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Carbon County news., 1937-06-18
WALLUM'S
!. SOLEMN
COLUMN
BY EVERETT wALLuM

Only next Monday Red Lodge
will be Host to the Montana as
sOciatiOn of county commissioners
for a three-day convention. In
order to correct an impression re-
ceived by a few people that water
commissioners are also included,
we make haste to say that this
convention will have little, if any,
thing, to do with water.
just to add a little pep to the
gathering we suggest that dele
gates from the various counties
dress, or otherwise carry the at
mosphere, of their home counties.
Carbon county commissioners. for
instance, should wear miners caps
and smear a bit of coal dust on
their cheeks.
1T WILL BE JUST TOO
DUCKY FOR WORDS TO HAVE
THE SILVER BOW DELEGATE
COME DRESSED AS CUPID.
All the Roosevelt delegate will
have to do is to hand out a flock
of money to whomever he meets,
Theren be no mistaking the name
of his home county.
Or he can come with a ping
pong set. Ping pong is played on
a reduced court.
All the Beaverhead representa-
tive has to do is to exhibit a piece
of gnawed wood.
OR A FACE FULL OF WHISK-
ERs.
The Big Horn county dad can
come dressed as almost any we'll
known politician.
All the Glacier delegate has to
do is furnish ice for the morning
after.
The Musselshell delegation could
shut up like clam, but that would
never do-this is a convention.
THOUGH TT PROBABLY
WOULD BE NATURAL TO
SOME OF THE HUSBANDS
COMING DOWN.
When the convention gets argu-
nentative, the delegate from Pc
rolium county can pour oil on the
rouble.
We wouldn't want to be the dele
rate from Garfield county. Gar
ield was shot. Hmmmm! Or
you'd we?
WE WONDER IF THE DELE
TATES FROM LIBERTY CoUN-
" WILL COME WITHOUT
HEIR WIVES?
We hope those from Park coun-
y are allowed to stay in one place
lore than 90 minutes.
The fellas from Saltwater cOun-
Y can come with a cup of board
lg house Java. It looks like cOf-
ee but it's saltwater.
Delegates from Hill county had
est be keerful. Everyone knows
lar's gold in them thar Hills.
THIS WILL PROBABLY GO
YER YOUR HEAD LIKE A
LOUD, BUT WE THINK THE
ID E EEGATE
HOULD COME DRESSED AS
ADY OF THE LAKE.
Well, We don't care how: they're
ressed just so they get here.
IS about time the commissioners
Ut a little relief, too.
They must remember, however,
at they can't put the cost Of
ewing the Red Lodge-C Cooke road
their county expense account.
THEY'RE GOING TO HIDE
he DUCKS WHEN THE COM
ISSIONERSr VISIT THE SEE
M ALIVE zoo FOR FEAR
IIE VISITORS WILL RUN BER-
ERK. THEY CAME HERE TO
ct AWAY FROM BILLS.
HO Hum Period.
.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

cakled for hours with
out stopping. Maybe was conducting filbuster.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

Too often when let's Sin ground
you end up in the ash in the back yard
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

They must remember, however,
that they can't put the cost Of
viewing the Red Lodge Cooke road
on their county expense account.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

THOUGH TT PROBABLY
WOULD BE NATURAL TO
SOME OF THE HUSBANDS
COMING DOWN.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

Well, we don't care how they're
dressed just so they get here.
It's about time the commissioners
got little relief, too.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

When the convention gets argu-
mentative, the delegate from Pc
trolium county can pour oil on the
trouble.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

We wouldn't want to be the dele
gate from Garfield county. Gar
field was shot. Hmmmm! Or
would we?
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

WE WONDER IF THE DELE
GATES FROM LIBERTY C0UN-
TY WELL COME WITHOUT
THEIR WIVES?
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

1T WILL BE JUST TOO
DUCKY FOR WORDS TO HAVE
THE SILVER BOW DELEGATE
COME DRESSED AS CUPID.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

