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Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20

and owned by Sam Schoenberg, Ell
Centro, was struck by car driven
by two Mexicans a mile east of the
Mt. Signal store yesterday after
noon. Occupants of the automobile
were considerably shocked and
bruised, a report at the sheriff S
office states.
Mary Lee Smith 6, is in a SER
ious condition at La Solana hos
pital as the result of being struck
by a truck driven by Earl Wilcox,
Holtville, a half mile west of here
at $50 o o'clock Saturday night.
At 955 O'Clock yesterday MORN
ing a truck operated by Barrola
Rodriguez, Ell Centre, pulled too
close to building at the corner of
Fifth and Broadway and tore away
a corner post of the building, ac-
cording to report at police head
quarters. No one was injured in
the accident.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
KiLUar1is Clubs
OF Valley Will
Gather Tonight

KiWanis members from the three
valley clubs, Brawley, Calexico and
Ell Centre. ard from Yuma, Ariz.,
with their ladies and invited guests
will meet at the Barbara Worth
hotel tonight at 7 O'Clock for a
banquet, program and dance.
A splendid musical program, fine
vaudeville acts, dancing to splen-
Gid orchestra are the events plan
ned for the entertainment of club
members and their guests.
Tonight is "all KiWanis night -
from coast to coast, the valley clubs
joining with those in the United
States and Canada for a simultan-
eous meeting.
The annual convention of KiWan-
is International is being held in
San Antonio, Texas, and the local
club is joining with the other clubs
in observing the convention. At the
same identical time all clubs
throughout the nation will observe
the fellowship hour with a special
ceremony, declares DR.. r. c. Glenn
ons, president of the FL Centre
club.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
RAIN CAUSES
HEAVY DAMAGE
IN SOUTHWEST
Many Lives Lost And Property
Injured From Cloudbursts
And Tornadoes

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 20. U.P)
The southwest today paid with
nearly score Of lives and millions
of dollars worth of crops and prop
erty for the boon of rain.
Cloudbursts in four states, ac-
companied by tornadoes in Texas,
broke an unprecedented drought
but left and destruction behind.
Flood waters of the Red river and
its tributaries buried thousands of
acres of farm land, swept away
scores of homes and bridges and
drowned seven persons in south
western Oklahoma. The Washita
and Canadian rivers and their forks
invaded towns and farms.
The Red river carried away a
bridge at Burkburnett, Texas, and
with it five persons. AT least three
were drowned. One was rescued.
The fifth was missing.
TornadoeS which struck nearly a
dozen Texas communities killed
seven persons. The overflowing
Brados and Trinity rivers each
claimed one lie.
Damage to buildings, bridges and
communication and utility systems
was in the millions of dollars.
Damage to farms through water
erosion was tremendous. Fields and
pastures virtually denuded by the
long drought and the dust storms
of recent months shed the rain al
most as fast it fell, causing over
burdened streams to leave their
banks.
AS the floods receded the land
was left furrowed and Scared
robbed of tons of top soil.
Streams were falling today in
Altus, Okla, region where the bod
les of Carl McAlpine, 40, and his
young daughter, Joy, were missing.
The others drowned were Mrs.
Claude Gowens, so, McAlpine IS
mother-in-law, and four Negros.
Those drowned at Burkburnett
were Mrs. John Pickerell, Mrs. E..
o. Reaveas, her sister, and Police
Chief William Garland. Pickerell,
in whose automobile the two wom-
en- were riding when the bridge
collapsed, was rescued. j. M. Au-
drain, another passenger, was miss
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
GIRL DIES IN
ATTEMPT To
FOOL FATHER

NEW YORK, May 20. Wp-Be-
cause his 15-year-old daughters
mother was dead, Louis j. Kruse
felt duty bound to be a stern par
ent.
Isabella wanted to go to a neigh
borhood party.
Sure" said Kruse, but if you're
not home by midnight
Isabella understood without fur
ther elucidation. Therefore when
her escort. John Flanagan, Is, left
her at the door of her apartment
house at a. m, she was worried.
She had no key. She didn't
want to waken her father.
The Kruse apartment is on the
top floor Of a five story building.
She went to the roof, made a
clothesline fast to the chimney,
and began lowering herself hand
by hand to a window.
The rope broke and she dropped
to the courtyard, dying a few min
utes later.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
First Lady Will
Visit Mine Area

