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Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16
Uranium Crackers
SPORTS NUMBERS S

Numbers play an important part
il the world of sports, in scoring
in measuring fields of events, and
in numbering players. What sports
do these numbers cal! to mind?
l. Nine; three and two
2. iX-tWo-tWo-o n.
3. One, two, three, four, five, six,
seven. eight nine, ten.
T. Forty thirty.
s. 300 440. 500. CThree differ
ent sportsD
ANSWERS
/. Baseball. There are nine men
on a baseball team; the score could
be three and two three balls, two
strikes.
2. Football. Six -two-two-one is
a typical defense. Red Grange,
famous Illinois back, used No. II.
3. Boxing Referee counts one
to ten in counting a man out.
4. Tennis, Forty thirty is a typi-
cal score.
5. Bowling: 300 is top score.
Track: 440-yard run. Automobile
racing: 500-mile race at Indianap-
oils; or baseball 500 is variation of
the sport
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16
So They Say

Let profits come from large vol
ume rather than through high
prices.
Harriet Elliott, defense commits
Sioner.
Totaltarian unity is achieved by
the application of force and in
tolerance. Democratic unity Is
brought about by a pooling of diff
ferences and by mutual aid.
DR. Dwayne Orton, president
Stockton Junior College.
We have to choose, and for my
part I think it is less evil that
some criminals should escape than
that the government should play
an ignoble part.
Justice Holmes, as quoted by
President Roosevelt on the wire
tapping bill
We may put in the place of to-
days world new civilization, diff
ferent from any that we have
hitherto known, but based upon
those values whicn democracy has
discovered and proved to be good.
@-Riissell Davenport, editor and
erstwhile Willkie backer.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16
by Peter Edson...
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

of Agriculture has muShroomed 50
that its 1882 expenditures of 500
million are now S1400 million, with
$4,000 employees in % acres of
buildings giving the farmer more
and more service, but not for less
money.
The appropriation bill under dis
cussion. having been passed by the
House, is now before the Senate,
which will get around to it in due
course If there is any dirt farmer
in the audience who thinks he can
do anything about this farm stu
alton. he might come down and
tell the Senate how, before it's
too late.
WASHINGTON
WEAKNESS
R.FC. let its office employees out
early on the day of a big snow
storm, but people still complain
about man-hours lost in defense
industries. AleXendar Woollcott,
parading his rudeness in a Wash
ington theater, was guest at
the White House with Hendrix
Willem Van Loon. Il hope" said
Henrik, that nobody mistakes me
for Woollcott." Watch the new
CLIO. technique of computing in
dustrial profits per worker employ
ed. On this basis General Motors
made S977 on each of its employees,
Standard Oil of New Jersey $4,000
and DUPONT $1,000. Congressman
Martin Dies has had 2800 invita-
tions to speak on the work of his
investigating committee and has
accepted l6O.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16

HOLLYWOOD. March Is = Be
hind the screen: A top director
has been having a lot of trouble
with his films co-stars because
both players want to show only
their left profile. Finally, he blew
up and said, "PleaSe-please!- ii
you'll just work with me so we can
finish this picture, I'll write the
script for your next one myself, and
I promise you the entire action
will take place on a tandem
bicycle"
The Easter parade has already
started in Hollywood, judging from
the number of costumes, not to say
creations, scheduled for feminine
stars to wear in current films.
Eleanor Powell gets % Adrian de-
signed outfits, Ann Sothern 20
more, in Lady Be Good. Joan
Fontaine emerges from screen
shabbiness in Before the Fact
with 80 costumes. Tops is Ginger
Rogers as wardrobe changes in
Tom, Dick and Harry" Approx
mately, that's a different outfit for
every 215 feet of film, or one ev-
cry couple of minutes.
STILL KICKING
That regularly report
OF Clark Gables death was going
the rounds again this week; the
rumor originated in Georgia this
time and had the star smashed to
smithereens in an automobile acci-
dent. AS usual, studio executive
had to go through the red-tape
ceremony of going over to Gables
set and asking him whether he
was dead or alive.
Now they know what kind OF
brat Robert Preston was. In THE
Lady From Cheyenne frontier
schoolhouse is to burn down. One
was built expressly for that pur-
pose on the Kernyille location, and
soaked in kerosene so it would
blaze merrily Came time to set it
afire and Preston begged SO hard
to be allowed to touch it off that,
though he wasn't in the scene
they handed him the matches.
Siidl Iic Slidplill JuoG saw oN
cite Goddard a shiny new station
Wagon-vehicle which Hollywood
rates as sWankier than limou-
sine. However, even in foible-ous
MovietOWn, nobody goes so far as
to pretend that it's more fun tc
wear glass instead of diamonds
Newest luxury in which manufac-
turers hope to interest the movie
colony is a deluxe air raid shelter
complete with bath and cocktail
bar, at prices ranging from $4,000
to S26,4O0; no swimming pool
though Latest hair-bobber is Mar
garet Hayes, who had to part with
10 inches of auburn locks for her
role in The Night of January
18th. Gamely, she wired Direc-
tor Bill Clements, who had order
cd the shearing: Hope you don't
lose as much hair over this pic
ture as | did
SIMONE SIMON
RETURNS
Returning to pictures is Simone
Simon, who de-pouted from Holly
wood three years ago, went home to
make French films, came back for
Broadway show; she's signed for
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16
FACES TO ORDER

