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Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07
THEY'RE STILL INNOCENT

One of the gravest charges under
American criminal law has been placed
against the El Centro chief of police
Considering the mystery of the case,
the peculiar circumstances of the in
cident out of which federal indictment
grew, and the character of principal
witnesses against the police chief and
his co-defendants, it seems the course
of wisdom for Imperial Valleyites to
remember, as the law remembers, that
every man is innocent until proved gull
ty.
The man whose testimony may be re-
lied upon most by prosecutors to bolster
up their case is an admitted gambler,
leader Of gambling syndicate, and has
been convicted Of manslaughter His
reputation, at most, is not savory. The
reputation of the men against whom he
testifies are good.
1t is not fair, it is not sportsmanlike,
and it is not American TO condemn any
one before proof Of guilt has been estab-
lished Let US not do it in this case
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Disseets the News

ment list is still high partly at lesist
because of the unemployment in
surance law, which leads many en-
ployers to pay overtime rather than
take on additional hands.
In the matter of relief, Cleveland
still suffers from the malady which
has brought SO much unWelcome
publicity in the pasta large num-
Der of unemployed people and a
great scarcity of money with which
to care for them.
At the moment, there is money
in sight to meet the relief cost until
we'll along in the fall; after that,
another of Cleveland's periodic re-
lief crises is apt to develop.
WPA layoffs have added to the
relief problem. Most of the WPA
people dropped under the 18-month
"furlough" clause in the new relief
act, having gone right onto the
direct relief rolls; which raises the
local relief cost precisely at the
time when another provision of the
new law stands to boost Cleveland's
WPA costs as we'll
This is the provision that 25 per
cent of the cost of construction
projects must be met by the city
1t looked for time as if this would
almost wreck Clevelands WPA sys-
tenn. But tentative ruling by WPA
Administrator Harrington in Wash
ington has changed the picture.
Harrington believes that land do
mated for construction projects may
be counted in on the 25 per cent
contribution.
If this ruling stands, Cleveland
will get along sWimmingly, for city
owns plenty of right-of-way and
and has good deal of money ear
marked for right-of-Way purchases.
Indeed, it is predicted that, if the
ruling stands, Cleveland actually
will get better results out of its
WPA program than ever before.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07

we do or do not get into a modern
dominant navy is about the most
ference, and some sort OF adjust
valuable tangible national asset
We can have.
2. The program of buying our
plus stocks of essential war mater
ialS ought to be made effective
Immediately Congress provided the
first $10000,000 of a 100000 900
program Of buying chromium. tun-
gsten, manganese, tin. quinine.
quartz, manila fiber and the like.
The purchases ought to be made
quickly, from countries friendly to
the United States, and in a man
ner to stimulate trade as much
as possible. Here again, nothing can
be lost, no matter what happens,
and much may be gained.
The Panama Canal defense pro-
gram should be brought quickly
up to par No one can interpret
canal defense as a threat to them
it will menace no one. Every effort
should be made to solidify closer
and relations with all South America
and with Canada. No one in Europe
can properly object that any mea-
sures of hemisphere defense threat
en- them.
The United States should make
1t clear that if any honest effort
Is made in Europe TO set up orderly
and sane means OF adjusting diff
terences, 1t will do its part.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE INVITING BIDS FOR
THE DISPOSAL OF ALL GAR
BAGE, RUBBISH, REFUSE.
ASHES, WASTE MATTER AND
DEAD ANIMALS.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
that sealed bids will be received by
the City Clerk of the City Of El
Centre at his office in the City
Hall in said City of Ell Centro up
to and until 730 pm. OF the 18tn
day of October, 1899, for the dis
posal of all garbage. rubbish. refuse,
ashes. waste matter and dead ami
mails in said City, or alternate bid
for disposal of garbage only, from
the first day of November, 1899, up
to and including the 3lSt day a..
October, 1912.
Said bids will be opened and con-
sidered by the City Council of the
City of Ell Centre at its regular
meeting to be held on said 18th
day OF October, 1899, at 7:30 pm.
OF said day at said City Hall, or
at such subsequent time to which
said meeting may be regularly ad-
journed, and a contract will be
awarded to the lowest responsible
bidder, provided said City Council
reserves the right to reject any and
all bids. The bidder whose pro-
posal is accepted shall be REQUIRED
to enter into a contract with the
City of Ell Centro within ten days
from and after the time of the
acceptance OF his bid and to furnish
the City with a bond or bonds as
provided in said contract. The form
for said contract is on file in the
office of said City Clerk and in the
office of the City Engineer of said
City, and all bidders are hereby
referred to said contract, and the
same is by this reference made a
part of this proposal inviting bids.
Each bid shall be accompanied
by certified check equal to ten
per cent of the total amount of
such bid, payable to the City of
Ell Centre, or by bond for Ike
amount with sureties acceptable to
said City Council, as a guarantee
thSt II such bid be accepted the
maker thereof will enter into the
proposed contract with said CITY
and give the bond or bonds re-
CURED by such contract, provided
That such check or bond will be
returned to each unsuccessful bid
der upon the rejection of his bid
and to the successful bidder upon
MS execution of said contract and
delivery of said bonds.
Dated this 7th day of September,
1899. M
r. j. TOMBSTONE, ~
.fR City Clerk of the City of
FL Centro. ,
s. 7, IA
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07

