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Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17

Drive
Grows
Residents Act TO
Avert Ra+ioning
By Giving Scrap

Scrap rubber in ever in
creasing amounts cascaded IN
an unending deluge upon the
service stations of Imperial
county Wednesday and in the
first two days of President Roose-
velt's scrap rubber salvage cam
paign the county total was in eX-
cess of 85,323 pounds.
The total collection on Tuesday
was more than 54,143 pounds. Total
for the Ell Centre, Holtville, and
Imperial area was 1888 pounds,
Brawley's was ll.877 pounds, and
Calexicos was 668. Totals of West
morland and Calipatria were not
available Wednesday and the re-
turns from Imperial and Holtville
were not complete.
Service station owners and pro-
prietorS perfected their systems OF
weighing in Wednesday and expect
ed to have the transaction sinpli-
fled greatly by the end of the week.
Bring on more rubber and more
rubber" was the cry OF the men,
bers of the petroleum industry in
Imperial county Wednesday. They
declared that the more scrap rub
ber turned in the less possibility of
gasoline rationing faced the motor
ing public.
All expense of the national scrap
rubber salvage campaign is carried
by the petroleum industry. If the
rubber is bought by the service sta
tions at the cent pound as set
by the government, it is sold at a
cents and the fourth of a cent is
donated to three charities, the Red
Cross, the USO. and the Navy Re-
lief. II the rubber is donated by
the public, the rubber is sold for
IA and the entire amount goes
to the charities.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Raid Horn Test
Termed Success

The test of air raid warning WhiS-
ties last Monday was distinct sue
cess, said Fire Chief Corn Reed
Wednesday as he disclosed that civ
ilian defense measures in Ell Centre
are becoming more complete daily.
Two fire horns at the fire station
blew in a continuous blast immed-
lately after noon and to date only
three calls have been received. at
the station saying that the warning
had not been heard.
In the future no sirens on cars
or trucks will be used for warnings,
Reed said The two horns at the
station, the creamery whistle and
the one at the water plant will
sound off in intermittent blasts of
three seconds if the warning is the
real thing.
Reed also said that there is now
a supply of sand for use against
incendiary bombs at the station and
that residents may bring buckets
and fill them up. From two to three
gallons Per person may be taken
from the siX-cubic-yard bin west
of the station
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Two Trash Fires
Reported Here

Two trash fires broke out in Ell
Centre alleys shortly after am.
Wednesday morning, causing dam
age to a telephone pole, said Fire
Chief Corn Reed.
Three soldiers turned in an alarm
for the second fire at 80 in the
alley north of Main street between
Fifth and Sixth streets. 1t was there
that the blaze spread to a pole. The
other, for which an alarm was turned
in, was between Fourth and Fifth
north of Broadway.
Reed said he appreciated the SOL
diers turning in the alarm but they
should have called instead of awak-
ing the whole city by using a box.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Capital Leaders
Turn in Rubber

co-ordinator, has been SO busy up
to a late hour yesterday getting
400, 900 filling stations lined up to
receive scrap rubber that he hadn't
found time to dig up am himself
But" an interior spokesman
said, they're securing the Ickes
farm and ought to come up with d
lot of stuff"
Vice President Henry A. Wallace
thus far hasn't contributed to the
drive because he couldn't find any
discarded rubber gadgets around
the house and Speaker Sam Ray
burns office reported, I'VE haven't
anything made of rubber except
our erasers-and we don't dare
give them up"
Morgenthan is so "vitally inter-
ested" in the drive, his office said,
that he ordered the Morgenthau
farm searched for anything that
would bounce or stretch. Secretary
of Commerce Jesse Jones, whose
conduct of the synthetic rubber
program has been criticized in con-
gress, was out of town.
Rep. John z. Anderson, D., Cal,
said congressman ought to be
straight shooting enough not to
need cuspidor mats and proposed
that the hundreds Of mats in the
capitol be turned in.
Falla led the White House con-
tributors. At the last count he had
turned in: two rubber bones, three
rubber balls, two rubber mice, two
rubber chewing rings, one rubber
donkey and a rubber mannikin.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Summer School
Staff Announced

Teaching staff at summer school
sessions at Central Junior college
was completed Wednesday and
classes were rapidly filling up, Dean
Glenn Kieffer said.
In the morning Myron Carver Is
teaching Bookkeeping, Stan Atkin
is teaching civlcs, physics A, and
music, Olin Gresham is teaching
typing, Harry Fillman is teaching
mechanics, and Gresham beginning
shorthand. At night school Kermit
McCracken is teaching meterology
and navigation and Carver ad-
vanced shorthand and typing.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
23b Join Militia
With III Signed
Up in River Area
Officers Chosen for
Three PlatOOns in
Bard, Winterhaven

