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Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14
Man PIunges to
Death from BRIDGE

SAN FRANCISCO, April 14-(UP)
"A man tentatively identified as
Joseph Qucresima, South San Fran
cisco, plunged to his death today
from the Golden Gate bridge. The
body was recovered.
Highway patrol officers said the
South San Francisco man parked his
automobi near the Marin side
of the bridge, climbed the rail and
leaped.
Members of the Quoresima family,
living at 420 Walnut street South
San Francisco, said he had been i'll
Quoresima was about so and was
recently married. He was a garden.
er.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14
Arnold Promises
Racketeering Curb

. SAN FRANCISCO, April IA. CJP)
-Thurman Arnold, truSt-busting
assistant U. s. attorney general, in
dicated today that violations of
antitrust laws in connection with
distribution of civilian necessities
ace rigid prosecution by his office.
y Arnold, here to give the Wein-
stock foundation lecture at the
University of California tonight,
said greater emphasis will be placed
particularly upon indictments against
food profiteering.
The drive against exploitation of
civilian consumers will not lessen
efforts, he said. to eliminate prac-
tices having tendency to restrict
war production.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14

count. I'VE have arranged for the
registration of the approximately
1,400 japanese still remaining in the
county. We also have set up q
place where physicians will give
physical examinations and vaccinate
and immunize those who have not
previously been so protected against
disease. Then we and the Jap
anese will have the next five days
to make all other arrangements for
departure.
The exhibit building at the fair
grounds was loaned by the fair
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14

proach,' Guthrie said.
Guthrie appeared before the var
investigating committee headed by
Sen, Harry S. Truman, D., Mo. at a
hearing requested by WpB Chief
Donald NJ. Nelson to air the charges
previously made by the resigned Of
ficial.
Guthrie said that since his resig-
nation, Mr.. Nelson has stepped
in on Mr.. Reeds tagging program
and has done a rapid and COM
mendable job of forcing out stop
orders requiring the conversion OF
virtually all civilian durable goods
industries to war work"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14
Sugar Import Ban
Lifted by Order

WASHINGTON, April IA CUP) -
President Roosevelt, in two proc
lamations, today removed quota re-
strictions on imports of sugar and
certain types of wheat.
Agriculture department officials
explained that the proclamations
would have little actual effect,
since sugar quotas have been shifted
i'll recent months so as to permit i'm
port of all sugar that can be ship
ped and comparatively little wheat
is imported in any event.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14
VICHY SAYS U. S.
TNSULTED' FRANCE

VICHY. April IA (UP) - An
official statement said today
that the government rejected"
the reply of the United States
to a French protest against
consular recognition of the Free
French forces at Brazaville,
west Africa.
The statement said the
American reply, given by Act
ing Secretary Of State Sumner
Welles to the French ambassa-
dor, was Insulting and tend
ing to discredit in the eyes of
the world the conduct of French
citizens" 4as
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14

to seek marriage from ministers of
churches other than their own or
marriage by justices of the peace
of superior court judges. They took
their choice in the matter, officials
said.
Judge John E. Simpson married
a japanese couple in Ell Centre JUS
tice court late Monday afternoon
and he officiated at another Jap
anese wedding last Sat. He declared
such marriages are most infrequent
and that he can remember having
performed only few of them dur
ing his service as justice of the
peace in Ell Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14
E Evacuation Preparations
Launched at Fair Grounds

Preliminary preparations for
evacuation of Imperial Valle- Jap
anese neared completition at the
Imperial county fair grounds Tues
day as officials awaited the evac-
uation order of Gen. j. L. Dewitt of
the western defense command.
The fair grounds, selected as the
assembly place for the Japanese of
this county. were being stocked with
provisions for the registration, ex-
animation, and vaccination and i'm
munization of the japanese, said
Thomas N. Finney of the federal
employment office in Imperial
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14

board for use as an assembly center
In this building the equipment Is
being installed. FL Centre high
school loaned 12S chairs which will
be placed in the exhibit building for
use during the six-day assembly
period. The offices will be open from
8 am to 5 pm. during the six-day
period and Japanese will visit the
place during those hours.
No hint OF the evacuation date
for Imperial county has been re-
ceived from Gen. Dewitt. Finney
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14

