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of yesteryear and provides a trim
highly streamlined appearance.
You have possibly seen similar
lights in clubs or other public places
which direct sort Of spotlight ef-
feet onto the floor below through
small circular opening. Well, this
simple unit for home use does just
that, only the light beam is pro-
jected onto the dining room table
with a very pleasing effect. 1t
seems to brighten your table dec
orations, glassware and silver with
out any of the discouraging glare
which goes with bright lighting OF
the old-fashioned kind. Dramatic
Is the word for it, we guess.
The lighting unit consists of a
sort of protector device, which is
mounted in the space between the
floor joists overhead and is just high
enough to fit between the ceiling
and floor thicknesses. The opening
through which the beam is pro-
jected is the only thing that shows,
and it can be made anywhere from
one-half inch to IL inches in di-
ameter. 1t is fitted with a small
metal trimming piece to make it a
neat looking job from below.
OF course, you aren't limited to
Frightening up the family dining
table with this outfit. If you have
a prodigy at the piano living in
your home you can spotlight his
or her activities on the keyboard
with one of these lights concealed
over the instrument. Or perhaps
you have Gainsborough or a
Rembrandt or Petty drawing that
you would like to glorify bit with
a light concealed in the wall op-
posite.
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You NAV mot know II HIT II &c
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Permits
Continued From First Page

enbach, 2l06 Nichols avenue Sc,
designer; to erect one 2-story brick
and cinder block addition, 1926
South Capitol street; to cost S25 900.
Annie P. Appleby, owner; David L.
Stern Construction Co., 1912 L street
NV, builders; Edmund w. Drey-
fuss, 1924 K street NV, designer;
to erect one 1-story brick and con-
crete garage, 1125 Fifteenth street
NV; to cost $17,500.
Charles Sturbitts, 1101 Vermont
avenue NV, owner and builder; Jo-
seph H. Abel, 1927 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV, designer: to erect one q
story brick and tile dwelling, .3505
Fulton street NV; to cost $4,000. >
Joseph Mitchell. owner; builder
not selected: Earl Won Reichenbach,
2106 Nichols avenue Sc, designer;
Evening star., 1940-01-13
BY LAWRENCE CROLIUS.

Few things can be more irritating
than having to make a long trek
to the basement to turn up the
gas hot water heater when you
are all set to relax in the bath
tub. The fates or evil spirits who
are in charge of the hot water sup
ply always manage to contrive a
lack of hot water just when you
want it most, and most households
seem powerless to do anything
about it.
To eliminate this needless dis
comfort and put the hot water
situation right in your own hands
clever system of control has re-
Gently been devised. 1t can be at
tached to the simplest and most
ancient method of water heating,
the so-called "side-arm heater" !"
with minimum of expense and
should pay for itself in no time in
salved tempers and increased COM
fort.
This new control system consists
OF number of little push button
stations placed in the rooms where
hot water is used, such as the
kitchen, bathrooms and in the vi
cinity of the basement wash tubs.
These buttons are connected by
low-voltage bell wiring to an elec-
trio control valve on the gas sup
ply of the, water heater in the cel-
lar Thus when you want hot
water you merely push a button;
and the heater is Immediately
thrown into operation. A red indi-
eating lamp IS provided on each
push button plate which lights up
when the heater is working, there
by helping to prevent your leaving
it on too long, but even if you do
the heater down in the basement
can't overhead, because it is auto
matlcally cut off by a thermostat
if the temperature goes up too high.
1t is a simple matter to push the
button again after you have used
enough hot water, and the heater
is shut down until you need it again.
This handy control should also
help to reduce your gas bills. since
you need not run the unit at high
speed any longer than you abso-
lutely have to.
X
We saw new kind of lighting
effect the other day which should
prove to be knockout in your
dining room If you are interested
in something quite a little out of
the ordinary. 1t isn't the simplest
thing to INSTALL but it does away
with the cumbersome light fixtures
Evening star., 1940-01-13

You may not know it, but 1t is
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Herbert 6. 0utwater
Heads Miller Sales Force

Herbert G.. Outwater, former
division sales manager for the AM
erican Radiator and Standard Sani-
tary Corp, and more recently con-
nected with the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board, has been appointed
sales manager of the w. G. & A. N.
Miller Development Co.
Prior to coming to Washington
several years ago, Mr.. Outwater was
In the construction business for
20 years, specializing in residential,
commercial and institutional build
ing. With the bank board he was
variously engaged in public rela-
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Cost of Six-Room Houses
Here Drops to $5,738

