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Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
British Carry War
To Germany Along
West Africa Coast
Nazi Bombing Planes in
New Unsuccessful
Attacks on London
BY UNITED PRESS

Great Britain and "frec
France" carried the war to
Germany in South Africa
Monday while stout British
defenses flung back waves of Ger
man planes from the London area.
Belief was growing that Adolf
Hitler had missed his best chance
to invade Great Britain, but the
belief led to anxiety over a possible
Axis Mediterranean offensive.
A British expedition led by French
Gen. Charles De Gaulle is fighting
for the alag of free France" at Da-
kar, on the west coast of Africa,
the British ministry of information
revealed Monday night. Other re-
ports said the British fleet had
opened up bombardment of Ger
man positions at Dakar, which Ger
many may be trying to transform
into great naval and aerial base.
Meanwhile, despite bad weather,
German planes came over the Eng
lish coast in force but were turned
back British bombers raided Berlin
and the coastal invasion" ports.
Hostilities broke out in Indo-
China. japanese troops crossed the
border and fought an engagement
with French defenders at the bor-
der station of Dong Dang. The
clash apparently was caused by
faulty communications, as the
French announced they had yielded
to Japanese demands for use OF
1ndo-China as base of operations
against China's Generalissimo Chi
ang Kai-Shek.
The Vichy government of France
said that an agreement had been
signed giving the Japanese army
and navy special facilities in
French Indo-China." Reports said
Continued on Page 8. Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23

: Staff of the city clerks office was
at work Monday preparing tax state
ments for each taxpayer. They will
be ready soon after the first of
the month.
Actually, it will take about $339, 900
to run the city for the coming year,
according to budget estimates, but
the citizens will be asked to pay
through the direct $1.80 tax rate
only about two thirds of the sum,
or $227,6O0
The balance of the figure is ac-
counted for in roughly 100000 in
anticipated revenue from other
sources such as the water depart
ment and state gasoline funds.
Street assessments which are due
total $19,7OO.
The levieS are made on a basis
of about $l2,500,00O total valuation,
of which $10,090OOO represents real
estate and the balance personal
property.
Present levy is based upon the
tax year of July 1, 1910 to June 30,
194l. The first half payment will
be payable anytime between Oct
and Nov. 25, City Clerk Neal Gavin
said. First half will become delin-
quent after Nov. 25. The second
half payment will not be delinquent
until after April %.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
kewCity Hall
Sefup Considered

Plans for rearrangemcnt of
the city hall in El Centre were un-
der close consideration Monday.
Some time ago the public works
department. proposed an altered
setup whereby city offices could
expand to take in the corner
now occupied by the I. v. Build
ing and Loan.
Last week the I. V. Building
and Loan agreed on condition the
city pay $50 more rent a month,
bringing the total to $500. The
city would have to finance its
own partition construction, how
ever.
Advantages of the proposed set
up were: better lighting and
working conditions for city en-
ployes; more space for crowded
offices: elimination of dark cor
ridOrs through which public must
go to reach the engineering Of
flee and making offices gener-
ally more accessible for public.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23

that the celebration, sponsored by
Holtville assisted by other civic
groups in the county, will be held
on Oct. II. At that time, the check
gates will be lifted sending the first
dose of All American water into
the East highline
Workmen will be busy this week
preparing the site for the celebra-
ton on the banks of the All Ameri-
can canal. Ted Kipf, member Of
the arrangements committee, re-
ported that parking facilities will
be available for 1000 automobiles
and:
I'VE will be able to take care Of
a crowd f 10000 or $4,000" he said.
In cooperation with the celebra-
ton sponsors, officials of the I'M
perial Irrigation district last week,
Continued on Page 8, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23

$4,000 of the emergency fund was
sent to Imperial county for tenn
porary repairs.
Total damage to the schools was
$5l0,l88 and school officials asked
that half the cost, s280.7l5. be paid
from the governors emergency
fund with the other half TO be paid
by the individual school districts
A total OF $4,000 was voted from
the emergency fund. with $4,000
going to Brawley and the other
$4,000 to be divided among the
other damaged schools In the eoun-
ty for temporary repairs.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
Valley Schools Lose Hope
Of State Financial HeIp

