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Evening star., 1940-06-02
Defense Budget
IOf u. S. Second
| To 7 War Years
; the Associated Press.

3y the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt's request for
more than a billion dollars in addi-
-tional preparedness funds puts the
country's prospective military bill
second only to the outlays of its
, two World War years.
If Congress approves all the pend
ing defense legislation the amount
appropriated and authorized for the
fiscal year beginning July will be
4672,011, ,352. ...
This sum compares with the So
-148, ,795 900 spent on the Army and
Navy in the fiscal year beginning
July i. 1917, and the sl1.0l1 1897 900
expended in the year beginning July
!, 1918.
In the fiscal year preceding Amer
icas entry in the World War the
cost of the two armed services was
only $S17,574, 900, despite a prepared
ness drive in the months prior to
the declaration of war
The total cost of the Nations
World War effort has been esti-
smated at $32,048, ,852, ,0o0-the sum
covering not only military opera
ltions but also industrial mobilization
and the like.
Present-day arms costs dwarf the
46l3 .O83 900 which was suf1ieient for
the Federal Army and Navy through
out the four years of the Civil War.
Evening star., 1940-06-02
Children Will Leuve
For Camp June d

The first group of children to be
sent to summer camps with funds
raised by the Jewish Community
Center will leave June "a for Camps
Louise and Airy, near Pen Mar, Md,
it was announced yesterday.
Physicians giving physical exam
nations to 160 children under the
direction of DR.. E. A. Cafritz last
week included Drs Sam Cohen Paul
Wilmer, Ellis April. Philip Robin,
Maxwell Hurston, Carl Silverman,
Marie Ramme, Ann Rand, Louis
Fraskin, William Perau, Herbert
Diamond, Lawrence Jacobs, Arthur
Lewis, Bernard Baer. Joseph Wagon
helm. Meyer Ostrower, Jerome Pas
ternak. Richard Cutter, Leon Ma
thanson, A. A. Shapiro, Charles
Aronstein, Samuel Feldman, Sam
Tabb and Jack Kassan.
Assisting the doctors were Misses
Sylvia kaufman, Pearl Rappaport,
Ethel Sack. Lee Sheer, Blanche
Schandler, Shulamith Novik, Leah
Gordon, Dorothy Stepp, Faye Moss
and Freida Aronson.
Evening star., 1940-06-02
Cardinal Dougherty
CounseIs American
Isolation From War
We Should Mind
Our Own Business
He Says in Interview

~ the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. June dennis
Cardinal Dougherty, Philadelphia S
widely travelled. 74-year-old arch
bishop, counSeled American isola-
ton from Europe's turmoil today as
Pennsylvania Catholics gathered by
Ahe thousands to pay homage to
him at huge outdoor ceremony.
On the eve of a mass in Municipal
Stadium celebrating his golden an
niversary as a priest, the cardinal
voiced in an interview solemn belief
that 1--WE should mind our own busi-
ness and not become catspaws'" In
international rivalries.
The experiences Of the World
War, he added, taught Americans
mot to intermeddle with the rival
struggles of greed and vengeance of
the European countries"
Ordained 50 Years Ago.
Fifty years ago yesterday, Dennis
Dougherty, then young seminary
graduate from Philadelphia, was
ordained priest in Rome. A native
Of Ashland. small mining town in
the Eastern Pennsylvania anthra-
cite belt he became archbishop in
1918 and received a cardinals red
hat three years later positions
which give him spiritual command
Of 800, 900 Catholics in this area.
Cardinal Dougherty will sing
solemn pontifical mass at II am.
tomorrow from specially con-
structed altar on the field where
the Army-Navy football game
usually is played. One hundred
thousand worshipers are expected
to be there for his blessing and a
sermon by the Most Rev. Gerald P.
OHara, bishop Of Savannah.
Pope Cables Congratulations.
Pope Plus has cabled his con-
eratulations to the cardinal, who
prayed in an anniversary mass
Thursday that the United States
may be averted from war
In the interview today, Cardinal
Dougherty compared the sweep of
events in Europe now to the bar
barian destruction of the ancient
Roman empire.
IF you keep history in minG," he
said, you will know that the end
has not come.
God will bring good out of evil
Evening star., 1940-06-02
Senator Nye to Speak

