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The Washington times., 1936-07-21
SECURITY PLAN
TO IDENTIFY
ALLW0RKERS

International News Service
The nations workers, said to
number 10000, 900, are to be given
an account number to be retained
for life, under plans announced
today by the Social Security
Board. The project is the largest
registration and Identification
plan in the country's history.
The procedure is designed TO
bring all the eligible workers into
the old-age retirement system pro-
vided for in the social security act.
Each worker, upon being regis
tered, will be given an emblem
bearing his or her serial number
to serve as an Identification tag
and a record of the workers &C.
count number in the Security
Boards records.
The object of this number, the
board said, "is the prevention OF
errors which might occur throguh
the exact duplication Of names.
since there are many persons OF
the same name.
Thus, it pointed out, John Smith
may wander over the country un-
worried by all the other John
Smiths, so far as his retirement
benefits are concerned, since his
number emblem will set him apart
in the files of the board.
The preliminary procedure,
scheduled for November, is only a
matter of Identification of indi-
viduals. The board said it has no
connection with the taxes to be
paid by employers or employees and
is not designed for tax purposes.
Payment of annuities under the
system will not begin until 1912,
but calculations of the board point
to payment of 100000 lump sum
death benefits as early as next
year.
The Washington times., 1936-07-21
MANASSAS PROGRAM

80 P. M.-Concert by United States Marine Band.
As P. Authorization by the Rt. Rev. H. st. George
Tucker bishop of Virginia Introduction of
celebration officials by State Senator John
W. Rust. Introduction of Governor George
Peery. .-.
200 P M-Dr. Douglas S. Freeman gives narrative
count of the battle.
2:30 P. M.-Battle starts.
400 P. M-Exhbition drills of cavalry and field artil
lery regiments and aerial circus by Marine
-, planes from Quantico. @..
The Washington times., 1936-07-21
10 IMPERILED
BY VOLCANO

TOKYO, July 81 Q.NSO.-The
fate of 100 Japanese mountain
climbers caught on the slopes of
Asama- Yama when that volcano
blasted smoke and ashes in three
sudden violent eruptionS today
was unknown as searching parties
set out to aid them.
Clouds of ashes settled on the
nearby mountain resort of Karui-
zawa, $50 miles northwest of
Tokyo, where fright gripped about
a thousand American, British and
other foreign vacationiStS.
EruptionS of ASama- Yama, q
peak of S,136 feet, are frequent.
The Washington times., 1936-07-21
Army Officer Dies
In Four-StorY Leap

SHANGHAI, July 81 G.N.SO.
Leaving a farewell note to his
wife, Lieut.. Col. Orville M. John
son, SO, of the Philippine army, a
former resident of Salem, Ore,
plunged to his death from the
fourth floor window Of his hotel
here today.
Lieutenant Colonel johnson ar
rived yesterday from the Philip
pines, where his wife remains. He
was born in Shambough, Iowa.
The Washington times., 1936-07-21
SIugged and Robbed ,

Walter j. Drawer, of 1920 Thir'
teenth st. S. E., reported to police
that he was slugged by an unidenti-
fled man and robbed Of SAT early
today while he was walking in
the 600 block Pennsylvania Ave.
N. w. His hurts were treated at
Emergency Hospital.
The Washington times., 1936-07-21
WouId-be Suicide
Chances His Mind

NEW YORK, July 81 QN.S0.
Edward Bonner. SO, is no man to
wait for death. After Slashing his
throat and waiting 26 hours for
the end, he grew tired and called
a hospital to come and take him
away. Attaches said he will live.
The Washington times., 1936-07-21
Cold Confines Cuban
Ex-President 10 Hotel

MONTREAL, Quebec, July 81
QN.SD.-Gerardo Machado, GUST
ed Cuban president, is confined
to his hotel here with a cold, his
secretary, Fernando Villapol, said
today. Plans of Machado, who ar
rived here aboard the liner Lady
SomerS from Bermuda Monday
are indefinite.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
CONVERTING A NATURAL MENACE
INTO A NATIONAL ASSET

