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Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30

but his condition was not considered
alarming. His sudden death was a
shock to relatives and friends.
Burnham was we'll known in I'M
perial Valley and had visited his
son, Harold Burnham, and Mrs.
Burnham many times while they
lived in Ell Centre.
He was born in England and ar
rived in the United States when
l3 years of age. He became a natur-
allied citizen in 1890. In 1903 the
Burnham family moved to San
Diego from Minnesota. He engaged
in ranching for a while and later
dealt in real estate. In 1917 he be-
came vice-president of the South
ern Trust and Savings bank in
San Diego. The institution was
absorbed by the Bank of Italy and
later became the Bank of America.
He retained his vice presidency
throughout the changes.
In 1892 he was elected congress-
man from the twentieth district.
He was a member of all Masonic
bodies.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
London Indicates
Britain TO Fight
Nazi Expansion
Continued from Page y

European situation.
The Polish government also is
prepared 'for counter measures
should any initiative be taken in
Danzig," a government spokesman
announced to the press tonight at
Warsaw.
The spokesman's declaration said
that an act of violence in Danzig
initiated from within or without"
would be regarded as a cause of
war by Poland and, according TO
official declarations, by Great
Britain.
The Spokesmans announcement
was intended as direct warning
against an internal. Nazi-inspired
putsch in the free city as a prelude
TO a declaration by the pro-Nazi
Danzig regime of reunion with
Germany.
1t would mean that in event of
such putsch in Danzig, Poland
would be prepared to resist and
expected Great Britain's aid
The spokesman said the foreign
policy speech of British foreign
Secretary Viscount Halifax last
night meant that England would
take the same attitude as Poland.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30

oll W. IA aoA
trical activities.
House senate conferees, however,
agreed to insert the house ban in
the compromise bill with the eX-
ception that administrative and
supervisory employees on the pay
roll can continue through July to
wind up the project.
The action had been foreshadow-
ed by the strong house stand against
the theater project. Conferees went
into their discussion with senate
colleagues armed with copy of
a play assertedly presented by the
WPA which contained scene with
allegedly incentuous connotations.
The ban on the theater came in
spite of high pressure drive in
the past 10 days to permit the
theatrical activities to continue.
However, house members refused
to bulge. They pointed out that
the house WPA investigation had
drawn much of its material from
the activities of the federal theater
and insisted that the government
should not be allowed to continue
such work.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
Troops Move Thru
Streets of Berlin
1Contin,Ied from Page II

Continued from Page ID
tics in the case of Danzig, but the
tactics will not enter the acute phase
before another three or four weeks
and probably will not yield results
before six or eight weeks.
Well-informed Na3is are wager
ing that Danzig will be part of the
Reich by autumn. and without war.
The belief that war will not come
from the Danzig situation does
not mean the Germans are not get
ting ready. for they are.
German motorized army detach-
ments and an air force division
paraded through Unter Den Lin
den, Berlin's main thoroughfare,
Unexpectedly today.
Traffic was interrupted as excit-
ed Berliners jammed cross-streets
and sidewalks.
The parade included motorized
infantry, anti-tank guns, anti-air-
craft guns, field Kitchens and an
ambulance.
There apparently have been no
actual troop concentrations on the
eastern frontier so far. but that
would not be necessary until later
phases of the campaign.
Strategic sections of the eastern
frontier Notifications, it is under
stood, are being hurried to COM
pletion. The internal defense units
of Danzig apparently are being
strengthened rapidly.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
The international Crisis
French Jittery
Over War Scare

people to buy now" Yet the wife
of an American businessman was
told at fashionable Rue de la Paix
shop last week that the only rush
of buying recently came when a
sudden heat wave forced the pop
ulation to invest in summer clothes
which normally would have been
purchased week earlier.
There is a return of capital that
fled abroad due to war fears. and
there is an increasing attitude of
defiance toward Italy Armaments
are being built at faster and fast
er pace, the recent $500 0,000, 900 arms
loan was oyersubscribed in four
days and French experts are begin
ming to speculate optimistically on
whether their army could break the
supposedly impregnable German
Notifications in the Rhineiand
Attempting to coordinate and un-
derstand what has happened since
the Nazi dismemberment Of
Czechoslovakia, it is essential to
emphasize that in the long run
Paris looks to London for almost
all final decisions just as Italy
looks to Berlin.
Thus. there may be much beat
ing of breasts and many strong
statements from official sources thai
there will he mo more Munichs," !"
but ultimately France must gear
her foreign program to that formu-
lated in London.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
Senate FiIibuster
Threatens Money
Bill With Death
Continued from Page II

