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Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
LOAN
DEMANDS NOT
ACCEPT TABLE
President And Leaders In Con-
gress Labor In Effort To End
Agrarian Revolt
SENATE DECLARES RECESS
Lower Branch Passes A New
Resolution To End Lengthy
Session If Possible Tonight

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. Up)-
Congress played TO crowded CALLER
les late today when, under White
House guidance, it sought to break
through on agrarian blockade and
go home.
Thousands of spectators watched
or stood in long lines in the cor
ridors as the senate reconvened at
p. m.-weary, nerve-wracked and
eager to end the second new deal"
congress.
Joseph T. Robinson, senate ma
jority leader, announced to the
senate a new cotton plan for loans
at 10 cents pound instead of nine.
with a guarantee up to IL cents.
had been worked out as atesult of
the agrarian rebellion which blocked
adjournment of congress.
Robinson, addressing the senate
as it reeonvened, described the ar
rangement as tentative"
He appeared confident, however,
that the cotton question could be
separated from the third deficiency
bill so that that measure, contain
ing vital administrative appropria-
tions. could be approved by con-
greSS.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
Bond Exchange To
Be Finished Soon

In all probability the work of
completing the exchange of new
irrigation district refunding bonds
for the old district bonds will be
completed by Friday of this week,
Evan T. Hewes, district president
stated today.
F.. H. McIver, treasurer, and Miss
Anna McManuS, assistant treasurer
of the district, have been in Los
Angeles engaged on this work for
the past two weeks and completed
their last checkup yesterday. w. w
Goodson, district secretary, is in
Los Angeles to aid in the work of
completing the bond exchange.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26

county in accordance with demands
of the vigilantes' campaign to purge
the rich Sonoma harvest fields of
suspected labor agitators.
Webb accepted the list from
Wolff, who was accompanied to
the attorney generals office by
Russell Fitzpatrick, editor of an
Oakland labor publication and
member of the executive council of
the Utopian society, of which
Wolff is a member.
AS Wolff attempted to force the
hand of the attorney general, it
was learned John G. Wenk, presi-
dent of the Utopian society, had
wired Gov. Frank F. Merriam a
protest against the demonstration
and offered the society's aid ir
tracing the night raiders.
Webb heretofore has taken no
action in the Santa Rosa case, in
sisting no evidence had been pro-
duced indicating local authorities
were not capable of coping with
the situation. The attorney general
was designated the states chief
law enforcement officer, second only
to the governor, at a recent elec-
ton.
Denies Communism
Both Wolff and Mrs. Beulah
Heany, at whose home he was
boarding when seized by the mob,
denied emphatically that they are
Communists. Wolff said he worked
for George Creel in the primaries
last year, then supported Upton
Sinclair in the general election.
He said he is former member
of the Lions club and World war
veteran.
when the vigilantes raided
Germania hall looking for Com
munists," he said, explaining a pre-
vious agricultural strike meeting
raid, IT was in the street and saw
the whole thing. I recognized many
members of the mob. I'm sure
that's the reason they wanted to
frighten me out of the county.
"When the mob got ahold of me
they not only threatened my life,
but threatened all sorts of un-
speakable cruelties to my wife un-
less 1 left the county," he said.
He pointed out that he willing
ly took an oath of allegiance to the
flag when he joined the Utopians-
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
COAST AREA
GETTING RAIN

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26. U,D -
Los Angeles and vicinity is In for
more unusual" weather during the
next "a hours, according to govern
ment meteorologists today.
The day opened with light show
ers and the forecast is for contin-
ued unsettled weather tonight and
Tuesday, with showers and thun-
derstorms.
A general rain fell yesterday along
the coastal region of Southern Cali
fornia.
The baseball game at Wrigley
field was halted and $4,000 former
Missourians, picnicking at Long
Beach, were driven to shelter.
Rainfall reported included Long
Beach .12 of an inch. Glendale .01,
Anaheim .08, Hawthorne 90, Ingle-
wood "a, Huntington Beach .13,
Ontario .26, Torrance IL, Whittier
.04, and San Luis Obispo. So, heav-
lest August rain since 1918.
The showers ended heat wave
which sent the temperature in Los
Angeles to 96 degrees, two under
the record mark of the year.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
JAPAN FREES
YANKEE SHIP

