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Moose Pass miner., 1939-09-22
FOUR MURDERS IN MINING
 CAMP HORRIFY ALL ALASKA

FBI men inves estigating the violent deaths of woman and three men at a min ing camp on Willow creek, not giving out anything about it if they have learn ed anything. fg.v-
 The dead are Mir. and Mrs. F.W.Jenkins, Dick Francis and Joy Britte1l. District Att orney J.V.Kehoe of Seward has made personal inve igation at the scene of the crime. It Is believed that the mur- ders occurred Sept ember 10.
 The bodies of Jenkins and Brittell were found covered with blan4let half-mi1e from the cabin of Francis. The body of Mrs. Jenkins, which bore marks tending to show that she had been beaten to death, was found a mile and half from her cab in. The heads of Jenkins and Brittel1 had been cru shed and their threats cut. Mr. Francis was found dead in his cabin. He had been shot twice.
 The Seward Gateway says: Tt is mat ter of knowl edge that the Jenkins and Francis claims had been in litigation and that trouble between the two had ragged over period of years, both in and out of courts. Water rights and dumping of teilings were factors that had kept up the feud."
 Fifty-four ounces of gold were found in the Jenkins cabin where he lived with Britte1l. The latter, young man, brother of Miss Agnes Brittell, teacher at Squow Harbor.
 News of much interest and very gratify- ing to this section Is that Norman c. Stinee of San Francisco original organizer of holdings now operated by the United States Smelling Company at Fairbanks and proven properties at Nome, has taken option on the Hubbard and og1e ground which embraces around 1900 acres between Copper Greek and Russian river. Prospecting in the form of drilling will begin immediately.
 The winter schedule of the Alaska Steam ship company has gone into effect. From now on until March 27 two passenger ves- sells will alternate sailings each Satur- day for southeastern end western points, with a freighter to sail once monthly.
 The two winter ships will be the Alaska and the Yukon, to alternate each other, beginning Oct ober ?. The Mount Mckinley will replace the Alaska December while the Alaska goes into dry dock. hen the leska is again in comni ssion the Yukon will be taken to dry dock.
 The ss Baranof has been chartered for 71-day cruise around South America,to
Moose Pass miner., 1939-09-22
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF

monst CT battle with England and France the we tern front Russia was advancing on Warsaw Friday but Poland continues val = iantly to fight. Radio broadcast from Warsaw said: "Po1i sh troops advance ed over two miles in the VIC stern sector. In a fierce bayonet charge infantry units have retaken completely the suburbs of Araga and Wo1a, capturing many pri soners, three machine guns of the heavy type and seven light machine guns.
 Soviet Russia and Japan are said to have declared an armi stice in their unde- c1ared war in Manchoukuo and on the Mon go1ian border. Germany has been trying to effect reconciliation between Moscow and Tokyo since the signing of the German Soviet non-aggre sion pact on August 24.
 The anticipate ed tie-up of coast ports when present working agreements expire September 30 seems to have been averted. Union long sho horemen and waterfront emp1 oy- CTS, breaking months of impasse, reached an agreement to re sume negotiati ons and to keep the old cont ract in force unt il a new one s signed, or negotiations dead locked.
 Exclusive of Navy and Marine Corps for ces, the U.S.Arny and Air Corps now have
 
 The owners of the ss Athenia, which was torpedoed by German submarine, announce that 128 passengers are missing or dead.
 The us. gove rnment has in operation and ordered 3o33 Army planes and 25oo Navy planes. Congress has allowed the Army $12O, ,ooo, 1000 to purchase more planes to limit of 5000.
 The U.S.Navy has awarded contract es- timet ed at SIP ,o7o,3 for the construct ion of the Kodiak Island and Sitka naval bases. .#
 Mrs. Minnie De Back, al1egedly injured while travelling on the Alaska railroad in 1881, was awarded $lo,213 judgment against the us. government, by Federal Judge St. Sure in San Francisco.
 Due to the fact that Canada hes ente the war, Alaska pilots have been notified that they cannot fly over Canada without special permi ssion.
 The University of Alaska has an enroll ment of exactly POI students this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04
IT CERTAINLY CAN
HAPPEN HERE
(Wall Street JournaD

