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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-15
M O d E R N
ETIQUETTE
BY Roberta Lee

@. Should man omit the Mr.
on his business cards?
A. Yes. His card should read
Arthur L. Harris. Only such prefixes
as DR.. and Rev. are used on a bust
ness card.
@. What is the real definition of
coquette?
A. Webster says, "a woman who
endeavors without affection to at
tract mems amorous attention, es-
pecially by playful arts; a flirt."
@. May one use the knife to cut
open a muffin?
A. No. Bread of all kinds should
be broken with the fingers, never
cut.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-15
GOODIE SALE

~ OUODIE SALE
Lutheran Ladies Aid are giving
"a goodie sale Saturday, Sept. 16,
at Bert's Cash Grocery Donations
appreciated. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-15

NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY
To be issued Sept. 80 and forms
close Sept Is. For space, listings
and changes please call Juneau
and Douglas Telephone Co., phone
420. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-15

The earth's atmosphere is rs per-
cent nitrogen, 81 percent oxygen,
and l percent rarer gases.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-15

Empl-e Want Ads Bring Results.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-09-15

FALL DANCING CLASSES
Now enrolling. Phone Dorothy Isl
Rolf, Red 119, 315 Third st. adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05

ROCKY POINT, N. Y, Dec. B.
CUP) - Charles Courtney, inter-
nationally known locksmith and
safe cracker, today told police that
he was beaten by three Nazi agents
in his home and robbed OF German
war documents which had come
into his possession accidentally.
The 49-year safe expert said
that the attack occurred Sunday
night and that one of his assailants
was a man he knew as Max Won
Waldo. The documents were blue
prints of German magnetic mines,
he said.
Courtney said he had met Won
Waldo in New York and that they
became friendly when they found
they had attended the same techni-
cal high school in Charlottenberg
Germany. Won Waldo described
himself as a former naval engineer
for the firm of Neufeld and Khun-
ke. manufacturers of German mines
at Kiel according to the locksmith.
On October %, Won Waldo brought
a strong box to Courtney's shop
in New York and asked him to
open it because the lock had jam
med. Courtney opened it and found
that it was filled with papers. The
next day he said he found on the
floor an envelope containing the
mine blueprints.
He told police that when he saw
the plans he decided to turn them
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05

had to play alone.
He picked up a chair and passed
IL across the room. He sent an eX-
pensive lamp after it. More lamps
and a settee followed. He picked up
q vase. tucked il unde; his arm
and charged back and forth. dodg-
ing the furniture.
BY this time a crowd of several
hundred had gathered. Several ex-
uberant members of it cheered him.
calling plays. The one man team
tripped several times and cut his
face but he was not one TO leave
the field before the victory was VOL.
Meanwhile. Anderson in the base
ment and tenants had called the
police. when the first patrolmen
arrived. Whitmore was charging
down the lobby with a vase under
his arm, straight toward a long
mirror He hit it with a crash and
went down with bloody head.
Two policemen tackled him, but
he stiff-armed them. Two more
dove, but the marble floor was
bloody and slippery by now and
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
Wartime Price Rises Put
u. s. i'm Econo mic Squeeze

said that the country is in bet
ter position today to regulate price
rises than it was 20 years ago. The
antitrust laws, he suggested, are an
excellent weapon to combat price
boosts due to colluSion.
Lubin. who is commissioner of la
Dor statistics of the Department of
Labor and one of the top price eX-
perts in the government, appeared
before the committee which recently
was charged by President Roosevelt
with responsibility for keeping price
trends under close surveillance.
He and DR.. Willard L. Thorpe,
special economic adviser to Secre-
tary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins,
argued that there is no necessity for
wide spread increases III commodity
prices. Both agreed also that the
increased power of trade unions will
be a more important factor in the
economic situation than it was 20
years ago if the current European
war is prolonged.
Increased union membership
means chat any price rises will be
moro quickly followed by wage
increases than ever before Thorpe
said. This may tend to hold down
the level of profits, which were so
important a factor in World War
expansion"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
Says U. S.
Interests Safe

