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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03
RATIONING IN
GREAT BRITAIN

(Alhambra Post-Advocate)
Those among us who speculate with
bitterness on prospective rationing IN this
country, may do we'll to consider Great
Britain's program, beginning July l.
That's the day set for shutting off civ
ilian supplies of gasoline and general
curtailment of other necessities.
Everything is going into the war effort.
The amount of food for each person is
fixed; likewise the allowance of clothing.
Women, rich and poor, must limit their
purchases for the year to one coat, one
dress, one pair of shoes, one nlghtgoWn
and one set of underclothing Each wom
an can have only two pairs of stockings
and four handkerchiefs.
Factories supplying civilian needs are
shifting to war production and there
may be additional rationing.
Owing to the interference with ship
ping, Britain's supplies from the United
States and Canada are dropping below
what was counted on, and from this time
forward everyone in the islands must
pitch in to the limit.
Every man and women is subject to
draft and must fight or work. The work
ers are assigned and held to their posts,
just as soldiers and sailors and airmen
are assigned.
lhey may not qult Ihelf Joos at VIII
or seek ones that pay better. Indeed,
there are no better jobs, because the in
come tax absorbs salaries as rapidly as
compensation goes up.
Everyone receiving $3.50 year or more
pays income tax on an ascending scale.
In the top-bracket, the tax takes 81 cents
out of every dollar
Women are working 55 hours week.
Boys and girls of IA and Is, who ought
to be on the playground when they are
not in class, are holding down jobs in
factories and on farms.
Yet, even so, their condition isn't COM
parable in severity with that of women in
the countries occupied by the Nazis.
1t is the picture of what occurred to
those who succumbed to Hitler that keeps
alive British determination to keep the
marauderS off English soil.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03

planes of both sides drop flares in
profusion SO they can single out
ground formations and permit their
men to watch for a sudden night
march by the other side.
Occasionally there is burst OF
machine gun fire as planes fight
a grim midnight battle, or the anti
aircraft guns blaze up.
It is uncanny. We all know the
great battle is on. Yet at times
there is calm out of harmony
with the events.
watched this morning while a
party of Cameronian highlanders,
some wearing tin hats, Others their
cocky Balmoral caps. marched OFF
as if on parade over the hump
backed hill along the coastal
road guns, o.i their way to the
white -flecked sea to bathe and re-
turn to the front line.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03
CHURCHILL TAKES IT

The measure of Winston Churchill was
taken in the British house of commons
this week, and whatever his faults, 1t was
a goodly stature that was disclosed.
Churchill went before commons in what
may have been the most critical moment
of his own political history. He faced the
representatives of nation outraged by
fresh losses in desert warfare. Threaten
ing him was a vote which might have de-
prived him of the leadership of British
government.
A lesser man would have made some
grandly sensational announcement, dwelt
upon plans for quick victory, or voiced
an alibi for defeat. Churchill did none of
these things. Instead, he told the nation
worse news than it knew. He disclosed
that British troops had taken beating
in spite of being superior in manpoWer
and equipment, and he told of tremendous
losses.
He said that the war would be long,
and limited that bad news is not at an
end.
When he was finished, the House of
commons voted, with only 25 dissenting
ballots, resolution of confidence in his
government Churchill emerged from the
crisis stronger than ever.
Men who can face defeat and go on to
greater effort, are men of the calibre the
world most needs today. Britain is for
tunate in its Winston Churchill.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03

Imperial mobile forces, racing into
action, smashed at the enemy's
right flank south of Ell Alamein.
ATTACK FROM REAR
They advanced through the ad-
vanced Axis screen, hit the Ger
man flank and lead by the 18th and
21st armored divisions, attacked the
enemy forces from the flank and
rear.
After an armored battle, late in
the evening the enemy withdrew
to the west. leaving our position
intact" the communique said terSe-
ly of the Imperial victory at a
moment when the Germans were
boasting of taking Alexandra and
continuing on to Cairo.
Throughout the battle, light
bomber, fighter bomber and fight
er planes, hurled into the action
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03
Big onk Battle
Raging in Russia

