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The Washington times., 1937-02-26
TODAY AND EVERY DAY-DAY OR NIGHT
Auto SunocO Stations

Auto SunocO Stations
CAROLINA Service station-Mass. Ave. at
3rd N. W., NE. 9404. Sunoco products,
expert lubrication. Ed K. Walters. operator.
CLARK'S SUNOCo STA. 49O1 Wise Ave.
N. w. CL. 9509-Lubrication. Goodyear
Tires Sunoco Gas. Oils. Flats Fixed
Dale Meyers Sunoco Sta. 14th at W NV.
DE. 1874 Sunoco Gas and Oil
Tree Repaired-Licensed fabrication
GEORGETOWN sunoco Service Station, N
at 33d N. W.-Sunoco products. Fred
Berry. quality serv.. road serv. WE, 2149.
PEARSON'S Sunoco Service, 424 r. /. Ave.
N. e DE. 5912 Goodrich tires. lubri-
cation aeees,s; Kenneth Pearson: operator. operator.
Beauty Shops
FLoRESTELLE SHOP. specializing in per
manent waves. 80S q St. N. e. Ii. $3.50.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
THE WASHINGTON TINES, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2s. 1887
Rentals


Wanted Apartments S4-A
GEORGETOWN or Dupont Circle-Unfurn.
living room. bedroom. kitchen. bath.
private garden, fireplace. private entrance
preferred. Will sign 2-yesr lease. CL.
The Washington times., 1937-02-26
Automobiles for Sale

HILL l. TIBBITTS
FoRDS, all body styles. Priced from S76 uD.
lila Vermont Ave. N. W. Nat. $3.50
The Washington times., 1937-02-26

Chevrolet 1888 COach-original QOQ0
black finish, radio, heater, 0AOO
ETC.. quiet, smooth motor
ADDISON CHEVROLET, INC.
1437 Irving st. N. W. Adams 5411
The Washington times., 1937-02-26

Chevrolet 1888 De Luxe Town Q070
Sedan - With built-in trunk: OAtO
Al all over, tires practically new; low
price, trade and easy terms
STOHLMAN CHEVROLET
1907 NJ st. N. w. WEst 1640
The Washington times., 1937-02-26

Chevrolet 1885 standard Coach 0CAn
A beautiful little car that SDO4O
has had the best of care and is ex-
ceptionally clean all over; trade and
easy terms
STOHLMAN CHEVROLET
1907 NJ st. N. W. WEst 1646
The Washington times., 1937-02-26

Chevrolet 1884 COach-Has built QOAE
in trunk. good tires and ex- GDORO
cellent motor: terms.
ADDISON CHEVROLET, INC.
1887 Irving st. n. w. Adams S411
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25
Regulations Upon
Closing Schools
Announced by Fox

REGULATIONS affecting schools fac-
ei with heavy loss ot attendance
due TO the present eriderlic of colds
and influenza. were explained to-
day hv Dr. Warren =. Fox. county
health officer. who has also sem
ont tho Information to clerks Of
The boards.
Schools may be kept open and
if the boards furnish the county
health officer with evidence. the
yet Of absentees on certain date,
he health department will inves-
tigate the situation, and with the
knowledge of the situation. will
certify as to the absences being due
TO this epidemic and the schools
will not lose their AVERAGE daily
attendance. In order to obtain their
ADA. consideration. the schools
must be kept oren.
IT is AGAINST the policy Of health
departments anywhere to close
schools excep. in cases of serious
eridemics. said DR.. Fox. Too often
e the children are out of school,
instead os STAYING home. thev 90
n movies or. congregate in other
places and the objective of the clos
ing Of schools is lost.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25
POE GOES ON
STANDN HIS
OWN DEFENSE

Yancey Jack Poe took the
stand in his own defense in I'm
perial county superior court
Monday where he is on trial for
the fatal shooting of George
Johnson, Placfntia rancher, on
the shores of Salton sea Nov. %.
The defendant was asked by
his attorney. c. b. Smith. to
exulain sketches of the land in
the vicinity OF the shooting.
S,nith. after objections of Dis
trict Attorney Elmer Head were
cverruIed nv JUDGE X. ID. Nc
Pherrin. distributed copies Of
leases of the land in question
which were said to have been
Sirned by Poo ard Luther ].
Shprn. Other leases were turn
I'd over TO the court for identifi-
cation.
sttcr,r,s were made TO estab-
'ish the site Of the SHOOTING upon
some of the land includ ID in the
leases.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25

