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John Keplcy, Logan Jenkins and Curley Veasey arrived, they found the candle flickering be side the cup and their balls set up on little wooden tees, all ready for the last roundup. —o — Turning Traitor — In Imperial Valley, where there is no Fall season, two incidents of traitorious conduct have been re ported to RR. A tree in the south east corner of the court house grounds, all decked out In Thanks giving colors, is losing its leaves, and the hedge in back of Fritz Alderson’s home is trying to make believe summer is over. —o — Thanks. One And All—. The Post-Press staff couldn't help reading Wilbur Emerson's article in “Country Gentleman" if it wished. At least nine persons called Wednesday to point out that Imperial Valley is in print again. At that, it is a bang-up article. Some More History— Seems to us it is about time that the calendar in the corridor between the county auditor’s office and the assessor-collector's office in the courthouse should be removed to the official historical archives. It advertises the “Imperial Valley Midwinter Fair, December 7 to 11, Brawley.” And it’s been years since the first county fair was held in Brawley. Doggonit, Late Again!— In Wednesday’s mail: Dear RR: I read your column religiously. Last night I noted your invitation to repair the street east of the courthouse. Hope you have had occasion to drive around that way today to observe that the street is improved, even before press time. Thanks, and come again! W. B. HANNA. P. s. — I might add that my men and machines have been sent to work on that street several times previously and parked machines on both sides leave scarcely enough room for graders to pass between. RR's Note: Maybe, one of these days, this column will think of "something before someone else does. Anyway, thank you, Mr. Hanna. YOUTHS FACING PRISON TERMS FOR ESCAPE TRY The three youths who used a gun in attempting to escape from Deputy Sheriff Fred Elliott while he was taking them from Calexico to the Imperial county jail late Sunday, face imprisonment on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and grand theft of an ammunition. Automobile. Both charges are felonies. Judge John E. Simpson of El Centro justice court held them to answer in superior court after a preliminary hearing conducted Wednesday morning. He set the bail at $1,000 each. James W. Jones, 18, Richard Priest, 18, and Lewis Crandall, 19, maintained silence in court. Questioning on the part of District Attorney Elmer Heald repeated that Crandall had hidden nine-shooter in his boot-top shop. He was stopped by inspectors at Mexicali. The gun later was transferred to Jones, who hid it in his shirt, the evidence revealed. While en route to El Centro, Jones thrust the pistol in Elliott's side and said, “Take it easy,” Elliott testified in court. The deputy jammed on the brakes and seized the gun. WORK PUSHED ON CITY HALL AT WESTMORLAND Construction of the Westmorland city hall is expected to be completed by the Works Progress administration in three months. Fourteen men now are working on the project, said J. Kenneth Hickox, WPA head for Imperial county. The workers are laying adobe brick and carpenters are preparing to put on the roof. IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS A Sweetheart Again Mary Pickford, former wife of Douglas Fairbanks, will marry Charles "Buckeye"! Rogers, screen actor and orchestra leader, the couple announced recently. Buddy phoned his father the news from Hollywood. “I knew they were in love, and I’ve been expecting something like this,” said the elder Rogers, adding that the news “wasn’t particularly surprising.” Mary and Buddy are shown in their most recent photo, taken as they left a night club in the film rolony. Mme. Schumann-Heink Idol of Thousands in Long Career, Dies at 75 Famous Diva Greets Death Without Fear or Regret She Tells Doctor in Final Hours; First Acclaim Came as Girl of 15 HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 18. (UP) —The mellow voice of Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink, for three generations acclaimed by music lovers, was stilled today, halted by death in her 75th year. The motherly Diva informed her physician a few hours before death took her last night that she went "without fear or regret." The idol of American soldiers during the World War, Madame Schumann-Helm, always maintained that she was a mother first, then a singer. As she had desired, her children and two grandchildren were at the bedside when the contralto slipped from coma into death last night. Although given no hope for recovery from the blood ailment with which she was stricken several days ago, the plump singer's life was maintained in the last days by her dynamic willpower, her physician, Dr. Samuel Alter, said. Her first acclaim as a singer came when she was a 15-year-old child—prodigy making her debut in the Vienna opera. A year later, the daughter of an Austrian army officer was given ovation after ovation at Gratz and Dresden. The plump Ernestine was a “utility singer” at Hamburg at the age of 17 when given her big chance by the illness of the prima donna. She took over the role of “Carmen” with little rehearsal and was catapulted into the prima donna class by her success. Madame Schumann-Heink adopted the United States as her country in 1904 when she applied for citizenship papers. It was during the World