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Evening star., 1942-05-18

military and political leadership
from top to bottom, but for the first
time shook general confidence in
the ability of the NaZi military ma
chine to swing anything it started.
Not even Hitler'S tremendous vic
tories against the Russians could
change the conviction in the minds
of a majority Of Germans that he
had tackled Job he couldn't finish.
We've lost the war;" was the COM
mon Judgment.
The obvious efforts to hide the
heavy casualties of the eastern cam
paign began to make Germans Ques-
ton for the first time the veracity
Of the high commands war COM
muniques. Propaganda phrases such
as 'our losses are low when COM
pared with our successes" didn't sit
well.
Though Hitler announced aston
ishingly low casually figures, the law
of averages told the Germans that
the figures couldn't be right. The
eastern campaign struck close to
home. Every one could count up
relatives or friends within their
small circles who had fallen or been
badly wounded, and then strike an
average.
The heavy losses hurt morale at
Evening star., 1942-05-18
Western Atlantic Sinkings
Durinq War Total 1871

NEW YORK, May 18 (R.-Enemy
submarines officially were credited
last week with sending 16 United
Nations vessels to the bottom in
the Western Atlantic Ocean for a
war total of 191 Allied sinkings in
that area.
The Navy-announced casualty list
put the dead in the sinkings at 83,
the missing at lis and the sur
vivors at 470, and the Navy reported
that of three other merchantmen
attacked but not sunk during the
week Of May 11-17 two had been
towed to port, heavily damaged but
still af1oat. When last seen, the
third was af1re and drifting out to
sea.
Nine victims of the East coest Of
the United States boosted the total
here since Pearl Harbor to 101 sink
ings; two off Canada brought that
figure to 26; two in the Caribbean
made 48 there; two in the Gulf Of
Mexico raised that total to four,
and one off South America made
that figure IL.
Seven United States ships, two
British and one each of Dutch, Nor
wegian and Mexican registry, as well
as four unidentified vessels, COM
posed the weekt victims.
Evening star., 1942-05-18

home. At the same time, mothers,
fathers and sweethearts Of soldiers
were receiving vivid accounts Of the
hardships and horrors on the Rus
sian front.
Worry and fear aggravated the
wartime sacrifices, discomforts. COM
plants and repressions and shot
through the once buoyant spirit Of
confidence in an early victory with
apprehension for the future.
Na1 persecution of the Catholic
and Protestant faiths had embit-
tered the faithful. Many find re-
Igion their last comfort. BY de-
priving them OF the privilege Of
free practice of their faith, the
Nazis alienated millions and drove a
wedge deep into the inner front.
More than Two years of conflict
have been one long story Of sacrifice
and more sacrifice by the people at
the crack Of the NaI party's whip
In that time, reserves which every
household stored have dwindled
away. Clothes are rnreadbare, with
no chance Of replacement. Store
shelves are empty. Rations are be-
coming simmer and simmer.
Housewives spend most Of their
Evening star., 1942-05-18
Brother Of Slain Girl
Arraigned in Kansas City
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, May 18.-George
w. Welsh, jr., %, charged with the
brutal Staying of his pretty sister,
Leila Adele Welsh, today will hear
some Of the evidence the State has
assembled against him.
His preliminary hearing, opening
in Justice Court today, would sum
up evidence to be presented at the
trial-if Welsh Is bound over-at-
torneys said.
Michael w. OHern, Jackson
County prosecutor, said 80 or 60
witnesses had been summoned and
he expects the hearing to continue
for week.
The body of Miss Welsh, "a, was
found battered and mutilated in her
bed March 9, 1941. Months later
a grand jury indicted Welsh, but
on May the indictment was set
aside by Circuit Judge Emory H.
Wright on a defense contention the
jury had overstepped its authority,
had acted Illegally in its investiga-
ton and was prejudiced.
Mr.. O'Hern, however. Immediately
relied a f1rst-degree charge against
Welsh, a charge to which the young
man pleaded innocent.
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time jobs at . safe distance from
the fronts.
And 70 It goes-at the expense Of
the public morale, for such practices
become known rapidly.
As the economic pinch grew
greater, NaA propaganda statements
have tried to 1ull the nation into
the notion the war was coming to .
rapid end and that all troubles
would be over.
Peace Is the straw which the Nazis
are holding out for the nation to
clutch. In the meantime, Goebbel's
propaganda machine is feeding the
Germans q one-sided victory" diet
so one-sided, in fact, that most
Germans once really believed tho
eastern campaign was won last Oc-
tober and the Russian army de
stroyed."
Evening star., 1942-05-18
Quezon Planning Visit
To Mexico on Bid Of
President Camacho
Head Of Republic Poys
Tribute to Heroism
OF Filipino People

