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The Washington times., 1938-08-19
Fearful of Mob

Jansen then set fire to the 10.
room parsonage. and the voIun.
teer fire department found the
place a roaring inferno. The
charred body Of the young girl
was found in the ruins.
Suspicion was first aroused
when the clergyman was asked
how the fire started and he said
sparks from the chimney were
responsible.
Officials doubted a fire had
been started in the furnace, and
questioned him further.
Medical examination of the body
Of the girl revealed her condition
and the presence of poison. It
was then that the cleric broke
down and confessed.
The Washington times., 1938-08-19

ing as a banker, he said he used
as a lawyer a Negro from Harlem.
Then I used Dick Davis" he
added.
Q.-You were indicted in 1887
with Davis charged with con-
triving lotteries?
Ayes.
Q.-When this indictment was
handed down where were you?
AIN Europe.
Q.-You had fled the country
before?
A.-Yes.
1son admitted he negotiated to
contact the district attorneys OF
flee. He said he wrote from Eu
rope to his lawyer and asked hin
to find out what the indictment
was about and that he woulc
come back and tell his story tt
the district attorney.
The Washington times., 1938-08-19
MINISTER GETS
life TERM FOR
GIRLS MURDER
Midnight Trial Held to
Avoid Mob Wrath

Continued from Page u
sion read, q confession that made
even hardened court attaches
blanche, the minister said:
II don't know what happened
to me. It must have been the
devil!"
But the confession revealed the
cold-blooded murder Of Alma
Kruckenberg, employed as o maid
in the parsonage in the little town
Of KreHn, near here.
Minister'S Story
The minister told States Attor.
ney Floyd sperry:
"Allna told me she was going
to have . baby, and she threat
ened to tell my wife about her
condition. The thing had been
bOthering me for some time. IL
seemed to me the best thing to
do was to get rid Of her.
Last Monday my wife went
to Bismark to spend a few days,
and that night took some
poison. mixed it in wine, and
gave it to her. She drank 1t
and died.
"After she was dead /
couldn't decide what to do with
her body. Then / figured that
If the house burned and her
body was found i'm 1t, people
would think she had died acci.
dentaIIy,"
The Washington times., 1938-08-19

Ison said that at the meeting,
the "Dutchman" said that he
Ison) was to take over Miro's
bank" finance 1t and let Miro
run it.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-21
DAVE BECK SERVES
A GROUND GLASS PUDDING

Somebody's going to get an awful
stomach ache out of the latest dish pre-
pared by Mr.. Dave Beck. the Seattle
lord of the Transfers Union-and that
somebody is liable to be Mr.. Beck him
self. This top-notch teamster has whip
ped up pudding the chief ingredient
OF which is ground glass. 1t is intended
for the consumption of milk producers
in southern California. Mr. Beck, we
fear, is in grave danger of placing him
self in the same position as the farmer
who tried to blow the alum down the
mules throat. The mule may blow first
When Dave Beck beloved his ulti-
matum that everybody in Los Angeles
county who is in any way connected with
the milk industry as a laborer must be-
come a paid-up member of the Teams
ters' Union, he sounded challenge that
may toss back an echo strong enough to
blow the Transfers Union completely
out of southern California Mr.. Beck is
meddlng with two prime factors he has
overlooked. The first is the temper of
organized farmers. The second is the
temper of the unorganized public which
is rapidly becoming fed up on the parti-
cular sort of castor oil administered by
some labor union chieftans to drain the
last ounce of tribute from laborers and
public.
The rapid growth in power of such
men as Dave Beck was made possible
because there was no organized oppOSi-
ton. Some far-sighted employers, it is
true, opposed such men, but they were
liable to the charge of partiality-since
their own pocketbooks were affected
and so their opposition was not power
ful.
There is a different picture today. Be
ginning in our own county, closely knit
organizations of farmers have spread
throughout southern California. Theirs
is an organization held together not by
dues and overlords, but by righteous
Indignation and common danger.
Even more important is the growing
public resistance to tactics such as those
employed by the Dave Beck union. Let
that union once shut off the milk supply
of the city of Los Angeles, and this
public resistance will become instead a
public crusade. From passive resent
ment il will turn to active hostility.
If Mr.. Dave Beck is wise, he will re-
shuttle his deck right now and begin a
new game. He's bound to lose all the
chips in the old one.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-21

