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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-21
Wife Of Apprentice wooi Worker
Confirms Story QuintupIets Due

MIAMI, Fla, March 81. CUP -
Mrs. katherine Earlene Duren Cal
lahan, 22-year-old wife of a Miami
apprentice wood worker, today con-
Girmed reports that physicians pre-
dict birth of quintuplets for her
in May or sooner.
She said X-ray pictures were ia
ken when she went to a hospital.
Callahan. at work today in the
furniture factory which employees
him, could not be reached for COM
ment immediately
Callahan is one of 13 children
OF Thomas Callahan of Thomasville,
Ga. He WAS born In Macon, Ga.
His father was twin.
Although her attending physi-
clan was reluctant to predict any
thing other than a multiple birth,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-21
Paper Says James
Roosevelt TO Wed

NEW YORK. March 81. up
The New York Daily Mirror said
today that James Roosevelt. recent
" divorced eldest son of the presi-
lent. had admitted" he intended
to marry Romclle Schneider his
curse.
RoosevetS wife. the former Betsy
Gushing. will not receive her final
divorce decree until March. 1941.
After that, the newspaper quoted
Roosevelt as saying, he Will marry
Miss Sc elder
Roo .elt sad he came to New
York on a business trip and to vi
sit his children, Sara, 7, and Kate
1, whose custody was awarded their
mother.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-21

she said x-rays sent to Johns Hop
kins hospital at Baltimore confirmed
belief here that quintuplets had
been conceived.
Mrs. Callahans condition was dcs-
cribed as satisfactory by the physi-
clan.
TIE expectant mothers husband,
Emory Callahan, 80, whom she
married last July II at Covington,
Ala, after an elopement would not
believe quintuplcts were expected
until she had talked to him for an
hour to convince him. Then. She
added, he said he WI glad of it,
The Galatians share Il cnttaP"
here with two other couples, living
in one room They started married
life with so cents and have not been
financially we'll off since.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-21
BY MILTON BRONNER
"a service staff Correspondent

Nh NVTNIVV NIdII NUIINNPUTI0'NII'
LONDON. March d Here N
wartime Britain where great pride
is taken IN the successful. flights
over Germany by the Royal Ar
Force-therc are those III parha-
mentary and literary circles who are
complaining because the planes Go
mol crop bombs instead Of leaflets.
This has mad no effect upon the
Chamberlain government The pow
ers that br are we'll satisfied. Il
there Is to be any bombing OF cities.
they are not golng 10 start II
They are pleased when Hitler
roarS at one OF his hand-plckcd
audiences that he does not mind
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-21
Pamphlet Raids on Germany
Strike Blow at NQzi Morale

enemy aircraft have flown 600
miles over German territory to
act rs postmen for those leaflets.
,. When there is no report of
these British aircraft being
brought down. he begins to doubt
Gocring'S boast that Germany'S
defense against enemy bOmbers is
imprcgnaDlc.
8. The German knows that if
the NaZiS begin bombing British
or French cities, the enemy can
make terrible reprisals. He can
easily figure that the same air.
craft which cropped harmless
leaflets can drop death dealing
bombs.
All this wakes him up from his
comfortable dream He begins tc
doubt the total efficacy Of Goering's
antl-alrcraft batteries and his red
white and bNc 5earChlightS.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-21
GERMAN NOR ALE
BREAKING DOWN

Doubt begins to creep into the
Germans mind what if his papers
and the broadcasters and the Nazi
soap-boXcrS lave lied to him. or
exaggerated their own power and
minimi2ed that of the enemy.
Particularly upsettng is the fact
that in their last night flight over
Berlin the cheeky British airmen
dropped their calling cards in the
shape of flares. SO that all the Nazis
in Inter den Linden and Wilhelm
strasse. where Hitler lives. would be
sure to know they had visitors.
All this being SO. neither the
spoken eloquence Of some potent
members of the House of Commons
nor the powerful writings of a cele-
brated novelist will move the Brit
ish cabinet to change its policy.
The word remains: No bombing
of German cities as long as the
Na2is don't start anything of that
kind. $50
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-21

l. When German finds in
his front ward British leaflet.
even though ne dare not read it.
~ knows that Nazi leaders have
led tn him in minimizing the
ability Of III" British air force.
II he lives in Berlin. he knows
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-21

