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Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04
News Behind
the News
Labor Spies
Can't Spot EN- :.

WASHINGTON-The BaFollette
committee, through which labor
spies have been introduced to the
public for the first time, dug up
a couple the other day and put
them on the stand.
Scanning the committee room
crowd, you can't spot spies from
the rest. You exempt Mrs. LaF'ol-
lette and other women, since steel
spies are men. Also Vice-president
C. NJ. White, of Republic Steel,
who chews gum, and his retinue,
and a score of newSpapermen and
photographers and others you
know.
Chairman LaFollette, whiteclad,
sunburned. bespectacled and wear
ing in lapel the circled cross en-
blem of the new LaFollette politi-
cal party (does anyone remember
the namely. looks over the crowd.
Then he calls Harold F. Vargo,
who promptly admits such aliases
as Ira Albert and Richard Brooks.
Vargo is a tall, slim, darty-eyed
young fellow probably in his late
twenties. His hair is plastered back,
and he wears a pencil-striped blue
suit, fancy-figure blue shirt and
white wash tie.
Yes, indeed, he was employed at
the Republic plant in youngstown
in 1936-37 as Ira Albert, joined
the union and organized workers.
The boys elected him financial
secretary and he kept track of all
records and dues for a lodge of
1900 to 1900 members.
LaFollette calls other leaders of
the union lodge Charlie Fagan,
boyishfa Swarthy IriShman
who was fired before the strike,
and Ed Valesky, soft-voiced, wavy-
haired Pole, once a steel inspector,
and others. Yes, rumors had come
that someone was turning in"
names of new union members, who
were being fired in different parts
of the plant. Albert alone had the
names of duespayers. Albert, with
out suffering, spent much time
away from work at meetings, at
union headquarters.
Albert would say, referring to
Republic cops, lets go up and
clean 'em out" Explained Pagan:
"A good union man never says
that . We took steps to elimin-
ate this gentleman"
Suddenly LaFollette pops an af-
fidavit from the lady with whom
Vargo previously lived in Buffalo.
They were getting along very
well" when Vargo became discon-
tented with $25 a week, became a
Republic guard and went to Young
town. That's what I told her"
snorted Vargo, denying Republic
employment in Buffalo, but admit
ting under questioning he had gone
to drive a cab during a Cleveland
taxi strike.
Without warning, LaFollette de-
manded to know all strikebreaking
and undercover jobs on which Var
go had worked. Vargo, dropping a
pose of innocence, revealed a series.
Burly Chief Jim Williams of Re-
public police had sent him to
youngstown. ct had been "out
on the grapevine that Jim Williams
could use a few men.') Republic
Police Captain Earl Butler gave
him a gun and told him to keep
his eyes open"
The story Of Vargo ended as
Valesky, after asserting the man
had tried to get himself and two
others to chip in for bomb ex-
penses, told how the group had
been arrested and beaten up at
the police station with the excep-
ton of Albert" Vargo said the
victims got what was coming to
them.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04
Photographs

Family relations experts claim
that marriages based on co-opera-
tive partnership are more apt
to succeed than those in which the
man or woman dominates.
1t is said that when Charles
Dickens first read his story, "The
Chimes, to friends, he wept so
hard that he was unable to con-
tinue.
The first air conditioning unit
installed in the United States, a
cooler for Chicago hotel, still is
functioning.
The vast Katmai and Glacier
Bay national monuments, both in
Alaska, total more than 3,862,OOO
acres.
The surface of Crater lake, Ore
gon, is cupped within the crater of
an extinct volcano.
Bingham, Utah, is the worlds
narrowest town. 1t is so feet wide
and two miles long.
The harebell flower of Washing
ton draws minerals from solid
stone.
Ancient Rome had several 10
story apartment houses.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04

one of the big features of the
coming Worlds Fair in New York
is to be an exhibit called "The
World of Tomorrow Here the
eager citizen will be able to lift
the veil of the future and have
a gander at his land as it may
look when all the troubles and i'm
projections of tho present day
have been Strengthened out.
Probably it will be very popu-
lar. In a land which supports un-
counted fortune tellers, astrologers
and other seers, a full-dress glimpse
into tomorrow's' world ought to do
a landoffice business.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04
HAPPY Relief
FROM PAINFUL
BACkACHE

