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Evening star., 1940-04-27
Youth Weeps in Cell
After Girl Is Slain;
Jealousy Blamed
Dutes With Other Bows
Cited in Reported
Confession

By the Associated Press.
ABINGDON, Pa, April PA
handsome, poetry writing high
school boy wept in Jail today and
pleaded for permission to see the
body of 16-year-old girl classmate
he is charged with killing because he
was Jealous"
Robert Heineman, 16, son of coll
lege instructor, was jailed on mur-
der charge after Assistant District
Attorney David E. Groshens said he
admitted firing a shot through
window that killed Edith Snyder as
she studied in her home Thursday
night.
II was in love with her and she had
dates with other boys" Mr.. Groshens
quoted him. "On Sunday she told
me she had met the most wonder
full boy in the world couldn't stand
it. I made up my mind to scare her"
Tried to Take Own Life.
Mr.. Groshens said the stocky,
black-haired student added he tried
to take his own life after the shoot
ing, but nothing happened" when
he pulled the trigger.
Pale and shaken, Heineman was
taken to the county jail at nearby
Norristown. Thoughts Of the girl
seemed uppermost in his mind, for he
asked if Edith's picture was in news
papers. Told that it was, he said:
II want them. I want all the
papers"
Later, Police Chief Patrick Mckee
said, he inquired:
do you think I'll get the limit for
this?"
Under Pennsylvania law, he must
stand trial as an adult despite his
age
II convicted of first-degree mur-
der, he might be sentenced to death
in the electric chair.
/ Breaks Down and Sobs.
The boy broke down and sobbed
when priest brought him an over
night bag from his mother filled with
little things to make his stay in jail
more comfortable. Authorities with
held decision on his request to see
the girls body.
Crosser hockey sticks of Edith's
teammates at Abingdon High School,
where both she and Heineman were
described as brilliant students, will
form an arch through which her
body will be carried to the grave
Monday. Six boys of her class will
be pallbearers.
Mr.. Groshens said the boy, who
penned poems for the school pub
lication, admitted the Staying after
police found note he wrote to Miss
Snyder at school about three weeks
ago. 1t was signed Bob" and said !:
1T is imperative that I see you at
the end of the fifth period. If I
don't see you some one will die"
Evening star., 1940-04-27
ment for the force have been issued
under (extended documents number)

ment for the force have been issued
under (extended documents number)
dated February 2, 1940."
He said the routine order covering
the manner of payment of troops
and officers was stamped orderly
room 5, April, 1910, the Leicester
shire regiment"
German officials said that "Strat-
force" was the secret name applied
to the general operations plan for
the British Expeditionary Force in
Norway.
Facsimiles also were ordered
produced of protocols of Norwegian
cabinet meetings purporting to show
that Norwegian Foreign Minister
Halvdan Koht had declared that
Norway would protest formally
when the British arrived, but would
offer no resistance.
The White Book also contained q
reported declaration by Koht that
if war was inevitable it was i'm
portant for Norway not to join the
wrong side.
Evening star., 1940-04-27
300 British Taken
With Documents,
Germans Report
Stuff Commander Amono
liIIehommer Prisoners,
Communique Says
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
BERLIN, April 27.-Capture OF
some 300 British prisoners in Nor
way, among them a staff COM
mander carrying important opera
tions orders and documents, was re-
ported today by the German high
command in q communique on op-
erations kept secret until now fer
military reasons.
The staff commander, it was
claimed. was one of nearly 200 pris-
oners taken in the first encounter
between German and British troops
in surprise. German attack on
Lillehammer April 1928.
The British, the communique said,
were advancing from Andalsnes,
their landing base, and were dis
persed and fled, leaving arms and
equipment behind.
Steinkjer Engagement.
On April Is two English officers
and 80 men were reported captured
in an attack of another English
landing detachment" which was
thrust back" after an engagement
near Steinkjer.
The communique claimed that the
officers of these troops, from the
Royal Regiment, Kings Own York
shire Light Infantry Regiment and
the 4th Lincolnshire Regiment,
had concealed" from them the
presence of German soldiers in Nor
way.
The communique said the Ger
man advance through the Osterdal
yesterday had passed through Roros
and now was only 81 miles from
Trondheim.
IA More Captured.
In other operations yesterday IA
prisoners were taken by German
mountain troops who dispersed a
Norwegian battalion north of Mar
vik; Voss, east of Bergen, was
wrested from Norwegian forces;
British naval units continued to
lombard the Narvik harbor and de-
fense works; a British cruiser was
damaged by German bombs in
Sogne Fjord, and a British plane
was shot down in an ''unsuccessful'
raid on the Aalborg Airdrome in
Denmark.
On the western front, the COM
munique said. 80 prisoners were
taken in "lively" skirmishes of re-
connaissance units.
Evening star., 1940-04-27
Dies to Speak at U. Of Va.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, April
n P.-Chairman Dies of the House
Committee Investigating Un-Amer-
lean Activities, will address the Uni
versity of Virginia Little Congress"
Monday night Mr.. Dies has a son.
Martin Dies, jr., who is a first-year
student at the university.
Evening star., 1940-04-27

