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Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22

TO ~. Five neat deatnS were re-
corded in Mexicali Tuesday, one
of them being an unidentified
white man.
Prostrations caused by excessive
heat are becoming increasingly
common because of the unpre-
cedented length of the present
heat wave. The sufferers are
rushed to cooler climates or re-
vived in hospitals. The symptoms
of heat prostration and shock are
so we'll known among valley resi-
dents that first aid frequently is
administered with effect by those
present when collapse occurs.
Temperatures az neon Wednes-
day reached 112 degrees with the
humidity registering %, according
to Howard Emmons, government
weather observer in Ell Centro. The
temperature at 5 o'clock Tuesday
night was one degree higher than
at noon Wednesday, 113 degrees.
The humidity also was one point
higher, "a. The minimum temper
ature Tuesday was 81 degrees.
James Gray, 60, of 1895 G street,
Brawley, died at an early hour
Wednesday morning as a result OF
heat attack. An unidentified
man between SIS and go years of
age died in BraWley Tuesday after
noon. Officers said he had only
one arm and was heavily tattooed.
A. Tegan, who had been employ
ed at the David H. Ryan construc-
ton camp near Andrade died en-
route to a Yuma hospital early
wednesday after a heat stroke.
The white man who died in the
Mexicali Jail Tuesday was known
only as Johnny at a Japanese
ranch where he was employed As
miles below the line. Imperial
county officers were attempting to
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Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22

BERKELEY, July %. WR)-Henry
Field. 4, grandson of an Iowa mil
lionaire, missing since last Friday,
when he was taken from a day
nursery here under mysterious cir
cumstances, is believed to have been
kidnapped, according to report to
police today by his father, Philip
Field, dean of the School OF Bus
mess Administration at Heald Col
lege, Oakland.
The boy, according to the father,
was taken from the nursery in the
Berkeley Whittier school by wom-
an who told attendants she was
the mother of the child, Mrs. Jean
Grant Field, of Ames, Iowa, his
estranged wife.
He admitted that he and his wife
were separated but declared their
relations were very friendly and he
was convinced that she would not
take the child in that manner with
out notifying him.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
JUDGE HOLDS
OFF DECISION
UNTIL LATER
District Demurrer
Will Be Upheld
Is Belief

Southern Sierras Power
company attorneys fought a
losing battle in superior
court here Wednesday morn
ing when Judge Fletcher
Bowron, assigned here from Los
Angeles. indicated that only
mass of new authorities cited by
the power company can prevent
him from sustaining the demur-
rer of the Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict to the Southern Sierras lat
est complaint.
A decision was promised We'd
nesday afternoon after Attorney
Ross T. Hickcox, representing the
power company, pleaded for ad-
ditional time in which to- obtain
and cite authorities in an attempt
to prove that the court has juris-
dicion to enforce California rail-
road commission rulings.
The power company's suit seeks
an injunction to prevent the dis
trict from continuing to distribute
municipal power in the Brawley
area, charging that the districts
lines are too close to those of the
Southern Sierras, thus violating
a railroad commission rule. A
temporary injunction is sought in
Wednesdays hearing, pending fl
nal trial of the suit.
Chief Counsel Harry w. Horton
of the irrigation district charged
during the morning session that
the suit is nothing but an attempt
to delay the peoples power pro-
gram in Imperial Valley.
The morning session was given
over to a hearing on the districts
demurrer, prepared by Horton and
George Kirk, his assistant. 1t con-
tends, among other things, that
the court has no jurisdiction. Judge
BoWron, in recessing the morning
session, remarked that he is in
clined to agree with counsel for
the district.
Court room observers saw In
this a fortnight indication that
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Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
CIT RUS BELT
STRIKERS co
BACK TO JOB
Union Heads Claim
Walkout Still
In Effect

