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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-17

The action of the Senate last
week in considerably increasing
the agriculture appropriation bill
indicates the trend in Washington
so far as the legislators are con-
cerned. In less than five hours
and without a roll call, the SEN
ate approved increases over the
bill prepared by the House. Par
ity payments and purchases OF
surplus commodities accounted
for most Of the increases. In or
Ger to give farmers growing
wheat, cotton. corn, rice and to-
bacco the differences between
market price and seventy-five
percent of parity" on crops
grown within restrictions laid
down in the Agricultural Conser-
walton program, the Senate voted
S225,000000. For surplus COM
modify purchases, to be used to
stabilize prices by buying sur
plus commodities for free distri-
button to the poor by state agen-
cies, the Senate voted $113,000,-
900, with the provision that not
more than one-fourth of the total
be used to support any single
commodity.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-17

Visitors to the number of BED
or 400 are expected to be in Key
West next week for the annual
Great Council of Red Men and
the Order of Pocahontas to be
held in this city Tuesday, We'd
nesday and Thursday of the
week. 1t is confidently expected
by members of the local bodies
that the Key West convention
will be the most largely attended
session of recent years and in this
state. It will be the forty-sixth
Great Sun Council session and
the local people are joining the
order in making it determined
effort. An attractive program
printed by The Artrnan Press
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-17

Political observers generally
discerned farm discomfort in the
1923 election results. Consequent
ly. it was foregone conclusion
that congressman, voting this
year for benefits to be paid the
farmers in an election year, would
do their best to make the farm
prospects rosy. for 1910. An inn
pending election often compelS
legislators to take cognizance of
conditions and situations which
they might otherwise overlook.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-17

There will be a meeting of
Troop /. Girl Scouts, held tomor-
row afternoon at their headquar-
tiers III the Golden Eagle Hall and
Ill members are requested TO be
in attendance as matters of great
interest to the organization are to
be taken up at the meeting.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-17

Misses Amelia Adams, Carload
Domeneche. Gloria Domeneche
and Margaret Lacedonia propose
leaving tomorrow for Havana
where they will take in the Cuban
celebration in commemoration of
May 90.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-05-17

Governor Doyle Carlton and
numerous other high Florida
state officials and mayor of cities
from Maine to Key West are ex-
pected to attend the convention
of the Atlantic Coastal Highway
Association, which convenes in
Key West Tuesday, June 25.
Senator Fletcher and Congress
man Ruth Bryan Owen are both
being invited to attend. Mayors
of Jacksonville, Charleston, Will
mington and other important
cities along the coast have al
ready sent their acceptances of
the invitations sent out and will
be here for the convention. A
special delegation from Havana
to represent the government of
Cuba, Jorge Ponce. Cuban CONSUL
has been informed by the govern
ment. There was a called meet
ing of the Chamber of Commerce
this morning for the purpose of
laying plans for the big event.
Mayor Leslie A. Curry, members
of city council, and the county
commissioners have been asked
by President Robert Austin of the
chamber to attend.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Americans SEEING
U.S.. for First Time
On Visit to Valley

