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Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11
by Willis Thornton -.
Unemployment MeIts Away

perhaps permanently, in prepara-
ton for the lonely last-ditch de-
Tense which will be our only al
tentative.
Some day all that will end. Then
the United States will be squarely
up against the problem of whether
it can run a 55000,000- job economy
or whether it must slump supinely
back to a 45 100000 job economy
with 100000 unemployed.
Nobody has the blueprints in
simple terms of just how that is
to be done. But it will be done
America is getting into a mood
in which it believes that what is
necessary to be done, it can do
and will do.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11
WHAT SAFEGUARDS
AND SUPERVISION?

The reopening of three Broadway gam
bling establishments in Ell Centre does
nothing to solve the gambling mess in
Imperial Valley, as far as the public
can see,
Evidently there has been no step to-
ward valley-wide cooperation in the mat
ter Of regulating the so-called legal gam
bling games. Apparently there is still
no fixed policy upon which the Ell Gen.
tro city council, let alone the city coun-
ellis of other cities and the governing
agency of the county, is agreed. Seeming
ingly, law enforcement officials still have
to work in the dark when dealing with
gambling and gamblers.
Ell Centrans have been promised "prop-
er safeguards and proper supervision"
over the re-opened Broadway gambling
houses. The statement should have gone
farther.
What supervision is planned?
Will the city in effect lend its support
to the gambling places by deputizing
special officers who are paid by the pro-
prietors of the places in which they
work? If it does, it is giving the power
of the police force to a private business,
the interests of which often may run
contrary to the best interests of the pub
lie.
What safeguards are planned?
Can the pubic rest assured that illegal
gambling games will not be operated iE
the establishments? Most of the Orien-
tai gambling games are classified under
California law as illegal, yet the Broad
way resorts have depended in the past
chiefly upon the Oriental games to at
tract their customers.
Definitely, what arrangements have
been made, or will be made, to police the
gambling establishments? Will the police
be bound by orders originating from
higher-ups motivated by selfish inter
ests? Or will the police be charged sim
ply with enforcing the law rigidly, re-
gardless whose toes are stepped on?
These may seem like harsh questions.
They are. But so are the rumors which
gain prevalence-rumors maligning the
character of public officials-unless the
law is enforced impartially and thor
oughly, and unless the public officials
take the people into their complete con-
fidence
Public officials can best protect their
own regulations by making their stand
as clear as possible, with no reserva-
tions.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11
by Paul Harrison
Hollywood S Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

Lucie Neville is pinch hitting for
Paul Harrison, now touring army
camps and defense industries.
BY LUCE NEVILLE
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD. May 10 Be
hind the screen When Gloria
Swanson stepped before the camera
recently to begin her role ir
Father Takes a Wife, other play
ers on the set stood and applauded
a great stars return to motion pic
lures. 1t was just pleasant little
incident, but it meant a great deal
more than the thunderous welcome
Miss Swanson received at Para
mount about 16 years ago.
She had married James Henri Ia
Coudraye, and on their way west
she telegraphed Adolph Zukor: Ar
irving with Marquis Thursday on
tsuch-ands train. Please ar
range ovation
Everybody at Paramount was Or
dered to assemble and cheer while
the queen of the studio and her
marquis made a flowerstreWn en-
trance
Speaking of comebacks, it's likely
that Mary Pickford will become a
producer in United Artists, with
Shirley Temple for her protege. Ed
ward Small, a producer in the same
organization, has signed Miss Tenn
pile for series of pictures which
would include several of the famous
old Pickford vehicles. Since Miss
Pickford controis the rights TO those
pictures, it's guessed that She ex-
poets TO help establish a new
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11
ATLANTIC PATROL
(Tulare Times)

