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Evening star., 1939-06-23
Officers 10 Be Named
By Luther League
AT Session Today
Christianity Bosis
Of True Democracy,
Shipsteod Says

Election of officers today and a
choral concert tonight will be the
highlight of today's session of the
fifth international convention of the
Luther League of the American
Lutheran Church being held at the
University of Maryland. The con-
vention will close tomorrow.
Those nominated at a business
session yesterday who will be voted
on today are John Stegenman of
Voyden, Iowa. for president the
Rev. c. A. Wiederanders, Toledo,
Ohio; the Rev. Cecil B. Propst,
Baltimore, and the Rev George
Busdieker of California for first vice
president; Charles Klinksick, Toledo,
and Clayton Fisher, Detroit. for
second vice president; Miss Ruth
Doermann. Blue Island, ILL.,, and
Helen Haisan, Green Bay, Wis, for
secretary.
Senator Henrik Shipstead of Min
nesota last night told more than
600 youthful members of the organ
ization that christianity is the only
basis for a true democracy. He de-
clared that through improvement OF
social and economic conditions,
America can prove to the world that
democracy can be made to work.
Speaking at the banquet at the
Mayfower Hotel where the dele
gates dined after a sightseeing tour
of Washington. Senator Shipstead
shared the speaking program with
DR.. N. j. Gould Wickey, executive
secretary of the Board of Education
of the United Luthern Church and
one of the country's leading Luthern
educators.
Dr. Wickey challenged his audi
ence to be witnesses for their faith.
after warning that Communists are
gathering in university centers and
propagating their beliefs.
Il challenge you to work and in
cessantly make known and to apply
truths and principles which will
make you free from those revolun-
tionary forces which destroy Chris
tian culture and civilization" DR..
Wickey said.
Evening star., 1939-06-23
AssaiIant Of Raider
Gets Heavy Penalty
BY staff Correspondent of The Star.

ALEXANDRIA. Va, June 23.-
Denouncing the defendant for try
ing to break an officers neck when
he comes to do his duty" Judge
James R. Duncan today imposed
$3.50 in fines and three month Jail
sentence on a man arrested in a
numbers raid yesterday.
The defendant, Gardner E. Tesh,
a, of the 700 block of North Co.
lumbus street, was charged with as
saulting Policeman George w. En-
brey during the raid at his residence.
Tesh bore red scars on his face while
the policeman showed no signs of
scuff1e.
Judge Duncan fined Tesh $500
for assault, $3.50 plus three-month
Jail sentence on the numbers charge
and revoked a previous 30-day sus-
pended sentence.
Also arrested ana charged with
operating a numbers game were
Louis Tesh, 81, brother, who was
fined $3.50 and costs and given a
suspended 12-month sentence, and
Vella Misher, 27, of the 500 block
of North Alfred street, who was
sentenced to 80 days.
All pleaded not guilty and through
Attorney Walter I. Young, Louis
Tesh and Miss Fisher noted an
appeal.
Evening star., 1939-06-23
S 300 Asked to Settle
Four District Claims

