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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27
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Today's Sports Parade

floor after beine fcllcd by one of
the hardest hitterS the game has
produced. and went on to finish his
man IN the fourth round l was in
California when he fOu-ht Godoy.
but saw the pictures and nothing
that the camera recorded gave me
cause to believe he was beaten or
even in danger of being beaten.
thought he adjusted himself TO the
situation Of being faced by a COM
bination Of clown and ape amazing
y well.
Boxing followers in general are
apt 10 forget that q champions bus
mess is to win and that il is much
more important TO win, even If he
has to look bad doing it, than &c
lose in a spectacular and flamboy-
ant manner. The heavyweight title
Is worth a million or more dollars
to man. ard he would be a foo
to necdlesSly risk breaking his hand,
or suffering cuts with heroic tactics
when victory was obtalnable IN q
safe. sane, though Gull. manner
Take the Farr fight for example
Louis Won it easily by staying away
and jabbng the Welchman dizzy
with the best left hand in boxing
He would have been foolish 10 al
low his vanity or desire to please
the crowd to drive him into close
quarters with a man who wanted
nothing mere than a chance to butt
with his head. hit with his knees
and generally fight in an illegal and
dangerous fashion.
Just remember this if Louis elects
to defeat Paychek the easy way. II
Favchek lasts the entire 10 rounds
il won't necessarily mean that Louis
has slipped and lost the ability to
knock out men of the calibre OF
the near bald IoWan.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27
Rivals Advance
In Casaba Meet
At High School

FL Centre Junior COLLEGE,
Imperial Hardware and Sher-
wood basketball teams led
the way in the second round
Of play in the first annual
Gold Medal basketball tournament
at e. Centre high school Tuesday
night with comparatively easy VIC
tories over unSeeded opposition.
Only upset of the tournament
was turned in by the Calipatria
Bears who defeated El Centre 5
Commercial Champion Silver Slip
per quintet. 1885. Yves Alt paced
the Caupatrians with 10 points.
SherwoodS defeated CaleXlco All
Stars, 4l-28. the Junior college
knocked over PaCifiCo cagerS of
MeXlcau. 1888. and Imperial Hard
ware coaSted to a 1857 win over
the junior college reserves.
Tonight'S second round play
matches the SherwOodS against the
junior college and the Imperial
Hardware against Calipatria. First
game Is scheduled AT 80.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27
BY HENRY NCIEMORE-

DAYTONA BEACH. March 81
'UPl-lS Joe Louis SllppinG? This
question has been put to me By
maOv people in many states. par
tlCularlX since the champions Is
round engagement With the brulsinc
Chilean Arturo Godoy.
1t Is = natural question. because
the tune has come for him to slip.
According to statistics reached bv
a study OF the heavyweight cham
pions OF the past. the average cham
pion holds the title less than four
years. Joe will have relened three
years this coming June unless
Johnny Paychek defeats him in Ma
olson Square Garden next Friday
night
MY answer to this question has al
ways been in the negative. He has
made nine defenSeS of his title to
date. and l have seen all but one or
two of them. Unless I know even
less about boxing than I think
do. ! have never detected any SER
ious slcns of deterioration. He has
had his off nights. of course when
his hitting wasn't as sharp as usual
and ms mobility left something to
be desired. But such times come u
all athletic champions.
Perhaps the three fights that
started people WONDERING how mach
longer Louis would last were his
fights with Tommy Farr. Tony Gal
ento. and Arturo Godoy. For some
reason or another these bouts left
the citizenry with the feeling that
he wasn't the invincible killer he
once was. On me. they had the OPP
posite effect I thought Joe was
tremendously effective boxer against
Farr. and I gave the Welchman but
three rounds.
Against Galento he rose from the
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27
Kebert Gels Call
Starting s. D.
HurIer Saturday

san DlegoS' Padre baseball team.
scheduled to open the league sea-
son Saturday against the Los An
geles Angels in Lane Field, ran
through a final intensive tralnine
session in San Diego Wednesday
and awaited the umplre's call OF
Play Ball.
Wally Hebert, 20-game winner for
the Padres last season, will be the
starting pitcher Tor San Diego
according to Manager Cedric burst
Bill Salkeld will start as catcher
before or Stinson will play first
Sperry second, BerkoWitz third. Mes
ner short and Stewart, Patchett
and Jensen in the Outtield
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27
Golfers Urged to
REGISTER for Match

