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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-14
Legislative News
By Democrat Legislative Reporter

State Capitol, Hartford, May IA. ---IAtchilCld county legislators at a meeting yesterday endorsed County Commissioner Frank J.. Seaton of Goshen for another four year term. No other candidate was advanced.
 Commissioner Seaton's term ex- pires this year. while those Of the ether two commissioners, Hallctt Clark of Winchester and Asabel Mitchell of Woodbury, run until ie43.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-14

Mrs. Albert Rice demonstrated first aid work at q meeting of Girl Scout Troop l2 yesetrday afternoon at the Third Congregational Church hall. Miss Jeanette Deaver, field representative of the local Girl Scout council, was & visitor at the meeting.
 Plans were discussed by the scouts for tho penny circus which they will sponsor next month. Nancy Edwards and Marjorie Pooler were selected to represent the troop at the song ses- sion which will take place Saturday morning at tho scout office.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-14

Helen GwaSdauskas will preside
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-28
Mrs. Lewis Funeral
Scheduled Monday

Last rites for Mrs. Addie Lewis,
78, who died in Ell Centro Saturday
while visiting relatives, were sched-
uled at the Lemons chapel in Ell
Centre at IL am. Monday.
After Christian Science services,
burial was scheduled at Evergreen
cemetery.
Mrs. Lewis was a pioneer in Mon
tana where she settled so years
ago. She died at the home of her
daughter Mrs. Lenora Fitzgerald,
at 733 Orange avenue.
She is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Fitzgerald of Ell Centro and
Mrs. May Stoddard of Great Falls,
Mont; two sons, Ray Lewis of Ell
Centre and Earnest Lewis of Wis
consin; brother, Albert Randall
OF MiSsoula. Mont, sister, Mrs.
Tillie Kepner of Castana, Iowa;
and a niece, Mrs. Frank Kinsey OF
Gardena. Mrs. Stoddard flew to Ell
Centre to attend the funeral serv-
ices.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-28
Dance Festival
Described Before
kiwanians Here

History of the Smoki dance festi-
val in Prescott, Arizona, was de-
scribed for Kiwanis club membe,s
by Mrs. w. c. Costello at the lunch
con meeting FRIDAY at the Barbara
Worth hotel.
Lenora Costello was heard in two
vocal solos with piano accompani-
ments by Ruth Teeple Reid.
Rudolph Miller announced that
on May 16 McCabe All club ana
McCabe Eucalyptus farm center
will serve dinner for the club.
Frank Harmon, Kiwanis lieuten-
ant governor, was guest of honor
and reminded KiWanis of the San
Diego Imperial counties picnic at
Pine Valley May 25 at pm.
Announcement was made also of
that Kiwanis' golf team, composed
of Wade Ramsey, Lee Lewis, Gus
Montgomery and Bill Strickland,
had defeated the Rotary club for the
third successive time, these tourna-
mentS being annual affairs
w. c. Costello was chairman of
the day.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-28

BAKERSFIELD. Cal. April q
tUPj--A pilot only II years of age
who kept a glider aloft for more
than half q day while ne swoopeG
most Of the way across rugged
mountain range, today came away
with the distance and duration titles
of the western soaring champion
ships.
The youthful pilot was Dick john
son of Los Altos, Cal. who glidec
65 miles, from Arvin on the Sar
Joaquin valley side of the noun
tains, to a point beyond Sagus, or
the southern California sopes. He
was aloft for five and half hours.
An altitude record was missed by
Henry Stiglmeir of IngleWood, Cal,
when he glided up over three miles
high, only to have his instruments
give out at 16,7OO feet above the
takeoff point. The recod is 17,200
feet.
Alan r. Essery of San Diego won
the all-around soaring champion
ship on the basis of 1877 points
awarded for distance, altitude, and
duration. Runners-up were: Howard
Morris, San Diego, 2939; Harold
Huber, San Fernando, 1912: Stigl-
meir 1902; Ray Parker, San Diego,
1907: Herman StElemeier, Ingle-
wood, 1243; Johnson, 1117; Volmer
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-28
L.indbersh Quits
u. s. Air Reserve

