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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
Reserve Board
Paints Bright
Business Picture

WASHINGTON. Dec. 25. CUP)-
A bright picture of the business
situation was painted by the federal
reserve board today in a review
covering November and first two
weeks of December.
Almost all branches of industry
showed improvement, the board said
adding that it seaSonally adjusted
index of industrial production ad-
vanced from 121 to 124 in Novem-
Der, reflecting sustained activity in
a period when a decline is usual.
Industrial activity continued at
the high level which set in after
outbreak of the European war, the
board said, with considerable in
crease in distribution of commodi-
ties to consumers and a rise in
prices of basic commodities.
Production of durable goods, it
reported, showed further expan-
sion. Record production of steel
ingots continued in November ant
was followed by a less than seasonal
decline in the first half of Decem-
Der.
Automobile production increased
it said, Notwithstanding that planta
of one important company were
closed by an industrial dispute. Re-
tail sales of new cars were in large
volume while lumber production
declined less than Seasonally. Plat
glass production showed a reduc-
ton but output of nondurable goods
continued to a high level.
Cotton and Woolen mills activity
the review stated, increased ano
was close to record levels reached
three years ago. Rayon production
advanced but silk mills suffered 9
sharp decline. Changes at shoe
factories and meat-packing were
largely seasonal in character.
Value of construction contracts
increased following a decline ir
October, but both months reflected
the volume of contracts for public
construction. Private residential
building declined less than season
ally while contracts for private
work. both residential and nonresi-
Dental, were larger than a yeal
ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
BY WILLIAM TYRFE

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 25. up
Southern CALIFORNIA; S puny aviation
industry of 90 years ago, acceler-
ated by a second war, came out Of
its knee pants today with an un-
precedented stack Of contracts and
new super planes
Crews Of skilful aircraft workers
were prepared gradually in the ma
jor factories for War-sponSored or
ders. They came with a bang-S52, =
100000 worth in the last two months
to bring production backlogs 10
Sl608O0,COO an au-time peak.
The war orders came mostly from
France and Great Britain. France
gave the Douglas Aircraft company
a contract for $50 bombers at S30.-
100000, and the English asked 400
training planes from North Ameri-
can at $40 600 Additional craft
were booked for the republic Of
China at Vultee.
Whopping size of the orders on
top of already taxed factory facili-
ties and estimates that Douglas.
North American. Vultee and Lock-
JlctO MGlt lNdQ1 W WILL OAt iVl
flying machines a month were signs
at least--that the Los Angeles
plants had reached their maturity
simultaneously, Vultee test pilots
roared their new plane, named the
Vanguard. over the city in expert
mental flights. Details were secret.
but it was said publicly that the
Vanguard approached 420 miles an
hour and had a ceiling of 10000
feet. both superior performances
compared with similar European
warplanes. The Vanguard, a bullet
nosed. metal plane, will mount a
small cannon or an electrically oper-
ated machine gun, it was revealed.
Engineers at Douglas hurried a
giant l50,0oo-pound super-fortress
almost five times the size of present
huge army bombers. Tests OF the
plane were planned 10 aid in build
ing smaller" craft ei 7o,eoo pounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
BY HENRY T. GORRELL-


LONDON. Dec. IA (UP)-German
Foreign Minister Joachim Won Rib
bentrop takes the credit for Ger
many's anneXations of Austria and
Czechosiozakia and the return of
Memel to the Reich in the 1910
edition of the British who's Who"
Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Field
Marshal. Hermann w. Goering let
Ribbentrop claim the credit without
raising murmur of dispute because
they. unlike Ribbentrop, left prac-
tically unchanged the wording OF
their Biographies as they appeared in
the 1899 edition.
The biographies of the who's
Who" are submitted personally to
those persons listed in the volume.
Ribebntrop, former German am
bassador to London, submitted a re-
vised Biography to the London pub
fishers of the volume a few weeks
before the outbreak of the war and
asked that several changes and an
neXat.ons be made. His autobiogra-
ply runs one-eighth of an inch
longer than that of Hitler.
Ribentrop left unchanged the first
"a lines of his biography.
Then he added five lines stating
"Affiliation of Austria, March,
1888; affiliation of Sudeten area,
October, 1898; protectorate of Bo-
hemia and Moravia established in
March, 1899; return of Memelland,
March, 193."
Ribbentrop gave his address as
merely Berlin whereas Hitler again
gave his full address-Wilhelm-
strasse II, Berlin, Vests" Hitler
also gave his telephone number
again-Berlin 1l-6l91.
The biographies of Premier Benito
Mussolini and Foreign Minister Gal
eazzo Ciano of Italy remained un-
changed. Both are written in Ital-
ian.
Halle Selassie, who was not listed
this year. is included in next years
edition with Emperor" in black let
terS after his name. His biography
contains no mention of his flight
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25