American battlewagons are on active
duty in the Atlantic! Within the limits
of President Roosevelt's expanded patrol
policy, the United States ard British
Navies are closely cooperating TO relieve
the Axis blockade of the British Isles
That terse, Illuminating statement of
fact stands out unquestioned in all the
confusion of charges and counter charges
which are emanating from official Wash
ington with regard to this nations posi-
tion on the question of conveying ship
ments to embattled Britain.
Non interventionists and champions
of all-out aid still clash in angry debate
fires of controversy stirred up by Colon
ell Lindbergh's sensational resignation
from the Army Air Corps, still rage, and
Dr. Gallup is still taking public opinion
polls to determine whether the American
people are veering toward war.
But out in the North Atlantic, flying
the American Flag, there are more than
200 destroyers, cruisers, submarine chas-
ers, mine sweepers and reconditioned
yachts-all on patrol along Britain's
principal supply routs from this country.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11

The blanketing unemployment
problem, which spread over the
whole country for the past 10 years
like the glaciers which came down
from the north aeonS ago, is be-
ginning to melt away as those great
glaciers melted under a warmer
sun. The sun today is the defense
program. The change in national
climate may not be permanent, but
at the moment, the glacier is melt
ing into streams OF men flowing in
to the channels of industry.
The unemployed today are esti-
mated at 6,142000 by the National
Industrial Conference Board. A year
ago the census found 8,500000 un-
employed. By next spring, there
is every reason to believe that
another 100000 will find work.
That would leave only 100000 un-
employed.
That would be another 1929 In
that boom year there were almost
100000 without work. Three million
now would be only in the same
proportion to our increased popu-
lation. Probably at least million
more men are working today than
in 1929.
Once more let it be said that the
sun of defense activity which is
melting away unemployment does
not necessarily mean a permanent
rY7l-.
heat wave. 1t will return behind
its clouds when the emergency is
over, as it will be some day, though
not as soon as some people seem
to think.
If Britain and its allies win the
war, it will certainly take them
two years more to do it, perhaps
longer. If they lose it. the defense
economy will be with us Indefinitely
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11
Uranium Crackers
DRAFT ODDITIES

SelectlVe service boards have run
into a million and one different
problems, some humorous, some
tragic, in handling draft cases. See
how quickly you can breeze thru
these questions about draft oddities
l. What World War I hero was
once a conscientious objector to
the 1917 draft?
2. Was it possible for a World
War veteran to register for the
current draft?
3. What big league ball player,
whose feet were found TO be flat
by a doctor, was still put in class
IA, subject to call, after exami-
nation by draft doctors?
4. Could a soldier in the Cana
dian army be drafted into the U. S.
Army?
5. What was the first number
called in the draft lottery last Oc-
tober, and who drew it?
ANSWERS
/. Sergeant Alvin York was q
conscientious objector, but chang
ed his views after talking with a
draft official, and later became a
World War hero.
2. Yes. Adurm Oppenheimer of
Portsmouth, o., a World War vet
eran who had entered the army in
1918 at age Of 13 giving his age as
49,, was still young enough to regi-
ster for the current draft (35).,
3. Hank Greenberg, Detroit IT.
gers fielder, was put in class IA
despite one doctors finding he had
flat feet.
q. Yes. 1t happened to Dick Da-
ley Of Elyria, o., an American citi-
zen who joined the Canadian army
and also registered for the draft.
Home on leave. he was inducted,
and Canada relinquished it's claim.
5. No. l58 was drawn by Secre-
Lary OF War Stimson in Oct. %
lottery.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11
A COUNTRYWIDE AGREEMENT
WOULD SOLVE THE PROBLEM

