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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
American DeniaIs; Resentment Reduce
Chance for Better German Relations

WASHINGTON March 80. Up
Official denials and congressional
resentment OF German charges that
the United States helped bring
about the European war appeared
today to have dimmed the pos
sibility of an early easing Of strain
ed Gerlnan-American relations.
There has been considerable n
official speculation L. 70 whether
President Roosevelt might appoint
a new ambassador to Germany and
make other moves TO better o.plo-
matte relations between the two
governments. strained severely when
U. S. Ambassador to Germany Huoa
r. Wilson was recalled a year ago
last November.
Publication of tho charges n a
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
Kennedy Blasted
Along with BuNitt
For Starting War

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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
Shipping Chief
Dies at London

LONDON. March 30. W
Sir John Giimouy, IL minister ri
shipping, died nj his home thi>
morninG. his ministry announced
Sir John had held his posi-
since Oct. II of last year wher
the ministry of shipping wa
created The ministry was de
signed 10 coordinate activities OF
tho merchant fleet in tho econo-
mic war against Germany. \
nucleus for il had exhausted
within tie BOARD of Trade.
The ministry said that Sill
John had died suddenly.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
Britons SkepticaI
Of German Report
U.S.. Started War
Continued from Page i


the Daily Mail said.
Reds don't want any more war.
said the Daily Mirror.
Generally the British interpreted
Molotov's speech as confirming ear
lier indications that the Russo
German approximation Of an axis
was creaking because Of Russian
hesitancy in collaborating with Ger
many.
Smaller. neutral countries We're
interested in Molofoy's speech The
Scandinavian believed th2t once
and for all their plans for a military
alliance among Norway. Sweden and
Finland were doomed. Ruranians
took comfort from MoiOtOv's lndica-
ton that Russia would settle her
claims TO the Puman.4n province
of Bessarabia through diplomatic
channels when the KrCmlln deemed
the time propltIouS
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
l.. A. BOY WILL BE
GOVERNOR, FOR DAY

SACRAMENTO, March 30. (UP) -
Some lucky Los Angeles high school
boy will be governor of California,
in name at least. on April 20, Gov.
Culbert Olson revealed today in
connection with plans for celcbra-
ton of Boys Day in citizenship.
The council for promotion of boys
welfare in Los Angeles county will
dcsignat" the student to occupy the
governors suite in the Los Angeles
tate building.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
Japanese Set Up
Puppet President

NANKING. China. March so
UP1-iyang Ching-Wei was in
augurated acting president of
Japanese organized Chinese Ma
tional government" today on a
lO-point program dedicated for
mally to Chinese Japanese amity
but aimed. for practical purposes
AT undermining the Chinese gov
crnmcnt and bringing collapse
of China's resistance to Japan.
Wang, former premier OF
China who was burned in effiey
at Chungking, the Chinese cap
ital, yesterday and is under
death sentence imposed in Alb
scntia by the Chinese govern
ment, took the oath of office with
his colleagues in the Japanese
sponsored regime at the civil
service building.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
Milk Marketing ~
Act Held Valid

SAN FRANCISCO March 80
oUP,-rhc California supreme court
today upheld con5tltutionallty of the
ato milk marketing act in dis
missing an Injunction obtained by
% los Angeles producers, and d.
t,iD1tor~ SEEING n block enforce
ment Of the law in that area.
Tho court. by 5 10 ! decision
reversed the Los ANGLE superior
court which had granted the in
junction against State Director Of
gricultrre w. p. Parker.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
City Theft Case
Returns to Grand
Jury on Demurrer

house and lot in Holtvhle at $4,000.
Five cases against Little and two
cases against Mrs. Richards were
dismissed in Ell Centre justice court
late Friday and their $4,000 bond
in the case of each was exonerated
This action was necessary to make
way for the impending superior
court proceedings.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31

