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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-28
Padua

Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Gruber
spent Christmas Day at Jake Rous-
langs at Sank Centre.
Walton Payne and Mike Essler
were dinner guests at Win Cowl-
thorp's Tuesday.
Margaret Steinhoff spent Christ
mas Day with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Anton Steinhoff.
Henry Essler and Jackie Gruber
hauled ccal from Elrosa for Father
Schritz Wednesday.
Emil Polipnick. Walter Payne
and Win Cowlthrop were dinner
guests at Mike Essler's Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Essler, Rose.
Marie, Felix and Anna Mae spent
Monday afternoon at Ferdinand
Mayors.
Otto Imdieke spent Monday with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ben I'm
dieke.
Francis Rooney was a supper
guest at Mike Essler's Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Strauss, Mr..
and Mrs. Mike Essler and family,
Jack Rcuslang and Jackie Gruber
were supper guests at Frank Ess-
1er's Sunday.
Mrs. VIM. Rooney, who spent a
few weeks with friends in Illinois,
returned to her home Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Essler spent
Friday in St. Cloud.
Father Schritz and Herman Ter
har were Brooten callers Wednes-
day.
Francis Rooney and Mike Essler
called at Bill Shanahan's Wednes-
day evening.
Al Rousslang called at Hubert
Rouslang's Sunday evening.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-28
Student Tries Crossbow
Archery for Recreation

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.-When low
thuds sound through Lowell house
at Harvard, fellow students know
George F. Smell Jr. is practicing
with his crossbow.
Special permission had to be OBJ
tanned before Smell could bring the
deadly bow into his room. He made
the weapon, after research in the
Library Of Congress, from a black
walnut stock, a 20-inch automobile
spring and a cooking device fash
toned from a billiard ball. The bow
string is made from 40 strands Of
shoemaker's Irvine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-28
Florida Now Protecting
Nearly Extinct Alligator

MIAMI. - Live baby alligators,
stuffed alligators, alligator bags and
pocketbooks-for years familiar ar
ticles in Florida souvenir shops
will be difficult for tourists to find
this winter because of new law.
The state law, intended to protect
alligators from hunters who have
brought near extinction the reptiles
once common in Florida. is effective
in only 10 Of Florida's 81 counties,
but those 10 counties take in major
tourist centers.
The law imposes a closed season
on alligators and forbids possession
or sale Of live or dead alligators or
alligator products.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-28
North Carolina Has
No Official Flower

RALEIGH. N. C.-North Caro-
lima has no official flower. con-
trary to general belief that the
goldenrod has been so designated.
In answer to an inquiry, Assist
ant Attorney General Wade Bur-
ton recently announced. There
is no official state flower. so des-
ignated by an act Of the North
Carolina state legislature"
North Carolina school children
voted the ox-eye daisy the state
flower in statewide poll. but
the legislature never ratified that
vote.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-28
Metre Grove

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Imdieke were
Melrose callers Friday.
Margaret Ostendorf, of st. Cloud,
is spending her Christmas vacation
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Ostendorf.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Welle and
sons, Dennis and Daniel, of Free
port, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Nick Brang.
Elnora Brang, Of Sank Centre, is
spending the holidays with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Brang.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-28
Faulty Memory Pays

Even a faulty memory has its ad-
vantages. William Hem, an 49,
year-old mill worker. walked out Of
an Allentown, Pa, doctors office
with the wrong bottle Of medicine in
his pocket. The bottle he carried
contained deadly poison. When the
doctor discovered the mistake he
futilely instituted a frantic search
for the youth, enlisted the aid Of
teletype and other means Of COM
munication. Hours later when
Hem returned home to his worried
family they asked anxiously, Have
you taken any Of your medicine?"
The youth snapped his fingers SELF
reprovingly. remarked: Gosh, ]
forgot"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-28
Coast Guard Is
Given Hard Job
Theirs the Task of Keep
ing Europe's War Away
From u. S. Shores.

