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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-12
BY ROBERT L. FREY Va-~.. 4

BY ROBERT L, FREY
 United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 New York, June 12. (UP) = The eastern arm of an Axis pincer- drive on Suez would lie across a narrow Sun-baked strip of land bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the west and the River Jordan on the east.
 This area of Syria and PaleS. tine, tho Holy Land, is perhaps the oldest battle-ground in the world. In Biblical days, these were the countries Of Phoenicia, Israel. Judah and Philistia. They formed C natural route over which Egypt to the south waged war with whatever nation was ifl power in the north, SucceSsively the Hittites, Assyrians and Babylonians.
 When Moses led the fsraeliteS out of Egypt into the Promised Land" Of Caanan, the tribes were headed for what is now the coastal plain of southern Palestine. Germany, in drive on suez, might reverse the route Of Moses.
 EAVOub 6VHFteu NewT 0uez
 The Exodus is said to have be- gun in Egypt ct Q point approxi. inateiy 50 miles west Of the neck of land now cut by the Suez Canal. Some say the 1sraelites crossed not the Red Sea itself but what is now the Great Bitter Lake," q small body of water drain- ing into the Gulf of Suez which iii turn has an outlet to the Red Sea.
 They went south on the Plateau Of Sinai and at Mount Sinai, about 200 mics from Port Said, Moses received from God the tablets it1- Scribed with the Ten Commando merts. The tribes turned north dwelt for 40 years in the northern desert. When they pressed on and finally reached Caanaii, they be- came involved in c series of wars for possession of the land, with the PhillstineS, the Caananites and PhoenecianS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-12

Tea made from orchids is beina used as cold remedy in Venezuela.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-12

had occupied 1t; during the Cru sades, Richard Occur dc Lion cap- tured it and lost t to the Saracens; Napoleon took the town irl l70o, and during the last war the British marched into Jaffa in 1917.
 On the coastal railway to Egypt, south from Jaffa, lies Gaza, ancient trade-route junction. Here Samson, blinded by the Philistines, was brought from prison to make sport for 6 great gathering. But Samson revenged himself by pull. down the two middle pillars of the temple and killing all who were there.
 Today this ancient land has become q major British strong hold in the fight for the eastern Mediterranean.
 Tomorrow: COnqWests Of Alex ander the Great.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-12

won before land and seq forces
 work. The only offensive will 4 through tho airl Why then, mAagn M seversky, do we not make air power Independent? Why don't wo aAs minister 1t through aviation experts of proven experience, krowledge and viSion7 Why do we let ourBelves continue to fly blind9
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-12
KOGUT AND RUCCIO
 GOING TO COLLEGE

Naugatuck, June l2.--The local police team which will compete in the Connecticut Conference on First Aid and Safety June 13 and i4, ia completing practices and hopes to make a good impression Saturday. The affair will be held ct the Uni~ verslty of Connecticut, Storrs, and Q number of first-aid combines will compete.
 The local team consists of: Ser. geant Anthony Farrar, captain, Pas trolmen Wilfred Evon, George Ko~ gut, George Smith and Jere Rue. cio. Chief of Police John OormIoy and Serge nt Farrar learned final plans concerning the affair ct q meeting in Hartford Tuesday.
 Tea made from orchids is beina
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-12

EDITORS NOTE: This Is the second of . series on the Middle East, battle-ground through the ages, which now is the area for another struggle, this time be- tween Britain and the Axis powers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-12
SIDEWALK PROJECT
 STARTS TOMORROW

Naugatuck, June 12. = The WPA sidewalk project will start tofnor- row on quinn street, Warden Lee Brophy said today. This work on Quinn street was started last fail but was not completed and 1t will be finished now.
 There will be other sidewalk work in various sections of the borough during the remainder of the summer, 1t Is expected.
 Mount Mckinley. loftieSt fnotiil- tain in North America, is ice plated for i4,000 feet below It's summit.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

More than 1000 signatures of In
perial county residents Monday ap-
peared on petitions asking that
local option go on the ballot at the
next general election in California.
First move in the statewide CAM
paign for local option was made
in Imperial county Sunday When
petitions were circulated at Sun
day services at 20 churches. The
petitions asked that communities be
allowed TO determine by vote wheth-
er liquor shall be permitted or pro-
hibited within their borders.
Each of the 20 churches received
two petitions with places for 80
signatures on each petition. In many
churches in the county, ministers
said, all the signature blanks were
filled Sunday.
The ministers plan to fill all pc
tons sent to them before June 8,
the Rev. DR.. George W. Thomas,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church in Ell Centro, said Monday.
I'VE plan to have in excess Of
1000 signatures TO turn in at head
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
New Milk Prices
Go into Effect in
.H Centre Nav &

