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Evening star., 1941-05-15
Attempt by Bridges
To Get Deportation
Case Files Told
Proposed Bills May Force
Disclosure Of Such Dotu,
immigration Chief Says
q, the Associated Press.

3, the Associated Press.
Testimony that Harry Bridges,
West Coast labor leader, tried to OBJ
tain confidential Government files
to thwart efforts to deport him as
an alien was on file today with a
Senate subcommittee.
The testimony came from Mai.
Lemuel B. Schofield, in charge of
the immigration and Naturalization
Service.
The Justice Department official,
recently returned from the Bridges
deportation hearing in San Fran
cisco, told Senate Judiciary SUBJ
committee that Bridges request for
access to the records was denied by
a Federal judge but that proposed
legislation might force disclosure of
similar confidential information in
future cases.
Investigation In Advance.
Maj. Schofield testified that the
request by Bridges, who faces de-
portation charges under a new alien
registration law, was made osten-
sibly to enable the alien to investi-
gate in advance the witnesses who
were to be called against him to check
on their statements in an effort to
bolster the contention that the evi-
dence was in large respect un-
trustworthy and manufactured"
But Mai. Schofield told Senators
that officials here ARE positively
convinced that the real purpose was
for the alien (Bridges) to concoct
false alibies, false testimony and en-
deavor falsely and corruptly to meet
Evening star., 1941-05-15

the evidence that was fairly pre-

the evidence that was fairly pre-
sented against him."
The immigration official said he
feared that proposed legislation
which would require Government
agencies to inform defendants about
proceedings would give them not
only the names of witnesses and re-
veal their identity, but also would
reveal in advance all the testimony
they are about to give"
He said this would prevent sue
cessful enforcement of deportation
laws. In many cases, he said, the
immigration Service must depend
on "informers. especially along the
Mexican border and some points
along the Canadian border" in
catching and prosecuting alien
smugglers.
Evening star., 1941-05-15
FiIipinos Ask Abolition
OF Cocoanut Oil Excise
By the Associated Pres

By the Associated Press.
MANILA. May 15.-A resolution
filed in the Philippine Assembly to-
day asked President Roosevelt and
Congress to abolish the excise tax
on cocoanut oil.
The Assembly already had before
it a resolution seeking indefinite
suspension of the export taxes quota
provisions of the Philippine Inde-
pendence Act.
Proponents of the move claim
that the export taxes quotas, ap-
piled to shipments to the United
States for the first time this year,
Evening star., 1941-05-15
ere causing serious economic dis.

were causing serious economic dis
tress.
Some Assemblymen, although they
favor suspension of the export taxes
quotas, feared the resolution, II de-
bated by Congress, might open the
entire Independence Act to amend
ments and might cause the United
States to believe the Filipinos have
changed their minds about want
ing independence in 1916, the year
set by the act.
The exuort taxes quotas are applied
to Philippine products on q gradu-
ated scale, beginning this year, to
divorce the Philippines from their
almost total dependence on a free
United States market.
Evening star., 1941-05-15
japanese Ship Carrying
Cement to CunoI
By tie Associated Press.

By tfS ABSoCikteu PTeB3.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 15.-The
Japanese liner Ginyo Maru took on
a big cargo Of cement yesterday
for transport to the Panama Canal,
where American defenses are being
strengthened.
Canal Zone authorities needed
the cement Immediately. There was
no space on American Panama
bound ships. So the N. Y. K. Line
vessel was brought into service.
Evening star., 1941-05-15

Over 1,000, 900 acres in the Neither
lands Indies are now planted in
rubber.
Evening star., 1941-05-15

Brazil is pushing national defense.
Evening star., 1941-05-15

You cordially nodem eomissoYyou will
and completeness Of the egeoo
Almost human their oeton they cou kfu constantly cool
and purify the cooling and Eoch refrigerated
just e exoct degree which best NATURALLY AGES and
this uieh fred which makes D.
eots perfect in fovoso tender and wholesome This right
Temperature protects the natural qualities of the o they
woesoeY noushne and reoy yield every bit Of their rich supply
Of vtomns proteins phosphorus ond energy Full nuion
purity oeene and freshness assured by G.
perfect refrigeration.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26

