davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1939-06-02

restricting American trade In East
ern Asia.
Il do not think 1t will take long to
show how groundless are the fears,
expressed in some quarters, that
Japan intends to restrict American
opportunities in East Asia" he
stated. THE commercial doors of
China are still open, and--so far as
Japan is concerned-will swing
wider to all interested nations in
the years to come"
The Ambassador said "Japan's S
Evening star., 1939-06-02
May Robson Is Cited
By Movie Institute
BY the Associated Press

BY the ASSOCIated Press.
LOS ANGELES, June 2.-Fifty-
six years of achievement on the
stage and screen won Actress May
Robson citation from the American
Institute Of Cinematography.
Honored at the institutes annual
banquet for outstanding accom-
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plishments during 1888 were Pro-
ducers John w. Considine, jr.; Jack
L. Warner and Gabriel Pascal;
Actor Nelson Eddy, Actress Norma
Shearer and Director Sam Wood.
Evening star., 1939-06-02
China's S Trade Doors Open,
Japanese Envoy Says
BY the Associated Press

by IHe hSSOClHCtu FTeSS.
NEW YORK, June 2-Kensuke
Horinouchi, Japanese Ambassador
to the United States, last night told
1900 diplomatic and commercial
notables at the Japan day dinner
that his country had no intention of
Evening star., 1939-06-02
Glass Wool Is InsuIotor

Glass wool, known as angels
hair" and used for Christmas tree
ornaments, is being produced in
large quantities in Germany for
various insulation purposes.
Evening star., 1939-06-02
Bomb Makes Deep Hole

Dropped by accident from Royal
Air Force plane, a bomb made a
hole As feet wide and 80 feet deep
in a wheat field near Trusthorpe,
England.
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only purpose is to bring a measure
Of stability to her own part of the
world and make it orderly, pro-
gressive and prosperous"
Evening star., 1939-06-02
Five-Mun Board

An Englishman, an Irishman, a
Scotsman, German and Jew
have just been elected members of
the village board in Arlington, South
Africa.
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ade. He and the King are accus.

ade. He and the King are accus-
toned to working hand-in-glove
The pro-Nazi Iron Guard Staying
of Premier Ion Duca in 1888 led to
the formation of Tatarescu's first
government, just as the Iron Guard
bullets which cut down Calinescu
left the way open for his second
An implacable foe of the Guardists,
Tatarescu kept the drivers seat
until overwhelmed by wave OF
anti-Semitism in the 1887 elections
Out of Office. Tatarescu quickly
was appointed to the Crown Coun-
Gil, q body with large but vague
powers. A year ago he went to
Paris as Rumania's first Ambas-
sador. Formerly there had been
only Minister there.
Last June he resigned his am
bassadorial post to re-enter domes-
tic politics.
The French know Tatarescu as
an old friend. He studied in Paris
as a youth. He co-operated with
the French in their sponsorship of
the Little Entente of Rumania,
Yugoslavia and Czecho- -Slovakia in
postwar years.
Neutrality Best Policy.
But Tatarescu, a realist, is con-
vinced at present that neutrality is
the best policy-from Rumania s
own point of view. Almost his first
move as new premier was to revive
trade negotiations with Germany
thereby hoping to keep Rumania
In Adolf Hitler's good graces.
Son Of a general, Tatarescu as a
boy refused to go to a military
school because he wanted to grow
Evening star., 1939-12-14
1atarescu, Rumania S
New Premier, Holds
Dangerous Job
Veteran Leader Faces
Complex Troubles at
Home and Abroad
BY DANIEL DE LUCE,


Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
BUCHAREST, Dec. A.-Take q
poet who believes the sword is
mightier than the pen
A political liberal who prefers
dictatorship to disorder
An admirer of France who also is
anxious, for patriotic reasons, to win
German good will
Wire these paradoXical characters
to a human dynamo, and you have
the new Premier of Rumania, George
Tatarescu.
His is the most dangerous political
Job in the Balkans.
At home, there are difficulties
two Premiers have been assassinated
in the past six years.
Abroad there is more trouble, for
Rumania is almost surrounded by
nations watching for an opportunity
to regain territory they lost one way
or another as result of the World
War.
Yet Tatarescu seems to thrive on
complex troubles. Associates say
that is because he has complex
personality.
The stocky, shock-haired veteran
OF front-line combat-with bullets
or words-stepped into the Premier's
Office November "a, taking .over the
duties which neither Gen. George
Argesanu nor Dr. Constantin Arge-
'Sianu could carry on for long after
the assassination Of Premier Armand
Calinescu in September.
Speech Makes Hit.
With three governments upset in
less then three months, RumanianS
were amazed by Tatarescu's success
in constructing cabinet that repre-
sented almost every shade of politi-
sal opinion from radicalism to re-
action.
Then Tatarescu took to the radio
and, in a semi f1reside chat, prom
ised his countrymen to stick to the
policy of neutrality abroad and a
big army at home; enforcement Of
public order but an end to extra
legal measures by police; speedy re-
moval of allen" Jews, but protec-
ton of the rights of all national
minorities, numbering in all $780,
600 persons.
He told consumers profiteers would
be punished, and he assured indus
trialists the government would help
them prosper.
In closing, he asked the country
to back him in 22-point program
of reforms.
The speech made hit. 1t braced
sagging public confidence. 1t saved
Tatarescu from immediate inter-
ference as he started work on "re-
construction"
Works Well With King.
Probably more than any other
man except King Carol, this So
year-old lawyer has shaped Ru-
mania's destiny in the present dec
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launched the committee on steady
hearings yesterday in testimony
taking that laid the groundwork for
days of hearings to come.
Arthur w. Stuart, agricultural
economist attached to the COM
mittee, testified that Corporation
and other large-scale farming dom
mates California agriculture. He
said 18 farming corporations re-
ported their land and improvements
worth $72, 800, 900 in 1887.
In today's testimony, committee
attaches said, the investigating body
hoped to obtain information about
strike at the Dantoni and New
England orchards of the Earl Fruit
Co. in Yuba County.
MADEIRA and Fresno County Of
ficials, who previously had refused to
furnish records to the committee
appeared at yesterdays hearing and
Fresno officers turned over the re-
quested files. District Attorney
George Mordecai of MADEIRA read g
statement in which he declined to
hand over certain records on the
ground that revelation of the data
would hinder prosecution of GRIM
inal actions now pending.
Earlier, the MADEIRA officers had
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Wurrenton Firemen
ElectOfficers
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WARRENTON, Va, Dec. IA
William G. Bartenstein, who has
served the Warrenton Volunteer Fire
Department as chief since its or
ganization in 1924, was reelected at
the annual meeting.
P. B. Ruffner was reelected as
sistant chief, and w. Alwyn Ash,
captain.
Harry c. Fisher, jr., and Douglas
Fisher, brothers, were elected lieu
tenants; James Fletcher and Carol
Risdon, fire marshals, and the Rev.
Paul D. Bowden, of st. James Epis-
copal Church, was reelected chap
lain.
j. w. Rhodes was reelected presi-
dent, and Paul Sudduth was elected
secretary and treasurer to succeed
Roland Shipe.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
La Toilette Probers
Begin Hearings on
Farm Strikes
Records Furnished
Committee by Officials Of
California Counties
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14.-The
La Toilette Senate Civil Liberties
Committee turned from statistics to
strikes today in its investigation of
California's agricultural industry
and summoned as witnesses various
officials and farm leaders of Yuba
County.
Scores OF c. I. o. pickets were ar
rested in a fruit workers strike last
July in the Yuba County peach
bowl" region of the Sacramento VAL
ley, and a dozen Of the pickets still
were In Jail four months later.
Senator Robert M. La Toilette
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up to be q poet. Eventually he did
write some poetry, but he also
served his country as soldier In
the Balkan and World Wars.
Since then his poetic bent has
been subordinated to politics, though
admirers say it occasionally enters
into his speeches. His pet maxim is
weakness invites war"
He has had one fling as a play
wright, his work being produced
at the National Theater in Buch-
Arrest.
1t was titled when the Storm
Comes"
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Roman Stotue Uneorthed

NYON, Switzerland R.-Work-
men digging an AFRAID shelter at
Nyon on the Lake Of Geneva un-
earthed the head Of a marble statue
Of the Roman Empress Julia
Donna, wife of Septimus Severus,
who ruled about 200 AID. It was
deposited for safekeeping in the
Museum of Nyon, and Swiss arche-
ologists are now experimenting the
digging of bomb shelters in the area.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

