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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19

Gifted under National Reemploy-
ment agreements.
mo deduction from the wages OF
any skilled or unskilled laborer
shall be made on account of goods
purchased or obligations incurred
in any commissary or store owned
leased or otherwise controlled by
the contractor. Obligations so in
cured shall be subject to collection
only in the same manner in which
obliga tons in the ordinary course Of
business are collectible Charges in
excess of a fair market price fo-
goods purchased from stores owned,
leased or otherwise controlled by the
contractor, will not be permitted.
mo fee Of any kind shall be ask
ed or accepted by the contractor
nor any Of his agents from any per-
son who obtained work on the pro-
ject, nor shall any person be re-
CURED to pay any fee to any other
person or agency obtained employ
ment for him on the project.
mo skilled or unskilled laborer
shall be charged for any tools used
in performing their respective du-
ties except for loss or damage there
to.
Every employee on the work COW
cred by this contract shall be per-
mitted to lodge, board and trade
where and with whom he elects and
neither the contractor, nor his
agents, nor his employees, shall di-
rectly or indirectly require as a con-
dition of employment that an en-
ployee shall lodge, board or trade
at a particular place or with par
ticular person.
mo charge shall be made for any
transportation furnished by the
contractor or his agents to any per-
son employed on the work.
mo individual shall be employed
as a skilled or unskilled laborer on
this contract except on a wage ba-
sis, but this shall not be construed
to prohibit the rental of teams,
trucks. or other equipment from in
dividuals. No such rental agreement
or any charges for food, gasoline,
supplies or repairs on account OF
such an agreement shall cause any
deduction from the wages accruing
to any employee"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
AUTO INDUSTRY
||MP Pro WE'D BY
MIRA PROGRAM

WASHINGTON, Dec 19. U.P) -
The automobile industry was ad-
ded today to the list of leading in
dustries reporting additions of mil
lions of dollars and thousands of
workers to the payroll under MIRA
code operation.
Following similar reports from the
steel, textile, lumber and oil indus
tries, automobile manufacturers re-
ported they had added 800 en-
ployees and approximately $4,000
900 to their payrolls since the auto
mobile code became effective.
The code has been extended until
Sept. 5, 1884, which will round out
a full year for this particular agree
ment.
The report on automobile pay
rolls added an explanation that the
increases obviously were not the re-
suit of increased production since
man hours were decreased from APP
proximately 100000 in July to
approximately 100000 in Septem-
Der.
Employment increased from APP
proximately $500 in July to about
l5O,700 in September and the pay
rolls from $12,700,000 in July TO
about 10000 in September.
With the nations leading indus,
tries going into the new year under
MIRA codes, Administrator Hugh l..
johnson expects to continue for
some time with presidential agree
ments under which some 100000
firms, individuals and corporations
have increased wages and shortened
working hours.
These blue eagle" agreements
are superseded by permanent codes
as they are put into effect.
Johnson is planning to continue
temporary agreements through issu-
ance of an administrative order out
lining the conditions of wages and
hours which an employer must
maintain in order to display the
emblem.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
YOUTH ADMITS
KILLING MAN

CLEVELAND, Dec. 10. (U,P) -
Britton Dennis Young, youthful law
school student, was charged with
manSlaughter today after confessing
he shot a farmer to death while
parked with a coed companion
along a lonely suburban highway In
Pepper Pike Village.
He waived preliminary hearing
and was bound over to the grand
jury under $1,000 bond.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 10. U,R) -
Britton T. Young, 81, western Re
serve university student, shot and
killed a middle-aged man early to-
day when the latter assertedly at
tempted to drag Young's girl COM
panion from an automobile in which
they were sitting.
Young, a nephew of Congressman
Stephen Young, was held by auth
critics after he appeared with the
girl at Shaker Heights police sta
ton and reported the shooting.
The body of the victim, Carl Met
ling, 48, was found lying in the
roadway after the couple directed
police to the scene of the shooting.
He had ccen shot through the right
eye, the bullet lodging in his brain
and causing instant death. A flash
light was found beside his BODY.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
A Good Time Was
Enjoyed By All

