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Evening star., 1940-08-16
Mayf|ower Ballroom
To House an Animal Clinic

The grand ballroom of the May
flower Hotel, where Presidents, am
bassadors and other world notables
have spoken, will resound to the
cries of COWS, dogs and other quad
rupeds August 30, when the Nations
leading veterinarians stage an ami
NAL clinic.
Occasion of the four footed in
vasion is the 77th annual conven-
ton of the American Veterinary
Medical Association, scheduled to
open here August 26.
While the closing phase of the con-
vention August 80 will see the
unique ANIMAL clinic, delegates are
expected to devote large portion
of their time to discussions of elimi-
mating disease among food-produc-
ing and work animals.
Particular emphasis will be placed
on eliminating "bottlenecks" which
might prevet an adequate supply
of food for the Nations possible
wartime needs.
Other clinics will be held at
Fort Myer, Va, and at the Animal
Disease Station, Beltsville, Md.
Evening star., 1940-08-16
Defense Peril Seen
! In 0ufmoded System
0fHighways in u. ).
Road Builders Official
Says Germany Has
Ideal Network

Americas highway systems, Sec
ondary roads and bridges are in no
condition to handle the heavy
pounding of military equipment and
are the greatest handicap to ade-
quate national defense, Charles M.
Upham, engineer-director of the
American Road Builders Association,
declared yesterday.
MIR. Upham, speaking in radio
broadcast over the Columbia Broad
casting System, heard locally through
Station WJSV, said the lack of "a
master system of modern motor
ways to link up centers of popula-
ton and industry will prevent the
efficient and swift mobility that is
absolutely necessary to motorized
military equipment"
A chief obstacle, he said, are
traffic bottlenecks. philadelphia is
a traffic dragnet. Farther South are
countless small communities with
right-angle turns, stop lights, dam
gerous intersections, grade-crossing
death traps and many other traffic
entanglements. Baltimore is impos-
sible. Washington and Richmond
are no better"
Leading the list of road evils, Mr..
Upham contended, are 100000 miles
of old-fashioned roadway on the
Federal and State system alone.
"'' These outworn roads would be
hopelessly entangled within "a hours"
after hundreds of military units
operating under war conditions were
added to the vehicles of fleeing
nom -comba tants.
To overcome these difficulties, the
road engineer said. highways should
bypass cities, or be carried over or
under them by means of elevated
or depressed routes.
Evening star., 1940-08-16

the contract price for temporary
housing at Camp jackson. S. G. The
9th Division of the Regular Army
and the 18th National Guard Divi-
sion will be located at Camp Jackson
under the new organization of mill
tary forces.
The ]. A. Jones CONSTRUCTION Co.,
Charlotte, N. c., was the successful
bidder.
The ]. A. Jones Construction Co.,
Louisville, KY, was awarded a con-
tract Of 81 ,159 900 to construct tenn
porary barracks at Fort Knox, KY.
Fort Knox is the headquarters for
the 1st Division.
Other construction, Of a smaller
nature, will begin at Kelly Field and
Brooks Field, Tex, for barracks and
onicers' quarters.
Evening star., 1940-08-16
STAR WASHINGTON G., FRIDAY

have no interruption Of his inspec-
ton tour across the war game area.
The Presidents press conference
was almost empty Of political COM
ment. He said he would accept the
letter Of resignation which Secre-
tary Of Agriculture Wallace, the vice
presidential candidate, left with him
yesterday whenever he wanted to.
He expanded this to say the resig-
nation would be accepted when the
campaigning started.
Thomas G. Corcoran, assistant
general counsel of the r. F. c., is
not leaving the Government so far
as the President knows, Mr.. Roose-
welt said. Reports of Mr.. Corcoran's
impending resignation have been
carried recently.
Evening star., 1940-08-16
Roosevelt Indicates
He Will Not Listen
To Wi||kie Speech
Expects to Be Busy
On Army Inspection
Tour at Time

President Roosevelt indicated to-
day that he will not hear the ac-
ceptance speech Of Wendell Willkie,
his opponent for the presidency, who
speaks in his home town of Elwood,
Ind, tomorrow. Mr.. Roosevelt was
asked at his press conference If he
intended to take time out from his
military inspection tour in Northern
New York tomorrow to hear the
speech.
At first he said he did not even
know what time Mr.. Willkie was
making his address. A correspond
ent said the time was 4:15 pm.
To that the President said simply
that he would be with troops. He
left the impression that he would
Evening star., 1940-08-16
Guard Roll Call
House Authorizes
Power to President
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Here is the roll call pote by
1Uhich the House yesterday passed
legislation authorizing the P-esi-
dent to call out the National
Guard and ReserDe Army units
for one year OF actipe serDice:
FOR-342.
Evening star., 1940-08-16
G. !. O. Office Workers
Protest CONSUMPTION Bill

