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Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
Cotton Strikers
Celebrate Victory
Entirely Too Soon
Released When Charges
Are Dismissed, Group
Must Face Indictments

MADEIRA. Cal.,. Nov. Is.
(UP) = Conspiracy charges
against % alleged leaders of
a cotton pickers strike were
dropped today when the men
appeared in justice court for pre-
liminary hearing but 13 of the men
remained in custody when it was
revealed the MADEIRA county grand
jury had returned indictments
against them.
District Attorney George Morde-
cal asked the court to dismiss the
charges. The men stood around
court shaking hands, congratulate
ing each other and saying they
would appear at mass meeting
of cotton pickers tonight.
The men returned to the county
Jail to claim their valuableS and
personal property and Sheriff w.
o. Justice ARRESTED 13 men.
Two of the men, Carl Patterson,
Livingston, Workers Alliance Or
ganizer, and Jesse McHenry, Negro,
had been free under $2,500 bond.
A third, Eugene Robertson, is in the
county hospital recovering from an
emergency appendectomy.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
E|ksLay Plans to
Welcome District
Official Thursday

Officials of the Ell Centre
Elks lodge laid plans We'd
nesday for the biggest meet
ting thus far of their fall
and winter schedule when
they announced that L. P. Bonnat
of Anaheim, district deputy grand
exalted ruler, will pay his official
visit to the Ell Centre lodge Thurs
day night.
Bonnat, accompanied by several
California Elks dignitaries. will be
welcomed to Imperial Valley by a
special ceremony, Exalted Ruler Cal
Rector of the El Centro lodge said.
Members and officers of all Elks
lodges in Imperial Valley have been
invited to attend the meeting
Thursday night, he added A free
trout dinner will be served at 7 pm.
at the Flks hall, followed by the
regular meeting at pm.
Bonnat in addition to being dis
trict deputy grand exalted ruler, is
past exalted ruler of Anaheim Lodge
No. 1345 and past vice president of
the California State Elks associa-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
We'll Beat Case
Says Editor Who
Killed Attorney
Mexicali News Veteran
Declares He Shot D.A.
In Self Defense

"How do you say it? We
will beat the casen'
Hawk-faced Jose Castillo,
editor of MeXicali's Ell Reg
ional newspaper, sat on a
wooden bench in the Mexicali Jail
Tuesday afternoon and discussed
his chances of acquittal on a homi-
eide charge growing out of the fatal
shooting of Lie. Mariana Vasquez
Oct. 8.
Beside him on the bench was his
pretty young wife. With her dainty
blue frock and slippers she looked
out of place against the prison
walls.
outside the door of the Jail office
few soldiers in faded khaki
lounged on their rifles. The office
clerk pounded typewriter or gazed
vacantly out the door while the 60
year-old editor told how he came
to shoot a district attorney.
"It was self defense" he said
in broken English that had to be
supplemented from time to time
by an interpreter.
"The district attorney ordered
me to come with him. He said he
was man enough to take care of
me-. When he ordered me into his
car I was afraid and refused. /
followed him in my own machine
and when he stopped at an isolated
spot east of Mexicali I stopped
too. The attorney started firing
first. I did not shoot until he had
me down after we grappled ="
The editor ran hand through
his thin, graying hair.
See he said. HE struck me
over the head, there The scar
of what had evidently been nasty
cash showed above his forehead.
"He was big man. I do not like
to fight, but when your life is
threatened ="
Castillo produced copies of his
paper that carried the story blamed
for the fatal encounter. The story
dealt with disposal of the Garcia
estate, property that once belonged
to Alberto Garcia, notorious chief
of the border police, who was slain
on the desert by Dan Marion in
1881.
The article criticized the manner
in which the attorney had handled
,Contilluec on Page 8; Col ~
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
Farmers Discuss
Mortgages. Loans

available to these agriculturists low
interest loans on crops and farms,
He did not explain how the system
would operate.
Olson also expressed support of
any moves to reduce real estate
and consumption taxes by at least
one third to aid farmers.
Smith led a discussion on Can
industry, labor and agriculture CO.
operate for national prosperity"
"I propose said Mr.. Smith, "a
spirit of consultation between in
dustry, agriculture and labor, not
under dominance of government.
at is not question of whether
industry, labor and agriculture can
cooperate for national prosperity,
but the situation is such that they
most" Smith stated.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15

