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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-03-20

One of the. constructive things
ASCAP should do is stop those or
chestra leaders, such as the one
who sticks his moniker on lovely
Cuban melodies obscure composers
create.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-03-20
Wonder how much truth there j!

Wonder how much truth there is
to that buzz about Hitler and Goer-
ing being miffed with each other?
Goering, the legend has it, is
in the doghouse because of his fail
ure in the skies over Britain
And that it's no secret in Vienna
that his frau entered loge at
theater and was booed until she de-
parted Supposed to be Gin
side stuff" snapped in State Dept
corridors.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-03-20

1t cost one fellow pretty penny
to discover the origin of the phrase:
"What's the point?" Usually
cracked when a bore tells point
less quip 1t is dice-house lingo
when a gambler forgets the num-
Der the shooter is trying to make
Jan Valtins book, "Out of the
Night" is so thrilling his detractors
are trying to make you believe it
isn't true Of all the so-wotty
arguments! l can't feel sorry
for people who lose $3.50, 900 in jewels
to robbers, as happened to that rich
woman.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-03-20

Wonder what's become of Sam
Goldwyn's threat of several months
ago to wipe out double features? -.
And that promise to fire members
of the "ism" groups off the relief
payrolls? Or the predictions of
dramatic critics that plays without
scenery were here to stay? =. +. :.
The height of something or other is
that radio trio who flung lawsuit
against a movie firm for using
their" billing: "Tom, Dick and
Harry" Hmf!
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-03-20

Two magazines that attracted
considerable attention before start
ing (only to fop) were Ken and
Stage Verne Marshall was lam
basted out of the pubic eye by bar
rage of word-bullets Every
knock is a boost, huh? Notice
how many of the opposition, to
everything the Administration at
tempts to do, do so because they
personally hate Roosevelt?
One day the history books will take
care of them all-but they won't
have the crimson faces. Their de-
scendants will carry the burden OF
shame Bob Quillen's comfort
ing thought: A success is a guy
who accumulates enough to leave
his widow rich when he works him.
self to death.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
Public Officials
On E|ks Roster

A clean sweep on the city coun-
Gil
A clean sweep of the superior
court bench
This was the score in a recount
ing of Elks in public office in El
Centre.
Every member of Ell Centro's
city council belongs; Andy Preble
and Hugh Osborne on the county
board; both Judge Vaughn Thomp-
son and Judge R. D. McPherrin:
Police Judge Lee Nuffer; County
Clerk w. j. McClelland: County
Superintendent of Schools E. Fl.
Hiteman; Sheriff Robert Ware:
Treasurer George Varney; Agrieul-
tural Commissioner B. A. Harrigan:
District Attorney Elmer Heald and
Deputies Don Bitler, Darwin VOL
ford, Ralph French: Constable Hugh
Keating; Public Administrator Mil
ton zinn; Police Chief Ernie Cox:
City Clerk Neal Gavin; Director
of Public Works Walter Heinecke;
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15

ter hanging in the lodge rooms now,
have scattered far and wide. Some
have died, many have moved away,
some are inactive. They were: j.
Stanley Brown, who was the lodges
first Exalted Ruler, Phil D. Swing,
E. B. Browne, Frank E. Birkhauser,
Oda N. Sebastian, w. 7. Mccoy, C.
w. Barton, Earle Richmond, Wiley
M. weaver, Fred M. Blood, John E..
Davis, Harry Baum, j. v. Wachtel,
jr., Charles N. Perry, Harry L. Per-
son, Charles M. Applestill, A. w.
Rogers, John r. Mccormick, Sam
w. Dunaway, Ben Saloman, c. w.
Baldridge, James w. Glassford,
Vern M. Bishop, Frank A. Preston,
Phil w. Brooks, Arthur Edgar, Fred
B. Clark, Otis B. Tout, Herbert l..
Provost, Walter l.. Milan, H. w.
Going. Frank r. Spencer. James d.
Huston, and Peter P. Hovley.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
Last Of Charter E|ks s2s
Recalls Counting Noses
At Start of Lodge