Possibly the council was justified on
economic grounds in permitting the
Broadway games to reopen. There is,
as reported i'm this column recently, the
argument that merchants here lose trade
if gambling is shut down in Ell Centro
and permitted in other valley cities or
rural areas without complete supervi-
sion.
That, however, is an excuse rather
than reason. 1t derives from a situa-
ton which could be corrected with the
proper active leadership.
The fact is that no one city should be
penalized for attempting to clean up
an undesirable situation. Neither should
such an undesirable situation be allowed
in any other city, or in the rural areas.
Imperial Valley needs a gambling
treaty" between its cities, with the coun-
ty supervisors as parties to it. Such an
agreement, setting up uniform standards,
would soon eliminate the dirty mess the
valley finds itself in where gambling
is concerned.
No such agreement will be reached,
however, as long as the public officials
sit back in lethargy, each one waiting
for the other fellow to act, each one re-
fusing to take the initiative, each one
stunning leadership.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11
by Peter Edson...
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, May 10 - One
sure by-product Of the current ef-
fort on the part of both business
and government to keep prices from
climbing out of sight will be a
big advance in consumer educa-
ton, a movement on the part of
retailers and manufacturers to tell
customers exactly what's in their
product and why the price is what
it is.
This fact stands out as one con-
cluSion resulting from Department
of Commerce conference on con-
sumer goods. The conference was
promoted by the Retailers Advisory
Committee. a business organization
which called in over 400 representa-
tives of 50 food, textile, clothing
and other trade associations to see
where business fits into the govern
ment price control problem.
RETAILERS
SEE LIGHT
This conference emphasized the
fact that a majority of retailers
have already adopted the far-s sighted
policy that it is to their advantage
to keep prices down, to prevent
price spirals, and furthermore tc
do this as much as possible on a
voluntary. cooperative basis with
out government price fixing -.
This may not be the most world
shaking news to come out of Wash
ington these days. but as it hits
1870 million people in the pocket
book, right where they live, it is
fraught with significance at that,
so here it is.
What is happening is that as
more and more of the country's
productive capacity is taken up by
defense orders, less capacity is left
for business -as-usual production for
civilian use. At the same time, en-
ployment goes up, wages are going
up. and there is greater consumer
demand. The tendency is for the
prices of consumer goods to rise
because supply can't meet demand.
This has resulted in a number
of things. There has been a certain
amount of scare advertising-tell-
ing people to buy now because
prices were going up or to order
now because there would be short
ages later. In an effort to keep
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11

Experitionary iunkets for stars
and press are likely to reach South
America soon The Producers As
sociation and Jock Whitney's Pam
American good -willers are figuring
on a trip to Rio. maybe in the
army's new huge BIG, which could
take 125 passengers nonstop to
Brazil.
On the silly side, Paramount is
planning junket to nowhere for
the first showing of World Pre-
miere." a comedy with John Bar
rymore which burlesques all such
studio stunts. The idea now is to
rent an ancient train for the party,
shuttle it around yards, SidingS and
jerkwater lines. and finally preview
the picture in some ghoSt-tovai
opery house.
If this country doesn't go to war
pretty soon, Hollywood yachtsmen
are likely to arm their boats and
begin conveying films to England.
All the studios have lost costly
prints in the battle of the Atlantic
but 20th-Fox is hardest hit. Tall,
Dark and Handsome" was sunk
with a Swedish vessel recently, and
that's the fourth shipment of films
which presumably are now wowing
the mermaids
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11
GABLE-TRACY
STAR IN INDIES

Most popular picture in Holly
wood just now is one being eX-
hibited only at private parties. It's
q test made of Clark Gable and
Spencer Tracy when they were Sc
lecting the underwear for a So
quence in Boom Town" irving
Hoffman knows temperamental
actress who took blood test. It
came back marked "Carbolic Acid"
Robert Montgomery will die four
times in his new picture called
Heaven Can Wait He's shot,
drowned in bathtub, frozen in a
refrigerator and killed in q plane
crash. And it's comedy! Fritz
Lang is directing Man Hunt, one
of the bitterest anti-NaZi pictures,
and is relishing every foot of it. The
reason Lang fled Germany was
because Joe Goebbels ordered him
to do a biographical flicker glori-
Tying Hitler.
New schedule for the travels of
Bing Crosby and Bob Hope includes
The Road to Moscow. Hope alone
will take time to make an aviation
musical for Sam Goldwyn in the
role of a pilot of a Pan-American
clipper
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11

EDITORS NOTE: The foIlOlcin0
editorials are presented as interesting
opinions Uoiced by editors elsewhere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11

Gold wire has been drawn so
fine that it weighs one ounce to
$500 yards and makes human hair
look coarse and thick in compar-
iSon.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11

The sword of fire seen hanging
over Jerusalem before its destruc-
tion may have been Halley's
comet
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11
Did You Know?