vile, Tenn; Eddysville, KY; and
many smaller towns with which
communication was impossible.
Looting broke out in flood strick-
en- towns and cities. Police were
powerleSs to aid refugees and
maintain law and order.
Martial law or its equivalent
was declared along a front reach
ing from Cincinnati to Cairo, ILL.,,
on both sides of the Ohio river.
Rain, snow and sleet added to
suffering and to the flood men,
ace.
Normal transportation systems
were paralyzed in some cities and
badly crippled in others.
Sewers backed UP into Louis
vile, KY, streets, bringing the
threat of typhoid. All citizens
were ordered innoculated.
Power and lights were off every
where except in a tiny island In
the center of the city.
Cincinnati, ravaged by fire as
we'll as by flood, faced an unpre-
cedented emergency. New flood
waters surged toward the crippled
city today, fed by 2.33 inches of
rain since yesterday.
The city's pumping machinery
was disabled. Water was rationed
Electric service was cut off to all
public buildings, radio stations and
newspapers. Two destructive fires
swept the waterfront, causing dam
age estimated at $2,00O,OOO.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25
VALLEY TOLL
RISES TO IL
CONTINUED From Page ID


after an inquest Monday in Braw-
ley. -,
Lester Delahoussaye, 25-year-old
Los Angeles resident, was killed
in a head on auto collision east
of Holtville early Saturday night.
A young couple, en- route to Yuma
to be married, were injured in the
same crash.
A coroners Jury assembled at
Holtville Sunday held Harold Oh
ander, driver of the pickup in
volyed in the collision which cost
the life of Delahoussaye, respon-
sible for the death. Everett Wea-
therbie, California Highway pa
trolman, signed a complaint charg-
ing Olander with negligent homi-
eide.
Billie Summers of Compton, who
was accompanying Olander to Yu-
ma to be married, is in Holt
Vile seriously injured. She is suf-
fering from a fractured skull, a
broken knee and severe cuts. Hos
pital attaches declared Monday
she has good chance to live.
Olander also was injured.
DelahouSsaye was a passenger
in a sedan driven by Arthur Tou-
be, also of Los Angeles.
Captain Frank Oswalt Of the
highway patrol declared witnesses
told him Olander, who was driv-
ing east, suddenly swerved into
the path of the sedan driven by
Toube.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25
Efforts Made to
Adjust Debts of
Valley Farmers

Really constructive efforts are
being made in the matter of debts
burdening Imperial Valley, said w.
A. McFadden OF Brawley. chairman
IF he farm debt adjustment COM
nnittee which met Saturday with
H. H. Brown, state representative
from San Francisco. to discuss val
lev debt problems with him.
legislative activities which will
tend to relieve farm debts in Cali
fornia were discussed and will be
by this committee and
others in the state. Brown spent
several days in the valley and went
over the local situation with Nc
Eadden. spending considerable time
IN visiting the various farming dis
tricts.
Other members. all of whom give
their services, are: Argyle MacLach-
AN P. A. Thaanum II. G. Farms
wor4h. End George Hickcox-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25
Valley Leaders
OF Scouts Meet
Here SATURDAY.


Junior Scout leaders. patrol lead
ers and Junior assistant Scout
masters. met in the El Centro Scout
hut Saturday for a trainine confer
ence conducted by Carl N. Helmick.
Scout executive, and by Richard
Heath. Scoutmaster of Troop "a,
Brawley.
The patrol system. the patrol
leaders, council Games. songs, troop
BUDGETS. proper Use of charts and
records. duties of patrol Officers
and iunior assistant Scoutmasters.
craft instruction. archery. were sub
iects discussed at the meeting.
Scouts were present from every
community in the council with the
exception of Yuma. Arizona. and
Calipatria, the following attending:
Westmorland: Troop 31-Albert
Czech and George Cox.
Brawlev: Troop 12-Fverett Vim
zant. Willism Vinzant. James Mark
ling and Jack Humphrey.
Holtville: Troop 44-Billy Muir
ray, Box Maxwell, Roger Griffin
Ted Kenney. and Grady Walton.
Ieber: Troop 45-William Boren
Walter Willett. Franklin Porter, and
Herbert Hogan.
Cslexico: Troop 13 Tommy
Brents, George Carroll, Raymond
Mercier, Bob Gregg, and John Hen
ton.
El Centre: Troou Bill Thomp-
son. Bill SAGE. end Bill Reed. Troop
6-Aylmer Thompson. Troop =
Jack Gum. Troop 14-Glen Poole,
Reed Anderson, Bob Eyer, and Jack
Jones.
McCabe: Troop 25-Edmund Bar
mettler.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25
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Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25

