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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-27

when we have been resisting aggres- sion justified such risks as might be involved in my leaving the coun- try.
 Certain grave offenses which oc- cured yesterday have, however, changed the situation and have deemed 1t necessary to alter my plans and postpone my visit"
 De Valera was pressed for an ex- planation of the "offenses" but he declined to reveal them. James Dill lon asked him what they were but De Valera replied:
 T do not think 1t would be in the public interest that I should state them now"
 Thanks Roosevelt
 De Valera thanked President Roosevelt and the American people for the invitation to visit the United States and said he thought 1t would be understood why he had to post pone his trip.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-27
Five Major Positions Are Still to Be Filled By
 Executive WILLIAM J. COX
 WILL BE FOUGHT Republicans Objec { to Democrat as Highway
 Commissioner
Hartford, Conn, Apr

Hartford, Conn.,, April 27. = (UP)-Governor Baldwin was expected to send to the Senate today or tomorrow his nominations for appoint ments to five major state commissionerships. TWO other major appointments not requiring Senate confir- nation also were expected to be made. Statutory re- quirements provide nominations on or before May 1.
 The nominations needing senate continuation:
 State highway commissioner, well fare commissioner, finance commis- sioner, insurance commissioner and public utilities commissioner.
 Direct appointments:
 State police commissioner and liquor commissioner.
 Today, however, 1t was reported
 (Confiri1ad oY, papa ol
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-27
Britain, France, Russia Working
 At Highest Speed
They Don't Know What Hitler Will Spring Tomorrow; But They Expect to Be Ready - Hitler,
 MussOlini Also Very Busy
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Edit0r)

Great Britain, France and Soviet Russia worked rapidly today to strengthen Europes anaggresson front before Adolf Hlers speech to the Reichsag Friday In the House of Commons, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain urged quick approval of national conscrption for Britain because the balance between peace and uncertain that "a very litte may swing it one way another.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-27
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, April 27 tUP)--Gov. ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through April 25th compared with year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year $7,453, eos .662,14 $6, 6,097,977,176.44
 Receipts $5,043,156 364.44
 Gross Deficit $2,s41. ADEPT $1.O54.s20, ,S12.o0 s2,so5, ,5s5.s47.27 $sss. 1894, ,sss.oo
 Cash Balance $s.o53, ,is4.177.21 $2 $2.7Ss,4s6.t44.37
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-27

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The Weather

Light Showers Tonight; Partly Cloudy Friday
 Fun Weather Report Page 3
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Montana labor news., 1939-10-26

the criminal and the insane. He has talked
with their sons for them. He has discovered
quarterback material for coaches, and has
handled innumerable occasions like Com
mencements with splendid command. He
has done this for eighteen years so quietly
and so impersonally that his service has be-
come a thing taken for granted. No one has
ever heard him complain of the work that
he has had to do, nor of the cooperation that
he needed but did not get, nor of the money
that he has spent out of his own pocket for
another persons interest. He has given his
whole time and energy to his proper work.
He has made no money on the side. He has
asked for no bouquets.
In January, 1898, Mr. Atkinson accepted
the presidency of the Missoula Trades and
Labor Council. He was reelected in July
and again in January, 1899. He would have
been reelected again in July, 1999 if he had
been willing to accept fourth term of office.
In the judgment of one of the most trusted
and efficient labor leaders in Missoula, Mr..
Atkinson was "the best president we have
ever had" His power to despatch business,
to be calm in heated moments, to let all points
of view be expressed, to be impartial and
impersonal in his decisions and judgments,
was displayed in the presidents chair in
way that will not be forgotten by the MEM
bers of the Missoula Council.
The State Board of Education has now de-
clared that Mr. Atkinson has been engaged
in Interests contrary to those of the Uni
versity" The board members who made the
charge stated publicly that they had relied
largely" on Professor Scheuchs recon-
mendation of what ought to be done about
the University situation. Professor Scheuch
has said that he knew nothing against Mr..
Atkinson except that che has mixed up in
this labor business"
Organized Labor wants to know from the
State Board of Education what have been
the interests of Mr.. Atkinson which have
been contrary to those of the University"
Are the interests of Labor contrary to the
interests of the University? Governor Ayers,
we want to know.
Montana labor news., 1939-10-26
Ernst Atkinson

