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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-07-03

r. L.: Can a woman at the age
Of Sc get tuberculosis?
Answer: Cases of acquired tu-
berculosis are very rare in adults
and at the age Of 66 would say
such infection never occurs.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
Invaders Caught
Between 7 Fires

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Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian pub
Usher, stated emphatically that it
would be folly to believe that the
Japanese fleet had been smashed
since comparatively light forces
were involved in the battle. He also
pointed out that the japanese can
get reinforcements to the South
Seas more rapidly than the Allies
can receive urgently needed REIN
forcemelts in warships and air
planes.
But the repulse of the Japanese
forces was one of the outstanding
successes of the United Nations in
the Far East and it came as a
severe blow to the Jaapnese in con-
junction with the sudden Chinese
counterattacks in Burma and sug-
gestions at Washington that Japa-
nese cities face further U. S. Army
bombing attacks.
On other fighting fronts:
LONDON = ChurchillS warning
that Allies will retaliate in event
Germans use gas against Russia
followed by light Raj raids on Axis
targets Nazis reported preparing
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11

a battery charge filed by Betty
Daniels itinerant magazine sub
seription solicitor.
Miss Daniels told Police Judge
Lee Nuffer that she accompanied
Allen and two soldiers to the wat
er tenders shack on the railroad
right-of-way for a few drinks. and
that her host beat the stuffing out
of me- when she refused to submit
TO advances by the three men.
She said she suffered a broken
ear drum when Allen hit her Allen
said Miss Daniels got her ear in
jury by jumping out of window.
Miss Daniels said she didn't jump,
but climbed out the window to get
away from Allen and the two SOL
diers, and denied Aliens charge
that she was in a state of undress.
Miss Daniels said the soldiers
were nice. and I have five bro
theirs" and she thought it her pa
triotic duty to be nice to the fight
ing forces
But Allen. she said. was a beast
Trial was set for Tuesday morn
ing. and Judge Nuffer advised Miss
Daniels to find the soldiers and
present them in court as witnesses.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
Germans May Use
New Nerve Gas TO
|mperiI Russians
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would neutralize the nerve gas.
10Th recruit and troops home
from the front are getting the new
type mask, it was said, and old
masks are being Systematically
withdrawn.
USED IN BELGIUM
There were reports that the Ger
mans had used the nerve gas, in
greatly restricted quantities, on Bel
gian and French forts of Maginot
line type two years ago. 1t was
these forts, according to reports,
which fell with such surprising
quickness.
Military experts predicted that if
Germany decided to use poison gas
It would open indiscriminate chem
ical warfare throughout the world
and make all theaters, including the
United States, liable to attack.
United States officials here are
already exchanging information on
poison gas with Britain and Russia,
and it is believed that the Allies are
far ah"2d Of anything the Germans
can produce in poison gas weapons.
Experts here believed that Prime
Minister Winston Churchill's warn
ing yesterday that Britain would
gas Germany if Germany gasSed
Russia might give Hitler pause.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
FL Centre S First
Summer School TO
Open on June 18th

Ell Centres first summer school
session will open at Central Junior
college on June Is, Dean Glenn
Kieffer announced Monday.
EnrollmentS now are being taken
and will continue until the opening
date. If Is students are interested
in a course. Dean Kieffer said, the
course will be offered by the college.
Each class mush have at least Is
enrollments. A registration fee of
81 and So a course will be charged
as tuition.
Day or night classes will be held.
Just as the students decide in the
individual classes.
Most interest thus far has been
shown in English A, meterology,
aviation. navigation. tipping, Begin
ming and advanced shorthand, ac-
counting, high school physics, and
high school civics.
1t will be possible for junior stu
dents to make nine units of junior
college or the equivalent of fourth
of a years work. High school stu
dents may make one unit, Kieffer
said
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
Ship Workers in
Critical Class

