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Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Editor Shoots at
Girl Who Tilted

DUNN, N. c., July %3 CUP)--
TWenty-year-old Mack Hobson, ed
itor of the University of North
Carolina humor magazine, who
fired five shots and missed at the
girl who Tilted him, was charged
formally today with felonious as
Sault with intent to kill.
The warrant was sworn out by
Alease Tart. 20, who saved herself
Saturday by grabbing Hobsons pis-
tol as he attempted to shoot her
in crowded dime store. Two by
standers were wounded slightly.
Hobson was held in the county
Jail at request of his father, who
told officers his son once before
had threatened suicide over his
love for Miss Tart and feared he
might do SO again.
He threatened to drown himself
last spring.
Hobson will receive a preliminary
hearing Thursday in recorders S
court.
"Alease is the only girl I ever
loved" Hobson said II can't un-
derstand why I did such fool
thing"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
THOUSANDS PUSH
WORK ON ROAD

The road is far from perfect.
but every month sees improvement.
Tens of thousands of men are at
work. The last four-day stretch
from Sian to LanchoW has been
surfaced. This is the first great
stage Of the old caravan route
which once connected China with
Europe. How many thousands of
men it took to bring the stone
from mountain and river bed. one
can only guess but it was a pro-
digiouS undertaking for there is
no stone for many miles. To date
I understand some $l800000 Chi
neSe dollars have been spent on
that section alone.
The terrain is extremely inter
eSting. The soil is "loeSS." the ac-
cumulation of dust swept in from
the Cobb desert. .
Loess has the property of YER
teal cleavage, so that all roads
wear down, deeper and deeper
with the years, leaving fantastic
formations like young canyons.
Loess not only has this property
of vertical cleavage. it is also 50
fine that when rubbed between
thumb and forefineer is disappears
into the pores of the skin.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23

There is not a single Russian
is only 49, counties in extent
The Russian supplies coming in
over the trade route described are
coming to the Central government.
LanchoW is decidedly anti-Com-
munist, and is a weeks motor
journey away from the headquart-
crs Of General Chu Teh and his
troops. The Eighth Route Army
has not a single airplane, and has
never had much adequate equip
ment. Much of the time the troops
have had to depend on what theN
captured from the enemy.
Government officials have some
reason for their feeling that Rus
sia's aid is more disinterested than
that of the western democracies.
! The latter have made their loans
only for goods which must be pur-
chased within their respective
countries, and military at that.
Russia is shipping munitions and
|
whether China is able to keep up
her exports in turn or not. Probably
the most rational explanation is
that Russia prefers a stable. indie
pendent China to a Japan-controll-
ed China at her back door.
The number OF Soviet mechan-
| les. airOlane experts and aides
being sent to the Chinese govern
nent in Chungking has been
greatly overeStimated. Instead of
1900, as sometimes reported, there
are probably not more than 300.
Many are flying planes, or working
on regular assignment for the
Chang Kai-shek government, and
none has tarried in So-called Com
muniSt territory.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Martin
To Make Home
In AIhanbra

Mr. and Mrs. w. I. Martin left
Monday to live in Alhambra, where
Martin has been transferred by his
company.
Charles Smaller. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Al Shaller, Is enjoying a vaca-
ton with relatives in. Texas.
Mrs. Marie Land left FL Centre
Monday for an outing at Yosemite.
Mrs. Land has spent considerable
time in San Diego since the be-
9inning of the summer.
Mrs. Richard Moore returned this
week from Colorado where she and
her daughter, DellOu, have been
visiting relatives. Dellou will remain
with her grandmother awhile longer,
Miss Juanita Hughes spent some
of her vacation at Jacumba after
returning from Guardians training
camp at Pacific Palisades.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Delp have
been settled in their cabin at Calexi-
co lodge since early in the season,
Mr.. Delp joining his family over
the week-ends. Sunday they bad
as guests Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Aker
and Bobby, Alan Wand, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ted Bolin, Marian and Nicky
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
CAMELS CARRY
GASOLINE

The sturdy Russian trucks, with
their serious minded Russian driv
ers and mechanics. come III con-
yoyS of 10 to so all the way from
the Turkish railway 1900 miles
away, every few days. talked with
some of these chauffeurS. They had
been driving 10 and l2 hours a day
for two weeks since they entered
China. and were then at LanChoW
and LanchoW is a thousand miles
north of Chungking.
To those who have lived in ana
near Shanghai. this was the far
distant, inaccessible Northwest. A
a matter of fact, Lanchow is prac-
tically the geographical center OF
China. Here lies a vast area of free
China" which the Japanese have
not the slightest hope Of pCnctrat-
ing.
The gas used for the trip is
brought on camel back all the way
across Chinese TurkeStan tSin-
kiang> from the Turk -Sib railway.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Los Amigos Group
In Weekend Camp

