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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-02-05
Daughtrs of Zion
Elect NelU Officers

Mrs. E. Einar Kron was elected
president Of the Daughters Of zior
of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran
church at their meeting held recent
ly at the home of Mrs. John Gran
dell of Tudor street. Mrs. Emil
Johnson is the retiring president
Other officers elected were: Vice.
president, Mrs. Fred Larson; re-
cording secretary, Mrs. G. L. Hallen-
borg; financial secretary, Mrs. Carl
G.. Carlson and treasurer, Mrs. AXel
Forsell. Plans for a food sale Feb
Is at Rowland Hughes were discuss
ed. Mrs. Forsell, Mrs. Emil Johnson.
Mrs. John Ericsson and Mrs. Will
liam Swanson comprise the commit
tee in charge.
Mrs. Arvid Swanson invited all
to attend an afternoon tea in her
home on Citizens avenue on Thurs
day afternoon, Feb. 8. The neXI
regular meeting of the organiza-
ton will be held March z at the
home of Mrs. Claus E. johnson on
Tudor street. Mrs. Kron announced
the World Day of Prayer which
will be held Feb. 9.
Among those present were: Mrs,
G. L. Hallenborg, Mrs. William
Swanson, Mrs. Carl G.. Carlson,
Mrs. John B. Ericsson, Mrs. Arvid
Swanson, Mrs. Eva johnson, Mrs,
Robert Anderson, Mrs. E. Ei1ar
Kron, Miss Airline Kron, Miss Caro-
lyn Kron, Mrs. AXel Forsell, Mrs,
Hjalmar Peterson, Mrs. G. E
johnson, Mrs. Hannah Clausen,
Mrs. Gust Grandell, Mrs. Howard
Northrop. Miss Ruth Northrop. Mrs
John Grandell and George Gran
dell.
The weekly meeting of the Col
leenS was held Thursday evening at
the home of Miss Helen Walsh OF
Spencer avenue. Plans were made
to initiate new members at the
rsxt meeting which will be held
Thursday evening at the home CT
Miss Dorothy Moriarty of Lakeview
avenue Those attending were Mar
jorie Seery, Doris Truelove, Doris
Tucker, Dorothy Moriarty, Ruth
Tucker and Helen Walsh.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-02-05
CORNELL CONTRACT BRIDGE

Top scorers in the Friday session
of the Cornell Contract club con-
Quoted by Mrs. John G. Moriarty
were: Mrs. John Finn and Mrs. 10
seph Byrne, SO; Mrs. John Gordon
and Mrs. G. T. naBonne, So: and
East and West, Mrs. Robert Ches-
son and Mrs. j. Crowley, Is; Mrs
Timothy Sullivan and Mrs. r. W.
Huckins, GA.
The standing is as follows: Cor
den-LeBonne, 321 1-2; Goggins-
Montambau1t, $40 Ia; Erik ummel,
316 IL and Sullivan uckins, 3l6.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-02-05

Forty of the 1870 beds in the
American Hospital in Neuilly,
France, have been set aside for
American emergency cases, and the
others may eventually be used for
French military nllrpoSeS.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08
Jack Stark Rites
Slated Wednesday
In FL Ceniro
Lodges. City Offices to
Honor Baseball Leader
At Funeral Services

A last farewell for Jack
Stark will be said Wednes-
day at 2 80 in the afternoon.
Funeral services for the
ball player and police ser
geant who died in San Diego Sat-
urday will be conducted by the Elks
lodge, friends announced. Follow
ing the impressive Elks ritual at
Lemons funeral parlors in El Cen
tro, burial will be in Evergreen
cemetery.
Burial services will be conducted
by the Eagles lodge.
Five of Stark's brother police
officers and Chief of Police j. Ster-
ing Oswalt will serve as pail bear
ers. The five will be: Jack Tackett,
T. j. Harris, George Bucklin, Roy
Dupont and R. R. Voyles.
Honorary pail bearers include F.
V. Ackley, w. S. Keating jr.. T. P
Farmer Frank Record, Charles
Schlanze, Frank Smyer, T. M
Sharp, and James Scroggins.
Mayor H. w. Fawcett and Coun-
Gilman Gordon Scriven will precede
the pail bearers.
Stark's body will lie IN state
Tuesday afternoon between and
5 in the afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08

