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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-05-27
NOTICE OF FILING ACCOUNTS
The State of Ohio, Morgan County,
in Probate Court

The State of Ohio, Morgan County,
in Probate Court
Whereas, accounts and vouchers
have been filed in the office Of this
court by the administrators or ex-
ecutors of the following deceased
persons, to-wit:
Lydia Blanche Brooks, executor OF
the estate of Eva Shilling; T. W..
Phillis, administrator of the estate
of Charles l.. Phillis; Charles II
Benjamin, administrator of the es-
tate of Charles w. Benjamin, and
also Edith c. Smith, guardian OF
Clyde Leonard Calendine.
Notice is hereby given that said
accounts and vouchers are now on
file in the office Of said court, being
suspended for confirmation, and
persons interested in said accounts
or any item thereof, may file writ
ten exceptions thereto, at least five
days prior to the 21st day of June,
1897, when the same will be heard
and continued from day to day un-
til finally disposed Of
ARTHUR TORBERT,
27m3 Probate Judge.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-05-27
PennSville

Mrs. Maria Wood who has been III
failing health for some time, is at
present very low-Mr and Mrs.
George Ham and sons, and Miss
Helen Hilaman of Canton spent the
week end here, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Ham and Mrs Frankie Hilaman at
tended the alumni banquet at Ches-
terhill, Saturday night The bacca-
laureate services were held here at
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-05-27
Morgan County Democrat McConnee Thursday

Mary Nolan ct al, three acres, I'm
ion, transfer
Mary Nolan ct al to Chas. Stump
land wife, three acres, Union, 81.
Elizabeth Sands ct al to Hilda A.
and Cecil E. Glass, 30.75 acres, NAL
ia, 81.
A. B. Mercer, as administrator Of
Elizabeth Harper, deceased, to Ed
ma Harper, 1850 acres, Center,
5000.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-05-27

Born May 10, to Mr.. and Mrs.
Persinger who reside on the Geo.
Kennard place, a son.--Born Tues
day, May 25, to Mr.. and Mrs. B. o.
Roberts, a daughter, named Martha
K.-Mrs. c.. " Davis entertained
May 20 in honor of the 18th birth
day of her son Claude, the follow
ing: Dwight Scott, Keith Hilaman,
Robert Abel, Jas. McInturf, Vance
Ormiston, Junior Dougan, Kenneth
Scott, Jas. Pierpoint, Raymond New
ton, Virgil Bingham, Arthur Hooper,
Clyde James, Bill Bachelor, Donald
Murphy, Claude and Galen Davis.
Games and contests and fine refresh
ments were enjoyed.
The Magic Chef gas range is al.
ways ready to 60 1t is quick to start
and has wide range of heat speeds,
from low simmer to hot fast fire.
without waiting. Cooks food faster,
better and cheaper See the beauti-
full display at Morris Hardware.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
ARRESTS DROP
IN NOVEMBER

Smallest number of arrests during
any November since 1888 was re-
corded for this year in the monthly
report of the Ell Centre police de-
partment, completed Wednesday.
Total arrests in November this
year amounted to 107, compared 70
l39 in November of last year and
III in 1885. In 1888 the November
arrests were smaller, totaling only
So.
Total collections by the depart
inent in November were s1,62875,
including Sat in general fines. $212
in traffic fines and $l26975 in oc-
cupation licenses. ..... -#..
Only Al of those arrested last
month had been in Imperial county
more than one year. The rest were
transients. Nine nationalities were
represented among the prisoners.
They were Americans, English, Fill
pino, Hindu, Hawaiian, japanese,
Mexican, Negro and Turkish.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
Fourth District
Judges Guests
OF County Bar

Three judges of the fourth dis
trict court of appeal will be guests
of the Imperial County Bar asso-
citation this weekend.
A dinner is scheduled in honor
of Judges Charles Bernard, j. J.,
Marks, and L. D. Jennings at the
Barbara Worth hotel Friday night
Only the visitors and members of
the bar. association will be present.
Wives of the association members
will entertain Mrs. Marks, Mrs.
Jennings and Mrs. Bernard at din
ner while the men assemble for
the meal in the same hotel.
Saturday will be devoted to golf
and Sunday to a trip along the
All American canal and to Impe-
rial dam.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
Former Centran
Passes in L. A.

