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Evening star., 1941-10-01
New Session Called
In Hope Of Averting
Hotel Strike Toniqht
Little Optimism Felt,
However, os Both Sides
Remain Adumunt

Representative of hotel manage
ment and hotel union labor were
called to the conference table again
today by a Labor Department con-
ciliator, striving to head off walk
out in Washington's l6 leading no.
tells, scheduled for this midnight.
There was little optimism, how
ever, as the opposing sides met at
the Shoreham Hotel shortly before
noon.
The conference today was called to
resume where an all-day session be-
tween the disputants left off yes
terday. Neither the management
nor the union-the Hotel and
Restaurant Employees Alliance "a.
F. L)-would make any statement
on yesterdays negotiations.
Sheehan "StiIl Hopeful"
Frank j. Sheehan, the Labor De-
partment concilator who has ar
ranged the conference. said he was
still hopeful" that a settlement
would be found.
The principal issues involved are
wage increases and a union shop.
The hotel management has offered
workers 10 per cent wage increase,
which the union has turned down.
The union seeks a graduated scale
of increases for workers in different
classifications, ranging from 3 to
25 per cent.
In previous sessions, the union
has offered to arbitrate its wage de-
mandS but the management has
held that such matters were not
proper subject for arbitration.
Observers believed that even if
the wage issue were disposed of. the
union shop clause would stand in
the way Of any settlement by ar
bitration.
Both Sides Insistent.
The management was adamant
in its refusal to consider this clause
/ and yesterday issued a statement
/ blasting the union for making the
/ demand, charging that this was the
only real issue involved. The union,
charging that the present modified
union shop clause had not worked
out, was equally insistent that the
arrangement be changed.
The workers had originally voted
to begin their strike last midnight.
but at the request of Mr.. Sheehan
agreed TO 24-hour delay while ef-
forts were made to settle the dis
pute. !
Some 5000 union members voted
on Sunday and Monday to walk out
unless their demands were met. The
hotels involved include the Carlton,
Mayflower, Shoreham, Willard, Rs-
leigh, Washington, Ambassador, La
fayette, Hay-Adams, ee-Sheraton.
Roger Smith, Annapolis, Harring-
ton, New Colonial, Wardman Park
and Continental.
Evening star., 1941-10-01
Raids
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acknowledged but 1t said an aerial
thrust against the capital was frus-
trated.
German airmen were declared to
have bagged a British bomber during
a raid on an R. A. F. airport, and
another off the Mediterranean island
of Crete. A 1,500-ton British vessel
was sent to the bottom off the Scot
tish east coast, Germans said, and a
Faeroes Island port was bombed dur
ing the day.
German long-range guns on the
French coast were said to have
forced British convoy near Dover
TO turn about for shelter.
German forces were declared to
have downed three British planes in
the nights operations.
Radios to Shut Down.
Effective tonight, eight of Ger
many's largest radio stations will
shut down at BIS o'clock nightly as
an air-raid precaution.
D.N.B. said it was established that
British raiders were trying to enter
Germany from the roundabout di-.
rection of the Baltic Sea and ride
radio beams to various cities.
The Baltic Sea, which stretches
northeastward from Germany, would
be an out-of-the-way route for
British bombers based in England.
1t is a direct approach, however,
from Russian fields behind Lenin-
grad
Individual planes attempting to
attack Berlin" the announcement
said, were soon forced to turn back
by anti-aircraft. One enemy plane
was shot down by anti-aircraft
artillery"
The nationality of these raiders
was not set forth in the commu-
nique. British and Russians have
shared in such forays previously.
The German attacks were
launched less than II hours after
Prime Minister Churchill had told
the House of Commons there was
"a very serious shortage" in Adolf
Hitler's air force.
Evening star., 1941-10-01
BY PAUL SJOBLOM,
Associated Press War Correspondent.


WITH FINNISH FORCES ON
THE PETRozAvODSK FRONT.
Oct. 1.-The dying charge of 81
ton Russian tank which moved
down ancient pines as thick as three
men and left trail of spattered and
broken machinery was described to-
day by Finnish soldiers.
The Russian monster, with Its
81 inch cannon and five machine
guns splitting fire wildly in all di-
rections, crashed through timber
for 200 yards before it was halted
by mighty clump of trees.
On a tour of the Eastern Kar-
elan front. I saw the wrecked tank
and near it the grave of its crew of
six. who lie buried in the swampy
soil of the battlefield.
AS watched, a Finnish officer
placed two ammunition boxes on
top of the grave in the form of
cross.
No Finn who faced the huge tank
on its last charge ever will forget It.
Evening star., 1941-10-01