WASHINGTON. - The United
States coast guard is grimly tackling
the biggest and most difficult job in
Its century and a half Of existence.
Its land. sea, and air forces have
been expanded into vast "neu-
trality patrol designed to keep Eu-
ropes war away from Americas
shores.
The nations third fighting serv.
ice" already has started taking over
its part in enforcement Of the pro-
claimed 300-mile Atlantic safety belt
around the Americas.
Part Of the job is to warn mer-
chant and passenger ships Of lurk-
ing raiders.
Organized in 1870 as "baby pa
troll unit" of Is small vessels to sup
press piracy and collect customs
revenues, the coast guard within a
few weeks will be operating for "a
hours day a feet larger than those
Of many nations.
strength Nearly Doubled.
With the addition Of 1000 men or
dered by President Roosevelt, con-
solidation Of the lighthouse service
facilities and personnel Of 5000 un-
der one command, and immediate
recommissioning of go or more addi-
tional craft, the coastal patrol or
ganization will be operating at a
strength nearly double any it has
known in peacetime.
Officials estimate $4,000 men will
be engaged. The fleet of recommis-
stoned boats will join an already ex-
panding fleet Of more than 400 craft,
including "a large cruising cutters
and approximately so smaller cut
tiers.
The coast guards air force now
totals SIS planes, seven of which
have a 2,00O-mile cruising radius,
and are equipped for landing and
aiding distressed persons far at sea.
An unrevealed number of planes is
to be added.
Auxiliary shore facilities are to be
enlarged. Radio and telephone COM
munication facilities are already in
process Of expansion.
The surface fleet has been allotted
specific zones in the hundreds Of
thousands Of square miles to be pa
trolled from Canada to the Canal
Zone. Ranging even farther at sea
will be new armada Of recommis-
stoned World war destroyers.
New York Waters Vital.
Most vital of the districts under
coast guard surveillance is an area
Of $4,000 square miles around the
harbor Of the city of New York, into
which run the worlds greatest sea-
lanes.
Responsible for supervision of this
giant task is Capt. R. w. Dempwof,
head of the New York division.
Over Captain Dempwof, and head
Of the entire organization is the
coast guards commandant, Rear
Admiral Russell R. Waesche.
General operations of the navy's
patrol feet, expected to number
more than 100, will be directed by
Rear Admiral Hayne Ellis, COM
mander of the Atlantic squadron,
aided by Commander James L. Hol-
loway Jr., his chief of staff. In
some areas, it will include coast
guard units.
Under certain circumstances, as
suggested by President Roosevelt,
the extraordinary policing surveil-
lance may be extended as far as
1000 miles to sea, along the more
heavily travelled routes used by
liners where submarine activities
are most feared.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-28
Typical American Mother

In the list of qualifications out
lined by the Mothers Day commit
tee Of the Golden Rule foundation,
it is stated that the typical Amer
lean mother must have an outstand-
ing record as a successful mother,
this standard not to be fixed by the
size Of her family but by the char
acter. personality and success of her
children. Her character must be
real. displaying courage, moral
strength. patience. kindness and un-
derstanding. In addition, she must
have a sense of social and world
relationships and have found time
outside her home for participation
N work for community betterment.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-28

community in the state" said Mr..
Schroeder. "Since the gasoline tax
is a special levy imposed upon a
single class Of taxpayers, the rate
should be as reasonable as possible.
Sight should not be lost Of the fact
that most of the motorists that pay
gasoline taxes have incomes Of less
than $4,000 a week, and therefore
have no great ability to pay Excess
sive taxes"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-28
Revived Language

BUTTE, MONT.-German, which
has not been taught in the Butte
high school since it was banned dur
ing the World war, has been re-
turned to the curriculum.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-28
Sign of the Times

WILKES-BARRE, PA.-Officials
of large factory selling working
mems clothes reported overall sales
had increased 200 per cent since out
break of the European war.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-28

UBsCRIBE FOR THE HERALD
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13
Films Definitely
Halt Negotiations
On Soviet Demand:
Finland Recalls ENJOYS
From Moscow, Declares
Demands Out of Line

