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The Redwood gazette., 1936-09-17
KNHD Helps
Nab Big Time
Detroit Thug
SIMILARITY OF CRIMES
IN 2 STATES LEADS
TO CAPTURE

Operators at KIND, Redwood
Falls criminal apprehension radio
station, feel responsible for the
capture of George Hall, ''kneel
and pray gunman who kidnapped
and shot a La Crosse, Wisconsin
man after wounding a Detroit
contractor last week.
Notified of the shooting of Err
nest Gallagher of Detroit through
its Michigan police relay Septem-
ber z, KIND Immediately sent
back a report that the same man
had kidnapped and shot James
Furber of La Crosse and stolen his
car.
Three days later the criminal
was apprehended at Detroit by
cruising patrolmen who possessed
his description and that of the car
which he was driving, both fur
nished by KIND.
William Collins, deputy chief of
detectives, at Detroit, said Hall
admitted he abducted and wound
ed Gallagher and that he robbed
and shot Furber after he had fled
to Wisconsin in Gallagher's ear.
After wrecking the Gallagher
car in Wisconsin, Hall told Collins
he hitch-hiked to La Crosse. En-
countering Furber, he forced him
to drive into the country and took
his car after shooting him in the
mouth.
'FHe kept arguing that mind was
stronger than matter" Collins
quoted Hall as saying of Furber.
II told him if it was let's try this
out and / shot him."
Hall, former Michigan prison in
mate is held on charges that he
abducted and shot with intent to
kill two robbery victims.
Another "knockover" for
KIND was the arrest of H. E.
Bailey by the sheriff at Jackson
Friday. Bailey was wanted at
Spencer, Iowa and the station had
send out his complete description.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-09-17
Cyclone Hits
Sections of
z Counties
FRANKLIN AND WALNUT
GROVE SECTIONS
STRUCK

A wind storm of cyclonic pro-
portions circled Redwood Falls
Monday evening wreaking havoc
at twice wind-scourged section
between Revere and Walnut
Grove and causing damage in
Renville county near Olivia, Bird
Island and Franklin.
Struck by a cyclone in 1924, a
strip estimated as about seven or
eight miles wide and extending
from four miles northwest of Re-
we're nearly to Walnut Grove was
pounded by raging gale which
blew for nearly an hour between
5 and 6 p. m, accompanied by oc-
casional heavy downpours Of rain.
Only personal injury reported
in the storm was suffered by Ker-
NIT Nerem, eldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Nerem who live on a
farm south of Revere. With the
other children of the family, Carl
was in the dwelling when the
house was tipped by the wind. His
injuries were not serious.
Three horses were killed when
the William Anliker barn four
miles south Of Revere was blown
over. The building was being re-
modelled.
At the Fred Schauer place east
of Walnut Grove the cupola was
blown off the barn, a hayrack was
wrecked and a turkey house and
other small buildings were level
led.
The roof of the barn at the Will
liam Kassel farm was blown about
100 feet on the road and a barn
owned by John Rikkus was
but with no stock loss.
Threshing machines, windmills
and other farm equipment in the
were overturned and
damaged.
Telephone and high line poles
were broken in several places be-
tween Franklin and Bird Island,
as many as IL in a row, interfer-
ing with traffic. The barn on the
Tony Poss farm north of Franklin
was blown down but two horses
and several cows were got out. A
windmill blew down on a nearby
place.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-09-17
Fattened Cattle Top
So. St. Paul Market

Twenty-three Hereford steer
calves which averaged $50 pounds
each when purchased in the South
st. Paul yards last September
were sold there Tuesday at $3.50
per hundred and weighed an av-
erage of 955 pounds.
They were fattened by Simpson
and Smith of Redwood Falls, John
Simpson having been in charge of
feeding. AT the start they were
given ground oats and good a1fa1-
ia hay and after several months
the ration was shifted to ground
corn and cob and oats. They were
finished on. ground shelled corn.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-09-17
To Reserve Seats for
Tracy-RedwoOd Game

Reserved section seats for the
Tracy-Redwood Falls football
game under lights here September
25 will go on sale Tuesday NOR
ming at Hansons Drug store. The
seats themselves win not be reser-
we'd but the section will be roped
off and all who purchase seats
there will be assured Of admit
tance.
Reserved section seats will be
As cents, general admission IS
cents while Junior and senior high
school students will pay 20 cents
and elementary students, 10 cents.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-09-17
SALES COMPANY
WILL CONDUCT
AUCTIONS HERE