NSOlillliGCN IlOlli T IL St rdkSJ
months. the American people will
be called upon to exercise some
pretty sober judgment They are
confronted with dangers. They are
engaged in a critical effort to fore
stall any attempt to destroy their
rights as free men and women.
Nothing-and I make not a single
exception-is more important to this
effort than petroleum. I ask but
one thing of you, gentlemen. Do
not do anything that will place that
effort in greater jeopardy"
Asked by Senator Radcliffe, Demo-
crat, of Maryland, what additional
steps might be taken to solve the
transportation problems, Mr.. Ickes
said there lis no crank with the
widest plans for increasing the sup
ply, but that he can get into my
Office"
He said he has Government ex-
perts look into all suggestions in the
hope some of them may prove prac-
tical.
In fatty rejecting the committees
report. the co-ordinator told the
Senators who sat across the table
from him:
Regrets Committee Statement.
your committee commented in
the preliminary report that all of
those officially connected with the
matter have anticipated that, by
spring. barring completely unfore-
seen events, the worry would be
over
II earnestly wish that you had
not made this statement. Nat
urally, We hope that our worries will
be over by spring. But you know,
as I do, that We cannot be sure. 49,"
1--WE cannot afford to gamble with
the future. We cannot run the risk
of not being able to meet the full
needs of our Army, our Navy and our
defense industries.
Il shall give you a specific ex-
ample to show why this is true. The
very next day after your committee
reported that all was rosy-'barring
completely unforeseen events'-the
President of the United States Or
dered the United States Navy to go
anywhere and everywhere in the
world that it needed to go to pro-
tect waters which are deemed nee
esSary to our defense. Isn't it per-
fectly obvious that this means a
greater demand for oil?"
Evening star., 1941-10-01
Contacted Four Merchantmen.

Radio Operator Harold Corson of
Penns Grove, N. j.. who sent out
an SOS in the 10 minutes his
radaio shack remained in exist
ence, clung to floating bit of debris
and shouted to his half -drawned
companions:
Don't worry. I contacted four
merchantmen and the Coast Guard
and they are all coming"
Then Corson, too. dropped from
sight in the frothy black waters.
For all his CHEEKY message, the
men on the wreckage were discour-
aged. They were 375 miles from San
Juan-many hours from the nearest
rescuer.
The wreckage and the men on it
were scattered by the waves.
Some of the men. through the
murk of Thursday afternoon. saw a
Navy plane overhead. 1t passed on,
and they despaired.
AS time dragged on. one man in
sisted he saw beautiful shore only
a few hundred yards distant, and
abandoned his crude raft to swim
toward it. The nearest land was
| l20 miles away.
| Another seaman named "Scotty''
bled to death after a shark or a
carnivorous tropical fish ripped half
the flesh off his leg.
The first rescue was made at !
am. on Saturday by a destroyer
called up by the Navy plane.
Clinging feebly to their bit of
f1otsam, Third Mate Holmes and
Seaman Howard Tanaka, a Ha-
waiian-born Japanese. saw the
fingers of the destroyer's search
light raking the water.
Sometimes it came close. while
their hearts pounded, sometimes it
ranged farther away
Whistles "to Windward.'
Holmes fumbling fingers came on
his mates whistle. attached to his
watch chain. He blasted as loudly
as he could. The searchlight seemed
70 waver and pause.
Remembering Morse code, the
mate franticallv shrilled on the
whistle: ITO windward; to wind
ward" over and over. The light
shifted about and caught the two
men directly in its beams.
Saturday morning, in daylight,
other destroyers picked up II more
men. One of them died of exhaus-
ton almost Immediately. He was
Mike Mccormick. second cook. from
Miami, Tex, and on his first trip
to sea.
The search continued until Sunday
night, but not another survivor
could be found. nor even a spar or
| grating large enough to hold a man.
The II survivors were brought here
last night, suffering from exposure
to sun and storm and some injuries.
but all were expected TO pull through.
Almost all said they expected to
! go to sea again.
With that in mind, Tanaka saved
his seaman's papers. He was the
only one to do so. but said he took
| special care because even in the
moment of sinking he remembered
the need to prove his identity as an
American citizens despite his jap
anese blood.
Evening star., 1941-10-01
Knox
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United States and Great Britain"
Ability of the scattered democra-
cles to aid each other is absolutely
essential to the survival of democ-
racy, he asserted.
Mr.. Knox's statement that I'VE
are already sweeping the German
pirates from the North Atlantic"
aroused conjecture whether the Sec
retary had positive evidence that
the Nays new shoot-on-sight pol
icy was clearing raiders out of the
Atlantic. There has been no an
nouncement on the subject since
the Atlantic Fleets orders became
effective September Is, although Mr..
Knox promisd then that we'll tell
the world" if any encounters oc-
Cured.
There was food for speculation,
too, in mention Mr.. Knox made of
Japan when he talked of ultimate
Axis defeat. In recent months Pres
ident Roosevelt and any other key
administration officials have omitted
references to Toxic in denouncing
the Axis, and not long ago a series
OF conversations began between the
two countries on outstanding differ
ences. But the Secretary had this
to say:
That Nazi-ism will be defeated,
I have no doubt.
That We shall proceed from one
measure to another measure until
we have taken adequate steps to
bring defeat to the legions of Hitler
and his satellites in Italy and Japan,
again I have no doubt"
More Bases Wanted.
= In the course of the address Mr.,
Knox indicated that the Navy felt
more bases were needed if hemi-
spheric safety was to be protected
in South America no less than in
North America. The Navy's south
ernmost base now is in British
Guiana and the range of its opera
tions below the bulge of Brazil ac-
cordingly is limited. No formal
agreements have yet been reached
with other hemisphere nations for
use of base facilities below the
Equator in an emergency, or for the
improvement of those bases in the
meanwhile.
Discussing the Anglo-American
policing of the world he foresaw for
the future, Mr.. Knox declared:
You may say: What business is
1t of ours to police the seven seas?
Why should we provide both the
leadership and the major force to
insure against another world war?
My answer is history-made.
Twice we have learned from bitter
experience that no matter how
great our reluctance to participate,
the world has now grown so small,
so interrelated, SO interdependent,
that, try as we will, we cannot
escape.
Must Enforce Peace.
This does not mean we must
fight every time there is a disturb
ance in the world, but it does mean
that the great law-abiding, peace
loving nations must take the power
into their hands and keep 1t there
for a long time to come to prevent
the Inauguration of another world
war
I'VE will not indulge in any idle
dreams of a millennium. We are not
going to stop all wars. But I am
convinced we, for our own safety
and protection, and for the main
tenance of our way of life, shall
have to provide an interregnum in
which we shall not only devote our
selves to the pursuit of peaceful
aims, but provide the essential
might to enforce such a peace on
those who are not willing volun-
tarily to pursue such a course"
Evening star., 1941-10-01
Capt. Henry B. Price
Dies on West Coost

