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EL CENTRO BUSINESS
BAROMETER
(Total cash, checks and drafts sent
through the two El Centro banks.)
BANK DEBITS
Monday .... $236,147.24
Last Year . . . $318,00819
VOLUME XXXVIII, No 181
WARRING NATIONS CENTER ON U.S., RUSSIA
Man, 67, Attempts
Suicide as Love
Affair Goes Sour
’Nobody to Live For,' Says Note Left by
Spanish War Veteran in Unsuccessful
Effort to Take Own Life by Gunshot
Unrequited love was blamed Tuesday for the act of
Raymond Smith, 63-year-old Spanish war veteran of Los
Angeles, in attempting to take his own life as he sat in a
Plaster City late Monday.
“I had no one to live for,” the aged man said while
Rambling
EPORTER
Lrng Suffering—
Life in London would be a relief
to a number of the power com
pany’s office staff after what they’ve
gone through recently during build
ing reconstruction activities.
The climax case came when a
contraption for heating a roofing
preparation was pushed up against
a desert cooler intake. The cooler,
naturally, picked up the fumes and
in a couple of minutes had sucked
a smoke cloud inside the building.
Coughing and with tears in his
eyes from the smoke, Willis John
son staggered outside and com
pl'lined:
“First they scare us to death with
jackhammers and now it’s a gas at
tack! To think, well be in the
trenches for 75 more days!”
—o —
Tint’ll Held ’em—
We have found one army officer
with a sense of humor, if we never
find another one.
Some time ago, chiefly as a gag.
two El Centro chaps wrote a letter
to the War Department and com
plained against being conscripted
into the army and probably placed
as buck privates under some newly
commissioned youngsters out of mil
itary school. They reasoned that
with a background of college and
ten years in business there surely
would be a place in the military
where they could serve better (and
eat a bit better) than drilling or
digging ditches or whatever privates
in the infantry do.
The answer came back Tuesday
signed by Major A. E. Merrill of
Los Angeles, acting district recruit
ing officer.
“I am indeed sorry that there
seems to be no position in the Ar
my at the present time to which
young men of such admittedly spe
cial talents could be assigned and
be assured of rendering more than
the ordinary service,” the letter
read in part.
"The so-called ordinary tasks
have suddenly become very impor
tant ... If the draft classification
boards are all that we expect them
to be, and your idea of the com
missioned personnel is correct, you
will in all probability find yourselves
commissioned within the first week."
Then came the most unkindest
cut of all. in the middle of a des
cription of qualifications for army
service.
"They also must." the major said,
"be in good health mentally and
physically.”
— o —
Atmosphere—
Best story to come out of the
opening of dove season is attached
to the person of O. K. Patton. And
Pat probably wishes there wasn't
such a close attachment.
When Pat started out hunting
Tuesday he took along his favorite
cocker spaniel, Flush. Ever since
we’ve known Pat we’ve known Flush
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Almazan Backer,
Allies Shot Down
MONTERREY, Mexico, Oct. 1. (UP) —General Andrea
Zarazosa, an important military leader who supported
Gen. Juan Andreu Almazan, and an undetermined number
of followers were killed here today when federal troops
broke up a secret meeting of Almazan followers alleged
to be planning an attack on this
city. ,
The Monterey newspaper El Por
venir said that some rebel soldiers
participating in the secret meeting
were killed along with General Zar
zosa.
It was believed that federal mili
tary intelligence had learned of the
meeting. The raid was carried out
at an undisclosed point in the coun
try just before dawn by a strong
force of federal troops A small skir
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS
♦county hospital physicians gazed at
his face, almost shot away by a self
inflicted gunshot wound.
"My first wife died,” Smith told
Deputy Sheriffs Peter Klyne and
Park Burritt. "A week after I married
a 57-year-old woman she left me.
First I decided to travel to get my
mind off my troubles. Then I de
cided I had no one to live for.
“When I realized I had not killed
myself I thought anyway I had fixed
my face so my second wife never
would come near me again. So now
I want to live.
