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Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30
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GOOD WORK, LEGISLATORS!

The first half of the legislative
season is over, and a new record has
been established. 1t is not an en-
viable record, to be sure, but legis-
lators have to show some return for
their work and those at Sacramento
did it in the form of 3,476 prospec-
tive new laws introduced.
And of course we have not enough
laws on the statute books now. Of
the total number of new bills, 1000
were presented the last day of the
session. There is the further possi-
bility that more will be presented at
the second half of the session, the 100
members of the legislature each be-
ing permitted to introduce two bills
during that period. We might as we'll
have the 200 more and establish an
other record.
Not even Solomon could give a
wise answer to the question, "Why in
thunder do we need over 5000 new
laws?" We can't enforce those we
already have.
The first session adjourned with
out taking any steps to avert a fl
nancial crisis facing the state. AS
the result of a deficit of S9,500,000 in
the general fund, the state faces vir-
tual bankruptcy when the fiscal year
ends on June 80. At that time it will
become necessary to register war;
rants or promises to pay. They will
be good, of course, for the state is
not going bankrupt, but this course
could have been avoided, in all prob
ability, had the legislature done some
actual work
An assembly leader is quoted as
issuing statement telling the legis-
lators to go home and acquaint their
constituents with the true facts
''that the state is nearly 10 million in
the hole j. +. and that the taxpayers
may as well get ready for an ad va
loren tax"
-This-and the news of the new
record made in bills, will be pleasant
indeed to the taxpayers.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30
Turkey Dinner By
Eostside Church

Ladies of the Second Baptist
church are serving a big turkey
dinner with all that goes with it
at the Elks Cafe, Second and State
streets Tuesday, January 81. Ser
vice will begin promptly at -
noon and will continue until p.
m. or later. MRS. HALLE Gray is
the cateress and her reputation
and success in the culinary art
assures an excellent dinner. Two
weeks ago the men of the church
served dinner and made for them
selves an enYiable reputation. Chef
Van Austin was at the range and
the dinner served is YET spoken of
in the highest terms. Through
donations from members and
friends, the ladies are enabled to
serve the accustomed high priced
dinner for a nominal sum. The
public is asked to patronize it as
the proceeds go to defray church
expense.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30
NOTED INDIAN
LEADER HERE

The public of Imperial Valley is
invited to attend a lecture to be
given tonight at 3 o'clock in Will
son school auditorium by Hon.
Vithalbhai j. Patel, formerly lord
mayor of Bombay and formerly
president of the Indian legislative
assembly, apostle of Gandhi and
recognized as one of the outstand-
ing leaders in India.
This is Patels first visit to the
United States and he has been
accorded high honors in all parts
of the nation. He was born in
Karamsad, in 1873 and after pass
ing the advocates examination in
1895, devoted the next 10 years to
legal work in India and England.
In 1912 he was elected delegate to
the Bombay legislative assembly
and in 1917 was chosen as member
of the imperial legislative asSemb-
ly at Delhi. He was chairman of
the reception committee of the
congress session held in Bombay in
1918 and in 1919 was elected secre-
tary of the Indian national cong
ress before the joint parliament
airy committee.
He was elected loro mayor OF
the city of Bombay in 1920 and
caused the city government to
DlaCe a bOVcOtt on all british
goods. AS Mayor of Bombay he
refused to receive Lord Reading
then viceroy of India, an incident
which shocked the entire British
Empire.
He headed the legislative as
sembly in 1923. ruling with ar
/ iron hand. AS the constitution ol
, of the government of India gave
the veto power to the victory, Patel
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30
CaIipatria Loses
To Central Union

Assuring Central Union High
School of the championship in at
least on class, both local teams
scored victories over Calipatria this
weekend, the Ell Centre Class A
team winning 81 to % and the
Glass C team winning 80 to 10.
BY virtue of the Glass G victory
El Centre is assured of the valley
championship in this division,
while the other victory gives the
Glass A team a look on the title
for its division.
In the Glass c game Dyer, with
is points, was offensive star for
FL Centro, while Caruso and Lee
were good on the defense. In the
other game Sato scored IA points
while Young, with nine points, was
the star of the Calipatria team
Berry played great game for Ell
Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30
BEDTIME STORIES
By HOWARD E. GARRIS
Copyright, 1882. by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)

