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Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Rome Announces
Violent Battle
South of Benq|lazi.

ROME, Feb. 7. (UP)-A violent
battle is progressing south of Ben
ghazi between Italian and British
troops, the high command said in
q communique today.
eThe British in Cairo and Lon
don announced the capture Of
Benghazi capital of Cyrenaica.)
The high commands reference
to a violent battle" south of Benz
eaazi seemed an admission that
Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, Ital-
ian commander in chief of North
Africa, had lost the city to Brit
lSh imperial forces.
The cOmmunique said that fight
ing was continuing around Keren,
Eritrea, only 35 miles from Asmara,
the Eritrean capital. On the south
ern front in Ethiopia, Italian troops
were said to have repulsed British
attacks.
There was nothing worthy of
mention on the fighting front in
-. a.. the cOmmunique said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Fascists Guard
u. 5. Embassy

ROME, Feb. 7. (UP)-Hundreds
OF Italian troops were stationed
around the United States embassy
today as university students parad-
ed the streets, demonstrating
against democracies and "plutoc-
racies".
The troops around the embassy
ana near the United States con-
suiate general wore full war eouip-
ment. 1t was estimated that 500
soldiers had been ordered to re-
enforce the usual formal guard of
carabinieri.
The demonstrations followed
nose in the Piazza Di Espagna
yesterday in which the students did
not approach the embassy. There
was no reinforcement of the guard
at the embassy then.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Draft Directors
Must Go TO Work

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. CUP)-
President Roosevelt today issued
an executive order authorizing Sell
ective Service Director C. A. Dyk-
stra to prescribe work of national
importance" for conscientious OBJ
lectOrs.
The order applies to citizens
'conscientlously opposed TO COM
batant and non -combatant ser
vice in the land or naval forces
of the United States and pres
CribeS that their work shall be
under civilian direction.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07

It was slow to start. The bill
lions were appropriated. Even ap-
propriated billions cannot be spent
as you would spend dime for a
hamburger. But the spending which
began last year is now having its
effect.
Let's run through some of the
overtones which can be heard in the
hum that means an industry begin
ming to travel at high speed:
INCOME payments to individuals
last year totaled S74,300,000, 900,
which is more than any year since
1890, and about 6 per cent above
1889, according to Secretary of
Commerce Jesse Jones.
THE NUMBER of unemployed
has been drastically reduced. The
National In u t rial Conference
Board believes it is now about g.
961 900, though the Alexander Ham
ilton Institute puts it roughly a
million higher. Both agree that the
number of unemployed is rapidly
being pared down.
GOVERNMENT a privately =
financed building has accelerated to
such an extent that government
housing authorities now believe 700,-
900 dwelling units will be built this
year, as against $4,000 last year.
Every new defense plant required
new housing for its workers; army
camps have stimulated demand for
houses, raised rents. brought about
repairs.
FAMILY income is rising The
Northwestern National Life Insur-
ance Company says that the house
hold of the average urban worker
saw IFS monthly income soar nearly
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Former Fl CenAro
Girl PubIicized.

A three-page display, including
the cover, was devoted to picturing
the exploits of a former Ell Centro
girl, Jean Felt, this week in Friends,
Chevrolet motor car sponsored mag
azine.
Jean, known as Jean Carroll ON
the stage where she is playing in
New York in Panama Hattie, is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Wright Felt. Felt at one time was
a PWA engineer stationed in I'm
perial Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
by Willis Thornton -.
The Boom Begins to be Audible

81 in the last six months of 1910,
while household expenses remained
at 1886 levels. The favorable mar
gin between average earning and
living costs is the largest in the
eight-year history of the index,
There has been tremedous in
crease in buying power in recent
months.
OFFICIAL figures are now in in
foreign trade for 1940-a total of
S4,022 100000, the largest since 1929
in both volume and value.
ONLY the stock market remains
indifferent. with prices slumping
and the volume of sales so small
that President Martin recently told
the SEC that the Stock Exchange
is actually operating at loss,
There is no reason why all these
tendencies will not increase in tenn
po throughout the coming year.
The pressing need for defense ma
terials of all kinds, plus unlimited
access to the federal purse, assure
that, barring some unforeseeable
event.
Once more let it be repeated: this
indicates no permanent solution of
our economic problems. But it is
breathing spell during which wise
men are being offered an oppor-
tunity to plan a future so designed
as to take up the shock when this
artificially induced boom is de-
flated. More such men, both in
and out of active business, are
seriously addressing themselves to
the problem every day. In that
lies the best hope of an orderly
solution.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Audgins Called to
Active Navy Duty

w. d. Hudgins of El Centro will
report for duty Monday at the U.
S. Naval training staten at North
Island in San Diego bay
AS one of the Naval Communica-
tions reserve, Hudgins expected to
remain on active duty for the dura-
ton of the present world crisis.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Imperial Valley Press

