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Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-23

$3.50 garden hose ................ $270
IS 'X25' garden hose ................ $1.55
WHITING MEAD CO.
1878 Main Phone 1872
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-23

A CLETRAC Diesel tractor, 35
horsepower. $3.50.
EDGAR IMPLEMENT STORE
1875 Main Phone 636
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-23
5-Summer Homes Sale, Rent

WANTED-Family desiring to rent
La Jolja house during July. Phone,
Ell Centre 385M. 6-26
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-23

FURNISHED or unfinished houses,
$23 to $35 month, water paid.
Key at 1040 SO. 7th. 6-20tf
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16

ioo ANGELES, July 16 UP) -
Trading was fair.
Bunched vegetables: per crate,
beets 60-75c carrots 5o-65c; celery
root SOL; dixon 6O-75c green on
lions 3-3.25; lecks 1852 mustard
4o-6oc. Parsley 75-90c. radishes :
l.l0; Seal Beach lao; spinach 75-1:
tnrnips 60-75c; per dozen, mint 30
35c. watercress 35-40c. dill LOO
Honeydews: std 9-12s and jumbo
6-Ss Imperial 1.25-1 35, Yuma mostly
LOO; Crenshaw melons Dinuba ibo
4-6s 1.50-1. rs; Honeyballs Imperial
jumbo 36-45s 1.25-15O.
Squosh: local and San Diego
white summer 50-75c: Italian 5-s5c.
Arroyo Grande 70-75c. banana 2Mc
pound.
Tomatoes: Orange and San Diego
5x5s and 5x6s 75-1; 6x6s 50-65c 6x7
40-6Oc. San Pedro 4x5s 90-1; 5x5e
and 5x6s 1-1.15; 6x6s 65-85c SKIS so
65c. Stones San Diego 5x5s 1.50-1.75.
6X6s 1.25-1.5O.
Watermelons: Phoenix Klondikes
1922 lib avg 22-24; Yuma Klon-
d1kes 1920 lb avg best 20 per ton.
imperial Klandikes 1915 lb avg
$4,000 per car; ton lots Imperial
poor to ordinary 1916 lb S13-16
per ton; casabas; Imperial 17.50-20.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
ALPHABETICAL
(Orange \ eWS) J

tOrange NeWS)
The New Deal admits it failed miser
ably in iazzing up the calendar with ref
erence to Thanksgiving but has certainly
raised hob with the alphabet. Folks who
learned their ABCs at time when there
was some semblance to regularity IN the
sequence of@letters can hardly be blamed
for becoming confused with the new jum-
ble
tions of letters which give the defense
(and other) movements meaning all
their own.
OEM-Office of Emergency Manage
mant, top holding company of the defense
effort. OPM-Office of Production Man
agement, the Knudsen-Hillman outfit
OCD-Office of Civilian Defense, La
Guardia's new division. SDU-Special
Defense Unit in the Department of JUS
tice. OPACS-Office of Price Admins
tration and Civilian Supply, headed by
Leon Henderson. CND-Council of Ma
tional Defense, the cabinet war policy
group. NDRC = National Defense Re
search Committee, the inventors. &c
Export Control, headed by Lt.-Col. Rus
sell L. Maxwell. NDMB-Nationa De-
fenSe Mediation Board, to settle strikes
FSA-Federal Security Agency. That's
Paul V McNutt. Not strictly defense
agency but its divisions, like Ssh, WPA,
CCC, and NYA, has a lot of defense
work. DHC-Defense Housing Co-ordi-
nator, also Defense Housing Corporation.
OGR-Call it Ogre if you like, the Office
of Government Reports, which is a tame
old sheep, but has everybody scared for
fear it will put on wolf feathers and be-
come an office of censorship.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
NEVER OUR DUTY
TO FOLLOW BLINDLY
Oakland. Iowa, Acorn)

Oakland. Iowa, Acorn)
A great many people in the United
States are coming face to face With a
grave and puzzling problem. they are
good citizens who want to do their part
in serving the best interests of their home
land
On every hand, these men and women
hear the call for national unity. They
recognize the Importance of united ma
ton in a time when nearly all the rest OF
the world is in complete upheaval
But another factor enters the picture
Each of these men and women has con-
science and mind. The freedom to lis
ten to their conscienceS is an inherent
part of their American citizenship.
The integrity of the individual is the
very basis of the American form of gov
ernment and the American way OF life
Yet that integrity is now challenged, IN
the name of defending our very existence
If it be traitorous to say this, we must
plead guilty to that charge, but We sim
cerely believe that it is never the duty
of any American to follow blindly And
certainly it is not the duty of any Amer
lean to give allegiance to course which
he believes will be disastrous to his ma
ton'S welfare
We recognize the importance of unit
ed effort for defense of our nation, but
we cannot reconcile that necessity with
an alleged need for placing this country
in the role of world policeman and world
policy maker.
We believe it is our fundamental right,
ahead of every other concern, to continue
to protest against policies of intervention
from which we can gain little or nothing
and which might easily mean the loss of
everything we hold most important.
It is our continuing belief that the life
of one American boy is more important to
this nation than the fate of the entire
European continent.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
A GOOD IDEA IF
CORRECTLY USED

