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Evening star., 1940-12-30
Georgia Train Fireman
Dies in DeruiIment
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
MANCHESTER, Ga, Dec. 30
Fireman Lonnie Smith of an
Atlanta, Birmingham g. Coast local
passenger train en- route TO its Way
cross terminal from Atlanta, died of
injuries received when the engine,
baggage and mail car overturned
near here yesterday.
Engineer B. A Richards was
severely scalded. but none of the
% passengers in two cars that
remained upright was injured.
Mr. Smith died shortly after being
removed from the wrecked engine.
Both he and Mr.. Richards were
residents of Fitzgerald, Ga.
Cause of the derailment, which
occurred on a curve. has not been
determined, railway officials said.
Evening star., 1940-12-30
A. F. |. Union 'Aequits'
Official Of Red CHARGE
By the Associs ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Dec. 30.-An official of
the A. F. l.. Aeronautical Mechanics
Union was acquitted today, by a
vote of the union membership, of
four charges, one OF which involved
Communist activity.
An official of union publication,
who had made the original charges
against the union officer, was con-
victed" by the membership vote of
exceeding his authority.
Barney Bader, local president, said
the union official, acquitted" by a
vote of 1886 to 921, would be REIN
stated today. He said the union at
its next meeting would act on the
recommendation of the trial board
that the convicted publication off,
cial be prohibited from seeking or
holding union office for one year
and be fined $50. The trial board
had also recommended the con
viction" of the three union officials.
Previously the union had approved
the boards recommendation that
another union official be expelled
for Communist activities.
Evening star., 1940-12-30
Stolen Dynamite Caps
Spur Hunt for Explosives

BY the Associated Press
VALHALLA, N. Y, Dec, 3O.-Dis-
covery of dynamite percussion caps
stolen from nearby shed and scat
tered about the plaza of Kensico
Reservoir prompted a wide search
for explosives today around the vital
link in New York City's $500, 900 900
water supply system.
Forty-eight caps-each described
as powerful enough to kill man
but harmless to the giant concrete
dam unless used to detonate a heavy
store of dynamite-were eventually
turned up by police, citizens and
State troopers after two schoolboys
early yesterday stumbled on % caps.
Chief Lawrence Tierney of the
water supply police discounted
sabotage theories and said it would
take three tons of dynamite to
make dent in the dam"
Police found the caps had been
taken from cap shed" mile away
where a door had been pried open
and a box of so caps from ship
ment of l TOO received Saturday had
been taken. The dynamite house
nearby was unmOleSted.
Evening star., 1940-12-30

Clark Gable and his wife, Carole
Lombard, left Washington early
this morning. After last night. they
had the feeling that remaining
longer would be an anti-climax.
Last night the Gables were
present when President Roosevelt
spoke by radio to the Nation and
after it was all over Screen Star
Gable had "an insane desire to ap-
plaud."
Yesterday was also a great day
for the Gables as tourists. They
went to the Capitol. the Washing
ton Monument, the Lincoln Memo.
rial. Mount Vernon, Arlington, the
White House.
They talked about it, slipping coffee
at the Shoreham Hotel this morn
ing before driving over to Baltimore,
where Mr.. Gable will enter Johns
Hopkins Hospital for treatment for
his shoulder.
Wife Does Talking.
The shoulder has been ailing for
obouI 1Nc SSdIS, Ilc cApldliltu- II
isn't very painful, he said, but doc
tors on the West Coast have been
unable to diagnose the trouble. It's
up to the doctors, he said, how long
he will be in the hospital. but he
has to be back in Hollywood Janu-
ary s.
Mrs Gable did most of the talk
ing about yesterdays sightseeing
Mr.. Gable has been here before. but
he never had chance to escort so
enthusiastic a companion.
That kitchen at Mount Vernon"
sighed Miss Lombard. Wouldn't
1t be lovely for our ranch. darling?"
Mr.. Gable agreed
She loves things like that" he
Evening star., 1940-12-30