The Musselshell delegation could
shut up like a clam, but that would
never do-this is a convention.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

HO Hum Period.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

THIS WILL PROBABLY GO
OVER YOUR HEAD LIKE A
CLOUD, BUT WE THINK THE
BROADWATER ID EEEGATE
SHOULD COME DRESSED AS
LADY OF THE LAKE.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

Delegates from Hill county had
best be keerful. Everyone knows
thar's gold in them thar Hills.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

All the Roosevelt delegate will
have to do is to hand out a flock
of money to whomever he meets.
Theren be no mistaking the name
of his home county.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

We hope those from Park coun-
ty are allowed to stay in one place
more than so minutes.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18
PARKWAY NATIONS

Continued from Page u
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

The Big Horn county dad can
come dressed as almost any we'll
known politician.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

All the Glacier delegate has to
do is furnish ice for the morning
after.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

Only next Monday Red Lodge
will be Host to the Montana as
sOciatiOn of county commissioners
for a three-day convention. In
order to correct an impression re-
ceived by few people that water
commissioners are also included,
we make haste to say that this
convention will have little, if any.
thing, to do with water.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

The fellas from Saltwater cOun-
ty can come with a cup of board
ing house Java. It looks like cOf-
fee but it's saltwater.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

just TO add a little pep to the
gathering we suggest that dele
gates from the various counties
dress, or otherwise carry the at
mosphere, of their home counties.
Carbon county commissioners, for
instance, should wear miners caps
and smear a bit of coal dust on
their cheeks.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

Or he can come with a ping
pong set. Ping pong is played on
a reduced court.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

All the Beaverhead representa-
tive has to do is to exhibit a piece
of gnawed wood.
Carbon County news., 1937-06-18

OR A FACE FULL OF WHIsK-
ERS.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10
GIGOLO> SUSPECTED AS BRAINS
OF MURDER RING SURRENDERS

year-old Brooklyn dancer, and four
others, had killed other victims.
The fugitive sought as the leader
of the murder ring Is Roger Mil
lion, 25. a varnish-haired gigolo,
long known to police as traffick-
er in women and drugs and any,
thing else to make monev. With
him is young blonde, Mile. Col
lette. described by police as "vam-
pire". A peasant youth. Jean Blanc,
police believed may have been the
foil of smarter men and with Mil
lion and the woman.
Million, they said. had dreamed
of introducing kidnaping into
France on a large scale, but had
been unable to do so because he
could not find a killer sufficiently
cold-blooded and unscrupulous. He
frequented the luxurious bars of
the Champs Elysees and the big
hotels patronized by American and
English tourists and was popular
with them, In one OF them he met
Weidmann who had just finished
Continued on Page 2. Col6
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10
ESTABLISHING
AL LIN ( TO
VALLEY SOUGHT
San Dieg2rs, Ell Centrans
Confer to Pledge
Cooperation

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec
10. (UP)-Immediate estab-
lishment of permanent air
passenger and mail service
between San Diego and Ell
Centre was being sought here to-
day.
The recommendation for the air
service was made following a meet
ing of representative of the Asso-
ciated chambers of commerce of
the Imperial Valley with San Diego
city and county civic leaders at the
u. S. Grant hotel last night.
Other recommendation made by
the group included:
l. Immediate efforts to obtain
improved regular mail service be-
tween Ell Centro and Imperial VAL
ley points and San Diego.
2. Obtaining of immediate high
way improvements which would
speed-up traffic between the I'm
perial Valley and the sea coast here.
The meeting pledged mutual CO.
operation in solving problems con-
corning the neighboring counties.
The Imperial Valley delegation
headed by Eugene Anderson. presi-
dent of the Associated chambers
included: Walter Havekorst, Ell Gen.
tro; Imperial County Supervisor
Graham; Earl Cavanah, Calexico
State ASsemblyman Clarence Walk.
er and Paul Jenkins, Ell Centre
publisher.
The San Diego county delegation
headed by Frank Forward, chair
man of the San Diego chamber of
commerce highway committee. in
cluded: j. Herman Bjornstad, Will
liam Hart, state highway commits
sioner; T. c. Macauley, Charles
Cotant and Rufus Choate.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10
SECTION HAND GETS BLAME IN
SHOVEL KILLING OVER WOMAN

