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Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06
THERE'S A PRECEDENT

Martinique, French possession in the
Caribbean, will remain a thorn in Uncle
Sans side as long as there remains the
danger that Berlin will force Vichy to
permit use of Martinique against the
democracies. In this respect it is little
mentioned fact that warplanes which
had been shipped to France from the
United States before the French collapse
remain on Martinique-and they would
possibly be used against the democracies
from the base they already occupy.
Why not, then take advantage of the
precedent established by President John
Adams in 1919 when he advised the king
of Spain that unless a debt We're paid
Uncle Sam would seize Spanish territory
After all, France owes US n debt from
World War No. /.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06
IT NEED NOT HAPPEN

wall Street JournaD
In the last few days a number of peo-
pie have been making for the public
prints number of statements that this or
that development is inevitable.
Thus we read that our entrance into the
war is inevitable" The extension of Gov
ernment control over business also is
INEVITABLE; so is an economic crash af-
ter the defense spending; so is initiation.
Of course none Of these things is newt
able. They may happen but they need
happen only if the country is stupid en-
ough to let them happen
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 32O5
Notice of Time and Place Appointed
for Proving viii and Hearing
Application for Letters Testa-
mentary.
In the Matter of the Estate OF
CHARLES AUGUSTINE DOOLEY,
also known as CHARLES A. DOO-
LEY, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that
petition for probate of the will OF
Charles Augustine Dooley, also
known as Charles A. Dooley, de-
ceased and for the issuance to
Cecilia T. Monahan of letters Tes-
tamentary, has been filed in this
court, and that Friday the 9th day
of May, 1941, at 200 o'clock pm,
of said day, at the courtroom, Dept.
2 of said court, at the Court House
in the City of Ell Centre, County of
Imperial, State of California, has
been set for the hearing of said
petition, when and where any per-
son interested may appear and con-
test the same, and show cause, il
any they have, why said petition
should not be granted.
Dated April %, 194l.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY Maxine Console,
Deputy Clerk.
CA 30 to May incl)
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06
EDITORS NOTE: The following
editorials are presented as interesting
opinions UOiced by editors eIseUhere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
FOR MORALITY
AND SECURITY
louisville Courier-J JournaD

President Roosevelt said that both mo-
rality and national security compel us
to resist peace dictated by the dictators.
We must resist on moral grounds be-
cause the war is revolution against
civilization. We must resist on grounds
of security because the war is also an
attempt to win for the Axis Powers the
control of the Atlantic ocean. Once the
Atlantic is in the hands of hostile peoples
American security is ended :. :.
If America permits the defeat of Brit
ain we shall find ourselves toward the
end of 1912 in naval danger zone from
which our enemies may never permit us
to emerge. AT that time, with all our
new construction, we shall have 1S ships
of the line. The Japanese will have Is,
and the Germans nine Also, if Britain
is gone our enemies can outbuild us :.
They will have the shipyards and the
abundant slave labor.
If we believe in civilization, we can
not passively watch the Nazis plunge
the world back into slavery and night.
If We believe in protecting our way of
life here at home, we cannot passiyely
watch the Nazis and their allies gain
control of our essential oceans.
Morality and security: if we believe in
either, we must beat Hitler. How long
are we willing to leave our fate in the
hands of other men?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06

The United States has every right
to glory in its strength, and to face
with a serene pride and confidence
whatever the future may bring. No
Deliah has yet shorn the locks OF
the American Samson; none is likely
to do so. Yet he is having an oc-
caSional hair plucked out of his
head from time to time by certain
people who go about wringing their
hands and lamenting that 1--WE
haven't got this, or We haven't got
that" or I'VE can't do this and we
can't do that
The American people and the
United States government are not
old and decrepit. We are strong,
vital, at the height of our powers.
Why this -wringing?
This country since last June, has
produced more goods and services
than it, or any other nation, ever
did in a like number of months
That statement is from Leon
Henderson, government economist
and price controller, and he ought
to know. It is not the kind of
record that justifies pessimism or
hand wringing More goods and ser
vices than we produced in 1929!
More goods and services than any
other nation ever produced! Should
such a nation tremble and crouch,
and fear the future?
There was a generation of Amer
leans, a few years back, who may
have made a nuisance of them
selves by swarming over Europe
and Dragging that whatever they
saw was pint-size compared with
what they had at home.
Socially, this manner may have
left something to be desired, but
behind it was a rugged confidence
and a restless vitality. That gener-
alton did not fear the future-it
rushed out to meet it and to mold
it the way it wanted to be.
Dragging is a bad thing We are
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06
by Peter Edson...
The Inside Track in Washington

