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HEWES-DOWD
WILL CD To
WASHINGTON

Evan T. HeWes, president of the
irrigcation district board of direc-
tors, with M. j. Dowd, chief engi-
neer, will leave for Washington. D.
c., tomorrow morning in order to
consult with government officials
relative to the construction of the
All American canal.
This was determined at a meet
ing of the board this morning. A
letter was read from Director A. j.
Kalin, absent because of injuries
sustained in an accident in Arizona
early this week, in which he said
he was willing to cast his vote in
favor of a motion to send Hewes
and Dowd to Washington to find
out what might be done relative to
constructing the canal by force ac-
count with the reclamation service
or otherwise, to the best interests
Of the district and taxpayers.
With this letter presented, Mark
Rose made motion that these
two be sent, as indicated in the
letter. 1t was seconded by Direc-
tor Young and passed unanimously
The two delegates will leave by
plane tomorrow morning if reserv-
ationS can be made.
A letter from the Imperial Non-
Partisan league was read asking
that the board take action to have
the canal constructed by force ac-
count under the reclamation SER
vice. Another letter was received
from the Metropolitan Water Dis
trict congratulating the valley on
the successful termination of the
canal fight.
During the meeting yesterday af-
ternoon a discussion was held as
to the policy to be adopted by the
board relative to the canal con-
struction. Members of the au-
dience who had come to hear the
report made by Phil D. Swing.
Entered into this discussion a
motion was made by Mark Rose,
seconded by Director Aten that
the audience be allowed to express
its opinion to determine the policy
of the board whether the district
should build the canal on force
contract with the reclamation SER
vice or give it out to contract.
When put to the vote the motion
lost, Rose and Aten voting yes;
Hewes and Young, no.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
CUBAN STORM
CLAIMS LIVES

HAVANA, Nov. 8. UP)-Eighteen
persons were killed in eastern Cuba
by floods resulting from cyclonic
winds and torrential rains, Dispatch
es said today.
The floods added to the chaos in
the country where strikes have SER
iously endangered the sugar crop
on which the nations livelihood de-
pends.
In Havana the political situation
remained static, with the govern
ment of Provisional President Ra-
mon Grau San Martin apparently
disintegrating rapidly and a crisis
threatened over the weekend.
Bombs continued to reverbrate
throughout the capital, adding to
the encouragement of the popula-
ton and the assertions of opposi-
ton parties that the government was
one in name alone.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
mail ROBBERY
SUSPECT SLAIN

CHICAGO, Nov. 3. UP) - Four
pistol shots fired at close range in
to the head of Harry Teuber, 80
led federal agents to renew their
investigation today into the S225,-
900 mail robbery here last Decem-
ber
The Staying of Teuber, as he sat
having his nails manicured in a
barber shop was as much a mys-
terry as was his possible connection
with the robbery. The shots were
fired from a door behind him. NO
one saw the gunman.
The investigation into disposal
of the loot of the robbery already
has resulted in the deaths OF two
men and the indictments OF three
others. Edgar Lebensberger, night
club owner, apparently shot him
self to death the day before his
indictment was announced.
Three days later Gus Winkler,
gang leader. was shot to death on
street by gunner who escaped.
Winkler had announced he intend
ed surrendering to federal officers
for questioning in connection with
the robbery.
Authorities said the only known
connection between Teuber and
Lebensberger was the fact he oc-
cupied an apartment with a woman
who formerly was employed at the
225 club, gambling place owned by
Lebensberger.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
MEXICANS TO
GET WORK IN
COTTON AREA

