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Evening star., 1940-04-07

Mcmillan, son Of Federal Judge and
Mrs. r. ]. Mcmillan Of San Antonio.
Miss Maverick is great-grand-
daughter of MIR. Samuel A. Maverick,
signer Of the Texas Declaration Of
Independence, and niece Of Mr..
Maury Maverick, former Represent
ative.
The bride-elect was graduated
from the University of Texas School
of Law and was admitted to the
State bar in 1896. She is q men,
ber Of Pi Beta Phi.
Mr.. Mcmillan, a great-grandson
Of Mr.. John Moore. chief justice
of the Texas Supreme Court, was
graduated from the University Of
Texas Law School. Mr.. Mcmillan,
formerly assistant attorney general
at Austin, Tex, is now a member
Of law firm in San Antonio.
The wedding will take place in
st. Adams Church on May /.
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Engagements
Announced
Yesterday
Miss Jane Eustis
And MIR. Wheeler
To Wed in June
Continued From First Page.)

Bradford Junior College, where she
is specializing in music and art.
Cadet Branson is a graduate of
Dewitt Preparatory School, and is
a first classman at the Virginia
Military Institute.
The wedding will take place in
the fall.
Miss Barbara Barrett's
Engagement Announced.
Mrs. Colin Douglas Barrett of
Watertown, Conn.,, announces the
engagement of Miss Barbara Gum
ming Barrett, daughter of Mrs. Bar
rett and the late Mr.. Barrett, to
Mr.. James Stephen Caples of Wash
ington, son of Col. and Mrs. William
Golf Caples of the Presidio, San
Francisco.
Miss Barrett was graduated from
St. Margaret's School in Waterbury,
Conn, and from Smith College in
1896. She attended the Vale School
of Fine Arts and is now teaching at
the Rye County Day School, Rye,
N. Y. She is member of Phi Beta
Kappa.
Mr.. Caples attended the Univer-
sity of Denver and the Chicago Art
Institute. He was graduated from
the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule and
the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts,
where he was Werkbund fellow.
He was graduated in architecture
from the Yale School of Fine Arts
in 1888 and at present is an archi-
tectural associate in the Washing
ton Office of Chicago firm. He is
a member of Beta Theta Phi.
The engagement was made known
yesterday at a luncheon in Water
town given nv Mrs Rarrett
Evening star., 1940-12-01

VN THE majority of houses, and in
practically all apartments, the
family living room is the only sit
ting room there is. This is all most
families need. until daughter reaches
the age of wanting to have her boy
friends come to see her. How Susie
may properly invite her friends to the
house is one of the most disturbing
problems that modern parents are
called upon to face.
According to present-day custom,
outside of exceptionally big houses,
the living room is given to Susie while
Father and Mother spend the evening
Evening star., 1940-12-01

three daughters to share the living
room, then another family sitting
room is the obvious requirement. The
curious thing is that. more often than
not, there is an overlooked one at
hand! There is. for example. the posi-
bility of a game room in the cellar.
The typical modern house is very like
ly to have a high. dry cellar and a
"rumpus room" all planned for. This
is a perfect room for the friends of
one or of many daughters. But this
is not the extra sitting room had in
mind.
The one l myself should choose is
Evening star., 1940-12-01