explained. "r want to show her
New England and Williamsburg
Neither one of them wanted par
ticularly to talk about picture max
ing. Miss Lombard explained that
she free-lances so she can always
be unemployed" when Mr.. Gable
is between pictures. That's how they
arrange really getting to see each
other.
Last night at the White House was
tremendous" for both of them.
We had been warned that the
speech would make history" Miss
Lombard said. Secretary Hull told
us. but we didn't know it would be
like that"
They both thought the President
seemed fed up with the dictators.
1T was so simple and so direct.
He spoke so calmly" they comment
ed.
Afterwards, they talked with the
President for few minutes.
Missed Smithsonian.
While Miss Lombard was putting
on her mink cape, Mr. Gable said
the he used to come to Washing
ton when he was bit player, not
dime to spend"
Il used to visit the museums. That
didn't cost anything" he smiled.
The museums were the one thing
Miss Lombard wanted to see and
didn't. particularly the Smithson-
ian Institution.
We're coming back so We can see
everything, aren't we?" she asked
her husband.
And the boss of the Gable house
hold, agreeable even before break
fast. nodded
We're coming back" he promised.
Evening star., 1940-12-30
Defense May Force
Nation 10 Borrow
5 Billions in 1941
Treasury Moy Try to Sell
New Sovines Stamps
To School Children
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Treasury experts calculated today
that they would have to borrow
about 5000 900 900 in 194l to f.
nance the defense program, and
wondered whether they could gel
some of 1t from the school children
as well as the bankers.
One plan being worked out by the
finance specialists includes some
thing like the 25-cent saving stamp
which children bought during the
World War. Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau recently re-
quested such a study.
Regardless of the final method
adopted, experts believe the financ-
ing task just ahead calls for the
greatest sales effort since the
Liberty" and Victory" bond issues
enlisted the dollars Of the average
man and woman a generation ago
Budget May Be IL Billions.
Authoritative reports have named
SIT 900 ,0O0, 900 as the probable total
Of the budget to be recommended
for the fiscal year beginning next
July /. President Roosevelt is still
at work on the figures, and Treasury
experts were not sure just how
short OF money they would be in
the next calendar year.
Roughly, they estimated that ex.
penditures would exceed taxes BY
about $1,000 900 900. About 81 ,OOO,-
100000 could be borrowed from va
rious Government funds, particu-
larly the old age reserve fund, which
regularly has cash available for in
veStment.
That would leave about $5000.-
900 900 to be raised from the general
public-and the program, as con-
ceived, requires first that Congress
approve an increase in the Federal
debt limit from the present $40 O00,-
10000 top TO new ceiling of about
s65 900 100000. This would furnish
the Treasury with the necessary
borrowing power
For the heavy part of next years
fund raising, the experts put their
faith in the 81 900 bond as the tried
and true standby. These would bear
national defense series" inscrip-
ton.
Discount Plan Favored.
The second line. they said. might
be complete assortment of baby
bonds priced as low as S. apiece
with 1914 per cent off for cash. Sim
liar baby bonds" have been sold
for the past six years at face prices
down to $25-the S25 one sells for
Sl8.75 at any post Office in the coun-
try.
The "one-third off" on such bonds
was explained by the experts as
what the flnanciers call dis
count" Instead of selling a bond
for S25 and paying s6.25 interest to
the buyer over a period of 10 years,
the Treasury sells the bond at a
cut rate, pays no interest, and re-
deems the bond in 10 years for the
full price of S25.
The 25-cent stamp for children.
however, has the experts worried,
They said 1t might be a fine patriotic
move, but the overhead cost of SELL
ing the stamps might be too high.
On the other hand, they said, it
might not be such a bad idea be-
cause so many stamps would be lost
by the children that the Govern
ment would never have to redeem
all of them. About $1,000 of such
stamps sold during the World War
never were presented for redemp-
ton.
Evening star., 1940-12-30
City News in Brief
TODAY.

Dinner dance. Sigma Alpha Mu
fraternity, Wardman Park Hotel
8 pm.
Meeting, Carpenters Union. Local
No. 1881, Hotel Annapolis, 8 pm.
Meeting, Syrian Washingtonlan
Club, Willard Hotel, pm
Meeting, Masters Association of
ls4l, Willard Hotel, $50 pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Rotary Club, Willard
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Dance, Delta Chapter, Chi Sigma
sorority, Carlton Hotel, 10 pm.
Dance and breakfast, Delta Sigma
Chapter, Sigma Phi Gamma
sorority, Carlton Hotel, 10 pm.
Evening star., 1940-12-30
Man Hurt in Leup

