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La gaceta., 1940-12-21

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que despedia cada p~uertecilla,
sino que tenia su origen en- una
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La gaceta., 1940-12-21
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Evening star., 1940-08-11
Hoover Reveals Plan to Send
Food Surplus to War Sufferers

way will not have enough food this
winter unless it comes from Ger
many or from outside sources" Mr..
Hoover declared. Terrific famine
conditions will prevail, with in
tense misery resulting in all of
these war stricken countries
UNITED States Minister to
Belgium John Cudahy declared
in London this week that near
famine conditions would fall
upon Belgium by mid id-September
unless the British permitted
shipments of food from America.
"A howling hell" was the phrase
he used to forecast conditions
elsewhere in Europe this win
terD
Mr.. Hoover, who has been va
cationing near here, said he would
leave by plane tomorrow for Col
orado Springs, Colo, for a con-
ference with Wendell L. Willkie, Re-
publican presidential nominee, dur
ing the afternoon.
Evening star., 1940-08-11
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BINGHAM, Mass, Aug. 10.-A
vivacious blond Norwegian girl, who
came to the United States last April
as the fiancee OF young officer
of the German seized American
freighter City of Flint, was married
today-to another man.
In becoming the bride of Dr.
Thorolf Gunderson of La Crosse,
Wis, resident physician at Bos-
ton hospital, Miss Ruth Engelsen,
%, wrote "finis" to the romance that
blossomed while the vessel was in
termed in Bergen, Norway.
Before the ship left for the United
States in the final chapter of an
odyssey. the girl, daughter of we'll
to-do coal merchant, had become
engaged to Carl C. Ellis. %, of New
ton, the Flint's third officer.
The young couple decided she
would sail later, as soon as passage
could be arranged, for wedding in
this country. She arrived according
to plan, but about month later the
romance cooled.
Later, through friends in the
United States, she met the doctor, a
graduate of the University of Wis
consin and the Harvard Medical
School. He was attracted to the
girl, who had studied at schools in
London and Lucerne, and their
Evening star., 1940-08-11
Farley Will Join
Beverage Concern
After Month 5 Rest
Will Handle Cocu-CoIu
Firms Foreign Business;
Salary Not Disclosed
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, Del, Aug. 10
The Salesmanship ability that made
James A. Farley the Democratic
party's master politician for the
last eight years landed him a job
today as chief promoter of Coca
Cola sales abroad.
He will take "at least a months
rest" after his retirement this month
as Democratic national chairman
and Postmaster General and then
will become chairman of the Coca
Cola Export Corp.
A company spokesman here and q
close friend of Mr.. Farley in New
York said the appointment would
not interfere with Genial Jim's'
negotiations to buy the New York
Yankees baseball club. The deal
probably will be completed next
week, the New York friend said.
Salary Not Disclosed.
What salary Mr.. Farley will re-
ceive when he leaves his $4,000
cabinet post for the Coca-Cola job
and apparent retirement from poll
tics was not disclosed.
President Roosevelt accepted with
''real regret last Thursday Mr..
Farley's resignation as Postmaster
General August 81. Edward j. Flynn,
Bronx Democratic leader, succeeds
him next Saturday as the party's
national chairman.
Robert w. Woodruff. board chair
man Of the Coca-Cola Co., an
nounced that Mr.. Farley, one-time
building materials salesman, would
have charge "of all export business
and particularly of the expansion of
our business in foreign countries"
Company Officials JubiIant.
The company has been selling
to 10 per cent of its beverage out
put abroad through interests in rs
foreign countries. Officials frankly
were jubilant at getting for their
head foreign salesman the man who,
through wide personal acquain-
tanceship and chummy letters
signed in green ink, sold" Frank
lin D. Roosevelt and the Demot
cratic party to the voters in 1882
and 1886.
II am going to be very happy
commented Mr.. Farley.
The Democratic field marshal
bowed out of public life when his
bid for the presidential nomination
failed at the national party con-
vention in Chicago last month.
His only business connections,
friends in New York said, will be
with Coca-Cola and the syndicate
negotiating for the Yankees. A. A.
Acklin, president Of the company,
asserted in Atlanta that the con-
Germ has no interest whatsoever
in the 52-year-old Farley's baseball
plans.
Evening star., 1940-08-11
Heating Contractors
To Meet at BIucksburq
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BLACKSBURG, Aug. 1O.-Ap-
proximately 200 Virginia contractors,
architects. State and county health
officers and sanitation engineers are
expected for the annual conference
OF the Virginia Associated Plumbing
and Heating Contractors, which will
be held at Virginia Tech Monday
and Tuesday.
The Southwest Virginia Masonic
School will conduct degree classes
for beginners, Intermediates and
veteran members at its annual ses-
sion on the campus Monday through
Friday. Thomas j. Traylor, Roam
Oke, president of the school and
grand master of Virginia Masons,
will preside
Members of the Governing Com
mittee Of the contractors organiza-
ton will meet tomorrow afternoon
in the student activities building to
make final arrangements for the
conference. A Board of Directors
dinner will follow in the faculty
center.
Evening star., 1940-08-11
things to impede and confuse their

