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The Coolidge examiner., 1942-06-19

following a radio address by Presi-
dent Roosevelt announcing the
plan and urging the cooperation of
every resident of the nation.
Melvin Gammage of Coolidge
chairman of the scrap rubber drive
praised all oil company and serv-
ice station employees for their
part in the drive as we'll as the
wholehearted support of house
holders within the city and farm
folk living in the surrounding area.
How much rubber Is salvaged
throughout the nation in the drive
may be a determining factor in
settling the gasoline rationing
controversy as tire conservation
measure.
The scrap rubber drive will con-
tinue until every pound of rubber
has been brought in and it is be-
lieved the Coolidge Florence total
Wednesday night of 42,33O pounds
may be doubled during the re-
naming days of the drive which
officially ends Tuesday night, June
30th.
Oil companies are paying cent
per pound for the rubber which
they in turn will sell in carload
lots to Rubber Reserve Company
with all profit, if any, turned over
to the U.S.O., Navy Relief and Red
Cross so that every pound of rub
Der will aid just that much in the
support of these organizations.
Speaking of the drive yesterday,
Gammage, who was appointed To-
cal chairman by E M. Grove,
state chairman, declared:
"One of the most critical mater
ial shortages that this country
must overcome to win the war is
the shortage of rubber and one
principal means of meeting this
shortage is through the collection
and reclamation of scrap rubber.
The collection of an adequate sup
ply of scrap is, also, vital to each
and every citizen particularly, in
the State of Arizona-to the farm
ers, as the successful conclusion
OF this campaign will give them
added assurance of the continuance
of supply of the many rubber arti-
cles which, to them, are daily ne
cessities. 72.4% of the rubber used
for civilian purposes is represented
by tires and tubes, and since the
farmer is the largest single user
of automobiles and rubber-tired
equipment, it is expected that he
will be able to contribute substan-
tally to this campaign.
Service stations and Oil Com
pany bulk plants will be the focal
point of collections of all scrap
rubber. War Production Board Sal
wage officials have emphasized that
no bit of rubber would be "toO
small, too worn or too old" to con-
tribute, from rubber bands to pen
ell erasers, rain coats, girdles, and
rundown rubber heels. Here is a
further list of possibilities: auto
mobile tires, tubes, crepe rubber
soles, tennis shoes, boots, betting
pads, hot water bottles, bathing
caps, rubber gloves, jar rings,
worn out garden hose, etc.
"The success of this Salvage
Campaign is best indicated by the
fact that on the first day of the
Drive, over 5000 pounds of salv-
aged rubber was secured in the
State of Arizona. Arizona has been
divided into eleven zones for the
purpose of the campaign and COM
mittees have been formed in each
zone to SUPERVISE the campaign"
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-06-19
budding Buys Drug
Store In Chandler

Eugene budding, pharmacist AT
Hines Drug Company. Coolidge. for
the past 3 years, has bought the
Rexall Drug Store in Chandler and
left Tuesday TO take over his new
business.
Mrs. budding and their children
Monagene. Darr and Carl will re-
main here until Mr.. budding can
secure living quarters for them in
Chandler.
Turn In Scrap Rubber
. Mrs. r. J. Jones was transacting
business in Phoenix on Wednesday.
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-06-19

Clare Joseph Moody was born
at Winterport. Maine. December %,
1879. His father was a barrel
manufacturer and farmer and
when young Moody was old enough
TO work his tasks were from sun
rise TO sunset. with lanterns used
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-06-19
FLORENCE-COOLIDGE CONTRIBUTE q
TONS OF RUBBER IN THREE DAYS
TO SUCCESS OF NATIONS WAR EFFORT

More than q tons of scrap rubber collected in
Florence and Coolidge during the first three days of this
weeks nationwide drive for this precious material
every oil distributor and every service station in the
city worked in close cooperation search the city for
every available pound of rubber.
The campaign got under way early Monday morning
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-06-19
Meet At
Chuck Wagon

Fifteen members of Coolidge
Lions Club had an open air dinner
at the Chuck Wagon near Florence
wednesday night. The trip was
made en- masse in one OF the Cle
mans Cattle Company busses.
Singing and merriment took the
n,ace Of a formal program
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-06-19

