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Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16
Two Held After
Abandoning Auto

Herman j. Osborn, 80, and Jo-
seph Marks, 80. were held in the
county Jail in Ell Centre Saturday
while officers investigated their
reasons for abandoning a car in
Holtville Friday night and depart
ing via the hitchhike method for
Yuma.
The car was registered to John
d. EnaYer, Jr., of Los Angeles and
the two men left it in a Holtville
garage. They were arrested in
Yuma at the request of the I'M
perial county sheriif's office Both
signed eXtradition waivers and were
returned to California Immediately
Osborn said he had been working
for pie company in San Diego.
Marks said he was a cook They
said they had permission to drive
the car.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16
See!ey Observes
Diplomatic Day

CAMP SEELEY. Nov. l5.-More
than 500 residents Of the Imperial
and Mexicah Valleys were at Camp
Seelcy Saturday to watch Gov.
Rodolfo Sanchez TabOada OF the
northern district of Bala Califor-
mia review the regiment as guest
of Col. Frederick HCrr, on diplo-
matte day.
Mounted on a cavalry horse, Coy.
Taboada watched tne parade o..
1000 men and horses and later
watched all the officers take the
outside jumping course. In the
PARTY were other officials of the
southern republic. and representa-
tiveS of the American and Chinese
governments.
After an inspection tour of the
camp. Col Herr and his staff held
reception for them. Officers Of
the second squadron and their
wives came down from Campo to
attend the review and the re
CpDtlOn
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16
Anti.Mud Streets
Drive Bears Fruit
In Projects 0kay
State Engineer Gives
Approval to Proposed
Use of Tax Monies

The belated but WhirlWind
crusade of Mayor Bob Hat
ton and Public Works Direc-
tor Walter Heinecke, aided
and abetted by members OF
Ell Ccntros city council, for reliet
from mud streets, appeared definite
ly to have born fruit Saturday.
Heinccke announced that the first
batch of projects proposed to be
financed through city collected gas
oline taxes, had been approved by
the state highway engineers OF
flee at San Diego.
The proposals, bearing the sigma
lures of the engineers and Helm
ecke, we're sent to Sacramento for
final approval by the highway COM
mission, a mere formality, it Was
believed. Proper authority to go
ahead with the work is expected to
be in the hands of the city council
at its next meeting wednesday
night.
elimination of efforts to have
the highway department approve eX-
penditure of the gasoline tax money
on Ell Centro streets came after
Hatton took the bull by the horns
less than a month ago, by going
over the head of former Street
Commissioner Charles Bratton.
The militant action by Hatton
resulted in an open break among
the trio of councilmen who had
styled themselves the Three Mus
keteers," and campaigned at the
last election on street improve
ment platform.
Bratton was replaced as street
Continued on Page 6; Column 81
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Roosevelt. Confers
With Army Chiefs
Over Mine Seizure
Conference Results
Secret as CIO Leader
Meets Steel Officials

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.
CUP) - President Roosevelt
conferred for an hour today
with two ranking military Of
ficials under circumstances
that gave rise to speculation he
may have discussed possible army
seizure of captive coal mines in
event of a work stoppagc, There
was no confirmation of this. how
ever.
The president met with Secretary
of War Henry L. Stimson and
Mai. Gen. Robert c. Richardson.
commander of the 7th Army Corps
with headquarters at Birmingham
Ala. one of the captive pit regions.
Stimson was asked whether the
conference had any bearing on
the captive coal mine situation.
That's a question" he replied.
Richardson, who was carrying
a large bundle of documents, told
ncwsmcn he was sworn to Sc
crccy'
Negotiations for continued pro-
duction in the captive pits are
being conFcted by President John
L. Lewis of the CIO United Mine
Workers union and steel company
executives who operate the mines.
1t was believed that If the ne
gGtiations collapse over Lewis
adamant demand for a union shop
contract, the army might seize
control of the captive mines.
Lewis presumed his conference
with the steel men today after
promising Mr. Roosevelt to do so
Continued on Page s; Column s.
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CAT IS HERO
He Saves Britain $1,000

