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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12
Committee Hearing
Bares Reason For
NyIander Custer
Regional Director Said
To Have Been Target
For Board Inquiry

WASHINGTON, Dec. IL.
UP)--Dr. Towne Nylander's
discharge as regional direc-
tor of the National Labor
Relations Board at Los An
geles followed a board investigation
of charges against Nylander OF
drunkenness and personal miscon-
duct, a House committee investl-
cation disclosed today.
The Nylander disclosures came
during a session at which it was
also shown that John Boettiger.
son-in-law of President Roosevelt
and Seattle publisher, said he COM
piled with a board order against
his paper primarily to avoid embar-
RAISING the Roosevelt administra-
ton.
Committee counsel Edmund M.
Toland put in the record a per
sonal and confidential" memoran-
dunn from NLRB Regional Director
Elwyn j. Eagen of Seattle to Secre-
tary Nathan Witt which said, In
part:
"Boettiger stated that ne was very
sympathetic with the act, but that
when it was administered by a
board which made the kind of de-
cision it made in this case, that
he didn't blame employers for COM
planning about the board. s.
He stated that he thought the
boards order was based upon a
distortion of the facts produced at
the hearing and illogical inferences,
that he personally resented the de-
cision very much and was only
complying SO as not to embarrass
the administration and to avoid
prolonging the controversy"
Boettiger is publisher of the
Hearst-owned Seattle PoSt-Intelli-
gencer. His views were revealed as
the committee also:
l. Characterized as "presumpt-
uous' a suggestion by Labor Board
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12
Zero Hour Drive
By Chest Workers
SDurs Donations

A zero-hour drive to gather up
final reports from workers in the
Community Chest campaign went
forward Tuesday in anticipation of
the Wednesday luncheon meeting
which executives hoped would find
the campaign nearing its S7369 goal.
Meanwhile, two more firms went
on the list of those whose employees
have contributed 100 per cent,
Latest names on the honor roll"
are the Bank of America and the
Safeway store No. 438.
Hugh Wilcox, one of the campaign
leaders. reiterated Tuesday that the
drive will continue until the aim
is reached.
"We don't want the drive to lag
over into 1940," he said. I'VE intend
to go over the top this week.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12
Christmas Lights
Gail, BriIIiance
As Holiday Nears
Prizes Give Impetus to
El Centre Residents
In Yule Displays

Let's make Ell Centre the
City of Christmas Lights!
Twinkling red and green
lights winked from several
score homes in FL Centre
Monday night as response to the
annual Post-Press Tournament OF
Christmas gained headway.
Although many had entered the
contest, many homes still were dark
and sponsors redoubled an appeal
that every home in Ell Centre dis
play at least one Christmas light
ing decoration.
In clarifying the tournament
rules, Paul jenkins, Post-Press pub
Usher, declared:
1T is not necessary to register
to be eligible for the 25 awards,
totaling $133, for the most ingenious
and attractive displays in the city.
All that is necessary is to erect a
display.
Judges will tour the entire, city
and make their choices without re-
gard for personalities or for cost OF
the displays"
Judging will begin about a week
before Christmas and continue up
to a day or SO before the holiday.
Judges will make several complete
tours of the city to familiarize them
selves fully with the displays.
Every home in the city, whether
among the more pretentious resi-
dences or the more modest homes,
will have an equal chance at the
S25 grand prize or the many other
awards in the six divisions.
Regardless, however, of whether
citizens wish to compete in the
Tournament of Christmas, let's
hang out a light of some descrip-
ton and see that El Centro be-
comes famous as the City of Christ
mas Lights!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12

OF discussion during winch Jaxpay-'
ers aired opinions preponderantly
against converting the theater at
Seventh and State streets into an
arena.
Mayor H. W. Fawcett delivered
what appeared to be the sentiment
of the board just before the vote.
He said.
1--WE are not at all convinced that
the arguments against the arena
are justified but we feel the
will of the people must be fol-
lowed regardless of whether
this board likes it or not :"
Previously all members Of the
board present had given brief opin-
ions, stressing the preponderance
of agitation in opposition as oppos-
ed to the lack of activity in favor
of the arena.
Several prominent taxpayers, in
cluding two ministers, addressed the
board at the special hearing Tues
day morning. The Rev. Dr. George
w. Thomas of the Presbyterian
church introduced the Rev. Mr..
Harold E. Doty of the First Baptist
church who gave the keynote ad-
dress.
Reverand Doty said:
&c. We realize that those who
attend boxing and wrestling matches
are not the scum of the earth. but
neither are the objectors 'long-hairs
and old fogeys'."
The minister reiterated objections
to the arena site, stressing reaction
upon adjacent property owners and
criticizing the class of crowd that
congregates near boxing wrestling
arenas
Eel Centre needs to promote har-
mony," he declared. Don't throw
a monkey wrench into the machin-
cry of El Centro's progress!"
Others of the more than 80 citi-
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12

