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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-19

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-19

Programs personalities Tommy Riggs auditonig sooges Betty Lou will Frankensen out of aluminium during NBCWJz tonight at 6o5
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 celebrities than shake stick at will farewell out of the Hotel Commodore April Sammys WATR the Palm Room
 signed October 1 The 1889 baseball radio setting ate high for single billings.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
Three Hurt When
Sedans Collide
Head.0n Here

Two sedans collided head-on
south of the S.D.&A. tracks on
Imperial avenue at II am. Tues
day, throwing six persons to the
pavement.
Only three of the number suf-
fered injuries.
Passengers and driver of one car
were Negroes en- route to Texas
after attending q National Baptist
convention in Los Angeles. Part
of the same group was detained in
Ell Centro last week by Washouts
on the Southern Pacific.
Jeff Luckey, 81, drove one car
and James Harrison, 65, Wharton,
Tex. drove the other. Highway
Patrolman Al Bisgard said the ac-
cident occurred when Harrison
drove into the center of the high
way in passing a car and tanker
stopped in front of him.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
Germans Rush Artillery
To Cover Cap: English
1ommies Land i'm France
French Strengthen
Gains Before New
Drive on Forts

PARIS, Sept. IL. (UP)-
Germany was reported today
to be rushing heavy artillery
into its Westwall to strength
en- points inadequately arm
ed when the war started.
According to Paris reports, the
Germans essayed their vigorous,
but unsuccessful counter offensive
in the Sierck area because of the
incomplete state of their main line
defense at the junction of the
French, German and Luxembourg
borders.
With French activity increasing
on the Moselle river, it was rep
resented, the Germans feared a
move to cross the line at a point
where the Westwall was weak.
French forces were consolidating
this morning along the positions
they had won In a methodical ad-
vance along the western front in
face of increasingly heavy Ger
man artillery fire, it was indicated.
This mornings communique, No
II of the war from the high COM
mand, said simply:
There is calm along most of
the front"
1t was the first approximation in
the new war of the famous 1914
1918 "all quiet on the western
'front.'"
The communique was interpreted
to mean that in pursuance of their
battle plan since the beginning of
operations the French forces were
consolidating the positions they had
taken yesterday in an advance along
a 60-mile front.
1t was understood that after each
advance toward the main German
WestWall the French were making
their positions as secure as possible
Continued on Page Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12

to 7.64, followed close upon a storm
that brought floods and severe
damage to Arizona and fresh rain
to eastern Imperial county Mon
day evening and early Tuesday.
The Tuesday forenoon storm ap-
peared heaviest in the southwestern
part of the county Imperial, Braw-
ley and Ell Centre registered about
the same. Brawley reported AZ of
an inch at noon.
Calexico had not reported rain
by noon, nor had Westmorland.
Light showers were falling in Holt
Vile. There was no rain in Cali
patria up until noon.
District engineers were unable to
anticipate damage to temporary
canal repairs.
More than half an inch of rain
fell on the Yuma section Monday
night and early Tuesday and the
Colorado river rose foot. Tele-
phone communications to Andrade
were down but district engineers
Continued on Page 6 Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
Farmers Lose Huqe
Sum Thru Storm:
u. Offers Relief
Hay Value Cut in Half .
By Rain; Disaster Loan
Agency Provides Help

Farmers prepared Tues
day to cover the loss of an
estimated $600,000 caused to
Imperial Valley agriculture
by last weeks storm.
Relief for owners of badly wash
ed and eroded farms was offered
by the Disaster Loan corporation
of the federal government while
hay growers looked to war inflated
hay prices to make up for their
losses.
Rain slashed 100000 off the
value of Imperial Valleys 100000
hay crop.
Water penetrated from the top
of the stacks to a depth of of four
or five bales and worked upward
from the stack bottoms similar
number of bales, Manager Roy
Wood of the hay growers associa-
ton said.
Damage undoubtedly will cause
about 80 per cent of the crop to
be marketed at a discount he
said, Growers hope the high hay
market may make up for the loss.
1t is. of course, impossible to tell
at this time"
Hay prices advanced $3.50 Tues
day over prices 10 days ago Un-
damaged hay Tuesday brought
$11.50 ton on the ranch, Wood
said. 1t will require two or three
weeks for hay to dry out suffi-
GENTLY to permit moving it. There
was little call for damaged hay for
fertilizer, he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12