didn't he save Britain $1,000?
One OF the electrical crews at
the yard, which is building 30
frcighteo; for tho British navy,
faced a problem in running a
cable underground from the Brit
ish purchasing commission office
to the Quitting dock
There was / conduit available
to carry the cable if the electri-
clans could find a way to get the
cable through the conduit.
One solution would be TO tear up
tho conduit, which runs about 200
feet to the outlying dock. 1t
was estimated that that would cost
$1,000.
One of the electricians finally
thought of Teddy who was ON
duty" as usual with the pile driv-
ing crew. watching them work.
So Teddy was borrowed from the
File drivers. A Chalklinc was tled
to his neck and he was placed
in the mouth of the conduit, which
is about y inches in diameter.
Teddy looked up questioninely
Somebody said scat" and pointed
into the dark tunnel.
The cat understood and plunged
inside. Several minutes later he
emerged at tho other end, drae-
ging rope which had b"on at
tached to the Chalklinc.
The electricians tied the cable
to the rope and pulled it through.
The Job done and Toddy Workmen
no. O00O at the yards accordinE
to his identification tag, was eli
giblc for one of Britain's best
,tfa,.flC
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16
Russia Holds Line
But Germans Gain
In Mediterranean
Reds COunteract on
All Fronts to Break
New Offensive Threat

German submarines oper-
ating in the Mediterranean
for the first time Saturday
claimed to have torpedoed
the British battlaship Mala-
va as we'll as the Ark Royal, out
all reports from the Eastern front
indicated that the Axis was on tEe
defensive against heavy Red Army
drives.
Radio Moscow reported that the
Russians were counterattacking on
all sectors of the front before the
Soviet capital after having stopped
the Germans, but it was acknow-
lodged that these counterolows
were intended primarily to break
up German preparations Tor re-
neWal of their offensive.
In the far north the Red Army
reported that 5000 Germans hao
been killed and that the Russians
we're communicating against a
German Finnish drive. apparently
headed toward 'Murmansk, With
fighting continuing fiercely.
The Russians also reported they
were holding the Germans on the
southern front, except IN the Cri-
mea where it was said that terrific
fighting was in progress for Sevas-
topol with the battlefield Uttered
with thousands of dead soldiers
and wrecked machines.
Extensive gains were not claimed
b. the SovietS and it was pointed
out by radio Moscow that the Ger
mans still were moving reserves
up to the central front in an Ell
fort-so far vain-to get their Of
Continued on Page 6; Column p
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States.
Kurusu said that as long as the
American people remained SYM
pathetic, he thought he had a
fighting chance" to succeed in his
mission.
Kurusu appearing fit despite his
4rduous flight from Tokyo. was
met at Washington airport by Jap
anese Ambassador Kichisaburo No
mura and other embassy officials,
and Joseph Ballantine, represent
ng the state department.
Il realize the difficulties of my
ask" KuruSu said, but so long
rs there exists a sympathy on the
part of the American people for
Japan l think l have a fighting
chance to make success of my
mission
Kurusu, besieged by newspaper
zen, said he was not carrying a
personal message to President
Roosevelt. Asked what the odds
should be on the success of his
effort to reach an understanding
on Far Eastern issues, he Said
You are the book makers
He would not discuss the nature
of his instructions or plans for
beginning the momentous confer
enceS next week.
The envoy extraordinary was
brought Unexpectedly into the Sit
uation because the peace" talks
under way since August were in
danger of breaking down.
ATMOSPHERE TENSE
His negotiations will be con-
Quoted in an atmosphere of ex-
treme tension.
The withdrawal of American ma
rines from China. Brtain's pledge
to declare war on Japan within
Continued on Page 6; Column g.
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IN his living quarters at the Call1or-
MIA Electric Power COmpany'S en-
ployes club on FL Ccntros castSide.
The murder charge against Keel
ing and Saunders was filed by City
Policeman Reed Cunningham, who
arrested Saunders. and who had
obtained oral admissions from both
boys to having engaged in an hours
long drinking bout with Orahood,
with whom they hitChcd ride from
Secley late Wednesday afternoon.
A cCroncr's jury late Friday re-
turned an open verdict in the death
of the Camp Scelcy cmployc, hold
inc that OrahOOd was murdered
With a heavy instrument in the
hands of a person or persons I'M
known"
FUNERAL HELD
Masonic funeral services for Ora
hood were held at 10 am. Satur-
dar at Lemons mortuary and. com
plying with the wishes of the slain
man expressed in a note found
among his effects. the body was
taken to San Diego by a brother
Continued on Page 6; Col \nn 4
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16

