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Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
STATE SENATE
CANDIDATES TO
SPEAK FRIDAY

Candidates for state senate on all
political parties will speak at the
open air meeting at Imperial city
park at 8 o'clock Friday night. The
meeting is sponsored by the Demo
cratic club of Imperial under the
leadership of T. d. Mccall, presi-
dent.
Mark Rose will speak for the ma
tional Democratic ticket and j. D..
Adams will tell why federal land
bank loans are not being made in
Imperial Valley, Mccall said. Candi-
dates for all political offices will be
invited to speak at meetings to be
held prior to the August primaries,
each meeting to be devoted to one
office. National political candidates
also will be discussed at each meet
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
VALLEY TOPS
ENTIRE AREA
FOR 3RD DAY
Temperature Scars
To New Peaks In
Region

Southern California swell
tered under the most op-
pressive heat wave of the
summer Thursday, with I'M
perial Valley ecord n G
highest temperatures in the south
land
Threatening white clouds crouch
ed along the horizons encircling
Imperial Valley, closing the desert
area in ring of blazing heat. A
noon temperature of 113 il Ell
Centro made late afternoon ther-
mometer reading of 1T probable.
1t would be the second hottest day
of the summer, surpassed only by
Tuesdays reading of 118 at the
official weather station.
Brawley's temperatures were
from one to- two degrees above
Ell Centro's throughout the day.
The rest of southern California
and Arizona suffered along with
Imperial Valley. The noon read
ing in Los Angeles was 80, COM
plicated by humidity far above
that felt in the valley. Rosalind
Russell, film star, collapsed in the
103-degree heat of a stage on the
Continued on Page 2, Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
TWO ACCIDENTS
REPORTED HERE;
NONE INJURED

Two automobile accidents occur
red on Imperial county highways
Wednesday night but no one was in
jured. Only one car was implicated
in each accident.
Carter Hixson White of 174 Curtis
street, Meriden, Conn, went to sleep
while driving west three miles west
of Dixieland at 2 a. m. Thursday.
The car struck a bridbe rail. crossed
to the left side of the highway and
was facing east When it came to
rest. Robert A. Turner, r. H. Turn
er, and Henry w. Maxant, all OF
Massachusetts, were asleep in the
car at the time OF the accident.
Because he was driving at too
great speed, Leroy Raymond Ward
of Ell Centro failed to make the
turn east of Heber at 10:30 o'clock
Wednesday night. The car turned
over once and landed in the ditch
beside the highway.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
LINCOLN BLDG.
ABANDONED BY
TRUSTEES HERE

Lincoln school in Ell Centre will
not be used for school purposes
during the coming term as state
building inspector recently declared
it to be unsafe in the event GER
tain type of earthquake should oc-
cur in this region.
The inspector said the building
might be used with safety but mem
berS of the school board decided it
was unwise to run the risk with the
safety of school children at stake.
While plans for accommodating
the Lincoln school pupils still are in
a formative state, it is possible ad-
ditional class rooms will be erected
on the grounds at Wilson school.
Other means for handling the sit
uation still are being studied by the
board and school officials.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16

national convention into informal
endorsement of Rep. William Lem
ke, Union party candidate, for
President of the United States.
mo doubt in this assemblage to-
day." the perspiring priest shouted
to the delegates who fusilladed
cheers at him in shrill disharmony,
there are southern politicians who
think more of their jobs than they
do of the principles of DR.. Town
send. Ladies and gentlemen, you
have them here among you"
1t was recalled that caucus of
solid south delegates last night un-
animously agreed to oppose con
vention endorsement of any third
candidate this year, including Lem
ke, who is Coughlin'S candidate.
"They jump up when they hear
the word Democrat" the priest
charged. But don't forget that
these are the people who sold you
out to the Rothschilds and the in
ternational money changers"
DR.. Townsend today revealed to
the United Press plans which prob
ably will lead him to the speaking
platform this year with Father
Coughlin and the Rev Gerald L.
K. Smith in support of the presi-
Dental candidacy of Representative
Lemke.
Townsend conferred early today
with Father Coughlin and has been
constantly in touch here with the
Rev. Smith, leader of the Share
Our-Wealth" organization created
by the late Huey p. Long.
Townsend told the United Press
after the conference he would vote
for Lemke, union party candidate
for president, but said it was a
personal choice, not binding upon
the Townsend movement.
Smith and Coughlin are pledged
to Lemke.
Coughlin came to the platform
fresh from conference at which he
and DR.. Townsend and the Sew
Gerald L. K. Smith agreed to sup
port the presidential candidacy of
Rep. William Lemke, candidate of
the Union party.
Delegates arose in screaming
chorus of assent as Father Cough
lin called the president Franklin
Double-CroSsing Roosevelt
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16

