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Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13
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christian Science Monitor)
The tide of anti-totalitarian action in
South America rises rapidly.
Colombia's s alertness in exposing and
suppressing a plot to permeate the Army
with Nazi-Fascist propaganda is only
the latest in a series of strokes from one
end of the continent to the other.
Organized labor in Costa Rlca has
Just demanded more vigorous stand
against Nazi influence in that Central
American democracy.
Argentina hitherto the least convinced
of American nations concerning the M
mediacy of Nazi threats. has swung over
suddenly into a position of leadership
against the Fifth Column. Even the
most trustful have been startled by RAM
ifications of Nazi plotting uncovered on
a continent-wide scale by an Argentine
investigating committee.
German diplomats are disclosed to
have extended their net of intrigue from
Berlin through Buenos Aires to Bolivia,
Peru, and Ecuador in a series of foment-
ed eruptions. Argentina took warning
from Bolivia's expulsion of the German
Minister. Ernst Wendler, when documen-
tary evidence was found linking him to
a planned coup against President Pena-
randa. Then, in Argentina's own Para
ma, capital Of Entire Rios Province, a
similar plot was exposed and suppress
ed.
Mexico, Cuba, and even Chile, are
speaking up with increasing boldness.
More significantly, they are acting to
stamp out Fifth Columns. Latin Ameri-
cans evidently are convinced of two facts:
That their own national freedom is bound
up with defeat of Naziism, and that it is
now safe to adopt more Independent
line in view of reverses sustained by the
NaZis in Europe.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13
YES FOR LIBERTY
(Tulara Times

I uldfS lines
It was an eventful day in American
history when Peter Zenger, newspaper
publisher, went on trial in New York
court room 206 years ago this week
Though the date is little noted now,
August 4, 1875, the opening day of the
trial, marked the first clear-cut, decisive
contest in this country between the
forces of liberty. Ranged on one side
was the stern autocratic tradition, hos
tile to freedom of speech and press. On
the other was the rising spirit of liberal
ism, straining nightly against the yoke
of suppressive authority.
The New York Weekly Journal, Zen
gers paper, had dared to criticize Ger
tain policies and actions of the colonial
governor Publisher Zenger was sum-
marily brought before the court on a
libel charge. But victory went to the
proud, bold voices of freedom when the
jury voted his acquittal.
A strange, dark and unnatural land
this might have been these last two CEN
turies if that first contest between liberty
and autocracy had gone to the freedom
hatars. If the press, these last 200 years,
had never dared criticize the peoples
representatives and government policies
when these failed to carry out the will
of the citizens. If the press had never
dared expose a bad cause nor champion
a good onei
But America and Americans weren't
built that way. To cringe and scrape
before sceptered authority is as foreign
20 them today as it was to that jury of
twelve good men and true who, that fate
ful day in August, 1875, cast their bal
lots for the cause of freedom.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
VENDEE'S NOTICE OF
INTENDED SALE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that SAM ELLIS intends to pur-
chase from S. SAMAHA that GER
tain mems furnishings and dry
goods business operated by said S.
Samaha at No. 453 Main Street, Ell
Centro, California, including all
stock in trade, fixtures, equipment,
and good will; and that a transfer
of the same will be made and the
purchase price therefor paid on
Monday, the 18th day of August,
1941, at the office of M. NJ. Satin
GER 224 Dool Building, Calexico,
California, at the hour OF ten
o'clock AM, of said day.
That the address of the vendor
is 453 Main Street, Ell Centre, Cali
fornia. and the address of the ven-
dee is 104 Hefferman, Calexico, Cal
ifornia.
Dated this 7th day of August
l94l.
SAM ELLIS.
BY ERNEST ELLIS,
His Agent.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13

