davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1940-03-27

for low-income Americans? And
wouldn't the census takers answers
to those questions be ready to release
to the public land orators in the
heat OF the coming presidential
campaign? Maybe so, maybe not.
And another stickler:
Why have none Of the profess
sional groups outside Government
that originally told Harry Hopkins
he had their O. K on census ques-
tions No. 80 and 80, come charging
to the rescue OF the beleaguered
secretary?
They're not saying. But maybe
they don't like to back publicity
inquests into private incomes, or
they figure they'll be singed in the
political bonfires this fall Or if
they're anti-New Deal. maybe they
agree with that Senator. who said
couple of silly questions might lose
the Democratic party 100000 votes
this fall
And why hasn't the Republican
party high command come blasting
down the political highway to back
up Senator Tobey?
Now we're getting warm Posi-
lively hot. in fact. The Republican
party's high command knows - as
does the Democratic high command
that the real Battle of the Census
is still to fought. And it's not
strictly a party affair. Jealous
members of the House Of Represen-
tatives in both parties. especially
members in both parties who may
lose their seats when the census
mans figures are totalled, are the
primary strugglers in that battle.
Reapportionment's the word for it!
And it means political blood letting
every 10 years. But that's another
story.
To date we have only three devel-
opments in the opening skirmish
Of the census:
l. Lots of people don't like the
idea of discussing their incomes and
divorces with the census taker.
2. Senator Tobey's blast may dam
age the results of the 1910 census.
3. And Tobey or no Tobey. John
@. Citizen will be asked about his
income If he makes less than $4,000
a year, although he may seal the
answers away from the eyes of the
census taker, and mail them to
Washington.
Senator Tobey wins his highland
also loses it-becauSe (a) the Sen
ate won't push through his resolu-
ton asking the Census Bureau not
to ask the income questions, and %
the courts won't have time to pass
on the legality Of the questions be-
fore the census takers arm them
selves with blank forms, umbrellas
overshoes and smiles and assault the
Nations doorbells.
Tomorrow: Who Is going to
kill Congressman Cock Robin
and his fue collea0ues?J
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Census Takers Get
Maps Of Districts;
TraiIers Problem
Mrs. Roosevelt xoises
Objeetives Of Task
In Broadcast
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
The Census Bureau today finished
scattering a l47.000-piece jigsaw
puzzle to the four corners Of the
Nation.
Assembled, the pieces form a
mammoth map of the United States,
showing all streets, alleys, institu-
tions and landmarks. Each section
covers one of the enumeration dis
trlcts for the 18th decennial census
which begins next Tuesday. Each
enumerator received map Of the
district where he will work.
AND because not everybody IN the
United States lives on the streets,
alleys, ETC., shown on the huge map,
a special day has been set aside
for catching those who live in diff
ferent places daily-the trailer no
MAIDS Estimating that as many
as 100000 persons may be living
in rubber ii. I'd homes, the Census
Bureau has designated April 8 as
the day on which enumerators will
make a special effort to catch up
with all the travelling families.
Mrs. Roosevelt Defends Objectives.
As the whole project thus becomes
increasingly complex and far-reach-
ing, a defense of its objectives was
advanced yesterday by Mrs. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt in a radio address
In which she declared the study will
make available the greatest assem-
blaee of facts ever collected by any
people about the things that affect
their welfare"
Much doubt has been raised as
to the propriety of some Of the ques-
tion," she remarked, but declared
that they were designed to give the
fact which will provide illuminating
data on problems which have become
particularly pressing in the last
decade"
Question and Answer Dialogue.
The Presidents wife spoke on pro-
gram in which Mrs. Sheppard, wife
of the Texas Senator, and Mrs. Eber-
harter, wife of the Pennsylvania Rep
resentative. played the roles Of a
census-taker and housewife in a
question and answer dialogue about
the census.
The housewife" inquired "why
the census has to ask so many more
questions now than ever before" and
received the reply that "the coun-
try is 50 much bigger and modern
life 50 much more complex"
Meanwhile, the Census Bureau
said that a per cent sample of its
lob enumeration would be published
during the summer and that the to-
tai count of unemployed might be
completed before the November elec-
tion.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Cartoons to Ask
Cooperation
During Census

