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vmiW muss: ft Wf casiw w- u-Jas -J businessmen 50-50 In Oily-C. inference hristmas lighting MEETING Com EE vcb ltd ltd N(Bqjus WEATHER Fair, continued cool Thunday. See liory on Page 2. Rainfall lait 24 houn 0.08 Total to date 2.42 Normal to date 3.40 Last year to date 2.46 A County Seat Institution Serving You SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1941 VOL. 68 NO.

122 On EIGHT PAGES Single Copy five Cent SCHEDULED OH FRIDAY INTRODUCING THE ONLY FEllOW. LIVIHG IN AMERICA TODAY WHO ISN'T THANKFUL THAT HE'S LIVING IN AMERICA TOO AV -j Pacific avenue merchants, polled to determine how they stood on the current city-chamber of commerce stalemate regarding which should sponsor Christmas lighting here, were almost evenly divided as to whose responsibility it wasto put up the lights this year. Henry Harris of Harris said it was "a problem of the city and the merchants to see that the main downtown streets were lighted for the Yule season. The chamber of commerce has other programs and I think the city and the merchants should get together and do a good job of fixing appropriate Christmas lighting," Harris said. "The city has equipment to do this work and the merchants could boost their contributions to see that the work is done right.

The old saying ''when you jump into a river, you might as well WEYGAND IS OUSTED BY NAZI RULE VICHY (U.R) Official circles today refused to comment on reports abroad that Gen. Maxime Weygand had been relieved of his post as Vichy French commander in chief in north and west Africa. Ml rsniMi A Real: Pastor Swings Leading his flock to a new church is Rev. E. N.

Dabritz of the San Bruno Community Methodist church and brother of. Rev. Leslie O. Dabritz who left here Vi years ago for Hanford. Rev.

E. N. Dabritz packs lumber, swings a hammer and lays shingles on the new church he is aiding in building. Paid and volun teer workers from all walks of life work side by side with women and boys working alongside their menfolk to make the dream of a new church come true. Garfield Park Thanksgiving For anchers IX No.

1 Military Worry Told In Letter By S. C.Marine Needed, Says Davenhill Sufficient funds are on hand for installation bf a good por a town near a post the decent people and girls won't have anything to do with you. Some of the men say if you go to a dance the girls won't dance with a man in uniform. It surely makes a man wonder if it is worth serving your country so people can snub you every time you leave your post." WASHINGTON KU.R) The United States has decided to withhold any decision on the French plea for food for unoccupied France and French war prisoners pending definite information on reports that Gen. Maxime Weygand has been retired as Vichy's pro-consul in north Africa, it was learned today.

TOKYO U.R) (Thursday) Japanese newspapers adopted a more conciliatory attitude toward the United States today and expressed hope for improved relations. Adolf Hitler was understood today to have tightened the Nazi grip on France by forcing the ouster of Gen. Maxime Weygand as proconsul for Africa at a time when Great Britain was re aligning fighting forces for winter war on distant fronts. The dismissal of Weygand over the protests of Marshal Henri Phillippe Petain because of his opposition to axis plans in Africa involved not only a question ot deteriorating Vichy relations with the United States but appeared to fit into the shift of the main war fronts toward the warmer climate of the Mediterranean, the Indian ocean and the Pacific. AFRICA British patrol activity on a major scale in Libya was believed to foreshadow important military developments in North Africa.

The Royal air force continued to hammer almost every night at Naples and other points on the axis supply line to Libya. The great new British battleship Prince of Wales touched at Capetown on what may be a journey to the Far East. The disclosure that the Prince of Wales had been at Capetown followed reports from the Dutch East Indies that Germany's modern battleship TirpHs was believed to have made its way to the Pacific ocean, presumably to lend striking power to the Japanese fleet in event of war in the Orient or to act as a surface raider. SHAKEUP The Japanese also were reported to have sent four more cruisers to Saigon, where they already had a destroyer fleet in Indo-China waters, in connection with persistent indications from Tokyo that a blow was planned against Thai land or the Burma Road. These naval movements as well as the hints of impending action seemed to be primarily part of the war of nerves in the Pacific.

