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Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
Ne Donald Vetoed
Hoover PI ans

which would have pledged the
United States not to build new
bases in the Far East and Great
Britain not to build any in the
western hemisphere.
He also eliminated all reference
to another Hoover proposal design
ed to eliminate starvation of civilian
populations by naval blockade as a
weapon of war. Mr.. Hoover wanted
to grant food ships in wartime the
same immunity from attack as hos
pital ships.
These hitherto unpublished pro-
poSals were made public by the
state department in two volumes
of papers on U. S. foreign relations
for 1929. Each year the department
publishes papers that are Is years
old
The documents showed that in
1929 the United States had few Jap
aneSe problems, but was involved
in major controversies with China
and indirectly with Soviet Russia,
and was plagued with a Mexican
insurrection and problems created
by the use of U. s. marines in Mica
ragua to suppress the bandit activi-'
ties of Gen. Augusta Sandino.
Probably the most important pa
pers included were the heretofore
secret memoranda of the Hoover
Macdonald conferences in Wash
to nand at Mr.. HooVer'S retreat on
the Rapidan river in Virginia. The
conferences were a prelude to the
London Naval conference of 1890
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
40-Ton Plane
Sets Record

BURBANK, Cal, April II. CUP)--
The constellation, TWAS super
transport, took off from Lockheed
air terminal at 3:5645 a. m. CPWT)
Jack Frye, president of TWA and
with Hughes the co-designer of the
huge transport land plane. was In
the co-pilot's seat. Seventeen Lock-
heed aircraft and TWA technicals
an army officer and a civilian air
expert, were aboard.
Officials of Twa, which commits
stoned Lockheed TO build the con-
stellation two years ago. said the
ship would be converted into an
army transport. Originally design
ed TO carry 81 passengers, In army
service she will be converted 70
carry 100 fully equipped paratroop-
ers, they said
The Acton ship, which has
cruising speed exceeding 800 miles
an hour, carried gasoline sufficient
to make a nonstop flight,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17

WASHINGTON, April II. CUP)-,
The giant transport Constellation
landed at Washington national air.
port at 1859 p. m. Monday (E.W.TD
setting a new trans-continental air.
plane speed record.
The huge four-motor transport
made the crossing from Burbank,
Calf, in seven hours and three
minutes on the basis of unofficial
timing Howard Hughes, who set the
previous record, piloted the plane
here for delivery to the army.
The huge silver plane appeared
in view to hundreds of watchers at
the airport at 1854 p. m. against a
hazy blue sky and flew over the
airport at 1855
The transport then made a COM
plete circle and the wheels of its
tricycle. landing gear cut the earth
at 1859.
The plane flew a great circle
route from Burbank of 2,308 miles.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
Macarthur Would
Accept Draft
On COP. Ticket
HEADQUARTERS,

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific, April II. (UP)---
Gen. Douglas Macarthur said in a
formal statement Monday that he
does not seek" the Republican
nomination for president of the
United States, but implied strongly
that he would accept it if drafted.
The electoral processes involved
in the choice of president "are of
so imposing a nature as to be be-
yond the sphere of any individuals
coercion or decision" he said in
commenting on publication of his
CORE spondence with Representative
A. L. Miller, (Rn. Nebraska, re-
garding tie hh.er:cai, political situ-
alton.
TO WIN WAR
MY sole ambition is to assist
our beloved country to win this
vital struggle by the fulfillment of
such duty as has been or may be
assigned to me-" Macarthur said.
Observers said the generals dis
claimer of seeking the presidency
appeared even less definitive than
that which he issued in 1912, when
he said that he was mot a candi-
date Monday he said, in effect.
that anybody could be drafted for
the presidency and went on to eX-
press his readiness to fulfill any
task that may be assigned him.
Macarthur said his correSpon-
dence with Miller never had been
intended for publication. Though
he had called Miller's first letter
charging that President Roosevelt
was attempting to establish a mon
archy scholarly the general said
his own letters were neither po-
litically inspired nor intended to
convey blanket approval of the con-
greSSman'S views"
SINISTER INTERPRETATION
Il entirely repudiate the sinister
Interpretation that they were in
Continued on Page 6, Col. s.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
Storms
Dead
Hits 80
Two Southern
States wep+
By Tornadoes

