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Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
CONSERVE Pete!
. and what will the robin do
then, poor thing?"

then, poor thing?"
The robin of the nursery rhyme comes
to mind as New Orleans news dispatch
dscloses the plight of Pete, visiting
robin. In sunny New Orleans, Pete need
not be concerned about snow or north
wind that doth blow sending him to the
barn with head under his wing to keep
himself warm His problem is differ
ent one.
Pete is really refugee robin. He was
flown there in a plane from st. Louis,
Missouri, by his owner Mrs. Gilbert
Black, after she learned that it was illeg-
al to keep a robin captive, as Pete has
been since he was found injured some
time ago December weather in st. Louis
scarcely qualities the city as winter re-
sort, so Mrs. Black decided Pete should
go south with other winter tourists. Now
his future is in New Orleans lap. Fed.
eral state and local humane officials
have gone into huddle to decide what
to do about him. Of course, it would be
inhumane and hazardous to release him
in cold Missouri, law or no law. More
over, he has been in captivity so long
it is a question whether he should be
loosed, even in Louisiana, and left to
fend for himself. So the question has
been put up to the State Conservation
Department.
Without prejudging such a nice ques
ton, by all means conserve Pete. His
case involves more than his own comfort
and safety The world needs him as a
symbol and as proof that even amid the
cataclysmc, Notwithstanding events of war
time, man can pause for kindness to a
feathered creature.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
by Bruce Cation :.
The Inside Track in Washington

he gets through he will have tilous-
ands and thousands OF cases W
handle.
DEFENSE BOOM
HELPS COTTON
Defense boom is giving the cotVoh
industry a much-needed shot III
the arm, although still Digger
one is badly needed
1t looks now, say agriculture ue-
partment experts, as If total 90
mestic consumption OF cotton ~,
the present marketing year VIII
run a little better than 8,5OO'Ooo
bales-perhaps as high as 90oo'--
600. This would be from one ana
one half to two million above the
average consumption over the last
five years.
That doesn't make up Tor the
loss of exports due to the war.
Total exports for the year Will be
close to 100000 bales, which Is
some 100000 under the five-year
average. With a current crop OF
12.5OO.OOO bales anticipated, stocks
on hand in the U. S. are likely 10
exceed the all time high of 13,0OO,OOO
bales set in 1899.
Cotton problem is still there, IN
other words. Increase in home con-
sumption provides the only ray
of light.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
LOOSE TALK
IS RIGHT
(Wall Street Journal)

wv ali SUGeel
Secretary of Labor Perkins complains
that there has been "loose talk concern
ing legal limitations on hours OF work as
a hindrance to the defense program and
finishes the same sentence with little
loose talk of her own by saying that
there is no valid reason to undermine
the wage and hour legislation as defense
needs shape up at this time To speak
of undermining" the act, if the phrase
is intended to refer to the anxiety of en-
ployers in key defense industries over
actual and threatened shortages OF spe-
cally skilled men, is pretty loose.
Nor is there cogent argument in the
Secretary's reminder that ANY employer
in the land can automatically work his
employees as many hours beyond 40 week
as he cares to without asking permission
of anybody as long as he pays the over
time rate of time and one-haif.' A few
employers, but probably not many, are
in a position to remedy the shortage of
skilled men by paying overtime. For a
great many Others working on fixed
price contracts and exposed to the con-
slant risk of heavier tax assessments,
high overtime rate cannot be the answer
Here is a case for compromise. If the
labor shortage in special skills becomes
such as to threaten production before the
training courses already begun correct
it, something will have to be done and
that by way of legislation. The law
could be so amended as to permit defense
contractors to practice a longer week
than 40 hours, under license from the
Wage-Hour Administrator and at less
than the time and one-half rate. If we
seriously fear the undermining" of es-
tablished standards, the amendment
could be limited in duration; it might
even provide for voluntary acceptance OF
the longer week by the men to be affect
ed by it.
Until we all make up our minds wheth-
er or not we really care to execute the
defense program promptly, loose thinking
and loose talking will continue.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
by Paul Harrison -.
HOLLYWOOD S Fads, Fancies and Foibles