ran toward the edge and, just as he
did so, he saw the Bob Cat coming
after him.
"I'll get you'll" howled the Bob Cat
as he ran across the ice, But, just
as the Bad Chap reached the mid
die of the puddle, the ice that had
been cracked by Uncle Wiggily's
fall broke and the Bob Cat went
through into the cold water.
"Oh, blop! Buggle! Uggle!" gur-
gled the Bad Chap as he flipped
and flopped his way to shore. 1t
was so cold that the water froze
on him so he was like an icicle
Bob Cat and he couldn't run after
Uncle Wiggily who was hopping
away as fast as he could.
81 guess I'll go home" thought
the rabbit gentleman. I've had my
daily adventure and 1 may as, we'll
go home and get warm. can get
in, even if my wife and Nurse Jane
wasn't there. 'Oh, I've lost the
door key" exclaimed the rabbit. "It
So Uncle Wiggily hoped fast to
his hollow stump bungalow. He
looked back and saw the icicle
Bob Cat slowly crawling away.
When he reached his bungalow
Uncle Wiggily saw that all the
doors were closed and he knew his
wife and Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy we're
out. All the little bunny rabbit
children were at school.
"I1l go in and get warm!" said
Mr.. Longears. But when he put
his paw in his pocket the key
aren't there, for I have my key.
door key exclaimed the rabbit. "It
must have bounced out of my
pocket when I fell on the ice. How
can I get in my bungalow with
out key?"
Uncle Wiggily tried the front
door and then the back door, hop
ing his wife or Nurse Jane might
have forgotten to lock them. But
no such luck! Both doors were
tightly fastened.
"Ha! I know how I can get In
even if have lost my key!" sale
the rabbit gentleman. "I1l climt
up the DID, dried honeysuckle vint
on the front porch. I can get tC
my bedroom window that way ane
my window is never locked. car
push it open and crawl in tina
way" So he began to climb uI
the honeysuckle vine when, all o
sudden he heard loud voic,
calling:
"Come down out of that! Com,
down." Uncle Wiggily looked ant
saw a big Police Dog shaking ;
paw at him. And what nappenes
next I'll tell you tomorrow whei
the story will be about Uncle Wig
gily and Henny Penny. And hop
the hammer doesn't put sawdus
in the ice cream cone to make tn
lollypop think it's cocoanut candy
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30
Filipino Stabbed
In Camp Argument

Felipe Mazeol, Filipino, is at the
county hospital today recovering
from a severe knife wound in his
side, assertedly inflicted by Ma
cano Bambao, another Filipino,
during an argument at camp
on the Azamin ranch two and a
half miles north OF Westmorland
yesterday afternoon.
Bambao left the camp follow
ing the stabbing, and had not
been located this morning. Sheriff
George L. Campbell is investigat-
ing the matter and directing a
hunt for the attacker.
No information was available to-
day as to the cause of the argu-
ent which led to knife play. Other
| Filipinos who witnessed the near
tragedy are being interviewed.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30
UNCLE wIGGnY's LOST KEY

Uncle Wiggily! Uncle Wiggily"
Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy called
loudly after the rabbit gentleman
as he went hopping away from his
hollow stump bungalow one morn
ing.
YES. What it is?" asked Mr..
Longears. stopping and turning
around. do you want me to bring
something from the store?'
Not this time" answered the
muskrat lady housekeeper. But
your wife told me to ask if you
had your key?"
What key?' asked Uncle Wig
gly, laughing as he twinkled his
pink nose. rs this a joke?" Do
you mean monkey?"
Monkey No! The ideal" said
Nurse Jane. I'm talking about a
door key. Have you yours? Because
your wife and I are going to be
out this afternoon and you can't
get in the bungalow unless you
have your key"
Il have it all right. Don't worry"
said Uncle Wiggily as he put one
paw in his pocket and made sure
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30
Come dODn Out Of that

