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Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-18
CONSIDERING
ARBITRATION
PROPOSITION
Tendency To Defy Dictates OF
Workers Committee Reported
On Increase.
MARINE UNIONS ON SPOT
Conservative Labor Willing To
Return To Work If Peace Plan
Not Adopted.
MARINE UNIONS ON SPOT

SAN FRANCISCO, July 18. (U.P)
While strike leaders awaited out
come of their proposals for ar
bitration. public and private agen-
cies today began shaking off the
shackles of the San Francisco gen.
eral strike.
The result was a definite easing
of the food shortage, and signs of
improvement in the general sit
| uation.
There were, here and there, cases
| of open defiance on the part OF
| the business community, of the
so-called "dictation' by the general
strike committee.
The city-owned and operated
Municipal Railways announced it
| would run busses on third street,
which leads to the Southern Pa
cific passenger station, and on
| which street car strikers have tied
| up the usual Market Street Rail-
ways Service.
| Notified that the Standard Oil
Company of California would be
allowed under a dispensation from
| the strike committee to deliver
fuel oil to apartment houses in
trucks carrying strike committee
permits, Philip Patchin, vice presi-
dent of the oil company answered.:
Apartment house owners will be
served without limit but our per-
mits will be in the form of police
protection"
| National guardsmen, assigned to
protect food trucks in the whole
| sale district, ripped off several
trucks the strike committees per-
mits which they were displaying.
Ease Up Rules
The strike committe still further
| relaxed its embargo on food stuffs.
Having increased the number OF
| licensed" restaurants yesterday to
| 10, during the night the permit
| committee issued authorization to
$50 butcher shops to open for to-
day only, giving housewives
chance to replenish meat supplies.
It was agreed by the permit
committee of the strike committee
that retailers would be allowed to
| drive their own automobiles to
wholesale houses and haul away
supplies. Trucks cannot be used
| to deliver to retailers.
| The city of San Francisco put
! 10 street repair trucks back into
operation.
City and county automobiles were
buying their gasoline from two
gasoline stations which were run
ming without licenses" and selling
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-18
DIVORCE OF M'ADOOS WILL BE
PROBED BY PRESIDING JUDGE
Unusual Speed With Which Decree Was Civ
en- Arouses Curiosity Of Collier Who Ad-
mits Action Undoubtedly Legal.

filed and go through the regular
processes in the time which this
action took, but I want to know
that all the processes were duly
followed in this case"
The decree is interlocutory
Under California law, Mrs. Nc
Adoo may apply within one year
for a final decree. Mrs. McAdoo
was granted the decree within a
few minutes after her attorneys
had filed the action late yesterday
Mrs. McAdoo charged cruelty;
said in brief testimony from the
witness stand the senator's tastes
and differences" have become SO
different from her own they have
become incompatible.
The senator's attorney filed an
answer denying charges in the
complaint; filed also a stipulation
the case might be tried without
jury and without being con-
tested. Hence the quick action.
Both parties issued public state
ments asserted greatest admiration
CONTINUED On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-18
COMMIT TEE
WAITING FOR
SCH407TLlANID
SERA Director Expected To At
tend Conference Tonight AT
Court House.
MORE TANKS REACH HERE
Officials To Confer With Gov
ernor Olachea On Cooperat-
ing During Drought.
MORE TANKS REACH HERE

Matters pertaining to the relief
of the drought situation here ap-
pear to be running along smooth
ly leaders said today with various
tentative plans of operation re-
manning to be discussed. Charles I.
Schottland, relief director for
Southern California is expected
here today. He will be present at
a meeting of the emergency wat
er control committee at the court
house tonight at which time latest
information on the situation will
be revealed and discussed with
further details of the relief pro-
gram being worked out.
I'VE are anxious to get in touch
with Governor Olachea and thresh
out the general water situation"
w. j. Sterrett, county SERA di-
rector stated this morning. With
this in view conference with the
governor of Baja California is be-
ing arranged and will probably be
held in Mexicali sometime tomor-
row. Schottland and Sterrett will
confer with Governor Olachea at
this meeting.
The following telegram was re-
ceived by Sterrett this morning
from l.. w. Ganyard, state director
of women's work: California grant
ed federal funds for purchase of
cotton and ticking for the manufac-
ture of mattresses to be distrib-
uted among relief clients. Space
must be provided by the county.
Will send instructions for manu-
facturc. Project employs unskilled
men and women"
Federal Agent Expected
In connection with this telegram
Sterrett stated that he expected
in the neighborhood of 200 per-
sons, mostly women, will be put
to work on this project right away.
1t was rumored this morning
that a government engineer is ex-
pected to arrive in the valley with
in a day or two to make a special
survey of the present situation.
Another rumor, which could not be
substantiated, is to the effect that
another government agent has al
ready arrived here but nothing
could be learned as to the object
of his mission.
No telegram was received this
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-18
C|TY'S WATER
TANKS FULL
Preparations Being Made To
Handle SERA Water For Local
Drinking Supply.

