Imperial Valley press., 1921-11-14
BRAWlEY MEET
v AS AGAINST
RECALL PL A n
Die0yuntled Ranchers Lose Out
in Effort to Gain additional
Support for Plan

Following a speech by Mark Rose
in which there was much heckling and
many questions asked, the meeting at
the Brawley Union High School Sat
urday night passed resolution de-
crying the recall of any of the irri-
cation directors and urging that the
Imperial Valley people present unit
ed front when Secretary Of the Inter
ior Fall holds the Boulder Canyon
conference in San Diego December II.
After the meeting was over Ellis
Weist. who had announced the time
and place of the gathering through
the newspapers, denounced the tactics
of the supporters of the resolution,
claiming that seventv-five CaleXico
business men, lawyers and town peo-
Iple had been brought uD to the meet
ing and that thev, added to those
from Brawley, had been able to run
roughshod over the three dozen ranch
ers he claimed We're there to foster
the recall Of President Nickerson and
the other directors.
The meeting began with. the ad-
dress by Mark Rose, who paid tribute
to the ability Of retiring General Man
agcr F. N. Cronholm. He gave Chron-
holm credit for having changed the
districts financial conditions from one
of 81 100000 Indebtedness to cash
balance on hand of 100000 or more
within fifteen months. He also cred
tied him with having overcome the
water shortage.
J. C. Allison. president of Number
Three and engineer for the Colorado
River Land Company. followed with
an address giving what purported to
be history of the advisory boards
work in having the taxpayers and in
causing the budget prepared by Cron-
holm to be reduced to the point where
the taxes are now but little over
third what they were last year.
"The sole reason why the district
has surplus this year is because wn
We're taxed to pay for it," asserted
Allison.
Chairman West, after the meeting,
said that the reason the ranchers did
not vote against the resolution was be-
cause they saw that the gathering had
lrQl pue oo!XsIeO moIJ psNoed uooo
while they were against the resolu-
| tion thew did not think that to vote
against it would have availed any
thing. The resolution itself as at first
prepared would have stated that the
meeting was opposed to the recall Of
all directors except Mark Rose, but
that feature was eliminated when
some of the advocates of the resolu-
ton said that this would make the
meeting show partisanship, the thing
they were trying to av1:d on account
of the Forthcoming conference on the
Boud der Dam and the All,Amer'can
Canal.-Brawley News.
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naed to support every phase of both
the defense and the prosecution evil
dence indicates that the contest to
clear or convict Arbuckle will be a
bitter one. District Attorney Mat
thew Brady will handle the prosecu.
ton personally, while Arbuckle's chief
counsel will be Gavin McNab, who has
appeared in many famous cases
Among the spectators at the trial viii
be a delegation from the women's
vigllant committee, formed to air th'
moral elements of San Francisco.
/ The jury venire Of &C citizens
, which has been named for the trial
includes names of 13 women. Th'
: expectation was that the venire woulc
( be exhausted.