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Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-16
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PROCLAMA ALTON
Europe Rocked By Statement
Provisions OF Versailles Treaty
To Be Ignored
DISTURBS ENGLAND-FRANCE
Effect Of Announcement Brings
New Annoyance To Troubled
Nations Of Old World
DISTURBS ENGLAND-FRANCE
By FREDERICK OECHSNER
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
BERLIN, March 16 Reichs-
fuehrer Adolf Hitler, In sudden,
breath-taking announcement. today
denounced the military clauses of
the Versailles treaty and proclaim
ed immediate general military con-
scription in Germany.
Germany's denunciation of the
treaty clause and institution of un-
lversal military service rocked q
Europe already tense with the in
creasing momentum of an arms
race among the big powers. France
and Great Britain already had
moved this week toward increased
armed strength.
Neither the Hitler proclamation
for the new law specifically said
that Germany denounceS the mill
tary clauses of the Versailles treaty,
but the conscription law actually
was a denunciation and violation OF
the treaty.
The Hitler decision was diclosed
in an atmosphere of drama and
suspension at the propaganda minis
try after the cabinet had approved.
The. Reichsfuehrer' proclama-
ton revived Germany's objections
to the Versailles treaty and voiced
the nation IS disappointment in the
failure of other powers to disarm.
Then it openly proclaimed the
plans of Hitler:
Germany then saw herself
forced to take measures for her
own protection and is now publish
ing those measures, part of which
already have been adopted the
proclamation said. The air force
. was announced earlier as being put
on military basis.
Covers Three Sections
The proclamation was divided in
to three sections:
1. Universal military service.
Q. Dividing the German peace
time army 0imited to 100000 mer
by the Versailles treaty. to IL army
corps and 36 divisions.
3. Empowering General Blolnberg
to take measures necessary to carry
out the law approved by the cabi-
net.
The full cabinet met today and
adopted the universal consumption
law. ~. ...
The Hitler proclamation deplored
the rearmament of other nations
after Germany had fulfilled her
obligations to disarm under the
Versailles treaty. ....
"There is cry of war today as
if there had never been a World
war or a Versailles treaty" the
proclamation said. ... ... ..-.
The Hitler proclamation remark
ed that Germany in recent years
Continued On Page A.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-16
SEVERE COLD
SPELL VISITS
MIDDLE WEST
Low Temperatures Follow On
Heels Of Yesterdays Bad
Dust Storms

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March 16.
W.P)-A brisk north wind today
caused temperatures over the mid
die and southwest to plummet
from so to so degrees below yes
terday's m>gimums.
The sudden shift in wind cur
rent which smothered a slx-state
region under pail of dust yes
terday, today brought snow to sec
tions of Nebraska and Kansas and
heavy rains elsewhere.
The wind shift line extended
from Green Bay, Wis. south and
east. A northerly wind blew from
eastern South Dakota across Ne
braska, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
and northern Texas.
Rising temperatures were ex-
pected tomorrow with the brief
cold wave moving rapidly east
ward.
Winds of gale force caused con-
siderable damage in the upper Ar
kansas river valley of Colorado,
southern Nebraska, western and
southern Kansas. The dust storm
area extended over those regions,
and Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas
Panhandle. Winter wheat was
menaced.
Snow fell in Nebraska from the
Missouri river west to North Platte,
with temperatures in the 30-degree
vicinity. Concordia, Kansas, and
Sioux City, Ia, also reported snow.
Government forecaster said the
storm was ."side slipping east
ward and would carry lower tenn
peratures and rain as far east as
Chicago and Indianapolis.
DALLAS, Texas, March l6. U.H--
The worst dust storm of the year
swept north Texas today.
Carried by a 30-mile an hour
wind, the storm struck Fort Worth
at II a. m. and 80 minutes later
descended upon Dallas.
Visibility was impaired. Airplane
traffic was at standstill. Auto
mobile driving was hazardous un-
dertaking.
Weather bureau reports indicated
the storm extended from Big Spring
in west Texas to Dallas and was
moving eastward rapidly. .at....
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-16
Pair Arrested On
Graue Charges