BELLAIRE. O., May 20. W.D -
Mrs. Franklin ID. Roosevelt will
find out tomorrow how America
gets its coal and how miners and
their families live.
Coming here to address the COM
mencement exercises at Peoples
university, one of the governments
schools for education OF adults. the
Presidents wife will don overalls
and a torch and go deep into the
earth, high on the tipples and
through the entire coal mine work.
ings.
The occasion, coupled with Bel
laire merchants trade extension
day festivities, is expected to draw
thousands of visitors from eastern
Ohio and West Virginia.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20

WASHINGTON, Hay 20. U.R) =
Members of the so-called senate
progressive bloc arose and walked
out of the chamber today when
Sen. Dennis Chavez CDem), was
sworn in to succeed the late Sen.
Bronson Cutting (Rep), New Mex
leo.
Included in the group were SEN
atorS Robert NJ. LaFollette (Prog)
Wisconsin; Hiram johnson (Rep)
California; Gerald P. Nye CRep),
North Dakota; George w. Norris,
Rep0, Nebraska, and Henrik
Shipstead (F-L0, Minnesota.
They were the only members of
the block present when the At
year-old Albuquerque attorney and
former congressman was led down
the aisle to take the oath from
Vice President John N. Garner.
AS Chavez reached Garner's
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
PRESIDENT REJECTS PLEA OF BONUS FORCES
Assembly Committee Approves State Budget Boost
Gets Tickets For
S. D. Exposition

. L. w. Knapp, Rt. 2, Box o.
A, a long time subscriber to
The Press, is going to see the
San Diego international Ex-
position as often as he wants
this summer, having availed
himself of The Press offer of
season tickets for the expOsi-
ton in return for Press sub
scriptiOns.
Although paid in advance
Mr.. Knapp decided to go even
further and paid up his sub
scriptiOn until 1887 in order TO
obtain the tickets he desired.
Present subscribers who may
also wish to extend their sub
scriptiOns so they may obtain
exposition tickets may do so.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
NeuU Officer At
Bank Of America

A. C. Yaeckel of the credit de-
partment, Bank of America main
office, Los Angeles, has been ap-
pointed assistant cashier for the
local branch of that bank and took
up his duties here this morning He
succeeds Fred Gianola who resign
ed from the bank several weeks
ago. A. H. Keller will remain
as assistant manager of the local
branch. it was stated at the bank
this morning.
Yaeckel has been connected with
the Bank of America for 13 years
the last six in the Los Angeles
main office. Mrs. Yaeckel will join
her husband here about August l
and they will make their home in
Ell Centro for the future.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
M0 Ro7N<.
eisSs. heNausht Syadseafa. taA
TvA CHARGES
ASSERTED To
Be SPURIOUS

WASHINGTON, May 20 U.P) -
DR.. Arthur E. Morgan, chairman
of the Tennessee Valley Authority,
today told the house military af-
fairs committee that charges of
mismanagement and misuse of
funds by the iva, based on the
recent audit report of Comptroller
General John R. McCarl, are un-
fair and without foundation in
fact.
differences drawn from McCarl's
report and broadcast widely by
IVA opponents were lin direct
contradiction to engineering neces-
sites and good business practice,
Morgan said
McCarl's report itself was unfair,
he said, because it listed, without
comment, expenditures which on
their face were doubtful" but
which were justified when examin-
ed from a standpoint of sound en-
gineering.
1.-The authority expected some
errors to be brought out" Morgan
said. I'VE started from scratch
with definite instructions to put
men to work as rapidly as possible.
The comptroller generals report is
based on expenditures of $6,000,000,
for which 10000 payment vouchers
were issued.
THE principal difficulty of 9bv-
ernment operation of any project
is the tendency toward inflexibility
of management. That was our big
gest problem, and We did our best
to get around it while still COM
plying to government regulations. "
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
All Central Union
Teachers Retained

All of Central high school and
junior college teachers were re-
elected at a recent meeting of the
high school board, j. L. House,
principal, announces today.
This afternoon the faculty will
meet to make final plans for the
years activities. The list of grad
yates is not complete yet, but plans
for the exercises, both high school
and junior college, will be discussed.
The list for the city elementary
schools will be made public later
in the year when the teachers have
been assigned to their respective
grades and the school program
completed.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
Long Prison Term
For Counteyfeiter

w. B. Winter, arrested here sew
eral weeks ago for illegal possession
of counterfeit coins, was sentenced
to eight years in the McNeil's Is
land federal prison in federal
court, San Diego, Friday. Six
immigration prisoners were sem
fenced to terms from six to 10
months in the local county Jail.
T. A. Eggleston, deputy U. S.
marshal, took the prisoners to San
Diego for trial and returned the
immigration prisoners to serve
their sentences here.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
Alleged Attacker
Must Face Trial

