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Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04

train.
I'm Rome, the Fascist spokesman
VirginiO Gayda said the conference
was designed to speed up the war
probably the Mediterranean cam
paign against Suez or Gibraltar
and to discuss political develop
ments, presumably including the
position of the United States and
Soviet Russia.)
Following the meeting, which was
attended by German and Italian
military leaders as well as both for
eign ministers, Hitler and Mussolini
departed for their capitals aboard
armored trains on which were
mounted antiaircraft guns.
A communique issued after the
meeting said "all problems concern
ing the two countries" had been 1's-
cussed in spirit of cordialitv
In line with ordinary exchange
OF views duce and fuehrer met to-
day at Brenner Pass for a cordial
meeting which was held in the
spirit OF the Axis" the communique
said.
THE two chiefs of state for three
hours examined in the presence of
Foreign Ministers Ciano and Rib
bentrop all problems concerning
their two countries. Gen. Won Keitel
attended part of the conversations
which were continued during lunch
con, which also was attended by
the two foreign ministers
Both Nazis and Fascists said the
conference would have extremely
important results, as has been the
case when the two leaders have
met in the past. But it was empha-
sized that no information was to be
expected until after plans discussed
on the armored tpain-guarded by
alert anti-aircraft gun crews-had
been put into effect.
Thus, it was indicated, the Italian
Continued on Page 6 Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04

j
velt's bid for third term.
Willkie presented his labor pro-
gram specifically to a crowd of ap-
proximately $4,000 in Forbes Field
at Pittsburgh last night, but he
went into the steel mill and electri-
cal product manufacturing districts
to present his case face-to-face to
the workers themselves.
The nominee offered this program:
l. Special legislation to bring
about wiser administration" Of
the Wagner Labor Relations Act
should be tried before material
changes in the labor law are made.
2. Labor should clean its house
of crooked racketeers who have
found their way into the labor move
ment.'
8. Employees and workers should
write into collective bargaining con-
tracts a provision for a cooling-off
period, delay before using their
economic weapons"
4. The president should call a
conference of farm, factory, labor
and consumer groups Ito tackle the
job of ending economic stagnation
and of preventing common disas-
ter"
5. Social Security should be ex-
tended to workers who do not now
enjoy it, and the federal govern
ment should be made solvent SO
that it can fulfill its Social Security
obligations.
6. The federal conciliation SER
vice should be strengthened and
improved, and it's work should be
integrated with the work of the
labor board
7. The federal wage-hour law
should be continued and enforced,
both north and SOUTH" Willkie said
that he would "wield the big stick
of Theodore Roosevelt against
sweat shops"
8. Federal government activities
in the labor field should be decen-
tralized because each locality knows
its own problems BEST"
9. States should be encouraged
to strengthen and improve their own
procedures for the settlement of
labor disputes
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
HITLER, MUSS0L|N| MAP new OFFENSIVE
US Too,' Qarllor
|. Y. Yourbq Men

Elliot Roosevelt did il. Why
can't we?"
That was the cry Of a nucleus
Of Imperial Valley young men of
draft age who Friday launched
organization of the valleys first
II Wanna be q Captain Too
Club" Burdette Kinne headed
the club here.
The clubs oath says, II gra-
ciOusly accept this captains COM
mission to do nothing, be of no
service and to sign for and ac-
cept my pay each and every
month. Pay $316 per every 30
days, rations full, clothes COM
plete, duties n0ne."
Organization of the club, like
hundreds Of others sprinsins up
throughout the United States,
followed acceptance by the Presi-
dents son of a captains COM
mission in the u. s. army pro-
curement division, in spite of
the fact that he had no previous
military training. As a commits
stoned officer, young Roosevelt
is not subject to the draft.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
Mercy Flight to
Rescue Women

BAKERSFIELD, CAL, Oct. 4. (UP)
"A woman, who was injured three
days ago, was being carried on
stretcher today to an isolated air.
port in the high Sierra Nevada
mountains where an airplane on a
mercy flight can alight to bring her
to hospital.
The plane, piloted by Cecil Mead
ows, superintendent of the Kern
county airport at Bakersfield, will
leave for Monache Meadows, SO
miles southwest of Mt. Whitney,
highest peak in the United States, as
soon as forest rangers report they
have arrived there with Mrs. How
ard Nichols of Bakersfield, who
suffered a fractured leg Tuesday
during a hunting trip in the rugged
mountain region.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
Woman, Salesman
In Suicide Pact

