davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1941-07-08
Why Must They Die? No. al
Series OF Factual Analyses of D. c. Traffic Fatalities
1e place: Ninth and X streets

The place: Ninth and K streets
NV.
The accident: A 30-year-old man
was fatally injured when struck by
a truck going north on Ninth street
NV. with a green light. The pedes-
trian was in the center of Ninth
street in the south crosswalk of X
street. No witnesses could be found
who saw the victim leave the curb
and police could not learn whether
he had started crossing on the pro-
per traffic signal. He was pro-
nounced dead a few minutes after
being struck.
The time: TAO pm. July g.
Weather conditions: Raining.
The street: Wet, straight and
level.
The vehicle: A 1887 delivery truck
going about II to Is miles per hour
with good feet brake, but bad hand
brake.
The driver: A 20-year-old colored
man with six years driving eX-
perience. He had never obtained
q drivers license, however, accord
ing to testimony at the coroner's
inquest He said he did not see
the victim until the moment Of
impact.
Coroner jury verdict: Accidental
death.
Evening star., 1941-07-08
Judge Prepares for Grind
On 23-Day Bicycle Trip

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. July s.-Antici-
patine . vigorous court session this
fall, s3-year-old Federal Judge
George A. Welsh is of on a 23-day
bicycle conditioning tour Of Dele
ware, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
II don't know how far he got the
first day" says Mrs. Welsh. He
was equipped for bad weather
though so maybe he made out all
right"
The judge planned to pedal into
Maryland first, stopping for a few
days at the home of his colleague,
Judge William Kirkpatrick, in Cum
berstone. He expected to return
home August l.
Long bike trips are no novelty to
the jurist. Last year he made a
similar tour and had what he called
a grand time. In his youth Judge
Welsh was an amateur boxer and
always considered bike riding an
excellent method of conditioning.
Evening star., 1941-07-08
Anti.Smoke Ordinance
Enacted by Pittsburgh
y, tn. Associated Press


PITTSBURGH, July g. - City
Council yesterday outlawed smoke
traditionally as much a part of this
vast industrial center as steel mills
and bridges.
Spurred by the complaints of
housewives - weary of cleaning
smoke and SCOT grimed houses
council adopted an ordinance re-
auiring fuel users to burn smokeless
fuel or obtain mechanical equipment
to burn soft coal smokelessly.
For years Pittsburgh has borne the
title of Smoky City" Since the
first foundry was esta blished and
the first steamboat piled the Monon-
eshela. Allegheny and Ohio Rivers,
smoke has been the ysrdstick of the
eonmunity's growth and prosperity.
Councils action eliminated years
Of anti-smoke campaigning. given
big boost by the success of st. Louis
In abolishing smoke through a SINH
lar law.
The ordinance becomes effective
October l for all except railroads,
riverboats, homes and apartments.
They'll be brought under control
gradually by October l. 1943. A fine
of 800 day will be imposed on
vlolators.
Evening star., 1941-07-08
Philadelphia Held Facing
Acute Housing Shortage

hy the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa. July "a
committee OF the State House of
Representatives which investigated
housing conditions in Philadelphia
today reported the city faces "a
housing crisis of ma jor proportions
in 1912 as result of the impact OF
the defense program"
Only immediate steps can halt
the crisis, the committee said. The
shortage would affect defense work.
ers of all income levels, said the
group, which recommended legisla-
ton to raise the rent allowance for
families on relief and proposed 4
$4,000 900 revolving loan fund 80
further the public housing program
throughout the State"
The two Philadelphia Democratic
members of the three-man COM
mittee criticized the city adninis-
tration for refusing to cooperate
in setting up Federally financed
housing projects"
Evening star., 1941-07-08
U.S.. 10 Buy Brazi|'s Full
OUTPUT OF II Materials
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RIO DE JANEIRO. July s.-The
United States has agreed to take all
OF Brazil's production of II specified
strategic materials for the next two
years, it was learned last night.
The agreement, signed Nav IA by
United States Ambassador Jefferson
Caffery and Brazilian Foreign Min
lister Oswaldo Aranha, calls for pur-
chase by the United States of all
Of Brazil's rubber, manganese, in
dustrial diamonds, mica. quartz
crystal, rutile "a titanium ore,. ferro-
nickel, chromium, bauxite, chromite e
and beryl ores.
Exporters reported last month that
Brazil had banned expectation of
certain important defense materials
to any country except the United
States.
II now has become clear that the
United States has agreed to buy all
production of these items. Private
purchases continue, but the United
States Government Metals Reserve
Corp. and Rubber Reserve Corp. are
to take all that Is not sold through
the usual private United States
channels.
Evening star., 1941-07-08
Wounded in Fioht

