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Evening star., 1941-06-08

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Trunk Sedan-In fine condi-
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Ford 1887 Coupe Excellent CCQ5
motor. 3 GOOD tires very clean
interior; truly bargain
Ford 1897 "S5' Convertible cd27
Fordor Sedan Black finish.
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this one
Fords. 1897 Tudors and Coupes $50
Your choice of colors. All
cars in fine condition. We DOWN
will gladly arrange terms for you
Evening star., 1941-06-08

FORD 1910 coupe: equipped with heater:
besutlful finish like new. imm aculate in
side. This car is practically new in every
respect: you can't go wrong on this car
Evening star., 1941-06-08
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE.

BUICK 1888 model Al 4-door trunk sedan
$4,000 miles; radio. heater. custom seat
covers, General tires; GER in lst-class
condition: $3.50 Oliver S613
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07

DEL MONTE, Cal, Feb. 7. CUP
The Iron, Steel and Allied Industries
conference today approved resolu-
ton urging modification of the
Wagner Labor Relations act and
passed a motion asking the state
legislature to enforce every rea-
sonable economy to facilitate fl
nancing of the national defense
emergency"
The conference specifically re-
quested modification of the labor
law to separate the prosecution and
judicial functions of the national
labor relations board" and
to restore employers their right
of free speech on subjects affecting
the organization of their employees" 3"
The conferees $50 California
business and industrial executives
favored amendments requiring a
majority vote of all employees elig-
ible to bargaining elections. in
stead of a majority of employees
voting.
The resolution additionally asked
the "outlawing of all coercion in
respect to union membership,
whether by employers or employees" ]"
The conference elected c. B. Tib-
belts, Los Angeles. chairman; H.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Govt Employees
Buy Russian Bonds

WASHINGTON, Feb. I. (UPl
Rep. Eugene f. Cox, d., Ga,
charged before the house rules
committee today that number
OF government employees have
invested sums up TO $4,000 in
Soviet Russian bonds.
Cox made the accusation dur
ing the groups consideration of
a resolution to continue the
Dies committee investigation of
un- American activities for an
other year.
Action on the resolution was
delayed until tomorrow, after
the rules committee had debated
at length whether to give the
Dies group authority to bring
legislation to the house floor.
Cox said he received his in
formation on the Russian bonds
from the Dies committee. The
evidence, he said, was disclosed
in an investigation of Russian
and German financial manipu-
iati0ns.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07

Silt uIONc pluilSCI oii VIC itSti""J
into a borrow pit near Meloland
late Thursday and rolled over and
over in the mud. Apparently, Depu-
ty Coroner Herbert Hughes said, she
was thrown through the top of the
car.
Only a miracle saved the lives of
Bert Kopperl, %, Los Angeles pho
tographer, and Ralph w. Ames, a
passenger in his car, when it ploW-
ed into a hay truck driven by Roy
Laney, 20, of Calex1co, near the in
tersection of the Central Valley
highway and highway 80 east of Ell
Centre late Thursday Kopperl told
highway patrolmen that his wind
shield was obscured and he did not
see the truck.
Brakes which grabbed were blam-
ed for an accident two miles east
of Ell Centro Thursday night. Frank
Fontes, Los Angeles ice cream max
er, told Highway Patrolman Roy
Wells that he was blinded by ap-
preaching headlights and his brakes
grabbed when he tried to slow down.
The car plunged into the borrow
pit and overturned. Fontes was
uninjured
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Laval Demands
Complete Power

VICHY, Feb. 7. CUP) = Pierre
Laval renewed his demand that he
be returned to Vichy as premier
with full power, according to re-
ports from Paris where Admiral
Jean Francois Darlan presented
compromise cabinet reorganization
proposals to pro-Nazi elements.
Laval was reported unofficially
but reliably to have demanded not
only the premiership but the right
to name his own cabinet, free of
interference from Marshal Philippe
Petain, the chief of state.
Although negotiations in Paris
were continuing, there were uncon-
firmed reports that the return of
Laval to Vichy was inevitable and
that Pierre Etienne Flandin, for
eign minister who joined the gov
ernment when Petain ousted Laval
last December, would resign.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Reward Posted for
inland Burglars

