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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-16

} NEW 22-ft. gas boat, 4 h.p. Frisco Standard engine, with some D trolling gear. Niemi Apts., No. l.. FOR SALE-Old fire escape for merly on Juneau Public School ] Building. Make your offer in writing to the Juneau Public School Board, Box 127l. Pur- chaser is to take all old steel as is and remove from school prop erty within AS hours from time of notification. Bids will De opened January Is. A. B. Phil lips, Supt of Schools. , INCOME property for sale. Phone Blue l35.
 FOR SALE = 7-room house and double garage miles out Glacier Highway. Reasonable. Phone 241. FOR SALE-C Merody Conn Saxo- phone, $2O. Write Empire M 162 FORD TUDOR, driven only 5000 mSres. New tires, deluxe radio and heater. See Elroy Ninnis.
 FOR SALE-U & I Lunch. Owner t. quitting business. Write 20. Box c274 or phone 334. COR SALE-City Float Beer Parlor Phone 541 after 4 pm.
 MISCELLANEOUS SEWING: Dress-making, hats re- modelled; room 43, Bergman ] Hotel.
 :, GUARANTEED Realistic Perma- nents, $4.50. Finger wave, 65c. Lola's Beauty Shop, telephone POI. 3l5 Decker Way.
 rpRN your old gold into value. cash or trade at Nugget Shop. FOR RENT BROOM furnished cabin, also g. room apartment with bath. 337 tWilloughby Avenue.
 3sROOMS and bath, steam heated, furnished. Electric range. Call Windsor Apts.
 ROOM: shabaldak, Apt. A. PIANO for rent or for sale. Phone Green 440.
 FOR RENT Furnished apartment, Douglas. Apply Owl Restaurant. ! BOAT STALL, by Douglas Bridge, g per month. Green ATS. COZY, warm, furn. apts. Light water. dishes, Y cooking utensils and bath. Reasonable ai Seaview
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-16

In case of error or if an ad has been stopped before ex- piration, advertiser please noti- | fly this office (Phone 374) at once and same will be given ' attention.
 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-16
LOST AND FOUND

FOUND --- Black Labrador pup; gray-mottled front foot. Owner please phone 281. LOST-Keys on keyring. Return to Empire. Reward. GOLDEN Labrador retreiyer on Glacier Highway If seen notify Highway Delivery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-16

ALAsKANA,, By Marle brake, soc
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-16

? INCOME property for sale. Phone
 Blue 135.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-01-16

FOR SALE = 7-room house and double garage miles out Glacier
 Highway. Reasonable. Phone 24l.
Evening star., 1939-01-06

Last years bicycle accidents
caused the deaths of 700 and the
injuring Of $4,000.
Evening star., 1939-01-06
U. 5. Agent Held NOT Liable
For DAMAGES in Accident

Justice Jennings Bailey held in
District Court yesterday, in effect,
that revenue agent who pursues
a suspected bootlegger's car is not
liable for civil damages if an inno-
cent person Is killed as a result of
the fugitive's speed and reckless
ness.
This ruling was made when the
court granted motion by Assistant
United States Attorney Howard
Boyd to dismiss a suit for $4,000
against Revenue Agent Francis j.
Sweeney.
The court was told that Mr..
Sweeney drove a Government car
that chased machine alleged to
have been loaded with liquor on
September 3. The liquor car was
said to have crashed head-on into
another car, in which 2-year-old
Muriel Lanhan of 526 Ninth street
Sc and Marion Wood, 10, of $40
jured. Administrators of their es-
tates brought suit against the reve-
nue. agent and for similar amounts
against Charles Sumner Lee, jr.,
colored, alleged driver of the liquor
car. and its owner. Ella Walker.
Justice Bailey's decision did not af-
feet the other suits.
Lee and his asserted companion,
Worster F. Dorey, colored, also face
two indictments, each charging Sec
ond degree murder. They are
scheduled to face trial on these
charges January 18.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17

back of that block to-
wards Green street.
A milkman whose identity was
not learned played Paul Revere, -
driving his truck from house to
house and awakening people in the
residences threatened by the flames
After all had responded to his call
the milkman resumed his deliveries
Seven homes we're destroyed by the
blaze.
Numerous animals, including
dogs. cats, parrots and canarieS
we're burned to death in a pet shop
in the business area.
Trees uprooted by the wine
storm lay across many streets ano
hampered the work of the fire
men.
The department reported tha'
the blaze appeared to have starteo
from an explosion in the Fotl
sheet metal shop. At that moment
Alfred Theurich, alarm superinten-
dent Of the fire department, was
working on q call box Immediately
in front of the shop He hearc
what he thought was a blast in
side. saw the flames and pulled the
lever sounding the alarm.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17
State Asks Power
Over Biz Project