Warren r. Austin said that 'legiti-
mate debate" on the monetary bill
would prevent its enactment be-
fore the midnight deadline.
II am under the impression that
we will be here until midnight
Austin said after telephone con-
versations with other members of
the minority.
Legitimate debate will probably
occupy all the time"
The presidents statement ap-
peared to be an obvious effort to
throw the full weight of White
House influence against filibuster
in an effort to obtain passage of
the measure.
The president said he doubted
that the people as a whole would
be inclined to support the filibuster
Just because it was filibuster
That. he observed, was putting il
mildly
Status of the situation as Mr.
Roosevelt spoke gave the admins
tration a sweeping victory in the
conference report restoring dollar
devaluation power. reviving foreign
silver purchases and setting do
mestic silver buying price at 7t
cents an ounce. The house was
prepared to approve the report
Senate action was in question be-
cause of filibuster possibilities.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
Imperial Valley Press
EstabIisned AprjI IN 1qO1

Established ApffI 20, 1901.
Published every afternoon except
Saturday and Sunday Saturday
afternoon issue now succeeded
by The Post-Press Sunday, (es-
tablished 1880 by the Imperial
Valley Publishing company. 625
State street. Ell Centre. Calf
Iaul Jenkins. publisher: A. c.
Johnston. vice president and
general manager: f. A. Fitz-
hugh. secretary and managing
editor. West Holiday Co. Inc,
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atives.
Entered at FL CentYo. California
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ter.
Subscription rates. &c per copy.
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
400 RELIEF CASES
CUT OFF IN STATE

SAN FRANCISCO, June 80. CUP)
"A cut of 4l00 cases in the Works
Progress administration quota for
July and a five-day suspension of
all northern California WPA prof.
ects was announced today by State
Director of Relief William R. Law
son as the house of representatives
approved the 1910 compromise re-
lief bill.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
DaIadier Summons
Cabinet ParIey

PARIS, June 30. UP)-Premier
Edouard Daladier today summoned
the cabinet to meet, as formal
council of ministers under President
Albert LeBrun, at 10 am. tomorrow
to consider the Danzig and other
European problems and financial
matters pertaining to the national
defense.
1t was reported that new issue
of treasury bonds might be ap-
proved.
Diplomatic sources reported be-
fore the cabinet summons that
Germany planned to call additional
army reservists early in July.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
Envoy to Report
On Polish Crisis

LONDON, June 30. UP) - Sir
Howard Kennard, British ambas-
sador to Poland. was expected in
London late today by airplane from
Warsaw. 1t was stated on high
authority that he was "on leave"
but 1t was taken for granted he
would report immediately to the
government on the Danzig situa-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
Japanese Bomb US.
Mission in China
Blockade Area

T1ENTSlN, June oU. NOT'-oop
anese planes bombed and set fire
to the American Mission Union
high school at Foochow, dispatches
said today as the British gunboat
Grasshopper landed 36 bluejackets
at the blockaded port to protect
British property.
The Japanese planes flew over
the mission, which displayed two
big American flags as a signal to
airplanes, the dispatches said.
One bomb struck the west cor
ner of the school and set fire to
1t. Most of the building was destroy
ed, it was said.
DR.. A. w. Billing and his wife,
the only Americans at the school,
were reported unharmed. 1t was
believed they and others were TAX
ing shelter in dugouts.
The bombing was part of heavy
Japanese aerial bombardment OF
the center of Foochow. Other planes
bombed inland ports and Chinghai,
port of Ningpo up the coast.
American consulate general Off
cials at Shanghai presented a pro-
test to the japanese against the
bombing of the mission school.
Official advices at Hongkong said
that the 36 British bluejackets from
the Grasshopper were landed at the
request of the British consul
A blanket Japanese blockade had
been imposed at the port at noon
Yesterday and Japanese had said
that they would not be responsible
for safety of foreign property or
warships.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
Cabinet Resigns
In Netherlands