Nobody can quarrel with Gen. George
c. Marshall, l. S. chief of staff, III his
expressed desire for wider discretionary
power on the part of the army to dis
charge unfit and inefficient officers.
But before congress grants such au-
thority under any blanket arrangement,
we should like to see congress find out
how much the army has changed III the
last few years.
Are those who would exercise the new
power the same kind of higher-ups III
the army who got Brig. Gen. Billy
Mitchell in the Marine Corps few years
ago, for suggesting publicly that the arm
ed forces weren't paying enough atten,
tion to aerial warfare and preparedness
Would the power be used to actually
weed out the unfit and inefficient, or
would it be used against those who nap
pen to disagree with the men IN power!
We agree with Gen. Marshall one hun
dred per cent that the army needs some
better method of getting rid of the UNFIT.
We applaud with a hearty amen! MS
declaration that, "our present system has
permitted the rise to power of those Of
ficers who have followed policy of mega
tive action
While the German army has been deVls-
ing new methods OF warfare Ill TUNE Will
modern progress our own army has been
content with Civil War tactics and World
War armament, largely because the chief
and only requirement for advancement
in our army has been the length of time
the officer has been in service. There
has been no incentive for progress, and
new ideas have actually been discouraged.
Gen. Marshall, the present chief OF
staff, is by all accounts highly efficient
officer, and one who could be depended
upon to execute wisely any additional
power conferred upon him. But Gen
Marshall, although chief of staff, is still
subject to lot of pressure from the
gray-beards and chair-sitters within the
army. Would he be able to resist the
pressure, which almost undoubtedly
would be in favor of those who have
retarded military progress in this coun-
try?
Before congress acts too hastily, it
should find out what kind of men are
going to determine who is unfit and who
should be discharged.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
by Paul Harrison :.
HoIywoods Fads, Fancies and Foib|es

Queen" are in their own tongue
John Ford is directing this picture
almost like silent documentary
film, with choral background and
narrator'S voice added.
Top post goes to an almost un-
known 12-year-o1d, Roddy McDo-
wall. An unwilling refugee from
London, he made his movie bow as
the cabin boy in the current Man
Hunt In How Green Was MY
Valley, he's the youngster through
whose eyes the life and hard times
of the colliery workers are seen.
SET BRINGS TEARS
Patric Knowles is the choir leader
and this is his first picture since
he was washed out of an instructor
ship in the Canadian air force by
defective viSic.l. Walter Pdgeon is
minister, but with these and other
principals, the people of the town
and the town itself seem to be the
real stars. Among them is an oldster
who, after his first amazed look
at the set, burst into nostalgia tears
They sing all the time" said
Ford, "and feel a little sighted if
I don't let 'em rehearse for a cou.
pie of hours early each morning
They like the echoes; its the frs
time since they left Wales thai
they've had chance to sing against
mountains
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
by Willis Thornton =,
Yankee Doodle .1941 Version

For you," he muttered,
''scallions!"
The first man To administer
The "hot-foot" by battalions.
Chorus: Yankee Doodle, etc.
So now the controversy grows
On soldiery demeanor:
Should soldiers pass a pretty girl
As If they'd never seen her?
Chorus
Yankee Doodle, keep it up,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
Mind the music and the step,
And with the girls be-always
igidly conventional.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF OIL PROTECTION
CHARGES DUE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
have received from the Depart
ment of Natural Resources the rec
ord of assessments and charges for
petroleum and gas for the current
year.
The charges therein assessed and
levied are due and payable on the
first Monday in July and one-half
thereof will be delinquent on the
sixth Monday after the first Mon
day in July at six o'clock, pm.
August 10, 1941, and unless paid to
the State Treasurer at the Capitol
prior thereto, fifteen per cent will
be added to the amount thereof,
and unless paid prior to the first
Monday in February next there
after at six o'clock pm. February
2, 1912, an additional five per cent
sill be added to the amount there
of; and the remaining one-nalf of
said charges will become delinquent
on the first Monday in February
next succeeding the day upon which
they became due and payable, at
six O'Clock pm. February 2, 1912,
and if not paid TO the State Treas
urer at the Capitol prior thereto,
five per cent will be added to the
amount thereof.
HARRY B. RILEY,
Controller.
By: BERT FOSTER,
Deputy.
Dated at Sacramento, Calf.
this 7th day of July, 1941.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
NEW YORK STOCKS

