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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-03
CARDIFF GIVEN
 GOOD SMASHING
German BOmbers Ham= mered Welsh City All
 Through Night Hours
RY L. H. PERCY

London. January 3-UP)-Wo- men and children stood on roof tops and in the streets of Cardiff, chief industrial city of Wales, dur ing the night and aided firemen, policemen, air raid precautions workers and men volunteered to put out thousands of incendiary bombs dropped by German planes in their second fire raid on Brit ish city.
 German pianes attacked the city from dark last night until the early hours of this morning, scattering incendiary bombs mixed occasion ally with explosive bombs.
 Damage was heavy but reports indicated that it had been kept to minimum by a tireless fight of persons of all classes, warned by the first fire raid Sunday night on London's ancient 'city" district.
 The raid was one of blitzkrieg in tensity. First reconnaissance planes flew over the city. Bombing planes which followed in waves dropped incendiary bombs by the thousandS while anti-aircraft guns put up the heaviest barrage ever heard in Wales.
 Many In Theaters
 Many were in movie theaters when the raid started. They, cafe patrons and people at home joined fire fighters. Two of the movie theaters were damaged as were shops, other commercial premises, many homes and several churches.
 Home Guards were mobilized to aid the fire fighters.
 Telephone girls stayed at their posts. Factories continued at. full schedule while fire spotters on roofs took care of incendiary bombs. Coal trains continued to rumble about the area throughout the raid.
 The air and home security min isters said of the raid:
 "The main enemy attack last night was against a town in South Wales, where considerable damage was done to houses and commercial and other buildings.
 "A number of fires broke out but fire services extinguished many and brought all the rest under control by an early hour this morning.
 "A number of people were killed and others were injured.
 Bombs were also dropped on other narts nf the country but damage was small and casualties were very few"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-03

Curragh, JulianStown, DuleeK ana Boris had been found to be of German origin.
 The protest was ordered as fears in Fire that the bombings might be the prelude to a weekend NaN attempt at invasion of this neutral country.
 Bombs have fallen on Fire, many of them around and even i'll Dublin, for two successive nights. One, re- ported to be a gigantic land mine dropped by parachute, exploded at a. m. today, wrecking a synagogue and rendering about 40 houses with in a two block area unnhabitabie.
 Of German Origin
 The official government statement on the bombings said:
 "Fragments of explosive and m- cendiary bombs dropped at Curragh, Julianstown, Duleek and Boris have been examined and found to be of German origin.
 "The charge d'affaires at Berlin has been instructed to make an energetic protest to the German government against this violation of Irish territory by German air craft and the loss of life and de- struction of property which took place as result of the bomb ex- ploSions and fire.
 He further is instructed to claim full reparation and to insist upon effective steps being taken to avoid the recurrence of such happenings. Investigation into the origin of bombs dropped in other places is proceeding"
 The bomb which struck in Dublin proper was so large that there were reports it was a land mine of some sort. It was dropped by parachute at a. m. Q0 p. m., Thursday, EST)
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-03
HARRY HOPKINS
 GOES TOLONDON
Not as Ambassador, HOw= ever, But Personal Rep=
 resentative of FDR

Washington, Jan. 3-(UP)-Pres- ident Roosevelt announced today that he is sending Harry Hopkins, his confidante since early New Deal days to London as his personal rep resentative.
 Hopkins, the former secretary of commerce who lives in the White House and is perhaps the presidents closest friend in or out of the gov- ernment, will have no status as an ambassador MT. Roosevelt said he merely is going to London to talk to some old friends of the presi- dents. The idea, MT. Roosevelt added, Is to maintain 8 personal contact with the British govern ment.
 The circumstances of the assign ment recalled the famous missions of Col. Edwin M. House in World war days. House was President Will sons personal and unofficial enis- sary to Europe and he spent much of his time in London.
 MT. Roosevelt did not fix any date for Hopkins departure and he saic that he did not expect his frienC to remain in London very long.
 No IntimatiOn
 MT. Roosevelt gave no indication whether Hopkins would carry some special message to the British, o1 what particular information he wa. expected to bring back.
 Hopkins close friendship anc known loyalty to the president in. dicated, however, that the unofficia envoy might serve as highly con. f1dential channel through which MT Roosevelt could transmit his idea! about the war directly to tht Churchill government.
 MT. Roosevelt told his press con. ference that newsnen should no speculate whether Hopkins might bt named ambassador later. Hopkins who resigned lis cabinet post du' to failing health, is not strong enough for such job, the presiden said.
 Hopkins trip, MT. Roosevelt em.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-03
FAMOUS WOMAN
 ATHLETE IS DEAD

