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Evening star., 1943-06-25
Twins, One Poisoned,
Prove Medical Puzzle
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO. - Attendants
at Central Emergency Hospital must
have looked a bit blank when Lolita
and Loretta Scafidi, identical IA
month-old twins, arrived.
Their mother said one of them
had eaten scme poisonous paste
but which one? Neither looked un-
happy.
A trace of the poison finally was
found on Loretta's lips and treat
ment followed
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
9Th Army Takes
18th Century City

great. kali targets from 10 to 40
miles from Naples were blasted with
bombers attacking through an over
cast SIX. Four planes were missing
from all operations.
The fall of Palmi, 20 miles north
of Reggie Calabria, followed an
advance along the coastal highway
and railroad from Bagnara, cap
tured Saturday.
Throughout yesterday, our troops
continued to advance, although
hampered by extensive demolitions
and difficult country the ground
forces communique said. "Opposi-
ton so far has been very slight"
SUPPLIES COME IN
Reinforcements and - les con-
tinued to pour into the rocky toe
0f the italian boot from Sicily, the
communique added.
A naval communique said that the
suppl; by sea of the invading army
was continuing without intermis-
sion" and revealed belatedly thai
the British destroyer HMS Quilliam
had passed through the Straits of
Messina Sunday and provided the
necessary gun support of the left
flank of the army in the Bagnara
area"
Officials OF AMG-Allied Military
Government of occupied territory
were disclosed to have landed in
Italy and taken over the civil ad-
ministration of Reggie Calabria,
San Giovanni and other occupied
territory on the Calabrian peninsu-
IA
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
Federal Funds for
Recreation Urged

Continued from Page ID
been expressed that unless facilities
are increased the number of visitors
assigned to Ell Centre will be cut by
army officials, resulting in a direct
loss of business to merchants OF
the city. 1t was also mentioned that
no entertainment facilities have
been provided for the feminine
marines who will arrive soon.
PROVIDE BEDS
Federal authorities have indicated
a desire to go SO far as to provide
beds in the old theatre building
should its use be obtained. Often
soldiers are forced to sleep in hotel
lobbies because of lack OF accom-
modationS.
Businessmen also cited the need
for Ell Centre stores remaining open
on Saturday nights to accommodate
servicemen who are in the city.
Members of the chamber of COM
merce merchants committee are di-
vided on their opinions as to wheth-
er stores should remain open Sat-
urday nights but are scheduled to
take some definite action Wednes-
da- night. Some of them contend
that labor shortage makes it advis-
able for them to close. Others, how
ever, see the need to accommodate
visiting servicemen and feel it
would be patriotic to make mer-
chandise available for the visitors.
Numerous small merchants likewise
have expressed desire to remain
open until pm. Saturdays for the
benefit of servicemen as we'll as
farmers of the district.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
Garment Industry
On A Hour Week

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7-CUPD-
Some 1900 Southland Garment in
dustry workers today were ordered
to work a 44-hour week, following
war rnanpower commission hearings
at which industry leaders battled
unsuccessfully for a 35-hour week
Deputy Regional VINO Director
H. R. Harnish said also that the
Southland Shoe industry, which had
sought blanket exemption from the
longer work week, would be expect
ed to work the full 43 hours.
Garment industry workers argued
that many of their workers are wo-
men and older people unable to
work a full 48 hours a week. The
VINO established a shorter week in
individual cases requiring exemp-
ton from the 44-hour week because
of physical limitations.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07

I however the fire started again and
soon the entire building was ablaze.
TRAPPED BY STAIRS
Occupants of the building we're
trapped by burning stairs, Graham
said and many of them, terrified.
jumped from the windows to the
sidewalks below.
Early today, police and firemen,
aided by soldiers and sailors. we're
still carrying bodies from the
smouldering ruins of the building.
Capt. A. c. Martindale of the
homicide squad said there were 81
beds and about so cots in the hotel.
He said that every bed was oc-
cupied and that many were sleep
ing double.
The hotel utilized the top two
floors of an old three story brick
building. Beds in private rooms
rented for 80 and 40 cents a night.
Cots, side by side in larger room,
cost 20 cents. Virtually all of the
fire victims we're elderly men, many
of them transients.
1873 REGISTERED
Night clerk Walter L. Chapel
said 1873 men were registered in the
hotel.
He said someone called him short
ly after midnight and said he
smelled smoke.
MY desk is on the second floor
and l started looking into rooms
on that floor" Chapel said
II found a mattress on fire in
one room and poured water on it
and put the fire out.
Il called the fire department and
then started rousing the guests on
the second floor
Il could hear the guests running
around on the third floor, shouting
and then coming down the stairs.
II helped several old men get
downstairs and the last time I went
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
District Engineer
Goes TO San Dieqo