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3. U.P)-An
exodus of 1000 Mexican unemployed
to the cotton fields of the San Joa-
quin valley started from Los Ange-
les today.
The jobless weer transported on
rail and highway to supply San Joa-
quin planters with pickers, Earl E.
Jensen, superintendent iof chari-
ties, announced. All had been on To-
cal charity relief rolls.
The emigration" began today
when the first consignment of
trucks, laden with Mexican families,
left for the valley.
Jensen said the workers were re-
cruited from the relief rolls of the
county, at the specific request of
the federal government. He calcu-
lated the total number who will be
transported to the valley will be 90
900, figuring five members to eack
workers family.
The pickerS will be sent to the
cotton fields of Kings, Tulare and
Kern counties. There, they will la
Dor for between 50 and $3.50 per day
until about the middle of January.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
PENALTIES SET BY COURT IN
ALIEN LAND LAW CONVICTIONS

of Judgment was granted them for
one week
In connection with passing SEN
tence Judge McPherrin made leng-
thy statement explaining the alien
land law and the necessity of en-
forcing it, of which the following is
part
"In the opinion of the court, the
jury in this case was amply juSti-
fled upon the evidence in returning
its verdict of guilty as charged as
to each of such defendants as in the
opinion of the jury had knowledge
of the intent and purpose of the
contracting parties, or Of means to
be employed in accomplishing such
purpose.
I'm the opinion of the court, the
defendants have each received fair
and impartial trial, and it now be-
comes the duty of the court in
imposing sentence to carry into ef :
feet that verdict, to the end that
this law be no longer violated in
this county.
Explains Violation
1T is true that no moral turpitude
is involved in the offense of which
these defendants have been founu
guilty, If an owner of agricultural
lands enters into lease with an in
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Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
NINE DEAD IN
EASTERN FIRE.
Continued On Page g.

NEW YORK, Nov. 8. U.P)-Nine
Negroes were burned to death to-
day when they were trapped in
bed by a fire Of suspicious origin
that swept a three story dwelling
in a crowded tenement section OF
Brooklyn.
The house was a roaring furnace
from top to bottom when firemen
arrived. Three families occupied
the structure and out of II persons
who lived there, only three es-
capped. They were seriously burn
ed, and one was not expected to
live.
The three survivors staggered to
a hallway on the first floor and
were carried out by police and fire
men. Efforts to penetrate farther
into the building were blocked.
After the flames were eXtinguiSh-
ed Deputy Fire Chief John o Han
lon examined the ruins and re-
ported to police the fire was of
suspicious origin. An investiga-
ton was started Immediately.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03

lection of property already cultivaI-
ed that was principally sought.
The department of agriculture,
Swing said, was against any more
reclamation projects because of the
program now under way to reduce
overproduction in crops. In answer
to this the department and aslo the
cabinet committee were told that
such intention was the last thing in
the minds of those favoring the
canal for the simple reason that
were new lands to be brought into
cultivation in the valley by reason
of the canal it would bring serious
hurt to those ranches and farms al
ready in use here for SO many years
and surely such program would not
be at all favorable to those who had
given the best years of their lives TO
these ranches.
Cite California Allotments
Again-it was pointed out to
Swing and others favoring the canal
that the RFC had loaned a large
sum of money for sslf-liquidating
projects such as the ll-American
canal throughout the country and
of this sum, about $132,000,000 had
| been allocated to California alone.
Canal proponents were asked to
wait until the other states had
caught up with California in this
matter of appropriations. He told
of large plat hanging on the wall
of one of the government offices
Whereon the appropriations made
the different states were recorded by
heavy red mark beside each name.
Much to his surprise, he said, Cali :
fornia led all the other states, the
red line extending all the way across
the paper. When seen agan another
two feet had been added to the for
mer line, and California was still
asking $900,000000 more. This, he
said, was proiN bly, the most diff
cult hurdle which had to be sur
mounted.
Swing stated that he made the
necessity of getting out of Mexico
one of the strongest points of his
argument to government officials to
secure the inclusion of the canal
and the necessary appropriation for
its construction. Fear was express
ed that should this program go
through it might result in Mexican
protests which would undo the work
being carried on by the administra-
ton to secure more amicable rela-
| tio,,c xIrith Cantro1 an6 South Am =
erican nations.
In answer to this Swing related
the action of Mexico in building
dams to control water supplies flow
ing into the Rio Grande which, he
said would shut off water from
some 375,0O0 acres in Texas, right
in John Gamers own territory" J."
CONTINUED On Page 6,
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
L DUCE To
Be WORKS
To Depose Number OF Cabinet
Officers Including Hero OF
Recent Plane Flight.

