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Evening star., 1940-02-04
Holland Uncove1s
Second Uniform
Smuggling Mystery
MiIitory Chauffeur
Finds Truck Bearing
Armed Civilians
BY NJ. w. FODOR,

Oy IVA W. XODOASS
Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent.
BRUSSELS, Feb. 3-Although the
excitement created in Holland by
the crisis OF January IA has hardly
subsidized, Dutch authorities have
again been faced with a myste-
rious uniform-smuggling affair REM
iniscent of a similar discovery made
shortly before the alarm Of Novem-
ber II, which eliminated In the
arrest of several persons.
This latest attempt to smuggle
spurious uniforms into Holland oc-
Cured on the night Of January 81,
when, near Moerdijk, the chauf-
feur of a Dutch army car per-
ceived a suspicious looking civilian,
rifle in hand, standing by truck.
No sooner had the armed man and
his companions in the truck seen the
military vehicle than they hurriedly
started up the motor and drove of
But the military chauffeur caught
up with the truck, ordered it to halt,
opened the door and summarily de-
manded the surrender of the rifle.
AS a retort a knife was thrust at his
chest and he escaped injury only,
thanks to a cigarette case in his
breast pocket which DETECTED the
blow.
Uniform Is Found.
AS the Dutchman was disarming
his assailant, however, the truck
spurted and made getaway with
all its occupants, under cover OF
darkness.
When gendarmes arrived on the
scene an abandoned uniform was
found, together with other military
equipment.
While the Dutch authorities are
reticent about this incident, it Ii
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Deaths Reported

Charlotte Heller, 81. 21oo Good Hope I'd.
Nathaniel r. Kent. SO, 51e Seventh st.
Alice c. C. Dorsey, IS 1101 18th st. NV.
william Gray. 49, 1908 Georgia ave. NV.
George NJ, Whitehead. 80, sibley Memorial
Hospital
Laura v. Richardson. so, 461s Georaia
ave. NV
Henrietta starbuck, 70, St. Elizabeth's
Anna Winhold. IS Gallineer Hospital.
Lettia warsaw, rs, 2127 California St
NV.
Fannie Welles rs, Emergency Hospital.
Emily Mallet 70 400 G st. NV.
George E. Work. 81 2700 Connectiut ave
Bertram Garstin 66 1900 X st NV.
Clarence w. Troxell 62 St Elizabeth''
Henry Bynum. As, 1850 Wisconsin ave
NV.
Carl r. Stone 81, Union Terminal
Margaret w Wolcott. "a. 1925 N st. Nv
Lois Ann Jenkins, 8, 4512 Sergeant road
Infant Smith. sibley Memorial Hospital
William T. Naylor. "a. 1249 Congress
Frank A: Pendleton, IS. Walter Reed
Katie west johnson, 6s, . 1917 st. Sc.
Richard Perrin, %, Gallinger Hospital
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Bonkheud to Address
CuroIinu Democrats

House Speaker Bankhead will adj
dress a rally of the North Carolina
Democratic Club Friday night in the
Raleigh Hotel.
Wesley E. Mcdonald, president of
the club, announced that the band
of the Boys Club of Metropolitan
Police will play a half-hour con-
cert beginning at 7:45 pm. Speaker
Bankhead's address is scheduled to
begin at 8:15 pm. The rally will be
the clubs first political meeting Of
the year.
The club will hold its annual BAN
quet March IS at the Mayflower
Hotel.
Evening star., 1940-02-04

