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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-03

Those who want TO drag some
body's chestnuts from the fire
must expect to have their fingers
burned. We do not hate the Czech
people, but the Engiish and French
had nothing to do with building
Prague.
1hat vas built by Germans.
The first German king sat in
Prague. The Engiiah may not
know that, but they DO not have
70 know It.
Only the most evil conscience
can say we now want TO conquer
The world. Perhaps this 10 only
tho prelude TO . new policy Of en-
circjemeut. but I am stiil convinced
n ~ hoaxt that ! have served the
easaoo of peaca- The coming party
rally WIN b called the party rally
- poace."
Eax1ier IN the day Maxi officials
eanee1od the broadcast Of the
speech No reason for the decision
a Alnr stranded the launching
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-04-03

Copyright, 1887
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
States S Migrants
Hitch Up Belts,
Observe Holiday
It's Still Christmas
Declare Harvest Crews
Facing Scanty Yule

Christmas, after fashion,
comes this weekend to thou
sands of migrant agriculture
al workers in the Imperial
and San Joaquin valleys and
though their outlook is not bright
they can still, with the humility
born of poverty, take a hitch in
their belts and a tuck in their
aprons and say:
"Well, it's still Christmas"
Today their heads we're as high
as their hopes; there was no bitter
ness in their speech, as they re-
called what, to them, was the law
ishness of previous Yuletides on the
farms of Oklahoma, of Texas, OF
Arkansas and of Missouri, now dis
sipated by soaring winds.
They were cheered by the effort
of their more fortunate neighbors
permanent residents OF the valley,
and of the state and federal agencies,
TO make their Christmas stand out
a bit against the other drab 1854
days of the year.
Los Angeles, Hollywood and San
Diego citizens banded with Impe-
rial Valley civic leaders to bring
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Missing Gun Found
In Sam Schoenburo
Murder Case Here

A rusty automatic, the missing
link in a year old FL Centre mur-
der mystery, lay on the desk at the
police station Saturday and inves-
tigation of the Staying of Charles
Allgood, alias Charles Meyers, 81
year-old fruit worker, was COM
plete
The gun, the only missing factor
in the Staying for which Sam
Schoenburg is now under sentence
OF ten years to life for second de-
gree murder, was found by car
penter working near where the OLD
Freedman shed burned on the night
of July %, 1888.
That same night, Meyers was
found a block away from the fire,
fatally wounded. He died without
saying who shot him, but Schoen-
burg was arrested and afterwards
pleaded guilty. The gun, however,
was never located until Ronald
Marteeny, carpenter, of Brawley
found it half-buried in dirt early
this week.
The gun checked with numbers
m file at the sheriff's office. 1t was
also Identified by Henry Jensen,
owner, from whom it was stolen.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Woman, Baby Saved
As Rescuers Find
Stranded Plane

NULATO, Alaska, Dec. %. CUP
Rescued from stranded plane
on the frozen Tundra of the Alas
kan Wasteland. Mrs. Magdalene
Jefford and her 15-month old son
today resumed their flight to Fair
banks for Christmas at home.
They spent four days-the last
without food-huddled in the small
cabin plane buffeted by an arctic
blizzard. The temperature was be-
low zero and they had only a camp
er'S fire-pot to keep them warm.
Fuel for it was being rapidly ex,
hauSted.
Pilot Fred Chambers. With Mrs.
Jefford. her baby. and James Walsh.
set his plane down with a broken
oil line Tuesday. midway on his
flight from Nome to Fairbanks. IL
was located IS miles west of here
late yesterday by pilot Jack Jefford,
brother-in-laW of Mrs. Jefford.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24

rlble forced marches, the FlnnS
smashed into the Russians left flank
on the Salla front, it was asserted
and by turning it made the Red
armys position there untenable.
One of the Finnish columns, the
one which marched 155 miles, drove
northward from the Suomusalmi
sector, opposite the top of the Gull
of Bothnia.
The second one marched, east
ward from the Rovaniemi sector
above the gulf.
The two columns met in the Salla
sector just above the Arctic circle,
according to the dispatches, and
attacked at a critical moment in
the main Finnish body's sudden
firm stand against the Russian ad-
vance, with the result that. the bal
ance was turned.
Contradicting reports of a Russian
rout, the dispatches said that in the
Petsamo area of the far north the
Russians were falling back in good
order, apparently a strategic re-
treat. The Russians had fallen back
about 20 miles in some parts of
that front, the dispatches said, and
were now occupying positions which
the Firms had abandoned last week
when the pressure of the Russian
army became too great.
Dispatches said that it was be-
lieved Swedish volunteers, now ar
irving in force on the far northern
fronts, would be thrown into battle
there TO reinforce the thin Finnish
lines.
Dispatches said that the Russian
positions were exceedingly strong
in the Salmijaervi sector, southwest
of Petsamo, with 10000 men against
the Firms 1000. Nevertheless, the
dispatches said, the Firms believed
that with their greater familiarity
with the terrain and their acclima-
tization to the bitterly cold weather
they would have been able to de-
stroy RuSsia's vitality important rail-
road leading up near the frontier
to the Murmansk area opposite the
Continued on Page 8, Col a
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
JaiIs Yawn For
l.V. Drunk Drivers
During Holidays