vious that a changed situation in
China does exist and feels that the
changes which have been brought
about must be taken into consider
alton.
He said Japan recognizes about
300 incidents in which American
interests in China have suffered in
stead of some GOO listed in American
claims.
Japan regrets the emphasis which
has been placed on the possibility
of an embargo in Japanese-Ameri-
can commercial relations after the
present japanese American trade
treaty expires on Jan. 26 next, the
foreign minister said, believing that
threats of economic pressure can
only damage japanese American
relations.
The newspaper Nichi Nichi said
Japans plan TO Great new order"
in China will not jeopardize Ameri-
can rights and interests in China.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
L.ocksmith ellis
Of Beating

over to army authorities. He COM
municated with a friend. Thomas
johnson who agreed to get in touch
with army engineers.
More than a week ago, Won Waloe
accompanied by two men, returned
to the shop and demanded the piue-
prints but Courtney said he put
them off. Several other calls were
made and then Courtney agreed to
turn over the papers at his home
here yesterday.
When the three men appeared he
again refused to give them the plans
and one of Won Walde's companions
struck him on the head with a
blackjack. The three then fled with
the prints according to Courtney.
Local police turned the case over
to the New York office of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
New Tax Proposal
Before Board Here

Copies of the State Tax Assess
ment plan for a gross income tax
and repeal of all California tax as
sessment laws we're laid before the
board of supervisors at their meet
ing Monday
In brief the proposed plan would
take $l.5O per 500 per month from
the income of residents and depend
upon that to pay the cost of state
government.
Backers hailed the plan as a
Biblical" form of taxation which
if adopted in California would pre-
vent property owners from losing
their homes and land because of tax
delinquencies.
Board members were asked to
study the proposal and to attend
a conference in Los Angeles Tues
day SO that it might be explained
in greater detail.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05

TOKYO. Dec. 5. CUP)-An au-
thoritative version of yesterdays
conversation between Foreign Min
ister Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura
and United States Ambassador JOS
eph C. Grew, which was given the
United Press today, said the foreign
minister promised compensation for
all damages suffered by American
interests because OF japanese mill
tary operators in China.
The japanese armed forces in
China from now on will make every
effort" to avoid damage to Ameri-
can property and will respect all
American interests, the foreign
minister said
Japan has no intention whatever
to attempt to oust third powers
from China, Nomura said, adding
that this country will welcome par
ticularly the participation of out
side nations in Chinese economic
and cultural development.
The foreign minister asserted
however, that if the United States
insists upon the principle Of the
"open door and equal opportunity
in China" without any considera-
ton for the changes brought about
by japanese military operations dur
ing the past two and one half
years a settlement of Japanese
American problems is likely to be
delayed.
Japan asks no special privileges.
lac said, but believes II 10 be ub.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
Man-Wife Law Held
Invalid in Arizona

PHOENIX, Dec. 5. (UP)-A rul-
ing of the state supreme court held
unconstitutional today an act of
the l4th legislature prohibiting a
husband and wife from holding
state jobs simultaneously.
The decision was handed down
in the appeal of two University of
Arizona professors and their wives.
The wives, also instructors at the
institution, were refused employ
ment this year because of the newly
enacted law.
The courts opinion was written
by Justice Albert c. Lockwood.
1--WE hold that the provisions OF
the statute are unconstitutional and
void" he wrote, "and that the de-
PENDANTS (the university will not
violate any law by employing all
the plaintiffs if only the objection
to their employment is that any
two of them are husband and wife"
The statute had been contested
almost continually since its pas
sage earlier this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
Man Pleads Guilty
To Theft of Girl

PHOENIX. Dec. 5. (UP)-Otis
Vincent Miner, 81, of Pitcher, Okla.
pleaded guilty today to a child
stealing charge in the abduction
10 years ago of Alice Vestle. then a
y year old Phoenix school girl. He
will be sentenced Monday.
Miner said in a confession to
County Attorney Richard Hairless
he made off with Alice after an
argument with her father. Frank
Vestle, now a resident of Ashland,
Ore.
He said he kept the girl with him
during the 10 years and that he
married her in 1892 when she was
but Is years old
Hairless said Alice's disappearance
had remained a mystery until so
days ago when she turned up at
her parents Ashland home.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
Expense Accounts
Stir Controversy
Over ReckIessness

