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Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
SELF GOVERNMENT FOR
NEl6hBORHOOD CHILDREN

If every neighborhood in Imperial Val
ley had one woman with the initiative,
energy and understanding of Mrs. How
ard Clark, who lives in the 200 block ON
State street in Ell Centre, it is safe bet
there would be no more juvenile delm-
quency in this valley.
Details of the "city council set up ey
the children Of her block under Mrs.
Clark's guidance last summer were out
lined in this paper yesterday. The chill
dren's council is purely a neighborhood
governing agency to regulate games, iron
out disputes, punish social misconduct
and consider the problems that are so ser
ious to the little chaps, but which adults
too often treat lightly. The beauty OF
the arrangement is that the children gov
ern themselves.
The plan has worked so we'll that al
most every child in the neighborhOod has
improved considerably in behaviour. In
one instance, Improvement was so great
that a puzzled teacher, not knowing about
the council, called upon one lads parents
to find out what had happened to change
him so much for the better.
The principle behind this children's
Council is so simple, and so sound, that
it is a wonder it has not been widely
adopted long ago.
Now that it has been demonstrated so
conclusively as means of teaching chill
dren the duties and privileges of organic
ed society-and teaching them in a demo-
cratic way-the example should be fol-
lowed in every neighborhood in the coun-
try.
BY its very nature, Mrs. Clark's Chill
dren's Council could not embrace more
than a small neighborhood. If 1t at
tempted to, it would lose the personal
touch which does so much to make it sue
cessful. The children must all know
one another, they must all meet together
in their governmental sessions, they must
be able to discuss their problems without
feeling that they are in mass meeting
of some sort So it is necessary that
the group be small. That is why leaders
would be needed in every neighborhood
NOT just one leader for the whole city.
The person who follows Mrs Clark's
example, however, extending Children's
Council plan to his or her neghborhood,
will be amply repaid by the results.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
Editorials and Comment
TUESDAY, DECEMBER H. 1910
by Willis Thornton
Who's Subversive?

That word subversive has already
been taken out for many a cantel
during the past few months. and
it's due for many more.
Having a tendency to overthrow
and ruin utterly from the very
foundations, is the way the diction-
ary defines the word,
All right. Now, who's subversive?
President Gideonse of Brooklyn
College is the latest to come into
violent contact with the word. Gid
eonse came to Brooklyn from the
University of Chicago not long ago,
and one of the jobs he was given
was to reclaim the Brooklyn public
institution from widespread influ-
ences termed subversive.
GideonSe is no mossback. He was
always considered quite a liberal at
Chicago. Entering on his Brooklyn
task he found. truly enough, an
extraordinary concentration of Cam
pus Communists.
He set about multiplying their dis
proportionate influence in campus
groups-for instance, by having
class elections held in classrooms
in the daytime with all present,
rather than at night when only the
zealots turned out. thus controlling
with a minority. The Communists
responded by heckling, picketing,
calling President Gideonse at un-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
Greek Artillery
She|Iinq kIisura

STRUGA, Jugoslavia, Dec. II. -
(UP)-Frontier reports said today
that Greek artillery was shelling
Klisura heavily, setting fire to the
eastern part of the town which
is one of the key italian positions
on the central Albanian front.
In the Osum mountains, t h e
Greeks were said to have occupied
Grabocka after a brief, sharp at
tack in which five Italian officers,
300 Italian troops, three field guns
and nine machine guns were cap
tured.
From the coastal sector, it was
reported that the Greeks moved into
the town of Yuma, north of Chimara
this morning while the right wing
OF the coastal column reached the
Cika mountaine.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17

earthly hours, and the like. There
was great stew, and an investi-
CATION.
In the course of this, President
Gideonse, though sorely tried, gave
it as his considered opinion that
suppression by means of legal pro-
hibitions is quite useless. The only
real remedy is more positive dy-
namics on the other side-lrore ac-
tive effort to convince young peo-
pie that their best future lies in
preservation of our democratic in
stitutions. Very sensible. and of
course the only answer with an
ounce of permanent validity.
Then Gideonse asked a question
which deserves asking again
Who is subversive?" he queried.
The loud preacher of some Utop-
ian concept or the thoroughly re-
spectacle, SNUG, self confident per-
son who insists on perpetuating the
situation in which the preaching of
Utopian ideas is likely to be listen
ed to?"
They know the answer now (too
late) in France; they are learning
it at sickening cost in England;
Hitler in his latest speech claims
he, too, knows the answer. And
that is
Both!
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
]. EDGAR HOOVER
SPILLS The BEANS

