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Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
Famous Scu|ptress
Goes on Rampage,
Busting Up Busts
Recognition, Not Relief
Aim Of Woman Facing
Custer From Studio

WASHINGTON, Nov. Ia.
(UP)-Mrs. Adelaide John
son stood amidst her shat
tered statuary today and de-
family told a congressman
that never, never would she submit
to "relief without recognition"
BY relief she referred to offers
of donations that would permit her
to keep her studio home, from which
she is to be evicted Saturday, and
to keep body and soul together in
old age.
By recognition she referred to
her demand that the public ac-
knowledge her art by paying the
posted price for busts of famous
Americans, including two fine Su-
san B. Anthonys. She's had enough
of fame and thinks it is not too
sordid to refuse to make her studio
stock a cut-rate bargain store.
Embittered by her plight, Mrs.
johnson has Clipped the ears from
the Anthony busts, gouged out the
lips of several others and defaced
most of the collection. She has
announced that she will leave moth
ing but marble dust and chips when
she leaves Saturday.
Rep. Sol Bloom, D., N. Y, author
ity on early American history and
art fancier, heard about Mrs. john
sons plight and went to see her
today. He had with him a telegram
from an unnamed woman who Of
fered to pay the $1,000 tax arrear-
age on the sculptress' home which
is just two blocks from the capitol
where one of Mrs. Johnsons Susan
B. Anthony full sized portrait
statues is in the rotunda hall OF
fame.
Continued on Page 8, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
Stockton Charges
Against Hospital
Recall !. Y. Case
Wholesale Murder Tale
Pure Fabrication Say
Asylum Authorities

While authorities at Stock
ton State Hospital for the
Insane denied vehemently
that wholesale murder and
mistreatment" of patients
was a regular part of hospital pro-
cedure, as charged by ex-patient
Eugene Higginbotham, Imperial
county officials Tuesday grinned
in good natured sympathy.
They remembered their own diff
ficulties with Higginbotham last
month, when he was arrested twice
at Calexico and sent Imperial VAL
ley peace officers on wild goose
chase tracing down the crimes he
limited he had committed Out OF
many acts Higginbotham limited at,
only one seemed to have any basis
in fact, with the result the prisoner
was released to San Joaquin Of
ficers to face a forgery charge.
Higginbotham' attention evident
ly turned from his own imagined
crimes to those of others, Imperial
county officers believed, with the
result that he wrote Governor Gull
bert L. Olson a letter charging that
"at least II" patients of the Stock
ton asylum had been murdered by
officials. Higginbotham himself was
released from the hospital 10
months ago as sane.
In Stockton, Assistant District
Continued on Page s; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14

III lIIlpcIldl Vdllcy lOI Illc SIdllu
total and the number of account
holders, the Bank of America an
nounced Tuesday. Christmas club
members in the three bank branch
es in the valley tota1ed more than
1000
Ell Centre headed the list again
this year with $4,000 to be paid
out to 827 club members. This was
a climb upward from the 1888 total
Of $30,176 paid to 789 members.
Ten years ago the Ell Centro total
was $15,544 paid to 332 members.
Brawley branch was second this
year with approximately $4,000
This marked a distinct increase
over the 1888 total of $7,328 and
the previous years total of $5,321.
Calexico branch this year had
approximately $4,000 for 215 men,
bers, drop from last years total
of $4,000 paid to $50 members.
Imperial countys rise in the
number and amount of Christmas
savings followed that shown
throughout California, Walter Have
korst, manager of the Ell Centre
branch, said.
In California 215,O0O Christmas
club members will receive a grand
total of approximately $14,O0O,00O
the all-time high mark for the
nation, he said. The banks Christ
mas savings club is said to be the
largest in existence.
"The increases showed in the av-
erage amount deposited by indivio-
uals," Havekorst said. "In 1880 the
average weekly deposit per member
was 54 cents. This year the aver
age was $1.36."
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
UNITED Press Foreign News Editor