Revere, Mass. Jan. B. -(UP1 Mrs, John F. Davis. 66, the former Flossie LaBlanche who. attained circus and stage fame by lifting 12 men on her back, died at her home yesterday after being confined to wheel chair for five years.
 President Theodore Roosevelt and Kaser Wilhelm were among the famous men she cad lifted before she retired eight years ago to marry. She was . native of Percy. " H.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-03
Explosion Of Nazi Bombs Over Fire Is Another Unexplained Hitlerism
FINAL REPORT ON
 CAMP A|CN l
Democrats Spent More in Electing Roosevelt Than
 Did Republicans

Washington, Jan. 3.-(UP)-The Republican and Democratic national committees in their final reports on 1940 presidential campaign ex- penditures advised congress today that they had kept well under the $3,OOO, 900 Hatch act ceiling.
 Oliver A. Quayle, Jr., treasurer of the Democratic committee, report ed expenditures of $2,438O91 and unpaid bills, excluding loans, of $345, ,561. Its total outlay in behalf of President Roosevelt's third term campaign was $2,783,652
 The Republican national commit tee reported expenditures of $2,242,- TAP. The summary showed no entry comparable to the unpaid obliga- tions" in the Democratic report.
 The report of the national treas- urer for the Associated Willkle clubs, one of the principal supple
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-03
REPRESENTATIVE
 MET WITH DEATH

Branford, Conn, January 3. - (UP9 -. State Representative John w. Doane, 54. Westbrook, was one of two members of railroad section gang killed late yesterday by New York bound express train. The other was Isadore J. Comes, A, Stony Creek.
 Railroad officials said a flagman had been posted to warn the work CTS of the trains approach. The flagman, however, mistook a dead head" train for the express and no warning. was given when the latter came through on schedule four min utes later.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-03
COMMANDER OF PLANE ORDERS COMRADES OUT Lieut.. J. Murray Hanson, Pilot, His CO-Pilot Are
 Safe After Landing ONE MAN KILLED IN
 JUMP FOR SAFETY Plane Weighed Down With Snow, Was Crashing
 Slowly Toward Earth

Big Spring, Texas, Janu- ary 3. = (UP) = The 13-ton navy seaplane flew blind through a snow storm, slowly being weighed toward earth by ice accommodating on it's wings. There was no possi- bility of getting it down safely; it was over land.
 Jump" commanded Lieu tenant J. Murray Hanson, it's commanding officer.
 One by one, five men leaped out of its escape hatch and disappeared into the swirling snow. The last man saw Ensign R. B. Clark, the co-pisot, beside Hanson. Either he had been exempted from the order, or intended ignoring it.
 That occurred in yesterdays dusk and at dawn today fleet of Navy planes take off from San Diego to aid the cowboys who were out 1n the l:rairies all night on horseback searching for the plane. It had to be down for its gasoline supply was long since exhausted. It was feared that 1t had crashed and Hanson and Clark had been killed.
 Of the five men who jumped, one was Killed. Machinist Mate w. F. Percich, of San Diego, became de- tached from his parachute i'll the air. Three of his comrades were being treated in the hospital here for shock. The fifth was not hurt.
 Was On -sat7s2
 The plane was one of three Navy patrol seaplanes being ferried from San Diego to Pensacola, Florida.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-03
One More Shake-up in Vichy Govt Keeps France
 on Griddle GERMANY WORKING OVERTIME THESE DAYS Europe Will Be Again Ill- terested in Next Move of
 German Fuehrer
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS

United Press Foreign News EditorD
 A possible German Balkan coup involving Bulgaria and the explosion of German bombs in neutral Fire today shared war interest with a British assault on Italian land and sea forces in North Africa and another shake-up in the Vichy government of Marshal Henri Philippe Pe- tain.
 Cautious dispatches from Berlin indicated that Bulgaria may be face to face with German demands, ,p0S- sibly for the right of transit for some of the estimated 500,000 NaI troops now in Rumania, many of them close to Bulgaria's frontier.
 A German spokesman in Berlin emphasized Germany's embracing interests in southeast Europe and her determination to keep what were described as foreign interests" out of that region. It was hinted that the 'health'' trip of Bulgarian prem fer Bogdan F'iloff to Vienna may wind up, as have the Vienna trips of other Balkan statesmen Tn the past. with a showdown conferences with Germany's Foreign Minlsters Joachim von Ribbentrop.
 Ireland Protests
 The Fire government ordered vigorous protest and demand TOT compensation at Berlin after exam nation of bombs which have been dropped widely in the past two nights in regions close to Dublin re- vealed the fragments to be of Ger man origin. Fears are growing n Fire that the bombings may be the prelude to a weekend Na1 inVa- sion attempt.
 From Caro came word that Aus tralian troops have smashed through one sector of the Italian defenses aD besieged Bardia in Libya, in an ac- ton which is still in progress. Lon- don thought the final assault on Ine encircled Fascist base may be ab0ut to start. The Royal Air Force re- ported a powerful raid on the Ital- ian base at Tripoli where they claimed bombs "straddled" five Fascist cruisers moored to mole. The factors surrounding the new Vichy shake-up were still someWnat obscure but France was assuming greater importance because of Ine value which bases on the Frencn Mediterranean coast and In French North African Colonies would be tQ the German air units now assigned to help out Italy in the Mediter- ranean sphere.
 The Italian press said that shl,n- dreds' of fresh German and Italian planes shortly will be striking at the British in Libya and the Greeks in Albania. Reports from Athens said that the Royal Air Force carried out blasting attack on Elbasan, Central Italian base only 20 miles south of Trana, capital of Albania. DrOne Over Fire Airplanes of unknown nation~ ality droned over neutral Fire for the second successive night, giving rise to widespread Irish fears that a Nazi invasion may be the next move. The planes dropped mors bombs around Dublin, some falling in the city itself, where synogogue
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-03
OLD AGE PENSIONS

Hartford, Conn, Jan. g. UP)- Old age pension payments by the state totaled $5,456,418 during 1940, an increase of $662,63 over the previous year, it was reported today by State Welfare Commissioner Robert J. Smith.
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SCHOOL COURT SITS

Chelsea, aNGss. (UP)-A school boy court sits regularly at the sliurtleff junior high school to try yioiatcrs off school traffic laws. If the pupils guilt is established, a written essay on good behavior is lneted out as penalty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-03
77th Congress Is Facing History Making Events Over Aid to Britain
Washington Has Climbed Up
 Among Largest Of U. s. Cities

3UP)-Washngt0n has climbed from 14th United States largest cities final There 663O91 Washing made last 193O The increase attributed to the great the beginning the New Deal
 Miami Fla population growth during the jumping Its population of cent increase the 1850 count of 110,6S7.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-03
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Jan. 3--(UP) Cow ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Dec 31st. compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Last 8ets1s $5,174,692, ,291.05 767,467s s67 S.58
 Receipts $2,924,562,ss F $2.T44.229S1s.zl
 Gross Deficit s2,25o.1os.4O7.es s2,O2s,2ss.i5s .ss
 Net Deficit s2,21s,s5s.oO7.ss s2,00s. .Sss, .ssl
 Cash Balance $1,92s,454.975.75 s2,476. 1e0 gSs ,S6
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-03
Ireland Fears Nazis Will Invade Her First
More Bombs Were Dropped Last Night in Various Sec tions; Fire Has Consistently Refused to
 Order Any BlackOut
BY DAN CAMPBELL United Press Staff COrrespondent)

Dublin January 3. = (UP) = The government an. nonced today that it is protesting to Germany against repeated bombing of neutral Fire after examination ot bombs dropped showed them to be of German origin An official statement by the Department o External AanS
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WOMAN,s DEsCENDANTs. 2I9

WUMAN1S UESCENIlANTSs EIy
 Fall River, Mass. (UP) Mrs. Elsie La France, 93, died leaving 2l9 de- scendants She had seven sons, five daughters. S8 grandchildren, l08 great7grandc children and one great great-grandchild.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-03

Winter Term Open Ian. 6 New classes day and evening. Get ready for q job. Post Junior College of C0mmercc. Adv.
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-20
HIGHWAY BLACKOUT
(Tulare. NnluS)