|. supply cleaning tissue IN her
hotels for women who use cold
cream.
?. Put cigaretts on the break
fast trays.
3. Serve hot rolls for breakfast.
Then she said, Any one of those
ideas would have made it worth
while to come to America.
The hotel that succeeds is the one
that has ideas.
And that is true Of every busi-
ness, and Of every profession. If
you are not open to new ideas,
you are old, no matter what the
calendar says
She said that her husband as a
boy herded sheep in Switzerland.
A peasant-yet he established the
swankiest hotels in the world.
Even as a lad he knew ne wanted
10 be a hotel man and he persu-
AIDED his father to raise 300 francs
to apprentice him to learn the
business. Young Ritz worked hard,
but it was a kind of work that a
sheepherder knew nothing about
and he made many mistakes. A
year passed. Then one day young
Ritz made blunder. The man
ager called him to his office and
said, you will have to go. You
will never make good hotel man.
That takes a special knack, and
you haven't got it"
Today in the town where he
went to school for few months,
there is a street named in his
honor
Here are eight of the ideas that
made his hotels successful:
l. Good cooking. On starting or
taking over hotel. his first re-
forms were in the kitchen.
2. A bath for every room. He
was the first hotel proprietor to
establish this practice.
3. He was lavish with flowers.
He not only placed them in the
foyers: but in the rooms Of his
women guests.
4. He said that women liked
hotels which brought out their
attractive qualities; so he took out
the glaring lights and put in in
direct lighting.
5. He made it rule never TO
reprimand an employe in the pres
ence Of another person. He al
ways talked to him in private
6. He said that people liked
hotels with gardens; so he had a
garden in every hotel he owned
or managed.
7. He also said that people like
TO be called by name, so he in
structed his staff TO practice this
custom. His memory for names
was simply prodigious.
8. He noted what his guests
liked TO eat.
Search for new ideas. They will
help you get what you want.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07
Willis Thorntons Editorial on:
Some Things the US. Can Actually Do-Now

