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Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Bombers Smash
80 Enemy Planes

GEN. MACARTHUR HEAD
QUARTERS, Australia. May l. (UP)
United States bombing planes
smashed 30 grounded japanese planes
at Lac, New Guinea, and destroyed
ground installations at the nearby
Salamau base, Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur announced today in his gen.
eral headquarters communique.
Three enemy NavyO fighter
planes were shot down in a savage
dog fight over Salamaua, MacAr-
thur said. against light Allied losses.
American pilots saw their bombs
smashing into grounded japanese
planes at Lac and left great fires
burning all over the airdrome.
Direct hits were scored again and
again on the planes and all were
heavily damaged if not blown to
pieces.
They brought to So, including the
three fighters shot down over Sala-
maua. the total of enemy planes
destroyed in two days in Knockout
attacks on Japanese northeastern
bases by Allied planes. including
United States flying fortresses and
Catalinas.
There were plain signs that New
Guinea had become the hot spot in
the southwest Pacific zone and
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
FDR Drops Plans
ToSign Up Women
For WarWo

WASHINGTON, May l-CUP)-
President Roosevelt announced to-
day the abandonment of plans to
register women for war work. at
least for the present.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he agreed with
a recommendation forwarded to
him by ManpoWer Commissioner
Paul V. McNutt that there is no
present need fer a nationwide mo-
bilization of women for war work.
The President said McNutt had
consulted with the federal advisory
council of the social security board,
which had made studies on woman
power, and agreed there ia no pres
ent demand for women workers that
would warrant nationwide regiStra-
ton.
He said there we're nearly $780,
900 women registered with state
and federal employment services
for work. Any woman wanting to
go into war work can register at
any one OF the 1900 state-federal
employment service offices through
out the nation, he pointed cut.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
BY UNITED PRESS

Communists and other left-wing
groups cancelled traditional May
Day parades and demonstrations
Friday 10 keep war goods flowing
TO the battle fronts without inter-
ruption.
Workers everywhere were too
busy in war production plants to
lay down tools and participate in
the annual holiday which in years
past was a police problem in large
industrial centers and often re-
suited in rioting and bloodshed.
Produce for victory. Take up
tools" the the Communist party
slogan offered in Detroit, one of
the nations busiest war manufac-
turing cities Party leaders there
urged members to use their days
pay TO buy war stamps and bonds
or TO make contributions to the Red
Cross or Chinese and Russian war
relief.
Win-the-war rallies and quiet
evening meetings of small party
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Factory Explosion
Kills Six Persons

MCKEESPORT, Pa, May | cUn
- Police Chief w. o. Kennedy re-
ported today that at least six per-
sons were killed and an unG>A =.
mined number injured in an -
ploSion at the Central RAILWAY Sig
nal company plant in Versailles.
The emergency room of Mckee
sport hospital was crowded witt
the wounded, estimated at about
Most of them were burned severel'
and about 10 were reported in
iouS condition.
The explosion occurred in IL.
torpedo room of the comany who
manufactures signal light for r"
ways. The company employs APP
Droximately 40 persons, most Ct
them girls
The explosion blew the roof cf'
the plant, witnesses said. Fire fol
lowed the blast
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
French Generals
Thrilling Escape
From Germans Told

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many and through Alsace-Lorraine
to Switzerland.
He travelled on the small railroads,
avoiding the main lines.
He was almost captured twice
The first time, he was converSing
with a German army officer in a
train compartment when the Ges-
tapo made a car TO car inspection
seeking him. He had introduced
himself to the German as a Swiss
salesman and when the Gestapo
agent neared his compartment, he
began an animated conversation
with the army officer. The argu-
ment was so heated when the agent
opened the door, that he was afraid
to interrupt lest he arouse the ire
of the officer.
His second narrow escape came
when he left Switzerland for Unoc-
cupied France through German
occupied territory. Friends, knowing
he was due to travel by automobile
learned the Germans had prepared
a trap for him and stopped his car
before it reached the German out
posts.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01

