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Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-27
Shoppers Beating
Santa 10 Punch
In Christmas Rush

Continued from PAGE CHtp
wouldn't kick about II.
All stores reported tnu lice
lions are. al asnpletc NOW. hoW-
ever. And thi geara m,-c&5aGie
IN Fl centric Is about ,hc maaest
quality .ylilobl2 here in many
years.
Il, has to be soad th.r wear" Il re-
taller said. addias that one Of IL
renlal ;Qblo things about r''~. II
sales Is the demand for the Wghel
qaality goods. This applies to ali
items. from refrigcrators to clothes
and pcriShables such as cosmetics.
TOY SALES HEAVY
Another unusual feature of this
years early buying is the volume
of toy sales Toys last year were
not even taken down from the
shelves at this stage of the Christ
mas shopping season, a toy depart
mcnt manager said.
But this year, We already arc
enjoying a mild boom in toys
Sales OF Womens clothes arc
running far ahead of last fall, but
shop owners said they doubted if
this was due TO the approach Of
Christmas.
1t is still too early to expect
any great volume of Christmas dress
and coat sales. this owner said,
and added that the present upswing
could be attributed to improved fin
ancial conditions.
All in all. FL Centre merchants
we're unusually optimistic for BAN
ner Christmas shopping season.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-27
ASKS TO HAVE
MARRIAGE A\\ULLED

LInwood R Green Thursday ask
ed for annulment Of his marriage
10 MARY Shindler because he sad,
he had another husband at the
time he married her i'll Yuma June
e. 1889 Her former marriage MAS
IN iogle, Green alleged. and had
no; bee ndlSSolycd by divorce.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-27
ITS NO LONGER
THAN THE MEANING

KEYKJAVIK, Nov. d up =
Linguists claim the longest word IN
the Icelandic language is:
H OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Observation-Disclosures.
1t means "a latchkey belonging to
a girl working in the office of Il
barrlster.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-27
Nozi Supply Cop
Closed by fonks

Continued from Page One
CirCled by the BRITISH at the star o..
their westward drive.
On the eastern t.ont, the German,
continued 10 gain III their encIrg.e-
mfnt drive against Moscow bat l.
a tremendous cost. Russian dispatch
os reporting isolated battles on tn
central and southern sectors lI~iea
27,000 German casualties, mos.,s
dead
The AXIS attacks continued strong-
est against the north and soarh
ends of the Moscow defense arc
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-27
Rambling Reporter

CONTINUED from Page Onel
shirt. in fact any kind of
shirt but a white one.
He always insisted that his son
wore papa's last clean white shirt
and left papa the colorcd ones.
Wednesday Clemens had a birth
day and the choir members gave
him a party and a gift.
You guessed it. 1t was a white
shirt.
Live In Hope
Eighth street residents may count
on being out of the trenches by
Christmas
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-27
Santa's Assistant
Boys Down.; Letters
Tough TO Handle

CONTINUED from Page Orr
she lives on rural route No. .. He
box number is 320-A. Betty wont
be able to come in TO town 10 s"cst
you Friday, because she has bro.,-
Ell leg.
And what do you think, boss Fl
day is her birthday. Isn't that ha9.
py coincidence? YesSir. on the fe.N
day you come back to FL Centre
Betty will be 10 years old. Darn ac-
cidents, anyhow, that break ltt!-
girls legs and spoil their birthdays
ana the chance to see Santa Claus
Betty doesn't want much to.
Christmas; just a baby doll for her
self and another one for her llttle
sister, who is years old.
FUTURE PORTENT
One OF the strangeSt requests
YOU have received, I believe, comes
from Peggy Norris, who goes t
Acacia school DO you know what
she wants? You'd never guess y
a hundred years.
Peggy wants a farm and a panda
and a doctor and nurses set.
Like I told YOU yesterday, these
boys and girls in this town are just
about the most unsclfish l have
ever run across.
For instance, Donald Dale Allen
of 547 Vine street, is only seven,
but he has the good sense Of al
American children to realize that
We in the United States are the
luckiest people in the world today
Donald Dale begs You not 70
forget the little boys and girls H
the big bad war He wants set
of tinker toys, shooting eallery. al
ARM flying field and a blngo set.
Well, that's all for now, boss
Tune me in tomorrow, and I'll tel!
you about some of the other kids
who have written to you.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-27
Congress Argues
Wage Boost Bon

