anaheim-gazette 1939-09-21

Anaheim, Calif., Sept. 21, 1939 The MARCH OF TIME Prepared by the Editors of TIME The Weekly Newsmagazine NO DRIFTING— WASHINGTON — North Dakota's isolationist Senator Lynn Joseph Frazier last week intimated that Franklin Roosevelt was playing politics with World War II. Most other republicans refrained from such crass accusations. Yet one thing was certain: the president was engaged in an extraordinary political operation. Woodrow Wilson in 1914-1917 drifted with the U.S. people until he and they swirled into World War I. When at last he had to act he had the people behind him. In the world of 1939 where dictators strike fast and hard, a democracy which takes three years to make up its mind is at grave disadvantage. No man (perhaps not even Roosevelt) could say for certain last week what the president of the U.S. really wanted to do about war. But all signs pointed to the fact that Mr. Roosevelt had resolved CERTIFICATE OF DOING BUSINESS UNDER FICTITIOUS NAME The Undersigned does hereby certify that she is conducting a retail merchandising business at 232 W. Center street in the city of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California under the fictitious name of The Children's Shop and that said firm is composed of the following persons, whose names and addresses are as follows to wit: Mrs. Hazel E. Sowder, 125 N. Resh Street, Anaheim. Witness our Hands this 9th day not to let U.S. public opinion drift. In World War I months if not years passed before millions of U.S. citizens began to think in terms of a world struggle. Last week Mr. Roosevelt deliberately set out to hasten the process. He did so by proclaiming a "limited" emergency. He did so by adding three new members—Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, Works Administrator John M. Carmody, Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt—to his cabinet "for the duration of the emergency." Practically his every act—from announcing that congress would be called, to ordering increases in army and navy—was a reminder to the people of the U.S. that the world is now facing a crisis and that the U.S. will soon have to make decisions. Mr. Roosevelt's character, and the implication of his preparations both indicated that the decisions which he will ultimately urge for staying out or getting into war will be vigorous if not aggressive. Whether the public, pushed to a decision, will agree with him is another matter. But last week his advisers believed that he had already won the first round: that congress when called into session will, filibuster or no filibuster, modify the neutrality act to permit export of arms. As he had promised, the president laid down two sets of rules for U.S. neutrality. In one set he conformed to international usage, in the other to congressional statute. The first forbade aliens on U.S. soil as well as U.S. citizens to take armed service with a belligerent. Others of its 17 rules even parachutes. People in the U.S. quickly learned that neither congress nor president has the final definition of "materials of war." As it did in the first World War, to the vexation of the U.S., Great Britain declared almost every conceivable necessity of life in wartime to be contraband and therefore subject to blockade, making paper-worth of the neutrality act's precise defense linesations between military and non-military materials. "I frankly question," said Michigan's Republican Senator Van denberg, "whether we can become an arsenal for one belligerent without being the target for the other. I doubt if it is possible to be harmed in half out of this war." Mr. Roosevelt frankly proposed letting the U.S. be an arsenal for the allies (at good pay) while neutrally offering Germany the maerials it could try to slip past the British blockade. His dramatization of statutory neutrality paradoxes was aimed at bringing congress to the same view. Meanwhile federal legalists searched the constitution and the statutes for special powers. A president and as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Mr. Roosevelt indeed had at hand host of latent powers. Some steps from the U.S. Constitution, some from statutes dating back to the 18th century, many from law passed for Woodrow Wilson before and during the World War I and never repealed, others from New Deal laws. The president promptly began invoking such powers. Correspondents at a regular press conference saw him in vigorous mood as ebullient and confident as the crisis days of 1933. He announced that what he was about to say would justify no scarelines, not but calm. "For the proper servance, safeguarding and enforcing..." The Undersigned does hereby certify that she is conducting a retail merchandising business at 232 W. Center street in the city of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California under the fictitious name of The Children's Shop and that said firm is composed of the following persons, whose names and addresses are as follows to wit: Mrs. Hazel E. Sowder, 125 N. Resh Street, Anaheim. Witness our Hands this 9th day of September, 1939. Signed: HAZEL E. SOWDER. State of California, County of Orange, )ss. On this 9th day of September A. D., 1939 before me E. E. Smith a Notary Public in and for said county and state, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn personally appeared Hazel E. Sowder, known to me to the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first-above written. E. E. SMITH, Notary Public in and for Said County and State. My Commission Expires, 7, 28, 1941. 