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Evening star., 1939-04-27
BACKGROUND

Great Britain, seeking uith
France to organize dnti-aggres-
sion bloc among Central Euro
pedn states Tho are in path OF
German expansion. has been un-
der constant pressure to adopt
conscription as evidence that she
1DiH be able to assist Poland Ru-
mania and Greece against at
tack. French pleas hare been
particularly strong.
Evening star., 1939-04-27
NotionoI

National
Gen. George c.. Marshall named
Army chief of staff Page Al
National shutdown of coal industry
looms next week. Page Az
Grasshoppers threaten 100000
potato crop. Page BIS
Evening star., 1939-04-27

(See LONDON, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1939-04-27

(See RELIEF, Page A-4D
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29
OLSON SHOULD
VETO THIS BILL
sacramento Bee)

The state senate ended its work inglor-
iously, if not ANONYMOUSLY, by giving
approval to bill to license horse race
bookmakers in the state of California.
To his credit, Senator Roy Nielsen of
Sacramento county was not among the
% voting in the affirmative for bill
which would put the state into partner
ship in one of the most notorious and
vicious rackets operating in the United
States.
Most of those voting for the bill pro-
fessed to be doing SO because of their
eagerness to increase the states revenues,
the statement being made by one sup
porter that it would bring in $20,000,000.
From a moral point of view, it would
be Just as defensibe for the state of
California to repeal the redlight abate-
ment act and then accept part of the
take from the inmates of the legaliZed
houses of prostitution to support the
government.
In truth, if all the facts were known,
better case could be made out for the
latter than for this haloing of the bookies
with the aura of legality
Moreover, the concern over state finan-
clal affairs among most OF the senators
who voted for the bill was of very recent
origin in view of their record during the
session just ended.
With one minor exception, every legiti-
mate revenue raising measure proposed
by Governor Olson was killed either in
the senate or the assembly.
But if there We're to be a handout to
the gambling fraternity, then the need
for adding to the states income became
an imperative necessity to the senator's
VINO voted for the bookmaking measure.
This bill now goes to Governor Olson.
Pressure will be brought to bear on
him to sign it.
And stress will be laid on the states
need for revenue.
But no one who really knows Governor
Olson believes he will sell out his con-
rcience and principle for the dollars of
the bookies.
A veto for this bill can be confidently
anticipated.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29
thoughts for the Day
MEMhER
A BIT OF CARE
MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE

Most people don't want to die. yet a
lot of people in the next few DAYS will
put themselves in deaths way-and do
it because they're having a lot of fun.
OF course they will not realize that they
may be dead in the next few minutes.
Oh, no! That might happen to some
body else-but never to them
That's where they're wrong.
Hundreds of people who have never
before been in an automobile accident
will be killed on American highways be-
tween now and next Wednesday. That
is not a prediction. 1t is certainty.
For every death there will be an act
OF carelessness behind the wheel One
minute laughing, gay, reckless-the next
torn, mangled, manned and even dead.
1t might be you!
Remember that when you get into your
automobile for holiday trip this week
end or on the Fourth of July following
Remember that when a uniformed men,
Der of the Imperial county Highway Pa
troll staff stops you for speeding, or for
carelessness of one kind or another.
Remember it-and thank the officer. He
may be saving your life.
If every man. woman and youngster
behind the wheel of an automobile in
Imperial county from now to Wednesday
observed the common-sense rules of care
full driving, there would be no deaths
and no accidents on the county's high
ways during the Fourth of July weekend
Even one act of carelessness, on the
other hand, may take from one to dozen
lives and cause untold suffering.
The highway patrol office has an
nounced a rigid campaign of traffic law
enforcement for the holiday period 1t
cannot be too strict to suit valley people
who value their lives. The other kind
should not matter.
The patrolmen will be doing their part
They will be seeing that the laws are
enforced to the letter. That leaves the
responsibility squarely up to the motor
ist.
Drive carefully-and save lives.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29