War on the seas Tuesday took
another IL victims - including a
sixth British warship-and war on
the western front was reported by
Nazis to have resulted in a set
back for the French near Pirmasens.
Dispatches from Berlin said that
gunfire was audible for Is minutes
in the west end of the German
capital, but no immediate explana-
ton was forthcoming.
The German high commands s
claim of success on the western
front said that French forces had
occupied an important hill SOUTH
est of Pirmasens but were driven
off by a strong Germany artillery
and infantry attack which took
possession of the disputed ground
and resulted in capture of many
French prisoners after sharp fight
ing in which Allied airplanes par
ticipated.
On the seas, where the Nazis
threatened drastic retaliation
against armed Allied merchantmen,
the toll of ships sunk by mines
or U-boat action this week mounted
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
Waves Litter Florida Coast With
wreckage Of Ship Believed German

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Nov. IA.
(UP)-The sea cast up wreckage of
what waterfront men believed was
German freighter blown up by an
explosion or battered by a terrific
storm.
The latest evidence of a ship
sinking consisted of the side wall
of a radio cabin, bearing radio terms
in German on small aluminium
plates; the top board of a lifeboat
gunwale and other debris not i'm
mediately recognizable.
Seamen here who had served in
the World war said the jagged
edges of the cabin wall indicated
the vessel was either blown to bits
or crushed by the force of a storm,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14

nerves they believed was 1ortn-
coming.
They had not long to wait. The
Soviet radio at Moscow was heard
broadcasting that the Firms had
withheld vital meteorological infor-
nation about cyclone in the Gulf
of Finland. The cyclone swept gulf
water up the Neva river and threat
ed to flood Leningrad, the broad
caster said, and if the Firms had
not violated the international con-
vention by withholding weather in
formation Leningrad residents could
have taken precautions.
DiatribeS of the Russian press
and radio were ignored in official
quarters here, however, because, as
Foreign Minister Elias Erkko said,
1--WE are not dealing with the press,
even if it is official, but with
responsible government representa-
tives of the Soviet Union"
Nothing was said officially of the
negotiations in Moscow but it was
believed the Firms had agreed to
give Russia some territory on the
Karelian ISthmuS, near Leningrad,
and some islands in the Gulf OF
Finland near the Russian naval
base at Kronstadt, but that they
had refused to cede the important
port of Hango, at the entrance to
the Gulf of Finland, or Petsamo,
in the north.
On that point. it was believed,
the negotiations had become dead
locked and Finland called its mis-
sion home.
To the best of her ability, Fin
land was ready to defend herself.
Her 100000 troops were in position
near the Russian border; her water
lanes were mined and naval defen-
ses organized. Although the Firms
have little anti-aircraft defense.
their larger cities have been par
TALLY evacuated and the govern
ment radio appealed to the evacuees
last night not to try to return home.
For all the preparations, few
Firms believed the Russians would
attack. Most believed that the gov
ernment would work out solution
eventually, and that world opinion
was on their side and would help
preserve them.
The influential Swedish language
newspaper Svenska PreSSen, said
that the Firms had been willing to
abide by the Russian demands for
the welfare of Leningrad, but had
been unwilling to sacrifice their
Continued on Page 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
Bund Leader Admits He Used funds
Move Divorces Furniture

then to Cleveland. When the states
witnesses-who testified that Kuhn
was the only person empowered to
write Bund checks-had finished
the fuehrer's counsel said the de-
fense was quite willing to concede
it was a fact.
Weller was unable to remember
whether Kuhn had described Mrs,
Camps relationship to him." AS
sistant District Attorney Herman
Mccarthy had introduced copies OF
the fuehrer's kilograms to the
blonde divorcee which were replete
with such phrases as great love
and kisses" and "love you my ev-
erything."
Kuhn's wife was mentioned brief
ly by Weller. He said she accom-
panied the fuehrer on visit to the
Weller home.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
Earth Fault Gets
Blame for Quake

SEATTLE, Nov. ID. (UP)-Geo-
logists today attributed the Pacific
northwest's heaviest earthquake in
80 years late Sunday to an earth
fault running along the west side
of Mt. 81 in the Cascade range
northwest of Seattle.
Reports from Gonzaga university
seismologists in Spokane and from
Victoria, B. c., established the epi-
center of the shock at Mt. ST.
Geologists explained the peak was
older than any other of the Cascade
range, and development of volcanic
rock left a fault.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14

