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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-29
GIRLS MURDER
IS CONFESSED!

LOS ANGELES Deputy Police
Chief Homer cfoss today an
nounesd that De witt ciinson
Cook. 7o-yesr-oid types<stsr. had
confessed ths City college campus
Staying last February Of Anya
sosyevs. former zisEfsbd roiises
dancer. and two other recent 81
tscks upon wssnen-
cross aid Cook. who ives sppre-
hended early today after hs wss
ssen jumping from ths window ~
W. y wsrnoctrs home. also cen
fessed ths bludKeon stta<ks upon
Della Bogzrd. f7-ye&r-oid dancer.
and Myrfl< Wagner. 17-yesr- old
hoassemsid.
When the youth vss arrested BE-
had an is-iDch piece q pipe
In his possessios. He wore tennis
shoes and carried several pssrs u
gloves and a pocket knife.
After his apprehension. his wife.
Mrs.. Lorraine Cook. and biz
mother. Mr.. Ruby Cook. wesx
arrested On suspicion Of grand
theft.
sAEK TRANSACTIONS
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-29

The government. he said.
was informed that German
mobilization Was complete. and
that German troops In Sle-
vakia we're now ready to
march on Poland.
The spokesman said that in the
face Of a threatening situation on
the Slovak frontier and incessant
pressure on other frontiers. the
Polish government saw itself COM
PEELED to take important military
measures.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-29

The Polish government. calling
up three more classes OF reserves.
was described as most disturbed
by the German occupation of Slo-
vakia.
Foreign Minister Josef Beck
summoned the Slovak envoy and
protested against admission Of
German troops to slovskia.
The foreign office spokesman
said the Slovakian situation was
aggravated"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-29
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-29
u s. Approves jluud
Assumed BY Britain
Administration Officials Eye Delay ol
Russia in Ratifyins Pact;
Point to Significance

WASHINGTON - Government circles today expressed
warm, but unofficial, approval of Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlainis declaration to the house of commons that
Britain would stick by its pledge to Poland.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-29

The countryside. and the authoritative editor. Virgins 0oy1nl
warned that the margin IN which Italy can work for roee
was quickly dwindlins.
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POLES THREATEN AcH
AGAINST hA1 ARMY ON THEIR BORDERS

OK v ,xaLy - fOLAND
An official Vafsaw communique tonight said the German military oc
cupation of Slovakia represented a German act of aggression against the
vital interests of Poland, and was considered a threat to Polish security.
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2l3,O2s GET JOBS
IN U. S. DURING JULY

OF
individuals In private Jobs during
July total 21s. 02s an sii-time rec
ord for the months. the social
security board announced today.
July placements, the board dis
closed. were % per cent above
those for July. 1885. Men vers
placed In III .ss7 jobs. m increase
Of 30.7 per cent over last July,
and women in s5.se7, . gain OF
Az per cent.
The board said that placements
in public employment showed 9
slight increase. with Tz.ssz Jobs
filled, two per cent more than the
number reported q year ago.
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Cloudy tonight ard Wed Tsmps-:
High, g.. los. -. Sun rises SGT;
sets esS4.
Ton.xnoxss TSd<~
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29
Is EI Cenfrans
Attend Breakfast
For Chest Drive

Seventy-fiv El Centro business
men rose ahead of the sun We'd.
nesday morning to attend a $50
breakfast at the Barbara Worth ho-
tel, which officially opened the an
nual Community Chest drive.
Following patriotic opening
ceremony conducted by Fred Nebel-
Thau and an invocation by Rev.
George Thomas, the assembled
workers received instructions ano
prospect cards for\ the annual can
vass for $7368 Community Chest
budget.
Judge Vaughn Thompson, ger-
eral chairman of the 1899 Commu-
nifty Chest campaign, presided al
the meeting and stressed the need
for funds for the Chest agencies.
There is no more important work
in the community that this project .
Thompson said, land it is a project
that every citizen of the community
should support"
Warren Currier and Bert Ham
burger urged El Centrans to join
the campaign to make it an out
standing success in short pep"
talks to the group, and Chief of Po-
lice Sterling Oswalt stressed bene-
fits derived from the Community
Chest functions.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29
Grand Jury Here
Quizzes lid Men