Enlistments in the state
militia in Imperial county to-
tailed 236 Wednesday with
1T of the number included in
the three platoons in the Col
orado river districts, at Bard, Win
terhaven, and Ft. Yuma.
G. Noble is captain of the Bard
group, Harrison Hunt is first lieut.
enant; James w. Henderson is a
second lieutenant, Deputy Sheriff
Maurice Breech Is first sergeant,
w. l.. Wallace Is supply sergeant
and Henry Morley is company clerk
Sergeants of the Bard group are
William Bobo, Louis Byrd, Harold
B. Brown, Clarence c. Foster and
S. Boskovich The corporalS are
Forest Beasley, Karl Beasley, Sid
ney Duke, Wilbur Owens, James
Hunt and Virgil II. Prater.
Winterhaven sergeants include
vernon Baumgardener, d. c. Kerr
and the corporals are Earl Bernier
Ell Talbert, and Andrew j. Taylor,
Ft. Yuma officers were to be select
ed later.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17

Justice court warrant charging him
with malicious mischief
The complaint against Henry was
signed June by Dale Freeman,
who alleged that Henry damaged
three of his music machines by tear
irg them off the counter in a cafe
in BraWley short time before the
complaint was signed Freeman said
the damage suffered by the three
machines was estimated at SIS.
Freeman said he did not know
Henry, had never seen him, and had
had no dealings and no trouble with
him before the business agent DAM
aged the three machines. Freeman
said he knew of no reason why
Henry should Gamage the machines
The warrant Freeman signed III
Brawley Justice court charged Hen
ry with malicious mischief, a mis-
demeanOr.
The business agent lived in Ell
Centre for several years and then
moved away. He returned to Impe-
rial Valley little over year ago
and began operations as the busi-
ness agent of the operating engin-
ers, apparently sent to the valley
to see to the unization of all men
on defense construction projects.
He also was instrumental and active
in the unionization of employees in
some private concerns.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
They're Guests
In Group Riding

When a number of people go in
together and use one car to carry
them all to work for a period Of
time and thus avoid using rubber
on more than one car, they shall
be classified as guests" officials
of the group riding program in El
Centro We're informed Wednesday.
This classification places the pas
sengers in the same position as
members of the family or anyone
else riding without payment OF
fares under the state law and re-
leases the owner from danger Of
being sued in case of an accident
in which a passenger is injured.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
WASHINGTON. June II CUP)

WASHINGTON, June II CUP) =
Price Administrator Leon Hender-
son is hanging on to his rubber
cigar holder and Secretary of In
terror Harold l.. Ickes hasn't turned
in any old rubber yet.
Both have excuses, however, and
there are plenty OF indications that
almost everybody else-from Falla,
the presidential Scotch Terrier, to
Secretary of the Treasury Henry
w. Morgenthau, Jr.-is contributing
his bit to the scrap rubber collec-
ton drive.
Henderson, the big gasoline-and-
tire-rationing man, must keep a
firm grip on his holder, according
to his office, because we make
him use it to keep him from chew
ing his cigars"
And Ickes, who is also petroleum
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17

naughtS from amldshlpS 70 STERN.
THE American planes-all except
two were United States Liberators
Consolidated B "a bombers)-
headed off the Italian fleet trying
to intercept a British convoy to
Malta and three of our planes i'm
mediately unloaded, scoring hits"
Maj. Alfred Kalberer, the leader
of the American flight. said. No
American planes were lost, but per-
haps two score hits were made on
the enemy ships, he added.
An RAF communique said Mon
day night British torpedo planes
again attacked the Italian fleet and
torpedoed one of the battleShips.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Former va||eyite
MISSING in Action

Relatives of Lieut.. Walter Swan
berger, jr., %, former Ell Centran,
received word from the government
that the young Marine air corps
officer is missing in the battle Of
Midway island.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Swanberger. ST., of Santa
Ana, who lived in Ell Centre many
years where the elder SWanberger
was employed by B. Salomon. The
missing man was born in Ell Centre
and is a nephew of Sid Swanberger
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Stolen Car Just
Parked, Forgotten

