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Washington Journal., 1941-01-24
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Evening star., 1941-06-01

this time we'll all be bloody monaes when we get to Chile
Is this the ot?"
The gray turned to Meampey "Are there more?"
As was going tell you, Mr. Meampey said, there is
Gosslng fine speaker himself well accustomed
Meampey metcous grammar that he gaped If one those
bokes he thought of them knew that he does
did get verb wrong But they don't More There more
to come.
Show us, ;, barked the gray
Mr. Meampey led the way from the He threw glance
the wide lagoon dmmed to nckelray Night
approaching Beasts and birds seeking and things
that neither birds beasts would seek their
1t time hurry lie said There's another cave" and
took twenty PAGES along the rocks Here Allow go in"
lHE gray man cursed him. He would not allow Meampey
Gossng to Il know trick worth of that! Stay
outside"
Melampey remained STILL curiousy quiet Gossng was biting
lips and dgetng there seemed be something his mind
but the was cool ever he had been in his
classroom.
each wanted to be first They entered at last struggling
heap Reminds one, said Melampey pleasantly to Gossng
GOSslng WINGED away: DON'T"
Above the there rounded of rock
any suspended The two who knew all about it, having
discussed its danger before took places each e
and at word from Meampey heaved loose 1t fell in front
of the opening, blocking the way out.
From the blast of seking and swearing You
needn't think caught yelled the voice of the lame
well break this up in hour Well cut the CUTS out
of you. Well"
Can they do it," Gosng anxousy asked Its such
a very big rock, If they Clipped !"
Meampey answered him by pointing to the lagoon From
beginning creep By and by and twentes
they shutting the dusk with their dark threads that
dark when but oddly coored black
Continued on poss 1S
Evening star., 1941-06-01
IN ISLAND
The queer ship had guessed
- all but the last chapter
!. GEiF1shaW
A. NJ Simpkin
. GrimShaw
A. N. Simpkin

meant to doublecross Which they do They'll make us
fetch the stuff and then they'll get away with Emerald
Listen to me -"
EMERALD keeping back her tears, stood the deck of the
ketch fixed the shore They would her. she
brother would kill anyone who dared harm her.
and Mr. Melampey clever Oh cever And after ALL
nobody being unnd to her. The four men who'd gone
ashore talking together in low the far end of the
ship the youth who had been left behind sitting
Evening star., 1941-06-01

The lame gave joyful whoop and rushed in join the
Others They tore the bags Open In the low weserng light
they spilled the sand what seemed to be of little
round plaques of heavy gtterng gold engraved with
high, elaborate device
Creepers said the gray painting, cts Spanish trea
- douboons!'
Excuse me- MIR. Melampey objected. You're quite in
those American double eagles originally worth
twenty dollars each AT the present rate of exchange
The specialized man broke n Where the hell did you
em? Are there more?"
glance passed between Melampey and Gossling
mo tricks warned the Spit it out!'
Il had reason to suppose from of my studies Mr.
Meampey said, that the person known Bully Hayes
GosSng interrupted: "The pirate chap who might have
been sort of cousin of yours He stole them from bank in
California sixty years ago, and"
We've had considerable trouble locating them in the sand
Melampey explained. TOO much beach altogether"
by hell there isl Spectacles said Them beaches -"
Nobody listening to him. and he stopped to plunge his
hands into the pedup gold It'll take half the night
carry this, he said gaiy. Better fetch Billy to help
Bills here said the humpbacks voice at the entrance
The men turned round Here you didn't ought to have left
till one of us back The girl -
Il told the lad he'd have his throat cut he let her get away
He understand that He's such fool you thought
you'd made him. He'll keep her there. Glory. you've got
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06

chaScrs of tax decided land.
II the county does not assess a
pCsscsscro right at the time the
district 5IllS the TAX decided lan6
under contract, it was pointed out
at the meeting, there is no recourse
unless the county sues for its mon
ey.
1t was decided to study the matte!
further and it was suggested the
district record the deeds to property
sold and get it on the county tax
rolls Immediately the sale Is
made.
The question of government dis
elimination against agriculture Oh
priority lists received less attention.
than earlier reports had indicated
it would be given at the bureau
meeting. Members agreed that
equipment and supplies were off
ficult to obtain and prices were
high, but no action was taken.
Further discussion was delayed un-
til the next board meeting when
more detailed reports are expected
rom farmers and businessmen
In com oliancc with a request
from the associated chamber OF
commerce of Imperial Valley, a res
olution was passed urging the Civil
AcrOnautics board to grant per-
mission for establishment of air
transportation to and from this
county by one of the several COM
panics applying for said permission.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
City Richer by
S101.q22 in Al,
Annual Audit Says
Accountant Discovers
E. c. Water Department
Accounts Still Bad