Esta bltshed April 20. 1901
uoiIshed every afternoon exeept
Saturday and Sunday 1Ssturdav
afternoon issue now succecda5
hy the sunday Post Press. es.
- 3iished 1856 by the Imperial
alley Publishing COMPANY. 625
state street. El Centre. CsIif
NJ Jenkins. publisher: A. G..
i JohnSton. vice president and gem
etai manager. n. A. Fitzhugh.
secretary and managing editor
est H?tiday Co. Inc. National
IA dvertising Representatives.
entered at FL Centro, California
post office as second class mat
ter.
subscription rates: In California,
DC per copy.
In conjunction with the Post
Press (Sundays), per month 76c:
paid in advance, 3 months, $2I0:
months. $4.00; one year, $3.50;
outside California 81 90 per month.
M m b er. California Newspa per
hlishers' Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
by Bruce Cation =.
The Inside Track in Washinqton

POO boys by March. A third Is a
sheet metal shop, where slightly
more than 100 boys will get six
months of training. Courses in ag-
riculture, radio. and in the opera
ton of cafeteria arc also avail
able.
instruction in all of these classes
is given, not by NYA, but by in
StructorS from the state of Maine S
educational system. This scheme
was worked out after conferences
between Aubrey Williams, head of
NYA, and DR.. John w. Studeba-
ker, U. S. commissioner of educa-
ton. The Maine instructors who
do this work will be paid by fed
eral funds.
YOUNGSTERS CONCENTRATE
ON ONE LINE OF WORK
A significant change in the NYA
program at Quoddy is the dropping
of the old system whereby a lad at
a training center received instruc-
ton in various skills. getting a
smattering of several vocations but
usually not getting any very thor
ough training in any single one.
Emphasis now will be on giving a
youngster as complete a grounding
as possible in some one line of
work.
For the work they do at Quod-
dy, the NYA boys get paid, month
ly earnings ranging from $l4 to
s24. They don't get paid for their
schooling, but the tuition is free.
Meanwhile, the maintenance and
shop units get good deal Of use
full work done The Quoddy boys
recently assembled and installed a
complete two-way police radio Sys-
tenn for all the highway patrol cars
of the state of Maine, for example.
CCC trucks used in Maine have al
SO been getting repairs and servic-
ing at the Quoddy shops.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Did You Know?

In the City of New York alone
there are more automobiles than
in most foreign countries.
Damascus is said to be worlds
oldest city.
The femur. or thigh bone. is the
longest ana largest bone in the
human body.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
AVIATION MECHANICS
IN THE MAKING

Biggest Of the classes IS in avia-
ton, where some 200 boys are get
ting a grounding in airplane me-
ehanics, construction and repair.
The boys VINO take this course must
be high school graduates; the course
lasts for a year, and boys who grad
uate will be permitted to take Civil
Aeronautics Board examinations for
aircraft and engine mechanics IL
eenses
Another large class is In the ma
chine shop, which win have some
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07

EDITORS NOTE: The follOIUiny
editorials are presented as interesting
opinions UOiced by editors eiseIchere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07

WASHINGTON. Feb THE $5,-
100000 model village which the ar
my built at Quoddy, Me, for tide
harnessing project that never
came off. has become a useful part
of the national defense program.
Under direction of the National
Youth Administration, Quoddy is
serving as a center in which hun
dreds of young men are being fitted
for future roles as producers Of
War-essential materials.
Within few days, approximately
1000 young men from New England,
New York and New Jersey will be
in residence at Quoddy, to learn
trades and acquire skills for var
ious phases of defense protection
The training program is much more
elaborate and thorough than any
thing NYA previously offered. For
merly, a youngSter getting an NYA
shop course put in only about two
months at it and got little more
than a grounding in safety habits,
shop Technology and so on. At
Quoddy, he will get from four
months to year of training, and
will come out-if not a fully quail
fled machinist or mechanic, at
least a man who is fitted to start
IN somewhere as a helper with
prospects OF developing quickly in
70 a skilled worker.
The long-idle barracks and other
quarters are filling up. Each boy
as he arrives is assigned to job
II one of the maintenance units.
There he does the ordinary work of
keeping the Quoddy plant in shape
painting, plumbing repairs, car
pentry, electrical repair work, and
the like. After about eight weeks
he is ready to take specialized
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Thoughts for the Day