The company ten trucks to facilitate the immediate
delivery of ice in their night and day customers
and employs II regular crew. adding employees as
needed until 30 working during the rush season.
ShoWn in the illustration aboUe is huge mem unit inst
installed I6 in Is in. 3 cylinder York COMPRESSOR.
Alone this unit manufacture $50 tons refrigeration
more than enough for normal requirements.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26
Shed Owner is
Middle Man

Also important in the raising of
the valleys crops is the use of
inSecticide to prevent loss TO farm
ers through mildeW or worms More
than $4,000 acres of Imperial VAL
ley's cultivated area was treated
with insecticide during the past
year.
Principal crops treated were peas,
lettuce, cabbage, carrots and mel
ons. More than 25 carloads of in
secticide was shipped into the coun-
ty for that purpose.
The commercial fertilizer industry
has become an important one in
the valley during The past few
years with more than two million
pounds shipped into the county
during the past year to supply
elements lacking in some soils OF
the county.
The middle man in Imperial
Valleys agricultural industry pic
ture is the shed where the produce
is packed and prepared for ship
ment to markets in all parts of the
United States.
Approximately ten thousand work.
ers are employed annually in sheds
which ship the more important of
the valleys products, including let
tuce, melons, carrots, grapefruit,
peas.
Salaries paid the ten thousand
shed workers mount into the mil
lions of dollars but shed operators
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26
Agricultural Industries PayMi||ions
Annually in Salaries TO Workers

would not hazard a guess on the
exact amount paid annually. Tota,
agricultural salaries, however, have
been conservatively estimated at
close TO $12,0OO,O0O annually.
Ice Production
Working in close cooperation with
the shed industry is the ice indus
try of the valley, which produces
more than 100000 tons of ice each
year to refrigerate cars of lettuce,
cantaloupes, peas and carrots for
long haul shipments to the Allan
tic coast.
Heaviest production of ice is in Ell
Centro where three plants turn out
thousands of tons of ice blocks in
a year-round production program.
Also in close connection with the
shed industry is the preceding
operation of the valleys refrigera-
tion concern which has developed
a process TO pre-cool carloads of
perishable produce in order to cut
down the amount of ice used in
each car, reduce the need for addi-
tional icing en- route, and insure
100 per cent delivery at eastern
markets.
Listed among the more important
agricultural industries is one the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26
Dairyins Among
Leading Indus+rie S

Dairying has long been one of the
valleys important agricultural en-
deavors and thus it is that valley
creameries must be regarded as
among the more important agricul-
tural industries.
The valleys creameries, of which
there are four, paid out something
in excess of $1,O0O,OO0 to dairymen
during the past year for approx
mately 2,5O0,OOO pounds of butter
fat.
Payments to dairymen were div
ided something like this: $4,000
gallons of market milk, 100000
pounds of butter, 1,250,000 pounds of
cheese, 10000 gallons of ice cream
and 2,25O,0OO pounds of powdered
skim milk, whey and buttermilk.
The balance was sold as sweet
cream.
A wholesale grocery concern is
also listed among the agricultural,
industries. That concern, the only
one established in the valley, serves
every store in the county with some
sort of commodity and has listed
in its books more than 500 stores
as customers.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26
Valley
Thnves

4 A comparatively new agricultural
industry in the valley is the flax
afibre plant in Ell Centre. The flax
fibre plant, which converts the flax
fstraw from the valleys vast plant
hing of flax, into fibre for the manu-
afacture of cigarette paper, purchas~
Bed $4,000 tons of flax straw from
egrowerS last season.
The corporation has expanded
&from small plant with grounds
fconSisting of only 80 acres for stor-
eage into a large fully equipped plant
with storage acreage of twice the
6original size. Another addition is
contemplated this year.
The flax fibre industry is parti-
8cuiarly important TO The valley be-
8cause it converted a product which
4previously had returned nothing to
8the farmer into a product which
the income of valley. flax
3growers.
i Also dependent upon agriculture
lin the valley are the transportation
. agencies, principally railway and
atrucking. Together the two agencies
Rmoved 46,695 carloads of produce
from the valley last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26
-Four Major
industries