So dizzily move the events of
Europe that it is almost impossible
for the United States to have any
policy regarding them. Until We
know the lineup, it is hard to ap-
praise the game. Will Russia now
sign a on-aggresSion pact with
Japan also? Will Italy sell the
Germans down the river as she
did in 1914? What other quick
switches and jumps are in pros
pect? we do not know, and until
we know it is useless to speculate
But there are certain things that
can be done noW-things that can
not fail to benefit the United
States whatever happens. No pains
should be spared to do them and
do them quickly.
l. The naval building program
should be put on 24-hour "a day
basis Immediately. The most modern
battleship in the fleet is the West
Virginia, whose keel was laid in
1920. That of the Arkansas was
laid in 1910; she was commissioned
81 years ago. The first of the new
ships, the North Carolina, is not
scheduled for completion until Nov
ember, l94l.
If there is war and we hold TO
our determination TO stay out, the
ships will help protect our neutral
status. If there is a peace con-
ment Of world conditions is made.
they will still speak loudly in that
onference. Whatever involyements
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07
German Consul at Frisco, Former
Hitler Aide, Asked TO Quit Exclusive
Club in Hoax Telegram

the ends of personal animosity must
have sent the wire" Foran said.
The consul's office announced
Weidemann sent this telegram TO
the club:
please accept my immediate res
ignation as a member of the oiyln-
pic club. I appreciate the many
coutesies extended to me-
After the club received Wiede-
manrl's notice of resignation. Foran
called the consulate and told an
attache that the telegram TO Wiede-
mann was unauthentic and tnat
the club had not asked for tho
resignation. Foran quoted the at
tache as saying:
This is awful. 1 do not know
what the consul will do now"
Foran said the attache told him
it appeared Wiedemann had been
made the victom of a plot
The telegram to Wiedemann read:
Our board of directors Is III re-
cepit of a formal demand signed
by l65 members, giving lis the
alternative of asking for your i'm
mediate resignation or else accept
ing theirs. While regretting the
action indicated and assuring you
that this is not personal to your
self, it is requested that you favor
us with your reply as soon as con-
venient."
Foran said the clubs board never
had received an ultimatum from
club members to oust Wiedemann.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07

two years after
our Civil Wal
ended but she
was still looking
for ideas!
I asked her how
many new ideas
she had found
worthy of taking
back to Paris
and she answered
Three"
Here they are
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07
Grab Bag
One-Mtnute Test

|. What is Ethiopia now called?
2. What so-called "black art
of the middle, ages was the fore
runner Of modern chemistryf
3, In what states are the Finger
Lakes?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07
Dale
CARNEGIE

Recently I met Madame Ritz.
widow OF the man who established
the Ritz hotels, who told me she
had come to America from France
TO Get new ideas. She was born
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07
Today'S Horoscope

Even fortunes for the next y
months will attend those who have
birthdays today. If young they will
experience happy romance, while
those who are married will have
increase in family Or much joy
through their children. The child
born on this date will be kind
hearted, affable, good-natured, ar
tistic, musical and rather FORUM
ate throughout life. The one fault
will be tendency to Incidence and
lack of ambition.
One Minute Test Answers
/. Italian East Africa.
2. Alchemy.
3. New York.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07
Hints OH Etiquette

Be considerate Of your room
mate when you are away at school
Don't keep your radio going full
blast all the time if it disturbS
them, and insist upon playing pro-
grams you like without consult-
ing their tastes.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07
Words of Wisdom

Fortune knocks at every mans
door once in life, but in good
many cases the man is in a neigh
boring saloon and does not hear
her. Mark Twain.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07
Photographs

Chinese men and women DO not
dance together in Chinese society,
and women never are employed as
mattresses.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07

There are more policemen inside
the Hollywood studio lots than there
are covering regular Hollywood
beats.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07
Barbs-

War, Britain says, will not curb
field hunting. So while the army
stalks Hitler on the continent, the
gentry will hunt the crafty fox at
home.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07
Thoughts for the Day

And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death
and he be put to death and thou hang him
tree.-Deuteronomy 2l:22.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07

The Constitution tOld Ironsides)
took part in some 40 naval engage
mentS and never suffered defeat.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07

News that police will use skin
pores for identification should
cause many criminals to break out
in a cold sweat.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07