Many of those gnawing, nagging, painful
backaches people blame ON colds or strains
are often caused by tired kidneys-and may
be relieved when treated in the right way.
The kidneys are Natures chief way of taking
excess acids and poisonous waste out Of the
blood. Most people pass about pints day or
about pounds of waste.
Frequent or scanty passages with smarting
and burning shows there may be something
wrong with your kidneys or bladder.
II the IS miles of kidney tubes and filters
don't work well, poisonous waste matter stays
In the blood. These poisons may start nagging
backaches, rheumatic pains, loss of pep and
energy getting up nights, swelling, puffiness
under the eyes, headaches and dizziness.
Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doans
Pills, used successfully by millions for over 40
years. They give happy relief and will help tho
l5 miles of kidney tubes fluAh out poisonous
waste from the blood. Get DVan's Pills.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04

went into busi-
ness seven years
ago with the de-
preston in full
swing.
Mrs. N ELI e
Speer was a choir
singer in st. Au-
gustine, Florida,
and didn't know
much more about
business than an
Eskimo knows a
bout hot baths.
Her husband
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04

died and she followed her two
married children who had gone
Nawth" to New York City.
Thousands upon thousands OF
people were out of work. Ragged
and tattered men stood on the
street waiting to get free cup
of coffee
Mrs. Speer, missing the friendly
atmosphere of old St. Augustine,
wanted to keep busy.
One day she went into deli
catessen to get lunch and saw on
the counter a flabby, moth h-eaten
looking pie. Right then and there,
as she sat perched on a high
stool, an idea was born. She could
bake better pies than this ancient
relic.
She approached the proprietor.
Would you like to have some
good home baked pies to sell?'
she asked
why, lady, I don't think I could
sell 'em. I don't ever sell more'n
a couple of pies a day"
eff you had some real good,
home baked pies, don't you think
you could sell them?'
"Well-maybe. If you want to
bring around a couple I'll try EN-
out
Mrs. Speer floated home. The
next afternoon found her eagerly
entering the store to learn wheth-
er they would open a can of peach
es for dinner or whether her family
would be generously provided with
lemon pie. The peaches won. The
proprietor met her with a smile as
big as pie.
Bring me four tomorrow morn
ing" he said.
Next Mrs. Speer called on Will
liam Meyer, the proprietor of a
cold drink stand on Roosevelt Ave
nue..
No use" ne discouraged her. I
don't sell much of that sort of
stuff
Finally he agreed to try out her
pies if she would take back what
he couldn't sell. Mrs. Speer had
faith in her pies.
After baking in her apartment
for two years, she approached a
real estate dealer about a bake
shop.
Again she met encouragement.
The well-Wishing man warned her
that the shop she had selected was
not in a good location; on a side
street, and nine other bakeShops in
the neighborhood-too much COM
petition.
do you really think I have any
competition in good home-baked
pies and cakes?" she queried.
The dealer reflected silently for
a moment, then made out a lease.
Today four bakers in Nellie
Speer's Kitchen" on 33rd street,
Jackson Heights, turn out five
thousand pies a year in addition
TO cakes, cookies and bread. And
Mr.. Meyer, still a customer, has
a restaurant where his soft drink
stand once stood.
asked Mrs. Speer what was
the leading factor in her success,
and she said: Il just saw a need
and met it."
Look around you. There are needs
everywhere. Meet one of them and
success will follow as day follows
night
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04

From Europe comes news, for
instance, of new kind of de-
molition bomb, which is being
dropped on divers Spanish towns
with great success. 1t has a long
spike at its nose; when it hits
the ground it hits spike-first, and
explodes before it gets below the
surface of the earth. AS q result,
instead of making a big hole in
the ground it blows down every
house, tree, fence and human being
within a wide radius, and so is
far more destructive than the old
type of bomb.
Now when you stop to think
that every great nation on earth
will presently be equipping itself
with such bombs in carload lots,
that planes to carry them farther
and faster than ever before are
coming off the production lines in
dizzying numbers, and that the
will to use the things is steadily
mounting, you can see that this
race of ours might very well keep
its fingers crossed when it does
any looking to the future.
The plain fact of the matter is
that our path to the future is
darkly clouded by our own folly.
We can make a very glittering
and fancy world for ourselves in
a comparatively short time, if we
can just manage to keep from
annihilating ourselves while we
are doing it; but we seem to be
developing our destructive in
stincts faster that our constructive
instincts, and if we once start
turning those spike-nosed bombs
loose in real earnest this world
of tomorrow" is not going to be
anything anyone would pay good
money to have look at.
There is not really any need
to be too pessimistic-fo the rem
edy, after all, lies in our own
hands. But there is a great deal
of need to look all of the facts
in the face, and to admit that to-
morrow's world is apt to be a sorry
place unless we really get down
to the job of intelligently planning
for it.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04
SIS Reward

viii be paid by the manufacturer
for any Corn GREAT CHRISTIE.
PHER POSITIVE Corn Cure can,
not remove. Also removes WartI
and Callouses. 35c at Clements
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04

