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Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-10

Don Ruby's at Boulevard.
Making their summer home at
Bankhead Springs are Mr.. and Mrs.
James Anderson of Ell Centro and
Mrs. Grace Dixon. Others there are
Mr.. and Mrs. George Swami of Ell
Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-10

Donald Cranston who is now in
Los Angeles, was recent visitor in
the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Gene Imler enter.-
tanned at dinner Sunday night, Mr..
and Mrs. r. P. Ostrander and Glenn
Killingsworth.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-10

4-Hour Enamel = Reduced
from $1.19 quart. Serves
every need! One coat gives
thorough coverage. Choice
of brilliant colors. Rapid dry
ing, and long wearing.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-10

William Donahue spent the July
Fourth holiday with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. John Donahue at ia
cumba.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Mumn1ies Ousted for War Refuqe
Antiquities Expert Disturbed by Curessness
Of Eeyptions in Seeking Haven From Bottle

out IN the desert. he said. Maybe
the distressed populace could fit in
there. So they went and looked
and presently the sands were strewn
with sundry well-preserved mum
mics, evicted from their cells after
a tenancy of hundreds of years.
Local people haven't the right at
titude toward mummies." the anti
quarian explained. They didn't
understand what they were doing
and now probably we'll never know
the names of those people who were
buried here"
Mighty tough observed the
major.
Identifies Tomb Occupant.
well. it might be worse" said the
expert, Frightening. Il can tell you
that the name of the man who built
this tomb was Ammon. He was a
Greek who must have lived here
30th dynasty. when the Greek and
Egyptian civilizations were blending
The paintings on the walls show
that he had white skin and brown.
curly hair. His wife, who is pic
tured with him, had dark skin and
dark hair
over there, in the gallery just
across the rise, we've found another
chamber, probably occupied by his
wife's relatives, many Of whom seem
to have been warriors. They're all
mummies.
1T seems odd. doesn't it. that war
should bring us such fine collection
of people, dead for so long a time?"
Unusually late, I call it" said the
officer, and he drove out into the
dust
tCopyrisnt, 1e4l, Chicago Daily News Inc }
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Radio Range Is Blamed
For Utah Plane Crash

BY the Associated Press.
The Civil Aeronautics Board said
today that 'malfunctioning' of the
Salt Lake City radio range was the
probable cause of the crash of a
United Air Lines plane near Center
vile, Utah, November 4. 1910, which
resulted in the death of 10 persons.
Substantial contributing factors
to the accident, the board said, were ::
/. Failure of the communications
operators at Tintic. Plymouth and
Salt Lake City, whose duty it was
to monitor the range, to detect its
malfunctioning and Immediately
notify those concerned"
z. The failure of the pilot ito fol-
low to the fullest extent established
radio range technique in accordance
with the requirements of the pro-
cedure established by United and
approved by the Civil Aeronautics
Administration
The board recommended that
study be made by the Civil Aero
nautics Administration of the COM
ponents of the Salt Lake City range
in order to determine the reason for
the demonstrated effects of particu-
lar atmospheric conditions upon the
functioning of the range; and that
the knowledge gained from such
study be used to improve the stabil-
ity of the Salt Lake City range and
any other range where similar con-
ditionS exist
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Bees President Denies
Any Sale Negotiations
BY the Associated Press.


BOSTON, Feb 8.-PreSident Bob
Quinn of the Boston Bees said today
that club officials had carried on no
negotiations with Casey Stengel.
Bees manager. for the sale of the
club.
He said reports that Stengel and
others were enlisting support to
buy the controlling interest in the
club from Charles F. Adams looked
to him like a lot of bologna"
The Bees president added. how
ever, that Max C. Meyer. Brooklyn
manufacturer, mentioned as being
interested with Stengel in the pur-
chase, was very good friend of
Stengel."
He said that during the last world
series he was informed that Meyer
had promised Stengel financial sup
port if he was interested in buy
ing the Bees. but, he added. Meyer
was not interested, himself, in max
ing the purchase
He was interested In Stengel
personally" Quinn asserted. They
became acquainted while Stengel
was in Brooklyn, and they have been
close friends since. Meyer was with
us in Bradentown last spring and
he will be down there again this
year"
Evening star., 1941-02-08
BY ROBERT J. CASEY,

