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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-04-03
~ STUDENTS
ON VACATION

Among the University of Minnesota
students spending their spring vacation
here last weekend were the following
Qist compiled by j. c. Lookout:
Mabel Lampi, Leslie Ormandy, Mar
jorie Berglund, John Stukel, Florence
Novak, Milton Gordon, Raymond N.Y.
man, Eileen Salminen, Milton Stenlund
John Perko, Joe Pengal.
Joe Grahek, Nancy King, James
Shaw, Edward Pirsh, Bill Lindgren,
David Childers, Vincent Garni, Wayne
Brownell, Merlin Riikola, Florence
Hokkanen, Richard Kittila, George
Hendrickson.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-04-03
Sedplane Bases Planned
BY Arrowhead Communities

Several Arrowhead communities are
planning construction of seaplane
bases in view of the increasing part
pontoon- equipped ships are playing in
the border lakes country.
Latest to discuss bases are Tower
and Gilbert, whose civic clubs are
backing the projects.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-04-03

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solve? Here is simple way to borrow
without endorsers or guarantors-and
at rates substantially below the law
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can make monthly payments you
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about getting a loan up to $500.
Suppose that you need 500. Find
this amount in the first column of the
table. Then read across picking out
the monthly payments convenient for
you to make. Twelve monthly install
ments of S9.77 each, for instance, will
repay 500 loan in full. Or, as little
as S6.43 month for twenty months,
will also repay a 500 loan.
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-04-03

Nationwide safety figures prove
that one out Of every five fatal traf-
fic accidents involves drinking
driver or pedestrian. If you drink,
don't drive or walk on roads or high
ways.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-04-03
Organization Personnel Appe airing
in Concert
A Cappella Choir

Cappela Choir Orchestra
Lois Anderson Eudora Anderson
Keith Brownen Verna Jamsa
Lois Mae Eckert George Jamsa
Bernard Hutar Evoda Larson
Sidney Jarva Mary Krnchar
Gerald johnson Evelyn Lehto
Sheldon Kayute Cleda Venner
1zornor+ rrorn+n Virginia Mattla
Amelia Korosec Morion partio
Joe Kuzma Fred Takk,nen
Florence Lindbeck Shirley Johnson
Alice Newpord Edward Shepel
r,.ru,. r,.,u., Arthur Nyman
Joseph Martinetu
JOHN Fearson Albert Widmar
Angela Poljanec John Hendrickson
ANY Rautio Alvin Herrala
Mary Ann Shaw Leonaro 1oloon
Edward Shepel p,aod csorat
Emily Slogan Robert Hokkanen
Lois Mae Sondstrom Thomas SLENDER
Margaret Stonicb Robert Champa
Enhv -or++o, Stanley Boldne
Emerald Tast nonoId sc,fco
Elsie Tjader Sidney Jarva
Esther Tjader Gilbert zbasnik
Frank Shepel FaIflcla Moonah
Auxiliary Chorus
Lucy Bouska Camilla Legat
Juan Croft Rnth Maier
Dolores Elefsen Theresa Mattaini
Randall Forselus George Ola
Frank Kalan Andrew spoljarich
Evdorus Larson
MadrgaI Singers
Josephine Burja Phyllis Palmgard
Dina Burgin Ruth Perttua
Julia Chimzar Arlene Prla
Katherine Ch1mzar Amy Rauto
Emily Chnn jeanne Rkhus
Mary Ellen Chinn Mary Ann Shaw
Evelyn DanlelSon Marcellne Skantz
Lois Mae Eckert Lois Mae Sondstrom
Merriam EueSen Margaret Stonich
Rutn Hill Carol Ann Sutherland
Bernice Korpi Emerald last
Norma Laakko Elsie Tjader
Florence Lndoeck Clara Tonkovch
Mary Lndbeck Eva Tonkovich
Lois Maxi Mary Tonkovich
Rosaline Mantel Trudgeon
Ellen NiSSila Margaret Valentine
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TRY A MINER WANT AID.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-04-03

Josephine Burja
Dina Burgin
Julia Chimzar
Katherine Chinzar
Emily Chinn
Mary Ellen Chinn
Evelyn DanielSon
Lois Mae Eckert
Merriam Ellefsen
Ruth Hill
Bernice Korpi
Norma Laakko
Florence Lindbeck
Mary Lindbeck
Lois Maxi
Rosaline Mantel
Ellen Nissila
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04
Rose, Young Go
Before Grand Jury