authorities that German demands
that neutrals resist the export block
ade had not been noticeably sue
cessful.
Some goods Of German origin
already have been handed over to
a British prize court But the rel
atively small quantity of goods
seized was taken to indicate for
one thing that neutral ship owners
were reluctant to transport German
cargoes.
Because OF neutral protests, Brit
ain is seeking to make the export
blockade as smooth as possible. To
this end. it is understood that out
ward bound ships stopped SO far
have been cleared with much more
speed than have ships searched
for contraband goods on the way to
Germany. This has been possible
partly because it is easy to detect
goods of German origin but hard to
detect goods which might be on
the way to Germany indirectly
through a neutral country.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12
ChristmasCaroIs
Throuqh The AGES

BOAR'S HEAD CAROL
THE bOar's head in hand
bear /,
Bedecked with bay and rose
mary;
And l pray you, my masters,
be merry,
Quot estiS in cOnvivio :"
This unique carol is sung annu-
ally at Queens College, Oxford,
when a boar's head is served With
Christmas dinner. The story behind
this custom is that student was
walking in the country nearby,
his Aristotle, and was
by wild boar. He
crammed the book down the
beasts throat to save himself. The
carol was first printed in 1921.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12
Few Ships Garry
German Carsoes

LONDON, Dec. IL (UP)-Searches
Of neutral ships under the new
blockade against German exports
show tnat Germany's overseas ex-
port trade, like its import trade,
has almost stopped, it was reported
today.
Despite protests OF neutrals, in ad-
dition to the angry complaints of
Germany, the admiralty is enforcing
the export blockade with vigor.
The first ships searched for goods
of German origin we're reported to
have carried only small quantities.
This was an indication to British
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12
Ma Il ! S
CIo i'm
Coup .
Allies Pool All
Finances During
Duration of War
BY JOE ALEX NORRIS
United Press Foreign News Editor

Soviet Russia Tuesday ig-l
nored League of Nations eff
forts to end the Red army in
vasion of Finland continued to bat
ter at Finnish defenses along a wide,
snow-clogged front.
In the far north, dispatches trick
ling through Norway said, there
was a renewal of fighting in which
Finnish troops appeared to be hold
ing their ground against reinforced
Soviet forces.
But on the middle front, along
the eastern frontier of Finland, the
Red army claimed slow but steady
progress and there was increasing
pressure on the defending armies
to prevent a fatal severance of
their country on a route leading
from Russia to the Gulf of Bothnia.
In the naval warfare between
Germany and the Allied powers,
the Nazis triumphantly announced
that the $2O,000,O00 German liner
Bremen had gone safely through
the British blockade of the North
sea and reached German waters.
The fact that the big liner could
make the trip from her refuge at
MurInansk with only one British
standardization slow to catch her
creating any peril was cited by
Nazis as showing weakness in the
British blockade The British, how
ever, contended that the submarine
did not attempt to torpedo the Bre-
men because it would have been
contrary to the rules of warfare to
fire without warning.
Britain and France. pressing the
war on the economic front, conclud-
ed new agreement which for all
practical purposes pooled their fl
nances for the duration of the war,
guaranteed they would share costs
as warranted by the strength of
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12

said. THAT sort Of attitude seems
uncivilized to me. He was picked
up here on request OF Arizona Of
ticials and certainly should be taken
back by them"
Gov w Lee O'Daniel of Texas
was unavailable but his secretary
Reuben Williams said the matter
had as yet not come TO the at
tention of the governors office.
Both Williams and Richardson
agreed that Hanks had committed
no crime in Texas. was not ad~
judged insane in this state and was
subject 10 no state law.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12
Mexican Arrested
In Morals Case

