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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-11

Waterville, March Il - A month ly meeting of the Parent Teacher Association of Waterville will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, in the Sprague school gy11l- nasium, with Mrs. John Byrnes, president in charge. .>
 The nominating committee pre- sent slate of officers for the com- ing year, and plans for a penny supper will be discussed.
 The ways and means committee met Thursday night, at the home of Mrs. Everett Cook, on Stafford street, to discuss activities of the association for the remainder of the year. Members present included: Mrs. John Byrnes, Mrs. John Fitz- gerald, Mrs. Clifford Northrop and Mrs, Cook.
 A general invitation is extended to all mothers of Waterville to att tend the meeting tomorrow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-11

Japan used sO,O00 tons of tin cans last year, but needed 10000 tons more.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-11

the occasion made a noteworthy one. MT. Bernier has been elected to succeed himself. Twenty-six new members were admitted at the last meeting of the club.
 Other officers chosen were:
 Vice-president, Mrs. William Gerardi secretary, Mrs. Irene Bouchard; assistant secretary, Miss Jeanne Bibeau and treasurer, Leo A, Pepin
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Lillian Richards
Applies to Olson
For Fun Pardon
Former Clerk Seeks
Release From Term for
Taking City Funds

Lillian Richards Lift lie,
sent to prison two months
ago for stealing $28,5OO
while Ell Centro city water
clerk, recently applied to
Governor Olson for a pardon.
Notice of the formal pardon ap-
plication she filed with the gover-
nor was received Tuesday by Dis
trict Attorney Elmer Heald
She was sent to Tehachapi prison
for women May 20 for a term of
from to 20 years.
Her plea of guilty to charges in
grand jury indictment returned
against her and her husband, John
Little, was the most startling feature
of one OF the most sensational trials
ever held in Imperial county. A jury
found Little guilty on all % counts
in the grand jury indictment. He
was sent to San Quentin peniten-
tiary.
Heald said the notice he received
was a regular pardon application
form with Mrs. Richards Little'S
name filed in.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
HitIer's we|E0rganized War Plans
Showing First Signs Of Decline

are against a successful invasion.
Also in modern warfare, it is
gambling with a fortune for a bel
ligerent government to raise popu-
lar hopes too high. II victory is
not achieved depression becomes
much greater among the people at
home than, if promises of success
were less omnipotently proclaimed
Hitler apparently is counting on
a gigantic air attack against Brit
ain as his first major move in his
offensive. He may use some 5000
planes In succession of wave
bombings. This is probably his
extreme limit, considering the large
home and conquered areas that
must be protected and the neceS-
sity for holding reserves. In the
past month it has been estimated
that an average of 100 German
planes have been attacking Great
Britain daily. That is a total of
1900 planes, and less than 400 peo-
pie have been killed.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Britain Boosts
Taxes TO Carry
War to Hitler
Rate Reaches All-Time
High as England
Expenses Climb
BY UNITED PRESS

Great Britain imposed a
drastic new tax burden on
her rich and poor today to
back up a new declaration
of unflinching war against Nazism.
While British and German air
fleets traded heavy blows in the
opening phase of the battle Of
Britain" Chancellor OF the Ex-
chequer Sir Kingsley Wood told
the House of Commons that the
income tax rate must be boosted
five per cent to 42l2 per cent and
that revolutionary measures must
be instituted to control spending in
order to meet the unprecedented
budget of $l3 1868 600 900.
In addition to higher leVieS on
beer, wines and tobacco and in
creased surtaXeS that will take nine
tenths of all incomes over $4,000,
the government proposed a pur-
chase or sales tax ranging from
l2i2 per cent to 33 per cent to
curb spending on unnecessary or
luxury goods. 1t also decided to
deduct income tax on salaries or
wages at the source
The new taxes under which many
Britons probably will pay more to
the government than they pay for
Continued on Page 6 Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23