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overloaded sailing ship that found
cred north of San Francisco.
Il was in the water for eight
days before we were picked up
he recalled. I'VE drifted around in
fog and cold with the ship more
under than above water. We haG
to lash the skippers wife to the
rigging. 1t was awful"
sPhySicians ordered him to the
islands to recover. After a number
Of years he returned to the states
to live at San Diego.
Returning to discussion of pres
ent day conditions in the Hawaiian
islands, Beernan predicted that the
Japanese population will have a
voting majority within a generation.
Already the Japanese vote is q
major factor" he said. 1.-The public
prosecutor is Japanese, though,
Of course, an American citizen. 1t
won't be very long before they will
have a majority of the VOTE"
The japanese population appears
to represent loyal part of the
citizenry, however, although a num-
ber of them have gone to Japan
to join the army.
I'm case of war, wouldn't Hawaii
be a dangerous place to live?" he
was asked.
I'D rather be there, one of the
most strongly fortified bases in the
world, than on an unfortified coast"
he answered.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. 18.
(UP)-The spilling of few coins
from an elevator boys pocket in
directly caused the gas explosion
in a downtown office building late
Yesterday which fatally injured a
woman and hospitalized II other
persons, Fire Chief T. J. HardWick
announced today.
His daughter law. Mrs. Lee
Hardwick, died six hours after the
explosion. She had worked in Of
fices in the building and was de-
parting for home when the sidewalk
was blasted from beneath her. Iron
ically, her husband, fire department
photographer, was one of the first
officials to reach the scene. Camera
in hand, he did not find her for
some 80 minutes.
Chief Hardwick said one of the
injured, Leonard Steele, 10, elevator
operator. had established the origin
of the blast. II had gone into the
basement dressing room TO change
clothes and dropped some change
from my pants pocket" he told in
vestigators at the hospital, Hard
wick said. II lit match to look for
it and the whole darn building ex-
ploded.'
That was at 533 p. m. Traffic Pa
trolman Frank Tutera was stand
ing in the intersection, the 12-story
Grand Avenue Temple building TO
his back. The sidewalks were teem-
ing with office workers going nome
II heard an explosion behind me
ike a muffled cannon" Tutera said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
School vandaIs
Irk Authorities
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ages done when the high school
student body ran Wild last night
after a football rally.
Merchants reported that restaur-
ants were looted of equipment, a
billiard parlor was cleaned out as
students departed with balls and
cues and in one restaurant turkey
was taken. At the Gaiety theater
scenery was overturned and at the
famous Maria Inn, walls were strip
ped of pictures, salt and sugar pour
ed on carpets and antique furni-
ture was destroyed.
In the Los Angeles county area,
students after a Garfield-RiiS high
school game staged a demonstration
in a drive-in restaurant last night
walking off with several vending
machines.
Earlier yesterday, police riot
call was issued when Los Angeles
City college students halted traffic
on Vermont avenue and created an
uproar ,as a prelude to the City
college-Eong Beach Junior college
football game.
Long Beach school officials pro-
tested that vandals had inflicted
much damage at the Junior college.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
New Executions
Follow Attack on
German National
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quiet as death all night. Czechs
kept off the streets, avoided public
places.
In London Eduard Benes, last
president of CzechoSlovakia, said
that the execution of nine Czech
students by German storm troopers
was "a crime that will affect Czech
opinion the same as the assassina-
ton of Nurse Edith Cayell did Eng
land"
1.-THE reign of terror in Czechos-
lovakia is getting more brutal and
terrible What was supposed
to be retaliation for a celebration
of Czech independence day is SIM
ply brutal assassination" he said.
Benes said that Germany's inter-
nal situation was becoming more
difficult and that Germany's posi-
ton in the war was deteriorating.
"Czechoslovakia lives spiritually
and morally; it's only a question
of time-only short time-until
Czechoslovakia will also be free
politically and internationally" he
said.
Jan Garrigue Masaryk, former
Czechoslovak minister to Great
Britain, said the student demonstra-
tions in Prague last Wednesday,
celebrating the anniversary Of
Czechoslovakia'S former indepen-
dence, had not been encouraged by
Czech officials in exile because any
general uprising now, when the
war hadn't actually started, would
be stupidity premature"
He said the student demonStra-
ton was "symptomatic of the ner-
vousness and restlessness of the
Czech people under German rule"
and meant only that "our people
occasionally get outraged to such
an extent that they can't hold
themselves in any more"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Injured Woman to
Become Mother

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 18. (UP)-
Mrs. Carrie Landry. 90, is going to
have a baby a few days before
Christmas though her spine, collar
bone and shoulder blade have been
fractured and she has deep burns
on both legs.
Physicians at Charity hospital
announced today that, barring COM
plications, they had succeeded in
saving the lives of both Mrs. Landry
and her unborn child.
She was injured Sept. 3 when the
automobile in which she was riding
turned over. At first, it appeared
that she would surely die. Then it
seemed impossible that the baby
could survive even in the womb.
The physician said Mrs. Landry's
pluck had aided their science. She
is helpless in bed, partly suspended
by weights mounted on pulleyS. The
baby will be her first.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

