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Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
AUTO CRASH TAKES 25h LIFE IN VALLEY
BRITAIN BANS
PEACEEFFoRT

Fascists were retiring from Porto
Edda and Argyrokastr1n under
heavy fire and were bombing heav-
ily as they sought to concentrate
at Tepelni and Kelcyre. An italian
destroyer was reported hit squarely
at Porto Edda and 10 Italian planes
were said by Greeks to have been
shot down Wednesday.
Greeks also claimed advances on
the north wing, where two columns
have been seeking to converge on
the Italian base at ElbaSan. Ono
column seemed to be making slow
progress on the west chore of Lake
Ochrida while the second, swinging
south and west, was sala TO have
occupied Sinapremte, at.cut Is miles
southeast of Elbasan.
With the problem OF sending
ships and possible economic or fl
nancial aid to Britain occupying at
tention at washington, a proposal
for peace appeal was brought
in the House of Commons at Lon
don by an independent laborite,
J. McGovern, and rejected by a
persistent but unofficial reports in
Vichy that Portugal might be per-
suaded to attempt a new peace Of
fensive soon.
On the aerial front, German raid
ers again attacked British objec-
tives and repeatedly lost 13 planes
during daylight fighting. One Brit
ish plane was reported shot down
British bombers attacked German
industrial targets at Dusseldorf
and in occupied territory and also
struck at the important Italian in
dustrial center CT Turin, where
there are heavy industries and
arms factories.
German air attacks on Britain
Wednesday night were fairly light
concentrated mostly on London apo
Birmingham. London replied with
a substantial attack on Dusseldorf!
and expressed confidence that the
continental blockade and RAF blows
at German oil centerS and raj
lines eventually would bring the
Reich to its knees.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
Santa Claus Notifies Fl Centrdn
He VIII Keep Date Saturdayto
Meet Children Of This Community

WELL. Nevada, Dec. 5 tSpecian
Santa Claus, who will arrive in Ell
Centre Saturday at 1920 a. m.
to hear the Christmas wishes OF
valley children, dispatched a tele-
gram to Gordon Scriven, chair
man of the chamber of commerce
Christmas committee, that he will
meet Irrigation district officials east
of Ell Centro early Saturday as
previously scheduled.
The telegram said:
Gordon Scriven,
Ell Centre,
Am leaving Wells, New, to-
day. Arrive i'm Blythe tonight.
Renders unable to travel furth-
or because of increasingly warm
weather. Will make journey to
Blythe via special auto.
Santa
Meanwhile preparations wen
ahead in Ell Centre for Santa's
arrival Saturday morning The
jovial Saint Nick will leave Blythe
early Friday by boat where he will
travel down the All-American canal
District officials will meet him at
the Highline canal and transport
him to Ell Centre Saturday.
Santa will spend Saturday on
Main street between Fifth and Sew
enth where he will greet children
take letters listing Christmas wish
es of the youngsters and give out
presents to all the boys and
girls.
The best letter to Santa will win
cash prizes of SO, So, and 81, donated
by the Post-PreSs.
Children unable to hand letters
to Santa Saturday may deposit
their letters in special box posted
at the front of the Post Press
building all next week. Those let
ters will also be judged for the
cash prize awards.
Santa will also appear at various
Ell Centre stores on Saturdays and
special occasions during the period
Immediately preceding Christmas,
according to Scriven
Huge crowds of kiddieS greeted
Santa at Wells, New, and a special
celebration was planned at Blythe
Friday to greet the CHEEKY Christ
mas good will parsonage.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05

state health board, noted IAN
alarming increase" in the number
of influenza cases-359 new cases
last week, 1875 the week before.
Boise, Ida, physicians also re-
ported IAN alarming increase" A
mild epidemic" was noted in Seat
tie by DR.. Frank NJ Carroll, city
health commissioner. oregon OFF,
cials said there were a number OF
cases there but did not call the out
break an epidemic.
DR.. Bertram Brown. California
state health director said that the
epidemic in his state apparently
had reached its peak and was sub
siding.
There were no exact figures on
the number of cases but they to-
tailed into the hundreds of trou-
sands. Fifty-thousand were stricken
in Los Angeles alone and through
the state more than 200 new cases
day were reported at the peak.
Several deaths were reported but
there was no indication that their
cause was the mild" influenza by
which the majority of the stricken
we're affected.
DR.. George Parrish, Los Angeles
city health officer, attributed six
deaths to influenza, since Nov. Is
and another SO to pneumonia, fire.
ouent aftermath of serious flu. Three
deaths were reported in Bakersfield,
DR.. Brown said, however, that
the Los Angeles deaths probably
resulted from type B" influenza,
which is not prevalent now. There
probably we're many contributing
factors, including old age, to the
pneumonia deaths, he said.
The epidemic now current is Of
type A" influenza, which uniform
ly is mild with high attack rate
but low mortality rate. 1t appears
suddenly, reaches a peak quickly
and drops off just as rapidly. II
has low pneumonia incidence, also,
DR.. Brown added.
A two-Week span usually covers
the epidemic in each locality, DR..
Continued on Page 2. Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05

