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Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27
FDR BIames Farm
Bloc for Costs

WASHINGTON, Feb. 81 (UP)
President Roosevelt today de-
nOunced as reprehensible
method of legislation the at
tachment of non vetOable riders
to unrelated bills such as ap-
preparations measures.
The president was questioned
at his press conference about
recent senate farm bloc threats
to attach to the S32,7OO, 900 war
appropriation bill a rider for
bidding the government to sell
below parity levels its huge
stocks of cotton, corn and wheat.
The president said this farm
bloc action would raise the cost
# eating in this country by about
$1,000, 100000, and he wanted
everyone TO realize this fact.
The farm bloc already has,
despite opposition of Mr.. ROose-
welt, pushed through the SEN
ate a bill prohibiting below
parity sales of gOvernment-held
farm surpluses.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27
Physician Ponders
SeveI1ing Infants
Siamese Embrace
Operation Considered
To Separate Twins
Joined Face to Face

NEW YORK, Feb. 27. (UP)
"A physician deliberated to-
day whether to cut two in
fants apart or let them go
through their lives Joined by
flesh. locked in everlasting en-
brace
The babes we're the daughters of
Mrs. Carmine Picciotto, q, who had
wanted just one BABY to replace her
first born-dead for more than a
year-and gave birth yesterday to
Continued on Page 6, col -
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27

'eived only half an Oscar, as CO.
tuthor of his one-man movie,
'Cltizsn Kane" Best supporting
,layer was Donald Crisp for his
2art in How Green" while best
supporting acrtess was the red
'eaded Mary Astor-she of diary
'ame- for her work in The Great
Lie"
The war nut a crlmp in the Gus
tonary award festivities. There
was no dancing. No evening gowns
No fun dress suits and no ribbons
across hard-boied shirts. The folks
who paid their $ll per. plate for
steak and pink ice cream. who list
ened to Wendell Willkie make the
principal speech and who sat
through hours of Scar-handing-
outing, looked hardly at all like
the handsomest collection of peo-
pie in the world.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27
vichyPromises
To Remain Neutral

WASHINGTON, Feb. q. tUP)
Acting Secretary of State sum
ner WelleS said today that the
French government at Vichy mad
given formal assurances Ct an m
tention to remain neutral and TO
keep French fleet ou: OF German
control.
Welles said, however that the
further clarification of several M
rortant questions was necessary
before the French situation could
be finally determined.
Welles said his previous aSsef-
ton that the French answers were
considered unsatisfactory would
stand until the entire picture was
further clarified.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27
joan Fontoine, @. Cooper
Win Best Player Oscars
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN

HCLI YWCOD. Feb 27 CUP)-
Fifteen hundred movie makers IN
Mutt at the 18th annual academy
awards dinner early today cheereo
joan Fontaine and Gary Cooper
as the best motion picture players
of l94l
Miss Fontaine. in black like mos
of her banquet1lg sisters in thu
glamor girl business, and Cooper
in business suit and a wide grin
wen their gold-plated oscars for
their performances respectively il
suspicion" and Sergeant York. ="
How Green Was My Valley" ."
was named best picture while John
Ford, who directed it and now is
serving with the navy at sea in
the Far East received the prize for
the best directing job.
Orson WelleS, the man from Mars
who had been nominated in near
ly all the award classifications, re-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27
Knox AssaiIed for
Proposal TO Move
Coast Industries
Secretary's Rare Logic
LampOOned in Blast
By L. A. Civic Group

