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Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09
Battle Of River
Ended at Last as
Canal Starts Work
History of Conquest
One of Man Against
Mighty Colorado

Thousands of citizens will
celebrate Saturday an event
that climaxes several centur-
| les of travail.
Specifically, t those who
gather on the banks of the All
American canal near the Eastside
highline will welcome first water
down the new artery. Actually they
will pay tribute to much more, for
this means climax to struggle
that began with the discovery of the
mouth of the Colorado river in 1889,
Men have carried on the struggle
against the river ever since, but
not until the chances of an all
American canal became talked OF
was there a hint of solution. Out
of the agitation for a canal grew
the preliminary issue of water stor-
age Out of that need grew Boulder
dam
Boulder dam stopped the Colorado
with Sunday punch. One ponder
Gus blow of steel and concrete. The
child was born before the father;
Boulder dam was constructed be-
fore the All American. But that does
not detract from the fact that the
All American canal idea started
the campaign that eventually tied
the rivers hands.
The drive that started in the
early years of this century was at
first just a grumble between farm
ers of Imperial Valley. They were
dissatisfied with their source of
water. 1t flowed from the river
through Mexican soil. There was
difficulty, too, with the diversion
point And there were floods and
periods of drouth. Out of that grum-
BILE came Boulder dam, highest
structure of its kind in the world,
impounding behind its walls the
largest man-made lake on the sur
face of the globe. That was accom-
plished in 1885. But Imperial Valley
still wanted its original goal, the
All American canal.
Saturday that goal is reached.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09

pei SCiio OIL CllS I'll HilIIlcQldIcly.
Japan meanwhile expressed sur
prise at the sudden American moves.
commenting that, I'VE are doing
nothing about the opening of the
Burma road" The Burma road. sup
ply route over which war materials
go to China, will be reopened by
Great Britain Oct. II at the in
sistence of the United States, jap
anese say.
Americans were leaving the Orient
as fast as they could At Shanghai,
shipping lines reported all passage
booked up to the first of the year,
and the Shanghai American Asso-
citation cabled the United States
state department. asking that ships
be sent to hasten the evacuation
OF United States citizens ordered
Tuesday.
At Chungking, Chinese General
issimo Chang Kai-Shek told his
people that increased foreign aid
to China will END Japan's hopes of
terminating hostilities, and declared,
China will never recognize Japan's
New Order in Asia"
A Hanoi, Inoo-China, Maj Gen
Issaku Nishihara, commanding Jap
anese forces in French Indo- China
said that Withdrawal of Americans
from the Far East could be inter-
preted as an act unfriendly to
Japan. -., = ~.
In Tokyo, American quarters and
Japanese newspapers forecast that
state department advice to Ameri-
cans to evacuate Japan and Far
Eastern trouble zones and the British
decision to reopen the Burma road
indicated early and drastic economic
Anglo-American economic pressure
on Japan.
In Washington, Navy Secretary
Frank Knox said that he had talk
ed over the general situation in the
Pacific with Admiral James o. Rich
ardSon, commander of the United
States fleet who also conferred Tues
day with President Roosevelt. Rich
ardson came to this country with
the first contingent of the fleet.
now based at Hawaii, to take shore
leave on the west coast.
Knox said that 1900 recruits will
be assembled on the Pacific coast
to accompany the first fleet con-
Continued on Page 2; Column u
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09

pcounty's two draft boards, one for
! the north-end and one for the
south-end area. They are:
NORTH-END
Draft board No. 158-George w
Cutshaw, Wyles Nichols, Dewey Car
ey, Jack H. Benson and w. E. Young
SOUTH-END
Draft board No. 159-John w
Donohue, M. o. Simms, Harry
Swanson, j. H. Edgar and Paul
Cook
The Imperial county boards were
announced by Governor Olson along
with 176 others throughout Califor-
mia. Personnel was recommended
by superior court judges in the
various counties.
The boards will have wide author
ity in determining which of the es-
timated 100000 men in the state
between the ages of 81 and 35 who
are required by the national con-
scription act to register a week
from Wednesday are most available
and suitable for military service.
Each board will have an appeal
agent, and medical examiner to be
named later by the governor, and
the board itself will select a clerk.
Only the clerk is to receive salary.
The governor also will name 20
district appeal boards and 20 dis
trict medical boards to hear cases
of persons who consider themselves
wrongly classified by the local
boards
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09
Official Program
OF THE ALL-AMERICAN CANAL CELEBRATION
Held Junction American Canal and Eade Hline

