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Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
NEW LIQUOR.
SET.UP GOES.
into EFFECT
Central Control To
Be Vested In
One Man

SACRAMENTO, June 30.
(UP) = A reorganization
plan which supposedly will
en- d district relationships
and remove much of the
liquor control work board mem
bers was made effective today by
the State Board of Equalization
George M. Stout, former secre-
tary of the veterans welfare board,
became state liquor administrator
in fact as we'll as in the title when
the board voted to make him re-
sponsible for statewide enforcement
of the beverage control act. He
will answer to the board as whole
rather than to individual members
who in the past have directed IL
quor control in their own districts.
Stout has held the title Of il
quor administrator for the past
year but has not served in that
capacity. He has devoted most
of his time to acting as referee in
license revocating hearings.
Explaining its action, which fol-
lowed the airing of graft charges
in Oakland and Los Angeles, the
board issued a statement which
said:
I'm attempting to give individual
consideration to liquor license mat
ters we have found that our time
has been absorbed by these almost
to the exclusion of all other func-
Continued on Page 6; Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
BOARD PUTS
END TO PLAN
or COMPANY
Power Firm Repeats
Intention To
Meet Cut

Three definite pronounce
ments widened the breach
Tuesday between the Impe-
rial Irrigation District and
the Southern Sierras Power
company when the power company
refused immediate sale of its
perial valley system to
the district, the district broke off
negotiations for cooperative oper-
alton and the power company re-
iterated its intention to meet elec-
tricity price cuts in the Brawley
area.
Forerunning dramatic develop
ments later in the DAY was the
statement of power company Off
cials that I'VE have already an
nounced that We will meet any
district rates in the Brawley ter
ritory, making our own reductions
retroactive to the time the dis
trict installed service MAY 18)"
The statement referred to service
from the districts municipal stand
by plant at Brawley, where the
district posted lower rates than
these of the power company.
Almost simultaneously, President
A. B. West of the power company
sent to the district board of di-
rectors a letter refusing to con-
Continued on Page 6; Col. 4
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
HEALD REPORTS
TAX LAND PLAN
STUDIES MADE

District Attorney Elmer Heald,
accompanied by Mrs. Heald and Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Heald of San Fran
cisco, returned to Ell Centre Mon
day night after having attended
the district attorneys convention at
Lake Tahoe.
The convention was attended by
50 of the So district attorneys of
the state. 1t developed that the
problems relative to the delinquent
tax land held by jointly cities, state
and counties as we'll as by irriga-
ton districts, are causing difficulty
in other parts of the state as well
as in Imperial county. Heald said
the plan in vogue here is being
studied and followed elsewhere.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
HORROR CRIME
DISCOVERED BY
SIX-YEAR-OLD

OGDEN, Utah, June 80. UP)-
A six-year-old deaf mute girl ran
to a corner store today and led
a Mortified neighborhood grocer
to a shambles in which her grand
mother and grandfather lay beaten
to death.
The child's mother and 82-year-
old great-grandfather lay semi
conscious from a beating with a
pickaXe handle, welded, police
said, by the child's step-father,
George Mortensen, 37-year-old
cosmetics salesman.
The case was clean-cut ex-
ample of premeditated murder,
police said.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
DISTRICT GETS
LARGE SUM In
ASSESSMENTS

Mondays collection of Imperial
Irrigation district assessments total
ed $50, ,32975, this sum representing
the payments made over the
counter and does not include the
checks in the stacks of mail ac-
cumulated over the weekend
Payments under the 10-year plan
were not included in the total be-
cause of the length of time re-
quired to segregate them, accord
ing to Miss Winnie Barry, assessor
collector.
Total collections made for this as
seSsment period will not be avail
able Immediately, she said, since
they have to be taken from the
mail and added to the sums which
have been paid this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
Dairy Committee
Meets Wednesday

Imperial county dairy committee
members will meet at the farm
bureau office in the court house at
8 p m. Wednesday, to discuss ques-
tions to be brought up at the COM
ing regional meeting in San Diego.
The regional meeting in San Di-
ego will be held July IL, and mat
ters of interest to Imperial county
dairymen are expected to come up
for consideration.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
FRENCH STRIKE HITS
NEW AREA MORE MEN
LEHMAN PLANS
TO ASK OFFICE
IN N. Y. AGAIN

