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BY HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. d. d.
Dean Of The Moody Bible Institute
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permission.
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INSTALLMENT TEN

"drygulched'' from the back shot
was fred at Terry from behind, pre-
sumably by Lee Hart, brother OF one
of the victims. AT secret meeting, the
big ranchers plan, over Terry's ohjee-
lions, TO bring in a lot of Texas ex-
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make them any happier to know
that they brought II on themselves.
Some Of those who once in while
brand a calf not their own are good
men In way-good to their fami-
lies, kind neighbors, generous to
those in need"
Generous with other peoples
property" the Philadelphia sug-
gested. well, no need threshing
that out =. am going to step out
of this feud before We get into it any
deeper"
Il don't quite see how" said
Carey.
'..You and Miss Ellen viii have to
transfer your disapproval to some
other ranch and some other man.
ager. We are going to cut up the
Diamond Reverse B into small
tracts and offer them for sale at at
tractive prices"
Ellen felt glow of Joy beating up
into her breast. II the Diamond Re
verse B was broken up into smaller
units, it was because under present
conditions so large ranch could
not be made to pay. The No, By
Joe and the other big outfits would
have to follow the same course. The
bitter feeling II the country would
automatically disappear.
SIN so gladi" she cried.
Her eyes were on Calhoun Terry.
She was speaking to him, perhaps
asking him to forget the hot anger
with which she had turned away
from him at their last meeting. He
understood her words as an apology.
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Observation-Disclosures to the
Office Of Production Management In
the capital, six manufacturing con-
Germs have obtained more than 30
per cent of navy and army supply
orders, during the first year of the
defense program. Fifty-sx cor
porations accounted for three
fourths of the total orders placed
while the remaining one-fourth was
divided among several thousand
smaller companies. Each of the SIS
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answered. He was little embar-
raised at their directness.
But you don't like the way it Is
managed"
Il don't think you can find IN the
territory young man who can han
die stock better than Mr.. Terry"
He's lodging" the foreman said
to Ellen, a gleam of laughter IN his
eyes. But il won't do him any
good. Mr.. Powers viii keep ask
ing questions till he finds out what
he wants to know"
They adjourned to the porch Of the
house. Carey talked plainly, as soon
as he discovered that to do so would
not be offensive to this stranger.
Powers listened, fired more ques-
tons, learned the point Of view Of
the small settler. It was not one
with which he agreed, since he had
been associated with big business all
his life. But he was a man who
faced facts. What Carey said con-
hrmed the wisdom of the decision
he had made, to sell out as soon as
it could be done.
Ellen sat in silence, taking no
part IN what was said. Powers
turned to her.
What do the women think about
this trouble?" he asked.
They think il is terrible" she
said. What else can they think,
Mr.. Powers, when they see such
awful things going on? Some Of
them are frightened to death for
fear their sons or their husbands
may never come back to them
alive
Because their men are thieves?"
he went on, an edge of irony IN his
dry voice.
Il suppose they are" Ellen car
RED on, impulsively. But what of
that? The women aren't to blame.
Some Of them try to hold back their
husbands and their sons, but they
can't. If they lose them, it doesn't
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hem Steel corporation with a total
of 1927, DOC, 900. Other large holders
were the New York Shipbuilding and
General Motors corporations with
approximately half billion dollars
each, Curtiss-Wright Corp, S444.
000, 900; Newport News Shipbuild-
ing and Dry Dock Co., $685., 000, ! 600;
and z. l.. du Pont, S318, zoo, 900.
Official Washington, not fully sat
isfied with defense production
speed, is urging big manufacturers
to sublet all possible smaller unit
work.
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FREEZING CHINESE FUNDS