ARLINGTON, PA-HELD IN SLAYING OF SCHOOLMATE-
Sixteen Robert Heineman writing high school
student with policemen he Montgomery County
Jail murder charge in the Staying of Edith Snyder eyear-
old classmate do think I'll ths?" he was
quoted nqurng Of Police Chief Patrick Snyder
was killed by shot fired through window as she
studied A Wrenhotos
Evening star., 1940-04-27

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Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-29
UNCLE SANS PROBLEM
IN SOUTH AMERICA

North and South America produce ehe
same things; they can never get along
in a unified hemisphere opposed to the
European methods and refusing to deal
with the European nations
How often we have heard that argu
ment 1t is always advanced by defeat
lists who believe Uncle Sam hasn't the
chance of hotcake in a logging camp
when it comes to competing with Adolf
Hitler's efforts to win over South Amerl-
can trade and economic friendship.
And it is all so much CUFF.
Uncle Sam has just as much chance as
Germany to win and hold South Ameri-
cas- friendship.
The trouble with lot of us is that
we've allowed ourselves to think entirely
i'm terms of defense. That is all right
when it comes to military action. But
nobody ever yet has won an economic
battle by purely defensive tactics.
If we're going to sit back, as nation
and watch Hitler move in on South Am
erica, of course we haven't a chance.
But why not move in ourselves?
We've got money; we've got the most
highly developed business minds in the
world; we've got machines and factories
to produce what South America wants,
and produce it better than Germany can.
Couple this with the fact that the
things Hitler needs he can get ONLY in
this country or South America. He's got
to trade with this hemisphere. This
hemisphere. on the other hand, does not
have to trade with him. He can't help of.
fering us a market we don't have to offer
him one.
In view of this, isn't it more than bit
silly to weep and wall about our inability
to meet his "competition"
Where's all this Yankee trading initia-
tive that made America what it is?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-29
MERCY'S WORK
SHOULD GO ON
(Christian Science Monitor)


If the German army has used for mill
tary purposes planes carrying the Red
Cross insignia, as charged In a British
air ministry communlQue, the offenSe is
serious not only because it cOntraveneS
the Hague convention but because it
hampers and endangers the genuine work
of rescue.
The use of German Red Cross ambu-
lance planes for reconnaissance was ap-
parently proved when two such planes
were forced down at two points and the
crews made prisoner. The logbook show
ed, British communique declares, that
one of the captured craft had been used
as communication plane by general of
infantry, and was fitted with wireless
equipment. Such planes have frequently
been seen flying over conveys, say the
British
The inevitable result of such viola
tion Of the Red Cross agreement is to
work hardship on the violators. Legiti-
mate Red Cross planes have been forced
down off the English coast, and the Ger
mans contend these have rescued friend
and foe alike, if in distress The British,
however, notified the German and Italian
governments that because of its alleged
abuse, planes bearing the Red Cross en-
>blem approach British territory or ships
or areas of operation at their own risk.
Germany evidently has refrained from
repeating certain outrages which aroused
neutral resentment during the World
War, but possibly the temptation of the
emergency and the aim of reversing the
British blockade, has led overzealous in
divduals to ignore the regulations.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-29
4 CANDIDATE TURNS
DOWN SOME VOTES

