davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-24

FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
hereby announce my candidacy to
succeed myself as County Commits
sioner for the two year term subjec:
in the Democratic Primary June 4.
Your vote and support will be ap-
preciated.
W. w. CU2RIN.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-24

and wireless in those days was of
small value We received plenty OF
wireless dispatches, to be sure, but
they were so jumbled up as to be we'll
nigh unintelligible.
What we had to depend on mainly
was stuff we "copped" out of North
American papers and magazines, re-
wrote to suit local requirements had
our staff of translators turn into
snappy Spanish and then turned the
dope" over to River Plate editors.
They gobbled 1t up bodily.
True, they got it for nothing, but
press agent yarns are not supposed to
he paid for anyway.
Stories Printed.
The point is that we got our stories
printed-columns and columns of
them daily.
While the war lasted we devoted
ourselves principally to our own North
American sort of news from the zone
of hostilities. But the "Compub" sur.
vived for awhile on into the postwar
period.
In the latter era we tried to build
Yankee trade in the River Plate re-
Gion.
Our North American branch houses
there liked it.
1t was not SO much a question Of
counteracting German and Italian
business. English business more es-
pecially needed to be counteracted.
1t wasn't that which "queered' us
Our big home news agencies put us
out of business. We were getting all
the space and headlines, and our
clients were getting them gratis.
So the news agencies combined in
Washington and extinguished the
'Compub.'
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-24
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four

1. What fort was built on the site OF
the city of Chicago? !.
2. Name the last Democratic Presl-
dent before Franklin D. RooseveltP
8. What is a psychrometer?
4. Name the state flower of Rhode
Island
5. Can water have a temperature
higher than it's boiling point?
g. With which American League base
ball club does Earl Averill play?
7. Who discovered the Mississippi
River?
s. Name the highest known mountain
in the world.
6. How many centimeters are in one
meter?
TO- Do American citi-ens require pass
ports to visit Canada?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-24

of a paper. s
John Elliott, of WILLIAMSBURG, was
in our town Saturday. He married
Miss Carrie Wilkerson, of Granville.
4 sister of Ike. John was a-talking
to his brother, Louis, who lives near
Oxford and he told me terrible tale
On his -itrother. He said that last
spring while blowing, Louis had 4
big chaw of tobacco in his mouth.
When he got through with his chaw,
Louis, spit it out and kept blowing.
When he cot home his teeth were
missing. He had spit them out and
plowed them under, also.
T. MOSES JONES.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-24

ton and tobacco, Floyd went on h..
TO increase the production of otr p''
commodities, including poultry su,i ier
and livestock, and to produce o. " =.
nome far mas much as possible Of VI tne
things needed for home cons,,, - the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-24
FOR RECORDER.

hereby announce myself a can.
didate for Recorder of Vance County,
subject to tie Democratic Primary
June f..
If elected, / will discharge the duties
of this office faithfully ands impair
TALLY as l have in the past.
Your vote and support will be ap
preciated.
II IT, ct ,EMENTS
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-24

other year of surplus production
would be ahead and farmers would
be- faced with the danger of serious
losses due to low prices.
The way to increase farm income
is not to increase the acreage of cot
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-24
Political Notices
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER

FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
/ am a candidate for reelection for
the four-year term as member of tn.
Board of County Commissioners, sub
ject to the Democratic primary June
4. 1 would appreciate your support or
the basis of my past record.
H. B. PARROT.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-24
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

l hereby announce myself AS can
didate for Vance County Board OF
Commissioners for the two year term,
subject to the Democratic Primary
June 4. Your vote and support will be
greatly appreciated.
HENRY w. HIGHT.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-24

18S2-James Oppenheim, versatile
novelist-poet, born at st. Paul, MINI.
Died Aug. 4, 1882 ~.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-05-24
FOR RECORDER.

Stop voting for. Johnnie Ford, ant
vote for Johnnie Beckham.
JOHNNIE w. BECKHAM.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
Italians Hail
Nazi Victory
Continued from Page u
mary TO CZechOSlOYakia.