WASHINGTON, May IL up :
Workers in shipbuilding and ship
ping industries henceforth will be
given careful consideration for de-
ferment for military service, under
new orders issued to local draft
boards by the national selective SER
vice headquarters.
Selective service yesterday listet.
l59 occupations in the shipbuild-
ing industry and so in water trans
portetion as critical occupations
which must be filled By trained
men.
Vessels carrying food. armament
and soldiers are the lifeline of our
national effort" it said, and work
ers constructing and sailing those
vessels = from anglesmithS and
WoodWorkers TO able Seamen and
wpers-were placed in the crit
CAL classification to be considered
for deferment. Blanket defermentS
however. were not authorized in the
directive.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11

| to use nerve gas to paralyze Al
lied soldiers.
RUSSIA-Red army local attacks
on scattered fronts. taking steady
toll Of hundreds of German soldiers
Nazis repulsed in counterattack on
Kalinin front, northwest of Mos
COW. Berlin claims 2l9 Russian
planes and 100 German craft de-
stroyed in last week
VICHY = Pierre Laval reported
prepared to reject" any agreement
between U. S. and Martinique I'M
less approved by Vichy; anti-Nazis
blow up pro-German Paris radio
station aerialS.
MEDITERRANEAN = Air raids
continue against Malta as Lord
Cert takes command; patrol and
air fighting reported in Libyan
desert.
JAPANESE FLEE
In the Burma battle. American
volunteer pilots were again giving
valuable aid to the Chinese under
Gen. StilWell and the enemy was
reported in flight southwark from
Chefang IN Yunnan province.
The turning of the tables upon
the japanese in southern China and
northern Burma appeared to be a
brilliant piece of strategy conceiv-
ed by Gen StilWell and General
issimo Chang Kai-Shek in enc OF
Chfna's darkest hours.
Chang directed the strategy that
hurled the japanese back from
Chefang, "a miles inside Yunnan
province, while Gen. StilWell per-
sonally led the Chinese forces strik-
ing up the Burma road toward the
Yunnan border and forming the
southern claw of the entrapmelt.
RETREAT HARRIED
From Mandalay, where StilWells
troops were battling in the out
skirts, northWard fer 24O miles
through Lashio and Wanting, the
counterattacking forces struck at
the japanese line of retreat. Chung
king dispatches told of the slaugh-
ter of at least $500 Japanese.
The Chinese pushed up the Bur-
ma road after Selling Maymyo, 80
miles northeast of Maadalay, Still
another japanese column faced an
Inhalation in the Bhamo region, 100
miles northwest of Lashio.
Japan's mechanical spearhead
which struck into Yunnan province
a week ago Monday can be consld-
cred completely liquidated,' Chi
neSc military spokesman said About
1000 surviving enemy troops were
said to be fleeing in disorder south
ward - into StilWel's trap some
where between Lashio and the
Burma Chinese border.
In Chungking it was predicted
that Lashio would soon fall, Wiping
out Japans conquest of the north
ern terminus of the railroad from
Rangoon.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
Hungary, Rumania
Revive Old Feud
BY UNITED PRESS

Russia reported Monday that
more than 20 Hungarians had been
killed in a two-hour fight between
Hungarian and Rumanian frontier
guard troops, the result of increas-
ingly open enmity over the rich
Pennsylvania territory.
A Rumanian troop detachment
crossed the frontier. attacked a
Hungarian barracks. and returned
across the frontier with the bodies
Of the Hungarian dead, Moscow said.
Berlin reported that Bucharest
authorities had announced that
street car passengers who started
disputes would be interned in labor
camps.
It was only vaguely explained that
the police project of Bucharest sald
that IAN increasing number OF
street car passengers habitually
start fights and insult fellow pas
sengers
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
"a Injured When
Trains Collide

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., May l.
-UPl-Fourteen persons were in
jured Sunday when the Challenger
Union Pacific passenger train,
crashed into II cars of an east
bound freight train that had been
derailed when struck by an autcmo-
bile driven by three youths from
Rock Springs.
The locomotive, tender and seven
passenger coaches of the Challenger
left the tracks. Neither the youth"
in the utomobile-Alfred Sims,
Leon Nazzie and Hoy Wilcox-nor
crew members of the freight train
were hurt.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
Suspected Enemy
Agents on Trial