In the files OF the Imperial Valley
Press of Dec. "a, 1o26-just ten years
ago-is the following dispatch from
Washington:
Enactment of tn e SwingJ ohnson
Boulder Dam bill providing for the con-
struction of gigantic power and 1rrlga-
ton dam at Boulder Canyon on the Col
orado river will convert natural men
ace into a national asset, the house irrl-
cation committee said yesterday in re-
porting the measure to the house.
, Only ten years ago that was written,
vet today the Boulder Dam is reality.
1t has. in fact, converted natural men
ace into a national asset. 1t has en-
pounded the waters of the Colorado
against summer drought and winter
flood. 1t has started paying for itself
through generation of electric power.
The house committee was right!
1t is somewhat startling, in view OF
what has transpired in the intervening
time to realize that the paragraph quoted
here was written only ten years ago. The
realization brings with it knowledge OF
the speed with which old sores are heal
ed and old issues forgotten. No one
who lived in Imperial Valley ten years
ago will not recall with at least pass
ing interest the fight that went before
the Boulder Dam bill was passed. They
should never forget the opposition plac-
ed in the projects way by private inter-
ests. seeking to protect huge private in
comes. They should always bear in
mind, also, the seemingly plausible OBJ
iections that were made to Boulder
Dam. One widely subscribed to, was the
proposition that it was an Impossible
engineering feat.
The memory should be refreshed now
and then because, although Boulder
Dam is completed, the fight goes on.
Boulder Dam was a dream in the minds
of Imperial Valley pioneers before 1t
was conceived of anywhere else. 1t was
and is part and parcel of Imperial
Valleys program for development and
expansion. The All American canal is an
other part, which only an act OF God
can now prevent from completion. The
All American canal, too, was opposed
bitterly.
Fighting to the last ditch, there are
interests remaining which will seek as
long as they exist to prevent completion
of the program which started with the
Swing johnson BILL In memory of that
measure and in thanksgiving for Boulder
Dam, Imperial Valley is morally bound
to carry its program through to compile
ton in spite of opposition.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
MAKES A MISTAKE

Leaders in the Church of England,
ignoring public demands that the sub
ject be dropped, continue to criticize
Edward, Duke of Windsor, former King
of England, for his plans to marry Mrs.
Wallis Simpson They forget two things
that Edward is a private citizen now,
and that the sympathy of the peoples
of the world are with him.
Throughout history, powerful church
es have played politics. The Church of
England, if it is attempting to play poll
tics in the Simpson affair, is taking
sure road to public disfavor. 1t would
be better for the church, and better for
public morals, if the divorce angle of
the case were ignored, now that 1T is
matter between two private citizens
Edward and Mrs. Simpson.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
TRAGIC HUM0R
IN THIS MADNESS
THEY CALL VAR

Rebel and Loyalist soldiers, facing
one another across few hundred feet
of shell-torn ground in the Spanish civil
war near Madrid, became so incensed
at one another over what a child would
call "bad names" that they rushed into
the No Mans Land to engage in fist
fights. They were promptly moved
down by machine gun fire for their
foolhardiness.
There was no personal grudge between
these men. They had never seen one
another. They had no cause to hate
each other, except that some believed in
one form of government and some in
another. Yet their anger was so intense
that they dared death-and received it
for the sake of laying hands on one
another.
1t was tragically humorous proof
that war is madness, nothing less or
more.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
THE WERNER FAMILY
AND THE DEADLOCKED JURY

A Los Angeles jury, afer dellberatlng
for many hours on the fate of two de-
PENDANTS, was dismissed because its IL
good men and true could not reach
verdict. They were trying Queen Helen
Werner, who won her nickname as the
asserted political boss of certain ele-
ments in Los Angeles, and her husband,
Pete Werner, former Los Angeles city
attorney The Werners were charged
with grand theft and bribery.
A review of their cases is not neces-
safy for those who have read newspapers
in the last several months. The stories
of alleged graft and corruption unfolded
at board of equalization hearings, IN
grand jury sessions and later in trial
court, rocked the southern part OF the
state. 1t was such story of political
. crookedness as makes many voter won
der why he is urged to cast vote-and
Whom among the politicians he can trust
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
knows I may be thinking with
that?" he uueried.