SAN DIEGO, Nov. Is. (UP)-
Governor Culbert Olson's proposal
for state mortgage and crop loans
at low interest to small farmers
was discussed today at the 21st
annual convention of the California
farm bureau federation.
Olson's proposal and the recon-
mendations of Paul c. Smith, gen.
eral manager of the San Francisco
Chronicle that industry, labor and
agriculture unite to work out a
plan of cooperation for national
prosperity, formed the principal
subjects before the delegates on the
fourth day of their convention.
The governor, addressing the
gathering last night, told the dele
gates that federal crop control pay
ments were not going far enough
to meet the needs of small farmers
and that his administration pro-
poses that the state itself make
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15

WDen Ufle mission, HedQeQ Dy y.
K. Paasikivi, arrived crowd OF
1000 was at the railway station, in
cluding Premier A. K. Cajander and,
as usual, the ministers of friendly
Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The
station platform was wet from an
overnight rain and the weather
was still dull and gray.
Paasikivi was quoted as saying
that Josef Stain and the Soviet
PREMIER Foreign Minister ViacheS-
Law M. Molotov had bid the Finnish
mission smiling farewell at a
banquet Nov 7. Finance Minister
V. A. Tanner, another member OF
the mission, characterized as "ob-
viously erroneous" a Soviet press
statement that Finland's economics
could not endure mobilization more
than from four to seven months.
Reports from the border, neither
confirmed nor denied, we're that
a Soviet airplane had been shot
down; that there had been several
bursts of fire from Finnish anti
aircraft guns aimed at Soviet raid
ers"; that the Russians were going
through such tantalizing maneuverS
as charging the barbed wire from
Continued on Page 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
Coast Mayor Shot
In Political Feud
Pending War Tests

LONG BEACH, N. Y, Nov. IS.
(UP)-A small town mayor was
shot and fatally wounded as he
stood on the steps of his home to-
day and his bodyguard was critic
ally wounded in the left kidney in
what authorities believed was the
aftermath of a police department
political fight.
Mayor Louis N. Edwards died at
Long Beach hospital half an hour
after he was wounded in the side.
AS attaches of Long Beach hospi-
tai worked to save the life of De-
tective James Walsh, the mayors
bodyguard, motorcycle policeman
Alvin Dooley gave himself up for
questioning. Police indicated an
other officer was involved.
Dooley, it was revealed, was de-
feated recently for the presidency
of the Long Beach patrolmen's be-
nevolent association by Walsh, who
had the backing of the mayor.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
Dock Strike Shuts
Down Big Refinery

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. Is. CUP
Waterfront strikes forced rear
rangement of shipping schedules
and led one of the states largest
industries to prepare to shutdown
today.
1t was announced the California
Hawaiian sugar refinery at Crock
EFT would close within 48 hours
throwing 1000 men out of work
unless disputes affecting San Fran
cisco and port of Oakland harbors
were settled within that time.
The Matson Navigation company
at the same time announced its
S. S. Matsonia would not visit San
Francisco on it's current voyage
and that the 200 passengers wno
had planned to board the vessel
here would be taken to Los An
geles by train.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15

of the grand jury said Bonelli had
asked for and received $4,000 to
make up campaign deficit"
The witness was Charles Lick.
brewery executive, who was said
to have testified that, in response
to Bonelli's request, $1,000 in cash
and a check for $1,000 were sent
to Bonelli's office.
When he appeared before the
grand jury last week Bonell de-
MED he had ever told anyone of a
campaign deficit or had asked for
any contributions He said he spent
only $500 for his reelection to the
board, which pays its members $4,000
year
Earlier testimony showed that
Bonelli had acquired ranch prop
critics in California and Arizona
valued at more than s300.000 during
the time his official income was
$4,000 year.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15


intersection. Mrs. Tyler was un-
injured but her two sons, Billie, g.,
and Jack, 4, and her nephew, Tom
my, s, suffered minor cuts from
shattered windshield glass.
Physicians said Mrs. Mead suf-
fered conclusion of the brain and
a compound fracture of the left
wrist. They said her condition was
critical.
The force of the impact between
the two sedans carried Mrs. Mead's
car so feet and caused it to over
turn in the parkway at the south
west corner of the intersection,
Traffic Officer Frank Smyer said.
Mrs Mead was pinned in the wreck
age of her car, forcing rescuers to
lift the machine to eXtricate her,
Front wheels of Mrs. Tyler's Sc
dan rested against the Mead car.
Mrs. Mead is the wife of Andrew
j. Mead, employe of an Ell Centre
creamery.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
Allies
Await
Actor i
British AirpIanes
Complete Flights
Over German Are {
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign News Editor

