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Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
MERCHANTS SEE BETTER BUSINESS
Arrival Of Cooler Weather Is Expected To Help
Improve Local Activities

Approach of cooler weather will
be welcomed by Ell Centro mer-
chants as a stimulant to more ac-
tive business, although conditions
have improved considerably over the
same period last year, talks with
several local businessmen today re-
Yealed.
Business has been good but you
will notice the men and women are
still clinging to summer styles,
said Melvin King, of the M. o. King
company. eve need touch of cold
weather to send people buying
heavier clothes and wearing apparel
needed during the cooler months of
the year. Our business is much bet
ter than for September, 1884, and
we have no complaint to make. Once
the turn comes in the weather, We
expect much heavier activity"
Equally optimistic was Gordon
ScriVen, manager Of j. G. Penney
company. Our business has held
up well and shows every sign of get
ting better. I have just returned
from vacation in other sections of
the state and am satisfied that
business activity here in Imperial
Valley is considerably ahead of what
it is in several places which I visited.
People generally have not as yet
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
United Press White House
CORRESPONDENT

FREMONT, Neb., Sept % U.P) -
The New Deals agricultural and
monetary policies today we're hailed
by President Roosevelt as combined
effective agencies that have put the
American farmer back on the road
to prosperity.
The chief executive at the same
time hit back boldly at his critics
who have been using the constitu-
ton as an argument in their behalf,
by asserting II like to think that
agricultural adjustment is an ex-
preston, in concrete form, of the
human rights of those farmer
patriots who stood on the bridge at
Concord, when they proclaimed the
Declaration Of Independence, and
when they perpetuated ideal by the
adoption of the constitution.
In a vigorous defense of expert
rlentation as embraced by the agri-
cultural adjustment act, Mr.. Roose-
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
A WAIT ACTION ON WPA PROJECTS
Statements On District Power Approval Diffe
Local Residents To
See Dam Dedicated

Ell Centre will be represented by
several citizens at the Boulder dam
Monday when the giant structure
will be dedicated by President
Roosevelt.
Director Ira Aten and Walter
Goodson, secretary of the Imperial
Irrigation District, will represent
that organization.
Imperial county will be repre-
sented by District Attorney Heald,
who declared he would take proper
precautions to preserve his Repub-
licanism among so many Demo-
Gratis.
Harry Maddux, business manager
of the district. and Percie Thacker,
of the Pioneer Transfer, will make
private excursion, intended to see
that the President does the job in
proper style.
Joe Adams planned to get away
tomorrow, if possible, to find out
definitely whether or not there is
such a thing as Boulder dam. Joe
said he had heard rumors but
wished to make certain for him
self.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
BACKING GIVEN
NEW HIGHWAY
BY CHAMBERS
Canada To Mexico BOule-
ward Gets Enthusiastic
Support OF Valley

Enthusiastic support for motor
cade over the proposed route of
United States highway SO from CAL
eXico to Lake Louise in Canada on
October IL was given both in the
executive session and regular meet
ing of the Associated chambers OF
commerce at Westmorland high
school last night.
The plan as presented by Bob
Hays, secretary of the Ell Centro
Chamber of Commerce, speaking
for Andy Preble, Imperial super
visor, to an audience of over 10 peo-
pie is that each chamber of COM
merce in valley shall send at least
one representative on the trip which
shall have as its purpose the con-
tacting of towns over the route in
order to gain their support. A COM
mittee was appointed to make ar
rangements with valley chambers.
The fact that Arizona is bidding
for a similar route to go through
Phoenix necessitates quick and
vigorous action, Hays emphasized.
The route as outlined would run
from Calexico through Ell Centro,
Brawley, Needles, Las Vegas, New,
Ely, Wells and into Idaho at Twin
Falls, running due north to Hamil
ton just over the Montana border,
thence to Kalispell, Eureka and so
into Canada.
Direct Route -.
This highway at the present time
is well-paved direct route with
the exception of 81 mile gap be-
tween INLAND and Desert Center and
100 miles of Well-gravelled and oiled
road near Las Vegas. Idaho truck
ers are using this route almost ex-
clusively at the present time, Hays
stated.
Since a large portion of this high
way would pass through Imperial
Continued on page g.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
DOCK TROUBLE
MAY OCCUR IN
SHIPPING ROW