obvious that 1t is connected with a
German attempt to smuggle fake
Dutch uniforms into Holland as a
preliminary to a contemplated Na1
putsch.
It will be recalled that Hermann
Rauschning, former Nazi president
Of the Danzig Senate, revealed in
his recently published Hitler Told
Me" how der Fuehrer had disclosed
to Rauschning his determination to
resort to the use (by his German
cohorts) Of spurious foreign military
uniforms in order to undermine and
overthrow the regimes of such coun-
tries as he might find it convenient
to swallow.
Furthermore, it will be remembered
that when the Nazis tried to out
former Austria's Dollfuss govern
ment in 1884, they stormed the
Vienna chancellery dressed in Aus
trian uniforms which had been
stolen from military warehouse.
Not So Well Organized.
Dutch Nazis, it is true, are not
nearly so well organized and potent
as were the Austrian Nazis, but
nonetheless, the Germans are deter
mined to make use of this clandes-
tine organization in order to achieve
their goal. And this probably ex-
plains why Adolf Hitler has recently
dispatched to The Hague one of his
wiliest propagandists-tlie same ex-
pert who was so instrumental in TO-
menting the Vienna putsch, and one
whose speciality is to promote such
putsches.
The Germans, however, are not
limiting their activities along these
lines to Holland alone. The recent
arrest at Charleroi of Jean Dero. a
Belgian Rexist, and Desmedt, a
Flemish Nationalist, has disclosed
that the former maintained connec-
tions with the German blackshirted
S. S. CHitler Guards in Dusseldorf
Dero's mission was to furnish secret
military information to the S. S. con-
corning both the Belgian mobiliza-
ton and French troop movements in
Northern France.
1t has, moreover, been established
that Dero had been associated with
underhand Nazi organizations in
Eupen and Malmedy, German cities
ceded to Belgium under the treaty
of Versailles.
(copyrisht, 1910, Chicago Daily News. Inc }
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Marriage License
Applications

Henry Mickey. 81. 1880 sth st. nv, and
Ruth e. Cooper 1s, 1923 Eye st. NV:
the Rev Robert Anderson
Willie Currin, :33. 1890 New Hampshire
ave NV. and Annie E. Howe, 90, 1890
New Hampshire ave. NV; the Rev. H.
Daniel c. Buckley. 48. New York City and
Wilhelm.na v. zupa, Al, Bronx. N. Y;
Judge r. Mattingly.
James O. Kenner, 20, 200 D st. NV. and
Azeal Hawkins. 81, 200 D st. NV;
Samuel W Leishear IS, go 11th st. s.w.,
and Betty Williams. 20. 5706 7th st.
W: the Rev. J L Frantz
Wallie Garnes. 80. 1415 Corcoran st. NV.
and Bernice T. Courtney. %. 1417 l1th
ST. NV; the Rev. B. j. Pogue
Richard T. Butler, 90 Landover, Md and
Roberta G. Blake. 21, Brentwood. Md;
the Rev. W r. Jones
Gladys Richardson. 80. 1430 G st. ne;
the Rev. Carl Rasmussen.
Alexander Gyurkovics. 27, Philadelphia,
and Vera K. Krause, %. 1918 18th St.
NV: the Rev. W. F. Strickler.
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Births Reported

Milton and Jean Hancock, boy.
Carl and Nancy Farmer. boy.
Samuel and Mary Rothblum. boy.
David and Earline Efrd boy.
Omar and Ruth OrndorfY boy.
William and Myrtice Benjamin. boy.
George and Kathleen Lnkins, boy.
Edgar and Bernice Laden, girl
Lawrence and Frances Lesser, girl.
John and Leila Kent. girl
Blight and Marguerite Lee, girl.
Eugene and Ouida Hummer. boy.
Duncan and Barbara McIver. boy.
Michael and Nellie Balman, girl.
Sidney and Freda Brenner. boy.
William and Annie Wilson boy.
Isadore and Dorothy ,Fishman, boy.
Harold and Shirley Schneider, boy.
Melvin and Helen Emswiler. boy.
Glenn and Irma Bell girl
Raymond and Agnes Thomas. girl.
Michael and Adelaide Cahill girl.
Richard and Lois Chamblin girl.
Harold and Ruth Paden. girl.
John and Mary Laughlin, girl.
Leonide and Katherine Ourusoh, boy.
Austin and Elnora Day. boy:
James and Helen Strickland, boy and Cir
Paul and Mabel Talbert. girl,
Franklin and Marv Glenn, boy.
Roland and Irene E1wie. boy.
Earnest and Maybele Montgomery. boy
Jack and Dorothy Street girl.
Marshall and Thelma Banks, boy.
James and Mary Allen, boy.
Philip and Lillian Blackwell. girl.
George and Rosa Valentine, boy.
Norman and Jamie Grimm, girl.
Evening star., 1940-02-04

