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Evening star., 1940-03-20
Arms Licenses Total
S57,345,495 During
Month Of February
French Orders Account
For About Three-Fourths
Of Exports Authorized

American fighting planes and
other war equipment valued at $42,-
854,991 were licensed for export to
France last month, the State De-
partment reported yesterday.
The French orders accounted for
approximately three-fourths of all
the arms shipments authorized
during February, the report showed.
Licenses issued for export of mu-
nitions to Great Britain and her
dominions amounted to only $2,-
697,902, but actual shipments to
England, Australia, Canada and the
Union of South Africa aggregated
1882 SAT during the month. Actual
shipments to France during Febru-
ary were valued at $7,181 ,588.
Arms purchases covered by licenses
issued during one month may actu-
ally be exported during another
month, it was pointed out.
Finland secured licenses for $3,-
187,500 worth of ammunition and
Sl7,795 worth of airplane parts,
while actual arms exports to Fin
land amounted to $2,O27, 1862, includ-
ing S1,500,408 worth of warplanes.
China ranked second to France
IN the amount of arms purchases
here, obtaining licenses for $3911 1893
worth OF war equipment, including
81 ,898,717 worth of airplane engines,
1899 1886 worth of machine guns and
$685. ,672 worth of high explosives.
Actual exports to China during the
month were valued at $706, ,489.
Belgium also was a major Gus
toner, getting licenses for 50 1872 900
worth of combat airplanes and $685.
900 worth of airplane engines and
parts.
The State Department report
showed total of s57, ,345, ,495 worth
OF arms licensed for export to all
countries during the month. Actual
shipments during February aggre-
gated $19,540,859.
Evening star., 1940-03-20
Eugenio Burrows
Wins Tuft Contest

Eugenia Burrows, IA, Of 2617 New
ton street NE, last night won the
oratorial contest sponsored at Taft
Junior High School by Bunker Hill
Post, No. 81, of the American Le-
gion.
Miss Burrows won over four other
contestants on the subject '"The Du-
ties and Responsibilities Of American
Citizenship" She is now eligible to
compete with winners in other
schools in zone contest early in
April.
Evening star., 1940-03-20
Sales Tax Opposition
Meets Rebuffin
Citizens Association
Cleveland Park Unit
Authorizes Study Of
Proposed Levy

A resolution opposing a sales tax
for the District was stalled last night
at meeting of the Cathedral
Heights s-Cleveland Park Citizens
Association after group OF men,
bers voiced the belief that such a
levy would be the only method Of
obtaining revenue from Federal en-
ployes maintaining out-of town
registration.
The original move, offered by S. F..
Lundsholm, scored the sales levy
on the grounds it would burden the
poorer classes and would involve a
complex system of collection. A
special committee was authorized to
Evening star., 1940-03-20

study the matter for final report at
the next meeting.
Race Track Opposed.
Establishment Of race track in
the District was opposed unanimous
ly by the association.
After hearing a talk by John P.
Cahill, president of the Dahlgren
Terrace Citizens Association, urging
vote of confidence in the Police
Department in the face of recent
criticism, the group indorsed the
move.
No Action on Milk Bill.
A committee report on the Schultz
proposal for Federal milk inspection
Evening star., 1940-03-20

There were only 10 traffic fatalities
in the District during the first two
months of this year, as compared
with IA during a similar period in
1899. This is a decrease of approxi-
mately 20 per cent.
Evening star., 1940-03-20

in the District voiced the fear that
such a plan, while lowering the~
cost, might also endanger the quality
OF District milk. No action was
taken, however.
A request that high bank at
the entrance to Mount Alto Hospital
be removed as a hazard to motorists
on Wisconsin avenue NV. was
ordered.
Owen French acted as president
last night at the meeting, which was
held In st. Adams Parish Hall.
Evening star., 1940-03-20

Polldent, a powder that dissolves
away all scum, stains, tarnish and
odor.
Polident makes breath sweeter-
plates or bridges look better and
feel better. Tens of thousands call
Polident a blessing for comfort,
convenience and hygiene.
Long-lasting can only SOC, any
drug store. Money back if not de-
lighted. Approved by Good House
keeping Bureau and dentists
everywhere. Hudson Products, Inc,
New York, N. Y.
Evening star., 1940-03-20

