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Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
SOCIAL CALENDAR
WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY
ToaStmiStreSS club, 6:15, CalifOr-
mia hotel
LOOT. No. 4O8, 1880, BrawIey
I. v. Stamp and Coin club, 1880,
ice plant
Eagles, 8, $50 Broadway
THURSDAY
Vacation church school, $1,000,
Harding Wilson
McCabe- Eucalyptus, 1890, plunge
Rotary club, Barbara Worth
20-3O club, Z, California hotel
Townsend club No. 2, 1880, court
house
Building trades council, 1880, La
Dor temple
Electricians union 1880, Labor
temple
B.P.O.E. No. 1926, 8, Elks hall
Chess club, 1880, st. PauPs parish
hall
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
Living Costs Up,
Secretary Says

WASHINGTON, Jura u. CUP)-
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
reported today that the cost of
living advanced three-tenths of
per cent from Dec. Is to March IS,
and that living costs in March were
10 per cent higher than in June,
1888, and 1872 per cent lower than
the boom year of 1929,
The report was based on a survey
by the bureau of labor statistics
in 33 major cities.
Living costs advanced in Boston,
Los Angeles. and Seattle. Among
these cities, Boston showed the lar
gest increase-1,4 per cent-during
the three month period
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
Crew Sets Fire TO
Italian Vessel

MELBOURNE, June -. UP)-
The crew of the 9,78O-ton Italian
steamer Romolo set fire to their
ship and sank it today after ar
Australian cruiser had intercepted
1t IL the Pacific.
All passengers and the crew were
taken aboard the Australian vessels
before the ship went down.
The cruiser caught up with the
Romolo after air force planes ant
naval units had Swallowed the Ital-
ian ship from Brisbane.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
Not Guilty Plea
Made by Autoisf

A plea of not guilty and request
for a jury trial was heard Wednes-
Gay from w. S. Harris in Ell Centre
police court who was charged with
drunken driving
Judge Lee Nuffer set trial for
| D. M, June %.
Harris car broke telephone pole
and disrupted fire alarm service,
Officers said. A physician pro-
nounced him under the influence
Of liquor.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
ScF1enck Pleads
Tax Innocence

NEW YORK, June PUP =
Joseph M. Schenck, chairman of
the board of Twentieth Century Fox
Pictures corporation, pleaded not
guilty today when arraigned on in
dlctments charging income tax VIC
latlons, perjury, conspiracy and
making false statements to govern
ment Investigators.
Joseph Moskovitz, his $4,000 a
year bookkeeper, pleaded not guilty
to charges he aided Schenck in falls
flying income tax returns. The
indictment alleges the film mag
ate underpaid the government
more than 100000.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12

will be featured and also n fine
program of music is TO be pre-
scented. James Ryerson. baritone;
Helen Siegel soprano. and the IN
ternational accordion trio compos-
ed of Jimmy Schiller. Carl Maggie
and Calvin Furukawa. are the ar
fists to be heard
After dinner members and guests
will adjourn to the Goble Hurst
residence, 663 Holt avenue, for a
lawn party where all sorts of games
will be arranged for the pleasure
of the group Mrs. H. H. Tyler is in
charge of this part of the entertain
ment
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
District Board
OkaYs Contracts

Approval of contract compilations
was given to five PWA projects
Tuesday afternoon by directors of
the Imperial Irrigation district in
a mild session contrasting sharply
with the heated controversies of
last week.
Discussion Of land leases occupie /
most OF the boards time during the
day.
All the PWA contracts had to do
with the All American canal and
power system. They included SUBJ
station structures and construction
OF Power Drop No. plant.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
Establish New
PEG. Chapter

Imperial Valley PEGS will be
interested in learning of the in
stallation of CALIFORNIA; 279th chap
ter Tuesday night in Vista, San
Diego. Two Escondido chapters, B
and FV, with Chapter FA of Ocean
side, were in charge of the cere-
monies. Mrs. Ruth White. president
.of California state chapter, was
guest of honor. The new chapter
is known as Chapter wv.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
Boiler Kid Can
Take Few Steps

CHICAGO. June -. CUP)-Fred-
er'ck B. Snite. ir. the boiler kid "
who has battled infantile PARALYSIS
in iron lungs" for more than four
wears, now is able to walk a few
stems with assistance, his father re-
vealed today.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
WILLKIE ANNOUNCES
CONVENTION SPONSOR

WASHINGTON, June IL. CUP)-
wendell Willkie, head of the Com
monWealth and Southern Public
Utilities System, announced TODAY
that his name would be put in
nomination for president before the
Republican national convention by
Rep. Charles A. Halleck. R.. Ind
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
RETURN FROM SCHOOL