Guthrie told the committee his
resignation from the WPB was
the result of a basic disagreement
with Philip Reed, chief of the
Bureau of Industry branches Of
the WPB" over policies which Guth-
rie considered would delay attain
ment of the production levels which
must be reached before the United
States can take the offensive n
the war"
THE type of thinking which al
lowed pin-ball and juke-box manu-
facture to continue until May is
not a Jap-stopping type of ap-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14
Growers
Meet April 21st

Refunding of $35,95794 operating
retainer to members will high light
the annual meeting of the Imperial
Hay Growers association dinner at
7:30 pm. April 81 in Hotel Barbara
Worth, officials of the company an
nounced Tuesday.
Speaker of the evening will be
L. w. Otto, manager of the Los
Angeles office of the Berkeley bank
for co operatives-a branch of the
Farm Credit administration.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14

mother and children up to Gen.
j. L. Dewitt of the western defense
command. Dewitt informed them
that the children will have to be
evacuated with their father and the
mother may accompany them if she
wishes. Since the mother is Mexi-
can. however, she will not come
under the evacuation order unless
she wishes to go with her children.
Mrs. King was not injured criti-
cally, officials said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14

JHs COUNTY, jail on charge OF as
nSaulting his wife with deadly
weapon because she insisted she and
the children were not going to be
evacuated.
The children, ranging in age from
7 to 10, all are in school. Since
their father is i'll and almost blind
these half Japanese half Mexican
yolngs 'ers receive total of $l08
each month as aid.
Imperial county authorities put
the matter of evacuation of the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14

full cooperation with Hitler but to
wrest power from the hands of the
old marshal and the German radio
said he would probably become
actual chief OF the government" at
Vichy.
The short. dark little politician
had declared privately he would
return to the cabinet only as the
moving power in the French gov
elnment and it was believed that
under pressure from Berlin - he
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14
l Way Out.

"A Way Out
Councilmen H. w. Fawcett and P
l.. Moore, running for reelection
Tuesday, sat in their campaign
headquarters at Fifth and State,
kidding che another over their re
tirement' by the voters. Along
came an cid man pulling toy
wagon with a trailer, all laden with
bundles and what looked like mer,
chandise intended for Sam Mali.
boff's junk yard. Said Moore:
Herb, there we are after the
election"
Said FaWcett: Where are you,
in the bundle, or pulling the wag
On?"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14
Ex-WPB Official
Criticizes DeIuv

WASHINGTON, April ID. (UP)--Robert R. Guthrie
resigned che OF the war production boards textile dv
SION chaged today before the senate committee Investigate
ing the war program that members of his staff had tried
deoerately TO delay conversion of of the largest
To yara- --o---
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14
$4,000 Sought to
Aid Recreation
EI ICentro Council Plans Campaign to
Finance Entertainment Projects for
Service Men Stationed in VALLEY

El Centro's Defense Recreation council Monday will
begin campaign to raise $4,000 to furnish the basic
sites of great cooperative program provide entertain
ment and recreation for the service stationed in h
community. AS budgeted bv the executive committee OF
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14
Mexicdn-Jup,
Family Troubled

Civil and military authorities worked Tuesday to solve
problem discovered when japanese assaulted his Mexi-
an wife with knife in attempting to force her and their
eight children to consent to be evacuated with him.
Harry King, 6Oyear-old BraWleY resident, held in
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14

| forced a far-reaching deal which
eventually will shelve both Petain
and Vice Premier Admiral Francois
Darlan.
The official announcement at
Vlchy said only that Laval would
succeed Darlan as ce-premier
with the admiral still commanding
the armed forces. But it also said
the Fascist Pierre Pucheu had been
replaced by Laval as interior min.
ister in charge cf all police, and
that Laval also would be foreign
minister.
'1ETAIN SHORN
Petain, the German radio said
would give up some of his authority
although he will continue as chief
OF state.
All of that seemed to add up to
success for Laval in his bitter re.
lentless campaign to jockey himself
into dlctatorial power with the
backing of the Germans, with whom
he has worked closely and smoothly
in the past.
Still convinced the axis will win
the war, Laval might go all out in
some deal that would turn the
french fleet over to Hitler or in
other ways join the war against the
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14
'SuboteurS Strike Fourth
Time in North-End, Burn
Packing She d. CorraIs
Private Property on Southern Pacific
Spur Track Set Afire; Investigators
SeekLink with Other Recent Crimes

