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Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11
Preliminary Injunction Issued ha|ting
Further Operation Of Gambling
Boats Anchored Off Santa Monica

ANGELES Aug H. (UP)-Superior Judge Emmett H. Wilson
injunction halng operations
off Santa Monica and Long Beach
appeal submission
the pleas operators
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11
Former Communist Testifies He Received
Relief While on Rolls Of Party;
Paid for Work Among Unemp|oyedFo|k

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. II. (UP)-John T. Leech,
former Los Angeles Communist party organizer testified
in the Harry Bridges deportation hearing today that he
had been the party payrols while receiving relief for
himself and his family Leech called to the stand by
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11
Roosevelt Will Call Session of
Congress in Case Of fwarPeri|to
Enact Drastic Neutrality Legislation

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug Il. (UP)-President Roose-
vet said today that if actual war crisis develops IN
Europe the Far East he Immediately will call congress
back in special session enact legislation to preserve
the neutrality of the United States basis OF nterna-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11
FOREIGN Ministers Of Germany, Italy
Confer on Danzig.Po Dispute;
Outline Future Course in Orient

H. UPThe German and Italian foreign ministers
important three conference al "hc
the will be thoroughly aired
Forn Ribbentrop of Germany and Count
expected discuss and outline the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11
Bridges Lashes Out Anew at Legion. Says
He Never Heard Of Soldier Group
Going on Record Favoring Higher Wages

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug Il. (UP) = The American
Legion and Harry Bridges West Coast representative Of
the CIO clashed bitterly today in series of state
ments based developments of the alien labor leaders
deportation hearing Bridges again assaied the Legion
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11
District Legal Staff Watches for New
Move in Battle to Validate Bond
And Warrant Refunding Program

finding agencies of the Imperial irrigation Dstic
peeded up Friday anticipation by unfrend bond
struggle TO Vaoate
refunding program
Murphy Bondholder Atkinson was
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11

future course of the two powers
not only in Europe but in the
Orient.
Subjects will include the Danzig-
Polish dispute. southeastern Europe
including Czechoslovakia, Hun
gary. Rumania, Bulgaria and others
and the possibility of japanese
adhesion to a full military alliance
with the axis powers.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11
Rich Publisher
5 Million Short,
Sovs Grand Jury
NIL. AnnenDers. Owner Of Philadelphia
Inquirer and Racing Information Service.
UnderIndictmenti in Chicago

CHICAGO Aug. H. (UP)-A federal grand jury to-
day indicted NJ L. Annenberg, mutimillionare Phllade
pha publisher for alleged evasion of than S55OO0OO
in income taxes and penalties
Th is the biggest income tax evasion indictment
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11
GERMANY CONFERS
ON RUSSIAN TRADE

TOKYO. Aug. IL. lUP)-Foreign
Minister Hachiro Arita told the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11
The Way II Was

The Way 1t Was
1t took a lot of investigating,
but finally the story pops up to
explain how come the special train
TO El Centro was 20 instead of just
II minutes late in leaving the
other day.
Already IL minutes late, the train
was painting on the siding. All
Mexico City-bound valleyites were
aboard Doors were locked on the
coaches. Then suddenly there came
a banging at one of them, from
the inside. Mrs. Robert Hays was
trying to get out
But, lady, you can't get off
now" an exasperated conductor
said.
1--WE got to-" Mrs Hays protest.
ed in desperation. i've left the
keys to all my baggage at home
and l can't wear the same dress
all over Mexico"
She won.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11

Camouflage-
Umpire Weber Leedom. who's
grown a new moustache, needed 1t
on his chin instead of his lip the
other night, for that's where Weber
was taking it. Every time a ball
player at the Brawley park dis
agreed with the ump-and all BALL
players disagree with all umpires-
there was resentful talk about how
Weber wasn't able to see through
the foliage. Then one fly-hawk
topped it all off.
Thing I can't understand" he
remarked, lis how Web can't see
through a thing nobody else can
see at all"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11