JIlC hlllS. ogoOdllNlVio anu PciiSN
pounced on the man and over
powered him.
At Scotland Yard, the asSailant
gave his name as George Andrew
Mahon of London, and described
himself as a journalist" He is
partially crippled, middle-aged and
slightly bald.
The evidence presented at
hearing in Bow street police court
seemed to tend towards indicating
he is harmless. Mahon was rather
lncoherent and denied any nten-
ton or desire to hurt the king.
He said he merely wanted TO
protest" but did not say what he
desired to protest.
The incident occurred willie the
king, in the uniform of the Gre
nader guards, was riding his horse
at the head of a military parade
Continued on Page 2, Col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
THIRD VICTIM
OF GAS BLAST
DIES OF BURNS

LODI, Cal, July Is. U.P)-The
death toll of a gas explosion which
wrecked the home of David Graf
-igna, wealthy merchant and vine
yardist, mounted to three today
with the death of his son, Paul, 10.
Mrs. Iva Graffigna, 35, the boys
mother, and her unborn child died
during an emergency operation
directed at attempting to save the
life of the infant. 1t was deliver
ed stillborn, and the mother died
shortly afterward.
Anna May Graffigna, :, was in
a critical condition from burns
and injuries. Graffigna also was
injured seriously, but ne is ex-
pected to recover. Three other
children, Billy, 8. Charles, 4, and
Ida, 18 suffered minor burns and
injuries.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
Brawley Postoffice
Offered Nine Sites

Nine bids, ranging up to $240 900,
were presented Thursday morning
for a site upon which the new
Brawley post office will be built.
Bids were received and opened by
lea Adams, Brawley post master,
One Ell Centre firm was among
the bidders. 1t was the Tyler
Insurance Agency who had obtain
ed options on six lots at North
Plaza and E Streets. The proper
ty which has a frontage of $50
feet, was offered for $1,000.
Outstanding offer was the pro-
posal OF the city of Brawley to
provide a site free of cost in the
north half of the plaza. Ninety
days was requested in which to
determine whether the city is en-
powered to donate the land and
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16

of Illinois, Indiana, southern Mi
chigan, and Kentucky but fore
casters saw a continuation of hot
weather in the Ohio Valley, the
upper and middle Mississippi VAL
ley, the lower Missouri Valley and
the central plain states.
It's actually a regeneration Of
heat over the Dakotas that is con-
tinuing the drought For acaSter
j. r. Lloyd reported.
LAS the hot air moves east the
west portion of the DakotaS will
be cooler tonight and the Dako-
taS, northwestern Minnesota, and
Nebraska will enjoy cooler weather
tomorrow.
I'VE can't predict now whether
this new mass of cool air will reach
other sections OF the middlewest.' .
The best rains fell during the
night in southern Illinois and
Kentucky. Owensboro, KY, rev.
eled in 2.O2 inches, Effingham, Ill,
had 1.35 inches, Williamstown and
Lexington, KY, "a, Richmond, My.
80, and Bowling Green, go.
Showers benefited crops in CEN
tral Illinois after temperatures a.
gain sored to above 100 degrees
yesterday. The mercury reached
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
DEPUTY SEEKS
MULES, BARLEY
In THEFT CASE