Grand jurors took another dive
into Imperial Irrigation District af-
fairs Wednesday by questioning a
group of district employees and
north-end ranchers.
Inquiry into allegations that
ranchers in the north-end were
given water in spite Of delinquencies,
apparently was under way. The
presence of T. M. Montgomery, one
of the ranchers alleged to have
been given such treatment, led to
the assumption.
In the Railways before the grand
jury room observers noted Walter
Goodson, irrigation district secre-
tary summoned for the third time
by the grand jury; w. o. Blair, ex-
director and a north-end rancher,
who made his second appearance;
and Perry Hardin, irrigation district
storekeeper at Imperial.
The grand jury adjourned at noon
with the announcement that they
would assemble again at pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29
Chrysler waIkout
Settled AfterA
Days Of Bickering
Union Ratifies Accord,
Gives Up Ambition, to
Control Production

DETROIT, Nov. 20. (UP)
"A 54-day strike in the
plants of the Chrysler cor
poration-longest in the his
tory of the autOmotive indus
try-ends today with union ratifi-
cation of a new contract between
the corporation and the Congress
of Industrial Organizations branch
of the United Automobile Workers.
The agree m n t, authoritative
sources indicated, provided a wage
increase but gave the company
complete control of production
schedules.
The quarrel had cost the COM
pany an estimated S1O2,OO0,OO0 in
sales and 10000 workers, who had
been idle since early in October,
an estimated $15,OO0,O0O in wages.
The agreement was announced
shortly before midnight by James
,Contilrle6 on Page 8; Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29

first real snowfall IN the Laguna
mountains and clear, bracing, SUM-
shiny air
While Imperial Valley was tast-
ing .05 of rain Tuesday and early
Wednesday, a half inch of snow
was drifting down upon the high
Laguna mountains. 1t melted rap
idly, however, according to reports
from Laguna Junction. There was
no snow on the highways, but early
morning motorists Wednesday re-
ported heavy fogs over the pass
Weather forecast for Imperial
Valley included possibility of light
frost Thursday morning in coolest
areas. Woodrow c. Jacobs, federal
meteorologist, said no damage
would result to agriculture since
there are no tender vegetables in
these areas. No severe frost is in
prospect.
Tuesdays snowfall in the Lagu-
mas, that brought bracing air to
the valley, was the seasons second
fall. A few traces of snow were
reported two weeks ago.
Meanwhile, temperatures in e.
Centre showed a decline. Wednes-
days minimum was Al degrees and
Tuesdays maximum was only 65.
At noon Wednesday it was COM
Portable IA, however.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29

Peace
Refused
Employers Declare.
Union OfferHas
Nothing New

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov.
20. (UP) - Striking ship
clerks and employers agreed
to meet again today after
proposals Of the clerks for
rcopening the port of San Francisco
this morning had been rejected by
the employer group.
A spokesman for the Dock Check
ers Employers association termed
each of the proposals submitted by
the Ship Clerks association the
same demands upon which the
groups previously had deadlocked,
except in cases where new de-
mands' were made.
Germaine Bulcke, president of
the San Francisco International
Longshoremen's and Warehouse
mems union, declared the ship
clerks negotiating committee had
proposed that the present agree
ment between the San Pedro en-
ployers and checkers be adopted in
entirety except for wages and hours,
the latter to be determined at the
expiration of the San Pedro agree
ment on Jan. 30.
Upon the rejection of this pro-
posal, the clerks proposed that both
groups jointly ask the state to take
over operation of the waterfront
pending final settlement of the dis
pute, during which time the union
would return to work under condi-
tions prevailing before the strike
was called Nov. 10. This also was
declined.
Whereupon, Bulcke said, the un-
ion proposed that employers join
in extending an invitation to Gov.
Culbert Olson's fact-finding COM
mission to sit in on negotiations.
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29
Union Cuts Off Power Service to
City When Strike ParIeys Fai!

