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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-04
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and plans for the winter season were discussed during the session. A meeting of the new committee women will be held Monday eve ming at the home of Mrs. Gulluf- son.
 A public card party is scheduled to be held Saturday, October 14 at the dugout, in charge of which will be the past presidents of the Auxiliary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-04

ing IS hours a day. before going on down the coast to Florida and Key West, thence back across coun- try. down to Mexico City, up to Colorado, over to Los Angeles, and up to San Francisco.
 In San Francisco they visited the Golden Gate International Exposi- tion and Burford made Christmas stock purchases for his store on Seward Street.
 Arriving in Juneau last night with the children, and with Mrs. Pearl Burford, also returning from a trip, joining the Burfords in Seattle, Jack Burford proudly pronounced the trip success" when he reach ed into his pocket to pull out the family resources"
 -Four bits" said Jack, "and Can adian at that!"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-04
RUSSIA IS TO MAKE
 DEMAND ON TURKEY

ISTANBUL, Oct. 4.-One report from authentic sources, said today that the Soviet government had demanded of turkeys Foreign Min ister Saracoglu that Russia be granted the right to fortify as a naval base at least one Turkish port and to maintain a military garrison in Turkey.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-04
Legion Aux. Meets,
 Card Party Planned

Newly elected officers of the American Legion Auxiliary presid- ed at the meeting last evening, held in the Legion dugout.
 Mrs. George Gullufson, president, named her chairmen for the year,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-04
Mullen Flies
 To Fairbanks

J. F. Mullen, President of B. M. Behrends Bank, flew to Fair banks today with Pacific Alaska Airways.
 MT. Mullen will be in the Golden Heart City for about week on business, before returning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-04
Heavy Cargo Through Here
 With MarYD.

The freighter Mary D., Capt. Nils Johannesen, of Pacific Am erican Fisheries, chartered by tho Alaska Steamship Company, has arrived in Juneau with load of general cargo for Gastineau Chan nel
 Bound to the Westward, the Mary D. is loaded with big deck cargo of gold dredge pontoons of different lengths and weights, the largest being 13 tons in weight. There are Il of the big steel box, like floats, totalling 63 tons.
 The Mary D. is at the Alaska Juneau dock where she will be unloading until late tonight or to- morrow morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-04
18th Anniversary
 Feted Last Night
 By Henry Hdnsons

Congratulations, baskets Of flow CTS and gifts all were part of celebration last evening when MT. and Mrs. Henry Hanson were fet-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-04
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Oct. 4. Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mirle stock today is T, American Can 113H, American Power and Light 5A, Anaconda 335s, Bethlehem Steel 88A, Commonwealth and Southern IS, Curtiss Wright [, General Motors 541s. Information al Harvester 65ls, Kennecott 401s, New York Central 2l, Northern Pacific 11A, United States Steel 74B, Pound $403.
 DOW, JONES AVERAGES
 The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 150.25, rails 3388, utilities 25.16.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-04
DOW. JONES AVERAGES
INVESTIGATION
 INTO C0LLISI0N;;
 SIX LIVES LOST

NOGALES, Ariz., Oct 4 = Au- thorities began an investigation to- day of a head-on collision on the Tucson -Nogales highway tha | claimed six lives. Two of the vic- tins were University of Arizona coeds. Their car collided with one occupied by numbers of a Mexican orchestra.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-04
Praised Breast of Veal & Mushrooms Baranof Tomorrow
CANADIAN DISCOUNT

12%o
 B. NJ. Behrends Bank. adv. First National Bank. ss c
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-04
Relief At Last
 For Your Cough

Creomulsion relieves promptly be- cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to loosen germ laden phlegm, increase secretion and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, infiam- ed bronchial mucous membranes. No matter how many medicines you have tried, tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding that you are to like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-04

In 1000, when most Europeans expected the end of the world, the Norsemen discovered new world America.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-04