SACRAMENTO. March 80. up
Deputy Corporation Commissioner
Donald Pearcc. attached to the San
Francisco office, today Was COM
mcndcd by Gov Culbcrt Olson for
splendid public service" in saving
OF $4,000 to an aged retired school
teacher who was about To be dc
fraudcd
Several days ago. Pearce received
a call from an official of the San
Francisco financial institution that
the woman had withdrawn her
account and a building and loan
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
Husky on Wheels

In order that this can be next
door to an all-vallov column. here
an FL Centre llbo
Big Jim Dawson, Whose frame
boosts the weights by about 300
pounds. has started campaign feel
crS, VIC understand.
In return for campaigning for
candidates in the coming city cleo
tons, he will accept the job of mo-
tOrcycle cop!
No soap, Jim. The city would have
to buy a special three wheeler 70
hold you up.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
WEATHER

Southern California-Cloudy with
rain in west portion Saturday night
and Sunday; little change in tenn
peraturc; increasing southerly wind
off coast becoming fresh.
Record for "a hours ending 5 a. m.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
Giving His ALL

An example of civic spirit raised
to the nth degree was displayed by
Johnny Carter. He is the lad at the
Desert Cavalcade Midway who, garb-
ed in a football helmet. thrusts his
head through a hole in canvas
sheet and shouts at customers to
hurl eggs at him. When we saw him
the customers were responding with
great vim, vigor and accuracy.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31

Commander of tie British air
force which conducted the largest
scale bombing raid of the Euro
pean war was Sir Edgar Ludlow
Hewitt, above, commander in
-hief of Britain's air bombers,
- attack was on the German
Sozes on. the island Of Sylt.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-31
Rambling Reporter
Continued from Page i

Continued from Page II
ling crowds at the pageant, arrang-
ing parking and even plotting actors
to their proper places, was perform
ed by Boy Scout Troop nine, one
and two of Calexico
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-04-12
Mona, Va. News

Mr.. Prentiss N. Miles and Mr.. Ed
ward Bruffey, of Lynchburg College,
spent the Easter holidays with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Miles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Bunting and
Mrs. Addie Taylor were supper guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. David Miles, Friday
night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Paradee, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sam Jones, Mr.. and Mrs. David
Miles visited in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin burlington of Melfa, Sat-
urday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Parks and fam
lily were supper guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Parks Sunday.
Miss Virginia Miles of Madison Col
lege, spent the Easter holidays with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. D. F. Miles.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. r. Parks and daugh
ter, Lille Mae, Mr.. and Mrs. Milton
McCready of Pocomoke City, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Parks and Mr.. Harry
Tull were supper guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hall Parks Sunday. Other
guests in the evening were Mr.. and
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-04-12

of ours. You know, log cabins, a CEN
trail lodge, that sort of thing. The
fishing and swimming are good; it's
convenient enough to several big
cities. We always thought-when
I'd saved enough money to swing
my end of it" His arms frightened
about March; there was a kind of
wonder in .his voice. Somehow it
doesn't seem important any more. 1t
doesn't seem real. When I try to re-
member the lakes and the pines, your
face comes btween and they aren't
clear. :"
Relief flooded over March, giddy,
shaken relief, making her want to
laugh and cry, making her cling to
Brent. She had been afraid just at
first that there might be real bar
rier between them, that Brent might
be married to someone else. Fantas-
tic and horrible thought! She wouldn't
give Brent up. She couldn't! But it
would never do to let him know how
unimportant his reasons for hesitancy
seemed to her in the face of all the
awful things she had been imagining.
She was so confident that, once mar
ried, she could help him conquer his
fancied dislike of the big city, his
exaggerated yearning for space and
quiet. AS for the rest of it, the vague
plan for a summer lodge on his grand
mothers land, it was all to indistinct,
too far in the unpredictable future
to cause her a moment worry. So
many things could happen and
Brent would forget She could
make him forget. :.
Continued next week
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-04-12
Lemon Juice Recipe
Checks Rheumatic
Pain Quickly

If you suffer from rheumatic, ar
Thrills or neuritis pain, try thil,
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druggist under an absolute money
back guarantee. Ru-Ex Compound u
for sale and recommended by Lloyd &
Blaine.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-04-12

