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Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10
Films FIoyed as
War Propaganda

argued. it must be shown first that
an "offense" has been committed.
In a statement to reporters Will
kie also charged that the investl-
CATION, which is in the hands OF
a group of senate isolationistS, is
an attempt to sabotage the admin
istratior's foreign policy and stifle
free speech.
Chairman D. Worth Clark of the
subcommittee recalled that before
radio an orator like William Jen-
nings Bryan could make 200 speech
es and reach about 100000 people.
Today President Roosevelt can sit
in his study and speak to 60,000,OO0'
There i a kind of proud tradi-
ton in the press which grows out
of the fact that it is the purveyor
of the news" he added. And even
though the New York Times and
the New York Herald-Tribune may
be in favor of getting the country
into war, nevertheless, if some OF
our leading anti-war speakers ad-
dress crowds in New York, the New
York Times and the New York
Herald Tribune will sometimes print
their speeches. You can write a let
ter to the editor of any interven-
zionist newspaper and sometimes
have it published The non-inter-
ventionist newspaper will inter-
view an interventionist leader and
print the interview
Then his voice rising with anger
Clark added
But in the motion picture in
dustry we do not get foot of film
or a syllable of sound anywhere,
any day in any of the 1900 theaters
in this country"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10
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i've might collapse the entire Ger
man front. The Russians said that
they had broken up all Nazi at
tempts to concentrate fresh forces
for defense in that sector. but the
drive still was far from its appar-
ent goal.
On the north, the Germans re-
ported big fires and bitter house
toulouse fighting along the banks OF
the River Neva outside Leningrao
but in the extreme south the Rus
slams said that the defenders OF
Odessa had wiped out half of the
Rumanian army in the first month
of Axis siege of that Black Sea port
The important fighting in a broad
strategical sense. however, was the
central front offensive designed to
relieve Leningrad and also to weak
en- the German forces in the Uk-
raine.
RETREAT DISORDERLY
The Germans, falling back from
Yelyna to or perhaps beyond the
blackened ruins of Smolensk, were
reported by Moscow to be in diSor-
derly and swift retreat on some sec
tors, pursued by Russian tanks ano
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10

OSLO, Norway. VIA Berlin) Sept.
10. tUP)-Martial law and state
of emergency were declared in Oslo
today following several strikes.
lReports 10 Stockholm said the
state Of emergency at Oslo was de-
clared to block a general strke)
Any resistance to the emergency
decree will be broken by armed
force. German authorities warned.
The decree forbids strikes, public
meetings and street gatherings and
provides a - pm. to am. curfew.
Several strikes began in Oslo
Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10
Brawley Man Dies
After Operation

BRAWLEY, Sept. 10 - S. Quay
Smith. jr., 25, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
S. Quay Smith, sr.. of Brawley. dice
suddenly Tuesday night after an
operation.
The funeral viii be held at the
Hopes chapel Tuesday.
He was graduated from Brawley
Union High school in 1884. from
Brawley Junior college in 1886, anG
thereafter was transferred TO the
University of California at Los An
geles.
Among his survivors are his par
ents and two brothers. Sherman
and Brent.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10
Drive eEndon9ers


airplanes. These dispatches SAID the
Germans in several recent battles
had lost more than 500 tanks, three
cavalry squadrons, great part OF
the 29th and 18th motorized dlVl-
sions, and close to 10000 men IN
the latest battles in addition 10
10000 dead and wounded in the
in the Yelyna sector
The fighting led by Marshal Sem
yon Timoshenko in the area stretch
ing from Gomel to Smolensk and
thence northeastward was regarded
in London as a grave threat to
the German forces that have claimed
the encirclement of Leningrad,
which with its big naval bases at
Kronstadt again was subjected to
terrific aerial and long-range ar
tillery bombardment.
The Russians also reported that
they were fighting strongly alonaa
the lower Dnieper river with the
aid of gunboats that broke up Ger
man attempts to cross Cile river anu
smashed batteries on the west bank 4
LUFTWAFFE ACTIVE
From the German side it was
stated that the luftwaffe struck
furiously at the three big Russian
cities of Leningrad Moscow and
Odessa seeking to break up COM
munication lines and to destroy the
defense guns and munitions plants
of besieged Leningrad and Odessa.
Moscow said that the Germans
failed in the raid on the Russian
capitalD
| The luftwaffe attacks were de-
scribed as heavy" and it was claim
ed By the high command that the
German forces again were seizing
the initiative and attacking sue
cessfully all along the eastern front.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10
Farm Bloc Fights
Release of Surplus
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Continued From Page One)
Ike that attitude. Morgenthaus
Canadian wheat suggestion was on
ly a smart alec trick to help Can
adam farmers to get their surplus
wheat into this country by punish
ing the American wheat farmer
Ellender, however, agreed that
the government should take some
steps toward getting rid of the ex-
cess carryover of cotton" but not
in a way ito penalize the American
farmer"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10
District Wipes
Out Debt Portion
By Sinking Fund