be Easde Hghlne
Bonds
l 30-Kng Neptune's arrival escorted by Imperial Val
ley Sheriff's posse and Quechan Indians.
Yuma high school band drill
National anthem "Star Spanged Banner with Imperial
Valley Boys band, Yuma high school band Swiss band
and Quechan Indian bands, accompanying.
Invocation Rev. Carlton c. Buck.
Introduction master of ceremonies Leo Caro by Pres
dent J. V. Yeargin of Holtve chamber of commerce.
Introduction of John c. Page, commissioner of bureau
of reclamation, to dedicate first water for to I'm
perial Valley.
America" four bands playing for community sing
Introduction of visiting dignares speech by Chairman
Evan t. Hewes, of Imperial Irrigation District board
of directors.
Address by Mark Rose.
Address by Phil Swing
Calexico Cavacade Serenaders.
Benedction, Rev. Kenneth Engle
"God Bless America four bands accompanying
audience sings.
EVENING PROGRAM
o Held at Hotvile
730-Leo Garlic, master of ceremonies, assisted by
Russell Hayden and Andy Clyde
Ten amateur contest acts sponsored by the chambers of
Brawley Calexico, Capatria Ell Centre, Indo, Mexi-
cali, Westmorland, Yuma and Holtv1le and the Swiss
club. Three cinema actors will Judge contest by popu
lar applause.
Awarding of $50 first prize and $35 second prize $3.50
and $25 offered by arrangements committee, addl-
tonal $40 for each prize by Ell Centre chamber of
commerce
Lincolns orchestra to play for street dance
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09
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(\EpoRTER
Thief Captured

Thief Captured
raras and he thought it was mouse.
1t wasn't exactly eating Joes own
frame, but it was chewing on a
thing very close to Joe's heart
Photographic supplies.
So Joe set mouse trap and
baited it with dash of film coated
with developing fluid.
Next day the trap was sprung.
Caught, was a cockroach.
Remote Control
Coach Raleigh Holt of Ell Centre
high school was discussing last
weekend's football game with his
charges and suddenly turned upon
Milton Console, demanding:
why didn't you cover that touch
down pass?"
Milton didn't cringe under the
coach's ire He was amazingly calm,
for he had an answer.
There was a good reason, coach.
l was on the bench.
o
Some Difference
Charlie Schlanze got the blame
for this, and he deserved it.
Mrs. Ike Boiling, who is a Can
adian, registered the other day at
the postoffice as an alien. Super
vising the registration was SchlanZe
who made a trifling change in the
questionnaire before it was turned
over to the secretary for copying.
In a few moments the secretary
walked over to Mrs. Boiling with
a Mortified look on her face. -
rs this right for your occupa-
ton? 1t says 'HomeWrecker', said
the secretary.
Heavens, I wrote Homemaker,"
Mrs. Boiling explained.
Here's Foresight
Young Mistress Florence Moore,
II, swept into the hardware store
where her father, Lou Moore, sits
and looks important.
How do you 40, Mr.. Moore?"
said the young lady and Mr.. Moore
replied that he did quite well, es-
pecially when such a charming GUS
toner arrived at the store.
'As you know, I have been GUS
toner of yours for a long time -
the ysung lady began and Mr..
Moore fastened to agree:
Most assuredly, you've been on
our books for several years"
Considering that I am a GUS
toner of such long standing" the
young lady continued undaunted,
Continued on Page 2, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09