A thin dark film collects on plates
and bridges. This film soaks up
odors and impurities like sponge!
1t holds germs and decay bacteria
-. gets into every tiny crevice
where brushing can't even reach.
And it's so tough that ordinary
brushing seldom remoues it.
Almost always it results in "den-
ture reath"-probably the most
offensive of all breath odors.
Yet there's a perfect way to
clean and purity false teeth with
out brushing, acid or danger. 1t is
Evening star., 1940-03-20

Haiti is doubling its shipments of
coffee to the United States.
Evening star., 1940-03-20
ADVERTISEMENT.
LATE BULLETIN

Here's pleasant, herbal syrup which gives
quick relief for coughs due to colds-Its
Per.ussin. Prescribed by many doctors for
over 80 years. Safe even for babies. For fres
trial bottle, write: Psrtussin, Dept. tt, l40
". S;:h,essen YsEf. n s''s:' r PERTuSSlN
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
Result Of Mature De|ibe7ation' Says
Attorney Of Constance Benefits
FIiqht TO Reno 10 Obtain Divorce

HOLLYWOOD, Get. 2 CUP) -
Actress Constance Bennett took up
q Nevada residence today to qualify
for the divorce Hollywood has been
expecting for several years. When
she has fulfilled her six weeks
residence requirement she will sue
the Marquis de la Falais de la
Courdray for her freedom.
The blonde film star, who once
threatened to sue any newspaper
which Speculated that she would
divorce the Marquis and made the
threat more imposing by filing
ether suits, flew to Rero last night
by way of San Francisco. She was
accompanied by Helen Ferguson, a
movie press agent and her attor-
ney, Dudley Furse.
You may be sure that Miss Ben
nett'S trip to Nevada is not an i'm
pulsive act but the result of ma
ture consideration" said Furse as
the party boarded a United Air
lines transport. He explained that
Miss Benefits lengthy separation
from the Marquis. who was an in
terpreter for the French army
when France had one, was mot
conducive to happy married life y
The actress adopted son, Peter
ara Lady Sylvia Ashley, widow OF
Douglas Fairbanks, saw them off
Miss Bennett had delaped filing
divorce suit, she said, because
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
Corre|I New Head
Of Gem Society;
Museum Man Talks

Charles r. Correll of FL Centre
Tuesday night was elected presi-
dent of the Imperial Valley Gem
and Mineral society to succeed Dr.
Warren F.. Fox.
Other officers elected included
Samuel E. Payson of El Centro.
first president; L. E. Richard
son of Holtville, second vice-presl-
dent; Mrs. Betty Simon of Braw-
ley, secretary treasurer; and G. E.
Holtzer of Imperial, reelected to
the board of directors.
Guy Hazen, field man for the
American Museum of Natural His
tory, described the fossils he dis
covered in the Borego CarriSo bad
lands. He spent many years search
ing for fossils in various parts OF
the United States.
The best specimen from the pri-
vate collections of I. V. society
members will be selected for the
permanent display in the court
house hallway. A committee com
posed of Payson. Richardson, C. G.
Halliday, Correll, Mrs. C. B. Col.
Inns, and Fox will select the eX-
hibitS.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
Canal 'Behavinu':
Water Only Nine
Miles Away Now
Continued from Page Onel


and -Four is approximately four
miles from the EastSide turnout.
Water will be checked at Drop
Four probably until Wednesday of
next week before it will be released
to flow the last four miles Rohrer
added. This was so as not to inter-
fere with excavation work at the
highline turnout where machinery
was slated to start taking out the
intervening plug" this week.
Water loss in the big ditch has
been no greater than anticipated
as we'll as it can be determined at
this stage of the game, Rohrer de-
clared.
I'VE really can't tell yet how much
loss there is" Rohrer said, "and
won't be able to until there is a
steady. continuous flow"
Asked concerning reports of a
rising water table N the Bard dis
trict, Rohrer commented:
Il haven't had any reports from
our test wells there but have re-
ceived no complaints from farmers
and 1 certainly would have them If
the effect was at all alarming"
There is no question but that
the clay lining is living up to ex-
pectations.
The clay lining was installed in
the canal last summer to prevent
seepage where the All American
arches around Bard valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
Married Men 10
Escape Draft