ALBANY, June 30. U.P)-Gov-
ernor Herbert H. Lehman an
nounced today he had submitted
to the draft" movement and
would seek reelection in Novem-
Der.
Lehman's announcement did not
come as a complete surprise to
capital observers because he had
appeared ready to accept since the
tremendous ovation accorded him
at the Democratic national con-
vention in Philadelphia last week
Democratic leaders of more than
twC-thirds of the states in the
nation urged that he run again
because they believed he would
aid the national Democratic ticket
in President RooSevelt's home
state.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30

Mayor Roy WOmack of Ell Cen
tro outlined the city councils de-
sire to reduce the number of
vacant lots and to help prospec-
tive home owners to obtain loans
to finance their building costs.
He urged that the three taxing
agencies reduce the frozen assets
by cutting down the NUMBER of
tax decided lots and get the prop
erty back on the tax rolls.
The district, through its board
chairman, Evan T. HeweS, prom
ised cooperation and offered to
have the necessary legal work
done by the district legal depart
ment if the city so desired
The supervisors renewed their
contract with DR.. Warren F. Fox,
county health officer for the sew
enth consecutive year
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30

liIlCOs
Nearly a thousand volunteers,
most of them CCC youths, were
fighting the stubborn blaze under
conditions that were said to be
very fair"
A moderate wind was whipping
the flames still ahead but forestry
officials expressed the hope of
gaining the upper hand before
many hours elapse. The fire was
being brought under control until
a sudden wind whipped it into new
stretches of timber late yesterday.
DR.. Frank G. Nolan of Holly
wood, chief medical officer of the
California forestry medical corps,
reported that more than 200 VOL
unteers had been treated fer burns,
bruises and other minor wounds.
Hundreds of the firefighters also
were suffering from extreme fat
igue after remaining at their post
for as much as 48 hours. Nine doc
tors were on duty, treating the
injured.
According to Charles Plummer,
federal fire dispatcher, the fire
was driving northwestward toward
uninhabited areas. The Lake Ar
rowhead resort region and other
mountain cabins are in no way
endangered, Plummer emphasized.
He described it as ground
fire" that was eating its way
through the tall timber, rather than
spreading through the upper BRAN
ches. He estimated that less than
thousand acres had been burned
over.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30

GIGSS Ol SGCCkOWI6TS lClb WlJllOuG
pasture and crop farmers whose
fields have been burned out by
whitening sunshine.
Federal officials attending the
meeting were to reveal details of
the administrations plan to en-
ploy $4,000 men on dam and irri-
cation projects in the Dakotas,
Montana, Wyoming and parts OF
Minnesota.
Conferees planned to consider
modification of the federal SOIL
conservation program, distribution
of feed in drought areas, cattle
buying program, lowering OF
freight rates for cattle shipped
out of drought areas, and eXpan-
sion of work and direct relief.
Iowa and Minnesota officials
were expected to discuss shortages
of poison bran needed to stop
grasshopper and insect plaques de-
stroying hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of crops in their
states.
Cattle are being shipped out of
the Dakotas "by the trainl0ad,'
officials were informed. Rivers
and streams have turned into
mud lined bitches in the DakotaS,
it was reported. Reservoir lakes in
one section of North Dakota were
said to resemble beds of dust"
Although showers were predicted
ever most of the drought area
this week, it was believed they
would come too late to save crops
already burned or stunted, or lit
orally torn apart by grasshoppers.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
STORES REMAIN
OPEN LATE FOR
FRIDAY CROWDS

Grocery and department stores
will remain open on the evening
of Friday, July 3, according to an
nouncement by the Ell Centro
chamber of commerce.
Ell Centre hardware stores have
decided to close their doors as usual
at o'clock Friday night, but down
town grocery and meat markets and
general merchandise and apparel
stores will remain open in order to
give the residents of Ell Centro and
the rural areas opportunity to shop
for the weekend
Saturday, July 4, is a national
holiday and will be observed by all
Ell Centre business concerns. For
this reason, food and apparel
stores will remain open Friday
evening.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
FORCE ACCOUNT
FIGURES GIVEN
OUT BY FERTIG