Continued from Page -
Hungary to Czechoslovakia.
As welcome as was the news that
Britain and France would capl-
tulate. the news that Britain might
Join other nations in guaranteeing
the Czech frontier after the Sude-
ten area is annexed by Germany,
was received with disbelief because
of Britain'S traditional policy
against incurring further commit
ments in Europe.
The Italians felt there would be
no doubt of the CzeChs accepting
the sacrifice decided upon by
France and Britain, after they real
lied that neither France nor
Britain would aid them. The com
mentators pointed out with pride
that Mussolini in a recent editorial
in his newspaper, Popolo D'Italia,
had said that Britain would think
seven times seven" before going to
war and that if Britain was firm
for preventing war, no country
would dare start one. The COM
mentators said that "once again"
MuSolini had been right.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19

PAWHUSKA, Okla, Sept. 10.
CUP)-John Stink. Rosary in one
hand and a cigar in the other, was
laid to rest today in a mausoleum.
In three e-hour services blending
the solemn rites of the Catholic
church with picturesque Usage In
dian burial ceremonies. fellow
tribesmen explained that although
Old Johns body was locked in q
crypt, his spirit was wingiug toward
the happy hunting grounds.
1t was the second time. according
to legend, that the oil-rich, 80
year-old recluse had been buried.
More than half century ago, In
dians say, Old John became i'll Of
smallpox and was believed dead by
tribal medicine men. They placed
his body on a mountainside, sur
rounded him with rocks and
stretched a buckskin covering over
his body. John recovered, returned
to camp. Other Indians had di-
vided his ponies, and refused to re-
turn them.
John Stink they said. That
was how he got his name.
This story and dozens of others
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
Aged Indian Buried, Rosary in One
Hand, Ciqar in The Other

surrounding the aged eccentric nev-
er were Substantiated, agency Off
Gals emphasized. They said that
so many stories had been circulated
about Old john, thai it was impos-
sible to separate the truth from
fiction.
Old john in his Casket wore a
black store suit. with a gauGJ
blanket around his shoulders. A
brient band was around his head.
John Abbot a councilman of the
Csagc tribe, said in funeral ora
ton that tribal leaders had not
believed it necessary to perform the
customary ritual of painting the in
sigma of Johns clan on his fore
head.
"When a man is 80 years old.
when he has lived by himself most
of that time, and been man unto
himself he knows straight paths
from crooked ones and knows how
to go straight to his destination, >,
Abbott said.
Tribal leaders said that the elan
insignia is placed on the head OF
most Osages to enable them to be
more easily identified when they
reach the happy hunting ground.
Old Johns four dogs, his most
intimate companions, stayed under
the casket while O!d Johns body
was in state.
After services at the grave the
mourners returned to Old Johns
cabin and feasted as the final part
of the Usage tribal rites.
Only Old Johns dogs did not ear
They ate at the same table with
their master for years, and always
we're served first. They have not
eaten since his death last Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
Warner Denies
Communism in
Film Industry

LOS ANGELES. Sept. 10. CUP)-
Harry M. Warner, president of War
ner Brothers studios, in the first
Hollywood reply to charges of COM
munism within the movies, today
challenged anyone to offer proof
of any I'm -Americanism within the
motion picture industry.
Certain bigots representing the
malcontents who want to ruin what
they cannot rule whisp-r that Hol-
lywood is run by jsms," Warner
said at luncheon in honor of
National Legion Commander Daniel
Doherty Mayor LaGuardia of New
York and American Legion chief
tains.
While $4,000 Legionnaires swarm
ed over his studio to see pictures
in the making, Warner told his
luncheon guests that this industry
has no sympathy with Communism.
Fascsm, Nazism, or any ism othet
than Americanism."
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
Driver SpoiIs
Holdup Plans
In Valley Sunday

HOLTVILLE, Sept. 80. Ober-
ly spoiled elaborate stickup plans
Sunday night by driving his truck
through a barrier of braided tules
placed across the border road south
of here.
This is the second crime of this
type which has occurred in the
southern part of the county in less
than a week. -Four unidentified
bandits stopped Frank Couger's
truck east of Calexico last We'd
nesday night by placing railway
tie across the road. They robbed
him OF 95 cents and some trinkets.
Oberly drove his milk truck
through the barrier and sped to
town to summon officers. The bar
rier consisted of a braided strand
of tuleS. The ends were tied to
willow trees lining this section of
the road, officers said. The at
tempted stickup took place at 7:30
pm. Sunday.
Deputy sheriffs found the long
braid Of tules and place where
the bandits cut down arrow weeds
along The road where their intend
ed victim would have stepped from
his truck had he stopped.
Officers are continuing their in
vestigation of the two stickups.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
Forger Suspect
Found Under Bed

