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Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
OPERATE ON ONE OF QUINTUPLETS
Specialists From Baltimore Use Valuable
Radium To Cure Marie's Tumor

CALENDER, Ont, Aug. 6. up
Sixty thousand dollars worth of ra-
dium Is being used to save tiny
Marie Dionne, smallest and weak
est of the world famous quintupletS
from possible death by blood tu-
NOR in her thigh.
Medical treatment which ordinar-
lily would lie only within the power
of millionaire to purchase was Of
fered the baby-in a century old
setting contrasting vividly with the
modern physicians and nurses and
their hospital equipment.
The neutrality-suspicious. OF
the valuable cylinder of radium to
the infants leg = was performed
quickly and skilfully, and without
evoking SO much as yawn from
Marie, by DR.. Howard Kelly, a spe-
cialist from Baltimore, and his son,
DR.. Edmund Kelly. With them as
consultant was the now-famous DR.
Allan Roy Dafoe, the country prac-
titioner who brought the Dionne
ouintuplets into the world, and who
thus far has brought them into
babyhood.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
FIRST DIRT. TO
Be MOVED BY
CONTRACTORS
No Formal Celebration To Be
Conducted Until Cooler Wealth
er In October Permits.
PUBLIC INVITED TO WATCH
Big Shovel Will Start Long Ex-
pected Job On South Side OF
Pilot Knob.

No special ceremonies or celebra-
ton have been arranged for We'd
nesday morning when the first sho-
velful Of dirt will be moved to in
augurate start of the All-American
canal construction, it was learned
here this morning.
Reclamation service engineers
from Yuma and all valley folks who
SO desire, will be present when at
9 o'clock the big shovel will dip
down in the ground and lift out the
first earth on the canal route. This
will be on the south side of Pilot
Knob near the Algodones road.
1t is the intention of Clifford
Bong, superintendent of construc-
ton for the Griffith company, to
whom the contract was given to dig
schedule No. 7 of the canal, to scale
down the side of the hill at this
point, remove quantity of loose
earth and rock there SO that when
everything is in readiness to put on
two or three shifts of workmen the
work can be pushed right along.
The Griffith company of Los An
geles, working on this contract, will
remove about 100000 rods of rock
on this schedule. Equipment for this
work has been unloaded at Araz and
on Wednesday morning the actual
work will start. Equipment for the
Callahan company, to whom was
awarded the contract for dirt exca-
vation on other parts of the canal,
is expected to be unloaded soon af-
ter which their crews will get to
work in earnest on the canal.
1t was intimated here today that
the chief reason why no special GER
emonies were planned for Wednes-
day morning is because of the wea-
ther. Officials of county chambers of
commerce and other organizations,
however, are planning real celebra-
ton to take place sometime in Oc-
tober, it was also said, at which time
it is expected the weather will have
moderated to such an extent that
no discomfort would be brought to
outside guests and valleyiteS at
tending the celebration.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
TAKE
HEAVY TOLL
Famous Woman Flyer Among
Victims In Seven Crashes
Throughout Nation.
BY United Press

Frances Harrell MarSallS, famous
woman aviator and co-holder of the
womans endurance flight record,
and four other persons perished in
airplane accidents over the week.
end.
Eight others were injured in the
seven crashes reported from wide
ly separated parts of the country.
Speeding around pylon at the
free-for-all race of the Women'S
National air meet at Vandalia,
Ohio, Mrs Marsalis plane SKINNED
the ground, hurtled for 100 feet,
then pancaked. She died enroute to
hospital.
At Los Angeles, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Mclean burned to death when
an airplane crashed and burst into
flames. Maurice Cotter, the pilot,
suffered serious injuries. Witnesses
said a tail wind hurled the craft
to the ground.
SearcherS directed by an airplane
pilot found the wreckage of a plane
that crashed in the remote Colo
RADIO river bottoms 20 miles north
east of Blythe, Calf. Ed McFadden
was killed in the crash which oc-
CURED last Friday. Two companions
were injured william Henry, Cross
Reads, Calf, was found trapped in
the wreckage. The pilot, Walter Bal
lard, his arms broken, Waded the ri
yer to seek aid.
Wayne Bickerstaff, 10, a mechan-
ic, was killed Sunday when plane
in which he was riding with E. v.
Gather, Houston, caught on a ca
BILE and dropped into the Brazos ri
yer near Bryan, Texas, Gather was
injured.
Merle Smith, Colony, Kans., Les
lie Stewart and his 9-year-old son,
Lawrence, of Atchison Kans. were
injured Sunday when Smiths air
plane crashed in field near Atchi-
son shortly after the takeoff.
Howard Pidgeon, Wilmington,
Ohio, pilot, and his passenger,
Charles Sherrard Gladewater, were
injured Sunday at Gladewater, Tex,
when the airplane in which they
were riding crashed from an alti-
tude of 80 feet after the take-off.
In the seventh plane accident Pi-
lot M. H. Buckley, Rolla, Mo-, and
David Love, escaped injury when
their airplane nosed over after
making a forced landing near Eure-
ka, Mo.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
PAPER ASKS
ROOSEVELT
CUES Ms

