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Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06

Walled town OF PaOShan, on the
Yangste just above where the
Whangpoo empties into it. Japan
ese soldiers in the vanguard scaled
the walls with ladders despite hea-
Wy Chinese fire.
The japanese succeeded in land
ing an estimated $4,000 additional
troops along the lower Whangpoo
under cover of the bombardment.
Foreign military observers esti-
mated that $4,000 Japanese and
10000 Chinese troops now were
locked in the combat around Shan
ghai.
These other developments also
marked the Japanese push:
l, The japanese blockade, insti-
tuted Aug. 25 along the 8OO-mile
stretch of the Chinese coast, was
extended to include the entire 1000
miles from the Manchukuoan Dor.
der on the north to French Indo-
China in the south. The aim was
to prevent the Chinese from bring
ing in outside supplies.
The first action under the ex-
tended blockade however, was the
seizure of two Chinese customs
cruisers near Hong Kong by JAP
anese destroyer.
2. Japanese continued to extend
the war front in southern China
Chinese sources said japanese war;
ships had shelled Sanwei, 80 miles
north of Hong Kong and had tried
20 land troops.
3. China sought further to unite
every segment of the nation by
making Generalissimo Chang Kai-
Shek supreme dictator and Great
ing a war council.
4. Neither China nor Japan re-
piled formally to the request of the
United States and other powers
that they move their forces out Of
the Shanghai area.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06

Three vitality important things
have happened to organized labor
within the past IL months.
First, tidal wave of organiza-
ton has boosted the total number
Of organized workers far above any
previous level.
Second, the labor movement it.
self has split squarely down the
middle.
And third, the extension of COL
lective bargaining, the development
of new strike techniques, and the
more active participation of labor
in politics, have greatly increased
its direct influence in public affairs
Organization at New Peak
Membership: The American Fed
Grafton of Labor and the Commit
tee for Industrial Organization
probably have more than 100000
members each. Adding in the in
dependent railroad organizations
and the many small independent
unions scattered all over the coun-
try (the American Federation Of
Independent Unions alone claims
100000 it is likely that enarly 7000,-
900 workers of potentially organi-
Fable 30,000,OOO are organized today
That is roughly % per cent.
Labor Split Widened
A. F.. of l.. and G. l. O.: The
split of the labor movemnt into
two definitely competing organiza-
tions developed only in March
1887, though the G l. o. was form
ed in November, 1875, Throughout
the year, tentative efforts to adjust
the differences between these Or
ganizations have not only failed
but the gulf between them has
widened and deepened.
The G. I. O., starting out with
the avowed purpose OF organizing
Continued on Page 6; Col. %
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
LABOR LEADERS
RENEW BATTLE

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. U.P) -
The most powerful voices of the
nations two great, warning labor
organizations called on their men,
bers today to press for the unioniza-
ton of every worker and to fight
the rival to a finish.
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor and
John P. Frey, president of its metal
trades department, renewed the fed
erations drive to offset gains of j.
L. Lewis Committee for Industrial
Organization.
Lewis carried on his militant
drive for unionization on industrial
lines in a speech at Pittsburgh.
In countless other cities, labor
rallied on its own holiday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
COUNTY'S AGED
RECEIVE $1,000
DURING MONTH
S3,128 Paid Out Here to
Orphans; Blind
Get $77O

Imperial county spent &c.
523.92 for old age security,
$77O for aid to the blind, and
$3,128.34 for aid to orphans
during the month of August,
county welfare records disclosed
Monday.
The county paid out $13,422.26 for
state a1 during the month with
seme of the total to BIZ paid back
from state and federal funds
Charles Nice county welfare offic-
er. All of the orphan aid comes
back, one fourth of the blind aid
and % per cent of the old age bill
Imperial county spend $702,39 foi
direct aid in August. None of this
comes back to the county.
Total cost of the welfare depart
ment in August was $l5,044.79, Nice
Caid . a
In July California's old age Sc
curity bill was $2,525 074 or an aver
age Of $3l AS per individual on the
security rolls. A total of 80 256 per
sons received old age security pay
ments in California. The state paid
4,795 persons S172 2,888.39 or $3606
per person for blind aid in August
California gave orphan aid to "a
01O orphans in July at cost of
S338927.10. The payment per or
phan averaged $l4.5l per child. Nice
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
FL Centro Police
Halt Strip Act