Forming company for the con-
ducting of regular auctions at the
fairgrounds here was. announced
this week.
c. c. Crocker, j. M Stewart, M.
0. Hanson and F. E. Patten will
work together in handling sales
of livestock, machinery, household
goods and whatever else anyone
wants to sell every Wednesday Mr..
Patten will be manager, Mr.. Han
sen clerk and Stewart and Crock
er will be the auctioneers.
The first sale will be held Oc-
tober z.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-09-17
HIGH LINE POLE
WITH HOT WIRES
HIT PASSING CAR

Anton Rainier of, Olivia mira
culously escaped without injuries
when his car was struck by top
ping high line pole between Bird
Island and Franklin during Sc
we're electrical storm Monday eve
ming.
The top of the automobile was
smashed in and the metal of the
body was burned through by the
carried by the wires.
Rainier said that several motorists
along the highway were forced to
turn back because of the poles
blown across the road by the
heavy wind accompanying the
storm.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-09-17
School Enrolment
21 Over Last Year
PROSPECT OF BUILDING
BRINGS INFLUX OF
STUDENTS

Unusually large freshman and
junior classes, swelled by an in
fiux of students who completed
eighth grade or two years of high
school elsewhere, brought the high
school enrolment to $50 this week
compared with 375 for the first
days of school last year.
The swelled enrolment is attri-
buted in part to the anticipated
construction of a new building,
the state department having ad-
vised the school board that invar-
iably the enrolment in high
school shows substantial in
crease with improvements of fac
ilities.
The new freshman class MEN,
bership is 90 which is almost dou-
bic the eighth grade class of 40.
The seventh grade has 54 stud
ents. There are 81 sophomores, 72
juniors, SO seniors and eight spec
ial students.
Total enrolment in the city's
school system is 757, grade school
matriculation also running ahead
of last year. There are So first
graders, 81 in second, Sc in third,
70 in fourth, So in fifth and 81 in
the sixth grade for a total of 367.
The total last year was 1876 the
first day, 81 less than this year but
more than the year previous, the
school population of the city hav-
ing steady increase in recent
years.
School began with minimum
of confusion although rooms and
halls are congested due to crowd
ing both schools in one building.
The north end of the second floor
corridor in the west wing is being
partitioned off temporarily for a
classroom for individual and
group instruction in music.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-09-17

At the meeting of the second
district Midland Cooperative as
sociations, held Tuesday evening
at Winthrop, it was decided to
hold the next quarterly meeting
at Redwood Falls, In December.
Those who attended the Winthrop
meeting from here were, C. D.
Clipfell, A NJ Dennistoun, Aug
ust Kraemer, and Louis Bensen,
The Redwood gazette., 1936-09-17
E. III. Snow Hatchery
To Be Located Here

Redwood Falls will be the new
location for an E. H. Snow hatch
cry.
Mr.. Snow is negotiating now for
the purchase of a building here
and will install Snow incubators
and equipment in time for next
years Matching season.
Expansion plans include the
placing of new Snow incubators
in his hatcheries at Mankato, Can
by, st. James and Worthington.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-09-17
Women Plan Golf
Handicap Tourney

A women's handicap tourna-
ment will be staged at the Red
wood Falls golf course Sunday be-
ginning at 2 p. m, Mrs. 0. G.
Austbo, chairman of the tourna-
ment committee announced this
week. Qualifying was completed
Wednesday afternoon.
A cup will be awarded the win
ner
The Redwood gazette., 1936-09-17
SPECIAL NOTICE

On account of the large
number of subscriptions turn
ed in at the close of the first
period, it has been impossible
to get subscriptions double
checked for toddy's score
board.
Score Board Will Appear in
Nert Weeks Paper.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-09-17

Mr.. and Mrs. L. j. Schotten-
bauer and SON spent Sunday at
Springfield.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
MORROW WEDS
s. D. TEACHER
AT YUMA, ARlZ

Imperial Irrigation District board
of directors has lost its only bach
clor with the marriage Saturday
of Charlie Morrow of Brawley to
Miss Lillian Harmon of San Diego,
the ceremony being performed in
Yuma, Arizona,
Mrs. Morrow is a teacher in the
Mission Beach school and with the
closing of school year will make
her home in BraWley. Having Wis
tied frequently in the valley, Mrs.
Morrow has met many valley resi-
dents and announcement of the
marriage will be of county wide in
tereSt.
Morrow is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. A. Morrow of BraWley and
president of the Morrow Lumber
Co. He represents the Brawley
district on the board of directors
of the Irrigation District.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
ARMS INDUSTRY
DENOUNCED BY
SENATE GROUP