and sworn to.
The papers then go TO Washlng-
ton. D'Oakes keeps one copy, but
it's probably just as well not to
know what happens to the other
four or five Anyway, whenever
whoever is going TO do anything
about them has done it, and II
it is decided that the D'Oakes
Gadget Company, Inc. is most
certainly entitled to one new or
secondhand turret lathe, then the
Division of Priorities fills out form
PD-2 which tells the Gimmick Ma
chine Tool Company to go ahead
and make delivery to the D'Oakes
Gadget Company, Inc.
It isn't all as complicated as this
sounds. once a business man has
gone through this rigmarole, its
easier the second time, but it is il
Illustrative of the Importance of pri-
critics, and why it is necessary to
check up on every order OF every
item.
There is before Congress now a
new bill to give the Division OF
Priorities more authority to compel
the production of war materials,
instead of merely controlling the
distribution of them, which is all
the present law allows. Most i'm
portant of all, it will entitle the
President to obtain full information
on inventories, inspect plants and
in general prevent leakages of ma
terials from defense to monde
fense production.
In its most recent maneuver on
the priorities front, the government
has applied rigid inventory con-
trolls to 16 metals.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06
INDEPENDENT
IMPARTIAL
and
INDIVIDUAL
MUST WE BE ALWAYS
ON THE DEFENSIVE?

A nation in wartime is like person
in peaeetime; 1T never gets very tar II IL
remains forever on the defensive.
That has been the trouble with the
democracies thus far in World War No.
2. They've waited for the enemy to make
the first move, and after the first move
was made they've waited for the enemy
to choose his own battle-ground, to name
his own weapons, to decide the moment
of attack-in fact, to have things just
the way he wants them.
In the field of armed conflict, there has
often been a reason for this mp to now.
The reason, of course, is lack of prepared
ness by the democracies. They have been
unable to seize the offensive because they
have not had the tools to seize it with.
In another field, however. there seems
to be no such reason for delaying strong
offensive. 1t is the field of propaganda.
Up o now, the Axis powers have had
all their own wsy in the matter of pro-
paganda. This has been true because
the democracies have made no intelligent
effort to turn the weapon of propaganda
against the dictators.
Consider for minute what propagan-
da has done in this country.
1t has established the belief in the
minds of six out of ten Americans that
the Nazi military machine is something
supernatural-somet that could not
be stopped no matter what force was
used against it. (And this in spite OF
the fact that the German machine has
never yet been tested against a force
of equal size and strength)
1t has raised defeatism to high level
among many Americans, causing them
to groan that Germany can never be
defeated.
1t has convinced many Americans that
German victory in Europe will not
affect this country one whit.
1t has, by another method. encouraged
strikes and reduced industrial prOduc-
ton by setting one class against an
other.
What if our own propaganda system
were organized for vast offensive bat
tie, to carry the war into Germany?
Considering what Germany has done
here, it should not be impossible to in
still in the minds of a large part of the
German opulation-through propagan-
da-these thoughts:
That Germany cannot win against the
combined industrial resources of the
great democracies.
That England is growing stronger
every minute, instead of weaker, and
will some day exact terrible price for
her suffering.
That the German army has been over
rated, as is proved by its failure to live
up to Hitlers promises of invasion of
England last year and, more lately, of
final victory for Germany this year-a
promise he has already abandoned
We've got the facts for a strong propa-
ganda offensive of our own. Why re-
main on the defensive?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06

Lucie Neville is pinch hitting for
Paul Harrison, now touring army
camps and defense industries.
BY LUCIE NEVILLE
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, May - That's
q nice thing some movie young
sters ar planning for the spring
formal of Southwestern University
which hasn't much money to friVol
away on collegiate fun. Most OF
the $50 students earn their own
>lition by filing, tutoring, janitor-
ing and such, and the girls don't
have piles of evening gowns or the
boys snappy cars,
This year they determined to
have bang-up party like other
schools, but all the traffic would
stand was $l.25 a couple in COM
pariSon to UCLA and uses S. and
$40 tickets, SO after a hotel ball
room and an orchestra were hired
there wasn't anything left for en-
tertainnent and decorations.
One student, who had transfer
red there from snappier school,
was dismayed at what seemed
stark poverty to her, and mention
ed it to Day at Paramount. Word
got around to some of the younger
players, who immediate asked if the
university would let them be the
floor show.
So Martha O'Driscoll, June Preis-
sen, Jimmy Lydon, Leonard Suess
and some Others are cooking up
u program that will have other To-
cal school green with envy. There's
no Lady Bountiful air about il,
either because the movie young
sters think it's wonderful to go to
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06
by Willis Thornton =.
No Time for Hand wringers

in no mood to brag today. But we
need a little of that spirit. There
is no time now to waste on wiring
ers of hands, no time for those who
would cover in Il corner and hope
to save what they can of the past
for the future.
Strong. indomitable, determined,
the American people must look the
future in the face today and, feel
ing strength in every ripping mus
Gle and hope in every surging
thought, go forward to whatever
destiny a new world holds for them.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06