GOLDEN WEDDING-Mr. and
Mrs. Harry L. Stroh, 74l5
Alaska avenue NV, who cele-
brated their 50th wedding an
niversary June 10. They were
married at Harrisburg, Pa,
and REMARKED June 10, 1899,
at Fort Benning, Ga, co-inci-
dent with the wedding of
their granddaughter, 1mogene
Stroh, daughter Of Maj. D. A.
Stroh, U. S. A. Mr.. Stroh is a
retired employe Of the Bureau
Of Engraving and Printing.
Harris Ewing Photo.
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obtained an opinion from State At
torney General Earl Warren saying
public records should be made avail
able except In cases in which public
interest would suffer by disclosure.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
No Suntu BIuckout

LONDON tR-"You can't black
out my greeting" is the phrase on
a wartime Christmas card shown
here.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-02
Bruce Cation
In Washington

WASHINGTON. = The United
States Capitol is a confusing place,
iull of little surprises q mean
physically) And Congressman JOS
eph William Martin of Massachu-
setts is getting a lot OF fun out Of
il.
Not that the Capitol is new to
him. He has been in Congress
since 1924 and knows his way
around. But this year, by being
elected minority leader of the
House. he gets a suite of offices
in the Capitol instead of in the
House office building, and he likes
it fine.
Decorated in the gold leaf and
curlicue style of the early U. S.
Grant era, his suite has a Vaulted
ceiling, mural paintings, and pam
eled decorations of old-time packet
boats and the like. He hasn't iden-
titled all the ships yet.
He is tickled because just the
other day he found a concealed
icebox in one corner. 1t was empty
except for water bottle, which
was quite all right because water
is all he ever drinks.
Congressman Martin is calm, pois-
ed and direct in manner, and it
bothers him a little. He says: Its
probably my New England back
ground. I'm a horribly normal per-
son. Never get depressed, never
get thrilled-probably miss a lot
A bachelor, he lived in an apart
ment hotel across from the White
House. His job keeps him so busy
he has no time for exercise and
very little for social life. He reads
in bed a good deal-usually biog-
raphy, practically never fiction.
Back home in North Attleboro
Mass, he owns and publishes a
newspaper. He got a job as cub
reporter while in high school, plan
ming to save money and go to COL
lege; instead, he liked the job Sc
much he stuck with which,
he says, was probably a break
for the colleges and went all the
way to the top.
Until his supply ran out, he was
giving away cigaret lighters, made
in his home town. He had draw
erful, but he didn't keep any. He
never smokes.
Congressman Adolph j. SABBATH
of Illinois, dean of the whole House
of representatives, currently occu.
pies one of its hottest seats 1t was
hot enough to melt his predecessor
eX-Congressman John O'Connor o.
New York, right out of Congress.
This seat is that of chairman ol
the powerful House Rules Com.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-02

mittee. In that post Mr.. O'Connor
got in F.D.R.'s hair and eventually
was purged. Mr.. SABBATH is an ard
ent New Dealer; but although there
is Democratic majority on the
committee, not all of them are New
Deal Democrats and there may be
squalls ahead.
Mr.. SABBATH doesn't look for any
trouble, and thinks the Democrats
mostly will go along" He says:
Il know some of the members
differ with me in their opinions,
but I'm not going to use force on
them Somebody may make trouble
for himself, but 1 don't expect it.
Some of the members may not agree
with the president, but you know
he's got the people with him. They
will realize that"
Not all of Mr. Sabath's New Deal
colleagues share his optimism. The
rules committee, which can viUally
influence pending legislation, may
be worth watching this winter.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-02
You re Telling Me-

Bob Feller, Cleveland pitcher who
set a new record by giving 208 bases
on balls last season, was arrested
again for speeding the other day in
Florida. Apparently the young man
has no more control of his foot than
of his arm.
The man at the next desk asks if
long practice Of the goose step tends
to change men into geese.
With a shortage of doctors, Ger
many has shortened the medical
college course from four years to
two. The idea seems to be more
doctors who know less.
None of the Cubs is a holdout we
understand. Guess they did their
holding out last year during the
world series.
A new model tractor has cigaret
lighter, radio, glove compartment
and rear vision mirror. And the
mortgage.
We are not among those greatly
worried by a threatened strike of
radio comedians. We happen to
have an old copy of Joe Miller's
joke book.
Einstein says the earth is 11,000,-
100000 years old. But with new
wrinkles every day.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-02
THIS TIME THE PEOPLE DON'T
WANT SOMETHING FOR NOTHING