9-14/21/28;10-5, 1939. See FRANK'S CLOCK SHOP 106 South Los Angeles St. Anaheim, California For Dependable Watch and Clock Repairing — ALSO A FULL LINE OF JEWELRY — Business and Professional Directory Howard A. Tews DENTIST 503 N. Los Angeles St. Phones Office 3435 - Residence 3086 Anaheim, California Dr. Osher Physician & Surgeon Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Dentist Opulist—Glasses Fitted Phone 3212 Open Evenings Sunday by Appointment Ready won the first round: that congress when called into session will, filibuster or no filibuster, modify the neutrality act to permit export of arms. As he had promised, the president laid down two sets of rules for U. S. neutrality. In one set he conformed to international usage, in the other to congressional statute. The first forbade aliens on U. S. soil as well as U. S. citizens to take armed service with a belligerent. Others of its 17 rules forbade belligerent ships-of-arm to use U. S. harbors for any thing more than hurried (24 hour) ports of call, to roam, with intent to fight in U. S. waters, to chase one another in and out of American ports, to take on at U. S. docks more fuel than enough to get them to their countries' nearest ports, or to repair damage caused by battle at sea. The second presidential proclamation recognized that war prevailed, embargoed exports of arms, munition and materials of war to belligents in conformity with the neutrality act of 1937. Little was heard of its effects on U. S. trade, and for good reason. In the first six months of 1939 shipments of the materials now embargoed accounted for a peewee proportion of total U. S. exports. Still on the permitted export list were such war necessities as oil, steel, grains and other foodstuffs. Mr. Roosevelt in his proclaim emergency last week used three his emergency powers. 1. He ordered the army enlarged from 210,000 to 227,000, the navy from 116,000 to 145,000, the marines from 19,000 to 25,000, the national guard from 190,000 to 220,000 (if the states agree). 2. Allotted $500,000 to the state department to finance repatriation endangered U. S. citizens in Europe. 3. He upped G-Man Ed Hoover's force by 150, to hold down spies. M-O-T OLD MACDONALD— MANHATTAN — The president promptly began invoking such powers. Correspondents at a regular press conference saw him in vigorous mood as ebullient and confident as the crisis days of 1933. He announced that what he was about to say would justify no scarelines, not but calm. "For the proper servance, safeguarding and enforcing of the neutrality of the United States," he then proclaimed a national emergency. (Orally he called it a "limited emergency" way of minimizing it.) By the stroke he assumed many provisions which would be his in actual work Having done so, he may, among other things, legally: 1. Fix prices of food and fuel. 2. Take virtually absolute control of dealings in international exchange and of domestic banking. 3. Enlarge the armed forces any extent necessary to prevent whatever he considers to be fringements of U. S. neutrality. 4. Close any radio station. 5. Seize any vessel within U.S. waters (whose scope he may fine at will). 6. Arm U. S. merchantmen. Mr. Roosevelt in his proclaim emergency last week used three his emergency powers. Howard A. Tews DENTIST 503 N. Los Angeles St. Phones Office 3435 - Residence 3086 Anaheim, California Dr. Osher Physician & Surgeon Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Dentist Opulist—Glasses Fitted Phone 3212 Open Evenings Sunday by Appointment Howard A. Tews DENTIST 503 N. 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World War II the methods of totalitarian governments later gave the word a meaning, linked it to organ wide-scale lying, the delib ANAHEIM GAZETTE Aubrey St. Clair, prominent Laguna Beach architect, was one of three California winners in a recent national architects and builders all-gas home building competition conducted by the American Gas association. He is shown above (left) receiving a check for $500, one of the prizes in the competition, from Norman R. McKee, vice president of Southern Counties Gas company. Fred Merker, Orange county district manager of the gas company, is seen at right. Prize Granted to County's DisplaOrange county is believed have made money, or at broken even, in its Los AnCounty Fair exhibit, officially ported. The county display charge of Deputy AgriculCommissioner T. E. McLeod, awarded second place in the artistic class at the fair, award carried prize money to $550. Plate displays of county proit is believed, will bring the money close to the $1000 marThe contract