The dispatch the other day that told
of the rebuilding of an actress face. cut
to raw shreds in an automobile accident
made pleasant reading for change.
Made more beautiful than ever" by plas-
tic surgery. the actress is a living exam
pie of another little noticed advance of
modern science.
The day may come when all we've got
to do is go through catalogue, pick
out the kind of face We want, and let the
doctor do the rest.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16
TURNING COED
Nevada State JournaD

The last stronghold of determined
maSculinity has crumbled. The Harvard
Club in New York, according to a re-
port, has had to go the way of the others
and has opened its sacrosanct portals to
the women.
The relentless march of feminity has
swept away the once male eXclusiveness
of the historic clubdom of New York.
First to go was the Cornell Club in East
Forty-Eighth Street, which installed a
ladies' powder room and a cocktail
lounge. Then came the opening of the
doors of the Princeton Club in East
Thirty-ninth Street, where today women
may enter as freely as men, then fol-
lowed Columbia and Dartmouth, Penn
sylvania and Yale The last was the one
which broke the back of Harvards resist
ance If the Blues do it, the Crimson
must also.
The disappearance of once quite mas
culine haunts is one of the most curious
of the developments of what some day
may be called the Funny Forties. Of
course, business and the merry sound of
the cash register may have had some
thing to do with all this; but anyway,
the retreats have felt the effect of the
spirit of the Funny Forties, the rival
of the Gay Nineties in the research of
future historians.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16
A CHANGE THAT
SHOULD BE MADE

Now that Senate Bill No. 755-the act
applying 10 additional salary for Impe-
rial Irrigation District directors - has
been revised TO provide that any ap-
poinfment of a director can be terminal
ed at the will of the board of directors.
the bill deserves the support of valley
residents.
In its original phrasing, the bill was
actually nothing more than a definition
of existing law. Ii did not create any
new situation, nor attempt to. Its word
ing. however, was unfortunate. 1t lett
the way open for a possible later misun-
derstanding. and for possible litigation,
because il could have been interpreted
as giving the directors power to appoint
themselves TO departmental jobs for
specified terms exceeding their own cleo
tive terms of office. OF course such an
Interpretation would have had very little
chance of success in view of past IN
cidents-yet there was the possibility OF
extended legal pickering.
Now, however, the bill has been revised
TO provide specifically that 'any ap-
pointment of a director as a department
head or TO an executive position shall be
subject to termination at the will OF
the board" The revision does away COM
pletely with the possible danger, however
remote. of an attempt by an outgoing
group of directors to perpetrate them
selves on the district payroll.
The bill as il now stands, clarifying
and defining existing law, may save the
district considerable money by avoid
ing politically inspired lawsuits. 1t is
only fair that il should have the support
of those interested in efficient operation
of the district.
The district does not plan to change
its organization one whit if the bill is
passed. 1t is highly probable that no
new appointments 10 departmental or
executive positions will be made, and
no new salaries authorized. If the board
had Intended to make such appointments,
it already has the legal power to do so,
and could have done so long before this.
Yet the point is stressed by political foes
of the present district majority that
"there must be some reason for this bill.
There is.
Ii is intended to prevent possible liti-
cation by politicians, for political reas-
ons, in an effort to force Chairman Evan
T. Hewes of the district board to return
TO the district the salary he has received
in a managerial capacity. The people
were informed and gave their approval
when Hewes was made manager of the
district at an additional salary. 1t is
generally and publicly recognized that
Hewes. devoting the greater part of "a
hours day to district affairs. has lost
money as a result because he has had to
ignore his private business. Hewes has
earned many times over what the district
has paid him. He has saved the district
far more than il could ever pay him.
Agitation against Senate Bill No. 755
is largely an attempt to discredit Hewes
and the majority members of the district
board. for political reasons. The agita-
tion has now served any useful purpose
it may have had The bill should be
passed. with the revision that was added
when its lack Of clarity became appar-
ent.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16
Did You Know?

