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Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05

OF his principal followers.
The youths fired four revolver
shots at Chrlstescu. One bullet
struck him in the left side of the
chest. His condition was not be-
lieved to be serious.
The attack was made as Chris.
tescu let the court building. Police
capturei one of the assassins. a
college student named Leonid Lutu-
tovici, The other escaped
The attack was considered an at
tempt 10 retaliate for the shooting
Of the anti-Semitic Iron Guard lead
ers. Codreanu and Is others were
shot as, according to an official an
nouncenent, they attempted to es-
cape from prison guards. Three
others were shot under similar cir
cumStanCes Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
Filipino Seeks
Theft Vengeance

Cne Filipino looked for two Fill
pinos with hatred in his heart an6
vengeance in his soul Monday
Mrs. Helen Henry of Ell Centro
rooming house proprietor, told po,
lice that after one of her Fill
pino roomer's left, two others en-
tered him room and took $35 in
cash. Mrs. Henry questioned them
but they threatened her with d
knife and gun, she declared.
Police started a search, but indi-
cated they expected the injured
party would probably find the
guilty pair before they could.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
1000 See COWBOYS
Ride Wild Ones
At Imperial Rodeo
7S Top Hands Fight For
S535 Prize Money at
Officers Contest

More than 1000 spectators
packed the fair grounds Sum
day for the peace officers
rod'eo, one of the most sue
cessful entertainments ever
presented in Imperial county.
Seventy eight cowboy contestants
participated in the eight events
staged in the new arena by Under
sheriff Rodney Clarke, rodeo direc-
tor. and his crew of peace officers
and ranch cowboys They competed
for $535 in prizes and purses.
Bucking steers and a bunch OF
the widest calves ever seen in a
show arena added thrills to the
program of bronco busting, and
horse racing.
The only accident to mar the
days entertainment occurred dur :
ing the last event when George
Richardson of Brawley was kicked
by a bucking steer. Richardson
was released from the El Centre
hospital Monday morning.
Buck Mason of Brawley took first
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
Nv. Youngsters Write. Whisper, Shout
Desires to Santa Claus During
Brief Visit to Main Street Here

sidewalk greeting youngsters who
at several points almost mobbed him
and required the kindly interfer-
ence of police officers.
Santa's evening appearance went
off in fine style under the direction
of Fred Nebel-Thau, chairman OF
the Santa Welcome committee. He
r1de up and down Main street on
L. R. Jeffersons gayly decorated As.
sociated Oil sound truck and stop
red az several points to address
youngsters, with the Imperial Valley
Boys Band, directed by Nick Novak,
giving concerts.
Praise centered heavily upon the
boys banc which mace a splendic
impression and combined program
of Christmas music with stirring
band selections. Overlooked by the
crowds was the extraordinarily skill
fu, performance of Ell Centro police
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
Farm Bureau Here
0yerthrows Chief
In Surprise Move
kamm Chosen President
Over Charles Wieman;
Gregg Vice-President

A we'll organized attempt
to set up a new administra-
ton in the Imperial county
farm bureau was two-thirds
successful Saturday when G.
F.. Kamm was chosen president and
w. j. Gregg was voted into the
presidency at the annual meet
ing of directors. Scott Foulds was
retained as secretary in a close race
with d. E. Green.
Kamm, last years vice president,
polled 19 votes to II for Charles
Wieman, retiring president. Gregg
was unanimous choice for vice
president and Foulds received
2l-l4 majority in balloting for the
secretary position. The ballot for
president was distinct surprise.
Continued on Page 2, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05

Santa came, and saw, and wa
conquered Saturday afternoon and
evening in Ell Centro. He was con-
quered by a shouting, Juggling
pleading swarm of youngsters that
at times almost overwhelmed the
jolly saint.
1--WE visited children all over the
world on this trip, but these I'M
perial Valley youngsters have got
more pep than any of the others!
the old saint said as he prepared
to Leave for his home at the North
Pole.
For almost four hours Saturday
children crowded about Santa Claus
on Ell Centro's Main street. With
scarcely a pause from the time
Santa went on the stage at the
United Artists theater until 9 O'Clock
that night, children pulled his beard
and told him what they wanted for
Christmas. Those children who
could not write-and there were
hundreds too young - whispered
what they wanted into his ear
There we're 257 letters to Santa"
packed into his big, leather mai
bag When Santa left the city. The
total number of youngsters who saw
him was estimated between 1000
and 1900. and at least as many
more adults followed him.
After leaving the theater, Santa
rode down Main street in a big red
Dodge touring car supplied by w. w.
Tison and then walked along the
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
Character Funds
Drive Starts at
Breakfast Meefinu
First Checks Handed to
Committee Chairman
From Police Crew