ness, nlgnWay patfOlmen Sald.
The most fantastic feat of the
weekend occurred when owen Moo
dy, 34 leaped to safety moment
before locomotive ground his car
to bits at the Ross avenue cross
ing south of FL Centro early Mon
clay morning. This was the third
time in two years Moody was found
parked on a railway right-of-
officers said.
Excessive speed, poor vision and
the rain were blamed for two minor
accidents in Imperial county this
weekend.
Moody was arrested by Highway
Patrolman Tillman Daley and or
dered held in jail while officers
determined which of several charges
they should file against him.
Engineer P. C. Yenawine of SD
& A. train No 94 said he saw a car
parked about so feet from the
Ross avenue intersection as the
train approached the crossing,
When the train was about 100 feet
from the crossing, he said, the
driver drove into the middle of the
crossing, stopped the car, leaped
out, and ran away. Moody was
arrested later in Ell Centre. The
car, coach, was carried south OF
the intersection for 1872 feet before
the train could be stopped.
Records at the Imperial county
Jail showed this was the third
time Moody had parked his car
in the path of an on-coming train.
Two years ago at Ogilby Moody's
car was pushed from the tracks by
Judge T. E. White and Constable
L. W. Porter. A few months later
a railway workman aboard small
motor found Moody parked in his
car on the tracks ct Sidewinder just
Continued on Page 8, Col. .
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08
Firms /
S. q sh
Division
Biggest Victory
Of fWarCIaimed in
Northern Sector

HELSINKI, Jan. 8. (UP)
Films announced TO-
day that they had smashed
the entire 44th division of
The Ru5Sian army near Suo-
muesalmi, on the central front.
The victory was described Off
cially as the biggest Of the five
weeks old war. More than 1000
Russians were captured, the Firms
announced. and 43 tanks, large num-
bers of guns and other war supplies
were taken. War material cap
tured included Ito horses, AZ field
kitchens, 279 automobiles and 10
armored cars. The victory was re-
garded as SO important that spe-
cial communique announced it.
Suomussalmi is not far from the
Lake Kianta area in which the
Firms little more than a week ago
claimed to have annihilated the
Russian 163rd division.
A Red army division at war
strength ranges from Is 900 to $4,000
men.
Earlier dispatches from the cen
trail front had reported severe
fighting in the SuomuSSalmi sector
especially near the town of Raate
which is only Az miles from the
frontier. Raate is on the road from
Suomussalmi to the Russian border
Firms also were operating against
the Russians in the vicinity oi
Salla, near the Arctic Circle.
The latest Finnish victory, in the
same area in which the 163rd Rus
sian division was defeated, was al
the waist of Finland and it was
believed that for the winter at least
all Russian hope of cutting across
the country of the Gulf of Bothnia
had vanished.
Helsinki was jubilant over news
Of the latest Finnish victory.
In defeating the 44th division
the Firms used the same tactics
they had employed against the
163li. The large Red army unit
was trapped after 10 days OF care
full operations by the Firms who
took advantage of extremely colo
weather and the hardships endured
Continued on Page 8. Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08
No Sabotage at Boulder
j. Edgar Hoover Reports
As C-Men Continue Probe
Investigators at
Work Still on
Rumor of Plot

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.
UP)-The justice depart
ment today announced that
an investigation by G-men
had disclosed no evidence Of
sabotage against the Boulder dam
and its approaches.
The Federal Bureau OF Investiga-
ton conducted the investigation
some time ago The justice de-
partment said, and the report OF
the survey was submitted TO the
interior department and to the bu-
reau of reclamation.
Recommendation were made in
regard to steps to avoid sabotage, y
the justice department said. "The
investigation disclosed no evidence
Of sabotage
j. Edgar Hoover, director of the
FBI, SAID G-men still are investl-
eating the origin of reports that
reached them of possible plot to
blow up the dam.
John c. Page, commissioner OF
reclamation who has charge OF the
dam, sad that to his knowledge the
investigation had revealed no basis
tor the plot rumors.
Page said that there had beer
no change in precautionary meas
ures taken at the dam site last
month. Those precautions included
closer surveillance OF tourists visit
ing the dam, and the placing of a
screen 400 yards above the dam on
Lake Mead to keep boats or float
Continued on Page 8, Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08
Yorty Accepts
Challenge on Reds

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 8. (UP)-
Assembiyman Sam Yorty, Los An
geles Democrat, today accepted the
challenge of Sam Houston Allen,
Los Angeles county SRA director,
to prove that any of Aliens ap-
pointees to positions in the relief
agency are Communists.
Yorty asked that the Los Angeles
director join him in requesting
Gov. Culbert Olson to conduct a
public hearing at which, he said,
II shall furnish the testimony of
two or three former comrades of
certain of these appointees as men,
bers or former members of the
Communist party"
IF the governor desires to give
the appointees in question an op-
portunity to resign quietly before
q hearing is held I shall be glad
to cooperate to this end," Yorty
added.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08
K e lev
BI q stS
i SIN S
Le esion Chief
Addre sses Valley
Audience Here

