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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-03-10
|VESTA EVENTS IN
GAZETTE LETTER
BY Elaine Gall

Vesta-Mr. and Mrs p. M.
Drees and daughter Vvonne and
Elaine Gall were callers at Mar
shall Wednesday. Yvonne Drees
had her tonsils and adenoids re-
moved.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Mock and
family moved on a farm near
Wood Lake Tuesdya and Mr.. and
Mrs. Erwin Mock and family NOV
ed to the farm they left.
Richard Gertjejansen, Loren
Boushek and Ardyce Boushek
were callers at the Berberich
home at Clements.
Lois Anderson, Phyllis Froland
and Joyce Anderson Of Mankato
spent the weekend at their homes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bauer and
daughter Eleanor, Mrs. Fred Vier-
gutz Of Lucan were business call
ers at New Ulm Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. 1. Hirschfield and
daughter Frances of Tracy were
Sunday guests at the Ben Cohen
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Krause are
the parents of a boy born Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Giffin of st.
Vincent and Ormie Wyman of
Pembina, N. D. left for their home
Monday after attending the fun
eral of Mrs. Will Barber at Mar
shall Friday and visiting friends
in Vesta.
Henry Kelsen of st. Cloud ar
rived Thursday to spend several
weeks at the Dick Gertjejansen
home.
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Americans and in crowded street
cars he could look over the heads
of almost every passenger. The
women are plump and the men
small and puny, a phenomena
which he could not understand as
women did most of the work in
Russian for over thousand
years.
Il found, though, that there are
six or seven women to every man
in Moscow. Probably that ac-
counts for it." he remarked.
He traced the origin of the
Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-
lies, telling how Lenin began his
secret lectures in 1908, in three or
four years attracting so much at
tention that a man named Stain
of Georgia drifted up to st. Pet
ersburg (now Leningrad) to list
ten to him.
Lenin, Great Man
II think Lenin was one of the
great men of our time" Crandall
said, telling of his accomplish
ments which included mastery
of seven languages. "He had a
true and sincere desire to help
the people"
Stain he described as a man
drunk with power, like his coun-
trymen who married so much
American wealth, the Mdvanis,
whom he described as also being
drunk, partly with power and
partly with liquor.
"We think of the Russian re-
volution as being of long dura-
ton, but it lasted only two weeks
he disclosed. The Civil war fol-
lowing lasted two years and was
a bloody affair, the people mad
with the idea of killing.
There are two political organ
izations in the country, the party
group which numbers two million
so-called Communists and the
government group which parallels
it and has the same set-up.
Both have officers in units COM
parable to township, county and
state and the party group has an
executive committee of 81 mem
bers headed by Stain. The pre-
sident of Russia is head of the
government party.
In both cases, one of the pur-
poses is that of setting up posi-
rionS for party members to fill.
The party group has only two
million members, reduced from
three million through a purge"
in which thousands were shot. No
new members are taken in, as
they believe the party must be
comparatively small and closely
knit.
The GPU is the most powerful
organization in the country.
Large Red Army
Another unit is the Red army,
the largest standing army in the
world, which has a tremendous
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Conditions in
Soviet State
RESIDENT OF RUSSIA
3 YEARS WARNS OF
BOLSHEVISM

Conditions in Russia are "ter-
rible' and the theory that all per-
sons in the Soviet Union are equal
is a myth according to Floyd
Crandall, manager of Radisson
Farms at Anoka, who delivered
one of the most interesting talks
heard here in several years at the
annual meeting of the Redwood
Falls Cooperative Livestock
Shipping association in the arm
DRY Saturday afternoon.
In the course of his talk he
touched on Minnesota politics,
warning his listeners that Mime
apolis is regarded as one of the
Communistic capitals of the world
and that the theory of the
Farmer-Labor party was cit
ed by Moscow authorities as the
closest approach to their princi-
piles in America.
"A headquarters of the GPU
(Russian secret military police)
which is the most efficient, sincere
and cruel organization in the
world, is maintained in Minnea-
polls. When the truck drivers
strike was in progress there, Mos
COW had more information on
strike activities than the residents
of Minneapolis, and the same was
true of the longshoremen's strike
on the west coast" he asserted.
Crandall spent three years, from
1880 to 1888, in Russia where he
supervised a state farm of $4,000
acres with 5000 Russians working
under him. He was employed by
the government which sent COM
mitlee to the United States to in
Vite him there.
Vast Nation
In a simple straightforward
talk, he outlined the Russian sit
uation as he saw it, explaining
that the country'S borders are as
far apart as the distance from
Minneapolis to Moscow, that the
population is $50 million and that
1870 tongues are spoken, so that no
person in that short period of
time could grasp the situation en-
tirely.
The people, he said, are fine,
agreeable and sympathetic. They
are much smaller in stature than
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BANDITS NABBED

