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Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
Mo|otov Speech May Clarity Soviet
Aims in Baltic, Attitude to War

MOSCOW, Oct. 80. (UP)-Clarifi-
cation of future Soviet policy to-
ward the Baltic sea area, toward
Germany and toward the European
war generally was believed likely
tonight in connection with the
forthcoming meeting of the SUI
preme Soviet.
Premier and Foreign Minister
Viacheslav Molotov is expected to
address the meeting, although 1t
was not certain whether he would
appear before the opening session
tomorrow or later.
No official information concern
ing his speech was given but it was
believed that he would review the
question of Soviet penetration III
the Baltic and re-define Soviet
German relations. The chief prob
lem in relations with the northern
states at present is in connection
with deadlocked negotiations with
Finland.
dispatches from HelSingfors
said it was believed that FinlandS
position, now approved by all par
liamentary parties, was flatly OPP
posed to the reported demands OF
Russia for bases on Finnish terri
tory and that the government would
so advise Moscow
Molotov's speech also was believ-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
Paul Marsh Dies
OF Heart Attack

Paul Marsh. so, operator of an Ell
Centre cleaning establishment for
20 years, died at his home in Ell
Centre Monday morning.
A heart attack was said to have
caused his death. He had been in
i'll health for approximately a
month.
Marsh was born in Lincoln, Neb.
He established the firm which bears
his name more. than 20 years ago.
He was interested in civic affairs
throughout his residence in FL Gen.
tro.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Amanda Marsh; four daughters,
Mrs. Elizabeth Daugherty, Mrs.
Dorothy Butler, Mrs. Barbara Wing
er, and Miss Alton Marsh. all of Ell
Centre; and two sons, Willard and
Paul jr., also of El Centro.
The body was taken to the Ie-
mons mortuary. Funeral arrange
ments will be announced later.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
Of
Inmates In Mess

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 30. (UP)-
Director of Institutions Aaron j..
Rosanoff today reported to Gov.
Culbert Olson that guardianship
matters, involving property of state
mental hospital inmates, have
been for many years, and still are,
in a rather chaotic state
The guardianships are handled
by the secretary of the institutions
department, the position held until
Oct. 81 by Frank Schully, Los An
geles, whom Rosanoff discharged
for asserted incompetence.
The director emphasized that his
charges of mismanagement of the
inmates property go back farther
than Schullys term of office, noting
that an audit made when Scully
succeeded Howard H. Lipsey in the
position last January disclosed nu-
merous deficiencies and discrep-
ancies."
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30

: At Moscow Tass, official Soviet
news agency reported that the ship
had left Murmansk, North Russian
port, on Saturday. On that basis,
mariners estimated that she could
not reach this vicinity before We'd
nesday. However, there was feel
ing that she had sailed several days
before Saturday and that the news
had been withheld to confuse
British warships blockading the en-
trance to the Baltic.
Neither the Russian nor German
governments would give any in
formation on the status or destina-
ton of the City of Flint, but it was
believed that she had left MUIR
mansk for some German port, prob
ably flying the Nazi flag, with the
American crew of Al aboard.
The ship, bound for British ports
with a cargo partly classified by
Germany as contraband, was cap
tured by the German pocket bat
tleship Deutschland and taken to
Murmansk, neutral port, for re
pairs" by German prize crew.
If the ship were bound this way,
the most likely place to observe
her would be when she passed
Elsinor, off the narrowest point
of the strait between Denmark and
Norway, going from the Kattegat
to the Baltic. Danish coastal look
outs said the ship might already
have passed, unnoticed in the dark
ness and stormy weather.
If she is in this vicinity she is
in real peril. A storm Saturday
and Sunday scattered the German
mine field and drove more than
80 mines ashore near Siege, on the
Danish east coast, not far from
where the German patrol ship Este
accidentally struck a German mine
week ago and was blown up with
a loss of SO lives.
The channel will not be safe
again until the sea has calmed and
has been swept of mines. 1t was
recalled that the Este had a Ger
man pilot aboard when it was
sunk.
1t was believed that German
warships would go out to escort
the City of Flint toward German
port, and a clash between German
and British ships over the prize
was seen as a possibility.
German sources had estimated
that it would take the City of Flint
seven days to go from Murmansk
to a German port but here, it was
believed that she could make $50
miles a day and negotiate the 1900
miles in four days.
(The City of Fiint's best speed
was believed to be II knots an hour
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30

