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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-21
Imperial Valley Press
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FOR SALE practically new Mar
chant Calculator IN Al condi-
ton. A real bargain. Womack's.
$50 Main st. l2-4tf
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36 Used Tires - Auto Acces.
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or sos.
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Turn UnusabIes Into Usable Cash -- Hns
Lost. Found. EstrGN

5TRAYED away from Owl Ranch
three heifers. r. V. brand on
right side. If found please notify
w. Hudson, Ri, Box 205, Ca
lexico. l2-ZI
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Help Wanted
2 Situations Wanted

WANTED by middle aged woman,
cooking on ranch or housekeep-
ing for adults. Mrs. Quinn, Rh.
9. Zox rs. Brawley. 1928
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I25 - 15-WETE OLD Rock New
Hampshire cross Dulle.s. IL mi
south. = mi cast Mel8Iand. J. w
Roberts 1922
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FAT TURKEYS. an sizes. dressed
drawn and delivered. 20 Box
1898, OF 1 mi. north Seal Heights
store. II. G.. Binkleib. 1923
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LARGE co}ored rcaste"s. I've or
dressed. VIII deliver. Phone
9711JI. 1928
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Poultry

WANTED all kinds Of poultry. Pay
highest possible price. S & M
Poultry, phone 97OO-R-2 El Cen
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1897 DODGE coupe. Good condit-
ion 1900 miles. For older model
car, some cash. 627 Len Rey.
1928
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26 Miscellaneous For Sale

GRAPEFRUIT FOR GIFTS - =
boxes fancy fruit. Express pre-
paid Los Angeles or san Diego
area. S135. Tree run fruit. 50c
sack. Strickland. 2 miles vest
Phone 87l4-J-1. 12-17tf
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VERY FINE sliding trombone with
stand. Bargain 583 Brighton,
Phone 536J. 1924
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STRAYED, REQ male pig, VT. about
20 lbs. Reward Mrs. Hollar,
Buena Vista Court, phone l73,
HoltVille. l2-23
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REAL SILK HOSIERY MILLS,
INC. Special sale now on. Write
p o. Box 416, El Centro. Bond
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Evening star., 1939-08-20
British Ministers Expected
To Act tuesday, on Peace Move
Inner Cabinet to Meet to Review
Entire European Situation

of alliances and guarantees was the
problem confronting him.
Hungary's position also was a
matter of concern in London as a
result of the visits of Count Csaky
Hungarian foreign minister, to Ger
many and Italy, where it was be-
lieved in London diplomatic quarters
that he was subjected to pressure to
ally his country definitely with the
Rome-Berlin axis powers Hungary
has good relations with Poland
BY a coincidence, Tuesdays meet
ing OF the ministers is on the same
day the labor opposition sought be-
fore Parliament recessed two weeks
ago to have it reconvened for a
short session because of expecta-
tions of crisis by that time.
Halifax Committing.
Prime Minister Chamberlain
however, refused to agree to what
he regarded as a move to bring
Parliament back as a watch dog
on his foreign policy.
Lord Halifax, foreign secretary
who has been committing between
his country home in Yorkshire and
London to keep a close watch on
European developments. was at the
foreign Office this afternoon.
Tuesdays meeting of ministers
was to include Mr.. Chamberlain,
Lord Halifax, Sir John Simon.
chancellor of the exchequer and
Sir Samuel Hoare. home secretary
the four comprising the inner cabi-
net, and several other ministers. It
will not. however, be a full cabinet
meeting.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 19.-British minis
tiers watched the German Polish
dispute with increasing concern to-
night and were expected in political
quarters to decide Tuesday whether
the government should intervene
now to attempt a peaceful settle
ment.
Prime Minister Chamberlain
planned to break his fishing holiday
in Scotland Monday to return for a
meeting of ministers the next day to
review the entire European situa-
ton. which was regarded in all
quarters to have reached a danger
Gus stage with a peaceful solution
daily becoming more difficult.
Great Britain. pledged to stand by
Poland in resisting any aggression
threatening her independence, has
stood alOof from the German-Polish
quarrel over Danzig. Prime Minister
Chamberlain has declared it was
matter to be settled between the two
countries involved.
May Move to Avert War.
Despite this. it was felt in some
political quarters that the situation
had become so grave the Prime Min
lister might decide upon some move
to try to break the deadlock and
avert any possible war.
How to do this without indicating
a weakening of the British pledge to
Poland and to other countries asso-
clated IN the British-French system
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Johnny Weissmu||er WId
In er-Midnight Rite
BY the Associated Press.