PHOENIX. Dec. 5. UP)-State
Auditor Ana Frohmiller today asked
Gov. R. T. Jones either to put
curb on excessive travelling by state
officials or to approve of expense
claims over her protest.
She cited "wanton. reckless and
unnecessary" travel expenses of sew
eral state departments. the monthly
total of which often runs over $50
900. she said.
In a lengthy letter addressed TO
the governor, Mrs. Frahmiller asked
him to approve travel claims sub
iect to provisions of section of
state law which gives the auditor
the right to reject any claim she
feels is not for state business unless
the specific claim has been approx
ed by the chief executive.
The auditor charged there had
been a tremendous" increase in
travel costs in recent years.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
Squod Of Cops HoIts One
Mans Wierd Grid Game

NEW YORK. Dec. 5. OUP)-Da-'
vid Whiunore. 81. who says he used
10 play football at Georgetown Uni
versity. staged a Flowing Bowl"
game in the lobby of a swank apart
ment house of Central Park early
today
He started at 3 a. m. when he
spotted Nils Anderson. a doorman.
standing Just inside the doors of l28
Central Park south. Anderson hes
itated about letting him in and he
kicked a hole through the plate
glass. The doorman retreated.
Take me up to the Waters apart
ment." he directed when they reach
ed the elevator.
Anderson said nobody named
Waters lived there
isn't this No ! Fifth Avenue?"
he asked.
The dooman said that was So
blocks south. Whitmore then an
nounced:
We'll, you and I are going to play
football. Here I come"
Anderson fled to the basement
and locked the door, so Whitmore
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
Hi Johnson Maps
Campaign Plans;
L.amhasfs Russia

LOS ANGELES. Dec. 5. UP)-
United States Senator Hiram john
son arrived here today to confer
with friends on his coming cam
paign for reelection and declared
the United States should break off
diplomatic relations with Soviet
Russia
The veteran Republican senator,
! champion of American isolation
rom foreign quarrels, said that
Keeping out of war was the main
issue confronting the American
people at the present time.
Senator and Mrs. johnson were
greeted upon their arrival here by
e. Manchester Boldly, publisher;
Josepr Scott. Republican leader, and
Frank P. Doherty, veteran pro-
gressive Republican.
Johnson will devote three days
to conferences with various groups,
Republican and Democra-
tic supporters and leaders of or
ganized labor He will make no pub
lie appearances or speeches.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
S u NJ Nj o N S

~ NI " ~ -
No. 1882
In The Superior Court OF the
State of California, in and for The
County of Imperial.
IMPERIAL, IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT Plaintiff
ANTONIO IRIBERRI, ct al,
Defendants.
Harry w. Horton and George r.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The People of The State of Cali
fornia Send Greetings to:
ANTONIO IRIBERRI, BANK OF
AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST and
SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, a Ma
tional Banking Association, as
Trustee, ]. F.. CHALUPNIK, ROSIE
CHALUPNIK, c. E. JACKMAN,
HARRY HILLARD, ELLEN HUM
PHREY HILLARD, JOHN DOE,
JANE DOE, RICHARD ROE, JOHN
DOE COMPANY, Corporation,
RICHARD ROE COMPANY, a Co
partnership, j. DOE as Admins
lTdUOT Vi AlulllllloIl VI dOllA, ChSSueOA
or Executrix, of the Estate of r.
ROE, Deceased. Defendants.
You Are Hereby Directed to
Appear and answer the Complaint
in an action entitled as above,
brought against you in the Superior
Court of the County of Imperial,
State of California, within ten days
after the service on you of this
Summons = if served within this
county; or within thirty days if
served elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take Judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, or
it will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this 29th day of September
1889.
w. J. McCLELLAND,
(SEAD County Clerk
BY Dorothy S. Reynolds,
Deputy Clerk
o. 81 N. 7 IA 81 % D. 5 IL 10 26 j.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05

vanized steel.
There is no assurance that price
Uses that already have begun will
not continue and broaden to in
clude a constantly wider group of
commodities, he testified. IF this
happens we must expect an in
crease in the cost of living and a
demand for increased wages by
labor
Such a development, he warned,
would bring the nation face to face
With the serious economic reper-
cussions" of World War days. He
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
Drivers License
Renewals Urged

