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Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19
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Premier Ionai Of Japan says that, Il
the United States does not Try to undNr-
stand the true intentions Of Japan amt
attempts to exert more pressure, we
are prepared to take a firm attitude.
Well, wise guy. Just what does that
mean? To us it means that the mouth
piece of an altogether too cocky and mul
derouS government is shooting off his
Jaw because the United States govern
ment refrained from renewing its trade
treaty, and thereby left Japan right out
on limb.
If the mess that Japan got itself into
in China is a sample of what Japan calls
firm attitude" our guess is that Jap
an will merely make another Of its stupid
errors.
Just what firm attitude" does Pre-
mler GOnai think Japan can take to-
ward the United States? About the only
people in Japan who wanted the inva-
sion of China We're the military clique.
The military clique more recently is
threatening members of the japanese
Parliament until today hardly mem
ber of the Parliament dareS say word
that will displease the military. Japa-
nese business men are fed up on the
stupid adventure of Japans uniformed
SwashbucklerS The japanese people
are groaning under a crushing burden
of taxation which makes itself manifest
in daily decrease in the amount Of fish
and rice on the family table.
Threats against the United States by
the japanese premier the japanese ar
my or the japanese navy, are simply
the outcries of murderouS burglars
caught redhanded in the performance Of
their crimes.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19
INVENTORS AND JOBS

We hear SO often that every new in
vention drives men of Of Jobs that it is
refreshing to consider the real facts.
Recently - Pacific Coast inventors
were honored for their contributions to
"the life of today
One of them had developed labor say
ing devices for accountants OF the 1S
remaining. only one had perfected labor
saving device.
Among the developments for which
they were hOnOred were invention of all
atom-smaShing machine. chemically
treated fruit wrapper that saves pear
shippers thousands Of dollars by pre-
venting spread of rot in packed fruit,
new locks and burglar alarms, naviga-
ton instruments. Feather touch pow
er brakes for motor vehicles, industrial
filters to protect health in factories cleo
trio hearing dericcS. improved locomo-
tive engineering food preservation ma
chjnery and improved diesel engines and
welding equipment.
Far from taking Jobs, these things
make them.
That's the IowdoWn on the inventors
Influence on Jobs
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19
How True> Mr.. Green

Between sessions of the AF. of
L. executive council in Miami, Fla,
President William Green found time
to address an audience at the local
Tamiami Temple Methodist church.
Mr.. Green compared conditions
in totalltarian countries with AM
erican Democracy. "Never has there
been contrast more startling and
convincing" he said Never have
the American people been afforded
q more effective lesson in govern
ment.
ITO make American democracy
work. however, we must have more
unity of thought and unity of action
that Is the need of our time
Yes, indeed, Mr.. Green. When
would it be convenient for you to
talk this matter over with John l..
Lewis?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19

WASHINGTON.-Ba ack Of the
fight over Communism in the Am
erican Youth Congress there was
an attempt to establish new AM
erican Youth movement on a broader
and much more conservative basis.
Murray Plavner, the young New
Yorker who came to town and led
the fight to drive Communists out
of the Congress, was really seeking
far more than simple purge OF
the organization.
What he had in mind was a
Youth Congress which would coll
tain no Communists or fellow ira
velers." but which would contain
such groups as the Boy Scouts and
the Catholic youth groups, and
which would enjoy the support Of
the American Legion and Substan-
tial business interests.
GETS BACKING
IN YOUTH FIGHT
Plavner did not make his tight
as an unsupported free lance. For
some years he has worked for Victor
Ridder. New York publisher and
former WPA administrator in New
York, as writer ard advertisin@
representative On his arrival II
WaShington. he issued a long state
ment denouncing the Youth Con-
gress's record in regard to Com
munism-a statement signed by
Ridder and a number of prominent
citizens.
Plavner did not have definite
binding promises of adherence or
support from the groups which he
hoped to see given dominant places
in the Youth Congress but he was
in intimate touch with people who
are highly important in those
groups.
Ridder. for instance, is a director
both of the Boy Scouts and of Cath
olic Youth, as we'll as of the Boz S
Clubs of America. Homer l.. Chali-
laux. another signer Of the state
ment Plavner issued, directs the
Legions National Americanism COM
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19
Among
Our Yesterdays