WASHINGTON, April 20. (UP)-
The senate munitions committee
today denounced Americas pri-
vate arms industry and asked the
governent to take into its own
hands the multi-million dollar bus
mess of producing guns. warships
and ammunition for the United
States Army and Navy.
The recommendation was made
to the senate by a majority of the
committee in the first of several
reports based on its searching
two-year scrutiny of international
traffic in arms.
The committee caustically re-
buked American munitions manu-
facturers for corrupt methods OF
arms sales abroad, for opposing
arms limitations, for high profits
and for a very considerable threat
to peace" in frightening nations
into a continued frantic expendi-
ture for devices of warfare"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20

.SeSSion of the league council An
thony Eden, British foreign secre-
tary, said Britain is ready TO con-
slider new economic and financial
sanctions against Italy, and that
existing sanctions must be main
tanned.
His speech followed one by Bar
on Pompeo AloiSi OF Italy in which
he said Italy demands complete
domination over Ethiopia as the
price of an armistice. Wode Mar
ian, for Ethiopia, insisted on i'm
mediate enforcement of military
penalties against Italy.
1T is our manifest duty as
members of the league" Eden said,
"at least to maintain existing
economic and financial sanctions.
In addition to the action un-
der article l6 (the punitive article
which already has been taken
his majesty's government are
ready to consider any new econo-
mic and financial sanctions"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
Fear of EUiction
Drives Man to Kill
Wife, Pets, Himself

LOS ANGELES. April 20. U.P)
Choosing death to eviction
from his home, william A. BOtta,
AZ, killed his wife today, de-
stroyed their four pets with gun
and knife, and then fatally
wounded himself.
BCtta died in a hospital, two
hours after being found uncOn-
SciouS beside the body of his
wife, Aimee, As. A mound of
earth in the backyard yielded
the bodies of police dog,
smaller dog, a parrot and cat.
all with thrOatS cut or pierced
with bullet wounds.
In a note, Botta revealed his
preferred death to being forced
cut of his home through eviction
proceedings.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
DRIVE STARTED
TO HALT INFLUX
OF ALIEN LABOR

DENVER. Colo April 20. UP
Colorado's drive against INDECENT
tourists began at dawn today, when
national guardsmen, called out by
Governor Edwin c. Johnson to halt
the influx of alien laborers from
other states, took command of all
ports of entry on the southern bor-
der.
Colorado'S imitation of Califor-
MAS bum blockade" extended
from Utah to Kansas, with every
entrance point from Oklahoma and
New Mexico under the scrutiny of
the guardSmen.
The men had orders to stop all
cars. buses and trains-With the eX-
ception of first-class passenger linz
iteds-to search them for the "un-
sirables.'
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20

tioning OF witnesses began mn
mediately. The defendants are
charged with pandering and two
counts of contributing to the de-
linquency of minor.
Their arrests followed reVela-
tions of two young white girls
found by Westmorland police in
the vice dive conducted by the
Culbertsons, according to officers.
Thompson is accused by the girls
of having brought them from Ari-
zona and installed them at the
Culbertson den in she northend
city. He is said to have baited
them with promises of easy
money"
Every entrance to the court room
was barred throughout proceed
ings Monday. The halls were
thronged with Negroes who came
TO the county seat to hear the
trial. They were not permitted
to enter the room, however, and
witnesses not being questioned
were banished from the court
room.
District Attorney Elmer Head
is handling the prosecution and
the defendants are represented by
Lee Nuffer and Ed Hervey. Both
the girls have been kept at the
county detention home since they
we're found by the officers.
WeStmorland officers one night
recently noticed an unusually large
crowd of Filipinos around the Cul-
bertson place. When they inves-
tigated they found the girls in
rear rooms in the building. They
brought the girls to Ell Centre.
Bail for the three Negroes was
raised from $4,000 each to $4,000
each. The CulbertSons made bail
and were released but Thompson
was held in Jail pending disposi-
ton of a federal charge, viola
ton of the Mann white slave act.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
Fred Harvey, Restaurant
Magnate, Killed i'm Plane