BRAWLEY, Dos. 10-Jose Cara
tachea, Mexican section hand, was
held responsible for the shovel kill
ing of Juan Padron at Pope Siding
Wednesday.
A coroners jury assembled at the
Thornton undertaking establish
ment in Brawley late Thursday
found Caratachea responsible for
the death of the man he declared
tried to take his wife and the
mother of his four small children
away from him.
Section hands described the scene
on the railway tracks in the isolat-
&c area near Pope Siding early
Wednesday morning. They told how
Padron fled from Caratachea, how
Padron slipped in fleeing down a
ditch bank, and how Caratachea
struck him on the head with a
heavy shovel
Caratachea admitted striking Pa
dron but declared he thought Pa
dron was going to strike him with
huge bar used to lift rails.
A Mexican poem allegedly quoted
by Padron just before Caratachea
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10
Slayer Cheats Hangman;
Dives to Death in Cell

BOISE, Ida, Dec. 10 -UP)-
Douglas Van Vlack died in bed as
he wished today, 80 minutes after
he was to have been hanged for
murder
He died in the prison hospital
after headlong dive from the cat
walk of the third tier of cells, 30
feet to the concrete floor below.
His neck was broken, such as
the hangman might have broken it.
For four hours Warden William
Cess waited to have him hanged
"as soon as he was conscious" All
the time 1t was doubtful whether
he was going to die in bed or on the
rope.
The law said that no insane nor
unconscious man might be hanged,
so the matter was in the warden S
hands, and the doctors. Gov. Bra
zilla Clark opposed the execution
but refused to intervene. None of
it mattered in the end.
For 20 minutes Van Vlack sat
perched beside the third tier of
cells, where he climbed hand over
hand up a projecting rod after he
was taken from his cell to say
goodbye to his mother. Below his
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10
Italy to Announce
Withdrawal From
League Saturday

ROME, Dec. 10. CUP)-Italy will
announce her withdrawn from the
League of Nations Saturday, 1t
was reliably reported in diplomatic
quarters today.
The withdrawal evidently will
be the first step in a complete
change in foreign policy, and will
be approved at an extraordinary
meeting of the Fascist grand coun-
Gil Saturday night.
Premier Benito Mussolini was
said to have decided that there
was no further hope under the
present circumstances of reaching
an understanding with Great Brit
ain, and to have determined upon
a vast program to strengthen Ita1y's
position in the Mediterranean for
the eventuality of an Italo- British
war
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10
FILIPINO Will
FACE TRIAL IN
SHOOTING CASE
Dec. 20 Set For Hearing
OF Islander From
WeStmOrland

Raymundo Tagorda, Fill
pino, will go to trial in su-
perior court Dec. 20 on a
C hal rye of attempting to
murder Harold Dickerson,
Westmorland police officer, in a
spectacular gun battle in the north
end city late last month.
He also will be tried before Judge
r. D. McPherrin on a charge OF
violation of the law preventing
aliens from carrying deadly weap-
OnS.
The Filipino entered a plea OF
not guilty to both counts when
taken into court Friday. He was
arrested by Dickerson after the
islander shot him twice in the
hack while attempting to avoid
arrest at the hands of Ed Dicker-
son, another police officer and also
father of the injured man.
Dickerson suffered a shattered
elbow and one of the bullets creas-
ed his back.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10
Fall Of Capital City
Matter Of Hours
Police Nab
PiCketS at
Ford Plant