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27.
(UP) = President Carleton
B. Tibbetts of the Los An
geles Chamber of Commerce,
commenting on Secretary of
Navy Frank Knox statements con-
cerning Los Angeles air alarm, said
today that I'VE are not going to
win this war . if we move our
key industries around the country
like bunch of dominoes."
Tibbetts' remarks were printed as
an editorial by the Los Angeles
Daily News which described them as
among the soundest yet uttered on
this subject"
Just a false ALARM" Tibbets
said, was the disposition made OF
Los Angeles impressive fireworks
display, or headlines bombing, by
Secretary Knox.
RARE LOGIC"
With rare logic Col. Knox pro-
ceeded to infer that vital industries
gradually must be removed piece
meal, as Britain has done"
We are Impressed with the i'm
piled logic that, since there were
no planes and no danger, our great
industries should be moved inland.
Perhaps Col. Knox navy can be
expanded if our shipbuilding is moy-
ed to the plains of Kansas and if
our petroleum industry should be
transferred to points where oil is
not abundant
Col Knox, who mentions Britain.
may be interested to learn that al
though England is only % miles
from Hitler's vaunted luftwaffe, she
suffered only 10 per cent produc-
Continued on Page 6, col a.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27
Plot Dies When
Plane Rips Chute

MERIDIAN, Miss. Feb. 27. up
Second Lieut.. w. j. MCGOWAN OF
Alhambra. Cal, plunged to death
north of hel> eSterday when his
parachute tore On his falling plane.
The plane was believed to have
exhausted its fuel while MCGOWAN
searched for a uNSsible landin :
spot He was a graduate of the
Oshkosh. Wis. Teachers College
CONNELLSVILLE Pa, Feb. 81.
oUP)-An army pursuit plane
crashed into a mountain side l8
miles east of here during a fog,
killing the pilot.
The pilot was identified by police
as Second Lieutenant Robert JeS-
sup, of California. The body was
taken to a ConnellSville undertake
ing establishment.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27
Salvage Campaign
Offices Opened

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 27 CUP)--
Harold Brayton, San Francisco,
named executive secretary OF the
salvage for victory program in CAL
ifornia, today established headquat-
ters in Sacramento with the state
defense council.
Superior Judge Edward P Mur-
ply of San Francisco is chairman OF
the collection drive. The program
is to enlist public aid in collecting
old paper, rags, rubber and other
material valuable for war produc-
ton
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27

LlIiG oOillC vi JIlt Olu DOyS Will
used to enjoy special privileges in
Los Angeles would like to see me
out of office l have been cramping
their style"
He said he would SHOW that there
were no grounds for the accusa-
ton" and then "see to it that the
old forces of corruptiC4l never got
back in power in Los Angeles in
my time"
Bowron was accused of the retir
ing 194l jury with "wilful miscon-
duct" for allegedly spending police
secret service funds in violation of
city charter regulations and for
abotting and encouraging Chief of
Police C B. Horrall to commit
overlapping. the only penalty, if
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27

utlenSe command, was expected to
issue the orders under authority
granted by President Roosevelt.
Reports were current that he
would go far beyond original regu-
lations laid down by the depart
ment of justice which ordered the
evacuation of nearly 100 zones in
California, oregon, Washington and
Arizona, and placed curfew restric-
tionS on other large areas.
More than 5000 aliens already
have been forced to move from areas
close to docks, airports, manufac-
turing establishments, oil fields and
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27

he is found guilty, is removal from
office. 1t is not a criminal action
The same grand jury returned
indictments against Chief Horrall
several Of his subordinates, Chief
Deputy District ATTORNEY Grant
Cooper and Clifford E. Clinton. civ
ic reform group head who led the
1888 campaign which resulted in
Bcwron's defeating Mayor Frank
L, Shaw in a recall election.
HCrrall and his aides were &c
cused of felonious wire tapping
and Clinton was charged with wire
tapping and with joining Deputy
District Attorney Cooper in falsi-
flying public records Cooper also
was charge dwith wire tapping.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27

Manager frankie Frisch of the
Pittsburgh Pirates wasn't speaking
to his old friend, Ell Centres Mayor
Bob Hatton Friday, except to call
tho ,,rpv0r Gcro~ "No'~o zones that
had best be omitted here.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27

power plants The new order is ex-
pected to affect perhaps every one
OF the 10000 or more enemy aliens
residing in the four western states.
Whether it would call for out
right evacuation of these residents
and even their American born chill
dren, in the case of Japanese, was
known only to army authorities. Nor
was it known whether they would
be completely cleared from the
coastal states, as hundreds of or
carnations and citizens have de.
manded.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27
Zero Hour Near
For Java Troops
AS Ships Gather
Dutch and Allies Smash at New Invasion
Fleet in Sumatra; Enemy Launches Ist
Attack on Indian Ocean Territory
- Bv UNITED PRESS -