The Navy Department yesterday
was informed of the death on Sep
tember % of Capt. Henry Bertrand
Price, U. S. N, retired. Capt. Price,
a former Governor of Guam, died in
San Francisco.
Capt. Price received the Navy
Cross for his services during the
World War, when he was COM
manding officer of the U. S. S.
Dixie and ranking officer of the
United States forces on the coast
of Ireland.
He was a graduate of the Naval
Academy with the class of 1893. He
was Governor of Guam from 1923
to 1926
Evening star., 1941-10-01
Ignored by Boy Friends,
Girls Die in Twin Suicide
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Greg, Oct. 1.-Two
young girls, infatuated with bows
VINO ignored them, committed sui
clde IN the apartment of a friend
last night, Detective Myron Warren
said.
The bodies Of Betty Waldron. 1S
and La Vonne Wood, II. were found
on small cot in the kitchen. All
SIX Jets Of a gas range were on.
The detective said several suicide
notes were found in the living room
Evening star., 1941-10-01
British Union Leader
ToSpeuk Here Oct. 10

william j. Brown, general secre-
tary of the Civil Service Clerical
Association of Great Britain, the
largest union of British government
employees. will speak here October 10
under the auspices of the United
Federal Workers, Eleanor Nelson,
national secretary-treasurer, an
nounced today. The place OF the
meeting will be decided later
On the program with Mr.. Brown
will be Harry B. Mitchell, president
of the Civil Service Commission, and
Abram Flaxer, president of the
State, County and Municipal Work
ers of America.
Evening star., 1941-10-01
Lectures Sturt TONIGHT

The National Park Service opens
its illustrated lecture series at 8
o'clock tonight with a talk on "Cra-
ter Lake, the Story of a Volcano"
by John E. Doerr, jr., chief of the
naturalist division, in the depart
mental auditorium.
Evening star., 1941-10-01

government telephones included:
calls that might be questioned as to
whether they are official; calls
illustrating conference connection;
personal interzone telephone calls
made by Karl Borders, executive
assistant, and personal interzone
telephone calls by D. B. LaSsiter,
deputy administrator.
Evening star., 1941-10-01

wreckage which offered support.
Two reached the capsized lifeboat,
but could get no grip on it and were
carried away.
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the Ukraine capital, on Septen
ber 10.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-19