ROME, Nov. 3. U,P)-Benito
MusSolini intends to shake up his
cabinet, assume many of the i'm
portant posts himself, dissolve par
lament, and revolutionize the leg
lslative system, it was learned to-
day.
Italo Balbo, air minister and
hero of the recent mass seaplane
flight to the United States. was on
the casualty list.
Mussolini, it was learned, plan
ned to consolidate army. navy and
air service into one defense min
istry and control it himself. Balbo
and Admiral Giuseppe Sirianni,
navy minister, are to be eliminated,
This change will make Mussolini
premier, foreign minister, minister
of corporations or Fascist guilds,
minister of interior and minister
of the combined fighting forces.
For time at the beginning of the
Fascist regime he was almost the
entire cabinet. He has been CEN
tralizing power in himself again
tor several months.
In addition to those named, Fran
esco Ercole, minister of education;
Giacomo Acerbo minister of ag-
riculture, and Araldo Di Crollalan-
"a, minister of public works, were
slated to go.
The premier will dissolve the
chamber after the Christmas hol-
idays and, with the beginning of
the new year, establish a modified
Legislative system granting wide
powers to capital and labor over
the control of production.
His action practically will elm
mate the chamber of deputies as a
legislative body, and substitute a
body representing industry and ag-
riculture as the law-giving power.
His revision. one of the most
drastic constitutional changes since
Mussolini assumed the dictatorship,
has an approach to some phases of
"technocracy, with the differ
ence that the senate will retain
some of the political-legislative
control.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
NAMES TAKEN
FROM COUNTY
RELIEF ROLLS

Approximately 85 Negro residents
of Ell Centro and vicinity and an
equal number of white residents in
the northern part of the valley, were
removed from the county emergency
relief rolls this morning by Dr. N. E.
Dupont, chairman of the relief COM
mission, following their refusal of an
offer for work.
According to a statement given
The Press by DR.. Dupont, the men
we're offered an opportunity to pick
corn at 1925 per acre and cotton at
rs cents a hundredWeight, prices es-
tablished by the government for
this type OF work in this district.
The men refused to accept the wa
geS offered and the action in re-
moving their names from the relief
rolls followed.
DR.. Dupont stated several of the
men were interviewed by inveStiga-
tors and stated they did not intend
to work regularly SO long as they
could obtain supplies from the coun-
ty or occasional labor.
I'VE had no desire to be harsh
with these men," DR.. Dupont said,
but We are forced to take steps to
impress upon those receiving relief
or county work that these are only
emergency measures which are in
tended to tide them over until such
time as steady work can be given
them When such work is obtained
and they turn it down, there is no
alternative but to refuse to carry
them on the relief rolls. Our action
was given the approval of the board
of supervisors when conditions were
explained to them and it stands pat
insofar as these men are concerned =
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
Eight Hour Plane
Service Planned

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3. U.P)-One
more step toward eventual eight
hour air service between New York
and Los Angeles will have been
made with the completion of 20 new
passenger planes for Transcontin-
entail Western Air, D. w. Tomlinson,
T. w. A. executive, predicted today.
The new plane has an exception
al cruising range, Tomlinson said,
with ability to maintain perfect
flight with safety when one of its
two motors is dead.
The new ships will carry IA pas
sengers.
Tomlinson said he was convinced
the present rapid development of
high speed transport ships would
lead eventually to an eight hour
schedule between the coasts.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
School Directory
Available Soon

New directories for the 1933-34
school year are to be off the press
this afternoon and will be issued
shortly from the county superln-
tendent of schools office.
The directory is put out through
the county office and contains a
list of the county school officers,
board of education and cooperating
offices.
Institute dates, those of holidays,
length of school terms, etc. are
given, followed by the directory
containing the name of each school
with its teaching staff and the
trustees. An index, arranged al
phabetically, is found in the back
section of the booklet.
This years directories are green
in color and modernistic in design
making handsome appearance.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
LARGE CROWD HEARS TALK BY
SWING On CANAL PROBLEMS
Explains Numerous Obstacles Encountered
In Seeking Inclusion Of Project In Public
Works Program.

