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The Nome nugget., 1940-11-13
Explosions Blast Powder Plants Engaged in Filling Defense Orders
 Between II and 2l Estimated Dead


UNDATED, Nov. 12 JApD - In tragic. startling sequence, explo- sons in widely separated sec tons of the industrial northeast rac,,el two powd plants, one aged in filing defense orders and a factory manufacturing railway torpedo signals. Between II 2nj q persons were estimated desd and an undet. rmined mum Der were injured.
 The first blast razed the plant of tae United Railway Signal Company Of Woodbridge, N. J., about 15 miles from Manhattan and at least five were killed and nor than a score injured, some critically among the hundred em ployees, mostly girls. The com
The Nome nugget., 1940-11-13

munity's populous area was shaken by the explosion of a sec ond blast which ripped apart the Burton Powder Works of the American Cyanmid Chemical Corporation at the village of Ejinburg TWO miles west of New castle in western Pennsylvania, killing three men. Three others were killed in a third explosion n the Trojan Powd-r Company plant in the outskirts of Allen town, Pa No one was injured.
 The Trojan Company held at east enc defense order for sal J00 Wer.h of explosives for the Army. So far as can be deter mined the other two firms held ra defense contracts.
The Nome nugget., 1940-11-13
Alaska Agency Placements Are Falling Off

WASHINGTON, Nov 12 lPD- The Social Security Board re- ported that public employment services in Alaska placed 299 workers in private jobs last Sep tember, a decrease of 271 per cent from previous months. The number of persons seeking jobs through public agencies in AL aska declined AT percent. Two thousand thirty four Alaska un employment insurance benefits totaled $45,077 in September, a decrease of 43.8 percent from pre- viOus months.
The Nome nugget., 1940-11-13
88 Persons Perish In
 Cold Spell

UNDATED, Nev. 13 l4't - Searching parties scanned the cola waters of Lake Michigan and the frozen marshIands of the Grsat Lake5 region for addition al victims of the violent storm which brought death and destruc ton to the middle west In the frigid weather 88 persons includ irg two score sailors were known to have perished. Many others are missing and scant hope re- mained of their being found alive.
The Nome nugget., 1940-11-13
Ski Troops To Be Developed By United States Army In Plan
 Proposed By Colorado Rep.

Rep. Lawrence Lewis. Denver Democrat, has turned over to Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army's Chi-f of Staff. an elao- crate prospectus for a 6,000-acre training camp under the brow Of the continental divide, 50 miles west of Denver. At last report, the Army staff had the proposal under serious consideration.
 What cas- Rep. Lewis and his associates have made out for their project! They start with the premise that If the United Stat es is to have complete military defense pr paredness, it must provide for every conceivable eventuaIity.9 Then the Congress- men asks just what would hap pen if American troops should some day find themsz Ives defend ing the nation in the rugged mounta.as Of Alaska or British Columbia.
The Nome nugget., 1940-11-13
Poles Must
 Give Homcs To Germans
By Helen krEratrick

by Helen hGh1 13Irlck Especial Cable to Chicago Daily News and Ketchikaa Chronicle)
 LONDON-The Germans have informed the Warsaw population that the city is to be divid=d into three portions; one for Germans, one for Pc es, one for Jews.
 The Germans are taking the biggest and most beautiful resi- dental ar a, although having on- Iv 5000O people, whl9e the Poles are to have on'y the former working class districts. The Jews are to be enclosed in a walled Ghetto.
 No one is allowed to move furniture from h.s house to his new quarters, only linen and clo thing and this to be done immed lately.
 Apparently the Germans have forced the Poles to rebuild the central residential section, which is virtually in ruins and which is the only area the Poles will be allowed to occupy, is still un- reconstructed.
 Copyright 194O. Chicago Daily News Inc.)
The Nome nugget., 1940-11-13
POINTS TO FINNS

He points out that men often are incapactate5 at 5000 feet if to it ard that men rcn low attitudes frequently collapse at 10000 t7 1400o fzet. Horses and muaes from the low lands ean'f taEe it either and ev en machines as mechanically per feet as the automobile need re- adjustments to buck the rarifed air and stinging celd.
 Look how the Films sl5ied cir 7s around the numbering Rus s.sas a15 ths Austrian Jaeers
 k.mma7 eV.r trz craes f Nor 'rav te heres p.e5dieg British, srs 1zr Lewis.
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The Nome nugget., 1940-11-13
By Jack SIrnett

