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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23

families. Others 60 In for p
with firework displays the main
feature Of the day. But the aver
age American citizen likes best q
good home dinner with appropriate
holiday touches applied particu-
larry to the dessert course.
Ice cream. always q good party
dessert. Is perfect for the Fourth
OF July served with Sugar Cookie
Stars. For an effective CENTER
piece. as we'll as after dinner treat.
everyone will like "l776 Cake"
This Is a large square layer cake
with a luscious chocolate cream
filling spread between layers. The
date "l776" Is conferred on top with
a star In each corner. Patterns are
cut from waxed paper for l776
and four stars. Arrange this on
cake and sprinkle top generously
with confectioners sugar. Care
fully remove patterns and the EN-
craving Is done.
A wholesome dessert for the
whole family including the baby.
Is colorful Crested Cherry Whip.
When served with Sugar Cookie
Stars It's patriotic appeal Is fur
ther enhanced.
CRESTED CHERRY WHIP
1 package cherry favored
gelatin
pint hot water
Dissolve gelatin in hot water.
Pour q into mold and chill. Chill
remaining gelatin mixture until
cold and syrupy. Place over bowl of
ice: beat with rotary egg beater
until fluffy and thick like whipped
cream. Pour over firm gelatin in
mold. Chill until firm. Unmold.
Garnish with gelatin cubes. cut
from additional firm gelatin. and
mint. Serves 6. For large mold.
double recipe.
SUGAR COOKIE STARS
%, cups sifted cake flour
2 teaspoons double-act-
ing baking powder
teaspoon salt
Il cup butter or other
shortening
cup sugar
: eggs, well beaten
teaspoon vanilla
Sift -four once, measure. add
baking powder and salt. and sift
again. Cream butter. add sugar
gradually. Dreaming until light.
Add eggs and beat well. Add vanil-
la. Add flour, In small amounts.
well after each addition.
Chill. Roll is inch thick on slight
ly Toured board. Cut with Toured
cookie cutter In star shapes. Dec
crate. using white or colored sugar.
Bake on ungreased baking sheet
In hot oven 400 degrees FD 10 to
IL minutes. Makes 3 dozen.
1875 CAKE
cups sifted cake flour
teaspoons double-act-
ing baking powder
teaspoon salt
2/3 cup butter or other
shortening
cups sugar
eggs, unbcaten
IL. cups milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
To sifted flour add baking pow
der and salt. and sift together
three times. Cream butter thor.
'ughly. add sugar gradually. and
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23

Haven't you
noticed h o "
radiant y o u
| o o k in Q
beauty S h o p
and how pal
lid In a dem
lists c h a ir =?
The youthful
singer explains
that the diff
ference In eff
fectS Is almost
entirely due to
II g h t 1 n g
B e q u ticians
are trying to
O, &c
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23
Home.Sickness
At Camp Can
Be Cured

BY JANE HERBERT COWARD
IF YOUR child has never been to
= camp before. and you are PLAN
ming to send him this year. home
sickness Is q problem which you
may have to contend with. But II
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23
1916 Cake or Cherry Whip
Are Good July 4 Desserts
BY JUDITH WILSON

WITH the nation a out for democracy the spirit Of 76
marches shoulder to shoulder with the spirit
bigger and better independence Day celebrations
Fourth Of July picnic Is matter Of tradition In
families Others In for porch parties and lawn parties
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23
Don't Spill Tears Over
Drab Home-Spill Paint
By MARIAN MAYS MARTIN

NO MATTER how drab ones surroundings bring
color into them and color is what need Houses out
my way, like the gardens around them, have into
bloom They with chinz and gay with manner
painted pieces wall and They cheer
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23
Colored
Lights Help
In Makeup
BY JACQUELINE HUNT

"CLEVER makeup today Is
not done with mirrors:
IT'S done with lights" says
Novotna, lovely new star Of
the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany. Let an ordinary table lamp
or q regulation pocket fiashlight
help pick your best cosmetic col
ors and show you how to apply
your makeup" she advises.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23
housewife Can Celebrate July By Serving Up Real
Going to Let Your Child
Be Manned This July 4?
BY CLAUD NORTH CHRIsMAN. MD