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 10. U.P)
At a mixed wrestling-boing match
here last night between Gentle
John Kflonis and Chief CheWchki,
here's what happened:
In the first round each swung a
metal stool, Kilonis suffering a deep
cash in the head.
There was fierce fighting in the
second period.
In the third round Kilonis took a
pair of scissors from his trunks
shipped the Indians hair, slipped a
sack over his head and pummeled
him numerically. The Indian
swung wildly and knocked out Rel
cree Leo Alexander.
AS Chewchki jerked off the sack
the Greek fled through the aud.-
ence. He reached the street and es-
capped in n taxi.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
STATE MORE
ATTRACTIVE
TO TOURISTS

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10. U.P) -
Tourist traffic which flowed across
state boundaries last month showed
23.7 per cent increase over the
corresponding month of 1882, the
all-year club was advised today by
the California department of agrl-
culture.
A gain of 27.3 per cent was re-
ported from the four Southern Call
fornia gateways, via Daggett, Blythe
Yermo and Yuma, where 32,233
tourists registered during the
month.
THE increase in motor traffic, y
the report said, is reflected by Hor-
Wath 81 HorWath'S survey which
shows that during November Cali
fornia hotels registered an 8.3 per
cent increase in occupancies. Inc
Apartment Income Properties asso-
citation of this city announces an
lit per cent increase in apartment
occupancies during last month as
compared with November, 1882.
Power output also showed an in
crease with the Los Angeles Gas q
Electric corporation reporting d
1912 per cent gain in gas consump-
ton and 1886 per cent increase IN
kilowatt hours of electricity sales.
During the first 10 months OF 1888
GAS. 495 ut-of state motorists were
checked in, an increase of 9.8 per-
cent over a similar period of 1882,
the report said.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
GOVERNMENT
BIC BANKER
Has Nearly Three Billions In
Banks, Postal Savings And
Other Institutions.
BY RICHARD L. GRIDLEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. - The
government IS stake in the nation S
banking business approached the
So 900. 100000 mark today as final
preparations were made to extend
its sway by putting deposit insur-
ance in effect at the start OF the
new year.
More than a third of the govern
ment's participation in banking Is
represented by deposits in the Pos
tai Savings system, which have
risen to record levels we'll above
ST ,000,000,000.
In addition, the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation has purchased
more than a fifth of the outstand-
ing bank capital of $3,500,OO 900
and expects to increase this owner
ship to nearly third with ultimate
preferred stock purchases of more
than S1,0O0,OOO,000.
Direct loans to banks and hun
dreds of millions poured into var
ious mortgage loan, building and
loan, and agricultural credit organ
izations have further increased the
government IS stake.
Under the deposit insurance plan
the government will assume import
ant regulatory powers over partici-
pating banks previously not under
federal supervision. Augmenting
these powers and those derived from
its stock ownership, the government
has regulatory functions through
the federal reserve board and the
national banking laws.
The government IS participation
may be lessened materially if the
deposit insurance plan succeeds and
is retained. j. F.. T. O'Connor
comptroller of the currency, has
indicated that upon success of the
plan depends abolition of the Postal
Savings system, returning huge de-
posts to the banks.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
NORTHWEST IN
STORM 8 GRIP

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 10. U.P)-
High winds battered the Oregon
Washington coast today disrupting
land, sea and air travel and bring
ing new flood dangers into low
land districts.
The storm caught the steamer
Losmar of the Calmer line as Il
dtifted helplessly because of a
crippled steering gear. The crew
managed to rig temporary appara-
tus and to drive the boat under its
own power toward port at Astoria.
It reached the river mouth before
dawn.
The freighted Henry D. Wilton,
Waterlogged in an earlier storm,
reached LongvieW, Wash, safely but
the schooner Charles l.. Wheeler, a
Mccormick line boat, remained fast
on the bar at Sand Island where IL
had been driven ashore Sunday. The
Admiral Cole went aground temper
arily near Seattle.
Astoria was isolated by high wa
tiers. Aberdeen suffered Sl50,0O0
damage from floods and high tides.
PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 10. (U.P)
With all ships out of danger, and
a forecast of diminishing winds and
lighter rain, the peak of the third
northwest storm of the month APP
peared to have passed today,
The Calmar freighter Losmar, III
distress off the Oregon coast arriv-
ed at the Columbia river today
with a jury-rig, and was out of dam
ger. The steamer Charles L. Wheel
er, Jr., was still aground at Sand
Island in the Columbia river. The
Admiral liner Cole which went.
aground in Puget Sound was re-
floated at high tide.
Flood conditions still menaced a
number of river valleys in Oregon
and Washington but the rivers did
not rise as high as was expected
during the night and the outlook
was more promising than yester-
day.
The most recent storm was held
responsible for one death, that of
Dick Hillaire. SO, an Indian, who
was struck by falling limb near
Bellingham.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
Labor Leader
Makes Charges