WASHINGTON-If a group men here have ta-ir way they may the United States going to have ssaa ski tro
The Nome nugget., 1940-11-13

The Nome Daily Nugget earries several forms of printing blanks For you- oeeven rea Hre59f Logs. thawing a~j drill reports Mininr Y,D77s lacer and Lode frra ti~- Vruoha-z
The Nome nugget., 1940-11-13
Famed Economist Passes Away

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. Il (P) - Frank N. Taussig, internationally known political economist and professor Emeritus of Harvard
The Nome nugget., 1940-11-13

dizd here today. He would have been 81 years old next month. He was chairman of the United States Tariff Commission from 1917 to 1919 and was the author Of many books on economics and international trade.
The Nome nugget., 1940-11-13
New Manager of Indians

CLEVELAND, Nov. 12 lP) - Roger Peckinbagh was named manager of the Cleveland h. dians.
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06

horses before small morning
crowd.
1t was Farm Bureau Day and
Cattleman Day at the fair and q
large share of the crowd was eX-
pected for the afternoon horse races
and the evening program scheduled
to be staged by the farm bureau. A
Cattleman Handicap will be the fea-
ture event of the horse races.
Activity "Wednesday morning was
confined to the junior livestock
barns where All club and Future
Farmer youngsters prepared ami
mails for the animal auction sale
Thursday morning at 10 a. m.
Approximately 55 head of prize
baby beef animals, nine head of
sheep and 80 head of hogs will be
sold at the auction. which is to be
)fficiated by Milton D, Zinn. C. H
Small will be clerk of the auction. A
H, Keller will be ringmaSter.
Wally Christian, All club young
St2r, sold his Grand Champion
steer for As cents per pound in last
years sale and the Grand Champion
hcifer brought 46 cents. Local res.
taurant owners, hotels, and store,
as we'll as national chain store,
compete i'll the bidding for the prize
animals.
Pacific Land and Cattle CO., alsC
a bidder repeated its annual offel
to kill, dress and deliver auctionec
animals without charge to owners
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06

Dl ItlSii 1tiilOdiSii.
Italian quarters had been aston
lshed by the news that italian ships
bearing coal from Germany were
being diverted to a British contra
band control station.
In the first anti-British demon
Stration since the Ethiopian war,
a large crowd of high school and
university students gathered be-
fore the British consulate at Flor
ence to protest against the British
blockade. Police and armed carabi-
nieri, summoned hurriedly diSperS-
ed the students.
When news was received at Rome
that the first ships had been seized
it was noticeable at once that anti
British sentiment was increasing.
1t was up to Premier Benito Mus
Solini to decide what to do. and
the popular feeling seemed to be
that he would act promptly and
firmly.
Seven ships had been seized and
others were reported under war
ship escort, awaiting orders to an
Choir
PawnS in a first class diplomatic
dispute caused by Britain's deci-
sion to include Italys sea borne
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06
Bodies Of Two
Immature Babies
Found in Sewage
Noticed as They Slip
Through Screen at
Ell CentrO Plant

Bodies of two immature
babies were found Wednes-
day morning in the sewage
at the disposal plant near
the northwest city limits of
Ell Centro.
Jack Johnson, Negro workman,
saw one of the bodies as it slipped
through a huge screen. He called
C. K. Patton, city water meter
reader, and they found the second
while attempting to extract the first
one from the sewer we'll.
Such findings are not uncommon
in sewage, Deputy Coroner Herbert
Hughes said, and do not constitute
a murder case due to the immatur-
;ty Of the babies. The bodies were
caught in the trash which had
accumulated OH huge screen
erected to keep debris from going
through the sewer pumps and dam
aging them.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06
Sleigh Ride for
taxpayers Charged

WASHINGTON. March 6. UP)--
Airplane manufacturers, swamped
with war orders from European bel
ligerents, were accused by a men,
Der of the house military affairs
committee today of taking taxpay-
ers for sleigh ride" In filling
contracts for this country's national
defense program.
Rep. Paul w. Shafer, r.. Mich.
charged in statement that tho
increase in costs claimed by manu-
facturers was unjustified.
The military affairs committeo
was told that costs Of 2l00 planes
ordered in the expansion program
have exceeded original estimate
by $2OO00,0O0 or about $4,000 per
plane.
The trouble Is that they can
sell all the planes they want 70
Europe and they are lacking "
the price to the United States. Tl3ey
are taking the taxpayers fog 3
sleigh ride" Shafer said. ?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06
Friendly Suits to
Clear Up Title
Brought in Ca|exico