1t is much too soon for the
shouting, yet, over the price reduc-
ton made by steel, big and little,
but it isn't too soon for hoping.
A slash in the price of steel
without an accompanying reduc-
ton in wages has been one of the
major salients in the New Deals
bitter struggle with business, and
there must have been considerable
rejoicing in the Roosevelt camp
when the word OF the reduction
went out.
Independent companies started
the price break and were followed
almost Immediately by U. S. Steel.
Just previous to the reduction an
nouncement, U. S. Steel and its
subsidiaries had signed an agree
ment with SWO.C., CLIO. af-
filiate. guaranteeing at least tenn
porarily, a continuation OF present
high hourly wages.
To most observers the important
thing about the reduction is not
the actual benefit which consumers
will feel under the lowered price of
S4 a ton for cold reduced, oiled
sheets. The enthusiasm over the
price reduction comes instead from
related factors.
Greatest of these is the fact that
an industry employing more than
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-21
Other Editors Saw
AS THE ROMANS DID?
christian Science MOnitorl

Should one speak Latin like Queen Elizabeth
or like Cicero? This is the problem to which
Englands learned men now deVOting their
intellectual resources. Yet. on the face of it,
the solution would seem to be simple enough.
When talking the Roman language, ought
not to talk as the Romans did?
Queen Elizabeth spoke English her tutor,
Roger Ascham, instructed her; and AScham
said that Latin should be pronounced as though
it were English. For three centuries this was
the manner IN which Latin taught and
spoken in England, but during the reign of Vic
toria certain scholars reverted more or Less
to the pronunciation used by the Romans them
selves. This has led to great confusion among
classical students. Most people going up TO the
universities the Roman pronunciation, but
some schools including Eton. have gone back to
the traditional English style The situation is
neatly eXemplfied in an incident concerned
with Mr.. Lionel Curtis book, "Vlvitas Del" A
bookseller rang Mr. Curtis up and asked Wheth-
the title should be pronounced "Saeyitas Deei"
or "KeeWeetaS DaYee."
Upholders of the Roman style assert that
the English school is "hopelessly confused and
inconsistent" and that it induces gross phone
tic incompetence" So far the argument appears
to be wholly their side. but one is a little
shaken to learn that Julius Caesar, for example
said "Wayni, Weedy. Weekly" for "Veni Vidi,
vic Il came, 1 saw, I conquered, and pro-
nounced "yicissim' as "We-kissim" lin turns.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-21
News Behind the News
- Hero Worshipper Berle

WESTINGHOUSE better or worse things
are likely to be different now that Adolf Angus
tus Berle has been named assistant secretary Oh
state.
Bere will apply his brilliant intellect to the
disturbing Far Eastern and European situations
and will be intimately involved with efforts Ior
an international conference to nurse peace In
early New Deal days he was ranked as Brain
TruSter No 3. preceded only by Ray Moley ana
Rex TugWel. and Roosevelt again will use HIM
for general brain trusting.
Upper Washington is divided between those
awed by the Berle brain in operation and those
driven to fury by Berles yocferouS hero-Wor-
ship of A A Berle His best friends admit he
probably is the coekiest gent who ever wore out
a pair of pants in a Washington swivel chair
and for sheer ability to irritate large numbers
of other persons he appears to stand alone. The
widespread conviction that Berle is just as good
as he says he is doesn't make him any easier
to take
But Berle was the personal choice of his close
friend Under-Sec. Sumner Wells, who is himself
sufficiently domineering and ramroddsh to dis
satisfy the average taste. The two men worked
together at the Buenos Aires conference and
have collaborated on arranging the affairs OF
such so-called republics as Cuba and San Domin-
60 Now they will function as team in the
face of a world whose affairs admittedly are
messy.
Reports differ as to whether Secretary Cordel
Hull. who admres Berle but remembers the
time he told President Roosevelt that either he
the then Assistant secretary MOey WOulu
have to quit, was enthusiastic over the Berle
appointment Hull squelched a WeleS proposal
that Berle become sort of super press relations
man on foreign affairs after State Department
correspondents had waited him to make
known their sentiments about that.
just the same, although numerous harpoons
javelins and daggers are being hopefully sharp
ened for use on Berle, this energetic genius has
a remarkable record which suggests that history
may come to know him one OF the major
statesmen of his time. He does manage To put
things over
One of the few infant prodigies who ever
grew up to amount to anything. Bere Is the
SON of an Ohio Congregationalist minister. He
went through Harvard in three years graduated
with high honors at IT, out OF Harvard Law
School at q and not long afterward. as an army
lieutenant, made Russian expert on the
American delegation to the Versailles peace
conference.
He became member of the original Roose-
velt Brain Trust and the man behind
early New Deal banking and railroad policies.
But he went away after jim Farley persuaded
Roosevelt that the administration should back
Holy Joe" Mckee on a separate ticket in the
1888 New York City mayoralty campaign against
Fiorello LaGuardia and the Tammany candidate.
Bere worked to elect LaGuarda and has been
the most important man behind the LaGuardia
scenes ever since He turned his brains over
to LaGuardia and made a spectacular record in
dealing with New Yorks budget and transit
problems.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-21

