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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07
VALLEY GOLF
STARS BATTLE
At PHOENIX

PHOENIX, April 7, U.P) - Kim
mic Bannister, slender unassuming
15-year- old golf wizard who has
sent two former state champions
to the showers in the Southwestern
Golf association championship
matches here. lost his stride to-
day and was down at the end of
the first Is holes in the semi
finals.
Kimmie, the sensation of the
tournament, started strong during
the first few holes of the morn
ing rounds but seemed to get in
trouble as Bob Goldwater, title
holder in 1927 shot excellent golf
for 70, one over par.
Watch him work this after
noon," Kimmie remarked when he
came in for lunch. I'm gonna
take that old boy yet" Young
Bannister opened his bag of tricks
yesterday on Milt Coggins, state
amateur champion in the morning
rounds and then put George
Cornes, former champion out of
the race in the afternoon.
Spec Stewart, three times cham
pion of the association from Stan
ford university and Albuquerque,
N. NJ, and Laddie Willoughby, Cal
exico, Calf, winner of the Aqua
Caliente amateur title this year,
were even when they came home
for lunch at the end of the morn
ing rounds.
Players in the other six flights
will conclude their matches later
in the day.
DR.. James Vance. Ell Paso, Tex,
lost in the semi-finals of the first
flight to w. G. Wagner, Phoenix,
5 and 4. In the consolation flight
S. E. Stretton, Ell Paso, took his
match from Merle Hartley, Phoe-
nix, l up on the 1856 hole, and
Don Rex, Ell Centre, Calf, beat
Thomas Long, Superior, Ariz., 2 up.
Rex and Stretton were playing
their finals this afternoon.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07
CITY VOTERS
CD To POLLS
NEXT MONDAY
Press Presents Full Information
On Polling Places, Candidates
And Referendum.

With tomorrow as the last day
on which to give a final and thor
ough study to the matter. Ell Cen
trans are preparing to go to the
polls Monday for one of the hottest
city elections of past years. A rec
ord vote is expected due both to
the interest the campaign has Gre
ated and also because of the large
number of persons registered here
this year.
The polls will open Monday
morning a clock and close at 7
o clock in the evening. Three bal
loting places which comprise the
IL regular city precincts have been
set up and are as follows:
Precinct "A'', at city hall COM
prises regular precincts 4, 5, 6, 7
and 8.
Precinct OBJ, at Veterans Mem
orial hall, comprises regular pre-
cincts l, 2 and 3.
Precinct "C'', at Lincoln school,
comprises regular precincts 9, 10,
II and IL.
This election is to be held for
the purpose of electing city clerk
two members of the city council
and further to give the residents of
this city an opportunity to register
their will in the matter of retaining
or repeating the city ordinance
which authorizes the collection of a
one mill tax to be used for music,
parks and advertising purposes.
The fund raised through this tax
is better known as the chamber of
commerce fund.
Five candidates are in the field
for the city council race. These
are Herbert w. Fawcett, incumbent,
George w. Damron, Leo Hetzel,
Barney S. Leblanc and Roy H.
Womack. For city clerk the follow
ing are candidates: Charles Brat
ton, incumbent. Irwin Maupin and
Cal G. Mousseau.
The proposition set before the
voters is the repeal or retention of
city ordinance No. BIT, which au-
thorizes the one mill tax, by means
of ordinance No. 375. A "Yes'
majority will repeal the tax, a
mo" majority will mean its reten-
ton.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07
FINAL APPEAL 70 VOTERS FOR
SUPPORT OF ADVERTISING LEVY
Charles E. Sones Asks Citizens To Insure
City's Growth BY Voting NO Monday.

Charles E. Sones, a pioneer of I'M
perial Valley, one of Ell Centro'S
leading civic workers, and a former
mayor of the city, in an appeal
made today urged heavy vote on
Monday against the repeal PROPOSE
ton appearing on the ballot. THE
list of 100 Jobs Well Performed by
Your Chamber Of Commerce which
7 received, and which went to other
citizens of Ell Centre, should con-
vince anyone that the work made
possible by the mill tax for the bet
terment of Ell Centre has been out
standing in character and guam
tity,' stated Sones.
Continuing, Gle speaker said:
This is a vast number of achieve
ments which have resulted in in
creased population, more business in
Ell Centre, aid to Imperial Valleys
agriculture, greater highway travel
to Ell Centre and many other &C
complishments which have benefit
ted every citizen and every worker,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07
SURVIVOR OF PLANE CRASH TALKS
Newton c. Marshall Resigned To Death
When Found By Jungle Indians.