Senator Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota will speak at meeting of
the Citizens Association of Green
belt. Md. at pm. tomorrow.
How Can America Keep Out Of
War;" will be his topic.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
Old SWimmin' Hole
Takes 1st Victim
OF Summer Season

BRAWLEY, May 4.--John Burl-
son Wars, il. l5-year-old federal
labor camp dweller, became the
first victim of the old swimming
mole in Imperial county this year.
The boys body was taken from
the Alamo river a mile northwest
of Brawley at 10 am. today at the
close Ol a 17-hour search of the
deep waters into which he dived
from a bridge at 5 pm. Friday.
He was good swimmer but ap-
parcntly was stunned when his head
struck some obstruction in the
water, officials said. He was swim
ming and diving in the river with
a group of boys. He decided to dive
once more before they went home
He failed to come up after the dive
his friends said.
Between 20 and 30 men from the
labor camp helped officers search
the river. The body was found in
a 12-foot hole about quarter of
It mile from the bridge Funeral
services will be held next week.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05

MateuS, who is operating the place
in question at 442 Broadway, con-
tinued to operate it Saturday and
George YoShida was out of town.
Chief Ernie Cox said he was con-
tinuing an investigation into the
charges but indicated the case was
civil suit and out of his dominion.
1t was disclosed that the permit
under which the rooms were oper-
ated was in George Yoshida's name
lor many months. but was changed
TO MateuS' about three weeks ago,
when OSWalt was still chief of po-
lice. YoShida had charged that
MateuS operated the place after
Oswalt told him to move out, while
the permit was still in his name.
Inquiry into the charges reached
a climax late this week at a stormy
conference in the police station be-
hind closed doors obut open tran
Som) Present were Police Com
missioner Wesley He'll, Cox, OsWalt
both YOShidaS and Mateus.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
Italian Newspaper
Says Rome Ready
To RepuIse Allies
Eight Million Soldiers,
$40 Warships Waiting
For The Day. Claim

ROME. May 4. (UP)-The
ultra Fascist newspaper II
Tevere said today that Italy
with 100000 soldiers and
$40 warships in position in
the Mediterranean-is absolutely
invulnerable" to an Allied threat.
I'VE are sure that not a single
shell from an Anglo-French can
non can fall on the industrial GEN.
tiers or the coastline when the hour
comes" the newspaper said.
The newspaper said that 5000, 900
soldiers ready for action today.
were one of the reasons for the In
vulnerable position of the Fascist
state.
Commenting on the italian navy
II Tevere said that between Sicily
and Greece there are six battle
ships, 33 cruisers, 118 destroyers
and 81 torpedo boats operating.
1t added that 121 submarines are
stationed between the Ligurian sea
(off northwestern Italy facing
France) and the western coast OF
Italy, along line running down
the coast to Otranto Strait at the
entrance to the Adriatic Sea.
The newspaper cited seven rea-
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05

