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Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03
NO ULTlMATUM
BY IL DUCE
(San Bernardino sum

If Mussolin were not so closely allied
with Hitler. the reaction to his demands
in the Mediterranean would not be par
ticularly disturbing to the United States.
In fact. he might attract some sympathy
if he would educate the present genera
ton in this country as to exactly what
Italy was promised by France and Brit
ain for participation on the side Of the
allies in the World war.
In his address celebrating the 20th an
niVersary of faSciSm, MusSollm may
have offered France a way out Of the
clash over colonial aims of the two ma
tions. Mussoini did not mention Nice or
Corsica. He referred only to the Italian
problems in Tunisia, Diibouti and the
SueZ canal
There were plenty of threats in Mus
solini's address, but they were indefinite.
There is no agreement as to what he
meant, and because OF that his address
from a world viewpoint, may be regard
ed as a failure. France may have under
stood what he meant but the French
give no public indication of a Willingness
to concede anything. But that is the way
of the French they are good poker play
erS.
The probabilities are that Mussolini
will not provoke war with France until
it is very apparent that Hitler can send
general aid Hitler has not completed
his maneuvers to the east. He is not yet
sure he will not have war with Poland
and Russia Hitler is not ready to help
Mussolini.
Mussolini is doomed to fade into msig
nificance in the Rome-Berlm axis, and
it may be that his Sunday speech was
merely for the purpose of keeping him
self in the picture. If he didn't talk
once in a while, and rattle his sword no.
body would pay much attention to him.
AS the situation stands in Europe
nothing is certain except that Britain and
France will fight when either Hitler or
Mussolini try to take anything by force
that is British or French.
In the meantime it would seem to be
the strategy of both Hitler and Musso-
lini to pick up what they can from the
weaker countries. In any event MusSo-
lini served no ultmatum.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03


couldn't excel in sports.
AS he watched the boys, his eye
fell on an electrical pole support
ing half a dozen wires. Those wires
carried death and destruction, but
jeff didn't think of that. He sud-
denly remembered where a work.
man had left a pair of climbing
spikes" An idea seized him. At
least, he was light weight, anyway.
He would show those boys what he
could do. He would strap those
spikes on and shin up that pole.
Buckling them ON, he started up.
The boys stood at the foot admir-
mgly. He hung on one leg, he
waved. he made faces at the boys
below. They cheered He climbed
higher and higher.
So high up now that he wasn't
watching where he was going he
touched wire freighted with death
$500 volts! His hand curled.
gripped the wire. He couldn't let
loose. Finally his fingers came
free. jeff Palmer thudded to the
ground.
The boys who had been laughing
and cheering him moment before,
turned and ran But paSser-by
came to his aid, and called an am
bulance. The ambulance went
Changing down the street in n deS-
perate rush to the hospital, Jeff still
UNCONSCIOUS upon arrival. He re-
NAMED unconscious for three weeks,
lowering between life and death.
Eight months later he came out of
the hospital. His right hand was
shriveled to half the size of his left!
He developed an Overwhelming
inferiority complex. At school he
sat on the back row so the teacher
wouldn't call on him. He wouldn't
ask a girl to dance. He hated walk
ing down the street, sometimes ac-
tually darting across to keep from
meeting someone he knew
He was advised to join class
in public speaking. At the first
meeting he SUNK into seat behind
post Called on TO speak. ne
spoke for sixty seconds, then drop
ped down in his seat, paralyzeo
with fear His speech was a failure
That night walking home, he made
a resolve that changed his life. A
resolve that he would not be licked
At the next session he got ur
promptly and spoke for two min
utes. His courage revived. He threw
himself Whole-souled into this new
interest that gave him confidence
and he began to realize that con-
fidence was all he needed. 1t wa:
not long before he was popular
speaker He began going out witt
the girls who admired his confident
manner.
The result? A changed life, that
all! He is an excellent speaker, h:
is popular, he goes to dances, anc
he has fine job. Six thousanC
volts of electricity. plus an inferior
ity complex could not lick JET
Palmer!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

