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Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
thoughts For The Day
A NOTE TO
THE COUNCIL

A chap came into the office the other
day. He couldn't have gotten as hot under
the collar as he was, just by being out
in the sun.
81 got traffic ticket" he barked.
"Tsk tsk," we said-not very sym
pahtetically. Somehow or other, we've
usually gone on the assumption that peo-
pie who got traffic tickets should pay off,
because they probably deserved them.
We've even paid off once or twice our
selves.
But, this man went on to explain, he had
received ticket for overtime parking in
the block north of Main street on Seventh
street. When he parked there was only
one other car parked in that block. When
he went back, three hours later, there
was still only one other car parked in the
block
i wouldn't be kicking" he said, 'if this
was the busy season, with parking places
hard to find. And | wouldn't be kicking
if my car had been on Main street. Re
gardless what time of year it is, / think
parking limitations on Main street should
be strictly enforced But it seems bit
silly to hand out tickets for overtime
where there aren't more than three or
four cars at any time during the day, any
day of the week, this time of year.
We had to admit he had an argument.
"Of course" we said, 'the ordinances
are on the books, and the cops have to
enforce them"
Couldn't they use a little bit of dis
cretion?" he demanded
We had the answer to that one.
''They would be laying themselves wide
open to charges of favoritism, and then,
why don't they re-write the ordinance?
Enforce limited parking everywhere dur
ing the busy season. Mark out the streets
where there's no danger of parking con-
gestion and lift the limits there during
the slack season. Then, before winter.
have a one-week warning period, with
warning tickets put on each offending
car"
Maybe" we said, you've got some
thing there Well pass it on to the city
council"
And that's what we're doing
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
HITlER'S MISTAKE
ABOUT HISTORY
(NeUdd0 State JOurnaI)

Hitler's conviction that the shape of
things in Europe for thousand years
to come is to be decided by this war-in
his favor, of course-must be considered
in the light of wars poor showing in the
past as force making for any perman-
ent or even prolonged condition of peace
in Europe.
In the spring of 1919, young Amer
can in charge of 450 German prisoners
of war in France used to talk to those
of them who knew a little English, about
their plans after the peace. The senior
noncom,a bearded giant who had been
feldwebel sergeant majo with Pruss
ian elite troops was entirely frank as
to his intentions. First | must go home
and tell my boy to get ready for the next
war This is not the end" The boy was
10 at the time, and today is presumably
somewhere in Hitler's armies, unless he
has already met an inglorious end in one
of Hitlers conquests.
1t can be supposed, also, that count
less soldiers of beaten France have no
thought that this war is the end Like the
feldwebel, they will let the succeeding
generation know that it must be ready
in its own time.
Hitler's war of aggression, regardless
of the inspiration that stemmed from the
the treaty of Versailles and spurred
Germany forward, is no longer war in
which Hitler can claim he is trying to
appease wrong or trying to place his
chosen country on an equality with other
nations He has gone far beyond that,
so far beyond it, that he is doomed to
defeat in the end. Whether it will be by
failure to annihilate Great Britain or
through uprisings at home and in the
conqured states or through Russia he will
be beaten. Never will he see Germany
able to maintain domination of all of
Europe.
In the meantime he may, unless the
British stop him, attempt the invasion
of South America and there is where
the danger lies for this country That
is why Colonel Lindbergh's repeated
statements that this country should pre-
pare itself to cooperate with Europe
after the war premature. Cooperation
with the Hitler government is impossible
and always will be regardless of the
wars outcome His philosophy of gov
ernment is anathema to cooperation of
any sort. This country's road now and
for several months to come is to pre-
pare it's own defenses in unified pro-
gram devoid of politics and to do what
it can to supply Great Britain with need
ed materials, without weakening its own
resources.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
HOW? WHEN? WHERE?