FORT WORTH, Tex, Oct. 4. (UP)
Mrs. Gwendolyn Pelton, a. social
ly-prominent horsewoman, and Ger
aid Earl Freeze, Al, salesman were
found shot to death today in an
automobile four miles southwest OF
Fort Worth, victims of murder
suicide pact.
A blood-stained note. signed "Gwen
and Jerry" written in masculine
handwriting-saying "We have noth-
ing to say. We love each other" was
found with the bodies on the front
seat of an expensive coupe.
Justice of the Peace Frank Hur-
ley returned an inquest verdict Of
murder and suicide,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
State Clio ParIey
Lining Up Against
Third Term for FIR
He's Walked Away from
Us Declares Executive
Of Labor Convention

SAN DIEGO, Oct. a. (UP)
The state CIO convention
opened today with spirited
opposition developing toward
a third term for President
Roosevelt.
Resolutions both for and against
the, third term, along with one
urging repeal of the CONSUMPTION
act, were expected to be principal
issues, with most locals already re-
ported to have taken action to ex-
press themselves against another
four years for the president.
A member of the executive board
said it was likely that the council
would repudiate it's endorsement a
year ago of Mr.. Roosevelt for a
third term because he "has walked
away from u.s."
He hurried to add. however, that
the expected rejection would not
mean that the CLOS state council
was supporting Wendell Willkie, the
Republican nominee. He said the
CIO really wants a new farmer
labor political party that might
have chance in 1914
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04

at a tea at the Community Club
house at 146 East State street be-
tween 3 and p. m. The public was
invited to attend.
Prizes will be given residents and
businessmen making the greatest
progress in Identification of their
property during the campaign. The
committee in charge of the cam
paign is composed Of Mrs. Frances
M. Burleigh, chairman: E. A. Prince,
j. R. Allen, x. o. Dixon, r. j.
Burleigh. Mrs. Cordella Webster,
and w. A. Payne, secretary.
An interesting program will be
given Sunday and experts will dis
cuss plants, shrubs, trees and
lawns and their care.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04

Atety. q,
States which so far have denied
ballot space are Wisconsin, Missouri
Ohio, West Virginia, Washington
Illinois, Connecticut Utah, Min
nesota, Kansas, Arkansas, Arizona,
and Kentucky.
In many of these states the Com
munists have instituted court action
seeking to overrule the election
authorities or the lower courts which
issued the bans. In others the Com
munist party failed to qualify under
state laws requiring a definite per-
centage of the total vote OF the last
election or sufficient number OF
nominating signatures.
Efforts of state or private groups
to bar the party failed in Iowa,
Massachusetts,, New Hampshire, Tex
as and Michigan.
New litigation has been started
in California seeking to deny the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04

case" and she agreed to steriliza-
tion before being released.
Uhl told the grand jury he had
known the woman for two years
and he did not believe she should
be in the institution. He said she
has been the victim of hard luck
and harassment"
The supervisor said the woman's
prospective fourth husband did not
want to marry her unless he can
have a normal family life with chill
dren.
"She told me she did not want
to be sterilized," he said. but that
she would be held indefinitely un-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
Students to STAGE
Ticket Parade

Ell Centre high school and Junior
college students will stage ticket
parade in Ell Centre Saturday af-
ternoon in a drive to sell season
tickets for high school and jaycee
football games this season.
Football teams of both the j. c.
and high school will lead the pa
rade down Main street from the
court house to Fourth street. Tick
ct sellers will parallel the parade
and attempt to sell the Merchant
The parade. sponsored by the
high school commissioners. will
start at pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
Robbery Added to
Auto Theft Charge

Additional difficulties Friday be-
set Byron Cain. charged with
stealing an automobile in Holtville
late Wednesday and wrecking it at
the Highline canal on highway 30.
Los Angeles police in their bull
letin of Aug. 20 asked that Cain be
arrested on a charge o. armed rob-
berry. Cain, alias James Wakeland,
was held in the county Jail at El
Centre while deputy sheriffs at
tempted to ascertain how Cain
spent his time since Aug. 20.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
Sterilization Furore Nav
Cause Grand Jury Probe

