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Evening star., 1942-08-10
Decentralization Action
is Called 'Subterfuge'
Py tbt Associated Press.

Py The Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Aug 10-The Amer
ican Committee for Protection OF
Foreign Born asserted yesterday
that recent decentralization pro-
ceedings instituted by the Justice
Department were harmful to the
foreign born because they obscured
the criminal nature of the of1ense
and the punishment which should
properly be imposed 1,
The committee said that denatu-
ralization was civil proceeding and
declared that the Government
sought to cancel the citizenship OF
some naturalized Americans on the
ground that they had mental
reservation" at the time of taking
| the oath.
No loyal American wished to
defend members of the German
American Bund whose citizenship
! the Government is seeking to cancel,
the committee said, but added that
they should be punished under
criminal statutes rather than dealt
with "by the subterfuge of taking
away their citizenship, since such
cancellations undermine the status
and the rights of all naturalizeo
citizens and create uneasiness and
suspicion
Evening star., 1942-08-10
New Art Consecroted
In Westminster Abbey

New sculpture by Benna Elkan,
the refugee artist, has been conse-
Grated in Westminster Abbey. The
artist, who arrived in London in
u933, created the Old Testament can
Melabrum in the Abbey.
Now a New Testament Candida
brum has been added. Both are 6
feet high and feet wide. The new
one bears "a groups of sculpture,
having altogether nearly so figures
representing the life of Christ.
Evening star., 1942-08-10
Senate for confirmation were:

Senate for confirmation were:
Brigadier generals to be major
generals: Harry Malony colonel,
field altillery), Paul Lewis Ransom
lieutenant colonel, infantry, John
Benjamin Anderson colonel, field
artillery, Gilbert Richard Cook
colonel, infantry, Paul Everton
Peabody lieutenant colonel infan-
tryD, Manton Sprague Eddy Cieu-
tenant colonel, infantry, Edward
Hale Brooks lieutenant colonel,
field artillery, Carlos Brewer tcol-
onel field artillery, Cortlandt
Parker colonel, field artillery
Richard Jaquelin Marshall Oieuten-
ant colonel, Quartermaster Corps ,
Homer Mclaughlin Groninger (col-
onel, cavalry, Ernest Mason Har-
mon lieutenant colonel, cavalry,
Roger Baldwin Cotton colonel,
Signal Corps, Muir Stephen Fair
child lieutenant colonel. Air Corps;
temporary colonel, Air Corps, Wal
ter Melville Robertson colonel, in
tantry), Frederick Augustus Irving
| tI1eutGIldIlG LII 1dllOl
Withers Alexander Burress lieuten-
ant colonel, infantry.
Colonels to Brigadier Generals.
Colonels to be brigadier generals
Harlan Nelson Hartness (major, in
fantry), Louis Joseph Fortier Qieu-
tenant colonel, field artillery
George Leland Eberle lieutenant
colonel, infantry, Boniface Camp
bell lieutenant colonel, field artll-
lery> Charles Manly Busbee Qieu-
tenant colonel, field artillery, Her
man Frederick Kramer lieutenant
colonel, infantry, William Cald-
we'll Dunckel lieutenant colonel
field artillery, Bryan Lee Milburr
lieutenant colonel. Coast Artillery
Corps, Willard Wadsworth Irvine
lieutenant colonel, Coast ARTILLERY
Corps, Alexander Russell Boiling
| lieutenant colonel, infantry
Morris Clinton HandWerk Qieuten
ant colonel, Coast Artillery Corps
Horace Lincoln Whitaker 0ieu
r tenant colonel, Quartermaste
f Corps.
Stephen Hunting Sheriff. Qieu
, tenant colonel, Signal Corps, Harrl
Marcy Melasky lieutenant colone
$ Infantry, Guy Orth Kurtz 0ieu
, tenant colonel, Field Artillery, Do
e Forester Pratt lieutenant colone
t Infantry william Willis Eagle
lieutenant colonel, Infantry, Je
e seph Louis Ready lieutenant CO
Evening star., 1942-08-10
j. ). Soldier Pleads
lnnocent.to Charge
OF British Girl, Is
Texun Is First American
In Second AEF Facing
Court-MortioI in England
B. tke Associated Press.