SANTA ANA, Cal, July
%. (UP) - The Orang e
county citrus strike was
quiet today, with growers
reporting that many MeXi-
cans were returning to work and
labor union officials renewing ef-
forts to win union recognition
from packing house managers.
William Velarde, president of
the Mexican agricultural workers
union, said that crops are rotting
in the groves because the strike
was 80 per cent effective. He de-
clared not more Than 200 strike
breakers are at work and most
of them don't know how to pick
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
MAYER TO HEAD
JEWISH COLONY

HOLLYWOOD. July %. UP)-
Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro
Goldwyn- Mayer Studios, has agreed
to take over the temporary chair
manship of a project to remove be-
tween 100000 and 100000 Jews in
anti-semitic countries to Cuba, Rep.
w. I. Sirovich of New York in
formed the United Press today.
Sirovich, who came to Hollywood
to organize support for the move
ment, said an organization meeting
would be held here tomorrow night
at which time plans would be dis
cussed to form a permanent COM
mittee and to raise the necessary
funds.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
PAYS
ANNUAL RENTAL
ON TAX LANDS

The Imperial Irrigation district
will pay to the state $500 as an
annual rental for country lands to
which the state holds tax deed, 1t
was agreed Tuesday with Ray L..
Riley, state controller.
The rental agreement does not in
clude property within the incor-
porated areas in the district.
Last year the district collected
$4,000 in rentals from tax decided
property but a state law which
went into effect last fall. provided
that the state collect the rentals
when the state holds tax deed. A.
H. Kellar of El Centre was appointed
by the state to collect the rentals.
Riley wrote Kellar regarding the
agreement with the district and the
district board approved the agree
ment.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
JUDGE EXPECTS
TOWNSEND WILL
REMAIN DOCILE

CLEVELAND, July %. UD -
Judge Samuel E. Kramer, before
whom DR.. Francis E. Townsend
was brought when he attempted
to walk out of an Ohio court, was
confident today that the founder
of old age revolving pensions would
not be absent without leave when
examination on a demand for re-
ceivership of his organization re-
sumes August II.
The aging head of OAR.P., who
walked out on the Bell committee
of the house of representatives,
took another walk late yesterday.
He became indignant when an
attorney questioned him about pills.
A few moments later, however,
he was taken to common pleas
courtroom, quite willing to testify.
His arrest was effected after a fast
taXicab chase that ended when the
doctors automobile was overhauled
at an intersection as it sped toward
Erie, Pa, where DR.. Townsend had
a speaking engagement.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
LONG SESSION
EXPECTED FOR
PEACE PARLEY

Copyright, 1886, by United Press
WASHINGTON, July %. W,P) -
The forthcoming all American
peace conference at Buenos Aires,
suggested by President Roosevelt to
work out ways and means for
strengthening the peace machinery
of this hemisphere, appeared today
destined to. become a long-drawn-
out affair.
The final draft of the agenda for
that conference, revealed exclusive
ly to United Press, proposes dis
cussion of a multitude of subjects
ranging all the way from peace
measures which would weld the
American nations into a sort of
league of American nations" to
juridician and economic questions
which might we'll be considered at
an American economic conference.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
VETERANS CCC
RULES ALTERED
IN ENROLMENT

Enrolment in the veterans con-
tingent of the Civilian Conserva-
ton Corps recently was extended
to July 81, and it was made un-
necessary for the applicant to
have been receiving relief.
In order to be eligible a veteran
must have served the United
States in time of war and received
an honorable discharge from the
service, according to w. S. Filter,
head of the State Relief admins
tration in Imperial county. If the
veteran has had previous service
in the CCC, year must have
elapsed since he was honorably
discharged therefrom.
Fitzer declared the veterans con-
tingent of the CCC offered unem-
ployed veterans a splendid OPP
prtunity to rehabilitate them
selves.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22