ES the associated Press.
GARFIELD. N. j.. Aug. 20 tSun-
day. Johnny tTarzan) Weissmul-
Ter, the swimmer whose divorce from
Lupe Velez became final last We'd
nesday. and Miss Beryl Scott. San
Francisco society girl, were married
here early today.
Two ceremonies were performed,
the Rev. Frank Macdonald of Cliff
ton performing the first upstairs in
the home of City Counsel Henry l..
Janowski to please the bride, and
Mayor John M. Gabriel performing
the second downstairs to please the
neWSreel cameramen.
The bride. wearing a periwinkle
blue dress with hat to match and a
corsage of deep purple orchids. was
| attended by Miss Jean Trawan of
New York, a cousin. The bride
groom, who hastened here after his
last performance at the New York
Worlds Fair last night and plans to
return to the show tonight, wore a
blue business suit.
Mrs. Weissmuller gave her age as
% and Mr.. Weissmuller as IS. Sher-
man Billingsley, New York night
club operator, was best man.
Included in the wedding party
were Ethel Norman, musical comedy
singer; B. o. Roos, Mr.. Weissmuller'
manager; Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Scott,
parents of the bride, and Stubby
kreuger and Pete Des Jardines
swimmers.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Probation Bars
|Pendergost Bets
|For Five Years
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 19.-For five
years after Tom Pendergast leaves
LeavenWorth Prison he may not visit
the headquarters of his Democratic
organization.
He may not gamble or bet on the
races.
He must stand in line once a
month to tell probation officer how
he has been behaving himself.
Federal Judge Merrill E. Otis set
those terms for the erstwhile ''boss's"
probation today in document filed
with the clerk of the Federal Court
The document was history of
the Missouri Fire Insurance COM
promise case. Pendergast and r.
Emmet OMalley, former State in
surance superintendent, were sent
to LeavenWorth for failing to pay
income taxes on money they re-
ceived for putting the compromise
through.
Pendergast was sentenced to Is
months and OMalley to a year and
a day.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Justice Douglas Not
Presidential Aspirant
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.-William o.
Douglas, youngest member of the
United States Supreme Court, said
in an interview at the New York
Worlds Fair today that any one
who mentioned his name as a pos
sible successor to President Roose-
welt must be talking about some
other Douglas"
I'm just plain Bill Douglas Of
Yakima, WASH" he said
Here to attend Whitman College
(Walla Walla, Wash) day at the
fair, he met about 100 graduates OF
the college and natives of Wash
ington State.
The justice said 300 cases were
pending in Supreme Court and he
planned to study some of them on a
vacation trip to the Thousand
Islands.
Referring to the pending cases,
he said:
Il feel just like an oyster. They
get just what the tide brings in, and
that's just the way we are
ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex, Aug.
10 Ex-senator Wheeler, Democrat,
of Montana said in an interview
today he intended to seek reelection
to the Senate in 1910 and wasn't in
terested in the presidency He
voiced belief that President Roose-
welt will not insist on denomination"
| for q third term.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Michigan Governor
Presses Gaming Drive
BY the Associated Press