CALI, Colombia, April 7. UP
Newton c. Marshall, Milwaukee
mining engineer, was recovering to-
day at ranch where he was taken
by Indians who found him in the
jungle, resigned to death, weeks
after an airplane crash of which
he was the only survivor
Marshall and the Indians told
the story of the crash and of his
rescue.
The Indians said they saw float
ing in the Uribe river a necktie,
then a shirt. Canoeing upstream
they came across the decomposing
body of a man, sitting upright on
the river bank. He was believed to
be E. Jahncke, mechanic of the
plane.
Next they found a body, prone
on the ground, the hands grasping
a flashlight and a pistol. 1t was
that of Walter eek, German war
ace pilot.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07
PRESS EXTENDS ITS THANKS TO
OUR READERS AND ADVERTISERS

ewspaper Appreciation
Week, sponsored by the Cali
fcrnia Newspaper Publishers
association, which is concluded
today, cannot be more fittingly
brought to a close than by re-
versing the purpose of the week
and expressing the sincere ap-
probation of The Imperial Val
ley Press, to the loyal subscrib-
ers, advertisers and readers of
this publication.
The bulk of The Press sub
scribers reside in the Ell Centre
trading area, extending from
Holtville on the east, to Plaster
City on the west, from CaleXicO
in the south, to Imperial on the
north, with a large circulation
in both cities of HOltvilIe and
Imperial, which are without
daily papers. The Press also
numbers subscribers in every
Fart of Imperial Valley.
Outside of the valley The
Press has subscribers in all
parts of California. In addition
it numbers subscribers i'm Ar
kansas, Arizona, Colorado, Con-
necticut, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana,
Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland,
Michigan, North Carolina, New
York, Ohio. Oregon, Pennsyl-
yania, Texas, Washington and
the District of Columbia.
The circulation files show
scores of subscribers who have
been constant readers of The
Press for more than 20 years.
There are some even in the 80
year period.
This loyal group of readers is
the finest asset any paper can
have. To them The Press is
mere than a newspaper. II is as
important In their daily lives as
breakfast. dinner and supper, or
shoes and hats. II enters their
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07
BANDITS FREE
POLICE CHIEF
Federal Men And Militia On
Trail OF Trio Who Held Of
ficer As Hostage.

FORT SCOTT, KanS., April 7.
U.P)-Federal and state officers and
Kansas national guardsmen fol-
lowed a hot trail today in their
search for Clyde Barrow and his
outlaw companions after the motor
ious desperate released a hostage
kidnapped in Oklahoma.
Police Chief Percy Boyd Of Com
merce, Okla, suffering from a min
or scalp wound received when his
companion, Constable Cal Campbell
of Miami, Okla, was killed by the
outlaws near Commerce, told of a
wild ride with three outlaws he said
were Barrow, Bonnie Parker and
Raymond Hamilton.
Boyd said MS captors treated his
injured head ana gave nm a clean
shirt to replace his blood drenched
garment before releasing him on a
highway near here early today
The killing at Commerce was the
latest chapter to a long story OF
Barrow's bloody forays during the
last two years. Less than a week
ago, he and his companions alleged
ly killed two highway patrolmen
near Grapevine, Texas.
Campbell and Boyd were /shot
when they sought to investigate 9
car with a bullet hole in the wind
shield, stuck in the mud near the
little town. AS they stopped then
car alongside, Campbell covered the
two men and the woman with hi!
pistol.
Use Machine Guns
A burst of machine gun fire fellec
the officials before they fired (
shot. Barrow and his companion
leaped out, disarmed Boyd anc
threw him into the back seat Of
their machine.
The car was sighted several times
in Kansas late yesterday. Most Of
the time, Boyd said, they were
cruising Eastern Kansas side roads
In the flight from Oklahoma, Bar
row sometimes drove as fast as &c
miles an hour.
Barrow did all the driving" sale
Boyd. Bonnie Parker sat in the
front seat with him and the other
man was with me in the back.
"They were heavily armed. saw
three machine guns. three shot gins
and a number of pistols. They hac
a suitcase of extra ammunition"
Boyd said his captors stopped
three times at filling stations to buy
gasoline, purchasing 10 gallons al
each stop.
Both Barrow and Hamilton are
convicted murders and Hamilton
was under sentences in Texas total
ing more than 200 years.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07
M<& R1>%4.
eiss(. McNauaht Syndicate. Ina
To
CONFER WITH
LABOR Groups

