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Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-07
Dance Series To
Be Started Here
By Local Vets

First of a series of 10 dances
given by the Veterans Memorial
hall housing committee will take
place at the new building Saturday
night, proceeds from the affair to
be used in paying for furnishings.
Twenty three Ell Centro business
and professional men pledged 81
weekly to the dance fund. These
weekly pledges will be added to the
proceeds from the dance. In this
summer it is hoped the furnishings
will be paid off by the time the
series is completed.
Cards will be arranged for those
who do not care to dance and aux
iliaries of the three veteran organ
izations represented in the housing
committee will be in charge of re-
freshments.
Hostesses from the auxiliaries will
attend each dance and veterans will
be in charge of all arrangements.
Business and professional men
who are sponsoring the event by
their pledges will receive two free
dance tickets weekly. Women will
be admitted free Of charge.
A good local orchestra will pro-
vide the music. United Spanish
War Veterans, Veterans of Foreign
War and American Legion are the
organizations represented in the
personnel Of the housing commit
tee.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-07
HEALTH REPORT
FOR QUARTER BY
SCHOOL NURSE

Report of the health service in
the city schools for the period jan
uary 30, 1932-April l, 1882, has been
made by Miss Edith L. Eicke, school
nurse.
In order that the public may un-
derstand the extent and variety of
her work, Miss Eicke has made a
tabulation showing the duties of the
school nurse which were performed
by her during this period.
Glass rooms inspected, 40; indi-
Vldual inspections, 143; weighed and
measured, 1922; vision tests, 183;
health talks, 10; referred to health
officer, l8; referred to private ply
slclan, 26; referred to social agency,
IL; referred to county physician,
26; referred to school doctor. ID;
referred to attendance officer, g.;
cultures taken. l; first aid, 81; min
or dressings and treatment, 478:
children excluded, sd; children ad-
mitted, 1873; diphtheria immuniza-
ton, 5; smallpox vaccination, 1863;
smallpox re-vaccination, 40; well
baby conferences, 2; medican exam
nations, 161; home visits, 1877; no.
tices sent home, 1873; other visits,
doctors, etc, %; communicable dis
eases, %; mumps, cases, 2; scarlet
fever, 2.
Just as in the early part of the
year, respiratory infections have
been most prevalent. Many of the
children have had a cough resem-
bling Whooping cough, but in a
very mild form. 1t is impossible to
say the extent of this because the
parents do not take these children
as rule TO the doctor.
Through the cooperation of the
county health department, all these
children whose parents wished this
service, have been vaccinated for
smallpox.
Miss Eicke states that in an ideal
health service program each child
should have a complete medical ex-
animation once year. This would
prevent waste of time and effort in
that it would enable health officials
to detect any defect in a child
which prevents him from securing
the most benefit from material pre-
sented to him. Miss Eicke adds
that when the handicaps are re-
moved the child often becomes a
changed individual and his work is
improved DR.. Warren F. Fox,
county health officer, examined
the children of the fourth grade at
demonstration of what this SER
vice could do for all the children.
Twelve children with defective
vision have been able to have at
tention and are wearing glasses
which enable them to benefit from
the teachers efforts, and also their
own.
A dental hygiene program has
been instituted to interest the chill
dren in the care of the teeth.
Classroom talks have been given
and the proper technique of brush
ing the teeth demonstrated and the
Importance of cleanliness empha-
sized.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-07
UNIVERSITY TO
TEST CONCRETE
FOR HOOVER DAM

An explanation of why the Uni
Yerslty Of California civil engineer
ing department was selected to
carry on tests for the construction
of the famous Hoover Dam, and of
what tests are being made. is con-
tanned in an article written bv As
sociate Professor George E. Troxell
for the April number Of the Cali
fornia Engineer, campus magazine.
After concluding a description
of the tests being made on San
Francisco bay bridges, which was
started in the March issue of the
magazine. Professor Troxell takes
up the Hoover Dam work as fol-
lows:
Due to the splendid facilities for
concrete without parallel
anywhere else in the world-which
are available in the engineering ma
terlals laboratory of the University
OF California, the United States
Bureau of Reclamation decided to
concentrate a large part of the
concrete research in connection
with the construction of Hoover
Dam in this laboratory.
This research is necessitated by
the fact that the Hoover Dam will
be the largest single block of con-
crete in existence. More concrete
will be required for this one struc-
ture than has been placed in all
dams built by the Bureau of Rec
lamation during its many years of
service. As cement generates heat
during the setting and hardening
process, it will be realized that the
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-07