door: Vincent Astor, Herman OIL
richs. Fritz KreiSler, Phil Plant,
William Rhinelander Stewart, Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, the president of
Chile. Rajah of India.
They pass through that door be-
cause one day this wallpaper sales
man stopped to look into store
window. Loaded down with his
sample case, the day hot, he was
tired. AS he rested, he idly looked
into the window-and his life was
changed. Inside was small l6 mil
limeter camera. He wanted 1t.
But the price was $500. He had
hardly any money-but he had de-
termination. He decided to get that
movie camera and make it pay for
itself
He came back the next day and
looked at it again. He wanted 1t
more than ever. He went in, and
made arrangements to pay a small
sum down and then so much week
ly. Now he had the camera. The
next thing was TO make it pay for
itself. He did, by taking pictures
of children's parties. Then he found
that the mothers didn't know how
to edit, title and join the film. SO
he undertook that, and made a
small charge. The parents were
delighted Here was the touch of
an expert, of a man who liked the
work. Orders came, but he had no
office. SO he arranged with the
store where he had bought the CAM
era to take his messages. All this
was on the side, for he was still
packing the wall paper sample case
around.
So many orders came in that he
decided to open an office - the
first of its kind in the world - to
edit, cut and supervise 16 Mile
meter film for amateurs. 1t proved
SO successful that he built small
theatre in his office seating eight
persons SO that his patrons could
see the films run off.
One customer travelled all over
Europe and brought back endless
reels of film. Mr.. Emo cut and
edited and titled the film for him.
II took seven months. The Gus
toner was pleased. He paid Mr..
Emo $4,000 for the job. Mr.. Emo was
pleasedi
Mr. Emo has made a success Of
this business because he origin
ated an idea. He was plugging
along at dreary rountine job.
Then he developed something new
and presto! money poured in.
I asked him for six rules to help
you with your pictures when you
go ON your vacation this summer.
They'll appear tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29
DEMOCRACY'S
new DANGER
(LOndOn Observer)

The weaknesses of democracy have
been much to blame for the new dangers
by which it is faced The tendency of
all free peoples is to believe that free
dom enjoins a separatist and narrowly
nationalist line of policy when their ex-
istence is not threatened from without
We can always take broad views of any
question which demands sacrifice from
others; but when the prospective cost or
service comes nearer home our vission
tends TO contract.
1t is for these shortcomings that we
are paying now; and it will not suffice
to correct them only for so long and in
so much as may be forced upon us by
the specter of another war -. Is modern
democracy to slough it's narrower in
stincts only when it is looking death in
the face? If that be the limit of its capac-
ity it will have perforce to yield to some
other system of government which prom
ises greater unity to the world.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29

1t never seems final. But when
that time comes, it will not hap
pen because Mendels theories are
believed contrary to MARKHAM theo.
ry."
A great steel bridge collapses, be-
cause ii has violated universal laws
OF stresses and strains, or because
OF inner defects of its steel, but
not because 1t conflicts with a pet
political theory. Hitler, too, has a
universal law by which he wishes
all truth to be measured, but grav-
ity pulls things down in Germany as
in Kamchatka, with a fine disre-
gard for all the Goebbelses and
Rosenbergs.
Maybe the enthusiastic Soviet
sophomores are right: perhaps old
Gregor Mendel is outmoded. But il
he is. it will be because we will
have learned more about geneticS
than we used to know, and not be.
cause his theories conflicted with
Marxism.
Totalitarianism? 1t can rule men.
But it cannot in the long run rule
the truth. Truth is stubborn
thing.
Voltaire said that he who seeks
truth should be OF no country. Had
Voltaire lived today, he might have
added ". and he should be of
no cure-all, one-shot philosophy,
eitherf'
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29
FlNGERPRINT FILES
FOR EVERYBODY

1t is only human nature, perhaps, but
it is regrettable that the people of Los
Angeles have objected strongly-as a
whole-to the plan of their chief of po-
lice to fingerprint as many residents Of
the city as he can. The fingerprinting
procedure is not mandatory = man
need not have his fingerprints on file if
he does not wish it so. There is the rub.
A lot of otherwise sensible people feel
that there is some stigma to being fin
gerprinted. BY some quirk of human
nature, they feel that they are classed
with criminals the minute the whorls
and loops of their fingertips are record
ed in the files. 1t is not so.
If everyone were fingerprinted, in fact,
honest people would have far greater
protection from criminals. 1t would be
far easier for the law to trace and seq
regate persons who are enemies of So
ciety-and so enemies of the average
honest citizen-if all fingerprints were
on record.
1t would, also, be a matter of conven-
fence for many persons if their finger
prints were on file Victims of amnesia
loss of memory = and they are by no
means uncommon, need no longer wonder
who they are if their prints are on file.
A stranger in strange city need no
longer puzzle how to identify himself
at the bank. There are thousand and
one honest, lawful reasons for finger
printing.
Someday the public may realize the
truth of this.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29
Willis Thornton's Editorial on:
Iook Ont avn of Gravifafion

