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Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-14

contract OF the George POLLOCK
company, a California concern
which is constructing the four
miles Of waterway Immediately be
low the desilting works.
From the desilting basins, the
canal follows the convergence Of
old river flood plain with noun
tain washes, ridges and foothills.
In places these hills and ridges
must be carried away; and in
others, the plain level is low and
must be filled.
over at least a mile and a
half. the outer embankment must
be completely constructed so that
the weight and force of $4,000
second feet Of water will not break
through or seep under.
The Deep Cut
IL strCng contrast TO the type
of work involved on the upper
part of this four-mile stretch, Is
the bottom half-mile section where
the canal route faced a high,
rocky barrier. To reach the COM
paratiVely even terrain where the
Yuma canal now flows, it is neces-
sary 30 cut through this rocky
ridge and this job was included III
The George Pollock company con-
tract.
It is along their part of the cam
al that the visitor drives over
the governments newly oiled high
way, from the time he crosses the
Continued on Page 8; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-14
HUNDRED DETAILS LOOKED
AFTER Ef1 PREPARATIONS

The vast amount of work which
had to be accomplished prelimin-
ary to actual construction on the
Pollock contract, was explained by
Adolf Haidlen, field superintendent
for the George Pollock company.
Although the company crews
reached the job January this year,
it was a month before the real task
of canal building got under way,
he explained.
An office had to be build, camp
sites chosen, and living quarters for
Workmcn laid out ana built. Water
had to be provided for men, equip
ment roads and camps. Electric
power had to be procured for equip
ment and the flood lights which
make night shifts possible. tt was
necessary TO bring in Sl50000 in
equipment and set up shops TO
maintain the trucks and shovels
and tractors against costly break
downs.
Office Constructed
An Office, small and portable,
hWas built and now can follow along
lMith the Job as it progresses. The
former government acclimation gar
dens were taken over to provide
homes for field superintendent and
foremen, and a camp built to house
the N0rkmen. A complete septic
Iitank sewer system was installed.
The company drilled a 115-foot
well, and piped water all over the
job. Roads were constructed, and
machine shops erected Power and
light was brought in from the gov
ernment distribution point five
miles away, and today electric
equipment operates in the cut, and
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-14
FOUR NEE: D s
M { 7 IN SLIT
AROUND HILL.
Sturdy Machinery Must
BE Used in Work
BY Company

In the task Of cutting away the
mountain OF rock at Iaguna dam.
so thot siltleSs water may reach I'm
parial Valley. four inseparable fact.
ors are closely allied, according to
ladclf TIaidlcn, field superintendent
or the George Pollock company.
doing the work
These intcr-dependent factors are
strong trucks, capable drivers, good
reads. completely equipped mechan-
acal shops besides dependable and
, tast power shoVels.
The company is faced with the
task Of removing some G52,000 cubic
yards Of rock on that one part of
the lob For this, many operations
ore necessary.
Once the rock is drilled and
blasted it must be carried away
An electric power shovel pours it
into trucks, a total Of II being used
on the single job. Each. carries
some eight cubic yards, at a load.
Speed Necessary
Obviously, the faster that trucks
can move, the more loads it can
carry in a given period Of time. And
also obviously, if a truck carrying
the staggering load of $4,000 pounds,
hits a bump, the chances are that
something will break.
That is why throughout the Pol
lock Job, roads are maintained
smooth as city streets For this the
company operates it, own road
maintainer and its own water
truck. Ovr the reads The big
trucks can race at bseakncck speed
without fear CT damage that is
Continued on Page 3; Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-14
METHODS CHANGED

Boulder Dam storage has already
made manifest changes in irriga-
ton methods in Imperial Valley
Formerly silt laden water sealed
the surface soil so that long lands
could be irrigated without difficult
ty. Water freed of riuch of its
silt content penetrates the surface
soil faster and tends to waterlog
the land if the same volume is
used as heretofore.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-14
POLLOCK
/; AZ 7 $,
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
TIE PORTION OF THE
Aarrsu rDNru,K, . r,u,reUR