The editorial staffs of the I'm
perial Valley Press and of the Ell
Centro Progress. rival newspapers
of that day. sharpened their pen
ellis twenty years ago Monday, and
gleefully prepared for fight to the
finish against the county highway
commission.
The battle climaXed a month-long
campaign in the newspapers in
which the highway commission
members were taken apart bit by
bit. because of alleged mishandling
of duties.
The story in the Imperial Valley
Press commented:
Evidently some of the criticisms
that have been heaped upon the
county highway commission have
got under the hide of Casey Abbott,
of CaleXico. He announces through
tho columns of a CaleXico neWspa-
per that he intends to file suits for
$4,000 damages against the Press
and Progress for having the temer-
ity to criticize his official acts, or
lack of action as a member of the
aforesaid commission.
Huh. says Casey in effect. do
YOU fellers think you can call us
lazy and get away with it,
The Press reporter commented
further:
"Whoopee! And tomahawk
blng! And we'll dine on editors gall
this night" So saith the accolade OF
Calexico. He also seems to be speak
ing for the rest of the commission
And SO. in this connection, the
Press reiterates as strongly as ever
before:
Followed long list of the actions
of lack of action of the commission
A boxed story on Page One in the
Press the same day urged Imperial
Valley residents to contribute to the
Armenian relief fund. The head OF
tho story said:
STARVING BABIES AND WO-
MEN ASK A MITE FROM YOU
TODAY =.
Central high school track and
field athletes borrowed small trac-
tor to put the track in shape fol
practices The second episode ir
the serial The Invisable Hand
was playing at the Palace theatre
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19
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NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE
Nh OOQs
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT


In the Superior Court of the State
of California, In and for the County
of Imperial.
In the Matter of the Estate of
BEVERLY E. PARKS, also known as
B. E. PARKS,
Deceased
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
that the undersigned executor Of
the last will and estate of Beverly
E. Parks, also known as B. E. Parks.
deceased. will sell at private sale.
to the highest bidder, for cash and
subject to the confirmation by said
Superior Court, on Wednesday the
28th day of February at the hour
CT 1000 O'Clock AM. or after said
date at the law office of Lee Nuffer
in the Rehkorf Building, in the City
of El Centre, County of Imperial
State Of California, all the right.
title, interest and estate of the said
Beverly E. Parks, also known as
B. E. Parks, at the time of his
death and all the right, title, and
interest that the estate has by oper-
alton of law or otherwise acquired.
other than or in addition to that
of the said Beverly E. Parks, also
known as g. E. Parks at the time
of his death, in and to that certain
parcel Of land particularly described
as follows, to-Wit: that certain par
eel of land situated in the City OF
Ell Centro, County of Imperial, State
of California, and particularly de-
scribed as follows:
Lots % and "a, in Block "a, of
the rowrsite of Ell Centre, as
per Map thereof No. 953, filed
in the office of the County
Recorder of San Diego County.
togethe" with appurtenances there
unto belonging.
Bids or offer5 are invited for said
property and must be in writing
and will be received at the law
office of Lee Nuffer, Rehkopf Build
ing, Ell Centre, California, attorney
for said executor, or may be filed
with the Clerk of said Superior
Court of the State of California, in
and for the County of Imperial, or
delivered TO said executor personally
at any time after the first publica-
ton of this notice, and before the
making of said sale.
Terms ami conditions of sale:
Cash in lawful money of the United
States Of America, ten Q0%' ,r
cent of the purchase price to be
paid on day of sale, balance on
confirmation of sale by the Court,
property is u be sold subject to
taxes and assessments for the years
1940-41.
Dated this 18th day of February,
1910.
ALLEN p. NUFFER,
Executor Of the laAt will and estate
OF Beverly E. Parks, also known
as 3. E. Parks, deceased.
| .......... C.l3-27 incl
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19

