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Smyrna times., 1941-11-20

heartfelt meaning to Thanksgiving.
So let us gather, young and old,
the proud and the humble, in
thankfulness around the Thanks
giving table. Over this important
feast day meal we naturally expend
thought, time and effort. Even so,
there are many modern quirks to
help along the good work which
Thanksgiving cooks of former gen.
erations knew nothing about.
For instance, consider this Thanks
giving Dinner menu:
Pass Tomato Juice Cocktail sfyIe)
in the LiUing Room before
going to table.
Smyrna times., 1941-11-20

final effort to insure continued pro-
duction of coal for the manufac-
ture of STEEL" The UNIV acceded
to the Presidents request that
work in the captive mines continue
pending further negotiations.
Lend-Lease Aid
President Roosevelt authorized
Lend-Lease Administrator Stettin-
ius ito take immediate action to
Smyrna times., 1941-11-20

eliminates the job of pea shelling
The cranberry jelly may be canned
variety, eased quivering, richly
fragrant into a dish. Bakers rolls
are another present day help.
In many families the turkey stuff
fing is almost a tradition, not to be
tampered with on pain of family
displeasure. However. If you as
chief high cook are free to make
your own traditions, here is stuff
fing of delicate and beautiful flavor.
Oyster-Gumbo Stuffing
cups grated bread
dozen oysters, chopped finely
cans condensed chicken gumbo
soup
4 tablespoons butter
Crate or chop 2-3 day old bread.
Chop oysters very fine and mix with
the bread. Then add the chicken
gumbo soup and the melted butter.
AS a grand climax-this rich and
fruity pudding:
Steamed Fig Pudding
cups flour. sifted
l teaspoon cinnamon
" teaspoon nutmeg
teaspoons baking powder
Y teaspoon baking soda
11S cups chopped figs
tablespoons shortening
l cup sugar
l egg, beaten
/ can condensed tomato soup
Sift flour, then measure, add
spices, baking powder and baking
soda and sift again. Wash the figs
and dry thoroughly, then chop and
combine with 2 tablespoons of the
-four mixture. Cream the shorten
ing, and add sugar gradually Add
beaten egg and mix thoroughly.
Then add the flour alternately with
the tomato soup. Stir until the mix
ture is smooth. Then fold in the
figs. Put in a buttered mold and
steam for 2 hours. Serves $40. :
Foamy Orange Sauce:
Y cup butter
Il cup confectioner's sugar
! teaspoon orange rind, grated
l egg, separated
tablespoons orange juice
Crate the orange rind and to it
add the orange juice. Cream the
butter thoroughly. Add the confec-
toners sugar, and mix. Stir in the
egg yolk. then the orange juice.
Fold in the beaten egg white. Serve
l spoonful on each piece of pudding.
Smyrna times., 1941-11-20
This Week
In Defense

Congress passed and sent to the
White House legislation to repeal
three key sections of the Neutral
itv Section 2, banning mer-
chant ship entry into bellgerent
ports; Section 8, barring combat
zone tavel; and Section 8, prohibit
ing arming of ships.
Navy Secretary Knox issued
statement that removal of the Neu-
trality Act shipping restrictions
makes it possible to get the de-
tense aid materials authorized by
Congress for use in the war against
the Axis powers transported to
those positions where they can be
usefully employed. 1t also insures
that the war efforts of the Brit
ish Commonwealth, of China and
Russia, hold out greatly increased
promise of ultimate victory. ="
In an Armistice Day address
President Roosevelt said the United
States took up arms in 1917 ITO
make the world habitable for de-
cent self-respecting men," He said
the men who died then did so to
prevent the very thing that now..
has happened from one end of
Europe to the other..." The Pres
ident said the people of America
believe liberty is worth fighting for,
land if they are obliged to fight
they will fight eternally to hold it.
This duty we owe. to the many
who died to gain our freedom for
us-to make the world a place
where freedom can live and grow
into the ages"
Captive Coal Mine Dispute
The Defense Mediation Board
voted against a union shop agree
ment in the steel industry's captive
coal mines and stated the United
Mine Workers could greatly
strengthen their position before the
people of the United States" by re-
framing from further strike action.
President Roosevelt asked lead
ers of the steel industry and the
United Mine Workers to make "a
Smyrna times., 1941-11-20
Mock Turtle Soup
Roast Turkey ,oith Oysier-Gumbo

Roast Turkey Nth Oysier-Cumbo
Shutting
Mashed Potatoes Creamed Onions
Green Peas
Cranberry Jelly Celery Olipes
Hot Rolls
Steamed Thanksgiving Pudding
pith Foamy Orange Sauce
Coffee
For the mock turtle soup we
simply open canned soup. add an
equal quantity of water and heat.
The green peas, if we wish, can be
the frosted kind which thereby
Smyrna times., 1941-11-20