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. Il. tUP.
State operation of the Widespread
facilities OF the $17OO00.000 Cen
tral Valley project was sought to-
day in recommendations submit
ted by Gov CuIbert L. Olson to
Secretary Of Interior Harold L
Ickcs.
Governor Olson, Ickes and other
California officials discussed a pro-
pcs1l under which the state water
project authority would enter into
agreements with the United States
reclamation bureau to assume oper-
alton, administration and mainte-
nance Of the huge project.
Under the proposed amendment
the water authority would repay
costs of the project, and secure
electric and water contracts with
the public or other distributing
agencies as security for repayment
OF the costs.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17
Lives Lost, Damage
Reaches High Mark
In CycIonic Winds
Sheds UnrOofed East of
Here; Gale Subsidies
Throughout Southland

Winds that reached cyclon-
ic velocity in portions of
southern California, Arizo-
ma and New Mexico subsided
Friday, leaving two dead in
the Los Angeles area and hundreds
of thousands of dollars of damage
throughout the southwest.
Rain was expected throughout
most of southern California ana
Arizona as wind velocity lessened
and dense clouds covered the areas,
Imperial Valley counted compar-
atively light damage to crops and
Buildings from the wind. Miniature
gales struck Brawley and HoltVille
areas. tearing limbs from trees,
blowing over signs and unroofing
at least four poultry sheds in the
Holtville area. Grapefruit groves in
the valley suffered when fruit was
blown from the trees, and paper
coverings were driven from some
melon fields.
Forrest Ferguson reported wind
damage to four poultry sheds near
HOltville.
Light snowfall was reported in
the mountain area between Impe-
rial Valley and San Diego Thurs
day night, Clouds hung over the
entire area Friday.
The windstorm that took two
lives in the Los Angeles area, caus-
ed thousands of dollars damage and
whipped up dozens of fires was
believed dying down.
The wind began tapering off dur
ing the morning from its high We
locity OF 81 miles an hour during
the might.
Isolated telegraph and telephone
lines throughout southern Califor-
MIA were damaged, but none ser
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17
7OLeft Homeless
As Flames Sweep
Fishing Village

FAIRFIELD, Cal, Feb. II. CUP)--
Fire swept through the fishing vii
lage of Collinsville at the junction
of the Sacramento and San Joaquin
rivers today. destroying Is of the
towns "a buildings and leaving at
least 10 persons homeless.
The fire started in vacant
house. Whipped by strong north
wind, it moved quickly from house
top to housetop and leveled the
homes so quickly that there was
scarcely time for an alarm to be
given and the sleeping occupants
taken TO safety.
No casualties were reported
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17
AFL Hears Peace
Plan for Shasta
Project Labor War

REDDTNG. Cal. Feb. IT. CUP)-
American Federation of Labor
unioniSts Cn the giant new Shasta
dam were called today to hear a
peace proposal advanced by Gov.
Culbert L. Olson in a new attempt
to end a jurisdictional dispute
which has been threatening to break
into violence for the past two weeks.
The meeting was called after a
laSt-minute peace conference last
night at which agreement was
reached dispelling, temporarily at
least, the necessity seen by state
and county authorities for calling
0ut the national guard.
Arrest of seven CIO men on
charges Of unlawful possession OF
guns assertedly found in their au-
,Omobile and threatening gather
ings of rival unionists near a rail-
road relocation project brought an
earlier announcement by Sen. Jesse
Garter that it was likely national
guard units would be called to the
Redding area.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17
Ga|e-Fanned Flames Sweep Pasadena
Business Block, Destroy7 Homes,
Cause Estimated 100000 Damage

PASADENA. Cal, Feb II. CUP)
An early morning fire, famed by
a high wind, which for a time
threatened heavy damage to the
Pasadena business district, was
brought under control today with
the loss of a block of business
buildings and seven residences.
Preliminary estimates placed the
damage at 100000.
The entire firc-fighting equip
ment of the foothill city was
thrown into the battle against the
blaze, aided by three pumping en-
eines from Los Angeles, two from
Glendale and one from Alhambra.
A wind, estimated by firemen at
a 50-mile gale, which had been
blowing for two days, famed the
flames. The blaze gutted virtually
all the one and two story business
houses for one block on Colorado
street. the city'S main thorough
fare, between Michigan and Ches-
ter streets, and jumped TO the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17
9th Traffic Death
OF Year Recorded