Every year malaria-b ri n G
mosquitoes are responsible for the
deaths of between two and three
million people.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11

The Great Pyramid is 48O feet
high.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11
Thought for the Day

But rather rejoice, because your names are written
in heaven-Luke 1920.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11

MEMBER
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Editorial Association. Cali
fornia Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11

America s Sweetheart.
JUNKETS
GET SCREWY
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11

INDEPENDENT
IMPARTIAL
and
INDIVIDUAL
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-11

Lucie Neville is pinch hitting for
Paul Harrison, now touring army
camps and defense industries.
BY LUCE NEVILLE
Evening star., 1941-12-19
Miss Jennie H. CIaughton
Funeral Rites Tomorrow

Funeral services for Miss Jennie
Helena Claughton, 78, poet, who died
Wednesday at the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. H. G.. johnson, 1901 Ar
gonne place NV, will be held at
II am. tomorrow at the Speare
funeral home, 1909 H street NV.
The Rev. Albert Evans, associate
minister, New York Avenue Presby-
terian Church, will officiate. Burial
will be in Rock Greek Cemetery.
Poems by Miss Claughton have
been published from time to time in
national magazines, and some have
been included in anthologies of
poetry. She was born in Alexandria
Va, the daughter of the late H. o
Claughton, attorney. and Jane Att
we'll Claughton. Miss Claughton
moved here in 1876.
Besides Mrs. johnson, she leaves
a nephew, Claughton West, Of this
city.
Evening star., 1941-12-19
Red Cross War Fund
Gets S2,159,S29
In Six Days
A. T. st. Gives $500, 900;
Other Corporations Make
Large Contributions

Contributions totaling 2,159 ,829
have been made to the $4,000 900
Red Cross war fund since the cam
paign was announced officially six
days ago, Norman H. Davis, national
chairman, reported today.
The donations have been received
from all parts of the country, he
said. and range from the large gifts
of corporations, foundations and in
dividuals to pennies contributed by
children.
Among the largest sums received
are s5OO,0O0, from the American
Telephone and Telegraph Co.; $780,
900, United States Steel Corp; $3.50,
600, Standard Oil of New Jersey;
100000, Chase National Bank OF
New York; $50,000, McGregor Fund
Detroit; $4,000. New York Life In
Surance Co.; $4,000, Bankers Trust
Co., New York; $4,000, First Ma
tional Bank of New York; $35 900
General Foods Corp; $25 900, Allis-
Chalmers Manufacturing Co., anc
$4,000, Pullman Co.
THE very substantial contribu-
tions from some of the Nations
largest corporations" Mr.. Davis said
indicate a patriotic desire on the
part of business to support the Rec
Cross in it's vital services to oul
armed forces. However. the Rec
Cross acts for all of our people
and hopes for support-in no matter
how small the sum-from all of oul
men, women and children"
Evening star., 1941-12-19
Rites for Mrs. Chambers
Will Be Held Tomorrow

High mass will be held at 10 m
tomorrow at Sacred Heart Church
for Mrs. Catherine E. Chambers OF
1407 Monroe street NV, who died
yesterday at Providence Hospital
She will be buried in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
Mrs. Chambers was the wife o1
E. P. Chambers, race horse trainer
and owner She also owned horse:
which ran at Eastern tracks.
Besides her husband, she leave,
four brothers, Al, Tom. Frank anc
Jim Stone, all of Scranton, Pa. anc
two sisters. Mrs. Gertrude Chism o.
Washington and Mrs. Florence Con.
slate of Scranton.
Evening star., 1941-12-19
Dutch Workers
Keep Guns on
Their Desks
speciaI Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SINGAPORE, Dec. 10 (N.A.N.Ao.
Businessmen and workers in the
Netherlands Indies wear their uni
forms to work and keep their guns
on their desks or alongside their
machines to cope with any emer-
gency, British subject who arrived
here BY plane yesterday from Ba-
tavia reported.
Every able-bodied man in the
Dutch islands is in uniform and at
least three -fourths Of the more than
1000 1000 Europeans are in the vari-
Gus armed services. Every available
man in the islands has been trained
in the art of bringing down any
Japanese "paratroopers" who land
and natives and Europeans alike are
determined to make fullest use OF
this training if the need arises.
The Dutch are thrilled by the ex-
ploits of their submarines in the
sinking of Japanese transports OF
Malaga, the Englishman reported
He said the Dutch were not talking
heroics" when they said they woulc
resist the Japanese to the last man
Evening star., 1941-12-19
DrathH
WHITE, CHARLES ]

