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Four VENTURA (Calif.) COUNTY STAR-FREE PRESS Friday, October 24, 1941 NEW CABINET ASKS EMPEROR FOR SPECIAL SESSION SERIAL STORY MURDER IN PARADtSE BY MARGUERITE GAHAGAN NAZIS BOMB U. S. SHIPS BUT THEY CAN'T HIT 'EM COnWMMT. 1 MI, NU MRVIO.INC Ventura Theater happy nouns CLUB AND REGULAR MATINEE Saturday Noon! DOORS OPEN 11:15 A. M.

COME EARLY! said. He added there were no casualties among the crew, although 48 persons were killed in Suez during one six-hour bombardment by German and Italian planes. The night we arrived in Suez our ship was bombed four times, Stowe said. We werent hit but some of the bombs loosened some hull plates. We sought a quieter port to await dock space.

HARBOR ATTACKED We returned to Suez three days later. That night 300 German and Italian planes bombed the harbor continuously more than six hours. It was the ungodliest terror Ive ever experienced. The bombing raids took place during the first two weeks of August, Stowe said. He asserted British anti-aircraft fire was inefficient and while many raiders were caught in the beams of searchlights, defenders were unable to bring them down or drive them off.

American ships have been carrying war supplies to the British middle east since President Roosevelt declared the Red sea to be outside the combat zone. HONOLULU, T. H. (U.R) German warplanes are bombing American ships carrying supplies to the Red sea but their aim is so bad only one vessel has been sunk, although three have been damaged severely, a returning seaman revealed today. The nazis dont seem to be able to hit a bull astern with a bass fiddle, said John Stowe, Brooklyn, N.

quartermaster of a freighter which docked here en route from Suez. BOMBED FOUR TIMES Thats the only thing that saved our lives, for we were bombed four times the night we arrived at Suez while a barge loaded with bombs and percussion caps was lying alongside us. Maritime regulatioins forbid publication of the name of Stowes ship but he revealed the Steel Seafarer was the vessel sunk by German bombs. The Steel Inventor, he added, struck a German mine and was badly damaged. Two other freighters were hit and sent to drydock.

Exploding bombs frequently littered the decks of anchored American vessels with splinters, Stowe By ROBERT BELLAIRE TOKYO. (U.R) The new cabinet decided today to ask Emperor Hirohito to call a special, five-day session of parliament, beginning Nov. 15, and observers believed the purpose was to obtain approval of additional large military appropriations. It was a foregone conclusion that the emperor would convoke the session. WHY THE MEETING The information board said the session was requested to obtain approval of additional budget plans and legislative bills urgent to meet the current situation and, at the same time, to express the firm determination of the present cabinet regarding the prosecution of national policies, and further, have the nation understand it.

Because of frequent government and press charges that the United States was leading an American-British Chinese Dutch encirclement of Japan, it was considered possible that diet members would take advantage of the session to press the government to publish former Premier Fumimaro Ko-noyes message to President Roosevelt, the progress of present negotiations with Washington, and the attitude of the cabinet of new Premier Hideki Tojo toward the United States. On the other hand, it was said, such questions might not be brought up, lest the pressure be incompatible with the allegedly unprecedented situation confronting Japan. The information board said budget bills would be limited to one calling for additional military expenditures and another for expenditures in connection with temporary measures to increase THE STORY talet Paradise Lake la the scene of two murdrra haadaome Herbert Cord, wbo flaonted a aew fiancee, Margie Dixon, la tbe face of bla last aum-aarra lore, Jcanle 'Morris, aad xr bom police aoapert gangster fitaab Verettl of killings atera, atraight-laeed Mlaa Millie Morris, Jeaalea aunt, wbo bad few friend bat bo eaemlea. It la Maodie OConnor wbo finds both bodies, and both her danghter, Mary, and reporter Deaala Flynn anapeet ber of kaowtog more than she reveals. Handle kaa done some sleuthing, talked with local editor Tod Palmer, who obviously loves Jennie, and innkeeper Chris Gordon.

a contemporary of Misa Millies. Maadie wonders If Jennie and Un Holmes, her maid, should atay In the big Morris bouse alone. NOCTURNAL VISITORS CHAPTER XV AVE were a gloomy pair, Maudie and and the sunlight on the lake after the dark, gray days failed to lift my spirits. Maudie was depressed because things hadnt been progressing as she thought they should. Stush Veretti had been named the killer of Herbert Cord and was to be up for examination the next day.