NEW YORK, July 16 UP) -
stocks today registered the fir a.
significant decline this month";
rr'ces receded fractions to more
than point in leading issues Tn
TO as mech as 81 points in /
special stocks. the decline ranged
e. Trading was moderately ac-
Xnerts attributed the reaction tn
technical factors.
Ihe railroad avarega failed yes
terday to penetrate its April high.
the high for 1871, and todav n
ba a"ked up after early strength.
Stocks sales were $4,000 shares
against 100000 yesterday. Curb stock
volume rose to $4,000 shares from
1000 yesterday. Dow Jones pre-
lim1nary closing stock averages: In
dustrial 1878 off IS rail 29.4O orr
"a; Utility 1853, off .O4 65 stocks
43.04, off IT.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16

HOLLYWOOD July 10 From
Movietown, you go northwest about
20 miles, through the land of the
hot dog and the nutberger, the
roadside produce stands and the
laVishly irrigated little oasis which
people OF the screen call ranches. Al
q sign pointing southwark TO Brent's
Crags, you turn on narrow road
that ambles up into the Santa Mon
lea mountains.
Near the summit there's d side
road marked by man who sits in
canvas chair and reads fan maya
zines Half a mile more, if he lets
you through, you're in little min
ing town in Wales.
I never had seen a Welsh vii
lage before but I'll take the word
of the inhabitants of this one that
it's authentic. Anyway, it's one of
the most amazing movie sets ever
DulIO, anu ~ DtdGo Illtbi dii 'oi
completeness. It cost nearly S150,000
SCENERY SHIFTERS
Daryl Zanuck bought the novel,
How Green Was My Valley, last
year and in November sent a me-
chanized army of workmen into the
hills. The isolation and surround
ing vista were just right, but the
immediate location didn't conform
to studio designers sketches. So first
a fleet OF tractor bulldozers pushed
the top off mountain and made
some other big-scale alterations
around the edges.
Then the surveyors and carpen-
ters and plaster men came. They
built row of stores, a church with
yard full of tombstones, numerous
retaining walls and II houses.
Up the slope and dominating the
village is cluster of mine build
ings. The tower over the pit head
has hoist that really works. The
power house has boiler to make
steam that Kisses in white clouds
from leaky pipe joints. and a fur
mace TO generate black smoke for
the main stack.
A majority of those in the cast
actually are from Wales. Los An
geles had a Welsh choir. but the
Welsh music director, Tudor Will
hams, collected lot more. And all
their sonUg eYoent aGad cava tha
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
WARS TRAGEDY

Imperial Valley will be especially in
terested in the spotlight thrown on one OF
todays greatest tragedies by the Rev.
Take Okumura originator of the new
American Conference. Speaking at Hon
olulu before gathering of American
citizens of japanese ancestry, the Rev.
Okumura told his listeners that they,
as American citizens, must serve the coun-
try of their adoption ''willingly and un-
selfishly" in the national emergency.
With war threatening between the
country of their ancestors and the coun-
try of their adoption, American Japa-
nese today are in a position which none
of us would willingly accept. Yet, as
we in Imperial Valley know, they have
renounced the racial and national ties
of their ancestors-and are better Amer
leans for the sacrifice, a sacrifice made
more difficult because of racial differ
ences
Most American japanese needed the
Rev Okumura's words long before he
spoke them. There is little enough we
the white Americans, can do to ease the
sting in their hearts that such sacrifice
brings. There is one thing we can do.
We can recognize that they are as Amer
ican as we ourselves-and we can refrain
from silly suspicious which have no other
foundation than the difference in the
color of two skins.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given by Celeste
Goldman, administrative of the est
tate of Bessie Godn an, deceased, to
all creditors or all persons having
claims against the said deceased to
exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers within six months after
the first publication of this notice
to the Administrative at 212 Reh-
kopf Building, El Centre, California
the place selected for the trans
action of all business of said estate
or to file them within six months
after the first publication of this
notice in the office of the Clerk Oh
the Superior Court of the State OF
California. County of Imperial.
Dated June 81, 1941.
CELESTE GOODMAN
Administrative
CLARENCE B. SMITH,
Attorney for Administrative
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
By Peter Edison
The Inside Track in Washinuton