Hollywood will be pleased about
the acknowledged leadership OF
Gable, whose fan-populafity rec
ord is unapproached by any other
player in movie history. Ever since
the Motion Picture Herald poll was
started, in 1881, he has been one
of the 10 biggest money drawing
stars After few seasons, when
forecasters were saying he'd surely
begin to slip pretty soon, he fooled
'em by rising to second place and
staying there three successive years.
In 1899, when Shirley Temple
tumbled from first to fifth ranking,
Gable was expected to land clear
down in the cellar as a result OF
idiots Delight" a flicker which
delighted nobody except bullish
gamblers in motion picture stocks.
instead, he lost only a couple of
files in the popularity ratings.
And this time. after nine years
of stardom, Miss Lombards Big
Moose" is bigger than ever.
NEW KEY FOR
SPENCER TRACY
A surprise is waiting for people
who say, The only trouble with
Spencer Tracy is that I'm always
aware I'm watching Spencer Tracy.
He doesn't make UP to look differ
ent. and he plays all his roles in
one key
Neither his studio nor the actor
himself admits that frequent criti-
cism is the reason for his playing
DR. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde
wouldn't know. But l am sure that
when Jack Dawn finishes pudding
his hell's brew of rubber and plas-
tics and casts the masks OF the
horrific Hyde nobody will be able
TO recognize Mr.. Tracy. l saw Dawn
practicing on stooge, and the re-
suit looked like a composite OF
Karloff monster and a demoniac
Harpo Marx.
It was only back in 1892 that
Fredric March won an Academy
Award for the dual characteriza-
ton. Tracy says he always has
wanted to play it. and this in spite
of his actual physical aversion to
makeup.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
RED BATTING

Quotations from two of Harry Bridges
most valiant defenders, commenting on
an FBI report that Bridges should be de-
ported:
"It looks as if this were just part of
the very unfortunate red-baiting spirit
which seems to be growing everywhere
now
"An attack on Mr.. Bridges at this time
would seem to be an attack on labor un-
der cover of the general war hysteria
now prevalent ;.
And the so-called Civil Rights Coun-
Gil of Northern California said the FBI
recommendation was obviously part of
the general plan to attack organized la
Dor because of its articulate opposition
to involving the United States in the
European war :.
1t should be sufficient to remind the
last two that Harry Bridges was recogniz-
ed among many Californians as factor
in undermining democracy long before
the present war emergency arose. 1t is
his defenders, not his enemies, who are
using the war hysteria" cry.
"Red batting is another thing. The
gentleman who protested that the Bridges
custer recommendation was ''red batting"
which is unfortunately so prevalent
now, should pause a minute to wonder
WHY 1t is so prevalent.
Isn't it because the American public,
asleep so long, has awakened at last to
the knowledge of what terrible havoc
Communists and their like can cause?
1t took the fall of Norway, Denmark,
Holland, Belgium and France to awaken
us. We're not going to sleep again just
because somebody accuses US Of "red bait
ing" when we make war on the traitor
Gus elements within our own social and
economic framework
We don't survive by surrendering to
the enemy without a struggle.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18

WASHINGTON dec. 18.-Best
job the royal air force has done
recently, in the opinion of pro-
ally observers in Washington, was
the shooting down of the plane
which was carrying Jean Chiappe
former prefect of the Paris Surete,
to Syria.
In Syria there are something like
100000 or more French regular
troops. With Gen. Maxine Wegand
steering a cautious course Of nom
involvement in the war, these troops
are marking time. If they are to
be had, the side which gets them
will get what might we'll be de-
cisive advantage in the eastern
Mediterranean area.
Chiappe, according to advices in
Washington, had become a sort
of super -Fouche since the establish
ment of the Vichy regime. Cold,
canny and calculating. he is credited
with having cleaned up" Paris for
the Vichy-Nazi forces. General
belief is that he was being sent
to Syria to do similar job there.
A couple of month of Chiappe's
ministrations, it is believed, would
have left the army in Asia Minor
ripe for the use of the Laval Hitler
combine. Hence Chiappe's death at
sea is regarded as one of the i'm
portant events of the war.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
SUGAR COATED. BUT
IT'S STILL POISON