The weekend outing of the Los
Amigos group of the Presbyterian
church is always greatly anticipat-
ed, especially by the younger mem
bers of the families. This week.
end was no exception, the mem
bers spending Saturday afternoon
and Sunday at Laguna, camping
out for the night.
Mrs. E. Adair of Palm Springs,
mother of Elvis Adair, was a guest
OF the group, Miss Patricia Jones
being guest of Janet Smaller. Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Roberts and Joan,
former Ell Centrans now living in
San Diego were also present and
members included: Mr.. and Mrs.
Elvis Adair and Elma Lou, Mr..
and Mrs. George Adams and Bar
bara Anne, Mr. and Mrs. AL Shaller
Snd Janet, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Rayburn and Bobby and Stanley,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harlan Frymire, Mr..
and Mrs. Raymond C. Reeder and
Phillip.
Los Amigos will not meet again
until September.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Britain Recognizes
Czech Government

LONDON, July 90. UP)-Prime
Minister Winston Churchill an
nounced in the House of Commons
today that Great Britain had recog-
niZed the Czechoslovak national
committee, headed by former Czech
President Eduard Benes, as the pro-
Visional Czechoslovak government
Benes. president of the Czechoslo-
yak republic before its dismem-
berment by Germany, is president
of the new government in exile.
MonSignore Jan Sramek, former
vice president of the council of min
listers and several times a cabinet
officer was made premier.
Jan Mazaryk, son of the post
World War republics first presi-
dent, is foreign minister in the new
government, and General mgr is
minister of war.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Taking Over French
Assets Proposed

PRESCOTT. July % (UP)-Hen-
derson Stockton. Phoenix attorney
who is campaigning for the Dem
ocratic nomination to the U. S.
senate, declared in an address here
last night that the United States
should take over all French assets
in this country for application
against the French world war debt.
He said the United States should
proceed on such a policy because
France is virtually an ally of Ger
many and the restoration of Nhe
gold and other property of FRANCE
would be the virtual equivalent OF
its delivery to Germany and hen
ally who are definite enemies Of
the American way of life"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Centran viii
Attend { Conference

Miss Virginia Hinson will leave
shortly for Los Angeles where she
will attend a summer conference
of Presbyterian young people at
Occidental college.
Mrs. CLYDE McCaslin has already
planned her vacation though 1t Is
several weeks off. She. accompanied
by her daughter Marjorie. will take
a trailer vacation on the beach In
San Diego.
Mrs Charles knights and son.
Billy, are planning on a month at
the beaches of San Diego during
August. They may remain there
during part of September.
Mrs. Howard Clark and small
daughter, Patricia Anne, are spend
ing the summer in Los Angeles.
This weekend, her mother, Mrs.
Edna Morrison, and Clark drove up
to spend the time with them. Mrs.
Morrison also visited her son.
James, and his wife.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
BY GEORGE A. FITCH
NEA Special Correspondent

CHUNGKING, China. July % -
With the roads to French Indo-
China and British Burma chOkcd
off by japanese military pressure,
all ChinaS hope of supplies from
outside the country hangs on the
Old Silk Road threading up through
the inaccessible. unknown North
west into Russia.
Mystery has shrouded the north
western trade route. Few WESTERN
ers get that far into China's him
terland. The job of inspecting Y.
M. c. A. huts along the northwest
ern war front has Just taken me
up into that little-knoWn region
talked with some of the drivers
of Russian trucks. saw a good bit
of the road, and learned of i'm
provements which the Chinese were
even then putting into this valu-
able supply line.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids will be received by the Board
of Trustees of BraWley School Dis
trict of Imperial County, California
up to 7:30 pm. of the thirtieth day
of July, 1910, for furnishing labor
for the construction of forty-three
(43) emergency temporary school
buildings, to be placed upon sites
owned and operated by the Braw-
ley School District.
Bids are to be submitted in ac-
cordance with plans and specifica-
tions now on file in the office OF
the District Superintendent OF
Brawley School District, BraWley,
California, and the Architect, H. l..
Gogerty, TIT North Vine Street,
Hollywood, California, where they
may be examined without cost. Cop
les of the plans and specifications
may be obtained upon a deposit
of $1,000 per set which will be
refunded upon the return of such
copies within five days after the
bids are opened.
Bidders are hereby notified that
pursuant to the statutes OF the State
of California, and local laws there
to applicable, the governing board OF
Brawley School District has ascer-
tanned and determined the general
prevailing rate of per diem wages
and rates for legal holiday and
overtime work in the locality in
which this work is to be performed,
for each craft or type of workman
or mechanic needed to execute the
contract which will be awarded the
successful bidder.
The prevailing rates SO ascertained
and determined are as follows:
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23