CHICAGO, Aug. 6. U.P)-The
Chicago Daily News, in front page
editorial titled America Waits" to-
day informed President Roosevelt
that in his speech last night he fail
ed to deal with the realities which
faced people are confront
ing everywhere"
You told us frankly that you
would experiment and when con-
vinced policy was wrong you would
change to another policy the edi-
torial said in part.
God has taken crop reduction off
your hands. Will you change that
policy now?
Reducing the gold content of the
dollar has done none of the things
you were assured it would do. Will
you, accordingly, announce definite
ly that there are to be no more
changes, that the dollar is stabilized?
"NRA is in terrible mess. Its
codes are observed chiefly in their
breach. Even Hugh johnson wants
to quit. Will you not reduce the sys-
TEN to simple terms which will in
sure against child labor, sweat shop
wages and excessively long hours
and for the rest, take business out of
chainS?"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06

almost medieval The farmhouse in
which the five babies are sleeping,
eating, growing and occasionally ex-
ercising their lungs, might have
been built by the first French pi
oneers. Its only almost modern fur
niture is an iron stove, in which a
wood fire constantly burns. Kero-
sene lamps provide the only illum-
ination, and the floors are bare.
The operation, according to, the
Doctors Kelly, was successful. With
in 10 days, they agreed, the tumor
should begin to subside, and further
radium treatments should end this
hazard to Marie.
Application of the radium eman-
ations, in gaseous form, continued
for A minutes, while Marie and her
sisters, Yvonne, Annette, Emile and
Cecile, slept blissfully.
After the operation, there were
words of praise from the Baltimore
experts for DR.. Dafoe. DR.. Howal I
Kelly commented on the almost
incredible zeal and skill" he had
shown in bringing the infants
through their many perils. His
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
Cotton Men Urged
To Seek Exemption

Applications for cotton tax eX-
emption certificates under the
Bankhead act are now being re-
ceived, Dan Pubols, assistant in
cotton adjustment for Imperial
County stated today.
Pubols stressed that in order
to speed up this work, all applicants
for cotton tax exemption certi-
ficates be prompt in making ap-
plication at the office of the farm
advisor in the court house on
Wednesday and Thursday of this
week, August 8 and 8.
Until all applications are re-
ceived at the court house, no ac-
ton can be taken which will en-
able an individual grower to re-
ceive his allotment of the tax ex-
emption certificates, Pubols stated
1t is further suggested that grower:
Lremind their neighborS about thi.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
Bishop Comments
On Dali DiUorce

NEW YORK, Aug. 6. U.P)-The
Right Rev. William Hall Moreland,
retired Protestant Episcopal bishop
of Sacramento, Calf, considers the
divorce of Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dali,
daughter of the President, and Cur
tbs B. Dali, IAN unfortunate separa-
ton" and a grave disappointment"
to the church.
The bishop, who delivered the SER
mon at the church of st. Mary the
Virgin, emphasized, however, that
his disapproval was not to be con-
strued as criticism of the President
and Mrs. Roosevelt.
"It is unfair to blame parents for
the mistakes of their children" he
said. THE unfortunate separations
in the Roosevelt family were no
doubt a great affliction to the Pre-
sident and Mrs. Roosevelt"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
BORAH HAS NOBODY TO BATTLE
Idaho's NRA Bread War Collapses Without
Shot Being Fired

BOISE, Ida, Aug. 6. U.P)-All was
quiet today along Idaho's confused
bread price battle front.
Sen. William E. Borah, (RepO
Idaho, has his sleeves rolled up
ready to battle the blue eagle for a
small town baker. But it appeared
he had no antagonist.
The whole affair apparently was
caused by misunderstanding
E. w. Nestor, only baker at Glens
Ferry, Ida, town of l,40O. thought
ne had been ordered by the NRA,
through Sidney Graves, whom
he supposed was Idaho's baker code
administrator, to raise the price OF
his 16 ounce, unsliced loaf one cent
pound.
He didn't like the idea. 1t was
telling him how to run his business
and he said "nobody's going to die
tate TO me-"
Furthermore, he believes the MIRA
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
FINE RISE IN
COLORADO To
Be BIC HELP
Officials Emphasize Fact That
Drought Period Is By No Means
Ended As Yet.
STORMS In UPPER BASIN
City To Remove Restrictions On
Water Using Until Further No.
tice Starting Wednesday.

