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Evening star., 1941-09-21
Dewey Will Oppose
Bill Fixing Rents
Al Level Of 194O
Would Hurt Home Owners
Who Rent Rooms, Says
Illinois Republican

Proposed legislation designed to
freeze rentals here as of September
|. 1910, might be 'hurtful" to home
owners whose sole source of income
is derived from rooms they rent, it
was charged last night by Repre-
sentative Dewey, Republican, of Illi-
nois, who was an Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury during the Coolidge
administration.
The plan to fix rentals at the pre-
vailing rate of year ago. according
TO Mr.. Dewey, would be unfair to
the individual home owner who
rentS rooms in "an earning ca
pacity."
The proposal is a feature of one
OF the three rent-control bills now
pending before the Special Defense
Subcommittee of the House District
Committee on which final public
hearings will be held Tuesday.
o. P. NJ. Witness.
Representative Dewey said he
would appear before the subcom-
mittee-not to oppose rent-control
legislation-but to register a strong
objection to the proposed plan of
going back a year for date for
fixing fair rental basis Another
witness will be Karl Borders chief
of the rent section of the Office of
Price Administration.
Prices have advanced on food
stuffs and many other things" de-
clared Representative Dewey, "but
there has been no tremendous in
crease or fluctuation in rentals
here
Representative Dewey pointed out
that the real estate market here
ss elsewhere has been rotten" for
the last eight years, with the result
that some home owners who rent
rooms have been unable to collect
enough from tenants to pay taxes
end meet mortgage payments.
The bill to freeze rentals here
vas introduced last week by Chair
man Randolph of the House Dis
trict Committee. 1t has the indorse-
ment of five organizations that
claim to represent SIS per cent of
apartment house owners here.
Says Rents Generally Low.
In an interview with newspaper
men, Representative Dewey de-
clared:
BY and large over the country
as whole rents have been low
Many of the persons who have in
vested their money in homes prob
ably have had difficulty in pay
ing taxes and meeting charges on
mortgages.
Just as We seem to be emerging
from a low level stage it wouldn't
be fair to slap a price control on
rentals a year in advance of parity
prices for agriculture, which has
been in the same depressed condi-
ton as the rent situation.
"1f price control is approved for
the Nation it is likely to remain
in effect for number of years
and these poor investors who de-
pend on incomes from rentals for
support will be tied to low rental
basis rather than to the normal
rental basis. In the past eight
years 1t has been the policy of the
administration to bring prices of
all commodities back to the aver
age 1926 level. Even today with
the recent price rises they have
only reached 80 per cent of the
1926 averages.
What are these people yelling
about?" he asked. Just because they
paid Farmer Brown back home 50 tc
So a week for a room is no reason
why they should feel they are being
eouged in Washington where living
expenses are higher"
Evening star., 1941-09-21

Washington meeting, closing its pro.
gram today with o'clock mass
at Catholic University said by the
Most Rev. Michael ]. Keyes, Titular
Bishop Of ,Areopolis. and a COM
nlunion breakfast in the university
dining hall. James v. Hayes will he
toastmaster, and the Rev. Coleman
Nevils, S. j., the main speaker.
This afternoon the three-day guild
conference will close with seminar
on the chief problems of street
speakers, held at the c. U. music
building, and a business meeting
conducted by Harry j. Kirk, presi-
dent of the local guild and of the
national conference. The Rev. Will
liam H. Russell will officiate at
Benediction afterwards in the Shrine
of the Immaculate Conception on
the campus.
Evening star., 1941-09-21

annual meeting of the Washington
Catholic Evidence Guild on Cath
olic University campus.
1t was an anniversary for DR..
Goldstein as well as the Washington
Guild, since he spoke at the first
meeting held by the Washington
group 10 years ago. Flow the or
ganization maintains four open air
meetings every Sunday from April
to November and trains new speak
ers during the winter.
DR.. Goldstein describes his out
door talks from mobile amplify-
ing machine as educational not
evangelical" His purpose, he says,
is to overcome misunderstanding of
the Catholic church by teaching its
history, practice and customs to
outsiders.
Since those who do not under
stand the church would not come
Evening star., 1941-09-21
Sheep at Blue Plains Moved
As Part of Cleanup Drive
Cuss Considers Abandonment of Dairy
And Farm at Home for Aged and Infirm

