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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-23
KEMPTON
Ladies' Aid Society

LduIeS Ala society
Members of the Ladies' Aid society
were entertained at the home of Mrs
Homer Evans on Thursday evening
The meeting was in charge of Mrs
Jennie Ryan, president. Mrs. Ethel
Fox gave an interesting Bible contest
with Mrs. E. P. Dice winning the
prize. The hostess served a plate
luncheon.
Homemakers Club
The Homemakers club met at the
home of Mrs. Asa Lewis on Friday
afternoon. The meeting was in charge
of the club president, Mrs. Leslie
Ryan. Mrs. Asa Lewis gave a book
report, Gail this and Heaven too
Miss Barton gave a talk on her trip to
Baltimore in February. A gift ex-
change and group singing completed
the program.
Girl Scouts
The Girl Scouts held a business
meeting at the school house on Mon
day night. Mrs. Elsie Lewis was ap-
pointed captain; Mrs. Leslie Ryan and
Miss Virginia Bowers, lieutenants
Marie Lewis, Betty Geroski, and
Wanda Wolfe were appointed patro.
leaders; Norma Bowers, secretary
and Betty Geroski, treasurer. 1t was
decided to hold weekly meetings or
Friday evening.
Personals
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Kitzmiller and
children were recent guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Estel Ashfeld.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hilton anc
son, Estel, went to Walter Reed Hos
pital, Washington, D. c., to see then
son, William, Jr, who has beer
seriously i'll of double pneumonia.
Robert Schell, Thomas; ]. B. Bio.
cher, Pierce; Jack Johnson, Benbusht
G. P. Smith, Kempton; and Mr.. Moran
of Davis, attended an Industrial ban
quet at Uniontown, Pa, on Tuesday
night.
Asa Lewis attended a principals
conference at Grantsville on Monday
and Tuesday.
The junior class of the High schoo1
sponsored a baby popularity contest
in which little Frederick Arthur King
received the largest number Of votes
He is to be presented with a golc
baby ring. Charles Scrip held second
place.
MRS. SAMUEL SIMMONS
| Funeral services were held for Mrs
Samuel Simmons, A years of age, al
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-23

Tuesday night with a party in honor
of the tenth birthday anniversary of
her daughter, Dorothy. The guests
were: Ruth and Ray Houck, Louise
and Marjorie Gortner, Betty and Ger
aldine Carder, Dolly and Eileen Lay
man, Mildred Frickey, Rita Edwards,
Audra Speicher, Dorothy Shumaker,
Joyce Beachy, Ruth Klotz, Betty Nc
Kenzie, Emma Weise, Lottie Patton
and Mary Kathryn Miller.
Mrs. Hayward F. Broadwater was
hostess to the Tuesday Night bridge
club this week. Honors were won by
Mrs. Lena Bender, high; Mrs. B. H.
Bender, low, and Mrs. C. o. Bender,
floating. A two-course luncheon was
served at the close of the games.
Brief Mention
Byron H. Bender, Harry L. Yom-
mer, Stewart Rodamer, Harry L..
/ burst and Jesse Merrill attended the
meeting of the Garrett County Sports
mems association at Oakland last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Mosser, Accident,
are taking the place of Mrs. Mosser's
brother and sister-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Kahl, as tenants on the
farm of DR.. N. R. Davis, east of here.
I Mr.. and Mrs. Kahl left Thursday to
help manage a fruit farm at Dover,
Del.
The last week of July was the tenta-
tive time set for the yearly carnival
by the local fire department at its
meeting Thursday night. A steel lock-
er has been purchased by the depart
ment for the storing of uniforms not
in use An order for raincoats for the
fremen has been approved.
Thirty members of the junior de-
partment of the Y.M.C.A., of Cumber-
land, visited Guy Stanton's maple su-
gar camp Saturday.
The Grantsville Chapter, Future
Farmers of America, of Grantsville
High school and Alvin H. Yoder, local
representative of an agricultural
chemical company, sponsored this
Wednesday night a showing of the
new feature-length motion picture,
"The Soil" which is narrated by Low
ell Thomas.
Miss Betty Tarbell is visiting in
Baltimore and Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Beachy and
! daughter returned Friday morning to
Kalona, Iowa, after visiting his
mother, Mrs. J. W. Folk. Arthur Bea-
chy, with his son, Robert, of Phila-
delphia, visited his mother, Mrs, Folk,
Sunday.
Mrs, P. A. Connolly left Sunday for
a visit with her husband in New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Yoder visited
relatives at Boswell, Pa, Sunday.
Melba Miller Riley attended three
day National Hairdressers' convention
at New York City this week.
Mrs. Fred Livengood was a week
end guest Of Mrs. Ruth Smouse, Cum
| berland.
Rev. and Mrs. A. M. Wright, Sails
bury, Pa, were dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Emmons Warwick on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Miller and fam
! lily visited Mrs. Miller's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. H. E. Hershberger, near
Meyersdale, over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. ]. johnson left
Wednesday to spend Easter with their
son-in-law and daughter, DR.. and Mrs.
H. L. Binkley, Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Hilary Resi- was admitted to
Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, Sun
day.
Mrs. Walter Price, Breezewood, Pa,
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. M.
w. Kinsinger.
Joseph Swauger, Akron, O., visited
his brother, Albert Swauger, and fam
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Gard Of Thanks

