davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1935-10-15

bers Of every company in Prince
Georges County to instruct the school
children in the dangers Of being
burned.
Lectures Arranged.
At the monthly advisory board meet
ing, to which each company sends
two delegates, lectures are usually ar
ranged for by President Beattie. At
the meeting this month c. F. Winslow.
district forester Of Maryland, spoke
on the protection Of the forests from
careless smokers and campers.
Besides being humanitarans, the
firemen protect property valued at
over $50 100000 in the county. The
buildings and equipment owned by the
fire companies Is valued at over
100000. The county commissioners
appropriate $16,500 a year for the
purchase and maintenance Of the
equipment to be distributed at the
direction of the board Of directors OF
the county Firemen's Association.
This year each pumper company was
allotted $700. each non-pumper 5000,
and each rescue squad unit $500.
Other officers Of the association
are: j. Theodore Crown, Seat Pleas
ant, vice president: Vincent Simmel,
Cottage City, treasurer. and T. w.
Venemann, Riverdale, secretary.
The Ladies' Auxiliary Of the County
Firemen's Association also works
ceaselessly to help carry on the burden.
They give benefits several times dur
| ing the year to raise funds to pur-
| chase shoes and stockings for sthe
children of Maryland firemen killed
in action and those permanently dis
abled. The shoes and hose are given
at the beginning of the school term
and at Christmas.
Plan Dance Next Month.
The Ladies Auxiliary Of the Mary
land State Firemen's Association Is
arranging to give dance IN Balti-
more next month to help raise 20,000
to endow a room at John Hopkins
Hospital, Baltimore, for sick and in
| jured f1remen.
| Up to the last session Of the Legis-
lature many Of the widows Of the
flremen killed in action suffered from
| financial difficulties because Of the
lack of provision made to care for
them by the State. During the last
session Of the Legislature, Noble F.
Rushe Of Hyattsville, then president
Of the Maryland State Firemen's
Association, arranged with the Execu-
tive Committee Of that organization
to have bill introduced in the Gen.
eral Assembly for sufficient funds.
The bill was passed granting the
Maryland State Ffremen's Association
Evening star., 1935-10-15
Safety -.
CONTINUED From First Page.)

Continued From First Page)
II Washington was rid Of careless and
reckless drivers it would help reduce
accidents not only In the city, but In
the adjacent Maryland towns.
Location Of Companies.
Member companies Of the Firemen's
Association are located In Hyattsville,
Cottage City, Mount Rainier, Brent
wood, Capitol Heights. Riverdale. Seat
Pleasant, Bladensburg, Laurel. Branch
vile, College Park, Riverdale Heights,
Berwyn Heights, Greater Capitol
Heights, Boulevard Heights, Glenn
Dale, Bowie, Upper Marlboro. Oxon
Hill, Tuxedo Cheverly and Forest
vile.
Volunteer rescue squads with am
balances in the county are located at
Bladensburg, Glenn Dale and Upper
Marlboro. The major portion Of the
calls the rescue squad responds to are
to carry the injured from automobile
accidents to the Washington hospitals.
The Bladensburg unit is constantly on
the run for accidents on Baltimore
Boulevard.
Members Of the rescue squads know
the horrors of reckless driving, see
ing the victims strewn along the road
on their many calls. They make every
effort to patch the mangled bodies of
the victims en- route to the hospital.
These men, who receive no COM
pensation for their troubles, work
ceaselessly to bring comfort to the
victims of the modern-time jugger-
naut. Many Of the fireman. not at
tached to the ambulances, are gradu-
ates of the American Red Cross first
aid course.
Seek Ambulance Funds.
The rescue squad Is now conducting
drive to raise funds to purchase a
new ambulance for the Bladensburg
unit. The present equipment will be
moved to another location on the
Baltimore Boulevard as soon as the
new ambulance is secured.
New apparatus has been purchased
recently by Riverdale, Bowie. Acco-
keek, Mount Rainier, Seat Pleasant
and Capitol Heights. The engines for
Seat Pleasant and Capitol Heights will
be delivered this week, and the others
are already In service.
". r. Beattie Of Bladensburg, presi-
dent of the Prince Georges County
Volunteer Firemen's Association, who
heads many civic organizations in the
metropolitan area, said The Evening
Star should receive the cooperation
Of every motorist in nearby Maryland
and Virginia. along with the drivers
of cars In Washington in their safety
driving campaign. Should traffic
fatality sadden your home, he con-
tinued, you would realize the value Of
such q campaign.
Since he has been chief executive Of
the Ffremen's Association, Beattie has
waged safety campaigns for the pre-
vention Of flres. He has asked men,
Evening star., 1935-10-15
MORE RIGID AUTO
TEST ADVOCATED
Navy Department Safety
Enqineer Holds Plan Would
Aid in Safety.