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT
TIE PORTION OF THE
CANAL CONTRACTED
BY THE GEORGE
POLLOCK co.
Distance of Canal--Four miles.
Lrcati0n--FrOm desilting works
dCwn TO Laguna Dam.
Amount Of Bid-ApprOXimatcly
S750,00O.
Work StartCa-Feb. 6, 1896.
Expected To FiniSh--May, 1887.
Contract Completion Date-May,
: 1888.
Employes-AbOut IS
Rock ExcavatiOn-652,O 900 cubic
yards.
Common Excavation, $4,000.
COmpacted Embankment - 69l,-
900 cubic yards.
Rock Fill, outside slope of canal
--250,000 yards.
Timber Sheet Piling - 1,440,0O0
beard feet.
Sub-C0ntractors Lewis Con-
struction Company, compact
ing, filling and piling.
Home Office of COmpany-Sac-
ramentO, Calf.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-14

Scenes from the stretch of the canal being built by
the George Pollock Company Of Sacramento Calf.
Above: panorama of the section where the canal is
being cut around mountain at Laguna Dam. This cut
22l feet deep and compes the excavation of 650000
cubic yards OF rock At the left the company shops
and office in the distance Center Left view showing
the field shops in the foreground and the company field
office in the background. (PostPress Phoo) Center
Right The cut where the electric shovel fills the trucks
with tons of rock Lower Left: Another view of the
cut. (Post-Press Photo). Lower Center: pile driver
driving pilng to keep water from seepng under the
bankment Lower Right: view of the cut, looking
downstream toward the end Of the Pollock contract.
(Post-Press Photos Prepared by Nelson Studio)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-14
DEEPEST CUT
!, ON CANAL IS
POLLOCK JOB
California Concern Rends Mountain To
Garry Water Down From Imperial
Dam to Valley Lands
90

The deepest cut the canal, stretch where the
huge ditch will through walls of rock than two
hundred high is being eXcavaed the California
end Laguna dam 1t is here that rocky ridge blocked
the canal removal of the barrier part of the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-14

the hands of drillers high up on
hillsideS pock-mark the steep walls.
Some OF the drills operate from
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-14

electric lines provide the job with
network of flood lights.
Up in the rock cut, air drills, in
Evening star., 1936-07-13
BAR LEADER DIES

CHARLOTTE. N. c., July 13 (P).-
c. w. Tillett, sr., dean of the Char
lotte bar, died suddenly last night at
his home here. He was 79 years old.
His widow and five children, Dun
can. Charles w., John, William, and
Mrs Osborne Bethea, survive
Throughout his life he was inter-
ested in liberalism and often contrib
uted his views to newspapers.
In 1928, during the bitter presiden-
tial campaign, he addressed plea for
religious tolerance. Prior to that time,
when an anti-evolution bill was before
the General Assembly of North Caro-
lima, he wrote biting article against
the law.
Evening star., 1936-07-13

No. the Republicans unprintable
That's the way they seem to feel about the league.
You Uould think the league dtgused
gratitude OF the Republicans by this
and say to them: VERY Ue II that's the
haze Mr.. Roosevelt
But 1t apparent the league
and that regardless Of the abuse which subjected
carry on mayhke undoubtedly sustained the belief living
politicians won't give it its due history will thing history
will say it could certainly
to
they afraid to tackle
praise only have the Republicans
Black committee which
the New Deal has But the Republicans
The league came forward and did the job
Outuardy the League processes not to wdnt
the Republicans 1t processes
from them they want to
not the case Engaged in common NTH them bound
to Udnt associate wth
Of week It
nobody wdnts to be by hinseI all the time
What this writer if
running the Republicans exclaming
Well, wont"
the Republicans to say:
What mean-we?"
thing Republicans
league them
Of votes for them
the hatred for the uhich Philadelphia
they
fall its neck and they really thought
for them
truth opposition
though there would another Republican could
Evening star., 1936-07-13

off war with a few mint julepS. In
the State Department, he replaced the
somewhat less diplomatic Prof. Ray
mond Moley. He is low tariff advo-
cate, whose interuationalism consists
of a belief in a free flow of goods,
very much in the picture of Secretary
Hull's reciprocity program. He is the
Secretary'S personal appointee and
is singularly aloof from the Washing
ton political associations. He is
bachelor, lives in his native Fairfax,
Va, County and drives Is miles to
work every day. He th:nks sensible,
courteous international understand
ings will help world aviation a lot.
He was in Congress from 1918 to 1880,
retiring voluntarily.
Jesse Owens rash of record-break-
ing puts him away out in front as a
potential point-getter for the Ameri-
can delegation at the Olympic meet.
A year ago, in the running broad
jump, sprints and hurdles, he broke
three world records in one day.
He was an Alabama cotton picker,
one of eight children, with no other
athlete among them. He began romp-
ing away with athletic medals in the
East Technical High School of Cleve-
land. and kept it up at the University
of Ohio. Last year the A. A. U. was
badgering him hesitantly about tax
ing money as page for the Ohio
State legislature Just why this
should disqualify him as an amateur
bystanders couldn't see, and the main
point is that it didn't. He still has
his amateur standing.
He is a form runner, stylist, not
a power runner, with the deceptive
grace of a leisurely coyote-tall and
lanky, with a tremendous stride A
year ago he married Minnie Ruth
Solomon, a maid in a Cleveland hair
dressing parlor. Flying Ebony"
they call him. His regular name is
James Cleveland Ovens. but nobody
ever called him anything but Jesse.
(Copyright. 1850
Evening star., 1936-07-13

