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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-04-18

Rev. R. E. Donaldson and family
left Monday for Spokane, Wash
ington. Rev. Donaldson will assist
in a revival meeting at st. Math-
ews Baptist Church of which Rev.
S. K. Holland is Pastor.
Mr.. Sherman Pickett surprised
his wife on her ?? birthday Mon
day evening with an enjoyable
cocktail party at their home in N
E. Rodney. To wish Mrs. Pickett
many more happy birthdays were
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Jackson,
Rev. and Mrs. L. o. Stone, Mr.
and Mrs. Pernell, Mr.. and Mrs,
Sterling Williams, Mr.. and Mrs
Irwin Flowers, Mrs. Lucille Nor
gan and Mr.. Eugene Garden.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-04-18

Miss Ozie Jane Mott left Mon
day for Seattle where she will do
post graduate work in Electro
Therapy on the Thera-Form Ma
chine. Ozie Jane, was formerly
with the Guinns Beauty Salon in
the Portland Hotel.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-04-18

Sunday service, Sunday school
9:45. II a. m. Young People Y. P.
Evening star., 1941-05-04
COUNTRY BOARD.

COUNTRY BOARD for children; very rea-
sonable. E. Day. Piscataway, Md.
So weekly. Mrs. Clinton Burner, Wood
stock, Va. or call ia. 1886.
BOY, 1918, to board on mountain farm
swimming, fishing, horseback riding Hid
den Valley Farm. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa
Box 20S.
LARGE conf home in nearby Va: will
take few boarders. Box 1874, Star.
SPEND delghtful vacation on Colonial
estate, Southern cooking. pvt. golf course.
STlImmlns; IN nr , race track; Si0 70 PA
Macdonald, Media Farm. Charles Town.
Evening star., 1941-05-04

1925 MORSE ST. N.E.-ATTRACTIvE;, 3
| large rooms furnished. back porch; light,
| gas, Frigidaire; u block bus.
| 2 NICELY FURN. FRONT RMS; FRIGID-
sire; all modern conv.; empl. adults. 6l8
z st
Evening star., 1941-05-04

22l0 PENNA. AVE. NV. Ant. 201-Fur-
nished, cool. front room, facing PARK;
unlim. phone.
Evening star., 1941-05-04

STUDIO ROOM, private entrance, bath:
gentleman: $50; 10 min downtown, bus
lines: private family CH 0122
Evening star., 1941-05-04
TABLE BOARD.

ARE YOU LOSING INTER
EST IN FOOD? Try eating
at the Andlen House. Inter-
esting home cooked meals.
Breakfast, 7 to 9; dinner, 5 to
z. Surprisingly low weekly
rates for quality food. 1917
Rhode Island ave. NV.
Evening star., 1941-05-04

VERY ATTRACTIVE knotty pine-paneled
single studio bedroom, semi-pvt, bath,
fsciiities. shady lawn, garden: quick. conv.
transp reaS WOOdley 1913. A.
Evening star., 1941-05-04

THE ALTON 1145 Park I'd. nv. Apt
i or Q. Apply altar 10 noon.
Evening star., 1941-05-04
ROOMS uNEuRNISHED.


1874 HOLBROOK TER NE rooms,
kitchen screened-in porch, semi-private
shower bath; heat. light, gas furnished. 5
1912 JACKSON ST. NE unfurnished
rooms with bath and Frigidaire; adults
only. DU. O662.
3026 SHERMAN AVE. NW-Back room,
no cooking: front room and kitchen; avail
able May 10; respectable home; man and
wife
COTTAGE in sc. woods, has . rooms
adj, for men, S22; single, $40; 20 min.
out. Box 10y, Star Ii. 0722
5O4 21st ST. N.E-Large unf. front room
for refined married couple or 2 gentlemen
who are employed. AT 1872.
49OS w ST NV, half block off Conduit
rd Twin beds, inner springs. private
shower: new home; two ladies; board op-
tional.
1920 CALIFORNIA ST. Nw.-Large un.
furnished room. front; seni-private bath.
HO. s154.
COLOREp-1 large. room and bath. In
modern honei Kitchen pr.y3legssi ] blk.
car; ne. section. Lincoln e379.J.
Evening star., 1941-05-04

ON RESERVOIR RD.. overlooking river
and park-Master bedrm, pvt path, in
new home: - semitic gentlemen; , closets
unlim phone; parking space; quick .transp
by bus and car to town; SIS wk. sgle., $40
Evening star., 1941-05-04
ROOM AND BOARD SERVICES.

