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Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
Chamber Directors
Subsidize Cavalry
Reading Room

The Ell Centro chamber of COM
merce Wednesday night voted to
pay the rent for three months at
the reading room maintained on
Sixth street for eleventh cavalry
men and to cooperate with other
agencies in making the place pleas
ant and attractive.
Members of the W.C.TU., army
officers, and the Rev. DR.. w. A,
Nc Cleneghan, representing tn .
Ministerial association met wit h
chamber directors to plan for its
sponsorship. The Scheniman paper
company donated paper supplies
and light fixtures. Edgar Brother
Hardware comany radio, and the
W.C.T.U. keeps the cookie jar full.
Since the room opened 80 dozen
cookies were served the cavalrymen
Curtains and window shades are
needed. W.C.T.U. members said.
Chamber directors gave a rising
vote of thanks to Huntington Nc
Kusick and Herman Taylor for
building tables for the reading room.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
CavaICade Only
One Week Away as
Plans Completed
Rehearsals Held Daily
For Giant Pageant of
Valleys Early Days

CALEX1CO, Feb. 13. =
With the Cavalcade of I'm.
perial Valley only a week
away, Calexico residents to.
day rushed preparations in
order to be ready for the opening
events next Thursday morning.
Dairy rehearsals of the acts anG
scenes in the Cavalcade performance
were in order throughout the city
Residents prepared historic costumes
and home and street decorations tc
add to the festivity Of the occasion
Max Brents, grand marshal OF
the parade, said parade entries still
were coming in. Cash awards will
be given the first, second, and third
winners in the floats section. In
cluded in this unit of the line OF
march will be floats from Mexicali
Brawley, Calexico, WestmOrland,
Calexico, Chinese association, Fill
pino association, japanese associa-
ton, and the Imperial Irrigation
district. Some of the cities have
two entries.
Loving cups with the Desert Cav
alcade insignia will be awarded for
first and second places in the mer-
chants window displays, Oldest mo-
Continued on Page 2, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
Laddie, Dog Who Refused Food While
Grieving for Absent Master. Dies at
Army Post Despite Efforts Of Science

with complicating heart LESSONS
anemia and the affect of old age
That was what the doctors said
But Scott, his buddies of the army
and all the other millions who fol
lowed Laddie's flight across country
knew there was something else,
1t was Laddie died of broker
heart The heart was broken be-
fore Laddie ever came west, Ano
when the army, the airlineS. the
newspapers and the public finally
found out about him, it was toe
late.
Laddie never really recognized
Scott or felt the touch of his hand
For the dog was too i'll when he
arrived to appreciate he was with
his master for whom he had beer
longing four months.
The doctors did everything they
could tor the dog-both in Kansas
enroute and here. but Laddie was
too far gone to be saved
Scott bought Laddie, who was
mostly airedale" for SIS three OF
four years ago and took him to the
family farm III Chanute, Kansas.
The youth and the dog spent
many happy hours together chasing
rabbits and romping over the Kan
sas plains.
Laddie was a good hunter and
great pal" Scott said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
12Face Jail as
Draft Evaders

Selectivc Service authorities i'll
Ell Centre were prepared Thursday
10 turn IL names over to the
federal district attorneys office for
prosecution.
The l2 Imperial Valley men had
ignored calls for a year of military
training.
Considering that more than TOO
men have been considered for SER
vice by the southend board, the
number of delinquents was describ-
ed as remarkably low.
The men were Aurelio Camacho
Ernesto Ozuna Of Holtville; Alberto
Martinez and Jose Morales OF
Mexicali; Emilio Ziganay, Alberto
Aquinio, Ignacio Somero, Ysmial
Tapia, Juan Tabag, Selmon Stone,
Hilario Rosario and Maurice Her.
randez,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13

FORD ORD, Cal, Feb. 13. CUP)-
Laddie, 10-year old airedale whose
devotion to his master led him to
starve himself after their separa-
ton, suffered a relapse and died
today in Preside OF Monterey hos
pital.
The dog was seriously i'll when
brought heie by airplanc from Kan
sas earlier this week and all that
army veterinarians could do failed
to save him.
Nor did the presence of his mas
ter, Private Everett Scott of army
forces stationed at Fort Ord, affect
the dogs condition.
Laddie, who stopped eating after
Scott left home four months ago to
enlist, was too i'll to recognize Scott.
The dog was taken to the hospital
Immediately after his arrival by
plane and Scott spent as much time
at the hospital as his army duties
permitted.
A bulletin announced that Lad
dies died at 9:32 am. The doctors
said the cause was gastro-entritis
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13