We appreciate so much the kind
words and deeds of our friends and
neighbors during the illness and fol-
lowing the death of our beloved
mother, the late Mrs. Annie Elizabeth
Calhoun.
We extend our thanks to those who
were so thoughtful in sending flowers
and donating the use of their automo-
biles for the funeral service.
THE CHILDREN.
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Card of Thanks

We wish to express our sincere ap-
probation and thanks to all who rem
dered service and sympathy during the
illness and following the death of our
husband and father, the late John A.
Fike. THE FAMILY.
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the Maple Springs Brethren church
on Friday, March 8. Her husband and
the following children survive: Ken
meth, Clarence, Delmar, and James
Simmons, and one daughter, Mrs. Gle
dith Hunt. The deceased had been {,
sufferer from dropsy for more than a
year.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1939-03-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Harvey visited
Mr.. and Mrs. George White, near Mt.
Lake Park, on Sunday.
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II. ID. A. Schedule

Monday, March 27, Kitzmiller Sen
ior All club at A p. m.
Tuesday, March %, Kitzmiller Jun
ior All club at A p. m. Oakland
Homemakers club at 1880 p. m. at the
home of Mrs. Ernest Townshend.
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Card of Thanks

We desire to express our thanks and
appreciation to all our friends for
their kindness and helpfulness follow
ing the death of the late Charles c..
MacCubbin.
We especially want to thank those
who gave flowers and donated the use
of their cars for the funeral services.
WIFE AND DAUGHTER.
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26
Imperial County
Declared Free of
Illegal Gambling
Officers Declare Clean
Sweep Made in Valley
At Warren's Orders

Imperial Valleys seven
cities and rural areas were
free of illegal gambling, slot
machines, and punchboards,
officers said Wednesday.
Sheriff Robert w. Ware and the
chief of police in each city declar-
ed operators needed the mo illegal
gambling ultimatum issued last
week and had set their establish
ments in order well in advance of
the deadline at midnight Tuesday.
Representatives of the seven
city councils and chiefs of police
for the municipal areas and Dis
trict Attorney Elmer Heald and
Ware for the rural areas complied
with the request of Attorney Gen
eral Earl Warren and ordered strict
observance of state gambling laws
throughout the county.
Hot-Cha parlors closed in I'm
perial, illegal gambling equipment
was moved out, and card players
warned to cease any banking or
percentage games well in advance
of the deadline. Chief of Police
Bill Burton said. Chief of Police
Guy Echols of Calexico said he
made a clean sweep "a hours ahead
of the deadline by issuing an order
Continued on Page 6. Col. a
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26
Committee Fayors
Gaming Ship Bill

WASHINGTON, July 26. up
A house judiciary subcommittee to-
day approved a bill to permit the
federal government to act against
"offshore' gambling ships. 1t will
re-write the bill to exempt all
legitimate pleasure" craft.
The group voted to report the
rewritten measure to the full judi
ciary committee tomorrow, after
hearing two witnesses advocate the
measure and three oppose it.
One of the opponents, Rep. Lee
E. Geyer, D., Cal,s charged that
the bill, proposed by Attorney Cen
eral Frank Murphy and introduced
by subcommittee Chairman Eman-
uel Celler, D., N. Y, was instigated
by California gambling interests
who were losing their trade to
gambling ships operating off the
California coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26