Butter: Los Angeles. 2soi but
terfat. Imperial Valley fob. ranch.
grade A. 35c: manufacturing milk.
27c, route gathered cream, 2flsc.
L. A. Hay: u. =. No. 1. $3.50:
Il. S. No. leafy Sll-ll.50: us. No.
2 S1050-1I. MINI. flax Sept. sif.a5
Dec. S144
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11
= AMeLlNe
IL EPORTER
Say That Again

Say That Again
Sauntering down Main street, RR
casually noticed couple of young
people who had paused before a
shop window in which one of these
new-fangled monographs was dis
played. just as RR passed, he turn
ed to her:
"Shucks," he said. Il know where
we can get one almost that good
for the same money
RR went on with his head spin
ming.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11

Extra Legal
Attorney Harry Horton was in
court on land lease case that
has taken up quite a few weeks
already. The legal tangle of the
moment was unsnarled, then Har-
ry, whose client is NOT in possess
sion, turned to Judge r. D. Nc
Pherrin.
"If your honor pleases," he said,
the tangerine orchard in this case
hasn't been irrigated for quite some
time, so I've advised my client to
sso in there and irrigate it. 1t would
take too long to get writ -
The judge interrupted
That sounds like ood farming
advice to me" he said. Call the
next case"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-11
Chapter No. 198341-

Penny Richmond, whose fishing
activities have been chronicled here
from time to time for good many
months, went fishing again the
other day He didn't catch any
fish, He didn't even use his new
pole. Reason: He got very, very
seasick
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23
DO AND DIE!

Not so long ago a Michigan
woman saw a dog struggling
in an ice choked river and
Immediately went out in a
rowboat to save the dog. She
had to use an axe and a
shovel and it took her two
hours to free the animal. AS
she was bringing the dog in
to shore and safety, he bit
her cheek. There was a scar
but she paid no attention to
the injury and as a result of
this neglect the woman is
dead of hydrophobia!
This rescue was a noble
deed and showed a great love
and kindness for animals. In
going to the aid of this stray
dog the true nature of this
woman was shown. She was
a humanitarian, indeed. Per-
haps it would have been bet
ter to have let the dog die in
the ice jam. She would prob
ably be alive today.
The lesson in "don't bite
the hand that is feeding you"
Is often the case in national
and international affairs as
well as those of individuals.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23
GOOSE-STEPPING GIANT

tire map of Central and East
ern Europe into a Nazi dia-
gram?
After Hitler's successes,
will Mussolini be encouraged
to grab what Italy wants?
Will the Jewish problem be-
come more and more acute
as the enemies of the He
brew race spread their power?
And finally, what should be
the position of America to-
day in regard to the expan-
sion of German-Italian power
and ruthlessness?
Despite the attitude of GER
tain political leaders, students
Of foreign developments well
know that our international
policy as outlined by Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Secretary
Hull is both logical and just.
It is logical in that we should
arm and stay prepared for
the war which we sincerely
hope never to see. 1t is just
that we exercise certain en-
barge and economic weapons
to call the bluff of dictators.
Senators like Clark, Nye,
Johnson and Vandenburg are
thoughtlessly impeding the
cause for peace by criticising
our foreign policy. A united
front on the subject of inter-
national relationship will do
much to stave off the con-
quest of Hungary and Poland
and the ultimate bloody war
between the Rome Berlin
axis and the probable France
England-Ru alliance.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23

Striding about the hills of
Central Europe in his seven
leagued boots, the goose-step-
ping dictator Of Germany
scares the wits out Of his
neighbors and seizes their
possessions without spilling
blood. His latest move saw
the modern Napoleon acquire
nearly 10000 square miles,
one of the largest munitions
plants in the world, $80,000,-
900 in gold reserves and
$3O,O0O,000 in foreign cred
its. All without actually
fighting a battle. No wonder
the democracies of Europe
tremble whenever the name
of Hitler is mentioned.
The reformed paperhanger
who eats no meat evidently
longs for the rich grainfields
and oil deposits Of Russia and
the Ukraine. It is believed
that he will shortly strike
into Northeastern Europe by
a route leading from the
Czecho-Slovak state, only a
days march from what is
now German soil. The ques-
ton in the minds of anxious
French and British diplomats
is whether the Soviets will
bar the Nazi advance. Ru-
mania and Poland, Hungary
and other small nations, will
prove little more than a
Lilliputian in the path Of the
booted and helmeted giant
who seemingly takes what he
pleases. Can Hitler be pre-
vented from turning the en-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23