War that the great diva earned the title of “Mother of the Doughboys" through her devotion to the soldiers in army camps. Although she outwardly was a jolly contralto who sang for “her boys” everywhere, Madame Schumann-Heink faced the tragedy of having sons on opposite sides in the war. Her older boys, raised in Europe, fought with the Austrians, while while the younger sons enlisted with the allied cause. One son, August, was killed in the fighting. CITY BUILDING TOTAL SPURTS UPWARD AGAIN Building permit totals continued an upward sweep toward new season’s records Wednesday when $2827 worth of permits brought the year’s total to date within approximately $17,000 of the quarter-million mark. Contracts to the Southwest Roofing company for re-roofing jobs totaling $17,000 formed the largest item in the latest building permit jump. The contracts called for work on business and residence buildings owned by J. H. Schnicder, Altadena; on South Sixth street and on Hamilton avenue. Other permits, and estimated value of the construction work involved, were: Barbara Worth hotel, tenth floor, $275; Properties, Inc., re-roofing club at Seventh street and Broadway, $387; Furniture Exchange, storage balcony at 542 Main street and J. D. Johnson, sign structure at 591 Main street, $100. Carrying Full UNITED PRESS Day and Night Leased Wire Service and Features of NEA, Inc., Central Press Association, McNaught Syndicate, King Features, and Complete Valley News Gathered by the Largest Editorial Staff in Southeastern California. Four Men Appear Before Police Court Misdemeanor charges Wednesday brought four defendants before Judge Lee N. Auffer in El Centro police court. John Clemant, 23, charged with vagrancy, received a suspended sentence of 10 days in jail. Speed Hutson, 40, forfeited $10 bail posted on a drunkenness charge. Trial of Juan Millares, 29, Filipino, and Dolores La Verne, 22, on related vagrancy charges was postponed. MUSSOLINI, HITLER RECOGNIZE REBELS; FIRES RAKE MADRID Beauty Laughs British immigration authorities refused to be swayed by beauty when Tamara Desni, above, tried to land in Southampton from a liner crossing from America, and the Russian film actress was forced to proceed to Bremen. But Tamara had the last laugh. She announced she is to wed Bruce Setton, film actor, relative of the Duke of Abercorn, and perhaps live in England. EL CENTRO, CALIF., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1936. Truck Driver's Ambush Story Branded Hoax Valley Man Who Claimed Salinas Radicals Tried to ‘Get’ Him on Road, Now Admits Publicity Trick Carl Naslund’s tale of five shots fired into his coupe from a speeding black sedan near Whitewater early Tuesday morning was only a publicity hoax, he told Sheriff Robert W. Ware and T. M. Sharp, chief criminal investigator, after questioning Wednesday morning. He admitted he fired the shots into the coupe from his own gun. He blamed radical enemies from Salinas he declared, because he thought the resulting publicity would help provide him with employment in Imperial and Yuma Valleys during anticipated labor trouble this winter. The former El Centro service station operator was foreman of trucks for strikebreakers at Salinas, he told officers. While Sheriff Ware and his officers were blocking highways in an attempt to stop the sedan from which the shots were said to have been fired, Naslund stopped to talk to them near Truckhaven. He told the officers he left his own guns in Salinas and would call at the sheriff’s office Tuesday to borrow one. He also said he would be registered at a certain hotel and would see them later. He could not be found at the hotel all day Tuesday and was not seen by the officers throughout the day. Shortly before 9 o’clock Tuesday night, Naslund and a woman companion were in a Main Street liquor establishment in El Centro. Naslund dropped a 32 caliber pistol. His companion picked it up but it was taken from her by operators of the establishment who then telephoned El Centro police. George Bucklin, night desk sergeant, had Naslund arrested and taken to the county jail. The coupe containing the bullet holes also was turned over to Sheriff Ware and Naslund’s companion, Virginia Nelson, was held as a material witness. Naslund told the officers he spent Tuesday in Mexicali and did not return to El Centro until later in the day. He is held in the county jail. (Continued on Page 3; Col. 6) Coast Guard Chief Killed in Auto Crash HOLBROOK, Ariz., Nov. 18. (U.S.) — Lieut. Dale T. Carroll, executive officer of the coast guard cutter Perseus, was killed here last night in a collision between his automobile and a heavy truck. Incendiary Bombs Send Livid, Green Streams Of Flames Creeping Through Streets of City; Eat Into Roofs and Walls BERLIN, Nov. 18, (UP) — Italy and Germany, leading Fascist nations of Europe, recognized the revolutionary regime of Gen. Francisco Franco today as the official government of Spain. As Madrid tottered, stricken almost to death under the most savage aerial and artillery bombardment. Of a civilian population in History, the two dictators, Benito Mussolini and Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, recognized Franco as a fellow dictator. Copyright 1936 by United Press MADRID, Nov. 18. (U.S.) — Madrid has survived a night such as no city in the long history of wars has endured, and her militiamen still hold fast against wave after wave of nationalists who struck