Santa Maria Times from Santa Maria, California • 1

Rich Girl's Husband, Representing U. S. in Canada, Draws Fire By Speech if I SPIED- THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Thursday; little change in temperature; gentle wind off coast. temperature High 72 Low 52 RAINFALL This season 12.53 Last season 9.73 SANTA MARIA, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1940 Every Evening Except Sunday Critics Blast Pony Express Stamp UN ITEDIS TAT. Si POSTAG British Raiders Pour Fiery Blasts From Air Onto German Naval Base of Sylt in North Sea DARING AIRMEN PUT IN NIGHT IN BOMBING Terrific Damage to Nazi Stronghold Is Claimed by English LONDON' (UP) British reconnaissance pilots today informed the Air Ministry that a Royal Air Force bombing attack on Sylt island last night resulted in tremendous damage to one of Germanys most important North sea air bases.

The pilots reported it was almost certain that little of the operational part of the base at PON YEXPRESS80thANN1 VERS ARYlls! Dangers Pony Express riders faced 80 years ago were as nothing compared to attacks expected to be made on new Pony Express commemorative stamp, to be released in St. Joseph, and Sacramento April 3, on the 80th anniversary of first Pony Express ride. Equestrians find fault with the rider, the way he handles the reins, sits his The raddle is said to be a type not used until 50 years later. Definitely forgotten are the saddle bags. Do you see any others? England Flings Angry Threat at Neutral Nations All World in War Whether It Knows It or Not-Stanley LONDON (U.R) A sharp speech by War Secretary Oliver Stanley today foreshadowed a sterner British attitude towards neutrals in whose interests, he said, IJritain is fighting.

In the stiffest British attack on neutrals to date, Stanley warned that their critical of i Britain, may induce her to follow Germanys example and disregard their rights. By inference he reproached the United States, along with other neutrals, and warned that a defeat for Britain would mean a defeat for them also. The speech today followed an open warning Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the House of Commons last night that British warships and airplanes would enter Scandinavian waters to attack any German warships which violated them. No Foolin Chamberlain in effect warned neutrals that they should line up iwilh the allies and he rejected United States criticism of allied policy with regard to Finland. Attacking American descriptions of the war as phoney, Stanley said: That language is culled from the ringside where people, after a good din- ner, watch other people hit each other and, without danger to themselves, urge them to do more fighting.

Stanley said the foreign press had criticised Britain for timidity and lack of enterprise regarding Finland because we were tender-hearted in sparing the rights of neutrals. Dangerous Lesson That is a very dangerous lesson for neutrals to start teaching he said. Maybe we are only too willing to learn. There are millions of individuals all over the world thinking how are we going to keep out it? They are in it. They may not be taking any active part or may even, by timidity or selfishness, be giving help to the other side, but dont let any of them think that they can remain indifferent to the result of the struggle which has started.

Number 286 Hornum, on Sylt island, was left standing. The German hangars still were blazing when the reconnaissance and photography pilots swooped over Hornum at 9 a.m. and the barracks were a smoking ruins. BERLIN (U.R) The official news agency announced tonight that Nazi airplanes had attack- ed a British naval convoy this evening and sunk several ships. Several other ships were severely damaged, the agency said.

The announcement said that convoy included British cruisers and destroyers. it was said. The slipways were severely damaged, the British pi- lots reported. The Hornum base was the starting point for many Nazi aerial raids on British shipping. Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood told the House of Commons that; the reconnaissance pilots had confirmed the success of the all-night British bombing attacks, in which probably 50 airplanes, led by a spearhead of Wellington bombers, participated.

Steady Stream of Bombs Each bombing plane was in the air 12 hours and they roared over their objectives with time-table precision, aviation circles report-- ed. The attacking waves were scheduled so that some of the planes were back at their bases as others reached Sylt. Although dispatches from Denmark reported that bombs were believed to have been dropped by the British photography planes when they circled Sylt at 9 a.m., the main purpose of the flight was to make a record of the damage done by probably 150 to 200 bombs dropped by the British attackers during the night. It was reported that 30 latest type Whitley and Wellington Continued on Page 8, Cols. 2-3 THE WEATHER I Need for Home For Fair Seen Annual Cost for Rentals Mounts A strong argument for some definite action on the erection of permanent buildings for the Santa Barbara County Fair is evidenced in this years budget outlay by the Fair board.

