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Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19


ternoon and Sunday.
The same low hanging clouds
which boosted humidity figures to
new heights threatened to make
the anticipated storm a reality.
Fully half of the valleys popula-
ton, however, had fled by late
Saturday to coast and mountain
resorts for the weekend.
A wind storm which drove fine
dust into valley homes Friday
night brought no permanent re-
lief. Maximum wind velocity was
81 miles an hour. 1t was foil owed
by rain at a. m. Saturday, when
humidity was 81 and the temper
ature about 81 degrees.
Official temperatures at noon
Saturday in Ell Centro hovered
round the los mark with humidity
registering 38. The minimum tenn
perature for Saturday was ST, &C.
cording to Howard Emmons, gov
ernment weather observer.
The maximum temperature Fri
day was 116 degrees. 1t was three
degrees less at 5 o'clock Friday
afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
DATE SET FOR
HEARING INTO
TEST OF AAA

SAN FRANCISCO, July 18. U.R)
The state supreme court today
set September l for nearing on an
alternative writ Of prohibition
granted A. A. Brock, state director
of agriculture, against the Los
Angeles superior court which had
granted six citrus shippers tempo
rary Injunction to prevent Brock
from enforcing provisions OF the
states AAA of 1885.
Representatives OF the shippers
were to be in court that date to
show cause why the writ should
not be made permanent. The case
has aroused widespread interest be-
cause it is direct test of Califor-
MAS little AAA," which the ship
pers charge is "unduly discrimin-
atory."
Brock applied for the writ af-
ter the shippers had been success
full in blocking the AAA in the Los
Angeles court.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19

J. R. Lloyd of the Chicago weather
bureau reported.
1T will be awfully hot again in
the plains states," Lloyd said but
most of the drought belt will have
at least temporary relief"
Lloyd forecast local thunderstorms
tonight or tomorrow in Illinois, In
diana, northwestern Missouri, and
southeastern Iowa.
Sections which probably will re-
ceive life-giving rain this afternoon
or tonight include southern Wis
consin, southeastern Minnesota,
northeastern and southwestern Iowa
and northwestern Missouri.
Two hours of rain pelted down
on parched fields at Harvard, ILL.,,
near the Wisconsin line, early to-
day. Cloudy skies indicated more
would fall during the day.
Madison, Wis, had "a of an inch
of rain and Charles City, Iowa, "a.
Rain fell for 30 minutes at En-
metsburg, Iowa, dropping the tenn
perature from lot to rs degrees.
"The rains were more or less 10
cal,' Lloyd said, but some places
got enough to help a great deal.
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JAMES AWAITS
END OF TRIAL
IN JAIL CELL

LOS ANGELES, July 18. U.P)-
Robert S. James sweltered in his
county Jail cell today awaiting re-
sumption of final arguments Mon
day as his trial on murder charges
in connection with the rattlesnake
death of his seventh wife neared
an end.
The state ended rebuttal testi-
mony a few hours before the week
end adjournment and Deputy Dis
trict Attorney John Barnes began
summing up the prosecutions case
against the red-haired barber.
While the youthful states at
torney began characterizing the
barber as "a soullesS fiend-a
conScienceless murderer" James
sat between his battery OF attor-
neys reading a pamphlet on
snakes.
Barnes not only accused James
of numbering his seventh wife,
Mrs. Mary Busch James. but also
charged him with Staying his
third wife, Winona Wallace James,
near Colorado Springs, Colo, four
years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
SCHOOL BUILDS
FOR NEW PUPILS
FROM LINCOLN

Alterations totaling $1,000 will be
made to the Harding school build
ing in Ell Centre in order to make
room for some of the pupils from
Lincoln school. School board mem
bers decided not to use Lincoln
school because it was declared to
be unsafe in the event a certain
type of earthquake should occur in
this area.
The addition of the $1,000 per-
nit issued to the school district,
brought the annual building per
nit total in Ell Centre to $121 ,420.
Alterations to provide accommo-
dationS for other Lincoln school
pupils are underway at Wilson
school and Mckinley school also
will be pressed into service to pro
vide shelter for the children from
Lincoln.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
FEDERAL fund.
AVAILABLE TO
BUY FEEDERS
Valley Farmers May
Purchase Cattle
For Feeding

Federal loans will be made
to Imperial Valley farmers
who have available feed but
no money to purchase feed
er cattle from the drought
areas of the nation.
Farmers who have feed now or
who can lease the necessary land,
thus will be eligible for the gov
ernment loans, according to in
formation received Saturday by
B. A. Harrigan, Imperial county
agricultural commissioner.
Cattle from the burned out re-
gions will be shipped to the farm
ers who buy them with money
provided by the government and
they will be fattened in the fields
of the valley.
Details of the proposed transac-
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Comfortable Death
Try Almost Fatal