Everybody who drives a car knows
the pungent. acrid smell that means
burning brake bands 1t isn't pleas
ant, for it usually means a brake
dragging or brake too hastily and
yehemently applied.
But right now the country would
welcome such an aroma in the ma
tional economy. The price scale is
getting up speed in its rise, and
such brakes as we have to control
the initiation spiral must be sharply
applied now. Congress is now in
specting the brakes and attempt
ing to furnish new Innings and
pedal with a little stronger leverage.
None too soon. Even the people
who have been feeling that "a lit
tie initiation would be a good thing"
will sit up and pay attention to
Price Administrator Leon Hender-
son When he says that we stand at
the brink CT dangerous initiation, and
that the cost of living, no matter
what is done is bound to go up
Unless the most stringent controls
are Immediately applied, Hender
son warns, really destructive
spiral of initiation is almost certain.
Nobody wants that. Perhaps
younger readers do not remember
it, but our own experience in the
World War is still fresh in the
minds of those who went through
it. They remember and they know
that there is no point at all in Sc
curing wage increases OF 20 per
cent if the cost of living in the
meantime goes up 80 per cent.
When this sort of thing begins,
it is human TO blame somebody;
somebody else, that is. And when
everybody sits around blaming ev-
erybody else, the grim part of it is
that they are all correct.
All share the blame Payrolls be-
ing at an all-time peak, Hender-
son is probably right in saying that
wages are the most volatile and
dynamic element" in initiation at
present. But the farmers also want
110 per cent of parity in the prices
for their products. That means that
the city worker who has secured a
10 per cent raise finds that wiped
out, and more, in the price of the
food he buys. The farmer who has
secured his 11O per cent of parity
price finds that, in turn wiped out
by higher prices Of manufactured
goods he buys. In the rush of this
furious mutual tail-cnaSing, neither
of all to a common destruction.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13
by Peter Edison =.
The Inside Track in Washington

hundreds of industries are going to
have to face.
WASHINGTON OVERS
AND SHORTS
Even the beauty industry is being
hit by the defense drive, for there's
a shortage of zinc oxide for rouge
and creams, aluminium chloride for
deodorants, and bergamot, a per-
fume oil imported from Italy. OPM
and OPACS have reported new
shortages. not of materials but OF
men-industrial specialists and eX-
perts who can fill defense admins
tratiye Jobs. There are II rock salt
mines in the country producing two
million tons year, so no shortage
there. And Bureau of Census re-
ports that the production of babies
has gone Gp-2O.000 more births be-
ing reported in the first four
months of l941 than in the same
period last year Birth rate is now
Is per thousand, highest since 1890,
but still not up to the % per thou
sand of 1924.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT or
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
RIVERSIDE.
S L Nj NJ o n S
No 23531

SUM MON
No. 1851
Action brought in the Superior
Court of the County of Riverside,
state of California, and Complaint
filed ia the office of the Clerk of
said County of Riverside.
MAY E. CLEMENS and KATH-
RYNE DAVIS, Plaintiff.
VS..
H. H. COLE and JACK c. COLE.
Defendants.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO: H. H. COLE and JACK
:. COLE, Defendant.
You are hereby directed to ap-
gear and answer the complaint in
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in the Superior Court
Of the State of California, in and
for the County of Riverside, within
ten days after the service on you
of this Summons, il served within
Riverside County; or within thirty
days if served elsewhere And you
are hereby notified that unless you
appear and answer as above re-
luired. the said plaintiff will take
judgment tor any money or dam
ages demanded n the complaint, as
arising upon contract, or will apply
to the Court for any other reliei
demanded in the complaint.
Given under my hand and sea-
of the Superior Court of the State
of California, in and for the County
of Riverside this 18th day of De-
cember, 1910.
G.. A. PEQUEGNA'T,
Superior Clerk
Court SeaD
BY H. j. MCLAUGHLIN,
Deputy.
(A13 -20-27; S3-10
17-24; O1-8)
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. l9949
SUI NJ ONS
Gordon, Wunscn ano Camplin,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
SANTIAGO TAJA, Plaintiff.
VS..
TEDDIE TAJA, Defendant.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO TEDDIE TAJA, Defend
ant.
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
TO APPEAR and answer the Com
plaint in an action entitled as above,
brought against you in the Superior
Court of the County Of Imperial,
State of California, within ten days
after the service on you of this
Summons-if served within this
county; or within thirty days II
served elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, or
will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the seal
of the Superior Court of the County
of Imperial, State of California, this
Goth day of June, 194l.
w. J. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY MAXINE CONSOLE,
Deputy Clerk.
27; S 8, 10)
tJ16-23,30; A6, 13, 20,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13
by Willis Thornton ;.
The Smell Of Burning Brake Bands

