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years. At that time they carved galleres into the side of the Rock.
 Now the Rock is honeycombed with caves and galleries where pow erful guns are in place. Recently, anti-aircraft guns were placed near the summit to cope with attacking bombers. On a level area near the Spanish border a landing field is be- ing rushed to completion.
 Every day guns on the Rock fire salvoes that shake the town, at targets in the straits. Residents open their windows just before fir ing time--to prevent the glass from shattering-then go mconcernedly about their business.
 Puffs of Smoke
 A tunnel that will shelter 1,200 persons is being pushed through the Rock This, plus the numerous caves, will accommodate the whole population, if necessary. Every resi- dent has gas mask. And several months supply of food has been stored.
 Anyone who has read Richard Hal liburton's account, in Royal Road to Romance" of his unhappy at tempts to slip past guards and pho- tograph Notifications, realizes the rigid precautions the British take. The only clues outsiders have in trying to locate the guns are the puffs of smoke they can see during the daily target practices
 Low-flying planes identify every ship passing through the straits. Civilians in the town are under con- staIlt surveillance and any question: able characters are sent packing.
 By such precautions as these the British hope to keep their powder dry for any future siege.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-05
S4OO RAISED IN
 SCOUT CAMPAIGN

Approximately $400 was raised in the annual Boy Scout fund cam paign, Finance Committee Chairman George A. Parks announced today, thanking those who had made vol untary donations.
 Contributors were Norman Ban field, H. L. Faulkner, Alaska Elec- tric Light and Power Company, Judge George F. Alexander, Shat tuck Agency, Empire Printing Com pany, First National Bank, D. B. Femmer, I. Goldstein, William A. Holzheimer, Lawrence Kerr, R. E.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-05
BOXER LEAVING
 SEATTLE TODAY
 ON BETHEL TRIP

Office of Indian Affairs vessel Boxer is scheduled to leave Seattle this evening for Bethel, with no stop at Juneau.
 The North Star, which returned to Seattle this week after it's first trip of the year to Atka, is loading to leave Saturday for Nome. It will come by way of Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-05
By the AP Feature Service

If the 17,e00 e5gilans who live in the rickety bul1 nss at the base of British Gibraltar are jittery, the world may well forgive them. For these folks know that batteries of Big Berthas. aimed at them right now, probably will start dropping tons of explosives around them with in few minutes, if a European war is declared.
 They hear that German, Italian and Spanish guns are in place al AIgeciras, seven miles across tho bay. And they believe more guns are hidden in the Spanish Moroc- can mountains Is miles across the strait. ~
 Invulnerable, Says Expert
 Nearby in the Atlantic, the Nag navy is holding target practice. And in the Mediterranean, Italian war ships and submarines are maneuv- ering.
 But British officials aren't wor- ried They recall that they've held Glib for 300 years And they believe that-with French help-they stil can fight off all comers A British naval expert sums it up thus.
 Tn my opinion, Gibraltar is in- vulnerable It can return blow fol blow, and it's very improbable that the lobbing of shells and bombs into the harbor would seriously interfere with normal work in the dockyards or with the movement of ships"
 Glib is a tlree-miie long, 1,400- foot-high, primary marble crag jut- ting into the gateway to the Medi- terranean from the Spanish penin- sula. The town of Gibraltar clings to the western sidehill, behind an excellent harbor
 The Dutch Helped
 Unarmed British bobbies-in the same uniforms worn on Piccadilly patrol the narrow streets But the residents, who speak a jumbled Spanish, regard them as foreigners. Turbaned MoOrs, Spanish soldiers, Indians, Senegal negroes and Ameri- can tourists rub elbows.
 The British grabbed Gib-with Dutch help-from Spain in 1702, and have never been busted. Their most formidable challenge came in 1779 when they withstood a harrow ing siege by Spain that lasted four
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Robertson, George A. Parks, Charles Waynor, Butler -Mauro Drug Go. Olaf Eikeland, Joseph Stocker, Jim Ellen, R. J. Sommers Construction Company, Mrs. H. c. Fixott, Charles Goldstein and Company, Royal Blue Cab Company, B. P. O. Elks Lodge, Rice and Ahlers Co., Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, Dan Ross, Theodore B. Morley, Juneau Cham Der of Commerce, M. s. Whittier, Columbia Lumber Company, G. G. Brown, B. Frank Heintzleman and J. P. Williams.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-05
Women In The News
 Young Love Triumphs In Spring

marriage license clerks ,oere busy. Here are Hree ot this springs youthful ,ced- ding couples:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-05
TRAPPED. DRIVER. z.
 CuT5 HIS THROAT