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 10
CUP)-Sixteen pickets were ar
rested today shortly after
strike was called by United Au-
tomObile Workers at the Ford
Assembly plant here.
The arrests occurred as un-
ion official threatened to call
labor holiday involving $4,000
to 10000 members of CIO here
to force closing Of the plant.
There were reports the union
might start mass picketing to
offset arrests.The pickets start
ed parading in front of the
plant shortly after the strike
became effective at 9 am.
The men were released later,
however, on personal bonds for
their appearance at the sta
ton Monday No charges were
filed.
Carl Stevens, interna. t o n al
representative of the CfO, vOic-
ed the threat of sympathy
strike by other CIO men.
"We are determined to win II
We have to call a labor holiday
in Kansas City," he said.
"When the Ford plant re-
opened after a six-week shut
down, none of the CIO officers
or committeeman was rehired."
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10
TROOPS FIGHT
HAND TO HAND
ALONG Streets
Fierce Chinese Defense
Crumbles Before
Artillery

SHANGHAI, Dec. II (UP)
Japanese s h Ock troops
swarmed over the walls of
Marking shortly after mid
night. T h ey engaged the
Chinese defenders in bitter hand
to-hand struggles in the narrow
streets.
The Iall Of the ancient capital,
which has been bathed In the blood
of repeated invasions, appeared to
bs only matter of hours, as Gen.
Iwane Matsui, chief of the Japa-
nese armies, confirmed the cap
ture of a section of the southeast
e.n wall.
From house to house and street
to street the battle ragged in q
roar OF machine gun and rifle
IRE. This followed an artillery
assault that left the great Kwang
Kua Men gate, In the southeastern
wall, in ruins.
Shell after shell crashed against
the gate until the keystone was
pulverized and the huge arch came
crashing down. Then Chinese bar
ricades melted away before land
mines and the Japanese charged
300 yards and pierced the wall.
Slowly the Chinese defenders
gave way before whitening machine
gun fire as the Japanese fought
their way to the broad roadway
etop the hattlements and set ur
light artillery. Down in the streets
bayonets flashed as the invaders
swarmed in through the breach.
The capture of the Kwang Kua
Men gate climaxed a go hour at
tack by the Wakizaki detachment.
Shell after shell crashed against
the great stone walls and the gate
until the arch of the gate was
pounded down.
Land mines were used to blow
Up barricades. Before hot artillery
fire the Chinese fled. Japanese
-orces entrenched 300 yards from
the walls went over the top" ana
captured a section of the parapets.
Gen. Matsui sent hearty con-
gratulations for occupying part of
the wall-"I highly appreciate the
successful attainment of your diff
ficult task"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10

struck, he said, angered him.
Caratachea' accused Padron of
reering through the windows of his
rooms in the section house at Pope
Siding after the family retired
and making signs to Mrs. Carata-
chea.
Claude Johnson, section foreman,
said he saw the Mexican strike
Padron and called to him to stop
you will kill him."
Il don't care If I do. He tried to
get familiar with my wife," john
son quoted Caratachea as reply
ing.
In response to. Deputy District
Attorney Ralph French question,
Did you. strike Padron with the
shovel?" Caratachea said,
Yes, I struck him once but he
offended me first" He disliked. he
testified, to have Padron accuse
him of being sleepwalker after
The asserted events of the night
before.
Caratachea is held in the county
jail.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10

