davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-05

and petty theft was third with 1O9
violatorS.
OF the total, 468 served time
and 1872 paid fines, ia were re-
leased under suspended sentences
to leave town and 95 were released
on good bhaVior. Thirty-four were
turned over to juvenile authorities,
and IA to the U. S. immigration
service.
Twenty eight nationalities were
represented in the list of 1484 pris-
oners. Americans led with 799 and
Mexicans were next with 238. Fill
pinos accounted for 81, Swiss and
Hindu 10 each. Others included
Irish, Czech, Chinese, French, In
dian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish
OF the total, 314 were Negroes.
Total cost of feeding the prison.
ers during the year was S2066. To-
tai income for the department was
$17969 from general fines, traffic
fines and occupation and dog Ii
cenSe fees. The latter two items
were collected by the department,
up to Aug. 81, when they were
transferred to the city clerks Of
flee.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-05
Stolen Joy Ride
Ends in Court

CALEXICO, Jan. 5.--A joy ride
from CaleXico to Indio in a stolen
car will have to be explained in
superior court by Harold Bellows
and DoSS Chambers.
They were arraigned in justice
court here Thursday. Officers said
they were arrested in Indio in an
automobile with the California Ii
cense plates covered by Mexico
license plates. Ed Morris owned the
car.
Bail was set at $500 and the men
sent to the county Jail to await
trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-05
Bank Group Hears
Finance Expert

Members of the advisory boards
of Bank Of America branches in
Imperial were addressed Wednes-
day and all employees in the county
Wednesday night by G.. Riedlin, as
siStant president of the bank
in Los Angeles and head of the
international banking department.
Riedlin will address the Associated
Chambers of Commerce meeting in
CaleXico Thursday night. At that
time a countrywide publicity plan
for valley points of interest will
be discussed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-05
Kiwanis Club to
Install Officers

New officers Of the Fl Centro
KiWanis club will be installed Fri
day night at z p. m. meeting at
the Barbara Worth hotel, retiring
president Paul Eyer announced
Wednesday. New officers will be
Ed Mason, president; Rudolph
Miller, president; Eyer, secre-
tary; Bill Hudgins, treasurer.
Chairman for the evening will be
Gordon Scriven. Installing Officer
will be Gordon Howell of Escondido.
divisional lieutenant governor. DR..
Frank Low Of San Diego will speak
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-05
Imperial County Orphans Get S54 600
From State in 1888 Report Shows

the applications being approved.
Eighteen persons applied for
blind aid with but half that num-
Der approved.
The state pays the bill for Or
phan aid In the aid for the blind,
the federal government pays half
of every $50 with the state and
county splitting the remainder Of
the cost.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-05
Ten Examined at
VenereaI Clinic

Ten patients were examined at
the free venereal disease clinic
Thursday, the first day the service
were available to Imperial county
residents.
The clinic opened under the di-
rection of DR.. Joseph Copeland.
The state provides the funds for
the clinic, the physician, and nurses.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-05
Imperial Valley Press

Established April 20. 1901.
Published every afternoon except
SATURDAY, and Sunday Saturday
afternoon isCue now succeeded
by The PostPress Sunday es-
tablished 1856 by the Imperial
Valley Publishing company, 625
state street. El Centre. Calf.
Entered at L! Centre. California
post office as second class mat
ter.
Paul Jenkins. publisher; A. c.
Johnston, vice president and
general manager: Il A. Fitz-
hugh, secretary and managing
editor. West Holiday Co.. Inc,
National Advertising Represent
atives.
Member California Newspaper
Publishers Association.
Subscription rates: &c per copy.
In conjunction with the Post
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60c; Paid in advance: months,
S1.65; 6 months $3,25: one year.
5000.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-05

orphans In Imperial county re-
ceived $54,6l2 from the state in
1888 and the blind received $14,999
during that year, Welfare Director
PM Holman set forth in his an
nual report made public this week.
The number of orphans totaied
534 and the number of blind 80.
Applications for orphan aid were
made by 251 children with 206 of
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-05
81 MISSING AFTER
BOATS CAPSIZE

TSURGUGA, Japan, Jan 5. CUP)
Fifty one persons were missing
and believed lost today after the
capsizing of two fishing boats.
containing 80 persons, in storm
in the Japan sea.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-05
Yanlatoda Hearinq
Continued Here

