davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

sacred presence. much less take a
photograph of his royal person.
"An his other pictures were made
by kotowing court photographers,
who had TO purify themselves with
ceremonial baths and then crawl be-
fore him. That's a laugh, when l re-
call how | shot him"
When Considine reads that Amer
lean bombs have fallen near the I'm
perial Palace, he gets out the old
snapshot The startled, incTedulouS
expressions on il, he figures, are only
a sample OF how the Son OF Heaven,
124th of his divine" line. and his
diSilluSioned satellites must look these
days with raging fires sweeping
toward the sprawling sacred" gar.
dens from burning Tokyo.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

was engaged 10 a handsome young
Mexican and the test was to be
whether she could resist the peso
laden Balmori.
Conchita's friends set the ground
work by carrying word TO her that
the rich Don Carlos had fallen for
Dolores photograph and wished TO
lay his heart at her feet. Dolores
closest friend happened to be the sis
ter of her fiance, but she was sworn
to silence by the promise of hand
some reward" from Don Carlos. a
dinner date was made and the eager
Dolores arrived with her girl friend.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

They found voluble little M
man who not only kept on his
overcoat, but also his big hat.
MY family has the hereditary
right to wear the hat in the pres
ence of the King, and l do not un-
cover for lesser mortals," Don Carlos
explained.
He spoke cXtravagantly OF his ad-
miration for SenOrita Peral-and OF
his millions. And, carried away by
the tales of his wealth, she agreed 10
marry him.
Don Carlos then whipped off his
hat and scarf, releasing the graying
braidS of Conchta and stormed:
You cheap little fools! You're
Just like the others ready 10 sell
your honor for money. You, Dolores,
were ready 10 sacrifice love and your
plighted word and you, her friend,
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
Queenof Practical Jokers +: +;

A BAND Of mourners who looked
~ more like merrymakers gath
cred around the strangeSt
tomb in Mexico the other day. There
were rich men and poor men, DOCTORS
bullfighters, government officials and
walters. And not a gloomy face in
the lot
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

Senior Balmori, as impersonated by
Conchita, with the aid of masculine
attire and a false mustache, was an
eccentric Spanish millionaire whose
hobby was proving that all men and
women would make fools of them
selves for gold
Some victims of her humor never
forgave Conchita Others took it
with good grace and gleefully aided
and abetted her in further "balmo-
readas." The person last taken in
always was allowed to name the next
victim.
One of the celebrated hoaxes re-
called by Conchita's roistering friends
was that which had humbled beauti-
full Dolores PCral Senorita Peral
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

They put flowers
on the grave, drank
wine and told funny
stories. That's the
way, on each ami
ary of her
death, her friends
honor the memory
of Conchita Jurado,
the merrieSt mad
cap in all Mexico.
Drawings on the
tomb's tiled exterior
give the highlights
of Conchita's ca
reer. Some show
her as she really
was-a homely, be-
Spectacled, smiling
old WON an, who
was so years old
before disgust az
money gra b berS
caused her TO bios
som out into one
of the worlds most
successful practical
)okerS.
Other titles de.
piCt Conchita'S tri-
umphs in her as
Sumed role, that of
the fabulous Don
Carlos Balm orr.
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chopped TO pieces on the spot by the
sharp, two-handed samurai swords of
infuriated officers.
The crime of Considine-aS the
Japs would term it-occurred during
his undergraduate days at Oxford in
1921 when Hirohito stopped there dur
ing a state visit 10 Britain. Considine
shut his books and loaded his camera
when he heard the royal party was
being received at Christ Church.
The reception was a scene of great
formality, with the little men of Nip
pom ranged pompously around their
bespeCtacled prince, when Considine
arrived.
mo precautions had been taken
against photography, probably be.
cause no English lad would have con
n
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
He Shot the Son Of Heaven

THOUSANDS Of Yanks now ON.
transports steaming to the Far
East may not know it, but back
N California there's a man who al
ready has beaten them TO one of their
goals. He shot the Son of Heaven "a
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15
ellis Will
ln2I Words

Y IETERAN clerks in San Fran.
~ cisco's Probate Court are used
TO seeing a lot OF odd-lOokinE
wills but they admit that the last ties
lament filed the other day by Attor
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

