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Evening star., 1939-10-14
Molly Picon Appears
Here Tomorrow

Two of the outstanding stars of
the Yiddish stage, Molly Picon and
Jacob Kalich. will present a joint
dramatic and song recital tomorrow
night at the Jewish Community
Center. This will be the first pro-
gram Of the center's annual forum
series.
Miss Picon. the cornela Otis Skin
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
PROCLAMATION

Prospects of another world conflict which
quilted
of the EARTH American
facts which nations conflict
Through factua presentation happenings
through critical editorial public
affairs the
to the whole of civilization.
Our constitutional freedom
sibities than before
Honesty editorial
presentation constitute
free
In these sentiments recognition
position the daily ie fitting that
be the to take the
which the California performing their duties with
respect to n o. the
L. Olson, California
paper California.
WITNESS WHEREOF, j have hereunto set
the Great Seal the State of
iornia to be affixed this four lay of
tember A. ID, md
Seal of the State
of (Signed) CULBERT L. OLSON
California
(AesD JORDAN
Secretary State.
CHAS j. HAGERTY,
Deputy
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Light Snow Falls
In Laguna Area
During Weekend

Snow fell within 100 miles OF
Imperial Valley over the weekend.
A light fall was recorded Satur-
day afternoon at Laguna noun
tains. c. w. Maitland of Ell Centre,
who was in Laguna Sunday said
there was enough to cover the
ground but it disappeared rapidly.
Meanwhile, other localities also
reported cold weather and snow.
A rush" order for snowplows came
from Flagstaff, Ariz. More than
two inches fell Sunday night. A
chilly northwest wind plunged the
temperature to 35.
In Ell Centro temperatures were
mild over the weekend. Sundays
maximum was IS and minimum was
SO degrees. At noon Monday the
temperature stood at 83.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
American Bankers Abhor War, Want
Self Sufficient Nation Cooperating
For Neutrality, Convention Told

cally and prepared to defnd itself
under all conditions"
Writer'S speech, opening address
OF the convention, confirmed pre-
dictions that the effect of war on
American finance and industry
would draw major attention from
the 500 fiscal experts who gathered
here from all parts of the nation.
Witter said that the things the
IBA have been working for ito give
this country economic security" now
take on far greater Importance,
'It is infinitely more vital now"
Witter said, that the capital mar
ket be relieved of burdensome inn
pediments. Industries that are fun
damental to the security of the
country will need funds to bring
their equipment to maximum eff
cheney. The railroads have made a
bare start in restoring their physi-
cal plants"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Reds Only Winners
From Europe's War
Analysis Reveals
Russia Extends Grip on
Smaller Nations Along
Widespread Front
- BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE -
United Press Cable Editor

Russia emerged even more
clearly Monday as the only
nation which has made any
substantial gain so far from the
war.
The Soviets have gained eastern
Poland; they dominate the eastern
Baltic states; they have placed
themselves in a position to extend
their hegemony, or leadership, down
through the Balkans to the Med
iterranean.
All that has been done without
having to strike a blow.
Germany has gained the western
part of Poland, after devastating
military onslaught in which 10000
Germans were killed and 10000
wounded. She is in possession OF
territory mainly inhabited by a
stubborn, resentful people.
Her occupation, moreover, is con-
tested by the might of Britain and
France. The two Allies also demand
that Hitler let go of the conquered
Czech provinces of Bohemia and
Moravia.
Hitler, moreover, has lost his posi-
ton as master of the Baltic. Hence
forth, he must share its control
with Stain, the former peasant
who sits in the Kremlin, shuns
f:7mboyant f: speeches and carefully
watches the world checker board
for Soviet advantage and the
chance to spread the revolution
into Europe and eventually else
where in the world.
Hitler has tacitly recognized the
Russian sphere of influence in the
eastern Baltic by preparing for re-
patriation of about 100000 Germans
Continued on Page 8, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. (UP)-
Kenneth Goff of Delavan, Wis, who
said he had been a leader in the
young Communist league, told the
Dies committee today that Com
munists used the names of Presl-
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt to advance
their activities.
Goff, a young salesman, resigned
from the Communist party and the
Young Communist league while
testifying before the Dies commit
tee.
Golf said he joined the party In
Milwaukee on May 2, 1886, under
the name of John Keats" He told
committee members at the outset
of his testimony that he was still
a party member, but had prepared
his resignation because of the new
German Russian pact and because
of the U. S. party's "un-American
ways"
Chairman Martin Dies, D., Tex,
said the committee had been un-
able to determine to what extent
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

