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Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-08
MARKET QUOTATIONS
L. A. PRODUCE

LOS ANGELES, Aug. s (UP) -
Trading was moderate to rather
slow.
Bunched vegetables: beets 50-65c,
carrots 6o-75c. celery root $4,000
dixon 76-s0c. green onions 3.50-3.75
leeks 1852; mustard $4,000. par
sley lilo; radishes 1.50-1.s0; spin
ach 9O-1.10; turnips 75-90c. per doz
dill 100: mint soc; watercress 35c.
Cantaloups: San joaquin Wy jbo
23s 125-1.35: Ass 1.15-1.25; Hales
best 16-27s 6O-75c. Riverside jbo
23-27s 1.10-1.35; 1866 s5-1; New
Workers 10-18s 50z65c. Honeydews
san Joaquin 9-T2s and jbo crates
6-ss 75-1.0O; Persians San Joaquin
6-ss s5-100: Casabas 46s 6075c.
Squash: white summer San Diego
75-1; Italian 75-9Oc. Pismo 90-.1.00;
yellow crooneck 1850. local cream
and table queens 65-75c. Banana
IL 4-1%s c ID. as.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-08

for an arm operation and many
thought him washed up for the sea-
son.
PIRATES WIN
Pittsburgh kept up its break meek
pace by nosing out the Cubs, 4-3,
after spotting Chicago a three run
lead. 1t was the Pirates sixth
straight and 18tn victory in their
last 81 games. Catcher Al Lopez's
homer in the ninth broke up the
game with relief Pitcher LLOYD
Dietz the winner over Jake Mooty
The Yankee slump continued. The
Red SoX belted the Bronx Bombers,
9-5, but New York held it's 1I1b
game lead because the Indians also
lost. Joe DiMaggio, Charlie Keller
and Bill Dickey all went hitless be-
fore Dick NeWsome's slantS and the
Yanks lost their fifth game in their
last seven starts. Lefty Gomez had
his 8-game winning streak snapped
Ted Williams got three hits, in
Guiding homer No. %.
Despite a three-run homer by
Soup Campbell which tied the score
in the ninth, the Indians, with Bob
Feller in the box, succumbed to the
Detroit Tigers, 4-3, in 13-innings.
1t was Feller's 7th defeat against
20 victories. Successive singles by
McCosky, Higgins and Bruce Camp
bell scored on DetroitS winning
tally.
Roger Cramer'S ninth inning
single drove II. the winning run as
Washington beat the Athletics, 5-4.
Jake Early, Senators catcher, had
perfect day at bat, "a for A..
The Chicago White Sox hammer
ed out II hits to trounce the St.
Louis Browns ILL as Buck Ross
pitched a seven-hitter. Wally Jud-
Mich homered in the ninth to spoil
| Ross Shutout.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-08
Gain Full Game
ByUNITEDPRESS

Santa Barbara gained full game
on Fresno in the California league
Thursday night by shifting Merced
4 to while the Cardinals were
taking an to 3 licking from Stock
ton.
The Saints coupled six hits Off
Boutel with two errors to clinch
the game against Merced in the
early innings, white the Fliers, with
3 to edge,going into the fourth,
made certain of victory with a four
run rally. ~
Bakersfield edged out Anaheim
8 to by scoring a pair of runs in
the seventh inning.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-08

NEW YORK. Aug 8. CUP) -
Tucked away in an obscure corner
OF the American league pitching
averages today is a line-"Rvba.
Boston, won 6, lost 2n-that is
sort OF bushel hiding the light of
one of the most remarkable bail
players in the business.
That gent would be old Mike Ryba
the one-man team who has done
everything connected with a base
ball club except cut the grass. take
tickets and try to interpret one of
Judge lands decisions. Old Mike
has been knocking around the minor
and major leagues for a long time.
but he had TO wait until he was
Sc years old to settle down to one
position.
He comes to mind today because
here in the heat of August he has
just appeared in three games in
four days-as a pitcherl Any time
the Red Sox get in trouble these
days, Manager Joe Cronin sounds
the alarm and old Mike shuffles
out of the bull pen TO put out the
fire.
Dig behind the records and you
will find that old Mike has been
in % ball games this season and
may get into 20 more. If Cronin
suddenly decides to take advantage
of all of Mixes talents. the old
guy could be in there every day
from now on.
Baseball men still speak with
awe Of the 1884 season when Mike
was in charge of the Springfield
club of the Western association.
Il was the manager and the busi-
ness manager" Mike said recently
in recalling that hectic year. We
travelled around the league in three
automobiles and I drove one OF
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-08
25-Hit Contest
HishIi9hts Pei