"HSst! A spy!
Police Officer Roy Dupont of Ell
Centre Went through the vagrant's
brief case and uncovered what ap-
peared to be technical plans for
attacking the United States by air.
This is a case for the FBI,
thought Dupont and after reading
further into a maze of figures OF
longitude and latitude and navi-
cation he added: "At any rate, it's
no case for ME-"
So Albert Wood, As, who claimed
he was an aviator and veteran OF
several different armies was booked
at the city Jail under a cloud OF
secrecy and a telegram was sent
to Naval Intelligence headquarters
who notified the Federal Bureau OF
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
L.v.Farm Bureau
Fiqhts Trade Pact

Imperial county farm bureau
Tuesday joined the Southwest Flax
seed association in opposing a pro-
posed reciprocal trade agreement
with Argentina, which is now being
negotiated in Washington.
Scott B. Foulds, secretary of the
county organization. sent a letter
to Alex Johnson, state secretary,
urging the state farm bureau to
take some action and asked that
Johnson forward the message to
the national farm bureau head
quarters.
Oral hearings on the proposed
trade agreement have been sched-
uled in Washington on October It,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
ASpy? It's No Case for Me- Avows
EI Centro Officer, So FB| Summoned

Investigation. A G-man arrived in
Ell Centro and went to work.
Woods papers included informa-
ton on Wake Island, Guam, the
Cocos islands, including distances
to Japan, map of the Gulf of
Mexico and notations of what ap-
peared to be a point of rendezvous
for military planes at sea. He ex-
planned the papers as:
Purely of technical nature" i"
Police officers wrinkled their
brows, poured over the papers, and
agreed with him. wholeheartedly.
Then came the G-man's report
Nothing to it,
Wood had apparently been play
ing soldiers. Tuesday he was
serving a ten day sentence for
vagrancy.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12

they have been late coming, and
the wide, shallow Vistula has been
almost dry and dotted with sand
bars, enabling the Germans to
sweep across it at several places
north of Warsaw, it was reported
today that the rains now had start
ed, lightly but generally.
The German general staff was
believed to have chosen the time
just before the rains to strike, and
to have hoped to subdue Poland
before they started. II SO, they ap-
peared to have failed because the
Polish army was reported intact
on the eastern side of the rivers,
mainly between the Vistula and
San.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12

pieces of property along with the
amount of tax and street assess
ment, started Monday and Will
continue until the end of the
month.
eve should have them in the
mail in about three weeks" City
Clerk Roy Johnstone said. This
means considerable activity on the
part of the clerks staff, however.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
U.Boat Stops U. S.
Ship; Neutrality
Policy Threatened
We'll Sink Craft With
COntraband' Nazi Says;
Britain BlOckaded
BY UNI2 ed PRESS

The detention and search
of the American freighter
Wacosta by a German SUBJ
marine off the coast of Ire
land was referred Tuesday to the
state department at Washington
for a decision bearing directly on
United States neutrality.
The Wacosta's master, Capt. c..
Self, radioed to the offices of the
Waterman Steamship company at
Mobile, Ala, the operators, that
the submarine halted his ship Sat
urday and sent a searching party
aboard which spent three hours
examining the cargo and ships
papers. He said his ship was re-
leased after the searchers found no
"contraband." The submarine COM
Continued on Page 3, Col. a
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12

ward which the Germans are drlV-
ing and behind which the Poles
have concentrated the greatest ar
ray of artillery and cavalry ever
seen in eastern Europe, will rise
quickly and freeze.
1t will be more difficult for the
Germans to move supplies when
the roads are guagmires; it will be
impossible for heavy German tanks
to reach some half flooded regions.
Then the famed Polish cavalry will
have the advantage.
The Poles have counted heavily
on the autumnal rains to stop the
German onslaught by the time it
reached the center of the country
the river regionS-and although
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12

armies. Ine POLISH
forces rallied along battlefront
defending the curving line of the
NareW, Bug, Vistula and San rivers
and were reported counter-attack-
ing at Warsaw to throw back the
German invaders.
With Hitler within range of the
front line guns near the central
Polish front, the German armies
reported capture of Posen, Gnesen,
Thorn and other important towns
but admittedly still were battling
fiercely north and south OF the
Polish capital in an effort to COM
,plete what Nazis called a decisive
stroke against the main enemy
army.
Even more important from the
allied viewpoint, the German high
command was reported sending
artillery reinforcements to the
western front where London news
papers said British and French
were advancing side by side" thru
the Saar sector.
The British ministry of informa-
ton announcing for the first time
that the British troops had landed
in France, said, however, that they
had not yet gone into action.
The German Westwall (Siegfried
1;poA fortifiootinpc in tha Raiarok
sector are weak, the French re-
ported, and some parts of the de-
fenseS never have been completed,
Continued on Page Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
Espionage Hunt
Reaches to Valley