that its publication might lead TO a
complete rupture of diplomatic re-
lations with Germany.
Il have just received call from
Washington" Dies said, and this
story was read TO me. cannot
comment on 1t.
My committee for several
months has been digging up vital
information on the fifth column.
which we have guarded 10 our ut
most ability. and it has been turn
ed over to Secretary OF State Cor
dell Hull ard TO President Roose-
velt.
Il am resolved that nothing say
or do will eomplicate this nations
foreign relations"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09
Whole Valley Celebrates
Great Dream Come I rue
WELCOME

distinguished guest will to Imperial VAL
ley to stay Saturday. H.
He has been resident for many months, but Sat-
urday he will bring his baggage and make it perma-
nent. The guest is the All American canal, who ar
rives after standing invitation of 30 years.
1t is fitting that distinguished and imposing
future citizen receive a proIer welcome. Today.
represented extend through this special edition the
right hand of good fellowship to the All American
canal and to the who made the arrival possible.
You quite a spell getting here Mr. All Ameri-
can, but that only makes you all the more welcome.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09
Legionnaires Ask
Arnnisfice CIosinu

Members of Boyce Alter post of
the American Legion Tuesday night
passed a resolution asking business
men of Ell Centro to close their
establishments all day Armistice
Day.
This resolution followed one pass
ed by the Legion county council in
Imperial Monday night. All posts
in the county were expected to pass
similar resolutions.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09
Station Sponsors
Flax Meefinu

A meeting to discuss the use of
fertilizers in flax growing has been
scheduled at the Meloland expert
ment station on next Wednesday
according to Argyle McLachlan, sec
retary of the Southwest Flaxseed
association.
L. G. Goar, experiment station
superintendent, will lead discussion.
The meeting will start at 2 o'clock.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09
Opening Gun Fired in Community
Chest Campaign for Character Fund
To Garry Through 1q40-41 Season

The Salvation Army applied for
admission to the chest program and
the application was taken under
advisement decided upon at a meet
ing next Thursday night.
The executive board set the week
of Nov. 13 as the drive week. A
kickoff breakfast will open the
campaign on that date.
Present Tuesday night were
Judge Thompson, Rhodes Ham,
burger, Mrs. Slee, George Whitcher,
Hugh Wilcox, Glenn Keiffer. Mrs,
Warren Sage, Mrs. A. L. Dilbeck,
Mrs. A. C. Finney, A. H. Keller,
Walter Havekorst, Mrs. E. c. Bar
nard and M. Montgomery.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09
Junior College
Enrolment Up

Central junior college enroll
ments increased this year while
those at the high school dropped
down, school officials said We'd
nesday.
At Junior college the enrolment
wednesday was 226 while the end
of the first semester last year show
ed an enrolment of 210. High school
enrolment Wednesday was 705 as
compared to 770 last October.
School started two weeks later this
year. officials said, which may ac-
count for the drop in high school
enrolment. -...---zt
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09
COPS TO CRACK DOWN
ON FOOTBALL DRUNKS

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 9. UP)-
Chief E. Raymond Cato of the Cal
ifornia highway patrol today in
structed officers to be particular
ly watchful of drunken drivers fol-
lowing football games and to place
all such violators under arrest i'm
mediately.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09

= The first gun was fired Tuesda,
night in the annual Ell Centro
community chest drive at meet
ing of the chest executive board
in which Judge Vaughn Thompson
was reappointed campaign chair
man.
Budgets of the various character
building agencies were submitted
and committee composed of Bert
Hamburger, w. II. Rhodes and Mrs.
L. Slee was appointed to review
the budgets and report on findings
at the next meeting of the board.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09
CHURCHILL ELECTED
CONSERVATIVE CHIEF

LONDON, Oct. 8. (UP)-Prime
Minister Winston Churchill was
elected leader Of the Conservative
party by a unanimous vote today.
Churchill succeeds Neville Cham
berlain. who resigned last w6ek
from the cabinet and from the
party leadership. Chamberlain
had been Conservative leader
s;ince 1880.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09
10 Chosen Here =,
To Handle Draft:
Name Conscripts
Draft Boards Selected for North. South
Ends ofVaIIey; Donohue. Simms. Edgar.
Swanson. Cook on FL Centro Roster