With confident forecasts
of a quickly raised quota,
the annual campaign to raise
funds for Ell Centro's seven
character building agencies
got under way Monday morning at
a breakfast meeting of campaign
leaders.
Soon after the meeting at the
California hotel the first checks
were handed over to Phil Knights,
in charge of the city employees COM
mittee. They called for S7940, rep
resenting a days pay from every
member of the police department.
Before week has passed, j. Ster-
ling Oswalt, campaign chairman,
predicted the entire quota of $1,000
would be raised.
At the breakfast meeting, at
tended by 20 drive officials, OS-
walt sounded the keynote by point
ing out the importance of the char
acter building agencies contribu-
ton to the city, and the urgent need
that that benefit be continued. He
was followed by talks from Warren
Currier, Hugh Wilcox, w. H. Rhodes
DR.. R. C. Clemons, and Gordon
Scriven.
Present at the first meeting in
cluded: Robert Ware, M. D. Zinn
A. G. Yaeckel. E. w. Schiller, Y
Nakashima, M. Kamiya, George
Harris, John M. Kelly, w. Pender-
CAST, A.. H. Keller C. S. Reed, B
R. Purdy, r. P. Sherwood, R. j
Johnstone, Don Freeman, Hugh
Heating, Noel Smith, Earl Brin-
non, Bud Johnson, Ed Mason, Geo
Bucklin, Viggo Hansen.
Nakashima and Kamiya pledged
the support of the citys japanese
population.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
Christmas Lights
Brighten Houses;
Lets Have More!
Now is Time to Put Out
COlOrful Displays in
Ell Centre Contest

Do you own a string of
Christmas lights?
If you do, put it up outside
your home. If you haven't.
get one and put it up, be-
cause the Christmas season is on,
and that's the time to LIGHT UP!
Do you remember how attractive
Ell Centre appeared last Christmas.
with red, green and white lights
shining from the lawns and shrub
berry of many homes? Let's do it
again, only more sol Already a
number of homes are decorated.
but let's have EVERY home in
the city with at least one string
of lights.
AS an incentive, a group of lead
ing merchants have donated cash
and merchandise prizes that will
make it worth the while of EVERY
ONE to erect a Christmas lighting
display. Tuesday the list of prizes
and the donors will be announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05

BRUSH ambassador, mas Deen Ill
structed to tell Count Galeazzo Cia-
no, italian foreign minister, that
the demonstrations in the italian
chamber for italian annexation OF
French Tunisia, Corsica, Savoy,
and Nice "muSt have detrimental
effect on the prospects of collabor-
alton"
Chamberlain announced that
nothing in the new British Italian
appeasement, has affected British
obligations to France.
He thus served notice that Brit
ain will stand with France in re-
sisting any attempts to change
things in the Mediterranean.
''While Tunis, Corsica and Nice
are not specifically mentioned in
the agreement Chamberlain said,
they are covered by the provision
regarding tn status quo in the Med
iterranean."
Lit III
was in reply to several question
ers: he told one questioner:
eff any part of the British COM
monWealth were attacked, this
country without hesitation would
go to its aid
Generally it is matter for
each member of the British COM
mOnWealth to decide the extent
to which it would participate in
any war in which another is in
volved,' Chamberlain said.
1t was announced that Britain
would automatically give military
aid to any British dominion which
suffered aggression, but the domin-
ions themselves would have the
right to decide whether they would
enter war in which Britain or
another dominion is involved.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05

munlque Jnat ne nad received thou
sands of kilograms of loyalty from
Corsica and Tunis. Yesterdays
demonstrations against Italy in Cor
sica and Tunis were the best reply
to Italian manifestations and prov
ed that the French are ready to
hold their possessions wherever the
tricolor floats, the communique said.
The demonstrations were evoked
by a clamorous demand by men,
bers of the italian chamber OF
deputies last Wednesday for ceS-
sion to Italy of Tunis, Corsica. Sa-
voy and Nice.
Daladier, saying that the Italian
government had virtually disavow-
ed the demonstration by the depu-
ties, asked the Corsicans and Tuni-
slams to refrain from further mani
festations.
Not only in Corsica itself but in
TuniSia and in French cities, Cor
sicians led yesterdays demonstra-
"AOAiS' az lJiOClO, Gllt CIllCI IOWn
of Corsica, 10000 persons led by
the mayor and members of the
municipal council marched through
the city, singing the French ma
tional anthem, the Marseillaise, and
shouting: Long live France! Long
live Corsica! To the firing post with
Mussolini. ="
At Rome, however the controlled
Fascist press renewed its attacks
on France and bitterly denounced
French "insinuations" that Italy's
partnership with Nazi Germany was
being strained.
Virginia Gayda, who is close to
Premier Benito Mussolini, wrote in
the Giornale DItaifa that France.
instead of advancing insinuations
about the Rome Berlin axis. should
remember that her frontier province
OF Alsace is inhabited by $500. 900
Continued on Page 2, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
Chicken Thieves
In Raids Here