ply constructed according to
engineering standards which
have the certificate of APP
prevail of local health author
tiles and will be satisfactory
when the new neighborhood
is solidly built up.
5. Recreation facili t IS,
either through generous sized
lots supplemented by neigh
borhood parks located within
easy safe distance on land
which may not be economi-
cally suitable for building
purposes, or in connection
with school Fairgrounds.
6. Protective covenants
which apply to the entire
subdivision to assure that
neighboring properties, as
well as the one purchased,
are similarly regulated in de-
velopment and use.
Z. Well drawn and we'll
administered coming and sub
division regulations.
8. The subdivision should
be competently designed to
fit the site and to provide
self-protection from possible
future or existing adverse
influences from use of adjoin-
ing land.
8. In general, the appeal
of the individual property
and neighborhood should at
tract a number of purchasers
in event of sale.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23
PLAN YOUR HOMES

Careful consideration of
land planning factors and the
proper development and con-
troll of neighborhoods on the
part of both builders and
home buyers were urged by
Seward H. Mott, head of the
Federal Housing Administra-
TONS Land Planning Divis-
ion, in a communication re-
ceived by State Director Kent
r. Mullikin. This is an
urgent matter.
There are a number of i'm
portant considerations both
in land planning and in
neighborhood control that the
average h o m e purchaser
might lose sight of and we
often do. These include:
1. Freedom from natural
hazards or Objectionable fea-
lures, such as possibility of
subsistence, flood, fog, smoke,
noxious odors and nuisance
industries.
2. Reasonable and fire.
quent transportation service
to places Of employment,
schools and shopping centers.
3. Assurances of perma-
nently maintained roads
which meet local engineering
standards and will give safe
and convenient access to the
property at all times.
A.. Public or private sew
age disposal and water sup
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23
Barriers to Trade Between
States Has Become FIogrnnf

The thing called to national at
tention by the cream bootlegger is
the existence through the nation of
barriers or obstacles to trade be-
tween the states. 1t has become fla
grant. Selfish interests have been
operating, first, in one state; then,
in another. Laws have been passed
utilizing proper government func-
tons to accomplish INSCRIPTIONS
ends. These have bred retaliatory
measures. Other states have passed
laws to "get even" with those acting
ahead. State officials, state trade
and civic organizations have threat
ened, and have been threatened
right back, until now we have
throughout the United States thou
sands of people sticking out their
tongues in the most childish fashion
at other thousands of people. Each
group saying in sign language or
otherwise: you're another"
1t is serious business, and there is
no doubt in my mind but what the
condition bodies ill for national unity.
1t takes no expanded imagination to
think OF the time when we might
have 48 little nations, snarling and
frothing at the mouth as crudely,
and quite as unintelligently, as they
do throughout Europe.
Now, it is one thing, and a very
proper thing, to use regulations for
the preservation of health, for the
protection of property, for the sup
port OF government, or government
tai policy. 1t is quite another, and
dastardly, thing to make use of those
regulations to prevent the flow of
commerce and the products of farm
and factory. It is such things as
that from which monopoly is made.
II the now rather ill-famed monopo-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23
CaIifornia,s First Canital

monterey, a quiet and unhurried
little town on the shore of the blue
Pacific, was the first capital of Cali
fornia. There, under three flags
those OF Spain, Mexico and the Unit
ed States-California's administra-
ton was carried on from l776 to
!S49. Because of its historic role
IN the settlement of California, Mon
terey has been described as the
Williamsburg of the West"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23