D. tie Associated Press.
SOMEWHERE IN BRITAIN, Aug
10.-Pvt. Travis p. Hammond, Is.
Of Keltys, Tex, the first American
soldier of the second AEF to be tried
by general court martial in Britain,
pleaded innocent today to a charge
of assaulting l6-year-old English
girl.
If convicted he Is liable to death
sentence or life imprisonment as
violator of the 92d article of war
under which it is charged that Ham
mond assaulted the girl July II.
Smartly dressed, the tall, dark
haired shop girl whose name was
not disclosed, appeared before the
court to testify against Hammond.
She said she met him in a Y. M.
c. A. canteen where she was VOL
unteer worker, accompanied him to
two pubs where they drank beer and
wine, then went with him and an
other soldier and girl to an air raid
shelter.
Says She Suggested Leaving.
She said that Hammond kissed
her and that when the other couple
left she suggested leaving, too.
Instead, she testified, Hammond
picked her up.
Il protested" the girl told the
court. Il fought him and struck
him and kicked him, but he put his
hand nvor yoy y,,n,vft,
His trial was opened to the public
although United States headquarters
had announced earlier it would be
conducted in private at the request
of the girls parents.
The court convened four days after
King George had assented to an act
OF Parliament placing all United
States soldiers in Britain under
jurisdiction of their own courts.
Col. Towncr Presides.
Col. Milton NJ Towner, an air
force oficer, is presiding over the
11-man court which, with two ex-
ceptions, is made up of air force
officers.
Capt. Donald Reed Of st. Joseph
MO-, is prosecutor.
Capt. Lester Prichard of St. Louis
Mo-, Hammond's counsel, objected te
the description of the charge as
'trape." (st1 4
The first witness, Pvt. E. Bout
well of the air force, related how
he and Hammond on the evening
OF July II drank several bottles OF
beer and went to Y. M. C. A. can
teen where they made dates with
some girls.
Asked whether beer had any ef
feet on Hammond, Boutwell, said
"I cannot say about that. 1t GER
tainly did on me-"
Army headquarters announced
that administration of United
States military justice in the Euro.
pean theater would be under the
Judge advocate generals branch
headed by Brig. Gen. Lawrence
Hedrick, a native of Indiana, wht
took law degree at the Universit!
OF Missouri and was States attor
ney Of South Dakota before 1917
Headquarters said persons con
vjcted by American Army courts il
the European theater will be i'm
prisoned in places Of detention
maintained by the United State
Army but that those who must serv
more than five years will be sen
back to the United States.
Death sentences, If they are i'm
posed, will be carried out in tn
theater OF operations by hanging Q
shooting" the announcement said.
Evening star., 1942-08-10
Acid INDIGESTION
Relieved in 5 minutes or
douhlA xour snonax Aaek

When e1cess stomach arid causes painful suyoeat-
Ing stomach and heartburn. doctors usually
prescribe the fastest acting medicines known for
gmptomstic reliefmedicines Ike those In Bell -sns
Tablets No lsIative Bell ans brnss comfort In Q
1fny or double your scney bsck return Of bottle
10 u. 2sc At ali druggists
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15
Boy, Is, Jailed as
Killer Following
Failure to Escape
YOungster Nabbed as
He Attempts to Cross
Border at CalexicO