Caleyico officials this week started
series of friendly suits against
property owners in order to clear
title for sale of the lots and their
ultimate return to the tax rolls.
1t was necessary to file such a
suit against Robert E. Hatton and
Gladys Hatton as the last owners
of record of property they gave up
years ago. The city has buyers
for the property, officials said, and
will pay off tax and bond indebted
ress so the titles will be clear
The HattonS consented to the suit
to help the city with its program
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06

'CldtlOn, I'll CeDJFO DTdnCn, 1lndlly
decided to run Robert Hatton,
Charles A. Bratton and Wesley He'll
for the city council.
Nobody else was in the council
manic lists late Wednesday.
A many-cornered contest develop
ing for the job of city clerk, for
which Incumbent Roy Johnstone
announced definitely, I'm not 60
ing to run" (Johnstone added he
has not yet decided what he will
do after leaving office)
Candidates certain that their
names will be on the ballot are
Mrs. Pearl Burke, now employed
in the clerks office, and Neal Cav
in, recently retired lumber COM
pany executive. Cavin's petition
was filed earlier in the week. Mrs
Burkes Wednesday.
Potential Candidates
Rudolph Frowiss and C. B. Kill
gore were potential candidates fol
city clerk, with nominating peti-
tions taken out, but not yet filed.
A. H. Keller filed his nominating
petition early in the week for the
only other elective position open
April 9-that of treasurer. Incum-
bent Harmon Tyler will not run.
Most apparent sparkplug of pre-
election maneuvering was the tax
payers association. which had beer
attempting for two weeks or more
to decide OH ticket for the three
vacant cCunnlmanlc positions. Co.
incident with the announcement
that the ticket was finally selected
Secretary Chester Irving of the tax
payers group obtained three nomi-
mating petitions at the city clerk
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06
Jury Named to Try
Veteran for Murder
In Auto Deaths

LOS ANGELES, March 6. UP)
"A jury of eight men and four
women was selected today to try
Laurel H. Crawford, Pasadena war
veteran, for the alleged automobile
murder of his wife, two daughters
and a son.
The state charges Crawford drove
his automobile over 1000-foot cliff
on the Mt. Wilson highway last
Dec. 10 after he leaped to safety.
The state is expected to present
evidence ptrporting to show that
the crime was plot on the part
of Crawford to collect more than
$4,000 insurance on the lives OF
his wife and children.
Also killed as the automobile
plunged down the cliff was Ralph
Barnett, roomer in the Crawford
home. Crawford has not been
charged with Barnett'S death.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06
Skies Clear inI. Y.
As Wet SnowsforIn
Sweeps Midwest

Clear skies, warm spring sunshine,
light winds e. that was the wealth
er offered in Imperial Valley We'd
nesday as contrasted to wet snow
storm which disrupted communica-
tions and inflicted heavy damage
in the northern middle west from
Idaho to Iowa.
Rain over the midwest area Tues
day night turned into snow early
Wednesday morning and by dawn a
sticky blanket six inches deep COW
cred the area. Trees were broken
by the clinging mass and sagging
telephone wires were damaged.
Telephone company officials re-
ported after a preliminary check
that all lines were out north of Den
yer and far into Wyoming.
Forecasts for southern California
promised continued clear weather
for the area. Maximum tempera-
ture in Ell Centro Tuesday was 10,
minimum 80.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06

