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Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
Chinese Crush Jap
Landing Attempt.
Contest Invasion
Bv ROBERT P. MARTIN

CHI NGKING, May %. (UP)-
The Chinese, having killed 10000
or more Japanese in crushing a
landing near FoochOw, were FIGHT
ing desperately today to stem the
advancing enemy near Yiwu, 25 miles
northeast of Kinhwa.
A high command communique dis
closed the victory over an unofficial
" estimated 10000 to 10000 Japa-
nese who landed from 20 warships
on ChWanShih island, north OF the
Min river estuary on Wednesday,.
Although the Japanese landed
under a heavy barrage from their
ships. more than half of them were
annihilated. and the rest fled in
panic back to their ships, which
were later engaged by Chinese shore
batteries. the communique said.
The high command said the Japa-
nese captured Tuglu, 35 miles south
west of HangchoW and so miles
northwest of YiWu, on Tuesday.
They dispatched two columns south,
which were encountering stern Chi
nese resistance.
Chinese dispatches said that Kinh-
wa and other towns in the coastal
province of Chekiang were bombed
Yesterday by A japanese planes,
attacking widely separated points.
A few attacked strategic points in
Kiangsi province. while eight pound
cd HengYang. an important rail-
way junction in Human province.
Inc progress of fighting in Burma
was not clear. Up to Tuesday, it
was said. the Chinese still were bat
Ting the invaders in the Mong
Paid Lao, Mong Hal, Mong Lin,
Taikao and KOngum areas. The Chi
nese made a surprise attack on the
japanese at Nawngkio, between
Nandalay and LaShio on May IA,
inflicting more than 300 casualties
and destroying four armored cars.
The Chinese recaptured Loshan,
40 miles east of the japanese base
of Sinyang on May II. The Japa-
nese retreated westward.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
BENEFIT TO AVIATION
Nevada State JournaD

(Nevada State JOurnaD
American aviation is in for great bene-
fits from a new engineering develop
ment Just announced by the Wright Aero
nautical Corporation.
The new device is forged aluminium
cylinder which in comparison with the
older type of cast aluminium head is 10
per cent lighter, has 80 per cent more
cooling area, is 100 per cent stronger
and more dependable, reduces labor costs
in terms of man-hours by at least Is per
cent, and ties up much less metal during
the manufacturing process, 1T is claimed.
The heads forged by the new process
permit higher engine compression rates,
owing to their doubled strength and the
increased cooling area and greater heat
conductivity of the forged metal COM
pared to cast aluminium. The design
also permits enlargement and improve
ment of intake and exhaust ports, which
translates into increased power output,
lower fuel consumption and longer range.
With the saving of weight, it also
means higher rate of climb and maneuver-
at which much aerial warfare is conduct
ed. The improved cooling also permits
longer full-pOwer operation at low alti-
tudes in desert and tropical battle zones
Details of the manufacture of the new
type cylinder heads, of course, are mill
tary secrets, but there is no secret about
the fact that the production of airplane
engines, for some time a serious bottle
neck, will be immensely speeded up. With
the production OF otner airplane parts on
a similar speed-up basis, the tremendous
American air force needed for victory
takes clearer and clearer shane
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
WHERE is THE FREEDOM
IN SUCH A PROGRAM

If there is any freedom of action
among employees in war industries, it IS
the sort of freedom which a prisoner
enjoys in San Quentin's exercise yard.
The employees, it is true, can move from
job to job, from project to project, as
they please at the present time. But they
are imprisoned within union organlza-
ton, and any attempt to escape IS pun
ishable by loss, not only of their job, but
of the probability of obtaining any other
job in which they can produce the things
America needs to win this war.
All this is in line with the administra-
tion's labor policy We believe that even
an industrial draft would leave the en-
ployes more spiritual and ethical free
dom-if it were not predicated upon some
outrageous attempt to draft the workers
into the unions as well as into war jobs.
But, above all, we believe that the war
production Of this country would soar up
ward. that the manpOwer crisis would be
alleviated Immediately, and that new
strength of morale would spring up over
night if the administration would say
truthfulIy, 1--WE want every man who can
produce war-winning goods" instead OF
intimating by its actions, I'VE want only
union labor to help win this war"
(Monday: Where Labor Policy Leads.)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
AN CID TIMER
MAKES HIS PLEA