There are thousands of cases where
this giving up the family living room.
first to Susie and then to Alice and
to Mary and to Jane, pushes the par
ents into a position of subservience.
This is accentuated by the gradually
increasing complacence of Susie in
accepting the knowledge that Mother
and Father have scuttled out of the
way. leaving their accustomed and
comfortable places to her and her
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make the room look comfortable is
sofa. 1t should be long one, and not
too wide; but it should be placed
rather formally. fiat against wall or
preferably across the windows. Chip
pendale or Duncan Phyfe is best style
for a dining room, because it is re-
strained in design and not at all loung-
ing. and yet perfectly comfortable to
sit on; and with pair of good fat cush-
ions it is comfortable to lie down on.
The dining table should be small,
and its top fiat piece of wood with
out heavy frame or cornice under it.
A gate-leg table. or double pedestal
table with extra leaves, is the most
practical, since it is indefinitely stretch
able as a dining table, or pleasantly
small as center table to sit near and
to use for any nondestructive pursuits.
The most beautifying and practi-
cal combination dining-room-sitting-
room piece of furniture is break
front bookcase secretary, or an or
dinary. not-too-deep secretary with
flat-drawer, pull-out desk compart-
ment. The dining-ro chairs should
be chosen for general comfort. -Four
armchairs, instead of only two, look
equally we'll at table, and are much
more comfortable to sit in away from
table.
This description is given merely as
an illustration of how charming as
well as useful such room can be, and
how it can meet the children's hospi-
tality problem without sacrificing
the natural home comforts which the
parents cannot relinquish without in
evitable loss of prestige.
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friend instead of receiving him at
home.
Half-grown girls get into the habit
of always going out - not because
they don't want to sit with their par
ents, but because. unless their parents
are also talking with friends of their
own, young people are uncomfortable
when older people are sitting in ST.
lence. 1t is not that Susie's friend
George wants to say a word which
should not be overheard. Her parents.
let us say, are reading. but their very
quietness impresses George with that
feeling of listening silence" which
is much the same as the mike fright"
felt by novice broadcasters!
Problem Is Imposfont
IT IS really worth more effort than
unselhsh parents appreciate to do
something about adjusting this situa-
tion. As a matter of fact. if Susie has a
bedroom not shared by younger sis
ter, and if a little money can be spent
on furnishing, nothing could be SIM
pier than turning her bedroom into a
sitting room. The bed would have to
be exchanged for sofa bed. and a
dressing table would have to be re-
moved, but a bureau would look all
right if it had a picture hung over it
instead of a mirror. An armchair,
and perhaps stool. could replace
typical bedroom side chairs. and there
could be sitting-room ornaments and
lamps. In such a room, even though
the sofa be turned into bed at night,
it is entirely proper that girl receive
her friends - both boys and girls.
If, on the other hand, there are
Evening star., 1940-12-01
Drink YEAST
THE new way

Have you known you ought to
be taking yeast. but never stayed
with it long enough to get its full
benefit? Then you're due for a
couple Of surprises. Try drinking
Fleischmann's Fresh Yeast this
easy way.
Mash a cake Of Fleischmann's
Fresh Yeast in dry glass rita fork.
Add \ glass cool milk or plain
tomato juice or ,cdter.
Stir till yeast is july blended.
Fill Nth liquid, stir and drink.
Remember, for daily use, Fleisch-
mann's Fresh Yeast is one of the
richest of all common foods in the
amazing vitamin B complex. Drink
it last thing at night h.. first thing
in the morning.
Copyright, 1870. STANDARD Brands Incorpo
Evening star., 1940-12-01

a refurnlSneQ u1nlng IOOIn.
1t is strange how whole
rooms are wasted by the
very people who cannot af-
ford to waste an inch. They
fill the dining room with
diversified and wastefully
useless furniture "a great,
clumsy table. stiff, high
backed chairs, a colossal
sideboard which contrib
utes nothing in beauty or
comfort to make up for its
size. In other words, the
room is about as inviting as
a storage warehouse! But
in a house that is to be
homelike, that hasn't a par
ticle of austere forInality
about it. the dining room
can be, as a generation ago
it often was, a completely
livable semi-sitting room.
Furnishing the dining
room for this purpose. eth
er to be used by the half
grown children or by the
parents themselves, is not
at all difficult. The essen
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friends. Unhappily this cannot help
being detrimental to the respect in
which parents should be held. Yet,
the unsolvable angle of the situation
is this: No parents worthy of respect
would choose to keep the sitting room
and force Susie to 60 out with boy
Evening star., 1940-12-01

ents, in any way whatever. give their
children first place and take second
place themselves, there is an unavoid-
able belittling of their prestige. Orien-
tails call it loss of face The story of
King Lear is an appropriate example,
carried to extreme.
Evening star., 1940-12-01

table between, goOd-sized bureau, a
chiffonier and perhaps a dressing
table.
Sitting in their bedroom evening
after evening is not very comfortable
for parents; but what is of far more
serious moment, it is not very good
for the family morale. 1t is not good
for Susie's attitude toward her par
ents. and not at all good for the proper
pride of the parents. When the par
Evening star., 1940-12-01