Walter Boiling. 40. of 931 Mary
land avenue S.W.. was in Casualty
Hospital today with a serious stab
wound and cuts, suffered In a fight
on the sidewalk at Sixth street and
Indiana avenue NV. last night.
police reported. He has cuts on
both forearms and wound in the
abdomen. First precinct police were
holding another man in connection
with the af1ray.
Evening star., 1941-07-08

The United States depends on the
Netherlands East Indies for its sup
ply OF quinine.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
WHAT ABOUT PLANS FOR
A DE ANA TRAIL RIDE?

What ever happened to the ambitious
nlans of a Joint Riverside-lmperial coun-
ty group of horsemen for massed rue
over the old De ANA desert trail!
The idea was too good one TO aie
aborning.
Now. with the Calexico Desert Cavai-
cade less than week away, ana Win
the Imperial county fair within a month
of its opening day, seems propltlous
time to reopen consideration OF the De
Anza Trail Ride proposal, which would
fit in so beautifully with both celepra-
tions.
If it could be sandwiched between the
Notwithstanding where the CaVal-
cade leaves off-and the county far
leaving off where the fair beglns-the
ride would furnish this county with
continuous series of events focusing ma
tional attention upon the valley.
If planned in such a way, the rlde
would increase out-of-valley attendance
both at the Cavalcade and at the falr.
This is not theoretic assertion. A large
group of Riverside men would come to
Calexico to participate in the beginning
of such a ride, and naturally would De
i'm attendance at the Cavalcade-wouid,
in fact, take part in it. Through IN
credSeQ ROOu Will III INiNCioiNS Nooh's'
as we'll as publicity elsewhere, the ride
could be expected to attract a great many
more people to the fair.
On its own merits, the De AnZa Trall
Ride would be an outstanding contrlbu-
ton to the list of community-sponsored
events which have a two-fold benefit:
the increasing of civic consciousness
among our own people and the education
of other parts of the country to the at
fractions of Imperial county.
If the Riverside county group has lost
interest in the De ANA Ride project
which they probably have not done--it
would seem to be entirely worthwhile for
some purely local organization, such as
the sheriff's posse or some chamber OF
commerce, to take over the proposal
1t has the attractive feature of being
a thing entirely native to this county,
and Calexico has proved through the Des-
ert Cavalcade how successful such a
purely local celebration can be.
The De Anza Trail Ride should not be
forgotten.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
by Willis Thornton
It's the Principle Of the Thinq

We are all accustomed TO catch
words. and the old business of dis
agreeing with every word you say
and fighting for your right to say
it, is accepted as commonplace.
As a general principle, almost
every American accepts it. Only
when the principle comes down to
application is it sometimes difficult
to stick by ones guns. Yet it must
be obvious that only insofar as it
is applied is the principle of any
practical value.
Gut in California there is a
court case brewing. 1t concerns
an application for naturalization by
one Hans Diebel, who quite frankly
and openly announces that he is
an anti-Semite. The U. S. Naturali-
zation Service opposed the grant of
citizenship
A memorandum was then filed
With the court by the American
Civil Liberties Union as friend
Of the court, asking that Diebel's
application be granted. A. L. Wirin,
veteran attorney for the A.CL.U.,
bases the memorandum on the
contention that the Naturalization
Act makes certain behavior. not
beliefs, ground for denial of ma
turalization," and that 'freeddom
of thought and of speech is guar
anteed to the alien as well as the
citizen, and includes freedom
for the thought that we hate"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17

The Civil Liberties Union has
often been accused of too-ready
defense cf those espousing radical
causes. when their civil liberties
were infringed upon. Yet the Union
has defended Henry Fords right to
air his views, and here defends the
position of a man whose confessed
POINT of view is probably thorough
ly repugnant to Wirin personally
and to practically all the officers
and members of the Union.
Is it foolish thus to defend those
whose views are completely at vari-
ance with basic American ideasP
Cur whole American way is built
on the belief that it is rot. For
what is the alternative? If pros
pective citizens are to be barred for
beliefs not covered by the Con-
stitution to which they must swear
a mental mold. And we believe
that the state has power to regulate
action, but that thought and speech
must be free, else more is lost than
could be gained by regulating them
We hope that if Diebel gets his
citizenship he will have learned a
lesson in liberation, for he will owe
il partly to the intercession of those
who utterly disagree with him.
May he then go. as certain law
yer was once bidden, and do like
wise
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
IF HITLER DOESN'T MOVE