The house is in recess today
committee
Thanksgiving in some statcs-but
will resume consideration of the bill
tomorrow with two major fights
expected on amendments that have
solid Republican opposition.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-27
CORRECTION

Carmen Einfrido was not amonE
The passengers in the car driven
by Beverley Burger west OF F.
Centre Sunday which overturned.
Anna Ruth Thomas. Jewell Thomp-
son ard Josephine Thompson were
BeyerleY's passengers. All escaped
critical INJURY
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-27
Scanning w
News Horizon
FILE NOTICE

4 notice Of Intention IL marry
was filed recently by Richard
WaShbarn. S. san Diego motion
prolcluonSt and Nlaty Iou Con
.ale1. -. CaleXlrO
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-27
Your Christmas gifts will be
doubIy thrilling when you
choose them here

so BEAUTIFULLY WRAPPED o.. BEARING 4 NAME
LONG Known FOR EXQUISITE QUALITY. SO
MODEST N PRICE
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-27

GIFTS FOR "HlM"
Genuine Ostrich Bill
Folds l3,OO
Hand fooled Saddle
Leather Bill Folds $50
Alligator Bill
Folds l5.OO
Combination
Lighter and Cigarette
Holder 100
Pocket Lighters by
ROnson 2.5O TO 500
Tuxedo Sets-StudS d
Links $50
Tuxedo Sets - Chain,
Collar pin, Tie Chain
and Links at 1850
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-02

GENERAL PUBLIC LOAN
$3.50 Joy, 403 Woodwork Bldg. TY. s-3321
1888 Woodward, cor. Pasadena TO. s-443o
SIS Barlum Tower So Cadillac So. CA 00e2
l4l0 David Stott. 1850 Griswold RA. 2s76
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-02

WE PAY highest cash price for your car
'35 TO Al models wanted.
GfBSON's. 5000 MACK. AT VAN DYKE
/ 900 CARS or trucks: Sl0-$200; imme-
date service. Consumers Scrap Iron
Company. Trinity 1880.
100 CARS that-are running; pay any price
Jer-s Auto Parts, 1915 Humboldt. Tyler
f-e036.
500 LATE MODEL CARS WANTED.
$500 WOODWARD
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-02
A automobiles Wanted

A CALL for junk cars nay IS to 500. We
pick up. Tyler 4-s3is.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-02

: CNRIs CRAFT, 30 roof N
MONTHS OLD
Sleeps f0uH N sold an once will include
Winter storage and Insurance until June
10, 1912 can be seen at We'll number IS.
fuUt n cta1TTU1UrF- r interested cat Sir.
schwartz. Trinity 2-3353.
CHRIS cRAFT-CHPper 1870. As houN
motor sleeps four IeeDoX. MI. 9023.
STEEL ire boat cabin 2O-ft., 500
Woods Landing, Mt. Clemens. Royal
Oak 2s6l
q FOOT -Cran-.Ututy canopy top.
s5-h. p excellent. $3.50 Tuxedo i1e7s
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-02
Trucks Wanted
Boats and Equipment

WA$T stake trucks long body. Trade or
buy. equity Cadillac 1925
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-02

80 AUTOMOBILES
Wholesale 10 all. all makee. models. 1922
Mack Murray $500
Evening star., 1941-11-30
Citizens Federation
To Start Membership
Drive in February
Four subcommittee
Named to Lay Plans
For Compoien

Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions leaders last night set Febru-
ary 81 to March / as the dates for a
drive to increase the membership of
the associations.
The 20-man special membership
drive committee met in the District
Building boardroom and named four
subcommittee to lay the ground
work for the campaign.
Under tentative plans approved
by the committee downtown head
quarters will be set up as well as a
headquarters in each individual cit
liens association area. Results of
the drive will be announced at the
annual Federation dinner March 5
and prizes will be awarded.
Wilbur S. Finch, chairman of the
committee, named Ernest F. Henry
of Petworth Association chairman
Of the Publicity and Printing Com
mittee; Clifford H. Newell of Ar
kansas Avenue Association chairman
of headquarters; Francis c. Heigle of
Chevy Chase chairman Of prizes,
and Walter F. Wasson of West End
chairman of cooperation with
member bodies.
The drive will be patterned after
those of previous years in an ef-
fort to swell the enrolment of the
more than go member associations.
The full special membership COM
mittee will meet again in two weeks
to continue work on the plans, 1t
was stated.
Evening star., 1941-11-30
Police Broadcast
Description Of Third
Bank Ho|dup Suspect
Jack Roy Named os
Man Wonted in
HyottsviIIe Robbery

Washington. Maryland and Vir-
ginia police yesterday broadcast a
complete description of a third man
wanted for participation in the $52,-
600 holdup of the Prince Georges
County Bank, in Hyattsville, Md,
last September, indicating the man
might be at large here.
With two other men already un-
der arrest for the robbery of two
bank messengers. police for some
time have suspected the identity Of
the third participant.
The lookout read as follows:
Wanted for bank robbery, Jack
Ray, alias Maynard Ray, alias Ray
Maynard. white, 30. S feet 10, 145
pounds, pockmarked face, scar on
chin, owns Z 1889 De Soto auto, Ii
cense tags N. c. 272-40S. May be
dangerous and caution should be
used in apprehending him. If Ray
or the above auto is located, notify
Capt. Robert j. Barrett. or the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation"
The aid of Washington police and
the F. B. I. was enlisted by Mary
land authorities Immediately after
the holdup. The robbers were
traced to Charlotte, NJ. c., some
weeks following the holdup and two
arrests were made.
The two men already appre-
hended, billiard Saunders, alias
George L. Thompson, and William
Leo Keefe, are scheduled to 90 on
trial In Baltimore January 5.
Evening star., 1941-11-30

printed catalogues long previously,
and couldn't change. However. some
have indicated they will take no
action II pupils skip school for duty
in the world of business, Mr.. Shaw
said.
Stores Operate Schools.
Lacking trained salespeople. the
big stores all are operating schools
Of their own, to train the unin-
itiated in selling Internal organiza-
ton Of the stores is taught. but
just as important is instruction in
how not to wound the feelings of
customers. Applied psychology"
it's called.
The salesgirls will need to learn
how to wrap packages with a bare
minimum OF paper, because that is
alarmingly scarce, and its price sky
high, the experts report. Oldtime
fancy wrappings will be missing on
most packages this year, it is pre-
dicted. Cellophane has been
touched by the heavy finger of pri-
critics officials-its vital to defense,
it seems, or at least the materials in
it are.
Some who philosophize about the
present boom. which seems to be
about 20 to 80 per cent above that
of last year, believe that it is not
explained merely by the number and
prosperity Of the population here.
Evening star., 1941-11-30
Porter's Father Visits Jail Cell,
Urges Sobbine Boy to BE Brave

before the 51-year-old tax attorney
was murdered in his Peonian
Springs home seven miles from
Leesburg.
Says Car Wrecked.
The car was wrecked, according
to the boys story. Sergt. Francis
Funk quoted Porter as saying that
he and Paul Bernard Hoback, the
other youth charged with Love-
less murder, had spent the week
end in Winchester. But Porter said
that he took the car alone, and that
Hoback had left Winchester for
Leesburg earlier in the day by bus.
Police said that Porter denied any
connection with a series of petty
crimes in Winchester Friday and
Saturday nights. They added, how
ever, that they still believed both
Porter and Hoback were implicated
in the Winchester robberies. Finger
prints taken from the establish
ments robbed will be compared with
the prints of the two youths.
Porter was left in the Winchester
Jail late last night by Loudoun
County authorities en- route from
southwest Virginia, where the pair
was arrested, to Leesburg.
Evening star., 1941-11-30

