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Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
Chicago Bears
Become New York
Yanks Of Grid

WASHINGTON. Dec. II. tUP)-
The Chicago Bears today were II
fair way to becoming the New
York Yankees" of the pro football
circuit.
They hold the worlds profession
al football title. have corralled the
pick of l940s crop of All-Americans
and have had a league rule passed
TO curb their future attempts TO
corner the player market.
In all the history of the National
Football league no club has doml-
mated the circuit as the Bears do
today. Just as the baseball world
set up the cry, Break up the Yam
KEGS" the pro football bailiwick
is shouting, break up the Bears.
That is easier said than done.
There is nothing decrepit about the
Bear squad which crushed the Wash
ington Redskins. 1910. for the
worlds title. but George Halas, own
er-coach of the Chicago club, has
no intentions of standing pat.
From yesterdays draft he landed
such stellar players as Tommy Har-
mon, Michigan's new Red Grange.
Norman Standlee, Stanfords 2l0-
pound fullback, Don Scott, Ohio
States husky quarterback, Dave
Rankin, Purdue's great end, Charlie
O'Rourke, Boston Colleges deadeye
Dick passer, and Fred Hartman,
Rice's giant tackle Halas' new move
Is to get these boys and numerous
others acquired III the draft under
contract.
Since he drafted 20 players he
won't sign them all but there are
certain ones Halas has his heart
set on getting in Bear uniform
next fall. Tommy Harmon, the lad
who insists he won't play pro foot
pail. is one of them.
Halas, who's a shrewed manipu-
ator, didn't work for months to
get title to Harmon just so no other
pro club could get him. He wanted
him for the Bears. Even though
he Bears are loaded down with
more backfield stars than any other
,lub in the league, Halas, like the
Yankees. is anxious to get more big
names and great players.
Harmon wired Carl Storck, ma
:ional league president, yesterday
requesting him to withdraw his
name from the draft list. But he
waited until after the draft meet
ng to do it. That makes about
he 87th time within a month Har-
non has said he wouldn't play pro
'ootball. Maybe he won't but there's
,ne man who thinks differently and
le happens to be the fellow who
,wns the rights to Harmon's service
George Halas.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
Football Fans
Snap Up Ducats

PASADENA, Calf, Dec. II. (UP)
Thousands of football fans pour
ed into the famous Arroyo Seco
during the night and swarmed the
ticket booths as $1,000 coveted du-
cats for the big New Years day
classic between Stanford and Neb-
raska were offered for public sale
today.
Most of them arrived after mid
night, but several hundred were
there earlier. More than 200 stood
in line before the Is windows at
which tickets would be sold. Some
were asleep in their automobiles
others sat around card tables, eat
ing lunch, and several card games
were in progress.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
Today's Sport Parade

shoes. I won the first hole when
MenJou, obviously shaken from
mistaking me for his caddy, asked
me the distance and what club /
thought he should use off the tee.
/ managed TO hang on pretty
we'll and We were all even until we
came 10 the hole whose fairWay
borders on a main Hollywood street,
and down which sightseeing busses
with guides travel in order that
tourists may see the movie stars
at play.
Unfortunately just such a bus
stopped as I, after slicing my tee
shot near the street, emerged from
beneath a big bush. As my head
appeared through the bushes the
guide, no more than ten feet away,
started to point out to his custo-
mers what he had every reason to
believe would prove movie star,
Lakeside being populated princi-
pally by actors.
And there" the guide called.
Then he saw the rest of me.
Had he seen water buffalo or
a ring-tailed gibbon stalking from
the weeds he could not have been
more surprised or confounded.
And there-well, ladies and gen.
tlemen. there is something I never
saw before, either in Hollywood or
anywhere else
Then, from neighboring bush,
also a victim of a slice, strode Men,
jou.
There we stood, water and wine,
before and after, night and day,
caviar and peanut butter, SO to
speak.
Then a gentleman land I use
the word advisedly) on the bus
spoke up.
One of EN- is wrong" he called
to his fellow passengers, and I
amt giving you three guesses which
one"
lost the hole to an eight, the
next one to seven, and wound up
thoroughly beaten. and S.
The next time I challenge Mr.
Menjou it will be at a game which
can be played in diving bells, forty
fathoms down.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
BY HENRY McLEMORE-