fllCt IN WHICH soviet troops ndrQly
have struck a blow so far, the Mos
COW government made known its
viewpoint through the official
newspaper Izvestia without giving
any definite indication that Russia
would seek to act as mediator.
The chief purpose of the Soviets,
coincidentally with new arrange
ments to provide Germany speedily
with raw materials for long war,
appeared to be support for Adolf
Hitler's peace offensive" as a
means of consolidating the Nazi as
we'll as the Soviet gains in eastern
Europe.
The continuation of war on the
western front would be senseless
slaughter and the Allied determina-
ton to crush Hitlerism is criminal
folly, regardless of friendship or
hatred for the Nazi system, Izvestia
said.
There was no reason to believe
that the Soviet declaration would
Continued on Page 8, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Former FL Centro
Man Succumbs

William H. Thompson, former
resident of Ell Centre, died in Sac
ramento Sunday, Imperial Valley
friends were informed Monday.
The funeral was scheduled for
Sacramento Tuesday with the Elks
in charge.
Thompson was office manager for
B. Salomon prior to 1923. He later
lived in South America, New York,
and of late years in Sacramento.
He was a member of the Ell Centro
Elks lodge which he joined in 1922.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

ing against the proposition.
Calling of mass meeting for
Tuesday night at 7:30 at the I'M
perial fairgrounds to hear Paul
Peek, speaker of the state assembly,
and a discussion of the Ham and
Egg proposition.
The farm bureau resolution, Of
fered by Earnest Edwards and sup
plemented by two-page brief SUBJ
mitted by Secretary Scott B. Foulds
outlining dangers of $50 Thursday
passed without a dissenting vote.
President A. j. Smaller of the
state employees association explain
ed the association opposition as
necessary to protect the retirement
system with its $9,50O,OO0 fund and
the credit unions of the state.
Imperial chapter was the first
in the state to oppose Ham and
Eggs he said.
At an employees meeting Satur-
day night w. L. McFadden, region
al director, supplied members with
facts and figures showing dangers
in the proposal, to use in cam
paigning against it.
Tuesday nights mass meeting at
the fairgrounds will be under the
auspices of the womens county
Democratic central committee, Mrs
Edna Morrison, president, said.
Principal speaker will be the So
year-old Assembly speaker who was
expected to outline unfinished bus
mess of the legislature and specu-
late upon the legislative program
at the next session. He will be
introduced by State Senator Ed
Law.
Speakers on the $50 Thursday
issue will be announced later, Mrs,
Morrison said.
Peek will arrive in FL Centre
Tuesday noon and confer with val
ley political leaders at the Bar
bara Worth hotel. He will leave
for another meeting in Riverside
shortly after the Tuesday gather
ing. Peek is chairman of the state
Democratic central committee.
Passage of the farm bureau reso-
Continued on Page 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09