Tim weston, %, San Diego, and
Earl Shelton, %, of Texas, were ar
rested by state traffic officers in
Imperial yesterday afternoon and
booked at the county Jail for in
vestigation.
According to information obtain
ed at the Jail, Weston is under sus-
picion of having stolen the car he
was driving at the time of his ar
rest while Shelton is said to be
wanted by department of Justice
officers. Nature of the charges to
be brought against Shelton could
not be learned.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-16
OFFER TO TAKE FINGERPRINITS
Border Patrol Will Accommodate Any Who Wish
Identification Record Made

VINO care to have them filled out
and transmitted to the national bu-
reau.
Anyone caring to file his prints
may call at the office of the immi-
grafton and naturalization service,
326 Imperial avenue.
If 1t is desired to have q photo
grapn included with the finger
prints, the picture should not be
more than three by five inches.
Inspector Hit emphasized the fact
that such fingerprints as are taken
by his department. arc not includ-
ed in the files of the criminal iden-
tification bureau. This is a point
which all concerned with finger
printing wish stressed.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-16
Scout Directors
To Meet Monday

Directors for the Imperial Yuma
council, Boy Scouts of America are
to meet Monday night, March 1s,
at 7:30 p. m. in the offices of the
National Gas corporation of this
city. r. L. Hayden. president, will
be in charge.
On Wednesday night the train
ing committee will meet at 1880
O'Clock at Wilson school to deter
mine the training qualifications for
ScoutmasterS in this council.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-16
Coroner Investigates
DrotVning OF Baby

Frank Raney, deputy coroner.
was in BraWley today investigating
the reported finding of the body
of week S old baby In the Spruce
canal near Brawley early this
morning.
A thorough check up is being
made as the baby was TOO young
to have crawled into the canal and
foul play Is suspected No details
were available here at press tlmc
this afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-16

The U. S. bureau of investigation,
department of justice, has recent
ly installed, in the national bureau
of Identification at Washington, d..
c., an identification bureau for the
benefit of those persons who arc de-
sirous of having their finger prints
on file for their protection.
This service is without cost to
those who care to take advantage of
it and many folk throughout the
United States have submitted their
prints.
Inspector Hit OF the U. S. Immi-
grafton border patrol here has re-
ceived a supply of the special charts
from the department Of justice and
will be glad to accommodate those
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-16
MAKE SCHEDULE CHANGE

Revised ocheduIe Tor the dlstrl-
button of commodities has been
announced by the SERA today
with the statement that commodi-
ties will be given out at all SEFSA
offices between March 18 and
March 28, exclusive Of Saturdays
and Sundays.
The new schedule is to become
effective on Monday, March l8.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-16
BY EAMON DE VALERA
President of the Irish Free State
Executive Council


Copyright, 1885, by United Press)
DUBLIN. March 16. U,P)-Ou the
occasion of ST. Patricks day I send
greetings to our friends in America.
During the past year steady pro-
gress has been made toward our re-
spective national and economic IN
dependence. Our people once more
have shown their power of endur-
ance, their unconauerable national
will and their sound judgment.
They have cooperated with the gov
ernment Loyalty in all its efforts.
While agriculture in Ireland, as in
all countries, continues depressed,
the rapid expansion of secondary
industries here is providing an ever
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-16
IRISH CHIEF SENDS ST. PATRICK'S
DAY GREETINGS ITO UNITED STATES

Editors Note; In the following
dispatch written for the United
Press. cannon De Valera, presi-
dent of the executive council of.
the Irish Free State, sends his
greetings to the United States. ---- =
Imperial Valley press., 1935-03-16
Of
ELECTED MEN
ARE REJECTED
Efforts Of Bratton And Hatch
To Take Possession Frustrat-
ed By Incumbents
AWAIT DECISION MONDAY
Legal Steps Will Be Taken By
Claimants To Obtain Places
To Which They Were Elected