Preliminary steps in organizing
an Imperial county unit of Pro
America have been completed with
the selection this week of tenn
porary officers who will function
until next fall with permanent Or
ganization taking place at a meet
ing with Ruth Comfort Mitchell,
noted California author and past
state leader for Pro America, as
guest speaker.
Mrs. Warren Currier is acting as
temporary president; Mrs. o. A.
Pratt of Calexico, Mrs. w. A. Nc
Fadden of Westmorland, and Mrs.
Earle G.. Davis of Ell Centro as
vice presidents; Mrs. H. E. Hastain,
Brawley, recording secretary; Mrs.
j. w Asher, Ell Centro, correspond
ing secretary; Mrs. r. C. Clemons,
Ell Centre, treasurer
The list of directors has not been
completed, only four having been
appointed to date: Mrs walter K.
Bowker, CaleXico, Mrs. Meredith
Wills, Brawley. Mrs. Clarence Wal .
ker, Westmorland Mrs Malcolm
Macurda FL Centro.
Some 35 members joined at a
preliminary meeting held in the
spring at the j. w. Asher home,
when officials of Pro America ex-
planned its objectives. The organi-
zation is a national one, and in
dependent of all political parties,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-19
Four Auxiliary
Units in Joint
Installation

Four American Legion Auxiliary
units, those of Calipatria, Holtville.
CaleXico and Ell Centre, will install
new officers in a joint ceremony
Monday night at the Ell Centre vet
eranS hall at o'clock.
This ceremony, which is open to
the public, is to be most picturesque
as the BraWley drill team, smart III
their red, white and blue uniforms,
will carry out the impressive in
stallation service.
Elizabeth Potts of Holtville, tWen-
ty-second district president, will act
as installing officer.
Officers elect of the Ell Centro
unit are: Mrs Fred l.. Riddle, pres
ident; Mrs. W. j. Carleton, first
vice-president; Mrs Carson McNa-
NEE, second vice president; Mrs,
George w. Nails. chaplain; Mrs.
Nathan Nye, secretary treasurer;
Mrs. Norman c. Deaton, historian;
Myrtle Freeman, sergeant-at-arms
Mrs. N. l.. Wray, marshal; Mrs.
Felix P. Lehman. musician; Mrs
w. L. Kenealy, Mrs. Charles p
Delp, Mrs. j. w. Hawley, committee
women.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-19
c. y. O. Memb ers
Plan Future
Activities

C.Y.O. members of St, Mary'S
Catholic church are busy with a
variety of plans, which include:
Sunday morning all members will
receive Communion at the Q o'clock
Mass after which they will meet
for breakfast at the California
hotel;
A dance will be given in the
near future, to raise money for
Lavina Provazek, Ell Centre girl re-
covering from an operation neces-
STATED by injuries received in an
automobile accident George Egan
is chairman of the committee COM
posed of Pauline and Violet Niboli,
Viola Hacker, Gertrude Kathriner,
Estella Mas Blaschko, Tony DeVita
and Ben Adamek.
These plans were made at party
Tuesday night in the parish hall
with Violet Niboli. Rena Niboli and
Viola Hacker as hosteSseS, serving
refreshments to: Mrs. Joe Procsal,
the Misses Loretta Eyer, Barbara
Garrett, Pauline Niboli, Patricia La
Barge, Estella Mae Blaschko, Sara
fina Ambort, Ida Kathriner, Mar
garet Reed, Gertrude Kathriner
MessrS. Jordan Mora, Thomas Fin
ney, Tony DeVita, Joe Sexton,
George Egan. Ben Adamek, Eric
Ambort, Bob Parsons. Albert Mar
tinez, John Otrembiok.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-19
Clubs
Society
University Club Changes
Date for Meetings

Women's University club, which
is to have a decidedly interesting
year if present plans are carried
out, will meet in the future on the
second Saturday of the month, Oc-
tober through May, instead of the
third as in the past. This change
has been made to avoid conflict
with the meetings of other organ
izations.
Plans for the coming year were
made this week at a meeting of
the board at the home of the new
president, Mrs. Willis T. Johnson
of Ell Centre, 571 Olive avenue.
Two dates have been set already
for University club activities: on
Sept. 81 the club will sponsor a tea
for members and for all those elig-
ible for membership, this affair to
take place at the Hotel de ANA,
CaleXico.
On Nov. g, in connection with the
Armistice celebration. the club will
sponsor a benefit to raise tunds for
the purchase of a defense bond,
which, when it natures, will be
turned over to the scholarship fund.
Among other activities, the club
next year will cooperate with the
P.-T.A. study groups in providing
a book shelf, and stocking it, in the
library SO that informative material
will be available for study groups
and those interested in this adult
education project.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-19
Church cation
School TO Hold
Union Service

