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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-04-25
"CHAN IN PANAMA"
"SEVENTEEN"

Latest -Century-Fox pic
ture featuring Sidney Toler in
the role of Charlie Chan, comes
to the Auditorium theater for
three days on Sunday of this
week. The story revolves around
an international plot to wreck
the Panama Canal.
Seventeen" Booth Tarking-
toms immortal story of young
love, has been filmed by Para
mount as it's latest romantic
comedy. 1t appears on the same
program with Charlie Chan and
stars Jackie Cooper. Both pic
lures will be prevued on Satur-
day night.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-04-25
leen were in charge.

leen were in charge.
New members received at th@
meeting included Miss Joseph
inc Gebhart, Miss Margaret
Daughterty, Miss Elizabeth Gebl
hart, Miss Dolores Gebhart, Miss
Marie Swank, and Mrs. Charles
Rubeck.
The study club will be resumI
ed at the next meeting, May 16|
under the leadership of Miss
Josephine Rountree. Mrs. Jenl
ME Powell and Mrs. William OH
Ter will be in charge of the sol
cial hour.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-04-25

" Prosecuted suit to cancel
franchise of Ohio Fuel Gas
Company, as result of which
lower gas rate in Newark was
obtained by settlement.
" Successfully conducted ne
gotiations for $1,00O,000 FEEDER
al flood control project in New
ark financed by Federal Gov
ernment.
" AS Attorney for Board of
Education prepared all legal de-
tails for financing present $400,-
900 public school building pro-
gram in Newark.
y Conducted successfully nego-
tiations for elimination of grade
crossings in south side of New
ark, handled legal details for
this $1,500,000 improvement and
defended successfully two test
cases, as result of which cross
ings were eliminated.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-04-25

rum theater on Wednesday, May
/. 1t is a drama about a great
violinist.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-04-25
"IToS A DATE"

Heralded as Miss Deanna Dur
bins most colorful picture, cts
a Date" opens at the Midland
theater on Sunday, April %. Lo-
Gale of the story is laid in Ha-
waii and the cast includes a
notable list of players headed by
Kay Francis and Walter Pid-
geon.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08

explaining:
Maybe they got started by some
disgruntled person who was refused
a license . . don't know =. You
know how you hear things
Mayor Robert Hatton, Police Com
missioner Wesley Heil and Council
man Charles Bratton explained
Saturday that the objections hae
come as surprise.
We've been working closely with
the sheriff's office and the district
attorneys office in careful regula-
ton of Broadway activities Com
missioner He'll said. Both of those
offices have been quite satisfied
with the way the games are handled
and I see no reaSH to close them
Any rumors of payoffs or graft are
absolutely groundless.'
Explosions over the purify Broad
way issue eclipSed the business
for which the meeting was called
to award pipe contracts.
United States Pipe and Foundry
company was awarded the contract
for pipe on bid OF $15,791 and
for fittings on a bid of $1261. The
hydrant contract was awarded the
Rich Mfg. company on bid OF
$632 Valve bids were rejected ano
the purchasing department was ex-
pected to go into the open marke,
| for these.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08

