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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-04-20

Fred H. Anthony was business
visitor at Morgan Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. R. Wingate spent
Easter Sunday in Minneapolis.
Jack Keefe of st. Paul was guest
at the j. R. Keefe home on Monday.
Frank Hopkins of Fairfax was a
Sunday dinner guest at the j. F.
Knudson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Trewartha of
Walnut Grove transacted business
here Saturday.
The Whist club will meet Saturday
evening at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Hassenstab.
The Twentieth Century club will
meet at the home of Mrs. D. L. Grim
minis Monday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Wetmore Of
Fort Riley, Kansas, are spending a
week here with relatives.
Mrs. w. E. Paffrath was hostess to
a group Of nine women at a quilting
party Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. H. N. Nupson and Mrs. A. M.
Reynolds of St. Charles spent last
Wednesday in Minneapolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Manecke of
Morton are spending the week with
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hoffman.
F. R. Lobdell, R. Teuscher and Mr..
and Mrs. Morrison of Minneapolis
were here on business Tuesday.
Miss Winnifred McNally of Jackson
spent several days here last week as
a guest Of Mrs. Stephen Johnson.
Miss Lois Melges returned Sunday
after a weeks visit with her sister,
Mrs. Horace Scott, in Minneapolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Schotten-
bauer and daughter, Mary Kathryn,
spent Saturday and Sunday in Mime
apolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rayburn Burris and
daughter, Dorothy, spent Tuesday
with Mr.. and Mrs. William Kreft at
their country home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter E. Rohrer of
Fort Dodge, Iowa, returned home
Friday, after a short visit with re-
latives here and at North Redwood.
DR.. and Mrs. E. o. Jorstad of Mar
shall and DR.. and Mrs. G. A. Lofthus
of Montevideo were Sunday guests Of
DR.. and Mrs. George A. Alexander.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Skorseth of Can
by, Mr.. and Mrs. G. D. Thompson and
F. L. Parish were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Peabody.
Mrs. w. D. Taylor who had visited
her brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. Kuenzli, since December, re-
turned to her home at Dundas last
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Amberg and
children, Lucille and Georgine, at
tended a family gathering Sunday at
the home of Mrs. Richard Amberg at
Bird Island.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. A: Appleton motor
ed to Marshall Sunday to get their
son Bobby who had spent the week
with his grandparents Mr.. and Mrs.
u. II. NJ -QQleLOn.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. S. Paffrath and
children of Willmar, Mrs. w. j. Paff-
rath and Miss Dale Paffrath of
Springfield and Jack Freeman of Oil
via were Sunday dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. w. E. Paffrath.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Wichman and
Mrs. D. w. Gold motored to Minneap-
oils Friday where Mr.. Wichman atten-
ded a meeting of school superinten-
dents at the university. They were
accompanied by Miss Beulah Larson
who went from there to Faribault to
spend the weekend with friends.
ElRoy Alexander and his friend,
Hodge Morgan, of Kellogg, Iowa,
both students at Drake University,
arrived Thursday and visited with DR..
and Mrs. G. A. Alexander until Mon
day. DR.. Alexander accompanied by
Ward Cuff, motored to Des Moines
Monday with them, returning here
Tuesday.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-04-20
NOTICE

Mona Leavens will make automo-
bile license applications. One door
north of Fairway Grocery. Open
Saturday evenings. 41-Sts.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-17
GERMAN CLAIM
REPUD|ATED

LONDON, June IT. U.P) - DR.. AL
fred Hugenberg's memorandum pro-
posing the return to Germany of
her lost colonies was repudiated
today and Hugenberg will return
to Germany, possibly not to appear
again at the world economic con-
ference.
A semi official statement from
the German allegation indicated
the proposal was not sponsored by
the Hitler government or the con-
ference delegation. 1t was ru-
mored Hugenberg might resign
from the cabinet as secretary of
economy.
Hugenberg will leave for Berlin
tonight. His associates of the Ger
man delegation admit that he may
not return.
Chancellor Hitler's personal agents
al The conference. Wilhelm Keppler
and Burgomaster Krogmann, led
the opposition TO the memorandum
on instructions from Berlin, it was
said. while Hjalmar Schacht and
Baron Won Neurath maintained a
neutral attitude. leaving a clear
field for the fight between the Nazis
and Hugenberg.
A spokesman for the delegation
admitted the opposition within the
delegation was less against the cor
tents of the memorandum than
against its hasty presentation.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-17
PLAN RAISE IN
COTTON PRICE

