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Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 1884

Estate of JOE MITCHELL, De-
ceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, M. d. linn. Public
Administrator, as administrator OF
the estate of JOE MITCHELL. de-
ceased, to the creditors of and all
persons having claims against the
said deceased, that within six
months after the first publication
of this notice they either file them
with the necessary vouchers in the
office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of the State of California, in
and for the County of Imperial, or
exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers to the said M. d. linn, as
administrator of said estate, at 207
Bank of America Bldg, Ell Centre,
California, the same being the place
for the transaction of the business
of the said estate in the County of
Imperial State of California.
Dated at Ell Centre, California
this 18th day of May, 1912.
M. D. ZINN, Administrator
of the Estate of
JOE MITCHELL. Deceased.
mo. I'D (M12-19-26; J2)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
Malta Takes Bi 9
Toll Of Planes

during the week end. German ana
Italian pilots came over Tor WnaC
they thought would be a routine
bombing. Suddenly swarms OF ne"
Spitfire fighters, some manned by
Americans raced into them.
It. was the first time in all their
raids. more than 300 Of them maze
since December, that the enemy had
not had overwhelmingly superior
numbers.
GERMANS FLEE
OF one formation of five Italian
bombers, flying in tight V lorna
ton. only two managed to get away,
both damaged.
Sunday morning German dive
bombers tried to attack the COCK
yards. They found themselves flying
into a heavy artificial smoke pail.
Before they reached the smoke
covered area, the new Spitfires were
ripping into them, and many lied,
dropping their bombs in the sea-
The island rocked under a trem-
endous anti-aircraft gun barrage,
for the ground defenses also have
been strengthened.
Every German plane that sur
vived the barrage found a Spitfire
on it's tail and nearly every one
was accounted for.
On Sunday alone 60 enemy planes
were downed or damaged. Fighter
planes shot down II bombers and
four fighters, probably destroyed IL
bombers and nine fighters and DAM
aged IL bombers and 10 fighters.
Guns destroyed six more.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
German Offensive
Against Caucasia
Runs Into Trouble

LONDON, May u. UP)-AXis
armies attempting to start an Of
fensive through the Crimea toward
the Caucasian oil fields appeared
today to have been smashed back
at most points with severe losses
by what the Berlin radio called
numerically superior Red army
forces.
Details of the fighting on the
Kerch peninsula, where Adolf Hitler
may be trying to launch his long
heralded summer offensive. with
powerful air support and new
weapons" stiD were lacking.
But the German propaganda
broadcasts, which first described the
first great offensive operation OF
1912 as lin full swing" later said
German military circles were mot
inclined to describe this battle for
the Kerch peninsula as the begin
ming of the spring offensive"
The Berlin radio also complained
that the Kerch sector had 'uncom-
monty strong Notifications and
that the Germans and Rumanians
there were facing "a numerically
superior enemy
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
JOBS Pursued i'm
5O-MiIe Retreat

Burma.
1t was reported that some Chi
nese forces had pursued a number
of japanese back to the frontier
and challenged q column of enemy
reinforcementS.
The spokesman disclosed that the
Chinese were attempting now to
cut off the entire enemy column
in the Salween Valley by attacking
Lashio, in Burma, southern termi-
nue. of the Burma road.
This force, he said was attempt
ing also to isolate an enemy force
which has moved northwest from
Lashio to Myitkyina, 1875 miles to
the north.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
COCKTAIL SABOTEURS
Nevada State JournaD

Nevada State JournaD
Applying the very fitting appelation,
cocktail saboteurs," to a type of indi-
vidual whose egotism is a menace to
America, the National Safety Council
reported yesterday that drunken drivers
are hindering wartime traffic prevention
efforts.
Fatal accidents in % states, directly
attributable to drunken drivers, went up
p per cent in 1871, it was stated, while
fatalities in traffic accidents from all
causes increased but II per cent.
The man or woman who attempts to
drive car while drunk discloses the
worst form Of egotism. In the first place
they assume they are competent and IN
the second place they assume their in
fluence or personal charm or something,
which they do not possess, makes them
immune to punishment or beyond the
pale of the law.
The most effective means to deflate
the egotism of such individuals is to ar
rest them and revoke their driving IL
cp0SpS
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
Bv ROBERT p. MARTIN