Frank Alvarado, who had been
living in El Centre for several
weeks, was en- route to Merced
Tuesday to face trial on morals
charge.
He was arrested by Imperial coun-
ty deputy sheriffs Tuesday at the
request of Merced officials. The
girl in the case was said to be
Mexican ii years of age.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12
Pond Trial Set
For FebruaryE9

Albert S. Pond, "a, was scheduled
to go to trial in superior court Feb.
10 on a grand jury indictment
charging him with "a counts of
misusing irrigation district funds
while he was a district water clerk
at Calipatria.
The ex-district water clerk is
at liberty on $4,000 bail.
He was charged with embezzling
$2O425 and with misappropriating
$896.32. a total of $1,136.25. He
also was charged with mishandling
district records.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12

sources. It was assumed that they
were given in order that foreign
citizens might have an opportunity
to leave the city.
Finnish and Swedish mine patrols
swept the waters of the Gulf of
Bothnia, between Finland and
Sweden, watching for Russian mine
layers. 1t was believed that mine
layers might have approached or
penetrated the Finnish Swedish
mine field around the Aland Is
lands.
1t was announced that the gov
ernment had sent a special envoy
to the United States in connection
with financial matters.
An army communique admitted
that the Firms had evacuated Pat
kaeranta, on the north shore of
Lake Ladoga, and Salla. in the
northern part of the mid-Finland
front. There was fierce fighting at
Salla, the communique said. 1t was
indicated that the withdrawal from
Patkaeranta was strategic one.
It was asserted that the Firms
destroyed seven Russian tanks in
the eastern part of the Karelian
Isthmus, and the communique add
ed that repeated Russian attempts
to cross the Vuoksi lake system at
the important bridgehead OF XVII
niemi had failed. Attacks elsewhere
in the Isthmus, and at Tolvajaervi
farther north, were repulsed, it was
said. In the Ilomantsi sector, so
miles north of Lake Ladoga, the
Firms "annihilated" three Russian
companies by surprise attacks at
two points, it was said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12

hot lunches TO needy under-nour-
ished children again this year He
asked school officials to call at his
office in Ell Centre to make applica-
ton for establishment OF projects.
THE SRA will provide food from
the surplus commodity division and
if the school needs help in prepar-
ing and serving the lunches, the
SRA will provide women from SRA
relief rolls" Holmes said. IF the
school has no facilities for prepar-
ing hot lunches, the SRA will pro-
vide fruit, milk, chocolate and sand
wicheS for the children"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12
Texas. Arizona Row Over
Unwonted Inso sone Fugitive

Ell PASO. Tex, Dec. II (UP)-
Arizona and Texas engaged in a
litter controversy today over Gus
tody of Brino Hanks. the human
skeleton who escaped from the Ar
izona insane asylum.
1t was an unusual dispute. Neither
state wanted the prisoner.
You keep him." said Gov. Rob-
ert T. Jones of Arizona. "We don't
want him."
Neither do we," said Texas Of
ficials in effect and in Austin
Chairman w. H. Richardson of the
state safety commission declared
Wen run him out Of the state"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12

The subject of the dispute is more
than six feet tall but weighs less
than 90 pounds which led to his
designation as the human skeleton.
He escaped from the same asylum
that housed Winnie Ruth Judd,
trunk murderess and got away five
days after she made her second
break. At the time of his escape
Arizona authorities warned that he
was a dangerous rapist.
County Judge Joseph McGill here
was incensed by the attitude OF
Governor Jones. II don't under
stand what his idea is," McGill
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12
Suspected Rabid
Dog |n,pounded

CALEXICO, Dec. PA dog sus-
pected of having rabies was taken
from the 300 block on Heffernan
avenue here late Monday and pas
teur treatments recommended for
five persons who had been in con-
tact with the animal
Deputy Health Officer Lawrence
Niles said the dog was pet and
may have been in contact with
other animals in that neighborhood.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12

similar to that of Monday morning
when two white men and two Mexi-
cans drove off the pickers from
Singhs field, Ware said, ordering
them not to pick for cent pound.
The threats induced most of the
pickers to leave.
Singh told Ware he needed about
1875 pickers but about 500 appeared
Monday and on Tuesday and wanted
to work. He said he cut the rate
because he had difficulty in selling
the peas for good price.
AS far as is known Singh is the
only grower harvesting at present.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12
County Lettuce
Growers to Meet

Imperial county lettuce growers
and shippers will meet at the court
house Wednesday night at 7:30 to
discuss the present market condit-
ions, according to B. A. Harrigan,
county agricultural commissioner.
Fourteen cars of lettuce have
been shipped to date, according to
statistics obtained from the South
ern Pacific offices.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12

CdIt IUT IIttS anu SIIIUUS BIUWIIIS
there. The project calls for five
men to work an eight-hour shift
every day in the work-week, Direc-
tor Ned Holmes of the SRA said.
Ell Centre high school, Ell Centre
grammar schools, and the Imperial
city schools are using five SRA
workmen each for janitor, repair,
and garden work. The El Centre
toy loan library is using two SRA
workmen.
In discussing the increase in the
number of SRA or Little WPA
projects Holmes said the SRA
stands ready to help schools serve
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12

their trucks, he said, and forced'
them to leave the field if they did
not wish to pick peas for cent
a pound as offered by Singh. The
agitators tried to induce all the
pickers to walk out on strike because
Singhs rate was a fourth of cent
under the rate paid by other grow
erS.
No arrests we're made and the
agitators departed as ordered, taking
some of the 500 pickers with them.
At 8 am. about 200 pickers were
working
Tuesday mornings agitation was
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12

Clear Conscience
The Christmas Lighting editor
(bless his little hearD can hold
his head up now and look the whole
world in the face.
That doesn't mean he has paid
all his debts, but it signifies he is
now practicing what he breaches,
all because of one Jack Lacy.
Jack did a marvellous job OF
decorating the Post-Press building
with greenery and such Tuesday
Jack ought to get prize.
Monkey Business
Monkeyshines were not restricted
to the 800 block on Ell Centre street
Monday, where a pet monkey got
loose and cruised around the neigh
borhood. Other monkeyshines Went
on over the police radio,
When Jack Tackett broadcast for
officers to help corral the monk,
Sheriff Bob Ware broadcast from
his office:
(which one of your police force
is ON the war path?'
None OF them," answered Jack.
"The lost monkey was wearing a
deputy sheriffs badge"
CA maid finally captured the
wandering pet)
Feminine Support
Lynn Chandler had to call in
reinforcements the other evening
during a chess duel with Lewis
Bentley.
After Bentley had won three games
in a row, Chandler decided to take
a rest.
"You can practice by opposing my
WIFE" he remarked
Mrs. chandler won with ease!
Double Duty
Someone should come forward, a
la Robert Louis Stevenson, and
donate a new birthday to Myrel
Gillett.
Myrel's own birthday falls on
Christmas and he thereby loses out
on one round Of gifts.
Our deep sympathies, and if an
oleander will help, here it is.
Wrong Block
Emma Little, discussing a trip
to the office of doctor near Sixth
and Main streets, remarked:
His office is certainly hard to
find"
A friend demonstrated that the
office was simple to locate and
Emma answered.:
Its pretty hard to find in the
Professional Building"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12
Embryo WoIkout
Ends at CoIipat

CALIPATRIA, Dec 12-An embryo strike inspired by
agitaors ended early today when Sheriff Robert W. Ware
and his deputies ran the agtators off the Bawa Singh
pea fields northeast of here
Ware and his men hustled the 80 shouting agtators into
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12
SRA Labor Will
PdrkWdvs

Little WPA projects in Imperial Valley reached five
Tuesday when the state approved the plan for using SRA
labor to for Ell Centro's parkways.
The SRA will pay the salaries of from SRA relief
rolls and the city will them to water parkways and
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12
:HeIsinki Exp poets
New Bomber Raid
= By WEBB MILLER :

HELSINKI, Finland, Dec 12. (UP)-Warnings were
received by foreign quarters today that Helsnk might be
subjected to airplane bombardments the first day
of good weather The warnings came from non-Fnnish
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12
Council Submits
To Majority at
Protest Meeting
Not Convinced Protests Justified, But
FL Centro Trustees Abide by Wishes
Of Group Actively Fighting Arena

Ell Centros city council, convinced against its Will
bowed before what appeared to be the opinion of the major
y Tuesday morning and refused to grant permit Tor
boxing wrestling within the city limits.
The unanimous followed three quarters OF an houl
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12
Doug Fairbanks
Taken by Death
Don Juan of Silent Screen. Greatest Of
All Film Lotharios, Dies QuietIyin
Santa Monica Home After Attack