DOdecaneSe ISldnQS.
Dispatches from Montevideo said
that the powerful British battleship
Warspite, carrying four airplanes
and making "a knots, was racing
northward along the coast of Brazil
in search for the Nazi raider that
battled the British merchant cruiser
Carnarvon Castle on Wednesday.
The Warspite was seen by officers
of Uruguayan cruiser on Wednes-
day. the day of the battle, indicat-
ing that the big British battleship
was leading a hot pursuit of the
raider, possibly within the American
safety zone"
The British and German opera
tions were IN the south Atlantic, to
the south CT the West Indies area
in which President Roosevelt, aboard
the cruiser Tuscaloosa, is inspecting
United States defense bases.
Sea war close to the Americas was
an important phase of land, air and
naval developments centering around
the continued Greek advance in AL
bania against Italian lines-recently
reinforced by troops flown from
Italy--defending Tepelini and Ell
basan. The important south Alban-
ian town of Argyrokastron still was
not officially claimed by the Greeks,
although Italians have been aban-
doning it for several days.
Another surprise announcement at
Rome disclosed that Mesare Maria
de Vecchi, one of the original FaS-
cist leaders, had resigned as gov
ernor and military commander OF
the Dodecanese and that Gen. Et-
tore Bastico has been named to
succeed him.
Following appointment of Gen.
Ugo Cavallero to succeed Marshal
Pietro Badoglio as chief of staff,
the change of command at the Do
decanese emphasized the effects OF
powerful British blockade of the
islands off the coast of Turkey in
the eastern Mediterranean. Food.
Oil for ships and airplaneS and
other materials recently had been
reported running low on the islands
and British sources had confidently
forecast their early capitulation,
claiming the isles were a liability to
Italy instead of the threat to the
Suez canal that FaScists had hoped
to make them.
On the Albanian front, the Greek
armies that captured Porto Edda
and sought to close in on Argyro-
kastron and Elbasan were reported
making slow progress but Italy was
said to have flown many reinforce
ments to the Albanian front in the
last four days.
On the north front. Greek troops
were reported within IL miles of
the Elbasan road and in the south
they were said to have surrounded
and started annihilation of Italian
detachments cut off in the Delvino
sector. The Fascists were reported
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
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ceived in all my life!" the jolly
gentleman wheezed as he relaxed in
a cell at police headquarters.
Santa was behind bars, not be-
cause of any wrong-doing on his
part, but as a matter of self pro-
lection. A few minutes before he
mad been the center of a milling
maelstrom OF children digging, pok-
ing, graphing children who climbed
his frame like monkeys on a grape
vine. They jammed the southern
sidewalk on Main street until mer-
chants were praying for rain or an
eclipse or. anything to relieve the
strain put upon plate glass windows
and the wear and tear on magazine
racks.
Santa. meanwhile, was doing his
own praying for something to halt
the wear and tear on himself. Every
painful step he took through the
crowd left him more in tatters. His
beard was going at handful q
minute. With less than a block OF
progress made in a full hour, Santa
called a halt. He whispered to pers-
piring Highway Patrolman Tilley
Daley:
MY boy, if you ever expect to see
Santa again, you'd better get me out
of here because I'm either disSolv-
ing or evaporating - l can't tel
which"
Daley was doing some dissolvine
himself, too but he made valiant
effort and reached a telephone. He
summoned the police squad car
Santa was rescued in the very nick
of time He called time out fol
repairs.
Saturday afternoon the rejuve.
Continued on Page 8: Column 4
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
New Subs Built on
Revised DesiQns

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. (UP)-
The navy's new submarines are be-
ing built on revised designs devel-
oped since the Squalus disaster,
Rear Admiral Samuel NJ Robin
son, chief of the bureau of ships,
disclosed today.
He did not describe the design
changes but advised Secretary of
the Navy Frank Knox in report
for the fiscal year 1939-40:
Minor design improvements tend
ing to greater ease and convenience
in the use of existing facilities,
have been approved with a view to
reducing the possibility of such
disasters as that of the Squalus."
The Squalus sank May %, 1889,
off Portsmouth, N. H., during a
trial SubmersLon. 1t later was salv-
aged and recommissioned as the
SailfiSh.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
London in Plea 10
U.S.. oFurnish
Atlantic Convoys
Paper Scores CensOrs
AS Concealing Danger
From America, Britain

LONDON, Dec. 7. (UP)-
A plea that the United States
navy convoy American mer-
chant ships across the Allan
tic was made today by the
Daily Mail, coincident with reports
that shake-up in the British navy
command was imminent because OF
the failure to cut down the heavy
loss in British ships
The Daily Mail urged the govern
ment to lift the censorship on naval
information and bring home to the
United States the urgent need OF
American naval aid
Britain'S danger at sea "iS as SER
ious as any we have faced in this
war;" the newspaper said 1t said
the weekly lists of lost tonnage mean
little to the average man here and
in the United States-"he should
be told how these attacks are be-
ing made; he should know the full
strength of the enemy's effort"
1T might help, too, if occasionally
he were given some figures on u
boat losses-a subject on which there
has been almost a complete black
out since Prime Minister Winston
Churchill left the admiralty
The newspaper said the United
States policy of laid short of war
made it difficult for Britain to urge
that the United States use her war
ships to convoy her merchant ships
to Britain, but it said as compro-
mise, the United States navy should
exercise its interchangeable right
Continued on Page s; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08

