davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1941-03-14
UNCLE RAYS CORNER

is made up of desert. Much OF
the rest of the country contains
mountains, but there are sections
where crops grow well. Even in
the desert the soil is rich enough
for crops II water can be provided.
Near the Caspian Sea, where rice
ss grown, the rainfall averages 4
inches per month, but in the rest
Of the country there is not enough.
One large section has an average
rainfall OF only 4 inches per year!
Mountain streams help to some
extent. If left to run they may
60 out into the desert until they
dry away and are "lost." In some
places tunnels have been dug to
conduct water from such streams
to spots where it is needed. This
prevents loss of the precious water
which otherwise would dry under
the suns rays or would sink in the
sand.
Corn is grown in Trans summer
season; it is planted in May and
Is harvested in the autumn. In
some parts wheat and barley are
not planted until November, De-
cember or January. Farmers wait
until the end Of the long, dry sum-
mer before sowing these grains,
because they want to have the soil
Softened by rain. If good rains
come the wheat and barley will
Evening star., 1941-03-14

you bid two no-trump, and your
partner bids three spades, you will
not be sure whether he is trying to
reach game or trying to wriggle out
Of dangerous ro-trump contract.
Score 100 per cent for two clubs
30 per cent for two no-trump.
Question No. 707.
Today you hold the same hand
and the bidding continues:
Maier. Jacoby. Schenken. You
~ IA Pass 49,.
20 3D. Pass CD
What do you bid? (Answer to-
morrow
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Evening star., 1941-03-14
Iran Farmers OId-Fushioned PIow.

Persian farmers are far from up
to-date. They use wooden plows
which are tipped with iron and
which are drawn by donkeys or
oxen. The same beasts are used to
thresh grain by tramping on the
stalks after the harvest.
If we visit a Persian farm we
watch this method of threshing,
which has been employed for thou
sands Of years. We also observe
peasant woman turning cream
into butter. Instead of using the
kind Of churn we know about, she
shakes the cream by swinging it
in a leather container.
Despite the scant rainfall, Iran
produced more than a million tons
OF wheat in recent year and half
a million tons of barley.
Q'or Travel section Of your scrapbook. }
II you want a free copy of the
illustrated leaf1et on the "Seven
Wonders of the World" send me
q Scent stamped, self-addressed
envelope in care Of The Evening
Star.
1~eA Ra
TOMORROW: Stone Age Education.
Evening star., 1941-03-14

West made the killing" opening
lead of the jack Of diamonds. South
thought for few seconds before he
played q card from the dummy. He
could run five clubs and two dia-
monds, and hence needed two addi-
tional tricks TO make his contract.
But getting those tricks would not
be easy If the enemy were on their
toes.
In order to win two tricks he
would have to lead both spades and
hearts, giving the opponents two
chances to lead. One of those
chances would allow them to knock
out the second stopper in diamonds:
the other chance would allow them
to run the diamonds. If each op-
ponent had four diamonds, no harm
would come of it; but otherwise,
South would be pretty sure to lose
three diamonds, and two aces.
1t took South only few seconds
10 see his danger and even less time
than that to find way out Of his
troubles. He simply won the first
diamond trick and led the king Of
hearts.
East should have known better,
but decided to hold UP his heart ace
Evening star., 1941-03-14

in the hope of shutting out dummy's
heart suit. Then South knocked
out the spade ace and took his nine
tricks before the opponents could
find out what had hit them.
y y n
Yesterday you were Oswald Jaco-
bys partner and, with neither side
vulnerable, you held:
A 107
y A 9
90 1858
"A @ J74
The bidding:
Maier. Jacoby. Schenken. You.
~ IA Pass (?)
Answer: Bid two clubs. Game is
unlikely unless your partner can
find another constructive bid. If
Evening star., 1941-03-14

grow well and may be reaped in
April, with a yield of 20 bushels for
each bushel of seed used.
There are heart-breaking winters
in which little or no rain comes
down. At such times the Persian
farmer may not obtain as much
grain as he SOWed.
Evening star., 1941-03-14
Winning Contract
Nv THE E0I1R ACES

eDavid Bruce Burnstone. Merwin D.
6chenken. worlds leading team-of-
four. inventors Of the system that has
beaten every other system in
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04
INDISPENSABLE
Washington Post)