Now that Sinclair Lewis has
taken a brief flier at acting,
friends look for biting satire
on the American theater along
about next week.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04
DALE
CARNEGIE
Author of How to Win
Friends and Influence
People

Do you feel that the depression
has robbed you of your chance
for success? 1t hasn't if you will
only sense a need and meet it.
Read this story of a woman who
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04
Goinss. Comlnss
Of Centrans

Mrs. Earle G. Davis was in the
valley for a few days from Oakwilde
where she has been spending the
summer. She and Mr.. Davis plan
to leave this week for Yellowstone
and the Snake river country OF
Idaho where they plan to do some
fishing. They will be joined for
the outing by Mrs. Davis sister and
husband, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Doble
of San Francisco. Davis will attend
the convention of the Equitable
Life Insurance company at VAN
couver, B. C. the middle of August
and Mrs. Davis will return with her
sister for fortnight in San Fran
cisco.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira G. King, 460
Len Rey, have as their houseguests
Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Davis and son,
Robert, who are visiting in FL Gen.
tro from Indiana.
Mrs. Earl C. Barnard is in San
Diego for a few days.
Mrs. H. o. Adkins and son, JIM
mie, left early in August for Ocean
Beach, where they will be until
the opening of school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Morgan,
Mildred, Jack and Sammy plan
to leave this weekend Tor a two
weeks vacation in northern Cali
fornia. They will visit in San Fran
cisco, Oakland and Bakersfield.
Senator Edward H. Law and Ma
Law, Laura Bell, and 10 John left
Thursday for Bishop where they
plan to spend their vacation where
Law may get some fishing. They
will also visit the several National
parks before returning to the valley
early in September.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04
You re Telling Ne -
BY WILLIAM RIFT
The COrrigau Influence?

NOTE: Since young Douglas
Corrigan made that transatlantic
flight in a 1929 model air jaloppy
we may expect to find news items
and want ads like these almost
any day now
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. = Scorch-
ing into the lead on the last lap,
Uncle Abe Applebutter, 83, today
won the annual 500-mile speed
classic. Uncle Abe rode a 1903
model Excelsior bicycle.
AVIATORS-Are You Planning
a Transcontinental Trip? Play safe
and take along one of our NAM
mas Little Helper Kits, complete
with full assortment of safety pins,
rubber bands and roll of adhesive
tape.
LONDON, England, = Exclusive
yachting circles here today were
agog with the news that the
schooner Hesperus, wrecked over
100 years ago, would be raised and
refitted. 1t is believed she is to
be entered in the next America S
cup races.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-In order
to speed up transcontinental mail
service, plans are being formulated
here for the revival of the pony
express. Second-class matter is to
go by stage coach.
BE UP-TO-DATE! Drive one of
our two-nag streamlined buggies.
Also complete line of dog and
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04
Famous Sayings
Bruce Cation Says
= Freedom: A Privilege Bought with BIunders

Yet this is a CLANCY time for the
human race to be indulging in
prophecies. For while it is quite
true that tomorrow's world ought
to be a fine and dazzling place,
what with all the inventions, plans
and gadgets which are going to
be available, it looks more and
more like an open question whether
the race is going to get down to
tomorrow in any kind of shape to
enjoy these marvels.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04

BE UP-TO-DATE! Drive one of
our tWo-nag streamlined buggies.
Also complete line of dog and
pony carts. Speedo Surrey COM
pany.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04
Thoughts for the Day

Blessed be the name of God forever and ever: for
wisdom and might His-Daniel 2:20.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04

A professor at Tulane University
always takes his dog to classes
with him. 1t seems the dogs snor-
ing keeps the students awake.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04
Barbs --

New England coast dwellers report
a Seven-foot monster lurking Just
off-shore. Maybe it's a foreign pug
on the comeback trail.
George Bernard Shaw says he
wishes people would forget his
birthday. He should have been
born a wife.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04

BRINGING
ALL THE NEWS
TO IMPERIAL
VALLEY
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04

Mrs. Earl C. Barnard is in San
Diego for a few days.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-04

Mrs. H. o. Adkins and son, JIM
mie, left early in August for Ocean
Beach, where they will be until
the opening of school.
The Washington times., 1938-02-23
FLOOD WATERS
IMPERIL 7 0 " NJ
IN ARKANSAS