the key was there. "Ill be able
to get in even if you are out, Nurse
Jane"
20. X" answered the muskrat
lady, and she went back in the
bungalow to get ready to go shop
ping with Mrs. Longears while
Uncle Wiggily hoped over the
fields and through the woods, up
hill and down hill to look for an
adventure. n
The weather that had been warm
and rainy, as often happens in
January had now turned cold
again and there was ice and snow
all over woodland, where Uncle
Wiggily had built his hollow stump
bungalow.
81 think I should like to have a
little Slide" said Uncle Wiggily to
| himself as he reached a place
where a puddle of water had froz-
en-. "It will do no harm and will
make me spry so I can look for
adventures much better"
Uncle Wiggily took little run
/ to the edge of the icy place and
then he held his paws together
his left paw stuck out little ahead
of his right paw and "whizz" he
went over the frozen puddle.
Wheel This is fun" laughed
MIR. Longears. 81 can slide as much
as I like and no one can see me
MY wife and Nurse Jane think
am too old to go sliding, but
don't. And as long as they dom
see me everything is all right"
SO Uncle Wiggily took anothel
slide and another and another un
til he had a dozen or more ant
then. all of sudden, when he wa
taking a large. hard slide, he fel
down ker-plunk and cracked tn
ice.
Il guess / had better stop slid
ing" thought the rabbit gentle
man. "If / take another the ic
may break and I'll go plop int
the cold water under It," So n
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30
Court Suspends
TUo Sentences

OF three defendants scheduled
to appear in police court this morn
ing, two were sentenced and one
forfeited bail by failing to appear
before Judge Lee Nuffer.
George Fitzmaurice, 81, was SEN
fenced to five days in Jail for vag-
rancy, and the sentence was sus-
pended on condton he leave town
Immediately. waldo Zimmerman,
%, was sentenced to 20 days i'm
prisonment for petty theft, and the
sentence was suspended during his
good behaviour.
Ralph Doak, 27, had posted SIS
bail for his appearance this
morning on a charge of being
drunk in public. The bail was for
feited when he failed to appear I,
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30

resigned in 1880, claiming that
justice was impaired by this power
AS chairman OF the Postwar at
rocitieS commission he was jailed
by the British with other members
of the commission and later
was with Gandhi at the last Indian
round table conference in London.
Returning to India with Gandhi
he helped the latter receive the
civil disobedience movement.
Mayor John T. Rice will pre-
side at tonight's meeting, when
Patel will talk on Indian prob
lens. The distinguished visitor was
guest of Imperial Valley natives
of India at luncheon this noon in
the Barbara Worth hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30

there are disturbances of a type
likely to be encountered in an at
tack upon the structure.
The specifications add:
Under this condition it is ex-
pected that the guard forces viii
make an investigation of the cause
Of the disturbance and satisfy that
the source of the disturbance has
been eliminated.
That explains ali The treasury
department is banking on the fact
that no burglar likes to be elimi-
mated.
Prof. Auguste Picard took a
ride in one of Washington's motor
iously haphazard taxicabS. Where
upon the Swiss scientist exclaimed:
Il prefer the stratosphere. It's
safer"
Charles 3. Milholland, the play
wright, has been stalking Wash
ington for material TO put into a
new play succeeding his current
success, Twentieth Century"
He wants TO write a drama
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30

Published every evening texcept Sunday by the
Imperial Valley Press, Inc. 625 State street. El
Centre, California. w. C. Costello. business man.
ager Telephone 26, business office 700, editorial
department. Full leased wire United Press Asso-
catons.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30
Mans Heart Stopped,
Stomach Gas Cause

w. l.. Adams was bloated so with
gas that his heart often missed
beats after eating. Adlerika rid
him of all gas, and now he eats
anything and feels fine. Clements
Drug Store. adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30
TEN YEARS AGO
January 70. 1922

The California Bond Certification
commission recently gave the I'M
perial Irrigation district authority
to pay out funds to consummate
consolidation of mutual water COM
panies with the district. The amount
authorized to be paid is $4,724, ,696
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30

A Los Angeles concern was
awarded the contract for the filter
system by city trustees last night.
The bid was $16,4s5 but $500 less
than that of a we'll known local
man.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30

Work is to commence at once OIL
the paving of the road between
Holtville and Yuma The work is
expected to be finished by hot
weather
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Jannary 20 1919

Postmaster Collins stated today
that the children of Ell Centre had
bought more thrift stamps than
those of all the other cities in the
valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell of
Imperial Valley for This
Date In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
January 80, 1913

Dairymen in the vicinity of He
ber have been at work for some
time getting subscriptions to stock
for a cooperative creamery and an
nounce that the success of the
creamery is assured.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30

about international affairs, but
he's not sure, he said, whether it
is going to be a comedy, or trag-
edY
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30

The water level of wells in San
Bernardino county is much higher
this year than usual.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30

Farmers of the valley are selling
small parts of their land and using
the money obtained in making i'm
provements. The whole southern
part of the valley is thus being
transformed.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS
TIME TO QUIT