LANSING. Mich, Aug l9-Gov.
Luren D. Dickinson, foe of high
life drinking and gambling, ad-
dressed letters today to number
of Michigan sheriffs in whose juris-
dictions State troopers recently
seized slot machines.
You know what the law is: please
explain why it wasn't enforced"
the letters demanded.
At the Governors Office it was
said there would be "follow-ups'
on the letters. I'VE will insist on re-
plies" said Emerson R. Boyles, the
Governors legal adviser.
Meanwhile Gov. Dickinson indi-
Gated his approval of an announce
ment by Attorney General Thomas
Read that he would petition the
Wayne County Detroit Circuit
Court for a grand jury investiga-
ton Of gambling in the Detroit area
The furore over allegations of po-
lice connivance with gamblers in
Detroit followed the suicide of
Janet Macdonald, who left a group
of letters charging that man who
Tilted her had been a "go-between"
for gamblers and certain police off,
GERS.
simultaneously a group of Detroit
citizens petitioned for grand jury
inquiry of the gambling situation.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Forest Fire DESTROYS
Community in West,
800 Homeless
u BIozes Raging in
Washington Stote;;
Damage Heavy
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10
Smoke billoWed above Pacific Coast
forests from central California to
British Columbia today. marking
scattered fire sectors where thou
sands of men fought to halt de-
struction of timber
A lumber mill fire destroyed the
tiny forest community of Pine Ridge,
35 miles north of klamath Falls,
Greg, leaving approximately 600
persons homeless. Managers Of the
lumber company said the loss prob
ably would range between one and
two million dollars. The mill and
about 200 buildings were razed.
FirebugS, wind and intense heat
created critical situation in the
Northwest Twenty-Five fires in
Washington alone caused one official
to declare conditions there the most
critical in % years"
Logging, mining and recreational
activities were stopped by official
order on Vancouver Island. British
Columbia. Flames fed on timber in
Western areas of the province.
In Oregon. where logging opera
tlons in certain districts were halted
more than week ago. a 4O-mile
wind defied attempts of nearly 1000
fighters to control the Chetco fire.
which had Tapped over into the
Siskiyou National Forest. near the
States southern boundary. Fire
crews attempted to hold the blaze
within a l2.000-acre area.
A string of fires attributed to in
cendiarists burned along a front of
2l2 miles near Elkton, Southern
Oregon. Telephone lines were down
here and l20 men battled the 1000
acre blaze.
Other fires, some of them out of
control. burned in the Tillamook
area of Oregon and near Index in
Northwestern Washington.
California fires, which had caused
two deaths. approached full con-
troll. Largest of the three major
blazes, all in the Los Padres Ma
tional Forest, was the 18,000-acre
Machenso fire in American Canyon.
San Luis Opispo County. which 300
c. C. c. and civilian fighters hoped
to conquer tonight.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
II Persons Injured
As Train Is DeraiIed
In n. J. Storm
Five Cars leove Tracks,;
Fire Breaks Out, but
Is Extineuished
BY the Associated Press,

by the = sSSOclateC Press.
CHATSWORTH, N. j.. Aug. l9.-
Seventeen persons were injured late
today. three of them seriously. when
the Blue Comet" crack Central
Railroad of New Jersey Atlantic
City-New York flier. was derailed in
southern New Jerseys pine wilder
ness during heavy rainstorm.
Most of them were in the observa-
tion car, last of five which leaped
the rails, and were pitched back and
forth with furniture as the cars
bounced 500 feet down the ties be-
fore breaking loose from the loco
motive
On either side was a drainage ditch
for a cranberry bog Cars tilted at
dizzy angles, but none went over.
Railroadmen had no explanation
to offer. but others said the water
from the bog, level with the rails
as the storm ragged, apparently had
weakened the track.
Rescue squads from a score of
communities in four neighboring
counties had to carry the injured
three miles along the tracks to this
crossroads community Uninjured
passengers, after spending two to
four hours in the derailed coaches
to escape the downpour had to lug
their baggage the same distance to
meet relief train, prevented from
coming to them by the Blue Comets
locomotive. which was stalled with
derailed tender a mile beyond the
coaches.
Seriously injured and taken 20
miles to the Burlington County Hos
pital at Mount Holly were:
Mrs. Joseph Gilligan, so, Wilkes
Barre, Pa, back injuries.
Richard Kelly, Al, Philadelphia.
Joseph Coleman, As, New York.
colored dining-car attendant, scalds
and possible broken legs.
Others were treated at the scene
by physicians rallied from the coun-
tryside.
Fire broke out in the dining car,
but was quickly eXtinguished. VIM
dows here and in other cars were
broken.
Forty-nine passengers were re-
ported aboard the train. Several
women and children were hysterical
by the time they reached the Chats
worth station
The train was running under
caution" orders and the crew re-
ported to division headquarters at
Long Branch that they were going
only 30 or 35 miles an hour instead
of double that speed.
Derailment of the train occurred
about 4:30 pm. eastern stand
ard time), the time the train was
due in Chatsworth. The relief
train left at 9:26 pm, for Jersey
City, where New York passengers
transfer to Hudson River ferries.
The locomotive, dragging behind
it tender with one truck crash
ing along the ties, rolled more than
a mile up the track before it
could be stopped. From there the
engineer and fireman ran into
Chatsworth and summoned help.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
S|ovakia Mobi|izing to Assist
Reich Army of1OO>OOOo Border;
Poland Armed> Ready for Crisis
ActuuIW Threat
Expected During
This Week
BY the Associated Press.