NEW YORK, Nov. IA. (UP)-
Fritz Kuhn's attorneys conceded to-
day that the fuehrer of the Ger
man-American Bund had used the
organization funds to pay for
moving a woman friends furniture
around the country.
Karl Weller, who resigned from
the Bund IL days ago, told the jury
trying Kuhn on charges of stealing
S5,641 from the Bunds treasury
that the fuehrer had explained it
all to the organization's convention
last summer and had received
vote of confidence.
The prosecution went to some
length to introduce evidence that
Kuhn wrote two checks totaling
$717O2 on the Bund account to pay
Mrs. Florence Camps moving bill
from Los Angeles to New York and
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
Laborer Suffers
Two Broken Legs

Eduardo Martinez, 55, farm la
borer, was taken to the county hos
pital late Monday after an auto
mobile struck him and broke both
his legs as he walked along the
highway in Meloland.
The car which struck the Mexican
was driven by John L. Larsen of
Los Angeles. Larsen said he tried
to avoid striking him but was un-
able to do so. Lawson's car skidded
SO feet before striking Martinez and
carried the Mexican 25 feet before
coming to stop, Highway PATROL
man A. T. Bump said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14

coated an inch thick with oil.
Eye witnesses said that flames
rose to great heights and spread
rapidly. Victims, trapped by the
flames, jumped screaming into the
burning oil covered water of the
lake.
Reports said that 200 persons
were burned to death when lighter
aboard which they were attempt
ing to escape capsized. At least 200
houses were destroyed and many
of the victims were trapped in the
flaming shacks
1t was believed that no foreigners
were killed since La Gunillas was
inhabited chiefly by workers who
lived in tax-free, rent-free shacks.
Ferry boats were sent with first
aid workers and supplies to the
scene of the conIiagration. Relief
parties have reached La Gunillas,
it was reported, and Boy Scouts
were being mobilized here to aid
in relief work.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
F|NNS dare RUSSIA, IGNORE THREAT
THE WAR IN EARNEST?

573 dead; the Kittiwake with five;
the Royal Oak with 80; the SUBJ
marine Oxley with SO; and an
armed trawler with 27-all total Of
l,463 dead.
Renewal of activities on the sea
on a bigger scale-only one British
ship had been lost last week
aroused interest again in the pos
sibility that Adolf Hitlers long
awaited big offensive against Eng
land would come by air and sea
rather than by land offensive on
the western front or through Bel
gium or Holland.
The German press warned that
armed Allied merchantmen could
Continued on Page 8; Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14

steadily.
An unidentified British destroyer
sank with a loss of about seven men
after hitting a German mine, the
admiralty announced at about the
same time a British trawler was
reported sunk by a U-boat and a
British cargo steamer by an ex-
plosion off the coast of Scotland.
Still other messages disclosed the
sinking of another British freighter
by an explosion-and Norwegian
steamer.
The sinking of the destroyer, fol-
lowing another German bombing
raid on the Shetland Islands yes
terday, followed the officially ad-
mitted loss of the Courageous with
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
|ndio Man Guilty
OF Homicide

Jesse A. Herndon, Indio, pleaded
guilty in superior court Tuesday to
two charges of negligent homicide
filed after his wife, Mrs. Dolores
Herndon, and R. R. Webb were
killed near Brawley Oct. %.
He was the driver of the car
which missed a bridge, hurtled a
canal and crashed in field. Mrs
Herndon was killed instantly while
Webb, an apartment house man.
ager, died in the county hospital
several hours later.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14

A large quantity of American
high grade oil was washed ashore
in drums last week along the coast
from Jupiter inlet. near Miami to
Daytona Beach, an area of nearly
200 miles of coastline.
Yesterday sea cneSt-bearing
the name William E. Williams, SO
Front street, New York City-was
found at New Smyrna Beach, few
miles south of here. A ships icebox
and case of liquor also were wash
ed ashore.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14

napeaS corpus ulrecClng Cne parents
of his sweetheart to bring her to
court tomorrow to tell the judge
that she loves him and shares his
dreams of marriage.
Eileen, 20, a 1888 debutante who
is known to all who frequent the
night clubs, has been imprisoned"
in her home for so long now, yearn-
ing for her Lowther that it has
made her i'll, her swain charged.
Her father, Walter Herrick, for
mer city park commissioner, said
he had her taken to hospital be-
cause she had "broken down COM
pletely' under the strain. He did
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
Woman Director
Dies on Coast