ilOiil ILlClidiu Oolllud VI FL OellJTO, I.
one of the defendants and an en-
ploye of a Little Tokyo club in Ell
Centre, in which he denied he had
ever seen OSWalt receive a "payoff"
from the club.
OsWalt, YoShida and six others
including Raul Mateus, former Ell
Centre special officer while OsWalt
was Ell Centre police chief, are
accused of kidnapping H. Yamatoda,
wealthy japanese gaming overload
in the fall of 1888. Yamatoda charg-
ed he was arrested in Los Angeles,
brought to Ell Centro and later
showed across the Mexican border
with orders not to return to the
United States
The prosecution claimed that
Yamatoda had been the victim of
a rival gambling outfit that wished
to see Yamatoda out of the way
so they could take over his gaming
interests on the west coast.
Reviewing prosecution testimony,
Defense Attorney Edgar Hervey ask
ed YoShida if he had ever seen r.
IWahaShi, who managed the club
for several years, pay OsWalt $4,000
Il never saw IWahashi give the
/ chief $4,000 or any other sum,
Yoshida replied.
Il was present at several con-
versations between IWahashi and
Oswalt,' he continued, but 1 never
heard money discussed"
! Yoshida also denied prosecution
testimony that he had prepared a
statement in japanese for Yama-
toda to sign while the latter was
a prisoner in Ell Centre.
| Il never learned to write Japa-
neSe,' said the dapper, Honolulu
born Japanese. Il went to Los An
geles schools and learned to write
only in English
Yoshida told the court that ht
had lived in Ell Centre alternately
since 1922 and had known oswald
tor many years. He had been 6
dealer" in the Tokyo club Wher
it was controlled by the Los An
geles Tokyo club and later actec
in other capacities, he declared
The trial was expected to last
at least until the latter part OF
August. 1t has been in session since
the middle of May.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
By UNITED PRESS

Chancellor HitlerS ability to for
mulate plans of almost mathematl-
cal efficiency in Waging war is
now showing some signs OF a decline
for the first time. He has convinced
the German and Italian people
that his contemplated attack on
Great Britain is absolutely certain
to succeed and if his peace terms
are not accepted Great Britain
cannot possibly escape full destruc-
ton. This attitude is poor strategy,
for Hitler is giving himself the
quality of Omnipotence and If Brit
ain holds off his blitzkrieg the ef-
feet on the German and Italian
home fronts will be dangerous for
him
Warfare is the most uncertain of
all human efforts. Neither Hitler
nor anyone else can have full con-
fidcnce that an attack against Great
Britain from the continent of Eu-
rope will succeed 1t may or may
not According to the rules of mill
tary and naval strategy the chances
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
British Intensity
Measures 10 Guard
Gibraltar Base

LA LINEA, Spain. July "a CUP)
Measures to protect Gibraltar
from an attacking enemy appeared
today to have been intensified.
Several boat loads of non-com-
batants already have been evacu-
ated. The official Journal OF Gibral-
tar carried decree making it OBJ
ligatory for all non-combatants to
register for evacuation beginning
Thursday. Persons failing to comply
will be subject to fines and impris-
onment.
Authorities have ordered all shops
closed to expedite the departure
of women, the aged and boys under
IT.
Frequent arrivals of boats loaded
with foodstuffs were taken to in
dcate that the British intend to
defend The Rock" to the end.
1t has been raidei frequently by
italian airplanes.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
New Fortifications
On Guam SOUGHT

WASHINGTON, July %. CUP)-
Chairman Carl Vinson of the house
naval affairs committee said today
that he expected the administration
to seek authority at the next SeS-
sion of congress to work preliminary
to fortifying the Pacific Island of
Guam, 1900 miles from Japan.
Vinson said that he anticipated
a knockdoWn fight over this re-
quest The navy has informed con-
gress that it considers improve
ments and ultimate fortification of
Guam to be of vital strategic i'm
portance in its chain of Pacific
defenSeS.
Congress, however, repeatedly has
voted down measures to improve
civilian harbor and seaplane facili-
ties there, some members contend
ing that such work would be an
unfriendly gesture toward Japan.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23

with only local thunder-
showers breaking relief. Most in
tense heat was reported from the
plains states region to the Atlantic
coast, many cities recording temper
atures of more than 100 degrees.
A survey showed that q persons
had died because of the heat and
at least 1870 others were drowned as
they sought refuge from the mount
ing temperatures by swimming In
lakes and rivers. Scores more were
killed on the highways which were
crowded even on the week day with
city residents seeking relief from
the heat in country resorts. work
was suspended in some cities dur
ing the hottest noon period and
there were innumerable proStra-
tons.
Highest temperatures were re-
ported in New Mexico, the Dako-
tas and Montana and Nebraska
Phoenix. Ariz., recorded a maxi
mum of l09 Monday and a mini
mum of 81. Las Vegas, N. NJ, re-
ported 106 and temperatures all
through the wheat country were at
least 100 degrees. The west coast
and New England escaped the ex-
treme heat. but even in those re-
gions the mercury rose to over 80.
Even the midnight hours, normal
ly the coolest of the day, failed to
bring relief to sweltering city dwell
prS
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Chicken Hatches
Young on Train