All tanks at the city water plant
are again filled to capacity, Phil
knights, city engineer said today.
In their present state they contain
about 45,0O0.OOO gallons and this
is computed to be about a months
supply.
Water from the canal will stop
being delivered to the city to-
morrow, Knights said, after which
the city will run on the storage
supply in the tanks until water is
again available from the canal
which will be in a week or so.
Rapid progress is being made in
laying the mile and quarter en-
ergency pipe line from a siding
near the brick yard east of the
city limits, along Ross avenue to
the water plant. About two thirds
of this line has been welded and
it is expected that this will be in
operation about Saturday of this
week, knights said.
This emergency line will handle
SERA water which will be placed
on, the siding and then pumped
directly to a 100000 gallon tank at
the water plant. This water will
be distributed to residents of the
city and It's immediate rural areas
for drinking purposes, if and when
such action should become neces-
sary, Knights said.
The tank in which this water
is to be stored is at present part
of the city water plant system but
it is to be cut off from general
use and devoted entirely to the
storage of this special water for
drinking purposes.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-18

CHICAGO, July 10. tU.D = Will
liam H. Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, said
today that the San Francisco gen.
eral strike had mo national sig
nificance" and that the A. F. of L..
was not entering into the contro-
verSy.
Green made his statement while
enroute to Racine, Wis, to address
a convention of the Wisconsin Fed
Grafton of Labor and ask for the re-
election of Sen Robert M. LaFol-
lette.
1.-The strike at San Francisco is
strictly local in character and pos
sesses no national significance" he
said, ut originated with the work.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-18
OF Water Functioning Smoothly
Registration To
Close Thursday

Tomorrow is the last day
for citizens to make certain
that they are properly regis
tered in order to vote at the
August primary.
Friday it will be too late.
Any who are in doubt about
their registration or who know
they have not registered, have
only one day more in which
to get Strengthened out.
If you missed the last two
regular elections your old
registration is Cancelled. 1t
might pay to look up the mat
ter.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-18
SAN FRANCISCO STRIKE EASING Up SLIGHTLY
@WllL-.o
F's:syRoGERs
W 'says:

SAN FRANCISCO, July II.
(SpeciaD - Well, for a little
fresh air away from Hollywood,
I made a two-hour flight up to
Frisco last night. Lovely his
toric old place. But it seems
nothing ever happens here.
Never saw it as quiet. About
the only news is Max Baer, who
lives near here, announces that
he won't fight this fall. That set
the old town kinder agog. I see
among the hotel arrivals is
Gen. Hugh johnson, who Is
passing through going to Los
Angeles. He is electioneering
for the NRA.
Some talk of President Roose-
welt pulling in here for fuel.
But I see where he has gone
to Honolulu instead. Nothing
ever happens in this town. Oh,
yes, the national guard is using
the old town as a summer camp,
instead of Monterey. That
brings in a little extra money.
The chamber of commerce land
ed them. To kinder stir up a
little interest in the place, the
acting governor spoke on the
radio last night "Civic Pride"
Certainly a quiet, restful old
city, but nothing ever happens
here.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-18
GREEN DISCOUNTS COAST STRIKE
Labor Chief Says San Francisco Affair Has
NO National Significance

ers directly involved through an as
sumption of authority growing out
of certain autonomous rights con-
ferred upon local organizations.
Their representatives ordered
the strike and must accept full re-
sponsibility for this action
The American Federation of La
tor, he said, neither ordered the
strike, nor authorized it.
"At no time has the A. F. of LIS
counsel or advice been solicited, or
its services been requested"
Green added that, even though
the federation is not directly in
volved. it is deeply concerned"
over the San Francisco situation ana
is hopeful for speedy settlement.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-18
BEGINNERS LUCK

CLINTON, Conn. (U.P) - Edward
Fitzpatrick is a firm believer in
beginners luck. While seasoned
fishermen complained of small
catches, Fitzpatrick, casting a line
for the first time, landed IA
pound striped bass. 1t took him
an hour to pull it into the boat.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-18

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Evening star., 1934-02-25
,sh courtesy of Kennedy q o.