mere was one UnWr1tten chapter
In the story of American freezing Of
funds of those two Oriental neigh
bors, Japan and China.
It was published that the funds
OF friendly China were frozen as
well as the funds of unfriendly
Japan But unpublished was the
fact that China for four months had
been asking the state department
to freeze its funds, but the state de-
partment had refused.
Chlna'S request was quite unusual.
for most nations object strenuously
to having their funds frozen. For
instance, Switzerland, hearing that
she would be included with Ger
many when Hitler's funds were fro
zen, argued for weeks.
But In the case of China, MANY
of her funds are IN the hands OF big
Chinese merchants and bankers IN
Shanghai, who for business reasons
are playing with the japanese. And
they have been draining Chinese
currency from the country.
So Roosevelt's special Chinese
emissary, Lauchlin Currie, was re-
quested by Chang Kai-shek to ask
Secretary of State Hull to freeze
Chinese funds. This would have ham
strung the pro-Japanese Chinese.
However, Secretary Hull refused.
Twice Chang Kai-shek made the re-
quest, but both times it was refused.
In fact the state department even
denied that such a request was
made, presumably on the ground
that it came not through diplomatic
channels, but through Mr.. Currie
who is only White House secre-
tary.
Finally, however, when japanese
funds were frozen, Chang Kai-shek
got his request fulfilled. But 1t took
japanese aggression IN the South
Pacific to do il.
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CHAPTER XXI

As Terry and Powers were leav-
ing, Lane Carey noticed newspa-
per sticking out of the Fasteners
pocket.
rs that a Denver paper, Mr..
Pewers?" he asked.
"The Denver Republican. Like to
have a look AT it?''
AT the cattle quotations, if you
don't mind. I'm shipping next
week"
Carey took the paper, but he new
CT got from it the information he
was seeking. A front-page story
caught and held his eye. The head
line was:
RUSTLERS WAR IN WYOMING
The story said that forty Texans
had just reached the city and ex-
pected to leave within day or two
for some unknown point IN the north
west. The Texans, the story stated,
were rough looking customers
armed with revolvers and 1870
Winchester rifles. Most of them had
been sheriffs or deputy United States
marstals IN Texas or Oklahoma.
None of them knew exactly where
they were going, and there was an
air OF mystery about their arrival,
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concerns were awarded S25, 000, 900
or more II contracts.
This tabulation, stated officials of
the OPM, was for the period June,
1910, to May 81, 194l, and only In
Guided supply contracts for ships.
airplanes, tanks, guns, fuel and food,
In contrast to government construc-
ton contracts for arsenals, canton
ments and factories.
The largest contract holder of
government awards was the Bethle-
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BOOTLEG GASOLINE

The days of bootlegging from
Canada may be coming back again.
In this case, however, the bootleg
ging viii be gasoline, not alcohol.
Canada has imposed ban on sale
OF gasoline between p. m. and Z
a. N. on weekdays, and all day Sun
day. But this restriction does not
apply to Americans.
Now comes the proposal Of OIL
Administrator Ickes to impose a
similar ban on gasoline sales In
eastern states. Result would be
that motorist would be unable 10
buy gasoline In Buffalo or Detroit.
but could cross the river and buy II
In Canada.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
ADMINISTRATORS are quietly
throwing their weight behind the
candidacy of Francis Miller, mill
tant New Dealer, for the Virginia
legislature. Miller is being opposed
by the Old Guard machine led DIV
Sen. Harry Byrd.
To out-of-town friends who call On
AA414Ag ACSA0G11b 1lOOSGNG4L Is presents
ing copies of America" absorbing
booklet written by David Cushnan
Doyle. The President says he con-
siders the booklet the best summa-
ton Of the American creed he has
ever read.
Nine days after congress voted
him a new appropriation for the
training of defense workers, National
Youth Administrator Aubrey VII
iams had IS, 900 students starting
apprenticeship training In NYA
shops.
Government officials who have
seen previews of March of Times
latest film, "Peace-by Adolf Hit
ler," are touting it as a master
piece of debunking. The film shows
by documentary evidence that far
from advocating peace, the whole
record Of Nazi Germany is one Of
aggression and war.
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THE STORY so FAR-EIlen Terry
Is interested in two men-dashing Jeff
Brand. a rustIer, and Calhoun Terry,
manager of a big ranch, against whom
JET and Jack Turley are most out
Spohen. -Four rustlers had been killed
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peace oficers to invade the rustiers'
lands and kin them Terry sum-
mons John @. Powers, chief owner Of
his ranch, and persuades him to offer
the big Diamond Reverse b for sale 70
small ranchmen by dividing il up.
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In the headlines, lend-Iease aid to
Britain is chiefly story of planes.
tanks, ships, guns and munitions
But these dramatic war supplies are
only one part of the picture
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FOOD FOR BRITAIN
Washington, ID. C.


