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Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-27
"DONT QUOTE
ME"
BY United Press

WASHINGTON, July 27. - It's
been a long session for congress al.
| right-the house, for instance, has
Whiled away better than 106 hours
just listening to the clerk call the
roll.
Wednesday was the 142nd legiSla-
| tive day of the session. The house
i celebrated the occasion by calling
the roll for the 142nd time since
the 74th congress was convened
The call was on passage of the al
cohol control bill.
1t takes about as minutes to call
the house roll That means tn
house has listened for exactly l0f
hours and 80 minutes to the sound
of its own names.
Meantime, the calendar over ir
| the senate indicates that it is still
May 49, That is due to the peculiar
fiction which the senate adopts Of
never changing the legislative date
except after an adjournment.
Ever since May 13 the senate has
recessed each day.
The May 13 date came about in
this fashion: Senate adjourned
May to displace a motion by Sen
George Norris (Rep) Nebraska, tC
take up IVA.
Next day, May 10, Friday, Norris
re-entered the motion and it was
agreed to. The senate adjourned
that day until May 13 Ga Monday
when the Farley investigation res
olution by Sen. Huey P. Long was
rejected, 62 to 20, Whereafter the
Norris bill was taken up and passed
Sc to 19.
Since then the senate has beer
rolling along uninterruptedly OF
major billS-labor relations, SuS
tanning bonus veto, pure food anC
drugs, public utility, social securi
| ty, NRA resolution, appropriation
bills, Holt seating, nuisance taxes
lobby investigation, AAA, anC
banking.
By recessing daily, the senate i
able to keep working along on it
unfinished business. If it shoul
= adjourn, senators would disrupt tn
schedule by bringing up other mat
terS. That might tie up delibera
} tionS for a considerable time an
make the session longer than eve
5 Senatorial an d congressions
: tongues have been wagging busil
I since last January. So far the
t have spoken or inserted matte
which mas filled 1924 pages
} month. If Sen. William E. Borah
forecast of a session lasting to NOV
ember l is fulfilled, the record wi
! fill a good-sized library.
E This is what too much talkir
= and thinking in millions and bi
] lions does to you. Over at the RF
z they never mention seven and nil
e digit figures any more.
a The $4000,0OO,00O work relief prt
/ gram goes under the nickname
/ the Big Four" PWA's $1,000, 900
4 600 program as "Three-Three
e Sums like 3O0,OOO,OOO, $1OO, 100000
q or $4,000, 900 are called in off-har
D fashion three hundred" 3" lone" an
e fifty"
Folks are supposed to be so use
to dealing in millions that they fl
! the zeros automatically.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-27
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS

looking for labOrers to put up hay, his
major crop. Upon harvesting of this
crop depended this farmers entire profit
and a large share Of his earnings for the
year He had tried to get labor else
where but failed In desperation he
went into local pool hall where there
We're number of men hanging round,
some of whom had regular Jobs and
some of whom were SERA clients .
The farmers request for workers to
help harvest his hay was met with var
led assortment of teasing and jeers. He
left without getting a single worker, al
though he was willing to meet all reas-
enable wage and hour stipulations. This,
despite the fact that SERA is supposed
to encourage its Clients to accept work.
A little more forceful and clearer pic
ture of attempts to hire help was given
in Brawley recently when Joe Simon
went directly to SERA headquarters in
that city, while the Railways were lined
with men waiting for federal relief
checks, and in loud and forceful tones
to command the attention of everybody
present sought to hire between Is and
20 men to harvest hay The Railways
cleared as if by magic, and Simon didn't
get single helper He then went direct
ly to the SERA head in that city and
asked for Is to 20 men, which was prom
ised. Not one SEBA client showed up
for work.
These two illustrations show the fund
amental weakness in Lewis plan to keep
on relief only those persons able to work.
All others must either get relief from
the county-S12 to SIG per month as
compared with $40 to 500 a month un-
der SERA-or starve, according to his
viewpoint.
In letters to every editor in Imperial
county, Lewis last week attempted to
Justify his position. He enclosed long
statements considerably "toned-doWn"
from his verbal bulldozing at meetings
with the board Of supervisors. We take
no particular exception to his written
opinions, as far as they go. They are
mere surface piffle and do not reach
down to the bottom of the relief problem
at all. His insistence the county take 262
"clients," his demands that the county
supply those ''clients" with $4,000,
thus automatically raising the tax rate
of the county 40 cents, are nothing less
than absurd Especially is this true when
you consider that one-fourth Qndigent
Commissioner Charles Nices estimate)
of the 262 cases are aliens, another large
portion is getting help from other agen-
cies, some of those persons refuse to
live with relatives willing and able to
care for them, and less than Is per cent
are indigents. These the county is add
ing to its relief rolls.
If Lewis would come down to earth
and actually help in solving the relief
problem, his most hearty assistant would
be the board of supervisors and the peo-
pie of Imperial county. Common sense
forbids this county accepting without
question an obviously wrong relief prop
osition.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-27
OUINTUPLETS
DRAW CROWD
To CALLANDER

