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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-28
WHAT A Day
is ONE NIGHT
AT CONVENTION
"a Hour Clock Runs Show
for Everybody at Chi
Cago, 1t Seems.
BY RAY BLACK
United Press staff Correspondent

AAhkNu lNSa Gtah Correspondent
CONGRESS HOTEL. CHICAGO,
June 28.-As they used to say in
gold rush days in Leadville, Col,
IT'S day all day and it's day all
night" at the Democratic national
convention.
A -for-all battle to make pro-
gress through the corridors of the
Congress in the wee hours today
proved this convention is timed by a
twenty-four hour clock.
Curiosity seekers, anxious to see
what Al Smith, Governor Ritchie
and Alfalfa Bill Murray look like,
added to the throng.
Jennie and Flora furnished comic
relief. Both were very happy, for
reasons not hard to determine in
these pro-repeal days.
Jennie, a flashing brunei in a
pastel green evening gown, and
Flora, not quite so dark of hair and
eye, Dut WITH long brown curlS ana
wearing pink, took up their stand
alongside the entrance to the Al
Smith headquarters.
Jennie and Flora put on an i'm
promptu show, including song bits
and attempts to do ballet steps.
Hell, boy friend" called Jennie,
throwing her arms around the neck
of staid and eldery delegate from
Tennessee. "Ill vote for you for
anything you want to be-"
The f1ustered Tennesseean es-
capped as the crowd roared it's glee
Let's break all the rules in the
rules committee" Uttered Flora.
No one seemed to mind the hilar-
ity, not even the most reserved
woman delegates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-28
Chicken Feed

By United Press
WHITE PLAINS. N. Y. June
2S.-The .little drops of water
and little grains of sand" of the
doggerel verse have nothing on
the little bits of change picked
up by bootblack, who accum-
ulated a $l76,50O fortune.
The fortune was revealed
when Justice Frederick P. Close
adJudged Pietro A. Ierardi. boss
hootblack, an incompetent. The
wife and nephew were named
administrators.
Ierardi came to America forty
years ago, and went on the
streets of New York city as a
bootblack.
Later he became master of
the shoe shining concession in
the Grand Central terminal.
And he managed the cash
register there until a month
ago when he was taken to a
sanitafium.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-28
Two Minority Reports, on Seating Of Mime
sofa and Louisiana Groups, Are
Backed by Hoosiers.
SUPPORT is PLEDGED TO SHOUSE
Fight Will Be Made on Change in Procedure
to Nominate Before Party Plat
form Is Adopted.
BY BEN STERN

CHICAGO, June 28.-Thirty Indiana delegates seated
themselves at the Democratic national convention here this
morning determined to toss four blocks in the path of the
Franklin D. Roosevelt band wagon and thus do what they
could to halt its progress.
Under the skllfu manipulation of Frank McIIale of
Loganspor chairman Of the delegation the members de-
cided at shortly before that they would sup
port Judge Clarence McNabb of Fort Wayne their Gre
denas committee representative in his approval Of
minority reDOrts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-28
Huey Master Mind Say Ladies':
KingtiSh, He G1inS, That's MepI

IMMEDIATELY afterward two
l. of the senator's feminine APP
pointees entered. One was the
committeeman who will dis
place Miss Hamlin, Mrs. Emile
Bienvenue, and the only woman
delegate from Louisiana, Mrs. Ed
ward Pilsbury. Both are buxom,
and were wearing identical gowns
of pink chiffon, with white kid
shoe.
Mrs. Pilsbury, who thinks Huey
is the master mind of America,
is factory inspector in New Or
leans.
She is president of the Woman's
Choctaw Club, the old regular
Democratic organization, a close
relative of the Tammany wigwam.
She fought against Long in his
fight for senator, and then moved
into his camp Immediately after
ward.
he Is a woman OF aDlllty, a
~ leading cluhwoman, active as
president of the Louisiana Fed
Grafton Of Women's Clubs and the
League of Women Voters.
She has made important re-
forms in child and women's labor
laws, and was appointed by Presi-
dent Hoover as a member of his
White House conference on child
welfare.
He's done more for our state
than any four Governors put to-
gether she stated proudly OF
Long, and when I told him what
thought of him, he answered
me:
You can describe me with one
word: KinghSh'."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-28
SHIRLEY K. HATFIELD,
ILL SIX YEARS, DIES
Funeral Services Are Scheduled for
Wednesday at 2.