An elusive team of mules and
60 sacks of barley are the object
of a search by Deputy Sheriff
Fred Elicit.
Larry Wiley, a prisoner in the
Riverside county Jail, is believed
to have stolen the mules from the
Holiday ranch near Brawley. Will
ley told Elliott he appropriated
the barley but Elliott has no re-
cord of such a theft.
The mules, according t0 Wiley,
were stopped by officers at the
highway inspection on the Los
Angeles highway when he attempt
ed to take them from the valley.
He insisted he turned them loose
in a Brawley feed yard. Elliott has
an idea the mules and the barley
may have come together some
way but Sc far the tn .eads of
evidence are widely divergent.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
WOMAN, LOVER
WILL DIE FOR
POISON MURDER

OSSINING, N. Y, July 16. up
Mrs. Frances Creighton, so ter
orparalyzed that she will be
carried to the electric chair, and
her former paramour, Everett Ap-
plegate, pay with their lives to-
night for the arsenic murder of
the latter's wife.
Their last hope of escaping death
in Sing Sing prisons electric
chair faded today after a special
commission appointed by Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman reported Mrs.
Creighton's so-called paralysis is
"in part hysterical and grossly
exaggerated by conscious mailing
ering."
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16

LOS ANGELES, July 16. W,P)-
An offer by Robert S. James, ac-
cused torture SLAYER of his seventh
wife, to thrust his leg into a box
of live rattlesnakes was sharply
rejected today by Superior Judge
Charles w. Fricke, declaring he
had no intention of turning the
trial into a sideshOw."
The proposal came from De-
fense Attorney Russell f. Parsons,
who explained his client was will
ing to attempt the stunt to fur
ther defense contention that
snake would not strike in close
quarters.
The state charges that James
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
U. S. PREDICTS.
PRICE BOOST.
IN FOODSTUfF
Drought Will Cause
Increase Say
Experts

WASHINGTON, July 16.
(UP)-An increase in the
price of many foods, partly
as a result of the drought,
was predicted today by the
bureau of agricultural economies
of the agriculture department.
Commodities named by the bu-
reau as likely to increase in price
in the near future included but
ter, cheese, eggs and higher
grades of cattle.
The agricultural experts pre-
dicted a reduction in the cost of
potatoes, hogs, low-grade cattle,
lambs, poultry and wool.
Wheat prices, it was predicted,
will remain about as nigh as the
Liverpool prices of the last three
years when American production
of some varieties was le5s than
domestic requirements.
Wheat futures both in Liver
pool and Waterbury probably will
average slightly higher than last
year because of a prospective world
shortage, it was said.
The July l world carfyover Of
wheat was estimated at ABOUT 225,-
100000 bushels less than on the
corresponding date in 1855. The
American domestic csrryover was
said to be about 125,000,G00 bu-
shells.
Feed grain prices, the experts
said, have risen recently as a 1e-
suit of the threatened damage to
corn and short crops of Oats and
barley. Weather was expected to
exercise a dominant effeCG on fu-
ture fluctuations in the prices OF
cereals, particularly corn.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
- SNAKES DEFIED -
Barber Would Thrust Foot i'm Den
TRIAL SIDESHOW-

before drowning his seventh wife,
Mary, in a bathtub, plunged her
leg into a box containing a
killer" rattlesnake which prompt
ly struck.
Charles ii. Hope, who confessed
completely in the alleged torture
plot, described this "scene of hOr-
ror" in earlier trips to the wit
ness stand.
Courtroom attaches, still shak-
en- from seeing one of the two
diamond back rattlesnakes the
state has exhibited as evidence"
escape in the courtroom late yes
terday, breathed sigh Of relief
when Judge Fricke sternly spurn-
ed the offer.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
HARDWARE COMPANY
IN POWER PICTURE

