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Evening star., 1940-02-25
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MIXED,

High team game-Saturn. 563.
High team set-Saturn, 1858.
Men.
High individual game-Cristofoli 1856.
High individual set-Cristofoli. 369.
High individual fiat-Seigfried, o.
High individual Spares-Gibson, 142.
High individual strikes-TowerS. 81.
High ayerage-GibSon 10S.
Women.
High individual game-Laughlin. 131.
High individual set-Laughlin. 314.
High individual flat-Rogers, 81.
High individual spares-Mertz, 66.
High individual strikes-Culverhouse II.
High average-Harding 90.
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Section F.
Section G.

High team set-St. Joseph's I, 1858.
High average-Marascio (St. Joseph's ID.
109-33.
High individual set-Forcione tst. Jo-
sephs -. 392
High individual same-Aquilino tst.
Peters ~, 1855.
High strikes-curtin (st. Joseph's ~. 80.
High spares-Merillat tHoly Nance. 141.
High flat game-Lacey (St. Joseph's ID.
Evening star., 1940-05-27
Air Force Communicates.

A series of communiques from the
Air Ministry were more detailed. The
most important of these described a
4-hour battle over the French coast
between Calais and Dunkerque yes
terday morning in which 20 German
planes were reported shot down and
20 more put out of action, against q
loss of only five British planes.
, Other weekend engagements, the
communique said, accounted for 60
Nazi bombers and fighting planes
either brought down or damaged,
while Royal Air Force bombers re-
newed their raids on the Rhineland
and the German rear lines, destroy
ing gasoline and ammunition
dump, bombing German supply lines,
Evening star., 1940-05-27
bridges. roads and rail-

important bridges, roads and rail-
ways.
At sea, Britain acknowledged the
loss of two naval vessels, the LOO
tan destroyer Wessex, victim of
Nazi air attack OIL the French coast,
and the 270-ton mine e-sweeping
trawler Charles Boyes, which struck
a German mine. The Wessex, which
lost six men and had Is wounded,
was the fourth British destroyer
put out of action by bombs and
the twelfth destroyer lost in the
war.
No Reflection on Ironside.
Though big Bill" 1ronside re-
linquiShed his post to Devil" Dill
58-year-old Irishman who has been
described as "one of the most able
soldiers in the whole British army
and who won fame by crushing the
Arab revolt in Palestine, British as
serted this Is no way was a reflec-
ton on Gen. Ironside's ability to
hold the job as chief Of the I'm
perial general staff.
His new post Is regarded as equal
In importance to that of Lord Gort,
communicative chief of the British
field forces in France.
The press approved the high COM
mand changes. which were an
nounced after French Premier Paul
Reynaud flew here to consult with
Prime Minister Churchill and other
members of the war cabinet. It was
predicted in well-informed circles
that other shifts among high-rank-
ing officers might be made.
Given Responsible Task.
The Daily Express, raising the
question HAS Ironside gone up or
DOWN." commented
Gen. Ironside has moved out OF
the supreme job in the army-but
for this reason:
HE is given q position of such
importance that only the man from
the top could have been intrusted
with it,"
Gen. Dill has the highest abilities
for his new task. In the opinion Of
some he is In certain respects our
best soldier.
THE public may be assured that
Mr.. Churchill's confidence in both
men Is well-founded."
In supplanting Gen. Ironside. who
succeeds 63-year-old Gen. Sir Walter
Kirke as anti-invasion chief, Gen.
Dill moves up from the post of vice
chief of the imperial general staff
a position to which he was named
last month to relieve the strain" on
Gen. Ironside.
National Day Of Prayer.
In the first national day of prayer
since August 6. 1918, the King and
Evening star., 1940-05-27

Queen. together with Queen Will
helmina of the Netherlands and
Prime Minister Churchill, attended
services at Westminster Abbey,
where they heard the Archbishop
of Canterbury say:
and calm the anxieties Of the hour.
Here in the stiffness Of this church,
moved by all the memories which
surround us, We commit ourselves
and our cause to God"
After describing the dangers now
facing the nation as the darkest in
its history, the Archbishop con-
tinued:
1--WE have been called to take our
place in a mighty conflict against
the powers of evil and we ask God s
strength that we may be found wor-
thy Of that high calling"
The days services were marred by
only one incident. A woman shout
ing peace" interrupted the broad
cast of Arthur Cardinal Hinsley's
sermon in Westminster Cathedral.
Screaming "murderers!" she was
ushered from the church. The
British Broadcasting Corp. told the
public the incident resulted from
the woman's Overwhelming relig-
ious emotion" and had no political
significance.
The War Once announced that the
Emergency Oficers' Reserve, closed
In November, 1899, because the num-
Der Of applicants at that time was
overwhelming" will be reopened
on limited basis"
The reserve is open to men with
army experience who have been or
are likely to become good officers.
Evening star., 1940-05-27
London
Continued From First Page }