The British dropping their "id!otic
n4NlNh LEI $. al,nlli,G
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-21

6 IL the NaN wall of ignorance
with their flights over GERMANY.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Every Stradivarius Not
A Fortune, Expert Warns

CHICAGO.-If your hope of sud-
den wealth rests in a violin case
labeled Stradivari, 1716, you may as
well abandon it.
Kenneth Warren, violin appraiser
I for a national music instrument
arm, counSels:
1T is significant that of all the
hundreds of so-called Cremonese vi
olins that have been brought in for
appraisal not a single genuine in
strument has ever been found.
Hundreds of persons a year who
have violins bearing the labels of
the Cremonese makers, Stradivari,
Guarnieri and Amati, come to US to
sell them.
These instruments were not
made TO deceive anyone. They
were originally made as models
from those of the Cremonese and a
ticket put inside to indicate they
were copies of the maker In the
course of time people think they
were the original instrument There
are only about $50 Stradivari instru-
ments left and We know where all
Of them are. The chances of anoth-
CT turning up are exceedingly slim. |"
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Kansas Food Terminal Is
One of Largest in World

FORT WORTH, TEXAS. - A
"a, 000, 900 public market at Kansas
City, Kan, one of the largest in
the world, is among 81, 600, 0O0
worth of Public Works administra-
ton projects now under construction
in seven southwestern states.
Director George M. Bull said that
the Kansas City food terminal is
approximately one-haf finished. 1t
will be a central marketing point
for fruits, vegetables and farm pro-
duce from 40 states and a distribu-
ton center for the entire Midwest.
Two refrigeration buildings are in
cluded, one five stories high and
the other one story. Four produce
buildings will cost nearly 1850, 600
and a farmers market with selling
space for 500 farmers will cost an
other 100000. The Missouri river
levee, upon which the food terminal
borders, will have 5000, 900 worth of
Improvements in the completed
project.
A s2,0OO,OOO grain terminal,
financed by PWA, also will be built
on the levee.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Migrant Labor
Seen as Pariahs-
Study by WPA Finds Rowing
Agricultural Workers
Are Ostracized.

PHOENIX.-Stories of exploitation
and social ostracism of migratory
workers presented in THE Grapes
OF Wrath" and other works OF fic-
ton are closely paralleled in a re-
port on migrant families prepared
by PWA research workers.
The report, entitled Migratory
Cotton Workers in Arizona" gave q
detailed account of the activities Of
5l8 migrant families in this state
early in 1888
1t said homeless workers were at
tracted to Arizona by distorted ad-
vertising, only to find below subsist-
ence wages, unsanitary living condi-
tons, and social barriers as rigid
and infiexible as to be found any
where.
Seek Cheap Labor.
Although AriZOna'S most valuable
crop (cotton) cannot be harvested
without Them" the report said,
"itinerant cotton pickers are regard
ed as pariahs, and farmers feel
their children are degraded by con-
tact in school with poor migrants"
The report said as much as $780,
600 had been spent by Arizona pro-
ducers in a single year to attract
a cheap labor supply to this state.
Mediums usually used were display
advertising in newspapers, hand
bills, and publicity, all promising
good pay, good living conditions in
the camps and a healthy, salu-
brious climate"
Actually" the investigators re-
ported, possible earnings appear to
have been much lower than those
stated in the advertising Under
prevailing wages their jobs ordinar-
lily provide only a meager day-to-
day existence at best, and the work
ers have no reserves to tide them
over slack times"
Average earnings of a cotton pick
er were found to be about IS to So
a week, and only in one instance
was worker able to earn as much
as $16 a week. Large families with
four workers or more averaged q
gross income of 1888 for q weeks
work
Willing TO Work.
The report presented scene of
poor living conditions In the camps,
describing them as filthy, make
shift collection of shelters, frequent
ly lacking even elementary sanitary
facilities"
Many migrants must appeal for
direct relief upon completion of the
harvest, the report said, because
their meager earnings will not carry
them as far as the next area where
a harvest may be under way.
THE migrants plan for further
movement at the end of the season
reflects his bewilderment and hope
lessnesS in a situation where few
J. had enough money to 60 anywhere.
The very fact of this migration
is an indication of his will to under
60 hardships for the sake of job.
The migrant workman is not a relief
applicant by choice, but by bitter
necessity"
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Louis Pasteur Is Called
First Citizen of France