California, state which is again
shortly to face vital test of the sound
ness of its economic thinking has, by
almost any calculation, upwards of a
million citizens who never have quail
fled themselves by registration to vote
or who negligently have let past regis
trations lapse.
The number is probably greater than
the total number whose names appeared
on the S30-Thursday pension election
petitions. And the great misfortune is
that out of this vast number of indif-
ferent and procrastinating persons, APP
parently by far the greater part are in
dividuals whose ideas and hopes are es-
sentially sane. If there be doubt on that
score the experience of certain San
Francisco employer, head of an old mer-
camille house, may be revealing.
Concerned over political matters, that
employer one morning not so long ago
called 20 of the most trusted members
of his staff to his office one by one, and
asked a simple question: Are you reg
istered to vote" The replies astonished
and perpleXed the interrogation. Only
two were registered, the rest shame
facedly admitting deficiency.
There is now rapidly organizing in
California citizens movement designed
to make sure that delusiOn and fanati-
cism do not pull its ears. The organizers
are certain that if they can induce po-
tential voters to register and go to the
polls next November, that danger can
be averted readily enough So they pro
pose to concentrate in the next few
weeks OH registratiOn
This publication does not believe that
there are many of its readers who are
not registered voters, but it knows that
there great many who have definite
influence over large numbers of persons
who should be registered. If they would
do themselves, their commonwealth and
the cause of sound economics the best
possible service, they have only to exer-
else that influence in the direction the
citizens committees indicate.
Not to do SO will be to exhibit cal
lous indifference to the economic fu-
ture auguring i'll for the Pacific Coast.
For without an expression next Novem-
Der from sane thinkers proportionate
to that certain to be delivered by the be-
levers in and graspers for Utopia, it
certainly can happen here.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04
IT'S ANOTHER EXPERIMENT

The New Deal has experimental long
enough. Now congress is going to try it,
A coalition of Republicans and con-
servative Democrats has in rapid order
killed the New Deals lending BILL its
appropriation bill for loans to sustain
agricultural prices, and its bill to dou-
bic housing act appropriations. Each
was an important New Deal measure
Each, the New Deal said, was necessary
to restore recovery.
The New Deal has experimental for
six years, seeking way to restore pros
perity. Now congress, mindful of those
six years Of failure, evidently is deter
mined to experiment with the idea that
prosperity may be had by turning down
the New Deal experiments. Maybe they
We got something there.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

WASHINGTON. - Ine private
opinion of WPA officials here is
that the abortive prevailing-wage
strike was just about the worst
thing that could possibly have been
served to the ordinary man on re-
lief.
AS they see it, it discredited-
for the time being, at least-any
and all protests against the new
WPA law by recipients OF relief
Coming when and how it did, and
failing as it did, it not only re-
moved all chance of getting the
prevailing wage change amended
it made it extremely hard for re-
lief clients to get hearing on any
other protest. And the clients are
goinng to find good reason to pro-
test in the near future.
But the end of this month, some
100000 will have been laid off
under the provision that 30-day
payless furloughs must be given
all who have been on the rolls for
18 months or more. An additional
350,000 will be dropped during Au-
gust. And on the first of Septem-
ber, the majority of all WPA work.
ers will get wage cut under
the provision which bars wage diff
erentials between different sections
of the country.
The WPA administration itself
doesn't like this a bit, and while it
wants some more flexible system
than the straight l8-months rule
provided by Congress.
1t doubtless wouldn't have been
sorry to see the relief people dra-
enatize thair resentment against
these rules SO effectively as to
induce Congress to change its mind.
But it doesn't see a chance of
that happening now. 1t figures
the privailing wage strike fiasco
has confirmed Congress in a hos
tile frame of mind. And it does
expect some real trouble when the
wage cuts come.
Some of the country's most &C
complished drop-of -the-hat ribbers
are members OF Congress One of
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