In the headlines, lend-lease aid to
Britain is chiefly story of planes,
tanks, ships, guns and munitions
But these dramatic war supplies are
only one part of the picture
An equally vital, though little
known, phase of this gigantic pro-
gram is food.
Today, practically every ship
leaving U. S. shores for embattled
England carries stocks of food as
part of its cargo. Also significant
is the fact that this steady flow Of
food shipments differs markedly
from those of World war days.
Then the foodstuffs were In bulk
form-boatloads of grain and fresh
meats. But now, with British and
Allied shipping suffering terrible de-
struction, there aren't enough bot
toms to transport both bulky arma-
ments and bulky food across the
hazardous Atlantic.
Since the cargo space for bulky
ornaments cannot be reduced, and
with the British food situation be-
coming acute, food is being shipped
In concentrated and dehydrated
form. Thus il is carried In the
same ships with arms and NUM-
tons, taking up relatively little
space.
The extent Of these shipments and
what they meant to the American
farmer is shown graphically by the
fallor1yfpo lief 80 Ia,I Lac 60 49,
chases In very recent seven-week
period:
American cheese, 20, 483, IFS
pounds; corn starch, IS, 620, 900
pounds; frozen eggs, Sc, 648, $50
pounds; dried eggs, Ass, $50
pounds; canned fish, ,O03, 052 cases:
dehydrated soup, AGO. 900 pounds;
soy beans, 9,070,OO0 pounds; dried
beans, 40,770,00 pounds; corn
sugar, $3.50, 900 pounds; engines,
$3.50 pounds; dried apricots, 1885,
900 pounds; honey, 1857 800 pounds;
enriched -four, 399, 900 pounds; con-
centrated orange juice, 81, 300 gall
Ions; vitamin A, SAT, 183 units, vi
tamin B1, 1856 Kilograms; peanut
butter, l,762, 900 pounds; lard, 3D.
CO.., TO pounds.
Note-Management Of the lend
lease food program is under the
Surplus Marketing administration,
aided by the U. S. public health
service, the British ministry Of
health and the Anglo-American food
purchasing committee.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-08
City Clerk Voices
Criticism of E. {.
Financial Audit
All Current Records
In Perfect Order,
Official Declares

City Clerk Neal Gavin
Wednesday charged that the
audit report of FL Centro's
fiscal condition, released for
publication Tuesday. was un-
fair in that criticisms directed at
the bookkeeping methods found in
the water department and police
court at the time the audit was
begun, failed to show clearly that
recommended improvements already
had been made before the report
was submitted.
Water department books, which
the audit report criticised at con-
siderable length. have been in per-
feet order since January | OF this
year, Gavin said.
The accountants who made the
audit reported this to the city coun-
Gil" Gavin said, who added failure
of the auditors to make this fact
more apparent in their formal re-
port was IAN error
In their comment on water de-
partmcnt records, the auditors re-
called that machine system Of
bookkeeping had been installed, and
added:
Due to the fact that the posting
machine operators were changed
several times during the period, and
that theT apparently did not have
a comprehensive understanding Of
the machine or the records to be
Continued on Page 8: Column 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-08
|. Y. Leads Whole
State in Syphilis
Among Drafted Men
Foreign Population
Believed Reason for
High Disease Rate

BraWley was first, FL Cen
tro was second and CaleXicO
was fifth in California in the
number of syphilis sufferers
in each 1000 selective service
men examined, the state depart
ment of health said Wednesday.
The record of the valley cities
was said TO have been uppcd by
the great number of foreigners and
tranSients using valley cities a.
their home addresses.
In figures issued by the depart
ment Wednesday Brawley was said
to have 1873 men with syphilis out
of 1000 men giving that city as
their home. In BraWley. local draft
board officials said l,O5O men actual
~ had been examined by BraW!cJ
physicians and of that number only
II men had the venereal disease
The others apparently were exam
ined elsewhere but gave BraWley
as their home address.
The state department figure,
showed that $40 of the 900 Fl
Centre men examined in the state
had syphilis. El Centre draft boarG
officials said local physicians hao
examined 430 men and 26 hau
syphilis
We know that many transient
who really have no permanent ad-
list Imperial Valley cities
as their homes" Roy Johnstonc.
secretary of the FL Centre board
said. we also know that foreigners
do not look upon these social dis
Continued on PAGE s; Col. -
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Bridges Custer
Order Delayed