Barbara Worth country club
golfers were urged to register tol
Sundays team match against the
Del Rio club, Curley Vesey, pro, an
nounced Wednesday.
At least 80 players will be down
from the BraWley club TO cOmpetf
in the match Vcsey said The Draw
ley team defeated Barbara Worth
golfers by one point IN the first
match over the Del RIO course.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27
Oswald Injury
Hurts Spartan
Track Chances

Imperial county track and field
coaches began their annual pre-
parations for the county meet in
earnest this week with the event
less than six weeks away.
E. Centre high schools defending
champions was the first team hit
by injury when Jack OsWalt. rated
first place contender in the high
jump and pole vault pulled a mus
Gle in practice. Doctors reports in
dicated he would be out for the sea
son.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27

octopus hOld, Is also one OF tne'
Pacific Coasts best performers and
is in demand on the coast because
of his spectacular antics in the
ring.
Preliminary bouts Thursday night
will match Box Car Jacobs and
Sonny Lamont. India Rubber man,
in the -windup and the preli
minary scrap will pit Joe Woods,
South African, against Fred Vii
larta. new Filipino sensation.
On : whole Thursday nights
card is expected to provide better
wrestling, more action than last
weeks successful mat show, ac-
cording to Matchmaker Pete Buzu-
kos.
The FL Pulpo- Szabo match is re-
matched from the olympic in Los
Angeles and the first meeting was
described as the finest event of
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27
HoItvii'e High
BasebaIIers Nip
e. Centre, 1O-2

Holtvillc high schools flag con-
tending baseball team made 1t two
in a row over the FL Centre Spar
tan baSeballers Tuesday afternoon
by defeating the e. Centrans. TO-.
in a game played on the HoItFlAe
diamond.
Lefty zumstein and Norman
Sharp divided pitching honors tor
the vikings and had little trouble
in setting down the Weak-hittlne
Spartans. Glen Shumard vas the
only Spartan to get more than one
hit.
Gil Cardwell and Ferguson paced
the Holtville hittors with a home
run and triple. The vikings outhlt
FL Centre l0-6.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27
Louis. Paychek Wind Up Preparations
For Bout with Mutual Distrust

AT Greenwood Lake, N. Y, Black
bum said, Sure l gave Benny Leon
ard the hcave-ho. Why should he
watch Louis train. when he won't
even let the reporters sit in on Pay
chicks secret workouts? Why don't
they let us come down and see
what they're doing behind those
closed doors?"
Paychek went through his last
secret workout yesterday, sparring
with two mysterious heavyweights
whose Identities have not yet been
revealed. He was slated for four
rounds today with his regular spar
mntPS
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27

NEW YORK. March 27 CUP)-
Joe Louis and Challenger Johnny
Paychek complete their training to-
day for Friday nights title fight
in an atmosphere OF mutual dis
trust.
AT Pompton Lakes. N. j., the
Paychek camp is hilariously sus-
picious that Louis isn't ready for
the fiGht because Bomber Joe'S
trainer. Jack Blackburn, ousted
Benny Leonard from the Green
wood Lake establishment yesterday.
Blackburn wouldn't let Leonard
watch Louis box. Leonard is Chal-
longer Paychek's special boxing in
StrllCtOr
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27
Medium Eggs
CHICAGO GRAINS

CHICAGO. March 81. U'PJ
wheat prices were VII blow pre-
vious closing levels TODAY after
early gains were erased.
Wheat closed unchanged to >.
cent lower. MAY $685. TO $l.O5
corn wa off J., T. D.. cent May So
oat unchanged TO D.. cent higher
May 41ssA: rye unchanged to of
J., cent. May GA; soy beans were
i cent lower, May $1l0iI.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27
Dupont KegIers
Defeat Sherwood

Duponts FL Centre bowling team
Tuesday night defeated the Sher-
wood keglers, 40, in a practice
match at the FL Centre bowling
Palace.
Dupont outscorcd Sherwood, 800
I'll, 772-762 and S28-78l for Il total
score of PAL to 23l4.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27
Turkey Thompson
Decisions Yarosz
LOS ANGELO