Shirley Kenneth Hatfield, Al. of
1918 Sharon avenue, died today at
Central hospital after an illness of
six years. He was born Feb. IA,
1891, a son of Elijah and Josephine
Hatfield.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. jose
phine Hatfield; two children, Carl
and Betty Jane; his father, living at
Evansville; three sisters, Mrs. BERTHE
Bohanno, indianapolis; Mrs. Susie
Carrollton, Evansville, and Mrs.
Weanah Roberts, Cleveland, O.. and
a brother, Allen Hatfield, RichIand,
Ind.
Funeral services will be held at 2
Wednesday afternoon at Shirley
Bros west side funeral home. 2OO2
West Michigan street. Burial will
be in Crown Hill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-28
DELEGATES FAVOR
OUTRIGHT REPEAL
Hip, Hip
By United Press

By United Press
ANN ARBOR, Mich, June
28,-The Chicago party con-
ventions are nothing more than
gigantic pep meetings, in the
opinion of DR.. Preston w. Slos-
son, professor of history at the
University of Michigan.
In the first of series of
summer lectures, DR.. Slosson
said the conventions are far
too open a system of pretense
to be termed hypocritical.
They're just a kind of rit-
ual, American style" he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-28

Senator Huey Long of Louisiana
=. famous for receiving visiting
dignitaries in his pajamas-says
he'll swing his state to Roosevelt.
The Kingf1sh beamed, like
boy who had just broke a window
hitting a home run.
Women are no judge of looks
they've passed me up all my
life!" he accused.
On his way out he paused to
look at lost glove hanging to
the bulletin board.
mo womanH claim that" he
opined She'll have to admit she
had dirty hands"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-28
ENDORSE ECONOMY BILLS
Congress Measures Approved by
indianapolis Board of Trade.

indianapolis Board of Trade has
Endorsed the senate and house CO.
operative committee economy bills
for passage at the special session of
the legislature July 7. Resolutions
indorsing the measures and praising
Governor Harry c. Leslie for call
ing the session were adopted at a
special legislative meeting of the
board Monday night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-28
Hold Three on Rum Charges

Three men were arrested Monday
IN liquor raid at ga West Walnut
street, and police reported finding a
hve-gallon still, fifty gallons of
mash and several empty jugs. Those
arrested are Gilbert and Aaron
Douglas of the West Walnut street
address and Jesse Arnold, 92S In
diana avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-28

By United Press
CHICAGO, June 2S.-Illinois to-
day became one of the pivotal
states in the selection of the Dem
ocratic presidential and vice presi-
dental candidates.
Mayor Anton Cermak, titular head
of the state party, claimed control
of fifty of the states flfty-eight
votes, and announced he would
support Melvin Traylor, Chicago,
and Bruce Campbell, East St.
Louis. for President and Vice
President, respectively.
Cermak refused to say where the
delegation support will 60 if it fails
to gain the nomination for the two
IllinoiSanS.
At the same time he did not criti-
else any other candidate, thus ap-
parently leaving the way clear for
Illinois to ascend to any band
wagon"
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-28
PENNSYLVANIA TO RAISE
$60,000,O0O FOR NEEDY
Legislature Debates Means of Get
ting Funds to Relieve I,115,OOO.
BIZ Lnited Press

BIZ United Press
HARRISBURG, Pa, June 28.-
The Pennsylvania legislature today
debated means of raising inlmedi-
ately $50,00000O which Governor
Clifford Pinchot told them was
necessary for state unemployment
relief annually during depression.
Pinchot estimated the number of
totally unemployed and their de-
pendents at 1,115,O00 and declared
the least the state could safely
spend for their relief was III cents
a day apiece
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Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
IMPERIAL VALLEY JUSTLY PROUD
OF GIGANTIC PRODUCE INDUSTRY

