davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1936-04-02
Rats Frolic Over Cat,

Finding the house cat, noted as a re-
ientless ratter. stealing milk, a boy In
Harrismith, South Africa, locked it in
room where his sister kept her white
rats. An hour later the girl found
tabby curled up in the box where a
female rat had eight little youngsters.
The cat was fast asleep with white rats
playing over it, apparently enjoying
the novelty.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
DEAL
DEMOS JOIN In
REVOLT MOVE

DETROIT, July %. UP - Plans
for a conference of prominent anti
New Deal Democrats here Aug. Z
include organization of a revolt of
party workers against President
Roosevelts leadership in 80 states,
the leaders announced today.
Prospective participants of the
meeting talked of it as little as pos
sible, deploring premature" pub
licity given it, but said they would
seek to overthrow "alien" control of
their party.
The conference apparently is to
be the rallying point for all the
Democratic take a walk" advo-
Gates. Definitely committed to at
tend are former Gov. Joseph B. Ely
of Massachusetts; former Sen.
James A. Reed of Missouri; Balm
bridge Colby of New York, former
secretary of state.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
CLOUDBURSTS
DO DAMAGE TO
RIVER AQUEDUCT

PHOENIX, Ariz, July %. UP)-
A series of cloudbursts which struck
Arizona and bordering California
areas today were reported to have
washed out a section of the Colo
RADIO river aqueduct between 1ndlo
and Parker on the California side
of the river.
Two incompleted sections of the
aqueduct were said to have been
damaged by the torrents in yester-
days storm which washed down
from mountain areas soaked in
thundershoWers over the weekend,
Metropolitan water district en-
gineers said that completed sections
of the aqueduct had been protected
by drainage bitches.
Rain was reported to have fallen
most of the night at Kingman,
Ariz., and Needles, California. Fears
were felt that if the storm contin-
ued much longer heavy damage
would result from the runoff.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
AIDE
GIVEN LIFE In
PEN BY JUDGE

LOS ANGELES, July %. WR)-
Superior Judge Charles w. Fricke,
Immediately after extending leni-
ency to Charles H. Hope by impoS-
ing life sentence, today stayed un-
til Sept. the imposition of a death
sentence on Robert S. James. con-
demned "rattlesnake killer" of his
seventh wife.
The court postponed sentencing
the red-haired barber to death on
the gallowS when his attorneys en-
tered an oral motion for a new
trial.
Calm and self assured as ever
James stood between his attorneys,
William J. Clark and Russell E.
Parsons, as Clark addressed the
court.
He requested Judge Fricke to de-
lay the sentence, on all legal
grounds that might earn his client
a new trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
SEARCH BEGUN
FOR MISSING
HOLTvlLL|TE {
Mrs. Mamie Gresham
Fails to Sh0w
Up at Home

Mrs. Mamie Gresham, SOB
Chestnut avenue, Holtville,
widow of John Gresham,
was the object of a wide
spread search by county Of
ficials Tuesday after friends re-
ported she had disappeared Mon
day night.
Mrs. Gresham is known to many
residents of Imperial Valley, who
also knew her husband as the
proprietor of a grocery store il
Holtville prior to his death about
four years ago. Considerable ranch
holdings went to Mrs. Gresham at
his death.
Mrs. Gresham, according to
teletype message received by San
Diego officers from the Imperial
county Sheriff's Office, was driving
a dark coupe, 1885 model, license
1V1311 An effort was being made
Tuesday to trace the automobile.
The missing woman was last
seen by friends in Ell Centre Mon
day night. They thought she in
tended to return TO her home in
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Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
FRED w. PAINE,
PIONEER VALLEY
RESIDENT, DIES

Fred Paine, McCabe district
rancher, a resident of Imperial
Valley since pioneer days, died
Monday evening in San Diego,
friends learned Tuesday. He was
II. Death followed an extended
illness.
Paine is survived by his wife,
Ethel Paine, brother, Walter, of
Ell Centro, four sisters, Jennie Nor
etti of San Diego, Ethel Williams OF
Bell, Calf, Mrs. G.. r. Bacon of
Winnipeg and Lottie Mason of Ell
Centro. Five daughters also sur
Viye, Mrs. Florence Mason of Los
Angeles, Mrs. NJ C. Lasher of Holly
wood and Mildred, Dorothy and
Caroline Paine of the McCabe dis
trict.
Paine was widely known through
out the valley and was one of its
first citizens. He was born in
Bangor, Me, in 1865 and came to
California in 1906
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28