Directors Mark Rose and w. E.
Young went before the Imperial
county grand jury Tuesday in re-
spouse to subpoeraes served on
them Immediately before the regu-
lar board meeting at district head
quarters in Ell Centre.
Rose said he wished to discuss
with the board the state legisla-
ton affecting irrigation districts,
Young said his term with the
board ended next Tuesday and
since he never had done any talk
ing he saw no reason to start talk
qing SO near the end of his serv-
ice as a director from Calipatria
division.
Just before he went in to testify
Rose said he wanted to tell the
grand jury of pending legislation,
especially bill he said if passed
would permit the board members to
vote themselves a large salary in
addition to the salaries they now
receive as directors.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04


and Los Angeles, was felt as far
south as Imperial Valley and as far
north as Humboldt.
Rivers of the state ran bankful
after heavy Monday night rains.
Earth weakened by the rains cas-
caded on highway routes and high
winds which accompanied the storm
spread debris over widespread
area as trees and power poles were
toppled.
The Los Angeles river. usually
dry Watercourse, turned into a rag
ing torrent and undermined the
south abutment of the Santa F'e
railroad bridge. A section ITS feet
long dropped into the water and
it was feared other sections would
collapse. Traffic was rerouted.
Imperial Valley was not hard hit
by the storm though considerable
rainfall was reported Monday night
and Tuesday. Crops for the most
part went unchanged, though some
loss was reported in flax
Rain in Imperial Valley, Yuma
and Salt River areas reduced lettuce
shipments and boosted the price
Is cents to $125 for best quality
pack. Forty-five cars were shipped
from the valley Monday.
Tuesday the winds and rains were
abating in the stricken area and
the U. S. Weather Bureau said the
rain would be ended by wednesday
It reported, however, a new storm
forming west of the coast and pre-
dicted additional rains later in the
week.
Forecast for Imperial Valley was
for clearing skies Tuesday night
and Wednesday with accompanying
light showers.
Southern Pacifics coast line was
hard hit. Trains ran from nine to
II hours behind schedule due to
the presence of water on tracks
between Santa Barbara and Mon
terey and to a slide north of San
ia Barbara.
Slides covered many highways
from the Oregon line south to San
Diego.
The Los Angeles area had 1.33
inches of rain in the 24-hour period
ended at 5 am. The heavy rainfall
loosened the earth at several places
along the Roosevelt highway and
sent slides across the pavement.
More than 100 motorists were
Continued on Page 2. Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04

a day as the March Is dcadline
nearS."
Last year the final day saw a
record of 458 returns come in.
This year it may be much higher
because almost twice the number
will be required to file. returns. 1t
was estimated that 10000 returns
will eventually be filed from I'M
perial county.
Altered regulations affecting twice
the number of people account for
the expected increase. This year
liability is determined upon the
amount of gross, not net, income.
That means that single individuals
or married individuals not living
with husband or wife having a gross
income of $500 or more must file
returns regardless of whether they
have dependents or not.
Married individuals living TO-
gether and having a gross combined
income Of $1,000 or moro must file,
also regardless of other exemptions.
Judging from returns that have
already been filed, Cory estimated
that at least 80 per cent. perhaps
more, of those in Imperial county
who must file must pay a tax of
some size. Smallest SO far is less
than a dollar.
The bureau branch office in Ell
Centre, only one in the county, is
open from $50 a. m. to 5 p. m. on
week days, will be open until 4 p. m.
Saturday, March 8, and until 10
p. m. Saturday, March Is, the last
day on which filings may be made
without penalty.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04

part OF the statewide plan 10 cut
down the administrative expenses
of SRA relief distribution.
Simplification of the SRA was
made possible by the decline OF
case loads resulting from the ma
tional defense employment boom
throughout the state The state now
has 10 instead of Is administrative
offices, Wakefield said
In Imperial county the SRA case
load dropped to So this week, rec
ords showed. Most OF those formerly
on the relief rolls at this season
of the year were employed in the
peas or carrots or with the nationa.
defense industries. Fewer and fewer
applications for SRA relief have
been received during recent months.
The SRA will begin functioning
under the new area divisions March
10.
Director Ned Holmes, in charge
of the SRA office in Imperial coun-
ty, said be had not been officially
notified of any change as yet. He
refused to guess what his own status,
or the status of others in his office
will be under the revised setup.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04
That Man is Here
Again ~ with Book
For Tax listings
Assessment Period Here
Begins With Promise
OF Slight Changes