PELHAM Ga, July % tUP)-
H. T. Brooks, conductor on train
running between here and Doerun
Ga, reported today that his pet
hen which rooStS in the tender
had Matched two chikenS EN- route
The chicks are doing fine and
they sure look pretty" Brooks said.
The pet hen which has been
making the 50-mle round trip to
Doerun daily, will be reinstated on
the engine tender as soon as the
chickens are old enough to scratch
for themselves, Brooks said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Annenberg Denies
Fraud Intention
As He Goes toPen
PHILADELPHIA. July

PHILADELPHIA. July %. CUP)
M. l.. Annenberg, enroute to
Northeastern federal penitentiary
at Lewisburg to begin serving a
three-year term on an income tax
evasion charge, denied today in a
front page signed announcement
in his Philadelphia Inquirer that
he ever knowingly had the slight
est intention of defrauding the gov
ernment."
That I pleaded guilty to one
count of one indictment is mat
ter of record" Annenberg said. IN
SO doing I invited the penalty which
now confronts me, but I have the
satisfaction of knowing that thereby
1 saved others, including my only
son. from severe and unmerited
ordeal
Il repeat now that during my
entire business career, covering
more than 40 years, I never before
had to appear in court to answer
criminal charge:
That I never knowingly evaded
any tax, nor had the slightest inten-
ton of defrauding the government!
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Beauty Jailed in
Narcotics Forgery

HOLLYWOOD, July % (UP)-
Helen Lee Worthing, former Follies
beauty, was in the county Jail to-
day awaiting trial on charges of
forging narcotics prescriptions.
Miss Worthing, once the wife of
Dr. Eugene C. Nelson, Negro physi-
clan, offered no defense at her
preliminary hearing yesterday She
recently surrendered to authorities
as a parole violator and said she
wanted to get square with the
law" after she allegedly forged a
physicians name to a narcotics
prescription.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23

Hull SAID tne reSOluJlOn, exact
nature of which was not revealed,
would be presented to the commit
tee on the preservation of peace,
of which he was elected chairman
today.
The committee met today, but
no proposals were presented, Hull
said.
The committee headed by Hull
was regarded as one of the most
important formed by the conference
as the q American republics NOV
ed under Hull's leadership to isolate
the western hemisphere from Eu-
ropes war and totalitarian economic
encroachment.
A private session of the confer
ence of American foreign ministers
this morning receives the prelimi-
nary drafts of proposals regarding
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23

the disposition of European possess
sions in the western hemisphere,
economic collaboration in the AM
ericas and methods of combating
fifth column" and other Subver-
Sive activities.
Hull already had suggested that
the Americas appoint themselves
trustees" over Dutch, Danish
French and British dependencies
in the western hemisphere should
the occasion arise" But he advo-
Gated no specific action should Ger
many and Italy move to assert title
to these colonies.
Hull appeared likely to face diff
culties in bringing all of the 81 Am
erican republics-especially Argen-
tina-into line behind his proposal
Continued on Page Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
kazi Anfi-Aircraft
Vessel Sunk

LONDON, July 90 British
naval planes attacked the German
base at Bergen, Norway yesterday
and sank an enemy anti-aircratt
ship, the admiralty said today.
The attack was in line with Brit
ish efforts to cripple all bases from
which Germany is likely to launch
a blitzkrieg against the British
Isles.
The admiralty said that the raid
on Bergen was made by planes at
ached to the fleet air arm
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Colorado Youth
Sets Record

DETROIT. July % CUP)-Worth
Stimits. Rocky Mountain confer
ence champion from Colorado col
lege, today shattered the l9-year-old
qualifying record for the national
public links golf tournament with
his second sub-par SO in two days
His SO hole total of 1873 betters
the old medal record of l39 set in
1922 by George Aurbach of Boston
and equalled in 1887 by Don Errick-
son, Alhambra, Cal.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Spiked