Mrs. JEANNE Temple Poole, 81
year-old Ell Centre resident, died
in Los Angeles Tuesday night after
lingering illness which became
rapidly worse during recent weeks.
She was born in Bisbee, Ariz.,
AMI arrived in Ell Centre in 1882.
She had made her home in Ell
Centre and Los Angeles since that
time.
Her survivsors include her hus-
band, Earl Poole; her mother, Mrs.
Hermenia Temple; and a sister,
Mrs. Hugh l.. Keating, all of Ell
Centro.
Funeral arrangements are pend
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
TAX PAYMENTS
SPEEDED UP

Imperial county taxpayers. with
three and half days between them
and the delinquency date, already
have showered down s270,000 in
county taxes.
Payments of taxes this year were
made earlier and in greater
amounts than has been the case in
past years. Dan West, assessor
collector, declared Wednesday.
Many property owners are paying
both installments at once instead
Of waiting until in the spring for
one of them.
The taxes become delinquent
Dec. 5.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30-(UPD-
Three men, forming a human
chain late today saved the life
of a hysterical woman who plunged
into the treacherous La Brea pits
to rescue her pet dog.
Screaming My baby, my baby"
Mrs. Alice Harris was pulled out
of the sticky pool, which thousands
of years ago became the burial
gground for prehistoric animals
that roamei the Southern Calf
crnia coastline She was taken to
Georgia receiving HOSPITAL where
she was reported suffering from
shock and hysteria.
A park crew was sent out to
hunt for the dog, a Crocker span
/ iel, but it was believed certain the
pet has periShed in the asphalt
pit.
Sam Warren, foreman of a park
crew, and two workers were stand
ing nearby when they saw Mrs
Harris climb over the three foot
wall surrounding pit No. 8, one
of the most dangerous of the as
phalt pools. Warren said she walk
Cd to the brink and Immediately
threw herself in to the pond.
By the time the three men reach
ed her, she had sunk up to her
armpits and her head had fallen
forward into the pool With two
of the men bracing themselves on
firm ground. the third reached out
an1 grabbed the woman by the
/ wrist.
BY sheer force, they extricated her
from the gooey mass and dragged
her back to dry soil, where she lay
shreiking. My baby, my baby" She
was heavily coated with the sticky,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
Imperial Valley Press

Established April 20. 1901.
Published avery ar,c1noon except
Saturday and Sunday Saturday
afternoon issue now succeeded by
The Post-Press, Sunday estab-
lished 1880 by the Imperial VAL
ley Publishing Company, 625
state street. Ell Centre. Calf.
Entered a. EI Centre. California
post office as second class matter.
Paul Jenkins. publisher: A. c.
Johnston, vice-president and gen
eral manager; r. A. Fitzhugh,
,ecretary and managing editor.
West-Holliday Co., Inc, National
Advertising Representatives.
M m ber California Newspaper
Publishers Association.
Subr ription Rites: 5c per copy.
In conjunction With the POST
paid IN advance; 3 months, 81 So.
G months, s3.26; Vns year $500.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
CLUBS MUST
CONTINUE To-
LEVY TAXES

SACRAMENTO Cal, Dec. l.
(UP)-Dining rooms and bars of
private clubs will have to continue
The State Board of Equalization
said today it would assess the tax,
despite a superior court ruling last
week in a case brought by the
union league Of San Francisco,
that private clubs are not required
to pay the levy on meals.
payment of the state three per
cent sales tax pending final set
tlement of the question by the
courts.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
Martin Johnson
OF North Back
To Civilization

SEATTLE. Dec. l cUP)-Frizzy-
thatcl1cd Joseph Yolo, Martin
johnson of the North" returned
from Alaska's forested ranges with
more than a mile of travel for
every one of the l2.000-odd feet
OF 35-millimeter film he shot of
wild animals. bird and fish.
Yolo was going home to Yakima,
Wash. His shots" were taken for
the Alaska Game Commission and
the Forest Service. After the film
was edited and descriptive matter
completed. it was divided for
shorts and educational features.
Last MAY, after he had photo
graphed Rainier National Park
and Mount Olympus for the For
est Service. he was given 10. days
notice Chat he was to go to Alaska
for the Federal government.
Trip Cost $4,000
He went. and In the ensuing six
months endured ilnInufm cradle
hardships Bad weather. limited
has shooting time He scaled
high. peaks for unusual shots and
made four trips across the Gulf
of Alaska. The trip cost $4,000,
or almost dollar a foot of film.
Yolo photographed grizzly bears
fishing on Admiralty and Chicha-
eoff Islands He Travelled the old
Richardson highway, the Valdez
trail and the Steese highway =
once the Circle-Fairhtanks trail.
worn by padded feet of dog teams
in gold rush days.
North of Circle. on the Yukon
river. Yole found Indian tribes
awaiting the migrating herds of
Saw $4,000 Caribou
THE caribou are mysterious
animals" Yolo said. They appear
and vanish-just as though you
were rubbing an Aladdin's lamp.
You can see them coming over a
far-away mountain in long,
straight lire For 'seven days,
thousands and thousands of them
filed by our location. One herd of
at least 25.0oo took an hour to
pass a certain point"
Yolo said Vie IIndiaSl tribes
gather where they know the carl
bou will cross a river. He pointed
out that II is against the law to
shoot the animals while they are |
swimming. The Indians go out in |
boats. shoot the animals on either |
shore and carry home their winter /,
meat in the boats.
On the Kenai peninsula he
found moose hunters from all over
the world: Kermit Roossvelt, a
French duke, a Polish count, A.C. |
Gilbert, toy manufacturer. and
many millionaireS
Yolo obtained rare shots of
eagles, ptarmigan, salmon and
virtually every type of wild game
in the Alaskan wilderness.
Used TelephOto Lens
He used IA l2-inch ltelephoto
lens mounted on his camera and
his pictures show the game in
closeup sequences. In his 10000
miles of travel. he never once car
ried a gun Two armed guides,
however, accompanied him be-
cause, he explained. when you
need protection = you need pro-
lection
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
TRACE OF
RAIN FALLS
IN VALLEY

