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tive service headquarters, including
the National Guard State detach-
ment, commanded by 1t. Albert l..
Cox. jr., pitched in last night to
assist in rehandling the registration
cards for old No. l3. Officials said a
full staff would work all night. all
day today and again tonight. II
necessary, to have the remodeled
lists ready for posting tomorrow.
A headquarters for new board
No. 13 had not been decided on
definitely last night, though several
possibilities were under considera-
ton by selective service and school
officials. No. Is will use the Henry
Elementary School. Seventh and P
streets NV, formerly No. l3 head
quarters.
New Areas Boundaries.
Board No. Is will be bounded by
Tenth street, New York avenue,
Fifth street, S street, tapering to
Seventh street and Florida avenue
NV. New No. 13 will be encircled
by Tenth street. Vermont avenue,
Fourteenth street, S street and New
York avenue.
All board members of old No. l3
by coincidence, live in the new
No. 13 area and, hence, will serve
as unit on the new board. All
new appointees will serve on No. IS
The hunt system was employed
by most of the thousands Of reg
istrants who flocked to draft board
centers during the afternoon to
learn their serial numbers, although
several Of the headquarters staff:
were equipped with card index files
arranged alphabetically, and other
devices to speed the searching
process.
Some number-seekers reportedly
scanned lists for as long as an hour
and half; others turned away in
mild disgust after searching in vain
determined to try again.
Some Go to Wrong Places.
They will have the opportunity
from noon to o'clock tonight and
from 4 pm. to 8 pm. tomorrow
before serial numbers. correspond
ing to those on the Districts lists
and on lists all over the country
are drawn from the goldfish bowl
Tuesday to determine the order in
which the registrants will be called
I'D for classification
Many registrants visited incorrect
posting places. figuring their names
would be on lists anywhere in the
city. Only at the draft board head
quarters for the area in which q
registrant resides can his name be
found-and this is not necessarily
the area in which he registered
Other draft eligibles mistakenly
visited schools at which they signed
registration cards. In few cases
are the proper boards located at the
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leg when struck by a car as he
played in the street opposite SO T
street NE, police said. They re-
ported the driver of the car was
Mildred Hunt, SIP Albemarle street
NV.
A freak accident injured two per-
sons in the 600 block of M street
Sc. Trouble started when the front
tire OF a concrete mixer truck
blew out and swerved the vehicle
into the rear of another truck. Gas
tanks Of both trucks exploded,
police reported.
The burning gasoline sprayed out
over passing passenger car. Leap
ing out. Julia S. Halla. 54, of Indian
Head, Md, escaped burns but
tripped and bruised her left shoulder
in falling, police said. She was
treated at Providence Hospital.
The driver of the concrete mixer
Emil Bigga, 20, of Arlington. suf-
fered first and second degree burns
to hands and face. He was admitted
to Casualty Hospital in undeter-
mined condition. The second truck
driver, Charles R. Zorbaugh, 40. OF
n K street NE, went to Providence
Evening star., 1940-10-27
Wallace Says Hitler
Is Trying 10 Throw
Election 10 6. 0. P.
Cont Afford Amateur
At Wheel at This Time,
He Declares in Albany
,y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y, Oct. 26-Henry
A. Wallace, maintaining Adolf Hit
Ter is trying to throw" the presi-
dental election to Republicans. as
serted tonight that I'VE Americans
cannot afford to have an amateur
take the wheel at time like this"
Speaking from the porch of the
New York State Executive Mansion,
where he was a dinner guest Of
Gov Herbert H. Lehman, the Demo-
cratic vice presidential nominee de-
clared that against the will Of
both leading candidates, the dc
tator of Europe is interfering in
our American election and trying
to throw 1t to the Republican party"
"We cannot afford to give the
wheel to the Republican candidate
who is already weaving from side
to side shouting for defense at one
moment and promising not to fight
the next" he said.
In a statement released near the
close of a days campaigning in up
state New York, Mr.. Wallace main
tained that John L. Lewis Is sup
porting Wendell L. Willkie for
President because the c. I. o. leader
believes "his personal advantage lies
with the totalitarian elements In
big business.
THE President would not let
Lewis dictate the Governments
labor policies" he added. Lewis
thinks his personal advantage lies
not with labor, but with the totali-
tartan elements in big business. -
That's why his speech sounds so
much like Herr Goebbels.'
The former Secretary of Agricul-
ture entrains tonight for Sioux City,
Iowa. He is scheduled to campaign
briefly in Iowa, with speech in
Omaha, Nebr., tentatively set for
Monday night.
Evening star., 1940-10-27