There are no doctors in Lapland,
a European territory of 100000 in
habitants.
AS many as 5000 skulls of mice,
rats and gophers have been found
underneath the nests of barn owls.
In the United States in 1894 were
enumerated 10000 doctors.
1t is good form in China to ask,
What may your honorable age be?"
and to answer, II wasted As springs"
Chief ingredient of a new car
donated beverage is the tropical
fruit, papaya.
In Boston's more dignified build
ings and exclusive hotels elevator
operators announce they are "as-
cending" or descending, never
going up" or coming down."
The sound of artillery fire which
is clearly audible 200 miles away.
often cannot be heard 100 miles
away.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07

The trouble with scientists, we
are told, is they work too much
alone. Now if we only had two
scientists perfecting a theory, 1t
would be Just twice as confusing
when it emerged
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07

Indians, the WPA discovers,
bathed rarely. When they did, it
was probably only to wash off the
dust they just missed biting.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-07

st. Louis Zoo officials are still
searching for their lost pelican.
Wonder if they looked in its mates
bill?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-04
L IGH T
Old Drama of Air
Mail Contracts IL
Being Revived

WASHINGT0N-The bitter
drama of the original airmail
contracts. their cancellation by
the Roosevelt administration
and the deaths of substitute
army filters is currently being
staged before the drab Court
of Claims.
II also involves issues which have
embittered personal and political
relations between President Roose-
welt and Herbert Hoover. Now the
controversy has reached an unpub-
licized impasse which threatens a
politico- judicial explosion.
The Hugo Black sirmal investi-
eating committee set the scene for
the show. II charged that Hoovers
postmaster general Brown Of
Ohio-had farmed out profitable
airmail contracts without competi-
tive bidding-that he had rugged
the specifications so that only poll
teal favorites could win the prizes.
Thereupon Postmaster General
Farley cancelled the contracts. gave
army aviators the interim assign
ment OF flying the mail. Several
pilots unframed for night, wintry
and mountainous flying met their
death. Though almost forgotten
now, the incident doomed as F'DRs
first major political blunder.
Most of the airmail companies
compromised their breach Of con-
tract suits, but several elected to
sue the government before the
court of claims for a sum approxi-
mating SIT, DOC. 900. In defense. the
government Tor the Roosevelt adj
ministration) alleges that the
Hoover Brown contracts were made
in violation of the law requiring
competitive bidding, and therefore
invalid. That Is the background
and those are the characters In the
drama.
In Is tedious months Of hearings
before Court OF Claims Commission
er Akers. government counsel be-
lieve they have made out prima
facie case against Brown and the
airmail contractors. They have in
troduced written evidence showing
/ CONTINUED on Page 6, Column A
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JOHNSON URGES
WAR ARMISTICE

WASHINGTON-Senator Hiram
johnson, Calf, introduced a reso-
luton today requesting President
Roosevelt to join with other neu-
trails in urging belligerents in Eu-
rope to enter into IAN immediate
armistict."
The resolution was read to the
senate and to galleries crowded
for the neutrality debate. Then 1t
was referred to the foreign rela-
tons committee for consideration.
It said 1.-The time is suspicious
for the United States to use its
influence to promote an armistice'
and that other neutrsls are look
ing to us for leadership in move
naent to that end"
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In my opinion" he told the
senate, sthis is the road that may
lead us to war and will not yolun-
tarily take it.
Vandenberg. a candidate for the
1910 epublic presidential
nomination, followed Sen. Tom
Connally, d, Tex, who spoke for
the administration bill.
They disagreed squarely on the
fundamental issue in this debate
how best TO keep America out Of
the war.
Connally said the danger lies not
in embargo repeal, but in the
present law; that unless the law is
changed the u. S. will be brought
to the brink of war, perhaps
plunged into its dark and cruel
depths" He argued that this Is
go because the present act permits
American ships to go to belligerent
ports with all manner of material.
aside from arms, and these ships
are open to attack.
Connally also contended that the
embargo encourages aggressor ma
tons, and that its repeal lis neces-
sary if the U. S. is to assume a
position of legal and real neu-
trality."
Vandenberg and Connally, both
members of the foreign relations
committee, shared the oratory In
(Continued on Page 3, Column A.
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100 MEN HUNT
TACo|u|N
N MOUNTAINS!
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county sheriffs office.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-04
BANK DEPOSITS
INCREASE HERE