Uncle Sam, the high-hatted, coat
tailed gentleman of the cartoons,
has been officially adopted by the
Bureau of the Census as the emblem
to carry q message to the American
people about the 1910 census.
He comes in three different sizes.
and Is being distributed throughout
the country, in the form of sketch,
inclosed in circle of letters reading:
Cooperate 1910 u. S. Census"
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Coalition Cabinet
Formed in HeIsjnki;
Ryti Still Premier
Rolf Johon Whiting Tokes
Foreign Ministry; Tanner
Welfare Minister
BY the Associated Press.

HELSINKI. |. March 27-Prime
Minister Risto Ryti, who negoti-
ated peace with Moscow. reorgan-
lied his government today. form
ing cabinet officially described as
a coalition ministry uniting all par
ties for the ask Of reconstruction.
Vaino Tanner, foreign minister in
the old government. who was the
target Of bitter personal attacks by
the Soviet press and radio. was
stepped down to the post of Min
lister of Welfare. The new Foreign
Minister is Rolf Johan Whiting,
6l-year- old veteran of varied politi-
cal and financial experience, in
Guiding service in several cabinet
posts.
Other Cabinet Members.
Others in the new cabinet:
Justice-Oskari Lehtonen.
Interior-Ernest Won Born.
War-Maj Gen. Karl Rudolf Wal
den. Gen. Walden also was men,
Der of the peace delegation.
Finance-Mauno Pekkala.
Education-Artti Kukkonen.
Agriculture-Pekka Heikinen and
Juho Koivisto.
Commerce-Vaino Kotilainen.
Social-Karl Augusta Fagerholm.
Welfare-V. Tanner.
Communications - Vaino Salo-
vaara and Karl Erik Ekholm.
Tanner Ex-Premier.
Tanner was minister of foreign af-
fairs in the last government and
formerly Premier. Pekkala was min
lister Of finance and Fagerholm min
lister OF social welfare in the last
government.
The new minister of justice, Leh-
tonen, is member of the coalition
party; Interior Minister Won Born is
member Of the Swedish People g
party; Pekkalo, Salovaara, Eager
holm and Tanner are members of
the dominant Social Democratic
group; Kukkonen, Heikkinen and
Koivisto are Agrarian party men,
bers. Other members are described
as non-partisan.
The new Foreign Minister, who is
81, served twice as Minister of Com
munications and Public Works
ls24-25, 1930-3l. He Is a member
OF the Swedish Peoples Party.
In private life he has been assist
ant astronomer at Helsinki Observ-
story and director of the Finnish
Institute for Sea Exploration.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Cosmos Club Members
Will Meet Toniqht

Members of the Cosmos Club will
meet in the United States Chamber
of Commerce Auditorium at o'clock
tonight to consider sale Of their
property at Madison place and H
street NV. to the Federal Govern
ment. which has 81 ,o00, 900 available
for the purchase.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Eoster Cold May Help Fruit

RICHMOND, Va, March n P).-
The State Department of Agricul-
ture reported today that the Easter
cold wave had not damaged crops
and might help fruit by delaying
blossoming until after the usual
frost deadline.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Report
Furnished by the

(Furnih by 5u-'auo
CoumbaCoudy with occasional rain tonight and TO-
minimum temperature about AZ de-
grees southwest winds.
occasional tonight
slightly n portion tomorrow
occasional tonight tomorrow
warmer tonight in portions tomorrow.
Evening star., 1940-03-27

