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Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
Nazis PREP. for
Summer Drives

Thursday midnight COmmunlque.
Red air force planes and Soviet
anti-aircraft gunners were credited
with breaking up German attempts
to bomb Russian concentrations. Six
planes were shot down in aerial
combat and three others fell to the
gamers. An additional three planes
were damaged No Soviet planes
were lost.
The repulSe of minor enemy at
tacks on the SmolenSk and Khar-
day communique, but nowhere was
there any essential change in the
battle lines.
Some 460 German officers and
men were killed in futile attempts
to dislodge the Russians from their
neWly-won positions in the Smol-
enSk defense felt, the communique
said.
The midnight communique re-
ported the Russians Wedged the
German lines and captured a
trongly-fortified position on the
Smolensk front yesterday. Sup
porting artillery destroyed four
mortar batteries and one artillery
battery.
I'm another sector" the commit
nique said. prisoners of the 267th
German infantry division stated
their division had lost between 10
and 30 per cent in killed and
wounded"
Referring TO the fighting north
west of Kursk for the first time In
several weeks, the midnight COM
munique reported that a German
infantry battalion Of 1000 men
supported by seven tanks, per1e-
trated 10 the western outskirts OF a
hamlet near Sevsk, only to fall back
in the face OF a Soviet counter-at :
tack. Some 300 Germans were Kill
ed in the engagement.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
WE'D LIKE TO MEET
MADAME CHANG

We'd like to meet Nine. Chlangi
1t isn't very often that newspaper peo-
pie get real curious about prominent eel
ebrities, possibly because it's routine
to interview such when they hove into
sight But Nine. Chang seems differ
ent. She not only looks different from
most famed ladies, but she acts differ
emily and Is different according to IN
the-trade talk by reporters who have had
occasion to interview her.
Specifically, it is Mary Hornaday OF
the Christian Science Monitor who fully
arouses our curiosity. Miss Hornaday
travelled with Nine. Chang across the
country and says among other things,
that:
The Madame is very formal in her in
terviews; much more SO than Mrs. Roose-
welt who has always acted like one OF the
gang" of reporters.
Mrs. Chang (we're going to drop that
Nine busness) is polite, winning,
pointed and short in her interviews. She
doesn't permit direct quotes. To end in
tervews, she just walks out with win
ming smile. Hardened neWshounds are
entranced as she talks. A tough police
reporter of the New York News scrb-
bled, during an interview. Her hands
speak as eloquently as her dulcet voice.
Her skin is blush-olive. Her eyes are
ONYX laughter Here is an ageless beau
ty."
And in speech she sent reporters hus-
Ting for dictionaries, because she used
such words as archaeological and
"indehiscence" and "cenote"
Yes, we'd like to interview that lady.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
STILL RUGGED
INDIVIDUALISTS

christian Science Monitor)
The American farmer is constantly
surprising those who don't know him.
Most of the pre-draft volunteers in
Army and Navy, it turns out, were farm
youths, and the farmer himself has as a
rule declined to claim draft exemption
as a necessary food producer though
the farm bloc in Congress has favored
exemption. We now learn, through a
poll by the magazine Fortune, that only
80 per cent of Americas farmers belong
to any agricultural organization.
That's a little better than industrial
workers have done for the labor unions.
The Twentieth Century Fund recently
showed that at its all-time high, trade
union membership included only II mil
lion of the 40 million workers in the
United States.
These figures being true, do the farm
bloc and the labor bloc WELD too great
an influence in Congress? Possibly the
average congressman will find food for
reflection here.
"One-gallus" farmers, it seems, still
are hold-outs, and the average wage earn
cr still is bit shy of the unions. Ameri-
cans undoubtedly are still rugged individ-
ualiStS
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
Capital Talk
-by-
Peter Edison

