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Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
Don Bulge Moves
Into Semi Final
Bracket of Meet

FOREST HILLS, N. Y, Sept. TO-
CUP)-America's two hopes to keep
its championships at home-red-
haired Donald Bulge of Oakland
Cal, and defending titleholder
Helen Jacobs of Berkeley, CAL
smashed into the Saturday semi
finals of the U. S. singles tennis
tournament today.
Miss Jacobs, playing with ban
dage around her injured thumb,
gained the emi-finals on grand
stand court of the West Side Tennis
club with a 81, 60 victory over
left handed Gussie Raegener of
San Francisco.
Bulge, playing in the stadium
before 1000 spectators, showed that
his diet of hot dogs and soda pop
the last few days hadn't affected
him by whipping be spectacled John
McDiarmid of Fort Worth, Tex,
Cd, 6-3, 60.
Moving along with this pair were
Helen Pedersen, slim blonde de.
partment store buyer from Stam-
ford Conn, and 20-year old frankie
Parker, Of Spring Lake, NJ j.
Parker, the fourth seeded player
in the tourney, disposed of his
doubles partner. Gregory Mangin
of Newark. Mangin, four times
indoor champion and recent winner
of the Meadow Club doubles title
with Parker, was whipped 1912,
60, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 in a bitter battle
that lasted almost three hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
600 DELEGATES
GATHER FOR
CONFERENCE

SANTA MONICA, Cal, Sept. II
UH)-Approximately 600 delegates
representing various branches of
California's city governments
plunged into a discussion of their
problems today at the opening ses-
sion of the two-day annual conven-
ton of the California league of
municipalities.
City attorneys, mayors, managers,
assessors, planners healthy officers
and utilities experts were among
the delegates attending various
sectional meetings of the league.
S. P. Robinson general counsel of
the Los Angeles department of war
and power, in an address before
the municipal utilities division, urg-
ed more extensive use of revenue
bonds as a means of strengthening
the financial structure of municipal
utilities.
I'VE must put municipal utilities
on their own feet" he said, citing
the San Francisco municipal rail-
way as a good example of an utility
that has been operated satisfactor-
lily under city ownership.
He suggested an amendment to
the state constitution or city charter
provisions that would permit the
flotation of revenue bends without
the necessity of an electorate vote.
Revenue .oondS are coming to
be accepted as soundly as obliga-
ton bonds" he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
ALL MORMONS
SHUN RELIEF

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept
IL. tUP - Mormon church officials
expected today to be able to assure
the federal government by October
/ that none of the church's thou
sands of members will add to the
federal relief burden during the
winter.
At that time, Harold B. Lee, man.
aging director of the Mormon So
cial security program, said, the
church expects to have on hand
sufficient money, food, fuel, cloth
ing and other necessities to provide
for all its needy
The Mormon relief plan, he ex-
planned, does not anticipate that
churchmen now employed on fed
eral projects will quit their jobs,
but even if they do, the church be-
lieves it will have adequate re-
sources to meet all demands.
All church members have abb
stained from two meals on the first
Sunday of each month, contributing
the food saved or the cash equival-
ent into the relief fund.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
Landon Will Press
Fighting Campaign

ABOARD LANDON SPECIAL
TRAIN, EN- ROUTE TO MAINE,
Sept. II. U.P)-Gov. Alf NJ. Landon
swung east today to press a fight
ing campaign" for Reputation of
the New Deal.
Preparing to climax the state
campaign in Maine with a major
address on the eve of that states
barometer" election, the Republi-
can nominee was understood to con-
slider the zeal battle of the presi-
dental drive now under way and to
be prepared to carry on until Nov
ember with all of the fighting spirit
at his command
Il am very glad to be on my way
to contribute to the notable cam
paign which I believe will end in
the reputation of the present ma
tional administration by the voters
of Maine next Monday" Gov.
Landon said as his train sped
toward Chicago, where he will be
the luncheon guest of national COM
George Harding
Il am confident that Maine, as
in the years past, will lead the way
to Republican victory in the ma
ton and a restoration of good gov
ernment at Washington"
AS the Kansas governor moved
westward on schedule carrying
him through series of brief stops
in Indiana after his luncheon con-
ference at Chicago, it was disclosed
that the suddenly announced de
cision to dash to Maine was not
sudden at all as far as the nominee
was concerned.
Gov. Landon had long had such
a trip in mind but desired to keep
his plans undisclosed pending de-
velopments in the political situation
and in order to take full advantage
of the surprise announcement only
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11

