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Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
HOW DOES YOUR EFFORT
MEASURE AGAINST?

Have you bought any war bonds late
ly? Have you taken your turn on the
aircraft observation post? How is your
victory garden coming along?
Here's the story of Belgian patriot
who was also fighting this war without
a uniform. How does your contribution
measure up to that of Victor Thonet as
reported by the Chicago Daily News
foreign service?
Victor Thonet was about to die be-
fore a German firing squad. They had
caught him helping the Belgian under
ground movement and now the minutes
were fast ticking away.
Victor Thonet sat down and wrote
his mother a letter that will long be re-
membered for its appeal to mothers the
world over.
LAS reproduced in one of the Belgian
underground. newspapers, it reads
1t is now exactly three days since l
was sentenced to death with three OF my
friends / have still eight hours to live!
l am spending these last moments in the
company of my friend, Raymond Cen
men, with whom | have been fighting and
with whom ] am going to die.
81 fully realize that the most terrible
part of all this is for you who are left
behind. For me, it will only be matter
of few seconds but it will be consola-
ton to me to feel that you are going to
be very brave, as i have had to be my
self. 1t is hard, | know-the loss you
are gong to suffer is a great one-but
it will not be in vain for | shall have the
satisfaction of dying with nothing on my
conscience. / have done my duty to the
end
al should certainly have liked, dear
mother, to spend more lovely years with
you But we can do nothing about that
now. The die is cast. 1t is all over. You
must bear up valiantly and feel proud OF
the manner of my death because it will be
a soldiers death-that of fighter who
has struggled to the end for his ideal
I have never departed from the right
path.
$50, once again, mother, | ask you to
be full of courage. You can tell that
| have kept all my GOODNESS and compos-
ure to the last minute and this must bring
you comfort.
Remember, too. that you are not the
only one afflicted in the same way and
that the sacrifice offered by thousands
of mothers will soon bear abundant
fruit | send you my best love and ask
Won to give my love to those | know"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
NORMANDIE-
A SYMBOL
(Christian Science Monitor)

(ChriStian Science MonltOr)
A generation that lives through a ma
jor war usually discovers it has lived IN
two worlds, in which all is the same, and
all is different So it may be with
ship.
The United States ship Lafayette rose
in peace as the Normandie, graceful,
proud, ample representative OF the bright
republic. 1t fell in war. The careless
fire could scarcely have blazed at more
somber moment for France than Febru-
ary 8, 1912, nor at shipping-starved
cause of the United Nations. France
and America were saddened.
And. now, the great hull rises again.
The reluctant mud of the Hudson has
yielded to the skillful, patient work, and
while she still has a 45-degree list and
$4,000 tons of water in her, she is afloat; ;
she is a ship again. Salvagers say her
hull is as good as it ever was.
Many months of refitting lie ahead. 1t
may be a year before the Lafayette
steams out again, and much can happen
in that year. 1t may be that the ship
will be denied the honor of carrying the
liberators of her homeland.
And in the peace to come she will
surely enter a new world. The hundreds
of planes that seem bound to arc the
Atlantic sea lanes may make five or
six-day ocean crossing seem like a poky
thing. Thus, much will be the same, and
all will be different.
But the ormandie-Lafayette, built in
France and rebuilt in the United States,
has now been endowed with the hopes,
the fears, the pride, the achievement of
both peoples; hence it will sail on, a SYM
boI of unity between the two
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
Workers Postpone
Going Out on Strike

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. 30
(UP)-Employes at two Allies-Chal-
mers war plants reported for work
today after postponing strike ac-
ton voted under terms of the
Smith Connally anti strike act
pending a war labor boafd hearing
of their jUrisdictional dispute Sept.
IL.
The decision to continue working
was made at a mass meeting of
employees yesterday when delega-
ton was named to leave for WASH
ington for the WLB hearing. Ray
Edmundson, president of the Him
ois United Mine Workers of Am
erica, said certification of the dis
pute to the WLB was a victory
for UNIV, district so, which seeks
to become the bargaining agent at
the plants.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
BEFORE THE RAILROAD COM
MISSION OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA
Application No. 25755


