davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-17

Onions and garlic, says a SCI
entific item, prevent accumulation
of bacteria And, we might add,
friendships.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-17

Sheep herding is now being done
by automobile. Sheep are gradually
getting used TO following splut-
tering exhaust pipe.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-17

A four year old dog has pune
tuated his frisky career with II
fractures of his legs Just bad
breaks.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-17
Photographs

For every mile of railroad in the
United States, there is, on the av-
erage, one highway grade cross
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-17

It took the Russian Bear to show
up the Big Bad Wolf as a sissy.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-17

Venezulan baseball umpires
are gentlemen, reports an American
baseball manager after a tour. so
are Americans, if you happen to be
on the right side.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-17
Hints ON Efinuette

Don't get into the habit of talk
ing of your troubles TO your friends
when you meet. Try to keep your
conversation cheerful if you would
be popular.
Horoscope for Sunday
A happy year is forecast for those
whose birthday is on this day. Much
happiness and good fortune is in
store for them, and romance will
enter their lives. They should, how
ever, avoid unnecessary changes.
A child born on this date will be
extremely sensitive, kind hearted
and hospitable. His or her chief
fault will be a tendency to lack
driving power. Success will be en-
joyed, however, in the latter half
of life.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-17

A high school girl won trophy
by punting Al yards, and her male
competitors couldn't even kick about
it,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-17

Mussolini forbids Italians to dis
cuss politics-news item. We didn't
know there was any politics left
for them to talk about.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-17

Even war has its points. Shortage
of gasoline in Great Britain, ac-
cording to cabled story, has cut
down the number of Sunday drivers.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-17

The man at the next desk says
Santa Claus red suit is the exact
shade of Dads bank account after
Christmas.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-17

Alaska bees, we read have fur
coats. What? No galoshes?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
KNIFE SHARPENER DIES

News Of the death of Tomas
Womack, go knife sharpener who
lived in El Centre for many years
was received in Imperial Valley
Thursday.
He died Nov. II at the home OF
a daughter in Fresno.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
California Leads
In Traffic Deaths

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 7. CUP)-
California now leads all states in
auto traffic deaths with a total
of 2311 for the first 10 months OF
1899. director of Motor Vehicles
Howard Philbrick reported today.
New York had 1914 deaths for
the same period, not including those
occurring on private property, while
California had 2236 fatalities in the
same grouping.
Philbrick said the gain for Cali
fornia over 1888 was 3.5 per cent
but the increase in rural areas was
more than 100 per cent. He ex-
planned traffic was heavier because
winter weather has not arrived
more rural roads are being built
and insufficient money is available
for law enforcement to keep pace
with accidents.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
Reds Using Poison
Gas Against Foes;
Finn Line Intact
Continued from Pare D


sian attacks.
An official communique issued by
army headquarters said that Il
Finnish soldiers were poisoned dur
ing an artillery attack north of
Lake Ladoga wednesday when Rus
slams allegedly fired artillery shells
containing poison gas.
The Soviet offensive has failed
TO crack the main Finnish defenses
known as the Mannerheim line
officials said, and at many points
the enemy is still five or ten miles
from the outposts of the defense
works ramed for Gen. Baron Carl
Gustaf Won Mannerheim.
The Mannerheim line has not
even been dented, let alone being
broken as claimed in Moscow, the
Finnish officials reported. pointing
out that the line consists of many
fortified positions extending deeply
into Finnish territory and that it
is not possible to "break through
in any given spot by single
thrust.
The heavy snow and the lakes OF
southeastern Europe are aiding de-
fense of the main line, it was said
The lakes and rivers are an integral
part of the defenses across the
Karelian Isthmus.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
Germans Launch
so Petrol Raids

place in the Wissembourg sector
at the east end of the line. An en-
tire German battalion. perhaps 1900
men. raided the French lines with
the support of their artillery.
Germans in all 60 raids used a
new technique. They advanced in
series of files or columns. In each
raid. the Germans tried 10 cover
French outposts from front and
each side, using portable trench
mortars. AS soon as they were dis
covered. the Germans closed in,
dug shelters and tried to hold their
ground.
To knock them out and send them
back to their own lines. the French
advance units signaled to the main
Maginot line for artillery support.
and it was asserted that the Ger
mans were driven back.
The French. however. we're pre-
pared for further attacks, perhaps
in larger scale.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07