Bitter scorn for migrate
ful alien residents Of the
United States and high
praise fer the Dies investl-
eating committee were loos-
ed in Ell Centre Sunday night by
National Commander Raymond
Kelly, rugged leader OF a million
American Legionnaires.
Kelly the first national COM
mander ever to speak in Imperial
Valley, turned the barb OF his
irony from the thankless aliens
to Americans themselves.
He blasted the American habit
Of indifference to the priceless
privileges citizens accept as neces-
stiles and ordered World war vet
Grams to "sell America to Ameri-
cans" as soon as they force de-
portation of Harry Bridges and his
ilk."
This alien problem is one of
the most terrible menaces of Amer
ica today" Numbered the national
commander. They worship at the
shrine of a foreign ideology while
seeking protection behind the Con-
stitution of the United States, the
very document they seek to de-
stroy. Deport theml Send them back
where they belong! Keep the aliens
out SO more Americans can go to
work
And we must have Dies COM
mittee to ferret out the cesspools
of -Americanism. The Dies COM
mittee must go on. The whole force
of the American Legion already Is
in the field to see that it does. No
honest American would oppose the
Dies committee. If aliens or any,
one else belong to an honest, de-
cent organization they should be
proud of it and not work il the
Continued on Page 8, Col. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08
Decision Delayed on
License Suspension

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Jan. s. CUP)
The Board of Equalization today
delayed action on whether to order
five day Los Angeles liquor Ii
eense suspension for the McKesson-
Robbins company, national whole
sale drug firm, following a verbal
flareup between board member Will
liam Bonelli and representatives of
the distilling industry.
Louis Gilbert. secretary of the
California Liquor Distillers associa-
ton, was granted permission to
make a statement later this after
noon in support of his claim the Ii
quor laws were defective and the
issues of the case were too impor-
tant to be settled without a full
hearing.
The company is charged with Il
counts of Justification of records
and Juggling OF accounts,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08
Congress Delays
Tax Boost Action,
Studies Treaties
AFL Unions Join Battle
Against Reciprocal
Low Tariff Pacts

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.
UP)-Administration con-
gressional leaders to d ay
agreed to postpone action on
new taxes for three months.
Meanwhile, congress got down to
work. The senate was confronted
with a resolution for Joint legis-
lative inquiry into President Roose-
velt's budget. The house plunged
into reciprocal trade treaty and
anti-lynchin9 disputes.
Chairman Robert L. Doughton
D.. N. c., of the house ways and
means committee will offer reso-
luton to exterd authority for nego,
tiation of reciprocal trade agree
ments for three years. The resolu,
tions will be referred to his COM
mittee for hearings beginning
Thursday with Secretary of State
Cordell Hull as the first witness
A group of American Federation
Of Labor unions joined the trade
treaty dispute today with an appeal
to congress to repudiate existing
agreements ami permit the author
ity to expire on June II, as sched-
uled. Farm organizations have been
critical. Some of the most out.
spoken objectors to the Hull low
tariff plan have been Democrats
who insist they will bolt the adj
rnjpiStrati tim on that iSSue
Happiest omen for the Hull forces
was collapse of negotiations for an
Argentine United States trade
agreement, announced last Friday
The tariff concessions to Argentine
agricultural products, which would
have been likely in any agreement,
would have added to protests here
that the whole program works to
The detriment of the American far
mer Argentine negotiations may
be revived if the agreement act is
extended
Tax consideration is being post
poned partly because congress does
not like the idea of an election year
tax boost. But the primary reason
is that first payments on 1899 call
endar year income are due March
is. After they are totaled, congrea
and the treasury will have an ac-
curate case of the effect of business
improvement on revenue. The
figures might make the need for
Continued on Fage g. Col. So
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08