BRAWLEY. Sept. Is. CUP1-Hid-
ing under a bed at ranch house
three miles north east of town. did
not prevent Sydney Hopper's arrest
Sunday on a charge of forgery.
Hopper was arrested by deputy
sheriffs for his participation in bad
check deals with George Lawrence
SeagraveS, now an inmate of a
Texas prison Hopper, Deputy
Sheriff Herbert Hughes said. eluded
arrest in Texas and returned to I'M
perial Valley to hide.
He is charged with passing checks
il Ell Centre in January. A hos
pital. grocery stores, and an auto
mobile concern were included
among the victims of Hopper and
ScagraveS, Hughes said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
Many Apply
For Absentee
Ballots

AL the vacationers haven't come
home, Walter w. Goodson, irriga-
ton district secretary, has discov-
cred. Applicants for absentee vot-
ers ballots for the election to be
held Sept 80 gave the district secre-
tary and his helpers a busy session
Monday.
Several voters appeared in per-
son early Monday morning. filed
statements showing they would be
away from home when the PWA
offer to complete the 1885 power
program will be presented.
Applications for absent ballots
will be received until five days be-
fore election. This means all voters
who will be away from home on
Sept 80 and who wish to vote
then must see that their applica-
tions for absent voters ballots reach
Secretary Goodson at El Centre
by the end of this week. If they
apply in person they will be per-
mitted to vote at that time. If they
send in written application for
ballot they must give name, pre-
cinct location, and address to which
ballot is to be mailed. If the ballot
is returned by mail, it must be put
in the postoffice on or before cleo
ton day, but not thereafter, and
must be delivered to Secretary
Goodson within six days after the
election date.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
20
Pumpkin Drawn by
Mice Wins Prize

POMONA, Sept. 10. CUP)--A giant
pumpkin drawn by mice, entered
by San Joaquin county, today was
Judged the best feature exhibit at
the Los Angeles county fair from
the standpoint of quality. Ventura
and Riverside counties were next
From the standpoint of artistic
display, Orange county won, fol-
lowed by Santa Barbara, San Diego
San Bernardino and Alameda coun-
ties.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19

consideration of the house and
senate without further delay.
Leaders of the session planned to
push bills which Gov. R. Stanford
declared must be appropriated to
allow state institutions, depart
ments and subdivisions to take ad-
vantage of the PWA grants, and
for emergencies, chiefly at the state
prison and the state hospital.
The senate appropriations COM
mittee invited citizens and tax ex-
perts to assist and offer advice"
on passage of bills before the upper
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
War Risk Insurance
Rates SUSPENDED

LONDON, Sept. 49, UP)-Sus-
pension of war risk insurance rates
on marine shipments brought trad
ing in gold on the London bullion
market to a virtual standstill today.
Takings of the metal on the Of
ficial market were the smallest
since July 9 as arbitrageurs, unable
to obtain coYerage on shipments to
the United States, discontinued
their purchases pending further
Qualification of the situation.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19

house.
Sen. E. J. McEachren. Miami,
chairman, said "this committee is
on the spot. We want to know
where we're going to get all the
money for these bills" McEachren
referred to measures before the
legislature which would appropri-
ate $2.OoO00O i'll state funds for
the PWA building program.
"The American public is incon-
sistent." McEachren said, "the pub
lie demands that money be spent
and then it gives us hell for spend
ing it. We welcome suggestions of
any citizen or tax expert"
The chairman announced that
public hearings will be held begin
ming tomorrow on the appropria-
tions bills.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
Imperial Valley Press

Established sprTl 81. 1901.
Published every afternoon except
Saturday and sunday Saturday
afternoon issue now succeeded by
The POst-Press Sunday establish
ed 1886 by the Imperial Valley
Publishing Company, 825 State
street. Ell CentrO, Calf.
Entered at FL Cestfo. California
pest office as second class matter.
Paul Jenkins. publishers a. G.
Johnston, vice-president and gen
erela maDagers r, A. Fitzhugh.
secretary and managing editor.
West Holiday Co. Inc, National
Advertising representatives..
Members California Newspaper
Publishers Association.
Subscription Rates. SC per copy.
In eonjunct with the Post
Press (Sundays), per month, soc;
Paid I'm advance: months s1.6a-
months S3.25, sear s6.@.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
Man Shoots
Girl, Self