The Book ALASKA, Revised and Enlarged, Now On Sale: $1.0e.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-13
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Dissects the News

yoring retention of the embargo.
Lindbergh didn't discuss his speech
or his position in public, but the vi
sit at least created the impression
that perhaps he wasn't for the en-
barge after all.
Another administration move was
the strategem of putting a cash
and-carry clause into the revised
bill The administration didn't want
cash-and-carry originally; as of to-
day, most of the isolationiStS do
want it; Furthermore. some of the
senator's who are prepared to vote
against the embargo don't like the
cash-and-carry.
Practically all of the isolationists
in the Senate, with the notable eX-
ceptions of Borah and Johnson, are
willing to take CASH -and-carry if
they can keep the embargo, and it
is probable that substitute bill
enjoying both features will be of
fered presently. Beyond that, some
of the isolationists favor present.
ing either a separate bill or an
amendment to the Pittman- Bloom
bill which would clamp an embargo
on all exports to belligerents.
Nevertheless, the administration
maneuver has had some effect. It's
tendency is to submerge the arms
embargo itself, on the argument
that the administration bill really
safeguards American interests bet
ter than the present law does. That
explains the spirited effort lead
ers of the isolationist bloc are max
ing to keep their forces talking
about the arms embargo to the ex-
clusion of all else.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-13
CREDIT OR INVESTMENT?
(Wall Street JournaD

Announcement that the President will
ask SlO0,OO0,00O additional for the EX-
port-Import Bank to further trade with
Latin-American countries, coupled with
Undersecretary of Commerce Mobiles in
sistence upon the necessity of increasing
imports from those countries, keep dis
cussion alive on this well-worn subject.
That there is nothing new to be said on
it-beyond the fact that the European
war seems to offer an opportunity to US
by hampering our principal competitors
does not in the least cramp the talk
ing about it. The trouble is that in the
flood of talk the elements of the matter
get scant attention. 1t seems to be nec-
essary every once in a while to go back
to them.
The first OF these elements is that
trade is trade - namely exchange of
goods. All International commercial rea-
tlons must ultimately come to settlement
by means of things which can be meas
ured weighed and valued No bookkeeping
will avail to take their place The sec
ond is that credit in connection with
trade is one thing and investment quite
another. Credit is essentially LIQUID
working capital and investment is fixed
capital, and the two notions must be
kept strictly distinct The purpose of
credit is to cover the processes of manu-
facture and delivery; the purpose of in
vesment is to provide permanent plant
for accomplishing either To attempt
to create hybrid between credit and in
vestment is extremely dangerous, in that
it tends to the employment of capital
which its owners fancy to be liquid, but
which ultimately proves to be fixed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-13
THIS IS
NEWSPAPER WEEK

ABy he Hired Man in the Alameda
Times-Star)
This is Newspaper Week. The follow
ing from the able pen of Joseph H. Finn
is appropriate:
am the newspaper Born of the deep.
daily needs of a nation-I am the voice
of now-the incarnate spirit of the Times
Monarch of the things that are. My
cold type burns with firebood of hu-
man action, | am fed by arteries of wire
that girdle the earth. | drink from the
cup of every Joy and sorrow | know
no death, yet | am born again with every
morn-with every noon-with every tWi-
light. | leap into fresh being with every
worlds event. Those who create me
cease to be-the brains and the hearts
blood that nourish me go the way of
human dissolution Yet | live on-and
on. | am majestic in my strength-sub-
line in my power-terribe in my poten-
tialities-yet as democratic as the rag
ged boy who sells me for penny | am
the eonsort of kings-the partner of capi-
tal-the brother of toil-the inspiration
of the hopeless-the right arm of the
needy-the champion of the oppressed
the conscience of the criminal. | am
the epitome of the worlds comedy and
tragedy. My responsibility is infinite,
l speak and the world stops to listen.
say the word, and the battle flames the
horizon I counsel peace and the war
lords obey. l am greater than any in
dividual - more powerful than any
group. | am the dynamic force of pub
lie opinion.
Rightly directed, l am creator of
conference.-the trail-blazer of prosper
ity-a builder in happiness in living.
am the backbone of commerce and the
teacher of patriotism. | am the hand of
the clock of time-the clarion voice of
civilization.
am the newspaper.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-13
The PERVERSITY OF
HUMAN NATURE