same schools where registration
took place.
The majority of the registrants
who failed to learn their numbers
yesterday are expected to visit post
ing centers this afternoon. Special
police details were ordered to be on
hand during the open hours at the
board headquarters.
No Disorders Reported.
Although registrants jammed
many Of the centers by the hundreds
at the time lists were posted yester-
day, no disorder was reported The
so or go registrants who gathered at
the headquarters of Board No. 13
dispersed quietly when officials an
nounced to them the area was to
be divided and no lists would be
posted before Monday.
Some pushing and crowding added
to the worries Of authorities at e
few Of the board centers where
listed names were posted too COM
pactly, but the jam was taken good
naturedly by the registrants. and
in many instances. they aided each
other in locating their names.
Among the draft board centers
aiding the registrants with alpha
betically indexed files, or in process
of completing them, are No. II at
Hilton School, Sixth and B streets
NE: No. 9. Weightman School,
Twenty-third and M streets NV:
No 2. Murch School. Thirty sixth
and Ellicott streets NV; No. 8,
Adams School. Nineteenth and Cali
fornia streets NV; No. 7, Bancroft
School, Eighteenth and Newton
streets NV; No. %, Eastern High
School, Seventeenth and East Capt.
tol streets; No. 18. Hayes School,
Fifth and K streets NE: No. 10,
Cooke School, Seventeenth and
Euclid streets NV; No. II, Gage
School, Second and U streets NV:
No. %, Langdon School. Twentieth
and Franklin streets NE.
Hunt Simplified Here.
The task OF flndlng numbers was
simplified, in another manner. for
registrants at the Calvin Coolidge
High School. headquarters for Board
NO. 4. Here the sheets were posted
around the walls of a large drill
room in the basement. allowing the
seekers ample space to mill around
while hunting their names.
The opposite was true at Raymond
School, serving Board Area No. 6.
where the names were posted in a
relatively narrow hallway, and at
the Truesdell School, Area No. S,
where the bulletin boards had to be
punched close together in corridor.
Draft Board No. 3 posted its 2,053
names on boards set up on the lawn
outside headquarters at the Mann
School during the daylight hours.
The lists, however, were moved in
doors before dark
Many registrants dispatched wives,
friends or little brothers to board
centers to find their numbers.
In most cases. the lists were glued
on heavy boards and covered with
cellophane sheets to prevent soiling
by the many list-running fingers.
Lucky seekers found their names
Evening star., 1940-10-27

selves compelled to fight on our own
soil" If the "would-be conquerors"
gain control Of other continents and
are able to dominate the sea and air
and the worlds economy.
Asserting steps would be taken
with "unremitting vigor" to deal
with subversive activities, Mr. Hull
said the experience of many other
countries has brought us the shock
ing realization of the manner in
which, and the extent to which,
such activities are employed to un-
dermine social and political institu-
tions and to bring about internal
disintegration and decay in the
countries which they plan to make
their victims"
Evening star., 1940-10-27
Fisher-Briggs Marriage
Second of Families

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Oct. 26.-For a second
time, son and daughter of two fam
lilies prominent in the automobile in
dustry were married today.
Everell Fisher. son Of Charles T.
Fisher and Susan Briggs, daughter
of Walter o. Briggs, were married
at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sac
rament. In 1929 Charles T. Fisher,
jr.. brother of Everell, and Elizabeth
Briggs, sister of Susan. were married.
One of the guests at today's we'd
ding was Judge Kenesaw M. Lands,
the baseball commissioner Walter
o. Briggs is owner of the Detroit
Tiger ball team.
Evening star., 1940-10-27
Wiekord Says WilIkie
Is No Friend of Former
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Ill, Oct. 26.-Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wickard as
serted tonight that Wendell L. Will
kie. Republican presidential candi-
date. sis no friend of the farmer"
The record of his party is one
long dismal story of betrayal-one
long, unbroken story of service to
the financial interests that bled the
farmers white until the election of
Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1882" Mr..
Wickard said in prepared speech
at a Democratic rally in the Ottawa
Armory.
1T took the Hoovers and the Mel
Ions long time to drive the farm
ers and the workers out of the Re-
publican party he added. 1T is
going to take more than corpora
ton lawyer, posing as a miracle
man, to get them back again."
Evening star., 1940-10-27