Adolf Hitler has been sending his
armies and envoys hopping around Eu-
rope like so many Mexican jumping
beans, with the natural reaction that the
whole world lives in momentary eXpec-
tation of some gigantic Nazi thrust
against the British empire.
But what if it fails to materialize?
Herr Hitler's position will not be en-
vable, even among dictators, in that
event, for it will be evident that his star
is on the wane.
From a strictly military standpoint.
the Nazis are not doing so we'll right
now. The battle is all to the British on
the fighting fronts. Hitler's partner.
II Duce is in almost complete rout and
Hitler has not done anything about it
maybe because he cannot. German at
tempts at daylight air raids on Britain
have been repulsed time and again in
the last few days. British raids on Ger
man occupied territory, on the other
hand, have been highly successful.
1t is only on the diplomatic front that
Hitler's name still is coupled with sue
cess-and it takes fighting to win war
in the end. If Hitler doesn't show some
fighting soon, he's liable to lose face as
rapidly as a quick change artist.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
by Paul Harrison >.
HOLLYWOOD S Fads, Fancies and Foib|es

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. Is - Prac-
teal joking in an airplane sounds
like q thoroughly impractical idea,
and not very funny. But I do think
the frame-up on Ernst Lubitsch
is worth telling about, if only as
an example Of how far the Holly
wood crowd will 60 for a laugh.
Over at Palm Springs for a
vacation, the producer-directOr was
invited to go for a scenic hop in q
large airliner along with an as
sortment of screen cuties and other
flicker figures. Presently, the ship
began to waver. The forward door
opened and from the control cabin
came two men in pilots uniforms
struggling into parachute harnesses.
Why should we all die?" asked
one Historically. Nothing can save
the ship!" agreed the other. Lets
60, Hurry up; I can't stand
this any longer!" Landing
gear jammed. out of gas over
mountains.
AS Lubitsch and some of the
other fright-paralyzcd guest -
ed on, the two men C9 rel the
side door and jumped. AS they
hurtled into space, their falls soon
checked by their 'chutes the
plane began to wobble weirdly.
Well, the two jumpers were
movie stunt men, hired for the
gag. The real pilots, as you've prob
ably guessed, were at the controls
all the time. And fortunately, none
of the passengers had a weak
heart and dropped dead from shock.
THE HOSTESS
TAINTED
There's a similar tale about a
couple of pilots who were ferry
ing a plane to another city with
a brand-new hostess as their only
passenger. Sitting in the. lonely
MAIN cabin, the girl saw a signal
she was wanted up ahead. A gale
OF air blew the door open at her
touch. The cabin was empty. Win
dows were open. Clipped on the
instrument panel was a note
Port engine vibrating-ship going
to pleces-we'Ve bailed out.
The girl tainted. She was sur
prised, on coming out of her spin,
to find herself still in the air and
being given a shot of oxygen by
the men who apparently had
jumped overheard. All they'd ac-
tually done, of course, was write
the note, open the windows, cut
in the automatic pilot, ring for
The hostess and hide in the bag
gage compartment.
COLONNA
CENSORED
Remarks made from screen to
audience, and other situations in
which players step out of character
are still winning some of the best
laughs. In Republics new musical
Sis Hopkins, there's scene in
which you'll see Jerry Colonna
coyly Immersed in a bubble bath.
Finally the upper part of him
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
ARMY CHOW Al STYLE
Berkeley Gazette)