Sen. Rufus c. Holman, r., Ore, told the
senate Friday that Authoritative mill
tary sources" had revealed to him that
there is actual, immediate danger of an
invasion Of Alaska and the entire Pacific
slope.
The senator was arguing in favor of
the conscription bill.
The senator, we believe, should be COM
PEELED to divulge who is going to invade
us, and why There has been too much
loose talk calculated to bring fear to the
hearts of American citizens, without any
proof that the talk is in any way ground
ed. In order to get what they want some
public officials have made all kinds of
statements about the danger to the United
States of immediate attack. Yet nobody
has yet said where it is coming from.
The people, who will pay the bill and
do the fighting, are Untitled to know-if
there is any truth in the statements.
If there is not truth in them, they are
entitled to know that, too, so that they
can learn the tricks by which politicians
stir up mass hysteria in order to put over
their variuos projects.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
Ethel FowIkes
Weds Lester Knapp
In Yuma Ceremony

Miss Ethel FowlkeS, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster Fowlkes OF
Imperial, and Lester w. Knapp,
rancher of the Writings Crossing
district, were married in Yuma at
noon Thursday.
The bride wore a summer frock
of white silk flowered in blue and
rose. She wore corsage of white
gardenias. Mrs. Jimmy Broyles, ma
tron of honor, was dressed in blue
and white flowered ensemble. jim
my BrOyleS was best man.
Others who witnessed the wedding
ceremony were Miss Delta Knapp,
daughter of the bridegroom: and
the brides sister, Miss Helen Fowl
kes.
After the ceremony the wedding
party returned to Imperial where a
wedding dinner was served at the
home of the brides parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Knapp then left
for Catalina Island for three
week honeymoon. Upon their re-
turn they will live at the Knapp
ranch at Writings Crossing.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
Sham War Troops
Scout Over Ground

OLYMPIA, Wash, Aug. 10. CUP)
Advance forces today secuted the
area between the Nisqually and
DeschuteS rivers in preparation for
the four-day sham battle that
starts next Wednesday with 41,2OO
army regulars and national guards
men participating.
Small units executed maneuvers
against defensive outposts while
artillery followed the advance and
laid down an imaginary barrage.
Signal corps scouts and engineers
reported the movements by short
wave radia and field telephones.
The northern troops at camp Muir
ray were to hold a division review
at Fort Lewis this afternoon before
Lieut.. Gen. John l.. Dewitt, COM
mander of the Fourth Army. Gov
ernors of Washington, Oregon. Ida
no. Montana and Wyoming were in
vited to attend
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
Paul Harrison's S Notes
On Hollywood S FoibIes and Fads

and evidently expects to be pretty
busy socially. She had II telephones
installed.
Two husky young men of maybe
16 or II have been visiting ail the
studios by simple trick. They buy
some lumber-usually just one long
board-and carry it in one OF the
side or rear gates. Once on a lot
they're able to walk around as long
as they like, but they have to leave
the lumber when they go home.
Way they were discovered was by
nearly being arrested for trying
to carry their own board out of a
studio.
It's going to be good season for
writers and chorus gals; 81
musical pictures are scheduled :.
Mary Pickford is considering max
ing another picture. Shes said to
have found story she likes
Milton Berle, back for a picture.
and exhibited a remodeled nose.
now is having his diction straight
ened by a dramatic coach Elsie
the Oomph Cow, appearing in Let
tie Men" has been making personal
appearances all over town. Bob
Hope says Elsie is doing so much
night clubbing she's beginning to
get bags under her eyes.
Samuel Goldwyn opened meet
ing of the Motion Picture Division
of the Red Cross with this an
nouncement: From now on, this
committee will be run i'll demo-
cratic way. I'm the boss and what
I say goes"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
M. A. No. 053083
District Land Office
A l.
Los AngcIcS. CaIif0rI

June 2, 1910
Notice is hereby given that The
Tycrete Chemical Corporation, by
Louis A. Tyce, president, of Chula
Vista, California, has made appli-
cation for patent to the White
Crystal No. l placer mining claim.
embracing EA SEh NEA Sec. 16
and White Crystal No 2 placer
mining claim, embracing SWH NWA
NWA Sec. Is; SEA NEANEA Sec.
l6 all in T. II S., r. Q E. SBM
containing 40 acres, in the Ell Cen
tro Mining District, Imperial Coun-
ty, California. There are no ad-
joining or conflicting claims. The
location notices are recorded in
Book 359, page 148 and Book 358
page 1876, and amended notices are
recorded in Book 46O page 48a
Book 460, page 489. and Book 481
page 5G3, official records of Imner,
ial County. California.
PAUL B. WITMER,
Register.
lJl1-A20 incl)
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
Willis Thornton's Editorial On
The League Comes Home