HCIL4WOOD, Dec. II. 0UP)-
When the final story of golf is
written this humble reporter will
have q definite place in it.
Not as big place, perhaps. as
Bob Jones. Lawson Little, Walter
Hagen. Gene Sarazen or Francis
Ouimet. but a substantial mention
Just the same.
Because I am the only man ever
TO be beaten at golf by the Aurora
Borealis. And the Aurora Borealis
in technicolor, too. 1t happened at
the Lakeside club here yesterday
when, in answer to challenge by
the worlds worst dressed golfer TO
worlds best dressed golfer, Adolphe
Menjou appeared to do battle with
me-
Friends Of mine and friends of
Menjou had done their best to pre-
pare me for the sight of Adolphe
rigged out for a day on the fair
ways, but he is a sight that beggars
description. When he strobe from
the lccker room and onto the prac-
tice putting green he was a combi-
nation of a sunrise at the Grand
Canyon, a sunset over the Painted
desert. and the paint testing room
of Sherwin Williams.
Birds in nearby shrubbery called
to their mates TO come and have a
lcok. The poinsettias outside the
dining room windows dropped their
heads in shame. The first thing
in Menjous costume that caught
and blinded-the eye, were his cer-
lse knickers. They were of tweed
and so fresh from Scotland that
heather still blocmed around the
knees. His sweaters-he wears one
for each hole on the course-wert
SO soft and luxurious that wher
he accidentally brushed against q
fellow putter wearing an ordinary
cashmere pullover there was graf.
ing sound.
wore the golfing costume
normally reserve for Sundays, con.
sisting of pair of corduroy slacks
a sweat shirt that was only one
process away from a cotton gin, {
pair of smart army and navy socks
and pair of half -soled alf-solee
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
L. A. LIVESTOCK

LOS ANGELES, Dec. II. UPJ-
(Federal-State Mkt. News Service)
Hogs $50, steady; top 7 IN few
1s6 ID. CALIFORNIA;, bulk medium to
choice 160-22O lb. 6.65-6.90; pack
ing sows 5-5.45.
Cattle 1000. slow. early sales about
steady; medium to good 797-1005
H. fed steers 9.50-9.75; Mexican
steers to 100; cows CT, few young
cows to 7.60; Gamers and cutters
4-5.75: bulls 6.25-7.50; nothing done
on stockers and feeders; calves
400, steady, few choice vealers 1880
Common to medium calves 1909.
Sheep 750, steady, fed good wool
ed lambs 8: load short wooled
shorn ewes, 4, few common 2.S5.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
Hotel BowIers
REGAIN Lead

California hotel bowlers recap
tured the lead in the Major bowling
league Tuesday night by defeating
Gullett grocers, 81. In other games
Building and Loan split with 20-30
club and Sniders divided four points
with Doc Dupont.
High scores of the night were
turned in by Hobbs with 591 and
George Fleming with 580
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
bENC.HW ARMlNG
by Burdetie Kline
--Pos4-Prsss Sports Editor

, will again lead the Hornet attack
and advices say that Coach Roy
Thomas may pull surprise before
the year is over :.
This years basketball league in
high school play will be dominated
by centers Carlos Garlic, Cal
exico center. looms as the best Bull
dog scorer. Jack Tackett is unde-
niably the spark of the El Centre
attack 3. and Pivotman Otis King
OF Imperial will be the Tigers best
offensive threat John Williams
will play center for Brawley and
Mamie StameS will have the CEN
ter spot for Calipatria. :.
Calexico will make its bid for the
championship with team compos-
ed of Garlic, Lauro Andrade, Hec-
tor Garcia, Rivera and Linn
Rivera looks like an able scoring
mate for Garlic -.
El Centre, defending co-champ-
ion with CaleXico, will have high
scoring combination in Tackett
uiiu WdiiSii RlSOs, oiiis acNtSihhaii,
who led the Spartan scorers last
year =. Other regulars are Fred
Robertson, T. Kobata, and Clyde
or Claude league .. Robertson
may develop into one of the leagues
better guards =. :.
If You want to see Sheldon
Loughborough's hair stand on end,
ask him where FL Centre obtained
Robertson e. Fred transferred
from Brawley last season and since
that time has become an all-valley
fullback and a main cog in the
Ell Centro basketball machine :.
You might ask Coach Covington
the same question in regard to I'm
perial and Otis King
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11