PINE TREE. Wyo., June 5. A driver trapped beneath his oyer turned truck chose death by cutting his. throat rather than endure the agony of waiting for aid,
 The trucker, identified as Charles Smith, 50, rancher, used his stock mans knife to end his life. The knife was clutched in his hand.
 The truck had turned a half somersault on the Mid -West-G Gill lette Highway. Smith was caught under the truck radiator.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-05

The War Department has train ing station in the Philippine Islands to train homing pigeons to fly at night. Most homing pigeons come down at night
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-05
WEATHER SYNOPSIS

aska Peninsula the southern Boring Sea and the southwestern
  inches prevailed High prevailed the Valley the Pacific Hawaiian This distribution eastward generally weather souward northern portion British Columbia with
 
 vicinity precipitation pre- the Northwest 6-Sunrise pm.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-05

Almost, but not quite, a princess, Senorita Sofia Alvarez, Mexican stage actress, has plenty to say about the deceit of men, and princes in particular, as she ar- rives in New York from India. Miss Alverez won the heart of Prince Duermdan of Bombay. The prince begged her to marry him. When she moved to Singapore, the prince sent plane to bring her back. When the senorita ar- rived at the princes palace, he introduced an attractive woman to his Mexican fiancee. This is my wife" he, said. The senorita 1islikes playing second fiddle, so she up and told his highness few
 things.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-05
U. s. DEPARTMENT AGRICULTURE WEATHER BUREAU
 THE WEATHER
(By the U. S. Weather Bureau
Forecast for Juneau and Vicinity beginning at sso p

Vicinity, beginning pm June B. cloudy tonight moderate southwest winds tonight soutfery
 Weather forecast for Southeast Alaska Partly gentle becoming Clarence Lynn 
 winds along the of the Moderate tonight Sound becoming moderate south Hnhinbreo becoming fresh to strong
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Stuffed datesv are good to take along for the youngsters to munch on long motor trips. Keep. the dates well wrapped in tin box. You can use any sort of filling, but peanut butter is one that has special ap- peal to youngsters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-05

A homing pigeon that will travel long distances at night is worth sev- eral hundred dollars as a breeder
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-05
National Housing Adj Now Amended;
 Measure Is Signed

The amended National Housing Act signed by the President on June 3. is designed to continue, with mod ifications. the liberalized home fi- nancing program begun in February last year under the National HouS- ing Act amendments of 1888.
 Its enactment should give re-cv- ed assurance to the residential con- struction industry, t ohome financ- ing institutions, and to individuals home buyers and builders who may have been holding up plans because of uncertainty regarding the future , of the FILA. In other words, they may go forward with confidence | the virtually all the financing fa- :, cilities available to them in the past year will still be at their disposal. As the Senate Banking and Cur rency Committee pointed out in it's report recommending passage of the amended Act. Such continu- ance directly concerns the orderly progress of recovery and employ ment and the opportunity of Amer ica nfamilies to obtain better living standards"
 Principal features of the amend ed Act are:
 l. Authorization for the Presi- dent t oincrease to $4,000, 100000 the , amount of outstanding mortgage in- surance obligations the FILA may have at one time. The present linn itation is $3,000,000,O ,O00, and the out standing principal obligation at this time is approximately $1 400, ,000, ,000, not including approximately $400,- 000,00 in outstanding commitments to insure.
 | ?. Continuation of the FHA's au- thority to insure mortgages on ex- isting construction until July 1, 1941 Homes financed with FHA-insured mortgages will continue to be elig- ible for FILA refinancing indefin- itely.
 3. Requirement. that in the re- financing of mortgages the appli- cant for insurance must file a cer- tificate that the mortgage holder has refused to grant him equally favorable terms.
 4 Extension indefinitely of the authority of the FILA to insure mortgage on small homes involv- ing mortgages of not more than $5,400 for terms up to 25 years. Un- der the old bill the maximum ma- turity of 25 years reverted to 20 years, as of July 1st
 5. Authorization to continue in- surance of lending institutions against loss on property improve ment loans up to $2,500 each with a new provision empowering the Administrator to charge an insur- ance premium not in excess of three-fourths of one percent to off, set portio nof operating expenses and losses.
 6. Establishment of prevailing wage scale obe determined by the Secretary of Labor on large-scale projects (Section 20D As 2. Revision of the conditions un- der which insurance may be grant, ed on mortgages covering large scale projects.
 8. Repeal of Section 210 under which the Administrator was au- thorized to insure mortgages under special conditions in the price range up to $20O,OOO.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
We Want Pay Say Special Guards at
Football Games After Three Years

