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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-29
HOW COMMUNISM HAS DEGRADED RUsSAS Children

night and the parents would dis
appear to either the short or
the long death" 1t was trans
cendent revenge but the child
found himself without home or
food and only the choice of
starving or joining the homeless
ones.
Throughout the land went
orders for teachers no longer to
tell children that their parents
were old fools to be disobeyed
and defied with impunity. They
were even to notify parents. that
they were expected to resume the
old-time customs of home train
ing and discipline and that the
government would now cooperate
with them. 1t was a little too
late for they had made people as
apathetic in the job of parent
hood as in any of the others.
However, it is a step backward
and upward by the Soviet mas
tiers from the day when they
publicly hailed these child
Judases as Communist heroes,
The worst sign of all is the eff
feet the outlaw children are hav-
ing on those of the law-abiding
workers. The children in these
crowded sordid homes are not
much better off, as far as they
can see. Their parents obey the
law but look at theml The
beggar child may be dirtier and
it lives more dangerously, especi-
ally in cold weather but there
is thrill~and, adventure, with the
possibility of stealing a gold
watch and eating like a Grand
duke" for a day. AS against this
the child sees the miserable GER
tainty of growing up like ibis "old
fool parents. ~
With these thoughts in mind
rapidly-increasing numbers of
workers children take Summer
vacations" Of a week or two with
the pariahs. The parents don't
scold them much for they are
"old fools" stripped of authority.
This corruption of the workers
children put such fear into the
hearts of the Communist plan
ners that they ordered the work.
ers' homes to be made brighter
for the children" The right way
would be to give the family a
second room but this cannot be
afforded by the present regime.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-29

their normal layer of dirt.
. Other Winter sleeping quarters
are corners of cellars or under
stairs where they accumulate
large quantities of straw and
filthy rags for warmth and bed
ding. If permitted to sleep un-
molested, the beggar-thieves re-
ward the legitimate residents by
seeing that none of their fellows
rob the premises.
Baku is much milder than the
northern Russian cities but it is
subject to sudden blizzards that
paralyze traffic and are at least
as severe as anything that
strikes New York. Twice while
l was there, after such vista
tions, / saw the militia go around
pulling more than 100 of the
homeless ones out of their dens
and tossing them, frozen stiff as
logs. onto trucks.
Fierce, treacherous and dam
gerous at other times, the pariah
children are relaxed and good
natured while cooking their eve.
ming meal in any old can they
happen to find. Fires flicker in
all directions over the field, like
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-29

the other people do but have
the advantage of daring to say
so because they are too contemp-
tible to be worth furnishing.
saw a street car cut off the
leg of one of these urchins,
hardly more than six years old,
right at the knee. For a moment
he evidently did not realize what
had happened then he cried,
Mama" and tainted. They
saved his life but curiously
enough, it was learned at the
hospital, that the youngster had
no recollection of mother or
father.
z ARLY in 1885 the great minds
- at Moscow came to the con-
clusion that too many boys and
girls were making orphans of
themselves. The children were
not actually killing their parents
but in effect were doing some
thing as bad or worse. If parents
dared to discipline their child 1t
could go to its teacher and make
a statement charging them with
anti revolutionary statements.
The GPU agents would call some
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-29

Committees were sent from the
factories to investigate home
conditions and found them to be
worthy of the Dark Ages.
More often than not. child
would have no bed TO sleep on.
or even a definite space on the
floor as its very own, nor was
there any piece of furniture in
which it had any rights. The
committee then ordered the fac
tory carpenters to build a lit
tie rough wooden cot. stool and
a tiny table. These were placed
in a corner of the room sacred
from then on to the child and
Communism. One border of this
sanctum was marked by a pic
ture of Stain the Great" the
other by very determined
looking baby, supposed to repre-
sent how Lenin looked at the age
of one year. In the center, above
everything, hangs a red rag. In
other countries this would mean
DANGER" II means the same
thing here, the most deadly
danger to liberty and prosperity
the world has ever seen.
Please do not think that be-
cause l say so little about Hitler
and his Gestapo, that l think it
any better than Stain and his
GPU. l do not. We of the GPU
understand that the Gestapo, in
its terrorism has gone far be-
yond us. The Gestapo men fire.
quently beat a mans face to
pulp, right before a crowd, and
they send mobs Of patriotic"
hoodlums to smash and pillage
stores and homes of those who
have broken no law but some
how displeased the Nazi clique.
We, of the GPU, always avoided
public violence, taking our VIC
tins away silently and usually
at dead of night.
Communism was the cause of
Naziism which was created to
suppress it. The two fought with
each other. then joined hands to
plumber the free peoples of the
world. If the American people
does not throw out the foreign
agitator and arm itself to the
teeth, we will deserve to become
enslaved like the Russian and
the German.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-29
Continued from Double Page)