N. C. Tex" King, 38, thought
his car had been stolen for awhile
Tuesday but when police went to
look for it they found it parked
at 1864 Ell Centre avenue where he
had parked and evidently forgotten
1t.
The officers brought King into the
station on charges of drunkenness
and disturbing the peace. He plead
ed not guilty and was released on
S15 bail. His trial was set for 4 pm
Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17

per cent, Secretary Ben Herring of
the chamber of commerce Wednes-
day sent Ben Hamm chairman of
the retail advisory committee of the
bond drive at Washington, d. c.,
q wire informing him that Ell Centre
merchants could be counted upon.
Speaking in other phases of the
stamp and bond drive, Herring said
that three more organizations in
Ell Centre have reported that volun-
tary deductions from employees pay
checks are being made for the
purchase of stamps and bonds They
are: Sherwood's cafe, Adobe lounge
and the highway patrol and divi-
sion Of registration office stamp.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17

stamps JnrOuBn tne DuSlIleSS HouSt3
of the nation and make the public
more aware of the necessity of in
vesting money with Uncle Sam.
Fred Nebel-T:iau, IN charge OF
supplying retail stores in Ell Centre
with the bonds and stamps, said
that the large majority of the stores
have put in stamps along with their
regular wares and have been selling
them regularly. Main trouble, Nebel-
Thau said, comes from the failure
of storekeepers to replenish their
stocks of bonds once they run out.
He urged that all stores put in
a sufficient stock before the sale
on July l.
Assuring that all FL Centre stores
will cooperate in the program 100
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17

Pesman, head of a Dutch army
unit in west Java during the In
vasion, commanded the plateau
around Bandoeng, Dutch army
headquarters, before that city fell
Netherlands Colonial Minister HUI
bertus j. Van Nook has commended
both Schilling and Pesman. II was
announced
The Tokyo radio recently claimed
the capture OF several Americans
who served with Searle's artillery
regiment. but other reports have
indicated that the l3lst may be
among the Allied regiments sun
at large In the wild country on the
islands interior.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Texas Regiment Fighting
In Java Guerilla War
MELBOURNE, June II CUP

MELBOURNE, June II CUP -
A broadcast by the Tokyo-control-
led Batavia radio indicated today
that some members of the United
States l3lst artillery regiment,
formed from the Texas National
Guard, still may be operating
against the japanese in interior
Java under their leader, Col. Albert
c. Searle of Pawtucket, RI.
AS heard by the Netherlands East
Indies information service here, it
reported the capture by the jap
anese of Maj. Gen. A. Pesman,
leader of Dutch guerilla troops in
West Java. He was said to have
been taken prisoner after more
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17

than three months of resistance.
The fact that no mention of
Searle and his men has been made
in the Japanese broa dca S
strengthened belief that they still
are operating. since the Japanese
would be certain to boast If they
were taken.
Pesmans capture, Dutch officials
pointed out, does not mean that
resistance in West Java has ended
They said Dutch generals still
eluding capture included Gen. W.
Schilling, commander of the first
corps area of the Batavia district
and now leader of active guerilla
forces in Ja2a
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17

American and British planes sank
an Italian TO- 000-ton cruiser, bat
tered two destroyers and two cruis-
ers, hit both enemy battleships in
which fires broke out and shot down
more than IA enemy airplanes on
Monday.
I'VE sighted The smoke OF the
Italian craft about 80 miles away
after flying about 508 miles" Kali
berer said.
They were steaming along en-
t;rely unaware of our presence and
on acourse that would have event.
ually intercepted the British convoy
about 255 miles distant"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17

Riding the freight trains fer
nothing became an unpopular mode
of transportation in Imperial coun-
ty Wednesday because of Sheriff
Robert w. Wares drive. to eliminate
the practice.
Seven transients were behind the
bars of the county Jail in FL Ctn-
tro Wednesday after being SEN
fenced in Calipatria justice court to
10 days fer evading payment OF
railroad fare.
Wednesdays sentences brought
to IS the number of men arrested
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
OBOES GET
JAIL TERMS

and jailed in Imperial county since
Ware launched his drive a week
ago at the request of Gen. j. l..
Dewitt, who urged it as a means OF
protecting valuable transported ion
facilities and a means Of guarding
agricultural areas through which
the railway routes lie.
Other counties along the South
ern Pacific railway route joined in
the drive against free train riders
and Ware said he was informed
that few men were found riding
for nothing
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17

Nineteen BRUSH naval VESSELS
including nine small corvettes, arriV-
ed in Gibraltar during mid-morning
from the scene of the four-day bat
tie.
The 22,6OO ton aircraft carrier
Eagle, former battleship. landed
dead and wounded from her COM
plement of about TAB officers and
men and was moved into repair
dock.
The Argus, former liner con-
verted into IA 5O0-ton carrier, had
slight damage to its deck. 1t also
brought wounded.
The damage to the battleship
Malaga was described as not serious
Several hours after the two car
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
yanks Fighting On
More Fronts Than
In World War One
Americans Now On All
Continents, Every Sea
In Worldwide Struggle