In the preparation of valley crops
there are four major industries,
principally cement tile works, trac-
tor and farm implement concerns
insecticide distributors and COM
mercial fertilizer sales organiza-
tions.
Cement tile works companies, of
which there are four in the valley,
have laid more than 100 miles of
cement pipe in irrigation projects
of the county and nave installed
something more than 100000 head
gates.
There are also hundreds of diver
sion gates constructed by the ce-
mept tile works. There is pipe sup
piled for septanks, cisterns and
for main pipelines of drainage prof.
ectS
1t is to the credit of the Imperial
Valley that the county is currently
rated as the most thoroughly mech
anized farm area in the United
States, and as a result the farm
implement industry is one of the
more important operations.
During the past year more than
1900 pieces of farm equipment, in
cluding every type OF farm imple-
ment from tractors TO hay rakes,
we're sold in the Imperial Valley,
involving an expenditure of more
than one million and half dol
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26
Improved PRECEDING of Imperial Valley Produce

This month Shippers Ice Co.. established in 1886, celeb.
rates its fifth anniversary Serving chiefly the vegetable
industry Shippers Ice Co is Of the largest indus
trial plants in Imperial Valley.
10000 tons of ice made in each twelve months $50
tons day storage capacity of $4,000 tons insures
ample facilities for all needs.
From 2cuStomer beginning Shippers Ice has grown
until last when hundreds of of cantaoupes
preceded above and beyond the regular ice business
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26

average person seldom connects
with Imperial Valley. That is the
meat packing industry, carried on
by the Pacific Land and Cattle
corporation, which slaughters more
than $4,000 head of livestock an
nually for coast and Imperial VAL
ley consumption.
During the past year 28,841 head
were slaughtered at the Imperial
plant representing a S750,0OO indus
try. During the year 11,073 hogs,
1881 sheep, 1903 calves and 1884
head of cattle were slaughtered and
packed for delivery to coast or I'M
perial Valley retail distributors.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26
100000 Boxes
Represent Only a
Sideline Industry
Eight million boxes.

1t reads like national defense figure but it merely
represents the annual production Of six Imperial Valley
box factories sidelne in the county5s agricultural in
dustry
There are many so-caed sidelne agricultural indus
tries the Imperial Valley and each contributes heav
y to the countys total wealth through payrolls, added
return to and
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26

ItUuIIIS 10 RIUWtIo, dIIV IIIIUuBII
taxes paid to local governments.
These sideline industries aid in
the preparation, harvesting, selling
and final marketing of the valleys
crops, thereby playing a far more
important part in the farming pic
ture of the county than is generally
conceded
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-26
more and More
Boxes Used

And that bring us back to boxes,
because it requires something like
100000 boxes to carry the valleys
agricultural products to market.
which II piled one upon the other
would make quite a bonfire,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-26
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Kodiak mirror., 1941-11-01
Fred Noren Passes

Fred Noren, 42 years old died at the local hospital last week An autopsy gave heatt trouble as the cause of his death.
 Since returning from the Ber- ing Sea, Mir. Noren has been acting as skipper of the Presi- dent.
 He is survived by his mother. He had previously lost his wife, who was the only victim of the Kodiak hotel fire about four years ago
 Interment was Sunday in the American cemetery.
Kodiak mirror., 1941-11-01
Hospital Figures
 Outline Activities

Figures released by the Griffin Memorial hospital showing the work of the hospital for a typi- cal week point to increasing act ivity and adds emphasis to the importance of the hospi- tal'as a community institution.
 In an average ten day period the records of the staff show:
 Five births.
 Two pneumonia cases.
 One streptococcic meningitis. (This would have proved fatal two or three years ago before the advent of sulphapyridine, and would have been fatal outside hospital and without continuous treatment)
 Ten operations, of which five were tonsillectomies, the others: one gall bladder removal, incision and drainage of a peritonsillar abscess, operation for osteomye- litis of the leg which the patient had had for thirty years, and one hernia operation.
 Beside these cases there were various miscellaneous items, ir- cisions of abscesses, treatment of colds and influenza, suturing of various sized cuts and other med- ical treatment.
 During this average period there were IF patients in the hos pital at one time, with an aver age of 12 patients for the ten days.
Kodiak mirror., 1941-11-01

viously had used the plan with success when chairman of the University Women's Association in Washington. It is planned as an annual friendly exchange of plants and slips for the benefit of the hospital or some other worthy cause
 The committee requests any, one willing to help in the project to bring p ants, slips and empty tin cans, preferable sizes 8 to 12 oz,, to the Baptist church or par
Kodiak mirror., 1941-11-01