FREE SERVICE-sAVE TIME.
Guest Homes Associated. at
Washington Room Exchange,
with 800 well-located homes,
offers single, double and group
rooms, some with running water,
private bath. A director with car
shows available space free to po-
tential guests. Phone Columbia
1850. Sunday service.
Evening star., 1941-05-04
ROOMS FURNISHED.

Fun 7 Z ~ TL1IlNIsN
Most beautiful animal cemetery IN the
Fast nationally known. visitors always well
come Call KensingtOn l52-M
Evening star., 1941-05-04

LOVELY, large, cool front room In pri-
vate home; unlin. phone. AD. Se34.
Evening star., 1941-05-04
ROOMS EURN e. UNEURN.

3O22 WISCONSIN AVE N.Ws Apt s.
Room, limited use of kit, semi-pvt bath
use Of telephone; direct carline; single girl
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20
BY LOGAN JENKINS

Aunt Bertha, famous Ell Centre
character for nearly quarter of a
century, was temporarily voiceless
Saturday.
The old gal could speak, but only
with the manual help of her rela-
tives because early this week her
vocal cords gave way for the last
time. Surgeons removed the worn
organ and sent an emergency call
to San Diego for a substitute.
This wasn't the first time that
Aunt Bertha had suffered severe
attack of laryngitis. It's been hap
pening off and on for many years.
Ever since Bertha came to Ell Centre
in August of 1921. Although she
was much younger and her voice
was a bit surer, nevertheless she
was subject to colds and brief
touches of flu that changed those
throaty notes from a deep and
warming bass solo to a rasping
wheeze very annoying TO hear
Meanwhile, Aunt Bertha lay dor
mant Saturday, patiently awaiting
a new set OF pipes. She could holler
in case of an emergency, but only
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20
Sam Webb Elected
New President of
Valleys Pioneers
Other Officers Chosen
At Annual Meeting of
Group in Imperial

Sam Webb of Holtville,
who first arrived in Imperial
Valley in 1908, Saturday was
elected president of the I'M
perial Valley Pioneers asso-
ciation at the organizations an
nual picnic at the county fair
grounds in Imperial.
Pioneers pledged their coopera-
ton in getting the pioneers museum
started Immediately and agreed to
deposit historic relics there for safe
keeping.
Mrs. o. G. Carleton of Imperial
was reelected Secretary-treaSurer
and the directors selected were Dan
Grumbles of the Mesquite Lake
district, ]. D. Huston of Imperial,
T. D. Mccall of Imperial, Roy Kin
kaid of Calexico, J. V. Taggert OF
Holtville, Dan West of Brawley
D. E. Teel of the Mulberry district
Roy E. Breedlove of FL Centre, Mrs
Lota Cook, El Centro, Elmer For
roster of McCabe- Eucalyptus, G
F. Boarts of Westmorland, and H
A. Hastain of BraWley.
Music by the children and grand
children of pioneers provided enter
tainment during the morning
Community singing and conversa-
ton occupied the $50 pioneers ant
their families who attended the
picnic.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20
Beriha's Laryngitis Clogs Calls as
Old Gal Awaits New Set Of Tonsi|s

