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Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
TECHNICALITY
COMPL|CATES
PROSECUTION

Responsibility for prosecution of
two Indians blamed for the death
of a third Indian, rests upon the
ownership of a 200 foot railway
trestle and corresponding strip of
earth beneath 1t, Deputy District
Attorney Charles G.. Halliday re-
vealed Saturday.
IF the trestle and the land are a
part Of the Fort Yuma Indian
reservation. the federal government
may prosecute Wahtep Joe and
Juan Wilson for the death of
Charles Anton. their relative. An
tons battered body was found in a
drain ditch under the trestle near
Winterhaven last Sunday morning.
IF the treste and the land be-
long to the Southern Pacific COM
pany Imperial county will be re-
sponsible for prosecution of the
case. In the meantime, the Indians
are at large while federal and coun-
ty officers continue their investi-
cation of the mysterious death of
Anton.
Halliday telegraphed Southern
Pacific railway officials to find out
of the company owns the trestle
and the land or If they only have
an easement.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12

neyv1lle bridge was nearly covered,
and families were taken from soak
ed homes in rowpoats. Hopland
and Cloverdale. we're flooded. Gey-
serville was inundated. families
were evacuated and power was shut
off. Monte Rio and Rio Nido resi-
dents fled to higher grounds. Rus
sian river floods destroyed scores
of summer cottages. The Bohemian
highway between Monte Rio and
Camp Meeker was under IL feet of
water.
Cities in Danger
Coast guard cutters were ordered
! - stand by at San Francisco to
steam up the Sacramento and San
| Joaquin rivers to Sacramento and
Stockton, where the situation was
| critical
Red Cross and other relief Or
eanizations gathered food, clothing
and other emergency supplies to aid
stricken hundreds.
The weather bureau said mo
definite break was expected
yet on the storm although con- f.
ditions might improve some by
tomorrow"
Alturas, in Modoc county, was
worst hit. Battered by 45-hour
downpour, the Pine Creek reservoir
dam burst and sent several million
gallons of water Gown on the city
Business streets were turned into
raging torrents. Residences and
buildings were washed out or under
mined The city's 5000 inhabitants
moved to higher ground. The small
town of Likely was evacuated after
Pitt river overflow waters swept
through it.
Appeals for help came from al.
sections OF the state.
Miraculously no lives were re-
ported lost in floods Three per-
sons, including Mayor A. j. Stohr
OF Biggs, who directed crew of
workers were reported missing.
Trains are Stranded
Mainline Southern Pacific trains
were stalled at Dunsmuir, Gerber
and Willows. All had diners and
sufficient food to care for stranded
passengers. Gerber sent distress
call to San Francisco Red Cross say
ing 200 persons were in distress.
Hundreds of persons IN the
Healdsburg area were taken to safe
ty in small craft. There 30-square
mile area was flooded and drinking
water shortage was threatened.
Communications along the entire
coast were disrupted airline sched-
ules were abandoned, railroads re-
ported Washouts and southern Cal
acknowledgements by heavy rain
-''boasted" of a $2,000,000 wetting.
Transcontinental highways were
closed by slides.
Orovilie was isolated at 2 am.
and water was running four feet
deep there through the residential
section.
Healdsburg reported Is houses
Continued on Page 8; Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
Radical Change in
State Tax Setup
Declared Dancer

Warnings against radical changes
in the California tax structure by
initiative measures on the state
ballot next year were sounded by
three speakers at meeting of I'm
perial Valley real estate dealers,
guests of the Ell Centro real estate
board, at the Barbara Worth hotel
Saturday noon.
The speakers were j. Mortimer
Clark, state real estate commits
sioner, Grover T. Russell, president
elect of the California Real Estate
association and Glen d. Willaman,
secretary of the association. They
were introduced by w. E. Hancock,
president of the Ell Centro board.
Russell and Willaman, especially,
stressed the danger inherent in
three initiative measures which
will be on the state ballot They
are the often-defeated single tax
measure, the proposal to exempt
from taxation all homes under
$500 valuation, and the measure
for unicameral legislature, which
would throw the bulk of legislative
power to the communities of Los
Angeles, San Francisco and Oak
land
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12