Chicken thieves were out of their
usual bailiwick in Ell Centro, pro-
tests to the police department in
dicated Monday.
Two separate raids on her chick
en- flock were reported by Mrs. Ruth
Anderson, 6z5 Olive street and c.
L. Taylor, 683 Holt street reported
chickens missing from his pen.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05

the University of North Carolina,
rejected predictions that the Nov.
3 elections represented a body blow
to liberal political action. Liberal
forces, he said, often have been
killed and buried but inevitably
come to life with more strength
than they had before"
The future of America, the pres
ident said, rests not on mere
chance alone, not on mere conSer-
vatiSm, mere smugness, mere fatal
ism, but on the affirmative action
which we take in America"
What America does or fails to
do in the next few years has a
far greater bearing and influence
on the history of the human race
for centuries to come than most
Of us who are here today can ever
conceive.
Because We live in an era of
acceleration, we can no longer trust
TO tne eVoluuon OF future decades
to meet these new problms. They
rise before us today and they must
be met today"
Mr.. Roosevelt did not touch on the
international situation.
"You undergraduates who see me
for the first time" he said, have
read your newspapers and heard
on the air that 1 am, at the very
least, an ogre-a consorter with
Communists, a destroyer of the
rich, breaker of our ancient trad
itions.
You think of me perhaps as the
CONTINUED on Page 2. Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
RAMBLING AROUND
THE RODEO GROUNDS

While The dust was yet in the
air, as we'll as The hi-yippees, RR
noticed these at the rodeo Sunday:
When Steve Bain of Yuma ropeC
his calf, he disnounted III novcl
fashion. saddle and all! With the
calf looping away, hindered only by
the dragging saddle, Steve made a
flying tackle ana got him anyhow
RR wondered: Why the horse?
Unable to stand it any longer
Lon Cromer got out his horse and
rope and entered the calf roping
contest. When the calf was final
ly captured, away out yonder where
nobody could see whether Lon got
him with a rope or chloroform,
Pete Peterson announced over the
loud speaker that Ions time was
one hour and three minutes!
For those who wondered why
Walter Martinez wore derby
through all his rough riding, il
, was because, as Walt put it, 81
u4ltll WdllI W biosoA oNS biAN w"
boys, if I got tnroWed!"
Now we get round to a gal who
Monday was as stove up as though
she'd ridden I. bronc, all because
she SAW the second rodeo OF her
life Sunday. For days ahead of the
rodeo Marguerite Brooks was gath
cring a costume Finally she was
ready, with chaps ten gallow hal
and boots Although the boots
were too big. she managed to, pir
on the rest. Most picturesquely
dressed of all the cowboys and cow
girls, Marguerite didn't get near
horse. Reason: they give her hay
feVeri
Too Late TO Alter
r. T. Estes, pioneer Ell Centre
man now of Jacumba, was intro
Continued on Page 2, Col. 50
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
Mrs. frederick S
Last Rites Held

Funeral services for Mrs. Dorothy
Tredenick. Ell Centran who died
suddenly last Wednesday, were
held at the Lemons chapel late last
week.
Her death came as a shock to her
family and friends as she had been
i'll but few days. A sudden heart
attack caused her death.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
15FireCaIIs on
November List

Fifteen fire calls were answered
during November by the El Centre
fire department, according to a re-
port prepared Monday for the city
council
Eight were general alarms Five
fires were in business houses, -four
IN residences, two trash blazes.
three IN automobiles and one smoke
scare. Property damage totaled
S43lO, with S26.70O in property in
volved
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
County Tax Payers
Meet Dead!ine

