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Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
Merriam Reprieves
Murderer Prevents
Double Execution

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, CAL
Dec. ID. CUP) Warden Court
Smith had reason to be thankful
today that a governors reprieve
for a condemned man saved him
the ordeal of officiating at a
hanging and lethal gas death
within a short space of time on
Friday.
Gov. Frank Merriam last night
granted a reprieve to Allen d.
Boggs, of Santa Cruz county, who
was to hang for the 1887 killing
of his vile. The reprieve was to
March "a, 1899. to permit his at
torney, William d. Foley, suffi-
cient time to gather data to COM
plete an application for pardon.
Foley contends Boggs was insane
at the time of the staying.
Warden Smith will be in charge
of mis- fifth lethal gas execution
i three weeks unless Merriam
steps in to save Ed Davis, last OF
five Folsom prison convicts SEN
fenced to death for the Staying of
Warden Clarence Larkin.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
CycIist Hurt When
Struck by Auto

Margarito Magma, 14-year-old
El Centro neWsboy, was slightly
hurt Tuesday afternoon when his
bicycle was struck by an automo-
bile driven by Tom Okimoto at the
intersection of Main street and the
Dogwood canal road on Ell Centro's
city limits.
Police Officer Jack Tackett re-
ported the boy cut in front Of the
car. and said the accident appar-
entity was the cyclists fault. The
boy, however said Okimoto was
travelling at high rate of speed.
The youth was sent home after
treatment Of hand cuts and back
bruises.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
DISTRICT 'sContract
For Two Diesels
Let TO Ohio Firm

Contract for two diesei generating
units to be installed at the Braw-
ley plant of the Imperial Valley
power system was awarded late
Tuesday by irrigation district dir
ectorS to General Machinery cor
poration of Hamilton, Ohio, on
bid of $458,372.
Each engine will develop 3,foo
horsepower, and under the terms
of the award the first unit Will De
erected and ready for operation Iii
240 days, the second in 300 days
With the addition of this equip
ment. the Brawley plant will have
A capacity of 1850 kilowatts. one
of the major diesel generating
plants of the entire country.
The two new units are part OF
the equipment authorized by the
PWA loan and grant approved IN
a district election September 80.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
Filipino Admits
Killing Moforist

PHOENIX, Dec. IA. UP)-Benny
Rapada, %, Filipino farm worker,
who admitted he had "hot tenn
per" and drew a gun and fatally
wounded Carl B. Bass, %, former
Civilian Conservation Corps en-
rollee, in a dispute which followed
an automobile accident, was held
in the county Jail today while
authorities planned to prosecute
him on a murder charge.
The suspect said he drew piS-
tol and fired twice after Bass had
struck him in the face. He was
one of four Filipinos who were in
volVed in the fatal argument.
The other three Filipinos, two
taken in custody at FL Centre. Cal,
and the other at Somerton, near
Yuma, early yesterday, were held
as material witnesses.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
Politician Freed
From Check Charge

NOGALES, Ariz., Dec. IA. (UP)
R. H. Fleischer, Santa Cruz
county assessor, said today he had
dropped charge against Andrew
Bettwy. former mayor and Demo-
cratic gGbernatorial aspirant, OF
issuing a bogus check.
The assessor said BettWy had
offered TO make the check good for
the amounts, $1609, and that the
charge would be dJopped. The
check was for payment of auto
license plates last year.
Bettwy was arrested last Friday
in Phoenix on a warrant issued
here.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
Suspect Freed in
Gas Station Death

SAN DIEGO, Dec. IA. UP)-
Grover Bussard, So, Encinitas gas
station proprietor, today was abb
solved of any criminal responsible
ity in the Staying of his partner,
James A. Daniels, 81. after a cor
oner's jury held the shooting Jus
tifiable".
Daniels was slain December 8
after an alteration with BusSard
who admitted shooting Daniels in
self defense" after the younger
man attacked him.
Bussard said the fight started
when he refused to allow Daniels
to serve customers at the gas sta
ton because he had been drink
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
Man Quizzed in
BIudqeon Death