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. IA. (UP)-
Lois Weber, Sc, the movies first
woman director, was dead today
The film pioneer who steered
Billie Dove, Anita Stewart, and
Claire Windsor to stardom, sue
cumbed at the Good Samaritan hos
pital last night of a stomach all
ment. She had been i'll two weeks.
Her sister, Mrs. Ethel Rowland,
and two friends were at her bed
side.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
Jail Alternative
Offered Laborer

If E. V. Davis, laborer, fails to
provide for his wife and six children
during the next two years, he will
have to spend year in the county
Jail
Davis was returned to Imperial
county from Oregon to face a
charge of failure to provide for his
family, stranded in Imperial Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
Officers TO Take
FbI instructions

Peace officers of Imperial Valley
prepared Tuesday to enroll in an
FBI training school Nov. 20 to
Nov. 30 in Yuma.
The school was arranged by j..
Edgar Hoover and Chief Of Police
Ike Polhamus of Yuma, who is
president of the Imperial-Yuma
Peace Officers association.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
TheyLose Pants
But Keep Shirts

Logan Harrison and Andrew
Manning retained their shirts
Monday night but someone
separated them from their pants.
"A burglar entered their room
at 1851 Broadway, Ell Centre.
and left with the two pair of
trousers. The thief dropped the
garments outside, after taking
S19 from Harrison'S and $40
from Manning's.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14

up five heavy bombing planes for
the Dutch government. The re-
mainder of his cargo is wheat load
ed at Vancouver, B. G.
The British freighter Southern
Prince, painted a dull gray, was
docked at warehouse known to
contain nothing but Lockheed
bombers. The area surrounding the
vessel and the warehouse was closed
to visitors but observers noted from
vantage points that members Of the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14

Southern Princes crew we're build
ing cradles on deck for the Grated
planes.
1t was reported ~ Lockheed
bombers we're ready TO be placed
aboard the Southern Prince today
and that other planes would be
taken aboard later.
On the port side of the British
freighter was a dog house with q
sign reading Reserved for Adolf. I"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
County Gins $50
Bales ofCofton

Imperial county ginned $50 bales
of cotton from the 1889 crop prior
to November IA, according to the
United States Department of Com
mrece, as compared to 2186 bales
for the 1888 crop.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
not define her illness further.

not define her illness further.
Supreme Court Justice Isadore
Wasservogel agreed to referee the
battle. He'll give Herrick a chance
to deny Lowther's charge that he
is holding his daughter against her
will, and, if he admits it, to explain
his objections to her marriage. If
the judge doesn't like the denial
or explanation, he probably will
order Eileen freed" on the grounds
that she is of legal age and Her
rick has exceeded his parental au-
thority.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
800 Burned Alive
In Tiny Oil Town

CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov IA. (UP)-Eight hundred
persons reported dead missing today in fire
which yesterday swept through the oil town of Las Gun
Has on Lake MaracaibO.
Las Gunas built piles water which was
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
Moscow Launches
Verbal Attack on
Small Nei9hbor
War Of Nerves Begins with Charge from
Official Soviet Radio That Finland
Withhold Vital We a+her Information

HELSINGFORS, Finland, Nov IA. (UP) = Finland
rsked her security today in the belief that Russia would
not attack to gain territory The Finnish negotiaors
homeward bound from Moscow with nothing settled,
and the people here prepared to endure the war of
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
Frei9 i9hters Dock
To Load Bombers

SAN PEDRO, Caly Nov. IA (UP)-A British and a
Dutch freghter in Los Angeles harbor today prepar
ing to take aboard American bombing planes the Brit
ish Royal air force and the Netherlands.
Capt T. H. Jaski of the Dutch motorship Damsterdyk
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14