Imperial Valleys elusive saboteurs early Tuesday burn
ed the Aten packing shed and the Wales sheep corras two
miles west of the Alamo river the old Wesmorand
track owned by the Southern Pacific railway company
The fire the fourth set by saboteurs in the valley
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14
Pro-AxiS Leuder
Sci zeS Control
To Hell p German
Pressure from Berlin Believed Movino
Factor in Plan Eventually to SheIve
Aging Marshal as Government Head
: By UNITED PRESS :

Vchy France moved long step closer to the Axis and
to break with the United Nations Tuesday when Pierre
Laval returned to in the cabinet Marshal Henri
Philippe Petan Laval appeared almost certain to have
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14
y AMBl|Ne
u EpoR7ER

Medal Earned
Charles knights should have some
kind of a medal or a trophy or at
least wreath. He has earned scme
kind of reward
He is secretary of five different
organizations.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14

More Medals
While in the medal awarding
mood, why nSt a medal for DR.. W.
S Sylvester He has been treas
urer of the Ell Centro Rotary club
for more than umpteen years. A
nperennial treasurer, in other words.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14
Bad Technique

Bad Technique
Rex zinn, complete with high
>heeled boots, was tipping along the
Street aboard che of those stream
lined little put putters. He just
started to negotiate the curve onto
Eighth street from Adams when a
motorist approached from the rear,
bumped the machine neatly, and
catapulted Zinn into a nearby field.
Picking himself up out of the dirt,
Zinn said to the flabbergasted mo-
tOrist:
Mister, I don't care if you toss
ed me into this field. But let's get
together on where we are going
Let's practice on how to get around
a corner without interfering with
each other" ......=........I#
The motorist agreed. They prac-
ticed and next time did the trick
neatly. >-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14

No Door Knobs
RR has been collecting stories.
stories about how people get black
eyes and scinned noses.
Here is dandy.
Art Knutson had dilly of a
skinned nose. He said he was chop
ping wood and piece of wood flew
up and skir.ned his nose.
. That's almost as good as Mrs.
jEcm Finney's explanation of a
skinned proboscis she had not long
age. She said she hit herself in
the face with a tennis racket.
Ho, hum.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14

LOS ANGELES HAY
U. S. No. l S24.-S25; u. S. No. 2
leafy i. v. $23-S24; u. S. No. 2 S2O.5O
S21.50. Mpls. Sept. flax $2.51.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-04-14
WEATHER

Maximum Monday IS. Minimum
Tuesday So. pm. Monday II, hu-
midity AZ. 5 am. Tuesday 60, hu
midiey So. Noon Tuesday Is, hu-
mildly %.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-07
MANY LOCAL MEN
 ARE NOW EXEMPT
Presidential Order on Men Over 3S Upsets Board
 Quotas for Jan.

Waterbury's four Selective Service boards today sent notices to several scores of local men listed in the De- cember draft call that they are now exempted because of the presidential order banning induction of men 3t and over. The step, taken on orders of Major William Averill, state di- rector of Selective Service. means that wholesale replacements will be Iecessary if December quotas are tc be filled. and poses great problem for the boards in the filling of Jan- uary quotas.
 The order also has an immediate effect on local recruiting stations for voluntary enlistmerts except for a small group, are now banned. Vir- tual closing of recruiting offices is in prospect.
 Return of many Waterburians 3e or over who are now in service is an- other probable result of the order Provision is made for release of these men from service on their own application. subpect to certain conditions.
 Scores of local men who were dropped out of the enlistment pic ture by the order regarding recruit ing of men for the armed forces nevertheless called at the Water bury Navy and Marine stations to- day to inquire if there is not some
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-07
MARINES WIPE OUT 400 LAPS

