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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21
Police Chief Held
On Cruelty Charge

NAPA, Calf. May 20. CUP)-Po-
lice Chief Eugene c. Riordan was
arrested today by Sheriff John P.
Steckter on a warrant charging
him with wilful inhumanity and
oppression OF prisoners.
w. E Collins, 25, selman of the
U. S. S. Warden at Mare Island
navy yard, signed the complaint
against RiorIan and another cha.g-
ing Dan Ogan, civilian, with bat
terry. Bota were released on Their
own recognizance.
Lieutenants L. w. Crughton and
e. F.. Metzger of the u S. s. War
den, who aided Collins in pressing
his complaint. said they learned
Collins was knocked down and
kicked by Riordan and Ogan, then
bound hand and foot and taken to
the county Jail, for swimming in
the Napa river
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21
HuIse Crificizes
Amendment Plan
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not define assistants sufficiently 10
know whether it includes all state
employees or not but regardless OF
definitions the bill is decidedly a
start to nullify the Civil service
Act. An act fought many years Tor
by labor and fair-minded employees
alike and finally made into law
less than five years ago.
"I am of the opinion that the
Civil Service Law has operated very
well Surely it cannot be prop
erly administered if we are TO re-
peal a part of the law.
1T is difficult to imagine the
reason behind this E.. is to better
Civil Service. Instead, it would
appear to make a grand pork BAR
rel of the state employees in order
that there might be appointments
for someone interested in obtaining
a job either for himself or others.
This letter is not to criticize
but to point out that we should at
least try our laws as a whole until
they prove unfit and l cannot be-
lieve anyone well informed could
Justify support of this amend
ment
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21
Arizona Removes
Ban on Fishinq

PHOENIX, May 20. CUP)-Those
provoking no fishing here" signs
will be removed from nearly all
streams in Arizona when trout
season opens next Saturday, Will
liam H Sartelle, state game war;
don, announced today.
Sawtelle said virtually all streams
in the state would be opened to
fishermen when the 1899 season
opens.
Signs were ordered removed i'm
mediately at the Fort Apache IN
dian reservation, with a few minor
exceptions Sawtelle said the new
policy Of the game department
would be TO plant larger fish and
provide better fishing for Arizona
sportSmen and visitors
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21
NLRB Probes I.V.
Coercion CHARGE
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he would furnish r. B. Whitelaw,
attorney for the shippers. with a
copy of the complaint filed with
the NLRB.
Tne complaint. Whitelaw said,
apparently was part of a jurisdic-
tional dispute occasioned because
the CIO was not recognized. He
pointed out that he had not read
the complaint.
Whitelaw will file an answer TO
the complaint with the NLRB. The
board will determine whether it
is necessary to hold a hearing TO
permit the CIO to air its griev-
anceS.
Howard concluded his investiga-
tions late Friday and departed for
Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21
Yankee Clipper on
1st Atlantic Hop
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assistant engineering officer; Shell
by NJ. KritSer, assistant engineer
ing officer; Addison w Beideman,
radio officer; R. P. Dutton, aSSis-
tant radio officer; William Thaler,
and Joseph Raviol. stewards
The plane moved from the moor
ing dock at l,02 pm. 1t headed into
Manhasset Bay a short distance
and turned its nose into a north
westerly breeze.
The mail aboard the plane was
valued by Postmaster Albert Gold
man at approximately $4,000. 1t
included 35 sacks and ll2,500 pieces
The clipper route is Horta, the
Azores, to Lisbon, Portugal. to
Marseillts, France. The distance is
1900 miles from New York, or some
1900 miles further than Lindbergh
flew in the Spirit of St Louis" in
1927. The Yankee Clipper will un-
load its cargo of mail at Marseilles
and proceed to Southampton, Eng.
its chief European base.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21

negotiations JIfere Win FTencn an0
Russian delegates.
1t was intended to conduct sew
eral days of intensive negotiations
on RuSsia's role in the British
French security 'front.'. Chamber
lain hoped that the cabinet would
have sufficient information by
Wednesday to make a final deci-
sion at its regular weekly meeting
then.
Ivan Maisky. Russian ambaSsa-
dor. left for Paris last night on
his way to Geneva. to attend the
League of Nations council meeting.
It was Maisky's plan to consult
Jacob Souritz, Russian ambassador
90 Paris, and French leaders.
Halifax left by train this morn
ing. to consult with Premier Edou-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21
FINDS RING,
GETS TRIP FOR REWARD