the storm. He has completed ar
rangements for enrolling $500 extra
mail workers, almost doubling the
customary force. Last year he hired
1900 extra men to struggle with
cards of greeting and bundles Of
cheer. Some of the force will be
war veterans, but most will be
college boys who can pick up about
$50 for approximately As hours of
work in five hectic days from
December 18 to %. If they work
in daylight, they get IS cents an
hour, if by night nickel more.
A more vital preparation is also
being made-by the pouring Of
5000 cubic yards of concrete into
shapes which are creating an annex
to Union Station in record time.
The annex will yield an acre of
floor space for the working of
incoming and outgoing mail.
Construction Sped.
B. r. Tolson, manager of the
Washington terminal; Smith w.
Purdum, Second Assistant Post
master General, and James Lose,
jr., assistant engineer for the Penn
sylvania Railroad, were among a
group that toured the big new
building yesterday. Postmaster
Burke declared it is the fastest
Evening star., 1941-11-30
Hearing Set on Plan to Permit
Lodgings in Restricted Areas

"B: The application for such spe-
cial certificate shall contain an I'M
conditional statement that upon
the Presidents declaration of ter
mination Of the present emergency
or on December 81, 1943 (Which
ever may be the earlier), all use
of the dwelling or structure, or
any part thereof, as a lodging or
rooming or boarding house will
cease and terminate, and that the
applicant recognizes that any such
use thereafter will be illegal and
subject him to the penalties pro-
vided in the Zoning Act and regu-
lations.
&C: The certificate shall be ex-
pressly limited to said period of
emergency, but not beyond Decem-
Der 81. l943"
Will Consider Another Amendment.
At the same session, the Zoning
Commissioners are scheduled to con-
slider another amendment which
wouldspermit establishment in resi-
dential &C" and ID" areas of Offices
Of trade associations, doctors, den-
fists, lawyers, architects or other
professional persons, subject to Ger
tain restrictions.
1t would be stipulated that all
portions of any street frontage SO
used would have to be opposite a
first or second commercial or in
dustrial zone, measured at right
angle to the intervening street.
1t would be further stipulated
that no such building may be en-
larged, that no article of commerce
may be sold or displayed and that
zoning authorities must find that
the city plan. present character or
future development of the neigh
borhood would not be affected
adversely,
Evening star., 1941-11-30
Red Cross Plans Courses
For 100000 Food Aides

Plans to train 100000 canteen
aides to handle group feeding in
event of disaster or wartime catas-
trophe were announced yesterday
by the American Red Cross.
Chairman Norman H. Davis also
said another 100000 volunteers will
take courses to qualify them as nu-
triton aides to assist in the national
nutrition program.
The canteen aides, who will wear
Red Cross uniforms, will be organ
lied into units of Is, each unit ca
pable of feeding at short notice,
large numbers of people, from a
fifty-man fire fighting crew to a
hungry gathering of hundreds Of
men, women and children" it was
said. They will take a 10-hour
course in the fundamentals of food
selections, preparation and service
under emergency conditions.
Nutrition aides, who will take q
20-hour course, will help volunteers
improve the food habits of their
communities.
Evening star., 1941-11-30

construction Job in Washington. It
had to be. Senator Burton Of Ohio
told the Senate at the beginning
of October that the new facilities
must be In use by December l If
a drastic "bottleneck" were to be
averted. Two tracks were actually
put into mail use day before yester-
day, and the other three will be
filled with mail cars after De-
cember 7.
Ground was broken for the struc-
ture on October 9-shortly before
President Roosevelt had signed his
name to a bill authorizing it, Mr..
Tolson confessed. Vacuum pumps
were put to work sucking water
out of the concrete as fast as 1t
was poured. hardening it in short
order. From the building mail will
shuttle on two levels to the city
post Office, hauled by heavy-duty
tractors.
While the post office has no diff
ficulty getting emergency help, the
retail stores are in trouble about
personnel, because Christmas vaca-
tions don't begin soon enough for
them. The Merchants and Manu-
facturer,s Association, Inc, spoke
to college authorities last summer
about starting vacations earlier, SO
students could benefit. But the edu-
Gators had set their schedules and
Evening star., 1941-11-30