came to grips with the British
fleet evacuating Allied expedition
ary troops from central Norway.
And when the first great test of
air versus sea power was ended, the
Nazis claimed that:
l. A 30,OO0-ton British battleship.
a heavy cruiser of the 8250-ton
York type and 12O00ton transport
ship carrying a full load of troops
had been sunk.
2. Two cruisers, one battle cruis-
er, two destroyers and one trans
port ship were damaged, some OF
them SO severely that they were
regarded as total losses.
The German claims were not de-
MED at once by the British admir-
atty, although in the midst of battle
it might be that the Nazi pilots
misjudged some of the results Of
the hail of bombs they dropped in
power dives at the British fleet.
But, If the German claims prove
reasonably accurate, the long stand
ing objective of Adolf Hitherto
break the power of the British
navy-Will have been advanced by
long stride and a change in the
entire character of the war may
result. '' $500
Thousands of British lives have
been lost off the Norwegian coast
if the Germans are giving an ac-
curate picture of developments, be-
cause the Warships that were re-
ported bombed carried perhaps $500
to 1000 officers and men in addi-
ton to thousands that presumably
would be aboard the two trans
ports.
Furthermore, the Nazi aerial at
tack appeared to be an attempt to
deal a blow that would convince
the European neutral nations-in-
Guiding Italy-that the Germans
will win the war and thus prepare
the way for a knock out" of the
Allies perhaps with Fascist aid in
the Mediterranean.
In Rome, the Italian press (speak-
ing with official approvaD declared
that Italy was fully prepared for
any move the British or French
might make in the Mediterranean
and forecast gigantic blitzkreig
Ly the German air force against
the British Isles possibly leading
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05

cts issued to give the citizens time
to adjust themselves TO Stricter
parking control Mondays shower
of tickets will be the real Mccoy
Police Chief Ernie Cox promised
Merchants, generally, greeted the
parking enforcement kindly. Faster
moving traffic would mean more
available parking room for shop
perS.
Police Chief Cox ran into what
might develop into delay, how
ever, in drive to ban trucks from
Main street after II am. on bus
mess days. Questioned if he had
the authority in case of state
highway, Cox referred the case to
Dorsey WhitefaW city attorney, who
said that he did, with the approval
of the state highway department
Cox wrote Saturday for approval.
Sixteen firms whose trucks dou-
ble-park on Main street, thereby
causing considerable congestion,
had volunteered Saturday to coop
crate in changing their routes SO
that deliveries on Main street would
be completed by II in the morning,
or sooner. The Speed-up would ma
terlally aid in solving traffic con-
geStion problems
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05

rtnC county SfLA udQ llOpcu W use
the Brawley Veterans Memorial
Hall as a pay station for weekly
relief checks to SRA clients.
Holmes, county SRA director,
called Brawley Legionnaires unfair
because they charged him with play
ing politics when he announced that
relief clients from Brawley would
henceforth be paid in El Centre
with a probable loss to Brawley
merchants of from $4,000 to $4,000
monthly" He suggested that every
body get toather and talk it over
before somebody makes something
OF it,
There's nothing to talk over.
We've cancelled the lease because
it was invalid" the Brawley Legion
posts executive committee said. I'VE
couldn't lease the hall if we wanted
TO-"
AL the same time. it was revealed
that it cost the BraWloy post $28
to repair damage to hardware floor
and furniture after the one time the
hall was used as an SRA pay sta
ton
Holmes declared his original dec
laration wasn't politics but mis-
understanding and he was only the
proverbial innocent bystander any
way.
The trouble started when the
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
Ford Praises Work
Of Men Over 10

DEARBORN, Mich. May 4. CUP)
Henry Ford, commenting on Pres
ident Roosevelt's proclamation of
next week as National Employment
Week said today he believed men
do not come to full usefulness until
they are 40
Ford'S statement was in response
TO the presidents appeal for en-
ployment of men over 40 years OF
age. He said for years he has advo-
Gated employment of men over
40 because their experience, steadi-
ness and judgment are absolutely
necessary to the best success of in
dutry. More than that, I doubt if
there are enough brains under so to
supply the management needed in
industry"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05

Bimelich e. favored, but he lost.
CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville,
May 4. CUP)-Milky Way Farm S
Gallahadion, a, son of Sir Gallahad
III who had been beaten ID times,
out-gamed mighty Bimelech in the
stretch today for one of the greatest
upset victories in the history of
the Kentucky Derby Dit was third.
Off we'll with the pack at tie
break, Gallahadion came on with
a breath taking rush after he had
covered half of the stretch and
turned back Col. E. r. Bradley's S
previously undefeated Bimeleci by
a length.
Arnold Hangers Dit, winner of
the Wood Memorial and the hope
of the east, was third in the field
of eight starters. Gallahadion turn
ed the mile and a quarter on a fast
track with Carroll Bierman up in
the slow time of 2:05. Bimelech
could never stay with him once he
put his head down and started to
drive.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
Ketchen Defends
School 'Frins'

