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Evening star., 1940-05-09
Mexico City Moneuvers
Will Test Defenses
By the Associated Press,

by tne ASSOCIATED Press.
MEXICO CITY, May 9.-Eleven
days of military maneuvers to test
the defenses of Mexico City and
recently acquired tanks, anti-tank
guns and anti-aircraft artillery will
be started Saturday, the department
OF national defense announced to-
day.
Evening star., 1940-05-09
Trowler Feared Lost

AMSTERDAM, May 9 (P.-The
Netherlands trawler Gloria, 152 tons,
and her crew of seven were given up
for lost today. The vessel left
1jmuiden April "a and has not been
reported since.
Evening star., 1940-05-09
Turkey Denies MurtioI Law

ANKARA, MAY 9 (R.-Turkish
officials today denied a German
radio report last night that Turkey
had proclaimed martial law. (The
report was intercepted in New York
by G. B. s.
Evening star., 1940-05-09
Chamberlain, Refusing to Quit,
Confers With Chief Critics as
Commons Adjourns Till May q
Lloyd George Scored
For Aiding Hitler
With Criticism

BRITISH SEIZURE OF Narvik
would give allies valuable base as
well as needed moral victory.
Page Al
ALLIED-SOVIET AXIS to guard
Yugoslavs seen in Belgrade; mill
tary mission to go to Moscow soon
for consultations. Page Ais
Evening star., 1940-05-09
Summary Of Todoy's Star

Foreign
Chamberlain confers with critics as
Commons adjourns. Page Al
Britain brings total potential army
10 4,oOO,OO0. Page Al
Hitler orders Morse captured In war
10 De released. Page Al
German troops reported dropped
from air near Narvik. Page Az
Nervik valuable to allies, Maj. Eliot
fholds. page "A
NotionoI
Hopson indicted for mail fraud by
United States jury. Page Al
G. A. A. shift would end "confu-
sion," Senators told. Pare Al
Walsh would empower Navy to re-
place obsolete ships. Page Az
Export subsidy program to cut corn
surpluses announced. Pare All
Washington and Vicinity
D. g. bill increased 81. .406, ,624 by SEN
ate subcommittee. Page A.,
Evening star., 1940-05-09
Speaking of Shoes

Everybody wears shoes and
most people in Washington
read The Star.
You can find out more about
shoes from Star ads than
from all other Washington
papers combined.
Evening star., 1940-05-09

(See D. c. BILL, Page A-l2.)
Evening star., 1940-05-09

(See CONGRESS, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1940-05-09

day..
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
NOW IT'S UP
TO THE VOTERS

Within a few hours now we'll know
how the people of Imperial Valley, as
whole, feel about issues and candl-
dates.
Whoever wins, there should be no
cause for grumbling, because every can
didate running this year-for the local
offices and state legislative offlceS-lS
acceptable in greater or less degree.
We have. during the last few days,
expressed our own personal preferences,
arrived at after exhaustive study OF the
records of all candidates, and after talk
ing to most of them at length about the
issues and their campaigns These pref
erences are based on several basic con-
ceptions Universally applying to all Of
fices is the belief that any public officer
should be above reproach in the matter
of honesty, and above average III the
matter of intelligence.
Applying to state legislative offices,
our selections are based on the belief
that economy MUST be accomplished in
state government, that relief must be
taken out of politics, that no legislator
should endorse the Olson adminiStra-
tion-or any other admnistration-one
hundred per cent. Of every legislator in
the state did that, there would be no
need of legislature We could save our
selves a lot of money by simply electing
a governor, and letting him run every
thing without the formality of a rubber
stamp vote by legislators)
Applying to non-partisan offices, we
have made our choice in the belief that
these offices are legally non-partisan for
a good reason, that partisan politics
should have no part in them, and that
there is no use spending good money to
train new men when the present office
holders are entirely satisfactory, have
not misused their offices, and have lived
up to the best concepts of public service.
In considering all offices, we have
studied the records of the men involved
in both public and private life.
With these things in mind, we shall
cast our vote for:
United States Senator: Hiram John
son.
United States Representative Ed
Fletcher.
State Senator: f. George Luckey.
State Assemblyman: Harvey Hastain.
Superior Court Judge: Vaughn N.
Thompson.
FL Centre District Supervisor: Hugh
Osborne.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26