-Turn In Scrap Rubbs
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-06-19

r. L. Scrap Rubber
The Coolidge examiner., 1942-06-19

Turn In Scrap Rubber
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08

Rates for transportation of grain
from Imperial Valley were estab-
lished at a meeting in Ell Centre
Thursday night after truck owners,
motor carriers, drivers, and repre-
sentatives of grain and flax dealers
and associations discussed the in
creased cost of trucking mainten-
ance and labor.
Based on a 10000 pound mini
mum, the rates for transporting
grain from Imperial Valley to coast
points were established as follows;
roadside, platform, bulk, and ware
house cargoes-$4 a ton for all
shipments for all points not more
than 900 miles distant from I'M
perial Valley; and $40 a ton Tor
all shipments picked up by the
carrier in the field. In all IN
stances, said the resolution estao-
fishing the rates, all parties are to
comply with regulations OF the
railroad commission.
1t was decided that grain grow
ers should make every effort to
establish roadside delivery to the
carriers. This should be done, 1t was
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08

uIllS IllOIIllllB ny SOiiii IL Noos'i'i'
who said II would raise 81 800, OOO,-
600.
STAN proposed. committee men,
bers said, retention of the present
individual income tax exemptions
of $500 for married couple, $75o
for a single person and $500 Tor
each dependent.
The difference in taxes between
the STAN plan and the treasury
program on a $4,000 salary would
amount to about $1,000.
Committee members said a mar
ried man earning $4,000 a year,
would pay $2,400 in taxes under
the treasurys March 3 proposal
and nearly $4,000 under the new
treasury program submitted yester-
day. Under the STAN plan he would
pay about $1,000.
Secretary of Treasury Henry Nor
genthau, jr., proposed yesterday
that present exemptions be lowered
to $1,000 for married couples, $500
for single persons and $500 for each
dependent.
In the last few years the ways
and means committee has leaned
heavily on STAN and his staff in
writing its tax bills. This year, 1t
rejected the treasury's proposed 55
per cent corporation surtaX and
adopted STAINS 40 per cent rate.
Details of the STAN plan OF in
dividual income taxes were not
made public Immediately Prior to
the submission of his proposals,
committee members appeared to be
entirely out of sympathy with Nor
genthau's revised program.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08
Nazis Promised
Terrible Summer

BIRMINGHAM, England, May o
-UP)-Air Mlnister Sir Archibald
Sinclair said tonight that American
bombing squadrons, flying along
side the Raj, will give Adolf HIT
lers Luftwaffe a terrible summer
with unrelenting attacks On Nazi
detectives.
Speaking before Birmingham
audience, Sinclair said that 'the
time has come when we are be-
ginning to hit back hard, but on
q scale which still only foreshadoWs
the force of the nglo-American
bombing effort to come.
THE initiative is passing from
Germany to the United Nations.
"A terrible summer is in prospect
for the German air force. BY nlght
and day in the air and on the
ground where they are resting the
squadrCns of the German air force
in western Europe will be exposed
to the unrelenting attacks oil the
RAF."
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08
War Bond PLEDGE
Cards Exhausted,
More Called For
Chairman Cites Value
Of Securities Under
Repayment Feature

Sales of war bonds by the
Ell Centre payroll deduction
unit of the Imperial County
War Bond committee had
reached a huge volume Fri
day, but the drive temporarily bog
ged down when volunteer campaign
workers ran out of employees pledge
cards.
Ell Centre Chairman Ross Hick-
cox said the supply of cards issued
by the treasury was completely ex-
hausted during the first two days
of the campaign. An additional 500
had been ordered, he said.
Hickcox made an interesting COM
parison between the current nation
wide campaign for funds with which
to finance this war and the Liberty
Bond drive of World War l, in a
formal statement issued Friday
morning.
The statement:
I'm considering the present issu-
ance and sale of the United States
War Bonds, it is very apparent that
the president and the secretary of
the treasury had in mind that only
about 8 per cent of the Liberty
Bonds issued in the last war were
paid to the persons who purchased
them.
THE bonds were transferable, and
were not redeemed by the United
States treasury until maturity and
for this reason many purchasers
lost money on their investment in
the bonds of our own government,
when it became necessary for them
to raise money before the maturity
of the bonds.
Under the present plan, "E"
Continued on Page 6; Column -
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08
laps Claim Plane
Carrier, " arships
Sunk in Coral Sea
Tokyo Broadcast May
Be Fishing Expedition
To Get Information