'clasS Boy Scout, Wene OIL iiiNo
with his troop 10 days ago. They
entered Baxter state park to climb
Mount Katahdin, which is a mile
high. At dusk, Dom disappeared.
It went for a walk after we made
camp" he said. II wanted to see
what the land was like around
there. I thought / might try to climb
up one of those cliff and see the
view.
Before I could get back to the
camp a kind of fog set in. I don't
know whether 1t was a real fog or
low cloud. I started back the way
I thought the camp was, but didn't
get there. It got dark and got
kind of scared and sat down under
tree. I guess I went to sleep for
while. It was still dark when l
woke up, but by and by the sun
came up and I tried walking toward
where 1 thought the camp was
again.
"I got hungry after a while so 1
ate some wild strawberries I found
in the woods. Whenever saw any
berries I ate them, but l never
found enough and was always hun
cry l wandered about all that day
and it got night again and I sat
down beside a tree and went to
sleep, and by and by it got light
again and the sun came up.
It started looking for the camp
again, but another day passed and
it got night again. Then I sort OF
lost track of the days and don't
know when it was that l fell in
that brook I was wandering
through the woods and didn't see
it and feel in. I had torn my
clothes before and they got soaked
and so did the matches / had in my
pocket so I couldn't start a fire
anymore.
There were lots of bramble BUSH
es and they tore my clothes right
off. lost my clothes little bit
at time until I didn't have any.
1 just kept on wandering around,
hoping to find that camp. I climbed
up into trees several times every
day and tried to see where I was,
but the only thing. I could see was
lot of trees.
Toward the last I was getting
awfully weak and I fell down sew
eral times day. l guess I might
have tainted once, because l didn't
remember anything for quite a
while. I had just about given up
ever getting anywhere when I came
to that river, and I thought heard
someone so I hollered and that
guide found me. was so weak I
couldn't have gone much longer" ;"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26
|. A. Waterfront
Tieup Delayed

SAN PEDRO. July 26, UP)-A
threatened tieup of ships at Los
Angeles harbor over the suspension
of 81 members of waterfront C. I. o.
longshoremen was held in allegiance
today awaiting full investigation by
the department of labor.
The 81 longshoremen were or
dered suspended from employment
for one week in a ruling by Arbiter
irwin Stalmaster because the men
allegedly refused to pass through
a picket line at the dock of ship
being loaded with scrap iron for
Japan.
Stalmaster maintained the picket
line had no connection with any
labor dispute.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26
Japanese Begin Blockade Of Canton
Foreign Area, Blaming Smugglers

1t was learned, however. that sew
eral Europeans were searched by
japanese police who were polite
and conciliatory toward them.
The closing of the Pearl river
effective at midnight. was OPS
cribed by japanese as a military
measure in their drive against Chi
ang Kai-Shek's forces in south
Chine.
IN Tokyo, meanwhile, officials
announced that the Manchukuan
government has invoked its nation
al defense act after continued gen.
eral fighting on the Manchukuo-
Outer Mongolia frontier.
Soon afterward, the Japanese
supreme war council met to dis
cuss the frontier situation and the
Chinese-Japanese war.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26

dled-bllc SlA lSC" IiiSiobu Noe'oSo'
New York, New Jersey and Penn
sylvania. Meteorologists offered lit
tie hope for the sustained rainfall
needed to salvage farm crops.
Damage was estimated in the
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
New York state was the hardest
hit and agricultural officials said
that the lack of rainfall had broken
60-year record. Water supplies
were dangerously low in many parts
of the state.
Scattered showers yesterday gave
only slight relief, the rainfall in
most areas being only fraction oil
an inch.
For the second consecutive day
New York City's millions sweltered
in heat wave.
Holton v. Noyes, New York state
agricultural commissioner, said the
situation was growing more acute
daily" He said it was impossible
to estimate the crop and timber
damage. He said unless there was a
"drenching rain the farmers OF
the state would face plenty of real
hardship.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26

Refuses
Sanction
Slot Machine Bill,
ANA Park Plan,
Ne ct Disfavor

Governor Culbert l. Olson
Wednesday applied the pock-
ct veto to three bills originat-
ing or applicable to Imperial.
county.
One would have provided sl75,000
for National Guard unit in I'm
perial Valley "if and when author
lied by the United States govern
ment; a second provided for des-
truction of slot machines and other
gambling devices confiscated by law
enforcement officers when used in
violation of the law; and third,
supported by the Ell Centro Cham
Der of Commerce, empowered the
state park commission to exchange
state lands for private lands in the
ANA state park.
The governors failure to sign the
bills conceded with last-minute
rush to beat a deadline Tuesday
night on the bills Olson approved
Secretary of State Frank c. Jordan
at Sacramento announced that 1924
of the 1897 bills passed by the 53rd
legislature will be enacted into law
effective Sept. 10.
Olson signed 1077 bills. vetoed 142
and pocket-vetoed 49, The total
of 1124 bills to become law Is the
second largest in history, exceeded
only by the 1920 total in 1881. Forty
five bills go into effect without
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SAN FRANCISCO. July 2s. lUP)

