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Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01
Editorials and Comment
MONDAY AUGUST /, 1885,
JAPANESE ADOPT
POLICY OF GENGHIS KHAN
(San Francisco Chronicle)

(San Francisco Chronicle)
Horror sweeps over the world as the
japanese continue their bombing massa-
ere of the people of Canton. In all the
other horrible bombngs of defenseless
civilians that have disfigured the last
two years on two continents we have seen
nothing like this persistent effort to
wipe out the inhabitants of defenseless
city.
In the beginning of these raids on
Canton, the Japanese asserted they were
aiming at military objectives in the city
If that were believed we We're to assume
that only bad aim made the bombs land
on densely inhabited quarters That ex-
cuse cannot hold any longer as the bombs
continue to rain savagely on the packed
homes and the massed houseboats in the
river.
This is purely an exhibition of fright
fulness on the largest scale since Genghis
Khan. 1t is Genghis Khan over again
His policy of determination so as 10
teach other peoples not to resist. The
japanese authorities now admit it, not
tacitly but in clear words. The bombing
of Canton is to continue, they say, until
the rest of China is taught the futility
of resistance. The navy, said Rear Ad-
miral Noda yesterday, is satisfied with
the bombing of Canton and the attacks
will continue.
The japanese navy is satisfied with
its success in blowing to bits so far some
5000 nOn-cOmbatant Cantonese men, Wo-
men and children, and the horrible man
CLING of many thousands of others, so
many that all the medical and nursing
resources of the city cannot begin to
keep up with the wounded. And the
japanese airplanes are going to keep
on with this, blowing more thousands of
defenseless men, women and children to
bits, manning more thousands of others,
burning their homes and, in many cases
the wounded in them. This is to go on
until China is persuaded that it is futile
to resist. From what we know of the
spirit Of the Chinese this may mean until
all Canton and all its people are blown
and burned to nothing.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01
TOO MANY CASES
FOR TWELVE MEN

The other day these columns printed
a discussion of troubles besetting the
American jury system The day after the
article was printed, the papers carried
a story with a direct bearing on any
such discussion.
1t was a story of the Harlan conspi-
racy to violate the National Labor Re-
lations Act. The case went to the jury.
Twelve men were told to decide the
guilt of 16 companies, 18 executives and
81 former deputy sheriffs. For each of
the 80 defendants separate set of ver
diets was possible. Even if there were
only two possible verdicts against each
defendant, that would make ITO verdicts
for the jurors to choose from. And, in
most cases, more than two possible ver-
diets were offered against each defen-
dant.
The jurors retired to their delibera-
tions without exhibits in the case. They
We're not allowed to take notes during
the trial. Their examination of the evil
dence placed before them was necessari-
ly brief-and the trial lasted several
months
A juror in that sort of case would have
phenomenal memory, quick mind
and marvellous grasp of legal words
to know exactly what it is all about
We cannot help wondering if absolute
justice will prevail in the Harlan case
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01
JUDGING THE FUTURE
BY THE PAST

Leroy Holt, one Of the first persons
to settle in Imperial Valley, is retiring
after 80 years as a business leader II
the community.
Since Mrs. Holt will accompany him
on an extended cruise of southern hemis-
pheres, it might be said that she, too,
is retiring from her longtime tenure of
social leadership in the valley.
In the lives of no other couple We
know can be eXemplified so well the
rapid development of Imperial Valley,
nor can many others point out so well
by past example the glorious future of
the valley.
The history of the Holts-he in busi-
ness, she in womens activities-is the
inspiring history of this region. For
young people it should point the way
to possible further accomplishment.
When the Holts came to Imperial Val
ley, it was largely desert. Faith in the
future-a faith few shared-made them
stay Now they are leaving region that
has become one of the nations greatest
agricultural producing areas. Homes and
businesses have sprung up where stunted
mesquite and sagebrush grew. Their
dreams have been fulfilled.
How about our dreams for the future
the next 80 years? Will the rest of us
work as have the Holts to make them
come true? Or will we despair, and leave
the job to somebody else?
One thing is certain. The heritage
given US by the pioneers will be carried
through, whether we as individuals fall
by the wayside or not. Those of us who
carry on will row with the community,
prosper with it, and see it become ever
greater and greater. Those of US who
do not, well-someday we probably will
wish we had.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01