Too much of good thing. The
idea is probably held on the coast
where requests for rain have been
met with an over abundant supply.
Los Angeles already has an inch
more rain than was recorded for the
same period last year, and is, in all
probability, due to get plenty more
before Jupiter Pluvius decides to
call it quits.
1t is fine for the seller of rubbers,
raincoats and umbrellas, and of
course for the farmers, but other
lines of business, already burdened
by slack trade, are doubly injured by
the prolonged wet spell.
Nor has Imperial Valley been
lucky enough to escape more rain
than it desires. A quantity suffi-
cient to settle the dust is all we ever
need here, but nature takes no notice
of this fact and has been little too
generous most years in the matter
of rain.
Perhaps what we have already had
this year, plus whatever more we are
going to get, will satisfy the rain god
so that the county fair will escape its
usual ducking.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30

One month of the new year is prac-
tically gone, and that corner is
still to be turned.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30

California's legislators just about
qualified for congress in the line of
avoiding work.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30

France knows how the small boy
who has not been invited to the party
feels.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30

With the government making war
on alien movie stars, we do hope that
Mickey Mouse" is either native born
or naturalized.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-30

How about arranging with Mussolini
Technocracy appears to be slated down
the same alley with miniature golf.
The Nome nugget., 1933-12-23
 $. s. PRINCE GEORGE
 ABANDONED BY CREW

SEATTLE, Dee. 22, ~tAP) Tho Canadian National liner, Prince George was abandoned by her crew about midnight after she was wrecked on the yadso Rocks. Tw- |elve passengers manned the life boats and went ashore at eleven pm. last night. Frantic calls for assistance were. sent within short time. Their plight was serious, but the lifeboats found their way to Anyox, four miles away. Baggage was also landed.
 The vessel was badly punctured and number one and two holds were not expected to float the vessel without assistance said Captain N. McClean in a message shortly after the distress mess ages. Two rescue ship, the cut ter, Alert at Ketchikan and the Georges sister ship, the Prince John at Prince Rupert put out The Prince John went to pick uI
The Nome nugget., 1933-12-23
DEvASTATE
 WASHINGTON STATE

SEATTLE, Dec. IS, (AP) - Storms lashed the Washington and Oregon coast lines. Rain deluged the Washington coast with Aber- deen and Hoquin emerging again from the unprecedented high wat CTS. Five hundred had to be res cued at Gray's Harbor from the home sections.
 Two to four feet of water flooded two thousand homes. It is the third consecu i've high tide. One of nine cities rivers was backed up still further by gales from the sea. From midnight till noon yesterday a eleven and one half foot tide followed the nine footer of the pre- vious night. Victoria was also hit directed the rescue of persons mar ooned at their homes in South Aberdeen. The highways were blocked. The main power plant ie ont of order. Seventy five fan- ilies of the metropolis were order cd to leave their homes The city reservior is feared to be weaken ing
 Port Orchard on the Oregon coast was hit hard when their sev- entyfive thousand dollar dock wash ed on. Ten fishing boats were tossed on the beach. The wires are down to Astoria. trees having fallen across the Columbia River Highway.
The Nome nugget., 1933-12-23
SILVER TO BE COINED
 ON 5o-5o BASIS

WASHINGTON, Dec P. (AP) -.-Roosevelt, Thursday night or dered the government hints to coin silver on fifty-fifty basis with producers. The Presidents proclamation formally rat:fying the London Silver Amendement provided that half the annual production of twenty-four million ounces be returned in dollars to producers and he other half kept in the treasury in reserve. This will give the price estimated at the White House at sixty-four and one half cents per ounce for silver as compared with the current mar ket price of forty three cents. Roosevelt stipulated in the proc 1amation. that the present ratio of weight and fnenss of silver dollars to gold dollars shall for the purposes of this proclamation
The Nome nugget., 1933-12-23
GOLD $34O6--SILvER TAKES A JUMP
SON BORN TO EMPRESS
 OF JAPAN

TOKYO, Dec. 22. (AP)--A son was born today to the Empress of Japan. The long awaited crown prince of the empire is destined to carry on the succession of the oldest dynasty in the world. He is the twenty-fifth mikado. Court physicians announced that the em- p"ess and the princeling are do. lag we'll The baby weighed sev- en and one eighth pounds. The na- tion imediately began devout cele- brations. There are four other children to the royal pair, three of whom arc living are girls.
The Nome nugget., 1933-12-23

