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Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

Members of the San Diego Coun-
ty Highway Development associa-
ton promised to assist the newly
formed Imperial County Highway
Development association in Solv-
ing road and highway problems.
The Imperial group, which is
headed by Walter HavekorSt, is
countrywide in scope and was Or
ganized as a clearing house for
road and highway matters. 1t is
hoped, Havekorst said, TN 4 t
all highway matters will be taken
to the association for discussion
before er-community nisunder-
standings develop and the county
loses money because of them.
Personnel of the association Will
include all members of the county
board of supervisors and represen-
the farm bureau, all chambers of
commerce, the Imperial Irrigation
district, the Associated Chambers
of Commerce, and the state high
way department.
Selection of the representatives
is being made now and is expected
to be completed in time for a meet
ing tentatively set for next week
The exact meeting date will be an
nounced as soon as arrangements
arc complete, HaVekorSt said.
when one community fights
another 10 get road appropriations
Havekorst said the propositions
become so involved that frequently
all communities lose out For the
good of the county as whole as
we'll as for the sake of the several
cities and rural sections, the asso-
citation should have the backing
of every Imperial county resident
HavekorSt and Robert Hays, mall
ager of the Ell Centre Chamber OF
Commerce.. attended Mondays meet
ing of the San Diego group in the
coast city. They said fine San Dlce-
ans urged speedy completion of MI.
Springs grade Improvement III In
perlal county.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
Riley Upheld in
Expense Squabble

SACRAMENTO, April 90. oUP-
The refusal of State Controller
Harry B. Riley to pay a $6374 court
reporters fee incurred in Gov
Olson's trial of the state board OF
prison directors from San Quentin
prison funds was upheld today in
an opinion of Attorney-General
Earl Warren.
Riley held up the claim, SUBJ
mitted by Hart & Hart, a San
Francisco court reporting firm, on
grounds the expense had not been
incurred by the prison directors.
He suggested the charge should be
made against funds of the gov
crnor's office
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
E Centro Listed
As Terminus for
White Slave Ring
Alleged Vice Overload
Held in Los Angeles
On Pandering Charge

That FL Centro is the
southern terminus in a cham
of so-called white slave mar
kcts ending at Seattle was
nharged in Los Angeles Tues
day after arrest of an Imperial VAL
ley Negro Oh suspicion of pander-
ing.
Charles w Montgomery, 43, long
suspected in Imperial Valley rs \
prominent figure in underworld
vice activities, had notebook in
his possession when arrested, Los
Angeles police said, which listeo
spots up and down the coast where
girls could be placed
The supposed connection Mont
gomery had with vice conaltlons
was familiar to many peace off,
GERS in the valley. Sheriff Robert
w. Ware said Tuesday, but as far
dt he knew the Negro had not been
arrested here.
Montgomery heretofore eluded
implication in vice and morals cases
handled by valley officers, Ware
Continued on Page 9 Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
FORMER NRA HEAD
ASSOCIATED WITH REDS

LOS ANGELES, April %. CUPO-
Donald Richberg, jr., former ad-
miniStrator of the defunct MIRA,
has been associated in the defense
of Mikhail Gorin. head of the So
Wet controlled tourist bureau. whose
conviction on espionage charges was
affirmed yesterday by the ninth
circuit court of appeal, it was learn
ed today.
An appeal to the supreme court
of the United States will be pre-
pared Immediately. Former Judge
Isaac Pacht chief of defense coun-
sci FOR Gorin in The trial, said,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