She is expected then, to develop new
self-sufficiency plans to conform
with war conditions.
Speaking of the sanctions, Vir-
ginio Gayda, writing in the Gior-
male DTtalia, said that "Mussolini
alreay has said he does not follow
a policy of rancour toward the
Allies but italy cannot avoid fol-
lowing a policy Of remembrance. "
AT the same time it was learned
that Italy was fast becoming a
clearing house for the commerce of
neutral nations.
Switzerland has chartered 10
Greek merchant ships to import her
necessary supplies and it was learn
ed from an authoritative source
that Italy will let her use Genoa as
a "home port Switzerland has no
ships or ports of her own. A spe-
cially electrified railway will run
from Genoa to Switzerland.
1t also was announced that for
several weeks, Belgium and Holland
had been shipping their exports
from Antwerp and Rotterdam over
land on italian trains to Italian
ports for reshipment to Dutch and
Belgian colonies as well as to neu-
trail countries. 1t was not disclosed
whether the trains crossed France
or Germany, although the trains
we're taking only six days for the
trip whereas ships had taken IA.
Scandinavian states we're reported
planning to make similar arrange
ments with Italy to increase their
exports. Delegations from both Nor
way and Sweden are expected here
soon to make shipping arrange
nentS.4
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Hoober Chosen
Regional Farm
Bureau Chairman

C. O. Hoober, former president
of the Imperial county farm bu-
reau and state delegate from the
county this year, returned this
week from the state farm bureau
federation convention in San Diego
with a new title, that of Regional
chairman from Region No. l..
The appointment to regional
chairman carries with 1t a mem-
bership on the state farm bureau
federation board of directors ano
assures Imperial county a more di-
rect representation in the state or
ganization, according to Scott
Foulds, bureau secretary.
Hoober, who succeeds w. E. Ell
bridge of Riverside as regional
chairman, is the first valley farm
bureau member to be appointed to
that position.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Italy ProcIaims
Self Sufficiencv

ROME, Nov. Is. (UP)-Italy re-
minded the world today that she
is fast becoming economically as
well as militarily strong and that
even though she stays neutral, she
is going to have big voice in the
next peace.
The supreme commission of self
sufficiency met at p. m, Premier
Benito Mussolini presiding, to COM
memorate the fourth anniversary of
the application of the sanctions
against italy by the League of Ma
tionS because of her Ethiopian
campaign.
This economic commission grew
out of the sanctions. Today, Mus
solini received from it encouraging
reports on the way Italy has devel-
oped products in chemical labora-
tories to Offset raw materials, es-
pecially metals of which she was
deprived; ON the exploiting of her
SOIL coal and iron production and
conservation of her available goods
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Pond Surrenders
Under Indictment
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head office of the district at I'M
perial.
He waited until a "long time af-
ter" he received $88.40 to transfer
it to headquarters, the indictment
charged.
While in the county Jail Saturday
morning, Pond said he did not care
to make any statement at this time
regarding the charges brought by
the grand jury.
He was promoted to superinten-
dent of the power division of the
district at Calipatria this year after
serving many years as water clerk
The charges were made after his
promotion and district officials i'm
mediately discharged him. He has
a wife and children living in Cali
patria.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Boy. 13. Revenses
Death of Father

CHICAGO, Nov. 18. (UP)-Vito
Addante, 80, owner of a small gro
Gerry, was a hero in the eyes of his
son, Pasquale, 13. He had been
held up four times and each time
had put up fight. G
A year ago he was fired on by a
bandit who held up his store. Last
Feb. 4, Wilbur BarnWell, a Negro
bandit, pointed two revolvers at him
and demanded money But Addante
Rached below the counter with a
lightning move and came up shoot
ing. Barnwell died later from his
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

wounds.
Pasquale was sitting alone in the
store last night when Negro
bandit entered and demanded
money
"We haven't got much" Pasquale
protested. "You can't take it,"
The bandit, keeping his gun aim
ed at The boy, walked behind the
counter and took $40 from the till
The elder Addante, who was in a
rear room with his wife, Rose, 29
and two other children, Alfred, IL,
and Lucy, 8, overheard the bandit
He came out of the room with a
gun, of small caliber containing
nine bullets, as the bandit started
to leave. His wife and two other
children were behind him.
He shouted to his wife, Push
the kids on the floor" then fired
one shot. The bandit turned and
fired. The bullet struck Addante
near the heart and he slumped
to the floor, dead.
AS he fell, Pasquale, seventh
grade pupil, took up the fight. He
crawled to his fathers body, picked
UP his gun, leveled it at the bandit
and began firing.
Three times he pressed the trig-
ger. One bullet found its mark
The bandit, shouting with pain,
stumbled into the street. He turned
and fired two shots which went
wild. The boy ran after him and
fired four more shots. Two more
bullets struck the bandit as he
fled.
Police believed today he would
have to give himself up or die Of
his wounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Turks Hold Nazis
On Spy Charges

