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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
MOTHER OF 9
BRINGS SUIT
FOR DIVORCE

Gertie Simon, mother of nine
children ranging in age from to
IA years, filed suit for divorce in
superior court Tuesday against
Martin F. Simon, to whom she has
been married since 1921 She charg-
ed extreme cruelty and obtained a
restraining order to prevent Simon
from molesting her and her chill
dren.
In her complaint, Mrs. Simon
charged her husband with beating
her and the children and with re-
fusal to provide for their support
even though he was capable of
earning a good salary. She had
been forced to appeal to the dis
tfict attorney for protection and to
get her husband to support them.
she said.
Her husband is a trained cleo
trician capable of earning from
500 to $3.50 a month, Mrs. Simon
said, but he prefers to seek work
through the SERA and the PWA
where the wages are lower. Even
these funds, according to the COM
plant, he wasted and gambled
away
She asks a divorce and that her
husband pay the costs of the suit.
She took a pauper's oath before
filing the suit.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
ED GONZALES
FOUND GUILTY
OF ASSAULT

Ed Gonzales, Brawley butcher
and slaughter house employe who
asked for trial without a jury.
Tuesday was found guilty by judge
R. D. McPherrin of assault with
deadly weapon. Sentence will
be pronounced Friday.
The defendant stabbed A. Duron.
clerk in the Molina grocery store
in Brawley, with a skinning knife
after the clerk asked him to leave
the place. Proprietors of the es-
tablishment said they did not
want Gonzales there because they
had missed merchandise following
previous visits, officers said.
District Attorney Elmer Head
represented the state and c. b.
Smith appeared for the defendant.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
NOTED PIONEER
OF VALLEY DIES
IN SAN DIEGO

Funeral services for John Fran
kiln Steintorf, for many yers a
resident of Calexico and a valley
pioneer. will be held Friday after
noon at pm. from Bonham Bros
Mortuary, San Diego, the Rev. joan
Osborn. officiating. Interment will
be in Greenwood Memorial park.
Steintcrf died Monday afternoon
from injuries received in an acct
dent near Pine Valley. He is sur
vived by his wife, Phame Stein
tori of San Diego: two sons, Ar
thur M. Steintorf of Firebaugh,
Calf, and Paul B. Steintorf of
Madison, Kansas; a brother, Bower
M. Steintorf of Lakeside and by
two nieces in the valley, Mrs Ed
gar Mason of this city and Mrs.
Continued on Page 2; Col. .
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17

WILL BUILD
MODEL HOMES

Plans for creating cooperation
to push building activity in Ell Cen
tro were laid at a meeting Monday
night of the Better Housing COM
mittee of the chamber of COM
merce.
From one to four model homes
will be constructed, to illustrate adj
visibility of home construction I'M
der present low prices, with FEEDER
al Housing Act loans. Under the
housing act, loans are made up to
80 per cent of the total construction
cost repayable over 20 years.
The new corporation will not be
in competition with private indus
try, but designed merely to demon
strate building possibilities under
present conditions. Legal details
will be ironed out at a meeting
Thursday night. Members of the
committee are:
M o. King, Warren Currier, John
Tyler, Harold Tyler, Bill Tondro,
w. w. McEuen, Allen Nuffer, Paul
jenkins, Jasper Travers. John
Wells, Cecil Ashley, Everett Minor
and Charles SoneS.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
THIEVES GET
HEAVY JAIL
SENTENCES

Perpetrators of petty thefts in
Brawley and Imperial drew heavy
Jail sentences when they appeared
before justices of the peace for
sentence Monday. Four men found
guilty of petty theft now are serv-
ing sentences in the Imperial
county Jail.
Pete Hernandez and r. Montana,
arrested in Brawley, received long
Jail sentences, Montana 1870 days
and Hernandez 80 days.
Two Negroes, Joe MacMahan
and Wesley Pitts, received six
months Jail sentences imposed in
Imperial justice court for convic-
ton of petty theft.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
D FL T CATION
Will CONFER
In ENGLAND
Nation Assured of
Getting Equal
Treatment