Something new in the realm of politics
has been happening in the last few days.
A candidate for the presidency of the
United States has been turning down
votes.
Ninety-nine times out of hundred
candidate keeps quiet when he does not
agree with some Of his supporters. By
keeping quiet he gets their votes and,
at the same time, salves his own con-
science by reminding himself and his
friends that he cannot be responsible Tor
the beliefs of everyone who supports him.
1t is, after all, good politics to keep quiet
in such a case. A vote is vote, regard
less where it comes from Any politician
will tell you that.
Possibly Wendell Willkie isn't pohti-
clan enough to play the game according
to the old rules. At any rate, few days
ago he said of Jew-baiters who had Of
fered to support his candidacy by active
campaigning:
81 do not want their votes | do not
even want their support.
So much for that. Then, this week,
the stormy petrol of priesthood, Father
Coughlin. indicated he would support
Willkie. Said the candidate, in effect:
"If | have to depend upon such men,
who play upon racial and religious hat
reds, to elect me president, then | do not
want to be elected president"
So Father Coughlin was left neatly out
on limb, preaching religious and racial
discrimination, but repudiated entirely
by the man he thought he was going to
back for president.
His action NAV lose Mr.. Willkie a lot
of votes, but it will gain for him the
respect of all persons who believe in the
American precept that class, religious or
racial hatreds and prejudices have no
place in the life of a democracy.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-29
Paul Harrison's Notes
On Ho|Iywoods Foib|es and Fads

hopelessly caught in cables and
debris. Between waves, other men
could see him. but nobody believed
there was any chance to help.
FOUR SWEDES
DIDN'T GET FAR
Said Schaeffer himself: Il thought
of lot of things in those minutes.
but I especially remember some
thing that made me mad. A make
UP man was on tug nearby, and
he kept hollering, "Rube, hang on.
to that wig! Don't lose that new
wig, Rube-" There I was drowning
and this guy screaming about a
damn SIS dome-doily.
'About that time the cables and
spars began to sink, and me with
'em. I thought, Well, this is it,
But down below somewhere, the
whole mass turned over and l
came up and found I was free. !
sure was surprised
Harry Ravin recalled seeing four
Swede carpenters jump into a small
boat when the excitement began
and start to row like mad. They
didn't get far. Their boat was still
tied to the barge and was yanked
down into the briny.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-29
Willis Thornton's S Editorial On:
Joint Defense Not Joint Offense

going to happen to Britain-in fact
we cannot be any too sure, in the
fog of censorship and propaganda,
what has already happened to Brl-
tain. The total blockade which
Germany has announced against
Britain may at any time be extend
ed to the coast of Canada, Britain's
principal overseas supply source.
Anv American ships sent to guard
Canada might fall afoul of such
"blockading' submarines or sur
face ships. And then
We do not know exactly what
kinds and degrees of cooperation
with Canada are proposed. we 40
not know how far negotiations for
leasing naval bases in Newfound-
land. Bermuda, Trinidad may have
gone, nor what, if any, commit
ments have been promised in re-
turn.
All we can do is to try to chart
a general course. We believe the
American people will back to the
hilt any steps to guard America
from actual invasion, from actual
OCCUPATION of it's soil. But we be-
lieve the American people are still
determined to have no part OF the
war in Europe.
To chart a course between those
two will be difficult. but not i'm
possible. 1t is the line to which
American policy should hew. Des-
troyers to England an act of war?
Surely it could not be considered
so bv nations which sent tanks,
planes, and their own army pilots,
mechanics and crack troops to
Spain, and glibly maintained that
it was not war. They taught the
world a new technique of how to
take part in war. yet not be at
war. Perhaps the lesson may not
have been entirely lost.
Europe's war has not yet become,
as such, a major interest in the
United States. But defense of Am
erican soil and American interests
against any present or future
threat, is such an interest. Canada
can RELY on the United States for
instant defense against any effort
to seize Canadian soil or to project
European continental influence or
control to this continent. Canada S
relationship to Europe's war is still,
however, vastly different from that
of the United States, and it would
be a disservice to both countries
to allow a contrary implication to
be accepted.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-29