MOlOtnV is Stains alter ego
Fortv-nine years of age and son
of a clerk. he won his spurs by
becoming a revolutionist at II and
Siberian exile in his twenties.
Ever since he has been stumping
for Soviet "ideolOgy" in general
ord Joeonh Stain in particular.
0.p-rvTI GROOMING
DOESN'T FIT
In personal arpoarance he is not
unlike the late Theodore ROOsa-
vnlt. He is pale, rather thick-set
with heavy shoulders, and seems
out of place among most of his
colleages because of his Anglo
arisocratic bearing and careful
attention to grooming. Like Rv-
kov. whom he replaced as chair
man of the Council of Peoples
Commissars. he speaks with no.
ticoab'e stammer.
During bv recent trip to the
Soviet Union, I found his picture
everywhere. often beside those OF
Lenin and Stain. Sometimes en-
tire top-stories of Soviet office
buildings are covered by canvas
nostar-portraits of the Soviet quad
! rumvirate: Lenin, Stain, MolotoI
and Voroshilov, commissar for de-
fense.
The foreign commissar is popular
and personally acapble, but is deS-
tined to remain figurehead so long
IS Stain is master in the Krem-
lin. Close observers of long ex-
perience in the capital refer tC
him as the Georgians good man
Friday"
For 18 years he has been the
immediate assistant of Stain and
has ESCAPED the successive purges
which have depleted the ranks
of the Old Bolshviki.
AS new master at the foreign
office (which has known only
three changes in its leadership il
the last 81 years--Chicherin, Lit
vinoff and Molotov) he is one OF
the Youngest foreign ministers in
Europe; speaks German and French
fluentlY.
Molotov is hardly known out
side of Russia, but his wife, now
head of the Soviet Cosmetics trust
visited the United States in 1886
o. March % 1899, at a plenary
meeting Of the Central Committed
# tha Communist Party, Molotol
~'os elected to the powerful inner
Political Bureau of the party
which makes decisions followed by
the government.
In addition 10 being premier and
chairman of the Council Of People,
Commissars, member Of the Po-
l'tical Bureau and Comnnissar OF
Foreign Affairs, Molotov stands
next to Stain atop the pyramid
of some 100000 Communist party
members who have special privi-
leges in helping to guide the Soviet
"democracy''-the only legalized
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
New Who S Who,
Gives Ribbenerop
Unusual Credit

from Ethiopia. 1t says that he was
crowned emperor in November
1880, and has constantly been en-
gagged in endeavoring to advance
Ethiopia and her people to the
standards of occidental civilization.
The longest biography is that Oh
Nicholas Murray Butler, president
of Columbia university, who occu-
piees more than column and a
half of small print-the equivalent
of the combined biographies of Mus
solini Hitler. British Prime Minis
ter Neville Chamberlain and Pres
ident Roosevelt.
Mr.. Roosevelt added only few
lines to his biography, including
statement that he is a Mason,
Episcopalian, and senior warden OF
st. James church, Hyde Park,
Duchess county, New York; White
House, Washington, D. c., U. S. A.
Kermit Roosevelt, son of the late
President Theodore Roosevelt, who
became British when he joined the
British eXpeditionary force, retains
his address, lone Broadway, New
York"
Josef Stalin's biography remains
unchanged in four lines.
Among those appearing in Who's
Who for the first time are Ronald
! Colman, the actor; Lincoln ELS
worth, explorer; Henry Morgenthau,
Jr, United States secretary of the
treasury; Dorothy Thompson, Amer
, ican newspaper columnist; HEINRICH
Bruening, former chancellor of Ger
many, now listed as a resident OF
Cambridge, Mass, William Adams
Delano, New York architect, and
Norman Bel Geddes, New York.
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's
biography remains unchanged from
last year.
One Of the most conspicuous om-
issions in the 1910 edition is that OF
! Generalissimo Maurice Gustave
Gamelin.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
Southern California Air Industry Grows
From Puny Infant to Husky Adult