Imperial counJy's boy kill
or, 15-year-old Carlos Lopez,
was held in the county Jail
Monday after his arrest while
attempting to slip across the
border into Mexico during the week.
end.
He had been a fugitive since he
stabbed and killed Richard Guzman,
Is, in an argument over a 14-year-
old girl group of Mexican boys
had been serenading at her home
near the intersection of Eastern
avenue ard j street in BraWley last
Friday night.
Lopez was arrested by United
States customs officers at Calexico
as he attempted to slip across the
border into Mexico. The boy killer
weighs 113 pounds and is four feet
and II inches in height.
District Attorney Elmer Heald
said the law required that Lopez
be taken into juvenile court where
he would be referred to Imperial
county superior court for trial on
a charge of numbering Guzman.
Guzman was stabbed once in the
chest near the throat and once in
the heart.
Youthful witnesses of the killing
testified at an inquest in Brawley
Saturday, explaining how Lopez and
Guzman quarreled over the girl.
Lopez later was angered again when
he was told that GuZmans little
brother had struck one of the Lopez
youngsters with a rock. Lopez and
Guzman started to fight, the wit
nesses said, Guzman saying they
should fight with their fists and
not with knives. The killing came
almost Immediately after the boys
started to fight
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15
Synthetic Rubber
Delay Denounced

ed the WPB's handling of the SYM
thetic rubber program were Ellison
D. Smith, D., S. c., Hugh A. Butler,
D., Neb., and Burton K. Wheeler,
D., Mont.
Smith charged that all the Off
cials handling the rubber program
are big shots from the various rub
ber companies"
"They are doing everything In
their power to keep their little play
houses from being upset-either now
or after the war Smith said. Il
do not believe the President will
ever appoint a competent man that
the people of this country can trust
to head the rubber program"
Wheeler called for the appoint
ment of a rubber czar" with no
connections with private rubber or
petroleum companies.
Butler. writing directly to the
President, charged that the delay in
production of synthetic rubber is
due to the determination of Off
Gals to depend on the time con-
suming, experimental petroleum
process, rather than on the grain
alcohol method"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15

To a million Americans, it
was a hero's voice they heard
over the radio on Sundays
army hour broadcast from
Australia, but to two Ell Cen
trans, it was something more-it
was their s:n's voice.
1t was voice they almost missed
the first time.
P. l.. Moore, Ell Centre credit as
sociation executive and city coun-
Gilman, was working in his yard
Sunday. A neighbor, Oscar M. In
gersoll, dashed out of his house
across the street. P. L. listened to
his shout, and in less than half
a second he was Logging it for his
own radio, and calling Mrs. Moore.
The thing was Off He switched 1t
:. just in time to hear the last
two sentences of Lieut.. Leonard
Moore's description of the battle of
Midway, in which the Ell Centre
youth was the hero of torpedo
plane exploit in sinking a japanese
carrier and driving off a swarm OF
Jap Zero fighters.
I'VE stayed pretty close to the
radio after that" P. L. recalled Mon
day.
Some time later a friend, P. L.
did not know who, telephoned that
there would be rebroadcaSt OF
the program at a later hour. The
Moores heard it all, that time. More
than that-they were later present.
ed with recording of their sons
voice in his recital of the battle,
made by the Rev. E. L. Carter.
Many Ell Centrans, besides the
father and mother, heard Lieut.,
Moores description of the battle,
which included matter-o -of-fact re-
port on his own activities in man
ming a gun at which the gunner
had been wounded, and driving off
enemy fighting planes after the craft
on which he was co-pilot had scored
a direct aerial torpedo hit on a Jap
aircraft carrier of the largest type.
Lieut.. Moore found humorous
side, looking back at the conflict.
"A cushion caught on fire" he
said. IT didn't know it was so hard
to throw anything out of an air.
plane"
The belief was general here, and
seemed to be partially confirmed by
the fact that Lieut. Moore was
chosen for the radio broadcast, that
he is in line for award of some such
citation for heroism as the Dis
tinguished Flying Cross. But his
father had a greater desire.
Il wish they'd give. him a fur
lough," P. L. said. wed like to
see him again.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15
0ne.HaIf Of Scrap
Rubber Lost When
Retaining Starts