A 5000 reward was offered by
the government Friday for arrest
of the burglars who Tuesday looted
the inland post office of s440 and
28 money order blanks.
OF the $40 a total of $50 was in
cash and the remainder in stamps,
Mrs. Sidney Henking, INLAND post
mistress, said Serial numbers on
the money order blanks were sent
To all postmasters in California SO
they will not cash them If pre-
sented by the burglars or some of
their associates.
The post office was burlgarized
by persons who forced open the
cover on the parcel post window
to gain admittance to the inner
office.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
40 Valley Youths
Called in Draft

we'll known valley youths. Eight OF
the number are Negroes. The list
Louis Johnson. Jesus Hernandez
Francisco Alvarez, Fred Lackey,
James R. Ryerson, Joseph Med.
Yount, Phillip G.. Calderon, Will
liam A. Kennedy, Robert Slaton,
Jesse Pepper, Robert D. Beccera,
Henry Marcot, w. o. Majors, AL
fonso Garlic, jr., Francisco Con-
zales, Angelo Castillo Pedro Es-
trada, Edward Romo, Anthony Mar
tinez, Jesse W. Waddell, Jack Ma
ton, Phillip Ross, Frank Ayala, Will
liam G.. Forsythe, Jesus Orozco
Glen McNay, Gilbert Garcia, Tan
gio Tanonye, Ernest zinn, Jesus
Ortiz, John MaSserini jr., Oscar
Lambeth, Robert D. Glasgow, Rus
sell Waggoner, woodrow Ingle, Elye
Korn, Eng F. Dep, William L. Lewis,
Leon Lewis, Lee E. Adcock, Daniel
Strobel, Levi Erwin, Henry Gentry,
Lucius Gentry, Paul O'Bannon, Iven
Hewis, Theo. Turner, Enos La
vergne, Howard Nutall.
Nine of these men will not have
to go at this call, but serve as alter
mates in case of emergency.
Ten additional valley men whose
order numbers appear at this time
have moved elsewhere and as a re-
suit they will be inducted soon from
their new point of residence. These
are Robert Brandon. James Hook
EFT, Walter Sheen, Howard Chaipos,
Charles w. Westerkamp, Mecino
Amador, Naseb Sleem, James Mar,
Walter Unverzagt, Julio Garcia
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07

COMPLAINTS, JIleTe was eViucilCc VI
growing unrest and dissatisfaction
among strikers themselves regard
ing the walkout.
Fourteen sheds now have active
injunctions restraining pickets and
picketing elsewhere was virtually
nil while leaders of both A. F. of
L. and CIO as we'll as shippers and
the NLRB. jockeyed for positions.
Only real Development was side
issue in which a picket Mrs. Jane
Hawks, 26, was found guilty of vio-
lating a court order. The young
woman assertedly defied service of
an injunction She will be sentenced
Monday. Similar charges against
Perry Black, 10, were dismissed.
Meanwhile, the Imperial Valley
Building and Construction Trades
council, meeting Thursday night,
took a hands off, position in the
controversy A resolution passed by
the council and signed by Presi-
dent N. L. Wray and Secretary
Walter Weldon read III part:
"1ne council, affiliated with
the A F. of L., went on record as
being opposed to any interference
by members of affiliated unions in
the lettuce strike now in progress. .
Kenneth Cameron of the NLRE
continued his efforts Friday toward
bringing some order out of the tan
gled situation in which both CIC
and A. F. of l.. are battling foi
control.
After conferences with both ship
pers and representatives of the rival
unions as well as workers them
selves, Cameron said.
Il can't say that any agreement
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Max Annenberq
Dies in Phoenix