CALLANDER, Ont, July 27. (U.D
Tomorrow the Dionne quintuplets
will be IA months old.
Growing more attractive every
day. the babies have during the
past week been visited by the larg-
est crowds ever seen in tiny Cal
lander. It is estimated between
1000 and 5000 persons Will visit the
Dafoe hospital today, and an even
greater number is expected tomor-
row.
Their weights TO-DAY with changes
for the week.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-27

Published every evening Except Sunday by The
Imperial Valley Press, Inc, 625 State street,
El Centro. California. W. c. Costello business
manager Telephone &C. business office; zoo edi-
torsal department. Fun leased wire United Press
Associations
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-27
stand up under terrific engine

stand up under terrific engine
heat!"
Gilmore engineers explained they
were eager to have Ortman use the
oil because they wished it tested
under conditions more severe than
could ever possibly be attained in
motor car. Such a method, 1t
was pointed out, is in line with Gil
more's policy Of developing and
testing products in actual use, rath-
er than depending merely on labor
atory reports.
Following his three nation flight
Ortman intimated he may attempt
TO shatter other records this sum-
mer, including the world land plane
record.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-27
ABSENTEE BALLOTS READY

Applications for. absentee ballots
to be cast in the special state elec-
tion on August l3 will be received
at the county clerks office up to
August 8, inclusive, it was an
nounced at the court house this
morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-27

SUBSCRIPTION RATES - Delivered by carrier,
per month, SIS cents; by mail, so cents per month
In advance Entered at E1 Centre, California, post
office as second-eass matter. Member California
Newspaper Publishers Association. M. G. Mogen-
son. national advertising representatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-27

Of the 326 registered rice growers
in Colusa and Glenn counties, 247
have signed the federal control plan
for this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-27

NEW YORK, July 27. - These
skip-about Saturday columns are
most pleasant of all to Go. Without
form and void, they are mill race
of tumbling thoughts, faulty un-
sure and often ignorant. And al
together effortless. Whatever pops
into mind is set down imprisoning
the panorama in shattered bits.
Other daily columns require the
rigorS of formula, strain perhaps
for a metaphor or a line that might
inspire a reader to murmur: Il
rather like that!" But on Satur-
day there are none of these warm
yearnings. Things just go wah-
wah. The mood Willynilly. First
come, first served.
Many columns, I believe, enve-
nom their worth by sneers. Or
maybe the years have made me
soft. Yet 1 was noticing in the
shaving glass this morning that my
hair stubbornly refuses to turn
white. It's the slate gray of my
late 2Os. How proud at % when
streak of gray sprouted down
the middle
The girl cashier at the reStau-
rant said it was distingue - pro-
nouncing it correctly. I didn't know
what that meant. When I saw the
word in print I called it "dis-tin-
GU" More than any other person
1 wanted to look like Robert Hill
lard. I wound up resembling, so
they say, Ned Sparks OF the mo-
vies.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-27

DR.. Allan Roy Dafoe reports the
quintuplets never have been in bet
ter health. The severe heat Of the
past months seems not to have af-
fected them.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-27
L o king
B a C k W a r d
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
TuIy 07 1Q20

Mayor Otto f. Ohmstede Is back
after a month spent skylarking
about Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas
and Missouri.
Miss Mildred Corbin and Miss
Julia Grogan will leave Saturday
to spend their vacations on the
coast.
Perry Rogers has returned from
a short vacation on the coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-27
TEN YEARS AGO
July u, 1925

With passage Of over a week
since the first information on the
Kirk-Truden tragedy was obtained,
the case now seems headed toward
the oblivion Of unsolved mysteries.
Fred Mastick spent Sunday at
Laguna.
Imperial valley experienced
light summer showers this morn
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-27

The Wray apple orchard at
Lower Lake, Lake county, was
sprayed by airplane recently
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-27

The inability of Mr.. Carpenter, utility
magnate, to remember whether or not he
gave Representative Patton some books,
is like the one we used to try to escape a
tanning.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-27