The cost of building a standard
six-room house in Washington has
dropped somewhat compared with
the last two years, according to the
January issue of the Federal Home
Loan Bank Review.
The agency's figures showed that
in December, 1889. the cost of such
a house was $5738 In the same
month for 1898, the cost was S. 1854
and in December, 1887, it was S6019.
The cubic foot cost in December,
1899, was $239, according to the
Review, and in December, 1888, it
was $244.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
ESQ Homes to Be Built
On Golf Club Site

Some $50 homes are expected TO
be constructed this year at the new
Maryland subdivision, Indian Spring
Club Estates, according to Abraham
Kay. president Of the Kay Devlop-
ment Co.
The Kay Co. recently purchased
$50 acres at the Indian Spring
Country Club and 1t plans to build
on 80 acres. with the remainder
left for operation of a nine-hole
golf course.
A supply house is being erected
and the company expects to start
building the first Of the new homes
In another week,
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Four Tracts of Lund Sold

WARRENTON, Va, Jan. 13 (Spe-
ciaD William E. Strother and wife
have sold to Jason Paige, ir,, four
tracts of the harrington land, to-
falling sos acres rods and 1877 poles,
near Delaplane, according to deed
recorded in the clerks office OF
Fauquier County, in Warrenton. The
sale was made through the real
estate office of F. W. Sharp g. Son.
The Plains.
Evening star., 1940-01-13
Concrete Foundations

A foundation of concrete is safe
from destruction by fire or vermin
The life of buildings is prolonged
with concrete foundations, because
they insure uniform distribution of
the weight in the soil, prevent un-
even settlement and consequent
cracking of walls, and retain the
structure in f1rst-class condition at
minimum maintenance cost.
Evening star., 1940-01-13

tions. property management and
building rehabilitation.
He is the author of the book, de-
signs for American Homes" and has
written many articles Of interest to
the building industry and on hous-
ing problems.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-25
Firecrackers Not Banned on Fourth
But They Cannot Be More Than Two
Inches Long, Fire Chief Explains

A lire crackers firecracker.
whether it's as big as hot water
heater or the size of you little finger
so maybe July Fourth won't be
so quet after all
Several glimmers or hope for a
noisy Independence Day were Civ
en- Tuesday by Fire Chief Corn
Reed of Ell Centre and c. C. Fergu-
son, inspector.
True enough, the ban on dang
erous fireworks" in the state of
California includes almost every
thing nearest and dearest to the
hearts of those who like to go
boom" on the glorious Fourt, but
the ban doesn't include two-inch
tircCrackcrSl
"Firecrackers two inches long and
threc-cightS Of an inch in dia-
meter arc considered safe and can
be purchased in FL Centre" Chief
Reed said. Also considered harm
less are Sparklers, flares of various
types and snakes"
The snakes" however, must not
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-25
Warm Advisor
Will Conduct Two
Field Meetings

Two field meeting and farm
center gathering were scheduled for
Thursday in Imperial county. the
farm sdvisor'6 office announced
Tuesday.
A field meeting, at which the ad-
vantages of phosphate fertilizer will
be demonstrated will be held on
the AL Kalin ranch at 10 a. m.
Those interested were directed to
drive east from Westmorland to
Kalin's feed yards and north about
two miles.
At 2 p. m. demonstration of
the effect of Subsoiling will be
made at the Emil Burch ranch a
miles and quarter south of tho
McCabC school. George Winright,
assistant farm advisor, said both
exhibitions are intensely import
ant
Winright will speak Thursday
night at a joint meeting of the
EaStsidc-SunSet farm center and
the Holtville chamber of commerce
at the Sunset school. The program
will begin at 8:l5.
A moving picture on the "Funda-
mentals of Irrigation" will be shown
and Winright will speak on "A
Continuous Dairy Campaign
There will be a watermelon feed,
Charles Ferguson, center director,
declared,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-25
Roosevelt Signs Billion Dollar Tax
Bill Lowering Income Exemptions,
Boosting National Debt Ceiling

