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Evening star., 1934-09-02
National Union.

THE special meeting of the Exec
utive Board to welcome National
President Henry c. Smale of Chicago
was attended by 20 delegates. He
spent three days here, accompanied
by his wife and SON. At the meeting
President Smale made an address.
The Executive Board, at its last
meeting, recommended Senior Senator
Arthur S. Brown, to fill in the vacancy
of district manager, and he will as
sumo his new duties Immediately.
Senator Brown has been financial
secretary of United Council for 80
years; is now serving his third term
in the National Union Senate: is
president of the Hospital Service Asso-
citation and is pianist for the United
Council degree team.
President Smale acted as host at
banquet held in Schneiders Cafe.
Senator Michael j. Kindsfather
gave report of the the thirty-ninth
session of the union to members of
Potomac Council. Senator Arthur S.
Brown also reported. o. v. Shomo of
Victory Council and M. J. Hole spoke.
william j. Kindsfather was appointed
captain of the councils bowling team
Games will also be played with the
Union teams in Baltimore.
Walter J. Harrigan was admitted
to membership.
At meeting of the Hospital Serv-
ice Association it was voted that the
senators entertain the association at
their next meeting.
The Executive Board will meet
Tuesday evening at headquarters in
the Washington Loan & Trust Build
ing. Victory Council will meet in
Pythian Temple. Friday evening.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Attack Farm Slums." "

Critics of the Irish Free State farm
policy declare that it is producing
agricultural slums." For some years
the government has been colonizing
the land more closely. Those opposed
to the policy say that the land is going
back and some Of it being completely
destroyed The ministry Of lands and
fisheries insists that the failure of
some allotments to make good Is no
argument against the general prin-
ciple. One proposal Is that one-acre
farms be abolished.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Helpful Hints Cleaned
For Milady's Motoring
Lack of Up-to-Date Information at Service
Stations Often Prevents Best
Performance of Car.

humans. Going along with the
crowd she is forced to steer straight
and has to stop and go to fit in with
the general scheme of things Back
home she lacks this guide and is left
to her own judgment.
The Starter-motor is one Of those
units of the car that functions SO
faithfully few owners ever give It
any thought. For those occasional
times when it gives trouble, however,
it is we'll to have a general idea of it's
high points. The most important fact
to bear in mind about the starter
motor is that it must have plenty of
current, which means a well-cared-
for battery. Closely allied to this is
the necessity for clean contacts. That
is, the starter button switch must
provide perfect path for the higher
amperage which starter motor
draws. Look to the switch If the
battery is well charged and the
starter motor is not inclined to CO.
operate.
Unfortunately, the starter motor
has to operate a pinion gear which
meshes with the large gear on the
circumference of the f1ywheel. This
complicates matters because the
starter drive is subject to numerous
troubles Usually a completely dead
starter means that this drive is
jammed.
There is a heavy cable from the
starter motor to the battery. This
takes care of the heavy load of cur
rent drawn during the starting pro-
cess. This cables insulation may be-
come chafed, resulting in fireworks
under the foorboard when the starter
button is touched. Starter motors
need new brushes occasionally and
should be looked over at least once
year. Most Of them have self-lubri-
Gated bearings.
A common cause Of starter trouble
is touching the button a second time,
thinking the motor has not started.
This may chip tooth off the starter
gears. Avoid this mistake by watch
ing the ammeter and oil pressure
gauge. Both of these instruments will
register if the engine is in action.
Evening star., 1934-09-02

I'm the case of the man VS.. woman
argument, the figures show that IA man
drivers figure in accidents to every one
woman operator. Specifically, that
would give the woman a decided edge
on safety. Some of this margin is de-
Stroyed, however. when it is realized
that man drivers outnumber women
in a ratio of approximately three to
one
Even that which is left is relatively
meaningless when it is realized the
only sound basis of comparison is the
actual mileage driven by each group.
That never has been figured and per-
haps never will be- 1t would require
breaking down a figure of 100000
100000 miles, involving more than
3O,0o0,000 drivers, 24,000,00O vehicles
and 3,O9l,0 900 miles of highway. The
monumental proportions of the task
are enough to dissuade any one from
undertaking it.
Precisely the same conditions sur
round the argument that youthful
drivers are less safe than those in the
more mature age claSsifications. What
evidence is available does indicate
that accidents per 100 drivers are more
numerous in the lower age classifica-
tions. Again, however the evidence
is inconclusive and will continue to
be unless and until some one, or some
agency, undertakes the ambition defy
ing task of taking 10000, 900 900
miles of driving apart and seeing what
lies behind them"
One for the Book.
Here Is one to try on your coupe.
Plantsa lawn on the roof of your
car and never mind the hot weather.
That is the advice reaching here
from Germany, where one man has
successfully completed the expert
ment. A Berlin butter merchant hit
on the idea of installing sod on the
roof Of his delivery bus. He tends it
carefully, watering it a number of
times daily. The result is that the
grass absorbs the heat from the sun,
leaving the butter compartment un-
derneath as cool as an ice box.
This report cannot be vouched for,
but it might prove of interest to the
A. A. A. and the A. A. A. (American
Automobile Association and the Agri-
culture Adjustment Administration
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Bombardment Airplane
To Replace Pursuit Ship
Complete Overhaulins of Army Air Corps
From Tactical Stand point Within Next
Few Years Is Forecast.
BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON.