knows I may be thinking with
that?" he queried.
90
There's a cooperative work shop
for the blind below the mid-section
of New York. I passed the other
evening when workers had knocked
off for the day and drifted outside
for home-going. Mostly they moved
away in pairs and trios, chattering
like magpies. One was a striking
image of John Nance Garner. No
ticeable, too, that many lighted
pipes and cigars, spiking the legend
the sightless do not enjoy smoking.
How they know the change of traf-
fic signals is mystery but they do.
The sophistication of the quintu-
plet hero DR.. Dafoe is an exhibit
for the blooming inferiorities. saw
him at tea Lee Olwell gave on the
doctors first visit to New York. A
bewildered, tittupy and agrestic lit
tie man in steel spectacles, dazed
and inarticulate by sudden celebrity.
All he could do was to resort to pro-
fessional hand-washing and smile.
He seemed to feel he was in every
ones way. Today is self-poSsessed
master of conversation and almost
continental hammered. He picked
up the little graces and pouf! like
that a shy backwoods doctor be-
comes debonair-a citizen of the
world He's a good movie topic him.
self, along with the quins.
90
Frazier Hunt received a phone call
at a. m. at his ranch in the still
foothills of the Rockies near Cal
gary a morning several years ago,
"E.P" was at the other end of the
line-E.P. being Edward, Prince, now
King of Great Britain, etc. tele-
phoning from his next door ranch
IL miles away. Come on over,
Spike" said E.P., 1--WE are going to
do little shooting" Spike tried
to conceal his surprise by answering
there couldn't be much satisfactory
hunting at such an hour-probably
all the game had gone to bed. The
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
Other Editors Say
ENLIGHTENING WANTED
Santa Ana Register)

In Homer Chaneys lecture on Are we Done
With Democracy, he made the stateIneh, DO
we understood it, to the effect that the anti-
r,icketing law passed in Orange county was an
example of infringement OF personal iioerty un-
der democratic form Of government
Inasmuch as Mr.. CLANCY is selected as
federal representative to bring about adult
education we would suggest that ne explain
in detail how he arrives at this conclusion. II
we understand anything about education, 10
sinply make an assertion without explaining III
detail how the conclusions are drawn, Is not
very helpful to those who are trying 10 learn.
The crux of the success OF government Is
LARGELY the proper Interpretation and dellnltlon
of uberty-what rights an individual snoulo
have that will be to the general welfare ana
where these rights come TO an end.
II has been The Registers contention all the
time that people should have unlimited rights
wien it comes to the production and creation
of wealth creation of ideas and creation Oh
character but they should have definite iimita-
tions as to their rights when 1t comes TO re-
stricting production, limiting production or IN
terfererce in any way WIN oIherS "ho oeoiie
10 work and produce.
We might be mistaken in our opinion ana
we would be only too glad to be enlightened
AS to why picketS should have the r1gnt IN
any way TO interfere with others who desire
to work.
There is not much use of talking in, general
tiles about adult education unless we can become
enlightened on this key-point in our form OF
government. Mr.. Chaney, who Is on the Federal
payroll can perform no greater service 10 tne
Community than to publicly explain how he
arrives at his conclusions. The columns OF Tne
Register are open for unlimited space Tor Mr.
Chaney the director of adult education In THIS
county to enighten and inform all adults who
are not yet able to see his contention
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
SUMMONS
No. 1882

No. 1882
In the Superior Court Of the State
of California, In and For the
County of Imperial
BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL
TRUST AND SAVINGS ASSOCI.
ALTON, national banking as
ISOLATION, Plaintiff.
VS..
MARY BECK, JOHN DOE, RICH
ARD ROE, HENRY POE, JOHN
DOE CORPORATION, a corpor-
alton, RICHARD ROE CORPOR-
ALTON, a corporation, and HEN
RY POE CORPORATION, a
corporation, Defendants.
EDMUND NELSON g. BENJAMIN
I. BLOCH g. HOWARD d. HAM
SON, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The People of the State of California
Send Greetings To:
Mary Beck, John Doe, Richard
Roe. Henry Poe, John Doe Corpor-
alton, a corporation, Richard Roe
Corporation, a corporation, and Hen
ry Poe Corporation, a corporation,
Defendants.
You Are Hereby Directed To Ap-
pear and answer the Complaint in
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in the Superior Court
of the County of Imperial, State of
California, within ten days after
the service on you of this Summons
If served within this county: or
within thirty days if served else
where.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plaint, as arising upon contract. or
will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com.
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this 4th day of August. 1886.
q" EDWARD H. LAW.
a Clerk.
BY C1THA LAMSCN,
Deputy Clerk.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION
FOR LEAVE TO ENCUMBER
REAL ESTATE BY TRUST
DEED AND ASSIGNMENT
OF RENTS.
No. 2526.

