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Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-06
PREPARE NEW
GROUND FOR
FALL CROPS
Many Ranchers Putting In
Seed In Expectation Of Sisua-
ton Improving
ORDER MANY DELIVERIES
District Expects Irrigation Re-
quests To Increase During
Next Few Days
ORDER MANY DELIVERIES

The water situation in the county
today is the brightest it has been
for several weeks past Readings
received at the irrigation district
office here show a rise OF 1000 sec
Ond feet at the diversion, today's
mark being $500 second feet
The flow at Yuma has increased
to $500 second feet while the spill
now stands at 1900 second feet. No
reading could be had of the river at
Grand Canyon station.
Word received from the weather
bureau office in Yuma states that
the discharge at Topock yesterday
was 9040 second feet which will
reach the valley within the next few
days. The Yuma notice states that
the flow at Yuma will increase dur
ing the remainder of the present
week falling thereafter unless fur
ther rains occur over the lower
drainage area. No word was re
ceived here relative to weather con
ditions in the upper basin OF the
river.
Meanwhile rancherS are JuDllant
over the present supply and intend
TO take every advantage of the
same. Growing crops are being
irrigated and ploughed fields are
receiving water for the first time IN
many weeks as ranchers prepare
the ground to receive seed for fall
crops.
While it is estimated that the
ground to be seeded will be far low
er than In ordinary years, 1t mas
been said that as few expected any
opportunity to plant this fall, due
to the water shortage, a larger
acreage than was hoped for will be
put to seed.
The irrigation district office heIe
has received a very large NUMBER
of orders for water deliveries dur
ing the past two days and more are
expected as the diversion mark re
mains at it's present high level.
With the restrictions taken Off
the use of water from the city sup
ply here, many residents irrigated
their trees and shrubs last night
and will continue doing SO daily
until the ban is again put on. Win
the lifting Of the city ban, however,
residents are warned that it Is still
in effect as regards irrigating lawns.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-06

PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 6 U.P) =
After five hours of bitter resistance,
rioters who had beseiged the welfare
offices demanding increased pay for
FERA workers were finally scat
tered by police and sheriff deputies
shortly after l o'clock today.
Seventy-three persons were treat
ed for injuries received in the fight
ing. a number of them innocent by
ISLANDERS who were overcome with
tear gas or struck by flying missals.
Out of the so men and one wom-
an taken into custody by the police
only "a were booked on definite
charges. The rest were held for a
couple of hours and sent home.
Myrtle Taylor, 80, is charged with
resisting an officer. She slapped and
severely bruised the face of Joseph
Furst, acting chief Of police,
Clay Naff, known Communist
agitator, was being held in the coun
ty Jail. Felony charges of melting
a riot, assault, and resisting an of
ficer will be filed against him,
Deputy Sheriff Lon Jordon says.
Police say that only small num-
ber probably 200, of the thousands
thronged around the welfare build
ing actually took part in the fight
ing. The riotors were lead by de-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-06
SOCIETY GIRL
TALKS PLENTY

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. U.P)-
With a cigarette in che hand and
the sports section of a newspaper in
the other, Coletta Mulvihill Green,
Pittsburgh girl who married truck
driver on a dare, talked over her
marital troubles and her future with
reporters today in an airport wait
ing room.
Dashing madly from the plane the
second it touched the ground, the
II year old blonde Pittsburgh
"madcap" held reception for the
press in the airport offices.
She opened it with a statement
that she had nothing to say
Then, as fast as the assembled
reporters could write, she told them
that:
"She plans to get an annulment
of her marriage to Thomas Green.
She doesn't love anyone at present,
not even Sidriano ParedeS, Manila,
to whom she was engaged at the
time she married Green.
She is going to the wrestling
matches here tonight, for the card
looks like a swell one"
She plans to sail Saturday on the
S. S. Lurline TO meet her mother,
Mrs. Rosalie Mulvihill, in either
Manila or Honolulu.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-06
WOMAN KILLS
HUSBAND AND
SHOOTS SELF

