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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1941-02-13

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the time this ap-
pears in print.
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for the federal
government TO
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American people
is increased from
49 billion to the
staggering total
of 65 billion. For
the second time
in seven months
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The Beautiful Green Car
BY Aiai'iechen.

oil business and with a drum Of
oil and 8 drums OF water the pro-
fits OH his product increased in
startling manner. He also OWN
ed huge red and cream truck.
In beautiful lettering one could
read: "Patrick P. Patterson" for
Rich Triple Creamed Double
Texture Oil" - Pep Plus Phe,,o-
meno,-Pendoil.
Mary caught sight OF Pats
truck several times going up and
down the highway. Once she saw.
him in his beautiful green car-
make the most of it. She had
failed SO utterly the first time.
Never would she see him again
unless she could maneuver some
scheme that would make it irnper-
ative that he see her again.
Mary was surprised at her own
cunning, but finally she conceiv
ed plan. She knew whenever
Pat was in town he always lunch
ed the Ferryland. He would park
his car carefully and lovingly.
Certainly his beautiful green car
should not get a scratch upon it
He had however reckoned with
out Mary.
A week passed before her chance
came. Pats car was parked up a
short distance from the restaur-
ant. The street seemed deserted
Now" she said to herself, "do
your stuff, sister" And sure
enough Pats fender had a nea,
little dent in it when she left. Not
much but enough that it would
have to be repaired.
Quite nonchalartly Mary went
back to work, feeling bit guilty
but calm otherwise. She was al
work about an hour when a Gus.
toner stopped in front of the
shop. II believe my scheme has
worked, but be CAREFUL, she
thinks.
Il want some one to look a,
my car" said, the man.
Just a moment please and III
get one of the men to look at it,
said Mary.
- Said the man. "It just burn:
me up. l go in to eat and lool
what happens to- my fender. If
find out who did that I'll su,
the man. I'll arrest him. III Civ,
him what he has coming to him.
Anger written over his face.
"Oh boy" thinks Mary. 81 be-
|ieve Patrick p. Patterson has ;
temper" Calmly she says aloud
1T is terrible what some peopl,
can do. ! certainly could never dt
anything like that. Someone
would see me for sure
At that moment George cam'
i'll. MARY get the mans name
and the make OF the car. so yo,
can give him an estimated bill TO
the job Mary inserts an invoic'
into the typewriter. Without bait
ing an eye she asks, "Your name
please"
"Patrick p. Patterson. bu
surely you must remember me
| Walter Waremeout and | wer'
down short time ago. but per
! haps you remember my green ca
better"
Mary thought awhile. ooh We
it seems to me have slight re
collection of that name now. bu
then | meet so many people"
"N'hen can you finish it," ask
ed Pat.
| "You can get it at five al
swered George.
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yard. Mary thought she woul'
wait until he showed up for mucl
was, at stake now. In a few min
utes he, walked in. . ~.
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you chre, to- said Patrick P
Patterson.
| "Why Mr.. Patterson woul,
not think of putting you out O
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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1941-02-13

THE House will have passed the
L bill to increase the national debt
limit and to provide for tax free
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25
THIS IS WAR?

ing?"
Fine, how are you?"
well, only so so. Now, if We are
crazy, just say SO, bbbut were you
wearing a gas mask on the high
way between Imperial and Ell Gen.
tro this morning."
Pop started to laugh.
Hey, this is no laughing matter
Did you kill muskrat?"
Pop just kept on laughing.
"A lot of people saw you"
That only made him laugh the
harder. Finally he Gained himself:
This beats me-" he said. 'I did
MT realize how funny 1 must have
looked. You know, 1 generally wear
one of these hay fever masks when
I'm out in the country to protect
me from dust. We moved 300 t~ad
of cattle across the highway and
they flushed muskrat out of wa.
ter hole. The rat ran up onto the
road and l let him have it with my
cane.
Guess the people tied up in the
traffic jam just saw me and the
gas mask and the muskrat!"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25