That, according to Maudie, was just foolishness. She still held to her original contention that the murder wasnt the work of the city numbers boy, and she hated to see the law so calmly close the case. My gloom was for another reason. Denny was gone. There would be little doing on the Cord case until the arraignment next week and that would only take local coverage, and progress on the Morris murder seemed at dn absolute standstill.

The police had no clews and Denny said his office had called him in. Of course, I knew he couldnt be around indefinitely. A lot of good it would have done me anyway, with him spending all his time away from the cottage, and our visits brief ones over the breakfast table. When he had come in that afternoon and announced he was taking his feet off our table, Maudies face expressed both our feelings. Come into town next week and well celebrate, he said, chucking her under her second chin.

You lost your bet, but Im a big-hearted winner. Im still taking you and Mary on a swing around the town. He had kissed Maudie on the cheek and when he turned to me I managed to be clutching Finn McCool, who was raising his usual fuss whenever he sees someone leaving. Will I see you then next week? he asked looking at me, and I said thanks for the invitation and that Maudie and I would try to get in. Well let you know in time so you wont be tied up with another engagement, I said.

Id break it if I did have one, he said, but the straight look he gave me failed to make me forget the way he had sat there in the inn lobby hanging on every word uttered by that Dixon girl. JT was lonely after he left and I couldnt settle down to anything. Finally I took McCool and walked down to the inn. I thanked my stars I could always use the mail as an excuse to get out for awhile. Not that there was anything exciting at the inn.

In fact, it was duller than ever I had seen it. I said so to Chris Gordon. People are leaving, he said dourly. Our guest just left, too, I said. You mean Flynn, I suppose, he said, and I nodded.

The Dixon girl checked out, he added. Some folks came for her. If it gdt hot we might get some guests, but I guess it will have to be blistering before folks would come around here after all the stories them newspaper folks wrote. People soon forget, I told him. In another week they wont be thinking of murder; theyll probably be thinking about the Trophy Race and whose boat stands the best chance.

Folks let their imaginations go haywire though, he insisted, fiddling with the buttons on his vest in that characteristic gesture and looking petulant and aggrieved. This must really be hitting his pocketbook, I decided going home, a little tired from the walk and grateful for being tired. I had no desire to lie in bed tossing wakefully or, in those half-asleep, half-awake moments thinking of Denny, and seeing his red head bending close to Margie Dixons curly black one. Well, I did go to sleep that night. Maudie did too, for I could hear her rhythmic snores as I went by her door and waved to McCool, growling at having hi own sleep disturbed.

TTIS wasnt the only sleep dis-turbed that night. I drifted off eventually and as I feared, I dreamed of Denny. We were out on the pier and there was and the setting was perfect for such a scene just as if it had not happened in reality. There wasnt a sign of 'Margie Dixon, and Denny and I were back together again as though a year hadnt passed at all. The moonlight seemed to be blinding.

And I could hear McCool thumping as he does when he scratches himself at night and shakes the whole house. I was angry at him for disturbing that moment and I was troubled by that white moonlight blinding me. Then the dog barked a shrill, sharp bark. Automatically I rolled over and yelled at him to stop the noise. I operied my eyes but I couldnt see.

A light, brighter than any moonlight, was in my eyes for a second, and then ail was dark. I know the light was there. I could feel it like something material on my face, and the racket McCool was making was real enough, too. In that confused state of mind it was a moment before I could think and then all I felt was fear. Someone was in the house.

I knew that. No one could ever make me believe differently. I was sure of that and the light on my face, and the remembrance of those murders' settled down on me like a lead weight. fpHE sound of Maudies voice yelling at McCool brought me courage and I snapped on my bed-lamp. My hands shook so that I couldnt get into my robe and I settled by throwing it over my shoulders.