Une-TOdQ SeIldUOlS, tiiC dOiiAAAooAu
ton majority limited to Sl,300,0OO,-
900 the amount of aid which Presi-
dent Roosevelt would be authorized
to give foreign powers without fur
ther action by congress.
The administration majority turn
ed down, 13 to 9, a suggested provl-
sion that nothing IN the bill would
confer additional power to send
u S. army or navy forces outside
the western hemisphere and the
territories and possessions OF the
United States including the Philip
pine Islands.
Fourteen Democrats and one Re
publicans-Sen. Wallace H. White.
r., Me.-voted for the administra-
ton bill Six Republicans and two
Democrats opposed it.
Committee Chairman Walter F.
George, D., Ga, described as vital
the major administration conces-
sions which he said retain in con-
gress the full control over the purse
strings"
The senate acted rapidly on the
momentous bill. Testimony was con-
cluded Tuesday afternoon when
Wendell L. Willkie touched off a
controversy by declaring that the
United States should transfer to
Britain 10 to IS destroyers month.
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox said
he was against depicting the fleet
of any more destroyers. Willkie
countered that he had the opinion
of high official - presumably
meaning the president-that such
transfers could be made without
seriously impairing the American
navy.
The principal change made by
the senate committee was to put
the ,3O0,O0OO0O limit on the
amount of aid that can be provided
without further congressional au-
thorization.
The house had adopted a provi-
sion limiting to that figure the
amount of U. S. army and navy
material that could be sent abroad
from supplies now on hand or on
order. 1t left the president with
power to place new orders for any
amount of supplies for Britain or
other foreign nations. and let him
ask congress later for the necessary
| funds.
The senate committee, in an effort
to overcome opposition to what was
| termed this blank check" authori-
ty, went further. 1t provided that
when and if the president lends,
leases or gives away the $1,000 ,000.-
900 of material now on hand or on
order he cannot enter into any fur
ther commitments for materials
Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
Giant Sequoia
Falls to Ground

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK,
Cal, Feb. 13. (UPl - A giant
sequoia tree, one of the worlds
oldest living things. crashed dur
ing a recent storm, smashing the
summer cabin of Park Superin-
tendent Il. T. Scoyen, II was
learned today.
The tree, a. mejestic sequoia
gigantea, was located in the giant
forest near winter headquarters
of Sequoia Park, but IL was not
named.
The falling of a sequOia gigan-
tea Is considered such an unusual
occurance that botanists an
tree experts travel great dis.
tances to inspect them. In the
past several years. three sequoias
have fallen, but previous to those
none had been known to crash
for years. '.-
Sequoias are the largest trees
in the world. So
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
New Injunction in
Effect But Strike
Succumbs Quietly
Pickets Few as Sheds
Buck Broken Market
At Peak of Deal

One new restraining order
was in ef feet Thursday
against picket lines and two
had been dissolved as rigOr
mortis set in on the body of
Imperial Valleys l941 lettuce strike.
While mporary injunctionS
brought against pickets at the D.
Arrigo and Sangunetti sheds fell by
the wayside. new restraining order
was granted for Jack Bros. shed IN
BraWley.
Also, Mrs. Jean Hawks was fined
$5 in justice court on a charge OF
interfering with a court order. She
was accused of refusing to accept
service of an injunction while serv-
ing as a picket.
Aside from these brief flurries
the strike front was deathly quiet.
Regardless of restraining orders or
lack of them, pickets were few and
far between and for the most part
were ignored.
Lettuce. meanwhile, moved from
the valley in green flood but
there was not much heart in it for
the operators The market, which
hello marvelously well while fears
of strike violence hung over the
sheds, cracked down beneath 81.
The best went for 81 and 4s for 90,
Demand was only moderate while
the valley sent out 206 cars and Yu-
ma contributed IA cars. Phoenix
shipped six.
Many acres of lettuce waited in
Imperial Valley fields for a harvest
that may never arrive.
NLRB negotiations con tinue q
without new developments Thurs
day but arrival of a new agency
in the controversy between unions
for control of shed labor was rumor-
ed. An unconfirmed report said that
Stanley White of the conciliation
division of the U. S. department
of labor, was slated to visit the val
| ley soon,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
Fair Board Pays
Tribute 10 Hu|se,
Arc1ias at Meet
Resolution Expresses
Regret Two Resigned,
Extends COurteSieS