MT do that Tor nm.
His parents, living in Syracuse,
where he was born, wanted him to
become a flute player! He was de-
termined to be an actor, and his
first mining was done in his faith
er's barn, with two cents as the
admission fee.
Learning that his son had little
interest in a musical career, his
father tried to get him into West
Point. But he couldn't make the
grade because he hated mathemat-
les. He went into the army and
nearly died of fever in the Spanish
American War.
After his father died, his mother
played the organ in a church choir
to earn a living. Roy was starving
as he walked the streets of New
York City searching for an actors
job.
He got his first part in a play
called Marrying Mary and made an
instantaneous hit. Then came the
road at S35 a week. After that hun
ger again when, broke as all minor
actors were, he had to live through
the long, inactive summer months.
So he wrote a song, Some Little
Bug Will Get You Some Day. 1t
was a ten strike, another step
ahead
He got into musical comedies,
sitting pretty until he became mud
died in his lines at a rehearsal.
That was the accident. I'm ruin
ed" he told himself But they roar
ed at his comical splutterings.
That's your stuff, Roy" they said,
"sputter like that at the right time
and you're made"
He was. But when the great
crash of the theatre came after
the World War, he felt the end of
his rope was reached Starvation
peered forth and grinned at him
again.
A long time later, to Hollywood.
A hit in the movies and on the air.
Everybody after him at any old
price. Name your own salary,
Roy" they begged. He did. He does.
Daily 1 receive letters from men
and women asking if I think there
is hope for them. What answer
can I give after studying the life
stories of the people I write about
in this column?
What answer, except to point out
the many successful men and Wo-
men who experienced during their
struggle days the same trials the
present generation is suffering?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01
WHAT is "COERCION"?
(Wall Street JournaD

(Wall Street JournaD
Soon or later the National Labor Re-
lations board must indicate what consti-
tutes coercion of employees in its eyes.
Since the board has a consistent record
of being upheld in its interpretations
under the act which created it, it is pre-
mature to say that its current banning
of circularizing by an employer of
pamphlet containing among other things,
a copy of a congressman's address is
illegal. The section Of the National La
Dor Act which defines an unfair labor
practice pertaining to such action by an
employer simply says:
at shall be an unfair labor practice
for an employer to interfere WITH re-
strain or coerce employees in the right
guaranteed in section T."
Section Z, in turn, merely defines the
right of employees to self-organization
and to form or join any labor organiza-
ton.
Now if the board can define the ex-
preston Of opinion by an employer, in
his own words or those of others, as in
reference with or coercion of employees
where shall the line be drawn? Is it,
after all, up to the board to make this
distinction? 1t seems that another i'm
portant flaw in the Wagner Act has
come to light in practice in this case a
loose term which Congress in the next
session should clarity if employers are
not to be exclusively deaf mutes
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE
No. TS-2162


ON MONDAY, the 22nd day of
August, 1888, at IL am, SECURI-
TY-FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
LOS ANGELES, as Trustee under
and pursuant to Deed of or Trans
fer in Trust executed by BARBARA
P. ADAMS and LORENZO ADAMS,
her husband, dated May l, 1927
recorded July IL, 1927, in Book 1877,
Page 81, of Official Records in the
office of the Recorder of Imperial
County, California, and securing,
among other obligations, note for
$4,000 dated May l., 1927 in favor
of Equitable Mortgage Company,
and assigned to F.. j. PENDERS,
will sell at public auction to high
est bidder for cash payable in
lawful money of the United States
at time of sale), at the Main en-
trance to the Imperial County
Court House, in the City of Ell
Centro, County of Imperial, State
of California, all right, title, and
interest conveyed to and now held
by it under said Deed or Transfer
Al WIZ PiopCIIy oltudlt Ill tllt SdlO
County and State, described as
Lots Six and Seven C and n
and the Northwest Quarter of
the Southwest Quarter (NWA
OF SWA) of Section Twenty
two (22), Township Sixteen
Q69 South, Range Twelve 12)
East, SBM, containing 86.33
acres, more or less, according
to U. S. Govt. Survey.
Said sale will be made, but with
out covenant or warranty, exI ss
or implied, regarding title, pos5Ss-
sion, or encumbrances, to pay the
entire principal sum of said note,
to-wit, $4,000, with interest from
May l, 1882, at the rate of twelve
per cent per annum, advances, If
any, under the terms of said Deed
or transfer; fees, charges and ex-
penSes OF the Trustee and of trusts
created by said Deed or Transfer.
The beneficiary under said Deed
or transfer, by reason of a breach
or default in the obligations secur-
ed thereby, heretofore executed and
delivered to undersigned q written
Declaration of Default and De-
mand for Sale and written notice
OF default and of election to cause
the undersigned to sell said prop
erty to satisfy said obligations, and
thereafter, on April 81, 1898, the
undersigned caused said notice of
detault and of election to be re-
corded in Book 486 Page S85, of Of
ficial Records in said recorders
office.
Dated July 90, 1898.
SECURITY-F FIRST Ma
TIONAL BANK OF LOS
ANGELES,
as said Trustee.
BY j. VEENHUYZEN,
Vice President
BY A. M. HADLEY,
Assistant Trust Officer.
(Al-8-l5)
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01
Barbs ....