Mrs. John B. McNeece and her
family are planning to leave We'd
nesday of next week for Pine VAL
ley, Mr.. McNeece joining them for
weekends and for his vacation. Mrs.
McNeece plans to go to San Diego
to this weekend to meet her daugh-
ter, Mary Virginia, who is a stu
dent at the Academy of Our Lady of
Peace, bringing her home.
Mrs. T. L. Skinner, whose daugh-
ter Marie, is also a student at the
Academy, is to bring her daughter
nome this weekend also.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
AT MOUNTAIN CABIN

Mrs. Richard p. Hafner is Suffi-
GENTLY recovered from her recent
operation, performed at Mercy hos
pital' san Diego, to be back at her
summer home, CaleXico lodge.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
EGYPT SEWERS
RELATIONS WITH ITALY

CAIRO, Egypt, June II. CUP)-
The Egyptian chamber of deputies
voted today to sever diplomatic re-
lationS with Italy.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
new BOOKS
Released by the Ell Centre Ii
brary, June Is, 1910
FICTION

Released by the Ell Centre Lii
brary, June Is, 1910
FICTION
Of These Three Loves, Louis A
Cunningham; Heroic Dust, Theo-
dora Dehon; The Gar of Halfaday
Creek, James B. Herdryx; Figures
In Landscape, Paul Horgan; First
Port of Call, Elizabeth Jordan.
NON-FICTION
This is On Me, Katharine Brush
Confessions of an IndividualiSt, VIM
H. Chamberlain; Aretino, Scourge of
Princes, Thomas Chubb, Koda-
chrome And How to Use it, Ivan
Dmitri; Guatemala, Past and Pre-
sent, Chester L. Jones; Footloose
in Arcadia, Joseph Noel; Elemen-
tarv Surveying, VIM. H. Rayner;
Metal Work. r. D. Srively; Lubri-
cation, Cooling troubles ard rene
dies, j. Vanderdoes: American
Poets, 1G30-l930. Mark Van Doren;
Lady Lore, K. u. Witan; Effective
Speaking For Every Occasion, Will
lard H. Yeager.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
Clubs
Society
News Items About
Valley Residents

Joe Golf, former Ell Centran, will
be graduated from U. C. L. A. this
spring. Joe, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
2. A. Golf, now makes his home
at Ell Cajon with his parents.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12
WEATHER

,Dnta compiled by observers for
the official United states Weather
bureau Stn:iOn at Eel CentrO.D
MaXimum Tuesday commencement. ia
Minimum Wednesday .................... IA
Reading at Noon Wednesday
Temperature ................................. ia
Humidity 10
Reading at a. m. Wednesday
Temperature ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 76
Humidity ........... ...................... SO
Reading at p. m. Tuesday
Temperature .....................-. ......... 1903
HUMIDITY IL
Southern California-Fair We'd
nesday night and Thursday with
morning cloud or fog in west por-
ton; little change in temperature;
moderate northwest wind off coast
Record for "a hours ending at
5 a. m Wednesday,:
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12

Mrs. D. F.. Dovey of Indio, the
former Isolde Horton of Ell Centre,
is in the FL Centre hospital re-
covering from an appendectomy
She is not permitted to see viSi-
tors as yet
Imperial Valley press., 1940-06-12

nay Clements, daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. w. j. Clements, will re-
turn this coming weekend for a
brief vacation visit with her par
entS. Miss Clements is completing
her Junior year at U. C. L. A. where
she is a member of Chi Omega
sorority, and is planning to return
to Los Angeles about July to
take a special summer course She
will be accompanied by Kay Sur
face, daughter of E. F. Surface, and
also U. G. l. A. student who will
join Kay Clements at summer
school.
Miss Eleanor Childers, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles L. Chill
derS, arrived home in Ell Centre
this weekend for the summer va
cation. Miss Childers, like her bro
ther, Howard. who accompanied her
to the valley. is a u. G. l.. A. STU
dent. Howard will remain in Los
Angeles where he has job during
the summer vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. c.. Jones have
just returned from Riverside where
they saw Mrs. Jones' sister, Miss
Margaret Hedrick, and their daugh-
ter, Mrs. William M. Bell, III, the
former Kathryn Jones, off on their
trip to the middle west. Miss He'd
rick plans to spend some time at
the family home in Iowa and Mrs.
Bell will visit there for few days
before going on to Washington, D.
c.. and to Virginia, where she will
join her husband who is taking a
reserve officers course at Quantico.
Mrs. w. L. Wright is recuperat-
ing from a major operation per-
formed about a week ago in Mercy
hospital, San Diego. She will have
to remain in the hospital at least
two more weeks according to Mr..
Wright who was in the valley for
few days this week, planning
to return Friday.
Mrs. Donna Holloway was sum-
moned to Atwood recently by in
juries suffered by her daughter,
Mrs. Clifford Davis, and her grand
daughter, Mrs. Lewis Richards, in
an automobile accident. Both are
recovering as we'll as can be ex-
pected but Mrs. Davis will have
to remain in the hospital for some
time yet. Mrs Holloway returned
to Ell Centre after the two were well
on their way to recovery.
Mrs. Virginia Jones planned to
leave the valley Wednesday for
Oakland to visit her brother and
his family for an indefinite stay.
While in the north she will visit
the San Francisco exposition.
Evening star., 1940-09-01
Nv fb. Associated press

