Times, The (Newspaper) - February 25, 1941, San Mateo, California 116 HERE IN NEW DRAFT CALL Weather Fair tonight Wednesday cloudy with rain by afternoon mild ture light able wind ing gentle erly Wednesday FULL LEASED UNITED PRESS DIRECT WIRE AND FEATURES FIRST IN NEWS ADVERTISING FEATURES AND CIRCULATION THINK with Freedom BUT ACT In VOL 71 SAN MATEO CALIFORNIA TUESDAY FEBRUARY 25 1941 60 PER PER MONTH RAF Smashes Nazi Bases On Channel Enemy Cruiser Hit Armada Roams Coast London Admits Loss of Five Ships in Convoy Two Weeks Ago LONDON Feb Tho royal air force answered Hitler's submarine threats day with a attack on Nazi base of Brest L where a Admiral Hipper cruiser was believed hit and followed this with daylight bomb sweeps of the French in- vasion const Convoy Raider Tlic cruiser was be- to lie the Nazi raider which Tell upon a British convoy off the const February 12 nnd is known to have sunk five chant ships totaling tons and possibly tin additional four of tons The bomb loads dumped during n two-hour long attack on Brest were believed to liave hit ami possibly damaged the cruiser which was spotted tying at one of the Brest docks With daylight great forces of RAF bombers protected by escorts of fighter planes roared off to the French coast and the echo of bomb explosions heard on the British coast indicated that a heavy assault was delivered Two-Hour Attack Racing across or diving upon their target in the face of furious anti-aircraft gun fire the British their target in all directions with tunny sticks their heaviest bombs The attack on Brest started nt 8 o'clock night ami continued for two hours the air ministry said Aviation quarters reported that the raid was one of the heaviest and most concentrated of the war Brest nt the southern end of the invasion coast is at the tip of France's Brittany peninsula which juts out into the sea 140 miles south of to separate the English channel and the Bay of Biscay Important Base Germany is reported to he ing increasing use of it as a base and concentration point for rines which are to operate in the spring campaign Well informed quarters asserted that had been preparing for months for German submarine fare on an unprecedented scale nnd was ready for St Newspapers deriding Adolf ler's speech yesterday as beer lar expressed confidence Turn Page 2 Column 7 Fair Today but Rain by Tomorrow The weather bureau northern California n second day of clear sunshiny weather today The bureau forecast rains ever Tn the San Francisco bay and the northern part of the state fnr late tomorrow Temperatures remain mild Says NEW YORK Feb of the laughs of the war is the naive London correspondent who writes of a ment between Hitler and Stalin The Japanese foreign office an- it has pacific intentions But it doesn't say whether you spell pacific with a small or a capital P One of chief ages in his Greek campaign is that bombing Athens would have been ineffective Ruins have been principal industry for the last 2000 years AUSTRALIA TO PUSH DEFENSE tINES NORTH SYDNEY Australia Feb Prime Minister A W said today that Australia was fully prepared to defend self nnd warned that the farther south certain people move the ther north Australia will move Ready for Anything I do not want to be on snid but the war has moved so swiftly that tbe ment would be foolish not to he prepared to the maximum for the necessity of protecting Australia Minister of external affairs Sir F Stewart expressed belief there were no problems in the Pacific re- gion that were not capable of ad- justment negotiation SAIGON French Indo-China Feb French liner arrived here today from Madagascar with several hundred I native French troops Stalemate Seen The reinforcements arrived as re- ports from Tokyo indicated that negotiating there to end the conflict were mated The armistice under which peace negotiations were started was extended 10 days Reports reaching Saigon while said that a Jnpnnose vessel Turn to Page 2 Column 3 British Gain 110 Miles on Africa Front NAIROBI Kenya Feb IP Empire troops driving the Italians 110 miles before them in two days have captured the Port of Bravn only 10Q miles down the Italian Somaliland coast from a communique today It was announced also pian irregulars had captured nle which straddles the frontier Brava Captured Empire troops from West Africa captured Brava yesterday while South African troops cleaned up the area of 110 mites down the Coast which they hud captured South African troops also took over the entire Moyale area the most important strategic area on the frontier after the Ethiopians had captured it The speed of the advance to vm compared with that of the army of the Nile into Libya and ed the Italians with the early loss of their only important ports on