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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-13

Cars, boats, tractors which are
as correctly styled as the large ones
from which they are copied, are al
ways welcomed by boys, and there
is no question but what the Euro
pean war has increased their in
terest in guns, tanks, soldiers, ships,
and airplanes. For the littler ones
soft cuddly animals which are most
realistic in appearance, soft balls,
bright colored toys are possible
gifts.
Older children will be delighted
with sporting equipment of all sorts,
with games, books, and with their
own radios so that they can hear
the programs which they enjoy
and which father and mother fail
to find quite so fascinating. Cam
eras, stamps and other articles which
fill the requirements of their par
ticular hobbies are always welcome.
For the Ladies
AS for the women in the family,
from those just entering high school
to grandmother, something to wear
is always welcome for who ever
heard of a woman who admitted
she had enough clothes.
Frivolous negligees, tailored loung-
ing pajamas, luxurious robes, Frilly
lingerie, hose, gloves and bags to
match that best outfit, jewelry, both
real and costume, gay handkerchiefs
and even a new outfit complete
from shoes to hat will delight the
feminine heart. Every woman
adores those extra little luxuries,
bath salts, perfumes, scented soaps,
cosmetics which make her feel as
glamorous as any movie star and
don't forget that flowers and candy
never fail to make an impression.
The hostess and homemaker loves
something new for the house: crys-
tai, china, linens, silver, ornaments
which make her entertaining dis
tinctive and gracious. In this field
the merchandise is particularly at
tractive this year and it is only a
question of selecting the articles
which best suits her tastes and her
home.
Equipment for the home is also
a welcome gift and the stores have
available many suggestions for
tightening the burden of the women
who does her own work, giving her
more freedom and ease.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-13
Husband Refused
ToSpeak to Her,
Wife Complains

Her husband refused to walk
along the street with her shortly
before their baby was born, would
not speak to her when he met her
in public places, and boasted that
he kept company with other women,
Mary Jane Burke alleged in a di-
vorce suit filed against Allen R.
Burke Tuesday.
They married in Yuma Dec. %,
1887 and late the next year he be-
gan travelling with a construction
crew and she accompanied him,
she alleged In April, 1899 he sug-
gested that she visit her mother in
e. Centro, she said, and at the end
of her visit he refused to send her
money to return TO him.
She finally borrowed money from
her mother, she alleged, and re-
joined him. She accused him of be-
ing sullen and cruel to her. She
asked for custody of their child.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-13
Twin Jobs Banned
For Air Executive

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. CUP)-
The Civil Aeronautics Authority
ruled today that a director of a
large aircraft corporation can not
serve simultaneously as a director
of an air line because it would
potentially involve a substantial
conflict of interests"
The authority made this ruling in
denying the application of Lawrence
c. Ames, Oakland, Cal, director
of Lockheed Aircraft corp, to serve
in similar capacity on the board
of Continental Air Lines, inc. Under
provisions of the Civil Aeronautics
act, interlocking relationships be-
tween air carriers, or between an
air carrier and any other person
engaged in any phase of aeronau-
tics must have the authority's ap-
proyal.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-13
By RUBY A. BLACK

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. CUP)-
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose
indefatigable enthusiasm for the
Yuletide season has amazed the
capital for the past seven years,
plans to give three parties for chill
dren this year, she disclosed today
The youngsters will be allowed
to disport themselves around a huge
tree in the executive mansion on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
after Christmas, the First Lady said.
There will be gifts for all.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Boettiger, SON.
in-law and daughter of President
and Mrs. Roosevelt, will bring their
three children, Anna Eleanor Dali,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-13
Not Where 10 Find I
But How to Choose III
Men With Hobbies