In the Matter of the Petition OF
CALIFORNIA ELECTRIC POWER
COMPANY, a corporation, for an
order limiting or defining petition
er's service area pursuant to the
provisions of Chapter $50, Statutes
of l943 of the State of California.
Application No. 25761
In the Matter of the Application
of CALIFORNIA ELECTRIC POW
Err COMPANY for an order author
iZing it to sell certain electric
transmission and distribution lines,
systems, and other electric proper
ties and rights to IMPERIAL IRRI-
CATION DISTRICT and approv-
ing contracts relative thereto.
NOTICE OF HEARING
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that
the Railroad Commission of the
State of California has set a hear
ing in the above entitled mat eel
before Commissioner SachSe for
Thursday, September 2, l943 at lC
am, in the Commission Courtroom
State Building, Los Angeles, Cali
fornia, at which time and place all
interested parties may appear and
be heard.
BY ORDER OF THE RAILROAD
COMMISSION.
Dated at San Francisco, this Gath
day of August, 1943.
II. Ct. MATHEWSON,
Secretary.
Railroad Commission of the
State of California.
(No. OO (A3O)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
Capital Talk

A Milton Junction, Wis, ex-
grocery boy who has never been
abroad has emerged today as one
of the most powerful figures IN
the world to control u. S. interna-
tional big business. He is Leo 1.
Crowley. white thatched, 53-year-
old. five -feet-ten, l9O-Pound bache-
lor. utilities president and political
fixer who has just been made
director of the governments new
DEW. or Office of Economic War
fare. 4
Crowley has been in Canada
but never overseas. Yet today, the
organizations dealing in foreign
business which he controls in
clude an international bank, a
trust holding all alien invest
ments i'm the United States, three
corporations having wartime
monOpOlies for the development
and purchase of raw materials
overseas, the foreign businesses
of three other government cor 4
porations, the control of all U. s..
imports and exports and he heads.
up the cOuntry's biggest bank
insurance busines besides.
His responsibilities run into the
multi billions of dollars, making
the Rockefellers and the Morgans
look like pikers by comparison.
Yet he never ran for political office
and works for thie government
without pay, taking his compensaf
ton from his private business JOB
as president of the Standard Gas
and Electric Co. OF Chicago, from
which he has leave OF absence 10
work for Uncle Sam. =.
Crowley came to Washington III
1884 from the Wisconsin Banking
Review Board to head up the gov
ernment's new Federal Deposit In
surance Corporation, which pro-
tects every bank depositor,s 1uhus
up to $4,000. FDIC is still Crowley S
pride and pet and he won't give up
his lob as its president as long
as he is in government service.
In 1939 when he was offered the
lob as president of Standard Gas
Crowley did send his resignation
in to the President, but 1t wasn't
accepted. Crowley had performed
legion service in swinging Wis
consin and the northwest Progress
ives into line behind the Roosevelt
ticket in return for Democratic
support of the Progressives IN state
and local matters. The resident
didn't want TO let him go
At one time, he is supposed to
have been offered chairmanship OF
the Democratic National Com
mittee. Crowley didn't take it, but
ne became a political adviser and
stayed in washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE
No 1873

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL;
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF SARAH JANE COLE,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that under
and pursuant to the law made and
provided, the undersigned Franklin
j. Cole, Executor, will sell, at pri-
vate sale, to the highest and best
bidder. subject to confirmation OF
said Superior Court on or after
the 18th day of September, 1943, at
the office of Edgar Bros Realty
Co., 6O8 Main St., Ell Centro, County
of Imperial, State of California, all
the right, title and interest OF said
deceased at the time of death and
all the right, title and interest thaC
the estate of said deceased has ac-
ouired by operation of law or other
Ws,e, other than or i'll addition 10
that of said deceased. at the time
of death, in and TO all that certain
real property particularly described
as follows, to-wit:
Lot nineteen 19) in BLOCK SIX
60 of the original townsite OF
Ell Centre, County OF Imperial,
State of California.
Terms of sale Cash in lawful
money of the United States on
confirmation of sale. Ten per cent
of amount bid to be deposited with
bid.
Bids or offers to be in writing
and will be received at the afore-
said office at any time after the
first publication hereof and before
date of sale.
Dated this 18th day of August,
1943.
FRANKLIN j. COLE, Executor
of the last will and testament
of said deceased and attorney
for said Estate.
No. 90 A. 20. Sept. 2 inc
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
CHANCE TO GO TO PRISON
-by-
Peter Edison

