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Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
England Orders
More u. S.PIunes

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18. (UP)-
North American Aviation Corp. to-
day was rushing preparations to be-
Gin work on an order for 400 mill
tary training planes placed with
the organization by the British air
ministry.
The $17.OOOO0O order was signed
in New York by Arthur Purvis.
director general of the British pur-
chasing commission in the United
States. 1t is the second order to
be received by North American for
training ships, similar order hav-
ing been signed last year, delivery
of which is just being completed.
The contract with the British gov
ernment increased the backlog Of
orders on the books of the aviation
corporation to $47,000000. Officials
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Olson Urges International Action
To Curb Border Marijuana Traffic

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18. (UP)
An international investigation of
traffic in narcotics between Cali
fornia and Mexico was proposed
today by Governor Culbert Olson
as the outcome of testimony at the
governors trial of the state board
of prison directors at San Quentin
prison.
Donald Harris, 17-year-old con-
vict from San Diego, told Olson
that he had found it easy to pur-
chase marijuana cigarettes in the
southern California city and had
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

protectorate was calm but that in
wartime we do not stand for people
:. who cause disturbances"
A spokesman at the office OF
Baron Konstantin von Neurath,
Nazi protector of Bohemia -Moravia.
referred all inquiries for details of
executions to the propaganda min
istry in Berlin.
Today'S executions, it was said,
were for an attack on German
while the executions of students
yesterday were for demonstrations
for freedom
Nine students, suspected of anti
Nazi outbreaks, had been executed
by firing squads and 1000 more
were under arrest. Well-informed
persons said restless Czechs could
expect punishment to be extended
to 'other spheres of their life"
Following the arrival of the storm
troopers by automobile and motor
cycle from the Reich, the city was
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Big TurkeyCrop
Reduces Prices

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 18. (UP)-
There is such a plentiful supply OF
turkeys this year - even for two
Thanksgivings-that prices for the
birds are two to four cents per
pound under last year, the federal
state market news service reported
today.
Prices to farmers for dressed tur-
keys are II to 10 cents a pound for
toms and % and % cents for hens
according to official market reports
At the same time last year the
prices were % and % for toms AND
% and 241a for hens.
CALIFORNIA; turkey crop was esti-
mated by the crop reporting service
to be about 25 per cent larger than
that of 1888.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

The admiral was Mrs. Beermans
father, A. w. Nicely of San Diego,
Both Beerman and his wife were
born and raised in the islands and
never before had ventured away.
Mrs. Beerman was particularly
taken by the distances.
I'm the islands we can only drive
few miles and we run into the
ocean! Over here you think nothing
of driving hundreds of miles, she
commented.
Beerman marveled at the "jittery"
speed of pedestrians and the faster
tempo of activity.
Looks as though everyone's in
high gear all the time" he said.
THE climate is greatly different,
too. Back home it is pretty much
the same all year round. Gets down
to 60 degrees in the winter, though,
1t rains bit every night where
we live"
The Beermans, who visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Jenkins over the week
end, made their first trip to "the
states" as courtesy call on Mr..
and Mrs. Neeley. Asked why he
had never explored the United
States before, the husky, 46-year-
old visitor explained succinctly:
eve like the islands"
Discussion of early Hawaiian days
brought colorful "reminiscences from
Admiral" Neeley who first visited
the islands in the COS as mate on
trading vessels. In one of the early
revolutions he commanded the is
lands first gun boat, which was
an ancient sailship with a cannon
lashed to the deck
When a cruise failed to produce
excitement, Skipper Neeley turned
to the cannon one day for diver
sion. In an experimental mood he
pulled the lanyard, firing the gun.
That was mistake, but quite an
experience.
When the smoke lifted and Neeley
had picked himself up, the cannon
was no where to be seen. A little
rudimentary Sherlock Holmes work
showed the cannon had not hoped
overheard but had collapsed through
the deck into the hold
Neeley went to the islands to live
after a narrowing adventure in an
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
enter pleas to the charges next We'd

enter pleas to the charges next We'd
nesday.
District Attorney Fits accused
the board of equalization of char
assing states witnesses" by sus-
pending their liquor licenses while
the investigation of the state liquor
scandal is still under way.
Fits statement followed the re-
ported action of Bonelli Thursday
of ordering the board members in
Sacramento to suspend a batch of
Los Angeles licenses. Fits said he
was sending an investigator to Sac
ramento to talk with board men,
bers and protest further suspen-
sions.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

desperate James brothers in the
same section of northeastern Mis-
souri, a half century, ago, they swoop-
ed down on the station apparently
advised in advance that two trains
which preceded them by an hour
had left valuable mail pouches.
Among their loot were three leather
bags, chained and locked, contain
ing registered matter such as busi-
ness concerns use for the transfer
of money.
Two of the men-state police be-
lieved there were at least three in
the raiding party-entered Station
Master A. G. Squires' office at 3
am Both were masked. One held
a sawed off shotgun, which, Squires
said, looked as big as a cannon
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Patrol Building
Ordered Started