PHOENIX, Feb. Z. CUP = Max
Annenberg, who fought his way up
from the streets in Chicago circuIa-
tion wars to become a wealthy news
paper executive, died at his home
here today at the age of 65.
Injured in New York auto acci-
dent several months ago, Amen
berg died of complications at lilo
am. His wife, Eta, his sister, Mrs
L. H. Rose of Chicago, his sister,
in-law, Mrs. Louise E. Stolar of Chi
cago, were at the bedside.
DR.. Louis Baldwin of Phoenix,
who attended Annenberg, said he
began sinking several days ago.
Annenberg, former director of
circulation for the New York Daily
News, was the brother of Moses L..
Annenberg, publisher.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
House Defeats Ban
On Aid TO Russia
Act
"This Is Neither Time
Nor Place" to Slap Reds,
Administration Says

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.
(UP)-The house today de-
feated an amendment to ex-
clude Soviet Russia from re-
ceiving American aid under
the British-aid program after ad-
ministration leaders had warned
that the proposed action would
drive Russia into the Axis orbit.
The amendment was defeated by
vote of 1876 to "a. 1t was introduced
by Rep. George Holden Tinkham,
R., Mass, who said that Russia ''iS
against civilization as we know it.
against everything in the Anglo
Saxon world
Tinkham protested that the bill.
as now drafted, proposed to put
all of the assets of the United
States" behind Russia, as well as
Britain, Greece and China.
In it's present form the bill au-
thorizes the loan, lease or grant Of
arms to any nation whose defense
President Roosevelt deems vital to
the defense of the United States.
Tinkham proposed to add the words
except Soviet Russia
administration leaders pleaded for
defeat of the proposal on grounds
that it was "gratuitous slap at
Russia which might drive her into
the arms of the Berlin Rome Tokyo
axis.
This is not the hour, and this
is not the place" said Rep. Luther
A. Johnson, D., Tex, Ito write
in an amendment which is merely
a gratuitous slap in the face"
Prior to voting on the Tinkham
amendment, the house adopted one
sponsored by the house foreign af-
fairs committee, stating that none
of the bills provisions shall alter
the neutrality act ban on sending
American merchant ships into war
zones designated by the president.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Storm Moves on
Leaving Promise
OF Clearer Skies
Weatherman Says Valley
Free From Rainfall
For 48 Hours

A storm which brought
light rainfall to Imperial
Valley Thursday had moved
eastward into Arizona Fri
day, according to Weather
man Woodrow c. Jacobs, promising
generally clear skies Friday night
and Saturday.
Skies were clearing in all sections
of southern California Friday, Ja-
cobs said and although another
storm area is located west of the
California coast, its movement ap-
pears to be very slow and will not
bring rain to the valley for the next
48 hours.
Jacobs indicated the storm may
move northward and miss the val
ley entirely, but added that it is
too early to make d definite pre-
diction.
Thursdays precipitation totaled
O6 inches, boosting the seasonal to-
tai to SOB and 98 inches since Jan.
l. The rainfall was not sufficient
to seriously affect lettuce ship
ments as 165 cars rolled from the
valley Thursday. An equally heavy
shipment was expected Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07