dozen or more of the homeless
boys and girls, big ones around
the ages of fourteen, darted
from among the crowd on the
sidewalk to converge beside the
bus near the front.
Quick as lightning, l saw
figure jump onto the shoulders
of two of his comrades while
still others hurled up to his
shoulders spidery little fellow,
four years old or less. This one
reached his dangerous perch just
in time to snatch the hat from
a man sitting near the rear of the
top of the bus.
Instantly the dirty little pyra-
mid collapsed and its members
dived back into the crowd. The
astonished and indignant victim
glared around but all it won him
was a roar of laughter from the
crowd. The bus did not stop,
Necessity has taught the
homeless ones cunning beyond
measure. A foreigner was hur-
rying along a Moscow boulevard
at dusk when he heard someone
steal up beside him Looking
around. he saw the wizened face
of a ragged child.
"Comrade," said the tattered
phantom in a hoarse whisper.
give me five roubles. I really
need ten, but I'll let you off with
FIVE"
When the foreigner motoned
him away. the child produced a
matchbox and shook il in the
mans face.
"Comrade," he whined. in this
box are exactly ninety-five coot-
les. ! worked hard gathering
them. Some are just plain ores.
Others have typhus germs. Give
me the money or I'll throw them
on youw
The foreigner gave the boy
his roubles and fled, twitching
his shoulders and brushing at his
coat as he went
Street peddlers usually run
with a curse when a band Of the
homeless ones appear. They
know the urchins' ingenious
tricks. A sharp spike on long
stick perhaps, and quick Jab
in the rear causing the vendor
10 drop his baskets with an ago
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-29

For years it has been the practice of the company
to paint its boundary marks brilliant red, but in
1888 the color was changed to equally dazzling
yellow. The surveyors were surprised TO find that
these yellow markers had been severely dealt with
by the normally placid beasts.
The posts clawed and chewed in such a
manner that many markings were indecipherable,
while others had been uprooted and flung 10 or
Is feet from where they had originally been set in
the ground But the red markers were undisturbed.
Now the Department of Land and Mines believes
that yellow and bears absolutely disagree. A few
years ago it had signs made to mark the game
preserves. These signs were printed on yellow. In
varably these markings destroyed while signs
in other colors not disturbed by the animals
Now as a result of this strange finding, hunters
are advised not to anything yellow when they
go into the woods and hereafter any markers set up
in the woods will be other color than yellow.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-29
Does Yenou Make Bears; s Sl,eeRed

-FHAT bears of northern Maine and CANADA are arec 10
bulls additionally averse to red is borne
by experiences employees of the Canadian
Department Mines An employee running lines
block of land for pulp not long ago In the vicinity
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-29

TRANCE is not the country 1t was
r before the Nazi war machine
] went to work on it. and Paris Is
little like the gay metropolis it used
to be when the Swastika didn't wave
over the Winning waters or the Seine.
But the spirit of the Gallo people Is
not dead and, like the British, most
of them go through the motionsNof
keeping thumbs up"
French newspapers and magazines
may be a little thinner but they are
still typically French. They concern
themselves with romance and beauty
as much as ever The fetching photo
graphs at the left and below were
published in a Partisan publication
called "Votre Beaute' Your Beauty,
in English.
In free translation the story with
the pictures presumed to present a
new way to curl
up with good
book - not to be
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-29
After a voIum e Has
Informed the Mind and
Refreshed the Spirit. II Can
Be Pressed Into Service to
Keep the Reader in Fine
Physical Trim

