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Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
FORW ARMED is
FORE ARMED

Daily, we of Imperial Valley read in
magazine and newspapers, news and COM
ments on strikes. Editors and public
voice their opinions, and the increase and
decrease of such troubles are carefully
weighed as an index to the kind of busi-
ness conditions to be expected.
Actually, Imperial Valley thus far
has been fairly clear of serious disturb
ances. But it behooves us all to watch
the progress of such unrest as a guide
to our future action if and when such
unrest and widespread efforts TO organ
ize come into the valley.
No one wants Imperial Valley to be
unfair to either side in such controver-
Sizes But no one wishes Imperial Valley
or anyone in it, to be harmed by such
troubles.
That's why a good working under
standing of how other communities have
COPIED with such problems can go long
way toward determining the fair and
just policies to be adopted when the
time comes.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
WILL IMPERIAL VALLEY
GET ITS BENEFIT?

To the vacation traveller who is not
too immersed in his annual holiday to
heed the improved conditions apparent
everywhere, it would appear the midwest
and eastern states are pouring westward
to the Pacific coast. Traffic is heavy
Gasoline companies report gasoline is be-
ing sold more this summer than in many
many years. National parks report the
heaviest patronage in history.
These thousands of Ipeople visiting
California this year, are all prospects for
permanent residents What they see and
witness for themselves while in the con-
fines of this state, largely will determine
whether they will try to find places for
themselves in the California economic
scheme Of things.
We cannot but wonder whether Impe-
rial Valley is going to get her share of
this attention. Handicapped by the sum-
mer season being the most unpleasant
in the valley, only small, very small
number of the visitors chance to come
this way. 1t is to be hoped that the
county board of trade and the various
chambers of commerce are not overlook
ing the chance to get Imperial Valleys
message before the visitors.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
S u M nj o N S
No I5cEE


IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT Plaintiff
JAY P. BURGER, ct al,
Defendants
Harry w. Horton and Geo. r
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO:
JAY P. BURGER, T. KIMURA
HARVEY H. SAzUKI, FRED j
MICHEL AND LOUIS B. STEINER
A co PARTNERSHIP DOING
BUSINESS AS GEO. A. MICHEL
CO., FRED j. MICHEL, LOUIS B
STEINER, JOHN DOE, JANE DOE
RICHARD ROE, JOHN DOE COM
PANP, a Corporation, AND RICH
ARD ROE COMPANY, a CO.
partnership, Defendants.
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
TO APPEAR and answer the Com
plant in an action entitled as above
brought against you in the superior
Court of the County of Imperial
State of California, within ten days
after the service on you of this
Summons-if served within this
county; or within thirty days il
served elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, Oh
it will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this goth day of May, 1887.
w. J. McCLLLLAND,
(SEAL) County Clerk.
A % 80, s 6 13 20 81, GA IL 18 rs
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
on Sol
FRANK WATANABE
~ 60 HOLDEN
THE Law
~ 60 HOLDEN

I are very Ounce alright but some
time I wondering if | out of order to
asking what smatter? For instincts Inc
Dyer Trial.
That fellow have confess that he kill
inq three little girl. But of suddenly they
finding a loop for his neck. They say:
"No please that make no difference that
YOU confessing. we got something to say
ING about this affair" So they start
proving that what he say he done are So
And the enemy lawyer try to proving that
their client was telling fib.
But all us Citizens asking are: "WHO
DONE IT?"
Thank yOu please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23

Recommendations by the Senate's
Crime Committee that investigating
agencies of the federal government
be consolidated in a single bureau
will bear careful study and con-
sideration before being acted upon
The committee declared 1t haa
found a general conviction that
there has been breakdown in our
law-enforcement agenices and
courts"
The Senate committees discover
les, surely, cannot have been paseo
on a comparison of law-en1orce-
ment in 1887, say, with law enforce
ment in the late l920's and early
193O's. Does the Senate committee
forget the prevailing bank robberies
and kidnapings of those years?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT q
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In and for the County Of Imp
SUMMONS
NO. 17614