NEW YORK, Dec. 10. UP)-Jo-
seph P. Ryan, president of the In.
ternational Longshoremen's associ-
alton, today charged in a letter to
General Hugh S. Johnson, MIRA adj
ministrator. that Pacific coast
steamship interests are using "ev-
cry possible means" to force en-
ployees to join a company union.
Ryan. who urged NRA interces-
sion, said the dollar lines at Ia
coma and Seattle had established a
rate of go cents an hours merely in
an effort to discredit our organi-
zation for agreeing to the So cent
rate in north Atlantic ports"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
STATE LOSES
LIQUOR FIGHT

SACRAMENTO Dec. 10. (U.P) -
Opponents of the state liquor con-
troll law saw an initial victory today
in a decision of Police Judge Will
j. Carraghar who held that posses
sion of liquor was not evidence OF
illegal over-the-bar sale.
AS a result of the decision, one
of the cases growing out of the
opening of the campaign against
speakeasies by members of the state
board of equalization, was dismissed
for lack of evidence.
THE finding Of a jug of liquor
in a room, even though it be equip
ped with a bar, is not in my opinion
punishable offense," Judge Car
ragher said.
There must be evidence that the
place was open for business and
that business was transacted. The
state made no such showing in this
case"
Another attack against the liquor
law was seen in a suit filed by To-
cal attorneys on behalf of the Eur
eka improvement club for $1,000
damages. The court action questions
the states right of forcible entry
into asserted sLNakeasies. The suit
was filed against local police Off
GERS and members of the board of
equalization.
Reversal in the first Sacramento
prosecution will not check speak
easy raids, according to Chairman
Richard E. Collins of the board. Or
ders for state inspectors to make
buys" as evidence will not be issued
unless Attorney General U. S. Webb
so advises, Collins said.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
YOUNG BANDIT
ADMITS CRIME

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10. U.P)-
Edward Anderson, rs, electrician
who tired of working for $14 a
week." and turned to banditry, con-
fessed a theatre box office Staying
and numerous holdups, police al
legged today after questioning the
suspect for hours.
Anderson was taken into custody
after wounding a police inspector in
a gun battle which followed a bank
holdup.
Shells found in his possession re-
portedly led the authorities to queS-
ton him about the Staying of Hew-
lett Tarr, theatre ticket clerk shot
down in his office by a nervous
bandit" on Nov. %.
For hours Anderson stubbornly
denied knowledge of Tarrs death.
Then he broke, according to police,
and allegedly said:
81 didn't intend to shoot Tarr. l
was nervous. My gun got caught in
the box office grill and it was Gls-
charged accidentally"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
HOPE TO GET
LOCAL OPTION

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10. U.R) -
The California w. c. T. U. plans to
campaign for local option, Mrs. Hat
tie c.. Young, state secretary, an
nounced today
Undaunted by repeal of prohibit
ton, the organization plans to go
right back TO the beginning" Mrs.
Young said.
I'VE were not working for the
18th amendment alone" she con-
tinued. although we do believe
that prohibition is the best way to
enforce temperance.
And I do think the old time sal
DON was better than what we have
now and are going to have soon.
Our present aim is to bring
about an amendment of the Cali
fornia constitution to bring in To-
cal option, and we shall continue
our campaign of education against
alcohol"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
LONGS AIDES
FOUND GUILTY