TOKYO, May 8. Japanese
Broadcast recorded by UP in
San Francisco) = An Impe-
rial headquarters commune
que issued at 5 20 pm. today
announced the sinking of the
American aircraft Carriers Sara
toga and Yorktown, battleship Of
the California class and the damag-
ing of HMS Warspite and XMAS
Canberra, a heavy cruiser, in en-
gagements southeast of New Gui-
nea yesterday and today.
The communique said Japanese
naval units, operating in the south
west Pacific, sighted the combined
United States and British fleets
Wednesday and made contact yes
terday.
They Immediately opened fire..
the communique said, sinking
32,600-ton battleship of the Cali
fornia class and heavily damaging
the 9,850-ton Australian heavy
cruiser Canberra, as we'll as the
37500-t ton capital ship Warspite.
ON the following day, May 8,
the Japanese fleet succeeded in
sinking the 33.000-ton USS Sara
toga and 20,00O-ton aircraft car
rier of the Yorktown class.
The attack still is in progress"
Imperial headquarters said the
current operations hereafter will be
known as 1.-The battle of the Coral
Sea"
tTokyo Radio has claimed the
sinking of the Yorktown and the
California on at least two previous
occasions, as we'll as twice sinking
the aircraft carrier Lexington. 1t
was probable that Tokyo once more
was engaged in a typical fishing"
expedition TO learn the whereabouts
of the veSsels.)
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08
Communists Filter
In Canadian Army

MONTREAL, May 8-CUP)-Of-
fetal sources said today attempts
have been made to place four or
five communists in every Canadian
army unit.
Many of the agents are known
to have gone overseas with Canad-
ian contingents, one official said
adding that the communists work
was designed to stir up doubt ana
uneaSineSs as to the postwar status
of veterans.
James Mess, civilian director OF
recruiting, had charged in Saska-
toon speech that communists were
operating within army ranks.
Communism is one Of the prob
lens facing Canadians right now, y
he charged. "A first step in the
party program was to win the con-
fidence of the Canadian people and
to infiltrate into the Canadian
army"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08
Wonen's Auxiliary
Army Setup 0kayed
BY Senate Members
Committee Recommends
Bill to Establish
n-COmbatant Corps

WASHINGTON, May 8.
UP)-The senate military
affairs committee favorably
reported legislation today to
establish a women's army
auxiliary corps to serve with the
army, but not as an integral part
of it.
The committee refused to recon-
mend passage of a substitute meas
ure introouceu by Sen. Ebert d.
Thomas, D., Utah, which would
have made the corps an actual part
of the amy.
Under the proposed legislation.
which has been passed by the
house, women between q and as
years may enlist for noncombatant
service.
The bill provides that quarters
shall be supplied the women either
on army posts or elsewhere, as the
secretary of war may direct. They
would receive subsistence. and uni
forms as otter members OF the
armed forces.
The corps would be established
as a permanent part of the armed
services, wi.a normal enlistment
periods of one year, subject to
lengthening during national emer-
gency as declared by the congress
or the President.
If injured or killed in line OF
duty, corps members would be
granted all the benefits accorded
civilian employees of the govern
ment. Personnel of the corps would
be designated as first leader, re-
ceiving pay of 1884 annually; leader
$72O; junior leader, S64S, and auXil-
iary, $2l monthly for the first four
months of service and $50 monthly
thereafter. Additional pay rises
would be granted for specialists.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08

10 Jne CTlllled
A letter to Josef w. Stain from
the Orel region guerilla forces pub
lished by the Soviet press today,
reported the retaking of the 345
populated places and said in many
of them entire German garrisons
were wiped out.
Women and old men, armed with
all kinds of weapons, are left in
charge of the liberated villages, it
was said.
In the Lake linen region, south
of Leningrad, 10000 Germans were
reported to have been killed in
vain efforts" to Wrest the offensive
from the Russians. Soviet troops
have held the German 10th army in
trap at StarayaRuSsa in the
Lake linen region since early
December
At besieged Sevastopol in the
Crimea, the radio accounts said,
Soviet shippers have killed l 100 Ger
mans in the past Is days and snip
ers on the Bryansk front have ac-
counted for 1000 more in two weeks
of fighting, including a German
general
Women snipers are playing val
orous roles in support of the Red
army, it was stated, and a young
girl. Lyundmila Pavlyuchenko, was
said to have killed 70 Germans in
the fighting near Sevastopol.
The Moscow radio said that, fol-
lowing Stains May day order OF
the day calling for mastering OF
the use of all kinds of weapons,
thousands upon thousands of So
Wet snipers" are being trained by
the Red army.
Sharp fighting was reported I'M
derway at various points along the
l,800-mile front.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08
School Elections
Lacking Interest