THE HAGUE, Netherlands. June
80 (UPl-The cabinet resigned TO-
day because OF differences over
currency problems.
Queen Wilhelmina asked Pre-
mief Hendrix Collin to form new
cabinet and he agreed to consider
the invitation.
Collin and opposition members
of the coalition cabinet had dis
agreed on budgetary economies.
The opposition members favored
a mild depreciation of the curren-
cy in order TO increase industrial
output and exports and provide
money for ornaments. Collin re-
fused 10 consider devaluation.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30

Funeral rites at the church VIII
be in charge of the Rev. Mr.. Har-
ry o. Nash, rector, and the Rev.
Mr.. Charles E. Spalding, and Of
ficers of the Grand Commandery,
knights Templar, of California.
Entombment will be private sat
Greenwood Cathedral mausoleum.
His survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Florence Kennett Burnham; two
daughters, Mrs. Helen Beard OF
Maryland and Mrs Virginia Hick-
ey of Honolulu; four sons, Harold
of New York City, Percy of Los
Angeles, Lawrence of Coronado,
and Ben of San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
War Scare Boosts
Copper Demand

NEW YORK. June 30. CUP)-
Foreign buying of copper. part OF
which was attributed to war de-
mand, ran at record breaking pace
in forenoon trade abroad today.
The buying brought sharp jump
in the price
The Cartel reported that fore
noon sales aggregated 1880 tons.
the largest single day turnover in
memory of metal traders. Yester-
days sales We're 1,443 tons.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30

also bans any promise OF co1nf)eH-
sation or employment in return for
political activity or solicitation OF
campaign funds from persons on
relief rolls.
The measure has assumed a
prime political Importance coming
as it does just before the 1910
presidential campaign. 1t would bar
of other administrative employees
district attorneys, and thousands
from any active part in the CAM
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
ARCHBOLD ARRIVES

CHARLOTTE AMALIE. Virgin
Islands, June 80. CUP) Richard
Archbold, Standard oil heir, and
five companions arrived today after
a nonstop trans Atlantic flight
from Dakar, Senegal. and after an
l1-month exploration expedition to
the South Sea islands.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30

paign.
The bill was locked in the house
committee for months. and the
administration brought pressure to
bear in an effort to soften its
provisions.
president John N. Garner
demanded its passage. saying con-
gress would not quit until that
bill has been passed"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
Attorney Tried
IN Bribery Case

SAN FRANCISCO, June 80. CUP
Testimony started today in the
trial of Vincent Mailman. San
Francisco attorney. and his inves-
tigator. Edward Garrett. charged
with conspiracy to Dribe a trial
witness.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
FIRE SWEEPS TRUCKEE. CAL.

TRUCKEE. Cal, June 30. CUP)
Five buildings in the iumoer
town of Il part Mills, six 1,..es
north of here. lay i'll ruins to-day
as the result % & fire which for
time threatened to destroy the
town.
Hobart Mus is a historic Lumber
town but was virtually abandoned
last year wnen numbering activities
ceased.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
Anti-P Potrono9e
Measure 0kayed

WASHINGTON June 80 (UP)-The house judiciary
committee today reported favoraby the controversial bill
by Sem Carl A. Hatch, d., NJ forbidding federal ad
mnsrave employees to participate in national political
campaigns The already approved by the senate
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS, Ell CENTRo. CALF.
Federal Thedter
Projects Killed

WASHINGTON, June 80. (UP)-The conference re-
port the 1910 relief bill carries death sentence for
the controversial federal theater project.
The project had been killed by the house but was re-
yived in the senate The bill lifted the house ban
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
George Burnhom
Funeral Saturday

Funeral services for George Burnham, 70, former
United States from this district who died
suddenly at LaJolla Wednesday, scheduled for Christ
Episcopal church Coronado at 2:30 pm. Saturday
He was under observation because of heart aiment
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-30
WEATHER

Los Angeles and Vicinity-Fair
Friday night and Saturday and
Sunday: overcast in morning near
coast: little change in temperature;
light variable wind.
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-04-13

