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Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-01
HDR Farm Policy
IeeI1Ilealiabilih

\ SACRAMENTO, oct l. E(UP-I
Assemblyrnan Hubert Scudder; of
Sehastopol, vice-chairman of the
Republican state central commit ittee.
today charged that Rooseveit-Wal-
lace farm policies have been a Ia
bility rather than a help to Califor-
MIA farmers ae ht Is taifr
Henry Wallace, Democratic vice.
presidential nominee, made a swing
through the Marin, Sonoma, Napa
and Sacramento county areas yes
terday, predicting continuation OF
New Deal farm policies for another
four years. t.-...
California fruit, berry and poultry
raisers "have been kept in the red"
Scudder said in reply to Wallace
He said Sonoma county graven-
stein apple growers "have not made
a living profit in five years."
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-01
Russia Dickering
To Restore Good
,WlR With Japan

MOSCOW, Oct. tUP) An
attempt to 'normalize" relations
between Soviet Russia and Japan
was forecast today as the official
Newspaper Izvestia asserted that
..the United States role insthe pres
ent war is considerably intcnsifi-
ed. .s .,oHsderab'v .'iteosiss.
1t was understood that the new
Japanese ambassador to Moscow
Yoshitsugy Tatekawa, who Is fex !
pected to arrive within two weeks,
would seek to restore normal re-
lations between the nations. .
/, That the Soviet Union is ready
to do SO was indicated in the Aug :
ust lst speech of Premier viache
slav Molotov who said ut may be
admitted that there are certain
indications of Japanese desire to
improve relations neSe 3SSvs =
Granted mutual recognition of
interests of the parties insofar as
both. parties will understand the
necessity of removing certain OBJ
stacles which have lost their I'M
portance. such Improvement II Is
feasible" aIe, Ans's4t niNNti :. IS
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-01
Raids on Berlin
4ost Five Hours

tral Berlin while the first three
waves were over the city. The fourth
and fifth waves seemed to reach
only the northwest outskirts and
firing was brief each time.
Nazis said that there had been
only one bomb explosion. This,
they said, demolished three apart
ments in northeast Berlin but caus-
ed no casualties.
A communique on the raid said
that the captured New Zealanders
chad been in England only four
weeks and were making their first
war flight, Questioning brought out
that the plane carried only incen-
diary bombs and parachute flares
The planes were shot down in
west Germany. the report said.
several bombers succeeded IL
reaching Berlin and flew over the
capital at great heights. Anti-air-
craft guns opened fire early, making
accurate bombing impossible" it
concluded.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-01
Brazil Sees Total
Eclipse Of Sun

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. CUP)
-Astronomcis from the United
States, Brazil and Argentina OBJ
served a total eclipse of the sun
at approximately 9 am. today
from scattered points in Parahyba,
eastermost Brazilian state.
An expedition of the National
Geographic society had advanced
equipment never before used dur
ing an eclipse.
Brown University had an expedi-
ton at Curemas, near a federal
drought service station which sup
piled many facilities.
The eclipse lasted about five
minutes.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-01
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF INTENDED SALE

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that
the undersigned, the intended ven-
dee, whose name is Hazel Hggs and
whose name is signed hereto, an1
whose address is 1924 Olive Street,
Ell Centre, California" intends to
buy from Lucille Smith, whose res
idence is "1058 Hamilton Street, El
Centre, California, the business and
properties known as the Mode o.
Day Dress Shop and the fixtures
and equipment therein located, a
general description of which is as
follows. to wit:
Dress racks, cash register, des-
ert cooler window fixtures, add
ing machine, light fixtures, time
clock. and the Mode-O-Day
franchise, and all personal prop
erty located in sald Mode-O-
Day Dress Shop, located at sis
Main Street. FL Centro, Califor-
mia, except that personal prop
erty which is there on consign-
ment. -,., -
That the date of said sale is the
eighth day of October. 1910 at the
hour of ten o'clock am. on said
date at the office of Lee Nuffer,
2c5 Rehkopf Building. Ell Centre
California, at which place and time
the price or consideration is to be
paid. NJ
HAZEL HIGGS,
Intended Vendee.
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL }
SIS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
On this Goth day of September.
1910, before me, L. Lee Nuifer, No.
tary Public in and for said State
and County, duly commissioned and
sworn, properly appeared Hazel
Higgs, known to me to be the per-
son who subscribed her name to the
within instrument and acknowledged
to me that she executed the same
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
my seal this 30th day of September,
1910.
L. LEE NUFFER,
tSeaD Notary Public in and for
the County OF Imperial.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-01
Dealers loss Eggs
AT W1Ikie Party