When the human family moved in
the game families had to move out.
Other unheeded acres were added to
cultivation by slashing away the pro-
tective vegetation from the hillsides
and exposing the prolific endowment of
rich top soil to erosion. The net result
of this has been to smother the once
clear stream beds under a blanket Of
mud. Thousands Of cubic miles Of
Americas richest soil are now In deltas
at the mouths Of our rivers.
\A/ATER, the one indispensable eles
ment of which nature bestowed
q balanced ration in the lakes and
sloughs of our uplands, we have hur-
ried of like an unwelcome guest-only
to drown the inhabitants in the lower
valleys and periodically inundate their
fields and riverside towns. Ut would
be en1ightening to see q balance sheet
on which the annual loss by floods was
set over against the value of the crops
raised on artificially drained lands.)
Draining of the water from its natural
reservoirs has done even more than thia
Evening star., 1934-02-25
ION THE WINGS OF MORNINGS" Prom . water color
BY J. N. DARLING C'Dnng'')

ming, for the first time, to consider ways
and means of backing out of situation
which we have come to realize was So
cially intolerable and nationally sui
cidal
Overexpansion of agriculture came
about like all overexpansions-by over
promotion, with all the profit going to
the promoter. Land seekers excursions
to the wilderness! Extravagant prom
ises of easy fortunes and ideal climate!
Whole telephone directories full of
people, lured by the call of the "open
spaces" vibrantly dramatized by promo
ton literature, were led like the Pied
Piper's rats out into the lean and un-
productive acres of the border lands,
there to be trapped In economic nOoses
from which there was no escape. The
thin soil was soon exhausted or washed
away, but the discouraged inhabitants
are still there-an those who could not
get away-contributing their meager
harvest to help overbalance the markets.
Evening star., 1934-02-25

-HE abSent-minded professor who
came down to breakfast, poured
the maple sirup on his bald
head and scratched his buck
wheat cakes was no more dis
orderly in his progress toward the goal
of his physical needs than have been
the inhabitants of this North American
continent in their misdirected utiliza-
ton of the Nations natural resources.
The mess which we have created for
ourselves is equally astonishing and in
excuSable. We have just had look
at ourselves in the mirror of depression
and realized that we ought to do some
thing about it. A national program for
the restoration of America to herself is
just beginning to take form. And in
that plan to conserve and restore our
national resources the recovery of our
lost legions of game and wild life has a
very logical place
Since restoration of wild game must
be primarily dependent upon turning
back to nature large areas of marshes
and upland nesting grounds, any ma
tional game program will have to be
Evening star., 1934-02-25

predicated upon a more pressing eco
nomic necessity than just to give the
boys something to shoot at. Fortu-
nately, or unfortunately, that economic
necessity is urgently present in the
plight of agriculture. A greatly overex-
panded agricultural plant must curtail
it's production just as surely as an over
expanded industry must let some of its
factories lie idle.
THE Federal Government is now COM
mitted to the retirement by pur-
chase of several million acres of farm
land. AS in any other industry, the
worn-out equipment. the least efficient
win be the first to be dropped out of
production. Nothing could be better
suited to the restoration of game than
turning these marginal lands back to
nature. Industry has retired its un-
profitable units from operation for so
long . time that it is accepted as q
natural law. Agriculture is now begin
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-02-17
YOUR INCOME TAX ''"
 No. 9 Who Is the Head
 of a Family i