The number of man-hourS of
work expended on the force aC-
count Of the All American canal
near CaleXico since work began
Oct. %, 1884, totaled ASS 5,4291a and
the workers were paid a total of
$598,416,07, j. H. Fertig, division
engineer, said recently. The work
ended June 16, 1886.
Wages were paid to skilled and
unskilled laborers, team and trac-
tor drivers and Sub-foremen. The
salaries of superintendent and
engineers were paid in a separate
account, Fertig pointed out.
Calls for bids en- structures and
siphons in this sector are awaited
at the force account office at CAL
exico.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
WHAT ABOUT CONSTITUENTS?
ZIONCHECK NOT MUCH WORRIED

tuentS who will pass on the ques-
ton of his reelection this fall.
Whatever it is" he said, it'll
be good"
Jauntily, he insisted that he was
sane; that his confinement, first in
a Washington hospital, later in the
Maryland sanitarium, had been
caused by the persecution" of un-
named persons. He escaped Sunday
morning, he said, because he did
MT care to be prosecuted any longer
and feared he might actually lose
his mind because of the proximity
of genuine lunatics.
CHICAGO, June 30. UYH - Rep.
Marion A. zioncheck is planning
to fly from Chicago to Seattle to-
night, reservations at Northwest
Airlines, Inc, revealed today.
We'll take him if he isn't drunk,
and if he's docile," airline officials
said
The reservations, made by the
Pennsylvania airlineS of Washing
ton, were for George Bishop, capitol
policeman, and Kenneth Romney,
house Sergeant-at-arms. Bishop is
accompanying Zioncheck from
Washington by train.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
New Death Record
Set in California

SACRAMENTO, June 80 U,P)-A
new record in injuries and fatali-
ties was established on California
highways the first four months of
this year, despite safety drives and
various preventive measures, the
state department of motor We
hicles revealed today.
There were 886 deaths and 14155
injuries caused by 10,699 crashes
during the four month period end
ed April 80 Compared with the
corresponding period of year ago,
these figures showed an increase of
73 deaths, 1T injuries and 352
crashes.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30

Bookmakers at Paris race tracks
remained on strike.
A serious situation was threaten
ed at the great port of Marseilles
where last week sailors hauled down
the red flags they had hoisted over
occupied, idle vessels.
Trouble began in Algeria when 400
striking natives stoned mineral
train at the Ouenza mines. They
Continued on Page 6; Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
Car Hits Porch;
Misses End Auto

In attempting to avoid collision
with a double parked automobile
at 1923 Euclid avenue, Ell Centro,
RoscC Canadine drove his auto
mobile head on into a house at
that address Monday night.
The car jumped the curb and
crashed into the porch of the
dwelling, damaging it to the eX-
tent of $40 Ell Centre police were
informed.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
Hearing Continued
In Assault Charge

Preliminary hearing for Lillian
Jackson, 80, arrested on charges of
assault with caustic chemicals up
on the person of Yssac Sandobal
was continued until 3 o'clock Thurs
day afternoon in Ell Centre justice
court. The Brawley Negro woman
pleaded not guilty TO the charge.
She was released from the county
jail recently upon the provision of
$1,000 bail.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
FIRE DESTROYS
LOADED TRUCK

One tire and part of the engine
are all that remain of the water
melon loaded truck which was de-
stroyed in a fire on the Los An
geles highway near Westmorland at
6 o'clock. Monday night.
Sirigon Balakin, 20, was en- route
from Imperial Valley to Parlier
when the truck suddenly burst into
flames. 1t was a smouldering wreck
in a few moments, Balakin told
California Highway patrolmen.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
SELASSIE APPEARS
BEFORE LEAGUE GROUP

GENEVA, June 80. W.D- Em-
peror Halle Selassie of Ethiopia,
deposed and exiled by the Italian
conquest of his kingdom, appeal
ed to the nations of the world
represented at the league assem-
bly, tonight for the protection of
his country.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30

