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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-15
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-15
Rector
Postmaster Issues
 Christmas Request
Urges Early Mailing for Foreign Countries
 tiOns Given for Protecting VauabIes in Mail

Postmaster Charles A. Babn today urged all Water burans to mail Christmas cards and packages early par ticulary emphasizing the importance of sending mail to foreign countries early possible it is intended for delivery before the holidays Mir Babns statement fol- lowed an announcement from Washington concerning Christmas mail by Superintendent Nelson B. Wenzel of the classification section Suggestions from Washington
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-15
BRITISH VETERANS
 INSTALL OFFICERS
Edith Cavell Post Staff Off, ficiates at Joint Cere-
 monies Here

Installation of officers of Lord Kitchener post, British War Veter- ans, and those of the auxiliary were held jointly Saturday night at the post rooms, Scovill street, with cer- emonies conducted by members of Edith Cavell post, Hartford, and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-15

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Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
PRINTS Ii N K
SLAIN BURGLAR
IN new THEFTS
Police Trace GhOstly
Trail of Foot
g.. Marks

Police Saturday retraced
a ghostly trail of footprints
that linked Imperial Valleys
slain tennis shoe" burglar
in a series of robberies in
Brawley and Calexico. Marks on
the soles of the dead prowler's
shoes corresponded to prints found
at the scene of several thefts, Of
ficers disclosed at an inquest at
Lemons mortuary Friday afternoon.
The burglar, so far unidentified,
was slain in a gun battle near
Imperial Thursday night.
At an inquest police officers from
Calexico and Brawley testified the
lettering and markings of the foot
prints they had discovered at bur-
glarized homes tailed with those
on shoes worn by the slain burglar.
The jury returned verdict de-
claring the Mexican was slain by
two officers in line of duty and
while he was shooting at Sheriff
Robert W.Ware.
Two witnesses to the shooting,
e. D. Smith and Dana Weed, I'M
perial Irrigation district employees.
said they saw the shooting from
their automobile. They said they
saw puffs of dust at the feet of
the sheriff after the Mexican fired.
In one instance, they testified, the
sheriff shifted his position just in
time to step out of the way of
bullet from the fugitive's gun.
Elmer Little, Calexico police Of
ficer, said he had found footprints
Continued on Page 6, Col. 80
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
VALLEYITES
LEAVE OVER
LABOR DAY

Labor day will be celebrated In
Imperial Valley by a majority Of
the residents going to coast or
mountain resorts for the elongated
weekend.
Automobiles started leaving the
valley before noon Saturday with
the numbers on the highways In
creasing as the afternoon advanced.
Many men took advantages OF the
three day holiday TO bring their
families home after the summer
vacation.
Federal, state. county. and city
offices were scheduled to close
throughout the valley. Many busi-
ness houses also closed sheir Doors
for the three-day period. Others
planned to close Saturday night
and not open until Tuesday morn
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
BODY FOUND
D A N G | | N c
FROM CHAIN
Man Walks Floor
Most of Night;
Suicide

The lifeless body of Ernest
Knox, Negro, was found at
dawn Saturday dangling at
the end of a heavy chain in
a cell at the. Imperial county
Jail.
He had taken his own life.
Knox, known also as Jack Gar
cia, was one of four Negroes ac-
cused of slugging and robbing VIC
tor Alvarez in stickup in the
industrial district of Ell Centre
early this summer. He was held
in Jail on $1,000 bail pending hear
ing on his application for proba-
ton.
He took one end of a heavy steel
chain used to fasten his steel bunk
to the wall, wired one end around
his neck and rolled off the COT.
officers said. The body of the
Negro was found at o'clock Sat-,
urday morning by Juventino Mar
tinez, Knox cell mate DIR. F. A.
Burger, summoned to examine the
body, said he had been dead about
an hour. -
Knox told relative he had to
go to the penitentiary for so years,
1t was revealed at the inquest con-
Continued on Page 6; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
NEW SERUM
RUSHED TO AID
YOUNG TRIO