where he was employed and Tues
day pleaded not guilty when ar
laigned before Judge Ralph E. Jen-
ncy on charges that he conSpired
to kldnap H. Yamatoda, wealthy
Oriental underworld figure, in the
fall Oi 1898.
Ten others. including Ell Ccntro
Police Chief J. Sterling Oo1alt,
Raul Mateus, a former Ell Ccntro
special officer, and Detective Louis
Henry of the Los Angeles police,
will so to trial April 30 on similar
charges.
Ota. "a years old, formerly was
the husband of The late Lucy Bali
ming, member OF a pioneer south
ern California family. While he Va
in FL Centre. before the sensational
Yamatoda case "broke' in Dectm-
hcr of 1893. he was known as the
professor because of his skill at
I'll jitsu. Ola al that time va
connected with Dick Yoshida, also
under federal indictment charged
IN the alleged kidnapping, who ran
japanese club in FL Centro.
Ota played a yelled part in the
tangled events that followed the
arrest of Yamatoda in Los Angeles
on an Ell Centro gambling charge.
He was one of the Japanese invo.y-
ca in a scrap with Yamatoda after
the japanese gaming czar was re-
leased under bond and was held in
Jail with Yamatoda on disturbing
the peace charges that same night
in some way, the governn ent
charges he helped kidnap Yamato-
da and take him across the border
10 MeXicali where he was held by
immigration authorities.
Yamatoda now awaits ruling on
his appeal from a sentence of ore
TO 10 years on a manslaughter con-
vlctlon in connection with the a4ay-
ing of Lodi rancher who gampled
in Yamatoda'S club in Los Angeles
AT the time. Chief OSwalt denied
tEat Yamatoda had been kidnapped
but charged that Yamatoda VAS
himself guilty of kidnapping Lefty
Sonoda, another japanese connect.
cd with the case, and Spiriting him
% MeXicali.
OsWalt was slated to return to
Ell Centro Tuesday afternoor fol-
lowing brief trip to Los Angeles
dulng which he laid plans tor
his defense. slated to start April
go. The trial date of the 23rd was
postponed one week.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

he JenIdIlVcly SCllcuuleu d IL
day journey which may extend as
far as Alaska. Outward bound he
will visit North Carolina, Tennessee,
Mississippi Texas, California and
Washington = all relatively safe
Democratic states.
Principal interest is in his return
itinerary which presumably would
take him through the 1910 political
battlefield which lies largely in the
lakes and mid Atlantic areas. As
suming congress adjourned early in
June, the president would be ira
yelling and speaking during the
Republican convention. He adopted
the same strategy In 1886.
The concenSus here is that Mr.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
Wind, Dust Storm
Strikes Phoenix

PHOENIX, April 23. oUPp A 40
mile an hour wind, laden heavily
with dust, blew across the Salt RI
yer Valley early today. disrupted air
line schedules and left broken tree
branches and a fine layer OF dirt
in evidence in the Phoenix area.
A slight trace of rain accompanied
the blow.
An American AirlineS transport
plane, scheduled to land here at
2:20 a. M, was unable to Sl1ht inc
field through the heavy dust ana
was forced to proceed to Tucson
The unsettled conditions we're re-
ported to prevail in almost all sec
tionS of the state The only ap-
preciable rainfall during the last -
hours was in Tucson where III OF
an inch was recorded,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

Roosevelt has not made up his mind
on a third term. But he is COM
mitted to obtain liberal Democratic
candidates for president and vice
president and a liberal platform
or to bolt the party.
To that extent he has stated his
position publicly and emphatically.
Washington bubbles with conflict
ing versions of his reaction to direct
questions whether he will run again.
Some persons believe him determin-
ed to retire from office next Janu-
ary and others assert that circum-
stances could compel him to accept
denomination,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
Census Totals TO
Be Tod Friday

Census totals for Ell Centro will
be available Friday, it was announc-
ed Tuesday by w. F. North, dir
ector of the census for this district.
Immediately after the govern
ment completes its work the CEN
sus committee of the Ell Centre
Chamber of Commerce will go into
action. This committee is pledged
to contact all those missed by fed
eral census takers and include them
in the official enumeration.
Walter Havekorst and Ross T.
HickcoX, who head the committee,
are working with Mayor r. w. Hat
ton and H. r. Anderson, president
of the chamber of commerce, in an
effort to make the census as near
100 per cent as possible
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
Hunted Thug Walks
Into Jail, Warns
Enemy, Walks Out
Rapist-Killer ScOrns
Laws Search, Threatens
Witness, Goes Free

NEW YORK, April 23.
(UP)-The audacity of Muir
der, Inc, agents was demon
strated again today with the
disclosure that one Of them,
fat Vito Gurino, had walked into
Jail while he was being hunted for
murder and rape, threatened a priS-
oner with death unless he kept his
mouth shut, and walked out again.
Gurino is still being hunted for
three murders and two rapeS. His
iail visit was on the night of March
30. few hours after an eight
state alarm had been issued for his
arrest. The prisoner he threatened
was Joseph Joe the Bear Llberto,
night Watchman in the garage in
which George Rudnlck, one of Muir
der, Ines many victims, was hack
ed to death with an ice pick May
25, 1887. Liberto is under $4,000
bond as a material witness in that
case.
AS a result OF Gurlno's visit, Sher-
if Maurice A. Fitz Gerald has dis
charged Deputy Sheriff William
Cassale. the Jail keeper, who alleg-
edly permitted Gurino into Llberto's
cell over Libertos protests.
Liberto was quoted that Gurinc
previously had paid another mem
Der of the murder firm 500 to xii
hlm. This unnamed hoodlum kid
raped Libcrto but he escaped. Ther
he surrendered to police.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

