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Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23

:. bag of Fascist prisoners in the deS-
ert blitzkrieg to about 100000 with
the capture of more than $4,000 men
at Tobruk, including four italian
generals and an admiral.
While their comrades mopped up
Tobruk, Raj fliers and advance
tank units began operations at Der
ma, 100 miles further west in
direct line and plunged across the
desert plateau almost halfway to
Benghazi, capital of Libya.
In East Africa the thrust into
italian Eritrea went deeper and the
Italians we're reported taking de-
fensive position so to rs miles from
Tie Sudan frontier. t
Royal air force planes blasted at
Dusseldorf in the highly Industrial
lied Ruhr, at German dive-bomber
bases in Sicily, Italian bases in the
Dodecanese Islands and Italian pos
itions in Albania.
Apparently improved weather in
north Europe enabled the Raj to
launch another daylight attack on
the French invasion coast.
In Rumanla, Gen. Ion AntOneScu
appeared to be getting the upper
| hand after bitter struggle with
radical Iron Guardists had held
the country in state of near-alA-
arcny for several days. Fighting still
was going on at some points, it was
indicated, but Antonescu, aided by
loyal army troops, had recaptured
many key buildings in Bucharest
and strategic points in the provinces
which the Guardists seized.
A new Nazi minister, Baron Man.
fried Won Killinger, was enroute
to Bucharest 1t had been suggested
! in some quarters that he might ex-
ercise firm hand over Rumania
as a direct representative of Adolf
Hitler.
Snub-nosed British tanks poked
at the outer defenses of Derna, 100
miles west of Tobruk, which fell
Wednesday, and other advance
scouts had pushed on to Mekili,
almost halfway across the Libyan
escarpment to Benghazi, the capt.
tai.
British storming parties swept
through Tobruk's defenses in one
days fierce action. Some Fascists
fought but many did not. One group
of dozen Italian soldiers in a
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fornia highway patrol car and a
girl on horseback, the parade herald,
explaining the purpose of the pro-
ceSSion.
The line of march will be:
Grand Marshall John Donohue on
horseback, American Legion color
guard 18th U. S. Cavalry band,
city councilmen in open car, city
police car, fire department equip
ment and Boy Scout unit, followed
by Central high school Sergeanettes
drill teau. After this unit will
come the more than 500 school
children in separate sections with
the Imperial Valley Boys band in
between. The bicycle brigade will
follow the last school unit. Other
automobiles will follow and city
equipment, including a big sweep
er," emblematic of the drive to
clean up the city, will bring up
the rear.
Riders. including members of the
Sheriff's posse. will be spaced at
intervals throughout the line of
march, separating the various units.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23
Harriet Stafford,
Ca!exico Resident
Since 1918, Dies

Death came Wednesday night to
Mrs. Harriet E. Stafford, 81, resident
of the Calexico area since 1918.
She died in Pine Valley at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Robert
Hatton.
Church work was her main in
terest outside her home. She was
member of the Methodist church
in Calexico for many years. Mrs.
Stafford was born in WellSburg,
Penn.
Her survivors include her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Hatton; two sons, Duane
d. and Burleson P, both of CaleX-
leo; four grand children, Mrs. Hen
ry Swanson, Mrs. Bert Cosby, and
Isaac j. Stafford, all of Ell Centro,
and Mrs. w. L. Carr of Calexico;
and three sisters, Mrs. Estelle Nit
cheH of Calexico, Mrs. Alice Rog-
ers of Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Ethel
Rhodes of North Carolina.
Funeral services were scheduled
at the Lemons chapel in Ell Centre
at 2:30 pm. Friday She will be
buried at Evergreen cemetery.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23

dSdlllSI lIlc dQIIllIllSUIdtlOIl bIlJ-
ish-aid bill, Lindbergh said he die
not believe the measure could en-
able Britain to win.
Il don't think anything short of
war, or beyond war, will win this
war on the present basis Lind
bergh said.
Earlier, he told the committee
and 500 spectators who applauded
his statements several times, that
he hoped that neither Britain or
Germany would win the war; that
neither British victory nor the
preservation of the Royal navy
was essential to American security.
II think" Lindbergh testified,
that Europe would be in a more
peaceful condition if we take no
part in her wars, either the last or
this one
Il don't believe we can force
peace on Europe" he said. II think
it would be constructive if the at
titude of this country were for
peace"
He told Rep. James A. Stanley, D.,
Conn, that the pending bill would
be a step toward projection of the
United States into European quar-
relS."
Lindbergh said he saw no signs
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23

