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Evening star., 1939-03-18
Envoy Horban Holds
Legation as Symbol
my People Still Lives
He Quotes WeIIes Thot
Subjueotion Will Be
only Temporary

Minister Vladimir Hurban kept the
Czecho- Slovakian Legation here in
dependent Of Germany today as
Symbol that my people is still alive"
and that their subjugation by the
Nazis will be "only temporary"
Standing by his determined re-
fusal to turn the Legation over to
the German Embassy, even on cabled
orders from the erstwhile foreign
minister of his dismembered govern
ment, Mr.. Hurban said in a radio
interview broadcast over a National
Broadcasting Co. network last night:
MY government, put through the
third degree, yielded to the occupa-
ton of my country and was de-
posed, "but I am here in the United
States as the representative of my
people and the Czecho-S -Slovakian
Legation still stands, if only as q
symbol that my people is still alive
and that the extinguishment of the
liberties of a free and independent
people, according to Mr.. Welles, will
be only temporary"
Praises Welles' Stand.
Mr.. Hurban referred to a state
ment by Acting Secretary of State
Sumner Welles. He strongly praised
the American officials criticism Of
Adolf Hitler's coup in Czecho-Slo-
vakia.
Asked if he had made any finan-
cial arrangements for maintaining
the legation, Mr.. Hurban said he
could best answer that with an old
German proverb:
Poor people cook with water"
The Minister has insisted that he
will not turn the legation over to
German authority until he receives
written instructions from his gov-
ernment advising him that the
change was duly authorized by con-
stitutional action. He said the
Czech constitution requires that
territorial changes cannot be made
without the approval of three -fifths
of the National Assembly.
Some officials here noted that,
since the Czech Assembly was no
longer in existence, he might hold
out indefinitely against German de-
mands for the building. In that
case the controversy might go
eventually to the United States Su-
preme Court for settlement.
Russian Case Similar.
The United States Constitution
gives the Supreme Court original
jurisdiction in all cases affecting
Ambassadors, other public Ministers
and Consuls
1t is unlikely that the State De-
partment will take any action one
way or the other in the dispute over
the Legation, except that it's silence
may encourage Mr.. Hurban in his
stand. Mr.. Welles has made it clear
that this Government does not rec
ognize the legality of Germany.s
action in Czecho- -Slovakia.
There apparently is no exact pre-
cedent for such a situation, but in
a somewhat similar case Boris
Bakhmeteff, Russian Ambassador
here under the Kerensky govern
ment, remained as the accredited
Russian Ambassador after his gov
eminent was overthrown by the
Bolsheviks in 1917 until 1922. The
Russian Embassy then was held by
a financial attache, first accredited
under the Kerensky government
until the Roosevelt administration
extended recognition to the Soviet
Union in 1888.
Evening star., 1939-03-18
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men under arms and described the
present French forces as not ex-
ceeding 100000. He placed the pres
ent production of military airplanes
IN France at 76 month. Air
Minister Guy La Chambre insisted
the production was nearer 100.
A separate meeting of Republican
Socialist Deputies meanwhile broke
up in fistf1ght after one Deputy
threw an inkwell at another.
Could Curtail Rights.
The proposed law would give the
Daladier government power to ma
tionalize industry, dissolve political
parties, end freedom of the press
curtail the right of assembly and
even suspend or prolong Parliament
itself.
Socialists declared that public
liberties are gravely menaced. The
government wishes to rule with a
state of seige. Daladier exalts the
idea of personal power"
But formidable as their combined
strength is in the Chamber of
Deputies, Communists and Socialists
with scattering of independent
Nationalist were said by political
observers to have little or no chance
Of defeating M. Daladier.
The powers he is asking are un-
precedented in postwar French
history. He refused to tell Par.
Lament what he proposed to dc
with the requested powers or to
limit the scope of his request to any
particular field as French Premiers
usually do. He told the deputies
that "the measures I plan are mill
tary measures. The totalitarian
states are capable of taking impor-
tant decisions rapidly and applying
them rapidly. It Is impossible and
absurd that France cannot act with
the same rapidity."
Sweeping Paragraph in Bill.
A single paragraph of the bill
said:
'"The government is authorized by
DEGREES drawn up with the President
to take measures necessary to con-
solidate and increase Frances
strength"
Abandoned apparently was the
policy Of virtual acquiescence in Ger
many's domination of Eastern Eu-
rope, followed since the September
20 four-power Munich Conference on
tho partition Of Czecho- -Slovakia
Evening star., 1939-03-18
Hiking Club Plans Trip