complain about the brevity of shorts
the girls wore, he said, when two
housewives came in for beer in still
shorter shorts.
"There is nothing l can do about
it unless the city council passes an
ordinance" he said. But wives are
running me crazy calling up and
complaining about some of the
places their husbands frequent.
"The woman who asked me to
investigate the girls in grass skirts
said they had been winking at her
husband while he drank his beer
And he's a married man, too
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
Honky Tonk Hostesses Making Eyes
AtDa!Ids Hubbies Shock Police

DALLAS, Tex, April %. tUP)-
SO shocked was Police Chief James
Wclch today about the way hOnky
tonk hostesses dressed and "made
goo goo eyes at the boys" that he
planned to ask the city council to
quiet the protests of many wives
with an ordinance.
"The wOrstsI found was a place
where all the girls wore grass hula
hula skirts" Welch reported after
a tour of night spots. THE skirts
weren't all-they were making goo
100 eyes at the boys
lie was ready at another place to
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

battle fleet, now engaged in its
annual war maneuVers, said the
navy was "excellently equipped"
He urged expanding the fleet and
said he would recommend to con-
gresS that larger appropriations be
granted to insure Americas main
tanning we'll trained sea force.
Americas first job was to catch
up to other countries in naval
power, because belligerents were ac-
celebrating their construction above
normal Edison explained. Later
we intend to expand beyond the
foreign fleets to give better pro-
lection in these uncertain times"
Edison was inspecting the San
Diego naval base today and plans
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
District Approves
Fuel Oil Contract

Directors of the Imperial Ir.lga-
ton district Tuesday approved COM
pletion of a fuel oil contracf for
the Brawley diesel plant and con-
sidered leasing 320 acres IN the
northend to dry ice concern.
Representatives of the National
Carbon Products company appear
ed, seeking a lease at a dollar an
acre year and royalty to the dis
trict of 25 Genus a ton. A CON-
mittee headed by Director w. j..
Gregg was named TO investigate
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
Bridges Unionists
Picket City Hall

SACRAMENTO, April %. oUP-
CIO locals today halted picketing Of
the city hall in protest to the city
councils action in denying Harry
Bridges, California CIO director.
permission to speak at Memorial
auditorium tonight.
The union picketed the city hall
yesterday, carrying a coffin draped
in an American flag and piacard
declaring free speech was killed
by the city council April 49," The
council revoked permission for
Bridges to speak at the auditorium
on April l9.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
This Thief Got
Real Buq Juice

A thief who stole two gallons
of "saki' from Robert YamamotO
Of Los Angeles while Yamamoto's
truck was parked on north
Fourth street In Ell Centre will
get an awful shock when he tries
to drink his booty.
"The case was marked SAX
Japanese rice wine) but the hot
ties contained bug poison! va,
mamotO informed police.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
200 SRA Clients
On wPAProjects

A total of 200 men selected from
SRA relief rolls arc working on two
WPA projects in Imperial county,
Ned Holmes. director of SRA, said
Tuesday.
OF the total $50 of them are work
ing on sewer construction in I'M
perial while the remainder are
working on a state highway project
in tho CalcXicO vicinity.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

to leave tomorrow night Tor Wash
ington.
On his arrival here from Los An
geles. the secretary said he dis
agreed with Rear Admiral Joseph
K TausSig, who had testified before
the senate naval affairs committee
that the United States might be
drawn into war against Japan In
the Far East.
"Adr1iral Taussig WAS expressing
his personal views no said. mot
the views of the navy"
Edison said he was In no hurry,
to begin his campaign for the gov
ernorship of New Jersey and woul0
remain in his cabinet post az long
as he can.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
1Iy This One

1Iy This One
Parents who visited cla,, ,ruOn6
i'm Ell Centre Tuesday in Pubic
Schools Week activities to sec how
their children are getting aiong
probably came away impressed. But
the ones that visited Miss Margar-
ct Hedrick's fourth grade class
came away dizzy!
here is just one of the pr2o'emS
tnat Miss Hedricks pupils answer
ed with speed that left the adults
far behindl
What is six times nine, m.uls
four, divided by 10, squared?'
The answer was IS, but you could
have fooled RR then, and yol still
can!
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
Roosevelt our
Stirs S SPECULATION

NEW YORK, April 23. (UP)-Presdent Roosevelt's
transcontnenta counter attraction to the Republican
tiona convention furthers his campaign for liberal pros
idenal ticket but whether it launches third term cand
dacy remained today White House secret.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
Unified Highway
Programs Aim Of
New Association

sweeping program to unity Imperial county highway
programs and prevent III the future the costly ntecom-
munity squabbles that have often lost valuable road I'M
provements to the valley under Tuesday through
the newly formed Imperial County Highway Development
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
Maj AirpIanes Fly Over Sweden While
Transports Reported Off Coast; Battle
At Sea Indicated; Norway Crisis Near
- BY JOE ALEX NORRIS -
United Press Foreign News Editor

Europes surged closer than Tuesday 10 the
frontiers of nervous Sweden
Every blow and counter-boW sr1c! by the Allied pow
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
, Months Search
Ends i'm Arrest
o. /. a. Japanese
The Professor. Missing Since Indictment
Was Voted, Nabbed by G-Men as Date
For Trial Nears in federal Court

Setsuzo Oa, at time familiar figure on Ell Cen
ros Broadway and later mysterious one linked with
the strange Yamaoda in iail In Los Angeles
Tuesday after a seNenh-month search by G-men.
He was arrested Monday night at Hollywood hotel
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
Baseball
AMERICAN

AMERICAN
Philadelphia ....-.......... 600 00l 90
New York .,............a 900 900 90
Dean e. Hayes; Hadley, Russo,
Chandler & Dickey.
Washington -. 900 900 1912 7 2
Boston .... 1O2 220 OOX-7 8 l
Leonard, CraraSquel & Ferrcll;
Harris & DeSautelS.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
Germany Opens Campaign
Of Fear Against Swedes:
Masses Troops on Border
D AMBlINe
* EPORTER
It's All Over Now

It's All Over Now
Ulysses the wandering turtle has
finally come to a halt in his mean
deringS.
The armored reptile with TIE
hole in his after decking ran afoul
of young Edward Wylie at Seventh
and Brighton MONDAY after
ana Edward Immediately TOOK him
II tow He remembered piece n
this column concerning the creature
and the desire of Mrs. R. M. Hen
derson to own it.
Ulysses spent Monday night tied
up in the Post-PresS offices ard
Tuesday Mrs. Henderson sent a
messenger Tommy LaFrankie, to
pick it up. She intends to make
the turtle into pet at her home.
Fare thee we'll, Ulysses. Try s'dy-
ing at home for a change.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

Competition
Perhaps it is professional jealousy,
but since Lee Nuffcr lost his ap-
pendiX several attorneys appear
bit restless, probably on the theory
that Lee can't be without any
thing we can't be Without
One lawyer was quizzing h m
Tuesday, preparatory to doing like
WISE.
incidentally, what became of all
the baby clothes Lee received Ha lie
a patient? It's a cinch he can't
wear them.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23
The Professor

The Professor
Used to having MS wife cal tor
h'm in the car at the end Oi the
working day, William Albers of
E1ltville paced up and down ial-
patiently before his offices one az
ternoon last week.
When his wife was half an hour
overdue he gave up waiting a.1d
started walking home. He lives
about a mile outside the town and
when he was nearly home he sud-
oenly remembered that he had
driven himeslf to the office that
Gay and parked the car behind
the office!
1t was a weary walk back
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-23

Butter: Los Angeles 27o; but
terfat, Imper7aI Valley I. o. b. ranch.
grade A 36c: manufacturing milk
zoe; route gathered cream 26c.
l. A. hay: 4. s. No. S14.50i
L. S. No. Ieafy S13-ii; L. s. No.
2 S11-S11.5O; Mpls. Sept. flax s1.90s.
Evening star., 1940-04-07
M o ID e II n

29c cotton slips,
built-up shoul-
der style slips.
rAyon panties.
r z n c h ! e q
pants.
Basement
Girls.
Evening star., 1940-04-07
19c Shirts & Shorts
3 for $l

