davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
Tokyo
Raider
Cited
Dooli++Ie Barred
AsLeader of u. S.
Attack on Japan

WASHINGTON, May 10.
(UP)-Brig. Gen. James H.
(Jimmy) Doolittle, no t e d
speed flier, was disclosed to-
day to have led the daring
American bombing attack upon Jap
anese industrial detectives a month
ago in which a new cruiser or bat
tleship was left in flames and vast
damage was done to industrial OBJ
jectives.
The revelation that Doolittle led
the intrepid volunteer squadron on
it's dangerous mission was made by
President Roosevelt when he person.
ally decorated the returned hero
with the Congressional medal Of
honor-higheSt honor for this ma
tons great soldiers.
with the apparent certainty of
being forced to land in enemy ter
ritory or to perish at sea, Gen.
Doolittle personally led the squad
ron of army bombers, manned by
volunteer crews in a highly de-
structive raid on the Japanese MAIN
land" the citation said.
How many planes engaged in the
raid, where they came from and
where they went are still secrets
that this country is not telling the
Japanese. One of the bombers, how
ever, is known to have been forced
down in Siberia.
CASUALTIES WITHHELD
The war department announced
award of distinguished service cross
es to 70 other participants in the
raid. The present whereabouts of
these men was not revealed.
The announcements made no men
ton of casualties on the hazardous
mission.
Doolittle, who organized as well
as lead the raid, related that the
squadron encountered very little OPP
position from the Japanese when
the surprise raid was made the af-
ternoon of April Is.
He said that the raiders chose as
one of their targets portion of
the navy yard south of Tokyo.
lone salvo made a direct hit on
new cruiser or battleship under
construction" he said. They left
it in flames"
Doolittle said that another bomber
dumped incendiarieS along a quarter
mile stretch of aircraft factory
near Nogoya-one of the four cities
which figured in the raids. The
others were Kobe and Yokohama.
Doolittle said the squadron of
Continued on Page 6; Column -
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19

copy OF WHICH was TeCelVeQ III
Imperial Valley Tuesday.
The Pasadena corporation, 234
East Colorado street, Pasadena,
said in its circular that, 1--WE are
convinced that under present con-
ditionS the bonds of the I'M
perial Irrigation District may be
among the most attractive Califor-
mia investments. These bonds are
still available at discount. Discus
sions with local investors reveal
that few people recognize the very
significant and constructive factors
which have TRANSFERRED in the Impe-
rial Valley in the past few years :"
The statement lauds the COM
pletely realistic" refunding program
of the district, praises the districts
drainage program and remarks that
"the recent development of rice
growing is almost startling in
possibilities.
About district bonds, the state
ment says that, "a study of financ-
ial records of Arkansas, Miami, Chi
cago, Detroit, Akron, Knoxville, etc,
and survey Of subsequent market
recoverieS for their securities appear
to demonstrate a possibility of con-
siderably higher prices for Imperial
Irrigation District bonds, while a
discount purchase price shows graf
flying current and maturity yields"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19

D 4 4vsln!;
Too Much Suspense

Too Much Suspense
Choral clubbers were warbling
away for all they were worth the
other night. They were singing high
and singing low while Director Stan
Akin waved a baton.
Then the sad news broke. Charles
Slocum, the tenor, was leaving the
Choral club. 1t made them all very
sad, especially Atkin.
Atkin went up and down the line
ard asked each man If he would
, sing the tenor part. They all re-
fused one after the other. So At
kin stopped in front of Sam Nc
Gaughy of Imperial
Il want you to sing the tenor
part for us in our concert Thursday
night Atktn urged McGaughy. 80
l want you to sing it tonight"
mo, won't sing it tonight" Nc
Gaughy said repeatedly.
Atkin kept appealing and urging
until at last McGaughy said he
would sing tenor Thursday night if
Atkin couldn't get anyone else.
We'll, them said Akin, why
won't you sing tenor tonight?"
Nothing doing" McGaughy said,
Il want to go home and practice
first"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
Suicide Suspect
Loses His Eyesight