be in disgraceful or even appalling
condition. was being given a thor
ough cleanup by the so w. P. A.
workers now assigned there for
extra aid.
Mr.. Cass said considerable prog
ress" had been made in the work
Friday and yesterday and that op-
erations would be continued today.
Dirt, dust and CRIME has been
washed from walls, tables. radiators
and the toilets have been given
cleaning. Old grease on the top por-
tions of the old coal kitchen range
has been washed. but Mr.. Cass is not
satisfied as yet and another attempt
is to be made with stronger clean
ing materials.
Sometime tomorrow, the institu-
ton expects to receive a huge store
of discarded police uniforms. con-
demned by the Police Department,
but which may provide many warm
overcoats, raincoats, hats. gloves
and the like for residents of the
home. This would follow suggestions
made to Inspector Milton D. Smith,
in charge OF police uniforms and
property, by the Commissioners.
Compile List of Needs.
Action is expected to be taken
also by the Commissioners within
day or two on list of utensils
and other equipment for the Home
for the Aged which might be pur-
chased from a fund of $500 con-
stituting interest on old trust funds.
brought to light by Auditor Pilker-
ton. A list of such items has been
prepared by Mr.. Cass, Welfare Di-
rector Conrad Van Hyning and
District Budget Director Walter l..
Fowler.
1t is expected to call for new
mechanical dishwasher. sanitary
facilities for bed-ridden patients.
| food service trays for the sick. wheel
chairs and adjustable beds for
cardiac patients. This step was or
dered by the city heads after they
determined many of the needs at
the institution could be cured by
spending even limited sums.
The Commissioners are expected
also to decide on submission of a
deficiency appropriation request for
preparation of plans for new in
stitution, possibly for starting con-
| struction of a new home if early
| agreement can be reached on the
site, and for increased maintenance
and operations funds.
Evening star., 1941-09-21

A dozen sheep formerly pastured
In grassy plot Just behind the
hospital wing Of the Home for Aged
and Infrm at Blue Plains were
removed yesterday to more distant
quarters in an effort to reduce the
fly nuisance at the home.
This was one of numerous steps
taken to improve conditions at the
institution for the helpless aged,
pending final decision by the Com
missioners on selection of an entire
ly new site for a projected new
building, and other permanent i'm
provements.
The pigs at the Blue Plains plant.
charged with being one cause for
the fly nuisance, however. constitute
another matter. Institution officials
said they had not moved them
farther away from the home because
they did not know where to put
them.
Asks Dairy Cost Survey.
This raised the larger question Of
whether it is worth while for the
institution to attempt to maintain
farm end dairy operations for the
institution In this connection. It
was revealed that Otto Cass, newly
appointed superintendent of the
home. has appealed to District Au-
ditor Arthur R. Pilkerton for men,
bers of his auditing staff to make
a cost accounting survey OF the in
stitution to see Just what it gets
from operation of farm and dairy
units.
Perhaps inspiring this move were
earlier suggestions from the Com
missioners that it might be better
for the institution to buy its food
instead of trying to raise some OF
them, since the aged population of
/ the home is not able to engage in
farm or dairy occupations
Institution officials. as yet. have
made no attack on the problem OF
c'eaning up the large but inadequate
refrigeration plant for storage of the
institutions meat supplies. On then
inc1co ton tour District official;
fourd the place had a decided odor
The made specific protest
about i
Seek Storage Space.
Institution officials, however. say
they cannot make a real cleanup
until they find a place where they
can store their meat for a day OF
two. They have not found such 6
place yet, but use of the w. P. A
surplus commodity distribution
houses is considered as possible.
Meanwhile. the institution, found
by the Commissioners and agents
of the Senate District Committee to
Evening star., 1941-09-21
Chicken Dinners

The Potomac Md Methodist
Church will hold chicken dinners
from 5 to pm. Thursday and Friday
at the church, Proceeds will go to
the church's Sunday school building
fund. Mrs. William Robey is In
charge of arrangements.
Evening star., 1941-09-21
DR.. David GoIdstein
Gives Catholic View
On Birth Control
Outdoor Address Marks
Anniversary for Him
And Evidence Guild

DR.. David Goldstein of Boston,
for nearly Is years an interpreter
of the Catholic point of view at
outdoor meetings all over the coun-
try, spoke last night at the tenth
Evening star., 1941-09-21