LOS ANGELES, July 18. U.R-
Rudolph Willis Van Raven, 63,
despondent to the point of suicide,
nearly landed himself in the
morgue prematurely today because
of his effort to die in comfort.
He drank an overdose Of Sleep
ing potion, turned on an electric
fan, and lay down to die with
the cool blast blowing over him.
A policeman felt the body, found
it cold, and started to call the
coroner when the Corpse moan
ed and stirred.
"I was suffering from the heat
Van Raven explained, land thought
at least 1 might die in comfort" +"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19

mlUUeQ. HunlOTS ClTCuldJeu illouSIl-
out Europe indicated that the rebel
movement might be on large
scale.
An almost impenetrable censor
ship blanketed the country. Tele-
phones, cables, all means of COM
munication were rigidly controlled.
The Spanish embassy here tried all
night to reach Madrid by telephone
and failed.
Throughout Europe interest in
the situation grew more intense
with the hours. 1t was the latest
drama in the fight, too young to be
history, that affects hundreds of
millions of ordinary people in Eur
ope between the left and right wings
in politics = Fascism, Communism
Nazism, Socialism, hardening, grow
ing more bitter every day.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
THOMAS TELLS
OARP PLAN IS
NOT WORKABLE

PUBLIC HALL, CLEVELAND,
July 10. W.P)-Socialist presidential
candidate Norman Mattoon Thomas
today reaped repeated choruses of
"boos" from delegates to the Town
send clubs second annual conven-
tion when he appeared on the plat
form and bluntly told them their
$200-a month pension plan would
not work. But he was given an ova-
tion when he finished.
Thomas smashed at Father
Charles E. Coughlin and protested
the priests bitter reference here to
President Roosevelt as a liar"
81 know how to make speeches
you would like" Thomas shouted as
"boos" or stony silence demonstrat-
ed disagreement between himself
and his audience. But I am not
going to do it,"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
HEALD RETURNS
FROM CAMPAIGN
STAY ON COAST

District Attorney Elmer Heald,
candidate for congress on the Re
publican ticket, returned from San
Diego Friday night after looking
after his campaign in the coast pre-
cinctS for several days.
Headquarters for the Heald-For-
Congress organization recently were
opened at 405 c street in San Diego
with Glenn Tucker, manager of the
Phil Swing campaign, in charge.
A countrywide Heald-For Con-
gress club will be organized in San
Diego Monday.
Heald said he is trying to contact
San Diego residents personally but
remarked that the best work is be-
ing done by his friends among their
relatives and friends in San DIEGO
county.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
OLD SCANDAL.
TO Be AIRED
AT HEARINGS
Charges to Be Made
At Grand Jury
Sessions

SACRAMENTO, July IS.
(UP)-Indictments against
several principals in a state
liquor enforcement scandal
were expected today follow
ing announcement of the repre-
sentatives of the Los Angeles
county district attorneys office
that charges will be pressed against
persons who have testified in a
grand jury investigation of assert
ed administration Irregularities in
the southern city.
Eugene U. Blalock and George
Stahlman, deputy district attorneys
from Los Angeles who conferred
here with Otis Babcock, Sacra-
mento district attorney, indicated
their county would take up the
trial of the purported graft and
corruption uncovered in Oakland
recently.
Mrs. Helen tQueen Helen) Wer-
ner, potent figure in state politics
and her lawyer husband will be
among the witnesses who will be
called to testify in the Los Angeles
investigation, Blalock and Stahl-
man indicated.
THE further we go into this
investigation the more We are con-
vinced that corruption existed in
the board of equalization's admin
istration of the liquor laws" Stahl-
man said.
Three men, two of them former
agents of the beard. were indicted
Continued on Page 2; Col. 81
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ITALIANS DOWN
MINOR REVOLTS
AMONG TRIBES
Copyright. 1886. BY United Press

Copyright, 1886, BY United Press
Adds ABABA, July 18. U.R)-
italian soldiers are ruthlessly crush
ing small, infrequent uprisings of
Ethiopian warriors.
These uprisings have recently
caused the more timid foreign res
identS to seek refuge at the lega-
tionS of their countries.
Disorders are attributed to drunk
enness among natives. which is re
garded as inevitable during the
present rains that turn the soil in
to thick mud almost of the consist
ency of glue and make impossible
normal activities.
The situation seems improving
day by day. There are no organ
lied Ethiopian soldiers in the vicin-
ity of Adds Ababa.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
HIGHWAY HOTEL
SERVES WOMAN