BY the Associated Press.
The crash yesterday of Penn
sylyania Central Airlines transport
near Lovettsville, Va, with the
loss of IS lives was the most disas-
trous in point of fatalities in the
history of American commercial
aviation.
1t was the first fatal commercial
airline accident in this country in
II months and 4 days--a record in
which aviation authorities frequent
ly had expressed pride. 1t was also
Pennsylvania Central kirline's first
fatal accident in more than IA years
operation.
The last fatal accident occurred
March rs, 1889, near Oklahoma
City, where eight we're killed. AS
in yesterdays accident, the line
involved, Braniff, had held a meri-
torious record for safety for many
years.
Yesterdays crash took the life
of the second Senator claimed by
airplanes in recent years. Senator
Ernest Lundeen, FarmeY-Labor-
ite. of Minnesota was on the Penn
sylvania Central Airline's passenger
list. Senator Bronson Cutting of
New Mexico was killed on May 6,
1895. in Missouri. Three others
were killed in that accident.
Other fatal commercial airplane
crashes in recent years included:
August Is, 1939-14 killed In crash
Of Pan-American flying boat at Rio
de Janeiro.
January 10, 1938-lo killed near
Bozcman. Mont, In mountain crash.
Evening star., 1940-09-01
25-Deoth Crash Worst in History
Of American Commercial Aviation

January II, 1938-Samoan Clipper
with seven aboard vanished near
Pago Pago.
October II, 1877 killed in
crash of transport plane in Unita
Mountains, near Knight, Wyo.
August 10, 1937-Four killed at
Daytona Beach, Fla.
August 8, INSTRUMENTATION
Grace Airways Flying Boat, with ID
aboard, wrecked at sea near Cris-
tobal, G. z.
March Is, 1937-Thirteen killed
near Pittsburgh.
February 8, 1937-Eleven killed in
San Francisco Bay crash.
January 10, l937-Five killed near
Saugus, Calf.
December %, 1936-Six airline en-
ployes killed on test fight near
Dallas, Tex.
December %. 1es6-Twelve killed
near Burbank, Calf.
December Is, 1936-Seven killed
in Utah Gorge.
August 6, ls36-Eight Killed near
st. Louis.
April 7, 1e36-Twelve killed near
Uniontown, Pa.
January IA, 1936-Seventeen killed
near Goodwin, Ark.
Yesterdays record death toll for
heavier-than-air craft is still short
of that of dirigibles. The Akron
crashed in the Atlantic Ocean in
1888 with a loss of 73 lives, and the,
Hindenburg, German trans Atlantic
Zeppelin, exploded at Lakehurst,
N. j.. May 6, 1887, with the loss
of 36 lives,
Evening star., 1940-09-01
Ship Blown to Pieces
As Explosion Follows
Fall in Virginia Storm
Roar Heard 7 Miles Away
By LovettsviI|e Residents;
DR.. 6. D. Cole Is Victim