LOS ANGELES March q up
Taking every round but tie scV-
cnth. Turkey Thompson. 1866 won an
easy decision over Teddy Yarosz,
10. in the 10 round nam event at
Olympic auditorium last nl2ht.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27
WHITTIER COLLEGE
DEFEATS CHAPMAN
WHITTIER

WHITTIER. Call, March T.
up - Whittier college baseball
team won an "a victory over Chap
man college yesterday behind four
hit pitching by sid Hendrlck
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27

the year, Box Car Jacobs ring activ-
ity always assures Il good battle
and Fred Villarta is aiming Tor
bout with Pantheon Manlopig, pres
ent Filipino titlcholder.
Ladies will be admitted free.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27
TENNIS TEAM SCHEDULE
NET MATCHES

Ell Centre high schools tennis
team has schrdulrd matches against
Yuma high school Wednesday al
ternoon. BraWIcy high Thursday
afternoon, according to Coach Bill
Maxwell
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27
Pacific Coast Mat Champ 10 Show
'Sundor SzQbo to
Meet EIPuI pc i'm
Main went Thurs.

Sander Szabo, Pacific Coast wrestling champion, and
one of the games outstanding competitor will attempt
to maintain his clean slate for the 1910 Thurs
day night when he will meet Jimmy FL Pupo in the main
the City Limits Eel Pulpo originator of the
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27
L. A. HA Y
L. A. BUTTER d EGGS

Los ANGELES, March =. UPJ
I;Ht'"r. extras 2Sc, prim" fir-tS re
Standards &c; undcrtradfs 2Gc.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27
L. A. GRAINS

Los ANGELES. March p. N'P)-
heat
No. hard white -. sl.67 X i. 72!z
No. ! soft white -. $1.67@ z
Barley ga,
No. Bri west as lbs. $.96-1 90
Corn No. 2 yellow ...... 81 30 az
Milo No. 2 yellow 80. $l.37 u 1 42h
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-27

Quick drying. For automobiles.
BUSES, tractors. bicycles. toys. or
furniture. Dries in four hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-02
LONDONS GREATNESS
(Christian Science Monitor)

London today is proving what has long
been acknowledged, that it is a very great
city. Yet Londoners are by no means a
vain people, though they have a mighty
cathedral, the apparatus of an Empire,
and an unrivaled historic past to excuse
any vanity they might feel; but, in spite
of all, the flower that is called London
Pride remains very modest one.
These days are not the first in which
London has endured an ordeal by fire.
The very ST. Paul's that, by courage and
fortitude, has been saved from the bombs
of the twentieth century, would never
have been built but for the great fire of
the seventeenth, which destroyed its pre-
decessor, and literally left the ground
clear for the genius of Sir Christopher
Wren. Church after noble church. built
in the smoking ruins of the fire of which
Pepys left a memorable description, to-
day bears witness to the courage and
determination with which the London of
nearly three hundred wears ago took hold
of the unhappy opportunity presented
to it.
Contemporary Londoners are worthy
of their ancestors; and the appointment
of Minister of Building shows that the
British nation is determined that out of
the present trial an even greater city
shall arise, beautified by the aspirations,
and strengthened by the courage of its
citizens.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-02

military activity and in political
activity" and any organization
which, having some degree of for
eign control, engages in military
activity Ht.b Z
Definition of military activity"
contained in the bill is very broad.
Drills or parades of a military
character, even if held without
arms, are included. Definition Of
what constitutes foreign control is
equally broad.
ADMIT
IT NOW
Amusing part about the whole
thing-as Voorhis points Quits
that the Communists have always
denied steadfastly that acts or
policies of the American branch
% the party are in any way influ-
enced by what Moscow may want.
Best efforts of the Dies Committee
to wiring an admission of foreign
control from leaders of the Ameri-
can party have always failed.
Its something" says Voorhis,
Ito see them admitting now, by in
direction, that they did take orders
from Moscow in the past
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-02
IMPERIAL VALLEY
AFTER THE WAR