This is the story of Atkinson, one of the
discharged professors of the University of
Montana.
Mr. Atkinson started at the State Uni
versity in 1921, after graduating from Den
yer University and doing graduate work at
Columbia University in New York. Later
he studied under Dr. Terman, one of Amer
ica's noted psychologists at Stanford Univer
sity He has long been known as one of the
ablest teachers in the State University. In
addition to being an able teacher he has been
one of the best makers of friends the Uni
versity has ever had.
There are University graduates all over
the state who will remember Ernie" Atkin-
son always for the innumerable acts that
only a person of his particular skill and gen
erosity could perform He has aided youths
in a thousand difficulties. They have slut
tered, they have lost confidence, they have
misunderstood their bodies and their minds,
they have been in money difficulties, they
have messed up their social relationships.
Then they went to see Ernie" Atkinson and
they became confident youth again
He has done nearly as much for men. He
has counseled with them in their work with
Montana labor news., 1939-10-26

Labor's leaders in Missoula and over
the state. We count that a new and
definite achievement for the State
University.
The October issue of Fortune
Magazine states that upward of 80
per cent of Americas big business
men believe in labor unions. 1t also
states that these men think that the
most serious fault in unionism is the
lack of able and reliable leadership
I and my fellows have felt humble
in the presence of the courage and
the loyalty of labor's representa-
tives. But we have felt too that we
could help them, perhaps, with a
little margin of our time to build
more of that needed leadership. We
have joined in their counsels and
have even hoped that we could speed
the day when our University, like
Wisconsin and others, could organ
ize some facilities for training lead
ers of Labor, as we already do for
leaders of Business, of Chambers o1
Commerce, and of the Professions
We may discover with experience
that all this is mistaken idea and
effort. If so, it is the same mistake
that many notable men are joining
in at universities like Harvard, Yale
Chicago, Ohio, Stanford, California
Washington, and others all over the
states.
l do not expect to change any
body's mind on the question of or
ganized labor, but I would like tC
help dispel the idea that the chap
ter of the American Federation Of
Teachers was established at the
State University by group of radi-
cal malcontents who are unwilling
to cooperate for the University
good. Many of us shall be sorry il
this false notion prevails to the point
that it produces action that will
ALLEVIATE the goodwill of a large sec
ton of Montana's voters from the
University, or that it results agair
in our University being stigmatizeo
as an institution that is intolerant Of
liberal ideas and action on the part
of its faculty.
EDMUND L. FREEMAN.
Montana labor news., 1939-10-26

School, Spaulding of the School Of
Forestry, and Stone of the School
of Journalism; and the following
chairmen of departments: Clark of
Ancient Languages, Merriam of
English, Schneider of Physical Edu-
cation, Smith of Psychology, and
Rowe Of Geology. Such men are
not Communists nor a sounding
board for Communists. Since or
ganizing we have enrolled Al mem
bers of the faculty. We also had
the good wishes at the time of our
organizing of the vice president, the
dean of the faculty, and the regis
trar, who were ineligible to join.
AS a chapter of the American Fed
Grafton of Teachers we pledged our
selves to work for Education in De-
mocracy and Democracy in Educa-
ton. We meant to ask, and have
asked, organized labor for support
for the University. We think that
Labor will give that support even
more generously than they have in
the past if they know that there is
faculty organization pledged to
concern itself with those democratic
values in education that Labor is
concerned for. We have declared
these aims in open meetings of the
union, in printed statements to all
faculty members, and before the
Missoula county representatives to
the State Legislature, whom we en-
tertained at a dinner to inform them
both of our aims and of the Uni
versity's needs.
The national Federation of Teach
ers is affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor. Each local
chapter, however, is free to do as il
will about affiliating with state and
local organizations. Our chapter i'm
Imediately affiliated with the Mis-
soula Trades and Labor Council and
with the State Federation. Our elect
ed representatives to the local Coun-
Gil have been Messrs. Leaphart, At
kinson, Mansfield, Fox, and myself
Mr.. Atkinson was elected and twice
reelected to the presidency of the
Council between January, 1888, and
July, 1899. He retired this summer
with the affection and admiration OF
Montana labor news., 1939-10-26
OPEN FORUM
Pres. OF Professors
Union Explains Aims
OF The Organization
Denies RumOrs of Radical
Ambitions.
Montana Labor News,
naor Civ.

