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Major Battle in
Progress on Land;
Advance Slowed
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at the frontier, the Port Of Tromsoe
still was in the hands of NorWegians
and could be used as base for
landing of Allied troops if they
seek to advance overland toward the
German forces at Narvik.
Norwegian sources expressed the
belief that the battle might be a
decisive one for the entire northern
area.
The countryside was swept by
blizzard-like storm yesterday but
the weather was clear again today
and the Germans were in strong
positions at N2rvik. where British
naval forces were reported to have
made an unsuccessful attack on the
harbor.
Norwegian forces in the Narvik
zone withdrew inland while British
Warships were attempting to bottle
up the coast off Narvik.
Assurance of support to Norway
was given in the French senate
today when Premier Paul Reynaud
said the Allies Will carry the war
in Scandinavia to the bitter end
from the northern tip to the south
ernmoSt Norwegian coast and in
the future mot one ton of iron ore
will quit Narvik for Germany.
The premier said that half the
German fleet now was exposed to
the British home Seet and part of
the French fleet.
F Economically and militarily, he
said, Adolf Hitler will suffer from
his invasionS of Denmark and Nor
way because his Scandinavian con-
quests are blockaded and against his
will ne has been forced to disperse
his forces and withdraw men and
materials from the Siegfried line.
In London Anthony Eden, Brit
ish secretary for colonies and out
standing foe of NaziiSm when he was
foreign secretary, said that Ger
man INVASION OF Scandinavia may
give Great Britain the opportunity
for striking a quick blow against
Germany.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-10
RatftIesnake Slayer, Convicted -Four
Years Ago, Must Begin Prison Term

LOS ANGELES, April 10. (UP)-
Robert 8. James, convicted four
years ago of the rattlesnake- drown
ing murder of his seventh wife,
Mary Busch James today prepared
to leave for San quentin prison TO be-
gin serving 3-to-150 year sentence.
Judge Charles Fricke late yester-
day directed that James begin his
term under a previous conviction on
three charges Of immoral relations
with his niece, Lois Wright.
James. known also as Major Lis
enba. was arrested April 10. 1886
when district attorney Investigators
found him and his niece, then 19,
ir a cottage.
He was convicted on the morals
charge the following May q.
Awaiting outcome of the appeal,
James was re-arrested July "a, 1896,
and charged with numbering his
wife.
He was convicted largely on the
testimony of his confessed accom-
plice, Charles Hope, who testified he
produced rattlesnakes for James and
that James held his wlfes bare foot
in box containing the snakes until
she was bitten.
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Webb Miller Says
Hiher's Strategy
Aimed at Britain
Continued from Page

| areas.
The net effect of Hitler'S first
! stroke westward was underlined by
an editorial in the London Evening
Standard which said, the war Is
now on our doorsteps and nothing
stands between the British people
and subjugation inflicted upon Co.
penhagen and Oslo but the audaClty
of our Seamen, the daring OF our
pilots, the discipline of our soldiers
and the labor of our factories. Moth
ing more"
AS the situation neared clarifica-
ton 1t became indiSputably evident
that the invasion of Scandinavia
had been carefully prepared for a
considerable time and had no con-
nection whatever with the mining
of Norwegian waters by the Allies.
One German correspondent who
accompanied the army into Den
mark inadvertently revealed the op-
Grafton when he said that troops
aboard ships which captured Copen-
hagen had been embarked for two
days before the invasion.
The subsidiary advantages Hitler
expects TO obtain by invading Scan
dinavia include soaring of other
neutrals such as Holland. Belgium
and the Balkan states and thus
counteracting the Allies pressure
and restrictions on them to tighten
the economic strangulation OF Ger
many 1t also might block the pos
sibility of an Allied incursion into
the Baltic. Seizure of the Norwegian
merchant marine. which totalled
100000 tons at the start of the
war and which had largely been
chartered by the Allies, was a SER
iouS blow to the British and French.
Other advantages include access to
Denmark's large food supplies and
Norways timber and cellulose.
The German strategists evidently
considered TN these advantages
would offset the risky gamble of
opening the war on two fronts.
which Hitler once solemnly pledged
never to lead the German people
into.
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However, the wife did not die from
the snakebite. When she failed to
die. James, according to Hopes tes-
timony. placed her in the bathtub
and drowned her, then moved her
body to lily pond in the back yard
and placed it in such a manner to
appear she had fallen into the pond
and drowned.
James was convicted on the mur-
der charge and the conviction was
appealed again and again because of
the fact that district attorney
brought live rattlesnakes into the
courtroom and the snakes escaped,
frightening the jurors and court
room attaches.
He now has been granted the right
to appeal the case to the United
States Supreme Court.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-10
Hugo Miller Takes
Club Presidency