The people of Ell Centre will back up
their CITY councilmen one hundred per
cent in the councils recently announced
policy repudiating long-term contracts
covering municipal power business, we
believe.
Especially is this so because the pol
lev foreshadowed the decision of the
council to purchase power from the
Imperial Irritation District, rather than
from the Nevada Califorgnia Electric
corporation. If the council decided upon
a long-term contract, it would have to
call for bids. The Nev-Cal company
Cal could, in fact, offer to furnish power
to the city for nothing. No clause in
state railroad commission rulings could
prevent it.
The irrigation district, on the other
hand, cannot afford to risk its newly
started municipal system by selling pow
er at less than cost. 1t must, therefore,
make its bid on figure that will render
it some return on investment.
Nev-Cal some time ago offered to sup
ply power to the city at rate of 81,
which barely covers costs. The district
offered to supply power at II. The rate
now being paid by the city under the
Nev-Cal contract which expires Feb.
is IL on part of the load and regular
rates, which are considerably higher than
l2, on the balance of the load.
There is more behind the difference
in rate offers than meets the eye. On
the face of it and from strictly none
tary point of view, the Nev-Cal offer
is tempting. However, the reason for
the low offer made by Nev-Cal is appar-
rent considering the Importance in pres
tige of the city's load. Nev-Cal could
afford to lose money on the city's con-
tract, if it could only retain the business.
The gain in prestige would offset any
loss many times over. By serving power
to the city, private company would
be in the same position the district would
be in if Power Company Official R. P.
Moore, for instance, bought district
power.
The district and the city belong to the
same municipal family, just as Moore
belongs in the private company's busi-
ness family.
If the private company served power
to the city, its agents could argue to
other potential consumers that even the
county seat officials-themselves public
servants-had repudiated the public pow
er system. This is not true, and we be-
lieve it will never be true.
The taxpayers of Ell Centro are also
taxpayers of the irrigation district. 1t
they buy power from the public system,
they take money out of one pocket and
put it back in the other. If they buy from
the private company, even though they
pay less for what they get, they take
money out of their pockets and hand it
over to someone else.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-02
WHY AMLlE AS
COMMISSIONER?
(The San Diego Sum

(The San Diego SUM
Pretending no ability to read Presl-
dent Roosevelt's mind, we can only Won
der why he has nominated Thomas H.
Amlie of Wisconsin as member OF the
interstate commerce commission.
If the idea was to make business more
iittery and more hostile to the New Deal
this nomination may serve that purpose
If If was to invite controversy in the SEN
ate and drive deeper the wedge that
threatens to split the Democratic party,
those purposes also may be served. But.
if the president wanted to strengthen the
ICC and make it more worthy OF public
confidence. he has chosen a strange
method.
Under law, this place had to be given
to a non-Democrat. To that extent, MY.
Amlie is qualified. AS member OF con-
gress. he classified himself as a progress
sive. The Wisconsin Legislature, in adopt
ing resolutions of protest, called hlm
communist 1t is certain that he profes-
ses political and economic views Whlch
Which-as his defeat as candidate Tor
the u. S. senate last would seem to prove
are not shared by most of the voters
of his own state.
He has said that the New Deal and the
old, alike, Qe1rduu lHe peoplc poeduoo
both "are interested in preserving the
existing order; that under the course
we must follow, capitalism cannot be
saved" and "is not worth saving He
advocates government ownership and
operation of transportation facilities,
communications, natural resources, utill-
ties, munitions plants, basic industries
and the banking system.
We do not say that one who holds such
views could not serve acceptably as a
member of the ICC. We do say that un-
less one who holds such views possesses
extraordinary ualifications-unles for
example, he has unusual knowledge of
transportation problems : there is no
good reason why he should become a
member of the ice.
Mr. AmIie is not transportation au-
thority. Beyond his demands for gov
ernment ownership, his record does not
reveal any deep study as understanding
of the railroad question:
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-02