'FrillS" of education were defend
ed Friday afternoon at Kiwanis
club luncheon meeting in the Bar
bara Worth hotel by Don Ketchen,
vice principal of Central high school.
Ketchen, in a report to the club,
discussed vocational training courses
at Central and explained the need
for variety of courses to account
for needs of pupils of varying ability.
j. r. FoSS, chairman of the day,
introduced John j. Miller of San
Francisco, secretary of the Indivi-
dual Enterprise Alliance, who spoke
on increasing government control OF
business.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
$50 Valley People
Join MexicaIi TO
Dedicate New Line

More than $50 valley resi-
dents will join in the dedica-
ton of the New Mexicali
railway from MeXicali to the
gulf in an excursion to Pun
ia Penasco Sunday, Bob Hays, Sec
retary of the Ell Centre chamber
of commerce, announced Saturday.
The excursion train will leave
MeXicali at am. Sunday, Hays
said, will arrive in Camp Lopez
Calada at 80 pm. where the dedi-
cation ceremony will take place.
The train will then proceed TO
Pllnta PenaSco where dinner and
an elaborate program has been plan
ned.
Plans for the excursion were COM
peted Saturday when Ruben MeJlo
postmaster general from Mexico
City. and Ing NJ. Aguila, secretary
of communications arrived in Mex
icali.
The excursion train will return
to Mexicali at 8 am. Monday, Hays
said.
Ell Centros representatives will
be headed by Mayor Robert Hat
ton and City Councilmen Yves Hell
and P. l.. Moore. Others who Will
make the trip are, Walter Have
korst. Steve Harris, Charles Bram-
kamp, Robert Hays, Charles Bla-
lack, Bill Tondro, P. G. Ingvason,
Harry SoneS, Hugo Miller, D. B.
Roberts, Gordon Scriven, w. A
Scheniman, Noble Greer, H. S
Schweitzer, James Marshall ano
Ben HulSe.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
Yoshida Card Room Row Marks Time;
It's Civil Case Says Police Head

The difficulties of George Yo-
ahida who claimed he was muScled
out of a lucrative card room con-
cession in Ell Centro, remained in
status quo Saturday.
Yoshida, brother of Dick YoShida
who is under federal indictments in
the celebrated Yamatoda kidnapping
case. charged before a city council
meeting this week that he was eaSed
out of the business on Broadway
by the then police chief, j. Sterling
OsWalt, and a special officer, Raul
MateuS. OSWalt and MateuS, too,
arc under Indictment
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
Hindu Held for
Attempted Arson

Fater Deem. 43. Hindustani far
mer Of the Heber district, was held
in the county Jail Saturday in lieu
of $4,000 bail demanded after he
was arraigned on charge of at
tempting to burn the home of Mrs.
Reynalda Din, a neighbor.
The Din home, in which five
small children were sleeping, was
saved because Mrs. Din was in the
yard and saw the flames licking
along the roof. she said. Deem was
accused of throwing oil soaked grain
sacks on the roof The fire occurred
Nav l.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
Unidentified Man
Dead at Yuma