things to impede and confuse their
victims. 30
If we are going to act, however,
let us not act piecemeal--a little
at a time here, little at time
there-a squadron of destroyers to-
day, a handful of airplanes tomor-
row. Let us rather assay the prob
lem as a whole, with clear regard
| for our needs, for Britain's situation,
for the requirements of the great
dominions. Let us implement the
community of interest and purpose
which exists with such of our power
as we can make available; striving
to preserve Britain If we can, deter
mined to make secure rearward
position If Britain goes down, firm
in the resolution that the seas shall
forever be denied to the conqueror
OF Europe, and that III Gods good
time this earth shall again be safe
for free men under reign of law.
Calculated Risk Involved.
This is very different thing from
merely turning over few warships
to Britain. This is q standard to
which the American people can be
rallied, without confusion of thought,
without muddling OF action. There
is a risk involved, of course; but 1t
is a calculated risk. and it does not
impair our sea power-rather, it
strengthens it. There is far
greater risk involved in doing MOTH
ing. The risk that Britain may 60
down in the next three months will
be at least materially reduced. and
if she can survive that period, the
risk that Germany may in the end
be victorious, or that Japan may
meanwhile become mistress of all
East Asia, will have all but dis
appeared.
Nor should the moral value of our
action be discounted; from the as
surance of victory, the Germans
must fall to the certainty of defeat
save only if they can conquer Britain
by force of arms at once, and even
then they will not gain the prize for
which they strive, the command of
the Atlantic Ocean, which we can
never allow to fall into the hands
of the conqueror of Europe. To this
end, we may well devote the best
efforts of which our country is
capable; We cannot suppose that
those efforts shall be in vain
Copyright, 1910, by New York Tribune Incl
Evening star., 1940-08-11
BY MAJ. GEORGE FIELDING
EUTnT

ELIOT.
There are some indications that
the Battle of Britain" may not
be much longer delayed. This is a
battle whose ultimate object is the
control of the maritime communi-
cations of the Atlantic Ocean. It
is, therefore. battle in whose out
come the United States is vitality
concerned.
While Britain continues to control
Atlantic sea communications Brit
ain can continue to blockade Ger
many the vaSSal states of Germany
on the continent of Europe. Ger
many must break that blockade or
eventually succumb to it. Germany
must break out into the Atlantic,
past Great Britain, past Gibraltar,
in order to gain access to the food
stuffs and raw materials Of the New
World and especially OF South
America.
1t has repeatedly been stated by
the Nazi leaders that they cannot
endure situation in which Ger
many Is "at the mercy" of British
sea power for access to needed i'm
ports, for the use of the sea for her
export trade. If Britain goes down
under German assault 1t Is unlikely
that the victorious conqueror would
long be satisfied with any degree
of American control of the Atlantic
sea lanes, either.
We cannot afford, if we can pre-
vent it, to permit the master of
Europe by land to become also the
master of the Atlantic Ocean. This
should be a primary tenet of our
foreign policy. 1t is not that we
are, or ought to be, dependent on
the British fleet. Like all other peo-
Piles who want to live and move
and trade in freedom on this earth
we are dependent on that abstrac-
ton known as the balance of power,
which If it be upset naturally draws
us. in our own interest, toward its
restoration.
Greatest Peril U. s. Has Faced.
So vast an undermining of the
balance OF power as would take
place were Germany, having con-
quered Europe, to gain free access
to the Atlantic and possession of a
navy greater than ours, would be an
immediate peril to us greater than
any we have hitherto faced during
the lifetime of the republic.
Whether or not this peril comes
upon us may we'll depend on the
events OF the next two or three
months. II during that time Ger
many does not make a serious at
tack on Britain or making one, fails,
then it is probable that the war will
settle down to blockade and counter
blockade, plus mutual bombings, for
the winter. In this war, with the
resources of the world open to them
by reason Of their sea power, the
British should gradually gain the
upper hand The danger is that
Germany. thoroughly prepared may
conquer the island of Great Britain
| before weather puts an end to the
chances of success of such an at
tempt.
Initially, this will be a contest
OF air power against air power, plus
sea power. Germany's conquests on
the continent have been due to her
admirable coordination of air and
land power. In order to produce
the same combination in England.
it is necessary for Germany to get
her land power to the island, across
the water. Her sea power is very
small. comparatively.
1t is on her air power that she
must depend for the preparatory
work, and for the major part of the
Evening star., 1940-08-11
Nozis Say Blockade Works
For, Not Against, Reich