Tanks led the final assault and
crumbled the wall in some places.
The first japanese detachment to
enter the capital broke through
the Kuang Hua gate late yesterday
and advanced to the Chinese inner
defenses in the crowded blocks a
half-mile away.
A rain of Chinese machine gun
bullets poured from houses and
street blockades, swept the half
mile wide open space to the gate
and cut down hundreds of Japanese
Some reports described the fight
ing as the most furious of the four
months old war. The Chinese ap-
parently were determined to defend
the capital to the last man, but
seemed to lack adequate leadership.
AT 10 O'Clock this morning, Lieut.
Gen. Prince Yasuhiko, a member
of Japan's supreme war council and
commander in the Marking area,
ordered all his troops to assault.
Immediately, japanese swarmed
up to the walls from three sides.
Correspondents for the Domei news
agency-only japanese newspaper
men were permitted to accompany
the Imperial troops-reported that
mountain guns, one Founders and
machine guns had been placed atop
the outer wall at several points to
cover the infantry advance on Chi
nese positions in the heart of the
city.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12

LOS ANGELES, Dec. II. CUP)-
Slender. slick-haired Nick Megu-
gorac. a convicted murderer at Is
years of age, sat in Jail fighting
back schoolboy sobs today.
He crossed himself and then
nearly collapsed in court last night
when jury found him guilty of
first degree murder for the killing
of storekeeper in a holdup.
The jury recommended life i'm
prisonment. 1t was the ssvereSt
punishment possible. since a youth
his age cannot be sentenced to
death.
The verdict came as shock to
everyone, including the judge. and
the sobs of Nick and his parents
filled the courtroom.
Nick. q handsome black-haired
boy In checkered shirt, sat quietly
confident of an acquittal At the
verdict guilty. ne hastily crossed
himself. and slumped forward loud-
ly sobbing. In the front row his
father and mother, Nick st, and
Helen Megugorac, shrieked with
grief,
The boy was accused of killing
William Jacobsen So, found dead
in front of his store last July 81.
Nick had been seen shooting a
revolver the day before. The gun
was found in his house and ex-
perts testified that bullets removed
from Jacobsen's body had been fired
from this gun. Other experts said
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
TWO ATTEMPT
ESCAPE, JAILED

Two prisoners who attempted to
escape from Policeman Bill Keat-
ing after he arrested them on a
charge of drunkenness and dis
turbing the peace, and a third ar
rested on the same charge. we're
in the Ell Centre city Jail Saturday.
The prisoners are 3. w Jackson.
81, and Phil Frisk. A. white and
Jessie Moore, 81, Negro. Jackson
and Moore. the police report said,
attempted to run from the arrest
Ing officer but were overtaken and
captured
jackson was sentenced to Is days
in the city Jail when he pleaded
guilty in police court Saturday
morning. Frisk and Moore pleaded
not guilty. They will be tried next
week.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
so TOWNS UNDER WATER
10000 Children
Cant Be Wronq!
There Is a Santa
Ell CENTRIC, CALF.
DEC. IL, 1887.