In dedcatng this section of the fair edition to the
produce of Imperial Valley, The Press glad of the
opportunity to give due recognition to what must be
sidered the ranking industry in the valley
An industry that has payroll of approximately
$1O,00O000 year. operating than 115000 of
land be considered giant industry by all the
parisons of modern business
The figures taken herein from the 1880 statistics
of Imperial county There every to believe that
the present actual figures exceed these for there has
been little depression in far produce actv
tiles concerned.
Most residents of Imperial Valley only sketchily
familiar with the extent Of the produce industry The
various packing Sheds their equipment, supplies, the
number of people to whom they furnish employment the
land owned and the expended rentals, into
total of many millions above the annual payroll esti-
mate.
Those who have not visited the industrial sections Of
the various valley cities for number OF yearsand they
would doubtless constitute many residentswl be sur
prsed at the increased number of packing sheds and the
bustng activity surrounding them at this OF the
year when the lettuce crop is being moved.
While cantaloupe and lettuce form the bulk of ship
ents from the valley also sends out thousands of
loads SQUASH cucumbers tomatoes carrots, cab
Continued
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06

Leading all other valley crops in
the scope of shipments, and setting
many other records during a COM
paratiyely short season, the canta-
loupe industry has brought fame
and dollars to Imperial Valley dur
ing the past 25 years.
From a small beginning, and in
the face of numerous difficulties,
the cantaloupe industry has steadi-
ly forged ahead, until the 1930-31
season showed total acreage of
38,254 planted to this crop.
Statistics are not often found in
teresting, but few on the canta-
loupe industry will not be found
amiSs. Last season total of II ,448
carloads were shipped to all parts
of the United States and Canada,
with an average f. o. b. value of
$459 per car, or a total value of
$5 ,254,6 ,632.
The approximate growing cost
payroll for this crop represented
an investment of $2,895 ,240, includ-
ing the rental of land. Add to this
$1.316,52O representing the payroll
for harvest labor and there is a to-
tai cost of S4,211, ,760.
An attempt was made to figure
out how many halves of canta-
loupes this enormous crop would
represent, the figures being prompt
ed by the fact that a half portion
is usually served to the public. The
result was only a headache. for it
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
Cantaloupes Bring Fame
And Fortune to Valley

would take a real mathematician to
figure out so many cantaloupes in
so many crates in so many years.
One shipper told us the crop was
large enough to give every person
in the United States three whole
cantaloupes. Another said two and
on-half would be nearer correct.
That puts a half cantaloupe apiece
into dispute but few will dispute 1t.
Not only does the cantaloupe crop
form the valleys chief industry in
point of value, but it is one of the
best publicity bringers the valley
can claim. Every box of canta-
loupes shipped from here has the
name Imperial Valley stamped on
it.
These are placed on display in
produce houses and on fruit stands
all over the United States, bringing
publicity that would cost millions
of dollars if it had to be paid for
in newspapers or magazines.
From the time the first canta-
loupes are shipped during May, un-
til the actual season closes during
the summer, the packing sheds of
the valley hum with the noise of
several thousand men packing and
shipping the melons while the
fields are hives of bustling industry
as the pickers take the melons from
the field.
Long trainloads of refrigerator
cars are shipped into the valley
months ahead of time, for when the
cantaloupes start to move they
must be moved quickly and there
can be no delay
The cars are called for as needed
by the shippers, are iced to protect
the cantaloupes enroute, and day
after day trains of hundreds Of cars
pull their way out of the valley in
the mad scramble to the middle
west and eastern markets. The ice
used in keeping the melons in fit
shap for transport runs into hum
dreds of thousands of tons and rep
resents an enormous outlay of
money and labor.
| Only the most intense coopera-
ton between grower. shipper, the
ice company and the railroad, per-
mits the growing, harvesting and
shipping of such tremendous
amount of produce in such a short
| time.
The perfect handling of the can
taloupe crop is splendid example
of American industry at its best
and when one stops to consider
that it is accomplished when cli-
matte conditions are not at their
best, it is even more remarkable.
Those handling perishable crops in
other parts of the country have
learned from the cantaloupe indus
try here, and have applied the
principles which have been found
so successful
In size. in the quickness with
which it is harvested and shipped
and the amount of money which il
represents, the cantaloupe industry
may we'll be considered among the
leaders in the United States.
Imperial Valley residents may
well be proud of it. They should
learn all that there is to be learned
about it from the layman's view
point and if they brag little about
such a healthy young giant, who
can blame them.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
Predict Larger
Carrot Acreage