w. L. Bryant. jr, assistant to M.
J. Dowd, consulting engineer for
the Imperial Irrigation district,
will leave El Centre this week with
his wife and two children to live
in San Diego.
I'll health necessitated the move.
Bryant has been i'll since last April.
He has accepted position at the
naval radio sound laboratory at
Point Iona. The laboratory is
operated by the University of Cali
fornia as a contribution to the war
effort.
The Bryant home at 89l Olive
avenue, Ell Centre, was purchased
BY Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Lehman.
The Bryant family bought home
at 1714 Arbor drive, San Diego.
Bryant plans to start his new work
Sept. Is.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07

HOUSTON. Tex, Sept. 7.-(UP)
Forty-six persons. many of them
elderly men living in relief, were
killed today in the worst hotel fire
in the history of Houston.
An unknown number were sew
erely burned or injured when they
jumped from the Gulf Hotel, a
three-story structure, police homi-
eide detective H. T. Graham said.
Graham said the fire started
shortly after midnight, apparently
from cigaret, but that occupants
of the hotel went back to bed think
inc it had been extinguished. Later
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
Psrt.Time Schools
Urqed by Govt

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.-(UP)-
Three government agencies today
issued a joint statement setting
standards for establishing part-time
school and work programs to meet
manpower needs in acute labor
shortage areas.
The statement was issued by
Paul v. McNutt, war manpower
chief; Miss Katherine F. Lenroot.
head of the children's bureau: and
DR.. John w. Studebaker, commits
sioner of education.
1t said the first obligation of
school youth is to take advantage
of educational opportunities to pre-
pare themselves for better citizen
ship and service to the nation.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
Texas Hotel Blaze
Causes 46 Deaths

up a sheet of flame met me. l
couldn't get through that. I ran
downstairs. 1 don't know how the
fire started"
MANY ATTRACTED
Hundreds of late theatergoers
were attracted to the blaze. They
crowded the street by the hotel,
saw men jump to their deaths.
Soldiers and sailors were mobilized
by police to hold back the crowd.
The spectators were horrified
when one man, attempting to leap
from a window, was caught at the
waist when the window fell. He
burned to death.
Others fled from the burning
building, their clothes smoldering,
crying with pain.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
ARM AIR EXAMINATION

Anyone interested in taking the
examination for air cadets may
meet at the Barbara Worth hotel at
6 80 D. m. Wednesday. Members OF
the Civilian Air Patrol will take the
applicants to the Ell Centro marine
air training station for the exami-
nation.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
u. s. Accounts for
29 Enemy Subs
Continued from Page u

CONTINUED from Page y
that Rear Admiral Husband E.
Kimmel, commander in chief of
the Pacific fleet at the time of the
Pearl Harbor attack, had demanded
early trial on charges involving his
command, Knox replied:
mo application has reached me-
And I'd be the one he'd ask"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
20 Housing Units
For &c. Slated
Continued from Page II

to a dollhouse project which is
scheduled to start soon. The larger
project will be constructed by the
FILA. and will be used for hous-
ing civilian workers at the Ell Cen
tro Marine Air Training station.
Providing Kaiser constructs the
additional 20 units he must agree
to rent them to such workers. A
ceiling rental charge will be fixed,
it has been reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
Russians CHASING
Germans AGAIN
(Continued from Page i

ter, he said, would find the Ger
mans in well-prepared positions0
With the smashing of the Stalino
-Slavyansk line, the Russians surg
ed out across open plains in close
pursuit of the enemy. More than
100 towns and villages were cap
tured in the Donets Basin alone
yesterday, while nearly 200 more
fell in advances at other strategic
points along a 700-mile front from
the Sea of Asov to SmolenSk.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
EEEF
Continued from Page u

Continued from Page II
sina and a communique reported
opposition was slight.
Flying FortreSses, Mitchells and
Marauders participated in the air
blows against the Naples area.
where damage was described as
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
SENATOR'S RETURN

WHITEHCRSE, Y. T., Sept. T.
(UP)-A party of three U. S. Sem
ators and two high government Of
ficials today returned to Edmonton,
Alta, after completing an inspec-
tion tour of military installations
in Alaska and Canada.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
VISIT FRIENDS

While in Laguna Beach on buSi-
ness this week. Mr.. and Mrs. Char
les zinn and children visited the
Ernest Brewer family. The Brewers
formerly lived in Ell Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
Scanning |. Y.
News Horizon
MASONS WILL
MEET THURSDAY