Mrs. F. A. Miles and son, Richard
Byrd and Mr.. and Mrs. D. F. Miles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Allen of West
mont, New Jersey, spent the weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Paradee.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Miles and Mr..
anad Mrs. Fletcher Miles and son,
were supper guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Hall Parks, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Fisher, Mrs.
Doris Powell and son, Jimmie Lee,
were supper guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Paradee, Sunday.
Mr.. Howard Tull called in the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Tull, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Wilkerson and
son, Sidney, were dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Wilkerson, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellie Kelly were din
ner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Almer Fox
at Accomac, Va, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Bunting and
daughter, Jean spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. David Miles.
Mrs. Jack Hurley spent the week
end in Baltimore with her daughter,
Mrs. G. L. Mock.
Mr.. Harry Bell, Jr., and Miss Olevia
Bell motored to Baltimore Saturday
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-04-12
n Belong To YOU ly S BS 9ARSIR

forced himself to concentrate on her
words.
She said, "There's something I'd
like you to see. Well stop a minute
in Clay's office"
She got up and shrugged out of
her smock. The frock beneath was
trim and straight, a rough grey wool
belted in crimson. Her pale hair cur
led softly against the childish collar;
her lips matched the vivid color of the
belt. She, too, seemed aware of the
quiet, the utter isolation that hem
med them in. Brent glanced away
abruptly. It had been a mistake to
come here. If he had stopped to
think -.
Together and rather silently they
went back along the way Brent had
come. Clayton Saunders office open
ed from the small reception room and
carried out the same striking scheme
of decoration. March moved toward
an enormous window that covered al
most one entire wall. But Brent
paused near her employers desk and
stood there, staring at it. Perfectly
appointed, with little row of buttons
for summonig whomever it's owner
wished to see; the desk of success
full man. Brent couldn't help making
a mental comparison between it and
the SCARED relic at which he sat all
day. But, curiously enough, he felt
no envy. A desk was a desk and a
job was job. No doubt a desk so
magnificent, job so important as
the one Clayton Saunders filled, i'm
posed their own sharp limitations,
committed man to bondage as eff
fectively as Brent's held him cap
tive. So few were free in the sense
that he yearned for freedom, for only
through certain measure of success
could such freedom be achieved. And
the habit of success enmeshed a man,
so that by the time the goal he aimed
for was attained, he had lost, all too
often, not only the desire for freedom
but the last faint memory of ever
having wanted more than was now
his.
March said across her shoulder,
"Look, Brent"
He went and stood beside her at
the window. Incredibly small and
far removed, the city lay spread out
toy for their enchantment, a fairy
pattern in flashing light and shadow.
The aloof stars seemed closer than
the lights below, the shifting, alter
ing, man-made lights, pitting their
puny brilliance against the dark of
the unchanging night.
March asked softly. "What does it
remind you off"
And Brent answered, his voice hus-
ky, stirred in spite of himself by the
rushing memory the sight before him
summoned into being, "The night we
walked on the lake shore. The night
we met"
March turned suddenly and she was
very near. AS near as she had been
that other night, infinitely dearer now
than then. The light, fresh fragrance
of her hair was in his nostrils. Her
eyes were dark and velvet-soft and
questioning.
"Why did you come here, Brent ?
Was it because you knew-because
you felt how badly I wanted to see
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-04-12