SACRAMENTO, May 20. (UP)-
Mrs. Anna Briggs, 50, made up her
mind today-she's going to the
New York worlds fair as reward
for being struck on the head by a
mans ring which fell from an air
plane flying over the capital.
DR.. w. Stanley, retired United
States navy officer from Chicago,
lost the ring from the plane while
en- route to the San Francisco
worlds fair. Cyerj9yed to get back
the ring, a gift froh former Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt, he offer
ed Mrs. Briggs her choice of 1925
OF trip TO New York.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21

influence McAdoo in Washington.
Pustau later retracted the allega-
tions in the affidavit.
Eight men were made defendants
originally, but nonsuits were grant,
ed John B. Elliott, southern Cali
fornia Democratic leader; j. j. Ir-
win, a former assistant U. S. at
torney; Al Cohn, former collector
of the customs; and Ralph Gordon,
sportsman.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21
Mrs. Apple Dies
AtEI Centre Home
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of her home city.
Mrs. Apples health had failed
rapidly in recent weeks, her hus-
band said, and she became seriously
i'll within the last few days. She
joined DR.. Apple at dinner Friday
night. She then said she was tired
and wished to rest. She died peace
fully at 8 z. m.
She was born in Washington
county, Ind, Sept. 10, 1864 and ar
rived in Imperial Valley in 1910.
She leaves her husband; a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Cheerful H. Gerecke OF
San Francisco; and son, w. l.. OF
Salinas, TO mourn her passing.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21
When Skin Torture
Drives You Mad

Get n bottle of clean, POWERFUL
penetrating Moone's Emerald OIL
The very first application should
give you soothing relief and few
short treatments convince you that
you have at last found the way to
comfort the itching tortures and
distress. Moone's Emerald oil is
easy and simple to use-greaseless
-stainl ess economical promotes
healing Ask any first class drug
store for small original bottle Of
Moones Emerald Oll-Guarantee of
money back If not satisfied.
CLEMENTS DRUG STORE
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21
Explosion Rocks
Center of Praque

PRAGUE, May 20. CUP)-A tre-
mendous explosion rocked half the
city today, wrecking a house in the
Rosengrasse, in the center OF
Prague, which is headquarters of
four Masonic lodges.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21
GUARD ELECTROCUTED

FOLSOM PRISON, Cal, May 20.
UP)-Warden Clyde I. Plummer
today said no further investiga-
ton was pending into the death
OF Robert Louis Grantees, 30-year-
old guard, who was electrocuted
while playing prank with charg-
ed wire around the prison farms
bull pen.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21
Britain Confers
Over Soviet Pact

LONDON May 20. (UP) - Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain has decided to consult Poland and Rumania
regarding the advisabiity of entering alliance
with Russia it understood today Vscount Halifax
foreign secretary left for Paris and Geneva to conduct
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21
NebIett Awarded
$4,000 Libel

LOS ANGELES, May 20. (UP)-Co William Neblet
held $4,000 libel judgment today affidavit which
had linked him with the Washington activities of his for
mer law partner William Gibbs McAdoo who then
a u S. senator Neblet had sued for million dollars.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21
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powerful, economical. Easy
riding -ll6-inch wheelbase,
with passengers Graded between
soft transverse springs actually
127 inches apart! Unusually
easy steering and gear shifting.
Powerful hydraulic brakes!
Small wonder, then, that new
owners insist on taking their
friends for a whirl around the
block i'm the new Mercury 8, and
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21

For instance, compare these
Mercury 8 features with your idea
of motor car value: Style leader
ship-smart streamlines and lux
uriOus interior appointments that
whet your zest for the open road.
;. Big, wide roOmy bodies -
added inches of elbow room and
extra-large concealed luggage
compartment. New 95-hp.
engine - 8.cylinder, V-type,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21

LIN less than three months after
its introduction the FOrd.built
Mercury 8 climbed from scratch
to ninth place in the number of
new cars registered for use on the
nations highways.
And that, according to the best
available figures, is a record! For
never before i'm modern times has
a new car met with such instant
and complete approval of the
mOtOrine nuhIic.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21

want them to drive
it. Your Mercury
dealer will be glad
to arrange a longer
ride for you.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21

CLEMENTS DRUG STORE
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-21

motoring public.
And here's why: The
neio Mercury 8 is the
car all america has
been asking for.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18