A new schedule of milk prices
for consumer, middleman and pro-
ducer, was announced Monday for
Imperial Valley and will go into
effect May 25.
Fixing of the schedule was done
by the state department of agricul-
ture following a series of hearings
held in Ell Centre this spring.
Chief change in the rate is upping
the payment to valley dairymen
from 81 cents per pound of butter
fat to 81 cents for fluid milk.
Milk generally is divided into
three classes, containing four per
cent milk fat, AS per cent and five
per cent. In the past, there has
been no division. Wholesale prices
per quart were set at 8, 912, and 101a
cents. Minimum retail prices were
established at IL, liz and 121a
cents mot including bottle deposiD
and penny higher on each for
home delivery.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
Defense
Front
Active
Roosevelt Plans
Special Message.
Report Says

WASHINGTON, May 10.
UP)-Rep. Francis Case, R.,
S. D., today introduced a bill
to authorize Secretary Of
State Cordell Hull to nego-
tiate for acquisition of French pos
sessions in the western hemisphere.
1t was just one step in a day de-
voted to defense activities. They
;ncluded:
l. Senate Democratic Leader AL
ben w. Barkley emerged from con-
ference with President Roosevelt to
indicate that the President is con-
sidering sending a special message
to congress in the near future,
marking a further advance in aid
to the democracies.
2. The house passed and sent to
the senate a bill designed to stop
leakage of strategic resources to
the axis countries from the Philip
pines. The bill brings the islands
and other U. S. territories under
export license control.
3. The house passed and sent
to the senate bill permitting the
navy to build or buy So auxiliaries
total:ng $4,000 tons.
Cases bill would authorize United
States acquisition of the islands of
Martinique, Guadalupe, st. Pierre,
Miquelon in the Atlantic; Clipperton
island in the Pacific; the province
of French Guiana in South Amer
lea; and such ships, airplanes and
cargoes as the French government:
may care to SELL
Costs of the transactions would
be met from the $2,0OO,OOO,OOO sta
biliZation fund.
Under the act of Havana, adopted
by the American republics last year
the United States could take temp
orary possession of the French areas
il this hemisphere in any emergency
in which their status was threat
ened, or this action could be taken
Continued on Page 8; Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
Thousand j Sign
0ption Petitions

quarters by June g. If the petitions
were not all filled Sunday then We
will circulate them between now
and the date they must be filed with
the California Temperance FEEDER
alton with whom churches in I'M
perial county are working"
Local option was familiar during
e-prohibition days when COM
munities voted themselves wet Or
dry at hotly contested elections,
Some states were dry and some
were wet. Dry communities fire.
quently were surrounded by wet
ones and wet communities surround
ed by dry ones. Local option be-
came a thing of the past when ma
tional prohibition went into effect
during the last world war and re-
manned so during the first years
after national prohibition was re-
pealed.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

were enable to save the shop or its
contents.
The building which burned to the
ground was used to repair wheels.
Cheyenne Fire Chief Ed P. Tay
lor commented that The loss prob
ably was very great" in view o.
the fact that many pieces OF ex-
pensive precision tools were de-
stroyed when the roof and brick
walls caved i'll to bury them.
A high wind was blowing in
Cheyenne today and there was a
light rain which slowly was turning
to sleet as temperatures dropped
City and railroad fuemen, aided by
detachment OF military fire police
from ,Ft. Francis E. Warren here,
cleared the immediate area of on
lookers " the remaining walls wav-
cred in the wind and threatened to
collapse.
At Omaha, Neb., President W. M.
Jeffers, of the Union Pacific rail-
road, ordered invest cation of the
fire. Jeffers said he had been ad-
vised by the Cheyenne fire chief that
the fire undoubtedly was of incen-
diary origin,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
III lew
Strike
Called
Shipyard Troubles
Grow; Miners TO
Resume Work
BY UNITED PRESS

John l.. Lewis ordered his
United Mine Workers of AM
erica members back to work
in Pennsylvania's anthracite
coal mines Monday but a new
strike closed down $l0,000,000 worth
of navy defense contracts in Lor-
ain, Ohio, shipyards and San Fran
cisco machinists de1ied fellow un-
ionists to pass through picket lines
Wednesday,.
Spokesman for hFL and CIO
machiniStS at San Francisco, told
other union laborers planned to
resume work despite the machin
lists picket lines, Salo, they cam
build ships without n1achinists."
Lewis, president Of the United
Mine Workers of America (CIO)
ordered hard coal miners back to
work Tuesday, pending signing OF
a tentative contract agreement pro-
viding an immediate increase for
the industry's workers.
A stoppage in the anthracite in
dustry became effective Monday
although the union had issued no
formal strike call. An agreement
expired on May l, but had been
continued until May Is under two
extensions.
1t was expected that the tenta-
tive agreement would be signed i'm
mediately by the union and oper-
ators after last Minute details had
been ironed out during the day.
The operators agreed to tx per
cent wage increase fol the industry,
Continued on Page 8; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

mecnanlZeQ StaD lnCC ESypI dIlo
forced surrender of the Fascist SUI
preme command in Ethiopia.
American ambulance volunteers
and missionaries, numbering per-
haps 100, were aboard the 8,299-ton
Egyptian liner Zamzam, which is
missing and regarded as lost by
enemy action somewhere in the
south Atlantic while en- route TO
Capetown and Alexandria, No word
had been received of the fate of
the 1923 persons on the long-overdue
liner.
In Ethiopia, the Duke of Aosta,
viceroy of the vanquished italian
possession in East Africa, surren-
dered his hungry and exhausted ar
my of probably 1000 men at Amba
Alagi after a 40-day siege in which
the FaScists ran out of ammunition
and resorted to home made gren-
AIDES.
The duke, cousin OF the King of
italy and brother of the newly
designated king of Croatia, was Civ
en- permission to be the last to
leave Amba Alagi by delaying sur
render of his staff until Tuesday
The British, meanwhile, reported
they were making progress against
the comparatively few Italian troops
still fighting in the Gondar and
Jimma areas of south Ethiopia.
NAZIS LEAD ARABS
In Syria and Iraq, the Baghdad
radio claimed that Arab forces (noW
repeatedly led by Germans and
backed by Axis airpidnes and pos
sibly air-transported troops had
attacked in the Rutbah sector and
pushed across the Transjordan bor-
der to strike at the British. These
claims were not confirmed else
where.
British planes Sunday again heav-
lily attacked the Rayat airdrome in
Syria at about the tir,e Gen. Henri
Dentz was declaring in a radio
speech that French forces would
be used in defense action agai..s,
British attacks on German COM
munication lines in Syria.
In North Africa, The British re-
ported they had engaged and turn
ed back two enemy columns includ-
ing many tanks that pushed from
Libya across the borcer into Egypt
south of Sollum.
Meanwhile, the apparent loss of
the liner Bamzam center attention
on the problem OF sending sup
plies from America to the Middle
Continued on Page 8; Column a.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
Showdown Near in
Drive 10 Override
County Aid Veto
Senator Now in Army
May Fly to Capital to
Cast Deciding Vote

SACRAMENTO, May 19.
(UP)-The possibility that
Col. Ray Hays might fly
from Fort Benning, Ca, to
cast a state senate vote to
override the governors veto of the
county control relief bill was raised
today as showdown ballot was
delayed until later this week.
Senator John Phillips was sched-
uled to bring up reconsideration
of the "a to 13 vote &c override this
afternoon but a death in his FAM
lily called him from Sacramento
until Wednesday. Hays, senator from
Fresno county until called into ac-
tive military duty with the national
guard, was represented as willing to
fly here if his vote was needed.
Phillips needed three votes to
override the governor. Thomas Ku-
chel of Anaheim has returned after
an illness, Jack Meter of Red Bluff
repeatedly will switch from NO
to yes" and Hays would have the
deciding vote. The attorney general
has ruled that he is no longer in
the senate but the issue is without
precedent and undoubtedly would
have to be settled IN court.
There was likelihood the recon-
sideration would be placed on the
inactive file until Phillips returns
to handle the bill. Even if the
senate should succeed in overriding
the governor, Olson administration
supporters were confident that
county control advocates could not
pick up the required IL additional
votes needed in the assembly.
There was doubt the senate fin
ance committee would finish its
budget reviSions by tomorrow.
The senate transportation COM
mlttee revamped the Garrison speed
limit bill over his opposition to
Continued on Page 8, Col y .
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

"a SlOChy DuCAohlli WV
horse and an urpretentiOuS
gray were the heroes Monday
of the ride to Riverside.
The two Imperial Valley
ponies, short on pedigree but long
on stamina, carried their riders,
Rodney Clark of FL Centre and
Charles Wigg of Brawley, over the
long trail of de ANA without fall
ter.
IT a horse can put snicker into
nicker, the buCkskin and the
gray had that right, for virtually
all of the thirty odd horses that
made the trip from Plaster City to
Riverside last week called it quits
at one time or another. All, except
the buckskin and the gray.
THE toughest time was the first
day. c. Galloway Of El Centre, one
of the riders, recalled. Our water
truck had a blowout and failed to
meet us. Some of the horses were
without water from 5 am. until
after 5 O'Clock that night
CalloWay'S mount went down, as
well as number OF others, in mid
afternoon. He walked the last few
miles, leading the hcrse.
FIRST CAMP
The first nights camp was at
Borego hotel and water was scarce
until the water truck finally ar
rived. Before that, the riders man.
aged to get a five-gallon water can
from rancher and doled it out
to men and beasts. During the day
the mA, also, were snort of water
when meager supplies in canteens
were exhausted.
There were no casualties among
the men, however, with the excep-
ton of one Riverside rider who
shifted from his horse to the truck
for brief period of rest
Desert heat the inst day was
not unbearable because of a vino
and the second day the riders were
gaining altitude. That day, Mon
day, they lunched at Borego Springs
and camped that evening at the
foot OF Coyote canyon.
KEPT SCHEDULE
The cavalcade OF riders reached
Riverside on schedule at 3 pm. Fri
day and took part in the Riverside
ANA celebration.
Next year sponsors hoped to
schedule the ride earlier in the
season, probably in mid-April. Pre-
liminary plans were to start the
Calexico Cavalcade a week in ad-
vance Of the de Anza celebration
and link the two events together
with the horseback ride over the
trail that the Spanish explorer took
more than $50 years ago.
Among those who made this years
trip were Calvert Erwin, captain
E. j. Bacon, D. E. Gilliand, Carl
Lerch, Leroy Wardlow, l.. E. Brown
Corliss Wilkinson, T. E. Jorgenson
Harvey j. Ellis, DR.. j. Caldwell. DR.
Karl H. Kortheure, Dale Slaughter
Herbert Kalback, r. H. Mennes
Jerry Cooper, Eugene F.. Binder
Wigg, Oscar Smith, Clark, Rex Es-
tredillo, L. D. Phillips, Jack Neel
Thomas l.. Clay, T. B. Davies, Gallo
way.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

SULLIVAN SSlu JliC piCoCilo CAICo%
profits tax fails TO reach many
corporations which are making sub
stantial profits on defense work
The present tax is 25 to so per
cent OH profits In excess of those
made in certain base periods.
Sullivan estimated that more
than O0O00,00O would be raised
through broadened excess profits
and corporation income taxes. Under
the treasury's original tax increase
plan the net revenue from these
two sources was estimated at $793,-
100000.
Sullivan, speaking the tax senti-
ments of the administration. said
the base should be broadened or
the excess profits tax should be
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

troop "A of Holtville; troop 81 of
Westmorland; troop SO of Somer-
ton; and troops So and SO of Yuma
Among the most popular dem
onstrations were those of Scouts
rendering first aid in case of emerg-
ency, conveying messages across
open country by Morse and sema-
phore codes, and knot tying. Fem
mime visitors showed most inter
est in the Scouts engaged in their
housekeeping and cooking activities
The Camporee was organized and
conducted under the camping and
activities division of the local Scout
council headed by George Cutshaw,
chairman. Corn Reed, Walter Kretz.
Gift Randolph, HIT. Martin, Travis
Smith, James Mackie and Clifton
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
Scouts Demonstrate Work
At Annual |. Y. Comporee

More than 300 Boy Scouts and
leaders this weekend gave an i'm
pressive display of peacetime pre-
paredneSS at their annual Camporee
in Holtville city park.
Hundreds of Imperial and Yuma
Valley residents witnessed the en-
campment and watched Scouts
representing 16 different troops from
eight communities demonstrate their
ability to take care of themselves
and others under emergency con-
ditionS.
Troops winning citations for pro-
ficiency included troops 70, II. 72
and 70 of Ell Centre; troops 81, %,
and 81 of Brawley; troops /, 5, and
9 of Calexico; troop 55 of Imperial;
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
BaCksIider SEips
Into San Quentin