In the worst disaster in the history commercial ava
Lundeen FarmerLaborte of Minnesota We're killed at ESQ
pm yesterday when Pennsylvania Central arlner bound
from Washington to Pittsburgh crashed in storm
LovettSv1e Va, AZ miles northwest of The plane
was blown to bits it exploded after hitting the ground
In addition to Senator Lundeen and four members of the
Guiding IS Government employees many en- route to their
homes for the Labor Day holiday.
In the blast that followed the huge craft struck field
the foot of Short Hill Mountain
the torn and broken occupants
the fragments the plane for distance quarter mile the
spot where poughed deep into the earth So terrific
the impact and the resultant explosion
heard in Lovettsvle miles bringing frightened
from all over the section rushing to the Some Of
these thought the arner had been struck by lightning
Pilot 2O-Year Veteran.
Piloted by Capt Lowell " Scroggns veteran 20 years
big twin-moored Washington
and due in Pittsburgh o'clock according
the Associated Press in Pittsburgh Capt scroggns reported by
radio on routine check that the ship Herndo Va
normal and climbing transport
Capt scroggins battered body weckage
the cockpit about so yards from the spot where the plane first
struck the ground Wires from the control board sreamed along
the ground back of the cockpit wckage toward the point of
impact
AP c. A mechanic, getting ship
of at Washington airport said he stood the pilots
81 don't think there's any doubt but that lightning struck
the ship What's it looks like it hit the cockpit I
the this metal looks around The mechanic who
the ground slight incline at the point Of impact at about As
degree angle
Lundeen Was on Way to Join Wife.
Among those who lost their lives Dr. Charles D. Cole
president District Society, who
dentist Johnston chief clerk
the old Division of the Adutant Generals Office in the
War Department.
Senator Lundeen was en- route Lake
Mnnetonka Mnn join Mrs Lundeen while Arthur Holloway
of the Interstate Commerce Commission another killed going
to Oklahoma City to be married
The widow of J. Moore, the pilot who killed an
expectant mother
Pennsylvania headquarters Pittsburgh which
the the accident said the pilot of another ship flying
miles from the of the crash reported that the
weather routine at 5000 feet and the visibility good but as
transport plunged earth terrific storm sweeping
the mountains
Pittsburgh resident in the vicinity
who reported seeing the plane down said coded with
other the did not bear this
version Those who first the spot declared that it landed
field while cruising low in the darkness of the storm
Farmer Tells of Finding Wreckage.
Lovesvle; his brother, Fred
Graham hreshng the formers
When the rain had
Az
Evening star., 1940-09-01
Two Drivers Blame Each Other
As Girl Is Killed, Friend Hurt

Two little girls were crossing Con-
necticut avenue last night. Two cars
were coming, one from the north,
the other from the south.
Now one of the little girls is dead.
The other is in Emergency Hospital
with a possible fractured knee. The
two drivers blame each other.
The dead child was 11-year-old
Margaret Ann Watson, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. William v. Watson,
51l2 Connecticut avenue NV.
The friend she was walking home
with when death came under the
wheels of an automobile was Eliza
beth Fentress. Is. daughter of Mrs.
Evening star., 1940-09-01
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Aug. 81 Germany
pulled the curtains tonight on a
year of war and her military COM
mentators declared that the height
ened road of battle over England
meant that the catastrophe" is ap-
preaching for "our last enemy"
They said the Nazi air arm, after
trying for three weeks to soften"
England for the final blow, was
preparing the final defeat" In
those three weeks, Nazis said, 1.193
British planes and SO barrage bal
looms had been destroyed, not in
today's operations.
The commentators professed scorn
for the Childish optimism" with
which, they said, the British are
declaring that the worst is over.
England. they insisted, doesn't yet
know what modern war can be like.
One newspaper, the Frankfurter
Zeitung, explained: "Catastrophes
often develop slowly"
Declare 124 Planes Destroyed.
Adolf Hitler flung his bombers
against London and nearby air
bases in one of the most determined
assaults yet of the battle for Britain
today-in an immediate retort to
the first British air raid of this war
on the heart of Berlin.
Tonight German authorities de-
clared 124 British planes had been
destroyed during the day, includ-
ing 20 smashed on the ground, and
that "a English barrage balloons had
been shot down. The loss of %
German planes was acknowledged.
Most of the heaviest fighting was
north of London. Over
the British capital itself the Ger
(See BERLIN, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1940-09-01
AssaiIs Idea
OF 'Dictatorships 10
Fight Dictators'
Cites Secret Report Of
World War Boord on
Conseripting Industry
(Tert of WiIlkie Statement on
(Tert of Willkie Statement on
Page AS.
By the Associated Press.