CHUNGKING, May ~ CUP) -
Veteran Chinese troops intensified
their campaign to hurl battered
invasion column beyond the Chi
nese frontier today by forcing
5O-mile japanese retreat from the
west bank of the SalWeen river TO
the Yunnan Province town OF
Mangshih.
CA dispatch by United Press cor
respondent Darrell Berrigan from
Calcutta. India, indicated that the
long-awaited spring Monsoon MAD
arrived in Burma to hamper the
,Japanese offensive and aid the
Chinese British defenders.
(Berrigan said the roads OF lower
Burma were ribbons of sticky mud
and airfields had been Hooded.
Though the Japanese are now ope-
rating in the dry" country OF up
per Burma, much OF their supples
must pass thpugh wet lower
Burma. The Chinese had predicted
that the Monsoon would mark the
turning point of the battle OF Bur
ma. but no news of its start had as
vet passed through their censor
ship
FIGHTING RACES
Contradicting earlier reports, a
Chinese military spokesman salo
the Japanese still were mot COM
pletely" driven out OF Yunnan ana
that fierce fighting was raging IN
the Chefang Mangshih sector
which is more than 25 miles IN
side the frontier.
The spokesman revealed that the
.Japanese force totaled about 5,ooo
men, with 1900 in the SalWeen
Valley in northern ana cehIrai
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
Germans Open Offensive

MOSCOW. May - tUP) - The
Russians Stubbornly resisted on the
KerCh PENINSULA today a fierce
German drive that may be the be-
ginning of Generalissimo Adolf
Hitler'S promised spring Of
fensive
For the first time since late last
November. when the Red army
swung into an offensive and began
to drive the Germans back, the
Russians admitted, in last mid
nights communique, that the Nazis
had the initiative in one part OF
the front. The communique did not
indicate the progress of the Often
sive. though it reported that the
Russians were resisting stubbornly
and fiercely.
The purpose of full-scale Ger
man offensive on the Kerch penin-
sula would be to break through to
the oil-rich Caucasus, which is sep
arated from the peninsula by the
narrow Kerch straits.
The Russians recaptured Kerch,
on the west side of Kerch straits,
early last December, after Marshal
Semyon Timoshenkos surprise Of
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO
ENGAGE IN THE SALE OF
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES


To Whom 1t May Concern:
Notice is hereby given that fifteen
days after the above date, the UNI
dersigned proposes to sell alcoholic
beverages at these premises, describ-
ed as follows:
GA MAIN STREET
Ell Centre, Calf.
Pursuant to such intention, the
undersigned is applying to the
State Board of Equalization for is
suance of an alcoholic beverage
license COR licenses) for these prem
ises as follows:
, RETAIL PACKAGE OFF-SALE
DISTILLED SPIRITS
Anyone desiring to protest the
issuance of such license 50 may
file a verified protest with the
State Board of Equalization at Sac
ramento, California, stating grounds
for denial as provided by law
RALPH w. STEWART.
(Ml2)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
LAVAL PREFERS JAPAN

(Oroville Mercury-Register)
Laval and Petain are said to be furious
over the British occupation of Madagas-
car. Odd. Petain with the applause of
Laval surrendered Indo China readily
to the japanese and the japanese were
negotiating with Vichy for Madagascar
even as the British moved across to the
island to beat the Japs to it. SO the
French were to lose Madagascar in any
case.
We wonder why the French feel it an
outrage when We take something they
were about to surrender to the japanese.
Of course, in one case force is used. But
they should readily understand that after
the example of IndO China We could not
wait to take chance.
We can only conclude that the French
like the japanese better than they do
the British and the Americans-Or that
the French leaders are entirely commit
ted to the Axis cause.
The latter is the truth in the situation,
of course So we are entirely justified
in our course and have nothing to lose
in taking it-having lost the French and
their warships already.
We must take hard course with Laval.
In the end we shall slap him down and
slap him down hard, and that end is
brought nearer by prompt action when
the time is ripe, as it was in the case. of
Madagascar.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12

feEsive had liberated Rostov and
flung back the Germans toward
Taganrog. They have held it since.
Kerch is highly important stra-
logically, because it dominates &C
cess to the Sea of Azov from the
coastal road to the Caucasus.
The Crimea and the northern
Caucasus are now in the midst OF
sub tropical spring favoring me-
chanized warfare, while the nor
thern and central fronts are Still
deep in mud,
uondon observers pointed out
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12

that if the Germans succeeded in
crossing the Kerch strait, they
would be in the rear of Marshal
Timoshenko's forces around Rostov,
200 miles to the northeast.
military circles in London said
they believed the Kerch attack was
in considerable force, inasmuch as
the Soviet communicate had speci-
fically mentioned it If it really was
the first step of an about often
sive, they said, the Germans could
be expected almost Immediately to
attack other key points in the eau
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 20065
SUMMONS