NEW YORK, April 28. CUP)-Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh in a letter
to President Roosevelt today an
nounced that he was resigning as
colonel in the United States army
air corps reserve.
Lindbergh told the president that
his remarks in White House press
conference on April Is left him mo
honorable alternative to rendering
my resignation"
The letter, released here, follows:
My Dear Mr. President:
your remarks at the White
House press conference on April
25, involving my reserve commits
sion in the United States army air
corps, have, of course, disturbed
me greatly. had hoped that might
exercise my rights as an American
citizen, to place my viewpoint be-
fore the people of my country in
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-28
Ickes ellis Plan
TO Market Power

WASHINGTON April % tUP)-
Secretary OF Interior Harold L. Ickes
today opposed the Cresta and Pulga
hydroelectric propects in California,
and disclosed that legislation is
beng drafted to provide a federal
marketing agency for public power
in northern California.
A letter from Ickes was read at
federal power commission hear
ing, where the Pacific Gas and
Electric company was asked to show
couSe why a license for construction
of the projects, issued some time
ago, should not be rescinded.
"Concurrently with our engineer
ing studies on the requirements Of
a system to wholesale the public
power we are making available in
northern California" Ickes wrote,
I'VE have been drafting legislation
to provide a federal marketing
agency for administration of the
system
All additional generating capacity
scheduled for the California area.
Ickes said, should be planned with
relation to the power system.
For that reason. it would ap-
pear that we should return TO our
earlier opinion that the Cresta and
Pulga plants not be licensed to the
Pacific Gas and Electric company.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-28
MaiE-0rder Murder
Suspect to Fight
EXiradiiioll Order

CHICAGO, April % up Ar
rival today of W. l.. Mcconnell.
Hansford county Texas, states at
torney, was expected TO speed ef-
forts to extradite Orrin j. Brown
50-year-old correspondence school
8mtor wanted for questioning in
the hammer Staying of an Indiana
poetess.
Brown said he will fight extradi-
ton. He denied knowledge of the
killing of Mrs. Leota Frances Muir
ply 45, whose body was found 25
miles from Spealman. Texas. 10
Gays after she left her Merion
Ind, home, to meet a prospective
husband found through a CORE
spondence club.
Sheriff II. l.. Wilbanks of Hans
ford county, Texas, said he expect
ed Mcconnell to bring extraditior
papers. He said he planned t. seek
further information on Browns
past from postal authorities.
Mrs. Murphy left home March 10
telling relatives she planned to meet
and marry Robert E. Lawrence
in Chicago. She was carrying about
$500, police learned.
Officers found letters on sta
tionery of various correspondence
clubs among Browns possessions
They were signed with the name
Robert Lawrence
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-28
Youth Up 5 Hours
In Glider Plane

Jensen, Glendale $50: Ahrland Ross,
Glendale, SAC: Walter White. alen-
dale. 448.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-28

II would appear" Ickes eonJln-
ued, that the interests OF national
defense can best be protected by
requiring that any additional gen
Grating capacity in the area should
be built as part of the public sys-
TEN in order To safeguard the gov
ernment's existing investments IN
plants already under construction. "
Ickes said that the Antioch power
plant, part Of the Central valley de
yelopment, would be ready by 1943,
and that Une Shasta and EesWick
plants would be supplying power
six months after Antioch goes into
operation.
In order to provide for the or
derly marketing of this power" he
said, 1T is important that private
companies in the area not be al
lowed to foster an uneconomic and
anarchic power market by con-
structing spite plants or facilities
dedicated more TO the deterring of
public development than TO serving
the public"
Robert H. Curtis, counsel for p
@. & E, testified that the company
had placed orders in excess Of So
100000 for construction of the two
projects before the commission
threatened to rescind the license
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-28
Singing Cop Back
On Highway Patrol