The city of FL Centre was
$101,922 better off at the
close Of the fiscal year end
ed June 30 than it was at
the beginning of that fiscal
year July |, 1910, but there was
still plenty of room for improve
ment in the manner in which the
mechanics of the city government
are administered, it was revealed
Monday in detailed audit of the
citys books.
The audit, made by certified pub
lie accountant Floyd K. Brown of
Los Angeles. showed the citys cash
balance as of June 30 to be $156,254,
as compared with a balance of S54,
332 on the same date a %ear ago.
In his general comments and
recommenda tionS" the auditor praiS-
ed the success Of the city's tax COL
lecting efforts. and observed that
the percentage of delinquency for
l940-41 was 6.46 per cent. the lowest
for the five years past" but he had
some pointed criticism of other
phases of the municipal govern
ment.
In his examination of the police
court for instance, the auditor said
that the records of court fines and
forfeitures were inadequate, there
being no docket maintained for
traffic violations" and added.
The statement of unpaid fines
as at June 80, l941, does not in
clude cases entered in the traffic
docket, as there were numerous
citations of minor infractions Of
Continued on rage 2. Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
Religious Freedom
Issue Spot|ighted
In Aid for Russia
Catholics Demand FDR
Press Soviet fer
Rights of Worship
BY LYLE c. WILSON

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.
(UP)-As the house headed
toward a test vote on assist
ing the Soviet union, a power
full Catholic voice was raised
today in demand that President
Roosevelt insist upon religious free
dom in Russia as part of any lend
lease bargain.
This explosive phase of the cur
rent controversy almost conceded
with return from Rome of Myron
c. Taylor, who is Mr.. Roosevelt's
special emiSsary to the Vatican,
and with some remarks on the SUBJ
ject by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
Taylor is expected to report to-
morrow to Mr.. Roosevelt on pros
poets of better relations with Mos
COW as they are viewed in Rome
w. Averell Hartman. lend-lease
conference representative of the
United States in Moscow still is to
be heard from regarding the presi-
dents instructions to him to take
up the question of religious liberty
with Premier Josef Stain.
Mrs. Rooscve.C's reference to the
dispute came during her regular
Sunday broadcast which is spon-
Sored by coffee interests. She said
that there never had been any
question in Russia of preventing
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
Court Assesses
Antitrust Fines

SAN FRANC1CO, Oct g. Up
Federal Judge Harold Loud 'rbac )
today accepted pleas of "noio con-
tendre" from Monterey Sardinc IL
dustr;es, Inc, and five individuals
and fined the association and tae
individuals SlGe0 each on anti
trust law violations.
Walter Hewlett and Fred Giibor,
attorneys representing the AMI.
trust division of the department
justice, asked Louderback to set the
fines at a relatively loW fl2ure
They said that the Monterey aSso-
citation ana the five officials Wc"v
mot flagrant violatoro."
The individuals, boat owners i.
the sardine industry. were Salvatore
Venemiglio Sam Loncro, HCrac.
BALTIC, a. A. Lucido and o. Onea
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06

me 'glEdntlc operations WnlCn
Hitler had said were in progress
on the eastern front met with strong
opposition on all sectors but appar-
emily had made some progress, es-
pCciallN in a tWo-Way drive to
cover about 23O miles to the Soviet
capital
On the north, however, the Rus
slams said they had relieved pres
sure Cn Lcninerad by repeated coun-
tCrattacks and in the extreme south
the reported local advances that
threatened the German flank
On the central front, according
tC London reports. the Nazi offens-
i've was in full swing" with Hitler
throwing every ounce of power into
the drive against Marshal Semyon
TimCShenkOS army around Smo-
lensk and against the Russian de-
fenSeS before the DonetS basin bas-
ton of Kharkov. The luftwaffe
heavily bombed Kharkov and re-
ported the rGilrcad station destroy
ed, disrupting that vital Russian
communications center.
ITALIAN CLAIMS
Italy's report of naval-air fight
ing in the Sicily area of the central
Mediterranean was an elaboration
of earlier communique and claimed
that the British aircraft carrier Ark
Royal as we'll as the battlaship Mel
son had been damaged by a tor
pedo.
According to the Fascist commun-
lque. the British sent a powerful
battle fleet headed by the new
battleSklp King George v into the
Mediterranean in an attempt to
lure the Italian fleet into battle.
rather than as a convoy for ships
carrying var supplies to Russia.
Rome said that the inferior Italian
fleet avoided til" lure, but that Fas-
els. planes and submarines made
the British "en;ure a costly one
London. which had admitted dam
a9e 10 the Nelson. said that the
Italians muSt be hard up" for wa-
Continued on Page 2; Column y
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
Storm
Blasts
Florida
Hurricane Roars
Across State in
Narrow Pathway