BERLIN, March II. (UP)
Germany today accepted
the invitation Of the league
council to join in its discus
sion of the Rhineland crisis
and will send a delegation to
London which will negotiate SIM
ultaneously with the Locarno pow
ers on Fuehrer Adolf Hitlers peace
proposals.
1t was announced Officially the
German delegates would arrive in
London Thursday.
Official quarters said the coun-
ellis promise that Germany would
be treated equally if it attended
London meetings but like cther
Locarno principles could not vote,
Continued on Page 2; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
MASON TODD
ARRAICNED IN
MURDER CASE
Staying Suspect To
Come Up For
Plea Friday

Mason Todd was arraign-
ed superior court Tuesday
on a murder charge and
Fritay was set as the day
for plea and for argument
upon a motion to fix bail.
The defendant is alleged tc
have confessed the brutal slugging
of Simon Guzman and to have
left the Mexican beside the read
near .Brawley and fled the scene.
in Guzman's car. The Mexican
died in the county hospital March
|, as a result of injuries received
when Tcid is alleged to have
beaten him on the head with al
automobile crank.
A plea of net guilty was entered
for T. B. Debase, Negro, charged
with grand theft and driving an
automobile withtlt the owners
consent. Trial was set for April
6. j. H. Bell was arraigned for
violation OF the state narcotic act
Continued on Page 2, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
FUNERAL WILL
BE HELD FOR
D. W. McDOLE

Funeral services for David w.
McDole, 75-year- Imperial resi-
dent, will be conducted from the
Lemons funeral chapel at 10 o.
clock Wednesday morning with the
Rev. F.. w. Hewlett, pastor of the
Imperial Community chuch, Off
ciating. Burial will be in Ever
green cemetery.
McDole was killed March II, IN
fall from trailer. He had been
a resident of Imperial Valley for
many years. He retained his men,
bership OF the Elks lodge in Lara
ME, Colo.
He is survived by a daughter,
Mrs. Laura Riley, who came from
Denver, Colo, to attend the funer-
al, and six grandchildren
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
BUCKLIN FILES
FOR Ell CENTRIC
COUNCILMAN

A. NJ Bucklin, mayor of Ell Cen
tro', late Monday afternoon filed
for city councilman, becoming the
second candidate to announce for
the race.
He came to Ell Centre in 1918 and
was elected tc the city council in
1916, serving until 1920. He was
not a member of the council again
until 1926. He served until 1880
and then was off two years. He
was reelected in 1882 and served
until the present time.
During his service as a city Of
fetal, Bucklin was mayor two diff
ferent times.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
FRENCH THREAT
WINS VICTORY
AT CONFERENCE

LONDON, March II. WP)-France
won a victory for its policies in the
League of Nations council by threat
ening to leave London and mobilize
it's army, it was reported today.
Pierre Etienne Flandin, foreign
minister, made the threat at secret
meeting of the council last night, it
was said, and as the result the
council agreed that it could not dis
cuss Adolf Hitler's peace plan.
French delegates expressed conn.,
plete satisfaction with the Rhineland
negotiations as they were today.
They predicted the council would
vote Germany guilty of treaty in
fringement this afternoon.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17

deputy remained in the board room
throughout the remainder of the
hearing. The cases were turned
over to the district attorneys office
for recommendation and report at
the first board meeting in April.
Supervisors are considering the
possibility of appointing a public
defender to handle criminal cases
in which the defendant does not
have money to employ an attorney.
Request for the appointment was
made by the Imperial county bar
association.
Additional information concerning
Continued on Page 2; Col 81
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
.JAFSIE AVOIDS
QUESTIONS ON
.HAUPT MANN
DR.. Condor Returns
From Trip to
Panama

NEW YORK, March II.
(UP)-Closely guarded by
relatives and friends, DR..
John F. Condor returned to
New York today from a two
months stay in Panama and from
behind his stateroom door issued a
statement saying he would have
nothing to say on the Lindbergh
case.
The Bronx educator, who attained
renown as "Jafsie,' was accompan-
led from Panama on the steamer
Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
DRUNK ORDINANCE
VOTED DOWN IN LA.