Pasteur is a household word today
because Louis PaSteur first pasteur-
lied milk.
His studies in fermentation led
him TO the study of other forms of
bacteria. Diseases were ravaging
the silk worm farms of France. He
conquered them and the industry
was restored.
Huxley said Pasteur's work saved
France more than the war indem-
nifty she paid to Germany after 1870.
When pressed by the emperor to
capitalize on it, the noted chemist
said: in France scientists would
feel that they had lowered them
selves by such procedure.
Because of intense application in
his laboratory, Pasteur suffered a
paralytic stroke at IS but he
did his greatest work in the q years
following, when physically but half
q man.
Seeing French soldiers dying with
gangrene after operations, he gave
himself to the study of bacteria in
human diseases. The doctors pooh
poohed his ideas. They called him
an upstart. But antiseptic surgery
was born.
Then he turned to hydrophobia.
He won again with his serum and
the Pasteur institute was estab-
hshed. Death by rabies was reduced
to less than per cent. Today
there's a Pasteur institute in almost
every large city.
who's the greatest man France
has produced?" asked a Partisan
editor. A generation before, Napo-
leon would have been elected. But
the newspaper poll showed Pasteur
first; Napoleon far down the list.
"Pasteur saved more lives than
the man of destiny destroyed"
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Minerals In Soil Add
To Span of Human Life

The average persons life can be
heightened about a dozen years
through scientific addition of min
erals to the soil, in the opinion of
DR.. Charles Northern, research
worker.
Crops grown in poor soil produce
poor food products, lacking in min
erals and vitamins," DR.. Northern
explained. "Our problem was to
discover a means of adding this
mineral content to the soil"
Discovery of mineral colloids, add
ed to the soil as a fertilizer, has
supplied this missing link" he be-
heveS.
DR.. Northern set down several re-
suits of his experiments. In Florida,
orange groves infested with scale
became clean and bore fruit with
greatly increased vitamin content
after mineral colloids were added.
Land used for growing potatoes,
celery, cabbage and other vege-
tables was enriched with the min
erals. Laboratory tests of the new
crops showed twice the mineral con-
tent of vegetables grown on adjoin-
ing soil.
A dairy used the process on graz
ing land for cows with the result
that a glass of milk contained all the
minerals needed for an adult during
a day
with soil depleted of natural min
erals after years of usage, people
cannot eat sufficient quantity of
food to supply these necessary
ITEMS" DR.. Northern declared.
Farm experts have recognized
the problem and have urged rota-
ton of crops, allowing the land to
lie idle every third or fourth year,
and similar methods.
"But land would have to lie idle
for many years to regain the min
erals which have been taken from
it. The discovery of mineral col
loids will mean better crops and a
healthier and longer-living nation"
DR.. Northern said 16 mineral ele-
ments are indispensable for normal
nutrition. Calcium, phosphorus and
iron are the most important. He
explained that calcium regulates
nerve activity, co-ordinateS other
mineral elements and if i is lack
ing ricketts,, bone deformities and
bad teeth may develop.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Final Burial

Egypt is planning to rebury its
Pharaohs, sealing them down under
the earth never again to be seen by
the eye of man. Once they were
exhibited in the museum at Cairo,
but later were removed by the gov
eminent to the mausoleum built as
a tomb for Zaghloul Pasha, national
hero, who died nine years ago. Last
year the government moved Zagh-
loul from a temporary tomb and
reburied him in the mausoleum,
moving the Pharaohs back to the
Cairo museum. Now it is proposed
to build q special mausoleum for
them either at CHA, near the pyra-
mids, or at Heliopolis. Throughout
the land thousands believe that
wrestling the Pharaohs from their
tombs has brought bad luck.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Ennthall 1rnnkr

The John w. Heisman Memorial
trophy is awarded each year to the
football player deemed the most val
liable. 1t perpetuates the memory
of a football coach and gridiron
mentor at many colleges for 80
years The Robert w Maxwell tro-
ply, also awarded to the outstand-
ing player, is named in honor OF
Robert W. (Tiny) Maxwell, a for
mer an-America player, sports writ
er and gridiron official The August
v. Lambert Memorial trophy, en-
blematic of leadership among east
ern gridiron teams, was donated by
Victor A. and Henry L. Lambert OF
New York city in memory Of their
father, an ardent football fan.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Florida Now Protecting
Nearly Extinct Alligator