President Manuel Quezon of the
Philippines has accepted an invi-
tation from President Manuel Avila
Camacho, President of Mexico, to
visit Mexico City.
Correspondence between the two
was released by Philippine Resi-
dent Commissioner j. M. Elizalde.
In his invitation, President Avila
Camacho sent "a message of affec-
ton and admiration for the glorious
manner in which the heroic Filipino
people have been struggling to de-
fend their territorial integrity in
close communion with the cause of
the democracies of the world"
"The transient triumphs obtained
by the aggressors," he wrote, "do
not diminish our hope of final VIC
tory for the principles of justice
and of the peaceful relationship Of
men. Mexico follows with deep
emotion and attention the develop
ments of war in the Pacific,
and prays for the conclusion of the
conflict with the victory of liberty
over violence"
President Quezon, recalling his
first visit to Mexico when he was
welcomed by President Cardenas,
said:
I'm the unequal struggle, in which
the enemy had an overwhelming su-
periority in land, sea and air forces,
the Filipino soldier, answering the
mandate of his people, fought with
the American soldier, in defense, not
only of his homeland, but also of
those principles of liberty and JUS
tice and the right of people to di-
rect their own destinies, which con-
stitute the greatest advance of the
human race in its difficult struggle
toward progress, culture and well
fare. -
''The triumphs obtained up to now
by the enemy we have always con-
sidered temporary, inasmuch as we
have never doubted that final vic
tory will be on the side of the people
who believe in democracy and hui
man liberty"
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time day after day standing in long
lines to get food! Recollections OF
the hungry days after the first
World War have been awakened.
Germans with connections" are
perhaps the only exceptions today.
IT have q friend in the party" has
become the formula for squeezing
extra rations out Of the storekeeper
and exacting special privileges.
Illegal trafic in clothing and food
rationing cards by petty Nazi ofh-
cials at prices as high as 100 marks
per card Is widespread and coun-
tenanced. There is always a vacant
apartment for an SS or loyal Nazi
although ordinary Germans can't
find one at any price.
Bureaucracy ana overlapping du-
ties have grown out Of hand to pro-
vide party favorites with soft war
Evening star., 1942-05-18