OF France nave annOuHCtu UIIdC OF
year-old Marshal Petain Is to be
head of the French state in place
of President Albert Lebrun and that
under him is to be a triumVirate
composed of Laval, Marshall Wey-
gand and former Labor Minister
Adrien Marquet. But Laval is pretty
likely to be boss.
He is persona gratissima with
Mussolini and Hitler. When Mus
solini prepared to make war on
Ethiopia, it was Laval who pro-
posed as a compromise measure
that Italy take half of Ethiopia,
eaving Emperor Halle Selassie as
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Cousins Visit
Leslie Conns

Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Conn were
pleasantly surprised Sunday evening
by the visit of Conn's cousin and
his wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Conn
of Hanley, Tex, who stopped off
en- route to the fair at San Fran
cisco.
This was the first time the COnns
had seen these cousins in some time
and were surprised to learn Mrs.
Earl Conn is also cousin of Roy
Whalln, another FL Centran.
MI and Mrs. Conn were accom-
panied by friends, Mr. and MIS-
Audrey Rood, also OF Hanley.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
L-A-V-A-L-THE SAME
LEFT OR RIGHT

This caused the very bitter and
typically French quip:
You can spell his name laval
whether you go from left to right or
right to left. He likewise veers
either way to keep his fortune secure
and his political position safe"
After falling from poWer-as so
OTTER happened in France-he was
again premier in 1856.
He comes into the American pic
ture Nice. AS premier he came TO
Washington in 1881 to discuss the
world situation with President Hoo
yer. In 1885 his cup of JOY was
full when his daughter, Jose, mar
ried into French high society. Her
husband was Count Rene de Cham
brun. lineal descendant of the
great Lafayette. Nearer in Ameri-
can ties, the count is nephew Of
the late Speaker Nicholas Long
worth of the American House of
Representatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Fruit Growers Advised TO Market
Their Produce in Domestic Fields
Because ofPoor Export Prospects

The economist pointed out that
not only the war but the trade poll
cieS put into effect by the Allies
to save foreign exchange for pur-
chase of war materials have deS-
troyed the export fruit market
Fresh fruit exports have been hit
hardest, with canned and dried
fruits suffering nearly as much
Shear saw only one bright spot in
the export situation. He said the
Mediterranean blockade has cut
England off from supplies in the
Balkans, Greece, Turkey and the
Near East, which might stimulate
English purchases of fruit in tht
United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23

BERKELEY, Cal, July %. tUP)-
Dr. S. w. Shear of the University
of California today advised Cali
fornia fruit growers to find their
markets in the domestic fresh and
canning fields. since the prospects
for exports to Europe now seem
poor.
Shear warned that United States
exports on fresh, canned and dried
fruit to Europe this year probably
will be lower than last year.
In recent years Europe has been
the chief export outlet for Ameri-
can fruit taking about 80 per cent
of the fresh apples and pears, eight
per cent of dried fruits and 95 per
cent of all canned fruit sold abroad.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