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 19. up
Instead of preparing to be married
tomorrow, Dorothy Lebonati, 10, and
Mason Potter. q, lay near death
from bullet wounds today.
Potter, an embalmer, shot the
girl and himself in rage because
she broke off their engagement
after ne went on wedding cele-
bration drunk and lost the wedding
ring.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
Daughter Born
To Rob't Elmores

A girl, Roberta Ann, was born
this morning at 9:09 at the Ell Cen
tro hospital to Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Elmore. The young lady weighed
six pounds, three and three-fourths
ounces. Elmore is connected with
the sheriff's office.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
HlNDERKS INJURED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT

MI. and MIS-. Clarence Hindcrks,
former Imperial Valley residents
who now live in Pasadena, were
badly shaken and bruised in an au-
tomobile accident at Cabazon Sun
day. Details of the accident we're
not available Monday,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
Gas Corporation
Executive Visits
ElCentro

II. w. Edmunds, head of the
purchasing department for the
Coast Counties gas corporation, was
in Ell Centro Monday on a routine
inspection of the Ell Centre division
Edmunos will return to Santa
Cruz. lis home office, Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
THOMAS, ILL,
TAKEN TO HILLS

I. A. Thomas, FL Centran VINO
has been i'll for more than a week,
was taken to Laguna mountains late
last week in the hope that change
of climate will speed his recovery.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19

Southern CalifoTnia-Fair Mon
day night and Tuesday; normal
temperature; gentle northwest wind
off coast.
Los Angeles and Vicinity - Fair
Monday night and Tuesday; seas
enable temperature with little
little change; gentle southeast to
southwest wind, northwest on coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
NEW NURSE

Mrs. Eva Kyson is the new school
nurse employed to work with the
nurses in the county health depart
ment, Superintendent OF Schools c.
B Collins announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
FLOYD PRUITT,
JUANITA HARRIS WE'D

Floyd Pruitt and Juanita Harris,
Negroes, were married in justice
court Monday by JuGge John E.
Simpson.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
Arizona Legislature Speeds
Action to Meet DeadIine
For Public Works Grants

PHOENIX, Sept 10, (UP)-Worhng at top speed to
meet the Oct deadne of the Public WORKS Admnlstra-
on for grants the Arizona legislature today tossed new
the special sessions hoppers and studied
nthnr bills introduced in order brng out caendar for
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19

PRAGUE. Sept. 70. CUPl-The
Czech government confiscated for
eien newspapers il Prague today.
A strict censorship was instituted
on newspapers.
TeleGrGms also were censored. All
foreign telephone calls were tapped.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
sss~'ssnases esr.sss 'este1ts ID szsKE
Goinss. Cominss
Of Centrans

Mr.. and Mrs. Rodney jenkins
596 Olive avenue, returned Sunday
evening from an extended trip.
Leaving Ell Centro early in August
they drove to Canada, visiting Lake
Louise and Banff. From there they
made a stay in Chicago, Ill, and
reached Elizabethtown, Ky, in time
for a family reunion of the jenkins
family. They spent two weeks with
jenkins father, Calmor jenkins, be-
fore returning. making short Wis
it at Denver They were gone nearly
six weeks.
Margaret Hedrick and her sis
ter, Mrs. H. r. Jones, returned late
last week from a delightful vaca-
ton trip in the middlewest. They
visited friends and relatives at Elk
City, Okla, aftervisittng the Carls-
bad Caverns. IIref greater part of
their time was spent at their for
mer home at Keokuk, Ia, but some
time was spents sat Des Moines. Al
gona, and at Red Wing and Min
neapolis MINI, They returned via
Denver and San Francisco, having
been gone eight weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs: Malcolm McDermid
returned Sunday from month
spent in Minnesota visiting Mrs.
McDermids father, Oscar B. Voge
of Robbinsdale. and relatives and
friends in Minneapolis. Alan and
Charles MunSon, who have been
staying with their aunt, Mrs. r. H.
Sampson this past year, returned
with them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Golden returned
with deer from a hunting and
fishing trip to the Mammoth Lake
region. Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Hess
who were camped near the Goldens,
also bagged a deer.
Annie Lee Rapson, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fredric Rapson, left
Monday for Redlands where she
will enter the, university.
y4--=-
Othniel Harne, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. o. 9. Horne, Will leave the
last Of the weak for Pasadena where
he begins his gecond year at Cal
Tech. He is the only valley boy
attending this school this semester.
Mrs. p. A. Murray has closed her
cabin at Laguna and has opened
her house on Olive street. She finds
she must return to San Diego oc-
caSionally for further check-ups
on injuries suffered during a re-
cent auto accident.
Mrs. Paul A. Jenkins returned TO
Ell Centro Sunday night after
summer spent at La Jolla. With
Mrs. Jenkins were her son and
daughter, John and Martha Jeanne.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. A. Fitzhugh were
back in El Centre Monday after a
vacation IN the Arizona mountains
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19