Bill I Mantelis, Greek resident of
Imperial Valley who is believed to
have attempted to take his own life
late Monday, is in the county hos
pital at Ell Centre with a bullet
wound in his head and his vision
destroyed,
He was found beside the highway
near the Eucalyptus school west of
Ell Centre at p. m. Monday. At
first he was thought to have been
traffic victim. Mantelis was car
ried to a house in the rear of a store
near the school.
When officers arrived they found
a .25 calibre Colt automatic in the
room where the wounded man rest
ed. 1t had been fired Mantelis
said a Negro in a sedan shot him
but since he left a note telling what
to do with his clothing in case any
thing happened to him, Sheriff
Robert w. Ware said, the suicide
theory was favored at present.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
!. v. JAPS OFF
FOR DURATION

With bobbing heads and waving
hands showing in every window,
10 big buses left Ell Centre and
Brawley at 8 am. Tuesday with
646 japanese men, women, and
children, the first consignment in
the mass evacuation of Imperial
county's japanese residents.
A military police officer, doctor.
and a nurse rode in each bus as
they started on their five-hour
journey to Parker Indian reser-
walton in Arizona where they will
remain for the duration. Seven
buses and two baggage trucks left
FL Centre and II buses and three
baggage trucks left Brawley The
caravan in each instance was pro-
vided with military escort. They
halted at Indio where the japanese
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
King, Queen Rate
TOPS With brit0ns
For Sharing Peril
They're Just Like Us
Declare War Battered
People of England
By VIRGIL PINKLEX

LONDON, May 10. (UP)-
A king who shares his cigar
cites with men he meets at
bombing scenes and a queen
whose dresses are turned and made
over to conserve cloth can't help
being tops with their subjects and
that's just how King George VI
and Queen Elizabeth stand in Great
Britain.
I've been asking people for 10
days what impresses them most
about their rulers and the substance
of the replies is that they are just
like u.s."
"They share the same dangers
and undergo the same privations
that I do" an old lady said. Their
home was bombed just like mine"
A tank captain said that when
King George arrived to inspect his
unit he was carrying his own pack
age of sandwiches under his arm
for that days lunch.
"He insisted on riding in a tank
and he requested the driver to take
the sharpest bumps flat and at all
out speed" the captain said. That
means rough riding but he took 1t
and liked it,"
The king, incidentlly is in excel
lent physical trim. He keeps up
schedule of exercises. He comes by
his interest in war machines natur-
ally. In the first World war he saw
active service in both the navy and
the air force.
An American diplomat told me
that Queen Elizabeth was turning
her dresses and abiding strictly by
the food rationing terms. He at
tended a luncheon at Buckingham
Palace and while the food was ample
the portions did not exceed those
established by the ministry of food.
Every city district that suffered
major bombing attack by the
Germans was visited by the king.
and usually the queen accompanied
him. They made personal contact
with those whose homes we're ruin
ed, expressed their sympathy. Sew
eral times they visited areas OF at
tack while the bombs still were fall
ing.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
Supervisors 0kay
Crippled Children
Clinic Funds Here

In compliance with a request
from the representatives of Is or
CARNATIONS in Imperial county who
attended supervisors meeting
Monday, the supervisors voted to
provide the money which will en-
sure free clinics for crippled chill
dren of Imperial county next year.
The board voted to instruct DR.,
E. B. Godfrey, county health OF
ficer, to put an item in his budget
to cover the amount the federal
and state agencies asked the coun-
ty to provide as its share of the
cost. The supervisors did not set
the amount they would provide, de-
claring they wished to discuss the
Continued on Page 6; Column a.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19