Coach Larry Hanson, who coach
ed at e. Centre high last season
has turned to basketball coaching
at Reedley junior college, following
an outstanding football season
Hanson turned out the first win
ming grid squad Reedley had ever
seen and has a better ball club
coming back next year -.
His team dropped a 20-lS de-
cision to Taft Junior college to lose
the league championship And
the Fresno stories of the game re-
ported two Reedey touchdowns
were called back on questionable
decisions by referees
Coach Sheldon Loughborough and
Ben Palmgren, of Holtville and
Brawley high schools, have the
toughest jobs in basketball this sea-
son . Both are starting from
scratch without a single letterlnan
on the squad =.
John Williams. all valley half
back from Brawley, looms as the
Wildcats best offensive threat in
basketball. according to Loughbor-
ough, but the northend mentor
fears that El Centro ana Calexico
balance will overcome all that Will
liams can do .
But over Imperial way the Tigers
are counting on their best cage
season since Imperial was a power
of the court E. With Otis King,
ail-valley guard from Calexico's
1910 team on hand. the Tigers loom
as a tough ball club g.. Other |
team members are Donaldson, Golf. |
Hodgson and Tell . Three are
lettermen from last year
In Calipatria Mamie Stames |
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
MARKET QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK STOCKS

NEW YORK. Dec. II. (UP)-
Stocks advanced today in moderate
ly active trading
Dow Jones closing stock aver
ages: Industrial. 1916, up 0.3s;
rail. 27.67. unchanged; utility. 2O.02,
off O.07; 65 stocks. 1874. up 0.07.
Stock sales rose Il $4,000 shares
from 10000 yesterday. Curb stock
sales were l5s. 900 shares against
lac 900 yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
l.. A. STOCKS

Los ANGELES, Dec. Il. (UP)-
Increased trading of 5000 shares
on the Los Angeles stock exchange
today sent six issues up, six down
while nine remained unchanged.
Central investment ga down 4 ;
Pacific Indemnities 401a up u, new
high: Bolsa Chica oil "A" Il. down
h: Standard Is up X; Union 12l4
down Il; Consolidated Steel pre-
ferred 16k down u General Mot
ors 494 up 4; GIadding Mclean
a.. up u; Solar 3A up -.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
ChalIedon Named
Horse of Year

BALTIMORE, Md, Dec II. (UP)
WI. Brann's Challedon four year
old son of Challenger II, today was
named horse of the year of 1910 in
the fifth annual poll conducted by
the Turf and Sport Digest of Balti-
more Selected for similar honors in
1899. Challedon is the first thor
oughbred to capture the plaque two
successive seasons.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
CHICAGO GRAINS

CHICAGO. Dec. II. (UP)-Grain
prices trended lower today after
early firmness.
Wheat finished unchanged TO Il
cent lower, corn off u cent, oats
unchanged to up Y cent, rye off
4 10 up y cent and soy beans clos
ed unchanged TO = cent higher.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
Post. Press To
Present Trophies

The Imperial Valley Post-Press
will present gold footballs to win
ners of all-valley positions on the
high school league grid team at
special assemblies at five schools
Thursday and Friday, according to
Paul Jenkins, publisher.
Four footballs will be presented
at Calexico high. three at El Cen
tro, two at Brawiey and one each
at Holtville and Imperial.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11

20 players, planned a second cut at
the end of the week and will start
wedding out the less competent
players Thursday and Friday.
The FL Centre cagers surprised
Yuma with sharp passing attack
and the left handed sharp shooting
of Center Jack Tackett, who Gagged
y points Tuesday night.
Coach Holt used IA players in
Gownine the favored Yuma cagers
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
Markets at a Glance
by UNITED PRESS

Stocks firm and moderately act
i've
Bonds irregularly higher; L. S.
governments irregularly lower.
Curb stocks firm.
Foreign exchange easy.
Cotton easy.
Wheat off 1s-h cent; corn un-
changed to off 4.
Rubber nominally steady.
Silver unchanged in New York.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
MPLS. FLAX FUTURES
(FlaI qu.

tF1ax quotations cosrtesy the
Soutbwest FIaxseed associptfon.b
DeceHber .----+#..'.#. '...'.. ....... %l.o9 q
May .............. 1.G0Ai
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
RESULTS

Hamline u 38, Montana State 80
Wash. State 81, Montana U. 30.
Santa Clara 46, Young Mems In
stitute, 26.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
'CoustConference
Invites Big Ten
To Dual Meet