Hazel McCabe, 26, decided to stop
in the hall at the county Jail Sun
day night and take a bath in the
water fountain before going up to
the womans cell block.
She was arrested by Ell Centro
police, booked but too drunk to
sign, and transferred to the county
jail. She took a drink out of the
water fountain This was refresh
ing SO she splashed some on her
face and poured a cupful down her
neck. She then decided to take a
bath in the all together Deputy
sheriffs stopped the strip act and
the bath.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
SOVIET BLAMES
ITALIAN VESSEL
IN SUB ATTACKS

ROME, Sept. 6. U.P-Russia in
a strongly worded note to the Ital-
ian government today accused an
italian submarine of sinking Rus
sian steamship in the Mediterran-
can and demanded indemnity and
punishment for those responsible.
The Italian government respond
ed Immediately to the note, curtly
denied Italian responsibility for the
9inking and refused to discuss the
matter further.
Two Russian ships, one carrying
coal, the other oil, have been sunk
in the Mediterranean during the
past week by pirate" submarines
The captain of the coal ship, sunk
off Algiers, reported that he had
identified the submarine as an Ital-
ian craft.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
PARALYSIS SPREAD
FEARED IN NATION

CHICAGO Sept. 6 Outpost
ponement of school openings spread
today in anticipation of higher
temperatures which officials feared
would bring new cases of infantile
paralysis. already general through
out the nation.
Fair and warmer weather was
forecast for most of the middle west
by the us. Weather bureau at
Chicago
Kendallville, Ind, became one OF
the latest cities to postpone school
opening as a preventative against
the disease spreading to epidemic
proportions, Officials there delayed
school opening one week.
Healthi authorities IN Chicago,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
CHILD DIES
IN HIS SLEEP

BARD, Sept. Calvin Ockert, g.
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter I. Ockert, died in his sleep early
Saturday morning at the family
home one mile west of the MUW,
camp near Imperial dam.
The boy was found Saturday
morning by members of his family.
Deputy Coroner Herbert Hughes
said an autopsy revealed death was
caused by rupture of an abcess In
his throat. This cause strangulatioh
He had suffered an attack of meas
les sometime before, Hughes said.
and had been having trouble with
his throat.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
VALLEY QUIET,
NO CRIME,
NO NOTHING

Crime was in the doldrumS in
Imperial Valley for the first three
fcurths of the annual Labor day
weekend with officers in, the Sher-
ifs department and all municipal
police departments kept on duty in
case celebrants should decide to
get unruly.
The holiday called so many res
identS out of the valley that police
departments reported fewer arrests
for drunkenness than is customary
for Saturday and Sunday.
Just wait till they start coming
back, then things will happen" was
the general opinion of officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
SINGLE ROAD
CRASH MARS
VALLEY SLATE
Hundreds of Lives
Lost in Nation
Over Weekend

Death followed the ex-
ample of many Ell Centrans
over the Labor day weekend
and took a brief vacation.
Only one serious traffic ac-s
cident marred Saturday, Sunday
and Monday in Imperial Valley.
The rest of the nation, however,
reported a mounting death toll of
over $50.
Absence of highway crashes in
the valley was traced to elaborate
patrol duty ordered by Highway
Patrol Chief Frank Oswalt.
Airplane and automobile acct
dents, lightning, drownings, suicides,
even q duel, added to the Cnree day
toll which the national safety coun-
Gil predicted would reach 1000.
Automobile accidents alone claim
ed ITS lives in "a states Saturday
and Sunday. Miscellaneous violence
took 80 more.
Laurence Segroge, 81, lies in the
Ell Centro hospital suffering from q
crushed shoulder and arm, leg in
juries and possibly punctured
lung as result of an automobile
accident early Sunday morning at
East Main street and Fairfax aven-
Ue, Ell Centro.
Two other persons suffered slight
injuries in the accident in which
two automobiles were wrecked, El
Centro police said. Miss Bessie
Price, 81, suffered a three-inch cut
in her left knee, and Peggy Price,
Is, suffered from shock. Segugo
was rushed to the El Centre hos
pital by Emmett Terrell, Negro, El
Centro resident.
The accident occurred when a car
driven by Segroge and one driven
by John Rostick, "a, sideswiped.
Death by states:
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06

first to order postponement OF
school reopening, indicated the
vacation would be extended to the
first of October unless there is q
decided break before that time in
the number of new cases being re-
ported.
School openings also have been
postponed in Toronto. Ont. Buffalo,
NY, Milwaukee. Waukesha. Wis.
Omaha. Neb.. Council Bluffs, Ia,
and San Diego county, California,
Surveys showed more than 1000
persons stricken in the United
states and Canada, with approxim-
ately 800 deaths, during the last
two weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06

charged with petty theft in COM
plants signed by r. S. Hamer,
lockwood area, and James Hav-
lick, Brawley area.
Some of the policies sold by the
three defendants were good, said
Deputy Herbert Hughes, and some
of them never were received by
the individuals who paid the down
payment. The down payments diff
cred In, the various cases reported
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
Church Stores Food
for New Depression