WHITE. CHARLES D. Entered into
eternal rest on THURSDAY, December 1s'
1941. at his residence, 1921 18th st. NV,
CHARLES D, WHITE, beloved husband OF
Opera Warneld White, brother of Miss
Omia White of Kinston. N. c.; foster ia
ther of Alsetha Quander. brother -in-la q "
of Florence and Albert Warheld. Remains
resting at his late residence after D m
Saturday. December 90.
Funeral Sunday, December 81. at pm. .,
from the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church,
Rev. Walter H. Brooks ofhciating. Rela-
tives and friends invited Interment Lin
coin Memorial Cemetery Monday. Decem
Der 22. ARRANGEMENTS by W. Ernest Jar
Wis. 1S,19,21
WORCESTER. JEAN LOUISE; On Wed:
nesday. December II, 1941.. JEAN LOUISE
WORCESTER; the beloved daughter OF
Charles and Estelle Worcester.
Funeral from the W. w. Deal funeral
home, 4S12 Georgia ave. NV, on Friday
December l9. at 8 pm. Interment Min
nespolis, MINI. I9
WRIGHT. SIDNEY G. On Wednesday
DeeemesE 6f sInNfv II 1s4l = s 81 PToviasnce Hos:
late Edward g. Wrisht and mother ol
OF Edward E. Hargett and Mrs Dorothy
Lo Buono and sister Of j. Sharpe Graves
Friends may call at the Lee funera
home, 4th st. and Mass. ave. ne, where
services will be held on Saturday, Decem.
Der 20, at IL noon. Relatives and friend,
invited. 1nterment Cedar Hill Cemetery. Is
Evening star., 1941-12-19
Rev. Alfred Borrows'
Mother Buried in West

Mrs. Nancy Thalia Barrows, "a,
mother of the Rev. Alfred E. Bar
rows, pastor emeritus of the Eastern
Presbyterian Church here, died Sum
day at the home of her daughter
Mrs. Robert o. Kerry, in Monte
Vista, Colo, it was learned today
Funeral services were held at her
own home in Hansen, Nebr.
Mrs. Barrows made many friends
when she spent several winters here
while DR.. Barrows was pastor OF the
Eastern church. Three other chill
dren. Willard E. Barrows of Juneau
Alaska; Truman A. Barrows OF Han
sen, Nebr., and Mrs. Will Edwards
of Coffeyville, Kans., also survive
Evening star., 1941-12-19
In Mpmnrtat1t