Asserting that the British block
ade is working for, rather than
against Germany, and that it has
strengthened the economic position
of the Reich on the continent, the
German Embassy, in a statement
released yesterday, declared that it
is "an incorrect Interpretation OF
international law to claim that in
wartime the task of fighting army
lies in providing for the enemy civ
ilian population"
Thanks to its measures, Ger
many is immune from the British
blockade" the statement said
England now demands that the
fruits of German autarchy ought to
be made available to those who
always boaSted of their overseas
wealth. 1t must be borne in mind
however, that everything which
Germany is doing for the civilian
population in the occupied areas is
voluntary welfare work, which Ger
many is under no obligation what
soever to undertake, and which
must be regarded as extremely gen.
erous. If one remembers the atti-
tude of the former governments of
these countries and of their popu-
lation"-
The statement said the National
Socialist Welfare Organization from
June 4 to July 30 cared for 17,706, ,000
people in France and Belgium
Among this number, it was said
were 439, 300 infants and children
from / to years of age; 1,641 ,400
sleeping quarters were arranged for;
in 75,545 cases aid to sick was rem
dered; in 693 cases birth assistance
was given, and 8,464,000 loaves OF
bread were distributed. But Ger
many" the statement added, mat
urally cannot substantially reduce
its own food supply in favor of the
French population"
Evening star., 1940-08-11
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont,
Aug. 10.-Former President Herbert
Hoover disclosed tonight that ne
gotiations are under way which
may lead to sending part of the
food surplus of the United States
into Belgium, Poland and the Meth
erlands.
The World War chairman of the
American Relief Commission said
the negotiations were being con-
Quoted by organizations with which
he is affiliated. He emphasized that
nothing definite has been accom-
plished yet and declined to put him.
self on record as to whether he
believed this country should seek
British permission to send relief
shipments through the European
blockade to the German-conquered
nations.
TT is absolutely certain that Bel
GUM, Poland, Holland and Nor
Evening star., 1940-08-11
Howes Named Official
Of Mid-Continent AirIines
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 10.-W. w.
Howes, SO, of Huron, S. OAK, first
assistant to Postmaster General
James A. Farley until his resigna-
ton last month, has been named
vice president of Mid-Continent
Airlines, Inc, Thomas Fortune
Ryan, Sd, president, said today.
Mr. Howes will he in charge of
public relations and will spend most
of his time in Washington.
Evening star., 1940-08-11
Mai. Hershey to Speak

Maj. Lewis B. Hershey, executive
director of the Joint Army and
Navy Selective Service Committee,
will be the guest of honor and
xpeAker at a National Press Club
luncheon at 1890 pm. Wednesday.
Evening star., 1940-08-11
Girl Who Came to u. S. to Wed
Flint Officer Murries Another

friendship ripened into formal en-
gagement.
Their wedding ceremony was per-
formed at the Church of st. John.
Evening star., 1940-08-11

The population Of Switzerland Is
slightly more than 1000, 900.
Evening star., 1940-08-11