A taxpayer, though single, who supports and maintains in one household one or more individuals who are closely connected with him by blood relationship, relationship by marriage, or by adoption, and whose right to exercise family con trol and provide for these depen- dent individuals is based upon some moral and legal obligation, Is the head of family, and entitl- ed to the same exemption allowed a married person-$2,5O0. Also he may claim $4o0 credit for each dependent. For example, widower who supports in one household an aged mother and a daughter IT years old is entitled to an exemp- ton of $2,500 as the. head of a family, plus credit of $4O0 for each dependent, a total of $500. The $400 credit, however, does not apply to the, wife, or husband of a taxpayer, though one may be totally dependent upon the other
 Several factors are involved in determining whether person who files return as the head of a family is to be thus classified The element of either legal or financial dapondonott y,,,tv+ ovie+ A +ox,a,ex
 who supports in his home minor children over whom he exercises family control is classified as the head of a family, even though the children may have an income of their own sufficient for their main- tenance. If he does not support them, by reason of their own in- come, but does exercise family con-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-02-17

trol, he cannot be classified as the head of a family s.w
 If an individual supported is an adult and there rests upon the tax payer a moral or legal obligation to provide a home and care for such individual. the exemption as the head of a family is allowed. pro vided the individual is financially dependent. If the, individual is not financially dependent, the exemp- tion,, even though the taxpayer maintains the common home and furnishes the chief support, aces not apply. ,s
 For income-tax purposes there can be only one head of q family and the exemption cannot be divid- cd. Not infrequently claims for the $2,500 exemption are received from two or more members of a family. ..,',...
 1t should be remembered that a single person, whether or not the head of a family, is required to file a return if his or her net in- come for 1883 was sl,0O0 or more, regardless of whether the return is nontaxable by reason of the $2 800 exemption.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-02-17

tCOnCluueQ rom Page O0e) standardization of sightseeing trips and costs, and the general promo ton of sightseeing" MT. Lingo said.
 For sits members, the Gray Line Association distributes tickets and advertising material to all rail- road and steamship offices, infor- nation bureaus and tourist com panies throughout the Unite d States and Canada. Costs of this service are apportioned among the various maplbers and the associa- tion, itself, is profit making organization.
 "A folder is now being prepared by the Juneau Gray Line Company for distribution in the States, and on steamers coming to Alaska, which will advertise primarily the Mendenhall Glacier trip, though nearly half of the folder will be devoted to advertising other attrac- tions for tourists in and around Juneau in an effort to encourage travellers to spend more time here while touring through the Terri tory" declared Mir. Lingo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-02-17
LARGE z B CROWD EXPECTED AT
 PARtY-DANCE
Joint Affair to Be Given . Tonight by Douglas
 Organizations

The dinner-card party-dance be- ing given jointly by the Pr. A. and D. I. w. o.. in the. Eagles Hall tonight promises to be the hig date for a large number of people of the Channel, Not only fer the cohplete evenings enter tainment that will be afforded but to aid in the purpose of the af- fair, benefit of school" will many attend. n
 Starting with a good dinner at 5:30 the serving of which will continue until 8 or 8;30, ther card playing followed by more eats and then dancing for the even- ing's wind-up is the program, all for a small fee. ra.7n
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-02-17

foreign exchange experts includes ironing out minor fluctuations in exchange value of the pound, con trolling major movements of the pound, increasing the gold supply of the Bank of England, protecting the country from flight of capital
 When the fate of the American fund was debated before congress, some economists warned that there would be a risk of losing the entire i fund in the market. For example, the dollar price of the pound might be $5 when the U. s. Fund would purchase a million pounds with five million dollars. But the price might be $4 when the Amer ican fund decided to bolster it by selling the million pounds for four million dollars, the market price. Then Uncle Sam would mark up loss of a million dollars. The reverse result would be possible, too.
 Sudden Demand Is Problem
 One of the first problems tn. fund may face is return of fugi- tive American capital. When the dollar appeared headed for infla- tion capital fled to pounds or francs. But with stabilization this same capital may seek to return to American dollars.
 To do this the foreign holdings must be changed into dollar hold ings, thus creating a tremendous demand for dollars. Such de- mand tends to boost prices, and the American stabilization fund might have to throw large amounts of dollars on the market to keep the price from rising too high
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-02-17
Creamed Ham and Chicken