Copies Of resolution stating op-
position to the Burke-Wadsworth
conscription bill have been for
warded to President Roosevelt, the
Speaker of the House, President of
the Senate and heads Of Senate and
House Military Affairs Committees
by Local q, United Once and Pro-
fessional Workers, omcials Of the
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tons af1liate have announced.
The resolution, adopted ut a re-
cent meeting of the local, declares
the bill departs from the princi-
Piles of our Constitution and strikes
blow at our civil rights, labor and
the labor movement and the demo-
cratic ideals on which our country
Is founded"
Evening star., 1940-08-16
WiIIkie-MeNory Unit
To Open Headquarters

Formal opening of the Willkie-
McNary Campaign League, Inc, will
be held tomorrow at 3 pm. in the
Whitelaw Hotel, Thirteenth and r
streets NV.
A program has been arranged to
conclude at $3.50 pm. in time to
listen in on the acceptance speech
of Mr.. Willkie. j. Franklin Wilson,
president of the league, will preside.
Evening star., 1940-08-16
College Golf King
To Train for Navy

By CLe ABSOclHCeU FItSss
BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 16.-F. Dix
on Brooke, the University of Vir-
ginia's national intercollegiate golf
champion, will leave here Saturday
for training course In the United
States Naval Reserve.
Brooke will not attend Virginia
next year to be eligible for another
crack at the golf crown he won early
this summer
Evening star., 1940-08-16
Completes Flying Course

Second 1t. Warner w. Croxton,
jr., son of Mrs. E. D. Croxton Of
2OO2 p street NV, has completed
a course at the Advanced Flying
School, Kelly Field, Tex, and has
been assigned to the 32d Bombard-
ment Squadron, stationed at March
Field, Calf, according. to q War
Department announcement.
1t. Croxton was graduted from
West Point last year. Previously
he was graduated from Central
High School here.
Evening star., 1940-08-16
Spanish Wax Veterans -

Several hundred delegates and
their wives left Washington by car
and train today to attend the five
day national "encampment" of the
Spanish-American War Veterans
opening Sunday at Detroit. A Spe.
cial Baltimore & Ohio train leaves
Union Station tomorrow at am.
with other delegates.
Evening star., 1940-08-16
.4,217,315 in Contracts
Awarded by Army

The War Department today an
nounced the awarding Of contracts
totaling $4,2l7,3l5 by the Quarter
master Corps of equipment, trucks
and housing.
In preparation for the concentra-
ton Of National Guardsmen and
Regular Army troops, $2,193,000 was
Evening star., 1940-08-16
Appendicitis Contagious,
This Family Convinced

BY the Associated Press.
MARBLEHEAD, Mass, Aug. 10
Maybe appendicitis isn't contagious,
but just try and convince John H.
Devlin.
His son underwent an appended
tony three weeks ago. Then his wife
had a similar operation. Now he's
in the hospital himself. They took
his appendix out Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22
Sub bruves N al
Mines, Sinks Ship

then taken ashore by Danish coast
guardsmen-all but the first engin-
eer. who, a United Press Copen-
hagen dispatch said. was made pris-
oner by the submarine.
1T was a hell of a place to 60"
a navy man said of the submarines
venture into the German end of
the Baltic. 1t had crossed the North
Sea, entered the narrow Skager
Rak between the Danish and Nor
Wtgian coasts, and rounded the cor
ner to the northeast tip of Den
mark.
Not only because of mines and
the presence of German minelayers
mineSWeeperS and other war craft
but also because of many shadows
the waters are dangerous.
The first news of the submarine
exploit. in taking the war over to
Inc German side of the North Sea
alter the Royal air force raid on
Sylt, came in an admiralty COM
munlque. Details We're filled in
from Copenhagen.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22
BY LOGAN JENKINS

