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Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05

SAN LUIS, Son., Mexico, JAN 5.
CUP)-Arizona authorities asked the
Mexican government for permis-
sion today to return John and Tom
Powers, convicted killers, to the
Arizona state prison frcm which
they fled eight days ago.
The two brothers, who % years
ago killed three law enforcement
officers attempting to arrest them
for World war draft evasion, were
captured near this border town by
a posse of American and Mexican
officers late last night.
Sheriff 7. H. Newman of Yuma,
who headed the posse, said the
fugitive draft dodgers were heavily
armed and apparently refrained
from using the weapons against
their captors only because they
were taken by surprise.
The men had set up an elaborate
camp in the underbrush, Newman
said, and had more than $500 in
their possession. The men would
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
WesflnorIand Jail
Death Causes Suit
For Il Thousand
Girls Parents Allege
City Negligent When
Prisoner SmOthered

The city of Westmorland
and three of its officers
were sued for $12,5O0 Friday
by parents of Lupe Mendez,
II, who smothered to death
while a prisoner in the Westmor-
land Jail Nov. 19.
Miss Mendez suffocated from the
fumes arising from smouldering
mattress in her cell, the mattress
she ignited with matches in her
possession.
Her parents charged the city
with maintaining Jail that was
a fire trap without adequate ven-
tilation, with failure to leave a
jailer or matron to look after their
daughter, and with failure to search
her before locking her in the cell
alone
A demand for the $12,5O0 was re-
jected by the city council, the
plaintiffs alleged. The suit named
the city, Chief of Police Ed Dick
erson and his night police patrol
men, Harold Dickerson and Buster
Ordway, and their bonding COM
pany as co-defendants in the suit.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05

gross tonnage as much as 10000 to
$4,000 tons.
The naval officers said if the
United States decides on policy
of outbuilding the world in size of
dreadnaughts. a change in the two
big ships would permit them to be
completed and launched before any
other nation could match them.
Funds for the two 45,000-ton
ships now under construction we're
authorized last year in the navy
supply bill for the current year
hut only $750,OO0 was provided
enough to prepare the ways and
miner preliminary work.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
Peruvian Tells of
Nazi Domination

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. S. CUP
DIR. Alexandra Carrillo, exiled
Peruvian political leader, told the
Commonwealth club today Peru
has "ceded to- Germany" one of
its leading ports for use as a secret
naval base.
Carrillo said the base was the
port of Malabrigo on the north
coast of Peru. He said German
Warships and submarines are using
it.
The exiled leader presented the
disclosure as an example of what
he said was Fascist penetration
and domination of much of South
America. He told of German, Italian
and Japanese interests in the re-
publicS to the south.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
Fabulous Pirate
Treasure Reported
Located on Cocos
Loot of Lima Believed
Found by California
Party Searching Isle

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5.
(UP)-The Loot of Lima"
a $60,00O,000 treasure, was
reported located today on
CocoS Island, old pirates
lair off the coast of Central Amer
lea.
A California expedition which
sailed for Cocos last November
aboard the schooner Spindrift has
had some measure of success, &C
cording to word reaching Sidney
Field, Costa Rican consul in Los
Angeles.
Treasure has been located on
the island" Field was informed in
an airmail letter from the curator
of the Costa Rican National Mu-
scum, who accompanied the expedi-
ton. Apparently the treasure is
buried so deeply that power equip
ment and winches are needed, Field
said.
THE Spindrift is on it's way back,
either to Panama or to California,
for equipment he said.
The treasure the party seeks is
the reputed $6OOOOIO0D in gold
plate and jewels from the cathedral
at Lima, Peru, which the pirate
ship Mary Dear" agreed in 1921
to convey to place of safe-keep-
ing Instead the ships crew mur-
dered the church guard and re-
putedly hid the treasure on Cocos
Island.
In lifetime of study, the late
Alexander Forbes, navigator and
world traveller, acquired or drew
up many maps and documents re-
lating to the treasure. His grand
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
Beesemyer Paro|ed
For Second Time
ByPrison Board

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal,
Jan. 5. CUP)-Gilbert Beesemyer,
former southern California finan-
cier, was paroled by the state board
of prison terms and paroles today
after serving nine years of a 40
year sentence for embezzling $8,-
100000.
1t was the second time within
a year the board granted parole
to the former head of the Guaranty
Building and Loan Association of
Hollywood whose speculations al
most wrecked the Hollywood motion
picture colony.
The first parole, granted last
summer, was revoked after de-
mands of victims of the embeSzler
for public hearings. Three hearings
were held before the board acted
again to free Beesemyer with less
than one fourth of his sentence
served.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
Leqion Commander
viii Reach Valley
Sunday for Speech

American Legionnaires completed
arrangements Friday to welcome
their national commander, Ray
mond j. Kelly, due to arrive in
Imperial Valley Sunday.
Kelley was scheduled to deliver
an address at a meeting in Veter-
ans Memorial hall in FL Centro
at 7:30 pm. Sunday. This will be
the first time national COM
mander ever delivered an address
in the valley, Commander G. H. H.
Small of Boyce Aten post in FL
Centre said Friday.
Legionnaires threw the meeting
open to the public and arranged
patriotic program. State Com
mander w. S. Dunn of Imperial,
who maintains headquarters at Los
Angeles, was scheduled to accom-
pany Kelley to the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
NLRB Outlaws AFL
Union, Favors Clio

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 5. UP)
The National Labor Relations
board today outlawed AFL con-
tracts with 13 San Benito and
Santa Clara county packing plants
and designated the CIO Interna-
tional Longshoremen's and Ware
housemen's union as representative
of the employees.
A report of j. j. Fitzpatrick, labor
board examiner. held that the AFL
Dried Fruit and Nut Packers union.
which had contracts with the firms
was company dominated and or
ganized."
His report was announced here
by Mrs. Alice M. Rosseter. regional
director, upon its receipt from
Washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
Three Injured in
AirpLane Crash

NEW ORLEANS, La, Jan. 5. CUP
Lieut.. Col. Arthur F. Foran of
the New Jersey national guard,
president of the New JERSEY senate
ms son, Lieut.. Walter Foran, and
Lieut.. f. w. Estelle were injured
last nieht when their national
guard airplane crashed in the cane
brakes near here.
Rescuers were delayed by fog
and Lieut.. Estelle, the pilot, hung
head down in the wreckage for
three hours before part of the fuse
lage could be chopped away to re-
lease him. He was reported SER
iously hurt.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05

1t was reported that the Red
force bombed other points in Fin
land but details were not immed-
lately available.
Finnish ski patrols, now aided by
bombing airpianes, have so serious
ly hampered traffic on Russia's
vital railroad supply line to the
Arctic that the civil population of
Murmansk is threatened with
serious food shortage.
Reindeer herders and other men
Injured to the bitter cold of the
far north have now joined the ski
patrols. Finnish officials decline
to discuss the ski patrol activities
out it was understood that small
marauding groups of between Is
and 20 men each, camping in the
snow at night and living on dried
reindeer meat and beans are en-
gagged in constant forays across the
frontier
There was no amplification of the
bare reports that bombing air.
planes are now aiding the patrols.
Meanwhile Scandinavia's war
worries mounted today under the
lash of increasing Nazi criticism.
Berlin newspapers followed up
indirect Nazi foreign office warn
ings to northern Europe neutrals
by charging that Great Britain
and France were seeking to prepare
the way for an attack on the Reich
from Scandinavia.
The position of Norway. Sweden
and Denmark has been made crit
ical by the war in which Finnish
troops, aided by volunteers, ma
terials and airplanes from abroad,
have stopped Soviet Russias army.
The blocking of the Russian in
vasion and reports in Copenhagen
that the Firms had scored another
important triumph by re-capturing
the town of Salla on the north
central front after severe fighting
intensified an unexpected military
setback that has given Germany
a headache almost as severe as
RuSSia's.
The Finnish war has disrupted
Nazi plans to get supplies from
Russia. 1t has united the Scandi-
naHan powers against the Red
army. When the British and French
also began pouring aid into Fin
land, Germany feared that the
Allies were seeking to unite Scan
dinavia against Nazi-Soviet COM
bination.
This serves as an enticing out
look for the western powers to
extend the war zone, cut German
commerce and secure an area for
march against Germany" said
the Frankfurter zeitung in warn
ing the Scandinavian states to re-
main neutral.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
Service Promoter
Sent to U.S Pen

SEATTLE, Jan. 5. (UP)-Alfred
Ernest Albert Edward George Hall,
promoter of a university of world
fellowship of service" in San Rafael
Cal, today was under a sentence
to year and day at Mcneil
Island federal penitentiary for re-
peated illegal entry from Canada.
Hall, 81, whose home is in Toron-
to, told authorities he was mot
certain" whether he was born in
England or France because he had
been unable to locate his birth cer-
tificate.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05

Scattered showers dampened Sec
tions of Imperial Valley Thursday
night but Friday the forecast was
for clear weather with no moisture
or cold.
Woodrow C. Jacobs, federal
weatherman, declared that a storm
still threatens the coast, and pre-
dicted scattered clouds and wind.
There is no indication of rain
storm or freeze" he asserted.
Skies were clear and sunshine
drove the thermometer to 70 de-
grees in El Centro at noon Friday.
At am. it was So degrees and
ST at 5 pm. Thursday.
The Los Angeles forecast was for
tair weather Friday and Saturday,
with moderate northwest winds.
Meanwhile, middlewestern and
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
Romeo, Juliet Wed
To End Society's
Turbulent Romance
Papa Retires in Gloom,
Admitting Defeat in
Effort to Ban Rites

NORTH CONWAY, N. H.,
Jan. 5. (UP)-George (Ro-
meo) Lowther and Eileen
(Juliet) Herrick were mar
ried here today, climaxing
society's most turbulent romance
of the season.
The simple ceremony was per-
formed by the Rev. H. Raymond
Phelps, pastor of the First Con-
gregational church, after the New
York lovers had eloped by airplane
to this White Mountains resort.
Thus ended happily, for every
body but papa and mama Walter
Herrick, high society's most Mixed
up engagement of the last year.
Herrick, who had done every
thing possible to preserve his pretty
2O-year-old daughters single bless
edness, and who refused, hours
after she was gone, to concede the
worst, finally retired to an arm
chair before the fireplace in his
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05

whose directions located the Cocos
Island treasure this week, Bayard
Rehkopf, Ell Centro taxi man, dis
closed
While treasure seekers returned
from the islands for special ma
chinery to reach the $6O,O00,000
Loot of Lima" found at last on
the Cocos. Rehkopf revealed the
Ell Centro search that began last
November.
1.-TWO women and a man hired
me to drive them to the desert"
Rehkopf said. Il noticed they WhiS-
pered a lot and consulted yellow
map. When we reached certain
spot on the desert they got out
and did some investigating.
The two women and man were
Mrs. Vera Ransom, Mrs. Frankie
M Richards of Kansas City, Mo-,
and NJ H. Eaton of overland Park,
Kan. Mrs. Ransom is sister of
the late Alexander Forbes, explorer
and world traveller. Mrs. Richards
was his secretary.
THE following day." Rehkopf
continued, MRS. Richards took me
into her confidence. She explained
that Forbes papers examined af-
ter his death, showed not only the
map to the Cocos Island treasure
but also one to gold mine in
Imperial Valley"
According to the story told Reh-
kopf, Forbes was on an exploratory
visit to the valley in the 1905
when he met Mexican who SHOW
ed him handfuls of gold nuggets
taken from a mine west of where
Ell Centro now stands. Forbes drew
a map of the location, meaning to
return. Shortly thereafter, however,
he was sent on another trip to
Continued on Page 6; Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
It'sAi, in Way
You Look al II

DETROIT, Jan. 5. CUP)-The
man stood before Probate Judge
Joseph Murphy today and said:
your Honor, my name is An
toni Przybysz. P-r-z-y-b-y-s-z. I
want to change it,"
We'll" said the court, "A name
like that probably causes a lot of
confusion"
Yes it does" the man said.
some people call me Anthony,
some Tony, and some Anton. It's
a lot OF trouble. I want to change
1t from Antoni Przybysz to Clinton
Przybysz. That will make it easier"
HIS Honor, slightly befuddled,
granted the request.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05

with metal-clad dirigibles.
Consideration of increasing the
size of the 45000-ton battleships
now being started was revealed dur
ing testimony of high naval Off
cials before house appropriations
subcommittee. These officers, 1t
was said, told the congressman that
it is quite possible during the first
year of a battleship's construction
to modify both the design of the
craft and its tonnage.
Several congressman have ex-
pressed an interest In building
super battleshirs, perhaps with
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
41b4 Children
Get Hot Lunches

The number of under-nourished
children to receive hot lunches at
school every day increased to 4,164
Friday.
Director Ned Holmes of the SRA
said the children in 81 elementary
and high schools scattered from
border to border in Imperial coun-
ty are being served surplus COM
modities at noon every school day.
School officials and the SRA
cooperate in preparing and serv-
ing the meals to children whose
parents cannot afford to provide
them with adequate food.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
NLRB Director Declares She Changed
Mind About Procedure While ON Jury

ton that might have been brought
out if the judicial body had been
given more latitude.
1t was brought out that in Octo-
ber 1887, she had advised the board
that adherence to rules of evidence
would result in much sounder
cases." and that the boards present
policy of permitting hearsay and
opinion evidence "often resulted in
sloppy preparation and presenta-
ton of cases rightly exposing the
board to needless and hostile cri-
ticism.'
Later she served on the jury and
saw how absurd it was to have
to prove that there was a corpse"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
Associated Group
Meets Tonight

CAL1PATRIA, Jan. 5.-Calipatria
residents were ready Friday to well
come members of the Associated
Chambers of Commerce at the din
ner meeting at the Legion hall at
z p. m.
Elwood Lloyd, author and globe
trotter, was scheduled to tell of his
travels in interesting parts of the
world. Calipatria school children
were to provide musical numbers.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. (UP) -
Gilmore M. Herrick of New York,
director of the national labor rela-
tions boards most important re-
gional office. told house investiga-
tors today that she had believed
for more than two years that the
Wagner act should be amended to
require the board to adhere to strict
court rules of evidence.
She said, however, that she chang
ed her mind after serving as a
juror in New Yorks general sessions
court. She learned there, she ex-
planned, that court rules could be
used to exclude pertinent informa-.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
Scattered Rains
Reported in |. v.

plains states were bitten by sub
zero cold borne on northwest winds
blowing from the Canadian Rockies,
the United Press reported.
Florida and the gulf states basked
in 70 degree warmth.
Continued cold was forecast for
the middle west by the u. S
weather bureau and northwest ship
pers were warned to prepare for
temperature ranging from 5 to 20
degrees below zero. Extreme cold
extended southwark from the
Canadian border to southern Iowa
and zero was forecast for points
as far south as the Ohio river
boundary of Indiana and Illinois.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05

and falling to report purchases to
the chief of police. Friday. Sam
Dannenberg, junkman, appeared in
police court to answer a similar
complaint. His hearing was contin-
ued until Tuesday
officer Frank Smyer explained
that according to city ordinances
junkmen must have written au-
thority from parents before they
may buy from minor. In addi-
ton, junk must be held ten days
before resale.
The complaint against Dannen-
berg was signed by Sam Naliboff,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05

: REPUBLICANS reached thOSe deCISIo1Is
at a two-hour conference. They
postponed consideration of farm
problems and the reciprocal trade
treaty program until a later date.
Chairman Pat Harrison, D., Miss,
of the senate finance committee
proposed the joily committee fiscal
inquiry with the purpose of examin-
ing President Roosevelt's 1941 fin
ancial and tax program. He said
the project might lead to formula
tion of a congressional budget
covering major items of 1941 fiscal
year spending.
Republican opposition to new
Continued on Page 6; Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
Yuma Posse Nubs
Desperate Pair

not disclose the source of the funds.
The posse continued to search the
area today for William Faltin, 66
year old convicted murderer who
escaped from the Arizona prison
with the Powers brothers. Tom
Powers told Sheriff Newman that
Faltin had perished while trying
to cross the nearby Colorado river
on a raft.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05

another junkman, who charged
that a l4-year-old Mexican boy
stole a battery from his yard and
sold it to Dannenberg. Dannen-
berg declared Friday morning that:
They are just trying TO take
away my license"
Smyer complained against youths
who prowl Ell Centre alleys. reach
ing through backyard fences and
stealing bits OF scrap that are later
marketed They are difficult 10
apprehend In the act, he said.
But II we can block the market
there will be no more incentive"
he declared.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
Daylight Burglary
Nets ThieyesS SIS

A daylight raid on the George
Kumagai house east of Jasper
Thursday netted the burglars $35
in cash, two cameras, a sports coat
and three billfoids.
Kumagai said the burglars en-
tered the house between am.
and 10 am. Thursday while the
family was away from home.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
Navy May Boost
Size Of Vessels

WASHINGTON, Jan. s. (UP)-The navy department
considering the advisabty of increasing the size OF
the two As 900 ton batteshps under construction
learned today.
The navy department also is considering experiments
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
Juvenile Crime
Outlet BIockoded

Destroy the market and prevent the crime!
ms theory was behind a campaign to reduce juvenile
delinquency in Ell Centre Friday police pressed an
investigation of junk dealers who asseredy buy from
minors. Earlier this week j. M. Hooks, iunkman was
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
Ski Patrols Cut
Railroad, F., Storve
City of Murmonsk
Berlin Increases Pressure on Sweden.
Norway to Blockade Finland; Reports
Say Soviets Driven Out Of SaIla

HELSINKI, Jan. 5. (UP)-Nne Soviet Russian planes
dropped % bombs today Vokka Kovola halfway
between Hesnk and Vipur, setting fire to 10 houses
and killing two persons, including girl of 18 Fifteen
women and one old man were injured.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
SoIons May Drew
Own 1q41 Budget
Pat Harrison Says Inquiry Into Fiscal
I+ems Proposed by Roosevelt May Lead
To Congressiona! Budset forU.S.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. (UP)--A bloc of senate Repub.
cans today endorsed proposals for joint congressona
study of budgetary problems, proposed similar nvest
cation of national defense, and opposed any taxes
at this session Of Fourteen of the senates %
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
Pirate Loot Discovery
Echoes in Valley With
Tale Of Lost Gold Mine
FL Cen+ro Agent Delegated byHeirs Of
Man Whose Maps Located Cocos Island
Loot TO Trace Down Fabulous Deposit


Forgotten since the 1905, a fabulousy rich mine
Searching parties already have tramped the desert
west of the city, guided by map left by the man
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05
d AMBLING
X EPORTER

Quite a Clip
Forget your worries-if any-about
the birth rate. Ell Centre has had
a baby a day since the start OF
1910, the hospital reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05

Without Reproach-
At last the Elks have found not
one but two honest persons!
(Not that it's so hard to find in
an Elks foldD
Hank Swanson received this let
ter, on some very fetching station
cry:
I'VE arrived late at your Elks
.rarty Monday night and never
managed to contact anyone to pay
for our tickets. Inclosed two dol
lars"
It was signed Mrs. George King.
That was amazing to RR, but this
was convulsing Bob Rayburn left
us the King letter and accompany
ing it was a note:
"Was it Demogenes who was al
ways looking for an honest man."
ut probably was Intentional, but
If not we detect the influence of
Damascus, demagogue, or democrat.)
She'll Get Along
On TUESDAY morning PaCrlcla
Ann Williams achieved the ripe
old age of five and would give her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. v. E. Will
liams, no rest until they gave her a
five-swat warming in the right
place.
CAS- Mrs. Williams admitted, that's
a dead give-away that there has
been no previous spanking0
Shortly after these festivities, Pat
brought two of her friends to the
house and asked if they could at
tend her party. Her mother
who really hadn't thought of a party
for such a youngster, quickly re-
covered from shock and said she
could have the two girls over for
tea at o'clock.
Not long thereafter, parents of
various children in the neighbor-
hood began to call incuiring about
Pats party. Mrs. Williams was
ION the spot" She chose the only
way out.
Pat had her party, and cake,
too!
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05

Lost, A SchOolmate-
At the risk of turning this into
a Lost and Found column, we over
step the mark for once to accom-
nodate Mrs. Raymond Kelly, wife
of the national American Legion
commander, who will be in Ell Gen.
tro Sunday.
Does anyone know if woman,
named Stella Giles before she mar
ried, still lives in Ell Centre? She
was a schoolmate of Mrs. Kelly,
who would like to see her again.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-05

Butter: Los Angeles 3iiac; but
ierfat. Imperial valley fob. raaeh.
grade A, 4lIsc; manufacturing milk
359c; route gathered cream 30c.
L. A. hay: u. S. No. 1 S17.OO-1s.00;
U. S. No. leafy S15.5O-16, u. $. No.
2 12.5O-13.50; Mpls. May flax $2.06.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-10-24

of the most extensive ranchers in
the valley, has almost recovered
from his recent illness. He spent
several weeks at Rochester, Mimi,
receiving treatments and while he
is still weak he is fast regaining
his normal health.
The city was almost depopulated
last Sunday. Every man who could
get his hands on gun went to the
hills to hunt deer and birds. Sew
eral of the men at the mill brought
in game the first and second days
of the open season. It is the report
of old time hunters that deer are
very plentiful in this part of the
state this year.
Frank Pival has a contract for
the construction Of more than forty
buildings at Bend, Ore He will
be occupied there nearly a year but
will return to Libby occasionally
to look after operations here.
DR. Auld has disposed of his prop
erty here and will shortly leave for
his old home in Scotland.
Lou Getner spent Saturday and
Sunday in the city from his Libby
creek ranch. Mr.. Getner is start
ing work on new stretch of county
road which will take several months
to complete.
Mrs. Christie and family are now
settled in their beautiful new home
which she recently purchased from
Frank Pival.