Maudie was all right, but McCool was in a vicious mood. He was looking out towards the back door, and after switching on lights, I went there. The door was unlocked. Id gotten in that habit while Denny was staying with us because he was always coming in at all hours. But the door was open and the milk bottle I had put on the steps was knocked over.

Someone had been in the house and I didnt have to tell Maudie She knew it as she stood there beside me and saw the terror is my face. (To Be Continued) HERE'S THIS WEEKS HAPPY HOURS FEATURE jstttr- and 1 "Straight, Place and Show" with RICHARD ARLEN PIIILIS BROOKS HEY, KIDS! HERE'S THE FIRST CHAPTER rice production, while legislative bills would be limited to one for increased taxation to absorb the peoples purchasing power and a second regarding rice production. PROGRESS REPORT The finance ministry disclosed the tax bill was expected to become effective in early Decemher and increase government revenue between 600,000,000 and yen (nominally $506,400,000 and $590,800,000) annually. The -newspaper Nichi Nichi said the session would be important because Tojos government was expected to clarify the progress of negotiations with the United States, as well as its attitude toward that country, in order to obtain the nations solid, resolute support. It said the proposed session also demonstrate the governments firm determination to overcome the difficult situation confronting Japan.

BIGTANKER LOADS JjERE Venturas avenue oil field, at present turning almost 30,000 barrels of crude oil into the new Shell Oil company million dollar pipeline to Wilmington every day, today loaded 68,000 barrels of crude oil on the big General Petroleum corporation tanker Emi-dio. The Emidio, which steamed out of the harbor shortly before noon, is now the only General Petroleum tanker operating on the Pacific coast, it was said. The tanker was bound for San Pedro. PRODUCTION CUT Meanwhile, avenue oil field reports showed that Shell Oils new well, Edison 37, today had been cut to 953 barrels per day gross production and S32 barrels net. The well, reports showed, is running 29.7 gravity oil, cut 2.2 percent, 175 pounds tubing pressing, 890 pounds casing pressure, measuring 682,000 cubic feet of gas and flowing on a 4864 beam.

The Shell well, an offset to California Alliance Oil company wells, originally tested a potential 1,208 barrels per day net production, reports showed. NEW WELL SPUDDED The Shell bulletin also showed Taylor 109 has been put on a gas lift and is now flowing at 271 barrels per day at a 20.5 percent cut. Edison 26 has been redrilled to 6,314 feet and the seven-inch casing cemented to 6,275 feet. Redrilling operations on Shell-Lloyd A-l have reached 8,073 feet. Shells newest well Edison 38, spudded in Wednesday has now drilled' to 165 feet and the surface string has been set, it was reported.

WELDERS WALK OUT TACOMA, Wash. (U.R) Five hundred welders walked out of a Tacoma shipyard yesterday to join Seattle welders in demanding a separate union. Brass hat, in military circles is slang for a general or other staff officer. RED CROSS TO ON NUTRITION Weekly classes in nutrition under a national nutrition-for-de-fense program will get underway in Ventura county Wednesday eve- President Orders OPM to Stop Giving Out Plane Figures WASHINGTON. (U.R) President Roosevelt has ordered the office of production management to cease publication of airplane production figures on the grounds such information is of value to the axis powers.

The latest announced figure was 1,914 produced in September. After Nov. 1, Mr. Roosevelt said at a press conference the OPM will disclose merely whether plane production is increasing or decreasing and whether projected schedules for production are being achieved. He admitted that since the schedules are not known to the public, such disclosures give the public relatively little data on the extent of airplane production and its acceleration.

He justified this restriction of data by explaining that the production figures are information which is specifically desired by what he called the other side. 1932 he has been secretary and attorney for the Los Angeles Orthopedic foundation. IT 'WORK OR FIGHT' EDICT HITS SEATTLE SHIPYARD STRIKERS Native Sons Grand Trustee to Visit Here Tuesday Night Native Sons of the Golden West in Ventura will pay their respects to Grand Trustee Walter H. Ode-mar of Los Angeles Tuesday when he makes his official visit to Ca-brillo parlor in a Masonic temple meeting. As part of an extensive program the high officer will speak on Americanism.