Immediate construction of the
$4,000 highway patrol building in
El Centre was ordered by the state
in a teletype received by Captain
Frank Oswalt Saturday morning.
Oswalt was instructed by the
state department of finance that
lease had been signed by the
state for property near the inter-
section of Main street and Imperial
avenues.
Building plans already approved
by the state include commodious
offices, garage, lobby, and squad
room. The building will be erected
near the southwest corner of the
street on property belonging to A.
Y. Preble and Harry Erskine.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

that early in the morning" The
other held two revolvers
Put up your hands. brother, and
keep your mouth shut" one ordered.
"And turn your back--nowl"
Squires complied In three min
utes, he said, they had what they
had come for, the entire mail de-
posit of two Burlington trains. The
pouches seized were OF the ordi-
nary rip-cord variety. containing
first class mail
They left Squires without another
word, ran down the station tram
and apparently took stairs down 70
the street. When he had aacertained
the extent OF loss, he ran out ON
the platform but saw no trace Of
the bandits.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19


chase was made jointly by Bonelli
and Merle Templeton, a member
of Bonelli's staff. Supposedly the
horses were bought from breed
ing farm at Pecos, Texas, and are
now en- route to Bonelli's big ranch
in Arizona or possibly his smaller
one at Saugus, Cal.
Bonelli and Fred Stewart of Oak
land, his fellow board member, were
arraigned yesterday on charges of
bribe solicitation-trying to shake
down California wine dealers for
$4,000, supposedly to make up a
deficit in Bonelli's campaign fund.
Together with six other men in
= dicted with them, the board mem
bers are at liberty on bail. They
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

of the company expected to start
work on the British ships within
the next two months.
The planes will be delivered TO
the Canadian border and taken
north by dominion military forces.
Under the British plan of training
pilots in Canada, it was expected
the ships would not leave con-
tinental America.
The ships are low-wing mono
plane type two-seaters and are
similar in design to the United
States army air corps training ships,
MANY OF which have been built by
North American.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
S73b8 FL Centre
Goal for Drive

With goal of S7368 to go, El
Centro's embryo community chest
organization warmed up Saturday
for a touchdown drive slated to
start Nov 27.
Officials went into a "huddle"
Friday under the direction of Chair
man Vaughn N. Thompson and
emerged with the announcement
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

bought them wholesale in Tijuana
across the border.
Il shall see that this whole mat
ter is placed in the hands of the
proper authorities" Olson said
We're going to find out why youths
can be drawn into such a terrible
thing.
"If our officers can't stop it,
something will be DONE"
Harris was one of the convictS
beaten in mass flogging at the
prison last March. He told of fire.
quent beatings of fellow prisoners
and himself by San Quentin guards.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
MORE CzECHS Die BY NAz| VENGEANCE
LaFoNette Agents
Leave Fl Centre

With brief cases bulging with
whatever they wanted from Of
fices of the Associated Farmers
and the Farmers Transportation
association, two LaFollette COM
mittee representatives left Ell
Centre Saturday.
But they'll be back next week.
Allen Sayler and ID. ID. Lloyd,
the investigators, took what they
collected from the office files
during a twO-day search and
departed for Los Angeles.
They maintained silence to the
last. They consistently declined
to reveal what they were after or
to discuss LaFOllette committee
work i'm even a casual manner.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Albert Pond Surrenders Here
On EmbezzIement Indictment
FARMERS TAKE AHAND

arose from two disputes paralyzing
commerce in the ports of San Fran
cisco and Oakland at cost esti-
mated at 100000 day to business,
agriculture, labor and the shipping
industry.
Word was awaited from the presi-
dent on the appeal of Mayor An
gelo Rossi that Mr.. Roosevelt in
tervene personally in strike of CIO
dock clerks now in its eighth day
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

drlVe to put down freedom demon
strations and today it was announc-
ed that three more had been execut-
ed ''for attacking a German"
The additional executions we're
announced as 10000 imported Ger
man storm troopers ruled this capi-
tai of the Nazis' Bohemia -Moravia
protectorate.
Qn Berlin the propaganda minis
try announced that Emil Hacha,
former president of Czechoslovakia,
had appealed by radio to the Czech
peoble to preserve order)
Before announcement of the adj
ditional executions an authorized
source in Berlin had said that the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Football Results