There are two distinct layers of sugar
coating around House Bill 1920, intro
duced in congress by Rep. Voorhis of
California, but under the outer layers is
bitter poison for the American way of
life.
Here is the sugar coating: The bill
would, l-penalize billboard advertls-
ing, an unsightly form of commercial
selling which is not popular with the mo-
by the advertiser of a ST year license
for every billboard in the country. with
the license fees going into national
defense fund"
The persons who drew the bill probably
believed that newspapers, If they called
it to public attention at all, would Whoop
in favor of the measure, because 1t is
directed against an advertising competi-
tor. Further, they probably reasoned
that they could get away with describing
it as a national defense measure by
virtue of the provision that license fees
were to go into fund vaguely described
as "the national defense fund"
In the consideration of such measure
as this, which is now before the house
ways and means committee, there can be
no place for subterfuge, and no thought
of personal interest. The implications
of the bill are too vitality dangerous to
permit consideration from selfish stand
point.
The bill is dangerous because it sets
precedent under which the federal gov
ernment could move to license any form
of advertising-an it is an historical
truth that the power to license is the
power to destroy Thus corrupt federal
government. acting under such power as
this measure would bestow, could prevent
the issuance of any advertisement by a
political candidate not in accord with
those in power. This one bill alone would
open wide the doors for any powerful
party aspiring to complete dictatorship.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
ALIENS SURPRISE
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

The department of justice is be-
ginning to discover that the United
States contains more aliens than
anyone had supposed.
The 1880 census said there were
about six and a quarter million
aliens in the country a decade ago.
Deducting the number that had be-
come naturalized and adjusting the
figures to account for deaths and
the excess emigrants over immi-
grants. Statisticians figured that s.
100000 was about the right total
for 1910. 1t is obvious now. however,
that that figure will be exceeded.
Best guess is that fully 5,250,000
will have registered by the time
the registration period closes on
Dec. 26.
Apparently what has happened
is that there were many more il
legal entries than anyone had fig
ured on. Surprising thing to the
immigration and naturalization SER
vice men is that the aliens who are
here Illegally are coming forward
so eagerly to register. Many OF
them, as a matter of fact, have
said that they were glad to register
and end the suspense of fearing
each day that an immigration ir
spector would catch up Wit tA,m.
All of this will ultimately give
Attorney General Jackson a head
ache. The law gives him authority
to pass on each individual case
and say whether an illegal entrant
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18.- With
the season near when everybody in
Hollywood will be making forecasts
and taking hind-sights, your cor
respondent is going to try little of
both with a prediction of the list
of box office stars of 1910:
The Messrs. Clark Gable, Mickey
Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Tyrone
Power. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and
James Cagney. For eighth and
ninth places, a couple of actresses:
Bette Davis and Deanna Durbin.
And winding up the list of the Top
Ten: Enrol Flynn.
All this may seem a little brash,
since I have not been in communi-
cation lately with any spirit con-
trolls. and since the true list OF box
office stars, when announced. WI
represent a consensus of 1200-oad
movie exhibitors polled by the Mo-
tion Picture Herald.
But my own brand of cine
mastrology, or movie star gazing,
prompts me to stick out my neck.
Gable is at his zenith and can't be
eclipsed especially with Boom
Town" cleaning up and GWTW
nearing a S22,0O0,000 gross. Rooney
and Tracy are securely in the sign
of Leo, the M-G-M lion. The stellar
Power is in the ascendant. Hope
and Crosby are in conjunction with
Venus-a sultry. saronged one nam
ed Dorothy Lamour.
GABLE TOPS
IN FILM HISTORY
Anyway, it's a cinch that Shir-
ley Temple, Alice Faye and Sonia
Henie were three members of the
Top Ten in 1899 who can't repeat
this year. Their places will be tax
en-, believe, by Hope, looming up
from almost nowhere; Crosby. who
has long been lowering just below
the winners, and who this season
has been getting better pictures;
and Deanna Durbin, who each year
has risen among the honorable
mentions ufitiI now she seems sure
Of a spot in the upper bracket. I
predict she'll be No. 9, although as
an Individual attraction she ought
10 have third OF fourth place.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
Notice of Time and Place Appointed
for Proving Will and Hearing APP
plicatiOn for Letters Testament
airy.
In the Matter of the Estate of
w. H. BROOKS, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that petit
ton for probate of the will of w. H.
BROOKS, deceased, and for the is
Suance to GRACHIE A. BROOKS
of letters testamentary, has been fill
ed in this court, and that Friday
the Goth day of December, 1910 at
2 o'clock pm, of said day, at the
courtroom of said court, in the City
of El Centro, County of Imperial,
State of California, has been set
for the hearing of said petition,
when and where any person inter-
ested may appear and contest the
same, and show cause, if any they
have, why said petition should not
be granted.
Dated December 9th, 1910.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY MAXINE CONSOLE,
Deputy Clerk.
ID. B. ROBERTS,
Attorney for Petitioner
Dec. 9-19 inclJ
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
Uranium Crackers
The Panama Canal