Chiosso Daily News Foreign CORRESPONDENT
ON THE LIBYAN FRONT. Feb. 8
The man from the Department
of Antiquities was less concerned
with the noises of battle than under
the circumstances seemed quite de-
cent. There was war still going on
somewhere in the vicinity-you got
the general idea from the transport
that Rugged the coast road and
darted off, haphazardly, across the
fiat parts of the sandy waste: you
got the idea from the activities of a
few sappers, scattering the remnants
of buildings that had survived the
bombardment long enough to be-
come menace to life and limb.
They had always been that, any,
way. said the man from the Depart
ment of notwithstanding build
ings took a toll in these parts that
would make the battle look like a
dandruff epidemlc-but no matter II
explosives were going off, now and
then, and red warning flags were
waving in the so-called streets, and
there were some new troops headed
northwest to take over the job of
guarding an oasis, said to be filled
with fresh water and Italians.
War No Novelty.
Battles" said the antiquarian.
why worry about battles here?
There have been battles all over
these premises for thousands of
years-Alexander the Great came
here-So did the Romans-a lot of
troops were dried up in the desert
trying to cut into the Nile Valley
the hard way. 1t is no novelty and
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Lease Lend Bill Means Wal
For U. s., Capper Declares
B. ttt Associated Press.

By IT. associated = PreSs.
Senator Capper. Republican, OF
Kansas contended today that en-
actment of the lease-lend bill would
put the United States into the
European war in spite of every
thing we can do"
In an address broadcast by the
Columbia Broadcasting System, the
Kansas Senator said last night he
opposed the bill because President
Roosevelt was asking Congress to
follow a course that would lead
ito disaster
Mr.. Capper. a member OF the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee, spoke under sponsorship OF the
No Foreign Wars Committee.
The bill would set up a dictator
ship, he declared, adding that it
asked "a complete surrender of the
responsibilities given Congress by
the Constitution"
TT is, in fact. a war bill" he
said, transferring to the President
war making powers which undoubt
edly belong to Congress. Right nov
the next greatest step in protecting
America is to kill this so-calleo
lend-lease - this lend-lose bill -
that really is a war dictatorship bill
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Macdonald Is Named British
Hiqh Commissioner to Canada
Succeeds Sir Gerald
Campbell; Lord Moyne
New Colonial Chief
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb 8-Lord Moyne
was appointed Secretary for the
Colonies today, succeeding the late
Lord Lloyd. and Ernest Brown was
made Minister of Health to re-
place Malcolm Macdonald, who be-
comes High Commissioner TO Can
ada.
Thomas Johnston was appointed
Secretary of State for Scotland
1t was announced that Lord
Moyne would become government
leader in the House of Lords. the
post Lord Lloyd held at his death
early this week.
It was said that authority would
be sought for Mr.. Macdonald, son OF
the late Prime Minister Ramsay
Macdonald, to retain his seat in
Parliament during his term of office
as High Commissioner to Canada,
where he succeeds Sir Gerald Camp
bell, recently appointed British
Minister to the United States
Lord Moyne has filled several
government posts since completing
a four-year term as Minister of
Agriculture in 1929. He had been
Joint parliamentary secretary TO the
Agriculture Minister for the last
wear.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
British Tanks Make Epic Trip
Over Libyon Desert to Bengosi
Column, Carrying All Own Supplies, Took
Hot Course Devoid of Water Holes

amazing drive from Tobruk out
numbered the men of the flying
columns sometimes as much as four
TO one. But the hat trick was still
good
BengaZi is a first-class seaport
with large well-protected harbor
which can be used by large warships.
Debarkation facilities for men and
supplies are good The population
of the city is estimated at 65 ,000
This portion of Crenaica is the
richest in North Africa and was an
important revenue source for Italy
It's loss, from military standpoint,
is even more disastrous for the
Italians. because it ends all chance
of sending reinforcementS and sup
plies to Crenaica by sea route. From
now on II Duce's army, if any, is
out on the hot sands
Copyright 194l By Chicago Daily News
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Woman With S56, 900 Held
To Be Insane Pauper
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WALLINGFORD. Conn, FEB g.
Although testimony established the
value of her estate at $4,000 Miss
Margaret Lee Wallace, 52-year- old
member of the silver manufacturing
family, lost her fight today against
confinement to a State institution as
an insane pauper.
Her lawyer announced he would
appeal from a commitment order is
sued last night by Probate Judge
James J. Laden.
The WomanS two brothers, NAL
colin, secretary of the R. w. Wallace
& Sons Silversmith Co. of Walhng-
ford. and Donald, had testified she
was mentally i'll and pauper.
Miss Wallace contended she owned
an estate sufficient to maintain her
privately for 90 years. but Judge
Laden ruled that in order to escape
legal classification as a pauper the
interest from the estate, and not the
principal would have to be sufficient
10 support her.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Bemidji College Head Tells
OF Plea He Back Nazis
BY the Associated Press.


MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 8.-Presi-
dent C. r. Stattgast of BemldJi
(Minn) State Teachers College, who
said he was under subpoena of a
Federal grand jury investigating DR..
Frederick Aughagen. disclosed today
he had been solicited" by DR.. Aug
hagen to support the Nazi cause in
the United States.
DR.. Sattgast said he had reported
the incident to the Federal Bureau
of Investigation.
The incident occurred, D Statt-
CAST said, after a meeting of the Ma
tional Society for Stability in,Money
and Banking in New York in De-
cember. 1887. He said DR. Aughagen
spoke on German finances and after
the meeting invited me to special
dinner and there made certain ap-
proaches to me" DR.. Aughagen, he
declared, solicited my support in
the Nazi case in the United States.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Thrilling Air Battles
Described by Texan
With R. AT. Months
Wos Hurt in BOOM. P. H
Power Dive TO Escape
German Bullets
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Tex, Feb. 8-Ta1es OF
thrilling combats in the air. of Poles
who fly like madmen and of the
interiority of older American planes
were related by Ira Lee Sullivan,
20-year-Old Texan back rom nine
months of flying with the r. A. p.
Sullivan said his fighting days
were ended by injuries received
WREN he pulled out of power dive
at nearly 300 miles an hour" to
escape Nazi bullets which killed his
rear gunner.
The Hillsboro (TexJ youth said
yesterday ne brought down two
planes while flying over France and
England.
Has Nameplate OF JunkerS.
He mad the nameplate of one. .
Junkers 80 which fell on English
soil
The other one fell in the Chan
mel and I didn't get any souvenirs"
OF all the pilots the most deadly
are the Poles said the Texan who
flew with English, Czech and Polish
Squadrons.
They f1y like madmen when they
see a German. The Polish flyers
have higher average for bringing
down German planes than any
others in the war.
British pilots were under orders
to confine their bombings TO military
ObjectlveS and avoid the center of
Berlin but sometimes q few bombs
fell in the city accidentally,s MIR,
Sullivan grinned.
Polish Gunner Does Good Dob.
Typical Of the Polish attitude tos
ward the war he related, was the
action of a Polish gunner who sc-
companled him on a bombing raid
of submarine bases IN occupied
France.
The gunner begged me 10 drop
low enough for us TO machine gun
the troops. I emptied four OF my
! forward guns at them. I looked
back and he was spraying bullets
at them over the side of our plans
as though he was handling a hose
did pretty good job of it too"
| British pilots prefer English craft
because they are superior to Amer
lean planes. Mr.. Sullivan said.
In the American ships structural
defects and motor trouble frequently
/ have cost the lives of good pilots.
In one week l saw seven English
flyers killed in American planes.
The later types Of American planes
| now arriving are all right
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Two Ordnance Plants,
To Cost $4,000,
Going Up in Illinois
$50 Farms Vacated
To Make Way for She'll
And Bomb Factories
By the Associated Press.


ELWOOD. Ill. Feb. 8.-The ring
of the carpenters hammer and the
rumble of tractors and trucks
echoed over the bleak Illinois coun-
tryside today as Uncle Sam raised a
gigantic military workshop to
toughen the sinews of national de-
fense.
Two ordnance plants costing SAT-
100000 are being built in Will
County and as result the farm folk
on a 40 000-acre tract are picking up
and leaving the soil that they and
their forbears have titled for many
decades.
Six thousand laborers, engineers
and guards-their number to be
raised to 20 900 by late spring-have
moved into the area since November
to construct the $4,000 900 Elwood
Ordnance Plant and the s33, 900 900
Kankakee Ordnance Works.
Shells to Be Loaded.
Shells and bombs will be loaded
and equipped with fuses or timing
devices at the Elwood workshop
while the other plant makes INT.
There were 450 farms on the tract
and they must be vacated by March
l. At first there were protest meet
ings involving prices, sentiment and
moving problems, but officials said
that about 80 per cent of the land
would be acquired by negotiated
agreements. The Government total
land bill will be about 5000 900.
The farm folk were especially con-
cerned about their cemeteries, but
Government officials promised not
to move them unless absolutely
necessary. The largest one will be
kept open for visitors and burials
because it lies in safety zone"
Most of the farmers who already
have moved decided to stay within
so or so miles of their old homesites.
Many gave up farming and got jobs
on the project.
Vast Changes Made.
Vast changes have taken place
overnight and but few evidences of
the pastoral scene remain. Broken
corn stalks droop IN the mldWlnter
fields, a symbol of the last crop on
lush land. An occasional COW grazes
forlornly.
A network of ITO miles OF railroads
is spreading through corn stubble
and plowed land and across country
roads. Steel mesh fence, topped by
forbidding barbed wire. knifes
through many a farmyard. perhaps
leaving the old family pump grotes-
ouely cut off from the house.
Derricks rear skyWard in place of
silos. Concrete foundations are go
ing into ground where last year
farmers planted seed, The builders
grader replaces the plow. Natures
handiwork is giving way to mans
as Mars dethrones Ceres on the
Illinois prairie.
Evening star., 1941-02-08