Attorney General Robert H. Jackson is
going to have hard time now, if he
wants to file" the FBI report on Harry
Bridges, maritime union leader on the
west coast, as he has filed other docu-
ments from time to time-so thoroughly
that they have never seen the light of
day.
Because J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, reveal
ed in Florida Monday that the FBI re-
port, in his estimation, furnishes suffi-
cient grounds for deportation of the
Australia born trouble maker
Mr.. Hoover, who is technically under
Mr.. Jackson's jurisdiction, may be called
on the carpet for expressing his views
so bluntly, but whatever his fate now,
he has done the people of this country,
and particularly of the Pacific coast,
real service in revealing just enough to
force publication, at the proper time,
of the FBI findings relative to Harry
Bridges.
Of course it may be that Hoover spoke
with Jackson's permission and approval
but Jackson's record is against such an
assumption. He has leaned too often in
the other direction.
Whatever the inside story NAV be-
there is no excuse now to delay proceed
ings against Bridges any longer. He
should be taken up for a fair hearing
not a whitewash hearing such as the last
one under Madame Perkins direction.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
by Bruce Cation :.
The Inside Track in Washington

In with this increased offensive
armament came armor. The self
sealing gas tank-again an item
which the French had tried out in
l917-18-was perfected. So were
various types of cockpit armor.
All of which, the experts re-
mark, called for sturdier, heavier
planes. If you're going to mount
two, or four, or six heavy machine
guns or small cannon on each wing
of a plane, you've got to make that
wing stronger. And that is where
the American fighters are falling
short.
MARKET FOR
GOOD GUNSIGHT
For the most part, u. S. fighting
planes carry much less armament
than do the British or German
fighters. Hence they are of lighter
construction.
Consequently, the British are
having a good deal of trouble adapt
ing the fighters they're getting from
the United States to the needs of
modern aerial warfare. These planes
are under gunned and under-a ar
mored. And it is extremely hard to
re-arm and re-gun them, because
in most cases they simply aren't
sturdy enough to stand up under
the heavier loads.
No nation has fully solved the
problem of aiming cannon mount
ed in a fighting plane, although
the British are believed to have
made the most headway. The man
who turns up with a gunsight as
good in its field as the American
Norden bombsight is in the bomb
ing field will give his country a
military secret of real value
Fighter pilots usually fly solo
so the handy revolving turret used
in bombers is out. To aim his gun
the fighter has to aim his plane
No sights now known are wholly
satisfactory. A pilot in a dog-fight
hasn't much time to spend training
a single shot weapon on a fast
moving target.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
Gliding Bornbers
Strafe London

LONDON, Dec. IT. (UP)-German
airplanes. varying the technique of
their terror attacks, glided silently
down on London during the night
from tremendous heights, dropped
their bombs and raced off to safety
before air raid sirens could be
sounded.
There were two brief alarms dur
ing the night. but most of the planes
were far away by then.
However, all bombs were dropped
in the outskirts and people in CEN
trail London heard only distant
gun fire.
The G er m n S raided w d e y
throughout the country and made
concentrated attack on a north
west England town for half an
hour, but the nights raids never
approached blitzkrieg fury.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
LABOR'S CHANCE
TO ASSUME ITS SHARE
(WoOdland DEMOCRACY