Girls of America must not be
resting content with cosmetics to
give the beautiful compilations,
judging from the extent of the car
rot industry in Imperial Valley.
Carrots have long since been
credited with bringing roses to the
cheeks and in an older generation
that saying was more generally be-
lieved than it is now. After a
lapse in popularity extending over
almost an entire generation, car
rots, thanks to high praises from
dieticians as a health giving food,
are coming back into their own.
The valleys shipment last year
amounted to LOGO carloads with a
value of 1852 ,240.
Commanding good prices in the
market, and coming during an off
season of the year, produce men
predict that the carrot acreage here
will show continued growth,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
HALL PIONEER
AMONG LETTUCE
MEN in VALLEY

Among the pioneers who first
planted lettuce in Imperial Valley,
c. L. Hall, partner in the Hall
Packing company, also was the
first man to plant cabbage in this
section.
Operating near what is now
known as lockwood, Hall shipped
into the valley and transplanted
here what are believed to be the
first cabbages ever grown in the
valley. This was in 1906.
c. l.. Hall is one of the pioneers
in the packing industry, having been
engaged in this business for more
than 20 years. Ed c. Hall, his
brother, joined him about II years
ago, and together the two started
the Hall Packing company, with a
shed now located in the 300 block
on Orange street, in El Centro.
Before entering into business in
Ell Centro, c. L. Hall grew canta-
loupes in Coachella valley and was
associated with the old H. H. WoocS
company. Until four years ago the
Hall brothers were interested IN the
Alamo Packing company in Heber.
This firm was dissolved.
The Ell Centro shed is the only
one now operated in Imperial Valley
by the Hall company. This firm
is also interested in the packing
industry in Fresno and the San Joa-
quin valley, and is a heavy shipper
of grapes from that section.
Cantaloupes and lettuce form the
principal produce shipped from In
perial Valley. Approximately 1900
cars a year are moved by the firm,
which employs, indirectly, 300 men
during the peak of the season.
The firm last year had a shed
payroll of $26,72l, and field pay
roll of approximately $120,000. The
company ships to every part of the
country. It's brand is HALIFAX, and
is known in many sections.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06

ley to invest their money here and
encourage others to do so.
Discussion of the cantaloupe and
lettuce crops would be incomplete
if due recognition were not given
to the raiiroad anG The ice COM
pany. The assembling of 'reefer'
cars here, furnishing them prompt
ly upon demand by the shipper,
and getting them out in rapid time
to the market, calls for perfect
organization. This the railroad
company has furnished.
1t would be impossible to move
either crop successfully without the
aid of ice. The Imperial Ice and
Development company, with large
plants in all of the valley cities,
has gagged its growth with that of
the industries and has kept pace
with them. Team-w work, comparable
with that of the football team OF
the world series, is the rule at the
ice plant when the long strings of
cars come in, hungry for ice and
eager to get away.
The lettuce industry gives every
promise of continued growth. The
tables of the nation demand large
amounts of the vegetable which
has grown popular beyond all i'm
agination in recent years and those
who think the industry here is
only at its beginning, may not be
far off in their calculations.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
BRIGHT GROWS
LARGE ACREAGE
IN.CANTAL0UPES

Fred r. Bright owns and man.
ages his own company and is ia
miliar with every feature of this
growing concern. He maintains a
large. modern plant in the indus
trial district of FL Centre and is n
Well-known figure in Imperia,
Valley produce circles.
He entered business for himself
in 1922 and two years prior to that
date was sales manager for the
w. S. FaWcett company.
Bright farms 1000 acres of I'M
perial Valley land and grows most
of the products he ships to mar
kets in all parts of the United
States.
Last year he had 1900 acres
planted to cantaloupes, honeydeWs
and honeyballs. He shipped 140o
carloads of lettuce, cantaloupes and
honeydeWs last year and is en-
barking on the new year with plans
for expansion and development III
keeping with the rapid rise he has
made in local industrial life.
He had 300 employees in the let
tuce last year and 400 in the
cantaloupes. These numbers vary,
however, with the seasons and the
crops.
The Fred r. Bright plant is one
of the largest and most modern III
Imperial Valley. 1t was planned
with the idea of efficiency upper
most in the minds of the archi-
tect and the owner.
Bright products are known
wherever vegetables are sold and
have a large following of buyers IL
all sections of the United States.
Bright is interested in every
phase of community life and may
be relied upon to stand staunchly
behind community improvement
and municipal development. He
makes Imperial Valley his home
and has centered his activities
here.
Visitors always are welcomed at
the Bright plant where a courteous
staff explains the workings of the
industry.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
Four Crops Have
Large Payroll