WASHINGTON, June IT. U.P)-
Congressional circles we're advised
today that broad administration
cotton program, designed to raise
prices to pre-war levels and take
from 100000 to 100000 acres
of the present crop out of pro-
duction, probably will be announc-
ed by the agriculture department
Mondany.
The plan, a companion to the
comprehensive three year wheat
program made public yesterday,
virtually is completed. A compli-
cation over technical legal details
prevented it from being made pub
lie today.
The department. acting under
the comprehensive terms of the
emergency farm act, will effect the
cotton price boost through imposi-
ton of processing tax of from
two to four cents a pound, prob
ably the maximum. This levy will
be used to raise revenue to pay
benefits to cotton farmers in re-
turn for acreage reduction.
In addition, a leasing proposal
will be instituted whereby farmers
will be paid bounties for blowing
under a portion of their present
crop.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-17
CHILDERS ASKED TO EXPLAIN
STATEMENT ON RECALL CASE

The Press prints herewith copy Of
letter receiver today, which is
self explanatory.
Mr.. Charles l.. ChilderS,
Ell Centre, California.
Dear Mr.. Childers-It is the I'M
derstsnding of the undersigned that
you have made a statement or state
ments in which you claim that you
are in favor of holding the Brawley
recall election on Burleigh E. Adams
in the Brawley district as soon as
possible and that this election would
have been held some time ago had
not MesSrs. Hewes and Young, men,
berS of the beard, objected TO its
being held.
We cannot reconcile your state
ments with the facts in this case
as we know them, which are brief
ly as follows:
On March 6, 1893, a sufficient
recall petition was filed with F. H,
McIver, secretary of the Imperial
Irrigation district, demanding the
recall of Burleigh E. Adams and the
election Of a successor. According
to Mr.. McIver, after he had checked
this petition but before he had
certified to it's sufficiency, II of the
IA sections we're stolen from his Of
flee and the three sections remain
ing did not contain sufficient names
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-17
HOLD BREWER
FOR RANSOM
Wealthy St. Paul Man Taken
By Kidnapers Who Demand
100000.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, June II. U.P)-
William Hamm, 49, wealthy brewer
of the Twin Cities" was held for
$l00,0O ransom today by kidnapers
whom police suspected we're led by
man accused of engineering two
other daring abduction plots.
Grave concern for Hamms safety
was expressed after the kidnapers
failed to keep a contact they ar
ranged for p. m. yesterday. The
abductors, who seized him Thurs
day as he walked from his office to
his home, had threatened to kill the
young millionaire unless ransom
was paid quickly.
News of the kidnapping was not
made public until last night, after
William Dunn, business manager OF
the brewing company, and police
received a communication from tae
kidnapers and a note from Hamm
himself saying:
do as they tell you"
Police suspected Verne Sankey
sought as the plotter behind the KID
MAPPING of Haskell Bohn here q
year ago and of Charles Boettchel
II in Denver last winter.
Orders to shoot Sankey on sight
we're issued by Police Chief Thomas
Dahill of the st. Paul police. LAS
summer, when Bohn was returned
after payment of $4,000 ransom
Sankey escaped from police trap
Telephone Calls Made
Police believed Hamm was cap
tured a few minutes after he left
his office at 1915 p. m. Thursday
Five hours later Dunn received q
telephone call saying:
Billy Hamm has been kidnapped
We want 100000"
Shortly afterward Dunn received
another telephone call. This ti1nc
the voice said:
I'VE know this is shock to you
but we are in dead earnest. Have
100000 in SIS, $40 and $40 by Fri
day. The money must be delivered
in a Hamm brewery truck Have
the sides removed so we can see that
no policemen are concealed in it.
We will give you further instruc-
tons at 5 p. m. Friday
Hamm controls important business
interests built up by his father. He
is director of the First National
bank, president of chain of the
aires, president of one of ST. Pauls
largest department stores, and &C
tive in other enterprises.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-17
CONVICTED ON
OLD STATUTE