at dawn today in the west and northwest sections. Incendiary bombs lit up this city of 1,500,000 people and the country for miles around and streams of living livid green fire crept through the streets as women and children looked on in horror. Flames from the roaring furnaces of which bombs had made working men’s homes, office buildings, churches, palaces paled in the dawn. People’s ears rang still with the terrific noise of the explosions of the bombs and of artillery shells and with the shrieks of their victims. This morning, the planes were (Continued on Page 3; Col. 6) PRESIDENT TO EXTEND D. S. RELIEF PLAN Will Ask Congress to Support Program Until July WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. (UP) — President Roosevelt, finding the rapidly increasing gains in private employment insufficient to solve the relief problem, announced today that he would ask Congress to finance the federal work program until July 1 37. Point-by-point, the President checked the unemployment and re-employment situation — past, present and future — with the conclusion that industry must hire a greater number of older and unskilled workers to reduce the government's burden. A surprise statement was issued by the White House for publication 12 hours after Mr. Roosevelt left for his South American home. “Good neighbor” cruise. ABOARD U. S. S. CHESTER, EN ROUTE With PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT to SOUTH AMERICA. Nov. 18. (U.S.)—President Roosevelt began today a 7,000 mile voyage to South America, carrying a message of goodwill to the Buenos Aires peace conference. Accompanied by his eldest son, James, and a small party of military and naval attaches, Mr. Roosevelt boarded the swift cruiser Indiana, soon after leaving a special train which carried him to Charleston, S.C., from the capital. LAST MINUTE flashes! FAYE WEBB’S DEATH NEAR. SAY DOCTORS SANTA MONICA, Cal., Nov. 18. The death of Faye Webb Valler, divorced wife of Rudy Valler, is expected momentarily, physicians said shortly before 1 p.m. (PST) today. She was sinking slowly. SOVIET HITS BACK AT ANTI-RED PACT (Copyright 1936 by United Press) MOSCOW, Nov. 18. (U.S.) The Soviet union, aroused by the apparent conclusion of a secret pact between Japan and Germany against Communism, struck back swiftly today. The Kremlin is sued a communique detailing charges against 23 German citizens arrested in Soviet Russia and charged with creating fascist music among Soviet citizens. Pawn in Court Three-year-old Ruth Cowan, British subject, who is the pawn in a Los Angeles court custody battle, while ambassadors, lawyers and judges confer on the point of whether final decision rests with British or American courts. Ruth was taken to southern California following the death of her mother, by her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. R. Carnthers. Her father, R. W. Cowan, rich Canadian rancher, wants her back. REX TUGWELL WILL RESIGN AS ADMINISTRATOR MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 18. (U.R.)— Rural Resettlement Administrator Rexforcie Guy Tugwell confirmed today he has submitted his resignation to President Roosevelt. Tugwell, here with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace on an inspection of resettlement projects, said he has resigned to accept an executive position with a large New York business firm. He would not divulge the name of the firm nor the nature of the position he will hold. Tugwell said he had been planning for “a short while” to resign, and take over the executive position but had thought best to wait until after the elections. Despite the fact he is entering private life, Tugwell, one of the original members of President Roosevelt’s famous “brain trust,” said he would maintain a deep interest in the rural resettlement work and the conditions among persons in the “low income” strata. Dr. W. W Alexander, assistant resettlement administrator, will replace him. Tugwell said. One Shot to Death In Fight Between Spanish War Vets LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17. (U.R.)—A bitter quarrel between two Spanish-American war veterans at the Sawtelle national soldiers' home ended today in the death of Ransom P. Ham and the flight of his slayer, according to the sheriff’s office. The report said Ham was shot to death by Walter Boyleston while Ham, as captain of Company 14, was marshalling his outfit for the day’s barrack duties. French Minister of Interior Kills Self PARIS, Nov. 18. (U.R.)—Roger Salengro, 46, Socialist minister of interior, killed himself today, it was announced officially. Only recently, he was cleared by a national jury of honor of extreme nationalist charges that during the World War he deserted to the German lines, and was sentenced to death in his absence by court martial. Wartime Aide of Government is Dead PHOENIX Ariz., Nov. 18. (U.R.)