Directors see in the figure the necessity of running the fair on publicly-owned land or on privately-owned land on a long-term lease from the standpoint, of economy in operation. The cost of (he County Fair in Santa Maria this year in the matter of ground rental, installation and removal of temporary buildings, tent rental and taxes will total $10,965. Cost Mounts This expenditure is comparable to the annual cost of operation during the last four years, though a building fund has been available. Cost over the four-year period to operate the fair on a temporary site and erect and remove tcmDorary buildings runs well over $45,000. Steps have been taken at various times in the last few years by both individuals and groups to find some permanent Continued on Page 2, Col.

3 SPEEDER FINED $50 AFTER AN ACCIDENT Changing his plea to guilty on a charge of excessive speeding, Earl Reifus Perry paid a $50 fine in the court of Justice of the Peace L. J. Morris and the hearing on his case, scheduled for this morning, was dropped. Perry was cited by the State Highway Patrol as a result of an automobile accident on the highway a mile south of Santa Maria on Feb. 21.

Driving at a fast speed, Perry lost control of the Ford pickup he was driving and the car turned over twice and skidded into a nearby field. Perry suffered a severe neck cut and was taken to the hospital, for treatment at the time. Animated figures depicting an old-fashioned store on one side and a modern mercandisang market on the other is the unusual play being shown this year by the State Department of Agriculture at the Thirtieth National Orange Show, now under way in San Bernardino. Subscription Price $7.20 Per Year Reds Wrecking SRA Service Head of Employe Group 'Spills Beans7 LOS ANGELES (U.R) Political cross-currents are muddling the State Relief administration, A. M.

Wilson, chairman of the SRA chapter of the California State Employes association, told the assembly interim committee investigating the SRA late yesterday. The entire SRA is shot through with political skullduggery, he said. In the Hollywood SRA office, Lois Lake, an administrative worker, received a low score for her cooperativeness w'ith fellow employes on her evaluation sheet, because, the district supervisor told her, of her antagonistic attitude toward the State, County and Municipal Workers of America, a C.I.O. union of relief workers. New Political Philosophy Since the advent of the Olson administration, Wilson said, many SRA employes have been replaced with party workers without regard for bettering the administrative personnel.

Under the Merriam administration, he said, politics were at a minimum. Wilson said certain European political dogma has infiltrated into the SRA, and declared that of nine supervisors who were asked, Are you in accord with the totalitarian states? eight refused to answer. The one who said she was anti-totalitarian, was dismissed summarily from service, Wilson said. But the real question in SRA is not partisan politics, Wilson said, but whether we will permit the SRA personnel to tear Continued on Page 5, Col. 1 Two Kansas cars parked on opposite sides of the street in the COO block of South Lincoln yesterday afternoon.

J. E. France getting an application for the examination called for Santa Maria postmaster. Andy Hill reminding Ki-wanians to be at' Hancock College of Aeronautics tomorrow at noon for (their weekly meeting, instead of Santa Maria club. Cap Twitchell announcing postponement of Rotary clubs ladies night from April 2 to Aprili9.

The Los Angeles Times blossoming out with a perfumed color ad in its issue this morning. Coach Kit Carlson instructing his baseball team to be at the'gym by 1 oclock Thursday for the trip to Delano. COMMENTS AND CACOPHONY By G. A. Martin Guess Alfred Roemer and Ill have to get Santa Maria a traffic signal ortwo to keep us out of the village class entirely.

San Luis Obispo is now going ahead in a program for installation of several signals to regulate its traffic and Paso Robles has been considering one. If we dont hurry well be left in the class with Saltta Barbara as one of the few towns without traffic signals. Members of the Community club requested signals at the flagpole some months ago, but someone feared the state might object because both Broadway and Main street are state highways and the matter dropped. Apparently, the state doesnt object, as I recently cited in this column in noting signals in Merced, Madera, Turlock, Stockton and other towns and cities regulating traffic on a main highway. Anyhow, the state is nothing to be afraid of.

The' stale generally accepts what is best for a community if the community officers go after it with determination and show enough backbone to insist on getting what they want. Noting my comment on the signals in the cities to the north along highway No. 99, E. L. Peterson, publisher of the Corona Independent, kicks in with the story that Corona has installed one across a highway.