few witness complete
Army Air Corps from the standpoint the types
airplanes employed with probability not more
than basic types of combat aplaneS will emerge
the shakeup
The three have brought apane developments so
startling revise the entire Air Corps policy governing
tactical employment arplanes Policies which
combat tactics the the going to
the junk along aplanes which
obsolete by the developments since 1881
For two decades forces have been built around the nursu
aplane which constituted the backbone defense with
the turn toward the low-wng
began definitely 1881 and which in three years has
the aviation world the superiority of the pursuit plane
Lowwng bombardment aplaneS
and early outlying the then standard
airplanes with full
Evening star., 1934-09-02

FORGETTING to curb Summer
u speeds when school opens is an
other kind of September mourn.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Protected Home Circle.

The next meeting of Gardenia
Circle will be held September at
Y. w. c. A, 614 E street. Grand
President Lucy Sampson is expected
to attend. There will be a bingo
party after the meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-13
WINS OUT ON
APPEAL FROM
JURY VERDICT
Stanford Man Convicted OF
Staying Wife Has Spent Year
In State Prison
DECISION IS UNANIMOUS
Will Be Returned To Santa
Clara County Jail To Await
New Hearing
DECISION IS UNANIMOUS

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. l3. tU.P
The California supreme court to-
day granted David Lamson, youth
full Stanford University Press ex-
ecutive, a new trial on conviction
of numbering his wife, Allene.
The decision of the court came
as Lamson was completing a year
in the death prison, awaiting
death on the gallows. The court
studied his 100000 word appeal for
several months before announcing
verdict.
The decision of the court was
unanimous.
'I am overjoyed," said Edwin
Mckenzie, Lamson's attorney, when
the decision was announced. This
is the happiest moment of my life.
IF I am retained as attorney for
the defense in the new trial I will
depend entirely on the theory that
Mrs. Lamson died an accidental
death"
He then hurried away for the no.
, tification of Lamson, who was
awaiting word in the death house
at San Quentin penltentlary.
The decision had been expected
! for two weeks and the San Fran
cisco Chronicle recently had pub
lished a copyrighted story saying
that it had learned that the court
| had voted a new trial for LamSon.
The Chronicle was adjudged in
! contempt of court, the Chronicle
Publishing company was fined $500
and Chester Rowell, editor, was
fined $3.50 and VIM. Chandler,
managing editor $3.50 as result of
publication of the story.
Lamson must remain in San
Quentin prison for 30 days during
which time the supreme court will
prepare and issue necessary papers
permitting his return to the Santa
Clara county Jail at San Jose pend
ing new trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-13
UNIONS VOTE
INCREASE IN
GUIDING BODY
Approve Executive Council
Additions Despite Bitter Fight
By Green