Continued from Page One)
bonds, $44, ,420; third division bonds,
S49,356.
Terms of the refunding agree
ment stipulated that each of these
accounts should be reduced below
$4,000 through purchase of secur-
tiles carried under the various
headings, and a new sinking fund
established for the following year
The balance sheet at the end
of the first operating period of the
fund showed
Warrants purchased, $44,275; bal
ance in fund, $l45.
First division bonds purchased,
S37,372; balance, $2212.
Second division bonds purchased,
S37,853; balance, $6562.
! Third division bonds purchased
$47196; balance, $216O.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10
$4,000 Building
Under WAY Here

Construction mas begun on a new
$4,000 brick business building in
the 400 block of Broadway for M
Kamiya, FL Centro grocer.
The new structure will replace
an old building recently demolish-
ed. 1t will face 100 feet on the
north side of Broadway, and have
a depth of so feet.
The Kamiya grocery will occupy
one of the six stores into which the
building will be divided, with TWO
story living quarters in the rear.
Contractor is M. Hayano.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10
It's a Popular


BLACK-DRAUGHT is name
you will want to remember next
time you are logy, uncomfortable
all for the need of a laxative. Not
only because it has been popular
with four generations in the South
and West, but for reasons back OF
that
For one thing, BLACK
is spicy, aromatic, easy
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10

to-take, usually gentle and thor
ough acting when the simple di-
rections are followed. Then, 1t iG
made from purely vegetable in
gradients. One of these is tonic
laxative which helps TO tone lazy
Intestinal muscles. You get rs to
40 doses for Csc. So, get genuin
ACK-DRAUGHT.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10
COPPER HEIR SEEKS
DIVORCE FROM STAR

LES ANGELES, Sept. 10 CUP) -
y. Ross Clark III, Montana copper
heir, today filed suit for divorce
against Barbara Fritchie, actress
charging desertion.
Clark said they married in Mt
Kisko, N. Y, Oct. 7, 1894. He said
Miss Fritchie deserted him Dec. 2s
1893.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10
Oslo Under Nuzi
Troop Law Order

All theaters and motion picture
houses were closed under the de-
cree issued by Josef Terboven, Ger
man administrator for Norway.
The decree provides that no traf-
fic may move after $50 pm. All
restaurants were ordered to close
at pm.
Serving of alcohol was forbidden,
as was dancing.
Resistance to the decree will be
broken by armed forces. German
authorities warned.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10
Capital Expects
Big Development
In Foreign Field
Continued from Page one)

warfare against ocean shipping.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
said that he had no advices which
might indicate that an announce
ment might come soon regarding
the status of American-Ja japanese
diplomatic conversations.
He made the statement in res
ponse to questions regarding news
paper reports that an important
announcement could be expected
soon concerning Americana japanese
relations. 1t was indicated by the
that there was nothing
new in the field of japanese Amer
lean relations which could be dis
cuSsed at this time.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10
DIVORCE GRANTED