CIldlIltTS OO., ldTSeSJ ulduuldCuuT
ing plant in wisconsin, which en-
ploys more than 1000 members of
the United Automobile Workers
(CIO) union to work on $4,000, 600
worth of defense orders for the U.
S. navy and munitions plants. Two
Illinois plants of the International
Harvester Co., which holds defense
orders totaling $10,000,OO0. were
closed ana workers at the firms
Chicago tractor plant and at the
Milwaukee, Wis, plant authorized
union committees TO call strikes at
their discretion.
At Washington, CIO President
Philip Murray demanded that la
Dor be permitted to participate in
proposed census of defense pro-
production facilities. John d. Big
gers of the office of production man.
agement had suggested that the
survey be conducted by the Nation
al Association Of Manufacturers.
Murray protested that the NAM
and other organizations have sought
longer working hours and "the
breaking down of labor standards in
the name of national defense" but
that the CIO had gathered statis-
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23

the interior There we're several
hundred fliers and few officers
and men from submarines. They
were sullen lot. particularly the
airnen. But aboard the same
ship, and in contrast TO the Ger
mans for whom the war was over,
were several hundred eager young
Britons, Australians. New Zealand
ers and Poles sent here under the
empire air training program TO be
made into pilots.
The number OF prisoners Waa
another military secret but it WAS
permissible TO say that there we're
SO many. they were taken from
the ship In groups OF 30 and march
ed past lines OF soldiers with fixed
bayonets, 10 their train.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23

the oak leaf of the knights of the
iron Cross. one of the four men
whom Hitler has so honored in this
war, and who was shot down in
the English channel Nov. %. A Ger
man communique Dec. said an
other German pilot had seen Wick
shot down just after he had brought
down his 56th enemy plane, that
the German pilot shot down the
British plane which got Wick. and
returned to search in vain for Wick
or his body. If the Canadian pris-
oner was Wick, it was assumed
that British ship rescued him.
The prisoners were landed yes
terday from a British ship, under
heavy guard, and put into a train
bound for an nternment camp in
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23
Draft Eyader Dies
In Gun Battle

PONTIAC, Ill, jan 90. (UP)-A
22-year-old youth who refused to
register for the draft died today
because he and his father chose
to fight it out with guns and knives
when u. S. marshal and deputy
sheriff came to arrest
He was Ernest Elsie, who declined
to register even after three warm
ings because he objected to the
brutality of war. His father, Martin,
48, who had supported him in his
stand, was in critical condition at
a hospital. Each had been shot three
times through the body.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23
Nozi Ace Escapes From
Cdnddion Prison Camp

AN EASTERN CANADIAN PORT,
Jan. 23.-CUP)-Two German war
prisoners, from a consignment of
several hundred former fliers and
U-boat crew members, celebrated
their first night in Canada last
night by escaping. One was re-
captured Immediately. The other
was still at large. 1t was under
stood that one of the two was a
famous ace. about 25 years old.
Canadian censorship prohibits
any mention of war prisoners
names. but 1t was believed that
the ace mentioned might be Maj.
Helmuth Wick, 25, commander of
the Richthofen squadron who had
been credited with shooting down
Sc allied planes, had been decorated
personally by Adolf Hitler with
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23
BRITISH SMASH FOE OUT OF WEST LIBYA
Judge Suspends Terms Of Sailors
Who Cut Down Swastika at Consulate