ROYSTON, Ga, April II
- Emergency crews worked
to provide shelter and relief
Monday for scores mace homeless
by tornado which hit Georgia anc
South Carolina with lightning swift
ness before dawn Sunday and left
at least 80 dead and more than 300
injured.
TWenty-one were killed in Geor-
gia, and 18 in South Carolina. Prop
erty damage by the tWiSter, which
cut a l00-mile path, was expected
to exceed hundreds of thousands OF
dollars.
Food was provided for homeless
families from field kitchens, and
emergency shelters were set up in
churches, schools and other public
builci ings by the Red Cross.
SPEED RED CROSS ALE.
Gordon Stone, assistant director
of the national disaster service of
the Red Cross at Washington, said
that eight special disaster workers
and doctors and nurses had been
sent from Atlanta to the devastated
areas of northeast Georgia and
northwest South Carolina
Eye witnesses said the tornado
ripped through the stretch of farm
ing communities with train
speec," crumbling homes and build
ings like matchboxes, uprooting
trees, overturning cars and dis
rupting communications.
The heaviest death toll was in
Franklin and Hart counties.
Georgia.
Doctors and nurses worked by
candlelight to administer aiC to the
injured. AT Royston a baby girl,
named Susie, was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Alvin Dove during the storm.
DESCRIBES STORM
A young mother, whose husband
and two young chilcren were killed
before her eyes, said that the tor
nado sounded like wild roaring
thing as it swept through Roys-
ton.
Mrs. Ernest Outz, 26, said the fam
lily knew the storm was coming.
Il woke the children, my huS-
bano and my law" she
said through swollen, bruised lips.
Il took all the family up the road
piece to house we thought might
be safer. We were sitting around
when it hit. It was terrible. A
Continued on page 6, col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
{ MN onueI Orders
Premier to
LiberuIize Unit
Fascist Group
Gains Power
In New Se+-up

NAPLES, April II. (UP)
- Premier Marshal PietrO
Badoglio's cabinet resigned
Monday, clearing the way for
a reorganization b bringing
representatives of six opposition
liberal" parties 'into the Italian
government. !,
King Victor Emmanuel accepted
the designations of the premier and
his cabinet ministers and immedi-
ately instructed Badoglio to form a
new government on a broader basis
through the appointment of minis
ters chosen from members of the
six political parties.
The shakeup was expected to
bring Philosopher Benedetto Croce
and other outspoken opponents of
the king into the cabinet, possibly
the advent of Fascism.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
Arrest
Blocks
Wreck
FBI Nabs Man
Removing
Track Rails

The Federal Bureau of In.
vestigation Monday announc-
ed the arrest of Andres
Obese Sanchez, 47-year-old Heber
laborer, on a charge of attempting
to wreck a San Diego & Arizona
train south of El Centro during last
weekend.
He was arrested by U. S. agents
and Imperial county deputy sheriffs
between El Centro and CaleXico fol
violation of the federal train wreck
statute. He was arraigned in E.
Centre Monday before United States
Commissioner Dorsey WhitelaW ano
decision continued until Wednesday
In a statement issued Monday
Harold Nathan, special agel.t in
charge of the San Diego field di-
vision of the FBI, which incluC es
Imperial Valley, said that Sanchez
had been under constant surveil-
lance by FTBI agents, Imperial coun-
ty deputy sheriffs, and special agents
Of the S.D.P.A. railroad during re-
bCliV WCCho "do
obtained that he contemplated a
campaign which was to culminate
in an attempt to dynamite Boulder
dam.
Sanchez was observed in an at
tempt to remove a rail on the track
Of the S.D.&A. railroad near a bridge
over canal south of Ell Centre. The
unscheduled approach of special
train frightened him away, Nathan
said. The train was stopped by Of
ficers in time to prevent it being
wrecked.
In fleeing the scene, Nathan said,
Sanchez abandoned two crowbars,
a six-foot lever used as a box car
mover, and a 30-inch stilson wrench.
These were recovered by officers
and are held as evidence.
Sanchez is married and lives with
his family at Heber.
He is held in the county iail at
Ell Centro on a charge of violating
4l2 A of the United States code
which is the federal train wreck
statute. Violation of this statute
which includes an attempt to wreck
a train, carries a penalty of 90
years Imprisonment or $4,000 fine,
or both Imprisonment and fine.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
SYDNEY, April II. (UP)