: west, but health authorities predict
ed that the epidemic, characterized
by the speed of its spread and its
mildness, probably would have run
it's course by Christmas.
In Arizona more than 400 cases
had been reported to DR.. j. D.
Dunshee, acting superintendent of
public health, but the infection
had not yet reached the epidemic
stage.
In Washington, where doctors are
not required to report the influenza
cases they treat, there was no ac-
curate figure available but some
schools reported as many as 10 per
cent of the students absent. Almost
l,500 soldiers were being treated foI
influenza and colds at Camp Muir
ray, and another 750 were i'll at ad-
joining Fort Lewis.
In Oregon, schools at Astoria and
Portland were hit, and the 249th
coast artillery at Camp Clatsop re-
ported number of cases.
San Francisco noted 14,3O1 stu
dents absent from school. The alb
Sences amounted to % per cent of
the enrolment.
AT the Letterman hospital, San
Francisco Presidio, there were 100
cases of influenza being treated,
a decline from the 200 of a week
ago.
Army authorities ventured that
about 5000 mild cases had occurred
in all Pacific coast encampments
among the 10000 men now in uni
form.
California state authorities report
ed the epidemic seemed to be dim
inishing in the San Joaquin VAL
ley, where it first struck.
Continued on Page 8; Column d
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
Highway Contract
Here Announced

On bid of S2O7,577, Basich Broth
ers of Torrance Saturday were
awarded the contract for construc-
ton of 8.8 miles OF highway between
Truckhaven and Sandy Beach road
near Salton sea.
The state department of public
works awarded the contract after
opening bids last Friday in Sacra-
mento.
The work is expected to begin
before the first of the year. En-
ployment for between 60 and 70
men will be provided. The contract
calls for grading and surfacing the
route, widening of existing bridges,
and construction of one new one.
Men will be hired through the State
Employment service in Ell Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08

'Aooo waves lOl DIN llOulo.
The coast guard cutter Onondaga,
in command of Lieut. Comm. M. J.
Jensen made a spectacular rescue
OF Capt Hillary Hubble of Hoquiam,
Mate Evan Campbell, Engineer Neil
Logue and Assistant Engineer Geo
Thorberg and transferred them to
a hospital here.
The bodies of John Henderson
deckhand, son of pioneer Hoquiam
family, and julius Long, ship cook
were not recovered The survivors
were all badly cut and bruised ano
suffering from exposure. Bogue was
delirious.
The Tyee delivered a pole raft al
Tillamook harbor yesterday and lay
to all night becaust of pounding
seas beyond the bar. Yesterday
morning the tug departed for Ho-
quiam and before it had cleared
the bar the sudden gust of wind
registering 80 miles an hour, hit the
coast.
A mammoth wave carried away
the wheelhouse and the Tyee i'm
mediately went out of control, fin
ally foundering a half mile north
continued on Page 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
Street Project
Approved Here

Final approval from the state
highway commission of proposed
street Improvement projects in El
Centre was received Saturday at
the Director of Public Works Of
fices.
The project. which includes use
of gasoline tax funds and WPA la
bor, provides paving Broadway
from Eighth to Imperial avenue;
widening the paving on Eighth from
Broadway to Adams avenue; anG
paving Imperial avenue from State
to Main.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
Knox Asks ArInor
For Batf!eships

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. OUP)-
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox to-
day asked congress to authorize
$500. 100000 worth of alterations or
naval vessels to afford them greater
protection against air attack.
Knox reported that the program
was approved by the bureau OF
budget. He emphasized that the
type and nature of the protective
work must remain secret.
It was expected that the naval
affairs committee of the house
and senate will take up the request
Immediately after the new congress
meets Jan 3.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
Imperial County Peace Officers to
Present Amateur Rodeo Sunday as
0nIy One Of Kind Left in California

Relic of a colorful and sWash-
buckling past, the last remaining
strictly amateur rodeo in California
will be presented at the Imperial
county fair grounds Sunday by the
Imperial Peace Officers asso-
citation.
This hilarious all-day performance
is one of the few remaining rodeos
in America which have not fallen
under the control of professional
rodeo entertainers with entry fees
far beyond the men who actually
earn their living as ranch cowboys.
Professional cowboy and rodeo
performers are barred from compet-
ing in the events with the unpre-
dictable amateur performers who
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08

AXE part
This show" said Undersherifi
Rodney Clarke, rodeo director, sis
for the cowboys who work on ranch
es. Professionals have no chance at
the 5000 in prize money
The big arena at the fair grounds
Saturday morning was a seethine
mass of bawling livestock, swirling
dust, and excited cowboys as last
arrangements were made for the
opening hour at 10 am Sunday. The
grand parade was scheduled for !
pm. and the afternoon program for
1880 pm.
Entry fees this year exceeded
those of last year. The total num-
Der of entries stood at 107 when
the deadline went into effect Fri
day night.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
Spain Seeking
Loan from u. 5.