German corpSes."
(The German communique claim
ed that a 180 mile hole had been
hammered into the Russian SOU
thern front and that $4,000 pris-
oners were taken at SevaStopolD :
AT some points the Russians
have seized the initiative in coun-
terattacks that recaptured villages
and in others ground is changing
hands constantly" the Red Star
said Several enemy regiments
have repeatedly lost so per cent of
their effectives.
FIVEDAY BATTLE
Forcing the river barrier occur
red during a five-day battle in
which the Germans were repulsed
repeatedly The enemy then moved
up fresh mechanical columns sup
ported by strong air squadrons,
some of which had just been trans
ferred from Crete, the newspaper
said.
Small groups of five or 10 tanks
managed to force the river, where
their advance was barred by Soviet
artillery and tanks" it added. Red
armored forces struck before the
enemy could deploy for battle and
the fight is still raging. A hurri-
cane of Soviet fire moved down
a German cavalry charge at
neighboring point
The Germans have lost so heavily
that they are now throwing in
second line troops, dispatches re-
ported.
Dispatches to the Communist
party organ Pravda revealed for
the first time the magnitude of the
German drive around Kursk, 275
miles below Moscow
On the first day of the often
sive, the Russians destroyed 222
German tanks. Yesterday the
fifth day of the offensive-the Ger
mans hurled hundreds of tanks
and masses of infantry and air.
craft" at the Russians on the main
sector of the front, the dispatch
asserted
The, Russians, fighting at close
quarters and oftern against super
ior forces, held their ground and
inflicted such losses that the Ger
mans had to feed second-line men
into the battle.
These forces, the dispatch said
were constantly under the fire of
Soviet tanks and unable to maneu-
yer or dig in.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03
By LEON KAY

CAIRO. July 3 1UP) - British
Imperial forces in their biggest and
most successful counterattaek of
the battle for the Nile. have hurled
back a German general offensive
ON FL Alamein, coastal anchor Of
their defense line. a communique
announced today.
German Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel threw the full power of
his armored forces, backed by mo-
torized infantry and mobile anti
aircraft units, against the most
vital point of the English line, 60
miles west of Alexandria, yesterday
afternoon.
Fighting side by side, the troops
from England. Scotland. Wales,
South Africa, New Zealand and In
dia. held their line against the ter
rifle impact of the attack. Then the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03
BY ROBERT p. MARTIN

CHUNGKlNG. July 3 - tUP) =
The Flying Tigers" from the Un-
tied States who fought SO valiantly
in China and Burma for seven
months, took a last turn over the
flying fields of western China to-
day. Tomorrow they will be must
cred out.
Some of the group, that never
numbered more than $50, includ-
ing grounds, will pass into the U.
S. flying force to continue their
attacks on the japanese. Others
will return home for vacations.
The Tigers" officially known as
the American volunteer group,
wrote a flaming chapter in aerial
combat history and ran up a score
of unbelievable victories over the
fighting planes of the japanese de-
spite overwhelming odds. Much of
the credit for the fliers' exploits
goes TO Leathery Claire L. Chen
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL
No. 3348
Notice of Time and Place Appointed
for Proving Will and Hearing
Application for Letters
Testamentary
In the Matter of the Estate of
WALTER M. PAINE, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that a petit
ton for probate of the will of Walter
M Paine, deceased, and for the
issuance to WILLIAM TAFT PAINE
OF letters testamentary, has been
filed in this court, and that Friday
the 17th day of July, 1912, at two
pm, of said day, at the courtroom
Department Two of said court. at
the Court House in the City of Ell
Centro, County of Imperial, State
of California has been set for the
hearing of said petition, when and
where any person interested may
appear and contest the same, and
show cause, if any they have, why
said petition should not be granted.
Dated June 10, 1912.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY G.. o. Kenyon,
Deputy Clerk.
mo. 2D (J24-J5 inco
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03
KEEP EN-
REGIMENTED

wall Street JournaD
For some time now we have been cOgl-
tating the social desirablity of razors
and razor blades, and the announcement
that their production is to be continued
until July 81 has influenced us to COM
nit ourselves to print at this particular
time.
Being a fierce partisan of individual
ism, we think that it would be we'll to
eliminate razors. If we, like some gentle
men in Washington, were proponents of
RECOMMENDATION, it is the last thing we
would do.
It's all right to laugh at the hirsute
adornments of our grandfathers and
even our fathers, but we are convinced
that it was an influence for individual
ity. A man with mutton chops proclaim
ed his difference from a man with
walrus mustache and both of them were
different than a man with fringe OF
hair that grew from his neck. You could
mt take men like that and get them TO
agree on anything, much less act alike.
Now it's different. The furthest de-
parture from a clean shaven face is
few wisps of hair on the upper lip, at
best a pallid and weak revolt against
sameness.
The totalitarians had better keep 'em
shaving
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03