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 5. (UP)--
Director of Motor Vehicles Howard
Philbrick today urged motorists
whose drivers licenses have expired
to apply for renewals during De-
cember. since activities of the dri-
vers license division will be cur
tailed during the annual registra~
ton period in January and Feb
ruary.
Phibrick said much of the dri-
vers license division personnel will
be transferred to automobile regis
tration jobs and driver examina-
ton service will be temporarily dis
continued in many places.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
Death Strikes as
CaIexican Sfrons
AIonq Sidewalk

CALEXICO, Dec. 5.-Jesse Starks
40, Negro, died suddenly Tuesday
morning as he walked along the
street near his home at Lincoln and
Olive streets here.
Two friends Who shared his home
with him saw him walking toward
home. Starks suddenly staggered
and dropped to the ground, Deputy
Coroner Robert Parrish said. The
friends, Luther Moorse and Joe
Spencer, carried him to nearby
packing shed and physician was
summoned. Starks was dead when
the physician arrived.
The Negro had worked on farms
in the Calexico area for many years.
The body was taken to the Lemons
mortuary in e Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
Flax Growers to
Attend Meet

Members of the southwest flax
seed association will attend the an
nual meeting of that organization
at the Planters Hotel in Brawley
tonight at 7 o'clock, according to
Argyle MacLachlan, secretary.
MacLachlan reminded members
that this years meeting was sched-
uled in Brawley, not in Ell Centro as
was previously announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
Druggist Grapp|es
With HoIdup Pair

GILBERT. Dec. 5. CUP)-J. B
Weber, local druggist and former
prominent Maricopa county politi-
cal figure. today can give thanks
for hold-up mans poor marks
manship.
When two gunmen entered his
drugstore and asked him to give
us the money or we'll kill you" We
Der lifted a haymaker from the floor
and started a tussle that ended
with the assailants fleeing down an
alley. They fired two shots but
Weber was not hit.
The total sum of money involved,
Weber said, was S25.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05

WASHINGTON. Dee. s. lUP)-
Prices of some American eommo-
dities have risen as Q result of the
European war and the nation faces
a period of painful economic re-
adjustment, DR.. Isador Lubin, De-
partment of Labor official, told the
Federal Monopoly committee today.
He reported that wholesale prices
Of many drugs and medicines have
doubled during the past few months,
and said sharp increases have oc-
Cured in prices of burlap, zinc,
grains, WOOL wheat, cotton and gal
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
Supervisors Veto
CountyBookIets

County supervisors vetoed a board
of trade request for money for new
booklets to advertise Imperial coun-
ty and Monday instructed its mem
bers to coast along until after the
dawn of the new fiscal year with
out such expenditures.
A group of board of trade men,
bers advocated the booklet PROPOSE
ton but supervisors declared they
could not see the necessity for the
booklets during the present fiscal
year.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
Forger Sentenced
ToCounfy Jail

A 60-day county Jail sentence
was ordered for Arthur Fuller, %,
in superior court Tuesday after his
request for probation was denied.
Fuller formerly pleaded guilty to
forgery and passing a check without
having sufficient funds TO cover it.
After completing the jail sentence,
Fuller said he planned to return
to his home in Arizona.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
Imperial Valley Press
Establisbed April 20, 1901.

Established April 20, 1901.
Published every afternoon except
Saturday and Sunday saturday
afternoon issue now succeeded
by the Post t-Press Sunday, les
tablished 1886 by the Imperial
Valley Publishing company, 625
state Street. El centro, Calf.
paul Jenkins. publisher; A. c.
Johnston, president, and
general manager; f. A. Fitz-
hugh, secretary and managing
editor. West Holiday Co. Inc
National Advertising Represent
atives.
Entered al El Centre, California
post office as second class mat
ter.
Subscription rates, SC per copy.
In eonjun ction with the Post
press (Sundays), per month,
60c; paid In advance. months,
sl.65; 6 months, 1925. one year,
Sc. 90.
Mambsr California Newspaper
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
TARIFF DECISION DELAYED

PHOENIX, Dec. 5. (UPJ-Sam H.
Morris, chairman Of the Arizona
tariff board, said upon his return
from Washington today the state
department had postponed until af-
ter Jan. ! decision on whether
lowered copper tariffs will be in
cluded in the pending trade treaty
with Chile.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05

heaps of rugs and broken furniture
added to the confusion. Finally,
after Is patrolmen had joined the
fray he gave in.
At the west 47th street station
four patrolmen held him while a
police surgeon took % stitches in
his head. neck and throat.
Whitmore said he was clerk.
Police learned later that he had
been persuaded earlier not to hold
the Flowing Bowl" classic at the
Essex House and the New York
Athletic club.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
LEGAL NOTICE