ArTl>tng facts that highway accident
G. .;thS n tn" United States for the last
year have exceeded deaths from bombing
in FngIau0 t9r the entire year of the big
lli-I e5Na force to safety warnings of the
Sta. Department OF Motor Vehicles as
tNc us#~s ea.-,foQ> season for driving
Ie-...s. Winter this year brings not only
loa@ *e.I.>. taE>, and wet pavements, but
ni~, ,.aal.U 81 thousands of soldiers on
gu'la,.= ... r.. thiej.en the stream Of
mo'41 -r.u|Ir and Increase accident haZ-
;,',i-. tn, hi.H!N dangerous habit to be
- ..-- !. (. rs winters safety crusade,
tr~aa,..ar L. James VI. Carter, depart
me, .Gt.c'. " l. failure Of motorists to
G.~ 'as.E IiL.' Hnen approaching other
VII f.. @iure Of undimmed lights
s-s. Il .r.i.abIe "highway blackout'
%. ..s.H5.s 5.:,nmed seconds duration, in
'.... .......- -..". ing automobile will trav-
d.. - rt 4. G., block or more while
.,. -pll.jcd driver is helpless to
, .H.d g.. .-.ru Or plunge from the high
Vus. paffpI Chief Cato is directing a
-'..- -s..G, c%nr5JGu to apprehend and
c,.J ,#t.ao,r- in this category Of driv-
ill.,. c3.rele>-nc>~.
r. .5a- Will come, in all probability,
WIG, 3ti.'er.al highways will he clearly
I.um5,ar"& from overhead, as baseball
;3o fea''3'. s'ao.ums are now lighted
'oi '.e.a' ,.aI3.~. But in the meantime,
O. ..r .',-' Efforts Of law enforce
r., .t.i'- u compel safe driving,
{ be-. d. ..p>v against highway black
,.'. .. ltirr accident causes is contin-
.. eE=rt ~ Of common sense.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-20
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN TIE SUPERIOR COURT OF
YUMA COUNTY, STATE OF
ARIZONA.
No. 1912
NOVICE OF SALE

III the Matter of the Estate OF
MARY H. BAXTER, Deceased.
NOTICL IS HEREBY GIVEN that
commencing on the oath day of Nov
cmber, 194l, I will sell the herein
after described property Of the above
entitled estate at private sale for
cash, lawful money OF the United
States, or for part cash and the
balance on credit not exceeding
one year payable IN gross with in
tereSL at the rate of g. per annum.
Bids will be received at the law
offices of R. N. Campbell % Sec
ond Street, Yuma, Arizona, and
may be made for all or any part
of the property.
The property to be sold is situated
in the County of Imperial, Stale
of California, and described as fol-
lows:
Farm Unit " of Section 33,
Township Is South, Range 90
East, San BernardinO Base and
Meridian.
DATED: October 29th. 194l.
HUGO b. FARMER,
Executor and trustee of the
estate of Mary H. Baxter,
deceased.
Nov. g. 13, 90
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-20
A POLICE OFFICER
HOLDS HIS TEMPER

Ell Centro's football game the Other
night was marred by as disgusting IN , :
hibition Of roWdyism a. we have seen loI
many days-and frightened by al e<-
ample of self control
The boys who started ana paruci ipt.le'
in a free-for-all at one end OF the pIal lil&
field between periods Of the game may
have been lust bows. but their conduct
was eninently deserving OF WoodShed
treatment. 1t reached the peak ot hooi-
isbness amid sequence more TO - eN-
Dected Of SeVen-year-old than o.
Young man Of high school age when ole
of the combatants aimed d blow IL o.
of the Officers called to restore peace
An extremely Juvenile note was IL
iected when. according to oHo WIZ =.
the lad who aimed the blow boastcG Iztef
that the officer Was afraid Of me ~.
boast had something Of the menta! h...ao-
ness Of Tom Thumb shouting pm 80
defiance Of a heavyweight champion. l'2
the officer in question Is the huSkleH. ma.
on the FL Centre police force--a ~
whose fists al more effective when us.'e
than would Le knOhDcd club IN th' as'i-
age mans grasp.
1t is to the policcman's credit tha' h.
not only held his temper. but refused !"
place the young offender under ARE.
if the youth knew human nafur b"1a.l.
he would know that man with .eS- -
confidence. or one with less coUfa4e,
would have re,~rn.d his blow, or = -
very least would have dragged hm b.
fore the court on d. ,peacf, dlSigfoa'e.
charge The officer did neither. Hl- - cong 7,
ment later Was, "AW, they lu~t 30.
Maviyc 50. And maE},a boy VII
boys, But there is one school Of tAoaeI'
Which holds that bows Will b. WiEr 1o.
and a I'd better boys. if juvenile action is ~.
With the punishment Of juvenlie~-''
flat Of a hand in the proper place.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-20