WASHINGTON. June 15-UP)-
War production board officials to-
day estimated that the scrap rub
Der collected II the campaign start
ing today would be cut approx
mately in half during the process
of reclaiming.
They said that it ordinarily took
two pounds of good" scrap rub
ber to obtain one pound of rubber
which could be used.
1t requires from five to seven
pounds of reclaimed rubber to recap
a tire. A few ounces of crude rub
ber are needed to cement the re-
cap to the worn tire. A senate
committee has reported that as few
as two or three ounces of crude rub
ber could be used to do the cement
ing, but some WPB officials re-
ported that more crude rubber than
that was required for recapping a
tire that could hold up under mod
crate to high speeds.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15

3 The lOng-aWa1ted and perhaps,
decisive summer campaigns again
appeared to be getting underway
on the Russian front, with desperate
fighting in progress at Sevastopol,
where the Russian Black sea fleet
joined in the battle; on the Kharkov
front, where the Germans claimed
to have smashed across the Donets
river; and near Leningrad, where
Axis sea and air attacks were re-
ported on large scale.
Although the Germans had seized
the initiative on key Soviet fronts,
they were meeting powerful resis-
tance and frequent counterattacks
and had failed to force a decision
on any important sector. 1t appear
ed likely, however, that Hitler was
throwing massed strength into the
eastern front in an effort to start
his 1912 offensive along the black
sea and toward the desperately
needed oil of the Caucasus.
On other fronts, developments in
cluded:
MEDITERRANEAN - Italian tor
pedo and dive bomber planes claim
ed to have sunk two Allied cruisers,
destroyer and four merchant ships
and to have damaged battleship,
an aircraft carrier, two cruisers, a
destroyer and four cargo ships in
an attack--still in progress-against
strong convoy moving from Gibral-
tar toward Egypt. Twenty Italian
and Is British planes were reported
destroyed in the action, which in
dicated that one of the greatest
Allied maneuvers of the war was in
progress in the Mediterranean. The
Germans also claimed to have sunk
an Allied merchant ship and hit
q destroyer and two other ships
, off the Tobruk coast.
LIBYA-A wild tank and air bat
tie was in progress southwest OF
Tobruk, where the Axis forces
launched an attack in the Acroma
sector in an effort to trap British
forces on the coast at Ell Gazala,
west OF Tobruk. Tie British counter
attacked from the south in an en-
gagement that still was undecided.
GERMANY-Reports from Stock
holm indicated unrest in the bomb
battered port of Hamburg, where
25 Germans were said to have been
shot and hundreds arrested follow
ing food riots.
AUSTRALIA - Port Darwin at
tackled by 27 japanese bombers pro-
tected by fighters in heaviest bomb
ardment of the war. About 200 bombs
dropped during third strong enemy
Continued on Page 8; Column a
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15
GERMANS BATTER VITAL RED DEFENSES
Second Street Improvement Project
Awaits Only wPB Approval Here

Ell Centre had received the green
light on the secondary city paving
project from the state highway
department Monday and needed on
ly the approval of the war produc-
ton board to begin work.
Under the setup the state has
agreed to finance $23,91210 of the
estimated cost of $31, 1000 for grad
ing, graveling and oiling of 26
blocks of city streets.
Preliminary processes in oiling
"a blocks in the. first project are
completed but actual oiling, which
was to begin last Thursday, was
held up by an order prohibiting de-
livery. Walter Heinecke, public works
director, said he had received prom
Use that the oil will be here by
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15
D HAvsInI; AMs!!Ns
u EpoR7ER

