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The weekly echo., 1941-08-22
Labor Day l94l
By Ruth Taylor
By Ruth Taylor

September in Europe-what new hor-
ror will it unleash? What lew night
mars of war will drive hap ess, harried
people from their homes, sending them
scurrying hither and yon in search Of
shelter from the ptiless conquerors
whose bloodlust is never stated?
Here in this land of ours the first
days of September will also send people
from home-but for a different cause!
Here the first Monday in September
is set apart for the celebration of Labor
Day. In contrast with the panic strck-
en- hordes abroad, here city dwellers
viii be rushing to the country shore
and mountains for one last golden play
time fitting climax to happy summer
while from the countryside and small
town, thousands of others Will hurry
downward 10 enjoy the pleasures Of
city life before settling down to the
quiet of their calmly ordered lives.
However, this year the celebration Of
Labor Day is not just a day of recrea-
ton. 1t must also be a day Of rededi-
cation 10 a way of life, to a form of
government in which each of us has e
part and where one of our great hell
days has as its purpose 10 do honor to
those who work-to all men and wo-
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HEHttg NHhHVttH ".
!. Butterfeld. II rolled up 9,676
performances. Capturing the Sholo
oRorS ,odS Thomas II. Bdyly'S (aoho
ED.embers Thomas II. BdylyO
Long Long Ago" ioith 1864.
LA order tollo,o Obey Speaks
Eylvia" (6.35S), "Loue'S Old S,oeet
ong," by J. l.. Mdlloy and G. Cliff
bn. Bingham, 5,755; Carrie Jacobs
iond's END Of Perfect Day."
lS2 Mrs. Bond, incidentally, is
re song1oriter iohoSe name is knolcn
Re length and breadth Of the ldnd);
Wv the Waters Of Minnetonkd," by
iAurlop Neurance. 4,937; Charles
Pdkefeld Claimants AT DaWning,"
1897; "Kashmiri Song" By Amy
E0odforde-Finden and Laurence
kope, 1870 and gust a Wearyin'
br You" also By Carrie Jacobs
lond. $3.50.
"Aloha.oe" High In List
The second most popular ten,
Angling in performances from $500
b 1850, were, in order, the famous
hant Of Hawaii, aloha De-" by
,rincess Liliukalani; Drink to Me
Inly With Thine Eyes," the stirring
Hills of Home" by o. ]. Fox; the
vid Mexican song, "Ay Ay Ay," by
isnasn Ferez FIcirs: ~1arles Wake
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OF Summer" and "Sweet Genevie7e,'
by Henry Tucker and G. Cooper.
Greatest Recent Song Hit
Ask Tin Pan Alley what is TIE
greatest song hit of the last few
years and invariably your anFwes
will be when / Grow Too Osd
to Dream" Sigmund Rombcrxs
waltz ditty. 1t is the most success
full tune that has come along since
Billy Hill wrote "The Last Round
Up" Each of these songs is what
the music world calls a natural
by which is meant a simple, sthx-
able, easy-to-remember melc<fS
Other recent songs in this Classics.
ton are "Margie," Japanese SaI~s
man." Sweet Sue" "Dinah," "Suu-
dust" and when the Moon Conas
Over the Mountain"
PS1R ~ !
On the other hand there are &es
songs that haze to be made on
plugging. A notable example of thts
type iods ISLE OF Capri" ..,,.....
Somehow. the spirit OF ndaohfs
ness tchich the French can put inbs
q tune escapes s1hen the COMPASS
ton reaches this side. -.
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Miss Odessa Brewster, niece of Mrs