Construction of Boulder Dam
would have been strenuously oppos-
ed had it not included the All-Am-
erican canal, Phil D. Swing told q
large audience in the Wilson school
auditorium last night. This address
followed a banquet given in his hon
or at the Barbara Worth hotel.
Earlier in the day Swing had re-
ported on his activities in Washing
ton before the district board of di-
rectorS.
In his address last night Swing
reviewed briefly the struggle which
took place in Washington to secure
the approval of the canal appropri-
alton and its inclusion in the pub
lie works program.
He started by stating that why
such an obviously meritorious pro-
ject should need anyone to make
special pleadings in its behalf could
not be understood. To residents OF
the valley who have thought canal
Tor so long such need was out of
the question.
But-there were certain obstacles
that had to be overcome in Wash
ington before the valleys hope could
be realized These Swing outlined as
briefly as possible.
First of all, he said, there was the
idea in SO many minds that there
was no reason for this proposed re-
clamation project when the govern
ment was using good money to take
other lands out of cultivation. To
them the word canal meant moth
ing more than new land to be
brought into cultivation. This was
answered by the statement that the
valley was not seeking to put any
new land into crops. It was the pro-
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
PRICE OF GOLD
REACHES $32.57

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. W.P)-
The government today raised its
price on newly mined American
gold to $3257 an ounce from the
$3236 level of yesterday. The
price was an overnight advance OF
81 cents an ounce.
Today S Washington price was
% cents above the world price set
in London today.
The London price today was 1873
shillings 2 pence, off l penny.
On the basis of the noon ex-
change rate on the pound (4.85)
this was equivalent to 1929 an
ounce.
The price reflected a dollar
worth 63.46 cents in gold. The
dollar yesterday was worth 63.8a
cents in gold.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
BY JOHN A. REICHMANN
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. Five
governors who flew to Washington
to demand immediate help for the
farmer were hopeful that President
Roosevelt would heed their pleas to-
day.
Much higher prices for wheat, for
corn and for all other farm pro-
ducts, said the governors, must be
paid if farm strikes are to end, grain
embargoes to be lifted-and Amer
ican agriculture to survive.
A cryptic statement from the
White House, after a four hour con-
ference there, indicated chat the
President agreed Said the state
ment:
"A tentative plan was worked out.
Further conferences will be held to-
morrow morning at a. m. 1t is
hoped that a final plan will then be
agreed upon. This plan when COM
pleted, will be presented to the Pre-
sident for his approval"
Only the President, Henry A. Wal
lace, secretary of Agriculture;
NIeOTRt IN. ICCh, ldl III q
tor; Gov. Henry Morgenthau OF the
farm credit administration and Har-
ry Hopkins, federal emergency re-
lief administrator, knew the details.
The governors were in the dark,
but hoped that the program would
follow their recommendations, fix
ing the following farm prices:
Wheat, No. l hard, $1.38 per BUSH
ell at Chicago; corn "a cents BUSH
ell: rye 80 cents a bushel; oats SO
cents bushel; hogs, $l1.32 per hum
dredweight; chickens, "a cents a
pound; turkeys, "a cents pound;
eggs, 81 cents dozen; butterfat, 56
cents a pound, and beef, S10.99 per
hundredweight.
Present at the meetings were Gov
ernor Clyde L. Herring of Iowa, Will
liam LANCER of North Dakota, Tom
Berry of South Dakota, Floyd B. Oh"
son of Minnesota and Alfred G.
Schemedeman of Wisconsin.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
THIRD NAVAL
FLYER KILLED
AT SAN DIEGO

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 3. UP)-
Plunging to earth after colliding
with another plane $4,000 feet
above Sweetwater Lake, near here,
a naval plane carried 1t. c. D..
Hart to his death today. 1t. c. K.
Ekstrom, pilot of the plane which
struck Hart's brought his crippled
craft back to North Island safely
The crash was the third in three
days near San Diego and COM
pleted the cycle of three which
naval aviators expect when i'll
luck strikes the flying squadronS.
Hart IS craft, one wing torn off,
whirled to the earth near Sweet
water Lake. The pilot was dead
when taken from the plane.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
TO ATTEND LIBRARIANS MEET