most careful consideration and STU
dy to the effect Of this proposed
constitutional amendment upon the
operation of the . district and
of the continuance Of education
generally throughout the state,
without reference to the social and
economic PHILOSOPHERS involved :.
THE board believes that the ad-
option of said amendment would
make it impossible for this district
as we'll as other school districts to
continue to render efficient SER
vices AS public officials charged
with the duty of governing Central
high school and protecting its in
terests the board believes it to be
their duty to point out these dam
gers to the people of the district :"
Under the proposed 30-Thursday
act, school districts of the state
would be embarrassed for funds.
Payment of school district taxes
could be made, and no doubt would
be made, in warrants. With state
treasury pressed for cash, the state
probably would be forced to remit
to the schools in warrants, thus
precipitating complete breakdown
Of educational facilities.
The boards resolution is diplo-
rnatically phrased to state that
efficient" service would be impos-
sible, indicating that trustees feel
schools could be kept open, but on
greatly restricted basis
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
House Maps Action
On Neutrality TO
Bring Vote Soon
Test on Embargo Issue
Starts Tuesday With
Backers Confident

WASHINGTON, Oct. sc.
(UP)-The house today pre-
pared for consideration of the
neutrality bin tomorrow by
agreeing unanimously to give
the rules committee until midnight
to file a rule providing that the bill
be sent to conference.
The death of Rep. chester c..
Bolton, r., Ohio, had complicated
the situation. The House wished to
adjourn out of respect to Bolton
out under House rules could not
begin the neutrality debate tomor-
COW unless the rule were filed to-
day.
Granting of unanimous consent
request by Majority Leader Sam
Rayburn, D., Texas, removed that
complication.
The nine-man Oklahoma Demo-
cratic House delegation, at a meet
ing Just before the house convened,
agreed unanimously to support the
administration bill, members said.
When the House last voted on the
arms embargo issue three members
voted against the administration
and four in favor of repeal of the
arms embargo.
Both sides conceded that the
House vote, expected Wednesday
night or Thursday, would be close.
Administration leaders said their
polls indicated a repeal majority
of not more than 80 votes. Rep.
Hamilton Fish, r., N. Y, opposing
repeal, predicted the embargo would
be retained, but by less than 10
votes.
The House rules committee meets
this afternoon to approve a rule
for consideration of the bill, with
debate beginning tomorrow The
rules committee will recommend
Continued on Page 8, Col g.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30

the diplomatic struggle still over
Shadowed the occasional artillery
barrages on the Rhineland front
and the drone of isolated warplanes
over the North Sea.
Winter closed in on the Western
Front. Snow blocked the Alpine
passes. Icy flood waters of the
Rhine resulted in a call by the
Duke of Windsor for the women
of France and Britain to speed
up their knitting needles because
the boys in the front line need
woolen comforters. Ice burdened
the wings of reconnaissance planes
and, according to the official COM
muniqueS, the might was calm"
The lack of military action did
not necessarily blast persistent AL
lied predictions that the war in
earnest" would soon be launched
or Nazi declarations that, since
Adolf Hitler's peace was rejected,
the destructive might of German
armed forces would now "shoWer
down" on the British Isles.
The vast Notifications on both
land fronts, the defensive power
of anti-aircraft and fast fighting
planes and the indeciSive tests be-
tween Nazi air and British sea pow
er already has made the war a
conflict in striking contrast to the
lightning duel to death so often
predicted before Hitlers invasion of
Poland.
Even more in contrast to the
predictions, it has started many
observers talking about the posi-
bility of a long sporadic war-a
war of blackouts and immobility
reminiscent of the Thirty Years
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
Boy, 7.Missing in
Ruuued Mountains

WINSLOW, Ariz., Oct. 80. UP)-
Search for seven-year old Bruce
Crozier who became separated from
his parents on a deer hunt in the
rugged Mogollon Rim country, was
intensified today.
More than 200 men, including
CCC enrollees, lost the trail of the
boy after he had been traced to a
mountain top by bloodhounds,
which became confused by deer
tracks.
r. E. Crozier, the boys father
reported his disappearance early
Sunday morning. The parents were
on a deer hunt near Carr lake,
about 65 miles southwest of here
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
Alice Brady
In New York