men whose toll and travail has made
the country great
In the days that lie ahead, even if the
war be kept from our shores we will
all be modified for service in some
form or other for the adequate defense
of this our country and for that form
of government which we hold dear
There Will be no ropm for idlers. We
will all serve and gladly. Whether we
serve in psitions of prominence or in
the humblest capacity we are all labor
ers, working for the good of the many
that the rights and privileges which have
been struggled for and won at such 8
great sacrifice, may be handed down
to future generations.
Labor Day 1871 is not day set apart for
any one group. 1t belongs to all of us
whether our work is of brain or hand
How we do our appointed task is the
important thing-npt what that task
may be. We cannot see the end from,
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She said-'There is something wrong
growing l feel it. l have two boys
Ore of them when n misses with his
ball just laughs and tries again. BU4
The other-he is my trouble When he
misses he always says the sun was in
his eyes or somebody pushed him. That
S what is happening to our people
They will not laugh and try to throw
the ball right. They keep thinking il
s not their fault I can stop it with
my boy-but l cannot stop it with my
Peep e-and the end Will be bad"
What self pity can do to nation we
have seen in the rise of Hitler. We
ar fee to face today with the problem
Of how to keep from our shores the
forces he has Unbiased. But we must
also keep out the source from which
his power mushroomed.
There is no self pity here? But
there is! The young people say, There
is nothing for us today-we can't live
ormal lives the way your generation
could. There is no future for u.s." The
adults complain of the taxes they have
TO pay-ovsrlooking that these taxes
are a small price to pay for freedom
A howl goes up when the slightest re-
striction is placed on the people as E
whole, for the good Of the people as q
whole.
We do Ike to complain. And our
freedom to do so is the unwritten codi-
ell to the Bill of R ghts But we must
take care not to let natural grousine
turn into self pity. THIS is the stuff
upon which the dictators feed a fungus
growth that can choke a healthy nation
sapping the unity of purpose that is the
cornerstone of our democratic way Of
life.
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DEKALB: Coming from Meridian will
come highway No. 30 to Dekalb. Come
straight through due north on the De-
krlb ard Shuqualak highway four
miles to Longs Grocery Store, wh.c oh
will be ON the left of the road; turr
to the right and come to the church less
tina a quarter of a mile, Jerusalem
B apt st Church.
Those coming west, come highway
No. l6 to Dekalb and ttke Dslsalb a.
road 10 the same point,
The church.
Those coming from the East VII come
to Dekalb and follow the same road to
the place Of meeting.
H.B.A. No 400, E H Edwads, president
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Churches
BETHEL A. nj. E. CHURCH

BETHEL A M. z. CHURCH
$50 Sunday School, Mr.. Luthe
Stancle and Miss Annie Ruth McCellos
superintendent.
First Sundays Pastors Day. 11:30 m
and 7:30 pm. sermons by the pastor
300 pm. each 3rd Sunday sermon ~
pastor: Mr. Dixie Russell pastor stew.
ard.
n:30 am. Second Sundays trustee day
11:30 am. 4th Sundays Missionary day
Mrs. c. Hursey. president.
Choir practice every Friday night tn
Presidents: Mr.. Luther STANCE, Min
Cleo Clark
Rev Mrs. L B Williams, Pastor
Miss Lyna Payne,
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n-called popular" music.
The four Unpopular" hits of
1850 were Sousa's STARS and
ISTpes Forever" and "Washington
Post" Fritz Kreisler's "Liebes-
Sud" and Reginald De Koven's
l'rsanlal 20 Promise Me-"
} Most Popular BaIad
FnAt is the most popular ballad,
aeiGs.ve of the folk melodies by
Es95en Foster, James A. Bland and
hhsta- that endures down through
As years? Your correspondent,
The weekly echo., 1941-08-22

Messrs Luther Smith and Arthur Lei
Collins spent very pleasant weekend
in New Orleans, visiting relatives of
the former and friends They were ac-
companied by Messrs. Cecil Ward and
The weekly echo., 1941-08-22

Annie Smith, a student at the Prentiss
Normal & Industrial Institute, is visit
ing relatives is the city Miss Brewster
will be here two weeks, visiting, after
who she returns to school.
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Mrs. Odessa Taylor Newell is visiting
relatives and friends iH the city. Mrs
Newell is a former Meridianite, how
ever, she has been living in Chicago
for sometime. She is accompanied by
her son.
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Mrs Annie SIN tn motored to Prentiss
Sundi y where they VISITED their niece
Miss Odessa Brewster, who a student
in the Prentiss Normal & Industrial,
Institute. VI
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pteteo OF I n c
ye ar 1886. o f
the 1872 compo-
sitions lis t e d ,
which were per-
I o m e d more
t h a n 10, 90 0
times - 10000
performances es-
tablishes a num-
Der as a hit -
only four were
by writers not
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About Folk We Ksow-

About Folk We Ksow-
DUR of Birmingham, Ala, are visiting
their maternal grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs Alfred Shadwick of Meridian
They accompanied Miss Matte L. Larkin
to ths city, who visited them while in
Birmir CHAM.
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THAT te p"E~7r dominates
musical conclusiveiy
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1thOhS W hllOW, re-
Nhuy set out on a
nnt. was surprised
4 the results of his
esearch. Can you
tess the song? No?
Yell. it is "Silver
breads Among the
Sold" Most every
me is familiar with
Is m e ! o d Y, but
robably not one
erson in 10000
Dows that it was
ritten by II. p.
Ranks and e. e.
tsri'ord. A.s.C.A.P.'s
> aus tive files
how the astound-
Es total of 10,46S
krformances of the
PEE in 1886. ~.
e. N-e-e
kc
n second place
bay another old ia
prtte, when You
nd / Were Young,
-
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Buster Floyd.