Imperial cCumty'S sixth traffic
fatality this year occurred early
Friday when jim Bradshaw 81, diet
in the county hospital of injuries
suffered in an accident four milo
north Of Imperial Monday morning
His coupe collided with a cattle
loaded truck and trailer at 12:46
am. Monday. Bradshaw. driver Of
the coupe, suffered head and in
ternal injuries while MIS-. Bradshaw
was literally Scalped by the impact
The coupe was demolished.
An inquest will be held as soor
as Deputy Coroner Herbert Hughe,
contacts Floyd Jones, p. Phoenix
driver Of the truck and trailer The
body was taken to the Lemons NOR
tuary.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17
Mrs. Meeks Asked to Identify Pair
Held in Yuba City Kidnapping Case

YUBA CITY, Cal, Feb. II. tUPp
Mrs. Norma Meeks, elderly ranch
wife whose fortitude thWarted three
kidnapers who seized and held her
for $4,000 last September, viii at
tempt today to identify two Ken
lucky youths arrested as suspects
by federal bureau of investigation
agents in Louisville and returned
here last night.
The suspects who steadfastly
maintained their innocence after a
night of questioning in separate
cells, were Robert Grimes, q, and
his brother Ollin, 20. They admit
ted having been in this vicinity
last fall, working as fruit pickerS
but said they left Aug 81, day
before the kidnapping.
Mrs. Meeks, wife of a wealthy
Rio Oso peach grower. was seized
at her ranch home, taken to a re-
mote woods anG held there threl
days. Two of her kidnaperS, sht
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17
Olson
names
Demos
Rowe, Anderson
Lose Positions
After 10 Ye ars

California's "little New
Deal" was reflected in I'M
perial county Friday when
Governor Culbert L. Olson
summarily dismissed two
charter members of the Imperial
county fair board to make way for
two Democrats, one of them a
member of the county central COM
mittee.
A. A. Dreasher, Westmorland, and
Wesley Anderson. Calexico, were
appointed to the fair board on rec
ommendation of the Democratic
county central committee. They re-
place Sam P Rowe, Westmorland,
and T. E. Anderson, Calexico.
The appointments came in the
face Of a concerted effort by nom
political groups in Imperial county
to obtain reappointment of the two
men who have served on the fair
board since it was first created,
Neither has received pay for his
efforts during 10 years on the
board
Ex-senator Ben Hulse, fair board
president, dubbed the appointments
the worst political deal" he had
ever heard of and declared the
] state of California doesn't have
a governor" if Olson is going tc
carry on the duties of the office
| in such manner. He said he was
not personally acquainted with the
new appOintees but declared then
appointments came under the head
of political wire pulling.
Dreasher has been a rancher in
the Westmorland district for many
years. Anderson is a young rancher
and is president of the Jasper farm
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17
Assassin Shoots
Mexican Official

MEXICO CITY, Feb. II. (UP)
Andres Duarte, member of the
federal chamber of deputies, was
shot and killed today as he
walked through the main square
of the town of Cuautla, state of
MOrclOs, adjoining the federal
district. The assassin escaped.
Duartc was a former leader of
the Agrarian Morelos, which op-
posed the candidacy of the pres
ent governor, Colonel Elipidio
PerdomO. During the campaign
number of "PerdOmistas" were
killed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17

The fire had been raging in the
cast wing since am. yesterday
but did not get completely out of
control until last night. Then it
reached the central building, which
with five wings comprises the vast
institution operated by the Roman
Catholic Order of Grey Nuns. Oil
tanks began exploding, hurting
flaming embers 1900 feet. A hurried
call was sent for troops and the
1900 inmates still in the building
we're evacuated.
Many Of the patients were vio-
lent. Some had not been out o.
their rooms for years. They strug-
gled with their rescuerS-nunS, fire
men and volunteers, before the
troops arrived. Some had to be
restrained forcibly from dartine
back to their quarters, which would
have meant certain death.
Soon after midnight, however, all
patients had been safely quartered
in other parts of Quebec-in jailS
hospitals, barracks and even in prl-
vate homes.
Firemen continued a losing battle
in the bitter cold, The scene was
panorama of fire and ice. The
water supply was inadequate and
holes were chopped through the ST
Lawrence river ice, a mile away
and hose lines stretched from there
BY am. the fire had nearly
burned itself out. Only a few walls
remained standing. Firemen, how
ever, continued to pour streams o!
water on the ruins. Police remained
on duty to handle the crowds
Damage was estimated at $l,600000
The casualties so far reported
were one patient dead of heart
attack; two firemen injured.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17
Filipino Leaves
Via Window