THE ARMY'S CHAM
PlON movie offender,
Kenneth Wilkinson. is
entertained by stu dio
at Hollywood night.
club. He pouses for re-
freshment otter dancing
with com ely film &C.
iress Sheilo Ryan.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
Lighting Contest
Checks Mailed

Checks for S108 in POst-PreSS
Christmas lighting prizes were
mailed to "a winners Monday.
Publisher Paul jenkins OF the
Post Press newspapers express
ed complete satisfaction with
this wears contest. and thanked
all who participated - contes-
tants. prize donors and Judges
alike.
"EI Centre should be very
grateful for the opportunity TO
display beautiful Christmas
lights this year, when even our
closest neighbors OH the coast
wcrevirtually barred from par
ticipation in events of this kind
as a result of the war" Jenkins
said
lie extended the thanks of
these newspapers to the many
Eel Centre businessmen and In
diyiduals who made possible the
distribution of substantial cash
awards, and to member of the
decOra ting committee of the
Ten Thousand club who SO un-
selfiShly gave their time to act
as judges in the contest the
night after Christmas.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
Women 0utnumber
Men in Listinqs

Three times as many women as
men have registered for defense
work but the registration is decid-
edly slow and authorities have ask
ed that Ell Centrans, men and wo-
men alike. register as soon as pos
sible at the Ten Thousand club,
Seventh and Olive.
Club members will be on duty
from 10 am. to 7 pm. daily Except
Sunday to take registration and
calls are coming in for various types
Of workers for defense projects,
particularly for volunteers for air
laid warning posts. Lieutenants for
the evening registration are Mrs.
Charles a. Bratton, Miss Mildred
Record, Mrs c. S. Reed, Mrs, David
Blank, Miss Eva Horton.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
1q41 Cali. Farm Income II Per Cent
Above Next Highest Year in History

SACRAMENTO Dec. 90 (UP) -
Director of Agriculture William j.
Cecil today announced cash farm
income in California in l94l would
be in excess of $8lOO0O.000, at leas'
IL per cent more than 1929, the
next highest year with $73O,OO0,O0O.
Based on estimates supplied by
the federal-State crop reporting ser
vice, Cecil said the cash farm in
come for the first nine months OF
the year was q per cent higher
than for the first nine months Of
1910
The total 1910 income was $685.
100000 and 1899, 1856, 100000
1T is to early to forecast what
production or prices will be in
1912" Cecil said, but since Cali
fornia farmers are responding
heartily to the requirements for in
creased food production under the
defense program, and because price
levels for farm products are, for
the first time in many years, on a
comparatively high level, it is rea-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
War Effor: DELAYS
CoacheIIa Canal

WASHINGTON, Dec. 90 CUP -
Secretary of the Interior Harold l..
Ickes today approved the bureau Of
reclamation's rejection of bids on
two power project construction jobs
50 that the funds earmarked for
tive construction might be diverted
to projects more directly connecteG
with the war effort.
Construction Of a 22-mile section
Oh the Coachella canal and a three
mile section Of the Duchesne tunnel
on the Colorado river were post
poned indefinitely.
Funds originally set aside for the
Duchesne tunnel will be turned over
to the 40-mile Salt Lake aqueduct
but no disposition has yc, been
made OF the funds which were to
have been employed on the CoacheI-
II project.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29


area and on Monday was extended
to include Arizona also.
Axis aliens were ordered to take
their radios and cameras and guns
to the Sheriff's office and police
stations themselves. Similar re-
quests of aliens in the rest Of the
nation, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin
Islands, were expected to be pro-
mulgated within a week.
Officers were instructed to issue
the aliens a receipt for their prop
erty.
Ell Centro police instructed the
aliens to take their radios to radio
technician and obtain an affidavit
showing the machine was not a
short wave receiver or that the short
wave appliance had been removed,
and the equipment would be return
ed Police said the FBI told them
this was permissible.
The order was based on COM
plants by military authorities that
unauthorized messages were being
sent and received on the west coast.
The ban on cameras was in connec-
ton with the governments drive
to eliminate espionage and fifth
column activities.
The cameras and radios, includ-
ing car and portable radios, were
ordered to be surrendered by II am.
Monday.
Wilful failLfe to surrender the
prohibited articles, Biddle said, will
result in their forfeiture and in the
apprehension of the alien for pos
sible internment in an Army con-
centration camp for the duration
of the war.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
kazis Forced to
Retreat in Libya