MIAMI. = Live baby aIligators,
stuffed alligators, alligator bags and
pocketbooks-for years familiar ar
ticles in Florida souvenir shops
will be difficult for tourists to find
this winter because Of a new law.
The state law, intended to protect
alligators from hunters who have
brought near extinction the reptiles
once common in Florida, is effective
In only 10 of Florida's 81 counties,
but those 10 counties take in major
tourist centers-
The law imposes q closed season
on alligators and forbids possession
or sale Of live er dead alhg at0rs Or
alligator pfedustA -ss~.a.~,
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Cooking Lesson

Left at home to cook his supper
while his wife was at the movies, a
28-year-old husband in Prague,
Czecho-Slovakia, became so alarmed
when the porridge boiled over and
filed the kitchen with steam that
he rushed to the theater, calling
loudly for his mate The attend
ants objected to this disturbance of
the performance, but the frenzied
man threatened them with violence
if they interfered Charged at the
police court with disorderly conduct,
he was bound over for II months.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Cure That Slice

Inspired by the increasing use Of
mirrors by college swimmers and
oarsmen to improve their strokes,
sporting goods dealers, Libbey-Ow-
ens-Ford Glass company reports,
are boosting business by installing
large plate glass mirrors so that
customers for golf and tennis equip
ment may be entranced by first
hand observation Of their own
form.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
British Build New Plane
To Meet Invasion Threat

LONDON.-A source close to the
air ministry said that production Of
the new British Defiant two-seated
fighting plane was being hurried to
meet the possibility of a German
invasion Of the Netherlands.
The plane was described as "the
greatest fighting plane ever made"
It has wing area of Is square feet,
carries a power-operated gun turret
and has a 1,000-horsepower motor.
Pilots who have tested it were said
to have been "bewildered" by its
range and, maneuverability.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Music Typewriter

Musical composition may be
speeded up by new music type
writer. The keyboard has 135 mu-
steal notes, as well as the letters
and figures, and al attachment en-
ables the composer to write his
notes above or below the staff. The
device was shown al the Leipzig
fair, the city which gave many IA
nous composers to the world.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
'Make-Up' Ont

mad rs Turk" just about de-
scribes the state Of the school teach
ers in Istanbul, who have been for
hidden by Saffet Arikan, minister
Of education,> to use cosmetics, pow
der, rouge and paint on their finger.
nails. Neither are they allowed to
wear jewelry or short skirts. A
heavy tax falls on those who in
fringe on this law! But Turkish
women are not the only ones to suf-
fer from such queer taxes. The
tax on Italian bachelors has been
increased by about II shillings a
year, and in Graz, Austria, those
who place headstones on their dogs
graves are mulcted SIT. In some
parts of France dogs are taxed
according to weight.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Scan Nut Tree

Soap nut, the fruit of hand
some tree found throughout India,
has been used to wash wooden fab
RIGS, silks and jewelry since an
cient times, even IN preference to
soap. Scientists today have learned
to extract the essential matter, sa-
pOnin, from the nut for use in the
manufacture of soapless shampoos,
as a foam stabilizer, and as an
emulsifying agent for vegetable and
essential oils.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
23-Inch-Tall Czech Baron
Wants a Chance at Hitler

FLORENCE, S. C.-Baron Rich
ard Nowak, "a mighty mite from
Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, who stands
q inches tall in his stocking feet,
says his greatest desire is, to get
Adolf Hitler in q dark room.
81 hate Hitler" growled the 10.
year-old midget. 81 wouldn't want
to say what I'd do to him alone in
q dark ROOM"
While he admits he wouldn't be
able to outslug the German dicta-
tor, the baron said, I'D crawl all
ever him like q hornet."
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Coast Guard Is
! Given Hard Job
Theirs the Task of Keeping
Ewope's War Away From
2 American Shores.