LONDON. July 3-UP)-A strong
fleet of long range bombing planes,
estimated to number upwards OF
300, made the fourth large Royal
Air Force raid in eight nights on
Bremen, key German submarine
and war factory area, during the
night, it was announced today.
Many fires were left burning in
the city, already devasted by three
previous raids in the first of which,
on the night of June 25 force of
upwards of 1000 big planes, each
with tons of bombs, hurled destruc-
ton on factories, docks and build
ing yards.
An air ministry communique, re-
porting that l3 bomberS were miss
ing, indicated the size of the raid.
2OOC PLANES
1t was estimated that in eight
nights a total of 1000 planes had
bombed Bremen.
The bombing planes Shot down
one enemy night fighter which
challenged them in the raid last
night. the communique said.
Short range planes heavily at
tackled German airdromes in Hol-
land and Belgium in diversionary
attacks designed to keep some
enemy fighters occupied and permit
the Bremen raiders more freedom.
Coastal command forces of Lock-
heed Hudson planes attacked enemy
shipping off the Netherlands coast.
1t was learned that in last nights
Bremen raid British plane crews
favored by good weather, were able
to drop their bombs directly on
their targets and experts said that
there could be little left now Of
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
SITTING AS A BOARD OF
EQUALIZATION

Notice is hereby given as required
that the City Council OF the City OF
Ell Centre will convene on July l.,
1912 at 7:30 pm, at the City Hall
of the City of El Centre, to sit as a
Board of Equalization for the pur-
pose of Equalizing the tax roll and
will continue to sit as Il Board Of
Equalization from day TO day until
the equalization of the tax roll is
completed.
Dated this 26th day of June, 1912
(Signed) ROBERT w. HATTON
Mayor of the City of Ell
Centre.
Attest:
(Signed NEAL, II. GAVIN,
City Clerk.
(No. 25) (J28-J5)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03
Bremen Gets 18th
Big Roid by Raj

cne or Germanys greatest ports,
building centers and war
factory areas.
Well informed quarters reported
that the loss of ;3 bomberS in the
raid was well below the percentage
which might cause concren to the
air force command.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The fOIiOIOing edit
0riais are presented as interesting Opin-
ions UOiced bg editors eiseiChere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Peter
Edison

washington looks forward to a
visit from Queen Wilhelmina OF
the Netherlands far more than
it has anticipated the visits OF all
the other monarchs and premlerS,
for off -the-record stories indicate
what a grand, good human, un-
affected old lady she really is
Practical, too. For the clipper trip
across the ocean she wore thick
ribbed gray wool hose, and as she
stepped on to the dock at Shediac,
New Brunswick, her first words to
the first man who greeted her, a
Pan-American Airways representa-
tive. were Good morning, are YOU
the governor" She had apparently
expected that kind of direct, un-
ceremonious welcome and the Pan
Am official was put in the en-
barrassing position of having to eX-
plain that waiting to welcome her,
was Just the lieutenant governor,
representing the governor general
The queen got it, expressed
her thanks and changed the
subject to the weather. 1t
seems a little colder here" she
said. You know, l thought it
was warmer more tropical
but perhaps that was the tenn
perature inside your plane and 1
did not know it was colder out
side"
lNn ~ G
get into cars, the queen noticed a
detail of Royal Canadian Mounted
police, standing very erect in their
scarlet uniform jackets. The near
est Mountie allowed himself the
slightest relaxation as he opened
the door of the governors car, but
Immediately had to freeze to rigid
attention as he heard the queen
ask: And are these the Boy
ScoutS?"
Elmer Davis, new director of the
Office of War Information, knows
what it is to be up against Army
regulations. When Davis was on the
air. the time for his broadcast was
855 to pm. Army night COM
muniqueS came out Tor 9 pm. re-
leases but one night there was an
item in the communique which
Davis wanted to use, so he broke
release. Army caught him at it and
called him, making 1t such an issue
that Davis never broke release
again. Now Davis is in a spot where
his office must insist that no one
break releases on government news.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.