YUMA, May d. (UP)-AuthoritieS
today sought to learn the identity
Of a 60yearold white man whose
badly decomposed body was found
IN underbrush near the Southern
Pacific tracks.
DR.. Calvin Eaton, city physician.
said the man apparently had been
dead for week. There was no in
dication that he was victim of a
railway miShap, Dir. Eaton said, and
it was probable he had crawled un-
der the bushes to rest and died while
asleep.
The only hint as to the mans
identity came from the initials
u. ]. B." found on his shirt.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05

of Rights for an imagined security
under state-ism ." he added.
urging close inspection OF legisla-
ture candidates.
Other speakers included Maj. w.
G.. Kneeland of Yuma. who discuss
ed Yuma valleys tourist charms ~
length, John Hettich, secretary Of
Highway 80 chamber of commerce,
President Paul Brewer of the chsn1-
ber
w. H. Tyler. ir., associated prest-
dent, presided. The dinner rassttnG
was held at the Barbara Wosth
Continued on Page s; Col u
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05

som prison claimed him and took
him back to serve a six-year term
for parole violation. Records show
he served time in four penitentiar-
les.
Apparently Smith, alias r. Arthur
G. James, thought the border coun-
try fair ground for prospecting. He
told Los Angeles officers he re-
Gently perfected a cheap method
of manufacturing beryllium metal
in his "little laboratory in a Col
orado river camp near Yuma" In
1884 he displayed gold samples and
blueprints of machines he said he
had patented
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05

He had two brushes with the law
in Imperial county He was con-
vinced of defrauding w. F. Walters,
then of a northend bank and re-
Gently with the Ell Centro Produc-
ton Credit association, of $500 il
check deal Records show Smith
realized a profit of $2,500 in hog
deal. Four years after the check
and hog deal in the north-end OF
the valley, Smith was arrested in
Ell Centre by Patrolman Jack Tack
EFT who had been called to arrest
a man suspected of attempting to
work a bogus check deal in a down.
town store
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05

Miller spoke on a program that
included chamber of commerce rep
resentativeS from both San Diego
and Yuma counties.
"State-iSm, which includes all
forms of collectivism, is moving in
on our national economy it
means uSurpation by the govern
ment of private enterprise" Miller
declared in stirring warning,
1T is better to live more expen-
Sively in freedom than be ultimately
regimented in poverty . The fu-
ture lies with the nations youth
that I hope will not sell their Bill
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
GERMANS REPULSE
ALLIED ATTACKS

STOCKHOLM, May 4. CUPp--
The Swedish radio said that fight
ing in the northern Narvik area OF
Norway was intensified today and
that German troops had repulSed
Allied attacks from the north.
The radio said that two British
airplanes were shot down when i've
aircraft attacked Narvik and were
engaged by German planes wnicil
took off from a hidden LANDING
field.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
LABOR ACT CHANGES
DUE FOR DEBATE

WASHINGTON. May 4. UP)-
House foes of the National Labor
Relations Board were determined
today to call up pending amend
mentS to the Wagner labor act des-
pite the chambers rejection of all
changes in the wage-hour law.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
Civic Body Hears
Plea for Freedom

"topSy turvy world where between 10000 and $4,000
California businessmen financing government reg
mentaon" described Friday night for members of
the Associated Chambers of Commerce by John J. Miller
of San Francisco secretary of the Individual Enterprise
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
Woman Granted Right to
Inspect Spouse's Pockets

WALIHAM Mass, May 4. tUP)-
District Judge P. S. Cunniff ruled
today that "it has been a Wife's
privilege since the beginning of
time" to search her husbands s
pockets.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
Checks Catch 10
With Ex-Convict

Charles B. Smith, six months out of Folsom prison af-
ter serving term for passing bad checks in Imperial
ty held in Los Angeles Saturday while officers nves
tgated bad check and theft charges filed against him
He given oneyear jail sentence in Imperial coun-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
1rQffic Tickets
Real Mccoy Now

to speed up traffic on Main Street in El Centric
moved forward Saturday with the announcement that all
automobiles that park longer than the two hour limit in
the business district will be cketed, starting Monday
Up until now cars have marked and warning tick
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
Baseball
NATIONAL