With every passing day, National
Socialist Germany and Socialist
Russia look more and more alike.
To say this is to annoy the partl-
sans OF both. But partiSanS oil
either are by definition pre1udiced.
Let's look at recent developments
with unprejudiced eyes.
In Hitler'S letter to Walther Funk
in which the latter displaced Dr.
Schacht. Hitler directed Funk specl-
fically to transform the RelchSbank
into a German bank of issue un-
conditionally subjected to the SOW
ereignty of the state, in conformity
with National Socialist principles.
And so it is in Russia. So, in fact,
Father Coughlin insists that it be
in the United States.
Next Hitler dissolved the Reich
League of officers, breaking up the
officer caste which was the back
bone of the imperial army, and
making the officer corps simply an
arm OF the NAZI party.
hllQ 81 II ID III Ibuoolct. illClC g
too the army is merely tool of the
single legal party, the Communist.
The advent of Funk is regarded
as certain to mean even more IRON
bound control over foreign trade
by the German government, the
handling of its exports and i'm
ports by single government
agency.
And so it is in Russia.
The spur is being applied to the
German worker in the frantic effort
to keep up the arms pace and still
manufacture goods for export in eX-
change for imports which mean life
itself to the people. No strike OF
other interruption of national prod
uction is tolerated.
And so it is in Russia
The many SimilaritieS apparent
from the start between the two
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-02
Willis Thorntons Editorial On:
Stalin's Lady and Judy O'Hitler

countries, each ruled by a single
party which ruthleSsly crushes all
opposition, increase with every new
move of the German government.
The socialist" side of the Hitler
regime, always part Of the "patter'
with which it was sold to Germany,
comes to the surface more clearly
each day, as bare necessity forces
Hitler to take over profits and as
sumo an iron control over what re-
mains OF private capital.
True, each still speaks a different
theological language; each swears
undying hatred of the other. But
what is important is deeds not
words, and novelist Louis Bromfield
is not the first to see the possibility
Of a future alliance between Ger
many and Russia which could COM
pletely alter the world as amy living
man has known it.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-02

walk, the doctors said.
Her son doomed to a wheel chair
all his life? Never He had to walk!
She began to massage the boys
legs. Then one glorious day he was
able to stand on his feet. She kept
on rubbing his legs and giving him
exercises. A miracle happened!
He could take a few steps he
could walk. Doctors marveled.
The boys legs continued to grow
stronger He actually ran in a
race with some other boys Shortly
after that he won a race! His
mother continued to massage his
legs and to give him exercises.
He entered high school - ana
won AZ medals! He broke the track
SCORING record with a total Ct l57l2
points.
Later this boy who was apparent
" doomed to be an Invalid broke
five records which still stand
They are the high jump; high hur-
dies: pole vault; low hurdles; broad
jump. ~
Last July he went to the athletic
meet in Randalls Island Stadium,
New York. and won the National
Decathlon championship finals,
with the staggering number OF
6,496 points
His name is Joe Scott. He is y
years old and is q sophomore at
Western Reserve University, Cleve-
land. Ohio.
Handicaps are often good for
us. If Joe Scott hadn't had infan-
tile paralysis, I doubt very much
whether he would be training to-
day for the 1910 Olympics in Fin
land.
Back in Elyria lives the mother
whose courage and spirit and de-
termination has helped make Joe
the amazing athlete he is. I salute
her.
Alexander Woollcott is unqueS-
tionably Americas premier spinner
of tales. There is no one else IN
America-With the possible eXcep-
ton of Franklin d. Roosevelt -
who can cast such spell over a
radio audience. He has manner
a radio personality, voice, an
ability to weave words and emotions
into a magic tapestry that trans
ports his listeners in fairyland
Yet when WoOllcott made his
radio debut, he was not at all sure
that he would click on the air
The morning after his first broad
cast, he edged into the office OF
Alfred j. McCosker. president OF
Station WOR and meekly in
quired: "Was I terrible last night?'
night?"
Alexander Woollcott is never
satisfied with what he has done
he is always questioning, always
seeking to improve. rewriting his
material, working over it until il
glows with perfection. When 6
man is satisfied with what he ha,
done, deterioration sets in; for We
are never at a standstill we arf
continually changing, for better OF
for worse.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-02
THE ELECTIONS OVER :.
NOW FOR BUSINESS

Now that the heat of the political
campaign is over and officials OF the I'M
nerieI irrigation District need no longer
olive concern to touchy political subjects,
bond refunding and drainage become the
first order of business.
Congratulations are due the winners;
but they should have more than coopera-
ton. They are representatives OF the
people, duly elected. As such they de-
serve the unstinting support of the COM
nunity in anv constructive program
tbev work out. SO. now for business.