Over q brace of Ice cream sodas
and a sarsaparilla an idea Matched
just 25 years ago and out of it grew
Ell Centro's Elks lodge.
That is the way Earle Richmond,
only active charter member still
living in Ell Centro, remembered it
this week as he looked back over a
quarter century of the lodges his
tory.
GAS we'll as I can recall the first
talk about creating lodge was in
Jed Davis drug store at Fifth and
Main street. We used to congre-
gate there-Otis Tout, Sam Duna-
way, Charlie Hall, Judge Charlie
Brown-and the argument develop
ed," Richmond recalled.
There were several dozen Elks in
the community then, mostly from
Yuma and San Diego but a scatter
ing from Santa Monica, Redlands,
Los Angeles and other cities. The
argument arose because many de-
clined to demit from their home
lodges and transfer to a new one.
Stumbling Block
Finally we just took the bull by
the horns and went ahead" Rich
mond said. At the last minute the
dissenters put up this argument:
Before you can ask for char
ter you must have a town of at
least 5000. Are there that many
in Ell Centro now?"
Richmond and Oda Sebastian
were appointed to make a census.
1--WE drove all over town. It took
several days. OF course, we knew
just about everyone and we would
go down a street and say there's
seven in that house, five in this
one, two over there, ana so on
When it Was all over we had some
thing beyond 5000, about 600
think" he remembered.
First meetings were in the old
Oregon hotel but installation cere-
monies were held in the Barbara
Worth hotel ball room.
About six months after the
lodges charter was granted rooms
were arranged in the Masonic
temple at Sixth and State and
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
EIks Lodge Overcomes
Obstacles To Be q
Going Concern At rs
Quarter Century
Mark Passed By
FraternaI Group
Debt Cut Down, Club
Rooms Improved
During Years

The result of a conversa-
tion over a drug store coun-
ter a quarter century ago was
celebrated in Ell CentrO this
week.
Out of that conversation, that
grew to an idea and an unofficial
city census, there developed an
institution that has become an in
tegral part of the community. That
institution is Elks Lodge No. 1925.
This week the lodge celebrates
its 25th birthday and this week its
members look back over that span
of years to the time when "a men
signed their names to the newly
granted charter. Only one of that
"a remains an active Elk in the Ell
Centre lodge-Earle Richmond. OF
the others, some have died, some
inactive and some have moved
away.
After them have come, however,
some notable achievements. In size
the lodge has grown from that point
to about 600 members, an outstand-
ing national accomplishment. In
caliber of members no other lodge
can claim higher score In activity
and fellowship the same is true
until the lodge is prominent
throughout Elkdom to far greater
degree than would seem possible
considering the comparative re-
moteness of it's location.
A1thn1uh ic
among outsiders that the Elks lodge
in El Centro is an established in
sCitution, a staunch going concern,
it is not so we'll known that the
lodge had it's days of tough sled
ding. The first sizable blow came
in February of 1918 when the lodge
was scarcely two years old. Fire
swept them from their quarters in
the Masonic building, destroyed the
charter and some of the records.
The rebuff was scarcely notice.
able. The membeS promptly in
stalled themselves across the street
in the Freeman building and es-
tabliShed comfortable club rooms.
That was no mean jump, but it was
nothing to the step that was taken
few years later when this ambi-
tious group of men obligated them
selves to the tune of 25,000 for a
building of their own That $25, 900
was only starter, because other
expenses piled up. In the fall of
1925 when dedication ceremonies
were held the lodge owed $4,000.
No mean sum for small group to
shoulder.
That sum has now been reduced
to $4,000! During the same space
of time the building. has not only
been kept up but greatly improved
by such additions as a $4,000 COOL.
ing plant. And also during those
same years the lodge has kept up
a steady outgo of charitable funds
that is amazing for an organization
even of this size.
With obligations deducted, the
lodges gross assets are more than
$4,000. Not a bad job for a move
ment that developed over drug
store counter!
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
EI Ceniro E|ks
Ritual Champions

Outstanding among the accom-
plishments of present officers OF
the Elks Lodge during their term
in office was in r1tualistic contests
with other lodges of this district,
California South.
Last summer the Ell Centre team
advanced to the district finals and
won. In the statewide contest they
lost to the eventual state champions,
South Central.
Present officers who distinguished
themselves were: Charles A. Brat
ton, Exalted Ruler; Charles Bueh-
ner, Leading Knight; William D..
Hudgins, Loyal Knight; Carl j..
Rogers, Lecturing Knight; Henry
Swanson, Secretary; Arno c. Yaeck-
el, treasurer; Noel B. Smith, ES-
quire; E. A. Diehl, Tiler; Homer G..
Tackett, Inner Guard; Grover M.
Baker, Chaplain; Wesley B. Rauen-
zahn, organist, and Leslie Lee Nuf-
fer, presiding justice of subordinate
forum.
Trustees are Allen P. Nuffer,
Mark w. Washburn and Forrest E.
KutZ.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15