In the Matter of the Petition of
WALTER F.. BEILBY.
Notice is hereby given that WAL
TER F.. BEILBY has filed in this
court a Petition to establish the
place and date of his birth, the
hearing of which has been fixed by
said Court for Friday, the 10th day
of July, l942, at 2 O'Clock PM, at
the Court room thereof, at the court
house in said County of Imperial.
and all persons interested in said
estate are notified then and there
to appear and show cause, If any
there be, why the said Petition
should not be heard and order made.
Dated June 26. 1912.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY MAXINE CONSOLE,
Deputy.
mo. 26) (Ja0-J9 Incl
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03
By HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, July UP) - One
of the most savage battles of the
war is raging on the Kursk sector
of the southern front where Ger
man tanks forced a strategic river
barrier after losing thousands of
men and hundreds of tanks and
Suns, the Army newspaper Red
Star said today.
The enemy tanks were attacked
by Russian armored forces and the
engagement is still in progress. the
Req Star said. The banks of the
river already were streWn with
thousands of German dead, hun
dred of tanks and the Wreckage of
many guns" the newspaper said.
The newspaper said that fighting
in the streets of Sevastopol con-
tinued but that the whole situation
on the southern front is growing
more tense and the magnitude of
hostilities is mounting daily"
CEASELESS ATTACKS
Heavy fighting also was reported
on the Kharkov front in the Vol
chanSk region, where the Red Star
said that "ceaseless German at
tacks succeeded in piercing the So
Wet defenses at a few places but
ultimately the enemy was driven
back with high losses, including
several dozen tanks and armored
cars wrecked on a field Uttered with
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03
DRUM BEATER WICKARD

DRUM BEAIER WlCkAkD
Secretary of Agriculture Claude
r. Wickard, in spite OF an an
nounced administration policy Tor
controlling wages and the cost OF
rliving in wartime, is beating the
drum for one of his standing
personal beliefs-higher wages Tor
farm labor will make for a sounder
contention that higher pay Tor
farm labo rwill make for sounder
agriculture and in wartime Will
solve the problem of getting more
farm labor to offset shortages
caused by the draft and greater
industrial employment.
Wickard is genuinely con-
cerned about providing suffici-
ent farm labor to take off all
crops in critical areas. But he
has small sympathy with farm
ers who complain of labor
shortage when they can't get
help at low pay. Last fall, for
instance, there was good bit
of hOllering from the South
when cotton farmers could not
hire cotton pickers for 81
hundred pounds, equivalent to
| $3.50 or So day. When the
rate went up to S1.5O and in a
few places So a hundredweight,
the labor appeared and the full
crop was picked without loss.
National average farm wage rates
now run from $43 a month with
board to S53 month without board,
and vary from an average OF "a
cents a day with board in the
South to $335 a day without board
| in the Pacific states.
Only control which the govern
ment has over wages now is in
the Sugar Control act of 1887,
which requires the Department OF
Agriculture to hold public hearings
and fix wage rates in each beet
and can sugar producing area. in
cluding Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Sugar wages for 1912 were fixed
at an average of 25 per cent higher
than for l94l
Then tendency is to let farm
wages go up, whether it's infla-
tionary or not, the agricultural
point of view being that price cell
ings on processed farm products
will prevent farm labor costs from
getting out of line
SPONGE STEEL STORY
Investigation of the sponge
iron" process by Sen. Joseph c..
OMahoney of Cheyenne, Wyo,, has
steel men puzzled and they're ask
! ing who sold the senator that bill
of goods. Far from costing S. a
ton less to produce, as O'Mahoney
was told, it would probably cost
a good $40 a ton more than the
usual blast furnace pig iron. Swed-
en- has made sponge iron for years
and shipped it to the United
States for certain specially sponge
iron sells for as high as 81 q
pound and its tiny particles will be
! found in high-grade face powders.
Great Britain's experience
with war damage insurance was
of no use to the United States
in shaping plans for the War
! Damage Insurance C0rpOr stiOn,
whose policies go into effect
July 1. Great Britain, being
much closer TO potential dam
age, made war insurance COM
pulsOry. In the United States
il is strictly voluntary. Sales
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-03