mia and the public learned the gov
ernment was enabling the French
to buy brand new American fight
ing planes.
4. Before that news was stale,
the American fleet was conducting
maneuvers in the Atlantic and the
Caribbean - maneuverS admittedly
designed TO test Americas ability
to keep invaders out of Latin AM
erica, and tacitly understood to be
a warning to Germany and Italy
that they had best stay out of the
new world.
S. On the heels of that a Gallup
poll revealed SO per cent OF the
American people favored helping
France and England by every means
short of war. in case France and
England should be attacked by Ger
many and Italy.
6. Then, addressing the l5Oth
celebration of Congress, President
Roosevelt declared that with many
ether democracies the United States
will give no encouragement to the
belief that our processes are out
worn.
7. Shortly after that Senator
Key Pittman, chairman OF the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee,
introduced with administration
approvaD a bill under which South
American governments could buy
uarcbiuc hiiilt i'm TT 6
8. Acting with the approval of
President Roosevelt, Undersecretary
WelleS (Secretary Hull being alb
senD issued a statement condemn
ing Germany as having acted with
"wanton lawlesSness" and implying
that America looked on the eXtin-
guishment of C2echoslovakian in
dependence as a temporary thing.
simultaneously, the Treasury De-
partment slapped a 25 per cent
penalty on goods imported from
Germany.
9. Three days later the American
government sent a formal note of
protest to Germany. and Senator
IitIliiill lllONCQ W CAICIiNt e'ile iiioo-
ify the neutrality legislation i'll such
a way as to enable England and
France to buy arms and other sup
plies in America in case they were
at war with Germany and Italy.
Add up all this and you get a
clear picture of the, direction in
which the United States is moving
in European affairs.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03
HARRY BRIDGES DEPORTATION

Stephen Chadwick, national comman-
der of the American Legion struck a
chord few Americans had listened to
when he declared last week that depor-
tation of Harry Bridges, alien labor agi
tator, is sought on his life record" not
because he may be a member of the
Communist party. Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins, through skilful prop
the idea that only objection to Bridges
is asserted Communist party member
ship.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
PROCUREMENT DIVISION, PUBN
Lie BUILDINGS BRANCH. WASH

NGTON, ID. c., MAR. %, 1889.
Sealed bids in triplicate will be
publicly opened in this office at
10 AM, April 90, 1899, for the
installation of air conditioning
equipment at the US.P.O. at Ell
Centro, Calf. Specifications and
drawings Gf any will be supplied
free to each contractor interested
in submitting a proposal The
above drawings and specifications
MUST be returned to this office.
Specifications and drawings df
any will not be furnished to
contractors who have consistently
failed to submit proposals. One
set upon request, and when con-
sidered in the interests of the
Government, will be furnished
builders exchanges, chambers of
commerce or other organizations
who will guarantee to make them
available for any Sub-contractor
or material firm interested, and
to quantity surveyors, but this
privilege will be withdrawn if the
sets are not returned after they
have accomplished their purpose.
w. E. Reynolds, Assistant Director
of Procurement, Public Buildings
Branch. A. 3 S 7
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03
NO VALID OBJECTION
10 THESE AMENDMENTS

The United States chamber of COM
merce has proposed six worthwhile
amendments to the lop sided Wagner
Labor Relations Act:
!. Give employers the same right labor
has to petition the labor board to de-
termine which union represents ma
jorty of workers.
2 Guarantee employers the right of
free speech in discussing unionism with
their employees.
3. Prohibit coercion of workmen by
employers, employees or labor unions IN
their right to organize.
a. Limit the right of unions to bargain
collectively for their own membership,
rather than giving them exclusive bar
gaining rights for all employees.
5. Outlaw closed shop contracts.
6. Separate the labor boards judicial
and administrative functions by giving
judicial functions to the federal courts
or other appropriate agencies, such as
special labor courts.
1t is difficult to see how there can be
any valid objection to such revisions.
They would serve merely to give en-
ployers equality with employees under
the law. AS it is now constituted, the
law recognizes the rights only of en-
ployes According to its terms, the en-
ployer has no rights
Need for these revisions can best be
demonstrated by listing the six abuses
they propose to overcome:
l. Under the present law the en-
ployer is at the mercy of whatever radi-
cal agitators prey upon him, without
having the right to ask the federal labor
board to decide with whom he should
bargain.
2. The employer now cannot advise
even a close friend if the friend hap
pens also to be an employe, against join
ing a union, although he might know 1t
is entirely Communistic The employer
cannot discuss unionism at all in front
of his employees without violating the
law.
8. Under the present law a radical
labor union, or any other group, can use
force and violence in coercing an entire
factory crew to join the union, and nei-
ther victimiZed employees nor the en-
ployer has any recourse.
a. A comparatively small but active
union group now can force its wishes
on all laborers within its sphere if it
obtains favor with the federal labor
board There is no legal recourse.
5. Closed shop contracts, which place
in the hands of a few labor union Off
cials the right to say who shall and who
shall not be allowed to work, are VICIOUS
and un-American-yet they are encour-
aged under the law as it now stands.
6. No justice is possible in an agency
that is at one and the same time prose-
cutor, Judge and jury-yet just such an
organization is the National Labor Rela-
tions board. When it prosecutes, guilty
verdict is virtually assured. This should
not be allowed to continue.
Amendment of the Wagner act is bad
ly needed. Most sensible amendments
yet proposed are the six listed here.
They deserve support by congress and
the people.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03