WASHINGTON, June Is OUP)-
President Roosevelt today signed the
special $1,O5O 200, OOO-a- year tax bill
designed to help defray the costs
of the huge national defense pro-
gram.
The bill, which permanently low
crs income tax exemptions from
$4,000 to $4,000 for married per-
sons and $1,000 to $500 for single
individuals, also raises the national
debt limit $4,000 100000 above the
present $4,000 100000 ceiling.
The measure boosts Surtax and cor
poratlon tax rates and together
with the individual income levy
increases is expected to yield an
additional $322OOO,OOO annually.
Congress completed action on the
bill Saturday after eliminating sem
ate provision for a wartime levy
and an excess profit tax The
treasury is to study such taxes and
report its finding to congress at
a later date.
Tho new bill creates a temporary
five-year schedule of increased lev
les which are expected to raise
an estimated S75O,0OOOOO a year.
Such funds will go into a special
treasury account earmarked for use
only in retiring government obli-
cations.
Similarly. the debt limit boost Is
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-25
Civilian Military
Quota May Expand

Imperial County'S quota for at
tendance at Camp Ord for mill
tary training of business and pro-
fcSSional men was filled almost be-
fore it was opened. 1t. Norman
Dupont of the U. S Army reserve
announced Tuesday.
The first quota was four.
However, applications were still
sought this week because 1t. Dupont
indicated the quota would doubt
less be raised or room made for
moro men in other camps yet to
be opened.
Tho training. which will start at
Camp Ord near Monterey July =
and extend to July 81, is designed
to fit business and professional
men for leadership in home defense
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-25

matter and all he said was No
news" said White House Secretary
Stephen T. Early.
Early disclosed, however, that MI
Roosevelt will confer today with
Admiral Stark and Admiral Chester
w. Nlmitz, chief of the bureau of
navigation, on plans to expand naval
personnel. Early said that the gem
eral program was to add about
5000 men year to active service
from reserve personnel.
1t has long been rumOrcd here
that, in event of naturalization of
the Allied fleet, the United States
fleet would be moved to the Allan
tic. The fleet has been retained
in the Pacific, it was believed, to
maintain a show OF force in the
face of suggestions that Japan
might seize the opportunity of Axis
power successes in Europe to take
the Netherlands East Indies. The
fleet has been in Hawaii since man.
euverS last spring.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-25
Bard Experiment
Station Reprieved
By New ALLEGATION
Fund Approved for Half
Year of Operation in
Farm Research Work

A years reprieve on half
pay was the decision of a
congressional con ference
committee Tuesday regard
ing the Bard experimental
station.
Zero hour action saved the farm
from being abandoned after the
routine $14,O00 appropriation was
cut out of an Appropriation bill
covering tho coming year.
Key points in Imperial Valley
were tclCgraphCd by Rep Ed. v.
lac:
Finally after repeated represent
tations in my behalf house and SEN
ate confrerees agreed to include in
deficiency bill now before president
item of $1,000 continuation Bard
experimental station"
Similar announcements were made
in Yuma valley by Senator Carl
Hayden.
The station was to have closed
June 80, the end of the fiscal year,
after more than score of years
operation. The farm, headed by E.
G. Noble, manage, experimental
in crops suitable to soil conditions
in the southwest and studied salt
and alkalinity problems as we'll as
offered advice to farmers over a
largo area and conducted demon
STATIONS.
Although the 1940-4l appropria-
ton is exactly half Of what is nor
mally used to run the station. &C
cumulation of funds from last year
was expected to help tide the farm
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-25

ing with the Allies sea forces.
The British government and the
prime minister will relax no effort;
to secure that these ships shall
continue to serve the cause fol
which they have been employed sc
many months" Lord Caldecote, do
minionS secretary, said shortly al
ter Churchill had appealed for the
French empire to fight on and aid
in the rescue OF France from bond
age
The prime minister, asserting that
France had pledged that the fleet
never would fall into German hands,
ridiculed Adolf filters pledge not
to use French WarShips against
Great Britain.
I'VE know the value of that" he
snapped
Speaking few hours after an
other German air raid over England
had brought an alarm in London,
the prime minister reviewed in de-
tail the British negotiations with
the former French government of
Paul Reynaud, its appeals for unit
ed States aid and Reynaud's deCi-
sion that the American response
was unsatisfactory.
During these negotiations, he
said, Britain agreed that France
might seek terms for a separate
armiStice but only if the French
fleet was ordered into British ports
during the negotiations. Britain
he asserted, received the most SOL
emn pledges that Frances 100000
tons of fighting ships which are
of powerful but not decisive" inn
portance to the safety of the Brit
iSh empire would never fall into
German hands.
Yet, when the armiStice was sign
ed, he said, it was with grief and
amazement' that he learned that
French war vessels are to pass
into German and italian control
while they are still armed"
Churchill concluded his speech
with an appeal for the house to
show fun confidence in the gov
eminent AS it prepares for the cx-
pcctod offensive by Germany and
Italy.
He expressed hope that the French
colonial empire would become the
Continued on Page 6. Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-25
Yamatoda Repeats
Ride Tale for 9th
Time in LA Court