AS sure as death and
Yep, they've started again.
Taxes.
Tuesday was as much a
milestone as Christmas or
July 4th, for Ell Centre Assessor
Irwin Maupin started his rounds
gathering data that will be the
basis for city taxation in l941-42.
Foremost issue regarding new
assessments centered on what to
do about buildings damaged in the
earthquake of last May. Maupin
and City Clerk Neal Gavin agreed
that as far as possible, assessment
figures on earthquake damaged
buildings that had since been re-
paired would not be raised over the
old figures, unless additions had
been made.
In cases where buildings have
been enlarged during repair work,
thereby increasing values, hikes will
be necessary. But in most cases
where repairs have returned build
ingS to something close to the pre-
earthquake state no increases will
be made
Maupin and Gavin announced that
the system Of equalized taxation
carried to a fine point by the pre-
vious clerks regime will be contin-
ued. They estimated that total as
SeSSed valuation-set at $12,644 ITO
last year-wjll not materially change
under the new assessment. New
construction will make up for loss
es on buildings damaged by the
earthquake and not SO far repaired,
they Indicated.
Last years figures set land as
sessment5 at $2,713, $3.50, improve
ments at S6,361, 345, personal prop
erty at $2,192, 300 and operational
property at $l,536, ago. From this
there were veterans and other ex-
Continued on Page 2, Col -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04
Hitler
SootheS
urkS
Maj TroopLin
|de a! Targets
For Big Bombers
BY UNITED PRESS

Great Britain will sever
diplomatic relations wit h
Bulgaria at 10 am. Wednes-
day, British Minister George
w. Rendel told fellow diplomats late
Tuesday as a high Nazi source re-
ported Adolf Hitler had sent a mes
sage to Turkey assuring her Ger
many had no military designs on
the Dardanelles.
Rendel, at a meeting with the
ministers of Belgium, Poland and
Greece and the charge d'affaires OF
the Netherlands, announced that
he would call on Premier Bogdan
Filoff at 10 am. Wednesday and
ask for his passport.
1t is expected that formal war
will follow shortly with Royal air
force units bombing strategic points
in Bulgaria and also the important
Rumanian oil fields.
The German press was crowded
with long, detailed stories of the
long columns of Nazi troops moving
through Bulgaria. Some of the col
umns were said to be GO miles long
or more, damned into narrow one
way roads where they would make
perfect target for planes if Britain
moves to the attack.
The message from Hitler. accord
ing to high Nazi source, was
handed to President Gen. Ismet
Inonu of Turkey by German Ambas-
sador Franz Won Papen. In it, Hitler
was said to have given his assur-
ances that Germany had no inten-
ton of attacking Turkey or the
DardanclleS.
Meanwhile Gen. Alan Gordon
Cunningham, British commander
in-chief in East Africa, proclaimed
that all occupied territories in East
Africa formerly ruled, claimed or
occupied by the italian government
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04

invited him in. They talked for a
while and Mrs. Papas got out two
glasses and q bottle of brandy.
"She told me she had been max
ing cookies for her husband, and
Offered me some" Foley quoted
him. we had coffee and cookies
and l smoked several cigarets.
She was on the sofa. I sat beside
her. l slipped my left arm around
her neck and pulled her head back.
Then, with my right hand I re-
moved my necktie and tied her
hands behind her back.
Il carried her to the bedroom
and put her on the bed"
Foley said Cvek believed Mrs.
Papas was dead when he put her on
the bed She was not raped. Cvek
ransacked the apartment, collecting
jewelry that he said he sold three
days later for $25,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04
Stanford Freshmen CHARGE
s. +. Police dubbed Them

SAN FRANCISCO, March 4. CUP
Police today promised two bruised
and beaten Stanford university
freshmen full opportunity to pick
out the policemen who, the youths
said, beat them with night sticks
after a skid row. Summing expe-
dition which led to their arrests
Sunday morning.
The students, Donald Allan OF
Woodside and Carter Barber of
Winnetka, Ill, each 10, were in
Palo Alto hospital for treatment Of
facial and body injuries.
Sergeant Thomas Flanagan and
Patrolman Joseph Greene arrested
Allan, Stepson of John Baldwin of
Woodside, and Barber, son of a
Chicago utilities executive, ndu
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04

ton, went ahead on schedule de-
spite showers. Only few dairymen
were present.
The near-desolate grounds Tues
day morning offered striking con-
trast to the hum of activity at the
fairgrounds Monday when more than
10000 Imperial Valley school chill
dren thronged the grounds for the
annual school day program.
Outstanding event of Mondays
program was the "Cavalcade of
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04

! nearing IN Ell CentrO justice court,
set bail at $1,000 on a charge of
assault with a deadly weapon and
$4,000 on a charge that he COM
mitted a morals offense against
Mrs johnson.
She described her fear when Will
kie menaced her and her husband,
Jacob w. johnson, with a gun. She
said she begged her husband to do
nothing because she feared he
might shoot them. She quoted Will
kie as saying: Il don't know what
to do with you," and I've a no.
ton to dump your husband and
take you along with me-"
johnson Monday afternoon told
the story of what allegedly hap
pened after Wilkie took them into
his car near Indio while they we're
hitchhiking to Texas, where John
son said he had a better job as a
golf caddie. Wilkie did not testify
at the preliminary hearing.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04
Retired HoltyiIIe
Rancher Dies