Fourth OF July upon us and with 1t Will come reports
Of death injury by fireworks and explosions Since
1887 American Medical Association has each
piled of injuries resulting from the celebration
With the Fourth of July From 1902 to 1916 they
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23

and after taking. and tinkling
glasses for iced drinks, and such
things as help Us to forget darken.
ing skies.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23

publiShed similar reports. but these
we're discontinued because Of the
decrease In such injuries. Then
there came q great increase and
they have taken It up again. Since
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23

simple. effective Family dessert for the Fourth Of July
Crested Cherry WHIP made Of sparkling red cherry
ssstin Halt Of the mixture poured into the mold and chilled
first Then tho other hsf which has been beaten fluffy end
thick poured Il. For ssrvns tho firmly chilled unnoldsd
dish esrnshed with gelatin cubes end sprays Of mint Star
shaped sugar cookies 90 we'll with this.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23

full and right for modern living,
not dark and solemn like the old
Victorian mansard- roofed AFFAIR."
with lace ct all the win d ows
heavy lace shutting out the light.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23
Short Cuts

Honey and milk drinks viii help
build up the underweight child.
Beat an egg with 3 tablespoons Of
honey. Add this to q pint Of milk
and mix thoroughly. Serves 2.
When pressing linens. keep
= damp cloth handy. Rubbing
dried out places with Il before
applying the iron will give IN
even finish.
When you shop for q pairing
knife remember that the blade Of
q good knife Of this description
runs through the center Of the
handle and Is fastened by rivets.
To remove machine Oh
stains, use cold water and
soap. Rub the Stain With
turpentine ana then wosA eul
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23
Copyright. 1871. BY Foirchle.

Copyright. 1871. by Fairehae.
A very esy and youthful
design is offered for sports.
wear. u is . squared. sec.
fieneI bonnet. developed in
youthful peasant fashion OF
mepesSne o. bieoler felt. The
seftless isinsd BY crochet.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23
FOURTH OF JULY DINNERS


FOURTH OF JULY DINNERS
Baked Virginia Ham
Green Peas In Cream
Glazed Carrots
Mashed Potatoes
Salad Bowl
Crested Cherry Whip
Sugar Cookies Coffee
Tomato Juice
Roast Chicken, Celery Stufflng
Broccoli. Lemon Butter Sauce
Riced Potatoes
Lettuce Salad with
Cranberry Jelly Stars
1776 Cake Coffee
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-23

10 siited hour add baking pow
der and salt, and sift together
three times. Cream butter. thor.
ougl,ly. add sugar gradually. and
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
Hasfain Named on
Nine Committees

Harvey Haistain of BraWley, new
S a t e assemblyman for Imperial
county, held positions on nine leg
islative committees, including the
important Ways and Means COM
mittee, the United Press reported
from Sacramento Wednesday,
Assembly Speaker Gordon Gar
land announced appointments which
showed Haistain had been named
to the following groups:
Agriculture. Contested Elections,
Education, Exhibitions and Fairs,
Irrigation, Labor and Capital, Roads
and Highways. State Grounds and
Parks and the Ways and Means.
Last named was considered par
ticularly important at this time
with the prospect of friction devel-
oping between the governor and
the legislature. In that event, the
Ways and Means committees pow
ers is deciding upon rules of pro-
cedure and precedents would be
significant.
Senate copmittee appointments
have not yet be released.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
Winter Weather in
New Form Here

Winter weather came to Imperial
Valley in new form Tuesday night
as temperatures fell to freezing
levels in coldest sections Of the
county.
Woodrow c. Jacobs meteorologist
predicted clear skies for Wednos-
day night and Thursday except for
occasional high scattered clouds.
Light frosts were forecast again
Wednesday night.
Frosty weather was also reported
II other sections of the state and
Ii northern states. Highways were
glazed in some sections where rain
and snow mad preceded the cold.
The cold was particularly severe
In the New England region and a
gale of ll6 miles per hour velocity
was reported blowing atop Mt.
Washington. N. H, where the mer-
curry had fallen to 30 degrees below
zero.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15