Empty automobiles of drunk dri
vers and fill the jails with them
was the order issued Saturday BY
Captain Frank Oswalt of the Cal
ifornia highway patrol.
He ordered his patrolmen to triple
their diligence in preventing traf,
tic tragedy during the triple holi.
days.
Patrolmen's holidays we're cam
celled as Oswalt ordered a rid
continuous patrol to keep drunk and
reckless drivers from marring the
holiday season.
THE only Christmas present the
highway patrol wants from the
motoring public is cooperation he
declared. I'VE beg motorists to drive
carefully and not force us to take
drunk drivers to Jail and their VIC
TINS to morgues and hospitals,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
E4oItviIIe Gets
Mi Srotory Camp

HOLTVILLE, Dec. ga movable
camp for migratory agricultural
laborers will be established near the
west CITY limits of Holtville the
first week in January, officials an
nounced Saturday.
The big movable camp will provide
tent sites for 200 migratory agri-
cultural workers and their families
Portable trailers loaded with power
units for light and hot water, ans
shower bath and laundry equipment
already were en- route from northern
California.
All equipment was expected to be
in place by the time the peak OF
the winter harvest season is reached
in January.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Postoffice Open
For Parcel Post

Postmaster Frank Richmond an
nounced Saturday that the parcel
post and stock windows of the E.
Centro postoffice will remain open
until 6 p. m. Saturday night, and
will be open from 10 a. m. until
noon Sunday for the convenience
OF box holders who wish to claim
packages.
No other business will be trans
acted at these windows than the
delivery of packages, the postmaster
said. and no other windows will be
open.
"The arrangement is purely con-
venience to boXholders who wish
to obtain their Christmas packages" 4"
he said
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24

the memory OF ten-year-old Emma
lene, whose tiny body bearing the
scars of fatal burns on face, arms
and chest, lay in an Ell Centro
mortuary.
Stoically and with scarcely a
ouaver in his voice, Carl told the
story Saturday while his wife
stood by the door of their home
Her eyes were red with crying
but she bore her grief bravely and
proudly.
"It happened Thursday night"
Carl said. "Emmalene, our oldest
child, was wrapping Christmas
presents. One of the other chill,
dren lifted one of the lids from
the wood stove to put in more fuel
"Fmmalene leaned over and the
flames from the stove caught her
dress on fire"
Mad with terror, little Emma
lene ran to the front room while
her flimsy dress famed Her four
brothers, Carl jr.. 7, James, 6
Thomas, 4, and David, 3, scattered
out of the way. Emmalene paid
not attention to her mothers frant-
ic cries of:
stop, honey! Stopl"
The little girl raced from one
room to another, trying to pull the
burning garment from her scared
body Finally her mother cornered
the tortured child and threw a
blanket over her, smothering the
flames.
IF I had only thought of the
blanket sooner!" the mother said
as she recalled the tragedy. Un-
consciously, her eyes dropped to the
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24

suddenly sickened and was dead
within an hour, The rapidity with
which rigor mortis set in led po-
lice to believe the dog might have
been q victim of strichnine.
Within the vast two weeks a
number of dogs and cats have met
death in the same neighborhood,
among them pets belonging to Mr..
and Mrs. Doyle Stewart. Buck
HalSey and Paul Barrigan.
Police admitted no investigation
had been made to determine wheth-
er or not the animals had been
poisoned.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Dies Says Coast
Worst Hotbed of
Alien Agitation
Committee Reports Will
Urge Prosecution of
Communists, Fascists