Lloyd Brown, who relieved him,
blankcd the Rainiers thereafter.
San Francisco beat San Diego,
9 to 5. after holding a to 0 lead
until the seventh inning when Lar
ry Jansen began to ease up. He
gave the Padres only five hits dur
ing the evening. Woody Rich was
was a patsy for the Seals and they
wound up by touching him for five
runs IN the fourth when he retired
in favor of Bud Brewer.
Jess Flores blanked the league
leading Sacramento Cardinals, to
O, as the Angels backed him up
with tight play Tony Freitas. Sac
ramento southpaw, who hooked up
with Jess, gave seven hits before
he left the mound in favor of Bill
Schmidt. Phil Weintraub's walk, a
sacrifice by Harvey Storey and Ar
mold STATE single accounted for
the lone run in the sixth.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-08
LemoS
Starts
Grind

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8. up
Richie Lemos, National Boxing as
scciation featherweight champion of
Los Angeles, today began training
for q l0-round overweight bout with
joey Archibald. recognized cham
pion in New York and Maryland,
here Aug. 26.
The match, along with two other
l0-rounders, was approved yester-
day by the California State Athletic
commission. Tromoter Tom Gallery
of Los Angeles is planning an all
star card for the Olympic auditor
ium featuring the featherweights.
The other matches will be between
heavies Turkey Thompson and Bud
dy Knox and Abe Simon and Sonny
Boy Walker.
Also approved was Gallery's pro-
posed bout between Billy Soose.
worlds middleweight champion. and
Ceferino Garcia. former titleholder,
in an overweight battle at Los An
geles Sept. l6.
The commission suspended Will
son Macker, Santa Barbara, Calf
Negro boxer, for 80 days for his
performance against Glen Lee at
San Diego. Calf, last Friday. 1t
also suspended Jerry Snyder,
phantom manager" of San Diego.
Snyder is the manager of Cleo
Shans, San Diego boxer, and was
suspended for not acting lin
manner warranting commission re-
cognition as Shans' manager"
Shans has been in 80 fights since
last october and had never met
Snyder until yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-08
CHICAGO GRAINS

CHICAGO, Aug. s CUP) - Wheat
futures recovered today after prices
had sagged a cent a bushel.
Corn was firm. Soy beans rose
more than cents a bu. before en-
countering resistance and a reac-
tion. Oats were little changed. Rye
followed wheat.
Wheat closed as lower to 2s cent
bu. higher. Corn was up 4 -
a oats unchanged to 4 higher,
rye unchanged to up q, and soy
beans were rs to 2s higher.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-08
Angelina Leads
In Net Tourney

CULVER, Ind, Aug. g up
Bulge Patty of Los Angeles be-
came the man to beat for the ma
tlonal junior tennis championship
today as eight survivors in the boys
and junior tournament entered the
semi-final round.
Patty fought an uphill battle yes
terday to eliminate the favored
Gardner Larned of Chicago, 0-6,
7-5, 7-5, and enter the round OF
four against Bill Vogt of Philadel-
phia.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-08
TWO BOYS DROWN

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 8. CUP)-
The bodies of two boys were recov-
cred from the Sacramento river
last night after finding OF their
clothing on the bank started an all
day search by authorities. The VIC
tins were Frank Tanayo, 13, and
Robert Barajas, 9, both OF Sacra-
mento.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-08
L. A. STOCKS

LOS ANGELES. Aug. (UP) -
The Los Angeles stock exchange
lost ground today despite a furry
o fheavy trading. Two stocks were
up. five down and nine unchanged.
Approximate transactions were 400
shares.
Quotations:
Farmers and Merchants 3S5'
Transamerica Az, Richfield Oil s1z
Ohrysler 5S off Is. Union Oil l5A
off a, Cessna Aircraft IL off IS
General Motors 3ets off 4 Menasco
Aircraft Ia. Ryan Aircraft As, So
lar Aircraft g, Vega Aircraft 91s
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-08
LOCAL BUTTEEFAT
L. A. GRAIN