A notice posted upon the Ell Gen.
tro police department bulletin
board showed Tuesday that Uncle
Sam has thrown his counter-espion-
age service into high gear as a re-
suit of hostilities in Europe.
The notice. signed by j. Edgar
Hoover of the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation, asks cooperation OF
all police officers in reporting all
cases of espionage, sabotage or SUBJ
yersive activities.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
japanese Army Shakeup
Involves Highest Chiefs

TOKYO, Sept. II. (UP)-Japan
in an army shake-up involving some
of its highest active officers, named
new supreme commanders today for
its armies in China and Manchu-
kuo.
Gen. Toshizo Nishio, inspector
general of military education, was
named supreme commander of the
forces in China with Gen. Seishiro
Itagaki. until the recent cabinet
shake-up, war minister, as chief
of staff.
Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu, previously
on field duty, was named COM
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12

mander of the KWangtung army.
the japanese army in Manchukuo,
which since mid-May has been
engaged in a series of fights with
Russian -Mongolian forces on the
Outer Mongolian frontier.
Umezu succeeds Gen. Kenkichi
Ueda, who had been commander
and ambassador to the Manchu-
kuan government since 1886.
The shake-up followed the res
ignation of the cabinet in August
and completion of a new cabinet
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12

rough calculation showed that
property index cards have to be
handled more than a dozen times
each year in arranging figures
which means about 100000 entries
must be made.
Deadline on payment of first
half taxes will be Nov. 81. Second
half taxes must be paid by April
30 of 1910.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
SUPREME COUNCIL
OF ALLIES MEETS

PARIS, Sept. IL. (UP) - The
Allied supreme council met "sOme@
where in France" today with British
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
and French Premier Edouard Dala-
dier attending. The council decid-
ed to concentrate all Allied powers
and resources on the war and to
give Poland all possible assistance,
the announcement issued at Dala-
dier's office said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
SUB SINKS ANOTHER

LONDON, Sept. IL. (UP)-The
British steamship Inverlifrey has
been sunk by submarine and its
crew rescued by the American
freighter r. G. Stewart, the minis
try of information announced to-
day. The ministry said that four
other British merchant ships re-
ported that they had successfully
eluded attacking German sub
marines.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
New C|oudburst Hits ~:
Total Of Damage Mounts
The City'sBiI|

Storm damage in Ell Centre
totaled S350O, City Engineer Phil
knights announced Tuesday.
Expense was limited to power
costs from increased pumping,
hiring crews to clean streets,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
WAR
BULLETINS
SPECIAL SESSION
PREDICTED SOON

WASHINGTON, Sept. IL. UP)-
Chairman Adolph J. SABBATH, D., ILL.,,
of the house rules committee said
after talking with President RO0se-
welt today that congress probably
will convene In special session to
consider neutrality law revision on
or a little before Oct. 1st.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
MzS' SIEcFRIED line WEAK
u AMBL|Ne
IL EPORTER
r, P.'S Little Joke

T. P.'s Little Joke
What with the fog and the flood,
It. P. Farmer got his wires some-
what crossed the other night when
the All American bus turned over
near Holtville, Farmer broadcast
over the police radio:
"All American canal overturns."
An excited What tha-!" came
over the Brawley police radio and
BraWley officers called down for
confirmation.
RR could just imagine the scene
at BraWley A half dozen officers
poised at the door for instant flight
while one courageous soul stayed
at the telephone to confirm the ter
rible news before dashing forth be-
fore a wall of water.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
Roosevelt Moves to Curb Food Profiteering in u S.

other crops These forecasts bore out official dss
that there prospect of any food shortage
Agriculture officials beIeUed that The lifting of sugar
quotas the of good indications
and high prices.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12