!. He told the mouse 1Orelgn AFFAIRS
comnUttee that a German move
against this hemisphere, particular
ly across the south Atlantic, would
be an easy matter unless we are
prepared to do what Britain is do
ing now"
Hull was the first witness as the
committee opened hearings on the
historic measure in an atmosphere
surcharged by the personal exchange
yesterday between President Roose-
welt and Sen. Burton K. Wheeler.
D., Mont, leader of the opposition
forces.
Hull told the committee that the
American people were more united
on aid to Great Britain than on
any other subject" He said that this
nation must not be deferred or
diverted" by German threats from
giving aid Ito the victims of ag-
greSsion.'
He condemned Germany's "ef-
frontery and cynicism' in holding
that the proposed British-aid meas
ure violated international law -
particularly those provisions which
would permit British, Greek or Chi
nese warships to be serviced and
outfitted in American ports and
outlying bases.
Rep George Holden Tinkham. r.,
Mass, read to Hull statement con-
demning the bill as setting up
dictatorship in the United States.
Il imagine" Hull said, that the
author of that statement will be
reading it when England is con-
quered and South America is in
vaded without any thought of do
ing anything about the situation.
The bearded Massachusetts rep
| resentative asked Hull if the bill
meant that I'VE have abandoned all
neutrality"
Hull replied that his country had
tried and failed to uphold interna-
tional law by agreement, and that
the law of elf-preservation has
begun to assert itself
Asked whether he considered the
pending measure absolutely neces-
sary for the defense of the United
States" Hull replied.
Il have been unWllllngly driven
to the consideration to which you
refer"
The hearings began against a
background of bitterness between
President Roosevelt and Wheeler.
leader of the opposition.
Capital veterans could not recall
in recent history more bitter de-
-. L
gress by president.
Wheeler said on the radio Sum
day night that the administrations
bill to make the United States the
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
L.V. Highway Group
Asks State 10 Take
Over Three Routes

Main objectivcS of the Imperial
County Highway Development as
sociation include plans for get
ting three more sections of road
into the state highway system, men,
bers decided at their meeting this
week.
First for inclusion in the state
system is the 12-mile stretch from
the underpass on U. S. highway
80 half a mile east of Winterhaven
to Laguna dam. The Niland-Blythe
sector of the International -Four
States Highway and the Calexico
cutoff from Darous corner to the
mountains were placed second and
third.
J. M. Wagner, president OF the
Bard Irrigation district, declared
that the Laguna dam road now is
an important artery for tourists
and Imperial Valley residents Wis
iting the dam and its maintenance
was too expensive task for county
road district crews and equipment.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15

OIiltT pOlilJS Ill ATIZOIld.
Largest single delegation was ex-
pected from San Diego but this
may be overshadowed by the Yuma
visitors.
Prominent among the visiting Elk
officials will be Robert S. Reding-
ton, president of the California
Elks association, Leslie F. Rogers,
Of BraWley, state vice-president,
Carl Hase of Ontario, district dep
uty Grand Exalted Ruler, l.. A.
Lewis, past state president, Jere
Sullivan Of Los Angeles, Exalted
Ruler of Lodge 80, district deputy
Grand Exalted Ruler R. N. Camp
bell of Arizona south, A. N. Kelley
of Yuma, former Exalted Ruler and
Sam Dunaway, past Exalted Ruler
of the Ell Centre lodge, now Of
Pacific Beach.
Special significance will be at
tached to the visits of Kelley, Dun
away, and Lewis. Kelley presided
at the El Centre lodge institution
ceremonies just Is years ago. Lewis
also was present and took part and
DunaWay, then OF Ell Centre, is a
charter member of the Ell Centre
lodge.
Dinner at tLas fodge rooms will
be served as part OF the celebra-
ton.
Besides visitors from other coun-
ties, large delegations were antic-
ipated from the Brawley and CAL
exico lodges. Both were sponsored
by Ell Centre No. 1925.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15

Marshal Hermann Goering'S crack
dive bomber squadrons already are
attempting to close the 87-mile
gap of water between Sicily and
Africa through which British men
of war, troops and supplies must
funnel from the western Mediter-
ranean.
Reports circulated from Budapest
that Adolf. Hitler and Belito Mus
solini would meet soon with thc
French naval and army chiefs,
Admiral Francois Darlan anG
Charles Huntziger.
Object Of the conference Woul6
be new attempt to obtain France's
vital naval bases on both sides OF
+ b C Mediterranean, particularly
Toulon in France and Bizerte in
North Africa, and, possibly, the
remnants of the French fleet.
If Nazi dive bombers and Fascist
submarines could operate from Tu-
nisia as well as Sicily and Italy's
Gibraltar-like island of Pantelleria
which lies 81 miles from Sicily and
35 miles from Africa in the center
CT tho narroWs the British might
be forced to abandon the Mediter-
railean supply route.
So far, while commercial ship
ping has been diverted to the long
and costly route around the Cape
of Good Hope, Britain's over
Whelming naval predominance in
the Mediterranean has enabled her
to pass military conveys through the
inland sea under protection Of the
Independently operating western
sid eastern Mediterranean fleets.
The western British fleet is based
On Gibraltar and the eastern fleet
at Alexandria.
London buZzed with reports that
Britain shortly will step up the
tempo Of her war effort in the
eastern Mediterranean. II was sug-
gaster that an expeditionary force
nay come to Greecc's aid in AL
ban!a. Thus far British assistance
to Greece has been limited to
small Royal Air Force squadruls,
antlaircraft units and naval help.
The British admiralty revealed
Tuesday in it's report of the first
great dive-bomber-w warship battle
Off Sicily that it was fought in the
course of conveying an important
shipment of material to Greece. In
this combat the British suffered
damage to cruiser, an aircraft
carrier and a destroyer while sink
Ing an Italian torpedo boat and
bringing down IL enemy planes. La
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
= AMBlINe
@\ep0R1eR
Complaint Dept