At o'clock tomorrow afternoon
General Pelham Glassford will con-
fer with groups of Mexican workers
at the Planters hotel, Brawley.
These conferences are part of the
program instituted by the labor
conciliator to get at the truth con-
corning labor conditions as they now
exist in the county and were during
the recent lettuce and pea strikes.
This afternoon, the conferences
which were started yesterday will be
continued with county officials and
other citizens appearing before
Glassford and the state board to
give additional information.
Conferences were held until a late
hour last night with O. C. Hoffman,
San Diego American Federation OF
Labor representative, Stanley Han
cock, S. G. Alexander and Miss Hell
en- Marston, San Diego, appearing
before the investigators with their
testimony
The labor situation was discussed
by them with reference to the for
nation of labor unions here, it be-
ing brought out that it would be al
most impossible for two organiza-
tons among the MeXicans, that of
the Mexican Association and the
field workers Industrial Union to
get along on terms of harmony. 1t
was pointed out further that each
of these organizations claims to
have large memberships among the
workers
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07
Comedian Tries
Marriage Again

HOLLYWOOD, April 7. up
Stan Laurel. smaller partner of the
Laurel Hardy screen comic team,
failed in one marriage but has
embarked on second, it was learn
ed today.
The screw-faced comedian said
he eloped to Aqua Caliente Tues
day with Mrs. Ruth Rogers, Los
Angeles widow. To forestall legal
complications arising from the fact
that his divorce from his first wife
is not yet final, he and his bride
will not live together until the final
decree is awarded next October,
Laurel added. A California cere-
mony then will be performed.
Laurel and his first wife, Lois,
were divorced last October after
several attempted reconciliations
failed. Mrs. Laurel was awarded
custody of their daughter, Lois, s.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07

family circle daily, and enter
tains and instructs the children,
keeps the family informed of
local, national and information
al activities and tells the house
wife, through its advertising
columns, where she can best
spend the family dollar.
Advertisers, both within and
without Imperial Valley, recOg-
nize The Press as the best me-
dunn available to them for plac-
ing their products before the
buying public in the Ell Centre
trading area. They know The
Press subscription list is auth
entic and contains the names of
actual, paid-up subscribers, who
read it carefully from cover to
cover, and who look to it for
information relative to prospec-
tive purchases.
To subscribers and advertisers
we extend our sincere thanks
for their loyal SUPPORT and as
sure them that the high ideals
which have made The Press an
outstanding home paper will
continue to guide this publica-
ticn in the future as they have
in the past.
The Press holds enmity to-
ward none. Some of its best
friends are those whom it has
opposed politically or with
whom it differs on various mat
tiers. 1t respects their opinions
and their beliefs and is happy in
having their respect in turn.
We close Newspaper Appreci-
alton Week hoping our readers
and our advertisers feel that
they know us a little better and
with the assurance to them that
we are always glad to welcome
them at any time, whether they
come with grievances, with
praise, or just to visit.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07
TO QUESTION
SUSPECT IN
Staying CASE

SEATTLE, April 7, U.H = With
two bullet holes in his leg, man,
said to be an ex-convict. was ques-
toned at King county hospital to-
day in connection with the Brem-
erton mass murder mystery.
He gave the name of Roy Duclaw,
%, and said he was recently shot
at Kelso, Wash, when he endeav-
ored to board milk Train. The
bullet wounds appeared to be five
or six days old.
He was arrested last night at
Renton, Wash, when he went to
the home of friend for aid. The
friend notified police.
He told Detective Harlan S. CAL
lahan at the hospital today that he
was recently paroled here and was
asked to leave the state. He went
to California, according t his
story, but returned and was shot at
Kelso when he tried to board a
train.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07
CHINA SEEKS TO UNITE FACTIONS
Chang Kai Shel1 And Other Leaders Con-
fer On Nations Future

NANCHANG. China, April 7.
U.P)-Important conferences with
probably far-reaching effects in
ternationally began today among
China's most powerful leaders.
Prominent in the discussions of
governmental policy started at
Nanchang were General Chang
Kai Shek, the military leader
whose soldiers dominate the great
er part of China, and General HUI
ang Flu, his follower and chairman
of the Peiping branch of the CEN
trail political council.
Among the questions they were
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07