Ell Centre police and California
Highway patrolmen rushed to a
point on the San Diego highway
mile and a half west of Ell Centre
Friday night to rescue a woman ly
ing on the highway in front of an
automobile.
The officers found feminine au-
tomobile traveller peacefully sleeping
in the open air in front of her
parked machine. She was left to
return to her nap. Officers said
they did not have the heart to make
her move on even if she was using
the road for a hotel
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
LOCAL VETERAN
HURT In CRASH

Paul David Reagan of 462
Brighton street, was severely in
iured in an automobile accident at
st. George, Utah, Friday, according
to a telephone message from the
sheriffs department in the Utah
city. Reagan, a World war veteran,
is not expected to live.
After receiving his bonus, Reagan
left for Detroit to buy new auto
mobile. Details of the accident
were not available here.
The Utah officers were told to
communicate with the soldiers hos
pital at Sawtelle, where Reagan
had been a patient at one time.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
SIERRA NEVADA
RAILS DAMAGED

SODA SPRINGS, Cal, July 18.
WP)-Full train service of Southern
Pacific trains over the Sierra New
ada Summit was resumed early to-
day when $50 workmen constructed
a single track through the area
four miles west of Soda Springs
where $50 feet of double-track snow
shed burned last night.
The westbound mail train and
two sections of the Overland Limit
ed, held up in Truckee all night by
the fire and damage to the road,
proceeded west at a. m. over the
temporary track. The eastbomd
overland was delayed nearly three
hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
SPECIAL SAFE
HOLDS RADIUM

LOS ANGELES, July 18. WP)-
A speck of radium scarcely big
as a pin head but worth $4,000,
was placed today in a special TOO
pound safe at the General hos
pital.
The foot-square safe is built
with walls of lead three inches
thick to hold in the radiums pow
erful rays when it is not in use.
A tw0-inch thick lead shield and
work bench weighing $40 pounds
were constructed to protect work.
ers while the radium is out Of
the safe.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
Gayle Townsend
Funeral Service
Held in Glendale

Funeral services for Miss Gayle
Townsend, II, who died in a Glen
dale hospital recently. were con
Quoted there late this week. Miss
Townsend lived in Imperial Valley
several years and attended the I'M
perial schools.
She was graduated from the FL
Monte Union high school last
month. A car she was driving in
the yard at her home. collided with
a post. Miss Townsend suffered a
severe chest injury which ultimate.
ly caused her death.
She is a sister of Mrs. Irene VAR
ney. Mrs. Perry Hardin and Miss
Cletis Townsend. all residents of Ell
Centro
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
HUMIDITY THREATENS STORM
N. c. BELLBOY
BLAMED FOR
GIRL ATTACK

ASHEVILLE, N. c., July Is.
WP)-Police accused a quaking,
27-year- old bellb0y today of the
rape and murder of blonde and
beautiful Helen Clevenger, 49,
yearold New York University
honor student. ..
The Negro, who worked i'm the
hotel where Miss Clevenger was
attacked, slain and mutilated
Thursday morning, was arrested
shortly before midnight. His
name was given as Joe Urey.
Police Capt. T. C. Robinson
said detectives found blood
stained shirt in his home. State
chemists began an examination
to determine whether the blood
was human.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
COUNTY SUED
BY RIVERSIDE
IN SIGN ROW
Tourist Billboard's S
Removal Asked
In Suit

Imperial county is made
defendant in a suit brought
by Riverside county to de-
mand immediate removal of
the highway dirctional sign
board at the junction of highways
60 and SO near Mecca.
Robert w. Ware, sheriff of I'M
perial county, was ordered to
serve the complaint upon 1. Schlat-
ter, chairman of the Imperial
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COUNTY
OPEN NEW DEPOSIT

Imperial county was forced by
the Public Works Administration
to place $2O,080.45 in a separate
bank account credited to the Braw-
ley school district before the gov
ernment would grant the sum
agreed to help construct the new
school in the north end city.
This is the first time the county
as sponsor of PWA project had
been forced to open separate oc-
count to handle the funds to be
used in any federal project, ac-
cording to Charles G.. Halliday,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
FRENCH NAVY SHOOTS AT BLAZE
BUT HITS CITY AS SHIP BURNS