He recently completed a 28-day,
20, ,O0O-mile air trip through four
teen South and Central American
countries to investigate their air
safety regulations.
Dirksen said commercial mail is
opened b. the British cenSors at
Trinidad and, in most cases, copied
or photostated. He said that If a
South American sends an order TO
a United States firm, the British
are Immediately aware of it. He
charged further that a British
salesman is then sent to the South
American firm to divert the order
to British firm.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16
One Too Tired TO Care ,

Suicide" by Helene Mullins. It
also included the line, "A deS-
rcratc impulse and a steady hand, a
tiny ripple in the eternal seas and
one too tired to care leaves with
brand of coWardice upon him"
The lettNr to Dear Pat said, in
part:
Il asked so little of you, Pat
only to let me know when you
couldn't oome-only to call me.
And I said that if you ever stood
me up again not to come back
because I could not marry a man
whose promises I could not trust
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16

LOS ANGELES, Nov 15OUP'-
After writing a note explaining
that it was suicide, not murder, -"
and quoting from a poem the line
"a blundering child has violently
gone home,' Mary ID, Pollock, %,
University of Southern California
post graduate student, shot and
killed herself last night
Police said relatives told them
she bad been in i'll health and
melancholy, apparently because OF
disappointment in love. In her notes
she made reference to a young
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16
Man, "a, Through
With Women Now

SAN JOSE, Cal. Nov. Is CUP) -
Joseph B. Gamblers is through
with women for life" he said today.
He is 94
Gamblers. a retired furniture deal
er, was divorced yesterday for the
second time in two years from his
wife, Emma, 78.
From now on, .hc told Superior
Judge R. R, Sycr, I'm going to be
a bachelor-mend my own socks
wash my own shirts and boil my
own beans.
She bawled me out day and
night for everything l did. She
scolded me something awful when I
didn't rush pell-mell into tn house
and sit down to the dinner table
at the first call for supper"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16


Using reminders to al city water
customers that the absolute dead
line for paying current water Dill
Is the 18th of the month.
Chief purpose cf the warnin2
however, was to serve notice that
deliberate failure Of those who eau
afford to pay to meet their Obll9a-
tions will find themselves left liter
ally high and dry before next
months water bills come due.
It was disclosed that a very sub
stantial percentage OF the city's
water bills are delinquent and that
many of these dclinqucncios are
months old, some even years old.
REPORT FORTHCOMING
FaWcett declined to say just what
the percentage is, but promised TO
reveal the figures at next Wednesday
nights council meeting.
1t was explained that the recent
flood of post card reminders, and
the advertisement appearing in the
PoSt-PreSS newspapers, were TO Gail
to the attention Of all water users
that the existing water ordinance
makes it mandatory upon the clerks
office to demand payment Of bills
on or before the 18th of the month,
and to issue cutoff orders against
unpaid bills on the lUh.
These reminders were not in
tended as mid-mOnth duns to Gus
toners who regularly pay their bills :
FaWcett said.
Even So the reminders had had a
very wholesome effect on the clerk
cash register. which Friday played
the merry tune of S553 in water col
lections. That Waa believed to be
one of the largest single days col
Continued on Page 6; Column s.
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HoItyiIIe Host at
Thanksgiving Fete

HOLTVILI E, Nov l5.-CroWda
gathered in Holtvillc Saturday for
the great Thanksgiving festival,
turkey scramble, vaudeville show.
amateur program and dance.
Holtylllc residents anticipated Ihe
greatest excitement to occur when
live turkeys we're released from the
roof of a downtown hotel. Finders
were kCcDerS
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16
FOOTBALL RESULTS

Boston College :; Tennessee IA
DuquesnC Is; Miss. State 0.
NYU 0: Tulane As.
Ohio State 10; Illinois :.
Syracuse 10; Colgate ~
Harvard %; Brown :
Penn State 7, West Vlrslnia 0
Yale s; Princeton 20.
Duke 20. North Carolina O.
Georgetown 20; y Caro-. State
Trinity 0; Wesleyan 27
Columbia 0; Michigan 28.
Cornell 33 Dartmouth 10
Wash. & Lee 10; Davidson 13
Williams %; Amherst ..
Lafayette 26, w. Maryland Q.
Clemson 20; Wake Forest 0.
Wisconsin 13; Purdue 0.
Iowa l3, Minnesota "a.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16

man identified only as Pat, and
relatives said She had been inter
cstcd in him.
Miss Pollock's landlady, Mis-.
Edna Baer. found the body in the
bathroom Of the apartment near
the university campus. The girl
had been shot through the chest
with a % caliber pistol.
Notes were left to Pat" Mrs.
Baer, to Miss Pollocks uncle, DR..
Lewis Morton, to a brother, Tom
Pollock, and to the police
In case there is any question
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16