WASHINGTON, June II.
! (UP)-Disclosure that Amer
lean fliers have been in action
in Rumania and in the Medit-
erranean emphasized today
that the United States participa-
ton in the war is worldwide.
American forces are now on every
continent and on the shores of every
ocean. American aid for the United
Nations Is registering its effective
ness on all fronts.
American forces, planes and tanks
are aiding the Russians against
the Germans as we'll as the British
In their struggle to maintain bases
in North Africa.
American forces are halting the
Japanese as they thrust one direc-
ton after another in the Pacific
toward Australia, Hawaii, Alaska
in contrast to last winter when the
United Nations repeatedly gave
ground.
A LONG LIST
1t is only necessary to list the
places where Americans are fight
ing or are on guard to demonstrate
that for the United States this is
far more a world war than the
1918 struggle.
Americans are aiding in the de-
fense of Australia and fighting in
the air against the japanese in that
area. They are holding New Caledo-
MIA American naval forces are
guarding Australia's neighbor, New
Zealand.
Americans are holding outposts
stretching from Hawaii to the Anti
podes. They are holding Americas
major outposts in the Pacific
Alaska and Hawaii-and holding the
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Americans Count
Hits on Italians

AN ALLIED AIRDROME IN NORTH AFRICAN DES-
ERT, June II. (UP)-American airmen told today how
they dumped heavy bomb loads two Italian bateshps
their first action in the battle of the Mediterranean
and plainly smoke pouring OUT of the enemy dread
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Unioneer Sought
In BrawIey Case
Engineers Business Agent Hunted for
Damaging Automatic Music Machines in
BrawIey Cafe; Reason for Act Mystery

Mike Henry, business agent for local No. II OF the
union of operating engineers in Imperial and San Diego
count s. an Federation of Labor affiliate was
missg from his naunts in the Two counties Wedl1es
dav while officers sought to him with BraW.oy
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Stores to Push
War Stamp Sales

Retail stores in Ell Centro will devote Is minutes of their
time exclusively to the sale of stamps and bonds
noon, July l, part of nationwide campaign officials
of the drive in Ell Centre said Wednesday,
The hour sale is designed the sale of
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Out or The Mouths

Out OF The Mouths
The Rev Mr. Hayden Sears stop
ped in the vestibule of the Method
ist church ard drew a glass of wa
ter. He stood holding it in his hand
as he waited for the time to &c
down the aisle and mount the pull
pit.
Why don't you drink it?" the
little girl asked
He explained that he always took
a glass of water to the pulpit SO
he could have some water to drink
while he was preaching his sermon.
oh" said the little GIRL l wish
we could have some water to drink
during your sermon"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Warships Return
To Bose at Rock
I9 British Vessels Home Again From
Me- di+erranean Battle With Wounded.
Dead: Nine Still Unacc ounte d For

LA LINEA, Spain, June II. (UP)-Spansh sources
reported that the British aircraft carriers Eagle ana Argus
and the 81 OOOon batteship Malaya all damaged IN the
Mediterranean naval battle, arrived in Gibraltar today 10
remove the dead and wounded
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17

He Can't Take It
There is one man in Ell Centre
who always cashes in on his vaca-
tions. You know. Reed Cunningham
the traffic cop. He always works at
something besides traffic coping
while on vacation. He has an idea it
relieves his nerves.
This year he decided to work for
the Pure Ice company. His boss,
Hugo Miller, said at the end of the
first day he had to send Reed home
in an ambulance.
Reed found out that dragging ice
Is bit different from dragging
drunkS. Or Is it?
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Libyon. Russian
Drives at Peak
With Nuzi Gains
Peril Grows in North Africa. Ukraine
As Killers Summer Offensive Gets
Under Way; RommeI Efforts RepuIsed
= BY UNITED PRESS

Armed of the United Nations bosered by Amer
lean air power the Mediterranean battered Axis drives
to halt bya and southern Russia Wednesday in con-
tnuing battles against enemy pncers toward the Middle
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-17
Scrap Rubber Collection
TOPS 85.0OO-PoundT Total
, 4%s!!Ms tssy1!;
I'm Telling Me