Sir John Greer Dill in the empire s
highest military post as chief of
the imperial general staff.
These vital changes in the army
high command. made as Germany's
mechanical columns extended theil
gains in their struggle for a spring.
board for a direct assault on Eng.
land. reflected urgent action TO,
strengthening Britain's resistance
to the threatened invasion.
The great preparedness drive ex-
tended to other sectors of the home
front.
While the empire joined King
George vi and Queen Elizabeth in
their national day of prayer, and
armament plants worked at full
speed throughout the week end
Scotland Yard rounded up another
score of British Fascists in a drive
against potential fifth columnists.
Including their leader, Sir Oswald
Mosley, about TO now are confined
in Brixton Jail.
The government also announced
q new list of Is southeast coast
towns as evacuation areas" and
prepared to move children to safer
places. Among them were Dover
only % miles across the Channel
from Calais, and Folkstone, &c
miles from German-held Boulogne
The war Office gave only a meager
account Of the actual fighting for
the Channel ports, but a London
source denied the German claim to
have taken Calais.
A communique merely said British
troops went to the assistance of their
Belgian Allies when the Germans
launched strong offensive against
the left flank of the Allied armies
pinioned in Northern France and
Belgium. It disclosed that British
tanks were in action against Nazi
mechanized forces.
Evening star., 1940-05-27
De Valera Poves Way
For Wartime Restrictions
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DUBLIN, May 27.-Ireland pre-.
pared to accept wartime restrictions
today in order to defend the island
against possible invasion.
Premier Eamon de Valera's decla-
ration in q speech yesterday at Gal
way that I'VE are in the war zone
was believed the forerunner to such
defense measures as blackout and
perhaps semi-martial law.
Reports of plots by members Of
the outlawed Irish Republican Army
and increasing apprehension that
Germany might attempt to use Ire
land as base for operations against
England prompted the government
to take steps to increase the armed
forces.
I. r. A. activity also was reported
in Northern Ireland. I. R. A. men
visited Belfast dance halls Satur-
day night in a campaign to get
recruits for their organization.
De Valera in a speech Saturday
night, said:
There is danger over this coun-
try, particularly today, and there is
but one safeguard-to be prepared
to defend the liberties we won
against any one who might try tc
invade them"
Urging "the whole country to stand
behind the government in its de-
fense efforts as one man." De
Valera called for men to join the
army and volunteers to aid the
police in tracking ANY indication OF
treachery."
Evening star., 1940-05-27
Nazis Say Defense Talk
Touches Only U. s.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
/, BERLIN, May 27.-President Roose-
velt's fireside talk last night was
regarded by authorized German
sources today as having touched on
the United States own business.
Germany never has been a threat
in the Western Hemisphere, these
sources said, and if America feels
she needs better defenses it cannot
be because of any German designs.
They declared that Germany re-
spected the slogan America for
Americans" but also expected Amer
lea to respect the slogan Europe for
the Europeans"
The Presidents reference to the
fifth column" was described as
either a tactical move in domestic
politics or a result of the President S
reception of alarnist news from Eu-
rope.
Evening star., 1940-05-27
Woman Stabbed Twice
BY invader of Home
av the Assoriated presx