So vast is this great country, so
endless its spaces of forest and
plain and swarming cities that 1t
is hard TO comprehend it.
During the past few years chang
es have taken place in the mere
physical aspect of the country that
would have staggered anyone to
whom they had been suggested, say,
in 1921.
For instance: it is usually said
and believed that the common do
main, or publicly owned lands, is
exhausted and approaching a fin
iSh. Yet since 1888, the federal
government has bought from pri-
vate owners 26,000,000 acres of land
costing around $218,000,000, an av-
erage of about So an acre.
That is an area larger than
Massachusetts, New Jersey, New
Hampshire, Connecticut, Delaware
and Rhode Island combined. 1t is
an area almost as large as all
England, and about the size of the
Czechoslovakian republic swallow
ed by Germany.
The public domain, in other
words, which we thought about
exhausted, has greatly increased,
not decreased, in recent years.
Tremendous areas of the country
have been turned back to forest
Last year the National Forest Ser
vice supervised planting of 140,-
100000 trees, on $4,000 acres OF
land in 81 states.
This, mark you, is land previous
ly cut over and deforested And the
total acreage does not include a
great deal of forest planting done
by states and private individuals.
And it represents the work of only
one year, while such work has
spurted ahead tremendously year
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03
Barbs-

An Oklahoma girl was awarded
$3.50 because a horse sat on her.
There was day when the Duke of
Windsor could have doubled his
fortune that way.
The stock market dipped as
the war scare increased. Gee,
folks, it looks like the internation-
al situation is really serious.
Gelatine doubles human physi-
cal endurance. Except when you
try to get it to your mouth on
fork.
Here's the real headline news
about Clark and Caroles we'd
ding plans. Their honeymoon
cottage" won't have a swimming
pool.
They say more women than mer
kill people with guns. With
glance, too.
There is evidence to prove that
Roger Bacon constructed a tele-
scope nearly 400 years before Cali
leo invented his. and that a yeal
before Galileo's invention. Hans
Lippershey, spectacle maker
made one.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03
TOday's Horoscope

TOday's Horoscope
The young folk who are facing
a new year IN their lives today
may look forward to courtship and
marriage IN the next twelve months.
The year is favorable if they man
age to avoid a sharp quarrel with
which they are threatened A child
born today will be much attracted
to the opposite sex. He or she also
will be very much intrigued by
beautiful clothes, have an artistic
and refined nature, but must guard
against too hasty temper.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03

Ine boys were
all husky, strap
ping young fell
lows. All except
Jeff, the smallest
one among them.
Jeff was fifteen.
an age where the
opinion of his
gang" was the
most important
thing in the
world. The other
boys were run
n~;,,u hut Iaff
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03
Dale
Carnegie

One Sunday afternoon a boy
named Jeff Palmer was playing
with some other boys, when some
thing happened which changed his
life. His story may affect your life.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03

One-Minute Test Answers
l. One who makes study of fish
and their habits.
q ST. Luke.
3. Milan, Ohio.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03

A number OF delinquent bills
can cause you a lot of unneces-
sary worry! Why not borrow
funds TO pay all Of yours and
then pay US back as you earn
in easy installments? IT'S far
more businesslike and convenient!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03
Hints On Etiquette