WARSAW, Aug. 19.-Armed Po-
land held herself in readiness to-
night for developments generally
expected in Warsaw to bring a
decisive turn soon-possibly within
week-in European affairs.
Feeling grew that pressure" by
the Rome-Berlin axis would be
intensified in the dispute over Ger
many's demands for the Free City
of Danzig, which Poland holds to
be lung" of her economic or
ganiSm.
Week of Crisis Seen.
THE forthcoming week" read a
headline in the evening Warsaw
newspaper Gas. will be week
Of criSis-to decide peace or war"
The German propaganda cam
paign already has been described by
the Polish press as bordering on
madness"
Official comment was lacking on
military moves IN Slovakia. German
protectorate over which the Nazis
have established military posses
SIGN"
Polish circles said the Polish Army
had been aware since last March
of possible German attacks" on
Slovakia. 1t was stated bluntly
that Poland is ready"
War Threat Seen Ahead.
In general the Polish view was
that the forthcoming week would
see the actual threat of war launch
ed in new bid for an appeasement
policy and compromise.
German propaganda, in this Polish
view, was expected to continue the
effort to isolate Poland. provoke
Poland. and establish Poland as an
aggressor nation"
Evening star., 1939-08-20
BIockoded T.ientsin Area
Flooded by Hal River
" the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TIENTSIN, Aug 19.-This war
harassed area faced a new terror
tonight-flood waters of the Hal
River, which poured through block
AIDED foreign concessions and sur
rounding territory occupied by Japa-
nese.
The Japanese blockade of the
British and French concessions, in
effect since June IA, was virtually
forgotten in the stress of new
danger.
Two feet of water in one section
caused residents to evacuate. Busi-
ness firms vacated lower floors. Vast
sections of farmland were submerged
and thousands of peasants fled.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Two Dead, Property
And Crop Damage
Heavy in Storm
100000 Loss Reported
By County in Northern
Neck Of Virginia

Two persons dead. an undeter-
mined number injured and property
and crop damage that ran high in
the thousands were counted last
night as the result of the heavy
rains and high winds that for "a
/ hours had beaten along the upper
Atlantic seaboard, ending the three
month drouth.
More tragic consequences prob
! ably were averted late in the day
when the crack Blue Comet, the At
| lantic City-NeW York express of the
| Central Railroad of New Jersey.
was derailed on torm-weakened
tracks in Southern New Jersey.
Rain and cloudy was the forecast
over a part Of the area today. but
the outlook locally was fair and
slightly warmer, with showers pre-
dicted tomorrow.
The two deaths came in the
Lower Chesapeake Bay section.
Miss Julia Richardson, TO- was
killed by falling timbers when her
home on st. Jeromes Creek, about
80 miles south of LeonardtoWn. Md,
collapsed in the height of the storm
early yesterday. Her brother
Thomas, sleeping in an adjoining
room, was trapped for more than
two hours before he was able to dig
out of the wreckage.
Man Swept Overheard.
Raymond Campbell, colored men,
Der of the crew of the freighter
Seven Brothers, was swept over
board while the vessel was in the
bay near the mouth of the Potomac
River.
The heaviest property damage
$100, ,000-was reported from Fleeton
and Reedville, Northumberland
County, in the northern neck of Vir-
ginia, where the "twister," as it was
described, first struck shortly after
midnight Friday. The post office. an
ice plant and fish factory were
among the structures wrecked. About
dozen persons were injured and
more than a score left homeless.
In st. Marys County, Md, the
damage was estimated at $50.OOO,
several tobacco barns being blown
down and much farm machinery in
outbuildings damaged by falling
timbers
AS is usually the case, the storm
produced its freak mishaps
Garage Blown 100 Yards.
Tho po OF tho 1f
Representative L. c. Dyer of Mis-
souri,, in st. Marys County, was
blown 100 yards into a shallow lake,
dousing two colored families sleep
ing in the building, but otherwise
leaving them unharmed.
A 40-foot cruiser occupied by Paul
Crandall, Washington real estate
operator, Mrs. Crandall and their
three children was blown more than
mile in st. Marys River, but was
(see STORM, Page A-1oD :,
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Griffs Give $4,000
To Minneapolis for
5hortstop Pofah|
Third Highest Sum Ever
Paid Here; Rieht-Honder
Boasts .303 Average