NEW YORK, Oct. 80. UP)-
Alice Brady, star of light opera
comedy, drama and the movies, dice
Saturday night after long ILL
ness. She would have been Al next
Thursday.
She had not been we'll for several
years Her father, William A. Brady
theatrical producer, brought her to
New York three weeks ago from
Hollywood where her last film work
was in Young Mr.. Lincoln"
Miss Brady, who made her first
appearance in New York in the
chorus of the "Mikado' at the age
of 18, was best known as a CONNIE
dienne.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30

small OF the Security F1fSt NaClOnal
branch in El Centro on Proposition
One when he said:
present banking legislation rep
resents the product of hundreds OF
years of experience. 1t is the direct
result of abuses in the past that
have been remedied by legislative
control
Regulations too many to name
restrict banking activities and pro-
tect the public, as we'll as the banks
themselves.
However, the 30-Thursday act,
which sets up q banking system
of its own as the sole depository
of all public funds, does not provide
such regulations over its own sys-
tenn.
None of the regulations which
make present banks toe the line
and others which guarantee their
solvency will apply to the proposed
0-Thursday banking system, Small
said.
Directors of the bank are vir-
tually unrestricted. Not even stock
holders could halt them. (For the
act provides that stock cannot be
voted by proxy and no bank in the
nation would be large enough to
hold a stockholders meetingD
All the experience of centuries
in banking control will be thrown
overheard if 30-Thursday passes. .
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
Arizona Governor
Takes axe Charge Of
Ruth Judd Search
Escaped Killer Leaves
No Clues Behind i'm
Flight From Asylum
BULLETIN

PHOENIX, Oct. 30. UP)-After
five days of fruitless activity, Lon
Jordan. the two-gun sheriff of Mar
icops county, said today he hoped
either TO capture Winnie Ruth
Judd, the trunk murderess, in an
other "a hours, on have good idea
of where she was hiding.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 30.
(UP)-Gov. Robert T. Jones,
obviously annoyed by his
states failure to apprehend
W.hilie Ruth Judd, tiger
woman" murderess, abandoned va
cation plans and returned here to-
day to assume personal charge OF
the search.
He left San Francisco, northern
most point of his interrupted Ore
gon vacation trip" last night and
saidShe would press an investiga-
ton into conditions at the Arizona
insane asylum which made her
escape possible.
His two appeals for her to sur
render and his promises that he
would make no reprisals against
her if she returned had gone un-
needed.
After a weekend barren of de-
velopmentS-a weekend in which
some of his deputies went deer
hunting g-Sheriff Lon Jordan cock
ed his high-heeled cowboy boots on
his desk and said he couldn't think
of anything else to do, but wait
and hope.
He said it looked as though the
34-year-old blonde who killed two
Of her girl friends here eight years
ago, chopped up their bodies and
shipped the parts to Los Angeles
in two trunks and a hat box, had
given the forces of law and order
the slip.
She walked out of the asylum last
Tuesday night and vanished, as if
into Arizonas thin air Police in
Los Angeles, which was one of her
announced objectiveS, reported as
glumly that they too had nothing
Continued on Page g. Col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
ON BLOCKADE RUNNING SHIP
Pc FACE

Stressing theme of Peace,
nlans went forward Monday at
Brawley to make this years coun-
trywide celebration of Armistice
Day the most spectacular in valley
history.
American Legion sponsors, who
will supervise the monster parade
and other entertainment, -emphasiz-
ed that behind the celebration VIII
be a fervent appeal to citizens to-
ward avoiding ENHANCEMENT with
warning nations of Europe.
The celebration will start on FRI
day night, Nov 10, with dance
at the Dunlack hotel, starting at
8 pm. .-. ~s. -
Armistice Day, Saturday, Nov. IL
will find a patriotic parade OF noats
and bands, exercises in Plaza Park
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30

sponsored by the Elks and the Le-
giOn, during which Richard Welch
of Riverside, chairman of the Vet
Grams Welfare Board will speak,
and pony races and barbecue in
the afternoon. The races will be
at the airport.
Merchants generally throughout
the valley cooperated with Armis-
tice Day officials and agreed to
close all day Saturday.
1--WE are going to make Armistice
Eve Saturday night!" one execu-
tive committeeman said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
Reports Derry Ideal
Nordic Woman III

BERLIN, Oct. 30 (UP)-Author-
lied quarters denied today reports
published in England that Miss
Unity Valkyrie Freeman Milford,
blonde 25-year-old daughter of Lord
Redesdale whom Fuehrer Adolf
Hitler has described as the ideal
Nordic woman was i'll in Munich.
Miss Freeman-M Milford is living
quietly in Munich, where she was
visiting at the outbreak of war, it
was said.
1t had been reported in England
that she had taken an overdose
of a sleeping potion following a
quarrel with Hitler over his attitude
toward England.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
England Continues
War of Words