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6. UP)-
jealousy over another woman led
Mrs. Dora Derry to fatally shoot
her husband, Harold, "a, South
Gate golf professional, and then to
commit suicide today, police re-
ported.
Derry, with a wound in his breast
and another in his arm, was found
dead in the hallway OF the apart
ment where the pair lived. His
wife was found in bed with bull
let through her heart.
Mrs. Derry left note-timcd
4:30 a. m. today-in which she
mentioned another woman.
Discoveries of the bodies was
made by the landlady when she was
awakened at dawn by the sound Of
the shots.
The note left by Mrs. Derry read:
~ know positively that there is
another woman in the case, for he
said tonight that he was positive
ly through and that he intended to
do Just as he pleased and for me 10
do the a\me. 1t just can't be
done. I am so much a part of him
now that l just can't go on alone
and start over again, "
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-06
SALINAS AREA
HARD HIT BY
FIELD STRIKE

Extensive loss to the lettuce crop
In the Salinas area, caused by
strike allegedly fostered by radicals
is reported in a lengthy telegram
received today by officials of the
Imperial Valley Growers and Ship
perS Protective association from
Guernsey Frazer, executive secre-
tary of the Associated Farmers of
California, now making a survey in
the strike section.
According to the telegram the
actual loss in the lettuce fields S
1900 acres with a value in excess
of S250,000 to which must be added
an additional crop loss due to in
ability to thin the lettuce, irrigate
and weed, probably in excess of d
half million dollars.
There is also a neavy loss on the
field, shed and truck payroll and
industries associated with the crop
such as ice, lumber, shook. paper,
gasoline, oil and electric compan-
les. In all the loss is estimated as
close to $1,000,000.
Additional acreage, estimated at
l,500, planted to carrots, cabbage,
and other vegetables, is endanger-
ed because of the strike. Sugar
beets may suffer from the strike
with a consequent shutting down
of mills. Crops valued at close 10
$22 100000 are jeopardized, the tel
egram states.
The strike began on August 27
among Filipino field hands, stirred
up by Filipino agitators from Stock
ton. San Jose, and other San Joa-
quin Valley towns. Several known
radicals have been spotted by phot-
ographS. No warning of the strike
was given and wages in the Salinas
Valley are asserted to be the high
est in the nation for such work.
Filipino field hands have been
paid 30 cents per hour plus living
quarters, shed labor and trimmerS
as to so cents per hour, packers so
cents. carloaderS SIPS to $1.50.
Ella Winter, wife of Lincoln
Steffens. and noted as a 'liberal, -
is active in the strike, the telegram
states, visiting the fields dressed
in overalls, blue shirt and bandana
neckerchief.
Out Of a normal crew of $500
pickers, only 1,700 are working but
have managed to keep shipments
up to the normal mark. An arbi-
tration board is holding conferences
on the strike but the telegram
states there is no guarantee that it
will be settled.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-06
DEATH TOLL IN TEXTILE STRIKE REACHES TEl
ELLIOTT OFF
DEMOCRATIC
STATE GROUP
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6. U.P,

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6. UD
Maurice Harrison, San Francis
co, chairman of the Democratic
state committee, said today that
John B. Elliott, Los Angeles, had
resigned as a vice chairman of the
committee lone day before the
primary election.
Harrison said no officers of the
central committee had resigned
since the primary, in which Upton
Sinclair, former Socialist, won the
party's gubernatorial nomination.
The chairman declared several OF
the 600 members of the committee
had resigned but he could not re-
call their names.
Elliott IS letter of resignation did
not give any reasons for his leav-
ing the post, as Harrison recalled
the communication.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-06
HOOVER AIDES
DRAWN INTO
SENATE QUIZ

WASHINGTON, Sept (U.P -
Names of several prominent Hoover
administration officials and diplo-
mats were drawn into the Senate
munitions investigation late today
in connection with joyrides on a
warcraft company launch and sub
marine contracts.
j. Joyner, vice president OF the
Electric Boat company now under
fire of Senate inquisitors, disclosed
the presence of the joyride launch
in a letter to the president of his
firm.
Some Hoover people will use u
(the launch) next week" He wrote
in August 1929. To-day the Turkish
ambassador is to use it, Sunday
Admiral Hughes, chief Of operations
will use it Monday I'm inclined
to believe some of the shipping
board are using It,"
Ernest Lee Jahncke, former assis'
tant Secretary of Navy, notified
John @. Tilson, former House ma
jority leader, in Sept. 1890. that the
Navy Department would contract for
two submarines TO the Electric Boat
company. the committee disclosed.
Jchncke wrote to Tilson In lel-
ter marked every secret and
confidential that he would do
everything in my power" 10 pro-
vide work for the Electric Boats
New London, Conn, yard
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-06
MAe R1~s~
g,s.I.ssN.azhi 8, aaisat.. IaA
MERRIAM To
CALL SESSION