|
1t shall be mandatory upon the
contractor to whom the contract
is awarded, and upon any sub-con
tractor under him, to pay not less
than the said specified rates to all
laborers, Workmen and mechanics
employed by him in the execution
of the contract.
Notice is also hereby given that
all bidders must submit with their
bids, a sworn statement of their
financial responsibility, technical
ability and experience. Such sworn
statement is required to be furnish
ed before award is made to any
particular bidder.
Each bid shall be made out on a
form to be obtained at the office
of the Architect or the office of
District Superintendent of BraWley
School District and shall be accom-
panied by a certified or cashiers
check or bid bond for So of the
amount of the bid made payable to
the order of BraWley School District,
BraWley California. The same shall
be sealed and filed with G. K. An
dersn, District Superintendent, at
the Myron D. Witter school, First
and K. Streets, BraWley, Califor-
nia on or before 7:30 pm. Tuesday,
July thirtieth, 1910, and will be
opened and publicly read aloud at
or about 7:45 pm. of that day in
said office of District Superinten-
dent at Myron D. Witter school at
BraWley, California.
The above mentioned check or
bond shall be given as guarantee
that the bidder will enter into the
contract if awarded to him, and will
be declared forfeited if the sue
cessful bidder refuses to enter into
said contract after being requested
to do SO by the BraWley School
Districe.
The successful bidder will be re-
quired to furnish a labor bond
in an amount equal to 5Oeo of the
contract price, and faithful per-
| formance bond in an amount equal
to 1000 of the contract price, said
bonds to be obtained from a surety
company licensed to do business in
Imperial County, California, and
satisfactory to the Board of Trustees
of BraWley School District.
No bidder may withdraw his bid
for period of thirty 900 dSYS
after the date set for the opening
thereof.
| The contract for the erection of
the aforementioned structures shall
include all labor, tools, tranSporta-
ton, and services for the construc-
ton. The BraWley School District
will furnish all materials necessary
for the actual construction of these
buildings.
Notice is further given that said
district will also receive separate
bids at said time and place and
conforming with and subject to all
conditions herein set forth for fur
niShing complete all labor, material,
transportation and services for the
construction of from three to ten
emergency temporary school build
ings on sites owned by said district
in accordance with said plans and
specifications. Such separate bids
will be considered only if submitted
with labor bids as above called for.
The Erawley School District re-
serves the right to reject any or all
bids and to waive any informality
in any bid.
Dated: July 10, 1910.
BY Order OF the Board of
Trustees, Brawley School
District of Imperial Coun-
ty, California.
WALTER P. CASEY, Clerk.
! (J23)
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Japanese Planes
XIII, Wound 1000

CHUNGKING, China, July %
CUP)-Air defense officials said to-
day that japanese planes yesterday
killed or wounded 1000 civilians in
lir raids on HochWan and KKiang
30 miles north and SO miles South
respectively, of Chungking.
1t was claimed that the japanese
raided HochWan and Kikiang after
their planes had been driven from
Churgking with a loss of two Jap
aneSe scout craft.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Cruelty Charged
In DivorceSuit

Wilful desertion and extreme
cruelty were charged in a divorce
suit filed in superior court Monday
by Martha Hernandez Monge
against HildebertO Monge.
She asked the court to grant
her custody of their three year -old
daughter. They were married in
Yuma Jan "a, 1887 and separated
July Is, 1899.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23

Trucks would consume nearly all
the gasoline they could carry in
making the trip. hence they carry
their more important loads of mu
nitionS. and the gasoline is brought
in previously by camel caravan.
BreakdOWns are frequent, for
there are no service stations Nor
are spare tires carried, for they
are too scarce and cost too much.
A puncture or a blowout has to be
repaired. There is no place in the
world where a used tire is worth
so much. ! have known of $500
Chinese currency being paid for
a single used tire in China's North
west
But it is rain one most fears on
the road, except where it has al
ready been surfaced. Even a sprinkle
makes a loess road impossible.
There is only one thing to do if
it rains in Chinas Northwest, and
that is to wait until the sun shines
and dries up the road again.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23

nominal ruler of the remainder
This ultimately caused his fall in
January, 1886, as premier. But when
Mussolini conquered all of Ethiopia
and Halle Selassie became a refugee
in England, Laval uttered a loud
Il told you sol"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
FAVORED ACCORD
! WITH HITLER

He won Hitler's favor also in 1896
when he said:
Without an accord between Paris
and Berlin there can be no effective
guaranty of peace in Europe"
Once more he is in the I-told-
you-So class.
Laval, born in 1888. comes from
small town in Auvergne, where
his father was village inn-keeper
1t is significant that Parisians say
of AuvergnatS that they are willy,
INSCRIPTIONS and with a great greed
for money. They also say Laval is
true Auvergnat.
Like SO many French politicians
he is self-made man. BY his own
efforts he obtained an education
at Lyons, Dijon and Paris and was
admitted to the bar. Like Prem.erS
BRAND, Millerand and Viviani he
started out as a Socialist and won
promotion as a Socialist And Ike
them, he kicked away the ladder
by which he climbed.
ilC CllClcu RAJ lIdlllell dS Il d.
cialist in 1914. Even during the
World War he was not violently
anti-German, because he belonged
to the wing of the Socialist party
which advocated peace by negotia-
ton. He was defeated for reelection
in 1919 and was out of Parliament
five years. During this period he
practiced law and accumulated a
huge fortune-a feat which las
always puzzled his opponents.
He got his first cabinet post in
1925. By 1881 he was premier, one
of the youngest in the history of the
republic. AT first his chief claim to
fame was that he always wore a
white string tie Next he began a
rapid veer to the right.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
DIVORCE FILED ON
CRUELTY CHARGE