PARIS. Dec. 7. German
troops made 60 raids on the French
advanced lines of the Western
Front during the early hours of
this morning, it was learned today,
in the first real activity in a month.
French outposts were raided all
along a 100 mile line between the
Moselle and Rhine rivers as the
Germans sought TO find weak places
in the French defenses and obtain
information regarding troop dis
positions.
Rifles. machine guns. grenades
and mines made a bedlam of the
front and finally artillery was
brought into action to clear the
No mans Land between the French
and German lines.
Brilliant rockets. sent up by men
in outpost positions to disclose the
whereabouts of raiding parties, il
Illuminated the front in the hours
before dawn.
The French reported heavy losses
among the German raiding parties.
and numerous prisoners. but ad-
mitted that they had lost some
dead and wounded.
The biggest German attack took
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
Law Forces City
Into New Hearing
OF Arena Protest
Continued from Page l

stand :" Mayor Fawcett COM
mented.
Hurried consultations followed
and resulted in emergency printing
Of placards that were tackled up at
various spots throughout the city
Thursday morning, calling the pro-
test hearing to citizens attention
Allowing five days for notice, the
hearing will be held at 10 am.
Tuesday. First bouts at the proposed
arena have been slated for Thurs
day. two days later.
w. T. Peterson of Brawley, backer
for the enterprise. was in an agi-
tated state Thursday
II don't know what to say. I've
got the fights lined up and ready
to go if and when I get permit.
Already there has been S1l00 ex-
pended in getting the theater in
shape"
Backers have leased the theater
building until summer and hold ar
option to lease longer. The theater
building is valued on the city tax
rolls at S69, $3.50. 1t is owned by the
Fox Imperial county theaters corp.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07

LONDON, Dec Z. CUP)-Nazi
flying boats twice tried to inter-
cept a Royal Air Force patrol craft
over the North Sea Wednesday, but
were driven off and damaged after
aerial battles, it was announced to-
day.
None of the enemy planes reached
the Scottish coast and there was no
attack on the Firth of Forth area.
Several German planes-mostly
Dornier flying boats-were engaged,
however, over the North Sea.
The R. A. F. coastal command
patrols fought the Nazi craft and
they were believed to have damaged
some of the Dorniers as they flew
out to sea again. -
A German pilot rammed Bri-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
knii-Conlmunist
Crusade BREWING
In Allied Naiions
Continued from PAGE !

Continued from Page ID
tween 20 and 80 planes have beer
sent. reinforcing a number of British
planes. including Bristol Blenheim
high speed bombers, Hawker- Hart
reconnaissance planes and Hawker-
Fury and Bristol Bulldog fighters
already there
AS many as 60 Italian planes
we're reported in Finland 1t was
believed that italian pilots were
with them.
The News Chronicle quoted Italian
quarters here as saying that it was
believed italian planes were not
only flown across Germany to Fin
land by italian pilots but that the
pilots would remain with them.
fighting for Finland.
This article said also that Ger
many had sent supplies and NUM-
tions to Finland up to the outbreak
of the war and that thereafter
German authorities apparently
tacitly permitted the passage OF
arms to Finland from neutra,
countries.
1t was suggested that Italian
planes had landed in Germany to
refuel on their way to Finland.
This article checked with infor-
nation in diplomatic quarters which
said that Italian planes were being
flown across Germany.
In broad outline. it appeared pos
sible that the European conflict
might vet turn into a struggle where
the main issue would be shifted
from the battle for power between
England and Germany to techni-
cal crusade for or against Bolshev-
ism and in which a desperate Ger
many might be forced to join up
with Russia. The real issue in such
a struggle might or might not be
Rolshevlsm but in the shifting COM
plexities of European chaos it could
be used as a rallying cry by both
sides. That is already vaguely
foreshadowed. .. III. f.15.s.r
Britain and France are steadily
closing the door against the pos
sibility of Russian aid in the war
against Germany possibly because
the government of Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain in London con-
siders Communism worse enemy
than Nazism. .s szz H.. Ae
A more immediate cause for the
Allied attitude is that Russia
definitely has demonstrated that
she does not intend to aid Britain
or France and in the fact that
Russia's efforts to capitalize on the
European war by extending her de-
fensive frontiers, has aroused the
anger and fears of her small neigh
bors. which may be persuaded by
that fear to cast their lot more
definitely with the Allies.
The outcome of those maneuvers
remain to be seen and depend pri-
marily on how far or how fast
Josef v. Stain chooses TO advance.
A thrust into Rumania in an at
tempt 10 seize Bessarabia (taken
from Russia after the World war;
or move against Turkeys eastern
frontiers in the near east would
bring the conflict to a head but
for the moment Russias hands are
reasonably full in the snowy hills
of Finland.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
British RepuIse
Nozi Air Raiders

