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 Decision On Labor
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mittee inquiry into his 1880 race for the senate seat occupied by Sen. George w. Norris, l., Neb.
 The court reversed a decision of the U. s. circuit court of appeals which set aside the grocer's convic- tion and would have given him a new trial.
 The inquiry grew out of the pri- mary election race of 1880 when the grocer filed as @ candidate in the republican primaries. His filing was rejected by the state courts. Because of the peculiar circumstances sur- rounding the race, the senate cam paign Investigating committee held an inquiry.
 Grocer Norris testified he had re- ceived no funds for his race or any assurance of financial aid.
 A day later A. Paul Johnson tes- tified that, at a meeting in Kearney, Neb., at which Victor Seymour and High and Oscar Drake had been present. Norris had been given his filing fee of $50 and was promised $500 for his campaign.
 Firearms Act
 Washington, March 29-(UP)- The supreme court today upheld the constitutionality of the national firearms act in a test case growing out of the sale of sawcl-oh shot, gun in East St. Louis, H., by Max Sonzinsky to two men later in- dicted on robbery charges.
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Continued From Page 1.) and was its first president. The home which stands on the property is typically 18th century and many Of the present furnishings will ulti- mately be presented to the society for preservation.
 Society Can Expand
 The large area of the land would permit expansion of the present activities of the historical society and the area would also provide members of the council with ample parking facilities when they attend meetings of the organization. There would be two possible entrances to the grounds on either Prospect or Linden streets.
 The offer of the land and present building for museum purposes was made originally on February 9th and was accepted unanimously at meeting of the council which took place February 9th, the delay iIl announcing it being due to the fil- ing of deed of gift and other papers relative to the transfer. The property is debt free and has been since it come into possession of the Kingsbury family.
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HAPPENINGS IN
 LEGISLATURES
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 School buses, patriotism and dogs, however, were most popular inter- eSts.
 Iowa, California, Illinois and Ari- zona solons wanted all school buses painted red, white and blue.
 Crop Dogs Ears
 A PennSylvanian wanted a law to permit veterinarians to crop dogs ears. A Minnesota bill would label all dogs potential biters, depriving them of their present privilege of one indiscretion before being de- nounced as dangerous.
 It was proposed in Connecticut that airplane passengers be prohib- tied from tossing bottles overheard where they might crash on heads below. Illinois legislators concerned umpires and wrestling referees con- specifically with heads of baseball sidered banning bottles for beverages at athletic contests.
 Congress added its bit with Rep. Hamilton Fish's resolution protesting social tradition requiring capital wives to spend so much time and effort distributing calling cards that they become irritable and make life unhappy for their husbands.
 Other Odd Measures
 Other contributions to legislative diversity:
 Tennessee-To prohibit such April fool telephone pranks as asking the ZOO operator for MT. Lyon."
 South Carolina-To banish the fe- male form from cigarette and liquor advertisements.
 North Carolina-To define fresh eggs.
 California-To hold an egg-laying contest; to remove stools from bars so bartender can tell when customer is no longer able to stand up.
 Ohio-To repeal arrest powers of unofficial horse thief vigilante posses
 Nebraska-To permit after dinner smoking in restaurants.
 Connecticut-R Requiring steriliza- tion of all legislators proposing birth control legislation.
 Iowa-To bar minors from motion pictures featuring divorced players.
 West Virginia-To provide each state policeman with pick. shovel, sledge, broom and two red lights for use at scenes of accidents.
 Idaho-To exempt blind persons from fishing license requirements.
 TexaS-To prohibit the barter, sale or exchange of children-under 15 years of age.
 Wisconsin-To investigate ventila- ton of the assembly chamber.
 Alabama-To imprison political candidates who violate written cam paign pledges. W
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most countries keep three or four in reserve.
 The rapid expansion of the air force is being retarded somewhat by lack of sufficient pilots, skilled mechanics and ground crews. Train ing of this personnel takes longer than the expansion of aircraft building facilities. which foreign ob- servers say are now enormous. Total air force personnel is about 00,O00 including 4.000 pilots.
 It is widely reported that pilots are being killed in training at the rate of about 600 year or nearly two a day. The heavy fatalities are due partly to persistence in flying in all kinds of weather.
 Sacrificed Speed, Efficiency
 There is a general belief that Germany has sacrificed speed and efficiency in its hurry to build large numbers of planes. This Is at least partially confirmed by the perfor- nance of the German aircraft ir Spain as compared to that of Rus sian and Italian machines. An un- usually large proportion of the Ger man planes-about One-half of the entire force-are boinbers. At least half the bombers can carry Q tor or more of explosives.
 With her remarkable i1dustria capacity, Germany admittedly car outstrip any other European coun. try in building planes. as far al numbers are concerned, once she has trained the personnel to fly anc repair them. This she apparently intends to do.
 | Her goal until recently was tc build an air force equal Frances But Col. Gen. Hermann Goering commander of the air force, stated publicly that the goal now is ail power equal to that of France ant Russia combined.
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STOLE PURSE OF
 l BADLY HURT MAN