trucks can be regulated because
they use the highways, and yet one
state says 100000 pounds is load
and another state says $4,000 pounds
is a load. The others have laws
specifying a load at varying sizes
in between, and there you are! Just
what is a load, anyway?
The truth of the matter is that
local interests are to blame in most
cases. They are taking advantage
of situations to further their own
selfish ends. And where are they
leading to with this polyglot of leg
islation?
The whole thing seems a bit in
congruous to me. Here, on the one
hand, Mr.. Cordeu Hull, the very
able and valuable secretary of state,
has been moving heaven and earth
to get rid Of trade barriers between
nations. Reciprocal trade treaties,
he calls his method. Some of them
seem to work badly, and some 9TH
ers appear to be producing results,
but no one knows yet whether the
whole system should be kept or
thrown out. That question does not
belong here. It is the national pol
icy Of breaking down obstacles, jar
ring loose log jams, so that our
products may move into other ma
tons that is important to be consid-
cred when within our own bounda-
ries every known means is being
used to block shipments and sales
between states. I cannot figure it
out unless some folks are strict fol-
lowers of the Biblical injunction not
to let the left hand know what the
right hand doeth.
National Government Policy
To Blame for Conditions
have been wondering, therefore.
what had actuated the selfish inter-
ests of the country to start on this
spree of battling among themselves.
There must have been some reason
behind that. At least, I have come
to believe there is. I believe that
the condition fundamentally springs
from national government policy
which for years now has been in
the direction of destroying the rights
of individual states. Little by little,
the federal government has torn
away the rights of the states-and
the states, with pain reduced by fed
eral money, have permitted it.
Suddenly, however, the states and
their citizens have discovered their
whole jurisdiction is enveloped in
creeping paralysis. We have all
noted resentment in the last few
years at the encroachment of fed
eral regulation upon individual
rights and freedom. When these
things were realized by the rank
and file of the people, there devel-
oped new disease as a counter
irritant, the disease of knocking the
other fellow off. It will take more
than socialized medicine to correct
it. The national governments poll
cies, having started it, will have to
assume the blame and will have to
find way to remedy the condition.
l hope Mr.. Halleck, and those he
has enlisted to help him, can find the
proper prescription for the cure.
@ Western Newspaper Union.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23

Did you ever know it to fail? Girls
will rave over fellow when he first
comes to town and six months later
they want to set the local dogs on
him.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23

WASHINGTON.-City officials and
newspapers Of Washington, D. c.,
have worked themselves into ter
rible other lately over a new kind
OF bootlegger-a bootlegger Of milk
and cream. This city, like every
other city, has tight regulations con-
corning milk and cream that en-
lers the national capital. They are
regulations designed to protect the
health Of those who reside here.
Moreover, maintenance Of such reg
ulations are an entirely proper func-
ton of government, because there
can be nothing more important than
health.
According to the charges filed and
upon which arrests were made, a
dairy four or five hundred miles
from Washington, inspected and Ii
censed by the state of its location,
brought in truck load of refrig-
Grated cream without first having
obtained permit to do so. The city
officials, prodded perhaps by local
diaries and nearby milk producers,
threw couple of men into Jail and
barked and squawked all around the
place because of this bootlegger.
The local press reports indicated the
city officials had made asses of
themselves over the whole matter,
but that is of no particular concern
to this discussion.
The incident is very important as
illustrative of a condition that is
rapidly endangering the national un-
ion of states, and is, therefore, a
matter for analysis here. Frequent
ly, great national issues lie around,
or are kicked around, for months
before somebody inadvertently sets
a match to the powder; and it hap
pened to be local officials who struck
the match.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23

When you can go into a home and
see heel-prints on the dining table
and tobacco spilled all over the floor,
you can know that man is boss Oh
that house.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23

There is one good way for
a man to find out if he has
a pleasing personality. Run
out of gas fifty miles from
folks you know.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23

A nation may endeavor to
come to the rescue of an
other and the fight, may in
the end, destroy the helpful
nation. Surely America has
learned her lesson in sacri-
flee. But every citizen knows
how there are always folks
who would send the United
States out in a row boat into
an ice-jam of foreign politics,
to save some cause or ideal.
Remember-the woman died
of hydrophobia.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23