Reinhold Wendt, %, and his
brother Albert Wendt, II, who
staged an attempted holdup of the
State bank at Chandler, February
"a have been apprehended at
Huntsville, Texas KIND was
notified Tuesday. The bandits
homes are near Pipestone.
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tt Is Dangerous

It is dangerous to sell . SUBSTI-
TUTE for 666 just to make three
or four cents more. Customers are
your best assets; lose them and
you lose your business. 666 Is
worth three or four times as much
as SUBSTITUTE. 30-12t
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All but three of this country's
26 national parks are open the
year round and winter sports may
be enjoyed in many of them. In
some parks the snow lasts into the
summer, permitting ski races on
July 4.
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19
GARNER MOVES
TO END SENATE
FILIBUSTERING|
Rules HercefOrth to Be
Enforced, Declares
Vice-President

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.
(UP)-Vice President John
n. Garner told the senate,
which has been the scene of
an unhampered filibuster
for two weeks, that the rules
henceforth would be enforced lin
a technical manner"
This first definite move to end
the filibustel against the anti
lynching bill, opposed by southern
senator's, came as congressional
committees studied proposals for
tax revision and relief matters, the
importance of which has been ac-
oentuated by the business recess
sion.
In a statement at the opening
of today's session Garner said that
controversy had developed over en-
forcement of the rules and said
that oratory which started Jan. 6,
against the anti-lynching bill, con-
stituted a filibuster. He announced
that rules provided obstacles to
unrestricted speech. The presiding
officer rules that a senator would
lose the floor if he yielded for
anything except a question. Quor-
um calls, which would bring delay
and give the speaker a rest, also
were barred.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19

IN Ine 1all or 1899, he added, but
probably will not be turned into
the Imperial Irrigation District
system until the next year because
of the necessity of seasoning the
canal.
The operation of seasoning may
begin this year after completion
of the Pilot Knob Check and
Wasteway, Foster said. If the check
at Pilot Knob is completed in
time, water will be turned into
the All American canal between
Imperial Dam and that point so
the banks of the canal may be
sealed by action of silt.
Contractors estimate that they
will have completed construction
of the Imperial Dam by June. the
engineer said, but delays may set the
date ahead a short time. Construc-
tion of the dam and desilting works
was 1926 per cent complete at the
end of December.
Only four important contracts
remain to be let on Imperial Val
leys big ditch. Foster said. Big
geSt of these will be for the Coach
ella canal turnout and the Alamo
river crossing. These contracts will
be made before the end of the cur,
rent year.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19
.JEWELER DIES
IN Ell CENTRIC

Herman R. Berger, rs, a jeWeler
in Ell Centro for many years, died
at 7 o'clock Tuesday night as a
result of a cerebral hemorrhage suf-
fered last weekend.
He was born in Hungary but had
lived in the United States for 81
years. He had made his home in
Imperial Valley for 18 years. Berger
was a member of Congregation Beth
Jacob in Ell Centro and of the
Woodmen of The World.
The body was taken to Los An
geles Wednesday by B. E. Lemons.
Ell Centro funeral director Berger's
survivors include his daughter, Mrs.
Harry Becker of Los Angeles, for
mer resident of Ell Centro
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19