LOS ANGELES. June 25 tSpcClan
"A weary jury and weary judge
today for the seventh time took
a ride from Los Angeles to McXi-
cali as testimony repeated itself
in the trial of j. Sterling oswald,
former Ell Centre police chief, and
eight others on a charge Of kid
mapping H. Yamatoda, japanese
gambling kingpin.
The ride was described again for
the benefit of defense attorneys by
Yamatoda who stuck firmly to his
story that members of rival gam
bling syndicate with the help of
oswald and Lieut. Louis Henry of
the Los Angeles police force, kid
naped' him and took him to FL
Centre and later pushed him across
the border with directions not to
come back.
Principal piece of cross examina-
ton was from Edgar B. Hervey, at
torncy for oswald, who challenged
YamatOda's statement that he had
been handcuffed by Ell Centre po-
lice after being taken out of the
FL Centre Jail and started for Mex
iCali
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-25

.natlon of Secretary of the Navy
Charles Edison. who completed his
last day in office yesterday before
retiring to his Now Jersey home to
campaign for election as governor.
Although naval press spokes-
man denied that the main body
of the fleet had left Hawaii, Ad-
mVal Harold r. Stark, chief Of
naval operations, said he would not
deny or confirm the reports,
He said that after a conference
with Mr. Roosevelt, attended by
Undcrsccretary of State Sumner
Welles and Gen. George C. Mar
shall, army chief of staff. Stark said
it was up to Welles to make an
announcement, if one were to be
,made, but Welles suggested that
reporters ask President Roosevelt
at his press conference today.
The White House also refused to
confirm or deny reports that the
fleet is en- route to Panama.
i talked 10 the president on the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-25

siOnS similar to those of Fourth
of July skyroCket. But no indica-
ton had come out before that the
army might be working with the
scientist or even interested in the
progress of his experiments.
Another Cal Tech scientist, DR..
Theodore Won Karman. predicted
last night that soon the rocket
motor will supplement the inter
nal combustion motor Airplanes
will be able to travel much faster
than they do now"
Dr. Won karman. head of the
Caltech aeronautiCal department,
and member of the war department
advisory committee on national de-
Tense, predicted that 800 miles per
hour will be the airplane's highest
ultimate speed.
above this speed the air resis-
lance becomes terrific. and the air.
plane is automatically slowed down."
he explained,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-25
the bill immedia tely.

approve the bill Immediately.
Administrative details of the reg
istration have not been completed
but officials said the actual registra-
ton probably will not begin before
September or later. The bill re-
quires aliens to present themselves
at the nearest post office to file
the required information beginning
so days after the President ap-
proves the measure.
Purchase of three autogiros. Of
ficials said. was necessary because
of the extreme difficulty of patrol
ling open prairie and desert coun-
try with airplanes or automobiles
With autogiros. they said. border
agents may keep an eye on the
wide open spaces and when neces-
sary land in areas where planes
cannot light and automobiles can
not reach.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-25
Black Widows
Victim Recovering

Rapid recovery was reported Tues
dday for Harry Anterior, as, Cali
patria carpenter who was bitten
on the arm by what he said was a
Black Widow spider while working
on Main street construction job in
FL Centric.
Atherton. who was taken to a
hospital, said he was on the scaffold-
ing and saw the spider approaching
but because of his precarious po-
Sition couldn't escape without fall
ing. He chose to be bitten.
Physician said he would be re-
leased from the hospital some time
Tuesday,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-25
Cease Fire. Order
Signal for German
Raids on Britain
TwO-Thirds of France
Overrun by Nazis when
Armistice Ends Drive
BY UNITED PRESS