Defense program has centered in
tereSt on the Panama Canal. Here
are five questions about the canal;
how many of them can you answer
correctly?
l. The Panama Canal is almost
due south of which of these U, S.
cities: Pittsburgh, Chicago, Den
YER?
2. In which direction do ships
travelling from the Atlantic to the
Pacific ocean, by way OF the canal,
travel?
3. The size of ships passing
through the canal is limited by the
width of the locks. Do you know
approximately how wide the locks
are?
4. Is the Canal Zone a U. S.
territory, a possession, or a reserva-
ton?
5. About how long has the canal
been open?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
ANSWERS
!. Pittsburgh.

l. Pittsburgh.
2. Ships going from the Allan
tic to the Pacific travel in south
easterly direction, as the Pacific
end is about 27 miles east of the
Atlantic end.
3. The canal lock chambers are
ITO feet wide.
4. The zone is a government res
ervation.
5. The canal was opened to traf-
fic on August Is, 1914. There was
little traffic in the early years be-
cause of slides and war conditions,
and the canal was declared Off
cially opened on June II, 1920.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18

Until a feather is full size, the
quill is open at the base. Then
the Quill closes and the feather
becomes a dead organism.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
THOUGHTS for the Day

The meek shall eat and be satisfied they shall praise
the Lord that seek him. your heart shall live for
ever.Psalms 1926.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
Famous Savings

Selfish men may possess the earth; it is the meek
only who inherit it from the Heavenly Father-Wool
man.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
So They Say

The next day $1,000 kilograms
came tumbling down on Washing
ton, saying Give the destroyers to
Great Britain They never knew
what hit them.
William Allen White, describing
the sensational success of his
Defend America by Aiding the
Allies" committee.
America is net only disarmed
but its rearmament appears very
remote when history gallops.
Luigi Barzini, Italian senator.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-18
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Evening star., 1940-05-05
American War Mothers

The 10th annual Mothers Day
service Of the American War Moth
ers will be held in the amphitheater
at Arlington on May IL At 2:30 pm.
Mrs. r. E. Ridenhour, national
president, will preside and give an
address Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox
will be the principle speaker, Mrs.
J. N. Sloan and Mrs. H. Grady Glib
son, Of Concord, s. c., daughter Of
Mrs. Ridenhour, will be soloists.
Mrs. Cora 3. Poitiaux, national
Gold Star chairman, Of North Caro-
lima; Mrs. Florence A. Latham, ma
tional corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Mary T. Shanahan, national custod-
ian Of records, and Mrs. Thomas B.
Cassaday, past national chaplain, are
expected to attend.
Many organizations win place
wreaths on the Tomb of the Un-
known Soldier. The Marine Band
will play.
The District of Columbia Chapter
will meet ut the Thomas Circle Club
May 10 at 1:30 pm.
Mrs. Lucy Campbell is chairman
for the carnation sale on May 10
and II, and will be assisted by Mrs.
Marian Barrows, Mrs. Isabelle Small
and other members Of the chapter.
This sale Is to provide funds to carry
on the welfare work Of the organiSa-
ton.
Mrs. Marian Barrows will give q
luncheon and card party ct her
home 373a Albemarle street NV.
May 2s for the benefit Of the
chapter.
Evening star., 1940-05-05