B r o q d { ! o t b
s h o r is, full
roomy cut. Cot.
ton shirts, sizes
8 to IS.
" Basement
Boys.
Evening star., 1940-04-07
Boys 79c Duneorees

Cotton d e n 1 m
dungarees with
tie-back. Dc
bottoms. Sizes q
to 16.
Basement
Boys.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-05-10

NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETI-
 TON FOR LETTERS OF ADMIN
 1sTRATION WITH WILL AN
 NEXED
 IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR
 THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA
 WRANGELL PRECINCT. FIRST
 DIVISION.
 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESz
 TATE OF NINA VBEATT, DE- CEASED.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thaf Alexander Vreatt has filed with The court a document purported to be the last will and testament of Nina Vreatt. deceased. together with Petition praying that letters of ad- ministration with will annexed in the above entitled estate be issued to him
 All persons interested in said es- tate are hereby notified that proof of said last will and testament will be received, and objections heard If any there bel at ? o'clock in the afternoon of Monday. the 20th day of May. 1940, in the office of the United States Commissioner for
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-05-10

ter two. With more than half the precincts in. including all the major ones, Miller had a scant 4o.vote lead on Reed.
 Now for the actual legislative nominees.
 In the First Division for the Sen ate seat, Republican Frank s. Barnes of Wrangell will compete with Democrat Norman R. Walker of Ketehikan. For the House the Democrats have nominated John Nc Gormick. Allen Shattuck. James Y. Davis and Crystal Snow Jenne while the Republicans will oppose them with Mildred Hermann, Jay Will liams William Paul, Jr. and Steve YuKovieh. All the House candidates on both tickets are from Juneau.
 In the Second Democrat o. D. Cochran will be opposed by Repub- Iican Harry Egbert and for the House the Democrats apparently have nominated Howard Lyng. Leon ard Smith. E. L. Ke1l and Wallace Porter while the Republicans named Rollyn Ball. Stuart stangroom. Lud- viz Ost and either Sam Taggart or John Hurley to oppose chem
 Incomplete returns from the Third reveal Democrats Coffey and Brown ell opposing Republicans O'NeilI and Murray for the two Senate seats to be filled from the Third. Demo- cratic nominees for Che House ap- pear to be McCutcheon. Horning. Smith and Egan while the COP nom inees are Andersen, Peterson. seIby and Wilson.
 With about half of the 70 pre- . einets in the Fourth reporting. it appears chat Democratic Nordale will oppose Republican Mcdonald for the Senate seat while in the House race for the general election
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-05-10
GTBLlROUGlH TlB1s P0L.ITIGA AL
 PElRIgG0IPE
a#

With the primary election virtual ly over. with the exception of wait ing for returns from a few isolated places and making the official tally, no end of interest is being kicked up over the proposed reorganization of the Bureau of Biological Survey and the Bureau of Fisheries into 9 new department to be known as the Fish and Wildlife Service. Alaska fish men are particularly concerned since the news came out that the new set up would include commercial fish ing.
 Officials in position to know any thing about it are as mum as clans. Only way the public got word of it was when the Ickes proposal went to Congress where neWsmen, plough ing through the grist, dug it out Executive Officer Frank Dufresne of the Alaska Game Commission and Biological Survey head in Alaska was silent as tomb on the subject when he passed through here re- gently, although the report it that he will head up the Alaska Wildlife end of the Division with Dr. Ira Gabrielson, now chief of the Biolog- ical Survey in Washington, being generalissimo under Secretary Iekes of the entire department. Gabrielson is due here June on the start of what is reported to be a three months study of fish and wildlife in the Territory.
 Meanwhile commercial fisheries men particularly are wondering what the score is, especially since the War Department has seen fit to hold some hearings, for the first time in the history of the Territory, on location of fish traps, weirs and so on. Best information newsmen are able to dig up in the national cap ital is that unless Congress definite ly by concurrent resolution goes on record against it, the consolidation of the two bureaus which yitally concern Alaska will go into effect in
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-05-10

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in September the Democrats have nominated Rogge. Gordon, Lander and either Herbert or sorri while the Republicans named Johnson, Colbert. Hurley and either Estes or Murton There are close contests for fourth position on both tickets for the House
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 Out Of this group, voters in Sep tember will name all their repre- sentatiYes and the majority of their Senators to convene under the new act on the fourth Monday in Jan uary