, I wish they would take their wars
somewhere else"
An unconvineed ma jor smiled at
him wanly.
1T looked awful" he said. The
place was all cluttered up with hu-
man remains. I was shocked when
1 first saw it. I don't like casualties
even other peoples. Maybe it was
due to our bombardment, but I
couldn't be sure. And, anyway, they
didn't seem to be recent-that'S
why I turned in the report"
The man from the antiquities de-
partment considered the situation
for moment.
Perhaps there was some good in
artillery work" he admitted. "At any
rate. we found this place. But. OF
course, somebody's stolen all the
casualties, and they probably were
very good ones-maybe a couple OF
thousand years old"
What a pity" remarked the Off
Ger, signaling to his chauffeur.
Refuge Sought In Tombs.
"All this happened in the vicinity
of the oasis of silva. south of Solum
and just inside the Egyptian from
tier. silva, which was, by turn, a
center of Greek, Roman, Egyptian
and Arab culture, had recently met
the Italians. Came the battle and
the populace ran out of their high
piled mud houses to seek refuge in
the old tombs of the Hills of the
Dead" This was the first time in
the recent history of the community
when all the living tried to cram
themselves into the graves. and half
of them were left out.
In the crisis came a goat hostler
He had found another hole, farther
Evening star., 1941-02-08
V.P. Ahearn Named 10 Post
In Air Hygiene Foundation
Pv the Associated Press,

Bv the Associated Press.
PITT S B U r G H. Feb. 8-The
Air Hygiene Foundation today an
nounced the election of V. p.
Ahearn of Washington as secretary
of the board of trustees and of
Theodore c. Waters of Baltimore
as general counsel John F Nc
Mahon was promoted to executive
secretary.
Mr. Ahearn is executive secretary
of the National Industrial Sand
Association and Mr.. Waters is chair
man of the Maryland Occupational
Diseases Commission.
Mr.. Mcmahon, former New York
City and Pittsburgh neWspaperman,
was promoted to the executive Sec-e-
taryship from the post of executive
assistant to DR.. H. B Meller, manag-
ing director.
The foundation. located at Mellon
Institute. is non-proflt organiza-
tion of industries throughout the
Nation affiliated for the conserva-
ton of employe health.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
American Grid League
Puts Club in Detroit
b. the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. Feb. S-The Amer
ican Professional Football League
today granted a franchise TO Detroit
with the understanding the club
may not start operation until 1912
due to the difficulty of finding a
playing field.
w. D. Griffith OF Columbus. presi-
dent of the league said William Dill
lon, D. Wright Douglas and Charles
P. Fisher were Interested in the new
club. Mr.. Griffith said the circuit
also was considering applications for
franchises from Baltimore and Phil
adelphia and probably would act on
them this afternoon or tomorrow.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Ohio High School Picks
Browns Successor
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
MASSILLON, Ohio. Feb 8.-Ap-
pointment of William G. BUD
Houghton to succeed Paul Brown as
head football and basket ball coach
at Washington High School was an
nounced today by School Supt. L. J
Smith.
Brown recently was named head
football coach at Ohio State Univer-
sity.
Houghton. an Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity graduate of 1888, has beer
head coach at Longfellow Junior
High here.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Maryland Hunt Cup
SteepIechuse April 26

BY the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Feb. 8.-The Mary
And Hunt Cup Race Committee
today announced the 48th annual
running of the Steeplechase would
be held Saturday, April 26, at the
Worthington Valley estate of J. w.
Y. Martin.
The entry list closes at midnight
April II A new trophy will be
offered, since the old challenge cup
was retired last year by Mrs E. Read
Boards Blockade, winning the third
race In succession.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Contracts Are Let
For Armory Units