Members of Ell Centre chapter
No. 100. r. A. M, will assemble at
the Masonic Temple in Ell Centre
at 7:30 p. m. Thursday for a stated
meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
PYLE ARRIVES

NEW YORK, Sept. 7.-UP>-
Ernie Pyle, newspaper columnist
who has been covering the Mediter-
ranean war theater, arrived today
aboard a Pan-American Clipper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
bb Known Dead in
Railroad Tragedy

Continued from Page II
the track. ended in dizzy pitch
and slide into a steel signal girder
The coach was sliced in half right
above the windows. A new type
coach, a new pullman and dining
car were skewed across the tracks,
and wedged against the steel pillar
Four other cars were derailed but
not smashed.
Crushed and dying men, women
and children were catapulted to the
roadbed and one body was sent
hurtling to the street, 100 feet away.
Most of the dead were pinned in the
wreckage, and Mrs Christina Nix,
New York City-who has since died
told rescuers:
There are nothing but dead
bodies all around me-"
Doctors worked side by side with
railroad crews. giving first aid in
the eerie of acetylene torches.
reaching victims as the workmen
sought to release them from the
lent and twisted steel wreckage.
DIRECT RESCUERS
A loudsoeaker system directed
both mechanics and surgeons as
the navy, railroad officials and city
police directed battery of 20 high
powered searchlights over the three
most baCiy wrecked cars-the old
type coach, a Streamlined coach and
new streamlined pullman. All the
dead were removed from the sew
enth and eighth cars of the Limited.
Shortly after a. m, about go of
the repair men narrowly escaped
injury or death when an overloaded
crane, lifting one end of the dining
car. slipped chain and the multi
ton car debris crashed to the road
bed. A quick shout sent the men
scuttling for safety as the car
bounced on the cinders and tracks.
Lillian Rissett, 81, Bronx, N. Y,
said from her bed at Northeastern
hospital;
Il felt a sudden tearing lurch.
My mother went spinning across
the aisle. A man fell right on her
face. Then huge chunk of metal
fell on the man-and l tainted"
Her mother, Julia, SO, was in
critical condition in another room
at the hospital.
10 RAILROAD WORKERS
Among the known 6ead were 10
railroad workers who were speared
and felled by flying ties and steel as
they trudged the right-of way on
their way home from work at
6:08 p. m.
The first six cars of the train
the first section of the limited
which was expressing from Wash
ington to New York-continued
half-mile up the track with the
rear truck of the sixth car bouncing
over the ties. Some were injured
in that section but none seriously.
Among the we'll known persons
who escaped injury in the trains
first half were Mrs. Myron G.
Taylor wife of President Roosevelt's
special representative to the Vati-
can; Roy w. Howard, editor of the
New York World Telegram and Mrs.
Howard; and Lyn Yutang, Chinese
writer.
The railroad said the Labor Day
train carried SAL passengers, 410 in
the day coaches and 13l in the
PullmanS. Two of the coaches and
one of the trains two dining cars
were squeezed into tight w shape
across all four of the main tracks.
More than 10000 persons throng-
ed to the crash, jamming the tracks
for more than mile and impeding
the rescue work as hundreds of
city police, railroad police, detec-
tives, army NJ P.'s, Coast Guards
men, civilian defense volunteers and
firemen vainly sought to clear them
from the right-Of-Way.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
TO BLAST BERLIN

DTROIT. Sept. 7.-(UP)-The
cost of blasting Berlin off the map
will be pretty close to Sl8.75, the
price of SIS war bond. for each
man. woman. and child in the coun-
try" Secretary of Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., said yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
NEITHER DO WE NEED
Duplicate, Competitive
POWER SYSTEMS

District Power system owned controlled
by the people just surely police fire departments
like these other public is not operated for the
personal profit of any individual of individuals but TOR
the benefit and protection of all the people
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HOUSES FURNISHED.