Appropriations totaling $1O,31974
to settle four claims against the
District of Columbia are requested
in a communication to the Speaker
from the President today.
Three of the claims are to pay off
three members of the metropolitan
police force who had been suspended
under charges and subsequently
found not guilty. These three items
are Ruby Downs, $2,81333; Willie
j. Matthews, $2,940, and Luther C.
Wise, $3,746.
The other claim is for $820.41 to
meet a compromise proposal by the
Connecticut General Life Insurance
Co. This amount. without interest,
represents the tax paid on reinsur-
ance of business done in 1888.
Evening star., 1939-06-23
u. S, British Sailors
Guard Missions
Al Swallow
Small Parties Landed
To Protect Nationals
In South Chino Port
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
HONG KONG, June 23.-Eight
bluejackets from the United States
destroyer Pillsbury and eight sailors
from the British destroyer Thanet
today patrolled entrances Of the
American Baptist and English Pres
byterian missions in Swatow. the
Southern Chinese city which Jap
anese entered Wednesday.
The presence of the landing parties
and of five American and British
warships was warmly appreciated by
Nationals of the two countries and
increased their confidence, said Mrs.
K. G. Hobart Of Charlottesville, Ind.
She Is the wife of a British mis-
sionary and she and her three chill
dren were the only Americans aboard
the Norwegian ship Prominent. the
first vessel to arrive here from
Swatow since its capture.
Despite q Japanese warning that
third power ships and citizens re-
main In Swatow only at their own
risk, British naval officers advised
British shippers today to continue
their services calling at Swatow.
Several British coastwise boats were
scheduled to leave Hong Kong today
for northern trips that included
stops at Swatow.
The United States and British
naval forces at Swatow include the
American destroyers Pope and Pills
bury, each of 1,190 tons, the coastal
gunboat Asheville and the British
destroyers Scout and Thanet. -
"a dispatch from Swatow to
Shanghai said the slight Chinese
resistance shown when the in
vaders arrived in Swatow had
crumbled and that before the oc-
cupatipn the Chinese burned ex-
tensive rice warehouses and broke
water mains. The dispatch added
that japanese forces in Swatow
showed reasonable discipline and
orderliness.
Gn Shanghai there were con-
flicting reports that Swatow was
peaceful with scarcely any trace
of hostilities" and that the Jap
anese invasion brought heavy
loss of life and considerable prop
erty destruction)
Mrs. Hobart said the occupation OF
Swatow was like previous air raids,
except for some shelling from jap
anese warships. She said all but
about 10 per cent of Swallows nor
NAL 10000 population had fed in
land and that a small Chinese de-
fense force, before retreating, had
burned the power plant and military
Headquarters.
Evening star., 1939-06-23
King
Continued From First Page.)

monwealth which led him to under
take the journey-"to foster its
sane, wholesome faith; to show If
I could that its headship, which
I have been called upon to assume,
exists today as potent force for
the promotion of peace and goodwill
among mankind"
OF the trip itself, the King said:
I'VE have been welcomed with
sincerity that stirred us profoundly
by millions of our fellow human
beings in Canada, the United States
and in Newfoundland That well
come has been re-echoed in the
land, which to us, as to so many
of our kindred overseas, will always
be home"
700 Invited to Lunch.
The Lord Mayor, Sir Frank Bo-
water, wealthy paper manufac-
turer, invited TOO guests to lunch
with the King and Queen in the
large hall which is the center of
London's civic life.
A morning sprinkle stopped in
time to allow the royal couple to
drive from Buckingham Palace with
their suite in four landaus, though
threatening clouds hung low.
King George wore the full dress
uniform of an admiral, while the
Queen was dressed in dove gray
with gray fur. The encourage
wore full levee dress.
Enter at Temple Bar.
With captains escort of the
Life Guards, one of the two crack
regiments forming the Kings house
hold cavalry. their majesties entered
the city of London at Temple Bar at
its western boundary
There the procession halted while
the Lord Mayor presented TO the
King the pearl-encrusted sword al
ways offered to the sovereign when
he pays a state visit to the city.
Standing in the street, the Lord
Mayor held up the sword as SYM
Dol that the entire city pledged 10y
atty and service to the King.
In accordance with custom the
sovereign asked leave to enter from
the city of Westminster. Then the
sword was presented to him. as were
the symbolic gold keys of the city
and the mace-but the ritual re-
quired that he give them back i'm
mediately to the Lord Mayor as the
ruler of the independent city.
Cheering thousands massed along
the entire flag-decked route. elab-
orately decorated several days ago
with bunting and bright-colored
shields.
Evening star., 1939-06-23
New Naval Safety
ORGANIZATION Created

Creation of new Navy safety
organization to coordinate all safety
activities in the Navy Department
and the naval shore stations, in
Guiding navy yards and industrial
establishments, such as the Naval
Gun Factory here, has been ordered
by Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Charles Edison.
The new organization is expected
to further increase standards of
safety and to improve conditions
affecting the health and well-being
Of naval employees through closer
knitting of all safety activities under
leadership of the director of shore
establishments, who administers
safety engineering matters under
the Assistant Secretary.
The work will be carried on under
the direct leadership of the Navy
DEPARTMENT safety engineer, at
tached to section of the Shore
Establishments Division. Inaugural
ton of a regular series of safety
orders and bulletins is a feature of
the safety plan.
Evening star., 1939-06-23
Japanese Land at Annoy
10 Mon Up China