Velma Ameling left on the Denali for a visit to her home 6 northern Idaho. After a shOH stay with her mother she ph~ to return to resume her duties & secretary to Warren TayIer.
Kodiak mirror., 1941-11-01

CHICAGO, LII. Some 400 representatives of twelve az
 ctura assembled here listen to Claude R. Wickard
 hown top Secretary of Agriculture launch the largest food production drive American history to assist the Democraces posing Hitler Among his audience left to right S. H. Sadn Commodity Credit Corporation = M c. Poemger Ohio Land Use Planning Comm ee Otto Croy, Supervisor of Agrcu ura Extension Ohio State University and H. c. Ramsower Director of Agricultural Extension at Ohio State.
Kodiak mirror., 1941-11-01

sonage, where the containers will be attractively decorated, the names of the plants and the donors attached, and the plants started.
 There is no expense attached to the plan, and the entire money earned will be turned over to the hospital fund this year.
 The plant and slip exchange supplements the other features of t, e bazaar, which include prizes of a turkey and Russian s4movar, sale of an apron with silver coins, and booths of home made cakes and confections.
 Assisting Mrs. Ayers, char man of the plant exchange com mittee, are Mrs. c. s. Morony, Mrs. Frank Latonen, Mrs. W. J. Erskine and Mrs. R. L. Clifton.
 The sale of tickets for the dance and bazaar is under the direction of Mrs. c. W. Craw- ford.
Kodiak mirror., 1941-11-01

Have you paid your subsip tion to the MIRROR? Just $2.S for six months.
Kodiak mirror., 1941-11-01
Plant axes H
 Started dild

A potted plant Il slp ex- change is being st Kodiak this week to col containers and plants to be Ii at the Griffin Memorial Bazaar and Benefit Dance at blinn's hall November 7th.
 Mrs. Forest G. Ayers, who originated the idea here where there are no florist shops, pre-
Kodiak mirror., 1941-11-01

Miss Katherine Greedy, nurse at Fort Greeley, was a business visitor in Kodiak Tuesday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-10-09

yet know. We called Mrs. Arthur
Smith, who always knows the
Glenmont- Wheaton activities, but
she was out. BY the way we hear
Mrs. Smith is leaving the County
we will miss her.
The Rockville Club also meets
Thursday the 10th. Mrs. Everette
Gormley will be the hostess-you
know her, the Mrs. Gormley, who
talks about flowers, conservation.
and many other things -convinc-
ingly and well.
The Agents Program
We dropped into Miss Turner's
office to see what she was doing
with herself this month-she is
not meeting with the Homemakers
but here are few of the things
she had planned for this week:
On Monday she attended the
Defense Council with Mrs. Whe-
Ian, Tuesday saw her helping with
the final judging of The Defense
Gardens.
Wednesday Miss Turner had a
conference with teachers of Sher-
wood High School about their
community fair, today Thursday
she is working with a number of
former All Club girls, now young
matrons, who are organizing a
Child Study Group.
Friday there is mattress
school at Laytonsville, with Mrs.
Guy Stephenson, Mrs. George Car
son, assisting the agent. Miss Ell
mira Ward, N. Y. A. girl is also
helping with the mattress making
she took charge of the one held
at Comus Tuesday.
Saturday afternoons Miss Turn
er meets with the All Girls-last
week with Amy Fry in Laytons-
ville-this week with the Sunshine
All at the home of Mrs. Marcus
Daley.
Next week three days will be
taken up with the Coat School
with Miss Helen Shelby, and Mrs.
Beall helping-wonder if they
would make over our last years
coat?
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-10-09
Pen Women Meet

The Chevy Chase branch of the
National League of American Pen
Women will hold their first fall
meeting on October II, at the
Shoreham Hotel, preceded by a
luncheon. The subject for the win
ter program will be "What I Did
To Become A Pen Woman" Miss
Viola Offutt, secretary treasurer,
will have charge of the program.
President Mrs. Hester Beail Pro-
venson will preside and each mem
Der is allowed to bring two guests.
Those assisting the president will
be the past presidents-M Jesse
w. Nicholson, Mrs. Emma w. p.
Slack, Mrs. Daisy B. Calhoun and
Mrs. Charles Luck, first vice presi-
dent.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-10-09
WITH OUR
JUNIOR CLUBS