No. 2526.
In the Superior Court In and For
The County of Imperial, State of
California.
In the Matter of the Estate of
HARRY D. McCAMENT,
also known as
H. D. McCAMENT, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that John
0. McCament, Administrator of said
Estate, has filed his verified petit
ton praying for an order authoriz-
ing the encumbering by Trust Deed
of real property hereinafter deScrib-
ed and the assignment of rents; and
that Friday, the 18th day of Janu-
airy, 1887 at two o'clock P. M. of said
day at the Court room of said Su-
perior Court in City of Ell Centro,
County of Imperial, State of Califor-
mia, has been set for the hearing
of said Petition, and all persons in
terested are hereby notified to ap-
pear at the time and place set for
said hearing and show cause, if any
they have, why the order should
not be made.
Reference Is hereby made to the
said Petition for further particulars
as to the terms and conditions of
the proposed Trust deed.
Said real property is situated in
the County of Imperial, State Of
California, and is an undivided one
third interest in real property in
said County, described as Tract 1856
in Township 13 South, Range 13
East, 81 B. and M. according to
United States Government Plat of
Resurvey, approved May 2, 1918 and
on file in the United States Land
Office at Los Angeles, California
containing 120 acres more or less
and the assignment of the rents be-
longing to said one-third interest.
Dated December 21st, 1886.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY q. o. KENYON,
Deputy Clerk.
D22-J1 Inc.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
Ollie Stewart
Announces Candidacy
AS District Director

Believing that the best interests
of the citizens of Imperial Valley
are at stake 1 hereby announce
myself as a candidate for the Of
flee of Director of the Imperial
Irrigation District Board from the
Holtville District.
have been a citizen of this
county for eighteen years and I
am a farmer and land owner.
In entering this race I shall make
one promise which covers the
whole matter and that is if I am
elected I will be governed by the
one desire: to serve the District
for the greatest good to all con-
cerned.
My recommendation to the peo-
pie of Holtville District for their
support is the reputation I bear
among them in all my activities
as a citizen.
(Signed OLLIE STEWART.
political Adv)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
Str0llS Thru Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. IS. UP
Doris Nolan, blondish young ac-
tress, is organizing a one-girl cru
SADIE to convince New Rochelle, N.
Y, it is possible to live six months
in Hollywood without being fall
en- woman"
"It is a crisis" she explained. MY
home town thinks the worst of me,
and even my parents are worried.
They have demanded I come home
for Christmas and set New Ro-
chelles fears at rest, else they must
come out here to protect me from
perils of Hollywood nightlife.
Hollywood nightlife is just Gary
Cooper drinking a cup of coffee
in the Brown Derby, rather or
binary restaurant, but New Rochelle
doesn't know that.
Last time I was home, the
neighbors spent hours questioning
me about the wild parties and
drunken orgies had attended, and
when said I had never seen any,
thing like that they apparently
concluded I was holding out on
them"
Nolan, "a 20-year-old with wise eyes
and that hard jarring laugh that is
a hallmark of show business, has a
couple of years on the stage and
two movie contracts to her credit.
1t seems little incredible even
New Rochelle should doubt her
ability to take care of herself in
any company, much less a bush
league like Hollywood.
IT don't know where they get
such ideas" she confessed, unless
they've been going to the movies
again"
| An armistice has been effected
by Clark Gable and Director John
M Stahl in their war over whether
or not he should wear a full beard
playing Parnell, the Irish patriot
1t is reported they compromised
on mutton-crop whiskers.
Mae West has an offer to go to
Egypt and make a harem picture
for Cairo motion picture company
Jack Bassilli. Egyptian director,
made the offer and has gotten
as far as talking salary, but la West
has given no indication she'll ac-
cept.
Preston Foster is packing his
right hand around in bandages
A surgeon took two stitches after
he split his knuckles on Victor Nc
Laglen's hard pate in movie brawl.
McLaglen had few bruises where
Foster played the scale on his ribs.
90
Lal Chand Mehra, Hindu grad
uate of the University of California,
is driving Stanley Goldsmith, as
sistant director on college Holi-
day. nuts. With Jack Benny and
Martha Raye i'll, shooting schedule
was changed to scene in which
Mehra plays an oriental mystic.
Goldsmith called the Hindu's home
but servant told him: "Mr. Mehra
has already received your call, and
is on his way to the sudio." It
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
JANITOR WILL
GET CAPITAL
APPOINTMENT

Felix Gray, colored janitor at the
Imperial county court house. re-
Gently received the appointment Of
assistant sergeant at arms at the
California senate. He will leave El
Centre January 2, to take over his
new duties.
Imperial county supervisors grant,
ed him a leave of absence from his
court house duties in order that he
might avail himself of the appoint
ment.
He is particularly gratified, he
said, because it has been some time
since a member of his race has re-
ceived such an appointment.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
MELOLAND
Mrc A z MovaF