Early America bison tongues
sold for so cents on the market.
According to experiments, the
temperature of the lighted end of
a cigaret is 1875 degrees Fahren-
heit when it is puffed.
In New York state, accidental
deaths in homes totaled 5000 IN
i939, as compared to 2400 high
way deaths.
The United States does an an
nual business of $1,000 100000 in
the production of chickens and
eggs.
Drowning is the third greatest
cause of accidental death in the
United States, according to RED
Cross records.
The United States, with only 7
per cent of the worlds population,
consumes Sc per cent of the world s
rubber production.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06

CCllege--they never Ilda tIle eii"ii.''
COSTLY
CARNATIONS
They say the flowers for Deanha
Durbins wedding cost $1,000, anu
that was $400 under the loves
bid offered by a florist. He was
willing to come down on his original
price and take the loss because
it was worth it in prestige TO
handle such an affair. They're say
ing. too, that the studio boys hello
a heated two-hour conference be-
fore the wedding deciding wheth-
er they'd wear tails or dinner
Jackets
Red Shelton says his mother still
doesn't believe he's going to be
success in Hollywood Last time she
wrote, she warned him not to buy
anything he couldn't bring home
with him in an upper berth. A
friend of Actor George Arllss got
this panic-stricken report from
him in a recent note: I've had TO
leave London because Of the rae
ket."
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06
Barbs

Midwest officials seized ship
ment of bootleg liquor labeled
Fish. Maybe that was who it was
billed to.
Lots of peoples incomes are what
they can't live without or within.
ing will be about the same as last
Fashion says mems summer cloth
years Except for cleaning and
pressing.
Some drivers who guess they can
make it never have another guess
coming.
To some people daylight saving
time merely means another hour
they can waste.
One of the worst things about
summer dog days are the cat nights.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06
Did You Know?

Contrary to common belief, the
United States flag has no particu-
lar star representing each state.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06
Famous Sayings

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray
for powers equal to your tasks-Phillps Brooks
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06
by Paul Harrison -.
HOLLYWOOD S Fads, Fancies and Foibles
COSTLY
CARNATIONS

college-they never had the chance
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06

MEMBER
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fornia Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06

Early America bison tongues
sold for so cents on the market.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06

Lucie Neville is pinch hitting for
Paul Harrison, now touring army
camps and defense industries.
BY LUCIE NEVILLE
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-06

1t you drove your Studebaker
Champion from San Francisco to
New York in Economatic Over
drive, it would be equivalent to
having your engine work" only
as far as Chicago-and then "ioaf'
the rest of the way.
Evening star., 1941-11-26
Residential Social News
Mr.. and Mrs. Jouett Shouse
Entertain for Swedish Actress

Mr.. and Mrs. Jouett Shouse enter
tanned at cocktails yesterday after
noon in honor Of the Swedish actress,
Signe Hasso The party was held in
the Mayflower apartment which Mr..
and Mrs. Shouse. with the latter's
daughter, Miss Joan Dodd, have
taken for the remainder Of the
winter.
Mrs. Dorothy Lee Ward was din
ner hostess last evening to honor
her house guest, Mrs. Peyton Van
Rensselaer, of New York. The din
ner Vas held at Mrs. Wards home
on Massachusetts avenue. and later
the hostess showed pictures OF
French Indo-China, Siam, Bali,
Dutch East Indies, Arabia and the
Holy Land.
Mrs. Ward will entertain from
$50 to 8 o'clock today to honor
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, and her niece,
Mrs. John Boyd Stanley.
Guests at Mrs. Wards party last
evening included the Chilean Am
bassador and Sonora de Michels,
Senator Theodore F. Green. Senator
George L. Radcliffe, Gen. and Mrs,
Albert L. Cox, Mr.. George Waller
Mrs. Wallach Merriam, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Boyd Stanley. Mr., and
Mrs. Julian Chetwynd, Baron Gabor
Evening star., 1941-11-26
By the Way
Beth Blaine