tish plane deliberately in a fierce
dog fight off the Netherlands Island
OF Texel, the German high COM
mand said in communique at Ber-
lin today. Both planes crashed into
the sea.
The official German news agency
D. N. B. said:
In the neighborhood of the Ne
therlands Island of Texel a bitter
air battle developed between two
German and one British plane, fly
ing northeastwardS. The Germans
strongly attacked the enemy.
The leading German plane open
ed continuous bursts of fire towards
the British plane from short range
and after circling around finally
swooped down right onto the enc
my.
Both planes crashed into the sea.
According to foreign reports the
crew of the German machine was
picked up by a coastal vessel"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
Hitler Boost Of
U.S.. Revolt ! old

PARIS. Dec. T. CUP)-The Paris
Soir today published a statement
by Hermann Rauschnigg, former
president of the Danzig senate
quoting Adolf Hitler as saying that
Germany had means of preventing
America from trying to intervene
in the war"
Rauschnigg purported to give
quotes from talks with Hitler before
the war started.
There are new arms which would
be particularly effective in such a
case" Hitler was alleged by Raus-
chnigg to have said.
"The United States permanently
sits on the edge of revolution and
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07

it would not be difficult to foment
a few riots and troubles TO keep
them sufficiently occupied with
their own affairs.
Those people have nothing to
say about Europe"
He said in his Paris Soir article
that Hitler claimed even before
the war to have devised new type
Of conflict to impose on the Allies
differing entirely from the World
War tactics. He indicated that the
fuehrer hoped to combine war with
revolution, staging fake Commu-
mist revolt in France which would
enable the Nazis to enter France as
a savior
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
New Prizes Spur
Christmas Lights
Contest in City
Continued from Page y

after. ..
But aside from the prizes, think
what a marvellous thing it would
be to drive through FL Centre
streets this Christmas and see
EVERY HOME blazing with holi-
day lights! That's enough OF a
reward, so even if it is only a sim
gle light, hang it up before your
home and help make Ell Centro
known everywhere as:
The City of Christmas Lights!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
Yuma Girl Wins
4-H Club Honor

CHICAGO, Ill. Dec. 7. UP)-
Pretty and petite Audrey Spain
from Yuma. Ariz., today was one
of IL blue ribbon style queens from
among All club girls of the entire
nation who displayed their clothes
in the fashion revue of the 18th
annual national All club congress.
Miss Spain. Is years old, modelled
a beautiful taffeta gown made as a
regular project of her sewing club
at Yuma.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
Men S GIee Club
In Holiday Recess

The Ell Centro Mems Glee club
discontinued rehearsalS this week
until mid January to permit mem
bers to attend to other matters dur
ing the holidays, it was announced
Thursday.
Announcement of the first re-
hearsal date next year will be an
nounced later.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
Olson Describes
MIGRANT Problem
Continued from Page y

in which civil liberties may be
jeopardized, he enumerated as fol-
lows:
Industrialized agriculture, desire
for complete control of wages as
distinct from other costs, perisha-
bility of crops, lack of status OF
mobile workers in agriculture, and
the interstate migration of native
American excess labor supply.
Sen. Ebert D. Thomas of Utah
interrupted to ask if Prof. Taylor
thought it likely that California; s
migratory troubles might spread
throughout the nation.
Il SO believe" replied the econo-
mist.
He said that indisputably the
small farmers are not found at the
center of the labor conflict in which
civil liberties are endangered.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
Fl Centre Couple
TO Marry Monday

Raul Mateus. Il, and Emma
Ovleda. 90. residents of FL Centre
Wednesday filed a notice of theil
intention To wed.
They said they planned to be
married Monday at a ceremony
at the home of Miss Ovieda's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Ovieda
of Ell Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
Turkey Buys War
Goods From Allies