Developments in Imperial Valleys
power controversy were featured
Thursday by the announcement of
the valleys largest retail hardware
company that it is cooperating both
with the Imperial Irrigation District
and the Southern Sierras Power
company in sales of electrical appli-
anceS.
The battle between municipal
and private interests centers cur
rently about the power companys
offer of low interest rates on long
term purchases of electrical appli-
ances, provided customers agree to
use only power furnished by the
Southern SierraS.
The Imperial Valley Hardware
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16

Approximately 521 signatures
are on the petitions. Filing will
not take place till a later date,
Whitelaw said.
A government grant OF $53, 1872
would be asked il the bond cleo
ton should carry. 1t is proposed
to have the city vote $65, 1000 bonds
to provide the city's share of con-
struction under the PWA.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
Joe Louis Clears
Up Rumor of Dope

CHICAGO, July 16. U.P)-The
Chicago Times in a copyright story
from Detroit said today Joe Louis
had signed an affidavit clearing
up the gossip and scandal" that
have bounded him since his de-
feat by Max Schmeling in New
York June 49,
Louis denied, the Times said,
that he was "doped" before the
fight Schmeling won on his mer-
its and the fight was on the level
the statement said.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16

if necessary, to permit a city cleo
ton on the subject.
Other bids we're:
A site at Third and E streets for
SIS, 400 presented by Ed Hale.
Lots II to II inclusive, block 70,
North Sixth and E streets, $4,000,
submitted through F.. w. Greer in
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
POLLY MORAN
DELAYS DIVORCE

HOLLYWOOD, July 16. W.P)--
Polly Moran today delayed filing
divorce charges against her husky
husband, Martin Malone, once a
coast intercollegiate welterweight
champion who objected with fists
to being called MIR. Moran" by
visiting Elks and officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
PASADENA REPORTS
ANOTHER QUAKE

PASADENA, July 16. W.P)-Tbe
Carnegie chronological laboratory
said today a moderately strong"
earthquake approximately 1850
miles distant was recorded at IL:
10.43 and tl:14.0i p. m. tPSTl
last night. The direction was un-
determined.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16

compromise
Their strike plan affects the en-
tire federal district, corresponding
to the American district of Colum-
bia, and portions of seven popu-
lous surrounding states in which
America, Canadian and Belgian
industrial interests are important.
Residents of the capital and
other cities laid in supplies of
candles and lamps. Housewives
were worried because their is No
gas in the capital, and most COOK
ing is done by electricity.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16

for the construction of the city
wide system failed at a special
election May 25. Groups of resi-
dents thereafter circulated petit
tions to gain support fer a second
election to vote the bonds. City
councilmen directed Whitelaw to
check the legality of the petitions
and the attorney said he would
send one petition to the Public
Works Administration for approx
oil
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
ELECTRICAL WORKERS STRIKE MAY
THROW MEXICO CITY IN DARKNESS

MEXICO CITY, July Is. UP)-
A strike of electrical workers, set
FOR noon, today confronted indus
try over a wide area with the pres
pect of paralysis and thousands Of
housewives with the threat of
cold meals and primitive means
of lighting
Employees of the Mexican light
and power company, a Canadian
Belgian corporation, were ordered
out when their demands for high
pay and better working conditions
were refused after long efforts at
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
QUICK SPY
TRIAL EXPECTED

WASHINGTON, July 10. lU.Pb
Navy officials pressed prepar-
atiOns today for n quick trial Of
John 5. FarnSworth, former Ma
Wy officer accused of selling
navy secrets 10 Japanese gov
ernment agents. in belief evil
dence against him will prove ex-
istence of spy plot Of unguess-
ed proportions.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
LAST MINUTE
FLASHES
GIRLS STORY
TERMED "WIERD"

WASHINGTON, July TO. lU.HI
Police tackled the label "wierd
fabrication on Margaret Louise
Bells Luciano vengeance" story
today and decided to turn the
21-year- girl over to Bait
more authorities to face a charge
of stealing 500 in bonus money
from a war veteran.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16

A New One
RR has been called everything
from sophisticated to just plain
dumb, but it remained for Mrs.
Virginia Maupin to think up a new
one. Radical Rube," she calls us.
Mrs. Maupin thus introduces her
complaint against RR's recent re-
porting that an Ell Centro woman
had been dropped from relief rolls
because she got a beauty parlor
going over from toenails to tonsorial
top. She asks:
Did you ever sit in group of
critical women?
Did you ever pass the street
corner and see the accusing eyes of
men? my deah-RR bluShesD
Must woman throw her pride
away because she is on relief?"
Well, yes and no!
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
FREIGHT DERAILED
NEAR MARTINEZ

MARTINEZ, Cal. July is. UH
Two cars of a Southern Pacific
railroad freight train were de
rallied at Oleum, Is miles west Of
here today and 10 passenger
trains were delayed for several
hours. No injuries were reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
Couple Killed in
Crossing Accident

SAN FRANCISCO, July Is. W.R)-
Southern Pacific railroad officials
today announced John Boellaard
and his wife. Marie Isabella Boel-
laard, of Redwood City, Cal, were
killed here today when their truck
was struck by train at a crossing,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
MAJOR LEAGUE
SEQ r IS
AMERICAN 4 LEAGI ~

AMEkItAN LEAas I ~
Cnlcaeo .........,.. Ofu
washington ....,.,..-. 600
Cain and Sewell; Appleton, Cas-
carella and Bolton.
Cleveland ......300 0o1 012-7 II O
philadelphia e.. 600 600 0OO-0 8
Allen and Pytlak; Fink. Gumpert
and Hayes.
Petroit ,,.......1dq@99 d@9 091 o1d qo9-2 goo 2
Bridges and Hayworth; Broaca
and Dickey.
First Game:
st. Louis ......OO2 10 oil IL >
Boston .........2l0 0O0 O00-3 I
Caldwell and Giuliani; Grove and
r. Ferrell
Second Game:
st. Louis ......l10 600 020-4 /
Boston ....... .01O 600 301-5
Thomas and Giulani; Henry and
Berg.
NATIONAL
New York ......012 100 12o-1 IS .
Gumbert. Gabler. Cofman, Cas-
tleman, Schumacher and Mancuso;
Blanton, Brown, Birkofer and Fin
ney, Padden.
Brooklyn at Cincinnati to be played
later date
Boston ..............0 900 90
Chicago .............0 900 90
Cantwell and Lopez; Warneke and
O'Dea.
Philadelphia .........000
st. Louis .......,.....0O 600
Jorgens and Grace; J. Dean and
Davis,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
Townsend Will Back
Lehmke in Campaign
For u. s. Presidency
Third Party Candidates Receives Unofficial Mark
Of Approval at OARP Conventions Roosevelt
Described as Liar And Betrayer"
OO-

PUBLIC HALL Cleveland, July 16 (UP)-Challeng-
ing President Roosevelt 'ar and betrayer," ridcung
the Republican candidacy of Gov Af M Landon and link
ing both with Communisms Earl Browder Father Charles
B. Coughn today sampeded the Townsend Pension Plan
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
NEW STORM DRAIN
PETITION OFFERED
City Attorney Checking Validity of Documents
Asking New Election to Approve Project
For Municipal Construction

Fifteen petitions calling for the re-submssion of the
Ell Centre storm drain project to vote Of the people
turned to City Attorney Dorsey Whiteaw We'd
nesday night with instructions that he check them from
legal angle The proposed bond issue To provide funds
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
Prairie States Hit
BY New Heat Blasts
Boosting Death Total
Scattered Showers Bring Temporary Relief Into
Some States; Forecast is For Continued
Destruction in Drought Areas

CHICAGO, July 16 UP)-The burning prairies of
the Dakotas generated new blasts of heat today that
threatened to increase the death toll to upwards of 1000
and spread destruction Americas drought basin
Scattered showers BROUGHT tempOrary relief to parts
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
KING EDWARD
ATTACKED BY
Gun WIELDER
Would-be Assassin Ouerpowered in Wild
Attempt on Rulers Life; Parade
Goes on After Incident
Copyright 1896 bay United Press