OTSdIllZdLlOtlS VI ally SOII, III dill Cl-
fort to overawe the left wing labor
union men whose militia has fought
side by side with loyal soldiers and
police.
Francois orders was flashed from
the broadcasting station at Seville,
the rebels general headquarters in
the south, by Gen. Queipo De Llano,
commanding in the area, in Frances
name.
The other marked a new turn
in the rebellion as fighting became
general, and increasingly fierce,
throughout Spain. The revolt was
assuming the proportions of a civil
war.
Francois DEGREES struck to the
heart of the situation. They were
the formal announcement to the
country as a whole of the aim of
the revolt-a steel army dictator
ship and removal of the increasing
ly great power of the left wing
political and labor elements.
In city, town and village rebel
army men and faSciSts fought loyal
troops, police, storm guards, civil
guards and workers militia. The
issue remained in doubt.
Rebels held the north from the
bay of Biscay to the Valladolid-
zaragoza line, 80 miles north of
Madrid. They were spreading their
gains over the north. The rebels
were losing strength in the south
which they still held
The rebels apparently controlled
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
CURE FOR FLU
DISCOVERED is
CLAIM OF PAIR

CAMBRIDGE. Mass, July %. U.P)
Two Harvard university scientists
announced today they have dis
covered a means of killing influ-
enza germs by violet ray and hope
eventually to perfect a technique
that will remove the disease from
among mans major scourges.
DR.. w. F.. Wells, an instructor in
sanitary science at the Harvard
School of Public Health, and DR.. H.
w. Brown of the London School of
Tropical Medicine have been work.
ing a year on the experiments, us
ing a specially constructed, her
metically- sealed tank.
Influenza virus from the lungs OF
an infected ferret were sprayed in
to the tank, then drawn off in test
tubes.
Ferrets given the treated virus
failed to contact the disease, while
those that breathed the untreated
virus Immediately developed inllu-
enZa.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
HEAT DISSIPATED:
DROUGHT HANGS on

ing winds and scattered showers,
the drought clung. Kansas was
faced with one of the worst short
ages of surface water in her his
tory. The corn crop is gone un-
less pouring rains come.
Dallas, Tex, where the great blast
of chill air swept at a Camille an
hour pace after striking across the
middle of the continent, repaired
$1,O0O,000 damage. Temperatures
rose there after a record breaking
drop.
Cooling winds moved tod ay
toward the hottest spots in the
southwest, southern Oklahoma,
northern Texas and southern Ar
kansas.
Temperatures in the COS were
Continued on Page 2; Col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
SECRET INDICTMENT
RETURNED IN THEFT
NEW STEVEDORE
SCHEDULE MAY
BE DEMANDED

SAN FRANCISCO, July %. UR)-
Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast district
and local president of the Inter
national Longshoremen's association,
said today that longshoremen were
considering demanding increased
wages before they sign new con-
tracts with ship owners next Sep
tember.
The longshoremen will take a
referendum next week on this and
the question of uniform working
conditions for the coast, he said,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
POWER FIRM
SEEN BEHIND
new PROTEST
Hewes Declares GoU.
Johnson MisIed
By Stories

The protest of Governor
Ed O. Johnson of Colorado
against the Imperial Irriga-
tion Districts power pro-
gram is doubtless the result
OF misinformation given the gov
ernor by sympachizers or officials
of the Southern Sierras Power
company, but presents the strong
est argument for development OF
municipal power on the All Amer
ican canal, Chairman Evan t.
Hewes of the district board de-
clared Wednesday.
ut Ohe protest is an acknowl-
edgement that the district can gen.
crate and distribute power from
the All American canal cheaper
than Boulder Dam power can be
brought into the area to be served
by the canal" Hewes pointed out.
Gov. johnson protested that addi-
tional power plants in California
would underSell Boulder Dam pow
er, endangering repayment of cost
of Boulder Dam.
HeWes statement follows:
"Goyernor JohnSon's letter to
Governor Blood and his protest
to Secretary Ickes is no doubt the
result of misinformation given him
by sympathizers or officials of the
Southern Sierras Power company
and. constitutes the strongest en-
dorsement of the power program
of the Imperial irrigation district
which the people of Imperial Ir-
rigation District could possibly
have. 1t is an acknowledgment
that the district can generate and
distribute power from the All Am
Continued on Page 2, Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
CATTLE DRIVE
LAST OF KIND