any Jlme next week.
Temperatures rose as much as
80 degrees west of the Rocky noun
tains in the last "a hours as a
large and deep low pressure area
moved in from the Pacific" and
Chicago Forecaster G. A. Donnel
said that presaged rising temsera-
lures east of the Rockies within
the next few days.
The mercury still was below
freezing east of the Rockies, except
il, southern Texas, and southern
and eastern Florida.
Icy streets and overheated stoves
caused accident deaths to mount
and the nation counted at least
100 weather deaths.
Nine states reported tempera-
lures of zero or below.
Coolest place in the U. S. was
Williston, N. D., where it was 20
below. The highest temperature
--64 above-was recorded at San
Francisco and Eureka, California
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10. CUP)-
Southern Californias long delayed
rainy season started today with
more than half inch of rain reg
istered from the first storm and
more in prospect for tonight and
tomorrow.
The storm brought .55 of an inch
of rain to Los. Angeles, setting 4
season total of SO. At this time las.
year the total was 148. The normal
average is 2.78..
L. H. Daingerfield, government
neteorologist, issued forecast for
cloudy skies and occasional rains
tonight and Saturday, little change
Continued on Page 2, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10
Old Santa Will
Descend From
Skies Saturday
Motorcycle Escort
To Bring Saint
To Ell Centre
BULLETIN

DOLAE I'm
At a late hour Friday Santa
Claus telegraphed the Post Press
asking that strong invitation be
cent to the boys and girls of El
Centre to be at Fifth and Main
streets in Ell Centre at 10 O'Clock
Saturday morning, when the tri-
umphal tour throut.h the down.
town district-with several stores
giving away candy and other
things-will be started.
Santa Claus Friday an
nounced the full schedule of
his visit to Imperial Valley
Saturday morning.
The patron saint of the
Yule season will arrive at the I'M
perial airport at 9:l5 SATURDAY.
morning. where children from I'm
perial and the FL Centro district
will be on hand to welcome him
as ne steps from the plane piloted
by Ira Rogers.
After proper ceremonies at the
airport, the whiskered old gentle
man will be introduced to Les Rog-
ers. his escort for the trip from
airport to Ell Centre, and will whisk
into town in new Dodge behind
a motorcycle escort of honor fur
nished by Captain Frank Oswalt
of the California Highway Patrol
The procession will stop on Main
street near Fifth street, where pic
lures will be taken, a welcome will
be extended on behalf of the city
by Ell Centre city officials, and
boys and girls will meet Santa
Claus.
Beginning at about 10 o'clock
Saturday morning at Fifth and
Main street, Santa Claus will visit
the stores in the downtown dis
trict, all the while meeting chill
dren and taking the letters they
have written to him. He has re-
quested that every boy and girl
writing to him put his or her name
and address on the back of the
letter, so that it will not be lost.
Many stores have made elaborate
plans to welcome Santa Claus, some
Of them even announcing that they
will give away candy, horns and
other things to the children who
visit the stores to see Santa Claus.
The time is OILS at the Imperial
airport-or 10 o'clock at Fifth and
Main streets. The occasion?
Santa Claus will be here!
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10
PAYMENTS ON
AlL-AME RICAN
HIT new HIGH
$345,6 900 Due Workers
For Construction in
November

Imperial Dam, headworks
for the great All American
which saw an all time high
canal, was 87.4 per cent COM
plete at the end of a month
monthly contract payment made to
the contractors by the federal
government, the report of the Unit
ed States reclamation bureau for
November said Friday.
An amount of $345 ,603.41 was due
the contractors, Utah Construction
company, Winston Brothers COM
pany and Morrison-Knudsen COM
pany, the report said. This repre-
sents the largest payment made
since the Imperial Dam contract
was let.
Other phases of the All Ameri-
can canal project progressed sat-
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10
Interest Rises by Leaps,
Bounds in Light Contest

Every imaginable type of Christ
mas outdoor lighting display began
to take shape in Ell Centre this
week as interest grew by leaps and
bounds in the Christmas lighting
contest suggested by Mrs. Warren
Currier, president of the Women's
Ten Thousand Club, and sponsored
by the Post-Press.
D. Tiny lights twinkled about five
pointed star in one yard on Olive
avenue, an Indian teepee on South
Eighth street was outlined by shin
ing Christmas colors in lights, a
home on Park avenue was outlined
around the entire roof edging with
brilliant illumination, and through
out the residential districts of the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10