Eastford, Conn.,, March 29-(UP) Accused of stealing $675 from George Gilbronson after he had been critically burned in hay mow fire, MT. and Mrs. Walter Howe were held for arraignment in town court tonight on charges of theft.
 Gilbronson was sleeping in the mow in the Howe barn Sunday when he accidentally upset lantern and set fire to the hay. After extinguish- ing the blaze he ran to the farm house where the Howes removed his burned clothing and called a doctor. He was taken to 8 Putnam hospital where his name was reported today on the danger list.
 According to police Gilbronson told his son, George. Jr., he had $675 in a pocketbook in his trousers. The Howes were said to have denied knowledge of the money but later turned over a purse containing $550. Police were called and wthe remain ing $125 was found.
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The opinion discussed the back ground of the railway act from 1920 on and noted that the earlier railway labor board was recognized as "impotent" in 1926.
 It noted that the Virginian rail- road did not challenge provisions of the law barring interference with organization by employees.
 Opinion Continued
 The opinion continued:
 "But petitioner (the Virginian Railway insists that the statute af- lords no legal sanction for 50 much of the decree as directs petitioner to treat with respondent fedora tion and exert every reasonable ef- fort to make and maintain agree ments concerning rights of pay, rules and working conditions, and to settle all disputes whether aris- ing out of the application of such agreements or otherwise declared.
 Tt is we think, not open to doubt that congress intended that this re- quirement be mandatory upon the railroad employer and that its com- mand in a proper sense be enforced by the courts. The policy of the transportation act of encouraging '.Jluntary adjustment of labor dis pltes, made manifest by those pro- visions of the act which clearly con- templated the moral force of public opinion as affording its ultimate sanction was, as we. have seen, abandoned by the enactment of the railway labor act. Neither the pur- poses of the latter act nor its pro- visions when read, as they must be, r. our decision in the railway clerks case, lend support to the contention that its enactments, which are mandatory in form and capable of elfoi cement by judicial process, were intended to be without legal sanction.
 Norris Conviction
 Washington, March 29.-(UP)- The supreme court today approved the conviction of George w. Norris, Broken Bow, Neb., grocer, on charges of perjury in connection with his testimony at senate com-
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The count on which Brmeau was fined charged him with selling liquor after legal closing hours, in violation of the statutes, on Sunday morning. February 28. The second count charged him with allowing liquor to be consumed after hours on the morning of Sunday, March ', and having glasses and other con- tainers on tables and counters.
 Thomast0n Witness
 One of the states witnesses was John Innes of Thomaston, who ac- companied Harold Cider" Maxwell to Bruneau's on the night that Watts lost his life. Maxwell is at New Haven county jail awaiting trial in superior court for having allegedly beaten Watts to death out side the restaurant following an al- tercation inside.
 Other state witnesses included Douglas Littlejohn, of High street, Thomaston; Charles Foster, of B Maplewood avenue, Oakville; Jacob Hymel. of Greenwood avenue, Wa tertown; Robert Chamberlain, of Rockdale avenue, Oakville; and Frederick Slough, of 13 Whittier avenue, this city. All were at Bru- neau's the night that Watts was killed. Testimony was offered that liquor was sold after hours.
 Four for Accused
 Four witnesses appeared for Bru- neau, to testify that the place was locked and that no liquor was sold after midnight March 6. This testi- nlony was offered by MT. and Mrs. Arthur Swanson and MT. and Mrs. Elmer Magnuson, all of Falls ave- lnile, Oakville. They testified that the beer taps were shat of at 12 o'clock and that no liquor was served after that hour.
 Patrolman Fred Hickey of the vice squad testified for the state on the second count. He said that the place was locked but that customers en- tered as others left. He saw no liquor sold after 12 o'clock, he tes- tified, but did see drinks in glasses. When the police entered the place at about 1920 a. m, he stated. there were about 60 or 75 patrons in the place.
 After imposing the fine on the first count, Judge Mascolo said he was not convinced of Bruneau's guilt on the second count and that lie would give him the benefit of the doubt and suspend sentence. The fine and costs total $1l8.44.
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(Cont1nueQ rom Page l) by the local court of common pleas. It provides for a judge and prose- cutor.
 Another bill to be heard tomor- row afternoon, however, would set up only five juvenile courts in the entire state of Connecticut. The judges would be named by Cover nor Wilbur L. Cross and they, in turn would convene and name pro- secutors and probation officers. The Child Welfare league of Connecti- cut is behind this bill.
 Not Seeking Positions
 As far as can be learned Attor- ney Thoms and Probation Officer Crowley have not actively sought any posts in the new set up of ju- venile courts. However, in view of their experience in handling juve- nile cases their names are being mentioned along with other leading court and juvenile welfare workers throughout Connecticut.
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JEWISH WORKERS TO
 HOLD CELEBRATION