The MADEIRA Cattle Marketing as
sociation will hold its sixth annual
rodeo at Coarsegold May 3.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-07
ZINN ANNOUNCES
HIS PLATFORM
FOR ELECTION

Following is a prediction state
ment given to The Press by D. L..
linn. candidate for the city coun-
Gil:
I have been asked by number of
voters why I am running for city
council. Simply because I consider
it is civic duty we older residents
owe our home town.
l have no pets to put in office
and no axes to grind. Ninety-five
per cent of my business is in the
country and if elected to office
want to be able to vote my own
opinion at all times for the best
interest OF Ell Centro, the way I see
it. In other words I don't want to
be a rubber stamp. That is the
reason 1 am running as an indie
pendent candidate.
To the new residents of our
town, 1 have lived in El Centro for
a long time. Our children all
started to school here in the kind
er garten and one of them is old
enough to have gone through gram
mar school, high school, and junior
college and three more are we'll on
the way.
If you don't know me your neigh
Dor probably does, and our moto is
"let your conscience be your guide"
and vote for the best interest of
Ell Centro and that is what we ex-
pect to do.
Signed
D. L. ZINN.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-07

cerned and the rates for closer
areas will be less.
A few cattlemen shipped animals
to the valley this winter and were
more than pleased with the gain
made by the cattle and with the
ideal conditions to be found here.
Indications are, according to the
commissioners office, that a great
increase III cattle shipments will
take place with the new rates and
as q result of the satisfaction eX-
perienced by owners from southern
Utah and the Arizona strip north
of the Grand Canyon.
Cold weather this winter killed
number of cattle and sheep and
men engaged in that industry are
anxious to find a milder climate.
The favorable freight rates were
brought about through the coopera-
ton of the railroads with the
chambers of commerce, the agricul-
tural commissioners office and the
California Farm Bureau Fedora
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-07
Master Painters
To Be Guests

Master Painters of Imperial VAL
ley are to be entertained at BAN
quet at the Barbara Worth hotel
Friday night as the guests of the
Imperial Valley Hardware company
and the Sherwin- Williams Paint
Manufacturing company.
The dinner will be followed by a
lecture delivered by E. R. Ulrich,
Pacific coast sales manager for the
paint company.
Demonstrations of new develop
ments in exterior and interior fin
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-07
MAYFIELD URGES
CARE BY DRIVERS
OF AUTOMOBILES

Judge 7 Mayfield has submitted
to The Press the following article
emphasizing need for safety in traf-
fic.
Il am again appealing to the
motoring public for closer observ-
ance of the traffic laws. I am
doing this because of the appalling
consequences following numerous
accidents reported to us as they
occur in our county and state from
the Motor Division and safety COM
mittees and chronicled in the col
umns Of the newspaper dailys.
Ignoring of what some think
minor requirements of the law
sometimes causes the most serious
results.
"One of our traffic officers is
now suffering from a spinal frac-
ture from which he may never en-
tirely recover simply because as it
comes to us, a lady failed to give
proper signal or gave no signal at all
when making a left hand turn, re-
sulting in a collision. Penalties
imposed by the courts, even if they
should be the limit fixed by law,
cannot restore life, nor knit broken
bones
IF you do not know the law, in
form yourself and obey it to the
letter. This is especially important
at street intersections in business
and contested districts"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-07
East Side Plans
Farmers Program

The Crusader Company of the
Second Baptist church is sponsor
ing a farmers program on Thurs
day evening of this week to be
given at the East Side elementary
school from 7 to 10 o'clock.
For the past six weeks this group
of girls and boys has been studying
farm life.
They are featuring especially the
advantages of farm life in their
program. All of the junior mission
ary organizations will demonstrate
some phase of the advantages Of
farm life. The program promises to
be educational as well as entertain
ing.
During the evening real farm
products may be purchased, which
have been made in the home eco
nomics department of the East Side
school.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-07
ZINC HISTORY FOR FAIR