Things like Washington this winter the school
thought regarding social get yourself all tied up
and the fun arranged at the last moment 5000 be very
careful how fill bookand if you're giving
yourself that probably
the attractive the last the
towns most glamorous bellies.
which is always
Hofmanns small uncheons dinners the
flowers the fire
that never seems to out the coy little Georgetown setup
this village. with knowing
like neghbor small American
Even x-hubandS apt 10 get confused IN
other night
with whom he
habit thinking the gentleman
which how
really recently divorced gentleman had asked
night
he called finally in desperation he turned to the married
mind getting Mary sha call
her, that she did like to play bridge
Well to on Mrs. Northam
house with fireplace in practically every
room . Vandenberg has come back TO
Hotel for
Vintershes such really grand person knowing that you can
find Du Bosses of afternoon since they don't
cocktail parties the news that the Robert
will be here December and not November Is as originally
months leave they
be here for Christmas.
oveght William Thomas the little
puppy Martins has just acquired and which
ours!
duck)-whic all the bachelor
dinner and such wonderful excuse to give
will
a small Club.
really old house in Alexandra that Gen and
purchased
before Friday
Supper the little hat that Mrs John Auch-
strips
for the recently married Ralph snowden H-Vhch
on and on.
Evening star., 1941-11-26

Besseney Of New York. Mrs. Nc
Ceney Werlich and Mr.. Robert
Hinckley.
Mrs. Walter D. Denegre was an
other of last evenings dinner hos
tesses. her party honoring the
Governor Of New Jersey and Mrs.
Charles Edison. Her other guests
included Senator and Mrs. Millard
E. Tydings. the Assistant Secretary
of State and Mrs. Dean Acheson,
Mr.. George T. Summerlin. Brig.
Gen. and Mrs. Sherman Miles. Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert Feis. Col. Sir
Vivien Gabriel, Capt and Mrs. w.
G. Coventry and Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
lace Murray. Others present in
cluded Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H.
Duell, Mr.. and Mrs. G. D. Reidel,
Miss Mabel Boardman, Miss Nataha
Askzenasy, Miss Vera Bloom, the
First Secretary of the Egyptian
Legation and Nine. Toulba. Repre-
sentative James NJ. Barnes, Mr.. and
Mrs. Kemper Simpson, Miss Mar
garet Fraser, Mrs A Mitchell
Palmer, Mrs. George Holmes. Miss
Meredith Howard, Mrs. William
Boyer. Mrs Randall Hagner, the
Rev. DR.. Joseph C. Code, Mr.. Lyle
Kennedy and Mr.. George Vournas
Evening star., 1941-11-26

You're Ispifsd to
Evening star., 1941-11-26
Mrs. Compton
Gives Luncheon for
Mrs. Richards

Mrs. Henry A. Wallace and
Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone were
among the guests at a luncheon
given yesterday by Mrs. Wilson
Compton in honor of Mrs. Ath-
erton Richards of Honolulu.
Mrs. Richards recently came to
Washington with Mr.. Richards,
who is assistant to Col. William
Donovan. Mr.. and Mrs. Richards
have visiting them the formers
sister, Mrs. Frank Midkiff, also
of Honolulu, who was among the
luncheon guests.
Also in the company We're Mrs.
Edwin B. Parker, Miss Elsa Pc
terson. Mrs. John Hay O'Con-
nor, Mrs. William Mcclellan Rit-
ter, Mrs. John o. Herrick.. Mrs.
Turner McBane. Mrs. L. Corrin
Strong, Mrs. Paul Shorb and Mrs.
Harry Blee.
Evening star., 1941-11-26
!. A. Eckerts
Mark 5Oth
WeddingDate
More Than 200
Received at Home
On Newark Street