Men who have hobbies, the
sportsmen, devotees of any parti-
cular game from bridge to poker,
are the shoppers pets for their
Christmas wants are easily supplied
and the stores stand ready to help
them in making their selections SO
that the inexperienced shopper need
have no fear about choosing the
wrong thing.
For the man who doesn't know
what he wants, there are always ties,
handkerchiefs and socks, and al
though the Christmas tie selected
by woman has long been a joke,
the assortment this year is so fool
proof that he is certain to wear that
tie with pleasure, instead of relegat-
ing it to the darkest corner of his
closet. Robes, shirts, sweaters, suits,
gloves are always welcome as is
something for his office, nice sta
tionary, books, smoking equipment.
Shaving and bath accessories, thor
oughly masculine in nature, are
also nice gifts for the hard-to-
please man.
A Family Christmas
Perhaps this year it is to be a
family Christmas with one big gift
that every member will enjoy, rang
ing from that long-wished for new
car to a radio, furniture, rug, pic
ture, lamp, or a picnic kit for the
family that loves to take trips. And
speaking of travelling, the new
luggage is both practical and at
tractive this year.
California's fruits, including I'M
perial Valleys own grapefruit, dates
nuts and other products are ideal
for gifts and for the person who
has everything, some particular
epicurean novelty will meet with
approval.
In short this year the shopper has
only to make out the list of persons
for whom gifts are to be chosen
plus the amount of money the budg-
ct permits for Christmas presents
and the city'S stores will do the
rest, Christmas shopping was never
easier than it is this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-13
Notre Dame Chief
viii Resign Post

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13. CUP)-
The Very Rev. John F. O'Hara
said today he will resign the presi-
dency Of Notre Dame University in
order to assume his new duties as
head OF Catholic religious welfare
work in the United States army.
Pope Plus XII appointed him til
tular bishop of Milasa and placed
him in charge of the U. S. armys
Catholic chaplains.
"I am sorry to leave the uni
versity," he said I'll probably
leave next month to assume active
duty with the army's Catholic
chaplains."
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-13
Five British Ships
Missing at Sea

LONDON, Dec. IL CUP)-Five
British steamships have disappeared
without trace in recent weeks in
the south Atlantic and are believed
TO have been victims of the Ger
man pocket battleship" Admiral
Scheer, it was disclosed today.
There was but one clue to any of
the ships. The Walvis Bay radio
station. on the coast of southwest
Africa, picked up on December 2
the one word message from the
steamship Doric Star:
"Gunned."
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-13
State Tax Expert
Due Here FridaV

On Friday, last date for payment
of the last installment of 1898
state taxes. Examiner John Petit
will be at the Ell Centro Chamber
of Commerce to assist taxpayers.
He will accept payments from
Imperial Valley taxpayers on that
day if they have not forwarded
their payments to Sacramento. he
telegraphed Manager Robert Hays
of the chamber OF commerce We'd
nesday.
Definite appointments with Pet
tit may be made by telephoning
chamber headquarters, Hays said
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-13


sibilitieS.
Never before have the stores been
so well stocked with Christmas sug-
gestions, for this year the manu-
facturers have exercised consider
able taste and ingenuity in design
ing their merchandise Even the ar
ticles in the lower price range are
delightful and it is now possible
to find really attractive presents to
meet the requirements of the slim
purse.
Children come first at Christmas
time and the stores have literally
hundreds of articles from which
selections may be made.
For those future homemakers
there are dolls in all sizes and de-
scriptionS and there are duplicates
in miniature of every convenience
and aid to good housekeeping that
mother possesses. These domestic
minded young ladies will be de-
lighted with any gift of this type
while for those whose interests are
less housewifely, there are games
of all sorts, many of which appeal
to the creative instinct of the
youngster, books, magazines, skates,
tennis racket, badminton sets and
other possibilities to meet the de-
mand for active play.
Gifts for Boys
Boys will also like these games,
books, and magazines, and for them
many of the new games bring into
play their constructive energies,
providing them with interests for
many days.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-13

what otherwise is joyous season
for her She condemned Soviet
Russia's bombing of civilians in Fin
land as terrible thing" and hop
ed that people could become more
civilized"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-13
Initiation Honors
LIST Eagles Chief

Honoring Al Casner, first presi-
dent of the Eagles lodge in Ell Cen
tro, class OF some 20 candidates
is to be initiated Wednesday night
at O'Clock in the lodge head
quarters, 500 Broadway. Casner was
member of the charter chapter
of the local aerie. Following the
initiation supper will be served.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-13
Migratory Camp
Has Full House.