All things turn at the last, they
say. to the place whence they
sprung. The traveller of the world
comes home to die and be buried
in churchyard of the village where
he was born; the aged, stumbling.
old man returns to childhood things.
So there comes now TO Fine Hall.
on the quiet campus of Princeton
University. the last sad, battered
remains of the League of Nations.
The hope of keeping together some
of its economic, financial and other
non-political departments still flut-
ters feebly, and 50 space will be
made for them on the campus
where Woodrow Wilson once walk
ed and dreamed of a better world.
There is something appropriate
about that. We do not know for
certain, put it seems likely that
Wilson Who while a university presi-
dent was also a deep student of
government, meditated on a better
and more orderly world as he
strode the shady paths of Prince
ton. He did not know then that
his was to be the leading role in
trying TO bring that ideal into
actual being. But at Princeton the
mind and thought was already
forming which was later to offer
to an eaper world II points Of a
war settlement, the last of which
was:
"A general association of nations
must be formed under the specific
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
Uranium Crackers
Well-KnOwn Quartet

Here are five questions about
the four men nominated by the
major political parties for the
presidency and the vice presidency.
How many can you answer cor
rectly?
l. The father of one of the four
men once held the same cabinet
position as that occupied by his
son when nominated. Identify the
father, position, and tell in whose
cabinet he served.
2. One of the nominees owns
a filbert and walnut farm as a
hobby; another, several hog farms
Who are they?
3. Two of the nominees were not
present when selected by the con-
ventions. Who are they?
4. One of the nominees previously
served as governor of a state
Which one? What state?
5, Can you supply the full names
of each of the nominees?
ANSWERS
Henry A. Wallace, was secretary
of agriculture in the cabinet of
President Harding.
2. Charles McNary owns a fill
bert and walnut farm: Wendell
Willkie five hog farms.
3. President Roosevelt and Charles
McNary were not at the party con-
ventiOns when nominated.
4. President Roosevelt was pre-
viously governor of New York.
5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Henry Agard Wallace: Wendell
Lewis Willkie; Charles LIMA Nc
Nary.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
FOR A FLOWERY CAMPAIGN
(Christian Science MOnitOr)

George D. Aiken, Governor of Ver-
mont, is a most refreshing sort of man.
His originality is equaled only by his
directness of approach to great public
questions. The nearness of election time
has brought him and his rival for the
Republican senatorial nomination face
to face with the subject of campaign
posters. Governor Aiken has proposed to
Ralph E. Flanders that they reach a
gentleman agreemSnt to let the Yer
mont hillsides continue this summer to
show forth their natural beauty without
the disfigurements of political adver-
tsing.
Going back to make mental compari-
sons between the crop of Autographs
that bloom by some roadsides in Aug
ust and the lilacs that were there in
June, one is inclined to think that pos
sibly the most profound political move
of the weeL has come out of Vermont.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
u. .S.kavyYard
Closely Guarded

VALLEJO, Cal, Aug. 10. OUP)-
The U. S. Navy frightened it's Wig
lance at Mare Island navy yard
today by warning yard employees
against spies and saboteurs and by
forbidding private vessels from COM
ing within 100 yards of the navy
yard.
Workers at the yard, where war
ships are being built and repaired,
found a communication in their
pay envelopes signed by Rear Ad-
miral David Bagley, yard command
ant, telling them to take every step
to ensure the security of the yard"
in this period of national emergency.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
TwoS Split Honors
AT 1oasfmasters

BRAWLEY, Aug. 10.-Arlie Whar-
ton and Frank Johnson divided
top honors at this weeks meeting of
of the Brawley Toastmasters club.
During the meeting Irving Borg
and Mack Stedman gave interest
ing reports of the Toastmasters
convention in San Diego last month.
Paul Kennedy and Ed Gregory al
so spoke on the regular program.
Willard Nussbaum was toast
master for the evening and w. L.
Hopes Judged the speeches. The
club will vacation until Sept. 10.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11