Elizabeth Furnace and Signal
Knob are the Virginia points to be
visited tomorrow by the Wander
birds. hiking organizat ton. The
party will leave by bus at 8 am.
from In front of the National Thea
ter and will have dinner at Front
Royal Va, on the return trip.
Evening star., 1939-03-18
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his tour, ostensibly to spur Britatn's
trade. Soviet Ambassador Maisky
was at the station to bid him
good-by.
Political events of the last few
days have tended to overshadow the
primary purpose" of the trip, Mr..
Hudson said. His previously sched-
uled visit to Berlin was Cancelled by
Prime Minister Chamberlain as "in-
appropriate" after Germany took
over Czecho- -Slovakia.
Cabinet Meets Tonight.
Indicating the urgency with which
Britain considered the situation
Prime Minister Chamberlain also
summoned the cabinet to an un-
usual Saturday night meeting.
The cabinet was to give imme-
diate consideration to the European
situation, the Prime Minister hav-
ing admitted that his policy of
European conciliation collapsed with
Germany's occupation of Czecho-
Slovakia.
The Premier was swinging British
foreign policy sharply around toward
the course long demanded by his
critics-a united front with other
nations against further expansion
by Germany that might be con-
strued as an attempt to dominate
all Europe.
Mr.. Chamberlain, who had plan
ned to spend the weekend in Bir-
mingham, where last night he Bit
terly criticized the German govern
ment and Chancellor Hitler for
marching into Czecho- -Slovakia,
hurried back to London to consult
his ministers on his new policy
aimed at international cooperation
against aggression.
The British cabinet seldom has
week end meetings. A Saturday ses-
sion was conducted during the Sep
tember German Czecho- Slovak cri-
sis.
Discomfort Persists.
Despite applause from all quarters
for his slashing attack on Germany
and Hitler for taking over Czecho-
Slovakia. discomfort over Mr.. Cham
berlain's leadership persisted, how
ever, even among some of his con-
servative followers.
Mr.. Chamberlain, in his speech
at Birmingham, declared against
any specific new commitments, but
indicated that Britain was prepared
to return to some form Of collective
security.
1t was not yet apparent whether
this new attempt at security would
be carried out through individual
Notwithstanding the visit of Po-
lish Foreign Minister Joseph Beck
in April, for example-or with
friendly nations at the council table
There were before Mr.. Chamber
lain widespread demands for ma
tional conscription to. parallel the
immense British rearmament pro-
gram. Mr.. Chamberlain also was
reported considering how he could
meet demands for q broader ma
tional government, giving opposition
political groups and more liberal
conservatives . greater voice.
Mr.. Chamberlain announced tn
Evening star., 1939-03-18
South Carolina Made
Palmetto State
Officially
1X thu Assoctated PYsss

By the Associated Press,
COLUMBIA, s. c., March l8.
For these many years South
Carolina has been known as the
Palmetto State. Now 1t Is, Of
ficially.
The Legislature, by a resolu-
ton, made it so.
Senator Jeff Bates, one of the
authors, said he understood
another State" had been con-
sidering adopting the palmetto
as its State tree.
So, just to make certain OF
South Carolina's priority, a
resolution was rushed through.
Evening star., 1939-03-18
Rites at Howard Chapel

Patrick Murphy Malin of Swarth-
more College will speak at the all
university religious service to be held
in Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel,
Howard University, at II am. TO-
morrow.
Evening star., 1939-03-18
727,l97 Visitors at Fair

izmir, Turkey, reports that It's
international fair last year had
1T,Iv1 visitors, compared with only
$4,000 dve years before.
Evening star., 1939-03-18

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take charge of their foreign policy,
their customs and their excise, their
bank reserves and the equipment OF
disarmed Czech forces. And per-
haps most sinister of all, we hear
again of the appearance of the
Gestapo, the secret police, followed
by the usual tale of wholesale ar
rests of prominent individuals with
consequences with which we are all
familiar.
Every man and woman in this
country who remembers the fate Of
the Jews and the political prisoners
in Austria must be filled today with
distress and foreboding. Who can
fail to feel his heart 60 out In SYM
pathy to the proud and brave people
who have so suddenly been subjected
to this invasion, whose liberties have
been curtailed, whose national In
dependence has gomez What has
become of this declaration Of mo
further territorial ambition?"
What has become of the assurance
1--WE don't want Czechs In the
Reich?"
What regard has been paid here
to that principle of self-determina-
ton on which Herr Hitler argued so
vehemently with me at Berchtesga-
den when he was asking for the
severance of the Sudetenland from
Czecho-Slovakia and It's inclusion in
the German Reich?
Disorders Blamed.
Now We are told that this seizure
Of territory has been necessitated by
disturbances in Czecho-S -Slovakia. We
are told that the proclapation Of
this new German protectorate
against the will of its inhabitants
has been rendered inevitable by dis
orders which threatened the peace
and security Of her mighty neighbor.
II there were disorders, were they
Evening star., 1939-03-18
Hurbon's Defiance of HitIer's Authority
Is Climax of Ancestral Hutreds
Envoy Fought German
Soldiers in Ukruine,
Saw Republic Born
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