LOVELOCK, New, Feb. Z.
(UP)-The shattered, name
less bodies of eight army
fliers, killed when their fly
ing fortress smashed into a
desert mountain and exploded,
were brought into Lovelock today
as the army prepared formal IN
quiry into the mysterious accident.
Army officers refused to Specu-
late on what caused the big bomber,
loaded with secret experimental
equipment, to come screaming out
of the clouds in a power dive and
flatten itself on the side of Ragged
Top mountain. There was an unof-
ficial suggestion of sabotage.
The charred, broken bodies OF
the eight victims, strapped in their
unused parachutes, were still hot
from the soaring explosion OF $500
gallons of gasoline and undertakers
burned their hands as the bodies
we're loaded into CCC trucks and
brought here.
The plane, guarded by II CCC
men, lay in a molten heap, with
rivulets of metal on its sides at
testing the blasting heat OF the
explosion The impact of the crash
would have generated enough heat
to fire the gasoline tanks even II
the ignition had been cut, observers
said.
Army officers stripped off some
of the planes most secret instru-
ments-which included the famed
Norden bombsight-although every
thing on the bomber was burned
and melted almost beyond recog-
milton.
The rescue party finished its
work shortly after midnight and
left the u CCC men to guard the
wreckage in the CHASTITY red light
of railroad flares.
The wreck lay in barren desert
country 20 miles from Lovelock. A
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07

Dc. 9.
British believed that fall of Beng
haZi must deal tremendous blow
to italian morale. There was re-
joicing in London and Cairo that
Italy's hopes to drive to Alexandra
and the Sue2 canal had been defi-
nitely smashed.
The Italian high command in
Rome virtually conceded the loss
of Benghazi by asserting in its
communique that "a violent battle"
was raging south of Benghazi be-
tween italian and British troops
The Italian admitted also that
fighting ragged at Keren, only 35
miles from the Eritrean capital of
ASmara. They said that Italians
on the southern Ethiopian front had
repulsed British attacks and that
in Italo-Greek fighting in Albania
there was nothing worthy of men,
ton"
In Rome hundred of troops, in
cluding crack units of the be-
plumed Bersaglieri, carrying full
war kits and served from mobile
field kitchens, were called out to
re-enforce the normal carabineri
guards at the United States embassy
and consulate general as university
students staged patriotic parades in
the streets protesting the British
aid bill now being debated by con-
gress in Washington.
With the capture of Benghazi,
Britain gained good port and
naval base, and an air force base
from which to bomb Tripoli and
Italy. italian and German planes
have been pushed back to points
from which they can no longer
bomb Alexandria or Suez from
North African bases.
The full extent to which Britain
now has crippled the Italian North
African army awaited more detail
ed reports of the fall of Benghazi
But even before taking the Cy-
renaican capital, the British had
taken 10000 Italian prisoners and
their great march across the desert
and through Italian colonies had
given them huge quantities of war
material and food Knockout blows
had been dealt to the italian air
force in North Africa
Last night British planes heavily
attacked the invasion ports of Fe-
camp, Dieppe, Boulogne, Calais and
Dunkirk on the French coast of
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
FDR to Propose
Posf-DefenseP Plan

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. CUP)-
President Roosevelt said today that
he probably will propose legislation
to establish reservoir of work pro-
jects to take up the slack in en-
ployment after the defense emer-
gency is over.
Th legislation, Mr.. Roosevelt
said, would be in the form of
authorization bills which do not
carry any appropriations. The pho
jects selected, he said, would be
put on the shelf until the need for
them arises.
He said that national through
highways were being considered as
one form of work project.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
'KeaIers' SOUGHT
As Petty Thieves

Self appointed heaIers who re-
lieve their patients" of money
instead of illness were sought in
Imperial county Friday.
After inquiring for a man named
Jesse Evans at the B. F.. Ferguson
home northeast of Seeley Thurs
day, a man and a woman urged
Cliff Ferguson, 80, to let them heal
him.
The aged man said they went
through some mystic looking mo-
tions, then departed. Soon after
they left he missed his purse,
which contained a SIS bill and four
ST bills. he told Sheriff Robert w
Ware.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Victim Identifies
Robbery Suspects

WESTMORLAND, Feb. 7.-Theo-
dore Mark Ambrella and Alfonso
Jewell, arrested here this week by
Patrolman Buster Ordway as sus-
poets in a service station robbery
in Pomona, were identified as the
bandits today.
Pomona police arrived in West
morland with the victim of the
holdup, who declared they were
the men who robbed him while
menacing him with a gun.
Ambrella and Jewell had eX-
charged clothing after the robbery,
Deputy Sheriff Frank Raney said,
in an attempt to escape identifi-
cation.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07