WASHINGTON. Oct. 8 up
Attorney General Francis Biddlc
said today that it probably would
be two months before the justice
department could issue an order
for the deportation of Harry
Bridges.
Deportation of the Australian
born west coast CIO leader was
recommended recently by Judge
Charles B. Sears, a special immi-
grafton examiner who found that
Bridges had been a communist
and thus was liable to dcpOrta-
ton under a new law.
I'VE will act as fast as VIC can
but we do no: propose to cut any
corners" Biddle said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-08
FDR Ready to Ask
ArIning Of Ships.
Combat Zone Shift
American Vessels May
Sail to England if
Plan is Successful

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.
(UP) - President Roosevelt
tomorrow will ask congress
to revise the whole neutrality
law and an effort will be
made to have the house pass the
first part of the revision-to permit
arming of u. S. merchant ships
by the middle of next week.
This was decided upon today at
a second conference between the
president and leaders of both par
ties in congress.
Mr.. Roosevelt will state to con-
gresS, leaders reported, that reyi-
sion of the law to permit arming
Of U. S. merchant ships and 70
permit them to go into combat
zones" from which they are now
barred is urgently necessary. Primo
ipal effect of the present combat
zone provisions are to prevent Am
erican flag ships from going to Hall
fax and to the British Isles.
Immediately after receipt of the
presidents special message tomor-
row. bills will be introduced in both
house and senate to permit the
arming of merchant ships The ad-
ministration leaders will attempt
to have this passed IN the house
with the utmost speed.
The bill then will be considered
in the senate. AS leaders outlined
the strategy, if sufficient support
develops an effort will be made in
the senate to expand the legisla-
ton to cover the other principal
recommendation which will be made
by the preSident-removal of the
combat zone prohibitions.
Legislative leaders SAID the pres
ident would stress the urgency Of
arming merchant ships Immediately
stating that the Nazi submarine
warfare in the north Atlantic. en-
dangers American vessels operating
to Iceland and other American
bases.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-08

serves. but placed the growers, eX-
cept for the few who will partic-
ipate in the allotted 6535 acres un-
der the sugar act, strictly on their
own as to markets and price.
1t was learned authoritatively that
the Los AlamitoS Holly Sugar COM
pany had agreed to accept for pro-
ceSsing only $500 acres of valley
beetS. and that this total includes
the 6535 acres on which subsidies
will be paid by the government.
Thus. the limited capacity of the
mill precludeS the sale of beets
to that company of any appreciable
amount above the acreage ALREADY
contracted for under the sugar act,
and leaves the outside planters
those not participating in the
sugar program in the position Of
being called upon to produce with
out an assured market for their
production.
Besides the Los AlamitoS mill
there is only one other possible
market for valley beets. That is the
American Crystal Sugar company
at OXnard. and il is not known
here whether that firm is in posi-
ton to handle any increases in its
present supply which is said to
come mostly from northern CalifOr-
MA beet growers.
If American Crystal could handle
any great quantity of Imperial Val
Icy beetS, valley growers still WOulC
be faced with the problem OF pay
ine almost prohibitiVe shipping costs
SHIPPING COST HIGHER
1t is estimated that the cost OF
shipping to OXnard would be at
least $3,25 per ton, which would
have to be added TO the production
cost, which last year was about
$50 per acre.
The possibility Of a satisfactory
profit from bcets shipped to Ok
na:d, still providing, of course, that
CNaard would handle the crop was
the subject Wednesday of intense
study by farm leaders here. Taking
as the basis of their computations
the whole range of sugar beet eco
nomics, as they apply in tho valley
and the assumption that shipments
would be made to OXnard, here are
facts these leaders arrived at:
It costs $40 per acre to produce
beetS here, Imperial county average
yield is l3 tons per acre.
Granting that the sugar content
of this years new crop would be
18 per cent Qt has ranged from
Is to 10 per cent in the past, the
bects would process 800 pounds Of
raw sugar to the ton.
VALUE COMPUTED
Eighteen per cent beets last year
brought $526 for 100 pounds of raw
Continued on PAGE g Col -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-08