With . Nation. wide trafnc toll Of
2.730 lives reported In January, lsle,
this Aasualty list was 6 per cent
sreatok than ln January . year 40.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Finnish Donations
Through Star Pass
$1,000 Mark

The Star has continued to re-
cetve and accept contributions
for the relief Of war-torn Fin
land, although hostilities ceased
March 13. These contributions
will continue to be sent to the
Washington unit Of the Finnish
Relief Fund, Inc. for TRANSMITS
sion to Finland via New York.
Acknowledgement of the latest
receipts follows:
Previously acknowledged $o42 .26
Anonymous ------- 500
K. +. w. ------------- 500
Anonymous -- zoo
Helen McGlue Dickens 1900
Anonymous ----------- 200
+. A. Honey ---------- ZOO
!: Total $O0 W
orend otal ----------$ 81. .03l "a
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Report for Last - Hours.

Record fer Last - Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon todayo
Hishest. bs. noon today. Year ago. ~.
Lowest, IS. 11:4b pm. yesterday. Year
Record Temperatures This Year.
Hishest. 65. on March 20.
Lowest. Z, on January 20.
Humidity for Last "a Hssrs.
rrom noon yesterday to noon today
Hishest. AZ per cent. At $50 am. today
Lowest, II per cent. at 1880 pm. yes
terday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry Potomac slishtiy muddy
at Great Falls today
Tide Tables
FURNISHED By United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey
Today Tomorrow
High ---------- 10:46 am. II :37 Am.
Low --------- 500 Am. 6:67 an
High ------------ 1l:1b pm.
Low ------------- $40 pm. 6:32 pm.
The Sun and Neon
Gu: 'ssss ssss.,.. s';i' s'$$s II; u:
Moon today. l1:0e Pm. e:30 am
\ Aptomobile lights must b turned IN,
6Ae-haN hour after sunset
Evening star., 1940-03-27

Tomorrow: Who Is going to
kill Congressman Cock Robin
and his fDe colled0ues?J
Evening star., 1940-03-27
HOPKINS Interested?

It could be asked whether Harry
hopkins, / right bower In the White
House, might not be interested In
those questions for similar reasons.
Would they pz e the Presidents
thesis7 Justify Rev Deal spending
Evening star., 1940-03-27
PrecipitatiOn

Monthly precipitation IN inches In tn
Capital tcurrent month to date)
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-08
Bombers Kill Boy,
Girl by Mistake
In Eastern City
Assassin Plot Misfires
When Youngsters Set
Off Deadly Machine

SCRANTON, Pa, Nov. 8.
(UP)-Bomb experts today
hunted the assassins who
killed a boy and a girl in an
attempt to kill their father,
an official of the municipal gov
ernment.
A bomb explosion rocked Scran-
tons most fashionable neighbor-
hood last night. The bomb mao
been attached to the automobile OF
DR.. E. H. Rebhorn, head OF the
city department of health, and 1T
killed his son, William, 10, and MS
daughter, Lois, II. .s..,,-s.a. 80.
Lieut.. William Pike, explosive eX-
pert of the New York police de-
partment, and four explosive ex-
perts of the Philadelphia police de-
partment. were hastily summoned.
It was reported that agents OF the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
were en- route here from Philadel-
phia.
Pike is one of the best known
explosive experts. He solved the
Good Friday" bomb outrage in
Wslkes-Barre in 1885, which killed
three, and On his evidence the
bomber was executed.
WHY didn't they take it out on
me and not on my children?" cried
the distraught father as other phys
icians removed hundreds of frag-
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-08
Roosevelt Wronq
By 107 Electoral
Votes, He Admits

