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Evening star., 1936-11-06
WHOLESALE PRICES UP

By the Associated Press.
An increase Of OIL per cent in whole
sale commodity prices last week was
reported today by the Labor Depart
ment. The rise brought the general
price level to s1.2 per cent of its 1926
average, compared with 79.s per cent
the corresponding week last year.
During the week food prices In.
creased from 1921 to 82.3 per cent of
their 1925 average, while farm prod.
ucts dropped from 84.2 to $50 Der
cent.
At the same time, an increase of a
per cent in food and beverage imports
during September, compared with the
same month a year ago, was reported
by the Commerce Department. Inn
ports were listed at s64.148, 900, COM
pared with $44.397. 900 in September,
Evening star., 1936-11-06
STORAGE PROBLEM
NCROP INSURANCE.
Warehousemen Confer Here
on How to Save for
Lean" Years.
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne ASSOCIATED freSS.
Representatives of the warehouse
industry today conferred here with
the Administration Committee which
now is drafting a Federal crop insur-
ance plan, presenting suggestions on
methods for storing crops from "fat"
10 lean" years.
Eighteen spokesmen for the industry
that now stores wheat, cotton, corn
and other farm products discussed
technical problems with Secretary
Wallace and other members of the
group asked by the President to
formulate an all-risk crop insurance
plan for suggestion to Congress.
Wallace's plan caIls for paying crop
insurance premiums and losses in
kind. For example, a farmer would
pay certain amount of wheat in
good 'crop years and receive wheat
back in poor years.
Both the President and Wallace in
dicated that the stored commodities
should be held 50 as not to burden the
markets.
Agricultural economists have point
ed out that this will be an immense
technical job because it probably will
call for more storage facilities than
exist at present
Yields of wheat in recent years have
varied several hundred million BUSH
els. Difference in corn yields have
been near the billion-bushel mark
while cotton production has varied
several million bales.
If the government is to store a size
able part of these annual crops be-
tween the bumper and poor years,
huge storage facilities will be required.
Wallace has expressed confidence
that this technical angle as well as the
problem of transporting stored COM
modities between various sections can
be solved.
After conferences yesterday with a
score of insurance company repre-
sentatives now interested in crop in
surance. the Agriculture Secretary said
he had been assured their cooperation.
Meanwhile, enactment of some
kind of farm tenancy legislation" at
the next session of Congress is viewed
as a certainty by Chairman Jones,
Democrat, of Texas, of the House Ag-
ficulture Committee.
He said the measure approved prob
ably will differ materially" from the
Bankhead-Jones bill for financing
farm purchases by tenants, which
Tailed OF passage in the last session.
Evening star., 1936-11-06

riding had not been found early last
night.
j. M. Holloran, Lynchburg patrol
man, of duty at the time, was driving
the coupe. Investigating officers said
the car in which Elder was a passen-
ger did not observe the arterial stop
and rammed into the side of the Hol-
loran machine.
Elder was thrown partly through
the door and his head was crushed by
the weight of the car as it overturned
upon him.
Evening star., 1936-11-06

out in defiance Of union officers.
Union seamen in Houston, Tex,
announced defiance Of striking sea-
farers and declared union crews would
be furnished all vessels asking for
them.
Counsel for SO pickets arrested in
Houston, Tex. sought release on q
habeas corpus writ.
Evening star., 1936-11-06

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dainty round case 10 resplendent
with twenty sparkling diamonds
And it will satisfy your de-
mands for accuracy and de.
pendability.
Evening star., 1936-11-06

promise lending string Of surprising voue The
suits turned out by Rochester toIo will give your Jim
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f,eo frousers And Of S35 Park Lane Suits will
meks him look like nothing less thon First vieePresdent
Of The First hationo As svodion Of the budget why not
suggest visit TO sonds sodey or tomorrow
Evening star., 1936-11-06
MISS ALICE T. STABLER
DIES IN SANDY SPRING
Funeral Services Will Be Held
Tomorrow at 2 PM. at Home
in Edgewood.

special Dispatch to The Star.
SANDY SPRING, Md, November
6.-Miss Alice T. Stabler, daughter
OF the late Robert M. and Hannah B.
Stabler, died Friday at her home,
Edgewood, here after a short illness.
Connected with the Providence Mu-
tual Life Insurance Co. of Philadel-
phia, with offices in Washington, Miss
Stabler had lived in the latter city.
She is survived by four sisters, the
Misses Mary NJ. Emma T. and Lille
B. Stabler and Mrs. Charles E. Bond,
all Of Sandy Spring, and one brother,
Albert Stabler of Washington.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. tomorrow at the home, with
private interment at the Friends
Meeting House Cemetery here.
Evening star., 1936-11-06
HOPE.
FOR CONGRESS AID
81 House and Senate Members
Had Received Campaign
Endorsement.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 6.-Leaders of
DR.. Francis z. Townsend's national
recovery-pension plan looked to 81
members of the 1897 Congress today
for support of Townsend-inspired old
age pension legislation.
Townsend headquarters in a state
Evening star., 1936-11-06

Styled after the more
expensive wedding bands.
The splendidly carved
white or yellow goid
mounting shows five
sparkling diamonds.
Evening star., 1936-11-06
Fried Chicken Goes Up.

HOUSTON. Tex. (R.-The same
day more than 1000 Methodist min
isters, traditionally fond of fried
chicken, arrived in town the price of
quality fryers advanced cents.
Evening star., 1936-11-06
Seek Better Conditions.

Thirty thousand British marine en-.
gineers have united to fight for better
service conditions.
Evening star., 1936-11-06
MANS HEAD CRUSHED
AS AUTO OVERTURNS
Machine Crashes Into Car Driven
by Policeman at Lynchburg
Street Intersection.

By the Associated Press.
LYNCHBURG. Va, November g.
Ralph Elder. about %. Of near Brook
neal, was instantly killed last night
when the automobile in which he was
riding was in collision here with a
coupe driven by a police officer. The
driver of the auto in which Elder was
The Washington times., 1936-04-16

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The Washington times., 1936-04-16

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soothing Ointment
for various skin ir-
ritations. Very
helpful In acquir-
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complexion.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
BORDER HOBO
BLOCKADE TO
BE DISCUSSED

In view of the widespread inter-
est in the Los Angeles police de-
partments blockade to turn back
transients at the borders of Califor-
mia, Capt. c. B. Horrall, head of the
blockade detail will be the princi"
pal speaker at the Friday night
meeting of the Imperial County
Peace Officers association at the
Planters hotel in BraWley.
Details of the statewide plan to
take "bums" from freight trains
as they enter the state and give
them their choice of taking the
first train east or facing trial Ior
evasion Of railway fare will be eX-
planned by Capt. Horrall. The speak
er also is expected to explain the
situation which led the Los Angeles
police department to take the leao
by providing the officers and bear
ing the entire cost OF the project.
Musical entertainment will be pro-
vided in addition to the address, ac-
cording. t. Sheriff Robert w. Ware,
president of the association.
Dinner will be served at $50
and reservations must be made With
Mrs. Hazel Livingston, secretary
treasurer Of the association.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
ONCE FAMOUS
LEADER DIES IN
HERMIT HOME

MONTE NE, Ark, Feb. II. UP
w. H. (Coin) Harvey, who intro
duced William Jennings Bryan to
the 16-1 silver trophy and got 53,OOU
votes for president in 1882, died OF
peritonitis last night in his hermit S
refuge
He was 81, but vigorous until the
last days of his life and a critic to
the end of the country's suicidal
money system" Few persons Of this
generation knew more than his name
end fewer attended his economic
theories but Coin" fought every day
for reforms he believed would enrich
the nation.
For several years before he led the
Liberty" party in the national cam
paign of 1882, Harvey had lived a
recluse's life in Monte Ne.
Harvey was the pioneer advocate
the the coinage of silver at a ratio
of 16 to l as compared with gold.
When Bryan adopted the theory
and led one of the most celebrated
political campaigns of the country's
history on the issue, Harvey was a
national figure and leader Of a great
following. His fame and power died
with interest in the silver issue.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
FARM PLAN TO
AID FAMILIES
I'm CALIFORNIA
Government Program
To Make Needy
Independent

News that the federal re-
settlement administration is
considering establishment of
small, part-time farms for
agricultural workers in Cal
ifornia and Arizona, was received
with interest in Imperial Valley.
P. A. Thaanum, head of the
rural rehabilitation of the resettle-
ment administratiCn in this coun-
ty, said the establishment of groups
of these small farms in Imperial
Valley would take many families
off the ditch banks and out of
Independent camps. No word has
been received here relative to
plans fer this section, he said.
The small tracts could be pur-
chased by the workers on small
payments, would permit establish
ment of homes for the otherwise
homeless and generally raise the
morale CT those in part time en-
,ployment, Thaanum pointed out.
The products raised on the tracts
could supplement the salaries the
men are able to earn as agricul-
tural helpers on the larger ranches.
Harry E. Drobish, regional chief
of farm labor projects, said it was
planned to set up farms Of ap-
proximately five acres each, with
not more than five to be collected
in one community.
The tracts should be located i'll
sections where there is established
need fer farm labor. The project
Continued on Pgae 8; Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

the Brawley chief of police at
once.
Il will talk over the situation with
Chief Cromer," Ware said, "and
the sheriff's department will be
glad to cooperate in handling the
conditions in the BraWley area.
had not been informed that a seri-
GUS condition prevailed"
The sheriff said he would COM
municate with Cromer relative to
published statements in which the
chief was said to have estimated
there are approximately 500 pen
niless indigents in the jungles out
side the city limits of Brawley,
that petty thievery is rampant in
that section, and sanitary condi-
tons terrible.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
MEXICAN RANCHER
KILLED BY MACHINE

oner, said after he had completed
an investigation A pint bottle
partly filled with wine was found
in the Mexican's hip pocket after
the accident.
Rodriguez was the sixth victim
this year of fatal automobile ac-
cioentS.
The Mexican was returning to his
quarters on the Corn ranch south
east of Meloland after visiting the
store to make a small purchase. At
the store, Sharp said, he put down
two one gallon bottles of wine,
aid forgot to take them with him
when he started home Previously
he had been to the saloon. The
bartender there told Sharp that
Rodriguez was so drunk he refused
to sell him a drink.
Leaving the store, Rodriguez walk
ed east a quarter of a mile, before
the machine Griven by Wiley, who
Continued on Page 8; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
NORRIS ASKS
REDUCTION IN
COURT POWER
Inualidation of AAA
Hit by Nebraska
Senator

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.
(UP)-Sen. George w. Nor
ris in a voice trembling with
emotion called upon con-
gress today to restrict the
powers of the supreme court.
The white-haired Nebraska Re-
publican entered debate en- the
administrations new farm bill
with a dramatic warning that the
nation faced destruction unless
its agricultural problems were
solved and that the supreme
courts invalidation of AAA could
not stand if the country is "to
live and prosper"
The veteran orator called upon
the chamber to have the cour-
age to restrict the courts power
tC' invalidate laws enacted by con-
gress.
His outstretched arms trembled
as he spoke ana his voice cracked
with emotion.
Norris declared congress could,
'if it had the courage Provide
that only by unanimous decision
could the court overthrow acts Of
congress.
He attacked a procedure by
which a court serving for life and
not responsible to any one, could
invalidate laws.
1T seems to me, Mr.. President.
that it is inexcusable," he said.
1T seems to me that this coordi-
nate branch of our government
has gone beyond any power that
was ever dc'ntemplsEed in the
constitution
Norris said the courts decision
returning S200,00O,OO0 in taxes 10
professors was "the greatest gift
since God made salvation free" and
remarked "the people can change
Continued on Pgae 8; Col A.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
RULING GIVEN
ON Dem URRER.
TO COMPLAINT
Southern Sierras Has
10 Days to Make
New Appeal

Under the state cOnstitu-
tion the Imperial Irrigation
District is within its rights
in entering into the business
of generating and distribut-
ing electrical power, Superior Judge
Benjamin F.. Warmer had ruled in
effect Wednesday when he sus-
tanned Chief Counsel Harry w.
Horizons demurrer to an amended
complaint by the Southern Sierras
Power company in the state court
The power company, however,
was given 10 days to amend its
first amended complaint on the
question of legality under state Law
OF the contract entered into be-
tween the irrigation district and a
diesel engine manufacturing COM
pany for construction of equipment
for a power plant at BraWley.
Held Legal
Judge Warmers decision. as it
relates to constitutionality of a law
permitting the district to engage
IN the power business, is little
more than repetition of more
far-reaching opinion handed down
recently in United States district
court. Both decisions hold the law
constitutional.
Inc superior cour. ruling differ
ed from the federal court judgment
in that Judge Warmer merely up
held the districts demurrer. how
ever. By so doing, he closed the
gate to further superior court lit
igation over the right of the dis
trict to engage in the power bust
ness, but allowed the power COM
pany an opportunity to further
amend its complaint on the ques-
tion of validity of the contract for
purchase of diesel generating en-
gines.
AS stated in the first amended
complaint, the power companys
case was not strong enough to show
facts sufficient to back up a belief
that the contract might be illegal,
the court held. Such alleged facts
can be Incorporated in a second
amended complaint, which must
be filed within 10 days.
A demurrer to the original COM
plant of the power company was
sustained last year by Riverside
jurist, presiding in place of Impe-
Continued on Page 8, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
Former Ell Centro
Athlete to Race in
Big Indoor Meet

Leroy Kirkpatrick, of Montezuma
high school, former Ell Centro hlgh
school student, will race against the
best hurdlers in the United states
tonight in the San Francisco lndcor
Track and Field meet.
Leroy attended Central Union IN
1928 and 1933-34 and was OUT
standing in football and basketball
He is probably the most notable
track athlete developed in the val
ley.
Kirkpatrick, raised near Ell Centro
moved to CaleXico where he attend
ed school until September of 1882
when he entered Central high.
While at Central he tied the ma
tional record in the low hurdles and
broke the high hurdle record. He
was also a member of Central's state
championship team in 1883.
Kirkpatrick has attended Monte
yuma two years.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

BILLS MADE IN
PENITENTIARY

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12. U.R)
"A brazen counterfeiting plot in
which spurious $40 bills were man
ufactured within San Quentin pri-
son walls was disclosed today by
federal, prison and police author
tiles. Captain Thomas B. Foster,
local head of the federal intel
ligence unit, made the disclosure.
Three paroled San Quentin con-
victS have been arrested, two in
San Francisco and one in Sacra-
mento, in connection with the plot,
it was announced.
Captain Foster said one of the
prisoners confessed the $40 bills
were turned out in the prison photo
engraving shop.
First trace of the operations came
last October when a number of the
bills were passed in Seattle.
December 10 Warden James Holo-
han of the prison and Frank C..
Sykes of the state board of prison
Continued on Page 8; Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
MIDWEST IN
GREAT PERIL
Families Burn Their
Furniture to
Keep Warm

CHICAGO, Feb. II. (UP)
-Blizzards howled across
the Dakotas, Minnesota, and
Iowa today and the stricken
middlewest prepared for
another desperate stand against
starvation and cold.
Drifts piled rapidly across fresh
ly-cleared highways and railroads
right of ways in Iowa. Fear was
felt that fuel shortages, already
forcing families to burn furniture,
may become verse.
Farmers and rural residents
raced ahead of the storm for
fresh supplies and prepared for
an extended siege.
Many of Iowa's 500 mines, re-
opened only yesterday. may be
forced to close in the face Of the
storm. Wood supplies are eXhaus-
ted.
Highways and Sideroads in the
Continued on Page 8, Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

cal venture was reported in a let
ter to B. Marie Gates, Washington
resident and close friend of the
author and one time socialist lead
er. The letter was published in the
Washington News.
Sinclair Vas quoted as saying:
As to the Epics, I have just cut
my last contact with the movement.
1t is impossible to be in politics
unless you are in daily touch with
everything that is going on. l am
burying myself in work on a new
novel,"
The future Of the Epic organiza-
ton without Sinclair's leadership
was not made clear. 1t comes as
the group is waging a bitter fight
with the national Democratic Or
ganization over the naming OF
CALIFORNIA; delegation to the Dem
ocratic presidential convention in
June.
Culbert Olson, Epic leader and
California Democratic chairman,
Continued on Page 8; Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
Imperial Valleys
Exhibit Set Up at
San Diego Expo

Imperial Valleys exhibit at the
San Diego exposition was set in
place and ready for the official
opening Wednesday. Art Sinclair
of the agricultural commissioners
office is in charge as formerly.
The exhibit is in the main the
same one which interested so many
visitors last year in the Palace of
Water and Power. In addition to
the large relief map showing
Boulder dam and the All American
canal with the power development
projects. the motion picture thea
ire, the valley has on display a
number Of farm products and other
articles illustrative OF its industries.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
Republicans Rally on
Birthday of Lincoln

cal rallies, the Republican party to-
night will launch a concerted, ma
tionwide attack on the Roosevelt
administration in the Pacific coast
states.
Foremost intercst ip the holiday
meetings centerad atsPUl land, Ore
where former President Herbert
Hoover, still ranked as chief OF the
COP. forces, is expected lead off
the barrage before q capacity ban.
quet crowd of $50 and millions of
radio listeners.
The former president is schedule l
to speak to the main banquet hall
crowd of $50 persons promptly at Z
p. m.
San Francisco Republican leaders
concentrated their energies in an
sWering Democratic Jackson day
fireworks at luncheon at the Pal
ace hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
IS PERISH AS
STORMS RACE
OVER EUROPE

LONDON, Feb. u. (U.R)-At least
65 persons were known to have
been killed and many injured by
storms which harassed most OF
Europe today from the British
Isles to the Aegean.
The storm in England had ia
ken a tell of 81. Sixteen were dead
in Italy and Is in northern Greece.
Thirteen were killed and eight
injured in a Bulgarian train wreck
caused by blizzard.
Earthquakes added to the trou-
bles of dwellers in Macedonia.
Several vessels in the Aegean
sent out distress calls.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
IMPERIAL VALLEY LIONS MEET
WITH MEMBERS FROM SAN DIEGO

Ed Adams of the Hilcrest club as
president Mark WaShburn Of Ell
Centro, vice president; Amos Root,
secretary treasurer. Election Will
take place at the following meeting.
Reports of club activities we're
made by representative of North
Park, Hillcrest and San Diego clubs,
and by the following valley mem
bers: Ralph Butler for Calipatria,
Jerry Wilson for imperial and Rich
Continued on Page 8, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
NORMAN THOMAS HELD
BY NEW YORK POLICE

NEW YORK, Feb. IL. UP)-Nor-
man Thomas, Socialist leader and
former presidential candidate.
was taken into custody today with
dozen companions when they
attempted to picket Mays De-
partment store in Brooklyn. where
a strike has been i'm progress since
Oct. 25.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
SERUM RUSHED
TO SAVE BOYS
ABOARD SHIP

BALBOA, c. T.. Feb. IL. UH
The United STATES destroyer
Tattnall carrying serum and doc
tors and nurses from the Gorgas
hospital sped today to the rescue
of the merchant marine training
ship California State, stricken
with an outbreak of spinal men
nights 1000 miles out in the Paci-
fic.
Willard Moore, 10, one of the
81 youths aboard the training ship
has died and another was report
ed dying.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12

Francisco Rodriguez, about so
years old, was killed at 7 pm. Tues
day when he stepped into the path
of a sedan driven by Lewis c. Wiley,
127 South Sixth street, Ell Centre,
on the Holtville road a quarter If
a mile east of the Meloland store.
Rodriguez, so drunk he had been
refused a drink an hour before at
the Last Roundup saloon at Melo-
land, was walking in the center of
the road, T. M Sharp, deputy cor
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
1870 Applications for
Federal Loans Made

More than 1870 applications for
loans under the February quota for
Imperial county already have been
made out OF the office Of p. A. Thaa-
mum, who is in charge of rural re-
habilitation of the resettlement di-
vision in this county. The Febru-
ary quota was set at 300.
The office in the basement of the
court house was established recent
" for the convenience of farmers
who wish to obtain loans which may
result in keeping them on the farms.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
Woman Finds 1t
Difficult to Stay
Out of City Jail

Ell Centre apparently is to the lik-
ing of Virginia Edwards 33, who was
released from Jail at $50 a. m.
Tuesday and at 9;O9 a. m Wednes-
day was back in Jail again in Ell
Centro.
She was given a 60-day suspend
ed jail sentence upon condition tnat
she leave town, officers said. She
started in the general direction of
Holtville but persuaded a passerby
to bring her back to Ell Centre. She
was booked at headquarters on a
drunk charge. Since police court
was not held Wednesday, no dis
position was made Of her case.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
Defendant Must
Stay Away Year

If r. l.. Motley leaves Imperial
county within two days and remains
away year he will not have to
serve 60 days in the county Jail un-
der the sentence imposed by Judge
j. E. Simpson in FL Centre justice
court.
Motley was arrested on a charge
of disturbing the peace of his fam
lily. If Motley returns within the
year, he will be sent to Jail to
serve the sentence, Judge Simpson
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
Dental Association
Meets i'm El CentrO

Harry GroSsman of San Diego
discussed prosthetic laboratory
technique and the economic as
poets of dentistry of today at the
meeting Tuesday night Of the coun-
y dental association.
Members met for a dinner in
the Barbara Worth hotel after
which the business session was
conducted. Plans were made for
the next meeting March 10 at which
time a clinic on oral surgery will
be conducted. DR.. A. L. Finley of
Brawley will select the meeting
place.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-12
BOND SWINDLING
SUSPECTS HELD

TORONTO, Ont, Feb. ~. U,pj--
Police today held Herbert Wilson,
parOled from San Quentin prison,
Cal. last June where he had been
serving life sentence for murder.
and Donald Holiday. 26. Toron-
to bond salesman, on charges Of
conspiracy to defraud stock brok-
ers of 100000. Police intimated
Wilson's arrest may reveal
widespread bond swindling ring In
the United States.