BRAWLEY, Dec. 13.-The fed
eral labor camp here had full
house" Wednesday, Camp Mana
ger William A. Hancock said.
Many members of the migratory
agricultural camp were turned away
this week after the 200 tent sites
we're occupied
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-13

Let us finance the unpaid-balance
on that New Car you wish to buy!
Walk into the showroom-the show
room of the car you particularly
preferI-with that cash-in-pocket
assurance of knowing, demanding,
Just what YOU want-not what
some financing setup tries to pre-
vail upon you to accept" See us.
Then, buy your car!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-13
This Years Christmas Problem One Of
Making Choice Between Many Beautiful
Gifts. Shopping Survey Reveals
. BY ANNE DAVIS :

Christmas shoppers have a problem this year.
Instead the usual frantic wandering from store to
store in search of something that will do they
fronted with the problem of making choice from the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-13
wake UP YOUR
LIVER BILE

Without Calomel-And You Jump 0ul ol Bed in
the Morning Karin to Go
The liver should pour out two pounds of
liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile
isnot flowing freely, your food doesn't digest.
It just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up
your stomach. You get constipated. Your
whole system Is poisoned and you feel sour.
sunk and the world looks punk.
A mere bowel movement doesn't get at
the cause. 1t takes those good. old Carter's
Little Liver Pills to get these two pounds of
bile flowing freely and make you feel ''up
and up" Harmless, gentle, yet amazing in
making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's
Little Liver Pills by name. Refuse anything
else. At all drug stores. 10c and Csc.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-06
WHY WOMEN BUY

1t is we'll known by all live merchants,
and by husbands as well, that practically
all buying for the home is either actually
done by women or directed by them. For
this reason the merchants greatest prob
lem is to attract the favorable attention of
women to his wares.
Women are alert to grasp OppOrtuni-
ties to secure merchandise at bargain and
thew are more discriminating buyers than
men, as rule. They read advertisements
and act upon the information obtained
thereby.
In order to determine just what adver
Using mediums have the greatest in
fluence on women's buying, recent sur
vey made by Los Angeles advertising
club developed some interesting facts. Re-
plies from 1000 women of all classes were
obtained in answer to a QUESTIONABLE list
ing the various advertising mediums and
asking what form of advertising influenced
them most.
Newspapers were credited with most
influence by Sc per cent of these women,
magazine advertisements % per cent,
street car advertising by less than a per
cent, while booklets, pamphlets and cir
cular letters influenced less than 2 per cent.
Thus again is demonstrated what
every wide-awake merchant must have al
ready observed-that newspaper adver-
Using is the most potent medium for reach
ing women buyers. And this applies with
equal force to men buyers, too.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-06
MONROE rs FARMING AREA

Several Monroe county residents are
giving some study to the possibility of sup
plying the local market with homegrown
vegetables and produce. A few state
ments along this line We're presented at
last weeks meeting of Key West Rotary
club.
Anyone who has tasted vegetables
and fruits grown in Monroe county knows
the superlative quality of them. There is
no question but that the keys can be made
to produce sufficient vegetables and fruits,
now imported from other sections of the
state, to supply the local market.
There are some problems involved.
Vegetables now raised here and along the
keys are reported to be expensive. 1t costs
so much to cultivate and water the crops
that the cost exceeds the price that must
be paid for similar products on the main
land. Vegetables can be raised here
throughout the entire year-if there is suf-
ficient water to keep them nourished.
That is one reason why the proposal
to bring fresh water from the mainland is
so important At certain periods of the
Gay, WneH the UeIHdHQ 1Or wafer dl hcy
West was at the low point, the supply
might be drained off for irrigation of crops
on the keys. This water, because it was
sold at periods of least demand in Key
West and other settled points, would be
sold at dump prices sufficiently low
enough to make the raising of crops on the
keys profitable, and at the same time pro-.
vide the aqueduct authority with greater
volume of revenue to pay off any bonded
debts and operating expenses.
No doubt some consideration to this
phase of operations was given by the
Aqueduct Commission when it was prepar-
ing an application to federal lending
agencies for funds to finance construction
of the water system. This source of rev.
enue should be thoroughly explored by the
commission. 1t might be found sufficient
to increase estimated revenues to the point
where investment in the water bonds might
be attractive to private interests. The idea
is worth further investigation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-06
WAR PROPAGANDA