Officials of Imperial county'S
earthquake damaged schools Mon
day lost hope of immediate finan-
cial aid from Gov. Olson's. emer-
gency fund.
The California legislature quash-
ed until December bill appropriat-
ing 100000 to help rehabilitate the
many school buildings damaged by
the earthquake in Imperial county
by the earthquake of last May 18.
A still gloomier aspect of the sit
uation was given at special hear
ing of the joint legislative fact
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
Chamber Group TO
Install Officers

WESTMORLAND, Sept. %. -
Members of the Associated char:
bers of commerce will install Off
GERS at a meeting in the grammar
school here next Friday night.
Paul Cook of Calipatria will be
installed as president: E. Ted Kipf
of Holtville as vice president; and
C. H. H. Small of FL Centre as
treasurer. Dinner will be served
ut 7 p. III.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23

rent west winds. provervial harbing-
ers of the valleys splendid winter
climate.
Mondays temperatures were sew
eral degrees under those recorded
for the same day last year. The
minimum was SO degrees as op-
posed to rs in 1889 and the maxi
mum was 104 Sunday as compared
with lot last year.
At noon it was 101 with 81 humid
ity and at am. the mercury stood
at 10 with 72 humidity.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23

And He will keep right on doing
it until Dec. 81 when He will start
in making them shorter again.
Monday Imperial Valley was well
launched into autumn, having just
passed the autumnal equinox when
the night is just as long as the day.
Autumn came to the valley on the
heels of nearly two weeks of cool
nights and warm but not uncomfort-
able days. Cool weather dated from
the heavy rainstorm of early this
month that was followed by recur-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23


the most spectacular abductions
since the Lindbergh case.
The kidnaper, repeatedly given
"the beating of his life by noun
tain town iumberjacks before he
was turned over to the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation, was iden-
titled as Wilhelm Jakob Mullen
broich,, 40. a German alien. G-men
held him at an undisclosed place,
investigating his background to
learn if he were literate enough to
have written the scholarly, 600
word note demanding 100000 ram
som from the child's family, or
whether he had accomplices.
FBI men said they had obtained
signed confession from Mullen
broich who, like Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, kidnaper slayer OF
Charles A. Lindbergh, jr., was an
alien from Germany. Muhlenbroich
entered this country in 1895.
Sheriff j. j. McGrath of San
Mateo county and Police Chief
Claude Hirschey of Hillsborough, at
request of the federal authorities,
waived any present claim on the
kidnaper, although apparently no
federal law was violated.
Nat j. L. Pieper, head Of the San
Francisco FBI office, told the local
authorities he desired to retain
Muhlenbroich's custody "for few
days" to question him about an
other case. It was believed Pieper
referred to the kidnapping of 10
year old Charles Mattson in Tacoma,
Wash, nearly four years ago. The
case never was solved and the de-
scription of the kidnaper comedies
slightly with Muhlenbroich's.
For this elaborately plotted and
boldly executed crime, the kidnaper
got no 100000 but he got black
eye, a gashed head bruised body,
and he faces almost certain i'm
prisonment for life. The lumbermen
of Eldorado county manhandled him
when they found him and the child
in an automobile on a dead-end
road yesterday
Muhlenbroich was blubbering when
G-men arrived at the hamlet of
River Pine, 125 miles east of here,
to handcuff him and rush him to
prison in city they refused to
| name.
Count de Tristan, who received
his child in San Francisco late
last night, rolled into the gravel
drive of his estate to the cheers of
his neighbors, who had waited hours
for the return of the golden haired
baby.
The countess, daughter of one of
the vests great families, rushed
down the front steps, held her
sleepy baby to her breast and smoth-
cred him with kisses while photo
graphers flash bulbs doomed and
weary officers grinned.
The curly-haired child was un-
harmed. The kidnaper had carried
out his written promise to treat
his captive most charmingly.' The
child's only worry was the airplane
Muhlenbroich had promised him.
He had never received it.
Too many things had happened
since 10 am. yesterday, for Muhl-
enbroich to think about toys. His
automovile went over a 40-foot en-
bankment, although neither he nor
little Marc were injured, and fear
full that his 1886 Ford sedan in
which he was transporting the child
was too well known, he had fired
bullet through the gasoline tank.
and applied match.
While the car was still flaming,
he took the automobile of a deer
hunter in the Sierra Nevada foot
hills and started up the back road.
with baby Marc on the rear seat.
The road led to the lumber mill
I tContinueo on Page y. Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
0swa|t Case Up
In FEDERAL Court