CAIRO. Dec. %. (UP)- British
headquarters reported today that
a German column attempting to
repulse British forces closing il
from the south on Axis units in the
Jedabaya area, 80 miles south OF
Benghazi. lost six tanks and was
forced to retreat.
Northeast of Jedabaya our artil-
lery successfully engaged an enemy
motor transport column the COM
munique added.
British planes were said to have
carried out new attacks on Bardia
as we'll as en- motor transports west
of Jedabaya.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29

from Fort Worth, Texas. told this
story
On the morning of Dec. IS be-
fore daylight, an enemy torpedo
landed aft. close to the crews sleep
ing quarters The ship shivered
and We knew we were hit.
Grabbing what clothes we could,
we made for the life-boatS, while we
felt the ship sinking rapidly. We
made the two life-boats and no
sooner had showed off than the ship
Sank-leSs than 10 minutes after
it had been hit. We saw the sub
plainly as we pulled away"
Their provisions were nearly ex-
hausted Christmas morning, when
a Navy plane sighted them.
We were nightly heartened when
big Navy seaplane sWooped down
and dropped a life preserver en-
closing big canvas bag filled with
provisions and also a caSk of drink
mg water" Bartholomew said. Boy,
were we glad to get that chow and
Waterl"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
Parole Board Appearances
Recall Two I,v. SIayinss

Minnie Hansen, convicted OF the
pairing knife murder of her hus-
band, Ed, in Brawley July 5, 1887,
and Gav.io M'anzano guilty of
killing cne HinduStandi and injur-
ing another i'll a payroll robbery
Nov. 49, 1882, were scheduled to
appear before the state advisory
pardon board Tuesday.
MIS-. Hansen, mother Of eight
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
u. 5. viii Train
New Wea:herrnen

WASHINGTON, Dec. 90 tUP) -
limited number of men between
20 and 27 will be trained in meteor
ologv in order to meet an increasing
demand for weather experts in the
Amy air forces, the war de.arl
ment said today.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
Valley FiHpinos
Fire on Jap Ponese

BRAWLEY, Dec 20. - FilipinoS
shot at a Japanese fish peddler who
called at ranch eight miles east
of Brawley Sunday but missed him
S. H. Morikawa. owner of a fish
market in Brawley told officers
that the islanders shot at him when
he called at a ranch on the High
line canal.
Deputy Sheriff Frank Raney, sent
to investigate, said the FilipinoS
had asked the Japanese not to visit
their ranches because they ARE not
buying from japanese now" Raney
was unable to find the gun whicn
was fired at MOrikawa or determine
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
us. MAKES STAND so MILES FROM NIAN|L A
Hell with Bonuses,
Let's Have Guns . =

san FRANCISCO, Dec. %
tUPD = The Sailors Union Of
the Pac fiC right now is more
interested in obtaining guns
TO protect our men" than in
bonuses AID insurance. Harry
Lundeberg, union secretary, said
today.
The question of bonuses and
insurance VIII come later"
Lundeberg SAID. Right now We,
as Americans and members of
the union that sails American
vessels, are interested In the
country"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
ityPrepares TO
Pave Commercial

FL Centre public works depart
ment monday began preliminary
"roughing- in" work on Commercial
avenue, preparatory to laying a
gravel foundation for oil surfacing.
Commercial is one of the streets
included in a % block project to
be financed with city-collected gaso-
line taxes.
Mayor Bob Hatton said the work
would be done piece-meal.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29

OWL 0E NeM DfIeAMS' NM Vas tA"'
route from Manila to Panama via
Honolulu. 1t carried a crew of "a
Nine were known to have perished
when the ship sank within 10 min
utes of the attack. The rescued sur
vivors said they lost contact with
another life-boat containing Capt.
G. H. Boy and - more crewmen.
The survivors were rescued Sat
urday by coast guard cutter They
were treated for contusionS, abraS-
ions and exposure and taken to
Queens hospital.
Sammy Bartholomew, an oller
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29

children, asked that sne be pard-
oned because she has had diff
Guilty in getting work, she said,
since she was paroled April l6 1910
after serving three years of an
eight-year prison term
Manzano and two companions,
one of them Lenado RenzOr, now
serving a life sentence in San
Quentin penntentiary, shot II d
killed Bran Singh while they were
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29

