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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
Capitol Guard
Detail Increased

WASHINGTON, July Sup
Precautions for guarding the United
States capitol were strengthened to-
day by a detail of additional guards
and requirements that all employees
entering out of working hours
carry identification cards.
House Sergeant-at-A Arms Kenneth
Romney said the Identification card
requirements were similar to regu-
lations adopted during the World
War. The rrtdentials are necessary
for all emf Jye' entering the build
ing before a. m. or after 4:30
p. m.
He denied ,hat the additional pre-
cautions were taken because of the
recent New york worlds fair bomb
incident.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
China Petitions
u. s., Soviet Aid

CHUNGKING, July Cup -
Generalissimo Chang Kai-Shek in
Il message addressed to friendly
powers ON the eve of the third
anniversary of the Sino-Japanese
war. said today that it was the
"boundrn duty" of the United States
and the Soviet Union to give all
possible aid to China and to stop
arming Japan.
After saying tina t the United
States and the Soviet Union were
not involved in the European war
and therefore could give material
aid to China, Chang declared that
if those powers would help China,
there could be little doubt about
the sterilization of Pacific affairs
-. which would not benefit China
alone"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
Axis Alliance
Threatens Push
Within Ten Days
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mahly in western Europe) from
which the offensive against Britain
will be launched Italians repeated
" have said they would participate
in the attack.
For the time being, the lntehsl-
tied war of nerves and the SUD
mission of sweden to Nazl demands
demands that may be OF greatest
interest to Soviet Russia III the
north- oyershadowed developments
in the aerial war in western ELL
rome. a naval conflict in the Medlter-
ranean and land fighting IN Africa.
In the air, Britain and Germany
continued to trade powerful blows
in daylight and night bombing
raids on enemy detectives, with the
Nazis seeking to soften up the
British Isles for the blitzkrieg and
the British hammering with high
explosives at German bases and
supply lines in an effort to break
up the projected offensive.
Britain, which has some 100000
men prepared for defense action
and has created 20-mile military
zone on the south and eastern
coasts. reported new royal air force
raids ON naval bases, including Kiel
and WilhelmShaven, and other tar
gets. Germany. which also was
striking at British naval bases such
as Portland, reported much dam
age in scattered attacks. which
continued today.
In the Mediterranean. where CID
raltar has been attacked at least
four times by enemy planes which
repeatedly included the French, the
British were disclosed to have halt
ed a French destroyer-the l.762-
ton Frondeur - off Crete, several
DAYS ago. A two-hour battle was
fought by the Frondeur with two
British cruisers, according to French
dispatches via Berlin. The FrOndeur
was sunk.
There also were reports OF naval
action at CaSablunCa, where several
powerful units OF the French fleet
were concentrated. British destroy
elS were llrtu on OH CiSdDlillCt, II
was reported, but escaped. British
naval action against the CaSablanca
units was expected, while other
French warshipS at Alexandria still
were in harbor under British con-
troll.
In the West Indies, the British
denied they were blockading the
French island of Martinique to pre-
vent the Germans from getting
American-made airplaneS sold to
France but there were British war
ships in that area and London re-
fused to explain developments.
In the Far East, five French
merchant ships and the gunboat
Argus were held in the British port
of Hong Kong and British sailings
| for French Indo-China which has
followed the program of the French
cabinet of Marshal Henri Petain
in hostility toward Britain were
cancelled.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
National Guard
Ready for Service

WASHINGTON, July Cup
Mai. Gen. John F. Williams, chief
of the National Guard informed
the wal department today that his
organization OF 235,000 men is ready
for active service at any time that
they President may issue call
Williams said in a report to Gen
George C. Marshall, regular army
chief OF staff. that he had can
vassed the commanding generals Of
the miltiaS % divisions and other
ranking officers regarding t h e I
readiness for service
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
British Defenses
Down Two Planes

LONDON, July CUP)-Two Ger
man airplaneS were shot down by
British defense forces today, bring
ing to 81 the number of German
ships brought down since the start
of intensive raids in apparent pre-
paration for blitzkrieg
German raiders appeared today
over southwest Scotland and Devon
but it was claimed that damage
from their bombs was slight.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
Willis Thornton's Editorial On:
Just Politicians