wilhelm Keitel and Gen. Ugo Cav
allero. chiefs of the German and
Italian high commands, and Hans
Won Mackensen and Dino Alfieri,.
respective ambassadors to Rome and
Berlin, attended the conference.
The meetings were held at an
inn in the Salzburg area, 1t was
said.
MuSSolini arri"eu at Salzburg
Wednesday morning, accompanied
by Ciano, Cavallero and staff of
political and military aides, Berlin
said, and was welcomed by Hitler,
Ribbentrop, Keitel and Nazi civil
ian officials.
They went 10 the inn and, after
lunch, spent the afternoon in politi-
cal talks in which Ribbentrop and
Ciano took part, it was said. Hitler
and Mussolini had dinner with
few of their aides.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Stain Orders Red
To Defeat Germany
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plunged :"
Stain said Germany and its army
beyond a doubt" were weaker than
when Russia was invaded 10 months
ago, that the war had brought the
Germans only disappointment, hun
ger and a realization of the growing
inevitability of defeat.
The Red army inflicted severe de-
feats on the Germans in the winter
campaign and regained some terri
tory, he said, and the Red army
destroyed an enormous quantity OF
enemy manpower and war machines,
compelling him (Hitler) to use pre-
maturely reserves from the deep
rear destined for spring and sum-
mer operations"
AS Germany grew weaker, he said,
Russia grew stronger.
And as for our international
ties" he continued, they have be-
come stronger and lately have grown
as never before The people in
all freedom loving countries see in
the Soviet Unions power the means
to save the world from Hitler's
pestilence.
Among these freedom loving
countries, the first place is occupied
by Great Britain and the United
States to which we are bound by
ties of friendship and alliance anG
which are rendering our country
evergrowing military assistance
against the German Fascists.'
1t was becoming abundantly clear
to the German people, he said, thai;
their only escape would be liberia
ton from Hitler and Reich Marshal
Herman Goering.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01

destroyed.
PHILIPPINES Corregidor fort
reSs guns shoot down three enemy
bombers, damage two others. Japa-
nese artillery, trucks and bases
shelled.
LONDON - Raj makes daylight
attacks on European targets after
improved defenses shoot down II
of less than so German bombers
raiding England during night.
RUSSIA-Stalin calls on armed
forces and workers 10 achieve vic
tory in 1912; Red army reports
gains on central.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in Tessen-
derloo fertilizer factory = possibly
sabotage-kills $50 persons and in
lures 1000.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Hitler, MussoIini Meet
To Map New War Tactics

LONDON. May l. UP)-Adolf
Hitler and Benito Mussolini have
held a two day conference on Axis
world strategy at Salzburg, Austria.
the official German news agency
reported today.
They met Wednesday and yester-
day, the agency said in a dispatch
broadcast by Radio Berlin and re-
corded here by the United Press.
THE talks of the two chiefs were
held in a spirit of close friendship
and indissoluble brotherhood in arms
of the two peoples and their lead
ers," Berlin said.
The talks resulted in complete
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Bad Weather Calls
Halt 10 Raj Bomb
Attacks on Nazis

LONDON. May l. up - Bad
weather forced the Royal air force
TO interrupt its round the clock Of
fcnsive today after eight straight
days, but planes and guns. shooting
down eight Germans planes over
Britain and three over France, add
cd TO a bag which had made enemy
operations in recent days among
the costliest relatively of the war.
Authoritative sources said the
eight planes shot down over Brit
ain were part of a fleet of well
under so which attacked scattered
points along the northeast coast
during the night, and that several
other enemy planes, badly damaged,
probably crashed on the way home.
Sunderland was one town attack
ed, Berlin reported.
DAMAGE SLIGHT
The German planes did but slight
damage and casualties were few.
Some 1000 British planes, 1000
bombers and 5000 fighters, had TAX
en- part in the great Royal air force
offensive; about 100 had been lost,
only 40 of them bombers.
In seven nights, Germany had
lost 25 out of an estimated total
of 100 planes which raided Brit
ain, a casualty percentage which
made it unlikely that such raids
would be continued indefinitely.
Germany had dropped perhaps
$50 tons of bombs on Britain: Brit
ish planes had dropped upwards of
1900 tons of bombs on Germany,
in addition TO bombs dropped on
occupied territory in heavy day and
night raids.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Searchers Sight
Bomber .Wreckaqe

ALBUQUERQUE. N. NJ, May l
up - The wreckage of a four
motored Army training bomber
missing for nine days with its
crew of seven men was sighted
from the aid today Is miles south
west of Cimarron. Nm.
Col Frank D. Hackett, command
ant of the Army air base at Al
buquerque. announced the discovery
but did not give details. He ord
cred ground crews to leave at once
for the scene, nearly 100 miles b,
air northeast of Albuquerque.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Southland Placed
On Alert Basis

LOS ANGELES, May / CUPJ -
The presence of an unidentified
target later identified as friendly
caused a 38-minute radio silence in
southern California and an alert
in Los Angeles early today, the
Arm announced
The Army said a yellow alert
was issued at 1857 am. a blue
alert at 1853 am. and the all
clear at :35 am.
The blue alert. the second of a
series Of three alarms. was posted
in the Los Angeles area moments
after the radio silence was ordered
by the federal communications COM
mission at request of the Army.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
SHIPYARDS LAUNCHES
FOURTH DESTROYER