More rigid examination Of appli-
cants for automobile driving permits
would aid immeaSurably In applying
safety measures to Washington's tan
Rled trafic situation, together with
more liberal suspension OF permits,
William p. Biggs, safety engineer OF
the Navy Department, stated as he
prepared to leave on an inspection trip
to the West embracing the navy yards
and stations.
Biggs believes washington authori-
ties might well take hint from the
Nays procedure, under which
chauffeur loses his Job If major acci-
dent is his fault. He explained that
board Of investigation looks into each
individual case, and If the naval driver
Is found guilty he Is dismissed.
''Why not apply a similar rule to
Washington's chauffeurs by revoking
their permits?" he asks.
Coordination Test Urged.
The Navy's safety engineer. an en-
ploye of the Bureau of Yards and
Docks, says applicants should be ex-
amined not only for color blindness
and knowledge Of traffic regulations
but for their qualities of coordination.
This, he thinks, would eliminate lot
of drivers now on the streets. who fall
when confronted with the necessity for
Quick thinking and acting. Even a
physical examination and psychology
cal test might become necessity later.
he says.
There should be a more rigid ex-
animation for brakes and for the
operation of the mechanism OF an
automobile, says Biggs, for defects in
machinery are often the cause Of
grave accidents.
The safety engineer says that there
are too few safety lights in Washing
ton. But improvement Is needed so
that traffic may move progressively.
he contends. Traffic should stop at
all intersections at the same time, and
the present rainbow effect" OF yel-
low, red and green should be elm
mated without delay. On any given
thoroughfare the lights should be all
red or all green at any given time, SO
that motorists might travel several
blocks before being brought to halt.
Messengers Criticized.
The traffic regulations should be
applied equitably to all classes Of
traffic, street cars, automobiles and
bicycles alike, he maintains, and the
practice of messenger boys darting
through red lights, endangering traffic
and themselves, should be stopped
Immediately.
Washington has too few policemen
to maintain effective and smooth
flowing traffic, In Biggs' opinion. He
believes that the mere presence Of
additional policemen on the streets
would act as a deterrent to many
would-be violators, particularly the
"hit-and-run" driver.
Biggs was high in praise Of The
Stars traffic safety campaign and
thinks that while it will do an i'm
mense amount Of good, it must be
supplemented by sterner and more
progressive measures. It appeals to
the great mass of thinking citizenry,
but there are persons who must be
deprived Of their permits and posi-
bly, be made to put up a bond as
surety that they will not drive their
cars during the period of suspension.
Favors Liability Law.
The safety engineer, whose JOB is
not only to reduce the number of
automobile accidents but every type
Evening star., 1935-10-15
Rubber Bubble Bursts.

Consumers lost heavily during the
recent rubber speculation craze in
British Malaga.
Evening star., 1935-10-15

The Southeast Business Mems Association ndorsed The safety
Eldridge Joseph Morgan the fifth
right H. Jenkins secretary Alex
Berlin And standing Clarence Donohue president
The association adopted resolution ndorsg the request of the Dis
additional policemen
association also voted the paving by the District Of the
parking Pennsylvania southeast between Sec
Eighth that hedges this
street that automobiles the parking
that the becomes series of mud puddles weather.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-06
Confined On Page 81
Elks Officers To Be
Installed Tonight

With A. George Fish, San Diego
district deputy, as installing Off
Ger, recently elected officers for the
local lodge B. P. o. Elks will be
installed lodge ceremony to be
held here tonight A dinner will
be served at 7 o'clock followed by
the installation rites.
M. M. Connolly will be the new
exalted ruler, succeeding Harry w.
Horton. Other officers to be seat
ed are: l.. F. Rogers, leading knight;
N. H. Gavin. loyal knight; c. L.
Smith, lecturing knight; H. Swan
son, secretary; F. j. Gianola, treas
urer, M. w. Washburn, trustee, E
A. Diehl, tiler and H. w. Horton
alternate delegate to grand lodge.
Next Thursday night the last
initiation of the spring season will
be held by the local lodge. Five
candidates are scheduled to be re-
ceived into the lodge and this GER
emony will be the first under the
direction of the new staff of Off
GERS.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-06
COUNTY STAFF
To De SHORT
ON TEACHE RS
Five To Be Lost Due To The
Decrease Reported In Average
Daily Attendance