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4. U.P
"A new preventive serum for in
fantile paralysis today was rushed
to Mill Valley, on the north side
of San Francisco Bay, where three
small children have been stricken
with the disease.
The serum was recently develop
ed in the medical department OF
Stanford university and will be
used for the first time on human
beings.
The three children stricken are
Richard Haney; Sybil Hartens and
Billy DuX. Haney was termed crit
ically ill' by physicians.
An emergency health committee,
headed by DR.. Earl Young, was
formed to take charge of the situa-
ton. Two creeks have been flushed
out with 100000 gallons of water.
One high school was ordered closed.
All other schools have been fumi-
gated.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05

y Trying 10 flght his way through
roaring gasoline flames to rescue
them. He and two other men and
three women were forced to take
to a small skiff ami were rescued
by coast guard vessel attracted
by the flames lighting up the morn
ing darkness.
The dead:
Viola Timberlake, II.
Vivian Timberlake, 9, her sister
Elise league, 10.
L. E. Timberlake, father of the
two sisters, was scared about the
face and hands before the flames
forced him overheard. The other
five, less seriously burned were Mrs.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
With va||eyites
on Vacation

Miss Katherine Nuffer will leave
this weekend for Los Angeles where
she will enter U.CL.A. The Allan
P. NufferS returned Thursday from
a summer spent in La Jolla.
90
Miss Gwendolyn Bliss who has
been working in San Diego this
summer is home for a few days
with her mother, Mrs. H. F. Bliss,
Mr.. and Mrs. F.. A. Waehler
wrote from Milwaukee that they are
enjoying their trip through the
middle west and will be in the
valley before the end of the month,
90
Mr.. and Mrs. Melville G. Bates
left Thursday for a short stay in
San Diego, Los Angeles and Glen
Continued on Page 6 Column %
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
District Directors
Complete Session

Imperial Irrigation District di-
rectors Friday closed their annual
Today session as board of equal
ization.
Eighty-five pleas for reduction in
assessments were made during the
Today period with the assessment
figures lowered in few instances,
directors said. Last years board
of equalization listened to 81 pleas
The board is allowed is days after
the close of the equalization period
in which to fix the tax rate for
the coming year. This 15-day limit
expires September Is.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
Probation Denied
For Death Driver

Probation was denied j. Amador
Salazar, found guilty of negligent
homicide, in superior court Friday
and he was sentenced to San Quen-
tin.
He was held responsible for the
death of Charles Gillett former I'm
perial county sheriff, in an auto
mobile accident July 8.
Salazar through his attorney, A
c. Finney, was denied a motion for
a new trial. Finney then served
notice he would appeal to a higher
court from this courts denial OF
his motion for a new trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
MATTSON CASE
SUSPECT Seen
IN HONOLULU

HONOLULU, T. H., Sept. 4. U.P)
Honolulu police said today that a
sailor from a freighter told them
that one of his shipmates had ad-
mitted he was the kidnaper and
slayer of Charles Mattson, 10, of
Tacoma, Wash.
j. P. Mcfarland, department of
justice agent, questioned the in
forming sailor, but refused to COM
ment
The informant gave police the
name and description of his ship
mate who told of the kidnapping,
and police said the description cor
responded with that given by eye
witnesses to the kidnapping.
The Mattson boy, son of a Tacoma
dentist, was taken from his home
the evening of Dec. 81, 1886, while
he and several other children were
playing with Christmas toys.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05

States tonight joined with Great
Britain and France in demanding
that Japan remove her warships
from Shanghai.
The Intervention followed a rain
of explosives on the foreign areas,
chiefly from Chinese big guns at
tempting to sink japanese warships
which for weeks have been anchored
near the center of the Anglo-Amer-
ican and French districts. More
than 1000 civilians including Amer
leans have been killed in the for
eign areas since Aug. II.
China was requested to withdraw
her armies simultaneously.
Both Japan and China were eX-
pected to reject the demands, each
insisting that the other side retire
first.
That would leave the u S., Brit
ish and French naval commanders
and diplomats a choice of two al
ternatives:
l. To evacuate all their nationals
aS rapidly as possible.
2. To attempt to expel both the
Japanese and Chinese by force.
1t was agreed that the latter
course was unthinkable since the
combined force of the powers is
less than one tenth the strength
OF the japanese alone.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
AIRLINE LINKS
CHINA, SOVIET