PONTIAC. Mich, Oct. /. (UP)-
Eggs were tossed at Republican
Presidential Nominee Wendell Will
kie as his automobile drove through
Pontiac streets today and Mrs. Will
kie was spattered.
The candidate lost his campaign
smile as an egg dropped from a
window of a building, shattered on
the back of the front seat of the
open car and splashed over Mrs.
WILKES legs and shoes.
Another egg hit photographers
truck ahead of the Willkie car and
spattered several cameramen.
Wilkes bodyguard. Ste p h n
Buckley, jumped from the car and
showed Pontiac police the vicinity
from which the eggs were thrown.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-01
Egypt ElIlbargoes
Coftollto Japan

CAIRO Oct. / CUP AN order
was issued today forbidding ship
ment to Japan of quantity OF
Egyptian cotton lying in A1exan-
dria harbor ready for transport tc
the far east. ~
The action apparently was the
first taken in 'retalial lion against
Japan for her signing of the Ber-
lin Rome Tokyo military alliance.
The cotton was part of last
years Egyptian crop. 1t had been
baled and stored in Alexandria
ready for shipment to the far
east.
Japan has been largely depen-
dent upon Egypt for supply OF
long-staple cotton which is used
in munitions manufacture.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-01
Spanish Claims on
Gibraltar, French
Discussed
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD

ROME, Oct. / tUP) Premier
Benito Mussolini and Ramon Ser
rano Suner, Spanish sir.terior mimi
ster, discussed Spanish claims on
French Morocco and Gibraltar dur
ing an IS minute conference to-
day. it was said authoritatively.
Reports circulated here and in
Berlin that Serrano Suner's visits
to the German ana Italian capi-
tails would have Immediate and
important results Authoritative
sources said. however. that any
new accord between Spain and the
axis powers would be signed only
after Serrano Suner had conferred
with Francisco Franco. his brother
in-law,. chief of the Spanish Ma
t;.cnalist state. in Madrid.
1t was intimatei that Mussolini,
Franco and Adolf Hitler might
meet eventually er ~
Reliable irformants said that
Mussolini ard Serrano Suner had
discussed plans ior friendship be-
tween the axis powers and Spain
on one hand and Arabs in Africa
on the other. 1t was suggested
that any such plans might be ex-
ter.ied to include other Mosiems
in the near east. re'sa's
Mussolini and Court Galeazzc
Ciano, foreign minister, had "a last
minute conference before Serrano
Suner's arrival "a s'tfe'
1t was intimated that the pro-
axis Spanish minister's talks here
might lead in the adherence OF
Spain to the Berlin Rome r'axis"
if not to the new Gerrnan-Japa-
nese-Italian military alliance.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-01
BY FERDERICK c. OEsCHNER

ny rEhOEhlCh u. OESSHNEh
BERLIN. Oct. I. CUP)-British
bombing planes, attacking the capi-
tai in five widely spaced waves,
kept Berliners in air raid shelters
for five hours and 10 minutes dur
ing the night.
1t was the longest raid of the
war on Berlin. The British planes
arrived earlier and stayed later than
in other raids.
Nazi sources said damage was
Slight, and communicate said that
three of the raiding planes were
shot down. From one of these, the
communicate said, the crew of New
zealanders parachuted to earth. 1t
was asserted that night fighter
planes Shot down all three, two
aaampden Hereford bombers and a
Vickers- s-Wellington bomber.
Violent firing was heard in Gen.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-01
f!niireC Colrlpanies
MjplledOuf'

HANOI, fNDO-CHINA, Oct. l
WP)-f French soldiers, wounded,
exhausted and aunshaven, arrived
today from the = Chinese frontier
and reported that entire companies
had been wiped out in fighting the
japanese and that probably several
thousae,d men had Been taken
prisoner. f'et aa,f aF@' aae
8 The prisoners, including one gen.
eral, are living outdoors and are
fed once daily. principally upon
rice, they said aiHotilssil 'l'
4c The soldiers came from the
Iaa1gson zone. Their train also
carried Chinese refugees. N
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-01
TYPH0ON KILLS 50
FORMOSA RESIDENTS

TOKYO. Oct. / (UP) A Domei
News agancy dispatch reported to-
day that a typhoon. the edge of
which struck the southern tip of
Formosa yesterday. killed so per-
sons. destroyed 5000 homes and
severely damaged crops. The ty-
phoon reached a maximum velocity
of 1925 miles an hour. the highest
since 1914. the dispatch said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-01
MAN LOSES FINGERS IN
SCUFFLE WITH GUNMAN