The human mind is fearful and
a wonderful thing. Never is it Ell.
ther SO fearful or so wonderful as
when it is seized with the idea that
ii has become possessed OF some
one. single key that unlocks ali
knowledge. and by which all knowl-
edge is to be measured, weighed,
and judged.
Probably the beginning uf scien-
tifie knowledge is in the realization
that there isn't any such single key.
In the field of science, there Is no
Communist truth, no Capitalist
truth. no Socialist truth-there is
truth. and there she stands until
somebody comes along and proves
ker an impoSter
That is why the best one can do
is a sad smile on reading that a
grave manifesto OF "a students of
the Soviet Timiryazeff Agricultural
Academy has been dignified by
publication in the official journal
of the CommisSariat of Agriculture
IL it they stoutly maintained that
the Mendelian laws. commonly ac-
cepted throughout the world as the
basis of geneticS, are contrary to
MARKHAM theory" and therefore
must be chased fom the universe.
ties
Now it is all too possible that the
theories evolved by the old Aus
trian monk, Gregor Mendel, as he
bent over his beloved flower beds
in his monastic garden, may at
length prove to be untrue. Or per-
kaps further laborious experiment
may add to them or change them
Scientific truth has a way like that
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT
FL Centre, California
IMPERIAL VALLEY POWER
nm n uE ENrN
Specifications No. 8-B
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

ADVERIlSEMENI FUN DADo
Notice is hereby given that the
Board of Directors of Imperial H.
rigation District will receive bids for
furnishing and delivering electrical
materials and control equipment for
additions to Brawley Substation and
BraWley Diesel Power Plant, each
bid to be in accordance with Plans,
Detail Specifications and other con-
tract documents comprising Specifi-
cations No 8-B, now on file at the
office of the Board of Directors
of Imperial Irrigation District at
Ell Centro. California. where they
may be examined and copies OBJ.
tanned upon deposit OF $500 per SET
which deposit will be refunded upon
the return of such copies III good
condition within five days after the
bids are opened.
The principal items Of materials
and equipment to be furnished are
oil circuit breakers, oil switches,
break and disconnecting switch.
es, instrument transformers. switch
boards. bus supports, cable and mis-
cellaneous fittings.
, Bidders attention is called to the
fact that the materials, supplies
andior equipment to be furnished
and delivered are a part of power
project to be financed by a Loan
and Grant to the District from the
Federal Emergency Administration
of Public Works (PWA Docket No.
Calf. 1O88-2-P.D), and the award
of the contract will be contingent
upon securing funds from such
source.
Notice is also hereby given that
all bidders may submit with their
bids a sworn statement OF their
financial responsibility, technical
ability and experience. Such sworn
statement may be required to be
furnished before award is made to
any particular bidder.
Each bid shall be made out on a
form to be obtained at the office
of the Board of Directors of the
District at Ell Centre, California;
shall be accompanied by a certi.
fled or cashiers check or a bid
bond for not less than per cent
of the amount Of the bid, made
payable to the order of the Treasur-
er of Imperial Irrigation District,
Ell Centre, California; shall be seal
ed and filed with the Board of
Directors of Imperial Irrigation Dis.
trict, Ell Centro, California, on or
before July 20, 1899, at 10 O'Clock
AM and will be opened and pub
licly read aloud at or about 10
o'clock Am. of that day in the
office of the Board.
The aforementioned check or
bond shall be given as a guarantee
that the bidder will enter into the
contract if awarded to him and will
be declared forfeited if the success.
full bidder refuses to enter into said
contract after being requested so
to do by the Board of Directors OF
Imperial Irrigation District.
The Board of Directors of the
District reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids or waive any
informally in bid.
No bidder may withdraw his bid
for a period of sixty 600 days after
the date set for the opening there
of.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
Imperial Irrigation District.
BY w. w. GOODSON,
Secretary.
Dated June 27, 1899.
j. 29, j 6, 13
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29

