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Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
TELLS YALE
NAT|cN NEEDS
INTELLIGENCE
President Given Honorary De-
gree By Own Colleges Great
est Rival.
SAYS POLITICS SECONDARY
Asserts Political Preference OF
Many Assistants In Admins
tration Not Known To Him.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. June 90.
U.P)-President Roosevelt defend
ed the brain trust" as a necessity
in modern government today in an
address before the Yale alumni.
While there has been some RI
bald laughter about use of brains
in federal government, today more
than ever in public life we are
compelled to use thern," he said.
II find for the sake of example,
that in my own mind, qualification
rather than politics enters into
choices made for federal places.
"The government of this coun-
try is seeking to progress the same
way as great universities have sue
ceeded in that they never remain
ed STILL" said the President, who
came to Yale to receive an hon.
orary degree.
Referring to Yale and Harvard,
he added:
They have always been willing
to experiment. thank God"
The President began his address
at the conclusion of a speech by
President Angel of Yale. He said:
Fellow Ellis, I do not believe
any greater honor could come to
a Harvard man than to be made
an alumnus of Yale.
Il am especially happy as this
cements bond I have had with
Yale graduates who have worked
with me in the past and the as
sistance they have given in every
branch of the government"
Urges Understanding
Commenting that congress near
ly kept him away, Mr.. Roosevelt
reminded his audience that he felt
like a boy out of school,"
Pleading for broad under
standing of national problems he
remarked:
1.-The danger to us lies in a mar
rowness of point of view-of ty-
pifying the man who never went
west of the Hudson river"
I'VE are going to continue in a
democracy" he said.
"The use of brains in govern
iHeiC SeeiilS 10 me gOOQ practlce,
and it will be continued"
To observers his remarks clearly
indicated a challenge to the crit
les of the brain trust" and notice
to the professions that they would
be more and more in demand.
Il find we are calling more and
more on the professions" he ex-
planned, adding that there has
been no period in our history when
what we call in a wrong sense
politics and politicians, enter less
into the affairs of the govern
ment.
Il cannot tell off-hand today the
politics of some of the most re-
sponsible people in our govern
ment and it is a mighty good thing
that I can't"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
JAPANS NAVAL EQUALITY DEMANDS
CRITICIZED BY AMERICAN ADMIRAL
Former Chief Of Operations Asserts World
Peace Will Not Be Furthered BY Comply
ing With Tokio's Program.

NEW YORK. June 20. U.P)-Jap-
anese claims for an increased naval
ratio will not further the purposes
of peace and must be based on
"other reasons than equality and
security" Admiral William v. Pratt,
former chief of naval operations,
wrote today in the review Foreign
Affairs"
Discussing the probable situation
of the 1885 naval conference, Pratt
said sea powers would be unlikely
to make concessions in disarmament
before land powers made some pro-
gress.
He saw the naval question, like
the land one, was really political
After a discussion of the technical
differences among the naval experts
of the United States, Great Britain
and Japan, he gave the following
summary of their attitude:
Great Britain wants smaller
ships and more of them. We want
larger ships and fewer of them.
Japan wants what we are allowed"
He continued:
I'm time of war does Japan have
the seas OF the world to cover as
necessary part of her own security,
as does the British empire? She does
not, and in addition she has a Sc
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
M['NAB' 8 WILL
UNDER ATTACK
Youth Claims To Be Son OF
Famous San Francisco Lawyer
And Seeks Estate Share.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 20. U.P)
Gavin Lippi, 81, bid today for a
one-third share of the million dol
lar estate of the late Gavin McNab
by alleging he is natural son of
the lawyer and politician whose
fame and power extended far be-
yond the city of San Francisco.
The suit created sensation when
it was filed in the superior court
here by Lippi's counsel.
In the complaint were charges
that the famous lawyer recognized
Lippi as his son; made provision for
him and his mother, now Mrs. Ma
rie Marraccini, San Francisco, dur
ing McNab's lifetime, and left the
youth concealed bequest of $20,-
600 in his will"
In seeking one-third share Lip
pi brought action against Mrs. Will
ma McNab, widow of the attorney,
and a score of legatees, asking a
trusteeship for an estate already dis
tributed. McNab died in 1927.
The keen legal mind of the attor-
ney anticipated such claims on his
estate, for in his will there is a
clause which reads:
81 am aware how frequently chill
dren or descendants appear after
death claiming heirship to such as
leave property. Should any such
child or children or descendant OF
descendants establish themselves in
court as such child, children, des-
cendant or descendants of mine
then to each and every such child
leave the sum of $100 and no more.
Denies Any Children
McNab specifically stated in his
will, however, that he had mo chile
or children and no descendant.
The concealed bequest mentioned
in the action brought by young Lip
pi was carried in clause giving Lucy
Dunno, his secretary, $4,000 to "be
used by her for certain charities
which are not to be disclosed and
in the handling of which she has
my entire confidence as I do not
intend that she be interrogated as
to these in any manner"
Lippi claimed he had received the
legacy in three inStallments from
Miss Dunno.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
LITTLE RED BOOK is HOT STUFF
Calls Mrs Roosevelt, Wallace, lckes And
LaGuardia Dangerous Radicals