SAINT TROPEz, France, July 18
W,P)-The navy last night sought to
extinguish fire aboard the Chilean
yacht Hippocampe by destroying it
with gunfire, but missed the yacht
entirely and bombarded the city
AS flames threatened to spread
from the Hippocampe to numerous
other yachts, the craft was towed
out into the basin and the sub
marine Atlante trained her gun ON
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19

deputy district attorney.
Officials of the PWA informed
the county that it was possible to
transfer funds from one account
to the other and would not place
the grant money at the disposal of
the Brawley school district until
after the separate bank account
was opened for the project in the
name of the school district.
In handling county money. Hal
liday said, the law requires 1t to
Continued on Page 2, Col. l.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19

The first shell struck a railroad
track. but fortunately was a dud.
The second, also dud, hit a school
building and buried itself deep in
the wall. The third tore through
the roof of saw mill three miles
away and exploded, wrecking the
plant.
None of the shells hit the yacht.
The submarine then quit firing and
the yacht burned to the water line.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19

eyed pension seekers prancing
down the center aisle waving bills
of many denominations for de-
fense of the cause.
Here's a SO bill,' shouted an
unidentified delegate from Illinois.
1t was tossed into the pot.
The delegates were rallying to
defend DR.. Townsend and their
organization against insurrection-
lists.
81 am going to show that there
is something solid behind your
enthusiasm" whooped the big
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19

Louisiana preacher.
THE newspaper boys have been
telling me that this crowd is
crazy-that 1t cheered me the 9TH
er day when l blasted President
Roosevelt and then 1t cheered
Gomer Smith when he defended
him.
81 am going to show them.
am going to make an experiment.
l am going to ask you to show
what is behind all this-the hun
Continued on Page 2; Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
PLANE CRASH
AT SEA FEARED

VENICE, Cal. July ~. mR--
A craS hat sea was feared today
following the discovery OF the tail
assembly of an airplane washed
up by the surf on the beach here.
The wreckage bore the lettering:
Canadian Airplanes, Ltd, 4
ND1SV."
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19

Walter PhlIHpS, and Jane IyIor,
according to an announcement
made by Guy Weakley, head of
the Ell Centre schools.
Other teachers making up the
Of in the elementary schools
are Jean Angler, Dorothy Arm
strong, Frances Bartee, Birdielee
Bright, BERTHE Caldwell, Mabel
Carberry, Myrtle Comfort, Paul
Cook. Elsie Couch, Lucille Culber-
son. Leo De Celles, Sophia Dun
lap. Nora Epler, George Frink,
GLADYS Gier, Mary Griffin, Nilla
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
ARMY TAKES
GARRISON IN
new UPRISING
90
Mystery Surrounds
Move Against
Fortress
Copyright 1886 by United Press

Copyright 1886 by United Press
MADRID, July 18. (UP)
An army revolt has brok-
en- out in Melilla, most i'm
portant garrison town of
Spanish Morocco across the Medit-
erranean from Spain.
The government has dispatched
land, sea and air forces to- take
the key town. A strict censorship
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19

Harris, Margaret Hedrick, Gladys
Ikenberry, w. A. Jackson, Joseph
ine King, Leonard Knarreborg,
Ruby Lewis, Fannie McCrory, Zen
CHA Payne, Arthur Prince, Ger
trude Reese, Estelle Reid, Emily
Robertson, Ruth Sims, l.. L. Smith,
Mildred Smith, James Sticks, IT.
enc Varney, Eva Walker, Winifred
Wilson.
Miss Edith Eicke again will Off
ciate as school nurse for the dis
trict
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
Lily Armstrong;
Body Sent Here

The body of Lily Armstrong is be-
ing brought from Cleveland, Okla,
to FL Centro for burial, according to
a telegram received from the Chap
man funeral home at Cleveland.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
MILITARY POSTS TAKEN

GIBRALTAR, July Is. W,p)-
Messages from Tangier, French
Morocco, said today that rebel
troops had taken all military
posts in Spanish Morocco.
The advices reported that the
police of Spanish Morocco had
surrendered to the rebels.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
A Correspondent Quits