IVANBUL. Nov. 18. CUP)-Seven
Germans, one a woman, were ar
rested by Turkish police today and
charged with espionage.
The police charged that the Ger
mans had established a widespread
organization to disseminate Nazi
propaganda.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Building Blasted
By Spilled Coins

II swung around. 1t was awful The
sidewalks in front of the Temple
building we're blasted half away,
debris covered everything. People
we're caught here and there among
it, shrieking. Everything moving
had stopped. In a minute every
body who could was running to aid
the Victims
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
HEBER NOTES


Heber P.T.A. held an executive
board meeting last Friday at the
school house. The meeting was in
the form of an open forum, with
local speakers. 1t was announced
during the meeting that the school
kitchen cook will be appointed at
the regular meeting to be held on
the 10th of November.
Mr.. E. H. Huling, brother of
Arvel Huling and a recent arrival
from Texas, has opened a tailor
shop in Imperial.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Rayburne
and children and Mr.. and Mrs.
Glen Rayburne and baby returned
to Heber Sunday after spending
the summer in Alvarado, Texas.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Griffee and
daughter spen Sunday in INLAND
visiting friends.
Mrs. c. M. Lord, mother of Mrs.
D. Dyer, of Pasadena, arrived on
Armistice Day to spend few days
with Mr.. and Mrs. Dyer.
Mrs. Wilma Smith received word
of the death of her father in Mis-
souri,.
Mrs. Mary Thompson spent Sun
Mrs Robert Rood and Mrs. Ar
vel Huling were Saturday callers
of Mrs. Raymond Wood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Wardlow of
Ell Centro spent Sunday with their
daughter and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Davis.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. CheSer of
their son and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bob Cheser, and their daughter
and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Van
D. Ingle., Jr Mr.. and Mrs. CheSer
are former Heberites. They lived
in Heber for about sixteen years.
Last Friday the Heber Sunday
school had surprise going-away
party for Mrs. Myrtle Osborne,
who moved to Meloland last week.
end. Those who attended or sent
gifts were MeSdames Juanita Lee,
oscar Hester, T. Wood, John Green,
Harley Griffee, Ralph Thompson,
Ray Barnes, Irwin Stooksberry, Har-
ry Johnson, Clarence Fairchilds,
John Briggs, Randolph Robertson,
Van D. Ingle., ST., v. r. Majors,
Lota Cook, Don Dyer, Virgil Tor
renee, D. V. Porter, c. E. Steven
son, Howard Ware, Iota Horton,
Frank Gardner, Ben Averitt.
Miss Betty Dutton of San Diego
was house guest of Evelyn Rob-
ertson for several days last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Briggs re-
turned from Modesto Saturday and
have taken one of the Gardner cot
tages. Miss Mary Frances Smith,
sister of Mrs. Briggs, is visiting
them.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Payne and
children have moved to Calexico.
Mrs. John Moler and Mrs. Wood
row Gilbert were Sunday evening
visitors of Mrs. Jack Chandler.
Reverend Thomas, Presbyteria
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
E Executive Board Meeting Held at
Heberb byP.T.A. on Friday

minister from Ell Centre, was the
visiting pastor at the Heber Sun
day school last Sunday. Mr.. c..
Copperman and Mr.. G. Livingston
also visited the Sunday school.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Barnes had as
guests at a chicken dinner Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Stooksberry
and children and Mr.. and Mrs
Jack Chandler. The occasion was
the twenty fourth wedding anniv-
ersary of Mr.. and Mrs. Barnes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Stindt and
son, Bobbie, of Venice and Mrs.
jeanette Rohmer and daughter,
Lois, of Highlands, visited Mr.. and
Mrs. John Stindt for a few days
Wednesday was Mrs Stindt's birth
day.
Mrs. Mae Price and daughters.
Purnie and Mary Ruth, spent Sat
urday in Brawley and Westmor-
land
Mrs. Harley Griffee has been ap-
pointed chairman of the Heber
Red Cross drive.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arvel Huling and
sons were Sunday guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Jasper r. Rood.
Mrs. Juanita Lee was a Sunday
dinner guest of Mrs. Lille Faust.
Mrs Mary Ellen Davis is visit
ing at the Bashaw ranch at Whi-
ting's Crossing.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Winter of
Ell Centre we're Tuesday evening
callers at the Ray Barnes home.
The Heber Sunday school is plan
ming a desert party to be held on
the 26th of November. Mr. B. Metz
ley, Juanita Lee, and Raymond
Barnes are in charge of the plan
ming of the event The committee
announced that the party would
start with a hay ride.
Mr.. B. F.. Hornaday of Mt. Sig
nal and Mrs. Sue Robertson will
accompany Mrs. Robertson's mo-
ther, Mrs. E. S. Hobbs, and Mrs
Verna Lowe to Chula Vista on
Saturday Mrs. Hobbs and Mrs
Lowe plan to make their home in
that locality. Mrs. Robertson and
Mr.. Hornaday will return home
Sunday
The enrolment at Heber school
has increased to 141. This is an
increase of approximately so per
cent over the enrolment at the
beginning of school.
Mrs H. P. Ware had the follow
ing visitors from San Diego last
Saturday. Miss Louise Kennedy,
Miss Isabel Millar, Mr.. Dwight
Peters, and Mr.. John Smithe.
The seventh and eighth grades
sponsored an Armistice Day as
sembly at the Heber school Friday.
The program was conducted in the
form of pageant. Mrs. Olive Carl
ton, rural supervisor, gave a very
delightful impromptu speech con-
corning the first Armistice Day af-
ter the program.
Mrs Jeanette Rohmer of High
lands spent Friday and Saturday
as a house guest of Mrs. Sue Rob-
4 ertsOn.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
ASK HOLIDAY