Hugo Mii:er was installed as pres
ident of the Ell Centro Lions club
Tuesday noon at the meeting IN
the Barbara Worth hotel, the pro.
gram honoring both the new presi-
dent and the outgoing one, C. S.
Reed.
c. H. H. Small conducted the pro-
gram and stressed the necessity of
strict cooperation in the work OF
Llonism and in upholding the ideals
of Americanism.
Other officers installed were: Dr.
Arnold Ariaudo, first vice. president;
Lee Nuffer, second president;
Edgar Moore, third president;
Willis Carey, secretary; Don May
field, treasurer; DR.. M. c. Garfield,
Liontamer; Marlin Enders, tail
! tWister; Bert Mitchell, Laurence
Hartzog, H. D. Blair, DR.. Nils jan
sen, directors. j. Russell Scott was
q guest of the club.
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Now That Victim S Home, Police
Reveal KIDNAPPING, Ransom Payment

PHOENIX, April 10. 'UP)-Wlth
the kidnap victim safely returned to
his home, police today for the first
time revealed how a Phoenix six
vear-old had been abducted ano
maltreated while his captors success
fully negotiated for ransom.
The victim of the abduction was
Beau. a six year old bulldog owned
by Roy Hislop, Phoenix city man
ager. ,,
Hislop first suspected Beau had
been "dognaped' when the animal
failed to appear around the house
for an entire day.
While the city manager ana MS
wife were beginning TO grow alarm
ed. the telephone rang ard voice
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CaIexico Chamber
VIII, View Movie

CALEXICO, April 10-Directors
Of the Calexico Chamber of Com
merce will meet in the De ANA ho-
! ut 8 p. m. Thursday night to
transact business and view a talk
ing picture, Free Men Build A
Nation"
The picture is said TO show the
constructive forces which made Am
erica the mo5t prosperous and en-
Wed nation in the world. Merle
Thorpe. editor and publisher of j
famous business publication, is the
narrator. The meeting is open to
the public.
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Apprentice System
Will Train Boys
Continued from Page One

tContinued from Page One)
Tentative standards of appren-
tlceship were established Tuesday
night for the youths interested in
learning the carpentry trade. The
youths, according to this plan, must
serve four-year apprenticeship.
During that time employers will
be required to provide the boys
with opportunity to learn all phases
of the carpentry trade and will not
be permitted to slight the training
and experience the youths must
have.
The boys must go to school at
least 144 hours per year and there
receive related and supplemental in
structiOn in carpentry.
The wage scale will be based on
the idea that the greater part of
the boys wages should be know
ledge and experience gained and
not in the pay envelope. Wage a.d-
vances will be provided every six
months. The master committee will
see that the apprentices do not
impose on their employers or the
employers impose on them.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-10
California Poly Four.Year Status
Brews Row in State Education Board

partment in an embarrassing posi-
ton"
Dexter added he had agreed to a
postponement pending investigation
of the subject by committee JOINT
" named by board and university
officials under authorization from
the state legislature.
Meanwhile. opponents of the four
year status for California Polytech-
mic, led by Yolo county officials de-
clared action by the legislature to
prevent expansion of the San LUIS
Obispo institution would be sought
on the grounds it would divert state
funds from the University OF Cali
fornia College of Agriculture at
Davis.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-10
Mrs. Pat Campbell, Fabulous Figure
Of Victorian STAGE, Dies in France

LONDON, April 10. 'UP)-The
Press association reported today that
word had been received of the death
of Mrs. Patrick Campbell famed
British actress, at Pau, France. She
was II.
She was a star of the British and
American stage in the late Victorian
and Edwardian eras, flashing into
fame as the star of Sir Arthur
Pineros The Second Mrs. Tan
oueray." first presented in London,
MAY q, 1898.
Her wit and charm were fabulous.
George Bernard Shaw and Sir
James Barrie we're her close friends
in a time when she was the toast
of London and New York.
In recent years she had lived in
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retirement some of the time in
Hollywood and briefly in New York
Her first husband, the da5hing
handsome young Capt. Pat Camp
bell, was killed in the Boer War
She later married George CORVALLIS
West. but she was always best known
as Mrs. Pat Campbell.
For 25 years she had a virtual
choice of special roles written for
her by Pinero, Shaw. Barrie, Wilde
Ibsen and Materlinck.
She was a key figure in the sersa-
tional Ellen Terry Shaw correspond
ence published several years age
but would offer no comment on the
letters in which her name was
Sprinkled.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-10
Currier, BuckIin
Receive Deqree