SHANGHAI, Sept. 4. UP)-A di-
rect airline between Marking and
Moscow has been opened, paving
the way for military cooperation
between China and Russia, a Japa-
nese military spokesman intimated
today.
The spokesman said the present
Chinese air line from Nanking to
Lanchow, in the sparsely-settled
Chinese northwest, has been eX-
tended to Chukuchak, in Russian
dominated territory in Turkestan
There it connects with the Soviet
line to Moscow.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
VALLEY MAN HANGED IN CELL
SUICIDE CLIFF
CLAIMS LIFE OF
N { w VICTI M

HONOLULU, Sept. 4. UP)-Police
believed today that the scenic and
suicidal Nuunau Pail, 1900 foot cliff
over which King Kamehameha
pushed an enemy army centuries
ago, claimed another victim =
glamorous female character of the
demi world
zola Knight, 32 year old brunette
habitue of Honolulu night spots who
was under federal indictment o.
narcotic charges, apparently hurled
herself over the rocky precipice into
4 tangle of KiaWe bushes.
Miss Knights body was recover
ed by a fire department rescue
,quad later. 1t was discovered about
300 feet from the top of the cliff
Her skull was smashed by her fall
and death apparently was instan-
taneous.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
RELIEF PURGE
TO BE MADE

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Sept. 4. U.P)
Gov. Frank F.. Merriam, moving
to meet a prospective labor short-
age in California agricultural fields
at the height of the fall harvest
season, today announced plans for
a complete purge of the state relief
set-up
The state henceforth will pro-
ceed on basis of mo work, no
eat" in cases involving able-bodied
indigents listed on relief rolls, he
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
King Cotton


Those who moan to the tune of
King Cotton will find consolation
in this squib, sent out by the Bos-
ton, News bureau:
Cotton is the overcoat of a seed
that is planted in the southwestern
states to keep the producer broke
and buyer crazy The fiber varies
in color and weight and the man
who can guess the nearest the leng-
tn of fiber is called a cotton
man by the public, a fool by the
farmer and a poor business man
by his creditors.
The price of cotton is fixed in
New York and goes up when you
have sold and down when you have
lot. A buyer working for a group Of
mills was sent to New York to
watch the cotton market and after
a few days deliberation wired his
firm to this effect:
"Some think it will go up, some
think it will go down; do, too
Whatever you do willSbe wrong,
Act at once" ...e
Cotton is planted in the spring,
mortgaged in the summer and left
in the field in the winter.
There are other definitions, but
none better than this.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
Maritime Unions
Urge War Boycott

NEW YORK, Sept 4. (UP)-Three
maritime organizations affiliated
with the Committee for Industrial
Organization today announced they
favored an American labor boycott
against all war material destined
for Japan.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
Martha Raye Says
Mate Threatened Her

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 4. W.P)-
Martha Raye. screen comedienne,
today filed a sensational divorce
complaint against her husband of
three months, Hamilton Buddy
Westmore, makeup artist. She
charged he threatened her life.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
BUS|N ESSM EN-
ASSA|LED IN
FRISCO STRIKE.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4. U.H
Harry Bridges, west coast direc-
tor of the Committee for Industrial
Organization, today accused organ
lied San Francisco business men Of
fomenting and supporting the war
to a finish" which virtually has
paralyzed the waterfront of San
Francisco Bay.
In letter to the San Francisco
Central Labor council he declared;
"The issue involved is not the
CIO. or the American Federation
of Labor.
I'VE see in the present situation
the attempt to promote bitter
hatred that can be inflamed to
violence and bloodshed by two op-
posing camps of union men, there
by benefitting solely the interests Of
organized employers"
%
SEATTLE, Sept. 4. U.E)-Dave
Beck, international vice president
of the Transfers Union, said to-
day there would be no end to the
waterfront embargo in San Francis
co and Oakland until longshore-
men stop going outside their juris-
diction to organize warehousemen.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. UP
John l.. Lewis marshalled his forces
today for campaign of political
action against the opponents Of
his Committee for Industrial Or
ganization.
The labor leader clarified his
plans last night in a radio speech
iE which he rebuked President
Roosevelt.
Without referring to him by
name, Lewis said:
1T ill behooves one who has
supped at labor's table and who
has been sheltered in labor's house
to curse with equal fervor and fine
impartiality both labor and its ad-
versaries when they become locked
IN deadly embrace.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
Children Die in
Flaming Yacht