"iiNC ~ NpiiipdIlS " Stllo lot
their can when he dipped a paint
brush in it and Smeared some of it
on plank. In an hour it had dried.
Then he noticed that the bristles
OF his brush were stiff.
ColI0rd was down to his last cent.
Ho also owed his landlord a lot
q. money. but he was determined
20 keep busy; 50 he had sent for
the paint. and was going to try
- introduce it to Detroit industry.
He painted some of this new
mixture on piece of fabric and
then on a board. Accidentally he
laid the rubber fabric on
top of the board The two stuck to-
gether. Why did it stick? he asked
himself
He wrote the company in Boston,
and thcy told him their shipping
clerk had made mistake and sent
hm five gallons of latex instead Of
paint They said it was no good. and
to dump it into the gutter. Collard
DIDN'T know what latex was When
he looked it up. he found it was
the milk from a rubber tree.
When he found that the board
and the patch Of rubber stuck, an
idea was born in his mind A few
months before this. he had been
in the Chrysler factorr and had
seen girls painting a rubber ce-
ment on cloth. Maybe this new
stuff Of his was better he thought
He went into action. He read
hn asked questions he investigated
he experimental A month passed
Two. three. He went back to the
same factory and asked TO see the
man in charge. The man said, Il
have never seen anything like this.
Those seven words changed Collord' S
life
He perfected his idea of apply
nag rubber 10 wood and metal He
Tae not scientist knew nothing
about chemistry or physics. But
there we're men who did know.
Well the 4pshot of it is that he
EcYcIOpcd brand new industry
~ America He supplies a greater
quantity Of body trim cement and
'4bb"r-covered metal parts TO the
automobile industry than any other
company in the world. This year the
fIrm he founded will turn out 25
- 40 million parts He told me he
had built and lined the longest plat
~ tank in the World-162 feet. IF
sgG Wien TO write him, address him
- 1880 Ro5edalc Court. Detroit Nj
rlapan.
II Tom Collord has done a re-
1Aarkablc thing. Broke and out of
jDb lie capitalized on bit of
luck caught vision of the pos
s.bIltcs. and built up a new in
dLstry. Had he lacked pluck and
determination, he wouldn't have
cone that. Any day you may have
lGck too The important thing is
what YOU do with your chance
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19

Official recognition. of sort, was
given Thurman Arnolds sweeping
campaign into illegal combines
among contractors and unionists in
the building trades when the House
appropriations committee praised
the assistant encouragement for
mis- work.
The committee acknowledged the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19
DROPS PLAN FOR
SEPARATE ORGANIZATIONS

Il
During the fall. Plavner had IN
mind setting up rival group 10
the American Youth Congress. Fl"
discarded that plan, however. Now
he says:
There can't bc two youth move
mcnts. There's only room for one
1T can continue to be Com
munist front. or it can be truly rep
rcscntative OF all American youth
and make a real effort to solve
Youths problems instead OF
simply irving 10 undermine youth
confidence IN our institutions.
hope it can be genuinely repre-
sentative group"
SHES AWAY
FROM u. S. SUBSIDIES
One often en-overlooked item in the
whole Youth Congress argument
is the federal youth-aid program
demanded by the Congress, and pre-,
sently embodied in the bill recently
introduced By Senator Murray o1
Montana.
This bill would set up new Ma
tiOnal Youth Administration, WOulC
guarantee public works jobs to al
unemployed youth 'at minimum
wages of $3.50 a week. and woult
provide for an elaborate system o.
educational aids-all at a cost O1
around $5O0,C00,000 a year.
Plavner remarks that this pro
gram is Just too expensive to bf
practical right now, and looks for
ward to a Youth Congress which
would be enough in the good grace
of business and industrial leader:
to be able to work out re-employ
ment programs in industry withou
government subsidies.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19

age and opened
it. He had ordered
paint from a COM
pan,v in Boston.
But when he op-
aned the can. he
found something
that looked like
milk. He Slnelled
it; there was a
smell like ainonia.
He was about to
start upstairs to
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19

Worried about those delinquent
bills you incurred because Of sick
ness? You needn't be! Come in and
tell us your troubles, that's what
we're here for. Well loan you funds
to pay your bills and keep your
credit standing the way you want
| it without blot.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19

Christopher Columbus named
tie VIRGIN islands. not after Queen
Elizabeth of ENGLAND but after tue
irecudur} British 81 UIulu, Who,
With II 900 companions, was martyr
81 at Cologne
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19
CARNEGIE

In Detroit, in 1882. an express
man drove up in front of a small
frame house and delivered a five
gallon tin can. A man named H.
Tom COllord signed for the pack
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19
Bruce Cation in Washington
Dissects the News

mission. Another signer was John
M. Schiff. director OF the Boy
Scouts; another was Gene Tunney,
who like Ridder is a director OF the
Bov Scouts. Catholic Youth. and
Rows Clubs of America,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19
Thoughts for the Day

Take you men. and understanding. and known
amone your tribes anG will make them rulers over
Deuteronomy lis.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19