IdUUItT, UWU IIIIIVS VdHU UI IltUeI
late Sunday afternoon. Each car
did an about face after they crashed
at the intersection of highway SO
and Ill.
John S. Estes, &c, and G.. Hoover,
%, were injured in an accident west
of Imperial on Eighth street Sat
urday afternoon. A coupe driven by
Ulysses S. Toland, 35, Imperial
and sedan driven by John
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29

travelling in an automobile with
a $400 ranch payroll and tossed his
partner out OF the car fer dead.
The partner was not dead however
and recovered from his injuries
sufficiently to testify against his
assailants at their trial In superior
court. Manzano and Reznor were
SO bitterly antagonistic toward each
other that they had 10 be kept
separated
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29

tractor While MS frlend and nelgh-
Dor, Ray House, was driving it in
the Taylor field. Young House did
not miss his friend from the back
of the tractor until the first row OF
the disk had passed over his body
and the second was upon him, rela-
tiveS said.
Kenneth was conscious when Ray
reached him and talked to friends
while he was being rushed to the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
y AMBL!Ne
X EPORTER
Synthetic Exhaustion

Cecil Gillett sat in the grand
stand and watched the state guard
drill.
The GQarders marched and
marched and marched while Cecil
sat around and smoked In about
90 minutes he arose and started
to leave.
why are you leaving?" a friend
asked. They aren't through yet"
oh" Cecil yawned. I'm going
home. I'm all tired out with this
drilling"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29

sonable to expect tNat the 1912 cash
farm income will substantially eX-
ceed that returned to California
producers in l94l.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29

Ell Centro hospital. He rallied fire.
quently thereafter and talked TO his
relatives. Death came early Monday
morning.
Funeral arrangements were pend
ing Monday.
The boy is survived by his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. K. w. Taylor,
two sisters, Marjorie Jean and Viz
ginia Lee; and one brother, John.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
Survivors Tell
Of 0fTorpedoin9

HONOLULU, Dec. 20 (UP)-Thirteen members
of the 7000on American fregher PruSa told from hos
pita beds today how their ship torpedoed without
warning in the gray dawn of Dec. 18.
The vessel, owned by Lykes Brothers, registered
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29

Slaughter, 26, Calexico rancher, COL
lided when Toland ran through a
boulevard stop, officers were inform
ed. The Toland car overturned in a
ditch
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
Three Injured in
Nv. Auto Crashes
Intersection East Of Heber Scene Of
One Traffic Mishap During Weekend g;
Boulevard Stop Violation Causes End

Three persons suffered slight injuries in weekend traf
fc injuries in Imperial county.
Jack Walter Crump g. Bakersfield suffered injuries
in collision between car driven by Rene Boots Crump
Ell Centre salesman and Emanuel Osborn 25 Ell Centre
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
McCobe Boy. 13.
Dies Unde er Disc

Kenneth Taylor 49, McCabe school boy, died Monday
from injuries suffered Saturday when disk passed over
his body after he fell from a tractor into its path
The boy, of Mr.. and Mrs. K w. Taylor who live
south of McCabe, slipped and fell from the back OF the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
|. v. Axis Aliens
Turn lin Cameras,
Radios TO Police
Foreigners Here Hastento Fulfill U.S..
Order Aimed at Curbins Es pionage in
Western States: Short Wave Banned

Alien residents by tie dozens left cameras, guns and
radio receiving short and transmitting sets at the
Imperial county sherfs office and city police stations
Monday by order of United States Attorney Francis Bdde
The order applied to Japanese, German, and Italian
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
Magic Stuff

Magic Stuff
Practically all the youngsters IN
the neighborhood were playin g
Finch at the Jack Barker home
They waxed loud and merry as
the game progressed.
You had better be quiet" Mrs
Barker told the youngsters. "A
policeman usually calls on me about
this time in the afternoon.
The youngsters eyes grew round
idea, considering themselves be =
yond the age to be awed by police
men.
At that moment there was a roar
outside the house and Sgt. Cliff
Reed of the highway patrol stop
ped his motor in front of the Barker
home and walked in.
The youngsters eyes grew round
with surprise and they gazed at
Continued on Page 8, Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
Nippon BoISterS
invading Troops
For Great Attack
Macarthur Chooses battle-ground for
Decisive Conflict While Defenders Hold
Temporary Lines; Other Fronts Active
BY UNITED PRESS

Gen. Douglas Macarthur Monday marshaed his main
battle forces scart so miles north of Manila apparent
preparation for decisive battle against japanese invaders
pouring into LuzOn island from the north
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
Dutch
Battle
Landing
Japanese Land on
Strate sic Coast
In Quest of Oil