Louis Sobel jetted a fine thought
in his column not long ago. l for
! get exactly how expressed. But
| it stressed by parallels that so many
were finding joy in the common
, place. That is an acquired attitude,
born largely of solitude. Light
house keepers attain such happy
serenity. Also sheep-herders and
seamen. A card from a man just
out of Sing Sing today said: Il
never knew the fun of just sitting
in a park before"
Every son almost inherits some
phrase or ejaculation from his ia
ther. Mine is by gracious" My
Dad was a poetical cusser in the
flow of casual conversation. An
enormous gentleman, weighing
nearly 300, he was melted to apo
plectic RACES at times by something
trivial. Such as a derogatory edi-
torial about his political idol Sen
ator Jim Reed. Then he Woulc
fume into an explosive: by Ora
, ciouS!"
walked a block or so a few
steps behind John D. Rockefeller
Jr., along Fifth avenue a recen
, evening. Odd how, in such a cele
, ! brity -crazed city, few recognized
him. One cop touched his cap.
passing lady glanced at him in +;
+ startle of recognition. Then looked
| puzzled. 1 caught up with her anC
, told his name. We'll" she shifted
Il wouldn't want his worries will
those taxes and everything"
When there comes one of tht
/ knotty days in columning 1 thinl
of the travail of H. T. Webster il
the 148th street ground floor fla
days No artist l have ever knowT
suffered such acute labor pains il
creation. We called it webs daily
stew!" Under a green drop light
he went to his drawing board inn
mediately after breakfast. There
he sat squirming, scoWling, gazing
muttering and beclouding himself
in tobacco smoke. Ray Rohn, Bob
Brinkerhoff and I did our chores
tip-toe. Often 1t was dusk and
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-27

Everybody out of step but me"
That's the Hitler doctrine in a nutshell
and what grief it can bring him.
Well have to give Mr.. Roosevelt credit
for one thing, and are glad to do it-de-
porting that batch Of alien criminals.
Let's have more of it.
The new deal" ought to give Repre-
sentative Patton a better job. Any man
who can buy $4,000 worth of bonds on
3,lO0 salary, is badly needed in the
treasury department.
, 1935-06-07
Outer Channel Shoal
To Be Dredged Out
fSpecial to The Hernldl

SAN BENITO, June T. Danger
OF losing cargoeS due to move from
the new harbor at Port Isabel soon
was averted as the result OF quick
action exercised by the Port Isabel
san Benito Navigation Commission
Thursday.
The commissioners learned that
O hopper dredge originally INTENDED
to remove a shoal from the outer
channel at Port Isabel had been
diverted TO Norfolk.
K II. Downs, chairman OF the
board OF commissioners. immediate
" wired General Markham. chief
OF the board Of U. s. Army engi-
neers. advising him that cargoeS
due to move 500 would be lost II
the dredge were not sent immedi-
etely. Copies OF the telegram we're
sent to Congressman Milton Fl. West
and CONGRESSMAN Mansfield. chair
man Of the rivers and harbors CON-
mittee. The dredge was immediate
IL sent on its way to Port Isabel.
The shoal is said to have cut the
depth at one point to Is feet.
Cargoes Of cotton are expected to
move soon.
, 1935-06-07

the state department as q treaty
among seven states. may even serve
as a model" for the study. II Is q
pioneering attempt TO insure reason
ably uniform standards for labor LII
industry, including minimum wages
The labor compact. signed. May
20, 1894, pledges Connecticut. Maine.
Massachusetts,, New Hampshire, New
YORK Pennsylvania and Rhode Is
land to take cooperative measures TO
improve and maintain labor stand
ards
Two other compacts. authorized by
congress, are also on file In the
state department. depository for all
treaties" One-signed by Colorado,
ARIZONA, New Mexico. California. Ne
yada, Utah and wyoming-was de-
signed TO make an equitable divis-
ion OF the waters Of the Colorado
river system, take cooperative meas
ures to guard against floods. and aid
in the development OF the river
basin.
The compact was signed November
"A, 1922. and approved by Herbert
Hoover. then secretary OF commerce.
, 1935-06-07
Harrington Lions To
Have Heated Election
fspeciaI to mac HeraIdl