The scramble among Imperial Valley
communities to find alternate sites for
possible establishment here OF an auXli-
iary army air field may have far-reach-
ing influence on the future of this valley
after the war is over.
To realize Just how important that IN
fluence may be, it is necessary to realize
first the probable development OF the
entire American airplane industry after
the present demand for mass production
of army and navy planes has ceased.
With greatly expanded factories and
highly improved technical methods and
inventions at hand, the aircraft industry
will not fold up and wither away. 1t Will
find new uses for the plants now engaged
in defense contract work. 1t is safe
prediction that the greatest of these new
uses will be production of airplanes for
private or semi-private use. This, IN
turn, will mean that airplanes of an al
most fool-proof nature will be available
to the average citizen at no more cost
than that of automobiles today.
The day of a completely air-minded
nation will arrive with the arrival of rea-
sonably priced airplanes. 1t is even pos
sible that automobiles, while remaining
a popular means of travel, will be used
largely in urban traffic, while planes
will be used almost exclusively for long
er trips.
In the light of such potential develop
ment, Imperial Valleys airport sites are
of primary Importance. They should be
considered as much in the light of long
range planning as in view of the present
emergency.
There will not be immediate develop
ment of all the sites offered to the army
for its landing field, but the fact that
only one airport can be selected for that
purpose should not cause us to drop the
other proposed sites entirely.
There may come a day when every one
of them will be put to use-and that day
may not be so far off as would at first
appear.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-02

For more than three years China
has been overrun by japanese ar
mics. her cities bombed from the
air. her ports shelled from the sea-
Hundreds of thousands have been
killed. Many more thousands have
died from exposure, starvation and
disease.
For the most part China has
fought alone. She has stood up
against awful odds. But there are
limits to the agony men and women
can endure. To emphasize this, 1t
is only necessary to quote one para
graph from a recent report from
Hong Kong by Madame Chang
Kai-shek, wife of the head of the
Chinese government and command
er of its armies. =
This Chinese Christian woman.
appealing to Americans of all
creeds, said:
The temporary closing of the
Burma Road has SO depleted our
medical supplies that major oper-
tions are still being performed with
out anestheticS. The sight of men
and women and children being
tortured in agony, and our utter
helplessness to alleviate their pain,
are experiences which I hope will
never be known by other people
To try to bring some help to
China, a China Emergency Relief
Committee has been formed, largely
by the same people who few
months ago constituted the Wo-
mems Committee of Tribute 20
China.
That voluntary committee did its
bit toward relieving the terrible suf-
fering of Chinese soldiers and civil
ians 1t furnished 200 base hospi-
tails with sterilizers SO badly needed
when operations are performed, and
so hospitals with modern surgical
implements to take the place of
crude ones hammered hastily out
of pieces of old iron. 1t gave 200
hospitals much-Wanted microscopes.
In addition, it supplied 10000
doses of abatrine for the treatment
of $4,000 people suffering from
malignant malaria, about one mil
lion quinine tablets for the fur
ther fight against malaria cpl
denies and 350,000 doses of sulpha-
thiazole, the so-called magic bull
let used in coping with bubonic
plague.
Even these figures are not impress
sive when compared with the ter
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-02
by Bruce Cation
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-Amer-
ican Communists may have laid up
new troubles for themselves when
they cut the formal ties binding
them to the Comintern
They did it chiefly to get from
under the Voorhis act, which will
go into effect in January and will
require any political organization
subject to foreign control to register
with the attorney general. What
they may have done, however, was
put themselves right under the act
in big way.
That, at any rate, is the belief
of the laws author, Congressman
Jerry Voorhis of California.
Voorhis points out that the law
is a double-edged weapon.
A political organization subject
to foreign control is obliged to
give the Department of Justice the
names and addresses of all it's
branches, all its officers and all its
members or active supporters.
Theory is that if the Communist
party, or the German American
Bund should comply with that law
the exposure would practically end
its effectiveness.
The other edge is this: If an
outfit which is suspected of having
foreign ties refuses to register, the
Department of Justice will then
ifxy fn IN
from top to bottom to see whether
those foreign ties do in fact exist.
The department has not before
had that power. 1t could never do
much in the way of investigating
the Communist party. simply be-
cause the party was perfectly legal.
It'll still be legal. after the Voorhis
act goes into effect-but it'll also
be legal for the FBI to look into
things to see if the party's claim
that it is independent of MoscoW's
control is justified.
"If they don't register, the De-
partment of Justice certainly ought
to go into it very carefully to see
if there aren't other aspects of
foreign control aside from direct
affiliation,' says Voorhis.
OTHERS
TO FEEL LAW
incidentally, the Voorhis bill also
gives the FBI good chance to go
through the Bund with a fine
tooth comb, or to look into the af-
fairs of such outfits as the Silver
Shirts.
Political organizations subject to
foreign control are not the only
ones required to register by the law.
Also involved are every organiza-
ton which engages both in civilian
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-02
MEXICO'S MISFORTUNE
NOT MEXICO'S FAULT