Seven special police officers who
for several years have policed foot
ball games in Ell Centro in return
for admission, glory and uniforms,
were on strike Saturday.
The men want pay
Friday night, after a conference
with Police Chief j. Sterling Oswalt,
the men held to their stand and
regular officers were sent out to
police Central field during the Cen
-Coachella game
Wallace Hanna, spokesman for
the strikers, described the situ-
alton in this manner:
1--WE have policed the field for
three years for nothing and the
boys just think they should get
something for it. It's come to the
point where we'd rather pay to get
in and watch the game in comfort,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
Clouds Threaten
Rain in Valley

Although the official weather
forecast for southern California was
fair Saturday and Sunday" low
hanging clouds brought a threat
of rain to Imperial valley.
Brisk winds that raked the coun-
ty Friday evening and Saturday
morning reached a climax at 7 am
when the official recording in El
Centre was 27 miles an hour. The
wind continued during Saturday
forenoon, although with decreasing
intensity.
Fridays maximum temperature
was 80 and the minimum Saturday
was 60. At 5 am. it was SO degrees
in Ell Centre and by noon the mer-
curry had climbed only as far as
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sgame from Cne ClnClnndCl HeQS,
7 to 3. Unless the Reds win to-
morrow, it's the end of the series.
The boys from Broadway, shift
ing to the west for this game, gave
one of the greatest demonstrations
of power ever seen in a world series
as they fired away all afternoon
with home run balls over the fence
and into the right field bleachers.
1t was a glorious day for young
Charlie Keller, Yankee right field
er who is one year out of the
minor leagues. He got two of the
Yankees four home runs and every
time he came to bat, the fans in
the right field bleachers cringed
and ducked for cover.
1t was a sad day for another
rookie-Junior Thompson of the
Reds, one year out of the Sally
league and called upon today to
face the Yankees in one of their
most murderous moods.
In the third inning Joe DiMag-
gio, fretting under the puny hits
he has been getting in this series,
finally got hold of one. Keller had
walked and it must have been a
terrifying sight to Thompson to
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
Toastmasfers Fefe
National Chiefs

Ralph R. Guthrie, president, and
Sheldon M. Hayden, president,
of Toastmasters International were
to be guests of honor at banquet
and installation of officers of the
Ell Centre club Saturday night
They were scheduled to assist at
installation of w. G. Outlook, pres
ident; H. R. Richmond, vice-pres-
ident; Allen Bailey, -trea-
surer; Jack Brem, sergeant-at-
arms; and Harry R. Burton, deputy
governor.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08

of long distance bombing planes
able to attack Atlantic merchant
shipping conveys were discredited
in admiralty circles.
1t was said that when conveys
were far out in the ocean it was
difficult for airplanes, with limited
gasoline supplies, to find them.
Other than the activity of Ger
man planes over the North Sea, it
was said the present position was
much like that of the World war,
with the German fleet bottled up
in or near the Kiel canal and
British warship patroling day and
night, ready for any action.
Conveys are arriving regularly at
British ports, it was said, without
single loss. 1t was reported that
one ship had been damaged by a
mine but brought to harbor with
its cargo intact.
The admiralty had organized a
hunt for the Germain raider which
sank the British merchantmen
Clement off the Brazilian coast.
But though the ship had been
identified apparently definitely as
the formidable German pocket bat
tleship Admiral Scheer, it was said
today that the admiralty was not
yet completely satisfied as to its
identity.
In America, President Roosevelt
revealed today that a submarine
of some foreign power was sighted
yesterday Is miles off Miami Fla.
Mr.. Roosevelt declined to reveal
the nationality of the craft, but
tfe temporary White House said
it definitely was identified as a
submersible of foreign power.
The White House announcement
indicated definitely that the SUBJ
marine was off Miami when sight
ed in a position well within the
300-mile limit proclaimed as safe
ty zone by a joint declaration OF
the 81 American republics.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
September Police
Arrests lowestin
E Cenfro History