the big tops as Mister JaWn. he
has much of the ShyneSs and tacl-
turnity of John Ringing and circus
employees swear by him. Superstl-
tious show folk believe thoroughly
that an important death among
them is followed by two more ana
point to the three theory in the
passing of Lillian Leitzel, John
Ringing and Dexter Fellows.
Ieonora Hughes comes back from
Argentina for the first time in
years. one of the Wealthiest widows
in South America. Her young nus
band was killed in a motor boat
aeciient two years ago, leaving his
fortune to her Miss Hughes was a
tcp-notcher in the ballroom dane
ing furore and for a time was the
partner of Maurice, after he and
Florence Walton dissolved their
partnership. When she married the
Argentine i'm st. Patrick's Cathedral
Maurice jumped up during the serv-
ices and rushed to the street, Sob
bing. She was a Brooklyn girl.
Orson WelleS continues a wonder
kiddie of the theater at %. His
production of Julius Caesar in mod
ern dress with practically no seem
cry was a seasonal triumph-produc-
ed on the proverbial shoe string
Welles' upbringing may offer side
light to parents in problems of jul
venile behaviourism. In knee pants
he began to travel extensively with
his father to all parts of the world.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-21
LITTLE MAN
WHAT THEN?

Life is not all skittles and beer, if
we may be forgiven the adult phrase,
for a child movie star. It's far more
likely to be bed of roses, accompanied
by an occasional legal thorn, for his par
ents. Take the case of Freddie BarthOlO-
NEW.
Freddie won the consent of the court
not to send $19, 900 to his parents in Lon
don-whom he says he doesn't love
because his various bills leave him hardly
enough for pocket money for his aunt
and himself. He's supposed to send his
parents 20 per cent of his salary each
year Trouble is, Freddie must pay S67,
900 in income taxes next month, he owes
his lawyers $4,000, his agents $4,000,
his personal creditors $1,000 and other
retainers S44,300
All this leaves Freddie and his aunt
about $1,000 to live on for year.
From these figures, sworn to in court,
it seems to the casual observer that the
youngster would be lot better off if
he waited until he grew up, then went to
work for $50 a week. He would make
more mOneN.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-21
Famous Sayings -
By O. O. Mcintyre

Treated always as a grown-up, he
went to bed when he pleased, never
ate in the children's dining room
and was constantly drawn into con-
versation with his elders.
|. Dale Carnegie is out front and
riding hard as the biggest money
maker among the litterateurs for
1887 His book on how to win peo-
pie will alone mop up a quarter
million in royalties and second serial
rights. His school of public speak
ing is the most profitable in the
world and his newspaper column is
taking on. To say nothing of his
radio and lecture profits. And no
one is quite so bewildered as he.
Unless it is his hooters
Bagatelles: F. p A, who SO long
emulatei Samuel Pepys in type, was
recently stricken with kidney
stone, just as Pepy's was The
Duke of Windsor slows up his
smoking by nibbling old-fashioned
stick licorice Theodore Dresser
is reputedly planning a ponderous
volume dealing with his sum-up
Of life ana its meaning Henry
Wallace is the most widely hissed
of the New Dealers at the news
reels.
Chronogenic note: He was a study
in brown, resplendent in the NOR
ming flow up Park avenue. Brown
overcoat, oxfords, hat, etc. A dis
heveled reveler in a taxi leaned
out in passing to moan: Buddy, 1
have a swell brown taste to go with
your outfit"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORN- =,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY
OF IMPERIAL
NO. 2787
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Matter OF The Estate of
CHARLES l.. GILLErT,
Deceased,
the undersigned Nellie Gillett, as
ExecutriX of the Estate of Charles
l.. Gillett, Deceased, to the credi-
tors of and all persons having
claims against the said Deceased,
that within six months after the
first publication of this notice they
either file such claim or claims with
the necessary vouchers in the OIL
flee of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of the State of California, in
and for the County of Imperial, or
TO present such claims with the
necessary vouchers to said Nellie
Gillett, as EXecutriX of said Es-
tate at Room 2l8 Rehkopf Build
ing in the City Of Ell Centre, Coun-
ty of Imperial, State of California,
the same being the place for the
transaction of the business of said
estate.
Dated at Ell Centro California,
this % day of January, 1898.
NELLIE GILLETT,
EXecutriX of the Estate
Estate of Charles l.. Gill
lett, Deceased.
31-F7-14-2D
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
S u M M o N S