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 23. CUP)
Two U. S. navy seamen who tore
down the Swastika ensign of TIE
German consulate here were given
suspended sentences in police court
here today and were turned over
to naval authorities for future pun
ishment.
In sentencing Harold Sturtevant
10, and E. G. LGckey, 20, to three
months in jail en- charges of ma
licious mischief and then suspend
ing the sentences, Municipal Judge
Peter Mullins said he had been
assured by the navy that two
would be dealt with adequately"
For that reason and because
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23

under our theory of law no one
shall suffer punishment twice for
on offense, I am going to impose
suspended sentence, the court
to retain all jurisdiction given by
law Mullins said.
Sturtevant and Lackey, former
patients in the psychopatic ward of
Mare island navy yard hospital
stood quietly between two U. S
marine guards before Mullins. They
appeared somewhat sheepish in
contrast to the ebullience they dis
played Saturday in climbing fire
escape and risking their lives to
tear down the flag the consulate
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23

Expenditure of $l94,0OO 1000 for
provide shipyard facilities for these
auxiliaries and further speed con-
struction of combat ships for the
two-ocean navy
Expenditure of $194,00O0O0 for
more gun and armor factories to
keep the supply of this ordnance
abreast of the shipbuilding speed
up.
Immediate increase of the num-
ber of naval academy midshipmen
to provide more officers for the ex-
panding navy; each member of
congress will have five instead OF
four appointments this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23

Uy Il. W. BIacKburn, secretary OF
the American Farm Bureau Feder-
alton. Blackburn will outline the
farmers part in national defense
as well as the aims of the national
farm bureau.
Other afternoon speakers will in
clude Hoober, Dick Blackburn. vice
president of the state federation,
and Frank Beyschlag, county farm
advisor.
The afternoon meeting at the
Planters hotel in Brawley will be
preceded by commodity group ses-
SionS at Brawley high school in the
morning. Commodity groups in
Guiding tax, field crop, livestock.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23
BrawIeyite Heads
Hipass Leaders

Paul Figaro of Brawley We'd
nesday night was elected presi-
dent of the Hipass Health assO-
citation at an executive board
meeting in the court house i'm Ell
Centre.
Other officers elected were
Charles Spery of Caiipatrias
vice-president; Mrs. r. w. Ware
of Ell Centre, secretary; Phil
Hoffman of Ell Centre, treasurer;
and Mrs. r. N. Keller of Braw-
ley, fifth executive board men,
Der.
Business in connection with
the Legion camp for underpriv-
ileged children will be held later.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23
DAN WEST RECEIVING
CALLERS AT HOSPITAL

Assessor Collector Dan West, who
suffered heart attack late in Mo-
vember, is sufficiently recovered to
receive callers at the Ell Centre
hospital.
He is able to sit in a wheel chair
now and expects to be released from
the hospital in about two weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23

congress lose no Time IN granting
his request for $313,5O0, 900 to fin
ance the program were conveyed
by senate Democratic Leader Alben
w. Barkley who called at the White
House yesterday.
The house was geared for high
speed approval of national defense
legislation, advancing the $l,209 900
naval expansion program. In the
last two days it was passed and sent
to the senate authorizations for:
Modernization of the fleets anti
aircraft defenses costing 100000, =
600.
Construction of 400 naval auxil-
iaries costing $40O,0OO,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23

citrus and dairy committees, will
meet at 9:45, Hoober said.
Resolutions approved by the COM
mittees will be presented at the
afternoon session.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23

It isn't always like this when passenger auto his truck but
here time The truck off second best Above photo
shows Earl Jones' the driver beside his truck after accident
the HoveEI Centro highway Below The sedan that
was driven by Earl A. Beck, Hove The motors bounced out
OF both vehicles Beck the only hurt and not critically
The photographs taken by Officer Tman Daley Of the
California Hig ghway Patrol Immediately after the accident
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23
200 Farmers to
Join in PorIev

More than 200 farmers from six southern California
countries comprising Region No farm bureau, will at
tend the annual regional meeting Brawley Saturday.
cording to C. o. Hoober, regional director
Feature of the meeting Hoober said, will be address
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23
FDR Urges Speed
In Shi p Program

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. (UP)-President RoOsevelt's
eagerness for immediate approval of appropriation
for construction of 200 ugly duckng steel cargo vessels
reayed to today after the house agreed
consider the bill tomorrow. The presidents wishes thai
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23
Indy Doubtful
Of fNuzi Defeat

