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Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07
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To Elect Officers
Friday Evening

Members of the El Centro Cham
ber of Commerce Wednesday pre-
pared for their annual election OF
directors scheduled fol Friday.
Ballots sent members must be
marked and taken to chamber head
quarters between noon and 5 pm
Friday.
Those who vote may select nine
from a list of 18 candidates to serve
with those elected last year for .
two-year term.
The candidates include Arnold M
Blackburn, John w. Tyler, Charles
C. Bramkamp, Jasper L. Travers
Charles L. Childers, William A
Tondro w. J. Clements, w. A
Scheniman, Wiley A. Cole, P. E
Ryerson, william G. Outlook, w. H
Rhodes, Fred Ferguson, Harry E
Friedley, James H. Marshall, Hazel
Gallagher, Hugh C. Latham, and
Stevens II. Harris.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07
Santa Cruz Names
Edwin Rich Mayor

SANTA CRUZ, Cal, May 7 (UP)
Edwin Rich was elected mayor of
Santa Cruz in an upset over in
cumbent c, D. Hinkle in yester-
days municipal balloting. A record
6780 votes was cast, 1900 more than
ever had been cast before. Richs
election was regarded as a protest
against past city politics.
A $150,O00 bond issue for a mu-
ni'ipal airport failed to pass by the
required two-thirds majority, al
though its plurality was 3400 to 1900.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07
WORMS MAY BE a REASON
Why Your Child
Cant Gain Weight

Face the facts: It's easy for anybody. anv.
where, to Catch" roundworms. And If the
awful creatures are living and growing in
side your child. that may be why the young
ster is pale, thin, nervous. Other signs of
stomach. fingernail biting. ' 1'AAS'''''
ACT now Drive out roundworms before they
can can get set and cause trouble Use Jayne's
xermliuge-Am.erica's best known proprie-
.ary werm medicine = scientifically tested
lions OF cases. Jayne's expels stubborn worms.
YET acts very gently. If there are no worms
y works merely as mild laxative. Insist on
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07
Fund for Provazek
Girl Doubled By
New Contributions

A fund to help Lavina Proyazek,
Ell Centro girl victim of a strange
coma, had doubled Wednesday on
the strength of new contributions
reported by Joe Ryba, family friend
and in charge of the funds cam
paign.
Ryba reported that $86 has been
gathered so tar which will go to-
ward defraying hospital expenses
incurred in the three months since
Lavina was injured in an automo-
bile accident at Boulevard.
The girl shifted from a San
Diego hospital to the Ell Centre
hospital and has been there ever
since, powerless to talk but recently
able TO move arms and legs.
Donations may be made to Ryba
or at the Post-Press offices.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May 7. CUP)
Sally Rand, fan dancer, didn't 90
right by 1000 Harvard freshmen
last night. She made them prom
ise and didn't keep 1t.
Appearing at the freshmen smoker
in Sanders theater, the freshmen
chanted, Take them eff, take them
off Miss Rand replied: Il will II
you will"
Instantly, coats, shirts, neckties,
undershirts were shoWering down
onto the stage around her feet from
the balcony and all over the house.
The audience, almost to man, was
busily disrobing.
But Miss Rand didn't so much as
unzip a Upper. Instead she cried
out above the din: This is some
thing I never thought of before,
but I think of it now. I've never
danced a Viennese waltz with a
Harvard man."
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07
Deposits Honor
Giannini Birthday

An extraordinary gift of $180,000,-
600 in new deposits was made to
A. p. Giannini Wednesday on his
list birthday by employees of Bank
Of America, bringing total deposits
of the bank to the new all-time
high of S1,710,000,000.
A year ago. during a statewide OBJ
servance of their founders 10th an
niversary, the staff pledged unani-
mously that on his next birthday
they would present the bank, in
his name, with a record gain in
new deposits totalling not less than
Sl50,000,000.
Today, Giannini was notified
that the goal not only had been
achieved but had been exceeded by
S30,000000.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07
Escapes Jailed
For Auto Theft