merely for explanatory purposes,
that these are the next numbers:
No. T. Every board would have
this registrant. some as No. l, others
as No. 2 on their list.
No. 1920. No board would have
a registered man with this num-
ber. But when a man walked in,
later, to register-because, perhaps,
he had been out of the United
States or in Jail or seriously i'll or
overcome by conscience-he would
find himself No. 3 on the list and
required to fill out a QUESTIONABLE
at once.
But the QUESTIONABLE is only the
beginning, in a way. Of the selective
service system. With the informa-
ton contained in the answers. the
boards will start to class men and to
call them for service or place them
in one of the deferred ratings.
Some May Wait Months.
1t may be many months before
some whose numbers go into the
lottery Will near IurtleT IIOlH tile
selective service system.
But every one of the nearly IT,
900 900 men between the ages Of 81
and SO will be interested in the slow,
gradual outcome of the lottery. For
on it will depend whether he is ques-
toned soon or late.
Only the volunteers. who go to the
draft boards and offer to serve their
year in the Army at once, will not
care. for their numbers will be
pushed ahead, and they will have to
get by only the doctor and the
hurdles of possible dependents and,
less likely vocational indispensa-
bility, to gain their wish. And even
the volunteers will have a natural
curiosity in how their numbers fare
in the fateful bowl.
Evening star., 1940-10-27
Woman in Red Wins
In Race With Bull
a, the As.ociated press

By the Associated Press
SPARTANBURG, s. C.-When an
airplane was forced down In q pas
ture, Miss Beulah Robson stepped
out resplendent in bright red hat
and matching accessories. A mo-
ment later she was the center Of
interest for an indignant bull, and
sprinted to safety
Honey" drawled a woman spec
tator, ''yo' must be from the
country. Nobody but q country girl
could run across q pasture and
climb through a barbed wire fence
that-away."
Evening star., 1940-10-27
MIR. Pyle Says, SPECIALIZING Rug, cap. 4, Yea
Keeps SANITARY RUG CLEANING Best"

You can't be a successful Jack-of-all-
trades these days. People prefer the
services of SPECIALISTS.
That's why the word has gone round
that SANITARY has been doing better
job Of Rug and Carpet Cleaning by
sticking to Rugs and Carpets ONLY.
The fact that we've been at 1t for II
years . 81 of them in Washington -. .
is good reason for you to give us trial.
When calling us to send for your rugs,
may we remind you that NOW Is the
time to let us have your Summer rugs
for winter storage
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-12
SOME JUDGES TOO BIG
Sacramento UniOn)

An Arkansas judge asserts that free
dom of the press was never intended to
conflict with freedom of the courts"
and censures Little Rock newspapers
for the way they handled news arising
out of a $4,000 shortage in accounts of
a sheriff's office.
"The attitude of the press in front
paging this matter has created a situa-
tion almost unprecedented" Judge Gus
Fulk declared.
Some weeks ago a st. Louis Judge took
much the same attitude with the St Lou
is Post-Dispatch, holding the managing
editor, cartoonist and other executives
incontempt of court because of the
papers handling of graft expose.
We cannot at all agree with the CON
tentions of the judges in either of these
cases. What the judges seem to forget
is that in holding newspaper in. CON
tempt they are defying the constitutional
right of the public to defend its own in
terests against the courts.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-12
Willis Thorntons Editorial On
Doing What Can't Be Done

glass ard made a stronger anC
better bulb to boot.
The joke wasn't so funny then
We don't know whether they ever
told the young man about the i'm
possible" task they had set him
But he hadn't known it was i'm
possible so he did it.
The large scale maneuvers this
summer, rudimentary as they are
in some respects, ought to give the
top command in the army some
kind of a line on which officers are
obsessed with impossibilities, and
which go right ahead with what
they have and do. the job anyway.
Those who sneer at gaspipe anti
tank guns and shrug shoulders at
antiquated tanks may we'll remem-
Der that only a few years ago the
very German army which today
looks so unbeatable was training
with tin covered touring cars for
tanks and sailplares for dive bonn
bers.
That's not to say we shouldn't
get the new equipment, and get if
in iig-time. 1t is simply to sav that
much valuable training can be had
anyway. General Marshall didn't
wait for the new equipment to pet
ready a fast-moVing motorized Ma
rine landing force. lie took what
he had and shook it together into
a real organization.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-12
THE PRICE OF
NEGLECT
(AnfiagO (Wis.) Daily JOurnai)