A pretty blonde who looked more
the part of tea at the Biltmore
and bridge at the club told fas-
clnating story for members of the
El Centre Rotary club Thursday
OF childhood spent in the jungleS
of Central America amid the rum
ed cities of a dead civilization.
On the surface, chic, Self-possesS-
ed Karena Shields warranted sec
ond and third glance decidedly
but there was no indication, until
she spoke, of the wealth of novel eX-
perienceS that have been hers IN
the dense world of her $4,000 acre
plantation near Guatemala.
Mrs. Shields, who besides being
lecturer, author and aViatrlH, is
Oirried and the mother OF three
children who are in school in Los
Angeles. She was graduated hOm
Stanford in 1927. Part of her time
she spends in the civilization OF Inc
United States and part in the at
mosphere of a civilization of 1000
years ago. She commuteS by air
plane.
Mrs. Shields story goes back to
years ago when her father went
to Guatemala and carved cocoa
plantation out of the wilderness.
The natives have no particular
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22

love for white men who come TO
take rather than to give" Mrs.
Shields related. But after they
had watched my father work theJ
came to help him and that is why
am accepted among the natives
where other white people would not
be received
l35-Degree Heat
She described ner plantation home
as 1000 feet above sea level covered
by dense jungle growth with trees
that average $50 feet in height. In
the summer time the temperature
can climb to 1875 degrees of sticky
heat.
The jungle is not at all as dan
gerous as the movies might lead
you TO believe" she said. Il once
spent three months in hut in
the jungleS and saw no creature
more dangerous than a spider
though the spider was as big as e
dinner PLATED
The jungle in which Mrs. Shields
was raised stretches magnificently
from Vera Cruz to Panama in an
almost unbroken eXpanse, studded
by mountain ranges that boast a.
OO0-foot peaks. So rapidly does veg
citation grow that land which has
been cleared will go back to its ma
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22

has caused by two recent pro-Ally
speeches.
congressman who called for Crom-
Germany and praised the Allies
before Canadian audiences now de-
manded that he be impeached if
he does not resign.
veteran diplomatic observers
could recall no previous instance
when the state department publicly
rebuked a diplomat for disobeying
department instructions. They re-
garded Hull'S criticism to be so
harsh as to leave resignation as
CromWell's only alternative.
Hull's rebuke came unexpected
ly last night after the state depart
ment offices had closed. The de
partments press relations officer
telephoned the statement to press
association offices, although the
usual procedure on important re-
leases after hours is to call CORE
SpOndentS to the state department
building for Autographed copies.
The statement was prepared af-
ter Hull mad read a transcript of
Cromwell's address to joint meet
ing of the Canadian and Empire
clubs in Toronto Tuesday. 1t said:
THE secretary of state has now
examined the text of the address
made at Toronto on March 10 by
the American Minister to Canada.
Mr.. James H. R. Cromwell.
Secretary Hull found that the
contravened standing in
to American diplomatic
officers as public discussion of con-
policies of other govern
ments, particularly with govern
nents engaged in war, without the
prior knowledge and permission of
This government, is not in accord
with such instructions. Such pub
&c statements by our diplomatic
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22
Hope for CUNTS
Goes CIimmerinq

MIAMI, Fla, March %. CUP
Mrs. Emory Callahan is back home.
Fame and fortune looked into the
and her husband live, singled them
out for a day, and then passed on.
Mrs. Callahan is going to have
a baby this summer but not five
bieS. as she thought. 1t was ali
mistake. She thought an X-raY
15cture Of her womb showed foui
Or five skulls. There never WAS an
X-ray picture until yesterday. 1t
was Il Horoscope through which
Mrs. Callahan had been examined
before, and if the hospital tenn
cian who used it said anytime
about quintuplets he had been mis-
taken or was joking.
There will be no news and PIC
ture rights, movie, side show or
worlds fair contracts for the CAL
lahanS. The world may never hear
of them again and the Di)En"
children'S fame goes unchallengeC
Mrs. Callahan doesn't care a bit.
Sne mated the nOSltIal room pro-
vided by John S. Knight, publisher
of the Miami Herald, because the
doctors would not let her husband
stay there nights. She was glad
to get home, and glad that all tn"
cOmmotiOn in the neighborhood had
subsidized. She hoped she never saw
any more press agents, lawyers
reporters or photographers.
The truth came out yesterday
when X-ray pictures were made of
Mrs. Callahan at Knights suggeT-
ton. The publisher said the pic
lures revealed that nothing other
than a normal birth is expected ="
said his newspaper had Offered
u absorb the expenses of Mrs. CAL
lahan's medical treatment and hos
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22
Traw|er Reports
Possible Sinkinq
OF kazi Submarine

