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Laurel outlook., 1944-08-02
HELP SAVE A LIFE

The circus fire tragedy at Hartford, Conn, is unusual in
only one respect-it caused the death of an unusual number
Of people in one fire. And yet death was no more definite
for each of those victims than it is for the individual who
perishes in a farmhouse, or for one or two or three children
who meet death in home fires almost every day.
Because some $50 people meet death from a single fire In
Hartford, the tragedy is given page headlines across the nation.
But when 10000 people burn up annually by ones and twos,
you never see the fact bazOned to the world in large type.
Circus or night club tragedies, and most other fires, could
be prevented if each individual appointed himself a committee
of one to see that every time he lit a match, smoked a Gig
arctic or had anything to do with any appliance that caused
heat, it was out or properly safeguarded, when he left it.
Our 1O,0OO-a-year fire death toll could be largely eiminat-
ed if we would all learn a lesson from the Hartford disaster
and be individually careful.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-02
Valued Demulcent

Licorice is a valued demulcent in
the treatment of coughs due to
colds, and is used also in a number
of preparations, such as Cascara, to
cover up bitterness. 1t is able to
do this so effectually because of
its remarkable sweet constituent,
glycyrrhizin, whose sweetness is be-
lieved to be exceeded by no other
chemical except saccharin and is
about so times as sweet as cane
sugar. It's sweetness is still detect
able when it is dissolved in 10000
times its weight of water.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-02

Mrs. William Grager of Leal, N
D., and Mrs. Eric Grosskruetz Of
Kensel, N. D., were recent guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Koppel.
man. Mrs. Grager is Mr.. Koppel.
mans sister.
Staff Sgt. Lawrence Branstettel
arrived from Kingman, Ariz., tc
spend a furlough with his wife and
son Mark. He is serving with the
air corps and is being transferred
to Lincoln, Neb., where he will re-
port for duty Aug. 10.
Staff Sgt. M. R. Finley of Yu-
kon Territory will leave Thursday
to return to duty after spending
a furlough of two weeks here with
Mrs. Finley, the former Betty
and their son Bobby.
E. l.. Hartley, who spent the last
month as guest of his brother and
sister-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. j.. A.
Hartley, returned this week to
Tyler, Tex, where he has an opti-
cal business. During his stay he
spent several days in company with
Mr. and Mrs. Hartley, Mrs. T. j.
Hartley and daughter Sharon at the
H. Barney cabin above Red
The group also made a
rip over the highway to Cooke
City.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-02

Sgt. Paul Wilson was a guest
Sunday of Mrs. C. E. Gunter and
family. Sergeant Wilson is sta
toned at Turner Field, Albany, Ga.
Billielou Braswell will have as
her guest during the week, Joyce
Danielson of Hardin. Billielou will
return with her to Hardin and
spend a week at the Danielson
home.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-02
FOR SALE

The Fromberg Pressed Brick & Tile
Company still have for sale ten
acres of land on which the plant
operated with a four-room brick
house and other buildings, also one
electric motor, $50 h. p. together
with an assortment of betting in
good condition.
If you are interested in any
of the above, see
l.. A. NUTTING, at Laurel
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-02
Sand Box Tree

The sand box tree of tropical
Af,erica produces a large seed
which resembles a small pumpkin.
Upon maturity, this seed pod flies
apart, or explodes, with great
violeSce, scattering its fragments IN
every direction, with a sound like
frecrackers.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
Gl3;!5GR!IIIEz
no you have poor digestion?
Do you feel hsadachy after eating!
Do you get sour or upset easily!
Do you feel tirsd-IistIess!

Now everyone knows that to get the good
out OF the food you eat-you must digest
1t properly. But what most people don't
know is that Nature must produce about
two pints Of the digestive juice-liver
bile-each day to help digest your food.
II Nature fails-your food may remain
undigested-lie sour and heavy in your
digestive tract.
Thus, it is simple to see that one way
to aid digestion is to increase the flow of
liver bile. Now, Carter's Little Liver
Pills start to increase this flow quickly
for thousands-often in as little as thirty
minutes. When bile flow increases, your
digestion may improve. And, soon you're
on the road to feeling better-which is
what you're after.
Don't depend on artificial aids to coun-
teract indigestion-when Carter's aid
digestion after Natures own order. when
taken as directed. Get Carter's Little
Liver Pulls today-at any drugstore
only 25t. You will be glad you did.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09