Serving Six
 Four tablespoons butter; six tab espoons flour; three cups milk; one half teaspoon salt; one-quarter tea spoon paprika; one and one-half ups diced cooked chicken; two- thirds cup diced cooked ham; two tablespoons chopped celery; two tablespoons chopped green peppers; two tablespoons chopped pimien- tos; one egg, beaten.
 Melt butter and add flour. Add milk, cook until creamy sauce forms. Stir constantly. Add season. ings, chicken and ham. Cook three minutes. Add egg and beat well. Serve poured over toast.
 Spiced Pear Salad
 Six halves spiced pears; one third cup cottage cheese: one third cup diced celery; one-third cup nuts; one-half cup salad dressing
 Mix tablespoon of dressing with cheese, celery and nuts. Place on top pears arranged on lettuce. Add remaining dressing. Serve at once.
 All ingredients should be chilled before they are combined.
 Sunlight Cake
 One and one-half cups sugar; i; one-half cup water; six egg whites, beaten; six egg yo1ks; one teaspoon vanilla; one-haH teaspoon lemon extract; one-half teaspoon orange extract; one-quarter teaspoon salt; one and one-half cups pastry flour; one teaspoon cream of tartar.
 Boil sugar and water two min utes. Pour slowly into beaten whites and beat until thick and nearly cool, add rest of ingredients, mix ing lightly with egg beater. Pour into ungreased pan and bake ten minutes in moderate oven. Lower fire and bake 50 minutes in very slow oven. Invert pan until cake is cool. Carefully remove from pan. It may be served with topping of fresh or canned fruits and ice cream or whipped cream.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-02-17
By RAIDER WINGET

NEW YORK, Feb. -Stabiliza- ton of the American dollar in for eign exchange through a $2,0O0,000.- 000 fund is a task presenting un- charted problems in international finance.
 In simple explanation of how the fund might work, the level of water in a bucket could be used as an example. Value of the dollar would correspond to the water lev el, and controlling this level would be the stabi1ization pump attached to a $2.0Oo, 100000 fund reservoir.
 In daily action of foreign ex- change trading the water level ot dollar value might become too high and increase the reading on the dollar price gauge, for instance well above the old sterling par of $4.86 Such a high level would sig nalize depreciation of the dollar and tend to inflate domestic com modity prices.
 s Restoring The Level
 So into action could come the stabilization pump and withdraw dollar water from the barrel un- til the level comes nearer the de- sired mark. The financial transac- tion would be purchase of Ameri- can dollars with gold or some for eign currency.
 But the English also have a sta- biliaation fund of nearly $2,000 000,- 900, and they also might use it to lower the dollar price of the pound.
 In that case the dollar level might sink below the point Ameri- can authorities desire. and the American stabilization fund could pump dollar 'water" back into the barrel to raise the gauge level.
 That financial transaction would be the sale of dollars.
 English and American "engi- neers' operating the two gigantic pumps, however, might disagree on the level to be set, and one might pump dollar water out while the other pumps it in Then would follow the foreign exchange war about which financiers and states men have hinted darkly.
 British Operations Secret
 Such, currency battle has been called unlikely" but it might en- sue if either country believed the others currency was extremely de- preciated and jeopardized foreign trade.
 Greatest secrecy surrounds op- eration of the British fund, and no accounting of it's operation ever has been made public.
 The English operate their fund with assets derived from sale of treasury bills. If they want the price of pounds to decrease, they sell pounds. In selling they pur- chase dollars or gold or francs or some other monetary unit. That makes other monetary units scarcer and pounds more plentiful in the market place.
 The American fund, built from appreciation of gold holdings due to dollar devaluation, could oper- ate in the same manner. If pounds were cheap making dollars dear the fund could sell large amounts of dollars in foreig n exchange, make the supply plentiful, beat down the exchange value of the dollar.
 Purpose of British Fund
 The four-fold purpose of the British fund as seen by Wall Street
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-02-17
REVELERSREORGANIE; SIX NOW IN ORCHESTRA

The Revelers, popular local dance band, playing for the Mandarin Gardens, has been reorganized with the idea of perfecting their orches- ,tration. Mrs Ellen Scnaffer is pianist; Bob Wald, saxophone and clarinet; Glenn Wald, trumpet Roy Jackson, trombone; Du e Haynes, banjo, and Smoky Mills, drums. m