Deposits in all Tacoma banks
increased materially during the
past three months, according TO
figures released Wednesday In ac-
cordance with an order by the u.
S. comptroller Of currency.
Deposits totaled SAT ,els,4l5.4s.
On June 80, when the last call
was made. total deposits were
s45.845, 04e31. The total Is also
considerably above deposits on
Sept. rs, 1888, OF s42 ,24s,153.25.
Biggest gain was made by the
Bank of California. Deposits
there June 30 were S13. 1s9 500 .06,
compared with Sl4.209, 411.3s as
of Oct 2. Totals follow:
oct. 2, 1899 June 80. 1893
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NO-CU|LT PLEA
IN GIRL DEATH
HOLLYWOOD-De WIN Clinton

HOLLYWOOD Witt Clinton
Cook, 20-year-old parolee from an
Iowa reformatory. Wednesday
pleaded not guilty to the city col
legs campus staying Of Anya soso-
yeva, former ziegfeId Follies beau
ty, then pleaded guilty To seven
charges resulting from confessed
attacks upon two other young
girls.
Judge Thomas Ambrose dis
missed an eighth felony count. and
ordered the youth Immediately TO
trial on the campus murder
charge.
Selection Of a jury was begun
shortly before noon.
Sentencing Of Cook ON the
remaining six felony charges,
TO which he pleaded guilty,
was postponed until Oct. ..
The charges included a clubbing
attack upon Della Bogard. dancer,
and a similar attack and criminal
assault upon Myrtle Wagner. IT.
year-old domestic.
Cook, arrested month ago,
after months of search for the
Hollywood night prowler who beat
women with length of scantling,
pleaded guilty Aug. 20 to the Soso-
yeva murder and the attacks upon
Miss Bogard and Miss Wagner.
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Hull Again Issues
Shipping Warning

WASHINGTON - secretary OF
State Cordell Hull today issued a
new warning for American mer-
chant ships to stay out of Euro
pean belligerent zones, but reiter-
ated that the United States does
not recognize legality of "unre-
stricted interference with Ameri-
can ships and commerce"
Hull said advices received here
indicated there would probably be
an intensification of the warfare
against merchant shipping in the
European war area, and that 1t
was believed advisable to warn
shipping.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-04
FINANCES OF STATE
TAKE SLIGHT UPTURN

OLYMPIA--Tax income exceed
ed expenditures the past week and
the states finances took slight
upturn. State Treasurer Phil II.
Gallagher reported today. The gem
eral fund was able 10 cut its deficit
from s4.544,211 to S3,6s3.s17. To-
tai cash surplus In all "a state
funds rose from Ss,26s, 46S TO
80. 0s9, 361.
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NAVY PILOT IS UNHURT
As HIS ship CRASHES

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.--A u.
s. navy pilot from Seattle. Ensign
X. J. Crowley, escaped injury
Tuesday night when his bipIane
crashed In a small field two miles
from klamath Falls.
Crowley had landed on the field
after failing TO locate klamath
Falls airport. Previously. he had
crossed the Cascades because the
Medford port was obscursd BY fog
and mist.
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Antitrust office
Open at Seattle

SEATTLE-A Seattle agency of
the antitrust division of the u. s.
Department of Justice went into
operation today with u field office
of three men,
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man Clement of the Brazilian
coast, and that the ship was now
at large In the south Atlantic.
II was forecast the Admiral
scheer might now proceed 70
Caribbean ports. and that possibly
other raiders had been prepared to
commence operations there.
Reports that the German liner
Columbus had left its port Of
refuge at Vera Cruz caused specu-
lstion whether the German adj
mirslty had ordered It, and per-
haps other ships. To proceed to
designated ports. get guns, and
take the seas as raiders.