Another sign of British preparation for winter warfare was a shakeup in the high command that brought younger generals into greater leadership in an effort to strengthen Britain's readiness for mechanized warfare. Gen. Sir Alan Francis Brooke, 58, replaced Gen. Sir John Dill as chief of the Imperial staff, and among other changes Lieut. Gen.

Sir Henry Pownall, 53, was given a special appointment. Pillsbury To Receive Jury Trial Stanley Pillsbury, 17, charged with carrying concealed weapons, Wednesday was released on his own re cognizance to appear later for jury trial on the charge, by Judge Paul Colegrove after the defendant had applied for reduction in bail. The bail had been set at $5000 property or $2500 cash. Pillsbury was arrested by police in their investigation of the slaving of James B. McFadden here late last month.

Allen Perry, 19, charged with the same offense, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months in the county jail last week. Pillsbury had demanded a jury trial. NOTICE Staff members and employes of the Evening News will join with the city's Thanksgiving Day celebrants, and to permit a holiday for them an issue of the paper has been suspended for Thursday. tion of the game courts proposed for the Garfield Park Improvement club, according to William Davenhill, chairman of the Garfield F'ark playground fund. get wet all over applies to the lighting situation here," he added.

TAXES C. M. Pennel, jeweler: "We pay taxes to the city to keep its progress moving forward and I think some of this tax money should be set aside and used for lighting. Everyone enjoys the lighting and it does brighten up the streets at this particular time of year." Art Rittenhouse, clothing: "We merchants pay into the chamber of commerce funds and I don't think it unreasonable to expect to have the chamber install our Christmas lights." Al Ebert, East Side store manager: "It looks like a chamber of commerce job to me. The merchants pay into their funds, in fact keep it going, and the chamber should arrange and sponsor a lighting program." Clarence Orchard, confectionary: "It is about as much one's job as the other.

Let's call it 50-50." Ed Weber, drug store manager: "It Is a city responsibility. If the chamber of commerce has to use its funds to light the streets, then it will fall down in its promotion of the city and will not have the money to attract new residents to this city. The city has the men to do the work, alf they would need is one licensed electrician to make the necessary connections. city has trucks and men on the payroll that could be used for this work without working a hardship on any department." CHAMBER VOTE Hiram Gosliner, shoe store operator: "I think the chamber of commerce should attend to the Christmas lighting here." Meantime a third, and possibly final, meeting between executives of the chamber of commerce and city officials to discuss the Christmas lighting here, has been scheduled for Friday noon at the Roudell Coffee Shop, Frank Schuppert, secretary-manager of the chamber of commerce, said. INSTALLATIONS Two previous meetings have been held between the groups, one two weeks ago when the chamber asked the city to take over the lighting and again Monday when the city rejected the chamber's request, but made a counter proposition to furnish man power, $250 and storage space for the equipment.

This was tentatively rejected by the chamber. One of the main reasons for the chamber's effort to give the lighting problem to the city was the cost of making installations, which Chamber President Dr. A. E. Allegrini has termed as "prohibitive." The cost last year exceeded $500.

Not Camera-Shy Not In the least camera-shy Is 11-week-old Christopher Brlggs Ruben as he faces lens for first time with proud mama, the former Virginia Bruce of motion pictures. is Lvi TRAINMEN VICTIMS OF ACCIDENT VAN NUYS, Cal. (UP) A 96-car Southern Pacific freight train broke in two and caught fire in the 7000-foot Hassen tunnel 30 miles north of here today, killing three crewmen and destroying 10 carloads of A work crew pulled remnants of the 96-car Southern Pacific freight rear end first from the tunnel after several unsuccessful efforts to reach the locomotive from the forward end. FATE The engine was sltll burning and it was impossible to determine at once fate of the three missing men. 5 The freight stalled In the tunnel, 30 miles north -of here, with most of its length inside.