United Press Foreign News Editor
Nazis warned Wednesday
that the Allies had felt "on-
ly the very beginning OF
Germany's fighting power on the
sea and in the air.
The long expected offensive
against the English-in which neu-
trails must necessarily face increased
dangers still is to come, according
to comment in Berlin on this weeks
allied sea losses and on Mondays
Nazi aerial raid on the Shetland
Islands.
The official German news agency
statement said that two British
flying boats were destroyed and a
British cruiser was believed hit IN
the Shetland Islands raid. -
One U-boat in "the last few days
sank 2600O tons of shipping and
took a prize at sea, the German high
command announced.
Allied commanders have been eX-
pecting a Nazi thrust for long
time. In fact, they have been sur
prised by Adolf Hitler's delay.
Some of them believe that the
fuehrer or his advisers are now so
gravely concerned as to the out
come of a big scale offensive by
land or air that it will be attempted
only in desperation, but the gen.
eral view is that some spectacular
thrust should be expected.
The British announced that Royal
air force bombing planes had COM
pleted series of daylight recon-
naissance flights over the Reich,
Continued on Page 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15

were limited to quota to avoid
competition, and service stations
were blacklisted and refused gaso-
line supplies unless they maintained
prices at a set level.
The indictment was voted by a
special federal grand jury late yes
terday after a five months in
vestigation by the U. S. attorney
generals office. Tons of oil COM
pany records were impounded and
examined.
Those indicted were seven major
companies, five so-called secondary
firms, 81 independents, and two
associations.
Major companies named defen-
dants we're the Standard Oil Com
pany of California, the Texas COM
pany, General Petroleum Corpora
ton of California, Richfield Oil
company, Shell Oil company, Inc,
Underwater Associated Oil COM
pany and the Union Oil company of
California. The so-called secondary
firms indicted were the Gilmore Oil
company. Rio Grande Oil company,
Inc, Seaside Oil company Signal
Oil company, and the Sunset Oil
company.
The two defendant associations
are the independent Refiners' Asso-
citation of California. Inc, and the
Fair Practices association.
These defendants together with
the large number of independents
named had control of 95 per cent
of the gasoline sales of the Pacific
coast, it was charged. Though the
defendants operate only in Califor-
mia, the affects of the alleged con-
splracy were said to have resulted
in higher gasoline prices in the
nearby states of Arizona, Nevada,
Oregon and Washington.
The government claimed that the
two associations were formed only
for the purposes of illegally keeping
up prices. The Fair Practices as
sociation was composed chiefly of
major and secondary companies
and the independent Refineries as
sociation of the many smaller in
dependent companies.
BY a close program of coopera-
ton, the government charges, the
majors bought the gasoline refined
by the independents at prices arbi-
trarily fixed to eliminate competi-
ton.
independents agreed, in return
1t was asserted, to keep up their
retail gasoline prices to the level
set by the majors.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15

'oeOSa Ny sbiiC SOltliIy Sldllu jury,
was accused of two counts of SOL
letting other cafe owners to donate
money to the bribery fund. The
plan allegedly was to pay city
councilmen to vote against a pro-
posed law banning "B-girls".
District Attorney Buron Fits said
there was no evidence that any
councilmen knew of the asserted
bribery plot.
Fits said the mans testimony
may lead to the most sensational
indictment yet returned in the
sweeping expose of graft in the
state board of equalization.
Already indicted are William c.
Bonelli, Los Angeles member of the
state board of equalization, and six
other men on So counts of con-
spiracy and solicitation of bribery
Bonelli and the others will be
arraigned for pleadings Friday.
A witness at yesterdays session
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
Doc Loses Money
On Triplet Births