Nevada is Spanish word mean
Ing SNOW clad"
Evening star., 1942-05-18
British Ship Sunk
As u on Lifeboats
Watch He|p|essIy
Seaman Fights OFF Shark;
U. S. Vessel Torpedoed
In Caribbean, Crew Soved
RY ths Associated Pres1.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, May 18.-Twenty-
two crewmen from a small Amer
ican merchantmen watched help
lessly from lifeboats recently as q
submarine blasted a British ship
with two torpedoes several hours
after their own vessel had been sunk
in the Caribbean.
The entire crew escaped from the
American vessel and 20 men were
reported safe from the British craft,
with % others missing and presumed
lost. Both ships were attacked in
the same locality. The Americans
came to Miami from a Caribbean
port and two Britons were landed
at Key West by a naval plane. The
other Britons were taken aboard q
passing ship.
Skirmish With Shark.
Michael Fitzgerald, SO, Irish sea-
man from the British ship, told Of
a skirmish with shark as he swan
for IL hours before finding hatch
cover that he and John MCGUIRE,
80, Of London used for life raft
until picked up. MCGUIRE had a
broken leg and lacerations and both
entered a Key West hospital.
Fitzgerald reported the submarine
surfaced and three men in the con-
ming tower seemed to be counting
those who escaped from the British
craft, which sank too swiftly for
boats to be launched after the Sec
ond torpedo exploded.
"I waved and shouted for them
to pick us up, but they paid no at
tention," he reported. 1--WE had to
keep moving because sharks were
swimming nearby. Several hours
after dark I felt something bite my
thigh. I kicked out and my foot
landed on shark. I must have
frightened them off because we were
not bothered after that"
He is being treated for a minor
shark bite.
Buried Under Lumber.
August Often, a seaman on the
American vessel, was on deck. The
torpedo exploded directly beneath
his feet and he was buried under
lumber, but emerged with only a
cut on the head. Shipmates called
his escape miraculous.
Capt. Josef Anderson said Often
was the only man injured. The
Americans believed the submarine
that sank their shi., was Italian.
Thirty-eight groups Of survivors
have told stories at Florida ports
since February 10, and 18 of the
sinkings have been made public by
the Navy in the past IA days.
Evening star., 1942-05-18
Three Women Elected
In Dominican Republic
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Dominican
Republic, May 18.-Women voted
for the first time Saturday In this
country's general election and did
right well by themselves.
When the votes were counted yes
terday three Of them had been
elected to Congress, two to the
Chamber of Deputies and one to
the Senate. In all, the women cast
some 100000 votes out of the re-
public's total of 100000 qualified
electors.
Former President Rafael L. Tru-
jillo, reelected without opposition,
was to take Office today instead Of
waiting the usual three months.
Evening star., 1942-05-18
Morale
Continued From First Page.)

high Nazi quarters better than the
steps taken to counteract the de-
moralizing effects of Hess fight.
Police and plainclothesmen were in
a general state of alarm. NaN
wardheelers in mutt circulated in
cafes and bars and other public
centers to report any one discussing
the Hess case.
The departure of Hess was the
first big smashup in the Nazi hier-
archy since the blood purge of 1884.
No amount of hushing could mini
mize its repercussions. When off,
cials tried to explain the fight as
the act of "crazy man." the peo-
pie asked themselves ARE we being
ruled by crazy men?"
Then came the invasion Of Russia.
Germans were not prepared for
1t mentally. The advisability Of
tackling such q giant-with Britain
unconquered-not only shook the
Evening star., 1942-05-18

SPRINGER SPANIEI-Brovp and white;
tag With name "Freckles." Phone Wood.
Evening star., 1942-05-18
Gas on Stomach
What many Doctors do for Il

"uAt many O0Ctor0 DO Tor II
When excess stomach acid causes sss sour stomssA
- heartburn. doctors prescribe the fastest acting
medicines known for symptomatic relief-msdieines
like those In Bell Tablets Try Bell ans yourself
ut rst sign Of distress They neutralise scd relieve
gas. and bring comfort very Quickly-yet not Q
hIatvei Only Csc at drug stores. II your very nrst
1fa doesn't prove Bell ans better return bottle .
u and set double your money back
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-26

officers at Camp Seeley, volunteered
tor active duty in The Philippines
last spring, leaving Camp Seeley in
June OF last year. He was 30 years
of age at the time of his death and
is survived by his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. S. Rinkle Of Hollywood
and one brother, Darron.
For many years, prior to his en-
trance into the army Capt Rinkle
was identified with the Boy Scout:
of America, being the youngest
Scout ever to receive the Eagle
scout award in the history of the
national organization. He had serv-
ed as a ScoutmaSter for many years
and was a Reserve Officer, entering
active service with the U. S. Cavalry
in the spring of 1941.
Mrs. Karmee Dolley of the selec-
tive service board, who for three
years served as secretary to his ia
thCr, received official notice of Capt.
Rinkle's death. Shortly before he
went to the Philippines he left to
her son much of his Scout hunting
and fishing equipment which today
is n treasured memento in the Dol
ley family.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-26
MEXICANS NAB
|. v. SLUCGERS