the Indian Ocean Advance in Eritrea The capture of B ravin ed an advance by Empire forces of IGG miles up the Italian Somaliland Coast since South African forces last week occupied only important port in southern land CAIRO Feb Empire forces advancing in coastal Eritrea Turn to Page 2 Column 5 Burlingame Dinner Tonight Celebrating a year of outstanding civic accomplishments more than 350 persons will gather in the cial hall of the First Methodist church tonight for third annual community dinner Building the Good will be the topic of an by William M Stem Oakland civic leader who will be the cipal speaker George McQueen will be toastmaster The program arranged bv Ralph McClinton will include baritone solos by Otto Smith of Burlingame member of the Orpheon club Turn o Page 2 And I love the way the experts 53 y Stalin is playing one side against the other because of his The truth is he's keeping hfs mustache out of the European mess on account of dice I'd like to that lin the ultimately corner out nf thf conflict a nipper hust than Renilo the Bum Distributed hy Inc Nazi Norway Troops Summoned bij Radio BERLIN Feb 25 All German radios today broadcast an official order directing all German soldiers assigned to Norway and now on leave to report immediately by Tetter telephone or in person to tl'e nearest military office the date of their scheduled return to y Hitler Invasion Chief Reaches Bulgaria City Staff Sets Headquarters Near Capital Ready For Drive SOFIA Feb Von Griefenberg who edly Germany's navy and air force into action for the drive on the lands last spring was said in authoritative quarters to have arrived today in Rumania Von chief to Marshal Siegmund von List who already was snid to be in Bulgaria reportedly arrived at a fashionable resort town 70 miles northwest of Bucharest Resort Taken Over Other German staff officers were said to have taken over the entire resort of Koria miles from Sofia as a of operations in Bulgaria and the British tion was reported burning its documents in preparation a Naii invasion Sofia's largest hotel which ways printed its menus in an German and French printed them today in Bulgarian and man only Thu reason given was that the manager who ilous the Drench translation ever several employes In the hotel's four restaurants nnd coffee shops perfect French Roads Prepared Budapest that road building experts started fin intensive of the garian rond system to facilitate troop movements taking advantage of a For weeks snow mode road work impossible The Germans were sawl to be concentrating on north and south roads toward the Turkish and Greek frontiers to be using Bulgarian According to information from other sources the Germans have taken over all of the approximately 200 villas owned by rich ans in the resort and King own villa The entile resort is situated in i a forest nnd it is difficult to de- tect it from the air There is a rond to Sofia Germans have practically taken over Sofia's est hotel Wives Wives of some members of the British legation staff have left for Istanbul and there are only about 05 almost all here in some official capacity in the country British Minister G Rendel asked when diplomatic relations with Bulgaria would be broken said when it was decided that the of Germans had an actual occupation Householders throughout the country arc instructed it was learned to make preparatoins for a blackout which is expected to start today or tomorrow Russia Out On the diplomatic side well in- formed sources understood that Russia bad now made it evident to all Balkan governments that it would not intervene in Balkan events in any wny which might cause armed conflict with many It was said that no formal diplo- matic exchanges had taken place to this effect but that Russia's at- Turn to Page 2 Column 6 PETERSON BOARD STAGE NEW HEALTH BOARD ROW Woman Held in Check Fraud FOURTH DRAFT CALL SUMMONS 7000 MEN TO CAMP BY MARCH 31 The fourth draft call will take men from the five draft areas of San Mateo county between March 17 ami March 31 state selective service headquarters announced today This compares with ISO men being taken in the third call in progress for individual boards San Mateo 39 7 wood City 15 Daly J2 and Menlo Park 23 Exact dates when these men will bo inducted was not made known Cut in The drastic reduction for the board which is ing 40 men on the third call March 12 was a puzzle to Burlingame officials It is possible it was pointed out that tbe selective lenders are allowing the hoard a breathing spell in which to build reserve of men At present the board is running about even with its requirements A total of men in California will lie affected by the call the second under which negroes ait in- cluded j Call Way j Of the San Mateo county only