Montana Labor News,
Dear Sir:
There are so many rumors about
the part of the Faculty Union in the
present trouble at Montana State
University that I feel that l must
offer a short statement about the
union. I have been president of the
union since its organization in April,
1887, so I know why it was organ
lied, what it has done and not done,
and what it would like to do.
The main thing that worked in
the minds of those who joined the
union was the knowledge that the
University had Jared none too well
in the Legislature of 1887. The Uni
versity would need more favor in
1899 and again in the 1910 mill-taX
drive. Many of us remembered that
there had been faculty union in
1920 which had done valuable work
in enlisting support from farm and
labor organizations. We expected
that we could do that again.
The union was not organized, and
has not been used, as an organiza-
ton of radicals or communists. Such
charges have been bruited about,
have even been suggested in news
papers. They are absurd to anyone
who knows the University faculty,
but many citizens do not know the
faculty.
Among the unions membership
have been the following Deans of
Schools: Leaphart of the Law
School, Daughters of the School of
Education, Smith of the Music
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-27
AFL Flags Poor Administration Of
State Insurance, Accident Funds

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27. CUP
Poor administration of the state
compensation insurance fund and
the state industrial accident COM
mission was charged today in a
letter sent to Gov. Culbert l.. Olson
by the California State Fedora
ton of Labor.
The letter said the charges were
based on reports of special COM
mittee of five vice-presidents au-
thorized at last September's state
convention of the federation.
1t was alleged that injured work.
ers are being ordered to treatment
by favored" doctors of a political
clique manned by officials of the
state fund and accident commits
sion.
Howard r. Philbrick, special in
vestigator retained by Gov. Olson,
charged last May that administra-
tors of the insurance fund gave a
lions share of business to doctors
who invested in a gold mine in
which G. S. Bucher, chief counsel
for the fund; Clark B. Day. stepson
of former Gov. Frank F.. Merriam,
at that time manager of the fund,
and R. T. Hamilton were inter
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-27

OF the ASSOcldIeQ IdrIleIS.
From the meeting leaders hoped
to draw conclusions for unity IN
thought and action which will be
laid before the annual convention
of the Associated farmers in Stock
ton Dec. 7 and 8.
Negotiations between employers
and the striking ship clerks assoc
iation were expected to be resumed
during the day, although no meet
ing was scheduled. Federal mari
time labor board mediator, William
T. Courts and Frank P. Foisie, pres
ident of the dock checkers employ
ers association both predicted a re-
sumption of conferences.
A negotiating committee from the
ship clerks waited on the employ
ers Saturday to submit three writ
ten proposals on the question OF
preferential hiring, but declined to
leave the proposals when Foisie
alone of the employer group ap-
peared.
Mayor Rossi's criticism of "irres-
ponsible labor leadership brought
praise from civic and service groups,
while at the same time II San
Francisco pastors asked the mayor,
waterfront employers and maritime
unions to call a public meeting to
present their views of causes and
solutions to the general public.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-27