AR SANTA CLAUS:
Now 1
the paper that coming
to go out and take look at That's where made
Santa Claus you'd better bring pair shoes a
nat new suit and couple of Christmas
I'll be the again.
The only thing about it, l right now is
body trampIed o.
OF couse-and hate admit it Il do believe in Santa
SauS now That I
TO count them, could tell but
Mnen got up to 1856 they started moving around couldn't
somebody stuck all day sucker i'm
Timan Daley Mitchell, traffic COPS were the
guys who really convinced What herc?'
asks them and We're waiting for Claus"
me- and "There amt I says them Look
here Bill, "dO think up here
TO the airport one?p and
lilly says Yeah you'd better shut
parking too long in place." l
Just then somebody hit the
body else hit me i'm the knees looked up
TO see couple hundred youngsters going heard
arpane and Rogers swung honey of monoplane
down ON the field and right after him Fred
plane that taken
don ScriveD and Harry Sones field
Well sir when people Ike thatnot to
were IN such ditfeT TO Valley il
looked kind of like I'd then when
fo'ce Chief Sterling Oswa stepped
ne wanted Tor Christmaswei what
Another thing You should
long time because when tried follow
and you into town got about three miles
oooy coud get near there anyway what tho difference
tell YOU Santa, 1 don't know you keep fat
because if had that crowdng aganstme
time know doggoned well I'd look bean
pole cloudy
And carry as many letters as you got from the
boys and girls E one of these big drag
lines they use on the All American
All in all, Santa I'd your visit a more
ways than One and If through ALL
don't see how in tunke 1 remain
Sincerely yours
THE OFFICE CROUCH.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12

CT SUPERVISORS will appoint a board
OF trustees for a four-year term
This board will be responsible Tor
obtaining a cemetery for the dis
trict. The board may negotiate with
the owners of Evergreen cemetery
regarding its purchase or may buy
other property to establish a new
cemetery for the district.
The cemetery, wherever it may
be established by the board, will
be the property of the taxpayers
OF the public cemetery district. The
maximum levy for taxes to provide
money for operation and mainten-
ance is two mills on the dollar. Dep
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
POLICE SEEK BODY SHIPPED
ABROAD IN BLIJEBEARD CASE

PARIS. Dec. II CUP)-Inspectors
rushed to suburban Garche today
to exhume the body of a woman
they suspected of having been an
other victim of Eugene George
Weidmann, the executioner of a
kidnap- gang. but found
that 1t had been mysteriously
taken abroad.
The woman had died two months
ago in Garche, near the suburb
of Saint Cloud and Weidmann's
murder villa.
A Garche undertaken said that
he was called to villa near Weld
mann's TO arrange for the burial
of a woman of about 40. Weld
mann, two women and three men,
either Swiss or German. we're pre-
sent.
One of them asked If the body
could be taken abroad. he said. A
member of the group signed the
order and the body was taken from
the country. the undertaken said.
but he refused to say where.
In the murder villa In the su-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12

ana Merced rivers, among the states
largest streams. threatened momen-
tarily to overflow large areas and
flood large cities.
Damage was expected to increase.
Deaths OF five persons were indirect
ls attributed to storm conditions
Greatest damage was in the fertile
Sacramento valley.
Transportation was virtually par
alyzeci. Oregon California bus and
train service was halted by wash
outs and floods. The Pacific high
way was blocked at Cottonwood
Scores of bridges were swept away
throughout the state. Train service
was brought nearly to a standstill
in three directions.
Oroville, Vina and BiggS were
flooded The Twas river burst a
levee, flooding blocks of Gilroy
The Russian river, raging torrent,
overflowed into Ukiah. The Buer-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
~ AMBLING
NEPORTER

Revenge Is Sweet
It's no bed OF roses that Roy Wo-
mack occupies as mayor Of Ell
Centre, presiding as he does over
the city council, but for once he
got even Saturday-and nobody
talked back! With Harry Sones and
Gorden Scriven, the mayor went
up in Fred Hudson's plane to 10
cate the ship that was bringing
Santa Claus TO the Imperial air
port. Once up in the air, Fred
whispered to the mayor, seated
beside him. Suddenly Harry and
Gordon saw Fred turn loose of the
controls. He twisted around in his
seat.
Gotta match?" he asked.
1t took few minutes of gulping
silence for the pair to realize that
Roy had the controls-and it took
considerable more silence before
they got used to the idea.
They didn't know Roy could fly.
.s"For once said the mayor, Il
had those fellows where they could
MT talk back"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
Stores Distribute
Gifts to Children
Who Met Santa