WASHINGTON, Oct. .. (UP)-
Conscription regulations for deter
mining who will be drafted into the
army and who will stay home were
reported today to be very liberal
about exemptions for married men.
The regulations will be the basis
for rulings by local draft boards. A
final draft of them is being studied
by the Justice Department.
CONSUMPTION officials feel that
the law is too strict for peace time
with respect to deferments of men
with dependents.
The army believes that the draft
should disrupt homes as little as
possible, especially in peace time.
High army officials believe single
men make better conscripts than
married men The latter find it more
difficult to adjust themselves TO
camp life, it was said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
Suez New Target
For Axis Attack,
British Believe
Continued from Page One)

NSOIlIIluCu Olll INV
at Alexandria.
The Germans have taken actual
if not formal charge of the Italian
military operations and apparently
have moved troops into Italy en-
route to Africa. the British indicat-
ed
The North African front-where
Fascist forces have been stalled Tor
more than two weeks after invad-
ing Egypt-was believed 10 be the
most likely point for any new oper-
ations. with the SueZ Canal as the
objective. British sources also have
reported the Axis powers attempt
ing to gain greater control of French
Syria, presumably for a double at
tack on Suez. but the French gov
ernment at Vichy denied these re-
ports.
Developments in the Mediterran-
can area, however, did not appear
likely to divert either British or
German air forces from their main
objectives in an aerial war that
seemed more and more likely to drag
on through a winter that threatens
Europe with hunger and perhaps
pestilence.
Dispatches from Vichy, the French
capital, reported that British bomb
ing raids on the French channel
ports, especially LIE Havre, had in
flicted many casualties on French
civilians as we'll as German military
forces and had done great damage.
LIE Havre harbor was reported clog
ged with sunken ships. Ninety four
civilians were reported killed and
200 wounded at that port alone.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

she thought it unfair to bother
the Marquis while he was engrossed
in his military work. But now that
the German government will do all
the Interpreting necessary in
Frarce. she decided that there no
longer was any reason why she
should not obtain her freedom.
The blonde actress formerly was
married to Phil Plant, wealthy
New Yorker. She married him in
1926 and announced she would re-
tire from the screen. Four years
later she divorced him, and he gave
her $1,000000.
When Miss Swanson divorced the
Marquis, Miss Bennett married
him. They lived together happily
for two years and separated. She
said she could not reconcile her.
self TO becoming a European house,
wife.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
No Romance. So
Bride Files Suit

NEW YORK, Oct. 2. CUP)-Mrs.
Nancy Leaf. of Portland, Ore, COM
planned in supreme court today that
her husband gave her a tiresome
train ride in place of the romantic
honeymoon he had promised.
Asking an annulment of her mar
riage last March 16 to Earl H. Leaf,
she added that they had agreed
to have children but that during
the honeymoon her husband an
nounced he had changed his mind
and didn't want to become father.
Mrs. Leaf described her husband
as a financial representative Of
the Chinese government" Referee
Edward J. Cavegan reserved decis-
ion.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
Ban on Special
Plates Continues

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 2 up
The ban on issuing special auto
license numbers started this year
will be continued in 1941 James M
Carter, director of motor vehicles
announced today.
Carter said his department al
ready has received many requests
for special plates.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
American Income
Sets New Record

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. UP)-
The Commerce Department pre-
dicted today that the total income
Of Americans during 1910 would
approach the S74,50o,000,0OO record
set in 1880 and would exceed the
total for any intervening year.
Income payments through Aug
ust this year, it said, exceeded SAT-
400 900, 900 compared with S45 .OO0,-
000,0o0 for the same period last
year.
The departments index Of in
comes, based on a 1929 level of 100
has advanced steadily since April
1t reached 90.3 in August, a full
point above the July mark.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
Arizona Plants Less Lettuce. Cites
Water Shortage, Weak Market Price
As Reason for Drop in Acreage

house none. The Yuma district acre
age for 1910 is 2430 compared with
3.l00 acres year ago.
Foote said that for the last two
seasons a third of the fall acreage
has been plowed under in an effort
to maintain a market price above
cost of production.
1T has dawned on all of us there
is no use paying the cost of planting
and cultivating more lettuce than
the market will accept, Foote said.
While the water shortage has dim
inished some paintings, Foote said,
several large lettuce growers have
installed motor-driven pumps and
are practically independent of the
local water users association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
Former Convicts
Robbery Suspects