William M. Sullivan; 70, retired
rancher of the Holtville area, died
in Holtville early Tuesday after
long illness.
Funeral services were scheduled
at the Lemons chapel in Ell Centre
at 2:30 pm. Wednesday. Sullivan
had lived in Imperial Valley for
nine years. He was born in Eve
ming Shade, Ark.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04
Indictment Weather
Cuts Attendance
AtCounty Fair
School Program Monday
Brings Thousands
Through Turnstiles

IMPERIAL, Mar. 4.-The
weatherman put a damper on
the Imperial county fair pro-
gram Tuesday for the third
time in four days, reduced
morning attendance to minimum
and threatened to postpone cowpony
races scheduled on the afternoon
program.
Judging of dairy cattle, principal
attraction of the morning Dairy
Day program at the annual EXPOSE
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04
5000 Federal Income Tax Returns on
File in Valley, $4,000 Still ToBe
Filed with DeadIine Ten Days Away

With ten days left TO go, Imperial
county income tax payers had filed
approximately 5000 federal returns
Tuesday and there were an esti-
mated 10000 yet to file.
Business was rushing in the Bu-
reau of Internal Revenue branch
office in the Ell Centre postoffice
where Pat H. Cory, resident deputy,
and Raymond Kirklighter of Los
Angeles, aide, gave advice on max
ing out returns.
Daily filings range from 80 to
$50 returns in addition to those re-
ceived by mail" Cory said. This
will probably speed up to $50 or 300
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04
Postal Receipts
Up in FL Centro


FL Centre postal receipts dur
ing February showed a healthy in
crease over the same month last
year, Postmaster Frank Richmond
announced Tuesday
The 1871 total was 1881 from
stamps, newspaper postage and
stamped envelopes as compared
with $6907 fer February of 1870.
Money order business also was
up, as 1t has been for several
months, Richmond said He indi-
Gated that the increase was partly
due 10 presence of the 18th Cavalry
regiment at Seeley. Many soldiers
relay funds to their homes by
money order.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04


He denied he strangled Mrs.
Elizabeth Jensen, 81, in her apart
ment a mile and half from the
Papas' apartment yesterday after
noon, but admitted, according to
District Attorney Samuel j. Foley
of the Bronx, that he had assaulted
other women here, in Washington,
D. c., Philadelphia, Newark, Nj,
and in other cities. He had denied
fer several hours that he killed
Mrs. Papas and was still under
questioning.
His motives were sometimes rape,
sometimes robbery, sometimes both,
Foley said. He confessed to IS as
saults or robberies of women.
Cvek said he went to the Papas
apartment early in the afternoon
of Feb. and told Mrs Papas he
was friend of her husband She
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04

army finish paying for a swimming
pool to be constructed near Camp
Seeley. The dance will take place
in Ell Centre March Is.
DR.. Norman E. Dupont was made
chairman of the military affairs
committee, Mrs. Dee Percival and
Rudy FrowisS, vice-chairmen, and
Robert Hays, secretary. The COM
mittee will work with army officers
in recreation and welfare work, the
welfare to be administered by the
Ell Centre Red Cross chapter.
Dance committees will be-Public-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04

ity, Randall Henderson, Louis Moore,
Col. Melchoir, DR.. w. A. McClen-
eghan, and Frank Bowles. Program
Mrs. Edna Morrison, Mrs Percival,
William Foss, Louise Chamlis, and
Captain Rosenberg TicketS-Jack
Tackett, c.. E. Mayfield, and Harry
Sones. Parking - Captain Ebright.
Decorations-Col. Howard. Contact
other cities-Charles P Delp.
The committee also discussed pos
sibility of having an Army Day Gel
ebration in April but made no def
mite arrangements.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04


submitted quietly to arrest.
AT the station, according TO the
boys, they were placed in cells for
several hours. Then an officer
took one of them out and dubbed
him. then took the other out and
beat him similarly.
Next they were taken 10 city pris-
on where Allan telephoned his
stepfather and arranged for re-
lease on bail.
The boys returned TO Stanford
and entered the Palo Alto hospital
where they told their stories. DR.
Fritz Roth, their physician, said
their injuries we're serious but not
critical" BARRIERS jaw, nose and
breastbone were fractured, AlIans
nose was broken. and each had
many bruises.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-04
Lost By A Whiskcr-

Marital ties have cost chaps a num-
Der Of things, but this is probably
the first time another mans we'd
ding ever cost man his beard and
a prize as we'll!
In preparation for the annual
junior college "slum feed" Bill
Thacker, along with the other stu
dents, let his beard grow The one
with the longest was due to win a
prize. Bob's was long and luxurious
and he was lead pipe cfnch to win
over all the others until his brother
Bob changed his plans and got mar
ried before the Stun feed date in
stead of after it as originally
planned!
Off came the dandy whiskers in
honor of the wedding-snip, snip
went five weeks growth and blooey
went chances for the prize.