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 4. (UP)-
The San Francisco grand jury to-
day asked the Sonoma state hospi- :
tai to delay proposed sterilization of
24-year-old San Francisco woman
who has been married three times,
has three children and plans to mar
ry again.
Supervisor Adolph Uhl asked the
jury to intervene pending investi-
cation.
The woman entered the hospital
Sept. IL. DR.. Fred o. Butler, direc-
tor of the hospital, said the staff
found her a 'borderline mentality
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04

less she submitted to the operation.
Twice that know of she lost jobs
through interference of juvenile au-
thorities who accused her of neglect
ing her children"
DR.. Butler forwarded records OF
the case to the state department OF
institutions in Sacramento. enclos-
ing formal consent signed by the
woman Sept. %.
Carl Applegate. deputy director
OF institutions. said the department
usually prefers" that patients be
sterilized when there Is a chance
that feeble-minded children might
be born,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
Two Start Canoe
Trip TO Panama

SAN DIEGO. Oct. 4. CUP)-Some-
where off the Baja California coast
today, William Peacock, 26. and E..
B. Moreland, %, of Seattle, pointed
the nose of their homemade canoe
southward on the first leg of a
three-year cruise to Panama.
The two youths slipped out Of
port unnoticed late yesterday In
the small canoe which they designed
and built themselves during the
winter months in Seattle.
Their first stop was to be Ensen-
ada, B. c., Mexico, so miles south
of Point Iona.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
Amateurs Invited
To Enter Contest

Ell Centre amateurs wishing to
take part in the program during the
All American canal celebration at
Holtville were asked to register at
the Ell Centre Chamber of Com
merce before next Tuesday.
If an Ell Centre act wins first
Or second prize in the amateur con-
test the chamber will add $40 to
the $50 first prize and the $25 Sec
ond prize offered by the celebra-
ton committee. Winning contest
ants must be registered at the
chamber to win the additional
money.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
ASKS PROBATION IN
CAR THEFT CASE

Arthur v. Murrillo, Calipatria
Mexican, Friday pleaded not guilty
to driving car without the own
ers consent and asked for proba-
ton. Judge r. D. McPherrin COM
piled with Deputy District Attorney
R. I. French's request for dismissal
of a charge of car theft against
Murrillo. Probation hearing will be
held Oct. 10.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
Mobile Federal Labor Camp Planned
At Northeast City Limits TO House
Migratory Workers in Harvest Time

Ell Centro will have a mobile fed
eral labor camp after Jan. 1, 1941,
the El Centre Chamber of Com
merce announced Friday.
The movable camp will be set up
at the northeast city limits on pro-
perty acquired by the federal gov
ernment from the state of Cali
fornia. The camp will be in use in
Arizona until late in December and
then will be moved to Ell Centre.
1t will resemble the mobile camps
moved into Calipatria and Holtville
every year, Manager Robert Hays
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
Buron Fits will
Speak in Valley

WESTMORLAND, Oct. 4 - Bur-
on Fits, district attorney of Los
Angeles county, will be the princi-
pal speaker at the Armistice Day
celebration here this year. Com
mander R. P. Ostrander of the
County Council of the American
Legion said today.
All veterans organizations, civic
groups, the chamber of commerce,
and the sheriffs mounted posses
were invited to participate in the
countrywide celebration,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
Bomb Misses Kinq
By One Minute

LONDON, Oct. 4. (UP)-King
George narrowly escaped a Ger
man whistle bomb" today as
Nazi ar raiders dived through
cloudy skies in steady attacks on
many British Objectives, includ-
ing London.
Not a minute before the king
arrived at a hall in central Lon
don great bomb hurtled from
the clouds and sent hundreds
scurry;ng to shelters. Following
the king were two flustered STEM
ographers, one of whom sudden
ly recognized the king and clap
ped her hands to her mouth in
astonishment.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04

"A man with referral card from
the California Employment service
knows he is as good as hired and
does not have to stand in line at
the plants. All Imperial county men
interested in such employment should
confer with Thomas N. Finney at
the Ell Centre office before leaving
for company plants
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
East Fl Centre Residents Launch
Drive to Beautify Homes, Streets

"Beautify East Ell Centro" was the
slogan adopted Friday by residents
of that section in their campaign
to make it one of the most attrac-
tive in the city.
They will launch their campaign
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04

TOKYO, Oct. 4. (UP)-Premier
Prince Fum9maro Konoye was
quoted by the Japanese, Domei
news agency today as saying that
should the United States chal-
lenge Germany, Italy and Japan
1--WE are ready to accept a chal-
lenge and fight to the finish"
He said, however, at Kyoto, an
cient capital of Japan, that Japan
is prepared to adjust relations with
the United States as well as the
Soviet Union.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
FRANCE INVITED IN

