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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25
PROTECT REFUGEES

If there are any effective legal
restrictions preventing child ref
ugees from England coming to
homes offered them in America,
they ought to be removed.
There is a more cogent question.
Some institutions for the care of
homeless children have experienced
a marked seasonal rise in applica-
tons for adoption around the gra-
cious Christmas season.
At varying later periods the little
darlings don't seem so desirable.
On this ground, usually, the insti-
tuition that gave the child will take
it back, but what is going to hap
pen in similar situation with these
piteous fugitives?
Heaven knows we have such a
terrific burden in taking care of the
millions of our own destitute that
we are not making very good job
of it, and few if any of their children
are being guaranteed home. But
the plight of little children under
bombing operations is more than
persuasive-it is compelling.
Many good and responsible people
are offering to assume the financial
and personal burden of receiving
these kids. But doesn't confidence in
the whole scheme require provision
now for that possibility?
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25

time you and I met. We have ev-
erything in common. We are two
of type.
Napoleon-Do you realize you are
talking to the most famous conquer
or in history?
Hitler-That's the very question I
was going to ask you. You were
good for your time, but you're out
classed.
Napoleon-By whom, may I ask?
Hitler-Even if you didn't ask, I'd
still tell you. By me!
Napoleon-Who are you?
Hitler-I am Adolf Hitler.
Napoleon-Hitler? Hitler? I once
knew a sausage maker named Hit
Hitler-I am the conqueror of most
of Europe. In two years have
taken nine nations.
Napoleon (bored)-I wish I knew
what you smoked.
Hitler-In two months I took Den
mark, Norway, Belgium, Holland
and France.
Napoleon = Nobody ever takes
France. It's purely an Illusion.
Hitler-Believe it or not, have
captured France.
Napoleon (derisively)-You and
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25

enough during those years at st.
Helena! Bah, the world must be
softening up. You don't look like a
conqueror.
Hitler-You don't look any too hot
yourself.
Napoleon-Go on with your story.
You say you have conquered nine
nations?
Hitler-I have the world at my
feet.
Napoleon = That's what I was
crazy enough to think once! Re-
member it's only a short trip from
your feet to your throat.
Hitler-And do you know what I
am going to do next? I am going
to capture England!
Napoleon-Take a tip from me
and forget it. once had that idea.
Hitler-I shall capture the Brit
ish isles and destroy the British en-
pire.
Napoleon-Would you mind re-
peating that?
Hitler-I shall capture the British
isles and destroy the British en-
pire. shall be boss of Europe and
of the world, the greatest conqueror
of all time!
Napoleon (beckoning)-Come on
in! I'll move over!
RACE CHART STUFF
Bold Turk Not out since November
e.
Sailors Yarn ........... Unreliable
Skagerrak ............. Tough spot
Stalagmite ........ Dropping down
Ceiling Zero Seldom comes through
It seems that the "a garment
workers who have been playing in
''Pins and Needless" revue staged
by the garment workers union, have
retired from the garment industry
( and joined the Actors Equity as pro-
fessional entertainers. Now if some
actors would only shift to the gar
ment business all would be well.
A correspondent telling of the
flight and return to Paris of refugees
tells of one man who chung to a
heavy Paris telephone book coming
and going. When asked why he re-
piled, 81 don't know, I just grabbed
| it up. I guess might as well throw
it away now" Maybe the French
phone books carry those instructions
"How to Get Policeman"
Sonia Henie has been married and
the Office Cynic says it is going to
be great letdown to her when her
husband finds the refrigerator out
of order and yells "Say, do you know
anything about ice?"
CAN YOU REMEMBER
Away back when you could boast
that you were working like Tro-
JAM without drawing any hard
looks?
Uncle Sam is going in for "Panzer
Division" (Samzer divisions would
seem better.) He will build tanks
almost as big as Nazi ones and ca
pable of at least so miles an hour.
Nobody can beat him in the auto
motive field, and we predict that he
will not only turn out super tanks,
but do it in colors.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25

1t might take a dozen
weekday cro,vds to equal
a throng Of $4,000 like
the one shown above,
attending a Cleveland
Indians night game.
(Right) Night football
game in progress at
Manchester, N. FL. Night
football makes it posi-
BILE for small to,on high
school teams to compete
with important contem-
poraries.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25

F" AAS &
Hitler-Paris is
mine. This tomb
is mine. I even
own you. Think of
it, Napoleon the
Great now under
the ownership of
Adolf Hitler!
Napoleon (winc-
ing) - AS if I
hadn't suffered
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25

Hitler-Tm no
tourist.
Napoleon-Who
are you?
Hitler-I'm the
new landlord.
Napoleon-You
are joking.
Hitler - That's
what a lot Of peo-
pie thought. Lis
ten. Nappie. it's
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25
HITLER AND NAPOLEON