The lease-lend bill, or something like
it, is indispensable if our aid to Britain
is to be increased over the next four
months.
The reasons why the prompt passage of
the bill is important have to do with NOR
ale, diplomacy and the military strategy
of the British.
To meet the Nazi onslaught, if it comes,
the British need morale of steel. The
best stiffener we can provide apart
from the declaration of war, which the
British have been told again and again
not to expects the lease-lend bill. The
bill will also bolster the opposition to
Hitler throughout Europe, including the
conquered countries.
On the military side, the bill also will
enable the British to reapportion their
strength. Without it they would have to
put up the best show possible while they
sought peace When it is passed, they
can throw into action more of their first
line strength, especially in the air. with
the confidence that equipment will be
replaced
So, even though the lease-lend bill can
not materially increase our aid to Brit
ain during the next thirty or so days, its
prompt passage is of the first order of
Importance.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04
by Peter Edson...
The Inside Track in Washington

scented here in detail because 1t IS
the first of the critical materials
which is being dealt with in this
manner. and because it gives spe-
cific example of what the PrlorltleS
division of o. P. M under f. r.
Stettinius, Jr., has for its job. AS
YOU can see. it's no breeze and it
will make the dollar year boys
earn their salt.
Aluminium is only one of some
400 items, mostly military supplies,
now on the critical list as they
call it, of materials in which there
are definite shortages. Machine
tools, magnesium, zinc, copper, are
a few of the most important.
Sooner or later this aluminium rig
marole may have to be applied to
the full 400 and maybe more
All private industries handling
critical list items must cooperate
in the priorities program. Govern
ment price fixing is around the cor
ner if they don't. 1t has already
been applied to machine tools and
aluminium scrap. Those were feel
ers. trial balloons. They didn't ere
ate much of a stir in the business
world; you can look for others.
And for the benefit of any indus
tries that may not feel like CO.
operating, it might be mentioned
that under the Selective Service act
the government has the power TO
confiscate industries. Yes, business
got drafted, too.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04
Il DUCE'S ALIBl
LEAVES SOUR TASTE
(Oroville Mercury-RegiSter)

Benito Mussolini makes a rather pitiful
defense of Italy's war weakness in his
long-delayed appearance on the italian
air waves. 1t consisted roughly Of three
parts:
We sent very strong probably AIDE
quate forces, to Libya, but the British
beat us to the punch
The Germans are very strong and al
though we are defeated we shall be safe
hiding behind them;
As a result. our morale will remain
high. and we shall take our time killing
off those among us who grumbe at the
mess we have made of things.
In the first part of his explanatory
address, Mussolini apparently casts the
blame for the Libyan debacle upon Cen
eral GRAHAM. He tells of sending $4,000
officers 100000 men and 1924 cannon
of all sizes, together with $4,000 machine
guns. IL million rounds of shells and
more than billion rounds of small am
munition into the Libyan campaign and
then says his army missed the bus by
or 10 days. Obviously GRAHAM was just
too slow. GRAHAM not many weeks back
complained that he hadn't been given
sufficient support from the homeland,
so the score is now even and we can
believe whom we wish.
1t must have been Il real trial for the
dictator of such former glory TO have
had to make such an alibi speech. He put
it off as long as he could, but finally
was compelled by the situation and by
Hitler to do what he could to show that
Italy would not falter The situation is
a keen one Anthony Eden is in Turkey
bolstering up the courage there and try
ing for a defensive alliance to include
Turkey, Jugoslavia, Greece and Britain.
Mussolini's talk, and that of Hitler soon
afterward obviously We're designed to
checkmate Eden.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04
WHAT MORE PROOF
DO THEY WANT?