In the wild Carpathian country
where he was born Sc years ago this
April. Vladimir Hurban developed
his rich Slovakian talent for defiance
which now has risen to its height
with q brave show of contempt for
the authority of Fuehrer Hitler.
The most famous OF the Hurbans
comes Of a dominated, restless race
which over many generations nursed
hatred for the Hungarians who
ruled their province and for the
Germans who controlled the Aus
trian-Hungarian Empire. His back
ground amply reflects why the Min
lister OF what was Czecho-Slovakia
refuses to surrender his Legation to
the Germans and to admit that his
free country has been reduced to
the German protectorate of Bo-
hemia- -Moravia.
Minister Hurban grew up in Tur-
cansky Svaty Martin, a town where
the imperious authority of the Mag
vars of Hungary was constantly
demonstrated to the resentful Slo-
vaks. The urge to freedom was
strong, and Hurban's grandfather IN
1848 took part in the vain revolt
which aimed at autonomy for the
mountain province. Together the
Slovaks and the Czechs of Bohemia
and Moravia looked forward to what
they considered their destiny, a ma
ton freed of Austria and Hungary.
Thirty years ago, with this anti
Germanism deeply ingrained in
him, Vladimir Hurban left his ma
tive Slovakia after learning the
business of soldering and put him
self at the disposal of Russia. For
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03
Marines 10 Have
Mobile Baftalions
For Quick Action

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. tUP)-
The marine corps soon will have
four powerful, mobile battalions for
the navy's major outly-
ing bases from sea or air attacks
officials revealed today.
Two of the units. known rs base
defense battalions," have been or
ganized and are located at Paris
Island. s. c.. and San Diego, Calf
The other two probably will be forn-
ed by Feb. and also will be based
Al San Diego.
Formation of the battalions was
made possible by President RooSe-
velt's recent order authorizing an
increase in marine corps strength
from 10000 TO 25,000 enlisted men
The new units will comprise 7ls
men each and will be equipped
with anti-aircraft and five-inch
guns in addition TO machine guns
and rifles. They will be under direct
orders of the COMMUNICATIVE -chief
of the fleet marine force, head OF
the marine units aboard warships
The battalionS will be organized
so that they may be shifted on
short notice in war time TO areas
threatened with air raids or sea
raids. They are being based for
peace time in South Carolina and
California because of available
housing and training facilities.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03
Electricity Most
Necessary Utility.
Conference Told

Electricity marks the difference
between the primitive world and
the modern world, between priva-
ton and abundance, drudgery and
comfort members of the Pacific
Coast Electrical association were
told Thursday night at a regional
meeting in the California hotel.
Remove electricity from out lives
and we would Immediately lose
not only light power but also radio
telephone, automobile and the air.
plane and be back in a primitive
world" G. w. Allison of New York
representative of the Modern Kit
chen bureau, said.
Allison was followed on the pro-
gram by Graham Holabird of Pitts
burgh. who presented an illustrated
talk on sales technique. Also on the
speaking program was DR. Freder-
ick P Woellner of U. c. L. A.
Attending the meeting were rep
resentatives of the electrical indus
try in Imperial Valley r. p Moore
of Nevada California Electric was
chairman and H. II. Fogwell OF Los
Angeles, association director. pre-
sided at the formal meeting. Mayor
H. w. Fawcett gave an address of
welcome.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03
Yes on 5 Group
Asks Protection

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 8. up
The yes on 5" committee today
asked Governor Culbert Olson for
assistance of the state highway pa
troll in protecting billboards advo-
eating passage of the Atkinson bill
at the Nov. special election.
The committee reported that
many signs stating that the U, S.
navy department adoption of the
oil contract were pasted over with a
strip carrying the words, these bill
boards are illegal and have been
ordered removed by the navy de-
partment.'
The governors office said the re-
quest was being referred to director
of motor vehicles Howard Philbrick
and Highway Patrol Chief E. Ray
mond Cato, both of whom are ir
Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03
Bogus SRA Warrant
Passers Sought