Miss Romaine Richmond, county
librarian, is leaving tonight for La
Jolla where she will attend the
meeting of the sixth district of the
California Library association which
will be held in the women's club
house in that city.
Agnes Ferris Bigelow, city libra
rian, will also attend the meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
Re-Bury Body OF
Los Angeles Mar,

The body of Everett Frank Taylor,
45, resident of Los Angeles, who
died at the county hospital on Oc-
tober "a, was disinterred from the
potter's field this morning by B. E.
Lemons and was reburied at Ever
green cemetery.
Taylor entered the hospital un-
der the name of Harry Long. Fol-
lowing his funeral his wife, Ger
trude E. Taylor communicated with
local officials and identified the
BODY as that of her husband.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
Refunding OF
Bonds Proceeds

Over 10 per cent of the Imperial
Irrigaltion Districts outstanding
bonds have been included in the
refunding program, it was an
nounced at district headquarters
this morning by A. w. Shepherd
and B. P. Lester, who represent var
ious holders of district bonds.
1t is hoped that the remainder
of the bonds Will be included With
in a short time, thus giving an OPP
portunity to the district to straight
en- out the bond matter in accord
ance with the plan approved by the
voters last winter. --.---.....
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
BELL TO RING AGAIN

MONROE, La. U.R)-After three
decades of silence, a -tongued
bell in the belfry of the First Pres
byterian church here again calls
wcrshippers to services. The bell
used in a former edifice, was mis-
placed when the new church was
constructed.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
VIOLENCE IN
5 WISCONSIN, :
FARM STRIKE
Deputies Use Tear Gas To Rout
Pickets In Pitched Battle To
Halt Shipments.
GOVERNORS AT CAPITAL
President Said To Have Civ.
en- Consent To Plan For End
ing Agricultural Unrest.
By WILLIAM NJ. MUELLER

United Press Staff Correspondent
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Nov. 3. =
Pitched battles in which deputies
used tear gas to rout pickets, dyn-
amiting of a cheese factory and
the destructive invasions of milk
storage depots were reported today
in Wisconsin IS farm strike.
AS outbreaks of violence persist
ed. Walter M Singler, president of
the Wisconsin Cooperative Milk
pool, predicted that farmers will
vote 400 per cent? to continue
their strike. The farmers seek to
shut off the movement of farm
produce to Milwaukee. Madison,
Minneapolis and st. Paul until cost
of production is assured them.
Racine county was the scene of
the most violent outbreaks of the
past "a hours. One farmer who
incurred the displeasure nf the
farm strikers used gun to hold
off a group of pickets until Wau-
kesha and Racine county deputy
sheriffs were rushed to his assist
ance. The deputies threw tear gas
bombs to repel the advances OF
the pickets, who were armed with
clubs and rocks.
In another part of Racine coun-
ty, the deputies shot the tires off
an automobile in which strikers
were escaping from the Charles
Meyer farm where they sought to
cut telephone wires.
A cheese factory in the village
of Belgium, Wis, was destroyed by
explosion of a dynamite bomb and
the resultant fire. It was the
fourth bombing of the present
strike. Damage was estimated at
$4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03
AMlLl-
yWyR9sERS R2S}s;

BEVERLY HILLS, Nov. 2.
(SpeciaD-Well, I see today my
old friend from Buffalo Bayou,
Tex, Jesse Jones, went right
out in the wide open market
and announced to the cockeyed
world Gncluding ourselves) that
we wanted to buy gold. Price
was no object; the folks We
bought it from was no object,
Eskimos, Russians, Hindus, Zu-
lus, bootleggers or anything.
The only thing we hadn't
thought about-we got to give
gold to get gold. Jesse couldn t
start out with some of our
paper money and buy thin
bleful of gold between now and
the big argument (what do
you mean, the big argumentO
Why when congress meets.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03

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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1933-02-25

Let as forecast right now that
there are some new and sensation
al fortunes in the making Ia Kelvin
sunburst today, as an example.
Some real production men: men who
know the oil business through years
Of experience. are today quietly
picking up little producing proper
ties in Kevin-sunburst. buying them
at their own figures from former
owners who had based all their plans
and expectations on multi-thousand
barrels wells.