Spiked
Bob WhitelaW probably rued the
day he tried to put over sly one
at the ToaStmaSters meeting.
considering the fact that the
talks have not been of high quality
recently, l suggest that we devote
the evening to hearing our presl-
dent describe his vacation" Bob
remarked seriously.
You see. Bob was slated to SPEAK
and he hadn't quite finished ar
ranging his address. II it hadn't
been for Russ Richmond Bob prob
ably would have got away with 1t.
Before the vote Russ told members;
Il hate to see us set such Il
precedent =" thereby injecting a
political turn. So the vote went
against Bob. But that didn't end
it. AT intervals during the balance
of the evening Richmond kept max
ing such references as;
Il am certainly happy that We
have sucn an intelligent group OF
members that they can see through
the flimSy Subtcrfuge of one OF our
members :" and 1t is pleasing
to note that in our democratic Or
ganization there is no dictatorship
by one headStrong individual =.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Valley Cities
Receive Quake
Emergency Funds
HOltville, Imperial Get
$54OO and $500 For
Repair Work

Holtville was allotte e d
$5,4OO and Imperial $4,000
from Governor Olson's earth
quake emergency fund Tues
day to pay off the cost Of
new water towers in the two cities
News of the allotment was con-
tanned in telegram received by
Herbert LoWdermilk of Ell Centro.
candidate for state asSemblyman
from Frank Clark, state director OF
public works.
These allotmentS brought to three
the number thus far made to help
relieve Imperial county residents
of the cost of repairing the damage
done by the earthquake of May l8
The Imperial Irrigation district re-
ceived $4,000 to help pay the
cost of repairing damaged irriga-
ton canals.
Water towers in Holtville and
Imperial went down in the earth
quake and will have to be replaced
by new ones.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
MEDIATOR ASSIGNED TO
PLANE FACTORY DISPUTE

WASHINGTON, July %. tUP)-
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
today assigned John l.. Connor, la
Dor department conciliator, to aid
in settling the labor dispute at the
Seattle, Wash, plant of Boeing
Aircraft Co.
The company is engaged in pro-
ducing planes for national defense.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Hague Predicts
Demo Victory

LOS ANGELES, July % CUP)-
Mayor Frank Hague Of Jersey City.
NJ j., here on a two-day vacation.
today predicted a Democratic sweep
at the polls next November.
How can they miss. with Presi-
dent Roosevelt running" he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Japan's S Takings
Of Calf. Oil
In Sudden Drop
"a Per Cent Below That
Of Last Year, Survey
In State Shows

SAN FRANCISCO, July
%. (UP) = Japan's takings
of California oil dropped "a
per cent below last year, the
oil producers agency disclos-
ed today in its survey for January
June, 1910, published in the coast
edition of the Wall Street Journal.
The average exported to Japan
for the six-month period was $4,000
barrels a day. This compared with
79, 700 barrels for the corresponding
semester of 1889
One direction of increased export
was in tranS-Pacific movements to
destinations other than Japan.
These averaged 67,20O barrels daily
as against 61,6O0 in the like 1889
period.
Calitornia's daily average produc-
ton of Oil for the six months was
610,700 barrels, down $500, or about
one per cent from the same six
months last year. Refinery runs
increased 16,500 barrels to 546,200
or about three per cent. The Journal
said the larger refining activity may
be aScribed in part to the lower
offshore shipments of refinable crude
oil.
DOMESTIC TAKE UP
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
NO PAy0FF' TO 0SWALT, JAPANESE INSIST
D AMBl|Ne
X EPORTER
No Accounting For Taste


Most folk like dogs, cats or horses
for pets, but now and again some
one leaves that beaten trail to ex-
pand into skunkS, lion cubs and
baby elephants. None of the latter
has a solitary thing on r. K.
JeaneS.
Last November Jeanes acquired
strange affection for scorpion
He placed the creature III jar
and "nursed' it from day TO day, if
anyone can nurse" a scorpion. AS
the months passed JeaneS became
more and more convinced that the
pet was he.
The conviction remained unaSSail-
ed until this week when Scorpy
presented his master with Il Splen
did litter OF 20 little ScorpS!
When you pass the cigars around,
JeaneS, we'll take 20 Corona Coro-
mas.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
U.S.HeudS Plan to
Isolate Amer cos
From Europe War
Secretary Hull Expected to Encounter
Some Difficulty in Bringing All
South America Under Program

HAVANA July 23. (UP)-The United States tomor-
row will introduce before the conference of American
foreign ministers resolution regarding disposition of
European possessions in the western hemisphere Secre
tarv of State Cordell Hull said today.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Nation SWeIters
In Third Day.
Of eat Wave
BY UNITED PRESS