A pew armistice day took
it's place on world calendars
Tuesday - one of mourning
for France of victory for
Germany and Italy.
German armies were overrunning
two-t thirds of France. Italian armies.
victorS in a 14-day war, were poised
to march into the coveted sectors
of Savoy and Nice.
The French armies were to be
demobilized. grounding their arms
after 296 days of war, as of which
brought her to her knees under the
crushing German bltzkrieg.
Fighting on the continent was at
an end and Germany and Italy
were ready to continue the war
against Great Britain. No sooner
had the cease fire" order been
flashed to German and Italian
troops than German planes swarm
ed over most of the 58,340 square
miles of England and Wales.
Both Germany and France took
steps to enforce the armistice terms
which have not yet Been officially
announced by either nation. 1t was
expected, however, that they might
be made public within the next So
hours and possibly Tuesday night.
The French cabinet. led by Presi-
dent Albert Lebrun and Premier
Marshal Philippe Petain. attended
a requiem mass of mourning in
Bordeaux and then went into SeS-
sion to discuss the armistice.
In Germany it was announced
that Adolf Hitler had appointed
Gen. Joachim Won Stuelpnagel to
be chairman of commission to
enforce the armistice terms. French
government representatives were
invited to meet with the new COM
mission.
The signing OF the Frcnch-Ital-
ian armiStice brought the end of
the war for France. Six hours after
it was signed the fighting came
to an end Q:35 am, Rome time:
1926 am. French time and 1885
pm, psf, Monday.
The situation paralleled the sign
ing of the armiStice in 1918. but
in reverse. Then the Allies forced
the Germans to sign the armistice
ended at II am. six hours later.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-25

tue army hight VI experimenting
with some kind of rocket motor to
drive WarplancS and that some
secrets might have come out in
the address.
Dr. F.. J. Malina, Cal Tech rocket
expert, was scheduled to have de-
livcrcd the technical address on
the subject; characteristics of the
Rocket Motor Utilizing a Gaseous
Propellant."
His address was to have been
given this afternoon before a group
of the country's leading aircraft
authorities assembled for the InSti-
tute of Aeronautical Sciences. The
cancellation was announced by the
Cal Tech public relations department,
explaining the action was taken
ION the recommendation of the
U. S. Army"
For some time DR.. Malina has
been experimenting with methods
of propelling craft, such as air.
planes, through the air by explo-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-25

sion ana seeking liberty.
The national defense group, head
cd by former Gov. ALI M. Landon,
1886 COP nominee, worked long
hours to improve the language OF
this pledge, designed to satisfy both
isolationists and those who favor
helping Great Britain in the war
against Hitler and Mussolini.
The full resolutions committee
stood by awaiting the foreign al
fairs plank before putting the plat
form in final shape of presentation
to the convention tomorrow.
Sen. John Thomas, R., Ida. sue
cessor of the late Sen. William E.
Bbrah,. emerged from the sub
committees closed meeting to an
nounce that the isolationiStS had
dropped their fight against the
pledge of aid to oppressed peoples
since safeguards were inserted which
limited the aid to the limits of in
ternational law and provided such
steps should not cndanger u. S.
defense.
Meanwhile, Permanent Chairman
| Joseph w. Martin called on the
1910 Republican national convcn-
ton to fight "abSolutism" at home
and abroad and pick a leader who
will end seven years of New Deal
failure and futility and broken
promises
Martin sounded his rallying Cry
as the Republicans moved into the
second day of a red-hot presidential
nominating fight-probably the hot
test in 20 years.
Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio APP
pcared to have moved into the man
CONTINUE don Page 6, Col a.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-25
Auto Opens Door
All the Way

Ell Centre police Tuesday investi-
gated the strange case of an auto
mobile that opened door-so vio-
lently, in fact, that the door came
off its hinges.
The door was located at the rear
of the bowling alley. The damage
was done when the car was being
backed in the alley. The machine
was registered to A. H. Rehkopf,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-25
Charity Hospital
Sign Ordered Up

For the second time in a year
tho supervisors Monday ordered that
the gateway at the county hospital
be dcckcd with n sign reading
Imperial County Charity Hospital"
They ordered a similar sign year
AGO at budget time but some way
the sign never made its appearance
This time they ordered the pur-
chasing agent Rance Baker to order
the sign and see that it is installed
Immediately.
This Sign was deemed necessary
so persons taking patients to the
county hospital would realize it was
charitable institution and not
meant for those who can manage
to pay hospital bills,