Imperial Valley has reason to be
proud of her annual payrolls in the
four major agricultural products
and every resident points with pride
to the total, $11, 1,867,7
The approximate annual payroll
for the lettuce industry stands at
$500, 900, giving some idea of what
it costs to provide luncheon and
dinner tables with salads and gar
niShings. .ag
The approximate annual payroll
for the melon industry is greater
than any of the other three major
crop totals $4,500,000.
Mixed vegetables from this vast
vegetable garden bring an approxi-
mate annual payroll of $1,528.000,
the mixture being composed of car
rots, spinach, peas, etc.
Cultivation Of alfalfa hay brings
an approximate annual payroll OF
$2,339, 700.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
Make No Needless
Telephone Calls

One of the veXations that bring
plenty of grief to the management
of the Imperial County Fair, Is
the large number of needless tele-
phone calls that pour into head
quarters every day that the fair is
open.
While the fair management is
glad to receive any necessary calls,
requests for information that may
be obtained by watching the daily
papers is nuisance that causes
much confusion in the office.
Valley residents are asked to
make use of the headquarters if it
is necessary to reach someone with
an important message but other
wise asks the public to place no
calls into headquarters.
This request has been made in
past years and has usually been Civ
en- fine consideration and the fair
management hopes the same thing
will be true this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
FAWCETT FIRM
One OF LARGEST
OPERATING HERE

One of the largest produce COM
panies in Imperial Valley is the
Will S. Fawcett company which was
Incorporated in 1926 succeeding the
individual business of Fawcett.
The company grows and ships
only it's own products and farms
approximately 1000 acres. The
commodities grown are cantaloupes,
lettuce, grapes, asparagus, peas and
alfalfa. All the acreage is situ-
ated in Imperial Valley as the
company does not operate outside.
The annual payroll exceeds
$175,000 and the company owns
440 acres of the land it farms and
the loading sheds and yard at
Heber.
Ell Centro is tile site of the Of
fices of the company where the
vast amount of clerical work nee
essary in handling the products is
done by the office staff.
olllCClo GliNl Alll NCNOlo Vi VIZ
company are the same, today as
they were at the date of incor-
poration. Will S. Fawcett is preSi-
dent, Roy E. Breedlove is vice
president, Harold A. Burnham is
Secretary-treasurer, George w.
Anderson and Clarence M. Bjerke,
the other two directors.
Fawcett is known as the pioneer
cantaloupe grower of Imperial
Valley and at one time was the
largest individual grower of canta-
loupes in the world. His knowledge
of the industry gained from years
of experience is invaluable to the
company which bears his name.
The company is represented in
all the principal markets of the
United States and does a tre-
mendous amount of business every
year.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
Development OF
Valley Immense

Value is a word which carries
with it a world of interest and the
values in Imperial county provide
interesting statistics for all those
interested in the development at
tanned in this county in the 80
years since the reclamation began.
No county has better schools than
Imperial county and the total val
uation stands at $3,543,016. Desert
land values are placed at $11 ,009 $50
and dairy products are valued at
$2,517138.
The value of the irrigation dis
trict is $23,666,4 and real estate
and improvements $94,348,158 The
bank capitalization is placed at
S157 ,563 $3.50, bank deposits at $10,-
OIL ,124 and bank clearings at SOL, =
721 ,610. Postal receipts stand at
$177,186 and mineral resources are
valued at $840,000.
Live stock in the county is valued
at 54,334,867, bringing the grand
total in Imperial county to $l49,-
574,025.
The assessed valuation in 1900
was while in 1919 it was $12,148,-
1870. In 1920 it was $45 ,876,964 and
in 1880 it was 1888, ,228.