HITLER AND NAPOLEON
("Hitler Visits Tomb of NapoIeon."-
headline)
Napoleon-Stop staring at me!
Hitler-I'm not staring at you;
I'm looking at what thought was
a reflection.
Napoleon-Go away. I'm tired of
tourists.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25
Night Sports, in Tenth Year,
Going Stronger Than Ever

The national pasm baseball due sports athor'
ties to the baseball Ten this summer the
first night game organized baseball played at Des Mones 1a
backbone the whole baseball industry
through the depression Fans like the nocturnal sport 1t ena1e
games without negecing their work. or 'fhout cans
upon guests honor many funerals
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25
rs Years a First
Fighter, Yet Shy
OF Control Stick

er. one mas HOWn IN planes, gid
ers, Zeppelins and free balloons, on
notable first flights whenever pos
sible, but has never touched the con-
troll stick. She says she has no in
terest in mechanics or mechanical
problems.
She is the widow of George L.
Adams, a millionaire tanner of
Pennsylvania who died in 1929, leav-
ing her an ample fortune with which
to indulge her favorite pastime.
Mrs. Adams was born in Cncin-
natl, the daughter of Walter Grabau,
a music. teacher. In 1914, at the
age of Is, she had her first plane
ride at Lake Eustis, Fla, with Wal
ter E. Johnson at the controls. Since
then, her mother has complained
that there's no keeping her down to
earth. She was a passenger on the
first transatlantic trip of the Graf
Zeppelin in 1928, and in 1882 on the
giant plane Dornier Do-X on it's flight
from Rio de Janeiro to New York.
In 1886 she crossed the Pacific
on the first China Clipper; and,
also in that year, she was on
the Inflated Zeppelin linden
burg when it crossed to this
country. She saw it burn year
later. In 1897 she made a round
trip nonstop flight from New
York to Bermuda, and July Is of
last year landed back in Newark
after a flight around the world
in 16 days, 10 hours and min
utes-a record for globe girdling.
She is S feet, II inches tall and
has what she describes as string
bean figure suitable for flying"
She has gray eyes and reddish
brown hair, dresses simply and at
tractively.
IT IS perhaps just as well that
L Carl Brisson, Danish film star,
has landed safely in America. He
once popped the Crown Prince Will
helm on the nose, and there's no
telling but that Herr Hitler has that
somewhere in his bring-up file. Born
Carl Petersen, the big, handsome
Carl Brisson was welterweight
champion of Denmark at Is and
later middleweight champion of Eu-
rope. After fighting u professional
ring battles, he became a star of
vaudeville and musical comedy. He
discovered Greta Carlo.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25

Nobody is going to complain about
what defense costs. Nobody ought
to complain about the belated awak-
ening of our great American Dalai
dier or the sound diplomatic, mill
tary and naval strategy both of DEM
onstrating that we intend immedi-
ately to make ourselves invincible
and of proceeding to do so. But
this roman candle jugglery with bill
lions isn't going to fool anybody but
the American people.
For what is this money to be
spent? For naval expansion" for
active and reserve equipment of a
Gland force" of 100000 men and
for $4,000 airplanes-all "to repel
aggression against the United
States or the Western hemisphere. :"
But we twill not send our men to
take part in European wars"
How about results from the bill
lions already authorized? excel
lent progress 81. Every week, more
and more is being delivered. That
sounds exactly like the guns and
munitions we have ION hand or on
order"
The trouble with every phase of
this message is that it reveals moth
ing except hint that there is no
plan. That the magnificent figures
were picked out of the air, and that
actual progress is too piffling to be
described any more definitely than
in the DR.. Coue pollyanna abraca-
dabra 'every day in every way I
grow better and better"
Is there any military or naval
opinion that we can or should pre-
pare to repel aggression anywhere
on the Western hemisphere? 1t is
not on record. A realistic approach
to our defense problem reveals
that, while we can and must become
supreme and impregnable about as
far as the Equator with such
strength as would be a serious threat
to any incursions further south, we
can't underwrite all the weak, I'm
democratic, unfriendly Latin nations
between the Equator and Cape
Horn.
The strictly military problem does
not require 100000 men and, if it
did, it would be folly to provide
facilities to equip them in short or
der. War changes equipment too
fast. If you gear tool up to equip
a million men in two or three years,
you can equip the next million in
six months. If you try to equip the
first 100000 in so short time,
you risk mountains of obsolete equip
ment and acres of idle plants. .. ...
A promise not to send Americans
abroad doesn't mean anything if
your policy invites foreign war.
The American people should not
be fooled into thinking that rearma-
ment is excellent. It is not. 1t
could not be. 1t would be a miracle
if we began to get balanced equip
ment in 18 months, and this admins
tration is neither manned, equipped
nor organized to produce Industrial
miracles.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON

consolidated Features-WNU Service.)
NEW YORK Future historians,
~ dredging up the story of the
wreck of European civilization, will
find that some of these tragic events
were precise
Prophecies More ly described
Illuminating Than before they
Later Spot Ne.Os nap, p p a E n 4ha q !.
prophecies may be more illuminat-
ing than later "spot news" accounts.
There's Henri de Kerillis, French
Nationalist deputy, recently arrived
in Ottawa in behalf of General De
Gaulle's die-hard committee. On
December %, 1889, M. De Keril-
lis published in his newspaper
"Epoque" a infinitely detailed ac-
count of conspiracy to GUST Pre-
mier Daladier and install Marshal
Petain in that office. He wrote:
''The object of this conspiracy is
to convince the greatest and most
famous of military chiefs-Marshal
Petain-that he must resign himself
to accepting the premiership in a
government of national union in
which the most notorious defeatists
are to be included. According to the
conspirators, the old marshal I'M
consciously will have to play role
analogous to that of Hindenburg,
opening the road to Hitler in a mo-
ment of encouragement. And by
his presence alone, he will neutral
ize our military Chiefs"
In Ottawa, M. De Kerillis
says, "Marshal Petain is not a
traitor. He did not know when
he capitulated that he would 60
to war with England, tomorrow
with the United States, and the
next day with Russia. He did
not know that when one is in
the hands of the Germans one
cannot STOP"
AS a journalist and nationalist
deputy, M. De Kerillis has been a
spokesman for French Nationalist
opinion for many years. He was a
lone voice supporting General De
Gaulle in 1884, when the latter was
pleading for mechanical army to
meet the German onslaught. He
has vehemently denounced both
Communist and Nazi subversive in
fiuences. In a review of his activi-
ties, one utterance of Adolf Hitler,
as reported by DR.. Rauschning, has
been pertinently quoted:
"Our strategy will destroy the
enemy from within and oblige him
to conquer himself. Everywhere in
the country of the enemy we will
have friends who will aid u.s."
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25

(Aboue) r. ]. SaUackhamer
of the General Electric pre-
sents a picture of the original
Des Moines night contest to
YIN. Beattie (right), curator
of the National Baseball Mu-
scum at CooperstotOn, N. Y.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25

Ten manufacturers busy turning the aluminium reec
which, th the special "alza finish developed aluminium
Research Laboratories No Kenngo Pa all weather cond
is claimed They used virtually all ball parks
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25
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United Features WNu Ssr,hc
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Washington, ID. C.
PALACES

washington, ID. G.
DEFENSE FALLACIES
The President was right in saying
that the American people are pre-
pared for any sacrifice for total de-
Tense. 1t should have begun long
ago.
But dancing a merry madrigal
and tossing off billions like bay
leaves isn't total defense. Mr..
Roosevelt's futile solution for every
problem from unemployment to ag-
riculture, from. business depression
to defense, is to ask congress for
blank checks for billions.
On the very face of this message,
defense appropriations must have
been wholly implanted. 1t takes, or
it should take, much time and study
to blueprint and then undertake an
industrial production progress of
even 1000, 100000. But this is the
Presidents own time table of what
he has asked-and when.
January, 1910 go. $4,000, 100000
May 16, 1910 49,. 1882, 100000
May 81, 1910 .... LIT, 741,170
July 10, 1910 80. 4,848, III, 1857
Total ........... $780,, 1881
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25

(Aboue) The Milwaukee Brew-
ers playing to large nighttime
crotvd. (Lett) Showing hoU est
inghouse engineers focused the
lights on the ne,U 2 billion candle
po,Uer system, at the Nev York
Giants Polo grounds. The boxes,
serving as targets, tUere removed
,Uhen adjustments 1Uere O. X.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25

MRS. CLARA ADAMS rides air.
1vA planes because she cloves to
watch Clouds" Her flight on the
first stratoliner from New York to
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25

consolidated FeatureS-WNU Serv1ce.)
NEW YORK.-Future historians,
~ dredging up the story of the
wreck of European civilization, will
find that some of these tragic events
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-07-25

Los Angeles
rounds GU t
her first 26
years as a
"frSt = fight
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-11
Arizona Governor
Jitters Again on
Expense Accounts