DEL MONTE, Cal. Dec. II. (UP)-The Pacific coas
conference decided today it wasn't mad at the Western
conference any more repeated snubbng of
bid to the Bowl and more invited the Big Ter
to compete in dualconference track and field meet
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
Holt Cuts Cage
Squod Following
Win Over vund

The axe fell the E Centre high school basket
ball squad Wednesday Coach Raleigh Holt cut SIX mem
from list of 81 cage asprants following the spar
1912 victory Yuma high Tuesday nlght IN tne
opener Coach Holt anxious to reduce his squad 10
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
l.. A. HA Y
L. A. GRAIN

Los ANGELES. Dec. II. CUP)-
Mailing barley ....... s1.15-1.20
wheat No. 2 hard or
barley. Ne. !. bright si.i2M lily
Milo. No. yellow ...... 81 2o-1. 20
Corn. No. > yellow ........ sI.53-i.56
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11
l.. A. BANKS

Los ANG ELES. Dec. II. tuPl--
THansamenioa ...-.........t.. 4a-4a
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11

and planned to use as many Thurs-
dav night when the Ell CentranS
journey north to play Brawley hleH.
Best looking prospects in Tues
day nights encounter we're Warren
Riedy. James Morgan, Tackett, Tom
Osa, T. Kobata, Ray Ingle, Bill Pat
terson. Fred Robertson, Joe Long
acre and Edward Alarcon.
Other payers who saw action were
Claude and Clyde league, Terry
Okida and Nakagawa
The Spartans plan to enter the
Huntington Beach tournament one
week from Thursday.
Tuesday NIGHTS score.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-11

FOR IMMEDIATE RESULTS
USE POST-PRESS ClASSlFlEDS,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-01

Their return, however, may bring
with it a tremendous economic
problem of employment to dormant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-01

French industry, which Is only be-
ginning to stir again under en-
couragement of the Vichy govern
ment, it was said.
According to Vichy government
figures, there now are 100000 I'M
enjoyed in France, without count
ing prisoners-including 100000 job
less in the Paris region alone.
However, French industrialists who
travel into the German-occupied
zone report the Germans are trying
to get French industry back into
at least partial production, espe-
cially when the output is of interest
to Germany.
Generally the Germans are re-
ported to have limited production
to so per cent, declaring that normal
production would bring the French
plants into competition with their
German counterparts.
One French industrialist said his
firm-one of the largest in Europe
making automobile tires-stopped
production after the armistice.
Lack Cotton Fiber.
Later German trade commission
asked what raw materials were
needed. The plant director said he
had rubber stocks for a year but
lacked cotton fiber. The Germans
then delivered the fiber at the
world market price and guaranteed
to purchase half the factorys out
put, but limited it to half its nor
NAL production. 1t is operating at
half speed today.
Similar instances have been re-
ported throughout France.
How to absorb released prisoners
into an industry so limited, econo-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-01

news story, and does in one frenzied,
sleepless night the gigantic task of
counting the Nations votes-a task
that otherwise would take weeks,
and even months.
George Washington didn't know
Che had won) until two months
after election" writes Mr.. Ratcliff,
land Rutherford B. Hayes wasn't
sure until two days before his in
auguration, on March 4, 1877.
"Fast-and Sure"
"The official machinery can grind
slowly, but A. P. can't. 1t must be
fast-and sure. Besides telling us
who is the next President and the
makeup of the new Congress, 1t
handles 48 separate State stories
that night"
The article points out that the
cooperative news service has to
collect votes from islands off the
Carolina Coast, from Alaska, the
backwoods counties of Arkansas
(where it once had to charter a
locomotive to bring in the returns)
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mists say. will be Lavals greatest
problem.
The Germans. it is said, have de-
clined to import French labor-as
they have Italian, Polish and Slav
workers-because they say French
unskilled laborers are too "undis-
ciplined" and independent to work
under GermaA direction.
Laval, however, is reported willing
to risk the labor problem for an
immediate rise in his prestige, while
the Germans are said to be I'M
willing to keep French prisoners in
their territory indefinitely.
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and from Cook County, H., where
there are 100000 votes to be
counted"
Mr.. Ratcliff tells of the months of
preliminary work necessary to set
up the machinery to handle the
election story, saying plans can be
laid months. in advance, and II. the
planning job is good enough every
thing goes smoothly"
Stars With Precinct Man.
The article deals with how in
dividual correspondents collect the
vote from every precinct in their
county, lining up man in each
precinct weeks before election with
orders to hustle in their reports.
When five precincts are complete
the correspondent reports to State
headquarters, and follows this first
report half an hour later with
whatever else has come in. He there
after makes telephone reports at
hourly intervals.
This is done in every State, and
the results put on the Associated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-01
Release Of 100000
French Is Reported
Agreed To by Nazis
Plan Said to Be lovol's
Ace in Attempt to
Win Public Support