The writer of the odd document
was a San Francisco street railway
inspector who had lost his life three
years before in an accident. His
widow, Mrs Mary Moyle, had received
$4,000 in damages but the victims
will, disposing of $4,000 i'm cash and
other property, never had been found
Then, Tummaging through an on
trunk the other day, Mrs. Moyle came
across an old penny arcade photo
graph OF herself. She stiffened with
excitement at what she saw written
on the back and the front. Here, at
last was the missing Will
Mr.. Moyle apparently had Tea.
soned that no court could read his
strange little will without understand
ing who was 10 inherit his estate.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

ney w alter -NetToNtfn SET
some kind OF record for
brcvity - and originality
II was only p words long
ana il disposed of an cs
tate in excess of $1,000
The document was yel
lowed with age and not
much bigger than a post
age stamp Peering in
tently at the faded writ
ing, the receiving clerk
could make out
Il give all my property
TO my wife. Arthur T.
Moyle, May 25, 1925"
Turn il over" Mr. Nc.
Govern said, and the clerk
saw the face of a pretty
woman on the other side
This is the one mentioned
in my will" was inscribed
beneath the picture in the
same hand.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15


The hitherto unheraldcd
markSman is John w. Con
sidine, motion picture pro
ducer. 1t was a camera,
not a rifle, that he snapped
at the then Crown Prince
Hirohito. But even a bomb
could hardly have brought
sgTeater CONSERVATION to
khe stubby future Emperor
and his frock.coated rever.
Cntial encourage.
Fortunately for tn e
American, his sacrilege
was committed in England.
Had il been in Japan, he
probably would have been
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-15

nounced more than 100 girls. She
made businessmen, army officers and
even police change their names, shave
their boards or otherwise appear
ridiculous -- all for fools gold
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
MUCH DEPENDS NOW ON
WISE LEADERSHIP

Before the nation now are three most
momentous undertakings in which lie the
safety and the progress and the happi-
ness of this nation and the entire world.
Closely allied, but yet separate are
the tremendous movements set in motion
at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Crimea
conference and there is, as third under
taking the so-called Breton Woods mon
etary program.
Even if each and every citizen could
comprehend in full detail the plans map
ped in these three matters on which the
world must look to for future security,
development of and implementing of the
programs must rest with leaders chosen
by the nations to give approval and which
will share in whatever comes forth III
due time.
We are a democracy in spirit, but not
so in action. We are representative
form of government and to our leaders
we shall and must look for bringing out
the best plans and suggestions and to
study and understand them in an honest,
non-partisan manner.
But this cannot be accomplished unless
the people are taken into full confidence
and truly and honestly advised from
time TO time as TO the logic anu d'dll-
ability and adaptability of these great
ventures Without this spirit of confid-
ence, doubt and fear and in the end op-
position will appear. This must not hap
pen. There is no cause for veiled diplo-
macy or just call for withholding COM
plete information as we move along in the
mex. few months and years.
Just as the successful prosecution of
the war has depended upon wise leader
ship, so will peace and all that goes with
it for the good of the world be based on
leaders who have been delegated to carry
on.
There is fully apparent today, in signs
and acts that cannot be mistaken. unity
of purpose never before surpassed and
it must continue. And just as certain,
any break in that unity rightly will be
blamed to our leadership.
The public is eager to cooperate. 1t
will be as quick to condemn any false
steps or failure to meet the responsible
ities placed in the hands of those who
will direct the nation and the world in
this huge task.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
POET LAUREATE TALENT
Pasadena Star-NewS)

pasadena Star-News)
Members of the legislature, chockfull
of state pride, are only too apt to feel
an irresistible urge to appoint a new poet
laureate of California irrespective of
what the present supply of poetic talent
may be.
Unless there is true poet in Califor
MIA worthy of the place, it would much
better remain vacant. The truth is that
there never is large supply of genuine
poets, although there is no end to the
number of versifiers.
There have been times when even Eng
land, with all of its great literary tradi-
tions, had 70 name a minor poet as poet
laureate or leave the post unoccupied
1t would be no cause of wonder or humi'i-
alton if one of the 48 states composing
the American union sometimes had to
concede that it had no poet qualified to
wear the laurel.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
i Rise TO Remork'