you? Was it because some part of
me called to you and you had to
answer?" Her voice faltered slight
ly. "I-hope that was it."
Brent's hands reached out invol-
UNFAIRLY and she was in his arms. AS
he had wanted her, as he hadn't
meant to take her. The feel of her
plant young body crushed close a
gainst him, the touch of her lips re-
turning his kisses, were food for his
hunger, water for his thirst. She was
the answer to the sum of all his needs
but he might not have her. Not
now. Not for a long time. Perhaps
not ever. 80.
She chung to him and he breathed
against her hair, March March,
my darling. We're mad to do this.
I shouldn't have come"
But March asked, "Why, Brent?
Why are we mad?" A little bubble
of shaken laughter broke in her voice.
''This is the first sensible thing we've
done in weeks-in months since the
night we met. We were wiser then.
We knew without stopping to figure
it all out just what was in store for
us. But we were too civilized to
trust our impulses"
Brent said starkly, cit isn't so sim
pie as that. I wish to heaven it
were."
The swift mischief in her glance
died at sight of the torment in his.
Her voice was gentle. "Why not,
darling? After all, we're not chill
dren. We know what we want"
"What we want-yes." The words
seemed wrung from him. "But can't
you see how crazy the whole set up
is? Not only from the money stand
point, which-Heaven knows!-is bad
enough, with you earning so much
more than 1. But if that were all, we
could work things out. 1 know we
could! Money isn't important enough
to wreck u.s."
She was very quiet in his arms, let
ting him talk it all out, letting him
voice the doubts, the uncertainties
that had tortured him increasingly
during the months since their meet
ing, since his unwilling realization
of his love for her. When she had
heard him through she would know
better how to answer.
He told her, "We're too different,
March. Even loving you as I do,
wanting you more than ever wanted
anything in my life before, I can still
see that. Marriage would be danger
GUS for u.s." He looked beyond her
briefly at the flashing lights of the
city. you're part of all that. It's
part of you. Noise, excitement,
crowds-all the things I hate, March.
I can't help it. It's just the way
I am. Sometimes wake up at night
and the city seems to be closing in on
me, pressing down. People, thousands
of them, millions, sleeping all around
-. I want space and quiet, a clean
wind in my face, the scent of pines
in my nostrils, the whole sky above
me, not just a little section of it
between tall buildings Of course
you can't understand such a feeling.
Why should you?"
March said slowly, "Yet you came
to the city. Why, Brent?"
$50 I could earn enough to go back,
live the life I wanted in the country
I love. My grandmother's old. I
couldn't live on her. She has land,
but not much money. We've always
wanted to start a resort on Lake
Kenoqua. It's been sort of dream
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-04-12

The flavor of coffee is much bette
preserved if the coffee is removed
from the pot into a glass container.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-04-12

to visit relatives. Mrs. Harry BeEI
accompanied them home after spend
ing two weeks with her daughter.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-30
Disease Control
Needs Stressed

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 80. CUP)
DR.. Bertram P. Brown, state direc-
tor of health, said today hospital
wards where veneral disease pa
tients can be quarantined are need
ed in areas surrounding troop con-
centrations in California.
Brown said that the State is
assisting local health departments
to expand veneral disease control
in Monterey, San Luis Obispo, San
Bernardino. Riverside, and San Die
go counties but it cannot provide
hospital facilities
Surveys indicate that personnel
and clinics in other counties where
troops are stationed are adequate
at present except for isloation
wards
Hospital wards for quarantine
examination and treatment of re-
calcitrant patients and other civil
ians who promiscuously spread in
fection are greatly needed" Brown
said. The state department of
public health does not have suf-
lficient funds available for this
purpose"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-30

Prosperity Sure.
Soys Tax Chief

1910 Christmas trade may surpass
the all-time peak in 1929.
3. Farm income during the first
five months of 1910 was Is per cent
above the corresponding months of
1899.
a. Sales of new cars are 35 per
cent above those of a year ago.
5. Industrial employment has in
creased II per cent.
6. Building values have gained
q per cent to reach an estimated
12,924,OO0.
T. California has received de-
tense contracts totaling $3.50, ,0OO,-
600.
Stewart said the increased reve-
nue. will permit the government to
decrease materially the current de-
ticit without increasing the load
on taxpayers.
He said the expanding defense
program will stimulate business
and industry III California. One
Of the immediate results, he point
ed out, was the employment of Co.
600 men by the airplane industry
as compared with less than 10000
two years ago. Employment in the
ship building industry has doubled
within the last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-30
BY JOHN w. DUNLAP

