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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-18
PATTERN 1869

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cROCHETED COLLARS

Three collars? Yes, but some
thing more. Three bits of lacy
magic to make last years frock
positively shine! Get busy crochet
ing these, for they take little
time to do. The two at the top
are of cotton-the deeper one
tapering off to narrower points.
The lower one (of petit boucle)
may wear it's closing at front or
back. Pattern 1869 comes to you
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Fabric Capes

Nearly every other woman will
be sporting a cape this autumn.
Fur capes, fabric capes, and
fabric allied with fur, will be seen.
A new model, with squared Shout
ders, is of black suede wooden
with vertical stripes of black
Persian all the way down and
around.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16

Ter ana her husband were in bed,
leaned over the sleeping girl and
drove q pickaXe again and again
into her husbands head, then went
outside, seized an axe and return
ed to chop the dead mans head
into bloody bits
Then, according to the confess
SION, he ordered his screaming
daughter to be quiet and make
me some coffee to quiet my nerves
a little"
Fer two hours, according to the
confession and the girls statement,
father and daughter sat in the
kitchen of the home, drinking cof-
fee and working out details of the
story they would tell officers. They
agreed to report that two men
from a nearby transient camp, one
of Xhom they named, came to the
house. entered the bedroom and
butchered the sleeping man.
Story Fell Through
This story fell down and the girl
gave the true account, Sheriff Tai
ley said, when he pointed out it
was impossible for an automobile
Continued on Page 2; Col. A
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
COUNTY DEATH
TOLL IN 1886
RISES TO TEN

Traffic accidents in Imperial
county this year reached 10 with
the death of A. H. Burnett, 49,
year-old Ell Centran, in the Ell
Centre hospital early Sunday NOR
ming of injuries received when his
motorcycle overturned near Heber
Saturday night.
Burnett, who lived at 1855 Wood
ward avenue, and Carl Knudsen,
also of Ell Centre, were riding their
motorcycles along the highway
when suddenly Burnett's machine
turned end-over- and threw
Burnett TO the pavement, fractur-
ing his skull. He was said to have
died without regaining conscious
ness.
Funeral arrangements for Burnett
await the arrival of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Burnett, sister,
Wynona Burnett. and three broth
ers, Ernest, James and Walter D.,
all of Brownfield, Tex. The body
is at the Lemons undertaking es-
Establishment.
Burnett was born in Dublin,
Tex, 33 years ago and came TO Eel
Centre in 1926, where he was en-
gagged in the trucking business.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Vivian Burnett two daughters,
Verda, TO- and Kathleen, 8; and
two brothers, Elvin and Erwin, who
live in Ell Centre; his parents, sister
and three brothers who live in
Texas.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
| NJ P 0 R TANT
COURT CASES
Open monday
Ruthe rford Speer
Trial Expected
To Start

Two important superior
court trials were scheduled
to begin at 2 o'clock Monday
afternoon, one to be before
a jury and one without q
jury.
Trial of w. L. Rutherford and
John Speer, charged with 10 counts
of grand theft en- a grand jury
Indictment, has been delayed sev-
eral times but selection CT the jury
was to begin at o'clock.
Ed Gonzales, butcher and slaugh-
ter house employee charged with
assault with intent to commit MUIR
der with a deadly weapon, waived
jury trial and his case will be
heard by Judge r. D. McPherrin.
The Rutherford-SDeer case will
Continued on Page 2; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
COURT ASKED.
TO DECIDE ON
UTILITY ACT
Litigant in Test Case
Files Petition in
U.S.. Tribunal

WASHINGTON, Mar. 16.
(UP) - The supreme court
was asked to rule on the
constitutionality of the New
Deals public utility holding
company act in a petition filed to-
day by Burco, Inc, one of the lit
gants in the Maryland test case
brought Immediately after enact
ment of the law
Filing Of the Burco petition was
the principal business of brief
noon-day session of the supreme
court after which a two-weeks re-
cess was taken.
There was some possibility that
quick action might enable the
court to present a ruling in the
Burco case before the summer adj
journment.
At the end of the two week re-
cess the justices may be prepared
to rule on validity of the Guffey
coal control at and truth-in-se-
curities act of 1888, both cases al
ready argued before the court
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
Two Theft Suspects
Nabbed in BrawIey

Two alleged shoplifters were ar
rested in BraWley Saturday night
by Deputy Sheriff Frank Raney,
who was standing on a street CO.
ner when a Mexican hurried past
with a newspaper concealing me-
chandise piled on his arm.
When Raney stepped forward,
the Mexican dropped the bundle
and ran with the deputy in pur-
suit. The chase led down Sixth
street to the rear of the Imperial
Valley Hardware store. The MeXi-
can failed to negotiate the turn
into the alley and fell. Raney ar
rested him and sent him to the
Brawley Jail.
The 20-year-old MeXican's name
was R. Montana and after ques-
tioning, he implicated Pete Her
nande., %
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
Harriette Bibbins,
Ell Centre Injured
In Auto Smashup

Harriette Bibbins, 49, year old
daughter of MI. and Mrs. Bion Bib
bins of Ell Centre, vas badly in
jured in a head-on automobile ac-
cident on the Calexico highway
Saturday night. Les Hayden, who
was in the same car with Miss
Bibbins, received slight injuries as
did Douglas Mcintosh, driver of
the car.
Ramon Martinez, driver of the
other car involved, also received in
jurieS.
The Martinez car was said to
have been standing on the wrong
side of the highway without any
lights. Mcintosh sXerved to avoid
1t when a woman stepped from
behind the Martinez car and di-
rectly in front OF the Mcintosh
car. officers said. In order to avoid
striking the woman, Mcintosh
drove his car into the parker ma
chine.
Miss Bibbns has a dislocated
Jaw three broken teeth, and cuts
ON her face and neck. Hayden had
a cash across the forehead which
required 10 stitches to close it, it
was reported. Mcintosh had leg
injured slightly. The Mexican; who
lives near the county farm, was
said to be suffering from injured
ribs. Hayden and Mcintosh both
live in Los Angeles and we're guests
of Miss Bibbins.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
Two Members of
Gardner Family Die

Death robbed the F. M. Gardner
family of the Jasper distrit OF two
of its members this weekend. Mrs,
Ana Gardner, wife of F.. M. Gard
ner died Sunday afternoon in the
FL Centre hospital and the family
received word this morning that
a daughter, Merna Gardner, Wash
ingtCn died this morning.
Mrs. Gardner had been i'll but
two days and her daughter, some
what longer. The son and brother,
Marvin, had been with his sister
and had thought her 50 much i'm
proved from a serious illness she
had undergone that he returned
home.
The family is well known in the
Jasper section as they have lived
there for the past IL years, operat E
ing the Mt. Signal store.
No date has been set for the
funeral but it will be conducted
from the funeral chapel of B. e,
Lemons.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16

"ii'ii VIGIL uCIlldlluS LOT nlSner
wages are met, warned Lyle Olson
Olson lolled in one of the hun
dred creaking, leather-lined swivel
chairs in the assembly chamber and
charged WPA officials With using
hot headed" vigilantes to guard
strike breakers.
On one project deserted by the
strikers Olson said there are 80
new men, guarded by policemen
armed with tear gas guns.
There's going to be loss of life
if these conditions continue he
said. The national administration
had better take recognition.
I'VE would rather starve in the
luxury Of this capitol than in the
misery of the homes we have been
trying to maintain on starvation
wages OF S48 a month"
Sleep on Red Plush
The strikers sleep on the red
plush of the assembly chamber
floors. Their wives prepare meals
for them in Salvation Army head
quarters and serve them on the
pClished-oak assembly desks. Some
of the food was purchased through
a donation by Gov. Philip F. La
Toilette
Nights are spent in singing. State
officials, apparently unaffected by
the satiric mimicry in impromptu
Skits by strikers, ignore their pres
ence.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
BIDS ON DAM
ROAD WILL BE
OPENED MAR. 80