PLATTEVILLE, Wis. U.R- An
exhibit being prepared here for the
Century of Progress Exposition AZ
Chicago in 1888, will include Tea
lures of the zinc and lead mining
industry of this district from its
earliest days. 1t will show equip
ment used 100 years ago, specl-
mems of ores, refined products and
hv-nroductS
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-07
Valley Kiwanis To
Aid Yuma Exhibit

Imperial Valley KiWanis clubs are
deeply interested in the sixth an
nual flower show to be conducted
at Yuma April 9 and 10.
Many Imperial Valley entries are
expected to be seen in the show in
competition with flowers from the
Yuma section. The exhibit this
year will be larger than last year
as more elaborate plans for the dis
play were made by those in charge.
Professor Thoruber of the Uni
versity of Arizona will act as judge
and Bill Linder will be in charge
o arrangements and decorations.
The event will take place in the
municipal pavilion. Adequate park
ing space will be available near the
pavilion.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-07

more massive the block of concrete.
the better it insulates itself and
therefore the higher will be the
temperature resulting from the
hydration of the cement. AS the
mass will finally cool down to the
average air temperature, shrinkage
will result, and as there is usually
some restraint against shrinkage,
tensile stresses will result which
will probably be sufficient to cause
the development of shrinkage cracks
and to rupture the concrete. This
has been true for most smaller
dams and will undoubtedly be true
for the more massive Hoover Dam
unless something be done to pre-
vent. The determination of the
proper solution to this problem is
now under investigation by the lab
oratory staff and considerable prog
resS has been made already"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-16
Economy Measures
Are Placed in Bill
Administration Still Wants Free Hand Revise Governmental
Departments; Many Ways Of Reducing Expenses
Already Have Been Agreed Upon

Washington economy
Saturday by budget director that President
authority to make thorough reorganization of the federal
In explaining the behind closed doors the administrators
omnibus
establish consolidation permit
through executive orders.
carried presidents
public public administration
educational activities Mexican boundary
commissions
6day veto by congress Should not take action the
solicitations effected within 60 days, they would stand
Roop read lengthy statement the
BILL He said the president his Five staggered
PLAN employment the cDufe direct proposal draft
ed the committee.
Roop said the rough reduction plan would be made mandatory
empoye rural mail carriers the enlisted Of the military
service all civil receiving special
where suitable substitute cannot be provided
added
and all annual leave with would be eliminated.
Other provisions in the bill suspend for all automatic
promotions the filling
tions the employees
travelling
allowances made in the last years.
addition the bill provides extra overtime
and night service and limits the retired military officers who hold
appointive positions.
Among items which both COMMITTEES and administration have
eliminate abolition
Canal railroad suspension Of all vocational education except
imposition Of the radio commission
ment and bureau Of Standards and increase patent fees
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-16
Thinner Woman Dies
Here Early Saturday

Mrs. william Toepke, 32-year-old
Thinner woman, died In q local hos
pital at 1880 o'clock Saturday morn
Ing. Death was caused by heart dis
ease which developed following an
operation five days ago.
Mrs. Toepke had been In the hospi-
tai here about week. She was oper-
ated on for an abdominal tumor and
was showing general improvement un-
til she became seriously Ill Friday
evening, her doctor said.
Mrs. Toepke leaves her husband,
manager Of the Occident Elevator at
Thinner, four brothers and q sister.
The brothers and sisters are George
Maier. Judson: Philip and william
Maier, Hanover: John Maier, Beulah;
and Mrs. Annie Abers, Hanover.
Funeral services will be conducted
from the German Lutheran church at
Hanover at 2 p. m. Tuesday. with Rev.
L. Wohlfeil officiating. Burial viii
be made 1T Hanover.
Mrs. Toepke was born Sept. Z. 1899,
near Hanover. She was married to
Mr.. Toepke Sept. 2, 1928. Mr.. and
Mrs. Toepke moved to Thinner last
July from Montana, where they had
been living since their marriage.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-16
Hunt for Lindbergh Babe
Lays; Ne,U Clues Lacking
Condor Says He'd be Glad to
Report If There Were New
Developments