ARMY, WIFE, EMPLOYED, WILL RENT g
room house, CScep. / bedroom. TO couple:
nearby Arlington; available immediately.
No pets Good trensp. 10 city. Gu. 95sl.
GROOM, DETACHED HOUSE. GARAGE,
large lot. fireplace, oil heat. auto. INV;
modern and new; in good neiShborhood,
near neal, University Of Nd, sl:s, per mo. 4sos
FURN. CORNER sEMI-DETAcHED HOUSE
saH heat, \ rooms and breakfast loom.
yard' lease | year 10 desirable party. IA.
SILVER SPRING ArTRAcTIvELY FURN
available April ! Can ST. 900
LEASE COMPLETELY FURN.. sEMI-DET
H-rm, home IN owners residential COM
ross m aHn drive fts 10
Treas. Bldg; Streetcars. = business schools
, ehurcheS all within blocks 100 per
Open 10 am, to o pm. 400l 5th st. NV.
CO. SnenaeId
BROOM BRICK. BUNGALOW, COM
eos Sea s 70 per Po osdrd ds
SMALL ATTRAcTIvELY FURNISHED
March * to May 10 $3.50, North so3s.
WILL. CONSIDER RENTING 7-RooM =
bath hoggse to party purchasing furniture.
5-RM, 2-sTORY BRICK, NICELY FURN,
large yard to responsible adults; conven-,
lent trsnSo: MARYLAND suburb. WA. 1852.
REFINED CHRISTIAN WOMAN WANTED.
10 share home With mother and daugh-
ter. Call Ii 35h3 after ! pm. Sunday.
WILL SHARE MODERN 5-RM DETACHED
house: own Exposure bedrm; country
Ike: 20 min. express bus from Govt bldZs:
Sbo includes laundry and utilities. Oil,
a''la after /
TAKCMA PARK--2o MIN FROM CENTER
OF clt%. Detached house. rooms. sths
with lear garage; on 3 CITY lots nestled
among trees; modern, sttractively fur
nished. Sl55. Georgia $50
BY OWNER--5 ROOMS AND BATH, H
Phone Hillside osec-R
MARRIED COUPLE TO SHARE HOME,
1856 Branch ave. Silver Hill. Md. Phone
Spruce M 46-W
ARLINGTON = GROOM FURNISHED
house. Call Glebe 1899
EMPLOYED LADY WILL SHARE 5-RooM,
bath house. in nearby Md. with employed
Man expected take care coal furnace.
Cooking and home privileges furnished ey-
cept linens and silver, No drinking.
Available April IS. Rent, S75. References.
ONE BROOM AND BATH HOUSE, FULL
city improvements, on Chain Bridge I'd.
between Tysons Corner and Vienna, across
the road from Zig stock pasture. Name on
mass GUY r. CoNKLIN. Idylwood I'd,
Idylwood Va, Route .. Fails Ch s50-J-3.
IMMEDIATE POSSESSION
Very attractive home, well furnished,
bedrooms, > baths, studio living room with
fireplace, recreation room with fireplace,
ssra &c KiShen , sro1nd heat soou,
tile, terrace; located about 2 miles from
Bethesda just of Bradley blvd.
HENRY J. ROBB, INC.
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APARTMENTS SUBURBAN.

UNFURN ENTIRE SECOND FLOOR NEW,
modern home. LARGE rooms. tile bath with
shower cow. to bus lines and shops.
4so6 2:ird st. no, Arlington, Va. CHI. 41As
UNFURN. APT. . OR 3 LARGE, cool
rms, kitchen. bath; l blk. from bus line:
large yard, shade trees. all utilities: pri-
vate. Kensington 3ol-R.
GROOM TENANT HOUSE. GARDEN
fruit given for part-time household serv-
ices. Silver Spring Oi39 ewes. or Sunday
GLEN ECHO HEIGHTS. MD. - TUSCAN
avas Td.--FuruiShci l-Toom apt, S4s: or
single room for two persons. Ia
RIVERDALE, MD.---2nd FL, APT. FURN
3 rms. kit, bath adults only. $50 mo-.
Phone Warficld 24s2
3 ROOMS FOR Ink NEAR BUS LIVE;
no children, 1885 N. Randolph st. Arl,
Va Oxford Ease
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ELDERLY GENTLEMAN desires accom-
modatlon with private family; conyen
1enl Pentagon Building. Call or write
Room BIO. Hotel Stratford.
LADY WANTS quiet back fur. room away
from radios. very little Ink. Please de-
scribe and state price Box 1850, Star.
QUIET, SOBER MAN desires room; private
39l C Star
Ink. ROOM or small apt LIST fl, or
sem semi nSmt;' Turn or unfurn.' reas.; couple,
fined Protestant girls; Northwest section;
cooking, facilities; conv. Transportation
BOX 4St-C, Star. Is.
FURN. OR UNFURN. RM. bath or run wa,
x limit S35 to $40 ref. furn. Box 3s0-C.
REASONABLE EA for couple only roomers;
transportation Box $3.50, Star, e'''. AZ
QUIET. RESPONSIBLE COUPLE desire
well lurnlshed, large room with twin beds
hotel hot or private home preferred. Box
EMPLOYED MOTHER and father with o.
year-old daughter desire two rooms in
private home with complete care and board
for daughter, Telephone Wisconsin 1924.
GENTLE MARRIED COUPLE, both EN- :
ppioyed' wish to rent rm.. pvt. home, share
next . weeks. Shepherd 7249.
LADY, employed, wishes room alone in
northwest; willing to pay $50 month; pre-
nshed room. Box S a4s-c. s sfHsi'ef "H'u'
PROFESSIONAL MAN wants corner room
refined neighborhood cow. and rapid
tranSp. Dept. of Agriculture; $50 max ;
prefer some meals. Box l00-B, Star
ROOM, studio. furnished or unfurnisbed
> gentle gentlemen, permanent; refer
ences Box ;}32C, Star IA.
SETTLED. southern, gentle woman, desires
comfortable room in genteel home, occa
sional kitchen, laundry privileges. by ApriE
/. State price, location. Box 33S-C, Star
~
BASEMENT ROOM. private bath and en-
trance. furnished or unfurnished: down
town; S35-S5o month, by discriminate
seryiceman permanent. Box 313-C, Star.
GPO EMPLOYE wants . bedrooms living
room, kitchen. bath, in Silver Spring. Tax
PARK or suburbs. Boz 1850, Star. Is"
BY REFINED LADY and son, is, TN
furnished rooms housekeeping; gentiles
would take over hight duties. Write Box
267-C. Star. 14s
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407T MINNESOTA AVE. NE, Aps b.
UnfurniShed room in apt: couple or = girls
preferred: rent reasonable
1871 CONN, AvE-small unfinished
hafh
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ROOMS WITH BOARD