nations rapidly growing armies.
That meant that no additional
men will be inducted into the army
from this county during May, ex-
cept for the possible exception of a
few replacements.
The eighth call took a total of
448 men, 218 for the regular call
and 230 for replacements. "A ninth
call totalling l89 was set for the
latter part of May but will be re-
stricted to requirements alone, the
United Press reported.
In southern California the latest
call was aimed chiefly at Los An
geles boards. There was no call in
Inyo county.
There was no apparent eXplana-
ton for failure to assign quotas to
the boards in Imperial county, but
it was assumed that these sections
have been able to supply more men
per capita in the past and are up
with or beyond The other boards
of the state.
Replacement calls are for men
who have been rejected at induc-
ton centerS for physical or other
reasons. Dates for the eighth call
were 5, 6 and 7; for the ninth cau
May 10, 20 and 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25


for moving the Nectarine drain to
make way for new canal running
a dozen miles west from the East
side highline to serve the Vail canal
system.
Present Vail canal water stems
from the Alamo river, backed up
behind the northend dam. Quality
of the water, which includes waite:
from drains, has been a source OF
long dissatisfaction. The PROPOSED
new canal would bring water from
the highline, flume it across the
Alamo and dump 1t into the Vail
canal.
Mesquite areas benefits came
from the future elimination of the
Northend dam, which in turn would
lower the Alamo water level and
provide better drainage outlets.
General Superintendent M. j,
Dowd said Friday that rights of-way
were partially obtained now and
probably would BE- completed within
a month, after which construction
of the new canal could start. He
declined to say when work would
actually start or to anticipate when
the canal would be completed.
That depends upon funds he
declared.
Clear water running in the high
line may in the meantime solve
another accompanying problem for
the Imperial Irrigation district in
connection with the Vail solution.
Normally, the highline would not be
capable of carrying the increased
load when tapped for water to sup
ply Vail users. Steady sluicing,
however, has been reported due
to clear water and it may be that
the highline will have been deepen
ed by Nature by the time the new
canal is cut in.
Meanwhile, DoWd indicated that
drainage construction activities
arc progressing in the northend
according to the districts long
range program, which includes
new deep drain to go through the
Vail territory to the west of the
Alamo. This will empty into Salton
Sea, rather than the Alamo, per
mitting better fall because of the
delta built up at the Alamo's mouth.
A new mouth" for the Alamo was
constructed and recently put into
operation.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25
Britain CIinsins
To FoothoId in
Battered Greece
BY UNITED PRESS

Great Britain still clung
to her foothold in Greece
Friday but interest was
shifting from the dying
phases of the Greek campaign to
the opening of new struggle for
control of the whol, Mediterranean
and the critical battle of the North
Atlantic.
German troops flanked the Brit
iSh rear guard at Thermopylae and
were reported driving hard for
Athens, but the British command
said allied troops continued to fall
back in good order despite Nazi
pressure.
In the battle of the north Atlantic
the sphere in which Britain well
may win or lose the war-the Unit
ed States was rapidly moving into
the foremost position.
AMERICAN ANSWER
The statements of President
Roosevelt and his cabinet lieuten-
ants indicated that the American
answer to the success of Germany's
Balkan campaign would be the en-
ployment of United States sea pow
erin a manner not yet clearly
specified-to guarantee the safe
arrival of American war supplies
to democratic belligerents.
The prospect of American sea
aid heartened the British and
brought denunciations from AXIS
spokesmen which recalled Adolf Hit
ler's threat TO sink all aid en- route
to whatever its origin.
In the Mediterranean the British
were preparing for big, new Nazi
threats. expected both in the west
ern and eastern ends of the inland
sea.
At the western end the critical
point was Gibraltar, the bastion
from which Britain controls the
gateway to the Mediterranean. The
appointment of Gen. Viscount Gort
as commander in chief of Gibraltar
was announced in London. Gort was
Britain's commander in France and
lately has been inspector general
OF troops training in Britain. His
appointment indicated the reality
with which London views the pos
sibility of Nazi assault upon the
Great Rock.
DARDANELLES
To the east the threat was to the
Dardanelles, Turkey and the mid
die east. The British seemed to
feel more secure in Africa where
Nazi spearhead has reached
Egypt's frontier. The admiralty an
nounced extension of mine fields in
the Mediterranean in an obvious
Continued on Page 8; Column -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25
Aunt Bertha Gets
Temporary Voice