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 80. (UP)-
The legislative battle over new
taxes the last two years will lose
some of its fury in 1941 as long as
national defense funds keep pour
ing into California industry.
The 53rd legislature pigeonholed
practically all of Gov. Culbert Oh
sons new revenue measures, save
minor gift tax. The mounting
state deficit was coming dangerous
ly near the $100,000,000 mark when
the defense boom hit California.
Finance department officials de-
clare the budget will be balanced
for the biennium, perhaps some OF
the deficit chiSeled down. 1ncreas-
ed employment and better business
will boost all state revenues an
estimated 10 per cent for the COM
ing biennium to an all-time high
of around S400000,000.
The sales tax, the best baro-
meter of better business, will total
about S1O6.000,000 for the fiscal
year of 1910 and an estimated $223,-
OOO,OOO for the 1941-43 biennium,
highest since the law was enacted
in 1888. This will be almost 55 per
cent of the entire tax revenue for
the state
Most legislators were opposed to
any raising of taxes at this time
An emergency raising OF the IN
come tax and technical changes to
conform more closely to federal re-
quirements were suggested by some
The perennial argument over sales
tax exemptions, such as replacing
the tax on food, may be raised
again, since there was division
of opinion in the poll
Legislation will be studied tow
ard consolidation of various tax
collecting agencies within the state
government, a move encouraged by
Governor Olson. Sponsors contend
there is too much overlapping and
expense in collecting taxes, not to
mention the confusion created for
the taX-paying public.
Senator Jerrold SeaWell of Rose
vile. while opposing any imme-
diate change in the tax structure
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-30
Londoners Battle
Flames; Japanese
Stirred by kazis
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Continued nom Page One)
the sky Sunday night had been
put out or brought under control
Monday after hours of heart rend-
ing labor by hundreds of thousands
| of men-firemen. auxiliary work
ers, police and volunteers
The conflagration was centered
in the mile square section of twist
ing streets and ancient buildings
which forms the ancient city" the
heart of London and site of some
of Britains most historic Struc-
lures. Many Of these today were
piles Of smouldering, twisted ruins.
The Guildhall was devastated. st.
Pauls cathedral suffered new scars
but remained standing
The raid lasted only three hours.
But the rain of thousands upon
thousands of incendiary bombs set
fires such as London had not seen
since the days of Samuel PepyS.
Gable and radio transmission to the
United States were disrupted and
correspondents telephoned I h =
stories to New York.
The raid came to a sudden end.
possibly because the royal air force
sent night fighters into the air
to clear the regions above the blaz-
ing inferno.
In Italy the royal air force smash
ed again at Naples with an attack
in which seven persons were re-
ported killed. The British planes
also dropped leaflets, presumably
containing the text of Prime Minis
ter Winston Churchilrs appeal to
Italy to overthrow Mussolini and
make peace with Britain
There was little light on the situ-
alton in central Europe. much dis
turbed in recent days by reported
German troop movements. A Unit
ed Press correspondent visited ST.
blu in Rumanian Pennsylvania and
reported that it was being trans
| formed into an important German
military base.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-30
Cavalry Appeals
For Better Road
AT See'ey Camp

Continued from Page One)
only the road from Seeley but with
in the camp. as well.
I'VE expect 100 more horses in
January, 200 more in February and
200 more in March," Colonel Ray
nor said. when the regiment is
increased in size this spring we
will need much greater supply lines
and that means more trucks going
back and forth
Indications that Supervisor Hugh
Osborne would make a bid for help
from the entire county instead OF
Just road district No. 2 were evl-
dent when Osborne asked how wide
spread was the army buying in the
valley. Major Hartford explained that
orders went to Brawley and CaleXi-
co and not only El Centro. He said
the army had already spent more
than $4,000 in construction alone
at the Seeley camp and much OF
this had been in Imperial Valley.
Present at the conference, were:
John Donohue, Herbert FaWcett,
Wesley He'll, Walter Heinecke, John
Tyler. Herbert Anderson, Curt Os-
walt, M. O. King, Pat Glasgow, G..
G.. Bennett, Colonel Raynor, Major
Hartford Osborne. Charles Bratton