DUNLO, Pa, April 90 WP)-A
fleeting glimpse of a smoking red
and blue biplane by mountain
school girl offered the only dis
coverable clue today to the cause
of the airplane crash yesterday
that killd Frederick H. Harvey,
vice president of a national res
taurant chain and of the Santa Fe
railroad, and his wife,
The plane, Harvey'S own in
which he was taking his young
wife home to Kansas City from
New York after her return We'd
nesday from a visit to London,
caught fire and was destroyed af-
ter breaking through several tree
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20

ops and five 10000 volt wires.
Bodies of both victims were
burned beyond recognition.
Investigation by county and state
authorities revealed only one per-
son who saw the plane in its last
minutes before the crash. She was
Pauline Tanzely, l6, of Krayn, Pa,
a short distance from Dunlo.
In recent years, Harvey had be-
come an active director of devel-
cpment of Fred Harvey Inc, the
hotel restaurant, newsstand and
miscellaneous mart chain originat-
ed by his grandfather, the original
Fred Harvey
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
$4,000 LOSS
ESTIMATED IN
BORDER FIRE
Chinese Loses Life
In Blaze at
Mexicali

Losses estimated at $780,
900 resulted from a fire in
Mexicali Saturday n g h t
when four business houses
and a number of small
shacks went up in flames. The
loss was partially covered by III
surance, Mexicali officers said.
Officials said one Chinese lost
his life in the fire but he was
unidentified at press time Mon
day. He was unable to escape
from the basement.
Fire was discovered at 8 o'clock
Mexicali department efforts were
supplemented by men and equip
ment from the CaleXicO depart
ent. Ell Centro and BraWley de-
partments were asked to send help
but before the equipment could
leave the cities, the fire was
brought under control.
The flames ragged Tor TWO hours
and Mexicali was crowded with
residents from both sides of the
line attracted by the flames, The
glow could be seen for great dis
tanceS.
Rebuilding plans had not been
completed in most instances but
the Chinese Mercantile store own
er plans to rebuild Immediately,
officers said
The origin of the fire still was
in dispute Monday. Some officers
advocated that it had started from
defective wiring, others from dust
ignition in the wind and others
that gasoline stove was TO blame.
Buildings destroyed were on Ref
orma avenue near the MeXicali
police station.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
MINERS FIGHT
TO SAVE TWO
UNDERGROUND
Rapidly Dying From
Cold; Imprisoned
Seven Days
Copyright 1896 by United Press

tOTyTlgnL 1850 Dy tnteu FreSS
MOOSE RIVER, N. s.,
April 20. (UP)-Three hum
dred men worked like mad
today in a crumbing, peril
Gus shaft in one last desperate eff
fort to reach two Toronto mine
owners rapidly dying of cold and
exposure after more than seven
days imprisonment 141 feet be-
meath the surface.
One of the three men who was
trapped a week ago Sunday night.
Herman B. Magill. already was
dead in the cavernouS and wet un-
derground prison.
Through an iron pipe driven
from the surface into the mine.
the other two, DR.. D. A. Robertson
and Alfred Scadding. begged the
reScuerS:
I'm the name of God, hurry hur-
ry."
The doctor, able only too well to
diagnose his own possible fate.
feared he and Scadding could last
only few hours longer. Rising
water in the mine added to the
perils Of exposure.
Hot Brandy Lowered
Hot brandy and concentrated
soup. lowered in tubes through the
piped buoyed them somewhat. At
9:l5 am. they were tremendously
cheered by the fact that they could
hear the rescue workers tunneling
furiously toward their prison.
Mrs. Robertson and Mrs. Magill
had been at the mine top for days.
They were asleep when the pipe
was put through last night. When
they aWoke this morning, Mrs
Magill was told that almost the
first news to come up was that her
husband was dead, that only Mrs.
Robertson could hope any longer.
On the surface and in the slop-
ing shaft leading to the under
ground workings, men who had
been laboring for a week forgot
their aches and kept going on their
nerves.
They placed all their hope on
being able to make an opening by
way of the so-called Reynolds
shaft, a sloping entrance into the
mine SO dangerous that it was
abandoned 25 years ago. They
turned to this shaft after repeat
ed rock slides in the main vertical
shaft had blocked that avenue.
Timbers in the Reynolds shaft
were so rotten with age that they
crumbled almost at touch. Crews
Continued on Page 2, Col -
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
NATIVES FLEE
Adds ABABA;
MEN RALLIED
Explosives Rushed to
Front to Blow
Up Bridges
Copyright 1886 by United Press