Seven cities impose municipal cl.
garette taxes.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-09

A fireworks display that beat any
July fourth exhibition for sound
fury and excitement left the old
Imperial theater building at I'M
perial in ruins Saturday.
Roof on the abandoned structure
collapsed withour warning Friday
afternoon and city of Imperial
crews set to work to bring down the
walls and remove the hazard, while
an audience of several hundred per-
sons watched.
Nearly 80 dynamite charges plant
cd in the walls failed to bring the
structure down and finally tractor
completed the job.
Dynamite charges were implanted
below the walls by workmen under
Amer Graham and Jack Murphy.
When a series of a dozen charges
failed to shake the big brick south
wall. a dozen more were set off.
They DISCHARGED one after another
like brOadsideS of cannon from a
fort. shooting brick fragments sew
eral hundred feet to shower spec
tators huddled out of danger.
The building, owned by the city,
was abandoned more than a decade
ago except for use as warehouse.
Sole occupant was Elmer Ryan, who
slept there He was not inside when
the roof collapsed. Contractors said
the roof fell because of timbers
weakened by the recent earthquake
Most courageous souls were sew
Cral men, including Marvin Foster
WHO seized a battering ram in be-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-09
Yuma Reaches
Red Cross Quota

YUMA, Ariz., June (UP)-The
city of Yuma today became one OF
the first in the United States TO
reach its quota in current RED
Cross war relief drive by collecting
total of $2,O11-or $ll over It's
assigned quota.
John H. Huber, chairman OF tne
Yuma drive, said that the Sz'ooo
mark was passed shortly after nooi'
Collections were stimulated by a
vigorous, city-wide campaign alu-
ed by announcements over rauio
station YYUM of Yuma ana Wy
publishing names of donors on lile
front page of the Yuma Daily Suh'
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-09

as presented by the three-man del
egation, calls for enrolment of male
citizens over 35 in home defense
rifle corps groups to function as a
part OF the organized reserve corps
and under directions of the regular
army staff.
Such units would release Younger
men and national guard forces tor
military duty in wartime and would
take over such duties as guarding
factories, bridges ard airports.
Allen Griffin, Monterey publisher,
Walter B. Shook and Harold Mack
brought the Monterey plan before
the officials here.
They met yesterday with the AM
crican Legion officials studying
similar plans, with congressman,
with War Department representa-
tivCS. Griffin also conferred with
Bril-. Gen, f. NJ. Watson, secretary
TO President Roosevelt
The Monterey group said that
Rep. John Costello, California con-
gresham, and U. S. Senator Sher-
idan Downey, also of that state,
expressed much interest in the
Monterey American Legion plan
and gave it their backing. Costello
is y n,pObPr Of the house military
committee
The Monterey plan and others
for home defense are now before the
War Department for study.
The Monterey delegations said
hey will remain here until Tuesday
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-09

SdllOll between lWD amateur IdNlO
men. 1t goes on all the time and
this little snatch was taken from
the log book of Charles BlalaCK OF
FL CCntro, newly elected Vicc-preS-
idcnt of the American Radio Relay
league. representing more than half
OF the nations amateur operators
BIalack Friday disclosed a faSCi-
mating 27 year career in radio, be
gun when he traded a camera for a
mass of tangled wire and pair
of earphones.
II was on ranch in northern
California and l saw an advertise
mcnt from chap in Georgia who
wanted to trade . We came to
terms and l mailed the camera on
an agreed upon date and he III turn
mailed the wireless paraphernalla,
Blalack recalled. That's how | got
started in radio
Many, many thrills followed dur
ing the next two decades of grow
ing up with radio, but none will
compare to the time when BlalaCk,
poking around on "a bit of criStal,
tuning" hot with a dial but by
adjusting one coil within another,
got his first signal.
1T was the Marc Island govern
meNt station! What a thrill 1t was.
had been poking around in the
dark with no idea whether or not
the thing would work when the sig
RAILS came in. OF course l couldn't
read them--the signals were Morse
code but l could get the time sig
nal"
To learn the code, B!alack made
an agreement with an attorney at
Ukiah, who knew something OF
sending. Blalack made him Il set
and arranged a tranSmtter made
out of the spark coil from an old
Franklin autoEobile.
1t WAS another great thrill when
the contraption worked. For weeks
Continued on Page ., Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-09
Warren Clarifies
Alien Land Law