One of the loveliest golden we'd
ding anniversary parties ever held
in the Capital took place yesterday
afternoon when Mr.. and Mrs. John
Augustus Eckert received more than
200 of their friends in their home
on Newark street.
Assisting the hostess. who wore a
plum color gown of brocaded velvet
with gold accessories. were her two
daughters, Miss Esther Eckert and
Miss Catherine Eckert Miss Esther
Eckert chose a lovely soft shade Of
green for her gown, and her sister
was in olive green. Both wore gold
accessories.
Mr. and Mrs. Eckert were mar
ried in Buffalo. N. Y. November
25. 1891. For the last 81 years they
have lived in the home they now
occupy on Newark street. Mrs.
Eckert is the former Miss Catherine
E. Heitzhaus of Buffalo. She and
her husband have four sons, two
daughters and seven grandsons and
one granddaughter. Their Oldest
son, 1t. Col. John Prosper Eckert,
was unable to attend as he is on
duty at Fort Sill Okla, but all the
other children were present. They
were 1t. Col. Norman j. Eckert. Mr..
Arthur Eckert. Mr.. Milton Eckert
and the Misses Eckert. The only
grandchild who was unable to be
present was a son of 1t Col. John
P. Eckert, who is cadet at West
Point.
The rooms were filled with baskets
of golden chrysanthemums for yes
terday's celebration. many Of them
sent by friends of the couple. Nu-
merous gifts also were sent in honor
of the occasion. The centerpiece of
the beautifully ornamented tea
table was a huge wedding cake and
the golden flowers also were used in
the dining room.
Evening star., 1941-11-26
Leighton McCarthys Plan
Farewell Tea Dec. ; for
Air Attache and Mrs. KENNY
Legation Official and His Wife
Going South; Maj. Larrabee
Arrives in South Africa

Leighton Mccarthy
to December Of
O
shortly
Minister and Mrs Mccarthy at the
Commodore George Walsh and
Washington in for the
Ga
President unable
at
his place
Mr. John Mccarthy of Toronto,
Washington
definite
ant Military Aache
Kenny the first Air Attache
arrival of H. F. G. Letson,
Evening star., 1941-11-26

chief of the Division Of Near
Eastern Affairs and Mrs. Wal
lace Murray. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles H. Duell. Mr.. and Mrs.
G.. D. Riedel, Miss Mabel Board
man, Mile. Natalie Askenazy. At
tache of the Polish Embassy;
Miss Vera Bloom and the First
Secretary of the Egyptian Lega-
ton, NJ. Ali Foad Toulba.
Evening star., 1941-11-26

the Dominion s armtQ forces 10 De
attached to the Legation. The work
of establishing the two offices was
too much for his health, causing
nervous breakdown in the late spring
OF this year.
The Kennys will be greatly missed
in Washington, but they promise
not to 60 too far away from WASH
ington and probably will be back
for visits from time to time. They
both have made a wide circle OF
friends. not only in the diplomatic
corps. but in official and residential
groups Mrs. Kenny is the daughter
Of the Right Hon. Arthur l.. Sltton,
former Secretary of State for the
Dominion and one Of the slgners OF
the peace treaty at Versailles. He
was III Washington some years ago
on a special mission. but his daugh-
ter did not accompany him. Mrs.
Kenny's grandfather and uncle were
editors of the Winnipeg Free Press,
one of the old dailies of the Do
minion.
Maj. Sterling Larrabee
Arrives in South Africa.
OF much interest to society here
Is the word that Maj. Sterling l..
Larrabee, U. S. A., has arrived at
his new post as Assistant Military
Attache of the United States Lega-
ton in Pretoria, the administrative
capital of the Union Of South Africa.
Mai. Larrabee was assigned to South
Africa and sailed early in September,
Mrs. Larrabee remaining at Oak
wood, their home, near Warren
ton, Va.
Mrs. Courtney Roberts, widow of
Capt. John Roberts. U. S. A., one Of
the ace pilots of the first World
War. who spent last week in Wash
ington, was the guest of Mrs. Lar
rabee at OakWood Saturday and
spent Sunday with Maj. Larrabee S
mother, Mrs. Charles F. Larrabee,
in her home on TWenty-frst street
Mrs. Roberts before her marriage
was Miss Courtney Gladys Brown,
daughter of the late Austin P.
Brown Of Washington. She spent
much of her girlhood here. The late
Mr.. Brown built the stone house at
New Hampshire avenue and Seventh
street NV, which is known as the
Castle and for many years has at
tracted scores who went to admire
the wistaria when in bloom. Mr..
Brown was the founder of the sub
urb of Petworth, one of the older
such subdivisions about the Capital,
and probably the only one laid out
after the pattern of Washington.
The Castle is still standing and its
wistaria blooms luxuriantly each
spring. Mrs. Roberts left Wash
ington Monday by motor for her
home in Clearwater Beach, Fla.
Evening star., 1941-11-26
Arts Club Lecture

American Music $50 Years Ago.
will be the subject of q lecture by
William Treat Upton at the Arts
Club at $50 pm. tomorrow. Mr.
Upton was professor of piano al
Oberlin Conservatory for many
wears
Evening star., 1941-11-26

telligence and Mrs Sherman
Miles. the adviser on interna-
tional affairs to the State De-
partment and Mrs. Herbert Fels,
Col. Sir Vivien Gabriel, Capt.
and Mrs. w. G. Coventry, the