Names of 40 southern Imperial
Valley youths who will be called
up for military service the middle
of this month were released Friday
by the southend selective service
board.
All are single, without dependents
and have passed rigorous physical
examinations which indicated they
we're fit for the demands of army
life.
The men, third group to leave for
a year of training, will go by bus
first to Los Angeles and from there
will be distributed to various train
ing centers.
The list includes number of
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
CIVIC COMMITTEE
COMPLETES PLANS

IMPERIAL, Feb. T. = Imperiafs
Civic Committee Friday completed
plans for a Saturday night dance,
the first in a series of city activi-
ties destined TO work into a pro-
gram to promote the expansion of
Imperial
Funds derived from the various
activities will be used for construc-
ton of a civic center and generally
prom tie expansion. Committee
Chairman Johnny Lincoln said
The dance. to be held in the
Imperial Veterans hall, will start
at $50 p. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
E|ks Elect Rogers
Leading KNIGHT

Carl j. Rogers was elected leading
knight of the Ell Centro ElkS lodge
Thursday night at special cleo
ton to fill a vacancy created by
the resignation of Charles Buehner
who moved to San LVeSo this
month.
Nolan C. Smith was elevated to
loyal knight, Noel B. Smith be-
came lecturing knight, Arnold C.
Yaeckel, trustee, and w. J. MoClel-
land, treasurer.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07

lines of preliminary sketches mailed
to the authority more than two
months ago.
Ray Mouser, chamber secretary,
said the plans were mailed as the
next step i'll Holtville's plan to help
in selection of an airport site that
first of all will benefit the army
and the nation in national defense
plans and secondly will be of COM
mereial use when not needed for de-
fense.
The committee delegated to pre-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07

pare the plans and send them TO
the federal commission was COM
posed of Mouser and j. v. Yeargln.
I'VE felt Mouser said. that IL
was wise to complete the plans in
detail and send them 70 Washing
ton where they Will be IN proper
hands when another selection OF
an army airport site Is made.
"The first site IN this area went
to Yuma. There Is no reason 70 be-
lieve the next one may not be III
Imperial Valley
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
SD. TO HAVE STATE
GUARD BATTALION

SACRAMENTO, Feb 7. fUP)-
A battalion of the new California
state guard will be established in
the San Diego area, the adjutant
generals office announced today.
1t was also announced that COM
panies of the new defense organiza-
ton will be located in Bakersfield,
Stockton, San Bernardino and Sac
ramento, and plans are underway
to extend the guard to several
other cities of the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07

In the meantime deputy sheriffs
arrived from Bisbee. Ariz., to start
proceedings to extradite Mr.. and
Mrs. Grover Coble so they may
stand trial for the alleged $4,000
burglary of a Wilcox, Ariz.. store
last fall. They were alleged to have
assisted Bull Clifford, fugitive
wanted for burgarizing a Holtville
store as well as the Wilcox store.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Steel Industry Delegates Request
Wagner Act Revision to Separate
Prosecution, Judicial Functions

M. Taylor, San Francisco, vice chair
man, and C. B. Knight. secretary
George C. Tenney, editor of Elec-
trical West, said the electric power
supply of the Pacific coast is abun-
dant to serve the growing needs
of the defense program.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07

A few questions by Deputy Sheriff
Herbert Hughes broke Sparks story
down.
I'VE were in the same cell when
I was in jail" Sparks said. It felt
sorry for him. He has a wife and
some kids" Sparks didn't know the
name of the Arizona town where
the burglary was committed. He
Just felt mellow and kindly toward
mankind, Hughes said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
y AMBlINe
a. EpoRTER