LOS ANGELES. Aug. 8 UP) -
Wheat, No. 2 ...... S1.67k -1.72h
Mailing Barley . SI.52k -1.62h
Feed, Barley, western $1.47h-1.52h
MPLS. FLAX FUTURES
oct. ................... Sl.9O
Dec. ................... S1.93H
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-08
L. A. RUTTER & EGGS

LOS ANGELES, Aug. tUP) -
Butter: Extras 3719c; Prime firsts
sblse; STANDARD 33hc; undergrades
gna
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-08
l.. A. BANKS

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8 UP) -
Tranlamerica .............. AZ y
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-08

for an arm operation and man,
thought him washed up for the sea
son.
Evening star., 1941-08-13
INDIGESTION
what Doctors do for it

Doctors know that gas trapped in the stomach or
guilet may act like hsr-trigger the heart They
gas free with the fastest acting medicines known
the fastest like the medicines in Bell-sns
Tablets. Try Bel-ans today. IL the FIRST DOSE
doesn't better. return bottle to and
receive DOUBLE money back. &c At all drug storsA
Evening star., 1941-08-13
| Man Leaps Out
|Window-ionds
hCourt

When William Wade Mccoy, AZ
year-old World War veteran from
Belonzi, Miss, found himself locked
in a fourth-f1oor washroom of a
boarding house in the 1700 block of
Pennsylvania avenue NV. Monday
afternoon he went out the window.
Mr.. Mccoy Jumped feet first,
crashed through skylight and
ended up in another washroom two
floors below. Police found him
there, calmly washing himself of
glass, plaster and dust.
When brought before Judge John
P. Mcmahon in Police Court yes
terday on a charge of drunkenness
Mccoy said he could not recall how
he got in the first washroom but
remembered making the decision to
leave by the window.
Some one locked the door on
me, your honor" he told Judge Nc
Mahon.
The defendant told the court his
fingerprints were on file with the
F. B. I.
Evening star., 1941-08-13
$1000O,000 in Washington Office

$10,000,000 in Washington Office
building construction. About 25 per
cent of all Office space in privately
owned buildings in washington is
rented to the Government.
There is, of course, no question
about the great demand for office
space now-not only by the War De-
partment, but by almost every other
agency. BY July of 1912. provided
the present emergency cois>aues,
the Government will own about
19,500,000 square feet of Office space;
will be renting about 100000 and
still will be short 100000 square
feet, for which provision must be
made This does not count the
space contemplated in the new
War Department Building. If that
is built, 100000 additional square
feet will be available, which would
mean a surplus, instead of short
age, of about 2,000,0 900 feet.
The War Department., housed in
about II different buildings in
Washington, now needs about 734,-
900 square feet of Office space. BY
constructing the new building, with
100000 square feet available, the
War Department would release
about 2,140,000 square feet of space
it is occupying. Principal bene-
ficiary of this additional space
would be the Navy, which would
take over the Munitions Building.
which it now shares with the War
Department. This, apparently,
would mean that a temporary build
ing. now under construction in
Arlington County, would not be
needed for the Navy, but would be
utilized by some other Government
agency
AS the War Department plan
took nearly everybody in Washing
ton by surprise, many of the points
hurriedly raised in objection re-
main unsettled. Gen. Somervell,
who has a fine reputation as an
officer, is dead sure he is right.
Others are dead sure he is wrong.
Congress is expected to approve
the building within few days, and
it is believed that new objections
not voiced as yet, will develop as
fast as the promised construction.
1t is to be doubted if any single
act of Congress ever changed, quite
so radically, the future picture of
Washington, or caught so many
people, supposedly concerned with
planning for the city, completely
off guard.
Evening star., 1941-08-13
Puerto Rico Naval Base
Considered by Congress
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Naval plans to establish a main
Atlantic base at Puerto Rico, COM
parable to Pearl Harbor in the Pa
cific," were studied in Congress to-
day after approval by the Senate
Appropriations Committee of pro-
posed S21, $4,000 expenditure for the
development.
The committee also recommended
extensive fleet anchorage and naval
air station construction work at
Trinidad and Newfoundland.
Capt. E. G. Allen, Navy budget
officer, told the committee during
testimony on the first supplemental
defense appropriations bill that I'VE
have never had a proper fleet base
in the Caribbean" and added that
Viesques, at the southeast end of
Puerto Rico, was the only suitable
Caribbean area that has enough
water in it to take the whole United
States fleet"
The committee recommended a
s13,017 500 appropriation for a naval
air station in Newfoundland, which
would bring expenditures for that
base to s28,017,50O
For Trinidad, the first supple
mental defense appropriations bill
proposes s15,0OO,0O0 as an addition
to the sl7,855, 900 already allocated
Evening star., 1941-08-13
British Anxious 10 Act.
With U.S.. Everywhere,
Duff Cooper Says Here
Cabinet Representative
Not Sure Where Line
Might Be Drown on japan