If you are giving large bridge
party, try to put the players who
take their game seriously at the
same tables, and those who play
conversational bridge" together.
Your party will be more successful
if you use care in this respect.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03

For almost 5000 years astroloey
has been banned by law in some
countries.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03
Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

l. What is ichthyologist?
2. Who is the patron saint of
painting?
3. Where was Thomas A. Edison
born?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03
Words of Wisdom

Words OF Wisdom
The contemplation of celestial
things will make a man both speak
and think more sublimely and mag
nificently when he comes down to
human affairs.-Cicero.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03

Silver plates are sometimes USED
by surgeons to hold bones IN place
after a fracture.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
CERTIFICATE OF FICTITIOUS
NAME

We, the undersigned, do hereby
certify that We are partners tran
Sacting business in this State in
the County of Imperial under the
firm name and style of Gullett
Grocery; That the names in full
of all the members of such partner
ship are Jack Christensen: Carlos
w. Starkey; William J. Gullett; and
Nose c. Gullett, and that the places
of our respective residences are set
opposite our respective names here
to subscribed.
In witness whereof, We have here
unto set our hands this 30th day
of March, 1889.
JACK CHRISTENSEN, 660 He'll
ST., El Centro, Calf.
Carlos w. Starkey, 442 Holt ST.,
FL Centre, Calf.
WILLIAM j. GULLETT, 664
Brighton St, Ell Centre, Calf.
NOSE G. GULLETT, 651 Main
ST., Ell Centro, Calf.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03

born goats were worn at one time
by Spanish dueliStS, because they
thought these trousers would bring
them luck.
Pigs from the Canary islands are
said to be the ancestors OF swine
in America. The ships of Colum-
bus expedition stopped at the
islands and took the animals
aboard.
Too bad Earl Durand, who bat
tied police in the Wyoming noun
tains. had to be a desperado. A
raw meat eater, he would have been
natural for a wrestling promoter
Clamoring against relationships
Warsaw Socialists shouted: Down
with the aXiS!" Or axes
Two convicts who sawed then
way out of an Ohio Jail returned
| voluntarily. One look at the cur
rent outside world was enough.
Rudy Vallee must be afraid tc
look at a newspaper these days
Every time he turns a page, hi
finds he has new girl friend.
A presidential year is nearing
Some of the guys who denied they
wanted the job will soon begin tt
evade the issue.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL,-ss.

ON THIS 30th day of March,
AID, 1899, before me, C. B. Smith,
Notary Public in and for said
County and State personally ap-
peared Jack Christensen, Carlos w.
Starkey, William j. Gullett and
Nose c. Gullett, known to me to
be the persons whose names are
subscribed to the within Instru-
ment, and acknowledged to me that
they executed the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
my official seal the day and year
in this certificate first above writ
ten.
C.. b. SMITH,
Notary Public in and for
said County and State.
(SEAL)
A. 3 10 II "a
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03
Photographs

Grasshoppers are only able 10
lump when the temperature is
warmer than 62 degrees Fahrenheit.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03

They say more women than men
kill people with guns. With d
glance, too.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-03

Clamoring against relationships,
Warsaw Socialists shouted; Down
with the axis!" Or "aXes."
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-31
FORECLOSURE SALE.

By virtue of the power contained
in that Deed in Trust. executed by
J. R. Carter, Jr, and his wife Blanche
w. Carter to the undersigned Trustee
under date of December 23rd, 1897,
which deed in trust is recorded in
the office of the Register of Deeds
of Vance County in Book 1877 Page
62, default having been made in the
payment Of the note therein secured.
and on the request OF the holder of
said note, will on Saturday the 2nd
day of September, 1899 at 1900 Noon
at the Court House Door in Vance
County, offer for sale at Public Auc-
ton for cash the following described
property:
Beginning at post (40) feet from
the center of the Raleigh and CASTOR
Railroad (now S. A. L. Ry.) and
situated at the Southwest corner of
the lot on which Sarah A. Crozier
resides (now j. R. Carter, Jr) and
running North twenty-siX (26) de-
grees East 189 feet, thence South
Sixty-Four (64) degrees East Two
Hundred and Thirty and one-half
$3.50 1-2) feet, thence South twenty
six (26) degrees West One hundred
and eighty-nine (189) feet, thence
North sixty-four (64) degrees West
two hundred and thirty and one-half
(230 1-2) feet to the place of begin
ming. The same being a rectangular
lot having a frontage of one hundred
and eighty-nine G89) feet on S. A.
L. Railway and a depth of two hun
IL ...%x ha1f
(230 1-2) feet and containing One
Acre () more or less. For further
reference and chain of title See Deed
dated March 5, 1908 recorded in
Vance County, Book Is, Page 1894.
See map in Book 35 Page 1863.
This July 31st, 1889.
JASPER B. HICKS, Trustee.
31-7-14-21
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-31
State Gets Bargain For
University Building
Program Through PWA