John A. unit Wednesday obtained
a ninterlocutory divorce decree
from Hamie E. Hunt on the
grounds of extreme cruelty.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that funds are now available IN
accordance with the terms and
provisions of the Modification OF
Refunding Plan, dated as OF jan
uary |, 1882, which is the Plan
of Composition approved and con-
firmed by Decree of the United
States District Court of the South
ern District of California, under
date of February 26, l941.
NOTICE is ALSO HEREBY CIV
EN- that the Board of Directors
Of the Imperial Irrigation District
hereby invites sealed proposals for
the sale TO the District of any OF
its now outstanding securities af-
fected by said Plan of Composition
above referred to and declared op-
erative with respect to which the
sinking fund moneys are applicable
as in said Plan of Composition pro-
vided, and that the time and place
when and where such sealed pro-
posals will be opened is as follows:
Such sealed proposals will be re-
ceived at the office of the Board OF
Directors of the Imperial Irriga-
ton District in the Masonic Build
ing. Sixth and State Streets, e.
Centro, California, and the time
when such proposals will be opened
is hereby fixed as 10 o'clock am. OF
the 7th day of october, 194l, and
all proposals must be sealed and
deposited with or delivered TO the
Secretary of the Board of Directors
of the Imperial Irrigation District
on or before said day and hour and
at said place.
NOTICE IS FURTHER HERE
BY GIVEN that the amount avail
able for the redemption of such
securities and the securities for the
purchase of which such moneys are
available, are as follows:
s39. .583.34 available for the re-
demption and purchase of register
ed warrants.
S37,15698 available for the re-
demption and purchase of First
Division Refunding Bonds.
s4e,O0006 available for the re-
demption and purchase of Second
Division Refunding Bonds.
sac ,99187 available for the re-
demption and purchase of Third
Division Refunding Bonds.
NOTICE IS FURTHER HERE.
BY GIVEN that securities purchased
by the Board of Directors shall
cease to draw interest on the dat
Of acceptance, by resolution of TIN
Board, of the offer of sale. Inter
est will be calculated upon a basi
of 365 days per year.
i Notice is also hereby given tina
the Board of Directors of the I'm
perial Irrigation District is by tn
terms of said Plan Of Composition
given and there is hereby reserves
the right and discretion TO rejec
any or all Of such proposals.
Dated the 9Th day of Sept, 1941.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT.
BY EVAN T. HEWES,
President
(SeaD BY w. w GOODSON,
Secretary.
CS10-l7-24; Old
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10
Scanning I.v
News Horizon
VISITS VALLEY

D. w. Mosher of the state bureau
of market enforcement is in I'm
perial Valley on an official busi-
ness trip.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10
WEATHER

Southern California - Night and
morning low clouds coastal area;
otherwise fair Wednesday and
Thursday; little change in temper
ature; gentle westerly winds.
U. 5. Weather Bureau FL Centre
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-10
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

NOTICE INVITING SEALED PRO-
POSALS FOR SALE TO THE
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT OF ITS OUTSTANDING
SECURITIES AFFECTED BY
PLAN OF COMPOSITION WITH
RESPECT TO WHICH SINKINi'
FUND MONEYS ARE APPLIC-
ABLE.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-06-13

defense at the earliest possible mo-
ment, it may mean the difference be-
tween keeping and losing our Ameri-
can way of life-between keeping and
losing a government of, by and for
the people-between keeping and los
ing the precious privilege of being a
citizen of our beloved country.
We have seen this very lesson
brought home during recent months
on many a bloody battlefield. We
have seen great cities, worldfamed
monuments and buildings, represent
ing hundreds of years of work by
man, reduced to shambles in few
hours. In Europe, we have learned
of the death of tens of thousands of
men, women, and children, too. Why?
Because, before war came, such coun-
tries failed to put themselves in a
state of adequate defense. Now their
portion is blood and tears, toll and
sweat.
Over there, no less than here, men
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-06-13

down, that the American nation shall
be put in a state of complete national
defense at the earliest possible mo-
ment. To these ends, each man, en-
ployer and employee, farmer and ur-
ban dw9ller, rich and poor, high and
low, must contribute his share. Such
sacrifices are in the interest of the
general welfare and are part of the
obligation we all owe our govern
ment.
l do not believe, certainly as an
initial step, that it is necessary for
the government to take over the in
dustrial plants, in order to eradicate
the strike difficulty. I do not believe
they should be taken over, unless the
employer has been in the wrong. The
taking over of industrial plants is
exactly what the Communists and the
totalitarians want the government to
do. That is one of the primary OBJ
jective of the Communist Party, a
fundamental tenet of it's political
philosophy. Communists and totali-
tarians are promoting these strikes,
trying to obtain during this emergen-
cy what they were unable to secure
in more normal times. We should
not fall into the trap they are setting
for us.
In sum, the American people want
their government to set up fair and
equitable machinery for the settle
ment of industrial disputes and the
outlawry of strikes in plants making
defense equipment during the present
emergency. They are entitled to have
it.
Who knows? Unless we can meet
this challenge, unless we can keep
these plants open and in constant
production of defense materials, I'M
less we can achieve total national
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-06-13