price in pretion of the county display is $900, McLeod said. In addthe sum of $300 was allotted purchase of products displayed, ed, mutilated bodies, charhouses, refugee children, small bridges, all added up to create impression of overwhelming tary strength, dramatized speed of Germany's advance. Hidden in secrecy was FranBureau des Informations. But main French policy has long been known: "The brutal propaganda the Axis powers has not all been favorable to their reputation. We will not stoop to the s advertising to which our have resorted. The propaganda of France must be of an informative character." Also well-known is DirJean Giraudoux, who seemed likely to make France's war exciting if any Frenchman was waiting to. But French official communiques, while a little rarer than the British, were guarded as Devil Island. It as though the French were reant to make big claims less have to retract them later. President promptly began using such powers. Corresents at a regular press consummate saw him in vigorous mood, brilliant and confident as the days of 1933. He announced that he was about to say justify no scarelines, not calm. "For the proper office, safeguarding and enforcing the neutrality of the United States," he then proclaimed a nae emergency. (Orally he called it "limited emergency" by minimizing it.) By that he assumed many prowers would be his in actual war, done so, he may, among things, legally. Five prices of food and fuel, take virtually absolute dealings in international age and of domestic bankage and of enemy defenses, the conscious manipulation of sentiments to arouse war spirit, hatred of the enemy at home and sympathy among neutrals abroad. Great Britain and Germany came out of World War I with diametrically opposed attitude toward propaganda. Defeated Germans, unwilling to believe in military defeat, believed that allied cleverness in propaganda, their own clumsiness in it, was largely responsible. Great Britain, on the other hand, had a group of battle-scarred veterans of propaganda and a world-wide reputation for amazing cleverness in molding public opinion. For many a post-war year the seediest remittance man in South America was judged a secret agent; the hungriest British novelist lecturing to the U.S. was thought by many to be a foreign office spokesman. The wheels of propaganda were beginning to buzz in their various ways last week as two novelists and a Scottish lawyer fought to reach the eyes and ears of the world with the best cases they could make for the conduct of their warring countries. One novelist was Paul Joseph Goebbels, author (at 24) of Michael, probably as bad a book as has ever been published, and operator (at 41) of the most powerful, most smoothly organized publicity machine the world has ever seen. The other novelist was Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux, author (at 39) of Suzanne and the Pacific, one of the funniest and freshest of modern French novels, and director (at 56) of France's brand-new, slow-starting Bureau des Informations. But because of its past pluperfect performance and present eccentricity, most interest centered last week on the propaganda plant of the Scottish lawyer. When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy Britain's minister of Information, he gave the 66-year-old peer one of the toughest, one of the most delicate, of Britain's wartime jobs. It was one of the undeveloped "shadow ministries." Lord Macmillan had to organize a staff to shift and relay war news after war news had already begun to A Lord Macmillan's reputation for cleverness, he would not have started more brilliantly. Nobody could accuse Britain's propaganda of functioning smoothly last week. It was clumsey, amateurish, slow-starting. Britain's first air-raid scare produced two flatly conflicting stories passed through the censor to the U.S. before the war office's own propaganda agency (under old-time Hackwriter Iran Hay) got out the third or "official version." Foreign correspondents were driven into a frenzy by the slow and clumsy handling of news of the torpedoing of the Athenia; Britain's feat-of-the-wreck, the bombings of German naval bases, was announced as laconically as the results of target practice; in line with British belief that false hopes should not be raised, French troop movements on the Western Front were reported with so little detail they sounded downright dreamy. While Germany's propaganda ministry exulted over the capture of each unpronounceable Polish town, and handed over photographs of Hitler at the front, Hitler comforting the wounded, Hitler sitting in an automobile, Hitler peering through a telescope, Lord Macmillan at first clamped down on all wire and radio photos. Main channel of Britain's publicity appeared to be the radio, over which announcers with an air of detached candor and without heat discussed military operations; and the cinema. Moving news-reels of evacuation of children from London, of mothers weeping at the separation from their children, placed the responsibility for Europe's anguish where Britain wanted it