Rioting at the American embassy in
Mexico City, demonstrations against the
United States, assassination plots aimed
at Mexico's newly elected president
these things have been so much in the
news lately that it would be easy to say
casually, off-handedly, "Mexico's crazy
country She'll never be worth wasting
friendly efforts on
If you were Mexican, you could say
the same thing about the United States
after reading about strikes in national
defense industries agitation against Mex
lean laborers, alien plots against the u.
S. government, and all the other uncivil-
lied things that happen north of the
border.
The thing to remember when you read
about the Mexican demonstrations, plots
and counter-plots is that they represent
only very, very small segment of the
Mexican people, and they in no way rep
resent the Mexican national policy The
riot at the American embassy, for in
stance, was participated in by about 500
persons, most of them women and stu
dents. There is little doubt that they
were organized and stirred to fever pitch
by false propaganda issued by agents of
Nazi Germany. The assassination plot
against Camacho, similarly, was engin-
eered by Communists.
Mexico as a whole, we firmly believe,
is thoroughly dedicated to program of
cooperation with the United States.
where national defense of either nation
is concerned Until the Mexican govern
ment itself gives us cause to think diff
ferently, we see no reason to change our
mind
Mexico, after all, has no corner on all
the crackpots In the world We have far
more than our share here at home
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-02
CHARMS THE THING
buffalo N,ews)


Helen Hayes, one of the nations fore
most theatrical personages, was quite
within her rights when she declined to
accept an offer of S85 900 to make mo-
ton picture, but many of her admirers
will not concur in her reasons. For in
stance, one was: 81 can't compete with
glamour girls" Miss Hayes should re-
member that little speech about charm
that she used to say so eloquently as Mag
gle in "What Every Woman Knows; "Oh,
it's sort of bloom ON woman If you
have it, you don't need to have anything
else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't
much matter what else you have Some
women, the few have charm for all and
most have charm for one"
A fig for glamour
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-02
Editorials and Comment
MONDAY, DECEMBER 2 1910
CAUTION IN SPENDING
URGED FOR u. S.
(Palo Alto Times

Senator Byrd is urging only the brake
of caution when he proposes that instead
of hiking the national debt limit from
45 billion dollars to 65 billions at one
blow, we proceed at the rate of not more
than five billions at time.
The Byrd proposal is not opposition
to the increase for whatever amount IS
needed for national defense. 1t is mere
ly the cautionary suggestion that we re-
frain from spending more than is neces-
sary. If the limit is raised beyond cur
rent needs of defense expenditure, the
availability of the surplus naturally will
tempt not only recklessness in defense
disbursements but its diversion to other
uses besides What is needed. along with
the increased defense spending, is re-
trenchment in other departments of fed
eral activity. Hope of such retrench~
ment will be doomed. however, unless the
Byrd proposal is adopted
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-02

You have heard of company stores" at mine
or on plantation where, by charging high prices
and offering only limited supply of goods, the
company" kept its workers broke.
Look through the paper you are now reading.
Notice the advertisements and the news about
the things you need or want to buy.
The newspapers advertising columns are open
to the makers and sellers of every legitimate prod
uct. When man builds better electric iron or
packs better can of beans or makes fortunate
purchase of dry goods, he tells you about it.
Here, in these columns, you can compare values,
learn of new things new uses. You thus equip
yourself to know when, where and how to get the
most for your money
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-02
by Willis Thornton
ACrV from Tortured China

rible needs of a stricken people
whose numbers run into uncounted
millions.
There is, as a consequence, one
more urgent call to American char
ity. Everybody recognizes that the
appeals to that charity are SEEM
lngly endless. America is asked to
alleviate hunger and suffering all
over the world.
China has one very big claim to
help: in resisting Japan, she is re-
sisting and maybe helping to ex-
haust a war-making totalitarian
state none too friendly to the Unit
ed States.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-02

We cannot be military friends and eco
nomic enemies of Latin America at the
same time-Chester c. Davis, head of the
farm products division of the National
Defense Advisory Commission.