The federal supreme court,
entering a censorship dispute
that had halted publication of all
four Sydney daily newspapers, Mon
day enjoined the government from
further interference with the news
papers, subject to certain undertake
ings anG pending further hearing.
The court issued an interim in
junction after police had seized all
copies of morning and afternoon
newspapers in Sydney, Australia S
largest city, on grounds they had
violated censorship regulations.
Lonc on newspapers attributed the
action to a private fight between
Australian information minister Ar
thur Calwell and the president of
the Australian Newspapers Proprie-
tors association. The Times said
CalWell had accused Australian
newspapers of sending "mischievouS
messages to the United States.
All four newspapers were accused
of attempting to publish censored
matter and the police acted unc er
writs issued on complaint of the
commonwealth publicity censor en-
powering them to seize all news
papers in publishing rooms, on
presses and on trucks for an indefi-
mite period.
First to come under the ban was
the Syc ney Sunday telegraph. The
Sydney Morning Herald, probably
the most influential newspaper in
Australia, and Daily Telegraph were
next, to be followed by the afternoon
Daily Mirror and Sun.
Defending the censorship authori-
ties. information minister Arthur
Calwell said he was asking crown
law authorities to consider the
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
Scribes Demand
Censor let.up

LONDON, April IT, GUP) - Five
British war correspondents repre-
senting a large segment of the Brit
ish Empire press were revealed Mon
day to have cecided to cease filing
stories from the southeast Asia the
ater in protest against censorship
regulations governing the Burma
campaign.
Repeated representations at CAL
cutta have had no effect, the cor
respondents charged, and they will
not resume filing until they receive
assurances from London that CEN
sorship regulations will be over
hauled.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17

WASHINGTON, April II. CUP)-
State department papers revealed
Monday that British Prime Min
lister Ramsay Macdonald, at the
last minute of his 1929 conference
with President Hervert Hoover,
eliminated from the final announce
ment the Hoover proposal to divide
the world into two hem!spheres for
purposes OF naval base limitation.
Macdonald became troubled ABOUT
public opinion" at home and
frightened about possible roper
cussions of the naval base proposal
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
Plane Factory
Eyes Postwar;
Scans Vet Jobs

HAWTHORNE, Calf, April II
tUP)-A survey of machines and
methods to determine jobs best suit :
ed to disabled veterans was begun
Monday at Northrop Aircraft COM
pany.
Hearing, eyesigh,, staECing, walk
ing, climbing, lifting ana otner re-
quirements of each job will be
studied and the jobs classified ac-
cordingly, General Manager La
motto T. Cohu said.
Supervisors will be trained to
help handicapped ex-servicemen
take over the jobs, he said
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
LA. Woman Kills
Lover on Dare

LOS ANGELES, April IT, (UP>-
Held on murder charge, Mrs Phil
omene Santoe, 81, told police Mon
day she fatally shot her sweetheart
Machinist Walter Harju, 90, because
he dared me to, and I did"
Then I leaned over, kissed him
and ran for police" Mrs. Santos
added.
Mrs. Santos said that Harju, sep
arated from his wife and baby
daughter, had been going with her
for two years. She said they quar-
relied over her assertions he drank
too much and was friendly with an
other woman.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
Australia His h Court Ends
Suspension Of NEWSPAPERS

question of ;mmeC late prosecution
of the newspapers. He accused the
Sydney Sunday Telegraph of flag
rant defiance" of censorship regula-
tionS.
w. NJ. Hughes and P. c. Spender,
opposition members of the war ad-
visory council, criticized the censor
ship officials.
IF they are going to shut down
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
Press Switches
Words Style

Under agreement three major
news agencies have adopted uni
form, and in some instances
changed, style in spelling of names
and places figuring in the wal.
Typical of the schedule adopted is
"Romania" instead of "Rumania,
"Dnepr' for "Dnieper' and "Yugo-
slavia' instead of "Jugoslavia."
No doubt there will be other
changes from time to time. The
new spellings follow the lead of
the National Geographic society.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17

dro-electric power.
Prepare now plans and specifi-
cations for developing strategic
metal mines . for the future con-
struction of diversified publ C
works"
All of his proposals, the senator
said, may be effected with little
cost to the states, but he empha-
sized that the west had to stand on
its own feet, that its delegates to
congress and the vests Industrial
lists must stand together to protect
the gains already made.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
bAD0CLI0 GOVERNMENT QUITS IN BODY
Stole S35,000..
Used for Eats