SACRAMENTO, Sept. g. U.R-
Gov. Frank F.. Merriam today plan
ned to call, within the next day or
two. an immediate special session
of the state legislature to approve
a $24,000000 bond issue for unem-
ployment relief.
Merriam will recommend the
bond issue as we'll as advocating
measures to aid mortgage holders
and delinquent tax payers. The
mortgage aid plan may be NOR
atorium on foreclosures for def
mite period.
The session has been expected as
state relief funds have dWindled
steadily in the last few months.
The legislators will assemble with
in one week after the formal call
and will receive no pay for the ses-
sion, which should be a short one.
The governor will leave the me-
chanics of both proposals-the bond
issue and mortgage-delinquent tax
payers relief-entlrely in the hands
OF the lawmakers. Whatever meas
ures they draft must go on the
ballot in November for approval of
the voters
In a special election in June,
1898, the electorate approved a $20,-
100000 relief bond issue. The last
block of these bonds, an $4,000, 900
issue, was sold early this summer
and the proceeds will be exhausted
by mid-fall, state officials said. Re-
lief is costing s5,5OO,OO0 monthly in
the state, with the federal govern
ment providing $3,50O,0OO of the
necessary amount. There is no as
surance, however, that the federal
aid will be continued unless the
state does something to help itself
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-06
Admirers Blacken
Eye OF Actress

LONDON, Sept. 6 (U,P) - Sophie
Tucker today forgaye two enthusias-
tic autograph fans women for
hanging a shanty on her eye in a
melee at the Empire Iheater,
Shepherds Bush.
The autograph hunters began
fighting when one of them edged
her way into the front rank Of
Sophie's admirers. While the fists
were swinging, Sophie stepped be
tween them to make peace and re
ceived her sinner. Grease paint
covered it up when she went before
the footlights.
We'll, when they saw my eye was
hurt" Sophie said today, they stop
ped fighting right away. OF course
l forgive them. They love me too
much to have hit me on purpose. 1t
was a pure accident.
Both women got their autographs.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-06
TRY To BREAK
MONOP OILY IN
SARD|NE: TRADE

SAN PEDRO, Sept. 6. UR)-In
an effort to break the control over
sardinc catches now vested in the
Monterey Sardine Industry Inc,
some 10 boat owners of San Pedro
took the case today to the Los An
geles federal regional board, where
they we're promised prompt hear
ing.
The San Pedro owners all OF
whom are operating in the Monte
rev region, feel that they are
forced to sell their catches to The
association at a "prohibitive ce-
duction, according to John Mirko-
vich, secretary of the Fishermen s
Cooperative Association of San Pc
dro, and believe that the tactics OF
the Monterey association constitute
unfair practise under federal def
inition.
A HStrikeD of the San Pedro
boats now operating in Monterey
in which they were to have been
Joined by several Seattle boats, Mir
kovich said-was postponed when
the labor board agreed to review
the case.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-06
FIND APES AS SMART AS HUMANS
Yale Experiments Indicate Monkeys Might
Be Able To Run Nation

NEW YORK, Sept. 6. U.P)-Yale
scientists claim apes react to sight
or sound as quickly as human
children.
Their conclusions, reached through
a series of simple tests. were de-
tailed in a report submitted to the
American Psychological association.
Four of 40 chimpanzees bred at
Yale since 1925 and two children
provided by members of the facul-
ty were used in experiments con-
Quoted by Milton Forster, Kenneth
w. Spence and Theodore A, Jack
son.
Forster. who conducted tests
measuring the time required for a
young chimpanzee and for child
to respond to a spectacle, contact
or a sound, concluded that the ape
reaction times do not vary sig
nificantly nor consistently from
those of human children.
Spence discovered that chimpan-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-06
SINCLAIR IN
CAPITAL FOR
CONFERENCES
Democratic Nominee Jubilant
With Reception Accorded By
Administration
BY LYLE c. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent


WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 UP)-Up-
ton Sinclair appears today to have
won the cautious blessing of the
new deal and a fairly definite
promise of financial aid during his
whirlwind invasion of the east.
The Republican high command is
jubilant. Party leaders believe the
famous Socialist now CALIFORNIA;
Democratic nominee for governor
has put President Roosevelt on the
spot.
Reports from Hyde Park where
Sinclair saw Mr.. Roosevelt reflect
the belief that the President is
giving silent approval to Sinclairs
EPIC (end poverty in California;
plan
Sinclair emerged smiling yester
day from the office of Relief Ad
ministrator Harry L. Hopkins. He
said he had every reason to believe
federal funds would be made avail
able to make "end poverty" come
true in California if he is elected.
Today he has appointments with
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary Of
Treasury; Harold L. Ickes, Secre-
tary of Interior; Chairman Jesse
Jones of RFC; and expects also to
see Chairman John H. Fahey of the
Home Loan Bank board and Gov.
w. l. Myers of the Farm Credit Ad-
miniStration.
There is ground enough to believe
that Sinclairs enthusiasm for the
New Deal will compel Mr.. Roose-
welt before election day either to
bless or repudiate the Sinclair
policies or to resort to a conspicu-
Gus silence. Republican strategy is
to pin ex-Socialist Sinclair right on
the nose of the New Deal"
To a degree Sinclair seems to be
playing into the hands of the Re,
publican strategiSts. None grinned
wider when Sinclair spoke here
than tall Henry P Fletcher, chair
man of the Republican National
committee. Down front where he
would not miss word. Fletcher was
pleased auditor at a luncheon
speech.
The new born California Demo
crat is pledged not to reveal what
Mr.. Roosevelt said to him at Hyde
Park. But Sinclair is master Of
words. By inference, speaking here,
he conveyed the impression that he
has become the Presidents worship
full and welcome disciple.
AS Sinclair referred repeatedly to
the President, listeners got the idea
the Californian would not be Of
Tended if the Hyde Park conference
were set down as a love feast.
Il conceived the idea,' Sinclair
said in explaining a tax problem
and then changed his approach to
the question.
II mean, 1 thought the idea was
original with me-" he said. But I
discovered in that talk with Mr.
Roosevelt, that 1 didn't have as
many original ideas as I thought
had"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-06
HOUSE SURVEY
APPROVED BY
CITY COUNCIL
Project To Be Submitted To
SERA Given Endorsement By
Officials

Application to the SERA for ap-
proval of a project to be known as
a federal housing survey for Ell
Centro was approved by the city
council at its meeting in the city
hall last night. All conditions as
set forth in the application are
agreed to by the city which desires
to have this survey made in order
to discover in an authoritative
manner what the city housing
conditions are at present.
The resolution authorizing this
application was presented to the
council by M. o. King, as repre-
sentative of the local chamber of
commerce. King pointed out to the
board that should Improvements be
made here under the terms of the
housing act, this action would be
of great help to unemployed work
men as we'll as to the owners OF
the property to be improved.
The council voted a resolution OF
commentator of Officer Ronney
Voyles of the local police depart
ment for his efficiency IN securing
the arrest of Earl and Clyde Bon
ner although he himself was bad
ly wounded.
H. c. Ferris appeared before the
board asking for the extension Of
the city sewer system to include
service for several cottages he in
tends adding to his auto court at
Imperial avenue and the San Di
ego highway. The board took no
definite action on this request last
night but indicated it desired more
definite information as to just
what improvements were to be made
to this property before authorizing
the extension. This information
will be supplied at the next meet
ing of the board.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-06
ONE REPORTED KILLED AND MANY
HURT In PHOENIX RELIEF RIOT
Radicals Blamed For Attack On Headquar-
ters In Which Police And Workers Wage
Long Battle