A Correspondent Quits
Mrs. Margaret Huson, before she
left for the Townsend convention
in Cleveland as one of Imperial
county's delegates, agreed to furnish
the Post-Press any Sidelights she
might run into-S0rt of a cores
pondent- -at-large. Now Mrs. Huson
writes, We'll, it cannot be described
by me. 1t was past belief" She is
speaking of the ovation given Dr.
Francis F.. Townsend by $4,000
cheering delegates. RR has felt the
same way at times.
Strange Articles
whats this? Is it real or coun-
terfeit?"
It was Mrs. Earl Vencill, quizzing
her husband as she handed him
strange and Seldom-seen object -
one of those ancient two dollar bills.
It's been a couple of years since
RR has seen one-but he wouldn't
mind having a flock of them.
O.
May The Best Man Win
A new feud has rifted the peace
of community life, this time starring
o. G. Horne and Warren Currier
in a battle to determine if receipts
from recently donated watermelon
cars shall go entirely to the Boy
Scouts, or. partly to the five or six
agencies which participate in the
Co-ordinating Council, fund raising
agency last fall. Currier champions
the council, while Othneil holds out
for the scouts.
Well, He's Right
Elmer Heald, Imperial county's
diStrict attorney who's got mighty
b chance to be the next con-
gfessman from this district, was in
San Diego when he drove into a
service station. The attendant
glimpsed the Head for Congress"
fAker on his windshield.
You know" he confided to
Elmer, that's mighty good man
you've got there. You sure want
to vote for him"
Elmer finally introduced himself
but the attendant didn't change
his mind.
Believe 1t or Not
One Of RR's friends-yes, believe
it or not--was looking for Evan T.
Hewes office you know, he's
chairman of the Imperial Irrigation
District board The friend passed
the Southern SierraS Power COM
pany office and saw a sign, "Dis-
trict Executive Office" Queer, he
thought, that it should be just there,
but he had an appointment with
Hexes, so in he walked
May l see Mr.. Hewes," he asked
Miss Cletis Townsend. She thought
it was a joke, and not such good
one, either. 1t was not until Miss
Townsend ceased thinking someone
was kidding her, and the friend of
RR got it into his head that it was
the Imperial Valley district office
of the Southern Sierras, that things
we're Strengthened out. Well -
there's a first time for everything.
He was Surprised
Just by way of surprising the
office force, Clarence Hinderks,
chief deputy county clerk, schemed
with Rance Baker for installation
of a cooling system in the clerks
office. The first two days after it
was installed, Clarence came so
near passing out with the heat that
he had to 90 home. You can guess
who was most surprised.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
SPELLBINDERS DIG
UPOARP DONATION
Rev. Gerald Smith Sends Townsend Convention To
Frenzied Pitch in Defense of Founder
Against Attack of Rebel Group

PUBLIC HALL, Cleveland July 18. (UP)-The Rev.
Gerald L. K Smith sweating spebinder of simple words
and homey stores today whipped the second Townsend
Club national convention into fury of enthusiasm and
generosity which sent of old, young and middle
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19

Los ANGELES, July 18. (UD
Extreme temperatures through
out country caused further Sti-
mutation of the demand and
higher prices for Valencia or
anges this week. Volume of sales
will exceed last weeks sales. De-
mand continues strong and mod
crate advances we're made best
stock grapefruit.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
Drouqht Heat Wave
Partly Broken With
Northwest Showers
Plains States Look Forward to Continued Blasts
From Parching Sum- Additional DOwnpOur
Expected i'm Some Territories

CHICAGO, July 49, (UP)-Cooling rain and breezes
from northwestern Canada broke the heat today in
Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota northwestern Iowa
Illinois, Only the plains states of Kansas Nebraska
and Missouri will miss relief the weekend FOrecaster
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
BLOWS
LOW CLOUDS
OVER VALLEY
Residents Trauel to Mountains, Coast 10
Escape Heat of Recent Days In
Desert Territory

Imperial Valley, swelterng under temperature low
than those of other recent days but complicated by
excessive humidity looked forward apprehensivey Sat
urday to weekend of heat which could be relieved only
by storm bringing rain pelting down residents who
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
Nine NEW TEACHERS
GIVEN PLACES HERE

Nine instructors will be included among the 46
teachers the elementary school staff in Ell Centre when
school opens in September The new teachers Flor
aUce Conger Mildred Fluke Carol Hastings, Frances
yebb Ruby Lyons, Isobe Murchson William Powers,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
REVOLT THREATENS
SPANISH LEFT WING
Army Unite Rebel Against Radicals In
Control of Government; Rigid
Censorship Clamped On
Copyright 1896 by United Press

LONDON July 18. (UP)-Long threatened revolt
against the left wing of Spain broke at last
today A rebellion by army units at Meilla across the
Mediterranean from southern Spain, officially ad
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19

one of the most severe ever i'm
Continued on Page 2, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19

The Telephone Number of
Imperial Valleys FaDOrite
Newspaper
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-19
LAST MINUTE
FLASHES
HEAT SENDS
ORANGE PRICES UP

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