Editor, The Post-PreSs)
Good government can be conserved in
the elections of California this year.
Washington and Warren were the Champ
ions of Liberty in the Great Revolution.
Joseph Warren'S Suffolk resolves" pass
ed the first continental congress for Lib
erty in America.
Washington'S sword at Trenton and
Princeton gave victory and independence
to our great country, and in fact to the
new world. Old Abe and Old Hickory
were the preservers of Liberty | once
stood by the tomb of President James X.
Polk in the capitol grounds at Nashville,
Tennessee. His election gave us Texas
and California. His resolution and will
power made him one of the great presi-
dents
Ny great uncle DR.. Robert Irion was
Sam HouStonS physician and secretary,
and also secretary of state when the great
Texan was president OF the republic at
Texas. Themopylae had its messenger of
defeat, Alamo had none.
We Southerners like sentiment. | surely
hope many. many - great many = of
them, aye, and all people who love good
government will support Earl Warren
for governor of California.
S. C. LOVE, (75 years old.)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
Oregon Shi pyord Delivers
Craft 80 Days from Start

A Portland. Ore. shipyard which
shattered all records by delivering
a 10,000-ton freighter 60 days after
the keel was laid today set the
pace for American shipyardS which,
in the words of President Roose-
welt, are performing a near mir
acle" in turning out sorely needed
shipping.
Joining other high ranking Of
ficials in observance of maritime
day, marked by launching of 27
new cargo vessels. MIR. Roosevelt
praised the nations snipyards for
their outstanding achievement" in
increasing productive capacity more
than 500 per cent in a little more
than a year.'
Despite this progress, he added,
the nation still is confronted with
a serious ship shortage, partly be-
cause of the heavy toll taken by
Axis underscas raiders. But the
submarine menace, he said, like
other problems rs being solved y
Our ships are going through" p"
he said, and viii continue - go
through in growing numbers. "
The pace-Setting oregon yard
one of five operated by Henry j.
Kaiser, west coast contractor who
had no prewar shipbuilding ex-
perience-turned out the freighter
i'm 35 days less than the l05-day
production mark set by the mari
time commission.
Deputy War Shipping Admins
traitor Howard l.. Vickery disclosed
that the ship was the third de-
livered by Kaiser's Portland yard
in record time. Another was COM
pleted in II days and still another
in IS.
Kaiser put ship construction on
an assembly-li production
basis and now IS showing establish
ed wards how to produce ships on
that basis.
The Oregon yard also led the ma
ton in launching yesterday, send
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
BY EDWARD p. MORGAN

MEXICO CITY, May %. CUP)-
Mexico. enraged by the ruthless
sinking of its ships, began the for
malities of declaring war on the
Axis today
President Manuel Avila Camacho,
after a three hour meeting OF his
cabinet, called a special session OF
congress, and announced it not only
would be asked to proclaim a state
of war with Germany, Italy and
japan. but also to adopt related
measures" to seize Axis property
and intern Axis nationals.
In ordering the permanent COM
mission of congress to convoke the
extraordinary session at once, Avila
Camacho set no time limit, but since
there was no doubt that congress
would grant Avila Camacho'S re-
quest.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
Yankanzac Bomber
Raids Cripple Two
Japanese Vessels
BY DON CASWELL

MELBOURNE, May % (UPD -
United States and Australian
bombing planes have damaged a
japanese tanker, crippled a troop
transport, smashed at least 13 en-
emy planes and rained destruction
on docks, shipping and airdrome
installations in daring raids on ia
pans two great northeastern in
vaSion bases, it was announced to-
day.
They dived on the enemy inva-
sion base at Lac, on the north coast
of New Guinea, plastering the en-
tire area with demolition and in
cendiary bombs, and hurled great
bombs down on the Rabaul, New
Britain, base in q high-level attack.
The Allied planes doWned five
out Of eight of Japan's best fighter
planes, Navy-zeroes, which sought
to intercept them over Lac, and
one damaged plane fought off fe-
rocious attacks b. enemy planes
on its return from the Rabaul raid.
BOMBER CRIPPLED
Twice within 100 miles, the bomb
er of the Rabaul formation was
attacked by the hornet-like Navy
Os. Machine gun bullets ripped
through its hydraulic line and cut
it. 1t was necessary to close the
doors of the bomb bay by hand.
The radio man and turret gum
ner clung to the catWalk and sue
ceeded in closing the doors while
\ few inches beneath them red
tracer bullets tipped past.
Total casualties in the two raids
were one rear gunner wounded.
DAMAGE UNSEEN
Smoke clouds were SO thick over
Lac that the Allied aviators could
not see the result when they heav-
ily bombed a dispersal area dotted
With enemy planes, and no claim
vas made of what undoubtedly re-
suited in serious damage.
japanese anti-aircraft batteries
after firing furiously from the dis
persal area, suddenly went silent in
indication that they had been
Knocked out. One pilot saw several
damaged planes elsewhere, probably
casualties in raid the day before.
AS they left Lac, the Allied planes
| bombed and machine gunned the
tanker and put four bombs SO close
that it was seriously damaged by
splinters and the bomb blast.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
Soldier Held for
Sddist SIoyin9s