LOS ANGELES, May 20. UR -
Werf K. Evans was charged with
murder in a complaint issued today
shortly after a coroner's jury rec
ommended that he be tried in con-
nection with the death of Mrs.
Thelma Evelyn Gilbert, 41-year-old
housewife.
Evans, a Burbank SERA worker,
beat Mrs. Gilbert when she resist
ed his advances after a drinking
party, the jury was told.
The woman's husband Royal A.
Gilbert, was serving a Jail sentence
at the time of the attack,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
Special Committee
Headed By Hulse

State Senator Ben Hulse has
been named chairman of a special
senate committee of three to in
vestigate the budgets in the depart
ment of public works, motor We
hicle department and two minor
departments of the state govern
ment. according to information re-
ceived here today.
The assignment is considered an
important one at the capital, in
view OF the large sums involved in
the two major departments.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
Local Police Win
On Pistol Range

El Centro police departments
marksmen added another victory to
their long string Saturday after
noon when they defeated the team
from the immigration patrol on
the local pistol range by a score
of 1893 to 662. F. v. Ackley, local
traffic officer, was high shot with
a score of 277 Other high scorers
were Keating 266. Tackett $50. and
Thomas, 237.
In an individual match held fol-
lowing the team shoot, Heating won
high point with a 1874 score. Ack-
ley was second, 100. Tackett third,
1856 and Thomas fourth, 1874
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
GiUen Jail Tern,
For Drunkenness

On his plea of guilty in police
court this morning to a charge of
drunkenness, H. Carey was given
a 20-day term in the county jail.
Jim Vrana, also charged with
drunkenness was given a sentence
of $8 or four days in jail.
B. Williams and N. Lang pleaded
guilty to vagrancy charges and re-
ceived suspended sentences of 10
days each. d. Villa. drunk and
disturbing the peace was sentenced
to pay $40 or serve five days in
Jail. E. A. Humphrey and Ruth
Hall pleaded not guilty to drunk
enness charges and their cases were
continued until Thursday after
noon d.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
Infected Melon
Acreage PioWed

Already $50 acres of H. B. mil
dew infected melons have been
plowed UP, reports the agricultur-
al commissioner office, this prac-
tically eliminating the early fields
planted to the non-resistant var
ietieS.
Approximately 1000 acres are
planted to late non-resistant mel
ons and a close check is being
made on them to see if mildew re-
suit.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
WorIey In Charge
OF Valley Exhibit

jess Wcrley is In San Diego and
will remain there for some time
taking charge Of the valleys ex-
hibits IN the exposition, Palace OF
Water.
Art Sinclair OF the agricultural
commissioners office will join him
later in the week SO that every
thing will be In readiness When the
great fair opens, May ~.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
a. W09A
SNN SAYS

SACRAMENTO, May 10. (Spe-
ciaD-That was a terrible thing
about that big Russian plane. I
saw it when I was there. They
said themselves over there that
it had never been much success
as far as flying. But Russia is
just at that stage like we used
to be where they want the big
gest of everything.
So it made good reading when
they would write how big it was.
It was warehouse with six en-
gines on it. They could jack it
up and get 1t above the field in
Moscow, but I don It think it had
ever been out of town. The great
sport in Russia is parachute
jumping, they used to take half
the town up in this and let 'em
jump.
But don't get the impression
that all the planes there can't
get out of town, it's the most
air ambitious nation in the
world. And those old Rush
ions'' can fly.
Yours
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
Baseball Scores
BY United Press
AMERICAN LEAGUE

At Boston RH E
Cleveland ............ .010 100 002-4 7 /
Boston ................ 900 00l 000-1 9 2
Hildebrand and Brenzel; Grove,
Walberg and r. Ferrell.
At Washington- r H E
st. Louis 100 100 0l0-2 5 2
Washington 900 $50 03x-8 10 2
Van Alta, Walkup. Andrews and
Heath; Hadley and Bolton.
At Philadelphia r H E
Detroit ..........002 010 020 03-8 u
Philadelphia 100 O02 002 01--6 Is
Bridges and Cochrane; Dietrich,
Caster and FoXX.
At New York r H E
Chicago 100 00l 1902 10 l
New York lilo 004 10x-7 10 2
Fischer, Vance and Sewell; Broa-
ca and Dickey.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
NPL|CATES
PROBLEMS Of
TAX REVENUE
Increases Amount To Nearly
Five Million More Than Figure
Set By Governor
OTHER RAISES EXPECTED
Bill Providing. For Constitutional
Convention Next January Is
Presented