: lures" rally of southern Democrats
that only a few years ago farmers
workers and business men "were
not making both ends meet" and
said only the federal government
could take the action necessary to
restore the purchasing power of the
nation"
This goal has been achieved and
most business has been put lin the
black without invading individ-
ual liberties or the rights of states,
Mr.. Roosevelt said.
He made no specific mention of
the supreme court, but praised the
invalidated NRA as having accom-
plished as much for general pros
perity during its short term of
life" as any law of the past century.
and credited New Deal crop con-
troll policies with bringing recovery
to the nations farmers.
The president spoke to a rain
soaked audience of 10000 gathered
in Charlotte's municipal stadium
from seven southern states to rally
support for his reelection campaign.
The crowd cheered wildly as he
mounted a flag -bedecked platform
to begin his speech, facing a rain
bow in the sky.
Mr.. Roosevelt followed closely the
theme developed in his fireside
chat of last Sunday night-that the
New Deals policies to aid both
the farmer and the city working
man to make decent living are
designed to establish prosperity for
the nation as whole.
He said he entered office with
a definite objective to stabilize cot
ton and tobacco prices at levels
profitable to the farmer and asked:
In simple fairness, have We at
tained that goal?"
He then attacked critics of the
crop control poll |
cies by saying:
Il don't believe the great tobacco
growing states of the nation would |
wish to go back to the days of |
every man for himself and let the
devil take the hindmost.' -
Business and farm recovery has
resulted in higher tax receipts which
accelerated fiscal recovery for fed
eral and local governments, the
president added.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
PURCHASING POWER
RESTORED, HE SAYS

CHARLOTTE, N. c, Sept. H. (UP)-President Roose-
ve Yesterday strongly defended New Deal business and
agricultural egsation-outawed by the supreme court
as having aided his administration in restoring prac
tlcal prosperity to America He reminded "green nas
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11

four days before his speech at Port
land Saturday night on the subject
of Government and Business"
As result, not even preliminary
agreements had been made for the
rear platform appearances which
the governor will make en- route be-
cause it was desired that no word
of the impending journey should
leak out. At the same time, sug-'
gestions that he had delayed the
decision until after the meeting of
the Republican beard of strategy in
Chicago on Tuesday were discount
ed.
The actual decision, like most of
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
WATERMELONS PUT OUT FIRE

DURANGO, Col. U.P) = Jack
Hicks of this city has discovered
that watermelons make excellent
fire extinguishers. While driving
his truck loaded with Watermelons
from Phoenix, Ariz., to Durango,
the truck caught fire on a desert
road, with no water in sight.
Hicks ingenuity got the blaze un-
der control after a tWo-hour battle
in which he pelted it with his
Watermelons.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
FIELD LABOR
WAGES RAISED

SANTA MARIA. Sep. II. lU.P,--
With the beet harvest paralyzed
by a strike, Santa Maria tomato
growers raised field labor wages
five cents an hour today to at
tract more workers to move their
ripening 3000-acre crop.
Beet toppers are striking for a
20 per cent increase. The Union
Sugar Co. at Betteravia reports it
has enough beets for four of five
days operations with a steady flow
from San Joaquin Valley and some
from Lompoc.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
LAST
DAY FOR BUS
DRIVER TESTS

Saturday is the last date upon
which school bus drivers may take
the required examinations for their
certificates, according to Captain
Frank Oswalt of the California
Highway patrol
Oswalt said rs out of the 100
applicants had qualified at the ex-
aminations given last Saturday.
The examinations will be con-
Quoted in the highwy patrol office
in the basement of the court house.
Each applicant must present a
health certificate.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
ROOSEVELT DEFENDS NEW DEALERS AGRICULTURAL POLICE
THEFT SUSPECT
ADMITS GUILT