Funny thing about congressional
economy Everything is being cut,
but when it's all over, it will still
add up to the same old deficit.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19
You re Telling Me-

with the approach of spring
writes the poet, 1.-The world again
ereets the red-breasted robin" D"
Yeah and, also, the green onion
eater.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19
Barbs-

If Roosevelt really wants a third
term. Problem Child Elliott will
have to be called in and told not
10 speak to strangers.
Funny thing about congressional
economy Everything is being cut,
but when it's all over it will still
add up to the same old deficit.
New York and Newark are argu
ing over their airports. Seems the
air isn't big enough to accommodate
both cities.
Germanys steel output has gained
probably because of increased de
mand for bulletproof vests among
Nazi higher
japan can't seem to figure out
where it stands on the anti-Com-
munist pact. On the outside, gentle
man, looking in.
Mrs. Rooseyelt's defense OF the
Youth Congress has raised the ques-
ton in the minds of many whether
1t would be a good thing TO give
her a third tenn.
The cninchilla's fur is the worlds
most expensive. But, like too many
humans. the chinchilla hasn't a
thing in the world except what's
on his back.
An anthropologist asserts that the
human face changes IN pattern ~
1t ages, the mouth becoming wider
the ears longer and the nose wider
and longer.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19

If Roosevelt really wants a third
term. Problem Child Elliott will
have to be called in and told not
10 speak to strangers.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19

The Balkan countries came to
agreement so quickly they gave
Europe something brand new-the
BliJZpcace.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19

New York and Newark are argu-
ing over their airports Seems the
air isn't big enough to accommodate
both cities.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19

This is the land of the free, re-
minds an editorial, where every
one has an equal chance to sue
cecd. Oh yeah? How about those
seven other American league teams?
England is collecting bones from
homes to convert them into glue
and fertilizer Zadok Dumbkopf
thinks this would be swell chance
to get rid of that family skeleton.
The man at the next desk says
he won't believe Tom Dewey is
really a presidential candidate until
he sees photo of him fishing
while wearing overalls and an In
dian war bonnet.
Perhaps the reason MusSolini is
making so few speeches these days
is that he is saving that magnifi-
cent froWn for television.
Apple pie, according to a survey,
is still the favorite deSsert-neWS
item. News item? When apple pie
isn't-THAT will be news.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19

Germanys steel output has gained
probably because of increased de
mand for bullet-proof vests among
Nazi higher
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-19

Japan can't seem to figure out
where it stands on the anti-Com
munist pact. On the outside gentle
man, looking in.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-31
called Roosevelt in the Chicago
convention.
my OLD FRIEND"
ASSEMBLIES A CROWD

|
ASSEMBLIES A CROWD
He was wrong. He became one
of Roosevelts most vociferous back
ers. To demonstrate his loyalty,
he produced at Sea Girt a rally
of 100000 persons to listen to a
Roosevelt campaign speech.
mo general could have assem-
bled such host, but my old friend,
the mayor of Jersey City Roose-
velt commented truthfully at Sea
Girt.
In 1886 Boss Hague was invited
by the President to the supreme
court dinner in the White House,
one of the most elegant and hon.
ored of all state dinners on the
presidential agenda.
In early August of 1889 Hague's
official spokesman announced:
Mayor Hague is absolutely 100
per cent for a third term for Mr..
Roosevelt if he wants it,"
Franklin Roosevelt, who has made
liberalism. democracy, honesty in
government his proclaimed goals,
has accepted for eight years the
support and personal friendship of
Frank Hague, who has never even
pretended to be liberal or demo-
cratic, who has grown immensely
rich on a salary never more than
$4,000 a year, and who has been
shockingly frank about his diSin-
terest in honesty in government.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-31
Woman Novelist
Says She's Proof
Of Rejuvenation

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 81. CUP)
Gertrude Atherton, San Francisco
novelist who twice in her life has
undergone treatment she calls re-
celebrated her 83d BIRTH
day Wednesday.
Avowed advocate of the principle
of artificial rejuvenation, Miss Ath-
erton, in an interview, said she
considered herself living proof
exhibit A of my theories
The treatment she described as
scientific application of light rays
which she believed stimulated de-
pleted glands and sent a fresh re-
lease of hormones into the blood
streams. She emphasized it was
not process of gland transplant
ing.
Miss Atherton was born in Sar
Francisco. the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Horn. Her first
novel was published in 1892 anc
She has written prolifically since
In the current political campaign
she has issued statements support
ing Wendell Willkie.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-31
Wealthy Turfman Says Business
Rush Caused Resignation From
Job Overseeing Savinqs.L Loan Co.