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 10. U.P) =
Three subordinates of Senator Huey
P. Long, convicted of classifying cleo
ton returns in 1887, were fined 500
each and sentenced to seven months
in parish prison today by Judge
Frank T. Echezabel.
The convicted men, Harold Pujol'
S. w. Huck, and c. j. Lusk, served
as election commissioners in the
18th precinct of the eighth ward
and were among 513 commissioners
charged in grand jury indictments
with Justification of election returns
Attorneys for the three men filed
notice of appeal to the supreme
court. Judge Echezabel imposed adj
ditional sentences of one month on
all three in event they default on
their fines.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
NO CHANGE IN
GOLD PRICE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. U.P) -
The government today fixed the
price of newly mined domestic gold
at $3406, unchanged from yester-
day.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. (U.R -
An official expression Of SatlSfac-
ton by acting Secretary Of the
Treasury Morgenthau over the eff
feet of the governments gold oper-
ations today indicated continuance
of the administrations experiment
toward the goal of depreciating the
dollar to approximately so per cent
of its gold value.
Disregarding fresh criticism from
the Brookings institution and the
National Economy league, Morgen-
THAI declared that the gold pur-
chases at progressively higher levels
had made satisfactory progress to-
ward the objective of raising COM
modify prices.
He cited an index of commodity
prices showing they had risen from
100 on Oct. 81 to 1857 last Satur-
day, a percentage Of 512 per cent.
In that period the price of gold
was raised 16 per cent. Morgen-
THAI appeared unworried over the
discrepancy in the percentages.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
TAXATION To
BRING BATTLE
IN CONGRESS
Already Subject Of Dispute
Between White House And
Political Leaders.
TO MEET In TWO WEEKS
Veteran Legislators Believe
President Will Continue To
Hold Upper Hand.
BY LYLE G. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

tntcd Press stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. - Con-
gress meets two weeks from today,
still under domination of the adj
ministration but confronted with
puzzling fiscal, social and legisla-
tive problems.
Taxation already is the subject of
dispute between the White House
and powerful congressional opinion.
President Roosevelt has interviewed
in house ways and means commit
tee work to urge liquor tax levels
low enough to permit legal bever-
ages to compete with bootleggers'
wares
Powerful congressional support is
developed for a Sock-the rich in
come tax law beyond the limits of
administration policy. There is
agreement all around however, on
revision of the tax laws to prevent
income tax avoidance such as that
legally accomplished by j. P. Nor
gan and others who testified before
the senate stock market committee.
There must be some give and take
Between congress and the White
House this session. But veteran le-
gislatorS predict the President will
be able to control both houses ex-
cept possibly on currency initiation.
Distribution of reproduction
benefit payments and the advance
IF re 1nqnS
have done much to reduce initiation
airy pressure. But the showdown on
administration control of congress
appears more likely to develop on
money and free silver this season
than on other issues.
Extend RFC Life
Immediately confronting congress
is the necessity CT extending the &C
tive life of the Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation.
Several of the progressive Repub-
lican bloc have begun a backfire of
opposition to the NRA and related
eN Urgency programs. They will be
joined by the right wing Republican
conservatives in any attack al
though the President is expected to
be able to hold his majorities in
both houses against major amend
ments. The progressive Republican
camp is divided on MIRA. The anti
administration wing will sponsor
MIRA amendments to restore the full
effective force of the Clayton act
and Sherman antitrust act which
have been set aside for the time be-
ing.
President Roosevelt will ask and
congress will appropriate upwards
. of OO0000,000 more for the Pub
lie Works Administration.
In both houses sentiment is about
ready to be translated into legisla-
ton to remove the tax exemption
from $4O000,p00,000 of municipal
state and federal bonds.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19

HOME FROM
AIR VOYAGE
Famous Flyer And Wife Reach
New York After Absence OF
Five Months.
ARRIVAL UNOSTENTATIOUS
Flight Involving Two Ocean
Crossings Completed Without
Serious Mishaps.
BY JOHN X. BEAL