Butter contains twice as much
food value as sugar.
The state of Minnesota contains
more than 1000 lakes.
There are so peaks $4,000 feet
or more in height in the Swiss
Alps.
Hadi was the title given to
any Mohammedan who made the
pilgrimage to Mecca.
Xlograph is the name given to
an engraving on wood or an i'm
preston thereof.
The astronomical observatory at
Peiping was Established by the
Tartar kings in 1880 AID.
The United States normally pro-
duces about one-tenth of the
worlds annual wool clip.
Pure essence of peppermint is
colorless. The green color Is OBJ
tanned by using bruised pepper
mint leaves.
White pepper is Well-ripened
black pepper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
that funds are now available in
accordance with the terms an d
provisions of the Modification of
Refunding Plan, dated as of jan
uary /, 1939', which is the Plan
of Composition approved and con-
firmed by Decree of the United
States District Court of the South
ern District of California, under
date of February 26, 1941.
NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY
GIVEN that the Board of Directors
of the Imperial Irrigation District
hereby invites sealed proposals for
the sale to the District of any of
its now outstanding securities af-
feCted by said Plan of Composition
above referred to and declared
operative with respect to which
the sinking fund moneys are applic-
able as in said Plan of Composition
provided, and that the time and
place when and where such sealed
proposals will be opened is as fol-
lows:
Such sealed proposals will be re-
ceived at the office of the Board
of Directors of the Imperial Irri-
CATION District in the Masonic
Building, Sixth and State Streets,
Ell Centre, California, and the time
when such proposals will be opened
is hereby fixed as 10 o'clock A. M.
of the 1st day of April, 1941, and
all proposals must be sealed and
deposited with or delivered to the
Secretary of the Board of Directors
of the Imperial Irrigation District
on or before said day and hour and
at said place.
NOTICE IS FURTHER HEREBY
GIVEN that the amount available
for the redemption of such securities
and the securities for the purchase
of which such moneys are avail
able, are as follows:
$44 4,420.88 available for the re-
demption and purchase of registered
warrants.
$39, ,485.23 available for the re-
demption an d purchase Of First
DIVISION Refunding Bonds.
$44 420.88 available for the re-
demption and purchase of Second
Division Refunding Bonds.
$49,35655 available for the re-
demption and purchase of Third
Division Refunding Bonds.
Notice is also hereby given that
the Board of Directors of the I'M
perial Irrigation District is by the
terms of said Plan of Composition
given and there is hereby reserved
the right and discretion to reject
any or all of such proposals.
Dated the 4th day of March, 194l.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT,
BY Evan r. Hewes, President
BY w. w. ooodson, Secretary.
M 10, II, "a, 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16

EDITORS NOTE: The fOilOlUing
editorials are presented as interesting
opinions roiced by editors elsewhere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16

The bulk of mankind doesn't change
its ideas after 25.-Dr. Gilbert Taylor,
Westminster College.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16
Thoughts for the Day

For God commanded, saying. Honour thy father and
thy mother: and, He that curseth father or mother
let him Gle the death.-Matthew 154.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16

A Massachusetts dishwasher inherited
$4,000. Tell daughter. Maybe she'll help
with the dishes.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16

In Indiana a "blue law amendment
has been passed to legalize Sunday fish
ing-so the kids will continue to fish on
Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16

Turkish OUTLAWS met Hitler's offer of
friendship. That's one turkey that knows
how to avoid getting it in the neck.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

NOTICE INVITING SEALED PRO
POSALS FOR SALE TO THE
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT OF IT'S OUTSTANDING
SECURITIES AFFEC TED BY
PLAN OF COMPOSITION WITH
RESPECT TO WHICH SINKING
FUND MONEYS ARE APPLIC-
ABLE.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16
MEMBER

American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. National
Editorial Association. Cali
fOrnia Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16