Monday morning Charles Palmer
accompanied Mr.. and Mrs, I. w. NC
Grew to Orange for visit with his
grandmother Mrs. Anna Crawford;
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Palmer are al
so joining Mrs. Crawford Christmas
day. The McGrews are visiting their
daughter Mrs. Earl Crawford until
after Christmas.
Miss Isabel Millar is spending the
holidays with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. H. T. Millar of San Diego.
After spending Christmas day
with Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Fluter OF
Redlands, Mrs Edith Fluter will
spend the remainder of her vaca-
ton with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
c. o. Claypool of San Diego.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Forsberg
and daughter Betty and Walter
Forsberg left Thursday to spend
Christmas with Forsberg's sister,
Mr.. Herbert Pratt and family in
Fallbrook.
90
Mrs. w. H. Palmer returned home
Saturday night after spending a
week attending to business matters
in the Bard district.
90
Miss Cecile Rumey, a student at
State College, is spending her
Christmas vacation with Mr.. and
Mrs. Alex Meyer.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
VII S" says
~ FRANK WATkNABE
D TN HOLDEN
ROSE BOWL
BY Ep HOLDEN

Last year having one VERY BITTER
experience when l going to Rose Bowl
game. | pay high class money for a
ticket on the grand stand. Crowd there
was so bursting with crush that I are
nudged out of my reserve! l are threw
right down to the bottom! So there /
are standing upon the grit-iron. Then
l seen bench which them players was
sitting upon. One edge of same was not
used. 1t was the only vacant seat in my
sight. So | sat on it and had to be salts
fled. Just cemagine! Pay cash dollars
for ticket but cannot sit on it! Very
gosh darnit alright!
Merry Crissnius PIease!-
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25

knows. Perhaps it is the fault of crimi-
nal trial procedure in California. Per
haps it is something else. No one but
the jurors will ever know-and maybe
some of them will not know.
Certain it is that the trial cost the
taxpayers of Los Angeles thousands OF
dollars--without result. Yet justice has
been done, whether the Werners are
guilty or innocent. Justice is as far
from its goal as in the beginning. A.
1t might be well for the state bar
ASSOCIATION to study the costly Werner
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
News Behind the News
The Spanish War Takes The Spot
light Congress Expected To Con-
slider Conflict Danger of Outbreak
Merry CrisSUius Please!

WASHINGTON-Ever since election, the Span
ish war has been receiving increasing attention
from all groups in Washington
From day to day new angles appear which COM
pei such attention There is now little doubt that
the floor of Congress will be the scene for some
bitter debate over Spain, with partisans of both
sides In the conflict Sprnging up to air their views
Most important of all considerations is the
danger of general European war, which peril,
diplomats believe, has grown since Frances Fas-
cist army was stopped outside Madrid.
A quick victory for Franco and the German
Italian Portuguese bloc whose active aid made his
previous progress possible might have minimized
that danger for the time being.
But the entry of foreign troops including thou
sands of Germans and Italian, with the obvious
cooperation of their governments, has created
situation where only foreign invasion in force
seems likely to tip the balance against the SPAN
ish government.
Franco's failure to capture Madrid has at least
STAYED off pressure on this government to recog-
nize his proposed military dictatorship AT one
time State Department officials felt they might
soon have to face the issue.
They were however, more concerned with the
attitude Of the Latin American republcs-and
still are If those nations would follow the Ger
.nan-Italian lead and recognize Franco. 1t Wouo
be blow to the neutrality aims OF the buenoS
Aires conference and the Roosevelt admtnistra-
tion's strong desire to keep this hemisphere out
of war
WHILE maintaining strict neutrality, the Roose-
yelt-Hul policies and this governments course
at B,enos Aires have tended to discourage rec
ognition of the insurgent regime. And State
Department officials privately express belief that
if there had been no United States TO CONSIDER,
most Latin American governments Wouio py no"
have recognized Franco.
Officials point out that these countries are us
ually sen;-feudal in character their governments
dominated by military clidues, wealthy lanooWn-
ore ami other groups such as supported the re-
bellion in Spain
ApMy men. including foreign military and
nayal attaches. naturally are devoting constant
attention to the Spanish warfare especially TO the
rfnaments imported from other nations, Wmcn
they believe virtually have made SPAN proving
gro,nd for the newest wrinkles In modern war
fare