lished by Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling OF
Kenilworth, III.
The book lists Mrs Roosevelt as
follows: Socialist Sympathizer and
associate. pacifist. non-interyen-
tion citz. com. 1927. Nat. Won.
Tr. Un. Lg.; Nat. Cons. Lg.: CO.
worker with many radicals, some OF
whom have been appointed 10 gov
ernment positions by her husband:
speaker, Nov. 23-25. 1908. Prog. Edu
Assn. Meeting with radicals Norman
Thomas, Reinhold Neibuhr, Harry
A. Overstreet, etc"
Others mentioned In the book are
Sen. William F. Borah, CRepl. Ida
no. Sen. George w. Morris. tRepl
Nebraska: Professor Irving Fisher OF
Yale, Mahatma Gandhi. Newton ID.
Baker, Harold II. Swift.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
NEW MOVE To
SOLVE STRIKE
Mayor Rossi Calls Conference
OF Workers And Employers
To Discuss Differences.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 20. U.P)
Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Fran
cisco brought together striking
maritime workers and waterfront
employers today for consideration
of a compromise peace plan sub
mitted by the workers.
Expressing willingness to recede
from some of their original de-
mands, joint strike committee OF
so, representing 10 maritime un-
ions, asked RosSi IS aid i'll arranging
q conference with the employers.
The point at issue appeared to be
recognition of all the unionized
crafts.
The mayor, whose hand guided
the original settlement agreement
repudiated by the International
Longshoremen' association rank
and file, succeeded in persuading
Thomas Plant, head of the Water
front Employers union. to listen
to the strikers new plan.
The proposal was vague. The
strike committee asked absolute as
surance against discrimination or
blacklisting of any workers and a
Joint settlement for all unions in
yolved. To RoSSi S insiStence that
the plan was indefinite the COM
mittee replied that more specific
concessions would be outlined in the
conference.
Plant later specified, however,
that the discussions necessarily
would be limited to the longshore-
mems grievances, because he is
empowered to represent their en-
ployers only.
Rossi, meanwhile, carried his
fight for peace before mass meet
ing of the strikes and alternately
was cheered and jeered.
The mayor kept smiling through
the interruptions made by a croWo
of 10000 in Civic auditorium. He
pleaded for "peace without
bloodshedo and urged the workers
against any "drastic action until
we have an opportunity for en-
ployers and employees to get to-
gether and discuss the entire Sit
uation.'
The strikers took the initiative
on a day when only one ship-an
Oil tanker-passed through the
Golden Gate here, a new low in
maritime records. Similar stagna-
tion was apparent at Portland and
Seattle while Los Angeles shipping
was curtailed.
The willingness of the workers to
compromise also was expressed in
the Pacific northwest, where an
other strike committee submitted
a 10 point proposal differing in few
respects from the San Francisco
plan respected by longshoremen be-
cause the other unions were not in
cluded.
Shipowners generally were ready
to move cargoes under arms If
the new move failed. Portland en-
ployers prepared for crucial test
and strikers had pickets in line to
block it.. A similar move may be
made in Seattle. San Francisco
employers were rehiring strike
breakers discharged when tn e
agreement, later rejected, was
reached last Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20

cure line to the mainland which
England has not.
Does Japan have two great ocean
fronts and one of the main water
arteries of the world to defend in
case of war, as does the United
States? She does not.
"AS a neutral in great war,
would the obligations and RESPONSE
bilities imposed upon Japan put as
heavy burden on her shoulders as
they would upon either Great Brit
ain or the United States? They
would not.
I'm the last half century has
there ever been any action taken
against Japan on the part of the
two leading sea powers which legiti-
mately could be called aggressive?
The writer thinks not"
TOXIC, June 20. U.P)-Japanese
naval officers today repeatedly re-
garded Admiral William v. Pratt's
article on world naval armament
problems as possibly inspired by a
source higher than the former chief
of American naval operations.
The dispatches carrying Pratt's
views were read eagerly by naval
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20