Mexican officers Thursday held
two youthful hitchhikers wanted
for viciously slugging Mrs. Lucille
Tedrow in a daylight robbery of
her cafe at Grays Wells, western
tip of the sandhills in eastern I'm
perial county.
Don E. Stewart, 18, Washington.
and William F.. Cody 20, Oregon
were arrested by Mexican officials
near Estacion Cuerso below the
Mexican border. late Wednesday.
The officers and the fugitives
boarde a train at Estacion Cuer-
50. The boys were taken to the
MeXicali Jail and held there for
Imperial cOInty officers.
Mrs. TedroW said two boys, hit
chhiker4 walked mo her cafe
about 800 a m. Wednesday and
ordered coffee. sac said she was
getting the co1lee from the stove
when one of the boys struck her
one the head with an iron bar
inf!icting a deep scalp wound
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-26
Experts in China
Believe japs Plan
Russian Invasion

CHUNGKING, CHINA, Feb. 26
CUP)-Well informed American,
British and Chinese military eX-
perts expressed belief today that
Japan would attack Russia through
Siberia within two months. Rus
sian sources likewise expressed be-
lief that the attack would come
but declined to speculate on its
date.
Most of the experts, however,
based their opinion On the belief
that it was imperative for Japan
to protect its flank and remove the
danger of a Russian attack or of
an arrangement by which United
States planes might be based in
Siberia.
The experts said they believed
Japan would attack Russia as
soon as the invasion of the Meth
erlands East Indies had taken a
decided tu!A in its favor and that
the attack would be made before
any attempt to conquer India or
Australia.
They said also that an invasion
of Australia was not of vital imme-
diate Importance to Japan, because
1t had occupied Timor and occupa-
ton of New Guinea would make
uprwin, in northern Australia
untelable as a major naval baS>
without control CT the air
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-26
W'on1u N
Traffic
Victim
Mrs. Marcum Dies
Of OfInjuries From
Automobile Crash

Mrs. Bessie Mae Marcum,
80, wife of w. A. Marcum of
Ell Centre, died Thursday
morning from injuries suf-
fered in a traffic accident
in Ell Centre early Monday,
She was the seventh person to
meet death in traffic accidents in
Imperial county since Jan. l.
El Centro police officers said Mrs.
Marcum said she was alone in her
husbands car Wnen the accident
occurred. Later Marcum told police
that his wife was driving near the
intersection of Ross and Imperial
avenue near the Marcum home
about am. Monday. He said she
told him she started to make turn,
saw she should not turn then, and
pulled the car back into the road.
At this point the car went out OF
control, Marcum said, and plunged
into a ditch beside the road.
Chief Of Police Ronnie Voyles
and Deputy Coroner Herbert Hughes
were investigating the accident, they
said Thursday, and planned to ar
'ange an inquest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marcum lived near
the DogWood road and Ross avenue
intersection.
Funeral arrangements were de-
layed pending the completion or
he investigation and the inquest.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-26