Imperial county will probabl,
show a net loss of five in teacher
apportionmentS for the elementary
schools next year on the basis of the
average daily attendance reports
coming in to the county schools
superintendent of schools office.
Each school district receives funds
from the state on the teacher ap-
portionment basis which is in turn
based on average daily attendance
For each unit of 35 average daily
attendance or fraction thereof, one
teacher is allowed, and money sent
by the state for that salary. A
school may not have as many teach
ers as the apportionment permits
but the money goes into the salary
fund to be used for that purpose.
The loss occurs in the rllra
schools, the city schools balancing
Calexico has gained two teacher ap-
portionments, and Ell Centre, one
Imperial losing two, and Caiipatria
one.
OdlthlCO . SolIlI III clFSA oSN NA"iAl
attendance is AZ, being 1156 fol
this year, against 1112 for last; E
Centro's gain is largely larger, II
actual figures, but on the 35 ADA
unit, is entitled to only one teacher
apportionment, the enrolment this
year being 1889 against 1881 for last
year.
At the opening of the school year
enrolment was considerably below
last years figures at the same time
and Roger M. V. Walton, attendance
supervisor, estimated that the coun-
ty would lose Is teacher apportion-
mentS.
Since that time enrolment has
increased so that it is nearly equaI
to that of last year, and average
daily attendance has been consider
ably better, thus cutting the loss
TO five.
Reports are not in from all the
schools so these figures may change
slightly.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-06
WARRANTS Of
SCHOOLS WILL
Be PAID soon

All registered school warrants for
this year will be called in shortly,
and there are only a few outstand-
ing, with the receipt of county and
district taxes, and delinquent taxes,
at the county superintendent of
schools office.
The money is being apportioned
and will be available shortly. With
the Riley-Stewart plan and with
the unusually heavy payment of
back taxes due to the 10 year re-
demption plan, the finances of the
county schools are in good shape.
The schools have received the
following amounts: District ele-
mentary school taxes, $31 ,330.85; A;
district high school taxes, $52,-
139. 10; district tax for high school
tuition, $4,8O6.64; district tax for
junior college students attending
colleges outside the district, $2,905 .09.
The high school tuition tax is for
those students in the county who
i've III UIle TlVtT ulSITlCb dIlu VIII
attend Yuma high school as it is
closer than any high school within
the county. The county pays the
tax for their support. The district
junior college tax is for junior col
lege students attending school else
where.
The total cost to the county for
this tuition this year will be about
$1,000, practically $4,000 of which
will go to El Centro and Brawley
junior colleges to pay for students
outside the district who attend
these junior colleges. Central will
! receive the greater amount as a
large number attend from Calexicc
where there is no Junior college.
Delinquent taxes received at the
county office are as follows: De-
linquent district taxes for the ele-
mentary schools, $28,338.33; delin-
quent district taxes for the high
schools. $39,O8367; county delin-
quent taxes for elementary schools
40,256.62; county delinquent taxes
for high schools, $20,679.40.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-06
STATE AGRICULTURAL PRO-RATE
ACT DECLARED UNENFORCEABLE
Los Angeles Court Gives Ruling In Granting Prelimi
nary Injunctons Requested In Lemon
And Milk Industries

it is applicable to the shipment of
lemons.
In the decision, Judge Wilson
cverruled the states demurrerS and
ordered preliminary injunctions to
be issued, to remain effective uncN
the Incorporated cases come to trial
on their merits.
The lemon growers complaint set
forth that the entire lemon produc-
ton of the United States is in Cali
fornia and that the statute and the
orders of the commission amounted
to an embargo on the shipment of
lemons in interstate commerce.
"The mere production of lemons is
not interstate commerce." the de-
cision stated. "A statute that has
the effect of regulating and bur-
dening interstate commerce by con-
trolling and limiting the supply OF
necessary commodities upon which
the entire nation is dependent
violates both the federal constitu-
ton and the antitrust act
In relation to the decisions effect
on the milk producers. Judge Will
son pointed out that under the pro-
vision of the statute providing for
creation of zones, the prorate COM
mission created a zone consisting OF
! Los Angeles and county and ad-
jacent counties and that the pro-
duction within the zone was limited
and prorated among the consumers
by the commissions order but that
neither the statute nor the orders
of the commission prohibited the
shipment of milk from other parts
of the state into the local zone.
"AS a consequence, producer:
within the zone are limited in the
amount of their production but riva
commodities produced elsewhere il
fthe state may be brought into thu
zone and sold in direct competition
with the local product" said the de-
cision.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-06
FLOOD MENACE
GROWING LESS
IN MIDWEST
Kansas City Believed To Have
Escaped Damage As Crisis Is
Passed Today