According to a Detroit doctor,
noise is one of the greatest occu-
pational hazards to health. 1t
makes you wonder why congress-
men live to such ripe old ages.
German dentists are making
cavity Filings of artificial silk.
What the world needs is drill
made of il.
The Bureau of Home Economics
has Just issued advice on making
gravy. Would you call this gov
ernment interference with bust
ness?
A Scranton judge has ruled
it's legal to catch fish with your
bare hands. The first thing you
know they'll be letting man
catch butterflies with his feet.
John Barrymore has offered for
sale his old home, together with
its wild animal heads, South Amer
ican Indian skeletons, and totem
poles. He wants to be alone.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT


NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE
APPOINTED FOR PROVING
WILL AND HEARING APPLI-
CATION FOR LETTERS TESLA
MENTARY. ...
In the Superior Court Of the State
of California, In and for the
County Of Imperial
In the Matter of the Estate of
WILLIAM WALDO MONTAGUE,
also known as
w. w. MONTAGUE,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that
petition for probate of the will OF
w. w. MONTAGUE, deceased, and
for the issuance to Francis Pelham
Tempel of letters of administra-
ton with the will annexed, has
been filed in this court, and that
Friday the 5th day of August, 1888
at 10 o'clock AM, of said day, at
the courtroom of said court, at the
Court House in the City OF Ell
Centro, County of Imperial, State
of California, has been set for the
hearing of said petition, when and
where any person interested may
appear and contest the same, and
show cause, if any they have, why
said petition should not be granted.
DATED: July Goth, 1888.
w. J. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY G.. o. KENYON,
.J22-A2 incl. Deputy Clerk
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01
Famous Sayings
Bruce Cation Says
The Law Won't Stick of Its Own Accord

We hatch a great many learned
studies of crime, in this country
which is fair enough, because we
have SO much crime to be studied.
Some of these studies are pro-
found and humorless enough to
win their authors degrees as doc
tors of philosophy, and some of
them are bit lighter and Sketchier;
but practically all of them, if they
are really worth anything, should
begin and end with out failure to
get strict, impartial enforcement of
the laws we have.
Now and then a case bobs up
which illustrate the matter prefect-
ly.
The other day a notorius Ohio
gangster was finally given a life
sentence for murder. He was one
of those typical crooks who have
"a record as long as your arm;
yet the odd thing about his record
was the fact that he had spent
very little time behind the bars
although for IA years he had clear
ly been a dangerous sort of char
acter.
In 1924 he was arrested for violat-
ing the auto law and fined $50 and
sentenced to three months in Jail.
The Jail sentence and $25 of the
fine were Immediately suspended.
The next year he was twice ar
rested for carrying concealed weap-
one. Each time the grand jury re-
fused to vote an indictment.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01

out what made
it tick for this
modest man af-
ter heart break
ing struggles to
reach the top.
His paren t S
were poor and
he never went
beyond the 9th
grade in school.
But today he is
a man of culture
who would stand
out in any cir
Gle. Luck could
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01