SAN DIEGO. Dec. IA. CUP)-Po-
lice today held Louis De Arce, 33,
San Diego, in jail for questioning
In connection with the Staying of
Izaac Hallem, 55-year-old pawn
broker who was bludgeoned to
death at his store December g.
Det. Sgt. Edward Dieckman said
records kept by Hallem showed
that De Arce had sold a pair of
shoes to the pawn broker shortly
before he was found slain. De Arce
has denied ever having sold any
thing to Hallem, Diecknlan said.
Police said De Arce was appre-
hended in downtown San Diego,
he was booked on a suspect felony
charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
San Francisco Gets Far West Farm
Research Lab Installed by AAA

WASHINGTON, sDec. IA. CUP)-
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
announced today that the four
federal agricultural research labor
atories authorized by the last con-
gress will be located in Peoria, Ill,
New Orleans, La; the Philadelphia
area; ana the San Francisco bay
area.
The western region laboratory
to be located in the San Francisco
bay area, will serve Arizona, Cali
fornia, Colorado, Idaho, Montana,
Nevada, New Mexico. Oregon, Utah,
Washington and Wyoming.
Congress authorized construction
of the four laboratories to cost
$1,000,000 each in the 1888 farm
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14

choice OF his means as Black
Jews"
Explaining its drive, the publica-
ton said:
we have not gone through years
of struggle and endured pressure
and war agitation to enable these
evil vultures TO sit down at the
table which Jews have just been
forced to vacate.'
This article conceded with
drive in Fascist Italy against bour-
geois elements as part Of which
every effort was made TO make
middle class persons appear as the
opposite of everything for which
Fascism stands. Premier Benito
Mussolini's newspaper Popolo D.
Italia Of Milan said, for instance:
ITO let the bourgeois live is equi
valent to letting the proletariat
survive"
The 'SS" organs article coin
cided also with an official Nazi
radio broadcast which assured Ger
man housewives that there was no
food shortage. 1t was specified that
plenty OF cabbage and turnips were
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
Search For Bride
SWINGS TO Calf.

PRESCOTT, Ariz., Dec. IA. CUP)
Search for Loretta Douglas, 13-
year-old bride who escaped the
custody Of her matron at the coun-
ty jail here last night, turned to
California today after her youth
ful husband told police they had
planned to flee "our troubles" to-
gether.
I'VE fixed it all up with some
people who came to see us yester-
day, figuring to hop a train for
California" Edgar Wicker, 20, the
husband, said. Now she's gone and
I'm here TO face it all"
Wicker was arrested and charged
with contributing to the delinquen-
cy of a minor.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14

Dead or NOt?-
This is about Icehouse Annie,
the tale of cat that wasted one
of its lives and thereby learned a
lesson.
At the icehouse is a large wheel
that whirlS at a speed of As miles
an hour. 1t whirls so fast that the
spokes become only a slight blur
and to Icehouse Annie one day
the whizzing wheels looked like an
open hoop and she made a bee
line through it, bent on some
strange errand of her own. How
ever, that is as far as she went.
When the wheel was stopped.
there was Icehouse Annie's body.
draped about a spoke and sor-
rowing friend laid the body aside,
thinking to bury it later. However.
when the friend looked next the
body had disappeared. and stayed
vanished for three days. Then Ice
house Annie, still quite alive, re-
turned, but now she doesn't go
near the wheel.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
Ex.Conyict Held
For Ext0rti0n

DENVER, Colo, Dec. "A. (UP)-
Federal investigators arrested a
California ex-convict for question
ing today after James w. Furlong,
wealthy Denver loan broker and
automobile dealer, reported receipt
of note threatening to "blow up
his office.
The prisoner, who gave his name
as James Darling, 43, of San Fran
cisco, was taken to the office of
U. S. Dist. Atty. Thomas j. Nor
rissey for questioning and federal
officers refused TO say whether
charges would be filed.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
Hay Shipments
Show Steady Rise

Hay Shipments from Imperial
Valley to Los Angeles totaled 1925
tons during the past week as COM
pared to $500 tons the previous
week.
Shipments from the valley nave
shown steady increase during the
past month, according to the Fed
eral-State market news service.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
N. King DecIared
Sane, Released

Nunery King was released by
Judge Vaughn N. Thompson Wed
nesday afternoon after DR.. R. A.
Cushnran, superintendent OF the
Mendocino hospital for the insane,
pronounced him sane.
He was committed to the institu-
ton a year ago. A jury in superior
court declared him insane at the
time he shot and killed Clayton
Franks in e. Centro. because, he
said. Franks stole his wife from
him
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
Rain Falls Over
Most of Southland