Eight stores cOoperated Sat-
urday morning in making Santa
Claus visit to Ell Centre a tre-
mendOus triumph. The stores
distributed gifts 10 children who
gathered here from all ends of
the valley to see Santa. The
stores and the gifts they dis
tributed, are:
A. & p. balloons; Valley Drug
Co., suckers; I. v. Hardware, big
mail box full of mail; ]. c. Pen
ney Co., balloons; Burns Brown
bilt Shoe Store, pop guns; Edgars
Hardware, suckers; Gullett gro
Gerry, candy canes; Sears Roe
buck Co., toy cut-outs.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
500 RESCUED
FROM LINER
FAST ON REEF

MANILA, Dec. II, UP)-~All SOD
passengers of the 100000 liner
President Hoover fast aground ON
a sunken reef off the coast OF For
mosa, have been safely landed on
Hoishoto Island. one Of the For
mosa group, radio reports from
the scene said today
The dollar line offices IN Hong
Kong announced that Dr. Kenneth
Park, the Hoover's physician, had
set up an emergency hospital ashore
to take care OF all passengers who
we're landed by ships and small
boats. Whether any passengers had
been injured was not known.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12

uty Attorney S. L. McCrory said
Saturday
Contrary to rumors," McCrory
said, 1.-The election is concerned
only with the proposed formation
of the public cemetery district. II
residents of the area included want
to form such district, the law
provides for it's formation. After
purchase of cemetery, the tax
payers may establish a fund for
its perpetual care and mainten-
ance. There is nothing which binds
the taxpayers to the purchase of
Continued on Page 3; Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
JanitOr Jailed on
WOman's Charges

Because he attempted to force his
attentions on white woman after
following her towards her home
from the show. ISmael Ruiz, 28,
Mexican ianitor Saturday was un-
der a 30-day Jail sentence, suspend
cd on condition he leave Ell Centre
Immediately.
Ruiz. father of two children who
live with their mother in San
Diego, was arrested when an Ell
Centre woman complained that he
followed her. took her arm and
attempted to force his attentions on
her.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
Filipino Vanishes
After Shooting

A painful flesh wound in his
left thigh accidentally inflicted by
a shooting gallery customer Friday
night sent Earl Mead 26, shooting
gallery employe. to a doctors office
for emergency treatment
An unidentified Filipino. sighting
a 20 calibre rifle at a target Mead
had just set up, inflicted the wound.
police said. The Filipino disappear
ed
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12

OIIISUIIIIdS IISIltIIIS OUIIUeSI UdIIy
next week.
One of the most attractive out
door lighting schemes yet entered
in the contest was announced
Friday night by j. B. McNeece, jr.,
IL years old. who lives at 667 Wen
sley avenue. His decorations con-
sist of lights strung on two live
trees and across the front of the
McNeece residence.
With scores of others who have
set up beautiful lighting displays
in their yards to make this a
Bright Christmas" for Ell Centre,
Continued on Page 8: Col. 50
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
Landon Says He
Won't Be Candidate

f WASHINGTON, Dec. IL. (UP)-
Former Gov. Alfred M. Landon of
Kansas, Republican standard bear
er in the 1886 elections, announced
today that he would not be cam
didate for president in 1910.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
5000 Homeless m
California Flood:
Damage 5 Million
Bursting Dam Looses 15-Foot Wall of Water
On Doomed City; Homes Swept Away
BY Raging Torrent


a OOpersons homeless
of of
a o
in 'front.' hv
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
TWO WEEKS LEFT TO
LIGHT Up RESIDENCES

With only two full weeks remaining before Christmas
Day. many people in Ell Centre who have delayed putting
up their outdoor lighting decorations residential yards
and others who have not fully completed the elaborate
decorations they planning, ready to enter the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
VOTERS
WILL GO TO
POLLS TUESDAY