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 49, U.P)
The American Federation of La
Dor today entrusted its campaign
to organize industrial unions in
mass production industries to an
executive council of Is members,
adding seven new presidents
to the body which guides organized
labor in the United States.
Approved in the closing session
of the 54th annual convention, the
enlargement of the council was the
second victory of the meeting for
John L. Lewis, head of the United
Mine Workers of America. Lewis
emerged as the outstanding figure
on the American labor front
through the convention action
which switched the A. F. of L. in
to the industrial union field and
enlarged its executive cabinet.
After re-electing all present Of
ficers and selecting the new vice
presidents unanimously, the con-
vention adjourned last night with
cut selecting a place for the 1885
meeting. That matter was left to
the executive council.
Pres. William Green set the Or
ganizing goal at 100000 new men,
bers for the coming year.
During the two weeks the 54th
annual convention transacted la
Dor business in San Francisco, the
A. F. of L. delegates also:
l. Denounced Communism and
Fascism and voted down all left
wing proposals.
2. Pledged themselves to fight for
the 30-hour week as the solution
of the present unemployment stu
alton.
3. Placed bitter schism in the
building trades department in the
hands of President Green, giving
him power to call a new conven-
ton of the department if electri-
clans, carpenters, and brick-layers
are not reinstated.
q. Cracked down" on the opera
ton of the NRA, charging that
failure to enforce it's collective bar
gaining provisions was contributing
to continuance of the industrial de-
preston.
5. Invited President Roosevelt to
cooperate" with labor and industry
in leading the way to business re-
covery.
6. Passed some $50 resolutions,
including proposals for old age
pensions and unemployment insur-
ance, censure of the labor attitude
of S. Clay Williams, head of the
new NRA administrative set-up,
petitions for the release of Tom
Mooney and Warren Billings, and
condemnation of discrimination
against workers because of race.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-13
M& R1~~
OiSyI KsNasshi o. saIssts. laA
RFC SPEEDS
|RR|CAT AT|ON
DISTRICT AID

LINDSAY, Calf, Oct. 13. U.P)-
Of particular interest to California
irrigation and reclamation districts,
new phases of Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation loans were ex-
planned today to the semi
convention here of the Irrigation
Districts association.
Senator Charles B. He1tderSon,
RFC director, told the convention
of plans placed in effect to speed
up granting of loans to districts.
I'm order expedite disbursal Of
funds to applicant districts where
authorizations for loans have been
made,' Senator Henderson said,
land those to be made thereafter,
the board decided on the day l left
Washington TO eliminate the re-
quirement that new bonds be issued
and delivered prior to disburse-
ment.
This means funds authorized
under a loan will be Immediately
disbursed to those districts having
sufficient bonds deposited to permit
closing the loan.'
Fifty-four California irrigation
and reclamation districts, with out
standing Indebtedness exceeding
S64 100000, Henderson declared,
have applied for RFC loans to
date.
Thirty eight of these have been
granted loans of s26,016,901 to re-
finance $54,746,6 ,691 indebtedness.
The average reduction, he said, is
slightly above 50 per cent.
The convention concluded the
session by passing resolutions COM
mending Governor Merriam for his
stand on irrigation legislation and
placed on record their respect for
the late Governor James Rolph
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-13
To
SPEAK HERE
OCTOBER 19

George Hatfield, Republican cam
didate for lieutenanU-governor
will be in Ell Centro for the pur-
pose of addressing public meeting
on the night of October 19, it was
announced today by the local COM
mittee in charge of the Merriam
Hatfield campaign.
Hatfield is scheduled to fly
from San Francisco to San Diego
on that date, for a luncheon en-
gagement in the latter city and
will fly from San Diego to El Gen.
tro for his local date.
AS federal district attorney for
the northern district of Califor-
mia Hatfield made an enviable rep
utation as a law enforcement Off
Ger and an able and an impartial
prosecutor. He has been one of the
outstanding members of the Am
erican Legion since its organiza-
ton in this state and is known to
ex-service men throughout Cali
fornia.
Hatfield is making an intensive
campaign, visiting all sections of
California by plane, train and au-
tomobile.
The time and place for the local
meeting will be announced next
week.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-13
LIBERTY LOAN
BONDS CALLED
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. tU.R =

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. UP) -
New assurances of conservative
financial and monetary program
came from the Roosevelt admins
tration today as an answer to re-
vived rumors of impending curren-
cy initiation.
The bold stroke of Secretary of
Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,
in calling for redemption on April
IS. next. of $187O,000,00 900 of Fourth
Liberty Loan Al per cent bonds as
an initial step to replace them WIN
lower interest bearing securities.
went far to spike the reports
The White House indicated ST.
multaneously h no m =
mediate change was contemplated
in the gold content of the dollar
and that no immediate new none
tary moves were contemplated.
The new steps toward refunding
were interpreted in many quarters
as a sound" money step by the
administration as such move ad-
mittedly could not be accomplished
in the face of currency initiation
threats.
Under the latest refunding pro-
gram, the treasury has called for
redemption April l5 next, in cash
81 1.87O, 100000 of the current out
standing $3,l48,OOO,oOO in Fourth
Liberty Loan Al per cent bonds.
Prior to April Is one OF more new
security issues bearing lower rate
of interest will be offered to the
holders of the called bonds, so that
the called bonds will not have to
be met with cash.
The called bonds were selected
Yy lot and bonds with serial num-
!bers ending in final digits, five, six
gind seven were called. This call
reduces outstanding Fourth Liber-
ties to only $1,278,000000 by next
April. Previously bonds ending
with serial numbers |, 2, 8, 9, and
0 had been called.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-13
BOY SLOWS AWAY ON AIRPLANE
Youth Rides From San Diego To Los Angeles
In Mail Compartment