For verify say unto you, That many prophets and
righteous have desired to those things which
We see, and have not them; and to hear those
things which ye hear and have not heard them.-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
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ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-07
Famous Sayings

Faith is a higher faculty than reaSon.-Bailey
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-03
Full Time Pleuses
Cldrksburg Potters
Hard Days Ahead. Howev-
er. Is Wurning Of Local
SO Correspondent

Clarksburg, w. Va.-Since your Of
fetal correspondent has not written a
column for the Herald in some time,
this writer will attempt to give the
trade in general the news of Clarks
burg.
The D. E. McNicol Pottery Co. is
producing its capacity at the present
time and according to all indications,
this happy state of affairs will con-
tinuc indefinitely. Needless to say
everyone is extremely pleased.
1t is not this writer's desire to toss
a wet blanket upon this wave Of pros
perity, but peace will at some time
come to the warning nations and then
we Americans must be prepared to
meet the most merciless Of all wars,
the economic.
While this attitude may appear to
be looking far into an unpredictable
future, it would seem there is but
one sane course America can follow
in the matter Of trade with other
nations. This plan is very simple in
the abstract. We should import only
those things which we do not produce
and hope to sell to other nations only
those things which they do not pro-
duce.
While the plight of the farmer has
not been an easy one, | personally
have been unable to reconcile my
self to the national policy of taking
my tax money to pay the farmer fo1
taking land out of production. (1n eff
feet: sit in the shade). And then We
allow Canadian wheat and Argentiar
beef to enter!
But a national emergency has beer
declared and believe every American
regardless of his own opinions, will
be prepared to meet whatever ma!
come.
1t is with deep regret that we re
port the death of Brother Dewe!
Spencer. He was the victim of :
tragic murder which occurred on th'
evening of January 25. Brothe,
Spencer had been employed here il
various capacities over the pas
twenty years. He had just start
ed his apprenticeship as kilnplacer
After a six-week illness, Brothe
Steve Musrocll is back on the job look
ing good and says he feels fine
Walter Leiner, clayshop foreman, i
back on the job following an oper
alton.
Brother William Snodgrass, EN-
ployed here for some fourteen years
has accepted position in Grafton
have been informed that Brothe
Romeo" Moffet has solved the trans
portation problem. Brother Ofterdin
ger alleges that he carries SINAI
hose.-O. G.. SO.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-03

S. B. No. 113-Mr. Whittier, to reg
ulate the operation of locomotives or
other engines for propulsion of freight
trains. Senate Committee on Com
merce and Labor. Monday night after
session.
S. B. No. 157-Mr. Phillips, to
modify provisions of the law relative
to granting aid to the aged. Senate
Committee on Commerce and Labor
Monday night after session.
S. B. No. 130-Mr. Glass, to define
beer. Senate Committee on Liquor
Control. Monday night after session.
S. B. No. 174-Mr. Whitacre, to give
state board of barber examiners juris-
diction to investigate trade practices
Senate Committee on Public Health
Monday night after session.
S. B. No. 266-Mr. Jameson, to pro.
vide a plumbing code for the State
of Ohio. Senate Committee on Pub.
lie Health. Monday night after session
Tuesday, April /
S. B. No. 91-Mr. Phillips, an act
to define and regulate the business
of making small loans. Senate Com
mittee on Banks and Loans. SEQ ?
NJ.
S. J. r. No. 14-Messrs. Connolly
Adams, to amend the constitution tt
provide six year terms for Senators
Senate Committee on Judiciary. 7:3(
P. M. -,,--.-
H. B. No. 622-Mr. Catlott, author
izing township trustees to adopt AM
enforce zoning regulations and tn
uses of land outside unincorporate'
portions of the township. House Com
mittee on Organization Of State Gov
ernment. 1880 P. M.
H. B. No. 106-Mr. Radclitf, repeal
ing the State Board of Cosmetology
House Committee on Health $3.50 a
M.
S. B. No. 122-Messrs. Vanik
Young, to include employees of cit.
health districts under the classified
service. House Committee on Health
$3.50 A. M.
Wednesday, April 2
S. B. No. 309-Mr. Whitacre, t
provide for state institutional build
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-03
Essay Contest Won
By Sulineville High