SAN FRANCISCO, April II.
fUP) - Carolyn Fulghum, 36
year cid former Red Cross home
service worker, Monday pleaded
guilty to embezzling Red Cross
funds said to total $4,000 and
insisted before Municipal Judge
Herbert kaufman she spent the en-.
tire amount on eating"
You must nave done some
pretty fine eating" Kaufman re-
marked.
: Her case was certified to the
/ superior court for judgment.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
Bombay Dock side Munition
Fire Leaves II undredS Dead

moved from the Quilted area and it
was feared the death list might be
considerably higher. Thousands of
persons have been treated for burns
and injuries suffered in the blaze,
which began Friday afternoon and
was not brought under control un-
til Sumo ay evenig.
Exploding ammunition from a
military warehouse on the water
front hurled burning embers over
large area, adding to the casual
ties and damage.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17

Something approaching 5000 oil
the 1900 were fighters which Ger
man factories would have turned
out under an intensified production
program had it not been for deyaS-
tating u. S. raids. The remainder
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
Hull Hints Early
Water Pact Move

WASHINGTON, April II. CUP)-
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
Monday discussed with Chairman
Tom Connally, Cd, Texas, of the
senate foreign relations committee,
plans to hold hearings soon on the
water rights treaty between the
United States and Mexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
u. S. FIiers De stroy 5000
Planes Since November

were shot down in aerial combat.
Since the turn of the year, Amer
ican heavy bombers and their fight
er escort, together with medium
bombers and other fighters, have
claimed a total of 1850 German
fighters destroyed in battle.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17

on any comment, Then Of course the
cause for which we are fighting has
already gone" Hughes said.
Spender said the action was con-
trary to the freedom of speech pro-
vision of the Atlantic charter and
charged that the government "has
on occasions imposed press censor
ship E. because of its own political
interests"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
McCorran Urges
West Solidarity

HOLLYWOOD, April II. (UP)-
Nevada'S Senator Pat McCarran
recommended state and regional
planning rather than federal PLAN
ming to solve the problem of post
war employment Sunday night
speaking on builders OF the west
sponsored radio program.
Offering suggestions as to how
to provide employment, McCarran
said:
Prepare now for the conservation
of water, the reclamation of lands,
and the development of cheap hy-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17

BOMBAY, April II. (UP)
Military authorities dyna-
mited charred and weakened
buildings along the Bombay dock
side Monday in the wake of a Gis-
astrous fire that swept the crowded
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17

waterfront for 48 hours, blowing u
an ammunition ship and killing
hundreds of persons.
The dispatch cid not make clear
whether the fire started aboard the
munitions ship or ashore.
BY noon, 284 bodies had been re-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
Russians Close In
On SavastopoI
S+ormins Reds
Breach Line,
In Ou+er Area

LONDON, April II. (UP)
- The Moscow radio said
Monday night that Sevasto-
pol was blockaded by sea and
air and more than 100000
soldiers of the 17th German
army had surrendered.
MOSCOW, April II. (UP)
Two Red armies closed a
siege arc around Sevastopol
Monday and front reports
said the big Cremian Black
sea naval pase was expected to fall
within 48 hours.
German and Romanian resistance
stiffened as Soviet tanks ano mech
aniZed infantry pushed through the
northern suburbs and closed in
rapidly from the east and southeast
but the enemy's effort was believed
to have come too late to prolong
for more than a few ..ours the fall
of Sevastopol
The few remaining thousands of
an Axis Crimean garrison that once
numbered more than 100000 were
seeking desperately to escape by sea
from the base while rear guards
fought the final battle, but hail
of Soviet artillery shells and aerial
bombs sank scores of their ships
at their piers or at anchor.
HARBOR BECOMES GRAVEYARD
Front dispatches said North Bay
and the naval base anchorages had
become a graveyard of sunken
transports and power barges," many
of which had been sent to the bot
Continued on Page 6, Col y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17

LONDON, April II. (UP)
American air attacks have
cost Germany's defensive
fighter force more than 5000 planes
since last Nov. /, according to up
to-date, reliable estimates Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
D AMBlINe
\EpoRTER
Not Good Enough