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. CUP)-
President Roosevelt revealed TO-DAY
that his personal prediction on out
come of the Tuesday election was
wrong by 100 electoral votes-that
he had predicted his total would
be $40 rather than the 449 Whlch
he actually received.
The president said he had made
his prediction last August and saw
no reason to revise his estimate
on subsequent developments.
His political guesses on other an
giles of the election also went aWry,
he said. With Washington corre-
spondents at Hyde Park on election
eve, he entered 10 other pools seek
ing to predict the outcome OF the
election in certain sectional combi-
nations of states. He guessed wrong
on all 10 combinations, he said.
Mr.. Roosevelt was asked about
reports that he might invite Wen
dell L. Willkie to become member
of his cabinet or assume some i'm
portant post in his administration
as a further step toward national
unity" The president said he has
not had time since his election to
consider any such moves along cab
met lines.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-08
Tacoma Bridge to
Be Reconstructed

TACOMA, Wash, Nov. 8. (UP)
The Washington toll bridge au-
thority today proceeded with plans
to rebuild the four-month-old S6,-
100000 Tacoma Narrows suspension
bridge, the remains of which were
lying in the mud in the bottom OF
Puget Sound.
The bridge, third largest tuspen-
sion span in the world, was whip
ped to pieces yesterday in a 35-
mile gale. 1t linked the Pacific
Northwest's three major defense
units-Fort Lewis and McChord
Field near Tacoma, and the Puget
Sound navy yard at Bremerton.
Hastily recondiJioned ferries were
put into service today between Point
Defiance and Gig harbor.
While bridge experts argued
about what had caused the span
to disintegrate, engineers at the
University OF Washington tinkered
with a $14,500 model to eliminate
the "bugs" from the new one.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-08
BY UNITED PRESS

Great Britain and Germany trad
ed tremendous blows on the sea
and in the air Friday as Greek
and Italian armies battled to break
a military deadlock on the AL
banian frontier.
Huge British bombs smashed in
to the giant Krupp arms works in
Germany's Rhur valley for four
hours Thursday night, the Lon
don air ministry reported, turn
ing the target into vivid sheet
of flame that leaped hundreds
of feet into the air
German sea raiders, submarine
and dive bombers destroyed one
British convoy of Is to 20 ships
in mid-Atlantic Tuesday and sank
six ether merchantmen in an at
tack Friday, 1t was reported at
Berlin, where Nazis said the raid
on the convoy continued.
German and italian airplanes
continued to hammer at targets on
the British isles with renewed fury
the British air ministry reporting
that 18 Nazi raiders were shot down
during the day. Britain lost four
planes but two pilots were safe.
Tension in the balkans was fur
ther increased when Hungary re-
ported the foiling of a Nazi plot
to kidnap Regent Admiral Nicholas
Horthy, assassinate some of his of
ficlalS and put a NaZi regime into
power at Budapest.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-08
Bourbons Control
House, Senate by
Safe Majorities
4S Million Voters Cast
Presidential Ballots,
Late Returns Reveal

NEW YORK, Nov. 8. (UP)
Final congressional re-
turns from Tuesdays cleo
ton today revealed a Demo-
cratic house majority of 105
seats and a margin of 36 in the
senate.
Nearly complete returns as tab
ulated by the United Press gave
a popular vote for all presidential
candidates of 48,l29,828.
Late incomplete, unofficial re-
turns gave President Roosevelt &c.
286,959 votes to 21,845, ,463 for Wen
dell Willkie.
WILKES electoral vote totaled
70. He won in Colorado, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan,
Nebraska, North Dakota and South
Dakota.
The last congressional contest
determined was in Washington's
4th district where Democratic Rep.
Knute Hill was reelected over
Frank Miller, Republican.
The party divisions in the new
congress which will convene Jan.
3, II days before President Roose-
velt's third Inauguration, were as
follows: senate, Democrats &c, Re-
publicans %, Independent l and
Progressive /; House, Democrats
268, Republicans 1863, Progressives
3 and American Labor /.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-08
Nazi Arms factory Turned to Vivid
Sheet Of Flame Under Raj Bombs:
British Convoy Sunk in Atlantic