LONDON, March %. CUP) - A
German submarine was believed to
have been destroyed in the NORTH
Sea last night by the Aberdeen
traWler, Star of Peace, it was learn
Id today.
The captain of the traWler re-
ported that the Star of Peace had
struck Il metal object" and that
there were three or four hard
bumps
After the first impact the traW-
Ter seemed to slide over something
and there were three more hard
bumps he said. The traWler
keeled over but righted herself,
We circlcd around but could see
nothing SO we continued our voy-
age"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22
BY LOUIS +. KEEMLE
United Press Cable Editor

There can be little doubt now that
both the Allies and Germany are
determined to fight to a finish, no
matter how costly.
There were signs too, that the
war is entering a more violent phase,
in line with the promise of the
British and French governments to
take the initiative away from Ger
many and wage a more vigorous
war.
The statements of Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain Snd Frances
new fighting premier Paul Rey-
maud, that they Will not be pushed
into rash action would not indicate
any present Allied intention OF
risking mass attack on the West
ern Front.
The indications are that there
will be heavy fighting on the sea
and in the air and that the war
on land will be conducted from the
air in the form of mass bombing
raids on strategic bases and per-
haps on industrial centers.
The French have figured out in
detail just how Allied planes can
strike at Germany's rich industrial
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22
Looks Tee al BiItmore'
Type. But Woman Tells
Oddities Of Jungle Life

tive state in a few weeks time.
The natives, with whom Mrs
Shields played as d girl, are de-
scendants of that ancient civiliza-
tion, the Mayas, the remnants ot
whose cities sti1l stand in the will
derneSS.
THE natives today are tall and
handsome with oriental eyes and
resemble strikingly the images cary
ed in the Maya cities. They are not
indians" she explained.
For the most part the natives
Of today shun white civilization and
come out of the jungle on annual
visits only for the purpose of Oh
tanning salt and few other neces-
sites. On those occasions they bring
m interpreter whose Spanish shows
The Latin influence left from til.
time of Spanish conquest. The ma
tives proudly turn their backs dur
ing the trading and when they re-
turn to the jungles they leave no
tracks.
They don't wish to be followed"
Mrs. Shields added.
She recalled the experience of d
Hollywood youth who went with
her to the jungles for hunting and
became SO overcome by the loneli-
ness and strangeness of the place
that he took to firing his revolver
at frequent intervals, just to break
the smothering, frightening silence.
The natives decided he was not
only frightening away the game
but insulting the jungle gods and
took measures.
They would not stoop to phys
cal violence. They just refused to
help him in land where the youth
needed help in order to live" Mrs
Shields declared. The youth soon
reformed
John Kepley was chairman of
the day and Mrs. Shields, a guest,
was called upon to tell something
of her career, Ben Di Dici of Cal
exico, dressed as Capt. Juan Bau-
tista de ANA, voiced an invitation
to Ell CentranS to attend the Cal
exico Desert festival March %, 20
and &c.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22
Cromwell Will Resign to
Save Face After Rebuke
Bv CordeII Hull, Belief

WASHINGTON. March %. UP).
- Congressional and diplomatic
quarters predicted today that James
H. R. Cromwell, American minister
to Canada, would resign to save
face" as result of the severe,
public reprimand given him by Sec
rotary OF State Cordell Hull.
1t was believed that the husband
of the wealthy Doris Duke, who
has served as minister at Ottawa
only since January, might be pre-
pared to hand in his resignation
to President Roosevelt at once. His
New York office said that he would
come to Washington within the next
few days and would not comment
until then on the controversy he
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22

when it became evident
that. unless some directing agency
stepped in, well meaning but natur-
ally curious persons might cause
great damage to her peace of mind
and we'll being"
The Herald, Knlgnt said, would
continue to pay for her medical
care" just as though the eXamina-
ton had supported the previous
belief that she was to be the mother
of quintupletS.' 1t was understood
that the newspaper would arrange
some living quarters for the Cal
lahanS than the $375 a week sec
ton of the cottage they share
with two other families. The huS-
band earns about SIS a week as a
WoodWorker. The main thing he got
out of the fleeing fame was time
off from work yesterday to visit
he hospital
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22
Imperial Valley Press