SUMMONS
NO. 17614
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT, (PlaintifD
VS..
MARY H. SCHLEY, EVA q
SCHLEY, SECURITY TRUST AM
SAVINGS BANK, Etc, ct al, Dd
fendants).
Harry w. Horton and George ].
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STAT
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO: MARY H. SCHLE1
EVA o. SCHLEY, SECURIT,
TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK,
banking corporation, Truste
CHARLOTTA r. SCHLEY, ].
LUNDY, INTERSTATE COTTOl
OIL COMPANY, a corporation, All
FRED d. BEDFORD, It'll
GUARANTEE AND TRUST CON
PANY, Trustee, a Corporation
THE MONA INVESTMEN1
COMPANY, a Corporation, THEd
DORE d. TURNER, LOUIS
BEDMAN, GEORGE A. STEWART
JOHN DOE, JANE DOE, RICH
ARD ROE, JOHN DOE COMPA
NY, Corporation, and RICHARl
ROE COMPANY, a co-partnershi|
Defendants.
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTEl
TO APPEAR and answer the Con]
plant in an action entitled 4
above, brought against you in til
Superior Court of the County \
Imperial, State of California, WITH
in ten days after the service
you of this Summons-if sd
within this county; or within thir1
days If served elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified thj
unless you appear and answer
above required, the said plainti|
will take judgment for any mond
or damages demanded in the conl
plant, as arising upon contract,
1t will apply to the Court for an
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and TIL
seal of the Superior Court of til
County of Imperial, State of Call
fornia, this 2lst day of April, l93|
w. j. McCLELLAND,
(SeaD County Clerk. -
(Aug. 1880, Sept. 6-13-20-27,
4-11-18-25.)
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
CERTIFICATE OF FICTITIOUS
NAME
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }


COUNTY OF IMPERIAL } IS.
We hereby certify that we -
partners transacting business at
Main Street in the City of Ell Centr0
in the State of California under a
designation not showing the names
of the persons interested as partners
in such business, to-Wit:
PIONEER COLLISION WORKS.
The names of the partners are
Robert Holman. residing at Big
Main Street, Ell Centro, California;
and Ernest L. Hibbard, residing al
1873 He'll Street, FL Centre, Cali
fornia.
WITNESS our hands this 29tf
day of July, 1887.
ROBERT HOLMAN,
ERNEST l.. HIBBARD.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
Bruce Cation Says:>>
What About MeddIing with F. B. OF l.?

literally thousands of applicants
Each agent must either be a grad
uate lawyer or accountant { or have
other qualifying attributes) for 1t
is in these fields most of the F. 3.
of I. work lies.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23

The G-Men are unique in this
country, both in reputation and ac-
tivity. And when the Senate pro-
poses consolidation of this gre D
with other government law enfc, q
cement agencies, namely the POST
office Department, the Narcotic bu-
reau, Treasury agents, the Customs
Bureau and the Coast Guard, it
would be well to look closely into
the manner of consolidation.
If the high standards of the F. b.
of I. are to be maintained and all
other agencies brought to that level,
it would be fine. If the proposal
is leveling off in the other direc-
ton, or an attempt at political man
euvering of the G-Men, that's some
thing else again.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
cOIINTC OF IMPERIAL } SIS

COUNTC OF IMPERIAL S..
On this goth day of July In oh
year One Thousand Nine Hundred
and Thirty-seven, before me per
sonally appeared Robert Holmall
and Ernest l.. Hibbard, known t
me to be the persons whose name.
are subscribed to the foregoing in
strument and they acknowledged t
me that they executed the same.
Witness my hand and the seal q.
my office this 29th day of July, 1893
C. B. SMITH,
Notary Public in and for Imperi
al County, State of California
(Notarial SeaD
A29 16 2.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
News Behind the News
Bloc of Blocs That's Congress
Southern Faction Most POUerfW
Demands Loans -.