has pleaded guilty 10 a charge OF
being an unregistered agent and Is
awaiting sentence.
The other three defendants were
japanese. one of whom. Tsutomu
Obana. seeretar. of the japanese
chamber of commerce in San Fran
cisco, pleaded guilty 10 being an
unregistered agent and Nolo Con-
tendere TO the conspiracy charge.
TWO FUGITIyEs
X. Takahashi. and S Takeuehi.
San Francisco managers of Tokyo
business firms. fled to Japan before
the indictments were returned. OBJ
ana. who awaits sentence. Is held
as an enemy alien.
Takahasni and Takeuchi we're
identified in the indictment as or
ganizers, among other, of kikyouku
Innkai Japanese committee on
trade and information. allegedly
organized in San Francisco In Sep
TENDER. 1897. for the purpose of
disseminating pro-Japanese propa-
ganda.
Obana was secretary from Dec
ember 1887 until it disbanded IN
August %, 1910. Ryder and Town.
send, the indictment charged, acted
as public relations counsel thru
out the organizations life.
The indictment charged that
Williams was employed to deliver
lectures, arrange RADIO programs
and to purchase and distribute
japanese propaganda, as we'll as
write it.
RIDER was indicted on one SUBJ
stantive count, failure to register
and on the conspiracy charge,
while williams was indicted on
nine substantive charges and the
conspiracy count. If convicted, they
would face penalties of $1,000 and
TWO years imprisonment on each
substantive count and $4,000 and
two years for conspiracy.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
Patrol Auxiliary
Class Scheduled

First class of instruction fer the
California Highway Patrol auxiliary
in Imperial county was scheduled
for men of the Ell Centre and Heber
areas at highway patrol headquar-
tiers in Ell Centre at p. m. Tues
day.
Sgt. Cliff Reed, head of the high
way patrol in the county, said ap-
plications for the patrol are COM
ing in rapidly and the so enroll
ment quota was expected TO be
reached Immediately.
The auxiliary will assist the regu-
lar patrol in case of emergency and
work under direction of the regular
officers.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
Beekeepers Appeal
For More Sugar

Even the honey bees will feel
the pinch of the sugar shortage
unless arrangements are made for
the beekeepers to get sugar for bee
feed said Dr.. j. E. Eckert. Uni
versity of California bee expert
stationed at Davis, who spoke in
e Centre Sunday night.
There was a shortage of nectar
secretion by the blossoms through
out California this year. making it
necessary for beekeepers to feed
their bees to keep them from starv-
ing. DR.. Eckert explained the pro-
cedure necessary for beekeepers to
get sugar. q
In the general discussion, Leslie
Burr, Imperial VALLEY bee authority
said the amount OF honey consum-
ed by a normal hive of bees in the
valley Appropriated 200 pounds a
year.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
CoIexico Victory
Tower Dedicated

CALEXICO, May II - Calexico
resident Sunday afternoon dedieat-
ed their new ground observation
tower in library park and turned
it over to the Army as part of
the air raid warning service.
More than 500 persons saw the
parade which preceded the cere-
monies.
Lieut.. Col. John w. Gray, head
of the fourth interceptor command;
L. F.. Olson. southern California di-
rector of the state defense council;
and LieutS. Paul Schantz and L..
Mouser. both of the fourth inter-
ceptor command. all spoke briefly.
Calexico City Clerk Richard En-
erSon made the speech OF presen-
tation when Victory Tower was
turned over to the Army. He said
CaleXico crew of ground observers
will continue to man the observa-
ton tower as long as necessary.
o. A Pratt, one of the observers,
introduced the Rev. Mr.. Charles
Thorman of the Baptist church,
who pronounced the invocation,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
HoItvi||e Man, Now
Naval Officer, to
Address Students

Lieut.. N. O. Walker, graduate of
Holtyille Union High school and
later athletic coach there. will be
in Imperial Valley this week to
speak to men students in the FL
Centre and Brawley Junior colleges
and all high schools.
He will discuss the class VS. pro-
gram of the United States Naval
reserve. The schools arranged for
Lieut.. Walker to speak at assem-
blies on Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Thursday.
After serving as athletic coach
at Holtville, Walker was football
coach at Herbert Hoover High
school in San Diego. He was COM
missioned under the Nays ava
ton cadet physical training pro-
gram at the end of a months spe-
cialized training at Annapolis. He
now is attached to the Naval Avia-
ton Cadet selection board in | as
Angeles. AS soon as he finishes his
present speaking tour of Imperial
and San Diego counties, Lieut.. Wal
ker will be assigned at st. Mary's
college as a member of the staff
conducting physical training fer
prospective Navy flyers.
The son of Mr.. and Mrs. Osborne
Walker, of BIT Fern. Ho'tville. Lit.
Walker graduated in 1927 from
Holtville High school. He attended
San Diego State college, gradual
ing in 1888. He later earned a mas
ter's degree at University of Sou
them California.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
Coral Sea Fight
Shows Air Power