Sturdy Dutch and their allies braced against imminent
allou Japanese attack jaw Friday smashing
enemy invasion forces in Sumatran waters and the long
of Japanese air reached into the Indian
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27
Alien evacuation
Orders AWuited

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27 (UP)-AIien and Ameri
can-born japanese awaited with mounting Apprehension
today for army regulations barring them from addi
tonal sections of California, Oregon and Washington
Lieut.. Gen. John L. Dewitt. commandnU the wnstarn
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27
Mayor Says Foes
Framed Charges

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 81 (UP)-Mayor Fletcher Bowr-
on charged today that grand jury accusation seeking
remova from office inspired by "a powerful
full underWorld which made commerciazed vice possible
in los Angeles 81 have known long time" BoWron said
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27
No Secret Bases
Located in !. w.,
Sheriff Declares
Ware Reveals Flares. Signals Reported
In County Have Been Called to Notice
Of Military Authorities for Inquiry

Sheriff Robert w Ware Friday advised Imperial county
residents not to worry about the possibility of secret enemy
;rbSes in this because Of the excellence OF the ar
raid warning service and announced that report OF
flares signals night passed to the proper
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27
Speaking of Bicycles

hllSUdhe. OIlt - SJlll pltl-Oy lIlSl.
Speaking of Bicycles
Now that bicycles are in again we
may expect incidents like this any
day.
Jim (Popl Livingston is visiting
in FL Centre ard all this bicycle
business reminded him of a bicycle
incident that took place at Ft. Sher
idan, H., in 1893
Pop, who was quite a dandy in
those days, bought a tanoem BIZ
cycle and he and his wife cut quite
a dash One of Mrs. LivingstonS
friends wanted to ride on the BIZ
cycle one day Mrs. Livingston Sug-
geSted that she don one of her short
skirts for the trip. The friend re-
fused, apparently thinking ankle
length skirts were a bit too daring.
1t was a fine trip Pop took her
for a Spin around the country ard
then asked her if she wanted to
go through the fort. She did, of
course.
They were right in the middle of
the 3lst infantry when there was
a CilIh' a IilI, a Lip, 1lie ~ oSA Sulti
The modest lady's skirts had caught
in the chain and were stripped
from her shrinking person. There
she stood ir the middle of the 3lst
clad only in a pair of those old
fashioned white muslin drawers
with ruffles around the knees.
Pop, who insists to this day that
he didn't even SO much as chuckle.
carefully extracted the skirt and as
sorted petticoats from the chain and
he lady wrapped herself up in the
tatters.
Well that's one thing that can't
happer here.
What Time? War Time
Mrs. Aaron Afford sleepily looked
at the clock and arose like a duti-
ful mother and gave her baby his
6 a. m. bottle. She yawned and
mentally complained about war
time
Next she aroused her husband
and told him he had better get up,
light the fires. and get ready for
work. Afford, as sleepy as if he
never had any sleep in his life,
finally dragged out of bed and be-
gan to shave ard bathe He felt so
al in that he took a peek at the
clock
1t was 1890 am.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27
ANTl-GOSSIP DRIVE

BOSTON, Feb. 81. CUP)-A cam
paign to stop women from gossiping
begins tonight.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27
D AMBL!Ne
X EPORTER
Daily Bulletin

Copied from the night reports at
tle Imperial county jail.
8:35 p m Hurry to highway 80
and Dahlia canal, womans plane
crashed
COS p. INJURY to highway and
Dahlia canal to get drunk woman.
9:15 p. m.-Mrs. Medina Harris,
35 who says she is nurse, brought
To Jail from highway 80 and Dahlia
canal Liquor. No plane. She sa1S
she was up in plane and fell out.
Mistake. She's still plenty high
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27