Aunt Bertha was equipped Friday
with temprary set of vocal chords,
but she must wait until next week
for the real Mccoy.
The fire whistle in Ell Cehtro,
ailing because of a defective valve,
gave one SquaWk a few days ago
when the temporary valve was in
serted.
That's because we operated with
local aneSthctic," Chief Corn
Reed explained.
Chief Reed expected the perma-
nent valve to be installed some
time next week.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25
. . or is it!
BY LOGAN JENKINS

IL was early tnlS morning
Friday morning. lie was wearing
a gas mask and a cane and duel
ing with a muSkrat on the high
way between Ell Centre and I'M
perial :"
Some things just don't happen;
and this appeared TO be one of
them; but Jack Ansell phoned the
tip and Jack is sober, hardwork-
ing Imperial carpenter not given
to pink elephant flights of fancy
ut looked like Pop Keller" Jack
added
That was blow If this was true,
then Pop had gone-no, it was
too awful to think about. Good ole
Pop. Such swell guy, too. The
war fever must have been too much
for him. Dear old chap, just got
out his World War gas mask and
it's awful
There were a lot of automobiles
stopped on the highway. Traffic
was tied up quite a ways. A lot OF
people saw him." JacA continued as
though to bolster his story.
Jack hung up and painfully a
call was placed for A. H. Keller.
Must be mistake. II just COULD
MT be Pop.
Hello, Pop? How are you feel
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25
High Living Cost
Returns to Plague
Housewives in U.S..
Foods Show Greatest of
All Increases, Clothes,
Rent Prices Going Up

WASHINGTON, April %.
(UP)-"High cost OF living
the wrecker of housewives
budgets-is lurking around
again.
The bureau of labor statistics and
bureau of agricultural economics
report increased food, clothing and
rent prices.
Increases have been Sharpest in
foods, but other items are follow
ing the general upward trend. Ad-
vanceS have not been sensational in
any item except meats. Govern
ment machinery has been set up to
prevent inflationary price move
mentS. Officials hope to keep liv-
ing costs in step WITH the upward
trend in wages and other consumer
incomes, Both have been increasing.
All living costs are approximately
three per cent above the level of
August, 1899, just before the out
break of the European war, accord
ing to reports of the bureau of la
Dor statistics. Food advanced most
Continued on Page 8, Col .
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25

San Quentin, were closed on his
recommendation
apparently" Rosanoff told F.. c
Van Elzer, acting superintendent
of the school, this has not proved
to be effective in the efforts OF
the school to avoid escapes of in
mates, and the resulting wave of de-
iinquencies and depredationS COM
mitted by them while at large.
AT this time, you are to feel
free to make proper and legitimate
use of all the facilities available
at the school,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25
Junk Dealer Gets
Blame for Death

George Kristol, Ell Centre junk
dealer held responsible for the
death of Alfredo LongoriI in
traffic accident near Brawley We'd
nesday, was charged with negligent
homicide Friday.
A coroner's jury late Thursday
found that Longoria came to his
death because of Klistol'S careless
driving and because he did not keep
his equipment in good shape. Lon
goria was killed in a four-truck
accident at the New River bridge
Highway Patrolman Walter Walsh
signed the complaint against Kris
tol.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25
Rectory BurgIed,
Letter Missinq