Nothing more important III the
relations of the United States to the
rest of the world has happened
for 20 years than the defense dis
cussions with Canada.
The United States is determined
to defend itself. To do that it is
necessary to deferd most of the
western hemisphere, certainly all oil
Canada. Few disagree with that.
That Canada and the United States
should coordinate their arrange
ments for common defense is simple
common sense.
To do this at time when Canada
is hub-deep in a European war
creates a ticklish situation. But the
situation is what it is, not what we
might wish it. There is no choice.
1t would be idle to deny that
there is danger in it. We do not
krow exactly to what we are COM
mitted. We do not know what is
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-29
Are You
Superstitious?
BY RUTH FARRAR
NEA SpeciaI Correspondent

Have you any warts? Then count
them and put the same number of
rocks in a sack. Drop the sack in
the middle of a crossroads. The
first passer-by to pick up the sack
will inherit the warts.
If this fails, don't despair. Amer
lean folklore in the large collec-
ton of DR.. B. A. Cartright of the
University of Oklahoma includes
hundreds of superstitious wart cures.
Here are other ways of losing the
pesky things:
Squeeze juice from a bean leaf
on wart. In three days the wart
will disappear.
Your wart will go away if you
rub it in dirt from new grave.
Wear a copper cent on a string
around your neck and your warts
will leave.
If you steal your neighbor's dish
rag, your warts will disappear.
To cause warts to go away rub
them with the juice of a dandelion,
with tobacco juice, with milkweed
juice, or rub them with stalk Of
green mustard.
Warts will go away if you sell
them to someone and receive mon-
ey for them.
A third son born after his faith
er's death has magic power to re-
move warts.
Count all your warts and tell
your aunt how many you have; if
she does not tell anyone, your warts
will disappear.
Rub your warts with coffee
grounds, put the grounds III
bag and bury it. The warts will
leave.
To make your warts leave. wash
them at midnight in water found
in a hollow tree-stump.
Rub poke-root on your warts to
make them disappear.
Rub your wart with a grain Of
corn and drop the grain into q
well. The wart will leave when the
grain rotS.
Catch live fish and rub it on
your warts to cure them.
Hold a hailstone on your wart
until it melts. The wart will go
in a stort time.
Put a katydid on your wart. 1t
will remove the wart.
Tie as many knots in a 'tWine
string as you have warts. Suspend
the string under the caves of the
house where the water can drip on
the knots. 1t will wash all your
warts off.
That one can rid himself of warts
by going mountain climbing in a
thunderstorm is the belief of Leon
ard c. Chatwin, young scientist
at the University of British Column
bia.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-29
By MILTON BRONNER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Aug. 90 In
Germany and, more particularly, in
Italy, a mighty Squawk is being
raised over the United States law
which compels all aliens to register
and to file their fingerprints with
the government.
Robert Farinaeci, one of the big
shots in the Fascist outfit. means
in his paper. Regime FaScista. "
published in Cremona. that in AM
erica it is a crime to belong to the
people who produced Columbus.
The exquisite joke about this par
ticular sentence is that Farinacci
is one of the leading anti-Semites
in Italy. A great Spanish writer
recently wrote about Columbus that
all evidences available show he was
descended from Spanish Jewish ref
ugees settled in Italy.
Farinacci goes on to say all Ger
mans and italians in America are
fingerprinted as if they were Grim
inals.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-29
Indy TOO FAST
WITH APPEASEMENT
(Oroville Mercury-Register)