Maximum Friday -. minimum
Friday Al; 5 p. m. Thursday So.
humidity 81; 5 a. m. Friday 81,
humidity %; noon Friday SO, hu-
midity 81.
LOS ANGELES EIAY
u. S. No. / S23. .50-24: u. S. No. 2
leafy l. V. S22-23; U. 5. No. 2 $50
S2l, Mpl. Spet. Flax, $2.32A.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-27

El Centro Business Barometer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-04

watch prices. By noon the tension was broken. Even the bootblack or the street could tell it was going tc be Million Share Day.
 It was. Within a week, there was another. And the volume has held nudging million shares with cheering regularly. More impor- tant, this activity has been on a rising market. Excluding Decem- Der, when there's always brisk trad ing as customers take year-end losses for tax purposes, this was the first ray of hope in the former capitol of capital since brief furry in July year ago.
 What was behind it? Savants took two guesses. One was better war news. Stalingrad still held. The Japs were being blasted in the Aleutians and sustaining heavy losses in the Solomons. The Nazis' troubles were increasing. The sec- ond guess was the tax bill that emerged from Senate committee. It looked as though corporate taxes might not be as high as business had feared.
 Everyone left on Wall Street can make money on less than a million shares a day in 1922. In the prodi- gal days of the late Twenties. they figured it took a million-plus shares for The Street to get an even break on volume. But today Wall Street is just a ghost of it's former self though pretty lively one just now
 That's not primarily because of the war, although the number of working girls in the financial dis trict these days shows that the draft has dipped deep into The Street. Back in 1929, at the peak, there were perhaps 100000 people in the securities business in New York. By the time the war started, that number was cut by almost 85 per cent.
 How long will this boom hold? Not even the most optimistic broker will venture to say. But there s.<- plenty of crossed fingers in the huge offices along Broad and Wall and New Streets-crossed in hopes that the nearly twice-seven lean years have passed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-04
Market Irregular At
 Noon After Splurge
Election Rally Gaits Opening Trade; Profit Taking
 Shows Up After Rise

New York, November @ - (uPl - Stocks turned irregular today after what Wall Street described as an election rally. Trading in the first hour was at the rate of more than 1,500,o00 shares for full ses- sion.
 Profit-taking appeared after gains ranging to a point had been regis~ tered in the main list and valume slackened. Steel shares gave up small net gainst scored at the open ing. In the case of rails, leaders sub. stituted small net losses for early advances. Oils held minor advance and Tire shares were firm. Utilities turned irregular.
 Initial trading was marked by large blocks ranging to 5000 shares
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-04
|S3 SPLIT TICKET
 AS PLUMB WINS
Candles Defeated for State Representative; Staple
 ton COnquers Bergin
PROSPECT Rudella c. DriscOll. Corre- spOndent - Telephone 5-0921

Prospect, Nov. A complete tab ulation of ballots cast in Tuesdays election shows Governor Robert A Hurley ran below the rest of the Democratic ticket. A total of 43s ballots were cast. Of this number 189 were straight Republican votes 127 straight Democratic, 12 Socialist and three Socialist Labor; 93 split tickets and 13 were rejected.
 Local interest was centered in the contest for state representative Fred Candles, defeated in the Re- publican caucus for the nomination for this office and drafted by the Democrats. was defeated by Rep Thomas Plumb in a close contest MT. Plumb was returned to office by majority of 30 votes.
 John J. Bergin, seeking the office of judge of probate for this district, was defeated by the present incum- bent, Luke H. Stapleton of Cheshire
 The complete results of the vot- ing follows:
 Governor-Hurley CD 127, Bald win (R) 245, McLevy (S) 38, Bor- den (Soc.-Lab0 3.
 Lieut.. Governor = Shepard CD 140, Hadden (R) PAP, Mayhew (S) 15.
 Secretary of -Woodhouse IA, Redick (R) PAT.
 State Treasurer-Mona CD 140 Sharpe (R) 250.
 State Controller-Dowe CD 143, Zeller, (R) PAS.
 Attorney General --- Gideon CD 143, Palloti (R) PAP.
 Congressman-at-Large - Maciora CD Al, Monkiewicz (R) PA.
 Congressman-Patten CD Al, Talbot (R) PAP.
 New Haven County Sheriff Slavin CD 157, Schlal (R) 234.
 State Senator, 14th District Cook CD 1858, Field (R) 245.
 Judge of Probate-John J. Ber- gin CD 159, Luke Stapleton (R) 240.
 State Representative-Fred Ca- males CD 1855, Thomas Plumb (R) 215.
 Justices of the Peace-Lloyd Per " CD 168, Victor Petrauskas CD 150, Otto Schuster (R) 244. Clifford P. Wallace (R) 228, John G. Miller (R) PAT.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-04
BOYS IN
 THE SERVICE