A shipload of Americans-577 of them
sang and danced for joy when they
saw the Statue of Liberty from aboard
the steamer Iroquois. For many hours
they had lived with the knowledge that
Germany claimed their ship was going
to be torpedoed before it docked. They
were glad to get home.
Then they landed. They thought it
over a while. They remembered the close
quarters aboard the tiny vessel, normal
ly used in American coastwise trade, and
the fact that water had to be rationed
because the Iroquois WASH big enough to
carry a full supply. They remembered
storm that tossed the tiny vessel about
numerically. They felt of bruises re-
ceived in the storm.
And now they're mad at the steamship
company for the way they were treated.
Such is human nature.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-13

who pushed aside the advice OF
the American negotiators when they
said that the harShness of the Yer
sailles terms would inevitably lead
to the rise of a German leader who
would seek to throw off the op-
preSsive treaty?
Yes, it was the same man, and
nc. one whose record would seem
TO argue that he is best qualified
to contribute to the question of a
1899 peace Sucl a peace must be
better than the peace of 1919, or it
will have been scarcely worth the
making.
Lloyd George wants the United
States dealt a hand in any new
peace conference because you have
there great power whose interests
are not European interests and
which has not been involved in any
OF these disputes and quarrels."
Whether the United States might
have any interest in the making
of a general peace in Europe would
depend largely on whether it prov
ed to be a mere military armistise
or a real settlement going to the
root of economic, colonial, financial
and armament problems in a truly
international way
That Woodrow Wilson once en-
visioned such a world settlement,
and what happened to his hopes,
and why it happened, no one is
in q better position to remember
than David Lloyd George. And if
there should appear in the United
States a certain reluctance to take
another hand in that game, espe-
cially if there are any deuces wild,
again Lloyd George is in the best
possible position to understand.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-13
THE FENCE PERCHERS
IGNORE PLAIN DUTY

While California faces the possibility
of a financial crisis worse for the state
than the 1929 market crash was for the
nation, the people witness political fence
straddling that is all but criminal in its
neglect of duty.
If the Ham-and-Eggs pension proposal
obtains maj jority of votes Nov 7, Cali
fornia will be saddled with a one-man
dictatorship without equal in the Unit
ed States. Neither courts nor recall nor
protest will break that dictatorship, once
it gains a foothold. If the pension pro-
posal passes, state government would
be without finances in a matter of
months, business would be dealt death
blow, eastern capital would withdraw
its California investments, as it has al
ready laid plans to do, and the people
would find themselves attempting to
operate dual system of currency that
could lead only to bankruptcy.
In the face of this possibility, scores
of office holders throughout the state
some in Imperial county-refuse to take
any public stand on the pension plan.
Most of them realize starkly what hard
ship the plan would work on the agen-
cies they have a hand in directing. They
know the disillusionment that would be
in store for the old people who have
been led to believe Ham-and-Eggs rep
resents Utopia. They know the chaos
that would result, the panic that would
keep outside capital out of California.
Yet they remain silent.
Ask one why, and if he is truthful
he will tell you:
There are a lot of old people who
are going to vote for this plan They
think anyone who is against it is a tool
of capitalism. | cannot afford to lose
their votes when | run for office again"
For years without end politicians have
been sidestepping issues for that same
reason. In some less vital matter, we
recognize the cause, grin and put up with
it. This thing now confronting it is diff
ferent.
Today as never before the people of
the state need the expert ideas of those
who have had experience in state gov
ernmen. They need the opinions of those
who are in position to know the facts
They need advice, and they need it badly
The man who withholds such advice
when it is within his power to give it,
is guilty of gross neglect of duty.
We may tolerate political maneuver-
ing in a less serious situation, but he
who plays politics with human welfare
for a pawn deserves little consideration
at the polls or elsewhere.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-13
Photographs

In Canada there is a periodical
edited by an Indian chief. 1t Is
read by 10000 Iroquois.
An omelette made from one os-
trich egg would feed six people.
Those European government COM
muniques are masterpieces of writ
ing. They are news items which
never contain any news.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-13
Famous Sayings