monthly abstracts regarding the
treatment of tuberculosis.
These services can only be car
ried on through the Christmas seal
drive, and though Christmas is past
the goal is not yet reached.
Funds are still needed to carry
on the work of education and pre-
vention that next year and the year
after fewer beds will be occupied
in the children's ward at Glenn
Dale Sanatorium,
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Dr.. MichoeIis to Speak

Dr. L. Michaelis of the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research will
address the Chemical Society of
Washington at 8:15 pm. Thursday
in the auditorium at the Cosmos
Club, it was announced by Norman
Bekkedahl, secretary.
Evening star., 1940-02-04
Service Orders
ARMv

INFANTRY.
Watson, 1t Col Leroy H., from Washing
ton to the Philippines.
CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE.
coushlan, 1t. Col Joseph D., from EDGE
wood Arsenal to Hawaii
MEDICAL CORPS.
Caples, First 1t. Joseph T., from Wash
ington to San Francisco.
COAST ARTILLERY.
Beazley First 1t Lewis K. from Fort
Hancock to Panama.
Evening star., 1940-02-04

Russia Nightmare for Japan.
Soviet Russia now, just as imperial
Russia of years past, is ever the
nightmare in the Japanese mind.
This huge, populous, Communist
nation, whose borders march side by
side with Japan-controlled Manchu-
kuo and Japan-owned Korea, whose
shores front those of Japan itself
across the narrow Japan Sea, looms
In the eyes of nearly all japanese as
their natural enemy. The fear of
Communist inflltration into the en-
pire is the only latest accretion Of a
much deeper fear of Russia's ambi-
ton to make all of Northeastern
Asia its own particular province.
Territorial and other problems be-
tween Toxic and Moscow are of the
nature that breeds war. One such
war was fought in 1904-05, with
Japan gaining the victory, but not a
victory which eliminated Russia in
the years to come. Deep in his
heart, the average japanese believes
that a second war must be waged
with the neighboring bear, and that
this time he must be driven back to
Lake Baikal at least, back beyond
the Ural Mountains into Europe if
possible.
When and how that war is to come
is an ever-present problem in Toxic.
One strong group of japanese mill
tarists favored Japan's striking the
first blow last September. That is,
they favored it until the outbreak Of
war in Europe.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17
k.Y.CounciI Bans
Bertrand Russell

NEW YORK, March Is. up
The city council, by a vote of 16 to
five, has requested the board of
higher education to rescind the ap-
pointment of Bertrand Russell. Bril-
fish writer and teacher now teach
ing at the University of California
at Los Angeles, as professor OF
philosophy at City College here.
Councilman Charles E. Keegan
said, the board tof educatiom was
careful enough to make way for this
alien and it broke down the laws OF
this state by sneaking through leg
iSlation at Albany to let this mar
hold a public office without Ameri-
can citizenship. He does not think
enough of this country to take out
his first citizenship papers, and yet
he is to get $4,000 year from the
public funds. His alien character
alone is enough for rejection
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17
Japan Trade TO
Bring New Treaty

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina. Mar
l6. 'UP)-Trade experts believed to-
day that new restrictions would be
placed on the importation of certain
American goods as a result of an
agreement to trade $9.384 900 worth
OF products with Japan.
The foreign office announced the
aGr1ement with Japan last night
Under it, Japan will buy 5000 tons
of wool 1000 tons of frozen beef
and mutton, 1000 tons of casein and
other products from Argentina, and
will sell this country the equivalent
i'll textiles, chemicals. metal pro-
ducts, electric light bulbs, refrigeg-
atorS and other manufactured pro-
ducts, all at cheaper prices thar
United States exporters charge fol
the same goods.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17