SACRAMENTO. Oct. l. CUP)-Ed
Rauch, 80. told the police he had
just parked his car early today to
try his luck at fishing when a
stranger approached and asked for
a match. When the man suddenly
leveled shotgun at him, Rauch
grabbed for the gun and had two
fingers blown off when it discharo-
ed in the scuffle. The gunman fled.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-01
CONTRACT AWARDED

WASHINGTON, Get. ! UP) -
The war department today award
ed a s37,462l2l contract for air.
planes TO the Douglas Aircraft CO..
Santa Monica. Calf Neither the
number nor types was disclosed.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-01
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1910
RECORD EARTHQUAKES

NEW YORK, Oct. / (UP)
Fordham University reported todd
that two fairly sharp" cart
shocks had been recorded on, 4
seismograph early today. The firSl
shock occurred at 5:53.55 am. EST
and second at 6:02.57 am. The
shocks about 4,670 miles distant
from New York, direction unknown
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-30
OUR OWN BEST
DRESSED WOMAN

You can have the fashion experts list
of Is "best dressed women" We've got
our own candidate.
She's the mother whose dress is one
she, herself, made in long, weary hours
after the children were asleep. She's the
woman who saved and skimped and work
ed so that her family might have more,
even though she, herself, had less.
She's the best dressed woman we know,
because the clothes she wears are the
outer symbol of spirit you won't find in
any style shop or palace Of fashion.
She's worth a million of the other
ladies from Hollywood to Paris, who
spend fortune on their clothes and never
have to consider the bills. She has some
thing none of them could possibly have,
because they've got too much money to
know the necessity of sacrifice.
For our choice, we'll take one flounce
of the dress she made over from last
years party frock, against whole ward
robe full of the fine things the wealthy
ladies wear
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-30
BUT THAT
ISN'T ALL

1t is grand news that Imperial lrriga-
tion District power revenue has been
used to make large payments on Rural
Identification Administration and Pub
tic Works Administration contracts for
construction of the public power system
in the valley.
1t means that revenue can henceforth
be depended upon to meet these pay
ments when they fall due The districts
general fund will not be called upon to
repay the money borrowed to build gen
Grating units and transmission lines.
The public power system has advanced
one step toward its ultimate goal.
We must not let cheerfulness inspired
by that one step cause us to forget that
other, greater steps must be taken before
we are on really sound footing.
The All American canal has got to be
paid for yet. 1t should-it must-be
paid for largely out of power revenue.
We have built our community plans on
the theory that power revenue will cover
the cost of the canal. Now we've got
the job of making sure that it does.
The payment authorized this week rep
resents an installment on what will event
ually be our standby equipment, as we'll
as on our transmission facilities. 1t has
little actual connection with the power
drops on the All American canal, which
one day soon will furnish Imperial Val
ley, and possibly some other parts of
southern California, with electrical ener-
gy. The burden of canal payments is
still to come.
The sooner we demonstrate to our
selves and others that power itself will
bear that burden the clearer our econ
onlic picture will be-
Credit, in some instances, has been
denied to individual farmers in the val
ley because of the broad doubt existing
elsewhere that the canal will return suf
sooner we clear up this debt, the better
off we shall be.
We're on the way to doing the job. The
important thing now is to carry through.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-30
Greatest Fire Sweeps
Ancient London Area

LONDON, Dec 30. CUP)-(By
transatlantic telephoneD London's
ancient 'cfty,' the one square
mile of narrow crooked streets and
ancient buildings which is a mic
rocoSm of England emerged batter
ed, smoke-b -begrimed and angry to-
day from what the government
charged was a deliberate German
attempt to destroy it by fire with
out regard to military objectives.
For hours during the night, while
President Roosevelt was declaring
in Washington, that Britain would
win the war with Americas aid,
hundreds of thousands of London
erS were fighting. in the city" the
greatest fire in nearly 300 years.
Policemen, firemen, air raid war
denS. soldiers, civilian volunteers,
worked scared by licking flames
and blinded and choked by smoke,
to put out fires started by thous-
ands of incendiary bombs which
hundreds of German planes drop
ped for hours.
Nurses played hoses over the
roofs of hospitals. Women and
children fought the flames which
ate into their homes. Over the city
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-30
by Willis Thornton
Old Glory on the Seas Again