Washington. Dec. T-WPD-A de- tachment 0f Marine rai6ers pre- pared for the fOur-m0nEh annErEr- sary today of the bsasae of tine Solo tnons by w5ping out 600 Japanese and five enemy bases at a cost O1 only l1 American dead
 The Marine raaaerg neEgsneG to their base on G-2a6aAcansl a2g1 FEi- Gay eSclnm0ns l4meb after exSeldHd operations in the maDUGfsfnDwE sungae south and southwest of Hem derson Airz5ejd
 The last Navy cOmmEnhqme g2vE no 6etail Of the ral6ers' fcrzy, but Ia naval spokesman explained that the operation egzeued a -nzmber 0G |wHEAx" ne m228 paE1MxnEe @l Loss cc.mpzre6 with thc enemy i'm dicatn6 that iz was a cCEasiGerahle lfnrnp
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-07
DEMOCRATS READY
 TO NAME CHAIRMAN
Mccarthy to Resign Thurs day; HurIey-Smith Bat-
 tie Looms

The Democratic State Central Committee, meeting Thursday night in New Haven. will select new state chairman before proceeding to the contest between Gov. Ros',rt A Hurley and Richard Joyce Smith of Westport for the post of national committeeman. Election of a sue cessor to State Chairman John T. Mccarthy. who will resign Thurs day, before the choice of new na- tional committeeman is a strategsm that may aid the governor.
 Controller John M. Dove of Killingly is favored for election as state chairman. Principal opposi- tion. If any, will come from Judge Charles E. Mahorcy of Windsor who is reported to have the back ing of Secretary of State Chase Go- ing Woodhouse. President of the Connecticut Federation of Demo- cratic Women's Clubs.
 With J. Francis Smith of this city, former state chairman, as a leading packer of Richard Joyce tJAAhAlly WabCAbhAy Q AOhA fCSSS AAi the State Central Committee are expected to go for him and against Gov. Hurley.
 State organization leaders believe that all elements within the party which are opposed to U. s. Senator Francis T. Maloney will join in backing Gov. Hurley and give him enough votes to win. The national committeeman post is vacant as a result of the recent death of David E. Fitzgerald of New Haven
 Senator Maloney, whose group has been consistently at odds with Gov. Hurley. has indicated that he will stay aloof from the fight for the state chairmanship but will back MT. Smith to the limit for na- tional committeeman. Mir. Dove mas support from within both camps for election as successor to MT. Mccarthy.
 in the last test of strength be-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-07
Mayor Scully's ProcIama.
 ton Follows ROOsevelt's and Hurley's
REGISTRATION IN
 CITY HALL OFFICES
Proclamation Outlines the Manner in Which Youths
 Will Register

Registration of all local 18- year old young men during the three weeks beginning Friday was ordered by Mayor Vincent A. Scully in a proc lamation today. The order supplements similar procla- nations by President Roose- welt and Gov. Robert A. Hur- ley. The youths must regis ter at ther Selective Service board offices in the City Hall. Those not now 18 must register on their 18th birthday.
 The registration period Is divided into three sections, as outlined Ill the proclamation.
 Mayors Proclamation
 Mayor Scullys proclamation:
 PROCLAMATION
 WHEREAS, the President of the United States, pursuant to the terms of the Selective. Service Training and Service Act of i940, as amended. has issued Procla- nation requiring the registration of male citizens of the United States and other male persons, who shall have attained the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth, during the periods indicated below:
 1. Such registration in Water bury shall take place at Selective Service Headquarters, City Hall, Waterbury, between the hours of 800 a. m. and 500 D. m.
 2. WHO SHALL REGISTER:
 a. Those who were born on or after July 1. 1924. but not after August 3l. 1924. shall be register ed on any day during the week commencing Friday. December il, 1922, and ending Thursday, De- cember 17, I942";
 b. Those who were born on or after September 1, 1924, but not after October 3i, 1924. shall be registered on any day during the week commencing Friday. Decem- ber l8, i942. and ending Thursday, December "A. i942":
 c. Those who were born on or after November l. 1924. but not
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-07
WILLKIE SHOWDOWN
 EXPECTED TODAY