Vera Lorraine Bailantyne Monday
filed a divorce suit against John
Ballantyne in which she accused
him of extreme cruelty and with
failing to provide home for her.
She said they were married in
Sacramento 18 years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Laval Should Do All Right as Boss
Man Of France, Because He's
Already a Hitler in Miniature
BY MILTON BRONNER =
NEA SERVICE Staff Correspondent

OF a Siclian, shifty slippery
fox-hatS Pierre
Hitler
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
RUSSIA'S HELP
IS GREAT

Few seem to realize that Russia
has extended far more credits to
China than England and the
United States put together. The
japanese have tried to make the
world believe that this help was
going to the Communist minority
in China in return for promises
mortgaging China's future. 1 spent
some time in the Communist
Eighth Route Army area last sum
mer. and l am convinced no money
or supplies are going from Russia
To the Chinese Communists.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23

lll. oiy ........-.-- l1'oo A'O' ~ -
StriperS on all Wall
Board ................... $50 LILO
Truck Drivers "a. Sc to $lO-.75 to .25
Waterproofer .....-.... 500 .62l2
Properly indentured apprentices
may be employed upon the work
contemplated by the specifications,
such employment to be in accord
ance with the provisions of Section
l777.5 of the Labor Code of the
State of California.
The foregoing schedule of per
diem wages is based upon a work.
ing day of eight 90 hours. The
hourly wage rate prescribed here
inbefore is the per diem rate divid-
ed by eight; it being understood
that in the event that Workmen are
employed less than eight hours per
day, che per diem wages shall be
deemed to be that fraction of the
per diem wages herein established
that the number of hours OF en-
ployment bears to eight hours.
The rates of overtime wages for
each of the various classes of work
shall be one and one-half times
the prevailing hourly rates for each
hour in excess of eight hours work.
ed on any one calendar day by any
workman.
The rates of legal holiday and
Sunday wages for each of the var
ious classes of work shall be two
times the prevailing hourly rates
Legal holidays, as herein referred
to, shall be deemed to be Sundays
January first. February twenty-sec-
ond, May Thrtieth, July fourth
Labor Day, September ninth, Arm
istice Day, Thanksgiving Day, and
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-23
Soviets Moy Move Stores
To Help Chino AS Only
Supply Link Severed

longtime CA in The Far East, Of
China
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-31
TRANSPO RTATION
S. S. CUBA

Arriving in Key West at 300
O'Clock Thursday morning, the S,
S Cuba of the P. & b. S. s.
Company, brought four first-clasS
passengers from Tampa and 81
tons of freight for this city.
Thirty-five first-class and two
secOnd-clasS passengers embark
ed here for Havana and three
cars were taken on board. Three
first-claSs passengers were on
board from Tampa to Havana
when the vessel left at 1890
o'clock.
Returning yesterday, the Cuba
arrived at 2:30 o'clock with 63
fIrst-claSs and five second-class
passengers for this city from Ha-
vana, six tons of freight and four
automobiles. Manifest showed
162 tons of freight consigned to
Tampa from HAVANA and there
were "a first-class passengers on
board for Tampa from the Cuban
capital Eight firSt-class passen-
gers embarked here for Tampa.
The Cuba left at 500 o'clock
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-08-31
Habdna-Madnd
Reopens Tonight

Much interest centers around
the grand opening dance at the
new Habana-Madrid tonight, I'M
der the auspices of Social Club
Marti-
The Madrid patio, now under
new management, has been reno
waited and the Latin atmosphere
here is more beautiful and orig
inal than ever.
Sponsors of the dance assure
each and everyone attending the
affair good evening of enter
tainment.
Music will be furnished by
Johnny Pritchard's ever-popular
dance orchestra.
Introduced to the public by
master of ceremonies Enrique
Esquinaldo, Jr-, will be the young
Key West beauties who are to
take part in the bathing beauty
contest at South Beach on Labor
Day.