TOKYO, Aug. 26. W.P) - The
American freight steamship Golden
Mountain was permitted to sail to-
day after having been held on sus-
picion that some one aboard had
tried to take photographs within
a fortified area, the Nippon Dempo
news agency Tokyuama correspon-
dent reported.
The agencys Moji correspondent
reported that British freight
ship, whose name was not an
nounced, was held there, two men,
bers of the crew being charged
with photographing the islands in
the ShimonoSeki Straits.
Although the espionage charge
against the Golden Mountain was
dismissed, it was held that the ship
technically had violated the laws
of anchorage and she was fined 80
yen (about $685..
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
Court Fines Three
For Drunkenness

Pleading guilty in police court
this morning to charges of drunk
enness, Joe Munzenas, George Rob-
les and Orville Dearborn were CIV
en- sentences of SIS or 71a days in
the city jail. Inder Singh pleaded
not guilty to similar charge and
his case was continued until Thurs
day.
o. r. Manson and j. Blackman
pleaded not guilty to battery charg-
es and will be tried Thursday. K.
A. Mckinney drew a SIS or 7ls days
sentence on his plea of guilty to
charges of drunkenness and dis
turbing the peace. Robert Masters
and Jack Wilson, yagrancy, were
given 10 days each in the city jail,
suspended on condition they leave
town today.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26

United States Files Sharp Protest With Russi
Child Killed By
Stray Rifle Shot

SAN BERNARDINO, Calf. Aug.
26. U.R)-Carol Ann Barry of Alta
dena, Calf, 6-year-old child mu-
sical prodigy, was dead today, killed
by a stray bullet from hunters
rifle.
The child, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. j. Barry. was playing be-
fore a small cabin lodge in Swarth-
out canyon near here when the bull
let struck her in the cheek. She
fell mortally wounded within sight
of her parents.
Carol Ann was hurried toward
medical aid in litter, but she
died before the flow of blood could
be stopped.
Today police sought two youths
in a yellow roadster who are be-
lieved to have fired the shot.
The young men were said to have
been hunting bob-cat nearby.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
BILL
SIGNED TODAY
BY PRESIDENT
Bitterest Fight In Congressional
Session Brought To Close By
Roosevelt's Act

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. U.P)-
President Roosevelt at $40 p. m.
today signed the public utilities
control bill, thus enacting into law
the measure for which the admin
iStration made its hardest fight in
this session of congress.
Signature of the drastic bill seal
ed the administrations victory in
its pitterest battle in this congress.
Brought forward to carry out a
Democratic platform pledge to curb
the abuses of utility holding COM
panies, the measure through months
of furious congressional argument
was fashioned into one of the most
thorough-going of federal regula-
tory statutes.
The house rebelled against the
administration and SteadfaStly re-
jected the original death sentence"
proposal that would have eliminat-
ed all but one holding company in
a given utility system, but in the
end it accepted substitute which
utility men protested was almost
as severe.
Under the law finally approved,
not more than one holding com
pany and one sub-holder company
can be imposed on a group of oper-
ating companies. Unless the Sc
curities and exchange commission
grants exceptions, which are hedged
about with restrictions, the oper-
ating companies which those two
holding companies control must be
units of a closely integrated Sys-
tenn.
The law thus will compel the
simplification of utility company
financial structures which, in some
cases, have piled a dozen or more
holding companies on operating
companies.
Under the new law, all holding
companies must register with the
securities and exchange commits
sion between October l and Decem-
ber l. If they have not done so by
December l, their right to use the
mails for business with subsidiaries
or other interstate transactions will
be withdrawn.
After January 1. 1898, the COM
mission will begin to force the SIM
plification of holding companies
with a view to distributing stock
and voting power equitably among
shareholders.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
Supervisors Get
Mclaughlin Reply

In answer to communication
sent by the county board of super
visors relative to- the closing of the
federal transient camp here two
weeks ago, the following letter was
received today by c. w. Hinderks,
chief deputy county clerk from
Frank Y. Mclaughlin, state SERA
administrator
your letter of August 20, has
been referred to us for considera-
ton. I am thoroughly appreciative
of this possible need for the reopen
ing of the Ell Centre transient shell
ter, if traffic becomes heavier, as
is usually the case, with the ap-
proach of cooler weather. I am
keeping in touch with the situation
through M. T. Lewis, field repre-
sentative for your district and, de-
pending on the availability of funds,
will be glad to accept his recon-
mendation in the matter"
This letter from Mclaughlin will
be presented to the board at its
meeting tomorrow afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
LIST OF SANTA ROSA VIGILANTES
PRESENTED TO ATTORNEY GENERAL
War Veteran Demands Action By State Official
And Denies Charge OF Night Riders That He Was
Affiliated With Communism