III one case, he said, British CEN
lsors removed $4,000 in currency
from the steamship S. S. Argen-
tina. The currency was being sent
by registered mail from Buenos
Aires to New York, he added. In
another instance, Dirksen said
they Seized 100000 in remittances
en- route from Rio De Janeiro to
New York.
Dirksen said the funds are now
impounded in London and cannot
be disposed of except by a prize
court Dirksen, member of the
special house committee investigat-
ing air accidents, said his informa-
ton came from u. &. businessmen
in South America.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16
EI Centran Hurt
As Car 0yerturns

Robert Donald Gallagher, 10, FL
Centro, suffered a fractured collar
bone early Saturday when a top
less coach overturned and rolled
into borrow pit on the DogWood
road 2l9 miles south of BraWley
Vernon r. Block, also of Ell Cen
tro, suffered minor injuries. High
way FatrOlman Walter Walsh said.
The car apparently went out of
control
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16

about it in your mind this note is
l. ceru/ that what you have
herc is suicide. not a murder"
she wrote to the police They are
both crimes, aren't they? But you
can't prosecute a corpse. so the
laugh is really on you gentlemen.
,Signedl Mary DPOllock.
A note to Mrs. Baer said she did
not know either Pats telephone
number or his address, so you'll
have to wait until he comes to
deliver the letter"
The poetic quotation was from
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16
YuIe Vacation in
Schools Announced

Christmas vacation in the Ell
Centro school system will begin
Dec. 10. it was announced by school
officials.
This date hinges. officials said,
on the scarcity of mud holidays in
the meantime.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16

RICHMOND, Nov. j.. up
Toddy. mascot cat for the pile
driving crow at Todd California
shipyard. was fully justified today
in hoping that Great Britain has
some such honorary title as KNIGHT
of the Milk Cans or Lord High
Inspector Of the Rat Traps For
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16

ance making it unlawful for any
one to shoot guns within 200 yards
of inhabited dwellings, or of live
stock or fowl" Bitler said, with
out the consent Of the record own
err tenant, or person in charge of
the property or livestock. This ord
nance applies even if the place
is not posted with mo Trespass-
ing" or mo Hunting" signs.
The ordinance applies TO un-
incorporated areas Violation of the
ordinance is mlsdemeanor pun
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16
Murder Charged
AGAINST 2 Youths
Poker Staying Described at Inquest as
Handcuffed d Suspects Listen; Policemen
Sign Murder Complaint Against Pair

Weldon Keeling and ice Saunders, 19year-old hitch
mixers, Saturday formally charged with the fire
poker murder Of Charles H. Orahood 81 civilian quarter
masters clerk at Camp Seeley.
Orahood was found beaten to death Thursday morning
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16
Padres Announce
Fl Centro Choice

SAN DIEGO, Nov. Is. tUP)-
The San Diego Padres will do
their 1912 spring training in FL
Centre, Maj. Charles Lott, presi-
dent of the Pacific coast
league baseball club announced
today. Pitchers and catchers will
report Feb. 2l and the balance
of the squad will report March
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16
British Seizin9
u. s. Cash, Charge

WASHINGTON Nov. 15 (UP) = Rep. Everett M
tDrksen r. Ill., charged today that British censors at
Trndad have seized least $4,000 worth of cash and
remtances being sent to New York by South American
branches of U. S. business establishments
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16
Pay Up or Shut Off, City
U|timdtum to Water Users
In Face Of DeIinquencies
Dead|ine Will be RisidIy Adhered To in
Future, Commissioner Declares Promises
Revision of Ordinance on Procedure

The day of reckoning is at hand for slow paying users
of Ell Centro city water and further abuse of the coutea
of extended credit will not be tolerated. Water Com
missioner H. w. Fawcett declared Saturday.
Fawcetts utimatum issued party as explanation
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16
japanese Special
Trouble Shooter
In Final dIks'
Conference Starts Monday Seeking To
Avert Pacific ConfIasration; Crisis
Approaches Breaking Point, Belief