nesium chloride, which can be TAX
en- from sea brine. Hence, military
procurement officials place it far
down the list of critical war needs.
GOVERNMENT MUST
SHOW TIE-UP
Dow has expanded its plant at
Midland, Mich, and is building an
other at Freeport, Tex. Later this
year the combined production is
expected to be boosted to a rate of
100000 pounds annually.
Fabricated magnesium is made by
80 companies licensed by the Mag
nesium Development Corp, whose
members hold patents on fabricat-
ing techniques. Aluminium Com
parry and General Aniline e. Film
Corp. two-thirds of which is own
ed by Swiss interests, jointly con-
troll both this patent pool and its
licenSee American Magnesium Corp.
If the government discloses there
is a conspiracy to fix prices and
restrain production. it will have
to show Dow has entered into
cross agreements with the patent
holders who control fabrication.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
Editorials and Comment
MONDAY, AUGUST g. 1910
POLITICS AND RELIEF
IN CALIFORNIA
{ Riverside Press)

When Mr.. S. c. Rubinow, SRA adj
ministrator, testified before the legisla-
tive committee regarding conditions in
the SRA, we made up our mind that he
was headed for the doghouse. Now we
learn that Mr.. Walter Ballou, formerly
secretary of the Democratic committee
and a close political lieutenant of Gov
ernor Olson is leading some of Mr.. OIL
sons political family, who are deter
mined to use relief for political purposes,
against the head of the state relief organ
ization.
Mr.. Rubinow in the six weeks of his
administration has aimed to apply eff
cheney as the strict basis of his conduct
of relief This does not satisfy his op-
ponents. They are aggrieved because
he refuses to put political eXpedlency
first and efficiency second. Mr.. Rub-
now has also incurred the resentment of
the Workers alliance whose communis-
tic reaction and political bias is mat
ter of common knowledge.
AS far as this paper is concerned, we
do not hesitate to commend Mr.. RubinoW
for the enemies he has made. We feel
sure that his courage in insisting that
he shall have free hand without politi-
cal interference commands public res
pect and admiration. He has said he will
resign rather than be dominated by the
Olson machine and that is also worthy
of our commentator.
Mr. Rubinow is the fourth relief ad-
ministrator under Governor Olson in a
little more than year and half Politi-
cal meddling has ousted three admins
traitors and as things look at present,
this last appointee will be relieved. If
Governor Olson has any judgment he
will not again put politics above relief
by forcing Mr. Rubinow's resignation.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
Willis Thomton's Editorial On:
Birds of Feather

Klan nightshirt and Nazi storm
troopers swish about in trailing
robes Of white?
What common ground can be
found for organizations of so di-
verse origins so utterly different
anteeedents, and apparent objects?
There must be such a common
ground, for it is birds of a feather.
We are told, which flock together
It seems possible to find only
one: hatred.
The German government to which
the Bund defers got its start BY
Deddling hatred of groups. The
Klan did the same Today they NAV
not even unite on precisely the
same groups. But this they have
in they build upon hatred.
they exploit hatred, they create
and initiate hatred for their own
ends.
America has no time for this
kind of nonsense today. We have
a big job on our hands. We have
a splendid. beautiful country. and
2 free way OF life TO defend. We
propose to defend il.
We have no ears or those who
would make a profession ana 4
calling Of melting hatred that would
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26

What kind Of an unholy alliance
is this?
In New Jersey several hundred
members Of the Ku Klux KIan are
reported gathering with several hun
dred German-America Bund mem
bers at Camp Nordland. the Bund's
200-acre camp
Klan officials denied that there
was any merger in sight of the two
organizations-they met together,
we'll Just because they met together.
The Klansmen were met by the
lneffable Augustus Klspprott. sue
eessor TO Fritz Kuhn. now unfor-
tInately prevented from attending
b. the fact that he is in jail. Bund
storm troopers" took charge Of
things and made the sheeted Klans-
men welcome. English was spoken
What sort of a connection. If
any. between these two organiza-
tons is presaged by this meeting
We can't imagine. VIII Father
Coughlin. for instance who views
the Nazi Bund with large tolera-
ton. welcome also to his arms the
Catholic batting Klan2 Does the
Klan whose origins. and even whose
later development were at least
American. now welcome 10 It's bos-
1m dev0tees of a foreign system2
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
WANTS DEFENSE
PLANTS IN MIDWEST