I'm Telling Me
A one armed paper hanger or even
an armless one could scarcely be as
busy as Lillian Harkey officiating
behind the lunch counter in d
downtown eatery.
Formerly a waitress, she has been
officiating as a cock until someone
went on vacation or something.
Now you should see her. She takes
the order from the customers, shouts
the order to herself, rushes to the
stove ana cooks it, shouts to herself
that the order is ready, and serves
the customer.
The Swell. i.ead-
We don't wish to be unnecessarily
uLkind but Deputy Sheriff Don
Campbell has the swell head.
In fact, he has the mumps.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-27
u. S. Has Corner
On Material for
Making Sandbags

Sufficient burisp and osnaburg
to 20 more than eight times
around the world has been pur-
chase by the supply Division.
Corps Of Engineers. and viii be
used for making ssndbags. the
war department announced today.
This purchase IL in addition to
millions of yards Of the same ma
terial bought for camouflsge pur-
poses and practically gives the
engineers a corner" on thess
products.
The ssndbags are being pro-
duced at the rate Of more than
q million a day and win be used
by the army, navy and marine
corps and perhaps by the Office
Of Civilian Defense. The Corps
Of Engineers and other combat
forces will use them for field
Notifications, gun emplacement
protection. barbados and trench
fertilization. In cities they are
used to protect buildings. TO con-
struct air raid shelters and to
form barbados m case Of attack.
omaburs. a material similar to
burlap. but made from cotton.
forms a comparatively small part
of the purchase because only a
few mills In the country are
equipped to produce it. Increas-
ing scarcity of jute and hemp,
from which burlap In manufac-
tured. Is expected TO lead to the
conversion OF more mills for the
manufacture Of osnaburg.
Because these materials are sub
jet to mildew and consequent rot
when placed in contact with the
ground. a portion of the bags will
be "mildsw-proofed" and attempts
viii be made to get q certain pro-
portion Of these treated bags into
each consignment Rapid produc-
ton. however, which 10 taking
place In all parts of the country,
makes 1t impossible TO give this
treatment to all.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-27
OBITUARY NOTICES

/ in Mountain View burial park
Those acting as pallbearers are
Frank r. Griffiths. Howard Tat
man, Thomas s. Henderson, Vim
cent Carlstrom, Alfred e. Copr
and Warren Perry. Turk was the
father OF Mrs. T. NJ. kimball and
the grandfather of Carla Jean and
Lynn Sharon Kimball, all of Inter
laaken.
Mrs. Lottie Howard Thurston-
Friday at $3.50 p. m. from C. C.
Mellinger Co. chapel with the Rev.
w. A. Moore officiating. Crema-
tion will follow.
william b. Smith - Friday at
1:30 p. m. from Tuell chapel, with
the Rev. William T. Turner offici-
ating. Cremation will follow.
Honorary palbearers will be David
Snyder, Sherman Tyrell, Walter
Stroud. Walter Dexter, Earl More
and William A. Alexander.
Mrs. Anna George-Friday at .
p. m. at Wrigley and Clements
chapel. Puyallup. The Rev. Wood
of Summit will officiate. Burial
will be in Woodbine cemetery.
Mrs. Mary Smith-Friday at 3
a. m. at st. Benedict's church,
Seattle, under the direction of
Middelstadt. Interment will be in
Calvary cemetery. Seattle. The
rosary will be recited Thursday at
8 p. m. at the church. Mrs. Smith
died Tuesday in Tacoma. Among
the survivors is a daughter, Mrs.
Madeline Alberts of Tacoma.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-27

A study of the income taxes paid
in the three nations, as reported
in the institute publication, shows
that as the rate of income rises the
tax paid in the three countries be-
comes more nearly equal. while as
il falls the disproportion in favor
Of the man from the States grows
by leaps and bounds.
An English citizen. married and
with two children, for example,
pays A. times as great a tax on
a net income Of $500 as a COM
parable United States citizen. The
formers tax bill is $3.50; the lat
ters. Sl2. A Canadian of the same
category pays Sis. or almost ten
times the amount paid by the
American.
The same American with a net
income of $4,000 will pay nothing,
the Englishman s305, and the Ca
madam $50. At $500, the Amer
lean pays nothing, the Englishman
f127, and the Canadian S35.
The gap closes considerably by
the time net income reaches s10,-
600. There the American paws
H,117. the Englishman S4,305, and
the Canadian s2,710. At $4,000,
the American pays s6,4so. the
Englishman S14.s17. and the Cana
dian $10.721.
Declaring that the English and
Canadian figures contain a portent
of things to come to the United
States taxpayer, the publication
predicts that year hence the gaps
will be closing as the American
people shoulder a heavier load in
the defrayment of the staggering
costs Of total war"