Arrests in El Centro during Sep
tember were the lowest of any Sep
tember on police department rec
ords, headquarters announced Sat
urday.
The total was "a. The previous
low mark was as in 1882. Prison
ers hailed from IL different states
Drunkenness and disturbing the
peace accounted for most of the
arrests, followed by vagrancy.
During the month $64 in gen.
eral fines and $18 in traffic fines
was collected. Certified to the Sal
walton Army for food and overnight
shelter were 64 men, 13 women and
16 children.
Cost of feeding prisoners for the
month was $33.25.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
Destroyer Convoy
Near S. S. Iroquois
In North Atlantic
Passengers Unaware of
Nazi Claim Britain
Will Sink Vessel

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.
UP)-Four u. S. navy de-
stroyers and a coast guard
cutter neared the S. S. lro-
uuois in the North Atlantic
today, ready to accompany her
home in the face of German as
sertion that Great Britain INTENDS
to sink the American-owned YES
sci before it reaches port.
Capt. A. E. Chiffon, master OF
the Iroquois, wirelessed the mari
time commission that he had taken
necessary precautions to protect
the vessel, and that a thorough
search disclosed no explosives
aboard the ship.
Officials kept the Iroquois' posi-
ton secret but it was believed the
destroyers would reach the ship
sometime today. The Iroquois left
Cobb, Ireland, Tuesday.
To avoid hysteria, the 584 pas
sengers, virtually all Americans
fleeing from European war zones.
were not informed of German
Grand Admiral Erich Raeder's tip
to the U. S. government that he
had information "on which he re-
lied" that the vessel would be sunk
Just before it reached the eastern
coast of the United States. Raeder
required the U. S. naval attache
in Berlin to sign receipt ac-
knowledging that he had been Civ
en- the warning.
High government officials placed
little credence in the German state
ment.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
War Boosts Trade:
Warning Sounded
Against Confusion
War May Double Public
Debt, Officials Say
In Asking Moderation

WASHINGTON, Oct. Z
(UP)-Reports of business
improvement attributable tC
war conditions coincided to-
day with warnings that war
born prosperity would lead to in
dustrial confusion and double the
national debt.
A high government official Sc
closely identified with big purchas'
ing programs that his estimates
should carry considerable weigh,
told the United Press that the
French and British were ready tc
spend $1,000 100000 here "immedi-
ately" if the embargo were repeal
ed. Pressed for details, the official
trimmed his estimate to "sizeable'
expenditures.
Whether the embargo is on or of
would affect only purchases OF
arms, ammunition and implements
of war. A $1,3OO,0O0,0OO backlog
for such munitions would about
equal what the United States spends
a year for national defense.
Sen. Sheridan Downey, D., Calf,
an opponent of repeal, told the SEN
ate yesterday that British and
French purchases during the next
Is months would approximate S.
O00,0O0,000, creating new jobs here
and tremendously increasing the
consuming power of the United
States.
This addition to our internal
buying power" he continued, will
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Orphans, Blind, Needy Aged Get Aid
Week Late as State Sells Warrants

accept state warrants issued in the
face of a shortage of cash in the
California treasury.
The 623 orphans, 551 needy aged,
and 80 blind persons contained
their souls in patience" while the
county welfare department tided
many of them over the week with
emergency grocery orders and other
aid.
They were forced to wait for their
money until the state found pur-
chaser for the warrants. Federal
and county money, already avail
able, could not be released to them
until the state money was on hand.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08