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 27-Mrs. Hell
en- Knight, 81, was stabbed twice IN
the abdomen early today by man
she said entered her room as she
slept.
Weak from loss of blood, she stag
gered to the Annapolis road from
her home near the city line and
was taken to the hospital by a
motorist. Her condition was re-
ported as serious. at
Police 1t. James McCurley said
Mrs. Knight had given him the
name and a description of her as
sailant. He quoted her as saying
she was awakened when the man
walked in, that he stabbed her and
fed without saying a word.
Evening star., 1940-05-27
Senate Leaders Hope
For Adjournment
In Two Weeks
House Democrats Doubt
Work Cun Be Finished
Before June IS
y the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senate leaders put together fast
legislative timetable today In an
effort to wind up the session in two
weeks, but Democratic House man
ayers expressed doubt that Con-
gress could adjourn before June Is.
Both chambers were Fastening
action on defense measures, but the
Sill, ,754,916 relief bill and various
odds and ends still remained to be
acted on.
Potential time-consuming argu-
ments centered in Senate effort
to bring up the Logan-Walter bill
to subject administrative rulings to
court review and House demands
for action on Wagner Act amend
ments.
Longer Hours Proposed.
1t generally was considered un-
likely that the House would take
up Senate-approved amendments to
broaden the Hatch Act anti-politics
law.
Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the
Democratic leader, said he saw mo
good reason why Congress can't get
out in two weeks" He proposed
that the Senate meet longer hours
each day if it would insure ad-
journment by June 8.
Relief Bill Considered.
The House-approved relief bill was
being considered today by a Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee, and
Chairman Adams predicted that it
would go to the floor by mid-week
without substantial change. 1t
would refuse w. P. A. aid to Com
munists or members of "Nazi
Bund" organizations.
The House arranged today to re-
turn to the Senate legislation term
mating the Treasury's foreign sill
yer purchase program House lead
ers contended that the Senate ex-
ceeded its constitutional authority
IN passing the measure, because it
repeals the silver transfer tax and
the Constitution reserves to the
House the authority to initiate rev.
enue measures. Sending the bill
back to the Senate would kill it for
this session.
Evening star., 1940-05-27
STAR WASHINGTON D. c. MONDAY, MAY ~ 1s4o
Ireland Orders Army
Up 10 War Strength;
Calls for Volunteers
Pluns Are Rushed
To Defend Country.
Against Invasion
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 27-1reland's
Army is to brought to war strength
and placed on war footing almost
at once" 1t was learned in London
today. Army reservists and volun-
teers are being called and a cam
paign has been ordered for new re-
cruits, it was said.
Evening star., 1940-05-27

Bricker Of Ohio, with Gov. Francis
p. Murphy Of New Hampshire as his
running mate.
The campaign was opened by the
Concord Club, with offices in New
York, and appeals for support Of
the proposed ticket were signed by
David J. Allen as executive chair
man.
Gov. Murphy said he had heard
Of the organization but preferred
to withhold comment on its plans
until he knew more about it.
Evening star., 1940-05-27
Mexico Arrests Several
In Attack on Trotsky
N the Associated Press.

SnSOSSAeS~O
MEXICO CITY. May 27.-An un-
disclosed number of arrests were
made yesterday by Mexican police
investigating the attempted assas-
sination Of Leon Trotsky last Fri
day.
Gen. J. Manual Nunez, police
chief, declined to give out details
Of the arrests, saying only that his
dragnet had operated In the neigh
boring cities Of Cuernavaca, Puebla,
Toluca, Pachuca and Cautla and
had brought in important informa-
ton"
The raids were made on secret
service information that members
Of the assassination gang had gone
into hiding In these towns.
Evening star., 1940-05-27
New Predatory Animal

SACRAMENTO, Calf. R.-The
coat mundi, q predatory little ami
NAL that scientists have known
was spreading out from its Mexi-
can habitat, has now been definitely
Identified In California. The State
division Of fish and game described
the newcomer as about the size OF
q raccoon and living on either fruit
or flesh.
Evening star., 1940-05-27
Collects 6 Miles of Strino

PRATT, Kans. (P.-Rollin @.
Elliott. rural mail carrier, doesn't
claim any championship and insists
he's just an amateur as collectors
go-but In six years Of collecting
strings he estimates he has saved
six miles Of heavy wrapping cord
alone.
Evening star., 1940-05-27
Roosevelt
Continued From First page.)