Army flying fortresses" weigh
approximately $4,000 pounds. Ques-
tions about the plane were referred
discreetly TO the war department
Consolidated Aircraft Corp, at Sar
Diego finished its mysterious XPBY-
5A, the largest amphibian airplane
in the world. with claims it would
operate efficiently both over lane
and sea at distances hitherto i'm
possible. The size, boat-shaped prov
and a tricycle. retractable landing
gear were designed to enable adap-
ton of the big warplane TO naval
bases in Alaska and the West Indies
where rough going" needs a super
plane.
Tim Aircraft company announced
a new plastic plane, TO be stamped
out of a bakelite substance like
cookies, but capable of withstanding
terrific strains and performance re-
quirements.
Handling of the orders and build
ing huge and strange new planes
were described as routine work.
Donald Douglas, president of the
Douglas company, said nations al
ready were talking in terms OF
hemisphere defense. His firm an
nounced a fleet of bombers had beer
completed for Canada and that each
would fly more than 200 miles ar
hour with three tons of bombs OF
/ TINT nonstop from the Pacific TO
Atlantic Canadian coasts.
This can't be called a boom
bubble" Douglas said. Production
won't burst with the end of the war
in Europe. America is going ahead
with its own air armament"
The Lockheed company set a
record by rolling out their contract
with Britain for $50 bombers seven
and one-half weeks ahead Of con-
tract schedule.
The industry as a whole added
5000 employees TO its payroll since
oct. /, to bring the number OF work
ers in southern California plants TO
mere than 25,oc0.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
ROGER RARSON-


TOKYO, Dec. 1.-THE United
States has nothing to fear now in
a military way from japan. The
japanese have already bitten of
in China more than they can
chew" for a long time to come
Industrially, however, Japan will
constantly become more and more
of a menace to us. She has the
very latest machinery. excellent
shipping facilities, a huge birth
rate. low cost of living, and a very
industrious people.
Everyone seems very busy in this
island empire. The homes are
crowded together: every foot Of
fertile land is cultivated: and they
tell me that business is good"
OF course. much of the business
has been stimulated by the war with
China. Even after this ends, how
ever, Japan should enjoy good bus
mess from the rebuilding Of China.
There were several missionaries.
both Protestant and Catholic
aboard my ship who were returning
to their posts in Japan and China
They are a splendid group. They
speak we'll of the people of both
nations. Despite some questioning
Of their value in recent years, I'm
for foreign missions!
japanese Cocky Race
believe the japanese leaders
to be honest and that they are
anxious to be accepted graciously
in diplomatic and business councils.
They, however, are very hard
boiled. Apparently, they have
neither emotions nor sympathy. 1t
is especially difficult to talk to
them. The Chinese are no saints,
but you can argue with them and
negotiate But you might as
well talk to a stone wall as to try
to argue a business or political
question with the japanese. They
surely are a cocky race.
The days of exploitation of China
by Englishmen and Americans are
over. The japanese are determined
that they shall have a monopoly
of exploiting the Chinese. Right
here, let me say that I continue
to have great sympathy and ad-
miration for the wonderful Chinese
people I do expect to see trade
between the United States and jap
an increase tremendously after
this present war in the Orient is
over. There will be greater oppor-
tunities than ever for Americans
in connection with exporting and
importing; with offices, not fac
tories, doing business in the Or
lent, rent instead of own; keep your
possessions in trunks and your
books" in your hat!
No Labor Gears"
The wages in Japan are exceed
ingly low but the people seem hap
py with them. The factory wages
are said to average a yen, plus
dormitory quarters and simple food
for day Of ten hours. Un-skilled
labor IN the towns (the labor that
makes most Of the stuff imported
into the United States gets perhaps
only one-haf yen for a twelve
hour day; while skilled labor in the
cities may get one-and-a-half or
two yen for eight hours. In Japan
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
Bobson Declares
Japan IS Trade
Menace to US.