laDOTeT, was lIloIdilIly hlllCO ldIC
Wednesday when his car and one
driven by E. Corpus, Filipino, side
swiped 21a miles north of Calipa-
tria.
c. J. Martin, II, and J. C. Worley
Is, Calipatria school boys, suffered
head injuries late wednesday when
Alex Meter, 40, inland, ran down
a bicycle carrying both boys along
a Calipatria street Meter said he
did not see the bicycle ahead OF
him.
Maggie Martinez, 81, Westmorland
waitress, suffered agonieS early
Thursday while her jaw was pinned
between her overturned automobile
and the earth in a borrow pit half
mile west of BraWley. Bias Gemen-
es, So, BraWley, also suffered criti-
cal injuries. She told Walsh a car
struck the back of her machine and
the driver sped away without stop
ping to render aid.
With Nakamura in his drive OF
death was r. Nakama of Brawley,
Motorists had to eXtricate him
from the wreckage of the car be-
fore a physician could minister to
him. Nakamura was thrown from
the car to the pavement. He was
the 25th traffic fatality in Imperia!
county since Jan. l.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
Supervised Play
Proves Popular
With EI Centrans

Attendance at the supervised
recreation projects in Ell Centre
schools mounted rapidly this week
in spite of many children being
kept at home because of illness.
Director William Raaka announced
Thursday.
Last week, first week of the pro-
ject's existence, 1923 children play
ed after school and on Saturday
morning at the four schools in the
city.
Largest attendance was at Wilson
school where the weeks total was
764 At Washington the total was
746, at Mckinley 408, and at Hard
ing, 60
Craft classes at Washington
school, where so children are en-
rolled, were the largest in the city.
All Fairgrounds are open Sat
urday mornings from 9 a m. until
noon," Raaka said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
Defense
Bill
Passed
Legislature Near
Adjournment as
Slate Gle

SACRAMENTO, Dec. a..
(UP)-Adjournment of the
state legislature by tonight
was virtually assured today
with quick and unanimous
passage by the senate on the COM
promised bill creating state coun-
Gil on defense.
The senate voted 90 to 0, without
debate, and passed the bill to the
assembly, where similar approval
was expected later today.
The only remaining controversial
bill before the special session was
the unemployment insurance bill
permitting "merit ratings" for en-
ployers to become effective Jan. l.
A slight change in the plans for
adjournment called for recess of
the first or black session and ad-
journment of the fourth or brown"
recess of the "black" meeting would
recess of the black meeting Woulc
permit committees to function until
the legislature automatically goes
out of existence with the convening
of the 1941 regular session on Jan
l6.
The senate last night eliminated
Objectionable wording in the de-
fense measure which would have
forced the governor to make his
appointments to the council with
the advice and consent" of a spe-
cial legislative committee. AS it now
reads, the governor must "advise
with the committee of two sena-
tors and three assemblymen, but its
consent to his nominations is not
mandatory. The stipulation that the
senate finally must confirm the
nominees remains in the bill.
Terms of the new defense coun.
Gil bill provide for an, executive
director at $1,000 a year; terminates
the council June 80, 1913; provide.
a $4,000 appropriation; names tht
governor as chairman for IA othel
members, specifically limits its ac'
tivities to defense programs.
The legislative defense advisor.
committee to advise with the gov
ernor includes two senators, three
assemblymen and the assembl.
speaker and senate president prt
tenn. Council members and legisla
tors would receive expenses but M
Salary.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
By UNITED PRESS