BUY OR SELL. Twice as Well,
.hru Nant-Ads.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
Czecl,s Hatred
Growing
Cnntlnned rrnm a. Onc

Continued rom Fa2c Ono
ton-hole flags and other national
insignia fer fear they would be
attacked.
All BritonS except those in off
Cial positions took the union jacks
from their automobiles. One British
businessman remarked ironically
that nc believed he would get a
Sudetcn friend to lend him a swas-
tika.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19

Mrs. p. A. Murray has closed her
cabin at Laguna and has opened
her house on Olive street. She finds
she must return to San Diego oc-
casionally for further check-ups
on injuries suffered during a re-
cent auto accident.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19

Mr.. and Mrs. f. A. Fitzhugh were
back in FL Centre Monday after a
vacation IN the Arizona mountains.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19

Mrs. Paul A. jenkins returned to
Ell Centro Sunday night after a
summer spent at La Jolla. With
Mrs. Jenkins were her son and
daughter, John and Martha Jeanne.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-19
WEATHER

lats compiled by observers for
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-22
National Emergency Council Executiue Has Job to Rescue
 South from Present DOIdrums
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, July g. = The Executive spotlight which switches from time to time on new agencies, has picked out one Lowell Mellett and his National Emergency Coun. cil for a period of prominence that shows signs of being far more than temporary.
 Mellett was an editor of Wash ington newspaper. He had New Deal ideas before 1893 and long has been one of the Presidents in- inmates. Now as NEG director, he has been incorporated officially into the White House executive ring to take over a job second in importance only to emergency re- lief. The job is to manage the Presidents effort to rescue the South from the economic dol- drums.
 The Emergency Council, hiding hl the obscurity of a thousand half forgotten bureaus, has been marked for death time after time. Best opinion here is that it was res cued lately mainly as an avenue down which the President could launch his southern enterprise.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-22
OVER FOUR MILLION
 SPENT BY BPR IN 8
 YEARS ON HIGHWAYS

A total of $4,647 ,369 has been spent by the Bureau of Public Roads on roads in the forest areas of Alaska during the last eight years, according to records of the Bureau. The average annual ex- penditure has been $581, 900.
 The actual output for the last eight years follows: 1881, $668,519; 1892, s75O,267; 1883, $296, ,264; 1884, $5O4, ,597; 1885, $5O8,107; 1936 $677,- 956; 1897, $589, ,751; 1938, $634, ,9OS. The figures are for fiscal years and the expenditures represent the amounts spent for bridges, road construction and maintenance in all the forest areas in the Territory, including the Glacier Highway out of Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-07-22
RUSSIA, JAPAN ARE AGAIN IN
 MORE TROUBLE
Far East Threatened in New Crisis Regarding Ter
 ritorial Rights
WESTERN EUROPE IS
 NOW HOPEFUL, PEACE
King George Returns to London from Paris
 Ter Makes New Move
CBy Associated Press)

Sharp words between Soviet Rus sia and Japan today threatened the uneasy peace of those rivals in the Far East, but a hopeful new omen for friendship in western Europe came from the state visit to France of King George.
 Friction between Japan and Rus sia arose from the demands of Ja- pan and Manchuokuo that Russian forces be withdrawn from near Chengkufeng which is declared to be Manchuokuo soil.
 Russia has refused, contending the treaty maps prove the area is within Russia.
 The incident repeats the crisis that stemmed the long ill-defined border between Russia and Siberia and Manchuokuo.
 Observers believe the incident will be solved peacefully.
 Cautious optimism prevails in French circles as King George left Paris for London, based on reports that Hitler has offered to work out a compromise settlement of out standing questions and is ready to discuss an understanding on mili- tary and aviation.