Opponents of the bill In congress 10
extend all possible aid to Great Britain
must have received a severe setback when
Hitler sent his legions into Bulgaria, If
they are viewing the international situa-
ton realistically.
The Bulgarian occupation Is part OF a
pattern, and it is the pattern OF an entire
European continent dominated by one
city-Berlin. If England falls, the last
bit of the pattern will have fallen into
shape. Russia, which was hard pressed
to win a partial victory over little Fin
land, certainly would not stand in Ger
many way.
What then?
South America, certainly. And We as
a nation have already announced that
we would oppose with armed force any
encroachment on South America.
Those who argue that Germany will
be satisfied with domination of Europe
and Africa forget the one thing that is
all-important Europe and Africa cannot
exist in this modern-day world if they
stand alone, for they have not the re-
sources to make them self-sufficient.
Neither can Asia supply these resources
Immediately, for they are undevcloped in
Asia So Europ must look to the Ameri-
cas-to South America first, to North
America second.
So the question resolves itself into this
shall we help Britain now, or face Ger
many, alone, in a few years? Germany,
with the help and manpower Of most of
the rest of the world. The answer seems
simple enough.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04
by Willis Thornton :
Whose ADVANTAGE?

Every business man worth his salt
knows that only deal IN which
both BUYER and seller are satisfied,
by which both profit, is worth max
ing The deal in which one party
gains an advantage at the expense
of the other is no good in the long
run. No permanent business, no
permanent system of trade can be
built ON that basis.
That gees for trade between ma
tons as well as for trade between
people. We have found out that no
county can continue Indefinitely
u buy more than it sells, to be
placed at a permanent disadvan-
tage. international trade never
comes out exactly even. There are
always some odd balances to be
settled. But as a permanent mat
ter, exchange between countries
must come sooner or later into
something like a balance. Each
country must dispose of what it
has too much of, and receive equal
value in the things it needs.
That general principle throws
light on Herr Hitler's recent speech
il which he outlined his principles
OF international trade. He was not
going to be restricted by money
considerations. he said; he was go
ing TO buy for the German people,
not money. but goods. SO far, so
good.
we are going to do business
he added, solely on the basis Of
German advantage. If it's good for
Germany, we shall trade
The C0lombians found out about
German advantage. They sold
huge quantities Of coffee to Ger
many for blocked marks, money"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
CERTIFICATE OF BUSINESS
Fictitious Firm Name

The undersigned do hereby certify
that they are conducting a business
at 679 Main Street Fl Centre. Cali
fornia, under the fictitious firm
name of ROBERTSON q DUR
NIGER and that said firm is COM
posed of the following persons,
whose names and addresses are as
follows TO wit:
Jerry Robertson, SCI Sandalwood
Drive, Ell Centre California;
Clyde Duringer, 1854 Orange Ave,
Ell Centro, California;
Jno r. Robertson. 1929 Norma
Drive, San Diego, California.
Witness our hands this 21st day
of February. 1941.
Led JERRY ROBERTSON,
CLYDE DURINGER,
JNO. r. ROBERTSON.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

IN THE
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY
OF IMPERIAL
no. 1880
Notice of Time and Place Appoint
ed for Proving Will and Hearing
Application for Letters Testament
airy.
In the Matter of the Estate of
MARY TUEL, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that n
petition for probate of the will of
MARY TUEL, deceased, and for
the issuance to John c. Fritschler of
letters testamentary, has been filed
in this court, and that Friday the
7th day of March, 1941, at 2 o'clock
P. NJ. of said day, at the courtroom
of said court. at the Court House
in the City of Ell Centre County of
Imperial State of California, has
been set for the hearing of said
petition, when and where any per-
son interested may appear and
contest the same, and show cause If
any they have, why said petition
should not be granted
M Dated February "a, 1941.
tSeaD w. j. McCLELLAND
County Clerk.
BY G.. o. KENYON,
Deputy Clerk.
| T. o5--M & ms
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04

which was good only in Germany
in short, Tor a credit against Ger
man goods, when, as. and II Ger
man goods they wanted should be
available. The German then took
the coffee, and, instead of drink
ing it themselves, sold it around
Europe to Colombia's regular Gus
toners at trick prices. Colombia
lest Ihe coffee, lost its regular
markets. and get nothing but
credits in Germany. Because that
credit was good nowhere else, they
had to take what Germany offered
at Germanys prices. They didn't
like the deal much, though it was
certainly ION basis of German adj
vantage"
Mark the difference between this
and sheer barter. There is nothing
wrong with a straight barter deal.
Had Colombia snapped so much
coffee for an equal value in road
scraperS, no one would have been
the worse off.
But it wasn't like that. Colombia
was forced, III effect, to mortgage
a large chunk of her future pur-
chasing power to Germany, which
is something else again.
Had she received money instead,
she could have gone anywhere in
the world and bought what she
needed. That's the advantage of
money. It's net that barter, in an
individual or an international deal,
is wrong. 1t is simply that it is a
make-shift, limited system which
restricts rather than facilitates
trade.
Hitler may rail against money.
but so convenient a medium of
trading is not TO be abolished by
speech, a barter deal, or even Gas
the Russians found cut by
complete social revelation.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04

