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Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01
TWO AUTHORS
PREDICT VAST
CHANGE IN u. S

NEW YORK, Sept. /. U.P)-Am-
erica's destiny in the next decade
drives toward war, another depres-
sion, and social changes whose inn
menSity cannot be forecast, two
outstanding political thinkers agree
in new books published today.
Probably. Norman Thomas, So
cialist presidential candidate, and
Ernest K. Lindley, clear-headed
Washington correspondent of the
Republican New York Herald-Tri-
bune, the writer's of these books
son of their individual contribu-
tions to the book literature of the
present political campaign. But
will be surprised at this compari-
the parallel is too obvious to be
ignored.
Not that they agree on method,
or even on the road that will be
followed. But each points to the
future with misgiving and uncer-
tainty.
Thomas volume is. after the
New Deal What?" published by
Macmillan. Lindlev's Is half Wav
with Roosevelt" from the Viking
Press.
Only Escape
Norman Thomas plainly reiter-
a,tes and clarifies his previous
pleading for Socialism as the only
escape from a new and terrible
depression or war. from either
of which will emerge fascism. His
is strictly campaign material.
But it is unfortunate that Lind
ley's careful analysis of the Roose-
welt era and his cautious penetra-
ton of the future should appear
at the beginning of the present
campaign. Six months hence, this
hook would be received for Whit
it really is; an important contem-
porary United States history, which
probably will be more valuable to
historians than it is today.
Both Thomas and Lindley ana
lyze Mr.. Roosevelts three and
one-half years and reach surpris-
ingly parallel decisions in many
instances.
Agree On Terms
Their conclusions concerning the
administrations silver buying pro-
gram, for example, and the federal
slum clearance projects are almost
paraphrases.
Thomas skates over the New
Deal, the economic and political
situations and Americas foreign
policy Lindley covers the same
grounds, but digs deeply into the
most minute Rooseveltian success
es and failures. incidentally, he
turns up chapter on Mr.. Roose-
velt's personality that is the best
we have yet seen.
The books then digreSS, Thom-
as into the terror of fascism and
the blessings of Socialism, Lind
ley's into some surprising back
stage revelations of Ro0Svelts
policy and assistants. from which
comes his conclusion that war in
the Pacific will hit us before our
nine years defense Of the Philip
pines is completed.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01
LIQUOR ISSUE
SEEN IN VOTE
THIS AUTUMN


PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. /. W.p)-D.
Leigh Colvin. Prohibition candidate
for President. said today the liquor
problem is one of the most import
ant in the current presidential cam
paign. ....-.-...' 49,.
Colvin,-who. came =. here after
spending 10 days campaigning in
southern California, cited drinking
by women and an increased auto
mobile accident rate as pushing the
liquor question to the fore. He said
he estimated there. were 1000
liquor dispensing places in the ma
ton, twice as many as ever be-
fore q - - '- -.-
Colvin will leave tomorrow for
Texas. Arizona is the 10th state
he has visited on his campaign.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01
RAILWAY MAN
KILLS HIMSELF
IN JAIL CELL

KINGMAN, Ariz., Sept. !. up
L. E. Wheeler, section foreman for
the Santa Fe railroad at Topock,
committed suicide last night in the
county Jail, where he was being held
for trial on statutory charges.
He used a razor blade to slash
his jugular vein. His body was
found by jailers when they went to
fhis cell this morning.
Wheeler was brought here yes
terday by Sheriff Ernest Graham
after he had been bound over to
superior court at q justice court
hearing in Oatman.
Before slashing his throat, Wheel
er wrote two letters, which were
to be introduced in evidence at an
inquest to be held later oday. Their
contents were not divulged pending
the hearing.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01
WILL
ATTEND MEET
Continued from Page u