Only registered letter to Priest
of the Catholic church was missing
Friday after burglar broke into
the rectory of st. Mary's Catholic
church in Ell Centro sometime
Thursday
The entry was reported by Mrs. B.
HemmontrT, houSekeeper, and police
said someone entered by prying up
bedroom window sometime be-
tween 5 am. and 1880 pm. Thurs
day. No fingerprints were found,
Mrs. Hemmontry missed only the
letter, which was lying on a writ
ing desk. Father w. F.. Clavin was
out of town.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25
Whittier Cruelty Stories
Bunk Says Escaped Youth

had adopted what he considered a
perfect poker face. There was no
indication of enthusiasm for any
topic discussed.
mo, they weren't mean to me-"
he said. II didn't do nothing TO
make them mean to me. No, they
never put me in solitary because
/ didn't do pothing TO get in there
Yes, they fed me good. I amt got
no complaints to make. It's just
a school. It's boys school. Part of
the time We have shop work and
part of the time we haYe regular
school. . There's nothing to them
stories. / didn't see nothing
like they write about"
Locke was sent to Whittier for
he second time a short while be-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25

Elsewhere the nations prepared
ness program faced a paralyzing
fuel shortage as work stoppage by
100000 soft coal miners dragged
into its 25th day.
A general walkout loomed at DE.
troit after negotiators admitted a
stalemate on two paramount issues:
A 10-cent wage increase and
closed shop in General Motors 81
plants.
Hopes for immediate settlement
Continued on Page 8. Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25

Asked whether anything is being
Gone by this country, he replied
it was being done.
He revealed the neutrality patrol
established after the outbreak of
war is being extended and will
be extended to all of the seven
seas if necessary for the protection
of the western hemisphere.
He compared the patrols to those
sent out bv pioneers crossing the
prairies in wagon trains to determ-
Inc whether there were Indians
ahead.
These pioneer patrols went out
200 or 300 miles because it wasn't
safe to wait until Indians were
discovered only two miles away.
DENIES CONvOYS
The president flatly denied the
government had any idea of insti-
tuting conveys.
The president said U. S. naval
action in the Atlantic has consti-
tuted a patrol for a year and half
and still is a patrol.
When it was suggested these pa
trolls might be- in effect conveys
establishing safe lanes through
which ships could travel, the presi-
dent remarked that one could not
turn COW into horse by simply
calling 1t horse.
The president said conveying in
volved the escorting of merchant
ships in a group to protect them
from attack. Patrols, he said, in
volve reconnaissance over certain,
areas of the oceans to find out il
any aggressive ships might be COM
ing in to the western hemisphere.
The president said that in 1899 &,
the areas of the patrol in the At
lantic were nearer to these shores
than now, because there did not
seem to be any danger of attack
on Bermuda, Greenland, Newfound-
land, Trinidad or Brazil.
DANGER GREATER
New developments, the president
continued, show the danger of at
tack is now greater.
And he continued in discussing
the waters between Greenland and
Newfoundland, the United States
has an obligation under the Monroe
Doctrine to protect Canada against
attack by any power outside of the
western hemisphere.
Mr. Roosevelt also reminded the
United States now has an Interest
in base, acquired from Britain
within the year.
Asked whether the expansion of
the patrol would not provide what
one reporter described as a mice.
safe sea road to Greenland, the
president added that he hoped that
the route to Greenland would be
safe.
Then he added he hoped there
would be no more acts of aggres-
sion in Greenland. 1t was at this
point that he said he thought the
axis already may be in Green
land.
NOT FIFTH COLUMN
He said he did not believe the
axis effort in Greenland was a
fifth column activity, implying that
it was more direct than that.
The president would Aot say what
instructions have been as to what
the neutrality patrol is to do if it
sees British convoy attacked.
The discussion on the neutrality
patrol extension was induced by
requests for comment from the
president on the speeches last night
Continued on Page 8; Column -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25

MtdIlWIlIIt DOtN AFL and CIO
strikes kept the labor front at
fever pitch throughout the nation
The San Diego wage increases
were granted on recommendation
Of the U. S. navy. which had con-
tracted with employers on a cost
plus basis for housing construction.
GENERAL MOTORS
Last minute efforts to avert a
General Motors strike involving
$4,000 workers reached an ap-
parent deadlock, threatening s75O,-
100000 worth Of defense contracts.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25

for he decided to leave. The first
time he was sent to the school
for a year as punishment for his
refusal to attend public school in
San Diego. He said he was sent back
for six months for car theft.
81 amt going to steal no more
cars young Locke said. II learn
ed my lesson. I amt afraid to go
back. ] didn't do nothing wrong
while l was out"
He went from the school to San
Diego to see his mother, a waitress
divorced from his father.
"She had moved. ] didn't know
she had moved. She wasn't at the
place I thought she was" Locke
said. II knew where she worked. :.
Continued on Page 8; Column 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25
BY MARGUERITE BROOKS
"Whittier is O. K"