Greek armies SmaSneo lIdlidii
troops back from south Albanian
strongholds Thursday, British bonn
bers raided Italian and German
war industries, and the House Of
Commons roared down a proposal
for peace negotiations.
Led by British bombing squad
rons. the Greek offensive rolling
through south Albania was reported
in frontier dispatches tc have cap
tured the important Fascist coastal
base of Porto Edda. Official con-
firmation of the capture was lack
ing but the Greeks had been
sweeping forward on the entire
south front, having seized Premetl
aid pushed deep into the Argyro-
kastron defense lines.
British and Greek airplancs re-
peatedly and heavily attacked the
retreating Italian columns, the re-
Inducements being moved up on
the concentration points to break
up the Fascist effort to establish a
new defense line.
Greek dispatches said that the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
Customs Officers
Jail Coast Man

CALEXICO, Dec. 5.-Phil Munoe
"A, Oceanside, today paid the VALUE
of his international imports-$3 in
all-and left the Calexico Jail with
the dubious honor of having beer
the first man in many months Jail
ed by U. S. customs officers here
in wrangle over importation OF
goods from Mexico.
Customs Inspector T. A. Snyder
booked Munoe last night, but only
after the Oceanside man objected
violently and expressively to the
attention border officials paid to
the two half pints of tequila and
the dozen packages of Mexican
cigarettes he carried
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
Court Sustains
Little Conviction

The fourth district court of ap-
peals Thursday sustained, in part
the Imperial county jury which
sent John Little to San Quentin
penitentiary for to 80 years for
his part in looting the Ell Centre
water department of $28,50O.
District Attorney Elmer Heald
received notice that the higher
court sustained the Imperial county
decision as to his guilt on the grand
theft and conspiracy counts. How
ever. the higher court reversed the
lower court decision as to his guilt
in changing official records. The
reversal in the counts charging
that he helped his wife, Lillian
Richards Little, water clerk, change
records did not affect the length OF
his sentence, Heald said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
Norma Shearer Wins Proxy Divorce
For Invalid Sister From Movie
Director on Grounds Of Desertion

Asked whether the separation
was with the consent of or be-
cause of any fault on the part CT
your sister, Athole Hawks?" Miss
Shearer replied, no"
Her mother, Mrs. Edith Shearer
testified briefly regarding Mrs
Hawks residency and expressed ap-
proval of a property settlement
agreed upon by Hawks.
Special guardianship proceedings
enabled Mrs Hawks mother anc
sister to obtain the divorce for
her An affidavit from Mrs. Hawks
explained that her condition pre-
vents her appearing in court. Hawks
was not present at the hearing and
did not oppose the case.
The property settlement gives
Mrs. Hawks $1,000 a month for the
next three years and one-fourth OF
her husbands salary up to $48,OOC
year She was granted custody OF
their children, David Howard, IL
and Barbara, 4.
The Hawks married in Holly
wood May 30, 1923.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
Two More Succunnb
In Airline Crash;
Death Total Eight
Half of All Aboard Big
Passenger Plane Meet
Death in Tragedy

CHICAGO, Dec. 5. (UP)-
Eight persons were dead to-
day after the crash OF a
United Air Lines "Main-Lin-
er" in bad weather last night
within two blocks of Municipal air
port. Eight others we're in critical
condition.
Charles w. Manville, 38, Cleveland,
sales director for National Refining
Co., and Keller Melton, 40, Chicago
Federal Works Administration en-.
gineer, were the latest victims. They
died at Holy Cross hospital several
hours after the crash. Six died in
the impact.
Pilots who inspected the wreckage
said the wings were coated with
ice two to three inches" thick. The
airport reported a ceiling of 800
feet and visibility of one mile when
the crash occurred at SAB pm. yes
terday.
The plane had flown here from
New York, with stops at Philadel-
phia, Allentown, Pa, Akron, and
Cleveland, in weather so bad that
it was almost three hours late when
it came in over the airport for its
landing. The pilot undershot the
field, hit house less than two
blocks away. The plane tore down
power lines, which threw the air.
port and sle neighborhood into
darkness, and crashed into an alley
Flames shot up from the wreckage
but these were extinguished quick
ly by emergency crews from the
airport, who then pulled the deao
and the injured from the wreckage
Among the dead was Wilbert j.
Continued on Page 2. Col. 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
Naval Reservists
In Valley Called
Into Active Duty
TIA Men Here Subject to
Immediate Summons
Under New Ruling