NEW YORK, June 20. (U.P - Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, mayor Flor
clio LaGuardia; Henry A. Wallace,
secretary of agriculture; Harold l..
Ickes, secretary of interior, and
others of national prominence are
named on a confidential list of
dangerous radicals in the posses
sion of New York secret police, ac-
cording to the New York Post.
The newspaper said the list was
kept under lock and key in the
private office of Capt. John Lagar-
enne, head of the bureau of alien
investigation, who received 1t from
"a Wall Street consulting engineer" ="
The list, it added, is in the form
of "little red book" called "The
Red Network" compiled and pub
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
M& R1~~,
0ieSI, NsNausht 8yndlests. Ins.
FEED
CONSERVATION
PLANS URGED

Conservation of feed for county
cattle in case of a water shortage
this summer was discussed by the
irrigation district board of direc-
to.s Yesterday afternoon. At the
conclusion of the discussion no ac-
ton was taken in the matter by
the board.
Leroy Holt and O. G.. Horne. To-
cal bankers, were present at this
meeting. At a meeting of bank
ers held recently it was deter
mined that representatives should
confer with the district board on
this matter of food and water con-
servation for county livestock for
the purpose of ascertaining what
was to be done in the matter.
1t is understood that the board
is doing whatever can be done to
prepare for the expected water
shortage and a warning has been
issued to ranchers to prepare their
storage tanks to store water in the
event the drought becomes an ac-
tuality.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
Federal Highway
Fund Allotted

WASHINGTON, June 20. U.P)-
A fund of $780, 100000 was available
today for allotment of highway
construction projects in the 48
states, Hawaii and the District or
Columia.
Rexford G. Tugwell, acting sec
retary of agriculture, apportioned
the money after President Roosevelt
signed the Hayden-Cartwright act
which requires that not less than
25 per cent of the apportionment to
any state must be applied to Sec
ondary or seeded roads.
The division included. Arizona
$2,641 ,935; California $7,932,20 Ne
vada, $780,, 1856.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
Man Injured When
Struck By Auto

John Roberts, so, Negro. was
struck by an automobile at the
Main street crossing of the South
ern Pacific tracks at 2:30 this
morning and painfully injured. ac-
cording to a report filed at police
headquarters.
Roberts was struck by car
driven by Paul Green. another Me-
gro the report states. Green, II "
said, was driving slowly while
crossing the tracks when Roberts
stepped out in front OF the car.
The injured man was taken to the
county hospital for treatment.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
Charge Against
Collins Dropped

With Judge John B. Baker, I'M
perial, presiding, charge of op-
Grating a pawn shop without a Ii
cense, brought against Watson
Collins, local Negro, was dismissed
yesterday afternoon on grounds
that the testimony offered at the
trial did not substantiate the
charges made in the complaint.
The Imperial judge was sitting in
place of Judge Mayfield who had
been called to try another case in
Holtville at that time
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
Enfa,,tile Paralysis
Not Present Here

Not single case of infantile
paralysis as existing in Imperial
county has been brought to the at
tention of DR.. Warren Fox, county
health officer, that official stated
today. Reports had been circulat-
ed that there were about 20 such
cases in the county but Dr. Fox
said that so far as he knew these
reports were unfounded.
DR.. Fox was reappointed by the
board of county supervisors yester-
day afternoon to preside over the
county health department for an
other year, a position he has held
since July l, 1890. The county
health director gives all his time
to this work and does not engage
in private practice.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20