amused by the printing between its
covers, but for athletic ends.
It is more than likely that the
cameraman who took the pictures
was not offering some startling and
revolutionary method Of keeping in
the pink of physical condition, but
was seeking a more-or-less fresh way
of paying tribute to what poets like
to call 1.-The form divine"
Physical instructors in this country
say, however, that there's more than
meets the eye in the pair of pictures.
Books, they say. can improve the
body as well as the mind and pinch
hit very efficiently for dumb-bells,
parallel bars, medicine balls. rowing
machines and assorted impediments
for building up the physique.
Holding a book between the ankles
and touching said book with the out
stretched fingers is not a difficult
stunt for the normally constructed
individual. But it's good stretching
exercise-and something Of a trick
when the health seeker shifts from
a sitting position and wheels the legs
over the head-still clutching the
volume between the feet. That's
not a maneuver that everyone
can do.
American trainers say that
the book-for-exercise inspira-
tiou-can take the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-29

llOil Aali N1ht NAtt
form of hundreds
of different ath-
letic shenanigans.
A m o d e r a t ely
heavy volume held
in the hands can
be swung around
in dumb-bell or In
dian club fashion
and do a lot OF
good to the mus
Giles Of the arms
and shoulders. The
same book can be
stood on so that
the toes can be
curled over IL, to
strengthen I h e
feet. or carried on
the head to correct
poor posture and
lack Of poise.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
Killer Sprink|es Cyanide on His
Victims S Face, Douses Preparation
With Water, Creates Deadly Gas

RED BLUFF, Cal, Sept. 26. (UP)
Authorities today sought a WELL
dressed man as a suspect in the
macabre Staying of restaurant
chef who died when a cyanide pre-
paration was sprinkled on his face
then doused with water that gen.
Grated lethal gas.
The body of Louis E. Jette, 26,
Missoula. Mont. chef, was found
in a cottage on the ranch of Su-
pervisor S. E. Aver of Tehama
county.
Jette apparently had been struck
on the head just sufficiently to
stun him. A commercial preparation
usd for killing gophers and ground
squirrels. a cyanide derivative, then
was literally applied to his face and
body and the water generated cy-
anide gas such as is used IN penal
gas chambers, Coroner Victor de
Roster said.
District Attorney Clair Engle was
told well dressed" stranger reg
istered at a hotel here as Charles
Crane and sought 10 reach Jette by
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
Theuter MournS
OId-1ime Actress

NEW YORK, Sept. 26. (UP) =
Marguerite Clark, who % years ago
deserted stardom on the stage and
silent screen to become wealthy
southern society matron, was MOURN
ed by friends and associates to-
day. She was SO when she died
yesterday.
Miss Clark was stricken with in
fluenza early this year, but recov-
cred sufficiently to go away for a
rest. Five days ago she entered the
Leroy sanitarium suffering from
pneumonia.
At the bedside were Miss Cora
Clark, a sister; Miss Mary Lane,
a friend and Alicia Dore and Eva
harrington, who acted with her in
the films.
For years before the World War
armistice the name "Margurite
Clark" flashed up and down Broad
way and on theater marques across
the country, but in 1918 she was
married to Harry p Williams. a
wealthy southern lumberman, sugar
plantation owner and airplane man
ufacturer She never made a stage
appearance after the marriage be-
cause, she said then:
Il knew enough to go home when
the party was over and the guests
were gone"
Miss Clark and Williams lived on
their spacious plantation in st.
Mary's Parish, La. On May 10, 1886,
Williams was killed in an airplane
crash near Baton Rouge.
Miss Clark went into deep mourn
ing after that, but later emerged as
the Lady Bountiful' of the south.
She had helped hundreds of per-
sons in distress, gave lavishly to
charity and contributed to negro
welfare.
Then she accepted a position Of
fered by the late Gov. Huey Long
of Louisiana as a member of the
Louisiana Motion Picture censor
ship board. She once said she had
a high regard for the "kingfish, y
but had no respect for his brother,
former Gov. Earl Long.
He Earl Long, lasted as long
as he did because his last name was
Long and his brother happened TO
be Huey," she said last spring in
New York.
In her day. Miss Clark was the
darling of the stage and silent
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
Appointment Adds
ToCIerk's Staff

Appointment of Emogene Black
ard as assistant cashier and deputy
in charge of occupational licenses
in the city clerks office in Ell Cen
tro gave the clerk full staff Thurs
day.
Miss Blackard's appointment at
$50 a month was approved Wed
nesday night by the city council.
The clerks staff is now the same
in numbers as under the previous
administration. Mrs. Pearl Burke,
however, is the only employe retain
ed. She remains as bookkeeper. Also
in the office are Miss Frances Mu-
dra, assistant purchasing agent, and
Miss Mary Irvine, deputy water
clerk and cashier besides Neal Cav
in, clerk.
Miss Mudra is on temporary
leave.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
Roosevelt Talk
Not POLITICAL