HELSINGFORS, Nov. 13.
UP)-Finnish-Soviet nego-
tiations have definitely end
ed" without agreement and
the Finnish delegation to the
Kremlin will return to Helsingfors
tonight, Foreign Minister j. E. Errko
announced today.
The announced recall of the Fin
nish delegation ended negotiations,
for the time at least on Russian
territorial demands on Finland after
new outburst of anti-Finnish at
tacks by the Soviet press.
Firms believed that Russia would
not dare invade this country and
that therefore, they had won the
initial victory because negotiations
were being indefinitely interrupts
ed' and Finland was still intact.
The price of a stalemate would
be that Finland would have to
maintain its costly mobilization as
a safeguard, but Foreign Minister
Elias Erkko said it was ready to
do so. He said Finland had gone
the ultimate limit" in making con-
cessions to Russia and could not
keep sending missions back and
forth to negotiate. The negotiators
already have made three trips to
Moscow.
At Moscow, the Red Fleet, organ
of the Russian navy, made four
demands which it said were neces-
sary to defend Russia and Finland
from enemies. They were: l. A
Russian naval base on Hango pen
insula, southwest Finland, which
would close the gulf of Finland
to all but Russian ships; 2. A sys-
tenn of coastal Notifications at
Bjoerko and Humaliok islands in
the eastern part of the gulf to
protect the Russian naval base at
Kronstadt; 3. Fortifications at Hog
land, Seskar, Lavassan and Tunt-
ters in the gulf; A. Revision OF the
northern Finnish-Soviet frontier.
presumably granting Russia Bibachi
Continued on Page 2, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13

the accusations highly imnrobable'
but said Rosanoff would be asked
to make a routine Investigation
District Attorney F. c. Clowdsley of
San Joaquin county wrote the gov
ernor that he also would investigate
the charges.
Higginbotham said he was dis
charged from the state hospital a
week ago as sane, adding that he
expected to be committed to San
Quentin prison Immediately. He did
not say why he was to be sent to
the penitentiary.
Occasionally" he said. "I would
notice the attendant put a beer
bottle down mans throat and thus
administer a certain medicine. The
man would Immediately go to sleep
and the next day be dead.
THE boys would remark, We'll,
another one gor The black bottle.
AT first I thought this was Just an
aid to old men who were dying.
But I soon found out that it was
sadism. A scandalous desire to
murder. I saw II men murdered"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13
City Improvement
Begins Next Week

First step in a city improvement
program will begin next week, City
Engineer Phil knights of Ell Cen
tro announced Monday.
Crawling will begin on Eighth
street from Brighton south to the
city limits. This section will be oil
ed as we'll. Gravel also will be
placed on North Third street from
Commercial TO Euclid.
Bids have been called and prob
ably will be opened Monday OF
Tuesday, Knights said. He expect
ed the Eighth street job to be COM
pleted in three weeks and the other
project soon thereafter.
This will be the only street inn
provement project this year. Lay
ing new water mains, one of the
most vital requirements needed by
the city, will start soon after the
first of the year, knights declared
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13
BrawIey Thronged
For Big ArInistice
Day Celebration
Varied Program Offered
At Valley-Wide Fete
Observing Holiday

American Legion and
Brawley Elks club sponsors
Monday looked back on an
Armistice Day celebration
that ranked with the most
successful ever arranged in Impe-
rial Valley.
A crowd estimated at more than
5000 attended the ceremonies at
Brawley Saturday to watch the
morning parade and hear patriotic
speeches in the Plaza. In the after
noon the huge crowd moved to the
airport for barbecue and nine
races featuring Imperial Valley
horses.
One of the seasons largest foot
ball crowds attended the game Sat
urday evening between Central
Junior college and Compton Junior
college.
In size, attendance was about as
great as last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13
Gas Thieves Loot
Country Club

Light fingered but orderly visitors
looted the garage at the Barbara
Worth Country club of Is gallons
of gasoline Sunday night.
The burglars drove their car into
a doorless section of the building
and crawled over a partition into
the storeroom where lawnmoWers,
gasoline, oil and tools are kept,
Deputy Sheriff Joe Lizarraras said
after an investigation Monday.
They unlatched a door connecting
the two sections of the building
and helped themselves to gasoline.
They were so neat and orderly
about it that the theft very nearly
escaped detection.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13

er, he said, as he walked along
the highway on the Mt. Signal
Calexico road west of New river.
The Mexican declared the force
of the cars impact tumbled him
into the weeds beside the road.
He said he clawled to the highway
about daylight. D. B. Hardwick
of CaleXico, passing motorist,
found him and took him to Calexico
police headquarters. He later was
transferred to the county hospital.
Highway Patrolman Paul Brown
said Mesa told a garbled tale of
fight in Mexicali. He said he
lied from the scene because one
of the battlers produced a knife.
Imperial county officers conferred
with Mexicali officers in an effort
to check Mesa's story. They also
searched for the car which struck
the Mexican down.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13
Red Cross Roll
Call Proclaimed