RAPID CITY, S. D.. June 20.
U.P)-The balloon in which two
army airmen hope to reach new
scientific frontier in the stratos-
phere Is miles above sea level was
to be taken today to natural
bowl in the hills to await the take
off.
The flight will not start before
July l, Maj. William E Kepner,
pilot, indicated. Capt. A. w, Stew
ems, scientific observer. is in the
hills placing equipment in readi-
ness.
Hundreds of tourists who visited
here yesterday were astounded by
the imposing dimensions of the
bag. When fully inflated, it would
envelope an History office build
ing. 1t weighs 5,055 pounds, not
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
HOPKINS WILL
HEAD NEWEST
RECOVERY AID
Billion Dollars Available For
Stimulating Activity In Build
ing And Material Industries.
WILL ASSIST HOME OWNERS
Scope Of Plan Extended Be-
yond Original Clean Up And
Paint Up Idea.
BY HENRY T. GORRELL

United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1884, by United Press
WASHINGTON, June 20. - The
organization which will administer
the $1,000, 100000 housing program
to revive the construction industry
was taking form today in advance
of President Roosevelt's signature Of
this latest emergency measure.
Harry L. Hopkins, federal emer-
eency relief administrator, is to be
named director of the program, the
United Press was informed. He in
tends to delegate actual administra-
tion to Corrington Gill, now FERA
director of statistics and research.
Architects are being hired by
prospective executives of the hous-
ing project.
Several architects of the housing
division of the Public Works Admin
istration have been retained and the
staff will be enlarged rapidly after
the bill becomes law with Mr..
Roosevelt's signature.
Ward Canady, president of the
United States advertising corpora
ton of Toledo, Chicago and New
York, will be responsible for ex-
planning to home owners how they
may take advantage OF the credit
machinery contemplated by the pro-
gram.
Canady is credited here with con-
ceiving the program as it finally was
enacted by congress. He persuaded
the administration to extend the
scope of its plans beyond paint-up,
clean up and other superficial i'm
provements to include moderniza-
tion of old homes and the building
of new ones.
Create New Markets
His objective was to create new
markets for lumber and other basic
building materials.
The housing bill is designed not
only to stimulate heavy industries,
but to further President Roosevelts
concept of the more abundant life =
The bill sets up a 5000 ,000, 600 in
surance fund for building and loan
associations, similar to the bank de-
posit insurance corporation which
was established last winter. The In
surance fund is expected to handle
the financing of at least $1,000 ,ooo,-
600 worth of home repairs.
The second section of the measure
permits federal loans to finance low
cost housing for workers, while the
third is designed to stimulate private
construction of low cost homes.
It is designed to insure $2,0OO,0oo,-
600 worth of mortgages. half on
houses already built, and half on
homes yet to be constructed.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
SPEECH DEFENDS brain TRUST
Housing Program Being Organize
CONTRACT FOR
CANAL WORK
NOT LET YET

Indications late this after
noon were that contracts for
starting work on the All-Am-
erican canal will not be award
ed before tomorrow.
A United Prejs dispatch re-
ceived at The Press office
shortly after noon advised that
the contract 1lad been drawn
and was being discussed, but
would not be signed until late
today or possibly tomorrow, the
department of the interior
having advised the United
Press to that effect.
As it was O'Clock p. m. in
Washington when The Press
wire closed, it is assumed that
signing the contract was de-
layed until Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
NRA Chief Planning
To Make Coast Trip

LOS ANGELES, June 20. U.P)-
General Hugh S. johnson, head of
the NRA, contemplates a trip to the
Pacific coast this summer. accord
ing to advices received today by
Charles H. Cunningham, local NRA
director.
According to tentative plans,
General johnson will arrive in Los
Angeles about July 81. His object,
according to Cunningham. is to OBJ
tain first hand information of the
NRA in various cities in the west.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS

NEW YORK, June 2o-The trans
Atlantic mystery of how and why
Agnes C. Tufverson disappeared
came perilously close today to the
most ominous category in police an
nals-"the perfect crime"
The keenest minds OF detective
forces in three nations continued to
narrow their search for clues, refus-
ing to admit perfection" in any
crime.
But they were baked. temporar-
which has spread its vague threads
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
PREPARE STRATOSPHERE FLIGHT
Army Airmen Getting Largest Balloon Ever
Built Ready For Trip.

including the gondola, contains
$500 pieces of cloth cemented to-
gether and more than seven miles
of fabric.
1t is three and one-half times the
size of the largest balloon ever de-
signed
The airmen will take off from
the center of the natural bowl as
soon after July as weather condi-
tions permit.
CHICAGO. June 20. UP)-Gov-
ernment weather forecasters pre-
dicted today that the Kepner-Stev-
ems stratosphere balloon, expected
to ascend about July | from RAPID
City, S. D., will land somewhere
along the eastern end of the Min
neSota-I Iowa boundary.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
,OUAKES IN BAY CITY