Torrential rains which fell
along the course of the Colorado
river over the weekend have prov
en- of inestimable value to this
country according to reports which
reached here today. Water for ir-
rigation of citrus trees and other
perishable crops and to fill the
valleys reservoirs is almost at
hand, some of these reports state.
With an 5000 second foot head
of water at Blythe now and coming
down the river toward the diversion
canal, every effort possible is be-
ing made to take advantage to the
full of this unexpected temporary
relief in the present drought sit
uation.
Yesterday the diversion reading
stood at 900 second feet with 1000
for today as the sand dam at
Andrade was being drained and
allowed to flow into the canal
which had not known a stream
of water for many days. With this
river reservoir drained of its pres
ent supply it will be refilled with
the new head now on its way
down the river.
1t was stated at irrigation dis
trict headquarters this morning
that before night this diversion
flow will be in the neighborhood
of 5000 second feet which is ex-
pected to continue for the next
two or three days.
Valley residents are warned, in
spite of this cheering news of
today, that this rise is but flash"
and will give but temporary re-
lief. 1t is further stated that unless
further heavy rains fall in the
upper basin of the river and along
its course this flash head will peter
out within three or four days.
THE drought in Imperial county is
not over by any MEANS" one ir-
rigation official said this morning
in discussing the 5000 foot head
of water at Blythe. I'VE will need
a lot more water than that be-
fore We find ourselves safely out
of the woods" he added.
In view of the additional water
received in the valley, the ban
on the use of city water for irri-
eating purposes has been tempor-
arily lifted, according to the state
ment issued this morning by Philip
w. Knights, city engineer, printed
elsewhere on this page.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 6.
(U.P)-Rainstorms of almost cloud
burst proportions last night lashed
Utah.
Highways were blocked by mud
whirled from mountain canyons.
Three towns were plunged into
darkness as the storm tore down
electric wires. Six persons narrow
ly escaped death as their car was
capsized by a four foot wall of wa
ter.
The storm centered in Brigham
canyon. There water roared four
feet deep, carrying boulders and
mud that barTicaded the highway
when the first fury of the storm
subsidized
Rain continued steadily more than
Continued Un Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
Court Continues
Probation Plea

A continuation until August ii
was granted r. R. Wright by Judge
Thompson in superior court this
morning as Wright appeared for
the hearing on his application for
probation. Wright had plead guilty
to a charge of grand theft in court
last week and filed the application
for probation at that time.
The trials of Ray Pinkston and
Bud Singh, charged with grand
theft of an automobile of Cody
Lugo for introducing narcotics into
the county Jail, were continued by
Judge Thompson until September
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06