LOS ANGELES, Sept. A. (UP)-Three small girls were
trapped in their beds and burned death by explosion
and fire that destroyed yacht in San Pedro channel four
miles off the harbor light early this morning
The father of two of them sisters was burned serious
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
POWERS DEMAND
WARSHIPS MOVE
Copyright, 1887, by United Press)

SHANGHAI, Sept. 4. O1 p.m.) UP)-Alarmed at
immediate to the lives of than 1000 Amer
leans in the bomb international settlement and the
French concession of this beleaguered city, the United
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
Laugh This Off

Dave Vencill led his playmates on
the board of supervisors to believe
he was going to spend his vacation
in Missouri. The other day ]. v.
Yeargin, who accompanied Vencill
east, mailed a post card from Coney
Island. Vencill never will be able
to convince the board he wasn't
there too.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
SHEET OF FIRE

SHEET OF FIRE .,s.., -.
Timberlake rushed repeatedly into
the sheet of fire, but was driven
back. He fought on desperately
after Burg launched a small skiff
and took off the women. The cabin
with his daughters inside hopelessly
enveloped in flames, he finally went
overheard. Burg jumped into the
water to give his seat in the skiff
to the badly burned man.
After taking aboard the survivors
and extinguishing the fire with her
hoses, the Aurora returned at full
speed to San Pedro, towing the
yacht Timberlake was transferred
to fast coast guard speedboat
several miles out and rushed to a
hospital ashore.
The gutted yacht, the childrens'
bodies still inside the smouldering
cabin, was moored at the coast
guard base.
Timberlake was taken to the po-
lice receiving hospital, and the other
five to private physicians.
Cause of the explosion was be-
lieved gas accumulat.ng in the en-
gine room. The motor had been
missing occasionally for some time
before the blast.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
Too Much Sandpaper-

Dove season is playing Holy Ned
with the sartorial splendor of the
masculine population of the valley
The nimrods just don't have time
to shave between early morning
hunting trips and office hours John
Kepley says the doves fly better
during the time a man should be
shaving.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05

Timberlake, Mr.. and Mrs Ellwooi
A. league, parents of the third
child, and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Burg.
The Burgs and leagues are of
Beverly Hills, Cal, and the Timber
lakes of Los Angeles
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
Firemen Stand by,
Refuse to Help,
AS Horses Burn

BOISE. Ida, Sept. 4. UDH-Seven
polo ponies and riding horses burn
ed to death here today when flames,
starting from a straw pile, roared
through two barns.
The fire department was on the
scene but did not attempt to stop
the fire.
The barns were about 10 feet over
the line defining city limits.
Firemen watched the seven horses
kicking and screaming, tied to flam-
ing stalls. Owners, some of them
openly crying, begged firemen to
run a hose line and quench the
flames.
Firemen replied that they had
strict orders from the mayor and
city council not to fight fire outside
the city limits.
Ell Centre has a similar ordinance
preventing firemen from going OUT
side the city limits to fight fires
or to take fire fighting equipment
outside.
This ordinance was passed be-
cause insurance on men and equip
ment is nullified if taken out of the
boundaries of the municipality.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
Genuine Labor Day