Dartmouth 6, Cornell 35.
NYU 0, Georgetown Ia.
Yale !, Princeton 13.
Duke 13, North Carolina 3.
Brown IL, Conn Univ 0.
Holy Cross Fl, Carnegie Tech
Pitt 13, Neb. IA.
Michigan State I, Indiana I.
Syracuse Z, Colgate 0.
Fordham 13, st. Mary's 0.
Penn II, Michigan 10.
Harvard as, New Hamp. 0.
Army Ia, Penn State IA.
Columbia 0, Tulane 25.
Ohio State Fl, Illinois 0.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

The situation was viewed so SER
iously in Los Angeles that the board
of education threatened to ban or
curtail all interscholastic athletic
activities unless the students re-
frain from asserted acts of vandal-
ism.
Reports of wild outbursts of stu
dents came from Long Beach and
Santa Maria, in addition to several
cases in Los Angeles.
At Santa Maria superintendent
Andrew P. Hill issued a public
statement calling on business houses
to furnish an accurate list OF losses
and he promised payment for dam
Continued on Page 3; Col g.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Reid, Mousseau
BOYS Join Navy

Robert Reid, son of Mrs. Mont j.
Reid of Ell Centre, and Frank Nous
seau, son of the late Calvin G..
Mousseau also of Ell Centre, en-
listed in the United States Navy
recently and at present are station
ed at San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18. CUP
President Roosevelt and California
farmers were urged today to step
into San Francisco-Oa Oakland water
front disputes for which the city
administration of San Francisco and
officials of the Associated Farmers
of California held Harry Bridges,
California CIO director, responsible.
Strikers and CIO groups defend
ed Bridges in the attacks which
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
BoneIIi Inquiry
Includes Horses

LOS ANGELES Nov 18. (UP)-The reported pur-
chase of 43 blooded racehorses for ranch owned by
William Bonelli indicted member of the state board of
equalization under investigation today by the
trct attorneys office District Attorney Buron Fits said
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
MARTIAL LAW
DECLARED

PRAGUE, Nov. 18. (UP)-The
protectorate government today
declared martial law in certain
districts of Bohemia and Mora
via.
The districts affected are
Great Prague Land, Kladno,
Reraub and Horchowitz.
The order Of martial law win
not apply to German citizens.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
School vundQ dQIs
Irk Authorities

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 49, (UP) - School officials
throughout this part of southern California today
aroused by reports that high school and junior college
students have caused hundreds of dollars worth dam
age to private property during football rallies.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Shotgun Bandits
Loot Mail Depot

MONROE CITY, Mo-, Nov. 49, (UP)-Masked bandits
with sawedoff shotguns and side held up the Bur-
ngon railway station today and escaped with IT, s.
mail pounches.
In style made notorious and highly effective by the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
New Executions
Follow Attack on
German National
ExiIed Leader Says Demonstrations Just
Sign Of Res+essness; Revolution Now
Would Be 'StupidIy Premature

PRAGUE, Nov 18. (UP)-Executon today of three
Czechs two of them policemen brought to IL those
shot by Naz firing squads in two days acs of
tance" in Prague
Nine students executed yesterday in the Nazi
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Americans Seeinq
u. s. for 1st Time
Couple Born. Reared in Hawaii VISITING
In Valley; First Admiral Of Island
Navy Recalls Narrowing Experience

Two Americans, who up until few weeks ago had
never set foot upon North American SOIL paid brief
visit to Ell Centre Saturday With them was the first
admiral of the Hawaiian navy.
They Mr. and Mrs William Beerman of Honolulu
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
DAAN!!n!xee AMB!!Ne
IL EPORTER

What's That Again.
Hey, COACH" young Dickie Walsh
called to Sheldon Loughborough,
"when's the Nov 90 gamer"
Concerned over the activities on
the playing field, Loughborough an
swered:
Cant recall offhand. I'll have
to look it up"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