In August, 1914, when war burst
cI an unaccustomed world, Amer
ica scarcely believed the news from
Europe. 1t was all so remote, SO
unreal. The newspapers spread their
daily revelations like scenes in a
hectic drama, and the first days
of the World War unfolded like
a play before a facinated American
audience.
We have had a lot of educa-
ton since then. First, the world
is changed, changed utterly from
that pre-war world in international
dealings as in personal affairs,
Many people actually believed that
a great nation which had solemnly
pledged its word to respect the
neutrality of "a small neighbor
would do so, even to its disadvan-
tage.
We know better now. The war
which began 25 years ago, and all
the dealings since, have established
the new international morality,
that a nation does what its leaders
conceive to be a good idea at the
time, and every man now shares
the astonishment of old Bethmann-
Hollweg that nation should in
sist on the validity of "a scrap of
paper" Even Britain, which chose
SO to regard the guarantee of Bel
GUM, is now revealed as less me-
ticulous about Nine-Power Pacts
il the Pacific.
The United States knows now
that when Europe brews war-broth
it may well serve it piping hot at
any time. We are serious about
the European situation today, we
study it as we never did in 1914,
for we know that no stupidity,
no blunder, no irresponsible and
headlong course is too mad to be
unthinkable in Europe.
That is why people incline to
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04
Willis Thorntons Editorial on:
A Thin Straw on WhirIinq Waters

listen carefully when they learn
of the New Federal Unionists, a
group now forming to seek to ad-
vance the plan of a world-Yide
federation of democratic natibns
1t is a thin. small straw on the
whirling waters of the world to-
Gay, but many will grasp at 1t
with the desperation of the drown
ing, for today we know what we
did not know in l9l4-the waters
are deep and treacherous.
The idea would be to unite free
nations in a union bound together
by guaranteed civil liberties, mo-
bile and united defense, stable
money, and immense free trade
area, and facile commerce and COM
munications. Such coalition
would be so powerful economically
and defensively, that it is felt
others would wish to enter the
union, which they would be well.
come to do on meeting the condi-
tions
Perhaps it is a somewhat filmy
dream, but it is to the credit
of the world that people are still
left in it who will not resign it
to a dog -eat-dog future that can
result in nothing but new Dark
Ages.
How far this movement will get
no one can say. But it is launched
at a time when thoughts turn ma
turally back to August, 1914, and
review in sadness the results OF
the era launched in those dread
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04
MARTIAL LAW AT
GREEN VALLEY DAM

Is declaration of martial law at Green
Mountain Dam in Colorado justified?
You will hear many TRADES in coming
days against Colorado's governor for his
action in sending troops to the federal
reclamation project where A F. l. picket
lines have resorted to violence in an
effort to keep other employees from CO.
ing to work. The Colorado National
Guard will be maligned as a group of
strike breaking thugs" The governor
Will be castlgated as a tool of capital
ism The martial law declaration will
be called a violation of civil rights.
In view of the avalanche of radical
and left-wlng oratory and propaganda
that will almost certainly follow the en-
trance of troops into the strike area.
those who follow the news can better
Judge the merit of arguments pro and
con if they first consider a brief outline
of the facts at Green Mountain Dam:
l. The American Federation of Labor
union in whose Jurisdiction the recama-
tion project is wants employers there
TO hire no one but members of the union
2, The employers refused to grant the
closed shop request.
3. The AFL union called strike in
an effort to enforce its demand.
a. The employers decided to continue
work on the project regardless of the
strike
5. Employees who We're not members
of the union, but who had been employed
on the project before the strike was
called, decided they would keep on work
ing.
6. The AFL threw picket lines around
the project.
Z. Non-union employees accompanied
by armed townspeople from the nearby
town Of kremmling, broke through the
picket line into the barricaded project.
They were deputized by the sheriff
8. Gunfire in which several were
wounded, accompanied the clash of those
who wished to go back to work with
those who did not want them to work.
9. Governor Ralph L. Carr, notified
that armed non-uniOn employees and
townspeople We're facing the AFL pick
cts in a showdown fight ordered the Ma
tional Guard into the area.
Those are the facts. Who was respon-
sible for the first gunfire may be a de-
batable question. Whether those who
wanted to work had the right to force
themselves through the AFL picket line,
and whether the townspeople had the
right to help them get back their jobs,
will be the subject of much debate.
One things appears clear The COVER
nor was entirely within his rights in
sending the National Guard in to pre-
vent further bloodshed
How you feel about the other matters
will depend largely upon whether you
believe a labor union has any right to
prevent man from working merely be-
cause he does not belong to the union.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