WASHINGTON Jan. %. (UP)-Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh said today he believed that American entry
into the with Great Britain could not bring victory
without internal collapse in Germany
Testfyng before the house foreign affairs committee
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23
Defense Strikes
Close ; Plants
BY UNITED PRESS

Labor disputes in defense industries centered Thursday
in the middle west where strikes closed three heavy mach
nery plants and there threats of wakous other
plants workers pressed their demands for higher wages
and union recognition. Production halted at the Als-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23
Raj ReneWs Air
Offensive Over
Ndzi Territory
Tanks. Planes Storm Into Attack Against
Next Obje ctive After Tobruk Falls to
One Day Assault; Ruhr Plants Bombed
- BY UNITED PRESS =

Great Britain threatened Thursday to drive the Italians
completely out of western Lbya advance tanks and
Royal force planes followed the capture of Tobruk
by starting to batter Derna The British brought their
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23
y AMBlINe
(\EpoR1ER

Friendly Gesture
Where this came from we haven't
been able to figure out, but it was
on our typewriter:
IF more people would train theil
chickens like w. T. Battle of the
CaleXico district, our budget prob
lem might work out. He has a
chicken that will climb into your
car and lay an egg if you park in
the yard!
"CAly requirement the hen makes
is that you allow her little timer
Adds sort of a friendly touch tC
the home, doesn't it? Send the
stranger away with a gift. Just
part of the hospitality.
What we want to know is how
many times a day can the chicken
do the honors.
Poly :. whO?-
=. BY Polyzoides . . I Won
der who that is?" Mrs, Nolan (Dee-
die to her friends) Smith pondered
as she read over column in a
Los Angeles newspaper.
Figuring that probably Polyzoides
was trick name for columnist,
like Mark Twain or Lamplighter
or Benchwarmer (rather distin-
guished company for the latter
Mrs. Smith looked the name up in a
dictionary. Closest she could get
was Polyzoa
Some form of that, | presume" ="
she thought TO herself and read
further.
"Hmmm. 1t says: "A class of
aquatic, mostly marine. animals
which reproduce by budding :"
She looked back at the headline
OF the story over Poly's by-line. 1t
was something about the lessened
intensity of German bombings, How
on earth could there be a connec-
tion between fish and bombings?
Ebert Berry finally came to the
rescue. He informed Mrs. Smith
that Polyzoides was no fish but
distinguished professor of Greek
and journalism at use.
Probably his first name wasn't
given because, after ALL there is
only so much room on a line of
type.
Picking on EN-
If this keeps up, the city council
Is going to rise up and protest
against discrimination.
Last week Yves He'll got a traf-
fic ticket and noW-horror of
horors-Charlie Bratton's dog, Fri
day, has been picked up for stray
and been forced to suffer the indig-
nifty of temporary Incarceration in
the dog pound!
Charlie explained that the dog
had escaped from his pen. although
ne is properly licensed and SO on.
and paid up like a gentleman.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-23

Lettuce: Demand very good.
Market steady. F. o. b. cash track
So $l.75; As mostly $1.50; 6s $l.5O-
$1.65.
(See Page for Dairy Mkts.)
L. A. hay; U. S. No. I Nv. $17-17.sO:
u. S. No. 2 leafy, $l4-$15; u. 3.
No. 2 $H-Sl3; Mpls. May flax
$l.76M.
Evening star., 1941-01-04
Room in Attic.

G. 7 plan to build a room IN my
unfinished attic and want it insu-
lated against summer heat and
winter cold. What do you recon-
mend?
A. You can get good results by
putting aluminium foil or blanket in
sllation between the rafters and
building the walls and ceiling of the
new room Of insulating board on a
framework of 2X4S.
Evening star., 1941-01-04

more than per cent on the ma
tional average and while few ma
terials have logged sharply upward
(notably lumber, up about 10 per
cent, the general cost picture is
much less alarming than during
World War I.
Price Controls Available.
To-day, as never before. the
United States is familiar with the
dangers of initiation. is we'll equipped
to keep tabs on its makings and,
once it rears its ugly head too far. is
ready to counter attack with the
many price controls now in the
hands of business management and
Government. Moreover. there ap-
parently is nothing in the national
supply demand picture of any of
buildings basic raw materials to
warrant a general runaway price
rise now or in the visible future.
Other dark clouds on the build
ing horizon which make all fore
casting hazardous include the pos
sibilities of Cd a building labor short
age which would bottleneck all con-
struction activity and dictate higher
costs for those projects that would
go forward, and % a system of Gov
ernment priorities which would
Evening star., 1941-01-04