Labor day will be Labor day for
California Highway patrolmen since
Captain Frank Oswalt decided to
initiate 24hour road patrol. Come
to think about it, the patrolmen will
not be the worst sufferers They
may be a little irritated and an
irritated traffic cop can be some
thing terrible. n
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
SIGHTED FLARE

JAohAG LII LANE
Shortly after midnight the party
left San Pedro aboard the 5O-foot
power yacht "Truant". They plan
ned to sail for Santa Catalina island
33 miles off the southern California
coast for the weekend.
At approximately 2 am. the coast
guard patrol boat Aurora was start
ing out to sea to search for a miss
ing barge when Boatswain John
Davis sighted the flare of flame
from the yacht.
Rushing at full speed four miles,
the patrol boat arrived alongside
to find the yacht in roaring flames,
from bow to stern. Five of the
survivors were in small skiff and
Burg was floundering in the water
From the hysterical and burned
survivors stories, the coast guard
learned that the three girls and one
of the women, Mrs. Burg had been
asleep in the cabin, forward of the
engine room. The others were in
the stern control cockpit.
AS the blast shot flames from the
engine room, Mrs. Burg staggered
out sleepily. Before she realized
the children were left behind, flam-
ing gasoline spattered the cabin anc
trapped the girls.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
MARKETS IN BRIEF

Butter: Los Angeles 36c; butterfat, Imperial
Valley fob ranch grade A, 4Sc; manufacturing
milk, 4Oc; route gathered cream. 35l9c.
L. A. Hay: u. S. No. l S175O-18; u. s. No.
Ieafy $16.5O-17; U. s. No. $155O-i6. Minneapolis
flax, Sept, S197k
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05

Insult To Injury
Cal Mousseau is going to have to
explain and explain to Tommy
Thomas when he gets back from .
fishing trip to Oregon. He borrowed
Tommy's trout fishing rod before
he left, went salmon fishing with
1t and broke it in eight pieces. That
is not only an insult but also dirty
trick. That isn't all. On the same
card with the news about the ruined
trout fishing rod, Mousseau said,
II had fried bear for breakfast
and now I have to go out in the
snow in the backyard and chop a
cord of wood" Tommy hopes he
chokes on bear meat but feels he
is safe from injury in the wood
chopping threat. He won't chop
wood, he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
WEATHER

Maximum temperature 107, minimum II; am.
tempera ature 49, humidity 80; temperature 1O3,
humidity 81; pm. temperature 103, humidity 20.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-05
~ AMBLING
KEPORTER
Says: ka>

No Savvy-
Deputy Sheriff Pete Kulinovichs
ability to understand Spanish cuss
words was just too bad for the
tennis shoe" burglar. The fugitive
shouted the naughty name at Sher-
tff Robert w. Ware, who wasn't
annoyed because he didn't under
stand it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-20
A Thought for Today
Harwood Is WiIlin'

Last week State Senator Benjamin E. Harwood of Chester announced that ne would accept the chairmanship of the Republican State Central Committee, IF it's offered to him. He has no intention, he maintains, of contesting the office and will accept it only if presented on the proverbial silver platter. All of which may or may not have any real bearing on the coming election by the State Cen tral Committee However, it does lndl- cate quite clearly that behind-the-sceneS activity is taking place in republican ranks.
 The choice of a new chairman, new treasurer, and a new national commit teeman is giving the present leaders ot the party some worry. They don't seem to be sure whether Major John Buckley of Union, who has really been the guiding force of the party since the death of J. Henry Roraback earlier this year, should be elected or whether an out and out fight for the office should be permitted. Should they adopt the latter course there is no telling who might be named with various factions quite willing to comprom- ise if they get their own way on some thing else.
 Senator Harwood's statement is quite in keeping with his position in the republi- can party. He is distinguished member of it and has served the party well and faithfully He undoubtedly would make 2. good leader and would be devoted to the best interests of the party. But as his own statements indicate he would regard his office merely as temporary one. In year or perhaps two years he would feel free to resign, and turn the other other members of the party think there should be no temporary election of this nature. The permanent chairman might better be selected right away regardless cf how it may hit certain elements of the party.