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June W,P)
Flood waters of the Missouri and
Kaw rivers passed the flood stage
here today but unless heavy rains
that have been forecast fall within
a few hours further serious damage
to the lower Missouri basin will not
occur
That was the prediction of Col.
R. c. Moore, U. S. army engineer
chief. and A. M. Hamrick, govern
ment meteorologist, at noon when
the crest of the two torrents ap-
preached this metropolitan center
the first to be seriously threatened
by a series of devastating floods.
The Kaw spread out as huge
lake between here and Lawrence,
Kansas. Overflow of the valley
from Topeka to the mouth had re-
lieved some of the pressure. One
of the flood crests had reached
here from the upper Missouri chan
mel and caused no appreciable rise
on the river gauge.
Shortly before noon the stage OF
the Missouri was 23.2 feet, one and
two -tenths feet over flood stage.
The Kaw was 20.2. Hamrick esti-
mated the Missouri would rise
gradually the remainder of the day
and tonight to q feet, but even
then the dikes and levees should
be able to hold and prevent mum
dation of the populous central in
dustrial district and stockyards.
The major danger here, authori-
ties said, was to old bridges. Army
engineers dynamited debris that
pounded at bridge piers.
Below Kansas City, where the
Missouri has spread out fanwise
over an estimated 100000 acres OF
fertile farm lowlands, the flood
threat diminished. At Boonville the
river fell two-tenths of a foot over
night and workers kept on the job
STRENGTHENING levees.
At noon the stage OF the Kay
at Lawrence, scene of inundation
last night when the stream smash
ed leveeS and caused residents OF
North Lawrence to flee, was 2l.8
feet. Water stood over a large area
there to a depth of four feet.
No lives we're lost inS Lawrence
or Topeka.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-06
COMMITTEE APPROVES NRA EXTENSION Bill
Hulse Blames Epics For Length OF Legislature
Bad Drinking Water
Excuse Giuen SERA

An inadequate supply of good
drinking water was given as the
reason why a large number of the
65 SERA clients who were removed
from relief rolls yesterday refused
to stay on the ranch where they
had been sent by SERA officials to
work in the carrot fields, w. j.
Sterrett local director said this
morning. The men had been called
TO headquarters here to give ex-
plantations why they had refused to
accept the work when offered them.
AS a result, Sterrett said, coordi-
majors from his office and that OF
the national unemployment service
are making a thorough examina-
ton of conditions existing on the
ranch in question to determine
whether or not the excuses as given
were sufficient to warrant the men
refusing the offered work.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-06
BY EDWARD w. LEWIS
United Press Staff Correspondent


WASHINGTON, June 6.-House
Democratic leaders and administra-
ton officials agreed at a two-hour
conference today on principles" OF
a brief resolution extending and
skeletonizing the NRA.
The resolution, yet to be drafted,
is expected to be favorably report
ed by the house ways and means
committee later today and rushed
through the house tomorrow. Con-
ferees declined to state details of
the agreement.
At the conference we're Chair
man Pat Harrison of the senate
finance committee, Donald Rich
berg, NRA chairman, Stanley Reed,
solicitor general, and a group of
Democratic members of the ways
and means committee.
I'VE hope to have the bill report
ed out later by the committee but
I doubt that that can be done un-
| til this afternoon" Chairman Rob-
ert Doughton said.
Rep. Fred VinSon (Dem.), Ken
| lucky, said that I'VE have agreed
on principles but the resolution has
yet to be drafted"
The committee met Immediately
to work on the resolution. 1t was
reported that it would be even
briefer than the Clark resolution
already passed by the senate.
The committee broke up at HAS
a. m. and agreed to meet again at
p. m. 1t was reported that the
proposed resolution was only four
lines long, calling simply for the
extension of what is left of the
NRA until April /, 1886.
Speed Other Phases
1t was learned that the resolu-
ton, as being drawn, would repeal
those features of the act nullified
by the supreme courts Schechter
case decision.
Meanwhile other vital parts Of
| the Presidents must" program
revised to meet the courts stand
were speeded along. The house
labor committee favorably reported
the revised draft of the Wagner
Connery labor disputes bill.
amended to meet the constitutions
anty issue. The measure now is
based on the premise that indus
trial strife interfereS with the free
flow of commerce.
Speaker Joseph w. Byrns pre-
dicted the NRA resolution would
encounter no serious opposition in
the house.
! Separate legislation will be sent
to congress, probably next week,
Byrns said, to carry out the desire
of President Roosevelt that govern
ment contracts be awarded only to
firms that comply with code wages
and hours.
A bill TO revive the Federal Al
cohol Control Administration, killed
by the NRA decision, will be
brought up in the house next week,
tByrns said.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-06