SAN FRANCISCO, July 26. CUP)
james w. Engstrom, who served
two terms as president of the pow
erful maritime federation of the
Pacific had an impression" Harry
Bridges was Communist, and
himself joined the party to win
Communist support, he testified
today in the Bridges deportation
hearing.
Engstrom several times was rep
rimanded by trial examiner James
Lands for charging that Commun-
lists used white girls to lure negroes
into the party. Such testimony was
ordered stricken from the records
as irrelevant.
Engstrom said he was a candi-
date for presidency of the MFP
III 1886 when he was told his cam
didacy would be strengthened II
be became a Communist. He said
an Intermediary promised him the
support of Bridges if he would
join the party.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26

grinning. II married him when l
was 18. We lived together about a
year and half, then started fight
ing constantly. I hit him playfully
on the head one night and that was
that"
Mrs. West, 80, was slender, blonde
and demurely handsome in the po-
lice station where she was question
ed before she was locked up. Police
found her and Mary Ellen Richards,
%, in rooming house. Mrs. West
was just entering with a man she
had met a short while before on
Market street when detectives took
her. They had been tipped off by
girl she had met since coming
here.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26

rTulC company ana Olo ASriCuiIui -
al workers union.
Holmes Bishop, of Orange, state
president of the farmers organiza-
tion, directed his attack at Kenneth
Fulton, executive secretary to Gov
Culbert L. Olson, who held two
hearings in Sacramento and this
week demanded an accounting of
action by Yuba county officers.
The woman arrested was Mrs.
Carrie Morris, Al, resident of a
federal migratory camp the past
three months. She was one of four
pickets who reformed a line aban-
doned Friday at the Dantoni ranch.
They were all charged with viola
tion of the county anti-picketing
ordinance.
Today's arrests brought the total
in the dispute to ST.
THE governors office Bishop
charged, has admitted that it has
no authority in the disturbance. yet
even with the sheriff himslf attack
ed by rioters, the governors office
gives publicity to charges of kid
naping' when violators of the law
are arrested.
"The people of California will not
stand for any executive fomentine
labor disputes and causing more
strife which will eventually leao
us into bankruptcy.
where does the governor get the
authority to step into a local sit
uation. using the office of the chief
executive of the state as means
of moral support and publicity to a
disturbance which cannot even be
classed as a labor difficulty"
AT the same time, Sheriff Bert
Ullrey of nearby Butte county an
nounced a special patrol of peach
orchards would be started today
Continued on Page 6, Col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26

HONG KONG, July 26. (UP -
Japanese began searching Chinese
and some. foreigners entering or
leaving the foreign area of Can
ton today on the deadline set for
blockade of the Pearl river between
Hong Kong and Canton.
Japanese insisted that they were
not at present starting to blockade
the area in the drastic way they
are blockading the British con-
cession at Tientsin.
Japanese officials said that only
Chinese pedestrians were searched
and that the purpos of the search
was to prevent currency smuggling.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26
Court Dismisses
Antitrust Action
Against Doctors
Legal War Over Group
Medical Aid Plan Ends
With ANA Victorious

WASHINGTON, July 26.
(UP) = Justice James M.
Proctor, of the District of
Columbia Federal Court to-
day dismissed the govern
ment antitrust proceedings against
the American Medical association.
He held that the practice of medi-
cine is a profession and that the
Sherman antitrust act does not
apply to it. The act, he said, ap-
plies only to businesses and trades.
The department of justice had
obtained indictments against the
ANA, three other medical organiza-
tions and 81 prominent physicians
on the grounds that they had con-
spired to restrain trade by fighting
a group system of medical care at
flat monthly charges.
Today's action sustained the
AMA's demurrer to the indictment.
Unless Justice Proctor's ruling is
reversed by a higher court. it will
have the effect of closing the case
in favor of organized medicine.
The government acted when the
Group Health Association. Inc, pro-
tested that the District of Columbia
Medical Society was discriminating
against it. The group was formed
here to provide low cost medical
care. especially for the lower income
groups. 1t found that certain hos
pitals and doctors refused to accept
patients referred to them by the
groups own doctors.
The government investigated cir
cumStances of this alleged discrim-
ination for eight weeks and then
presented the case to the grand
jury here. The indictments fol-
lowed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26
Box Score on Bills
Signed by Olson