Governor Culbert L. Olson Wednesday announced ap
pointmen of ten Imperial county in whose hands will
rest the fuures-and possibly the lvesOf 5000 youn{
men between the ages of 81 to 35
The ten appointed members of Imperia
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09
MUSSOLINI VISITS
ON JUCOSLAV BORDER

ROME, Oct. 9. (UP)-Premier
BenitO MussOlini was near the
Jugoslav frontier today, inspect
ing the 11th army corps, now sta
toned in the border district. Mus
solini arrived at Gorizia air field
at $3.50 a. m, plotting has own
plane.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09
Far E uSt Crisis "A
S Peeds Navy to :
Wartime STRENGTH
Japan Expresses Surprise at Activity
Ensendered byPendins British Action
To Reopen Burma Road; u. S. Blamed
BY UNITED PRESS .

The United States navy spotlghted the Far Eastern
crisis by rushing naval recruits to ports We'd
nesday speeding naval mobilization and announc
ing that warshp in the Pacific will be built up to 100
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09
BRITISH CUT OFF
FRENCH COLONY

VICHY, Oct. 9. (UP)-British
naval forces have cut maritime
communications between South
Africa and the great French col
ony of Madagascar and have seiz-
ed the French freighter Esper-
ance, bound for DjibOuti With
food supplies, it was disclosed to-
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09
THE WAR
FRONTS
GERMAN OFFICERS
IN RUMANIA

BUCHAREST, Rumania, Oct. 8.
UP)--(Passed by censOr) -Fif-
teen German officers wearing civ
ilian clothes were reported to
have checked in at one hotel to-
day and infOrmants said that nu-
merous German aviation Off
GERS were in the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-09

Butter; Los Angeles 31hc; hut
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch.
grade A 40Ikc; manufacturing milk
341ac; route gathered cream 3Oisc.
L. A. hay: U. s. No. Sl3-Si4.:
U. s. No. 2 leafy $11.50-12.5O; I. v.
and Antelope $13-13.5Oj u. s. No. 2
S10-S10:50; Mpls. Dec. flax $i.46ia.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05

valley. Still third group. of Ger
man scouters approached P a r i S
but were driven off.
Some of the German planes
headed for the Rhone valley cross
ed over Swiss territory and were
engaged by Swiss fighters. The
Swiss high command announced
two or three" German p n S
were believed down and that one
Swiss craft crashed and its pilot
was killed.
The dead in the Paris area in
cluded 167 in the city proper,
among them 120 civilians and At
soldiers. There were 332 wounded
all civilians--in the city.
In the suburbs 81 persons were
killed, including "a civilians, and
l3 soldiers. There were 329 wound
ed, including 213 civilians and 107
soldiers.
The latest figures placed h e
casualties at nearly five times the
toll of As dead and 200 wounded
previously reported. The list was
raised by the finding of additional
bodies in bomb shattered and
burned buildings and the death of
some of the wounded.
A recapitulation also raised the
number of German raiders downed
around Paris from the previously
reported II to Is. The French said
their losses were only about Is
planes wrecked on the ground in
stead of the hundreds claimed
by the Germans.
Twenty -four hours after the mass
raid by hundreds of German bomb
ers, time bombs still were explod-
ing in Paris today. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
ALLIED AID ASKED
BY MRS. MORROW
Continued From Page One)

the European conflict. She has
several times urged help for the
Allies, while Lindbergh last fall
favored an embargo on offensive
weapons to belligerents and last
month declared Americans need
not fear foreign invasion unless
they bring it on through their
own quarreling and meddling with
affairs abroad"
Mrs. Morrow, the acting Presi-
dent of Smith College, spoke on an
NBC network under the auspices
CT the committee for American de-
tense through aid for the Allies.
She said there was mo thought
OF our sending an army abroad
but contended that 'the best
means of avoiding this type of
involvement" was the sending of
munitions and supplies, food,
money, airplanes, ships land
everything that could help them
win in their struggle against Ger
many"
THE need is immediate,' she
said at another point, it is a
matter of days. Let us strengthen
their morale with something more
substantial than admiration and
advice. the Allies have not
yet asked us for bread, but with
the exception of the splendid work
Of the Red Cross and the relief
societies, we are busy giving them
a stone.'' 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-05
BRITAIN
CHURCHILL VOICES
HOPE OF AID FROM
THE NEW WORLD
Continued From Page One)