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 4. (UP)-
The newspaper Allehanda Berlin
er reported tonight that Roberto
Farinacci, Italian minister of
state, would arrive in Paris tonight
and that he was believed to be
carrying an axis invitation for
France to join the war against
Britain.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
y AMBL|Ne
@\Ep0R1ER
Where There's Smoke

1t was hot night in Sacramento
! and Hugh Osborne, used to the cool
ness of Imperial Valley, couldn't
sleep in his stuffy hotel room. He
passed the time by sitting in paia-
mas before an open window, smok-
ing that pipe of his whose aroma
can make itself felt from Heber to
Holtville.
; Hugh heard a commotion outside
/ in the corridor and stuck out his
head in curiosity. There was an
other pajsmaed figure, a night
shirted citizen and two bellboys in
&. worried consultation.
3 II IN. sure the place is on fire."
Zig Nightshirt.
~-"That isn't just wood burning"
y said Psiamas. "I think it's gaso-
line fire"
y IF you were to ask me, I'd say
> someone was frying horse" added
tthe captain of the bellhops.
Such insults to his pipe failed
to stop Hugh He shut the door and
went back to his window medita-
tion. but all night long there were
noises in the hall where fire hunt
ers shifted and shifted.
Needs A Change
Remember Flush, the spaniel be-
longing to G. K. Patton, who flush
ed a skunk and got flushed?
Flush disappeared shortly after
the mistake and has not been seen
since. Perhaps he was trying to get
away from himself.
~Road- Hopper
Bob Moore. to us, has always
been man of many talents. But
there is one talent that so far he
has hidden under bushel. 1t is
the ability to plumb the heart Of
the coolest hearted motorist.
Harry Sones was barreling along
the highway the other day and had
just passed Imperial en- route south
when he saw tall figure beside
the road gesticulatirg with an ex-
pressive thumb.
1t looked like Bob. by gosh, it
WAS Bob said Harry.
Bob hal left his own car at the
airport for Al Cage to use when
he arrived by plane. Meanwhile,
Bob reasoned to himself:
Il will thumb the first five cars
that pass. If rebuffed, I shall tele-
:, phone to town."
Harrys car was the second
"thumbed'.
Never have I seen finer techni-
que or more appealing thumb
Harry complimented later
Baked
1t was good idea, but Pat (The
Fox) Glasgow was a. bit too foxy
for them when John DonOhue and
a number of his cohorts decided to
go bit more closely into the ques-
ton of whether Pats mouStache
was really home grown or part Of
the mohair loot stolen from Johns
home recently.
Either Pat had a hint of the plot
afoot, or he was psychic, because
when it came time for the plotters
to leap upon him and pull out the
- moustache, one hair by one hair, Pat
turned up sans any facial adorn-
ment at all!
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
PARACR CRAPHS
ON THE WAR

Britain would follow the meeting
of Adolf Hitler and Benito Musso-
E1i at Brenner Pass. The press
compared today's meeting to the
conference of the fuehrer and the
duce which preceded the Nazi
lightning strokes into Norway,
the Low Countries and France.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04

of the chamber said.
"Such camp was needed" he
said, ito provide living quarters for
the carrot laborers who crowd into
Ell Centre early every year."
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
JAPAN FEARFUL

JAPAN FEARFUL
TOKYO. Oct. 4. (UP)-TakichTO
Suma. Japanese foreign office
spokesman, today warned of the
possible danger that the United
states would double its war aid
to Great Britain. Suma, in radio
address concerning the new Ber-
lin Rome Tokyo military alliance
indicated that this possibility and
also the possibility that the Unit
ed States might openly enter the
war at the side Of Great Britain
were important factors in negotia-
ton of the pact.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
I.v. Job Office
Holds O penthouse

Imperial county headquarters of the California EN-
poyment Service Friday held open house the official
opening of the offices at $40 State street. Ell Centro
with Commissioner J. L. Matthews of Covina and Bert
Harnsh former Calexican who now heads the southern
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04

OdIIIOIIIId uIVISIOH, III dCCtIudIlCt.
THE California Employment SER
vice entered into new phase of it's
existence with the advent of the
national defense program Harnish
said. THE aircraft industry alone
asked for 10000 men. We are work.
ing with the problem and are send
ing hundreds of men of all ages to
fill the demand.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
'U: s. Positi ion Up
For Discussion :.
"
At brenner Pass
World Must Wait for Action. Dic+ators
Indicate in Refusing News Of Decision;
Spokesman Declares War will Speed Up