CHANCE To GO III ThAoO
Divorcing all these government
from the Reconatruc-
ton Finance Corporation and pass
ing them over to Crowleys new
office of Economic Warfare may
take weeks or months. Crowley
has said that he doesn't want 10
change existing organizations any
more than necessary, but all the
RFC subsidiaries are so lnterrelateo
that prying them loose is comph-
Gated. ..
When the separation is made, II
appears now that Secretary Jones
will have lost only one prize port
folio-that of the Export-lmport
Bank. For the rest, Jones is the
winner and the laugh may be on
Crowley, for all these other foreign
operations involve secret wartime
deals, such as preclusive buying
which cannot escape being the
subject of congressional investiga-
tions when the war is over. -.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO FILE REPORT


ALL HANDLERS MARKETING
WITHIN THE STATE OF CALL
FORNIA GRAPEFRUIT GROWN
IN IMPERIAL COUNTY AND
THAT PART OF RIVERSIDE
COUNTY SOUTH AND EAST
OF SAN GORGONIO PASS IN
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:
Pursuant to the provisions OF
Section 13OO13 I'D of The Cali
fornia Marketing Act of 1897, being
Chapter 10, Division 6 of the Agri-
cultural Code of the State OF Cali
fornia, notice is hereby given to all
handlers marketing within the
State of California during the 1912
1943 marketing season, grapefruit
grown in Imperial County and that
Part of Riverside County south and
east of San Gorgonio Pass in the
State of California to file with the
Director of Agriculture, State Of
flee Building No. l, Sacramento
Q4), California, not later than
Saturday, September II, l943, the
| following information:
(a) Your correct name and ad-
dress.
(b) The number of standard
packed boxes or the net
weight of grapefruit grown in
aforesaid area and handled
by you in markets within the
State of California during
the 1942-l943 marketing sea-
son from the bloom of 1922
including fruit delivered to
by-products plants.
Co The correct name and mail
address of grapefruit pro-
ducerS producing grapefruit
in aforesaid area which you
handled in markets within
the State during the 1912
1943 marketing season (from
the bloom of 1912.
Cd The quantity of grapefruit
| which you handled in mar
kets within the State fol
each of the producers listed
under Co above. If you are
a producer-handler please
list your own fruit and that
of other producers separately
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this
Order is hereby executed and issued
in the City of Sacramento, Cali
fornia, this 23d day of August, 1943
w. j. Cecil,
Director of Agriculture
BY (Signed) LYMAN LANTZ
Assistant Director
(Sealed with the Seal OF the State
Department of Agriculture).
No. A. 26-3l inc
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
SUMMONS


IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL
DEBRAH j. ARNOLD. Plaintiff VS..
EDDIE G. ARNOLD, Defendant.
Edward z. Patterson, Suite Z,
Blenkiron Bldg, Attorney for Plain
tiff, Ell Centro. California.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO EDDIE c.. ARNOLD,
Defendant.
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
TO APPEAR and answer the Com
plaint in an action entitled as
above, brought against you in the
Superior Court OF the County of
Imperial, State Of California,
within ten days after the service
on you of this Summons-if served
within this county; or within thirty
days if served elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, or
she will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this Doth day OF July, l943.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk
County Clerks Seal
BY DOROTHY. S. REYNOLDS,
Deputy Clerk
No. 88 A. 2, 9, 16, %, 80, S. 6, 13
| On 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

No. 3479
ESTATE OF w. E. YOUMAN,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned M. D. Zinn, Public
Administrator as administrator
with Will annexed of the estate OF
w. i. Youman, deceased, to the
creditors of and all persons having
claims against the said deceased,
that within six months after the
first publication. of this notice they
either file them with the necessary
vouchers in the office of the Clerk
of the Superior Court of the State
of California, in and for the Coun-
! ty of Imperial, or exhibit them with
the necessary vouchers to the said
M. D. zinn, as administrator with
Will annexed of said estate, at the
office of D. B. Roberts, 207 Bank
of America Building, Ell Centre,
California, the same being the
place for the transaction of the
business of the said estate in the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia.
Dated at Ell Centre, California,
this 10Th day of August, 1943.
M. d. zINN,
Administrator with Will Annexed
of the Estate of w. E. Youman
Deceased.
No. 81 A. 16, %, 80,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
SUMMONS
annnn