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. 6. (UP)
"A hurricane roared into
Miami Just before dawn to-
day.
A steadily mounting wind
screaming in an cerie, high key
battered 100 miles of Florida coast
north and south Of Miami. All lights
failed here except in the relatively
small, downtown business section
Trees we're blown across highways
and police prohibited all traffic.
At 8 am. the weather bureau an
nounced that the center of the hur-
ricane had crossed the coast south
Of Miami, roaring across the Florida
peninsula into the Gulf of Mexico
1t had come out OF the Atlantic
from the direction of the Bahamas
where yesterday it tore through Mas
6au at velocity Of 100 miles al
hour It's center missed Miami and
passed in a narrow strip across a
little inhabited section of Florida
Lights had failed in many com
munities up and down the coast and
communications were going out as
the dawn broke and the wind
screamed its furious song Little
human dramas were being enacted
in this foreboding fury. BY dawn
six babies had been delivered by
candle light and the light Of hand
torches-tWo at University hospital
and two at Jackson Memorial hos
pital here, and two at Dade county
hospital at Kendall ST Francis
hospital at Miami beach was with
out light or power,
Authorities. having been warned
Continued on Page 2: Column g.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
ydn KEGS
Ca Pture
Series
California HurIer
Holds Buns to One
Run in Last Game

EBBETS FIELD, Brook
lyn, Oct. 6. (UP)-Winning
their third straight game on
Brooklyn's home field, the
New York Yankees swept on
today to their fifth worlds cham
pionehip in six years by beating the
Dodgers, 81, before a hostile crowd
of 34,072.
Ernie Bonham. 220-pound Califor-
nian, held the Dodgers at his mercy,
allowing only four hits, as he tri-
umphed over Whit Wyatt, THE
Rock of Chickamauga." who won the
only game of the series for the
Dodgers in his previous start.
The Yanks got out in front anG
stayed there all the way. But there
were plenty of thrills. Joe DiMag-
gio, Yanks' star outfielder, and Whit
wyatt, Dodger pitcher, almost came
to blows in the center of the dia-
mond in the fifth inning.
The near-scrap between DiMaggio
and Wyatt featured several other
exciting Incidents in the final bat
tie which enabled the Yanks to
win the series. four games TO one.
Wyatt lost his temper in the
fourth when Umpire William Nc
Gowan. behind the plate, called a
ball on Joe Gordon which permitted
the Yankee infielder to take first.
wyatt, in a rage, rushed into Nh
GoWan and for moment it seemed
as if he would blow his top as
they say in Flatbush. Manager Leo
Durocher entered into the argument
and put his face right up against
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
DEWEY PRAISES
PRESS

District Attorney Thomas f. Dewey of New York
Monday added his voice to the thousands of leading
AmercanS who have joined in paying tribute to the Am
tItan press during National Newspaper week. October
Is.
Dewey said that the press 's the only medium expos
ing organized crime, and cited the part the newspapers
played in his successful gang busting campaign in the
nations largest city,
lie said that the public too frequently recognized
only the casual obvious crime-the murder the bur-
glary, the assault holdup-and overlooked the
growing hold which the huge criminal combines
gaining"
from gang rule Dewey said it remained for the
papers expose the racketS which he had pledged him
self o break.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
Defense Council
Problems Studied