I'VE are ready to strike three de-
cisive blows for each provocative
blow of the Finnish war clique"
said typical resolution adopted by
Leningrad mass meeting.
"The clowns managing the fate OF
the Finnish people must be remind
ed of the sad lot of the ill-starred
former rulers of Poland"
Throughout Moscow the scene
was reminiscent of the days before
the Soviet occupation. of eastern
Poland as people lined up at news
stands and around broadcasting
loud-speakers to get the news aris-
ing from charges that Finnish ar
tillery had fired on Russian troops.
ARTILLERY shots against the Red
army prove incitement to war"
said a resolution passed by workers
at the Hammer and Sickle plant,
largest metallurgical works in Mos
COW, pledging increased production
of national defense materials.
Evidently the war mongers have
lost their heads and forgotten they
are dealing with the Soviet Union"
The Moscow radio was heard in
London at 9:05 a. m. Q:05 a. m.
PST) broadcasting that "mass in
dignation had swept the Soviet
Union" as a result of the alleged
border attack.
1t was charged that Finnish ar
tillery fire had killed four and
wounded nine Soviet soldiers. Prem
ier-Foreign Minister v. NJ Molotoy
already had handed the Finnish
minister note demanding that
Finnish troops be withdrawn with
out delay from the frontier on the
Karelian isthmuS.
CAT HelSingfors, Finnish officials
categorically denied that Finnish
border troops had attacked and
said that "in no case will there be
unilateral withdrawal from the
frontier"o
The grave turn in Soviet Finnish
relations was the elimination OF
long dispute over Russia's de-
mands for territorial concessions on
the Finnish mainland as well as in
the Gulf of Finland.
The outpouring of Soviet workers
from factories to mass meetings
indicated that public opinion was
being prepared for important meas
ures.
At typical meeting in a Moscow
automobile factory, speakers said
"the Soviet Union should give the
Finnish provocateurs a lesson ano
make the Soviet border safe from
further provocations.
The workers passed resolutions
including one reading: 1.-The Fin
nish ruling classes are leading then
country to ruin and provoking the
| Soviet Union to war. The Soviet
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-27
317 Die
I'm NovV
Warfare
Britain Prepares
ToCarryOut
Export Orders

LONDON, Nov. 27 (UP)
Warfare at sea sent %
ships to the bottom and cost
ut least BIT lives during the
weekend.
Storms in the North Atlantic took
an additional toll.
Fury of naval warfare was in
tensified as Great Britain prepared
to put into effect an order block
aiding all German exports.
The king held council in Buck
ingham palace to sign the order,
which goes into effect with publi-
cation in the official Gazette tomor-
row, empowering the British navy
to seize German made goods from
any neutral ship, in retaliation for
Germany's unrestricted mine war
fare.
In the chaotic weekend at sea
Great Britain had been hardest
hit but the Germans had lost two
ships to their own mines, three to
British warships, and one to the
storms.
An authoritative source here said
that all the parachute" mines
dropped by German airplanes off
the British coast, had been of the
magnetic" type, and the war office
at Paris disclosed that French war
planes had gone to Britain's aid in
the mine crisis. A British spokes-
man said the situation would be
brought quickly under control and
you can be assured that the para
chute magnetic mines won't be 9
menace much longer"
The 22nd and latest weekend seq
casualty was the British freightel
Royston Grange, 5144 tons, tor
pedoed in the Atlantic. The crew
was reported saved.
The weekend loss by war actor
alone was IS ships, three of them
German. In the last 10 days OF
intensified sea warfare, at least AZ
ships had been sunk by mines, tor.
pedoes and shells. In addition, the
German high command reported
that a British Q-boat disguised as
a Dutch freighter, had been sunk
However, British naval circles sale
today, after questioning survivors Of
the Dutch freighter Sliedricht, tor
pedoed last week, that this wa.
the ship referred to by the Ger
mans as a Q-boat. The survivor:
said that the submarine commander
ordered the Sliedricht torpedoec
after examining the ships paper!
and ascertaining that it was 6
neutral ship bound for a neutra
Norwegian port.
The losses reported today included
the German merchantmen Borkun
which was captured by British
warship and sunk by shells from 6
German submarine after a British
prize crew had taken it in charge
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-27

Imperial Valley lost one of its
earliest and most prominent pioneers
Sunday when George Albert Carter
70. died of a heart attack while
visiting relatives and friends in El
Centre.
Funeral services we're scheduled
for the Lemons chapel at 10 am
Wednesday with the Masonic lodge
in charge. Burial was scheduled for
Evergreen cemetery.
Carter arrived in the valley in
1901 with equipment and 100 heao
of horses and mules to grade for
canals and the railroad. He was
active in the building of the Date,
Dahlia and part of the Main canals.
He bought Heffernan's Lumber busl-
ness at Imperial.
In 1902 he bought control of the
First National bank at Imperial and
was cashier there until he sold his
interest to Leroy Holt.
In 1907 Carter became president
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-27
CaIipatria Taxi
War Breaks Out