because of this reciprocal permit
which prevented American planes
rom touching at British ports until
he British could catch up with the
procession and develop planes to fly
the ocean and touch U. S. ports.
In situations like this, Freedom
of the air" advocates may have
ono of their best talking points.
II there were no reciprocal agree
ments, if there were no "sov-
erignty of the air" restrictions, =
planes of any nation might fly
into ports of any other nation
and do business. Reciprocal
agreements are i'm that sense re-
strictive, though proponents of
reciprocal agreements emphasize
the protective value of allowing
no foreign airlincs to fly mere
planes to this country than
foreign governments allow r.. S.
airlines TO fly TO their countries.
Before the British were ready to
put the reciprocal agreement into
,ffect, deals were made with tho
French and the Portuguese. so that
when transatlantic planes service
did begin in 1899, the clippers went
not to British ports, but TO Mar
SeilleS, by way of Bermuda, the
Azores and Lisbon. The British did
permit the clippers to go to Bcr-
muda because the BermudianS in
sisted on having the service.
In tho case of the service 10
France, a formal reciprocal treaty
was negotiated between govern
mcnts i'm 1889, but France let u.
S. planes fly over France and
come to Marseillcs even though
there were no French flying
beats developed to provide rccip<
rOcal service into effect, schedule
for schedule, when ready.
In the case of Portugal, Pan
American Always made a direct
deal, getting franchise from the
Portuguese for exclusive landing
rights until such time as the U. S.
and Portuguese governments should
negotiate reciprocal agreement.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
THE LITTLE GUY
IN BUSINESS

There is growing concern as to the fu-
ture fate of small concerns, the Little
Guy in business as William Allen White
calls them.
Through tie years of this machine age.
big business has steadily closed down
more and more tightly upon the small
concern. Consider for example, the de
velopment of the huge electrical appli-
ance corporations, the automotive indus
try, the steel industry, the giant oil COM
panies and the like.
With the coming of war. this process
was stimulated. Big concerns, able to
make quick transition from peacetime to
wartime production have received the
bulk of war contracts. Meanwhile, little
businesses on the main streets of the land
shrivelled and one after another closed
their doors.
1t has been estimated that 300, 900 small
concerns will go out of existence tins
year. That this assertion may not be
amiss. note the slow but steady spread
of vacant store buildings in the towns OF
this county.
And now we see the evident shadow of
government encroachment upon the now
unsacred property of small enterprise.
Government loans, government employ
ment agencies, giving of food by govern
ment to children, the plan for govern
ment control in railroads, the foot-in-the-
door plan of government to enter more
strongly into our democratic economy
after the war-all are part of this shad-
OW.
The small town of America is punched
around small concerns. Without these
little fellows, this country would be en-
tirely huge corporations with individuals
looking only to different layers of eXecu-
tive positions as the possible rewards tor
their exceptional effort, sweat, labor and
study.
Whether anything cheerful can be said
of the outlook for the small concern is
doubtful Only one light of hope CLEANS
in the darkness, and that is the fact that
little business always has had TO fight
for its existence and probably will event
ually come out winner in the future as it
has in the past.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02