SACRAMENTO, May 20. W.P)-
California IS tax problem was fur
ther complicated today when the
assembly ways and means commit
tee approved increases in Cover
nor Frank F.. Merriam S budget
amounting to $3,603,921.
This amount added to increases
approved previously will raise the
budget figure approximately $4,823,-
921 more than was taken into con-
sideration by the special revenue
steering committee when it rec
commended tax program designed
to balance the budget for the 1885,
81 period.
In view of action taken by the
committee, other increases were
considered likely. Meeting in ex-
ecutive session early today, the
committee was unable to complete
work on the budget bill and addi-
tional special sessions will be nee
essary before it is sent to the floor.
The major boost voted today pro-
vided an additional 1929, 1855 for the
University of California to bring
the institution IS total budget up to
$12,903 ,498. The university had
asked for 100000 more than the
$l1,974, 1873 allowed by the governor.
An increase of $1,229,730 in the
budgets of all state institutions al
so was necessary to cover the "a
per cent gain in food prices re-
corded since January when the Or
iginal budget was prepared.
The committee also decided to
add 10 per cent to the budgets OF
the seven state teachers colleges, an
increase amounting an an estimated
$281 900.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20

At Pittsburgh RH E
New York 200 900 004- 3 2
Pittsburgh oil $50 l2x-11 IA 2
Hubbell, Stout, Gabler and Man
cuSo; Lucas and Padden.
AT Chicago r H e
Boston ............... 900 900 000-0 6 4
Chicago ..............0 .032 900 00x-5 10 0
Brandt, Smith and Spohrer; Lee
and Hartnett.
Brooklyn at Cincinnati, wet
grounds.
Philadelphia at st. LouiS, rain
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20

SACRAMENTO, May 20. W.R)-A
constitutional convention attended
by 100 delegates from assembly and
senate districts would be held in
Sacramento next January under
terS-, of a bill facing legislative
consideration.
The bill originally proposed a
delegation of 80 from assembly dis
tricts, but was amended today
when a majority of assemblymen
objected to the Los Angeles, San
Francisco and Oakland districts
having so many representatives in
proportion to outlying areas.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20

Philadelphia at st. LouN, rain.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20

HuDDtII, oVOuI, GdDItI anu MdI
cuSo; Lucas and Padden.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20

AT Pittsburgh r H
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20
NATIONAL LEAGUE

ca and Dickey.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-05-20

Brooklyn at Cincinnati we
ornupde
Evening star., 1935-04-21

Atlanta. secretary. and Dolly Butler.
Hollywood, Calf.
Mrs. Charles Francis Carusi, vice
chancellor of National University and
q leading proponent Of women's activi-
ties at the 66-year-old law school, and
Col. Julius I. Peyser, prominent attor-
ney and professor Of equity practice
and Judge Of the equity branch Of the
moot court on Nationals faculty, were
named sponsors of the new chapter.
Judge Nathan Cayton of the District
Of Columbia Municipal Court, youngest
jurist ever to be named to the bench
in the District of Columbia, and a
member of the Nationals faculty, was
named legal adviser.
The activities which Iota Tau Tau
engages in particularly center about
juvenile delinquency. Members Of the
sorority in all sections Of the United
States are among the leading woman
barristers of their communities, and in
their individual spheres they have un-
dertaken to promote child welfare and
protect children against abuse In all
branches of law.
While most universities and colleges
are closed this week for the Easter
holidays, National University is oper-
ating its classes for the schooling OF
its 900 students without interruption
The current Spring term opened
March II, to continue until May rs
The only holiday observed since the
Christmas vacation was George Wash.
ington's birthday anniversary. the
classes running daily until the close
of this current academic year. This
reduced number of holidays Is pre-.
ferred by National students, who re-
peatedly have elected to continue their
studies without holiday interruptions
Evening star., 1935-04-21
KROCK ELABORATES
COMMENT ON PRESS
Asks Leave to Extend Remarks
to Cover Other Pointed
Criticisms.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Until I read your account today
of the proceedings yesterday OF the
American Society of Newspaper Edi-
tors continued in the understanding
that the session in which I partlcl-
mated was closed. I have no obJec-
ton to the publication OF anything
or everything I said in the discussion
of the faults of American newspapers.
But I fear that your reporters selec-
ton of my last and least point may
give the widespread impression that
/ am one with DR.. Sirovich in a
crusade against those de luxe men,
bers of newspaper staffs, those enfants
gatees of iournalism-the theater,
book and music critics. Their escape
from the laws of responsibility that
guide most others who create news
papers has been flagrant in some in
stances. But I am not seriously dis
turbed over them.
The chief points I hope made,
which did not impress your reporter
so much as the one he selected, were
these, and, since the session is no
longer closed, may I briefly list them
as faults to be occasionally observed
in the American newspapers as
whole, in my opinion: The holding OF
public Office, or close banking and
industrial affiliation, by publishers;
the quantitative, instead of the quail
tative, test for headlines; the first
page balancing" that often results
in blowing up stories beyond their
value; the fixed appearance" which
forces the writing of much that isn't
worth writing in the way of columns
and editorials, and drawing in the
way of cartoons; reportorial careless
ness with verbs and adjectives, which
put people in the position of admit
ting" what they have simply as
serted; gossip columns that invade
privacy and don't bother about veri-
f1cation; burying corrections, and per-
mitting staff men to blow up small
news happenings beyond their value
in an effort to hang on to a continu
GUS flrst-page by line"
These are some of the suggestions I
made which I should like to balance,
If you will grant me the courtesy.
against the one that attracted your
reporter. ARTHUR KROCK.
Evening star., 1935-04-21
400 ALUMNI TO HEAR
HARVARD HEAD SPEAK
DR.. Conant to Be Honored at An
nual Dinner of Club
Here Tuesday.