the big Fokker transport plane
outside the hangar. He was inspect
ing it when he heard mechanics
approach. Frightened, he crawled
throught the door of the mail COM
partment.
1T started up so just sat
there" Edward related
He scooted back as far as he
could in the tail structure when
the plane halted at the passenger
depot and took on its cargo of pas
sengers and mail. Just an hour la
ter, the plane reached the air ter
minal here and the stowaway was
dragged from his hiding place.
Burbank police who fed the ur-
chin and gave him a nights lodg-
ing atop an office desk, said his
parents could not pay his way back
to San Diego Edward thought he
could bum ride home on the
highway.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-13
RAINFALL IN
UPPER BASIN

Rain fell in the upper basin
yesterday and promises are held
cut for fur ther rainfall in the
same territory over the week
end according to a telegram re-
ceived from the Yuma office
Of the weather bureau at irri-
CATION district Headquarters
this morning.
The message states that
quarter inch of rain fell at
Durango, Colo, Friday noon.
Elsewhere in the upper basin
unsettled weather is indicated
over Sunday with some hope
of light rains.
A further drop of 80 second
feet is noted for today at the
Grand Canyon station with a
280 foot drop at TOpOck. The
reading at the Canyon is 2730
second feet fer today with 2S20
at TOpcck. At Yuma 256
second foot increase is noted
while the spill rose from 1890
to 1900 second feet today, an
increare Of 20 second feet. The
diversion remains the same as
yesterday at 1900 second feet.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-13
Republicans Plan
Rally At BratUIey

Nathan W. Hale, ex-senator from
Tennessee, will be the principal
speaker at a Republican rally to
be held in Brawley city park at
7:30 Monday night, it was an
nounced today.
Senator Hale has made many
friends since coming to Imperial
Valley earlier in the week and has
been given close attention in pub
lie meetings at which he has spok-
en-. He is stumping the five south
ern counties in behalf of the Mer-
RAM Hatfield ticket and is an un-
yielding foe of the type of Ameri-
caniSm proposed by Upton Sinclair.
The senator is a direct descend
ent of Nathan Hale, Revolutionary
patriot and has been active in
Tennessee and national political
circles for years.
Republican leaders are also plan
ming a rally on the east side of Ell
Centre next Tuesday night, the
time and place to be announced
later.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-13
BLIZZARD IN
NEW ENGLAND
Early Season Storm Comes Un-
announced And Causes Heavy
Damage

BOSTON, Oct. 13. U.H - The
most severe early-SeaSon blizzard
in New England's history ragged to-
day, with far northern sections
knee-deep in snow.
Three vessels were reported in
distress in New England waters.
The tanker Antietam enroute
from Houston, Tex, to Fall River,
was hard aground off Arnold's
point in Narragansett Bay. She
carries a crew of 20 and a cargo
Of $4,000 barrels Of petroleum pro-
ducts. Another tanker rushed to
her aid.
Crippled in Vineyard Sound, the
70-foot fisherman Cynthia, with
five men aboard. asked aid, and
the coast guard patrol boat Har-
riet Lane responded. The Cynthia
was reportedly out of Maine
port.
Newport, r. l., coast guards
sought to rescue two men on a
small yacht that was in distress
off Sakonnet Point.
Maine was hardest hit, but near
ly every portion of the six north
eastern states felt effects of the
unprotected storm.
A fifth of fMaine's bumper potato
crop t53 1865 90 bu) was threaten
ed with ruin. Telephone electric
light and power lines in that state
were crippled. Railroad trolley
and bus schedules were disrupted.
Shipping was hampered and
small craft clung snugly to har-
borS
Highways were blockaded by
snow with hundreds of motorists
marooned in stalled cars on isola-
ted roads.
Neither official forecasts nor the
long range predictions of the alma
macs had carried a hint of the i'm
pending blizzard, and weatherwise
New Englanders, who have exper-
fenced many green" Christmas
in recent years, were astonished by
a white" Columbus day.
Football gridirons at Dartmouth
college and Norwich university
were whitened In Vermont, the
peaks Of Mounts Killington and
Pico were frosted with snow.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-13