Labor troubles go with democracy as
fleas go with dogs. They are inevitable,
and in a time like this, when labor has
been going on short ratiOnS for some
wears, now that it sees profits reports and
knows that lots of work is coming, nat
urally it goes after its slice OF the red
meat.
Which is all true enough. Nor does
any sane person want to deny labor Its
thick and Juicy slice, with Drowned po-
tatoes and gravy.
But labor has a real chance now in
this country. Not only to increase or
ganization and to demand its share of
the dinner. but to show the nation that
it can be responsible 1t has a choice.
It can go in for the strikes and upsets,
the delays, miseries and general bitter
ness which labor fanatics sometimes
thought necessary. or it can show by its
upright and controlled attitude that it
is capable of carrying its share of the ma
tons load with moderation, dignity and
Self-reSpect.
The average workingman is the salt
of the earth, the backbone of the nation.
He wants good job, with good pay. He
wants to do that job and earn that pay
honestly and competently. Then he wants
to go home to see a fine, growing family
in comfortable rooms with a good dinner
on the table. sound clothing and some
thing good to read on the table and hear
on the radio These things are his due.
Labor leadership should see that he
gets his due and with it the respect and
admiration of his fellow Americans. The
worker, in his turn, should see that he
gets sound and intelligent leadership,
cooperating with employers for the COM
mon good.
Nothing less than this will satisfy
America
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
tCOrOnadO CltiZen)

Now is a good time to forget things to
mouth about.
Now is a time for optimism.
At least once year while the Yuletide
log burns we can quit gripping about tax
es, worrying about the war, and while
we cannot forget the suffering of those,
caused by the mad ambitions of power
mad lunatics, we can pause to help Amer
leans make this Christmas merry one.
We can do no good by fretting or weep
ing. We can help to bring more JOY into
the world by giving long faces a recess
and spreading our wrinkles the other
way.
After the first of the year we can have
a whole year to worry and grumble if we
enjoy such pastime.
People can work better with a smile
than crouch.
No use to cry all the time because the
world doesn't move to exactly suit you.
1t has always wig waggled and always
will.
Sensible joyful pondering will get
some place, worrying never does.
Pessimistic observations need vaca-
ton.
Christmas is a good time to give it.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
by Paul Harrison -.
HOLLYWOOD S Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

and just missing some Indians. In
the height of the excitment she
heard strange cry, saw feathers
flying, had the sickening realization
she was running over something
and figured she must have decapi-
chickens, though, which the prop
man released at the last minute
for atmosphere.
A WILD RIDE
IN HOOPSKIRST
Secret of spectacular stusting is
to do things with the narroWest
possible margin of safety Frances
Miles and lone Reed have just
finished some automobile thrills for
Hal Roach's Topper Returns" and
Miss Reed can tell you her margin
on one careening corner was pre-
cisely the thickness of her trous-
ers. While Miss Miles drove, she
crouched low on running board
on the outside of a turn. The car
went around on two wheels and the
rought, antiskid paving tore off the
seat of Miss Reeds pants!
They say, too, that Elaine Good
win put on an interesting act dur
ing Gone With the Wind" when
she and Sumter Yakima Canute
doubled for Vivien Leigh and Clark
Gable in that wild flight from
burning Atlanta. On the first try
Canute was thrown from the wagon
and the reins went with him. Miss
Goodwin wasn't going to just sit
there and be killed, and so-hoop-
skirt and all. while the costume
lasted-she leaped to the back of
one of the frantic horses, inched
her way forward on the harness,
and rode out the runaway.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
Greeks Capture Heights
Dominating Central Front

snow and ice that they advanced
bv means of improvised alpinstocks
and ropes.
In some mountain regions, Greeks
were making forced marches under
conditions almost as rigorous as
those of the Finnish war year
ago, it was said. :,
According to govern m n
spokesman, I t ali n Modfna divl-
sions made a large scale counter
attack in the region west OF the
Drinos river in an attempt to re-
capture Skivovik. In one OF the
seven attacks on the mountain, the
italians were said to have lost the
colonel commanding their And regi-
ment of Modena. An italian general
was reported wounded. The Greeks
claimed to have taken 200 prisoners.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
British Execute
German Spy