MOSCOW. April 2.-CUP} The
German army was reported today
to be moving immense reserves" Of
troops and equipment up to the
Ukrainian front, where it began
the 1912 summer campaign which
carried to Stalingrad and the heart
of the Caucasus.
The Communist party organ
Pravda said the dense network Of
railroads and highways in the oc-
.Cupied part of the Ukraine was
teeming with action as the Ger
mans regrorped theiro forces and
moved powerful reinfOrcementS to-
ward the front.
MAY MEAN NEW MOVE
The big scale Nazi movement
appeared to foreshadoW a new out
break of hostilities along the Do
nets river line, where the Red
army stalled German counter-Of
fenSive and thWarted efforts to
force the river.
To the south, the Russians tight
ened their clamp on the Axis
DllIBGiICdAl III bllE lHOi VI FFt1b NCf'bT
casus, capturing three more vii
lagos and threatening TO isolate the
garrison of NovorOSsisk.
The Soviet midday cOmmunque
gave no details OF the fighting that
led TO capture of the three villages,
but their occupation may have put
the Red army still closer to Veren-
ikovskaya, whose capture would
cut the last highway link between
the German forces still resisting
north and south of the Kuban river.
ANNOUNCE CAPTURE
Only yesterday the Russians re-
ported capture of Anastasevswaya
II miles north of Verenikovskaya
and 80 miles north of Noyorossisk
The occupation of several addi-
tional communities in the Kuban
area also was reported in the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO ELECTORS Of
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN BY
THE IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT under and pursuant to
the provisions of Section 4c of the
Statutes of 1915, page l, as amend
cd, of the intention of the 1mpe-
rial Irrigation District to make
and enter into a contract in writ
inc with the United States of Amer
lea relative TO the furnishing and
disposal of electric energy TO be
hereafter generated by the Imperial
Irrigation District and that SAID
proposed contract has been spread
upon the minutes of the Board of
Directors of the Imperial irrigation
District and that the nature of said
agreement, the consideration there
for the date that said agreement
is to be effective and brief sum-
mary of the contents thereof are
as follows:
Said agreement is a contract be-
tween the United States OF Anerl-
ca and the Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict for the purchase OF surplus
electric energy by the Government
Of the United States from Imperial
Irrigation District. h,
The consideration therefor Is tlsN
the United States Is to pay to the
Imperial Irrigation District for the
electric energy delivered pursuant
to this agreement at a schedule OF
rates as more particularly set forth
in paragraph of said proposed
contract, reference to which is here
by made and which is hereby IN
corporated by reference.
The date that said contract Is
to become effective is ninety days
from and after the first publication
of this notice,
That a summary of the contents
of said agreement is as follows:
That the United States Of America
owns and operates a power system
throughout the Lower Colorado Riv-
er area in Arizona. California and
Nevada and Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict owns and operates a power
! system in California and may have
surplus electric energy available
from its generating stations. That
the two systems are nter-connected
near Drop 4 on the All American
Canal. That said agreement is
made in conjunction with con-
tract of 1910 between the parties,
which contract provides for the
delivery of electric energy by the
United States to the Imperial Ir-
rigation District. That after the
District has supplied its own pres
ent and future requirements the
District may deliver to the United
States electric energy at times and
in amounts as requested, from sur
plus power had At a schedule of
rates provided for in said para
graph of said agreement
That the term of said contract is
until ninety days after the cessa-
ton of hostilities of the present
war
Dated this 3Oth day of March.
1043.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT
BY Evan T. HeWes (Sgd)
President.
BY G.. l.. Dermody (Sgd)
Assistant Secretary.
District Seal ..+.
SD (Al-6 incD
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
'StoIingrod' for Germans
Instead Of New 'Dunkirk

/ LONDON. April ,. ,UP1-DcvCl-
opmentS in TuniSia indicate that
Adolf Hitler has ordered Nazi Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel to attempt
"Stalingrad" stand rather than
Mediterranean "Dunkirk', it was
believed today.
Naturally the Allies do not know
Rommels battle plans, but fairly
definite conclusions can be drawn
from this situation:
Am Allied invasion opening this
year now is as sure as anything can
be
ON 'UNDERSIDE'
2.-Unless all signs fail, the in
vaSion will come along the soft
undersidc of the Axis.
3.-The Na2i aim must Obvious
ly be to delay the invasion as long
as possible.
4-Rommel is putting up the
hardest kind of fighting in his re-
treat, giving up ground only under
the strongest pressure.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
M'Artkur Planes
Bomb Japs for
18th Straight Day

GEN. f1aCARTHUR'S H E A ID :
QUARTERS, Australia, April q
CUP)-A communique today report
ed an air raid for the 18th straight
day on japanese poSitinS along the
New Guinea coastline above Buna
Bombers, dipping to near tree-top
height. mechine-gunned and drop
ped explosives on the Kitchen
Creek area near MubO, Is miles
southeast of the enemy Strongpoint
at Salamaua on the Northeast New
Guinea coast.
FIRES STARTED
Numerous fires were started and
the us. planes saw no Japanese
fliers. The communiqCe told of an
air fight over Dutch New Guinea
three days ago in which Liberia
tor doWned one of two japanese
fighters which challenged it,
Liberators and HudsonS struck at
Saumlaki. in the Taninbar islands
south of Dutch New Guinea, and a
single Liberator bombed FinSCh
Harbor up the New Guinea coast
from Mubo, on Wednesday, the
communicate said.
A compilation Of MacArthur'S
March communiques showed a list
of 263 enemy planes and 35 ships
destroyed Or probably destroyed fol
the month. at cost OF only one
bomber and eight fighters.
These figures included the Bis
narck Sea battle in which the Jap
anese lost % ships. including three
cruisers. but Gid not include an in
! definite number of planes wreckec
! in the March "a raid on Rabaul
! where flierS caught $50 japanese
! planes on the ground
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02