WAsHINGTON.-The trouble in Congress, ac-
cordng to one member is that bloc OF plocS
is blocking each other.
Certainly a half dozen and more plocS nave
taken definite form in the last few weeks ana
it is necessary to have some knowledge OF what
they are and what they mean in order 10 unoer-
stand even partially Capitol Hill at this season.
Here are some of the blocs as they are re-
earded in Congress with special reference 10 the
House but applying in general to the Senate
l. The southern bloc. As far as the admins
tration is concerned. this one is a fly in nearly
every New Deal ointment The group met recent
" as Common Bloc" and several memoers
argued that there must be no wage ana hour
law unless the government first provided cotton
loans Congressman Wright Patman of Texas
arose to ask whether the group would accept the
wage-hour bill even if it did get cotton loans,
and the consensus was that it guessed 1T wouldn't
. The Wage-hour bloc, led by Congressman
Arthur D. Healy of Massachusetts, and including
about dozen determined congressman as well
as others from the urban north and northwest.
g. The "reactionary bloc" This includes both
Republicans and Democrats VINO dont want any
thing of any sort passed The group includes
men such as Cox of Georgia. Hoffman of Michi-
gan, Pettengill of Indiana, Taber OF New YORK,
and perhaps q score more.
T. The new prairie states bloc. This IN
cludes relatively radical western progressives and
the group seeks controlled production, fixed farm
prices or an ever-normal granary scheme with
plenty of crop loan money. This bloc Is willing
to blackmail or play with any other group which
wants something, including the liberal bloc or
wage-hour bloc. Certain of these blocs overlap
each other0
s. The liberal bloc, led by Maury Maverick
of Texas. It represents actually about 30 mem
bers who will stand solidly together plus about 80
more who sometimes show up at meetings. Its
chief aim is to get other blocs together as Jar
as possible and pass everything on the admin
istration program.
g. The big city bloc, which suddenly has begun
to take form among congressman from New
York Chicago, and other large cities. 1t sWears
vengeance on the southern bloc because the latter
group made such mess of the housing bill. Some
members are for the wage-hour bill and some
not but most of them stand together for relief
appropriations and pro-labor measures.
The other blocs such the lobby-controlled
sugar bloc and the large group of western
farm congressman who don't want crop control
legislation because Of an anticipated bumper
American crop in the face of world scarcity.
The southern bloc is the most powerful partly
because it dominates most of the Senate and
House committee. 1t demands cotton loans, but
doesn't want crop control which Roosevelt de-
mands collateral
Grouchy people are never popular so
be cheerful. Remember-it is the surly
worm who gets the bird.
A noted surgeon says that nasal trou-
BILE is often the cause Of plain dumbness
l.. I1A Tlt q
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23

In the Superior Court of the State
of California, In and For the
County of Imperial
SUMMONS
No. 1859
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT, Plaintiff
VS..
EDWARD P. JAMENSON, ct al,
Defendant.
The People of the State of CalifOr-
MIA Send Greetings to
EDWARD P. JAMENSON, SEA
BOARD BOND AND MORTGAGE
COMPANY, A CORPORATION,
JOHN DOE, JANE DOE, RICH
ARD ROE, JOHN DOE COMPANY,
A CORPORATION, AND RICH
ARD ROE COMPANY, A CO.
PARTNERSHIP Defendants.
You Are Hereby Directed to Ap-
pear and answer the Complaint in
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in the Superior Court OF
the County of Imperial, State OF
California, within ten days after the
service on you of this Summons
if served within this county; or
within thirty days if served else
where.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, Oh
it will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plaint.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of tht
County of Imperial, State of Cali.
fornia, this 18th day Of May, 1897
(SEAD w. J. McCLELLAND,
Clerk
BY CITHA LAMSON,
Deputy Clerl
Harry w. Horton & Geo. r. Kirk
Attorneys for Plaintiff
July IL, 10, 26. Aug. 2, 9, l6, %, 80
Sept. 6. l3.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23