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26. W.H
The names of 18 alleged members
of a Santa Rosa "vigilante" mob
were presented to Attorney General
U. S. Webb today by Ed Wolff,
seeking to force state action against
the night riders who manhandled
him for alleged subversive activi-
ties.
The mob tarred and feathered
Jack Green, a sign painter, and
Solomon Nitzberg, Sonoma county
rancher, in a riotous demonstra-
ton at Santa Rosa Wednesday
night and Thursday morning.
Wolff, former Healdsburg res
taurant operator, and two other
men were spared similar treatment
when they kissed an American
flag and promised to leave the
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
Former Resident
Makes Visit Here

Earl j. Bodine. former advertis-
ing manager for The Press, accom-
panied by Mrs Bodine, made a
short visit in Ell Centro today en-
route to Grand Canyon and other
scenic spots on vacation trip.
Bodine headed The Press adver-
tisiing department for three years,
leaving about seven years ago to
take a similar position on the Tu-
lare Advance, which he has held
since that time. He made many
friends during his residence here
and was a popular member of
Boyce Aten Post, American Legion,
knights of Columbus, and Ell Cen
tro lodge of Elks, developing the
Boy Scout troop of the latter or
ganization to a high point of eff
cheney while acting as its Scout
master. He also took part in a
number of amateur theatricals pro-
duced by the Elks and Legion.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
EDISON : SON
DIES IN EAST

EAST ORANGE, N. Y, Aug. 26.
U.P)-Funeral services for Thomas
A. Edison, Jr., son of the inventor,
will be held Wednesday from Grace
Episcopal church at Orange.
Edison, SO, director of research
engineering in the manufacturing
plant built by his father, died Sun
day at Springfield, Mass, after
two-day illness.
Burial will be in Rosedale ceme-
terry, West Orange, where the in
ventor is buried.
Edison had registered at the
hotel under an assumed name to
avoid publicity. He was enroute to
East Orange from the Edison sum-
mer home at Lake Sunapee, N. H.,
when stricken.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
San Diego Gets
Phoenix "Funds"

Bradley Skinner, Is, and Winfred
Warmer. 13, both of Phoenix, were
picked up by police here Saturday
afternoon and brought to head
quarters for questioning when found
wandering about the streets.
According to the report on the
log the boys told the following
story: Their fathers had given
them some money to go to San Di-
ego for the fair and. minus this
money, they were now on their way
home, via the hitchhike route. They
were allowed to proceed on their
way.
The report added that the boys
had used up all their money be-
fore reaching the fair grounds and
we're therefore unable to take in the
fair,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
TraUers Reported
To Be Improving

Improvement was noted over the
weekend in the condition of Jasper
l.. Travers, pioneer Ell Centre build
er, injured seriously Friday night
in an automobile accident near
Pine Valley.
Friends who visited him at Mercy
hospital in San Diego, report he is
making good progress. though still
suffering considerably. 1t was
necessary to take 40 stitches in
head injuries and he complained
that most of his pain came from
several broken ribs.
Mrs. William Wythe and her
daughter Darlene, of Brawley, who
were riding with Travers. at the
time of the accident, are also re-
ported as improving. The girl was
unconscious for 40 hours following
the accident, but is now semi-con-
SciouS.
The accident, which totally
wrecked Travers' car, occurred when
it skidded off the highway on the
slippery pavement and overturned.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
Seeking
Woman's Attackers

Sheriffs deputies are continuing
their Investigations today into an
alleged assault committed on Sara
Caballero 49, who lives on the
Davis ranch, Keystone road, Braw-
ley Main canal, late Saturday
night.
According to the report of the af-
fair filed at the sheriff's office yes
terday, the woman left the corral on
the ranch about o'clock Saturday
night. She was found by investi-
eating officers at 1885 o'clock yes
terday morning lying naked in a
mud puddle about half mile from
her home. She told officers that
someone had stripped her clothing
from her and then threw her into
the mud.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
Prison Terms Set
For Valley Men