SALT LAKE CITY, May 7 CUP)
Ralph Knight and George Bro
deur, each 81 of Los Angeles, were
charged with a Dyer act violation
today and lodged In the Salt Lake
county Jail.
The two youths were arrested in
vernal earlier this week but escaped
from the Vernal Jail. bound and
tied housewife and stole her car
They attempted TO flee into Colo
rado, but were captured just across
the border by Sheriff Herbert Sny-
der after a wild, l0o-mile-an-hour
chase.
The Dyer act charge accused
them of stealing a car belonging TO
Leonard Edwards in Los Angeles
and driving it TO Utah.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07
Bedroom Staying
Aired at Trial

only in his underclothing. lying on
the floor, wounded in several
places.
Laas said Hawkins told him he
had peeked through the bedroom
window and saw Thompson and his
wife, Jean, disrobe. WhAn they
turned off the light he went to his
automobile, ne said, for gun. Their
he surprised the couple.
Hawkins said he had returned
Unexpectedly from a visit in Han
ford, Cal, and that neither his wife
nor Thompson knew of his pres
ence When he snapped on the
light, Thompson made the best Of
a bad situation and asked TO talk
things over"
While Mrs. Hawkins was dress
ing, her husband tinue d.
Thompson threw an alarm clock
ar him He fired at Thompson, but
with no intention of killing him,
the husband said. Then they grap-
pied and three more shots were
fired.
Hawkins attorney, j. d. Willard,
in his opening statement to a jury
of five women and seven men,
sworn not 10 be influenced by the
alleged improprieties, said earlier
that Hawkins saw his wife and
Thompson unlress-"she down TO
her orassiere and panties; he down
u his shorts"
The prosecution branded the slay-
ing a cold -blooded murder" and
informed the jury that the "un-
written law" is not the law in Cal
ifornia
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07
Foreigners Write
EI Cenfro {. Of {.

Foreign correspondents of the E.
Centro Chamber OF Commerce this
week included a man from Obregor.
Sonora, Mexico, and one from Puer-
to Rico.
The Puerto Rican, A. Hernandez
Soto, said his company was in the
commission business and he wished
list of growers and shipper in
Imperial Valley The letter from
Mexico was from H. N. Norris, who
wanted to know if valley growers
have a wheat which can be grown
IN spring and summer. He was told
such a wheat was not grown in the
valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07
Strike Shuts Down
Nevada Cod Mines

GRASS VALLEY, Cal, May 7
UP)-Four struck Nevada county
gold mines were still idle today as
1900 members of the Independent
Mine Workers Protective league re-
fused to cross an unorganized pic
ket line and return to work.
President Olney Donnelly of the
league had declared he personally
would lead his members through
picket lines at the Idaho-MarylaHd,
New Brunswick, Scotia and Bull
Ion Mines, but observers said no
one appeared this morning to be
led. There were several hundred
men around the mines when theA
first shift was scheduled to go to
hit they were mostly sight
seers. There was no violence.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07
Germ
Seem en-
jailed

NEW YORK, May 7 (UP)-Im-
migration agents and police rounded
uo German seamen on the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts today charging
them with oyerstaying their leaves
in this country.
Officials did not disclose the num-
Der taken into custody, but detec-
tives who participated in the early
morning raids on New York ho-
tells, taverns. and rooming houses
said they understood about lao
would be taken in custody here and
100 more elsewhere in the nation
More than 100 seamen, described
as former crew members of Stand
ard Oil company tankers. were ar
rested in synchroniZed raids which
began at a. m. in the metropolitan
area. They were taken to Ellis island.
One immigration official said they
would be taken later Ito a mid
western or western concentration
camp"
The men were arrested on war
rants charging violation of the law
permitting foreign seamen who have
been laid off ships 60-day time
limit in this country.
In San Francisco, four German
seamen formerly employed on
American oil tankers operating on
the east coast were detained. The
four had been denied passage to
Japan by the japanese consulate
last Saturday.
Two German seamen were arrest
ed in Jersey City and Bayonne, N.
j., and two more were taken into
custody at Quakertown, Pa.
Those arrested in New York had
their living expenses paid by the
Standard Oil company, which posted
their immigration bonds. None re-
sisted arrest and one told police.
We've been expecting something
like this for a long time
Granted time to gather up their
belongings, the seamen were booked
at police stations and then marched
between lines Of coast guardsmen
to boats bound for Ellis island. Near
ly 90 immigration officers partici-
pated in the raids, some of them
being brought here from Canadian
border patrol duty for the round
| up.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07
Colorado Basin
Meeting Adjourns