jury's report, point by point, and
in the course of discussion Offered
three motions.
Two were tabled in 3 to 2
decisions and a third lost when
Chairman Evan T. HeWes declined
to vote.
Dissenters explained they prefer
red not to act until superintendent
M. J. Dowd is present, maintaining
that the changes proposed directly
affect his activities. DoWd has been
i'll several weeks.
Roses first resolution was to
carry out the grand jury's recon-
mendationS regarding impounding
and marking district automobiles
His second to require that no ex-
penditure of more than $500 be
made without direct approval OF
the board.
In both cases Rose was joined
by Director William Young of Cali
/ patria, but they were voted down
by Directors HeWes, Charles Nor
row of Brawley and w. J. Gregg OF
El Centro.
The third resolution, which lost
| in two to two deadlock when
HeWes declined to vote, provided;
| THAT the position OF executive
superintendent with it's $3.50 a
month salary be discontinued"
This position has been held by
Chairman HeweS.
More of an answer" to grand
jury charges of inefficient admin
istration in district affairs than
has yet been forthcoming since
the jury's report was released late
in December was included in a
letter to the board from Harry
Maddux, business manager
Regarding the destruction of CAL
exico and Holtville water office
records, Maddux explained that
records are kept in duplicate and
that complete reports are avail
able at the head office.
Through misunderstanding, many
of the Calexico and Holtville
office division copies of receipts
were destroyed in 1887" he wrote.
! Regarding separate records for
water and power services, as urged
by the grand jury, Maddux wrote,
"Since the beginning of the pow
er construction program, separate
and distinct revenue and expense
accounts have been maintained for
that department Prepared
statements (monthly reports) die
not show this segregation but the
information was available at al
times. Furthermore, the audits :.
for 1896, 1887 and 1888 included
separate statements :. .
Separate monthly financial state
ments will be prepared hereafter
, for the power system and will be
available for publication at any
! time
Further regarding the district
auditing system, Maddux reported
that facilities have not been avail
able in the past for complete and
Continued on Page 8; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08
Youth Arrested
For Theft of Car

Jack Peterson, l8, former inmate
0f the lone school of correction,
was arrested near Holtville Monday
On a charge of car theft and 1C
charges of passing bad checks in
Los Angeles.
The youth was arrested as he
slept at the home of a friend near
Holtville, by Deputy Sheriff Robert
Parrish.
He admitted the car theft and
the check deals.
Peterson's appearance in Imperial
Valley was called to the attention
Of officers because he failed to
claim an automobile he left in an
Ell Centro garage to be repaired. In
tracing the ownership of the car, il
was found to have been stolen New
Years day in the coast city.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08

A fight to block a threatened in
crease in truck rates on produce
from Imperial Valley to all Cali
fornia markets was scheduled to
start at a meeting in Ell Centre at
7:30 pm. Monday
E. E. Cavanah of Calexico, chair
man of the transportation commit
tee of the Associated Chambers
of Commerce, called the meeting
of shippers, city officials. and cham
Der of commerce members to pre-
pare for a railway commission hear
ing on the rate increase in Los
Angeles Jan 12.
All persons opposed to the pro-
posed increase were asked to attend
the meeting at the Ell Centre
Chamber of Commerce headquarters.
First testimony in the rate hear
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08
Only West. South
Escape Extreme
Sub-Zero Wave
BIZ United Press

Snow blanketed most of
the nation Monday and tenn
peratures dropped b e | o W
normal. Only the extreme
south and west escaped the wintry
blasts.
At least 18 deaths were attributed
to the cold and to accidents that
resulted from the snowfall. Two
persons froze to death, one in
Chattanooga, Tenn. and the other
in Atlanta. Ga. AT Henderson, Tex.
a man died of heart attack which
physicians said was induced by the
cold.
The snow and cold extended
from New England to Macon, Ga,
In the east Coast guard icebreak-
erS at New York plunged the Hud-
son river and channels which were
icebound after is days of cold
weather. A low temperature of 25
Continued on Page 8. Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08
Pair Held for
Lettering at Dam

WINTERHAVFN, Jan 8.-Suspi-
cious conduct of two Rumanian men
discovered lettering near Imperial
dam Sunday led to their arrest by
Deputy Sheriff John Crousen.
John Branchu, 80, Chicago cook,
had Sc in his pocket and $50 in the
tongue of his shoe when searched
at the county Jail in Ell Centro. His
companion Criron, So Los Angeles
laborer, had little money with him.
They failed to give a satisfactory
explanation of their presence near
the dam. They were held pending
further investigation.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08

man, predicted rain IN the valley
Monday and Tuesday. B. A. Harri-
gan, agricultural commissioner, re-
ported no damage to crops, and
lettuce growers generally welcomed
the rain because the succeeding cole
spell will retard growth of the
crop, extend the season. and inn
prove returns to growers.
Highways were inundated or
blocked by slides and uprooted trees
easements were flooded, automobiles
marooned and flood dams filled
close to the overflow points in Sec
tions OF the state where rain was
heaviest
So far there has been no serious
damage or any threat of a repeti,
tion OF the disastrous floods such
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08
Glasses Reveal
Identity of Body