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. %. U.P
"A shipping tieup that threatened
a complete blockade of San Fran
cisco harbor impended today in a
bitter dispute between the Interna-
tional Longshoremens association
and waterfront employers.
Employers want at least 1000 ad-
ditional names added to Dispatch
ing lifts in San Francisco in order
to move cargo on II or more ves-
vels already tied up and on those
coming in almost hourly.
The union, fighting this move to
add non-union workers to the
longshore rolls, insist there are
sufficient men now registered to
handle all cargo if the employers
withdraw their blacklist of workers
who refused to handle "hot cargo"
The blacklist is said to have
reached almost one thousand names
since it was inaugurated week
ago. If the number is correct,
there still should be about 1900
registered union longshoremen a
vailable.
Determined to push the issue to
a showdown, the employers indicat-
ed they would demand at least $50
longshore crews, of 18 men each,
for duty today.
They offered to reinstate from
the blacklist any men who would
consent to handle any type of car
go on the piers, including that
from strike sources.
A decision by Federal Arbitrator
M C. Sloss strengthened the posi-
ton of the employers in their de-
mands that the San Francisco dock
workers handle all cargo regardless
of its source or destination. SloSs
held that the union ban on hot
cargo was contrary to the provis-
ions of the working agreements
which ended the 1884 strike.
Stunned by the decision, which
went against them on elery point,
officials of the I. l.. A. spared for
time to delay its. enforcement.
Sam Kagel, official of the Pa
cific coast labor bureau, said he
had been authorized by William
Lewis, I. l.. A. district psesident, to
ask for a rehearing.
"I doubt whether the ruling is
now enforceable until such time as
rehearing request is decided"
Kagel said.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
SAFE PROVES
OBSTACLE To
OLDER FOLKS

Businessmen and employees hav-
ing offices in the upper floor OF the
Bank of America building had
plenty of fun going to and COM
ing from WORK today. Some didn't
get TO work at all, and others did
SO by being able to do a little
gymnastics.
The reason was a $500 ton eve
weighed it, safe being moved into
the office of the Credit Production
Corporation.
Don Stafford, of the Pioneer
Transfer company, and squad of
men, had the safe moved as far
as the turning point in the stair
case and were working on the prob
lem of making the turn.
The safe, held up by formida-
BILE pile of joists, presented an OBJ
stacle that only the nimble could
overcome. Young fellows like Ross
Hickcox and Dave Roberts, scam
pered up and down the timbers
just for the fun Of it. Old gentle
men, like Charlie Provence and
Bob Mcnamara, either stayed
home or decided the mountain
climbing was not in their line.
AS for the ladies-the reporter
observed one trying to scramble
over the barricade, and being
married man, turned and fled.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
CITRUS MEN
WILL BALLOT
IMPORTATION

Grapefruit growers who have not
received questionnaires and ballots
sent out by the citrus department
Of the Imperial County farm bureau,
dealing with the pro-rate on grape
fruit, may obtain them if they de-
sire to vote.
Ballots may be obtained either at
the farm bureau office in the court
house or from j. E. Harshman of
BraWley, chairman of the citrus de-
partment.
The questionnaires have been is
sued in order that Imperial Valley
growers may have an opportunity
to express their views on the pro-
rate, whether they are for or against
it, Information thus obtained will
be presented by Harshman at the
meeting of the prorate commission
ers, growers and shippers to be held
in Los Angeles. This meeting has
been postponed to October 9 from
September 80 so there is still op-
portunity for those who wish to eX-
press their opinion.
Harshman hopes that he will hear
from at least rs per cent of the
growers so that he will appear be-
fore the commission able to express
their feelings on the question. The
response has been satisfactory so
far, showing the interest of growers
in the subject.
All votes will be kept confidential
although the data acquired will be
turned over to the commission.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
WORLD SERIES
To Be GIVEN
LOCAL FANS

AS in past years, The Press will
cooperate with United Artists
theatre to reproduce the world series
Eext week for baseball fans of this
city.
Because of the great finish made
in the National league by the Cubs
of Chicago, and the well-known bat
tling ability of the Detroit Tigers
in the American, the series this
year promises to be one of the most
hotly contested in many years.
The first game will be played in
Detroit next Wednesday, weather
permitting, and will be reproduced
play by play at United Artists
theatre.
Fans are invited to attend each
game of the series. There will be
no admission charge and they will
be welcome to come at any time
an9 stay until the game is over.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
OPEN LETTER
TOPRES|DENT.
EMBARRASSING