1t is rather important for American
citizens to realize that, excepting several
countries in Europe, the news that one
reads from other nations is mostly what the
officials of the other nations want us to
read.
This will be true, undoubtedly of all
countries now that the guns of war have
begun their barking. The facts will be
carefully concealed, as they were during
the last struggle, and the reader on this
side of the Atlantic will get only, the broad
outlines of strategy and results.
Naturally, we will be hearing about
new atrocities. They crop up with every
war whenever they serve the cause OF
propagandists. Some of them are the re-
suit of passions aroused in fighting men
but most of them are the offspring of fer
tile imaginations.
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THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print it
without fear and without favor; never be
afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan OF the mouthpiece of any person, clique.
faction or class; Always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption or
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue.
-colhmend good done by individual or organ
ization; tolerant of others rights, views and
opinions; print only news that will elevate
and not cohtaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-06

give you an argument on that,
he said.
Maxi Mortality Rate
Hinckley thinks even 10000 is
a small crop.
Germany has $4,000 men be-
tween Is and 35 years in training
camps and is turning out $4,000
pilots annually. OF course, Ger
many under this high-pressure
system is killing them off at the
rate of about a minimum of three
every two days, to maximum
figure that l have heard of $500
a year,.
BY use of psychological tests it
is hoped to weed out many men
before the expensive training
begins, but SO far nobody knows
exactly what makes good flier,
or a poor one. Four psychologists
and % universities are cooperat-
ing under the air school scheme
to try to find out.
"The air corps at Randolph field
(the arfny's principal flying
schooD selects only the perfect
physical specimens, says Hinck-
ley. They have had instances
down there where an all-America
football player could not learn to
fly and tap dancer did learn.
But we do not know whether an
other tao dancer could or anoth-
er all-America football player
could noto
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PEOPLES FORUM
CITES; WAR DANGER


|. CITES WAR DANGER
Editor, The Citizen:
Strange as it may seem, if the
United States is eventually drawn
into the new European conflict,
radio will be a contributing fac
tor to the cause. During the first
World War, radio was in its in
fancy. and few, if any, could
boast of having one. But now
radios are common, everybody
has one, and everybody is listen
ing to the war news.
News OF the first war reached
US through the newspapers, and
sometimes the stories were a
week old before we read them,
then if there were no stories for.
the papers, the reporters created
their own and gave them to the
public.
Public sentiment caused us to.
enter the last war. Public senti-
ment melted by newspaper sto-
ries. If this country fell for those
war articles in newspapers, what
do you think it will do now with
the news being brought from the
front line by radio? You can
imagine what public sentiment
will be in this country if the war
lasts three months.
Already every five minutes
some news commentator is on the
air, painting some terrible pic
ture of how one country or an
other is using gas on the civilian
population. Already you can hear
people on the streets grumbling
and passing their opinion as to
what should be done.
The propaganda campaign is
not being conducted by the pa
pers this time-it is on the air,
and although it is only natural
for us to listen to the news from
Europe, we should not let our
emotions run away with us or We
will be lost.
| From time immemorial, war has
been horrible and in every war.
that has ever been fought the
non-combatants have suffered.
Sherman marched through
Georgia seventy-six years ago in
much the same fashion that Gen.
eral Franco marched through
Spain.
Sherman treated the Civilians
in the same manner as Franco.
! Civilians being killed in war is
nothing new, but if we listen to
the news artist on the radio we
will end up as we did in 1917.
| 1t is well to remember that the
Four Horsemen always ride to-
gether - WAR, PESTILENCE,
! FAMINE. and DEATH-and they
,are not particular where they ride,
whether it be among the civilians
or the armies.
A CITIZEN.
Key West, Fla, h
Sept. S, 1899.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-06