Annual school elections will take
place in every district in Imperial
county next Friday but interest IN
the selection of trustees remained
at a low ebb this week.
This unprecedented lack of eX-
element was declared to be because
most of the interest and attention
of the public is focused on the war
and defense activities.
There are only two rural districts
where there are rival candidates
for election to the board OF trus-
tees, Palmetto and Laguna. No one
filed in many districts and the
voters will make their selections by
writing the names of their favorites
on the official ballots.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08
Grain Trucking
Rates Set II ere

declared, because depreciation of
machinery and tires is great when
the carriers have to go into the
field.
The meeting was arranged ex-
temporaneously to give all concern
ed an opportunity to discuss and
understand the problems and reach
a sympathetic solution OF the stu
alton.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08
10000 Sign Up
ForSugar Cards

Forty thousand Imperial Valley
residents signed up for their sugar
ration books during the first three
days of the registration, County
Coordination Guy A. Weakiey an
nounced Friday.
No count was available on the
number to sign up on Thursday,
originally scheduled as the final
day. The registration was contin-
ued through Friday to give every
one an opportunity to become eligi-
BILE to buy sugar.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08

the damage they are doing to the
world" he said.
The German people are suffer-
ing from the effects of our nightly
bombardments. They are harassed
by the thought that the weight CT
the attacks will steadily increase
They are quite right in being troub-
led by these things.
Lubbock already has suffered
more than Coventry and the blows
will become heavier as the months
pass"
Eden emphasized that Hitler. in
his recent Reichstag speech, was
not able to promise his people pro-
lection against the British air at
lacks but could only threaten re-
prisals."
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08

see a return to q German SCaue'
based on respect for law and for in
dividual rights they must under
stand that no one will believe them
until they have taken active steps
to rid themselves of the present
regime" Eden said.
1t was presumed Edens appeal for
the overthrow of the Hitler regime
would be broadcast to Germany by
stations of the BIC which. day
and night, send out German-lan-
guage broadcaSts.
Eden warned the German people
that the aerial blasting of Germany
will become heavier and heavier.
The longer the German people
continue to support and tolerate the
regime which is leading them TO
destruction, the heavier becomes
their own direct responsibility fol-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08
Chinese Break Up
Invasion in South

CHUNGKING, May Sup =
A Chinese counter-attack has brok-
en- the spearhead of a Japanese
mechanical drive into southern
China along the Burma road, an
initiating more than 1000 enemy
troops and entrapping 400 to 500
others, an official communique said
tonight.
One Japanese unit of 1000 men
was completely wiped out" half
the men of another unit were killed
and the remnants of the enemy
forces were entrapped in what the
commUlique called "a most feroc-
ious battle waged near Chefang, "a
miles inside China's Yunnan from
tier.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08