The difference between AfghanS
and some Americans is that Af-
ghans rarely see their brides BE-
FORE. the wedding.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16

Sometimes the boss has to be d
crank to start things.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16

When talking pictures came in
we hoped they'd do away with talk
ing audienceS-and VIC still think
it was a good hope.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16
Barbs

Loose auto nuts are more dan
gerous when one of them is driving.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16

White pepper is well-ripened
black pepper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16

The Chicago stenographer miss
ing with $1,000 must have used the
touch system.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16
Famous Sayings

lie us do what honor demands.-Racinc.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-16

The United States normally pro-
duces about one-tenth of the
worlds annual wool clip.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
Blood Stained Kiipuri Flies
Eag of Finland Once Again

cone of Soviet Russia's great
est prizes Of her war with Fin
land, bomb and shell ruined
Viipuri, (Vioorg), strategic Kar-
elan Isthmus City, IL Finnish
once again.
The blood stained town has
experienced innumerable sieges
and battles ever since 1t was
founded by the Swedes In the
18th century, as an outpost
against eastern armies.
Before the Russian Finnish
war Of 1899 40, viipuri was .
modern community Boosting
stone buildings unlike most Of
Finland's wood constr U { . d
towns. It IVES the second largest
city In Finlsnd, the leading in
dustrial, commercial and distrib-
uting center in the eastern part
Of the country.
About $4,000 persons resided
in viipuri before IL was evaeust-
Cd In face Of Russian advances
early In 1870. An Associated
Press Correspondent, visiting the
city In February Of that : year.
said he saw only IN occasional
sentry trudGing between build
inOs without windows, roots and
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
Reds Block German hrusj
Is Is j. IS 10000 nv
Selfridge Air Armada Active at Front 'Deaa


oThe German thrusl ~ ~ 1
Moscow has been stoppor NH
10, 600 Germsns Slain ~ - 81 Il
ed In great bof$les a ~ IVY ~
drenched fields, H. lll1D = K "A
serted today while ~ a. & n
reported destruction a ~ tt = n
Sovi~t ships laden VIII - n
fleeing from Tolli I - q q
These rivAl claims 4 NJ ~ 81
les In widely separptod 1i q
both the Aka md h 111 !,
were acknowlede1ng Scr 2 II
In vital sineWs @ war n ia
the expanding general eor = a
now nearly two yeoEs oo ssss8 q u 3
MATKRlAL Su0n2AGT Ii n
Rome dispatches ol Vi Z VIVA r I
Axis needs for oil and o11o 4 !
materials were majo4 H. RI 81
the Hitler-Musnolln1 ~ I Il
along with dtscusIioo C I 11 ~ = 4
to safeguard ~ | \
against possibilities = x &
or American inv1ci1n II IA h! AZ
British Fore So liIl n
Anthony Eden d<c1GEu6 -
See WAR noo & S'
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
Death Grins as He
Selects Victims
Five Men Bend Over Hat
and Reach bIindIy for Death

At least the writer believes
He was one of the Ave men
bent over that hat.
He, like the other four, has
seen the grim reaper of the
highways snatch q grand total
of So lives from our highways
since Jan. I, 1941.
The majority Of the deaths,
the writer witnessed. All were
the results of carelessness on
someone's part.
He has seen young men and
old men die; two died in his
arms enroute to q hospital.
LIVES IN RUINS
And, he has seen young men
and old men stand forlornly
in q court of justice, their lives
smashed forever.
Their byword is death!
Just men who for a few min
See TRAFFIC-Page 3
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
&llalalI'sllipA
- -.
are Renewed
y. Of IA. Notifies
Four LoeoI Pupils

oFour Mount Clemens students
were among the select $50
throughout the state who re-
ceived notification today from
the University of Michigan
that they had been awarded
renewals of their Alumni TN
dergraduate Scholarships for
the coming school year.
The Mount Clemens students
honored are all graduates of
Mount Clemens High School.
They are Lois E. Brandenburg,
a sophomore, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Carl Brandenburg, 80
Kendrick; Lorraine p. LePage,
a Junior, who lives with her
aunt, Mrs. John Lemp, 81
Smith street; Robert McWill-
Jams, a junior, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. F. McWilliams; and
Alice L. Schutt, q sophomore,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
erick Schutt.
Selections for the original
awards were made on the basis
Of scholarship, character, and
need from nominations submit
ted by the University Of Mich
igan Club Of Mount Clemens.
Renewals were awarded students
maintaining satisfactorily
high standard of scholastic at
toinunAnt
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
'le(ture Sale
Opens Sept. II
KjsseIl Reveals
Civic Series Plan