termined leaders and armed with
bricks, rocks, hammers, and other
tools.
Meme of the officers was danger
ously hurt, although several had to
be treated for cuts and bruises.
Authorities express the belief that
the ring leaders of the mob are in
Jail and no further trouble is like
ly today.
Governor B. B. Moeur was in con
ference with the chief of police and
welfare board, and could not be
reached for a statement.
There were reports that police
truck had killed a middle aged
Mexican. These could not be veri
fled. Witnesses said the mans
name was Gotta
81 was in the truck one of
the officers said, land l am pos
tive it passed directly over the
body Of man. He must have died
instantly. l couldn't see clearly
what happened to his body after
wards, but I am under the impress
sion it was picked up by some Mex
leans and carried away
A check of hospitals and morgues
failed to reveal any information as
to the whereabouts of Gotta S body,
if he was killed.
Deputy sheriffs said that he was
probably only injured and had been
taken to the house of a friend in
the south part of town.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 6. U.P
With fighting still going on, Uae
man is reported dead, scores N
jured, and 35 under arrest as a re-
suit of a riot at FERA and county
welfare relief headquarters this
morning a mob estimated at over
1000 men, women, and children
blocked the streets and stormed the
building in protest against the
wages being paid on relief prof.
ectS. Police used tear gas and
clubs in their attempt to disperse
the crowd.
People began to gather before S
o clock in answer to a call MADE
by the unemployed woman IS coun-
Gil for sympathy meeting with
the FERA workers who went out on
strike yesterday. BY 10 the neigh
borhoOd was thronging with unem-
ployed of every race ard nation
ality.
Violence started when police
called by welfare officials ordered
the professors to leave.
When tear gas bombs were tossed
into the mob, small group charg-
ed the police lines and engaged
them in hand-to-hand fighting
Some of the bombs were picked up
and thrown back at the officers.
Many of the injured are suffering
from gas fumes.
Gotta, first name unknown, a
middle-aged Mexican, was said to
be killed beneath the wheels of a
truck driven through the strikers
by officers. Sheriff deputies later
denied his death and the body is
missing.
Because of the confusion details
were lacking anG police records do
not show the names of the men
arrested. More were being booked
every few minutes
Authorities blame Communistic
agitatorS for the trouble. Several
known Communists are among
those in custody.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-06
Injured Screen
Actress Better

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 6. UH-
The condition of Miss Dorothy
Sanders, 18-year-old screen actress
who formerly lived in Cincinnati,
painfully injured last Tuesday
when she mistakenly dropped iodine
in her eye, was pronounced 'fav-
orable' today.
Attending physicians expressed
the belief that, despite continued
soreness, Miss Sanders will not
suffer permanent bad effects
The accident occurred when Miss
Sanders mistook a bottle of iodine
for argYrol.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-06
yecUs To Observe
Religious Feasts

Rosh HoShana, traditional Jewish
New Year Holy Days, will be cele
brated by Imperial Valley Jews be-
ginning at sunset September with
services in the Odd Fellows hall, Ell
Centro.
The services will open with the
blowing of the rams horn and end
with the prayer to regain the gloGy
of the days of the Temple at Jeru
salem. Monday and Tuesday of
next week will be observed as New
Year.
The Day of Atonement, the most
solemn day in the Jewish calendar
will start at sunset, September 18
and continue until sunset the day
following. Fasting, coupled with
prayers for forgiveness of past sins
are the features of this day
M RoSen of CaleXico is the
spiritual leader of the congregation
Beth Jacob recently organized in Ell
Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-06

zees were methodical while watch
ing the animals reach food con-
cealed in boxes in different ar
rangements The Simians proceed
ed not by random choice, but by
systematic exploration.
Jackson carried the experiment
further by testing the chimpanzee S
intelligence in using tools to get at
food placed out of their arms
reach. He found they made intel
ligent use of simple lever. a COM
pound lever and a turnstile.
In one of the tests an orange
was placed into an open maze into
which the chimpanzees could look.
Instead of trying to reach the fruit
with his arms, each chimpanzee
picked up a stick of the right
length from a group of various
sizes, and then proceeded to roll
the orange through the maze until
it came out.