Adds ABABA, April 20.
(UP) = T h e government
rushed stores of gun cotton
out along the road to Dessye
today, planning to blow up bridges
over cascades and to block noun
tain roads in the path of the Ital-
ian advance.
Natives, dazed and panic Strick-
EN-, began to evacuate the city,
believing the arrival of Italian
troops was imminent.
Motor lorries roared increasingly
through the city. Normal life was
suspended.
The road from Dessye was
crowded with motor trucks from
the front, and tattered, flying flu
gitives from the Ethiopian army.
Foreigners of many nationali-
ties besieged the bomb-roofed Brit
ish legation for shelter. Americans
prepared to take refuge there if
necessary. by order of American
Minister Cornelius Van H. Engert.
Bhlata Tekala, mayor of the
city, tried to rally to him the mob
of 5000 nondescript warriors, some
armed only with swords or spears,
who pledged themselves in a Wild
ly cheering demonstration yester-
day to defend the city.
The government issued what
arms it had.
Women sought to take their
places with their men.
"All able men must make a last
stand for liberty" said a govern
ment appeal to the people. 1T is
better to die than to be enslaved.
The spirit of Aduwa still lives cat
AduWa in 1896 Ethiopians slaugh-
tered an Italian army0
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
FL centric TO
RECEIVE One,
SAYS REPORT
$l5O,OOO Units Will
Aid Migratory
Workers

Two federally maintained
transient camps soon will be
established in Imperial Val
ley at a cost of $150,0OO
each, according to informa-
tion received in Ell Centre Mon
day by county officials.
Provision for cost of construc-
ton and funds for five years main
tenance are planned, county Off
cials were informed. The money
is to come from a $1600,000 fed
eral allotment which already has
been made, it was explained.
One of the camps is expected
to be established in Ell Centre
and one in Calipatria. 1t is un-
Continued on Page Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
POWER CONCERN
FORCED TO MAKE
$4,000 CHANGE

A Southern Sierras Power COM
pany crew under the foremanShip
of N. G. Smith moved into camp
in the Imperial county sand hills
Monday to begin the $4,000 job
of moving the company's transmits
sion lines through the dunes.
The lines must be moved because
the present route is on the ALL
American canal right of-Way,
where draglines will begin soon to
excavate for the canal north of the
Yuma highway. The power COM
pany's new lines will parallel the
highway on the south, rather than
the north.
Workmen will remain in camp
until the new lines are set up.
The power company must bear the
expense of the change.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
JURY SELECTED
IN PITT TRIAL

Selection of jury to hear the
trial of Clyde Pitts on a burglary
charge, was completed in superior
court prior TO the noon recess Mon
day.
He is charged with taking radio,
an overcoat, and other equipment
from the home of Kate Gomez.
The case is being tried before
Judge R.D.McPherrin with Deputy
District Attorney r. I. French ap-
pearing for the prosecution and
Frank BirkhauSer for the defense.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
GIRL WINS
IN SPEECH CONTEST

Dorothy Lou Gillian OF Central
high school is state champion in
defamation as the result of the
speech contest Saturday at the
University Of Redlands in which
representative of all the high
schools in California competed.
The young winner not only
brought back medal for herself
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
Entries in Knitting
Competition Judged

Winners in the Press-PoSt knit
ting contest which has aroused
such valley wide interest will be
announced Tuesday, the judges
meeting Monday afternoon to make
their decisions.
Many entries, both knitted and
crocheted, in a variety of colors
and styles have been turned in, all
so excellently done that the judges
face a difficult task in making
their decisions.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
Ranger Found Dead;
Bullet Through Head

LOS ANGELES, April 20. U.P)-
The body of Forest Ranger George
Mattern, AZ, was found in his
lonely post at Banquet Canyon
with bullet through the head to-
day. Officers said he apparently
committed suicide.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
q -
fR| <~g
- ANfBLING
Says
Charity Ball Notes

Charity Ball Notes
DR.. Forrest Kutz, Fred Nebel-
Thau and Lee Nuffer, among 9TH
ers, tossing empty cans through a
small hole in a cardboard, just by
way of diversion. Mark Connolly,
past exalted ruler, unburdened of
his cares, turning into semi-official
greeter at and near the Memorial
hall. Lee Rogers, exalted ruler, run
ming around trying to see all at the
same time if everything was all
right and everybody happy. They
were! Congratulations, ElkS lodge,
on the success OF your latest dance!
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
HEBREWS CLASH WITH ARABS
IN BLOODY STREET R|OT|NG
Ell Centro Men to Haze Their Fling
On Wednesday, StrdaV Hat Day

Come wind come rain, snow-and none of them
very likely-Wednesday is straw hat day.
1t is the day in the year when feminine fashions
retire modesy into the limbo of forgotten things, and
the masculine ego finds full play before full length
(Hel try to tell you he's looking only at the hat
1t the day when the heat-hodng elts go into the ash
into cold storage-and the straws parade along
Main street at the mzzen-peak of the dominant male
Wednesday is straw hat day in FL Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20

but a cup for the school and is
now eligible to compete in the ma
tional contest TO be held May at
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Annie Lee RapSon of the extern
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