ever quite catches the other, while
the fellow in the middle with the
static income gets it where the
chicken gets the ak, as usual. If it
goes too far. all go down together
in a common ruin.
Here, if ever, is a place for the
stern application of a set of the
best-lined brakes Congress can de-
wise, together with the best patti
ence we all can muster whenever
the brake shoe pinches, as it will.
When severe initiation threatens,
all are in the same boat and every
attempt simply speeds. up the ride
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13
Balbs

Acting lowdown certainly is not
the way to get high up.
Most vacationists go away for
little change and come back
with a lot less.
A dreamer is a man who can
sit around reading travel folders
after his vacation.
A small town is a place where
there is no munitions factory.
Active principles which are used
in medicine to reduce blood pres
sure are contained in mistletoe.
Not only is the whale the largest
living animal but the largest ever
known to exist
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13

WASHINGTON, Aug. lS - The
real picture of how the defense pro-
gram is hitting non-defenSe bust
ness can best be appreciated when
YOU take one industry and see how
it's getting along under all this
stress. strain. strife, and semi
strangulation. Take for example the
radio industry. Nine out of 10 fami-
lies are now supposed to have at
least one radio set blaring around
the place. so that brings the matter
pretty close to home.
Last year, the industry made
about u million sets, valued at $3.50
million on the retail line. That
makes the average set worth around
s37. and rs per cent of the sets sold
wear price tag below $50
With a lot of overlaps. there are
about 300 manufacturers of radios
and parts in the business today.
Perhaps 125 of them are what you
would call the leading manufactur-
erS, but the others have been doing
all right. There are about 5000 ra-
dio dealers. and no telling how
many more stores that sell sets and
parts.
With that general and perhaps
too simple picture of the industry
last year, plop the defense business
down on top of it and see what can
baDDpO
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13
THE LABOR BOARDS CHANCE
TO PROVE ITS FAIRNESS

The National Labor Relations Board,
which has too often leaned over back
ward to favor the big unions against all
comers, has its opportunity in the Cram
ers Employees Association case to prove
to Imperial Valley that it is not sort
of officially constituted offshoot of the
major unions 1t has the chance to DEM
onstrate that it can render decision
protecting the right of individual labor
ers in any given industrial plant to or
ganize as they wish, regardless of out
side pressure.
We believe NLRB agents will find not
one shred of actual evidence which does
not support the independent union. We
believe they cannot find one honest wit
ness to declare that the independent
union is company dominated" We be
lieve, on the other hand, that the boards
representatives will find gigantic mass
of evidence supporting the independence
of the tiny union.
Evidence, for instance, such as that
indicated by the fact that the little un-
ion recently rejected a contract written
by the company, and has refused as yet
to sign any agreement with the company
because mutually agreeable terms have
not been arrived at.
Company dominated?
If anybody can convince Us that the
Cramers union is company dominated,
then we're willing to admit that Snow
White organized the Teamsters Union.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13

Bats are able to fly equally as
we'll in daylight, darkness, or in
the glare of an electric light.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13

The guaco plant gave Waco, Tex,
its name.
A redwood near Dyerville, Calf,
would reach to the 30th floor OF
the Empire State building.
Saltiest of the oceans is the AT
lantic.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13

Tree bark is brown as a result
of air and moisture acting on the
tannin in the dead cells.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13

Only about one tWo-billionth of
the energy sent out from the sun
IS intercepted by the earth.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13
Editorials and Comment
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1e41

EDITORS NOTE: The following
editorials are presented as interesting
opinions Uoiced by editors eiseIrhere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13

Canada has more than 100 va
lietieS of trees.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR The COUNTY OF
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IMPERIAL.
40. 1921
NOTICE OF HEARING OF PETI-
TION FOR PROBATE OF WILL.