Then they found Marshall sit
ting on a stone, resigned to death.
Finally they found the wrecked
airplane that had left Barranquil-
la for Medellin March 7. The
bodies Of two men were in it.
Il was lost in the Jungle said
Marshall, taking up the story. II
had been there three days when the
Indians found me. I was sitting on
a stone, awaiting death
1--WE crashed, lost in fog into
a hillside at noon March 7. Tree
tops broke the impact My teeth
were broken when I was thrown
against the back of the seat ahead
of me. Julio Zuniga, a Colombian
passenger, was killed. A German
named Ness, technician of the Dor
nier-Wahl company. had both legs
broken. He died in agony five days
later, trying to give me a farewell
message in German which I could
not understand -
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07

There is something compelling
about word of a new payroll for
city and FL Centre will enjoy a
new payroll when people see the
advantage of spending their
money at home said Bill Dol
lar
"A new payroll of 100000 a year
will be easy to acquire. Here is
how it is to be done If 1000 people
in this community will stop spend
ing 81 a week out of town, for
goods that can and should be
bought in Ell Centre, that would
mean $4,000 a week kept at home,
or 100000 a year.
'Thoughtlessly people spend their
money out of town without think
ing of the consequences and money
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07
BILL DOLLAR CLAIMS TRADING
AT HOME MEANS NEW PAYROLL

that should be kept in Ell Centre
goes to form a payroll, or the
equivalent thereof. for some other
city and no benefit accrues to the
home city.
Have you ever stopped to think, y
asked Bill" Dollar, when you
spend a dollar just what the re-
suits of that expenditure will be to
you and your family? Here are
10 points to consider
Il. Will it influence your future
in any way?
80. Will it come back to you
again?
80. Will it promote local commu-
nifty growth?
Il. Will it provide local employ
ment and support our home insti-
tutionS?
IS. Will it promote and develop
community opportunities?
6. Will it increase local land
sales?
~. Will it continue to help pay
local taxes?
"8. Will it increase local de-
mand for farm products?
80 Will it preserve the value of
your children's inheritance?
40. Last, but not least. will it
promote happiness and prosperity
for you?
These purposes can only be &C
complished by dollars kept in local
trade channels. Don't make stran-
gers of your dollars by sending
them away from Ell Centric and
Imperial Valley" said Bill Dollar
Copyright, 1884, Fred Mozar0
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07
HOPE To GET
LEGISLATION
BY CONGRESS.
Action Part Of Movement To
Compel Definite Stand By
President Roosevelt.
ADMINISTRATION ALARMED
Measure Provides For Nation
alization OF Metal And Re-
storing 1926 Price Levels.
ADMINISTRATION ALARMED
By LYLE c. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent.
Downright, 1884, by United Press,


WASHINGTON, April IA bill
for naturalization of silver and re-
storation of 1926 commodity price
levels was circulated secretly today
on Capitol Hill.
1t is part of powerful movement
to enact silver legislation this ses-
sion, compelling President Roosevelt
either to accept or veto.
Administration leaders appear
somewhat alarmed by the silver
threat. They now propose compro-
mise built around the Dies silver bill
which passed the house two-to-one
over administration objections.
White House spokesman in the
senate believe Mr.. Roosevelt would
accept the Dies bill if its premium
provisions were eliminated or modi-
fled. AS now drafted the bill would
give premium in purchasing pow
er to foreign silver spent here for
surplus agricultural products.
The proposed naturalization plan
includes reconciliation of silver.
Senator Elmer Thomas, Dem, Okla,
drafted the new proposal. 1t was
Thomas who drew the currency ex-
pansion amendment enacted at the
special session year ago this
month. 1t became the foundation of
administration currency policies.
Thomas proposes that his bill, or
something like it, be attached as an
! ~ n ut RI 20
The Thomas bill provides:
/. Naturalization of domestic sill
yer bullion by purchase at the
: highest spot price prevailing the day
prior to issue Of naturalization
proclamation.
2. Payment to be made with sill
yer certificates.
3. The secretary of treasury would
be authorized henceforth to pur-
/ chase in the world market foreign
silver up to 100000 ounces a
month.
See Big Profit
! These purchases of foreign silver
! would continue until:
! l. Commodity prices had been re-
! stored to 1926 levels, or;
| 2. Silver reached ratio-parity
with the gold dollar.
Silver would be reckoned at S1.29
an ounce in the issue of silver GER
tificates, thereby, as Thomas eX-
planned, creating considerable pro-
fit for the treasury For instance, II
/ 300, 100000 ounces of silver were ma
! tionalized and purchased by procla-
nation at so cents an ounce, the
paper profit to the treasury would
! be the difference between that price
and Sl.29, approximately S240,000,-
| 900.
| Purchase of foreign silver also
would be made with silver certifi-
! Gates, Thomas said.
Silver senators believe they can
! deliver a majority for legislation far
! beyond the limits to which the ad-
ministration is prepared to go. They
| believe they lack the votes to beat a
veto. Under those circumstances the
silver drive may be checked by COM
promise on the Dies bill alone or
! it may go to the White House show
down many senator's want.
] So far the silver men have out
J Unanswered Mr.. RooSeVelt'S con-
gresSional leaders.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07
FALLING ROCK
CAUSES HUGE
TIDAL WAVE
Inhabitants OF Small Island
Drowned AS Heavy Sea
Rushes Over Dwellings.
SURVIVORS TERRORIZED
Number OF Dead Indefinite AS
Confusion Makes Accurate
Estimate Impossible.
SURVIVORS TEFRORIZED