HARLINGEN, June IA heated
election looms for the Lions club
on June q as j. B. Hicks and En-
meet o. Anglin. nominees Tor
nresident. announced their slogans
Thursday at the regular luncheon
and appointed Polk Hornaday and
Henry Converse, Jr, respectively,
es their campaign managers. The
election will be conducted during
the next two regular luncheon
Anelin's "green stripe" ticket in
eIndes J. +. Plangman, vice pres
sdent: Harold Waller. secretary:
John Richards, treasurer; Happy
Henderson (unopposed) Lion
tanner: Warren DATE, tail tw1ster;
and directors, Tony Butler. J. L.
Cady. J. M. Richardson and BOD
Adams. .,Y .,o.o. a.
composed Of Mackey Reasonover.
vice president: George Sanders.
s%scretary: Bill Penny, treasurer;
prsseII Richey, tail twister; ana
directors. DIR. George Gallagher.
Rob pollock, Bob Stats. Ray Muir
ray. -. irncheon
vss provided by a piano medley o.
nonuiar songs by Msr. JosePnins
100 Rob Collins, Of the San BENZ
to club. announced a Valley Woe
meeting Of service CLUBS rU.s
Isabel at the transit sneo IueSoay
afternoon, June %.
, 1935-06-07
Seeks Way
From Tax Problem
Arising from Tilt

had failed to result in a solution
for the matter, although some early
settlement Of several questions in
volved is necessary.
Hidalgo taxpayers have been pay
ing only Confederate pension and
school portions Of state ad valorem
taxes, the balance being retained
for funding more than 81, 10000 in
outstanding bonds issued iE 1924
for construction OF q flood control
system.
Especially affected by the courts
ruling are loans sought by Hidaigo
citizens from the Home owners
Loan Corporation. Locally. the deci-
sion Is interpreted as meaning that
home owners who have already re-
ceived loans from the federal gov
eminent for repairing or improving
homes or paying taxes viii be re-
quired to pay all back taxes for the
past 10 years, or since the tax re-
lease law became effective. This
will be made necessary by the cor
porations' requirements that all
delinquent taxes be paid.
II Is also considered probable
that large numbers Of loans will
require adjustments because OF the
necessity for future payments OF all
state ad valorem taxes and that
the additional tax burden will re-
suit in stiIl greater difficulties.
II has been estimated here that
the increased taxes In the county
as the result OF the court decision
viii amount to about So per $1,000
valuation.
More than 40 Texas counties are
reported here to be considering
seriously the courts decision Scause
Of similar tax releases or remis-
sionS granted at various times :
the Texas Legislature to assist In
construction Of various types OF
protection against the elements.
chiefly seawalls and river leveeS
Representative Homer Leonard Of
McAllen, chairman of the approp-
riations committee Of the past le-
gislRture, Is making a further study
OF the situation before considering
any plan for solving the problem.
, 1935-06-07
Winacy Is Told
Ii Has Part In
Isabel's Port
Especial to The Heraldl

RAYMONDVILLE. June Ray
mondville has an investment in the
port at Port Isabel and when the
time again arrives for Shipping onions.
Willacy county should make use Of
the facilities for water transporta-
ton, George A. Toolan OF San Ben
ito told the Kiwanis club Thursday
at the Travellers Hotel.
1oolan recalled that Raymond
VILE had contributed its share In the
S. o. S. (Save Our Seaport) cam
paign years ago and that It there
fore had a stake in the harbor at
Port Isabel recently completed.
The San Benitan gave a history
Of the project and regetted the fact
that Commodore Cobolini and Dave
O'Brien did not live to c 1t con-
summated.
President Joe A. Sloan CT the San
Benito Kiwanis club was on hand
to invite local members to the VAL
ley-wide meeting Of service clubs TO
be held at Port Isabel Tuesday. June
rs. He said that II was not going TO
be a port promotion meeting and
that Herman II. Ochs Of San An
tonic would be the principal speaker.
Other visitors at the meeting
Thursday included Don VALLEY Of
Harlingen and a Herald correspond
ent.
II was announced that the Ray
mondville Kiwanis club would hold a
barbecue at Reddish Bay Monday.
June 20.
W. v. Pittman won the attendance
Drize.
, 1935-06-07
Wounds Kill Soldier

WICHITA FALLS. June z. Up
Private Arthur Lee Frazier Of the
Ninth Infantry at Fort sam Hous-
ton died In a local hospital Friday
morning from bullet wounds inflict-
ed BY John Cross, estranged huS-
band OF the woman Frazier was
counting.
Gross died Thursday from a bullet
he fired into his own head after
shooting Frazier three times.
The two men met nc the gate OF
the wichita Falls state hospital
where both had gone to meet Mrs
Gross when she got off work We'd
neSday evening. Gross started shoot
ing when he arrived and found Fraz-
Ter there.
, 1935-06-07
Highway to Valley
Named for Legion
fSpecial 10 ME Herald)