The man slapped the paper to
the table. the black and-white news
from the political party conventions
uppermost.
Just a lot of politicians!' he
Snorted
Why. of course! Just a lot OF
politicians. What. in the name OF
the salnted memory Of old Aunt
Iabltha did he expect?
You hear a iot of people talk
very loosely about politics and po-
Atlc.ans. The politicians want to
do thus and So
II is Just about on par with
Tie SWiyel-brained nitWlts who pass
Ium0rs from mouth to ear that
they" are planning this and plot
ing that. And when you pin down
this loose tongued double-talker,
you find that he has only the ha-
zlest ldea OF VINO they are.
Now there isn't thing wrong
with the term politicians" What
Is politician? simply a person
who IS devoted to. or engaged IN
politics. We usually use the word
as applying to one who is active
IN purely politics for what he can
get of il. Only when a political fl
cure rises above the partisan do we
grant him the verbal accolade OF
statesman.
Yet no man can be a statesmen
without having first been poll
ticitn. nor does he ever become 100
per cent statesman. In government
by popular representation, any man
IN public life must necessarily be
in large part a politician, Lincoln
vas politician. So were Jefferson,
rT,,,,i1tD, Joolcnr, Gu
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
German Rejection
OF DocfrineLaw
Forecasts Clash
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lions relating to this country's poll
cieS and attitudes"
He told Germany that the United
States would uphold the Monroe
Doctrine-come what may-and that
it intends to continue cooperating
with European nations in all but
purely political" matters where CO.
operation serves the cause of in
ternational law and order.
Germany's reply to the United
States warning said, in effect, that
the United States had warned the
wrong country since Germany. lin
contrast with other countries, eS-
pecially in contrast with England
and France, has no territorial pos
sessions in the American continent.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
State Plans
Replacement of
Z Guard Units

SACRAMENTO, July 6 (UP)-The
proposed replacement of u nation
al guard armories in a tentative
100000 defense program was an
rounced today by Adiutant General
r. F. Mittelstaedt Of the California
national guard.
New armories. each costing about
$4,000. We're scheduled 10 b" es-
tabished at Richmond Ventura,
Gilroy. Napa, North Sacramento,
Santa Rosa, Turlock. Santa Ana,
Anaheim. Orange and Woodland.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
FL TROCADERO
ID O n K O O NJ
famous
CHARCOAL BROILED STEAKSl
CHICKEN DINNERS
California Hotel Bldg.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL
No. 1887

No. 1887
Notice of Sale of Real Estate
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF BEVERLY f. PARKS, al
SO known as B. E. PARKS,
Deceased.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that
the undersigned executor of the
above entitled estate will sell at
private sale, to the highest bidder,
for cash, and subject to confirma-
ton by said Superior Court, on
Wednesday, July II, 1910. at the
hour of 1000 O'Clock A. M. or after
said day, at the law office of Lee
Nuffer in the Rehkopf Building,
in the City Of Ell Centre, County
of Imperial, State of California,
all the right, title, interest and
estate of the said Beverly E. Parks,
also known as B. E. Parks at the
time of his death, and all the right,
title and interest that the said
estate has by operation of law or
otherwise acquired, other than, or
in addition to that of the said Bev-
erly E. Parks, also known as B. E.
Parks. at the time of his death In
and to that certain parcel of lansf>
particularly described, as follows,
toWit:
Tract 40, Township 16 South,
Range Is East, S.BM., except
ing the West 80 feet of the
South 80 feet as decided to the
County of Imperial, all located
in the County of Imperial,
State of California.
Bids or offers are invited for said
property and must be in writing
and will be received at the law Of
flee of Lee Nuffer, Rehkopf Build
ing Ell Centre, California, attorney
for said executor, or may be filled
with the Clerk of said Superior
Court of the State of California,
in and for the County of Imperial,
or delivered to the said executor
personally, at any time after the
first publication of this notice, and
before the making of said sale.
Terms and conditions of sale:
Ten per cent 00%) of the purchase
price to be paid at the time of the
IouDiilloolOll Vi SdlU Do. An aQQl-
tional forty per cent (4O%5) of said
purchase price to be paid on con-
firmation of this sale by the court,
balance of said purchase price to
be secured by trust deed and to be
paid, one-third on or before the
LIST OF July, l941, one-third on or
before the LIST of July, 1912, and
one third on or before the LIST of
July, l943, including interest on
the deferred payments at the rate
OF Six per cent $50 per anum
payable semi-annually from july /
1910.
Title charges to be at the expense
OF Seller. Property to be sold SUBJ
ject to l940-4l taxes and assess
ments and rights of way of record.
Dated this LIST day of july. 194O,
ALLEN P. NUFFER,
Executor of the will and
estate for above deceased.
LEE NUFFER, Attorney for
I"eeutor' OLLIE inci)
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
SUB SINKS FRENCH
GUNBOAT NEAR AlGIERS