Corona placed in operation such a signal system about two weeks ago, he writes. First step was to install a system approved by the State Highway department. After installation had been made, they operated it only as flash signals yellow on the main highway, meaning and red flash on the cross street, meaning complete stop at intersection before crossing. The flash signals operated as such until the state inspector arrived and gave the go ahead order for full operation. Now we operate on the full stop and go system, 60 per cent on the main highway, and 40 per cent on the cross street, from 8 oclock in the morning until 8 oclock in the evening.

During the night, the system automatically goes back to the flash system for the late evening and night hours. It was a lot of fun watching pedestrians and autoists get caught crossing against the signal. Habit, formed over a period of years, had proven hard to break. Special police worked day and night for several days getting the public into the habit. There was no trouble with the outsider its the local peonle that give trouble.

But it is working out and everybody is happy. Pr. B. U. L.

Connor describes a pessimist as one, who, of two evils, chooses both. Spring is really here. It started in at 1:24 this afternoon. Now, if we have any more frosts, they just dont belong and we can tell them so very definitely It was 88 years ago today that Uncle Toms Cabin first made its appearance and Harriet Beecher Stowe became a national heroine in the interest of the negro slaves. She was a sister of Henry Ward Beecher, the great preacher of her time Thirty-eight years ago today, use was first made of wireless telephony to communiacte with ships at sea Today is the anniversary of the birth of Chas.

W. Eliot, who devised the five-foot-shelf of books as meeting all the require ments of man, and was a noted Harvard educator in his time. He was born 106 years ago. Volume 22 Danger of Salt Water to Valley Ever a Menace Los Alamos Valley Polution Halted by Pumping to Ocean Salt water from old oil wells in the Los Alamos and San Antonio valleys in the Santa Maria supervisorial district, is now being pumped to the ocean and Supervisor Chairman C. L.

Preisker sees hope for remedying a condition that had threatened the land in both areas. He pointed out today, however, that there is still a danger throughout the district and urged cooperation of land owners with the counfy in discovering and halting violations of the county ordinance devised to control the situation. If the price of oil were to advance suddenly, and the wells in this vicinity were opened up, the volume of salt water to be disposed of would probably become tremendous, he continued. The Santa Maria river and the possible infiltration of salt water from oil wells into the fresh water of the valley are Santa Maria valleys two major problems, he continued. They are important enough to warrant much more attention than is being given them.

Once the fresh water becomes contaminated, it is too late to act. Salt Water Checked The supervisor confirmed that salt water is no longer flowing from the Shell Oil Co. wells into the Los Alamos and San Antonio valleys. For forty years, he said, salt water containing 1500 grains to the gallon has been contaminating the water of the lower Los Alamos and San Antonio valleys, and in the past few years it has amounted to 40,000 gallons per day. This water is nearly as salty as sea water, so the salt amounted to nearly eight tons per day.

After the adoption of the county ordinance over a year ago prohibiting th, the county authorities did not proceed immediately with criminal prosecution, as the condition had been going on for years, but we did insist that the water must be taken care of before very long. An agreement has now been reached between the Shell Oil Co. and the Union Oil Co. whereby the Union Oil Co. handles the water through its pipeline to the ocean.

In Casmalia Valley The story in Casmalia valley is also well known. The ground waters in that valley are so salty that they cannot be used even for stock purposes, due to waste water from oil wells being allow- Continued on Page 5, Col. 2 NEW PACT FOR FLYING SCHOOL IS SOUGHT To open negotiations for a renewal of the U. S. Army contract for training young future pilots in Hancock College of Aviation, Capt.

Allan Hancock and party will leave by plane today for Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas. The contract for a years training by the Santa Maria school will expire at the end of the present year. Accompanying Capt. Hancock will be Capt. Roy Jones, head of the Hancock college; J.

H. Chambers, secretary of the Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce, and DeWitt Meredith, public relations official for Capt. Hancock. Capt. E.

II. Alexander, commandant of the army personnel at Hancock College, left yesterday by plane for Randolph Field on the same mission. He expected to return here in time for the graduation of a new class 'of cadets on Friday. Absentee Votes Santa Marians planning to be out of town during the coming city election April 9 may now procure their applications for absentee ballots in the office of City Clerk Flora A. Rivers.

Applications will be received up to and including April 4, Mrs. Rivers said. Horse on Stamp Is Criticized Artists Find Many Faults With Sketch Artists and horsemen all over the West who have seen advance copies of the new Pony Express commemorative stamp to be issued April 3 are firing at the artists conception. Cowmen everywhere are expected to get a big laugh from the stamp when it goes into general circulation. Ed Borein, noted etcher of cowboys and ponies, in Santa Barbara, not only -gives it the ha; ha, but the hew haw.