THE BRENNER PASS, Italian-German Frontier, Oct.
d. (UP)-Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolin debated call
problems involved in blows against Great Brit
ain and Axis plans for order in Europe and Africa
today at "a cordial" threehour meeting aboard armored
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
WiIIkie Calls on Labor
To Join In Job of ndinQ
u. s. Economic StuQnution
Nine Point Program offered to Bring
Wiser Administration Of Laws, Closer
Cooperation, Surer Social Benefits
- BY WILLIAM H. LAWRENCE :

ABOARD WILLKIE TRAIN, En- Route to Philadep phia
Oct. 4. (UP)-Republican Presidential Nominee Wendell!
L. Wille offered nine point labor program today to east
industrial workers. His aides he needs their votes
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
HITLER HAS FAILED

LONDON, Oct. 4. (UP)-The
London Star said tonight that the
Mussolini-Hf meeting in Bren-
ner Pass may f0reshadow a "peace
offensive" and that Hitler had
failed in the battle of Britain.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
I13 States Kick
Reds Off Ballot
- BY JAMES A. SULLIVAN -
United Press Staff Correspondent

At least 13 states have barred the Communist party
or Communist candidates from the general election ballot
in November, nationwide United Press survey showed
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04
U. S. INVOLVED

ROME, Oct. 4. (UP)-AtfOlf Hit
Ter and BenitO Mussolini met IN
the Brenner Pass to speed up axis
warfare against the British ec,-
pire and to consider the position
of the United States in world af-
fairs, Virginia Gayda wrote In the
authoritative GiOrnalc d'Italia to-
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04

TERROR HINTED
BERLIN, Oct. 4. (UP)-The
German press limited today that
"cataclysmic" results for Great
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-04

Butter: Los Angeles 31c. but
terfat, Imperial Valley I. o. b. ranch,
grade A 4Oc; manufacturing milk
34c; route gathered cream 3Oc.
L. A. hay: u. s. No. 1 $13-13.50;
U. s. No. 2 leafy $11.50-12.50; l. v.
and Antelope $13-13.50; u. s. No. 2
S10-S10.50; Mpls. Dec. flax S1.44.
La gaceta., 1940-11-12
LA AVIACION INGLESA
BOMBARDEO LA BASE DE


Roma, Nov. 12.-El parte
Official del alto mando admite
que la aviaci6n inglesa bonn
barde6 la base naval de Taran
to Y ocsion6 averfas a I'm bar
co de guerra. Los atacantes,
segGn la nota, perdieron poI
10 menos seis aviones,
Submarines italianos que o.
peran en- ell Mediterraneo lie
siguen ocasionando grades da
nos a los barcos mercantes y
buques de guerra ingleses.
NueYos ataques de los griegos
en- Kalibaki, en- Epirus, fueron
rechazados.
Los aeroplanos italianos E.
fectuaron repetidos ataQues
en- los o~bJetlvos militares de
Janina, Metsovon, Kastoria,
Larisa y Ell itsmo de Lake Pres
ba.
Fuerzas mecanizadas ingle
sas fueron puestas en- fuga en-
la region de lam Hatsci, al sur
de la base italiana de Sidi Ba-
rrani. Tambien la aviaci6n tia
Llama bombarde6 e~staciones
del ferrocarril en- ell sur de A
lejandria, defensas hritanicas
,en Matruh y aer6dromos en-
Egipto.
La gaceta., 1940-11-12
"VotGci6n MercenGrta"

Nuestras mujeres, que fue-
ron a votar libremente, como
va no Sc puede hacer en- Europa,
deben leer estas palabras de un
diario de Madrid: LAS boletas
mercenarias, las compras con
dinero, decidieron la election"
Ash Sc miente al pueblo espa-
mol, tan honrado, tan digno...
va quisieran las mujeres de Is
pana, tan mobiles, tan buenas,
tan carihoSas, poder ir a las ur-
mas y seleccionar a sus gober-
nantes, como libremente 10 hi
cieron en- los amos de la Rep1bli-
ca.
Las m%ujeres de America mar
chan con la cabeza en- alto y asi
10 haran manana las de Espana,
cuando Ell totalitarismo sea des-
|truido.