There is a movement on foot to have
all persons on the WPA rolls sign slips as
sorting they do not advocate, and are not
members of organizations which advocate.
the-yiolent overthrow of the Government
There can be no objection to this plan. If
the needy ask help of this Government,
they should be willing to assert their
loyalty to the hand that feeds them. 1t
should be made possible for all Americans
10 make livelihood and if this cannot be
government should come forth and aid
30 The fullest extent of its ability, and
.Oyalty to this country and its institutions
must not only be required but demanded.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-06
sesssAssse zee . . .,
KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here Just 10 Years
Ago Today AS Taken From
The Files of The Citizen

According to news dispatches
received from Savannah, Ga, to-
day, relating of the automobile
accident which resulted in the
death of Mrs. Martha Mcmahon
last week and injury to Mrs.
Rena Combs and Billy Combs of
Jacksonville, Mrs. Combs was
driving and the road was slip
perry. She attempted to pass an
other car. Mrs. Mcmahon was
thrown from the car, which
crushed her when it turned over
on the highway. Mrs. Combs
was badly cut about the face
while Billy sustained an injury
to the shoulder. Mrs. Combs
was formerly Miss Rena Ebert
son, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. c.
s. Elbertson of this city.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-06
For WRITING q hook of iinple,

For writing a book of jingles, titled
Folk Jingles of American Children, Mrs.
Dorothy G. Mills, Junior high school
teacher in East Orange, N. j., got doc
tors degree from New York Uniyersity's
School of Education. One of the jingles
goes like this: Il see London, see France,
| see Betty's under pants" Children will
laugh with glee at these doggerells and the
grown-ups will join in the laughter, just as
you are doing now.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-06

There are so many words in the die
tionary that never see the light of day and
when on occasion they do make their ap-
pearance, they are accused of being high
hat when as a rule they are humble as
semblages of letters and generally un-
obtrusively come to the fore. A fellow
that seldom is heard of is ''sponymous"-
emerging from obscurity to the editorial
page of the New York Times.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-06
CHECKING UP NOW
ON HORSEPOWER
tBy Associated Press,

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL
PARK, Wyo., Sept. Glow many
gallons to bucket of oats?
That's the favorite question
that comes from automobile
minded visitors in Yellowstone
National Park who get out from
behind their steering wheesl long
enough for a trail trip through
this national playground.
Rangers don't know the excat
answer, but they may figure it
out at the end of the season, when
their work slackens. AS, the end
of the riding season neared, they
SAID park visitors have bounced
1868 miles on saddle leather
and that's enough mileage to
burn up a lot of oats.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-06
It's Dangerous, Too,
Ii You're A Robber

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo-, Sept.
6.-There are some straight
shooting folks around Cape
Girardeau.
Hubert Mccullough was re-
placing the glass bull's-eye that
had been knocked from the CEN
ter of a driving range target
Neutrality-suspicious. one hit il
again and knocked it right out
of McCullough's hand.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-06

Put me in touch with the heart
of a boy;
Let me study his doubts and
fears, E-+
And let me show him, the way
of life
And help him avoid its tears.
For the heart of a boy in its
buoyancy
Is one that is pure and free.
So put in touch with the heart of
boy,
The heart of a man to be.
Selected.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-06

The theological differences between
Germany and Russia are almost like the
kilOmeters that separate the two. The
distance from Germany to Russia is just
thesa as that from Russia to Germany,
though each goes the other way.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-06

U.S.N., for more than two years
public works officer at the naval
station, has received orders trans
ferring him to Norfolk, Va, to be
public works officer at the navy
yard there. Lieutenant Com
mander, L. N. Moeller has been
assigned to the naval station to
relieve Lieutenant Spalding.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-09-06
A Eyes" man is often a no man.
1t is a good omen to have mo" men in
Congress.

If the big newspapers with their vast
advertising patronage and large circula-
ton are folding up, how long can the small
town daily paper with meager advertising
and small circulation last until it crumbles
into dust?