Moore Field, Tex, Nov. 4-Among recent promotions at Moore Field advanced flying school in the Rio Grande Valley near Mission, Texas, were two from Waterbury. Arthur J. Barrere has been promoted to the rank of staff sergeant. He is the son of Antigone Barrere, 78 Wolcott street. Willis c. Ford has been pro- noted to the rank of corporal. He is the son of MT. and Mrs. Clarence Ford, 96 Yale avenue.
 Carl SorensOn, 24, of R. F. D. ?, Waterbury, stationed in the South Pacific, has been prOmtoed to ser geant. He is the son of MT. and Mrs. Hans SOrensOn.
 Pvt. Frank Dutil, Jr., of IS Colley street recently spent furlough with his parents, MT. and Mrs. Frank Du- til. He is stationed at Camp Pickett, Va.
 Celester l.. Hungerford, 19, of B Mitchell avenue, third class petty officer, is spending furlOugh with his mother, Mrs. Alma HungerfOrd. He received his preliminary train ing at the Naval station at Great Lakes, H., and expects to be as- signed now to a naval motor me- chanics school.
 Philip R. Levesque, son of MT. and Mrs. Edmund Levesque of II Green wood avenue, is stationed with the Marines at Guadalcanal, according to word received by his family.
 Capt. H. H. MacCOuglin and Sergt. J. L. Futch of the Springfield Ma rine recruiting headquarters are in Waterbury comforting with Staff Sergts Maxwell P. DickersOn and Victor Babilchuck, local recruiters. Their trip here is a regular inspec- tiOn visit.
 The local Navy station has been notified that enlistment work will continue as in the past and rumors that the stations would be closed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-04
CASPARRI OUT
 ON $l,OOO BOND

Eugene Gasparri, 3i. of 263 Har- per's Ferry road. arrested last night on a charge of violating the liquor law. was granted e continuance uri- til November fe, when he was ar- raigned this morning in municipal court. He was released on a $l.000 bond.
 Lieut.. Ernest Pakul and Patrol man Joseph Cayanaugh who made the arrest said Gasparri was selling liquor at his restaurant at 3B Union street on election day. without a l- ccnse. They also stated he had been arrested four times since l040 on charges of violating the liQuor law.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-04

in Studebaker, which made q MeA high.
 During the first part of SAs session, new highs were made @ Consolidated Edison, Sears RoebucR Southern Pacific, Illinois Central Johns-Manville and many others
 Around noon, U. s. Steel was as 50 la off l-e; Bethlehem S9 S~A unchanged; American Telephone i2l up l-2; Chrysler 65 6.e up S.S. Gen. eral Motors 4l I-8 up i-s; stand ard oil (N. JJ 42 S-4 off i-4; and Du Pont l30 Ia up Ia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-04
NURSING COURSE <, FARLEY PLANNED
Registration Friday al
 WestOver School; PrO- ' testant Sunday Busses
MIDDLEBURY Correspondent: Nl-ncy Rllsy
 Telephone S-64le