Regret because Ben Hulse
of Ell Centre and j. G.. Ar
chias Of Brawley resigned
from the Imperial county
fair board was expressed in
resolutions passed this week by re-
naming board members.
The board also extended to the
two former members all the rights
and privileges of ex-officio mem
bers of the board of directors.
Mr.. Archias has rendered an
outstanding service to the Imperial
county fair, to Imperial county, and
to the men associated with him in
the promotion and operation of the
fair a board resolution said.
The resolution dealing with Hulse'S
resignation said:
In reviewing the history of the
Imperial county fair, the names d
certain individuals are pre-eminent.
One of those names is that of Ben
Hulse. to whom much credit must
be given for the organization and
promotion of the fair since its in
ception. For many years he has
served in a creditable manner in
the position of chairman of the
board of directors, in which position
his keen business acumen and ex-
ecutive ability, has been a deter
mining factor in placing the finan-
cial basis of the fair in its present
enviable position.
"In view of the foregoing, be it
resolved:
That the board of directors ten
der appreciation to Mr.. HulSe for
his past services to the fair and
express the hope that he will con-
tinue to serve in a private capacity
commensurate with his ability; and,
That the members of the board
may feel free to consult him regard
ing matters wherein his judgment
and experience will be invaluable" !"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13

nelles, is in the making.
The Germans claimed surface
raiders smashed a British convoy
off Portugal, sinking l3 ships in
Guiding large vessels carrying wal
supplies to Britain. London con-
firmed an attack on a convoy and
reported a wide sweep of Atlantic
waters by powerful Royal Naval
units.
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain
met with Gen. Francisco Franc
at Montpelier for discussions be-
lieved to deal with the Meditarran-
can balance of power. badly dcntro
from the Axis viewpoint by G N
Sir Archibald Wavell's brilliant
successes in Libya.
The Far Eastern reports lent
obvious support t. theories that
Hitler-inspired offensive by The
Japanese may coincide with
spring Axis all-out attack on Brit
ain.
Major japanese naval c2ncen-
trations in the waters of French
Indo- China and Thailand. an as
sembly of 800 Japanese warplanes
on Hainan Island and rapid devel-
opment of japanese military bases
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13

already were running Close W Iie
tops of levees.
The gales over the Panhandle,
which resulted from an intense
low pressure area over the Wichita,
Kan, area. whipped the dust into
clouds so thick that visibility was
reduced to three-quarters OF a mile
Sign boards and trees were boWleo
over and plate glass windows smash
ed. Motorists crept along behind
headlights that were barely visible
Over Amarillo, Tex, the dust rose
to 1000 feet above sea level. Gusts
of 85-miles an hour were reported
at Big Springs, Tex.
Thursday the force of the winds
was almost spent and the storm
which had rolled over Texas, Okla
homa, New Mexico, Colorado and
southwest Kansas, billowed toward
the Obi O River valley, carrying
rain and light snow into the north
central states. Dropping tempera-
lures stilled the winds somewhat in
the dust bowl region and visibility
increased to four to five miles,
Rain already was falling over Kan
sas City and rain or snow was fore
cast over the rest of the southwest.
The renewed downpour In Cali
fornia was forecast as a storm raced
in from the Pacific. There was
hope that it would veer to the north,
sparing the watershed south of the
SiSkivo,lS from floods. At least four
persons have died in the four-day
storm.
A mass of cold air moved SOUTH
ward across the northern Rockies
and the Dakqtas, spreading out fan
wise. The cold was pushing into
the northern middle west which
had been experiencing unseaSonably
warm weather. Pressure continued
high over the Atlantic states.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
e Centre Names
Festival Maid

Miss Paddee Fleming, Central Un-
ion high school junior, Thursday
was selected to represent Ell Centre
as Festival Maid at the Caval-
cade of Imperial Valley in Calexico
four days next week.
She was crowned Princess Lettuce
at the Mardi Gras in Ell Centre
early this month.
During the festival she will assist
Festival Maids appointed by all I'M
perial Valley cities to assist Calexieo
in welcoming Cavalcade visitors.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
LIGHT RAINS DUE,
OBSERVER SAYS