LOS ANGELES, June IT. U.P)-
An inventor who challenged his at
torney to a duel because the bar
rister failed to secure a patent to-
day awaited sentence that possibly
may confine him in San Quentin
prison for year.
w. P. Blake, SO year old former
bee keeper, was convicted on an
ancient California anti-dueling law
for inviting Herman Miller, patent
attorney, to meet him on the field
of honor.
The challenge was contained in a
letter, STIMULATING that the attor-
ney select one of two pistols, one of
which was to be unloaded. Regular
seconds we're to supervise the pro-
ceedings, Instead of meeting his
self appoirted adversary, Miller
filed complaint against Blake, who
admitted writing the letter. In court
he said it was the only method he
had of obtaining justice.
Blake said the attorney failed to
obtain for him patent on a new
type honeycomb. Miller said the
idea had already been patented.
Sentence will be passed Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-17

upon which an election could be
held. Maril l.. Box and Herman
HUH represented by Ernest Utley,
brought an action against Mr.. Nc
liver and the directors Of the dis
trict asking the court to restrain
further action under that petition
on the ground that the II sections
of said petition mad been stolen
The superior court of Imperial
county, L. N. Turrentine, presiding
held on the 18th day of April, 1888,
that TO election could DC held and
no further proceeding taken, and
restrained Mr.. McIver from proceed
ing any farther in this matter, and
restrained the board from ever hold
ing an election under this first pc
tition unless the stolen portions were
returned.
The irrigation board appealed
and we are reliably informed and
you. we think, will admit that be-
fore this appeal can be determined
the term of Burleigh E. Adams will
have expired so that if there were
no other course for US to pursue
we would be compelled to take the
position that Burleigi E. Adams
could never be recalled by the voters
of the fourth division during his
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Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-17
REAL RELIEF
FOR FARMERS
Government Moves Rapidly To
Bring Increased Prices Back
To Pre-War Level.
BY WILLIAM F. KERRY
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE
Roosevelt administration is moving
rapidly to make its farm relief pro-
gram yield real dollars and cents
gains for the individual farmer.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
expected to reveal Monday the spe-
cific methods to be used in adding
millions of dollars to the income of
cotton raiSerS and curtailing the
production of that commodity.
The cotton control program fol-
lows Wallace's announcement that
about $150000,006 will be paid this
year to wheat farmers in return for
reducing acreage under three
year grain production control plan,
Money for the payments to wheat
| farmers will be raised through a
processing tax of about 80 cents a
bushel, to become effective next
month. The cotton plan is expected
to involve similar tax.
Governor Morgenthau of the farm
credit administration at the same
time is placing in operation the ST.
100000 credit pool available un-
der emergency legislation to refin-
ance farm mortgages and prevent
| foreclosures. He will try his plan
first in the state of Wisconsin.
Followed By Others
The programs to aid growers of
wheat and cotton, two great basic
commodities, are expected to be fol-
lowed by speedy action regarding
other farm products.
The aim of the whole plan is to
give farmers an income equal to
that they enjoyed in pre-war years.
BY eliminating surplusses through
lowered production and stimulated
exports abroad it is hoped normal
market prices eventually will rise
sufficiently to give the farmers the
returns desired. But in the mean
time the government itself will add
to the farmers income by paying
them the proceeds of the special
taxes to be levied.
In the case of wheat the tax will
be paid by millers and all other
users of raw wheat. 1t will add that
much to the cost of their raw ma
terial.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-17
STERILIZATION
PLAN OPPOSED

WASHINGTON, June II. EU,PS
Money Sterilization proposals made
to the United States last night by
repres& natives of the world econ
omic conference ARE not accept
able" to the United States, Under
secretary of Treasury Acheson ex-
planned today.
1t was stated at the treasury that
the suggestion made by the dele
gates in reference to money Stabil-
ization were too crystalized to meet
with the approval of the American
government.
In reply it was learned at the
treasury President Roosevelt has in
structed the American delegates to
the economic conference on defln-
tie limits between which the Amer
lean government would agree upon
currency sterilization.
The European viewpoint on stab
ilization, which is unagreeable to
the administration at the present
tint was determined by Prof. O.
M. w. Sprague, American finan-
cial advisor at London and trans
mitted to President Roosevelt last
night.
President Roosevelt discussed the
entire proposition with Secretary OF
Treasury Woodin and other high
government officials before his de-
parture for Boston.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-17
SAYS WAGES
MUST. MEET
NEW PRICES
Industrial Administrator Tells
Coal Operators Living Costs
Rising Too Rapidly.
DISCUSSES DEPRESSION
General Johnson Believes Plan
Under New Deal Will Solve
Difficulties.