A crowded calendar in fedora
court in Los Angeles Mond ay
brought another delay in the much
postponed Yamatoda case.
The case of j. Sterling Oswalt,
former Ell Centre police chief who
was accused in the alleged kid
naping of H. Yamatoda, japanese
gambling kingpin, was held over
until afternoon. Oswalt is slated
for new trial. The jury was un-
able to agree in the first hearing
of the case. 1t did agree. however,
on the guilt of Dick Yoshida and
Raul Mateus. both of Ell Centre.
who have appealed their cases.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23

finding committee held in Sacra-
mento Saturday at the request of
Senator Ed Fletcher of San Diego,
who took leading part in the fight
to get money to help pay the cost
of repair of earthquake damaged
schools. Unless the $350,000 taken
from the emergency fund by Gov.
Olson to assist in SRA relief is re-
placed, it was revealed at the hear
ing, there will be no further funds
available for permanently rehabil-
itating the schools.
Senator Fletcher contended that
a precedent had been set when
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
One injured, Arrested in Accident;
Others Escape Injuries in Second
Crash When Tire Blows Out on Sedan

Two early Monday morning traf-
fic accidents resulted in injury to
one man and damage to two auto
mobiles and an oil tanker.
Walter F. Aycock, 41-year-old Ell
Centre salesman, was given ticket
for drunk driving after his coupe
crashed into an oil tanker two
miles north of Imperial at 1915 a.
m. Monday. Aycock was taken to
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE
TO MAP PROGRAM

A draft of definite plans for
the celebration that will greet
the first All American canal wa
ter to flow into the Eastside
highline canal was expected to
develop Monday night at a
meeting of chamber of commerce
representatives from all parts of
Imperial Valley. The group will
gather in open meeting at the
HQltville civic center at s p. m.
along with delegates from the
Board of Trade and the ASso-
ciated Chamber of Commerce.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
k|DN NAPE D BOY SAFE; GERMAN QUIzzEl
Mother Radiant as Kidnaped Baby Returned Safely.

Countess Marc dc Tristan, left,
was a picture of misty-eyed ra-
dance Monday after the safe
return of her son, three -year-old
Marc pictured below, who was
kidnapped last week. The kidnaper
was captured by Nevada lum-
herman Sunday. THE lumber
mans story is on Page Eigbt.)
81 couldn't believe it vas really
my baby" the socially prominent
young mother said. II had to
see him before I could believe he
was really safe" FBI men ques-
toned the kidnaper Monday about
his possible connection with an
other simis=r crime.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
DISTURBANCE CHARGE
DISMISSED HERE

A charge of disturbing the peace
was dismissed against Bob Davis
in Ell Centre justice court Monday
because the complaining witness,
his wife, was said to have left
Imperial county since she filed the
charge last week.
Davis was charged with disturb
ing the peace after family quarrel
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
Di 8. Brother! It's
That Time Again
City Preparing Bill for $227. .6oofor
Presentation to Taxpayers Oct. Is+;
Taxpayers Furnish Only Part Of Funds

"That man" here again Monday with bill fo
1927 6OObut citizens of Ell Centre don't have to start pay
ing him until Oct. l.
That man" represented the city and the bill TO
running the city government for another year.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
D AMBlINe
(\EpoR1ER