Fred Montgomery confessed to
looting the Sam Dannenberg junk
yard office in Ell Centro and Of
fersd to show Deputy Sheriff
Frank P. McCaslin where the loot
had been deposited.
An adding machine stolen the
same night. other valuable equip
msnt and merchandise disappear
ed from the yard office. was re-
covered from a second hand dealer
in Ell Centro.
The Negro was arrested in Braw-
ley after search lasting for sew
eral days.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
CENTRAL, &c.
TEACHERS WILL
HOLD MEETING

Teachers at Central Union high
school and junior college will gath
er at the school at 1890 O'Clock
September 10, for the first teachers
meeting of the fall season. The
meeting was called by Guy Weak
ley, district superintendent and
principal of the high school.
Elementary school teachers will
have their first meeting at Wilson
school at 8 am. upon the same day.
Pre-school plans will be discussed
and arrangements made for the
opening days work.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
BRITISHER OFF
SEEKING RECORD
IN SPEED CAR

BONNEVILLE SALT, Utah, Sept
IL. U.D = John Cobb of England
roared out across Utah's natural salt
bed speedway today in quest of a
score of world automobile speed rec
crds
Cobb's principal objective was the
24-hour speed record established by
his countryman, Capt. George E, T.
EyStOn.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
Fliers to Take Off
On Second Crossing

LIVERPOOL, Sept. II. W,R)-Rich-
ard Merrill and Harry Richman,
transatlantic filters, announced to-
day they would take off for New
York at dawn tomorrow if weather
reports continued favorable.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11

the strategical moves SO far in this
campaign, was understood to have
been made by the governor-well in
advance of the announcement.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
Vagrant Sentenced
To Serve 80 Days

Mike Selgado, as, is serving 80
days in the Imperial county Jail on
a vagrancy charge. Sentence was
passed by Judge Lee Nuffer in Ell
Centro justice court.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-09-11
Books Available for
Registration Change

Residents of Ell Centro who wish
to register for the first time or to
change their registrations will find
the necessary books at the city
clerks office at Ell Centro city hall.
The Washington times., 1936-07-14

ATLANTIC CITY. n. ].
The Washington times., 1936-07-14
MISS BLAGDEN
HERE, RELATES
FL0GG|NG

Miss Willie Sue Blagden, 30
year-old social worker of Memphis
Tenn, in the office Of the So
cialist News Bureau in the Ma
tional Press Building again told
about the whipping with heavy
strap that she and a Presby
terrain minister suffered on June
Is near Earle, Ark, where they
had gone to arrange the funeral
of a Negro member of the South
ern Tenant Farmers Union.
Undated and smiling, Miss
Blagden declared:
"Since the flogging l feel
more than ever closely allied
and in sympathy with mem
hers Of the union. The union
was organized in 1884 and
since then repeated attempts
to stop it have been made on
the part Of plantation owners.
The planters are not only de-
priving these people of their
right to organize, but are using
force and brutality to keep
them from doing so.
$50 long as conditions re-
main as they are there is no
flOggings for anyone from
flOggins and lynchingS-either
men or women, white or col
Ored."
Miss Blagden came to Washing
ton. she said, to find out the con
tents Of a report made on condi
tons of the sharecroppers in Ar,
kansas and submitted to the AAA
which has not been made public.
After keeping other appointments
today pertaining to this report
Miss Blagden said she would take
a train for New York where she
has a speaking engagement to talk
on the Arkansas tenant farmer
situation. There she will be the
honor guest at a mass meeting
sponsored by the League of South
ern Labor.
About the circumstances of the
flogging, Miss Blagden had this
to say:
1--WE went to Earle not as agi-
tatOrs, but to find out If a man
were dead. On June 8 a union
meeting was broken up force
fully. The plantation owners Of
Earle, Ark, were the cause of
this. Among the people beaten
up when this happened was a
cOlOred tenant farmer, Frank
Weems, who was reported dead.
1.-THE union planned a fu-
neral. Negroes disappear under
such mysterious circumstances
in the South that a funeral
without a corpse is not unusual.
The Washington times., 1936-07-14