2O63O
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL,
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT, Plaintiff
VS..
RUBY N. QUACKENBUSH, ct al
Defendants.
Harry w. Horton and George II.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO:
RUBY NJ QUACKENBUSH, Sc
CURITY TITLE INSURANCE AND
GUARANTEE COMPANY, Corp
Grafton, as Trustee, LILLEY row
LEY SLUSSER, JOHN DOE, JANE
DOE. RICHARD ROE, JOHN DOE
COMPANY, a Corporation, RICH
ARD ROE COMPANY, a Co-part-
nership, j. DOE as Executor OF the
Estate of r ROE, Deceased, ana ..
DOE as Administrator OF the Estate
of r. ROE, Deceased, Defendants
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
TO APPEAR and answer the Com
nlaint In an action entitled as
above, brought against you in the
superior Court of the County OF
Imperial, State of California, with
in ten days after the service on
YOU of this Summons - If served
within this county; or within thirty
DAYS if served elsewhere.
Ard you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, or
plaintiff will apply to the Court
for any other relief demanded in
the Complaint.
Given under my hand the seal of
the Superior Court of the County
of Imperial, State of California, this
4th day of November, 1912.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk
By DOROTHY S. REYNOLD,
(SeaD Deputy Clerk
No. 80 A. 90, 80, s. @, l3, 20, ~,
o 4, IL. 10, rs
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
WE
the Women
BY RUTH MILLETT

The neighbors don't like Mrs,
Jones chickens. They smell. Never
theless when these people have
dinner guests and there is meat
shortage, they bring ration points
with them, forget their loathing OF
the Jones' chickens and ask to buy
some = at less than the market
price. They find the chickens
smell fine when they are IN the
frying pan.
And now the neighbors who think
chickens should be born and reared
on farms exclusively see by the
papers that eggs are going TO be
scarcer than hens teeth this VIM
ter. Eggs, being a favorite meat
substitute, that news hits them
hard.
It is such a shock to them that
they have quit talking about how
terrible the Jones chickens smell.
Instead they have suddenly become
extremely cordial to Mrs. Jones
Some of them have even been
heard to ask her (When there were
no other neighbors around such
questions as:
Are chickens much troubleP"
How old is a hen before She
starts laying?"
"How many eggs does the aver
age hen lay a week?"
NEIGHBORS DON'T MIND NOW
It may be that the neighbors
have Just come to the conclusion
that one family has as much right
to raise chickens as another has to
have children or a dog. (All are
sometimes a nuisance to the neigh
bors.) 1t may be that their ques-
tions are just an effort to show a
tolerant interest in Mrs. Jones ex-
pertinent.
Or it may be that with the fear
of want staring them in the face
the neighbors are thinking less
and less of their noses and more
and more of their stomachs.
Tt wouldn't surprise Mrs. Jones
at all if the whole neighborhood
took to raising chickens.
It wouldn't surprise her-but II
would certainly give her laugh
Though she has vowed she wont
crow over them if they do.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
A QUIET LIFE, WITH GIN
RJrMMY


He leads a relatively quiet life.
He lives in the Mayflower Hotel
apartments in downtown Washing
ton. gets to work by and usually
quits on time, which is 4:30 or 5.
often he takes some Of his depart
ment heads back to the hotel with
him for supper, then a session
with gin rummy and chewing the
fat over some of their problems.
Crowley also chews cigars-half
a dozen of them a day-but he
seldom lights up because OF a
sinus infection and doctors orders,
which also make him a teetotaler.
Crowley's pals i'm Washington
include, principally, the men he
works with. He prides himself on
being great picker of men. He
has had to discharge only two
i'm the nine years he has been i'm
Washington. Crowley is a great
delegatOr of authority to subOr-
dinates.
He is close to, and liked by the
big delegation of congressman who
live at the Mayflower.
John X. Mckee of the Federal
Reserve Board is o. particular
croney, and SO is Jesse Jones, from
whose RFC, ironically enough,
Crowley is taking over the Export
Import Bank, Rubber Reserve
Corporation, Petroleum Develop
ment Corporation, U. S. CONNER
cial Co. and the froeign programs
in Defense Plant Corporation,
Defense Supplies Corporation and
Metals Reserve Corporation. Crow
ley frequently takes Sunday morn
ing breakfast i'm the Jones apart
ment at the Shoreham, and they
talk things over there.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
Cal COP Groups
Talks Of Candidate