The Columbiana County Public
Health League in cooperation with the
Ohio Public Health Association has
again sponsored a health essay con-
test in the high schools of the county.
All senior and junior high schools pub
lishing a school paper were eligible
to participate in the contest.
The Public Health League offered
three awards of five, three and two
dollars each for the three best essays
IN the general theme of "The Christ
mas Seal at Work" In response tC
this offer, entries in the contest were
received from the Keramos Echo at
East Liverpool, the Wellsville H
Revue, the Salinevlle Blue and Gold
the Lisbon High Students Voice, the
Columbiana Beacon and the Fairfield
Centralized Black and White. All en-
,ries were submitted to the Ohio Pub.
'ic Health Association for participa
ion in the State contest.
A committee of judges consisting OF
Miss Lillian Schroeder, r. N, schoo,
nurse in Salem, w. A. FreW, editor
Of The Evening Journal, Mrs. Frances
C. Lafferty of Lisbon, Ohio and JOSEPH
H. Bishop, Executive Secretary of the
Health League appraised the variou:
essays and picked as award winners
the article in the Salineville Blue ant
Gold by Miss Ellen Strabley for first
place, that in the Columbiana Beacor
by Wayne Brutaker for second place
and that in the Fairfield Centralized
Black and White by Miss Elsie Neish
leb as third.
Awards will be presented at the
annual Christmas Seal sale banquet
to be held by the Public Health League
April 80 at Lisbon, Ohio.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-03

ing authority. Senate Committee on
Banks and Loans. 500 P. NJ.
S. B. No. 274-Mr. Phillips, a very
broad and vicious conspiracy act"
Senate Committee on Judiciary. 1880
P. NJ
S. J. r. No. 10-Mr Light, propos-
ing amendment to the constitution to
create state board Of education and
director of education and abolish Of
fee Of superintendent Of public in
structions. Senate Committee on Edu-
cation. 1000 A. NJ.
H. B. No. 451-Mr Yoder, permit
ting female employees from Is to p
to work after 1000 P. NJ House
Committee on Labor. loco A. NJ.
H. B. No. 478-Messrs. Hess-kil-
patrick, relative to the service of
drivers of trailer trucks. House Com
mittee on Commerce and Transports
ton. 1880 P NJ
H. B. No. A93-Mr. Fitzpatrick, rel
ative to the use of public highways
by freight motor trucks. House Com
mittce on Commerce and TranspCr-
tation. 1880 P. NJ.
Thursday, April 3
II. B. No. 5OO-Mr. Longenecker
prohibiting any future projects under
a housing authority until first submit
ted to a vote Of the electors. House
Committee on Taxation. 9:30 A. NJ.
H. B. No. 355-Messrs. Stewart
Slagle, to bar un-American activitie.
from the election ballot House Com
mittee on Elections. 1O:OO A. NJ.
Public hearings on S. B. No. 62-
Mr.. Keifer, S. B. No. 221-Mr. Rein
ers and S. b. No. 187-Br. White
more We're concluded March is. Since
that time a subcommittee of the Sen
ate Committee on Commerce and La
Dor has been appointed by the Chair
man, Senator Reiners. The commit
tee, which is composed of Senators
Reiners, keifer and Seibert, met in &
very stormy session Thursday after
noon, March 27, in an effort to work
out some form OF compromise bill
The next meeting Of the subcommittee
was held Tuesday afternoon, Apri
/, after the session Of the Senate. Be
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-03
Edword ]. Phelan Heods
International Labor Unit

Washington, d. C.-Following the
resignation Of John G. Winant, re-
Gently appointed Ambassador to Great
Britain, Edward j. Phelan became the
Acting Director of the international
Labor Office and will continue in this
capacity until the appointment of g
new director by the Governing Body.
the Washington Office of the Inter
national Labor Office announced.
Mr. Phelan, who has been the Dep
uty Director Of the International La
Dor Office since 1888, has been con
nected with the organization since its
inception. He was member of the
British delegation to the Peace Con,
ference in Paris in 1919. He collabo
rated in drafting the Constitution Of
the International Labor Organization
and assisted Harold Butler in or
ganizing the First International Labor
Conference which was held in Wash
ington, D. c., in 1919.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-03
Three Thousand Line Up
For 1000 Hospital Jobs