LINCOLN, Neb, Sept. %. UR)-
President Roosevelt, guest of Ne
braska today, was called upon by
the Republican state committee,
through the medium of an open
letter. to answer five questions
which hinged on his 1882 campaign
speeches or the Democratic party
platform.
Summarized the questions were:
l. Why he broke the party plat
form plan condemning restriction
of agricultural products and EN-
tered upon program of planned
scarcity"
Q. Why, after calling for use of
existing agencies and decentraliza-
ton of government, innumerable
new agencies have been created
employing 100000 additional per-
sons and creating the greatest
bureaucracy the nation ever has
known"
3.Referring to a Roosevelt speech
in which he called "a cruel joke"
the advice of Hoover's farm board
that farmers allow 20 per cent of
their land to lie idle, plow up ev-
cry third row of cotton and kill ev-
cry tenth dairy COW, the President
is asked why he "perpetuates this
cruel joke with executive DEGREES
which create a scarcity of food and
crops"
a. An address in which RooSe-
velt asked to be assigned the task
of reducing the annual operating
expenses of the government" is re-
called and he is asked why eXpend-
itures under his administration
have created an annual deficit of
not less than $3,O00,0O0,000 for each
year"
5. This question deals with the
NRA and asks why 2,700 persons
are not cut from the payroll of this
organization, an unconstitutional
unit of the government"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
k|MBALL HELD
SANE, GUILTY

AUBURN, Calf, Sept. 20 tU,D -
Earl Kimball's exuberant spirits
were chilled today by jury verdict
which held that the Werewolf OF
the Fulda Flats" was sane when he
killed James Kennett, former
Chicago contractor.
The verdict made the 2lyear-oid
former sailor liable to a sentence OF
death by hanging or OF life i'm
prisonment.
Sentence will be heard Monday in
the same courtroom where Kimball
spent most of this week catching
and dissecting flies, glowering at
deputies assigned to guard HIM, and
rafting the shackles with which he
was bound to prevent an escape at
tempt.
A jury of 12 men reached its de-
cision on the first ballot. taking less
than half an hour TO return a ver-
dict which upset the defense plea OF
not guilty by reason OF insanity
Kimball had confessed the Ken
nett Staying and also that OF an
unidentified red-haired youth whose
body was found in one OF the aban-
doned mine holes in the Fulda Flat
area.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
First Sign OF
Winter Arrives

Get out your red flannels; shake
the mothballs out of the winter
overcoat and heavy clothes; get
the neckties pressed and discard the
summer lightwear outfits for WIN
ter has arrived in Imperial Valley
Believe it or not and strange as
it seems the first harbinger of the
approaching cold weather arrived in
Ell Centre this morning unheralded
but, nevertheless, much appreciated.
Employee at the water plant this
morning rubbed their eyes several
times and ducked for the protection
of the boiler room when they saw
q very weary teal duck calmly
swimming about in one of the tanks
at the reservoir. Evidently driven
down by the cold blasts now sweep
ing the north the stray managed to
get this far south and decided to
give the natives treat.
Sir Duck was captured and again
set at liberty in another pond where
he proceeded to eat up everything
in sight and thoroughly enjoy HIM
self.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
Pair Being Held
For Investigation

Barney Stone and Paul Brooks.
transients, were arrested here early
this morning in a box car at Olive
and the Southern Pacific railway
tracks. In the car with the men
were two automobile tires, a tube
and two blankets.
Questioned regarding this property
the men denied having stolen it
saying it was there before they got
into the car. They are being held
for further investigation.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
To
ELCENTROF FOR
DAM PROGRAM