The end of any honeymoon
couple is over, when the
brides "sweetie" begins to
turn sour.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23

far), 1t could demonstrate its value
by examining into trade barriers be-
tween states.
Proper Legal Pover Used,
But 1t IL Used SelfishIy
Representative Halleck of Indiana
has been engaged for weeks in dig
ging up facts about these trade bar
riers. He told me the other day that
he intends to try to break them
down, either by constitutional
amendment or by national statute.
There are plenty of difficulties con-
fronting him, he admits, because all
of these things have been done by
using entirely proper legal power,
but by using it selfishly.
To illustrate, Mr.. Halleck referred
to that oft-repeated assertion that
"the power to tax is the power to
destroy" Indeed, it is! The power
to tax for government revenue is,
and always has been, used. But
there are many instances of record
where that taxing power was en-
ployed to levy such high rates of
tax that the tax collector took every
thing produced. The business was
destroyed. And it is the same thinly
disguised use of proper power that
is getting the nation into an awful
mess, now. This choking of trade is
going on despite the constitutional
provision which says emphatically
that no state may levy tariffs
against importations from other
states. The bright law makers, and
their henchmen, have got around
that in the manner mentioned
above.
Mr.. Halleck supplied some facts
to show how widespread the condi.
ton has become. He mentioned.
moreover, that the nation is so blan-
keted with a variance of laws on
most subjects that it seems almost
hopeless job to untangle them.
For example, there are ITO differ
ent state laws dealing with the la
belling and grading of farm prod
ucts. A good ear of corn in one
state won't be recognized as a good
ear OF corn in another. My friend,
the ordinary irish potato may be ac-
cepted as No. / in one state, and
find himself as No. 3 in another. A
bottle of beer in Missouri, tax paid
and respectable there, becomes vir-
tually a bottle of slop in an adjoin-
ing state. Wines from grapes grown
in California cannot possibly be as
good as wines grown from grapes in
Oregon, because the Oregon law says
so and lays a burdensome tax to
prevent Oregon citizens from having
their stosnachs corroded or some
thing. Cement entering Florida, for
a time, was not as good as cement
produced in Florida and Florida was
prepared to tax it-until the case got
to the Supreme court of the United
States.
States Differ as to What
Constitutes a Truck Load
Take another and less known con-
dition-less known because fewer
people come in contact with it, but
it enters into the cost Ct the things
you buy, just the same. l refer to
state laws about load limits of
trucks. / don't have any love for
trucks: thew are so dopponed h;o
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23
States Differ as to What
Constitutes a Truck Load

Take another and less known con-
dition-less known because fewer
people come in contact with it, but
it enters into the cost of the things
you buy, just the same. l refer to
state laws about load limits of
trucks. / don't have any love for
trucks; they are so doggoned big
these days that want to take to
the timber when / see one of them
coming head-on along the highway.
But they have rights. Yet, there
are no two states as far as can
learn that have the same e1'F4tion
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23
IMPROVED 0~1'~S
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
CUNDAy
OCHOOL Lesson
BY REV. HAROLD L. LUNDou1sr
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
@ Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for March 26

Lesson subjects and Scripture texts "a
lected and copyrighted by InternaIonsi
Council of Religious Education: used Nv
permission.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23

If you will stop to consider
it, the fellow who insists he
is boss in his house, is a
fellow who will lie about
other things as well!
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23
Bruckart's Washington Digest
Bruckarfs Washington Digest
National Union Endangered by
Trade Barriers Between States
Bootlegging of Milk and Cream Calls Attention Condi
ton That Has Become Flagrant Proper Government
Functions Used to Accomplish Inscriptions Ends.
By WILLIAM BRUcKART
WNU Service. National Press Bldg. Washington D. c.

ly investigation is worth its salt
(Which it has not demonstrated thus
far), it could demonstrate its value
by examining into trade barriers be-
tween states.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-03-23

LESSON TEXT Peter 1:17-23; 2:20H
GOLDEN TEXT-For Christ also hatS
once suffered for sins. the just for the I'M.
just. that he might bring US to God being
put to death in the flesh. but quickened by
the Spirit.-I Peter 3:18.