Come One, Come ALL
Here and now, RR wants to put
in his objection to such pictures
as San Francisco" at the United
Artists theater. They bring back
the old itch RR has been attempt
ing to overcome for so long-and
anyone who's lived in Frisco
Dont let the boys up there know
that nickname was uSedD knows
what we mean. Just when you gev
reconciled to life somewhere else,
then they make that sort of a fill
um. For that matter, even the
name San Francisco should be
banned. Why is it there aren't
any, or at least net many, cities
with a pull like that?
The picture, though, is really
masterpiece, from Barbary Coast
to earthquake and fire. RR could
even feel the theater shake (And
the ground DID open up, in case
you doubt it'd The man who
wrote it couldn't have originated
any other place but in the City
That Knows How he got the at
mOSpnere SO perfectly.
o
SCmeOne Is Wrong
Somebody's got to be wrong"
Dec zinn contends. DR.. Findley
and the stand-patter Republicans
claim every word Of the Cleve-
land keynote talk was gospel, and
Bill Clements, Penny Richmond,
al hn Of
the Demos contend the Philadel-
phia keynoter was absolutely right.
"In other words" Doc says, "the
king can do no wrong. Seems
to RR it's all a question of who
is the king
Convention Report
This is Cal Rector's version of
the national convention of the ju-
nior chamber of commerce at
Memphis, Tenn, and you can be-
lieve as much of it as you like:
They really have the most beau
tiful women in Tennessee.
The mint julep packs maxi
mum of authority. (Cal brought
home Irwin Cobbs own recipeD
Memphis has a wonderful dog
racing plant. (Cal picked three
winners out Of four)
Oh, yes Ell Ccntro's junior po-
lice movement was adopted on the
organizations national child well
fare program. Chief Sterling Os-
walt probably will be named a
member of the national commit
tee.
A Changed Man
One Ell Centro business man was
considerably less of a socialist to-
day, following his recent conversa-
tiCn with a dyed-in- -the-wool men,
ber of the party. "One of these
days." the D-I-T-W told the busi-
ness man, "I'll own part of
your property The BIN objected.
do you know what socialism
means?" he was asked. 1T means
division" The BIN was ready to
leave the field.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
LAST MINUTE
FLASHES
INSTITUTE REPORTS
TWO EARTHQUAKES

PASADENA, Cal, June 30. W.p
- Two severe earthquakes. ap-
pr0ximately 1890 miles northwest
of Pasadena, were reported today
by the California Institute OF
Technology. The institute seis-
mograph recorded the quakes at
7:15.4O and 7:24.54 am. The To-
cation is generally near Kamtan-
ka On the Siberian Peninsula.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30

naval shipyards workers refused to
come to terms with employers.
Shipyard workers at Saint Naz-
aire won support from building
trades employees who quit their
jobs. The building strike spread
to the surrounding area.
The highly induStrialized Moselle
Valley region remained the big
gest strike center At Metz $4,000
workers were idle, depriving the
city of gas for the second day.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
WORK RELIEF FUND
DISTRIBUTED BY WPA

WSHINGON, June 30. up
Beating the gum by 10 hours.
Works Progress Deputy Admin
istrator Aubrey Williams today
distributed S35O,OOO,OOO of the
new SLABS, 100000 work relief
fund for the 19S6-l937 fiscip
year which starts at midnight.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
MAJOR LEAGUE.
SEQ ES =.

NATIONAL
st. Louis ....... 600 600 200 o
Pittsburgh 900 001 000-1 o
Haines and Davis; Brown and
Todd.
Second Game:
81. LOUIS ....... ........ .uUu
PITTSBURGH ........... 2UU
Winford and Davis; Birkhofer
and Todd.
New York .....O4O O1O 1905 II o
Boston ........O11 200 O21-7 13 2
Schumacher and Mancuso; Chap
lin. Reis and Lewis.
Philadelphia at Brooklyn, Chicago
at Cincinnati, postponed.
AMERICAN
Boston ;...... 300 90 200 8 2
New York OH 030 1910 IA 2
Grove, Russell, Ostermueller, Will
son and r. Ferrell; Gomez, Malone
and Glenn, Dickey.
Second Game:
boston ''.'''''''' ~
NEW L or s...s#..s.,s ~
Marcum and Berg; Hadley- and
Hilkey.
Detroit at Chicago, Cleveland at
st. Louis, Washington at Philadel-
phia, postponed,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30

ABOARD "zIONCHECK SPEC
IAL' ENROUTE TO SEATTLE,
June 80. Up) - Capitol policemen
guarding Rep Marion A. zioncheck
were replaced at Pittsburgh today
by two Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road detectives stationed at each
end of his car.
Behind the closed door of the
drawing room, zioncheck pondered
lust what he would tell his consti-
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
HELEN JACOBS
IN NII-FINALS