Russia has but $4,000 miles OF
railroad trackage, compared with
the United States 250,000 miles.
Evening star., 1941-09-21

Cert Palman, native of Johan.
nesburg, South Africa, has celebrat-
ed his 109th birthday.
Evening star., 1941-04-25
Answer TO Yesterdays Puzzle

Between one edge of Europe and
one edge of Asia, there is salt
water river" 1t is called the Bos-
porus, and perhaps no other small
body of water has won so many
high words from travellers.
Upon this planet" wrote one
visitor, there is no other stream
so wonderful"
The Bosporus is close to 10 miles
long. 1t runs from the Black Sea
into the Sea of Marmora. At some
points it is 2 miles wide. Elsewhere
the width is as little as half mile.
The Bosporus is classed as a
strait, but it looks like river and
has swift current. Its average
depth is about 88 feet.
The bed of the Bosporus slopes
down so steeply at certain places
that large boats can run within a
few feet of the shore. This Is
brought out in a little happening
at the village of Candili. An Eng
. lish woman, whose home stood 'on
the shore, said to a visitor:
It am sorry the house looks SO
bad today. A Greek sailing vessel
went by this morning, and the rig
ging struck the house. I have called
carpenters to fix the damaged win
dows, but they haven't come yet. u
The simple facts about the size
and depth of the Bosporus do not
show any great reason why 1t
should be called wonderful" Tour
lists and other travellers have ex-
Evening star., 1941-04-25
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West opened the queen of hearts,
dummy played the king, and East
won with the ace. East then re-
turned the king of spades, and South
ruffed. South laid down the ace
and then low diamond, and West
took the diamond king. West tried
to cash the jack Of hearts, but South
ruffed. Irn
1t was now apparent to East that
the setting trick could be obtained
only In clubs, but 1t was also obvious
that South could successfully finesse
through the club queen unless he
could be steered away from this
normal line of play. So East de-
cided to execute swindle.
After ruffsng the jack of hearts,
South laid down the ace of clubs,
and then led a low diamond to
dummy's jack. At this point, East
casually discarded low club!
South was not particularly
astute player, so he regarded this
club discard as having been made
from a worthless club holding. If
that were so, West must have the
queen of clubs, and the only chance
to make the contract lay in dropping
the blank queen in the West hand.
Accordingly, South returned a club
from dummy and played his king
instead of finessing. That set up
East's club queen as the setting
trick, much to his glee and South's
chagrin. Note that South would
have finessed, but for East's decep-
tive discard, and the f1nesse would
have enabled South to make his
contract.
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Evening star., 1941-04-25
UNCLE RAYS CORNER-To Loud Beauty of Bosporus

Besides the Bosporus is a cave
where the god Pan was supposed
to make his home. This is called
the Cave Of Pan. There is a story
that nymphs who swan in the Bos-
porus often went to the cave to
rest. Today, however, neither Pan
nor the nymphs can be found there.
The great city of Istanbul lies
at the southern end of the Bos-
porus. It's thousands of lights gilt
ter at night, and make beautiful
sight. Sailboats, large and small,
dance on the water of the strait,
and after dark their lights add to
the beauty of the scene.
At least that is the picture in
time of peace. Fear Of air raids
can turn out the lights, and heavy
warships pass through the Bos-
porus in performing guard duty.
Like the Dardanelles, to the
southwest, the Bosporus is part of
the passage way between the Black
Sea and the Mediterranean.
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Evening star., 1941-04-25

claimed over it chiefly because of
its beauty, and because of the
wealth of myths and legends which
have centered around it..
The name "Bosporus" means "ox
ford" and 1t is believed that In
olden times oxen sometimes swan
across it. The Greeks had story
about the Princess 10 who was
changed into a heifer or young
cow-a "bossy," as we might say
Twas said that the Bosporus was
named in her honor, but that point
is not certain.
Evening star., 1941-04-25
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side vulnerable, you held:
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The bidding:
Maier. Jacoby. You. Schenken.
10 Pass CD
Answer-Bid one spade. You have
a good hand but are not quite
strong enough for two no-trump.
In any case there is no point in sup
pressing the major suit.
Score 100 per cent for one spade,
10 per cent for two no-trump, 80
per cent for three diamonds.
Question No. TAB.
Today you hold the same hand,
and the bidding continues:
Maier. Jacoby. You. Schenken.
10 Pass IA Pass
INT Pass (2)
What do you bid? (Answer to-
morrow
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an opponent is the device of creating
a guess where no true guess really
exists. For example:
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Evening star., 1941-04-25
Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES,