placed; on Adolf Hitler, who in German photos was shown smiling at the sound of guns. While Britain drowsed in the propagandist shadows last week, whipped to full speed was Dr. Goebbels' powerful ministry of propaganda and public enlightenment, which even in peacetime spends some $100,000,000 a year, employs 25,000. Twenty-four hours after German troops entered Poland, neutral newsmen had photographs of German troops on the march. Tanks, big guns, bombers, ruined villages, prisoners, wound- LOS ANGELES COUNTY in AMERICA Presents its Greatest PREMIER in honor of NATION'S WORLD'S FAIR YEAR 30,000 Exhibits WORLD RENOWNED ENTERTAINERS From Stage, Screen, Radio and circus vie with giant midway and countless other stellar attractions in glittering succession of sensational surprises. Something new and different every minute. Fifty Big Buildings $200,000 in cash prizes HORSE RACING Harness and Running Daily Pari-mutuels 300 ACRES OF ENCHANTMENT National Water Color Display BRILLIANT NIGHT HORSE SHOWS S $1,000,000 LIVESTOCK PARADE New S $100,000 Domestic Arts Building Free Nursery for tots while parents enjoy the exposition. It's Still the Most Beautiful in America Excursion rates by rail and bus direct to entrance. Unexcelled parking for 30,000 cars inside grounds. NO DUST NO DIRT NO WORRY POMONA·SEPT.15·OCT.1 Size Granted to County's Display Orange county is believed to have made money, or at least even, in its Los Angeles county Fai exhibit, official read. The county display, in charge of Deputy Agricultural Commissioner T. E. McLeod, was added second place in the most static class at the fair. The red carried prize money totaling $550. State displays of county produce, believed, will bring the prize they close to the $1000 mark. The contract price in preparation of the county display was McLeod said. In addition, sum of $300 was allotted for phase of products displayed. Mutilated bodies, charred fires, refugee children, smashed windows, all added up to create an occasion of overwhelming militar strength, dramatized the end of Germany's advance. Hidden in secrecy was France's beau des Informations. But the French policy has long been known: "The brutal propaganda of Axis powers has not always favorable to their reputations. We will not stoop to the showy artistry to which our rivals resorted. The propagandarance must be of an informac- character." Also well-known is Director Giraudoux, who seemed like to make France's war news setting if any Frenchman was going to. But French official war muniques, while a little news than the British, were as dared as Devil Island. It was though the French were reluctant to make big claims lest they be retract them later. Sportopix by RUSS McCOMB Prospects for grid championships at the two Orange county junior colleges are none too bright at this writing. Both Bill Cook at Santa Ana and Wendell Pickens at Fullerton lost a wealth of regulars from last fall's outfits and are working with material that is somewhat green. At the moment, on the strength of the Dons' performance in holding the always powerful Pasadena Bulldogs to a 12 to 6 score last Friday night, Santa Ana appears to have the stronger squad of the two. A better line on the Hornets will be obtained tomorrow evening when they open their schedule against Glendale at Fullerton. Anaheim boys are fairly well divided between the two schools, a situation which has not existed in several years. Cook started two former Colonists against Pasadena, Bill Rose at guard and Jimmie Nunez at end, and had Joe Anton, a guard on the bench. No other Anaheim gridders were listed on the squad. Over at Fullerton, Pickens has three of Dick Glover's aces from last year, G. A. Wollenman, all-league guard; Burl Gist, outstanding end, and Ev McDonald, huge lineman. How many of these boys will crash the starting line-up is not yet known, but it is a cinch that all will see plenty of action this fall. To go with the six lettermen Cook started against the Bulldogs, the "Boy in Bronze" has some outstanding freshmen with whom to work. Among the best appear to be Harold Lilley, quarterback; Bus McKnight, center; Don Dunning, tackle, and Gene Hamaker, full-back. Lilley and McKnight were all-orange league men last year, while Dunning and Hamaker came up from Santa Ana high school where the latter was captain last year. Less is known about the new material at Fullerton. Pickens lost most of his last year's line and his two best ball carriers. He did however, get Glen Israel who looked like a terror at Compton last fall until forced out with injuries. The former El Monte boy will probably be No. 1 quarterback and ball lugger. Seven men, all rated as better-than-average centers, have also reported, and it is likely that Pickens will move some of them into other line positions. Right now it looks like the Dons and Hornets will finish about where they did last year, behind Chaffey and San Bernardino. In spite of a tie game with Santa Ana last Thanksgiving, Fullerton was a notch ahead of the Dons in the final standings. 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