LONDON, Oct. 30. (UP) - The
British ministry of information
published a white paper today
rurporting to show that Adolf Hit
Ter himself gave orders that Jews
in Nazi concentration camps might
be flogged up to go strokes.
The white paper" was another
blast in the war of words and
propaganda being waged by both
sides in the European war.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
Tummy Ache Ends
Fast for Fun

81 lived 80 days without food
E. Braxton Dodd, as, Calipatria
shoemaker, bOasted Monday as
he ended his fast for fun.
"The first thing ] did after l
stopped fasting was to eat too
much," the Imperial county JAN
prisoner declared as he prepared
to cut down on his food allow
ance for "tapering on" a regular
Jail diet again.
Dodd whiled away part of a
GG-day Jail sentence by proving
his contention that human
being could live 80 days without
food. He proved his contention
He took nothing but coffee and
cigarettes.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
OLDEST EX-STATE
EXECUTIVE DIES

CARSON CITY, New, Oct. 80.
(UP)-Roswell Keyes Colcord, 100,
oldest former governor of a state
in America, who served as governor
of Nevada from 1891 to 1895. died
today.
Gov. Colcord, born April 25, 1889,
at Seaport, Maine, observed his
Tooth birthday last April 25, receiv-
ing congratulatory kilograms from
governors in all parts of the union.
Cause of death was not announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
British Destroyer
FIGHTS Off Planes

LONDON, Oct. 80. CUP)-A Bri-
tish destroyer flotilla fought two
German bombing planes today, the
admiralty announced.
The fighting was south of Dog
ger Bank, sometime this morning,
the announcement said.
The destroyers suffered no cas-
ualties, and damage to the at
tacking bombers was undetermin-
ed, it was announced.
Dogger Bank is in the heart OF
the North Sea blockade area. The
German bombers apparently were
carrying on the Nazi counter-attack
against the British blockade.
The Bank lies midway between,
England and Denmark, in tbI
North Sea.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30

camped proved to be experienced
in harvesting crops, Brown said,
but a few of them came from the
east and are new to the work.
All construction work at the
camps was completed before the
opening day except four homes for
guards scheduled to be built at the
Brawley camp. Work on the houses
was expected to be started late this
week or early next week.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30

OUUpG, pVINIIUIIIIB IIIt CAT 10 TUII'
off the highway and overturn three
times half a mile east of Midway
Wells early Sunday morning. She
and the bridegroom. George Rogers,
25-year-old sailor, were taken to a
Yuma hospital, Highway PATROL
man Alleger said.
Edwin Grafton, 20, FL Centre,
went to sleep at the wheel of his
sedan a mile and a half east OF
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30

Coyote Wells Sunday night. The
car travelled on the wrong side OF
the highway before crashing head
on into a bridge, Highway PATROL
men Paul Brown and Bill Tackett
said. Grafton was uniniured.
The force of the impact tore out
five 8x8 guard posts and looaened
IL others. The 6x6 guard railing
Continued on Page Q. Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30

ley camp has tent sites for 200
families and the mobile camp at
Calipatria accommodations for $50
families.
Both camps probably will be filled
to capacity by the close of the
week, Brown said, as the laborers
are expected to come drifting down
from the north in time to pick 800
acres of fall peas scheduled to be
ready to harvest about Nov. 8.
Most of the laborers already en-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
OIL COMPANY ASKS
TAX INVESTIGATION

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. CUP)-
The Petrol corporation, Los Angeles,
today APPLIED to the board of tax
appeals for re-determination of
$78.004 income tax deficiency for
1896.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
Winter + Freezes Warfare
I'm Western Front Forts
By JOE ALEX MORRIS -
United Press Foreign News Editor

Europe waited solidy today for the long-threaened
holocaust of totalitarian War-and still it did not come.
Two months after the formal declaration of hosttes
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30