A national emergency or
der from the u. S. Navy
pulled two Imperial Valley
members of the Naval Com
municatiOns Reserve off jobs
in Holtville and Calexico Thursday
and sent them to posts at the Naval
training station in San Diego.
The naval communications reserve
was originated as a volunteer Or
ganization, except in case of war,
and remained as such until the ac.
ton by the Navy department this
week, according to Bill Hudgins,
officer in the communications re.
serve here.
Members of the reserve, of which
CONTINUED ON Page z, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. S. CUP)-
Norma Shearer, film star, came in
to superior court today and won a
divorce by proxy for her invalid
sister, Mrs. Athole Hawks, from
Movie Director Howard Hawks.
Judge Thurmond Clarke granted
the decree on grounds of desertion
Miss Shearer answered yes"
when her sisters lawyer asked Whe-
ther Hawks voluntarily separated
from Mrs. Hawks and whether this
separation had continued.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05

I on migrant WOrkcfS That AAA bell
eft payments be withheld from
farmers having more than 500 acres
1--WE must arrest the process of
displacement of workers by mechan-
ization and industrialization OF
farming" he said. I'VE should COM
pei landowners who possess more
than 1000 acres to pay a progressive
tax, which will render large hold
ings Improbable
Two other witnesses urged an ex-
tensive federal grant-in-aid program
to force states to adopt uniform
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05

26, David testified He became so
drunk, he said that he went TO
sleep in Westmorland and H1ew
nothing about what happened until
they woke him up with the order to
take off your clothes They con-
vinced him they meant 1t. he said.
and helped him disrobe.
II couldn't go TO house and
ask for clothes because I was max
ed the embarrassed Davis said.
"and l couldn't stop cars and ask
for help because / was too naked
for that, too"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05

AOOOtiy
California Highway Patrolman
Lewis Mitchell testified at a prei-
minary hearing in Brawley justice
court late Wednesday that he found
the shivering Davis at am. Nov.
81 covering in his car beside the
highway southeast of Brawley. Davis
wore nothing except a pair of sox.
Later, Mitchell said, he found g
pair of boots and shirt belonging
to Davis in car in which the Kill
cores anAStafford were headed to-
ward Los Angeles.
The four men had enjoyed them
selves together the night of NOV
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
Cotton Marketing
Quota voteSet

Imperial Valley cotton growers will
join the rest of the nation in a
vote Saturday to determine wheth-
er cotton marketing quotas shall be
used in next years crop, according
Rudolph Miller, county agricultural
to an announcement Thursday by
conservation association secretary.
Valley cotton growers will vote
at the conservation office in Ell
Centre, at the Calipatria city hall
and at the Bard experiment station.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05

settlement laws. Present laws, they
said provide varied requirements
for state residents before a migrant
is entitled to relief and other social
benefits.
Fred H. Hohier Chicago, director
of the American public welfare
association, said that many migrants
going from one state to another are
lin the exact position of a man
without a country should they be-
come suddenly i'll or require some
form of public aid"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
Scattered Clouds
Forecast in. L.V.

Woodrow C. Jacobs, Imperial VAL
ley'S weatherman, predicted scat
tered and broken high clouds in
Coachella and Colorado valleys
Thursday night and Friday.
Warm air conditions contin'>a
over most of southern California,
Jacobs said, and as a result con-
tinued mild temperatures are ex-
pected in the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05

Shown at right is a map Of the
Four-ststes highway from Twin
Falls. Idaho TO EI Centro, The
route followed by Santa in his
dash from the North Pole. San
ia left Wells. New. indicated
on map by arrow) Thursday,
where he left his eight reindeer.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
; Face 1ridIin
STR p Robbery

George klgore Charles Kigore, and Ray Stafford
held in the county Jail Thursday pending trial charge
of robbng Ebert Davis of % and leaving him in
clad in nothing but his sox.
They vigorously denied responsibility for the strip
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
Superior Urged
On Large Farms

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, (UP)-The Rt Rev. Monsignor
John A Ryan of the National Catholic Welfare association
today suggested federal 'supertax" farms of more
than 600 of solving the migrant work
er problem He also recommended the house committee
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
Three Accidents
Mar North Ends
Traffic Record
CaIipatria Boys Hurt When Car Strikes
Bicycle; WestmorIand Woman's Jaw
Pinne d Under Vehicle in 3rd Mishap

One died instantly, six persons suffered INJURIES
and four and bicycle were demolished IN three
traffic accidents in northern Imperial county within nine
of the last "a hours California Highway Patroman Walter
Walsh said Thursday S. Nakamura, 63yearold Japanese
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
= AMsl|Ne
~ EpoRTER
Lowest of the Low