WASHINGTON. July 16 = Be
hind all the headlines about US.
occupation of Iceland there is one
of those queer stories which old
lady Fate and grandmother Cir
cumStance seem TO pick a guy out
of the worlds hat and set him
down. much to his own amazement.
to play an important though un-
spectacular role in this strange
confusion called History.
The mans name in this case is
Bertel Eric Kuniholm and he is
and has been since April, 1910, the
U. S. consul at ReykjaYik, the lee
landic capital In the U. S. De-
partment of State directory Kuni-
holm is rated as only a class six
consular officer which doesn't
make him important when YOU
consider that class one is tops and
class nine is next to the bottom,
which is unclassified.
Anyway Berel Eric Kuniholm,
just turned 40 last May 13 started
out in life to be an Army officer
He was born at Lake Gardner,
Mass. went to the Worcester Poly
technic Institute, then ArmyNavy
Prep School, from which he was
graduated in 1919 to go right into
the u. S. Military Academy at
West Point. Out of the academy as
a second lieutenant in the class of
1924, he served for three years in
the regular Army.
III 1927 he drew, of all things,
an assignment as instructor in
military science at the Woodward
School for Boys. He stood it for
Just a year and then. SO the story
in Washington goes. he decided that
if this was all the excitement there
was going to be for him in the
Army he was going to get out. The
Army didn't rate very highly back
in the 20s, you'll remember.
BEGAN CAREER IN KOVNO
So here old lady Fate stepped in
to the picture, tapped Kuniholm
on the shoulder and persuaded him
to chuck this decadent Army life.
Maybe Fate knew then that she was
leading him right to a spot where
he would be one of the first Amer
leans to get into the thick of things
at an outpost of hemisphere de-
Tense, 5000 miles from Lake Gard
ner, Mass, but certainly 13 years
ago. Second Lieutenant Bertel Eric
Kuniholm didn't have the slightest
idea ne would end up in Iceland,
perhaps setting the stage for a war.
Hemisphere defense, 13 years ago,
hadn't even been thought of beyond
the point that Herbert Hoover, who
beat Al Smith for the presidency
that year, Immediately boarded a
battleship and made a cruise around
South America just as a friendly
ge sture to stimulate trade.
Kuniholm, then aged 27, resigned
from the Army, took off his uni
form and applied for an appoint
ment in the u s. consular service.
Accepted, he went to Foreign Serv-
ice School, then served year an
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
So They Say

The quicker the war is won, thc
better chances we will have, in
dealing with our internal affairs
to preserve the American way OF
life.
William S. Culbertson, former U
S. ambassador to Chile.
The tide of cynicism which seemed
to have enqulfed mankind has be-
gun to ebb.
John d. Rockefeller, jr.
IIitlers star has set
Luis Rodriguez, former Mexican
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
L. A. LIVESTOCK

Los ANGELES, July Is UP) =
tFederal State Market News Serv-
ice).
Hogs COO; fully steady; good to
choice 190211 lb. 12.50-12.65: eariv
top 12. E70 On few 1914 lb; few 100 In
l1-l2; sows S.25-9; stays IT'S feed
er pigs 1110.
Cattle 500; under 100 Ib. fed
steers strong to 25 cents higher:
other classes steady; medium In
good 877-953 lb fed steers 11.s0-
11.65; latter lightly sorted; Hol-
stein steers 8; range Mexicans 7.25:
load fed heifers held around 11.25:
COWS 7-8; Gamers and cctters 4.bo-
6.75; bulls 8.25-9.25; calves $50:
steady; top vealers to 1850; loaod
Brahmas unsold.
Sheep 150; steady; few medium
Wooled lambs IL; good and choice
quoted 10, 0,50-10.75; few "a lib shorn
lambs 8; good shoIn ewes quoted
4.50 or above.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16