CHICAGO, June II. U.P)-The
danger of an economic relapse in
this critical stage of the depres-
sion" unless wages are brought into
line with ascending prices was
pointed out to the National Coal
association last night by Gen. Hugh
Johnson in his first public state
ment after his official appointment
as administrator of the industrial
control bill.
Shortly before Gen. Johnson's
brief, extemporaneous address was
relayed from Pittsburg, working
code by which the coal industry
will operate under the control bill
was accepted by 10 of the nations
leading operators.
Johnson was enroute to Chicago
from Washington by plane to adj
dress the coal operators when a
dense fog forced the pilot to land
at PittSburg. Arrangements were
made for transmitting the address
to the association meeting by radio
and Johnson spoke without a
manuS.
"Thl Sident today signed the
recove II and appointed me the
admir- tor" he said. 1T is a
respo ie position and I accept
it wi solemn regard. The Presi-
dent so gave the country his pol
icy verning this work. The act
is charter of new industrial
lf-government for this country.
II think we would have come
to such step even if we never
had had depression. 1t is the dis
location between what we produce
and our power to buy and consume
which makes and prolongs a de-
preston. What we have here for
the first time is a chance to keep
production and purchasing power
in this country more nearly in
step with each other-and they
arc far out of step today.
Critical Stage Reached
II think we are at critical
stage of the depression. Improve
ment is here beyond a doubt. But
prices have risen SO much faster
than wages that unless we can get
purchasing power promptly in the
hands of industry there is danger
OF relapse.
THE President has pointed the
way to prevent this. The idea is
simply that employers hire more
men to do the existing work by
reducing the working hours of each
mans week, at the same time pay
ing a living wage for the shorter
week"
The coal mems code, adopted
after the industry's leaders had
considered difficult problems aris-
ing out of union and non-union
production fields, outlaws unfair
competition, outlines a program for
establishment of coal prices and
wages in regional mining sections,
eliminates unfair trade practices,
and sets up standard contracts and
coal grading for all parts of the
country.
G. E. Bockus, New York, was
elected president of the coal oper-
ator's association.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-17
Plan Appeal For
Bride Dismissal

LOS ANGELES, June IT. U.H -
A verbal notice of appeal was served
by prosecutors today, protesting the
action of Superior Judge Charles
w. Fricke in dismissing bribery
charges against Felix Kahn and
Allan Mcdonald, San Francisco con-
tractors, and Charles r. Ross OF
Los Angeles.
The three contractors were freed
late yesterday when Judge Fricke
granted the motion of defense at
torneys to dismiss the indictment
charging them with giving Sidney T.
Graves, former county supervisor,
an 100000 bride to negotiate set
Element of claims in the abandoned
San Gabriel dam project.
Judge Fricke held the state failed
to bring the defendants to trial
within a reasonable length of time
after return of the indictment.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-17
Keep Up Hope For
Mottern's Safety

NOME, Alaska, June II. UP
Hope for the safety of James Mat
tern. round the world flyer believed
down somewhere in the remote
Boring Sea area, was not abandon
ed by airmen today.
Because of dense fogs and clouds,
an organized search for the Texas
aviator, who left Khabarovsk, ST.
IBERIA, for Nome Wednesday, ap-
peared unlikely for several days.
Two coast guard cutters searched
Boring Sea, however.
Airmen here believed Mattern
landed on one of the Aleutian chain
of islands or on an island in the
Boring Sea. They said he could
live in safety with natives for
weeks before establishing communi-
cation with the outside world.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-17
INDUSTRIAL CONTROL PROGRAM
GUARDS INTEREST Of WORKERS