Easter celebration of the Jewish held Tuesday evening, at 8:30, in National Workers Alliance, will be the Waterbury Hebrew institute.
 The two famous artists of the Jewish stage and radio of New York city, Akivah Urban and Mendal Bergreen will be here for this eve- ming and entertain. All members and friends are invited to attend. No admission charge. Lazarus Kuper- man will be the chairman of the evening. Refreshments will be served.
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advertising agencies, was 8 friend of Miss Veronica Gedeon, 20, one of the three victims, and lived in the same apartment house in which murders occurred.
 Miss Biacco's parents, MT. and Mrs. Nathan Biacco of Stockbridge, told Inspectors Rudolph McLaugh- lin and Thomas Tunney of New York that they believed their daughter was in New Jersey.
 Former Councillor T. William Lewis, 32, said he had no know ledge of the girls whereabouts A telegram from Lewis was found in Miss Biacco,s apartment. police said.
 Tunney and Mclaughlin returned to New York after questioning Lewis.
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WEEKEND TOLL
 IN NEW ENGLAND

Boston. March 29 - (UP) - New England's weekend highway death toll rose to four today when John E. McDermott, 4S, of Medford, father of three children, died at 2 hospital of injuries sustained when struck by an automobile in that city.
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BOARD MEETINGS
 SCHEDULED TODAY

The board of education and the park department board will hold ses- Sions this afternoon at four o'clock. The board of education meeting win take place at Crosby high school. John J. Walsh will preside. The park commissioners will convene. at the city hall.
 AIRPORT EXPANSION
 PROPOSED
 Cleveland-(UP) = Expansion of the administration building at the busy Cleveland municipal airport into 8 semi-circular concos.rse has been proposed. Major John Berry. airport commissioner, said the number of incoming and outgoing passengers this year would exceed 'OO.OO0.
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5000 CHICKENS BURN