Light rains were in prospect for
most of southern California cncs
again Thursday but Imperial VAL
ley will escape the most recent in
series of storms with. nothing
more serious than high cloudiness,
according to Weatherman Woodrow
C. Jacobs.
A new storm area is located ap-
proximately 600 miles off the coast,
Jacobs said, but will cause only
high cloudiness in the valley. Oc-
casional showers are predicted for
the coast area.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13

gran6stand was built piece by piece
on the coast and is being assembled
at the Imperial grounds.
D. v. Stewart, fair secretary, pre-
dicted the new addition would be
up and completed by opening day.
The forerunner of throngs that
will come to visit the fair during
its nine-day life, several score ex-
hibitors are already visiting the
main exhibit building daily to in
spect booths and prepare for exhib-
its. Painters attacked most of the
buildings and benches glistened with
new paint.
Grounds generally have under
gone a re-decorating The new
building which will house Future
Farmer boys and their stock also
is being handicapped by the agricul-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13

view of the fact that Dean James
M. Lands of Harvard Law School
found no grounds for deportation
after a hearing in 1899.
How many times must a man be
cleared of the same charge before
they leave him alone?s Bridges
asked.
The hearing at which Lands pre-
sided however was concerned only
with the question as to whether
Bridges was a member of a sub
versive organization at the time of
the hearing.
Since then new federal legisla-
ton makes an alien aeportable if
at any time during his residence
in the United States he was affiliat-
ed with a subyersive organization.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13

tural department at Central high
school.
Aside from the booths now under
construction and horses that have
been kept at the grounds for some
time no entries have arrived yet.
At least a dozen head of horses
are in the barns, however, and will
be shown during the horseshow.
Stewart said more than so entries
have been received for the show.
Large rewards for junior live
stock entries were disclosed when
Stewart announced that the prem
iumS in that division will total
$5,11l. This is a tremendous in
crease during the last decade. In
1890 the rewards for young farm
ers totaled only $751;
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
senate HOLDS PURSE STRINGS ON AID
HITLER LooSES ATTACK

in Indc-China backed uo the Far
Eastern threat. Dutch ships were
ordered to neutral ports.
The possibility existed that Ger
man diplomacy might match the
Soviet-Nazi pact of August, 1899
with a somewhat similar Soviet
Japanese pact.
Moscow reported the long stall
ed Russo-Japanese trade talks are
about to be taken up in earnest
en1 that tlim:nary talks fer
settlement of the vexattions fish
cries question have been started.
The Jugoslav- discussions
Presumably would coHcern Jugo-
iavia's position in event a Nazi
nilitary campaign is launched
tContinued on Page 2. Col q
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
Californian Dies
In RAF Service

LONDON, Feb. 13. (UP)-Edwin
Ezell o bison, Sacramento, men,
ber of the American Eagle squad
ron. has been killed while flying
with his air unit, it was reported
in reliable quarters tonight.
Orbison was a former student at
Sacramento State college and was
regarded as one of the outstanding
pilots of the Eagle squadron.
He is the second squadron men,
ber reported killed. Philip Lockrone
was killed Jan. 5.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13

The department OF justice and the
FBI conducted its investigation of
Bridges residence on this basis. and
it was under this law that Attorney
General Robert Jackson ordered the
new hearing. Bridges has been in
the United States 20 years but has
not yet become a citizen.
1t was expected orders for Bridges
arrest would be received here with
in few days and arrangements
then would be made Tor the nam
ing of the trial board and other
details of the hearing IL was be-
lieved the trial would be held IN
the new immigration bureau head
quarters on Silver ave. San Fran
cisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
Filipino Club
Project Studied

An Ell Centro Chamber of Com
merce committee Thursday began
studying the proposal that Filipino
residents of the town build Fill
pino club house for use of the
islanders.
The committee was composed of
Charles L. Childers. Jasper Travers,
John Tyler, and Hazel Gallagher.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13

committee for the second cOnSeCu-
tive day, Arnold said that the prime
ipai abuses by unions occur in the
building industry and in truck
transportation.
This is only a small segment of
labor Arnold said. Nevertheless
it is SO strateSically situated that
enormous costs are passed on to
consumer for the necessities of life
by groups which represent an in
finitesimal portion of the working
men of this country. Higher rents
and higher food prices have great
er effect on the dislocation of an
economic system than restraints Of
trade anywhere else, because they
absorb more purchasing power OF
low-income groups
Arnold, who is head of the justice
departments antitrust division, ex-
planned to the committee that the
supreme courts recent decision in
the Hutcheson case has removed
his authority to institute legal ac-
ton to combat jurisdictional strikes.
In the Hutcheson case, Arnold ex-
planned, the supreme court decided
it must give "hospitable scope" to
a policy of congress as expressed in
the Norris s-LaGuardia act and that
the strike of one union against an
other is exempted from the anti
trust laws.
Because of the decision, he said,
the antitrust division was COM
PEELED" to abandon an indictment
against the Longshoremen's union
Continued on Page 2, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
By UNITED PRESS