LOS ANGELES, Dec. IA. up
Los Angeles longest drought in
the history of the U. S. weather
bureau was broken today when
rain fell from San Luis Obispo TO
San Diego county.
Light showers started falling in
Los Angeles at sos am. and by
noon had registered 90 of an inch.
Traces of rain were reported in
Burbank, Culver City, San Fer
nando, Santa Barbara and other
sections of southern California.
L. H. Daingerfield government
forecaster, said the rain broke a
drought Of 227 days during which
only .04 Of an inch Of moisture fell
in the Los Angeles vicinity.
First snowfall Of the season was
reported at Big Pines.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
Czarist Singer
Goes 10 Prison

PARIS, Dec. IA. UP)-Mme. Ma
dine Plevitzkaia, once a noted Car
ist Russian singer, was sentenced
TO 20 years at hard labor today on
charges of completely in the kid
naping of Gen. Eugene De Miller,
vanished leader of the Czarist EN-
igre organization in France.
Nine. Plevitzkaia also was SEN
fenced TO 10 years Punishment
from Fance after her prison term
is served,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
Mercier Estate
Set at S24,398

The estate of the late A J. Mer-
cier. Calexican who died last sum-
mer of injuries suffered in an au-
tomobile accident. was appraised at
S24,398.
Real estate. investment securities
stock and personal property were
listed IN the inventory and ap-
praisement filed Tuesday by Mrs.
Della S. Mercier, his wife and eX-
ecutrix Of the estate.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
Imperial Valley Press

Established April 90. 1901.
Published every afternoon except
Saturday and Sunday saturday
afternoon issue now succeeded
by The Post-Press Sunday es--
tablished 1886 by the Imperial
Valley Publishing company, 625
state street. Ell Centre. Calf.
Entered at El Centro. California
post office as second class mat
ter.
Paul Jenkins. publisher; A. c.
Johnston. vice-president IN d
general manager; y A. Fitz-
hugh, secretary and managing
editor. West Holiday Co. Inc.
National Advertising Represent
atiYes.
Member California Newspaper
Publishers' Association.
Subgcripticn rates: &c per copy.
In conjunction with the Post
Press (Sundays), per month,
6Oc: Paid in advance; 3 months,
sI.G5: 6 months $3.25; one year,
5000.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
Inspection Shows
Defects in Bombers

WASHINGTON, Dec. IA. CUP)-
The navy department revealed to-
day that inspection has revealed
defects in four or five Vought
bombers at San Diego, Calf.
The planes, it was announced,
have been temporarily restricted
from engaging in certain aerial
maneuvers which place a maxi
mum strain on their wings. It was
said the defects are not serious
and can be corrected.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14

Now is the time for ale-that happy
,,ad;um that belongs to winter days
put take the advice of those who
know ale and insist on Rainier Ale' -
.,,,.t he sound advice because Rainier
Ale out,eM all other ales combined
whv2 Rainier Ale is brewed over
long months in the Vests largest N
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
|. I.V.Lettuce Men
See Good Season
Continued from Page y

Quality of lettuce in first cars.
which left the valley Tuesday, was
reported good, according to B. A.
Harrigan county agricultural COM
missioner.
Carload shipments will continue
from the valley daily with ship
ments reaching the 20 car per
day mark in less than two weeks,
the federal market news service
reported "Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
NEW WEATHER BUREAU
CHIEF APPOINTED

WASHINGTON, Dec. IA. CUP)-
The White House today announced
appointment Of Lieut.. Comdr. Fran
els w. Reichelderfer, navy meteor
ologist as chief of the United States
weather bureau.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14

available.
As regards the cakes which house
wives are preparing TO bake for
Christmas, the broadcast suggested
that housewives take flour which
i IS felt sure they have stored
and to add saccharine and mar
malade TO it.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
BY UNITED PRESS

Santa Clara and Salinas Valleys
Rain Wednesday night and Thurs
day followed by clearing. Slightly
warmer Wednesday night. South
erly wind.
Southern Califsrnia-Rain We'd
nesday night and Thursday follow
ed by clearing Slightly warmer in
east portion Wednesday night.
Strong southerly wind off the coast,
with gales at sea.
Los Angeles and Vicinity - Rain
Wednesday night and Thursday;
little change in temperature; fresh
to strong southerly wind gales at
sea.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
Bringing wormth and cheer
to winter days with
A LIFT without q Ietdown

oldest brewery. 1t must age until i's oe
ligbtful, refreshing favor is exactly r'sn''
Vet II must be vigorous, hale and hearty
Above all, the joys of drinking Rainier
Ale must not be paid for tomorrow
There is no let down with Rainier Ale'
peel fine tonight-and tomorrow ''''
Rainier Ale this very day
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14

act. The laboratories will seek to
develop new industrial and COM
mercial uses for agricultural prod
ucts of which there are surpluses.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
ltoly. Germany In
Drive on Middle
Class White Jews