RODDefSOT pidCeS III lllt SeCoilu VI
series of raids staged in carrying
out District Attorney Elmer Heald's
edict that illegal gambling must be
stamped out of Imperial county.
The officers appeared simultane-
ously at the three places, confiscat-
ing money and equipment and ar
resting owners and dealers. They
confiscated a total of $2l455, Sher-
if Robert w. Ware said.
Percentage Games
Complaints charging violation OF
the state gambling laws were filed
against Thompson. Bob Cantrell,
and D. C. Payne from the Thomp-
son place Against Land and Wal
ter Joseph eagle from the Land
place, and against Robertson and
A. E. Cox of the Robertson place.
Officers declared they found per-
centage games in operation.
INLAND, packed with Workmen
employed in construction of the
Coachella branch of the All Amer
ican canal and agricultural labor
erS, was thrown into an uproar by
the raids Seven officers participat
ed.
Deputy Sheriffs Frank Raney and
Guy Wood confiscated $11445 from
the Thompson pace, Deputies Err
ME Cox, Thetford, and Holland
confiscated $49.95 from the Land
establishment while Deputies Peter
Klyne and Robert Elmore confis-
Gated S5O.15 from the Robertson
establishment. In each instance the
officers also collected and marked
chips and other gambling equip
ment to be used as evidence.
Other Raids
In the meantime legal procedure
marked time in similar cases result
ing from raids in Ell Centro and
Calexico. Don's place in Ell Centro
and the international Country club
at CaleXico were the first places
to be raided after Heald and Ware
announced their intention to clean
up the illegal gambling establish
| mentS.
Don Damron. owner of Don's
place, and his dealer. were to be
tried without a jury in Ell Centro
justice court Wednesday afternoon.
Earl Roberts, owner of the Calexico
club, and his dealer were scheduled
for trial in Calexico justice court
March g.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06
California Migrant
Chief Called State
Farm Pest No. /
Associated Farmer Head
Lashes Back, Strikes
Fact Distortion

SAN FRANCISCO, Mar.
6. (UP)-If "hell is going
to pop in California;; it is
because "such pests" as Car
ey McWilliams. head of the
California state division of immigra- :
ton and housing, are trying to save
Col themselves "a rotten political
machine by building class hatreds, y
John 6. Watson, president of the
Associated Farmers of California,
declared today
Watson tool, issue with statements
McWilliamS made in Washington
yesterday to federal relief author
tiles. and dispatched a telegram tC
William Alexander, farm security
administrator He termed McWil-
liams' remarks unreliable. irrespon-
sible and deliberate distortion Of
facts and figures
McWiiliamS. 4 Los Angeles attor-
rey and author of Factories in The
Fields' a study of agricultural labor
problems and migratory indigentS,
told Alexander relief and migrant
solution soon should be found be-
cause 100000 wanderers ARE not
going TO take it lying down
Forced on California
He said tn" situation was forced
upon California by the same old
reactionary gang now working
through the Associated Farmers.
McWilliams' every action has
been so destructive with repeated
attempts to build class hatreds be-
tween farme.5 and farm workers
that he has been dubbed agricul-
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06
Hope Abandoned
For AirpIane

MEXICO CITY, March 6. (UP)
ALL hope was abandoned today for
the seven passengers and crew of
five aboard a Mexican aviation
company plane lost in the noun
tains and jungles between Vera
Cruz and Merida.
The plane left Mexico City at
7 am. yesterday. landed at Vera
Cruz and was last heard from at
1927 am. on its flight to Merida
The weather was good.
All the passengers, one woman. a
child and five men. were MeXicanS.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06

coal supply from Germany in its
export ban. the ships lay at anchor
in the sheltered Downs, between
the Kentish coast and the Good
win Sands.
Other significant developments
Wednesday included:
Switzerland, apparently fearing a
German invasion. called more men
to the colorS and arranged for
evacuation in case of attack.
A communique from Finland said
Firms had repulsed powerful Red
army attacks with tanks and artil-
lery across the bay of Viipuri and
that piles of enemy fallen" litter
ed the battlefield at the western
end of the Mannerheim line.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06
RAIDERS DESCEND UPON INLAND
Cut in Staff Hangs Over SRA

The shadow of anticipated
orders for drastic cuts in
administrative pers sonn e |
lowered over SRA employees
in Imperial county Wednes-
day as they tried to explain to
hundreds of relief recipients just
why relief checks were cut 80 per
cent this month.
An as yet undetermined number
SRA employees will feel the pinch
of the economy program soon, Dir
ector Ned Holmes said. Orders for
dismissals were expected to be re-
ceived from SRA headquarters
soon.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06

While worrying about the axe
lowering over their own heads, the
SRA staff in six pay stations did
its best to make relief recipients
understand the necessity for the
slash in the monthly amounts is
sued them by the state.
Murmuring Lines
Checks at the Ell Centro, Impe-
rial, BraWley, Calipatria, Holtville,
and CaleXico pay stations were dis
tributed to long lines of men and
women whispering and murmuring
together about the cuts in the
states generosity. For most OF the
heads of the 1926 families on the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06

relief rolls the checks received
Wednesday was the first issued to
them after the statewide economy
program went into effect.
They accepted the cuts Stoically.
In many instances they stared at
the amounts in puzzlement before
asking SRA case workers for an
explanation. Many of them knew
nothing of the battle raging at
Sacramento over the amount to be
spent for relief.
Even though many of the relief
clients leave Imperial Valley this
spring as usual Holmes said, 1.-The
percentage of reduction on the in
dividual check will be the same
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06
GERMANY WARNS
OF ATTACK ON NEUTRALS