there is no interfering with effic-
ioncv methods by labor leaders.
Although Japan is in sore need
of collective bargaining-in which
I firmly believe-the nation greatly
benefits by employers being able
to reward effort and discourage
indifference.
Theoretically, the yen is pegged
around 25 cents. For practical
purposes. however, in many cases
business or exchange can be done
on the basis of Is cents per yen
In q free market and in unlimited
quantities. you are very lucky to
get an American dollar for six or
seven yen. One thing is certain
In flation is gradually becoming a
serious factor. Just now 1t goes
unnotioed by the people in Japan
because they are forbidden to take
more than 200 yen in or out of the
contry. Moreover, those selling In
foreign markets are reaping a temp
orary harvest. Those, however, who
must buy goods abroad are suffer-
ing great hardships.
Initiation Creeping Up
Certainly, the japanese soldiers
in China are learning lesson in
economies. They are paid in yen
which they are told are worth
75 cents or more in gold. If they
keep the yen until they get back
to Japan. they get on fairly well
although they find a big increase
in prices at home. If. however, they
wish to spend their yen in Hong
Kong or buy goods priced in pounds
or dollars, they ahve their eyes
opened to the results of initiation
-he English and the Chinese banks
may giYe the monlv 10 to IL cents
for the money Of the Emperor
whom they are told is the "Son OF
Godr
There are many things which are
very repugnant to me in Japan
today. Apparently. freedom OF the
press, freedom of speech, and other
things which we consider funda-
mental do not today exist in Japan
There is a great contrast between
the beauty Of the cherry blossoms
and the sadness of hberl-minded
neople. From this point of view.
Japan must be classed with Germ
any and Russia. Japan, however,
has learned one lesson which Amer
lea must learn. This is that Sc
curity cannot be legislated. Security
comes only through courage. In
fact. security is never talked about
in Japan. Instead of Security"
the watch-word Is Sacrifice.
Security Can't Be Purchased
A japanese official expressed the
opinion to me that it is mistake
for the American people to talk
about Social Security" or for any
bureau at Washington to have the
word security in its title. This
misleads people into believing that
security can be purchased by paying
some public department one or two
rer cent of. each months salary.
Yes, here is at least one thing
which Japan can teach us: Our
future depends upon our willingness
TO sacrifice We will save our lives
only as we are willing to risk our
liVesl
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
Ten British Ships
Reported Sunk

LONDON, Dec. 25. fUP)-The
Admiralty announced today that 10
British ships totaling 6,58l, tons
and eight neutral ships totaling
1O239 tons were sunk last week.
This was in addition to the
9.141-ton British vessel Inverlane
which struck mine and was so
badly ravaged by flames that it
was considered a total loss.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
Last Cool Burning Ship o.
u. S. Navy Driven 10 Port

era OF naval propulsion. The do
minion of oil is now complete.
They're making the Sacramento
a naval reserve training ship
they've stripped her of all but two
Of her weapons-guns that have
been smoking from more than firing
practice. too. and that's more than
some of these snooty Diesel-driven
packets can boast. They'll keep
her from the frontier seas where
she's cnugged these 25 years. But
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
jobIess Benefit
PAYMENTS Boosted

SACRAMENTO, Cai., Dec. 25.
CUP)-Christmas in the homes of
California's unemployed was much
cheerier this year because of in
creased jobless benefit payments
mailed out by the state department
of employment iS recent weeks.
An all-time record total of So
762243 was paid during five periods
of November, which was 90 per
cent greater than the total for the
same month in 1898, when $1,975,35
was distributed IN four periods.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
Truck Driver
Commits Suicide

SAN MATEO, Cal, Dec. 25. CUP)
Jack Rubenstein, As, Los Angeles
trucking contractor. committed sui
eide yesterday by dousing gasoline
on his clothing and setting himself
afire.
Rubenstcin told attendants at the
Community hospital he was driving
from San Francisco to Los Angeles
when he decided to kill himself.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
MoIotov Guides Viewpoint
O. Russian Population
(NEA Rddiophoto)
by PROF. THOMAS J. B. WENNER-

Soviet Russia currently looking at the world through
the pncenez glasses that perch the of her keWe
faced foreign commssar premier Viachesav Mikhaiovch
MolotOv.
His recent harangue the democraces for proongng
Furopes war and the invasion of Finland for refusing
Russian military demands throw light the personality
background and outlook of the who since last May has
been directing affairs at the Soviet foreign office
Many informed persons in the Soviet Union consider
Nolotov the logical successor to Stain, approaching
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
Soviet Planes
Raid HeIsirki