SACRAMENTO Nov 13. CUP)-
Gov Culbert Olson today proclaim
ed Red Cross roll call period in
California from Nov. II to 30 and
urged Californians to support the
drive in whatever way they can.
His proclamation said in part:
I'm view of the expanding do
mestic program of the Red Cross
national organization and its thou
sands of chapters and branches;
in view of the increasing necessity
to furnish aid to civilians and
wounded soldiers of the European
conflict, the Red Cross this year
has greater significance than in
previous years ana will need even
greater support than has been so
willingly given in the past''
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13

dispersed. Air raid precautions were
in force for an hour.
This afternoon anti-aircraft bat
teries fired from 320 until 4 o'clock
but there was no alert signal. For
time the cause of the shooting
was not certain but later it was
announced that German planes,
which had reached the environs OF
Paris, had been driven off.
1t was announced that the Ger
mans had resumed intensive recon-
naissance and patrol flying on the
entire front from Luxembourg to
the Swiss border as the weather i'm
proved French reconnaissance
planes flew over Germany.
No land fighting was reported
yesterday.
London announced that German
airplanes bombed the Shetland Is
lands today. Except for broken win
dows in houses there was no DAM
age.
1.-TWO attacks on the Shetland
Islands were made today by enemy
aircraft which we're driven off by
antiaircraft fire." the British ad-
miralty said.
Bombs were dropped but they
did no damage. Some fell into the
sea and some fell on land, the
explosions breaking the windows OF
houses"
The 141st French war commu-
nique today said, The night was
calm along the whole 'front.'.
Two German patrols composed
of so and 100 men appeared west
and east of the Saar river but fail
ed to contact French outpostS, il
was announced. One of the patrols
lost man, as prisoner, to the
French west of the Vosges noun
tains.
So far as was known, today was
the first time German planes hac
reached the Paris region since {
few days after the war started
when one plane flew over the city
The air alarm was sounded here
Saturday morning but the German
reconnaissance planes got no close
than % miles from Paris then.
} was announced that the German
!, flight over north France Saturda,
) was to get information on Frenci
railway movements, which are easi
ly detachable from high altitude
at night.
Despite the weekend lull, French
observers were concerned about tn
L.
borders of Holland and Belgium
Both those countries were REGARDED
here as in danger of German IN
vasion, despite German denials. TIL
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13

pclloco, SlCy Sicik IOOy OOlllloeoiiC
explained.
A move to put into effect the
consolidation, which has been dis
cussed vaguely for several years,
was begun recently and met with
approval of all councilmen. john
stone was authorized to go ahead
and iron out obstacles.
Chief stumbling block is one Of
valuations.
"CitieS are not permitted to tax
more than 81 per $100 valuation, y
JohnStone explained. Taxing on
a basis of 100 per cent valuations
the city can manage, but if forced
to tax on a basis of so per cent
of valuation, the income woulc
be cut in half.
"The county taxes on SO pei
cent basis, and under consolida-
ton we would of necessity use the
90 per cent valuation system"
Because SO many other cities ir
the state have consolidated assess
ing activities with counties. John.
stone believes there must be a tech
nical loophole available.
A merger would save the city
the yearly expense of property as.
sessment and the cost of handling
and mailing out bills and collecting
After fixing the tax rate, the cit,
council would merely instruct tht
county to add SO much to count,
bills issued in Ell Centro and tax
payers would pay the bill all in {
Continued On rage 2; Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13

thought was a sure road to death"
He declared that his failure to re-
ceive a death sentence was due to
efforts by his father in his behalf.
For this reason he said. he had not
asked until now to have his term
"commuted" to death.
The father died on Nov. 5, and
it yas on that same day that Ruske
wrote, sit is my sincere desire to
be resentenced and executed so
that I may rest with those that un-
derstood me best
M. Stanley Mosk, executive secre-
tary to the governor, said there is
no legal means by which the con-
vict could be resentenced, since
this procedure would place the man
twice in jeopardy
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13
Youths Loot Pin
Ball Machines