BERLIN. March 6. tUP)-The
German government issued officially
general warning to neutralS today
that Germany will not accept re-
sponsibility for the sinking by Ger
man planes of neutral vessels being
forced into enemy ports for contra
band control.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06
Non.Aqqression Paci Between Soviet
And Rumania Soon viii Be Signed

statement because for some time
there has been tension arising from
fear that Russia had designs Oh
the Rumanian frontier province of
Bessarabia, ceded to Rumania by
Russia at the end of the World war.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06
Py UNITED PRESS

German troops took IS British
prisoners in surprise raid on the
western front yesterday, authorized
press dispatches said Wednesday.
The prisoners, sergeant and Is
men of the Duke of CornWallS light
infantry regiment. were the first
British army prisoners to fall into
German hands, except for one Bri-
tiSh officer who, early in the war,
died Of wounds on his way to hos
pital.
A German patrol, accompanied
by machine gunnerS and SapperS
tengineerS), came upon a British
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06
hewes 10 Leave
For Water ParIey
Atlas Vegas
Tri-State Agreement to be
Sought on Division of
Colorado River

Chairman Evan T. Hewes
and Director w. j. Gregg of
the Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict prepared Wednesday to
leave for Las Vegas, New, to
attend a conference with Califor-
MIA, Arizona and Nevada officials
on tri-state Colorado river agree
ment.
Hewes is chairman also of the
California Colorado River board,
and will attend the meeting in that
capacity.
Opening Thursday, the confer
ence will seek an agreement be-
tween the three states on division
of Colorado river water, supple
menting the Santa Fe Compact.
The Santa Fe Compact, Hewes
explained. divided water between the
upper and lower basin states. The
Las Vegas conference will seek an
agreement dividing the lower basin
states share among themselves.
Several proposals by Arizona for
such division have failed, including
one presented at Denver last year.
Attending the Las Vegas meeting
from Arizona, the United Press re-
ported Wednesday, will be Gov. r.
t. Jones, Secretary Alma Davis OF
the Arizona river commission; DON.
aid Scott, Phoenix, Hugo Farmer,
Yuma, members of the commits
sion; and George w Shute, Phoe-
nix, legal advisor for the Arizona
board
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06
Jews Demonstrate
Against British

JERUSALEM, Mar. 6. CUP) -
Casualties resulting from Jewish
demonstrations against new British
land laws. promulgated only last
week, were counted today at two
dead and 800 injured.
The injured, most OF whom re-
quired hospital treatment, includ-
ed II British and three Jewish
policemen
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06

No matter where they go in the
state their relief checks will show
the same slash"
Wondering Employees
Next door to the Ell Centre SRA
headquarters other employees sorted,
stacked and marked surplus COM
nodities while wondering if they.
too. would be dismissed or some
change made in their status.
They prepared to issue food and
clothing sent To Imperial county
by the federal surplus commodity
division. All these commodities are
marked Not to be Sold, and are
TO be used only in cases of emer-
gcncy.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06

BUCHAREST. March 6. up
The Soviet legation said today Rus
sian Premier-Foreign CommiSSar
Viacheslav M. Molotov will visit
Bucharest soon to sign a Soviet
Rumaniar aggression pact.
Great interest accompanied th"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06
German Troops Take 1b British Prisoners
In Surprise Raid in No Mans Land

dugout in 10 mans land as dawn
British in the dugout were asleep
when the Germans opened fire and
hurled grenadeS into the dugout.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06
FEAR OF RELIEF
CAUSES SUICIDE

SAN DIEGO, March 6. (UP)-
The prospect of having to accept
relief was believed today to have
driven William K. Warner, retired
Louisville, KY, merchant, to take
his own life.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-06
Buyers Prepare for Co|orfu| Annual
4-H Club Livestock Auction, ToBe
Held at 10 a. m. Thursday at Fair

IMPERIAL, March 6.-Judging in
all divisions at the l1th annual
county fair was completed Wednes-
day as G. E. Gordon, extension
specialist, awarded prizes in the
swine divisions and in judging of