HELSINKI, Dec. 25. CUP) r.
Christmas air raids throughout Fin
land in which hundreds of bomb
ing planes participated were re-
ported today.
There were repeatedly many cas-
ualties, although official details
were lacking.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
Russia Renorts
All Quiet"

MOSCOW, Dec. 25. CUP)- A
communique from the Leningrad
military district today said:
Nothing of Importance took
place on the front Dec. "a eX-
cepting serious clashes of recon-
noitering units on the Karelian
Isthmus as a result of which Fin
nish troops left on the field Oil
killed while Soviet troops took
35 prisoners, including four Of
ficers."
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
Quints Celebrate
Fifth Christmas

CALLANDER. Ont, Dec. 25.
CUPl-The Dionne quintuplets to-
DAY celebrated their fifth Christ
mas as hostesses to their parents
and brothers and sisters.
A big turkey, with all the trim
mings, will be shared early this af-
ternoon by the combined Dionnes.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
Overdue Steamer
Reaches London

LONDON, Dec. 25. CUP)- The
22l1 ton channel steamer, Isle OF
Sark. which had been missing for
at Southampton with 200 persons
aboard. The steamer had sailed
three days, today arrived safely
from the island of Jersey.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
BY WILLIS THORNTON
NEA Service staff Writer

Sing a dirge of the sea. matey
the last coal-burning fighting
ship Of the United states navy
has been driven from the oceans.
When the stubby coastal gun
boat, Sacramento, "Gallopine
Ghost Of the China Coast" started
a few days ago for an ignomin-
ious retirement berth in the fresh
water port of Michigan City. IND.
she closed the book on a whole
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25

Pretty Miss Leila Albrecht, %, of
Phoenix, Ariz, has been selected
by Arizona State college to be
their Sun Princess for the Sun
Bowl festivities inspired by the
Sun Bowl game of Ell Paso,
Tex, between Arizona State and
Catholic university of Washing
ton, d. c.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25
political partv in the u. S. S. T
AUTHOR OF LINDBERGH
paid LIAR" ATTACK

The name of v. Molotov is af-
fixed to every decree in the Soviet
Union. First attention was called
to him outside Russia when he de-
rounred Col Charles Lindbergh as
2 paid liar" for alleged slurs against
the efficiency of R'lssia's air-arn
Second time was when he shocked
most of the world by signing, to-
gether with Herr Won Ribbentrop,
the Soviet German pact.
Like many another of his COM
patriots, the premier is using a
was born Viacheslav Sriabin.
name of his own choosing. He
AS young revolutionist, in and
out of exile three times, he adopted
many aliases. He preferred Molotov
to Zvonov, Prostota, Riabin, and
Mikhailov, so he kept it.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-25

they can't strip out the holes that
bullets blasted through he tunnels
on the Yangtze They can't chip
out all o. the concrete that was
poured into her bow to reinforce
plates torn By the ice filled seas up
Archangel way They can't rob q
ledy of her reputation-and the
Sacramento was and is a lady.
\ PROPER LADY
CAN NUDGE WITH NIGOR
A bit active for a lady? Yes,
hut she proved that a proper lady
con rub elbows with the world
orcasionallv tossing in a little extra
iig-and still keep her good name.
First it was Vera Cruz. She had
scarcely been commissioned in 1914
vhon she was sent down for the
Z. 6. naval landing and occupation
Of the city. Then it was the Barb
ary coast. She was the first Amer
ican in that wicked lane since the
DAYS Of Decatur. ard she still had
her gCod name when she left.
During the World War, she helped
convoy 4S3 ships. sailing more than
5000 miles. She rescued the crews
of the Sebastian when It burned
at sea in 1917. ard OF the Swan River
when it sank while the Sacramento
was irving TO tow it to port.
In 1919 she was frozen in at Muir
rnansk while serving the troops
guarding the Russian and Siberian
Railway.
Three years later, she appeared
at Vladivostok in the nick of time
to save foreigners caught in the
middle between fighting Reds and
White Russians.
She turned south for the Hon
duras disturbances in 1922 Then
she was off for seven years around
the world, mostly on the China
Coast.
She relieved earthquake victims
in Yokohama in 1928, helped the
PHILIPPINE Constabulary against reb-
els in Socorro in 1924
In lo2627 she helped protect the
foreign COLONY at Canton tlring ar
uprising. By 1881 she was of Belize,
Honduras. helping earthquake VIC
tins and rescuing a group Of cast
aUavs on C0rOs Island