: on trial as traitors, asserted In teS-
timony today tnaS Mdivani plotted
with him and others to kill the
chief of the Transcausian Commu-
mist party and establish an inde-
pendent Georgian state.
Mdivani was said to have been
arrested and to be facing trial.
Testimony was that Mdivani,
long prominent in the Communist
party in Georgia, was to lead the
terrorist organization in the Geor-
gian republic. which is part of
the TranScaucasian group of stat
eS.
Serebriakov said that Mdivani
himself might have become head
of the Georgian state, and thus
put his family in Georgian lead
ership, had plans for the anti
government group materialized.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25
Swollen Rivers
Spread Death in
Stricken Regions
Continued from Page u

Continued from Page u
Wheeling, w. Va; Pittsburgh; JEFF
fersonville, Ky; Portsmouth, O.;
Marietta, o.; Frankfort, KY
GAINESVILLE, o.; Ironton, O.; Coch-
octon, O.; McConnessville, O.; Par
kersburg, w. Va; Huntington, w.
Va; Lawrenceberg, Ind; Aurora,
Ind; Shawneetown, ILL.,; Cairo,
ILL.,; Metropolis, ILL.,; Carruthers-
vile, Mo-; Jackson, Miss; Nachez,
Miss. Concordia and Catahoula,
Parishes, La; Richards Landing,
Tenn; Truman, Ark; Monette,
Ark; Lake City, Ark; Clarkes-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25
RELIEF BILL
REPORTED FOR
HOUSE ACTION

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. U.P)-A
relief deficiency bill carrying $780,
100000 for federal aid to unemploy-
ed between now and June 80 as re-
quested by the president was ia
vorably reported today for house
action by the house appropriations
committee.
The measure--first appropriation
bill of the Session-was shot into
the house for floor action during a
confused day OF debate as to wheth-
er it should be Immediately in
creased to provide funds for the
flood disaster.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25

George E. Boysen, above, former
paymaster at the Buick Motor
plant in Flint, Mich, is the leader
Uf the Flint Alliance. Its men,
bership is comprised of non-union
General Motors employees and
Flint business men. 1t was a tele-
gram sent by William S. Knud-
sen, executive vice president OF
GIN to Boyssn which led the
United Automobile Workers un-
ion to maintain "sit-down" strik-
ers in the two Fisher Body plants
in Flint and later led to a break
up of the conference in Detroit
between the union and General
Motors. In the telegram, Boy
sen had demanded of Knudsen
that non-union employees be repre-
sentcd at any negotiations and
Knu cen rerlied that he would be
glad to meet any representatives
Q. ernploycs. The union contend
ed that tbs was a violation OF
the collective bargaining pr.nci-
PIES asr1ed upon, saying that the
Flint Alliance was a "vigilante"
organization created to disrupt
the union.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25

Rev. Frank Junkins helped Scout
master Meadows take up some of
the Bow Scouts to spend a day at
Live Oaks in the snow. Scouts
who went were Jesse Floyd. Claude
Ferguson. Chas. Lindsey. Donald
Baum, Geo. Kodama and Bobbie
Havens.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kine Kendall of
Erp and Herman Oftelie of Blythe
were weekend visitors with Mr..
and Mrs. j. T. Oftelie and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Stewar, spent
Saturday nioht and Sundav with
friends and relatives st San Diago.
90
Mr.. anS Mrs. w. A. Swinson Of
Plaster Citv returned home from
Phoenix, called there the first of
the week when the brother Of Mr..
Swinron passed away.
90
Mrs. Alice Linoar OF Ohio is
visiting her sister Mrs A. R. Fergu-
son.
Mrs. T.. w. Copeland Of San DIEGO
ard deurh 'er. Mrs. Francis Mckee
Of r.orr Reach ore ependinr thie
wecl- et the J. p Gal'aher horne.
7ov Scout T-cor : o. coolcv rnfd
trei- Court of Horror Thu-rdo--
evenirz. If tn ceelev church Leo
DE- Coles Of Fl Centro was speaker
Of the evening.
Scoiltr, aster Hanks directed the
vesti+pre ceremony. Scouts der1on-
s'rated numerous interesting stunts
in scouting. s. T. Robinson 0ave
ont tenderfoot badges to Claude
Ferguson. Donald Baum. Bobbie
Brooks. Jesse Flovd. Bobbie Havens
and Chas. Lindsey.
Mrs. Charles White and infant
son, Charles Carter White, are home
from the hospital.
90
Paul Mackey. stationed at San
DIEGO, was visiting his family over
the weekend.
40
> Mrs. Tom Howard spent Sunday
al Jacumta having repairs made
on her cottage there.
%
Miss Alene Smith had several
-guests in Sunday afternoon for q
Monopoly game. Miss Irene VIII
liams. Gene and Forest Napier,
Jack Adams and the hostess Alene
Smith.
ST. Robinson accompanied Sher-
iffs Ware to Riverside recently,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25