participating in the program were
submitted to the budget committee
for study.
Vice president w H. Rhodes pre-
sided over tho meeting in the abb
5ence of President Vaughn Thomp-
son. Members attending the meet
ing We're Mrs S. Slec, Mrs A. c
Finney. Mrs. Wilson Nc Euen.
Glenn Keiffer, H. r. Anderson,
Warren Currier. Walter HavPr-
korst. George Whitcher, B. L. Ham
burger and Hugh M. Wilcox.
The meeting brou2ht the frs
discussion Of this years COmmun-
ity Chest drive. Various commit
tees to handle the drive will be
selected later, however. when more
detailed plans have been drawn up.
Participating organizations also vii!
be listed at that time.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-08

tlOn.
It was a story of hunger and pri-
walton. of people going about bare
foot in pajamas for lack OF clothes.
of a burning patriotic spirit, OF
passive resistance and active guer-
lila fighting. of forced migratlon5
of large sections of the population
and of angrT relations between the
Germans and their italian allies.
Hundreds of Greeks have been
executed, according to these sources,
for guerilla resistance. Nevertheless,
the resistance continues and. It
is asserted, service on the main
line -Salonika railroad has
been cut by saboteurs.
The refugees are trickling steadi-
ly into Egypt and Palestine despite
the watchfulness of the Germans
and Italians. 1t is impossible to de-
scribe their escapes, because there
will be more, but have heard Stor-
les which sound like fiction thrillers,
from escaped Greeks who arrived
starved and exhausted but asked at
once where they could volunteer
for the international army being
formed here.
have been told in Athens, where
nothing was lacking when I was
there a few months ago with the
British and Greek armies, there
are endless lines waiting to obtain
meager food rationS; that there arc
countless beggars who are wounded
Greek soldiers thrown out of hos
pitals to make room for German
and Italian officers and soldiers.
Refugees said the Germans had
transformed every hotel and sum-
mer resort in Greece into hospital
to handle casualties from the Rus
sian front and from the mountains
where gucrillas arc active.
An informant who recently left
Athens said
Every morning German officers
90 to the market place to tell deal
ers what they may sell to civilians.
They later return with trucks which
take away for the German army the
best food available Generally only
one-fCurth the Greeks waiting III
line get food.
Parents are abandoning babies
because theT cannot feed them, and
hope that someone else will. Girls
are selling themselves to get food
for their brothers and younger sis
ters. Meat oil, butter, milk and
cheese no longer exist for the ordi-
nary person. Milk may be bought
on a physicians prescription.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-08

al inc ANS III western EulO Opt.
The Germans claimed that de-
structiOu af the bulk of the Rus
sian ccntra. front armies was as
Surcd, while Moscow admitted that
some panzer forces had broken
through but said they were meet
Ing savage resistance that had fore
cd Adolf Hitler to throw in his re-
serves because of huge losses.
The seriousness of the German
threat was emphasized, however, b.
renewal of suggestions in MoscoW's
Red fleet publication that the time
was ripe for the British to under
take military action against the
AX.s in western Europe, which was
, reported weakened by the muster
inG of some 100000 troops and
"Virtually the entire luftWaffe' On
the eastern front
III the Ukraine, a special German
communlque said. the Axis offens-
I've toward Rostov entrapped six or
seven Russian divisions of probably
100000 mon and faced them with
complete destruction in the Nell
topol- Mariupol sector near the sea
of AzoV.
German dispatches reported that
the Russians in this sector were
so severely beaten that RoStov, 100
miles to the east, and the entire
DOnets basin was opened to the Axis
push.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-08
HAND-TO-HAND

Both Moscow and Berlin reported
the most intense hand -to-hand. tank
and artlllerI fighting in the Vyaz-
ma sector, only 1870 miles from the
Russian capital. and around Bry-
anSkS. some 2l0 miles to the south
west The Red army claimed impor-
tant gains on the Leningrad front.
The Germans said their push into
the DCnets war industrial basin
cOntinUCG after destruction" OF
the Russian defenders.
On the basis of reports from both
capitals il appeared that the Vyaz-
ma battle might 60 far toward de
r!ding success or failure of HitlerS
bid to break the Red army and
reach Moscow before winter.
The Nazi high command said that
several Russian armies had been
CnCirClcd in this sector due west
of MOSCOW on the Smolensk rail-
road. This indicated a gain of TO
or Is miles in the six day offensive
The Berlin press went farther, ap-
parCntly on official Instructions, anG
said that the greater part of the
best armies of Marshall Semyon
TlmoShenko had been trapped ana
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