Back-fire-
That daZed and vacant look on
the face of Wilmer Swerdfeger was
because:
He marked two "ballots" in the
= Post-Press football guessing con-
test, one for himself and one, as
joke, for E. A. Tromblee. He tried
hard to pick the winners on his
own ballot and tried just as hard
to make Tromblee'S ballot a poor
one.
When it was all over Winners
record was two right and eight
wrong. Tromblees was nine right
and three wrong!
Ride 'em, Cowboy
With ten gallon hat and cowboy
boots, Carl Rogers (henceforth to
be referred to as the Bronco Kid
went out to have a look at bunch
of Arizona ponies, with the idea
of breaking them to ride. With rare
forethought, the Bronco Kid took
along one Leo Vaughn to help in
the breaking.
According to our informant, the
Bronco Kid selected the widest,
most uncivilized nag in the bunch
and announced he would ride that
critter until it said uncle" With
the trembling brute saddled and
bridled and ready to commit may
hem on its first rider, the Kid re-
marked:
"Shucks, that's too easy. You ride
him, Leo"
So Leo and the horse went to
town and after the dust died down
the spectators found that Leo was
still there and the horse was tanned.
Nov for real tough one" said
Bronco and pointed out a paint
pony When the pony made no OBJ
jections to being saddled the Bron-
co Kid explained that he was too
wise.
"a sneak-killer, if 1 ever saw
one" the Kid remarked as he
swung into the saddle. The spec
tators closed their eyes, fearful of
the explosion of horsefleSh that was
to follow. Has the Kid at last met
his equal? they wondered.
Apparently the Kid hadn't, be-
cause the paint trotted off as nice
as pie Which was to be expected,
because Carls little niece had been
riding him to school for quite a
spell!
Off and On
And while we're in a horsewrit-
ing mood, Gid you hear about Hugh
Osborne Sunday at the practice
session of the sheriffs posse?
We noticed Hugh early in the
day, trotting sedately up the high
Continued on Page 8, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
Lives in Danger
AS Flint Soils
= hru Mine Fields
British May Intercept is. Vessel on
Dash to German Port in Charge of Nazi
Prize Crew; Whereabouts is Mystery

COPENHAGEN, Denmark Oct. 80. (UP)-Lookouts
along the of the Danish straits watched
day the American freghter City of Flint believed head
ed for these stormy and mnenfesed waters route to
Germany in charge of a German prize crew.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
Migratory Crews
Move Into Cunps

The winter harvest began in Imperial Valley
Monday with the official opening of the federal migratory
labor camps at Brawley and Capatria
Only 25 families moved into each camp the open
ing day. Camp Manager Robert H. Brown said The Braw-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30

ed lively to reiterate the neutral
position which the Soviet govern
ment has strongly maintained in
the European war.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
Sleepy Drivers
Cause 2 Crashes

Sleepy drivers took the blame Monday for two week
end traffic accidents which bridal party to the hos
pita damaged bridge and demolished two automobiles.
bride of an hour, Mrs. Marian Rogers, 27, Los An
gees went to sleep at the wheel of her husbands
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
Hiqh School Board Here
Says 30 Thursday PIan
Would Harm Local School
institution Could Not Give Efficient
Service If Required to Operate on
Warrant Basis, Trustee Board Says

Proclaiming that adoption of 30Thursday would make
it impossible for Central Union high school district to
continue to render efficient service the board of trustees
was on record Monday opposed to Proposition One.
The resolution said "The board of trustees have given
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
WOULD
Scrop Bank Laws
Provisions Of Proposed Act Would Junk
All knowledge Gained in Past About
Monetary Procedure. Says Local Man

a Ell Centre banker told
warrants under Thurs
regime he banking chain which
be set u un
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
p DAANlnXe AMBL!Ne
* EPORTER

Impossible
Someone slipped this to us:
"Only a hog and a hen can make
ham and eggs. NOT printing
press!'
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30
= BY LOGAN JENKINS -

JENKINS
Banking provisions in the 30-Thursday act amount to
dscardng everything the nation has learned about bank
control in the past.
This was, the keynote of an attack made by c. H. H.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-30

Butter: Los Angeles 32c: but
terfat, Imperial Valley lob. ranch,
grade A, 42c, manufacturing milk
34c; route gathered cream s0'ac.
L. A. hay, U. S. No. I Sl6.-s17;
U. 5. No. 2. Ieafy 13.50-14; Z. 5. No.
2. S12-S13; Mpls. cash flax Si.76'a.
Evening star., 1939-07-11
Woman Freed From Life Term
By Sympathy Arrested Again

A petty offender since she was IA
she now is 39-Mrs. St. Clair never
had committed a crime of violence.
Her case came into the limelight in
1880, when she pleaded guilty to a
charge of stealing baby clothing
from department store.
When the evidence showed she
had been convicted three times
previously, the late Judge Max S.
Levine in General Sessions had no
alternative under the law but to
sentence her for life.
Gov. Roosevelt ordered an inquiry
when both Judge Levine and John
c. Maher, chairman of the Parole
Commission, agreed she should not
have received life sentence. The
case resulted in widespread demands
that the law be modified to leave
some discretion to the court.