had been filed earlier, shortly after
the report of Julius Wangenheim
favoring the refunding plan was
made public.
Judge Jenney was expected to take
the matter of exceptions under con-
sideration and approve or disap-
prove as the court sees fit.
The districts refunding case now
rests before Judge Jenney, await
ing his decision following hearings
last summer and fall.
Wangenheim's report was gener-
ally favorable to the district plan,
although guarded. He declared with
out qualifications that the plan
was equitable and advisable. To the
question Would the district be able
to carry out all the provisions of
the plan?" Wangenheim replied:
ITO that my answer would be that
it depends largely upon circumstan-
ceS out of the control of the dis
trict, but in any event the plan
will work better than the present
situation
Qualifications included to what
extent the power company will
fight to retain its business and the
effect of sale of the Mexican sys-
tenn.
Meanwhile, judges of the United
States court of appeals in San
Francisco had under consideration
a number of other cases of vital
Importance to the Imperial district
as we'll as all other districts with
similar refunding proposals. The
case includes technical general rul-
ings that affect all district refund
ing plans.
horton was reluctant to antici-
pate when decisions will be forth
coming but said:
MY own bunch is Judging
from the judges available and the
cases under consideration that it
will be fairly soon. But there is no
way of telling
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17
Red Cross PLEDGES
Continuing Relief
In Disaster Areas
Aid Outlasts Immediate
Period of Crisis, Says
Executive in Ell Centric

Assistance long afterwards
as we'll as during a disaster
was pledged Friday night by
Red Cross officials at the
close of a two DAY institute
in Ell Centre.
A. L. Schafer, Pacific area man.
ager and former national director
of disaster relief, spoke upon disas-
ter preparedness in Imperial VAL
ley and described the complicated
framework of preliminary work that
precedes Red Cross assistance dur
ing emergencies.
A minimum of preparedness de-
mandS four key committees ready
to go into instant action = food,
clothing, medical assistance and
shelter, he declared Detailed work
OF the committees includes rescue
work survey communication trans
portation and registration.
Schafer stressed the Importance
of correlating work of all local
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17

shouldered the responsibility for
the incident.
Philbrick, a former San Francisco
private investigator provided the
information the special committee
had been seeking in long investi-
cation which was begun at San
Francisco and suspended because
two of Gov. gilbert Olson's admin
istrative appointees refused to tes-
tify.
Il am wholly responsible for the
employment of the investigators
who placed the microphone in the
hotel room" Philbrick told the COM
mittee.
The only indication that the in
vestigators might not be willing to
accept his confession was given by
Assemblyman Seth Millington, Grid
ley Democrat.
You're not coming up here to
take the rap for someone higher up,
are you," inquired Wilmington. Phil
brick shook his head He said he had
retained Paul H. Rowe, sound tech
| iiiSAiil anu iAi'SotiSotoi, W IIldhC OIL
investigation of Lobbying activities"
and instructed him to do his job
as he saw fit"
He said ne assumed that Rowe
would use whatever means might
be most effective in ferreting out
the information desired and that
Rowe was working with the under
standing that he would be remu-
nerated in accordance with the
results of his investigation.
Philbrick was asked if he knew
anything about the use of record
ing devices in Investigations around
the state capital. He replied that
he was not familiar with such pro-
cedure except that they seemed
to have become a sort of indoor
sport in Sacramento with so many
pieces of sound equipment floating
around"
Tie witness admitted that after
he had been appointed director of
motor vehicles he had assumed the
initiative in authorizing expendi-
ture of public monies for the inves-
tigation of Lobbying practices"
He said he was primarily inter-
ested in good government"
Philbrick parted questions by re-
ferring to Investigations he had
made for the Frank F.. Merriam
Republican administration. He said
they had cost the state $50, 900.
Philbrick was the author of the SEN
Continued on Page 2. Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17
Canal
Victim,
Second Aye ar-OId
Girl browns in
BrawIey Area