I. V. Commandery No. 54. knights
Templar. conferred the temple de-
gree upon Warren Currier and
George Bucklin Tuesday night. Of
ficials from the coast assisting the
local commandery.
The officials were: A. V. Cazen-
ave, of San Diego, past commander
of I. V. Commandery; A. A. Kunze
past commander of San Diego Com
mandery No. IS and F. c. Butler,
past commander of Alhambra Com
mandery No. 48.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-10
FlNNEY WlTHDRAWS AS
JOHN lITTlE'S LAWYER

A. G. Finrov. Fl Centre attorney,
Tuesday withdrew as counsel for
John Little, indicted on a charge
of embezzling s28,500 from Ell Centre
water funds. Fnney said he under
stood Hugh MacKinnon, former Cal
tXican. WAS 10 represent LILLle.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-10
MASONS MEET THURSDAY

El Centro chapter No, l09, R. A.
NJ. will conduct stated meeting
THURSDAY night at 7:30 o'clock IN
the Masonic temple.
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WEATHER

data compiled by observers for
the official United states weather
bureau station at Eel CentrO.)
Maximum Tuesday ................. 90
Minimum Wednesday ..,................ So
Reading at Noon Wednesday
temperature "a
Humidity 18
Reading at S a. m. Wednesday
Temperature .................................. 81
Humidity Sc
Reading at p. m. Tuesday
temperature 80
Humidity Observation-Disclosures. 25
Southern California-Fair We'd
nesday night, cooler in extreme
south portion. Moderate northerly
wind off coast, becoming fresh late
tonight on central coast.
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rates fell short as the BUGS snatched
a victory yesterday afternoon.
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YANk5 TAKE
Z CONTESTS
ToADvAN(E
Can't Win Flag But Camille
Cleveland, Detroit
at Il Today
Try ASSOCIATED PRESs)


The "Never Say Die New York
Yankees continued their winning
ways Yesterday by taking a dou-
bleheat.el from the Philadelphia
Athletics TO keep awe their faint
hope of winning the American
League pcnnant. The most the
Yankees can get out of the regu-
lar season however, will be a tie.
but they won't quit. Yesterdays
victory gave them eight straight
triumphs.
Crucial Series
Cleveland and Detroit were both
idle yesterday but open crucial
three game series today. Detroit
Tigers need only one more victory
to nose out the Cleveland Indians.
Washington Wins
The Washington Senators de-
feated the Boston Red Sox yester-
day in the first game of two
game series, giving the Senators
their fourth victory in ten games
at the Boston ball park this sea-
son.
Reds Win
The Cincinnati Reds won their
98th victory of the season yesterday
by taking the first game OF a dou-
blcheader from the ST. Louis Car
dinals and putting them one game
ahead Of their 1899 record The
Reds dropped the second game.
Dodgers Lose 2 Games
The Brooklyn Dodgers closed their
home season yesterday by dropping
doubleheader to the Boston Bees.
Rookie pitchers worked in both the
games.
Giants Take Pair
The New York Charts took a pair
Of games from the Philadelphia
Phillies before 1900 fans, the small
est crowd of the season at the Polo
grounds.
Bucs Down Cubs
The Chicago Cubs bid for a fourth
place tie with the Pittsburgh Pr
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Baer- Wins,
Quick Time,
(omiskey Go
Madtap Make Stops ChaI-
Ienger in 7 Minutes,
y 80 Seconds