Bids for furnishing labor and
materials and construction of the
highway connecting Laguna and
Imperial dams on the All Ameri-
can canal and for the streets and
parkways in the government camp
at Imperial dam, will be opened at
Yuma at 10 am. March 30.
The road will be constructed Of
road-mix surface treatment and
will call for the distribution of 535
tons of asphaltic oil. 300 cubic
wards of gravel or sand and the
shaping of $4,000 square yards of
highway. streets and parking areas.
The road is situated from IA to 10
miles northeast of Yuma.
Work is to begin within Is calen-
dar DAYS after receipt of notice to
proceed and shall be completed
within go calendar days after re-
cepit of the notice.
Bids must be submitted upon the
standard government form and the
successful bidder will be required
to use a Works Progress aminiStra-
ton form of contract for construc-
ton.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16

the councilS consideration OF his re-
occupation of the Rhineland.
Hitler's conditions were that Ger
many must take part in the council
meeting on equal terms with the 9TH
ers, and that his proposals for a
European peace agreement be con-
Sidered.
The council agreed that Germany
could attend on the same basis as the
other parties to the dispute, but, like
France and Belgium, who convoked
the council, she cannot vote.
The council partially accepted the
first condition, but denied Hitler the
right to vote, which would have
enabled Germany to block all the
councils decisions.
Curt Telegram
BY rejecting his second condition,
the council left Hitler the choice of
backing down or assuming the re-
sponsibility for break between Ger
many and the league.
The councils decisions were in the
form of two resolutions embodied in
a telegram to Berlin, consisting of
curt reply to Germany. The re-
ply apparently cleared the way for
an early decision regarding Ger
many's alleged violation of the Lo-
carno and Versailles treaties. on
which Frances demands for sane
lions were based. ....
Germany was invited to the coun-
continued on Page 2: Col. u
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
HEWES BACK
FROM N EFT
| N CAPITAL
Definite Progress
Reported With
Refinancing

With definite progress at
Washington toward solution
of the Imperial Irrigation
Districts refinancing prob
lem, the district will move
Immediately to obtain commit
ments from bondholders accepting
a probable Reconstruction Finance
Corporation offer Cf 80 cents on
the dollar, Chairman Evan r..
HeWeS said Monday.
HeWes returned to Imperial VAL
ley Sunday from Washington,
where he conferred with Emil
Schram, chief of the RFC drain
age, levee and irrigation district
division, as we'll as with RFC dir
ectors and members of both the
senate and the house of rpresen-
tatives.
Under the proposed settlement,
Hewes pointed out, there is less
than five points difference between
the original rs cent offer of the
government, and the bondholderS
demands. District taxpayers would
save more than Sl5,000,000 by the
settlement. the chairman said. The
80-cent offer would apply on every
dollars worth of outstanding
bonds, whether deposited or not,
he added.
IF 80 per cent of the bond
holders accept and 10 per cent
hold cut for a full repayment Of
100 cents on each dollar, the ab-
solute limit of 80 cents will mean
less than 80 cents on the dollar
in terms of debt retirement Hewes
said, adding that there is to be no
sliding scale under this plan,
Continued on Page 2; Col. y
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
Ell CENTRIC RACE
DRIVER PLACES
THIRD SUNDAY

Crowds swarmed in the Imperial
County fairgrounds Sunday for the
last day of the Seventh Annual
Midwinter fair and saw Bill Nor
ten of Phoenix send his midget
racer to victory in the dwarf auto
races. Second in the main, 40
lap event, was Ray Hulett Fred Sal
mon, Ell Centre, won third.
Sundays program brought 70 a
close the most successful fair in
the history of Imperial county
Attendance figures passed the As
900 mark record set last year. d.
" Stewart, seretary-manager, an
ncuned. Number of exhibits, quail
ity and number OF livestock and
general management were far SUI
perior to any other year in his
tory.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
Five Youths Held
On Brawl Charges

Five young residents of the Nj
land area are thinking it over in
the county Jail following their ar
rest Sunday by Deputy Sheriffs
Fred Graham, Frank P. McCaslin
and Connie Hayhurst as active parti-
cipants in an alleged drunken brawl
in the northend city.
Those arrested were: Clay Stock
ton, 81, Dewey Tuttle, %, George
Rlackman, 80, Russell Seay, %, and
n. E. Matney, %. They are held in
Jail pending investigation of their
activity in a beating alleged to have
been given two Mexicans.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
PRESIDENT SET
FOR VACATION