Attorneys for H. Yamatoda
Thursday sought postponement Of
a trial set for 2 pm. Thursday at
which the reputed "Kingpin" of
coast gambling circles was sched-
uled to face gambling charges in
Ell Centro justice court.
Harry Horton, representing va
matoda, said his client is now in
jail in Mexicali on immigration
charges and will not be able to
appear. Yamatoda is also defend
ant in kidnapping charges, slated
for preliminary hearing Feb. l.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-05
WEA Their

Data complied by observers for
the official United Stntes Weather
Burean station at El CentrO).
Maximum Wednesday .............-..... Ga
Minimum Thursday ............. 33
Reading At Noon Thursday
Temperature .-.... Observation-Disclosures. 81
Humidity .......... ...............-.....-. 70
Reading at a. M. Thursday
Temperature observation-disclosures. al
Humidity ............................ .....-.. 35
Reading at p. m. Wednesday
Temperature observation-disclosures. 81
Humidity .........-........................... rs
Southern California - Unsettled;
rain Thursday and Thursday night
in west portion; clearing Friday;
moderate temperature: fresh south
to west wind off coast.
Los Angeles and Vicinity Rain
Thursday and Thursday night: Fri
day clearing, moderate temperature
with little change; fresh south 10
west wind.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-05
CHIEF APPOINTED

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 5. CUP)-
State Controller Harry B. Riley
announced today appointment of
James w Hickey as chief of the
inheritance tax division, succeed
ing w. H. H. Gentry, who retired
Jan. /. Hickey joined the control
ler's staff 81 years ago and served
as assistant inheritance tax chief
for several years under Gentry.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-05
Fl Centre Police Nab 1884 Prisoners
During Year. Accounting For Average
0fFour Arrests Per Dayin 1888

The claw" in Ell Centro-that means a chief and II
policemen-caugh up with 1884 offenders during 1885,
the annual report of the police department showed Thurs
day. average of than four prisoners day. not
incuding traffic law ViOlators Arrests RANGED
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-05

ton requesting dismissal of the
action and Judge r. ID. MePherrin
granted the motion.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-24
EUROPE:
Dutch Episode
"Ciueck n,uss der Mensch haben."

'Ciueck mass der Mensch haben."
"a fellow has to have luck" COM
mented Adolf Hitler when he es-
capped the Munich beer hall explo-
sion by 20 minutes. But the allies
wondered if it was luck. So hysteri-
cal were the Nazi cries of British
conspiracy that many an observer
on the opposite side of the fence
called it a cunning plan-like the
1888 Reichstag fire-to weld German
opinion. In Britain, where anti-Com-
munist Nazis were blamed for the
incident, Hitler's yells served only to
unite the empire in its vow to ''free
Europe"
Any hope for peace went dwin-
ding when Winston Churchill, first
lord of the admiralty, made the
most vitriolic attack on record: II
will not attempt to prophesy wheth-
er the frenzy of a cornered maniac
will drive Herr Hitler into the worst
of all his crimes but will say with
out doubt that the fate of Holland
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-24

Rep. Joe Starnes returned to WASH
ington and reported an acute need
for coast and anti-aircraft defenses
"all along the Atlantic and gulf sea-
boards" Meanwhile it was an
nounced the war department would
ask 1900, 100000 next congress, the
first overall" appropriation request
in departmental history. Planned re-
organization: Creation of four arm
les made up of nine corps, each
army under a lieutenant general:
expansion Of air force, coast artil-
lery, civilian personnel, GHQ and
post properties.
Navy. Before asking any appro-
priation for sea forces, Illinois Rep.
Ralph E. Church suggested that the
navy department should be reorgan-
lied: "Our committee (house naval
affairs) has been unable to find out,
at times, who's responsible for what.
We had a secretary of the navy
(Swanson) who was unable to be at
his Office -. and then we had an
acting but not duly confirmed Sec
rotary (Edison)."
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commerce

the merchant marine. Since U. S.
boats cannot sail in combat areas,
New York ports soon became jammed
with jobless sailors and idle boats.
Among the first to cry out was c. I.
O.'s Joseph Curran, president Of the
national maritime union.
Within few days the President
began ironing out this mess. Follow
ing conferences with Joe Curran,
Maritime Commissions Emory
Land, and A. F. of LIS Joseph Ryan
and Matthew Dushane, the White
House outlined three tentative RENE
dies: ~ Extension of social security
to provide seamen with old-age pen
sions and unemployment insurance;
(2) absorption Of beached seamen
in maritime training program; (3)
absorption of others in vessels con-
voying strategic materials from nom
belligerent ports, under the govern
ment's 100000 program.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-24