Middlebury, Nov. 4 - A meeting will be held Nov. 6 at 9:30 a. m. for registration for a home nursing course to be held in the WestoveI school building at the left of the old Center school on the first floor Mrs. Leroy w. Foote will be the in- etructor and Mrs. G. A. Anderson the registrar. This will be a 24- hour course.
 Women applicants for the War Department Civilian Protection school ct Amherst, Mass, are es- necialiy sought. Each school runs fW 10 days. The first starts Nov lS: the next Nov. 20. There is no snition fee. Applications should be made through the local defense
 A9za. John n. Foster has been ap- ndinted consumer committee chair man for Middlebury to replace Mrs. klaAgfes Rafford who has resigned.
 k9ass Aiddlebury people feel that kaae change in bus schedule for Sum- Magx ls Infair as there will be only fnEx ngs ses run out here during the m4in5s cgy-two in the early morn- kak and two in the evening. This aehecnss does not allow church. e0arn to get more than one way tk1y vii need to walk more than saga uaiiks for ct least one way and
 turing tile winter this will be real kazdshig, and those going to Water kury xili have to stay in town all MAg CT Ralk home. Those going to ard 9rosa work at three o'clock in NC afternoon will simply be "out aR inckv unless he is fortunate eacugh 70 have tires and gas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-04

are without foundation. The con- munication was from Adm B. B Ralston of Washington, D. c. Howard G. Stone, 20, of 596 Wood tick road and Charles J. Adamaitis { 22, of 25 Green street were in a , group of nine men sent by the local Marine recruiting station to Spring field today for final examination preparatory to taking the "Leath- erneck" oath. Others are William J Burns, 20, of ThOmastOn; Edward SkOwr0nski, IS, of Derby, Louis Col linS. 27, and Theodore BIakeSlee, 21. of Bristol, Robert Coloske, F and Harrison Smith, Jr., of FOrestvilIe, and Alexander Gabor, Jr., 25, of Bridgeport.
 Pvt. Charles Baldwin has re- turned to Camp Davis, N. C., after spending a furlough with his par ents, MT. and Mrs. Henry Baldwin Of Lakeview avenue.
 Lieut.. John T. Foster of Middle bury is recieving advanced train ing at the Army Air Force field in New Mexico. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. John H. Foster.
 Sergt. Harold Fenton, Jr., of Buck ingham street is now stationed at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. He is in the ordnance division of the U. s. army.
 Capt. Bernard J. Duffy, former commander of the veterans CCC company in TOrringtOn, has been ap- pointed to an executive office of the First Service Command. Since July 20, 1941 he had been serving as a special service officer.
 Latest local recruits in the U. s. Army are Adam Grasso, 19, of 21 Rose street, Tony Tarulio, 19, of GA Dikeman street, and Edward H. Frank, 19, of Il Wheeler street. James H. Bickerdke, 93, of Nauga- tuck, also enlisted recently. A to- tai of 38 local men enlisted during October, according to an announce ment made by the recruiting office at Hartford.
 William DOOmey of 3O3 Circular avenue, who recently completed his basic training at the U. s. Naval Station in Newport, R. l., has been assigned for training as an aviation machinist at Jacksonville, Fla. He recently visited with his parents, MT. and Mrs. John DOOmey.
 Corp. Francis Hennessey, nephew of Misses Sally and Mary F. Hen- nessey of 67 Hillside avenue, is a patient at the Army hospital at Camp Polk, La. He was recently in- jured in motorcycle fall.
 Corp. Arthur Sullivan, a former actor of the Waterbury Civic theater is stationed in Australia with the U. s. Army. He formerly served at the Air Force station at Mobile, Ala.
 Pvt. Christopher Quinlan of North Main street is taking officers train- ing at the U. s. Army ordnance department at Camp Butner, N. c. He is with the motor base supply regiment.
 Pvt. Roy LOckhart of Meriden road and Pvt. George Kingston of W0Odtick road have been trans- ferred from Atlantic City. Y. J., to a technical school at Goldsboro, N. c.