Rev. Claude Williams, Of Little
Rock, agreed to preach the SER
vice. But rumOrS were heard
that Weems was not dead, so we
decided to investigate and to
call on Mrs. WeemS.
when we arrived in Earle a
car with six belligerent men
took over our automobile and
forced us to drive to the pIanta-
ton of one Of these men. When
we stopped near road we again
were questioned about the union
and about other things, and
they would not believe the truth
of our visit. They said they
would make us tell the truth.
Mr.. Williams was flOgged first,
receiving IA terrible lasheS.
Then / got four. To beat US they
used the back strap of a harness.
about Is inches long, four inches
wide and with a buckle on the
end of it,
About taking action against the
six attackers - whose identity
Miss Blagden says has been estab
liShed-She declared:
"We have q competent legal
assistance counsel, and we are
also backed by the Civil Liber.
ties Union"
The Washington times., 1936-07-14

ATLANTIC CITY. N. ].
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-26
Death of G. K. Chesterton,
Noted English Author

NNE of England's most distinguished
" and interesting authors and crit
les passed from the scene in the death
of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, generally
known as &c. K" He was sixty-two
years old. Chesterton was converted to
Catholicism In 1922 and thereafter
much of his writing was devoted to
his championship of that church. For
many years his writings were very
popular and In 1925 he established his
own weekly magazine. He was the
author of about so books and innu-
merable articles.
Chesterton loved to write something
incongruous and was called ''prince Of
paradoxes." Combative. unconvention-
al, and dogmatic. his was distinctive
style. His outspoken criticisms In ad-
dresses and writings frequently led to
controversies.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-26

The final speech OF
Mr.. Roosevelt's trip was delivered at
Vincennes, Ind, where he dedicated the
handsome memorial to George Rogers
Clark. He paid eloquent tribute to
that conqueror of the Northwest, and
found occasion to appeal for support of
his own program. Said he:
"In his (Clark's) day among the pi-
oneers there were jumpers Of land
claims and those who sought to swim
die their neighbors though they were
poor in this worlds goods and lived in
sparsely settled communities. Today
among our teeming millions there still
are those who by dishonorable means
seek to obtain the possessions of their
unwary neighbors.
"Our modern civilization must con-
stantly protect itself against moral de-
fectives whose detectives are the same
but whose methods are more subtle
than their prototypes of century and
half ago. We do not change our
form of free government when we arm
ourselves with new weapons against
new devices of crime and cupidity."
In "a series of rhetorical questions
the President defended the AAA SUBJ
sides to farmers, soil conservation, re-
forestation, and preservation of wild
life.
From Vincennes Mr.. Roosevelt went
to Hodgenville, KY, for brief visit to
Lineoln's birthplace, and then his train
carried him back to Washington.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-26
Russia to Become Only
"Real Democracy"

Real Democracy
ID USSIA proposes to establish what
IN its rulers assert will be the only
real democracy in the world. A new
constitution, to be promulgated next
fall, has been drawn up under the d.
rection of Josef Stain, the dictator,
and will be acted on by the all-union
congress of soviets on November 20.
This document guarantees protection
for private property, suffrage for all
citizens more than eighteen years old,
regardless Of race, sex, religious be-
lief, and previous activities or prop
erty ownership. The communist party
will be retained as the only recognized
political organization.
There are to be two legislative bod
les, the council Of the union, elected
by the people, and the council Of ma
tionalities, selected by the present in
direct system. These two bodies will
elect a board of 81 officials to run the
government. The chairman of this
board will be equivalent to the presi-
dent of republic.
The official press in Moscow says
bourgeois democracy is dictatorship
of capitalism" whereas the Soviet de-
mocracy will grant the widest rights
to all working people, the "old, ex-
plotting classes" having disappeared
over there.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-26

SdulOTHid, Ill -lDOO
where hiss parents settled after the
Mexican war In which his father
served as a major. 1t was the era OF
the spectacular California gold rush.
He watched miners pan for gold dust
as boy. After graduation from Yale
he set himself up as a mining engi-
neer. Soon he visited the West coast
of Mexico.
He became known as an expert judge
of mining property and was sent to
South Africa by Barney" Barnato,
great Spectator of the last century.
Hammond experienced some romantic
adventures including an acrimonious
encounter with Paul Kruger, president
of the Transvaal republic who SEN
fenced him to be hanged and relented
only on the intervention of the secre-
tary of state.
After developing mining property in
many parts of the world, Mr.. Ham
mond was appointed by President Taft
in 1911 as special ambassador and per-
sonal representative at the coronation
of King George V.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-26
Pershing Says Outlook for
Peace Is Not Bright