-Four years ago, when the Mer-
chant Marine Act was passed, some
people said, There goes a lot more
money down the rat hole
But now the ships are coming off
the ways at a one-a-week rate, and
they look GOOD They are putting
Old Glory back on the seas on
something of the scale of Clipper
days. and they give the navy the
kind of auxiliary ship backing that
it must have.
suppose the United States had
confronted its preparedness emer-
gency six months ago with no more
foresight in regard to ships than
it showed before the World War!
Then 80 per cent of American COM
merce was carried in foreign ships;
We literally had no merchant mar
Inc worthy of the name.
Even when the new construction
program got under way two years
ago. the United States merchant
fleet was 80 per cent obsolete. But
because we passed the act in 1886
and began active construction in
1888, what a different picture greets
us today:
OF 179 ships whose construction
began in 1888, 84 have been launch
ed and 81 have been completed and
are now in service. The fine new
American ships are appearing in
ports and on shipping lanes that al
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-30

most never saw the American flag
before.
When these ships are all COM
pleted the United States will have
a new fleet of 100000 tons, all
built to naval specifications, includ-
ing the only tanker fleet capable
of steaming at naval fleet speed
and big enough to keep naval
force at sea indefinitely.
More than 100000 men are now
at work in % American shipyards
operating some 81 shipways.
Most of these ships are unspec-
tacular, but beautiful, seaworthy,
fast and efficient. The America
finest passenger liner ever built in
the western hemisphere, is not
equal in size to leviathans like the
Queen Mary or the Normandie, but
the usefulness of such ships is open
to question, and for its size the
America has no superior in the
world. Two more such ships are
planned for the Pacific pasSen-
ger trade, both built so as to be
quickly convertible into airplane
carriers.
While the shipping of the world
goes down in the whirlpool of war,
America is building ships to do the
worlds hauling. They are a vital
auxiliary of defense. and a hope
for future trade and travel They
are a living demonstration that
foresight pays.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-30
by Paul Harrison
Hollywood S Fads, Fancies and Foib|es
HOLLYWOOD.

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 30 = The
decade in celluloid:
1931-Biggest boxoffice stars were
Maurice Chevalier, Clara Bow, Ra-
mon Navarro and Will Rogers.
The double bill was a problem, and
on Jan. a Chicago theater showed
four features and neWsreel.
Charlie Chaplin made City Lights
and cleaned up C. Advertisements
on Trader Horn read: "MGM S
Primitive Fight for Existence"
Al Capone was offered 5000 O00 to
play himself in picture
Hollywood was hiring authors and
using them for bookends. p. G
Wodehouse announced he had col
lected 100000 on a years contract
without writing a line Marie
Dressler and Lionel Barrymore won
the Academy Awards . VIII
Hays took 20 per cent cut in his
S120,000 salary, but didn't reduce
the size of his speeches.
1932-Times were SO tough movie
fan mail fell off sharply because
people wouldn't buy stamps
Of 20063 theaters in the U. S.. 1899
were dark :. In desperate bid for
business, films became SO sexy eight
states and 300 cities organized cen
sor boards George M. Cohan
finished THE Phantom President"
and announced he'd never make
another picture Helen Hayes
and Frederic March won Academy
Oscars, and the prize flicker was
Grand Hotel"
1933-The studios began to fight
radio competition 9. General sal
ary cuts of 30 per cent were fol-
lowed by the big earthquake. Nor
man Krasna called up the Pro-
ducers Association and intoned.
This is God. If you go through
with that salary cut III show you
a real shakeup" :. Greta Garbo
was reported to have got 100000
for two pictures C. Mary Pickford
filed for divorce.
1934-In a magazine article Sam
uel GoldWyn quoted some weekly
salaries: Greta Garbo, $4,000; VIII
Rogers. Cheyalier and Constance
Bennett. $1,000; John Barrymore,
$1,000; Norma a Shearer. Richard
Barthelmess. Ann Harding. $4,000:
Wallace Beery. $1,000; William Paw
ell. $500 Catholic Legion of
Deceney born March 4; soon joined
by Protestant clergy and Council
Of Rabbis Hays Office began
censofing scripts in advance 8.
Hollywood threatened to move to
Florida If Upton Sinclair was elected
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-30