in their bedroom. If there
are other daughters, the
prospects are that the par
ents will soon be spending
almost every evening up
there, since they have turned
over the one sitting room in
the house either to Susie
and her boy friend George,
or to Alice, Mary and Jane
and their numerous friends.
In the many cases where
a moderate amount of mOn-
ey necessary for refurnish-
ing. or even readjusting. is
not to be thought Of, there
is nothing else that Mother
and Father can do. 1t is pos
sible, if the house is at all
old-fashioned, that theirbe
room may be very comfort
able. 1t may have uphol-
stored armchairs, good read
ing lights, and present a liv-
able effect. But in the typi-
cal house of the present day,
the space in the master"
bedroom gives the appear
ance of being completely
filed with twin beds, a bed
Evening star., 1940-12-01

WHOSE HOUSE IS IT, ANYWAY?

Boy friends in their living room relegaie
parents 70 bedrooms. Here's better idea
<y &'''tzy $aa<
Evening star., 1940-12-01
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beauty hint every girl should heed When skin murky
weary let this revving skinceansng with Woodbur, Facial
Soap help brighten your beauty!
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-01

murder, and fighting in five Ru-
manian towns circulated abroad
as the powerful Iron Guard organ
ization participted in funeral SER
vices at Bucharest for their slain
leader, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu,
whose bones were recovered from
a prisonyard grave. .-
Young King Michael was under
protective guard of German SOL
diers, according to one of many re-
ports circulated abroad without
confirmation from Bucharest. These
reports said that strife in which
hundreds Of persons were allegedly
killed and Iron Guards fought Ru-
manian troops had created almost
a state of civil war, threatened the
position of Premier Gen. Ion An
tonescu and increased the possibili-
ty of direct German Intervention.
Dispatches direct from Buchar-
est passed through official censor
ship and indicated a less serious
situation than suggested by diplo-
matte reports to Budapest and
other neighboring capitals not par
ticularly friendly to the Rumanians.
In Albania, the Greeks reported
that stiff fighting was in progress
all along the front and that snow
storms in some of the mountain
passes were aiding their operations
against the reinforced Italian lines
No specific reports on the battles
were permitted through the Greek
censorship, except for a report that
Greeks had captured a heavily
fortified plateau on a main road
Continued on Page 6, col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-01

in many sections lighted up the
sky for hours until they were ex-
tinguished.
1t was feared there were many
casualties in the bombed areas.
Some officials theorized that the
Germans were testing the capitals
defenses in belief that anti-aircraft
guns had been shifted to recently
raided provincial towns such as
Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol and
Southampton. Eut the guns roared
ceaseles5ly until shortly after mid
night. Then the all clear signal
sounded and Londoners got res
pite until today'S first raid.
The air ministry said that British
bombers started five great fires at
Lorient, often bombed in an effort
to break up German U-boat raids
on British Atlantic shipping.
1t claimed extensive damage at
BrindiSi, one OF the most impor-
tant bases in southern Italy, and it
said that Bremen and Cologne suf-
fered heavily last night.
In addition to direct hits on i'm
portant targets at Bremen and Co.
logne last night, communique
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-01
Eight Points on
States Lame Duck
Sessions Monday
Legislature Given
Governors Program
For Special Meeting
By JOHN w. DUNLAP

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Nov.
30. (UP)-The state legisla-
ture convenes Monday for its
fifth special session of the
year to consider nine subjects-pos-
sibly more-that have been placed
on the agenda by Gov. Culbert L.
Olson.
The fifth session is called for 3
pm although the legislature must
meet at II am. to consider unfin-
ished business of the recessed fourth
extra sesSion-mainly committee re-
ports, and at noon to close the first
special session.
The governor completed the agen-
da for the new call and sent a draft
to Secretary of State Paul Peek
for publication and engroSSing. On
it he included the following points
to be considered by the lame duck
legislature:
|. Amendments to merit rating
provisions of the state unemploy-
ment insurance act to make lower
rates for steady employers available
by January /.
2, Legislation to permit the city
of San Francisco to transfer title
to Treasure Island to the navy de-
partment for duration of the en-
ergency.'
3. Amendments to the insurance
code to allow insurance companies
to undertake moderate cost"
housing program in California.
4. Further amendments to the
code which would regulate taxing
of insurance companies to circum-
vent deductions from the gross pre-
MUM tax if the firms participate
in the housing program.
5. Legislation to permit the city
OF Martinez to operate the Marti-
nez-Benicia ferry, recently acquired
by the state through the purchase
OF the Carquinez and Antioch toll
bridges.
6. Authorization FOR the city of
Bakersfield to transfer certain lands
to the federal government.
T. Authorization to form a state
guard for home defense, additional
Continued on Page 6; Column y
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-01
Great Fire Hits
Plant Working on
Defense Contracts
Sabotage Possibility
PrObed Following
Spectacular Blaze