ASHEVILLE, N. c., Nov. 90. CUP)
Power service was restored to
Asheville by emergency crews early
today after Carolina Power and
Light company workers had pulled
power switches and gone on strike,
cutting off power service to the
city and surrounding communities
for nearly five hours.
Service to hospitals was unin-
terrupted, and in several sections
lights continued to burn. In other
sections the current went on and
off intermittently.
Rex Ingle, president of the North
Carolina Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers (AFD, said the strike was
called after 80 days of negotiations
for contract to replace an agree
ment which expired a week ago.
F. F. Walters, vice president and
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29
Rioters Protest
Relief Stoppage

CLEVELAND, Nov. 20. CUP -
City officials ordered extra squads
of police to two relief offices today
to quell pushing crowds clamoring
for food orders.
They said hundreds of relief
clients at the Buckeye and Wilson
offices had formed lines they feared
might be unmanagable.
While officers kept order, relief
officials announced they had re-
ceived 375,000 pounds of butter and
additional white flour raisins and
prunes from the Surplus Com.
modities Corporation for distribu-
ton to thousands made hungry by
the latest relief crisis in this city
of a million.
Crowds were unruly yesterday be-
fore several relief offices, and re.
lief officials said that at one a
woman fell down and was trampled
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29
Texas Grand Jury Frees Two-Gun
Girl Who Shot Married Prosecutor

the country in his automobile and
stabbed her when she refused to run
away with him.
While she lay in a hospital fight
ing for her life she got card from
Coffman praying" for her recovery,
She got we'll and. she told police,
she followed Coffman for days with
one pistol in her handbag and an
other in a shoulder holster under
her left arm.
When the opportunity finally
came she pumped bullets from both
guns into Coffman. ignoring his
pleas for mercy.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29
U. Legion Chief
COMING TO Valley

Raymond j. Kelly, national COM
mander of the American Legion
will be in Imperial Valley shortly
after New Years, State Commander
Bill Dunn said Wednesday upon
his return to the valley after a
national conference in Indianapolis
The national commander will at
tend the Rose Bowl game at Pasa-
dena as a guest of Dunn and
James R. Fisk, state adjutant, who
also visited Ell Centre Wednesday
Kelly promised to include Impe-
rial Valley, home of the state COM
mander, on his tour through Cali
fornia, Dunn said.
After a visit in the valley, Dunn
and Fisk left for San Diego to con-
fer with the 1910 Legion convention
committee.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29
I'D. Adams Chosen
On Debt Committee
For Second Time

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 20 (UP)-
Gov. Culbert Olson today announced
reappointment of members of the
state farm adjustment commission
in accordance with an act of the
last legislature extending the COM
mission for another two years.
Those appointed were:
Stewart Meigs, Carpinteria; Rob-
ert Batty, Buellton; Waller Lowe.
Atwood, Orange county; Ralph
Able, Bakersfield: D. M. McRae.
Berry Greek, Butte county; Benja-
min Scriven, Fontana; Robert Col
Inns, Fresno; Wilfred Howard, San
ia Rosa; George Muskovite, Suisun;
George j. Otterson, willows; Ed
win Jobe, Covina: j. D. Adams, Ell
Centro; j. w. Wilson, Yuba City;
Lyman Lanta, San Jose; Thomas
Mathews, Marysville.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29


Finnish islands would be seized i'm
mediately.
Soviet airplanes roamed over the
Finnish frontier, where four clashes
were reported in the deepening
snow and darkness of the SUBJ
Arctic.
A diplomatic gesture toward peace
came from Washington, where Sec-
retary of State Cordell Hull an
nounced that the United States is
willing to make its good Offices
available in settling the Soviet
Finnish dispute.
The Soviet radio hammered hard
er and harder at the Finnish gov
ernment, telling the Russian peo-
Pile of demands by workers, students
and troops for punishment" of the
Finnish leaders, and it was reported
that the Finnish legation was under
guard in Moscow.
Hour after hour, the Soviets tried
to force home to Finland the idea
that they must give in to Russian
demands for withdrawal of Fin
nish troops from the frontier anc
for naval bases on Finnish territory
or war would soon sweep the land
Continued on Page 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29

DALLAS, Tex, Nov. 20. CUP)-
A Dallas county grand jury today
freed Miss Corinne Maddox, Texas
tWo-gun girl. on charges that she
murdered Brooks Coffman.
With a pistol in each hand, Miss
Maddox shot down Coffman, an
attorney, on a busy street here last
week but the grand jury after in
vestigating murder charges brought
against her returned a no-bill.
Miss Maddox was a pretty blonde
stenographer who once worked in
Coffman's office. Last May Coff-
man, a married man, took her into
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29
Fritz Kuhn Case
Goes TO Jury