SACRAMENTO. Nov. 3. cUP)-
State Controller Harry B. Riley to-
day reported more than 80 counter
felt relief warrants have been pass
ed in Los Angeles during the past
two weeks.
Riley revealed the first counter
felt warrants were detected Oct. II
at the state treasurers office here.
They we're only fair" limitations,
he said and ranged in amounts
from SIG to s27.53, and had been
cashed by Los Angeles markets.
Los Angeles police already have
made arrests of persons attempt
ing to cash the bogus warrants and
are seeking the presses on which
they were printed, Riley said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03
Million Dollar
Jobs Opened Up

SACRAMENTO. Nov. 3. UP)-
The state department of public
works today called for bids on two
projects to cost approximately ST.
O00. 900 in connection with reloca-
ton of The Pacific highway near
Shasta dam. --...--
Plans and specifications for the
work were approved yesterday by
Frank w. Clark. director of the de-
partment. The project consists OF
grading and paving a roadway 80
feet wide for a distance of Al miles
between Bass hill and O'Brien sum-
nit and construction of steel
bridge across Sacramento river near
Antler in Shasta county. The bridge
will be 1880 feet long. carrying &
50-foot roadway and two sidewalks
each two feet six inches wide
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03

THE best graduation present that
|any father can give his son, is a
"Trip TO Europe
That was the advise given Rotar-
bans Thursday at the weekly club
luncheon in the Barbara Worth
hotel. by Robert Schaetzel, former
hi Centran who narrated events OF
)his trip to Europe upon his gradua-
tion from Pomona college.
Schaetzel, accompanied by three
college chums. visited England.
Scotland, Belgium, Holland, Ger
)many. Austria. Rumania, Italy and
France. The entire trip from the
Pacific coast abroad and return.
cost each member of the free-lance
party 5000, he said. The journey
fwas made prior TO current war con-
hitions.
'Nothing could prove SO valuable
Ito a college man" Schaetzel ex-
blamed "as a trip of this kind. 1t
Reaches young men international
q sense of values which
|cannot be obtained otherwise. and
gives them a lifelong background
'on which to base their thoughts and
reasonings."
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03
|Sciofs Stand City
|0n Head in Fun

PHOENIX. Nov. 3. CUP)-A hell
|bent-for pleasure crowd of 1000
|Sciots literally stood Phoenix on
Its head today. tickled its ribs and
proceeded to take 1t apart. method
Ideally.
Everywhere in the downtown dis
|trict the be-fezZed Sciots, here on
their 29th annual convention, were
very much in evidence.
A delegation from the Coconino
pyramid in Flagstaff. gaudily
|dressed in the feathered garb Of
Indians, beat toms and staged
war dances on main streets.
Another frolicsome group held
on street car tracks. When
the car came TO a halt. they pro-
|ceeded to pull down the trolley
and jeer at the hapless motorman.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03

Tom Allen, a businessman in
Imperial Valley for % years and
owner of Hardware stores in CAL
exico and Holtville, this week open
ed an appliance and hardware store
at $40 Main street in Ell Centre.
Terming the opening of the store
in Ell Centro, IAN expansion in a
planned program, Allen recalled
that he came TO Imperial Valley
in 1917 to open store for an i'm
plement concern in Brawley.
The following year he moved TO
Ell Centro, later to CaleXico with
the same company. The company
was reorganized in 1920 and Allen
became q partner. He conducted
the implement business until 1884
when the company sold out.
In 1895 Allen opened hardware
store in Calexico, and in 1887 he
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03
Arizona BREAKING
Fatality Record

PHOENIX. Nov 8. CUP)--An Of
showed today that 100 persons had
ficial tabulation OF traffic fatalities
been killed on Arizona highways
this year as compared to l68 deaths
for a corresponding period a year
ago
1t was the fist time that this
years death toll has surpassed the
1898 mark. During the first nine
months of the year it appeared that
the 1899 traffic fatality list would
be at least 2o per cent below the
1898 toll
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03

The first defendant ever tried in
Fl Centre justice court has been in
the county Jail since l908-if Ell
Centre Justice Court Docket No.
is to be believed.
Dust arose as Judge John E.
Simpson opened the old book re-
Gently resurrected when historic
files were transferred TO vaults in
the county court house. Case No.
caught his eye. He read;
Jan. 81. 1908. Complaint filed.
Defendant charged with being
fugitive from justice. Warrant is
sued. Complaining witness M. A.
Moore. J. NJ. EShleman, district
attorney.
Warrant returned with defend
ant in charge of M. A. Moore, con-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03
Village Becomes
New Grefna Green