LONDON, Dec. II. (UP)-Charles
Albert Van Den Kieboom, 26, a
Netherlands subject, was hargad {.
Pentonville prison here to@-y as a
German spy-the third enemy agent
to be executed within week.
Like Jose Walberg and Karo
Meir, hanged at Pentonville week
ago today, Kieboom had come here
to await a German invasion, and
like them he was equipped with
portable radio transmitter to send
messages to Germany or German
occupied territory regarding mill
tary matters.
Kieboom was tried with Walberg
and Meier.
Meier, "a, like Kiemboom was a
Netherlands subject, though he was
born in Germany. Keimboom was
born at Takarumuka, Japan, Sep
tember g. 1914 Waldberg, 25, was
native German.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
Berlin Reports
Raids by British

BERLIN, Dec. II. CUP) British
raids on Mannheim and other points
in Germany last night killed 10
civilians and wounded so, the high
command said today in a commun-
que.
Authorized quarters said that the
raid on Mannheim, great Rhine
port and railway center, had caused
considerable civilian damage"
British planes flew into west
and southwest Germany, damaging
by incendiary bombs castle and
hospital at Mannheim and another
hospital and two factories else
where" the high command said.
The communique said that bad
weather yesterday restricted tn G
activities of the German air force
but that military objectives in Lon
don were attacked successfully.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17

LONDON, Dec. II. CUP)-British
troops are approaching Barbia, i'm
portant italian naval and supply
base in Libya, and may have taken
it, it was reported today.
Reports of the fall of Bardia were
not confirmed. But it was made
known that Australian and New
Zealand troops had joined in drive
on it. in a new phase of the Brit
ish offensive, and experts here be-
lieved that it might have been
taken already.
1t would be necessary, after the
capture of Sollum and Fort Capuzzo
as announced yesterday, to see
that the italian based on Bardia
did not interfere with further OPP
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 3156
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 a petit
ton for probate of the will of w. II.
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 Ell 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.
d. B. ROBERTS, -
Attorney for Petitioner.
(Dec. 9-19 incl)
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
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-
tablished 1856 by the Imperial
Valley Publishing company, 625
State street. FL Centre, Calf.
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Johnston, vice-president and gem
eral manager; f.. A. Fitzhugh.
secretary and managing editor.
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publishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
Watch and Wait,
Churchill Says

LONDON, Dec. II. (UP) - The
battle of Libya is still in progress"
and the government wants to wait
and see how we get on before
celebrating a victory, Prime Min
lister Winston Churchill told the
house of commons today.
Better see how we get on" the
prime minister said in response to
question as to whether official
building would fly flags in cele-
bration.
"I do not recollect that we had
any important occasion for rejoic-
ing in the last war but people
seemed to be quite pleased by the
way it ended"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
Film Couple Wed
In Yuma Ceremony

YUMA, Dec. II. (UP) - Mary
Healy, 22-year-old actress, and Peter
Lind Hayes, actor and entertainer,
eloped here and were married early
today by the Rev. j. c. Bobb.
They drove from Hollywood last
night and were married at 4:3O this
morning. Witnesses were Mrs. r. L.
Brown and Patsy Mullane. They
planned to return to Hollywood i'm
mediately.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17

the Sukitsa river, which tumbles
through rugged gorges to the coast
10 miles north of the port of Valona.
The capture was said to be more
important than any in the area
since that of Argyrokastron, former
Italian base.
Fighting centered in mountains
now on virtually every front. In
the Skivovik sector, the Greeks were
said to have encountered such heavy
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
CERTIFICATE OF DOING BUSI-
NESS UNDER FICTITIOUS
NAME

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the following named persons
~ 'Hing business under the fic-
t!tlouS tirm name and style of
GOLDEN VALLEY PRODUCE CO.,
as limited co-partnership, and we,
the Undersigned do hereby certify
that the following are the names
and places of residence of each and
all OF the 4 persons interested in
said business being conducted under
said firm name and style.
That the names of said persons
and their places of residence are
as follows:
N Yano, 734 S. 9Th Street, Ell
Centro, California.
H. Y. Kawakita, 131 Heffernan
Ave, CaleXico, California.
WITNESS our hands this 11th
day of October 1910.
H. Y. KAWAKITA,
N. YANO.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA;
COUNTY OF 1MpER1A1S) ~
On this 22nd day of November,
1910, before me. l.. Lee Nuffer, a
Notary Public in and for the Coun-
ty of Imperial, State of California,
residing therein, duly commissioned
and sworn, personally appeared NJ.
Yano and H. Y. Kawakita, person.
ally known to me to be the persons
whose names are subscribed to the
within and foregoing Certificate and
acknowledged to me that they ex-
ecuted the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, L have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
my official seal the day and year
in this Certificate first above writ
ten.
l.. LEE NUFFER,
(SeaD Notary Public in and for
the County of Imperial,
State of California.
(N26-D3- 3-l0-17-24)
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
British Attacking Italian Base in
uibya Following SolIum Capture