CEN. JOHN J. PERSHING Is not
VI optimistic concerning world peace.
Addressing the graduating class at the
United States Military academy on the
fiftieth anniversary Of his own gradua-
ton, the general said mo one can tell
when we shall again need our armies"
He continued: "The situation in the
world today is far from reassuring.
None can foresee the effect upon us of
another world catastrophe. Loyal citi-
zens cannot shut their eyes to the pos
sibility of war. They owe it to all that
is sacred to make ample preparation
against an evil day."
The 276 cadets of the 1886 class go
on three months leave before report
ing to their first stations as second
lieutenants.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-26
Senator Norris Again Will
Support Roosevelt

EOUR years ago Senator George Nor
Il ris Of Nebraska, Independent Re-
publican, warmly supported Franklin
ID. Roosevelt for the Presidency, and
he now announces that he will again
back the Democratic ticket. He urges
his countrymen ito forget partisanship
and come to the support Of the man
who more than any other man in re-
cent years has stood for the welfare
of the common people"
The senator said the Cleveland con-
vention nominated man for President
whose greatest asset is that nobody
knows him and nobody knows what he
stands for. 1t does not necessarily fol-
low from this that the nominee is not
a good man. But it does mean that IL
he will not take orders from the un-
disclosed bosses who made him. then
these eminent gentlemen have been de-
ceived."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-26
Strikes Still Annoy New
Pecirne in France

a FTER settling general strike In
"A which 100000 workers had par
palyzed the industrial life Of France,
the new popular front" government
under Premier Leon Blum was faced
with further difficulties in the form OF
a series of new strikes. Although the
government had toiled day and night
trying to adjust disputes and though
most of the demands Of strikers had
been satisfied by employers. there was
a smaller return to work than had
been expected. 1t was reported that
as fast as strikes in some industries
were settled, others were affected.
The extent of the permanent ravages
which will be left in the wake of this
upheayal will only become apparent
later on. Some observers predicted
that private industry would be forced
into bankruptcy so as to secure oper-
alton by the state. But whether Pre-.
mier Blum and his popular front"
government were prepared for such ex-
IRENE measures was not at all certain.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-26
Two New Cardinals Are
Appointed by the Pope

TN A secret consistory Pope Plus Xi
l. raised to the rank of cardinal two
OF his old friends, Giovanni Mercati
and Eugenio Tisserant. Twenty-seven
cardinals were present at the cere-
mt-y, among them being Cardinal
Dougherty of Philadelphia.
During the consistory the pope for
mally proclaimed appointments of three
American and two Canadian bishops.
They were Msgr. George L. Leech,
bishop of Harrisburg, Pa; Msgr. Hugh
L. Lamb, auxiliary bishop to Cardinal
Dougherty, Msgr. William Adrian.
Nashville, Tenn; Msgr. Francis Car
rol, Calgary, Alta, and Msgr. Patrick
Bray, st. John.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-26

He also advised the development Of
a nationwide "container" service in
the movement Of freight by railway,
highway and water, predicting that
this would save millions of dollars in
the handling of present freight and
would create much new business. The
containers are now used in limited
manner in some localities and indus
tries. ss ~.,
Eastman recommended searching
examination and thorough overhaul
ing" of railroad pullman service, and
a plan of operation under which the
Pullman company would own and op-
crate the cars and railroads, leasing
them and retaining the entire revenue
from the sleeping and parlor car serV-
ice,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-06-26
Q western Newspaper Union.

to do so under the Constitution as II
now stands.
He likewise advocated currency ex-
pressed in terms of gold and convert
ssie into gold, adding: Il recognize
however, that this requisite must moi
be made until and unless 1t can be
done without penalizing our domestic
economy and without injury to our pro.
ducers of agricultural products and
other raw materials"
Concerning the merit system in civil
service, he suggested that 1t should
include every position in the admins
trative service below the rank of as
sistant secretaries of major depart
ments and should cover the entire Post
Office department.