BY the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, Nov. l.
Gradual release of 100000 French
prisoners by the Germans is pro-
vided in an agreement in principle"
reached with Nazi leaders by Vice
Premier Pierre Laval of France,
diplomatic sources said today.
This agreement, these sources as
serted, is Laval's ace in the hole with
which he hopes to win at least tenn
porary approval and support of the
mass Of French people for the Vichy
governments program of collabora-
ton with the axis powers new
order"
That collaboration, with the
means put over for later discussion,
was agreed on last week when Mar
shall Philippe Petain, Frances chief
of State, conferred with Adolf Hitler.
marshal Petain on Wednesday
foreshadowed some action affect
ing French prisoners when he
told his people that, as part of
Frances deal with her con-
ouerors, I'm the near future the
suffering of our country may be
lightened, the fate of our prison.
ers ameliorated, the charges Of
occupation eased.O
Diplomatic sources said there was
no doubt that Laval had obtained
~. ralaoeo oorcopoopt J,,ripo his
recent Paris talks with German Of
ficials. When he plans to play his
ace card remains in doubt, it was
said.
Almost every family in France has
a son, brother, husband or close rel
alive In the vanished legion" of l.
100000 or more prisoners now in
internment camps in Germany or
German occupied parts of France.
Announcement that two-thirdS OF
these men soon would be back home
certainly would bring Joy to mil
lions.
About 100000 prisoners, diplomatic
sources said, will be forced to stay
in these camps until the end Of the
war against Britain.
Some still will be held because
they sympathiZe with the free
French" movement of Gen. Charles
de Gale, it was said, and Others
because their homes are in zones
along the English Channel ano
Northern Brittany now restricted
to German military operations.
Release of 100000 is reported Il
be planned as gradual operation
partially to enable smoothest pos.
sible reabsorption into civil life.
Employment Problem.
Their return, however, may bring
with it a tremendous economic
problem of employment to dorman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-01

Press wires serving whatever section
Of the country is interested in each
States vote. II of national in
terest. the results go on the Asso-
ciated Press main trunk wire sys-
tem-a 285, 000-mile web.
within 10 minutes of the time
a pivotal State reports some sig
nif1cant shift in the VOTE" the article
says, "a story of the change is In
the Offices of the 400 member news
papers, and on the air through an
arrangement with the broadcasting
companies.
Commenting on the accuracy OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-01
A. P. Ready 10 Tally
100000 Votes,
Using $1,000 Men
How Greatest News Story
Is Covered in One Night
Described in Magazine

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov 1.-The story
of how $1,000 men will tally some
100000 votes on election day and
let the United States know the iden-
tity of its next President is told by
j. D. Ratcliff in Golfers magazine
out today.
1t is the story of how the Associ-
ated Press covers Americas greatest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-01
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Pioneer Auto Maker Dies

ATLANTA, Nov. l R).-George
w. Hanson, IS. pioneer Southern
automobile manufacturer, died yes
terday. He was the founder and the
head of the old Hanson Motor Car
Co, the first automobile manufac-
turing company in this section.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-01

Eighty per cent of the best agri-
cultural land of Chile Is now owned
by few large holders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-01

the Associated Press count, Ratcliff
says that two recent checks in New
Jersey showed it to be 1915 and
99.8 per cent accurate, respectively.
Evening star., 1940-05-13
Better Working Conditions
Urqed in D. T.. laundries

A need for vast improvements"
In working conditions of Washing
tons 5000 laundry workers was in
dicated today in report released by
the Washington League of Women
Shoppers.
The report was based on the find
ings of the leagues Investigating
and Living Standards Committees
and represented an informal survey
of % of the laundries In the District
approximately of the
city's plants.
Facilities for working comfort
of employees - toilets, emergency
and rest rooms, drinking fountains,
lunchroom provisions and means of
changing and taking care of cloth
ing-were said in the report to be
far short of standards recommended
by experts.