Previously Mrs. Ivy Violet NC
Leod 80, had been found dead with
her head battered in the doorway
of a shop in the Albert Park section
MAJ 3 and Mrs. Pauline Buchan
Thompson, Al, wife of a policeman,
had been found dead, Strangled, on
the entrance steps of one OF the
city's leading apartment houses.
SsDIST CRIME
The purses of Mrs. Mcleod and
Miss HoSking contained money and
apparently had not been touched.
Mrs. Thompson's purse was empty.
A leading Melbourne criminolog-
ist said that all the slayingS were
of sex and sadist type, probably
committed by one man of sort
whose overwhelming desires at in
tervalS could be satisfied only by a
cruel killing.
An Army spokesman said that
the case against the soldier under
arrest was now being prepared by
a court of Army officers He said
the soldier would be charged for
mally as soon as the case had been
prepared and then would be tried
by a general court martial OF at
least five officers. The military
penalty for murder is death by
hanging.
It is CUSTOMARY, he explained, for
an Army board to try its own
criminal cases, with the approval
of local authorities.
The spokesman said that the trial
would be open and that the de-
fendant might if he desired have
a civilian lawyer and summon ci-
william witnesses.
Gen. julius F. Barnes, Gen. Dou-
glas MacArthur's plartermaster
commander, will name the board,
of which the senior officer will be
president.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
Reds Blast Nazi Attack

into the Russian line, were defeated,
Red Star said.
The Russians after destroying 80
enemy tanks counterattacked and
pushed back the Germans to their
original positions.
Guards regiments, who stormed
and captured a strongly fortified
German position and sent the Ger
mans fleeing in disorder, made the
gain before Kharkov, it was re-
ported.
Attacking behind their tanks in
a sudden thrust under cover OF
night, the Red army troops pierced
the enemy stronghold, drove out
its garrison with bayonet and hand
grenade and captured quantities of
war materials which the Germans
were compelled to abandon in their
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24

fourth day of a savage and costly
offensive against the lett
flank of Marshal Semyon TimoShen-
kos southern army, special dis
patch to the army newspaper Red
Star said.
The Russians. often outnumbered
three to one, threw back innumer-
able attacks despite the arrival OF
a stream of German reinforcements
and then, seizing the initiative, ad-
vanced several miles in one sector
and. dislodging the Germans from
an inhabited point in another, cut
off and wiped out the retreatlng
enemy garrison.
TANKS DESTROYED
Attacks by several long German
tank columns. which advanced on
a narrow front in an effort to wedge
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
NAZIS SHOOT TEN
MORE FRENCHMEN

LONDON, May % CUP) - The
German army has shot 10 more
hostages in Paris in retaliation for
an attack by patriots on a German
soldier Sunday, British sources re-
ported today, and have announced
that 10 more will be killed unless
the attackers are identified within
six DAYS.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
CHARGED

The government announcement
said that lin virtue of the aggres-
sion CT which the nation has been
the victim on the part of the ma
tionS of the AXis-first by the sink
ing of the Mexican vessel, Potrcro
Del Llano, and then the Faja
de ORC the president of the re-
public directs the permanent COM
mission to convoke congress in Spe-
cial session in order to declare
existence of a state of war between
Mexico and the Axis powers and
to adopt appropriate (other) meas
ures."
Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla,
long an enemy of the Axis, said
there was full unification and COM
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
TONDRO LOANS DEFENSE
CQUNCU AMBULANCE

The FL Centric city defense coun-
Gil has a completely equipped
emergency ambulance for use in
event of an emergency. 1t was loan
ed to the council 'for the dura-
tion" by w. A. Tondro, of the Val
ley Auto Suppl" company.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