Great Britain is anxious to
collaborate with the United States
and proceed on parallel lines in all
parts of the world, Alfred Duff
Cooper said here today.
Mr.. Duff Cooper, on his way to
the Far East as representative
of the British cabinet to study the
possibility of centralizing British
political and military authority in
that area, talked briefly with re-
porters at the State Department
when he called on Secretary of
State Hull this morning.
His statement that Britain was
anxious to collaborate with this
country in all parts of the world
was in answer to questions about
whether he considered common
action by the English-speaking ma
tions necessary to meet the Jap
anese threat in the South Pacific.
Asked if the British people
thought a possible japanese move
into Trailand should be opposed
with military force, Mr.. Duff
Cooper said he was sure the British
public did not want Japan to have
her way entirely in the Far East,
but was not sure just where the
line might be drawn.
In response to inquiries about the
potential value of Russian assistance
in the Far Eastern picture, he said
Russia already had given great as
sistance in the world picture and
that the Far East was only a part
of this.
He explained that his mission to
British Far Eastern territory did
not involve any administrative du-
ties, but that he would attempt to
ascertain if it would be practical to
set up minister of state represent
ing the cabinet with overall au-
thority over British political and
military authorities in that area in
order to avoid the inefficiency in
volved in referring major problems
to London, as at present.
Mr.. Duff Cooper was accompanied
to Secretary Hull's Office by Lord
Halifax, British Ambassador; Rich
ard G.. Casey, Australian Minister,
and H. H. Wrong, Australian Charge
d'Affaires.
Mr.. Duff Cooper, on his arrival
at the National Airport from New
York late yesterday, suggested to re-
porters that the growing power of
England's aerial offensive and prob
able revolts in Nazi-occcupied coun-
tries may win the war before Britain
is forced to send an expeditionary
force to continental Europe.
Evening star., 1941-08-13

AS shown, the number of employees
after the war decreased in less than.
four years by $4,000.
On July /, 1888, the number of
employees had dropped still further
to 3,744. In 1910 the number had
risen to 6,694; in May, 1941, it had
jumped to 21,620. The number now
is about $4,000. BY the first of next
year the anticipated employment is
30000-still 1000 less than the peak
of employment during the first
World War.
100-Y Year Need Is Surprise.
One surprising angle of the War
Department plan is the scheme to
build a building that will last 100
years, the largest Office building in
the world, to accommodate what
obviously is temporary emergency
force of employees. After the emer-
gency has passed, the number of
employees will rapidly decrease. Per-
haps four years after the emer-
gency has passed, the number of
employees will drop from 10000 to
less than 10000; perhaps to 10000.
The huge building at Arlington
will, of course, be in excess of the
needs of the War Department then.
What will happen? Government
agencies have some interesting
statistical computations in the
process of formulation. AS the War
Department and other agencies are
cut down after the war and space
in the War Department Building
becomes available, other agencies
in Washington, occupying rented or
temporary quarters, will be shifted
across the river. And space COM
putations now indicate that as
many as % per cent of the entire
executive department personnel
might be so shifted.
If the shift did not take place,
the excess space at the Arlington
Building. even counting 100000
feet for storage of department
records, would be wasted.
If the shift did take place, it
would precipitate serious economic
problem in the sudden vacating of
about go per cent of Government
rented space in Washington Office
buildings. incidentally, the r. F. c.,
through its subsidiary, the R. F. c.
Mortgage Co. has invested almost
Evening star., 1941-08-13