SAN FRANCISCO, June CUP)
Attorney General Earl Warren
today clarified the legal effects of
California's 1921 alien land law
which restricts the right of aliens
ineligible for citizenship to own
real estate.
No alien ineligible to citizenship
may own. lease or hold real estate
in any manner-for commercial,
residential or other purposes-ex
cept where a treaty between the
United States and the persons
country permits it, Warren advised
Deputy District Attorney John L.
Mccarthy of Santa Cruz county.
Deputy Attorney General James
H. Oakley explained, however, that
in general Orientals are the only
persons ineligible for American citi-
zenship and that therefore the act
applies exclusively to them.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-09
British Admit bio
Auxiliary Cruiser
Sunk by Torpedo

LONDON. June iUP) - The
British liner Carinthia, recently
armed and made an auxiliary cruis-
er has been torpedoed, the adfiral-
ty said aoday.
The German high command COM
munique said today that German
submarine had sunk a $4,000 ton
auxiliary cruiser at point north
west of IrelandD
Four persons were dead as result
of the torpedoing. the Admiralty
said
THE Admiralty regrets to an
nounce that H. NJ s. Carinthia.
Capt. j. F.. B. Barrett. an armed
merchant cruiser. was torpedoed by
U-boat and subsequently sank"
the communioue said. Two officers
and two ratings (enliSted mem lost
their lives when the ship was hit.
Their next of kin has been informed.
The remainder of the officers and
the ships company were saved
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-09
Imperial Stages Premature Fourth
OF July Spectacle as Dynamite
Blast Fails TO Wreck Old Theater

tween the blasts and tried inef-
fectively to smash a corner down,
while the walls bulged overhead.
Dan Taylor, who was atop near
by building when the roof collapsed,
said the walls bulged outward and
swayed back and forth under the
strain, but miraculously remained
upright.
Best remark of the evening. after
the building still stood despite the
dynamite, came from gangling Sam
Griffen:
ITS all off, boys :. . They're
gonna send for Hitler to wreck it
and he won't be here for q day and
a half"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-09

sinking herself while en- transit
through one of the 1l0-foot-Wide
locks, thereby putting the canal
out of commission, was of major
concern.
With Italy's entrance into the
war seemingly imminent, Panama
ian authorities kept a close watch
over the 23,255-ton Italian liner
Conte Biancamano, tied up at Bal
boa near the Pacific entrance to
the canal.
The ship, loaded with 1000 tons
of copper bars, was on her way home
Friday and was to have started
through the 50-mile long water
bridge, when she tied up pending
further instructions" from Rome.
The vessel is $50 feet long and
76 feet wide, ship that size could
block one of the ll0-foot locks at
their entrance or jam herself cross
wise in a narrow section of the wa
terWay, which is from 500 to 1000
feet wide outside the locks.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-09
Mexico Cancels
Army Order

NOGALES, Sonora. Mex. June 8
'UP)-Mexican army officials have
cancelled an order to send de-
tachment of 300 Mayo and Yaqui
Indian troopers to the Nogales
garrison, it was announced today.
Gen. Carlos Rodrigues Malpica,
commander of the Nogales garrison,
said that conditions were every
quiet along the border and that
it had been deemed unnecessary
to send troopers here to prevent
possible violent demonstrations.
The cancellation order was an
nounced as the city prepared to
greet Gen. Manuel Avila Camachi,
the revolutionary party's candidate
for the presidency in the July 7
election.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-09

The Panama American, published
in Panama City Republic OF Pana-
ma, yesterday suggested the liner
might be Trojan horse" sent 10
block the canal.
The fact that the Conte Bian-
camano should arrive at this time
in the Panama canal Is beyond
mere coincidence, said the news
paper.
All persons boarding or leaving
the liner Friday were scrutinixed
carefully.
There was a momentary scare
late Friday night when q Chilseu
passenger liner struck the break.
water and went aground off CySss
tobal on the Atlantic entrance -
the canal, but the vessel Win nOs
interfere with canal traffic, author-
tiles said
Elsewhere in Latin America the
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