ing for one OF the missing super
visors?"
Said Carey:
st don't know about that. I've
never before disgraced myself"
Better Than Never
did you near that oog was
on trial in MeXicali?"
"Holy Smoke, mol" said a Post
Press reporter and did a scramming
stunt toward a telephone. After
three solid hours of phoning, dur
ing which more garbled Spanish was
exchanged than is customary in a
month of tourist trading in Mexi-
cali, the reporter finally located
the brother Of Lie. Edmundo Qua
jardo who said he was familiar with
the case.
It seemed a nightWatchman who
guarded an ice plant in MeXicali
engaged in controversay with his
employer. the employer remarked
that the nightwatchman's dog did
all the work.
"Well, why don't you fire me and
hire the dog?" suggested the night
watchman, helpfully. And the en-
pioyer did
Everything would have gone on
smoothly had not several lawyers
got wind of the arrangement. In a
spirit of fun and justice the legal
talent brought action before labor
commission. They said they were
acting for Puppy Camilla" who
complained that his wage scale
was too low.
There followed a long and POM
pous session during which the
judge listened to the attorneys ar
guments in all seriousness and an
nounced:
"Where is the poor fellow? Why
doesn't he apeak?"
One lawyer replied:
"Your honor, here is my client,
but he is too dumb to speak,"
"Puppy Camilla" took that mo-
ment to wander toward the judges
bench but interrupted his stroll to
chase a flea.
When the judge had recovered
his composure he granted the dog
500 pesos in back wages.
That's SWELL the reporter told
Guajardo. "Dio this happen Mon
day?" t..=.
II don't remember the day of the
week." Guajardo replied. "It hap
pened four years ago."
The reporter tainted.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
Romeo, Juliet Go
To Court in Ny.

NEW YORK. Nov. a. (UP)-The Romeo and Juliet
fantasy of wealthy George Lowher III, and beautiful
Eileen Herrick progressed to the court stage today
Judge asked to decree that love meant than
parental authority Lowther 80, broker had writ of
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
Loud Demonstration

Loud Demonstration
Perhaps you were not aware Of
it, but John Salassi has earned the
title of Professor of Quickest Way
to Unload Automatic Shotguns.
"Ill fix that gun," said John and
took the weapon from Clyde Lott
who stood by admiring. The ad-
miration changed to something else
when John banged the gun on the
floor and it went off, spraying shot
over both of them.
At last reports they were still
picking pellets of lead from various
parts Of their anatomies.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
$4,000 Will Be Turned
Into Valley Bu siness as
Christmas Funds Released
Holiday Savings Set A||-Time Record in
Imperial County; State Total Reaches
$4,000, 900 Mark for First Time

total of S49 900 will be dumped into Imperial Valley
trade channels Dec when Ell Centro Brawey and Cal
banks.
Christmas savings this topped all previous records
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14
d AMBLING
x EpoR7ER

Take That, And That
With three supervisors missing
the balance of the board waited
and waited for quorum Monday
When Walter Carey walked in Dave
Vencill said:
"Garey, how about you substitute
ing for one Of the missing super
visors?"
Said Carey:
"I don't know about that. I've
never before disgraced myself"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-14

Butter: Los Angeles &c; but
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch.
grade A, 42c, manufacturing milk
34c; route gathered cream 301sc.
L. A. hay, U. S. No. s16.-S17;
U. S. No. 2 leafy S14-14.5O; u. :. No
2 S12-S13; Mpls. cash flax $1.S5is.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-02-04
REGARDING TAXATION

Editor, The Citizen:
Whether or not intangible prop.
erty should be taxed, and if so
on what basis, has for twenty
years been a subject of contro.
versy in Florida. In order tC
discuss the matter intelligently, il
should be considered under two
heads:
First-Should it be taxed al
all.
Second-On what basis.
The fact is, intangible property
has a commercial value only be-
cause the laws of the state, en-
forced by the courts, give it q
value.
If the collection laws of the
state were repealed, accounts and
similar intangible properties
would occupy the same position
in business that gambling debts
occupy, that is: would have nc
commercial value. The same
principle applies to other intan-
gible properties now. protected
and given value by the laws OF
the state.
If all of these laws were re-
pealed and no others passed, the
entire business structure of the
state would be destroyed.
Our constitution, passed in
1885, provides "a uniform and
equal rate of taxation for all
property. At that time there was
practically no intangible property
in the state except small mer-
camille accounts-usually settled
by country produce. Under such
conditions no attempt was made
to tax intangible property so the
impression became quite common
that this class of property should
not be taxed. AS the state de-
veloped, intangible property
greatly increased in value and be-
came more and more important,
both from a business standpoint
and government revenue and ex-
penSe.
In 1917 the legislature appoint
ed commission to study the tax
question and the late Honorable
w. A. Blount of Pensacola was
chairman. I was a member OF
that commission. We, reported
to the legislature of 1919 that our
entire tax structure was faulty
could not be enforced as to in
tangibles, and, if it could be en-
forced, would ruin the state, and