The people who
come TO see me
know who I am
and why t he y
want to see me-
His names Ralph
r. Emo. He was
once a wallpaper
salesman.
Here are some
of the we'll known
famous p e o p lie
who pass through
( h at nameleSs
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29

for craft perform
ing operation to
which welding is
incidental.
The foregoing schedule of per
diem wages is based on a working
day of eight CD hours. The hourly
wage rate prescribed hereinabove is
the per diem rate divided by the
aforementioned number of hours
constituting a working day. Rates
for legal holiday and overtime shall
be one and one-half Qh) times
the above rates.
1t shall be mandatory upon the
contractor to whom the contract
is awarded, and upon any sub
contractor under him, to pay not
less than the said specified rates
to all laborers, Workmen and mech
anics employed by them in the
execution of the contract.
Notice is also hereby given that
all bidders may submit with their
bids, a sworn statement of their
financial responsibility, technical
ability and experience. Such sworn
statement may be required to be
furnished before award is made to
any particular bidder.
Each bid shall be made out on
a form to be obtained at the office
of the Board of Directors of the
District at Ell Centro, California:
shall be accompanied by certified
or cashiers check, or a bid bond,
for not less than five 90 per cent
of the amount of the bid made
payable to the order of the Treas
urer of Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict, Ell Centro, California; shall
be sealed and filed with the Board
of Directors of Imperial Irrigation
District, Ell Centro, California. on
or before July 49, 1899, at 10 o'clock
am. and will be opened and pub
licly read aloud at or about 10
O'Clock am. of that day in the
office of the Board.
The above mentioned check or
bond shall be given as a guarantee
that the bidder will enter into the
contract If awarded to him and
will be declared forfeited If the
successful bidder refuses to enter
into said contract after being re
quested SO to do by the Board of
Directors of Imperial Irrigation
District.
The Board of Directors OF the
District reserves the right to reject
any or all bids or waive any infor-
mallty in a bid.
No bidder may withdraw his hid
Tor period of sixty 600 days after
the date set for the opening there.
Of. '''eio
Dated: June 10, 1899.
Board OF Directors
Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict.
BY w. w, GOODSON
Secretary.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29
TOday's Horoscope

Moderately good fortune during
the next year will be the lot OF
those whose birthday is on this
date 1t will be well, however, to
exercise care and discretion in deal.
ing with Older persons and in busi-
ness. Active and impuisive by ma
ture will be the children born to-
day. They will have to fight an
inclination to be careless and in.
consequential, and over-critical Of
others
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29
Dale
Carnegie

When you are in New York. if
YOU 60 to 545 Fifth Avenue, Room
1909 you win not find a name on
the door. The man inside says.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29
Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

l. Which of the United States
is nicknamed the Keystone State?
2. What is the Rend?
3. Who was the author Of the
classic work, The Rise and Fall
OF the Roman Empire?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29

One Minute Test Answers
/. Pennsylvania.
2. A rich. d-bearing region in
South Africa.
3. An Englishman, Edward Glib.
bon.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29

We notice vacationing collegians
wear their shirt tails out. Hmmm.
they must have run out of gold
fish Ito swallow.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29
Hints on Etiquette

If picnic grounds are crowded,
do not keep the stove on which
you cooked your food longer than
is necessary. nor the table at which
you ate your lunch. Courteously
share with others.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29
Words of Wisdom

There is as much greatness of
mind in acknowledging a good turn,
as in doing it-Seneca.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29
You re Telling Me- Barbs-

Doc Townsend plans radio broad
casts for funds. He might get re-
sults-if the programs he cuts OH
are more speeches, not entertain
ment.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29
Famous Sayings

Times continue to improve. It's
been fully six years since we last
saw an Empress Eugene hat go
bouncing down the avenue.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29

Headquarters of General John
ston, who commanded the last army
of the Confederacy, have been re-
stored and are open to the public
at Hillsboro, N. C.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29

The circus big top" is air con.
ditioned this summer. Next might
we suggest ventilation of the men,
agerie tent?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29

Gift of CAB is overrated The
smartest parrot eats out OF tim
cup.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29

Frenchmen pay a government
bicycle tax of about 60 cents a year,
and one In every six has a bicycle
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29