AS for Col. Lindbergh, his proposals
may be right and they may be wrong.
They should not slow this country down
for moment in its preparation for the
worst that may come We need not, how
ever, stigmatize him as a fifth coumnist
just because he disagrees with us.
We think Lindbergh is wrong in his
proposal that if Germany wins we should
deal with that country just as we have
dealt with Great Britain and France
Germany's fifth column system, and the
manner in which it controls or seeks to
control people of German blood around
the world, the German barter system,
followed up by German control of the
channels of trade, the ruthless NaZi pro-
cesses, all call for a hemisphere on guard
against any eventuality.
Lindbergh, we think was not as strong
as he meant to be when referring to the
rich that had become too rich and the
poor that had become too poor. Before
the war the rich British and French mott
fled poor Germany that there was moth
ing between them that could not be ad-
justed by negotiations. Even the rich
sometimes are willing to meet with the
poor and adjust matters. But in this
case the poor happened to be a nation
armed to the teeth and not of a mood for
anything but revolution.
1t is bit too early to talk of making
trade treaties with victorious Germany.
Such talk tends to dull the sharpness of
our preparation for possible trouble with
a new owner of a British fleet that has
been our reliance. Such talk foregoes all
thought of a Germany cocky to the eX-
treme with long string of successes.
Let that talk come later after Ger
many has shown it deserves the out
stretched hand. For the present let us
be on our guard, undivided, and let the
flying colonel take care lest he fly coun-
ter to the determination of an impatient
nation.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-29
ENGLAND KEEPS
CLOSE TAB

The fact is the United States is
one of the last great countries to
adopt some measure of control of
the aliens within its borders. All
over Europe. long before the pre-
sent war, aliens were the subject of
government measures.
In democratic England, for in
stance. an American or any other
alien. if he remained in the coun-
try more than 60 days. had to re-
port to the nearest police station
with two photographs of himself,
one for the files of the police, the
other to be pasted in police book
the alien must keep.
On the police record all details
about the alien were copied from
this passport and kept for future
reference. Every time the alien
moved from one city to another in
the United Kingdom he had to
check out with the police OF one
town and check in with the police
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-29
LEGAL NOTICE

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL
No. 1882
NOTICE OF HEARING
PETITION TO ESTABLISH
RECORD OF BIRTH
In the Matter of the Petition
of
GENEVIEVE ALICE HILL
To Establish Record of Birth
of
ROBERT GREENBERRY HILL
Notice is hereby given that Gen.
evieve Alice Hill has filed with the
Clerk of this Court petition pray
ing that the date and place of the
birth of Robert Greenberry Hill be
established, and that the 30th day
cf August, 1910, at 2 O'Clock p. m. OF
said day. at the court room of the
above entitled court, at Ell Centre,
in the County of Imperial, State
of California, has been set as the
time for hearing said petition, when
and where any person interested
may appear and show cause why
the said petition should not be
granted.
Dated this 10Th day of August.
1910.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
Clerk
BY M. A. CHRISTIAN
Deputy
Pub Aug. 20 to 30 incl.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-29
Uranium Crackers
Places in the News

Places in the News
Here are the names of five places
which have recently figured in the
news. Can you locate each, and
tell what occurred there,
l. Havana.
2. Berbera.
3. Riom.
4. Colorado Springs.
5. Hamilton.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-29
Did You Know?

A cows cud is that portion of
food which is brought into the
mouth from the cows first stom-
ach to be cheWed a second time.
Barbed wire was one of the great
est contributing factors in the rev.
olutionizing of western American
life.
The Dominion of Canada leads in
world expectation of asbestos.
Sea lions can be taught to stand
erect.
One year from tonight we will
see each star in exactly the same
position, that we see it tonight.
Christmas is not a legal holiday
in Kansas.
Frogs and toads do not cause
warts.
The first piece of barbed wire
was sold in the United States in
1874
Yellow-billed cuckoos have fur
lined stomachs from eating fuzzy
caterpillars, their favorite food.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-29
ANSWERS

l. The Pan-American confer
ence Of Foreign Ministers met at
Havana, in Cuba.
2. Berbera, the capital Of British
Somaliland. was the object of an
Italian offensive.
g. Trial of former prominent
French officials was held at the old
Palais de Justice in Riom.
4. Republican presidential NOM
inee Wendell L. Willkie, vacation
ing at Colorado Springs. held i'm
portant political conferences there.
s. The Duke and Duchess of
Windsor. en- route to their new home
I'm the Bahamas. docked first at
Hamiltop, Bermuda.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-29
Sayings

more; and must think that wasted with
which God is honored, men are blest-ohn Hall
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-29
Bruce Cation in Washington
Dissects the News

While Bruce Cation vacations,
other members of NEA Services
Washington staff pinch-hit for
him.