Miller might have slipped on cliffs
overlooking the sea at Ocean Beach,
and been drowned. At the same time,
it revealed that he left Ell Centro
Saturday with the intention of go
ing north, Investigators said.
Miller, according to Patrolman
Floyd Ackley of the Ell Centro po-
lice department, shipped 27-pound
bundle of clothing to San Diego on
a bus leaving here Saturday, then
claimed the bundle at San Diego
and relayed it north. Winter suits
were included.
A search for Miller was started
when his wife reported to San Di-
ego police that he had disappeared
from their summer cottage after she
retired at about 1920 Sunday night.
Miller, she said, remained in the
living room, reading book, but
had failed to appear when she start
ed a search for him after midnifht.
Since the Miller summer cottage
overlookS the ocean, it was at
first feared that he might have
Slipped on the cliffs and fallen into
the surf.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
Dl D AT {.
: BARRED FROM
'USE OF TITLE
Mew Deal Counsel
Restrained by
Court Order

LOS ANGELES, July 2S.
(UP) George w. Roches-
ter, candidate for district
attorney, today was barred
from designating himself as
special counsel, Roosevelt Admin
istration," on the August "a pri-
mary.
Superior Judge Ruben S. Schmidt
granted the petition of Chairman
George r. Ashley of the Democra-
tic county central committee for
an injunction, enjoining- Roches-
ter from use of the title. Ashley
contended such action would tend
to "mislead voters" and hamper
"the bona fide Democratic candi-
date" Rochester is not DEM
ocrat, according to Ashley.
In his ruling, Judge Schmidt
held that the office at stake Is
a non partisan one, and it would
be improper to inject party lines
into the ballot designation of a
candidate"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
new BOARDS
.uR GED' 70 R
RELIEF RULE
Progr am A duocated
By Supervisors
At Meeting .

A program under which
boards of supervisors in
California counties would
administer direct relief, ac-
counting to a single state
welfare department, was recon-
mended to the state legislature by
the supervisors state association
meeting in Sacramento, A. Y. Pre-
BILE, Imperial county board mem
ber, said Tuesday.
A committee will be appointed
by the state association to work
out with the state legislature and
other interested agencies an, ac-
ceptable relief program for the
counties, Preble added Suc''
program would mean the end Of
the State Relief Administration in
California.
The dual system in operation
with the relief administration and
the county welfare departments
was characterized in a resolution
adopted by the supervisors as "in-
efficient, Wasteful and eXtrava-
CANT" The administration of re-
lief is essentially a function OF
county government, they argued,
and should be administered
through boards of supervisors.
Under the system tentatively pro-
posed by the supervisors, state
public welfare department would
oversee all relief administration, with
state aid for all direct relief, and
with reasonable amount" OF
financial responsibility to be borne
by county governments.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
PHIL D. SWING
VISITS CITY TO
REPORT DRIVE

Phil D. Swing, former congress-
man from this district now special
representative of the Imperial r.
rigation District board of direct
ors in Washington, visited Ell Cen
tro Tuesday to report progress in
a drive fer Public Works Admin
iStration funds with which to con-
struct a municipal power system
on the All American canal.
Swing, after lunch with irriga-
tion district board members, was
to appear before the board Tues
day afternoon, if a formal report
was thought necessary.
Meeting Tuesday morning, the
directors transacted routine busi-
ness, dealing largely with land
sales and rentals,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
PENSION GROUP
BROKE, PROBER
SAYSM SPEECH

CHICAGO, July %. (UP) - The
Townsend old age revolving pen
sion organization is broke, Rep.
c. Jasper Bell, Kansas City, Demo-
cratic chairman of the congression-
al committee which investigated the
OARP, declared last night.
Explaining he believed it his duty
to expose "the ruthless men who
have been deceiving and exploiting
the good people of the country"
Bell charged the leaders of the
movement were growing rich off
the fat commissions" and living in
luxury while their followers were
in want.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28

senator in pressing for immediate
approval in Washington of the
districts request for Public Works
Administration funds to develop
a power plant at No. Drop on the
All American canal and to in
crease the capacity of the standby
plant at BraWley an additional
10000 kilowatts, or sufficiently to
supply the entire competitive
power load in Imperial Valley as
we'll as all that area not now serv-
ed.
McAdoo had expressed himself
100 per cent behind the peoples
power program in Imperial Valley.
His expression came at a con-
ference Friday, it was revealed this
week, when delegation OF Impe-
rial Valley men called upon HIM
at his Santa Barbara home. The
valley men were Chairman Evan
T. Hewes, Directors Mark Rose and
Bill Young, and Secretary w. w.
Goodson of the irrigation dis
trict, and Ned Holmes, Holtville !:
Earl Roberts, Calexico; Cal Nous
seau and H. w. Fawcett, Ell Gen.
tro; and lea Adams, Brawley.
McAdoo promised his support
for the municipal power program
in obtaining PWA funds for con-
struction of canal power plants
and enlargement of the existing
standby plant, and asked to be
furnished with copy Of the dis
trictS application to Washington,
as we'll as memorandum in sup
port CT it, showing the Imperial
Valley power picture from every
| angle.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28