CAL1PATRIA, Nov. 27.-A taxi
war started because of a five-cent
difference in fares charged for haul
ing pea pickers to the fields, be-
came court case Monday.
AL Thompson Carver, taxi driver
was arrested on a charge of dis.
turbing the peace after he violently
objected to another taxi driver
nder-bidding him five cents to get
Carver's customers.
Officers said Carver had been
hauling the men for 10 cents a trip
When another driver cut the price tc
five cents, Carver's customers left
him. During the argument among
the drivers and the pea pickers
Carver was said to have threatened
to kill a ranch foreman, who in
sisted he was an innocent bystander
Roy Chaffin, the foreman, signed
the complaint against Carver.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-27

StWO miles north OF FL CenCTO early
Sunday. was not expected to live.
He suffered a fractured rib and
other injuries.
He drove a speeding automobile
which plunged into a borrow pit
and overturned twice when tire
blew out, officers said. The car
plunged into the bar pit, Travelled
24O feet, went back to the highway
then back into the pit where it
travelled 1O8 feet before it overturn-
ed. Eligo Perez, %, suffered fract-
ured jaw and back injuries, ano'
Margarita Rodriguez, %, cuts and
bruises. They were passengers in
the car.
Three persons suffered injuries
when two cars collided south of
Curphey's corner near Heber at $50
p. m. Sunday. Mrs. E. A. Zinke OF
Holtville and her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. G. Wagner of Riverside
were injured when a car driven by
her husband, DR.. Zinke, and car
driven by Mrs. j. F.. Fitzgerald, E.
Centre, collided. Highway Patrol
man Paul Brown said Mrs. Fitz-
gerald attempted to make left
hand turn to ranch road at the
time the accident occurred.
Another accident in the southern
section of the valley was placed in
the miracle class. No one was in
jured when Fernando Diaz Todd
81, of Tecate, Mexico, missed a
highway turn near the U. S. SO and
Central Valley intersection east OF
Ell Centro, skidded in the gravel
and crashed into the borrow pit
He said he was blinded by the lights
of on-coming car.
In the north end of the valley
two persons were injured in three
car tangle three miles northwest OF
Brawley late Sunday afternoon.
June Hall, 81, Westmorland, and
Nora Turnbow, %, Brawley, were
injured
Sally Romero, %, Brawley, at
tempted to pass car driven by
William Harry Faucet, 25, Braw-
ley, and drove into the borrow pit
in trying to pass a car driven by
John B. Turnbow, 81, also of Braw-
ley.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-27

the Eastside Saturday night, was
continued inside the city Jail after
the pair was arrested.
Ed Burton, another prisoner, act
ed as a biased referee by holding
Palmer while Butler got in a few
good licks. Outside the Jail, when
officers arrived, was a cheering
section of four, George Thomas,
Emmett Walton, Woodrow Deckard
and Samuel Gray. Cheers, curses
and beloved argument had brought
complaint from nearby hotel.
Only other important case dis
posed of was Paul Bowling of the
federal migratory camp at Brawley,
who pleaded guilty to drunk driving
and was sentenced to pay SIS fine
or serve 371s days in Jail.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-27
Jai|lnterrupts
Bows Trip East

A 17-year-old youths relief fin
anced trip from Oakland to Arkan-
sas was interrupted at Imperial
Sunday when police found him in
possession of an allegedly stolen
bicycle.
The boy was put on a train in
Oakland and headed eastward with
a ticket provided by relief agency
in that city. He left the train
at Los Angeles, officers said, and
after being held in Jail for a time
was released to a welfare agency
and again started east.
He left the train again and ap-
parently decided to complete the
trip on a bicycle. Imperial police
had the boy in custody while they
communicated with officers in Oak
land and Los Angeles.