HOLLYWOOD. March 4.-There
must be many 4 bored businessman
who harbors q notion that he really
should have been an actor.
Maybe he even aharpenS these
gangs of Illustration by playing
roles with some amateur group. l.
doesn't occur to him that this may
be the best time OF his life Tor
crashing Hollywood.
For one thing, the movies need
character actors OF all ages-as
you'll agree if you recall how fire.
quently you see the same supporting
players. The movies also are hunt
ing rather desperately for leading
men of obvious maturity to appear
with some OF the toplotch feminine
stars who are we'll into their 30s.
There are several examples
though not anywhere near enoug
to please casting directorS-of bus
inesSmen who made their break and
are building distinguished careers
in pictures.
James Stephenson heads the list
because he recently was nominated
for an Academy Award for his sup
porting role in The Letter.. Now
he's co-featured with Geraldine
Fitzgerald in Shining Victory.
FROM COTTON
TO CELLULOID
Nine years ago stephenson, at
80, was prospecting partner in
the cotton exporting firm OF
Stephenson & Collier of Manches-
ter. England, and Shanghai, China
Came a day when ne suddenly
decided the cotton business wasn't
interesting" He dissolved the
partnership then and there, and
walked out.
L didn't know much about act
ing, because all I'd done was sing
in amateur musicals and a local
talent presentation of Aida, he
said. But l had an idea that act
ing would be a pleasant profession.
He must have what it takes tC
impress stage managers, because
the first one he approached gaze
him a chance at the Liverpool Re
pertory Theatre. From then on
through a few plays, several foreign
films and his Hollywood contract Ii
1888, Stephenson never has been of
an acting payroll.
Maybe you've heard that Samue
Kinds, who has played lots of law
yers among more than 100 eX,
cellent screen parts in the pas
decade, used to oe an attorney
himself. He had hoped to be al
actor back in his Harvard years
but his father was a prominen
New York lawyer who wanted hin
in the firm So Kinds practiced 3,
years, made a lot OF money, lost i
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04
LEGISLATURE SHOULD OUTLAW
SECONDARY BOYCOTTS

One of the most important long-range
measures before the California legisla-
ture in the adjourned session which be-
gan this week is proposal to outlaw
secondary labor boycotts in this state.
The proposed law would make 1t IL
legal for labor union, for instance, to
picket the store of an entirely innocent
merchant who is selling products manu-
factured-possbly weeks before-m
plant at which a strike is in progress.
There can be no moral justification in
a boycott which brings suffering to q
person or firm in no way connected with
labor troubles.
Under the secondary boycott a store
or industry with the highest possible la
Dor standards, with no disagreement at
all between employees and employers,
and with payrolls running into the thou
sands of dollars, can be made to suffer
a severe loss Such loss automatically
communicates itself to the community In
which the store or industry operates. 1t
automatically lowers standards for the
persons employed by the firm.
A secondary boycott is to labor dis
putes what poison gas is to warfare
1t should be outlawed.
The California legislature is consider
ing measures which would make the sec
ondary boycott illegal, and force labor
union agitators to confine their activities
to the industry or plant in which griev-
ances, real or imaginary, are claimed.
The legislature will adopt the measures,
if public opinion is expressed strongly
enough, and soon enough.
Organized labor maintains the strong
est lobby of them all in Sacramento Or
ganized labor will fight the proposal to
outlaw secondary boycotts, because labor
racketeers do not want to surrender even
one offensive weapon. If the public wei
fare is to be considered in this matter,
the people must make themselves heard.
Since the public maintains no lobby, but
is supposed to be represented by the sem
ators and assemblymen in Sacramento,
it is imperative that the people let their
representatives know how they fel.
The secondary boycott must 60
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In And For The County
of Imperial
No. 3I78
NOTICE
In the Matter of the Petition of
RICHARD HENRY MADDUX.
Notice is hereby given that RICH
ARD HENRY MADDUX has filed
in this court a Petition for Order
Establishing Birth, the hearing of
which has been fixed by said Court
for Friday, the 7th day of March,
194l, at 2 o'clock pm, at the Court
room thereof, at the court house in
said County of Imperial, and all
persons interested in said estate
are notified then and there TO ap-
pear and show cause, If any there be,
why the SAID Petition should not be
granted.
Dated Feb. 81, l941.
W. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY G. o. KENYON,
Deputy.
(F24M6 inc)
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04
by Paul Harrison -.
HOLLYWOOD Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