their record of achievement
Since the drought Roosevelt has usctated both TugpeH
Federal activities outlined ct
tunty the work they H do in reneping afflicted farmers to wdter
and more productive enterprise eSeDhere.
The furnished justification and for enter.
which being carried habn
drought similarly brought
forth from the grave the Commodity Credit Corp
contributing the gee the Oklahoma primary results
The surprising Representative in the senatorial
gratifying the line for everything Mr. Roosevelt
wanted in his congressional term.
ToWnndle poLed
Democratic total
selection Representative Sam Rayburn
Speakers had behind than
the choice Of a speakermaster who knows the ropes
recognized to build
majority leadership the House at the merit Vice
believed had something to do Dt it,
will elect the
not much in the public eye lately.
NoteFo Farley named Representative John McDu-
Democratic headquarters Mr. McDufe
candidate McDufe handled congress
activities
Committee appointed by the House
ship contest.
gandd Democrats 81; Re-
totals Uh the latest OF
adding little patience
congressional for the politicians
official transcript of House Senate proceedings with all
kinds material This several supplements OF the
Evening star., 1936-07-13

on Iowa farm lawns is four and nine
teen-twentieths, whereas the number
on farms in my own Pennsylvania Is
only four and two-tenths.
Nevertheless, think there is some-
thing in my evergreen theory and in
what it symbolizes. Iowa farmers
have not had. to as great an extent
as Pennsylvania and the East. the in
stinct of permanence of firmly root
ing themselves on the soil they oc-
cupy. They have not thought Of the
farm as home, as a piece Of land to
own, to avoid mortgaging 1t as they
would avoid sin, to stay on it until
they die. and to see their children and
their grandchildren occupy 1t after
them.
1t may be that on this point also
statistics would confuse me. But I
should like to see figures showing
the average length of occupancy, or
the frequency of change, on Iowa
farms, compared with Pennsylvania
farms or New York ones. And the
Des Moines Register might add an
other to its services to Iowa by en-
couraging hereditary occupancy Of the
farms. 1t would find out what Iowa
farms have been longest in the hands
of'one family. How many Iowa farms
are still occupied by descendants Of
the pioneers who settled them?
Price Of Land Is Factor.
Possibly the frequent change Of
ownership and occupancy may be due
to too great enrapture about high
prices for land. Possibly some of the
economic griefs of Iowa agriculture
may be due to the same cause. An
other risky wisecrack might venture to
suggest that an Iowa farmer would
rather be in distress on land priced
at 5000 an acre, while a Pennsylvania
one prefers to be comfortable and Sc
cure on land priced at $50 an acre
Maybe Iowa would be better of If its
land had never risen above 500 an
acre.
Certainly Iowa has usually been pre-
occupied with price of land: and us
ually. perhaps mistakenly thought it
was happiest when land was highest.
During one presidential campaign
when I came to Iowa to observe, all
the talk was about young men going
to Canada because farms in Iowa
Evening star., 1936-07-13

he attempted to escape from Police
man Michael Steven. who had arrested
him on suspicion.
Despite bullet wound inflicted by
the oficer, the powerfully built man
grappled with Stevens and attempted
to drown him in an ornamental pool.
Thomas Naughton. a watchman, who
joined In the chase, killed the colored
man as the latter was holding the po-
liceman's head beneath the water.
Evening star., 1936-07-13

Christian Church accepted yesterday
the resignation of its pastor. Rev. DR..
J. Randall Farris. who recently ac-
cepted q call to the First Christian
Church of Bristol. Tenn. and immedi-
ately voted to extend a call to Rev.
r. M. Simms of Bristol to replace DR..
Farris here.
DR.. Farris said he would leave Ra-
leigh in August
Members of Hillyer Memorial said
they expected DR.. Simms. who has
preached here, to accept the call.
Evening star., 1936-07-13

eralization. The
trouble with Iowa
Is not evergreen
trees in the farm
ers' front yards
and not enough
bushes or flower
beds.
I shall not be
surprised II I
am corrected and
rebuked by Sec
retary Wallace's
publicity staff. I
may read In a
day or two that
the average num-
ber. of eyerpreens
Evening star., 1936-07-13
co. 900 CRIPPLES AIDED
Shrine Philanthropic Corporation
Given Figures of Ia Years.