Scars of Labor
When Jack Davis inadvertently
showed the marks of an enormous
blister on the palm of one hand,
RR remarked:
whats the story of the wound?
You didn't get that baking bread!"
Tt seems that on Halloween
someone let the air out of the tires
on Jacks car and he spent an hour
trying to pump them up again.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

Exciting, Anyhow
Never a dull moment when you're
hunting with Lucille Averitt.
Out on a dove expedition with
Harvey Ladd. Lucille drew first a
bead on a guinea hen and Harvey
just stopped her in time. explain
ing that this was not dove. When
Lucille had aimed corsecutively at
sparrows, pigeons, pheasants, and
maybe COW or two, Harvey was il
something of perspiration.
Here" he sadi, "let me carry
that gun. You're liable to mistake
ME for a dove in a minute
The sequel came some time later
when Lucille was rabbit hunting
with Mrs. Herbert Mann. The girls
insisted that they hadn't seen a
rabbit but they had seen a Gila
monster.
knowing you as I do, Lucille" !"
said Harvey, Il know you saw a
rabbit"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
WEATHER

Maximum temperature 81, minimum 46 am.
temperature So, humidity 81; noon temperature SO
humidity ga; pm. temperature II, humidity SO.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

Courteous Delay
Every time the phone rang Phil
Hodgkin's face took on shade
of martyrdom and he started to lay
down his hand.
But each time the call was not
for him and he would sigh and re-
sumo the bridge playing.
When the bridge party was over
and a few minutes after the score
was added, the phone rang again.
This time it was for Phil, a sum-
mons to the hospital where Mrs.
Clarence Smith was bringing a
child into the world.
Most considerate Of her." said
Phil gratefully. This is the first
bridge party I have been able to
play through in a long time
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
MARKETS IN BRIEF

MARKETS IN BRIEF
LA. Hay: U.S. No. $16-17; us. No. leafy S13.50
S14; u s. No. $12-13; MINI. Flax Dec. S1.78
Butter: Los Angeles, 3119c; Butterfat, Imperial
Valley, fob. ranch grade A, 4019c; manufacturing
milk 3311c; route gathered cream, 3Oc.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

What, No Fatalities?-
All day we've been keeping an
eye out for a glimpse of Bob Pay
burn, but so far we've missed him.
Bob went roller skating Friday
night for the first time in IS years
and we sort of expected to see him
either: /. on crutches; 2. in a
wheel chair; g. covered with lini-
ment; or 4. bulging with sofa
cushions.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
SPECIAL NOTICES.

ACCESS 70 WHoLEsALE ALE,,i sHoWRoppM SvX S,ps1
fa5sd DEAlER r agents saaH . sEELE CO. s5ls Volta
pl. NV.
FALSE TEETH REPAIRED WHILE YOU
oO2 Westory Bldg. l4th & F Met. 1888:
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHARE HARE
holders of THE HOME BUILDING ASsO-
CITATION will be held at the once sdne Of 5ne
NV. on TUESDAY. JANUARY 10 1882
at 40 o'clock PM. for the election OF
ofacers and directors and such other buSi-
ness lanes s ssy NJ VEessl5v VWooDWARp, Secretary
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF OF THE HE sToGb Ni,} B.
hed At The oees Of the %
;: 6, at so,hl 10 iaaS o'clock am lueso'''
January lH.n II R. iJlIANY iDULANY, Jr., President.
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
holders of the Norfolk and Wasnlnk iss soa', 4 :
h. h c aenerai Ss1sai ofices Of the company. esS
Maine Avenue SW Washneton, D. G, on
Thursday, February .; 1899, - at n,rsctors as;Uo
for S!oth the hen ensuins year yea and for any other
business which may legally come before
the meeting. Polls will remain, open untii
Transfer books 50 WIZ Feb2uaTS Se
-''' oDELL S. SMITH. Secretary.
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
holders of the Mutual Building Association
will be held at the office of the association
on Monday, January .. 1892 at O'Clock
Pm, for the purpose of electing ofncers
and the. reading of the annual report and
such other business as may come pe1ore
the meeting meetingi
JOSEPH T. FrrzGERALD.
Secretary.
Evening star., 1939-01-03
Commercial Aviation
Progresses in 1898
BY the Associated Press