NEW YORK, Nov. 30. CUP)-k
jury of IL business men took over
the Fritz Kuhn trial today and will
decide whether the German Am
erican Bund leader stole from the
organization he ruled.
General sessions Judge James G.
Wallace gave the case to the Jurors
after lecturing them on law and
evidence applicable to the five
counts in which the state charges
Kuhn stole $1,217O2 and then doc
tored checkbooks and records to
conceal the thefts.
If the jury finds him guilty as
charged, the 42-yearold "Bunds-
fuehrer" love letters to a
blonde featured the 20-day trial
will face a possible maximum i'm
prisonment of % years.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29

pane OH Cne NOrCnumDerlanQ COAST
and it presumably plunged into the
North sea because the British pilot
on its tail had to pull up suddenly
to avoid falling into the water.
simultaneously, Allied hopes were
raised by reports from Oslo, Nor
way, that heavy gun flashes and
diving airplanes off the southwest
coast of Norway indicated a sharp
battle was under way in the North
sea. Speculation centered on wheth-
er the British naval and aerial
forces seeking the NaZi pocket bat
tleship Deutschland had at last
caught up with the sea raider as
she sought to slip back into Ger
man port.
The sound of cannonading in
creased shortly afternoon but spec
tators at Stad and other coastal
towns said they could not
definitely tell whether more naval
units had joined the battle. The
volume of firing indicated an in
creasingly big engagement however,
and spread westward, according to
telephone messages from the coast.
The aerial and naval activity
above England and in the North
Sea, as we'll as a daring raid by
British fliers on the German Bor-
kum air base late yesterday, seemed
to indicate increased aggressive
action by the British.
The repulse of German filters
attempting to raid the British Isles
was the most severe yet suffered
by the Nazis.
The Hinkel craft and other Ger
man planes were reported to have
lodged through the clouds over
the Firth of Forth and to have
battled with Royal air force planes
over southeastern Scottish towns
earlier in the day before being
driven out to sea.
Machinegun fire over one town
indicated a sharp battle above the
clouds.
The Evening Standard describing
the R. A. F. raid on the Borkum
air base off the German coast
yesterday, said that a German naval
craft was damaged as well as several
seaplanes.
The British planes flew a few
feet above the water and wrecked
Continued on Page 8; Col. 50
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29
II Won I Be Hard
To Identify Him

PHOENIX, Nov. 30. (UP)-Phoe-
nix police today broadcast report
for all patrol cars to be on the
lookout for a small gent wearing a
black fur coat with white stripe
down the back.
The fugitive was last seen on a
downtown street corner, where he
stood for nearly an hour while all
pedestrians stepped gingerly around
him.
The gent, identified by the smell
which fingered around him as a
skunk, disappeared before the city
humane officer arrived.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29

OF a wage dispute between Cne car
penters union and the Georgia Con-
struction company.
Union carpenters declared the
construction job unfair because the
company paid carpenters So a day
instead of the union demand for
SO a day. Iron workers went off
the job on sympathy strike.
E. G.. Georgia, member of the
construction firm, said the strike
was settled on a percentage basis
whereby some of the carpenters
were to be paid SO day and some
So. Company and union represen-
tatives declared the settlement was
satisfactory
E. H. Neff of Heber represented
the carpenters union and Wayne
Kenneston represented the IRON
workers.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29
Retail Food Price
Up Five Per Cent

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. (UP)
Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins reported today that re-
tail food prices rose SO per cent
from Aug. Is to Sept. Is, the
period covering the outbreak of
the European war.
This increase, Miss Perkins
said, was the principal factor in
an increased total cost of living
of 1.2 per cent recorded in the
period from June Is to Sept. Is.
The increase almost exactly"
compensated for the decline i'm
costs which occurred between
December 1888, and June, 1899.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29

Communists nor Communist-con
trolled. Mrs. Roosevelt said earlier
this week that she would appear
before the committee If invited.
Ryan testified that he had not
had contact with the Youth Con-
gress for three years, and could
not say to what extent the Com
munists exercised control but that
he believed that influence. to be
extensive"
The majority of youths who join
ed the student union, he agreed with
Rep. Jerry Voorhis, D., Calf, "do
so for purely the idealistic reasons" :"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29
GERMAN BOMBER D0MNED OVER ENCL AND
Russia Sewers
Ties with Firms