Many thousands, perhaps million
American boys are going to return to
their homes after a year in Uncle Sans
training camps, stronger and IN better
health than when they set forth. But
that's not all the story. These young men
will return home, in a vast majority of
cases, with a new understanding of food
values and a discerning taste for the best
that culinary art can produce. In fact,
the returned trainee is likely, as a result
of exposure to Uncle Sans scientific
rationing, to become severe pain in the
neck to the womenfolk.
Yes, sir, there is going to be long
period of readjustment in American kit
chens when Johnnie, 1941, comes march
ing home with an appetite tuned to mod
ern and scientific gastronomic concoc-
tions. Some one will have to give away
under the pressure and We venture it
won't be the returned trainee. 1t isn't
at all unlikely he may turn trainer and
show the ladies just how chow, army
style, is put together.
It was Napoleon who said an army
I. fights on its stomach, or words to that
effect, and the Little Corporal sure knew
soldiers as we'll as military strategy. He
knew that hungry or i'll fed men were
not only poor fighters, but were not
much good at any task, great or small.
Uncle Sam, with facilities at his dis
posal never dreamed of in the days OF
Napoleon, is going the great Corsican
even better-he is not only keeping the
soldiers stomachs we'll filled, but he is
stoking the lads with the most advanced
products of scientific dietary discovery.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
CERTIFICATE OF BUSINESS
Fictitious Firm Name

The Undersigned do hereby certi-
fy that we are conducting an auto
mobile business at COS State Street,
El Centre, California, under the
fictitious firm name of FRIED
LEY'S AUTO SERVICE and that
said firm is composed of the fol-
lowing persons, whose names and
addresses are as follows, to-Wit:
HARRY e. FRIEDLEY
RUSSELL B. FRIEDLEY.
Witness my hand this 9th day of
January 194l.
HARRY E. FRIEDLEY,
409 SandalWood Drive, Ell Centro
RUSSELL B. FRIEDLEY
TAI Olive, Ell Centro.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL }
On THIS 9TH DAY of January,
A. D., 194l, before me, q Notary
Public in and for said County and
State, personally appeared Harry
E. Friedley and Russell B. Friedley,
known to me, to be The persons in
whose name subscribed to the with
in Instrument, and acknowledged to
me that they executed the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hane and affixed
my official seal the day and year in
this certificate first above written.
j. HE'LL,
Notary Public in and for
said County and State.
My Commission Expires Nov. IA,
1914.
tF3- 10 1920
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
LESSON FOR
THE FUTURE
(Santa Barbara News-Press)


The essentially of maintaining the
skilled trades of nation in times OF
depression and widespread unemploy-.
ment is being impressed by the lack OF
such workers in our present national re-
armament program.
The aircraft industry is unable to
reach top production speed due to the
lack of trained mechanics. The five bill
lion dollar shipbuilding program is fac-
ING failure because of the inability to OBJ
tain craftsmen in spite OF a national sur,
yey to uncover the necessary skilled
help. Armament factories are behind
schedules for the same reason.
These labor bottlenecks are the result
of our recent unemployment and the
abandonment of apprentice training IN
practically all the skilled trades. The
older workers have passed on, or were
diverted into other lines of endeavor
Very few new or younger workers were
trained to take their places.
Should this nation ever find itself in
situation it experienced throughout the
'3Os. and it probably will, the next work
relief programs should consider the nee
essity of maintaining trade training pro-
grams. as well as the giving of relief to
all of the unemployed. This would near
programs of governmental construction
rather than makeshift occupations Gre
ated to relieve relief claimants of the
stigma of charity.
1t is being proved in our rush for arm
aments that maintained skilled labor is
just as important to the economic and
political security of the nation as relief
is itself. But, will we remember this
and profit by our lesson any more than
we did by the lesson taught us before
and during the World war?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Subject to conditions prescribed
by the Undersigned sealed bids are
invited for the construction of
residence, double garage and alter
alton work on existing buildings at
the Imperial Valley Field Station
of the College of Agriculture, Uni
vefsity of California, located at
Meloland, approximately seven miles
east of FL Centre, California. Plans
and information obtainable from
l.. G.. Goar at the Imperial Valley
Field Station CMelolandD, G.. Stan
ley Wilson, Architect at Riverside,
or Comptrollers Office, University
OF California 405 Hilgard Avenue,
Los Angeles, California. A deposit
of $l.00 is required for each set is
sued. To be considered bids must be
received at the Comptrollers Office.
Los Angeles prior to 200 pm. Tues
'day, February 25 l941. The right
to reject any and all bids is re-
served.
THE REGENTS OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF CALL
FORNIA.
(F7-l0-lD H
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17

emergeS and he's wearing an old
fashioned striped bathing suit. In
an aside to the audience he ex-
plains apologetically: The Hays
Office insisted on it"
Other evening, Hal Roach sneak
previeWed Topper Returns. for
which Rochester eddie Anderson)
was borrowed for q role in which
he does not play himself. The
customers loudest Whoop came
when he tells Billie Burke he
doesn't like the ghostly goings-
on. ., doors openin by them
selves; people talkin' to nuthin. &.
an gettin' answers. No, maam; I'm
goin' back"
Back Where?' asks Miss Burke.
Back to Mistah Bennyr
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
Uranium Crackers
Names in the News