WASHINGTON.-There were two
news stories emanating from Off
cial sources here recently that
seemed to emphasize an unusual
contradictory situation that obtains
in present national government pol
icies. One Of the stories had to do
with projected expansion of our
military services. Representative
Vinson of Georgia Is prepared to
ask congress at it's next session to
spend an additional 81, 300, 900, 900 on
our navy. Other house leaders are
submitting an army expansion pro-
gram that will cost a record-break-
ing $1,67O, 100000.
Now, no one can deny the impor-
lance of national defense. They may
differ as to how much of structure
is required, but not as to the prin-
ciple. It always is well to remem-
Der that few nations, or individuals,
pick fight when they know they
are due to meet real trouble-which
is to say that a strong army and
navy are essential to peace.
These two announcements con-
corning military plans were made
known on different days. It so hap
pened that on the day that the army
program was given to the newspa-
pers, the department of justice was
distributing a statement telling of
what it believed to be great victory
in court over corporation. That
story concerned the antitrust action
against the Aluminium Company Of
America. The department lawyers
were obviously in high glee because
a New York judge had admitted
some SO documents into evidence
in the proceeding. Mention was not
made that the judge had rejected
something like 140 other documents,
or exhibits as they were called,
but much glory was claimed for the
governments side.
1t is not for me to say whether the
gigantic Aluminium company has vi
plated law; that is the function Of
the court. The thing that I object
to is the apparent role of the govern
ment lawyers in this and numerous
other proceedings. Their attitude is
almost the same as though they were
engaged in private litigation instead
of serving and seeking justice in be-
half of all of the people. 1t is an
attitude that is dangerously near to
persecution, rather than prosecution,
and it is wrong.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-24
DOMESTIC:
Neutrality

Disappointing to would-be U. S.
profteers was the reaction to re-
moval of embargo restrictions
against belligerents. AS expected,
orders for motors and aircraft in
creased, but purchase of war sup
plies was not large in terms Of ag-
gregate export volume. Some quar-
tiers expected orders to pick up lat
er, but any hopes for boom were
nipped in the bud. Spectacular trade
gains of September and October
were no longer apparent. At New
York, Federal Works Administrator
John Carmody warned that only
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-24

1. Less than two weeks before
this famous criminal was to be
released from prison, his cohorts
ON the outside made bloody prep
arations. Who is the criminal and
what were the preparations?
Hint: They took place In Chicago.
2. True or False: Treasury Sec
rotary Morgenthau will ask con-
gress to raise the statutory debt
limit above the $45, 900 zoo, 900
mark, which It will reach next
year.
3. Official U. s. corn produce
ton estimate for 1889 Is 2,591,-
063, 900 bushels. If domestic and
export requirements will take
2,575, 00O, 900 Of these bushels, why
must 1910 corn acreage allot-
ments be reduced about 10 per
cent next year? In other words,
why is there a corn problem?
A. Choice: Fires Prime Minis
ter canon de Valera made news
because: (A) he refused to let
Irish soldiers fight with Britain
in the war; (B) he refused to re-
lease hunger-striking members of
the Outlawed Irish Republican
army; &C. he started campaign
to discredit the Blarney stone.
s. True or False: In his encycli-
cal to the U. s., Pope Plus XII
praised American education.
(Ans,cers at bottom OF column
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-24
Bruckarts Washington Digest
Harass Business With Suits
While Seeking Its Cooperation
One Government Agency Presses Litigation Against Indus
try, While Others Urge 1t to Get Ready for Wartime
Production; Lollypops Being Investigated.
BY WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg, Washington ID. @.