WASHINGTON.-The votes that
will give one side or the other a
majority in the neutrality fight
probably still are on the fence
despite claims and counter claims
A substantial group either hasn't
made up its mind yet or can be
weaned away from the position al
ready taken.
Which forms the basis for much
of the current activity, political
and otherwise, in Washington
For instance: An effort is now
under way to tie together a num-
ber of unrelated groups into a
national organization to oppose any
change in the neutrality law-with
the idea that when the job is fin
ised the organization would stick
together and advance a general po-
.litical program as we'll.
An earlier effort to create a
countrywide group to fight repeal
Of the arms embargo failed to get
the support of the Senate isola-
tionists because some of the SEN
ators suspected a similar aim.
AS far as the neutrality fight it
self is concerned, some expert man
ipulation is going on, on both sides.
The first move was made by the
administration Immediately after
Congress convened, when a caucus
of Senate foreign relations COM
mittee Democrats was summoned to
discuss the sort of program that
ought to be offered. The caucus was
supposed to be a deep, dark secret
but unfortunately some clerk made
a slight mistake and invited Sen
ator Bennett Clark of Missouri.
Senator Clark is a Democrat in
good standing, but he is also an
isolationist; the caucus had to be
called off and then re-summoned
to keep the beans from being spill
ed.
One smart administration move
was the enlisting of Senator James
ByrneS of South Carolina as one
OF the principal strategists in the
fight for repeal of the embargo.
ByrneS is popularly credited with
the move which brought Col
Charles A. Lindbergh back to Wash
ington after Lindbergh's radio
speech had been interpreted as ia
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-13

little daughter told her 1athef now
sorry she was for him that he
couldn't tie sacks at the mill, drive
a car. or even write letters. The
suffering man looked at his daugh-
ter and gathered courage. He told
her they must be brave; that he
would manage somehow. He called
for his pocketbook; and reaching
into it with his left hand, fished
out dime and told her to get her
self a dish of ice cream.
Now here is what happened to
this man who had been told he
was done for. He is Herman w
Woodwin. of 514 West Silver Street,
Lebanon. Ohio.
Fifty-tWo years old and on the
shelf Oh. no he wasn't. Not Her
man Goodwin! He accepted his
handicap as a chanllenge He de-
cided TO go ahead. He set to work
and learned to write with his left
hand! He had been very poor in his
youth, and, in addition, he had
faulty vision and painful attacks
with his eyes, so ne had been able
to finish only the fourth grade.
while waiting for his stump to heal,
he decided to catch up on his edu-
cation. He read a great deal, and
learned more about the affairs of
the world. instead of feeling sorry
for himself.
At last, able to 90 back to his
old job, he tied sacks with one hand.
He could not tie them as fast as
the other men; and so he began to
study new ways for doing the work:
shortcuts and labor savers. So well
and so intelligently did he work,
that he was promoted. He contin-
ued to work out mill Improvements.
Not being able to use his hands
well, he used his head. He was pro-
NOTED to assistant manager; then
TO manager.
The depression swept down on
the mill. He met it with new me-
thods; and actually made money
for the mill all during the depres-
sion This year they expect to get
cut of debt-and burn the note
which has existed since the COM
Dni1,y ,uac orpanizad
There are 400 stockholders. and
o board of nine directors. Today
this manager Of a great coopera-
tive mill in a rich district of Ohio
is SO years of age and going strong.
Not 50 bad for man who before
his accident was just humble
worker tying sacks.
A fine example, Herman Good
win When calamity swept down on
you, you accepted it as challenge,
and decided not to be defeated, and
actually made bigger success thnn
you otherwise might have done.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-13
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF TAXES