SAN FRANCISCO, May 10 CUP
Three months ago Ralph G. Kahn,
35, pleaded for a chance to rehabil-
itate himself after pleading guilty
to forging a $40 government check.
Today Federal Judge Michael J,
Roche called Kain's case to determ-
inc whether he should 60 free or
to Jail.
Defendant cannot appear As
sistant U. S. Attorney Tom Lynch
informed the court. He is in San
quentin prison for stealing two
automobiles from the firm at which
he was rehabilitating."
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

abandoned and replaced with n
higher corporation income tax SUI
ficient ito produce the desired reve-
nue."
He advocated the broadened ex-
cess profits tax first, then offered
the higher corporation income tax
as an alternative which he said
would be "a simpler, more easily
administered plan
Large sums are Icing collected
through the present excess profits
tax. he said, but the profits of a
good many business firms are not
being touched by the tax, although
some of those profits are excess
profits by any reasonable stand
ard"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

Harkins. Scout Commissioners l.. b.
West, A. o. Rankin, Raleigh Lambe
and Robert Amstead assisted with
the direction of the various events.
The Camporee was in charge OF
Hugh NJ. Wilcox and William $.
Kenny, Scout executives. Scoutmas-
ters in charge of troops we're l.. v.
Ship, Somerton; Barney Schiller.
A. o. Rankin, Yuma; James Mar
shall, John Collins. Everett Vim
zant, Virgil Lewis. Brawley; John
Allen, Jack Gum, Nick Erickson.
Walter Price, FL Centre; Allen Wonn.
Robert Amstead. Holtyille:
Manuel Seryin, Norman Hindle,
Gene Kyle, John Rothi, Raymond
Mercier. Calexlco; and Dan Ma
honey, Westmorland.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

Authoritative sources said Britain
had found during last winters rapid
advance across Libya that desert
oases could not supply sufficient
water for large forces and the thou
sands of italian prisoners taken
in action.
Consequently, it was said, the
British requested that so CONNER
cial planes be made available for
conversion into water-carriers.
President Roosevelt recently ask
ed Federal Loan Administrator
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
4 FIiers Killed
AS Planes Collide

RAINS, s. c., May 10 CUP)-Four
army fliers were killed today when
two army planes being flown in
a formation of six from Savannah,
Ga, to Langley field, Va, collided
in midair and crashed near here.
Both planes caught fire after the
crash and three of the bodies were
reported badly burned.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
Regal Cat

If it's possible To file a suit for
alienation of affections against
cat, Sam Smiley is in the mood
to file one.
Difficulty appears to center
about "Wimpy', Persian cat who
has so wormed its way into the
affections of Mrs. Elna Smiley that
Sam senses a serious rival.
The other day Mrs. Smiley was
engaged downtown when the wea-
ther turned warm in forenoon. She
cut short her downtown engage
ment SO as to rush home and turn
on the cooler.
''Wimpy might have been uncom-
Portable" she explained.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
D AMBl'Ne
EpoRIER
AT Last, Gold

A practical idea from a blonde!
Fancy that. m -,
Unheard of as it may be, it's still
a good idea. The blonde puzzled
over congregations Of hitchhikers
on the highway between Ell Centre
and the Seeley army camp and
came up with this suggestion:
Somebody could make some
money running jitney service from
Seeley to Ell Centre and back
again.
Unless the competition of prl-
vate, free passage is too great, the
idea should work. Every time RR
drives past -Four Corners there is a
gang thumbing for a lift.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
RETURN TO WORK

GRASS VALLEY, Cal, May 10
UP)--Striking AFL miners at four
Nevada county gold mines refused
to return to work today in view
of failure of mine operators to guar
antec no discrimination against
men who left their jobs.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
Missing Lid

If Marshall Jones takes to wear
ing his hat more frequently it is
only in self defense.
The other morning he hung his
hat on a hook at his place of
business and when he went to get
it again it had vanished. Because a
suspicious character had earlier
tried to sell him a lid, Marshall
reported the loss to the police.
He called back later to explain
that it N's all a mistake. An abb
sent-minded friend had walked out
with Marshall's hat on his head.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

Jesse H. Jones to make a survey Of
commercial transport facilities TO
determine the number available
To date, it was said, Jones has pur-
chased between 20 ana 80 ships
from five-plaee cabin jobs to IA
passenger Douglas DC-2S = from
both private owners ard commercial
airlineS.
Seats and other interior furnish.
ings are being removed to make
room for water tanks.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
Carried Away

On the other hand, if you see
Dave Vencill with hat on, don't
bet that it's his own.
While playing bridge at the Elks
club the other day Dave was so
enerossed in the game that he
hardly noticed when someone play
fully rested a strange hat on his
dome. In fact, he didn't notice
anything strange until he had worn
the lid homel