The longer the German people allow
Hitler to lead them to destruction, the
greater will be their responsibility for the
damage Hitler has lheaped upon the
world. - British Foreign Minister An
thony Eden.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
Bv HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, May %. tUPl-Russian
troops have thrown back the Ger
mans several miles south of Khar-
kov and have stormed and captured
a strongly fortified enemy position
before the city itself, front dispatch
es reported today
Huge masses of German tanks and
infanuymen attacked on a wide
front in the Izyum- -Barvenkovo area,
20 miles south of KharkoV, in the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
By FRANK HEWLETT

MELBOURNE, May 90 CUP) -
An American soldier, held in con-
nection with the Staying OF three
women within the last three weeks,
will be tried by an American mill
tary court, it WaG announced today.
Melbourne Police Commissioner
Alec Duncan announced this morn
ing that a soldier whose name was
withheld, had been arrested in con-
nection with one of the SlayingS
but that no formal charge had been
made against him.
He was being investigated in
connection with the other two.
In each caSc, a WomI1 was
found dead, apparently strangled,
with her clothing torn down from
her shoulders and punched around
her waist.
The American soldier was arrest
ed by Melbourne detectives, ac-
compsnied by American military
police, and taken to police head
quarters for detention
WOMAN STRANGLED
He was then turned over to
American Army authorities and
held in close custody
The soldier was held in conncc-
ton with the Staying of Gladys
Lillian HoSking, al, who was found
Strangled beside slit trench in
Royal Park, near big military
establishment, Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24

IF | were asked to name the goth CEN
tury sin | would not hesitate a moment:
it is lodging responsibility, for this is
the age of alib-President George B.
Cutten Of Colgate University.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The foTloiCtno edit
oriaIs are presented as interesting opin-
ions Uoiced bg editors eiseIrhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion Of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
10TH TO ACT

The palace was crowded with SEN
atorS, deputies and supreme court
justices, who congratulated Avila
CamaCho on the cabinets decision
and pledged their support.
Mexico will be the 10th and larg-
est Latin American nation to de-
clare war on the Axis. Mexico had,
by far the most provocation.
An Axis submarine sank the tank
er Potrero del Llano off Florida
on May 13. Mexico, not wishing TO
go to war, sent note to the Axis
through SWeden-With most other
American nations, it already had
severed diplomatic relations with
the AXis-demanding full explain
alton and reparations.'
Germanys reply was to sink the
ship. Faia dc Orc, which was fully
Illuminated and easily identifiable
as had been the Potrero del Llano.
Avila Camacho called his cabinet
into session. 1t was an historic ses-
sion because Mexico has not for
mally been at war since 1947, and
then it was with the United States,
now one of Mexico's closest friends.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
Mexico Prepares
War Declaration

prehepsion" at the cabinet meeting
which was held in the national pal
ace. the Mexican White House.
Five generals, including Avila Ca
macho, participated The others
were Gen. Pablo MaciaS, war minis
ter; Gen. Maximino Avila Camacho
the presidents brother and minis
ter of communications; Gen. Heri-
berto lara, minister of marine, and
Gen. Salvador S. Sanchez. chief of
the presidents general staff.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24

ing three liberty launched ships and
delivered fourau that were
time of
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
WASHINGTON
DOWN BEAT

Waste Paper Salvage for Victory
campaign has actually produced a
surplus, but don't stop collecting
Idea is to maintain the surplus.
Q4V is a new slogan meaning you
should perform your job Quicker
for Victory" Red Cross has sent
million hypodermic needles TO
Soviet Russia: CasheW nut oil from
India can no longer be used in
brake Innings except for armed ser
vices. Stoppage on manufacture of
blackhead squeezers saves 10000
pounds of steel. The steel which
used TO go into manufacture Of
barber shop and beauty shoppe
furniture will make 800 light tanks.
Hereafter peneils-the outsides, not
the leads-can be finished only in
black, white, domestic earth colors
ana blue. No more yellows,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-24
SAME QUANTITY

Il
Where you will be hit hard
est will be i'm the shortages in
services like deliveries, the
shortages Of consumer goods
such as house furnishings and
clothing.
Interpreting that in terms Of
stuff you can buy in the stores
it means that you will pa more
for food, whether you get it at the
grocery or in a restaurant, for the
reason that only from so to 75
per cent of the food items are
covered by price freezing orders
What you can buy in clothing
stores, furniture stores, hardware
stores, drug stores, filling stations
and general merchandise empOr-
iums will be a darned sight less
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-07-23
9. N. Report Tells
Much of Interest
Continued from Page y