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30
OUP)-Delegates to the far western
conference of the republican post
war policy association, represent
ing IL states with 65 electoral votes,
meet today to discuss plans for
nomination of 1914 presidential
candidate favoring international
cooperation.
Deneen Watson, national presi-
dent of the association, was ex-
pected to urge in kepnote address
that western republicans send to
the national COP convention dele
cations pledged TO nominate a
candidate advocating a liberal in
ternational policy.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
II Norwegians
Killed by Germans

STOCKHOLM, Aug. 30.-UP)-
An official report from Nazi-held
Norway said today that IL Norweg-
ians were executed Aug. 18 at Oslo
for working for the enemy" and
that three more, including two wo-
men, were sentenced to prison for
from eight to Is years.
The sentences we're passed by a
German military court after con-
viction of the IA for hiding anti
Axis agents.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
OUR SACRIFICES SEEM
VERY UNlMpORTANT

Somehow all our petty sacrifices seem
very unimportant as compared to that
made by this young man.
There are thousands of other young
men all over occupied Europe who are
trodding the same path. They are doing
everything in their power to hamper the
Nazis and are thus preparing for the time
when they will be able to throw off the
yoke which binds them and again stare
at the sky, free men.
1t should give us great comfort to
know that there are men like Thonet
fighting this battle with us. 1t should
give US great sorrow to know that
thousands more like him have had to pay
with their lives for continuing the battle
and that many more will die before the
forces of liberation topple the warlords
from mower
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

We must be wary that the tide of war
does not ebb again, but instead swamps
the Axis powers and carries our ships
and men to the gates of Yokohama and
into the harbor of Hamburg
of the Navy Knox.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The foilOwing edit
Oriais are presented as interesting oPin-
ions UOiced by editors eisetohere. 1hey
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30

We've got one less target to bomb now.
They can cross that factory off the list
1t just isn't there any more.-American
bombardier, after raid on LIE Mans, Oc-
cupied France.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-30
5. Burton
Heath
Writes::

The Office OF Price AdmlnlStra-
ton is in a very unenviable posi-
ton. 1t was established to perform
certain duties which inevitably
irritate, in one way or another, al
most every man, woman and child
in the country
We do not feel that the OPA has
functioned satisfactorily. We have
criticized it frequently and often
bitterly, for various mlsfeaSances
and nonfeasances. There is no rea-
son to doubt that we shall do SO
again.
But with all it's faults the OPA
has justified it's existence. 1t
never had a chance to stop infla-
ton all by itself. 1t could do no
more than sit on the safety valve
while. inside the boiler, dis
astrous over pressure was being
built up as other agencies per-
mitted incomes to skyrocket against
an undersupply of purchasaple
commodities.
In spite of which, initiation in the
prices of controlled commodities
has been small compared with that
in the prices of uncontrolled goods.
That is why ones blood boils at
such double talk as appears in a
recent retail grocers' magazine
which pays superficial tribute tc
the necessity of having a price con-
troll agency and then goes on to
denounce price control as uncon-
stitutional and un-American and tC
urge that retail grocers defy the
OPA flatly.
This is strange talk from a group
which, according to Department o.
Commerce figures, up to the enc
of April had been making TIT
greatest profits in its history. Tha
date is mentioned not because re-
tail grocers stopped making recort
profits then, but merely because de
tailed statistical records for thu
intervening period are not at hand
The OPA has not really succeed
ed but who is to damn the agenc.
for that? Do you remember TN
historic press conference OF tn
Food Committee for War--the on
to which newspapermen were In
vited to hear the businessmen an
nounce specific program 10
curing our food troubles? All tn
big shots were repreSented-manu
facturers, wholesalers, retailers
packers, farmers, the farmers
union. They were going to show u
those college professors of the OPP
What happened? Oh, yes. The
apologized to the reporters 10
troubling them. 1t seems that tn
business men hadn't been able t
evolve the specific program the
promised, so they couldn't an
nounce it,
Anybody is entitled to curse an
governmental agency for actua
failures, but let's be fair.