which didn't exist. nor to hopes for
a brave new world" go right ahead
making treaties among themselves
and dividing up the contiguous parts
CT the tired old world. To me, that
is one of the Bigger Things.
Do you oppose food control or
price control in wartime? I don't,
and have repeatedly said that l do
net. But I do oppose statistics that
are fixed to make the answers what
the slide rule boys want them to be.
Do you hear over and over that in
flation is being held in check, and
see some nice looking charts?
CONSULT POCKETBooKS
Why not consult your pocketbcoks
instead of the charts? Ale you
aware of the extent of the black
market? Is that a normal condi-
ton, or do you want 1t to be? Tie
food study committee repeatedly
has shown the blue print of proper
control and administration, and
both Republicans and Democrats in
Washington agree as far up as the
administration level, but nothing
happens except mole propaganda,
and attempts at more control.
In my column last week showed
the similarity between the inila-
tionary situations in France and
Belgium (Which we are told to be-
lieve are terrible) and the infa-
tionary situation in the United
States, which we are told is being
held in control. In France, bank
deposits increased 257 per cent; in
the United States 235 pei cent. In
France money in circulation in
creacle go per cent; here 228 per
cert. in France. the public debt
increased Ell per cent; here 5l2 per
cent. These figures are for five
years ending September, 1894.
Congress thinks this nation wants
less propaganda, more truth. 1t was
said in the recent national cam
paign that there was a time when
people looked at the news from
to see if it were good CT
bad; now the first question is
whether CT .ot it is true.
I believe we are in the most Cit
ical situation N this nations his
tory. 1t transceLGs every thought
of personal interest, CT politics, or
Of political parties. A people cannot
be aroused on soothing syrup. This
nation aroused can meet any issue.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
GEORGIA FOR DEMOCRACY
(Chris.ian Science Monitor)

(ChrlS.lan Science Monltor)
The decision of the sovereign State of
Georgia to abolish the poll tax is healthy
sign of the times. Georgia and Governor
Ellis Arnall, who led bold, uphill fight
for repeal, are to be congratulated. We
hope the seven other States which have
used this tax less as a revenue measure
than as means of barring Negroes and
poor whites from voting will follow suit.
1t is far better to have this progressive
step taken by the States themselves than
to have it forced on them by Federal ac-
tion There is logical case for con-
stitutional amendment barring such State
restrictions on voting for Federal ottl-
cials. But in such situations persuasions
which change peoples thinking are apt
to be not only more practically effective
but more genuinely liberal than attempt
ed coercions which change only the letter
of the law.
Some Georgia advocates of the poll tax
declared that repeal would not give Ne
groes a better chance to vote in white
primaries" And it is true that an effec-
tive broadening of the franchise Is not
likely to occur until Negroes and poor
whites themselves show the kind of in
terest in voting that would pay the poll
tax Bascally, it must await support OF
the people of the South. But often prog
ress is made in some localities which the
State law would hamper.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
By Congressman John Phillips

Every once in a while. perhaps
surprisingly seldom. some letter
writer takes me to task. He implies
that my column should deal with
Bigger Things. I am sure the words
are capitalized in his mind.
The things I write about are tie
things I see. Others have seen them.
John Stephen McGroarty, than
whom there never was finer man
in congress, came here with an
idealistic devotion to the new pro-
gram being put into effect in 1898;
he retired. disillusioned, in 1886.
If there ever was a time in the
history of America when Democrats
and Republicans should be standing
shoulder to shoulder. that time IS
now Shortly, unless they do. it will
be too late Were you laboring un-
der the delusion that Sidney Hill
man is a Democrat? or Harry
Bridges: or that the CIO/PAC Is
the Democratic party? don't think
so; let that be clear.
REGISTERc OBJECTIONS
l object. therefore. to having my
people in the 22nd district of Cali
fornia treated as if they were chill
dren. Were you. as citizens of the
United States, given the reports on
the recent German offensive when
you could have had them? You
know you weren't; nor on other
matters. You aren't old enough for
that. Ycu have to be given informa-
ton in homeopathic doses, sugar
coated
Do you believe by any chance that
we have a foreign policy, that you
would like me to support? I'd sup
port the administration unreservedly
in any strcng American foreign
policy, and 1 wouldn't ask tco many
questions about it either. Congress
sees the same Implications, propa-
ganda, that you see in the admins
tration of domestic matters. The
smart boys of Europe. paying no
attention whatever to idealiStic
phrases, or to an Atlantic Charter
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
New Trailer Court
Slated in I. {.