SALT LAKE CITY, May 7 CUP)-
The committee of ID representing
the seven Colorado river basin
states met here last might but ad-
journed without issuing any state
ment on the discussions or the
purpose of the session.
only business transacted publicly
was approval Of report by Utah
Attorney General Grover A. Giles
on the legal aspects OF Arizona's S
application for permission to build
a dam AT Bridge Canyon.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07

Plans for l94l Dairy Day pro-
gressed rapidly Wednesday as COM
mittees prepared for the annual
event tentatively set this year for
May "a.
Present plans call for the event
to be staged in the Ell Centro sta
dium. Those invited to speak in
clude Roger Jessop, chairman of the
Los Angeles county board of su-
pervisors and a dairy owner; Sam
Green, manager of the California
Dairy council; and Luther Gordon,
dairy authority.
Young dairying." Robert Hays,
manager of the Ell Centre Chamber
of Commerce, said Wednesday,
will be the theme of dairy day
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07
Union Postpol,es.
Cannery Strike

OAKLAND, Cal, May CUP)-
A threatened strike OF AFL Cas-
merry workers, set for today, has
been postponed until Wednesday
morning while negotiators for the
California Professors and Growers,
Inc, canvass employers concern
ing possible new proposal to the
Union.
The strike against SO northern
California canneries was tempor-
arily alleviated at the. requeet of
Federal Conciliator Stanley White
on Saturday night, and Dan F'lana-
gan, AFL representative, declared
his group had "a reasonable hope"
the employers would offer improve
ments. -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07
Roosevelt Better;
Stomach Upset

WASHINGTON. Nay 7 CUP)-
President Roosevelt today was re-
covering from an upset stomach
Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire
White House physician, said Mr.
Roosevelt was sleeping comfortably
late this morning.
DR.. McIntire said the president
would not be entirely recovered TO-
day but that he expected much
Improvement"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07
This Boy Doesn't
Love His Mother

NEW YORK, May 7. (UP)-
Love for ones mother, extOlled
by $50 entrants in the Boys
Athletic League essay contest,
was jolted by the 56Oth, who
wrote:
81 don't love Mother cause
she makes me wash my ears
every morning. l don't like her
most because I can play hOOkey
any more. She'll tell the. truant
officer"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07
u. S. WILL REPAIR
SEIZED VESSELS

WASHINGTON, May 7 (UP)-The
maritime commission has ordered
repair of 27 seized Italian vessels,
it was learned today.
The ships represent all but one
of the italian vessels taken into
protective custody" a month ago,
along with two German and 70
Danish ships. Twenty-Five Italian
ships and one German ship were
sabotaged by their crews.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-07
MAN DIES AFTER
ATTENDING FUNERAL

LOS ANGELES, May UP)-
T. G. Sheldon, AZ, railroad clerk
collapsed and died at the union
station late yesterday as he and
his wife were about to board train
and return TO their home at Des
Moines, Ia, after attending the
funeral of their daughter, Mrs. j.
H. Halpin.
Evening star., 1941-12-07
Medical Society to Hear
Talk on Chest Diseases

DR.. George Ornsteln Of New YORK
City will speak on common chest
diseases, with special reference to
differences in diagnosis and treat
ment, at a meeting of the District
Medical Society at its headquarters,
17l8 M street NV, at 8 pm. We'd
nesday.
The District tuberculosis Associa-
ton and the society's subcommittee
on tuberculosis have arranged the
meeting. Exhibits on modern chest
X-ray methods and the morphologic
biology of tuberculosis. loaned by
the National tuberculosis Associa-
ton, will be on display.
Evening star., 1941-12-07

tried bit of sympathy, "I've always
been left-handed. :"
have been trying to picture what
those men went through aboard the
hospital ship before we arrived to
pick them up. 1t must have been
incredible hell.
Burns to She'll
The ship burned herself into q
shell in an unbelievably short time,
trapping many injured men below.
Yet, in spite Of the inferno which
she became, not one wounded man
who could be saved was left behind
They were dragged to the red hot
decks by their not-so- badly hurt
mates and, somehow, were got over
the side, despite the machine gun
ming Nazi overhead. Boot soles
burned away. their clothes smould-
ering and falling off their bodies as
they labored, the unknown heroes
actually saved twice the number of
men who lost their lives.
Would that I could tell their
names. But I can't. For when !
asked the survivors who among
them were the men who had per-
formed this miracle of rescue at
sea-not one could tell me, because
they could not remember!
They just did it. That was all.
Evening star., 1941-12-07