Smith shot himself as he sat in
his car in the rear of an abandon
en service station at Plaster City,
the officers said. Blood streaming
from his shattered face, he flagged
a passing motorist, gave him a $5
bill and his veteran's card, and tola
him to telephone for an ambulance.
Physicians at the county hospital
said Smith has a chance to live.
De Anza Desert
Ride Shapes Up
"'A _p*ssißilfty was noted Tuesday that the proposed
ride of Riverside and Imperial county horsemen over the
historic trail that de Anza took will take place in the
spring of 1941 instead of in November, as originally plan
ned. Supervisor Hugh Osborne and Brawley Chamber of
District Wins 12
Months Delay in
Laguna Payment
A year's respite was granted Tues
day to the Imperial Irrigation dis
trict from payments on the Laguna
dam contract.
The delay, asked because of the
burden of earthquake repair, pro
vides for putting off the $86,440 pay
ment due in December until a year
after the final payment would nor
mally be made. The original con
tract with the federal government
called for final payment in 1945.
Thus, the payment due in December
will be put off until December of
1946.
Announcement of the delay high
lighted the forenoon session of the
district board.
Publisher Called
Back to Army
NEW YORK, Oct. 1 (UP)— Col.
Julius Ochs Adler .general man
ager of the New York Times and 1
publisher of the Chattanooga
(Tenn.) Times has been called to
army duty as commanding officer
of the Reception Center, Port Dix,
N. J., where he will supervise the
reception of recruits under the
selective service program. He will
take a year's leave of absence from
the Times and will assume his
army post next Monday.
mish resuited as the Almazan fol
lowers tried to fight their way out
El Porvenir which supported
President-Elect Gen. Manuel Avila
Camacho during the election cam
paign, said Zarzosa and his fol
lowers were plotting to attack the
city.
Zarzosa was Almazan’s chief of
staff when Almazan was minister of
communications in 1932
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Draft
Official
In I. V.
County Clerk Gets
Last Minute Rules
For Registration
County Clerk W. J. Mc-
Clelland Tuesday hurried ar
rangements for selective ser
vice registration in Imperial
county Oct. 16 after Major
E. J. Plato of Los Angeles arrived
by plane Monday to give him last
minute instructions.
No compensation will be made
those who serve on the registration
boards in the nation, Major Plato
said. Men who register will not be
paid travel allowances or expenses.
"In view of the personal sacrifice
to be made by Uic men who are be
ing registered for military service,”
he said, “it is deemed fitting that
the registration service should be
inducted by citizens, including the
regular election officials, who vol
unteer ’-.heir services as a contribu
tion to national defense.”
Acting upon instruction from Pla
to, McClelland requested the services
of regular election boards in each
voting precinct of the county. If
they cannot serve, McClelland said,
lie was ordcreJ to ask other com-
I potent citizens to serve.
Commerce Secretary Charles Nice
were back in Imperial Valley Tues
day after a conference with River
side horsemen on the project. Dur
ing the parley new plans were dis
cussed but no definite decision reach
ed, Osborne said.
State Senator Miguel Estudillo was
named general chairman of the pro
ject. Horsemen’s groups in both
counties will work under him to
promote the event.
Also at the Riverside meeting, the
20-30 club there volunteered to have
charge of entertainment when the
cavalcade halts for the evening.
Members of the 20-30 club at River
side were expected to get in touch
with Imperial clubs.
Date for the ride across the desert
and hills from the Mexican border
near Mt. Signal to Riverside was
still indefinite. Osborne said it was
likely that the ride might be held
in the spring to coincide with the
Calexico Desert Cavalcade.
Einstein. Serious
Of Face, Becomes
American Citizen
TRENTON, N. J„ Oct. 1. (UP)—
Dr. Albert Einstein became a citizen
of the United States today.
With 87 other aliens, representing
12 nationalities, the famed mathe
matician and author of the theory
of relativity, took the oath admin
istered by Benjamin J. Havens, clerk
of the federal district court, in the
presence of Judge Phillip Forman.