Stafford, Ariz., July %. U,P)-
What may be the last of the old
time trail drives" in the west will
be started tomorrow when the
Double Circle ranch herds $500
beeves to market.
Driven by Is "top hands, the
cattle were expected to reach the
Gila river about noon tomorrow,
and the Calva rail station 40 miles
west of Stafford later in the day.
George Jones, ranch foreman, said
he was informed several newsreel
companies would film the drive,
the last to be made by the Double
Circle, the only big Arizona cattle
outfit to use the old method.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
4YEAR-OLD BOY FEARED VICTIM
OF KIDNAPPING PLOT AT BERKELEY

j. A. Greening, chief of police
here, indicated today he believed
the boy had been kidnapped and
records showed he had sent an
official report to the department of
justice headquarters at San Fran
cisco requesting j. A. fisherman,
aeent-in-charge, to take up the in
Vestigation.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
Political Rally
Set For Holtuille

Second of a series of meetings
arranged throughout the county by
the Imperial County Republican
assembly, will be held Thursday
night at 8 o'clock in the city park
at Holtville.
All candidates for office, regard
less of party, may speak at these
meetings, according to Harvey Has
tain, Brawley. president of the as
sembly. Position of candidates on
the speaking list is decided by lot
Immediately prior to each meet
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
WITNESSES TESTIFY
IN PRORATE CASE

LOS ANGELES, July %. WR)--
A dozen witnesses paraded be-
fore Superior Judge William j.
Palmer i'm the lemon pr0-rate
test case today and offered testi-
mOny, tending to show the need
for control of the citrus industry
as proposed by CALIFORNIA; Lit
tie AAA."
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22

KANSAS CITY, Mo, July %.
The parched southwest today was
promised another "a hours of re
spite from soaring heat that
plagued the section for more than
a month.
After today, temperatures prob
ably will flirt with the 100 mark.
Weather officials were confident,
however, the worst of the heat was
past.
AS the heat drove on before cool
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
TRUCK DRIVER
BURNED TO DEATH

LOS ANGELES, July 22. lURl--
Shrieking an angOnized Good
bye Marie" to his wife who h
somewhere in Utah, a truck driy-
er tentatively identified as Tiny"
Wheeler OF Las Vegas. New was
burned 10 death today when his
refrigerator truck crashed into
an oil truck eight miles west Of
Puente.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
Enskip Succumbs
To Crash Injury

Bell Enskip, 55-year-old Ell Cen
tro resident, died in a San Diego
hospital Tuesday as a result of in
juries suffered in an automobile
accident at Lemon Grove.
A car driven by Enskips son-in-
law, John Rostick, and in which
Enskip was a passenger, overturned
when a rear tire blew out.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
MAJOR LEAGUE
-SCOR ES-

NATIONAL
Cincinnati .O01 001 050-7 6 l
Boston ......... POI 600 001-4 IL >
Derringer. Brennan and Lom-
bardi; Chaplin. Timing and Lopez.
Chicago .010 200 000-3 7 .
Brooklyn oil 900 000-2 8 0
French and Hartnett; Mungo and
Berres
Pittsburgh -. .oo4 900 OOO14 10 o
Philadelphia .425 POI LIKE 19 0
Brown, Welch, Birkhofer, Weaver
and Padden; Bowman and Atwood.
st, Louis .......0 600 200 000-2 10 0
New York .....110 200 40X-S s
Earnshaw and V. Davis; Gabler
and Mancuso.
90
AMERICAN
washington ,........O oil 90
Chicago ............. 900 OF
Whitehill and Bolton; whitehead
and Sewell.
New York ..........0
st, Louis .............,0
Hadley and Dickey; Andrews and
Guiliani.
Philadelphia %. .OO3 O4O OOO-7 18 o
Detroit .....,..41 410 600 010-6 II 0
Fink and Hayes; Auker, Phillips
and Hayworth.
Boston .............. 900 o
Cleveland ...........,02 022 0
w. Ferrell, Russell and r. Ferrell;
Allen and Pytlak.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22

rant was said TO have been issued
for Testers arrest and bail set for
S2500. -.-
A superior court jury acquitted
Lester last week of five counts of
embezzlement.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22