How's Crops?-
Dee Keesee, long, lanky Slow
talking deputy sheriff, was looking
for a rock under which to hide his
frame Friday as protection against
the unfeeling jibes of his colleagues.
1t was Dee, you may recall, who
served injunction papers on a pick
citing picket only to have the papers
scorned. IN the picket's trial part
of her defense was:
Il didn't know he was an officer
l just thought he was some
farmer!"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07

Broth of a Broth
Before we get started on this,
let it be known that we mean no
reflection upon the culinary skill
of one Homer Spear So far as we
know, it is excellent.
It seems that during an illness
suffered by Mrs. Spear, Homer did
the cooking. One day he called
his daughter, Mrs. Ted Reynolds,
and suggester disarmingly that she
come over to dinner and have some
chicken broth.
why, certainly" answered Mrs.
Reynolds, but doesn't mother need
all the broth?"
well, you see it's this way
Homer went on haltingly. "She
wanted some broth SO I made it.
killed two chickens and now I have
enough broth to feed an army.
Maybe you better come over and
help consume it,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
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Burned
Sabotage Hin+ed;
Army Refuses to
Comment on Cause
BULL IETIN

BULLETIN
LOVELOCK, New. Feb. I. (UP)
A couple of pieces" of an army
flying fortress fell off the big
plane i'm the air few seconds
before it smashed into a desert
mountain and exploded, killing
eight men, witnesses testified to-
day at a corOner's inquest.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Ills Confession
Doesn't Hold Up

you've got innocent in jail. I stole that stuff
out of that store in Arizona. Grover Cobe didn't
Jim Sparks "a, said late Thursday he swayed slight
w. He had released from the county jail week be-
fore he made his startling announcement to jaler.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
HoItvi|Ie Mups
Airport Project

HOLTVlLLE, Feb detailed plans and specifica-
tlons for an airport site the Eassde Mesa
sent to the Civil Aeronautics authority Washington this
week by the Holtville Chamber of Commerce.
Plans for the proposed SITE with secondary choice
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Claim
3rd Life in |. Y.
FL Cen+ro Waitress Dies When Machine
Skids Into Bar Pit. Overturns; Lists Show
Three Traffic Victims in Three Days

Three deaths in three days was the official traffic toll
in Imperial county Friday.
Jessie Lee Hogan 43 year-old waitress of Ell Centro,
died in the county hospital at 10 pm Thursday the third
victim this year. She crushed and torn when sedan
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Strike Settling
Down Into Legal
SnurI in Valley
Picket Found Guilty Of ofVo|atins
Court Order; Delegation informs CIO
Chiefs They're Going Back to Work

Pckets appeared only sporadcally on Imperial Valley
sheds Friday the current lettuce controversy drifted
into legal snarls.
Although practically violence had been reported
growing out of the strike beyond few unconfirmed
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
British Take Ben9hazi.
Wipe Out Axis Threat to
Suez, Cain Bomber Bases
Tremendous Blow Dealt Italian Morale
BY Colonial Defeat; Fascists Guard
U.S.. Embassy Against Demonstrators
BY UNITED PRESS -

air force and the Royal navy captured Benghaz capital
of Cyrenaica Friday stretching to 500 miles the
Egyptian and Lbyan deserts what began simple Brit
of MarSa Ma1,lb bon..
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07

Turn About
just retribution has fallen upon
p. L. Moore and Gordon Scriven.
For many weeks now they have
without pity poured their acid re-
marks upon one Herbert Fawcett
because of the latters repeated love
for one sorrel colt. Although the
colt technically belongs to h S
daughter, Herb claims a large in
terest because he pays the feed bill,
and to hear him tell it there has
been no finer colt foaled since
Seabiscuit came into the world.
All of which boasting brought
forth lot of jeering from Moore
and Scriven. They jeered until
they saw the colt at the fair
grounds, and now they're in the
market for colts for themselves.
Lay off, boys, we saw them first!