Artist Borein avers that a horse COULD get into the position which he has in the stamp, but it would be all-mighty awkward, galloping with his hind feet and trotting with his front. The horse is an Eastern horse, Borein points out, and the costume of the ridey looks like a Civil war uniform, nd whats more, Borein seems To the hearty support of practically all lovers of Western lore, who have seen the design. But then, it wont be very big, Borein said. Other points of criticism being directed at the stamp are that the rider lets reins dangle as if pony were eating hay; animals mouth is open as if reins were pulled taut; animals nostrils are un-equine, and the saddle is of a type unknown until 50 years after the Pony Express. FRENCH CABINET OUT, DALADIER LOSES FIGHT PARIS (U.R) Premier Edouard Daladier and his cabinet resigned today because a majority of the Chamber of Deputies refused to vote confidence in his manner of conducting the war, and President Albert LeBrun called Paul Reynaud, a bitter foe of Nazism, and asked him to form a new government in response to demands for a more aggressive war policy.

The presidents acceptance of the cabinets resignation left" France momentarily without a government in one of its most perilous times. U. 5. Minister's Scalp at Stake Congress After Man For Flaying Nazis WASHINGTON (U.R) Congressional demands for removal from office of James II. R.

Cromwell, American minister to Canada, today followed his criticism of American isolationists and denunciation of Germany. Rep. Martin L. Sweeney, introduced a resolution for a formal house inquiry into the speech. If our playboy minister to Canada wants to fight for the British empire, I suggest he join such distinguished expatriates as Lady Astor and Kermit Roosevelt, Sweeney shouted.

Fish Critical Rep. Hamilton Fish, R.t N. told the house Cromwell speech was unprecedented in history. Fish said he did. not wish to judge Cromwell hastily, for "he is new to the diplomatic service.

Sen. Bennett C. Clark, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, and Rep. George II. Tinkham, Mass, a member of the House Foreign Affairs committee, both demanded that Cromwell be recalled because Continued on Page 8, Col.

1 of Santa Maria Metropolis building and development of Mother to Have Quints, X-Ray Pictures Reveal MIAMI, Fla. (U.R) X-ray pictures indicated that quintuplets will be born in May or sooner to the wife of an apprentice furniture worker here, the Miami Daily News said today in a copyrighted story. The prospective parents are Emory Callahang 30, an apprentice plane worker in a furniture factory, and his wife. Earline, 22, who were married last June 17, the article said. Churches, Schools and Civic Activity Harmonize With Setting Public Utilities.

Do Their Full Share Towards Making It a This is the last of a series of articles being published in the Wednesday issues of The Santa Maria Times showing the stability of resources in the Santa Maria valley, with Santa Maria the center of marketing, production and commercial activities, which make for a permanent prosperity. Its purpose is supported by 15 commercial and professional institutions of Santa Maria and Guadalupe the packing center expressing their confidence in the future. Each of these firms has an interesting message carried on page 6 of this issue. Credit must be given to the earnest leaders of Santa' Maria whose energy and enterprise have developed one of the leading commercial and industrial centers of this section of California. With this the last of a series of articles on the resources of Santa Maria and the Santa Maria valley, it is realized that in the space of a few weeks no survey could do justice to the wealth of resources with which Santa Maria is surrounded.

Justification can still be found, however, for this campaign because of the need of a better understanding of the great strides that Santa Maria and the state of California have made in such a comparably short space of time as comparisons go. The future of Santa Maria is in the hands of the generation now coming into its majority, and, if the younger Every Test Proves the Laundry Best Even Invisible Marking Ask one of our routemen to show you how each garment at the Sanitary Laundry is invisibly marked. leaders will seize the opportuni ties offered them and carry on with the sincerity of purpose that characterized those who have gone before, Santa Maria's position as one of the most important commercial centers of the Westcoast area is assured. Kept Faith With Youngsters These progressive leaders of the past have kept faith with this new generation. Throughout the Santa Maria they have kept in mind the need for fundamental education of the younger generation.

Adequate educational facilities have been provided that they may have the advantage of preparation for this public service which they will have to shoulder in the near future. With Continued on Page 8, Cols. 5-6 YOUR HOME LAUNDRY PHONE 60.