-baba when -F,effais- entered, spoke few words and began shooting, hitting Koprovich four times, kill
 ,ng him instantly. Mrs. Agbaba ran TO the neighbors and phoned Marshal i@ Patrick HO'Conn0r who found Ferrais in the room with the body Ferrais surrendered saying "He was going to beat me up:
 Ire was too pig for me. O'Con- tor-satd Kopr0yich was unarmed.
 Neither of them were married.
 Ferrais was jailed and will be charged with murder, Officials said.
The Nome nugget., 1933-12-23
DEPLORABLE MURDER
 OCCURS AT FA|RBAKS

FAIRBANKS.- KS.-Dec- -1S,=lAPl- Thomas Koprovieh, farmer, aged fifty-five was shot and killed of fic'als said by Larence Ferrais. Brospeetor, aged for y-five. Both were. old. timers of the-jnterier.-@fli F feelings of long standing were harbored between them. Kopro- vch was employed at farm here. Ferrais recently came from the Kantishna- -Beth-weFe- friends of Mir. and Mrs. Michael Agbaba. Koprovich was in the Agbaba home talking to Mrs. Ag-
The Nome nugget., 1933-12-23
 STORMS CONTINUE UNABATED

SEATTLE, Dec 19, (AP) Re newed gales on land and sea claim ed two more lives. disabled four sh ps and wrecked many small craft and flooded cities. Winter reached from Juneau to Southern Idaho. Juneau registered, eight below. the coldest in fifteen years. Snow in Idaho imprisoned fourteen autos.
 A deckload of lumber was swept of the freighter Losmar. She was guided thru heavy seas by temporary steering gears and is on the Oregon coast under convoy, hoping to reach Columbia today.
 At Seattle the Admiral Cole is aground in the mud flats where she was hurled by strong riptides, in a driving rain as she started for California. Tn Charles Wheeler \ still aground on the Desdemoha sands at the mouth of the Colum- hin River. The freighter Henry Whiton is at Longview, her aft
The Nome nugget., 1933-12-23

passengers and continue the Geo rges schedule north to Anyox. The Prince George left Vancouver Monday with forty passengers. All but twelve of them d.sembark- ed at ports enroute. Among the passengers was Thomas Louden, Superintendent of the Pacific Coast for the Canadian National Steamship Co.
The Nome nugget., 1933-12-23
FRENCH SPY RING UNCOVERED

PARIS, Dec. 20, (AP) Am erican man and his wife, Robert Swita travelling salesman of Beast Orange, New Jersey and Mrs. Switz, formerly Marjorie riley of New York, are among ten suspects who are held on chargeas of complicity with high international spy ring. allegedly operating in France. Another couple were arrested and were described as naturalized Canadians Beniamin Bercowitz, a merchant and his wife, Clara. Both were born in Rumania The prisoners, including three women charged with eomplicity, one of whom s the daughter of former Paris police commisar, were seized ny raids in various parts of France' after discriminating documents hao been gathered by the counter es-
 ponage service.
The Nome nugget., 1933-12-23
NOT KIDNAPPED,
 JUST FORGOTTEN

NEW YORK, Dec. 22. GAP) " Jesse L. Livermore. prom nent
 Wall Street operator whose dis
 appearance led to fears that he had been kidnapped returned home safely after an absence of twenty
 four hours He said he awoke in Ia midtown hotel apparently a vic
 tim of amnesia
The Nome nugget., 1933-12-23

be maintained until changed by further orders of procla nation"
 The proclamation is effective un- til January first, Thirty-eight other silver producing nations either have ratified the London Agreement or expected to do so soon, The advantages claimed by the proposed silver program are large increase in foreign trade. world stabilization- of the price of silver at sixtyfour and one half cents per ounce. and to increase foreign buying power, especially in the Orient and South America, boost commodity prices, aid dom estie mining industries. The proc lamation applies only to newly mined silver.
The Nome nugget., 1933-12-23
MCRDERED IN ARGUMENT
 OVER BREAD

BOSTON, Dec. g. (AP) The ,brutal staying of eighteen-ye year-old Ethel Kukerman who was found dead behind counter with a butcher knife plunged thru her throat. in bake shop was laid by police to an argument over stale bread. II was learned that the girl sougth to sell man fresh bread when he asked for ten loaves of stale bread.