dived on seeing the plane. We went
after it.
Just getting dusk when we con-
tacted. We dropped depth charges.
When they had died away we could
still spot" the submarine beneath
us. So We swung in to attack again.
Another pattern of charges and
nothing more was heard.
Leaving another escort to keep
an eye on things, we went back to
join the convoy.
Nearing midnight, a star-shell
flashed into the sky ahead. We
revved to full speed Catching up
the convoy, We learned that u
boat attack had been made, A
corvette was carrying out a counter
attack as we arrived.
Two ships had been torpedoed
and the rescue ship had picked up
survivors-a tricky job in the black
of night with U-boats still around.
Silence Follows Attack.
Eighth day continuation of the
nightl.-Prowled around looking for
the U-boats that had attacked
2 am-contacted one close in. I
had turned in half an hour earlier
The alarm rattlers woke me, and l
chased up to the bridge, putting up
lifebelt as l ran.
We're almost on top of him, y
said the captain. Within five min
utes our attack was carried out
Depth charges blasted the sea. A
fare went with them to mark where
the charges had been dropped.
We circled and listened E. minutes
passed in silence. Then there was
a dull, underwater explosion, fol-
lowed. three minutes later. by
another. l. looks good stayed
searching for three hours without
getting another sign of the Hun
Very nice work, I hope!
Same day slept until 10 this
morning. Was called on deck and
told that the rescue ship, carrying
all the survivors of the lost ships
had just reported an aircraft attack
She was some miles astern Of tn
Evening star., 1941-12-07

convoy, having been delayed by the
previous nights rescue work and
gone off course. Later she reported
that they were taking to the boats.
Smoke on Horizon.
12:45 d. m.-Column of smoke on
horizon. AS we drew nearer saw
about a dozen boats and RATS IN
the water around the burning ship.
They were packed with men, many
of them injured.
We picked up all of them. 1t was
a heart-tearing job. Thank the
fates that the sea was calm! Scarcely
a man had escaped injury of some
kind. The burns of some were
ghastlv. and others had machine-gun
wounds, for the aircraft, a Focke-
Wulf Condor, had swept across the
helpless ship machine-gunnlng as
we'll as bombing it.
A bomb had torn through the
sick-bay and exploded in the hold
beneath, starting a huge fire at
once. The injured men lying in the
sick-bay fell through into this fur
mace as the sick-bay deck collapsed.
All of those men were lost, God rest
their brave souls.
Blazing fiercely, the hulk presented
a grim, fearsome picture in the
fading afternoon sun. The flames,
deep red, slashed through the pail
of smoke which hung over her :.
We sank her by gunflre.
More Rats Found.
I thought We had surely finished
our rescue work for one day, at
least. after this. But no. Around
midnight (same day, going back
to the convoy, our decks crowded
with survivors, we sighted flares in
the darkness.
Twenty minutes later We found
two RATS carrying five men from
another cargo ship sunk by U-boat
She had been a straggler from oul
convoy the previous night, and the
submarine had picked her up be-
fore she had been able to rejoin.
Ninth day-Uninjured and walk
Evening star., 1941-12-07
Homemukers' Council
To Meet on Tuesday
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, Dec. Cdr
Harold Hand of the faculty Of the
University of Maryland will be the
principal speaker at the annual
meeting of the Montgomery Coun-
Gil of Homemakers' Clubs Tues
day at St Martins Hall, it was
announced by Miss Edythe M
Turner, county home demonstration
agent His subject will be, Build
ing Practices to Correspond to Good
Ideas"
Other features of the program will
be style show playlet by the
Dickerson-Po -Poolesville Club, and sew
eral exhibits.
officers chosen, who will be for
mally elected at the meeting, are
Mrs. Philip Watkins, president; Mrs
Walter B. Armstrong and Mrs. Vim.
Evening star., 1941-12-07