fOhtlcll BALL
All George Luckey needed Mon
day was bat. He had the ball.
George, who's been limiting around
lately that he's on the November
ballot for the state senate, received
the following letter (and baSebalD
from George Hildebrand, formerly
of Brawley and a former Ameri-
can league umpire and National
league player:
Il mailed you baseball this
morning autographed by Walter
johnson, Gabby Street and myself
-. 1t is from one politician to
another =. Walter, you know, is
running for congress in Maryland"
The fitting thing should be for
George to autograph head of
lettuce and send it back.
False COlors--
Tourists from Dublin" we
thought to ourselves as we noticed
a green sedan sporting an ireland"
license. The car also carried a
California tag.
We were a bit aStonished to no.
tiCe that riding in the machine
were two dusky gentlemen and
their girls!
} The Ireland" tag was one of those
phonies you see around these days.
Short Trip
Hans Merklein and Nevin House
came rather close to spending their
vacations in Seeley.
The two Ell Centre chaps left
together on their holidays Saturday
afternoon and got only ten miles
away when something went haywire
with Hans automobile! They rest
ed in Seeley until it was fixed and
then ambled on their way.
We happen to know about it
because they stopped to watch us
change tire somewhere along the
road. The rats didn't help but Just
stood there and gaWked and re-
marked on how it felt to be starting
a vacation.
He Had Protection
Next time Mr. and Mrs. w. J.
l McCleland and Mr. and Mrs. An
dy Preble go on a vacation trip to-
gether it is highly probable that
they will carry along diving suits.
All but Andy
Not long ago the two couples
were camping out together in the
big woods of Oregon. The Prebles
were sleeping on cots under a tree
and the McClellahds were ip tho
open. In the middle of the night it
began to rain.
"Hey, Andy, it's raining!' Mac
called.
The water hadn't dribbled down
the tree yet, so Andy sleepily called
tback:
you're dreaming. Go back to
sleep" Mac did. In a few minutes
there was below from the local
ity of Andy and:
Hey, Mac, it's rainingr
This time they got up and pitch
ed the tent 1t was sleepless night
for three of the party, because the
roof leaked and they spent the night
trying to dodge raindrops. All but
Andy. Andy slept with his hat on!
Here and There
One of the best figures of speech
we've run into in a long time came
evening when she commented upon
a stranger:
Look at that man with a face
full of alternate teeth!"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
Mother N oture
Shifts Bal IQnce

a. Lawd, you made the nights too ong"
From those of the frame of mind the
singer of this song break down and cry little louder
every night Because the Lord is making the nights longer
and longer for Imperial Valley and half of the the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
Water Cree ping
Across Desert
All American |nchins Toward Eastside
HishIine as Civic Groups Complete
Plans for Gigantic Fiesta Oct. 18th

Water moved past Pilot Knob and out onto the desert
Monday seasoning operations progressed on the AL
American canal.
Meanwhile plans in Hoville developed rapidly Sc
that proper welcome will be awaiting All American
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
Baseball
NATIONAL.
NATIONAL

1St game
Philadelphia ........ O01 010 1876 9 2
Boston ................ 600 001 1902 6 2
Podgajny and Warren; Salvo, Sui
livan and Berres, Broskie.
st. Louis ......... 600 900 OOO-O 4 0
Chicago .......... OILS 004 O0x-lO 10, /
Shoun, Kimball and Owen; Pas
seau and Mccullough.
Cincinnati ....... 400 301 001-9 IT 3
Pittsburgh ..... 205 900 23x-l2 Ia /
Derringer, Heintzelman, Beggs,
Hutchins and Wilson, West: Bow
man. Rambert, Brown, Riddle and
Schultz, Davis.
New York .... 100 001 0O0-3 7 0
Brooklyn ..... 600 900 021-3 IL O
Schumacher, Lynn and O'Dea;
Grissom, Casey, Tamulis, Carleton
and Franks, Mancuso.
Philadelphia sees 600 900 000-0 3 3
Boston ................ 300 oil 3Ox-8 II 0
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
Survivors Tell Horror Of
Torpedoed Refugee Ship:
g Babies Among 294 Dead
British Children Sailing Toward Safety
In Americas Perish in Terrible Night;
Scenes Of Tragedy Recoun+ed byLivins

AT A NORTHERN BRITISH PORT, Sept. %. (UP)-
Twenfour hours of horror described today by
vivors of child refugee liner which torpedoed with
out warning in stormy at 10 o'clock at night 600
miles from land The ship sank within 20 minutes Some
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
Bruised Abductor
Examined by FBI
In MdttSon Case ,
De Tristan Infant Romps Across Estate
OfParents After Rescue by Mountain
Lumb cracks; No Ransom Paid
: BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN -

HILLSBOROUGH, Calf, Sept. %. (UP)-Th -Three-year
old Marc de Tristan jr, rescued unharmed from kid
naper by two woodsmen in the Sierra foothills rempet
the estate of his nobleman father again today
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23

1t was definitely settled Monday
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23