Public reaction to the proposal Of
the Commissioners to permit the
operation of lodging, boarding or
rooming houses in restricted resi-
Dental districts during the national
emergency will be considered by
the District Zoning Commission
at a hearing beginning at 10
am. Wednesday.
The plan was advanced recently
as means of lessening the housing
shortage for defense workers. The
Commissioners revealed then they
had numerous complaints that
roomers were being housed in re-
stricted residential zones in viola
ton of the present regulations.
The proposed amendment to the
zoning regulations would definitely
limit such use to the period of the
national emergency or until De-
cember 81, 1943, whichever time
was reached first and would stipu-
late that such use thereafter be
illegal.
Proposed New Section.
The proposed new section reads:
During the present national
emergency declared by the Presi-
dent, but not after December 81,
1943, lodging or rooming houses and
boarding houses may be permitted
in "A restricted and "A semi-re-
stricted districts in accordance with
the following conditions:
"A: No such use shall be made
of or in any dwelling or other struc-
ture or part thereof, whether now
existing or erected in the future,
unless the owner or lessee of the
building or structure applies to the
building inspector and obtains a
special certificate of occupancy for
use as a lodging, or rooming Or
boarding house.
Evening star., 1941-11-30
BY HENRY GEMMILL.

Hold your hats and pocketbooks,
the Christmas rush is on!
More money probably will be spent
in Washington stores tomorrow than
on any December l in history-and
if mercantile experts were a little
firmer in their statistics they might
be willing to predict buying stam-
pede dwarfing even the final fren-
zied hours of other Yule seasons.
Edward D. Shaw. secretary of the
Merchants and Manufacturers As
sociation, figures that $7,000,000 in
Federal pay rolls and S5,00O,000 in
private pay envelopes will be let
loose tomorrow. and that goodly
proportion of these funds will be
trundled hastily into retail stores.
The shops. for their part, will, with
considerable unanimity, begin night
seSsionS-some of them staying open
until pm. Most of the depart
ment stores are planning to keep
open five nights each week between
now and Christmas, compared to
a total of eight shopping nights
in previous years, Mr.. Shaw re-
vealed.
Don't think that this is so sudden.
AS a matter of fact. Christmas buy
ing began earlier in 1941 than ever
before.
Gift Shopping Begins Early.
Usually Christmas generosity does
not we'll up until the Thanksgiving
turkey is comfortably digested. But
this year-despite the earliest
Thanksgiving ever-gift shopping
began long before, merchants re-
port. You might think it would be
difficult for the store officials to tell
a Christmas rush from just an ordi-
nary boom in business-but, no, Mr..
Shaw says in explaining the things
people buy as Christmas gifts are
clearly distinguishable from objects
for which they ordinarily put out
money.
Just what is happening to this
immense volume of gifts is a little
uncertain. Railway Express is so
rushed with pickups and deliveries
that is has had to requisition extra
trucks from New York. but City
Postmaster Vincent c. Burke claims
his big mail factory has not yet felt
the first breeze of the tornado which
will engulf 1t.
Mr.. Burke is ready to Withstand
Evening star., 1941-11-30
By JOHN H. Cassidy, Jr.
Star Staff Correspondent.