Details of the Imperial Valley
Defense council were ironed out d,
a meeting with the Imperial coun-
ty board of supervisors Monday
District Attorney Elmer Head
who was appointed temporary vice
chairman of the council, was in
Structed to take care of incidental
stenOgraphic expenses from his
budget unless the burden became
TOO great. Then representatives Of
other civic agencies who were pres
ent, offered to share in the expense.
The supervisors and the defen5.
council members had luncheon to-
gether at'the county farm and con-
tlnued their discussion of the plan.
under the direction of Supervisor
Hugh T. OSBORNE, defense council
chairman
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
Night School to
Get Under Way

f! Ccntro high school and junior
college officials prepared Monday
for resumption Of annual night
school classes. following a meeting
at 7 pm Monday night in the high
school auditorium to determine in
tercst in various classes ranging
from commercial courses to Ian
guagc and art
H. S. PackWood, school district
business manager, will serve as
night school principal this year,
Under his direction will be teach
erS willing ii demand warrants
to instruct the various classes.
Monday nights meeting was scle-
duled to determine the cOmmunity'S
wishes
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
H|TLE Err HURLS FULL TIDE
OF Army AT MOSCOW
Boys Talk Way
Into Jail Here

"We're hungry and we want to
go TO jail"
Two Young Mexican boys Sun
day stood wistfully on the out
side looking into the county jail.
I'VE stcle a car in Berkeley
and drcgc il down here" the
boys said desperately. I'VE stole
license plates in Bakersfield ant
threw the old cnes away" They
paused hopefully.
I'VE sold the spare tire in Sar
Diego for S1.50," they waited
again. The keys tangled and the
barred door opened.
Now the boys, l8 and 10 years
of age, are held in the county
Jail on charge of car theft.
Il knew the food was good in
here" one of the BOYS said as
he cleaned his platc, I've beer
in here before"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
Pupils viii Visit
post-Press Office

In honor Of national newspaper
week. Miss Helen Barsumian of
wilson school will conduct classes
through the Post-PreSs newspaper
plant four days this week.
The first class was scheduled to
visit the plant at 2:30 pm. Mon
day, the second at 9:1O am Tues
day, the third at II am. WcdncS-
day, and the third 1T pm. Thurs
Gay.
Pupils will be taken through ey-
cry department and the functions
explained and the equipment dem
onstratcG for their benefit.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
Plane Possession
Object ofSuit

Suit to gain possession of an air
plane was filed in superior court
by William Langley Beeman, avi-
ator employed bythc U S. govern
ment to instruct English Royal All
Force Combat training men, against
James Robert Saunders
Beeman said he bought the plane
on contract and had fulfilled his
duties under the contract. Saun-
ders, he said. would not deliver the
plane to him but had taken it FROM
the Imperial airport TO Phoenix
Beeman wants the plane and title to
it because it is difficult to get
planes 10 Use for instruction
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06

daredevil parachutiSt's island in tht
SKI during the night stopped, tenn
pcratures rose melting the coating
of ice on the 857-fOot granite mon
olith, and the party started at 8
am.
They carried steel spikes which
they will drive into the stone walls
TO form a ladder to the top where
George Hopkins, 29-year-old Texan,
has been waiting cheerfully for
rescue since last Wednesday morn
ing when he parachuted to the tiny
plateau from an airplane to win
$50 bet.
In the party of eight were Jack
Durrance, graduate medical student
from Dartmouth who climbed Dev-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06


traffic officers busy during the
weekend in Imperial county.
F. A. Kops, 81, suffered a skull
fracture and Miss Darline Allard,
Is, a broken collar bone during the
week end when their motorcycle
skiddcd and somersaultcd on a
flooded road three miles west of I'M
perial as they were returning from
a desert party. They were tossed
into the air b. the careening ma
chine, highway patrolmen said.
George w. Pyle, 25. FL Centre
salesman suffered minor injuries
when his sedan and one driven by
Kelso Coins. 23,thirtieth infantry
soldier from San Francisco, collided
25 miles west of Ell Centro Highway
Patrolman A. j. Alleger said Coins
went to sleep at the wheel.
A charge Of drunk driving was
filed in Imperial against Mable
Alice Gagnon, 30, San DIEGO house
wife Her erratic driving attracted
the attention of Imperial officers.
George Thomas, "a, CalcXicO la
borer was driving on the wrong
side OF the center line, highway
patrolmen said, when his car col
lided with the coupe driven b. T. J.
Pepper, %, Heber laborcr. on the
main street of Heber. Officers SAT-
Thomas was three feet over the cen
ter line of the highway.
Mo one suffered injury in col
lislon between a coach and a sedan
on the Central Valley highway IL
miles south of the U. S. No so
intersection. Ono car was driven by
John K Din, 36. Hindustani farmer
and the other by Floyd Van Rem
selaar, 10, BraWlCy chauffeur.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
& Per Cent Up in Milk
Production Slated in |. v.