At the request of the vacation
church school students themselves,
a union service will be conducted
Sunday night in the State Street
Christian church at which parents
and friends will have an opportuni-
ty to see and hear for themselves
what the young people have been
doing in their week of school.
The request, and plans for the
service, were made on Thursday IN
the various schools, where also,
upon questioning, it was found that
the entire group will be interested
in a week day church school next
year.
A bill, signed recently by the gov
ernor. makes this possible and the
city ministerial association already
has tentative plans in the making
for a weekday religious school al
though the details have not been
worked out as yet.
The students at Wilson school
published a newspaper which was
read at the morning exercises on
Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-19
News Items About
VaHey Residents

Mrs. E. E. Clements and her sons
and daughters will leave this week
end for summer in Pine Valley
at their attractive cottage there.
Mi and Mrs. L. r. jefferson and
their two daughters. who to the
regret of their many valley friends
will leave Ell Centre permanently
next week, will also spend the
summer at their Pine Valley hime,
their future plans sill being some
what undetermined as yet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Moore
made business trip to San Diego
on wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. H. Small
have gone to Berkeley and to By
ron Hot Springs to attend a con-
ference of the district managers
of the State Farm Insurance COM
panies. They expect to return next
Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-19
GRADUATES FROM STATE

Moulin WooIIlscIOc., son Of Mr.
and Mrs. G. H. Woolliscroft was
graduated from San Diego State
college Friday, receiving his bach
elor of arts degree in zoology. He
is also a member of Phi Sigma XII
honorary society in biology Mr.. and
Mrs Woolliscroft and Miss Mabel
Woolliscroft were present at the
commencement, Merlin returning
home on Tuesday Miss Woolliscroft
will study at q Los Angeles business
college this summer and Mrs. Wool
liscroft will in Portland, Ore, with
her mother, Mrs M. j. Stone, hav-
ing left Thursday for that city.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-19
sn'1 o%', OF Interest to Women chnr%hs. Ssno1,'
Edited bu ANNE HARDY DAVIS
CALENDAR

Thursday
Defense d,rps, first aid class
7:30, fire hall
20-3O club, 7, California hotel
Defense corps, 1880, high school
gym
Barbara Worth Rebckahs, 1880,
ga Olive
Building trades, 1890, city labor
temple
B. 2. o. +. No. 1925, 8, Elks hall
Friday
Vacation school, $40, Wilson, NC
kinley, Harding schools
Kiwanis club, Barbara Worth
Painters union, 1880, Labor temple
Teamsters union, 1880, Labor tenn
ple
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-19
Texas Evangelist
To Speak in Citv

Evangelist Erwin Waters of Tenn
pie Texas, will be at the Church
Oh Christ, Seventh and Brighton
street, Tuesday only conducting
services at Z pm.
lhls young evangelist conducted
d meeting in the city last October
and many are eager to hear him
preach again.
lhis Friday, at 1880 pm. the reg
ufar singing class, open to the pub
nc Will be held in the church under
tne leadership of Ellie Offil, in
structor.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-19
IN MASSACHUSETTS

Mrs. +. l.. Allen 10 enjoying
summer in Williamstown, Mass,
with the beautiful Bershire hills as
the setting Mrs. p. NJ. Mercer VIII
leave July 3 to spend her summer
ir San Fracisco and Hermosa
Beach. also making brief visit in
Montrose with Karena Shields
whom Ten Thousand and Rotary
Club members will remember with
pleasure for her interesting talks
before their clubs.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-19
8 ct 40 Ne cts
In imperial

A tempting steak bake at the
Charles E. Farrell home in I'M
perial was enjoyed Wednesday
night by members of the I. " 8
ct 40 salon who were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Farrell that evening.
During the business meeting the
group conferred with members of
the 40 ct and voted to contribute
the sum of S25 to Hipass health
camp.
Present from Ell Centro were
Grace Ware, Edna Morrison and
Genevieve Kenyon. The salon will
have its July meeting in Calexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-19

The club will also sponsor a Camp
Fire group as part of its educa-
tional program for girls.
In addition, a recent graduates
committee will be formed, those
eligible for membership on the
committee being young women who
have been graduated from the col
leges or universities two years or
less. Upon reaching the date of
their second anniversary of gradu-
alton, their names are automatic
ally dropped from the committee
list