WASHINGTON, Nov Is. UP)-Saburo Kurusu, ia
pans special arrived here today for conferences
with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Corde
Hull Monday upon the outcome Of which may depend
or the Pacific for his nation and the United
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16

ishable by $500 fine or six months
in the county jail. or both.
While no complaints have been
signed against hunters. Bitter
warned that hunters should take
care TO observe the ordinance or
they may be named In a conf
plant signed by an iratc farmer
because he. his family his live
stock or poultry were peppered by
shot intended for quail or phsas-
ants
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16
Hunters Beware!
Law Warns Here

Farmers complained Saturday that quail and pheas
and hunters fired their too close to houses chicken
pens and livestock corraS the opening day of the
son, Deputy District Attorney Don Btler said
County supervisors two years ago passed 0rdin-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16

P.S.-
y Ted Reynolds telephoned that his
pheasant this year was not an al
bino but had colored rings on it.
Sounds like a Plymouth Rock.
Folding Money
' John Donohue and Frank Rich
mond threaten to report Bill Glenn
cntS to the OPM. III his store Fri
day Clements refused their busi-
ness.
It's fact. Richmond ordered two
soft drinks and handed Clements
a $40 bill. Clements refused the bill
and wouldn't serve the drinks.
Donohue waved another $40 bill
and ordered l cent postage stamp
wrapped as a gift for Richmond.
Again Clements refused the busi-
ness.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16

Huff And Puff
Public Works Director Walter
Heineckc won't let Councilman Wes
He'll tear down the old Lincoln
school building He hired an expert
house Wrecker to do the job in
spite of Heil's offer to do the job
himself.
He'll got the job from the city
council Wednesday night because he
objected TO paying $l0O to get an
expert to do it,
If RR we're in Heils place, there
would be come wild brick throwing
and easement ripping before H. H.
yelling could get there with his
crew Of WreckerS.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16
z 4%,t7Hs 4;Ss4ts
The High Steppers Again

The High Steppers Again
The Central Union High school
SergeanetteS did it again.
They not only stole the show at
the football game Friday night but
captured everything else in sight
! Including RR's wildly palpitating
heart.
Their new V drill was dramatic
glamorous, perfectly timed spectacle
/ of precision. And costumes, oh, la,
y la, la, la, la, la,
The Bltzkrieg BlackOut Victory
drill was glorious from start to
finish but when all the lights in
the big StaC.dn went out! Flash
lights sparkling on those marching
legs! Lighted shoes and batonS of
the majoretteS, captains, and lieu
tenants Then when the lights went
on again there was that magnificent
red white, and blue V composed of
the Sergeanettes and the boys in
the band.
Take it from RR there is nothing
like the Sergeanettes in these parts
They made football what it is TO-
day.
My. MY. My
An eleventh cavalry officer stood
in the marble corridor in the court
house in Ell Centro He presented
a picture of military perfection.
While talking to county attaches,
he absently slapped a cleaning
boot with his riding crop. The tricky
gadget had a miniature horsetail on
the end of it.
He talked awhile and then put
the crop under one arm.
+. Down the long corridor came Leta
Mae Bryan, stepping briskly on her
high heels.
AS she passed behind the officer,
she gave the riding crop a tweak.
Then:
oh, she gaSped in relief, II
thought it was growing there
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16
WEATHER

Maximum temperature Friday &c. minimum Sat
urday 54; am temperature Saturday So, humid
ty 81; noon temperature Saturday "a, humidity 81;
pm. temperature Friday rs, humidity 46.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16

L. A. Hay-U,S. No. $22-24; us. No 2 leafy
l. v S2O5O-2l5O; US No. S155O-I6.5O ;Mpls
Dec. Flax $780,.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-16

Total Cash, Checks and Drafts Sent
Through The Two Ell Centric Banksl
Smyrna times., 1941-09-11

to keep the public fully informed
of the activities, progress, and
plans of the University-in all de-
partments of Delaware College and
the Women's College-and of the
achievements of it's students and
faculty members. The office will
cooperate with the newspapers and
will serve as a clearing house for
information concerning the Univer-
sity and the varied activities of an
educational and extra-curricular
nature which take place there. For
the past three and one-half years,
DR.. Mcdowell has been associated
with the University as Executive
Secretary of the Alumni Associa-
tion of the college for men. DR..
Hullihen's announcement empha-
sizes the fact that Mr.. Mcdowell
will continue to serve in that ca
pacity, and that, in effect, he will
direct the operation of an Office of
Alumni and Public Relations. Prior
to returning to his Alma Mater in
1888, Mr.. Mcdowell was an admin
istrative assistant with the Penn
Isylvania Department of Public AS
Isistance in Philadelphia.