The eagerness Of workers for even
low-wage jobs was strikingly revealed
when 1900 men and women stood in
line for many hours at the Fire De-
partment College Building, Long Is
land City, y. Y, to submit applica-
tions for 1000 hospital and laundry
workers positions to be filled by the
Municipal Civil Service Commission.
The laundry jobs pay 50 week, with
some benefits under paid vacations,
sick leave, etc. Other positions as
hospital workers were listed as $3.50 a
year for part time and $3.50 for full
time including maintenance. Some of
the applicants stood in line over p
hours to file their applications.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-03
Kick-Bdck Contractor Is
Fined BY Frisco Judge


San Francisco, Calif.-Found guilty
of requiring his employees to "kick
back" part of their wages in violation
of the California Labor Code, Samuel
Goldburg, a building contractor, was
fined $1OO by Judge Peter J. Mullins,
II. C. Carrasco, State Labor Commits
siOner, announced.
Evidence produced at the trial re-
vealed that Goldburg hired the men
at union wages but told some Of them
that he was losing money on the job
and would be unable to continue their
employment unless they agreed to
work for less. 1t was testified that
some of the workers were induced to
''kick back" as much as SO a week.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-03
SNAKES BANNED IN PUBLIC

Atlanta, Ga.-Georgia's Legislature
has passed bill prohibiting the hand
ling of poisonous snakes at religious
services or other places in manner
that endangers the safety of any in
dividual. Sentences from one to 20
years for violation Of the act are pro-
vided. Enactment of the law resulted
from reports Of serious injuries to a
number of persons attending services
of a religious cult in southern Georgia
last year.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-03
COMES JOHN WEBER, Ill

Bouncing John Weber, III, dark
haired, wide eyed fellow has been
pulling Grandpa John Weber's hair
the past Is days. He broke all the
nurses hearts at City Hospital before
going home. Grandpa is a member
of Local II. The father, John Weber
II, Edwin M. Knowles caster, is just
as proud as Grandpa if that is pos
sible.
Oh yes, Mother is doing splendidly,
too.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-03
CHARLEY. TIE GOOSE, LAUGHS TOO

Charley puts his OK on this young
love scene by Gene Reynolds and
Gloria de Haven in "The Penalty"
which opens at the Ceramic, Sunday,
for four days.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-03

cause of the insistence Of Senator
Keifer, two representative Of Labor
were invited to meet next week with
the subcommittee and the representa-
tives of employers already in attend
ance to assist the subcommittee in
working out a satisfactory COM
promise.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-03
Home Education
"The Child's First School is the
Family"-FrOebel

Issued by the National Kinder
garten Association, 8 West 10th
Street, New York City. These arti-
cles are appearing weekly in our
columns.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-02-19
NeGANICk DEFENDS
SENATE COMMITTEE

Old age pensioners need not fear
that the senate is acting like the
Daring Young Man on the Flying
Trapeze. IN the opinion Of Sen
Leo A McGavick. Tacoma.
McGayick rose TO the charge
~ a defender of the senate
revenue and taxation commit
tee while hundreds Of old age
pension union members crowd
ed galleries In the upper house
Monday.
Sen. y. ?. Atkinson. Of Seattle
hurled the "trapeze" charge as he
fought for a resolution which hs
introduced to force the state so.
cial security department to revise
its estimate of old age assistance
needs.
Both Atkinson and McGavick
are members Of the revenue com
mittee. where the former charged
1t was being buried"
II do not know" said Me
Gayick. "what IL behind this
resolution. But do know
something about the commit
tee, Of which Atkinson Ia .
member.
THE committee Ia hearing from
those interested in the old age
pension. Sen. Atkinson was heard.
and his estimates were given full
consideration. Revenue and taxa
ton committee is not Sinking its
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-02-19
SENATOR'S Enjoy
.HAII>G" SESSION

Puyallup's Sen. Ted Schroeder
had his hands full while acting
as president pro TEN Of the senate
Saturday. The sugust senate in
a playful mood was delivering the
traditional hazing 10 freshman
Senator Harry (Chelanl Wall
Under debate was Wallis favor
lite bill. paving the way for estah-
lishment Of an airport in Douglas
county. backed by Wenatohee and
Chelan county. Senators heckled
Wall by threatening 10 kill the bill
by postponement. accusing him Of
wanting to sell his land. declaring
he was trying to buy" votes by
distributing apples-finslly voting
the bill down and saving IL at the
last minute when two-score sena-
tors jumped 10 their feet and
changed their votes from no to
ave"