when Father Corn Reed or Surgeon
c. c. Ferguson laid their soothing
hands on her throat. That meant
that Reed and Ferguson had to
stay rather close to the bedside,
because you never can tell when
there will be fire in the city and
it will be necessary to give Aunt
Bertha chuck in the ribs, thereby
causing a beautiful bleat.
Until next week, when the new
tonsils have been installed in Aun-
ties throat, Ell Centro's fire alarm
system will be operated on slightly
changed basis. When a box is
pulled" the message is relayed to
fire headquarters. but because OF
Auntie's malady there is no auto
matte chuck in the ribs. That's
where Reed or Ferguson lay on their
hands. Meanwhile, however, the fire
trucks are on the way to the fire.
Only delay is in footing Aunt Ber-
tina, who informs the volunteers.
Unofficial estimate placed the
number of times Bertha has let
forth a fire blast at 10000. No Won
der she's tired.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20
Valley Produces
Another Champ

The grand daddy of all sugar
beets was unearthed in Imperial
Valley Saturday, a monstrous bit
of vegetation 1S times the size
of an ordinary beet. and two
pounds heavier than the previous
senior member of the beet family.
The Is pound, eight ounce beet
was grown on the Fred Harder
ranch southwest of HOltville, and
claims the distinction of being
the largest sugar beet ever grown
in the United States. A 16 pound
beet was grown in Louisiana
more than one year ago.
The beet, which was as large
rs Nazi bomb, was perfect in
shape, but according to Rudolph
Miller, who reported the phe-
nomena, will probably test low
in sugar content.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20

1t Got Away
To avoid the inevitable sneers
and jeers that would follow, Frank
Gonzales just skipped an experience
of his the other day. And now RR
goes and Spoils it all
Frank was fishing in New river,
and according to his story tied into
the biggest catfish of his angling
career-a three-and-a-ha pound
er, 20 inches long. This was after
he had snagged few small ones
and thrown them back.
The big fish was laid on the bank
nlomentarily and Frank went back
to bait his hook. There was a
mighty Splash-this is still Franks
story-and he turned around to see
the fish disappearing beneath the
water and his small daughter,
Shirley, standing by. After seeing
a number of fish thrown back, the
child had followed suit with the
big one.
From here on the story is un-
censored. Shirley replied to her
fathers rage with:
Here, give me the pole and I'll
catch a fish big enough that it will
be big enough to keep!'
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20

better mean business this time, or
forget the charge.
Oswalt was accused OF kidnapping
the Japanese gambling king more
than two years ago, bringing him
to Ell Centro and showing him across
the International border at Mexi-
cali with orders not TO come back.
Oswalt's first trial ended in disa-
greement.
Appearing before Federal Judge
Paul j. Mccormick IN San Diego,
Assistant U. S. Attorney Harold R.
Shire Friday asked continuance
of the long delayed case. He explain
ed that the complaining witness
was not Immediately available. va
matoda disappeared some time ago,
just before he was slated to face
trial in Los Angeles on charge of
attempted bribery of a police Of
ficer.
Officers have sought the missing
japanese with a bench warrant for
two months. He skipped $4,000
bail. In the meantime, co-defend-
ants were found guilty.
Shire did not indicate before the
court whether investigators had
reason to believe Yamatoda might
be re-arrested before May 20. Fri
days postponement was the last
in long series that started early
last fall following Oswalts first
trial. The case has been carried
along from month to month.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20