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13. CUP
An ingenious system of looting
pin ball machines of their nickels
was disclosed by police today from
the stories told by three youths
picked up here as suspects.
Authorities said they found a
sack containing $48 in nckels, two
coils of fine wire and shims in an
automobile belonging to the sus-
poets, whom they identified as Frank
Rossi, %, Rochester, N. Y, and
Richard Dixon, %, and John Dixon,
Is, of Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13
L.V. Conservation
Group Reelected

Imperial county agricultural con-
servation committee Saturday re-
elected the county committee which
administered the program in the
valley last year, according TO Ru-
dolph Miller, newly elected secre-
tary.
l.. C. Hawk retained his position
as county committee chairman; G,
C. Manning, ce-chairman; L. H.
Boyle, member Harry James, first
alternate; Sam Strieby, second
alternate.
Miller was elected secretary to
succeed Roland Ballou. Ballou was
appointed southern California field
supervisor last month.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13

der so there could be no possible
doubt as to the crime but whose
plans went awry and he was sem
fenced to life Imprisonment
Ruske, unemployed radio repair
man, was convicted of killing eight
year -old Elaine Watson in San Fran
cisco on July 13, 1884. He confessed
at the time that he choked the girl
and beat her over the head with a
whiskey bottle when she came into
his basement looking for her pet
rabbit, which he had previously kill
ed for stew.
But in writing 10 Gov. Culbert
Olson, Ruske said the crime was a
deliberate attempt Ito accomplish,
first, the future happiness of those
I loved, second. means of protect
ing one / love, and third, what l
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13
Bund Leader Bushes at
Wires to Girl Friend

NEW YORK, Nov. 13. UP)-
Fritz Kuhn, leader of the German
American bund, blushed today, when
three kilograms he sent to a pretty
California were read at his trial
on emoezzlement charges.
The state introduced the tele-
graphic endearments in furtherance
of it's contention that Kuhn con-
verted at least $1,000 of bund funds
to his own uses, including trans
portation of the effects of Mrs.
Florence Camp from Los Angeles
to New York and then to Cleve-
land.
Kuhn smiled wanly as Assistant
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13
His Foot Slips,
Two Cars Collide

MY foot slipped and caused a
traffic accident" Thurman L. Johns,
Phoenix, said in explanation of a
collision two miles east of Heber
this weekend.
He said his foot slipped off the
brake and slammed down on the
throttle just as he drove his car
into the intersection of the Central
Valley highway and highway 80.
His car collided with coupe
driven hy Stella Brown of Calexico
No one was injured but the cars
were slightly damaged, Highway
Patrolmen Bill Mitchell and Tillman
Daley said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13

so was worried. IL IlldQe VI illo
leavetaking from prison mystery
it hoped could not be solved by
the trigger men, whom Capone
swore were waiting to rub him out"
with erasers of lead.
G-Men were in charge of him
somewhere in the United States.
That was all the department of
justice would say. He was not sched-
uled to be released from his 10
year income tax sentence until
next Sunday, nor will he be, but
the federal agents aren't saying
where they'll do the releasing. He
still may be in Terminal Island
prison, in Los Angeles harbor, where
he served the last 10 months of his
term. He may be en- route to his
white walled castle in Miami Beach
Fla, or he may be in a hotel in
any of dozen cities.
If he has left the prison, there
wouldn't seem to be much chance
of anyone recognizing him on the
street. Partially paralyzed from
paresis, crinkley skinned from loss
of weight, totally bald and some
times talking gibberish, Capone is
a human caricature of public enemy
number one, the man who took care
of competition with machine guns.
In 1881 the federal government
finally caught up with the perfum-
ed Capone-he liked to douse him.
self with cologne-and put him on
trial for income tax evasion. Moth
ing was said in court about the
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