tional emergency, it would be good
thing for the employer, the employee,
and the general public, if the Labor
Relations Act were overhauled and it's
defects corrected.
But whether this is done or not,
ways and means must be found to
remedy our growing industrial sick
ness, to insure the settlement of dis
pute between employer and employee
without resort to strikes, so long as
the safety of this nation is threat
ened by involvement in a devastating
war.
Who knows? Upon the success of
our whole national defense effort may
we'll depend, not only the future of
our country, but of the entire world.
And the heart and soul of our defense
effort consists primarily in the pro-
duction of arms, munitions and equip
ment for our Army, Navy and Mer-
chant Marine, and for the British,
at the earliest possible moment.
In the face of that situation, strikes
in essential defense industries are
luxuries which we cannot now afford.
We must set up definite machinery
which will settle disputes without
strikes, so long as our nation is in
danger so that products may contin-
ue to flow from our defense indus
tries in the national interest.
And as stated, so long as this gov
eminent, through the medium of the
Draft Act, takes men from their good
positions and their homes and COM
pels them to serve year in training
camps, on mere subsistence and $21
a month, in the national interest, that
same government, if it means to give
these men the full measure of sup
port, must insist that industrial dis
putes be settled without resort to
strikes.
In applying such a remedy, no es-
sential right which labor now has
need be taken away. Labor would
retain it's right to collective bar
gaining through representatives of
it's own choosing, to present to the
employer its grievances, which should
be reduced to writing. The employ
err should be required to answer, and
both the complaint and the answer
should be given to the public.
Finally, if it is impossible for en-
ployer and employee to agree, the
matter should be referred to Board
on which labor has a representative,
the employer has representative,
and the public has a representative.
A decision of the majority of the
three should be final and binding on
employer and employee alike. In other
words, the public would make the de-
cision by being the third member of
the Board. If the employer failed
to accept this verdict, he should be
severely penalized, and if labor fail
ed to accept the verdict, it should
be severely penalized, too.
This is but an outline of the plan
which feel sure could speedily be
whipped into shape. Or if better
plan can be devised to end strikes
then let us have that plan instead.
The point is that strikes must end,
that labor disputes must be settled by
arbitration, that the nations welfare
comes first, that the drafted men in
the training camps shall not be let
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-06-13

talked continually of their rights and
privileges, and failed to think at alb
of their duties and responsibilities.
Thinking thus and acting thus, they
lost everything. Today, they have
neither privileges nor responsibilities.
They are but slaves, men, women and
children, broken, disillusioned, hum
CRY and without hope.
This country must not walk that
road. We must not embrace these
tragic mistakes which have been the
downfall of great nations. In this
country we must prepare completely
and quickly. Strikes must end.
America must live.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-06-13
forces and civilians alike is constant