Not Good Enough
i've seen a lot of things in my
cay" 52-year-old man said to
John Atkins of Ell Centre while the
two were chatting at the Pioneer
picnic Saturday
You have, eh?" Atkins said with
a ouizical look. How old are you?'
I'm SO years Old the man said,
trying to look like Old Man River
or something.
Better double it," said Atkins,
chuckling, I'll be 90 years OLD in
August"
Desert Mystery
All sorts of ideas arise when Henry
Graham tells about what he found
not long ago buried under hum
mock he was leveling on the Alonzo
Adams farm in the Seeley area.
Thirty feet under ground Graham
found three cores of mesquite wood
cut into stove length, and an axe
blade.
Graham thinks the big hummock
had not been disturbed since 1903!
Talent Wasted
Many toe tapped at the same
pioneers picnic Saturday while the
old time music was twanging out
and w. Lee Johnson Was doing a
Continued on Page 6, Col 6,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
WEATHER

Maximum Saturday 81, minimum
Friday "A; 5 am. Mnoday SO, humid
ity 81; noon Monday 73, humidity
10; 5 pm. Saturday SO, humidity 25.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17

The Federal Bureau of IN
vestigation Monday announc-
ed the arrest of Andres
Obese Sanchez, 47-year-old Heber
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

| do not say / am a prodigy
because | carried half-witted-
ness past the fifth decimal
point. Neither do claim to be
one because l majored in
string talk while eating spa
ghetti on Mulberry Street.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01
BY Arthur Bugs" Baer

Au,hsr 81 There No kndesarsu fer Second Chlldh0eA"
NNE Of those unclaimed packages known as q
~ boy prodigy passed out the other day after
Achlldhood as startling as face on a worm.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

do not claim am boy wonder because OBJ.
longed the circle at the age Of FIVE or tripled up
on the double-talk during my sophomore year in
the school for delinquent genuses. do not say
am prodigy because translated the original
Sanskrit into smoke signals for the Arson Indians
of Long Island
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

But that didn't make him boy wonder. It
didn't even make the girls wonder.
What makes William James Sidis prodigy in
my bright lexicon of double-entry bots is his
scholastic achievements at the age Of twenty-one
He slugged a Boston copper.
He staked a million dollars worth Of academic
stufngs against ten cents worth of seasoned hick-
DRY.
He burned the midnight oil and used Boston
coppers nightstck for wick.
That. my bosom friends and instructed dele
gates is what makes William James Sidis prod
ICY in enduring granite bnttered with reminis-
cences.
oopyllsAA llN kas ts.Ars. s,ads.A me
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

"who has made a cosmic record by producing
an acceptable string of gags seven days a week,
hfty-two weeks year for twenty-odd years is
lonely exception.
the Bugs Baers do not occur in punches like
grapes" Irwin continued. Rather they occur
singly once in a millennium. like the blooming of
q century plant"
It isn't grapes and it isn't a century plant One
look at my schnozzola indicates it's more like to-
matOeS.
Anyway, Cobb said I'm boy prodigy and as
indeStructibe as purple tattooing.
And when a man says that never dispute his
accurate and unbiased testimony. 1t brackets me
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

AT the age OF twelve he seconded the nomna.
ton, thirded the inevitable and fourthed the di-
mension. William James Sidis graduated from the
clustered stupidities Of college at sixteen
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

| shall not even quote such
irrefutable authority as the
late o. o. Mcintyre, who dis
covered twenty-five years ago
that l was a high brow dis.
guised as a low brow.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

His Alma Nanny was fair Harvard But even
that didn't make him prodigy in my compedium
Of genius. What mean TO say is that in my
winter books he was no blizzard.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

I'll toss all that out Of the
window. Including the fact
that they held me back in
grammer school to let my
grandfather graduate first.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

Willie James knew his ABCs at six months
The alphabet may be essential but Il Is the ct
cetera, that pile up the demurrage.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

Before kicking up more intellectual dlyots on
the subject wish to state that | also qualify as
a boy prodigy. shall cite that eminent authority.
he late Irwin Cobb.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

His name was Willie James Sidis. He answered
b all Of them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

His academic work In.
tlVded smuggling O cop.
too does not make me boy prodigy At six
could recite the alphabet backwards. I was a
backward prodigy At ten was the worlds lead
ing authority on marine tattooing on the left bi.
cops. At eleven they were fitting my education to
square hat At the twitching hour of twelve
interpolated the worm holes in the Rosetta Stone
and wrote thesis on the inevitability of the un.
postponable and its effect on the shrnkage of dis
lance.
wrote an essay on space that solved the park
ing problem at fourteen. But even that shall
forfeit in my claim to fame.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

as an authority on prodigies and you are now
listening to the mill ends of millennium.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-01

That indestructible prodigy Bugs Baer, "
wrote Cobb on Page 260 Of Exit Laughing. %