in a brief message from Eric C.
Wendelin, third secretary of the
embassy in charge at Madrid.
With evacuation of the l60 odd
Americans who sought refuge in
the American embassy at Madrid
virtually all American citizens will
have been removed from the trouble
zone.
The U. S. cruiser Puincy arrived
at Alicante, on the Mediterranean
coast of Spain at 9:36 am. today,
prepared to evacuate the American
colony of Madrid if the beleaguered
group succeeds in reaching the sea
coast.
The Quincy wirelessed the navy
department that it had taken on
beard two Americans from Motril,
60 miles east of Malaga, constitut-
ing the first rescue work carried
out by the Quincy since arriving
in Spanish waters.
The Quincy said it had called at
Malaga and contacted the American
consul and a number of American
nationals there.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
ENGLAND WINS
DAVIS CUP FOR
FOURTH TIME

WIMBLEDON, Eng, July %. (U.H
England won the Davis cup for
the fourth successive time today
when Fred Perry, the worlds No.
l player, defeated Jack Crawford
\pf Australia, in the final match of
4 the challenge round. Perry won in
straight sets, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3.
Perry's triumph gave England
the cup, three matches to two.
Earlier today, Adrian QuiSt of Au-
stralia had deadlocked the series
at two-all with a GA, SO, rs, 6-3
triumph over H. Wilfred Bunny
Austin.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
GASOLINE THIEF
STEALS OIL OUT
OF CAR MOTOR

One member of the gasoline thief
species turned to new fields in Ell
Centro this week to drain the oil
from l.. r. PoWell's automobile while
it was parked in front of a whole
sale grocery store early Tuesday
morning, police were told.
Powell complained that it was not
loss of the Oil which damaged his
peace of mind, but the fact that,
driving the car under the misap-
prehension that it contained suffi-
cient oil, he burned out the bear
ings driving downtown for lunch.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
FILA TO BOOST VALLEY
HOME BUILDING PLAN
$4,000 FILM
HOUSE TO BE
BUILT IN CITY

Construction of a $4,000 theater
at 533 Broadway, on property now
occupied by a drug store, was an
nounced Tuesday at the same time
a building permit for the value of
the proposed structure was issued
to Frank Ullman, owner, city City
Engineer Philip Knights.
The permit was granted subject
to approval of plans.
The building will be of brick ex-
terror construction. with metal lath
and plaster interior. Ben Sterling,
Los Angeles, is the contractor.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
MOTHER DIES
SEEKING CHILD
IN FIERY HOME

LOS ANGELES, July %. W.D -
Mrs. Cele Clara Diamond, "a, sacri-
ficed her life today for one of her
six children she believed was trap
ped under a flaming bed.
Dashing into the smoke-filled
bedroom, the mother lost her bal
ance as she stopped to look under
the bed and fell into the mass of
flames.
She was dead when firemen
reached the scene.
Her daughter. Ruth, told firemen
that her youngest brother had
dropped a toy behind the bed and
lit a match to find it, thus igniting
the covers. His mother was unaware
that he had fled from the house,
unharmed.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
PILOT a
SUPPORTED IN
u. S. INVASION

PARIS, July %. U.D - The air
ministry today pledged support to
plans of Michel Detroyat, French
ace, to compete in the Los Angeles
to-NeW-Y air race in a 200 hip.
Caudron plane with a cruising
speed of $50 miles an hour. French
aviators were confident that Cau-
dron will break the American trans
continental flight record. He will
participate in the Los Angeles air
meet, opening September 5.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28

SA NFRANCISCO, July %. UP)-
Helen Wills Moody, queen among
women tennis players of the world
for more than ten years, today
abandoned her career as an inter-
national competitor to devote her
time to being a dress designer,
artist and wife.
The poker-faced girl from Ber-
kelley, Calf, who achieved her first
fame while still wearing pig-tails
and playing under the tutelage of
Pop" Fuller, vetern coach of
champions" announced she will not
play in the American champion
ships at Forest Hills late this sum-
mer.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
Last Minute
FLASHES !!
FIGURE IN LIVERMORE
CASE CRASH VICTIM