Greek and italian troops were
still locked in battle on three fronts
along the Albanian frontier zone,
with the Greeks claiming a slight
toward the italian base of Koritza
but admittedly falling back slightly
before reinforced Fascist columns
encircling Janina in western Greece
A dispatch from Reynolds Pack
ard, veteran United Press war COR
respondent and only American re-
ported with the Italian armies in
Greece, indicated that the Greek
mountain defenses were extremely
effective but said the Italian forces
were starting a new and pre-
sumably bigger drlve. =.
Rome newspapers also forecast
an immediate new italian often
sive against the British in Egypt.
The Nazi plot to seize control Of
Hungary was reported officially by
the Budapest government, which
sought to arrest five Nazi party
deputies in parliament including
Charles Wirth, alleged leader of
the plot.
The attorney generals office at
Budapest charged that the Nazis
planned to force Horthy to free
the Hungarian Nazi leaders now
in prison, including Francis SCALA
81, and then to murder the min
lister of interior.
The plan called for elevation of
Szalasi to the premiership, it was
asserted.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-08
No Discrimination
Against Valley in
Loans. Claims FCA
Group Surveys Credit
Structure Here Under
Land Bank Setup

A group of Farm Credit
administration representa-
tives left Imperial Valley
Friday after a two-day visit
during which they gathered
data for report upon the advisa-
bility of expanding federal farm
credit to valley farmers.
The delegation was headed by
P. l.. Gaddis, chief of the FCA
appraisal subdivision and included
D. H. Bushnell, assistant chief OF
the engineering section and F. w.
Immasche of the economic and
research division.
Gaddis and his colleagues indi-
Gated that they had not yet reach
ed conclusion but insisted that
there would be no discrimination
against the valley
There has, know, been a feel
ing in Imperial Valley that fed
eral loan agencies have discrimi-
mated in this case But this Is
not true and the extension of credit
is determined on the same stand
ards all over the country" Gaddis
commented
1.-The federal land bank is an
xious to extend credit wherever and
to the extent that conditions JUS
tify."
Inspection by the FCA men was
in response to valley requests dir
ected at A. c. Black, governor Of
the Farm Credit administration. for
a broader credit policy which would
include the granting of federal
Land Bank loans. Land Bank loans
have been banned in the valley for
about two decades and recently the
only federal credit facilities have
been Land commissioner loans of
limited size. Several hundred COM
missioner loans have been made,
however
Besides comforting with Russell
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-08
Prisoner Admits
Criminal Record

Jack owens, So, dishwasher and
dental technician arrested by Braw-
ley police on a bad check charge
Thursday night, told Sheriff r. w
Ware Friday he had served time
in four penitentiaries.
He said he had been a prisoner
in the federal penitentiaries at At
lanta and LeGvenworth and IN
state prisons at Folsom, California,
and Florence, Ariz. He admitted
writing check and trying to pass
it on Roger Acker in Brawley be-
cause he Thought it would be
good name TO pass check on
Acker became suspicious of him and
called Brawley police.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-08
Cotton Production
Up Million Bales

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. (UP)-
The Agriculture Department today
estimated 1910 cotton production
at 12,847,0OO bales, which is more
than a million bales greater than
last years yield.
Cotton ginned from the 1910
crop prior to Nov. /, the department
said, totaled 9,O33,626 running bales,
compared with 10,O79,112 for 1889
and 10,124,773 for 1888.
The estimate as of Nov. l shows
an increase of less than l per cent
over the forecast as of Oct. /. The
indicated yield an acre was esti-
mated at 2511 pounds compared
with 1919 pounds in 1899 and
1881 pounds yield over the 10-year
average.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-08
Funeral Scheduled
For Local Youth