cay.
Icy winds and weather 10 degrees
below zero hindered police. fire
men, and volunteer workers, who
poked in the ruins for more bodies
OF the bodies recovered, only two
had been identified-those of Rev.
Brother Jean Baptiste, GA, and JOS
eph Vincent, Is.
Coroner Paul NORM ordered an
investigation OF reports that an
explosion had preceded the. fire
which was discovered at am. yes
terday. He said that several sur
Viyors had told Of having felt the
building shake Debris was found
hundred yards away.
Today, dozens of mothers and
fathers walked through the snow
past the ice-covered ruins to the
little morgua to search for the
bodies of their children. Most of
the bodies haG oeen charred, ano
Identification was almost impos-
sible.
EWald Meier, stepfather of three
boys, all feared dead, refused to
go home last night, He had been
married six months ago to a widow
and had enrolled her children
Hans, l3, Tony, u, and Joseph, 6
in the school.
Our house IS Almost directly
across the street from the school"
he said. when we heard the alarm
we rushed over here. We were
sure we would find our boys. Other
children, some of them terribly
burned and injured, were brought
to our house. But Tony, Joe No
Hans
He resumed his search.
Some bodies lay on plankS, 9TH
ers on shelves built last night.
Two died in the hospital Several
others were expected to die. Two
brothers were among The 20 severe
ly injured.
Rev. Brother Lucius, rector OF
the college, who called the roll OF
the 100 children and teachers who
had lived in the flame-sWept DOR
mitory, directed the activities OF
black-robed brothers who helped
firemen and police search the
ruins.
Of the 81 missing, a great major
ity were children.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19

where he Will be nolriSned by
spiritual sustenance' alone, Wor-
ried today about an illness in his
family. Mrs. Noe tainted last night
Is minutes before the dean was
to take a train for Knoxville where
the Episcopal diocese of Tennessee
is holding its convention. Although
church law requires his attendance
at the convention, the dean cam
celled his departure.
The dean firmly believed that
his fast was bringing him closer to
the state of a balanced body-a
body sensitive enough to function
on the highest plane of life and
real enough to carry on in the
daily plane
Dean Noe said he felt no pain
and that any weakness he suffered
was caused, not by his fast but by
recent attack of influenza. II
his experiment proceeds to the
conclusion that he believes it will
his life span will stretch indefin-
itely and he will be carrying on
his work at the cathedral when his
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19

established new navy air record
between California and Hawaii.
The first of the 14-ton. two
motored flying battleshipS" landed
at 5:48 am. (PSD.
Thereafter the ships. carrying a
total complement of 127 officers and
men, came to halt at regular inter
walls at the mid Pacific air base at
which they will headquarter.
A dead calm prevailed over the
water and bright moonlight aided
the pilots of the navys fighting
flying ships.
The first craft of the V-9 and
V-10 squadrons to complete the
Journey touched here just 20 hours
and II minutes after the takeoff
from San Diego at 9:36 am. (PST)
Tuesday
The time was the fastest ever
recorded by the navy in long mass
flight although it was approximately
two hours slower than the navy had
hoped. Strong headwinds slowed
the bombers on the first half Of
the long trip.
Trip Uphill
The first ship to land carried
1t. Commander S. H. Warner, in
Continued on Page 2: Col. .
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ROSS SLAYER
CONNECTED IN
OTHER CASES
G-Men Rush Killer
To St. Paul in
Mystery

ST. PAUL, Jan. 10. (UP)
: Federal department Of
justice agents indicated by
melodramatic secrecy nd
strange actions today that
Peter Anders, 30, confessed kid
naper and slayer of Charles S. Ross
wealthy Valentine manufacturer.
was suspected of other crimes at
least as serious.
]. Edgar Hoover, their chief, a
special squad of his men, and,
presumably their prisoner were
here after a strange airplane flight
from Los Angeles where Anders
was arrested and confessed. ST.
Paul is more than 300 miles off the
direct air line from Los Angeles
to Chicago, the scene of Anders'
known crime, but is on the north
ern air line from Tacoma, Wash,
to Chicago Tacoma was the scene
of the kidnap-murder of 10-year-
old Charles Mattson, which. now
that the Ross case is solved, Is the
one remaining unsolved kidnapping.
There was no explanation given
for Hoover's activities, and it was
presumed that he made public only
a part of his case when he told
neWspapermen in Los Angeles Mon
day night of Anders' arrest and
confession.
Immediately after he conferred
with neWspapermen, Hoover disap-
peared. He was next seen at the
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19
PICKETS STAND
BY POSITIONS
AT B R AW LEY