LOS ANGELES, Oct. l3. UP
It looked today like Edward Put
ney, 13, the first stowaway to ar
rive at Union air terminal, would
have to get back home via the
hitch-hiking route.
He arrived by plane, tucked away
in the mail compartment of Uni
ted Air lines ship that arrived here
last night from San Diego, Ed
wards home town.
II didn't know the plane was
going anyplace," were his first
words of greeting to airport atten-
dants who hauled him out from
among the mail pouches.
The boy confessed it all started
when he played hockey from
Roosevelt Junior high school. He
went fishing in San Diego bay.
But the fish weren't biting SO he
wandered off to Lindbergh field saw
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-13
BOY DIES IN
TRAGIC CAME

JERSEY CITY, N. j., Oct. 13.
W.P-Grief stricken parents of
John Penney, Jr 9, who was
stuffed into a shallow trunk by
playmates in a game of cops and
robbers and allowed to strangle to
death. and authorities pondered to-
day their course of action against
three youthful participants.
Johns body was found by junk
man. At first police thought he
had been strangled by a demented
person. Policemen and posses of
neighbors had been searching
for him since Thursday afternoon.
Nine hours later police learned
what had happened. The story
came from the victims brother,
James, 4, who played a part in the
tragedy. Later two other boys, each
6 years old. added additional de-
tails. Johnny. they said, had been
selected as the cop" The three
robbers" waylaid the cop" led
him to an abandoned squatter's
hut in a wood near here, and tied
him to an old automobile seat
they found there.
They wound wire and rope about
their captive's neck. Johnny sought
to free himself. The bindings
tightened. The other boys became
alarmed and cut the rope.
Then to their horror, Johnny fell
sideways into an open trunk that
happened to be near at hand. The
trunk lid dropped shut. Frightened,
the boys scurried nome.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-13
SUPREME COURT GRANTS LAMS0N new TR|A
Woman Sought AS Leading Figure In Assassination
Expect Fight
By Hauptn1ann

TRENTON, N. j., Oct. 13. UP
New Jersey authorities today an
ticipated a complete preview Of
Bruno Hauptmanns defe S e
against an indictment charging he
murdered the Lindbergh baby, when
his application for a writ of ha-
beas corpus is argued in New
York Monday.
Hauptmann seeks to avoid extra
dition from Bronx county, New
York, to Hunterdon county, N. j.,
where the murder indictment was
returned. To successfully defeat
eXtradition he must prove beyond
doubt he was not in HopeWell, N. j.
the might of March /, 1882, when
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., was
stolen from his parents home.
If extradition efforts should fail,
he will face an immediate trial on
the extortion Indictment returned
against him in Bronx county
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-13
MAD0O PARTNER FLAYS SINCLAIR
Neblett Terms Candidate "Communistic
Wolf In Donkey Skim

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 49, 1U.P)-
BY winning the Democratic nomin-
alton for governor, Upton Sinclair
only concealed the Communistic
wolf in the dried skin of the De-
mocratic donkey" in the caustic
opinion of Col. William H. Neblett,
LEGAL Democratic leader and law
partner of u. S. Senator william
Gibbs McAdoo.
Disagreeing with his law part
ner Neblett told an audience here
last night he was boiling the party
to vote for Governor Frank F. Mer-
riam and for George j. Hatfield
for lieutenant governor.
Whatever Others may think" Ne
blett remarked, II am against Epic
Imperial Valley press., 1934-10-13
RECEIVE MORE ENTRIES TN
FALL OPENING CELEBRATION

New entries are coming in right
along from the industrial parade
in conjunction with Ell Centro's
sixth annual Fall Opening Festival,
to be held next Friday evening, Oc-
tober 10. Recent entries are:
Southern Pacific Co.
Hancock Oil Co.
Case a. Moore.
Pioneer Transfer Co.
Vencill Dairy.
Bob Roberts.
Imperial Ice & Development Co.
The city is already assuming a
gala appearance with the familiar
red and gold Fall Opening pendants
displayed everywhere. The store
windows are being rebuilt and new
fixtures are being made in readi-
ness for the window displays which
should be one of the most import
ant features of the Fall Opening.