kilograms had come in after Mr..
Roosevelt's speech and that less
than so of them expressed disap-
proval. Many of the latter, he added,
apparently came from a common
source and some were in identical
language
Credit Promise Reiterated.
The President reiterated the ad-
ministration's promise to advance
R. F. c. money to private industry
to help expand factories and per-
sonnel under the preparedness pro-
gram.
I'VE are calling on men now en-
gagged in private industry to help
us in carrying out this program
he said, land you will hear more
of this in the next few days.
Private industry will have the
responsibility of providing the best,
SpeedieSt and most efficient mass
production Of which it is capable. u
Mr.. Roosevelt declared, however,
that the administrations offensive
against social and economic inequal-
tiles and abuses" should not be
broken down by "the pincers move
ment of those who would use the
present needs of physical military
defense to destroy it."
There is nothing in our present
emergency" he said, ito justify
making the workers of our Nation
toll for longer hours than now lin
tied by statute. AS more orders
come in =" tens of thousands
of people who are now unemployed
will receive employment"
Similarly, he continued, there Is
no reason to lower wages or break
down the old-age pension and un-
employment insurance system.
THE policy and the laws providing
for collective bargaining are still in
force" he noted, land labor will be
adequately represented in Washing
ton in this defense program"
Protection Of Consumers.
The President called for protec-
ton OF consumers against higher
living costs and asserted that mo
new group of millionaires (should)
come into being in this Nation as q
result of the struggles abroad"
(Senators Connally of Texas and
Clark of Missouri, Democrats, i'm
mediately proposed that legislation
to impose heavy taxes ON war profits
be enacted at this session.
(Senators Connally Of Texas
and Clark of Missouri, Democrats,
Immediately proposed that legis-
lation to impose heavy taxes on
war profits be enacted at this
session.
After opening his talk with an
appeal to aid the Red Gross war
relief fund, Mr.. Roosevelt detailed
advances In the Army and Navy
during his seven years in ONCE.
The Navy received 81, ,4S7, ,000, 900
more since 1893, he said, that 1t
did in the seven years before that
date. For that money, he explained,
215 lighting ships were laid down
or commissioned, personnel rose
from 10000 to 145,000, and useful
Navy aircraft increased from 1,127
to 1892 planes on hand and on
order.
The Army received 1892, 600, 900
more since 1898, he continued, than
in the seven preceding years. Since
1888 it purchased $40 planes. the
President said, and practically. dou-
bled the enlisted strength.
Evening star., 1940-05-27
Bricker-Murphy Ticket
Compuiqn Launched

~ the Associated Press.
CONCORD, N. H., May 27.-New
Hampshire Republican leaders heard
today Of the beginnings Of cam
paign for the nomination Of a ma
tional ticket headed by Gov. John w.
Evening star., 1940-05-27
Gifts for War Orphans

Children Of the war dead are being
presented insignia in Toxic, Japan,
boys receiving triangular badges and
girls brooches.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-12
.2-Year-0Id Boy
Found Dead Near
Parents Home

ATLANTA. Ga. Nov. Il. CUP)-
The Georgia highway patrol re-
ported today that Murray Upshaw
jr.. .. missing since last Friday, had
been found dead in the woods
back of his parents farm home
near Cartersville, Ga.
State Public Safety Commissioner
Lon Sullivan. head of the highway
patrol. said the finding of the
body was reported by state troop
err on duty at the Upshaw home,
center of a four-day seach for the
lost boy.
Sullivan said it had not been
determined what caused Murray's S
death.
The little boys dog came home
drv and well-fed although it had
been missing three days during
cold, rainy weather, with the boy.
The boy and his dog disappeared
from their farm home near here
Friday. Farmers and state highway
patrolmen sought them without sue
cess until yesterday, when the little
white dog, Nicky, came loping home
The dog had been cared for.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-12
Future Farmers
Here Join Nation
In Observing Day

Future Farmers of Imperial VAL
lev joined Tuesday with compa-
triots all over the nation IL obserV-
inc National Future Farmer day.
In Ell Centro colored film OF F.
F. A. activities was shown to the
high school student body during
the lunch hour. The moving picture,
formerly shown at Treasure Island
in San Francisco's World Fair, in
cluded some pictures of Imperial
Valley and the Central high cam
pus.
The film was slated to be shown
again at an F. F. A. chapter meet
ing Tuesday night, open to the
public, at the home economies
building of the high school.
Three alumni, Henry House,
James House and Bob ProcSal, with
two chapter officers, Earl Bishop
and Junior Robinson, were in Kan
sas City this week at the national
convention to represent Imperial
Valley. The trip east was made pos
sible by cooperation Of fellow F'u-
ture Farmers, the Imperial Irriga-
ton district, the associated chamber
of commerce, county board of super
yisors, Ben Hulse, Roy Westmore-
land, Bert Purdy and Herbert FaW-
cett.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-12
State Farm Bureau
Annual Convention
Opens at Stockton

STOCKTON, Cal, Nov. y. (UP)
Delegates to the annual convention
of the California farm bureau feo,<
Grafton opened general sessions here
today with President Ray B. Wiser
of Gridlev in the chair.
The meeting, attended by 5000
delegates and friends, will con-
tinue through Thursday when Of
ficers will be elected and next
years convention city will be chos-
en-.
Chief contending cities for the
194l meeting were Santa Barbara
Fresno. San Francisco and San
Jose.
The resolutions committee today
was considering a proposal that
the convention approve campaign
to foster unification of county road
projects under a single head In
each county and to oppose any
move to give the state administra-
ton control over all rural highways.
Also before the convention was a
proposal by Edward A. O. Neal,
president of the American farm
bureau federation, that the or
ganization draft a program of in
ternational trade to meet the
challenge of the relationships
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-12
Mother. Boy Shot,
Home Set Attire
ToConceaI Crime