Sentences for Jack Morgan and
G.. B. Easterling have been set at
five years each in San Quentin
prison by the state board of prison
terms, according to notice re-
ceived at the county clerks office
this morning, They had been COM
mitted on July 90, 1894, on charges
of grand theft.
The information against the two
men states that on May 2, 1884,
they stole two head of cattle, one
belonging to Arthur Colby, the 9TH
er to Fred Palmer. They were tried
on July Is, the jury finding them
guilty as charged but made a rec
ommendation of leniency.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
File Petitions On
Chain Store Plea

Three petitions containing $50
signatures of valley registered
voters calling for a referendum on
the state chain store tax have been
received at the county clerks Of
flee, G. w. Hinderks, chief deputy
clerk, reported this morning.
These petitions will now be
checked over at the clerks office
to insure their correctness and will
then be certified to the secretary
OF state for further action. Other
petitions of a similar nature are
expected here later this week, it
was said.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
PACKARD GIVEN FEDERAL POSITION
Former Head OF MelOland Station Regional Director
For ResettIement Administration

Walter E. Packard, formerly in
charge of the experiment station
at Meloland, has been named reg
ional manager of the western di-
vision of the Resettlement Admin
istration. according to information
received here today.
Territory embraced in the west
ern division has not been definite
lv decided but will probably include
the far-western states, with head
quarters either at San Francisco or
Berkeley.
Packard was in charge of the
Meloland station a number of years
ago and is well remembered among
Imperial Valley ranchers for his in
terest in farming operations here.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
AIR DERBY
MOVES EAST

TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 26. W,P)-
Flyers in the air derby sponsored
by Ruth Chatterton, movie actress,
were enroute to FL Paso, Tex, today
on the second lap of their flight
from Los Angeles to Cleveland, o.
The flyers, who spent last night
here, left this morning as follows;
Cecile Hamilton, Sat a. m; Ethel
Sheehey, 1888 a. m; Lieut.. Whitson,
TAO a. M; Grace Prescott, 7:49 a.
m. Earl R. Kicks, $3.50 a. m; Le-
land Haywood, $3.50 a. M; Gall times
MST). Miss Chatterton and off,
cials of the derby followed the last
plane.
Haywood won the Los Angeles
Tucson lap of the derby yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
Horton Back From
Utilities Survey

Harry w. Horton, chief counsel
for the irrigation district, has re-
turned from a series of investiga-
tions which took him into various
parts of the state and will report on
his findings to the board of direc-
tors at their meeting here tomor-
row.
Horton had been instructed by
the board to investigate the opera
ton of various public utilities dis
tricts throughout California as the
local board is seriously considering
the formation of such a district
here for the purpose of distributing
Z the power to be generated from
the All-American canal.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26

He has been an occasional visitor
to the valley since his departure
from this section and has always
kept in close touch with develop
mentS here.
The Resettlement Administration,
headed by Rexford G.. Tugwell. is
established to administer projects
involving the transfer of destitute
or low income families to areas
where they can be self-supporting,
and also administers projects in
volving subsistence homesteads, soil
erosion, stream pollution, seacoast
erosion, reforestation and flood
control.
Appointment of Packard was
made by the President and con-
firmed by the senate.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
Man DrotUr1s At
Mission Beach

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 26. U.R)-Wal-
ter P. Smith, So, of Scottsboro, Ariz,
was drowned yesterday off Mission
Beach. Swimming half a mile off
shore, he shouted for help an d
two sailors attempted to rescue
him, but were unable to bring
Smith through the berakers. Life
guards recovered his body. Smith
is survived by his widow here and
a daughter in Scottsboro.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26
Baseball Scores
By United Press
AMERICAN LEAGUE

AT Chicago Qst game)- RH e
N. York 900 020 OH 900 201-8 10 3
Chicago 103 100 900 900 202-9 II 0
Gomez, Brown, Deshong and
Dickey; Phelps, Fischer. Wyatt and
Sewell.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26