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 81.
(UP)-A spectacular fire to-
day swept through the Gill
fillan Brothers radio factory,
which has been working on
national defense orders for small
airplane parts. Loss was estimated
at $500,000.
Preliminary indications were that
an incinerator ignited lacquer
supply and started the blaze. Be-
cause of the factorys national de-
fense contracts, however, fire de-
partment investigators said they
were investigating the possibility of
sabotage.
Seventeen fire companies fought
the blaze but we're unable to con-
troll it until the flames swept through
the two-story factory and walls col
lapsed. One wall fell out onto Ven-
ice Boulevard and interrupted street
car service Glow of the fire was
seen for miles, and crowd of 5000
persons collected.
Gilfillan recently was given ma
tional defense contracts for especial
ly designed bolts, nuts and air.
plane fittings. The plant has been
working on a l9-hour day sched-
ule. The fire broke out between
shifts when only a watchman was
in the building.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-01
Siamese Invade
French Territory

BANGKOK, Nov. 80. (UP)-The
Siamese high command said today
that Siamese forces yesterday in
vaded French Indo-China and oc-
cupied three districts near Aranya
after sharp fighting.
The high command said also that
yesterday there was an intense
machine gun duel across the Me-
kong river near Nakornjhanom,
Siamese border town already bomb
ed by the French from the air.
Numerous French casualties were
reported by the Siamese.
The Siamese high command an
nounced that fighting between the
Siamese and French air forces wwas
continuing on the Indo- China bor-
der and French officials here warn
ed their nationals To prepare for
any emergency"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-01
Lapsing Draftees
Face Penalties

Regristrants for military training
who have received questionnaires
from the southend selective service
board headquarters have five days
in which to make them out or suf-
fer penalties, Roy Johnstone, clerk,
warned Saturday.
Johnstone estimated that there
are a score of men eligible for mill
tary serice who have failed to re-
turn their missionaries in the
allotted time. The cases are turned
over to the U. S. district attorney
for prosecution when men fail to
explain the lapse.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-01

El Centro jumped the gun again
Saturday and had bull fight of
its own, thereby beating Brawley to
the punch.
However, El Centro's event was
not accorded the attention the
Brawley fight received.
There is a bull walking down the
railroad tracks, an excited woman
resident telephoned the police de-
partment Friday night and Desk
Sergeant Bill Keating dispatched
the patrol car to investigate.
The patrol car returned empty,
except for officers who explained:
The only bull we could find
down there was Dupont" (Officer
Roy Dupont0
Things were quiet for spell and
then there came another call that
the bull was marching down Wens-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-01

Gu OUdUcS.
The plotters had planned to as
sassinate Camacho during the cere-
monies. police charged.
Two gun battles already had been
fought between police and alleged
subversive elements. A high police
official was killed in one which
occurred at the headquarters of the
Mexican Communist party.
Both battles were intense and
fierce. Several hundred shots were
fired in each. Police tried to pre-
vent details from getting out, but
four persons were wounded in one,
IL in the other. Approximately so
persons were arrested and at least
two large arms caches were un-
covered.
The battles occurred "a hours af-
ter a violent demonstration in
front of the United States embassy
just before Wallace arrived there.
This demonstration was anti-Am-
erican and the followers of Gen.
Juan Andreu Almazan, unsuccess-
full presidential candidate, staged
it. They apparently were not in
volved in last nights fighting.
Federal soldiers and police raid
ed Communist headquarters in an
old Spanish colonial building at No
10 Brazil street, q half block from
the national palace. The street
doors were closed and persons in
a big window above the arched
doorway began shooting at the SOL
diers and policemen.
They broke down the doors and
Maj. Guillermo Garcia Gallegos
rushed along up the stairs, shout
ing demands for a surrender. Near
the top of the stairs, he was shot
in the back and rolled down them
dead
The battle followed. Police broke
into the Communist meeting room
through windows and doors and
arrested approximately SO persons
including five women. They were
taken to a police station, and, early
today, were singing the Information
ale in their cells.
The second fight occurred at a
private house in Twelfth street, ir
an outlying residential district. Po-
lice raiders were met by bullets
They fired back, broke into the
| house. arrested an undiscloSec
number of men and women. Re-
ports that two had been killed II
the battle were not SubStantlated a.
once. Seven were known to have
| been arrested.
| ArSenalS were seized at botf
places, police said, and each arSena
included bombs.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-01
Braw|ey's Bu||fight? Huh! County
Seat Cops Could Show 'em Thing or
Two. Bull Could Show EN- More