cies but ardent advocate of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's neutrality stand.
against Rep. Hamilton Fish, r.,
N. Y, who represents the presi-
dents home district and almost
uniformly opposes his policies.
Woodrum introduced a resolution
calling for formal investigation
of an organization set up by Fish
known as the Committee to Keep
America Out of Foreign Wars"
Other developments included:
Sen. Ed johnson, D., Colo, pro-
posed that the senate take a three
day recess to await the outcome
of European peace moves Senate
Democratic Leader Alben w. Bar
kelly, D., KY, blocked an immediate
vote on the proposal.
Sen. Sheridan Downey, D., Calf,
held the senate floor for a long
attack on the administration neu-
traiity bill, delaying any vote ON
Johnson's motion or the proposal
of Sen. Charles w. Tobey, R., N. H.,
to split the bill into two parts-one
dealing with -and-carry and
the other the arms embargo repeal.
Barley, directing administration
forces in the contest over revision
of the neutrality act assured john
son he would throw no stone in
the way of a later vote on the
proposal.
Johnson is author of a pending
resolution under which the senate
would request President Roosevelt
to seek an armistice in the Euro
pean war
He interrupted a speech against
the neutrality bill by Sen Downey,
to enter his new motion. Barkley
then asked johnson to delay his
proposal until Downey had COM
pleted his speech. johnson agreed.
johnson asserted that Germany
will listen to an honorable peace
PROPOSAL" basing his contention
upon the report that the Reich
desired President Roosevelt to me-
diate in the European conflict.
There is one sure way to keep
out of this war;" he told the SEN
ate. IF We stop the war, there
will be no danger of involvement"
The senator contended that neu-
trail nations throughout the world
are looking to the most powerful
neutral in all the world" to make
move toward peace and that
people throughout the country de-
sire Mr.. Roosevelt to act.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

DEL MONTE, Cal, Oct. 8. (UP)
Bankers abhor war and will work
unremittingly to keep this nation
at peace, Jean Witter, San Fran
cisco, president of the Investment
Bankers Association of America
told the associations 28th annual
convention today
"The IBA as an institution defers
to no group in this country in its
ardent desire to keep the United
States out of war" said Witter,
member of the firm of Dean Witter
company, investment house.
1--WE all hopeG the experience of
the other war would help us keep
our feet on the ground. I believe
that this time the American people
can best be served if the nation
will go to work in unity with labor,
the farmer, capital, management
and government determined to
make this country strong economi-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
SUPREME COURT TO
REVIEW NlRB CASE

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. UP-
The supreme court, in its first bus
mess session of the 1939-40 term,
agreed today to consider a series
of new challenges of the power and
authority of the National Labor Re-
lations Board.
The new labor board cases topped.
a lengthy list of causes on which
the court today announced it would
hear argument,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Yamatoda Kidnap
Defendants Seek
Change Of Venue
Oswalt Asks Judge to
Set Trial in San Diego
Instead of Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, (SpeciaD
Judge Ralph E. Jenney of
U. S. District court took un-
der advisement here today
a motion to shift trial of the
sensational Yamatoda kidnapping
case from Los Angeles to San Diego.
The case involved Ell Centre Po-
lice Chief j. Sterling Oswalt, two
other police officers and a number
of Japanese accused of kidnapping
H. Yamatoda, reputed japanese
gambling czar.
Attorneys asked the change OF
venue for convenience of Witness
es".
Judge Jenney took the oral mo-
ton under advisement and will
give his decision next Monday
when he will set date for trial.
All of those indicted pleaded not
guilty today.
Next week attorneys were ex-
pected to seek separate trials for
several of the major defendants.
The Yamatoda case first broke
into the limelight last December
when the japanese was brought
to Ell Centro from Los Angeles
and charged with gambling. Os-
walt and the others are charged
with conspiring to kidnap him,
while he was free on bail, and TAX
ing him to MeXicali.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
17,A4 Register
For Ham-Egg Vote

Total registration for the Ham
and Eggs election fell short of the
total for the elections last var.
County Clerk w. j. McClelland
said Monday.
A total of l7,424 persons may
cast their ballots at the Ham and
Eggs election Nov. 7. Registrations
for last years elections were 1880.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

if the White House had such In
formation, because 1t might be
matter of military information and
disclosure might violate the neu-
trality act.
He said the White House had no
knowledge aside from newspaper
dispatches of reports a submarine
had been sighted yesterday off the
coast of Maine.
Early said the submarine and
tankers near Key West were sight
ed by navy patrols which are keep
ing a close watch on operations OF
vessels off the U. 8. coast and In
the Caribbean.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Reds in u. s. Use Roosevelt Names
To Advance Activities, Dies Told

prowlerS, who broke into the COM
mittees offices on the fifth floor
of the old house office building
yesterday morning, had molested
evidence stored in the room.
Dies said that four or five mail
sacks full of documents seized in
recent raids were in the room, and
that it probably would be impos-
sible to ascertain whether the
thieves had taken anything from
them,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