WASHINGTON, Dec. I. UP)
Secretary of State COrdell Hull
today confirmed reports that
Spain is negotiating for $780,
100000 American loan but he
emphasized that no final agree
ment has been reached.
Hull indicated that 4 final de
clsion probably would be cOntin-
gent upon Spain's continued
neutrality in the European war.
The Spanish government has
teen seeking U. S. loan, pos
sibly through the Export impor.
bank, for some time, with 4 view
to using the money for the pur-
chase of fOOdstuffs, particularly
wheat, and gasoline.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08


cancelled all airplane traffic and
kept seven large vessels at their
docks. The United States weather
bureau said it might" lift by mid
afternoon.
Northwestern Pacific ferry boats
to Sausalito, train ferries to Oak
land and an occasional tug were
the only vessels that braved the
fog, which began to blanket the BAY
Thursday. 1t lifted for an hour late
yesterday but descended thicker
than ever before sea traffic could
be resumed
Among the vessels still maroone1
at dawn was the Matson liner Mat
sonia, which was to have sailed for
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
It's Still Broadway. Not
The Straight and Narrow

Broadway was Broadway Satur-
day and not the straight ana mar
row.
A move to lead the "old gal' up the
sawdust trail failed Friday after
noon at an adjourned meeting Of
the city council The resolution,
brough by Councilman ?. L. Moore,
suggested closing ali gambling games
on that streets as we'll as the
Eastside. The resolution failed three
to two, with Councilman Herbert
Fawcett Ginning with Moore.
Moore blamed rumors for his op-
position.
There have been rumors of pay
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08

Honolulu at pm. with the Univer-
sity of Denver football team num-
bered among its passengers.
AlcatraZ prison was once more
shrouded in fog, and officials or
dered the convicts kept in their
cells. There was a fatal stabbing
at the prison Wednesday and the
undercurrent of tension caused au-
thorities to fear some might make
a break for freedom under cover OF
the fog. 1t was the third day the
convicts had brooded in their cells
listening to the blast of the island
fog-horn that mariners call Ca
pone." -
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
Wallace Endinq
Mexican Mission

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 7. (UP)-
Vice President-elect Henry A. Wal
lace will end his mission tomorrow
as U. S. special ambassador to The
inauguration of President Manuel
Avila Camacho, and will depart fol
q f.crtnight's vacation tour of Mex
leo by motor.
Wallace, accompanied by friends
expects to motor through the STATE
Of Michoacan, resting at Lake Patz-
cuaro and possibly az other points
of interest
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
BRITISH vVARSH|P HUNTS NAz| RAIDER
Valley Furnished
States Name

Now Imperial Valley weather
is to blame for something else.
DIR. w. Gozezynski, former
head of the Polish weather bu-
reau and authority on climates
and solar radiation, said Satur-
day that the Spanish wGrd for
hot furnaces" was selected as
a name for the region south of
Oregon because the Spanish eX-
plOrers first travelled across the
desert valley sands to reach the
Pacific ocean.
While in Ell Centre Saturday
preparing for trip into Mexico
to study weather conditions
there, DR.. GOZezynski said the
name apparently was selected in
1889 during a trip Spanish ex-
plOrerS made.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08

offs and graft :. and the amount
of revenue the city obtains from
these games isn't worth the risk
of wrecking regulations Of council
men," he declared.
Asked if he believed the asserted
rumors, Moore said:
mo, I don't, but it doesn't take
facts to crystalline the public mind
4 just want to go on record
as opposing any games whether
legal or not, that may give rise to
such rumors."
Moore declined to state from
whom he had heard the rumors
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
Dressed For The Part

Dressed For The Part
RR was commiserating with Til
ley Daley because that worthy in
dividual had the questionable honor
of escorting Santa Claus Saturday
through wall of children on
Main street.
"That was real workout" Tilley
admitted. But it wouldn't have been
so bad if l hadn't had my long
underwear on!'
CThe heat of the occasion soaked
him from head to foot)
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
California Flu
Epidemi e WuninQ:
Schools Closed

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"""TivEs ~ . y rRlgsns q.
MhV ossTED Nor no y,sIr
'AiIhNrs UNLESS sgRIous1YI.
lib DURING THE IxCRRASg
OF COLDS, UPPER RKSPIa.
/ ATONY. AND TNFLUEX4AL 4
I CONDITIONS. -
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08