ley. Off went the patrol car again
and again there was no sign of
the animal. After cruising around
they did notice a small object in
the Harding school park, however.
1t was the "bull' all right. but
hardly large enough to be identified
by that nme. The animal was bull
calf that had been successfully
evading the law by hiding in bushes
and behind trees.
Then began the rodeo. With Of
ficer Chick Willingham perched on
a front fender, the patrol car set
off after the calf Chick swung
a lariat. He swung it time and
again but the only thing he caught
was the spotlight on the car
From then on, at intervals all
night long, police had a go at the
calf, only to come back frustrated.
They never did get him.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-01

HdraSSed pdrentS dropped Itle pun
problem long enough to admire the
youngsters as they streamed through
the streets with their pets, in story
book costumes, and with their favor
ite vehicles. A total of AT prizes
went to the prize winners.
Fiesta officials were scheduled to
present prizes in the costume con-
test, held Friday night, at the big
show at the high school athletic
field at 8 pm. Saturday.
Annette Abdener won the prize
for the best small girls costume and
Eddie Montoya the prize for boys
less than 13 years of age. Esperan-
"a Ulloa won the prize awarded
girls more than 13 years of age and.
Bill Donohue for boys in the same
age limits. Tilly and Poncho Villegas
won the prize for couples as well
as the prize for the most authentic
costumes.
Fiesta visitors had their first look
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-01
Y.IEe Parties Due
At MIGRANT Camps

Miss Helen Gahagan of the mo-
tion picture colony in Hollywood
arrived in Imperial Valley Saturday
to plan Christmas parties at the
four migratory camps.
Camps in FL Centro, Brawley,
Holtville and Calipatria will have
their own Christmas parties this
year with the gifts and food to be
supplied by Los Angeles and Holly
wood residents headed by Miss Ga
hagan. One party for all camp
dwellers in the valley was hold last
year but the crowd was so tremen-
dous, she said, that it was difficult
to take care of the children.
A large group of Los Angeles
sponsors will work with sponsors in
each valley town to see that the
parties are successful and happy
ones for the children. Further
details will be announced later.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-01

tend the conference and plans to
resume it Sunday or Monday.
"In the recent campaign Willkie
said, "men and women on both
sides of the argument, as they have
in all other campaigns, abandoned
dispassionate discussion and some
of them engaged in pure vilification
and personal arguments Their
only result was to lower in stature
and in the estimation of the Amer
ican people, those men and women
whether of high position in public
life or in other forms of endeavor
1t but lowered their stature in the
estimation of the American people"
Such methods, he continued, make
it impossible for democracy to call
to public leadership its ablest and
best men.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-01
Runaway Girls Pedd|e Ice Cream
Bikes Across Desert. So Does Con

Two runaway girls from Arizona
were i'll the juvenile detention home
in Imperial Saturday because they
appropriated two SIP bicycle-equip-
ed ice cream distributing carts in
Ell Centre Friday, peddled them
36 mics eastward across the desert,
and abandoned them.
Louise Holloway and Bernice
Johnson, both IT, year of age, were
two-girl parade as they propelled
their white enamled equipment
along the desert road to the place
they abandoned it between Gray
and Gordons Wells. Louise was
garbed in blue jeans and a cowboy
hat. Bernice topped her jeans
with a gaudy purple shirt. Motor
lists waved and shouted to them