the sWiVel-chalr generals, that there
are movements IN progress through
out the globe which will be just as
pleasing 10 the American public as
this one.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
Ulster Scene of
Raids by Police

BELFAST. March 17-oUP' - St.
Fatrick's Lay was observed in III
ster with police raids ca the homes
Of hundreds Of protcstant,, inelud-
ing scme Presbyterian ministers,
who are members Of the Ulster
Union Club" fosterinH greater
friendship with Fire.
Three members Of the oreani21-
ton were held but r charges were
filed.
"Gestapo methods were employed
in some instances y what We in
terpret only as an attcmp' to breal;
up a protestant Organizations de
VCticn to the cause Cf union be-
tween north and south Ireland, a
move obnoxious to the northern Ire
land government he said
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
Flood Of Dollars
Goes TO Treasury

WASHINGTON, March II up
Internal revenue officials today
counted the flood of dollars paid by
Americans on the greatest tax COL
lection day in history
Preliminary estimates from key
cities indicated that the government
would collect between 80 and 100
per cent more this year than l
year ago.
Taxpayers jammed internal rcve-
nue. offices all day yesterday pay
ing their first installment of war
taxes before the midnight dead
line. Returns submitted-or post
marked-after midnight will be sub
jeCt to penalties.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
UNKNOWN ELSEWHERE

The tornado is a type Of cyclonie
storm peculiar to the Mississippi
river valley-it is unknown any
where else in the world. Il usually
occurs only in the spring It's cone"
rGtates -clOckWise reaching
WhirlWind proportions ard cXertine
tremendous vel olcai force which cuts
a path Of destruction, rarely wider
than 200 yards, Objects Just out =.
side this path are not touched,
while those in it are torn 10 bits.
t. Storm viii rise from the earth
and fall again 10 and even 80 miles
AKA" which accounts for whole sec
tons IN the path Of a tornado be-
ing untouched.
Nearly 1000 tornadocs have LASH
ed out their short lives in the Mis-
sissippl Valley durIn2 the last 26
years. They have killed approx
mately $500 persons and caused
property damage Of approximately
$500, 100000
One tornado apparently first
struck around Greenwood in north
western Mississippi about pm.
Monday Ms Jessie Findley Ander-
son, mOther-in-laW Of Oscar John
ston president Of the National Cot
ton Council saw it sWoop down,
from a tram en- route from TIA Bena
to Greenwood. She said buildings
exploded in ball Of fire" as a
twisting funnel hit them
W W Newman, conductor on the
train said it was raining hard, and
rubbish and big timbcrs were float
ing around like feathers" "A big
black cone, be said, dipped down
and touched a Negro cabin. It dis
integrated with a roar and big
yellow flash
Five automobiles, all occupied.
were lifted from the highway near
Greenwood and dumped INTO the
Tallahatchie river. Three had been
recovered, but no bodies had been
found. At least six persons we're in
the automobiles authorities said,
two of whom were prominent citi-
ems Of Greenwood
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
Rambling Reporter
Continued from page one)

ICOntlHued ITOm page one)
er" she laughed, I'm going to write
note and take it to RR."
She wrote the note and hoped
IN her car Just as she backed into
the street, pffffffffffft her car
was out of gas! k;ong came Conroe
and pushed her car back into her
yard
III take the note down to RR
for you" ConrOe offered.
NO got wont, sac SAL furiously,
you'd add something to it,"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
Scanning Y.
News Horizon
SEARCHES FOR WIFE

Albert w. Pike of Los Angeles
asked Sheriff Robert w. Ware to
help him search for his wife Mrs.
| cna Elizabeth Nelson Morgan Pike,
who vas seen in CaleXiCo Feb IT.
Auyone knowing of the woman S
Whereabouts may communicate with
Sheriff Ware at the Imperial county
loL in Fl Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
HELD ON MORALS
CHARGE

Hugh Harlas, Al. Winterhayen la
tcrer. Is held in the Imperial count
Jail in FL Centro on a charge Of
committee a morals offense against
an year-old boy. HarlaS is a bro
Il er of John D. Harlas, who beat
! is wife to death with an axe and
committed suicide by slashing his
throat with a razor edged pocket
knife in CaleXico early in 1910
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
Rationins Board
Anocdtes Tires

FL Centros rationing board Mon
cay received its first car sales ap-
plications and certificates for sa e.
board members announced Tuesday.
and prepared to handle them as re-
CURED by federal regulations.
Because of the plea for more
truck tires to supply the hundreds
CT trucks used in the produce in
duStry in Imperial county. rationing
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17

hand store opening on East Main
street
> The Whlte-hot interest in the
forthcoming municipal election cam
palSn.
3. Decision of Mayor Bob Hatton
to invite health officials to show
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
Housing Presents
Acute ProbIemin
North.End Town

Continued from Page Onel
holding construction workers will
be employed.
These men, together with the
antilles of many of them, plus the
veritable army of civilians to be
hired at the camp clerks, book
keepers. stenographers and the like
inland soon can expect new civil
ian population of about 7000
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
TRANSFERRED TO
UVENILE COURT

Wesley Stauss and Raymond
Kayr. accused of stealing two horses
and saddles in E. Centro, were
transferred to juvenile court author
itieS Tuesday They were arrested
with the horses in Mexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
Lottery Decides
New Droft Calls

WASHINGTON March l7-,UP'
Approximately 100000 men who
rcritcrcd :os selccuye service last
month VII ieasn within the next
- hour Tho osGer IN which they
VIII b. oN.m I'D for possible in
duc'.1n INTO the armed forces.
TIE flrSt wartime draft lottery
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
Hero Of Butuon
Made High Chief