tractors on the big Seeley airport,
the INLAND marine camp, the pro-
posed Holtville airport and other
projects here.
The contract between Vinson,
Pringle & Webb and the federal
government for construction OF the
projects, embodying the govern
ment's requirement for union labor
on such projects, gave the local
the whip hand.
These alternatives were possible:
|. The county board of supervis-
ors might back down from an an
nounced policy to require that coun-
ty employees continue to operate the
equipment when it is rented to the
contractor.
g The supervisors might CONT
nue. to insist that their employees
operate the equipment when rented,
thus forcing the employees into per-
manent union membership which
later would in turn force the county
to pay them $3.50 instead OF rs
cents an hour.
8. The supervisors might refuse
to rent equipment to the contractors,
in which case the government could,
if it was thought necessary, draft
the machinery without regard TO any
supervisorial policies.
UNION ULTIMATUM
The crisis was precipitated when
Mike Henry, business agent for the
operating engineers union, issued an
ultimatum to the supervisors that
the county's non-union employees
must take out membership if they
are to operate the machinery rented
to contractors on the war jobs.
Henry questioned the right of the
county to remove two pieces of heavy
equipment already rented to the
Continued on Page 6; Column -
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19

warrant this comment. An expensive
custom-built auto trailer which had
never been used was found in a
barn. A half dozen automobiles also
were stored. Many relics were found
in the basement of the home.
Some rooms in the house appar-
emily had not been entered for years
DR.. Kinsolving, who was 70 when
he died May S. was one of the most
colorful citizens of the southeastern
Missouri Bootheel area. He gained
national recognition for his use of
5000 geese in eradication of grass
and other vegetation from cotton
fields and developed breed of long
staple cotton on his 2,000-acre plan
tation near here.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19

MoiC blidii pluu,uUU lido DCCh IL
Gated thus far. One man found $l71
hidden in books in the physicians
library. Another turned up $l,700
in silver in an old coffee can left
>on basement shelf. A large hoard
|was found in strong box under
a porch and accessible only through
an armhole in the concrete founda-
ton of the house.
: Guards were placed around the
llouse to prevent pilfering, but sew
eral searchers recognized by trustees
of the estate were permitted to con-
tinue their operations.
DR.. Kinsolving, who gained his
wealth mainly through cotton plant
ing, was not miser, those who re-
membered him said. Other discover
les on his property. appeared to
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
County to Sell
Bonds to Employees

County Treasurer George Varney
Monday was instructed to purchase
war stamps and have them avail
able in his office SO county en-
ployes may purchase them when
they cash their salary warrants.
The board of supervisors set up
fund to meet the cost and directed
the treasurer to purchase and sell
the stamps to COUNT employees
The county may cash the stamps If
the supply is greater than the de-
mand, the board was informed.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
RATION BOARD GETS
OFFICE RENT OKAY

Dewey Carey, county rationing
coordinator, Monday received per-
mission to rent office space in Ca
lexico, Calipatria, and Holtville to
serve as rationing headquarters for
meath.
The board of supervisors granted
his request after he told them other
cities had provided space in public
buildings for the use of the local
rationing boards.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19

The MaZatIan harbof.
The fishermen said they were
looking for a lost boat when they
saw pipe" coming out of the wa
ter a short distance away. Believing
it was an animal, the men followed
the pipe in their boat, Dos Amigos,
until suddenly a submarine coming
tower emerged from the sea. The
craft submerged again Immediately.
The men who reported sighting
the sub were Guillermo Guzman,
Ascension Tapia, Roberto zamora,
Pedro Lopez, Enrique Blancarte and
Anacleto Guzman.
Meanwhile, George E. S. Watson,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19

had luncheon as guests of the Unit
ed States government.
The second and last consignment
will leave Imperial county early
Thursday morning for Parker. The
last group will total TOT with All
from Brawley and 296 from Ell
Centre area. Tuesday the Ell Gen.
tro total was 252 and the Brawley
total 1894
Only unhappy incident Tuesday
occurred when the J. M. Seki fam
lily car door flew open as the car
rounded a corner near the depar-
ture center and two little girls fell
from the car to the pavement.
Mildred, 2, and Dorothy, 4, suffer-
ed slight injuries. Arrfi eements
were made for the family to leave
Thursday instead of Tuesday SO the
children could recover
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19