National average farm wage rates
now run from SAB a month with
board to S53 a month without board,
and vary from an average OF "a
cents a day with board in the
South to S335 day without board
in the Pacific states.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-18
Training Course
For Bow Scouts
Starts Saturday

Under direction 81 J. Hurley
gagood assistant Boy Scout es-
.eutivs a special training course
in emergency service for frst
class scouts in the Tacoma area
council will open Saturday a. ?
m in First Congregational church.
THE course also will BE- open 10 Al
scouts. regardless o. rank. pnoNid-
ing they are more than IS years
old.
Included IN Saturdays session
vii n. bicycle safety tests, under
direction Of Bob Hsger, state
safety chairman. The boys slso
VIII ~ taught first aid. rope climb
ine and running The mile. To
qualify for the Boy Scout Elmer
gency Service corps scouts must
be able to run mile in eight and
one-half minutes. climb and Is
foot rope in Is seconds. know how
n tie required knots and pass
physical examination.
The course. which will comprise
four sessions, Is being conducted
to train scouts 10 take an active
and helpful part in civilian de-
1 fense
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-18

Edison Preschool meets Tuesday
at S p m. in the school with Mrs.
Harry II. Harnisch presiding.
Election OF officers. Miss Kay
Page will speak on Mental Hy-
giene in the Home HostesSes are
Mrs. Thomas Patrick and Mrs. E.
]. Richards.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-18

Fern Hill Presehool meets Tues
day al $50 ?. m. in the home Of
Mrs. oyer Graham. s404 So C st
DR.. A. c. Stewart will speak. Mrs,
X. V. Anderson will preside Elec-
ton Of officers. Assisting Mrs.
Graham is Mrs. n Hartley.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-18
Victory Farms
To Be Operated

Continued From Page Ons1
Kent banker. .. NitullI. Botheh
farmer. I Unbedscht. Seattle
farmer. II. s. Bennett. Auburn
banker. and Ben L. Andre. TACO
ma merchant and farmer.
Bennett IS president; chervenka
vice president. and Pommert
secretsrv-tressurer.
The organizers said they ~et'
concerned with problems thai
might result from the evacuation
Of japanese who own 565 sinai
farms in this area and have pro
duced hundreds Of carloads o
fruits and vegetables annually 70
many years.
Directors Of Victory Farms con
ferred with representatives Of IN
Farm Security administration
who will aid the group in obtain
ing = federal loan.
II approved BY the federal gov
eminent. the group said II woui'
open offices. with an office man
sger. field manager and assistants
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-18
Clubs

Mecca club. Daughters Of Nile.
will meet next Tuesday at the
home Of Mrs. o. w. Davis, 1918
No 26th st. for 1890 luncheon.
Assisting hostesses are Mrs. Alice
James and Mrs. Ulrieke Bozell.
Washington and Alaska Swiss
Aid society will entertain at a pro-
gram and dance at $50 o'clock
Saturday evening in the Swiss
hall, 1903 Market
Fife PIT. A. will sponsor card
party and dance Saturday evening
at s o'clock in the Fife auditorium.
Old time and popular dancing are
planned. Refreshments will he
served The committee includes
Mesdames Evergsrd kaehn. Allan
Finstsd. John Gallert. Gus Paul,
John Kotchkoe. Frank Stratton,
Frank Fox and Robert c. Hall.
tautfs auNihdFN w ih' fff hhi
Police departments is giving a
card party at S p. m. Friday at
fire station No. s. 9th and A SITS.
Hostesses are To be Mesdames V,
Eyers. H. Thornberg, w. kock
and T. Anderson.
q. A. Y. u. is having its regular
Saturday evening card party at
Emerson hall. 1902 Broadway,
at S p. m. Saturday. Refresh
ments will he served
Julia Dent Grant tent, No. 5,
ID. L. v. will give card party
at the home Of Mrs c w. Nc
Pherson. 50S5 So. st, at s o'clock
Saturday evening. There will be
favors and refreshments.