Stafford, Ariz., Sept. 6. UP
Mormons here stored provisions to-
lay to carry them through a panic
so much greater than the last 1t
will not admit comparison,
Melvin j. Ballard, Salt Lake City
apostle, predicting another depres-
sion, ordered construction of large
warehouse and storage of food and
clothing to last at least year.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
Marriage for Spite
So Man Kills Self

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. CUP)
Arthur KenSler, AZ, a carpenter
committed suicide last night by TAX
ing poison because his wife of four
days married him to spite another
man, police reported.
Officers said that Kensler, while
dying, told his landlady:
Il want to die. Erma told me the
day after we were married that
she married me to spite another
man."
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06

to officials.
The three alleged racketeers COL
lected money as down payment OF
some of the policies. Hughes said
the policies were handled according
to rules in some cases but were not
returned to the purchaser in others.
Whereabouts of the three defend
ants were not known.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
Family Coupe a
Maternity Ward

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6 (UP)
The family coupe became a
maternity ward early today
when the sfOrk caught up with
Mr.. and MrG. James Athas, rae
ing for the hospital.
Athas was a mile from his
goal when he knew he was los
ing the race. He stopped, tele-
ps1Oned for police ambulance,
and came back to find his wife
had given birth to a pound son.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
Eachinn Prediction

tdGnIUH TIcuiCcOh .. -. -.
RR is in the mood for predlc"
ton. This habit of appearing in
public in shorts at odd intervals is
getting to be habit with the adult
BOYS. More and more of them stran-
gle their masculine modesty and
give the public a peek at their ap-
psarance in greatly abbreviated
shorts. w. j. McClelland was caught
in a sunrise idyl while throwing
clods and "sic'ing" his bird dog, Red
on a noisy flock of turkeys. The
turkeys woke him up betimes with
their turkish gabbling so he sailed
forth in shorts to shut them up
The prediction? Everybody will be
wearing them everywhere nexi
summer.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
Assaulter of Small
Girl Hunted i'm South

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. 8
UP)- Residents OF suburban East
Lake today joined police In a search
for a well dressed man who kid
naped three small girls wading In
a creek. carried them into a near
by wood and reportedly assaulted
one Of the three.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
Neck Broken During
PLAY Wrestling Bout

SAN JOSE, Calf, Sept. 6 CUPl
-Meig Amstalden, 81, of Stockton,
suffered broken neck yesterday
in friendly wrestling match at
picnic at Newark
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
COrns on the redt-

Senator Ed Law returned - from
Missouri with new greeting. he
cells his constituents he spent his
six-week vacation in the land OF
corn dinners. The cue Is for his
listeners to ask What Is a corn
dinner?" His reply is "A corn din
ner consists of corned beef, corn
pone, corn on the cob ana corn liq-
uor."
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
With VaIIeyites
on Vacation

Walter B. Havekorst and family
are spending a six-week vacation in
their former home state of Missouri.
They expect to return by Septem-
ber 90
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
Strcng Man Stewart

Strong Man SteWart-
George Harris, jr., l60 pounds
still remembers the time d. V
Stewart, 2l0 pounds, tossed him ur
on a top shelf at his Dads stora
during scuffle. George pulled a
David and Goliath stunt and tipped
Stewart over on the floor In retail
iation, George found himself sail
ing through the air in the general
direction of the ceiling. A split Sec
ond later he landed on the shelf
among the hat boxes. They hadn't
rehearsed the act, ether.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
INSURA ANCE RACKET
REVEALED IN VALLEY

An insurance racket said to have need its perpetra-
tors between $50 and $50 from each victim in Imperial
Valley revealed when two of the victims signed COM
plants against the alleged racketeers
J. M. Beal, Willard Townsend and NJ. B. Rose were
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
SAFETY DRIVE FOlLS DEATH
Bombardment
Rocks Shanghai

SHANGHAI, Sept. g. (UP)-The greatest combined
land aerial and naval bombardment of the rocked
Shanghai today japanese renforcements advanced
their big push to blast the Chinese of the Yangtse
delta The japanese announced they had captured the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
1t Might Help

Red bernard can't make anyone
understand how he happened to get
box of energy" breakfast food
along with a sales letter from his
company. A man who survived a
lpecial training course in bookkeep-
ing machines and whatnot at Hart
ford, Conn, this summer on top OF
a trip to Coney Island might neeo
il. at that.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
Says:

Frank omyer, III Centre police OIL
ficer injured in an. automobile ac-
cidsnt this summer, is getting ABOUT
on crutche5 like veteran. HOW
about giving him tin cup?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
An Honest Man

County Auditor Walter Carey, as
4 joke, was given 9O-day leave OF
absence from the state for his vaca-
ton. Supervisor Hugh Osborne told
him he might need it to go to Reno
Carey hitched up his suspenders
and shot back at his tormenters:
II have no reason to go to Reno
but l guess my wife has plenty"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
12>MONTHS' GAINS
REVIEWED BY LABOR
BY WILLIS THORNTON
NEA Service Staff COrreSpOndem

As organized abOrs millions gather to celebrate Labor
Day. 1897, they mark the end of labor year" that is
certainly of the significant America has
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06

Mr. and Mrs. r. p. Moore return
ed Sunday from vacation spent
in La Jolla, San Diego, the High
Sierras and a visit with daughter
Marjorie, Mrs. John Isaac, in Los
Continued on Page 9; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06
Nice "Alleg"-

Tommy Beynon received an alli-
gator from Florida as gift from
Noel Smith, AMI RR doesn't mean
an alligator pear, either. The warty
backed, toothy jawed creature Is
supposed to be a pet. Well, anyway
Tommy can have him.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-06

Butter; Los Angeles 36; Butter
fat, Imperial Valley, fob, ranch,
grade A 48; manufacturing milk
40; route gathered cream 351z.
La. Hay; us. No. 1 S17.50-1S.
No. 2 leafy S16.5O-17; us. No.
S15.5O-16.
Mpds. Flax, Sept. S1.971z
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-16
MILLVILLE

On Sunday morning in the M. Z
Church, the pastor, Rev. w. S. GRAM
preached an inspiring sermon to q
good audience. All are welcome tc
these services. Let us attend and
encourage or pastor, as well as en-
joy the sermons.
Several of our people attended the
services Sunday evening at our sis
ter church in Ocean View and en-
joyed the talk on temperance held
there.
George Robinson and brother,
Clarence Robinson and family with
their mother, Mrs. Name Sockrider
and son Francis motored to Camden.
N. j., as soon as the news reached
them of the sinking of the ill-fated
tug Radiant. as Mrs. Sockrider's two
SONS and granddaughter are among
the lost.
Capt. Lemuel F. Holt died very
suddenly of heart trouble at his
home in Philadelphia on Monday.
April 5. 1897. The body was brought
down on Thursday. Funeral services
were held in Ocean View Christian
pastor. The Rev. James X. Glenn. In
terment in Bethel NJ. +. Cemetery
Captain Holt leaves to mourn their
loss besides his widow. two children.
Capt Ebe Holt of Trenton. n. j.. and
Mrs. Charles H. AydOlett of this
place. and one grandson. Lemuel F.
Holt. Capt. Holt was native of
lower Delaware. The bereaved ones
have the sympathy of their many
friends and relatives here and in
Philadelphia. in this time of sorrow.
Capt. J. s. Pruitt. Mrs. J. r. Belts
and Mrs. J. S. Noble mOtored TO
POcomOke City. Md. monday evening
where they attended the meeting of
he Eastern Star in that city.
The minstrel show on Friday eve
ming was success as the perform
lnce was given To full house.
The Volunteer Fire Company wish /
u thank the public for their patron !
Ige.
Mrs. Charles w. Townsend has en- !
listed in the Air Corps an dis now /
It Fort Slocum, n. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. William l.. Richards /
4 Wilmington were Sunday guests
# Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. Belts.
p Mrs. Kate Evans has returned 10
he Village Side Farm after spending
he winter months in Reading. Pa,
With her children. DIR. and Mrs. Cecil
reed. Mrs. Freed accompanied her
mother to her home here where she
pent few days before returning
D Reading.
Mrs. Virgel McCabe spent last
tuesday with her parents. Mr. and
frs. Joseph Quillen at their home
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-16
in Pittsville. Md.