At one point in the year 1924 the
minutes of the Ell Centre Elks lodge
assumed a different tone.
Thumbing back over the docu-
ments of those meetings this week,
Henry Swanson chuckled:
Il was pretty green then -
SWanson-it's far more natural
to just call him Hank-may have
been green then but during the
II years he has held office in the
lodge in one capacity or another the
color has changed to whatever hue
indicates experience.
Hank served as secretary that
first time from 1924 to 1928-he
was named to fill the vacancy on
the illness of Richard L. Karbaek
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15

here the lodge met regularly until
a fire on the night of Feb. 20, 1918
destroyed the original charter as
we'll as some of the lodges para
phernalia.
Moved Across Street
Undaunted, the lodge moved
across the street to the Freeman
building and here had its first real
lodge rooms until in 1925 the step
was taken to buy lot and build
ing. The building purchased was
the present one, 631 Main street.
Those first charter members,
whose names appear on the char.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
In 70 Years E|ks
Charity Gifts
Total S71,400
Christmas Party, Secret
Assistance Rank High
On Lodge Budget

An astonishing figure was
released in Ell Centro this
week, astonishing not be-
cause it was unexpected but
amazing because it has hith-
erto received such slight attention.
The figure was $71,415.02, repre-
senting the charity contributions
made by the Ell Centre Elks lodge
during 20 years of its existence.
That total would probably be much
larger if records of the lodges first
five years of existence were avail
able. Unfortunately, they have eth
er been lost or were destroyed in
a fire in 1918.
The average expenditure over the
years for charitable pursuits has
been $3.50. The expenditure has
always been more than $4,000 and
as high as $6821 in a year. In 1897
the total was $3893, in 1888 S4034,
in 1899 $3732 and in 1910 $2558
Here is an example of the char
table items for which money was
disbursed. The figures are for the
fiscal year l939-40:
Relief to members, $532, relief to
non-Elks $l66, aid to students $l08,
flowers to sick $261, students to
Boys State $50, Christmas charity
$7l5, Charity Ball expense 1898,
Community Chest $50, Boys Band
$40, Future Farmers SIS, Elks hos
pital $1OO, Salvation Army $25, Fin
nish relief $25, Elks National Foun-
dation $l00.
Most of those items are self evil
dent, but one carries behind it
multitude of stories that may never
be written. That is the item OF
relief to members and non-Elks".
The Elks Charity Fund, which in
cidentally is raised entirely by lodge
members without the aid OF outside
promotion schemes, is in full charge
of the Leading Knight. The expen-
diture of that fund is his respon-
Sibility and is spent at his discre-
ton. Normally, of course, there is
fairly well set program establish
ed by precedent but in one regard
in particular the Leading Knight
must exercise good judgment and
confidence. That is in relief to
members themselves.
I'VE never know who receives
that help. 1T is secret between the
individual and the Leading Knight"
one Elk explained.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15

sand hills highway, on to San
Diego.
Previous to this, Bratton had
served with an oil company in
Phoenix, where he was raised and
went through school. Originally he
came from Texas to Arizona in 1903
as a small child.
When the freight line was sold.
Bratton severed connections and for
several months served as El Centro
city clerk. He filled out the unex-
pired term of Jack Neale, who pass
ed away.
Some years later Bratton joined
the staff of the Hulse Tractor and
Equipment company, Shortly there
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15

In less than three months, the
term in office of Ell Centre Elks
lodges 25th Exalted Ruler, Charles
Bratton, will end.
Brattons rise to office was rapid,
for he became an Elk in November
of 1888, but not SO fast as that of
his Leading Knight, Charles Bueh-
ner, who was initiated less than
four years ago.
Bratton came to Imperial Valley
in 1926 from Phoenix as agency
manager for a pioneering truck
line, the first to operate from Ari-
zona to the coast. In those days
it was constant struggle to keep
freight moving over the shifting
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
Exalted Rulers
Of Lodge Listed