LONDON, July 16. (UP)-A middleaged eccentric
sprang King Edward VIII during Royal procession
near Buckingham Palace today flourishng a loaded re-
vover and apparently making attempt to assassnate
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
Life Has Difficulties

LDt HdS DIIIICUIIIcS-
DC Raynor Clemons returned
from a few days leave of absence
with a rare knowledge of house
trailers but without having found
one tall enough for him to stand
up in. He should compare notes
with Neal Gavin.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
A Word in Time

One Of RR'S more embarrassed
operatives reports mirror trouble.
That is, there's male person living
on the 700 block on Orange avenue
who negligently leaves his door
open to the passing breezes while
in the bathroom, exposing his per-
son to a mirror on the porch which
in turn exposes it to the embar-
rassed operative and others. RR
hastily informed the operative that
he doesn't live on Orange avenue
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
Justified Claim

Justified Claim
Councilman Gordon Scriven
claims he's the coolest headed man
on the city board It's cooler in
the higher attitudes, it seems.
o Getting Along
Jack Stark vas in hiding Thurs
day from fellow members of the
ECPD. 1t was his 30-something
birthday.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-16
MARKETS AN BRIEE

Buffers Los Angeles SIC; butter
Tat, Imperial valley Lob. ranch,
Grade \, 451Rc; manufn curing milk,
4Oci route gathered cream, BE.
l.. A. hny-G. 9. NO. 4, extra Ieafy,
h7-1SI u. =. No. l. S14.5O; u. $. No.
leafy. S14.OO; q. =, No. =. $500
1865 Minneapolis flax 2OS-213.
Evening star., 1936-09-08

Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone,
assisted by Ginger Rogers, Alan Jones
and Francia White, will open a new
variety series on WRC at $50. which
in the future will feature Fred As
taire. The high light of the initial
broadcast will be an original Benny
mystery drama in the form Of an
operetta. Johnny Green's orchestra
will provide the musical setting.
WMAL and VOL will broadcast at
$50 a play-by-play description of
the foot ball game in the Polo Grounds
between the New York Giants, East
ern pro champions, and a team of
college all-stars. Graham McNamee
will describe the game for WMAL and
Dick Fishell for VOL.
Ruby Mercer, Metropolitan Opera
soprano; Howard Marsh, tenor, and
Maude Nugent, theatrical star of
of the gay '90s. will contribute to the
Hammerstein Music Hall program on
WJSV at Z. Miss Mercer will sing
Annie Laurie" Marsh will feature
a selection from "The Student
Prince" the operetta in which he
had leading role.
Carole Lombard, blond screen star,
Evening star., 1936-09-08

events of national importance to agri.
culture. The broadcasts will originate
on the scene Of activity in eight Diff
ferent States-Massacfuse Iowa,
Texas, Missouri, Nebraska, Illinois,
California and Ohio.
The first broadcast will come from
the Eastern States Exposition in
Springfield, Mass, September %.
X A. HATHAWAY, executive secre-
tary Of the Institute of Radio
Service Men, has estimated that the
Nations radio set owners will spend
$3.50, 0,000,0 900 this year to keep their
receivers in repair. This sum, he
said, represents an increase of so
per cent over last years volume.
According to Hathaway, the busi-
ness will be shared by approximately
$4,000 radio service men in all parts
Of the country.
Evening star., 1936-09-08
PRESIDENT SETS DAY
September 81 Designated for Gold
Star Mothers.

President Roosevelt yesterday is
sued proclamation designating Sun
day. September ~, as Gold Star Moth
ers' day. He directed that all Gov
ernment buildings display the United
States flag on that day and called on
the people of the country to display
flags and otherwise give public ex-
preston "of the love, honor and rev.
erence Of the people of the United
States for the American Gold Star
Mothers"
This proclamation was issued by
the President in compliance with a
resolution passed by Congress last
June.