BATAVIA, Mel. Dec. 20.
(UP)-Dutch defense forces
today we're reported battling
strongly to crush a Japanese
invasion of strategic Sumatra
while Dutch and Australian bombs
blasted an enemy transport and
a cruiser and shot down two enemy
planes off the north coast of Bor-
neo.
Official reports from the Sumatra
front, where the japanese bombed
.Medan airport in an effort to cut
off the western approach TO Singa-
pore, were lacking but unofficially
it was said that the Dutch were
making progress against the invad-
erS.
The Japanese units landed from
big transports near Medan were
unable to better their position, these
reports said, but it was not known
whether attempts were being made
to reinforce them either by air or
sea.
The British radio, heard by the
United Press listening post in New
York, broadcast a Dutch Batavia
communique today asserting that re-
ports that Japanese parachutlstS
had landed at Medan was due to a
misunderstanding"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
The Cake Eaters

Ell Centro Police Chief Rcnnie
Voyles Monday was serving free
cake to members of his force and
representatives of the press.
No, the chief hasn't taken up
cookery, The cake was gift from
Mrs. Bob Daugherty, who, in a
letter to the police department,
thanked the officers for their vigil
ance during the past year in recoV-
ering stolen property, and for their
courtesy in dealing with the public.
The only thing wrong with the
picture in the chiefs office, was
a slight lack Of foresight Doesn't
the chief know that even the juiceSt
of cake swallows better with free
coffee?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
A Budding TycoOn-

Two youngsters called at the
PoSt-Press for work. They wanted
to sell papers.
Art Davis, circulation manager,
asked them how old they were. One
boy said he was nine years old
and the other said he was 10 years
old. Art told them the l0-year-old
could sell papers and suggested that
the nine-year-Cld could help him,
If he wished.
That's o. X said the nine
year-old, I'm good at arithmetic.
That's all he needs me for"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
Another RumOr Killed

Big Jim Dawson does NOT own
part of the Bio, two California
counties, or any part of the United
States flying equipment. No mat
ter what he says, Jim is not
stockholder He just thinks he is
since he bought som defense
bonds.
P. S.-Remind RR to buy an
other defense stamp.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29

the identity of the islander who
fired it.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
DEATH TOLL HEAVY

Thirty persons were killed and 70
injured in the air raid on Medan
and a Dutch KIM air liner was
burned as it was taking off.
The enemy also bombed and ma
chine gunned other areas, COM
munique issued at 2 pm, said.
Various military posts have been
machine gunned but there are no
military losses" it added.
In regard to the Dutch attacks,
the communique said:
"a japanese cruiser steaming
north OF Celebes was set afire by
bombs dropped by an Australian
Hudson (American-built aircraft
staUloned on a Netherlands Indies
airdrome.
Glenn Martin bomberS OF the
NEI. military air force attacked
Miri, on the Sarawak coast OF Bor-
neo. and scored one direct hit and
several near misses on a large Jap
anese transport. Probably two Japa-
nese fighter planes were shot
down"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
TEMPERATURES

Maximum Sun. SO, Minimum
Mon. 40. 5 pm. Sun. 61, humidity
81. am. Mon. 40, humidity IS.
Noon Mon. 81, humidity 81.
Los ANGELES HAY
u. S. No. l $22.-23; u. S. No. 2
Leafy l. v. S2O-22. U. S. No. 2
$l65O-17.5O. Mpls. May flax S2.OOh
Imperial Valley press., 1941-12-29
MEDAN STRATEGIC

Medans capture would give tht
Japanese control of a strategic base
across the straits of MalaCca iron
,Conclnued on page .; Col. y
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-11
ANOTHER YOUTH
 KILLED IN CHASE
Second Victim To Die In Boston District As Offi-
 cers Used Guns

Boston, Aug. 11.-(UP)-William Mccarthy, 1T, of Charlestown died early today at a hospital of bullet wound and other injuries and two companions were jailed after stol- en auto crashed into a house dur ing a police chase in which shots were fired.
 Mccarthy, the driver, was found unconscious in the wreckage of the auto with bullet wound in his head. His companions. 16 and IT years old, were seized at pistol point, treated for minor cuts and bruises and jailed on suspicion of larceny
 The stolen car, owned by Will liam B. Goulding of Sherborn, was sighted by Policemen John Rice and Philip Morrison.
 During a 1O-minute chase through city streets at 70-mile- an hour speed Morrison fired twice in an attempt to hit the tires. One shot struck Mccarthy. passing through his head and out a side window. The car jumped curb and struck the house.
 Mccarthy was the second person to die as result of stolen car chase in Boston within two days.
 Robert GoodalI, 33, of the South End died yesterday of injuries sls- tained when struck by a stolen auto which crashed into three fire trucks,
 Also injured was Deputy Fire Chief William F. Quigley who was struck by the auto just before 1t hit one of the fire engines.