which he refused to speak, he went
to the mining district in northern
Siberia. His life from 1880 to 1910
was blank on the welfare record
except for a reference to the ST.
terian journey.
He spoke almost perfect English.
His few friends said he must have
been an Oxford man, judging from
his accent. He was cultured and
distinguished in appearance.
He was born in Blendinsville, Ill,
in 1859. He lived in Oudubon, Ia, in
1870, in Cheyenne, Wyo., before
leaving for Siberia in 1880. He ap-
peared in Gilmore, Iday in 1910
and in Imperial Valley in 1912,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

ganized when inland friends real
lied he had not been in town since
. July 3.
He had been dead since Sept. a.,
the last date he had checked OH
the calendar on the wall OF his
cabin, Deputy Coroner Herbert
Hughes said.
Mystery surrounded Warner since
his arrival in the Chocolate noun
tains in 1912. He applied for aid
in 1884 only because he was almost
dead from malnutrition. He refus-
ed to bridge a 30-year-gap in the
details of his history. Welfare Off
cials never penetrated the secret
he carried to his death.
During the 3O-year period about
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09


comparatively small type.
President Roosevelt Saturday had
announced at Hyde Park that a
submarine of some foreign power
had been sighted about Is miles
off Miami, Fla. Early said it was
possible that the underseas boat
seen off Key West was the same
one
In both cases the submarine was
operating far within the 300-mile
safety zone proclaimed by the 81
American republics at the confer
ence at Panama last week.
Early said that nothing could be
disclosed as to the nationality OF
the submarine and tankers even
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

CALEXICO, Oct. 9.-Officials col
lected information Monday to pre-
sent at an inquest into the death
of Pete Francisco Martinez, 65
killed by a freight train north of
town Saturday night.
Trainmen said they saw the Mex
lean walking beside the tracks as
the train reached a point a quarter
of a mile north of town. Appar-
emily he became confused, they
said, and stepped in front of the
engine.
He was taken to the Ell Centro
hospital where he died shortly after
arrival. The accident occurred at
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Copper Prices
Remain Unchanged

NEW YORK, Oct. 9. (UP)-Cop-
er prices held unchanged at 12H
cents a pound for domestic delivery
today. while major producers turn
ed their attention to the fate of the
proposed reduction in the American
tax on copper imports from Chile
contained in the planned recipro-
cal trade agreement with that
country.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
A Draw

A Draw
I'll bet you bottle of milk that
I'm here at z am. to go dove shoot
ing. And I'll bet you another that
you aren't up and ready to gop'
So said Freddy Solomon and Pur-
Wis Scroggs answered:
Done, done and done"
At am. Sunday Purvis crawled
foggily gloated over the bets he
would win. He gloated until he
walked into the living room and
found Freddy, resplendent in bath
robe and slippers, asleep on the
divan.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Freiuht Train Kills Mexican Farm
Laborer on Track Near Ca|exico

7 pm. Saturday night.
Martinez was a laborer employed
by George Mann, vegetable grower,
and lived near the Isom corral in
Calexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Prominent 5. D.
Man Suicide

SAN DIEGO, Oct 9. CUP)-Jesse
H. Shreve, So, prominent real es-
tate operator in San Diego and
Arizona for the last two decades,
committed suicide in his auto by
SweetWater lake near here today.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Soviet Throws Weight on
Side Of Nuzi Peace Plea,
Gives Hitler Provisions
Planes VS.. Ships

LONDON, Oct. 8. UP)-The
admiralty tonight announced
that a series of battles between
German aircraft and British
warships had taken place in the
North sea.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Mystery Figure
Di ies on Desert

Mysterious in death in life William Tecumseh Sher-
man Warner 80, Chocolate mountain gold miner for 27
wears, was buried in Ell Centre Monday
The body was found in a mountain canyon three miles
from his cabin at Haydens Well by searching party
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Sub, Two 1unkers
OffFIorido Coast

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. (UP)-The White House an
nounced today that navy patrols Sunday morning sighted
non-American submarine about 20 miles west of Key
West, Fla and non-Amercan oil tankers in the same
general vicinity Presidential Secretery Stephen T. Early
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
JOkers .JOkcd-