SACRAMENTO April 90. (UP)-
E. Raymond Cato, chief of the
California Highway patrol, disclos-
ed today that George Stinson, FAM
ed as a singing cop, will report
back to work this week as a patrol
officer.
Stinson took leave of absence
from the patrol in 1897 to study
opera in italy and later sang with
the San Francisco Opera company.
Cato said Stinson did not indicate
whether he had abandoned his sing
ing career.
The patrol chief said:
We're glad to have him back
he's a fine officer
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-28

time of peace, without giving up the
privilege of serving my country as
an air corps officer In the event OF
war.
But since you in your capacity
as president of the United States
and commander-in in chief OF the ar
my, have clearly implied that / am
no longer of use to this country AS
reserve officer, and in view OF
other Implications that you, my
president and my superior officer,
have made concerning my loyalty
to my country, my character, anc
my motives, l can sec no honorable
alternative to rendering my reslgna-
ton as colonel in the United States
air corps reserve.
Il am, therefore, forwarding my
resignation to the secretary OF war
Il take this action with the ut
most regret, for my relationship
with the air corps is one OF the
things that has meant most to me
in my life. 1 place it second only
to my right as a citizen to speak
freely to my fellow countrymen,
and to discuss with them the issues
of peace and war which confront
our nation in this crisis.
Il will continue to serve my coun-
try to the best of my ability as
private citizen.
Respectfully,
Charles A. Lindbergh."
In his April 25 press conference
President Roosevelt criticized Lind
bergh and others in this country
who express the opinion that the
Axis will defeat Britain. He COM
pared them to the copperheads OF
the Civil War period.
The president said he was sorry
that there we're people with such
mentalities in high places where
they could write or talk. He de-
clared that Lindbergh and others
who think as he does constitute
small American minority.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-28
June IA Set for
New Registration

WASHINGTON. April 20 6Up)-
Selective Service officials todv
favored June 14-Flag Day-as the
cate for the next registration OF
men for compulsory mslitary serv-
lee.
President Roosevelt will make the
final decision. An executive order
designating another registration
day-the second since enactment OF
the Sflective Service Acts not far
off, officials said.
Only those men who have reached
the age of 21 since the original
registration on Oct. 16 last will be
obliged to register this year. The
registration last October was for
men 81 to 35, Inclusive.
Officials said June ID carried u
patriotic significance and that by
that date most college students
have completed their school year
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-28
DeraiIed Freight
Delays Schedules

LOS ANGELES, April %. (UP)-
Train service over the Southern
Pacific tracks in San Gorgonio Pass
was again on schedule today after
five-hour delay due to a deraileo
freight locomotive five miles east
of Banning.
The big Mallet engine struck a
derail device as it went into a
switch to clear the tracks for the
Argonaut passenger limited, ano
turned over on its side against an
embankment. The engineer and fire
men escaped injury, Two cars OF the
train were damaged.
Stopped at Palm Springs, the Ar
gonaut loaded many of its $50 pas
sengers into busses to complete
the trip to Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-28
FirepIug Broken,
Driver Punished

Beside a broken fireplug, police
found Harvey E. Step, %, Holtville
ranch worker, and as result Step
was fined SIS in Ell Centro police
court Monday on a drunk driving
charge.
Step admitted having absorbed
"a few beers" in MeXicali. With him
in the automobile that collided with
a plug in the 100 block on South
Fourth street was Bill DUNCAN, also
of Holtville. DUNCAN suffered su-
perficial cuts.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-28
Prints Identify
Killer Suspect

sLOS ANGELES, April % (UP)-
Through his fingerprints, police said
today they identified a transient
taken off a train in the railroad
yards as a suspect wanted in con-
nection with a murder at Marysville
in 1899.
THE transient gave his name as
Lester Stewart, 20, police said. Stew
art said he remembered that there
had been a killing in the hobo
jungle at Marysville in 1889 but
he denied any implication.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-12-11
u. S. ARMY:
Chances Ideas

Partly as a result of maneuvers
in the South, partly as result Of
reports from American observers
with the warning armies in Europe
and Africa, the U. S. army's ideas
of a fighting force are undergoing
rapid changes.
Modern arms had been accepted,
also modern motor transport, and
our army had its planes, tanks, anti
tank guns, anti-aircraft guns, and
all the other appurtenances of mod
ern warfare.
But this has not been deemed the
best arrangement, and army officers
now are rearranging the basic arm,
the infantry, so that each unit is
practically whole mechanical
army in itself.
Each infantry outfit, the new army
idea emissions, will have its own
screen of tanks, will be completely
motorized as regards transport
from place to place; it will have its
own battery of planes; even its own
sef-propelled 75-millimeter guns.
Thus what used to be regiment
of foot-soldiers, working in conjunc-
ton with separate outfits of plane,
artillery and tanks, will now become
a complete little army in itself, with
all the necessary arms.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-12-11
MISCELLANY:

Washington: Five days before the
nations operating railway workers
were to 60 out on their scheduled
strike the tie-up was averted when
it was announced from Washington
that mediation had finally won out.
New York: The American Insti-
tute of Decorators was celebrating
the addition of two new members
(both honorary)-John D. Rockefel-
Ter Jr. and Henry F. Dupont.
New Haven: A 32-year-old gradu-
ate student, blind for years, recov-
cred his sight by miracle-medi-
cal science does not understand how.
The man now is confronted with a
problem-how to make pet out of
the "seeing-eye" dog who has led
him about during his blindness.
st. Augustine: After keeping the
bodies of ]. F. E. Anhorn and his
daughter Fannie, both of whom died
nearly 20 years ago, in Theoretically
sealed collins, finally were buried
by another daughter after the death
of her eccentric sister who had kept
the bodies.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-12-11

There's always a Cousin doe
from Kokomo on your Christmas
list. You'd like to send him more
than card, but you can't afford
an expensive gift. Send him a
carton of cigarettes or pound
tin of smoking tobacco. The csst
is moderate and it's a gift any
smoker welcomes. More smokers
prefer Camels than any other Gig
arctic and, of the smoking tobac-
cos, the National Joy Smoke is
Prince Albert. Local dealers are
featuring gift-wrapped Camel car
tons and a novel package of four
''1at fifties." Also Prince Albert
Smoking Tobacco in pound tins
and pound glass humidors hand
somely wrapped for giving.-Adv.
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Washington, d. G.
BRITISH DIPLOMACY


The British barring of Russian
Ambassador Litvinoff from an air.
plane en- route to the U.S.A. has in
creased Washington whispers that
it is about time the British did
something to clean up their mort
bund diplomatic service and cut
out snubs to people who are trying
to help them.
It has long been the belief of
Americans, too polite to mention it,
that the British embassy in Wash
ington can make more mistakes to
the square inch even than Mr..
Hull's state department-and many
of the state departments mistakes
come from trying so ardently to ape
the British.
For years the British embassy
has sat on its hilltop, well removed
from the hustle of Washington, and
looked with slightly disdainful
amusement upon the hoi polloi of
congress. An invitation to the Brit
ish embassy in those good old days
was considered by the dowagers as
better than an invitation to the
White House.
But those good old days, I'M
fortunately both for the dowagers
and the embassy, are gone, never
to return. However, the embassy
appears completely unaware of that
fact. And its charming young men
60 their charming way, saying
sometimes too audibly: 'We must
be nice to Americans; while the
real work of defending Britain takes
place in the British Purchasing COM
mission, largely under the direc-
ton of hard-boiled Canadians and
Australians.
Viscount Halifax is one of the
most delightful and genteel persons
ever to grace the embassy. He tries
hard. But hard as he tries, he
cannot overcome the bubbling
Charles Peake, who minces around
him as if his lordship still were
viceroy of India with white and
crimson-costumed Sikhs mounted
on black chargers outside his pal
ace, in Calcutta, instead of being
in a city where politics are very
earthly and where the congress
mans wife from Keokuk has a lot
more influence than the pink tea
protocol experts usually seen at the
British embassy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-12-11
RUSSIA:
Gateway Cain