NO. l10US
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT, Plaintiff
H. G.. MACAULEY, MRS. H. G.
MACAULEY, j. E. O'NEILL. JOHN
DOE, JANE DOE, RICHARD ROE,
JOHN DOE COMPANY, a Corpora
ton, RICHARD ROE COMPANY,
a Co-partnership,
Defendants.
Harry w. Horton and Geo. r.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The People of The State of Cali
fOrnia Send Greetings to:
H. G.. MACAULEY, MRS. H. G.
MACAULEY, j. E. O'NEILL, JOHN
DOE, JANE DOE, RICHARD ROE,
JOHN DOE COMPANY, a Corpora
ton, RICHARD ROE COMPANY,
4 partnership, Defendants.
You Are Hereby Directed to APP
pear and answer the Complaint in
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in the Superior Court
Of the County of Imperial State OF
California, within ten days after the
service on you of this SummonS-if
:erved within this county; or with
in thirty days if served elsewhere
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
1r damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, OF
It will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State TO Cali
fornia, this 18th day of August, 1887
w. j. McCLELLAND,
CSEAU County Clerk
BY M. A. CHRISTIAN,
Deputy Clerk
F7 IA q %, MI IA 81 %, A 4 II.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-21
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 2840
Estate OF
GEORGE C. BAUDLER, also known
as CT. c. BAUDLER,

GEORGE C. BAUDLER, also known
as G. c. BAUDLER,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, Bank Of America, Ma
tional Trust and Savings Associa-
ton, as the Administrator with will
annexed of the Estate of George
C. Baudler, also known as G.. G.
Baudler, Deceased, to the creditors
of and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, that with
in six months after the first pub
lication OF this notice, they either
file them with the necessary Voucl-
ers in the office of the Clerk OF the
Superior Court of the State OF Cali
fornia, in and for the County of
Imperial, or present them with the
necessary vouchers to the said Ad-
ministrator with will annexed at
Trust Dept 6l5 Broadway, San
Diego, Calf. its place of business.
BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL
TRUST AND SAVINGS ASSO-
CITATION, as Administrator with
Will Annexed of the Estate Of
George C. Baudler, also known as
G.. c. Baudler, Deceased.
BY C. E. DeROCHIE,
Assistant Trust Officer.
Dated at San Diego, Calf, this
4th day of February 1888
Ross 7. Hickcox, Attorney for said
Administrator with Will Annexed.
T. 7 IA 81 %.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-21
Photographs

Like human beings, plants have
special drinking hours when their
roots absorb more water than
usual.
When a person is excited, his
hair stands on end" because fear
causes the skin to contract.
There are more than 1000 known
varieties of bacteria and germs.
1t is estimated that approx
mately $500,000,000 worth of mer-
chandise is returned to u. s. re-
tail stores each year.
In the United States, the year
1923 marked the zenith in pros
perity of the piano industry.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
S u NJ NJ o N S
Mo 1900