BY all comparisons j. Edgar Hoo
ver's Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton agents rank as one OF the most
effective of law endorsements bod
les in the world. When Congress
gave Hoover's men the right to car
ry firearms and make arrests, en-
COMPRISING certain prevalent crimes
under federal statutes, it started
the G-Men off on a crime correc-
tive campaign which more than
justified the drastic Congressional
action.
The Dillingers, the Floyds, the
Kellys and the Nelson's passed out
of the picture along with mass kill
lings, quarter-million dollar ran
SONS and wholesale bank robbery,
There is no reasonable doubt but
that the credit can be given to
the F. B. of l. and its young, trained
and well-equipped personel.
Politics has never played a part
in Hoover's organization. Politica
connections, when they are some
times brought to bear, usually turr
out to be handicaps rather thar
aids. The agents are chosen iron
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-Diary: A
note from Lowell Thomas for me
to pitch for his team at Pawling
when the writer's play the Wash
ington correspondents. But my
round-house out-curve is not what
it use to be. A matey screed, too
from Burton Rascoe, roaming the
western plains.
Came a half dozen ties from Char
vets in Paris without a card but
suspect Charles CT. Norris. So be-
decking myself in one of autumnal
russell and off with my lady to
Esther and Bruce Barton's for
Bruce's birthday party, then to Mary
Armstrong; jam shop for some pre-
served cherries.
So at dusk driving to Mrs. Made
leine McGlone's on Pelham Park
way to see her fine Bostons and
one, as frisky as puppy, ten years
old and blind. Such a wrench
was in dolor And we remembered
passing the Claremont We had not
dined, but fearing jazz music, on
home to the ice box
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One thinks of Ted Healy with
his slouchy walk, rowdy twinkle and
sloppy surtout as the roughtest OF
hard guys. Especially when he hauls
off and slaps his stooges a prawr
pink. Yet there are few with a more
practised eye for beautiful things o.
life. Now and then he goes on c
flower binge, sending exquisite ant
personally slected posies to those
he likes. He is also a frequent visi-
tor to the galleries, standing en-
chanted before some canvas thai
has caught his eye. He is an astutt
Judge Of fine paintings. In New
York and Hollywood he often sneak'
off by himself to watch a sunse'
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
Today's HOrOscOne

Loyalty is characteristic of per-
sons whose birthday occurs today,
Their thoughtfulness and courtesy
gain them many friends.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
Hints on Etiquette

It is extremely poor taste to use
the phrase my friend" when max
ing an introduction. Such usage
implies that only one of the persons
introduced is a friend.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
The Grab Bag
One-Minufe Test

/. What is the Shanghai Bum?
2. Who is emperor Of JapanP
3. Who is speaker of the u. 8.
house Of representatives?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
Words of Wisdom

The proper function Of govern
ment is to make it difficult for
the people to do evil and easy for
them to do good.-Gladstone
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
One Minute Test Answers

/. The esplanade along the
Whangpoo river on which are sit
uated the chief hotels, banks shops
and clubs.
2. Hirohito.
3. Representative william b
Bankhead of Alabama.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23

from particular vantage. A news
paperman caught him one evening
drinking in the beauty of a days
splendor over the Palisades. He was
asked what he was doing. Just a
mugg musing," he replied.
Clowns from Pagiacci down have
always had their pensive moments.
Crock, the famous European mime,
is never happier than when spading
in his garden. Toto, at the Hippo
rome, used to sit on the fire escape
in the evening to watch the sun
in dying splendor. Slivers liked to
sit on the battery wall and look
out to sea. And Jimmy Savo is a
frequent visitor to the Empire tow
er to watch the scatter of stars.
Personal nomination for the tin
niest, Silliest tune of the recent hi
crop: ut Looks Like Rain in Cherry
Blossom Lane.
Walter Chryser, jr, has become
one of the discriminating youngel
gourmets. Someone refers to hin
as 1.-The Boy Frank Crowninshield
! His dinner parties at home and il
the cafes are models of Epicureal
selectness. He gives small parties
but in profusion. The late Ernes
Cerutti, who knew foods as we'll a
anyone of his day, said that a din
ner with more than IL diners be
came unwieldy for everybody, in
Guiding host, walters, and chefs. Fl
thought a correct number should b
| eight. And there was the conclusion
OF that trencherman, Count Bon
de Castellane, who thought no din
ner could be we'll eaten with NOR
than one guest. And even then ther
should be no conversation. 1t is tru
that many of the most celebrated
lovers of food liked to dine alone
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
BARBS

Nothing is too trivial for hob
byist to collect which might mean
that the tax man just makes his
rounds for fun outside regular
working hours.
Proper way TO test a watermelon
is to thump it, says an expert, which
"a just another way Of putting i'm a
plug to end plugs.
If Stain calls them for it. those
Russians at the North Pole viii
have a melting defense for having
left the post Of duty.
MOralists have wide open field
i'm the case of the bad check art
ist whose last words implored his
con TO go cut and fcrge himself a
career.
Million of peanut shells are swept
from baseball stands after games.
Fundamentalists will note this as
added evidence Of the evolutionary
process.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23

A middle of the road" policy is best,
says an editorial In this day and age
that only applies to drivers of moving
vans and trucks.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23

If papa doesn't get angry because rain
forced postponement of the ball game,
the team is in the second division.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23