had an issue which required mass
education to avoid ponic. this Is 1t.
No Unemployment Problem NON
Right now, the manpower recon-
version problem provides no great
difficulty There is still short
age of workers in nearly every in
dustry. Overall employment is
still climbing. An optimistic view
is that it will reach peak about
midsummer, then carry along at
an even level till the end of the
wal. Then watch for the drop.
1t can be nose Give and crash, Or
a parachute descer.' with happy
landing
Such Spotty unempiC yment as
now develops from cutbacks is
causing no great maladjustment
Working wives who took war jobs
out of patriotism are going back
to their families, old men back to
their rocking chairs, youngsters
back to their schools-and liking
it, There are other jobs for most
of them who want them and need
them. The obvious need is to
plan and manage the job shifts SO
there will be a minimum of unem-
ployment. That requires a tremen-
dous amount of Intricate doing.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
British Officer
Sees Italy
Drive Backfire

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. up
Operations on the allied beachhead
below Rome are not going accord
ing to the book a high British
military authority conceded in an
interview.
But the British officer, who works
closely with the combined Anglo
American chiefs of staff, cautioned
against criticizing the Nettuno in
vasion. He predicted that day or
two of good weather might change
the entire picture.
1T would be unduly pessimistic
to reach the conclusion that we
will De thrown back into the sea,
he said. IF the invasion is not
complete success at present, I think
such pessimistic statements are not
justified at the present time. I don :
think it will be done. But the inVa-
sion operation has not gone &C
cording to the book.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
M. 3S32
NO. jCJj
ESTATE OF NOR,DERTO

ESTATE OF NOR3ERTO N
NILMEDA, DECEASED. ,.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, NJ. d. Zinn, Public
Administrator, as administrator of
the estate of NORBERTO N. NIL
MEDA also known as Norberto N.
Nclmida, 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
Of said estate. at the office of D.
B. Roberts, 207 Bank of America
Bldg, Ell Centre. California. the
same being the place for the tran
saction of the business of the said
estate in the County of Imperial,
State of California.
Dated at Ell Centre, California.
his "a day of January, 1914.
M. D. ZINN,
Administrator of the Estate of
NORBERTO N. NILMEDA,
also known as NORBERTO
N. MELINDA.
mo. 4D (J26, F2-9-1Sj
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
PRIMITIVE AREAS
(San Bernardino SUM

Controversy is developing as to Wheth
er the primitive areas of Mt. San Cor
gonio and Mt. San Jacinto, both within
the San Bernardino National forest,
should be transferred to the federal park
service as national monuments.
It might be the time will come-as
additional millions of people establish
homes in Southern California and de-
mand additional Fairgrounds = that 1t
would be extremely advisable to open the
great ski country of Mt. San Gorgonlo.
In various national monuments 1t Is
the practice to charge an admission fee.
The forestry service has no such pollcy'
Whether an admission fee would be
charged to either the Mt. San Gorgonio
or Mt. San Jacinto primitive areas. II
they became national monuments, we
have no conclusive information. 1t can
be said, however, that is the policy at
some national monuments.
At the base of the Mt. San Gorgonio
primitive area are extensive boy and
girl camps visited each summer by more
than $4,000 children. Under the for
estry service policy these boys and girls
can enter the primitive area without
charge. 1t would be serious error to run
the risk that at some future time the
national park service could lnaugurate
an entry fee policy.
Let's leave we'll enough alone, and keep
the two primitive areas under the juris-
dicton and administration of the for
estry service The only possible ad-
vantage of the shift would be that the
park service would acquire the little re-
naming acreage in the San Gorgonlo
primitive area now in private ownership.
But the forestry service has the power
to do that and probably will take the
necessary steps to establish complete
,rovorppanta1 control
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
Official Clears
Maratime Unit

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 up -
The maritime commission was
cleared of charges by Comptroller
General Lindsay S. Warren that it
had overpaid the Waterman Steam
ship Co.. Mobile, Ala. by S1,995602
for five vessels purchased in 1941.
Warren said in a 1912 report to
congress that instead Of buying
the five ships for S3,374, TOO, the
commission could have exercised
it's option to purchase five newer
1nes. These, he said, were part of
the cCmmissiCn's laid-up fleet and
could have been bought for $596,0O0
plus the value of Improvements
and minus reasonable depreciation.
An exchange of letters between
Maritime Commission Chairman
Emory S. Land and Warren, pub
lished in the Congressional Record
by Rep. Frank w. Boykin, revealed
that the commission had now ac-
uuired all 10 vessels involved.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
ApRICELESS HERITAGE
Riverside Daily Pressl