Stanford University seniors willed
gas masks to their successors, but
symbolism will probably be vast
ed. The masks will crop up again
in next years fraternity limitations.
WPA Workmen on the Grand
Coulee Dam project kill an average
of 80 rattlesnakes daily. That's one
WPA job where a guy has to use
his shovel.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29

police arrest practical joker
headline. He got his jest dues.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29

Railroad rails stretching east and
west wear longer than those run
ming north and south.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29
Photographs

Goldfish belong to the carp fam
lily. and in the wild the fish are
undesirable citizens of the deep
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29

America doesn't have enough
folk songs of life on mountains
and the plains, laments a music
sritic. Don't worry as soon as
they get around to it, Broadway
songWriters will take care of that
General Franco is headed Tor
more trouble. He's ordered Spanish
women to den oldfaShioned clothes.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-29

1t is said that 95 per cent of the
farmers Of Georgia still use kero-
sene lamps for home lighting.
Evening star., 1939-01-27
Mrs. Imoeene N. Blood
Dies at Residence

Mrs. Imogene M. Blood, retired
employe of the Veterans Admin
istration, died Wednesday at her
residence in the Portland Hotel
after an illness of several months.
Mrs. Blood had been resident Of
this city for more than 20 years,
having come here during the World
War to work at the old Veterans
Bureau, now the Veterans Admin
istration. She was a native of New
York and at the time of her death
was a member of the New York
City Federation of Women's Clubs
She also belonged to the English
Speaking Union. the League of Re-
publican Women, the Women's City
Club and the St. Stephen and In
carnation Episcopal Church here.
Funeral services will be held at
IL am. tomorrow in Hines funeral
home, 2901 Fourteenth street NV.
The Rev. DR.. Paul D. Wilbur, rec
tor of st. Stephens and Incarna-
ton Episcopal Church, will oficiate.
Following, there will be a short
committal service at the Cedar Hill
Cemetery chapel, after which the
body will be cremated and the
ashes placed beside those of her
husband in the family plot in Park
Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.
Evening star., 1939-01-27
Detective ; Killers
Die in Chair After
Two Win CIemency
Lehman Commutes Death
Sentences of Pair
Convicted With Them
81 the Associated Press.

81 the Associated Press.
OSSINING, N. Y, Jan. 27.-Three
young killers who shot a New York
detective during a holdup died in
in the electric chair last night, a
few hours after death sentences of
two others convicted with them had
been commuted by Gov. Herbert H.
Lehman.
A sneer and a quip came from
the eldest of the three to die
Joseph OLoughlin, 24-as he
walked into the death chamber.
Let 'er 60, Bob he called to
Executioner Robert Elliott.
Arthur Friedman, %. and Dominic
Guariglia, 10, preceded OLoughlin
to the chair.
Guariglia, silent. carried an un-
identified picture to the chair with
him. Friedman bade "good-by" to
the witnesses.
Reprieved were Phillip Chaleff, q,
diabetic sufferer, whose life had
been extended by insulin injections,
and Isidore Zimmerman, 81.
4llC llfC lldo OCCll COllNlClSu VI
the killing of Detective Michael
j. Foley during a Second avenue
holdup in New York April 10, 1887.
All products of the lower East
Side, the five were subjects of
clemency appeals to Gov. Lehman.
In announcing the combinations
the Governor said Chalet and Zim-
norman had beene convicted on
testimony of two accomplices.
These two accomplices," he said
apparently in consideration of tes-
timony which they would give at the
trial, were not indicted for any
crime whatsoever"
Of the three denied, he said,
There is no doubt of the guilt"
Evening star., 1939-01-27
Georgia Bill Seeks
To Limit Libel Suits

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Jan. 27.-A bill
amending the Georgia libel laws
to take care of honest mistakes
is under consideration in the State
Legislature.
Sponsored by two newspaper pub
fishers and others, the measure pro-
vides that before any civil action
may be brought because of publica-
tion of libel the injured party must
give five days notice in writing to
the defendant.
In other cases the bill provides,
IF it appears upon trial that said
article was published in good faith;
that its publication was due to an
honest mistake of the facts; that
there were reasonable grounds for
believing that the statements in said
article were true, and that within
10 days after the service of said
notice full and fair correction or
retraction was published, =
then the plaintiff shall recover only
such special or actual damages as
the plaintiff shows he has sus-
tanned"