Marine Corps yesterday announced
Mai. Amor l.. Sims, U. s. M. c.. re-
Gently assigned to duty as the In
spector- instructor of the 5th Bat
talon, will report for duty on
July IS. He is now on duty on the
stan Of the commander, Division
l, Battleships Battle Force, U. s. S.
Arizona, flagship, San Pedro, Calf
He will relieve Maj. George w. Nc
Henry, U. S. M. c., who is to be
detached to Marine Barracks, GUAM
tico.
The cachet honoring John Philip
Sousa, famous leader Of the Marine
Band and sponsored by the 5th
Battalion, has been received by
philatelists throughout the United
States and many foreign countries.
The success Of this enterprise OF
the 5th Battalion has been the re-
suit of the efforts Of 1t. William
J.. O'Brien, who has had charge Of
this cachet and is himself an ardent
philatelist.
There are vacancies in the band
and ranks Of the battalion for men
between the ages Of II and IS.
Those interested in Marine Ior5s
Reserves activities are invited 10
secure information at 458 Ind ma
svenue NV, Tuesday or Wedr- Jay
between 8 and 10 pm. Cosaplete
summer and winter unfit. AIS are
furnished and pay status is allowed
for one drill each week, as well as
the 15-day field training period to be
held this year at Quantico.
Evening star., 1940-05-05
Y. M. c. A. News

The Central Y. M. c. A. has
scheduled the following events for
the week:
Today: S pm, musicale, public
invited.
Tomorrow: 6 pm, Y's Mems Club
meets at the Smorgasbord; 8 pm,
Kappa Phi Epsilon Fraternity.
Tuesday: $50 pm, Girls Auxil-
ary; 8 pm, Young Peoples Summer
Conference Committee.
Wednesday: 9 am, Junior secre-
taries' training group; pm, clay
modelling class; pm, Junior Gym
Leaders Club; $50 pm, Woodward
School banquet; $50 pm, Old
Timers dinner; 7::30 pm, Checker
Club and International Club; 8
pm, Public Speaking group, Y. M.
c. A. Glee Club and A. A. A. en-
ployees night.
Thursday: $50 am, staff confer
ence; $3.50 pm, soap sculpture class;
AIS pm, Prep and Junior Clubs;
pm, Gym Leaders Club; 5:45 pm,
Prep Club bean feed; 7 pm, mo-
ton pitture program, Cleveland
Park branch; 7:30 pm, Camera
Club.
Friday: 4:30 pm, Wood work
classes; 7:30 pm, annual award
night; 7:45 pm, Troop 100, B. S. A.;
9 pm, Y. W. c. A.-Y. M. c. A.
dance at the Y. M. G. A..
Saturday: 1880 am, Stamp Club;
1890 pm, clay modelling class;
pm, Westminster Club; 1880 pm,
Langdon School Club and prep
woodwork; 2 pm, movies; 2:30 pm,
Junior woodwork: 3 pm, Bugle
Corps and Boys Membership Com
mittee; $3.50 pm, intermediate and
senior woodwork; 3:45 pm, soap
sculpture class; 4 pm, Arts Club.
Evening star., 1940-05-05

held at the. Y. w. G. A. on May Z
at 8 pm. Mrs. Edith Warren
Quinn, chairman OF constitution and
bylaws, requests the members who
wish to propose amendments to the
unit constitution and bylaws to
submit them in writing to be read
at this meeting and voted upon at
the next meeting.
Potomac Unit is making plans to
celebrate its anniversary on May 20
at the Palisades Field House. Mrs.
Mary B. Mcmillan, department pres
ident, and her staff will make their
ofncial visitation.
Government Printing Once Unit
will meet May 8 at 8 pm. In Harding
Hall when the department president
and her staff will make an official
visit.
The Juniors met Friday ut the
home Of Miss Joyce De Rosselli.
Plans were made for . farewell
party Of the hostess, who will soon
leave for California.
Evening star., 1940-05-05

tional Music Week is headed by
President Roosevelt as chairman.
Other members Of the committee
are composed of heads Of various
civic, fraternal, veterans and patri-
otic organizations and their afiliat.
ed bodies.
Mrs. Alecia Kohrt, department
chairman Of music, who Is q grad
uate Of Slaatin Conservatory OF
Music, Of Duluth. Mimi, and who
was member of the Stark Ameri-
can Opera Co. Of New York City
as dramatic soprano is in charge of
the contest.
The Government Printing Office
Unit will be hostess to the depart
ment assisted by the Government
Printing Office Post.
The judges will be Mrs. Anna
Yago McGuffey, contralto, formerly