When f. N. D. Hatch, treasurer.
and Charles Bratton, assessor-col-
lector of the irrigation district re-
spectively, came to district head
quarters this morning to take over
the duties of their offices follow
ing the dissolution yesterday of the
temporary restraining orders which
had prevented them from assuming
office last Tuesday, they were met
with refuSals on the part of F. II.
McIver and Winnie Barry, defeated
candidates for these offices at the
February 6 district election.
E. B. Veghte, local lock expert
was called to the scene of trouble
and given written orders by Hatch
and Bratton as officers of the dis
trict to change the locks on the
doors and also the combinations on
the three safes. When Veghte at
tempted to get to work the doors
of the safe were closed and the
present combinations would not be
divulged. McIver further locked
the doors of his office and refused
to open them.
At noon, after consultation with
legal representatives, Bratton and
Hatch decided that no further ac-
ton In the matter would be taken
today but that on Monday morn
ing legal means would be invoked
to put them in possession of their
offices. 1t was emphasized that
no violence or untoward disturbance
would mark the efforts of these two
officers in this matter.
Just what legal process would be
instituted to reach this end was
not announced
Basing his decision on the pre-
misses that courts of equity ordin-
arily will not take action in cases
revolving about contests for politi-
cal office and that persons possess
ing the indicia of office and color of
title should be protected until such
time as the contest would be settled.
Continued On Page ~
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OUR CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT:
WHAT 1T IS AND WHIT TT IS NOT.

L What it is and does:
BY enabling Congress give the District of Columbia
voting representation in Congress and the Electoral College
will become possible to-
Americans half million people to be a
mlionwhose present political prospects are less IMAM
those of aliens elsewhere In America
Put into force Though tardy principle taxation
without representation" the center Of the American
Republic
Add representative participation in government now denied
the duty always borne of supporting that Government
by paying taxes and hghting
A. stigma, humiliation and moral and
political eneeblemen resulting from political
impotence of people numerous than the population
in each of eight American States $3.50 census)
the heart of Nation safe for democracy
a world crusade that end.
g. longer possible that the American Capital
City the only national capital that has no voice IN It's
national government
H. What it is not and does not s agzfess
Our constitutional amendment
admission of the District OF Columbia
q sovereign State. - 81 .
Does propose the destruction Of the tene-
provision of the Constitution lessen in the slightest
degree the complete control of the Nation over the District
s. a for local self government
not disturb In the financial relation OF the
Nation Capital either by the abolition perpetual
ton of the definite proportionate contribution law.
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Here is the teTt OF the amendment Which Uould empower
the District fundamental American rights
RESOLUTION Proposing amendment to the Constitution
the United States providing for national for the
people of the District Of Columbia.
Resoved By the Senate and House OF the
assembled 0othrdS OF
each house concring therein That the following amendment
Constitution Of the United States be proposed for raca
ton by the Legislatures States which, when ratified
Legislatures the States shall valid
Constitution namely at the section
3, Article Nv, the following words:
Congress shall have power to admit to the status Of
citizens of State the residents of the District constituting the
of the United States created by Article
section the purpose representation in the Congress and
the electors of President and Vice President and for the
the courts of the United States
provisions of Article III section q
Congress shall exercise this the residents
such District shall be entitled to elect two Senators
Congress- such other representative in the
Senate Congress provide for in the House
numbers determined by the decennial
meraon presidential electors equal in number to their aggre
In the House and Senate or as Congress may
provide. =
Congress shall provide by law the qualifications of voters
choosing the Senator Senator'S
the Representative Representatives and the electors herein
authorized -, :,
1.-THE Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall
for carrying into execution the foregoing
power"
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BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Since the Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine were last here In their color
full legions IL years ago, Washington
has undergone many and mighty
changes. Alphabetically it Is more
than ever the Capital magnificent,
with an array of Government build
ings dazzling in their beauty and i'm
pressive in their extent. Politically,
too, Of course. it Is vastly different
Washington from that which the
Mobiles surveyed in 1928. for the New
Deal is enthroned, giving to the Gov
eminent of the Republic an aspect
which In countless directions repre-
sents drastic breaks with American
tradition.
But in one vital respect the fezzed
invaders find the District OF Column
bia unchanged. It's half-million law
abiding, patriotic, intelligent and tax
paying residents are still subjected to
all the obligations of citizenship. but
continue to be denied its most price,
less privilege-the vote. The Shriners
assembled In serried ranks from the
48 States Of the Union are making
merry In a community Of men and
women who. politically, have yet to
be Americanized.
U. s. at Large Unknewing.
Washingtonians, who resent their
humiliating disability, rejoice at the
opportunity to draw It to the atten-
ton of SO representative group of
Americans as the Shrine conclave
brings to the Potomac. Many citi-
zens all over the United States are
unaware of the un-American status
of District of Columbia residents.
Thousands of our present visitors
doubtless share that ignorance. With
faith In Shriners' love of Justice and
fair play, Washington confidently in
vites their sympathetic interest in the
Districts political ignominy and in
the united effort which its citizenry
Is making to obtain constitutional re-
lief.
What Washington seeks Is national
representation that Is, the right to
vote for President and Vice President
Of the United states and to have its
own spokesman In Congress WASH
ingtonians demand o voice In the
levying OF the taxes they must pay,
in the making of the laws they must
obey, and in declaring the wars in
which they win have 70 fight. They
base these claims on the principle
that taxation without representation
Is tyranny" today just as much as it
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provided that Congress meet here. We
are proud Of Congress. But we
would like to remind the visitors
that it Is a city hewn by the taxpay-
ers Of Washington, who are denied
vote which their constituents have
and that everybody else in the land
has.
Play and Pay Their Part.
Remember that Washington tax
payers play their part and pay their
part. They pay their own way and
more. They pay all the Federal taxes
the same as American citizens do from
Memphramagog to Yuba Hill, from
Seattle to st. Petersburg.
It is the old story Of taxation with
out representation which our fore
fathers denounced as tyranny.
We favor q constitutional amend
ment to provide for representation Of
the District In both Houses Of Con-
gross.
We are proud Of the acclaim Of
Washington as the greatest of all
world capitals. We are proud Of our
metropolis as a dream city unparal-
leled anywhere. We are proud Of be-
ing in q great city largely produced
by the brain, the Drawn. the patriotism
and the genius and skill Of our own
people. We share some Of this credit
with the Congresses that have been
with us ever since 1900. But 1t is q
metropolis built up and maintained
by washington taxpayers. It Is Of
and BY the cttizsns Of Washington.
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My District, IT'S of Thee