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UP)-
The senate campaign committee. on
the motion of Sen. Clyde M. Reed.
r.. Kan, decided today that Presi-
dent Roosevelt's Labor Day speech
at Chattanooga, Tenn, did not con-
tain sufficient political implications
to call for a committee investigation
An investigation of the speech
had been requested by Chairman
Joseph w. Martin of the Repub-
lican national committee. Martin
had suggested that the expenses
incurrd by the president on the
trip should be charged to the DEM
ocratic national committee rather
than the government He also asked
that circumstances surrounding the
Tennessee talk be looked into for
possible violations of the Hatch act
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
Bar Association
Considers Mooney,
Defense Issues

CORONADO, Cal, Sept. 26 UP)
Tom Mooney, the battle of Brit
ain and national defense were topics
of discussion at the 18th annual
meeting of the state bar association
today as Gerald H. Hagar, Oakland,
president, prepared to call the first
general convention session to order
In conference meetings yesterday
the 500 delegates heard George
Davis, San Francisco attorney for
Tom Mooney and Warren G, Bill
ings in their successful fight for
pardons, propose that the remedies
of the ancient writ of coram nobis
"a courts review of its own
iudgment-be made available in
California to protect innocent per-
sons who had been convicted in
court on perjured testimony.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
Mexican viii Tell
Court How Come
He Borrowed Car

CALIPATRIA, Sept 26-Arthur
V. Murrillo will be given a chance
to explain in superior court why he
took a 25 mile drive in a car he
borrowed to go down to the corner
after groceries"
He told elatives of the car owner,
Poll E. Veta, of the grocery buying
trip in Calipatria. He was arrested
later on the North Shore road
miles fom Calipatria when he de
manded gasoline and water for
Veta's car which he drove up to
a railway section house.
Judge B. F.. Grubel held the
Mexican tot answer to superior
court on charges of grand theft
and driving an automobile without
the consent of the owner.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
REDWOOD CITY. Cal, Sept. 90

REDWOOD CITY, Cal, Sept 26.
(UP)-Quick justice was promiC>d
today for the kidnaper of the three
year-old child of Count and Count
eSS Marc de Tristan.
Agents of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation turned over to San
Mateo county authorities Wilhelm
Jakob Muhlenbroich, 40-year-old
hawk k-nosed German alien who was
captured with little Marc in the
Sierra foothills Sunday morning.
The transfer was made in secrecy
to minimize danger of violence.
The Sau Mateo county grand jury
was called to meet tomorrow morn
ing when it will indict him on a
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26

screen. Less than five feet tall and
weighing under 100 pounds she was
rated as one of the most beautiful
and most competent actresses OF
the times.
She was born in Cincinnati, O., in
1887 and had an early inclination
for the stage. She made her debut
in 1899 in Baltimore and shortly
thereafter rose to fame. Her first
great success was with the Casino
company in New York in THE Belle
of Bohemia" She played in most OF
the musical successes for many sea-
sons, among them being THE Bur-
gomaster" THE New Workers. and
THE Wild Rose In 1902 she ap-
peared with De Wolf Hopper as
Polly" in Mr. Pickwick," and later
with him in Wang She also star
red in Victor Herberts Babes in
Toyland.'
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
kIDNAP JUSTICE SWIFT

charge carrying life Imprisonment
without chance of parole.
Muhlenbroich was abrupt with
newsmen who sought to interview
him.
Il don't want no publicity" he
said.
He was manacled with handouts
attached by long chain to a steel
handle, and bore the unmistakable
marks of a recent beating, for
there were fresh scars Ju his tenn
pie, jaw and ear, and the right
side of his face was bruised. He
covered his face with his hands
to escape photographers until he
was told by an officer his action
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
Sherwood Cafe to
Reopen on Friday

Sherwoods Coffee Shop. ore of
Ell Centro's Older eating establish
ments, was slated to reopen its
doors Friday morning at 6 o'clock
after one-month shutdown for
repairs, according to Russ Sher-
wood, owner and manager.
The cafe, which underwent a
complete redecoration and remodel
ing during the past month, will
feature the same Accommodations as
in previous years. The cafe will
remain open all night, and will fea-
tur family dinners prepared by
a new chef, Jack Sheuer. formerly
of Palm Springs, Catalina and
Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
Farmers. Experts
ToMeef0cf.2