AS the Russians admittedly had
their backs to the wall in Moscow,
they had claimed an outstanding
victory in the central southern Sec
tor where they asserted their armies
had reoccupied Rostov-on-Don, an
important gateway to the Caucasian
oil fields previously lost to the Nazis.
For several days the Russians
had been talking about a counter
attack somewhat to the west of Ros-
TOW, an attack which was driving
southwark with some success.
At that time Pravda and the army
paper Red Star had limited that this
counter-attack was seriously affect
ing General Won Kleist's supply
lines. !
Suddenly the Russian armies fell
with full force on the Won Keist
army corps, and Kuibyshev report
ed the entire corps was annihilated
and that the Russians had the Nazi
forces in the Rostov district rush.
ing off westward in "disorderly re-
treat"
Lie NCAlll0llo oOl1i2tlCa IllC CNdCu-
alton, and ascribed it to an effort to
gain time for retaliation against the
attacks of the civilian population on
the German rear Gin defiance of in
ternational law"
Stripped of its Nazi propaganda
angles, this seemed at least a par
tial admission on the part of the
German High Command that the
Russian attacks on the German
communication lines, which had fea-
tured Red dispatches for week,
had played a big part in the Ger
man disaster at Rostov.
Whether the attacks had been
made by uniformed Russians or
civilian guerrillas seemed beside the
point, but the Reds had described
certain of their forces as guer-
rillas.
It was reported that more than
5000 German soldiers were killed,
and enormous quantities of booty
taken. It was proclaimed as the
greatest single victory over the Nazi
armies since the start of the war.
It also was reported that the Rus
SLAMS were carrying out successful
counter-blows against the Nazis fur
Their to the south.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-12-11
JAPAN:
Demands

Following exploratory talks be-
tween special Japanese envoy Ku-
rusu and Secretary Hull which had
more or less been kept secret, the
latter suddenly issued five-point
ultimatum to Japan which showed
plainly that the United States feared
no crisis with Nippon, and that her
attitude toward Japan's plans in the
Pacific was unchanged.
The United States boldly asserted
she was insisting on Japan's with
drawal from the Axis; that Japan
must get out of China; that she must
withdraw from China; that she
must be willing to keep the open
door in the Pacific.
This was followed closely by a
weller of rumors-that Japan was
sending 10000 men in 10 transports
to China-that the U. S. was
going to patrol the supply lines to
China along the Burma road with
airplanes.
On top of all this came Premier
Hideki Tojo's blunt statement that
in the light of developments Japan
considered Britain and the United
States hostile nations" accusing
the Western powers of attempting to
exploit East Asia, and saying:
eve must purge this sort of prac-
tice with vengeance"
Then came word from Singapore
that all army leaves had been can
celled and that the entire British
force there had been placed ION the
alert"
There was little doubt but that the
sword of war was dangling by
thread in the Pacific, a fact which
President Roosevelt had recognized
in taking a brief vacation to Warm
Springs, Ga. AS he left he remarked
that his date of return depended on
Japan"
Toto continued his TRADE against
Britain and America by taking note
of the rumor that this country was
planning Burma Road patrol. He
said that Japan could not ignore"
such move, and would consider it
a deliberately hostile action"
Real spot that all eyes were
turned upon was the border of Thai
land, against which many believed
that Japan would launch an invasion
attempt as an answer" to Hull's
latest message.
Such a move, Washington observ-
ers felt, would instantly touch off
war in the Pacific.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-12-11
CAPITAL CHAFF

The government is paying out
more money than ever before in his
tory for use of the wires and ether.
Even with reduced rates for official
messages, the tolls for telegraph,
telephone, cable and radio are ire
mendous.
Every time government official
picks up the telephone to make an
outside call, Uncle Sam pays three
cents, the wholesale rate. In tele-
graph messages the government gets
a 40 per cent discount, though there
is minimum charge of 20 cents.
Ex-Congressman Denis ]. Dris-
coll of Pennsylvania, now head of
Associated Gas and Electric, says
that Wall street moguls are more
irked at Harry Slattery's efficient
Rural Electrification administration
than any other New Deal regulation
of the utilities.
Secretary of War Stimson's ex-
aide, Col. Gene Regnier, has report
ed that ROTC officers in general
are better than reserve officers.
Regnier, who commands the only
mechanical reconnaissance squad.
ron, wants to clean out lot of dead
oficerial wood.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-12-11

DE SMART! Crochet these NIT
- tens for that outdoor girl. The
one laced up the back is "tops"
in red, white and blue. The other
is worked in one piece.
Pattern 1869 contains instructions for
making mittens in small. medium and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-12-11
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All in Vain

''Now," said the clustering GUS
toner, ''no talk, please don't
want any hair restorer, scalp in
vigorator, dandruff killer, or shaw
ing soap, and I'm not interested
in football, boxing, racing"
Excuse me, SIR" said the bar
Der working at the next chair;
twill you write on his slate? He's
deaf and dumb"