ASK HOLIDAY
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 18. (UP)-
More than 60 Los Angeles residents
signed telegram received by Gov
Culbert Olson urging that the day
following Thanksgiving also be de-
clared a legal holiday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

Mrs. John Moler and Mrs. Wood
row Gilbert were Sunday evening
visitors of Mrs. Jack Chandler.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

Mr. and Mrs. w. d. Payne ano
children have moved to Calexico
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

Reverend Thomas, Presbytei
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

Mr. and Mrs. Otis Briggs re-
turned from Modesto Saturday and
have taken one of the Gardner cot
tages. Miss Mary Frances Smith,
sister of Mrs. Briggs, is visiting
them
Evening star., 1939-06-08
Veterinarian Is Found
Hanged in Swamp

A two-day search for Abraham A.
Kritt, AZ, veterinary surgeon with
the Department of Agriculture,
ended yesterday when his body was
found hanging from a tree in q
swamp near Bladensburg, Md.
The body of Kritt, a native o.
Albany, Ga, and formerly a patient
In the Pinehurst Sanitarium at
Mount Rainier, was cut down by
police after two colored youths dis
covered it suspended from the tree
by belt.
Prince Georges County police re-
ported Mr.. Kritt disappeared into
the wooded swamp near the eastern
branch Of the Anacostia River on
Tuesday after pointing into the
marsh and telling attendants at a
Bladensburg garage:
"Ill be waiting for police in there"
officers began an immediate search
for Mr.. Kritt, but he was not found
until the two colored boys, Robert
Davis and Fred Burroughs OF
Bladensburg, came upon his body
while walking through the marsh.
Evening star., 1939-06-08
A Place Of Horror
Says Murphy, Seeking
AIcatraz Substitute
The Rock Breeds
Sinister and Vicious
Psychology, He Stotes

By the Associated Press.
Attorney General Murphy told his
press conference yesterday he found
the psychology bred at Alcatraz
Penitentiary sinister and vicious"
and that he was considering other
means Of handling the prisoners
incarcerated there.
Mr.. Murphy, who recently re-
turned from a tour of the West.
which included an inspection of
"The Rock" the Federal institution
where dangerous prisoners are held,
said he thought bad psychology"
was bred at Alcatraz.
II think it is a great injustice
to both the prisoners add to San
Francisco" he added. "It is not
proper to have that place of horror
on a rock on the doorstep of San
Francisco"
The Attorney General said his
ideas and those of other Justice De-
partment officials concerning the
prison had not reached the planning
stage.
1T is not likely that anything will
be done for two or three years, if it
should be decided to handle the
problem differently" he said. 'The
immediate thing to do about Alca-
traz is to perfect its management
in every way. There cannot be any
change from Alcatraz until we get
a place that would be an advantage
over it,"
Mr.. Murphy added that there
should be no soft penology" applied
to the desperate type of criminals
now confined at Alcatraz. There
are now 298 such prisoners there.
DO you agree with J. Edgar
Hoover's philosophy that criminals
are rats" a reporter asked.
Il don't want to talk about Mr..
Hoover's philosophy, was the reply.
"A prisoner is a human being. No
one has greater respect than I for
Mr.. HoOyer's work"