Z Tune: America"
T My District, tits OK thee, e
g Land without liberty,
4 OF thee I sing.
4 Where Nations laws are made,
Where income tax is paid,
I Yet, when sll's done and said,
Freedom can't ring.
Land Of the Congress folk,
Citizenship joke,
At 1t we fling.
We scorn our sE1ackled right.
We mean some day TO fight,
with all our main and might,
And suffrage bring.
why should the District be
Black sheep in land Of free,
Her spirit CALLED?
We send our sons to die,
Heed the republics cry,
With all patriots vie,
Whene'er we're called.
Nation, at large, to you
We raise our cry and hue:
Hear our fair plea.
Tax without voice or vote
Sounds q discordant note,
See rank injustice snote,
End tyranny
FEEDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
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BY FRED A. EMERY.

Many of you may remember the
observation of DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes that the Boston State House
Is the hub of the whole solar creation.
DR.. Holmes, you know, was Bos-
tonian.
We have the same pride In our
home town of Washington, not that
it is the hub of the universe, but the
center of the world. We believe that
every one should have loyalty for his
own habitat. The axis of the earth
may not pass right through the center
of every town, but to every patriotic
American his own community. native
or adopted, should be like his domictle
the best Of all.
1t Is this hometown spirit that
motiyates all loyal Washingtonians.
1t is an affectionate loyalty that fuses
naturally with that great national
sentiment of all red-blooded respon-
sible Americans, the philosophy Of
one country, one Constitution, one
nag and one destiny.
The taxpayers of Washington have
faith In their city as they have faith
in America. They have the pride of
people who can bark back in history
for I35 years through which the city
of Washington has been in process OF
development.
Proud Of Genius Of People.
Their own citizenship traces back
through provincial times, through
trying days of both peace and war.
And today we are proud Of the genius
of our own people through whom
there has been built up the great
metropolis of Washington, whose
wondrous dignity and graceful lines
are the JOY of the world.
The founders of the Republic gave
us our traditions and inspirations,
The Federal Government has grown
just as our own metropolis has grown,
each experimenting the other and in
terlinking, in keeping with the vision
Of our forefathers. Those forefathers,
yours and mine, envisioned glorious
future for washington. That vision
has been fulfilled Today Washington
is the symbol Of America.
Let no one get the impression that
Neutrality-suspicious. live here by the grace
Ior indulgence Of Congress. Washing
tonians are self sustaining. They are
bona fide American citizens in all but
a vote. They built up and maintain
this great metropolis. They are carry
| ing on a municipality whose local gov
eminent does business Of $40, 900. 000
year. OF that amount for upkeep
the Federal Government pays only q
small percentage to cover its obli-
cations.
Washington citizens have TO main-
tain their metropolis on o magnificent
scale in keeping with the dignity and
prestige Of . great menicipal and
world capital. They pay their taxes
adequately. Many officials and en-
ployes Of the old regular Government
services have bought homes here. Few
members Of either branch Of Congress
personally pay any taxes here to q
city whose nlodern 1acilitsas they enjoy
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Shrine Finds Capital Changed
Since 1923, But Still Voteless
Residents Call Attention of Convention
Visitors to Districts Taxation
r9t~ Without Representation.