BERLIN, July 6-IUP) The Ger
man wireless reported from Vichy
today that the French gunbOat
Rigoult De Ginoulli had been tor
pcdocd and sunk off Algiers by an
unidentified submarine.
Quoting the Havas new agency
dispatch from Algiers the dispatch
said that the vessel, 1863 TONS had
about so men aboard and carried
mines and an airplane.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
American Steamer
Runs Aground

SANTIAGO, Chile. July 6 CUP)
The American steamer Felix Taus-
sig, 1865 tons, today sent out dis
tress calls after running aground
near Banco Marca, 80 miles from
Punta Ar1/as.
The vessel, built in 1917 at New
port News, was registered out of
Boston and was operated in the
service of the KopperS Coal co.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
Large War Orders
Sent TO America

LONDON, July 6-CUP) - New
orders for war materials-"by far
the largest even sent to the United
States and Canada announc-
ed by the ministry of supply today.
It was said that the orders, total
ling many millions of pounds ster-
ling" will be handled in the United
States by the British purchasing
commission
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
0hmstede Said
To Be Recovering

William Ohmstedc of the Valley
Auto Supply in FL Centre is recov-
erin at Mercy hospital in San Diego
from the effects of a throat infec-
ton. His condition was said to be
better Saturday.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
MERRILL COLES
VISIT VALLEY

Mr.. and Mrs. Merrill Cole and
family. former Ell Centre residents.
this week. Cole formerly was milk
inspector of Imperial county and
now has a similar position at Han
ford
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
THELMA MILLER FILES
SUIT For DIVORCE

Charging cruelty. Thelma Miller
Saturday filed suit for divorce from
Joseph Earl Miller.
She asked for custody of their
three children.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
Thoughts For The Day

I have Showed you all things, how that SO labouring
We ought to support the weak. and to remember the
words of the Lord Jesus. how he said. 1t is more
blessed to give than to reeeiye-Acts 2O:35.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07

How to get them? BY taking
more active part in the affairs OF
the parties in which they function.
Did you vote in the party primary,
by the way? Have you ever given a
thin dime, or an hours time, or a
moments thought, even, to party
affairs? Unless you can say yes
criticism of those politicians who
have given all three comes with
little grace.
We ought to be thangful that our
politics is still carried on in the
open under circumstances which
give everybody whirl at it. Our
politics. and our politicians. are
and always will be as good as the
people insist on making them
never any better under this or
any other political system in the
world,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
JUST A SLIGHT
MISUNDERSTANDING

An OfficiOl cOmmunlque as 70 an
these goings-on would read about
like this:
There was slight misunder-
standing over the inclusion OF
few words which the committee
felt were unnecessary.
History has way OF getting
condensed like that, but it some
times skipS the best stories.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
WHO'S WHO
ON THE LOT

Gregory RatOff, usually dlrec-
tor, is just an actor these days in
The Great Profile" He plays John
Barrymore's manager, and there
is a scene in which minor chara-
acter rushes into his office, yanks
him around in his chair and
threatens to punch his face. Direc-
tor Walter Lang shot the scene sew
eral times and finally grew i'm
patient. Look" he said, you're
mad! Grab him and really jerk him
around. Make his teeth rattle"
You better get somebody else, y
said the bit player. To-day Mr..
Ratoff is an actor, and it's all
right. But tomOrrOy he is u di-
rector and | may want to work
for HIM"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
Famous Sayings