TION FOR PROBATE OF WILL.
In the Matter of the Estate of
CHARLOTTE M. PRESTON, De-
ceased.
Notice is hereby given that the
petition for the probate of the will
of Charlotte M. Preston, deceased,
and for the issuance of letters tes-
tamentary to George Varney has
been filed in this court, and that
Wednesday, the 30th day of July,
194l, at the hour of 200 o'clock,
pm. of said day, in the court room
of said court, in the court house
in the city of Ell Centro, Imperial
County, California, has been ap-
pointed as the time and place for
hearing of said petition, when and
where any person interested may
appear and contest the same, ano
show cause, if any they may have,
why said petition should not be
granted.
Dated this 18 day of July, 1941.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
Clerk of said Court.
BY MAXINE CONSOLI
Deputy
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13

No two solar eclipses occur near
er each other than 1T days
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13
Did You Know?

Onions come from one of the
oldest cultivated plant families.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13
INDEPENDENT
IMPARTIAL
and
INDIVIDUAL
SPORTSMANSHlP, THE
MISSING QUANTITY

There is something at once ridiculous
and revolving about the howl set up by
the AFL Teamsters Union in its attempt
to smash Imperial Valleys youngest,
tiniest independent union, the Cramers
Employees Association, Inc.
The Teamsters charged to the National
Labor Relations Board that the assoela-
ton was sponsored and encouraged
by the company for which its members
work. The yseek by this means TO nave
the little union outlawed.
The real fact is that there never was
a more independent union, in the true
meaning of the word independent. II
the men who belong to the ASSOCIATION
were company dominated, they would
now be members of the Teamsters Union
and Teamsters Union officials should
know it.
The company did encourage, men,
bership in a union-but the union was
the Teamsters. Acting under possloie
threats of action against the company
plants in San Diego and Los Angeles II
they did not order their men here to JON
the Teamsters. the company told Its
statesmen and checkers in Imperial VAL
ley that they must join the Transfers
One official of the AFL union, feeling
that he had already won his organlZa-
ton drive. even boasted to a Cramers
employee that I'VE don't have to deal
with you fellows now; we're dealing with
the company
But the Teamsters officials went too
far They tried to inflict SIS penalty
in the initiation fee charged Cramers
employees, because the men had not )oln-
ed the union sooner.
The men revolted against both the COM
pany and the Teamsters Union. They
formed their own union. They did so
at the risk of incurring the displeasure
of their superiors in the company, and
with the certain knowledge that they
would incur the wrath of the Teamsters
Union and the union organizers
Yet, in the face of those facts, the
Teamsters Union now has the temerlty
to file charge with the National Labor
Relations Board, declaring that the tiny.
union was sponsored and Encouraged
by the company; that it is, in fact, COM
pany dominated union.
The Teamsters, seemingly, have not
even the good craftsmanship to take
beating gracefully.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13

For every pound of raw silk,
$500 silkworms give their lives.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13


For every pound of raw silk,
2500 silkworms give their lives.
While combating piracy, the
United States captured the town
of Derna. in Tripoli onoW Libya),
North Africa, in 1904.
New York City has $4,000 traffic
signals.
Brass hat in military circles,
is slang for a general or other staff
officer.
The iguana. a giant lizard, is
priced as food by natives of Cen
trail America.
Indians used the wood of the
Usage orange for making bows.
Since 1868. there have been more
than 1000 different makes of auto
mobiles.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
al Editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13
happen.
SMALL FIRMS GET
BIG BUSINESS