Our part of the job in l94l re-
quired nothing less than a record
shattering performance-the NOV
ing of much larger volume of
freight than ever before in the his
tory of the Great Northern-30 per
cent more than we ever handled
before in a single year. This traf-
fic included about one third of all
of the iron ore that the blast furn-
aces of this Nation can convert in
to steel in the course of year.
THE upsurge of traffic created
by the national emergency was
handled smoothly and efficiently
without interference with normal
traffic.
This achievement attests the abil-
ity and loyalty of the employees of
the railroad. 1t speaks for itself of
the standards at which road, mo-
tive power, cars and other equip
ment have been maintained. It con-
firms again the genius of Mr.. James
]. Hill in the building of trans
portation system which has lent
itself to SO great an expansion of
its capacity on so short notice. 1t
confirms the judgment Of those who
have succeeded Mr.. Hill and con-
sistently followed his policy of re-
storing a large measure of the prof
its of the railroad to the railroad
itself in Improvements to road and
equipment.
THE ord-breaking volume of
freight service performed by the
Great Northern in l941 produced
no more than modest return on
the investment in the railway
about Az per cent, which is hardly
to be associated with the common
conception of war profits
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-07-23
Les Fletcher Dies in Seattle

Eugene Fletcher, living south OF
Libby, received telegram Tues
day night stating that his father,
Les Fletcher. had died in a hospital
at Seattle. He had been Ill some
time. Before his illness, he was en-
ployed in the navy yard at Bremen
ton.
Mr.. Fletcher is survived by the
widow and by three sons-Robert
in Alaska, Harold at the naval train
ing base, San Diego, Calf, and Eu-
gene of Libby. He was member
Of the American Legion, the Koote-
mai Valley Grange and the Lincoln
County Pomona, having held the of
flee of assistant steward. He will BIZ
buried in Yakima. Wash. Eugene
Fletcher left yesterday to attend the
funeral
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-07-23
Mountoineer Club
at Granite Lake
This Week

Sixteen members and guests OF
the Spokane Mountaineers are
spending the week in the Granite
lake area southwest of Libby. They
moved into the lake last Sunday,
their camping outfit and equipment
being carried in from the end of
the auto road by Tom Boothman
with a string of seven pack horses.
The week is being spent in climb
ing. hiking. fishing, photography
and attempts to get sight of the
mountain goats, moose and other
game which abound in the area
around Granite lake.
The mountain climbers in the par
ty expect to make the first assent
of the 1000 foot face of "A peak
and to install one of the clubs of
fetal markers at the summit of the
peak. The mountain rises right out
of the lake at the base camp.
A climbing party from this club
scaled this peak by an easier route
in 1886, and in 1888 reached Black
well glacier, lying at the summit of
Snowshoe peak, at height of 87l2
feet highest in the Cabinet range.
This lies about two miles from
Granite lake. The party expects to
return to Spokane next Sunday,
the 18th.
Included in the party are Linnea
Soderstrom, president; Ed Dennis,
vice president and outing leader,
Myrtle Brekke, secretary, Ross h.
Palmer, trustee and membership
chairman; Frank Hefferlin, trustee
and outing chairman, and Betty
Massie, trustee, Mae Dennis, music
chairman, and Dorothy Terrier,
climbing chairman, also were in the
party.
Others are John Lehman of Ev-
erett, prominent member of Noun
taineers, Inc, of Seattle, who was
a member of the 1887 outing party
in the Selkirk mountains in Cam
ada: Don Kirshmyer. Spokane
Mountaineer member living in Ev-
erett. Ramona Wander, Missoula,
Mont; Marjorie Poorman, Bob Pal
mer, Odelia Castle, Helen Hurd and
Wanda Palmer. Hans Moldenhour
was expected to join the party dur
ing the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer will have
charge of the camp commlssary
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-07-23
H0snitaI Notes

Mrs. Russell CaudiIl was a surgi-
cal patient at the hospital Monday.
A girl was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward HUT of Troy on Tuesday.
Willard Stickney was released
from the hospital Wednesday morn
ing
Mrs James Stephenson, Mrs. Dor
man Nolan and Mrs. w. E. Harar
were all released from the hospital
on Monday
Mrs Ted Millners son was treat
ed for broken arm at the hospital
last Thursday