Continued from page one>
and took heavy toll OF the Japa-
nese on Bataan. finally forcing a
shift IN commaader-in-C chief.
MacArthur'S shift to Australia.
according to the war department
communique, was made at specific
request of the Australian govern
ment which during the past week
has made increasingly stronger de
mandS that the United States take
the lead in the defense of the CON
t.nent "dcwn under" 1t is the last
remaining base IN the southwest
Pacific for an eventual allied coun-
teroffenSive.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
AHEAD OF JAP SHIFT

Today's announcement revealed
President Roosevelt directed Mac
Arthur to 90 to Australia two weeks
before the Japanese sent new
communicating chief into the Philip
pines in an effort to crush MacAr-
thurs resistance.
On March the war department
reported that Gen. MaSaharu HON.
ma, the japanese commander, was
believed to have committed hara-
kari in the Manila hotel to escape
disgrace for his fa4.dre TO knock U4t
the Macarthur forces on Bataan
peninsula The next day it was
revealed Homma had been replaced
by Gen. TCmoyuki Yamashita. con-
queror of Malaga and Singapore and
Japan's most famous general.
Although Yamashita was expect
ed TO start an all-out attack on
Macarthur the Bataegl front has
been ominously quiet for two weeks,
presumably while YamaShita awaits
the arrival of aerial reinforcementS.
MacArthur'S elevation to the su-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
TOTAL MOUNTS

Tax payments for the four days
ending last midnight were estimat-
ed unofficially at around $2,000000.-
900. Receipts for the entire first
quarter were expected to be about
SO 900 00,000-more than double the
$1.375 100000 paid during the cor
responding period last year.
The treasury withheld its esti-
mates until internal revenue col
lectors make preliminary reports
probably today.
Here are estimates from some Of
the large cities:
New York-Largest in history
both in taxes being paid and re-
turns filed expected to double last
year. In the district embracing Wall
Street. collections were being made
at one point yesterday at the rate
of 100000 a minute. Days take
expected to reach $75,000,000.
Chicago-CollectionS estimated to
be 55 per cent over a year ago. Nine
returns were filed with quarterly
payments exceeding $1,OOO,OO0 and
one unidentified corporation made
a quarterly payment Of S5,000000.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
HIRING HALL

All construction workers are hired
through the A F. of l.. carpenters
and construction unions, which have
set up a hiring hall there. Civilian
personnel for the camp itself is
hired largely through the El Centre
office of the United States employ
ment service.
All types Of business will benefit
during construction of the base,
but when the camp is finally COM
pleted and the construction crews
leave for other jobs, the boom
probably will confine itself largely
10 eating and drinking establish
ments.
Operators of the latter are espe-
cially optimistic, since the service
men to be stationed there are mar
ines and not soldiers One barkeep
observed that You can't sell hard
liquor to soldiers except between
the hours Of am. and 2 pm
but marines can drink all day and
all night
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
Municipal Fireworks Due

Fl Ccntros CITY council IS ex-;
pected 10 "sheW TO a capacity
audience Wednesday night as q
rcSuls Of
An anticipated showdown on
JunEmau sam Nal.bcff's FIGHT to
force the removal OF Georae Kris
tol's combmaa5n ruk and second
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
PLEADS GUILTY

Alberto r. Berrera pleadedguilty in
Slpcrior court Tuesday 10 a charge
Of burglary. He will be sentenced
Friday He and Loreto Diaz were
accused of burglarizing a ranch
Eome near Braw 'ey.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
Tornadoes Claim
Scores of Lives
In Midwest Area

Continued from Page One
tionS led to the fear that Kentucky
like the two states to the south
would count many more dead and
great damage.
INCIANA-TWo dead and at least
SO injured in cyclonic winds that
hit first at Shelbyville and then at
Goshen; property damage estmat-
ed at neal:j ,;I,000000.
ILLINOIS-l9 dead in two twist
ers, the first of the storm which
struck ITO miles due south Of Chi
cage and the second 80 miles north
east of the first; total damage re-
NAMED undetermined but several
communities, notabl" the village of
Alvin and the town Of Lacon, were
hit severely.
ALABAMA-TWO known dead and
three others injured at Waterloo.
A searching party found an elderly
couple dead near there after they
lad been reported missing Water
llo IS in northwestern Alabama.
The weather bureau at CHICAGO
said the storms undoubtedly were
separate tOrnadOes, rather than one
or two disturbances, resulting from
what is termed a tornado weather
map" Such a map" occurs most
often in the spring and results from
great temperature variations be-
tween adjacent air masses
The weather bureau. restricted as
to information because Of war, re-
vealed, for example, that the tenn
perature at omaha, Neb, Monday
was 81 degrees as compared to go
degrees in Louisville Ky. and COM
parably high readings at St Louis,
Mo, and several southern Illinois
areas.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
SENT TO JAIL

Wnliam Riley, who pleaded gul "
IN a bad check charge, Tuesday was
sentenced to the Imperial county
mil for six months.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-17
GREEK GIVES

An unnamed Greek grocer in
Chicago did a gross business of
$500 in 194l, net of $500. He sent
the government a check for $50. Il
figure the only way my mother
country can get back her indepe"-
dence is for the United states to
give it to her he said
Collections estimated to
be go per cent over last year, may
reach rs per cent General Motors
Corporation made its first quarterly
payment in tax anticipation notes
S71 100000.
San Francisco-One $500 volun-
tary contribution from an Assyrian
who was grateful for what the
country has done for him. One $40
contribution from a man whose
tax looks small" When a collector