Voters in the Ell Centro Imperial and Hotville
will to the polls Tuesday to decide whether they wish
officers declared not with Evergreen cemeter
in If the district is formed the county board
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
JAPANESE SOLDIERS
STORM THRU NANkINC
Nipponese Hope to Subdue City by Night
AS Chinese Put Up Desperate
Resistance in Capital

SHANGHAI Dec. II. (UP)-Thousands of Japanese
troops sormed the last Chinese defenses inside Marking
today, and hoped to subdue the city by night.
Markings ancient wall had been broken in many places
the thousands of shells poured into by heavy artillery
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
IS YR. OLD killer SOBS
AS JURY CONVICTS HIM

Nick's shoes, distinguished by pecu-
liar metal plates at heel and toe,
matched plaster casts of footprints
at the scene.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12

burb of Saint cloud they had found
the possessions of six women. One
Continued on Page 3; Col 90
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
4 We've Got The Button

/ We've Got The Button
! Somebody lost a button at 1mpe-
/rial during the Santa Claus rush
Saturday morning. It's a big black
button from a Woman's coat sort
of hollow place in the middle of it,
and unless the woman gets it back,
RR's afraid she'll have to buy a
new set of buttons. So if she wants
it, the button is at the Post-Press
office.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12

TeaChed heafhurrlcane fOrce whipped The ente coast
from Mexico TO Alaska California, however, bore the
brunt of torrentia rain which reached coudburst pro-
portions in several sections.
The Sacramento Feather, American, Russian, Yuba
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
Mickey -To-YOu--

NIickey-To-Y YOU
Mickey Kern, disher inner and
outer at SherWood's cafe, may be
said TO have acquired neat array
of aliases through no fault of her
own They we're thrust upon her.
The sports editor gave her the sur
name of Corn" in the football
contest. RR called her Turner Fri
oay. That makes two too many
names. The best way to get around
the whole thing is TO call her
Mickey and let 1t go at that.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12
Misery Loves Company

Misery Loves Company
A great many people in the aud
ience at the United Artists theater
Friday night were not so disgusted
with their lack Of ability to make
public appearances alter nley saw
Stanley Fields, film actor, make
his. He was nervous, decidedly ner-
vous when presented by Manager
Herb Norris. They had kindly
feeling toward him. They decided
he was just another boy who never
could be made to speak a piece in
school.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12

II Wasn't Fair
Viggo hansen, referee at the
Holtville- Needles football game Fri
day night is thinking of retiring
from active duty and taking his
football from the sidelines. Jack
Gray, ITO pound all-valley fullback.
crashed into him during the game.
This greatly hampered Hansen's
powers of locomotion. Spectators
aasped in amazement when Gray
bounced off the referee and bit the
dust. After the dust settled, Han
sen. with his whistle still between
his teeth, lowered over the pros
Atrate Gray. Some weight, eh, what?
yPS.-the penalty called by Han
sen Immediately after the crash
was not imposed because the player
ran into the referee.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-12

Swift Service =
The telephone rang at Ell Gen.
tro police headquarters Fri d y
night. An excited Negro voice said.
"Mr. officer Send someone down
here right away
"Is it an emergency" inquired
Desk Sergeant George Bucklin.
81 doesn't know what yo' calls It,,
Boss. but nah wife's gone!'
Bucklin sent a man to the ad-
dress given. A few moments later
the telephone rang again and the
same Negro voice purred calmly
"Say, yo' man amt heah yet but
nah wife is"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-02
First METHODIST

Rev. G.. X. Combs, ID, pastor.
Sunday schoolgirls Il. M; \.
X. Johnson. superintendent.
Morning worship: Holy COM
muuiou. PREF communion mcdl-
tatioa. The Greatest Sentence
Ever Written"
Evening worship. $50 p. NJ
The Way. the Truth and the
Life"
Senior Epworth League at $50
p. m.
Junior choir rehearsal. , p. M.
Music. under the direction of
Miss Kate Dotson. organiSt and
choir director has been arranged
n follows:
MORNING
Spirit of God Uaincs
NnrgI SrIr Selected
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-02
HOME, SCHOOL SAID
PROBLEM SOLUTION
from mage II