Chapel Hill, July 3.-A total cost
of $1,500,000 to the: State, more than
$6,000,000 wortl Of badly needed
construction an. renovation work is
being carried On at the three units
Of the consolidated University in
Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Green's
boro.
Made possible mainly by federal
appropriations, the work comprises
the first extensive building program
at any of the three units in almost
20 years. The enrolment at all three
Institutions is now more than double
what it was Wnen the 1920 program
during Governor Cameron Morri-
sons administration was completed.
The total amount being spent, to
be exact, is $6,O97 900. Of this the
Public Works Administration is
supplying $2,649, ,00O The State is
putting up $1,505,0O0, and the bal
'ance of $1,943,0O0 is being provided
through the sale of self-1iquidating
bonds.
A total of IL new dormitories at
the three units, several new class
room buildings and the renovation
of some of the older structures are
included in the present program.
The Woman's college at Green's
borO is getting a new science build
ing, two new dormitories, and the
renovation of several existing dor
mitories.
At State college. five new dor
mitories are under construction,
and will be ready for occupancy by
the opening of the fall quarter. A
new chemistry building costing
approximately 100000 and a new
textile building costing around
$360,000 will be ready soon. Other
provisions include new dairy
plant to house the Department of
Animal Husbandry to cost approxi-
mately 100000, and the renovation
of two classroom buildings.
The new classroom buildings are
being constructed at Chapel Hill
One will provide. new home for
the School of Medicine and the
Division of Public Health, at a cost,
when completely equipped, OF
around $455,0OO, and the other will
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-31

be a zoology building to be COM
pleted and equipped at a cost of
S19O,OOO. The renovation process is
being applied to the Alumni Build
ing, Caldwell Hall, Gerard Hall,
and Bynum Gymnasium.
AS self-1iquidating projects the
University at Chapel Hill is getting
two dormitores for women and
three Tor men, an apartment house
for graduate students, a new power
plant, and an addition at the Caro-
lima Inn to take care of short courses
and conventions.
The :,act that the University here
is not located in or near a large
city, as is the case of the institu-
tions at Greensboro and Raleigh, is
responsible Cor the large proportion
of self-liquidating projects assigned
to Chapel Hill. Located in a small
village, the University at Chapel
Hill must depend upon itself pri-
marily for housing facilities for
students and for such services as
light, water, power and heat.
Figuring the total cost of these
projects to the State, those at
Chapel Hill are costing the State
18 percent, those at State college
80 percent, and those at the
Woman's college 33 percent.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-07-31
Tar Heel Grid Candidates
Tougher During Summer

guard berth this fall, is working in
an iron foundry in Springfield, Ohio,
his home town.
"Chuck" Kline, who will probably
start at right end this fall, is work.
ing for the Dupont Chemical Com
pany in New Jersey.
Bob Smith, who is counted on to
handle the center post, has been
playing baseball for the Clarksville,
Va, semi-pro team. In about ten
games to date he's been hitting at
better than 400, and is playing lot
of second base During spare time
he is also playing softball with a
Chapel Hill club.
Christian SieWers, reserve tackle,
is working in Winston-Salem, his
home town.
Gatoes Kimball, Hank Abernathy,
George Radman, Julian Brantley, and
Ed HermsOn are back at the Univer-
sity attending the second summer
school session.
Kimball, from Winston-Salem, is
the Tar Heels regular right tackle,
and one of the outstanding linemen
on the team.
Abernathy, an Asheville boy, is
slated to understudy Kimball, while
Hermson, who halls from New York
City, is an end.
Brantley, Greensboro boy, was
transformed from a fair center into
a very promising guard in winter
drills, and Coach Wolf is counting on
him to do a lot Of playing at guard.