les are so important that, with
his permission. I am condensing
it and repeating some of his find
ings here.
His first startling statement is
that: one-third of the people in the
United States are too fat not only
for a attractive appearance but for
their healthl
Life insurance companies, says
DR.. HOFFMAN. do OF want to insure
people with bulging waistlines.
He says that you are apt to grow
fat if you go on relief. The reason
is simple. If you are unemployed
you feel restless and unhappy; you
have fewer pleasures. But one of
the pleasures left you is eating. 1t
is fairly easy matter to get enough
to eat, so you eat Result? You get
fat
He tells about girl he calls Eta.
Here are his words: Eta came
from upstate New York. Ambition
to escape from a whining mother
and a no-account father, in din
gy house on a back-street, drove
her to work her way through COL
lege and get job in the city. She
lived econimically, because she had
to send money home; but she was
independent, keen about her work.
and she believed she had a future.
She was normal in weight. Eta
was tWenty-siX when one day a
telegram called her home; her mo-
ther had suffered a stroke. Eta
had to give up her job nurse the
invalid and keep house for her
father for five years. And she got
fat She was sensitive of ridicule,
.hough craving social life, she avoid
ed it. And she. found it difficult to
break her eating habits. Her ply
,ician probing for the case OF her
obesity, finally drew the admission,
7 was 50 bored and unhappy at
discouraged-that eating
vas one Of the few pleasures left,
and it didn't seem to matter II |
lid eat too much
The physician explained that
Ter obesity had a psychological base.
He led Eta to change her outlook
on life. That accomplished, she
.ound the will power TO follow a
strict diet. The first twenty pounds
ihe lost changed her amazingly
,ent her scurrying for new and be-
coming clothes and a new hair-do,
made people realize she was good
ooking, and gave her new pep. The
est was comparatively easy. and
ler weight is now normal"
So, If you don't want to grow
at don't worry, and naturally. you
must guard yourself from that
Extra helping.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

SUM ONS
No. 1888
In The Superior Court Of The State
Of California, in and for The
County Of Imperial.
ANGELINE AUGUSTINOS
Plaintiff
DAN AUGUSTINOS,
Defendant.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA SEND GREETINGS
TO:
DAN AUGUSTINOS, Defendant.
You Are Hereby Directed to APP
pear and answer the Complaint In
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in the Superior Court
OF the County of Imperial, State
OF California, within ten days after
the service on you of this Summons
If served within this county;.-or
within thirty days If served efs.s.
where.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
Will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, or
she will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hano and the
seal OF the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Calf
iorina' this 18th day of July, 1899.
w. ]. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY G. O. Kenyon,
Deputy Clerk.
j. II 2s-A, 4 II i8 ass, Ia Is.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04
WORLD POLICE
[ Riverside Press)

The Baptist World Alliance meeting
in its sixth annual congress, is consider
ing a report prepared for study and ac-
tion by Baptists from many countries.
The report recommends creation of an
international police force, eradication of
private profiteering, and curbs on ma
tionalism.
There is reason to apprehend a new
world war;" reads the report. 1T is a
known fact that such a war, if it comes,
will surpass anything humanity has yet
experienced in devastation and destruc-
ton of all values, spiritual as we'll as
material.
Such power (as that of world po-
lice force) should, as a matter of course,
exclusively serve international right and,
consequently in its sphere perform the
same functions as the police in the COM
munity life regulated by law.
To many persons outside the Baptist
World Alliance this appears to be a
wholly reasonable plan, but its adoption
in any workable form seems unhappily
distant
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04
Bruce Cation in Washington
n:..I. IL. No,.,-