Presents which love for the donor has rendered
precious ever the most acceptable-Ovid.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07

were Cleveland, and Theodore
Roosevelt, and Wilson. 1t is true
that men like these lifted themsel-
yes above the narroWest conSidera-
tions of partisan politics to become
statesmen. But in occupying poll
teal position they remained always
in part politicians as we'll
Does anyone think there can be
organized government without po-
liticians? Does anyone fool him.
self that in the vast bureaucracles
built up by Hitler and Stain and
MusSolini there are no politicians?
Yet you hear people thoughtlessly
say. IF we could only get rid OF
the politicians"
No people will ever get rid of its
politicians. There is no reason why
it should. What is needed is better
politicians.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

PHILADELPHIA, July 7 - The
whole story Of the fight in the
committee which framed the G.. O.
P. platform may never be told out
side OF the inner party councils.
But one of the biggest battles
which the committeeman called "a
MISUNDERSTANDING" after they had
Gained dOWn-came over the burug
question OF putting into the plank
on national defense a half dozen
words To general effect that the
mothers of America don't want their
sons to die on the battlefields of
Europe
II its height the row almost
caused the resignation of ex-senator
George Wharton Pepper of Penn
sylvania. when c. Wayland Curly
Brooks of Illinois threatened to
ta.>e To the convention floor his
tl2ht for Inclusion of the SonS-and-
mothers phrase.
Actual drafting of the plank was
manly the work of Senator Pepper,
veteran OF many of the CT. o. F. S
inner wars
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07

PARTY'S ELDERS
PREVAIL

The convention. waiting for l
platform it could adopt before it
should pick candidate, Cancelled its
morning session. Pepper. tired from
the long siege. walked out of the
committee room and threatened 10
resign.
When word of this deadlock got
to the ears of the elder statesmen.
important telephones began to ring,
People like Joe Pew of Pennsylvania
were called into Suell the dis
turbers, persuade Pepper not 70
resign. and talk Brooks out OF tax
ing the fight to the convention
floor
Having Cancelled its morning seS-
sion. the convention had to be ad-
iourned again when its afternoon
session met This was over the
wishes of the delegates themselves.
who wanted to get on with picking
4 candidate. But-no platform. no
ession.
1t finally ended happily, of course.
The party's elders prevailed, ana
the defense plank didn't mention
tho o,otberS and sons
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
POWDER PUFF
WESTERNS

Guitars and romance have
softcncd westerns alarmingly but
n0tHJng has 80 affected the morale
u sapc brush actors as the dis
cOfery that trusty SlX-guns are
shooting talcum powder these days.
This humilIating development
va worked out by Producer Harry
Sherman and his prop men for
Inc Cherokee Strip Company.
The explosion Of ordinary black
powder in blank cartridges doesn't
photograph well; looks like a cloud
Of SCOT A Whiapy gray curl Ol smoke,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
BY PAUL HARRISON
YEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, July 5. ALL
over the lot: I have a notion
that the big boss of Paramount
once sent an order to the coast to
make lots of tropical pictures. And
that through secretarial error or
mis-reading, it came out "tropl-
cal.
Anyway. they're still building
new jungles and refurbishing old
the parrots in Hollywood with
South Sea islands on the lot. All
the parrots in Hollywood with
Hays Office-approved vocabularies
seem to have taken up residence
at the studio, and there are mid
dle-aged monkeys around the
place which don't remember any
other home.
Even slick Fredric March has
been established on one OF these
sets Hes the reclusc Of Joseph
COnrad's "VIctory,' and his com
panlon IN synthetic loneliness is
Betty Field She's wearing sa-
rong too.
It's not surprising that Dorothy
LamOur Is back IN another equa-
torial epic called Moon over
Burma Whats news IS that ahe
DOESN'T wear d sarong tins time,
and that she'll try snake charming
Having charmed almost every
thIng else chlmpanzccS, pantherS
seals, elephants. alllgators and Ro-
bert Preston shes about To work
with King COrDa
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07

more hours each day than man
of his age should, left the DELHI
crationS for short time. In his
a bsence. the sonS-and-mothers
clause got into the platform draft
Curly Brooks took up tn fight for
it-threatened to take the issue
to the convention floor.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
SOY BEANS
ARE SWELL