John Pangonan. 30-year-old Fill
pino laborer. rested comfortably il
the Imperial county hospital Friday
apparently no worse for wear after
his dash from his room, sans cloth
ing. Thursday night.
Pangonan. VINO had just gone un-
der the knife for an hernia opera
ton, slipped from his bed Thurs
day night, crawled out of a window
and started wandering about the
neighborhood with nothing but ban
dages to cover his body.
Bud Hayes, rancher, found Pan
conan on his farm, bundled him in
to blanket and took him to the
Ell Centre police station. Police es-
corted Pangnonan back to the care
of DR.. w. H. Haakinson at the
county hospital
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17
District Connects
City with Lines

Imperial Irrigation District crews
Friday connected the El Centre
municipal pumping plant to district
power lines and hooked up street
lights on WenSley and Len Rey
avenue and Main street, according
to M. j. Dowd, chief engineer
Remainder of the FL Centre city
load will be taken over in June
when present contracts with the
Nevada California electric corpora
ton expire, DoWd said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17
NLRB Agents Open
Hearing on Union
Voting for Sheds
Shippers Contend Board
Without jurisdiction
Over Agriculture

A packed court room greet
ed National Labor Relations
Board representatives in El
Centro Friday at the start
of a hearing to determine if
Imperial Valley shed labor shall
hold elections to designate collec-
tive bargaining agents.
The "a growers and shippers,
summoned by board subpoenaes.
contended that the board has no
jurisdiction in the matter as they
are not engaged in interstate COM
merce and their businesses are
purely agricultural.
Due to the seaSonable quality OF
employment, the growers and ship
pers contended, the calling of such
an election is SuperfluouS because
the whole payroll might be different
by the time the date for the cleo
ton arrived.
In addition to being subpoenaed
TO testify, they also were ordered
to fill out board questionnaire
listing payroll records, details of
their land holdings, total ship
ments for recent seasons, and other
matters.
CIO representatives, at whose
request the hearing was held, sat
at the counsel table with NLRB
attorneys
Still another union entered the
picture when representatives of the
Fruit and Vegetable Packers asso-
citation of California intervened
with the request that that union
be listed on the ballots in case
of shed elections. Examiner Joseph
l.. Mcguire of Washington, presid-
ing at the hearings, reserved his
Continued on Page 8; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17
WronseI IsIond Air Bose
UrGed 70 Protect Alaska

WASHINGTON, Feb. II. up
Rep. Melvin Mas, R, Mimi, to-
day introduced a bill to establish
a naval air base on Wrangel island
northwest Of Alaska.
The island is now held by Rus
gia. but Mas said it was being
held without legal rights
He said Sen. Robert C. Reynolds
D.. N. c., would introduce the
same bill in the senate.
Mas bill carried no specific
authorization for appropriation, but
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17

would permit whatever apDropria-
,iCnS were found necessary.
We expect the island to become
4 strategic stopping point for aer-
ial traffic between the u. S. anC
the Far East" he said.
While there is some dispute as
to the ownership of Wrangel is
land, Senator Reynolds and l are
convinced that the title rests
clearly with the United States ano
we are assuming a valid claim up
on the part of the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17

told authorities after she had cs-
capped, were young men with red
dish brown hair and who spoke
with draw. A third man, whom
she repeatedly heard referred t
as the boss" left her in the Gus
tody Of the two after instructive
them to kill her. She escaped.
The Grimes brothers Wcrr
brought mere from Louisville late
last night and were formally charg-
cd with the crime. Robert was
held in the local jail on $4,000
bail and Ollin was held under SINH
lar bail in nearby Colusa jail
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17

a preVleW celebration that turned
San Francisco and its neighborlng
cities into wild west" camps, the
citizens found themselves griDpeG
by even more last-minute excite
ment than fair officials hopefully
lad anticipated.
With The Weathermans an
nouncement that bright sunshine
and warm temperatures would pre-
vail ever the weekend, it was es-
timated that as many as 100000
persons would jam the midday is
land site Of the fair on the first Of
288 days the great Pageant of the
Pacific" is to run.
Just how many of these who wish
10 attend OpCning-day festivities
would get on the fair grounds was
another question, although ferry
coats and the San Flancisco-Oak-
land Bay bridge were aeared for
capacity loads.
Exposition traffic officials asked
all possible cooperation from mo-
torists riding over the bridge to the
island and made final arrange
ments to speed up parking in the
space provided for $4,000 cars.
AS q safeguard in the event the
parking lot fills up, huge "ther-
mcme;ers" were to be erected along
the approach to the bridge and al
ether points showing how many
more cars could be taken care Of
Ferry boats plying from the ole
Ferry building direct to the islanc
and return were placed on "doublt
time" speed in the hope that al
could be taken back and forth
despite a record attendance.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17
DOROTHY GlSH IN
NEW YORK HOSPITAL

NEW York, Feb. I. lUP) =
Dorothy Gish. actress was report
ed in excellent condition today in
the Hardness pavilion of the Pres
byterian medical center where she
has been confined with a severe
case of influenza. Her sister. Lii
liam, did not appear in last nights
performance of Dear Octopus be-
cause she wanted to stay at the
hospital. An understudy took hel
role
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17
City Buys Truck
For Police DEBT.