If Bert Lemons head isn't hang
ing in shame it ought to be. He
has proved a disgrace to all Ell
Centre sporjsmen i'll general and
Joe Powelson and Ed Hall i'll par
ticular.
The great mis- step happened
while these three were fishing the
Sacramento river near Antioch at
place where the caretaker is
j. II. Cochran. All went well until
Bert unthinkipgly parked his auto
mobile is such a position that the
testy Cochran couldn't. get bis. own
car out. Bert went fishing and in
the meantime Cochran sweated and
fumed and ended up by leaving this
note in Bert's car:
only a jaloppie owner would
park in front of another car and
he is just like his car-no good!"
To prove that he was an utter
heel. Bert carried home a tackle
box belonging to one of the guides,
, CuItis Strickland.
D
A Family Affair
They called it installation night"
for the Holtvillc Eastern Star early
this week, but that's miSnomer.
1t should have been Edwards
Night
Mrs j. T. Little, the former Ida
,le ~ to1
by her mother, Mrs. Ernest V. Ed
wards. Ernest Edwards was flag
bearer and Ernestine Edwards Har-
ris presented the flowers.
20
Moving Mud bali
Don't let it astonish you to see
Jimmy Marshall going a-hunting
in shorts and tennis shoes. That
costume would probably be the
most practicable for the conditions
Jimmy and some of his shooting
partners encountered on a recent
Mexico trip.
Jimmy fell down in the mud SO
many times that he walked right
out of his rubber boots and by the
end of the trip it required a feat
of imagination TO determine which
was mud and which was Jimmy.
At home that night Jim was too
exhausted to even thing of washing
and fell asleep without changing
Fancy the shock his appearance
gave Mrs. Marshall next morning !!
Q
Inside Dope
Don't let on you know but Scotty
Foulds has a pip of middle name.
It's Buskirk.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05
influenza E Epidemic Felt
To North, East as Peak
Passed In California Areas
Mortality Rate Extremely Low Despite
Gigantic Total Of Stricken Persons;
-Four Neiqhborin9 States Affected

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 5. CUP AN epidemic OF mild
influenza which affected thousands in California To-Day
and Idaho are .-- l.. .1 f +ba
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05

Inside Dope
Don't let on you know but Scotty
Foulds has pip of a middle name
It's Buskirk.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-05

Butter: Los Angeles, 35'sc; but
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch.
grade A, 441sc: manufacturing milk
3811c; route gathered cream 34'sc.
l.. A. hay: u. S. No. 1, I. v. 16.5o-i7.
U. S. No. 2 leafy $14-14.5o. 4. V.
and Antelope S15.50-16; U. ). No.
2, $12.50-13; Mpls. Dec. flax S1.5S.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-21

the sponsoring corporations have minimum working capital equal te only per cent of mortgage princie pal over and above the estimated funds necessary to carry develop ment of the projects through the construction and normal renting period. Having learned by bitter ex- perience that this figure was dam gerously low, FILA has long since lacked 1t up to 3 per cent.
 Questionable financial pro- cedure has been advanced as the reason for the failure of half the eight projects. Due largely to t he alleged writing-up of land values in the two forecloSed projects, Con- gress last year amended the Nation al Housing Act to limit the princi- pal amount of Government-insured rental housing mortgages to the es- timated cost of completed physical Improvements, exclusive of land, public utilities and streets, taxes, interest and insurance during con- .struction and organization, legafll and miscellaneous expenses inciden- tai to construction. Interestingly, this proviso, in conjunction with a decree that labor on such projects be paid prevailing wages, has great ly curtailed the volume of copstrlic- ton under this section of the Act.
 4.-High rent is the final com mon cause of housing failurue. Or- iginal room rents in all eight ailing projects were we'll above the FILA programs $14.50 average. Having admittedly burned its fingers by authorizing above mass ' market rents Gin some FHA-irsured pro- jects they ran as high as $22 per room per month), FILA five months ago ruled that it would approve no future projects in which this figure exceeds $13.50, with the possible ex- ception of those planned for metro poitan centers of one million pop ulation or more, where the ceiling was set at $15 per rom.
 If their sponsors had paid strictv CT attention to local housing mar kets and had FILA several years aga brought currently existing limita@l tions into play" the Architectural Forum points out, chances are thata most of the eight ailing projects would never have been built or, if built, would be in better health to- day. But, they may still get we'll"