Park has sent men to the induction center in San eisco on the third call now under way Mateo has an- its list and Daly City ex- to do 50 tomorrow These men will lie sent the first week in March As for the call quotas an- today nil hoards expect to meet them without difficulty Men whose numbers come up in the fourth call will report to in- to Page 2 8 CHINESE APPEAL FOR NEW CHINATOWN Must Evacuate Half Block of Present Quarters The problem of overcrowding and insanitary conditions hi San Chinatown district winch has been ami forth between the city and county department for tbe last Sen Aiken Joins Aid Opponents WASHINGTON Feb Opponents of the British aid gained a recruit today when Sen George D Aiken R Vt announced he would vote the measure because he considered It the final step before the armed forces of the United States are scattered over the seven seas and the lands of four On Doubtful List Aiken bag been listed as ful on the He self from this classification in his maiden speech which lighted these developments in the fight over H R 1 The administration turned down Senate Republican Leader Charles McNary plea that it accept the K Mender amendment against use of American troops or naval vessel s outside the tern Turn to Page 3 Column 4 months was dumped definitely the council's lap last the result may be B new Chinatown here Want Quarters This was the development when 12 Chinese appeared at the cial council meeting lost night and asked If we are forced fo move where can we In the first place Mayor Frank P Simmen explained although aty has on hand a report from county health authorities listing substandard conditions in the area the has not condemned any of the buildings under question The area is bounded by Railroad First and Second avenues and Claremont street Then Mrs Sarah Stanton Turn fo Page IT Column 1 COUNCIL PAY ISSUE PUT ON APRIL BALLOT The Maleo cily council hi an adjourned session last night unanimously lo place before Hie once a charier amendment which would give salaries In th mayor and city councilmen No other proposals if any were In the minds of councilmen reached open meeting last night This means that n short ballot will he handed voters on election day which was officially pet for April 1 since last night's meeting was the last opportunity for introduction of amendments Three Vacancies Besides the salary measure three vacancies on the council will be filled The council also approved cutting the number of election precincts in half and the number of election of- by two-thirds from that of November The salary amendment which may be framed in two proposals one for the mayor and one for the will provide monthly for the mayor nnd for men Similar amendments have been defeated here twice before In 1039 a proposing of and Turn to Page 3 1 TAX DELEGATIONS TO OPPOSE MARTIN JOB from the Sun Maleo county central labor cil and will tlie next meeting of ho Maleo Junior board to the demand for nation of the of controller it was learned today i been informed that Thc labor council in a of taxpayers organizations the protected the recent j planned to attend the March 12 of Homer Martin of the board to support the the post ami recommended that the labor proposal duties of comptroller be by Ihc council with those of the junior college of the junior college Plot Told to Use Defective Check Blanks Sheets Retrieved From Wastebasket Signed Cashed Claim city REDWOOD CITY Feb 26 a payroll check forgery plot was conceived by a janitor who recovered several ed sheets of blank checks from a in a San cisco type foundry office was disclosed today by police as they arrested the wife of one of the janitor's two ates for alleged complicity in the plot Three men including the an's husband are already in jail here facing charges of passing four bogus payroll checks in San Carlos City and Snn Mateo Woman Arrested The woman Airs Florence Burns 50 was taken into custody liy lice Chief Edward J Wheeler of San Carlos Sergeant Sylvester Douglass of the City Irre ami San Krancisco officers laat night at her home at 315 Minna street in the bay city Her part in the plot Chief er charged was to aign the name of H on the face of the checks which were in the name of the M Friedman Paint company of Oakland Mrs Burns was to be questioned today by Deputy District Attorney Karmel Three Men Held Her husband sell Hums a salesman Gerald P Mull the janitor anil John Rodriguez 34 a San Francisco waiter were nabbed Inst Friday by Chief Wheeler in the bay city Bail of oil four has been set at cash each Chief Wheeler said the plot er with Mull while he was employed as a janitor in the office of the American Type Founders company at 500 Howard street San cisco The company sells special check printing machines to printing