In any consideration OF this
freedom of The air" idea, you come
eventually to the theory of recipro,
cal rights, for which the record OF
negotiations between the Uniteo
States and Great Britain offers the
swell example.
In May, 1885, the first trans
oceanic airline schedule was estab-
lished by Pan American Airways-
across the Pacific. Maybe you have
wondered why the Pacific was flown
before the Atlantic. One real.
underlying reason was because the
u. S. had one of these reciprocal
rights agreements with the British.
This agreement was not i'm the
form of a codified treaty, but II
was after q series of diplomatic
negotiations, following which the
u. S. Department of Commerce
issued a landing permit to British
Imperial Always, and the British
government issued similar per-
nit TO Pan American Always to
fly into. through and away from
the u. 5. and Great Britain via
Canada. Irish Free State and
Bermuda. These permits were
effective juno |, 1886, and were
10 remain in effect Is years. with
The provision either side could
cancel OH two years notice.
The catch in this is that at the
time the agreement was made, the
British had no planes capable of
flying the Atlantic with a pay load.
though Pan American Always had
developed its clipper in the Carib-
bean and was ready to fly the At
lantic in 1887.
POINT AGAINST
RECIPROCITY
But transatlantic flight was de-
layed two years because the British
had no comparable equipment and
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02


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DECIDED TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR DELINQUENT
that the Board OF Supervisors the County
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inclusive enter into written Agreement under the provisions of Chapter
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had heretofore been decided the State of California by the
the remains delinquent and unpaid that the name of the person
the oper any porons thereof
Or any part parts thereof and the paid
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Notice given County
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
Russia Accepts
Bid to Conference

MOSCOW, April 2.-(UP)-Rus-
sia has accepted an invitation to
participate in United Nations
food production conference, 1T was
revealed today.
The Soviet acceptance was pub
lished in the Russian press today.
The personnel of the Soviet dele
CATION was not announced imme-
diately, however.
(The food production conference
will be held April 27 at a place not
yet disclosed)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02

going forward side b. side With the
cleaning up Of Tunisia.
New Nazi attention to the Balk-
ans. particularly the Greeks and
Jugoslav guerillas, suggests that
the Germans are fearful the Allies
may attack first in the Greek Ar
chipelago, Jugoslayia or Crete.
Their nervousness obviously has
been heightened by the increasing
activity of Greek patriots and the
movement of the Greek government
to Cairo.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
ThaiIand Placed
Under Martial Law
Ry limited PRESS

Japanese occupied Thailand has
been put unde, o;rlct martial law,
evidently as result of unrest, the
Office of War Information report
ed Friday
Tho owl said The Federal Com
muniCationS Commission had in
tercepted the Bangkok radio which
broadcast an order by Premier
Marshal Luang Pibul Songgram.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02

! 5.-The Nazis arc still shipping
lmCn and supplies to Tunisia. which
they hardly would do if they plan
ned to pull out shortly.
In view of the dangers and dif-
/ ficulties of eXtricating men and
materials from TuniSia under an
Allied sea and air pounding, it is
] hardly doubted that the Nazi high
command would prefer to utilize
its investment in the Afrika Korps
by fighting the Allies in the field
where it can inflict losses on the
Allies. Rather than accept huge
"Dunkirk' losses without any STRAIT
egic gain.
NOT MANY LEFT
This does not mean that Rommel
won't tr" to pull out what is left
Of his forces once he finally has
to give up his last strategic foot
hold at Bizcrte. But if he fights
as long and bitterly as the Allies
expect him to, there probably won't
be any great number left to evac-
uatc.
Efforts by the Axis to gather up
Mediterranean shipping are believ-
Cd to tie in more with preparations
to resist an Allied invasion than
with plans for evacuating the Afri-
ka KorpS The same theory is be-
lieved TO apply to reports that the
Germans want the Italian fleet.
The fleet, it is believed, would be
more useful for attacking an Allied
invasion fleet than for protecting
evacuation boats under rain of
Allied bombs.
The big Fortress attack on Gag
liari PROBABLY does not affect the
theories about an African Dunkirk
one way or the other. Caglian, on
Sardinia, is a forward base for
supplies going to Tunisia and an
important Nazi cir headquarters
for the support of Rommel and for
attacks on Allied shipping. 1t there
fore is a prime target under any
consideration.
Axis propaganda clearly indicates
that the Nazis fully anticipate an
initial invasion of Europe coming
from The south. Rommel presumably
mas been ordered to inflict as many
casualties as possible on the Allies
to delay or upset plans for the at
tack on Europe. Such plans are
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02