RUSHVILLE, Ind, Aug. 3l.-De-
claring I'VE must not set up a die
tatorship to fight dictators" Wendell
L. Willkie told newspapermen today
confidential report of the now dis
banded War Resources Board had
opposed granting emergency war
time powers to existing executive
and quasi-judicial agencies.
The Republican presidential NOM
inee recited what he said were quo
tations from the report in renewing
his demand that President Roose-
welt give his views on the Overton-
Russell amendment to the Senate
conscription bill
That amendment would permit
the Government to seize plants and
other facilities needed for defense
If the Secretaries of War and Navy
could not reach agreements with
the owners to acquire them.
Declaring that he did not believe
that during the entire campaign he
would say anything more important
than his statement today, Mr.. Will
kie read to a front-porch press con-
ference a formal statement which
included the following, quoted, he
said, from the report:
TT is our considered judgment
that coordination offers the only
effective means of converting
American industries for the pur-
poses of war.
American businessmen, like all
(See WILLKIE, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1940-09-01
Opposition Mounting
To Defense Plant
Draft Power
Poll Indicates Passage
Of Conscription Bill by
House This Week
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Members of the Military Affairs
Committee said yesterday that in
formal surveys showed the House
would pass the Burke -Wadsworth
conscription bill this week, but that
there was considerable opposition to
proposals to permit the Government
to condemn and take over private
industrial plants for defense.
Some legislators went so far as
to predict privately that the in
dustry provision would be omitted
from the House bill on the final
vote. They said, however, modi-
fication permitting Government
operation of these facilities would
stand at least an even chance Of
being accepted.
Coming quickly to the forefront
of the Capitol discussion on the
legislation, this issue temporarily
relegated to the background argu-
ments over the fundamental pro-
visions for registering men from
81 to A. inclusive, and making them
liable for years military training.
Quick Adjournment Hoped.
A battle is expected over the age
provision, however, as the Senate
voted for registration only of men
81 to 80, inclusive.
Confident tnat the conscription
bill would be enacted without delay,
Congress leaders optimistically set
their sights for a clean calendar
within two or three weeks in order
to be in q position to take an in
definite recess or, possibly, sine
die adjournment.
Many individual members have
indicated they would like to 60 home
soon to remain at least until after
election day.
The Senate amendment, author
TS1e CNNSTRYpTTNN PAGE X-Z0-
Evening star., 1940-09-01

The Weather Bureau said the
center of the storm, attended by
hurricane winds, would pass near
and slightly east of Hatteras early
tomorrow Placing it at 7:30 pm.
about $50 miles south h-southeast of
Cape Hatteras, the bureau ordered
hurricane warnings from Hatteras
to Pamlico Sound and whole gale
warnings north of Pamlico Sound
to the Virginia Capes, northwest
warnings at Wilmington and north
east warnings north of the Capes
to Delaware Breakwater.
Evening star., 1940-09-01
President Picks
Frank Walker .
For Cabinet
(Tert OF RooSeuelt's Labor Day
Statement on Page A-4.)
By JOHN c. HENRY,
Star Staff CORRESPONDENT,

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. 31.-In
whirlwind windup Of a four-day
vacation here, President Roosevelt
today named new Postmaster Cen
eral, delivered a frons-porch CAM
paign speech to some 500 Dutchess
County neighbors ana issued Labor
Day pronouncemen. in praise of
the New Deal.
Frank C. Walker-lawyer, theater
operator, longtime friend of the
President and devoted disciple of
New Deal democracy--was the choice
for the cabinet post to succeed James
A. Farley.
Disclosure of the selection was
made by Mr.. Roosevelt at the end
of an address from the front porch
Of the home of Moses Smith, politico-
philosopher and tenant farmer on
the Roosevelt estate, the occasion
being the annual rally of the Frank
lin D Roosevelt Home Club.
Present on the fag-draped We
randa as the Chief Executive made
his speech and announcement were
Mr.. Walker, Mrs. Roosevelt, Crown
Princess Martha of Norway, Gov.
Herbert Lehman of New York and a
score of local dignitaries.
Crowded under the heavily shaded
lawn in front were about 500 of the
nearby country folk, a band and a
cowboy quartet.
"A Tremendous Secret"
Describing his announcement as
"a tremendous secret containing no
politics, the President broke the
news as follows:
Il have here, sitting almost di-
rectly back of me, the successor OF
a very splendid old friend of mine,
the successor of Jim Farley, the sue
cessor in. the Postmaster General
ship in place of Jim, who has made
such splendid recor din that office.
"Jim now, with family to sup
port finds 1t necessary-as some
<el.- RANa0TyNT - V---
Evening star., 1940-09-01

Catherine S. Fentress, 4707 Con-
necticut avenue NV.
The two girls, classmates at Alice
Deal Junior High School. had had
dinner together at the Watson home.
They were on .their way to the
Fentress home when they came to
the intersection of Nebraska avenue
and Connecticut avenue.
Police said James Mcdowell, COL
ored, %, of the 300 block of Four
teenth place NE, was the driver
of drugstore delivery truck south
bound on Connecticut avenue. The
driver OF the northbound car, ac-
(See TRAFFIC, Page A4.l