Funeral services for Jack Mazda,
20, Ell Centro Japanese who was
killed in traffic accident in San
Diego Wednesday. were scheduled
at the Japanese Christian church
in Ell Centre at p. m. Saturday.
The Rev. Messers. Kuwano and
Kokubun will preside at the rites
Pallbearers will be Marcus Naito
of Los Angeles, Tod Tokuda of San
Diego, George Kita of Calexico, Roy
Koike of Oceanside, and James
Chickahisa and Yoshiya Tsujimoto
of Ell Centre. Joe Kokubun will be
the soloist and Miss Masako Yu-
kawa the pianist. Brief rites were
scheduled at the Lemons chapel at
7:30 p. m. Friday.
Burial will take place at Ever
green cemetery.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-08

lllc lllSt VOllQ WAL
The wild happiness of that other
Nov II will be repeated Monday,
but with a more serious aspect be-
cause of the fears that at some dis
tant date the United States will
have more than one Armistice Day
TO celebrate.
For the moment, however, the
threat of more warfare will be
pushed into the background Mon
day as a two-mile parade winds
down Westmorland's Main street,
as Imperial Valley let's go in west
ern fashion at a barbecue and yells
for. winner in the afternoon OF
horse racing
A military ball Sunday night at
the Westmorland Legion hall where
the uniforms of regular army and
reserve officers will stand out in
the throng, will start off festivities
that will last until late Monday
night. Bright and early Monday
morning the real celebration will
start.
County Legion Commander R. P.
ade which will start at 10 am. at
the west end of the town will reach
a total length of two miles. AS the
procession headed by Grand Mar
shall James Harvey jr followed by
horsemen carrying the colors moves
down the Main street, more march
erS will be forming behind. They
will still be forming after the first
sections have reached the West
morland grammar school park, the
point to disband, a half mile dis
tant from the starting point Chief
points in the line of march will be
40 floats, a detachment of motor
lied troops representing the 11th
Cavalry, U. S. Army, now stationed
in Imperial Valley; divisions of
American Legion men, the Womens
auxiliary, war mothers, drill team
of so girls from Central high school,
the I. v. Boys band the Swiss club
band, San Diego Legion post drum
and bugle corps, colored, the sher-
IFS posse and a group of army
volunteers.
4i1iouuCtioil VI ulSIlIlS ulSileO
guests and patriotic addresses from
a grandstand in the school park
will close the forenoon program.
The afternoon celebration will start
Immediately thereafter with a bar
becue served a quarter mile north
of Westmorland which will be fol-
lowed by pony races.
More than IS events were slated
on the racing program, including a
special drill given by the Brawley
girls horseback team sponsored by
the Elks and an exhibition by Palm
Springs show horses. The sheriY's
posse also will perform.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-08
Napa State Farm
Ordered Closed

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 8. (UP)-
Director of Finance George Killion
today ordered cloAng of the 1900
acre Napa state farm, which has
peen operated at a loss for many
years.
The closing is effective Dec. 81.
One of the farms present 13 en-
ployes will be retained as a care
taker and the others will be dis
charged or transferred to other
state employment, Killion said.
Killion reported to Gov. Culbert
Olson that investigation by the
finance department shows the farm
cannot be operated properly until
an adequate supply of water is
made available.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-08

Speaker sam Raypurn Salu oiiooo
issues had been Lying around for
a long time" and saw no reason
to keep congress here to debate
them. He wanted newly elected
congress, which convenes in jan
uary, to deal with them.
Treasury officials said the $4,-
0OO,OOO,O00 of borrowing authority
already granted for defense re-
mains, and the siX-week interim
until the next congress could be
used in drafting proposed legisla-
ton.
Morgenthau, with an eye on the
fact that the national debt now
rapidly approaches its present $45,-
00O,O00,000 limit, proposed the in
crease yesterday, saying: I'VE have
only just started to rearm." Treas
ury officials indicated their belief
that the $4,O0O,OOOOO0 increase in
the debt authorized for defense
purposes only, would be exhausted
before the end of this fiscal year.
On Oct. 81 only $567 100000 of the
$45, 900, 100000 borrowing authority
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81