SAN FRANCISCO, June 20. U.1)
TWO sharp earthquakes we're felt
throughout the San Francisco
peninsula at $40 a. m. today. NO
damage was reported at South san
Francisco. Redwood City, San Ma
too or Burlingame. The tremors
were felt less severely in San
Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
AIR RACES SET

CLEVELAND, June 20. U.P) =
The 1884 national air races will be
held here August 81 to September
3, President l.. w. Greeve of Ma
tional Air Races, Inc, said today.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
AlMiLL-.


HOLLYWOOD, June 10. (Spe-
ciaD-We was all setting around
on the moving picture "set"
this afternoon, Irwin Cobb en-
tertaining us 100 per cent as
usual. I said: "Irvin / got to
write my daily mess. What's
something komical in the days
newS?'
"Well, Will, you couldn't
get anything much funnier
than England and France
wanting us to use our influence
with Germany, to get them to
pay France and England
wouldn't be surprised if
they don't try to show where
we was on the note, and they
will be suing us.
When we read our papers to-
day and found congress had
adjourned it reminded you of
Armistice day. They say ticker
tape in New York was foot
thick.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
Baseball Scores
National League

At Chicago r H E
New York ........207 002 100-12 18 0
Chicago ..............002 010 130-7 7 IL 2
Fitzsimmons, Bell, Smith and
Mancuso; Root, Joiner, Weaver,
Timing and Hartnett.
At Cincinnati r II E
Philadelphia .....001 900 003-4 7 6
Cincinnati 900 020 04x-6 7 0
A. Moore ~ Todd, Derringer,
johnson, 81 Johnson & lombard.
At Pittsburgh r II E
Boston ..................200 900 201-5 7 l
Pittsburgh lilo 100 201-6 Is 0
Cantwell, Smith and Spohrer; Lu-
cas-, Chagnon and Grace.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
American League

NdIIIWtIIf oIIIIUII dfIu opOIII CI
cas-, Chagnon and Grace.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-11
UNCLE WIGGILY'S BEACH
PLUMS

When Uncle Wiggily picked up a
small basket in the kitchen of his
hollow stump bungalow one morn
ing, and started to hop out of the
back door, Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuz-
zy asked him where he was 60
ing.
I'm going to gather beach
plums,' said the rabbit gentleman
with a jolly little twinkle of his
pink nose.
"Beach plums" exclaimed the
muskrat lady housekeeper. "Are
you teasing me? know many
things can be found on the sea-
shore beach, such as starfish, clans,
seaweed with little pop guns on the
stems and pretty shells. But plums!
Do they really grow on the beach
in sand?'
"Not exactly in the sand, per-
haps," answered Uncle Wiggily.
s'For in sand very little but coarse
sedge grass will grow. But where
the beach plums grow there is gar
den dirt mixed with the sand.
And now, as it is about time for
plurns to be ripe. I am going to
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-11
TO THE VOTERS
OF
Judicial Township No. 2

I am candidate for the office
of Justice of the Peace, and most
respectfully request your sup
port at the Primary Election,
August %.
In addition to 40 years prac-
tice of the law, go years in
Texas and the past 20 years in
the courts of Imperial Valley, +,
I have held the following offices:
County Attorney, Young County,
Texas, six years; Member of 33rd
Texas Legislature, one term,
1913; City Attorney, City of
Holtville, six years; Deputy Dis
trict Attorney, Imperial County,
four years; Police Judge, City
of Ell Centre eight months.
My qualifications for the Of
flee are known and admitted
by all of my acquaintances.
believe in honesty, efficiency,
economy and a fair and impair
tial administration Of both the
criminal and civil laws.
I feel that many felony
charges in which the proof is
uncertain and doubtful, should
be finally disposed of in pre-
liminary hearings before Mag
istrates, without incurring the
cost and expense of jury trials
in the Superior Court.
If elected, I shall and will,
endeavor at all times to guard
the best interests of the people
of the state and the taxpayers
of the county.
Trusting that you will give
my claims to this office due
consideration, and thanking you
in advance,
1 am yours for Square Deal,
JOHN E. SIMPSON