BRAWLEY, March 10
Marlene Cash, second four
year-old girl to drown in an
irrigation canal in this area
in the last two days, will be
buried here Sunday.
The body of Marlene, blue eyed,
blonde daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. L. Cash, was caught in the I'M
perial avenue siphon on the Malan
canal block from her home at 683
South Third street. The discovery
ended a nine-hour search.
Less than II tours before her
body was found, the body of Angel
ina Marquee, was taken from the
Spruce canal 81 miles northwest
of BraWley.
AT am. Friday morning Mr.. and
Mrs Cash missed their little girl.
They begged for help in finding
"a little blue eyed blonde girl dress
ed in Il pink dress with buttons all
the way down the back"
Friends, neighbors. peace officers,
irrigation crews, and firemen drag
ged the Malan canal from Third
street to tne Central Valley high
way, a distance of more than a
mile, but failed TO find the child
AS a last resort fircTen were ask
ed to pump tie water out of the
big canal siphon within a block of
the Cash home.
w T. Montgomery entered the
siphon and found the girls body
caught in trash which had accumu-
lated there. Her pink dress was en-
tangled, preventing the water from
washing her out into the canal.
Funeral services for the Cash
enid were sche duled for the Thorn
ton chapel at pm. Sunday with
the Rev. Mr.. ROLAND Tincher. pas
cher, pastor of the First Methodist
cnurcn, officiating She will be bur-
led at RivervieW cemetery
The Marquee child was buried at
Calvary cemetery after services at
her home Saturday morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17

way home from Harding school
when the urge seized her. She de-
cided to disappear and disappear
she did-for several hours.
Around 8 O'Clock she was found
preparing to bed down" for the
night behind a residence at Fifth
and Brighton. She explained to her
parents:
Il played late at the school and
it was dark and I was afraid I
might get spanked SO I thought
would just stay out all night"
Her father, however was more
inclined to believe that beneath
the escapade was a combination of
frontier spirit and spring fever.
If she is trying to pull a 'Hor-
ace Greeley Go West Young Girl
she will have a hard time going
much farther west than she is
right now!" he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17
Woman, Children
Perish in Flames
Started by Lamp

HEBER SPRINGS, Ark, March
l6. CUP)-Trapped in their burn
ing home Mrs. Sallie Allen. SO, and
her seven children were burned to
death today.
One son, Ernest. jumped through
ia window to escape the flames and
then was killed by falling debris
when he re-entered the building to
awaken the family.
Otis Allen. Mrs Aliens husband,
and his brother-in- law. j. R. Treas,
suffered severe burns while trying to
eXtingulsh the fire.
Investigating officers believed ex-
ploSion of a kerosene lamp started
the fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17
German Seaman
Returned 10 Homes

SAN FRANCISCO. March 16
up Fourteen German seamen
off the 5cuttled liner Columbus left
Angel Island immigration station
for home today. boarding the Ital-
ian line motorship Rialto and leav-
ing behind 463 fellow seamen still
awaiting transportation.
Those who went aboard the Rialto
we're said tC be men of over mill
tary age. A similar group of about
40 left here two weeks ago on the
italian motorship Fella
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17
Ten Lashes Across Back Punish
Eight in Wilmington, DEL, Prison

Each man received 10 lasheS at
the hands of Veteran Warden FL
wood II. Wilson, as his deputy,
Thomas Wheatley counted off the
Those whipped were all Negroes.
They were convicted of robbery and
holdup charges and were given ad-
ditiOnal prison sentences besides
the lashing.
Eighty-five persons witnessed the
lashingS in the ancient courtyard.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17
OLSON AIDE TAKES D|CTAGRAPH bLAm|
Olson Puts BaIiou
OFF Firing Line

Walter BallOu, member of Gov.
Culbert OlsOn's personal staff,
involved in rumOred interference
with SRA appointments, will be
transferred to some new position
away from any possible further
suspicion of interfering with ad-
ministratiOn of the SRA" the
governor announced Saturday at
Los Angeles.
Bailou. powerful political figure
in tn" Olson regime. was reported
10 DC the power behind the
throne" in southern California
appointments to state jobs. He
IS the brother of r. NJ. BallOu,
imperial Valley rancher.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17
Dolores Del Rio
Quits Husband