Diamond jim Brady entertained eA-
tensively. but several times a week
would square off to himself and
lick the platter clean. Cesare Ritz,
the hotel man, always had one
luncheon and one dinner each week
with no one present save the servers.
Those were the meals he enjoyed
most.
Bagatelles: Around the Corner,
by Charles Hanson ToWne, is King
AlfonSo's favorite American poem.
Ernest Hemingway, after starting
a novel, tries to write one chapter
a week. The first thing Jascha
Heifetz does on awakening is to sec
that his violin is safe. . A Specia
truck awaits to carry perishablt
gifts to hospitals after Major Bowe!
broadcasts. Ed SWazey, crack adj
vertising man, can't stay awake il
airplanes, which he uses almost con.
stantly.
Nothing SO completely swamps m,
as to be announced by a butler a
one of those formal dinners. It ha
happened twice and each tins
when I stepped forward I expected
10 do either a split on the polished
floor or hook an off foot in tn
yawning mouth of a Polar bear rus
So a friend dropping by today ha
rare medicine. Last night, SO an
nounced at one of the stiff affairs
he got half across the floor and lie
20 q lulu of q hiccup.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
McCABE
Caroline Paine

Mrs. j. P. LaBrucherie and her
son Peter returned Thursday afte,
a two weeks vacation spent in San
Francisco and Berkeley. They re-
turned by way of Yosmite. Miss
Rosalie LaBrucherie, who accomp-
anied her mother and brother tc
Berkeley, remained there. She is
attending the University of Cali
fornia.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23

Another annoying thing about those
European dictators is that none of them
seem to ever take a vacation-not even
for two weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23

A noted surgeon says that nasal trou-
BILE is often the cause Of plain dumbness.
Sure poking ones nose into other folks
business.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23
LET'S CLEAN UP THE
OCEAN BATHING BEACHES

Imperial Valley lies far from coastal
bathing beaches. But there is hardly a
valley resident who doesn't spend quite
a bit of time each summer on those
beaches and who doesn't pay for their up
keep in greater or lesser degree.
CALIFORNIA; bathing beaches form one
of its greatest assets. 1t does seem
shame that these centers of recreation
cannot be kept cleaner of dirty seaweed
washed up by the waves and left to rot
in the sun. What would otherwise be
beautiful stretches of sand are often
fly infested and covered by odorous kelp.
Goodness knows there are plenty of
men on state rolls and in state depart
ments We pay for these men, as well
as those on WPA and all the rest of the
agencies 1t seems gross neglect and over
sight that long before now, this labor
has not been put to work keeping our
beaches clean.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23

The house guest this week of Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Richardson is
James Bryant of Orange. Bryant's
wife, his son James Bryant, jr.
and his daughter, Mrs. Rex Mace
and her husband are spending the
weekend with the Richardson's
They will return to Orange Sunday
90
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Veliquette
spent several days with Mrs. Veil
quette's mother at Oceanside re-
Gently.
90
Joe Badger left this weekend
for mission beach where he will re-
main several days as the house
guest of Bobby Thacker, who i.
spending the summer there.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23

Grouchy people are never popular sc
be cheerful. Remember-it is the surly
worm who gets the bird.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-23

Personal nomination for the tin
niest, silliest tune of the recent hi
crop: ut Looks Like Rain in Cherry
Blossom Lane.
Evening star., 1937-06-20
PEERLESS LAD SPEEDY
Mount Rainier Pigeon Flies at 3s
Miles an Hour. Winx

Peerless Lad from the Mount Rain
Ter loft won the final race Of the cur
rent old bird series sponsored BY the
Capital City Racing Pigeon Club from
Nappanee, Ind, an airline distance OF
5o7 miles, barely trimming Audacious
from the loft of r. L. Webb.
More than 100 birds from is local
lofts competed in the event, with
Peerless Lad negotiating the non-stop
hight in 13 hours and 13 minutes for
An average speed OF approximately 90
miles per hour.
The prize for holding the best aver
age speed in the entire series Of eight
races was awarded to the loft of Will
liam r. Pennington, with 1,142 yards
per minute, followed by the Mount
Rainier loft, with LAO yards per min
ute, and the United States Army loft
with 1,137 yards per minute.
Following are the first arrivals, with
speed indicated in yards per minute: