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Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
Conservation Aim
Of Broad Program
Planned in Valley
Five-P oint Schedule of
Activity Set Up For
Permanent Committee

An ambitious five point
program was, adopted by the
Imperial County ConServa-
ton Committee in Ell Centro
Wednesday night after men,
bers decided to function as a per-
mancnt organization.
On the program were the fol-
lowing projects.
Help preserve the wild flow
erS by insisting upon strict en-
forcement of the ordinance prohib-
iting the pasturing of sheep along
public highways.
2.-InStall highway markers to
direct motorists to all points of
interest.
3.-Supply one-acre tract on
the three main highways for plant
ing desert gardens of marked spe-
cimen of desert plants and shrubs.
4.-Provide a display of colored
photographs And pressed plants for
Central Union high school.
One of the main accomplish
ments of the meeting held at the
Ell Centre chamber of commerce
Continued on Page 2. Col g.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22

suggested they 90 for a ride in his
light truck parked outside.
He said the girl agreed and they
then drove around for a half-hour
or moro before parking in vacant
lot near the gas works rot more
than a mile from the Los Angeles
city hall.
I'VE n"ckcd for a while" police
quoted Reavis as saying" and We
were both having a good time until
we got into an argument over some
thing, l don't remember what He
said he stabbed her repeatedly
Miss Burns, percentage Girl in
an eaStSidc cocktail bar, had gone
out with d man resembling RCaylS
tho morning of her death Dec IS.
1889, because he flashed a bic roll
of bills"
Shortly after daybrcak her hacked
body was discovered. 1t was com
pletely nude. Beneath tho body was
an artificial red rose of the type
worn as costume ornament.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
Mummified Body Of
Indian Renegade
Located in Cave

LAS VEGAS, New, Feb. %. CUP)-
Lo"g forgotten stories of Quejo, the
Indian renegade who killed %
whites and Indians and eluded the
white mems posses and the In
dians skilled trackers, were revived
today when his mummified body was
found in a cave.
Quejo had not been seen since
1919, when he fled into the waste
lands northeast of here after one
of his murderous forays. Frank Wait.
chief of police here, was a member
of the posse that pursued Quejo
then, and he said today that the In
dian probably died shortly there
after for his body was dressed in
clothes identical with those he wore
when last seen 81 years ago
Charles Kenyon and Art Schroc-
der, gold prospectors, found the
cave 80 miles from Boulder Dam on
a cliff high above the Colorado ri
yer. QuejoS body, stretched on the
cave floor was eXcellently preserved
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22

GdrldnQ, an dlIl-duIIliIlioIid dCioii
Democrat from Woodlake, is num-
ber one" on Gov. Olson's purge list.
He termed the installation of the
device "a most shocking invasion
of American rights
The governor replied he knew
nothing of the incident until Gar
land took the floor in the assembly
yesterday to disclose police had
traced wires from his suite to
rooms said to have been occupied
by r. E. Voshell, San Francisco.
a private detective who had been
retained as an investigator by the
State Relief Administration.
Shocked by the disclosure, the
assembly voted SO to IL to ap-
propriate $4,000 to finance an in
vestigation not only of the incident
concerning Garland but all phases
of legislative coercion. To make its
action binding. the legislature
short while later overrode Gov.
Olson's partial veto of another
measure appropriating assembly
contingent expenses. The investi-
SdJlOH WOulu Uc pdlu lioih CtScO
expenses. which the governor cut
drastically when he signed the bill.
Gov Olson meanwhile joined in
condemnation of the planting OF
the recording device.
Olson said he would fire anyone
in his administration found guilty
of joining in the spy plot and said
lit is a terrible thing to invade
the privacy of rooms of anybody -.
deplore it as much as Mr.. Gar
land or anyone in the legislature
Chief business in the assembly
today was argument on whether
to veto action of the governor in
cutting the assembly contingent
fund from $4,000 to $1,000, in face
of the dictagraph investigation and
ordering of $5 900 for the commit
tees work.
The vote to override OlSonS veto
was 81 to 20, the exact two-thirdS
majority required.
Olson pointed out to neWSmen
he signed the Ill before hearing
of the finding of microphone in
Garland's room and said he would
favor an investigating fund altho
he would be careful to determine
what amount was needed.
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
Ruling on Press
Protection Asked

WASHINGTON. Feb. % up
a government petition asking a rul-
iig on the extent to which congress
has the power to protect the freedom
of the press against private ag
grcssion' today awaited action by
The supreme court.
Solicitor General Francis Biddle
filed the brief with a plea for re-
ICrSal of a lower court decision
setting aside the conviction of a
group of Mobile Ala, men who
allegedly inundated Henry P
Ewald, newspaper editor, in an eff
fort to stop press campaign against
d gambling racket.
Biddle told the court that Sam
b PoWe. George E. Mckenzie, Mir
iam Mckenzie Peter V. Crolich and
John PoWc sought by coercive
ucthods to force EWald to stop
the press attacks.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
Valley Gets Rain
As Freeze Grips
Eastern Seaboard
Showers General in All
Southern California;;
Storm Grips New York

While freezing tempera-
lures gripped eastern Unit
ed States, delaying travel
and transportation of food
StuffS. a rain storm, which
penetrated as far east as Imperial
Valley. moved in on southern Cali
fOrnia Thursday.
Light showers were reported in
most coast cities late Wednesday
according to the U. S. weather
bureau Predictions indicated con-
tinued rain in southern California
Thursday night and Friday. Cen
cral predictions for southern CAL
ilornia are not always applicable
to Imperial Valley, however.
Less than 10 inches of rain had
fallen in Imperial Valley by noon
Thursday and local observers be-
iicvcd the storm would break be-
fore Friday. B. A. Harrigan, agrj-
cultural commissioner, reported
there would be no immediate dam
age to crops. Rainfall for the sea-
son in Imperial Valley totals 596.
Low temperatures in the east
turned deep slush into ice in New
Continued on Page 2, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
County Hospital
Judges Patients

QUINCY, Cal, FEB. % up
rlumaS county welfare officials to-
day pondcred on the vagaries of
human nature as they announced
the sharply contrasting attitudes of
two men toward public aid.
J. G.. Lee, 81. of Portola, they
said, was admitted to the county
hospital on his declaration of deSti-
tuition, but handed doctor his
nocket money when he was being
put to bed. The pocket money
was $7l0 in currency and Lee was
transferred Immediately to pri
vate hospital.
On the same day, Walter Peterson,
II, prospector was found suf
lcrlng from manutrition in a lonely
cabin because he was too proud
10 ask for help He was well
coined 1t the county hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
German Red Cross
Aide 10 Visit U.S..

WASHINGTON. Feb. % (UP)--
The German embassy said today
that the Duke of SAKE -Coburg.
president of the German Red Cross,
will arrive in the United States
early in March to take up questions
concerning the International Red
Cross.
The embassy did not specify what
international matters are involved
in his visit but it was understood
they concern, at least in part. the
distribution OF American Red Cross
relief in German-Poland.
The Duke will arrive in San Fran
cisco and proceed to Washington
to consult with officials of the
American Red Cross.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
Valley Reserve Officers to Hold
Defense Week Maneuvers SATURDAY.

AS part of Imperial Valley OBJ
Servance of National Defense Week.
more than 10 U. S. Army reserve
officers will gather at a contact
camp for tWo-day maneuvers on the
mesa near Holtville Saturday and
Sunday.
The camp will be under the spOn-
Sorship of the Imperial-Valley chap
ter of the Reserve Officers aSSocia-
ton. the Rev Mr.. Devon Ellsworth.
chapter president, announced Thurs
day.
Maneuvcrs will be directed by Col.
S. j. Heidner of San Diego and Col.
r. Mason of San Francisco, COM
mandant of the first reserve area.
Camp will be made Saturday af
ternoon near the Imperial Valley
rifle range and from 3 to ) p. IN.
officers will inspect the new Garand
automatic rifle, which will be tried
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
SRA LINK With D|CTAGRAPH PLOT Barred
Vitamin B HELPS
Hold Liquor

NEW YORK, Feb. %. up
Diet was offered by a medical
authority today as the reason
why men of George Washing
tons day could drink more than
present-day Americans without
wrecking their health or shorten
ing their lives.
In an address to the New York
University college of Medicine,
DIR. Norman JOlliffe said the
large consumption of vitamin b
foods $50 years ago accounted
for the apparent immunity from
ills that afflict prcsent-day
drinkers.
Jolliffe said his studies indi-
Gated that the more a man drank
the more his caloly consumption
increased and the more b group
vitamins his system required.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22

county and Roy Nielsen, Sacrament
to. both Democrats, and John Foley
San Jose, Democrat. Assembly mem
bers are Gerald Kepple, Whittier
Republican, Seth Millington, Grid
ley conservative Democrat, and
Elmer Lore, North Hollywood. ad-
miniStration Democrat.
The free conference will meet
later this afternoon.
Phillips and Kepple, chairmen of
their respective committees, insist
ed they will stand firm on the
$12200,000 appropriation and on
ly consider changes in certain re-
strictions placed on relief spending.
Lore, however, said he would seek
another S3,OOO,OOO for the remain
der of February and March. claim
ing the $5,50OOOO in the bill is too
little. He said the state finance
department learned there was an
uncommitted cash balance in the
SRA treasury of $330,24416 on Feb
16 but Withdrawals since that date
have exceeded cash on hand by
SlZo,l 10.
Gov, Olson insists the SRA needs
no less than $19,OOO,OOO to carry
it until June l. Relief Director
Walter Chambers said the Sl2,2OO,-
600 appropriation would mean i'm
mediate curtailment of relief activ-
tiles by 40 per cent.
And should the governor veto the
bill-as he insists he will-375 900
persons will be without assistance
starting Saturday.
Reports the legislature would take
a recess Saturday until May Is
gained credence when Charles w.
Lyon, Los Angeles, Republican
leader said flatly it was under
consideration. He pointed out a
Continued on Page 2, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
Frisco Fair Seeks
Grant From State

SACRAMENTO, Feb. % CUPl--
Executive heads of the 1910 San
Francisco International Exposition
today appeared before the senate
committee on finance, revenue and
taxation in behalf of a $516,266
fair appropriation bill.
Marshall Dill, president of the
exposition corporation, asserted that
success o. the fair depended upon
full cooperation and participation
of the state of California"
He cited figures showing S. 100000
sales tax increase, and $1.159,000
gas tax increase in 1899 due to the
flood OF 100000 tourists to Cali
iornia last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22

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other trucking firms, suggesting that
the council inquire into the quail
ificationS of w. NJ Winn. who bid
and won a pipe hauling contract
recently, as we'll as the holder of
the present garbage and trash col
lection contract, C. j. Lyons, Inc.
Thacker said that from his OBJ
cervaton the trucks of the two
concerns wero not properly licensed.
1--WE do not feel that we should
be asked to compete with firms that
are unauthorized and illegal car
riers. I suggest that remunera-
ton be held up and the carriers
asked TO apply to the railroad COM
mission and the state Board of
Equalization Tor authority to oper-
ate" Thacker declared
There are laws that truck OPP
orators must live up to and we feel
that the city should look into the
qualifications OF bidders before
letting contracts
Remuneration to Winn was held
up by the council after Councilman
Gordon. Scrivcn remarked:
He hasn't much coming. He
busted about $500 worth of pipe.
1t developed during the discus
sion that Win did not even hold
an occupational license.
Councilmen then turned to the
garbage collection contract and
Scheduled an inquiry
I'VE had an awful cheap deal
while it lasted :" Councilman
P. L. Moore remarked.
Other business of the council in
cluded:
Authorization of calls for bids on
a cash register for the city clerks
office to handle all incoming cash
funds and a billing machine for
the water department.
Hearing of an offer to exchange
a ranch in Imperial Valley for the
ranch in oregon, recently the prop
erty of Mrs. Lillian Richards Little
and now belonging to the city. This
was tabled.
Call for an ordinance to cover
collection of licenses on music ma
chimes. Fees have hitherto been
collected without proper authority.
Authorization of a survey on the
no parking zones in the city with
a view to reduction. This follow
ed a protest from Councilman Cor
don Scriven that he received
parking ticket for leaving his car
IN a zone thai had no right to be
red.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22

early one morning.
OoStenvelt awoke, sprang out of
bed and chased WardloW from the
building, other roomers. aroused bv
the confusion, also joined the chase
Ell Centre police arrested Wardlow
few moment later in a nearby
apartment house. Oostenvelt's miss
ing $38, taken from his trousers.
were not recovered.
Wardlow's fingerprint record
showed his criminal career began
in Oklahoma City in 1881 when
he was sent to the reform school
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22

out the following day. The weapons.
which eventually will be adopted for
the official u. 5. Army rifle were
loaned by Capt. H. White of the
Arizona National Guard.
Officers will camp out on the
mesa Saturday night. Sunday morn
ing and afternoon vii be devoted to
firing III team matches and discus
sion Of the rev rifles.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22

Tor year for robbery. A year later
ne was arrested and Jailed for vag-
rancy. Thereafter he was arrested
Tor strong arm robbery and possess
SION Oh viii sky in 1885, and the fol-
lowing year was sent to the peniten-
tlary for burglary. He was in trouble
with the law in Missouri, Kansas.
and Oklahoma in 1887, and in Ok
lahoma and Arkansas in 1888. In
1888 he. served time in the Imperial
county jail and this month was ar
rested, convicted and sent to the
Texas prison for burglary.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
Valley Joi|bird Serving
Time For Texas Burglary

Clayton WardloW, pants burglar
captured in FL Centro two years ago
after wild chase through alleys
\ and by-streets, now is serving a
J penitcntiary sentence in Texas, I'm
perial county officers were informed
Thursday.
He was arrested and convicted of
burglary there.
1t was Wardlow who was surpris-
ed while rifling pair of trousers
of their contents while their owner,
Watson r. Oostenvelt. proprietor of
the Broadway rooms, was asleep
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22


railroad station yesterday had been
ropulsed. "A Moscow communique
last week said that the Red army
had taken the Kamara station,
which is about four miles from
Viipuri.)
Aidci by blizzard-lkc snow
storm, the Firms said they had
Inflicted heavy losses ON tho Red
army as attacks were renewed in
the Lake Moulaa and VuokSi sectors
in the center of the kareiian 18TH
mus defense lines, and at TaipalC,
on the shores of Lake Ladoga.
The ci.emy losses at Taipale alone
were 1000, the communlquc said
All attacks were reported repulSed.
1t added that northeast of Lake
Ladoga, Finnish troops had captured
another enemy strong point" where
200 Russian defenders surrendered
Also along the north shore of the
lake, the conmunique said, several
Russian supply columns were dis
persed in the Pitkaranta islands,
where the Russians lost more than
200 vehicles.
Thirteen Russian planes. most of
them bombers, were Shot down yes
tcrday, the communique said.
Notices were posted in all streets
ordering men OF the classes of 1891
and 1895 to report for training and
duty at once
The men called are part of the
secondhand fmal-reserve, which
includes men up to CO.
Continued on Page 2; Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
FIRST SNOW IN FIVE
YEARS SWEEPS GREECE

ATHENS, Feb. %. CUPD-A SNOW
storm swept Greece today and
Athens was snow covered for the
first time in five years. Gales rag
ed in the Aegean and Ionian seas
and ships were held in port. Elem
entary schools were closed.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22


be permitted to register again at
the university although charges
against him had been dropped be-
cause his wife pleaded guilty and
took "the rap"
The rap is my own business; to
get masters degree is my huS-
bands business" Mrs. Wilma Pal
mcr said in the jail cell to which
she was taken yesterday
Palmer had been promised a job
when he, his wife and their year
OLD son moved here last September.
He didn't get the job and turned
to bootlegging to other students
to pay for his education. Kansas Is
a dry state.
Business was SO good that he took
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
Reporter Learns
AfFirsf Hand of
Finnish Victory
$40 Men Credited With
Bringing Destruction
TO Russian Division
BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE, Jr.

w | / II THE FINNISH
ARMY, Northeast of Lake
Ladoga, Feb. %. (UP) =
Three hundred and forty
resolute men met a Russian army
on this front in the battle of Lake
Ladoga and in a stubborn rear
guard action. slowed it while the
main Finnish defense line was being
organized. | learned here today
The army vas trying to flank
the Ma0nerhe.m lire from the lake
side. Had it succeeded in attaining
its objective quickly, there would
have been no second battle of the
Mannerheim line such as has been
fought in the last three weeks. be-
cause there would have been no
need for such a battle.
The men who first met the Rus
Continued on Page 2. Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
Red Rose Killer Captured inS.D.,
Admits Stabbing |. A. Percentage Girl

SAN DIEGO Feb. %. oUPD-John
Frank ReaVis, lone-sought suspect in
the red rose murder of 17-ycar-
old Alice Jerry" Burns was cap
tured here today and, according to
police, confessed Staying the girl.
I'm glad I'm caught" he told
Detective Ed DiCckmann. I've gone
through the tortures of hell
RcaviS admitted he met the girl
the morning of Dec. 28, 1889. at an
eaStSide tavern in Los Angeles and
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22

vacation in New Orleans early In
February Mrs. Palmer a Kansas
graduate of the class of 1887, took
care of the customers while he
was away One night, police raided
the apartment. found their liquor.
and arrested her. When Palmer
returned. he was arrested.
Yesterday, the state agreed to
drop the charge against him. and
his wife was fined 800 and sen-
fenced to 80 days In jail. Palmer.
who took the baby 10 his parents,
said sit was as much for her bsn-
eft as mine because she expects
me to make a living and could
never get a job In the civil service
or with big corporation with ss,eh
conviction hanging over M"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
F;it,ns Soy 1000
Russ ans Kill ed
Part Of Final Reserves Called U TO
Bolster Defense Of Mannerheim Line
As Communique Report Red Setbacks

lIEISINKI, Feb %. (UP)-The high command today
called two classes to the color and announced that
2O00 Russians had been killed in vain attacks the
Finnish positions in the Mannerhcm line. Many tanks
destroyed The official cOmmunique said that the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
Governor Denies
Knowing Of Plan =.
TO Spy on Enemy
Assembly Overrides Veto Which Would
Reduce Appropriation, Make Inquiry
Into sisIative Coercion Impossible

SACRAMENTO, Calf. Feb. %. (UP)-A special as
sembv committee organized today to determine why
recording device planted in the hotel suite OF Gordon
H Garland, assembly speaker, and if agents of Gov Gull
bert l. Olson Garlands poitical foe, were responsible
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
Relief Bill Goes
To Committees
Compromise Likely With Changes Likely
In Restrictions: Leaders Will Stand
Firm For Reduced SRA Appropriation

SACRAMENTO Feb %. (UP)-Seection of free Con-
ference committees from both houses to attempt com
promise on a temporary relief appropriation today coin
cded with administration claims the SRA is S126128 in
the red The senate confeees John Phillips Riverside
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
Wife Takes Rap
TO Hell p Husband

LAWRENCE kans, Feb. 22 'UP)-A young mother
who sent her baby and went ai for booteggng
her husband would have to interrupt his educatiOn
feared today that her sacrifice might be in vain.
Robert N. Palmer, University of Kansas graduate stu
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
CitV Hears Kick
Against Contract
Without II icenSe
Payments Held U p on Hauling Job After
Complaint Successful Bidders Trucks
Are Not Properly Licensed by State

protest against unqualified carriers serving the city
of FL Cenro and request for investigation heard
by members Of the city council Wednesday night and
suited in the holding up of money due contractor
Percie Thacker appeared behalf of the Pioneer
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
Romance in Space

For awhile we thought number
OF folk must have lost their minds
Tuesday night So many kept
peering up into the skies. Then
we got the idea
They were just watching one Of
those stellar spectacles Venus and
Jupiter were moving close together
Sounds a bit ScandalouS.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
i-CIinaX-

Anti CIimaX-
oh mother
Kathleen Burnett tclCphOnCd her
mother from grammar school in an
excited voice.
while was on the way to school
car came speeding along and skid
dcd in the mud and
Mrs. Vivian BurnettS heart sank.
Something terrible must have hap
pcned.
And Skidded right toward me and
would have hit me-only I jumped!"
After much questioning the mo-
ther found that the child was safe.
but mud-Splattered.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
BACKWARDS

BACKWAKDS-
When it came time at the Reserve
Officers dance at the country club
Wednesday night for members to
introduce their guests, Wilfred DreS-
sor introduced his wife as his
guest.
1t really should have been the
didn't have anything to do with the
affair except to arrange the whole
party, with the assistance of other
members of the Women's auxiliary.
(To Dressor's credit-he finally ad-
mittcd it,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
"a AMBLING
X EPORTER
Dog And Manger-

Dog And Manger-
A smile of grim and deviliSh sat-
isfaction frightened our sleepy NOR
ming face Thursday because of the
weeping skies.
Now those bliGhters who had the
dav off cant play golf and generally
enjoy themselves while we slave. If
we cant have the pudding, to heck
with it.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22

Power
Maybe it was brute force. or may
bC Just the weakness of the imple-
mcntS involved. but Dick Cook per-
formed a remarkable feat of strength
the other day on the tennis court.
The outcome, however, probably as
tOnished Dick more than it did his
playing partner.
In the heat of a contested point
Dick made mighty lunge at the
ball and poured in the swing every
ounce of force. The ball met the
racket squarely, perhaps too square
ly, and there followed Squishy
sound. Dick looked expectantly over
the net to see where his return land
ed, but there was no ball to be seen.
1t had gone through the racket and
dribblcd dcmurcly behind him.
Technical Knockout
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22
|Sct For Weather

|Sct For Weather
Leave it to good conservative Bob
Rayburn to drag out the proper
wearing apparel for a slippery day
on the streets. He muddled around
Thursday in fancy pair of rub
bcrS. All he needed in addition was
an umbrella.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-22

Butter: Los Angeles 32c; but
terfat, ImperiaI Valley I. o. b. ranch.
grade A, 42c: manufacturing milk
36c; route gathered cream 30'sc.
l.. A. Hay: u. $. No. S15.50-l6:
u. S. No. 2 leafy Sl400: U. s. No.
SI1-Si1.5O: Mpls. May flax Sl99'a.
Lettuce: As g. SIS S1.90-S2.25.