HOLLYWOOD, March Is. (UP)-
Dolores Del Rio, Mexican motion
picture beauty, admitted today that
she and her art director husband
Cedric Gibbons, had decided to sep
arate after 10 years of married life
Both Cedric and 1 have decided
ii is best to part" Miss Del Rio said
as she left for Palpl Springs for ar
indefinite stay. we are parting the
best of friends, and I think Cedric
feels as badly as l that we were not
able to settle our differences"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17

pany, was authority for the eStl-
mate of the number of men en-
tombed far back in the tunnel mine,
eight miles west of Bellaire
Ireland, who FASTENED to the mine
from the companys ST ClairSville
office. said he believed the miners
were safe because he had talked to
some of them over mine tele-
phone.
Rescue work went forward speed
lily, with rescue crews assembling
from Wheeling, Bellaire. Martins
Ferry, st. Clarisville and other Ohio
Valley towns. They were equipped
with gas masks and inhalatorS for
the hazardous work of trying to
reach the trapped men through the
gaseous chambers.
John Richards, mine Superinten-
dent; Howard Sanders, outside Tip
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17
U, S. Envoy Holds Center
Of Stage in War Capitals

them before seeing Mussolini this
afternoon. 1t is believed Welles.
who was received by the pope dur
ing his first stop in Rome, will be
given another audience Sunday.
AS the peace drive" rumors
floated, London and Paris continued
to mako it clear that a peace with
Hitler is out of the question. The
French senate issued an order of
the day endorsing the governments
plan to continue the war to a com
plete victory" and that France would
reject any peace plans which
might be put forth through Italy.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17
BY UNITED PRESS

European interest centered Sat
urday on Sumner Welles and the
possibility that peace drive"
might result from his quest for
information on behalf of President
Roosevelt in Rome, Berlin, Paris
and London.
A hint of such a possibility was
contained in an editorial in the
newspaper Corriere Padana of Fer
rara, owned by Marshal Italo Balbo,
which said peace in Europe still is
possible because the war has not
yet entered decisive phase.
The editorial was issued as Welles
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17

rounded out his European tour by
talks with King Victor Emmanuel
Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo
Ciano and Premier Benito Mussolini
While Welles was talking with
Ciano at Chigi palace, the German
ambassador, Hans Georg Won Mack
ensen, arrived at the palace.
1t had been reported that Welles,
while IN Berlin, had asked Adolf
Hitler to write out his peace terms,
and diplomatic circles at once sug-
gested that Mackensen might have
delivered the terms to Welles. The
latter would have had time to peruSe
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17

WILMINGTON, Del, March 16.
tUP)-Eight men were given a total
of 80 lashes in the courtyard of
the New Castle county wOrkhOuse
today in the greatest demonstration
OF this form of punishment that
has come down from colonial times.
As driving sleet and snow storm
sWirled about them, the men were
led in pairs. stripped to the waist
and shackled to the ancient whip
ping post. with their hands and
arms above their heads.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17
Woman Killer in
Insanity Hospital

COLUMBIA, S. c., March Is
CUP)-MrS. May Walker Burleson
accused of killing the woman who
succeeded her as wife of an army
colonel, today was in the South
Carolina state hospital for menta
diseases.
Her attorneys believed that should
she be declared of unsound mind al
the end of 30-day observation
period. she could not be brought
to trial for killing Mrs. Richard C
BurleSon.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-17
FDR Says World
Seeks Real Peace

WASHINGTON. March 16 CUP)-
President Roosevelt declared today
that the world seeks real peace
with guarantees of the integrity of
small nations, of religious freedom
and of intellectual freedom.
Speaking from the White House
on world wide radio broadcast with
Queen Wilhelmina of the Neither
lands, diplomats and religious lead
erS. Mr.. Roosevelt said:
To-day we seek moral basis
for peace. 1t cannot be real peace
if it fails to recognize brotherhood.
1t cannot be lasting peace if the
fruit of its oppression, or starvation,
OF cruelty. or human life dominated
by armed camps.