Past Exalted Rulers of the E
Centre Elks lodge that this Weel
celebrates it's 25th anniversary:
j. STANLEY BROWNS
PHIL d. SWING
OTIS b. TOUT
VERN M. BISHOP
OTTO E. OHMSTEDE
CHARLES E. PITZER
IRL E. HINRICHSEN
SAM w. DUNAWAY
LOU r. PHILLEY*
CHARLES L. MURPHY
MARVIN w. CONKLING
MARK w. WASHBURN
BURLING M. GRUWELL
CLYDE v. HILL
ELTON B. CHRISTIAN
HARRY w. HORTON
HENRY SWANSON
l.. LEE NUFFER
FRED NEBEL-THAU
MARK M. CONNELLY
LESLIE F. ROGERS
NEAL H. GAVIN
NORMAN C. DEATON
CAL D. RECTOR
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
Chas. Bratton, FL Centro Man Since
1926, Serves as 18th Exalted Ruler

after he became credit manager,
position he still holds, and later
was made vice-president of the
firm
Besides his close connection with
Elks activities. Bratton is a past
commander of the American Le-
gion and past chef de guerre of
the 40 and s, and member of the
present city council. He served in
the navy during the World War
from 1917 to 1919
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15
Eks Secretary a Lodge Officer
Durinq Seventeen Years Of Service

and after that resigned to become
Lecturing Knight. Thence he ad-
vanced through the chairs to be-
come Exalted Ruler in April of 1881.
In 1888 Hank served as delegate
to the Grand Lodge and in March
of 1884 he returned to the secre-
tary's position on the death of r.
A. Nance, jr. He has been secretary
ever since.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-15

On the East wall Of the lodge OF the ks Ceno there
hang these two fixtures monster Es head and charter The
charter explains that this is substitute for the original de-
s+royed fire The night Of Feb TO- 1918 when the lodge
scarcely than two years DID, On the charter however,
the Of the original members and the lodges NUMBER
No. 1925 which signifies that the Ceno lodge The I325th
to apply for charter There than 1900 lodges in the
nation active but when lodge dsbands that lodges
ber is again used. PostPress photo
Evening star., 1941-04-11

Chile will run motor rail cars on
its new government railways.
Evening star., 1941-04-11

Woodward imposed on Lawrence
Wallace, SO, colored, of Scotland,
Md, sentence OF four years on a
charge of assault with intent to
murder and one year for carrying
concealed weapon.
The case grew out Of shooting
on Georgia avenue extended near
Wheaton February 8, when Louis
Scarla of Silver Spring was wound-
ed in the leg shielding his brother,
Edward, in an alteration following
a minor traffic accident.
Charles Thomas, A, o. Sandy
Spring received a three-year SEN
tence on a charge Of malicious poi
sonirg of cattle owned by mis- neigh
bor, Charles Ray, last October. At
the first trial last November the
jury was unable to agree and was
discharged.
Ill health won suspended SEN
tence for John Saunders of Silver
Spring, convicted of possessIs1 Of
lottery tickets, but a fine of $500
was imposed by the court.
Allen Howard, "A, colored, of Lay.
| louisville was sentenced to serve four
months on charge of theft and his
son, Allen, jr., 18, six months on the
same charge, but the sons sentence
was suspended.
Robert B. Clokey, 35, and Vernon
Shirley, 26, both of Washington, re-
ceived suspended sentences Of two
years on charges of HOUSEKEEPING.
Evening star., 1941-04-11
| Vital Greenland
HAS Population
IOf Only 76,600
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Greenland, now a part of the West
ern Hemisphere defense system, is
one of the largest islands in the
world, and one of the least popu-
lated.
The Commerce Department says
695,000 of the $4,000 square miles
In the deceptively-n land are
covered by ice and at last count the
population numbered about 1920
Eskimos and 400 Danes.
Cryolite an important mineral
tr the manufacture of aluminium,
enamel ware, glass and pottery, is
Greenland's chief resource, and is
valuable in defense industries.
The United States once claimed
ownership of part of the island on
the basis of explorations by Admiral
Robert E. Peary. However, when the
United States bought the Virgin
Islands from Denmark In 1916, it
surrendered all its claims to Green
land.
The Coast Guard has been main
tanning an unofficial vigil over
Greenland since shortly after Den
mark was invaded by Germany.
Two or three cutters have been
maintained in Greenland waters
almost constantly, and the Coast
Guard has erected special radio
station to maintain secret COM
munication with the United States.
Evening star., 1941-04-11
Lusk Lauds Parks Office
On Boost Of Circus Fees