Established April 20, 1901.
Published every afternoon except
Saturday and Sunday saturday
afternoon issue now succeeded
by the Post-Press Sunday. les
tablished 1856 by the Imperial
Valley Publishing company, 625
state Street. Ell Centre. Calf.
Paul Jenkins, publisher; A. G.
Johnston, vice-president, and
general manager; f. A. Fitz-
hugh, secretary and managing
editor. West Holiday Co., Inc.
National Advertising Represent
atives.
Entered at El Centre, California
post office as second class mat
ter.
Subscription rates: In California
Sc per copy.
In conjunction with the Post
press eSundays), per month.
60c; paid in advance. 3 months
S1.65: 6 months. $3.25: one year
5000; outside California $1.00 per
month.
Member California Newspaper
Publishers association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22
Nev.CaI Trying
To Sell Property

WASHINGTON, March % CUP)
The Nevada California Electric
corp, Riverside, Calf, today asked
the federal power commission either
to disclaim jurisdiction over or au-
thorize the sale of the company S
electric distribution systems in Big
Pine and Bishop, Calf, to the city
of Los Angeles.
Since the facilities are used only
for local distribution and none is
used for interstate transmission of
electricity, the company asked the
commission preferably to determine
that it has no jurisdiction over the
proposed sale.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22
Two Danish Ships
Added TO Neutral
Toll of U.boats

LONDON, March %. (UP)-Re-
neWal of German submarine war
fare in British waters sent two Dan
ish ships to the bottom today, max
ing a total of seven neutral ships
lost in the past two days.
Six of the lost ships and prob
ably all seven were torpedoed, naval
circles said.
Latest additions to the list of
.ost neutral vessels were the Dan
ish ships Christiansborg, 1870 tons,
and Charkov 1925 tons.
There was no news Immediately
of the crews OF the Christinsborg
and the Charkov after naval cir
Giles said that during the past two
days German submarines had tor
pedoed at least six neutral ships
without warning.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22

LONDON. March %. (UP)-A
British submarine, penetrating the
heavily mined waters at the en-
trance to Germany'S end of the
Baltic. has sunk the German steam
ship Heddcrnhein, 4947 tons, it was
announced today.
First German merchantmen to
meet its end by British submar-
inc torpedo during the war. the
Heddernheim was sunk eight miles
east of Skagen. at the northern
tip of Denmark and just inside the
Kattegat which. between Denmark
and Sweden, is the entrance to the
Baltic.
The British submarine commander
warned the Heddernheim'S crew
that the ship would be sunk. The
3G men took to lifeboatS and were
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22
Public Ownership
Topic for Debate

private VS.. Government owner
ship of the Railroads" is the topic
to be discussed by young people
from Central Union High school
for the members of Ell Centre lodge
No 1884, F. and A. M. Monday night
at o'clock in the Masonic temple.
Various members of the group will
also be heard in humorous read
ings. Refreshments will be served
after the meeting, according to C. c.
Bramkamp, master of the lodge.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22
George Jesse| to
Wed Show Girl

NEW YORK, March %. CUP)-
George Jessel, middleaged comed-
ian, and Lois Andrews, 15-year- old
show girl, said today they intended
to marry next Thursday.
Jessel recently was divorced IN
Mexico by Norma Talmadge, the
screen actress Miss Andrews gain
ed notoriety last october when she
gave George White, musical comedy
producer, black eye, and later
battled another show girl backStage
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22
GERMAN VICTORIOUS
IN AERIAL FIGHT

ICBITH. German-Dutch frontier,
March %. tUP)-A British plane
crashed i'll flames near here today,
after fight with a German craft.
The British plane fell in Dutch ter
rltOry.
It was not known Immediately
whether the fight aloft occurred
over Dutch or German territory The
fate of the occupants of the British
plane was not definitely established
but it was believed they had beer
Killed.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22

representatives. are likely to dis
surb the relations between this and
other governments.
"Secretary Hull has telegraphed
his views to Mr.. Cromwell and has
asked that in the future he observe
the standing Instructions
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22
MORE LICENSES
EXCHANGED HERE

Thirty Good Until Revoked dri-
vers licenses were turned in at high
way patrol headquarters Thursday,
bringing the total for an IL day per-
iod to 130
Owners turned them in in ex-
change for new, up-to-date licenses
bearing data and information as re-
ouired by present state laws
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-22
European Foes Determined to Fight
To Finish; War in Violent Phase

regions. most of them within easy
bombing distance, and the extent
of damage they can do.