Isles and the prospect of an invasion
of western Europe, Hitler has hurled
all available mechanical, air and
parachute forces into the Kharkov
fighting in an effort to halt the
Red army offensive and regain the
initiative
Late dispatches from Moscow said
the Germans had failed in this eff
fort and that Russian Cossacks
charged across river and took
an important enemy fortified town.
But it was acknowledged that the
enemy counterattacks were intensi-
fled and Soviet dispatches said
young Nazi reserves and Rumanians
thanked by German troops were be-
ing hurled into the battle in large
numbers.
The Rumanians were driven"
into the front as the spearhead of
the Nazi counter-b blows according
to Red Star, army newspaper.
Although the Russians said their
offensive continued on the Kharkov
sector, the German news agency
DNB claimed that the Nazis were
gaining the upper hand after severe
fighting against Russian air super
iority.
MISPLACED OPTIMISM?
This agency propaganda report,
which was more optimistic from the
Nazi viewpoint than the German
high command, claimed that the So
Wet attacks had been complete
failure" inasmuch as Kharkov had
not fallen and that the Axis forces
were now advancing.
In this connection, however, it
has been pointed out that Marshal
Semyon Timoshenkos primary aim
is to break up Hitler's preparations
for a summer offensive in the Uk-
raine, force the enemy to use up his
strength and to seize the southern
front railroad system, rather than
to attempt costly frontal attack on
Kharkov.
The Russian advance on Kharkov
was last reported within about 20
miles of the city at some points,
but the front was fluid and the
main Soviet thrust appeared to be
cutting south of the city toward
Krasnograd railroad junction, go
miles to the southwest.
On the Far Eastern front, the
Japanese appeared to have launched
their greatest offensives of the war
in China, and Chungking officials
appealed for swift Allied aid.
The japanese onslaughts were
aimed across the Shan states of
eastern Burma and in Chekiang
province, where two important cities
south of Hangchow - Chuki and
Chenghsien-were taken by the enc
my. About 40 Japanese planes were
bombing Kinhua and other battle
areas in Chekiang province and
battles were in progress at several
Continued on Page 6; Column 81
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
Board Frowns on
WPA Road Power

I'VE are opposed to the works
progress administration being desig-
mated to function in an advisory
capacity in the handling of appli-
cations for road construction in
California" the Imperial county
board Of supervisors said Monday.
The public works administration
has acted in advisory capacity in
the past but recently the board
was informed there was a plan to
let the WPA take over the duties.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
Repeat Performance

repeat performance
The efforts Chuckie MunSon, IL,
had made in his music this year
were not up to par. He had fire.
quently neglected to practice. In
fact, his heart just wasn't in it.
do you want to hear the piece
I'm going to play at my recital this
year," he asked his mother the
other night Mrs. Reid let us pick
cut the pieces we wanted to play"
Chuckie played away with right
good will. He did very well indeed,
his mother thought. She also wond-
cred how he was able to memorize
the piece When he had practiced so
little.
"You did well on that, Chuckie."
she said when he had ended the
tune
och, yes" Chuckie said nonchal-
antly, ITS the same piece 1 played
last year"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19

British vice consul and Norwegian
vice consul at Mazatlan. sent his
public coincidence to the people oil
Mazatlan for the death OF crew
members Of the Mexican ship "Po-
trero Del Llano" which was sunk
by submarine action last week OIL
the Florida coast.
The pilot of the Potrero Del LA
no, Jose Virgen Rojas, and Jorge
Pawling Salazar, who were killed,
we're born In Mazatlan and their
parents reside there. Several OF the
survivors we're also natives OF Maza-
tlan.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
Former !. Y. Man
Dies on Coast