Flames described as furnacelike drove back rescuers attempt ing to reach the train from the forward end. The Ventura sheriffs office reported flames started shortly after the train stalled and were eating their way back from the engine. At least 10 of the cars inside the tun nel were loaded with cattle, the sheriff's office said. Ambulances and fire equipment were dispatched from Van Nuys to the tunnel 30 miles north of here. TO HOSPITAL Four men suffering from inhaling coal gas or from burns were taken to White Memorial hospital, Van Nuys, A Southern Pacific official identified the trapped men as J.

Dunne, engineer; S. E. Snodgrass, fireman; and G. E. Baker, front brakeman.

All are from Los Angeles. Taken to the hospital were H. H. Hartley, 61, conductor, Los Angeles, suffering from inhaling gas; O. B.

Castles, 25, brakeman, Los Angeles, inhaling gas; B. R. Bonner, 24, student fireman, Bakersfield, inhaling gas; and V. L. Rippey, 52, brake-man, Los Angeles, second and third degree burns and gas.

Ten carloads of cattle were de stroyed by suffocation when the 96- car train stalled in the 7000-foot tunnel 30 miles north of here. Body of G. E. Baker, front brake-man, was recovered from the tunnel. Southern Pacific said remains of Fireman S.

E. Snodgrass and Engineer Jack Dunne were still in the cab, red-hot when pulled from the tunnel. The bodies of two men who apparently had been catching a ride on the train were found in the ice compartment of a refrigerator car. One was identified as Bruce D. Clark, Los Angeles, a Santa Fe yardman.

The other was not identified. "It's like a furnace in there," said a fireman on a locomotive sent into the tunnel on an unsuccessful rescue mission: "The engine crew must have burned up, or if they got away from the fire were suffocated." Slack smoke billowed from the north end of the tunnel and rose thousands of feet in the air. Crewmen attempting to reach the stalled train rode into the tunnel wearing gas masks, and clinging to the front end of the rescue engine. They came out with faces and clothing coal-black and said they could not reach the burning train because of the intense heat. Mean Hammer Monies More funds will be needed to complete the setup.

The fund committee at the present time comprises representatives of present contributors Davenhill for the Garfield Park Improvement club; Ivan Mobley, treasurer, Garfield Park Christian church; and J. B. Nelson, Exchange club. With the WPA recreation office contributing the labor, work was under way Tuesday on installation of croquet and tether courts. A crew of five men continued the work AGAIN NEW YORK Tommy Man-ville, the asbestos heir, planned a Florida honeymoon today with his fifth bride, honey-haired showgirl Bonita Francine Edwards, whom he met last Sunday night as a blind date.

49th State? Maybe Yes! YREKA, Cal. (U.R) The torch of secession was carried today through the Siskiyou mountain counties of California and Oregon and the welkin rang with a call to add a 49th star to Old Glory. Business, civic, mining and political leaders from Siskiyou and Del Norte counties of California and Curry county of Oregon, in 'the best tradition of the West, proposed to secede from their governments and go it alone. Their chief grievance is that Oregon and California have neglected to develop the natural mineral resources of the counties which, they claim, would keep Uncle Sam in chromite, magnesite, beryllium, copper and such ores for years to come when now he is forced to shoD in far-awav Dlaces I to fill his pressing needs. Lrjpll Mediation Board Members Resign Santa Cruz Ready For Feast Day Nature.

responsible for Thanksgiving in the first place brought a real note of "thanksgiving" to Santa Cruz ranchers and fanners over night with a frost which county farm bureau described as a boon. This as the county as a whole prepared for tomorrow's feast and prayer day. To make the day typical, the weatherman hung out a "spicy, tingling" prediction with a continuance of cold. For the county's growers, particularly fruit orchardists, a frost last night arrived in time to be placed on the blessings list. EXCELLENT Farmers viewed the frost as excellent for fruit and other deciduous trees, as it started an early winter resting period which, if it continues, will assure strong trees when the spring's blossoming season arrives.

"After a cold winter, trees are more refreshed when spring arrives, but when warm weather disturbs their slumber they are weak and with some varieties, particularly peaches, the buds fall off," Henry L. Washburn, county farm advisor, explained. Warm winter trouble has occurred in recent years, Washburn said. Trees which do require comparatively warm winters, avocadoes, oranges and lemons, he said, are grown in this county in areas not hit by frost in damaging proportions. The frost wherever it formed undoubtedly spelled the finale for tomatoes and other susceptible products, it was reported, but the season was about over and crops still (See THANKSGIVING, P.