cry which the national defense re-
quires-even demands?
! used the Aluminium company
only as an illustration, and It hap
pens to be a good one. There are
something like so army officers, con-
cerned with inspection, consulta-
ton, guidance, in the various plants
Of the Aluminium company. There
are dozens more, yes, several hum
dreds of army officers and naval
officers doing like work in scores Of
other great manufacturing plants.
You can see them crawling all over
skeletons of ships in shipyards. They
have to make inspections to make
sure the specifications are met. They
are to be found in experimental lab
oratories, using private funds and
private facilities for tests looking
to improvement of the various things
used in war. All of which is fine;
it is cooperation business ought
to give, but, again, there is posed
that question Of how can govern
ment get all of these things done
while group of theorists, paid by
the same taxpayers, devote their,
time to prosecution of the most finn!
sy Interpretation Of law violations?
When I was digging around on the
list of pending government prosecu-
tions found the so-called "big
three" Ford, Chrysler and General,
Motors, in the automobile field, were
being prosecuted for alleged VIOLA
ton of antitrust laws in automobile
installment financing upon what
surely is strange basis. When the
suit was started it was simply
charge of unfair competition in the
matter of financing. The thing has
simmered down now, however, and
the issue actually is whether it Is
violation of law for using methods
of financing installment buyers in a
manner that results in less cost to
the buyer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-24
RUSSIA:
Finnish Sandy Hook

Said Finland's Foreign Minister
Elias Errko to a u. S. newspaper
man: II believe there is a place
called Sandy Hook outside New York
harbor. How would you like to hand
that over to some foreign country?"
This, he indicated, was the reason
Finland refused Russia's demand
for naval base on Finnish territory
at the entrance to the Gulf of Fin
land. There were also reports that
Finnish Russian conferees meeting
in Moscow were having trouble re-
vising the southern border between
the two countries on the Karelian
isthmus. After several days of this,
during which the Soviet press
warned that Russia would find
ways and means of obtaining what
ever we need" Foreign Minister
Errko suddenly announced the nego-
tiations had definitely ended. Europe
wondered what would come next for
the Russian bear was obviously out
of sorts.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-24
.ester,, Front


in New York, German-Ameri-
can Bund Leader Fritz Kuhn
went on trial charged with steal
ing $5,641 in Bund funds.
q In st. Louis, Federal Reserve
Chairman Mariner S. Eccles
pumped for more taxes, against
large corporations and high sal
aries to defray cost Of armament
and balance the budget.
q In Washington Steelmen Err
nest 7. Weir and Charles r. Hook
insisted before the monopoly in
vestigating committee that their
industry is highly competitive.
q Also in Washington, Secretary
of the Interior Harold Ickes asked
passage Of the Cole bill to con-
troll oil production.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-24
DEFENSE:
Army C Navy

From Director John c. Gebhart
of the National Economy league,
the U. S. got as good a reason as
any why it should stay out of war.
Whereas our participation in the
World war cost "a billion dollars at
the time, Gebhart figured the cost
to date was 81 billions. Moreover,
any future war would cost at least
80 billions a year and would prob
ably bring Imitation and ruinous
taxation (Which would) probably
mean a lower standard of living for
generations to come"
One good way to avoid war is to
arm against it, which will be No.
on the congressional agenda Janu-
airy 8. Defense is making news
these days on both army and navy
fronts:
Army. Having become an expert
by travelling $4,000 miles visiting
army establishments, Alabama's
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-24

Despite q German-Dutch border
incident and Nazi flights over Bel
GUM which were repulsed by anti
aircraft guns, the little nations re-
manned cool. After agreeing that an
attack on one would be an attack on
the other, they took pains to point
out that ''our mobilization stands as
a guarantee to all belligerents that
our neutrality will be maintained"
Military experts meanwhile point
ed out that a Nazi invasion Of the
Dutch lowlands would be foolish.
Only possible advantage, and that
minor one, would be to bring Ger
man air bases so miles nearer
Britain. But by the same token
Britain could also violate defunct
Dutch neutrality, flying straight over
the lowlands to German industrial
strongholds instead of taking q
roundabout route to avoid Dutch
soil se4 ~. SCI
Western Front
Twenty-one years to the day after
Armistice was signed in the last
war, German planes swarmed over
northern French territory from the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-24
DUTCH-BELGIAN FRONTIER