From Pasadena, in sunny Cali
fornia, comes a letter from Mar
jorie Fry, a Junior All Club girl,
who is spending the winter with
her grandmother.
She started to school she tells
us-is in 5B and finds the work
much like the third grade here
they are studying Colonial days,
and she likes her teacher.
Marjorie can see the mountains
from her grandmother's home. She
has had a letter from the little
English girl with whom she cor
responds, who says she lives or
the coast and has a breakwatel
with lock gates at the bottom Of
their garden, and likes to swim,
there.
The letter ends with Glove to
you and both Petes." When Mar
jorie left, we had "big Pete" who
was 4 years old, and ''little Pete
who was A months, two lovely
Chesapeake retrievers, playmates
for all the village children and
greatly loved by them.
We sold 'little Pete" and two
weeks later his father "Big Pete
was killed by truck.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-10-09

Wheaton? Well, they meet
Thursday 16th-where we do not
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-10-09
MONTGOMERY SIDELIGHTS
By ELSIE WHITE HAINES-

Did you know that Rockville
once had resident SO loved and
looked up to in life that on the
day of his funeral business was
suspended for the entire day?
So far as we can learn. that was
an honor never accorded anyone
but Matthew Fields who establish
ed our beloved Sentinel in 1856.
Not only was he the editor and
owner of the towns newspaper,
but he was Mayor of Rockville
and at one time sheriff of the
county.
Mr.. Fields was of Virginia par
entage though he was born in
Montgomery and lived almost ali
of his life here. An ardent South
ern sympathizer, his paper was an
exponent of his views, so he was
twice arrested and thrown into
prison.
The first time he was in old
Capitol prison, and Mrs. Fields
hired men to run the paper until
he was released, but when he was
again arrested and this time sent
to Carroll prison, it was thought
best for his sake to suspend the
paper until his return.
We had read this in an old pa
per, before we journeyed to Rock
vile and visited the small white
house with the green shutters,
where-just little removed from
the busy traffic of Highway 24O-
live the two surviving children of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fields, Miss Mar
garet Fields and Mrs. David War
field.
Born in 1851, Miss mag" re-
calls the Civil war very clearly
and her eyes flash as she tells how
the Northern soldiers harried
them during that time-twice they
kicked in the door with their big
feet" says she, "and turned every
thing over to see what they could
ind"
From the time it was establish
ed in 1855 until it was purchased
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-10-09

in 1882 by the present owner, Mr..
P. G. Stromberg, the Fields family
had owned and edited the Sentinel,
and Miss Margaret had lived all
her life in the house adjoining the
office until both were removed to
make room for the new Post Of
fee a few years ago.
When asked if she or her mo-
Their ever wrote for the paper or
did any work about the office-she
replied "No, father and the boys
thought a newspaper Office no
place for women, though we did
read proof, and always knew what
was going in the paper" Some
times when they were busy the
brothers would say, mag, we
wish you could set type"
Miss Mag still loves the paper,
and reads it each week with keen
and almost jealous eyes-editor
and publisher have more than
once been gently reproved when
they seemed to be departing from
the policies handed down through
the years. She has demanded to
see this article before it is print
ed, and will, we have no doubt,
blue pencil some of our best para
graphs!
Through her mother, Miss Re-
becca Georgina Beckwith, whom
her father married in 1850, Miss
Fields numbers among her ances-
tors some of the earliest settlers
of Maryland.
By a special warrant, dated
London, England, Sept. 8, 1641,
the Beckwiths were granted 1000
acres of land on the Patuxent Riv-
er in what is now st. Mary's
County, which they called st. Jo-
seph's Manor. Through the Fields
family they claim many of the
older families of Virginia, as kin.
Next week we hope to tell you
a little more about Rockville in
the days when, as Miss Mag says:
"There was only woods above the
Bell place" now known as the
Dawson home.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-10-09
TIMELY HINTS

"Grimes Golden, Jonathan, De-
licious-
All apples are healthful and nu>
tricious."
whats wrong with farming
writes a man from Ohio, to the
Farm Journal, "is that too many
families are buying bananas from
the grocery store instead of rails
ing their own fruit. Now is the
time to plant apple, peach, plum
cherry and pear trees. And why
not few nut trees :? We have had
much fun gathering our English
walnuts, from two trees on the
lawn.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-10-09

We have not yet heard from the
Soroptomist club-have to tell you
about that later.
Remember-if you like this COL
umn and want your club included
Just write us.