Uncle Sam has notified Imperial
valley of the part it is expected to
play in the unprecedented New Dca.
demand for all-out agricultural pro-
0uction and of the various COM
modities on the must list, milk
is the one in greatest demand
The valleys milk production goa,
is a six per cent increase over last
years output, as compared with d
10 per cent increase for the state
as a whole.
The valleys goals, set last week
at meeting in Berkeley OF county
units of the United States depart
ment of agriculture defense board.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06

portance in the coming year" Hawk
said. Each state has received It's
goal toward the increase OF produc-
ton of agricultural commodities
with the exception of wheat, cot
ton and rice"
The goaI Tor cattle marketing for
beef, Hawk said, Is expressed only
in terms OF percentage increase
in the number marketed for beef
in 1912
He added that a % per cent IN
crease is anticipated In that year
Because on the need OF conscrva-
ton Of range lands, he said. no
increased production is asked for
Continued on Page 2 Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06

and announced in Ell Centro Mon
day by Chairman L. c, Hawk of
Imperial county agricultural con-
serVatlon association, are:
Mix COWS, six per cent increase;
egg. five per cent; hogs II per cent;
and 5aIm slaughter
seven per cent pigs raised for
Sprin4 crop only. Il per cent.
Hawk. in a statement announcing
the goals said particular stress was
placed on home gardens, and 100
per cent increase is asked in plant
inga Goal for the state is 10000
home gardens for l94l-42
The Job OF agriculture in the de-
fensr program is of primary i'm
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
French Report Two
Vessels Sunk

VICHY, Oct s tUPl The
French admiralty reported tonight
that two French steamers have beer
torpedoed and sunk in the Mcditer-
ranean. one with a possible loss OF
90 lives
The ships were the 137O-tor
steamer, Oucd Yquem sunk by {
submarine presumed to be British
in the Tyrrhenian Sea and the lincr
Theophile Gautier 8,l94 tons. sulH
in the Aegean Saturday with u
persons drowned or missing.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
Farm Bureau Directors Discuss Tax
Delinquent Land Problems in Valley
With irrigation District Chief

With new laws in mind, farm
bureau directors and county off
Gals Saturday conferred al a farm
bureau directors rlcotin- witt.
Chairman Evan T. HeWcS Of tne
irriga giou district rs t. thc best
means Of getting taxes from pdr-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06

lis Tower once before in 1888, Mer-
rll McClain and Henry Coulter,
also of Dartmouth who flew here
from New York with Durrance; Err
nest Field, Warren GOrrell and
Paul Pel2hold, veteran Rocky noun
tain park climbers: Chapel Cram
ner and Harold Rapp, Denver climb
erS.
The Goodyear Rubber company
blimp Reliance left Akron today
for its four-day 400 mile trip here
1t may be- used in rescue attempt
as a last resort. The blimp would
hover over the peak and bring Hop
kins aboard MP rope ladder
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
BRUSH FIRE SWEEPS
MI. SPRINGS AREA

MT. SPRINGS, Oct. Ga brush
fire spread by a high wind swept
through this region Sunday morn
ing. The flames were extinguished
before great damage was done, Of
ficPrS said
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
N0zis HunmerinQ
Eastward in BIG
AII-Out Off ensive
Red Counter-Attacks Relieve Pressure
On Leninsrad; Local Advances in South
Threaten German Flank in Ukraine
BY UNITED PRESS

Adolf llitlerS machine reported hammerng
eastward against the Red army and Moscow Monday, while
Italy claimed that Fascist torpedoe had damaged two big
British WarShips in a Mediterranean air and battle.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
Climbers on WuV
ToMQroonedMun

DEVILS TOWER, Wyo. Oct. s. (UP)-Wyoming skies
cleared today and party of eight skill led mountain climb
started up the almost perpendicular sides of DEVILS
Tower with the promise that "HopknS will be down before
nightfall." The rain and which had laSh2d the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-06
Accid entS Keep
PutroImen Busv

A motorcycle which somersaulted on flooded road
and tossed its passengers into the air driver who
went to sleep at the wheel motorlSt who drove on the
wrong side of the road drunk driver
Traffic accidents kept highWaN patrolmcn and city