AALESUND, Norway, April T.
(U.H-A tremendous mass of noun
tain rock which crashed into the
marrow, deep Norddalsfjord today,
caused two waves that overwhelmed
the fishing villages of Tafjord and
Fjoerra and killed perhaps 40 to SO
persons.
The peasant fishermen and their
families who were asleep when the
rock crashed into the almost bot
tomless ford.
They thought the judgment day
had come when the first great
wave reared through the villages
and struck their little homes. 1t
immersed the power plant and
plunged the valley into darkness.
Cries of drowning persons and
groans of victims buried in debris
of houses continued until there
came a second wave, which sWal-
lowed up many who were calling
from windows for help.
The pastor of the tiny church at
Tafjord-the larger of the villages,
with population of 200, said to a
United Press correspondent:
"Motor boats and roWboats were
tossed half a mile up the valley by
the waves. The crash of the rock
had been expected as it was over
hanging, but nothing could be done
to avert it.
"The dead here include II Wom-
en-, IL men and II children. Sever
al whole families were wiped out,
including one family of the two
parents and seven children
On Small Island
The villages along with Aalesund,
are on the island of Aalesund, one
of many off the west coast of Nor
way.
The villages are on either side
of the Norddalsfjord which runs in
to the island between steep tower
ing mountains at whose feet the
villages nestle.
There are but 30 inhabitants in
Fjoreraa, directly across the ford
from Tafjord, and but seven houses,
Three of the houses were destroyed,
and it was feared that II of the
inhabitants were drowned.
At least 30 houses at Tafjord were
swept into the sea or destroyed.
1t was believed that % persons
were drowned in six houses. but SO
great was the confusion that an
authentic estimate was difficult.
Tafjord was StreWn with wreck
age of houses and boats.
Aalesund is one of many small
islands off the west coast of Nor
way. Its $4,000 people live mostly
by fishing. There is some seaport
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07

whether property owner or not.
Having read this list of accomplish
mentS, can anyone oppose the con-
tinuance of necessary activities for
further development of Ell Centre?
The most skeptical must have been
convinced when he reads this list
of activities and accomplishments of
a recent period.
This vast program could not
have been carried on, nor these
things done except through the one
mill city advertising levy. Future &C
tivities cannot be conducted unless
the one-mill advertising levy is con-
tinued.
The money received from the
one-mill levy is carefully budgeted
and expended" Sones continued.
through joint conferences of the
board of city trustees and the direc-
tors of the chamber of commerce.
The finance board of the chamber
CONTINUED On Page 81
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1934-04-07

to consider were the problem of
China's future attitude toward ia
pan and unification of the Chinese
nation through a closer alliance
with the southwestern political
council at Canton.
General Chang, it was reported,
would effect a unification of the
KWantung and Kwangsi regional
military affairs commissions, bring
ing them closer together under the
national military council His
plan, it was said, included appoint
ment of Chen Chang as chairman
at Canton and Ii Chung Jen as
Kwangsi chairman at Marking.