ISTANBUL, Dec. 7. (UP)-Turkey
has signed agreements with the
British and French to purchase
war materials with commodities,
Gen. T. Urbay, president Of Tur-
kish military mission TO London
and Paris, announced on his return
from the Allied capitals today.
A Turkish economic mission now
in London is continuing negotiations
on political and economic phases Of
| the agreement.
Results of the negotiations in
London and Paris we're very salts
factory" Urbay said. Both coun-
tries expressed friendly feelings for
lie Tlirks !"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
RELIEFERS DEMAND
FOOD IN CLEVELAND

CLEVEI.A AND, Dec. 7. UP) = A
group of 100 single men and child
less married couples who said they
wanted food, thronged city hall to-
day and demanded to see Mayor
Harold H. Burton.
Evening star., 1939-12-08

cattlemen can get through the win
ter in fair condition. However =
where feed crops were poor and
there is little grass cattlemen are
facing a serious problem"
Reviewing dust bowl history since
the first "black blizzards" struck in
the early 30s, technicians see a def
mite change in the pattern Of dust
bowl farming.
The use of water conservation
practices has in many cases meant
the difference between a complete
crop failure and a crop worth
harvesting.
His technicians estimate approxi-
mately 3,500,0O0 acres are under a
complete soil and water conserva-
ton program in the demonstration
projects of the conservative service
Evening star., 1939-12-08
the Associated Press,

~ the Associated Press.
DENVER.-The greatest fall and
winter drought ever experienced by
some sections of the Great Plains
country is giving the United States
anti-drought program its supreme
test.
Soil conservation experts, on the
drought battle line since the critical
days of 1884, say the dry landers
may expect a renewal of duststorms
next spring. but probably will escape
another series OF the "black bliZ-
yards" that made life miserable a
few years ago. More land has a
cover of grass or stubble upon it;
hence there is less exposed soil to
blow.
But the dust bowl area where Sc
we're blowing may be expected next
spring will be twice as large as it
was last year, say technicians in the
office of H. H. Finnell, regional di-
rector of the Soil Conservation
Service at Amarillo, Tex That will
make it less than half as large as it
was in the "big drought" of the
mid-tnirties, when it covered ap-
.-proximately 100000 acres.
The new drought area extends
over a dozen States, from the Ap-
palachians to the Rockies.
In the Kansas dry belt less than
an inch of rain fell during Septem-
Der and October, scantiest on rec
ord. Montana received only rs per
cent Of its normal September -Octo-
Der precipitation, Kansas 10 per
cent, Nebraska 80 per cent, North
Dakota SO per cent, Wyoming II per
cent, Minnesota so per cent and
Iowa 81 per cent.
Prospects Very Poor.
prospects for next years wheat
crop are the poorest over the widest
area in recent years." say experts in
, the conservat ton Office. Wheat
farmers (of the dust bowl in most
instances already have lost the op-
portunity for making a crop next
year. Their next opportunity will be
to plant wheat next fall. In prac-
tically all of the critical area wheat
was seeded in dust and has not
sprouted.
"It is difficult to say whether the
wheat farmer or the livestock pro-
ducer will suffer more Even where
grain crops and grass were poor
this year as a result of drought
Evening star., 1939-12-08

One liner, the President Roosevelt,
has been placed in service to Bsr-
,nuda by the United States Lines,
and this company is reported to be
negotiating with the American Ex-
port Steamship Co., Inc, and the
American President Lines for an
agreement under which 1t would
place its largest and finest liners,
the Manhattan and Washington, in
service to Italy.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Charley and Bergen
To Head Parade.

By the Associated Press.
PASADENA, Calf, Dec. 8.-Char-
lie Mccarthy of the glistening top
hat and monocle will ride on the
grand marshars float at the head
of the Tournament Of Roses parade
New Year Day.
Beside him-or perhaps under
meath him-to put into his mouth
the well-chosen words the occasion
may demand. will ride Edgar Ber-
gen.
Tournament of Roses of1cials de-
cided to split the grand marshal
honors, heretofore borne by a single
individual each year, between the
quick-thinking ventriloquist and his
quick-speaking dummy.
Last years grand marshal was
Shirley Temple.
Evening star., 1939-12-08