No Surprise
RR, for Gle, is not at all surprised
that Lieut.. Leonard Moore can cut
up didoes in plane that has lost
lot CT its necessary gadgets.
Why, many are the times that
RR has ridden in Leonard's car when
there was nothing holding it to-
gether but pieces of wire off an old
broom. Getting into the car was
a gymnastic feat necessitating the
unknctting of a lot of rope and a
garguantuan struggle with odd
ments of rusty tin. He seemed floor
boards, forcing RR to sit with feet
on the battery.
Starting the car was as interest
ing as watching the assembly line
in an automobile plant. First he
punched scmething and tickled the
motor with a bent safety pin. Then
he would run cut in front and
crank, all the while jabbing with a
cast off corset stay. At the first
cough Leonard would hurtle over
the hood. land on his spine in the
seat, and start twirling the hand
throttle. Then eff we would 60,
scattering parts s'.ld bits of tire
alcng with rn'attering oil and now
and then splash of gasoline from
the tank that had no cap.
All, yes you can't say the boy
hasn't had good training.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15
Peek withdraws
From Campaign

SACRAMENTO, June 15-UP)-
Secretary of State Paul Peek today
announced he would seek re-elec-
ton instead of entering the race
fof attorney general On the Demo-
cratic ticket.
After considerable thought and
discussion with friends throughout
the state, have been forced to the
conclusion that during these criti-
cal times the less of political cam
paigns and the more strict atten-
tion to the duties of justly admin
istering the business of government
the better" Peek said.
with this thought in mind I
have decided to offer my candidacy
to the voters CT California for re-
tention of my present office of sec
retary of state"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15
Earthquake Kills
Ocean Going Fish

NAHANT, Mass, June Is. CUP)-
An earthquake stocked Nahant fish
markets with cod and haddock to-
cay.
Thousands of them were killed in
the ocean off Nahant yesterday
when a severe quake shook shore
communities. Fishermen put out in
boats to collect the fish. Two boats
hauled in more than 900 pounds.
Dr. L. Don Leet of the Harvard
seismograph station placed the GEN.
ter of the shock at 80 miles east of
Boston.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15

~.
Monday the Flores had received
a telegram from Washington, D. G.
officially notifying them that their
grandson was missing. He had gone
cut on a mission and had not re-
turned.
About that time the Americans
were battering Rabaul, possible
base for an Australian invasion by
the Japanese.
Hargrove graduated from Calexico
high school in 1887 and two years
later went into the air corps.
Ronald is Hargrcve'S three
month-cld son born after his de-
parture for the Pacific war zone.
Hargrove's mother, Mrs. Ola
Dickey is now a resident of Ala
mitOS.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15
Sma||inq Capture
Report Confirmed

The United States war depart
ment Monday confirmed the report
that Pvt. Hollis Smalling, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey Smalling OF
FL Centre, was one of the 153 Ma
rines held as prisoners of war by
the japanese at Zentsuji, Shikokll
island. Japan.
Unofficial news of Smalling's cap
ture by the japanese had been re-
ceiyed in Ell Centre some time ago
but was not officially confirmed by
the war department until Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15
One Family Has2
Accidents in Day

Accidents run in the Kaiser fam
lily.
At 6 1903 pm. Saturday Karl Kaiser
was in involved in an accident at
Third and Main with B. S. Mark
man. Kaiser suffered a slight back
injury and was taken to his home
at $50 Brighton.
One hour and AZ minutes later his
wife collided with a machine driven
by H. P. Comlee at 10th and He'll.
Mrs. Kaiser suffered slight injuries
and Joined her husband at home.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15
Draft 0bjector
Sent to Prison