SEDALIA, Mo, Nov. 15 CUP)-
A. L. Walters delivered triplet sons
this week to Mrs. Elmer Coon but
he lost money on the case because
he made a deal with the parents
Two babies. said the doctor, and
he would charge only for delivering
the first; triplets, no charge; quad
ruplets, no charge and $25 for Mrs
Coon; quins. the family and the
doctor would split the receipts
from picture rights and advertising
endorsements.
DR.. Walters said today he had ex-
pected a multiple birth.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
Demos Condemn
Olson Recall Move

Democratic Central committee
men of Imperial county condemned
the proposed recall of Governo,
Olson in resolution passed at their
meeting in the court house Tuesday
night.
They launched a scathing rebuke
at the promoters of the Ham-Ano-
Eggs movement and lauded the gov
ernor for "his splendid statesman
ship and official consideration" OF
the Ham-and- Eggs plan voted down
by electors of the state Nov. Z.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
District Directors Endorse Plan
To Obtain Airline Stop for Valley

Irrigation district directors We'd
nesday joined hackers of the plan
to make Imperial Valley a stop on
a transcontinental airline.
The board Tuesday passed a reSo-
luton endorsing the American Air
lines proposal to travel via Imperial
Valley on their line between San
Diego and the east.
Board members forwarded to
Washington Wednesday a request
that the Civil Aeronautics authority
meet in Phoenix at the earliest pos
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
0.G. Horne Estate
Valued at $4,000

The late o. G. Horne, pioneer
Imperial Valley banker who died
Oct. 16, left an estate valued at
$4,000, his wife alleged in petit
tion for letters of administration
filed Tuesday.
Mrs. Horne declared her husband
died inteState.
She listed herself and two sons,
Othniel, 10, and Robert, II, as
heirs to the estate. In the petition
the personal property left by Horne
was valued at $4,000 and other
property at $45,oo0, The estimated
annual income from real property
was $l,260.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
SO CALIFORNIA OIL COMPANIES INDICTED
Capone Reported
In PHILADELPHIA

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. Is (UP)
Al Capone was reported with
out confirmation today to be in
Philadelphia, in federal custody,
for treatment of paresis.
One report placed the former
gang leader In a mental hospital
and another said he was at
Philadelphia hotel with his
brother, Ralph, awaiting treat
ment.
Capone's first arrest was made
here. He served a year in
Moyamensing prison in 1929 for
carrying a gun.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
Hammer, Sickle
Posted in PRAGUE

PRAGUE, Nov. Is. CUP)-Walls
and fences in sections of the city
Inhabited by Germans were plast-
cred last night with thousands Of
small placards bearing the hammer
and sickle emblem of Russia and
advising Germans to "clear out be-
fore Stain comes"
Squads of storm troopers were
mobilized at dawn to remove the
posters before the public could see
them.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
L.V.Men TO Attend
State &C. Meet

Imperial Valley was scheduled to
be we'll represented in San Diego
Friday when California Chamber
of Commerce officials consider
state unemployment, the plan of
production for use, and the new
plan for old age pensions.
Residents from all sections of the
valley were invited to attend the
luncheon at the San Diego hotel at
noon Friday, Manager Robert Hays
of the Ell Centro Chamber of Com
merce, said Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
Council Charges
Veterans Scandal

LEAVENWORTH, Kans., Nov. 10.
(UP)-The Leavenworth county vet
Grams council today charged that
soldiers we're being assaulted, maim-
ed, bruised, robbed and even muir
dered, in Balm City Kans., settle
ment near the veterans home at
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
Children Perish
In Burning House

KINGSTON, Ont. Nov. Is. CUP)
When Mrs. William Taylor re-
turned from a shopping trip, yes
terday, she found her home in
flames. She heard her four small
children screaming inside.
She ran to doors and windows
but the heat drove her back. The
children were burned to death as
Mrs. Taylor and neighbors worked
frantically in bucket brigade.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15

sible time to consider the companys
request for authority to establish
the route and make the valley a
scheduled stop for passenger, mail
and express service.
The request for the meeting in
Phoenix was actuated by the boards
desire to have the valley represent
ed at the hearing. Phoenix was
favored because of its central posi-
ton on the route mapped by the
airlines company, the board de-
clared.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15

in more than 80 years, Peyton add
ed. The new ore pocket was dis
covered at depth eight feet be-
low the previous limit of operations
and at a slope depth of $50 feet
The geologist described the pock-
ct as typical of previous lodes min
ed in the Bonanza Shute, as the
Dahlonego diggings are called.
In previous excavations, more
than 100000 was mined in the
area, he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15