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8. (UP)-
The body of woman found float
ing in the Golden Gate was identi-
fled tentatively today as that OF
Mrs. Alice Ramsey, socially promi-
nent matron and mother of Pete
Fay, former Stanford University
football star.
The Identification was based on
a check of eye glasses found on the
body which was discovered in the
water Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08
Bottle on Rates
Starts Tonight

ing was scheduled to be taken in
Los Angeles at which time data
must be presented to back the
claim that the industry cannot
stand any higher rates for truck
shipments.
At the close of the railway COM
mission hearing in Los Angeles on
the twelfth, the commission was
expected to adjourn to Imperial
Valley for a continuation of testi-
mony taking about Jan. "a. This
move to the valley was arranged so
that shippers and others interested
III blocking the rate increase might
have an opportunity to present their
views.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08
FAILURE TO GIVE AID
AT ACCIDENT PUNISHED

MODESTO, Cal, oar. 8. (UP)-
A motion for a new trial today
postponed until Saturday the SEN
fencing of Thomas r. McTammany,
co-oWner of radio station K-T-R-B
in Modesto, on his conviction for
failing to stop and offer aid follow
ing an accident in which an eight
year-old youth was injured three
months ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08

as those which took $50 lives in
1888.
Loss of life in the current storm
was confined to automobile acei-
dents caused by heavy rain and
slippery highways. San Mateo coun,
ty reported one death and Eureka
said two men were missing after
an auto plunged into the Trinity
river.
Residents of the Van Nuys section
of the San Fernando Valley aban-
doned their homes Sunday night
as a heavy run-off threatened 10
engulf them. Most OF the families
returned by daylight. however
Huge waves battered the coast
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08

layout for burglaries and rob-
berries.
''The appearance of hordes OF
beggars occurs every winter and
presents problem difficult to solve
unless the public cooperates by
telephoning police Immediately
when such q person asks for help"
the officer said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08
Lettuce Shipments
Near 1000 Cars

Total lettuce shipments from the
Imperial Valley neared the 1000
carload mark Monday as close to
1870 care were shipped Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday.
Lettuce prices remained about
steady, demand was good. Best
stock lettuce brought $1.40.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08
r AMBLlNG
X EPOR7ER
Sounds Awful

Sounds Awful
Sam Donabedian fell asleep or
the couch at his home the other
day and in few minutes there
came to the ears of his 20-month-
old daughter, Sammie. Kay, some
strange noises.
In her brief career Sammie Kay
bad never befo"e heard such a rack
ct. Either her father had swallowed
a buzz saw, or he was choking to
DEATH (Snores, to you'd
And so the child raced to her
mother and announced:
Come quick. Daddy's sick!
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08

care Tor all these people,, O5Walt'
declared. "A majority of these beg
gars and cripples going from door
to-door ARE professionals and a
menace to the safety of household
ers.
Those worthless chiselers take
the food and money which should
go to the deserving needy. They
also frequently are sent to the
homes in the city TO ascertain the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08

Solar Cracks
Charlie Small at the veterans
meeting in Ell Cantro Sunday night
introduced National Commander
Raymond Kelly as the sun and
State Commander Bill Dunn as the
"moon" of the American Legion
solar system.
That started something.
Bill rose reluctantly to his feet
and faced the audience. II can see
right now I'm in for it. The Ramb-
ling Reporter will never pass thai
moon business" ne bursts out.
(OK, Bill, RR hereby dubs yot
Moony and you ought to be darneo
glad that Small didn't call you the
"luna' of the system.)
Kelly said: ITS been a long TIME
since anyone called me SON
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08

In The Public Eye
1t doesn't pay to live in homes
previously owned by celebrities.
Mrs. j. w. Scantland, recent
houseguest of the John Donohues,
told the amusing yarn OF how she
and her husband bought a residence
once owned by Aimee Semple Nc
Pherson and were 50 besleged by
curious citizens that kept barging
around the house that they finally
had to SELL
RR suggests they put out a sign
Aimee doesn't live here any
more!"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08

Now WHAT
Another flare from the Red Ed
wards-Benny Young feud:
Red claims it's all lot OF apple
sauce that he's afraid to continue
the golf match to the death WIN
Benny.
i've got my wager posted anytime
that little runt gets up enough
nerve to play!" Red remarked sun,
clay.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-08
Puni,ondIers Due
For Arrest Here

Arrest all panhandlers beggars, and door-todoor CHS
eers nfesting Ell Centre, the order issued Monday
by Chief of Police j. Sterling Oswalt he prepared
handle the city's biggest winter problem.
Residents should realize that there are agencies to