The Washington ball clubs DEATH
less quest for righthanded batting
strength landed a young American
Association shortstop, it was an
nounced yesterday by President
Clark Griffith, and for what report
edly is the third highest price ever
paid by the Mats for ball player.
Emphasizing that he had outbid
the Chicago Cubs and the Boston
Red Sox. Griffith revealed that
Jimmy Pofahl. 22-year-old shortstop
star of the Minneapolis Millers, had
been purchased for $4,000. half to
be paid Immediately and the other
$4,000 to be paid to Owner Mike
Kelley of Minneapolis in the spring.
Pofahl, whose batting average has
slumped to 1903 during the last
month while playing with a sprained
left wrist, has been one of the main
sparkplugs in the Millers' unex-
pected strong fight against the
Yankee-owned Kansas City Blues
for the American Association pen
nant. He will be delivered next
spring at the Mats training camp in
Orlando, Fla.
Third Most Expensive Nat.
In costing the Washington club
$4,000, Pofahl becomes the third
most expensive player ever pur-
chased by GriffAh. Only the SOS 900
paid for Joe Kuhel in 1880 and the
$4,000 paid for Outf1elder Earl Nc
Nicely in 1924 topped the Pofahl
price tag.
The purchase of the shortstop
created wave of rumor around
town. concerning, chiefly, the status
of Cecil Travis. present regular
shortstop. 1t generally is believed
Continued on Page Ell, Part A.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Tordieu, French Premier
; Times, Seriously III
Ey the Associated Press

Ey the Associated Press.
MENTION, France, Aug. 19-An-
DIRE Tardieu, three times premier
Of France and last living French
signer of the peace treaty ending
the World War, was disclosed to-
night to have been seriously i'll
since July %.
A bulletin issued by his physician
said. however, his general state
has now become satisfactory" But
added that absolute rest for sew
eral weeks" is necessary.
M. Tardieu retired in 1896 to wage
a vigorous private campaign for re-
form of the French political system
which he characterized ~ rotten. u
His illness began with a nervous
breakdown so severe he was uncon-
scious for "a hours.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Man Killed, Second Hurt
In. Army PIone Crash
BY the Associated Press

by the associated Press.
GRAHAMSV1LLE. N. Y, Aug. 20
Sunday One man was killed and
another critically injured last night
when their airplane, carrying Army
markings, crashed on Denman
Mountain near this Ulster County
village.
State Police Sergt. Thomas j..
Mangan said the dead man was
identified from papers in his cloth
ing as John Brennan Smith, about
l9, Of Lowell, Mass Papers on the
second man. Sergt. Mangan said,
bore the name of Second 1t. Willard
G. Ewing, Post Field. Fort Sill. Okla.
The plane, first heard flying low
over Monticello at $50 pm, crashed
10 minutes later into the trees on
Denman Mountain, r.iv If the Cat
skill range, and banke,N into
meadow. IA
Evening star., 1939-08-20
ChomberIin Arrested
Because Of Planes Noise
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
MADISON, Wis. Aug. 19.-Col.
Clarence Chamberlin, the trans
Atlantic flyer was free tonight on
$50 bail after being arrested on a
charge Of violating the city's anti
noise ordinance with his huge twin
motored biplane.
Police Chief William H. McCor-
mick, who signed the complaint,
said he acted latter receiving "nu-
merous' complaints from Madison
residents. Col. Chamberlin has been
here since Wednesday conducting
sightseeing flights over the city.
He Is the first pilot who crossed
the Atlantic carrying a passenger.
Evening star., 1939-08-20
Water Gate Concerts on WMAL

full hour of the 18th of the seasons Sunset symphonies
Symphony Orchestra the direction Guy
Fraser Harrison conductor will be broadcast Nation
wide network National Broadcastng Co. this evening
Through the cooperation of the National Broadcasng Co. and
The Star the program will be heard locally WMAL
Tonights program will be broadcast from 10 o'clock BY
all attend the tonight The music and
the setting provide combination that shouldn't miss If
cannot attend tune in the concert WMAL at o'clock
In arranging these broadcass the National Broadcasng
The Star operating with the Summer
mee of the Symphony Orchestra in its effort further appr
citation and of the orchestra which contributes greatly
to the musical life of the Nations Capital.
Tickets for the purchased at the Water Gate
tonight.