PITTSBURGH, Oct. . UP) -
Seven convicts out on parole were
rounded up tCoay uy county de-
tectives in connection with safe
robberies.
Among those arrested, Officers
said, was Francis Kletsch. 35. Klet-
sch, on parole from Reno, New.
was able to fly to Nevada each
month to report to the probation
officer, detectives claimed.
The suspected safe crackers pos
Ga as filling station attendants to
cover their activities, authorities
said. The robberies were said to
have involved $75,000
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
JUDGE RAISES BAIL

Judge John E. Simpson in FL
Centre justice court Tuesday raised
Rutherford B. Hayes bail from
$1,000 to Sl.5c0 pending trial on a
charge of forgery. The 26-year- old
carpenter was arrested in Lenox
on a warrant issued in Imperial
county. Virgil R. Hayes, father of
the carpenter, is held in the coun-
ty Jail on a similar charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
Youth Defends
Communist Belief

BERKELEY, Cal, Oct. (UP)-
Kenneth May. 24-year-old ,Univers-
ity of California teaching assistant
disowned by his professor-father
for his avowals of communism, de-
Tended his beliefs last night in a
public forum here He stressed,
however, he was speaking as an in
diyidual.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
ASSOCIATION INCORPORATES

The Holtville Farmers ASSOCIATION,
Inc, Tuesday filed articles of in
corporation under the general nom
profit corporation law to encour-
age intelligent and orderly grow
ing and marketing of agricultural
products through cooperation, to
eliminate speculation and waste, and
TO stabilize markets. Shigeru Higa-
shi, Ell Centre; Shosaka Kodama
Imperial. and Frank T. Kumagai
Holtville, are directors.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
Scout Board TO
Meet Tonight

The executive board of the Imper-
ial Yuma scout council will meet
at scout headquarters in Ell Centro
tonight at 7:3O according to Hugh
Wilcox, scout executive.
The meeting is the first of the
new season, Wilcox said, and plans
for the 1940-41 program will be
discussed
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

PHOENIX. Oct. 2. CUP)-Water
shortage and weak market condi-
tions in previous years was cited to-
day by J. NJ. Foote, state supervis-
or of fruit and vegetable standard
ization, for a decrease of about $500
acres in Arizona's fall lettuce plant
ing.
In the Salt River Valley $3.50
acres have been planted, about 5000
less than year ago, Eloy has only
100 acres this season and Ritten-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
WEA Their

Southern CalifOrnia-Clear We'd
nesday night and Thursday; little
change in temperature; gentle to
moderate westerly winds.
U. S. Weather Bureau, Ell Centre
Maximum Tuesday ............,....... l02
Minimum Wednesday .................... 68
S pm. Tuesday ........................ 90-30
5 am Wednesday .................... 7l-37
Noon, Wednesday .................... 96-l9
Record for "a iiours ending am.
Wednesday,.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
Convene Mondav

Members Of the Interpost Council
of the American Legion in Imper-
ial county will meet Monday night
at Imperial, Martin Munson, dis
trict commander, announced Wed
nesday.
The women's County Council will
meet at the same time to elect Of
ficerS.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
PASS EXAMINATIONS

Alexander Caballero Villa. Braw-
ley; David Hayhurst of Seeley:
ar,l Claudel o. Warren, El Centro,
joined the United States Marine
corps in El Centro Wednesday and
passed the final examinations
given by Marine officers before de-
parting for Marine headquarters.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
Scanning l.V
News Horizon
SUES FOR DIVORCE

Marion Cullen, charging wilful
desertion, Tuesday filed suit for
divorce against Paul Cullen. They
married at Santa Fe, N. NJ, Sept.
IL. 1886 and separated in Hollywood
Aug. IL, 1893.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
Muck Heads Soil ,
Moisture Work

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UP)
- Secretary Of Interior Harold
L. Ickes today named Lee Muck
as head of the newly established
office of land utilization which
will administer soil and moisture
conservation activities transfer
red to the interior department
from the agriculture depart
ment.
Muck, a native of Wisconsin,
was formerly director of forests
for the interior department,
which he has served in various
capacities for q years.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
ms FARM WSs;;

Imperial county farm bureau di-
rectors will meet at the county
court house Saturday for the regu-
lar monthly meeting, according to
Scott B. Foulds, secretary.
The meeting will start at 1870
pm. Foulds said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
DECREE GRANTED

An interlocutory divorce decree
was granted Gertie Marie Dewitt
Tuesday in her suit against James
Dewitt. The suit was granted on
the charge of extreme cruelty.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
RANCHER DIES