Hopewell, N. j., April l6.-R-On
the ,y46th day since the Lindbergh
baby was kidnapped the latest high
lights In the hunt are:
Rear Admiral Guy H. Burrage of
Norfolk said John H. Curtis, Of Nor
folk, back from a secret mission, had
made at least one contact with the
supposed kidnapers.
Dean H. Dobson-P cock, third of
the Norfolk Intermediates, said they
believed the child is "alive and we'll.
DR.. John F. Condor, the "Jafsie'
who made the futile $4,000 ransom
payment, said: I'D be glad to report
II had anything to report, but
have nothing"
A young woman, who said she was
Greta Gray Of Minneapolis and q
friend of Col. Lindbergh's mother,
visited the Lindbergh home last
night. She emerged saying they're
all feeling better"
Two detectives then escorted her
to Trenton. State police said she
was merely given a ride into Tren-
ton by two detectives going off duty"
No Greta Gray is listed in Min
neapolis city directories. Mrs. w. A.
Butler of Minneapolis. aunt Of Col.
Lindbergh, said she knew Of no Greta
Gray among friends of the Lindbergh
family.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-16
four YOUNG FOLKS
DIE WHEN TRUCKS
CRASHON HIGHWAY
Accident Occurs Near Melrose,
Mimi, as Group Returned
From Dance
FLAMES CREMATE BODIES
Dead Persons Were Riding in
Light Machine Which
PIowed Into Trailer
FLAMES CREMATE BODIES

Melrose, MIMI, April l6.-lR)-On
their way home after q dance, four
young persons met instant death
early Saturday when their light de-
livery truck crashed into the rear Of
a parked motor truck train.
Fire that followed cremated three
Of the four bodies and destroyed the
light truck and the trailer of the mo-
tor transport.
The dead:
Cls: Holmberg, 20, Sank Center.
Mrs. Joseph Weitzel. 81, Melrose.
Roman Weisser. 81, Melrose.
Fred Heider, 81, Melrose.
The victims had attended a dance
IN MelroSe and were en- route to Sank
Center to take Miss Holmberg home.
The end gate Of the trailer, it was
believed, was down and Heider, driv-
Ing the light truck, failed to heed
the flare signs that had been set Oft
on either side Of the parked truck, the
transport driver asserts. The trailer's
tail lights were burning, he said.
The light delivery vehicle ran un-
der the end gate Of the trailer and
the cab was sheared Oft, crushing the
occupants. The dash was forced back
against the seat, pinning the four
persons inside.
The bodies, with the exception Of
Mrs. Weitzel's, were burned beyond
recognition before they could be re-
moved. Mrs. Weitzel lived a few
minutes but was unable to talk.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-16

II will do better than that" re-
sponded Judge Miller. II will
sentence you to serve one year
and one day In Leavenworth II
you promise to go straight when
you get out" The promise was
made.
Wright told Judge Miller he
had left home while still q young
boy because Of q misunderstand-
ing with his parents. He con-
fessed he had been In trouble be-
fore and had served two peniten-
tiary terms for burglary.
Completing his last term.
Wright said he had gone to Can
ada to visit . girl to whom he had
been engaged. She had married
during hts absence. Then he gave
himself up to . Canadian official
who returned him to Fargo to
face the Portal charge.
g. G. Giles, alias w. H. Walker.
charged with using the mails to
defraud, pleaded not guilty and
was ordered held In the Cas-
county jail In default Of 42,500
bond pending trial.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-16
WOMAN OF
+. COUNTY SUCCUMDS
Mrs. Clara Anderson, Resident
OF BurIeigh IS Years,
Dies Of Old Age