- - Stl, WOO oIl uCh clllll hlIlCd
Sunday as he walked along the
highway a mile and half west OF
Holtville.
He was the forty-first traffic vic
tim in the valley since Jan. /. Hans
Wister, 25, who lives 212 miles east
Of Heber, was driving the car which
struck Sanchez. WiSter said head
lights of an approaching car blinded
him and he did not see the man
walking along the highway ahead
Of him.
In checking the ravages traffic
wrought in Imperial Valley this
weekend, highway patrolmen added
seven names to the list of injured
Adolph Arista. 33, still was un-
conscious Monday as a result OF
head injuries suffered in an acci-
dent southeast of Ell Centre Sun
day night. A Lopez, %, Holtyille,
driver of the car in which Arista
rode, also was injured. Lopez told
sgt. Cliff Reed and Highway Patrol
man Al BiSgard that approaching
headlights blinded him and he drove
his car into bridge support at the
Ash canal. The car overturned and
crashed bottomside up in the bor-
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
Grand Jurors, Facing DeadIine January
First, Quizzine District Employees

Working against a deadline less
than two weeks off, the Imperial
county grand Jury Monday showed
no signs OF abatement in its SEN
sation-spotted inquiry into affairs
Of the Imperial Irrigation District
Grand jurors were still summon
ing witnesses. despite the fact they
must make their final report and
disband before January l.
They assembled early Monday
morning and continued their probe
Of irrigation district affairs by oues-
tioning Director Bill Young. Charles
Guest, Walter Goodson. board Sec
letary, and w. A. McFadden. dis
trict assessor collector.
Paul Jenkins. Post Press publisher
was called into the grand Jury room
for brief questioning. Curt Oswalt.
foreman OF county road district No.
,. was questioned also. supposedly
about road district policies.
Grand jurors adjourned at l2.1O
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
Lettuce Market
Up as CurfaiInent
Program in Effect

Impeial Valley lettuce growers
were in the midst of a program to
plow under more than 1000 acres
Of their 1939-4O crop in a move
to curtail shipments and remedy g
glutted market. according to B. A.
Harrisan, county agricultural COM
missioner
Immediate market reaction was
noted Friday and Saturday, Harri-
gan said, as growers in the Imperial.
Yuma and Salt River valleys ap-
proved the program by a 95 per
cent vote Prices jumped from 81
on No. SIS to S115 by Saturday
The market was firm, demand i'm
proved Monday.
Harrigan explained that growers
will be prohibited from shipping
lettuce from any field in the three
areas which has not completed
discing.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
British Torpedo
German Cruiserin
Mine.Infested Sea
Heroic Attack Revealed
AS England Claims New
Triumphs For Navy

LONDON, Dec. 18. (UP)-
Britons, rejoicing at the
death of the German pocket
battleship Admiral Graf Spec
were informed officially to-
day that a British submarine had
sunk one of Germany's six cruisers.
A laconic admiralty announce
ment indicated that the submarine.
the Little Ursula, had attack a 5000
ton German cruiser despite its pro-
tective Gordon of six German de-
stroyers, and torpedoed it.
A navy spokesman said that the
admiralty had no details of the at
tack pending the submarines re-
turn or its contact with other fleet
units.
But the Elbe was a hell of a
place to go through German mine
fields and aerial patrols" he COM
mented
1t had been announced last Thurs
day that a British submarine, after
sighting the German liner Bremen,
had sunk a German submarine and
torpedoed another German cruiser.
Together the announcements
meant that Germany had lost not
only one of its three pocket battle-
ships but had lost one, and suffered
material damage at least to another,
Of its six cruisers believed to be in
actual service. Nine other cruisers
are building.
Aside from these, Germany'S only
large ships are the 26000 ton battle
ships Scharnorst and Gneisenau
A brief admiralty communique
said today, as Londoners we're read
ing the dispatches of the Graf Specs
scuttling off Montevideo
The secretary of the admiralty
announces that His Majesty's SUBJ
marine Ursula reports she sank one
of the Koln class cruisers at the
mouth OF the Elbe Thursday the
l4th of December. The cruiser was
screened by six German destroyers."
Soon afterward it was made
known that the German steamship
Ant!ochia, 3l06 tons, had been scut-
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
Building Racket
Indictment Voted

many leading cities of the nation
The jury charged existence of a
conspiracy to establish collusive and
non-competitlve bidding, to elimin-
ate electrical contractors who refus-
ed to participate, and to restrict the
amount and volume Of electrical
equipment shipped into San Fran
cisco.
II said electrical contractors and
unions "coerced" contractors into
filing all bids with the Electrical
Industry Depository of California
Inc. and with either threatening to
or actually depriving contractors OF
union labor for failure to comply
The defendants were accused of
holding meetings at which bids
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
Officer Declares
Procedure HaIts
Harvest WaIkouts
LaFOllette Committee
Told Big Farm Owners
Disregard Rights