WIMBLEDON, Eng. June 20.
W.R)-Helen Jacobs of Berkeley,
Cal. American champion. gained
the semi-finai round of the all.
English women's tennis singles
tournament today with a SO,
1-6. 6-4 victory over Anita LLAMA
of Chile.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
Copyright, 1896, by United Press

Copyright, 1896, by United Press
TIENTSIN, China, June 30. (UP)
The long heralded showdown be-
tween North China officials and
the japanese military inside the
Great Wall was believed imminent
today.
Lieut.. Col. Y. Ishi, assistant chief
of staff, Japanese military head
quarters in North China, announc-
ed a series of Japanese demands on
Gen. Sung Cheh-Yuan, chairman
of the Hopei-Chahar political cohn-
Gil.
The nature of the demands was
secret, but it was believed the
japanese would force a long step
towards their desire for an avoW-
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
ROOSEVELT SIGNS
SHIP SUBSIDY BILL

WASHINGTON, June 30. WP)--
President Roosevelt today signed
the ship subsidy bill which aboi-
ishes indirect subsidies 10 ship
operators i'm favor Of direct con
tributiOns TO construction costs.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
Government Struggles Against Walkouts
InuoIuing General Industrial And
Business CenterS

PARIS, June 80. (UP)-French strikers spread to
Algeria today Gendarmes fired workers and sent out
an emergency call for mobile guard endorsements
At home the government struggled to terminate stub
born walkouts especially Saint Nazare where 10000
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
So. Sierras Bars
Sale TO District
Fight Fire
In San Berdu Region;
Two Hundred Injured
Nine Doctors Treat Wounds; Fatigue Grips Crews
Battling Blaze Without Rest as Flames
Sweep Toward Uninhabted Area
90

SAN BERNARDINO, Cal. June 80. (UP)-A forest
fire that for two days has eaten Jagged path
through the San Bernardino mountains dozen miles
north of here still raging of today with
than 200 minor casualties reported from the fire
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
AGENTS PLAN
DROUGHT AID
TO FARMERS
Federal And State Relief Heads Meet To
Map Battle Against Hazards Of
Sun And Insects

ST. PAUL, Mnn. June 30 (UP)-Federa and state
relief officials met here today to discuss plans for assist
ing drought-strcken farmers in the northwest They
with reports that scattered showers
the widespread drought failed to alleviate the dis
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
County TO Cooperate
In City Program For
Encouraging Building
Supervisors Pledge Aid to CouncH in Plans For
Sale of Tax Decided Property at
Reasonable Prices

Imperial county supervisors Monday joined the city of
E Centre and the Imperial Irrigation district in the
plan for encouraging the building of homes tax
decided proprty in the city by agreeing to confer in the
sale of such property at reasonable prices.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-30
MARKETS AN BRIEE

Butteri Los Angeles 331ac, butter
rat, Imperial Valley Lob. ranch,
Grade A, 411Ec, manufacturing milk,
Il. A. hay-U. y. No. i. extra Ieafy,
tI7-1SI U. s. No. 1, S14.5Oi u. $. No.
leafy. SI4-1f.50; u. =. No. 2. 1880.
Minneapolis flax 177-1s3.
The Washington times., 1936-12-04

Serve Leg O. Lamb
this week end at
this low price. De-
iciOus with fresh
green peas and new
potatoes.
The Washington times., 1936-02-17
GRAINS LOWER
INL|GHT TRADE

CHICAGO, Feb. II QNS).
Grains generally ruled moderately
lower today In early dealings.
Turnover was light, and while
selling was not heavy there was
little buying support.
Foreign markets were easy,
while further precipitation in the
domestic southwest over the week
end was offset by q new severe
cold wave, expected to reach the
central west tonight.
Near mid-session wheat was 3s
to hc off with May at 97s. Corn
and oats were 1s to 14c off, rye
g to &c off.
Liverpool wheat was u to ss
pence of in late trading while
Winnipeg ruled " to 3sc off at
mid-Session. Rotterdam closed
1ac off and Buenos Aires opened
unchanged.