The American Red Cross begins the
greatest single crusade of mercy IN all
history In the Axis nations, mercy and
decency are regarded as synonyms TOR
weakness and decadence. In our land
it is from our great tradition of mercy
that we take part Of our strength
Chairman Norman H. Davis of the Red
Cross.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02

| cannot possibly describe The extent
TO which all of us, particularly those
magnificent soldiers who fill the Amerl-
can units in North Africa, depend upon
the American Red CrOss.-Gen. Dwight
D Eisenhower.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

With all the creakings of a machinery
that had to be rapidly devised, the pro-
duction record of this government has
been unparalleled: We have planning
yet to be done that will put first things
first, and mean by first things anything
that will shorten the duration.-WPB
member William Y. Elliott.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02

America must continue to mobilize
her tremendous striking power and fal-
ter not in using it without scrupe in the
service of freedom, justice and the lnal-
ienable rights of human personality.
-Rev. Edmund Walsh of Georgetown U.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
Editorials and Comment

EDITOR'S NOTE: The folloprn0 edit
oriaIs are presented as interesting opin.
ions Uoiced by editors eiseUhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-02
POINT AGAINST
RECIPROCITY

But transatlantic flight was de-
layed two years because the British
had no comparable equipment and
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-31

rules do not apply TO him and, as
q consequence, we have had no
notable reduction in traffic acci-
dents at all proportionate TO what
might be expected.
With the promise Of an increase
In rubber for tires and loosening
of strict gasoline rationing in the
East, we may expect an exacerba-
ton in the senseless holocaust in
traffic accidents.
We have a whole group Of spe-
eial kinds Of injuries which have
names attached TO them that are
stigmata of careless driving.
One of these is bumper frac-
ture" Of the knee. Bumper frac-
ture goes back as far as 1929. It
involves the outer part Of the leg,
indicating that the unwary victim
is facing sidewise TO the oncoming
joy-rider. II il occurs just at the
knee, it knocks the head Of the
tibia into the knee joint and
against the head Of the upper bone
Of the leg, producing an extremely
nasty fracture.
The violence sustained is Of the
crushing type. In about one-half
Of cases an open operation is
necessary to get the bones into
adjustment and even so, some de-
gree Of deformity is almost certain
70 occur.
The period Of disability is eight
10 tan vesks in he'd in a plaster
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-05-31
GRADUATION EXERCISES
II n IA 4 u p


Sheldon. Mich May 81 The
stage Of the cAgrcn was decorated
with baskets Of spring flowers by
the girls Of the eighth grade for
the graduation exercises Wednes-
day evening, May IS. for the class
OF 1913. Ten eighth graders were
graduated.
With Miss N!da Bibicoft a. the
piano. the class marched ia and
took their places on the stage Miss
Frances de Lougpre was mistress
Of ceremonies. and announced the
program as follows The National
Hymn BY congregation. welcome,
Francel de Lonspre. class history.
Leoaa McKinstry. a message OF
good advice by Miss Mary Jane
son, piano solo. Miss Nlda Bibi-
cc.f, class future, Francel de Long.
pre-. address by Rev G. T. Nevir.
class Hill Lois Maddox; American
Legion award b. Jesse Emery
Wayne Post No III
Jon Faily tea her. presented the
following class their diplomas. Rrl-
and Beaudet, Clarence Davis. Fran.
eel de Lonsp-e. Raymond de Long
pre-, Lowell Holmes, Elizabeth Hop
Ia, Lois Maddox. LeoAa NcKin-
stry Bryce Mowery. and Jack
Nowlirg. Acknowledgement OF ap-
probation was expressed by Ray.
mond de Lonogpre. Bryce Mowery
then presented Mr. Fa.iy. tea- her.
with a gift from the class 81 1913.
The program then closed with all
singing AUD La-z Syne.'