SHANGHAI, June % (Pl.-A Japa-
nese spokesman announced today a
japanese landing party had gone
ashore at Annoy to mop up Chinese
positions near Standard Oil Co. and
Asiatic Petroleum (British prop
critics.
He said the party landed ABOUT
half a mile northwest of Kulangsu,
international settlement in Annoy
Harbor, where friction among the
British, French and Americans on
the one side and the Japanese or,
the other over japanese demands
for an increased voice in the munic-
ipal council remains unsettled.
Evening star., 1939-06-23
japanese Force
British Official 10
Strip al Iientsin
U. S. Consul Objects to
: Blockade Inconvenience
For Americans
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Japanese blockade OF British
and French concessions at Tient-
Sin began 10 days ago as result
OF refusal OF British to surrender
Jour Chinese accused of implica-
tion In Staying of Chinese official
In Tientsin. Controversy has de-
reloped into test OF Japans pro-
gram to establish a ne1U order in
East Asia.
Evening star., 1939-06-23
Gets Four Life Terms
In Arson-Deuth Case
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, N. Y, June 23.-State
Supreme Court Justice William A..
Gold sentenced John j. Coogan, 80,
today to four concurrent life terms
in Attica State Prison for the ar
son deaths of an elderly man and
three children,
The State charged the unemployed
trucker set fire to waste paper placed
in a milk bottle receptacle in the
home of william B. Clark, jr., his
former employer, last March IL. The
victims, 78-year-old William B.
Clark, ST.; his two grandchildren
and the children's overnight guest,
were asleep.
Evening star., 1939-06-23
Killer Haunted by Crime
Dies in Electric Chair
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, June %.
Haunted in his last hours by men,
ories of his crime, James Reed
Swain, 20, colored, was executed in
the electric chair at State prison
early today for the holdup murder
of Christ Bredenkamp, Evansville
grocer, in 1887.
Swain told the Rev. Robert Hall
prison chaplain, several days ago
that Bredenkamp kept visiting
him in his cell at night.
Evening star., 1939-06-23

an economy group spokesman, said
he was opposed to voting for ANY
permanent lending program" at this
time because I'VE don't know what
the future holds"
Senator johnson. Republican, Of
California said the whole scheme
would be very effective in the elec-
ton Of 1940," while Senator Bridges,
Republican, Of New Hampshire as
serted:
"It looks to me as though he's
laying the way for announcing his
candidacy for Q third term"
Evening star., 1939-06-23
War Declaration Urged
To Aid Jopon's Stand
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, June 23.-Four prominent
patriots wing politicians
appealed to Emperor Hirohito today
to invoke belligerent rights" in the
two-year-old war with China so as
to strengthen Japan's hand in deal
ing with Western powers.
The simplest way to invoke such
rights would be to declare war.
Since there has been no declaration
neutral powers have denied that
Japan had rights of a belligerent,
such as the right of blockade.
The petition to the throne said
the only way to end the conflict
speedily would be invocation of
rights which would permit Japan to
tighten her blockade of China S
coasts and seek "a fundamental
solution Of the question of foreign
concessions and international set
Elements"
Evening star., 1939-06-23
Lending

Continued From First Page.)
:
in the years to come and that these
billions will have to be paid by taxes
levied on all the people,"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-15
Navy Will Reopen
Kew West Station

WASHINGTON, Oct. Ia. CUP)-
The navy announced today that it
would reopen on Nov. l its station
at Keywest, Fla, closed since 1890,
in a move apparently designed to
strengthen its neutrality patrol
operations off the southeastern sea-
board and in the Caribbean area,
where foreign submarines have
been reported.
The station will be under COM
mand of Captain Harry L. Peace,
chief of staff of the commandant
of the sixth, seventh, eighth, and
ninth districts at Charleston, S. c..
The station, which had been used
chiefly as a port of call for naval
survey ships in Caribbean waters
was closed in 1880 as part of a
general economy program. 1t then
had five naval officers and Is en-
listed men, two marine officers, 40
enlisted men, and 125 civilian en-
ployeS.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-15
rooPs
Called
Back
District A+torney
Expires; Editor
in Cell