JERSEY CITY, Sept, 27.-Msd-
cap Make Baer, weighing 223 Y
pounds, former heavyweight cham
pion, last night stopped Pat Com
iskey, weighing 207A, hitherto
highly regarded as heavyweight
prospect. in 2 minutes and 80
seconds after the first round opened
in what was scheduled to be a
15-round bout.
Referee Jack Dempsey stopped
the bout when Comiskey was I'M
able to continue after being thor
0ughly beaten up.
] A chilled crowd of 10000 fans
paid more than $4,000 to witness
ahe brief bout
Comiskey is the fighter Bill DAILY
went all the way to Ireland TO
find. Bill searched County Cork,
discarded a iistfui Of bruisers with
glass jaws and disgustedly shipped
back to Paterson, New Jersey.
Trainer Johnny Lane listened
to Days woes and laughed /:
well, if it's an Irish fighter you
want, I've goo the lad right here
in your home town. Kid name OF
Comiskey."
What? That's Polish" snorted
DAILY.
Polish nothing" returned Lane
Hes pure Irish"
And SO the partnership was
formed, something over two years
ago.
Hippo at First
When DAILY took him over Co.
miskey was just a tall, broad
shouldered husky with strong
arms. He was about as graceful as
an elephant. He knew nothing
about boxing, except that no one
had been able to stand up under
the clouting of his huge right fist
AS they say around the gymfla-
Sums, the guy had two left feet
He could trip over either of them
with uncanny ease.
Months OF gymnasium work
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taught him something about foot
work and how to duck and slide
away from punches. Daily brought
him along slowly, manipulating
his foes. building up his conf
dcnce.
Pat ran up an impressive
sounding string of knockouts.
Then last winter he had his first
big test, against Steve Dudas. Steve
had passed his peak--but Steve
had fought some top notchers along
the way. He knew his way around.
His unorthodox movements an d
crafty maneuvering had the mex
perienced Pat in fog all night.
The kid broke his hand humping
Stoves head and lost the decision.
It's An Ill Wind
/ Then it was back to dry dock
for six months. While his right
hand was healing DAILY made him
concentrate on his left. Up to then
tAiC Wy lidQ lletd IiOCiiili5 Dut a
right, powerful, straightforward
ing right that bowled over every
thing 1t hit A smart foe, though,
knowing the source of Pats dyna-
mite, could keep clear OF that
right.
: When Pat was revealed again
he flashed a left that astonished
boxing fans. 1t was one OF the
fastest, hardest left jabs in the
business. Not only could he stab
with that left, he could whip it
across for a knockout punch.
He beat Dudas in return
match and a few weeks ago ne
knocked out Bob Skies OF Arkan-
Sas on the Baer-G alento card
Comiskey is feet 3 inches tail.
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Empire Class!fieds Pay
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that Japanese fishermen began
using glass net buoys about 20
wears ago, but that cost prevented
their general use until about 1925.
Since that time fishermen along
the islands of Hokkaido and SAX
halin. the Kamchatka Peninsula
and the Okhotsk Sea have pur-
chased about 100000 of them
annually. When nets are lost, ne.
buoys break free.
For several years Japanese
glassblowers blew the trade char
acters of the fishing companies
into the glass.
Fishermen use the glass buoy5
mainly on drag nets. A necklace
of glass is affixed to the upper
edge of the net, heavy weights tn
the lower. Thus the nets move
through the water submerged sew
eral feet, wall OF mesh TO trap
the fish Larger glass buoys marx
the net position.
But soon, wrote CARRIES, the
buoys may float across the Pacific
no more, for the Japanese have
developed a paper type OF net float
more durable, cheaper and easier
to reclaim than the blue bubbles.
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BLUE BUBBLES
OF PACIFIC TO
SOON FADE OUT
AP Feature Service

PORTLAND. Ore, Sept. 27.-The
blue bubbles that ride the ocean
currents from Japan to the break
ers of Oregon and Washington may
soon play out.
The bubbles are glass NJ
buoys from 3 to Is inches In dia-
meter. They have been Washing
ashore on the American north
Pacific for Is years, to the delight
OF vacationists and collectors.
Source of the bubbles long was
a mystery. Finally the family OF
Mrs. Elizabeth Olsen OF Portland,
which collected hundreds Of them,
wrote the u. S. Consul at Tokyo.
Mrs. Olsen suspected the bulbs
were buoys of some sort and
guessed that they washed across
the Pacific.
Information came from Consul
General Arthur CARRIES, who said
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Venus is 100000 miles closer to
the sun than is Earth
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Leave Town and
All Is Forgiven,
Prisoner Told

On condition that he leave Jul
neau for the Westward on the
first boat and stay out of town
for at least six months, Jack T
Glendon was given a suspended
sentence in the court of U. S
Commissioner Felix Gray today.
Glendon was convicted of disor-
derby conduct and disturbing the
peace, in threatening publicly tc
shoot his wife. The sentence sus-
pended on good behavior is fol
six months.
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GARNER IS BACK
In WASHINGTON
Will Attempt 10 Bring
About Early Adjourn
menf, Congress