covenants for the purpose of af-
fording mutual guarantees of poll
tical independence and territorial
integrity to great and small alike. .
1t was not to be. This Is no
time and no place to weep for the
League, nor for the bruised and
all-but-dead remains of it which
now come creeping home for sanct-
uary on the Princeton campus
1t seems mockery to talk now, as
Wilson talked then, of the prin-
ciple OF justice to all peoples and
nationalities, ana their right to live
on equal terms of liberty and safety
with one another, whether they be
strong or weak"
Czechoslovakia, Denmark. Norway,
Finland, Luxembourg, Holland Bel
gium, Lithuania, Latvia, France, Es-
tonia, Bessarabia, all they cry out
too loudly today for us to hear
those other prophetic words, mo
peace can last. or ought to last,
which does not recognize and ac-
cept the principle that government
derive all their just powers from
the consent of the governed, and
that no right anywhere exists to
hand peoples about from sovereign
ty to sovereignty as if they were
property
The League failed The return to
princptOn is scarcely more than
decenty burial.
But can the world afford to for
get the better world order which
it was vainly designed to assure,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
Did You Know?

New York City has the largest
acreage of public parks, but Chi
cago leads all American cities in
the per capita acreage of parks.
Handel completed the writing of
the music for his famous Messiah
in "a days.
If the worlds temperature were
lowered but 10 degrees, for the
year round, another Ice Age would
result.
England's smallest inn is in a
village near Dorchester Several
centuries old. it consists of a sim
gle room Is feet by IL feet.
1t is possible for an airplane TO
make a safe landing with only one
propeller.
Camel hair brushes are compos-
ed OF the hair from the tails of
Russian squirrels.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
Bruce Cation in Washington
Dissects the News

The job is far from finished.
For one thing, between 700 and 800
of the claims were faulty one way
or another-gave insufficient infOr-
nation, or were garbled somehow.
WORKERS CLAIM
JOBS ARE POORER
Present estimate is that the total
bill will be little over $2,000,000.
1t may go closer to $3,0O0,000, how
ever, depending on how certain
claims are decided.
For instance. practically all OF
the x-workers are back at work
now. but lot of they assert they
got poorer jobs, at lower wages,
than they had when they were
fired Question for the board is:
Do such men get back pay only up
to the date of re-hiring, or must
the company also pay them the
difference between what they are
getting now and what they were
getting before the strike?
After the tabulation is complete
and the board presents the bill
Republic may if it chooses contest
the figures. In that case, board
experts and Republic officials will
probably check each case against
the company's own records.
UNION MAY OFFER
TO MAKE DEAL"
One interesting rumor heard here
is that the Steel Workers Organiz-
ing Committee may offer Republic
a horse trade when the bill comes
in. If, for instance. Republic is
due to pay $2,OOOOOO, SWOC might
suggest that the bill be cut in half
if Republic would sign a union con-
tract.
That's pretty "iffy," SO far. For
one thing, it would be up to the
union to get each of the 1000
claimants to agree to a cut in his
compensation. and some of the boys
probably wouldn't care much for
it.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
Mrs. Wilbur Hoaqe
Dies in Sonora

News of the death of Mrs. Will
bur Hoage the former Lenora No
land and Heber correspondent for
the Post-Prses newspapers for sew
eral years, was received by friends
Saturday.
She died at a hospital in Sonora
last Sunday. She left four children.
the oldest only eight years of age.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
So They Say

I think there is little doubt that
most of the several million aliens
in the UnUited States are people
who believe sincerely in the prin-
caples of American democracy.
Solicitor General Francis Biddle.
Public health is truly our first
lint of defense. In these times it
is particularly urgent that we main
tain the health of our nation.
State Senator Thomas c. Des-
mond New York.
To achieve recovery and at the
same time preserve our liberty. we
must organize as consumers. We
must create economic organizations
of ourselves, by ourselves and for
ourselves.
Murray D. Lincoln, Ohio Farm
Bureau Federation.
This sacred mission that the
American continent assumes thru
setting itself up as trustee for the
remainder of betrayed civilization
is the aim that unites YOU to-
day in order to defend and harbor
it.
President FREDERICK Laredo Bru
of Cuba, welcoming the Pan
American Consultative Confer
ence.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
ALMA HOLT SEEKS
DIVORCE DECREE