lawyer pleaded with him to wait;
the warden demonstrated with the
guards to hurry and spread a net
to catch him, but too late.
you'll never see me swinging
at the other end of a rope" he
shouted. Il have the right to choose
the way will die
To the warden he called down:
Il won't come down unless you
get me a reprieve."
The warden looked to the guards,
who were then stretching the net
Van Vlack dived. His body crashed
to the concrete, crushing his head
and shoulder. He landed two feet
from guard.
Van Vlack killed his wife and
two peace officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10
Hoffman Studies
His New Duties

j. P. Phil" Hoffman, Brawley
resident appointed county INDECENT
officer and veterans service officer
Thursday, was sitting in Friday
with Charles Nice, who resigned
from the positions.
The new county official declared
he contemplated no changes in the
office personnel or in the general
polices of the office. County super
visors requested Nice to remain a
week TO assist Hoffman in assum-
ing the duties of the office.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10
ICC REFUSES
BOOST IN RAIL
4 ( FREIGHT RATE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. (UP)-
The interstate commerce commits
sion today overruled the railroads
motion for permission to increase
freight rates Is per cent on five
days notice.
Commissioner Clyde B. Aitchison
announced the ruling today when
afternoon hearings commenced on
the carriers plea.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10
MERKLEIN TO
HEAD 2O-3O

Hans Merklein was elected presi-
dent of the 20-30 club at the
meeting held Thursday night.
Other officers elected were Bar
ney Foote, first vice president, Ben
Blakely, second president and
Bill Emery, sergeant-at-arms
Members of the board of direc-
tors appointed at the meeting are
Earl Templeton. Matt LaBrucherie.
Hal Huffman and Sherman Eld-
ridge
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10
GUILTY PLEA
ENTERED IN
MORALS CASE

With his illegitimate child ex-
pected to be born at the county
detention home in a week, Thomas
B. Lincoln of CaleXico pleaded
guilty in superior court Friday to
a charge of contributing to the de-
linquency of the 17-year-old pros
pective mother.
He pleaded guilty to the morals
charge and then asked the court
to grant him probation. Judge R
D McPherrin will conduct the pro-
baton hearing Dec. "a.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10

city live trees were shining with
red, blue, green and yellow lights.
Ell Centro was sure of a Bright
Christmas.
Newest entrants in the contest
were Kate Kelly. $50 He'll avenue,
with a lighted Christmas tree in
the yard; and four-year-old Diane
Duringer. 1854 Orange avenue, also
with. lighted tree in the front
yard.
These. with the many others
whose entries already have been
announced, will be eligible for prizes
in three divisions, including small
homes, medium homes and large
homes. In each division prizes will
consist of beautiful lamp, SIS in
cash and ST in cash.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10
BULLETIN

PARIS, Dec. 10. tUP)-ROger
Million, sought as the brains" Of
the st. Cloud murder gang. ac-
cOmpanied by q lawyer. surren-
dered at Versailles today, the
Agencc radilo announced. Jean
Blanc, suspected accOmplice. also
accompanied by lawyer. sur
rendered i'm Paris. The agency
credited the information to the
Paris judiciary police.
PARIS, Dec. 10. (UP) - Police
throughout eastern France were
modified today in search for the
alleged master mind" of the "mur-
der factory of st. Cloud" and his
blonde accomplice, who slipped
through a police net at Nantua
near the Swiss border after au-
thorities thought they had been
cornered.
Police dug in the half-acre gar
den of the murder villa, convinced
that Eugene George Weidmann, con-
fessed slayer of Jean DeKoven, o.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-10
How About Dirt
Covered Walks

How about the sidewalks past
vacant lots, which are half COW
cred with dirt and where two
people cannot walk abreast?.
asks another Ell Centre house,
wife i'm a letter to the editor,
published today on the editor
ial page. 9
Her letter is one of several
received i'm answer to the Post
Press request for. letters deal
ing with municipal affairs and
city Identification ,as suggested
by Mayor Roy WOmack. Othera
will be printed from time to
time.