MEXICALI, Oct. 14.-Ar-
my leaves were cancelled and
a heavy guard placed around
the hospital which held j. S.
Castillo, editor of Ell Region
AL here today after the death of
Lie. Mariana Vasquez from wounds
suffered after a dispute with the
newspaperman.
Officers and soldiers were forbid
den to leave the city as authorities
feared reprisals from friends of the
former district attorney.
Funeral services for Vasquez
raised public feelings to new high
today. After lying in state at the
Governors Palace, the body was
taken to the cemetery followed by
a long procession of mourners.
Authorities maintained a close
Tipped silence. Police officials re-
fused to comment and referred all
inquiries to the district attorneys
office. No one would comment as
to when Castillo will be arraigned
Dr. if he is subject to release under
bond.
Under Mexican law Castillo does
not face a death penalty. Maximum
sentence would be life imprison-
ment, or he might be freed on a
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-15

was booked at the United States
marshal's Office originally on sus-
picion of espionage but later COM
plant was issued charging theft
of government property. He is
held in Jail under $4,000 bail.
When McDonoughs lawyer asked
reduction of his bail at an arraign,
ment, U. S. Attorney Benjamin
Harrison protested that this is a
very serious offense and apparently
neither the defendant nor his at
torney realize the Importance of the
matter"
McDonough had been employed
in the secret plans division of the
big Douglas factory. But he in
sisted that the drawings he took
home were neither secret nor valu-
able. He said they were only OBJ
solete designs of the landing gear
of plane known as the DC4 This
is a four-motored transport, the
largest land plane in the world,
which Douglas recently sold to
Japan.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-15

check on lists of survivors, but an
official announcement said that so
far only about $40 of the compile
ment of approximately 1900 aboard
had been reported safe.
1t was the second German sub
marine blow against the British
fleet blockading the North sea and
patrolling against underwater at
tacks, the aircraft carrier Courag-
eous having been sunk on Septem-
Der II with loss of 578 lives.
Thus almost 1,40O appeared to have
been lost in the two actions.
1t was Germanys second major
naval triumph of the war. The first
was when submarine sank the
22,500 ton, $22,OOO0OO aircraft car
rier Courageous Sept. II, four weeks
ago tomorrow, with the loss of 578
of its 1850 officers and men.
Only a few hours before the an
nouncement of the sinking of the
Royal Oak, the admiralty had an
nounced the sinking yesterday of
three German submarines. Two of
these, it was learned today, were
of large ocean-going type.
British naval quarters said that
the loss of the Royal Oak was not
surprising because it was one of
the navy's oldest battleships and
these ships had always been in
tended for use where the risks were
greatest.
Nevertheless it was plain that
the German navy had won new
and important victory.
Though the Royal Oak was laid
down in 1914, and was one of the
oldest of Britain's IL battleships
it was nevertheless one of the
floating fortresses" believed, under
modern construction methods to be
almost unsuitable by submarine
fire.
1t was the first British battleship
lost since Nov. 10, 1918, the day be-
fore the Armistice, when as the
German empire was cracking up,
a submarine sank the old battle
ship Brittania off Cape Trafalgar,
on the southeast coast of Spain
scene, in 1905, of Nelson's victory
over the combined French and
Spanish fleets.
The Royal Oak had special bulge
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-15

dow ledge directly above her, and
seized her in his arms.
One end of the rope had been
secured inside the room from which
Oliver jumped. He swayed on the
other end, smothering the girl
against him as she screamed, clawed
and kicked him. Below, firemen
held a safety net and policemen
shouted instructions and encourage
ment to Oliver. Above, Alex Kawa-
lex, the girls father, and Henry
her brother, poked their heads
through a window and tried to calm
her.
The girl and her rescuer finally
were let down by the rope to the
safety net and she was forced into
an ambulance and taken to a hos
pital for observation, still shrieking
The ledge on which Miss Kawalek
stood was on the second floor, only
25 feet above ground and half a
block off the Great White Way that
had dazzled her, but below there
was a concrete court and a jump
probably would have crippled if not
killed her.
She had run away from home
yesterday morning. Her father said
she had taken part in some anna
teur theatricals and had set her
heart on theatrical career. She
is shapely and attractive.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-15

my point"
He admitted he slipped coffee"
frequently and smoked also.
There might be a commercial
angle to this, too,' he confessed,
"If l can live month, and I think
I can, on coffee and cigarettes, the
officials of the companies might
pay me something to demonstrate
how good they are. I might make
money out of it and prove 1 was
right at the same time"
Dodd, a small slight man, said
he "tapered off" by gradually eat
ing less and less at each meal until
he finally stopped eating. He even
exercises by walking around in the
jail He estimated his walks at
least 6 miles a day.
Sleep? OF course sleep. I sleep
a lot. That helps pass the time"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-15
Saturdays Results