United States tool; a leading role
in new attacks that inflicted Wh2t
2acretary of War Henry L. Slim
son described as "appal'iag loss
of life on the Japanese in addi-
tion tc the sinking or damaging OF
seven U-boats III the Atlantic.
dispatches from main fighting
fronts showed:
JAVA-American fortreSses bat
ter newly arrived japanese hlvas
len fleet, including cruisers anG
destroyers, off southeast coast OF
enemy-held Bali, only a mile from
Java; U. S submarines torpedced 2
enemy transports. an auxiliary
ship, a freighter and probably a
warship in two days of attack Oh
the invaders.
PHILIPPINES = Gen. Douglas
MacArthurS forces ca Bataan
peninsula in surprise attack drive
back japanese and capture enemy
Positions in advance of several
miles. Fighting continues.
BURMA-American and British
planes down Il japanese aircraf,
but enemy offensive pound s
through Sittang river front in
drive against uring Rangoon. as
British swing around to form east
west line defending Mandalay.
LONDON-F.rSt Lord of Admir-
atty A. V. Alexander discloses that
l0,0C0-ton Nazi cruiser of the Prinz
Eugen class heavily damaged by
British submarine attack off Nor
Wegian coast while Raj reports
BattleShips Scharnhorst and Gne-
iSenau Knocked out for some time
and laid up at Kiel ans Wilhelm
Shaven Three Italian convoy ships
sunk i'll Mediterranean.
The United Nations fronts still
were gravely threatened in the Far
East as the Japanese sought to re-
inforce their 5000 troops on Bali
and to prepare for the direct as
sQult on Java, bat Stimson en-
phasi2ed that tie enemy was Suf-
Continued on Page 8. Gel A.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-26
PinneI Funeral
Scheduled Sunday

CALEXICO, Feb 26.-Funeral
services for Charles Hinton Pin
nell, SO, resident Of Calexico sine,
1890, were scheduled in the Ell Cen
tro Methodist church at 3 p. m.
Sunday
Tinnell died early Thursday
morning.
He was bern in Scott county. Ar
kansas, and went to Indian Terri
tory in 1902 where he remained un-
Ill 1918 in business as a merchant.
He went to Miami Okla, in 1915
where he had hotel and was in
tercsted in lead and zinc m&Aing
He arrived in Calexico in 1899 to
join his children, Mrs. Max Brents
and M. c. Pinnell, and their fami-
lie.
Ills survivors are his daughter
and siI in the VALLEY, three sisters
Mrs G.. u. hughes of Heavener
Okla, Mrs. w. O Kemp of Poteau
okla, and Mrs. c o. Pike Of Wal
dron, Ark, and two brothers, E.
f. Pinncll oil CaleXico and j P
Pinnell of Miami, Okla.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-26

The robbers took about $18 and
large quantity of cigarettes and
ran frcm the cafe Mrs. Tedrow
thought they headed south across
the desert toward Mexico. A call
to the Imperial county sheriff.
office sent deputies on the trail
of the hitchhikers.
The isolated country and the
sandy condition of the soil made
pursuit difficult, the officers said
Descriptions of the fugitive rob-
bers We're broadcast. The Mexican
officers caught the boys hitch
hiking across country and arrest
ed them.
Sheriff Robert w. Ware sent dep
uties to MeXicali Thursday to con-
fer with Mexican officials and Of
ficers about the case.
Deputy sheriffs said they believ-
ed. Mrs. HedroW must have been
struck twice because of the two
gasheS on her head. A physician
took several stitches in her scalp
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-26
Draft Induction
Process Speeded

Men ordered into the United
States Army under the selectiVe
service system will be inducted the
same day they are given Army eX-
aminationS, John w. Donohue,
chairman of the Ell Centre dra't
board announced Thursday.
Officials said the war depart
ment assured them that if i'm
mediate induction will cause un-
due hardship, the men will be Civ
en- an immediate furlOugh to ad-
just civilian affairs. Previously the
selectees had about 10 days be-
tween physical examinations and
their induction into the service
The local boards will continue to
give examinations designed to
weed out the obviously unfit men,
To speed up induction, Donohue
said, men rated as acceptable for
service will be notified to report
for induction instead of, receiving
a notice to report for physical ex-
animation.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-26