WINCHESTER, Va, Nov. 90
Hello, SON."
oh, Dad.'
The tall, slim youth reached
through the bars of his cell and
took hold of his fathers hands.
Dad. I'm terribly sorry ="
the boys voice faltered and he broke
into sobs.
Thus began dramatic meeting
here today between 16-year-old
Herbert Buckle Porter and his
father, Herbert Porter. They had
not seen each other since the son
ran away from their Brentwood
(MdD home November 10.
Father and son talked through
the bars of cell in the county Jail
here, where young Proter is being
held as one of the alleged slayers
of Ward Loveless, Washington
attorney.
Attorney Describes Meeting.
Their meeting was described by
State Senator Aubrey Weaver of
Front Royal, Va, the boys attor-
ney, who accompanied the elder
Porter to the red brick Jail.
Tears filled the eyes of the grief
stricken father as he told his son
to "be brave no matter what hap
pened.
The boy is all broken up" Mr..
Weaver told reporters afterward.
The father had nothing to say.
He waited beside the car until Mr..
Weaver was ready, and then they
drove away.
Earlier in the afternoon, Police
Chief C. w. Hollis of Winchester
disclosed that young Porter had ad-
mitted under questioning today that
he stole q Ford sedan here last
Sunday about 11:15 am. the day
Evening star., 1941-11-30
Youth, 18, Arrested
In Shotgun KiIIino

LEESBURG, Va. Nov. 20. (Spe-
ciaD-Ellwood Atkins, 30, colored,
was shot to death this afternoon
at the home of Berkley Bowmans,
three miles from Aldie, Va.
Sheriff S. P. Alexander of LOU
doun County arrested George Lans-
downe, 18, colored, in connection
with the Staying. Atkins was said
to have been killed with . shotgun
following an argument.
Evening star., 1941-11-30
Eastern Stur Buzuur

A bazaar, entertainment and
dance will be given by the Adah
Chapter, No. Is, Order Of the East
ern Star. tomorrow in the Star Hall,
Mount Rainier, Md. Serving Of
plate dinners will begin at 4:30 pm.
Dancing will be from $50 mtil
IL pm.
Evening star., 1941-11-30
November, 1910

Totals to date 81 IS
In November, Beware Of:
I. The hours between 4 and s
pm. Six of the nine traffic vic
TINS in November last year were
killed within this tWo-hour pc
Rod.
2. Crossing a street at some
point other than a crosswalk.
Three pedestrians lost their
lives in November, l94J, while
doing this.
8. Inclement weather. Three
fatal accidents occurred last
November while it was raining
or misty.
Evening star., 1941-11-30

The prosperity of relatives back
home also must be considered Dur
ing lean years the working girls
here sent money for the mortgage.
Tomorrow they may buy an air.
Evening star., 1941-11-30

conditioned pipe for Pop" and a
doll house with all-electric kitchen
for Sally.
Movement of mail in the last days
before Christmas is likely to be
Evening star., 1941-11-30

complicated by large-scale move
ments of furloughed Army troops.
officials pointed out. Altogether,
the moral Of this story is:
Shop and mail early.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-05-03

Alpha Phi Alpha meeting. 30 al
the union. Discussion. The Annual
Alpha party
NElks Last Saturday. April %.
fsrl (Redj Reynolds. Arthur Scott.
George Cromwell. Mrs. Winfield
Ponce. Mrs. Zet'ie Delco Mr.. and
Mrs. william Dickson and Or. Dick
son motored 10 Detroit 10 attend
the Past Exalted Rulers council At
the home OF Elk Brother Murphy.
Bi3s fireman.
Mason on April p and 20.
Brothers Earl tRed) Reynolds and
Sanford Mckinney attended the
18th anniversary OF the Most Wor-
shipful Union Grand Lodge. Prince
Hall Affiliation. Elmer Wallace.
most worthy grand master Al Norih
Star Lodge No. 5. Grand Rapids,
Mich.
or particular interest 10 Ann Ar
Dor and Washtenaw County was the
election OF Earl Reynolds 10 the
station OF grand junior warden and
the appointment OF the Rev. Henry
Simmons. Brown Chapel. Ypsllanti.
10 the station OF grand chapla ain.
The elevation OF Brother Reynolds
I am reliably Informed is the first
time 81. Mays FAM has been rep
resented in the grand lodge since
Brother +. J. Lewis election some
~ years ago during thc time OF
Grand Master Campbell OF Lansing