WASHINGTON, May II oUP) -
Three senate arpower enthusiasts
today interpreted the American
Coral Sea victory over a japanese
fleet as concrete evidence that the
day of the huge battleship is over
Sen. Sheridan Downey, D., Calf,
said in an interview that American
successes apparently were due to
superiority in the air during the
course of the battle"
The need for such superiority
has been demonstrated throughout
this war" ne ADDED.
THE development of airpoWer
has made the huge battleShip al
most obsolete and will soon make
it totally ineffective as a fighting
unit Fortunately. America is the
nation that can best develop air.
power and therefore is the nation
that will win the war.
The day is not too distant when
heavy bombers will be capable of
cruising 5000 miles carrying 50 tons
of explosives. Those ships can best
be built in America"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
Volcano Erupfs IS
Miles from Tokyo

LONDON. May Il CUP - Ger
man dispatches from Japan report
cd today that there had been a
Violent and possibly disastrous
eruption of Asama volcano, So
miles northwest of Tokyo
The eruption started at pm
Saturday. according to the dis
patches, and was accompanied by
Garth tremors.
Berlin said the extent of damage
was not known but that it was
1amored that the outbreak was one
of the biggest in years.
The last serious eruption of the
volcano took place in 1888. It de-
sstrored nearly so villages and killed
hundreds of people. The thick lay
or of ashes and cinderS which was
left may seen still. after 159 years.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11

and Fern Young, who acted as
chairman of the day Among those
introduced during the eerem y
were Joe Snyder, county chairman
c. ground observation crews and
his assistant Earl V. c. Northrop.
Mrs. Vierhus, observation CORPS
personnel director, Karl Fdmunds.
chief observer; c. c. Rambo; Judge
T. H. Anderson, E A. EncinaS, Will
Brown. and Charles Lumber of I'M
perial. active in the work to con-
struct an airplane sound detector
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
: KILLED, % HURT
BY BLAST FURNACE

PITTSBURGH, May 1l-fUP) =
Scared by molten metal and flames
when a blast furnace erupted at
the second avenue plant of Jones &
Laughlin Steel Corp, three men
were killed and % others injured
The dead were Mike Olakso, SIS, a
Pipe filter; Martin Sloop. 33. a ma
chinst. and Walter Willmott, 80.
native stove cleaner, all of Pitts
burgh.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11

WASHINGTON, May IL tUP) ~
The first trial involving alleged
Japanese agents since Pearl Har-
Dor opens here today.
The defendants, David Warren
Ryder and Frederick Vincent Will
liams, both of San Francisco, are
charged with violating the foreign
agents registration act and with
conspiring to violate the act.
They were two of six persons in
dicted Jan. % by a federal grand
jury. A third American, Ralph
Townsend of Lake Geneva, Wis,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
U.S.. Wage Freezing
Orders Favored
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would carry out such policy.
Board Chairman William H. Davis
told neWsmen he did not interpret
the presidents remarks as call for
wage freezing. but rather for a
flexible policy in witch cases would
be considered as they arose and in
creases granted when they seemed
justified.
Rep. Albert Gore. D.. Pa, how
ever, did interpret the Presidents
remarks as an invitation for strong
wage control and introduced legiSla-
ton today to impose a statutory
wage control and compulsory pur-
chase of war bonds.
Chairman Walter F. George, D..
Ga. of the senate finance commit
tee urged adoption of a Withholding
tax. which would be deducted from
the individuals income. Eventually
we shall have to face it, he said.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
Graham McNamee
Buried tuesday

NEW YORK, May il CUP)
Funeral services for Graham Nc
Nance, pioneer radio announcer
will be held at 2 pm. tomorrow at
Campbell funeral chapel
McNamee died at St. Luke's hos
pital Saturday Of a brain embolism
which followed a long illness from
q. streptococcus infection. He was
So years old.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
TWO SOLDIERS
AnIa IL

j. A. Hull. 90. and Nathaniel N.
Porter, Jr.. 10. were held in the I'M
perial county jail in Ell Centre
Monday on charges of being absent
from their Army post near Seattle,
Wash, without official permission.
The boys wore the uniforms of an
engineering outfit. They were ar
rested south of Brawley
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
JUNIOR COLLEGE TO
NOMINATE CANDIDATES