SEATTLE, July 13 P.-Sixty
thousand crippled children in the
United States and Canada have re-
ceived aid from the Shrine Philan-
thopic Corp. in the last IA years, the
corporations trustees were told today.
w. Freeland Kendrick, former mayor
of Philadelphia, chairman of the
board, said operation of the organiza-
tion's three Canadian and IL United
States hospitals cost 81 100000 in 1895.
Investment in buildings, land and
equipment, he said, totaled $500, 900,
with permanent endowment of about
$3,50o,0o0.
Evening star., 1936-07-13
Launch Propeller in Loot.

Police today searched for week end
thieves, whose loot include $128 and
the propeller of a small launch moored
at the foot of Sixth street southwest.
The owner of the propeller was VIII
liam w. Brantley of the Coast Artil-
lery Barracks, Water and o streets
southwest.
Evening star., 1936-07-13

strength pick shortly
his pick the fact that
ngton Gained down the impression
ment and reform phase
The league dinner didn't earners
OF But served to bolster
Up until that time than
to mouth
the cellar without being
siton has become articulate.
So the league did good
Evening star., 1936-07-13
RELATIONS SCRAMBLED
Confusion Exists as Son Weds Fa.
theirs Wife's Sister.

WEST, PALM BEACH, Fla. (P)-
The Paul Brown situation Is some
what complicated.
Paul Brown, ST, married second
time about three years ago. A few
months later Paul Brown, jr., married
a younger sister of the new Mrs. Paul
Brown, 81.
The junior Paul Browns now have
an infant son, Paul Brown, Sd.
So Mrs. Brown, ST., Is her sisters
mother-in-law and grandmother of
her nephew, and that Is just a start
on the list of scrambled relations.
Evening star., 1936-07-13

mouth. 1t was virtually the sole
opposition to the New Deal until
one day when Senator Vandenberg
rather belatedly decided to chal-
lenge the Florida ship canal and
the Passamaquoddy project.
The New Deal propagandists
claim the leagues effectiveness was
destroyed with its billion dollar"
dinner here last January. and they
cite In support Of their argument
the fact that Mr.. Roosevelt's
Evening star., 1936-07-13

Record nave Deen ISSUED Slice Con.
gress expired and debate necessarily
closed. More are coming. But so
far, 54 of the 80 published pages have
been occupied with all those speeches
delivered at the Philadelphia Ma
tional Convention, together with po-
litical statements by Senators Robin
son and Hayden. Republicans slipped
in five pages of their competing prop
aganda, while the other 80 pages
went tn Small-frv COnRressrnen who
Evening star., 1936-07-13
Price of Land
Is Stability
Factor
Iowa Economic Woes
May Be Linked to
False Values.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

~ A journey which brings me
I into the University of Iowa
\ for less than "a hours I am
~ not going to try to tell the
world what's the matter with Iowa.
Yet, far from Washington and the
minatory eye Of Secretary Wallace,
am tempted to a wise-cracking gen.
Evening star., 1936-07-13

self-corscious and
impressed i t h
his own impor-
tance.
I have known
a dozen presiden-
tial n o. m / n e e S.
Something US
ually happens to
them when they
win a presidential
nomination. In
voluntarily some
times they ac-
quire an unnatu-
ral m a n n er.
Somehow GOV
T,ondop &c rjjHor
Evening star., 1936-07-13

published boosts themselves and their Only Con-
audab Of setting forth his full
legislation elected
highly favored because reprints
mailed 100000 their friends
feeling toward Senator
the Republican Senators who
resolution Farley last
(CopyriR
Evening star., 1936-07-13

ing fields, with
aviation m a g.
mates for the
British - Ameri-
can trans = At
lantic service, to
start possibly
within six weeks.
The old-fash-
ioned man who
has in hand these
new-fangled do
ings is a tall,
erect Virginian of
military bearing,
whose easy cour-
teSy sue gests that
he might fend
Evening star., 1936-07-13
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
R, WALTON Moore Guid.
ing Evolution Of
World Air Law.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