Contract for construction of the
remaining units of the new home of
the District National Guard was
awarded today by the Commits
sioners to the Charles H. Tompkins
Co. of this city at a price of s1,378.-
$50. The Tompkins firm was the
contractor for the main drill hall
of the armory now nearing compile
ton.
The authorized cost of the total
project was $2,750,000. The contract
specifies the administration and
regimental wings must be completed
within 480 calendar days.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Belgian Potato Shortage
Attributed to Transport
Bs the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN. Feb. 8.-The authorita-
tive commentary Dienst aus Deutsch-
land reported today that Emil de
Winter, Belgian Secretary of Agri-
culture. attributed Belgium's potato
shortage to winter transportation
difficulties.
Considerable supplies of potatoes
are available in the Netherlands and
Germany for shipment to Belgium,
Dienst aus Deutschland said.
These supplies. De Winter was
quoted by the German agency as
saying, could be shipped as soon as
weather permitted He also was
represented as saying that the grain
situation had so improved that no
bread famine was expected.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
French Envoy Discusses
Food Issue With President
Earlier Story on Page A-2.)

tLdTueT STORY On rage AL
BY the Associated Press
CASTOR Henry Haye, the French
Ambassador, expressed hope after a
White House call today that an
understanding would be reached
quickly with the United States so
that France could receive food sup
plies by March Is
The envoy said he had discussed
general conditions in France and
the food problem" with the Presi-
dent in half hour conference.
1t is feared, he told reporters,
that by March Is bread will be very
scarce if not totally absent" in
France He added that the problem
was greater because of the necessity
of feeding 3,5OooOO foreign refugees
in the free zone"
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Col. George Williams
Found Dead, Bullet
Wound in Head
Retired Army Officer
Had Been Cleaning
Gun in Apartment

Col. George Williams. 81. retired
Army officer, was found dead today
in his apartment at Arlington Vii
lage, Va. a bullet wound in the
head.
Arlington County police said his
body was found lying across a bed
in an upstairs room. Mrs. Williams
and the maid we're in the kitchen
when a shot was heard.
Detective John Saunders of the
county police said Col. Williams
had been shot with a As callber
pistol, apparently placed in his
mouth.
Was Cleaning Gun.
He was pronounced dead by DR..
Arthur Cliff of Fort Myer and DR..
w. c. Welburn. Arlington County
coroner. DR.. Welburn said he had
not issued a certificate. DR.. We'll
burn said Col. williams had been
cleaning gun. You might call 1t
accidental"
Col. Williams was born in Keokuk.
lOWd, DCCCiIiDci t. 10 Sotiihio
stoned a second lieutenant of artil-
lery in 1898, he was transferred the
following year to the cavalry, serv-
ing there for many years. He was
commissioned a colonel in August
1870, retiring from active duty July
81, 1888
Received Decorations.
For meritorious conduct, Col. Will
liams had been awarded the Dis
tinguished Service Medal, the Silver
Star with Oak Leaf Cluster and the
Order of the Purple Heart. decora-
tion given to soldiers wounded in
active service.
He was graduate of the Army
War College the General Staff
School, the Infantry-Cavalry School
and the School of Application for
Cavalry and Field Artillery.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Bowman, Giant HurIer,
Agrees to Clubs Terms
Ry the Associated Press.

RE TIE ASsOclateu PTess-
BLUEFIELD. w. Va, Feb g.
Bob Bowman, New York Giants
pitcher. said last night he and
Manager Bill Terry had agreed
on l94l salary terms during a tele-
phone conversation.
Bowman was purchased last Nov
ember by the Giants from the ST
Louis Cardinals for reported price
of $4,000.
Bowman said he would receive
approximately $4,000 for his first
season with the New York team.
Evening star., 1941-02-08

Brown had been Secretary Of State
for Scotland since last Nav IA,
after being succeeded as Labor Min
lister in the Churchill cabinet by
Ernest Bevin.
Johnston was Under secretary Of
State for Scotland in the Macdonald
cabinet and later served for time
as Lord Privy Seal.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Allen Hall Regoins
Touch, Beats Rubin
Earlier Story on Page A-12.l
BY the Associated Press

IEdrHeT StOry on rage A-IZ.I
BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Feb. 8.-Allen Hall
Chicago regained his touch today
after suffering three straight de-
feats, to score a 50-35 victory ovel
Arthur Rubin, Brooklyn. N Y, ir
the world three cushion billiards
title tournament
Hall needed "a innings for the
victory which gave him a record oi
nine matches won and three lost
The defeat was Rubin's fourth ir
l3 starts.