from the Nazis. But they are COM
ing along at rapid rate.
I heard wonderful stories of
heroism in the north in the under
ground organization that hides, and,
when possible, gets out British SOL
diers. In Vichy 1 met a 15-year-
old girl, daughter of a distin-
guished old French family, who had
made on an average of a trip a
week from Lille across the demar-
cation line with from to 10 Brit
ish soldiers in tow. THE children" ("
she called them. People who fool
with this kind of business risk the
firing squad.
1 heard of a Little Sister of the
Poor who had helped get out ID
Scotch Highlanders from village
where they had been hidden in the
north. They needed bicycles for
the trip to the line. She stole Ia
bicycles for them.
The Germans are hot on the trail
of these organizations. While l was
in Chalon a school teacher and his
wife were arrested and their house
watched. In three nights IL British
soldiers were caught coming to them
with notes of introduction. On July
10 the daughter of the Mayor of
Dion was jailed for investigation
OF charge of this kind.
Little Sabotage as Yet.
Thnrn &c 1itt1a
The general feeling is that the time
hasn't come. Repression is terrible.
Notices were posted in Chalon of
the execution of a 16-year-old boy,
who, driving a hayrick into his
fathers field, had accidentally torn
down a German field telephone line
that he hadn't seen.
The ''V" campaign must have been
thought effective by the Germans
for otherwise why would they have
taken over the "V" for themselves?
This correspondent had seen nc
papers for three weeks when he wa;
released from Dijon Prison three
Sundays ago. On the German staff
car that was to take him to Paris
he saw freshly painted "V" He
gasped. The German captain who
had him in tow grinned.
1--WE have taken it over, smart
idea, don't you think?"
1t didn't seem smart to me but
rather an admission of the impor.
tance they attached to Gaullist
propaganda. On the way to Paris
We stopped for lunch. When we
emerged from the restaurant I saw
that some one had painted the Gaul.
list cross of Lorraine inside oul
"V." The Germans laughed it off
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Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1941-08-13
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT" ;"
Contradictions in Te<timonv

In reference to the Presidents
proposal for building to house
10000 instead of 10000 people. Gen.
Soriervell told the committee that
such a building would not meet the
needs for the War Department In
Evening star., 1941-08-13

first unit of new War Depart
partment, which previously had ap-
proved the Northwest Rectangle
plans, suddenly switched against
them. Gen. Somervell's chief OBJ
lection seemed to be that there was
not enough land to provide parking
space for the employees as well as
an Office building for 10000 en-
ployes in that area.
Here, however, another curious
angle developed. The recent high
way and traffic survey of Washing
ton, known as the Whitehurst re-
port, reached the definite conclusion
that it was economically impossible
10 provide off-street parking space
for large buildings in Washington.
The proposal was made that the
search for such space be abandoned,
and that fringe parking lots" be
established on the outskirts of the
city, connected with the various Of
flee buildings by direct bus routes.
The decision now to go out of WASH
ington to build a large enough
building to house 10000 or 10000
employees, with parking facilities for
10000 automobiles, upsets the basic
philosophy of the fringe parking
idea and creates new traffic prob
lens not contemplated in the
Whitehurst report. An idea of what
this traffic problem will mean can
De gained from a realization that
from the Department of Commerce
Building to the Apex Building the
whole Avenue Triangle" develop
ment houses a third less employees
than would be housed on the other
side of the river in the War Depart
ment Building. There was conflict
in the testimony before the Senate
Committee as to the capacity of
the bridges and the approaches. And
this conflict, still undecided, leaves
also undecided the question whether
another bridge across the Potomac
will be Immediately necessary.
Traffic Data Given.
A traffic survey in the fall of 1889
showed that rs per cent of the War
Department employees live in Wash
ington, the remaining 25 per cent
being about evenly divided between
Maryland and Virginia. 1t also
showed that about 18 per cent of
the employees walked to work. With
the sudden expansion of War De-
partment personnel, the percentage
of those living in Washington has
increased. A large proportion of
them are housed in rooms, and such
facilities are not available outside
the city.
An important consideration, not
touched on in the hearings, affects
the future of Washington-after
the war.
In April, 1917, there were 2,8l6
War Department employees in Wash
ington. The war brought on the
sharp fluctuations shown in the
following tabulation:
Evening star., 1941-08-13

I found morale highest among
the Hollanders who came through,
second best among the Belgians and
third among the French from the
north. But France was the conn
try of the three worst hit by the
corruptive propaganda of the Nazis.
And they are up against both
German regime and a French ad-
ministration that, in the occupied
zone especially, is indistinguishable
Evening star., 1941-08-13
Underground Organization in France Helps
British Prisoners to Escape Nozis, Writer Says

This is the last OF q series of
daily articles in Ihich an Amer
ican Uar correspondent tells the
story of his arrest and imprison-
ntent for four months by the
German forces in occupied
France and discloseS intorma-
ton he CLEANED from other priS-
o1erS and Ndei guards.