DR.. James Bryant Conant, presi-
dent of Harvard University, will ad-
dress 400 graduates assembled in his
honor from the Harvard Clubs of
Maryland and Virginia at the annual
dinner of the Harvard Club of Wash
ington, Tuesday, at Z pm, at the
Washington Hotel.
All Harvard men are invited to at
tend, Col. Ralph H. Hallett, secretary,
said yesterday, since attendance will
not be restricted to members OF the
clubs.
Charles Warren, president of the
Harvard Club here, will preside. Prof.
John Dickinson. Assistant Secretary
of Commerce, and Judge William C..
Coleman, Maryland District Court
Judge, also will speak.
Evening star., 1935-04-21
WOMEN'S LEAGUE
PLANS BROADCAST
World Hook-Up May 2 Will
Honor Jane Addams for
Peace Work.

Miss Josephine Roche, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, will intro
duce Miss Jane Addams in the
round the world peace broadcast that
will be an important feature Of the
three-day twentieth anniversary cele-
bration of the Women's International
League, beginning here May 2. This
announcement was made yesterday by
Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, chairman Of
the Anniversary Committee. Miss
Addams, honorary international pres
ident of the league. will be the central
figure Of the observance.
Viscount Cecil, outstanding peace
advocate of Great Britain, will speak
from London; Arthur Henderson,
president of the Disarmament Con-
ference, from Geneva; Paul Boncour,
former foreign minister and French
Senator, from Paris; Prince Toku-
gawa, member of the peers of Japan
and president Of the Japanese Red
Cross, from Toxic: Nine. Krupskaya,
widow of Lenin. and Nine. Litvinoff,
wife of the foreign commissar Of the
u. S. S. r., from Moscow. Miss
Adams will respond from Wash
ington.
The world hook-up. made by the
National Broadcasting- Co., will be
part of q reunion meeting on May 3
of the American women who 20
years ago went to The Hague with
Miss Adams to an international
congress of women. which later re-
solved itself into the Womens Inter-
national League for Peace The
Washington members of that original
group are Mrs. Louis F.. Post, widow
of the Assistant Secretary OF Labor
in the Wilson cabinet; Mrs. Mary
Heaton Worse, well-known author;
Mrs. Charles Edward Russell, Mrs
George Rublee, Miss Constance
Drexel and Mrs. Charles Umsted.
Evening star., 1935-04-21
DHI GAMMA ALPHA and Phi The
National U. Women Organize.

NEW recognition on nationwide
~ scale was given the woman STU
dents of National University
Law School during the past week
when a group of officers of Iota Tau
Tau, national legal sorority. assem-
bled in the Capital and installed
chapter of the organization at Ma
tional University.
The new chapter, named Omicron,
had its founding in banquet at the
Shoreham Hotel Ethel Ginberg,
Rachel Racoosin and Ida Taxin Fox
were the National University students
who were the elected founders Of the
chapter. The national officers of Iota
Tau Tau who came to Washington for
the purpose Of installing the chapter
we're Agnes Duffey de Foor of Atlanta,
Ga. supreme dean; Redie P. Ashurst,
Evening star., 1935-04-21
Veterans to Meet.

Ace-Rasmussen Chapter Of the Dis
abled American Veterans will meet
Thursday evening in the club house
Of the Fort Stevens Post of the Amer
lean Legion, 306 Kennedy street.
Comdr. ]. L. Spears announces q busi-
ness session, followed by talking pie
lures, music and other entertainment.
Refreshments will be served.