PHOENIX, Jan. II CUP)-Gov r.
T. Jones executed his third "about
face today on the matter of out
of-state travelling by state officials.
Reversing his decision of last
week, the governor gave pernis-
sion to Marion Welborn, member
of the state livestock sanitary board,
to attend a conference in Denver
at state expense.
Jones sudden change of mind
came a bit late, however, for We'll
born already had left for Denver
at his own expense. But it did
serve to mark the third decision
the governor has made on the
question of allowing members of
the board to attend the Denver
meeting.
Several weeks ago the governor
gave tentative approval for two
members of the livestock board to
attend the Colorado conference.
Then, out of clear sky, State
Auditor Ana Frohmiller wrote the
governor asserting that exhorbitant
travel claims by state officials were
costing Arizona 100000 monthly.
Gov Jones promised an economy
drive and among the many pro-
posed trips to get the axe was the
Denver junket.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-11
Shanghai Bound
American Can't
Hurry 90 Fast

in Shanghai on $10O month, AM
erican money"
Webber predicted that Japan will
never successfully conquer the Chi
nese people.
There are too many Chinamen!"
he said
"a hundred years from now
there will be no japanese empire
And Japanese territory on the con-
tinent will have been swallowed up"
Webber admitted, however, that
the Japanese influence in many
ways has been an improvement.
Particularly in cleaning up slums
in the Shanghai district.
Stories of atrocity and arrogance
on the part of japanese sentries
were discounted by Webber, who
explained:
ANY stories you may hear of
white women being slapped and in
suited may be true, but you can
also be sure they brought it on
themselves"
Opposition to the Japanese army
has become more and more difficult
to maintain. In many cases the
Chinese soldiers under General
Chang Kai Shek have fought with
rifles held together by bailing wire.
without the general and his
wife, opposition would collapse" he
said. General Chang is the rally
ing point, and Madame Chang is
the brains"
Webber said there is strong feel
ing in China against Russia, even
though the Nationalist government
has received support from this
quarter.
81 think that if Japan really went
to war with Russia China would
side with Japan. The Chinese are
loving people and dislike
intensely the RECOMMENDATION of the
Soveits.
my guess Is that the new agree
ment between Russia and Japan is
not worth a thing. Japan may be
waiting until Russia tries to invade
Rumania, and then while Russia
is engaged on two fronts, make her
attack"
The United States, too, will even
tually find itself at war with Japan,
Webber predicted, and the expira-
ton of the trade agreement is only
a. step. The end of the agreement
will mean not only a cut in Japa-
nese trade but also the ousting of
10000 japanese businessmen who
have been permitted to remain in
the states at variance with the ex-
clusion act.
Ten of Webber's Is years in China
were spent with the U. S. Navy. He
was aboard the U. S. S. Panay when
it was bombed in the YangSte river
and suffered five wounds.
Webber speaks five Chinese dia-
lects and when it was remarked
that that makes you linguist,"
he replied dryly:
mot exactly. There are only 1875
dialects"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-11
BY LOGAN JENKINS


J. T. Webber of Shanghai could
hardly wait Thursday to get back
to "heaven on hundred a month"
and maybe a little hell, too.
The businessman, who stopped
briefly in Ell Centro en- route to
the coast and a ship to China, said
laconically:
1.-The sooner 7 get back TO Shang-
hal the better I'll feel. The people
rush too much over here"
Fifteen years in the Orient had
given Webber q calmer outlook on
life than Americans who live at
home possess, but his predictions
for China were anything but calm.
ITS hard to tell what will hap
pen in China in the near future.
That's why I'm anxious to get back"
he declared. when the United
States trade agreement with Japan
expires Jan. 26 there may be some
repercussions in China"
He intimated that Japan may
attempt to squeeze American busi-
ness interests out of the conquered
territory.
Webber has been in the states
since September and apparently six
months at home was sufficient for
he was anxious to return to place
where one can get Is Shanghai
dollars for one American.
IT have large apartment, two
bedrooms and bath and sitting
room, pantry and kitchen for IS
Shanghai dollars month. have
four servants, including chauffeur
for my Renault, all for quite NOM
inal expenditure, he said.
"One can live quite comfortably
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agent for Sussex county. explained
to the group the possibility of CO.
operation between Home DemOnstra-
tiOn Club members and All Club
members and the fact that members
of Home Demonstration Clubs can
contribute much in leadership of 4-H
clubs. Parents of All club boys
and girls who are interested in see
ing that the club members carry out
their projects conscientiously are
helping the boys and girls to get the
greatest benefit from their club
work. Miss Moore stated.
Director of Extension in Delaware
explained to the group some of the
general trends in the agricultural
program this year. She told the
group that in view of the present
serious conditions that extension
must remain practical and
that such activities as trips and the
teaching of handicrafts will no
doubt have to be curtailed.
Miss Gertrude Holloway. Home