In a communication received yes
terday at the Ell Centro Chamber
of Comrerce, officers, directors
and members of the chamber of
commerce are invited to attend the
dedication of Boulder dam, Mon
day, September 80, to be made by
President Roosevelt The invita-
ton comes jointly from A. S. Hen
derson. president of the Las Vegas
Nevada Chamber of Commerce,
and Oliver Goerman, secretary.
The reclamation department at
Boulder City will be in charge of
the official dedicatory program
and every effort will be made to
accommodate the many visitors ex-
pected for this event, according to
President Henderson, preference
will be given to visitors from I'M
perial Valley.
The Ell Centro Chamber of Com
merce sent a final telegram to
President Roosevelt, urging him to
come to San Diego after the dedi-
cation of Boulder dam, and last
night, President Sem Bacon re-
ceived a communication from M
H. Mcintyre, assistant secretary to
the President, stating that Mr..
Roosevelt regretted that his very
crowded schedule precludes any
possibility of adding Imperial VAL
ley to his itinerary on this occas-
ion, but the President desired to
express his appreciation to the Ell
Centre Chamber of Commerce and
the people of Imperial Valley for
the cordiality of their invitation.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
Murder Theory Out
In Hanging Case

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 90. W.P)-
Police today abandoned a theory
that John Dunn III, 17-year-old
high school boy found hanging in
the bathroom of his home may
have been murdered.
His mother, Mrs. Birch Alsop,
asked an investigation by the dis
trict attorneys office after she
was forced to batter down the lock-
ed door to cut down her sons body.
Police found that doors and
windows of the second story room
were securely fastened from the in
side, and that the theory of foul
play was eliminated.
Young Dunn was reportedly
awaiting an appointment to the
United States Naval Academy at
Annapolis from Sen. William Gibbs
McAdOo,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
HEWES SAYS
PROJECT WAS
NOT. REJECTED
District President Asserts
More Funds To Be Pro-
vided BY Congress
DENIAL BY McADOO
Telegra m Received By
City Clerk Declares The
Application Rejected

"The districts application to
PWA for a loan of $13,500000 to
construct hydro electric power
yplants along the All-American can
III and to build a distribution sys-
tenn has been approved" Evan T..
Hewes, district president stated
this morning Notices confirming
this approval were received recent
ly at district headquarters from
several sources close to the admin
istration, it was said.
In this connection Hewes made
the following statement:
Under the ALLEGATION of funds
from appropriation by the last
session of congress limited
amount of money is available for
PWA present uses"
"It is the purpose of the admin
istration, according to our advices,
to ask the next session of congress,
I aich will convene in January. for
additional appropriations to carry
on uninterruptedly those public
works projects which have been
approved"
1.-THE important news is that the
power loan application had it's
okay in Washington. This means
the districts next step will be to
proceed with all plans and specifi-
cations for plants and distribution
i vstem and that we shall arrange
y. call an election to vote revenue
Sshds, which will be our collateral
In Washington for the government
loan."
by this method the district will
be all set to go ahead without delay
as quickly as the additional money
is made available"
1T is, naturally, gratifying to me
ard to the board and will be, I
know, to the people of the district
that we have government sanction
for our power plans. 1t means we
shall be able to hold for the land
owner and the taxpayer the one
big revenue producing asset of the
Imperial Valley, to be the property
of the people for all time, source
of dividends to the present and
future generations.
Explains McAdOo Wire
Apparently In contradiction to
this statement of the district pres
ident is a telegram received this
morning by Cal G. Mousseau. Ell
Centro city clerk and chairman of
the county Democratic central
committee, from Vera Ward, secre-
tary to U. S. Senator William G.
McAdoo. The telegram states:
Imperial Irrigation District power
project application PWA docket
1893, NEG docket 1927, finally re-
jected"
Commenting on this telegram
Hewes stated that it merely means
that the districts power project
was not included in the list of ap-
preparations released by the Presi-
dent for special cases just before
he left Washington on his trip
to the Pacific coast.
\ mo immediate appropriation
was made out of available funds"
Hewes said, adding: These funds
will be appropriated either after
the President returns from this
western trip or at the next session
of congress in January. Already a
move has been started to have
this matter of the necessary funds
attended to at the earliest mo-
ment."
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
School Heads
Will Meet At
Winterhaven