First steps were taken Wednesday
night before El Centro city council
for the establishme'.t f a 36-place,
trailer camp when Jes. SimrSoTl
former service station operator ap-
peareo in connection with zoning
regulations. y
Site of the proposed court Is,
north of Commercial between
Twelfth street and Imperial ave-
nue. on property owned by Simpson.
Council authorized Simpson to
continue his plans and instructed
City Attorney Dorsey Whitelaw to
prepare an ordinance amending the
zone ordinance.
Simpson advised council that the
court would be modern in layout
and landscaping and that he was
prepared to invest $1,000 in the
project. se.,f
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
CONGRESSMEN URGE MOVE
TO IMPORT NEWSPRINT

WASHINGTON, Feb. IS. tUP)-
Representatives Clarence Brown
tR0 Ohio, and Lyle H. Boren CD
Oklahoma, have urged the state
department to try to get some news
print from Sweden and Finland. 3
The two congressman sale Swed-
ish shipments would now be possible
either by rail and truck to Muir
nlansk or .Petsamo or in the spring.
time by ship through the canal from
Leningrad- to the White Sea and
thence to England.
They said that since Finland is
out of the war she should not have
a manpower problem and probably
cculc send shipments in smaller
ships not needed for more vital
cargoes.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
Scout Council
Awaits Meet

The annual meeting of the I'M
perial-Yuma Boy Scout council will
be held in Ell Centio next Tuesday
with C. j. Carlson, dean Of Boy
Scout executives, as the speaker.
Business of the council will be
transacted at the Ell Centre Cham
Der of Commerce at 6 p. m. The
annual banquet will be held at tie
California hotel at 7 p. m. Dead
line for making reservations for the
oanouet is at noon Thursday. In
Ell Centro reservations may be made
with Fed Sterzong or w. G. Foss.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
The REAL ISSUE
(SacramentO Bee)

The proposed water treaty between
the United States and Mexico presents
several vital issues, such as a breach of
the federal guarantees of water from the
Colorado river on which much OF the
development Of the Imperial and Coach
ella valleys is based.
But Governor Earl Warren of Califor-
MIA reduced the case to fundamentals
when, in his testimony before the senate
foreign affairs committee, he said:
"a nation owes its first duty to its own
people, Our nation will not gain respect
among other nations, nor real nor lasting
friendship from Mexico, by undue lib2r-
ality, made possible only by hurting an
important segment of our own people
Even if the treaty were to benefit the
great masses of people of Mexico, it still
would be questionable procedure to make
a grant of water which would condemn
thousandsof American acres to the status
of desert.
However ample evidence has been given
to the foreign affairs committee to indi-
cate the Mexican people as whole would
not benefit from the provisions of the
treaty but that the emolumen.s would go
to few large landlords in the Colorado
valley south of the border.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15

Germany will stand to the last and in
evitable victory will be ours.-Goebbels
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
POLISH QUESTION HOLDS
ONTO WORLD SPOTLIGHT

Coming as no surprise is the flat and
.uneauivocal refusal of the Polish govern
ment in exile to recognize or accede to
the initial steps in the restoration OF
territorial equilibrium in Europe as set
out in the Yalta conference. Since the
exile government is quartered in London
and the home government is domlciled
in Moscow, there is major dispute in
the offing.
Here then is the first "fly in the oint-
ment" in the Big Three set-up initlaled
be Churchill. Stain and Roosevelt. 1t
snacks of high degree of interest and
moment because Churchill rubs elbows
with the exile regime in London while
Stain neighbors with the other wing OF
the Polish government.
The exile government premier tlatly
saws his regime will not countenance dlvl-
sion of Poland as Russia proposes and
has the power to carry out. Neither OF the
Polish governments has full, or anything
like full recognition by the. three major
powers or the forty allied nations.
Once again Poland becomes the bone
of contention. if not the victim of another
revamping of the Russ borders after
war.
Germany will stand to the last and in
evitable victory will be ours.-Goebbels.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
BY RALPH TEATSORTH
United Press War Correspond ent


