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Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04

his statement as he arrived at his
home here for visit over the
holidays. He will return to Wash
ington after a rest of several weeks
to start his fifth term in the sem
ate.
There is no doubt that we'll go
to war-We're edging closer to it
every day." Johnson said.
He would not predict how soon
the United States might be invcl-
we'd in the war.
Congress will see a drive soon,
he said, for repeal of the Johnson
Act, a measure sponsored by him
which prohibits loans by United
States citizens to foreign nations
which defaulted their World War
debts.
He predicted those in command"
who want to get into the war
will take us in when the time is
perfectly propitious from their
standpoint"
In Washington, the veteran Cali
fornia senator's namesake, Sen. Ed
win G. johnson, D., Colo, comment
ed after announcement of plans
to make United States merchant
ships available to the Britissh
II hope very much that We'll have
the sense to stay out of the war,
but we can't stick our necks out
much farther"
He said the administration
short-of-War policy was bringing
the country nearer to war. He said
he was worried by talk of lending
money to Britain. He said he
wouldn't lend her cent because
she would never pay it back. Let's
give her the money outright or
buy something from her, if We are
going to do anything"
Repeal of the johnson Act would
result in great pickering" between
the United States and Great Britain
when peace comes, Hiram john
son said.
"If a man ever lends a man
enough to save him from financial
ruin, and it succeeds in pulling him
to his feet, it never fails to wind up
in loss Of friendship. If we make
loans to the British and it succeeds
in saving them it's a dead cinch
We'll be at loggerheads over these
loans once the curtain is down."
Johnson said.
L will make every effort of
which I am capable to prevent re-
peal or emasculation of the little
act that bears my name" he said.
johnson said his senatorial COL
leagues had Promised there would
be no attempt to repeal the john
son Act until after President Roose-
velt's inaugural address.
He refused to predict the outcome
OF the impending fight over repeal
Of the act, but said, II hope to
make a few of those mad hatters
realize they have to fight"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04
Artillery Unit Rolls in, Rolls Out
Again on Trip to New Home in Texas;
u5 Trucks Stop for Overnight Stay

in the valley on its way from Fort
Macarthur to Fort Bliss, near FL
Paso, Texas.
More than 225 motor trucks,
transporting 100 men and go Of
ficerS, arrived in Ell Centro late
Tuesday night and pulled out for
the new base in Texas at 7 am.
Wednesday.
The contingent Of army trucks,
which left Fort Macarthur early
Tuesday morning, was preceded by
field kitchens, whic h were set
up and prepared to serve dinner
to the 100 men when the soldiers
arrived in Ell Centre.
The 100 men VINO camped in
El Centre represented the light
columns. Earlier in the
day so trucks, transporting the
heavy columns passed through El
Centre. That group camped over
night III Wellton, Ariz, according
to Captain L. H. Ripley, public
relations director for the division.
The division. commanded by 1t.
Col Fred L. Topping, averaged
26 miles per hours in its trip from
Fort Macarthur, counting the time
required for five stops enroute,
Actual travelling average was 35
miles per hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04
I.v. Flax Men Condemn
Production Credit GROUP

Members of the Southwest Flax
seed association Tuesday night con-
demned the Ell Centre Production
Credit association for its failure
to care for the legitimate and reas-
enable credit needs of valley farm
ers in general and flax growers in
particular, at their annual meet
ing in the Barbara Worth hotel.
The resolution, introduced by Har-
ry Stewart of Brawley and passed
by large majority of the growers,
further condemned the credit as
ISOLATION for forcing flax growers
to seek financing aid from coast
buyers.
Stewart pointed out that buyers
forced to seek financing from coast
buyers are unable to ship their
crop through the association and
therefore lose the premiums OBJ
tanned through the association
The association also suffers be-
cause it loses a percentage of grow
ers forced to finance through buy
ers and thereby loses a portion of
its bargaining power.
Frank Hixon, production credit
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04

: Wnlle creek troops pressed closer
to the key italian bases at Argyro-
kastron and Porto Edda, dispatches
from Washington disclosed that Sir
Frederick Phillips, undersecretary of
the British treasury, was arriving
to report on Britain's financial con-
dition and that Secretary of Com
merce Jesse H. Jones said he con-
siders Britain "a good risk"
These developments indicated that
financial aid as well as the dispatch
of American ships to carry British
supplies was under serious consider
alton.
That Britain's situation is grave
has been readily admitted in Lon
don but the degree of gravity has
been the subject of contradictory
reports, which Nazi sources in Ber-
lin have aScribed in part to British
propaganda designed to draw the
United States into the conflict.
Lord President OF the Council Sir
John Anderson said that Prime
Minister Winston Churchill was
leading an intensive search by ex-
perts for means OF combating the
Nazi air and U-boat attacks on Brit
ish shipping and that he was con-
fident of early success.
Anderson also indicated the SER
iousness of German air blows at
key British industrial towns when
he said that the government might
use its compulsory labor powers to
carry out reconstruction work in
these centerS, which must keep op-
Grating if Britain's war machine is
to keep running.
London, Southampton, Gloucester,
Oxford and Birmingham we're among
targets attacked by German bomb
ers in the last "a hours, according
to Berlin and London. and Nazis
claimed that many huge fires had
been started by tons of heavy bombs.
On the sea lanes, where the Ger
mans Tuesday claimed to have
sunk Is to 18 British ships, Berlin
Continued on Page g Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04
0swa|t Re.Tria|
Moved to Sd. Set
For February
YamatOda Kidnap Case
Will Be Heard Again
In Federal Court

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4.
cial)-Retrial of J. Ster-
ling Oswalt, former Ell Cen
tro police chief, on kidnap-
conspiracy charges was set
for Feb. II in San Diego federal
court at a hearing this week in
the court of Federal Judge Paul j.
Mccormick.
U. S. attorneys, who had previous
ly protested the change of venue in
the case charging OsWalt with the
kidnapping of H. Yamatoda Japa-
neSe gambling czar, readily agreed
to the new trial site at the hear
ing.
A federal jury deadlocked and
failed to reach a verdict in the first
trial of Oswalt after three months
of taking evidence. The jury, how
ever, convicted five others on SIM
liar counts, including Raul Mateus,
Continued on Page 2, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04

ported at the eleventh cavalry en-
campment at Seeley and there was
cessation Wednesday of the throat
infection with which dozens of the
men suffered during the last two
weeks.
The epidemic was negligible In
Holtville schools as it was in CAL
exico where 406 of the 1860 enroll
ment were absent. Five or six pupils
were absent each day from Impe-
rial schools while the average abb
sence at Calipatria was 30 each day.
Nothing was available from Braw-
ley schools as the superintendent
and trustees, only ones permitted TO
give out information, we're i'll. out
OF town, or could not be contacted
by telephone.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04

ii.
More pupils were absent this week
than last but after few days ill
ness majority of them returned
to their classes.
Physicians throughout the valley
said they had great many in
fluenza patients but the epidemic
was far below that of 1918 or even
the mild epidemic of four years
ago. There were, however, more in
fluenza cases this week than was
the case last December.
In Phoenix Dr. J. D. Dunshee.
acting head of the Arizona state
board of health, expressed alarm at
the increase in influenza cases i'm
that state, 235 more this week than
a week ago.
Few cases of influenza were re-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04

emulation of the organization S
earnings during the past year.
McLachlan traced the economy in
administration of the association
and pointed to a reduction in cost
of operation from $3.39 per acre in
1888 to $1.78 per acre in 1910.
Other reports were made by Audi
tor Bill Foss and d. B. Roberts,
association attorney Roberts offered
several changes in bylaws and
amendments of the association, all
of which were accepted by men,
berS.
More than 225 members and guests
attended the annual meeting, ac-
cording to McLtchlan.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04
Samuel ". McNabb
Dies at Pasadena

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4. (UP)-
Samuel w. McNabb, 73, bankruptcy
referee and former U. S. district
attorney for southern California,
died at his home in south Pasa-
dena today of heart ailment. He
had been i'll since September.
McNabb was born and educated
in Maquoketa, Iowa, and in his
youth was a journeyman printer
He came to the Pacific coast in the
COS and lived for time in San
Francisco.
His public life began in San Ber-
nardino. He held several posts with
the sheriff's office, and was elected
mayor for two terms.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04
u. s. Will Provide
Ships for British
In New Program
Conference Called at
Washington to Work
Out Details of Plan

WASHINGTON, Dec. A.
CUP) = Secretary of Treas
ury Henry Morgenthau, jr.,
today took charge of a pro-
gram to make available to
Great Britain all American mer-
chant ships which can be spared
as intensified submarine warfare
threatened Britain's vital commune
cations with the North American
continent.
Morgenthau and his aides worked
out the final details of program
after his conference with three
other cabinet members, ranking de-
fense officials and Herbert Feis,
Continued on Page 2. Col. 50
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04

secretary manager, said he would
forward a copy of the resolution to
his head office and pointed out
that the association must be care
full to obtain adequate security for
its loans.
John L. Dubois presided at the
meeting, and made the first report,
in which he stressed the need for
continued cooperation among all
grower members.
Argyle McLachlan, secretary man.
ager, reported the progress of the
association and commented on SAB
68824. That sum is distributed pro-
portionately among growers of the
association and represents the ac-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04
Valley Earthquake
Bill Approved

SACRAMENTO Dec. 4. tUP)-
The senate today passed the Walker
assembly bill appropriating $780,
900 for repairing earthquake dam
aged schools at Brawley.
The senate finance committee
cut the requested amount from
$255,000 to 100000, so the meas
ure goes back to the assembly for
approval of the amendment.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04
High CIoudiness
Forecast Here

Increasing high cloudiness a n d
comparatively warm temperatures
were forecast for Ell Centre and
Imperial Valley Wednesday night
and Thursday, according to Wood
row C. Jacobs, meteorologist.
No general change in valley
weather conditions is anticipated,
however, Jacobs said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04

Ell Centro became a military city
for the brief space of IL hours
Tuesday nj g h t when the 63rd
Coast Artillery camped overnight
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04
Mild Flu Wave
Reaches Valley

Imperial Valley Wednesday was in the grip of a mild
influenza epidemic which covered California and reached
into Arizona
The aiiment mild in general kept tenth of the en-
roment OF each Ell Centro school at home Wednesday
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04
Britoin Desperate Over
SEQ Crisis While Greeks
Advance; U.S.. Aid Mupped
Pressure on in Washington to Establish
New Credits. Bring Abou+ American
Convoy Of Ships Crossing Atlantic
BY UNITED PRESS .

Greek armies smashed through mud and at Ital-
ian lines in Albania again Wednesday the United States
indicated plans for immediate increase of aid to Great
Britain to offset batterng Axis air and sea offensive
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04
Administration
Perfectly Mad
To Be in Game
Were Edsins Closer Every Day Says
Veteran Senator; Colorado Statesman
Warns Against Sticking Necks Out

SAN FRANCISCO Dec. A. (UP)-U. S Senator Hiram
Johnson today said there is doubt the United States
will go to He charged that those in command are
perfectly mad to be in ''the game.
The veteran California Republican solationist made
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04
y AMBlINe
M Ep0RTER
There's Something
About A Uniform

My! my! how the feminine hearts
were set aflutter Tuesday when 140O
soldiers arrived in the city all in a
bunch. All businesses and profess
Sions which had women connected
with them were in an uproar while
the gals gazed out of windows as
the IL mile long parade of soldier
loaded trucks rolled by.
RR would like to point out that
it doesn't pay to concentrate on
these one night ISLANDERS. They fold
ed their tents faster than any Arabs
and made an early departure We'd
nesday. Those boys at the Seeley
camp, now, they stay all the time,
In The Spotlight
when are you going to take Ber-
gen on your knee?" was one Of
the smart cracks in DR.. Norman
Dupont's fan mail since his radio
interview at the football game in
Los Angeles last Saturday.
THAT crack the announcer made
about recommending me for radio
training school," Dupont said, zap
peared to have a double meaning"
o
Pay and Pay and Pay
Valley football coaches spent a
busy evening selecting the all val
ley football team.
1--WE realize" said Paul Brown,
one of the officials, at the close OF
the session, that you are not select
ing all valley officials. But that is
all right. just let your appreciation
show in your checks next year."
Imperial Valley press., 1940-12-04

Butter: Los Angeles, 35lsc; but
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch,
grade A, 441ac; manufacturing milk
ssllc; route gathered cream 34'sc.
L. A. hay: u. S. No. 1, I. v. 16.50-17,
U. S. No. 2 leafy S14-14.50. 4. v.
and Antelope S15.50-16; U. s. No.
2, S12.5O-13; Mpls. Dec. flax S1.57's.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-07
JUNE WALLER is
FIRST IN WV
ESSAY CONTEST

June Waller won first prize in
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Auxiliary essay contest, it was
announced Wednesday by Mrs.
Raymond Stegner, essay chair
man. Ju1e's older sister Arlene
Waller was a consistent winner in
the VFW contests when she was
in high school here.
Rose McGovern's theme was
judged second and Billy Inglis,
only boy among the eight en-
trants, took third place.
Prizes for the three winners are
So, So and 81.
Essays will be read by their
authors at meeting of the Aux
iliary at the home of Mrs. Viii
liam Reynolds Tuesday evening
and then sent to state judges in
competition for prizes of $40 and
SIS, with medals for both first and
second place. The national prizes
are 81 900, $500, $3.50, 500, 10
awards Of $40 and 10 Of SIS.
Mrs. A. d. McRae, Mrs. T. E.
Finn and Mrs. Frank Clague
judged the essays, written on
"The Benefits Of Democracy"
Mrs. Stegner replaced Mrs.
Casper Olsen as essay chairman
when Mrs. Olsen's daughter be-
came i'll.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-07

The Birthday club helped Mrs.
Elmer Hennen celebrate her bir-
thday Sunday evening at her
home.
Schoolimates of Mrs. John
Squibb honored her at a shower
at the home of her mother Mrs.
j. c. Landers Saturday afternoon.
Albert and Henry Blume were
business callers in Danube last
Tuesday.
Mary Lorraine Clancy of Olivia
spent the weekend with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. James Cheney.
Mrs. Bertha Lapien accompan-
led Mrs. Charles Buscho and Har-
old and Virginia Buscho and Eve
lyn Hutchinson to visit Charles
Buscho at New Ulm Thursday
evening.
Hans Andreasen Of Eckelson, NJ.
D. visited Monday at the Milton
Larson home.
DR.. and Mrs. Glenn Judd and
Lyle and Joyce of Dawson spent
Sunday with Mrs. Judd's parents
DR.. and Mrs. F. w. Penhall. A
dinner was served honoring Lyle
on his ninth birthday.
Mrs. Leo Schilcht entertained
two tables at bridge Wednesday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Butcher and
family of Minneapolis are visiting
at the Robert Butcher home.
Mrs. William Bidinger was
pleasantly surprised Tuesday
evening when friends helped
celebrate her birthday.
Mrs. Glenn Squibb Sr. enter
tanned friends at shower Friday
evening in honor of her daughter
in-law, Mrs. John Squibb, bride
of February 20.
Henry Jorges is visiting his
brother-in-law and sister Mr..
and Mrs. Archie Dennistoun at
Wabasso.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Simon
notored to Mankato Thursday to
get students from there who at
tend college.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-07
North Redwood Man
WedS Fairfax Girl

Sarah Rieke, daughter of MIR.
and Mrs. Herman A. Rieke of
Fairfax and Bonnie Lindeman,
son of MIR. and Mrs. Ernest Linde-
man of North Redwood, were
married at noon last Thursday in
the Methodist parsonage at Fair
fax, with Rev. R. H. Mercer per-
forming the ceremony.
Mildred Barnum of Redwood
Falls and the groom's brother,
Percy Lindeman of Olivia, were
attendants.
The bride wore a street length
dress of dusty rose alpaca and
Miss Barnum's dress was dusty
blue. The bridal corsage was of
white sweet peas and pink roses
set off with a touch of blue chen
lille while Miss Barnum's was Of
pink sweet peas, yellow roses and
pink chenille.
After a wedding dinner for inn
mediate families at the Rieke
home, the couple left on months
wedding trip to New Orleans and
Mexico City. They will make
their home with the groomhs par
entS.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-07

Early Morton
Resident, Dies
RITES HELD SUNDAY
AT CHURCH SHE AT
TENDED 6S YEARS

Morton Funeral services were
conducted Sunday for Mrs. Mar
ion Drury, "a, by Rev. A. S. Earl
at the home and at the Methodist
church. Interment was in Morton
cemetery.
Marion Killmer was born in
Essex Village, New York, March
26, 1845 and played on the shores
of Lake Champlain as a child. At
the time of the Indian outbreak
she lived in the vicinity of Hen
derson and st. Peter. She was
married to Wesley Drury Septem-
Der 81, 1873 at Beaver Falls and
they began farming in Birch
Coulee. She was a member of the
Methodist church for SO years.
She leaves three sons Will and
Ernest Drury of Morton and Clin-
ton of Henrietta; a sister Mrs.
Emma Drury of Franklin and a
brother John Killmer of Hopkins.
There are % grandchildren and
IA great grandchildren.
Pail bearers were Sam Buscho,
Jake Theusch, Ben Olsen, Louis
Brown, A. c. Ever and j. J..
Scheffler. Flower girls were Lii
liam Edwards, Virginia Buscho,
Alma Joyce Hassinger, Myrtle
Daily, Inez Sieber and Marie
Wederath.
Mrs. Harold Hassinger, w. p.
Daily and Mr.. and Mrs. LIE Gran
de Daily sang, accompanied by
Mrs. L. S. Graves.
Out of town presons present
were Mrs. Grace Drury, Mr.. and
Mrs. Claude Drury and family
and Mildred Bowler of Mime
apolis, Mr.. and Mrs. Vern Drury,
Odessa and Beatrice Drury, How
ard and Leslie Drury all of South
st. Paul, Clinton Drury, Hen
rietta; Mrs. Nellie Peterson and
daughter, Mrs. Bertha Chaplin and
children, Mrs. Henry Arnsdorf
and Tom Bowler of Bird Island,
Mrs. Emma Drury, Lester Drury
and Mrs. Florence johnson OF
Franklin, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
DickIneier of Fairfax, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Killmer of Hopkins,
Earl Killmer of st. Paul, Henry
Dornfeld and Amanda and Lydia
of Redwood Falls, MIR. and Mrs
Carl Miller of Appleton, Mr., and
Mrs. Alvin Becker of North Red
wood, Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-07
LambertOn Institute
Planned March 26, ~

Cooking, windbreaks and live
stock feeding will be discussed by
experts from University Farm,
st. Paul, at Lamberton March rs
and 81.
County Agent J.. I. Swedberg
who arranged it doesn't know
exactly what to call the affair but
thinks, ga miniature farmers
institute" describes it.
Ina B. Rowe, state food spec
ialist, will take on culinary sub
jects both days. The second day,
w. E. Morris will give instruc-
tons on livestock feeding and
Clemens kaufman will have
"windbreaks" as his topic.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-07
Brand Films Turn
Up In Coles Car

DR.. w. A. Brands motion pic
ture films, stolen 10 days ago
from the front hallway of his
home, were placed in DR.. j. Cor
don Coles car some time this
week, DR.. Brand learned Wednes-
day.
The doctor placed his films, Is
cans of them, near the unlocked
front door of his home the night
of February Is. The next NOR
ming they had disappeared.
DR.. Cole was at DR.. Brands
house that night but left before
the doctor packed his film bag.
1t is believed that the person who
took them left them in DR.. Coles
car knowing they would be re-
turned from there.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-07
MORTON

The young people of the Zion
Lutheran church will present a
play called "Plain People FRI
day evening, March is, at the
Community hall.
Mrs. David Evans and daughter
Joan. Of Sioux Falls are visiting
Mrs. Evans parents, MIR. and Mrs.
Ralph McMath.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Redder and
daughter Marlyce Ann and Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Patzwald were
Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Perry Morse at Olivia. II was
Mrs. Morse's birthday.
Mrs. A. L. Holden left Thurs
day for the University hospital,
Minneapolis, for medical treat
ment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Tfelgeson
returned from Springfield, Ill
Friday evening and are now visit
ing relatives at Wood Lake, Delhi
and Morton.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ben Plageman was baptized
Sunday morning at the Lutheran
church. The name given was Kar-
ron Emma.
Mrs. Ben Patzwald and Johnny
left Thursday to visit her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. johnson OF
Freedom. Saturday she attended
the golden wedding anniversary
of her parents. Ben Patzwald ac-
companied MIR. and Mrs. Claude
Smith to Freeborn and spent the
weekend. They returned Sunday
evening.
Mrs. J.. c. Menu was hostess tt
the Electa circle division Of the
Methodist Ladies Aid Wednesday
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-07
RITES TUESDAY FOR
NELS c. BRANDT,
CLEMENTS FARMER IS
VICTIM OF STROKE;
BURIED IN IOWA

Clements - Nels Christian
Brandt, IS, died at his farm home
a few miles west of Clements ear
ly Sunday morning and funeral
services were held Tuesday after
noon at the Methodist church in
Boxholm, Iowa, where he former
ly lived. Rev. o. E. Olson con-
Quoted the rites and burial was in
Prairie Lawn cemetery at Box
holm.
Mr.. Brandt's illness began in
1880 when he suffered stroke
which left him partially paralyzed
but he was active until Saturday
afternoon when he had another
stroke while working in the barn
of his farm. His son Russell found
him sitting against the wall of
the building, unconscious and he
remained unconscious until his
death.
He was born in Boxhollm April
2, 1874, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
James Brandt. October "a, 1905
he married Hannah johnson
there. She and two sons, Russell
at home and Roy Brandt of
Clements; a brother, Isaac Brandt
and a sister, Mrs. T. L. Lundberg
in Boxholm, survive. A son died
in 1918 and brother, Peter, died
a year ago at ,Woodbine, Iowa.
The family has lived near
Clements since 1921.
Before Boxholm was incorpor-
sated, Mr.. Brandt operated a
blacksmith shop on his farm in
the community and when the
town was organized, he moved his
equipment there.
His widow and their son, Rus
sell, accompanied the body to To-
wa Monday morning and Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Brandt and Mrs. Russell
Brandt also attended the funeral.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-03-07
TO ATTEND CONFERENCE

Wilbur H. Lamberton, secre-
tary-treasurer of the Redwood
Falls Production Credit associa-
ton, will be among officers and
directors of six production credit
associations serving IL southwest
ern Minnesota counties to gather
at Marshall Tuesday and We'd
nesday for a group credit confer
eflce. Association officials from
Window, Fairmont, Worthington,
Madison and Marshall also are
expected to attend.