Winterhaven school will be head
quarters Tuesday for a meeting of
all rural elementary school prin-
cipals in the river district, the
meeting to begin at D. m. Yuma
time.
Miss Helen Thomas, Miss Edith
Redit, instruction supervisors, will
explain the provisions of the teach
ers' handbook, the meeting being
identical to that held Thursday at
Wilson in the court house for the
other rural school principals.
Miss Thomas and Miss Redit will
spend Tuesday and Wednesday with
teachers in the river district schools.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
START WORK
ORDER To De
GIVEN MONDAY
Thousands To Get Jobs In
San BernardinO, River
side, Imperial Counties
NAME VALLEY WORK
Possible Primary List In
cludes Two Local High
School Improvements

Definite steps toward speeding up
action on WPA projects in Imperial
county apparently are under way as
indicated by the following telegram
received this morning by The Press
from headquarters of the fifth dis
trict, WPA, at San Bernardino.
Definite instructions for launch
ing of between $4,000 and 10000
workers, San Bernardino, River
side and Imperial counties, on
Works Progress Administration jobs.
are expected to be issued Monday
by Ralph B. Smith, district direc-
tor, who left Friday night for San
Francisco. Final conference of all
WPA directors of state has been
called by Frank Y. Mclaughlin,
state administrator.
Although no official information
has been received by Homer Miller,
in charge of local SERA head
quarters, he stated this morning
that in all probability, certain pro-
Jects approved under the SERA and
subsequently transferred to WPA,
will be given preference when the
word to go ahead is received Mon
day night.
Among projects which he believed
might be given preference, he listed:
Salton Sea Sandy Beach road.
CaleXico Highway cutoff and
desert wells.
Brawley gymnasium.
Brawley-C -Calipatria road.
T. B. Ward at county hospital.
Central Union high school tennis
courts.
Central Union high school con-
crete walks.
Game refuge, Calipatria.
Bridges, bulkheads and drains,
Holtville.
Municipal plunge, Westmorland.
Jail at Winterhaven.
Palo Verde road.
Will Aid Employment
81 would like to emphasize" Miller
said, that I have no definite in
formation on any of these projects
but as Zney are SERA approved
projects, which we are informed
are supposed to have preference
under the WPA, it is only logical to
assume that they will be included
on any primary list issued from San
Bernardino headquarters"
Miller expressed the opinion that
the WPA projects will take up much
of the slack or unemployed persons,
in the county. In round numbers
there are approximately 1,500 un-
employed persons in the county, of
whom around 1900 are men. Miller's
estimate was that 25 per cent of
these would probably be unfit for
WPA work, either because of ply
sical disability or some other valid
reason.
"All we know here is that the
WPA G/ anxious to get the projects
approved started at the earliest pos
sible moment, and that fifth dis
trict headquarters is doing every
thing possible to speed up the work"
The conference at San Francisco.
mentioned in the telegram, 1t was
stated, indicates that Director Nc
Laughlin is prepared to give the
directors of the various district
definite instructions as to projects
to be undertaken Immediately in
their respective territories.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
Smallest National
Park Is Dedicated

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Sept. % (U.R
Representatives Of two nations
joined today in dedication of the
United States smallest national
park.
In honor of Juan Rodriguez
Cabrillo, Portuguese navigator who
first sighted land on the western
coast at Point Iona in 1912, the Ell
Cabrillo National Park, one and
one-half acres on the tip of the
point, formally became a part OF
the nations park system.
DR.. Joao De Bianchi, minister
from Portugal, and Col. John R.
White, superintendent of Sequoia
and Death Valley National parks,
headed the ceremonies.
The rocky point, recently made
more accessible by construction of
a paved highway, commands one
of the most impressive views of any
park.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
District Officials
Leave For Capital

Directors Hewes, Rose and Nor
low of the irrigation district left for
Los Angeles this morning where
they will board a plane for Wash
ington, D. c. They are to attend a
hearing before government officials
to decide the merits of the districts
refunding and refinancing RFC
loan.
In a telegram received at district
offices this morning it was stated
that this meeting is scheduled for
next Tuesday morning but will
probably be moved up to Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-28
FAIR TO END

POMONA, Calf, Sept. %. UP
A million dollar livestock parade"
tomorrow will bring to an official
end the annual combined Los An
geles, Orange and Riverside county
fairs.
Grand champions, champions
and other ribbon winners will be
exhibited for the last time as the
parade passes the grandstand.
Fair officials estimated a half
million attendance at this years
exposition.
The fair will close at midnight.