Ell Centre friends received word
Tuesday of the death of Lynn L..
Foster, formerly connected with the
J Cotton Compress company in Ca
leXico.
Foster, member of Ell Centre
lodge No. 384, died Monday in Ma
tional City The funeral services
were scheduled at the Dawson
Funeral home in National City
Wednesday
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19

parts of nation of 100000 people, the troops poured
ashore at Northern Ireland port day after day, while
dock workers unoaded their supply ships until the dsem
barkation completed yesterday and the news was
released
The troops had to strengthen those already in the
British Isles and they had not the slightest doubt that at
the time appointed they would join in United Nations
offensive the continent of Europe, forming bridge
head from which United Nations forces with the aid of
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
Isl Convoy Lands Fighting AEF i'm Northern ireland

WITH THE AEF IN NORTHERN IRELAND, May 10.
(UP) - Thousands upon thousands of troops in
American invasion army went into training today for what
jobs may be ahead.
They landed from of the greatest conveys in
world historya convoy which crossed the Atlantic with
out sighting U-boat enemy plane The enemy
was kept away by patrol action.
From the sidewalks of New York. from the Middle West
from the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee from all
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
Alphabet Milk

There has been a lot said lately
about the wonders of homogenized
milk.
Not to be behind the times,
certain woman made up her mind
to use this new kind of milk She
went to the grocery and said to the
grocer:
IT want some of that homicide
milk"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19


Equipment put in operation fast it was landed
The Irish countryside echoed with the tramp of soldier
feet the rumble of trucks and the clank of tanks.
American light and medium tanks fresh from factories
where the fathers of the troops working the home
front going through whitewashed coastal villages the
first American tanks in Northern Ireland.
In addition to the armored units there considerable
Page Column
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
House Gives Up
Hidden Treasure

HORNERSVILLE Mo-. May 10. (UP)-The rambling
18room home of Dr. Floyd Kinsovng may be wrecked to
facilitate search for his buried treasures trustees said
day after volunteer searchers turned boarded
in old tin buckets, coffee and old inner tubes
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19

conquered peoples, would start to sweep Hers armies
back into Germany.
The landing result of the promise of Gen. George
C. Marshall United States army chief of staff his visit
here month ago that steady flow of and material
would be sent to fight the ito early victory"
1t lent emphasis also Marshals statement that Amer
lean troops would be operating against the enemy in the
very future.
AS fast as the men landed they were hustled off to
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
County, Faced by
Union UItimdtun

Staemate was reached Tuesday in negotiations through
which federal labor policy may force Imperial county road
district employees to become permanent members of the
International Union of Operating Engineers, Local IL, in
order to operate county equipment rented to con-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
Sub Sighted Off
Mexican Coast

NOGALES, Son., Mex, May 10. (UP)-An unidentified
submarine reported today to have been sighted or
Mazatlan on the west coast of Mexico
Mazatlan newspapers published story that six fisher
men sighted the submarine opposite the lighthouse near
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
Districts Bonds
Most Attractive

Imperial Irrigation district bonds at 3I4 and 12
per cent interest among the most attractive investments
in California.
This TIE opinion expressed by large bond broker
age house in mimeographed statement its customers
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
Hitler Alarmed at
Landing Of U. S.
Invasion Force
But Moscow Claims Nazis Have Failed
To Hall Red Army Offensive; Cossacks
Take Important German Notifications
= BY UNITED PRESS :

desperate Axis bid for victory in 1912 appeared to
be developing today in all out fighting the Kharkov
front and in two mounting japanese ofensives against
China Obviously alarmed by arrival of tens of thousands
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
!. Y. Tire Quotas
Endanger Harvest

"nothingness" was cited by officials
of the Ell Centre ration board.
In April. the Ell Centre board was
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19
LOS ANGELES HAY

u. S. No. 1 S24.-S25; u. S. No. 2
1eafy Nv. S22.50-23.50; US. No. 2
$18-S19. Mpls Sept. Flax $2.57.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-19

Maximum Monday SO. Minimum
Tuesday SO. 5 pm. Monday 81, hui
Nudity 60. am. Tuesday 63, hui
nudity 46. Noon Tuesday 81, hui
midity 26.