warning against too much fever
ish speed"
IF we now initiate prices as fast
and as far as we increase wages, p"
he said, the whole project will be
set at naught. We cannot hope for
the full effect of this plan unless,
in these first critical months, and,
even at the expense of full initial
profits. we defer price increases
as long as possible"
In little cubicles which serve as
offices, the hundreds of business
men and experts who make up
JotnSon's organization were driv-
ing ahead with the preliminary
work in a confident, busy atmos-
phere. The dominant note was one
of confident realization that indus
try after industry was swinging
into line, crowding forward with
offers of cooperation.
In another section the prelimin-
airy work of the public works divi-
sion, which will operate under the
national recovery act, was going
forward. Col. Donald H. Sawyer has
been designated as administrator
for this phase of the Work-a 3d.
3O0,0OO,O00 project designed to put
100000 men back to work. The
President already had ordered $400,-
100000 turned over to the states for
highway work and more than $780,
100000 to the navy for building
warshipS and airplanes.
After trade codes are agreed upon
by the various trades and indus
tries they will be brought to Wash
ington for inspection by Johnson
and his associates. This eXamina-
ton will be along three lines. The
agreements must meet conditions
suitable for the industry, for the
workers and for the public.
Mr.. Roosevelt made clear in his
statement of policy that the agree
ments must go to the White House
for the Presidents personal appro-
val before they become effective.
Wages must be maintained at
decent" levels while existing en-
ployment in industry is being
spread among more men, MI.
Roosevelt emphasized.
Recalls Inaugural Address
IN my inaugural address, he
said. II laid down the simple pro-
position that nobody is going to
starve in this country. 1t seems to
me to be equally plain that no
business which depends for exist
ence on paying less than living wa
ges has any right to continue in
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Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-17
OPEN VERDICT
RETURNED BY
INQUEST JURY

Death from gunshot wounds at
the hands of a person or persons
unknown, on the Morgan ranch,
three miles north and miles east
of Holtville. was the verdict re-
turned in Hcltville yesterday after
noon by coroner'S jury investigat-
ing the deaths of Shir Singh Sat
hi and Amelia Valdez. The bodies
of these two were found riddled
with bullets in an upstairs room of
the ranch house on Monday after
noon.
An investigation Of the dual kill
ing by deputies from the sheriffs
office has been carried on all
through the week. 1t is the opinion
of county officers that the Hindu
first killed his Mexican sweetheart
and then shot himself as the full
fillment of a suicide pact.
This theory is bolstered by the
fact that note purporting to be
suicide agreement, written by
SAITH and signed by him and the
girl, was found in his pocket dur
ing the investigation. Officials out
side the county. however, are in
clined to believe that the Hindu
was killed by members of a secret
cult who had put him on the "spot"
because of his activities against
several of his fellow countrymen in
labor disputes and other Hindu af-
fairs in various parts of the state.
H. G. Hitchcock, an investigator
attached to the office of c. S. Nor
rill chief of the state bureau of
criminal Identification, is in the
valley assisting local officers in
their investigation.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-17
WILL RESUME
LAMSON CASE
NEXT MONDAY

SAN JOJJSE, Cal, June II. U.P)
The home life of the David Lam
sons, whose marriage was describ-
ed as "a perfect match" on STAN
ford University campus, is expected
to be revealed when the prelimin-
airy hearing of Lamson on charges
of numbering his wife is resumed
here Monday.
Prosecutors said they will call
two former maids for the Lamsons
to testify One of them, Clara
MalWitz, has told authorities Lam
son would not speak to his wife
for hours after a quarrel.
After introducing medical test
imony in an effort to show that
the death of Mrs. Lamson was not
accidental, the state late yester-
day began its task of attempting
to establish a motive.
The hearing was continued nntil
Monday after Undersherift Earl G.
Hamilton testified LamSon told him
of sleeping in another room the
night of May 20. The next day
Mrs. Lamson's body was found in
the bathtub of her home on the
Stanford campus.
On the day the body was found
Hamilton said officers noticed sew
eral scratches on Lamson's face.
Other evidence which the state
adduced included the fact that
only part of 10-inch piece OF
pipe which was found in a bon
fire Lamson was tending in the
yard on the day of the alleged
Staying, had been burned, and that
the clean part showed traces OF
blood.