ORANGE, Tex, Dec. %.
(UP) = Chairman Martin
Dies, D., Tex, said today that
the house committee investi-
eating un : American activi-
ties has discovered on the west coast
1.-THE most serious situation" found
during its 18 months of investiga-
tions.
Dies said that documentary
evidence supported by affidavits"
revealed espionage, sabotage, mur-
der and mysterious disappearances
of men and women" resulting from
Communistic, Fascist and "alienis-
tic rings" involving the movie in
dustry, CIO strikes and federal and
state administrations on the west
coast.
The Dies committee expires under
congressional authorization on Jan.
3. The chairman said that reports
compiled by three committee inves-
Continued on Page s, Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24

gested by five-man committee he
appointed.
The employers then charged the
governor had demonstrated his par
tiality because they had already
agreed to the plan suggested by his
committee.
After Henry Schmidt, president
Of the longshoremen's local, which
is affiliated with the striking Ship
Clerks association, had requested
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
to force the employers to accept
either the governors suggestion or
the maritime labor board proposal
for arbitration, employers countered
with challenge to Chairman Robert
Bruere of the maritime board to
the effect that the body had now
shown itself to be "parsisan' and
declaring the board had "disquali-
fled itself from serving further"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24

fam1ly CeleDrdUlOilS ana CUIlSGtlld1
festivities came second with manV
valley residents who spent weeks
in perfecting plans to carry the
spirit of Christmas into all homes
and all hearts.
Help Santa Claus to find every
child in Imperial Valley" was the
aim of churches, schools, CLUBS,
organizations, and individuals
throughout the area.
What bids fair to be the largest
party in the valley was the old
fashioned Christmas celebration for
the children of migratory workers
at the federal labor camp in Braw-
ley Sunday afternoon. More than
5000 children were expected to at
tend the party staged by residents
of Los Angeles, Hollywood. and
San DIEGO with the help of I'm
parial Valley residents.
Gates of the big camp were sched-
uled to open at l D. m. Sunday
and the entertainment to begin
at p. m. Food, candy, nuts ana
toys were to be distributed to the
children and their parents.
Next in size were the annual
Elks Christmas parties in Ell Centro
and Holtville.
Both parties were to begin at
the theatres at $50 a. m. Monday
morning. The Elks packed 1000
Christmas stockings with candy,
fruit, and nuts for their guests
at the parties.
The lodge members also packed
scores Of baskets with food, toys,
and clothing to be distributed to
homes of the needy families in the
two communities.
Residents at the county farm,
county hospital patients, and chill
dren in the dentention home were
to be entertained at special parties
and to receive gifts, food and cloth
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24

The last obstacle was removed
from the establishment of the camp
when the Holtville city council de-
cided TO install a special water
pipeline to the camp site near
the old airport The equipment
resembles that used at Calipatria
for the last two years.
A travelling clinic is in charge
of a nurse provided by the Agri-
cultural Workers Health and Med
ical association. Offices and living
quarters for camp management and
employees will be included in the
equipment. The camps are pro-
Vtded by the Federal Farm Security
administration.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
HiiIIS
7 @ Get
Snow
Crop Damage Sc en-
As Possible IF
Storm Clears

Scattered showers for I'M
perial Valley and snow in
the mountains were forecast
Saturday as cloudy weather
brought promise of a chilly
Christmas day.
During the past 26 hours weather
conditions in the west have under
gone marked change, Woodrow
9. Jacobs of the federal Fruit
Frost service reported.
Temperatures have fallen con-
siderably over the entire western
region, Jacobs said. Friday night
a weak storm was centered a few
hundred miles off the coast OF
northern California.
Jacobs predicted cloudy weather
with occasional showers for several
days in Imperial Valley, but no
indications of general freeze.
"There is possibility of temper
atures low enough to damage veg
etable crops after the storm clears"
he said. ut is yet too early to fore
cast the actual temperature condi-
tionS."
In Ell Centre the mercury stayed
down. Fridays maximum was SO
degrees and Saturdays minimum
45. AT am. Saturday the ther-
aometer stood at 46 and by noon
had climbed only as high as 64
A drenching rain began falling
in Los Angeles shortly before noon
Saturday despite the weather bu-
reau's forecast there of fair and
COOL for the Christmas holiday
weekend.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
ProwIer CHARGED
With Theft Here

Caught red-handed in an E.
Centro cafe, Fred Duckworth, 20
year-old "three-time loser, was
held in the county Jail Saturday
facing new theft charge, his
fourth in two years.
On a tip that prowler was
seen near the small cafe at 22a
North Fifth street, officers invest
igated and found Duckworth inside
where ~ packages of cigarettes
had been taken from a machine,
The door haG been pried open
Duckworth has previously been
charged once with petty theft and
twice with burglary. The last
charge brought a six months term
in Jail. Arraignment was expected
next week.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24