Once in a great while for some
mysterious reason that science sc
far has been unable to foresee, Ma
ture Skips beat and fails to live
up to the rules. There just isn't
any accounting for it. The plan
cts make a U-turn or a faithful
comet does a wing over and there
it Is.
In just such a category of catac-
lysms rests the monstrous boner in
Tuesdays column. About in every
eon-Well we'll come down to a
decade but not a minute below that
we make a mistake. In this
case it was brainstorm
Why in the name of all that
is unholy we wrote the name of Jack
Davis instead of Jack Harris we'll
never know, but there it was in
eight-point type as the leading
character in a little yarn about a
sunshiny gentleman who helped a
trio of youngsters sell some tickets
at the courthouse.
This morning we received note
from Jack Harris, quite justly de-
manding:
May I inquire who in hell is
stealing my stuff"
Jack, hang it all, guess we stole
it. We know darn we'll Jack
Davis wasn't responsible. He was
just an innocent party that we
picked up somewhere in the cob
webs of our cranial cavity and pro-.
jected into the limelight.
Go do it over, Jack Harris, and
we'll try again.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
Personal Weather
Service Described

ST. LOUIS, Jan. Is. CUP)-Per-
sonalized weather forecasting was
described today by DR.. Irving P.
Krick, meteorologist of California
Institute of Technology, before the
United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable
Growers association convention here.
Krick, director of an industrial
weather service at Pasadena, Calf,
said the new method of forecasting
was designed to protect every un-
dertaking involving a risk of the
Weather-from a housewives Mon
day wash to the production sched-
ule of an ice cream manufacturer.
In time such forecasts will be
available for areas from a few miles
square to half the nation, even for
months in advance but much more
accurate than the old fashioned
yearly weather almanac.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
?
Just
Ducks
Alarmed Residents
Mistake Blasts
For Big Crackup
BY MARGUERITE BROOKS

A flash in the mountains
toward Calipatria! A loud
explosion. Three red flares
cascading through the night
sky.
Special Officer Robert Juvenal
of the Brawley police department
rubbed his eyes and blinked as he
stared toward the general direction
Of Calipatria early Wednesday
morning. The flares were just dy-
ing out. Bombs Explosions
Planes E.
There must be plane crash.
We must do something" he painted
as he rushed into police headquar-
ters.
The hunt was on. BraWley police
called the county sheriff's office at
Ell Centre. Deputy Sheriffs Guy
Wood and Frank Raney were sent
to investigate.
Juvenal and the deputies weren't
the only living things disturbed by
the flash, the explosion and the
flares.
Hundreds and hundreds of ducks,
valued by hunters who like to shoot
them and hated by farmers because
they destroy crops, honked wildly
as they rose in the darkness in great
clouds OF flapping wings and flew
away. The flares and bombs did it.
State game department crews
and farmers were busy soaring
ducks, the officers discovered. They
set off bombs and fired tracer bull
lets into the flocKs TO make the
ducks rise from the grain fields
and fly away, preferably to the
lCaIltinund nlo pana . Col %
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
London Prof Kills Wife
In War Nerves Murder

LONDON, Jan. Is. CUPP)-Prof.
Arthur Lloyd James, internationally
famous phonetics expert, was re-
manded in custody for nine days
today on the charge that he stab
bed his musician wife to death in
Great Britain's first war nerves"
murder.
James and his wife had suffered
severely from shock after narrow
escape from death in a pre-Christ-
mas air raid, and both had been in
a hospital
Divisional Detective Inspector OK
land quoted James as saying after
his arrest yesterday:
'T thought my powers We're fail
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
NAzIS COULD Invade us. HULL DECL ARES
Found on Desert