Nestor, without competition, wrote
to his friend Borah for advice.
Borah replied: "I'd not only con-
tend that they have no constitu-
tional right to do so (order the in
creaSe) but that 1t is indefensible in
morals and economies" He offered
to furnish counsel If Nestor was
hailed into court.
Nestor refused TO obey the "or-
der" and dropped the bread price
back a cent after upping IL while
waiting to hear from Borah.
Backed by forceful critic OF
NRA, it appeared he was 10 be q
principal in a showdown fight with
the blue eagle.
Graves denied he had ever or
dered Nestor to raise the price. The
Idaho NRA board said he had not
been confirmed by the national
board as a member Of the Southern
Idaho code group and that ne was
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
RENEW FIGHT
AGAINST. LONG
New Orleans Mayor Hoping To
Be Able To Jail Senator For
Contempt Of Court.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 6. U.P) -
Jail for Senator Huey P. Long was
the goal of city authorities today as
they carried their war against the
Long political machine into the
court
State militiamen still guarded the
office of the registrar of voters, des-
pite a court writ ordering Long to
have them demobilized forthwith.
Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley and
members OF the old regulars, De-
mocratic machine in control of mu-
nicipal government, hoped to see
the "kingfish" ordered to Jail for
contempt of court.
Fourteen war veterans, all former
members of machine gun squads,
were hired by Chief of Police
George Ryer and armed with
Thompson sub-machine guns. They
reinforced 800 regular police and 500
citizens, deputized for the duration
OF the war who guarded city hall
and police headquarters against the
possibility of capture by national
guardsmen under Longs orders.
Gay New Orleans, tolerant for a
week while the two political rings
jockeyed for control of city patron
age, was beginning to show signs of
anger. Newspapers boiled with in
dignation. Citizens talked angrily. A
crowd rushed the registrars office,
despite its troop guard, and tore
down notices of court injunction
posted on the bulletin board.
A $4,000 shipment of machine
guns, tear gas, and arsenic bombs
was received at police headquarters.
At Jackson barracks, an undeter-
mined number of troops awaited the
next move of Governor o. K. Allen.
who acts on the order of Long. The
number was variously estimated at
300 to 900.
Officials Cited
City attorneys appeared in civil
district court today to ask Judge
Nat Bond to make permanent a
temporary injunction that now re-
strains a state board from taking
control of the police.
Lieut.. Numa P. Avendano, in
command of troops guarding the
registrars office, was cited for con-
tempt Saturday night and was Or
dered to appear Thursday to show
cause why he shouldn't be sent to
Jail. Adjutant General Raymond
Fleming, named with Long in the
original court order was hiding
from process servers.
Long and Fleming are supposed to
appear before Judge Bond tomor-
row when he hears the city motion
to make permanent the injunction
against troops in the registrars Of
flee. II they fail to appear, the city
will ask for contempt citations. Ci-
vii Sheriff Harrison would be called
upon to make the arrests, but he
could ask Chief Reyer and his new
machine gunners for help.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
Local SERA Paying
Out All Claims

All local SERA demands are now
being paid out of the $84,574.80 re-
volving fund received from the
state headquarters in San Fran
cisco, w. j. Sterrett, county direct
or stated this morning.
This money is to be used in pay
ing the $4,000 claims against the
SERA for July and also for obliga-
tions to be incurred during the
current month, Sterrett said.
He added that the county project
calling for federal assistance in
the grasshopper eradication cam
paign will be sent in to San Fran
cisco today for approval by state
SERA officials.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
Slight Blaze At
Valley Drug Co.

Fire which originated in motor
attached to the ventilator over the
stove in the kitchen of the Valley
Drug store, caused damages estima-
ted by Tom Reams, chief of the
fire department, to be in the neigh
borhood of S1OO, late this morning.
1t was Reams opinion that the
motor was short -circuited when
grease on the electric wires caught
fire, but the blaze was extinguished
with little difficulty by the depart
ment which answered the call.
Business at the drug store was not
interrupted by the fire, according to
Massey Horton, proprietor.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
This Beet Will Be
Difficult To Beat

A red table beet weighing 26lh
pounds and measuring 38 inches
in circumference was displayed
at the office of B. A. Harrigan,
county agricultural commissioner
this morning.
Harrigan said that as far as he
knew this was the largest beet
ever grown in the county. 1t came
from the ranch of Pete Dunzer liv-
ing five miles east and IL miles
north of Imperial
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
RAINS ALONG RIVER BRING RELIEF TO VALLEY
Actual Construction Of Canal Starts Wednesday
CITY TO RAISE
BAN ON WATER
TO WATER USERS OF
Ell CENTRIC:

Rains along the lower Colo
radO river have produced a
temporary head of water
which it is expected will reach
the Ell Centre water plant
Wednesday morning. Unless
followed by more rain this
head will probably be of short
duration.
Beginning at Z a. N. We'd
nesday, August 8, water users
will be permitted to use water
for any and all purposes un-
til further notice.
So far as we are now able
to determine this order for
unlimited use will probably
be for not more than two or
three days but the order will
not be revoked until necessity
requires it.
Respectfully submitted,
PHILIP w. KNIGHTS,
City Engineer.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
Bv FREDERICK A. STORM

United Press Staff Correspondent
ABOARD ROOSEVELT SPEC
IAL, ENROUTE FORT PECK,
Mont, Aug. 6. - Convinced of the
soundness of his parks program
as an integral part of government
long range planning for the future,
President Roosevelt turned further
eastward today to continue inspec-
ton of huge public works involv-
ing expenditure of millions.
He headed for Fort Peck, Mont,
to see progress army engineers
are making with gigantic recla-
nation, irrigation and navigation
project that calls for construction
of the largest earthen dam in the
world.
The chief executive, highly pleas
ed with the results of his general
survey thus far, expressed to the
nation before departure the thought
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
HITLER PLEDGES PEACE