Miss Sallie A. Davis is indisposed a.
the home of her niece Mrs E B Young
at 2OO9-3lst Avenue. Hr fr ends arc
praying for her speedy recovery.
Mr.. E. F. Young Jr. accompanied by
Mr.. Jerome Smith, arrived in the CITY
the first of the week after travelling
extensively in the interest of the E F
Young, Jr. products They worked
points in Alabam and Georgia.
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CAUTION: Use only as directed on labs
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THE MENACE OF SELF PITY
Cor til ued from p &c one)
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-11

A recount of ballots cast in the
recent Imperial Irrigation district
election failed to alter results or
even the semi account. it
was announced Tuesday.
The recount was asked by Charles
Guest who ran close second to
Frank Grubel for the dictatorship
in the northend division.
Results in the other divisional
races remained the same with Mark
Rose an easy winner over Claude
Shaw in the Holtville division and
Evan Hewes receiving a 593 con-
fidence vote in the Calexico area.
Rose received three write-in votes
in Calexico and Mrs. Thomas How
ard one write-in.
The Tuesday board session passed
off quietly except for brief fireworks
at the close when directors voted
down a suggestion from w. E.
Young for a change in voting pre-
cinct boundaries.
Young explained that a part of
his division was logically in the
Srawley area. served by water from
Brawley and power as well, and yet
they voted in the Calipatria divi-
sion. He spoke of it as mo mans
land"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-11
IRRIGATION District Vote Recount
Leaves Results Unchanged; F|areup
Comes Over Proposal 10 Redistrici

Rose seconded the motion for a
change, but it was lost by q mega
tive vote from the other three di-
rectors. General Superintendent M
J. Dowd commented that with five
political divisions and seven opera
ting divisions it was impossible to
avoid some overlap. A study of
precinct boundaries showed a num-
Der of similar instances where citi-
2ens voted in one division and yet
were served from another.
Arthur Hofmann and o. Dahl
quist, rice growers. appeared before
the board in behalf OF a movement
to acquire 5000 acres of land west
of Imperial for rice growing. They
explained they planned to create
the Imperial Rice Cooperative asso-
citation and build a dehydratine
plants in the valley as we'll as q
finishing plant in the Los Angeles
area. Hofmann estimated a plan
ned crop investment of $125,G00 and
plant investment of $4,000.
The growers said they planned
to plant in May and harvest in
October. The 5000 acres of district
owned land was described as other
wise waste lands. The board refer
red purchase negotiations to the
operating department.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-11
Give Britain Five,
10 10Destroyers Per
MontFl---WiIIkie
COP Leader Suggests
Changes but Recommends
Quick Action on Bill

WASHINGTON, Feb. II.
UP) Wendell L. Willkie,
1910 Republican presidential
nominee, today urged the
United States to provide
Britain with five or 10 destroyers
a month.
Appearing as the administrations
cleanup witness before the crowd
ed senate foreign relations COM
mittee, Willkie said that he was
forced to conclude that the only
way to render aid quickly enough
| is to pass this bill tH.R.1776) with
notifications
IF we are to aid England effec-
| lively, we should provide her with
| from five to 10 destroyers month";
he said we should be able to do
this directly and swiftly rather than
through the rigamarole Of dubious
legalistic interpretations"
WILKES reference to dubious"
interpretations apparently concern
ed the methods used when President
Roosevelt traded so over-age de-
stroyers for naval and air base
sites from Great Britain.
Willkie, who returned Sunday
from first-hand inspection of the
war in Britain, suggested that the
American aid proposed under the
pending bill be limited to Britain,
Greece and China because these
are the only countries presently
subject to aggression"
Il believe congress should retain
the power to pass upon any aid to
any other countries which may be
later subject to aggression he
declared.
He also called for a time limit,
and for congress to retain power
to terminate by joint resolution
the extraordinary authority propos-
ed to be given to the president.
The house has amended the bill to
do this.
Appealing to the administration
Continued on Page 8 Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-11
* Reds Death
L,did TO GPU Plot