mrs. ipA 3, ASHTON; who died one year
ago today. December 10. 1910.
Farewell! Ny dear beloved friend,
end:
Ny faith and hope may all be in vain.
shall meet again.
In death We are helpless but not hopeless
The immortal soul returns to its Maker.
the body remains under the sod.
Some may doubt that there is heavenly
per, Yes" in every cline and to
~ EDGAR W. TOWNSEND.
BATES, ELNORA. In sad but loving
memory Of my dear sister, ELNORA BATES,
who departed this life three years ago
today, December 19, 1888.
My heart still aches with sadness.
My eyes shed many tears;
God only knows how / miss you
HER 1he fho 81 1hEss SET1E BELL
MeAIPfN e4iGfT Z BOWIE. VII III Who Departed shis
posRIp te RffsmSfE SE lsi aNb 5sfs laura BuRDErrr
BOYLE. EDGAR w. In sad but loving
OF our 6sl1ysd he husoand an6.ft.d ana
this life fve years ago today. December
| 19 1886.
You are not forgotten. loved one.
| Nor will you ever be;
| AS long as life and memory last
we Tis HIS famFEosf WIFE AND CHILDREN.
BRADFORD, MARTHA w. AND SAN
oFp dssf ri wf moser shsssh AZ
and hi father. NTo SANFORD B P. sRADFoRD, De-
| cember 19, 1928.
Abide, with US fast falls the eyentide:
| darkness e.
BROOKS, HANNAH FRANCES. A trib-
q STs a9d to sE1 d m0h %ho
left US five years ago today, December
For ninety-fo years she lived upon earth.
where through tr9u1le spnne or pleasure ner
Now in Heaven she dwells with her loved
She has reaped the reward God siveth
HER 4so6sy ssp cEHRREs BaS4zE MAsg ss5oxE
6e1mantown, sn1nS ns Pa. DANA A. nN'Hs'
EsnsneIsas: Of o., boy: sEREARp9 w: W
ago. December 10. 1898.
Our hearts still ache with sadness,
! God only knows how We miss you, baby,
E. e R!sER Rz sR!s' sss aoTaHR Ais5;
SHANNON. JOHN J. In memory of oul
husband and father JOHN j. SHANNON
I who died two years ago today, December
, 10, 1889.
God saw the road was getting roush.
The hills were hard to climb;
He gently closed his weary eyes
And whispered, Peace be thine"
DEVOTED WIFE AND CHILDREN.
SHARPE, LAURA. In loving memor,
!, of our dear mother, LAURA SHARPE, VIII
j departed this life one year ago today, De
} cember 10. 1910.
You are gone, but not forgotten.
In our thoughts you will always be;
For as long as there is memory
We will ever think Of thee.
y YOUR LOVING DAUGHTER AND BON
N-LAW, HELEN AND DUKE BLACK
u WELDER.
!, TIMMONs, BRYAN WAR1EN. n mem
Z TnHMoNs, who departed thil life .eve
!. yeers ago today. Decemhx 10, 4S$4.
Evening star., 1941-12-19
Gloria Vanderbilt Weds
PAT Di Cicco December 28
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calf, Dec.
19.-Mrs. Reginald Vanderbuilt sald
yesterday that her IT. year old
daughter, Gloria, would be married
to Pasquale (PaD Di Cicco, 81, at
noon Sunday, December %, at the
Santa Barbara Mission.
Actor Bruce Cabot will be best
man. The ushers will be Franchot
Tone and Enrol Flynn, aviation
magnate Howard Hughes and Albert
Broccoli, a cousin of Mr.. Di Cicco.
Mrs. Vanderbilt said Shirley
Cowan of Los Angeles would be
maid of honor. The bridesmaids:
Valeria Cole of London; Frances
Savino of Long Island, N. Y, and
Carol Marcus of New York City.
Only relatives and intimate
friends have been invited to the
ceremony at the old Roman Catho-
lie mission 100 miles north OF here
said Mrs. Vanderbilt. The we'd
ding party will return to Beverly
Hills for a large reception at Mrs
Vanderbuilt's home.
Honeymoon plans have not beer
completed, but Mr.. Di Cicco and hi
bride will make their home here
Evening star., 1941-12-19
Mrs. Ellen Rund Dies;
Painted Roosevelt
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.-Mrs. Ella
Emmet Rand, IS, who painted the
official portrait of President Roose-
welt in 1933-34 for the White House,
died here Wednesday.
Born in San Francisco, she studied
and painted for many years in Bos-
ton, New York and Paris. She was
the great-granddaughter of Thomas
Adds Emmett, brother of the Irish
patriot and one-time attorney gen.
eral of New York, Robert Emmet.
Her portraits, mainly of promi-