governor.
1935-Bill introduced in congress
by Representative Culkins ban
ming sex appeal" in future screen
plays Death of Will Rogers
saddened the world i. Banknight,
screeno, bingo and free dishes re-
turned in rush with fadeout of
NRA H G.. Wells made four
word address at the Academy ban
quet. He said Hollywood leaves
me speechless.' And sat down.
1936-The worlds longest motion
picture was shown at the American
Wild Life Conference. There were
240 reels, and Metro thought about
buying it Victor McLaglen and
Bette Davis won Oscars . Ariel
chased Caliban across the country
A producer cabled an acting
offer to Emperor Halle Selassie E.. E.
On orders from the Hays Office,
Max Factor made some hair pants
for the chimpanzee working in
Girl of the Jungle" Irving
Thalberg died.
1937-An influenza epidemic laid
the town low . Paul Mum, Luise
Rainer and THE Great Zigfeld"
won prizes . . When premiere
was held at the Carthay Circle
theater, having union trouble, pick
cts wore full evening dress i.
Shirley Temple and Clark Gable
were top boxoffice stars :. g. Wit
torior Mussolini came to visit and
got such a freezeout it almost be-
came an international incident.
1938-"SnoW White began roll
ing up millions . While a quickie
studio was filming "The Ark"
flood washed out homes, damaged
studios, marooned players :. :.
Hollywoods Red menace reached
the Dies committee Orson
Welles did his broadcast of Mar
tian invasion and got four movie
offers Samuel GoldWyn hired
Jimmy Roosevelt.
1854 cdHlpdlsH Wdo iduiiciieu
called Movies Are Your Best Eli
tertainment. and cynics discovered
the initial letters spelled maybe
Declarations of war abUad caused
filters and retrenchment
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., died
Gone With the Wind" began
smashing boxoffice records :.
Mayor La Guardia of New York
tried to get part of the movie in
dustry to move there. However"
he remarked. Il wish 10 make IL
clear that 1 shall continue To live
with my own WIFE,"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-30
ALL POSSIBLE AID
FOR GREAT BRITAIN
(Oroville Mercuuy-Register)

Our phrase "all aid to Britain short Of
war; is very bad one, and this was
brought to light by the spokesman of the
Berlin foreign office Saturday. The
phrase places us in the position of a heck
Ter who goes as far as he dares and then
backs away unwilling to fight. The phrase
of itself allows the opponents of Britain
to limit our activities All they have to
say is, ''If you do that it will mean war;
and we stop. In the first place, the eX-
preston never was an honest one. Those
who coined it did so to lull America into
a sense of security where no security ex-
listed. Those who use that phrase believe
thoroughly that by placing arms in Brit
ish hands we are getting that nation to
fight our battle for us. Most of those
who are using that expression to Stlmu-
late our country into more aid for Brit
ain really expect the program to take us
into war at the time when such action
would be advisable in the program of aid
to Britain.
The essential thing to remember is
that by giving all aid 'short of war" to
Britain we are IN the war ourselves to
all intents and purposes, except for the
actual fighting. Very soon we shall be
frank enough to ask ourselves whether a
self-respecting nation can continue such
a program without doing little fighting
on its own.
At this time nothing more is asked of
us, but if Britain withstands the blitz-
krieg during the coming spring, and she
may not, the time is going to come when
additional punch will be required to carry
the war onto the continent with land
forces Then we shall see how the propa.
ganda changes.
The German took the right time to at
tack our short of war" talk 1t seems
to us that delivery TO Britain of German
and Italian ships in our harbors would
be an act Of war. We certainly can't con
fiscate their property without bringing
war upon ourselves.
We favor all possible aid for Britain
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-30
'Undec|ared War
Laid TO United
States by Fascist

ROME, Dec. 80. CUP) Virginia
Gayda, authoritative Fascist writer,
wrote today in the Giornale D.
Italia that President Roosevelt, as
the result of last nights speech,
"is the man Qeader) of an unde-
clared war against the Axis and
Japan, side by side with England.
This leadership in undeclared
war is confirmed by his personal
policy which rapidly passed from
phase of neutrality to that of
n-belligerency, and then to that
of so-called short of war which is
already a form of candestine but
substantial intervention, Gay d a
wrote
Political circles here said the Ital-
ian attitude was that the Italian
German Axis, strengthened by the
tri-partite pact Germany, Italy
Japan is certainly not unduly
worried regarding positions taken
by any outside nation.
They said italy is engaged in a
life and death struggle but is con-
fident of victory, along with Ger
many.
The first part of Mr.. Roosevelt S
speech was inaudible on short wave
radio sets because of bad atmos-
pheric conditions. Comment here
was based mostly on the last half
of the speech.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-30
British Planes
Attack Naples

ROME, Dec. 30 tUP)-British
planes, attacking in waves, bombed
Naples during the night and show
cred leaflets on it, a high command
communique said today Seven per-
sons were killed, it was asserted.
(The United Press London bureau
learned that British planes also
bombed German and German-occu-
pied territory
ct was assumed that the leaf
lets dropped on Males contained
the text of Prime Minister Winston
Churchills speech, charging that
Mussolini alone was responsible for
Italy's entry to the war and warn
ing that Britain would come to
grips with Italy and defeat it.
Version of the speech made pub
lie in Italy omitted the parts of
it the British regarded as most i'm
portantD