A0RE&A4A W AGG AA1Aoa
McALLEN. June 7.5Cutting the
state from a point near Byers, Clay
county, on the Red River, crossing
10 counties. to Hidalgo. old settle
ment on the Rio Grande. .xaS
state highway 66 has been officially
designated as the American Legion
Memorial Highway OF Texas" This
decision was reached by the state
highway commission, and the road
will be officially dedicated with o
tate-wide tour June 24-26.
This information was received
here from American Legion head
quarters in Austin. Plans for the
memorial highway were originally
proposed by DR.. w. j. Danforth, OF
Fort Worth, and r. o. Whitaker, OF
Austin. The tour If highway off,
Gals and Legion leaders viii for
mally begin June "a at the Rcd
river, ending at McAllen with fit
ting programs in each Of the cities
visited.
Complete survey OF the route win
be made according TO H. Miller
AinSworth, state commander o. the
Legion. and roadside parks viii be
tentatively staked out Vt intervals
along the highway. These parks,
small in size, will be dedicated TO
some phase OF American participa-
ton in the World War and Will
tourists with places TO rest
along the roadway. Later the Le-
gion Auxiliary women r planning
to plant peoples along the route.
, 1935-06-07
Fire Captain At
Harlingen WEEDS
fSnecial 70 The Hernldl

HARLINGEN. June T. Erwin
CCap) Patterson slipped away from
the Harrington Fire Department.
where he is employed. for q silent
alarm run Tuesday night.
Erwin and Miss Ada Maye Scott
were married at the home Of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A.
Sing, at 90l l. Van Buren, Ave. with
only q few relatives present. Rev.
Flynn ". Long OF the Presbyterian
Church performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Patterson Is cashier at the
Madison Hotel Coffee Shop.
, 1935-06-07
LABOR PACTS
STUDY BEGINS
Concrete Examples Found
Of Interstate Plans
For Standards

WASHINGTON. June 2. Up
When the government starts its spe-
cial study Of the idea Of interstate
compacts to preserve labor stan
d-rds. it viii have a number Of con-
crete examples for diagnosis.
The disclosure Thursday that
President Roosevelt has written 70
State Senator Henry j. Parkman.
Jr.. OF Massachusetts,. promising the
special study. recalled that a number
Of pacts among the states have been
signed
One compact. already on file In
, 1935-06-07

the Court OF Criminal Appeals |
Austin. Palmeris attorneys state
Judge Ferguson overruled more tina
q dozen defense motions before ar
curing the trial and the defense
expected TO maintain that its motto
for "a change of venue should hal
been sustained.
James ID. McAlister. vac was
prisoner In Eastman state Farm j
1891 at the same time Palmer VI
confined there, was sentenced
death In the electric chair for III
Staying OF Calkins by "a jury whic
deliberated only IA minutes. Both AZ
PENDANTS are being held In the III
dalgo county jail here.
, 1935-06-07

as the presidents representative.
An oil and gas compact. signed
February Is. pledges Arkansas. Cali
fornia, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas.
Michigan. New Mexico. Oklahoma.
and Texas to cooperate In efforts TO
promote the oil industry.
, 1935-06-07
lSpecial 70 The Herald

EDINBURG, June T. Hidalgo
county officials are seeking a solu-
ton to a tax problem which arose
last week when the Texas supreme
court held unconstitutional an act
OF the Texas Legislature in 1928
which released taxpayers in the
county from payment Of state ad
valorem taxes for Is years.
County Judge John Ewing stated
Thursday that lengthy discussions
In the county commissioners court
, 1935-06-07
PALMER HOPES
FOR new TRIAL
Man Sentenced to Life In
Prison Awaits Decision
On Motion

EDNBURG, June IA motion
for q new trial. filed early this week
by attorneys for Richard A. Palmer,
convicted and given a 99-year SEN
tence last week for the hitch-hikinG
Staying on March 30 or Percy "A.
Calkins. Houston salesman, Is X
.Pected TO be considered next week BY
Judge Bryce Ferguson in the s2nd
Criminal district court.
The motion. II overruled, will pre-
dicate an appeal Of Palmer's case 10
, 1935-06-07

San BENTTO. June T. FIR.
meeting or the Wesley Erctherhoc
since the election OF new office.
viii be held Monday night nc n
First Methodist Church. Carl J
Pirtle. Is new president Of the o.
Ranization-
, 1935-06-07
Observe Railroad Week"
JUNE 1O-.I5
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