lltSodly.
The German armies advanced
down the eastern shores of Greece
despite tremendous casualties in the
hills around the Home of the
Gods" The British and Greeks
fought a rear guard action until
their main forces could take up
third line of defense, presumably
below Larisa.
In Berlin, spokesmen for the Ger
man government and armed forces
praised Adolf Hitler who will spend
his SIND birthday Sunday at the
front, and asserted that victory for
the Reich is assured regardless Of
how hard and long the battle may
be.
The fuehrer has showed us the
way to final victory" said Marshal
Walther Won Brauchitsch, while
Propaganda Minister Joseph Goeb-
bells said that Sunday "is his day
and our day"
DIVISION WIPED OUT
Reports from Athens said the
German armies had failed to pene-
trate the new defense lines at any
point and that huge casualties had
been inflicted. on the enemy, in
Guiding the Adolf Hitler division
which was said to have been knock
ed out of the battle.
London newspapers, although
pointing out that the most import
ant thing was failure of the Ger
mans to pierce and encircle the al
lied lines, prepared Blitons for the
possibility of defeat in Greece.
London emphasized, however, the
fight would go on relentlessly and
that most recent reports indicated
a stiffening of the defense line. If
the Greeks are forced to surrender,
it was suggested that King George
how heading the new emergency
government at Athens-and the cab. l..
met might transfer their headquar-
ters to the Middle East.
OIL FIELDS GUARDED
At the same time, London said
that drastic measures had been
taken to block Nazi plans for STIR
ring up trouble in the near East in
an apparent effort to gain control
of the Iraq oil fields. The British
said that strong Imperial forces
had arrived in Iraq, where an alleg-
edly pro-NaZi government recently
seized power. The arrival of the
troops was said by London to have
been welcomed by the new Iraq
government, which now seemed In
clined to cooperate fully with the
British.
On the North African front, the
British reported their forces again
were carrying the conflict to the
Axis columns that penetrated thru
Libya and into Egypt, but the most
important immediate scene of action
was in Greece where the Nazis said
they were only 140 miles north Of
Athens.
Hitler, on the eve of his 52n1
birthday, told the German people
in message from his field head
quarters somewhere in southeast
ern Europe" that they face a hard
battle year. and that those at
home, equally with the men at the
front, must be prepared for sacri-
ficeS
Hitler said his troops were "tha
best soldiers in the world" in call
ing upon the people to make gen.
erouS contributions to the care OF
Continued on Page 6; Column 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20
FIvin Auto Distracts Driver: Jerk
On Wheel Smashes Coupe, Picks Up
Youth on Bicycle for Freak Ride

AS described before Police Judge
Lee Nuffer Saturday, Carl r. Berry,
Dallas. Texas banker, was driving
through El Centro with his family
en- route home after vacation on
the coast. While passing the -
block on East Main Mrs. Berry
complained of fly in the car and
Berry looked back for a moment.
In so doing he must have turned
the steering wheel. Next instant
there was a crash.
AT the same moment young Kel-
leher was resting on his bicycle or
the south side of East Main, talking
to Virgil Horton of 56S He'll avenue,
who was seated in a parked coupe
Continued on Page 6; Col. a
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20
Clear Weekend in
Prospect for I.V.

Clear skies and lower night temp
eratures were forecast for Imperial
Valley over the weekend, according
to the U. S. weather bureau. SINH
lar weather conditions were forecast
for the whole of California.
Temperatures in Imperial Valley
dropped to as degrees Friday night,
the lowest in ten days. and temper
atllres as low as 80 degrees were
reported north of Los Angeles.
In Arizona, where storms swept
the state Thursday and Friday, fair
weather was slated to return Sat
urday and Sunday. Rain and hail
fell in the Phoenix area Friday
night.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20
FdtuI
Charge
HdIts
Eyewitness Tells
Slaughter Among
Killers Forces
By RICHARD ID. MCMILLAN