Ell Centre city council Friday au-
thorized purchase of new Chevro-
let ton and one half truck for use
by the police department at an ad-
journed meeting at the city hall
The new truck will replace the
four year-old Black Maria.
Councilmen followed the recon-
mendation of Acting Mayor Gordon
Scriven in purchasing the Chevro-
let at cost of Sl061, lowest bid Of
fered.
The councilmen passed the first
reading of an ordinance to regu-
late trailer camps within the city
and ordered a nearing to discuss d
proposed residence construction or
Fifth street by j. P. Harrison and
Sons at the next meeting of the
council, set for next Friday night
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17

ed by Judge John E. SIMPSON
against Nose Sheffield and Robert
Kubo when Lefty Sonoda, COM
planning witness, refused to testify
against them, other cases which
stemmed from the original charge
remained on the records.
Chief among them is a murder
and attempted murder charge
against H. Yamatoda in Los An
geles. Yamatoda asserted employer
of Kubo and Sheffield, was re-
turned to Los Angeles recently
from Mazatlan, where he fled after
a devious route that took him
through Ell Centro to MeXicali and
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17

cOrfuptlOn, 0lreCJ ana lllulreCJ. III
flucnced the course of legislation
notably in the sessions of 1885 ano
1887"
The report charged that Cali
fornia lobbyists in some instances
had esta bliShed a secretive fourth
branch" of government Overriding
the legislative, executive and judi
cial branches"
s The report made these recon-
mendations, among others:
Indictment of c. p. Cregan
auditor of the International AL
lance of Theatrical Stage EN-
oloyes, for alleged perjury before
the Sacramento county grand jury
2.-That the grand jury testi-
mony given by William H. Neblett.
Los Angeles attorney; Louis B
Mayer. film magnate, and William
9. Silliman, associate Of Neblett,
be referred to the Los Angeles and
state bar groups.
In connection with the l. A. T.
S. F.. investigation and testimony
pertaining to it, the report said:
THE grand jury would be justi-
fled in returning an indictmen,
against MI Neblett and others for
the crime of soliciting a bribe anG
conspiring to solicit bribe.'
3.-Enactment of state law re-
curing laWyer-legislators to file at
the beginning of each session and
to maintain through the session. a
sworn statement of all clients hav-
ing any interest in legislation.
"A detailed dollars and cents
Continued on Page 8, Col d
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17

then to the Mexican seaport.
Also against Yamatoda, is a gam
bling charge in Ell Centro. R. l.
French. deputy district attorney,
planned late Friday to reset trial
date on this alleged offense.
Yamatoda originally was brought
to Ell Centro to face the gambling
charge. While here he was instru-
mental, Sonoda charged, in a kid
naping plot against Sonoda. A
southern California investigation
precipitated by the kidnapping charge
resulted in the Los Angeles murder
complaint against Yamatoda.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17

If the question Of ownership
arises. we expect the United states
will prove proper title TO the -
land.
Establishment of an American
naval aviation base on Wran2el la-
land will round out our DroRrilh
of establishing such bases IN Alas
ka Bases are nov proposed AZ
Unalaska. Kodiak island and Sitkf
one at Wrangel island Will give
Alaska complete naval air Drotee'
ton"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17
Dark Side of Heaven
THIEVES STEAL TREES

TUCSON, Feb. II. tUP) = The
sheriff's office can handle run-of-
the-mill crimes but here's one to-
day that has deputies stumped:
Mrs. H. S. Ijans filed a report
that thieves had rolled a truck up
in her front yard and stole three
12-foOt trees.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-17
Promise Of Sunshine Brings Hope Of
Record Breaking Crowds as Bay City
Prepares to Open Pacific Pageant

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. II. (UP)-A promise Of sum
shine and threat of traffic Jam forthcoming today
San Francisco and the entire bay Joined in cee
brating the opening of the $5O000000 Golden
Gate International Exposition Winding up four days of