By the AsSocla ted Press.
CHICAGO. Jan. 3.-Notable prog
ress in commercial aviation in the
United States during 1888 was re-
f1ected today in survey of reports
by operators.
Nearly one and half million pas
sengers few approximately 9000O.-
900 passenger miles to establish Is
per cent increase in both fields over
1887.
The operators started the new
year with 39l of the most modern
airliners. of which 102 were in in
ternational operation by United
States carriers. These were manned
by 1851 pilots and co-pilots.
The industry's safety record was
869 per cent in excess of the 1881
record. the domestic lines flyine
l9,140,000 revenue passenger miles
per passenger fatality.
Speed increases were also noted
Average cruising speeds were jumped
to 1872 miles an hour as compared
with l76 the year previous.
Candidates for admission to West
Point must be at least five feet foul
! inches tall
Evening star., 1939-01-03

with similar Senate group to notify
the President that Congress is ready
to receive his recommendations to-
morrow
With the new public address sys-
tenn in operation, the House was
called to order by South Trimble.
veteran clerk. himself a former
member. The Rev DR.. James Shera
Montgomery, chaplain, offered the
prayer.
Aside from a fortnight declara-
ton of foreign policy. it was reported
that President Roosevelt's message
tomorrow would be legs specific than
usual. and that he would leave to
Congress the job of working out de-
tailed legislation. No major changes
of administration objectives were
forecast.
Speaker Bankhead told a radio
audience last night. however that
vigorous efforts probably would be
made to amend the farm law and
the Labor Relations Act.
(He spoke on the National Radio
Forum. arranged by The Evening
Star and broadcast by the National
Broadcasting Coz
Speaker Bankhead. whose Office
| casts him in the role OF an admin
istration lieutenant. made his state
ment on the political issues which
will be meshed with any legislati tive
program:
Speaking as one representative of
the Democratic party, I feel that we
cannot afford to overlook the re-
suits of the last election.
Il think it the part of political ex-
pediency. as well as of public serv-
ice. to undertake to analyze. as far
as we may, the causes of the in
creased vote by the opposition
party
Speaker Bankhead said that if
the Republican gains resulted from
badly drawn or unwisely admin
istered New Deal laws. Congress
should take steps toward "modifica-
ton and correction"
International affairs and national
defense, he said. will be high on the
list of topics in Mr.. Roosevelt's mes
sage. He forecast that the Govern
ment reorganization bill. shelved by
the House last year, would be re-
vived and that a sharp contro-
versy" might develop over the ap-
preparation of w. P. A. funds and
the administration of relief.
The relief question will be one OF
the first considered by Congress
with a dispute centering first or
how much money should be allotted
to operate the w. P. A. until June
30, when the Governments fsca
year ends.
The report of the Senate Cam.
paign Expenditures Committee, in
Guiding a review of w. P. A. activ.
tiles in the last campaign. may
serve as a springboard for demands
that the relief setup be revised. II
may be used by Senators who inter.
rogate Harry L. Hopkins about his
Evening star., 1939-01-03

qualifications to be Secretary Of
Commerce
Although Senators generally have
predicted Mr.. Hopkins nomination
will be confirmed, he may be sub
jected to intensive questioning about
his administration of w. P. A.
Another presidential appointment
that of former Gov. Frank Murphy
of Michigan to be Attorney General
also may arouse controversy in the
Senate. Senator McCarran. Demo-
crat. Of Nevada. for instance. sug-
gested it would want information on
Mr.. Murphy's policies toward sit
down strikers when he was Governor
of Michigan.
Atmosphere of Gaiety.
Despite portending squabbles, an
atmosphere of gaiety filled the Cap
itol today. Bitter foes of past Con-
gressional battles embraced each
other warmly. Bright-eyed page
boys scurried about in bluster Of
preliminary activity, and freshmen"
Legislators waited impatiently to take
their oath of office.
There were off -the-record huddles
among legislators plotting maneu-
vers. Older members piloted younger
ones to the Senate and House cham
berS
Much conversation in both parties
dealt with the 1910 presidential cam
paign, and how it may be affected by
| the actions of Congress during the
next two years.
Several potential candidates for
| the presidency are sitting in the new
Congress Texas Democrats have
started boomlet for Vice President
Garner.
How battle lines for the session
may be drawn remained a matter
of conjecture. Democrats of al
political compilations were starting
with protestations of harmony. bu1
it appeared likely that the informa
coalition of Republicans and anti.
administration Democrats would bt