Low hanging clouds crept into
Imperial Valley in the last two
days from the west coast of Baja
California to obscure the sun and
carry the threat of cooler weather,
woodrow Jacobs. fruit-frost expert
for the United States department of
agriculture said.
A trace OF rain fell in FL Centre
Wednesday afternoon, Jacobs de-
clared, and he does not anticipate
temperatures any lower than 80 de-
grees within the next few days,
Appearance of the clouds from
the south, he said, always COM
plicate weather bureau problems be-
cause there are no stations in that
section and no reports are avail
able from ships sailing the ocean
in the area in which the clouds
originate.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
COUNTY BRIEFS

Tools StCIen--J. G.. Wilfong. Holt
vile resident, requested deputy sher-
ifs to search for a quantity of tools
taken from house near the ice
plant in Holtville Tuesday night.
The burglars entered the house by
Month End Special Dresses
$5.95 and 1895. All sizes at Lucy's.
621 Main. D1
Disturbs Peace-A. Rumsower, 30,
cook, is serving a 30-day sentence
in the county jail for disturbing the
peace in Calipatria.
Month End Special. All fur trim
med coats and suits greatly reduc-
ed at Lucy's. 621 Main. D1
Special Formals 1895. All sizes
at Lucy's. 621 Main. D1
Moving from here TO there or
back again. Piano and household
goods Buy Xmas tuberculosis
seals and enjoy a real Xmas. Pho
neer Truck and Transfer Co.
Phone |. MO
Community auction Friday at
ten sharp. springers, good fresh
cows, heifers, beef cows, calves.
reg. Holstein bull, extra good
breeder, young Guernsey bull sub
ject to registration, 5 grade Hol-
stein bulls, span extra good work
horses, work horse, good work
mule, IS feeder pigs, chickens. 3
low wheel wagons, Osbourne disc,
COW trailer, 200 grain sacks post
wire, furniture. Sale starts at ten
sharp. Friday at Zinnerie sale cor
rails Ell Centro. Dl
Sentenced to Jail-Herman Cas-
tillo, 20, and Ruben Cerecedes, la.
were sentenced to SIX months each
in the county jail for petty theft
in Brawley
Winterhaven Man Jailcd--Virgil
Corley, Al, is serving 80 days IN
the county Jail, He was sentenced
in Winterhaven justice court for
disturbing the peace.
Sent to Jail-Earl Heacock. %.
Calipatria, is serving 30-day SEN
tence in the county Jail. He was
convicted of disturbing the peace
Petty Thief Jailed-Howard Dun
can, cafe worker, is In the county
jail for 15-day sentence. He was
convicted of petty theft in Cali
patria.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
Postal RECEIPTS
$3.50 Higher Than
Last November

Postal receipts in El Centro for
November this year exceeded those
of last November by s75007. Post
master Frank Richmond said We'd
nesday.
The receipts last month were
S5,45993 while for November 1896
they were S4,70986.
The receipts every month this
year have exceeded those of last
year, the high year for postal busi-
ness in FL Centro', the postmaster
declared
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
Associated Chamber
To Meet Thursday

Brawley will be host to the Asso-
ciated Chambers of Commerce at
the Planters hotel at 7:30 o'clock
Thursday night and have schedul-
an address by J. L. Foster, con-
struction engineer in charge Of the
All American canal
Committee heads to reports at
the session are Harold Tyler, roads;
Assemblyman Clarence Walker, tax
alton; parks and games James Poe;
Paul jenkins, advertising; j. E
Harshman, agriculture.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
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SUN TO STAGE
PART ECLIPSE