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.
Is. (UP)-A burly western
sheriff, John j. Miller of
Contra Costa county, told
the LaFollette Civil Liberties
committee today of his own system
for preventing agricultural labor
disputes, a system for which he
claimed unqualified success.
Another witness. State Director
of Industrial Relations George Kid
well, Informed the committee in a
statement that California opera
tors of large farms had "ruthlessly
disregarded and overridden" the
civil rights of migratory workers.
Miller appeared before the COM
mittee in person while Kidwell. who
is Ill, sent an assistant TO read his
statement.
Miller brought along motion pic
ture projection equipment and two
suitcaseS filled with his working
clothes as the committee touched
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18

AS result LUlllllllC oulJCI, q,
was held in the Stockton Jail on
charge Of murder and state and
county officials hunted for the
body of John Mazenauer, AZ, for
mer Holtville dairyman.
Sutter stoutly denied he killed
Mazenauer, for whom he formerly
worked, the United Press reported
from Stockton. He was grilled for
10 hours by Sheriff Martin Ansbro
there, and by state investigators.
The arrest and questioning were
based on a Six-WeekS investigation
bearing all the hall-marks of
mystery thriller novel.
Mazenauer disappeared fourteen
months ago from his dairy near
Stockton, on which Sutter was en-
ployed. Sutter told neighbors the
dairyman had gone to Oregon or
Washington ito see a girl friend"
A short time later Sutter purchased
ranch in the vicinity for $500
cash. loaned a friend $500, and
bought another farm for $500 Of
ficers said that, as far as they could
learn, he had no source of income
prior to Mazenauer's disappearance,
and did not have much money.
At the same time, Sutter appeared
with Mazenauer'S automobile, to
which he held the ownership cer-
tificate, properly signed over to
him.
AS time passed, authorities all
but forgot Mazenauer's disappear
ance
Then an Ell Centro bank wrote to
state authorities attempting to 10
cate Mazenauer who had financed
an Imperial Valley dairyman after
he sold out his own holdings near
Holtivllc, and to whose account
payments were piling up in the
bank. A Holtville bank, also, wanted
to know what to do with a $1,000
deposit in the name of the man
from whom the bankers had not
heard for more than a year.
A suspicious investigator for the
state department of criminal ident-
ification at Sacramento went to the
motor vehicle department. He
located the registration certificate
and pink slip for the automobile
Mazenauer supposedly had signed
over to Sutter He compared the
two He was startled by what he
found and took the certificates
to a handwriting expert for confir-
nation.
The signature on the pink slip
had been traced from the original
signature on the registration GER
tlficate.
From there the inquiry reached
to the bank in Ell Centre. Another
startling disclosure was made.
Mazenauer's deposit in the El Cen
tro bank-a comparatively large de-
poSit-had been drawn out by mail,
and transferred to a San Joaquin
bank at about the same time the
car was transferred" to Sutter.
Investigators went to the bank in
San Joaquin. They found that the
money transferred from the Ell
Centre bank had been drawn out
of the other bank few days after
the transfer by a man bankers
there believed to be Mazenhauer.
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
Transient Admits
Stabbing Harvest
Worker in Fight

CALIPATRIA. Dec. i8.-Henry
Crouch, 80, transient cotton picker
and alleged star dice player of the
hobo jungles here, confessed late
Sunday to stabbing Max Clark. %
pea picker, in a drunken fight here
Saturday night.
Clark was treated in the county
hospital. He suffered a stab wound
IN his left side. Physicians said he
may die
The men told Shelf Robert w
Ware and Chief of Police Guy
Wood of this city that they fought
in a downtown alley about the di-
vision of wine they pooled their mo-
ney to buy.
Crouch was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff Frank Raney Sunday morn
ing as he played dice with inhab-
itants of the Calipatria hobo jun
giles. Raney signed a complaint
Monday charging Crouch with as
Saulting Clark with a deadly wea-
pom.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18