Aug. 30 by Gen. Nobuyuki Abe. The
previous cabinet, under Baron Kill
chiri Hiranuma, resigned after tho
virtual collapse of Japans foreign
policy when Germany signed nom
aggression pact with Soviet Russia.
(The shake-up also followed by
a few hours the disclosure at Hail.
laar, Manchukuo. the base OF ~
erations for the campaign on
Manchukuo- Outer Mongoli~
tier, that newspaper mem
ordered away from the \ \ M
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12

WASHINGTON, Sept. ". (UP)-Presdent ROOse-
Ue took direct action against rising food costs and
time profteering today by suspending marketing quotas
sugar.
Sugar has been of the principal offenders in
rent commodity price increases jumping much
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
Binuest Batch of Bills in FL Centro
Drawn Up at City Offices. Will Go
ToTaxpayers Here Within Three Weeks

Drafting of the largest list of bills in Ell Centre was
under way Tuesday and three weeks hence the $500 state
ments will be in the mail reminding tax payers to shell
ont axactlv S23O 143 68 between and next April.
Arrancements of statements which list the ctys 420O
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
District Canal System Will NotBe in
Complete Repair for Year. Says Dowd
In Full Report to Board Of Directors

A sudden cloudburst late Tuesday forenoon dumped
three-quarers of inch of rain Imperial Valley, al
ready sodden from last weeks record breaking storm.
Tuesdays shower which brought the valley rainfall
total since early last week inches and since Jan.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
Rains Hurt Nuzis,
Aid Pole Troops

PARIS, Sept. r. (UP)-The rains have started in
Poland.
The broad, dry plains, which the German
machine rolled reentessy for II days, will be mucky
mud flats The rivers Vistula Bug, Narew and San to-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12

tUO cents per pound result of the in Europe.
The president announced late yesterday that he had
ordered temporary lifting OF marketing restrictions
He said this suspension necessitated by in
creased UOrfd demand result of the eetraOrdi
nary purchases by and the "apparent
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12

uIatUe dctUity in the sugar market
He said that the quotas may be renstated "n such
q step becomes necessary for the Uefare of
ducers."
The presidents action cOincided Nth department of
agriculture forecasts indicating bumper yields of grain
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
Polish Armies Rally for Critical Test
OfDefense Strategy; London Papers
Say Troops Fighting Beside French
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign News Editor

Adolf Hitlers machine into heavy enemy fire
Tuesday on both the eastern and western fronts.
In Poland, the rains threat to the Naz
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
Double Service

Talk about RECOMMENDATION! .......- -.
The state not only finds you
Job but doubles for cupid, as well.
About six weeks ago middle
ged man asked Mrs. Carmelita
Hurst at the State Employment Of
flee to find him good housekeeper.
She did.
Beaming with happiness, the
housekeeper returned to the en-
ployment office Tuesday and
thanked Director Thomas N. Fin
ney for finding her the job.
"Also, I want to thank you for
finding me such a good husband.
I married my employer and now
we're starting on honeymoon tour
of the United States!"
Nov that" said Finney, lis SER
vice!"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12
Irresistible Impulse

Irresistible Impulse
Earlene Northrup stood it as long
as she could. She hadn't been able
to look at the movie for gazing
fascinated at a cricket on the neck
of a spectator in front.
Finally she reached forward,
plucked up the cricket and tossed
it elsewhere Then she tried to look
nonchalant while the person \ in
front turned round with a question:
ing look.
R2 knows just how She felt.
However, we've been cured of be-
ing a Good Samaritan. Cured by
the time we slapped a mosquito on
the buxom neck of an unsuspecting
woman strangerl
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-12

Butter: Los Angeles, zoe; but
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch.
grade A, 39c; manufacturing milk,
31c; route gathered cream, 28tac.
l.. A. Hay; u. S. No. l, S14.50-15.
U. S. No. 2 leafy S13.50-14i U. S. No.
2 s11-Sl3. Mlps flax Sept. S1.63A.
Evening star., 1939-11-09
lETTER-OUT


called in center column onosta
the
NV WV
Answer to Yesterdays LETTER-OUT.
Ietter-O
(B) OBsCURED-SCOURED (thoroughly cleaned)
DISPUTE-SPITED (thwared). ~
Cd LATCHES-CHASTE (pure).
BEDI.AM-LANED disabled).
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Evening star., 1939-11-09
Twizz|er Answer