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Feb. as
U.N,S0.-Pounding through levees
along the swollen Red River, flood
waters today threatened to engulf
the small town Of Fulton in the
southwestern part of the State.
With several Of the Mississippi
tributaries over their banks, the
greatest danger to life and prop
|erty shifted today from, the White
and Little Red rivers in the north
ern part Of the State to the south
western tip.
Two Negro children were,
drowned there yesterday when
they fell from o rescue boat tax
ing them from their inundated
home. Overworked Red Cross and
volunteer boat patrols rescued
scores from their narooned homes
or tree tops in the stricken area.
Government engineers expected
the next two days to decide
whether a major flood disaster
would result from the heavy rains.
With no further fall. they hoped
the rivers would drain off before
much greater damage Is done.
The White River was already
falling upstream but still on the
rise lower down as the saturated
fields poured water into the
valley,
The Washington times., 1938-02-23

free press Of the democracies.
He has not yet discovered that
free speech is the only practical
antidote for false rumors. If he
permitted free news gathering
in Germany. he would find that
truth survives false rumors and
misrepresentation. He could
profit hy the experience of the
Russians, whose militant censor
ship likewise breeds misrepre-
sentatfons. Nations with free
speech have no such troubles.
THE endorsement which Sen
l. ate Leader Dear Alben"
Barkley received from the PreSi-
dent was strong enough, but ap-
parently Mr.. Barkley is taking
no chances. He has been spend
ing his week-ends lately in Ken
lucky. 1t is an expensive pre-
caution which indicates the pre-
seriousness Of the situation.
A MBASSADOR Joe Kennedy
"A called on Vice President
Garner before leaving. and said
goodbye as lone good no-man
to another" They have been re-
garded in inner circles as the
don't-do-it$counselorS.
CHARPEARED eco nomists
~ thought they had heard Mr..
Roosevelt's price statement
(the one prepared by his eco
nomists) somewhere before.
They looked up the testimony
Of Federal Reserve Chairman
Eccles before the Senate Bank
ing Committee and found much
Of the same phraseology.
However, no one has picked
up any words from Mr.. Eccles'
recent speech telling how the ex-
penditure of a billion dollars
might cure the depression.
The Washington times., 1938-02-23
Japan Builds Ships
For Trade in u. S.

Los ANGELES, Feb. 2S-Osaka
Shosen Kaisha has II fast motor.
ships, including two silk express
boats for the Japan.Los Angeles
New York run, under construction
in Japan, according to reliable re.
ports here.
Despite delays caused by the
war in China, it is expected that
the silk ships will be commits.
stoned this year to replace Osaka
Kanto Maru and KanSai Maru in
the New York run. The latter
are likely to 60 on the South
American run.
The Washington times., 1938-02-23
Lecture Policy
> Wallace Sending
Aides to School

Secretary of Agriculture wal
lace, depicted by some AdminiStra-
ton critics as the farm fuehrer, -
is sending department employees to
lecture courses on Democracy"
Representative Cochran Cd, Of
Missouri, inserted in the Congress
sional Record a letter in which
Wallace asserted the employees
were going to school Ito assure as
far as possible in the discharge
of their duties a democratic. CO.
operative attitude"
Wallace said the lectures were
held half on Government and half
on employees time, the lecturers be-
ing given honorariums out Of fees
paid by the employees.
The Washington times., 1938-02-23
LGwes Lays
Crimes to
IdIeneSS

OSSINING, N. Y, Feb. 2S
GN.s).-Bad times bring idleness
and idleness makes good men bad.
That was the opinion today Of
Warden Lewis e. Lawes. of Sing
Sing prison who has studied crime
conditions for as years.
Asserting that the, proportion of
first offenders is increasing, Lawes
reported there are always more
first offenders in bad times than
in good"
Next to idleness he ranks liquor
and immortality as crime causes.
The Washington times., 1938-02-23

stored through democratic CO.
operation, Mr.. Chamberlain de-
eided to try for it in Europe by
understandings with the dicta-
tors.
That was where Mr.. Eden and
Mr.. Chamberlain parted com.
pany.
The Washington times., 1938-02-23
HONORARY DOCTORATEs

Three hundred and thirty-five
graduates were awarded degrees
during the ceremonies in ConSti-
tuition Hall. three honorary doc.
torateS were conferred and the
Districts first Phi Beta Kappa
chapter was installed at the uni
VerSity.
The Washington times., 1938-02-23
.335 GRADUATES
GIVEN DEGREES
IN C. ". U. RITES

Greater development of the
"aristocracy of learning" will
bring about the salvation of de.
mocracy.
This was the contention yester-
day Of DR.. Theodore Henley Jack,
pre- 81 d ent Of Randolph.Macon
Women'S College, who addressed
the winter convoeatIon Of George
Washington University, tradition
ally held on the birthday Of the
first President.
The Washington times., 1938-02-23