Farm leaders of Imperial Valley
will meet with extension service
specialists Oct. for the Farm Blu
reau Planning conference in El
Centre.
The conference will be a fol-
loW-up meeting to succeed the
economic planning conference and
the soils and drainage conferences
of past years, according to George
L. Winright. assistant county agent
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
Regional Scout
Leader Due Here

Roland Dye. deputy regional
scout executive, will attend the
first fall meeting of the Imperial
Valley scout executive board at
scout headquarters next Wednes-
day.
Dye will aid local scout leaders
to map a program for participation
in a national emergency training
program cuorse, according to Hugh
Wilcox. scout executive.
Under the program all scouts
will be prepared to act in any
emergency, whether it be quake or
flood disaster or war.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
WAR DEPARTMENT LET'S
BARRACKS CONTRACTS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UP)-
The war department today awarded
contracts totaling s1,899.105 for
clothing. ordnance materials, and
barracks construction.
The awards included one to Myron
S. Roberts, Tehachspi, Calf, for
barracks and other buildings at
Muroc lake, Calf, to cost S51, ,448.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26

telephone. Later man of the same
description went to the Aver ranch
asking for the cook. He carried a
paper bag, Aver said.
AS he left Jette's cottage, he re-
marked, according to Aver:
We'll, Jette promised not to see
my daughter again"
The man who registered as Crane
checked out of the hotel shortly
after his visit to the ranch. He
gave no home address on the regis
ter.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
Library on Fall
Schedule Monday

Ell Centro's public library will be-
gin its fall schedule starting Mon
day, according to Librarian Agnes
Ferris BigeloW.
The library, under the new sched-
ule, will open at 10 am. Monday
through Friday and close at pm.
On Saturdays the library will be
open from 10 am. to 6 pm.
Mary Ann Collins has been added
to the library staff and will be in
charge of the children-S room.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
Gold Bars Seized

TOULOUSE, Sept. 26. CUP)-Se-
Cret service agents were reported
to have discovered and seized gold
bars, coins and securities worth
500,000.000 francs Approximately
100000 which Baron Maurice
de Rothschild was said to have hid
den in a wall of his chateau at
Argeles-Gazeat in the Pyrenees be-
fore fleeing from France.
The agents, acting on an anony-
nous tip, tore down newly plastered
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
would gain him nothing.

would gam him nothing.
Apparently cleared of any con-
nection with the kidnapping of 10
year-old Charles Mattson in Ia
coma, Wash, Dec. 27, 1896, the
swarthy barber saw the collapse of
his perfect crime" He had stu
died his plan of operation for two
years before snatching the golden
haired child of the count and
countess for 100000 ransom.
Although Muhlenbroich had sign
ed a confession in the presence of
the FBI agents. it was not de-
termined if he would fight tho
case.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26

walls in the chateau, which is only
few miles from the Spanish
frontier.
Rothschilds fortune and those of
Edouard, head of the French branch
of the family, Philippe. Robert, and
Henri de Rothschild. were ordered
seized and their citizenship with
drawn by Marshal Henri Philippe
Petain because they fled the coun-
try as the German army approached.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
WESTMORLAND JUDGE
SENTENCES CALEXICAN

WESTMORLAND Sept. 26.-Thir-
ty days in the county Jail or a $50
fine was the sentence Judge U. E.
Bailey gave Bill Renfroe, 25-year-
old Calexican, in justice court there
Wednesday. Renfroe was charged
with stealing automobile accessor-
les from the Wendell service station
on the highway near here. He went
to iail
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
Trade Bill 0kayed

WASHINGTON, Sept 26. CUP)-
President Roosevelt today signed
the bill permitting the Export-Im-
port bank to lend $500, 100000 to
assist development of trade with
Latin America.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26
BRITISH SINK
GERMAN U-BOAT

LONDON, Sept. 26. CUP)-The
admiralty reported today that the
submarine Tuna had destroyed a
large enemy supply ship which was
protected by two destroyers. The
admiralty said the supply vessel
was screened by two enemy de-
stroyers" when the submarine made
the attack.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-26

See directions on
the side of the can
and follow them
carefully. And don't
regrind Hills Bros.
Coffee. You'll lose
aroma, favor, and
freshness.