in Pittsville. Md.
! MISS Emma Grace McCabe OF
Ocean View spent the weekend with
her cousins, Pauline and Ruth Nc
Cabe.
The Misses Claramond and Emma
Magee and little Miss Charlotte. Mrs
W.. S. Grant and Miss Flo Chestnut
spent Wednesday afternoon in Sails
bury, Md.
John Williams motored TO Pauls-
bOro, N. j., on Friday where he was
guest at the Socony Vacuum Oil
plant in that city. ~.
Miss Dorothy Williams of Prospect
Park, Pa, spent the weekend with
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Williams.
Ebe Quillen of Philadelphia spent
the weekend with his father and sis
ter. Clinton Quillen and Miss Lulu
Quillen.
Ward Bennett spent Saturday eve
ming at Ocean View with his mother.
Mrs. Cad Bennett.
Mr.. and Mrs. John b. Derrickson
of Ellendale were Sunday visitors
with Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Williams.
Mrs. John Williams and children.
Hilda. Linda and Harvey spent Sun
day with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Joshua Richards.
Sunday evening callers with Mr..
and Mrs. Isaac West and children
were Mrs. Clara Davey and daughter
Lydia. Miss Catherine Ringler, Miss
Myrtle Shockley and Floyd Mcgee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmons Phillips and
son Blaine were dinner guests on
Of Mr.. Phillips parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Phillips at R0xana.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Hudson en-
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-16
BLANCHARD'S STATION

Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Edgell and
son Louis have been recent dinner
guests of their daughter and sOn-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. George Ely and
family of Greenville.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. l.. Kratz spent Fri
day in Milford and Dover. .-
Mr.. and Mrs. Fritz ZOtt and family
visited on Friday last. their daugh-
ter and granddaughter at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Eurie Savage near
Lincoln.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Mcdowell
spent Sunday afternoon at the home
of the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Isaac Mcdowell.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Zott were
Bridgeville visitors OH Saturday af-
ternoon. '
Mr.. and Mrs. f. l.. Kratz and son
motored to Love Point and Mata-
peake and stopped to call on Rev. C.
w. Spry and family in Hillsboro. Md,
enroute home on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gootie Brown and
daughter, Miss Dorothy Rust, and
Charles Dearman spent Sunday af-
ternoon with Mr.. and Mrs. David
Lloyd and family near Dover.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. e. Russell and
family have been recent dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Edgell Coates
near Harrington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Darwin Savage and
daughter Myrna Louise are spending
this week with Mrs. Savage's par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Fritz Zott.
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-16

tertained to dinner Saturday in hon.
or of Mr.. Hudson's sister, Miss Mary
Hudson's birthday Mr.. and Mrs. Elias
Carmean and daughter Evelyn OF
Millsboro. Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Hudson and daughters. Betty and
Catherine; on Sunday Mr.. and Mrs
Hudson entertained Mrs. M. l.. Hick-
man and children Gathleen and
Brice.
Catherine Ringler was the dinner
guest on Sunday of Mrs. Clara Davey
and daughter Lydia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Evans enter
tanned to dinner on Sunday Mr.. and
Mrs. William Bunting and Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Lewis of Selbyville,
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Evans. Mr.. and
Mrs. Clifford Evans and son Wallace
of town.
Lord baltimore School News
On Monday, April 10, at 8 D. m.,
the tenth, eleventh and twelfth
grades will give three one-act plays
in the fourth annual Lord Baltimor-
ian one-act play contest. The three
plays on the program are "The Plat
itudinous Pose" "Deferential-Kind-
ness" and "J0e's Big Date" A new
trophy will be offered to the winning
class, since the old one was won by
the class OF '36 for three consecu-
tive years. A medal will be given to
the pupil giving the best perform
ance in each play. The three judges
have not been selected yet.
Arbor and Bird Day was ceIebrat-
ed in the Lord Baltimore School by
the planting of shrubbery and q
Tree and by special
assembly. Several pupils brought
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-16

shrqbbery. bulbs and seeds from
home. One or two classes bought
sbrubbery and planted 1t. Miss Der
ricksoH, the secretary, gave two rose
daphne, which were planted in front
of the school. All the pupils helped
to buy the Constitution Tree. a Chi
nese elm, planted between the two
buildings.
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-16

The Milford Neck Ladies' Aid will
meet Friday evening. April 18th at
the church. An interesting program
is being prepared
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-16

WTEw WANT your"Cood will" and
w we expect TO earn II by giving
you better bargains than you can
get anywhere else in town. Here
are some samples - fine cars every
one of them Z. /. made even better
by our 2I-point "Cood WIFI re-
conditioning priced at clear
ance rates to make room for the
trade-insonth the eamazinglypOpui
1897 Pontiac and offered ON
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-16

Expect the best and trust the rest.
Milford chronicle., 1937-04-16

terms to suit your purse. Come In
and prove for yourself that a
Good Will" used car is ''tops''
for looks, dependabiliiy and
everythingeise. Come in and prove
by comparison that our bargain
prices beat them all. Come in and
pick the best buy in town from
the finest stock we have ever had.
Do h tOday--such cars at such
prices will move out fast.