Saving the California redWoods is
theme that will never fail of timeliness.
They are the last survivors of giant for
eSts which scientists say once covered
much of the continent Some now stand
ing were old when Columbus discovered
America. Some had started up when
Jesus walked the earth of an older and
less lovely land.
Trees like that do not grow in gener-
alton. New ones planted now will come
into maturity only hundreds OF years
from now. They may never be so great
nor so majestic as those OF today, be-
cause soil and climatic conditions are dill
ferent-not mention human conditions.
When trees are regarded not as re-
sources to be used once and only once,
but as crops, with only the ripe ones
taken each year, together with such thin
ming of saplings as is necessary to give
room for development, numbering opera
tions are not destructive. Forests go on
from generation to generation under
such intelligent care.
But redwoods are different - thirty
years is nothing in the life of one. Once
cut, the redwood tree is gone. 1t has no
successor in the lifetime of those now
living For this reason the efforts OF
the Save-the-Redwoods League, whose
Headquarters are at the University OF
California at Berkeley, are well worthy
of support 1t is trying to raise $4,000,
and the state will match this amount. The
redwoods are among the greatest beau
ties and glories of the American heritage.
We should settle Industrial problems
by conference or arbitral action, and the
industrial civil war should be brought
to an end before it destroys industrial
civil liberty and turns over to state social
ism.-Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent Columbia University.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09

Democratic machine, is out for a
fourth term.
Vice Chairman Oscar r. E"...5
of the Democratic. national COM
mittee told Portland, Ore, question
ers this week that Mr.. ROosevelt's S
reelection to a fourth term had
been assured within the past six
weeks by popular realization that
the war would last for long time.
Vice President Henry A. Wal
lace held a San Francisco press con-
ference this week and said: Il sus-
pect President Roosevelt will run
for a fourth term. AS for mel
am in the lap of the Gods"
Washington gave Wallace top
marks fer accuracy on both state
mentS.
Speculation about a southern
Democratic bolt probably will sub
side on election day into the sands
upon which its foundations rested
in the first place. The facts are
that the Democratic organization
with a few notable exceptions is
campaigning full tilt to bring Mr..
ROoSeveltS denomination about.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
WHAT PRICE GOOD
NEiGHBOR POLICY?

Imperial Valley vitality is concerned IN
the pending treaty now before the Unit
ed States senate on allocating more OF
the Colorado river water to Mexico A
Hull good-neighbor pact, it has direct
bearing on the future of the valley. mat
means the future of the present resi-
dei.-s and landowners as we'll as coming
generations vitality are concerned.
Far reaching protests are reachlng
the president and members OF the senate.
A senate committee studying the treaty
are hearing direct protests.
Imperial Valley is represented IN op-
posing the pact and will continue to be
heard from While other sections OF the
area fed by the Colorado would be in
iured directly in any loss of water, none
perhaps as much as this valley.
But the matter goes much further
than the economic side.
What price shall be placed on friend
ship of Mexico, or any other country, tor
that matter? Where will this bidding
for friendship end?
Is the good neighbor policy based on
the United States doing all the giving?
No one wants to see any ineQultles IN
the distribution of the Colorado river
water, nor does anyone wish to see any
"hardfisted' policy toward our neigh
bors.
ANY such policy should be based on
reason and logic. And topping these is
the matter Of respect as between nations
If this nation is to become known as
handkerchief favors' with no idea OF
reciprocity, how long can the recipients
.of our generosity retain respect for us!
How long before they will be calling US
suckers? Which we come pretty close
to being in some of our continuous free
handed giving.
If it requires giving our own rights
and privileges and squanderlng our her
itage to obtain this good neighborly feel
ing. better an end to the plan right now.
Because we never will be able to close
the accounts. Next year and next decade
we shall have to do it over.
It should not require much thinking
or superior knowledge to summarize the
results if we are to turn unlimited water
loose from a store we shall be needing
so much in the future, to competitors
who have not yet found it necessary to
adopt our standards of living.
This is not saying that the time Will
not come when this pact or treaty Will
be iustifiable and right. But 1t is to warn
that that time is not yet.
And we contend that any increased al
-lotment should be based on sense and
&iudgment and logic and that this great
area so dependent upon the water shall
not be made to pay the whole price Tor
anybody's good neighbor sentiments.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT or
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY Or
No. 3541