OSale of season tickets to the
seventh annual Civic Lecture
series will begin Sept. %, Cen
eral- Chairman Frank w. Kissell
announced today.
After attracting near sell-out
houses to last seasons offerings,
the committee feels that the
well-balanced program for 1941-
~ will elicit an enthusiastic re-
Spouse.
There are six programs sched-
uled, opening October 81 with an
address by DR.. Ruth Alexander
on Education for Freedom"
She will be followed November
10 by Elsie Mae Gordon, one of
radios most versatile actresses.
One of the most popular will
be the Christmas Concert of the
High School glee clubs under the
direction Of Charles b. McGhee.
Feb. 8 brings Garfield Cook
In IN illustrated lecture, "Wings
and the World; Feb. Is, Joyce
Barthelson, "Our Declaration of
Musician Independence, March
A. Nicol Smith in an illustrated
hesunes The Burma Road"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30

floors buildings that were only
charrsd ruins.
Moscow announced after the
treaty with Finland in March
that the city would be rebuilt
and organized along Soviet
lines. How much was done in
the city by the Russians never
was announced In detail.
A. . Finnish city, Viipuri
hummed with saw mills, ma
chine shops, flour mills and soap
end tobacco factories. II was
the Karelian regions chief mu-
Steal and artistic center.
The city q about Is miles
from Leningrad and 20 minutes
away by bombed plane.
Anticipating fall Of the city,
the Firms took poll August q
Of the ~ ,316 citizens who stayed
In rin1ond rather than return 70
their Hossian controlled homes
and rspprted 40,soo were ready
to return.
viipvfi was taken from The
Swedes ~ Imperial Russia IN
1731 and became part q Finland
- . result Of her civil war which
followed the Bo;shevik Revolu-
ton.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30
5000 Troops
Stay on Duty
al Local Base
Bulk OF Personnel
at Sslfridss to
be Rstoined Here

oLarge scale operations in the
''war zone" in Louisiana con-
tinued to see units from Self
ridge Field in action all along
the far-flung front, as approx
imately $50 men from the local
field put on their best-dress for
commanding officers. Over 5000
officers and men will remain on
duty at the local air base.
Units in the ."war" sector from
Selfridge include three squad
rons of the 1T Pursuit Group,
totalling 400 men; Headquarters
Squadron of the 9Th Pursuit
Wing, 1eO men; Headquarters
Squadron and the LIST Materiel
Squadron of the 3rd Air Base
Group, 800 men.
When the 31st Pursuit Group,
leaving next week, arrives In
Louisiana with Its $50 men,
there will be q total of approx
imately 400 Selfridge officers
and pen ts y part " "
whiIe tie warriors fight IN
the south. major operations con-
tinusat Selfri1ge Field, rs some
5000 officers md men work to
''kesy 'em flying"
SUI at the Field are the oath
Pursuit Squadron Of the LIST
Group, the 8oth, 52nd, and 58th
Pursuit Groups and two squad
ronss 0f the 3rd Air Base Group.
VAl1aED GnOUPS STAY
Also, medical detachment, fl
nance detachment. weather de-
tactment, communications de-
tacl1ment, signal detachment,
315h Signal Company Air
Wing, 38th Signal Platoon, 9Th
Quartermasters Corps, two COM
panies of the quartermasters, de-
tachment of supply, aviation
quartermasters, chemical COM
pany detachment service avia-
ton, and three ordnance COM
panies.
In Command Of the Field Is
Lieut.. Col. Morton H. McKin-
non.
Local skies will not be bereft
Of planes, while 5000 officers
and men still remain at Self
ridgel
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-08-30

bank book showing $4,000 In
deposits made during the past
10 years. There were seven 500
bills among the cash.
The rags-and-riches character,
73-year-old Thomas Major. lived
in Q $2-a-week lodging house
and always looked as IL he didn't
know where the next meal was
coming from-and didn't care
particularly. He even died owing
two weeks rent.
Mrs. Madeline Parmenter,
who rented the pedler . tiny
second-floor room where he
stayed alone except for IN In
frequent visitor identified q his
sister, was stupefied by news
the old man" was well off.
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