SALOME, Ariz., Nov 3. CUP)-
The city of Yuma it appeared to-
day. has formidable rival in claims
as being "Arizonas Gretna Green
and the new claimant is the tiny
town of Salome, population 100.
A check OF the clerks office re-
veals an average of 10 weddings
per day, involving mostly California
couples.
And as for speed in getting the
knot tied. close cooperation between
the deputy county clerk and the
Justice of the peace completes the
whole thing license 10 final pro
. nouncpment of man and wife ~
, in 10 minutes.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03
State Employees
May Campaign

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 8. tUP)-
State employees may campaign for
or against any of the propositions
TO be decided at the Nov. 7 spe-
cial election without fear of being
charged with improper" political
activity. the state personnel board
ruled today.
The board adopted a resolution
permitting state civil workers tc
participate actively in the campaign
providing such participation shall
not involve state time. the prestige
of the employees position or tho
use of state facilities It was spe-
Gifted, however, that the ruling ap-
plies only To the forthcoming spe-
cial election.
The board adopted the resolution
in response To requests TO interpret
state laws forbidding improper
political activity on the part of the
lcivil service personnel
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03
Old Files Reveal
Forgotten Man

stable. Defendant arraigned waived
examination and committed to Jail
Time set for hearing Feb. 6.
Feb. Case continued to Feb.
l3. j. F. Tout. justice of the peace.
There it ended.
other records in the county un-
doubtedly show disposition of the
case but as far as the justice court
is concerned-"that's all there is.
There isn't any more"
They did things in a hurry in
those days" Simpson commented
as ne went on with his busting.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03
Tom Allen Opens
Bic Store Here

opened his store in Holtville, when
he bought out c. l.. Shaw.
In May of 1899 Allen opened
a small sales room on Fifth street
in El Centre, watched business IN
crease until it warranted the open
ing of his present establishment.
Allen hopes to enlarge the store
within two years.
The FL Centre store will special
ize. for the present, in paints, limo
leum, radio and small electric ap-
plianceS. Allen said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03
Painted Canyon
Road Opened

The road from Coyote Wells TO
Painted Canyon, scenic beauty spot
in the Coyote mountains. is pass
able to motorists desiring a view OF
desert wild flowers
L. Muntean, Coyote Wells resi-
dent who keeps the road in order
without charging for his services.
said he built a detour and posted
signs to direct travel around n wash
created by the last rain.
Desert wild flowers. said Robert
Hays, manager of the FL Centre
Chamber of Commerce. will be un-
usually gorgeous in the vicinity of
Painted Canyon and Coyote Wells
if additional rains do not spoil the
blossoms.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03
Trip to Europe
|UrQed for Youths

The speaker. who is visiting Mr..
and Mrs. Howard P. Meyer, and is
nephew of j. R. Fahs. is a resi-
dent of Altadena.
Music for the program, of which
Fahs was chairman. was provided
by Stan Atkin. music director at
Central high school and junior COL
lege, and Miss Colleen Sommers,
high school pupil. II comprised
selections on the violin, played by
Atkin. and Miss Sommers who sang
and played the guitar.
J. w. (PaD Glasgow and Presi-
dent Harry Maddux jointly presided
at the meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03
MA Aids Youths
Seeking Education

Concessions tending TO encourage
young people to continue their edu-
cations while working. were grant
ed recently by the National Youth
Administration. Carl Gober, NYE
'irector in Imperial county, SAT-.
Friday.
The changes were effective on
all work project programs he said.
The young people under the NYA
now work 60 hours a month and re-
ceive 80 cents an hour instead of
81 cents.
Gober said the concessions were
to be granted when the student, de-
cided to take 20 hours of school
courses which relate or tie-in with
the work being done under NYA
direction.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-03
Escaped Prisoner
Taken in Detroit

DETROIT. Nov. 3. CUP)-Theo-
dore Charles Kothe, %, who escaped
from Los Angeles police last jan
uary. was arrested here last mght.
Police said they placed Kothe in
a cell alone because he had said
he would fight to death with other
prisoners in the bullpen rather than
return to Los Angeles Offlcers
quoted him as boasting that after
his escape he lived for several weeks
near the new Jail they're building
in Los Angeles and I used to stana
in front of it every day and laugh.