Central Junior college Studcllts
Friday will nominate candidates Tor
all student body officers. The cleo
ton of the student body officers
was scheduled to take place the
following Friday.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
Pulitzer Winner
Dies Suddenly

WESTON, Conn, May II up =
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow for Forrest Wilson, autho.
who last week won the Pulitzer
prize for biography. Wilson SO. q ed
suddenly late Sunday in his. home
here.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
Anzac Camp Life
Toughens Yanks
ToFace Warfare
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who pitched the Americans to their
first baseball victory over the Aus
tralians, 40, striking out 16 of the
q men who batted against him.
Lund was professional baseball
player before he was drafted He
played for Bisbee, Ariz.. in 1887 and
Muskogee, Okla. in 1888. He was
with Eldorado in the cotton states
league in 1889 and had been sched-
uled to report to the Phils this
year.
The camps most enyied man is
First Sergeant Everett Squires of
Springfield, Mo. He received 20
letters from home in one mail
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
WHEAT CROP
LESS THAN LAST YEAR

WASHINGTON, May l1-tUP1-
The agriculture departments crop
reporting board today forecast 1912
production of winter wheat would
total 646.875,000 bushels, compared
with l94l crop Of GIL ,293, 900 BUSH
els
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
Scanning w..
News Horizon
DECREE GRANTED

Al interlocutory divorce decree
was granted in superior court Mon
day to Barbara 10th in her suit
against Joseph E. 10th She ac-
cused him of wilful desertion.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
Girl Tells Court
Of Assault Here

John Allen, 40. railroad water
tender, was in Fl Centre city jail
IN default of 500 cash bail Mon
das, following his arrest Saturday
night by Officer Lloyd Edwards on
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-11
MASONIC CHAPTER
MEETS THURSDAY

FL Centre chapter No. 100. X a
M. will have a stated meeting
Thursday night, 7:30 o'clock, Ma
sonic temple.
Evening star., 1942-12-27

honorary leadership fraternity.
At Fort Benning, Ga.
Max Wall. son of Mrs. Samuel
Wall, 1925 Taylor street NV, was
commissioned a second lieutenant
recently upon graduation from the
officer candidate course here at the
Infantry School. 1t. Wall was in
Quoted into the Army in April of
this year, serving with the 4th
Battalion, End Training Regiment
at Camp Wheeler, Ga, before COM
ing here. A graduate of Central
High School and Georgetown Uni
versity Law School, 1t. Wall in
civilian life practiced patent law.
James Edwards Maertens, son of
Col. and Mrs K. Maertons. Woodley
Park Towers, was commissioned a
second lieutenant in the United
States Army recently upon compile
tion of the officer candidate course
here at the Infantry School. Prior
to his enlistment last September,
1t. Maertons attended Millard's
Preparatory School for West Point.
He first served with Headquarters,
Headquarters Company, Army War
College, as sergeant.
Sergt. Robert J. Gleason, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas A. Gleason,
427 Peabody street NV. was re-
Gently given the title of classifica-
ton specialist here, where he has
been stationed for the past II
months as interviewer and classifier
Tor the classification division.
At George Field, Ill.
Jason H. Duncan, son of Mrs
Anna B. Duncan, 1925 Kalorama
road NV, and Samuel H. Henton.
formerly of the District, recently
graduated from the Army Air Forces
Advanced Flying School here and
were commissioned second lieuten-
ants. Prior to his joining the armed
services 1t. Duncan was employed
as an accountant for the Potomac
Electric Power Co. He attended
Strayer Business College and Ben
jamin Franklin University. 1t.
nenCOn is graduate OF Louisville
(Ky) High School.
At Keesler Field, Miss.
Corpls. Lewis S. Price, SON of Mr..
and Mrs. Walter c. Price, 2726 Con-
necticut avenue NV, and Lewis w.
Lawder. former sales manager for
the Action Fuel Co., were recently
promoted to the grade of sergeant
at the Airplane Mechanics School
here at the Army Air Forces Tech
nical Training Command.
Pvt. Ira E. Fenton, son of John
w. Fenton, 43l6 Fourteenth street
NV, was recently promoted to the
grade of corporal at the Airplane
Mechanics School here at the Army
Air Forces Technical Training Com
mand.
At Camp Gordon. Ga.
First 1t. james b. Burnside, who
is member Of the Motorized d.
vision Of the 22d Infantry here, Is
now on leave for . few days, visiting