Notice is Hereby given that the
Ell, CENTRIC WRESTLING CLUB
has filed an application with the
state Athletic Commission to con-
duct wrestling matches in the Fox
West Coast Theatre, 141 South Sew
enth Street, FL Centro, California.
Cfl30, Dl4 inciJ
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
NON SUPPORT TRIAL
ORDERED HERE

Glenn Shepherd. Seeley resident,
vas ordered to trial in superior
court on a charge of failing to sup
port his illegitimate child. He was
sent back to the county Jail Tues
day at the close of a preliminary
hearing in El Centre justice court.
Bail was set at $500.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
There Are Two Ways
to Get at Constipation

Yes. and only two ways-betore
and after IL happenSi Instead Of
enduring those dull, tired, head
achy days ard then hGUiHg TO
take an emergency nedicine-Why
not KEEP regular with KeLogg's
All-Bran? You can, If your con-
stipation is the kind millions have
-dve to the lack Of bulk" in
modern diets. For All-Bran goes
right to the cause OF this trouble
by supplying the bulk" you need.
Eat this toasted nutritious &C.
ealevery day-with milk orcream,
or baked into muffins-drink
plenty Of water, and see if your
life isn't a whole lot brighter!
Made by Kellogg's in Battle Greek.
Sold by every grocer.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-05
LICENSE ISSUED

LICENSE ISSUED
A marriage license was issued
Monday to Davis Takayuki Yamaka,
%, Los Angeles, and Margaret Har-
uko Sonoda, %, Imperial.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-02-02
Baltimore EpwOrth League VIII
Not Meet At Mt. Lake Park

Announcement has been made that
the Epworth League Summer Insti-
tute, held at Mountain Lake Park for
several years, would be transferred to
Westminster, and held on the campus
of Western Maryland college, COM
mencing July 10.
The decision to change the location
of the institute was made Saturday at
meeting of the faculty, called by
Dean Edward G. Latch, at the Chevy
Chase church, Washington, D. C.
Reasons given for the change were
the rundown condition of the buildings
at the Park, the fact that the Park is
in the extreme western end of the
state. The institute, sponsored by the
Baltimore Conference of the Metho-
dist church, has faculty of about 25
teachers and is usually attended by
nearly two hundred young people of
the churches included in the confer
ence.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-02-02
Fire Company Appoints Com
mittee To Inspect Fire Escapes
At School

At the regular meeting Of the Oak
land Fire Department last evening d
committee was appointed to inspect
the fire escapes at the Oakland Ele-
mentary school, and to meet with the
Board of Education to make their
recommendation with regard to the
safety of the fire escapes and to take
up the matter of regular drills in all
the schools in the territory the local
company serves.
This action was taken after the mat
ter had been brought to the attention
of the company by group represent
ing the Parent-Teachers' Association.
Named on the committee were L. M.
Fraley, Emroy Bolden, G. G. Stemple,
James Lewis, and R. j. Stanton.
A banquet has been scheduled for
next Wednesday evening, to be held
at the Manhattan hotel. A pig has
been donated by w. R. Browning to
furnish the main item on the menu.
The Oakland Firemen answered one
call the past week at the home of
Chamber A. Spiker, on the Gortner
road. No damage resulted from an
overheated fue.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-02-02
MedicO Is Called Out In Storm
After Seeing Movie About
Doctors

When DR.. Cliff P. Berger emerged
from the movie theatre on Monday ev-
ening after seeing the dramatization
of the book entitled, ''The Citadel,
dealing with the life of practicing
physician in Great Britain, he was
met by a man who had been waiting
for him quite some time.
"My mother is very ILL.," he told him.
"Will you Gomez"
When DR.. Berger told him eyes,
the man continued: chs out beyond
Deer Park. When we get as far as
we can in car there is still mile to
walk.
DR.. Berger went. 1t was almost mid
night and there was a storm raging.
The picture witnessed, of course,
wasn't responsible for his readiness to
60. But it must have helped to put him
in mood for rendering service, and
being proud of it.