The sun will put on an act for
the benefit CT Imperial Valley
Thursday by staging a partial
eclipse.
At 800 pm. the shadow of the
moon will begin creeping across the
face of the sun and will continue
it's encroachment until sunset,
Woodrow Jacobs, weather man said.
At sunset the sun will be approxi-
mately half covered by the shadow.
1t is impossible for the shadow
to cover the whole face of the sun
because the moon is too far away
at this period, he explained.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
THREE MEN SAVE WOMAN
WHO PLUNGES INTO PIT
TO SAVE HER PET DOG

black asphalt.
In the hospital she denied re-
ports she had tried to kill herself.
My little dog jumped into the
pit and l went in after him." she
sobbed.
Bones of many prehistoric ami
mails have been recovered from the
La Brea pits, which in Spanish
means asphalt. The bones were
those of saber-tooth tigers, giant
elephants, bears and other beasts
which once inhabited western
America The bones were fault
lessly preserved in the tar like
substance.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
Repairs Made to
New Building for
JObless Survey

Contractors Wednesday we're re-
pairing the Sixth street building
soon to be the new headquarters
for the employment service in I'M
perial county.
The building between Main and
State streets will be repaired to
meet the needs of the department
after it assumes the task of hand
ling unemployment Insurance
problems for the government.
The building is expected to be
ready and new furniture on hand
next week.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
Rambling Reporter

tContinued from Page y
on the shoulder gently and Groom
ed:
You're a nice man. You don't
want to cause any trouble"
Tears gushed into the belligerent
ones eyes, sobs wracked his frame,
and he all but hugged George. The
only reason he didn't was that
George sidestepped quickly.
Now El Centros policemen are
convinced that "A kind word turn
eth away wrath"
But they don't know whether
they want to chance the alterna-
tive.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
WIFE'S POOR
LUNCHES WIN
MAN DIVORCE

Los ANGELES, Dec. l. up
Arthur Field was awarded di-
vcrce decree from Mabel Ida
Field today because the lunches
his wife prepared weren't very
satisfactory.
"A Let of times she put only
twla slices of bread with no but
ter i'm my lunch pail Field
testified before Judge Walter 5.
Gates. "Some times she put i'm
a raw cucumber" he added.
Net even picked, eh?" the
Judge asked.
mo. JUS raw. or maybe she
would put i'm a can of something
to eat but no spoon to eat 1T
with" Field explained.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
THUGS STAGE
HOTEL THEFT

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. l CUP)
Police Chief Wilma j. Quinn
today issued shoot to kifl' orders
to all patrolmen in a city-wide
drive to capture a group of hotel
robbers who last night staged the
18th hotel hold-up in two weeks.
The robbers took s215 from the
cash drawer and safe of the Acme
hotel. beat the clerk over the
head, and fled
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
Woman Shipped
West as Freight
Dies at Age of SO

Los ANGELES. Dec. L. tuP)
Mrs. Louise X. Russ, 90, who
was shipped TO California 76
years ago as Wells Fargo freight
via Panama, will be buried here
tomorrow.
A native of Bangor. Me-, she
was shipped" to California
when she was II. She married
A. Russ, Los Angeles mer-
chant, soon after her arrival
here.
In a recently completed bio
graphy, Mrs. Russ said her late
husband was doubtful about re-
manning in Los Angeles because
he feared the town could not
support his lumber yard.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
VALLEY URGED
TO Do XMAS
BUYING EARLY
Continued from Page ID


coats.
Even new and USED automobile
dealers expected an increase in
buying during the Christmas shop
ping season
Al least four downtown stores
began this week completing toy
land" sections in which children's
toys are displayed in profusion
OF kind and price. No less atten-
ton was paid to gifts for adults,
however. Several stores laid plans
to departmentalize their Christmas
shopping sections so the shopper
may go Immediately to the section
of the store where gift suggestions
of the type desired may be found.
Clerks III almost every store have
been schooled to offer helpful sug-
gestions to the shopper who has
not made up his or her mind about
the gift desired.
Many Decorations
The spirit of the season is car
ried out in most stores with every
imaginable kind of Christmas dec
Grafton. Some We're completing
their decorations this week, while
others already have finished theirs.
Carrying out the Shop Early"
admonition of merchants and civic
leaders, FL Centre postal authori-
ties pointed out that Christmas
packages intended for the mail
should be placed in the postoffice
as soon as possible to avoid delay
in arriving at their destination.
Those mailing parcels should re-
member, the officials said, that
millions Of tons OF Christmas mail
are handled by the postoffice de-
partment, and that early mailing
is a decided factor in satisfactory
service.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
Calipatria Farm
Center to Meet