Taxpayers rushed to the assessor
collectors office in the court house
Monday to pay their first INSTALL
ment taxes before the delinquency
deadline at p. m.
The poscman left a record load
q envelopes containing checks and
money orders from absentee and
resident property owners.
Total collection and delinquency
figures will not be available until
lacer this week Assessor collector
Dan West said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
Flax Group Plans
Annual Ne etino

imperial county flax growers will
attend the annual meeting OF the
southwest flaxseed association Tues
day night at o'clock at the Bar
bara Worth hotel.
Directors will be elected and re-
ports OF the seasons activities will
be outlined, Argyle MeLachlan. Sec
retary, announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
Roumanian College Youths Wound
Military Chief in Iron Guard Row

BUCHAREST, Rumania, Dec. 5
(UP)--1wo youths today shot ana
wounded Colonel Cristescu. presi-
dent Of the military tribunal at
Cernauti, in what was believed to
be the first counter blow against
the shooting of Corneliu Zelea Co.
dreanu, Iron Guard leader and 16
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
Officials Treat
Victim of Feud

Wounded in the head and badly
beaten in the face, Marcelo Carino
was brought 10 FL Centre police sLa.'
ton Saturday night, the victim o.
what appeared to be Filipino
feud.
Carino told officers he was get
ting in his car when three un.-
Identified Filipinos slugged him. He
said he did not recogniez his at.
tackers. Police declared the beat
ing was probably a part of a field
worker dispute,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
Alienist. Native Of Russia
Gets Olson Appointment

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 5. CUP) -
DR.. Aaron j, Rosanoff, Les Angeles
pSychiatriSt and alienist, today was
appointed by Gov. Elect Culbert L.
Olson as his new director of institu-
tons. succeeding Harry Lutgens, in
cumbert.
Olson said DR.. Rosanoff, who is
50, came to the United States from
Russia as a boy of 13 and establish
ed himself in later years as an
internationally known authority in
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
Grapefruit Men
Get Allotment

Imperial Valley grapefruit grow
ers received a shipping allotment
of II cars for this week, according
to B. A. Harrigan, Imperial county
agricultural commissioner.
Allotment for the desert area Is
IS cars.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05

the delegates and valley union
members met representatives. of the
GROIN, Mexican equivalent of the
AF of L, in MeXicali. for a tour
of the city Rudolph Rodriguez,
GROIN secretary. was in charge OF
the tour.
The visitors joined the Union
Regional de Empleados de Comercio
(union of retail clerks at lunch
con to celebrate the eighth ami
versary Of that locals founding.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
New Families Up
Relief Load Here

The relief load at State Reflex
Administration headquarters this
week rose to 207 families, eight
more than the week before.
Applications for aid mounted to
lis last week. Many of the appli-
cants were referred to cotton grow
ers in need of families to pick the
remainder of the crop.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05

and was later clinical director OF
the Kings Park State hospital for
the insane in New York. He held
that post for 21 years. except fer
two years service IN the medical
corps of the army during the World
war. He has served on the Los
Angeles county lunacy commission
since 1923 and has lectured on
Neuro- -Psychiairy al the University
of Southern California.
The institution post pays 5000
annually.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05

his field. The appointee has lived
in Los Angeles since 1922 and is
head o. sanatarium-hospital near
Rosemead
DIR. Rosanoff has consented to
take this position and give the state
the benefit of his thorough knowl-
edge and experience in handling the
problems of these state institutions"
Olson said.
Olson said DR.. Rosanoff studied
at the University of the State OF
New York, Columbia University
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
l.V.Hindu Faces
Murder Charge

A complaint charging Lahab
Singh with the murder of Mangol
Singh last Thursday was signed
this weekend by Deputy Coroner
Herbert Hughes.
The Hindu rancher will be given
a preliminary hearing in El Cen
tro justice court December 10. He
is held in the county Jail without
bail
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
Warner We ather
SLATED in Valley

Comparatively warmer tempera-
lures will prevail in Imperial county
Monday and Tuesday nights, ac-
cording to Woodrow Jacobs, meteor
ologist for the fruit-frost service.
Minimum temperature over the
weekend was 40 degrees, Jacobs
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05

! between The warning IaDOr IacUIOnS
and urging locals of the union to
work toward that end.
Delegates represented the SOUTH
ern California District Council OF
Carpenters. The group pledged its
support to the Imperial Valley Gen.
tral labor council in its work.
Valley carpenters entertained the
visitors at luncheon Saturday and
at a dance Saturday night. After
a tour along the route of the All
American canal Sunday morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
~ Shopping Doys
L I Till christmos