— Col. C. Stanley Walker, 67, former Des Moines, la., manufacturer and wartime aide to the secretary of war, died yesterday at his home here. Funeral services will be held tomorrow. PHONE 300 4,000 Workers May Strike in Celery Harvest Union at Stockton Offers Ten Point Demands That Must Be Met to Avoid Tieing Up $2,000,000 Crop in North STOCKTON, Cal., Nov. 18. (UP)—Officials of the agricultural workers union today threatened to order a strike of 4,000 workers in the celery fields here unless employers met their 10-point demands by 4 p. m. tomorrow. A strike, farmers said, would threaten loss of the $2,000,000 celery crop on 8,500 acres in the Delta region and if it spread it would threaten loss of 10,000 more acres planted in celery and nearing harvest. Demand of the workers included an increase of 10 cents an hour to workers, who now, according to the union, are receiving 25 and 2716 cents an hour, and whom employers say are receiving 30 cents an hour. Other demands are recognition of three classes of field workers: an 8-hour working day; one hour for lunch; time and a half for overtime, Sunday and holidays. Agreement by employers that they will not raise the cost of food and housing to offset wage increases; union recognition, preferential hiring working contracts to cover the remainder of the season, and pay for the time required to go to and from work. PROSPECTS FOR PEACE FAIL IN SHIP WALKOUT LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18. (U.R)— First violence in the heretofore quiet maritime strike broke out today when truck drivers reported to police they had been stopped by striking seamen and, in one case, received a bombardment of Coaches. STAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18. Waterfront labor warfare will continue undiminished until the Pacific Coast shipowners discard their demand for the right to “hire and fire” employees at their own discretion, spokesmen for striking seafaring unions said today. As new negotiations between the coast committee for shipowners and the unlicensed personnel union groups broke down completely over the explosive hiring hall question, prospects for peace in the ever-spreading strike faded. DAM WORKER PLACED IN JAIL John Riley, Imperial dam worker, was brought to the Imperial county jail late Wednesday after two men had signed a complaint accusing him of contributing to the delinquency of an eight-year-old girl. He was held in the Winterhaven jail until T. M. Sharp, chief criminal investigator for the sheriff’s office, and Deputy Sheriff Herbert Hughes could transport him to El Centro. Sheriff Robert W. Ware said Riley and his accusers are scheduled for questioning. BRIQHT picture of IMPERIAL VALLEY PAINTED IN ARTICLE “Physically, geologically and subserviently to man’s employment, the Imperial Valley stands unique." Wilbur O. Emerson, Valley resident in 1904, in those words sounds the keynote of an optimistic article appearing in the December issue of “Country Gentleman,” nationally known publication, dealing with the past, present and future of what? Emerson calls an area that “is doing the impossible... lifting itself by its bootstraps." The magazine, which appeared on the news stands Wednesday, will carry the story of Imperial Valley to every corner of the nation. Emerson sums up his article in these words: “Provided Imperial successfully evades entanglements with certain interests now seeking its electrical power distribution, the monetary value of that auxiliary can be added to the above items of savings made possible by the All American canal. Figures show this subsidiary alone capable of liquidating the entire cost of Imperial’s huge undertakings. Many greedy eyes are resting on this golden plum at BANK DEBTS Today $33,349,72 BUILDING PERMITS $232,152 To Have The Year THE POST-PRESS LANDSCAPING FOR CANAL TO BE DISCUSSED Expert Will Submit Recommendation At Border Meet Landscaping plans of the United States Bureau of Reclamation for the All American canal in the southern part of Imperial Valley will be submitted at 2 p.m. Friday to Calexico chamber of commerce members, civic leaders and directors of the Imperial Irrigation District in a meeting at the Calexico chamber of commerce building. John William Gregg of the University of California, retained by the reclamation bureau to prepare proposed landscaping designs, will submit his recommendations at the meeting. He has studied the problem for several months. Evan T. Hewes, chairman of the irrigation district, was notified Wednesday of the meeting. With other directors, he will attend the discussion. Behind the meeting is the desire of Calexico leaders to make the canal a place of beauty as well as a thing of utility in the south-end. Numerous proposals are expected to be crystallized. At Friday’s meeting. LABOR CREWS COME TO VALLEY Imperial county has an adequate supply of agricultural labor since the arrival of the regular crews from northern counties. A shortage experienced about 10 days ago does not exist now, said Chan Livingston, head of the National Reemployment service in this county. The shortage was caused by the early season, he said, and as soon as the regular workers received word of it, they immediately returned to Imperial Valley for their seasonal employment here. EARTHQUAKE SHAKES SANTA MARIA AREA SANTA MARIA, Cal., Nov. 18. (U.R.) —An earthquake shook this area at 10:02 a.m. today. Dishes rattled and light fixtures swayed, but no damage was reported. The article, entitled “Imperial Digs Out," is a glowing account of man’s reclamation of the desert, citing tremendous per acre harvests, rich soil and freedom under Boulder Dam and the All American canal from dangers of flood and drought. It is a recital of the section’s early history in comparison with the present and as an indication of the future. The author was himself an Imperial Valley pioneer, associated with his rather in early day promotion of real estate sales in the town site of Imperial and later of Brawley and Calexico. 