NOTICE is hereby given that all
taxes for the fiscal year of July l.,
1899, to June 80, 1910, in the City
Of FL Centro are now due and pay
able.
That all taxes upon personal
property and one-half of all taxes
upon real estate, mortgages, deeds
of trust, contracts or other obliga-
tons by which debt is secured upon
teal estate will become delinquent
upon the last Monday in November
aext thereafter at five o'clock PM,
and that unless such taxes are paid
prior thereto ten per cent will be
adSed to the amount thereof.
That the remaining half of the
taxes upon real estate, mortgages,
deeds OF trust, contracts or other
obligations by which debt is secur-
ed upon real estate; will become
delinquent upon the last Monday
in April next thereafter, at five
o'clock PM, and that unless such
taxes are paid prior thereto, five
per cent will be added to the
amount thereof.
That all taxes may be paid at
the time of the payment of the
first installment as herein provided.
That taxes may be paid at the
City Hall to the Deputy Tax Col
lector, between hours of eight
o'clock AM, and five o'clock PM,
with the exception of Saturday and
on which day the hours shall be
from eight o'clock AM, to twelve
o'clock noon.
Dated this 30th day of Septem-
Der, 1899.
j. STERLING OSWALT,
City Tax and License Collector
BY FAYE BURKE,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-13
Willis Thorntons Editorial on:
Now LIyod George Wants Peace!

Nobody is likely to argue that
Prime Minister Chamberlain of the
United Kingdom, on his record, is
one who is likely to turn heedlessly
aside from any honest offer of
peace that really promises a civil
ized Europe. 1t was Chamberlain
who sacrificed SO much Cthat did
not belong to England to the
cause Of peace in our time
So it seems strange indeed to see
figure rising in the House of
Commons and demanding that
Chamberlain give fullest consider
alton TO any offer of peace coming
from neutrals. And stranger still
that this figure should be that of
the stocky little Welshman, David
Lloyd George.
1t is 20 years ago, true, but the
world can scarcely have forgotten
that this is the same Lloyd George
who was so great a factor in fore
ing through the Versailles mill the
treaty whose failure put the world
where it is today.
Was it not this same Lloyd George
who went before his electorate Just
before the peace conference opened,
with program of hang the Kai-
ser and make Germany pay the
full cost of the war?
Was it not this same Lloyd George
who won his election on that plat
form and then returned to Versail-
les in such position that he could
accept little less than his election
platform called for?
Was it not this same Lloyd George
who, with implacable Clemenceau,
jammed through the peace negotia-
tions impossible reparations de-
mands on Germany, and who help
ed to jettison President Wilson's
Fourteen Points?
Was it not this same Lloyd George
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-13
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
DISTRICT
El Centre, California
IMPERIAL VALLEY POWER
PROJECT
SPECIFICATIONS No. "a
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS


Notice is hereby given that the
Board Of Directors Of Imperial r.
rigation District will receive bids
for the construction of a 33,000-volt
transmission line to Plaster City,
located about twenty 600 miles
west of Ell Centre, and two sub
stations, which will include furnish
ing labor and certain materials
necessary for the construction of
the transmission line and sub
stations; each bid to be in ac-
cordance with Plans, Detail Specifi-
cations and other contract docu-
ments comprising Specifications NO
"a, now on file at the office of the
Board Of Directors of Imperial r.
rigation District at Ell Centre, Cali
fornia, where they may be examin-
ed and copies obtained upon deposit
of $500 per set, which deposit will
be refunded upon the return of
such copies in good condition with
in five days after the bids are
opened.
The principal items of work in
volved are as follows:
Constructing twenty 600 miles
of No. 40 A.CS.R. conductor
transmission line;
Installing three CD ir-break
line = sectionalizing switches;
and
Constructing one Cd switching,
and one Cd step-doWn sub
station.
Bidders attention is called To the
fact that the work to be done is a
part of power project to be fin
anced by a Loan and Grant to the
District from the Public Works Ad-
ministration (PWA Docket No.
Calf. 1088-P-DO, and the award of
the contract will be contingent upon
securing funds from such source.
Bidders are hereby notified that
pursuant to the statutes of the
State Of California, or local law
thereto applicable, the Board of
DiectorS of Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict has aScertained the general
prevailing rate of per diem wages
and rates for legal holiday and
overtime work in the locality in
which the work is to be performed.
The prevailing rates SO determin-
ed are as follows: