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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-13

its recent meeting lin Washington. All
that the council did however, was to
suspend them, leaving it to delegates
at the federation's convention in
Tampa, in November to decide wheth-
er or not to chuck them out for good
TO BE EXPELLED
Now, the Lewisites' opinion is that
they have majority in the ranks of
the A. F. of L.
That being the case if it is, the con-
vention should refuse to expel them.
But 100000 out of total of A. f..
OF l.. membership of between 3.OOO.-
600 and 100000, are suspended; thew
will have no votes. Not unless the
conventions credentials committee
seats them, in disregard of the exc
cutive councils suspension order. And
as the credentials committee is sure
to be dominated by the anti-Lewis
faction, which believes in craft versus
industrial unionism, it is certain that
they will not be seated.
That they will be expelled is, then.
safe conclusion.
LEWIS COMMENT
But the suggestion is made that
maybe they can get their seats, even
against an adverse ruling by the Gre
dentials committee, by an appeal to
the courts.
When Lewis was asked whether
that is what they would do, his an
swer was:
mo; we're afraid we'd win"
This may not be an explicit state
ment that they prefer to be expelled,
but it verges on it,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-13
COAST ISLANDS TO
HAVE ELECTRICITY
Survey to Start This Week
to Aid Harker's and
Knott's Islands
Daily Dispatch BurenW.
In The Sir Walter HOteA,
KV 4 q RASk lCRVlVE

Raleigh Aug. 13-The possibility
and advisability of trying to extend
rural identification lines to some of
the island settlements along the coast
especially to Knots Island, a part
Ct Currituck county, and Harker's
Island, a part OF Carteret county,
and in the sound above Beaufort, will
be investigated this coming week by
j. M Granger, assistant engineer
for the state Rural Identification
Authority, Chairman Dudley Bagley
said today.
Mr. Granger will leave here Sun
day on a trip in the course of which
he will visit both Knots Island and
Harkers Island, as well as meet with
groups interested in Rural electrifi-
cation in BERTHE and several other
counties and which will carry him to
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-13

ditional $2,5OO.OOO to other States"
Weaver pointed out that although
only two other States have more
farms than North Carolina, there are
81 States which have more farms SER
we'd by electricity from central sta
lions.
Moreover, he said, North Carolina
ranks 36th among the States in the
percentage of farms served by GEN.
trail station electricity.
Only 1853 of the 3OO,967 farms in
the State, or 3.8 per cent were sup
piled with electric power from cen
trail distributing station at the close
of 1895.
This means that North Carolina far
mers have fewer radio sets, fewer
water systems, and less electrical
equipment than farmers in other
States that are ahead of it in rural
identification.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-13
Effort to Get" Waynick
Has Complicated Aspects

Continued from Page One.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-13

good use of the money, said David
S. Weaver, agricultural engineer at
State College and executive secretary
of the State Rural Electrification Au-
ihority.
North Carolina needs this money"
he added, Gas it is far behind other
States in rural identification, but to
get it we must push the rural electri-
fication program to the limit.
"This is the best opportunity we
have ever had for electrifying rural
districts, but if we don't take advan-
tage of it, the REA will allot that adj
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ii you could see your front sO1aeels

side. Yet that's just
exactly what unbal-
anced, shimmying
wheels do at high
speeds {and low
speeds tOO.) Not only
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-13
Democrats Will
Elect A Chairman
CONTINUED from Page One.)

announced receipt of word from Hoey
that she would be designated for State
vice chairman. Mrs. Spillman said she
had received pledges of support from
every congressional district in the
State. She has been vice-president of
the Pitt county executive committee
for eight years.
Others mentioned in the various
speculations for State chairman in
clude: Congressman Lindsay Warren,
Washington; W.. H. S. Burgwyn, of
Woodland; George Green, of Weldon !;
Luther Hamilton, of Morehead City;
Kenneth c. Royal, Goldsboro; J. M.
Broughton, Raleigh; w. L. Lumpkin,
Louisburg; E. G. Flanagan. Green
Vile; John Dawson, Kinston.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-13

position to Waynick and the commits
sion of many of the highway contrac-
tors, machinery firms and surface
treatment statesmen and manufacture
ers, largely because Chairman Way
nick and the present commission are
conceded to have insisted upon get
ting more value for every dollar ex-
pended than any other highway adj
ministration.
So while the drive to GUST Waynick
and the commission continues and is
expected to continue unabated, many
are convinced that they are very
largely victims of circumstances over
which they have had little or no con-
troll.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-13

again. This made more work and
more delay as many people could not
understand why the roads in their
county We're not repaired immediate
ly. Still another factor was that the
highway department did not have the
machinery and equipment needed to
repair 700 miles of surface treated
roads and hundreds of miles of other
roads all within a few weeks. And in
the meantime, Chairman Waynick
and the commission were being blam-
ed for all these things when actually
those to blame were the legislature
and the weather man.
Contractors Are Sore.
Still another factor has been the op-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-13

land and serving it. After making
his survey of Harkers Island, Mr..
Granger will confer with Tidewater
officials.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-13
State Due Big Sum
On Electricity

CONTINUED from Page One.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-13
Lewis Is Anxious
to Be Kicked Out

Continued from Page One.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-08-13
Retail Sales Rise
34.6 Pct. for July
Best for District

Continued from Page One.)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06

hafdeSt IN the SOmOSlerra Pass,
directly north of the capital, it was
understood, with cooperative at
tacks in the other dominating
passes.
Persisting ruthlesSly in the pol
itical war against its right wing
Fascist enemies, the government
today empowered the agragrian re-
form institute to seize all farms
of more than 100 hectares (247
acres in extent in five provinces
which have been abandoned, or
on which work has been paralyzed
because of the owners absence.
This will be a blanket sweep
of all rebel agricultural holdings
in the new Castillo region. Land
seized will be parcelled out to
the land-Starved peasants of the
area.
There were indications here that
the drive which the government
plans in the Guadarramas may be
the most important of the entire
rebellion. Reports from the fight
ing zone make it apparent that
the loyalists believe fhey have
battered the rebels seyerly in two
days of fighting.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
s H IP FALLS
AFTER RADIO
STOPS DEAD
Cause of Tragedy in
Missouri Yelled
In Mystery

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. 6.
(UP)-The mangled bodies
of eight persons, victims of
an air crash 16 miles north
of here last night, were
taken to a funeral parlor in Clay
ton today, pending an inquest and
investigation into the cause OF the
accident.
The eight-six passengers and
two crew members - were killed
shortly before midnight when q
Chicago and Southern Airlines
plane crashed five minutes after
leaving the field.
Coming in from New Orleans on
schedule, the plane took off fer
Chicago and lost contact with the
local airport. Early today word
of the crash was received by tele-
phone from farmers OF the dis
trict where the accident occurred,
about three miles north of the
dlIPOlC.
Flying conditions were excellent,
company officials reported, in
striving to find an explanation for
the crash.
Crash Sudden
1t was determined that the crash
occurred not later than five min
utes after the plane departed.
The dead: w. S. Bartlett, Chi
cago; D. R. McDavitt, Chicago;
George Crashaber, Oak Park, ILL.,;
C. B. Wright, Hinsdale, ILL.,; A. r.
Holt, Boston, Mass; Vernon Omle,
Memphis, Tenn; Carl zier, Chica-
go, pilot; Russell Mossman, New
Orleans, cC-pilot.
The scene of the accident was
in the rolling hills adjacent to the
Missouri river. 1t is sparsely
settled agricultural district.
The plane did not burn. Appar-
Continued on Page 3, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
Planes InUolUed in
Incident Held Part
Of Italian Air Force
Copyright 1896 by United Press

Copyright 1896 by United Press
PARIS, Aug. 6. tU.P)-French Of
ficials who Investigated the pass
age of Italian-type planes over
Morocco have agreed unanimously
that they were units of the italian
air force piloted by regular Off
GERS and were part of a regular
squadron, a reliable source said
today.
The Italian airmen whose planes
crashed on French Moroccan soil
adjacent to Spanish Morocco in
sisted the planes were sent by a
private Italian company, the in
formant said.
But Gen. Victor Denain, com
manding the French air force, in
Morocco, who presided at the in:
vesbigation, satisfied himself by
documents and by the answers of
the aviatorS to his questions that
the Italians were military flyers
and their planes were regular war
planes, it was added.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06


for construction of canal power
plants.
2. The Southern SierraS return
ed to superior court in Ell Centro
with an amended complaint seek
ing an injunction to prevent dis
trict operation of the municipal
standby plant in Brawley.
g.. The Wall Street Journal re-
ported Nev-Cal Electric corpora
ton net profit for the year ending
June 80 as $l,085, $50, after deduc-
ton OF charges and taxes. (The
Nev-Cal corporation is parent firm
of the Southern Sierrds. Assessed
value CT all power company prop
erty in Imperial Valley is ST.
267 1925, or only slightly greater
than the corporations net profit,
a majority of which is made in
Imperial Valley)
Long Distance Calls
Renewed interest in the districts
PWA application was, indicated in
long distance telephone calls from
Los Angeles and San Francisco
PWA officials to Chairman Evan
T. Hewes, requesting additional in
formation. @. w. Schruth, PWA
official in charge of the applica-
tion, asked about labor
He was told that power plant
construction would employ 2242
men daily, consisting OF 1160 un-
skilled, 562 intermediate, $50 skill
ed, 81 technical and clerical work
er5 % superintendent and Sc
professional men. Ninety per cent
of the work would be completed
in So weeks, with "a weeks neces-
sary for completion of the remain
der, Schruth was told.
The Southern Sierras Power
company's amended complaint
against the irrigation district in
operation of the Brawley plant
was made necessary several days
ago when the districts demurrer
was upheld in superior court,
which ruled out clauses dealing
with alleged infections of state
railroad commission rules and held
that the court had jurisdiction
only if the power company could
show that district operation en-
dangered life and property.
Charges Offered
The amended complaint attempts
to make such a showing. 1t charg-
es that close proximity of dis
trict poles and electric power lines
to those of the power company
in Brawley endanger the property
OF the Southern Sierras, and the
lives of its employees. Specific in
Continued on Page 6; Col. O.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
7 R |AL SETS
new RECORD
.f0 R SPEC D
Burglar Conuicted,
Ordered to Pen in
Under 2 Hours

Three criminal trials, one
of them setting a new rec
ord for speed, occupied the
attention of Superior Judge
R D. McPherrin and jurors
in his department Thursday.
Less than an hour and a half
after his trial started, and after
the jury deliberated only five min
utes, Luis Cabrajal was convicted
of second degree burglary, waived
time for sentence and was COM
mitted to San Quentin prison for
the term prescribed by law. He
was found guilty of burglarizing
the Samaha store in Ell Centro.
A jury which received the case
of James Long, Calexico, at 1890
Thursday morning was still deli
berating his guilt or innocence OF
negligent homicide in the traffic
death east of Calexico June 4 OF
I. H. Harry. Long is charged with
responsibility fer Harry'S death
when Longs machine rammed the
rear of his truck on the Bonds
Corner highway.
Trial of Joe Murphy, charged
with a statutory offense against
an 8-year-old Brawley girl, was
to start before Judge McPherrin
Thursday afternoon. There will be
no jury.
r. I. French, deputy district at
torney, prosecuted each of the
cases. Cabrajal was defended by
Lee Nuffer, Long by Charles Pro-
vence and Murphy by Clarence B.
Smith.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
THREE VALLEY
PEOPLE DIE IN
AUTO MISHAP

LEMOORE, Calf, Aug. U.P-
A truck carrying members of an
Imperial Valley family through San
Joaquin Valley crashed crashed into
an irrigation ditch tonight, killing
three persons and injuring six
others.
The dead were Mrs. Juanita Rol-
Inns, "a; Leola Rollins, 3; and Will
liam Rollins, II, all of Holtville,
Imperial county.
The injured were John Rollins, 3,
Rosette Rollins, 5, Louis Rollins, Z,
Mrs. Wilifa Rollins, 27, Lulu Mae
Rollins, 2. and c. r. Rollins, age
unknown. There homes are in
Holtville.
Police arrested j. j. Rollins, said
to have been driver of the truck,
after the accident, which occurred
12 miles south of here.
The injured were sent to the
Kings county hospital at Hanford.
None of them was in serious con
dition.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
Crops Grow on Chemicals at Futuristc Ranch

BERKELEY, Cal, Aug. 6. W.R-A
laboratory farm that needs no soil
but gets its fertility and nutriment
from vial of chemicals was ex-
hibited today by Prof. w. F. Gericke,
University of California expert
menter who believes his discoveries
will revolutionize age-old concepts
of agriculture.
Dust storms, drought, unseasonal
rains, hail and insect pests are
harmless to Prof. Gericke'S futuris-
tic ranch which already is produc-
ing results.
The farm not only needs no soil,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
u. S. TO HOLD SPAIN ACCOUNTABLE
FOR AMERICAN PROPERTY SEIZED

Wendelin was instructed to in
form the Spanish government the
United States cannot admit that
private property, whether in the
hands of American nationals or
temporarily abandoned by them be-
cause of existing conditions, may be
interfered with by the Spanish au-
thorities with impunity.
Wendelin informed the Spanish
under secretary of state that the
United States must look to the
Spanish government to afford that
protection to American property in
Spain which is required by inter
national law for foreign properties,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. W.P)-The
American government has informed
tthe Spanish government that the
United States will hold Spain strict
ly accountable for all American
property seized or damaged in the
course of Spain's civil war, the state
department revealed today.
\ Acting Secretary of State William
Phillips said Eric G. Wendelin, third
secretary in charge of the American
embassy in Madrid, had been in
structed to take up with the Span
ish government the matter of ade-
quate protection of American prop
erty in Spain.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06

III II.
Born in Japan, chosen sight-un-
seen to be the bride of American
lied YoShimitsu Sonbonmatsu, the
woman was sheltered from busi-
ness worries until the sudden
death of her husband Nov. 25, 1881.
BY the beliefs of her country, she
had blessed her husbands house
above all expectations by bearing
him six sons. One died. She had
discharged wife's duties. Amer
lean ways demanded more of her
as a widow.
Ran Shipping Firm
Her husband had operated the
Holtville Packing company, a
small shipping concern The es-
tate, Mrs. SonbCnmatSu was told
was appraised at a value of less
than 100000. Claims against it
totaled more than $30,000 Cash
on hand was less than $1,000. APP
praised value was book value-no
one would have paid 100000 for
the estate.
Mrs. Sonbonmatsu enlisted the
aid Of Don Bitter, Ell Centre at
torney, and on Dec 81, 1881, went
into superior court to obtain gen
eral letters of administration. She
obtained a court order authoriz-
ing her to- continue operation of
her husbands business She en-
listed cooperation of his creditors,
in turn promising them her CO.
uJelaolon. one adopted a policy,
on the advice of her attorney, of
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06

handling only cash deals in her
produce business.
The former japanese Picture
Bride was taking gamblers
chance. If the estate showed a
profit, it went back into the es-
tate. If it showed loss, it would
have been a charge directly against
her, as an Individual.
Her final account, filed this
week, wrote a happy ending to-
her business venture.
41,000 Profit
The estate had given net
profit under her administration of
more than $4,000. Fifty per cent
of the original claims against it
Continued on Page 6; Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
MAN BROWNS
OUT ARGUMENT
WITH SHOWER

A new method of drowning out
his wife's arguments was discover
ed Wednesday night by one El
Centro resident, who locked him
self in the shower when every
other means failed to win a fam
lily argument
So distressed did the wife be-
come that she called the police
department, voicing the fear hub
by had committed suicide. The
head of the family" his spirit
dampened slightly, walked out of
the shower room about the time
officers T. j. Harris walked in.
That's a new wrinkle in family
rows" commented Harris, but I'd
say it's not exactly water tight"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06

will be grown in shallow water
tanks, protected by wire netting.
The danger of soil exhaustion,
now a major problem in American
agriculture. would be eliminated by
the simple expedient of replacing
used chemicals in the water with
fresh supplies.
Seeds would be Sown in bed of
sawdust or excelsior placed over
the tanks. Their roots would tap
the nutriment from the water be-
low.
The system, Prof. Gericke be-
lieves, possibly could change com
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
RANKS OF LABOR
SPLIT OPEN BY
UNION DISPUTE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. W.D -
Irreconciliable differences split Or
ganized labor into two bitterly hos
tile groups today, ending so years
of union solidarity.
The committee for industrial or
ganization, with 100000 members,
challenged openly the supremacy of
2,500,000 workers remaining loyal
to the craft union policy of the
American Federation of Labor.
Definitely rejecting the A. F.. of
L. executive councils ultimatum
that the c. I. o. unions disband
within 30 days or be suspended,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06

After brief meeting, the
criminal complaints committee
voted to allow Mrs. Werner to
testify.
"If they hadn't let me in, I'd
have broken the damned door
down." was her parting shot as
she stOrmed into the jury room.
During her TRADE i'm the cor
ridOrs OF the hall of justice, Mrs.
Werner declared herself as "sore
as everybody"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
FLARES IN
"A. GARMENT STRIKE

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6. UP
The first serious outbreak in a
city-wide strike of $500 garment
workers was reported today when
two women workers were beaten
and a man was taken into police
custody for questioning. The
union garment workers walked out
yesterday demanding more pay and
a closed shop.
The violence flared when 25
workers, waiting on a downtown
street corner for automobile trans
pCrtation to their jobs were at
tackled by an equal force of strik-
erS.
Harriet Morris, %, and Elodia
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
SEVEN KILLED IN
HEAD-ON AUTO CRASH

NILES, Mich, Aug. 6. W,D -
Seven persons were killed in an
automobile collision ON U. S. high
way No. 81, near here, today.
Police believed from an examina-
tiOn of the two light couples that
the cars met head-on while tra-
yelling at high speed.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06

but has no use for rainfall and re-
quires but very little space. 1t holds
the answer, the Berkeley scholar
believes, to all the problems that
worry the American farmer.
DR.. Gericke picked a tomato as
red and as juicy as a county fair
prize exhibit from vine that had
its roots in sawdust
He plucked large white gard
enia perfectly formed, and fragrant,
from plant that sprouted from a
tank of water.
Prof. Gericke yisualizes complete,
large-scale farming in which crops
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
LOYALISTS TO SEIZE
INSURGENTS FARMS
I4O ABSENTEE
BALLOTS CAST

A total of 140 Imperial Valley
citizens had cast or requested alb
sentee ballots at the county clerks
office up to noon Thursday, County
Clerk Edward H. Law announced.
About half that number voted the
ballots at the clerks office, intend
ing to be out of the valley at cleo
tion time, August 25. Others mailed
requests from outside the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
Caterpillars Swarm
On Arizona Ranches

PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug. 6. W.P)-
Swarms of caterpillars were report
ed in the Sunnyslope district, north
of Phoenix, today. So far as could
be determined, however, they have
not yet attacked irrigation land in
the district. Where they came
from was a mystery
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06

pletely the economic and social as
poets of small, crowded countries
whose soil is insufficient to support
their populations.
Five California growers already
are marketing crops grown entirely
without soil, he said.
Mass production by centraliza-
ton will surely come" Prof. Gericke
said. "The farm OF the future will
be back yard tank over which the
householder will grow all the fruits
and vegetables needed by his fam
ily."
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
EIGHT KILLED III PLANE CRASH
Queen Helen Storms Jury Room

stuff" she shouted. 1--WE stood
it for three years and the time
has come for a showdown"
Mrs. Werner had been prom
inently mentioned in the assem-
bly, committee liquor investiga-
ton here into fixing" of liquor
licenses.
At ore time Mrs. Werner be-
came so insistent to testify be-
fore the jury that deputy sher-
ifs were called and placed OH
guard at the juryrOom door.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
Contracts Awarded
For Road Projects

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 6. UP)-
Award of contracts totaling $402,-
22490 for highway projects in seven
counties was reported today by the
state department of public works
The largest contract went to Os-
wald Bros, Los Angeles, for grad
ing and surfacing "a miles of state
route 10 between Beaumont and a
point west, and constructing a re-
inforced concrete bridge across San
Timatoe Creek. The price was
$84, ,78l 10.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
81 ENTOMBED
IN FIERY MINE

BARNSLEY, England. Aug. 6.
U.P)-A series of explosions en-
tOmbed 81 men in blazing
mine today. Doctors emerging
from the pit several hours after
the disaster said undoubtedly
all were dead. Bodies were be-
ing brought to the surface.
The doctors said Is bodies had
been found in one place. ap-
parently suffOcated. 1t was be-
lieved the fire had been extin-
guished.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06

Los ANGELES, Aug. 6. UH
demanding Justice and
showdown" in the Los Angeles
county grand jury investigation
into asserted "payOffs and graft"
in county liquor control, Queen"
Helen Werner, a reputed pOliti-
cal boss of the city, today crash
ed the jury room after staging a
near riot in the corridors outside
the meeting place.
"I'm sick and tired of all this
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
Flyers Start Second
Leg of Air Jaunt

ALAMEDA, Cal, Aug. 6. tU.P)-
Sigismund Levanevsky, known as
the Soviet Lindbergh, took off
from Pan-American Airways base
here at HOS a. m. today on the
second leg of a projected flight
from Los Angeles to Moscow via
Alaska and Siberia.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
Mussolini Agrees
TO Neutrality Plan

ROME, Aug. 6. UP)-Premier
BENT Mussolini has accepted "in
principle" the French proposal for
a neutrality agreement among the
powers concerning the Spanish re-
volt, it was announced today.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-06
Last Minute
FLASHES !!
SECRET INDICTMENTS
RETURNED IN LIQUOR PROBE

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6. W.H)--
Two secret indictments, each
naming three persons on charges
of conspiracy, soliciting a bribe
and grand theft, were returned
today by the county grand jury
in its investigation into "payoffs
and graft" in liquor control.