Addressing the group after the
ceremony of the oath. Judge Forman
pointed out that Einstein, "a re
nowned contributor to civilization."
was admitted to citizenship by ex
actly the "same democratic method"
as all the others in the groi^p.
"How well is the lesson of Ameri
ca here exemplified,” the court said.
Einstein, his shock of gray hair
as shaggy as ever, smiled broadly
when he entered the courtroom for
the ceremony. But his face became
grave and he listened attentively
as the oath was read, and as Judge
Forman spoke.
Plans Complete for
Farm Conference
Plans were complete Tuesday for
Wednesday's annual county farm
planning conference in the Califor
nia hotel, according to George Win
right, assistant county agent.
The meetihg, which will start at
1:30 Wednesday afternoon, will
feature L. B. Smith and J. B.
Brown, extension specialists as
spenkcrs,
EL CENTRO, CAUF., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1940
A BIRD OF A SEASON!
There were birds in the hand
and birds in the bushes Tuesday
but probably more left in the
bushes than in the hand.
There were ienty in the hand,
however, because so far there has
not been a hunter on the first
day of dove season in Imperial
county to report anything but his
limit.
Most of the legion of sportsmen
who went out before dawn Tues
day came back with their hunt
ing coats full by 7 or 8 o’clock.
Thus, the firing that reached
blitzkrieg proportions around 6
a.m. in the rural areas had died
down to scattered volleys by mid
morning.
This isn't mumlety-peg . . . nor is it African golf these gentle
men arc playing on the grass of Holtville's civic center. It s
serious business, planning a welcome for the first water to flow
through the All American canal into the Imperial Irrigation sys
tem Standing, left to right, are LE. Jessen, Ray Mouser, William
Airport Programs
Here Must Await
Priority Ratings
Communities included in
the Civil Aeronautics author
ity’s long range airport build
ing program were warned
Tuesday that the list of pro
posed projects released Monday is
purely tentative.
Inclusion in the national list does
not mean that work will start soon,”
Donald H. Connolly, CAA adminis
trator, said from Washington, D.C.
through the United Press.
Imperial Valley was set down for
four airport projects including a
$214,500 El Centro field. Others on
the list were Brawley, Calipatria and
Calexico.
The list represents the findings
of a nationwide survey, Connolly
said, and was compiled as a basis
for a six-year long raqge program
of airport construction, it covers
some 4,000 projects that would cost
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2000 Laborers
Withhold Strike
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct- 1 (UP)
—Union contracts covering approx
imately 2,000 crewmen on 58 coast
wise steam schooners expired to
day but strike action was withheld
for further negotiations.
The contracts are held by the
Shipowners association of the Pac
ific and five maritime unions: the
Sailors' Union of the Pacific; the
Marine Firemen, Oilers, Watertend
ers and Wipers association; Marine
Cooks and Stewards association;
Marine Engineers Beneficial associ
ation. and the Masters, Mates and
Pilots of America. The sixth mari
time union, the American Com
munications association covering
telegraphists, already has an ex
tended contract.
Either there were plenty of
doves on the unposted farms, or
sportsmen were more considerate
this year because there were no
complaints registered Tuesday
morning of trespassing or violation
of posted territory.
Hunters were warned, however,
that a rigid county ordinance, pass
ed last fall as an emergency mea
sure, deals strictly with sportsmen
who get out of line. Under the
ordinance it is unlawful to fire
arms in any unincorporated area
in the county within 200 yards of
any animal, livestock, fowl or
building inhabited by human be
ings without first obtaining the
consent of the record owner or
'There's Where Shell Come In, Boys!' So They Get Ready
Film Beauty Reno
Bound by Plane
Constance Bennett will Divorce Titled
French Husband for 'Cruelty' After
Separation Lasting Several Years
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 1. (UP) —Blonde Constance Ben
nett of the films today disclosed she was flying to Reno
tonight to establish residence for a divorce from the Mar
quis Henri de la Falaise.