The Maritime Commission Is un-
derstood to be ready to approve the
proposal for placing the Manhattan
and Warrington In such service,
subject to an agreement being
worked out with tho American Ex-
port and American President COM
panies. with which they would COM
pete.
Several other passenger vessels
operated by the United States Lines
have been laid up on account Of the
Evening star., 1939-12-08

set up within the $4,000, ,000-acre
area normally considered as po-
tentially a part Of the wind erosion
region Of the Southern Great
Plains"
1.-THE additional acreage upon
which some conservation, measures
are being used probably will run into
the millions" Mr.. Finnell says.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
j. ). Vessels Barred
From Runs Findinq
Other Work 10 Do
20 Of 50 Ships Affected
By Neutrality Act
Again in Service

By the Associated Press.
Some Of the American flag ships
barred from their usual ports of
call by the Neutrality Act are find-
ing other work to do.
Maritime sources estimate that
SO ships were affected by the
act and that 20 Of them had been
put to other work, mostly through
charter agreements.
A recapitulation showed:
Ships affected, 88.
Now in other work, 20.
Now completing voyages, 18 (most
of these vessels presumably will be
laid up when they reach home).
Barred from some of usual ports
of call, but with a possibility Of be-
ing able to continue operations to
other ports, 18,
Evening star., 1939-12-08

neutrality law. These are ships
which the lines wanted to place
under the nag Of Panama 80 they
could continue their former services.
Evening star., 1939-12-08

The Maritime Commission held up
approval Of this transfer, ut Presi-
dent Roosevelt's request, after the
proposal drew much criticism.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-14
CAUDETTE Gets
15-YEAR Term

Eugene F. Gaudette, 29-year-old
Tacoma salesman who was return
ed here a few weeks ago from Chi
cago and held under the unusually
high bail of $4,000 in the county
Jail, pleaded guilty FRIDAY after
noon to grand larceny by check and
was sentenced by Superior Court
Judge Robert f. Evans to Is years
In the state reformatory at Monroe.
The specific count was issuance
of a s37.5 so check on North Pacific
bank OF Tacoma. where he had no
money on deposit.
Deputy Prosecutor Bill Goodwin
explained TO the court that Gau-
dette had become involved in the
process known as Hitting checks
oashing one to get money to make
a deposit which would cover the
last one. The check responsible for
the grand larceny charge was not
covered.
He was serving a snort sentence
in Chicago for attempting to pass
a bad check at the time extradi-
ton was arranged, Goodwin ex-
planned.
Gaudette's attractive wife APP
peared in court Friday to see him
plead guilty to the charge here and
accept sentence. His home here
was at 3T07 No. Cheyenne.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-14
FIRE MENACES
HOMES OF 1000

SPIRIT LAKE, Ida.-A 1000
900 week-old forest fire receded
from the edge OF Spirit lake today
with a change OF wind. and tenn
porarily relieved fears OF 1000
residents the town would be burn
ed out.
However. approximately 700
CCC enrollees, volunteers and state
forestry workers remained on duty.
100 of them pouring water on a
smouldering pile that bad been
a. 900 900 board feet Of lumber
owned by Panhandle Lumber Co.
situated a half mile west OF town.
The eompany's lumber yard was
destroyed last night as the fire
advanced before a strong wind
that famed II into activity after
II had been dormant sAersl days.
The blaze also destroyed an sbsn-
doned Chicago, Milwaukee. st.
Paul A. Pacific roundhouss.
One house on the northwest Dor
der Of town was burned down and
numerous telephone lines were
damaged.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-14
PLAN TO END
STRIKE FAILS

sEAITLE-Another attempt 70
settle the ii-dsy Puget Sound
ferry boat strike ended In failure
today
Puget Sound Navigation co. &c
eeptsd four-point program for
permanent peace suggested by GOV.
Clarence D. Martin. but Inland
Bostmen's union rejected H.
Governor Martin returned 10
Olympia after meeting sith both
sides here last night He said. how
ever. he was stiil hopeful the com
psny and the union could agree On
terms soon The governors pro-
possl called for resumption Of ferry
service last midnight
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-14
BOY, 8, MISSING
FOR FOUR DAYS

Mine year old Donald West.
1908 So. Tyler. remained on the
police missing" list Saturday. as
his parents became more and more
worried over his whereabouts.
Last Tuesday. Donald disappear
ed. hatless, costless. and under the
impression he had been badly
treated at home. His father.
Robert West. waited for the boys
return. on the theory that hunger
would bring about a change OF
heart.
The boys failure 10 return
caused his father 10 enlist police
aid Friday evening. The boy.
slender and feet. s inches tall,
il distinguished by . sunny dis
position and . winning smile.