the presidents train.
TOPEKA, Sept. l.. gU.P)-Gov. ALI
M. Landon today discussed with
his agricultural advisers the back
ground of Thursdays drought con-
ference at Des Moines with Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
The Republican presidential
nominee summoned two of the ex-
perts- L. E. Call and Prof
w. E. GrimeS-from the Kansas
State agricultural college for a
conference at the governors man
sion before they accompany him
to Des Moines. .--
At the same time, attention was
called to letter which Gov. Lam
don wrote President Roosevelt in
1884 and in which he urged leg
islation for a complete flood con-
troll and water conservation pro-
gram in which the federal and
local goy'ernments would cooperate.
In some phases, the Landon pro-
posals were not unlike the sugges-
tions which have come firm the
president although the Kansas
governor emphasized. the desirable
ity. of individual efforts to COM
bat drought where possible.
The letter said there was need
for more adequate flood control
and water conservation in Kansas
and other Missouri Valley states
the area with which he was con-
cerned when writing the president
Gov. Landon at that time urged
favorabl, legislation to complete
program of soil erosion, to en-
courage construction OF small
ponds by private owners, OF large
reservoirs on the tributaries OF
rivers and of large lakes for both
storage and recreational purposes
He, also pointed out the need fol-
levees on the lower sections OF
the rivers. 4fs...,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01
JAPAN AWAITSRE OF ELECTION
BEFORE ASKING TRADE AGREEMENT
ON AMERICAN TARIFF BARRIERS

TOKYO. WP)-Japan wants bet
ter trade. relations with the Unit
ed States and intends to make an
active effort in that direction. as
soon as Americas presidential elec-
ton is out of the way.
Attempts of the Japanese gov
ernment to have a trade commits
SION established have been delayed,
according to the Interpretation
here, by absorption of the United
States in it's presidential race.
The trade figures as released here
show that last year japan exported
to the United States goods worth
555 100000 yen, while purchasing in
the United States goods valued at
300 100000 yen.
Despite this favorable situation y
says the newspaper Asahi, "the
United States ignored its advantage
ous trade with Japan and has been
raising tariff on cotton cloth, slide
fasteners, Woolen gloves, assessed a
consumption tax on rape-seed oil
and Is now reported to be consider
ing a tariff increase on porcelain
and hosiery goods from Japan.
TT is the objective of the jap
lnese government to have the trade
commission established between the
two governments and discuss those
goods liable to be subjected to tariff
raise. The proposal was made to
the American government, and
when Commercial Counsellor mo
uye now at New York returns to
Japan, the japanese government
authorities will hear from him the
views of the American side in re-
gard to the proposal, and they will
positively call upon the interested
quarters to assist in the formation
of the commission. =
The forthcoming America :
Japan Trade Commissions is as
signed to be composed of the .au-
thorities of the Treasury and State
Departments on the part Of the
United States and the authorities
of the japanese Embassy in Wash
ington. japanese Consul General,
Commercial Counsellor, etc, on the
part of Japan.
THE traders of both countries
are also to be allowed to become
members. The Commission is de-
signed to function as permanent
Institution" ~ =
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01

ANNUAL TREK
BACK TO VALLEY

Imperial county's 425 teachers are
beginning to return after their sum-
mer, vacations in time for the op-
ening of schools this month. Fiji
teen per cent Of the teachers are
new to their positions.
High school and elementary
schools in Brawley, Calexico and
Holtyille will open for the fall term
September IA; schools in the Ell Cen
tro system will open September 81,
while rural schools will open upon
the dates selected by their respec-
tive boards of trustees.
Attendance in the six high schools
and Al elementary schools in the
county was 9,239 last year, accord
ing 10 c. B. Collins. county super
intendent of schools.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01
Rudy Vallee Takes
Sock at Wrong Man

TORONTO, Ont, Sept. l. W.p)-
Rudy Vallee revenged a beer bottle
salute in the ball room of the Can
adian National Exhibition with a
right to the jaw early today. Later
he discovered that he had knocked
down the wrong man and apollo
gized.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01

Return to El Centro-Mrs. Frank
Hetzel OF 1888 Ell Centre and her
sister, Miss Lenore Kinnison of San
Diego recently returned to Impe-
rial Valley after a Today vacation
in San Francisco and vicinity.
The Trocadero for your evenings
entertainment. (J28tf)
Pleads Guilty = Robert Biggs
pleaded guilty to a crime against
nature when he was taken into Ell
Centre justice court Monday after
noon. Judge John E. Simpson
ordered him taken into superior
court for sentence. Biggs was in
volved with 14-year-old boy.
Now the Don Room Tor your steak
dinners. (J28tf)
Enters Plea-Dan Smith in El Cen
tro justice court Monday pleaded
guilty to refusing to leave a train at
request of officers Judge John E.
Simpson released him upon condi-
ton that he leave town.
Tour Beaches-Mr. and Mrs. Ar
thur Burke returned to their home
in El Centro Monday after a. two
week vacation. They spent the
time. touring the beaches from En-
senada to Long Beach.
90
Returns To Duties -. Blaine c.
Hoalst is back at his desk in the Ell
Centro city engineers office after
having spent his vacation visiting
his mother in Boise, Ida. He was
away from Ell Centro for two weeks
Return To Home-Mr. and Mrs.
3. L. Bransford and two daughters,
Geraldine and Mildred, are back at
their home at 684 He'll street after
a two week vacation at Yosemite.
They returned via Mariposa county
and down the coast in easy stages.
They saw large numbers of deer en-
route.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01
Wife Offers Strong
Grounds For Divorce

PHILADELPHIA. Sept. /. Wp)-
Mrs. Anna Kates, 80. told the police
judge it was bad enough when her
husband. Harry. ran around with
other women, but when he brought
one of them home to live with her,
1t was 'insufferably humiliating."
She asked $3.50 weekly support.
Kates denied the charges.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01
NEIGHBORLINESS

MESSTON, Kans., W.D - Mrs.
Abram zook has decided neighborli-
ness is not lost virtue. Neighbors
with IL tractors plowed 125 acres
for her recently. Her husband died
last April.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01

HAILED AS MAN TO
BEAT BY EXPERTS

LOS ANGELES, Sept. l. (UP)-Henri Detroyat IA
NOUS French aviator today became favorite win the
Thompson trophy dash of the national races after
ne sent his Reconsideration around closed
at estimated 285 miles an hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01
SAFETY IN MARRIAGE

BOSTON, U.P-Single folk are
more apt to become patients in
mental hospitals than their married
brother, statistics of the state de-
parment of mental diseases disclose.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01

California growers shipped four
cars of carrots in 1916 and S,543
cars in 1885.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01
OFFICIAL VOTE
MADE PUBLIC

Continued From Page y
votes in the final count.
A total of 843 absentee ballots
were counted The total absentee
ballot applications received by the
county clerk before election was
1,004. %'+'
Following is table of the Off
cial election returns
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01

California pear growers expect to
receive $35 per ton for canning pears
this season.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01

Case Is Submitted-Judge John
e. Simpson took under submission
until "Wednesday the case of Jack
Carl Smith, who was charged with
failure to provide for his wife. Pre-
liminary hearing was held in El
Centro justice court Monday after
noon,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01

Returns To Ell Centro-Mrs. Mol
lie Wise recently returned to her
home in El Centre after an extend
ed visit with relatives in Texas and
along the west coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01

Returns Home-Chan Livingston,
head of the Federal Unemployment
service for Imperial county, is back
at his desk after a months vaca-
ti6n. He spent two weeks at the
Reserve Officers Training camp at
the Preside of Monterey and two
weeks visiting his parents at Tu-
junga.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01
NAME COINCIDENCE

A national ram sale. will be held
at North Salt Lake, Utah, August
1926.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01

Let Us Handle Those choice dress
es. We guarantee to satisfy. Amer
ican Cleaners. 536 Main. Phone 81.
(831-5D
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01

Case Continued - Frank Jingles,
Negro, charged with failure to pro-
vide for his minor child, was re-
leased upon his own recognizance
Monday by Judge John E. Simp-
son in Ell Centre justice court. Pre-
liminary hearing was continued for
one month.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01

6horwoOd's Cafe-Air Cooled Tor
Your Comfort. M (M17-TFD
Return After Vacation = Deputy
Sheriff and Mrs. Dee Kessee re-
turned to Il Centro this week after
a weeks vacation spent at San
Pedro.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01

No. changes occurred in the list
of county committeeman previously
announced after the unofficial
count.
=, NAME COINCIDENCE
LINCOLN, Neb., W.P)-Two' men
by the name of John Jacob Mohr
died on the same day here recently
and their bodies we're taken to the
same mortuary. They were not re-
lated. 3 ..t.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-01

The Trocadero for your evenings
entertainment. (J28tf)
Evening star., 1936-05-01

G e n in e Honduras
Mahogany Dun c a n
Phyfe Cocktail Table
Of the double pedes-
tai type ------S SlS
Evening star., 1936-05-01

intimate with Mrs. Wood when she
was q child Of 16, ooldstein shouted:
He deflled her body, ruined her
soul and then killed her, and now
strips from her the last thread of
reputation, holding her up naked be-
fore the morbid eyes Of the crowd"
O'Shea denied Reaguer was jealous
because Of the girls recent marriage.
Much Of the lengthy trial has been
consumed with testimony by alienists.
The defense experts asserted positive
ly Reaguer was insane, and the Gov
ernment witnesses testified Just as
positively that his mind was sound.
Wood has been a constant attend
ant at the trial since the beginning,
while Reaguer's wife and two married
daughters have been frequent visitors.
A Government witness quoted him
as saying: This woman double
crossed me, but she won't double
cross any one else"
Assistant United States Attorneys
Irwin Goldstein and Cecil Hefiin
argued to the jury that Jealousy over
Mrs. Woods recent marriage caused
Reaguer, her suitor since she was
IS or Is, to slay her.
Evening star., 1936-05-01

Genuine Hon d uras
Mahogany N e. t of
Tables, in the Ameri-
can Colonial Chip
pendale design SIS
Evening star., 1936-05-01

Genuine Amazon Ma
hogany IRA ton
Drum Table, with ef-
fectively turned ped
estal base and brass
claw feet $3.50
Evening star., 1936-05-01

casting station would even consider
accepting it. -"
Life in this American democracy
may be confusing, but at least it is
life In all its hues and not supervised
parade In which every one wears the
same shirt and goose-steps his life
away until a war can be worked up
that will end 1t quicker. The American
approach is the best approach that
the world has yet seen to decent bal
ance of give and take on a mass scale u
In q closed session yesterday the as
sociation elected Paul L. Cornell oi
New York chairman Of the board.
Evening star., 1936-05-01

any subject, is at best mixture Of
fact and individual Interpretation.
Have you ever read political plat
form? II you want to learn the arts
Of misleading and overpromising there
Is no better source to learn. And
have you seen any Of the early cam
paign literature in the present presi-
Dental campaign?
IF any reputable national advertiser
has ever published or broadcast any
thing even remotely ss Objectionable,
whether from the standpoint of ordi-
nary human decency, I never heard
Of 1t. In fact. some of 1t Is such that
no magazine or newspaper or broad
Evening star., 1936-05-01

Gen uine Honduras
Mahogany 18th Gen.
tury English End Ia
BILE, with shelf in
base ---------- CT
Evening star., 1936-05-01
70 FEARED LOST
IN SUDDEN FLOOD
Rescue Crews Seek Missing
Families Near Elk
City, Okla.
by the Associated Press.


ELK CITY, Okla, May 1.-One
man was feared drowned, score OF
members of a half dozen farm fani-
lies were unaccounted for and score
of business houses and homes were
damaged or washed away in sudden
food that swept through eastern Elk
City today.
A rescue crew of 40 men splashed
through the mud along the banks OF
q branch of Elk Greek, two miles east
Of here, in search Of the body Of a
man believed to be George Bates,
around 20. of Chicago, whose car was
swept into the rain-swollen stream.
Another crew was attempting to
make its way over highways blocked
by washed out bridges to find at least
six farm families, living below Elk
City's Reservoir, which sent 40 acres
of water flowing down on the rural
community when the reservoir dam
gave way.
No word had been received from the
farming community.
Creek Is Mile Wide.
A "squatter's camp" on the eastern
fringe of Elk City and an eastern Elk
City business district were in the path
of the flood waters from Elk Greek.
which spread a mile wide in some
places.
City police said "two or three" Of
the Shacks had been washed down
stream, while the water covered many
more. Police said a preliminary check
showed no one missing in the camp.
Business men reported damage would
total several thousand dollars in the
eastern business district, where a
laundry, large creamery and four
smaller business houses were flooded.
The man feared drowned, identified
tentatively as Bates by a tag found
in his recovered automobile, was field
engineer for the Independent Grocers'
Alliance Distributing Co. of Chicago.
At Chicago company officials said
there was little doubt" that the prob
able victim had been identified cor
rectly, as Bates was travelling through
Oklahoma At Clinton, Okla. it was
reported Bates had been registered
there yesterday and had checked out
late in the day.
The Elk City reservoir dam was
constructed at cost Of $3.50, 900, city
officials said.
A 6-inch rain overhowed Lake Clin-
ton, 18 miles southwest Of Clinton.
Okla, today and drowned out motors
pumping a water supply into the
city.
Motorists were forced to abandon
their cars on United States Highway
66, west Of Clinton. A windstorm,
accompanied by showers struck Sayre,
Okla, last night, but caused little
damage.
Surges Over Banks.
The heavy downpour, totaling ST.
inches at midnight, sent Elk Creek
surging over its banks, sweeping
through the eastern side of Elk City
and damaging a half dozen business
houses.
Stopped on U. S. Highway 66 by
high water, Hayden abandoned his
truck and attempted to walk across
the bridge. He was swept into the
high waters of Elk Creek branch and
was taken from a tree by an Elk City
rescue crew.
Elk City, faced with the worst water
shortage In its history by the loss of
the reservoir, also was confronted by
the prospects Of an epidemic.
Flood waters inundated the sewage
disposal plant.
Evening star., 1936-05-01
WRITER'S SEE PRESIDENT

President Roosevelt today vel.
coined TO his press conference o score
or more foreign newspaper corres-
pondents who are visiting Washing
ton from New York City, where they
are stationed.
After the conference each of the
visitors was introduced TO the Presi.
dent by Frederick A. Storm, head Of
the White House Correspondents As
sociation. The group later attended
luncheon meeting Of the Overseas
Writers at the National Press Club.
Evening star., 1936-05-01
PRESIDENTIAL RACE
LITERATURE HIT
Retiring Head of Advertising
Association Brands 1t
Objectionable.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w.
Va, May Raymond Rubican, the
retiring chairman Of the American As.
sociation Of Advertising Agencies, to-
day described some Of the campaign
literature In the present presidential
campaign ss Objectionable.
In an address prepared for delivery
to the associations convention, he said !:
Practically all the information that
Mr.. Public gets any time, anywhere. on
Evening star., 1936-05-01

G e in e Honduras
Mahogany Sheraton
Console Card Table.
A replica of the origi-
nal Thomas Jefferson
table ------- $40
Evening star., 1936-05-01
Fairplay Machines Seized.

FAIRPLAY, Colo. (P.-County Of
ficers male . raid here and confis-
Gated Is slot machines. They didn't
say whether the name of the town
had anything 10 do with the seizure.
Evening star., 1936-05-01

their presentation to the jury Of love
letters written by Mrs. Wood to
Reaguer, her former sweetheart, less
than two weeks after her marriage,
Goldstein described this evidence as
an attempt Ito damn and blacken her
Evening star., 1936-05-01
Reaguer

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1936-05-01

character so you gentlemen will con-
clude she deserved to be killed"
Asserting the defendant became
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Dumb Animals Once Were
Liable to Prosecution

marker. Certain ants were con-
victed, two centuries ago in Brazil,
OF undermining the cellars of a
monastery and stealing flour. In
Basel, Switzerland, in 1474, an aged
rooster was solemnly tried and
burned at the stake for laying an
egg.
"A dog found guilty of biting with
out first barking warning was to
be punished as for willful murder.
according to an ancient Persian
law.
Beasts in the jungles of law meet
various fates. Most, when con-
oemned to pay the extreme penalty,
have been hanged on special gal
lows. hanged by the hind legs to
a bent tree, or tremendously
knocked in the head. Some were
buried alive, some burned alive.
others singed alive and mercifully
throttled before being burned. Their
legal prosecution has been known
to include torture on the rack, al
though no confessions were forth
coming.
Whatever may be an animals
legal end, great care has been taken
to guarantee due; process of law in
reaching it. Appeals and new trials
were granted to condemned brutes.
Either codified law or primitive
tribal law has passed judgment on
nearly everything on Noah's pas
senger list.
The United States has given
dumb brutes the right of trial.
Puritan New England took legal
toll of the animal kingdom to the
extent of eight in New Haven and
two in Salem, the latter being dogs
hanged for witchcraft. Elephants
have been formally sentenced to be
shot for Staying their keepers. One
was acquitted when circus en-
ployees testified to it's sweet dis
position. Once, however, when a
circus elephant ran murderously
amuck among spectators, tn e
keeper and not the beast was tried
for second degree manslaughter."