SEATTLE, May /. (UP) = The
Seattle Tacoma Shipbuilding COM
pany launched its fourth destroyer
of the navys wartime shipbuilding
program last night at a ceremony
attended by 1000 persons. 1t was
the u. S. S. McCook named after
4 Civil war hero, Commander Rod
erick Sheldon McCook, whose grand
daughter, Mrs. Reed Knox of Bryn
MaWr, Pa, was the sponsor.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
May Day Parades Absent

Russia's mass of workers, for
whom May Day was one Of the
biggest holidays of the year, kept
at their jobs, to contribute that
much more in war materials to re-
pei the Nazi invaders of their coun-
try.
In France. where, next to Russia
May Day had meant the most, Ger
man authorities in the occupied
section and Vichy authorities in the
unoccupied, took precautions
against any manifestation whatever.
The prohibition applied to all Ger
man occupied countries, and in the
Reich itself. it was announced that
there would be no May Day OBJ
Servance.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01

major blow by one side or the other
was imminent.
Lieut.. Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey,
Australian commander of all Allied
land forces in the southwest Pacific,
said today at his first press confer
ence that the Japanese might strike
soon but that if they did not. the
Allied strength would reach a point
where any enemy attack would have
to be on a great scale to make any
impression.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Sugar Consumers
Must Register on
4Days Next Week
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their district school anyway.
Every person in the nation will
be registering next week.
Weakley said the registering Of
retail, commercial, and institution
users was completed in the county
Wednesday night. A total of 1872
registrations were recorded in the
e Centre high school district, with
the retail registrations totaling "a,
the wholesale 2, and the institu-
tional 90. The largest amount reg
istered to one institution was 55,564
pounds in two certificates, the
smallest was half a pound to one
institution.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01

confidence, created by the over
whelming victories of the three
power-pact nations, and referred
to the coming direction of war by
both nations in political and mill
tary fields"
The conferees again expressed
the firm determination of Germany
Italy and their allies Berlin contin-
ued) to ensure victory with all mill
tary means at their disposal
OTHERS PRESENT
Joachim Won Rlppentrop and Gal
eazzo Ciano, German and Italian
foreign ministers; Field Marshal
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
Fire Protection
Sought in Forests

WASHINGTON, May | CUPD -
Secretary of Interior Harold L.
IckeS today launched an emergency
fire protection program for the
100000 acres of forests under
his jurisdiction.
The program is being Carl d Gu
in cooperation with the office e
civilian defense, the forest service
of the department of agriculture.
and with state and private agen-
cies, he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01

CIO council said: Labor gains are
threatened by the Axis and labor
has no time to celebrate"
In Europe, where in normal times
May Day was observed much more
extensively than it ever has been
in the United States, there were no
speech-making, no parades. no DEM
onStrationS.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
DEATH = FUNERAL.
NOTICES

OBERGFELL-in the ctw of FL
Centre Wednesday, April % at
10 am Katherine Sybil Oberg-
fell. aged 70 years; native of
Ohio; beloved wife of George Ed
win ObergfelI OF Fontana; be-
loved mother of Mrs. Rub" l..
Baker, Mrs. G. O Dark, Mrs C..
D. Claypool. and E. P, l.. c., J. c..
r S., G.. f, and J. N. Cbergfell
Funeral services have been ar
ranged thru Lemons Chapel for
3:30pm. Saturda: at Wee Kirk
of the Heather in Forest Lawn,
Glendale.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01

groups were scheduled in Chicago,
Philadelphia, Cleveland. Toledo and
Akron open a western front now
to smash Hitler in AZ" was the
theme Of the Cleveland rally.
Union leaders at New York said
their members would work instead
of celebrate" At Seattle, A. E.
Harding, executive secretary of the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
FROST WARNING SOUNrED

SAN FRANCISCO, May /. CUP
The U. S. Weather Bureau today
issued frost warnings for tonight
in the San Francisco bay area and
northern California valleys. Tenn
peratures in valley will approximate
80 degrees.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
ScanningL..V Y.
News Horizon
OBERGFELL FUNERAL
SLATED SATURDAY

Last rites for Mrs. Katherine
Sybil Obergfell, TO- mother of Mrs.
Ruby I. Baker of FL Centre, will
be held at the Wee Kirk O. The
Heather in Glendale at $3.50 p. m
Saturday. Mrs. Obergfell died
while visiting her
daughter in FL Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
All CLUB LEADERS
MEET SATURDAY