Los ANGELES. March II. W.P)
The city council today voted
down proposed ordinance which
would have made IL a INSIDE
meanor for a service station OPP
orator To sell gasoline To an In
toxicated mctorist or for a park
ing Let attendant TO permit him
To remove his car. Opponents 10
the bill argued that even courts
and doctors disagreed on ihe
question of when person was
intoxicated and that il was nm
reasonable TO expect such judy
n,tnt from gasoline ftation and
parking lot employees.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
Gardner Funeral
To Be Held Friday

Joint funeral services for Anna
Gardner, wife of F.. M. Gardner OF
the Jasper district, and for his
daughter, Merna Gardner, will be
conducted Friday morning from the
funeral chapel of B. E. Lemons.
The Rev Irving t. Raab, pastor OF
the Presbyterian church, will Off
ciate and interment will be Friday
afternoon In San Diego cemetery.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17

FIaIIKtu Dy an dSSISCant and az
shorthand reporter, Husband APP
peared at the board meeting asking
action in the refund suits brought
by his company for taxpayers in
this county said to have paid taxes
ON property rented to public utili-
ties. He claimed the taxes already
had been paid by the public utili-
ty companies and that the county
should not have assessed them.
The board wanted its own short
hand reporter and called Mrs. Ha-
eel Livingston. -
After asking Husband several
times to avoid personalities in pre-
senting the cases, Schlatter sent a
call to the sheriff's office and a
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17

'lndef regional director, the same
men who were in charge of the
commodity programs under the old
AAA. Supervising the work of the
directors kill be Acting AAA Ad-
ministrator Harold r. Tolley, Wal
lace said.
The western division will be
made up Of North Dakota, Kansas,
Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, New
Mexico. Arizona, California, Utah,
Nevada, Idaho, Oregon and Wash
ington Regional Director George
Continued on Page ?: Col. y
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17

clubs, 10 newspaper pllnts, 81
stores, homes, cafes, and theaterS
had been burned by rioters
throughout Spain in the last
mCnth.
The latest outbreak was in the
town of Jumilla in Muncia pro-
vince last night where three Fas-
cists were lynched and one was
killed and three wounded seriously
in fighting.
The capital was lauiet. The
cortes met for the second day of
its new session in peace. Left
wing forces, victorious in the re-
cent election that set off the long
siege Ct rioting, were in control
with working majority.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
Nice Authorized to
Sign Bond Claims

Charles Nice, county INDECENT
commissioner, was authorized by
the county board of supervisors to
sign claims against the 1888 state
bond money as a representative of
the state relief administration.
The county borrowed the money
from the state for use in relief
work and it is to be returned out
of gasoline tax money beginning in
1887 at the rate of 10 per cent a
year. Details of the expenditure
of the money, between $4,000 and
So, 900 are to be worked out.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
OFFICIALS TO ATTEND
CONFERENCE ON CIVIL SERVICE

results: Civil Service will be manda-
tory as to all county. city, and town
officers and employments except,
in general the following: officers
of towns of less than 1000 popula-
tion-physicians, dentists and attor-
neys employed as such. including
district and city attorneys and sim
liar officers-legislatiye officers such
as supervisors, city councilmen, may
ors and their secretarial staffs-
Continued on Page 2; Col. -
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17

Imperial county officials who are
not included under Civil service are
to attend a mass meeting of the
California Federation of Civil Ser
vice associations at the Riverside
county court house at o'clock Fri
day night to hear discussions of a
proposed state constitutional amend
ment for placing city, county and
town employees upon such basis.
If the proposed amendment is
adopted. it will have the following
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
BUM BLOCKADES'
HELD ILLEGAL.

SAN FRANCISCO, March II.
UP - Attorney General u. ).
Webb said today the Los Angeles
police department had no legal
right to erect its bum blockades"
at the borders of California 10
keep out undesirable and PEN
nilesS persons.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
Owen D. Young
To Get Award

NEW YORK, March II. U,n)-The
Society of Arts and Sciences will
award its 1895 gold medal of fellow
ship to Owen d. Young, it was an
nounced today. Young was selected
for his "non-political contribution to
better citizenship and world ac-
cord" The award will be made at
the soc ietys annual dinner April
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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
Last Minute,
Flashes!
SCHOONER DRIFTS
uEU ESS AT SEA

MARSHFIELD. Ore, March II.
UP) - The S. S. George Olson.
Olson line steam schooner. has
lest her rudder and il helpless
IL miles off Cape Blanco. il was
regretted today. The u. $. patrol
beat Pulaski has gore from Coos
Bay to assist the vessel. The
ship crossed out from the local
harbGr last night.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
Arizona Covered by
Heavy Pail of Dust

PHOENIX, March II. (UP) "A
heavy pail of yelloWish-brown dust
overhung most of Arizona today,
blotting out the sunshine and filling
the air with dry, annoying odor
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
~ -
P ~ -
ID AMBLING
IMPORTER
Says
Time Cannot Wiiher-

Time Cannot Wiiher-
: Mrs Elmer Forester and her
+ us twins eight months old
ST. downtown traffic whenever
they appear. Mrs. Forester, push
ing the double parambulator, was
making progress o. abcut a block
an hour Monday. Mrs. Forester
sighed somewhat YEARLY.
You'd think, now that they're
eight months cid, people would
be used to them" she remarked.
Why should they, RR wants 30
know. This is the second set of
twins. each set featuring a boy
and a girl. In both cases the Boys
are reGheads and the girls blondes.
Return Of Ruffles--
Hats off to Ell Centres new
seamstress, Merle tAdrianD Sones.
Yessir, that's the moniker tied on
him after it developed at the fair
last week how adroitly he sewed
rufiles OH the new Westinghouse
electric sewing machine.
Don't Blame Him
Haun of the jewelry Hauns has
some artificial flowers natural
enough to fool anyone, even a
dog. A very listless little canine
slouched into Haun's tother day,
attached tC his mistress. Suddenly
the darkness left his face; he
became downright enthusiastic. He
ii nf n Ut n a
flowersl He trotted over, stuck his
nose into the middle of the blcs-
SONS, and took deep breath.
Antherl Never has RR witnessed
human being display such abso-
lutte disgust that that disillusioned
mutt as he switched angrily out
CT the door.
Good Luck, Bob
Have you ever watched the an
tics of the big leaguers at their
spring training camps? Have you
ever sat with the baseball gentle
men around their training tables,
talking over the days workout,
listening to the joking, taking
Fart in the banter? RR has, and
that's who he envies Robert I.
Elliott, 10 years of age, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. l. S. Elliot--for Bobs
going to the Savannah, Ga, club
March &c, to take a whirl at this
professional baseball business. us
training ground for the biz
leagues. Good luck, Bob = and
congratulations.
A Let of Truth i'm That
Waiting fer the mail, a group of
Niands citizens turned conversa-
tionally to the European war
threat. A tall Texan turned from
the general delivery window, shift
Cd a chew to his left cheek and
remarked, These Oklahoma and
Texas men will make coed soldiers.
Someone wanted to know how
Gene. Well" and the Texan
shifted the chew to the ether
cheek, didn't us Oklahoma and
Texas pea pickers take California,
without even firing shot?"
lie won his point.
E!ue HIazes--
After a heated meeting of the
bard of supervise rs, a uh!. well-a
cuspidor beside the board table
suddenly burst into flame Super
Visor5 A. Y. Preble and Hugh
Osborne had BEEN using 1t.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17

Benjamin charged in a statement
that the march was due to the
fact the Roosevelt administration
is Systematically and ruthlessly
liquidating all federal relief ac-
tivities.'
Plans were announced as Con-
gress awaited the presidents re-
quest for funds for the next years
relief needs.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
RIOT DEATH TOLL
COUNTED IN SPAIN

MADRID, March IT, HAn extension OF the state of alarm
preparatory during ul in
sanguinary oing has Spain for 80 days
estimated that 81
converts 30 political
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
SHERIFF CALLED AT
BOARD CONFERENCE

Schlatter, chairman of the county board of super
visors, called upon the sheriff of Imperial county to
maintain order in the board meeting Monday afternoon
during hearing in which tax refund applications were
explained by H. ]. Husband of Tax Research, Inc
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
Hitler Accepts League Invitation
Government Pushes
Investigation Into
Telephone Monopoly
Clifford Irritaby Denies Company Attempts to Make
Unreasonable Profit Control of Equipment
Prices Included in Probe