NCONllultp ANOAil be-N
Marion. Marshall, Mars Hill, old
Fort. Saluda. Spruce Pine, Swan
nanoa and Hendersonvillc. In adj
dition to district members, club
women were registered from
Charleston, S. c., Coral Gables,
Fla, Richmond, Va, Redwood,
w. Va, Havana, Cuba, Shreye-
port, La. Silesville, Fla, st.
Petersburg, Fla, Lumberton, n.
c., Sumter, S. c.
Among the distinguished WISH
tors in attendance were: Mrs.
Howard G.. Etheridge, state presi-
dent; Mrs. j. n. Britt, Lumber
ton, vice-president; Miss Helen
Conroy, Ashevillc, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Ralph Ramsey,
Brevard, general federation con-
tact chairman; Mrs. w. H. Da-
Wis, federation officer music club,
who presented Mrs. Crosby Adj
ans, honorary member of the
Black Mountain Woman's club.
and noted southern composer of
music; Mrs. c. K. Whitaker, past
state chairman, now residing in
HendersOnville, Mrs. Rosa Man
chester, district chairman, Flori-
da, Mrs. Meade Love, past state
president, Florida.
A total of 100 club women
registered during the meeting.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-02
FIRST BAPTIST

Rev. BroaduS f.. Wall, pastor.
Miss Flora Cavenaugh, cduca
tional director.
Sunday school, 9:45 a. M; w
E. Sinclair, superintendent.
Morning service II o'clock.
Music: Solo -- Mrs. Rosa ID
Manchester.
Sermon: Goddess Living
Evening service : 80 o'clock.
Music: Selected.
sermon: "The Way of the
TransgrcSSor Is Hard"
BTU. Gals o'clock.
Announcements.
EaptiSmal service Sunday night
Monday: DcacOn'S meeting at
o'clock. BTU. business meeting
at 1870.
Tuesday; R. A. meeting with
Norris Zimmerman at 3:45 p. m,
Wednesday: All day W.M.U,
meeting. The western district of
W.M.U. meets at this church at
10 o'clock a. m. There will bc
dinner served at the church and
an afternoon service at the
church.
500 p. MFRS. PEBBLES G. A,
group meets in paStOrium.
500 p. m.-Prayer service con-
Quoted by David T. MaShburn of
Mt. Airy,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-02

died some years ago. Aunt Har-
niet raised her. When the old
lady died, Amy went west to live
with her uncle and this young
cousin. guess Kerr-or Kerri-
CANVAS mighty glad to see her.
She was his only link with Blue
fields, and he wanted To hear
what had happened since his de-
parture. 1t was a natural gesture
for him to suggest a meeting up
on the roof where they could talk
privately. What happened later
may have been the madness of a
moment. The young man, accord
inf to reports, has Il pretty violent
temper. He flew into RACES at his
fathers trial--had to be removed
bodily from the courtroom on
more than one occasion.
I'm convinced Kerrigan is
young Kerr. Even the similarity
in names is striking. He regis
tered at his hotel as James A.
Kcrrigan. That's an easy change
from James 4. Kerr, isn't it,"
A mere coincidence, Cilly
said doggcdly at doesn't prove
that they are the same"
Dolan reached for the tcle-
phone. Give me Higgins he
ordered. Then: Say, Higgins,
have you got those photographs
yct-thosc Kerr pictures they
were rushing from Utah? o. X.
Send me down proof, will you?'
Ten minutes later. he was
handing them over the desk to
CilIy. "Hcrc are the pictures Of
James Allan Kerr and his son, y
ne said. as this your Jim kcr-
rigan?"
CilIy held out trembling
hand for them. She started at
the picture Of the younger man.
and as she did so, hcr heart con
tractcd The picture in her hand
was a perfect likeness of Jim
Kcrrigan, And the older man, his
father. was the one whose photo
Amy had carried in her lockct.
lTO be continued