was when the Thirteen Original Col
onies went to war with Great Britain
and declared their independence Of a
system that held freemen In sub
lection.
Population Exceeds Eight States.
Washingtonians constitute the sole
community in the United States from
which representation in the National
Government is withheld. They suffer
this discrimination despite the fact
that the District of Columbia, accord
ing to the census Of 1880. outnumbers
in population no fewer than eight OF
the States. In 1881 the District con-
tributed in Federal taxes more than n
different States, including those OF
more than IL States combined. Dur
ing the World War the District FUR
nished 17,945 men to the Army, Navy
and Marine Corps, total exceeding
that Of any one of seven States. In
population of voting age lover I'D the
Districts total in 1880 (341 1850 was
greater than that of 10 Of the States.
Figures talk. These speak eloquently
in favor Of square deal for the dis
franchised District Of Columbia. Every
form of organized life in Washington
civic. commercial and professional, In
Guiding men and women. regardless OF
party predilection-supports the plea
for national representation.
Amendment Pending.
The Districts claims are pending
before Congress In proposed consti-
tutional amendment empowering Con-
gress to grant to its residents voting
representation in the House of Repre-
sentatives, the Senate and electoral
college, and access, as citizens, to the
courts of the United States.
Washingtonians refuse to believe
that their rights will be denied per-
petually. They are confident that the
injustice of which they are the victims
win be abolished sooner or later by the
people of the Nation, because it vio-
lates one Of the most fundamental OF
American traditions. For the realiza-
ton OF their desire to be placed on q
level with the residents Of the States,
Neutrality-suspicious. require the support Of
their enfranchised fellow citizens.
They trust that the Shriners, along
with happy memories Of their sojourn
here, will carry home with them q
comprehension Of the Federal City's
plight and claims, and viii promote. to
the extent of their respective powers.
the efforts of the District Of Columbia
to secure simple political justice
1t Is o righteous cause. and In the
end 1t must and will prevail.
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From The Star, March FL. 1889.
Poor Washington.

by WALT MASON.

elm washington men pay their taxes
on motor cars and battle axes, on
stately homes with all their splendors.
on furniture and pink suspenders. The
burden ever greater wakes; there's no
variety of taxes that doesn't hit the
stricken city and make it look around
for pity. And Washington would dig
the money and wear a smile serene and
sunny, and show host Of cheerful
faces, If she could vote like other
places. But Uncle Sam. he says: No,
never. Let digging up be your en-
deavor, and do not knock, with busy
,aallet, because you cannot have the
ballot. You should be glad to dig the
doodle, and whoop around for Yankee
Doodle sound loyalty to me denoting,
without o bughouse wish for voting.
j from Washington men Go TO
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battle, where mortass pop and sabers
rattle: they 60, from shanty and from
manor, and wave aloft our spangled
Banner, and offer all they have for
freedom, and when ethey 90 We cry,
God speed emf When they came
back, their laurels toting, and ask
to do their share Of voting. we say:
Gee wnizl Such talk Is treasoni Now,
boys, ask anything in reason. and you
win not be rendered goatless but
Warrington Is always Yoteless. I