Los ANGELES, Oct. 81. CUP)-
Norman w. Church. wealthy Cali
fornia turfman, said today he had
resigned as state custodian of the
$50, 900 900 Pacific States Savings
and Loan company because of the
pressure of his own business.
His t,esigtnaaon was disclosed
unofficially in San Francisco Tues
day, and Church confirmed it. He
was appointed 20 months ago when
State Building and Loan Commits
sioner Ralph Evans seized the huge
company on behalf of the stock
holders.
In a prepared statement, Church
said:
"On Oct. IA. 1910, submitted
my resignation as custodian of the
Pacific States Savings and loan co.
to Ralph w. Evans, Building and
Loan commissioner of the state of
California. to be effective Nov. Is,
1910. / had for several months pre-
viously advised him that must be
relieved. due to pressure of my own
affairs. I have withheld making
publication of this fact in order
to give the commissioner time to
choose my successor. In view of the
grossly distorted reports published
in some of the local papers this
morning, it seems advisable that I
should make a public statement at
this time"
(Church apparently referred to
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-31
BY S. BURTON HEATH
NEA Special CORRESPONDENT

Il am the law said Louis XIV
and Il am the law" plagiarized
Frank Burn the Books" Hague
mayor of Jersey City, czar of Hud-
son county, autocrat of New Jersey
and vice chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee.
Il decide emphasized Boss
Hague on another occasion. Il do.
Me. Right here"
Frank Hague probably is the most
brazenly FaScistic dictator who ever
has attained actual power in Amer
lean politics.
He is important because Frank
lin Roosevelt has accepted him as
coadjutor in the New Deal; because
during eight years the Roosevelt
administration has permitted him
to flout every concept of liberal
ism, with never more than a petu-
liant slap on the wrist for reproof;
because President Roosevelt, whose
word is law in Democratic party
affairs, never has raised an eye
brow at Boss Hague's vice chair
manship of the national committee.
He is important because, when the
Presidents personal agents organ
lied a third term draft, the politi-
clans they selected to handle its
mechanics were Boss Kelly of Chi
cago and Boss Hague of Jersey City.
In 1882 Frank Hague was not a
Roosevelt man.
The one man who is weakest in
he eyes of the rank and file, he
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-31
HAGUE, THE
UNION KILLER

Frank Hague tells the courts
where to get off. Some judges
suggested timidly that it was un.
constitutional to pick suspects ur
on sight, slap them in Jail ano
hold EN- in heavy bail" Boss Hague
consort Of New Deal liberals, hac
no such qualms.
Either you hold those men OF
I'll hold you and remove you," he
says he ordered the judges. They
obeyed.
In 1881 Hague called 14OO bus
drivers together and told them:
This union must diSband." He put
the motion and a resolution dis
solving the union was adopted.
When he became mayor, Hague''
first act was to order policemen
and firemen to quit A. F. of l.
unions or their jobs. Both charters
were surrendered at once.
1--WE hear about constitutional
rights, free speech and the free
press" Hague told the Chamber Of
Commerce in 1888. Every time
hear these words I say to myself
That man is Communist You
never heaM a real American talk
in that manner"
Six months later he proposed, in
federal court, an American Siberia
in Alaska, to which native born
Americans who did not believe in
the present American form of gov
ernment would be banished
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-31

dispatches from San Francisco dis
closing simultaneously his resigna-
ton and reorting that two expert
appraisers had been accused by
Superior Judge James G. Conlon
of deliberate and designed jerjury''
in connection with testimony as to
the value of San Diego property
of Pacific States Savings and Loan
company
II have served as custodian of
the Pacific States Savings and
Loan company for 20 months, dur
ing which time l devoted my en-
tire efforts to management of the
company in the interests of the
certificate holders. I have served
without compensation as felt I was
desire to be of service that 1 do
10 YosI on usnoIul 81 II lBul sic
now that it appears this will be
wish to assure the certificate hold
ed to ask to be relieved.
prolonged, and due to other eX-
-IIsdu1oo lIsJ I 'suoIlIpuoo SulsI
hoped ! could continue until pend
Il regret taking this action and
ing litigation was concluded. but
performing civic duty. I had