BRAWLEY, Jan 19.-Four men
continued to picket the new Braw-
ley ice plant here today in spite Of
the fact that their demand for
higher wages was met.
They are picketing the place. it
was explained, because union de-
mands for a closed shop were re-
fused. One of the four men who
walked off the job Tuesday, went
back to work Wednesday. Wages
paid the carpenters at work on the
construction of the plant were
boosted from 81 to $1.12la an hour
Two men still were on strike We'd
neSday
Representative of the union Or
dered l.. Schuck, who is in charge
at the plant, to discharge all non-
union men. He refused and said
ne would continue his policy of
maintaining an open shop.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19

last NOV. y.
"The state" Roll said, tex
poets to show that on the
evening of last Nov. 8, this
defendant and the murder
victim John Bruant Kimmel, at
tended a meeting of the Quiet
Birdmen club in Hollywood Athle-
tic club and from there went to
Clara Bows 1T" Cafe. where they
remained until 2 am. of Nov. g.
while they were there, Wright
suggested that Kimmel accompany
him home, to help him square any
beef from Mrs. Wright, and the
two men left the cafe and drove
TO the Wright home in Glendale.
THE state will show that at
about am. On Nov 8, neighbors
heard shots in the Wright home.
THE state hopes to prove that
Wright walked deliberately to a
chest of drawers, took out Ger
man Luger pistol, and then delib-
erately and cold-pioodedly, shot
his wife and Kimmel."
AT this point Mrs. Jesse E. Nc
Bride of Detroit, mother OF the
Continued on Page 2; Col. -
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SHARP COLD WAVE ABATES
SLIGHTLY THROUGHOUT EAST

is Gle Mild temperatures I'm the
mountain areas again prevented
snow.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan 10. tUP)
Heavy SHOWS in the mountains and
showers in the lowlands, accom-
panied by a general drop in tenn
perature, brought a blast Of winter
weather to California today.
snow piled as deep as six feet
in the Sierras Neyadas, while rain
drenched the san Joaquin and Sac
ramento valleys, and the San
Francisco bay a.ea.
In San Francisco, half an inch
of rain fell during a 24-hour period.
Unprecedented warm winter
Continued on Page 2, Col. b
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19

mers here compete in the nations
markets with the farmers in all
other sections of the country.
1T is economically impossible for
them to continue to raise wages
while their competitors through
out the nation pay approximate
ly half what is being paid here.
I'VE invite labor agitators now
busy in California to transfer their
activities to those states where the
lowest wages prevail, for If they
can induce our competitors to pay
more and thus better the economic
situation, then our farmers will be
glad to raise wages in this state"
Goodcell said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19

PortlanderS were beginning to
learn that they were indeed news
paperless when they found no
increased numbers of outside pa
pers on local news stands.
Retail business, which had five
lean months at the close of 1897
when Portlands seven major lum-
ber mills were closed down by an
A. F.. of L.-C.IO. dispute, was be-
ginning to feel the brunt of cur
tailed advertising.
Merchants, however, have not
increased advertising by other me-
iums. Radio programs previously
scheduled have peen maintained
but few new accounts added. The
Portland Shopping News appeared
today with even fewer advertise
ments than Usual. Food chain
stores expected to feel a loss OF
business, especially Saturday, with
no food ads in Friday or Saturday
papers.
Outside publishers were still re-
framing from entering the field
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19
SOVIET ORDERS
LETDOW IN
'ENEMY' PURGE
Drive Against Foes That
Cost Lives Of 1000
Nearing End

MOSCOW, Jan. 19. CUP)
"A purge of enemy ele-
ments which in three years
has killed 1000 persons and
caused the arrest of 10000
others is almost at an end, it was
believed today.
The all powerful Communist par
ty has ordered a drastic letdoWn
of the purge in its own ranks, it
was disclosed. 1t was believed that
the action would be-or might al
ready have been-extended to non
party activities.
Meeting, significantly, during the
first meeting of the supreme So
Wet under Russia's new constitu-
ton, the central committee of the
Communist party passed 10-point
resolution whose contents show
plainly its Importance to the coun-
try. In substance it is:
l. Mass eXpulsions of party men,
bers are forbidden There must be
individual investigation in each
case.
2. The party must return all
members to their jobs who have
been expelled with investigation.
3. All pending appeals must be
examined, and every case which
requires review must be reconsid-
cred, within three months.
4. All party organs must state
clearly the reasons for any expul-
sions SO that higher organs may
prepare conclusive reports for dis
trict and national party organiza-
tiOnS
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19
FARM WAGES IN CALIFORNIA
DOUBLE NATIONAL AVERAGE