According to an article in the August
issue of the Atlantic Monthly written by
T. H. Thomas, American general head
quarters officer in the first World War,
the President taking for the first time
steps pointed out to him as necessary
preparatory measures we'll over two
years ago. At the end of 1887 he says at
was realized in the War Department not
only that the Army was fllmSlly prepar-
ed with modern weapons, but that the
industries of the country were without
the tools and machines (to say nothing
of the special skills and eXperience) nee
essary for producing them in a quantity
If an emergency arose. This fact was laid
before the President, and the proposal
was made to lay out a modest sum for
the preparations necessary to equip in
dustry for these special and noncommerc-
ial lines of manufacture so as to make
them ready for orders when the time
came. 1t was proposed also to follow this
up with cerain number of orders. so
that the army would have a small reserve
of arms and special equipment on hand
... But nothing happened. Apparentlv
the nropoSals were not transmitted 10
the Congressional Committees and the
Wa Denor'r'nnt had not confided them
to +I,a nuhlic :"
Mr.. Thomas further points out that
the pyramiding of huge appropriations
which cannot now be spent is no substi-
tute for past neglect. The additional in
dustries equipped to manufacture many
of the things most needed simply do not
exist, but would have existed had the
program been begun in 1888.
Louis johnson, assistant secretary of
war, is quoted as saying: "a generation
ago we had a large munitions industry,
today we have practically none" They
went out of business, and turned to the
production of other articles after the
first World War. In fact as Mr.. Thomas
scathingly comments, "Ths process pro-
ceeded faster than any idea of disarma-
ment or universal peace-and after a
decade or so the Nye committee set out
on what was in effect dinosaur hunt"
This information but emphasizes the
plight of the United States as to nation
al defense, and makes more urgent. as
Mrs. Thomas SAYS, 'tackling the actual
task with necessary LEGISLATION and with a
rational nationwide mechanism for mo-
blizine industry and labor"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-12

There's a little story going the
rounds that ought TO be read TO ev-
cry person who has any connection
with the defense drive.
It runs like this:
In one OF our biggest electric
light plants, the research depart
ment had a little joke that they
used to play on every new man.
Everybody knew that you couldn't
frost electric light bulbs on the in
side. 1t had to be done on the
outside, though a better bulb would
have been produced with a smooth
outside, the frosting within. But
Of course It couldn't be done.
So they would set each new re-
sea-cher 10 work on the problem
And when he came back a little
later and reported that it couldn't
be lone they would all unlax for
2 big laugh and explain that yes,
that was the Joke.
But one serious minded new re-
searcher never did get it. He viewed
the problem gravely. Nobody put
him Wise 10 the fact that it
couldrt be done. SO he kept peg
ging away at it.
One day he came in and reported
that he had the answer. He showed
his process. Not only had he devised
a means Of frosting the inside OF
the bulbs. but a process that etch-
ed the depressions uniformly in the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-12

WASHINGTON, Aug. II - The
Russians want the U. S. to release
to them 1000 900 of assets frozen"
here which stood to the credit of
Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania be-
fore their communication. B u t
nothing is said Of S3500,O00 invested
by Americans in those countries,
which would appear even more
effectively frozen" by Russia.
Bonds Of the three Baltic coun-
tries represent s2,OOOOOO of the
American interests. though much
of the American investments in
countries overrun by the Nazi and
Communist expansions is directly
placed in plants and equipment
Practically all of the foreign as
sets frozen" here are in bank bal
anCeS or stock certificates. the in
vestment of Netherlanders in oil
production and distribution being
an exception.
Since 1898. American businessmen
with branch plants in Germany
or German-occupicd territory have
been unable to bring home any
profits.
Yet if Hitler were to confisCate
outright American investments in
German occupied countries, and
the United States should retaliatc
by Confiscating corresponding for
eign owned assets held here, Hit
Ter would come out on the short
nd:
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-12
WCTU Advocates
US. Prohibition