SUMMONS
Harry w. Horton and George r.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT, Plaintiff,
VS..
ED CALENDAR and JANE DOE:
CALENDAR, his wife, WILLIAM w.
SCHONE and JANE DOE SCHONE,
his wife. ETHEL s. MACARTHUR,
SECURITY FIRST NATIONAL
BANK OF LOS ANGELES, a Ma
tional Banking Association. as Trus-
tee, Defendants.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO Ed calendar and Jane
Doe Calendar his wife, William w.
Schone and Jane Doe Schone, his
wife. Ethel S. Macarthur, Security
First National Bank of Los Angeles,
National Banking Association, as
Trustee, Equitable California Hold
ing Corporation, corporation. Sue
ceSsor to Thorne-Hill Investment
Company, corporation, r. M.
Rowland and Jane Doe Rowland,
his wife, Charles A. Clark, w. A.
Saunders, David H. Bradley, John
Doe, Jane Doe, Richard Roe, John
Doe Company, corporation, Rich
ard Roe Company, co-partner-
ship. j. Doe, as Executor OF the
Estate of r. Roe, Deceased and j.
Doe, as Administrator of the Es-
tate of r. Roe, Deceased. Defend
ants.
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
TO APPEAR and answer the Com
plant in an action entitled as
above, brought against you in the
Superior Court of the County of
Imperial, State of California, within
ten days after the service on you of
this Summons-if served within this
county; or within thirty days If
served elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, or
it will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia. this 10th day of September,
l041.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY CITHA LAMSON,
Deputy Clerk.
(SEAL
mo. 60 (A14-2l-2o; Mo
12-19-26; J2-9-l6)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12

casus and fighting would mount TO
en- unprecedented scale.
News of the German attack CO.
incided with reports from Madrid
that the Germans had urgently eX-
pedited large scale movements OF
troops and supplies to the front,
and that the German general staff
was impatient to begin offensive
operations.
tThese reports said the railway
rolling stock of all German oc-
cupied and stooge states had been
Communicated for military trans
port and that secondary tracks were
being torn up and relaid to troops
and supply concentration points,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
WE SEE ONLY THEIR
GREATEST MISTAKES

The only dictatorship mistakes the
world is allowed to see are those so gigan-
tic that they cannot be hidden; the very
trend of events reveals them. The others,
the little mistakes, are hidden by an
egotistical government which controls
every medium of public communication
How many of those there have been we
have no way of knowing. nor will we
know until the war is ended.
The truth of the matter is that no gov
eminent, be it dictatorship or democracy,
has a monopoly on mistakes. The logical
expectation is that the dictatorship will
err oftener, and more seriously, because
they are directed by one man who is not
subject to the checks and curbs of COM
mon sense and open discussion placed
upon democratic statesmen. Yet the die
tators are just as subject to greed, to
flattery and to political considerations
as are the democratic statesmen. The
balance, we'd say, is in favor of the great
er efficiency of democracy, over long
period, in the greater scheme Of things.
After all haven't we fallen victims to
another sort of propaganda, and a dan
gerous one, at that, by allowing ourselves
to be convinced that a democracy must be
more inefficient than dictatorship!
That's what the dictatOrs would like us
to believe. That's what some of our own
politicians with yen for greater power
and fewer public discussions, would like
us to believe. That's what we've been
told for a long time. with endless repeti-
ton. in the best tradition of propaganda.
As for US. we don't believe it. Well
string along with Churchill We've made
our mistakes-but wait It'll you see the
other fellows.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12

GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Australia, May IL.
GUP)-United States bombing planes
have damaged two Japanese troop
transports and a tanker in the
latest phase % their offensive
against enemy invasion forces in
the northeastern zone, Gen. Doug
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12

Now that the United States is in the
war, we axiled Europeans are more con-
scious than ever of our duties toward
this great country which is giving US hos
pitality, and we want to cooperate with
all our power in her struggle for victory.
JACQUES Martain, French philosopher.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12

The scandalous increases in bonuses
and salaries of some war plant eXecu-
tives are evidence of inordnate profits
and evasion of the high bracket profit
taxes-Rep. Albert A. Gore, Tennessee
Democrat.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 20234
SU NJ NJ ONS
Lee Nuffer, Attorney for Plaintiff.
JAMES H. PHILLIPS, Plaintiff,
VS..
PHOEBE ELLEN PHILLIPS, De-
PENDANT.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO PHOEBE ELLEN PHIL
LIPS, Defendant.
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
TO APPEAR and answer the Com
plant in an action entitled as above,
brought against you in the Superior
Court of the County of Imperial,
State of California, within ten days
after the service on you of this
Summons - if served within this
county; or within thirty days if
served elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract,
or he will apply to the Court for
any other relief demanded in the
Complaint.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this 9th day of February
1912.
w. J. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk
By DOROTHY S. REYNOLDS
Deputy Clerk.
M5-12- 1926
mo. 24 IN 81. A7-14-21-2 8
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

Concentration by high schools on
classic college preparatory courses is a
luxury the nation can i'll afford at this
time-Lamar Johnson, dean of Stephens
College.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12