In the following year he was again
arrested for carrying concealed
weapons. and once again the grand
Jury refused to indict him.
A little more than a year later
he was arrested on charge of rob-
berry. The case fell through" in
police court and he was freed Later
that year he was fined $50 and
given three months as suspicious
person: the case was appealed, and
and the records fail to show any
further disposition was ever made
of it.
The following year he was brought
in on the same two charges. Once
again the robbery charge collapsed
in police court, and the police pro-
secutor threw out the suspicious
person charge Six months later
he was again arraigned on sus-
picious person charge, and again
the police prosecutor no-papered
the case.
After another year, his city put
another prosecuting attorney into
office. This official dug up those
old concealed weapon charges,
brought the man to trial and sent
him to prison. But he got paroled
by an executive order of the gov
ernor slightly more than two years
later, and went free again-to COM
NIT murder, finally, and start on
the path that now has him headed
for prison for life. H.
That record draws its own if,,Nl.
Here was man who for IA years
was obviously a dangerous criminal,
In one way or another, the law
was too lax to do more than make
a formal notation of the fact. Is it
any wonder that a country which
commonly treats its professional
thugs that Way-has a lot of them?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01
A LITTLE BIT RIGHT

Many Americans will boil over on
reading Of the attack against stupid
Americans" in an Italian newspaper
but it might be we'll to remember that
some American journals have said things
just as unkind about the Italians. Turn
about
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01
DALE
CARNEGIE
Author of 'HOW to Win
Friends and Influence
People

Luck" said Roy Atwell, the ac-
tor, came to me at last or would
have been a failure
Now let's look into this thing
he calls luck and see if we can find
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01
News Behind
the News
Bottle Trust
Tipping Prices
(WlLL He EAT IT?)
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

WASHINGTON. - The bottle"
trust may be the next target in
the series of justic department anti
monopoly prosecutions.
Members of Assistant Attorney
General Thurman ArnJlds staff
have worked up q case alleging
violation Of antitrust laws in the
beverage bottle industry and it will
be alleged, if suit is brought, that
there is lack of competition and
that prices are too high.
There is no assurance Of prose-
cution and the bottle case may be
bottled up Indefinitely, but ac-
ton is probable sooner or later.
The case Of eight major motion
picture companies, against which
suit has just been brought on the
ground of monopolistic practices
which drive independent movie
houses out of business, lay around
in the department several months
after being prepared. 1t was dur
ing that period that Will Hays and
a galaxy of motion picture magnates
visited the White House.
If the big movie men care to
divorce their production -distribu-
ton owenrship from their theatre
ownership and eliminate block
booking, there is little question
that Attorney General Cummings
and Arnold will be glad to call off
the prosecution.
Big, open-faced, smiling Denis
Mulligan, director of the bureau of
air commerce, appears and is just
as Irish as his name implies. When
newspaper reporters rushed to ask
him what he would do about another
Irishman named Douglas Corrigan
who had made a spectacular, unau-
thorized solo flight to Ireland, Null
ligan told them to forget it and
remarked that it was "a great day
in the history of the irish people"
But brave young Corrigan has
given Mulligan and other federal
aeronautics officials cause for Wor-
ry. No end of bright young men are
applying to make equally spectacu-
lar flights, and worse yet, others
are thought to be secretly planning
to emulate Corrigan without asking
permission.
Aside from worrying about the
lives of such daredevils, officials
feat the effects of such fatalities on
commercial aviation. ANY widely
publicized airplane death has a
certain depressing eject on ticket
sales of air passenger lines.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01
thoughts for the Day

Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is
the sabbath of rest holy to the Lord: whosoever
dseth any work in the sabbath day he shall surely
be put to death.-EXodus 3l:l5.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01

They'll Bring You a Profit
Thru Want-Ads!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01

TIME AND TIDE Wait For No Man
And Neither DO POsf-Press
WaGt-Ad Section!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-01

BRINGING
ALL THE NEWS
TO IMPERIAL
VALLEY
Evening star., 1938-02-01

;0LDER by centuries than any known
Egyptian art are the amazing
animal paintings found inside a cave
in Spain one day by young girl in
1879
With her father, Don Marcelino de
Sautuola, she went into the cave to
explore.
Suddenly the little girl cried out
"Toros! Toros!" The startled father
quickly looked up where she was
pointing and saw what she had dis
covered-a procession of beautifully
executed drawings of bison bulls,
leading gracefully across the ceiling
They were the work of some un-
known Middle Stone Age artist of at
least 10000 years ago. whose crude
but beautiful paintings have lasted
longer than the Mona Lisa, the Last
Supper or any other great work of
art known. The colors the artist used
were still we'll preserved when the
little 10th century girl found them.
Such cave art is common oc-
currence and traces have been found
in opposite corners of the world dating
back to various periods. In the Null
larboor plain of Australia, a vast
cavern known as the Gave of the
Bloody Hand" bears the hand i'm
prints of some ancient artist who
traced on the walls by pressing his
palm against 1t and blowing red ochre
over it.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
Twizzler Answer,