Adolf Hitler tangled Great Brit
aims life-lines from the Atlantic
sea lanes to the Pacific Thursday
in a manner that limited at the
pattern Of a possible Axis all-out
spring offensive.
Simultaneous reactions of the
British, Americans and the Dutch
made it appear that extension OF
the war to the strategic Singapore
Netherlands East Indies-Phillip-
pines area is an imminent posi-
bility.
Jugoslav statesmen were reported
taking the well-traveied route t.
Berchtesgaden and a Hitler con-
ference amid rumors that a Nazi
Balkan offensive, presumably di-
rected at Salonika and the Darda-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
It's Persecution
Bird dges Declares

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 49, (UP)-Harry r. Bridges
Pacific coast labor leader today regarded the department
of justice order for deportation proceedings agans
him as another instance of the drive against labor"
Bridges said the order amounts to persecution in
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
Speeded on
GrundStond Roof

Two more truckoads of steel arrived at the county
fairgrounds Thursday wormen moved at top speed to
have the gransand covering ready by the time the
fair opens March |.
The monster metal canopy that will cover the ente
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
Unions BOOSTING
Costs is ChurQe
Assistant Attorney General Declares
Tiny Group in Building. Trucking Class
Increasing Living Expenses for All

WASHINGTON, Feb 13. (UP)-Assistant Attorney
General Thurman W. Arnold said today that offensive
"enormols costs" to the necessities of life
Testfying before the temporary national economic
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
Committee Votes
To Limit FDR in
Gosh for British
Lend-Lease Bill Okayed by Group, Goes
To Floor for Debate Friday; Changes
Restrict Broad Presi Dental Powers

WASHINGTON Feb. 13. (UP)-The senate foreign
relations committee today approved the administration
British aid bill by vote of Is to and sent 1t to the senate
floor for debate expected to begin on Monday.
Making concessions designed to win votes OF mddleo1-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
y AMBl|Ne
@\epoR1ER

Home Again
AAAaaaaaa! Amt it swell? That
wandering A is home again.
Unkindest thrust of yestiddy's A
less column came from backshop
citizen who mumbled.
mo as, huh? Aren't you afraid
someone will suggest you throw
away the other 25 letters in the
aiphabet?'
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
CycIonic Winds
Strike Dust Bowl
Gales Over Panhandle Whip Soil Into
Air. Bowl Over Sisnboards. Smash
Plate Glass Windows, Hamper Au+oists
BY UNITED PRESS

Cyclonic winds that churned the sand and soil of the
"dust bowl" clouds Thursday swired eastward off
the southern plains More rain was forecast in northern
California where swollen by torrenta downpours
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13

No Wranglcr-
Like a postman's holiday, Bob
Flint of the 11th Cavalry decided
to borrow saddle horse from Russ
Sherwood during leisure afternoon.
Russ directed him to the ranch
where the horses were and Bob
started out.
Then came an SOS call by tele-
phone. Russ had to send couple
of high school lads out to help him
catch the nag!
To Bob's credit, however he didn't
need help in riding the horse.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13
Conc Wit It

Gone Wit It
Some one with sense of humor
daubed a warning en- the remains
of Community Center tent at
Holtville. --le sign read:
mo meeting tonight the
wind blew in the tent blew
out
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13

Double Trouble
They're boughten, isn't that en-
ough?" C. p johnson complained
when his wife kept after him to
bolt new license plates upon her
car
But I'll get arrested :. :" walled
Clarabel.
"Well wear 'em around your
, neck!" Johnny suggested unkindly
''Oh. all right y
So Johnny boltcd the tags on and
forgot about it. But several days
later Clarabel happened to take
a gander at one of the tags and
scratched her head One of the
plates was upside down.
1T looks like Chinese" she COM
planned to Johnny.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13

Same Old Story
Also in regard to the license
plates:
You may recall that last year
C. w Fillingame of Calipatria had
difficulty in placing his new auto
mobile tags. He put both tags on
front and then almost went crazy
trying to find the other" tag.
This year he put one tag on front
and then lost the other
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-13

I. V. Lettuce: Demand moderate,
market weak: carloads Z. o. b. cash
track IS S1;4s $.90-S1., 6s 81.
l.. A. hay u. S. No. l. v. $780,
I6; U. S. No. 2 1. v. leafy $15' U. :.
No. 2 Sl2-l2.50; Mpls. Sept. flax
S1.73.