IN "a AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 354l
In the Matter of the estate VI
W. w. TYSON, also known as WILL
LARD w. TYSON, Deceased.
NOTICE OF HEARING or Ar
PLICATION FOR PROBATE Of
WILL AND FOR LEIAL"'
TESTAMENTARY. 49,.
A document purporting TO pc cl'e
last Will and Testament OF w. w.
TYSON. also known as WILLARD
w. TISCN, deceased, having on clle
7sh day of February, 1914, come IN
to the possession of the above ou
perior Court and Petition for th"
probate thereof and for the lssu-
ance of Letters Testamentary 10
Hlzel G. Tison having been filed
by said Hazel G.. Tison WIN He'
the Clerk of said Court.
NOTICE is HEREBY GlvEr
that Friday, the 18th day OF Feo-
ruary, 1914, at the hour OF Two
o'clock (2:0O pm. of said datc
at the Court room of said apoVc
Court in the Imperial county
Courthouse in El Centro, County OF
Imperial, State of California, mas
been set as the time and place Iof
proving the Will of said w. w. II
son, also known as willard w. IL
son, deceased, and for hearing the
application of said Hazel G. Tlson
for the issuance to her OF Letters
Tcstamcntary, when and where any
person interested may appear ana
contest the same.
Reference is hereby made TO salo
Petition for further particulars.
Given under my hand and the
seal of said Superior Court this TIN
day of February, 1914.
w. J. McCLELLAND,
Clerk
(SEAD
BY @. o. KENYON,
Deputy.
mo 45) F7-8-9-l0-1l-
13-l4-15-16-1D
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
VIZ Program
Tests Slated

The third army-navy college quail
flying test for the army specialized
training program and the navy
college VIZ program will be given
at Central Junior college in Ell
Centro at 9 am. March Is, School
Superintendent Guy Weakley said
Tuesday.
A leaflet of general information.
including an admission identifica-
ton form may be obtained at the
high school or junior college office
in Ell Centro by those interested. .
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
Fourth TermerS
Get into SWina

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. tUPl> -
President Roosevelt's progress to-
ward a fourth term nomination is
gaining such momentum that only
an abrupt and public diSavoWal from
the White House could stop it.
Mayor Frank Hague, of Jersey
City. who rules the New Jersey
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The foIlowing edit
Oriais are presented as interesting 0pin-
ions roiced by editors eiSetrhere: 1hey
do not necessarily reflect the 0pHion OF
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
NAME AIR MINDED PROFESSOR

AUSTIN, Tex, Feb. Q. CUP) =
When Austin business men looked
around for a 1914 president OF their
Chamber of Commerce, they chose
a college professor. DR.. John n.
Frederick, air-minCcd professor OF
TRANSPORTATION, at the University OF
Texas. was selected. He is author
of a nationally recognized textooo"
on air transportation.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
SLAYER HELD INSANE

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 9. 'VIp'-
Gaetano Falciani, 35, convicted slay
er of Violet Ivy van Somer2n, 35,
former secretary to Comedienne
Oracle Fields, was pronounced in
sane in superior court and COM
mitted to the state hospital al
MsndOcino.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
NON-FICTION

Clemenceau. Godfrey Bruun; The
Story of Painting, Thomas Craven;
Behind the Steel Wall. Arvid Fred
borg; The Lady and the Tigers
Olga Greenlaw This Is Lorenzo,
Lodwick Hartley; The Spirit of
Hawaii. A. 6. MacLaod; A Living
From Bees, Frank Pellet; Maxim
Iitvinoff. Arthur Pope; Who Could
Ask for Anything More? Kay
Swift: Weather Around the World,
Ivan Tannehill Cune Boy, Edwin
WAY Teale: These Are the Generals;
Men, Women and Dogs, James
Thurber.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
NEW BOOKS
BOOKS RELEASED BY LIBRARY
FEB. 9, 1874

7 EB. y, IJi4
Maxim Litvinoff by Arthur Up
ham Pope is the first biography OF
Litvinoff to be published outside
Soviet Russia. 1t is of great in
terest because it gives an account
of the foreign policies of the Soviet
Union in the last twenty years as
we'll as the life story CT a very in
teresting and important statesman.
Clemenceau by Godfrey Bruun is
a timely re-valuation of Clemen-
ceau's place in modern history. 1t
is not intended to be a definitiye
biography, but is scholarly and con-
yincing 1t is significant for to-
days understanding CT the problems
of the coming peace.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
CARVING FIND DISPLAYED