When peace comes it will be an oppor-
tunity to use our vastly increased plant
and human resources to raise the stand
tarv of State A. A. Berle, Jr.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
DEMOCRAClES, DICTATORS
AND BLUNDERS

Prime Minister Winston Churchill said
a thing to which more of us ought to pay
more attention, when he spoke last Sun
day.
He said that relationships, as we'll as
democracies, make critical mistakes, and
added that when the final balance Is tai
lied up, it may be shown that the Dictator
ships have made more plumbers than the
demOcracieS
We have become so used to thinking
of relationships as eXcruciatingly efficl-
ent organizations, and democracies as
governments in which inefficiency Is Il
natural part of the setup. that the Prime
Minister'S statement borders upon the
startling. Yet it takes no more than
moments thought to realize how true
his words were.
One thing alone proves it. No matter
how much they blunder, the democracles
cannot now equal the first great mistake
of the relationships = the mistake of
starting the war And that is only the
pinnacle of the pyramid of dictatorship
mistakes. Consider few facts, on both
sides.
We, the democracies, underastimated
our enemies, and have criticized ourselves
severely for it. Yet how much more did
the relationships underestimate us. their
enemies, Who made the worst mistake
there?
Military commanders representing the
demOcracies have made some mistakes,
such as the lethargy at Pearl Harbor
before the Jap attack, yet they have made
no mistake which can compare to that
represented in the German attack upon
Russia Whose was the worst mistake
there?
The democracies have listened to isola-
florists, and been pulled this way and
that by political feuding, and allowed
Axis propaganda free entry among their
people Was that as bad as instituting
a reign of terror among Axis conquered
people ON the European continent, with
the result that terrorism and sabotage
has opened what is virtually second
front against the Germans? We thint
theirs was the greatest mistake there, too.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12

by
Peter
Edison

Some of the loveliest fights in
Washington don't get in the papers.
Maybe it's Just as well, for the
hardest fights are apt to be the
longest fights and the longest
fights have a tendency to develop
like chess matches. where a move
has to be made only once every
half hour. or a British cricket
match, where the spectators stand
around in gray toppers, leaning on
their canes for days at time with
out any more signs of life than
someone occasionally opening his
mouth to say "Haw!"
Among the better and bitter
er battles that have been
fought in Washington this past
winter have been some of the
closed session hearings before
panels of the War Labor Board.
Clarence b. Randall of Chicago,
Inland Steel vice president
who presented his cOmpany's
case before the WLB recently,
told about few of the fast
rounds fought on one phase of
the war effort that isn't gen.
orally known.
Much TODD was made over the
announcement that WLB was to
make its full board meetings open
to the public, but this does not
apply to the panel meetings, where
the real arguments are presented
before three members, one repre-
senting the public, one labor, one
management In the Inland Steel
case, Arthur S. Meier, chairman of
the New York state mediation
boaord, presided as panel chairman,
and at its opening session on Feb
26, it was agreed that no one would
talk until after the hearings were
concluded At first that was con-
Sidered a gag rule, but as the
hearings progressed it became ap-
parent that this gag was probably
for the best interests, for if the
two sides had been permitted to
spout openly there would have been
daily grandstanding and attempts
to grab headlines that would have
made this controversial dispute over
closed shop or union maintenance
exceedingly dirty.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The folloIUtng edit
oriais are presented as interesting opin-
ions Doiced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
u. s. Filters Sink
z jap Transports

las Macarthur announced today.
They brought to "a the total of
Japanese ships sunk or damaged,
including at least three transports
and two tankers, since May A when
the naval-air battle of the Coral
Sea, greatest of the war. started
off the Solomon islands.
MacArthur's planes scored direct
hits on two enemy transports. be-
lieved crowded with invasion troops,
in an attack off Kessa, in the Sol
onions.
They showered bombs on Japan
ese shipping in the area, and it was
indicated that they might have
scored hits or near misses on addi-
tional invasion craft.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-05-12
'MlORESBY ATTACKED


The tanker was damaged by two
hits or near misses in a plane attack
on the seaplane base. at Deboyne
Island, in the Louisiade island group
off the southeast coast of New Gui-
nea In addition, the planes damaged
a giant seaplane and scored direct
hits on stores and buildings which
were left aflame.
Japanese planes did slight damage
in an attack yesterday on the Allied
airdrome area at Port Moresby, New
Guinea, Macarthur reported, and
attacked the airdrome on Horn Is
land, off Cape York at the north
eastern tip of Australia, without
damage.
The communique, No. Is from
MacArthur's southwest Pacific gen.
eral headquarters, said in full:
"Louisiade archipelago - Deboyne
Island Allied bombers attack the
enemy seaplane base yesterday. Two
hits or near misses were obtained
on q large tanker; four-engined
seaplane was damaged and direct
hits we're obtained on stores and
buildings.