Mrs. Clara Anderson, resident Of
Burleigh county for more than 43
years, died at the home Of her son,
Charles, 3l8 Fifteenth St., at las
p. m, Friday.
Death was caused by infirmities Of
old age. She would have been SO
years old next month.
Mrs. Anderson arrived in Bismarck
from Sweden Nov. l, 1888, when this
city was q village.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson moved to
Frances township in 1890 and from
there to Naughton township In 1906.
Retiring from farming In 1917, they
moved to Bismarck.
Mrs. Anderson was born May 8, 1850.
at Jungby. Ekeby, Locken. Sweden.
She was married to John August An
derson May IL. 1872. Nine children,
six Of whom are living, were born to
Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson. Mr.. Ander-
son died here March S, 1925.
Children left are Charles Anderson,
and Mrs. F. H. Trygg. Bismarck; Mrs.
G. E. johnson, Creedmoor, Texas:
Mrs. J. L. Granquist. Oakland, Calf;
Mrs. G. J. Trygg, Baldwin: and An
drew Anderson. Los Angeles, Calf.
She also leaves 10 grandchildren and
seven great grandchildren.
Mrs. Anderson had been Ill for two
weeks preceding her death.
Funeral services will be conducted
at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon
from the First Baptist church here,
with Rev. Oscar s. Jacobson officia-
ing.
Pallbearers, all old friends Of Mrs.
Anderson. will be Alfred Ryberg,
Frances township: Victor Engdahl,
Gibbs township; Tehbo Harms,
Charles johnson. Hugo Solberg, and
Andrew Erickson, all Of Naughton
township.
The body will be buried at Fairview
cemetArv
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-16
Fargo Prisoner Sentences Self But
Judge Miller Says He's Too Severe

Fargo, N. D.. April l6.-(F)-
Saturday q homeless wanderer
stood before the federal bar OF
justice in Fargo and sentenced
himself to two years In the peni-
Tertiary for robbing q postoffice.
The Judge reduced the prisoners
sentence to q year and q day.
ALLAN Lloyd Wright, I do not
know just what to DO with you,"
said Judge Andrew Miller as the
23-year-old man pleaded guilty to
robbing the Portal, N. D., posto1-
flee Of $143.10. What do you
think should be done?"
Wright hesitated. then said, II
think I should serve two years In
: the penitentiary."
do you think you could
straighten up and behave your
self II I give you two yearS?" in
quired the Judge.
II do, sir" Wright replied. IF
given that opportunity. And I
will say that II get two years It
will be more consideration than
ever has been shown mo before"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-16
SIX MEET DEATH
AS FLAMES SWEEP
GOTHAM TENEMENT
New York Experiences Second
Tragic Fire in Week;
Many Are Rescued

New York, April l6.-(F)-Fire
sweeping through a Bronx tenement
In which many families slept, killed
two adults and four children Satur-
day.
It was the second tragic tenement
fire of the week, q mother and five
children died when five trapped them
In their fifth floor quarters Wednes.
day evening.
Those burned to death Saturday
were Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Dombril.
their 12-year-old twin sons, Jacob and
Joseph: Edith Wei1lstein. z. and
Philip Weinstein, 10.
The DombrilS were fighting to es-
cape when death overlook them.
Their bodies were found in the
third floor hallway of the four-story
structure. Three other children In
the family escaped.
trapped in their apartment after
their father, Benjamin Weinstein, had
led his wife and two other children
to safety though smoke-choked halls.
Rescued by fireman and patrol
man who suffered severe burns in
dragging them out, the little girl and
boy succumbed several hours later in
q hospital.
Benjamin Siegel, q painter next
door to the burned tenement house,
was arrested on charge Of homicide
after detectives and an assistant fire
marshal conducted an investigation.
Police said they learned that Siegel
had been permitted to store ropes
and tackle Of his trade in the ground
floor locker Of the burned building
and it was believed spontaneous COM
bustion among oily rags in Siegels
locker caused the fire.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-04-16
READY
FOR WESTERN TRIP
New York Governor to Speak in
st. Paul Monday Night;
May Answer Smith

Albany, N. Y, April l6.-(R)-Gov-
ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt Of New
York is to leave for st. Paul Satur-
day night, there to make his first
public address since Alfred E. Smith
turned a political blast on him for q
"demagogic attitude"
The governor, preparing for his
first political journey beyond the bor-
ders Of the state since he became an
active candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination, was silent
regarding the topic Of his address.
Friends believed he may select this
talk to a Democratic rally Of the
northwest to reply to Smiths Wash
ington address and to 4 recent letter
from another entrant In the candi-
dates field, Governor william H.
Murray Of Oklahoma.
The st. Paul speech, on the night
Of April Is. Will be the first time the
New Yorker has spoken publicly since
the radio speech In which he said he
did not believe the little man." the
farmer, was benefiting by the recon-
struction program Of the Warrington
Republican administration.
Smiths Jefferson-Day speech wAs
construed BY his hearers 70 b aimed
at Gov. Roosevelt Tor his r1dio utter
ances. ssSS