Blacked.in areas OF the Netherlands
could be flooded; ARROWS sho,V probable
routes of invasion. Netherlands would be
used for aerial operations bases against
Britain; Belgium would furnish neto path
to France.
and Belgium, like that of Poland,
Czecho-Slovakia and Austria, will be
decided by victory of the British
x. and the French -"
Only an hour earlier all hopes for
the Dutch-Belgian mediation offer
(made a week before) went glim-
mering when Britain's King George
sent long and polite message ac-
knowledging the peace move but
pointing out that any further pro-
posals must come from Germany.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-24

The Reich,
for her part,
w a s silent
except for
ne aper
a t t a C k s
charging the
Netherlands
and Belgium
w e + e e n
d ang erin 6
t h e ir n e u
tr ality by
submitting
to the Brit
iSh blockade
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-24

100000 of the
5000, I'M
employ d
could expect
jobsfron the
w a r t i m e
b u s / n e s S
pickup.
A m or e
serious prob
lem was the
depre ssion
facin q t
lie a s t on e
branch Of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-24

channel to Switzerland. That night
they made raids along the frontier.
A weekend Of intensified activity
was climaxed when air raid signals
began screaming in Paris. When 1t
was over, the French admitted Nazi
reconnaissance planes had reached
within 20 miles of the city before
anti-aircraft guns sent them scurry-
ing for home out of formation.
Though still spasmodic and unortho-
dox, western front warfare showed
precipitous gains which observers
attributed to two blasts, one at Mu-
mich and the other from Winston
Churchill.
Var at Sea
Most noteworthy maritime news
was the temperance of German
merchant vessels in the North sea,
defying Britain's blockade. Two
such boats were sunk and their
crews rescued by a British war
ship. Off Singapore, in the Far
East, 20 were killed when a mer-
chant ship struck a mine, sinking
in Is minutes. Nazidom's only con-
tribution to the warfare was a
pointless 1,200-mile bombing flight
to the tiny Shetland isles off Scot
land, where a few bombs did no
damage. Reason: There was moth
ing to damage.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-24
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH ". LaBlNE
Netherlands Invasion Foolish,
Say Critics Of Nazi Strategy;
Churchill Blasts Peace Hopes

EDITORS opinions expressed these columns they
necessarily this hewspapeD
Reeas dbyWe shrnN eWspa Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-24

Knosv your ne,Us? One hundred Is
pertect score, and deduct 20 for each
question you miss. Any score above
90 10 good.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-11-24
Business Being Harassed
By Whole Flock of Suits

The announcement regarding the
Aluminium trial recalled that there
were a whole flock of other suits
being pressed against nearly every
kind of business in the nation. The
department of justice seems to be
trying to get some kind of a record
in it's efforts to harass business,
and this is not surprising when one
considers that Thurmand Arnold, the
former professor, is guiding this
policy and that Attorney General
Frank Murphy is more of a crusad-
er than even the late Theodore
Roosevelt.
Thus, upon examination found
that there were some Is or more
proceedings being pushed by the
government, actions that may be
called "major litigation" in that
they involve some of the main units
of American industry. I have no in
tention of offering defense for
any of them because I do not know
the facts. It is, however, signifi-
cant that these actions are going
forward from one governmental
agency while other groups are call
ing upon American business to make
itself ready for wartime production
in event of need.
It will be recalled how President
Roosevelt told a press conference
not so long ago that there were
,''raids" being conducted on our war
resources by some foreign powers.
That is, material disable in war was
being bought here, and there was lit
tie control Of these purchases by
our military services.
Whether this condition brought
about the creation of control board
within the army and navy, do not
know. It is nevertheless fact that
the control board soon was created
and purchasing missions from Eng
land and France have to consult
with that board.
Long Range Planning for
War Reserves Proceeding
Mention should be made, in this
connection, of the frequent state
ments from official sources of the
long range planning for war re-
serves that has been going on. This
program has been in process of de-
velopment since 1921, but it obvious
ly has taken on new impetus since
fire broke out in Europe. Business
has been advised repeatedly and
in various ways that it must consid-
err itself at the beck and call Of its
government in event of war. And
that is thoroughly sound. But how, /
wonder, can these two things go hand
and hand; how can business be en-
couraged to make itself ready in case
of national emergency and 60 about
that job Fundamentally while the
same government, supposed to be OPP
Grating as a unit, is attacking and
seeking to destroy the very machin-