Butter: Los Angeles 30c; but
terfat, Imperial Valley {. o. b. ranch,
grade A soc; manufacturing milk
33c; route gathered cream 29c.
l.. A. hay: U. s. No. 1 $13-13.50:
u. S. No. 2 leafy S12.50-13; U. s. No.
2 S1O-1O.5O; Mpls. September flax,
S1.46.
Evening star., 1940-12-18
Chest Still S57,216 Short
OF Goal, Audit Reveals

Community Chest contributions
and pledges still lack S57216 of to-
falling the s2,OOO,oOO goal, second
post-campaign audit reveals.
Figures released today by Chest
Director Herbert L. Willett, jr.,
which cover reports received through
December 13, add up to 81 ,942, 1888 81 ,
or 9714 per cent of the amount
sought.
Mr. Willett pointed out that the
percentage is below the national
average of Chest campaign achieve
ment-98,2 per cent-and that the
Capital effort is 227 per cent ahead
of last years results for the same
period, as against 2.6 per cent in
crease nationally.
although the shortage appears
small in comparison with our total
goal, it is a large and important
amount when measured in terms of
the lives and happiness of human
beings when they turn to Chest
agencies for the services which VOL
untary contributions make possible" :"
Mr. Willett said.
The final audit, showing the
amount to be apportioned among
member welfare organizations for
work in 1941, will be made as of
December 81.
The Government Unit, reporting
1921 pledges for 1899 ,154, leads the
four units in figures made public to-
day, showing 98.72 per cent of it's
goal recorded.
Givers this year number 215,525
individuals and organizations-19,-
525 more than the highest number
previously registered here.
Evening star., 1940-12-18
Wilkinson Named Assistant
corporation Counsel

Glen A.. Wilkinson, clerk in the
office of 10 v. Morgan, sole member
of the District Board of Tax Ap-
peals, today was appointed by the
Commissioners an assistant corpo-
ration counsel.
He will take the place vacated
when George c. Updegraff was
called into Army service. Mr.. Up
degraf has been detailed to the War
Department with the rank of cap
tain.
Corporation Counsel Richmond B.
Keech said Mr.. Wilkinson would be
assigned to Police Court. The new
attorney, whose appointment was
Endorsed by Senator King, Demo-
crat, of Utah, retiring chairman of
the Senate District Committee, is a
native Of Ogden, Utah; graduate
of Brigham Young University in
1888, and was awarded a doctors
degree in jurisprudence at George
Washington University Law School
in 1898. He resides at 1720 Hobart
street NV.
Evening star., 1940-12-18
Five Silver Spring Library
Trustee Candidates Named

In preparation for the election of
three trustees at the annual meet
ing of the Silver Spring MD Public
Library Association next month, the
Nominating Committee has an
nounced the selection O. the fellow
ing five candidates.
Harry S. Elkins and Will m F..
Reynolds, both incumbents; Robert
Watson, Arthur L. Blakr Ice and
Stephen Tuhy, jr. DR.. Christie, one
of the three trustees whose terms
are expiring, has declined ro1omi-
nation.
The board. at it's meeting Mon
day night, elected Howard P. Bailey
president and Mrs. H. H. Hewlett
and Victor E. Grotlisch to represent
the group in a joint committee of
delegates from the local library and
the Bethesda and Takoma Park
libraries. Emory Bogley will repre-
sent the Bethesda Library and Mrs.
James A. Robertson the Takoma
Library, it was announced.
The group will meet at various
times to discuss matters of mutual
interest to the three libraries.
1t was decided to close the library
all day December "a. and on the day
before New Year it will remain open
until 6 pm.
Evening star., 1940-12-18
1872 Works Of Art by C|osson
Accepted by National Museum

artist who lived from 1922 to 1884.
They will be placed as part of the
permanent exhibit in the National
Collection of Fine Arts in the Ma
tional Museum. which already has
some of his work
The engravings include all those
in the special exhibition now on dis
play-1lO wood engravings and 20
examples of the new method of en-
craving developed by Mr.. Closson, by
which he employed the use of wax,
in preliminary stages. resulting in
either relief or intaglio processes
of reproduction.
Paintings by Mr. Closson hang in
the National Collection of Fine Arts,
Gallaudet Chapel, Howard Univer-
sity and the Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington; the National Arts
Club. New York City; the Pennsyl-
vania Academy of Fine Arts, Phila-
delhia, and other galleries.
Mr.. Closson was born in Thetford,
VT, in 1848 and died at Hartford,
Conn, in 1926