The nation sWeered for third consecutive day under
a heat that had caused at least 157 deaths.
The U. S. Weather Bureau at Chicago forecast con-
nued hot weather for most of the nation today and to-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
BASEBALL
BY UNITED PRESS
NATIONAL

First game
Cincinnati 100 0l0 0l0 Oh SO
Brooklyn 002 OlO 600 O0-3 10 4
Thompson, Begg & lombard.
Hershberger; Wyatt & Phelps.
Second game
Chicago ..... $40 600 020-8 IL O
Boston 100 600 000--i 3 2
Raffensberger & Todd; Sullivan,
Javery & Masi,
st. Louis .. l0l l40 000-7 II 2
Philadelphia 0O2 00l 00O--3 Q =
McGee. Hutchinson & Owen;
Blanton, Beck. johnson & Atwood.
Warren.
AMERICAN
Boston ............ ................ 0l3 90
Chicago ........... .............#........ 0O1 70
Hash & Desautels. Lee & fresh.
Washington .......................... oiQ -
Detroit ............. ...........a..... 100 ~
Chase & Ferrell; Corsica 4 Teow
belts
New York at st. Louis s--snighe.
Philadelphia ut Cleveland --ntGnk
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Dick yoShidQ :"
Backs Up Defense
OfFormer Chief
Ex-CIub Dealer Denies He Prepared
Statement for yama+oda TO Sigma as
Trial ENTERS ! Ith Week

LOS ANGELES, July 23 (SpeciaD-Defense forces
drew up their best weapons here today the trial of j.
Sterling OsWat of Ell Centre others on kdnap-
conspiracy charges moved into its eleventh week.
Forenoon testimony highghted bv a statement
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Pressure on The Press

Pressure on The Press
A cold reception awaited a Post
Press carrier boy at the II. l..
Bush jr. home in Ell Centro when
he came to collect a subscription.
Il don't believe we care to take
the paper any more!' flve-year-
old Phil Informed the carrier
The anxious carrier inquired why
and Phil replied:
well, you've had Jay Jacobs
name in the paper three times and
you've never had mine once"
Phil Bush, Phil Bush Phil Bush,
Phil Bush. Now you're one up,
PhilD
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Wait Til Winter

Wait Til WINTER
"Daggone fool oughta know
better of all things
Il. p. Farmer was grumbling to
himself at the desk of Ell Centro
police headquarters. He bore dis
tinct resemblance to disgruntled
bear When a spectator asked what
was the matter, Farmer explained:
Someone stole shovel E.. Any
one that would steal anything to
work with in this kind of weather
is Just plain craZy!'
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23

Butter: Los Angeles 2Stsc: but
terfat, Imperial Valley I. O. b. ranch,
grade A 37l9c; manufacturing milk
3Il2c; route gathered cream 27iac.
l.. a. hay: u. 3. No. $500
4. ). No. 2 ieafy $Il.50-l2: u. \. No
2 $9.5Ol0: Mpls. September flax.
$1.53.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23

DOMESTIC TAKE UP
Domestic utilization of California
oils is figured to have been seven
per cent higher as to gasoline, 1872
Continued on Page g. Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23

Total cash, checks and drafts sent
through the two FL Centre banks.D
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-21

the nation During the latter part of the past cen- tury and the early part of this one there was an almost criminal neglect of the future timber needs of the nation. Virgin timberlands shrunk alarm ingly and in the rush to timber scarcely anyone bothered to start the tedious process of re- placement Conditions were left ripe for forest fires which claimed even more trees than the woodsmans ax And soil erosion-the direct result of unintelli gent treatment of woodlands and forests-became in several decades time pressing national problem.
 The condition of American timberland has not been rendered perfect overnight but the steps toward improvement have been far-reaching The United States Forest Service reports that during the past five years more than one billion trees have been planted under Federal supervision. Last year an average of $50 trees were planted on some 132OO0 acres of burned and cut-over timberland. More than 1000 of national forest land have four times as much remains to be done to provide for orderly timber production and adequate water shed protection.
 This is work of kind which appears the Nations daily ledger as expense. But. in truth, it is an investment. The trees being planted today at an average cost of and quarter cents apiece will be worth dollars to the next generation as tim Der They will be worth as much in soil--the top soil they hold in place when rain comes. And, fin ally they will tend to reduce the blight of flood in which this generation already is paying for the ex- travagance of it's predecessors.