With an Indifferent shrug Harry
Locke, 15-year-old boy arrested in
Holtville week after he escaped
from Whittier State school, Fri
day insisted there was nothing 10
the stories told about cruelties and
the mistreatment of the inmates Of
the school he said he left because
he wanted to go home.
The youngsters habitually ex-
pressionless face showed flicker of
surprise when asked If Whittier
school authorities were cruel to
him. He freely anwered questions
but volunteered no information.
He made frequent use of an indif-
ferent shrug to show his unconcern
and lack of worry He apparently
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25
Ex.SaiIor Jailed
On Check CHARGE

Peter N. Chamberlain, 22-year-
old ex-sailor, was arrested in CAL
exico Friday on charge of forging
a 81 check, cashing it at a Calexico
telegraph office. ana sending the
money to his wife in Oakland.
The money order was cashed in
Oakland before the check was found
To be forgery, officers said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25

designations were submitted by
William B. Cox, executive secretary
of the Osborne Association of New
York, and Mrs. Helen Mellinkoff of
Beverly Hills. They asked formally
to be relieved of further RESPONSE
bility in connection with school
affairs.
Father E. j. Flanagan of Boys
Town, Neb., the chairman of the
committee, left California recently
to- return to Nebraska. The lost
privilege cottages, comparable to
the solitary confinement cells of
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25
THEY'RE GLAD
THEY'RE NOT THERE

MONTGOMERY, Ala, April 25.
(UP)-Cyrus B. Brown, jr., son OF
Montgomery's mayor, wrote this
note from Camp Blanding, Fla :.
Having fine time. Wish you three
were here" 1t was addressed TO
his local draft board.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25
'Ain't No Ghost
On This Shovel
Says wPA Man

MONTEREY, Cal, April rs
(UP)-John +. Howard, 81, a
Camp Pacific WPA worker be-
lieved burned to death when he
fell asleep smoking, told author
tiles today: This amt no ghost
Oh the end of this shovel"
Embarrassed police returned TO
the task of attempting to ident-
ify the body found Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25
Whittier Probe
Members ReSiQn

SACRAMENTO, April 25. (UP)-Resignatons of two
members of Gov. Culbert Oson's special committee nves
tgang Whittier State School for Boys today accept
led by the after Director of Institutions Aaron
Rosanoff approved reopenng of "los privilege cottages
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25
President Hints German
Troops Near u. S.: Navy
Action Believed Likely
Chief Executive U phoIds Hull. Knoxin
Declaration America Must Assume Task
OfGet+ins Supplies to Democracies

WASHINGTON, April 25. (UP)-President Roosevelt
said today Greenland may be occupied in part by
the Axis and this country doing something to counteract
the Axis there
The president said he did not know for certain
whether axis forces We're in Greenland.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25
Canal Will Feed
10000 Acres in
Northend Areas
Vail, Mesquite Districts WillEscape
Inferior Quality Water on Completion
OfLa+eraI Come citing With Hishline

ACQUISITION of rghts-of-way along drainage ditch IN
the northend of Imperial Valley carried deep significance
Friday for holders of 100000 of land. , 90
The drain ditch the Necarne and the land a1fect
ed was the northends Vail and the eassde Mesquite
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-25
Valley Escapes
9Th Draft Quota
Neither North South End Called Upon
To Supply Manpower During May; Rest
Of State TO Furnish 448 New Draf+ees

Depending upon how anxious is group of young I'm.
peral Valley to become not to becomea part OF
the U. S. Army there both good and bad news
included in United Press dispatch from Sacramento Fri
day Both Board 58 and 59 skipped in the eighth