MOSCOW, Nov. 20. OUP) -
Soviet Russia today broke off
diplomatic relations with Fin
land.
The break in relations came
just as the Soviet people were
instructed to listen to their radios
for an important announcement
by Premier Viacheslav Molotov.
The Finnish minister had not
had an opportunity to deliver
a reply to the Soviet note sent
to Finland yesterday, demand
ing that Finnish troops retire
from the frontier north of
Leningrad. Russians alleged the
city was "threatened" with at
tack by the Finnish army.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29

to pay the U s. duty.
Secretary of Treasury Henry Nor
genthau, jr. acted under law
which specifies that the 500 ex-
emption applies only 10 purchases
incident to a foreign trip. Treasury
attorneys were said TO believe that
the 24-hour limitation would bring
trips to Tia Juana within that In
depreciation. Treasury officials said
that opposition To the rule came
from people. many Of them U, 8
citizens, who have interests In Tia
Juana stores.
Under the new rule the collectors
of customs In San Diego can exempt
from the 24-hour limitation any
goods up TO total value Of IS.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29
GIamis Sets Up
New P0stoffiCe

CLAIMS, Nov. 9.-Establishmen
of post office and appointment Of
Mrs. Kitty French as postmistreSs
were announced Wednesday by A. H,
Mcclure, United States commission
er stationed at Yuma.
Mrs. French is the wife of the
Southern Pacific signal operator
at Glamis.
The post office was established
here after petitions signed by heads
of 40 families were sent to WASH
ington. Congressman Ed V. Izao
telegraphed Mcclure of the grant
ing of the petition and Mrs. French's
appointment.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29

general manager of the company,
said the men walked out because
the company refused to compel its
workers to join the union.
Approximately 100000 persons in
Asheville and surrounding towns
served by the Asheville plant, were
left partially or wholly without
service by the walkout. Most of the
persons affected were asleep while
the power was cut off.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29
E|vetta Campbell
Dies in EI Cenfro

Mrs. Elvetta Campbell, SO, died
Tuesday at the home of her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Irene Wells, at 725 State
street, Ell Centre.
Funeral services we're scheduled
for the Lemons chapel at 2:30 pm
Thursday. A heart attack was given
as the cause of her death.
Her survivors include three daugh-
ters, Mrs. Wells, Mrs. Carl Bryant
and Mrs. George Godsey of Wichita,
Kans.; two sisters; and five grand
children.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29

TIC fUUIIl CUIIgItSo, TIC UtoCIIItU,'
is a "front organization to extend
the influence and supplement the
American student union" The
union is completely controlled by
the Communist party" Ryan said
The Dies committee has under
consideration a suggestion to invite
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt to ap-
pear before it as witness and give
her views on whether the Youth
Congress is engaged in subversive
activities. When the Congress held
its convention here Mrs. Roosevelt
gave a tea at the White House for
some of its leaders and She has re-
peatedly said that they are not
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29

chased in Mexico.
Originally the 24-hour rule was
to have gone into effect Oct. %
1t was delayed at the request OF
California congressman. A treasury
spokesman said that the treasury's
chief interest in imposing the rul-
ing was to protect American busi-
ness men in California
The ruling affects the San Diego
customs district which is opposite
Tia Juana, the only free port in
Mexico. Foreign goods can be
brought into that city duty free
Thousands of Americans have
crossed into Tia Juana and pur-
chased up to 500 worth of goods
which they could bring back i'm
meoiately without being required
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29
Jurors Investigate
Producer s Loan

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20. CUP)-
The federal grand jury today re-
opened its investigation into cir
cumstances surrounding an assert
ed 100000 loan" made by Film
Producer Joseph Schenck to Will
liam Bioff, union leader, and other
matters affecting the film industry.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-29
MERGER OPPOSED

WASHINGTON, Nov. %. (UP)-
The Civil Aeronautics Authority
today authorized a minority share
holders committee of Western Air
Express and the Transcontinental
Western Air Inc, to intervene in a
proposed merger of WAE and Unit
ed Airlines.