Idaho shipped more than $4,000
carloads of potatoes in 1886; about
1000 cars above 1885.
The three plants in southern Ida
no handled some 100000 tons of
sugar beets last season.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25
MDIVANI NAMED IN
CONSPIRACY TRIAL

MOSCOW, 25 U-Budu Mdivani asserted to be brother
the Mdan whose marriages American heiresses
world alleged today been selected head of anti
government conspirators in the Georgian republic.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25

Members of the Calipatria Ebell
club were entertained last week
by Miss Maurine Pembefton of
Brawley who told of a recent trip
to japan. The meeting was held
at the home of Mrs. Robert Sperry.
Miss Ruth Asbury, president, con-
Quoted business meeting. Guests
for the afternoon were Mrs. Belle
Moore and Mrs. M. L. McKendry.
Members present were Miss Ruth
Asbury, Miss Julia Riley, Miss
Eleanor Lechler, Miss Elizabeth
Detweiler, Miss Adella Travers,
Miss Elizabeth Fautz, Mrs. w. B.
Dixon, Mrs. c. B. Mccullough, Mrs.
H. j. Manning, Mrs. Herbert Rec
| dy, Mrs. j. A. Wallace, Mrs. c. A.
Sperry and Mrs. Robert Sperry,
| hostess.
The Calipatria Home Depart
ment will meet at the Little Brown
church Tuesday afternoon, Janu-
| airy 26. Plans for the February
meeting when Miss Florence Glenn
will demonstrate the preparation
OF gelatine desserts, will be the
chief business.
Mrs. H. j. Ingram, Mrs. L. l..
| Lyeriy, Mrs. Herbert Reedy, Mrs.
M. L. McKendry attended the meet
| ing of the Ten Thousand club in
Ell Centro Thursday afternoon. An
interesting program on flower ar
angement was presented by Miss
| Helen Eadie Of San Bernardino.
lne history section of the club
served tea and Mrs. H. j. Ingram
and Mrs. Adolf Binder poured
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Clouse are
able to be at their places Of busi-
ness after having flu.
Ruth Springer from Oklahoma
is new student at the Calipatria
high school. She is member of
the junior class.
A business meeting of the Cali
patria Women,s club was held at
the City Hall Friday afternoon. A
program prepared by Mrs. NC
Math, music chairman, consisted
of piano solo by Majel Ross, a
piano duet by jeanne Huey and
Hazeldell Sinclair and readings by
Mrs. Roy Kuns. Miss Anna Nc
Manus and w. A. McFadden who
are running for Irrigation District
offices, spoke in behalf of their
campaigns. Plans for series Of
| bridge -luncheons to raise money
for the club were made. Mrs.
Wiley Manning will give the first
one and others will follow soon.
Mrs. H. ]. ingram and Mrs. M, L.
McKendry were hostesses in place
of Mrs. Emma Palmer and Mrs.
Jerry Rose who. were unable to
attend. The next meeting of the
Club will be luncheon at the
home Of Mrs. c. A. Sperry on Fe-
bruary as there is Southern
District meeting at Holtville on
February IL, our regular meeting
date.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25

Pennsylvania has been declared a
modified accredited bovine tubercu-
losiS-free area.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25
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Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25

California's 1886 honey crop was
about 1,177,500 pounds, half of what
it was in 1885.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25

Mrs. c. A. Daniels, daughter of
Mrs. Lille Bradshaw, has left for
Texas.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25
SEELEY
Mrs. s. T. Robinson

ND. and Mrs. I. s. Elliott and
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Elliott of Plaster
City attended the ball game at
Yuma a week ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Dee Upshaw of
Holtville and Mr.. Upshaw's two
sisters from Texas and Mr.. and
Mrs. Delmar Shaw of Plaster City
motored to the mountains.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25

To Visit valIeT-Florence Turner.
state director of the department
of social welfare, is expected to
pay an official visit to the coun-
ty welfare department early next
week.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25
CALIPATRIA
Mrs. c. A. Sperry

Among those on the sick list
this week. are Mrs. Raymond Rose,
and Mrs. j. G. Writ.
The Associated chambers Of
commerce met at the Legion hall
in Calipatria for their monthly
business meeting and dinner Fri
day evening. Wiley Manning, pres
idet of the Caipatria chamber well
coined the visitors. The speaker
of the evening was Captain Frank
Oswalt of the California highway
patrol who told about his work in
highway safety. Blanche Writ and
Roy Davidson of C.U.H.S. read
papers on highway safety. Women
of the Legion Auxiliary served the
dinner. About fifty guests were
present.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25