HOLI WOOD. NOV 20-Bchind
tie screen. Clever gals, these
elamorisls of the current war pic
turc5 There Was Ilona Massey,
WORKING coded military information
into i2r sanea on the radio. There's
Marearct Hayes. on whom foreign
aAcnts literally have designs
plan Tor m aerial torpedo drawn
on her back. And in I'll Take
Manila" -" Eleanor Powell helps trap
a group OF ANS spies with dance
number. She taps out in code
waning tlat foreign agents are
aboard a battlcShip.
just Wait-onc of these days Il
beautiful British agent will be-
tray Nazi spy with kiss. BY
some osculatory contortion she'll
imprint on his forehead in lip
stick Y for victory.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-20
So They Say

For most young people. true free
dow will ncVcr exist until we eStab-
lsh conditions which will maintain
an abundance of employment op..
pGrtunitv in a free labor market.
Owen D. Young. chairman, Amer
lean Youth Commission.
Small business has a Job to do
to assume ICur proper and essential
place in the mobilization of the
industrial might Of this nation for
all-ou, effort.
-Flcyd p. OGlum, director, con-
tract distribution, OPM.
The "NcW Order IS ready to col
lapse q; any moment and bury Hit
lcr in it, runs.
Joseph Stain.
The action WaS taken among 9TH
er reasons because We didn't have
a winning football team.
DR.. 4. Ct Crane. after removal
as president OF University Of
WyOmm9
If union laDor l. TO endure, it
must rid itself OF men who stand
ready to sell out labor when 1t suits
their purposes.
Federal Judge john c. Knox OF
New York.
Thr Aa'.can peopl" have made
az unlImIrcd commitment that
there shall &c a free world. Against
that commitment 10 individual of
group shall pre'ail
President Roc eEclt.
There are no maladjusted chill
drcn only maladiGstcd parents.
Dr.. Felix M Adams. supcrinten-
dent. Eastern Oklahoma Hospital
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-20
THE FAIR THING
TO DISTRICT EMPLOYEES

The Imperial Irrigation Distric, hoara.s
resolution setting forth the district L.
gal inability to enter into 4 contract WITH
a labor union was an eminantlN fair o'9s.
founded upon sound coaSiderat,oH =.
the welfare OF district employees
The board statement ot policy ul,a#=,
closed shop contracts and chrrk-olt d1e~
payments WAS directly IN line with /.
basic declaration that the d!~tuG e.'
not legally sign contract With Gt.e.
The action Was the emily tau th.u-
employees of he municipal coTNoratla.
Ii may have been diScouraEiug To- u'lot
organizers who seek to recruit mVm'es
ship among district employees. hUt COZ
sderation Of the organizers IN tins n
stance is purely secondary-it. indeed.
they have any place IN the dlSCu>Sion
Ii would not b. fair if the district dir
ectors maintained silence on the ISSUE.
knowing all the time what their polls.
would be in the event a union Contlae
were demanded. Ii would not be talr =
cause false promises by organizers NiEht
raise false hopes among those they >'..'#sa
up, and only disappointment would can
in the end
The district did not say, 1--WE do no,
approve of labor unonS. The N>tr-ss
did say. The law as II exists prtFt3is
us from signing any contract with i
labor union.
The district in other words. merely
told its employees What they have 4
right to know when they consider Whal
benefits might accrue to them from }qil-
ing union. 1t would be patiently unfair
to % district employees if they were, IN
duced to Join union in the belief that,
by joining. they would put them> selves
in a position to demand a contract 5er
their union They would inevitably GlS-
cover-too late-that even were the dIs-
trict directors so minded, there can be a9
such contract, for such a contrat Wo4ld
be contrary to law.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-11-20
by Peter Edison. :.
The Inside Track in Washington

President Roosevelt mentioned it in
> speech and II set the Germans
TO howliug abusive denialS.
Assistant Secretary OF State
Breckinridsc Lo1g made speech
directed at Italy. in which he said
italian roorI eent to aid Germany
were but hCs:aees to keep the Ital-
ians at homo in servitudc to the
Nazis That che caught both the
Germans and Italians off guard.
There are other incidents of the
same kind which reveal how this
battle Of words IS to be fought. But
most Of them probably won't be
told about unit the war is ever. if
thcn.