Chris P. Nagdanes, 67-year-cld
Greek rancher, died early Wednes-
day at his home IL miles north
west of El Centre The body was
taken to the Lemons mortuary
pending funeral arrangements.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
FILES DIVORCE SUIT

Charging extreme cruelty, Vera
Rogers Tuesday filed suit for div
orce from Russell c. Rogers. They
were married in Jacksonville. Fla,
separated in El Centre Feb. 7, 1910,
and have two minor children.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
FILE NOTICE

FILE NOTICE
Everett C. Kendall, 27, Holtville
clerk, and Mary Bashara, 29 Pal
metto school teacher, Tuesday filed
notice of their intention to wed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-07

winter flying clothing and other &C
ceSsories are planned and tested in
the equipment branch. The para
chutes used by the new Army para
chute troops, now training at Fort
Benning, Ga, were designed and
tested there. Tests have been COM
pleted on the use of nylon for syn
thetic parachute material Mate
rails used for the self-sealing. leak
proof gasoline tanks neceSSitated by
European war developments also
have been put through extensive
tests.
Other tests have resulted in i'm
proving the standard Of aviation
gasoline and lubricants, bombs,
aerial cannon, machine guns, new
types Of gun mountingS, bomb racks,
Synchronizers for machine guns flr-
ing through propellers, aircraft in
struments, Photographic equipment
and radio.
Effects Of flight on human being
are being studied in the aero-medi-
cal research laboratory, which has
originated the oxygen equipment
used by Army pilots in high-altitude
flight and elaborated in develop
ment Of the new substratosphere
airplanes with pressurized cabins.
Flight tests of all experimental
warplanes are conducted by the fly
ing branch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-07

Some other communities said the
number Of cases was increasing.
1900 Soldiers Ill.
Although several schools were
closed in Washington and 1900
of the 21,OO0 soldiers at Fort Lewis
and Camp Murray were sick, the
civilian and military health au-
thorities there were not alarmed,
and said there was no epidemic.
At Camp Murray, where National
Guardmens from six Northwest
States are in training, Col. Harry
H. fowler. 4lst Division medical
officer, said only 113 men were in
the tent hospitals, with 1000 con-
fined to their quarters.
The men who are confined to
their quarters aren't really ILL.,"
Col. fowler said. They have
coughs or sore Threats and they
don't feel we'll, but If they were
ct home they would probably be
going about their daily work"
Seattle Schools Open.
Washington schools that were
closed are situated at Mount Vernon,
Ellensburg, Thorp and Kenwick.
Seattle schools remained open.
Oregon health authorities had
no report Of additional cases, al
though influenza previously had
been reported at the University OF
were closed. A fourth of the pupils
in Salem schools were absent. Six
teen per cent of the Portland High
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-07

Devol River Valley northwest from
Moskopolis.
(The official Turkish radio re-
ported last night that the adj
vancing Greeks had fired oil
wells in the Devol Valley, de-
scribed as important sources Of
italian supplyD
The Greeks reported that in ad-
dition to large quantities Of supplies
found unchanged by fires the re-
treating Italians we're said to have
started in Porto Edda, vast stores
of war equipment and munitions
= had been discovered hidden under
ground at Koritza. This cache was
said to include several thousand
tons Of equipment of which the
Greeks declared so per cent could
be used Immediately against the
Italians.
Greeks read with high interest Of
the replacement Of Marshal Pietro
Badoglio as chief of the Italian
general staff, and spokesman
commented that the shift does not
create an encouraging atmosphere
for the Italians, coming as it does
in the midst of battle"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-07
Policeman Held as Ex-Convict
disappearing as Dead Brother

on Federal indictments charging
him with making false claims to
the Veterans Administration to COL
lect a pension in the name of his
dead brother and with using the
mails to defraud.
Married again and the father of
three children, Mr.. Sapp readily ad-
mitted his identity as Emory E Sapp
and expressed willingness to return
to Texas and face the music" with
the hope that his good reputation"
here would help him, Chief Carriger
declared.
The police chief said Mr. Sapp
told him the death Of his first wife
was accidental and that he was
"railroaded to the penitentiary for
life"
Chief E. A. Scale of the Bureau
Of Identification at the Huntsville,
Tex, prison requested authorities
here to hold the policeman for
extradition.