detailed that few doubted it. He
was found with bullet in his head
in his room in a Washington hotel
yesterday.
All evidence pointed to suicide,
but Krivitsky himself had described
the methods of GPU aSsasSius who
had often made their victims ap-
pear to be suicides. And only last
week he saw in New York City. a
man he recognized, through previous
associations. as one of the GPU's
most clever assassins. That man
was trailing him.
This information came from Kri-
Vitsky's attorney, Louis Waldman
of New York City, who today form
ally asked the F'BI to take over
the case because lit is another
Trotsky Case" Leon Trotsky asso-
ciate of Lenin and a power in Rus
sia until exiled by Joseph Stain
was asSassinated in Mexico City
last summer.
Krivitsky's wife insisted he had
been assassinated. So did Boris
Shub. his interpreter. They all
said that for mere than a year
KrivitsEy had lived in daily fear
of his life.
Washington police had written the
case off as a suicide, but reopened
their investigation. They asked
Charlottesville, Va. authorities to
find d man named "Dobertov," who
according to one of the notes found
in Krivitsky's room in Krivitsky's S
handwriting provided him with the
revolver that ended his life
The door to Krivitsky'S fifth floor
hotel room was locked, but anyone
with a pass key could have opened
it. A chambermaid did 50 when
she received no response to her
knock. She called hotel officials
after finding the body.
Waldman, who never doubted that
krivitsky's past was as he repre-
sented it. said that the Russian
secret police had samples of Kri-
vitsky's handwriting in all langu-
ages and could have easily forged
the notes. The authenticity of Kri-
Continued on Page 8, col u
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-11
Diesel Freighter
On Shakedown Run

SAN DIEGO, Feb. IL CUP)-The
Santa Fe'S new Diesel electric
freight engine, pulling a u car
passenger train, completed the first
leg of its final shakedown run
today.
The 5400-horsepower freight en-
gine, the largest in the world
brought 200 business leaders and
company officials from Los Angeles
for a chamber of commerce lunch
con.
Santa Fe officials said the run
was the first in transportation his
tory where a Diesel-eiectric freight
engine was used on a west coast
passenger run.
The 1%8-mile trip was made in
less than three hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-11
OIson's Timetable For
CdvuIcude Visit Drown

CALEXICO, Feb. 11.-Governor
Culbert Olson's itinerary while in
Imperial Valley Ior tie Cavalcade
here the weekend Of Feb. 20 to
23 was made public Tuesday by his
secretary.
The executive will arrive in the
valley Feb. 20 and at pm. will
open the festival grounds and crown
the festival maids. At 2 p. m
he will view the elmentary school
parade. That night he will speak
at the FL Centro Business and Pro-
fessional Women's club.
At l pm. Friday he will greet
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-11
High Waves Batter
Alameda, Smashing
Buildings, Roads

ALAMEDA, Cal, Feb. II. (UP)-
High waves, lashed by 40-mile
winds, battered this island city
today, smashing buildings, closing
roads and NARROWING four persons
at the Encinal Yacht club.
Residents of the south shore
area, center of many fine homes
appealed for assistance to save
their properties. At least 100 homes
on Otis drive and Clinton avenue
were flooded.
Ten-foot waves smashed over the
sea wall on the south shore Of the
island, which is on San Francisco
bay. The road to Bay Farm Island
and the levee highway to Oakland
airport were closed More than
third of the airport itself was
under three feet of water, with only
one runway open.
The Encinal Yacht club, built on
pilings projecting 1000 feet into
the bay, suffered heavily.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-11