Everett Hensley, IS, OF 302 I street
NV, received several fractured ribs
and bruises last night when he
leaped through the second floor
bathroom window Of his apartment.
Police said the man, who was
later taken to Emergency Hospital,
jumped after they had knocked on
the door in response 10 a disturb
ance call.
Evening star., 1940-12-30
Raider Driven Off
In Attack on Convoy,
British Disclose
Vessel Believed to Be
Supply Ship Declared
Sunk in North Atlantic
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 30.--A powerful
enemy surface raider"-possibly a
German pocket battleship - was
driven away from a North Atlantic
convoy Christmas morning by the
British cruiser Berwick, which hit
the raider squarely once and also
sank a German vessel believed to
have been the raiders supply ship,
according to the Admiralty.
The Admiralty said the l0,0OO-ton
Berwick, recently transferred from
the Mediterranean service, suffered
slight damage and five casualties In
The fight and, although the raider
escaped, the 8,204-ton steamer
Baden was sunk after being set
efire by her crew.
(The German high command
said one 6,000-ton steamer being
conveyed was sunk and another
damaged and heavy cruiser
guarding the convoy was hit
several times and brol : off the
battle" German ships, the high
command asserted, were not
damaged. 1t did not give their
NUMBER
Damaged Second Time.
It was the second time in a
month that the Berwick had suf-
fered scars of battle. She was hit
twice and lost seven men in bat
tie off Sardinia November 27 against
Italian warships.
Despite her new wounds, the Ad-
niralty declared, the Berwick re-
mains at sea as an effective unit
of the British fleet.
The Admiralty acknowledged that
one ship on the convoy was hit but
said it only suffered slight dam
age" before the cruiser came up to
drive off the raider
Poor visibility was blamed in part
for the Berwick's failure to come to
grips with the raider The Admir-
atty said visibility was less than
Z half mile when the vessels en-
gagged at long range.
Shell Bursts Amidships.
Zone shell was seen to burst
smidships on the enemy but it is
not possible to state the extent of
further damages inflicted by our
gunfire," it reported
The Baden, when encountered
by the Berwick, immediately set
herself on fire and had to be sunk
by one of our warshipS,' the Ad-
miralty added.
It's account gave the first indica-
ton that any British vessels had
been shifted from the Mediter-
ranean service to convoy duty in
the Atlantic.
Evening star., 1940-12-30

State in charge of the agreements.
DR.. Grady has received other Of
fers to return to private life which
he refused. The steamship line
offer enables him to return to his
native California and he has indi-
Gated that he felt steamship
enterprise would give him an oppor-
tunlty to carry on a campaign for
the trade agreement idea.
The American Presidents Lines
was formerly the Dollar Line. re-
organized with a $4,000, 600 r. F. C.
loan and 100000 Maritime Com
mission operating subsidy.
Evening star., 1940-12-30
Stephen Birch, kennecott
Copper Chairman, Dies
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30-Stephen
Birch, SO, chairman of the board of
the Kennecott Copper Corp. and the
Braden Copper Co. and president of
the Alaska Steamship Co., died
yesterday.
He was a director of the Chicago.
Burlington 81 Quincy, Colorado &
Southern, Northern Pacific and the
Nevada Northern Railway Cos.
He also was member of the board
OF the Alaska Development & Min
eral Co.
A native of New York City, he
lived at Mahwah, N. J.
He maintained a large winter
home near San Diego, Calf, and
spent much of his time there.
Australia has just learned that 10
per cent of its 5000 blind could have
saved their eyesight by proper
treatment.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
T0DAY'S SPORT PARADE

Conn is faster than a Whippet
late for supper, and Pastor is only
a shade less speedy with his hands
and feet
Both of them are fancy Dan
fighters. fancy Dan being one Who
goes through the boxing motions
with the grace of q ballerina Civ
ing off the dying swan. They are
the type of boxers who delight the
soul of the Marquis of Queensberry
and brought forth "bravos' and
well dones" from the old boy. ~
There is nothing to choose be
tween the courage of the Pitts
burgs adonis and the New Yorker.
Conn has proved in a score of
fights that he has his full share
of fighting heart. and one had
only to see Pastor get off the floor
four times in the first round of his
Detroit bout with Joe Louis to
know that there is no chicken"
in his makeup.
So why do I like Pastor?
ttOIl hiioW, tiiHtSo IL 10 bt-
cause / feel that Pastor is the
smarter of the two. Not smarter
in book learning. but smarter in
the ways of the ring The New
Yorker hasn't had it quite as easy
as Conn. Pastor has fought Just
about everybody in the country.
including Louis. He came up the
slow, hard way. whereas Conn
was a sensation almost from the
start and has yet to meet the class
of fighters that Pastor has faced
Conn never has been in ring with
a fighter of Pastors ability. He may
be good enough to handle the
heavier, more experienced Pastor
he may. indeed, be the second Jim
Corbett that some of his more en-
thusiastic admirers say that he is
but he'll have TO prove it TO me
There isn't much chance of the
fight ending before the full fiji
teen rounds have been fought They
are such light hitters that they
could land their Sunday punches
a dozen times without causing any
headaches Speaking of headaches
the only person liable to get one
frGsn tonight's boutis promoter Mike
Jacobs. The tickets for the fight
have been selling with all the speed
of suspenders in a nudist colony
and a new low in attendance for
an outdoor fight is not at all un-
likely. The fight fans have stayed
away from the ticket windows as
if the sellers had typhoid.
The winner of tonight's fight will
probably get a shot at Louis late
next month. This dire prospect
should be consolation enough for
the loser.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
Seattle Holds 1b
Game Lead in
Coast Loop Race
BY UNITED PRESS