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.-Vice-
President John N. Garner is back
in the National Capital after a
stayt of two months at his home
in Texas.
It lis understood he will attempt
to bring about the early adjourn
ment\ of Congress. Garner toll d
friends here he is certain the SEN
ate will approve of adjournment
and that Democratic leaders could
muster such support in the House.
Carriers first telephone call was
to President Roosevelt at the White
House.
Venus is 260G0,000 miles closer to
&c, ~ n
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GAMES THURSDAY
National League

Philadelphia /, 1; New York 3. 2
Boston S, s.; Brooklyn 2. 4.
Pittsburgh 7; Chicago 6.
Cincinnati 4, L. st. Louis 3. 5.
American League
E,w York S, 2; Philadelphia 4, O
Washington 6: Boston S.
Pacific Coast Playoff
los Angeles-Seattle playoff SER
rs has been transferred to Los An
tlcS on account of rain.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-08-22
Fly-Trap for Live Stock
Aids Pestered Animals

Farm animals soon learn to make
frequent use of a device for brush
ing off and trapping horn flies that
are such a pest to live stock in
summer. It is cagelike structure
that fiy-pestered animals pass
through, leaving their tormentors
behind in traps to be destroyed.
The framework of the cage is
structure feet wide, 6 feet high,
and 10 feet long with fy-tight
roof. Canvas flaps hang from the
ceiling and brush off flies on the
backs and side of animals walking
through. Other canvas flaps on
frames attached to the floor brush
the legs and bellies. Simple wire fly
traps are arranged at the sides of
the passage to catch the flies
brushed off by the canvas flaps.
The device is usually set up at
some strategic spot through which
the animals must pass several
times day-in a lane to the pas
ture, in the entry to a dairy barn,
or on the way to the water tank or
pond. Live stock soon learn to
make for the "brusher-offer" when
flies torment them.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-08-22
FARM
Torres
BETTER STOCK
is CROSS BRED
Purebred Animals Are Not
Best Producers.
By L. M. WINTERS


professor of Animal Husbandry. University
Farm, St. Paul)
Most of our older ideas on animal
breeding and improvement are due
for considerable revision in the light
of fundamental present-day knowl-
edge.
The "purebred philosophy" which
reached its peak about 1920 must
now give way to new and more
scientifically accurate methods of
making live stock more efficient and
profitable. The old idea that pure
bred animal is better because it is
purebred will not stand the acid test
of breeding studies now in prog
ress at research institutions. Equal
ly incorrect is the belief that our
present breeds of farm animals
possess all of the good characters
they need or that it is possible to
give them.
In the past years we have relied
on type and body conformation as
measuring sticks for profitable farm
animals. We know now that speed
and thrift of gains, size of litters,
pounds of wool and lamb per eve
as well as pounds of butterfat pro-
duced are far more accurate tests
of real efficiency.
The excellent progress made so
far in the improvement of live stock
with purebred sires should by no
means be ridiculed. However, this
ics0 ctr iv, "a Ant
process. The old ideas that pure
bred animals are always best and
that appearance is good indicator
of performance must now yield to
such developments as crossbred
swine and completely new breeds
developed from crosses of present
breeds. Experiments at Minnesota
clearly show that crossbred hogs
are more efficient producers of pork
than purebreds. Likewise the
Maine Experiment station has
proved that there is very little rela-
ton between the so-called type
standards and production of dairy
cattle. Beef cattle similar in type
often differ greatly in their ability
to make efficient gains.
Future live stock breeding work
will be directed at increasing eff
ficiency rather than improving ap-
pearance of farm animals. Proved
sires, COW and sow testing, inbreed-
ing, crossbreeding and artificial in
semination are valuable tools that
will be used widely in the future to
develop more profitable live stock.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-08-22

that Big Jim has a terrific yen
for business where team play will
be welcomed, where not more than
one pitcher is used in the box at the
same time and where the use of
amateur coaches is barred.
James M. Cox, chief hacker of
Mr.. Farley in the baseball deal, is
Miami's Number One Citizen, and
it may be that he has decided this
is the only way to get the Yanks
to train in Miami as an added win
ter attraction. Miami has every
thing else.
Governor Cox's chief sporting in
terest is in golf. But it may be
that, like most golfers, he would like
to get his mind off it and thinks it
worth a couple of million to do it.
Big Jim Farley has been the most
underpaid man in politics. That