SACRAMENTO. July 26. (UP)-
Here's the boxscore on what hap
pened to the 1897 bills passed by
the 1889 legislature:
Signed by governor. lott.
Law without signature, 45.
Veto overriden. 2.
Total becoming law. l124.
Vetoed by governor. 142.
Pocket vetoed by governor. 131.
Of the 510 senate bills, Alb were
signed, rs vetoed, IL effective with
out signature, SO pocket vetoed. In
the assembly, 887 bills were passed,
664 were signed, lie vetoed, 33
without signature, 2 overridden
veto, 70 pocket vetoed
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26
Fox Reports Good
Health at Camp

DR.. Warren Fox, county health
officer, returned Wednesday from a
visit to the Hipass health camp,
and reported that all of the IA
children registered at the camp
were in good health.
Fox reported that every child in
the camp has shown weight gain
during the past week
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26
Negro Found Dead
In Bed Here

Warren Kirkpatrick, 68, Negro
resident of Ell Centro for 20 years,
was found dead in bed at his home
at 1853 State street Wednesday
morning.
The body was taken to the Lem
ons funeral establishment pending
funeral arrangements.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26

Marysville, Ohio, June l9, and was
arrested here last night. One of the
three girls who escaped with her
was also retaken.
II had a good time and it was
worth it," she said. Il got the bug
to escape when I went before the
parole board after seven years and
was told that I would have to spend
the rest of my life in prison. Hell,
you can't do that to young woman.
I waited five years for my break
and l didn't muff it."
She was asked about T. Edward
West, her husband the son of a
wealthy and prominent family,
whom she killed in 1927.
"He couldn't take it, she said
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26
City's Water Shut
Off; Bill Overdue

NCGALES, Sonora, Mex, July
26. CUP)-The little matter of an
unpaid bili today left this entire
city without water supply.
Local water sources have been
dry for several weeks and the town
has been forced to buy its water
from the town of Nogales. Ariz
Just across the border.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26
Terrorists Bomb
London Station

LONDON, July 26. (UP)-Two
explosions in the Kings Cross sub
way station, attributed to Irish Re-
publican army terrorists, injured
at least six persons today and
caused extensive damage.
The explosions occurred in the
parcel room, a wooden structure
opposite the main entrance to the
station and separated from it by
a driveway. Ambulances took the
injured to hospitals.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26

luSlOned wife, was chagrlned that
the court had found no grounds
for her complaint of fraud.
Il find it impossible to believe
that she (Mrs. Eagan) was deceiv-
ed," Judge Frank c. Collier said
in dismissing charges of fraud and
impersonation against Phipps. "I
am of the opinion that the marriage
and the sustaining of the marriage
relationship was pretense on both
sides and that no one was deceived
at any stage of the game"
This was counter to Mrs. Eagan's
contention that she had been de-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26

ceived for five years though she
had often wondered why her shus-
band" always dressed In private.
The dissolution of the strange
marital association was precipitated
when a service station attendant
reported to police that he believed
the wealthy Mrs. Katherine Muir
rays chauffeur. short, stocky. basso-
voiced James Phipps. was In real
ity woman. Taken into custory.
she readily confessed the masquer-
ade which she said she had MAIN
tanned to keep her employment as q
chauffeur,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26
Two Face Bogus
Dollar Charges

SAN JOSE. Cal. July 26. up
Frank Harris, "a, former San Quen-
tin prison convict, and Steve Rus
sell, %, were held here today for
questioning by U. S. secret service
agents in connection with the re-
cent passing of bogus dollars in
Phoenix
Police said a search of the auto
mobile in which the pair we're
riding turned up a sack of assert
edly bogus dollars as well as de-
vice to remove silver from genuine
coin for plating bogus ones of cheap
metal.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26
Ex-Maritime Union President Says
He Joined Reds to Get Bridqes Aid

He said he joined secretly, under
the name of John w. Strom.
He was defeated for the presi-
dency in 1896, but elected in 1887
and reelected in 1898. All other
officers reelected with him, he
said, "Were either Communists or
followers of the party
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-26
Here S News

There was absolutely nothing un-
usual about the weather Wednes-
day. The noon temperature was
l08 average for July. and the hu-
midity point was held at an aver
age mark of 34
Tuesdays maximum was ia, the
minimum 70.