North Haven, Conn, March o. (UP)-An incubator heater was be- lieved to have caused 8 fire which destroyed a chickery at the farm of Charles Mills Sunday, causing an estimated loss of 5000.
 Nearly 5000 chickens were con- sumed by the flames.
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Automobile salesmen in Glasgow, Scotland, are urged to give safety first lessons to customers.
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AIMEL BRUNEAU
 IS FINED $lOO

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Other deaths:
 victor Terminiz, 40, of Barre, by 8 hit-run driver. Michael Lucey, 76, of Lynn, Of m iuries by a policeman's automobile. One death in Connecticut.
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London theaters are prospering.
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KINCSBURY HOME
 DONATED AS GIFT

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LOCAL PEOPLE IN
 JUVENILE COURT

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BUSSES CONTINUE
 THEIR SCHEDULE

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 EASTER MORNING

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Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-22
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Bureaucracy is Fault of States

Behind much of the demand for
stronger federal government there
lies the simple and unpleasant fact
that people no longer trust their
state governments the way they
once did.
There are some things, of course,
that state governments cannot do
at all But a great many things
which they can do they seem ut
terly unable to do we'll; hence the
growing tendency to ask Washing
ton to do the things which ought
to be done at the state capitals.
A revealing Sidelight on this was
provided the other day by Abra-
ham Epstein, executive secretary OF
the American Association for So
cial Security, in an address before
the association at New York
Mr.. Epstein was talking about old
age pension systems, and he re-
marked that in too many states such
systems have become ''mere cogs in
the state political machines
Grants are made frequently not
on the basis of need, as the laws
intend, but on the basis of political
expediency," he said. Politicians
are outbidding each other with
promises of bigger and better pen
sions in order to appease the appe-
tite of organized selfish blocs.'
Thus there is no uniformity be-
tween pension systems in the diff
ferent states. Thus there are states
in which the pension bureau is an
acknowledged branch of political
patronage. Thus there are states in
which pensions are paid, not ac-
cording to need, but according to
what the winning candidates for
office have felt it eXpedient to
promise.
And as a result of all this, a great
many people have come to feel that
the old-age pension problem can
be solved only by federal action.
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Now this is typical of the Situa-
ton in a great many other fields,
and it is one of the most ominouS
signs in our whole political life. For
while we have made real steps in
the past generation toward making
out federal government reasonably
efficient and honest, most state gov
ernments remain what they were
several decades ago-the prey of
spoils politics at its worst.
Because of that fact, We are ham,
strung when We approach any pub
lie issue. To suggest that such-and-
such a problem be handled by the
state instead of by Washington,
means, all too often, that it will
not be handled at all To advocate
state instead of federal action fire.
quently is equivalent to inviting
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-22
Other Editors Say
CAST YOUR SMILES ABOUT
Santa Paula ChrOniclel