It no longer seems to be question
OF whether Seattle Will win the
Pacific coast league pennant, but
rather a question of how wide a
margin.
The Rainiers. efferveScing like
a nlckle schooner, have a 16 game
edge on the second place Oakland
club, and this week are guests OF
Sacramento's Cardinals. who aren't
expected to get their dukes very
high in defense. The Solons. in
fifth place, are at the 500 mark,
22A games behind the leaders, and
it is doubtful if even the entire
gas house gang of the parent club
could help them now.
Oakland, ON the other hand. has
another tough customer in San Die
go. The Padres have been in the
first division all season and boast
potent hitterS.. With Los Angeles
uttering angelic barks at its heels,
the Oakland club may find itself
in third place before the week is
out because the Seraphs entertain
Portland's Beaver-Ducks, who are
about as low as it is possible to get
in the Pei without being showed
clear into the western international
league.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
BENCHW WARMING
by BWdette Kline
--Post-Press Sports Editor
--Post-Press Sports Editor

come Will not be too pleasant be-
cause the San Juan GuayamaS will
be waiting with their best hurler.
Satchel Paige, ready TO take the
mound in the series opener
The San Juan team earned the
right to play the tournament WIN
ners by bree2:ng TO their second
straight title III the eight-team
Island league The San Juan
team beat the American representa-
tives. the Oklahoma cementers. a
year ago in the first seni-pro world
series
Paige, who trains on fried chick
en-, hot cakes and warm biscuits.
was perhaps the best known and
lcertainly the most colorful semi
| pro pitcher III the United States
| Thirtyfour now, but with the ap-
pearance Of one III his early 20s
Paige broke in early in New
Mexico, where he grew up anu
learned to pitch. He was with the
crack Pittsburgh Crawfords of the
Negro National league for several
seasons toiled in the Black
Hills of North Dakota. He is a leg
end on the Pacific coast. where ir
winter games he trimmed big league
pitchers without working up a
sweat.
Suddenly out of an elongated
mass OF arms and legs that is
Paige's windup comes the ball from
"a big right hand that seems To hang
below his knee
The sphere fairly sizzles across a
corner OF the plate
Paige-the Satehel is derived from
his ample feet-Works every other
day II could be every day if he hae
to.
"Ah don't get tired beams Satch
Paige, who has the deep variety ol
modesty of the Dizzy Dean he SO
greatly admired '.Dey jus like to
see a different face in dere. OATS
why | takes rest"
But the national semi professional
will see enough of Satch-
el Paige in Puerto Rico to learn why
for years managers have wished he
were eligible for big league play.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
Cleveland Captures Lead
AS FeIIer Stops Detroit
Red Hot Pirates
Dump Reds to
Gain on Leaders