CITY IN the valley warned reSldentSi
to lock their homes and if possible
maintain some kind of guard over
their livestock.
The officers also urged motorists
to lock their automobiles and TO
refrain from leaving valuable ar
ticleS equipment, or clothing in
the machines where thieves may
notice them.
Burglars we're frightened from
two homes in Calexico when the
families arrived home and caught
the burglars inside. At the Gordon
Temple home burglars plunged
through window leaving a pile OF
jewelry on a table. At the Marvin
Wiehen home burglars took two
guns but dropped jewelry in making
hasty escape through a window,
Calexico police said.
Ell Centre police caught a youth
full burglar "red handed as he was
burglarizing q home Friday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24


mula offered by Gov. Culbert L,
Olson.
1t was learned that the office OF
Attorney General Frank Murphy
had received complaints that Pacific
coast waterfront unions had en-
gagged in practices alleged to be in
restraint of trade or which might
have a bearing upon the degree OF
preparedness with which the coun-
try could meet an emergency.
Gov Olson, whose formula for a
possible settlement had been ac-
cepted by the unions but declined
by the employers, assailed the dock
checkers employers association for
not accepting settlement plans Of
fered by himself or by the maritime
labor board. He accused the EN-
ployer spokesman of being cavalier
and arrogant. The governor also
ignored a settlement formula sug-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Avoid Accidents,
Motorists Urged

SACRAMENTO. Dec. 90 CUP
Crowded highways during the
Christmas weekend require extra
vigilance on the part of motorists
to prevent accidents, director of
motor vehicles Howard Philbrick
warned today.
Just a little more care and
caution may spell the difference
between happiness and sorrow and
it is my sincere hope that this year
California will show a definite de-
cline in the number of holiday ac-
cidents, Philbrick said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24

In Westmorland j. Verbecks
frightened a burglar away while the
intruder attempted TO pick the lock
on door at l am. Saturday.
Brawley police, engaged for sew
eral days in running down burglars
of Brawley homes, arrested six
prowlers Friday night because. they
said, they considered them "poten-
tial burglars They kept the men
in Jail Friday night while MAIN
tanning vigorous patrol of business
and residential districts.
Ranchers telephoned the sheriffs
office repeatedly In the last week
to complain that chickens, turkeys.
pigs, and goats had disappeared
from their places. The poultry and
livestock disappeared few at
time, some of the ranchers said. and
were not missed until repeated raids
caused the owners TO count the
flcckS.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
100000 Paid in
Taxes TO County

Taxpayers dumped $603,000 into
the Imperial county treasury dur.
ing the collection period just ended
Assessor-Collector Dan West said
Saturday his staff still was en-,
Gagged in adding payments to the
total, payments which piled up in
the vaults in such quantities that
they were unable to get through
them Immediately.
The total, which included some
second installments as we'll as first
installments of the 1889 1910 tax
bill, neared the charge for the first
installment. The first installment
charge against taxpayers was $685..
439.09,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
poisoner Feared at Work Among Pets
Here as Animals Die MysteriousIy

Deaths under mysterious circum-
stances of more than a dozen pet
dogs and cats in Fl Centro during
the last month brought fears Sat
urday that a poisoner may be res
ponsible,
Most recent death was a dog be-
longing to w. r. Morris of 1862
Euclid avenue. Mrs. Morris told
police the dog appeared quite
healthy Thursday morning, then
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Judge Thompson to
Hear Crime Trials

Judge Vaughn N. Thompson and
Judge r. D. McPherrin will shift
departments in superior court Jan,
l as is their custom every two
years.
Henceforth criminal matters will
be handled by Judge Thompson ana
civil matters by Judge McPherrin.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Kern County wPA
Projects Closed

BAKERSFIELD, Cal, Dec. %
(UP)-All WPA recreation projects
in Kern county were closed indef-
initely today by Earl w Cummings,
Fresno supervisor for the lower San
Joaquin valley area.
Cummings arrived here to in
vestigate protests against employ
ment of a registered Communist
by the WPA. The projects were
closed at the end of the working day
yesterday, pending his investigation.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
7 'TIrinV Detachment
Delivers Crucial
Blow at Russians
I55-MiIe March Through Snow. Ice Puts
Defend ders in Position to Stem Advance
Send Invaders Into Retire at in North
BULLETIN