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10 (UP)
Farm wages are higher in Cali
fornia than in any other state in
the nation, the Associated Farmers
of California, inc, reported today in
citing official figures released to
them by the U. S. department OF
agriculture.
Government figures show that
the average California farm wage
is SO per day, without board, nearly
twice the national average of $161
Fred Goodcell, executive secretary
of the organization said.
This provides positive proof"
Goodcell said, that California
growers have been paying fair
wages to their workers. The far
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19

No new conferences had been
arranged between the striking prin-
terS and the publishers.
In a radio address, w E. Kim
sey, union spokesman, asserted the
union offered to compromise with
publishers an hour before the strike
was called last Saturday. The diff
ference between the groups has
centered over one-half hour OF
the work day, the publishers in
sisting on 7l2 hour day and the
printers on hour day.
Kimsey said the union offered
to compromise on a seven hour ano
155 minute day but publishers de-
clined.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19

contemporaries are buried.
Science, seeking no controversy
with the dean and respecting his
religious beliefs, doubts that.
In a general way science can
tell what would happen to you il
you began a fast. 1t cannot tell
the day or hour how long you can
survive without food and water
because that depends on many fac
tors, one of which is the state OF
your health when you start the
fast.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19
BY UNITED PRESS

The casts sharpest cold wave of
the winter abated slightly today
With the slowly rising temperatures
came a prospect of snow in several
areas.
In New York city last nights
lowest temperature was 7 above
zero, compared with degrees yes
terday. Probable snowfall tomor-
row was forecast throughout the
state.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10. CUP)-
The federal weather bureau forecast
fair skies today following a slow
drizzle that fell here nearly all day
yesterday and added OF of an inch
to the seasons total now 4.5l since
last July l. Normal for the period
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19
500 CHILDREN
KILLED AIR
RAID ON PORT

LONDON, Jan. 10. (UP) - Five
hundred children were killed in
rebel aid raid on the port of Valen-
cia, the tanker ESturia reported to-
day in wireless message trans
mitted through the Algiers radio
station.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19
Stars Hiccoughs
Last Six DAYS

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 10. (UP)
-Madge Evans. film star, was
confined to her home here today
suffering from an attack of hic-
coughs, of mere than six days
duration
Her physician, DIR. w. l.. Marx
er. said the attack started last
Friday. following an attack of
Influenza. and defied all efforts
to halt the hiee0ughing.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19
Liquor VIII Flow
Beneath Streets of
Carrie Nations Home

WICHITA, Kan, Jan. 10. CUP)-
Liquor will flow under the streets
of this home town and burial place
of Carrie Nation this week when
the police department consigns IT,
600 bottlesful to the Arkansas river
via the city sewer system.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19
State Treasurer
Seeks Reelection

SACRAMENTO, Calf Jan. 49,
UP)-Charles G. Johnson. Cali
fornia state treasurer since 1922,
to-day announced his candidacy for
reelection.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19
Brawley Prisoner
Gets 80 DaV Term

Albert Mendoza, AZ, was arrested
and sentenced in Brawley Tuesday
for disturbing the peace. He is
serving 90-day sentence in the
county jail
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19
PORTLAND ORE.
NEWSPAPERLESS.
FEELING PINCH

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 19 (UP)-For the fourth day
this city of 35OOO0 population without its daily
papers which shut down last Saturday when $50
ion printers struck in the composing of the Journal
News Telegram and Oregonian.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-19
DAM
TO BE FINISHED
IN FIVE MONTHS

Imperial Dam will be completed in June July of
this year and the All American canal will be in service in
194O L. Foster construction engineer charge the
canal for the u. S. Bureau of Reclamation predicted
Wednesday. Water will reach Caexico through the canal