WITH BRITISH 1MPE-
RIAL ARMY AT GREEK
FRONT, (Via Athens) April
16, II am. (delayed)-UP)
UP the Servia Pass, guarding the
western slopes of Mount Olympus,
Germany's young "blitz men nave
streamed like ants, hour after hour
in an endless line, every one to MS
death.
Australian machine gunners have
moved them down until the gunners
have fallen, exhausted.
Occasionally German tanks have
thundered up from the valley, over
the heaps of dead, to be picked OH
one by one by British anti-tank
guns mounting the ridges, or by
British tanks firing securely from
behind rocky boulders far above the
main body of British troops. +,
SLAUGHTER GROUND
The pass, from the crest down
beyond the precipitous, halrpln
slopes. was a slaughtering ground
for Germans, many in their teens
who had been recruited from Hitler
youth organizations to serve as
shock troops in blitzkriegs.
Finally, the battle OF Servia was
fought out. The Germans, convinced
of the futility of it, turned away
to look for some softer spot in the
British Greek defense line.
Whatever the outcome, Servia
will have a place in the history OF
this campaign. For in all his con-
1uests, Adolf Hitler never had been
so prodigal of his troops as on thus
mountain battlefield.
SUPERIOR IN NUMBERS
The German army and air forcf
obviously is vastly superior in num-
bers to the defenders of Greece
But I have never heard the Anzacs
or British express anything less
than fighting courage and deter
mination to make the Germans
pay dearly for every foot of sol
they take.
British tank squadronS, supported
by machine gun regiments, are hav-
ing to roam the whole front, hunt
Continued on Page 6. Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20
Three Paths Open
ToSefflen,ent of
Soft Coal Strike
Southern Operators in
HOldOut Positions as
Shortage Draws Near
BY UNITED PRESS

Three possibilities appear
ed Saturday for settlement
of the soft coal labor dispute
which has kept 100000 men
idle for 10 days.
/. Possible certification to the
defense mediation board requested
by southern operators who have
refused to agree to miners terms
as set forth in an agreement with
northern operators.
2. A recommendation by the in
terstate com merce commission
changing freight rates on coal pro-
duced in southern mines. The COM
mission is now investigating alleg-
ed disparity in northern and SOUTH
ern rates. 4t
g. Ability of southern operators
and the United Mine Workers (CIO)
to meet for further negotiations.
The union and northern operators
have reached agreement on a con-
tract embodying a $1-a-day wage
increase, and paid vacations, but
southern operators, declaring freight
charges put their coal at compete
tive disadvantage, refuse to grant
the wage increase and remove a
favorable Accent daily wage diff
ferential.
President Roosevelt said Thurs
day the work stoppaee had not yet
delayed the defense program SER
iously but william S. Knudsen. dir
ector of the office of production
management, said coal supplies we're
running low in Maine.
GIN PARLEYS
At Detroit, conferences we're re-
sumed Saturday between the Unit
ed Automobile Workers Union (CIO)
and officials of General Motors cor
poration. The union has filed five
day notice to strike for a l0-cents
an hour wage increase, vacations
with pay and other demands.
Continued on Page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20

Miss Zwicker was practicing on the
piano on THE second floor of the
church last Saturday. Lukens asked
her to kiss him, Cross said, and
the girl slapped him. Lukens grab
bed her and in the Scuffle she hit
her head against the piano.
He carried her down to the base
ment and hid her behind coal
pile. Cross quoted him. When he
returned Sunday morning, the girl
was dead.
He placed the girls body in the
furnace Sunday morning shortly
before Easter services began.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20

Hundreds of soldiers, provincial
and mounted police, camp guards
railroad workers and volunteers
participated in the search over
boulder -Strewn bush country on the
shore of Lake ontario. A 70-Square-
mile area was cordoned off and ali
roads and railway lines leading out
of it were blocked. AirplaneS and
bloodhoundS were ordered to the
desolate region.
Reports said five fugitiveS were
recaptured in one batch, four in
another, and officials said it was
only a matter of time until all
of them would be rounded up. The
fugitiyeS were said TO be German
alrmen captured in England They
escaped through a 600-foot tunnel
1t was the biggest break thus
far from a Canadian prison camp
The camp, at Anglia, Ont, is near
the Canadian Pacific Railway di-
vision point at Schreiber.
A general alarm was sounded as
soon as the break was detected
and a roll call disclosed about sc
prisoners were missing.
No main roads traverse the re-
gion. To reach the nearest point
III the United States the fugitives
would have to steal boats and
maneuver them through $50 miles
of Geld and often choppy water
The wilderness hemmed them in
elsewhere.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20
Rabid Cow Dies on
harriqan Ranch