Briefly outlined below are the
reasons five persons names were
on The nations front pages in
recent weeks. Can you name each
from the description?
/. Americas 1910 champion
jockey was fatally injured when
when his horse went down.
2. A Harvard sophomore, the
son OF a former intimate of Adolf
Hitler, left school to enlist in the
air corps.
3. One of the strong men of a
small power which has hesisted the
Axis died.
4. A prominent American car
ried a letter of introduction from
President Roosevelt to "a certain
naval person..
5. An American athlete set a
new worlds record for the indoor
60-yard high hurdles at the Mill
rose games.
Answers
|. Earl Dew was fatally injured
at Cahenta track, Tijuana Mexico,
when his horse went roWn.
2. Egon Hanfstaengl, son of
Ernst Hanfstaengl who was once
the confidante of Adolf Hitler,
joined the army air corps
3. John MetaXas, strong man of
Greece, died.
4. The letter of introduction to
Winston Churchill which Presi-
dent Roosevelt gave Wendell Will
kie was addressed to "a certain
naval person"
5. Fred Wolcott set a new rec
ord of To seconds in the Millrose
60-yard high hurdles.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
lace to make gas masks.

place To make gas MASKS
For some supplies. the number
of experienced manufacturers is
limited. There are only about four
companies that can manufacture
explosives On a big scale-Dupont,
Trojan, Hercules and Remington.
The job of making Is freight car
loads of smokeless powder per day
had to be turned over to them. That
done, the problem of finding firms
to load the powder bags for ar
tillery had to be met. With few
experienced firms to approach, the
army looked around for companies
with good records of plant manage
ment and asked them to tackle the
job. Two of those who said yes
we're Goodyear and Proctor and
Gamble. and as result, these
rubber and soap companies are
going into entirely new businesses,
starting from scratch.
There will be runnier ones than
that announced soon.
WASHINGTON TIPS
Keep an eye on the work OF the
80 labor representatives on Sidney
Hillman's staff While only few
of these men will be in Washing
ton-otherS working on a regional
or separate industry basis-here is
one of the first cases where labor
is sitting in with management to
determine industrial policy on big
scale. If it works out well in the de-
fense effort, to the satisfaction of
both sides, there will be an effort
to spread the idea in private in
dustry. There's no big reserve
officer training camp effort today,
as there was in 1917 for the simple
reason that training carried on
since 1920 has turned out los 900
reserve officers available for serv-
Ice. With regulars and national
guardsmen, there's enough trained
officer material to handle an army
OF two and half million.
Real reason for greater japanese
activity around Hong Kong is to
stop Chinese bribery of Japs who
then permit smuggling OF supplies
for Chinese army through japanese
coastal patrols. d. Tourists are
barred from Oman headquarters
for the duration.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
THOUGHTS for the Day

And the Lord said, have surely the affction of
my people which in Egypt, and have heard their
cry by of their taskmasters; for know Their
sorrows-Exodus 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17

A West Virginia man of 83 has
just ridden his first street car. We
never waited quite that long for
one.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17

The height of ignorance is think
ing you know everything.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
Famous Sayings

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands
of affliction.-Spurgeon.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
So They Say

Our army, our navy, our air
corps, our factories. our farms. can
outdo the best that the psyche
pathoclacies' of the world can
muster.
Paul V. McNutt, Federal Securi
ty administrator.
A modern philosopher described
fanatic as one who doubles his
effort when he has forgotten his
goal
Charles Hogan, American Asso-
citation for Adult Education.
We do not need the gallant ar
mics which are forming throughout
the American Union. We do not
need them this year not next year
nor any year that I can forsee.
Winston Churchill. British prime
minister.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17
MEMBER

American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. National
Editorial Association. Call
fornia Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17

Highest mountain CT the Amer
ican continents is Aconcagua, in
the Argentine Andes, with a ele-
vation of 23,O80 feet.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17

EDITORS NOTE: The following
editorials are presented as interesting
opinions r0iced by editors elseirhere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-17

Doctors say that fatigue is a
disease-meaning, perhaps, getting
sick OF work.