LOS ANGELES, June 6 U.P)-The
state agricultural pro-rate act
adopted in 1888 is not enforceable in
its present form, Superior Judge
Emmet H. Wilson ruled today in
issuing preliminary injunctions
against its operation in the lemon
and milk industries.
The Whittier Mutual Orange and
Lemon association and ~ associated
lemon growers, together with a
group of 130 milk producers and dis
tributors of Southern California
sought injunctions restraining en-
forcement of the act by the agri-
cultural prorate commission.
Judge Wilson ruled the act is in
conflict with the clause of the con-
stitution giving congress paramount
authority over interstate commerce,
and also is in conflict with the
Sherman antitrust act, insofar as
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-06
WOMAN : BODY
RECOVERED IN
CANAL TODAY

At $50 o'clock this morning the
body of Angelina Chacon, 26, who
drowned in an irrigation canal
near Winterhaven at 7 o'clock last
night was found by searchers who
had spent most of the night drag
ging the canal. Sheriff Ware stated
this morning that an autopsy will
be held on the body to determine
whether foul play had taken place
in connection with the woman's
death.
The woman who was part OF a
picnic party on the canal bank last
night she fell into the canal
and drowned. Nicholas Garcia, "a,
another member of the party, was
at first suspected of having pushed
the woman into the canal and was
brought to the county Jail for fur
ther investigation.
A thorough checkup of the mat
ter was made by Sheriff Ware and
his deputies and from evidence OBJ
tanned from other members of the
party it is now believed that the
affair was entirely accidental. Garcia
will be held at the jail until the
autopsy is completed after which,
in all probability, he will be released,
1t was said today.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-06
Slayer OF Son Gets
State Prison Term

LOS ANGELES, June 6. W.P)-
Howard L. Colby, 26, was sentenced
to one to 10 years imprisonment
today for causing the death of his
2-year-old son with forced water
injection in punishment for a
childish mishap.
Sentencing the father on his
guilty plea to manslaughter, Su-
perior Judge Fletcher Bowron ex-
pressed the wish that "I could sem
tence you to the same punishment
you gave your SON."
This father sat throughout the
trial showing no more emotion than
he might have shown had he been
accused of causing the death of a
goat or guinea pig" the judge de-
clared.
At Colby'S first trial, ending when
jury disagreed, his wife, Greta
testified ne refused to permit he1
to call doctor until the child was
dying.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-06
BY WILFRED BROWN

United Press Staff correspondent
TACOMA, Wash, June 6.-Dis-
covery in Spokane of a second
Weyerhaeuser ransom note, a $40
bill, indicated today that while
federal agents and police of two
states worked at cross purposes, the
kidnapers of little George Weyer-
haeuser, quickly and quietly had
slipped out of the Puget Sound
country.
The second ransom bill to be
turned up was passed in the mon-
ey order division of the Spokane
post office Tuesday, it was re-
vealed by Bert j. Cavanaugh, CASH
ier of the division.
Miss Vernon Beavers, clerk who
accepted the bill, was unable to
give federal agents any description
of the person who passed it. She
accepted Is such bills between 9 a
m. and l p. m. Tuesday. Fedora
agents, however, were checking ev.
cry money order which was made
out during that time-112 of them
in an effort to secure clue.
The other ransom bill was pass
ed by man who bought a ticket
for Salt Lake City at Huntington
Oregon, last Sunday night.
Presence of these two bills in the
Inland Empire east of the Cas-
cades led to the belief that per-
haps the entire gang which col
lected 100000 from John Philip
Weyerhauser, vice president of the
Weyerhaeuser Timber company, in
fCnntinuad IN paUo Xl