Monthly meeting of All club
leaders will take place Saturday at
10 a. m. in the farm advisors Of
flee at the court house.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01

the undersigned executor of the Last
Will and Testament of Earle G. Han
cock, Deceased, to the creditors of
and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, TO file
their claims with the necessary
vouchers within six months after
the first publication of this notice
in the office of the Clerk of the
Superior Court of the State of
California, in and for the County
of Imperial, in the City of Ell
Centre, County of Imperial, State
of California, or to present said
claims with the necessary vouchers
within said six months to the said
Executor of the Last Will and TcSta-
ment of said deceased at it's pl ICE
of business, to-Wit, Northeast Cor
ner of Fifth Avenue and Broad
way, in the City of San Diego,
County of San Diego, State of
California, which is hereby dcsig-
mated as its place of business in
all matters connected with the Es-
tate of Earle c. Hancock, Deceased
Dated: April II, 1912.
THE FIRST NATIONAL TRUST
AND SAVINGS BANK OF SAN
DIEGO, a Corporation,
BY B. VIM. Jeffrey,
Assistant Trust Officer
as Executor of the Last Will
and Testament of Earle C.
Hancock, Deceased.
VIM. L. Morrison,
Attorney for said Executor.
926 Bank of America Building,
San Diego, California.
mo. 15D fA24-Ml 81 1922
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-01
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.

No. 1922
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF EARL G. HANCOCK,
Deceased.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25

Stevenson, 1927 Ilene; Thomas d.
Peppo, 5120 Underwood, and Greg
DRY J. Szymanowski, 1851 Baylis,
Detroit, and George II. Richman,
no Oakland, Milford.
Capt. George r. Canary, 665
West Warren, Detroit, has been
assigned TO the 177th Field Artil-
Ilery at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo
During his ID months in the serv-
ice he has been promoted three
times, the last time 10 be a cap
tain. He was with the Michigan
National Guard prior TO being
called to the colorS and is the
youngest captain in his army corps
being 26 years old. He is a North.
western High graduate and was q
chemist with Ternstedt before 60
ing into the service.
John d. Richardson Jr., 2301
Edison, and Jack w. Perlman
1858 Webb, are the most recent
Detroiters enrolled at the Great
Lakes naval station as yeoman
third class, Perlman was a part.
ner in the law firm of Perlman &
Perlman before going into the
naval reserves, while Richardson
was vice president Of the ], B
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25

Thirteen Detroit boys and one
from Milford are included in the
latest batch of recruits starting
their basic training at Fort Knox.
Ky. For six weeks they will be
taught fundamentals and soldier
ing at. the armored force training
center and then will be given spe-
cial instruction along lines they
are. found best suited for. They
are: Privates Ernest V. Lindback,
1925 Woodward; Joseph B. Kai-
ser. 1889 Findlay; Henry G. Nc
Williams, $40 West Vernon; Victor
w. Gunderson. 16547 Baylis;
Thomas L. Masters, 4541 Sheri-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25

his special training and now will
become actively engaged in this
work at Enid.
Word has been received by Mrs.
Oliver Calvin that Pvt. John Cal
win. 1882 Lillibridge, now is sta.
toned in Australia with the United
States expeditionary forces after q
38-day sea trip.
Pvt. Harold j. Rozenla of Ere.
mont, Mich, has been advanced tC
be a first class private at Viii
Rogers Field, Okla. He has been or
duty there since February IL ir
the weather school.
Capt. Emerson A. Ballmer, for.
mer director of Southeastern
Highs bands and orchestras, who
now Is in the quartermaster's re-
placement center at Camp Lee
Va, has been promoted TO the
rank of major and is director anc
commanding officer of the banC
there. He is a graduate of the De
troit Conservatory of Music anc
Wayne University.
Walter A. Modzelewski, $50;
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25
WPA Wage Petition
Sent 10 Roosevelt

A letter asking President Roose-
welt to support a petition Of WPA
workers asking for an increase in
wages was sent to the President
today by the membership of the
WPA and welfare department OF
the UAW-CIO.
The members point out that
thousands of WPA workers are
performing work that is a nee
essary part Of the nations war
effort. Because of the increased
costs of living, the letter states,
the workers are unable to obtain
for their families the bare neces-
sites OF life.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25
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By DIR. sABINA II. CONNOLLY

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Although the sphere of his
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Can you name them7
DIR. Harold d. Barnard once
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Who was the patient?
Since there are any number OF
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the prairie wolf Is more often
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-25

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Meller, has been promoted 10 be
a fourth grade technician at Camp
Lee. Va. He is doing duty with
the quartermasters' corps.
Pvt. Norman Weinstein, 1892
Gladstone, has been promoted te
be a corporal and has been trans
ferred from Fort Riley, Kan, TO
Fort Leavenworth, Kan, and as
signed to the bookkeeping depart
ment.
Alfred Zadrozny. 3001 Carpen-
ter avenue, Detroit, is the second
member of his family to join the
armed forces. He has enlisted in
the naval reserves. His brother,
George, is a member of the coast
guard.
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