Principal witnesses called before
the grand jury in the second in
quiry were T. d. Plumer, commits
sioner of finance of Santa Monica,
and Ralph Kreuger, deputy city
clerk.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
Last Minute
Fl SH ES
STRIKES CONTINUE
IN FRANCE

PARIS, July %. W.p)-Sporadic
strikes continued in France to-
day as left wing workers ssrove
to keep alive the "standstili"
movement for better wages and
working conditions.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
HEAT DEATH
TOLL RIS IS
TO 10 HER {
Three More Lives Claimed From Valley
By Prolonged High Temperatures
Accompanied by Humidity
On-

Heat continued to take its toll of human life in Impe
rial Valley with the temperature of 119 degrees in Ell
Centro Tuesday establishing the high mark for the
and also the high point since 1884 Three victims were
added to the seasons tragic total Wednesday to bring it
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
Convention Echoes

Convention Echoes
Who was the Ell Centro Elk who
got lost-well. maybe he was lost
in Los Angeles during the recent
Elks national convention? The ant
Tered lodge member wandered from
the fold and turned up on Central
avenue. where he spent all avail
able cash before returning to the
hotel, there to cash a check and
hasten back to Central avenue.
Back on the scene, he ordered three
chicken dinners, but before they
were served he decided he didn't
like chicken, SO walked out. There
after he came under the kindly eye
of Los Angeles police, who gave him
official escort back to his hotel,
where he spent the night These
conventions! Tsk! Tsk!
Summer Resort Styles
S. P. Williams should be in top
shape for, if and when there's a
six day bicycle race in these parts.
Pete has developed the habit of dis
turbing the ground squirrels and
jackrabbits in the vicinity of Pine
Valley by whirling up hill and down
dale astride his wheeled We
hicle. His garb consists of pair
of shorts, a pair of sneakers and a
tan which has the appearance OF
bordering on sunburn.
O.
ANYWAY, Thanks
RR hates to do this-the night
editor being SO hard to get along
with already-but Mrs. P. A. Thaa-
NUNS telephone message really de
serves some recognition, even
though the ne. doesn't, Several
weeks ago, it seems, the ne. COM
piled very graciously with Mrs.
Thaanum's request to find out and
advise her of the whereabouts OF 4
fire in the mountains, reporting to
her relief that it was a good 4O
miles from her mountain nome
Wednesday Mrs. Thaanum, back in
town for the first time since then
telephoned to express her apprecla-
ton for the service rendered by the
ne. Now, if he'd only treat RR
that way, this column would join
in thanking him.
And BY The Way
What was Mark MCGEE doing last
Sunday when he was seen strolling
through the Pine Valley timber belt
armed only with a screw drVerP
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
Tenderfeet Escape
Death From Blazing
Sun on Ariz. Desert
Missouri Couple MarOoned in Cnder Beds Near
Flagstaff Rescued by Passing MOtOrist
While Wandering AfOOt ON Road

FLAGSTAFF Ariz., July %. (UP)-Mr and Mrs
Leonard Johnson of Kansas City, No. resumed their
on trip today after brush with death from heat and
thirst the desolate cnders bed here Early Sun
day they left here to view the cnder beds in Sunset Crater
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
NAVY MAY RESUME
EUROPEAN SQUADRON
American Warships May be Maintained in Waters
Near Continent Because of Continued
Unsettled Political Situation