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Nov. IL. =
UP)-Firemen who rushed into q
home to put out fire today dis
covered a spiritualist mother and
her 8-year-old son shot to death.
The mother had been gagged.
The victims were: Mrs. Alma
Katzenmiller, 36, and Noel Katzen-
miller, 8.
The coroner said both appeared
to have been killed by a shotgun.
Mrs. Emma Conertcn, a neighbor,
called firmen when she saw smoke
pouring from the basement OF the
one-story frame Katzenmiller dwell
ing. Police believed the slayer
might have attempted to destroy
the evidence of his crime by fire,
Peter Katzenmiller, the husband
with whom Mrs Katzenmiller con-
Quoted spiritualist seances Tor pay
was not located Immediately. Police
records showed he was given a
dismissal in 1897 and last year on
charges by his wife and son, Peter
jr.. that he had pointed a gun at
| them.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-12
Chef Quizzed in Death
Of II from Roach Poison
In Flour at Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH, Nov. Il. (UP)-A
former chef was questioned in
Philadelphia today about the poi
son deaths of i2 men and violent
illness of 43 others as result of
eating pancakes tainted with So
dium fluoride, a roach powder re-
sembling flour.
The poisoning took place yester-
day at the Pittsburgh Salvation
Army center during the Monday
morning "handout." The men sat
down to a breakfast of pancakes.
bacon and coffee. A few hour later
they began dying, writhing in pain
and were taken to hospitals. Two
men died at the center before they
could be moved the others at hos
pitfalls.
Police Immediately began search
ing for a discharged chef who
Adjutant Roy Barber said had
threatened to get even. They be-
lieved he had fled to Philadelphia.
Early today Philadelphia police
detained Larry Mertz, 43, for ques-
tioning in connection with the poi
sonlng. He was described as a for
mer chef in the Salvation Army
home here. Mertz said he had
worked III Pittsburgh until October
and then went to Philadelphia
where he had remained since.
Barber said the chef had been
discharged month ago because
his work was rot satisfactory. Ar
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-12
Six thousand
Border Cards
Confiscafed

CALEXICO, Nov. 12.-Only 5000
CT the $4,000 outstanding border
crossing cards were confiscated at
U. S. immigration headquarters
here, A. r. Dick, inspector in
charge, said Monday.
The United States government
last July put stringent border cross
ing regulations into effect as a
part of the national defense pro-
gram. Since that time the Mexi-
cans holding the crossing cards
have submitted them to immigra-
ton officers, met the new regula-
tions, and been issued new type
of card.
Mexican officials recently speed
ed up the distribution of the, re
CURED Mexican credentials and
helped get the numbers Of Mexi-
cans crossing back and forth more
nearly normal.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-12

Georg2 Williams, SO; Andrew Bur-
da, as; Robert Mead, 80; and Stanley
Turmosia.
knowledge of the fatalities was
withheld from Wilson, the cook, who
also was a patient in st. Mar
garets hospital because he ate one
of his own pancakes.
Wilson said he mixed the pan-
cake batter the same way he always
had in his eight years as a cook.
The only difference, he said, was
that he scooped the flour from the
bottom of the hopper for the first
time since he started to work at
the center three weeks ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-12
California Youth
Wins Farm Award
By GaibraiNh

viously devoted almost entirely to
grain farming. His farming enter
priSes now are valued at $4,000.
His dairy cattle and poultry have
won county fair prizes. He was
named the outstanding Future Far
mer cattle judge in California during
1888.
Last year Anderson aided III su-
pervising work of the FLA Hanford
chapter IN prooagating wild ducks
on the Tulare lake shore
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-12

KANSAS, Mo, Nov. II. up
Jesse Anderson, jr., l3, Hanford,
Cal, today was named Pacific re-
gion star farmer by the awards
committee at the Future Farmers of
America national convention here
The award carries a $3.50 prize.
Gerald Reyenge, Emmett. Ark.
won the national award of $500 for
1910.
Young Anderson, in developing
theory that livestock must be raised
to diversity straight grain farming
developed a herd of IA purebred
Jersey cattle, $50 pedigreed laying
hens. alfalfa ana grain, in a sec
ton of the old Tulare lakeoed pre-