battle, now in its fifth day, was
not yet decided and there was no
tendency in official Allied sources
as yet to take an optimistic view
point of the bitter fighting that
may well decide the immediate safe
ty of the supply line from America
and the vulnerability of Australia
to threatened invasion.
The tone of official statements
in Australia was grave and re-
strained pending official informa-
ton on Allied losses, which the
Japanese claimed were an American
80 ,60O-ton battleship, two American
aircraft carriers, a British battle
ship and a British Or Australian
cruiser.
These japanese claims were gen.
orally regarded as inaccurate and
exaggerated. The British. for in
stance, positively denied in an adj
miralty communique that any Brit
ish battleship had been sunk or
damaged in the Coral Sea engage
ment
But in a battle of the scope indi-
Gated by sketchy communiques from
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquar-
ters, the allies would be likely to
suffer severe losses in their drive
to come to grips with the enemy
and to continue the engagement
as long as possible.
DETAILS WITHHELD
The communicates covering action
that began on Monday failed to
make clear the course of the battle
except in general way. Apparent
ly the japanese warships, trans
ports and supply vessels which had
been masSing in the New Britain
island area north of Australia be-.
gan moving through the Solomon
islands in the general direction OF
the supply line to America.
The Japanese occupied islands in
the Louisiade archipelago, which
forms a tail on the eastern point OF
New Guinea island.
This seemed to indicate the Japa-
nese were closing in by sea on Port
Moresby, main Allied base in SOUTH
ern New Guinea, and possibly NOV
ing southeastward toward the New
Hebrides and New Caledonia, ath-
wart the supply line. American
troops are on New Caledonia.
END IN DOUBT
Prime Minister John Curtin of
Australia indirectly supported this
supposition in parliament when he
warned that the still undecided
battle would be a turning point in
strategy His warning called upon
the people to be ready to defend
Australia if the outcome was I'M
favorable.
The Japanese forceS-Strength not
yet ndicated-were first engaged
in the vicinity of Solomon Islands,
where an American communicate
said seven warShips and a supply
vessel were sunk and four other
ships damaged The battle then
apparently spread out into the
Coral Sea which stretches 1000
miles off northeast Australia.
The Allied communique said that
japanese aircraft carrier and a
heavy cruiser were sunk and an
other aircraft carrier and a cruiser
were severely damaged. The second
carrier was believed a total loss.
Allied planes attacked the Japa-
nese ships at the Louisiade Islands
Continued on Page 6; Column A.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08

Army authorities and Thomas NJ
Finney, head of the federal en-
ployment service in Imperial VAL
ley.
Finney estimated that the Japa-
nese population OF the valley at
present is l,400 with 800 in the
BraWley area and $50 in the Ell
Centre area. The other SO were
said to be scattered in the various
sections of the valley.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08
Here's Attractive
Speech Program

POMPTON LAKES, N. j., May 8
-CUP)-Councilman Harry Daven-
port received this invitation from
the Pompton Lakes Post CT the
American Legion to make q Mem
orial Day address:
"You are invited to be one of the
speakers at our Memorial Day
meeting. The program will include
a talk by the mayor, recitation Of
the Lincoln Gettysburg speech by
a high school pupil, your talk, and
then the firing squad"
He hasn't decided whether to
accept.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08

and safety of Quebon's party.
Quezon, with his family, broke
through the japanese blockade OF
the Philippines and went TO Aus
tralia where he joined Gen. Doug
las Macarthur. Quezon's war cab
met accompanied him TO Australia.
Announcement of Quezon's ar
rival in Australia was made by Gen,
Macarthur on March n. The Japa-
nese radio In a propaganda broad
cast. previously attempted 10 circu-
late a report that Quezon had died
after the Japanese invasion. This
broadcast obviously had been made
for the purpose OF getting someone
TO disclose Quezons whereabouts.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08

and his executive staff.
After resting here, Queen will
go TO Washington, D. c., to confer
with President Roosevelt.
Quezon was welcomed on his ar
rival here by Lieut.. Gens John L..
Dewitt, commanding general of the
western defense command, and as
sistant secretary of the interior OS-
car l.. Chapman.
Chapman presented the official
greetings of Secretary OF Interior
Harold l.. Ickes. whose department
has administrative responsibility for
Philippines affairs.
General Dewitt. according to an
announcement by the interior de-
paitment, was charged with the care
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08

office, $40 State street in Ell Centre
at 10 a. m. Saturday. Members OF
this advance guard will be per-
mitted to take their families with
them, it was explained.
Officials Friday had not decided
upon the type of transportation to
be used in getting the volunteers
and their families to Parker. That
point was to be decided Friday al
ternoon at a conference between
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08

When the SO japanese volunteered
to go to Parker in advance of the
main group, however, it was under
stood their departure would be
about five days ahead Of the mass
evacuation.
The so Japanese volunteers, men
and women who agreed to do the
various types of work necessary to
make the place habitable. will as
semble at the federal employment
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-08

Evacuation Foreshadowed

First move in the long deferred
evacuation CT Japanese from I'M
perial Valley occurred Friday when
so japanese volunteers were or
dered to leave Saturday for the
Parker Indian reservation in Ari-
zcna to prepare the place to receive
the l.4O0 japanese still remaining
in the valley.
Army authorities gave no hint
of the date the mass evacuation
from the valley will be ordered.