ing cases among the survivors
aboard were transferred this after
noon to another of the escort ships.
We had no room for them. We are
overcrowded even now with the in
jured
Doctor from another escort came
aboard to help our surgeon lieu
tenant, whose work, with his hand
full Of helpers in the sick bay, has
been toe magnificent for words. He
is a young man, product OF Lon
don hospital, and before coming to
sea he had any amount of experience
of mass casualty work in the blitzes
on London.
Tenth day-H. A. Hall, chief en-
gineer of the rescue ship, died
aboard this evening and we buried
him at sea-
Eleventh day-Another of the in
jured men has died. He was w. j.
Furlong, second engineer of an Fire
merchantmen lost some days ago.
He had been taken aboard the res
cue ship.
Tremendous Bravery.
Twelfth and subsequent days-1
have known bravery in this war. I
have seen it in all kinds of places.
Yet I have seen nothing to equal
the tremendous heroism with which
some of our injured men are bear
ing their agonies.
One had a piece of shrapnel 6
inches deep in his body. With no
anaesthetic, he set his teeth and
stuck it while the doctor probed into
the wound and removed it. Then he
grinned. through ashen lips, and
said, Thanks, Doc. Can l keep it
as a souvenir?'
One lad had lost an eye. He said
when he learned about it, We'll. this
eye nearly kept me out of the mer-
chant navy in the first place, so its
not much loss!"
Another his right hand burned
almost away, commented, when
Evening star., 1941-12-07
Uprising in Europe
Certain by Spring,
Historian Predicts
Death Toll Will Turn
German People Against
Hitler, Says Dr.. Rugutz

DR.. Lowell Joseph Ragatz, pro-
fessor of European history at George
Washington University, yesterday
told a gathering of bIgh school STU
dents that general uprisingS among
the conquered peoples OF Europe
are certain by next spring, but he
warned the defeat of Hitler will not
be complete until the war is carried
to the heart of Germany itself.
DR.. Ragatz, who last spring fore
cast Hitler's invasion of Yugoslavla
Greece and Russia, predicted Ger
manv's huge death toll finally Will
turn the German people against
him.
The defeat of Hitler will cost
considerable blood and money, he
said, but both should be poured
out unstintingly now in order TO
crush the Hitlerian system as cheap
insurance against another great war
In another generation or so.
The war should be carried INTO
the heart of Germany Itself. Inc
country must be overrun and put
under strict military rule. Germans
must have a taste of their own med
icine. They must be thoroughly de-
feated but then given square deal
In the peace settlement
Military Training Approved.
DR.. Ragatz spoke before lunch
con meeting of 200 delegates from
the District and nearby States at
tending the universitys 9Th annual
high school debate conference.
The students earlier in the DAY
edopted resolutions voicing APPROX
al of a continuing program OF COM
uulsorv military training OF youth
below the present draft age. This
subject. chosen as the topic for high
school debates, was argued at the
opening session of the conference ov
q representative of the Selectve
Service system and a speaker from
tn Peoples Lobby.
The conference declared such g
program would lessen our liability
to future emergencies improve this
Nations foreign relations. beneflt
the health of American youth. re-
tnforce the American educational
system and would be in perfect ac-
cordance with democratic principles
A strong minority argued. without
success. that universal conscriptlon
would be detrimental to the charac-
ter of American youth.
War Picture Improves.
DR.. Ragatz told the group that
the war picture has improved In
recent weeks. but that many peo-
pie still permit blind fear. terror
and belief in the inevitabillty OF q
Hitler victory to grip their minds"
He said this was unwarranted be-
cause Hitler has not won "one single
great contest" Victory in Poland
was a walkaWay. Denmark had no
army: Norway, Belgium and Hol-
land were overwhelmed by superior
numbers and fifth column work;
France was rotten and corrupt. and
in Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete
again it was superior numbers that
told the story. he said
DR.. Ragatz said the Russian con-
flict was Hitler's great mistake, be-
cause it has given Britain and
America time needed to prepare
Civil war is brewing in Italy and in
France. and the democracies will
be able to use these countries as
penetration points, he predicted.
Evening star., 1941-12-07
Housing Association
To Hear Mrs. Rosenmun

Mrs. Samuel l. Rosenman of New
York City. chairman of the Ma
tional Committee on the Housing
Emergency, will be the principal
speaker at a meeting of the Wash
ington Housing Association in the
United States Chamber of Com
merce auditorium at pm. tOmor-
row. She will discuss the place of
defense housing in the orderly
growth of a city.
Other speakers will include John
II. Fahey, chairman of the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board; Sullivan
Jones. chief of the Housing Priori-
ties Section, Office of Production
Management. and Renah F. Cam
alier, counsel to the Senate District
Committee The motion picture. "A
Place to Live" will be shown at
$50 pm.