Senator Bennett Clark of Missou-
ri reports progressively good pro-
greSs-in the drive to procure new
defense program plants for the area
between the Allegheny and Rocky
Mountains.
Clark is one of Is or 20 senators
who have been urging William
Knudsen of the National Defense
Advisory Commission to. locate mu-
nitions, aircraft, tank ard artillery
plants in the midwest. Senator
Clark cites these reasons why this
should be done:
I. The midwest is less liable to
air and sea attack than the coastal
regions.
2. The midwest deserves a fair
return on its share of taxes.
3. Government aid to firms pro-
ducing defense materials will leave
them with a substantial advantage
when the crisis has passed: why
handicap midwest inductry by aid
ing only coastal firms?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
EVERY MAN SHOULD MAKE
TP HIS OWN MIND

This newspaper does not want any
voter to follow its recommendations
blindly. We would rather see every voter
make up his own mind, on the basis of
his own close observation, even though
1t meant election of men we believe to
be less qualified. For that is the way
Democracy should work. We give our
views only because they may shed new
light on the question for those who have
not yet made up their minds.
Almost every office on the ballot can
be decided finally at the primary, or all
can 90 over until the November general
election. All candidates but one are run
ming on both tickets. That one is Charles
Wieman, candidate for state senate.
In Mr.. Wieman's case, we cannot
agree with his contention that his op-
ponent should not campaign on both
tickets because he, Wieman, has filed on
only one. If he did so as a matter of
principle, we respect him for it. We do
not believe he can call Mr. Luckey unprin-
cipled, however, for following the exam
pie of men like Hiram Johnson and vr-
tually all other candidates who have
filed on both tickets. We believe it is
the fault of the candidate himself i'm
any case where he did not give all voters
n chance TO express their opinions on his
candidacy.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
Imperial Valley Press

Established April 20 1901
Published every afternoon except
Saturday and Sunday Saturday.
afternoon issue now succeeded
by the Post-Press Sunday, es-
Hablished 1866 by the Imperial
Valley Publishing company. 625
State Street, El Centro Calf.
Paul jenkins, publisher; A. C.
Johnston, vice-preside ent and
general manager; f.. A. Fitz-
hugh. secretary and managing
editor. West Holiday Co., Inc,
National Advertising Represent
atives.
Entered at El Centro. California
post office as second class mat
ter.
Subscription rates: In California
Be per copy.
In conjunction with the Post
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6Oc; paid in advance, months,
s1.65; months, S3.25 one year.
$500; outside California $1.00 per
month.
Member California Newspaper
Publish ers' Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
You
Supersfitious?
BY RUTH FARRAR
NEA Special Correspondent

Samuel Butler is supposed to
have said that there is no greater
anguish known to man than the
first sickening discovery he is mar
ried to the wrong person.
Perhaps it's putting it mildly to
call marriage life's biggest gamble
and perhaps that's why supersti-
tions regarding it are legion. Here
are some of Dame Luck's rules
taken from the enormous collection
of Superstitions of DR.. B. A. Cart
wright:
Garry the bride over the thresh-
old of new home for good luck.
Start housekeeping with an old
coffee pot for good luck.
Rise first at the nuptial ceremony
and you will be master.
Bad luck will result if, after
marriage, a bride forgetS and signs
her maiden name.
Before leaving for the church to
be married. the bride should feed
all the household pets in order to
insure plenty for her new home.
Bury a small persimmon sprout
under your doorstep to keep your
wife from flirting.
If you can induce a bride to
wear something of yours, you will
have a proposal within a year.
To keep from becoming homesick.
the young wife should take one of
her mothers old dishrags with her
1t is a good sign for the bride
to weep just after the marriage
ceremony.
If your mother-in- law is hard
on you, wear pepper seed in your
shoe and she will soon respect YOU.
If a bride wears out her bridal
shoes within year. misfortune
will come to her.
If persons engaged to be mar
ried are photographed together.
theit marriage will never occur.
inforder that the newly welded
couple will have good luck, see
that the wedding cake is all eaten.
If a bill is presented to you or
your way TO a wedding. settle it
and you will have good luck.
The bride should wear something
old, something new, something bor-
rowed, and something blue.
II every girl in the same family
wears the same wedding dress.
good luck will attend all of them.
The girl who catches the brides
bouquet at a wedding is likely to
be the bride of the next wedding
Choice of a proper wedding day
is no small matter to many brides.
Folk tradition says:
Wed on Monday, always poor:
Wed on Tuesday. wed once more:
Wed on Wednesday, happy match:
Wed on Thursday. splendid catch:
Wed on Friday. poorly mated:
Wed on Saturday. Cupid's wooing.
Wed in the morning, quick undoing.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO
ENGAGE IN THE SALE
OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