SMALL FIRMS GET
BIG BUSINESS
In the first place. there is a series
of big orders for military radio sets
field portables, aircraft communi-
cation, special sets for the Navy
and its increased auxiliaries. That
looks good as a boost for the in
dustry, but this is a specialized job
and it goes to the companies with
manufacturing experience in the
short wave police, aircraft and ma
riEe fields. What this business
amounts to is hard to estimate, but
at the outside it is SIS million and
most of it goes to smaller firms
who have not been in the home
radio field. The industry therefore
expands to take care of this new
production.
Then along come priorities, with
shortages of all the metals radio
sets use-copper for wire, brass and
aluminium for parts. Instead of the
100000 pounds of aluminium which
the radio industry has been using
every month it is told it can have
only 10000 pounds month. That's
a &c 2I3 per cent cut right there,
and no promises are made for next
year when the allowance may be
cut to say 10000 pounds month,
a 78 per cent cut.
If the industry We're to take that
without protest, it would mean that
instead of making u million sets
a year, they would make only two
to four million sets. The manufac-
turers would all have to suffer pro-
portionately, reducing their produc-
ton to such an extent that two
thirds of them would probably have
to shut up shop or else the num-
Der of manufacturers would have
to be reduced from 800 to between
70 and 100
The industry doesn't take this
beating without struggle. The Ra-
dio Manufacturers Association ap-
points material bureau to con-
serve strategic supplies and to fine
substitutes. It is found, for instance
that an alloy of half-steel half
aluminium is just as good for vari-
able condensers as is pure alum
mum. That helps, but then these
alloys become strategic materials
The problem is to find substitutes
for the substitutes.
DEALERS DEALT OUT?
What happens to the 5000 radio
dealers in this situation is another
chapter to the story. They either
live on 20 to 80 per cent of their
former income, or from 10 to sc
per cent of them go out of bust
ness. There is plenty of worry in
Washington about the lost produc-
tive capacity, unemployment, the
need for retraining of labor. So
far, nobody has expressed much
concern over what happens to the
retail dealers, whether it's radio or
hardware or household appliances
they sell. Carrying their woes a
little further, they must reduce
their advertising, and the news
papers take sock.
Cn top of this worry and Woe
pile the new tax bill which prof
poses to raise manufacturers excise
taxes from 512 to 10 per cent. That
means a AZ per cent increase in
the makers costs, and it will be all
moved on to the purchaser. Incl
dentally the treasury estimates
that this particular tax increase
will yield an additional $40 million
are open to question. If the pro-
duction of sets and parts for the
next year is cut tWo-thirds, the
value of products even at the re-
tail level would be only $3.50 million.
And 10 per cent tax on that would
yield SIS million instead of the S21
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13

hundreds of industries are going to
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-13

New York City has 10000 traffic
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

ing any sport event =" Merle
was asked.
That WOULD he fun" he
laughed. Since hockey IS the
most frequent sport in the big
arena, il was Merle's first
thought. and his ideas flew thick
and fast.
I've always wanted TO play
Casey Jones' when Of Charley
Conacher starts down the ice
with the puck. He gets up
steam like q locomotive. Then,
when the fans on the boards
reach out to poke at the bad
men on the other team. I've
wanted TO play sit Down, You're
Roekin' the Boat
THE most fun would be to
go into I'm Sorry, Dear when
Johnny Mowers looks over to
Jack Adams after allowing a
goal. And My Buddy when two
players take their places in the
penalty box after a scrap"
Merle has a theme song foi
every hockey team-there's Little
Red Wing" In Old Chicago,
Maple Leaf Forever" for thu
Toronto team. Canadian Gapers'
for Montreal. Fast Side, Wesi
Side" for both New York team'
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-23

Sometime ago. we asked Harry
Ruhl. chief Of the game division,
Michigan Department of Conser-
walton. if he thought the use OF
seals would curb pheasant viola
tons on bag limits. Mr.. Ruhf d.
rected f. F. TubbS, department
biologist, TO make thorough in
vestigation. His report completed
Just this week, follows:
All hunters do not get their
limit of six pheasants per season.
The average hunter living in
pheasant territory kills about
three birds and only IA per cent
get their limit of SIX birds. How
ever, it is safe TO assume that a
fairly good number kill excessively
and il is also probable that many
report the seasons limit due TO
pride or boastfulneSs. Possibly one
group may balance the other
statistically.
Are we justified in compelling
926 per cent of the hunters TO
use seals to curb the depredations
of relatively few - possibly 5
per cent - dishonest hunters2
There are many ways of beating
the game that the use of seals
Will not correct.