The last wife got nothing, but her
husband got $500. The total sum dis
t1h0to6 Was $500.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
Can You Make This ?

nR. WILLIAM WERNER. a young
- physician who for several years
studied abroad, Is recent addition to
New York's growing list of fine players
Aware of the great value of strip play
DR.. Werner has made keen study of
this phase of dummy play. and We
venture to say that his stripping is
as fine as any we have ever encoun-
tered. Here is strip play executed
by DR.. Werner that might easily elude
any player.
South dealer.
North-South vulnerable.
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DR.. Werner.
The bidding:
south. West. North. East.
"a Pass "a Pass
a. Pass "A Pass
Pass Pass
Against four spades West opened
the queen of hearts. DR.. Werner
played low from both hands, and won
the second lead with dummy's ace.
Please note the importance of timing
in DR.. Werner's play of this hand. A
diamond was led from dummy. De-
clarer played the jack and, as expected,
West won the trick While it didn't
matter what West played, third heart
was led. Declarer trumped. cashed
his ace Of diamonds, then drew two
rounds of trumps. landing in dummy
We feel quite confident that the rest
is obvious to our readers. DR.. Werner
led the 10 Of hearts from dummy and,
instead of trumping. discarded the
eight Of clubs. West was "in" and
could not get ''out," as at this stage
declarer held nothing but trumps and
the ace-queen of clubs.
There was no defense against Dr.
Werner's dummy play, as he had
planned the strip and throw-in play
on the first lead.
(Copyrieht. 193s)
=. The Four Aces will be pleased. TO- answer
self addressed envelope is inclosed with
each communication. addressed to the Four
Aces. care The Evening star. II you desire
tem Of contract bridge. send with your re-
e1est ayes TO the Four Aces, care The Evening
larRe-size envelope. and YOU will receive
an outline without any charge.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
Annoyed by Towel Chain.

OKLAHOMA CITY R.-Post-
master Joe Morris wishes housewives
would toss in the towel.
Chain postcards of the Fancy Dish
Towel Club circulating here ask re-
ceivers to send towel to the top
name Of list Of three, add their own
and send three copies to friends.
theoretically, In roll ~ towels.
Evening star., 1938-02-01
Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.

David Burnstine. Mervin d Maier. o.
wald Jacoby. Howard Schenken. world S
leading team of -four. inventors Of the
system that has beaten every other system
in eEistence
The Washington times., 1938-02-09
F. w. BeGle,
U.S.OfficiaI,
Dead Here

Frederick w. Beale, 65, assistant
divisional chief of the Patent OF
flee, died last night while he was
bowling at the Rendezvous Bowl.
ling Alleys, 46o0 block Fourteenth
st. N. w.
Born in Omaha, Neb., Mr.. Beale
was a graduate of the Stevens In
stitute Engineering School in Bos-
ton, Mass. He came to Washing
ton nearly 30 years ago to accept
a Government appointment in the
Patent Office.
Funeral services will be held to-
morrow at 4 p. m. at the S. H.
Hines funeral home. 1901 Four
lteenth St. N. W. The Rev. Reno
F. Harp, jr., pastor Of the Takoma
Park Episcopal Church, will Off
Iciate. Interment will be private.
Surviving is his widow, Mrs
Jeanette Beale; two sons, Edward
Beale of Bellhaven, Va, and Will
liam L. Beale of Chicago, and one
brother, Frank A. Beale Of Wash
linpton.
The Washington times., 1938-02-09
G.. B. Powell Dead;
Business Leader

OTTAWA, Feb. 9.-Charles B.
Powell, 70. prominent Canadian
business man died yesterday. He
was a director Of the Upper Ot-
tawa Improvement Company. and
the Ottawa Fire Insurance Com
pany.
Mr.. Powell was the son Of Col.
Walker Powell. former adjutant
general of the Militia Of Canada.
He came to the United States
to work as a mechanical engineer
with the California Southern
Railroad, now the Atchison, To
peka and Sante Fe, and later be-
came mechanical superintendent of
the Old Colony Railway, now the
New York, New Haven and Hart
ford. Upon his return to Canada
he entered the lumber business.
From 1898 to 1905 he was mem
Der of the Ontario Legislature.