JOkeTS JOkcu-
This out to "larn EN-.
After Dorothy Baum and Jean
Veliquette were united in matri-
mony Saturday in Ell Centre, the
bride retired to change from we'd
ding gown to travelling clothes and
discovered a practical joker hao
hidden the outfit.
Undaunted, Dorothy found pain
of old slacks and someone's shirt
and started off on her honeymoon
A new bonnet and bag lent a some-
what incongruous effect.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Activity on Western Front Virtually
Suspended While Di pIoma+s Wrans|e
In Effort to Bring End to Conflict
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS -
United Press Foreign News Editor

Soviet Russia called upon the allies Monday to put a
blsnesslke enid to the European by accepting the
Naz and Red army conquests. AS the big winner in
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Valley Groups Speed Up
Drive Against Hom-E Eggs
Plan: Mass Meet Called
Farm Bureau. State Employees Take Stand
Opposing Pension Scheme; Perils Cited
By Both Groups; Retirement Endangered

Activity the Ham and Egg front speeded in I'M
peria Valley Monday with these Developments
resolution from the county farm bureau directors
opposing $50 Thursday.
Entrance of the Imperial chapter of the State Employees
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Dealer
Backs Presidents:
Flaws Ham Fish
Woodrum Asks Probe of Committee
Set Up byNewyork Representative to
Keep America Out Of Foreign Wars

WASHINGTON, Oct. g. (UP)-A rip-roaring house
fight envened neutrality debate today senate
on the bill to revise u. S. neutrality law begged down in
parliamentary complexities.
The house fight ptted Rep Clifton A Moodrum D.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Fare Thee Well

Let there be Wailing and gnash-
ing of teeth. AL Devore's cherubic
visage will be among us no longer.
AL will leave Ell Centre this week
to live in Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
County In Distress

County In Distress
The courthouse sent out an SOS
Monday morning. Whoever ran up
the flag got his wires crossed and
the flag flew upside down for some
time.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
d AMBLINe
X EPORTER
Exhaustive Selling

EXnduSClVc Selllng-
Sales resistance leaves Les Rogers
cold. In fact, it puts him out.
Trying to sell Mrs. Anne Vesey
new car, Les went through his
high pressure spiel and then allow
ed Anne to give her arguments
against the idea.
After 80 seconds he fell asleep
and the only answer Anne got was
Snore.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

Butter' Los Angeles, 31lac; but
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch.
grade A, 4016c; manufacturing milk.
3S19c; route gathered cream, soc.
L. A. hay: U. S. No. 1 S15-s16.50;
U. S. No. 2 feafy S14-15.50; u ) No
2 S13-S13.5O; Mpls. flax s1.s7ts.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

(T0tal cash, checks and drafts sent
through the two FL CentrO banks,
Evening star., 1939-04-27

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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-04-29
ANTITRUST PROSECUTIONS

Neutrality-suspicious. Post Of
flee Department Solicitor Karl
Crowley of Texas, speaking for In
dependents in the Southwest. on
introduction of the Borah- Gillette
Pipeline Enforcement bill (SB-218D
today. said: We not only expect
the Borah-Gillette Pipeline Divorce
bill to pass but we are confident
that the evidence presented to the
monopoly committee when the oil
hearings are held will be so strong
that the Government will prosecute
every major oil company under
the antitrust statues as they did
the Standard Oil in 1911. The in
dependent must be saved unless We
want Federal ownership and con-
troll Of the oil industry
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-04-29
WANNA BUY A LOT?

HELENA-Mrs Nanita B. Sher
lock, state land commissioner, an
nounced four tracts and 25 blocks
of land in the city of Cut Bank
would be sold at auction there
MAY %.
She said the appraisal value OF
the land runs from SIS to $3.50 a
lot
Sale Of the land, the commission
er said, was to provide lots for
Cut Bank residents desiring to
build homes. Recently a delegation
from that city met with the land
board and asked the sale be under
taken. and advised the board of the
need for home land.
The commissioner said the state
would retain oil, gas and mineral
rights to the lands.