St. Louis, Mo, Dec. 7-(UP)-The Republican National Committee meets today for a showdown be- tween Wendell L. Willkie and the considerable group of members who want to elect Werner W. Schroeder e. Illinois, party chairman
 Compromise efforts failed last night-for the time being at least and Schroeder announced he was in the fight to a finish. Willkie already had announced that he would object to Schroeder's election to succeed Joseph R. Martin IT, Massachusetts Congressman and Republican leader of the House of Representatives. who is resigning .-s>fs,s.s . s-sl~v
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-07
CHURCH BLAZE
 DOES DAMAGE St. Francis Xavier Church Threatened at Noon;
 Priests Save Host

The church of St, Francis AsT6er. at Baldwin and Washington streets was severely damaged by fire ear15 this afternoon, a blaze of unce1eT- mined origin sweeping the sAc-1sTg and threatening for a time rO en- velop the whole ediflce. Fire Mar shal Dennis J. liahey said thai damage will be -'In tf1e thousands but was unable to make an accmrs7F estimate pending 8 caTefll eEa1n7n- ation-
 Making his way through caDlds of smoke, Rev- J. J Sullivan, as sistant pastor, earned the Holy Eucharist to safety from tlle m2aE altar. Rev. James M RroceTlck pastor. and Rev. Dawi6 OKee6e. as sisrant pastor, aided by 1lremen and policemen, removed chalioes, clbOrTs- monstances, other sacred vessels and pestments from the altars an6 Sac1isty.
 The fire. originating in the sou1h- east corner of the sacrlsty. a2 Ehe section used by altar boys, sespec through that section and along partitions to a blind R1alc and tO the rest of the sasrlsty- FlEmes were pouring from the uear Of 1he church when 1lremen sszIved in answer to an alarm at 12-17 p. mn
 The church main and slie al- tars were damaged by waiter and smoke, and the entire boSg of the church was fllled with smoke CShAe1 Thomas P Canansagh 6aree1e6 seven companies Of 1uemen in p-e- venting the fire from spreading tO the main part of the CnEHxh
 Five companies. Engines 3, ( and no, Truck 3 and the booster engame- were sent in answer to an aAaE@ from Box SIP Sixteen malmaz1ek later, Chief Cavanaugh sent In . radio alarm for two ncue conn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-07
GERMANS OPEN
 TERRIFIC DRIVE
Trying to Break Reds Pin-
 cers' Movement Around Stalingrad
By NJ. $. HANDLER United Press Staff Correspondentl

NNHhtc0 EEcSc osoh CVhNcSpohucutl Moscow, Dec. 7.-(UP)-Germany threw hundreds of tanks and tens of thousands of men into ferocious counter attacks northwest ard southwest of Stalingrad today in an attempt to break open the closing claws of a Russian pincers drive and maintain their slipping grip on the volga River industrial city.
 Southwest of Stalingrad. especial lv. the Germans threw big tank and infantry forces into powerful at tacks.
 They lost 40 tanks in one attack southwest of Stalingrad and 37 tanks in another northwest of the city. special dispatches said. in ad- Gition to thousands of men killed. It vas asserted that all enemy counter-attacks were broken and the Russian advance continued in local gains.
 Dispatches reported that the Ger mans evidently realized the fate of Stalingrad depended on their abil- ity to make good their counter-at- tacks at the extreme ends of that front, and were sparing neither men nor materials.
 On the central front west of Mos COW. in both the Rzhev and Velikie Yuki sectors. the Germans also were counter-attacking without success, dispatches said
 CThe Vichy Radio reported that the Russians had opened an espe- cially fierce attack south of Rzhev l35 miles west of Moscow, after re- ceiving endorsements. Vichy said that after heavy artillery prepara- tion the Russians started a big at- tack with tank support and pene-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-07
By United PressD ]

America rededicated itself to complete victory over the Axis today on the first an niverSaTy of Pearl Harbor, the day that twill live forever in infamy". From coast to coast, men, women and chil- dren renewed the pledge at war bond rallies. memorial services, ship launchings and factory jobs-to work until the totalitarian nations art smashed.
 In one year of war they have seer half a million American troops sent to fighting fronts around the globe They have watched the nations arms production quadruple until Il surpasSes the entire production oi the Axis and they know the curvt is still going up. Both farms anc factories sent production to an al- time high.
 Many Civilian Changes
 And during the year, the nation
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