Editors Note: Mr.. Whitman
DtH dnSWer as mann letters as
possible through this column. He
cannot GnSWer personally, so
please do not send stamps.
Evening star., 1941-01-04
Era Of Speculative
Home Building Seen

More houses will be built speCu-
latively during the next few years
than has been characteristic in re-
cent years, according to the report
of the committee on construction
loan policies and procedures of the
United States Savings and Loan
League. Drawn up at the recent
convention of the league, with NJ, K.
M. Murphy, Rutherford, N. j.. as
chairman, the report is being circu-
lated this week to the leagues mem
ber institutions. 1t suggests that
the coming years will see larger
supply of financing for the builders
coming from savings, building and
loan institutions.
Conditions have changed to the
extent that only so per cent of the
homes erected today are built to
order for an owner, the balance
being built speculatively by opera
tive builders who build from one to
300 houses year" said the report.
In its study of savings and loan
associations. the committee found
that 80 per cent of those inter-
viewed already make loans to whole
sale builders.
Evening star., 1941-01-04

g. We do not get adequate heat
from our furnace. Upstairs is cold
while the basement is uncomfortably
hot. What would YOU suggest?
A. If you heat by steam or hot
water YOU should put heavy coat
of insulation on the boiler as we'll as
on the pipes. If you have hot-air
heat you are not getting a proper
flow of air through the jacket. This
may be because of Instructions in
side or because the cool-air inlet is
too small. Have the furnace in
spected by competent heating man.
X *
Editnr's Note. Mr. Whit,nnn
Evening star., 1941-01-04

a comfortable 9 per cent from 1910"
Basing its 1910 construction figures
on estimates of actual expenditures
for materials and labor in the en-
tire country as prepared by the De-
partment of Commerce, and project
ing 1941 figures on a comparable
basis, the Architectural Forum also
points out that while most factors
indicate a general advance during
the coming year there are also some
discouraging possibilities.
Cost BugabOO Threatens.
Biggest bugaboo on the building
horizon is the active possibility of
an abrupt price rise for both ma
terials and labor" the magazine eX-
plains. IF building costs advance
sharply this year, all forecasts would
be kicked quickly into cooked hat,
for comparatively unessential psi
vately financed building activity
Presidential, commercial, and other
non-residentialD would level off or
decrease and, while the more es-
sential building types privately
financed manufacturing plants and
almost all forms of public construc-
tom would be completed, they would
involve expenditures greatly in eX-
cess of those forecast.
For example: Prediction Of, say,
a 20 per cent increase in private IN
dustrial construction could be full
filled either by a 20 per cent in
crease in the square feet Of floor
space produced at unchanged unit
costs or by a 20 per cent rise in costs
without any increase in the floor
area production rate. And this illus
trative assumption is not as far
fetched as it might seem; during
single year of the previous national
emergency 1910 construction costs
Jumped exactly 20 per cent.
Fortunately, this assumption Is
more possible than probable the
Architectural Forum states. While
construction costs have gently risen
during the past six months mot
Evening star., 1941-01-04

stifle non-essential private construc-
ton.
Neither is an immediate prospect,
although consumption will surely de-
plete the ranks of building labor" "
the Architectural Forum declares.
The latter possibility will remain
on the shelf as long as the United
States remains at peace. For OBJ
viouS reasons, a United States de-
claration of war and, to a lesser eX-
tent, European negotiation of
peace would be ample justification
for calling off all l941 building bets.
The effect on building activity of
either event would be Oppressive, but
to an unpredictable extent.
Such. briefly, are the discourag-
ing possibilities which, alone, would
give building sad opinion of 194l
There are. however, many and pow
erful elements working in the oppo-
site direction"