United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.-The Lind
berghs came home from their great
est aerial tour today to celebrate
Christmas with their infant son,
Jon, whom they had not seen since
they started a 30,000-mile flight
around the Atlantic Ocean.
Col. and Mrs. Charles A Lind
bergh landed at 2:40 p. m. EST, az
ter staging a spectacular lodging
duel in the air with pursuing craft
carrying photographers. The duel"
in which Lindbergh was pursued by
ether ships was similar to his aerial
encounter with photographers at
Miami, Fla, last Saturday.
Lindbergh landed off College
Point, on Long Island sound. The
couple thus ended a tour of four
continents.
Today's flight was about TOO miles
from Charleston, S. c., which they
left at 1853 a. m. They had been
gone from New York five months
and 10 days.
throughout their long tour,
which involved crossings of the
north and south Atlantics, and a
flight from Europe to the mid-At-
lantic Azores islands, they COM
bined business with pleasure. Lind
bergh surveyed the possibilities of
regular transatlantic air routes and
will report on his conclusions. Mrs
Lindbergh operated their radio
throughout the tour, except enroute
up the United States coast. She al
so alternated at the controls.
Lindberghs attempt to arrive
without ballyhoo was blocked when
the big seaplane was spotted, miles
out of port, by a camera plane,
which chased him to Hasbrouck
Heights, N. j., thence to Englewood,
where the Lindberghs are living,
and then across the bay to College
Point.
Dcdges Planes
Other planes joined in the chase,
and for several minutes the dog
fight" continued while the colonel
tried to dodge his pursuers.
The Lindberghs swerved over the
Glenn H. Curtiss airport, at North
Beach, Queens, trying to throw the
pursuers off the trail. Then they
crossed Bowery Bay.
Finally, Lindbergh dropped swift
]y to the water, short distance off
the shore where the Edo Aircraft
corporation is situated.
Their long journey was ended al
most at the exact point of their de-
parture more than five months ago.
Back in Englewood, the home OF
Mrs. Elizabeth Morrow, the family
had gathered to welcome the home
corners. From the lawn of the eS-
tate, Mrs. Morrow, Baby Jon, and
members of the household staff
could see the black and red ship as
the colonel circled slowly over the
house.
Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh, the
colonels mother, was expected at
the Morrow home for the holidays,
but the family did not reveal Whe-
Their she had arrived in time for the
welcome.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
Grant Arr71istice
IN Chaco Warfare

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec. 10.
Soldiers of Bolivia and Paraguay
were to ground arms at midnight
tonight in the Gran Chaco area
after a war which had become more
bitter month by month as it prog
ressed in the South American jun
giles.
A League of Nations commission,
sent to negotiate between the two
countries, arranged an armistice,
to endure until midnight Deem
Der 80 while the commission and
the n-American conferees here
try to effect permanent peace
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
CreuU OF Macon
GiUen Liberty

SUNNYVALE, Calf, Dec. 10. U.P)
The crew of the U. S. navy diri-
gible Macon today was given leave
from duty until Jan. 3, indicating
that the giant airship would re-
main in its huge hangar here at
least until that time.
The Macon made a seVen-hour
training flight yesterday over the
San Francisco bay area. The land
ing was affected on the second trial
after the ship missed the mooring
mast on the first attempt.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
Wrestler Resents
Sanity Ouizzing

KANSAS CITY, MO, Dec. 10. W.R)
Everett Marshall, La Junta, Colo,
grappler, and his manager, Billy
Sandow, said today that they are
planning to sue the Pennsylvania
Athletic commission for $500,000
damages as result of the body
questioning the sanity of Marshall
After a Philadelphia match few
days ago in which Marshall went
"berserk for five minutes, the
commission announced the wrestler
would not be permitted to appear
again in the state until he had been
examined Oy three alieniStS.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
WOMAN MAY
HAVE STARVED

COMPTON, Calf, Dec. 10. (U,R)
An investigation to determine il
Miss Marguerite Pollinger, 40, died
of starvation was pursued today al
ter her emaciated body was found
in a garage-apartment she rented
three weeks ago.
Condition of the body indicated
the woman died of malnutrition a
fortnight ago, Investigators said. An
autopsy was ordered.
The body was discovered by Mrs
T. A. Wallace who said she had not
seen the tenant since renting her
apartment.
Letters found in the apartment
indicated friends were unable to
provide her with funds. She for
merly resided in Oakland and had a
brother living there.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
ACTOR TO WED

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 10. U.P) -
Ricardo Cortez, motion picture &C
tor, confirmed reports today that he
is engaged to marry Mrs. Christine
Lee, divorced wife of Lester Lee,
New York broker.
Cortez, whose former wife was the
late Alma Rubens, said they would
be married during the Christmas
holidays.
Mrs. Lee recently divorced her
husband IN Reno.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-12-19
TO VOTE ON STRIKE

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10. U.P)
The International Longshore-
mems union today prepared to dis
tribute secret ballots among its Pa
cific coast members to determine
whether a strike should be called as
the result of a dispute with the Wa
terfront Employers union.
The employers repeatedly refused
to meet with the workers represen-
tatives to discuss wages and hours.