Pittsburgh IA, Duke 13.
Ohio State 13, Northwestern 0.
Michigan 81, Iowa 7.
Yale 0, Penn 6.
Navy 0, Dartmouth o.
Carnegie Tech 20, Case 0.
Army 6, Columbia 6.
Duquesne 7, Manhattan 0.
Cornell 20, Princeton IA.
Colgate 10, Brown 0.
North Carolina IA, N.Y.U. 7.
Michigan State Ia, Marquette II
Tulane 7, Fordham 0.
Temple 13, T.C.U. II.
use Frosh 13, Stanford Frosh IL
Catholic IA, Detroit 13.
Syracuse 13, Georgetown 13.
Notre Dame 20, S.MU. II.
Indiana IA, Wisconsin 0.
Auburn Z, Mississippi State 0
Iowa State 7, Nebraska 10.
Minnesota l3, Purdue 13.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-15
Straw in the Wind
Will Show HowI.V.
Feels About Plan
Will Valley Repeat Its
Vote Against Pension?
Ballot Will Answer

On a bright and sunshiny
day exactly 1926 days ago
nearly a year-Imperial Val
ley cast 1879 votes for 30
Thursday and 63O8 against
it.
How will the valley vote THIS
time?
On Nov. the valley again will
go to the polls to say yes or no on
Ham n Eggs. AS a means of test
ing sentiment and getting "in prac-
tice', however, Post-Press subscrib-
ers will vote ahead of time-next
Wednesday and Thursday.
Here is how the post-Press straw
ballot works:
In next Wednesdays issue of the
Press and Thursday mornings issue
of the Post there will appear speci-
al ballots. There will be two in
each issue. Subscribers, who are
also registered voters, may clip the
ballots, check yes or no. and send
or mail them to the Post-Press
offices.
The ballots will appear in these
two issues ONLY, SO don't miss
them.
There is no need to sign the bal
lots with your name. Merely check
yes or no. The Post-PresS relies
upon reader integrity to see that
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-15


Motorists found the body lying
at the edge of the pavement. She
lived for a short time after her
discovery but died before an ambu-
lance could get her to the county
hospital The scattered contents Of
ner purse indicated she had been
dragged along the pavement.
Death was said to have been
caused by a fractured skull. She
also suffered a compound fracture
of the right leg, cuts, scratches, and
bruises.
The last persons to see the girl
alive, Hughes said, were Gilbert
Costello, 23, and Jose Gonzales, 33,
Brawely laborers. They said they
took the girl from Ell Centro to
Mexicali and Calexico early in the
evening. While they were on the
return trip, they said, she became
angry with them and demanded
that they let her out of the car
They said they let her out and drove
away. They were ordered held in
the county Jail for further inves-
tigation.
Deputy sheriffs, highway patrol
men, and police officers in all
towns in Imperial Valley were or
dered to search for an automobile
showing signs of having been in
volved in an accident.
The girl was born in New Mex
leo of Irish and Mexican parents.
She had lived in Imperial Valley
several years and had served time
in the county jail for vagrancy.
An inquest was to be held Monday
at the Lemons mortuary in Ell
Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-15


declared the treatment had not
been brutal. Guard William Lewis,
in charge of the solitary confine-
ment section who gave orders for
the discipline, said the beatings
were nothing worse than spank
ings."
The warden added "it must be re-
membered we don't have a group of
Sunday school boys here. There
are some men that would just as
soon take my life or a guards
life. :"
The governor said he would in
struct a special prison committee
headed by Judge Twain Nicholson
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-15

Cne human DOdy can exist 81 Gays
without food.
Don't let anyone give you that
old story about not feeling hungry
after the first few days of a fast, y
he said in husky voice, because
it isn't true. I'm hungry all the
time every day.
He firmly denied he was fasting
in conformance with a religious be-
lief and became indignant when
asked if he might not be going on
a hunger strike.
81 don't eat much at any time
he said, land 1 always wanted to
have time to devote to an expert
ment to prove I can live for a
whole month without food. I was
sent down here from Calipatria
Sept. 25 for disturbing the peace
and 1 had to stay here for 80 days.
That gave me chance to prove