an effort to locate possible secret
air bases.
Secretary of War Henry L. Stim-
son said at his press conference in
Washington that as many as IS sucn
aircraft were responsible for the
alarm which brought anti-aircraft
gunfire to the continental United
States for the first time in this war
Undersheriff A. C. Jewell, speak
ing for Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz,
said he did not believe there were
any points in Los Angeles or Orange
counties where enemy planes might
be based, but that in San Bernar-
dino, Inyo and Mono counties in
California, in Nevada and Arizona,
and in Mexico were vast uninhabit-
ed regions where camouflaged bases
might be located.
SEARCH BIG JOB
Il think that if there were any
airpOrtS in our territory we would
have found them" said Jewell. But
keeping lookout on all the pos
Sibly dangerous districts in the
southwest is a Job for the army,
navy and civilian agencies com.
bined."
Secretary Stimson did not specu-
late in his statement on the possible
whereabouts of the suspected enemy
planes bases and did not say whe-
ther he believed they came from
land or sea bases. His designation
of them as commercial planes"
however caused the belief here that
he referred to land-based craft.
Regarding reports including a
statement by Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox that the gunfire here
was the result of a false alarm,
Jewell said local authorities had
never held such a belief, and said
lie was sure the army would not
endanger civilian lives and property
unless convinced that enemy planes
were in the air.
BORDER WATCHED
Jewell said it was possible planes
/ could come from south CT the Mex
lean border, from secret land bases,
but added that the Mexican govern
ment was cooperating to the utmost
and certainly would make every
effort to seek out any possible bases
! there.
1t was recalled General Lazaro
Cardenas, former president of Mex
ico after a personal inspection OF
the Lower California CMexicol area
said there were no enemy bases in
that district.
Additional reports from observers
in the Los Angeles and Long Beach
CONTINUED on Page 8, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-26
Ex.Head of kazi
Party Succumbs

BERLIN. Feb. 26. CUPD Ger
nan broadcast recorded by United
Press in New York Anton Dres-
c!.ler, one of the oldest Nazi party
members died today at Munich.
1t was believed that in this dis
patch Nazi Germany had disposec
of the death of Anton DreXler cl
Oreschler. the Munich shoemaker
who was head of the party Wher
Adolf Hitler, fresh from his raoer
hanging ard the last war, became
member No. 7.
Gottfried FEEDER had founded the
party" with a handful of mem
ters. as a German workers party
when Hitler wandered into a meet
ing. found an outlet for his driving
sense CT inferority, and soon made
it over into the present Nazi party
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-26
BY THE PRESS CRYSTAL
BALL CORRESPONDENT

U. S. A, Fall, 1912 SpeclaD-The
Pittsburgh Pirates today set a rec
ord that not only never has been
equaled in the long and glamorous
history of big league baseball, but
record that probably never will
be tied in all the milleniumS to
come
The Pirates won the world series
b. defeating the American League
champions four in row, with an
average score per game of 81 to O.
Here's what happened:
The Pirates did a part of their
spring training this year in Impe-
rial Valley (El Centro to be exact)
and taking a tip from the Royal
Air Force and Clark Griffith, they
ate nothing, absolutely nothing, for
the entire training period but I'M
pe"ial Valley carrots.
No spinach, no broccoli, no cab
Dage, no artichokeS, no dandelion
,reenS. Just carrots.
IT'S HISTORY
1t seems that the Royal Air Force
discovered that a carrot diet i'm
proved the night eyes of its fliers
and so the RAF now serves nothing
but carrots.
Clark Griffith, headman of the
washington Senators, heard about
this and having Jared not SO we'll
last season, he made the fourth
dimensional deduction that the
reason he didn't win the world SER
les, or hardly any games in his
own league for that matter, was
that the umpires had a blind spot,
and SO proposed that all umpires be
fed carrots so they could call the
strikes better
Frankie Frisch boss of the Pr
atcs, got wind of all this, and the
first thing he did upon arriving in
FL Centre was 10 get in touch with
Chamber of Commerce Secretary
Ben Herring, and Herring got in