erations, it was said. 1t was indi-
Gated that a picked empire force
had made a lightning stab toward
it.
Fighting was reported general in
the Sollum-F Capuzzo- -Bardia
area, with an Indian division, led
by Maj. Gen. Noel Beresford-Peirse
fighting with British, Australian
and New Zealand troops.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17

WASHINGTON, Dee. 17.-Nobody
in authority will say one word Tor
publication. but the real truth is
that the fighting planes the Unit
ed States is sending to England are
not fit for modern aerial warfare.
This isn't true of the bombers
The heavy duty planes ranging
from the giant flying fortresses on
down are good enough to fight in
anybody's war. But the fighters
the planes whose job it is to down
enemy planes by gunfire-are sad
" outclassed by the first-line planes
of Britain and Germany.
Apparently this is largely because
the U. S. Army has failed TO CO.
ordinate the complicated job OF
plane design.
AS experts explain it, the air.
planes themselveS-aS airplanes-
are 100 per cent all right. The trou-
BILE is that the business of designing
flying machines. testing metals and
improving engines has gone ahead
faster than the business of fitting
the planes with the right sort OF
armamentS.
The result is that the American
fighting plane is uniformly out
gunned.
Z. S. WINGS
TOO WEAK
The whole trend in aviation ord
nance today is toward greater hit
ting power-either heavier guns OF
more of them. The British got onto
this about five years ago. when
they began equipping their Spitfire
and Hurricane fighters with eight
machine guns apiece, four in each
wing.
On trial, this worked very well
But the British Immediately began
looking toward the use of heavier
guns. The Germans went to work
along the same line, and presently
were sending up planes which
mounted small cannon. The French
who had done some experiment
ing along that line as far back as
the first world War-folloWed suit
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
Did You Know?

Ancient Greeks ate only two
meals a day-one of fruit and wine
at midday and the other in the
evening.
It's against the law to give away
a cigar in Nebraska unless you
have a license.
OF all The stars, exclusive of our
sun, Alpha Orionis sends the most
heat To the earth.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
Laval Released at
German Request

V1CHY, Dec. II. UP)-Pierre
Lavars confinement was ended to-
day on the request of Otto Abetz
German ambassadorial representa-
tive.
A statement that Laval no longer
was confined in any way followed
visit by Abetz to Marshall Henri
Philippe Petain, chief of state, and
request that the German represen-
tatives be permitted to confer will,
Laval.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17

ATHENS, Greece. Dec. II. (UP)
Greek troops have captured Mount
Skivovik, four miles northeast of
Chimara on the Adriatic coast, and
have repulsed seven italian counter
attacks there, a government spokes-
man said today.
The peak dominates the coastal
area. 1t is IL miles northwest of
Argyrokastron, 16 miles southwest
of Tepelini, at the headwaters of
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
THREE ITALIAN
FORTS CAPTURED

CAIRO, Dec. II. CUP) - Three
Italian frontier forts in Libya-Md-
said, Sidi Omar and Shefferzen have
been captured by British forces op-
Grating in the Sollum- Bardia sector,
British general headquarters said
in communique today.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17

Prospective bridegrooms may be inter-
ested in learning that many a man has
risen to become assistant head of his
home
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17
GERMAN PEACE
FEELERS REVEALED

LONDON, Dec. II. CUP) - Lord
Smell, deputy government leader.
told the house of lords today that
Germany has put forward a num-
Der of vague peace feelers since
outbreak of the war.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-17

Get up in the world, but not too far
104 degrees below zero was recorded
nine miles above Denver.