Did you ever meet someone on the street
whom you didn't care lot about? Did you
feel tempted to pass that obnoxious person by
with a cool nod? And then, not wishing TO
brand yourself a snob, give him warm greet
ing-something like: Hello there, Jones, old
boy. How're the wife and kiddies?"
And then have Jones saunter away with a
rude How're you?"
Did you ever meet really big, fine, impor-
tant person whom you were a little afraid to
speak to? And be ready to slip by-only TO have
this important person recognize you, call you by
name and greet you like long-lost friend?
Greetings an awful lot in this world Of
ours. 1t. doesn't pay to be a hypocrite. You
must really feel it when you smile at your
neighbor on the street.
Those smiles pay. They credit you with hu-
man kindness. Mr.. Jones' who shrugged off
your greeting, wasn't deserving Of your sallta-
ton. But, by offering it, you showed that you're
a bigger man than he.
And the really big person-the man you were
afraid to speak to-oWes much of his "bgness'
to the fact that he's ready to share his happi-
ness with the world
Ca aba-s - --..i..5 10y ...----,,..l resp
genuine pleasure.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-22
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, April 90 The
Universal Order of Fred Smiths
continues to grow. There are, for
instance. more than so Fred Smiths
in the metropolitan area, none of
whom had ever seen the other until
on sudden inspiration they got to-
gether and held a mammoth BAN
quet this winter.
The order started this wise. One
morning Fred Smith. an eX-Troy.
o., advertising man, picked three
Fred Smiths at random out of the
phone book, called them and asked
if they'd join him at the Commo-
dore for lunch. All came and thus
so simply was the idea launched
Then came the national roundup
for a banquet. The Fred Smiths
range from a filling station atten-
dant to headmaSter of an exclusive
boys school in New England. And
since the banquet for 80 in New
York. the countrywide member
ship is one thousand and expanding
weekly.
The Smythes and the Schmitzes
are barred but there was notable
exception at the banquet. He was
Smith Frederick, who backed into
the banquet hall, ate out of his lap
with his back to the table and did
everything backwards. Next to the
Fred Smiths the John Joneses are
in profusion.
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I Just wangled a giggle via the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-22
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years.
Twenty Five Years Ago
April %, 1912

Ell Centre trustees made appoint
ments for the various offices at
their meeting last night. The ap-
pointments included. John Norton
board president; William Egerer
fire and police commissioner: F.
w. Berger, water and park commits
sioner; c. E. Sprouse, finance COM
missioner; A. w. Swanson, street
commissioner.
Dan v. holland let the contract
for commodious cottage on Sixth
street west of st. Thomas hospital.
The residence will be Mr.. Noland'S
own and will cost $4,000.
Twenty Years Ago
April %, 1917
An average of four cars of let
tuce is going out of Brawley every
day and it is expected that ship
ments will be continued until May l.
Mrs. Ira L. Hobby and Mrs. Theo-
dore A. Isaigi were hosteSses at a
bridge party at the home of the
former yesterday afternoon.
Ten Years Ago
April %, 1927
Upwards of 1000 autos from the
east are entering the state through
Imperial Valley each week, accord
ing to the records kept at the Fort
Yuma station.
A telegram received at the I'm
perial Irrigation district late this
afternoon advised that the supreme
court has reversed its original de-
cision on the case of McKim VS.. the
Irrigation district and has granted
a rehearing of the case.
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THE BIRTH OF A NEW
UNPRIVILEGED CLASS

Imperial Valley, remembering sever
al unfortunate agricultural labor dis
turbances and the misrepresentation
which subsequently spread throughout
the nation, is in a position to JON with
Salinas and Stockton in a growing alarm
over the part played in the labor tleld
by the National Labor Relations Board,
currently conducting hearings on the
Salinas lettuce strike of last summer,
and which may be expected soon to IN
vestigate" present labor difficulties III
the San Joaquin Valley.
Almost any observer can write the
labor boards decision as it will be, Judg-
ing solely from the tenor Of the Salinas
hearings. There is no reason to expect
that any other trend will prevail when
the board moves in at Stockton.
The decision can logically be expected
TO parallel the same boards report IN
the recent Remington Rand strike, where
violence by strikers and the desire OF a
majority of workers to return to work
were ignored, and the board criticized
the "cool, deliberate ruthlessness' OF
the company.
In common with other employers,
farmers. are beginning to wonder where
thev can turn for fair consideration En-
ployers. they are finding, are no longer
ranked in the privileged classes.
Perhaps it is not the fault of the la
bor Relations Board, since the board is
merely operating under the Wagner La
bor Act-and under the act the only
person who can be punished, and there
fore the only one who can do wrong, is
the employer. Under such law, it
would be useless for the labor board to
listen to any evidence of violence or
agitation on the part of strikers. They
couldn't be punished, anyway.
Perhaps an alarmist view is not justi-
fied-but it is becoming increasingly
evident day by day that, sooner or later,
there must be some measure Of RESPONSE
bility placed on labor as well as on bus
mess and agriculture.