WASHINGTON. March l6. tUP)-
President Roosevelt speeded up his
official work today. anxious to be off
on his two weeks fishing vacation in
Florida waters by the end of the
week.
The principal official business was
preparation of his recommendation
to congress for work-relief appro-
priations for the 1897 fiscal year
beginning July l.
On his unofficial calendar, care
fully marked against forgetting. was
his and Mrs. Roosevelt's 31st we'd
ding anniversary tomorrow. The
occasion is expected TO be a quiet
family affair, with perhaps a few
friends dropping in to congratulate
them
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
FIREMEN PUT 81
OUT 3 BLAZES

FL Centre firemen were summon
ed to Ills South Sixth street at 10
o'clock Monday morning to extin-
guish a fire in the old Matthews
home. The fire started in the wall
OF a clothes closet. according to Fire
Chief Tom Reams. but investigation
failed to reveal the origin. The
damage was slight.
Firemen were called to Seventh
and Commercial streets at IL o'clock
Sunday morning to eXtinguish a fire
started by a gasoline cook stove,
Reams said in the home of Tom
Coulter. No damage resulted.
A motorcycle fire was exteinguish-
ed by the firemen at Sixth and
Commercial streets at 2 O'Clock Sun
day afternoon No damage resulted.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
IL Balances Up

Cogitating over the ways of Lady
Luck, RR cannot help but wonder
at this late date how young Rob-
ert McManus will fare through
life. Robert, you see, vas born on
Friday, the 18th of March. Mr..
and Mrs. Louis B. McManus are
the parents. Here's the payoff,
though. The little tike weighed
seven pounds, eleven ounces when
he arrived. The reputation of Fri
day the 18th is too we'll known to
need elaboration = but SO also is
the plea that is as old as Lady
Luck herself. seven, come eleven!"
Looks like Robert started with a
pretty well balanced fate.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16

MADRID, March 16 W.D - Two
rightwing adherents were slain today
in a new outbreak of political vio-
lence in Valencia province as SPANS
new Socialist parliament prepared
to convene here after a week OF
bloody disorders.
The fresh trouble centered in the
town Of Villaneuva de Castellon
|. where Genera Llagaria and Filiberto
Garrido were killed in a gun battle
with leftists. Three leftists were
wounded.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
Scriuen Files for
City Councilman

Gordon Scriven Monday morn
ing filed for city councilman, ana
became the first announced candi-
date for a place on the Ell Centre
council.
Scriven, who has been manager
of the J. c. Jenney store in El
Centre for several years and who
recently became county manager.
is well known in this city. He has
played an active part in many civ
ic, charitable and private organiza-
tons since his arrival here.
He was appointed to fill the UNI
expired term of Fred Gianola, who
resigned.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
Roosevelt Makes
Out DUN Tax Return

WASHINGTON, March 16. Up)--
President Roosevelt today gave over
his luncheon hour to the task of
making out his income tax.
Like thousands OF other Ameri-
cans, Mr.. Roosevelt waited until a
few hours before the deadline.
"Will he have help i'm making out
his return" Secretary Stephen r.
Early was asked.
mo, he always makes il out
alone" Early replied.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
TWO LEADERS SLAIN
IN NEW SPANISH RIOTS

cipating for the first time since the
bloody outbreak of october, 1884, in
which over $500 persons were killed
when the government put down the
Socialist revolt against return of
conservatives to power.
The new parliament will be domi-
mated by the left-wing as long as
its heterogeneous collection of par
ties continues to cooperate. They
have a majority of about 265 while
the rightist forces have l44 and the
center, GA,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
Salt in Bed Little
Too Much for Wife

WASHINGTON, March 16 W.p -
1t wasn't SO bad when Mrs. Edith
Aliens husband kicked her, burn
ed her neck with lighted cigar
ct, threw gin in her face and tied
knots in her pajamas, but when
he put salt in her bed-well that
was just too much, she told Chief
Justice Alfred A. Wheat in Dis
trict of Columbia supreme court.
Her divorce petition was granted.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16

WASHINGTON, March 16. UP
The last of 100000 persons esti-
mated to file income tax returns
this year stood in long lines in many
cities on the deadline for declaring
1885 income.
The installmentS due today-third
for the fiscal year-are expected to
add another 00,000,000 to the fed
eral treasury. Those who do not
file by midnight tonight face stiff
penalties.
The 5000, 100000 constitutes little
less than half of total payments eX-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
SPECIAL SESSION OF
ASSEMBLY DEMANDED