S U NJ NJ o N S
No. 1868
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT, Plaintiff
ARTHUR MONROE LANTz, ct al,
Defendants.
Harry w. Horton and Geo. r.. Kirk,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The People of The State of Cali
fOrnia Send Greetings to:
ARTHUR MONROE LANTZ, MIL
DRED SARAH LANTZ, JOHN DOE,
Administrator of the Estate of Mary
E. Lloyd, Deceased. TITLE GUAR
ANTEE and TRUST COMPANY, A
Corporation, Trustee, CALIFORNIA
TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, A
Corporation, Trustee, FAYETTE A.
SMITH, GRACE G. SMITH, EDNA
B. BUSHNELL, R. P. GREENLEAF,
PIEDMONT PECAN NURSERY
COMPANY, A Corporation, CLYDE
LARKIN, JOSIE LARKIN, SECUR-
ITY-FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
LOS ANGELES, A National Bank
ing Association, Trustee, JOHN
DOE, JANE DOE, RICHARD ROE,
JOHN DOE COMPANY, A Corpora
ton. RICHARD ROE COMPANY,
A o-partnerShip, Defendants.
You Are Hereby Directed to Ap-
pear and answer the Complaint in
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in the Superior Court
of the County of Imperial, State of
/ California, within ten days after
the service on you of this Summons
if served within this county; or
within thirty days if served else
where.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the com
plant, as arising upon contract, OF
it will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this 30th day of September
1897.
w. j. McCLELLAND.
| (SEAD County Clerk
BY ELEANOR McGIRK.
Deputy Clerk
J II "a 81, F. 7 IA 81 %, M 7 IA 81
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-21

made 26 speeches in 5 days and
never muffed a home cooked chick
en- dinner. Came a radio repair
man who showed me checks total
ing $3.50 for magazine stories sold
iuring a month.
Theodore Dresser and Alma Clay
burgh to dinner and Dresser in high
conversational trim. Then later with
my lady to see Fannie Hurst's new
apartment at the Hotel DIES Artists
and afterWard dropping into FL
Morocco. talking to Nancy Hoyt,
gazetteer of the elan folk.
There is a batch of names news
papermen try TO write correctly but
somewhere between the typewriter
and printed page they come cropper
It's Well-nigh impossible to land
Russell Grouse with one |, get the
hyphen between the first two names
of Norman Bel Geddes, or put the
two as in the last name of Mar
garet SULLIVAN. Then. of course, the
two Katharines-Hepburn and Cor
nell-Who insist on first names car
rying the two as. F. P. A. used
to fill much columnar space re-
producing the various spellings of
Reinald Werrenrath, the singer,
when he was on tour. My own pet
name stumbler is Jules Glaenzer's
last one.
With the Ringing family in con-
troll of the circus again, the boss
job falls to John Ringing North,
hand-tutored under the Ringing
chieftain known and beloved under
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-21
WE'LL / II
Tell
says
Bob Burns

suppose when you read the
fan magazines, you can get a
pretty fair idea of the crazy
questions the stars have'ta answer
when they are interviewed, but
you can see by the answers. that
the Stars have just about the
same kind of a home life as any
body else.
The other day a writer asked a
star how long he had been mar
ried. The star says, Twenty eight
years" The next question was
Were you ever struck by light
ning?" The old actor says "Well,
l probably have been, bu. when a
fella's been married 28 years. he
fCrgets them little trifles."
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-21
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

/. Who introduced the bill fol-
President Roosevelt's naval pro-
gram in congress?
.. What nations of Centra
Europe composed the Little En-
tente". which seems now to be dis
integrating?
3. Name the capital of Fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-21
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 1896

WILLIAM C. ALEXANDER
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, d. l.. ZINN, Public
Administrator, as administrator
with will annexed of the estate Of
WILLIAM C. ALEXANDER, De-
ceased to the creditors Of and all
persons having claims against the
said deceased, that within six
months after the first publication
of this notice they either file them
with the necessary vouchers in the
office Of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of the State of California,
in ana for the County of Imperial
or exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers to the said d. l.. Zinn as
administrator with will annexed
OF said estate, at 510 Main Street,
Ell Centro, California, the same be-
ing the place for the transaction
of the business of the said estate
in the County of Imperial, State
Of California.
Dated at Ell Centre, California,
this % day of January, 1888.
d. l.. ZINN,
Administrator with will
annexed of the Estate of
WILLIAM C. ALEXANDER,
Deceased.
CHILDERS & ROBERTS
Attorneys for Administrator.
(J31-F7-l4-2D