CAKV1NG 'FINU DTSPLAfED
CHICAGO. Feb. 8. CUP = The
Chicago Art Institute is displaying
rare 18th century wood carving
that was discovered ny staff men,
ber as he wandered through the col
lection of a New York store last
summer. DR.. Oswald Goetz said he
recognized the work of Nikolaus
Gerhaert of Leyden in carved bust
of st. Margaret, even though it had
been badly painted and miscata-
logued as Spanish carving of the
18th century.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
BRAVE MR. WALLACE

Vice President Wallace on his speech
making tour out on the coast is exhibiting
a wonderful example of bravery or else
is in the midst of brandnew dream. He
declares in speeches and emphasizes IN
press interviews that no one need fear
the ever-growing public debt. He just
tosses off the plus 800 billion in obliga-
tions as mere bagatelle and says 1t
will be plain easy to handle it. Now, Mr..
Vice President, before leaving the sub
iect. come on and tell us how it is going
O be easy. Debt in any form is frlghten-
..ing, and the assurances even OF one as
we'll versed in higher economics as the
fvice president must be just don't regis
. ter. He must have been hob-nobbing
! with certain clique, including some SEN
ators, which puts forth another doctrine
on handling the debt-that it isn't deot
! because we simply owe it to ourselves.
! But still. and all some one has to pay,
! such giant thinkers to the contrary not
withstanding.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
Mind Your
Manners

Test your knowledge of correct
social usage By answering the fol-
lowing questions, then checking
against the authoritative answers
below:
/. Should it be a habit in a
home that one always knocks be-
fore entering the bedroom of an
other member of the family?
2. Should you accept favors
when you have no intention of
making some kind Of return for
them?
3. Is it bad manners to accept
hospitality and then gossip about
your host and hostess?
4. Is it good manners to drag
into conversation the names OF the
important people one knows?
S. Is it cheap to try to pretend
that one has more money or more
social position than one has?
What would you do if
You are addressing a letter to a
man
"a, Write paul Johnson?
(b) Write "Mr. Paul Johnson?
Answers
l. Yes.
2. No.
3. Yes.
4. No.
s. Yes.
Better What Would You Do"
solution-(b).
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
WE
the Women
By RUTH MILLETT

In 1914 l resolve not to use any
of the following phrases-not be-
use there is anything wrong with
them = only because they have
worked at least time and a half
since the war started:
For the DURATION
War widows" = as applied to
wives who are living alone because
their husbands are in service.
Doing a swell job Ever since
the war started, everybody has
been doing a swell job'-from the
girls who dance with soldiers at
USO parties to the boys in the fox
holes.
THE boys in service as a term
TO include all men in uniform.
The ones who haven't been boys
for a long time must be aWtully
sick Cf The phrase.
Johnny Doughboy.' That not
only has become tiresome, but it
has such a light-hearted sound,
considerinr that we are talking
about the zen VIC are fighting
and dying for '..ei: tc'ntry.
And t!!.et is an ovel worked
phrase, ;uc-"fightlng and dying" ="
1t rolls too easily from our lips and
typewriters, considering its mean
ing.
Don't you krow there's war
on?" Surely everybody knows by
this time. So lets quit asking the
nI1eSt ion
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09

In a sense this is scientists war
race of laboratories in which we are pit
tinq the hest brains in the United States
against those in Germany.-Air Forces
Gen. II. H. Arnold.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
IN CASE OF A SLIP

I think maybe it is time we quit
worrying about the optimists who
think the war is going to end to-
morrow I haven't met anyone
like that in a long, long time. Have
YOU? But we hear about them al
most every day.
OF course, l may slip up and use
one of thosc phrases now and then
But if I do, please call me on 1t
in case you are sick OF them as
l am.
miss Nil,ett: Don't - get far
flung batt'of"Cnts OF l..t Woflo,
-Ed)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-02-09
FICTION

Victoria Grandolet. Henry Bella
marn; Tomorrow Is Forever, Gwen
BristoW. The Lady in the Lake,
Raymond Chandler; Meat for Muir
der. Lange Lewis; Doctors Beware,
Walbridge McCully; In Her Own
Hands. Helen Mcnsell; Mr.. Mirakel,
E. Phillips Oppenheim; Sheehan's
Mill. John Reese; Border Bonanza,