Y INTERNATIONAL air law is still
pretty vague. A new code evolves
| as the Clipper ships start shut
Il ting around the world. Uncle
Sam has looking after his end of all
this a 75-year-old Southern gentle
man of the old school, an easy prac-
titic'ler of pleasant amenities who
likes to see barriers down and free
and friendly intercourse among the
nations. He is R. Walton Moore, As
sistant Secretary of State. At pres
ent he is arranging routes and lsnd-
Evening star., 1936-07-13
Hotels on New Highway.

Hotels and restaurants are being
constructed in Monterey. Ciadad Vic
toria, Wales and Tamasunchale, Mex
leo, along the new Laredo Mexico
City Highway.
Evening star., 1936-07-13

league.
AS if to say 1--WE are in the fight,
too" it issued q little statement the
other day expressing Indignation at
something Jim Farley had said about
it and adding that it was in the fight
to the finish. But If this statement
was called to Gov. Landon's atten-
ton he didn't say he was glad, as
he did when Senator Borah an
Evening star., 1936-07-13
Liberty League Lonely
Republicans Refuse to Recognize Efforts Though
Both War on New Deal.
BY CARLISLE BARGERoN.

WOULD out the Office of the Liberty
League seems be the Little Orphan Annie Of the campaign The
New Dealers despse It, Of but the Republicans will nothing
to do with it. Its Offices the National Press Building the
beehive Of activity pamphlets speeches
still being
The big battle Of the century gets under hear of
what the Republicans the
Evening star., 1936-07-13

an opportunity to display his cam
paign wares in the best possible light.
For example, the Rural Resettle-
ment Administrator of Prof. Tug
well was dying on its feet. 1t was
being soft-pedaled to considerable
extent; its publicity force was re-
Gently dismantled; Tugwell was be-
ing kept in hiding from the public
sight. Few of Mr.. Roosevelt's Social
Democrats were sufficiently social to
want to defend 1t or Tugwell on
Evening star., 1936-07-13
Landon Keeps
His Common
Sense Views
kansan Displays No
Personality Changes
Since Nomination.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

- OVERNOR LANDON has had
1 so many people coming out to
Y size him up that wondered,
as visited Topeka over the
week end, whether I should find the
same modest man I met more than a
year ago or a presidential candidate
Evening star., 1936-07-13
Behind the News
Drought Declared Aid to acknowledgements
Used to Justify Resettlement Plan.
BY PAUL MALLON.


considerably actually
geeu, the Of those Roosevelt breaks Of
l.
Evening star., 1936-07-13
SLAIN IN KELLYS YARD
Colored Man Almost browns Of
ficer in Chicago Pool.

fcer in Chicago Pool.
CHICAGO, July l3 P).-An un-
identified colored man was shot and
killed yesterday in the rear yard Of
Evening star., 1936-07-13
CHURCH EXTENDS CALL
TO REPLACED PASTOR

Acceptance Would Amount to
Exchange of Christian Lead
ing Ministers.
By the Associated Press.
RALEIGH, NJ c.. July 13.-The
CONGREGATION of Hillyer Memorial
La opinión., 1936-01-13
KING CHI IWAKI
VS.. SZABO HOY
EN- PASADENA

En- una revancha ordenada por
la Comision Atletica del Estado,
Sander Szabo Y King Chiwaki Sc
enfrentan esta noche encabezando
ell programa de luchas en- Ia Arena
de Pasadena.
Como resultado de su encuentro
del ultimo lunes, en- ell que ell gil
tano Sc puso demasiado brusco. el
Referee Dick Rutherford 10 desca-
lifieo Y recomendo a la comision
que fuera s~uspendido Temperament
tie como castigo. Sin embargo, SEA-
DO i~ntervino en- favor de Chiwaki,
pldiendo que Sc lie dlera oportuni-
dad.
El promoter Morrie Conan anun
cia que ell vencedor de esta lucha
contendera con Ell campe6n Nicen
te Lopez ell pr6Ximo ulnes.
Sun Jennings Y Jack Washburn
cubren ell semi-flnal de hoy. en- una
lueha a una caida con una bora de
Unite de tempo. Dick Dayiscourt
Sc enfrenta a Herb Freeman. Y
Jack Macarthur contra Milo Stein
born.