in the market crash, and wound
ND disguised with business.
He was living in Pasadena, ana
for quite awhile had been anus
ing himself with roles ut the famed
Community Playhouse. So he took
down his single and began angling
for movie jobs. 1t was an easy
transition, and Sam Kinds is a very
happy gent these days.
"RETIRES" INTO
MOVIE WORK
Jonathan Hale was a retired
businessman of San Francisco,
clipping coupons and monkeying
with couple of banking and cor
poration directorates from his sea-
side home at Carmel, when ms
attention strayed to the little thea
ter in tina colony.
Now he's in HOLLYWOOD" C2cI.
deal of he time. He recently played
the district attorney in Flight From
Destiny" Stephenson was phySl-
clan in the same picture.
Paul Cavanaugh was a successful
attorney in England and Canada
before he became a Leading man on
the stage and then entered pictures.
Miles Mander, another Britisher
doing well in Hollywood, was a pio-
neer in the English aviation indus
try. built up a fortune with sheep
ranches in New Zealand, and was
barely defeated when he stood for
Parliament from a London district.
Then he turned to the stage, emf
grated to MovietoWn, and now does
a weekly world-neWs analysis on
the radio in addition to his acting
iphC
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04

EDITORS NOTE: The foiioping
editorials are presented as interesting
opinions Uoiced by editors elsewhere.
They do not necessarily reflect me
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,

)SS.
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL
On this 21st day Of February,
A. D.. 1871, before me, Notary
Public in and for said County and
S ate, personally appeared Jerry
Robertson and Clyde Duringer and
Jno. r. Robertson, known to me,
to be the persons whose names
arc subscribed to the within Instru-
ment, and acknowledged to me that
they executed the same.
In witness whereof, have here
unto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in
this certificate first above written.
(SeaD HELEN Y. COOLEY,
Notary Public in and for
said County and State.
r 25-M 4 II 10.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04

Doctor attending the Leitchfield,
Ky. mother who had bankruptcies
say she is doing very well. -Four
times as well as the average
mother.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04
So They Say

The price Of our democracy and
peace on this hemisphere is based
on our being more willing than the
Nazis to sacrifice our goods, cur
time. and if need be, our lives.
Vice President wallace.
God cannot tesire that We who
have sacrificed so much shall be
beaten.
A Hitler.
Thus with hate in our hearts we
will reach total victory.
B Mussollnis newspaper, Popo-
10 dItala.
The mass production ef food,
clothing and furniture. and the
mechanization of household tasks
have taken from youth the eXpe-
rience of doing chores III the home
which used to lay the foundations
of work habits in most young peo-
pie.
Floyd w. Reeves, director Ameri-
can Youth Commission.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04

Astrologers say people born in
January are leaders. Maybe be-
cause they have at least q months
start Gu the rest of us.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04
Thoughts for the Day

And when We will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving
unto the Lord offer it at your will-Levtcus 22:29
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04

AS near rs we can figure
spring is about three tons away
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04
Famous Sayings

am glad that he thanks God for everything-sOmuel
johnson.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04
MEMBER

American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. National
Editorial Association. Call.
fornia Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04

With annual automobile exhibits
being called eff around the country,
autos don't have any more show
than pedestrians.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1941-03-04
Barbs

The unemployed don't want to
be helped out; they prefer to be
helped in.