August Il, l94u
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given that fif1
teen days after the above date,
the undersigned proposes to sci!
alcoholic beverages at these prem
iSes, described as follows:
1893 North Imperial. FL Centro.
Pursuant to such intention, the
undersigned is applying to the
State Board of Equalization for
issuance of an alcoholic beverage
license cor licenseS) for these prem
iSes as follows:
ON-SALE BEER and WINE
ON-SALE DISTILLED SPIRITS
Anyone desiring to protest the
issuance of such license go may file
a verified protest with the State
Board of Equalization at Sacra-
mento, California, stating grounds
for denial as provided by law.
HENRY WALTER JENSEN
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
SACRIFICE
(William Allen White)

There has been a lot of talk recently
about the sacrifices American people are
going to have to make to bolster the pro-
gram for defense We are being accused
of growing soft and flabby and scared of
hard work and personal denial.
What would be the laboring mans sac
rifice? Perhaps two things. He would
have to pass by the relative luxury of a
40-hour week Those in the higher skill
ed brackets-and many of these will
build defense machines-will come under
the newly lowered income tax brackets.
What will be the white collar workers
sacrifice? More income taxes for one
thing. Longer hours too in many cases.
What will be the sacrifice of others?
Perhaps reduction of social welfare bene-
fits. The government overhead in such
agencies is terrific and taxes pay the
bill.
If the government is sincere in its de-
sire to apply billions of dollars toward
our national defense and still keep the
American people from buckling under the
tax load it must trim the sails in other
lines to favor the defense program
We may say that we never abolish Il
tax after getting it on the books But
we may be reaching the point where
We'll have to do it for self-preservation.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
Barbs

A trumpeter's wife complains that
he lavishes his affection and means
on another woman. Toot-timer, eh?
WILKES welcome lends justifca-
ton to the suspicion that many
voters would like to give the coun-
try back to the Indianan.
Some people want TO shoot every
fith cOlumnist in the country.
Others think that every second one
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
PRICE DROPPED
THIS YEAR

It has been limited there is a
similar tie-up between Dow Chem
iCal and Farbenindustrie. a Ger
man firm. 1t doesn't seem likely,
though, that Dow will be arraigned
for withholding magnesium from
the allies; the greater part of its
1899 output of 5000 tons went to
Great Britain.
The ingot price of magnesium
was 50 a pound in 1917. This year
Dow reduced the price from 30 to
81 cents a pound So if there has
been monkey business. it doesn't
appear to have kept prices up.
Magnesium. lightest metal known.
has been used for some time in
Europe for auto Snd plane parts.
II was introduced into American
autos this year, and it is also used
here for airplane engine parts
which are grease coated.
Its sources are as unlimited as
the ocean. 1t is made from mag
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
Paul HarYison's S Notes
On HOLLYWOOD S FoibIes and Fads

under side of its tongue.
Magicians had better not per-
form for the Stroboscope camera,
because it would expose their tricks.
I do hope Smith will use the de-
vice for reel showing Eleanor
Powell tap dancing Warner Bro
Tiers missed a wonderful oppor-
tunity in rot turning the Strobo-
scope on that -publicized 81
second kiss between George Brent
and Ann Sheridan. BY that means,
on the screen, the clinch would
last SO minutes.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26

The tune, God Bless America" was
written in the '20s, but laid aside Under
standable. Of course, because of the multi
tude Of blessings MANY folks had then.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26