Ocu. JOllIl ". SdiiiOull OiiCC WI hCu
near Dahlonego in North Georgia.
Peyton said.
"In spots it looks like there's more
gold than quartz" Peyton said, add
ing that probable assay of $4,000
a ton was putting it conservatively
as it definitely is a bonanza"
He said the vein of gold was two
inches thick, of unknown depth and
appeared as one continuous rib
bon of yellow metal"
The mine had not been worked
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
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Kathleen Burnett, IL, sat down
at home to read new book she
had just selected at the library.
AS she read her expression be-
came slightly puzzled. The longer
she read the more puzzled she be-
came. At last she turned to her
mother, Mrs. Vivian Burnett, and
asked,
Mother, you know this stuff that
you can see but isn't there?"
You mean mirage, don't you?"
her mother replied.
Eyes, but 1 picked out a book
on marriage instead
He Reads Minds
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Breedlove pre-
pared to surprise Mrs. Breedloves
father, c. Fred Henking OF San
Diego, by an unexpected visit on
his birthday anniversary.
They were all packed and ready
to leave wien they received a
letter from him.
Don't come to see me on my
birthday" he wrote, because I am
driving up to Altadena to spend
the day."
Pop! Goes The Pheasant
Don't look now but all those men
you have been trying to reach by
telephone all day have gone pheas-
ant hunting.
He Nailed The job
A group of officers of various
branches of law enforcement were
discussing their respective duties.
One of them asked M. M. Jackson
what he did toward law enforce
ment.
WELL" he drawled, "I took an
examination for the immigration
border patrol several years ago ano
finally got an appointment as a
carpenter
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
Soviet Border incidents
Provoke FinIond's ANGER
Mission Back from Moscow as Reports
OfFrontier Teasing. Anti-Aircraf+
Fire Remain Unconfirmed, Undenied

HELSINGFORS, Finland Nov 15 (UP)-The Finnish
mission returned today from Moscow to report dead
lock in negotiations Russas territorial demands They
found their country already in the first seizures Of state
of nerves over incidents the Russian border.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
Woman Critically
Injured in Crash
At Intersection
Wife of Creamery EmpIoye in Hospital
After Accident at Sixth and Hamilton;
Mrs. VIII. Tyler. jr., Escapes Hurt

Mrs Emma Mead, 60, of 41O Hamilton avenue, was
in critical condition in Ell Centro Wednesday result
of injuries suffered in traffic accident at Sixth and
Hamilton Streets Ell Centre, late Tuesday.
Her and driven by Mrs w H. Tyler Jr, also
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
Strike Uncovers
Fabulous Bonanza

ATLANTA, Ca, Nov. Is. (UP)-Discovery of new
pocket that would assay at least 100000 tom in
of the oldest gold mines in America announced
today by Capt Garland Peyon of the Georgia department
of geology The strike made Saturday at the old mine
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
Another Indicted
In Liquor Probe

LOS ANGELES, Nov. Is. (UP)-Another indictment
IN Los Angeles $1OOOO00O liquor license payof scandal
today charged Main street cafe with raising
"sush fund" to attempt bribery of city councilmen
Dan Rissman, named in the eighth indictment to be
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15
Firms conspired
On Prices. Soys
U.s.. Grand JurV
Antitrust Charges Leveled at States
Major Observation-Disclosures; Charges
Cite Quota, Blacklist Practices

LOS ANGELES Nov. Is. (UP)-A federal Indictment
under the Sherman antitrust laws today accused 80 oil
companies and two petroleum associations of conspring
to keep up gasoline prices the Pacific coast.
1t was charged that socalled independent reflneres
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-15

Butter: Los Angeles s2c; but
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch.
grade A, 42c; manufacturing milk
34c; route gathered cream s0isc.
L. A. hay, u. S. No. s16.-s17;
y. S. No. 2 leafy s14-14.50: L. :. No
. S12-S13; Mpls. cash flax sLs4is.
Evening star., 1939-02-12

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