them is Dudley White, Republi-
can from Ohio.
This reporter was talking with
White in the House cloakroom re-
Gently, when another Ohio Repub-
lican strolled up. White thought
of a gag on the spur of the mo-
ment, and proceeded to execute it.
Congressman Blank" he said
pulling the reporter forward, II
want you to meet Bruce Town.
send. He's the son of old Doc
Townsend, and he's here checking
up on the way we fellows voted
on his dads pension bill"
Congressman Blank had had an
active filtration with the Town
sendites. but had finally voted
against the Townsend bill, and he
enjoyed meeting the supposed son
Of Dr. Townsend about as much as
Trotsky would enjoy running into
a band of Stains Ogpu on dark
night. But he rallied manfully,
and spent good 10 minutes eX-
planning how he approved of old
age pensions in principle and be-
leved that DR.. Townsend was do
ing great work, but could not
in conscience, vote for the famous
revolving pension fund
White sat back and enjoyed it,
while a sizeable ring of his COL
leagues looked on and swallowed
their smiles. In the end, White
rang down the curtain on it by
turning to the reported solemnly
and saying: We'll, Bruce, I can't
blame you for working for your
dad on this-I'd probably do the
same thing-but honest, now, don't
you agree that your father is the
cheapest blank blank blank un-
hung?"
1t looks as if Oberlin M. Carter
would have to wait a while longer
for final action on his plea for re-
storation of his good name.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

DR.. Samuel Hoch-
man, and he
ought to know,
for he is in charge
of the obesity
cases at Mt. Sin
al \ HoVpital in
New York. He has
written an article
about it for the
" American Mer-
cu,yy'' Magazine,
and his discover
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04
Hints on Etiquette

1t is less irritating to your COM
panions if you do not indulge in
grimaces or extravagant gestures
while you talk. Generally speak
is, repose of manner, with little
gesticulation is better taste.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04
Today'S HOrOscOue

If your birthday is on this date,
these are the things to remember
during the year just starting
Avoid changes; trust to your own
intrutions, which spring from the
depths of your subconscious mind.
If you remember these sugges-
tions. all will be we'll, and there
will be happy romance for you
during Sle next II months. The
child born today will be very SYM
pathetic, with an impressionable
and receptive nature. An inclina-
ton to fret and day-dream will be
the two qualities which should be
guarded against in his or her up
bringing
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04
Grab Bag
One-Minute Test Answers

l. For how long a term is a
United States congressman elect
ed to the house of representatives?
g Into what body of water does
the Nile river flow?
g. What country once was called
Helvetia?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

No wonder some dentists think
they are good story tellers. Their
customers usually listen to them
with open -mouthed amazement.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04
Photographs

The color of red hair does not
television we'll, so no redheads will
be employed as television announc-
ers at present.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

The man at the next desk says
it's been his observation that many
of those women who dress to lStli
apparently drive that way, too
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

Some snakes, says a scientist, eat
but one meal a season. They still.
however, have low rating as de-
sirable house guests
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

1t takes about 100000 mature
trees each year to supply the 287,-
000,000000 matches used in the
United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04
Words of Wisdom

A man must be both stupid and
uncharitable who believes there Is
no virtue or truth but on his own
side-AddiSon.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04
Dale
Carnegie

Do you want to know one vital
reason experts give for growing
fat? Worry!
Do we really laugh and grow
fate" Not according to the famous
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

In China it is considered too per-
sonal to mention anything about
ones fiancee or wife.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

The flesh of a young goat is
edible and by many is regarded as
a delicacy.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

Some fighters don't last long,
though they work out daily at the
horizontal bars. The trouble is
there's always a bartender behind
them.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

If what they say about Mars dis
position is correct, the plant life
discovered on his planet must be
poison ivy.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

Michigan, it seems, has the lpAue
distinction of having a governor
who thinks the time between drinks
isn't long enough.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04
You re Telling Me-

European nations are all alike.N
They are very eager to borrow our
money but not our advice.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

For Real Results Use
P0ST-PRESS WANT ADS
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

One-Minute Test
|. For two years.
2. The Mediterranean.
3. Switzerland.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

WASHINGTON private Dudley Republi
Olio