8, C. 2) What are the troubles of a military man in regards to surrounding communities? William Decker, marine, of Santa Cruz, describes a few of them in a letter home. "Military life," he writes, "will be a lot easier after I leave San Diego. There is no place a service man can go. In Strikes: Thousands More Refuse To Work PITTSBURGH KU.R) Thousands of workers in commercial coal mines walked out of pits in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Kentucky today in sympathy strikes called to aid the United Mine Workers' fight for a union shop in the struck captive, mines.

Operations were suspended in an estimated 300 miles in the four-state coal area and it was indicated that at least 80,000 miners had quit work to support the stand of 53,000 captive miners. West Virginia was the first to report widespread extension of the sympathy strike movement and as the Thanksgiving holiday neared there, it was reported that 35,000 commercial miners were idle. Agreements WASHINGTON (U.R) The United States and Mexico after months of discussion today concluded agreements on outstanding financial problems. Eduaido Suarez, Mexican minister of finance, and Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau signed documents which Suarez said concerned a currency stabilization agreement between the United States and Mexico and an agreement for this country to purchase Mexican silver. Suarez added that Mexico and the U.

S. state department also would agree today on the basis for further negotiations to settle the dispute over American-owned oil lands seized by the Mexican government. Roosevelt Appeal To Miners Union WASHINGTON iCU.R) President Roosevelt today asked the CIO United Mine Workers union and leaders of the steel industry to permit the question of the union shop in the captive coal mines to remain "in status quo for the period of the national emergency" or "submit this point to arbitration" for a final decision. "Work in the captive mines must recommence," the president said in a letter addressed to UMW presid-dent John Lewis, and to Benjamin Fairless, president of U. S.

Steel; Eugene Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel, and Frank Pur-nell, president of Youngstown Sheet Tube Co. Mr. Roosevelt made the letter public as the captive coal mine strike was in its third day, with a large number of UMW miners in regular commercial mines walking out in sympathy with the captive pit strikers. DETROIT (U.R) President Philip (See STRIKES, Pg. 8, Col.

4) Lame Gains Are Cited In SC Area The Twelfth Federal Reserve bank tod3y reported large sales gains in department and apparel stores of the district in October as compared with the corresponding 1940 month. Department store sales were up 18 per cent in 181 stores and apparel sales increased 21 per cent in 41 stores. This includes Santa Cruz. Increases reported in department stores of individual cities were Phoenix 36 per cent; Los Angeles area 18; Long Beach 41; San Diego 25; Oakland-Berkeley 18; San Francisco Vallejo-Napa 48; San Jose 11; Santa Rosa 14; Bakersfield 10; Fresno 18 Sacramento 14; Stockton 16; Portland 27; Seattle 26; Ta-coma 14; Bellingham Everett 21; Spokane Salt Lake City 24; Boise-Nampa 20. Walla Walla reported a two per cent drop and Yakima reported no change.

In the apparel store group Los Angeles area reported a 40 per cent rise; San Francisco downtown Oakland 26; Portland 26; Seattle 28. The reserve bank said sales in department stores for the firrst 10 months of 1941 were 19 per cent above the 1940 figures. In apparel stores sales registered a 21 per cent gain for the comparative 10-month periods. DIES SALT LAKE CITY (U.R) Andrew Jenson, 91-year-old assistant historian of the Latter-Day Saints church who traveled more than 1,000,000 miles in gathering data for historical church works, died at his home last night following a heart attack. BULLETINS! SACRAMENTO U.R) Gov.

Cullert Olson today announced he "would not interfere" with the scheduled execution Friday of Mrs. Juanitc (the Duchess) Spinclli, convicted murderer. SAN DIEGO KU.R) A navy fighter plane crashed into a gully on Otay Mesa today, killing 2nd. Lt. George S.

Roach, US.MC, Phoenix, 11th naval district announced..