ARE SWELL
The Tugboat Annie company has
been working with real vessels
lately, the story problem being how
to refloat a freighter which is sup
posed to have gone on sandbar
Two tugs have been hired for Annie
and her rival, Captain Bullwinkle
and large Danish motor ship plays
the stricken cargo ship.
The Danish captain is in vile
humor and is being treated like a
temperamental star. His ship is
idle in the harbor as a result of
Germany's conquest, and the hold
is full of thousands of tons of soy
beans which have got little damp
and are beginning to swell. The
swelling is Springing the freight
er's plates, thus admitting more
water to produce more swelling.
One Of these days it's going
to crack open and sing, and not
esen Annie Brennan can do any
thinu al Ont il
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
TRO\GER PLANK
NEARLY WON

Judge King SWope of Kentucky
declared that the projected plank
was altogether too short and simple,
and demanded inclusion of ring
my phrase dealing with the moth
erS their sons and the battlefields.
The argument III the sub-com-
mlttee drafting this plank went
oa tor hours. The full platform
committee. headed by Herbert K.
Hyde of Oklahoma. was debating
other things in its spacious quarters
on the roof of the Bellevue STRAIT
ford hotel. convention headquarters.
The subcommittee tOiled in room
809 And UP and down the north
elevator between eighth floor and
roof committed the subcommittee
men. getting nowhere.
And the morning of the third day
came. Senator Pepper. not as young
rs once he WAS, having labored
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
Paul Harrison Notes
On HoAvwoods FoibIes and Fads

as described in the pulp magazines
was what they wanted. They got
it by dropping a pinch of talcum
between the paper waddings of the
shells. Any day now, they may add
little perfume SO that the villain
won't gag on the acrid fumes.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07
MEMBER

American Newspaper Pub.
fishers Association. National
Editorial Association. Call
fOrnia Newspaper Publish
erS Association.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-07-07

There are occasions when Il citizen
seems to be defined as a small body Of
earning capacity surrounded by taxing
authorities.
Evening star., 1940-04-10

would seem assured, and both Dem
mark and Norway can provide much
needed foodstuffs.
Denmarks Food Important.
Denmark, small in size but mighty
in food protection, is a gift without
price for a Germany which already
is feeling the effects of the allied
strangulation blockade. This dot
on the map annually produces huge
quantities of dairy products, eggs,
bacon and other food stuffs.
More than so per cent of Den
marks exports have been going to
Britain, which means that the Eng
lish have been getting some 10 per
cent of their foodstuffs from the
Danes. Just to give you an idea
of what this means I might cite
that in 1888 Britain got from Den
mark 1,142 100000 eggs, 266 6,O00, 900
pounds of butter, $3.50, 100000 pounds
of bacon, and lot of other stuff.
Germany's old Mother Hubbard
presumably. will find these good
things in her cupboard hereafter.
And that will mean a serious knock
to the allied blockade. British Food
Minister Lord Woolton has said that
the German invasion of Norway
and Denmark has made a consid-
erable alteration necessary in Eng
lands food supplies.
Evening star., 1940-04-10

Boston College Law School, the At
torney General urged - square
deal for the court" and asserted "the
American people will not misunder-
stand the occasion for or the nature
Of this sudden attack upon the ST.
preme Court by spokestnen for the
public utility interests"
Mr.. Jackson referred to Mr.. Will
kie's recent magazine article en-
titled "The Court Is Now His"
Quoting Mr.. WILKES reference to
IL court decisions produced "by q
wly-appointed group Of judges" /"
Mr.. jackson maintained that in only
one Of the IA was the result "in any
way affected by the votes of JUS
tices" appointed by President Roose-
welt.
ITO charge the Supreme Court,
then, with overturning established
principles and threatening orderly
constitutional government because
of the temper Of the newly ap-
pointed justices is grossly inaccu-
rate" he said.