a half as vice consul at Koyno.
Transferred to Paris. he was as
signed to the Ecole Rationale DIES
LangueS OrientaleS VivanteS. which
means that he studied Russian.
The Soviet. you'll recall had ey-
erybody guessing in those days too
and experts were needed.
From 1888 to 1910 Kuniholm lived
the life of career diplomat work
ington. and at Tallinn, Moscow,
a couple of short bitches in Wash
ing ton, and at Tallinn, Moscow,
Riga. Zurich, then Reyk iavik
Less than a month after he was
appointed to Iceland the British
army moved in there and took over.
He was keeping his date with grand
mother Circumstance.
GOOD MAN TO HAVE AROUND
The U. S. State Department
couldn't have had better man
for the job Here he was, West Point
trained, listening in at the very
edge of the war, military observer
in consul's shoes. His reports to
Washington are supposed to have
made some of the most fascinating
reading available, not only for the
diplomats, but for the Army and
Navy brass hats as we'll. And when
the important negotiations had to
be carried on with the Icelandic
government and the British, Kuni-
holm was on the ground.
The Department of State has
just sent him up some help in the
person of H. Bartlett Wells, 33, OF
Plainfield, N. j., out of Phillips EX-
eter and Harvard, with foreign
service in Managua, Mexico City
and Montevideo. And the prime
minister of Iceland has requested
that the U. S. send up a diplomatic
representative. Kuniholm, being only
class six, naturally doesn't rate high
enough to get the job. But he's
had all the fun SO far, anyway. And
you can never tell about Fate
WASHINGTON BIRD SEED
Price Flxer Leon Henderson's def
inition of reasonable profit
which it is assumed business will be
allowed to earn even in war times
is "the amount necessary to keep
the business going and invite new
capital to participate in expansion" :"
BY conservation. Great Britain is
using less gasoline now, in the
height of the war, than she did in
the last peace-time year. June grad
uation exercises which you may not
have heard of include the class
of 81 officers who got diploma
from the Motor Transport School
of the Holabird Quartermaster De-
pot in Maryland, and the 12 Air
Corps officers who finished at a
glider school in Wright Field, Day
ton, O. Aviation Daily now reports
the U. S. has more planes than it
has pilots, and personnel won't
catch up with plane production be-
fore October. Census data shows IS
major manufacturers produced in
1899 billion and a third dollars
worth of cigaretS.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
SAN DIEGO

aMClJlh y. DftlbAICIsO, OcCcdoCu.
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE AT PRIVATE SALE
Notice is hereby given that Wal
ter Ames, as Executor of the Last
Will and Testament of Amelia G
Bridges deceased, will sell at pri-
vate sale to the highest bidder fol
cash, or upon such terms and con-
ditions as may be approved by the
Court and subject to confirmation
by the Court on or after July "a,
194l, at the office of his attorneys,
Messrs. Gray, Cary, Ames & Dris-
coll, 1410 Bank of America Building,
San Diego, California, all the right,
title, interest and estate of said
Amelia c. Bridges, deceased, at the
time of her death, Ind all the
right, title and interest which said
| estate by operation of law or other
wise may have acquired other than
or in addition to that of said de-
cedent at the time of her death in
and to the following described
property located in the County of
Imperial, State of California, to-
wit:
North half (N15) of Tract Nine
ty-one (9D Township Fifteen
e15) South, Range Thirteen 13)
East, S.B.M., in the County of
Imperial, State of California. as
per Map of the re-survey ap-
proved and filed in the United
States Land Office at Los An
geleS, California;
Terms and conditions of sale:
Cash, or such cash and credit as
may be approved by the Court, ten
percent 102s) of such purchase
price to be paid at the date of sale
and the balance on confirmation of
sale.
All bids and offers must be in
writing and may be left at the Of
flces OF Messrs. Gray, Cary, Ames
and Driscoll, 1410 Bank of America
Building, San Diego, California, at
torneys for the Executor; or may
be filed in the office of the Clerk
OF this Court at any time after
the ilrst publication of this Notice
and before making of said sale.
DATED: At San Diego, Califor-
MIA, this Bird day of July, 1941.
WALTER AMES.
Executor for the Last Will
and Testament of Amelia C.
Bridges, deceased.
GRAY, CARY, AMES
& DRISCOLL
Attorneys for Executor.
Bank of America Building,
San Diego, California.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16

General Lear was playing golf
Hes twelve years over fifty.
Pretty girls were playing, too,
And, gosh! they did look nifty
Chorus
Yankee Doodle, keep it up,
Yankee Doodle dandy,
Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be-alWays
igidly conventional.
A bunch of troops came riding by
And cried, Look what's before us!
"A lot of girls in snappy shorts!"
"Yoo-hoo!' they cried in chorus.
Chorus: Yankee Doodle, etc.
The general he was scandalized,
His face grew red as banners,
To see his army showing such
Un-Chesterfieldian manners.
Chorus: Yankee Doodle, etc
He marched them 15 miles to
camp,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-16
L. A. POULTRY
l.. A. STOCn5

Los ANGELES, July 16 fUP) -
The Los Angeles stock exchange was
steady today with listings remain
ing unchanged for the most part
Six stocks were up. six down and
four unchanged. Approximate trad
ing was 900 shares.
The listings:
Central Investment IA, up ! Z; Pa
cific Gas and Electric 33h down
u; southern California Edison com
mon "a; Edison per cent 30h up
"A; Southern California Gas A 33as
up 70; Republic Petroleum "a /;