houses One of these was sold to the Harding Press of Oakland Turn io Page 2 Column 4 Reno Decree to Win Du Pont RENO Nov Feb 25 William Du Jr horse fancier and member of the Du Pont in- family today divorced Sirs Jean L Austin Du Pont He charged extreme cruelty at n private trial liam McKnight Du Font's mont won the Santa Anita handicap at Arcadia Cal in 1937 The Du Fonts married January 1 1919 at Pa He is dent of the Delaware Trust Co of Wilmington Del The Du Fonts have four Jean 18 Evelyn William Henry 13 and John E 2 according to the divorce complaint A sealed agreement provided for their education nnd support Inside Today's Ti president in the Interest of omy Union officials said they had bnard declined to discuss the letter I have nothing to say about it i Turn o 2 Column 1 lie Mns Given Up Air Invasion I1 A KB it C Program II Serial Story la AAs 7 Society Tax is II y ft SUPERVISORS AGAIN REJECT APPOINTMENT OF DR WARREN Times City Bureau REDWOOD CITY Feb county reached an all-time high at today's meeting of the board of supervisors when Supervisor Jack Lynch demanded that the sheriff he summoned to eject County Executive Peterson from the chambers as the climax of a riotous argument over the county health board post of Dr Will H Rebec Amid charges of politics from both sides the sors by a vote again refused to confirm appointment of Dr Harry 0 Warren by Executive Peterson to succeed Dr Hebec whoso term expired Saturday L Hickey and John W Poole were the dis- Four Die in 2 Navy Planes SAN Feb Two navy were killed today when their plane crashed five miles east of Jolla nnd two others attached to the aame squadron Ing in another naval district reported Navy crash dispatched from North Island air station reached the wreckage of the first piano in the bills the field 15 miles north of Snn Diego shortly noon today identified the dead filers Ensign C Maxwell USNH 23 Vn K second class 18 Baltimore Mr Another bomber reported Turn to Page 1 3 Earle's German Victim Hurt SOFIA Feb originating in a Jugoslav source said today that a German who was injured in a cafe altercation right with United States Minister H was in n sen mis Neither the Bulgarian police nor officials at the American legation however knew HIR identity of the man nor his Karte received many telegrams congratulating him the fight on his part in Fire Damages Motors At South Plant SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO Feb estimated at several thousand dollars caused by a fire in a storage building at the Western and Steel company plant here shortly before 7 n m today The blaze believed to have been ranged by spontaneous com- bustion damaged electric motors and a quantity of cable Company officials said there was no tion of sabotage Former Maryland Governor Dead BALTIMORE Mil Feb W Nice former ernor of Maryland was found dead in bed today at the homo of a friend in Richmond Va whore be and Mrs Nice were overnight guests PEACE WAITS DECISION WASHINGTON Feb President Roosevelt declared today that for peace in Europe must military decision on the 11 wa s the f i rst major split on the board since Hickey tool office Hickey suggested that Dr Warren's be filed for 30 but he failed to get Usurpation Charge rejecting Peterson's pointee for a second time the board voted to ask the ty Medical society recommend names of four medical men to the executive for the two vacancies on the health body Dr N D Morrison term also last ilay Peterson announced he would have nothing to do with the medical society accused the supervisors of usurping his powers and ed tits intention again to nominate Dr Warren name of the eminent Belmont physician was rejected by the ma- of the supervisors in the face of demands from representatives of and labor groups and letters from the Peninsula Com- coordinating committee the Central council and Non-partisan league that the pointment be approved Commuter Warning The injecting selves into the health board issue for the first time warned the that we do not feel fied in sitting Idly by on the lines while the health board of San Mateo county is being marie a tical football Lyneh took exception to the use of the and declared there are here today who do nothing but play politics or run in- for a man In this county who is trying to build up a cal machine He had just finished his tirade when Executive Peterson stalked angrily into the meeting ft has come to my attention that you have again turned down Dr Warren's name and have Turn to Page II Column 4 SAVE with or BORROW from An Institution which is f Owned t f by local men in San Mateo County Local Capital A or each in an of Peninsula Federal WASHINGTON o i i Present today extended md the export licensing to FI smn elude beryllium graphite and aircraft