WASHINGTON, March II. (UP)-President Walter
Clifford of the American Telephone and Telegraph
many snapped out declaration at federal communica
lions commission hearing today that the Sc O00 900
attempts to make unreasonabe profit
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17

OF JOBLESS
PLAN PLEA:
Army of Unemployed Threatens InOasion Of
Washington; Ruthless Liquidation of
u. S. Relief Charged

WASHINGTON, March II. (UP)-Plans for "hun-
ger march Washington by 5000 to 5000 obess on
April IL announced today by Herbert Benjamin, ma
after conference with Rep Vito Marcantono R.. N Y.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
AAA Reorganization
I'm Soil Conservation
Program Announced
Directors Under Old Setup, Inyalidated by Court
Will be Retained to Direct New Organization;
Five Regional Units Planned

WASHINGTON, March H. (UP)-Reorganizat of
the mvaidated AAA into five regional sections for all
states to administer the $50000G00 soil conservation
announced today by Secretary of Agricul
ture Henry A. Wallace Each Of the five areas will be
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
MARKETS IN BRIEF

Butter. Los Angeles 351ac, butter
TAT, Imperial Valley fob. ranch.
6rade 4, f31ac, manufacturing milk.
5G&c; route gathered cream, 3ac.
l.. A. hay-U. =. No.I. extra Ieafy.
Sio-20: L. =. No. 1. ST; L. :. No. =
Ieafy. S15.50-IG.5O; L. =. No. . Sale;
Minneapolis finx, f74-t7S.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-17
A Let of Truth i'm That

Hiue EIazes--
After heated meeting of the
bard of supervisors, uhl, well-a
cuspidor beside the board table
suddenly burst into flame Super
Visor5 A. Y. Preble and Hugh
Osborne had been using it.
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CASH JUGGLING CHARGED

President Roosevelt was accused
by the Republican National Com
mittee yesterday of playing poll
tics with the money of the poor
and overburdening the women of
the country"
The charges were set forth in
the second of series of Gran
ite-Grams," written under the pen
name of Mark Granite, a homely
philosopher of Bucks county, Pa.
Discussing New Deal relief,
Granite says:
1--WE have the unpleasant spec
tacle of a President of the
United States feathering his
political nest with funds en-
trusted to him for the relief Of
human misery. Stealing from
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the poor is tie EleaneSt Of all
crimes and this is akin to it,"
Under the heading, 1.-THE
Woman Pays-for Roosevelt"
Granite adds:
"FOr the rising cost of the ne
cessities of life, for the wicked
and reprehenSibIe destruction
of food and planned scarcity
for the taxes and debts and
deficits and waste and political
grafterS that devOur our sub.
stance and add to our burdens,
Franklin Roosevelt is chiefly
responsible.
"And the weight of all his
extravaganza and recklesSnesS
and folly falls chiefly upon
women"
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-12-17

Sank Centre, Mimi,
Dec. 10, 1885.
Dear Santa Claus,
I am eight years old and in the
third grade. If you please, would
like a typewriter. top ana an
electric train and a box Of 40
shots. And farm and also some
stock. Don't forget my two sisters
and also a toboggan for us three.
and a Christmas tree, candy and
nuts.
Your friend,
John Rosenwald.
49,
Sank Centre, Mimi,
Dec. 10, 1895.
Dear Santa,
Will you please bring me book,
dress and also some nuts and
candy and oranges.
Yours truly,
Clytia Hamilton.
Sank Centre, MINI.
Dear Santa,
I am very well and hope you are
too.
Dear Santa, bring Mother a new
dress.
I am seven years old and in the
second grade and would like some
dishes and washing machine. One
of my little sisters would like set
of dishes too.
My other little sisters are all lit
tie. So bring them whatever you
think best.
Don't forget by Daddy and be
sure to bring some candy and nuts.
Your friend,
Evelyn Schieffer.
Sank Centre, Mimi,
Dec. 13, 1885.
Dear Santa Claus,
I would like to see you Christmas
and talk with you.
Will you please bring me BIB
gun and a school box. Arthur wants
a tractor with plow and a trailer.