Movable Pup
Some kind of a record Saturday
was chalked up by a pert Wire
haired terrier named Peter.
Pete, who is five-year-old, be-
longs to Mr.. and Mrs. W. w. Chase
of Ell Centro. He received an El
Centro dog license Saturday and
that disclosed the following events
in Pete's life:
He was purchased in England
vaccinated at German dog insti-
tute while on a visit to Colombia
South America, and now has re-
ceived his citizenship paper in El
Centro.i
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
Sdntd Loses
Everything But
His Pants
Bird Of Beard Gone with Wind When
BIock-Lons Trek Amid Swarmins Riddles
Takes Hour Plus Most Of Nick's Outfit
= BY LOGAN JENKINS

After hour Main street in Ell CentrO Saturday,
Santa Claus couldn't whistle through his beard
He didn't have any beard to whistle through
"That the most, ah diSarmng welcome |
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
u AMBl|Ne
(\EpoR1ER
That Headgear--

That Headgear-
Percie Thacker, so we hear, has
a name for the delirious doo-dads
that our women folk feel irresistibly
called upon to clamp upon their
craniums. (That word "'craniums"
doesn't look nor sound right, but it
is, we looked it up)
He calls the fashionable fripperies
"Dog-gonits."
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
Survivors Tell
7 error in Surf

ASTORIA, Ore, Dec. 7. (UP)-Four survivors of the
foundered ugboat Tyee related today how sudden 90
mile hour wind swept two of their number death
the pounding surf off Tamook harbor before they
aged to launch 16fOOt feboa in which they battled
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
Americas Again
Become War Zone
In Naval Action
GreekAdvance Slowed Down as Fascist
Reinforcements Rushed into Albania;
Italians Announce Secod Shakeup
- BY UNITED PRESS :

A British naval search for powerful German warship
in American waters reported Saturday Greek armies
smashed SLOWLY forward the Albanian front and
Rome disclosed another military shakeup affecting the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
Fog Closes Down
ST.. Bay Traffic

SAN FRANCISCO Dec. 7. (UP)-A binding fog that
mariners described the thickes in years tied
San Francisco harbor tighter than drunhead" early
today.
1t spread inland to the Sacramento and San JOAQUIN
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
Infection Spreading in O+her States
As Health Experts Pre- dict Christmas
Will See Returning Health for California

SAN FRANCISCO Dec 7. (UP)-An epidemic of in
fluenza waning in California increased in Oregon and
other western states today, sweeping schools
and other of concentrated population.
Additional schools closed in many parts of the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08

Come Clean, Now
You can't fool us, Charles Dof-
fling!
We know you were playing pos
sum and pretending to be too i'll
to arise and shine, just so your
aunt, Mrs. L. H. Grassland, would
journey downtown and get for you
a fancy hamburger!
Came Out Right
1t might have been design, but
it is more likely to have been
accident that made the candles
come out exactly at a double
birthday party this week.
Daisy Rapson Kilgore was the
hostess and she baked two cakes,
one for herself and one for Dean
Glenn Kieffer, because their BIRTH
days fall ON the same day. On each
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08

Maximum temperature S4 minimum Al; am.
"A, humidity Sc; temperature 81,
umidty "a; S pm. temperature 73, humidity 3d.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-08
MARKETS IN BRIEF

Butter: L. A. 35l9c; Butterfat Imperial Valley
fob. ranch grade A 44hc; Manufacturing milk
3Shc; Route gathered cream 34hc.
L. A. Hay: U. s. No. I, l. v. S165017.5O; u s. No.
Ieafy, l. v. S15gO-16; U. s. No. 2 $125O-13; Mpls.
Dec. Flax S1561a.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04
BENCHW
by Burdette Kline
--Post-Press Sports Editor

loop. He was the loops best punt
er. a good paSser and the trickiest
runner CaleXico has turned cut
since Tel Sander.
Williams was the fastest thing
on cleats in the valley, good punt
er and a fair passer.
Robertson was undeniably the
best plunger in the league, a fair
blocker and could pass well enough
to complete four cut of nine tries.
Oswalt was admittedly the best
signal caller in the loop, completed
% out of 43 passes during the sea-
son and was described by Coach
Raleigh Holt as a better than aver
age blocking back.
Some observers believed May
nard to be the best running back
in the league. but the fact he was
a sophomore might have been held
against him in final vote.
OF the all-valley players eight
were seniors. Garcia, Garlic, Acuna,
Fabares, Havens, Zumstein, An
drade and Ulloa; two were juniors,
OSwalt and Robertson and Williams
represented the sophomore class.