SANTA MONICA, Caf Dec. 13. (UP)-Douglas Fair
banks greatest of all the silent Lotharos died sud
denly early today of heart attack in his fogshroudeo
Santa Monica home. He 55.
He succumbed unexpecedX that bis beautiful wife
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12
Russia Ignores League
Redoub|es Finn Attack
d AMBLING
X EPORTER

Wedding Note
Raul Mateus is the jitteriest
bridegroom we ever came across. His
best man had to hold him up when
the ceremony was performed!
eve can't say much for Raul,
but the ceremony took mighty
pretty girl out of marital competi-
tion)
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-12

Butter: Los Angeles Sic; but
terfat, Imperial Valley fob ranch
grade A, Ale; manufacturing milk
34c; route gathered cream 2snc.
L. A. hay: U. S. No. 1 $l6.50-17.5o;
U. S. No. 2 leafy s15-Sl5.5O; u. 5. No
2 S12.5O-13.5Oi Mpls. cash flax Si.9I.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1939-12-01
THE WEEKLY SEDRAH

IN his wav must be utilized as
additional means toward reaching
the goal. Joseph's own brother
(as perhaps Joseph knew dis
o BRA himself by cheap tempta-
tion. And many temptations were
placed in the path of Josepn's
attainment: slavery and queens
and hardships and prison were not
mart of his original plan, but ne
refused them. He was instead oe-
termined to hold to his ideal' ana
70 realize it in his life.
such determined devotion to an
ideal from which danger and OBJ
stacle will not move one, can be-
come the ruling life-force of a
person or a people. In Joseph,s
case, particularly, he had much
to learn and to do before ne be-
came as he wanted. In early life,
he showed himself the spoiled
child who could not get along
with his brothers. Joseph had TO
learn how to live in family rela-
tionships, and to know that life is
not always smooth and as one
wishes. The prophet Amos re-
minds the Jewish people OF the
obstacles they must overcome II
they would reach their dream OF
greatness and distinction.
This chapter is read just before
the Chanukah. Can we see In
Chanukah the same thought re-
| peated for our use? Let a people
cherish their dreams, never sur
rendering it, but holding devoutly
in determination to the purpose OF
their dream, and they will be the
source of greatness and of bless
ing.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1939-12-01

Anti-Semitism is treason to
America, according to Sinclair
Lewis, famous novelist and winner
of the Nobel Prize for literature.
"Any organized attempt to
spread racial hatred in the United
States" Mr.. Lewis declares, "or
any attack upon individuals or
groups here on the ground of race
or religion is, in the light Of the
Bill of Rights-treason to Amer
lea. BY the same token, it is a
betrayal not only of the guaran-
tees of freedom and equality con-
tanned in the Constitution, but of
the whole of our traditions and
ideals as a free Republic.
"Anti-Semitism is as anti-Am-
erican as any other subversive,
mischievous, and inimical idea.
But outside of the utter injustice,
the baseness that is involved in
all such wholesale charges against
Jews or any other minority group,
it is ridiculous and thoroughly
nonsensical to condemn a whole
race, or to advance that arch
absurdity of superior and inferior
races"
Asked for his advice to Ameri-
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1939-12-01
RY RABBI DAVID b. ALPERT
"She is more righteous than 1
Genesis 37-4O; P, WayesheV)

SOG Is IIIOIO 446AASNNNN
Genesis 37-4O; P, WayesheV)
Joseph was a dreamer OF
dreams. Strange dreams had come
to his father. Today, the inter-
probation of dreams proceeds ac-
cording to the definite rules OF
science. Not often do they inter-
pref dreams in the way that the
Bible presents them. And the
Bible Interpretation of dreams tell
something vital about character
and shows that dreams are really
some of the deep things of human
nature. In that way, too, the
Bible throws light and understand
ing on our contemporary situa-
ton.
The dream is the secret of inner
hopes, of an ardent desire to make
ones life amount to something and
to make something of his lie.
Joseph's dreams show him deter
mined to fill his life with distlnc-
ton and accomplishment. They
reveal his deliberate purpose to
make his life over keeping to a
definite life-plan and allowing
nothing to deter him from reach
ing his life-work. The dream may
thus be more than wish-fulfill-
ment only in the imagination
AS in Joseph, the dream can be-
come the ruling force which mo-
tivates life and keeps the ideal
constantly before one.
In order to reach the inner pur-
poses of that dream, Joseph and
everyone else must be prepared to
pay the costs. He must yield to
no temptation. Obstacles placed