NEW YORK, Aug. IL
UP) The Cleveland In
dians were back on top OF
the American league today
for the tenth time this season
and one faction of the baseball fore
casters association insists that the
."team of mutiny' is there TO stay
this time.
There are dissenters, however,
who can't see the Indians winning
unless Bob Feller pitches every day
Eeller isn't going to pitch every
day but from now on he's going to
see plenty of action. He's been IN
nine games in the last month.
Feller hurled the Indians to the
fore yesterday by beating the Tigers
[8-5. It wasn't one of his better days
but he pulled through despite
wild seventh inning in which he
loaded the bases on three walks
and then tossed a tWobaSe hit TO
Barney McCosky. 1t was F'eller's
20th victory and with 45 games left
to play Rapid Robert is almost
certain to pass the 30-game mark
He almost has to or else the Amer
lean league end of the all-Ohio
world series will be a thing TO file
and forget.
The Indians wore their hitting
togs yesterday and slammed out II
hits off an assorted quartet of rookie
and recalled Detroit pitcherS-NeW-
houser, Clay Smith, Seats and
Hutchinson. 1t probably was Del
Bakers strategy to gamble with his
second line pitchers agaiSt Feller
IroSky hit homer No. u with a
mate on in the first inning and
Beau Bell also connected for the
circuit III that frame. Weatherly
hit another homer in the fifth off
Clay Smith.
Feller famed seven men, leaving
his seasons strikeout mark one
short of the 200 mark. He walked
five.
The red-hot Pirates chalked up
their 18th win in II starts to climb
within a game and a half of third
place in the National league last
night when they defeated the lead
ing Reds, Az. The largest crowd
ever to witness game in Forbes
field. save for the world series
AZ watched Max Butcher, Dod-
ger castoff, stop the Reds with nine
hits, including a ninth-nning hom-
er by Ernie lombard Bucky Wal
ters was nicked for 10 hits and his
eighth loss. Cuisines single drove
in Fletcher TO put the Bucs in front
in the 7th
Jimmy Webbs double drove in
Bob Kennedy with the winning run
as the Chicago White Sox climbed
to within 212 games of third place
by whipping the st. Louis Browns
SIS last night before 4545. The
White Sox belted out 16 hits.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13

NEW YORK, Aug. 13 CUP)-
Tweedledum fights Tweedledee at
tthe Polo Grounds tonight.
I pick Bob Pastor.
Don't ask me why l like Pastor
over Billy Conn, because choosing
between them is like naming the
more handsome of Siamese twins,
or selecting which pea iii a pod
is more likely to succeed, or choos-
ing between jumping off the EN-
pire State building or the Chrysler
building.
Billy and Bob are that much alike
as fighters TO start with neither
is a full-sized heavyweight. Conn,
despite all the talk of how he
has grown in the past three months
won't weight much over ITS pounds
tonight, and Pastor will come in at
1873 or thereabouts. Neither can
punch much harder than your
little brother. You could put the
two of 'em in a paper sack and
they'd have to work as a team to
get out.
Then there is the matter of speed
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
Brooklyn Offers
Club forSaIe

NEW YORK, Aug. 13. UP)AThe
Brooklyn Tfus; CO., trustee for SO
per cent of the stock in the Brook
lyn Dodgers, announced today it
was prepared to discuss" the sale
of the club with any responsible
person who is acceptable to base
ball authorities and who would dis
close the name of the principal for
whom he was acting.
A statement by the bank said that
Mike Jacobs. boxing promoter, had
discussed purchasing the club more
than a month ago, but added that
no negotiations had been held since
then.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13

record ever recorded by a valley
girls team, according to Walters.
The feminine Softballers defeated
National City. Holtville, Yuma. and
Brawley and dropped decisions to
Coronado and to National City.
Nowassa Westover, Holtville pitch
er, will take the mound for the
Beauties Thursday night and at
tempt to repeat her performance
and 4-3 victory over the humans
last Friday in the Arizona city.
Walters declared he would have
the strongest lineup of the season
on the field Thursday night with
Bernice Hurst. Buck Walters, Joy
Littlefield and Hulda Free in the
infield.
The Imperial Valley Boys BAND
will be ON hand to furnish music
during practice sessions and between
innings. The game Will start at
$50.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
MARKET QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK STOCKS

NEW YORK. Aug. 13. up
Fears aroused by the German aer-
ial blitzkrieg against Great Britain
brought declines of ! to points in
stocks today.
issues slightly lower IN what was
termed a normal technical reaction
after four days of advance
Dow Jones preliminary closing
stock averages. Industrial. 1229s
off 4.2s; rail. 26.46. off 0.s3; utility.
u. So, off 0.60; and G5 stocks. 41.77.
off l.3S.
Stock sales approximated G40. .000
shares. the most since $4,000 were
traded July 50 and compared with
only 290t000 shares yesterday. Curt
stock sales were l23. .1UU shares
against $4,000 yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
Imperial Valley Press

Established April 20 1901
published every afternoon except
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
Lolnbeck Tops
Show Riders

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13. CUP)
Although one of his mounts fell
in refusing a jump, Frederick K.
Won Lombeck of Rochester, N. Y,
in the jumpers class at the Golden
Gate International Exposition horse
show last night.
Won Lombeck took the Blue Rib
bon riding headlines, owned by
Miss Janet O'Neil of Covina, Cal,
took third place with Billy Jade and
fourth with Queen of Sports, both
owned by him. Miss Louise Ward
of San Gabriel, Cal, took second
place with her Sierra King.