A COW belonging to B. A. Harrigan
died OF rabies Friday, having been
bitten by a stray mad dog March
Is.
The dog was destroyed March l6
and the COW placed under observa-
ton at the Harrigan ranch south
of Seeley.
Early this week COW belonging
to Mrs. G.. Haskell died of rabies
on her ranch south west of FL
Centre. Deputy Health Officer Law
renee Niles said he had been unable
to ascertain when the Haskell COW
was bitten.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20
Flax Market
Up Two Cents

September flax rose two cents
to $1.88 Saturday after a six cent
drop Friday from the season high
of S192, and local observers pre-
dicted the market would regain
its former mark early next week.
Argyle McLachlan, secretary OF
the southwest Flaxseed association,
could not explain the sudden drop.
The drop" he said, may have
been in sympathy with the drop in
world stocks due to the European
situation"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20

A pesky fly was blamed Saturday
for a freak automobile accident in
Ell Centre Friday afternoon that
saw 17-year-old Bobby Kelleher OF
29O East Main miraculouSly escape
with only minor injuries.
Young Kelleher was carried near
ly $50 feet on the bumper of mo-
tor car that swept up him and his
bicycle after sideswlping parked
machine.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20

counties with the state paying two
thirds the cost In the event relief
expenses exceed the l939-40 fiscal
year, the state would pay almost
ALL the cost.
The bill is the keystone OF the
proposed new relief program. which
is being opposed by administration
leaders.
Assembly action on the $b0s .000.-
900 budget will be resumed Monday,
and 1t was believed a vote on the
relief measure would not be taken
in the lower house until budget
action is completed.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20

OF the committee, probably will be
given to both houses Monday when
the legislature reconvenes after the
weekend recess.
The committee was deadlocked
for almost week before agreement
was reached on an amendment
setting-up an arbitration board to
settle disputes between the coun-
ties and the state department of
social welfare, which would have
supervision over county administra-
ton of relief.
The committee bill is similar TO
that which passed both houses, re-
turning relief administration to the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20

missing from her home since laSc
Saturday, were removed from fur
mace in the basement of the church
last night by Detectives l. j. David
and Harry Kimmerer.
Cross said Albert LukenS, 3d.
gray-haired, partially bald janitor
at the church, admitted placing the
girls body in the furnace last
Sunday, but denied he killed her.
Lukens also told Cross he COM
lnitted a rape and murder in Gin
cinnati when he was 18. He told
Cross he served eight years in
Mansfield Reformatory for man
slaughter in the case.
Cross said Lukens told him that
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20
Fireman's Course

Fire,man's Course
Ranking in humor alongside Al
Devore's famous account OF how
he once ran for Central touchdown
but moved so slowly that his mo-
ther who was following along the
sidelines beat him to the goal, was
Warren Washburn's account of un-
dergoing physical examination at
the hands of army doctors.
When the first turned him down
because OF his heart, Warren insist
ed upon seeing another doctor. He
walked into the office of No. 2
who Immediately ordered:
Take off your clothes" which
Warren did. Then the doctor asked
What was it you wanted? Heart
examination? Go see Capt. So and
So"
Warren dressed and went to see
Capt. So and So who first ordered
him to undress, then sent him else
Swhere. In the space of half an hour
Warren had undresSed and dressed
seven times.
Nov I know how Gypsy Rose
Lee feels on matinee day. he
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20
German Tanks Attack
Over Heaps Of Dead
y AMBl|Ne
epoR1ER

Bushes
Not without a bit of pride does
RR report:
At a Wilson school Scampus staff
party, the guests were asked to sup
ply firm names associated with
certain slogans. Asked What is 1t
that Covers the WOrld'?" Donny
Bradshaw earned RR's undying ad-
miration by answering:
The Imperial Valley Press!"
well, hm m m, ALMOST all the
WOrldD
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-20
New Relief Bill
Ready for Action

SACRAMENTO, April 10. (UP)-Californa's relic:
problem drew the attention of state Legislators today
free conference committee drafted "acceptabe amend
ments to the return-relief to- the counties bill
The amendments, contained in recommendations ap-