BERLIN Dec. "a (UP)The publication Das Schwarze
Korps organ of the picked SS Naz storm troops, open
ed drive today against elements which it called white
Jews" and defined "Aryans with the lust for
profits the cunning the unscrupuOusness in
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
Rambling Reporter

Continued from Page ID
the Tournament of Roses, the first
time they will have seen the spec
tacle in rs years.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-14
WEATHER

(Dntn complied by ObserNers TOT
the official United states weather
Bureau station Mt III CenfrO).
Maximum Tuesday ...............-....' ~
Minimum Wednesday ...-............. 81
Reading at Noon Wednesday
Temperature ...............-................ 90
Humidity ......-..-................ 10
Reading at 5 a. III. Wednesday
Temperature ...............,-................' 40
Humidity 90
Reading at 5 p. m. Tuesday
Temperature ............................,...' 62
Humidity ..................................... 38
Evening star., 1938-09-25
Lord, Make Us Free
Is Removed by Nazis

MUNICH, Germany (by MaiD (P.-The
inscription Lord, make us free" has been
removed, as being outmoded, from the ia
cade Of the Hall of the Marshals, Nazi
shrine where IA victims of the 1923 Nazi
beer cellar putsch lie buried.
It was there that Adolf Hitler, marching
through Munich with his early associates
after reaching q pact in a tavern, met
armed state police who shot and killed the
a., venerated as martyrs since the Nazi ac-
cession to power.
Evening star., 1938-09-25


rights there, pressure groups" here began
yelling at the Secretary from all sides:
Get out Of China. What right have we
there anyway" ''-..
Defend American rights, even If it
means varl"
Invoke the Neutrality Act!"
Ignoring both isolationists and ultra
nationalists who would have America fight
Japan, Mr.. Hull has followed a middle-of-
the-road policy. While he has avoided war,
he has not surrendered one basic American
right in the Orient.
In his public pronouncements Mr.. Hull
has been highly circumspect, but in private
conversations with friends. his language
would sometimes do justice to the mule
skinners of his native State. He regards
Japanese depredations in China as little
short of sheer banditry But he believes
that time is working against the aggressors
both in Asia and Europe and that the
democracies may we'll play patient, wait
ing game while building up their national
armaments to a point where they will de-
mana 'uQQueSLlOUeO respect.
Defends U. S. Rights.
His attitude toward the depredations of
the militarist states was diplomatically but
pointedly summed up in recent address
before the National Press Club when he
said:
ITO waive rights and to permit interests
to lapse in the face Of their actual or
threatened violation-and thereby to aban-
don obligations-in any important area of
the world, can serve only to encourage
disregard of law and of the basic principles
of international order.
For this country, as for any country, to
act in such manner anywhere would be to
invite disregard and violation Of its rights
and interests everywhere, by every nation
so inclined, large or small"
Later he observed:
"No policy would prove more disastrous
than for an important nation to fail to
arm adequately when international law
lessness is on the rampage"
The Secretary OF State is the gentlest Of
men. He is, at heart, pacifist. He abhors
war and its economic spoilation. Yet be-
hind his soft, almost tinid manner is
ruggedness of character and an iron will
built up by years of struggle during his
rise from the obscurity of a Tennessee
farm, through the rough-and-tumble fights
of politics, to his present eminence.
Behind his mildness of manner is an
infiexible determination to preserve Amer
ican rights and the cause of democracy
even at the cost, possibly, Of war.
Evening star., 1938-09-25
Hitler Book at 100000.

BERLIN tR.-Adolf Hitler's autobiog-
raphy "Mein Kampf" cMy struggleD has
sold 100000 copies. the Fuehrer's pub
fishers announced. The volume outlines
his political creed and often u called the
Mani Bible.
Evening star., 1938-09-25
Our Foreign Policy Makers
No. l-Secretary of State CordeN Hull
His Condor an Asset in
Winning Confidence and
Friends for America.
(The second article OF this series
tDill appear nert Sunday.)
By Joseph H. Baird.