WASHINGTON, July NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
European squadron of the u S. Navy to be maintained
permanently in European waters foreseen by Secre
tary of State Corde Hull today possibility
suit general conditions in Europe Prior to 1929 the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
Santa Monica License Clerk Hunted on
Bench Warrant Issued Following
Grand Jury Investigation

LOS ANGELES July %. (UP)-The county grand
jury, terminating two-day investigation of the office
of John S. Lester deputy Santa Monica license clerk to-
day returned Indictment repeatedly charging DC
counts of embezzement of public funds. A bench war.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
SIERRAS FACES
LOSS III COURT
Army Dictatorship
Setup Proclaimed
BY Spanish Rebels
RevOlutiOnst Chief DEGREES Disbanding of AL
Worker Groups; Civil Warfare Sends Death
Total SkyrOcketng to New Records
Copyright 1886 by United Press

LISBON, Portugal July %. (UP)-Gen Francisco
Franco commander in chief of the Spanish rebel forces
proclaimed today military dictatorship throughout the
country He decreed also the dissolution of all workers
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22

an extinct volcano. Their auto
mobile stalled in the cinders and
they started walking back toward
Flagstaff, without water and under
a hot desert sun.
They were rescued at sundown by
passing motorists and brought here,
where they were under physi-
clans care for two days for heat
exhaustion and Sunburn.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22

And BY The Way
What was Mark MCGEE doing last
Sunday when he was seen strolling
through the Pine Valley timber belt
armed only with a screw drverP
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
MARKETS AN DRIEF

Buffers Los Angeles 37ci butter
Tat, Imperial valley Lob. ranch,
Grnde a. 451Rc; mnnufn curing milk,
4Oci route gathered cream. 37c.
l.. 4. hay-U. =. No. I. extra ieafy,
SIS; 4. :. No. l. S15-15.5O; 4. :. No.
leafy. SI1-I4.5O; u. =. No. 2, 1880
Il; Minneapolis flax 203-2O0.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
BANK DEBTS

Today
S317,O32.1s
BUILDING PERMITS
S121,S45
TIE Date This Year
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-05
Vegetables

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5. UP)-
Demand and trading continued slow
in most lines with supplies moder-
ate to liberal and prices barely
steady.
punched Vegetables: Following
prices per crate: Beets $4,000, carrots
fancy 75-90c; Dixon 40-50c; green
onions best $1.00-1.25; Kohl Rabi
$4,000; leeks 1890; mustard 20-25c;
oyster plant 60-75c; parsley Assoc;
radishes, small red Assoc; spinach
50-65c; turnips 35-45c; Coachella
Valley spinach best $4,000; water
Lettuce: Imperial valley dry pack
doz. best mostly 75-80c; doz.
mostly 60-65c crate.
Peas Carpinteria pole &c, San
Diego Co. pole, fair quality 5-5hc,
San Diego Co. bush A Rc; Coach
ella Valley 5-5hc; San Pedro 5-5 u c ;
local, ordinary 3-3 II C; few sc; Imper-
ial Valley. ordinary 3-3 hc, Ventura
Co. 4-4iac.
Squash: Imperial Valley 20-lb.
flats White Summer $1.25-1.50; A.
hask crates $1.50-1.65; Italian 20-lb.
flate $1.15-1.25, 4-bask crates $3.50
1.65; San Diego Co. Tugs White Sum
mer S5-$1.00; Italian, dark $1.50-l.65.
9-tops mostly $500, .12-tops mostly
$500 for best, los, best $1.4O-1. so;
Imperial Valley Stops $1.75-2.OO; rs
$1.75-1.S5; los $1.35-1.50. San Diego
Co. Jack o'Hearts, Stops $1.40-1.50,
$1.35-15O, SKIS $1.15-1.25, Mexico
boat stock, originals, 6X6s and larg-
er, $1.65 lug; stripped 7-7hc, Cuba
stripped, fair quality SIC.