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. II.
(UP) - -Four persons were
killed and 40 injured, 10 OF
them seriously, when three
gas main explosions destroy
ed nearly a block Of homes in a
South Philadelphia italian section
today
Police said there was little like
lihood that other bodies would be
found in the debris and that all
persons reported missing had been
accounted for.
A patrolman, James Clark, sd, was
one of those killed. He had gone
into a house to look for survivors
when another blast shattered the
structure.
The other dead were Identified
tentatively as Mrs. Angelina Irero-
tola, 40, and her two daughters, Le-
ma 81, and Maria IS The father
Calminio 81, and a son, Rocco Is, a
deaf mute, were among those critl-
cally injured.
The body of one of the Trerotola
girls was found upright in bed
with wire clutched in the hands
Flremen said she apparently had
grabbed q light cord.
The first blast occurred as most
of the residents in the area still
were in their beds. The blasts shook
a wide section of the city and were
felt in southern New Jersey.
Among the injured were many
firemen. Three housewives and sew
eral children were reported among
those missing.
Crumbling walls OF the structures
still standing hampeled the efforts
Of rescue crews who began digging
in the debris for possible victims
Neighbors sheltered The homeless.
Four houses were demolished il
the first blast. Others cracked ano
crumbled in the two blasts that
followed. All were two-story struc-
tureS
The fire blazed along the entire
block, on both sides of The street
The explosions ripped q jagged
trench, two feet wide and more
t.lan a loot deep, III the middle oi
the street.
Many residents We're dazed az
they stumbled from their homes
into the arms of firemen and po-
licemen. Small children, most OF
them in nightclothes. carried some
OF their toys out with them.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-11


/ verify of a flood situation caused
by four days of heavy rains.
The Russian and the Sacramento
rivers already were over their banks
and the Feather ana other water
courses were rising. The situation,
however, was not SO acute as in
1910, when floods OF the Russian,
Sacramento, San Joaquin. Feather,
San Lorendo and ether streams
caused millions of dollars in dam
age.
| The Russian, fed by runoff of
| tributary streams, overfloWed near
Ukiah last night, isolating the state
hospital which has 280O patients
and 1863 employees. Hospital officials
did not believe there was any dam
ger unless the isolation was pro-
ionged beyond three days. Food
supplies kept at the hospital for
emergencies will last that long it
was estimated
Virtually every highway in Men
/ docino county was under water.
Flood warnings were issued resi-
dents Of the upper Sacramento river
valley and OF the Feather river val
ley as the rivers strained at their
leveeS and in some cases broke
through, inundating farnlandS.
Highway 99W was closed at Or
land and Highway 99E was blocked
at Dairyville, eight miles south Of
Red Bluff. They are the main
inland routes between California
and Oregon.
Cattlemen were advised to remove
| their animals from Tehama county
lowlandS. About 1000 persons live
| in the threatened Tehama area but
none was in danger at present. Most
of the residents are accustomed to
high waters at this time of the
year and prepare accordingly.
! AS a precautionary move, how
ever, the Red Cross disaster relief
committee at Red Bluff was pre-
pared for immediate action, and
1000 Civilian Conservation Corps
enrolleeS were held ready for en-
ergency excavations and for levee
| repairs.
The cities of Gerber, which has
a population of 400, and of Tehama,
which has 200, were IN the path of
the flood waters. AT Gerber levees
washed out last year were not
ready to stand off another flood.
Rain fell over northern California
from Friday through yesterday and
there were showers in scattered
areas again today. The heaviest
fall in the last "a hours was at
Eureka which measured 2.02 inches
up to am. Redding, near the
headWaters of the Sacramento, had
1856 for the period.
Barometers dropped steadily along
the coast, and storm warnings were
issued as far south as San Diego.
Present prospects were that the
weather would start clearing by
tomorrow night
Slides continued to harass motor
transportation in many localities.
Continued on Page 8, col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-11
Observer Insists
Another Storm on
Way fol. y. Area
Light Rainfall Coming,
Jacobs Declares; Clear
Skies Will Follow

Another in q series of Win
ter storms, which have estab-
lished a record rainfall III
Imperial county during th4
period between Nov. l and
March /, moved toward the valley
Tuesday and promised additional
light rain before nightfall, accord
ing to Woodrow C. Jacobs, meteor
ologist.
Jacobs, who Monday predicted
rain by Tuesday night, reaffimed
his forecast Tuesday morning by
predicting scattered showers Tues
day night with clearing skies We'd
nesday.
The rainfall, Jacobs said, does
not appear to pe heavy enough to
cause additional damages to winter
crops because the storm is moving
eastward very rapidly.
The same storm caused heavy
seas along the Pacific coast and the
weather bureau ordered small craft
storm warnings hoisted from Point
Conception to San Diego.
The storm was centered Tuesday
100 miles north of San Francisco
and for that reason will not cause
more than light rainfall in San
Diego, Imperial and Riverside coun-
ties.
Arizona continued to enjoy clear
skies but the weather bureau pre-
dicted northern sections of the
state would probably be affected by
the eastward movement of the pres
ent storm.