LOS ANGELES, July 28. W.p-
A man and woman critically hurt
when their expensive automobile
hit a pole were tentatively identi-
fled by police today as Donald
B. Neville, who figured in the SEN
satiOnal Livermore shooting case
in Santa Barbara, and Marjorie
Talbot of San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
QUEEN HELEN TO
GIVE UP THRONE

At the same time, she indicated
she has given up participation in
major campaigns, either in the
United States or Europe, if it inter-
feres with her other activities.
In making her decision known,
Mrs. Moody, who has held virtually
every important women's title, left
the field open to her fellow towns
woman and greatest rival in recent
years, Helen Hull Jacobs. Miss ia
ccbs, another protege of Pop Full
Ter, now holds most of the cham
pionships which have gradually
slipped from Mrs. Moody's hands
through her semi-retirement from
the courts during the past year.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
Charges on Liquor
Selling Considered

LOS ANGELES, July %. U.P)-
Charges against DR.. John Law, of
selling liquor to minor in his
cafe at 1l0 West Channel Road,
Santa Monica Canyon, were taken
under submission today by Frank
lin ]. Cole, referee for the State
Board of Equalization, following a
hearing yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
SCHMELING'S MANAGER
REBUKED BY COMMISSION

NEW YORK, July ZS. 1URt--fhe
New York boxing commission to-
day revoked Joe Jacobs ma lager
and seconds license for "the best
interests of boxing" claiming ia
cobs had persistently refused 10
submit his alleged contract with
Max Schmeling for approval.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
STEAMER CARRIES
GERMAN REFUGEES

LISBON, July 20. W.P) - The
steamer Hero debarked So Ger
man refugees from Malaga today.
They included Hans Jehrard, a
photographer. He said that after
a struggle near Malaga, during
which the fascists committed
brutalities. the workers militia
emerged victorious and took ITO
right wingers on a boat out TO sea
where they were believed drown
ed.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28

commerce. better housing commit
tee was informed Tuesday.
Many deals in which purchases
had intended to finance homes
with FILA loans were held up
because 1t was at first feard that
the housing administration would
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
BOTH SIDES
NEAR EXHAUSTION

MADRID, July %. W.R) = Rebel
and government armies, nearing
exhaustion after days of constant
fighting, attacked and counter at
tackled in the mountains north of
the capital today,
A slowing pace on both sides in
dicated the possibility of a stale
mate in which for some days neith-
er side might gain a decisive adj
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Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28

appraise the property at the cost
as paid by the purchaser to the
city. In such event, many lots
actually valued at 5000 might
Continued on Page 2, Col a
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
STORMS STRIKE
In 8 STATES
Sen. McAdoo Throws
Full Support Behind
District Power Plan
Agrees to Push for Immediate Approval of Request
For PWA Funds; Pledge Follows Visit by
Delegation of Valley Men

Senator William Gibbs McAdoo had thrown his sup
port Tuesday behind the Imperial Irrigation Districts
program for rapid development of municipal power
sources in Imperial Valley Ell Centro and Imperial of
ces of the district preparing data to be used by the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
Tax Deed Lots Sold to Prospective Builders
At Lou Cost by City Council Will Be
Appraised at Actual Value

Tax deed lots sold to prospective home builders at low
cost by the Ell Centro city council will be appraised by
the Federal Housing Administration at actual value in
where FILA loans requested for building pur-
poses Chairman NJ O. King of the Ell Centre chamber of
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
HURR| C AN {
BEARS DO WN
UPON FLORIDA
High Winds, Rain
Take 6 Lives,
Injure 20
BY UNITED PRESS