OOKING BACK TO CHRIST
- MAS II YEARS AGO
Santa" Uncle Sam was frown-
ing on Philippines plea for
Christmas gift of independence.
That mouthwash adver-
tisement was telling you to task
your best friend if you dare"
Marshal Foch, allies COM
mander-in-chief, was making a
triumphant tour of U. S.
1t was merry Christmas for new
Irish Free State" created by
treaty that climaxed 700-year
struggle for freedom.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
Britain Warns |taIy Row
Over Colonies May Break
Up Friendship Agreement
'EnsIand Will Stand by France in Event
Of Trouble, Chamb erIain Indicates in
Address Before House of Commons

LONDON, Dec. 5. (UP)-Britain has warned Italy that
colonial demonstrations against France likely
disrupt the efforts at friendship between Britain
and Italy Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the
House of Commons today. Chamberlain said Lord Perth,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
Roosevelt SCOTS at Idea Ba|Ioting
Repudiated New Deal; Calls Upon
Nation to Back Liberal Policies
I'm No Ogre, COnsorter With COMMUNISTS FDR
Tells College Students in North CarOlina
Future of Country Rests ON Action, Says

CHAPEL HILL, N. c.. Dec 5. (UP)-President Roose
welt today called upon the nation to reendorse the liberia
principles of the New Deal and provide leadership tina
democratic systems in the modern world might survive
The president. speaking before the political forum
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
DoIodier Pledges
Nation TO Defend
Every Possession
Corsica, Tunis Scenes of Riotins Against
Italian Demand Colonies Be Ceded;
Rome Renews Attack on Democracy

PARIS, Dec. 5. (UP)-Premer Edouard Daladier
piled to Italian agitation for possession of French Tuns
in Northern Africa and the Island of Corsica with
statement today declaring that will defend the
integrity of all her possessions Daader said in COM
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05
Carpenters, in Convention Here, Urge
Peace Between Clio, AE0L; Support
Pledged 10 Imperial Valley Union

Peace and unity between the CIO and the AT of was
recommended by delegates of American Federation of La
Dor carpenters unions in southern California at their con
ventOn in Ell Centre this weekend
The 65 delegates passed resolution favoring unity
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05

Butter: Los Angeles. 3lei but
terfat, Imperial VaIisy lob. ranch.
grade A, 39ci manufacturing alsik
zoe; route gathered cream pc.
L. A. Hay: u. S. No. l. SI3.50-ifi
U. 5. No. l leafy S15.50-l6i No.
Ieafy SI2.5O-I3.OO; No. 2 S11-11.5O;
Minneapolis flax, Dec. S1.78la.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-05

Too Late TO Alter
r. T. Estes, pioneer Ell Centre
man now of Jacumba. was intro
Continued on Page 2, Col. 50
The Washington times., 1938-08-01
% IN HOSPITALS.
AFTER z TRAINS.
CRASH IN OHIO
2 Persons Remain in
Serious Condition

TOLEDO, Ohio, Aug. 1 Q.N.SO
Wreck crews today cleared the
right of way of the New York Cen
trail Railroad at Rocky Ridge, 19
miles east of Toledo, where last
night the roads crack Chicago-to-
New York Commodore Vanderbilt
rammed into the rear-end of the
Mercury, another Streamlined
flyer.
Of the 80 persons who were
taken to hospitals in Toledo, Port
Clinton and Cleveland, three re-
mained in serious condition today.
They we're:
Mrs. H. B. Haggerty, 46, of Win
netka. ILL.,, suffering from internal
injuries, L. M. Osborne, 46, Evans
ton, ILL.,, shock and other injuries
requiring a blood TRANSMISSION, and
George Morris, 48, New York, in
ternal injuries.
SKIDS ON WET TRACK
The accident occurred at 7:30
p. m. The Mercury, en- route
from Detroit to Cleveland and
travelling at IS miles an hour,
pulled to stop when members of
the crew though the train had
struck an automobile.
The train was reversed for
about three lengths, while crew
members attempted to find the
wrecked car" Then the Com
modore Vanderbilt, on its way to
New York and travelling about two
miles behind the first stream
liner, appeared in view. 1t Skidded
on the wet tracks past block and
flag signals and was travelling be-
tween 10 and Is miles an hour
when it struck the observation car
of the Mercury, derailing that car
and another coach on the Mercury.
go KILLED IN WRECK
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug. 1
G.N.SO Rescue crews hunted
bodies of more victims today amid
the wreckage of the worst railroad
disaster ever suffered in this Brit
ish colony, in which at least 60
persons were killed and 10 injured
some so seriously they may die.
Derailment of the front locomo-
tive of a two-engined train while
rounding a curve on a steep noun
tain grade caused the accident.