United Press Foreign News Editor
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's "fi-
nal peace offer" appeared
Saturday to offer little basis
for negotiated peace in Europe.
While the allied governments Of
ficially kept their promise to ex-
anime Hitler's 1O,76O word speech
carefully, their people received it
critically and often with derision.
In London it was indicated that
Hitler's offers face not only rejec-
tion but widen the gap opened be-
tween Italy and Germany by the
Moscow Berlin accords. British
newspapers scorned and ridiculed
Hitler's utterances, as did the
newspapers in France, and both
, countries gave every sign of in
tensifying preparations for hostil-
tiles on a large scale.
In Berlin there was obvious dis
appointment that Hitler's speech
had found such unsympathetic re-
sponses abroad. The official press
praised the fuehrers proposals and
asserted that he again had proved
his qualities of leadership and de-
sires for peace.
Informed and responsible Nazi
quarters, seeking other means of
ending hostilities and preserving
Germany's gains of the past two
years, suggested that the fuehrer
would be willing to make peace
proposals in specific form if Presi-
dent Roosevelt would mediate be-
tween Germany and the allied gov
ernments.
President Roosevelt indicated at
Hyde Park that he is not ready
to respond to intimations from
Berlin that Hitler would be willing
to have him mediate the issues
of the European war. Secretary
William D. Hassett, after convey
ing to the president inquiries about
the possibility he might propose
an armistice, said that Mr.. Roose-
velt told him there would be no
comment or no reaction.
The German high command re-
ported little military activity but
claimed to have captured a lieu
tenant colonel of the French gen.
eral staff when a French plane was
shot down over the German lines
on the western front.
While the French saw no hope
for peace in Hitler's speech, Pres
ident Albert Lebrun and Gen.
Maurice Gustav Gamelin, COM
mander in chief of French armed
forces, visited Gen. CASTOR Georges,
army commander in chief, and Gen.
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Runaway Girls
Caught by Police

Two girls, one IS and the other
IA, awaited in the county Detention
Home Saturday while police in
formed their parents in Long Beach
that they had been detained as run
aways.
The girls were arrested early Sat-
urday morning in Ell Centro while
trying TO hitch-hike from town.
They admitted running away from
home Friday afternoon and hitch
hiking this far,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
State Street Gets
$4,000 Building

Randall Henderson, publisher of
the Desert Magazine, Saturday
signed a contract with Contractor
Fred c. Smith for construction of
a $4,000, one-story building of In
dian Pueblo design to house the
magazine offices and Henderson S
other interests on a lot directly
across State street from the Post
Press building.
Construction will begin Monday
morning, Henderson said. The ma
gaines new home, fronted by a
patio and arcade, will open about
Jan. l, the publisher said. The
building will be 48 by 80 feet.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
Neutrality Bill
Passage Expected

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. CUP)-
Chairman Key Pittman Of the SEN
ate foreign relations committee pre-
dicted today that the administra-
tion's neutrality bill will be approx
ed by the senate next Saturday
His statement came after a clos
eel session of the committee during
which it was predicted that enact
ment of the measure would mean
quite loss" to American shipping
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
Bramkamp to
Represent Lodge

c. c. Bramkamp will represent
Ell Centro lodge No. 384, F.. and
A. M, at the Goth annual conven-
ton of the California jurisdiction
of the grand lodge to be held in
San Francisco Oct. 11-13. C. E.
Sones of Ell Centro will attend as
a member of the charters commit
tee and from Holtville, Wilbert Gar
rick, senior warden, and Lloyd
Loudon, junior past master of the
Holtville lodge, will attend.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
Boys Clubs Termed
Crime Safeguard

Boys clubs as bulwark against
the spread of juvenile crime were
advocated at the peace officers
meeting in FL Centro Friday night
by James Stahl, graduate of the
FBI training school in Washington.
He said the FBI urged peace Of
ficers to sponsor boys clubs, help
them start recreation centers, and
act in advisory capacity in order
to keep the boys from falling into
the ways of crime.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
Myrtle Too Big q Problem
For Her vexed Trainers

CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 7. (UP)-
There was no book of instructions,
no precedent to guide puzzled ele-
phant trainers and showmen today
in solving Myrtle's dilemma.
Myrtle is a frightened but OBJ
stinate elephant. She weighs $500
pounds. She broke through the
floor of the Shubert theater stage
here yesterday and nobody has been
ale to get her out of the hole
IL feet deep.
The first plan was to coax Myrtle
up a runway. Adelaide Nelson, her
trainer whispered gently in her ear
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08

Jenny went up. Myrtle took two
steps forward, one step upward. and
stopped. Her trunk dropped be-
tween her legs.
Joe Goets. a theater man. got a
loaf of sliced bread. which Is An
elephantine delicacy
He gave Myrtle one slice Then
he gave Jenny two slices. He
thought Myrtle would walk up TO
the stage to get her other slice
Then he gave slice after slice 10
Tilly. That didn't work either.
Miss Nelson thinks Myrtle has
lost confidence.