II ELLO, EVERYBODY:
You know, there's always lot of hard luck camp
ing trips Somebody to get sunburned and
body else always steps rusty nail clips himself with
the Ratchet while choppng wood for the fire The bird who
is doing the cooking burns half the food and just when
you're comfortably settled and getting along fine Farmer
Jones comes along and orders you to
Camping trips just breed hard luck but the sgd
Rapport went the champion hoodoo camping trip
of them ALL 1t started dealing out tough breaks before sgd
and his pals got started
sgd lives in Brooklyn N Y. 1t was the summer of
1885 that he and half dozen other lads began planning that
camping trip They had picked spot upstate in the neigh
borhood of Poughkeepsie and all ready go. Then,
two days before they due to leave there terrific
rainstorm in New York and after nquiring about the
weather, they learned that it the upstate
The gang decided to go anyway-at least of them
did When the day of the big trip rolled around fellow
had the Another
other fellows mothers
weather because catch their
ground The trouble had started early nothing
sgd was to get into before that trip older
The Hikers Find a Camping Site.
There only brothers mys Syd,
but Left
The three of them took
to hike, with and
backs After Syd whe
they walked thumbed had
chosen and picked a camping
The ground wet the earth had
trouble putting their two small finally everything
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ADVENTUROUS
AMERICANS
BY
Elmo Scott Watson
Father of the Santa
Fe Trail

IN 1921 Capt William Becknell set
L out from Franklin, Mo, with four
companions to trade with the Co
manche Indians. Near the noun
tains they met party of MeNcans
who told them of Mexicos success
full revolt against Spain and invited
them to come to Santa Fee to trade.
Although Becknell had only small
amount of merchandise. he disposed
Of it at great profit. SO when he
returned to Missouri, he had no diff
Guilty in getting Franklin citizens to
invest more than $4,000 in another
trading venture.
Accompanied by party Of 30
men, Becknell set out for Santa Fee
the next spring. When the cara
van reached the Caches on the
Upper Arkansas, he made a momen-
touS decision. Instead of continu-
ing up the Arkansas into what is
now Colorado. then going south by
way of Taos, he decided to attempt
a short cut. 1t would take him
through an unexplored country but
it would avoid the long and circui-
tous mountain route of his first trip.
Counting on finding springs or
streams along the route, the party
took only two days supply of wa
ter. At the end of that time they
were in a desert country, suffering
the tortureS of thirst. In their eX-
tremity they first killed their dogs
to drink their blood, then cut off
their mules ears for the same pur-
pose
Near the Cimarron river they dis
covered an old buffalo bull They
killed him and drank the water from
his stomach. BY this time Becknell
had enough of the short cut"
He led his party north until they
struck the Arkansas and, following
that stream, arrived at last at Taos.
Despite their failure, the route
which Becknell had tried later be-
came a favorite one for many trad
ing parties and he is remembered
as the father" of the Santa Fee
trail
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The First Land Agent

a FTER the Revolution, New
York, disregarding the right Of
the Iroquois Indians to the land
south of Lake Ontario, ceded 6,000,-
600 acres to Massachusetts who
promptly disposed of these lands
to Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Cor
ham, for a million dollars.
In 1876 Phelps left Massachusetts
with a party to explore the vast ter
ritory which he haG acquired. After
a 130-mile trip through what was
then a wilderness, he reached the
shores of Canandaigua lake where
he called the Iroquois to council.
For two days the negotiations pro-
ceeded smoothly. Then the great
Seneca orator, Red Jacket, arose.
He recalled the sufferings of his
people during the Revolution, and
stirred his auditors up to such a
fury that the little group of white
men began to fear for their lives.
Fortunately for them, another
chief named Farmers Brother halt
ed the council until their passions
died down and the next day a salts
factory treaty was concluded. Then
Phelps began surveying his land
into tracts, called ranges, and SUBJ
dividing these into townships. six
miles square. Thus he became the
pioneer In the system of land sur
veying used in this country.
In 1889 he achieved another dis
tinction. He opened land office
in Canandaigua, said to have been
the first in this country for the sale
of forest lands to settlers, and thus
helped settle western New York.
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English Language Hard Though Rich, Flexible

The fact that the English-Ameri-
can language is the richest, the most
varied, and the most complex in
strument, makes it also the most
difficult to handle You can do more
work with it. but you can make
more mistakes. Only a few men
understand Einstein. because the
language of relatively is diff
cult; and only double handful of
men exist who can use our language
fiawlessly. Between the lowest and
the highest we vary only in the num-
Der and kind of mistakes we make.
A man can overdo it. like George
AIDES character, Oscar, who said,
Whom are your" for he had been
to night school.-Alisor Ainsworth
in Coronet.
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Adventure After Death