BY THE FOUR ACES.
David Bruce Burnstone. Merwin D.
Maier. Oswald Jacoby and Howard
Schenken. worlds leading team-of-
four, inventors of the system that
has beaten every other system in
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-24
Farm Markets
Generally Hold
As Cants Wane
Flax Shows Big Boost
Over Week Ago, Melon
Deal at High Tide

Imperial Valleys 1941 ag-
ricultural pi ture grew
brighter Tuesday with good
markets and good quality
cheering the hearts of grow
ers and shippers.
Flax growers had special reason
to rejoice with the market quoted
at $780, Tuesday, climb upward
from $780, a week ago. The price
Monda" was $1.90. Flax harvest was
past the peak of the season with
between 100000 and 100000 bushels
yet to go.
Hay growers had nothing to COM
plain about with the market still
holding at $l3 to SIS, FOB ranch,
depending upon the quality. Hay
growers went over the peak of the
season on a good market which be-
gan al 50 to $40 a ton and rose
rapidly to $14 and above where it
remained. Two cuttings were finish
ed and third about so per cent
harvested and marketed. One or IL
more cuttings still may be made,
depending upon the damage the
butterflies do and emergencies which
Continued on Page 2; Column q
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-24
$125.000 Injuries
To Boy Claimed

eel the company of negligence in fail
ure to provide sufficient insulation
to protect children of tender years
who might come near the wires.
Jimmy was visiting in the neigh
borhood of the substation at Melo-
land last Feb. u. He crawled over
the fence enclosing the station
equipment. In some manner he
came in contact with wires and a
charge of $4,000 volts of electricity
came in contact with his body.
Screams of the youngster at
tracted persons nearby and C. p.
OsWalt, road foreman of district
No, 2, was called from his work
on the highway and rescued the
boy. When Oswalt reached him,
Jimmy was lying on a platform
screaming, Get me off! Get me
off"
Jimmy was in the Ell Centro hos
pital for weeks and it was nee
essary to amputate his leg and arm
and one finger off the other hand.
The suit asked 100000 for dam
ages, $1,000 for hospital and doctor
bills already spent, and $4,000 for
disqualification and treatment nee
eSsary in the future.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-24
Business Leader
Quiets Fears of
Wild War Prices
Visiting Executive Sees
No Shortages Soon
In Merchandise

Consumers in the United
States have little reason to
fear runaway prices in the
present war, Vice-President
A. S. BarrOws of Sears-Roe-
buck company said in Ell Centre
Tuesday They face no immediate
prospect of shortages in merchan-
disc, he added.
Barrows, in charge OF all COM
pany stores on the Pacific coast,
said he found business generally
good throughout the United States
with all sections profiting by the
upswing and merchants and manu-
facturers attempting to abide by
the lessons learned in the wild price
days of the last World War.
The manufacturing capacity OF
the nation was not taxed to its full
ability during the last 10 years and
can increase is output without much
effort. We have the potential ability
and the raw materials to provide
the consumers with what they need"
Barrows said, 80 see no need to
fear shortage in merchandise"
AS a buyer during the last war
Barrows was familiar with the ten
denotes in price raising in those
Continued on Page 2; Column o
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-24
Commons Cheers as
Eden Announces
More U. 5. Help
Turkey to Uphold Her
Treaty, Firms Stick
TO Defense Only

LONDON, June "a (UP)-
Great Britain and Soviet
Russia are agreed on mutua!
aid to fight Nazi Germany
to a finish, Foreign Secre-
tery Anthony Eden announced
amid cheers to the house of COM
mons today
Increasing material and moral
aid from America to 'overwhelm
and crush Nazi power" has been
indicated anew, Eden continued
while Finland has given assurances
that she intends to maintain
purely defensive position and Tur-
key again has promised that her
treaty with Great Britain is intact
Endorsing the statement of Unit
ed States policy as outlined by
Undersecretary of State Sumner
Welles, Eden referred to the return
to London of United States AM
OdSodu'l cOllll w Vltuliu III eliScN
words:
The past few days-indeed. the
past few hours-have brought
fresh indications and assurances OF
continued and increasing support
from our American friends. both
materials and moral the volume OF
which will overwhelm resistance
and crush the Nazi power
Eden backed no WelleS' state
ment that any defense against Hit
leriSm will hasten the NaZi fuehr-
er'S downfall.
TO OCCUPY SYRIA
LONDON, June "a (UP)-Prime
Minister Winston Churchill tolt
the house of commons today that
the British high command in Syria
had been given authority to launch
an "all out offensive to occupy the
country as quickly as possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-24
British, Free French
Said Advancing