Storm wreckage strewed
parts of eight states today
in the wake of wind, rain
and lightning that killed six
persons and injured 20 or more. A
hurricane approached the Florida
coast from the Bahamas.
The federal hurricane warning
system said a tropical disturbance
generated in the Bahamas yester-
day was moving with increasing in
tenSity toward southern Florida
and might reach there Wednesday
night.
Yesterdays storms killed three In
Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia
tri-state area, flattened trees, build
ings and telephone poles in Louisi-
ana, Missouri and Kansas, and
washed out rail lines and drowned
a man on the Arizona California
border. where two others were killed
during storms the past two days.
MIAMI, Fla, July %. Wp)-The
federal hurricane warning system
advised residents of the South Flor
ida coast today to prepare within
SO hours for arrival of a tropical
disturbance of nearly hurricane Ba-
hamas.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, July %. WD
-TornadoS, lightning and rain
killed three persons, injured 20 or
more and did $500000 or more dam
age last night in the area where
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir-
ginia join.
The dead are John Mccain, IT.
crushed by collapsing grandstand
at Smock, Pa, Russell Smith, 36,
electrocuted at Sherrard, w. Va.
and Margaret Renner, Is, drowned.
Storm winds struck first near
Wheeling and Follansbee, W. Va.
swept through a corner of Ohio and
at Brownsville, Pa, at their great
est force, caused nearly 100000
damage VIII eling G, Follansbee,
Brownsville, Uniontown, Smock. and
Connellsville, Pa, were isolated
temporarily when power and COM
municat:on lines blew away.
Buildings were unroofed, high
ways and streets Uttered with trees
and telephone lines, and dozens Of
rivulets flooded by heavy rain. The
wind was estimated at places at 70
miles an hour velocity.
%
NEW ORLEANS, La, July %. W.p
"A tropical storm of that type that
sometimes flays large sections Of
the gulf coast, blew itself out over
the marshlands south of New Or
leans today after alarming Louisi-
ana for "a hours.
Oil derricks, telephone wires and
small trees fell before the winds
46-mile-an hour force.
%
PHOENIX, Ariz., July %. WP)-
Heavy rains on the California-Ari
zona border added washed out rail
lines today to the damage of storms
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Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
TRAIL LEFT
BY MILLER
FOLLOWED
Officers Investigating Disappearance of Ell
Centre Clerk Trace Movements to
City in Northern California

Carl Miller, 27-year-old Ell Centro hardware store
clerk who disappeared from his cottage at Ocean
Beach Sunday night has been traced to northern Cali
forna city, San Diego and Imperial county officers an
Tuesday The announcement quieted that
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
Plans to Evacuate
Americans i'm Spanish
Revolt Zone Ready
u S. Cruiser Arrives at Coast City Prepared to Take
Nationals Aboard; Fighting Continues
With Both Sides Near Exhaustion

WASHINGTON July 28 (UP)-Pans have been COM
peted to evacuate the Americans and other foreigners
beeaguered in Madrid from that city to the Mediter-
coast Thursday morning the state department
officially advised today. The contained
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28

NATIONAL
st. Louis at Boston played former
date.
Cincinnati -. 900 O1O OOO-1 8 o
New York 80. 500 900 OOx-5 Z o
Frey, Slime q Campbell, Lom-
bardi; Fitzsimmons and Mancuso.
Chicago .......912 600 OOO-3 o
Philadelphia =. 900 001 OO4-5 12 2
Henshaw, French and Hartnett;
Passeau and Atwood.
Second game:
Cincinnati ...... O1O 900 2
New York ;,;..... 3O1 313
Schott, Nelson and Lombardi;
Smith and Mancuso, Spencer,
pittsburgh ...... 102 800 600
brooklyn ...... 002 031 020
BirkOfer, NJ. Brown, Lucas and
Padden; Baker, Butcher. Brandt
and Berries, Phelps
AMERICAN
philadelphia ......0 900 200 3
- Doyle, Flythe,. and F. Hayes; Die
rich and Sewell
Boston '''..-'#...'.' .VO3
st. Louis .............100
Marcum and r. Ferrell; Caldwell
and Fiuliani.
New York ...,..r.,. 440 3S0
Detroit ..............010 311
Pearson. Murphy and Jorgens;
BRIDGES, Sorrell, Phillips and Hay
Washington -. 600 100 II
Cleveland .! POI 02l 90
Whitehil and Miles; Brown and
Pytlak.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28

PHOENIX, Ariz., July %. Up-
Heavy rains on the California-Ari-
zona border added washed out rail
lines today to the damage of storms
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Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
MARKETS AN BRIEF

Butter; Los Angeles 37ct butter
Tat, Imperial valley Lob. ranch,
Grade A, 451scg mRnufa curing milk,
4Oc; route gathered cream. 37e.
L.. A. Hay-u. y. No. 1 extra leafy.
@1S.5O-10, 4. y. No. 1, S15.5O-10.OOI
U. =. No. = leafy, $1,000 I5.5OI u. y.
No. 2, SI3.OO-I4.50, Minneapolis flax
2O5A A-211A.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
BANK DEBTS

BUILDING PERMITS
S146,601
To Date THIS Year
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28

MIAMI, Fla, July 28 W.p)-The
federal hurricane warning system
advised residents of the South Flor
ida coast today to prepare within
SO hours for arrival of tropical
disturbance of nearly hurricane Ba-
hamas.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28
MAJOR LEAGUE
SEQ ES-|

NATIONAL
st. Louis at Boston played form Ell
date.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-28

Brooklyn 0O2 OBJ O20
Brkofer, NJ. Brown, Lucas and
Padden; Baker, Butcher, Brandt
and Berres, Phelps.