] WASHINGTON. - The United
States coast guard is grimly tackling
the biggest and most difficult job In
It's century and half Of existence.
Its land, sea, and air forces have
been expanded into a vast "neu-
Itrality patrol designed to keep Eu-
ropes war away from Americas
shores.
The nations third fighting serv-
Ice" already has started taking over
its part in enforcement of the pro-
iclaimed 300-mile Atlantic safety belt
laround the Americas.
Part of the job is to warn mer-
chant and passenger ships of lurk-
ing raiders.
! Organized in 1890 as a "baby pa
troll unit" of Is small vessels TO sup
press piracy and collect customs
revenues, the coast guard within a
few weeks will be operating for "a
hours day fleet larger than those
lof many nations.
Strength Nearly Doubled.
With the addition of 1000 men or
4
oscillation of the lighthouse service
facilities and personnel of 5000 un-
der one command, and immediate
recommiSsioning of 60 or more addi-
tional craft, the coastal patrol or
ganization will be operating at
strength nearly double any II has
known in peacetime
fol 70
be engaged. The feet of recommis-
stoned boats will join an already ex-
banding feet of more than 400 craft,
including "a large cruising cutters
and approximately so smaller cut
tiers.
The coast guards air force now
totals SIS planes, seven of which
have a 2,0OO-mile cruising radius,
and are equipped for landing and
aiding distressed persons far at sea.
An unrevealed number of planes is
to be added
Auxiliary shore facilities are to be
enlarged. Radio and telephone COM
munication facilities are already in
process of expansion.
Liz lat HCCb Ids OCCll dAlOhlCN
specific zones in the hundreds of
thousands of square miles to be pa
trolled from Canada to the Canal
Zone. Ranging even farther at sea
will be a new armada of recommis-
stoned World war destroyers.
New York Waters Vital.
Most vital of the districts under
coast guard surveillance is an area
of 10000 square miles around the
harbor of the city of New York, into
which run the worlds greatest sea-
lanes.
Responsible for supervision of this
giant task is Capt. r. w. Dempwolf,
head of the New York division.
lover Captain Dempwolf, and head
of the entire organization is the
coast guards commandant, Rear
Admiral Russell r. Waesche.
General operations of the navy's
patrol feet, expected to number
more than 100, will be directed by
Rear Admiral Hayne Ellis, COM
mander of the Atlantic squadron,
aided by Commander James L. Hol-
loway Jr., his chief of staff. In
some areas, it will include coast
guard units.
! Under certain circumstances, as
suggested by President Roosevelt,
the extraordinary policing surveil-
lance may be extended as far as
200 miles to sea, along the more
heavily Travelled routes used by
liners where submarine activities
4
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Submarine Cable

Gutta-percha, a sap obtained from
trees in Java, Malay, Sumatra and
other tropical regions, and balata,
made by evaporating latex from the
forests of the Amazon districts, Ven
ezuela, Brazil, Panama and the
British and Dutch Guianas, are
used for submarine cable insulation.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Interesting Manuscript

What is called THE most inter
esting MS. in England can be seen
by visitors in the Library of Corpus
Christi college at Cambridge. 1t is
the copy of the Gospels which Pope
Gregory sent with Augustin when he
made his first missionary journey to
convert the English to Christianity
in the year 597.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Eighty Miles to the Gallon

Development Of carburetors which
will enable automobiles to; 60 80
miles on one gallon Of gasoline has
been predicted, by Charles F.. Ket-
tering, research director of General
Motors. - 500.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Eyeless Eden

Tourists returning from Greece
report that Karges, the capital of
the Mount Athos religious colony, is
the only place in the world where
neither women nor female domes-
tic animals are to be found. Wom-
en-, cows, mares and hens are taboo.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Portable Heat

A steam radiator which may be
carried from room to room has been
perfected by company in Detroit.
Weighing 40 pounds and % feet in
length, the water in it is heated by
electricity from a wall socket.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Black Forests Color

The Black Forest is never black.
In winter it is arctic white: in June
il is scarlet with cranberries and
yellow with arnica; in the fall it is
russell with autumn. and blue gray
with miSts. H~
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Wild Bears

Most of the Russian wild boars
enumerated by game census-takers
in America are in Graham county,
North Carolina. They were import
ed by an Englishman who planned
a game preserve.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26
Ancient Tree

The General Sherman, tree in
Sequoia National park, is calculat-
ed to be 1000 years old. Thus the
272-foot sequoia was sapling be-
fore Babylon's glory
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1940-01-26

In most American states a per
son absent seven years without ex-
PLANTATION may legally be presumed
to be dead.