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HARVARD INN. "a harvard St ".
y yoSs FITS & s4 S0e each pe eTceen meas
,, III 51InNIs,, cav, $500 ~
WILL FURNISH RM. ana ID to Tenne "a
h9me aSs fe Win cn on n pesse ev Ga
3l"l DaEenporl 81. NV. -----------
1913 llth ST. E-Beautiful 'front.' room
double e Toom n means mon fbn'
ATTRACTIVE cheerful front room twin
oeoy , ltly,Iing a'mofphierei tu9 ana Sm2Tee'
MY Nn fShSp,' coal neat pE'. teSioehce-
e eId CHASE. MDmTrstnsp 70 ,Pep r5a
Biog. otu6io affangem Us lor = slTlS' 80 Ca
D2ooIe =. s3;, ga hXsel: meals ol oou,''
board large, beautiful room, running
girls girls deiciop, well-bslanced meals $40
yoI7,71-
aOupNG L 5iJ 70 Snare YIN SbE peoIh WIN
at4cher pug a. a. ooot 90 W x2 mo, PIE
i,oi MASS AWE N w --sjnaie ord do,Y.
Ne W. ronras Mir e. s:o,tb cTnHe Ion
tiIation Ladies and gentlemen Sterling
955s "''' ans
1464 CIRARD ST, N-W-Poom end
board. single. fine table, congenia and
co, 1850. -
SHARE twin bedroom with another girl
Priv. $50, with board. AID. 534s.
1916 18th ST N.W-Large front rm.
twin beds. c.h.w., unllm. phone. So
month each 2 other occupants.
FREE RENT-Wiil board girl for $500 wk
If willing TO share coy. spacious; l,rm
ant stay NIGHTS with boN. NO sun.
~. : -; !! w Az :. oe.s El9'i''S
lT45 LANIER PL. N.W.-Grl 10 snare
cheerful rnl with large porch Wlth an
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girl Tor care OF ch1id evenings Oh
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ROOMS EURN. 9 UNEuRN.
ROOMS UNPUBLISHED.

ROOMS for . or ) men or man. wife; Dis
trict line. Silver Spring; apis. and Broom
horse SH f01g
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APARTMENTS WANTED.

REFIAED GENTILES WANT TWO-ROOM
kitchV, furnished apartment, Hyattsville,
S9TS.
DESIRE OR 8 RIM VERY QUIET UNFUR
apt, near Union Station; exchange pres
ent apt near Interior War Navy Bids .
on pay commission. NE. 1924 evenings
YOUNG NAVY COUPLE DESIRE FUR OR
unfur. apt. in NV. section; will purchase
furniture. Box 4l3-C. Star.
NAVAL OFFICER AND WIFE, NO CHILL
dren, wish apartment, three or four rooms,
k. b.: reasonable distance Michigan Park
Call Dupont 6045.
ARMY OFFICER AND WIFE DESIRE
completely furnished u to 3 room apart
ment. convenient to X ST. NV. Call after
! pm. District 1850. Extension 1920 .
COUPLE WANTS FURNISHED l r, X
and b. prefer apt. house or private en-
trance. DuA 0566.