Robert Lee Allen, Imperial VAL
ley's conscientious objector No. 1,
Monday was sentenced to McNeill
island for five years.
The government contended that
Allen, rancher of the Westworland
area, became a conscientious objec-
tor after he had received his order
to report for induction into the
armed forces of the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15

baptism party. Grommet, who had
been looking on the wine while 1t
was potent as well as red, watched
jitterbug contest which develop
ed for some reason unknown to in
vestigating officers, and didn't like
1t.
Grommet fired three shots at
something or another but struck
nothing but the wall. Johnny Gotta
grabbed the pistol from Grommet
and handed it to Abeytia. The by
ISLANDERS apparently thought Abeytia
was doing the promiscuous firing
and started toward him. Abeytia,
fearing mayhem, ran outside the
hall and fired two shots into the
air. That brought help but Grom-
met decided the Japs we're after
him and took off for home. Deputy
sheriffs restored order, traced Grom-
met to his home, arrested him, and
took him to Jail. Grommet still
thought the Japs were to blame for
the ruckus he started himself and
objected strenuously to going to
Jail.
While the affair may have been
hard on the participants, the big
gest headaches we're suffered by the
deputy sheriffs who tried to straight
en- everything out and get the party
going smoothly again.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15

WASHINGTON, June 15-tUP)-
The national scrap rubber salvage
campaign began today as three sem
ators called upon President Roose-
velt to "break the war production
board bottleneck" which they
charged was holding up production
of synthetic rubber.
The scrap campaign is designed
to find out how much scrap rubber
there is in the United States. The
amount collected is expected to be
a major factor in determining
whether it will be necessary to ex-
tend gasoline rationing to all 48
states as rubber conservation
measure.
The three senators who denounc-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15
WAR CLAIMS
VALLEY MAN
"Reported missing in action"

Reported missing in action
This terse statement Monday
brought home the war to relatives
in Imperial Valley of Sgt. Edward
L. Hargrove, %. radioman on a
flying fortress that failed to return
to it's Australian base after bomb
ing raid on japanese territory
April %.
Young Hargrove came through
the Philippine campaign and the
battle of Java unscathed, getting to
Australia after the Japs succeeded
in capturing the islands.
His grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Manuel Flores Acacia, heard from
him after his escape to Australia.
His wife in Albuquerque New Mex
leo, received letter from him April
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15
Supervised Play Program
Gets Under Way in E. c.

FL Centro's supervised play pro-
gram planned to bring diversion
and entertainment to children and
adults this summer was scheduled to
begin at 7 p. m. Monday at three
different places in the city.
The program was to begin at Will
son school under the direction of
Mrs. Mary B. Kendall of Holtville
and at Douglass and Washington
schools under the direction of Ar
thur Prince.
Recreation will be provided from
7 p. m. to 10 p. m. every night ex-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15

Wednesday.
Final approval is now necessary
by the WPB on any building or
paving project over $1,000, Heinecke
said, and actual negotiations have
not yet been entered into.
Heinecke said the plan for the
second project differs from the
first in that money may be used
for any pl.-se o. construction under
the latter. The city may either use
its own equipment and labor at
cost to the city or may reduce the
amount of work done and take funds
for it from the state allotment.
The 26 blocks affected are
On 18th from Holt to Ross. on
Holt from Eighth to IL, on Hamilton
Continued on Page 8; Column a.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15
I.v. Joins Nation to Put
ScrQp Rubber Drive Over
Bring on ycur scrap rubber!

BTlHg OH your Scrap TuUDeT!
Every service station in Imperial
county, major and independent
alike, Monday became reception
center for the accumulation of scrap
rubber.
Anything of rubber will be accept
ed. Anything from rubber tires and
tubes to ash trays and jar rings
will be received and turned over
to the government at the request
cf President Roosevelt in his ma
ton wide campaign to collect every
available scrap of rubber so that
it may be used in the war effort.
incidentally, if the scrap rubber
backlog piles high, you may still be
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-15
a cent a pound

dustry will pay you a cent pound
for it."
This drive for rubber. must be
completed by June 80.
All service station proprietcrS and
managers in the county instructed
their employees that their main job
in the next two weeks is to handle
the rubber that is brought to them
by the patriotic citizens determined
to prevent waste of material need
ed for the war effort. The Presi-
dent of the United States must
know by June 30 just how much
the citizens salvaged for the war.
TAKE 1T ANYWHERE
Residents take their scrap rub
Continued on Page 8; Column -