Our two-ocean navy will be ready in
1916, probably Just in time to be scrapped
by disarmament conference in 1947,
which will be followed by an extreme
crisis in 1913.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26

l thought I'd never live long
enough to hear the Senate of the
United States debating whether to
vote supreme power to the president
in time of peace.
Senator Homer T. Bone, Wash
ington.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
Thoughts For The Day

And the Lord said unto the servant Go out into the
highways and hedges, and compel them to come in
that my house may be filled.-Luke 1923.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
So They Say

Business as usual has character
lied the first half of 1910 in this
country. and one cannot help Won
dering if it has not been too much
as usual.
Leonard P. AyreS, Cleveland Trust
Co. Statistician.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26

A thief who swipes ice from house.
wives refrigerators in Columbia. S. C.,
is one gent who keeps cool in a slippery
business
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
Famous Sayings

Doing the will of God leaves no time for dis
putting about his plans-G. Macdonald
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub.
fishers Association. National
Editorial Association. Cali
fOrnia Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
BY GERRY DICK
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
WA ACurrNTT-rON A. 90 rr,,

otiNitt SoTTtSDOflueHl
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-The
sole United States producer of
magnesium is launching a nation
wide advertising and publicity CAM
paign defending its business prac-
tees in anticipation of the results
of ar inquiry by the antitrust
division of the Department of JUS
tice.
Government investigators are del
wing into the affairs of the Dow
Chemical Company, suspecting they
may find another patent-pool mo-
nopoly which will cause as much
excitement as the Bausch & Lomb
case.
BauSch & Lomb and a German
firm were charged with using their
patents TO control military and
commercial supplies. Their con-
tract allegedly kept American-made
optical instruments from British
and French buyers.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
THE PERSONAL
TOUCH

When a patron puts coin in a
machine, miles away light flashes
on the switchboard and one of
the operators says Number
ple-e-ease," but not in the imper
sonal tone favored by the telephone
people If the patron then mentions
a song or orchestral number, she
selects the record. puts it on
turntable, and plugs the music
into the proper outlet.
Often the customer, if man
and especially if man with his
nose in his third highball-tries to
strike up a conversation with the
voice Badinage is discouraged by
the company, but of course the
operators, like bartenders, have to
engage in a little of it-eSpecially
after midnight. Habitues of the
bars already know the voices by
name, though they never see the
girls. Sole exception, up to now, is
truck driver who finally wrangled
date with an operator and soon
eloped with her.
tivateS the public, and the talking
jute boxes average three times the
revenue of old style machines.
STROBOSCOPE OPENS
NEW VISTAS
Getting back to scientific mat
ters. here's a preview of a new
Pete Smith short, called "Quicker'n
a Wink" 1t employs the Strobo-
scope camera, which takes pictures
at the super-speed of 1000 a sec
ond. Projected at the rate Of "a
frames a second, it shows in ultra
slow motion just what happens
when a humming- bird flies, or
when a bullett is fired through an
electric light bulb. There are several
golf ball driven through thick
telephone book; machine gun
shooting through planes pro-
peller; cat tapping milk with the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Corresponds

A>A1fh aoCASsCc fStdII SOTTcSpOIlucUt
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. % The
Amt Science ce-Wonderful Depart
ment leads off this week with news
of another development in slot
machine entertainment. A few
months ago it became clear that
coin operated projectors showing
special films, with sound. were go
ing to be a threat to the million
or so juEe-bCxes now grinding out
popular recordings.
Well, the monographs are strik-
ing back, even before they've been
hurt. An outfit called Goth Century
Amusement Co has introduced the
talking juke box in some 20 bars
and cafes around Hollywood, and
there's no doubt about its popu-
1arity. No pictures are provided; ;
the contraption looks about like
any nickel-in-slot music machine.
The differences are that you car
ry on a conversation with it, and
that it will play almost anything
YOU ask for
The scheme is fairly simple. Each
machine is connected by leased wire
with central station. This studio
contains a switchboard, a battery
of loud speakers 20 phonograph
turntables, library of 1000 records
ard several girl operators. The lat
ter happen to be attractive looking
but they're chosen for their ap-
pealing contralto voices and quick
wits.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-26
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News .... . .

While Bruce Cation vacations,
staff members of NEA Services
Washington bureau pinch-hit for
him.