VICTOR TREVITT was a native
' of New Hampshire, who at the
age of IA ran away from home and
became a printer in Chillicothe,
Ohio. BY the time he was 20 he
had been in the army and had many
close calls in the Mexican war.
He emigrated to Oregon City
Ore, in 1854, became territorial
printer, newspaper man and clerk
in the house of representatives. Next
he took to exploring up the Column
bia river. after which he returned
to Dalles City and opened a tavern
that catered to prospectorS. AS the
town grew. he opened two more tav.
ems Soon he was one of its lead
ing citizens and was sent to the
state capital to serve as senator
When he returned to Dalles City,
he found that the free spending era
was over and his taVerns were no
longer profitable This led him to
gambling at which he made a con-
siderable fortune. He died on jan
uary %, 1888, but this was only the
start of another adventure.
He had made arrangements to be
buried on Memaloose island, the
burying ground for one of the neigh
boring Indian tribes. Burial in the
same ground with a white man was
considered bad medicine" by the
Indians. The day after Trevitt
was buried there, all who had rela-
tives in the Memaloose graveyard
dug them up and buried them on the
mainland. Today, amid the scat
tered bones of Indians who have no
descendants to remove them, the
body of Victor Trevitt, adventurer,
still rests.
g Western Newspaper Union.
The Coolidge examiner. [volume] (Coolidge, Ariz.) 1930-current, 1939-04-13

Being personal is the distinctive
thing with linens and personal &C.
cessories today. These alphabets,
mainly in lazy-daisy stitch, are
most effective in black or green
and a color or in two shades of a
color. No. 1947 contains transfer
pattern of two 2A-inch and two
112-inch alphabets; directions for
placing initials; illustrations Of
stitches.
Send Is cents in coins for this
pattern to The Sewing Circle,
Needlecraft Dept, 81 Eighth Ave
nue., New York, N. Y.
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The EngliSh-American language.
with its 100000 words and its un-
matched fexibility is the richest in
strument of expression in the world.
One reason for this is to be found
in history. which shows it to be the
fusion of two language elements, the
Germanic and the Romance. The
other reason is that the peoples who
speak it are and have been for CEN
turtles the top-dogs of the world.
The little island-English branched
out and made of their tight little isle
the greatest of empires. The Amer
leans developed virgin continent
into the richest nation in the world.
and were in their time Get us hope
it is not pasO the most energetic
people on the globe.
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Jack Berch, one of MICS hand
some young baritones, recently dis
covered that clothes are more inn
portant than he thought. With sum-
mer just ahead, he bought yacht
ing outfit, and liked it so much that
he wore it right out of the tailor's
and back to Radio City. -
He was on his way through the
first-fiOOr corridors to the elevators
when an elderly lady stopped him.
Young man." said she, 81 stopped
to look at one of the murals here,
and the touring group i was with
has gone on. Please continue my
tour"
Berch used to be a small-toWn
boy, and learned to be polite to ell
derby ladies. So, cursing his yacht
ing cap, he escorted her to the front
door, industriously describing the
murals they passed on the way.
There she discovered her group, and
he fed to the studios, his cap in his
hand.
Paul Whiteman's replacing Burns
and Allen on the air for the summer
could be listed as Turn about is
fair play" They once replaced Paul
Whiteman.
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Star dust
X Deanna Stays Deanna
X Bouquets for McCmey
4 Clothes Make the Guide
by Virginia Vale

NEANNA DURBIN seems
~ to be the current heroine
of moviedom, because OF her
excellent performance in
"Three Smart Girls Grow
Up" A lot of people who
liked "Three Smart Girls"
were pretty sure that they
wouldn't like this sequel; sequels
have way of being disappointing,
especially in the movies.
Then along came Universal with
the announcement that in this one
their money-making little star
turned glamorous. That made ev-
erything much worse. If Deanna
was going in for slinIzy gowns and
false eyelashes even the critics who
had always liked her were going to
use barbed adjectives, and urge
their readers to stay far, far away
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