By Joseph II. Baird.
|HE United States now wields more
potential authority in world afairs
than any other member Of the fam
lily of nations
That is not the boast of patrioteer, but
a calm statement of fact based on the
superiority of Americas financial and eco
nomic resources the fortune Of its isolated
geographical position which makes it i'm
niue from sudden attack by enemies and
its ability-resulting from the first two
factors-to make its Intervention decisive
in virtually any quarrel between rival
coalitions of states
In the present European crisis the United
States has kept aloof. It has followed a
Evening star., 1938-09-25
Texas Held Cooling to New Deal
While Business Indices Climb
Cotton Control Disgusts Farmers, Observer on
Scene Reports, While Failure of Dams
to Cure Floods Irks Others.
By John E. King.

(This is the first OF a series OF
Sunday Star articles which ,Dill dis
cuss economic, political and social
conditions in Darious parts of the
country. The nert article, from
Atlanta, 1Diu tell a story of the
South today. Mr.. King, the author
OF this article on Teras, is a member
OF the editorial stat of the Dallas
NeDS.)
Evening star., 1938-09-25

(see CzECHs. Page C-s)
Evening star., 1938-09-25

(see TEXAS. Pags c.3.)
Evening star., 1938-11-14
DoIhover Prefers
Guinea Pig Death
For Science
= The Associated Press.

INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. IA
Mother. if they must have my life.
why can't they fill me full of some
germs of a dread disease and let the
smart men Of medicine study me
until die?' read a note Mrs. Bertha
Craig said was written by her son.
James Dalhover. sentenced to die in
a Michigan City State prison electric
chair early Friday.
Mrs. Craig was en- route to her
Madison home today after a visit
at Milan, Mich, Federal prison farm
with her son. last of the Al Brady
gang. Dalhover was convicted for
the slaying of Indiana State Police
man Paul V. zimmerman near Lo-
gansport in May, 1887, after bank
robbery.
Il don't fear death and I am not
sad. yet Id like to die in such a way
that my Indiana neighbors would
think we'll of me" the note said. It
disclosed also that the convicted
killer had written a song which
d' not want shown to any one until
I have gone
Evening star., 1938-11-14
Jerome Frank
Speoks Tonight

Jerome Frank. a member of the
Securities and Exchange Commis-
sion, author and lecturer. Will give
"A Few Words of Advice to the
American Jew al meeting of the
Brotherhood of the Washington He
brew Congregation Wednesday at
Is pm. in the vestry of the temple
At the same meeting, the WASH
ington chapter of the National
Council Of Jewish Women will pre-
sent playlet entitled "A Tale of
M'gration.
MI. Frank. who has been men,
toned as possible appolntee for
tie vacancy on the United States
Supreme Court bench, has served
in number Of Federal agencies
P";Or TO his appointment to the
s. F. C. he was general counsel of
the Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
mini ~tratlon. general counsel OF
tie Federal Surplus Relief Corp
special counsel of the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corp. in railroad mat
ters and litigation counsel of the
Public Works Administration.
Evening star., 1938-11-14

Miss Alison Clifford Harvey of
London earns her living by eating
potatoes as a restaurant inspector
Evening star., 1938-11-14

would require every pfennig of their
ready cash.
One hundred sixty leaders of the
Berlin Jewish community met until
dawn Sunday, endeavoring to devise
plan of payment before the gov
ernment could decide on one of its
own.
A spokesman who told of the
meeting would not say even where
it was held.
Wealthy Group Summoned.
The wealthy individuals upon
| whom was levied the special dam
age penalty were summoned by spe-
cial delivery letters Sunday morn
ing to the Jewish Brotherhood House
on Kurfuerstenstrasse
The summons was signed by the
brotherhood president. who told the
group he acted on government in
Structions and presented each with
a slip informing them how much
they must pay
A widow was assessed $4,000. q
| manufacturer $50 900. and so on.
, That the Jews rapidly were turning
over their stores to aryan proprietors
was indicated in an announcement
by Propaganda Minister Goebbels
warning against further demolition
! OF Jewish stores. These stores now
are passing into non-JeWlsh hands
I he said.
Munich dispatches said authorities
had closed the Jewish home for the
/ aged there and that 100 old men
and women had TO leave, presumably
to be cared for by individual mem
bers of their Jewish community.