Only games scheduled
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-26

At Detroit (1st game)--
Evening star., 1935-11-29

trict. The aim Is to have in the VIII
lagos, towns and rural communities
of each district 100 Townsend clubs.
co-ordinating to bring pressure on the
member OF Congress or the candidate.
Over the clubs in each district is @
board which passes upon candidates
for nomination or election to Congress.
This strategy looks to the fact that
in the election next November. and in
party primaries next Spring and Sum-
mer, candidates will be chosen for
every one of the 435 seats In the
lower House. At the same time one
third of the Senate seats, 80 out OF
e6, will be filled.
Effect to Be Seen Mt Once.
The effect of tactics directed to-
ward next years election would show
in the new Congress which will not
sit until January, 1887. However, be-
cause practically every one now in
Congress is a candidate for reelection,
the effect of the Townsend campaign
will show in the session of the present
Congress, which opens January next.
That the effect will be formidable
and immediate is indicated by a recent
happening in Michigan.
In Republican primary to fill a
vacancy In Congress, one candidate
was supported by the Townsend clubs.
He received more votes than four
other candidates combined. The fol-
lowing day Townsend plan headquar-
ters In Washington reported cheerfully
that is members Of Congress, alert to
a rising political breeze, called up to
ask for literature about the plan.
The country will have to look at
the Townsend plan as a movement
perhaps as formidable as the Anti
Saloon League was in its beginning
stage. Whether the Townsendites will
go on to success as the Anti-Saloon
Leaguers depends on conditions diff
fering from those that affected the
Anti-Saloon movement. The Town
send plan is coupled with imitation.
If imitation comes the Townsend plan
will be at once a cause of it and an
effect. of it II imitation does not
come, there can be no Townsend law.
Meat Of Townsend Plan.
The Townsend plan, as described in
petitions presented to Congress in last
Winters effort, is:
First: A bill obligating the Govern
ment to pay to every person whose
record is free of habitual criminality.
and who has attained the age of so
years, monthly pension of 5000 80
upon the sole condition that he retires
from all further business or profession
for gain, and agrees. under oath, to
spend the entire amount of the pen
sion within the confines of the United
States during the current month in
which 1t is received.
Second: A bill creating Nation
wide Federal retail sales tax calculated
at a rate sufficiently high to produce
Evening star., 1935-11-29

the revenue necessary to meet the
requirements. ."
The fiscal fallacy of this has been
explained again and again. But It
will do no harm-and perhaps no
good, either--to. give the figures once
more. Two hundred dollars a month
Is 81, 400 year. Twenty-four hundred
dollars year for eight million per-
sons, estimated as the number of bene-
ficiaries, would be $4,000, ,000, 900 O
year. This year, the total national In
come is about $4,000 ,00O,0 900. That Is,
the cost OF the Townsend plan would
be just about third of the national
income. In other words, persons under
so would be compelled to give q third
OF their wages or incomes to support
those over go. It just isn't possible.
Even If we had the goodwill, the
thing Is fiscally impossible.
Evening star., 1935-11-29
DRIVE
F0LL0WSPATTERN
Political Strategy Is Held
Similar to That of Anti
Saloon League.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

When the Townsend plan" failed
to make much headway in Congress
last Winter, many took 1t for granted
the plan would go the way of other
white rabbits" that emerged during
the depression. Actually, the Town.
send plan is today much more formid-
able.
It's promoters have now organized
along lines that made the Anti-Saloon
League successful as an agency In
bringing about national prohibition.
Many Of the present workers in the
Townsend movement had experience
in the Anti-Saloon League. The same
atmosphere is created Of association
with churches, church leaders and
church folks. The literature Is
sprinkled with quotations Of Bible
texts. The movement is given the
spirit of a holy cause.
Movements like the Townsend plan,
the Anti-Saloon League, the Ku Klux
Klan and others rest on two American
traits. The basis is popular emo
tional responsiveness to causes which
large numbers of people regard as
altruistic, religious, patriotic, or other
wise appealing. Once the cause shows
itself to be infectious. there appear
men with gifts of organization, pub
licity and propaganda.
Fees Provide Salaries.
There has come to be an immense
number of these, who from experience
have learned technique of organiza-
ton and who can make a modest liv-
ing out Of well-developed system Of
small fees collected from membership,
from voluntary collections taken up
at meetings, publication of periodical
devoted to the cause, sales of buttons,
banners and other paraphernalia. I
do not mean TO imply that the workers
in the Townsend plan are mercenary.
The total receipts from July, 1894, to
September, 1885, are reported as $685.
803. The percentage which the full
time organizers and other paid workers
receive and divide is comparatively
small.
In the Townsend plan. as In the
Anti-Saloon League, the unit of Or
ganization is the congressional dis