HELSINKI, UP)-Whe airpIanes bombed and
today
claimed smashing north of
yesterday killed.
prisoners and quantities of captured
COPENHAGEN, Denmark Dec. %. (UP)-Two small
of Fnns which marched for 55 miles through
and ice in weather. turned the tide against
Russia the Sala front by flank attack Danish
dispatches said today Forgetting their fatigue after
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Grief Interrupts
yuIetide HoIiduv
Girl. 10. Wrapping Christmas Presents
When Tragedy Strikes; s;Paren+s Sorrow
As Other Children CIamor For Care

brown and brown sorrowed Saturday
in their humble home mile northeast of Heber
There were the chores to be done and supper to be
cooked for four camorg youngsters but somehow Carl
Wilson and his wife Susie couldn't their minds
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Federal Agencies
Called Pro-Union

SAN FRANCISCO Dec. %. (UP)-A of words
which has marked the teup of San Francsco waterfront
since Nov 10 became increasingly bitter today with
ployers charging federal agencies with being "openly
partisan with strikers and dock workers demanding en-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Burglar Epidemic
Strikes Valley

Rural and metropolitan in Imperial Valley ex-
peuenced epidemic of burgarie and petty hievery in
the last "a hours with the list of missing articles including
JeWelry livestock poultry clothing, food and cash
Sheriff Robert w. Ware and chiefs of police in every
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Valley Prepares
For GuIo Holiday
Help Santa Claus Find Every ChiId'is
Aim Of Charitable Organizations.
Churches And Other Civic Agencies

"Peace on earth. Good will toward men -
Imperial Valley residents prepared Saturday to live
this ancient precep of the first Christmas by sharing
their bounty with those who had nothing to make Christ
merry the holidays gay time of gifts and feastng
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24

One Track Mind
There is justice, after all.
Here is our chance to get back
at Roy Wells, the highway patrol
man, for stopping us after dark
Thursday while he took five min
utes to humble over our drivers
license.
Remember that wild nag that
Carl (Bronco Bib Rogers had such
a time keeping in close contact?
Well, we hear Roy and his brother
in arms and comrade rancher Bill
Mitchell have bought him.
(Aint no horse alive or daid can
buck me off Roy Wells he saidD
Armed with a cowboy hat and a
club Roy slid onto the horses hur-
ricane deck the other day with Bill
an interested and grinning audience
of one.
A COW poke of the old school, Roy
settled himself in the saddle and
waited for the storm to break. 1t
didn't break at once, not until Roy
was about convinced that the
horse was a false alarm. Then the
nag proved the contrary with start
Continued on Page 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Showers Cold Spell i'm
Prospect for |. v. Area
p AhBLING
IL EPORTER

Explain 1t, Please
There was one surprised clerk
in Ell Certro Friday and one en-
barrassed young lady. The latter
was Jean Munson and the bushes
came when she tried to buy so
packages of razor blades.
Clerk: Fifty packages of what?
Jean:You heard me, razor blades
Clerk: Pardon my curiosity, but
what for?
Jean: My Camp Fire group.
Clerk (gasping) Camp Fire?
What is this, the bearded ladies?
Finally, amid winsome bushes,
Jean explained that her group in
tended to give the blades as pre-
sents to gentlemen of the county
farm.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24

Jingle Bells
The sight of Don Bitler made us
homesick Saturday. Homesick fo1
snow and ice and blazing Christ
mas fires.
Odd, how just one touch of color,
or a snatch of a song, will bring
memories rushing back. Don wore
a varicolored muffler and it looked
so much like the ones we used to
drape around ourselves in other
years that we looked about, half eX-
pecting a sleigh and view halloa'.
Same To You-
We had Just about decided that
we were forgotten this Christmas
until this telegram arrived:
Our organization wishes you a
Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year and to RR we hope he (they)
also have a few oleanders."
1t was signed Roy Womack.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
Markets IN BRIEF

L. A. Hay: U.S.NO. $17-18; U.SNo leafy $3.50
16; us. No. s12.5O-1s5O Mpls Flax Dec. S2.OO14.
Butter: Los Angeles sO19c; Butterfat, Imperial
Valley, fob ranch grade A, 4O1zc, manufacturing
milk 3412c; route gathered cream 29c.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24
WEATHER

WEATHER
Maximum temperature So, minimum As; am.
temperature 46, humidity So; noon temperature GA,
humidity so; pm. temperature so, humidity 40.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-24

Total Cash, Checks and Drafts Sent
through The Two Ell Centre Banks