Germans were taken from the Ger
man supply ship Tacoma, which
had brought them back to Monte
video after the Graf Spec was blown
up six miles off Montevideo.
At Buenos Aires. the Argentine
government decided today TO intern
the crew of the German pocket bat
tlcship which landed there.
About 700 German sailors were
understood TO be involved. Capt
Hans Langsdorff of the Graf Spec
and his staff landed there this after
noon
II was understood that the Uru-
guayan government planned to hold
the four German seamen SO that
they could testify in a thorough
investigation of the whole incident
The seamen, according to re-
ports, were in a launch near the
Admiral Graf Spec when it blew
up. and were charged with having
detonated the explosives which sank
the ship. It was understood that
the detOnation had been effected
from the launch. presumably by
electricity.
There were unconfirmed reports
that marine headquarters permitted
Capt. Langsdorff TO proceed toward
Argentina only by advice of tho
foreign office.
The four men arrested were
among about $50 of the Crafts crew
whom the Tacoma brought to Mon
tevideo after the explosions.
! Uruguayan authorities planned to
/ intern all of the crew for the dura-
ton Of the war.
Black smoke still rose in pillows
from the flame twisted Wreckage
OF the Admiral Graf Spec off Mon
tevideo this morning, more than l2
hours after the ship was blown up
at 7:30 pm $50 pm. EST yes
terday
Thousands remained at the wa
terfront watching the superstruc-
ture, which showed above the wa
ter, shrouded in the smoke. The
ship was settling down into the
mud on which it rested at the river
bottom.
A Uruguayan official tug and
two small Argentine boats were
anchored a mile away. To approach
closer would have been to risk dis
aSter because of the intermittent
explosions which still came from
the smouldering hulk.
Capt. Langsdorff had started to-
ward Argentina soon after his shin
blew up.
II was the end of the first big
naval battle of the war and the
beginning of a diplomatic incident
in which Uruguay was cooperating
closely with the United States ano
other American governments.
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necessary.
Winners will be announced in
Thursdays Press and Fridays Morn
ing Post. Awards will be mailed
Immediately.
Post-Press carrier boys joined in
a last minute appeal Monday to El
Centrans who have not yet put up
decorations. The newsboys voluntary
house to house canvass was aimed
not SO much at gaining entries in
the tournament as to see that every
home in FL Centro carries at least
one Christmas light.
No matter how small the light,
please put just one on your home
this Christmas and help make El
Centre truly a city of Christmas
Lights.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18

will have charge OF all judging and
will select the winners of the Sl33
in prizes.
II have assigned two members
of my section to each of the six
divisions To avoid possible preju-
dice, their identity will be known
only to myself. Judges in each divi-
sion will make recommendation for
the grand prize and thresh out
the winner among themselves" Mrs.
FarriS declared
Preliminary surveys by judges
were slated for Monday night. Other
tours of the city will be made. cli-
NAKED by the final round Wednes-
day night at which judges will make
their final decisions.
There is no need to register to be
eligible in the tournament. Just put
up a display. That is all that is
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18

which followed unsuccessful effort
of the Russians 70 advance. the
Firms, by enfilading erossfire from
the east and west, drove the Rec
army back and relieved intense
pressure on their own forces az the
mouth of the Taipale river on Lake
Ladoga.
Finnish commanders said that
their success in throwing the Rus
slams back had given them Their
most important victory in this sec
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18

ers succeeded IN reaching the Ger
man naval base at Wilhelmshaven
where three bombs we're dropped
No damage was caused. officials
said.
The British raiders concentrated
their activity over the North Sea
In the neighborhood Of Heigoland
For more than a week. lf has
been announced IN London. the
Royal air force has maintained a
regular security patrol of German
North Sea bases 10 strike down
German mine laying planes before
they can take off for British wa
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
Lost i'm His Work

Several hours of perspiring work
during which Ed Diehl did yeoman
service in crowded quarters beneath
his house, were climaxed when Ed
twisted the last bolt and was fin
ished with a new plumbing install
lation.
All the pipes were complete, twist
ing in a fantastic maze to all cor
ners. Ed gathered up his tools and
prepared to leave and rest a back
weary from bending over. He start
ed north. but that way was blocked
by pipes. So was the southern exit.
In fact. all exists were blocked. He
was "piped" in!
Ed had to take down most of his
work in order TO get out!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
SEARCH BEGUN HERE

Imperial county peace officers
searched Monday for Frank Sala-
zar, 32-year-old Mexican, wanted
by San Pedro police on a charge
OF stabbing Henry Smith during the
weekend. Salazar is said to limp.
weigh about l25 pounds, and to be
five feet, six and half inches in
height.