MANILA. Feb. 15. (UP)-A veiled
betrayer, working for the enemy,
put the finger on scores of purport-
ed Filipino guerillas who forthwith
were bayoneted, burned alive or
machine-gunned. It US disclosed
Wednesday.
This was only one i series OF
senseless japanese atrocities con-
firmed during the ll-day battle OF
Manila. The story was told by Ale
iandro Dagami. Filipino who has
lived here IA years.
Cn February the leader OF the
neighsorhood association called at
his home in the intermuros district.
He said the japanese military auth
critics had ordered Filipinos to re-
port either to San Augustin church
or the cathedral.
FAMILIES SEPARATED
Dagami, his wife, and three small
children reported to San Augustin.
There they found 5000 Others. Two
nights later, they were segregated
by sexes. The nen were marched to
Fort Santiago. There about 500 were
crowded into three roo9s, so meters
square.
The Japanese guards brought
small amounts Of rice, insufficient
for the crowd of prisoners.
Dagami escaped February 10 by
climbing through hole in the CELL
ing. He hid in tall grass along the
Pasig river, where he met several
men who had reported 10 the cathe-
dral.
The cathedral crowd had marched
to Santiago. There the men hac
been scrutinized by mestizo. whose
face was yelled to prevent identifi-
cation. The mestizo pointed out
alleged guerillas in the crowd.
About 100 designated as guerillas
were lee into a room and bayoneted
oy the japanese.
The remainder were locked in a
building, and the building set afire.
Men who tried to escape the flames
were shot down, but nevertheless
approximately 30 got away alive al
though seriously burned.
OTHER ACTS
Other confirmed Japanese atroc-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
DEATH FUNERAL
NOTICES

MASSERA, AL, SO, died Tuesday.
He is survived by his wife and
daughter; mother, sister and
brother. Rosary will be read at
9:3O pm. Thursday evening at
st. Mary's Catholic church. High
mass will be held at 10 am. Fri
day with Father Barry officiating.
Burial will be in Modesto, his
birthplace. Lenons-Wiley Mortu-
airy is in charge. 2-l6
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
WIFE KEPT NsHCHING

LAWRENCE, .Iss:., Feb. Is. tUP)
Emile Caron sued for divorce,
explaining that his wife walked out
on him while he was marching in
an American Legion parade in 1882.
and hasn't returned since then.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
S potter Hel ped
,Jap SIayers

tiles in Mani.a:
On February - Isaac Perao and
Mark Decumillas, Investigators,
found photographs of a group OF
bodies. They included II Chinese
males. four Chinese women, five
boys, and a girl baby The adults had
their hancs tied behind their backs.
All apparently had been bayoneted.
On Fee ruary 7 mutilated bodies
were found on Luna and Mariones
streets. Re.dents there said they
hac already buried 81 bodies. Near
by 49 other bodies were found. One
third were women and one third
were children. In most cases the
hands were tied behind the back
and the victims clubbed, bayoneted
or shot without trial on suspicion
of participating in guerilla warfare.
Edward Cox and his wife, who
escaped from the battle area on the
south Size, said Japanese had burn
ed all the homes in his block and
shot the residents when they tried
to flee.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The following edit
oriais are presented as interesting opin-
ions Uoiced by editors elsewhere. They
do moi necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-15
USED GASOLINE

Japanese set fire to the houses
by soaking them with gasoline and
throwing hant grenades inside.
During this period Filipinos on the
street we're shot on sight by the
enemy.
The Coxes escaped through the
American lines, with 20C others
Including 100 wounded taken from
a hospital.
Some Filipinos said the japanese
had made the threat that none of
them woult be alive when the
Americans arrived in Manila. One
explanation for the outburst of mass
bestiality was that the japanese
were maddened by the speed at
which the U. S. forces drove on
Manila. and slaughtered helpless
civilians for spite