The film star has been separated from her titled French
husband for several years*and re-*
ports that they would be divorced
have been current in Hollywood for
many months.
Miss Bennett some months ago,
however, said she would not bring
action against her husband while he
was serving in the French army.
Friends of the actress said that the
standard grounds of "cruelty’' prob
ably would be recited in her com
plaint.
She will depart by United Air
Incubator Baby
Takes Plane Trip
CHICAGO. Oct. 1 (UP) Two
months old Albert Martins just
yawned today when he arrived
from San Francisco via a United
Air Line's plan ■'—although he wgs
hailed as the first incubator baby
to make an airplane trip.
F’ame is an old thing to Albert
who has spent all his life on ex
hibition in an incubator at the
San Francisco fair. When his
weight increased from three to
eight pounds he was able to leave
the incubator and fly home, his
mother, Mrs. Walter E. Martins,
explained. He was born while his
mother was visiting at Vallejo, Cal.
tenant. The violators are liable to
a maximum fine of SSOO or six
months in jail, or both.
First influx of coast hunters for
the season was up to standard,
the hotels reported, but the largest
invasion was not anticipated until
the weekend. Several celebreties
were expected but so far John
Mack Brown, formei All American
football player from Alabama anc’
now a Hollywood actor, who is
stopping in Calexico is the only one
from the movie colony.
Nat Rogan of Los Angeles, col
lector of Internal Revenue for
southern California, was down for
i the hunting.
Myers, Wade Cook, C. P. Johnson, Milton Brodie, Milton Meek,
and George Raine. Crouched around a map of the valley are,
left to right, Ted Kipf, Bob Coyner, J. V. Yeargin, Clark Butler,
and Oscar Fudge. Kipf is pointing out the spot at the Eastside
highiine turnout where the celebration will be held Oct. 12.
—Post-Press Photo
| lines at 8 p.m., arriving in San
I Francisco at 10 p.m. and Reno a
few minutes after midnight.
The Marquis de la Falaise and
Miss Bennett were married seven
years ago. He formerly was the hus
band of Gloria Swanson, silent
screen star. Miss Bennett previously
had been married to Phil plant,
wealthy New Yorker. The Marquis
at present is in France.
Farley Dodges Squeeze,
Shuns Support for FDR
By LYLE C. WILSON
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. (UP)#
New Dealers counted two recijMs
to President Roosevelt's third Mrm
campaign today but waved a#inal
goodbye to former Chairman #ames
A. Farley of the Democrat# Na
tional committee.
Farley contrived to speak iijfopen
ing the New York state Demdcratie
convention yesterday without en
dorsing the Roosevelt-Wallace tick
et. How to do that has been a mat
ter of concern to because
he evidently is lend.
PHONE 300
Germans Step Up
Effort to Starve
Isles to Defeat
Air, Submarine Attacks Gain New Fury
While Diplomacy Tries to DrawU. S.,
Soviet into Conflict; Spain Reluctant
By UNITED PRESS
The Axis powers and Great Britain struggled to sway
the vast power of Soviet Russian and the United States
today as world-wide conflict mounted towards a new peak.
On the air and sea battlefields, Germany stepped up
Tristan Kidnaper
' Guilty; Must Serve
Life in Prison
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Oct. 1. (UP)—Wilhelm Ja
kob Muhlenbroich, 40-year
old German barber, pleaded
Mfuilty today to a charge of
kidnaping, a charge that carries
with it mandatory life imprison
ment without privilege of parole.
Superior Judge Maxwell McNutt,
however, postponed sentencing the
kidnaper of Marc de Tristan, jr„ un
til Friday to close every possible
loophole to any plea by Muhlen
broich for freedom in the future.
McNutt said the delay in sentence
was ordered in order to block any
possibility the kidnaper might seek
release later on the technical claim
he had been denied the statutory
waiting period between entering a
plea and being sentenced.