LONDON, Aug. 6. U.p)-Germany
never will fight again except in self
defense, Chancellor Adolf Hitler told
G. Ward Price, special Daily Mail
correspondent, in an interview pub
lished today.
Territorial differences with
France, Hitler said, will cease when
the Saar question is settled.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
@kMilL-.o

ABOARD S. S. EMPRESS OF
CANADA, Aug. 5. (SpeciaD =
Fine boat, fine trip, interesting
people from the four corners of
the earth, going and coming.
Everybody feeling optimistic and
telling of how their country Is
recovering. No war talk, that's
all in the editorials at home.
Lots of japanese and Chinese
on board. Arrive in Yokohama
next Saturday morning.
Miss Floyd Gibbons on this
trip. We had a great time COM
ing out before. Did the Presi-
dent ever get home? I think he
had a great trip. He was feeling
fine.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-06
Baseball Scores

No games scheduled in either
The Washington times., 1934-09-21

dissemination of false lntorma'
tion.
People consulting banks in the
hope of securing loans under the
housing program are told that
they are ineligible. The reasons
given by the bankers are spuri-
Gus.
Persons are told untruths
about the administration of the
law.
Everv false statement is de-
signed to preUent the applicant
from securing loan or to make
him so discouraged about the
housing program that he 1OiI
fail to negotiate further.
Some cases of this sabotage
have been brought to light.
Bankers have been questioned.
They seek to lay the blame on
minor employees.
It is a familiar theme when
banker says:
"You certainly can't expect a
S2O-a-week clerk to know any
thing about the law"
But it is not the clerks 1Dho
make the miS-StGtementS.
1t is the bank officials then1-
SelveS.
At the international polo
matches the other day a loud
speaker system was installed.
After the interesting game,
which the Americans won, the
man at the loud-speaker system
began playing phonograph
records as the crowd departed.
One of the records played was
"America."
The Washington times., 1934-09-21
Birds and Drunkenness
Bv Robert Benchley

should probably have kept my
promise never to mention the
occasion on which two guinea
hens of my acquaintance made
perfect fools of themselves
through liquor. They apologized
the next day, and I said to for
get it. However, as I have since
learned that the guinea hens in
question ended up in an asylum,
I have no compunctions now.
It came about through a
spilled keg of hard cider, but, so
far as I know, that has never
been an excuse. The guinea hens
got drunk. We might as we'll
face it. They were drunk.
MY fear of birds increases in
direct proportion to their per-
sonality. Birds who mind their
own DuS111CSS 4A44O AAAO NNAJ Va
able, but bird who sets out to
impress me soon learns that he
has the police to deal with. l
am incapable of handling the
affair myself, but I know where
to go for help.
These two, once they realized
their advantage, deliberately set
out to hector me. They were like
two drunken "townies" hanging
around the drug store as un'
protected girls go by. First they
annoyed me with remarks; then
they actually set in motion after
me and tried to trip me up.
One of them even left the
ground and struck me on the
hip, while the other laughed
coarsely.
I am frank to admit that I
ran into the. barn and told on
them. I said to the man in
there: HAS it got so that a
The Washington times., 1934-09-21

Mail of a recent bird debauch
in England which must give
pause to even the most sanguine
of bird lovers.
(Mr. D. B. Wyndham Lewis,
by the way, is one of the few
remaining madmen of the bull
dog breed, and is not, by even
the most literate. to be con-
fused with the other Windham
Lewis, who, so far as I have
ever been able to ascertain, has
never had more than a sober
thought in his headO
"By an unfortunate oversight"
writes Mr.. D. B. Wyndham
Lewis, "a bird lover of my
acquaintance replenished the
bird bath in his lawn the other
evening from a jug of melted
ice in which fingered a few cock
tail dregs.
1.-The birds, he said, mopped
it up avidly and SWarmed
around shouting for more: and
at length there was great excite
ment and babbling in the trees.
with bursts of sardonic laughter.
My friend, who has an ear for
bird talk, overheard a truculent
blackbird proposing to fly to
Kensington and peck the stuff
ing out of Peter Pan, and a very
noisy nightingale boasting at the
top of its voice that we micro
phone artists could lay an egg
in Sir John Reith's hat any old
time, and nothing said.
I'm a word, he said, it was
just like any other cocktail
party, except that nobody fell
down."
If Mr.. D. B. Wyndham Lewis
had not brought the matter up
in his Succinct summary, 7