A real native son of California, Odemar is a descendant of the Castello family, once owners of most of Lower California and Catalina island. Born in Los Angeles, the grand trustee was graduated from Stanford university in 1928. Since OPEN SERIES CLASSES SOON ning, Nov. 12 under the direction of Miss Rita Richards, home service director for Southern Counties Gas company and certified Red Cross food and nutrition instructor. Classes will be held weekly for 12 weeks, it was announced, starting at 7:15 p.

m. Afternoon classes will be held every Friday at 1:30 p. m. All classes will be in the gas company auditorium. Enrollment blanks are available at local Red Cross headquarters, or at the Southern Counties Gas company office.

They are to be returned immediately, the announcement said, because size of the auditorium will limit the class. A Red Cross card will be issued to each person completing the course, aimed to make America a well nourished, vigorous and healthful nation, the report said. Strong Welds ELECTRIC A ACETYLENE GENERAL BLACK SMITHING AND MACHINE WORK Also ornamental Iron work. No Job too small or too large STRONG'S WELDING 28 E. SANTA CLARA PHONE 3001 5 (TnSMIill mi By UNITED PRESS A work or fight dictum from national selective service headquarters began to operate today in a strike of almost 2,000 welders which threatens $365,000,000 worth of defense shipbuilding in the Pacific northwest.

Apparent peace was restored again today at the Great Lakes Steel Products Ecorse, but increasingly serious developments marked the prolonged strike affecting aircraft parts production at Air Associates, Bendix, N. J. SHIPYARDS HURT In its third day, the welders strike, crippling work at five Seattle and Tacoma, shipyards, loomed largest among existing disputes. At Seattle, the King county selective service board began to reclassify as 1-A, draft age welders among the 1,300 on strike within its jurisdiction. The men formerly had been deferred because of employment essential to defense.

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Phone 5764 SEIBERLING DISTRIBUTOR TO 0Q FREE FRENCH DRIVE CLAIMED VICHY. (U.R) Free French forces loyal to Gen. Charles De Gaulle have invaded the French East African colony of Somaliland, the Vichy government was in formed today. The governor of French Somaliland reported from Djibouti that two free French light columns, comprising 300 men, yesterday at tacked the colony across the west frontier and occupied Dafenaito, 20 miles northwest of Tajura. Ta-jura is across the narrow gulf of Tajura from Djibouti, capital of the colony.

LONDON BELIEVES ATTACKS IMPROBABLE LONDON. (U.R) Competent quarters said today they had no knowledge of Vichy reports that free French forces had invaded French Somaliland. It was believed improbable that the free French had invaded the French East African colony. OXNARD BUILDING and I LOAN ASSN. Loan Applications Acted Upon Promptly.

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Sufficient to frost two 8-inch layers, a 9x1 3-inch loaf, or two dozen cup cakes. mm G0.Nl ffAlWRNlMGROMN The Council of Welders and Burners, which called the walkout to force demands for an autonomous welders union within the American Federation of Labor, said their strike soon would be supported by sympathy walkouts in five other cities. The walkout already has spread to small firms in the Puget Sound area. Excepting the Ecorse, settlement, there was no apparent abatement of strife on the defense labor front despite recent appeals from the president and the highest defense officials for complete inter-union and labor-management harmony in the interest of the armament program. RUMBLINGS HEARD In the house of representatives, where antistrike legislation has been left dormant before commit tees to give the mediation aboard an opportunity to maintain industrial peace, there were rumblings of protest against strikes yesterday and demands for legislative and executive action.

The eight-day strike at Great Lakes Steel products, fourth to curtail production of high tensile steel in as many months, was ter minated by a back to work vote last night by 2,000 members of the CIO steel workers organizing committee. The settlement, although provisional as was a former one that collapsed, sent the first 8,100 workers into the plant. The peace proposal was offered by the CIO United Automobile Workers union, 100,000 of whose members -were threatened with layoffs if the strike continued. The dispute centered around strikers objection to wage scales agreed upon by their union and the company. JAP NAVY NABOB Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, commander of the Yokosuka naval station has been elevated to post of naval minister in Japans new cabinet.

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