It was the second time the San
Mateo county jurist had interposed
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no aid this year to the man whose
campaigns he managed in 1932 and
j 1936.
Sen. Robert M. La Follette, Prog.,
I Wis.. abandoned his anti-third term
position to endorse B£r. Roosevelt in
Wisconsin. Events foreshadowed a
La Follette movement toward the
New* Deal since Republicans polled
more votes in the Wisconsin pri
mary than Progressives and Demo
crats combined. But U was LaJftjUi
leUe, with Sen. George wjMH
iiu^Ncu
Butter: Lon Angeles 30'ic; hut
terfat, Imperial Valley I. o. b. ranch,
«rade A 39'/iC: manufacturing milk
3ttc; route gathered cream 2#he.
L. A. hay: U. S. No. 1 sl3-1330;
U. S. No. 2 leafy sllsO-12.50; I. V.
and Antelope sl3-1330; U. 8. No. 2
$lO-$10.50; Mpls. Dec. flax $1.46 s<,
THE POST-PRESS
>airplane and U-boat attacks de
signed to starve Great Britain; the
royal air force staged a record five
hour raid over Berlin, bombed many
other German war bases and bat
tled Nazi warcraft over London:
and Fascist air squadrons traded
Mows with the British in North
Africa.
There were unofficial estimates
in London that 55,000 persons had
been killed and 8.000 injured in Sep
tember bombings.
Despite the steadily mounting
tempo of aerial warfare, however,
there were developments of still
greater potential importance on the
diplomatic front, including:
1. Efforts by Japan to improve
relations with Soviet Russia, thus
strengthening the new Gcrman-
Italian-Japanese alliance, were pre
dicted in Moscow, where the Soviet
press indirectly agreed with Nazis
that relations between Russia and
Germany were good and charged
that the United States actually was
engaged in military cooperation with
Britain.
2. The German newspaper Ham
burger Fremdenblat called upon the
Soviets and the United States to
make known definitely which side
they favor in the war. Nazi spokes
men said the battle would go on un
compromisingly until victory was
achieved over Britain.
3. Premier Benito Mussolini was
reported to have discussed with
Spanish Interior Minister Ramon
Serrano Sunder the claims of Spain
on Gibraltar and French Morocco
and to have talked over possibility
of raising the Arab world in opposi
tion to Britain. The Fascist press
seemed less certain that Spain,
which would be vulnerable to heavy
British air and sea attack and which
needs food coming through the Brit
ish blockade, would enter the war.
4. Japan was reported in a Tokyo
news broadcast to be “cautioning"
Britain against reopening o> the
Burma road for military supplies to
(Continued on Page 8. Col. 3)
'Saw Fun on Face'
Says Ui. Envoy of
Defeated German
LONDON, Oct. 1. (UP)—A Ger
man Messerschmidt shot down in
a dog fight over Windsor Great
Park missed American Ambassador
Joseph P. Kennedy's country home
so narrowly that "we could see the
fuzz on the pilot's face and almost
count his buttons," Kennedy said
today.
Kennedy was at his country home
yesterday with William Hillman,
London representative of Collier’s
Weekly, when the Messerschmidt
and a British plane fought over
the park. The British plane shot
away the German's propellor. The
Nazi pilot apparently tried to make
a forced landing on the front lawn
of Kennedy’s home, but after miss
ing the house by inches he skimmed
over the trees and landed in the
royal park nearby.
The Germans recently dropped
a number of high explosive and
incendiary bombs within a few hun
dred yards of Kennedy's home.
Kennedy picked up the nose of an
incendiary bomb which had his
initials on It.
“I don't know what else they can
do unless they come in my front
room,” Kennedy said today.
emphatically supporting the tra
dition that no man vhall be presi
dent more than twice. That resolu
tion was aimed at Calvin CooUdge
whom Progressive Republicans re
fused to accept as a party leader.
The second third term recruit
was Sen. Millard E. Tydlnga, D.,
Md„ who accompanied Mr. Roosevelt
yesterday on a national
spectiou