The friend who bought the pawn
ticket for $3.50 was out 81 because
ne had to pay the pawn broker s1.5O
to redeem the 50 bill in addition to
the S1.5O he paid for the ticket. The
man IN debt was ahead 81 because
he paid So debt after starting with
only 81.
Evening star., 1939-11-09
By willard
By Bud Fisher

tentedly hunted for food in the mud
at the bottom of Paddy's pond.
Bobby Coon finished his meal
crossed the dam and disappeared
IN the Green Forest. He had gone
to take a nap somewhere. Time
slipped away. The hunter continued
TO watch patiently for Lightfoot.
and Lightfoot and Paddy the Beav-
er watched the hunter Finally,
another visitor appeared at the
upper end of the pond, a visitor in
q wonderful coat Of red. It was
Reddy Fox.
Evening star., 1939-11-09

Now the hunter was sorely tempted
to shoot those ducks, but he knew
that if he did he would have no
chance that day to get Lighttoot
the Deer, and it was Lightfoot he
wanted. So Mr.. and Mrs. Quack
swan about within easy range of
that terrible gun without once sus-
pecting that danger was anywhere
near.
BY and by the hunters keen eyes
caught a movement at one end Of
Paddyt dam. An instant later
Bobby Coon appeared. It was clear
Evening star., 1939-11-09
Bedtime Stories
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.

The hunter who was hiding near
the pond of Paddy the Beaver, hop
ing that Lightfoot the Deer would
come back there and give him a
chance for shot, was a man of
patience. Also he was a man who
understood the little people of the
Green Forest and the Green Mead
ows He knew that if he would
not be seen he must not move. He
didn't move. He sat as motionless
as if he were a part of the very log
on which he was sitting.
For some time there was no sign
of any living thing. Then, from
over the treetops in the direction of
the Big River, came the whistle Of
Evening star., 1939-11-09
TARTAN

swift wings, and Mr.. and Mrs. Quack
allghted with a splash in the pond.
For few moments they sat on the
water, a picture of watchful sus-
picion. They were looking and lis
tening to make sure that no danger
was near. Satisfied at last, they
began to clean their feathers. 1t
was plain that they felt safe. Paddy
the Beaver was tempted to warn
them that they were not as safe as
they thought, but as long as the
hunter did not move Paddy decided
to wait.
Evening star., 1939-11-09

ance. Verbal strictly applies to that
which is communicated in words,
spoken or written, or that which has
to do with words in contra -distinc-
ton to ideas"
Evening star., 1939-11-09

All this Lightfoot the Deer saw
as he stood among the little hem
lock trees at the top of the ridge
behind the hunter. He saw and he
understood 1T is because he wants
to kill me that he doesn't shoot at
Mr.. and Mrs. Quack or Bobby
Coon," thought Lightfoot a little
bitterly. What have I ever done
that he should be so anxious to kill
me?"
Still the hunter sat without NOV
ing. Mr.. and Mrs. ouack con.
Evening star., 1939-11-09

that Bobby was quite unsuspicious.
He had something, just what the
hunter could not make out. He
took it down to the edge of the
water and there carefully washed
it. Then he climbed upon Paddy's
dam and began to eat. You know,
Bobby Coon is very particular about
his food. Whenever there is water
near Bobby washes his food before
eating. Once more the hunter was
tempted, but did not yield to the
temptation, which was q very good
thing for Bobby Coon.
Evening star., 1939-11-09
Bruin TwizzIers
BY PROE. j. ID. FLINT.

One man owed another So. After
being threatened with violence of
all sorts, he started racking his brain
for solution to his predicament
Having only 50 bill it was quite
predicament, too. Finally he hit
upon an idea. He took the bill to
Evening star., 1939-11-09
African Chiefs Warned

More than 100 chiefs representing
100000 natives in the Transvaal of
Africa were, warned at Petersburg
against believing false rumors re-
garding the European war.
Evening star., 1939-11-09
jolly Polly
A Little Chat on English

BY JOS. J. FRISCH.
D. S. A-Webster' Dictionary
says, Oral applies only to that
which is spoken by word of mouth,
and emphasizes the idea of utter
Evening star., 1939-11-09
Points for Parents
By EDYTH THOMAS WALLACE.

For the sake OF their own happi-
ness, help children think more OF
giuing affection than they do of re-
ceiDinQ it.