Calipatria Farm center will meet
Thursday night at the Calipatria
high school for its most important
gathering of the year
A community business meeting
will be first on the list OF events.
A moving picture and an address
on crop rotation and livestock will
be given by George l.. Winwright.
G.. Roy Thomas, chairman OF the
center, will preside at the meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
Last Rites Conducted
For Mary ID. Quinn

Last rites for Mrs. Mary Eliza
beth Quinn, %, were conducted
Tuesday at the Lemons funeral
chapel and burial was made at the
Evergreen cemetery
She was survived by her hus-
band. James M Quinn, her son
James M. Quinn. jr., her mother,
Mrs. Jessie Miller. her father, N.
J. Rollins of Fresno. and a sister,
Mrs. Audrey Shepherd.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
Labor Supply in
Valley Sufficient

Imperial county's supply of labor
is sufficient to meet the demand,
Chan Livingston, head of the Ma
tional Unemployment service said
Wednesday.
Construction and agricultural
workers are in the valley in num-
bers sufficient to balance the sup
ply and demand. Livingston said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
Classy Stomachs
Relieved

Every person who is troubled with ex-
cessise gas in the stomach and bowels
should get a package of Baalmann s
Gas Tablets and see how quickly they
will -c.ieye the distress.
Sharr pains in the abdomen are often
due entirely to gas pressure. Many suf-
fererz occasionally have a gnawing
pain at the pit of the stomach, heart
burn, palpitation. sour risings, nausea.
blcating. drowsiness after meals, head
ache. dizziness, iabored breathing or
other symptoms due to accumulation
OF gas in stomach or bowels.
Baalmann's Gas Tablets are made
especially for the relief of excess gas
and discomfort resulting from gas pres
sur, They contain no physic. Pleasant
to take. The first dose should convince
yop Of their merit Sold by leading
tirursists throughout America.
On Hand al Clements Drug Store
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
Strike Against
Ford Plants Set
For Next Week
0Continued from page n

tCOntlllueu IToll SdSC ~
leaders of the United Automobile
Workers union. Committee for In
dustrial Organization affiliate. pre-
pared to call the membership out
on strike.
Richard T. Frankensteen, inter-
national president of the U.
A.W. union. issued stand by" order
for the strike. He said no walkout
should occur without telephone
orders from him.
Eleven hundred workers reported
for work today after mainten-
ance crew had operated the auto
mobile plant for Several months.
UNION PEACE
VIEWS ENHANCED
WASHINGTON, Dec. /. CUP)-
Prospects Of a quick peace between
the American Federation of Labor
and the Committee For Industrial
Organization were enhanced today
by the agreement of John L. Lewis
and William Green to meet tomor-
row and make, a personal attempt
to end their two-year-old struggle
for dominance of the labor move
ment.
1t will be the first formal meet
ing of the two labor leaders since
Lewis formed the G. I. o, and led
it out of the federation in 1885.
The immediate future Of 100000
working men and women enrolled
in the rival organizations and the
possible destiny of 30,000.000 wage
earners who are not union members
are involved in the peace confer
prrp
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
RusINEsS VISITOR

Ernest Utley former El Centran
and now a referee in bankruptcy at
Los angeles, was in Imperial Valley
on business Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01
BUDGET PLAN
ENDANGERED
(Continued from l,age u

CONTINUED from rage y
deficit would be approximately
$685. 900 900, Morgenthau said fed
eral expenditures for the next fiscal
year should be reduced by that
amount.
Morgenthau selected four gen.
eral categories of expense as the
best field for imposing economy.
He named them, with their esti-
mated cost in this fiscal year, as
follows:
Unemployment relief and Civil
ian Conservation Corps 81 ,585 900 900
Public Works ................ $4,000, 900
Agriculture ........... 100000 900
public Highways .......... 253,O00, 900
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01

Tools StClen--J. G. Wilfong. Holt
vile resident, requested deputy sher-
ifs to search for a quantity of tools
taken from a house near the Ice
plant in Holtville Tuesday night.
The burglars entered the house by
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01

Month End Special - Dresses
$595 and 1895. All sizes at Lucy's.
621 Main. D1
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01

Disturbs Peace-A. Rumsower, 30,
cook, is serving a 30-day sentence
in the county jail for disturbing the
peace In Calipatria.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01

Month End Special. All fur trim
med coats and suits greatly reduc-
ed at Lucy's. 621 Main. D1
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-01

On Hand al Clements Drug Store