Alma Holt charged her husband.
Lorin B. Holt, with exereme cruelty
in a divorce complaint filed in
superior court Friday.
Her husband, she said. was en-
ployed in an Ell Centre garage.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.-Repub-
lie Steel will probably be asked to
pay slightly more than S2,000,000
in back wages to 70O0-odd workers
as a result of the famous little
steel" strike of three years ago
Several months ago the federal
courts upheld a Labor Board ruling
that Republic must re-hire all ex-
workers and must pay them back
wages from the day the strike
began to the date of re-hiring
Since then. the board has been
men, getting a case history of each
and determining how much money
each man has coming to him-all
preparatory to presenting the bill
TO Republic.
1t has been d long, complicated
task. Congress almost spoiled it
by cutting off the appropriation for
the boards research division -
which the Smith committee had
branded as nest of Communists
and the research division was the
only branch of the board equipped
to do the job
SAPOSS STAYS,
GETS NEW TITLE
The board however, found a way
around the obstacle. The research
division passed out of existence,
20 be replaced by branch called
the technical service division. It's
director is the boss of the old re-
search division, DR.. David j. Saposs.
and its staff is the same-except
that is 45 per cent smaller.
Sub-regional offices were opened
in five Ohio cities Cleveland
Youngstown, Canton, Massillon and
Niles-and claimes have been filed
by 7l99 ex-workers mot counting
200-odd which were thrown out as
invalid. A preliminary check has
been made on these claims, and
tabulations have been made showing
how much each man is entitled to.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11

An eastern youth joined the navy
just in time to have the govern
ment pay for an appedicitis ope-
ration. Just in time for a stitch
instead of the other way around
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11

A famous writer says it takes
a man 25 years to learn to be mar
ried. That doesn't leave him with
much opportunity to decide if he
likes the idea.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
Ell CENTRANS TRAINING
AT NAVAL STATION

Murray Donald Baxter and Will
liam Thomas Butler of FL Centro
are engaged in a two-month train
ing course at the San Diego Naval
training station, Navy officials said
Saturday,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
Barbs

The Nazis need high tides to
start their blitzkrieg. The tides are
the only thing Adolf doesn't want
to get out
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11

Doctors say strong emotional
strain car. bring on a cold. Allergy
to movie love dramas may be the
newest physiological wrinkle.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11

There are no vitamins in the
razzberry but often there is a
strong physical reaction.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-11
MEMBER

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fornia Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-18

But there they are. In cold print. Meanwhile. with their ears trained on the radio, and then eyes on the box office. life in New York can be very hectic for two subjects of the British Empire. whether their love is star crossed or not.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-18
REV. S0B0LEFF
 ARRIVES HERE
Thlinket Boy Rises 10 Be. come First Ordained
 of Presbyferians

The Rev. Walter A. Soboleff, only member of the Thlinket Indian tribe ever to become an ordained Presby- terian Minister, arrived here on the Alaska this morning with his wife to take over the duties of the Rev. David Waggoner of head of the Memorial Presbyterian Church.
 Soboleff worked his way through Sheldon Jackson School, as did his wife and then fished for eight years to pay his tuition at Dubukue The ological Seminary graduating with the degree of Bachelor Of Divinity. He now has his masters work com- pleted, but has not yet received his degree. Prior to his theological training he was graduated from Du- buque University.
 Mrs. Soboleff, who nursed to earn her way at Sheldon Jackson in Sitka,was graduated from Ganado Presbyterian Nursing School in Ari- zona.
 Rev. Soboleff, a brilliant Thlinket. 3l, and his lovely wife, Genevieve, 25, remarkable Haida woman. will take up their work here inn mediately.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-18

undoubtedly the pending applica- tions could not be granted because field already occupied by PAA.
 "4.-Provision was inserted large ly because PAA applied for certifi- cate, Seattle to Juneau, with only provisional stop at Ketchikan and when in the future operation begins on wheel planes, ability to stop at Ketchikan to perform re- quired services highly problematical because of uncertainty completion date landing fields Annette Is- land
 "5.-Mr. Oswald Ryan will fly to Juneau aboard Clipper sailing Seattle Thursday affording you an opportunity to discuss this matter in person. Ryan met with Dimond and Gordon this morning and looks forward to discussing the Situa- ton with you"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-18
TO ANCHORAGE A

Genevieve Strandberg, of Anchor age, daughter of Mir and Mrs. Dave Strandberg. passed through Juneau on the Aleutian today to visit for the summer with her parents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-06-18

vier. With his fine clippings for his work as HeaLnciiffe in .'Wuth- efing Heights" and her Academy award for her portrayal of Scarlett OHara, these latest press comr ments must be difficult to recon cile.