VICHY, June "a CUP)--A com
munique from Beirut reported to-
night British and Free French forces
have broken French defenses north
and west of Damascus and are now
advancing upon Kayak. Beirut and
HONS.
The communique reported tn
Free French forces named Gen. lie
Gentilehomme, governor at Damas-
Gus. He is the leader of one OF the
DeGaulle columns OPT ating IN
Syria.
The communique reported Pal
myra had been encircled and placed
under siege by a British column
which crossed over from Iraq.
British naval bombardment OF
Damour, south Of Beirut, was re-
ported in progress,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-24
Red Troops Taking
Offensive, Say
Ankara Reports

ANKARA, June -(delayed) -
UP)-Military quarters close to the
Axis said tonight Russian forces
are taking the offensive against
German troops at many points on
the long front"
These quarters asserted that the
Red army was employing blitzkrieg
tactics against the German forces.
The tactics were said to be very
similar to those being used against
Russia by the Wehrmacht.
Military informants said that Rus
sia did not appear to be employing
the strategy of delayed retreat such
as was utilized successfully by the
Imperial armies at the time of the
Napoleonic invasion.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-24
Texas Oil Wells
Ordered TO Halt

AUSTIN. Tex. June "a. (UP)--
All oil wells in Texas except those
in the Panhandle field. today were
ordered shut down for II days in
July by the railroad commission
The Panhandle wells we're ordered
shut down for five days.
The July production order calls
for daily net of 1,347,926 barrels,
compared with bureau of mines
demand for 1924 900 barrels a day.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-24
Berlin Says Nazi Troops
SIashing Deep Into Enemy
Russians So Far
Have Failed TO
Halt BItzkrieg
Germans Admit Reds
Putting Up Stiff
Resistance

BERLIN, June "a (UP)-
Nazi dispatches from the
eastern front said tonight
the Red army was resisting
vigorously but that so far
the Russians had failed to halt the
German blitzkrieg offensive.
The German armies of the east
were reported to have thrust deep
into Soviet territory while the Nazi
luftwaffe blasted the Red army's
rear communications and air bases.
The German high command has
not yet mentioned any spectre
places and speculation on the de-
tails of the big German push ls
forbidden.
The high commands only state
ment, in a communique dated from
Adolf Hitler's eastern front head
quarters, was that the attack is pro-
crossing viii great success accord
ing to plan.
According to the reports of the
DNB official news agency and sold
ier-reporters of the propaganda
company, Soviet air losses are con-
tinuing at a terrific rate as the
Mftwaffe pounds their planes on
the ground and shoots them down
in major air combats.
The DNB and propaganda COM
pany reports indicate that major
Nazi pushes are being made in these
areas:
l. Across the East Prussian FROM
Continued on Page 2. Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-24
Oh Girls! Here's Where 70 Go If You
Want to Get Away from Competition

WASHINGTON, June "a CUP
The census bureau today Offered
some advice to lovelorn girls.
Admitting its figures should be
interesting to single girls in search
of adventure, travel and husbands" ="
the census bureau reported there
were only $685. white women in the
Panama Canal zone TO 26,971 white
men.
American Samoa, located in the
romantic" south Pacific, has a
white population of 30O-only 100
are women, leaving an open field
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-24
Suspect in Opium
Smuggling jailed

Trial in federal court was ahead
of Joe Borquez. 81. Tuesday after
he was arraigned before United
states Commissioner Dorsey White
law on a charge of smuggling mar
cotics into the United Staes from
Mexico.
Customs officers who arrested him
at Calexico told Whitelaw Borquez
smuggled in 1853 grains of yen shee
an opium derivitivc and SO grains
OF prepared opium.
Whitelaw set bail at $1,000 and
ordered Borquez held in the county
Jail at Ell Centre pending transfer
to San Diego for trial in federal
district court.