YUMA, Ariz.. Jan. Is. up
Authorities today sought to
learn the identity of a 30-year-
CID man, an apparent amnesia
victim, who was found bruised
and near collapse yesterday in
the wild desert country near
Araby, west of here.
Only clue to his identity was
q message from Sheriff V. l..
Shay of San BernardinO county,
Calf, saying the man answered
the description Of Bill Gordon,
missing frCm his San Eernar-
dino home.
In the mans packets police
found key case containing a
temporary California autOmo-
Lille drivers license issued Jan.
10, 1888, to Mrs. Marion Violet
Garden Of Barstow, Calf.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
Desert Gives Up
Bones B|eached by
Weather 10 Years
Human Remains Await
Identification After
Discovery Near River

Human bones and shreds
of rotted clothing bleached
for five or 10 years on the
desert in eastern Imperial
county Wednesday awaited
identification in Ell Centre.
The pitiful reminders of a desert
tragedy were collected by Sheriff
Robert w Ware and Deputy Sher-
iff Robert Parrish after a harrow
ing 83 mile drive southwark from
Blythe Tuesday and a mile walk
through the boulders and sandy
wastes of Julian wash. They we're
Continued on Page 2, Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15

crS Will pltcn IN TO reconstruct Jne
building, damaged by earthquake
last May and since condemned for
occupancy. They expect to have
the new building completed in two
Weekends.
The real story, however, goes back
to about 1888 when home depart
mcnt women first built the struc-
turc, with SERA assistance, on the
school grounds. 1t was a rustic
adobe structure with bamboo roof
and served as the community's re-
creation center and later as a school
room during crowded months as
we'll as school cafeteria.
Through the years the women
had raised money here and there,
a bit at a time, and financed i'm
provements. A new roof was put
in and the windows installed. The
newest project was to raise money
for a ceiling, but the earthquake
put stopper to that. The building
was so damaged that school authori-
ties condemned it. 1t has been idle
since then until few of the women,
including Mrs. N. l.. Wray, Mrs.
L. N. Backus and Mrs. L. M. Crum-
rine, took the lead in a reconstruc-
ton program.
Mrs. Wray's husband, who is pres
ident of the Building and Construc-
ton Trades council of the valley,
was helpful in this regard. He help
ed marshal the skilled labor. r.
VanBuskirk also was active. He will
supervise the job. Support was CIV
Continued on Page 2, Col. s.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15

opponents; each group IS topheaVy
with -OlsoniteS. Not one ad-
miniStration Democrat is on the
powerful ways and means commit
tee of 81, nor is there a represen-
tative of the governor on the rules
committee.
The lone administration member
in key post is Cecil King of Los
Angeles, chairman of the military
affairs committee. but the remain
der of his group is solidly anti
Olson. King was Olsons choice for
assembly speaker, post which
went to Garland.
Although the vital reapportion-
ment committee which will adjust
the 80 assembly seats and the three
new congressional districts, con-
tanned l9 men unfriendly to Olson
Continued en- Page 2, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15

wounds at the James Hampstead
villa yesterday
1t was understood that a tele-
phone call from someone as yet un-
identified sent police to the villa.
Oxland said Mrs. James body
was lying in the drawing room OF
the villa. He said he found fork
and a poker in the house and
James, when arrested in the din
ing room, had blood ON his shirt
cuff and under his finger nails.
We were so happy" he quoted
James as saying first. Il wanted
her to die while she was like that.
I had been in nursing home with
a nervous breakdown. We were so
happy"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15

george Robinson OF Yuma on The
under side of an almost horizontal
ly jutting slab of rock in the Buck
skin mountain area of western Ari-
Zona.
To prove his discovery to skeptics,
Robinson took a group of paleon-
tologically-minded friends to bend
back their heads and gaze at the
tracks directly above them. They
found not only the bird tracks but
imprint of deer hooves and hoof-
marks resembling those of a horse.
They could advance only two
theories.
l.-That the bird and the other
animals really walked around with
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
Opium Smuggling
Suspect Nabbed

CALExICO, Jan. 15.-Ten bin
dies of opium which customs Off
GERS said they found Mark Anthony
Bond. So, carrying Tuesday night
when he walked across the Mexi-
can border at Calexico, were held
as evidence against him Wednes-
day.
Customs officers said Bond used
the drug and peddled it also. He
said he had been in Imperial coun-
ty about two weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
DISTRICT ELECTION CALLED

Directors of the Imperial Irri-
cation district Tuesday afternoon
officially called a general election
for Feb. and named polling places
and officers
Polls will be open from 6 a. m.
until 7 p. m. Three directors will be
named, one in Division One. anoth-
er in Division Three and a third
in Division Five