Los ANGELES. March 10. tUPl
"A demand that Gov. Frank y.
Merriam call special session OF
the legislature to provide funds for
more than 10000 California dole
families was presented To the
board of supervisors today as Los
Angeles cOunty's answer to .
threatened breakdown in state re-
lief administration.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
Suspect in Hutton
Extortion Arrested

MANCHESTER, England, March
16. UP)-Alfred MolyneuX was held
today, charged with sending a
threat to Countess Barbara Won
Haugwitz Reventlow, Woolworth
heiress, that her newly-born son
was about to be kidnapped
MolyneuX was accused of sending
the former Barbara Hutton a note
telling her that two men were on
their way to kidnap the baby and
demanding 200 pounds $4,000 for
giving her information about the
plot. He was remanded in custody
for trial.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
FiUe Die as italian
Bomb Plane Falls

ROME, March 16 U,P)-An Italian
bombing plane returning to the lines
after an engagement in Ethiopia
crashed and the crew of five was
killed Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Ital-
ian commander-in -chief, reported in
war cCmmunique No. 1856 today.
Otherwise, he said, there is Moth
ing to report on either front.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
On The Spot

County Fair judges were in
pu2zling spot Saturday in judging
the 4-H club demonstrations. Aca-
cia representative did by far the
best talking, judges admitted, but
gave first place to McCabe Eucalyp-
tus.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16

In the town of Silla, reds broke
into a church and burned various
sacred objects.
The governor ordered mayors
throughout Valencia to maintain
order at any cost.
Days of street rioting, church
burning and even the attempted as
sassination yesterday of left wing
leader, Francisco Largo Caballero,
did not quench the elation OF radi-
cal adherents as the cortes or parlia-
ment gathered. They will be parti-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
Eleven Days Left
For Registration

Residents of Imperial county
have only II more days in which
to register before the books close
prior to the presidential primaries
in May, The books will close March
IS.
If registration is not made be-
fore March 26, voting will not be
permitted. Books for registration
are available at the county clerks
office in the court house in Eel
Centre and at the city hall in all
other valley towns. according to
Ed Law, county clerk.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
OVERRULED BY BOARD

LUIS hNOELES, Mdffn 10. tusfJ---
The state railroad commission. in
ruling forwarded here from San
Francisco today, overruIed the
Southern Pacific company In q
motion TO dismiss an application
of the Santa lie Transportation
company for permission 10 eoyrdi-
nate rail and bus service IN gali
iornia.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
1000 WPA WORKERS
GO OUT ON STRIKE

ST. LOUIS, March 16. W.p)--
About 1000 building trades work
men went on strike today OH Pub
Works Administration projects In
protest against the low wage scale
of Works Progress Administration.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
Work On, Slaves

There ought to be a law against
it-a' law to protect all the wage
slaves dixie RR) who must go on
doing daily duties regardless of the
call OF spring and piscatorial pur-
suits. Louise Marable started all
this, merely by driving down the
street. RR will take an oath, how
ever, that there were couple OF
fishing poles sticking out one win
dow of the heavily loaded sedan
Maybe she " asn't going any place,
but she certainly made RR wish
that he was
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16

pected to flow in during the first
quarter of the year, internal Off
Gals said They believe the entire
quarterly payments, based on $377,-
538,583 collected during the cores
Continued on Page 2; Col. -
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
Turing Seasons

Sure sign of spring: Dan West,
county assessor collector, has aban-
doned his winter suspenders and
taken snappy pair of pale green
ones, to his heart.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
Last Minute
Flashes!
MYSTERIOUS MURDER
DISCOVERED IN l.. A.

DIStoNE hED I'm Il. n.
LOS ANGELES, March i6. tU,P)
The body of middle-aged
man, fully dressed and with
gaping wound in the skull. was
found today, srrawled across the
bed in a So. Flower street hotel
room. He was identified as
Anthony +. Doher'g, AZ, a rosary
bead salesman.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-16
Present, Arms

Ell Centrans, it would seem, are
taking this war talk seriously RR
encountered a strange bit of drill
ing gCing on in the city early the
other day, a type that would evoke
roars from an army sergeant. A
filling station attendant at Sixth
and Main street with broom in
hand went through the Manual
of Arms, with appropriate gestures,
for the amusement of group o.
early risers across the street.