forces and civilians alike is constant
ly lowered.
Then, too, it has been shown that
many of these strikes have been fore
ed upon the workers of the nation by
small cifques, we'll organized and Of
ten operating by strong arms meth
DDS. These small groups have not
hesitated in cases to threaten, terror
ize and coerce the workers. / am I'M
alterably convinced that the strikes
in the United States, for the most
part, are opposed by the overwhelm-
ing mass of the workers themselves.
1 am sure that the great mass of
those in. industrial establishments,
employees and employers, are just as
patriotic and just as willing to sac
rifice, in this hour of national dan
ger, as any other group of our peo-
pie.
1t is because of these circumstances
that there is rising tide of resent
ment throughout the nation, against
the increasing industrial stoppages.
Everyone is demanding that the Fed
eral government take firm action.
In the press, on the air, in the voice
of the man in the street, we hear it
again and again. They are saying:
ct is not right for the Federal
government to exercise it's power to
compel young men to leave their fire
sides to serve full year in our army
camps and perhaps eventually to give
their lives4in defense of this nation
on some bloody battlefield; and at the
same time for the Federal govern
ment to fail to exercise it's power to
so regulate industrial relations as to
make sure our fighting men shall
have the arms and munitions which
they must have quickly to defend
America in her present hour of dead
ly peril ,
Yet, in the face of strike after
strike, the Federal government has
sat supinely by, applying little salve
here and there, asserting that the
strike menace was not serious, while
more and more valuable time is vast
ed, less and less munitions are pro-
duced, and essential equipment re-
mains ION order"
I believe that this industrial I'M
rest is in part caused by our one
sided labor policy, by the govern
ment's tacit approval of the sit-down
strikes, and of governmental coddling
of Communistic labor agitators dur
ing recent years. Quite often the
Labor Act, as administered, is more
of an aid to the professional agitator
than it is to the laboring man. It has
served in many cases as vehicle
for subversive elements to stir up dis
putes and unrest. It has proven in
many cases as unfair to those it
was supposed to favor as it has to
the great mass of citizens who are
indirectly affected by it.
This was abundantly proven by the
exposure of the brazen labor election
frauds at one plant in the Middle
West, the output Of which was ex-
tremely vital to the entire national
defense program. Here was strike
forced against the wishes of the ma
jority of the men in the plant, which
closed down operations for more than
two months.
Even if there were no present ma
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-06-13

LrdSlCdIIy CHo Casualty 1lSLS. 61OTS-
over, such delays actually invite ag-
gression, actually make attack upon
our country more probable.
Remember, too, there are hundreds
of thousands of young men in the
military training camps of this coun-
try; men who but few months ago
in the shop and the foundry, in the
counting house and on the farm,
were following the pursuits of peace.
From such work they were taken up
on order of our government; told to
give up their work, to leave their
families and homes regardless of the
sacrifice involved, and train for a
year in military camp at subsistence
and pay beginning at $21 a month.
They were told this was necessary
because great crisis confronted us
that the nations safety was imper-
lied. They were told they must mas
ter the use of new arms and weapons,
in order to defend America, and must
do this quickly, without the slightest
delay.
1 wonder what these drafted men
think Of that now, as they read daily
of the increasing number of strikes
in plants supposed to manufacture the
weapons they await. What must they
think, as month after month passes,
and they still do not receive the
planes, the anti-aircraft guns, the ar
tillery, the machine guns, the tanks,
and the other equipment with which
they must familiarize themselves.
Much of this equipment they might
have had and learned to use by now,
if four million man days had not been
lost through strikes in 1941.
The soldiers, too, have heard that
"Never before since Jamestown and
Plymouth Rock has our American
civilization been in such danger as
now"
What must these soldiers think of
government which takes them from
their homes and work, compels them
to go to camps in order to train
with modern weapons and then sits
idly by while those who have not
been drafted strike and stop the flow
of weapons, without which weapons
the sacrifice of the drafted men
counts for nothing.
Undoubtedly they think exactly
what you and l think about it. I am
advised that it is the foremost topic
of conversation throughout the train
ing camps of the United States.
And who are these drafted men,
these hundreds of thousands of young
Americans who are now wearing the
nations uniform? Are they not the
sons, the brothers, and the husbands
of the great masses of working peo-
pie of this country?
While these strikes continue and
spread, the faith the morale of
soldier and civilian alike sinks lower
and lower.
Morale is a thing of the spirit.
It's very essence is faith. With the
soldier it is the confidence that his
government will support him; that it
will leave nothing undone to see that
he is supplied with everything neces-
sary to make him effective, particu-
larly when the nations safety is in
danger. Without the highest morale,
which stems from a faith in his gov
eminent, the soldiers effectiveness
as a fighting man is seriously i'm
paired.
Consequently strikes are a double
menace. First, they prevent the
fighting forces from receiving the
equipment they must have to defend
themselves and the nation; second, by
so doing, the morale of the fighting
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-06-13

Condensed, evaporated and pow
dered milk may be kept in small
space and if not kept too long be-
fore they are opened, do not require
a refrigerator temperature as does
fresh milk.