Rufus S. Lusk, president of the
Washington Taxpayers Association,
said today in a letter to Francis F..
Gillen, senior assistant superintend-
ent of National Capital Parks, that
he hopes the parks Office remains
firm in its stand that the circus
must pay $2,500 fee for use of
public park property at Twenty first
and G streets NE"
Several days ago 1t became known
that the parks Office had informed
the Ringing Bros, Barnum & Bailey
circus it will have to pay s833.33 per
day for use of the Northeast lot.
Last year the rental was $3.50 a day.
The circus is scheduled to appear
in Washington for three days next
month.
Melvin D. Hildreth, former presi-
dent of the Circus Fans of America,
protested the proposed rent raise
and carried an appeal to Secretary
of the Interior Ickes.
THE fee you are asking the show
to pay will not cover the direct out
lay of the local government to
handle this affair."" Mr. Lusk said
in his letter today. He said the Dis
trict has to assign "a policemen and
9 flremen to take care of the circus
crowd. The net cost to the taxpay-
ers, he said. is $1,000.
Evening star., 1941-04-11

to protect the Western Coast and
Territories.
The use of Singapore, Britain S
Far Eastern stronghold, by American
naval vessels also has entered into
speculation over the role the United
States might play in the Pacific in
an emergency.
No Extension of Censorship.
Officials said the restriction on
information concerning troop move
ments portended no general exten-
sion of the War Departments prac-
tice of limited censorship at the
source" Only about per cent Of
all military information is subject
to a ban on disclosure, it was said.
This falls under three classifications.
Secret information is that classed
as vital to the national defense,
such as war plans and details of
such devices as bomb sights.
Confidential information is that
whose publication would be preju-
dicial to the best interests and pres
tige of the United States, but would
not endanger national security.
Restricted information is that
ordered kept within the military
service until its disclosure is con-
sidered no longer premature, such as
sites for camps and munitions
plants.
Evening star., 1941-04-11

it was said, might watch over the
conveys unofficially to that point.
Where the escorting American
vessels left off, British warships
could pick up the cargo trains to
shepherd them through Germany's
declared zone of blockade which ex-
tends from few miles east OF
Greenland to the British Isles.
Naval and military experts said
establishment of the Greenland
bases, as part of the line of fortifica-
tions stretching 1000 miles south to
British Guiana, would provide vir-
tually impregnable protective shield
against aggression from across the
Atlantic.
Moreover, it was said, shield
around the entire western Hemi-
sphere would be made -and-sea-
tight with the expected development
of more plane and ship bases in the
Pacific. In this connection Secre-
tary of the Navy Knox recently de-
clared that I'VE have Pacific bases,
but We need more-and we will have
them"
Negotiations have been reported
for leasing of base hites on some
Pacific islands off South and Gen.
trail America and in the Gulf of
California, but the reports are with
out official confirmation.
With acquisition of base rights in
Greenland the United States,
through friendly agreements with
n e ig h boring governments, has
achieved this design for defense:
l. Greenland's air bases and de-
fense works to guard against any
aggression from the Far North
against Canada or the Northeastern
United States.
Fit Into Strategic Scheme.
2. Air and naval bases-acquired
from Britain at the time of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's trade of so Amer
lean destroyers-in Newfoundland,
Bermuda, Trinidad, the Bahamas,
Jamaica, st. Lucia, Antigua and
British Guiana, to protect the At
lantic seaboard, Central America,
the Panama Canal and Northern
South America. These fit into the
strategic scheme with defense facil-
tiles on United States and other
Coribbean territories including the
Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Pan
anna Canal Zone and Cuba.
3. Rights under a Mexican United
States pact enabling American mil
itary planes to use Mexican air.
fields, thus affording a shorter and
quicker aerial route to the Panama
Canal.
Rights under a Canadian United
States pact enabling American mil
itary planes to use a string of Ca
madam airflelds, providing speedy
route to reinforce aerial defenses
of Alaska.
S. Expanding defense establish
ments in Alaska, Hawaii, the Philip
pines and other Far Pacific islands