Within the past 30 days, the
The Washington times., 1938-02-23

"I've never been very fussy about
cigarettes myself. Do you think
that CameIs are really as differ.
ent as some people say, Bille"
The Washington times., 1938-02-23
LEADERSHIP LOST i.
BY .DEMOCRACIES
NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS
BY PAUL MALLoN

CwOd All rights
in fun in
ID EHIND the Eden Chamberlain quarrel the road to
- peace inside story of the failure of grand stroke
for world leadership by the democraces 1t failed before
it started-pubcy because the United States did not
undertake partcuarly that strong mouthpece of the
United States, the Senate
The Washington times., 1938-02-23

e o ur sc of
world diplo-
matte plans
h as be e n
turned around
c o m pletely.
U. S. foreign
p oil icy has
been definite
ly linn tied.
oI lbkSu I0f~
eign Icy
has been re-
VerSed.
Instead Of
trying to get
peace conf
A~ aM 80
The Washington times., 1938-02-23

A QUICK KISS FROM MARTA (Mrs. Daly) and
Bill is off catch the 7:ss Soon he'll be under the
nervous pressure of long day tackling customers
and prospects. The Days agree about most things.
Among them, Camels Mrs. DAILY smoked them FIRST,
soon noticed difference. "Now we find that Camels
agree better with both of U.S." she says.
The Washington times., 1938-02-23

THE WASHINGTON TTMEs.sTATION
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murder mystery in The Washington
Times for complete details ON how
to win valuable prizes follow The Times
daily -. Call RE. 1894 for Home De-
The Washington times., 1938-02-23

...Wl1en n. w. DAILY, rayon salesman,
says ayes, canels are really different"
millions OF other steady smokers back
him up. And that explains why Camels
are preferred by the largest body of
smokers ever known.
The Washington times., 1938-02-23

~HAJs
TFTERE is no indication the
l. plan that failed was a def
mite written idea, or in fact,
anything more than a British
hope. AS near as can be judged
here now, it encompassed the
idea Of carrying parallel ac-
tion" forward to warn the dictar
tors with their own weapons.
From the British standpoint it
seems to have carried hopes Of
establishing a peace agreement
by summer in the Far East,
another in Europe, clearing of
the economic atmosphere by
trade agreements supplemental
to the forthcoming Anglo
American trade pact, with an
understanding on debts.
Adverse U. s. reaction to the
vague thought Of such pros
poets seemed tc have convinced
the British cabinet, or at least
Mr.. Chamberlain, it would be
impossible to travel further
down that road.
The new British policy, as
conceived by Chamberlain, is
interpreted here as an effort to
drive the old wedge between
Germany and Italy. It con-
templates dealing with the U. S.
separately and only on matters
affecting these two nations.
LEW authorities here believe
= Chamberlain will reestablish
world peace prospects, at least
not until Hitler has taken
Czechoslovakia in his Austrian
stride. until MusSolini has con-
quered Spain, until Japan has
established her gains in China.
That may be a long time. Mean
while, odds favor continuance of
the status quo. s+lf4 ve%
VAGUE rumors of q policy
v break between Mr.. Roose-
velt and Jim Farley have been
afloat since the President de-
clined to follow General Far
ley's edict on non-participation
In the congressional primaries.
These rumors may now be de-
MED authoritatively. Farley, in
stead, has broken with himself.
The edict Of January ~ an
nouncing his Democratic ma
ti0nal committee would "deny
to no man the right to aspire to
office" and "has absolutely no
concern, with, or in primary or
convention struggles for these
nominations" apparently has
been modified by q letter he
wrote February IS to Congress
woman Jenckes of Indiana. Mrs.
Jenckes gave it out February II
with her own letter to the cit
liens Of the Sixth congressional
district of Indiana, announcing
her candidacy for reelection.
Farley went far beyond the
Roosevelt technique Of indors-
ing Senators without mention
ing their candidates.. The Dem
ocratic national chairman said
flatly in his Endorsement that
Mrs. JenkeS has "a lot Of friends
among high officials of the Gov
eminent who are happy to sup
port you for the benefit Of the
Sixth Congressional district Of
Indiana"
The Washington times., 1938-02-23
URGES ENTRY LIMITS

DR.. Jack, who was one of those
awarded an honorary doctorate,
that Of Lift. D., said colleges
should restrict the number admit
ted to its privileges. He admitted
this might be labeled undemo-
cratic or aristocratic, but con-
tended the wise leadership on the
part Of the "few best qualified"
would best save democracy.