have got the armies away and they
have paid four-fold for any losses
sustained. -"
Even as he made this extra.
ordinary ummary-countlng up the
gains and wearily acknowledging g
the great losses to British arms in
flicted bv 'the dull brute mass of
the German army, the British gov
ernment made great preparations
to stand to the greater blow, if and
when it comes:
Clement R. Atlee, lord privy seal,
announced that Churchill as min
lister of defense would be assisted
by a defense committee comprising
the heads of the fighting services
navy, army and air force-and
their chiefs of staff as advisers.
Will Call Conscripts
War Minister Anthony Eden said
all the conscripts who could be
trained would be called up this
month, doubling the normal rate.
Volunteers, he added, were available
to defend London and those now
defending the public utilities are
carrying war department weapons,
AS to interned aliens and prison
ers of war, Eden added, their trans
portation to places remote from the
British Isles-to prevent their pos
sible cooperation with German air
craft or parachute troops-is under
consideration.
went on; some SO were arrested.
Churchill himself, in his memor.
able speech in commons, promised
that the "malignancy" of the fifth
column would be stamped out.
He made no mention of the situa-
ton in the Mediterranean, where
the British say the Allies are al
ways ready for any possible amic-
able settlement with Italy.
While putting the British losses
in Flanders at around 10000 men,
he added:
6. we may set a far heavier
loss certainly inflicted on the
enemy, but our losses in material
are enormous we have lost
nearly one thousand guns and all
our transport and all the armored
vehicles that were with the army
in the north.
'These losses will impose a
further delay on the expansion o1
our military strength. That expan-
sion has not been proceeding as
fast as we had hoped"
But, he went on, ALREADY the
flow of munitions is leaping for
ward. There is no reason why we
should not in a few months over
take the sudden and serious loss
that has come upon US.
Nevertheless, our thankfulness
at the escape of our army with so
many men, and the thankfulness OF
their loved ones who have passed
through an agonizing week, must
not blind us to the fact that what
has happened in France and Bel
gium is a colossal military disaster
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IMPROVEMENT IN
FARM MARKETING
METHODS URGED
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are interested in becoming estab-
lished in farming.
Henry S. johnson, of the Farm
Credit Administration of Columbia,
S. c., spoke on the use and abuse
of credit.
This morning at 8:15 the subject
of part-time education will be the
order and number of selected
teachers from over the state will
discuss 'How I Organized My
Part-Time Glass;" D. M. Clements
will also speak at l o'clock. The
subject of community canneries
will be discussed later in the day,
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s POI T S

here that Guldahl won, Ben Hogan
shot S0-S1 in his last two rounds
and finished with 31O The Texans
tremendous Improvement since then
is reflected in the successive prac-
tice rounds of 6S-71-7O he has turn
ed in the last three days.
IF I can do that in the Omen
I'll be II strokes ahead of the
field" he said with some exaggera-
ton.
With the third day of bright sun
shine, the Canterbury course con-
tlnued to get easier right before
the eyes. In addition to Hogan's
70, there were us by Guldahl,
Lawson Little, Byron Nelson, Jug
McSpaden and probably others
among the huge field that practiced
almost from sunup to sundown,
Many, as usual, did not attempt to
keep an accurate count.
Ray Mangrum won the $3.50 prize
in special pitching contest, hole
ing out on one of his three shots
from about so yards. Tomorrow
there will be long driving contest,
and the favorite, believe it or not,
is Johnny Barko, a muscular Cleve-
land steel worker.
The days only casualty was
Frank Moore of Detroit, a brother
of Terry Moore of the st. Louis
Cardinals. He ran drill through
a finger of his fork hand while try
ing to repair shoe in the pros
shop and was wearing a bulky
bandage tonight.