CHICAGO, Aug. II (UP) -Abo-
Iition of beverage alcohol would help
to make the men of the nation as
strong aS-the machines of war they
must operate, Mrs. Pearl Kendell
Hess, Orange. Calf told the 66th
annual convention of the Womens
Christian Temperance Union today
Mrs. Hess is director of health
and medical temperance for the w
c. T. u.
"The elimination of beverage al
cohol in the United States could dc
for the public health what prevent
i've medicine did in giving the ma
ton its lowest death rate on rec
ord she said.
The national program to improve
social hygiene would be "heroic
service, she sale. by attacks upon
"the dance hall, the beer parlor. ano
the cocktail lounge"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-12
Paul Harrison S Notes
On Hollywood S FoibIes and Fads
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, Aug lO-Opera-
tive Bl, of the Plot Division, skunk
into the office today and HANDED
over his badge. He said there's a
limit to the disillusionment and
sentimental pain that any man can
stand, ard that he had reached it
while ferretiro out the plot OF
Gene Towne and Graham Bakers
Little Men"
You mean Louisa May Alcott's
Little Men, I corrected gently
MIR. Towne and Mr.. Baker are
merely producing the picture. Why
even the name of their company
The -Play's-The Thing Productions
indicates the respect with which
they are approaching the classics
they film
NO" said Agent B-1, hollowly
Il still mean ToWne and Bakers
Little Men. Here's the report
Taking a page, began to read:
Major Burdle George BancrofD
genial confidence man, works a
thriving racket"
"Hey!" I exclaimed. This is the
wrong plot. You've been to the
wrong studio, or something. There's
no Major Burdle in Little Men"
"Ehere is in Towne and Baker's"
snorted ex-B-1. "Gwan, read the
rest"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-12
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
M. A. No. O53O83
District Land Office
rauscnrp,fn

boo Fh'Stse',
June 7. 1910
Notice is hereby given that The
Tycrete Chemical Corporation. by
Louis A. Tyce, president. of Chula
Vista. California, has made appli-
cation for patent to the White
Crystal No. placer mining claim.
embracing Eh SEA NEh Sec. is
and White Crystal No. 2 placer
mining claim, embracing SWh NWA
NWh Sec. Is; SEA Me- NEh Sec.
Is all in T. II S., r. T.. SBM
containing 40 acres, in the Ell Cen
tro Mining District, Imperial Coun-
ty, California. There are no ad-
joining or conflicting claims. The
location notices are recorded in
Book 359, page 148 and Book 358,
page 1876. and amended notices are
recorded in Book d6O page 488,
Book 460, page 489. and Book 481,
page 563, official records of Imper-
ial County, California.
PAUL Z. WITMER,
Register.
4 al
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-12
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 3117

IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE AND GUARDIANSHIP OF
RAMON SANCHEZ, AN INCOM-
PETENT PERSON.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO EN-
CUMBER REAL PROPERTY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Mariana Guizar as guardian of
Ramon Sanchez, incompetent. has
filed his verified petition praying
for an order authorizing cucumber
ing the real property hereinafter
described by giving a deed of trust
thereon and that Friday the 23rd
day of August, 1940 at IL o'clock
A. M. in the Superior Court of the
State Of California, in and for the
county of Imperial, in Department
l. thereof, has been fixed as the
time and place for hearing said
petition when and where any per-
sons interested in said estate may
appear and object to granting said
petition
Reference is hereby made to said
petition for further particulars as
to the terms and conditions of the
proposed encumbrance.
Said real property is situated in
the City of FL Centro County of
Imperial, State of California. and
particularly described as:
Lot of Block 18 of the Town
site of FL Centre. according to
Map No. 953, on file in the
Office of the County Recorder
of San Diego County.
w. J. McCLEILAND.
County Clerk and Clerk of said
Superior Court.
BY Maxine Console,
Deputy.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-12
Uranium Crackers
Armed Force Ranks

With the vast increase in strength
of the U. S. armed forces, you
should know something of the rank
of men who lead them. Here are
five poscrs to test your knowledge.
/. How many men in U. S. history
have borne the title of general?
2. How many men in U. S. naval
history have borne the title of
admiral?
3. Place in correct desceding or
der these army ranks: sergeant
captain, major, colonel, corporal.
a. Place in correct descending
order these naval ranks: rear ad-
miral, vice admiral, lieutenant-c com
mander, captain, ensign.
s. How many men does a captain
in the navy command?