Brooklyn at Pittsburgh, postpon
ed, cold weather.
New York .... ITO 900 000-2 8
Chicago ............ 010 101 00X-3 6
Hubbell and Danning; French and
Todd.
Philadelphia 900 200 900 90 6 3
Cincinnati 600 100 DOL 0l-3 8 o
Higbe and Warren; Derringer,
Beggs and Lombardi, Baker.
Boston OOO OOO
st. LOUIS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 003 900
Sullivan and Mast; MCGEE and
Owen.
AMERICAN
Chicago ........ 400 900 5l0-l0 Is 2
New York ... O1O 600 020-3 9 3
Lee and fresh; Sundra, Hadley
%, Hildebrand o. Grissom and
RoSar
st. Louis ....... 900 0l0 000-l II 2
Boston .......... 100 100 ok 6 2
Harris, Niggeling and Swift, Susce
80; GalehouSe and Desautels.
Detroit .......... l0l 600 OILS 10
Philadelphia q. 016 040 03x-l4 II
Hutchinson, Trout 80. Seats (5)
and Tebbetts; Babich and Noyes.
Cleveland ......................... 0O3 003 q
Washington ....................... 100 002 |
Milnar and Hemsley; Chase, ia
cobS and Ferrell.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
1st Great est
Gives Air Power
Full Supremacy
Berlin Claims 'Tremendou Victory As
Bombers Attack Batt|eships Evacuatins
Expe di+ionary Forces from Battle Zone
BY UNITED PRESS -

Germany's air fleet Saturday claimed tremendous
victory British power.
Off the coast of Norway the Germans officially report
ed the aerial armada Marshal Hermann Goerng at last
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
Out-Waited-

Out Waited
A couple of Okies, or maybe
Arkies, walked into a Holtville bar
the other evening and silently
climbed upon stools. The bartender
stood by, waiting expectantly. The
two men started blankly hither and
yon but neither said word.
Finally, when the silence had
begun to get on everybody's nerves,
one of the OkieS sighed and, look
ing at his companion, remarked in
a mixture of disgust and disappoint-
ment:
Il guess you're just too derned
ignorant to buy a drink"
We thought he was just a little
smarter.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
His Weakness
A warming:

His Weakness
A warning:
Never challenge John Kepley to
a paper Wad duel. He has the con-
troll of a Robin Hood, deadly at
80 yards.
Johns skill springs not from
schooldays, the normal training
ground for paper wad experts, but
while he was in the Santa Fe Of
tices in Topeka. Why there, we
couldn'. find out.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
Brow|ey's Legion Hal!
Squabb|e Brings Denial
Otis Politics Claim
ISRA Director Says He Was Innocent
Bys+ander.' Suggests Nesotia+ion+ to
Iron Out Troubles; No Need, Says Post

Lets negotiate said SRA Director Ned Holmes Sat
urday.
There's nothing to negotiate" said the Brawey Amer
lean Legion post
There rested the matter Of the cancelled lease by which
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-05
D lMn!Ne AMs!!Ne
EpoR7ER

OknIlpTcStnt nttu-
1t couldn't have been magic, so
it must have been skill by which
Reed Cunningham managed to be
in two places at once Friday night
at the peace officers banquet in
Imperial
Reed supervised the cooking of
chicken and noodles for the throng,
made the salad, and presided during
the entertainment all at the same
time.
No, he didn't use his motorcycle.
Upholstered
, Behind the scenes at the Ten
Thousand club play during inter-
mission, most of the activity ap-
peared to center upon dressing BeSse
Beynon.
Her role required rapid change
from street clothes to evening dress
and helping her were most of the
other feminine members of the cast.
While one slipped on dress, an
other slipped off slip or what
not and BeSse was in Whirl when
she was rushed onto the stage, just
in time.
The scene went off and during
the next intermission she was re-
quired to change back again. But
she couldn't locate some of the
essential parts of the street dress
costume. She couldn't locate them
until she slipped off the evening
dress. They were underneath!
Just in passing, Central high
school, where the play was held,
was the closest thing to a three
ring circus Ell Centro ever put on.
While the play was progressing,
there was also a Wilson school
dance in the gym and track
meet outside!