Tie excellent acorn crop n Men
docino County ranges has been a
big help in wintering sheep.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25

M anzen g. CO National
AlVeEtls Repre- enfstiFes-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-25

S. IT. Robinson accompanied Sher-
IF Ware to Riverside recently,
The Washington times., 1937-11-26

! II Thrift Specials from TOYLAND:

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finger printing, in
visible ink, hand
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The Washington times., 1937-11-26

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Sturdy lie a t II er
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Montana labor news., 1937-01-14
CENTRAL BODY REVOLTS
AT TAMPA RULING

WASHINGTON. (UNS)-Restric-
ton of the powers of central labor
bodies by the Tampa convention of
the American Federation of Labor
caused great indignation at a stormy
meeting of the Washington Central
Labor Union.
A vote of protest was adopted
against the amendment to the con-
stitution which denies central bodies
the right to place concerns on the
unfair list if they have an agree
ment with any union.
There was virtually no defense of
the conventions action from the
floor and many of the usually con-
sentative delegates threatened open
defiance Of the new restrictions on
central bodies.
Montana labor news., 1937-01-14
MOONEY ATTORNEY SEES
FREEDOM NEAR
By Federated Press

NEW YORK-(FP)-Findings and
analyses of 10 months of hearings
on the Mooney case conducted by a
referee for the California state SUI
preme court will be presented to him
by both sides on Jan. 4, one month
before the Goth anniversary of
MONEYS conviction and imprison-
ment.
Flying to New York with the 20
volumes of testimony totaling $4,000
pages gathered in these hearings,
George t. Davis, attorney for Moo
ney, told newspapermen here that
for the first time all evidence in the
case had been heard and that Moo
ney is closer to freedom than he has
ever been before.
Though Davis declared that he
could not see how any court could
overlook the overwhelming evidence
of Moneys innocence in the testi-
mony now gathered, he added that
the case would be Immediately
brought before the u. S. Supreme
Court if necessary.
Davis will confer with Frank P.
Walsh and John Finerty, co-counsels,
here.
Montana labor news., 1937-01-14
Girl Bus Conductors
In Australia Strike
BY A. f. of l.. News Service.

Bus drivers and girl conductors in
the thriving city of Fremantle, Aus
tralia, recently bucked the tactics of
gouging transportation concerns,
who were imposing the spread"
system of employment to u~nbearable
limits, by a "stoppage of work"
which proved very effective. In
America, it would be called a strike,
but the results are the same.
The Arbitration Court, it appears
from an article in "The Westralian
Worker" some time ago awarded the
men drivers and girl conductors, who
are employed on buses in Australia,
an eight-hour work day and the six
day work week, a maximum of 48
hours per week. Then certain excep-
tons were granted, it appears, by
which Spread employment might
be used to meet certain conditions.
Spread employment, of course,
means simply that the employees may
be required to work, for example,
two hours, then be off two hours,
then work four hours, then be off
two hours again, then work two
| hours more. While the worker only
puts in eight hours on the job, the
spread" or waiting time, amounts
in the example cited to twelve hours
time. 1t is stated that the Metro ano
allied companies imposed the
spread" system to "the fullest pos
sible extent" thus creating "a seeth-
ing cauldron of discomfort, culmin-
ating in stoppage of transport"
In regard to the bad working con
ditions imposed by the company or
girl conductors, 'The Westraliar
Worker" says:
CAS- a matter Of fact, the girls
through having in the main to ride
in the rear of the bus, suffer fai
more severely from the vibration Of
the vehicle than the drivers do. THAI
this has a bad effect on their health
is disclosed by the heavy casualty lis
always in evidence. Again, the ar.
rangements made at the depots fol
the accommodation of the girls are
very defective, and now is the time
that this should be improved"
The stoppage of work by the unior
bus drivers and union girl conductor
proved quite effective, and, once Of
the job the workers demanded othel
needed Improvements in employment
conditions before returning, includ
ing arrangements at depots for ac
commodation of the girl conductor
and provision for transportation 0
the girls to their homes when the.
get through work after the tram
stop.
AS THE W~estralian Worker" sum
it up: ut is, Of course, to be regret
ted that a stoppage had to be mad
to bring the employers to a sense o
their responsibilities. Now that j
has come, there should be a cleanup
and a complete understanding in tn
best interests of the industry"