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Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17
STORM DELAYS
AIR SEARCH FOR
SOVIET FLIERS
Outlook Dismal When
Weather Prevents
Plane Hunt

FAIRBANKS, Alaska,
Aug. II. (UP)-An Arctic
storm north of Point Bar
row threatened today to
hamper the search for six
Russian filters missing since Friday
on a transpolar hop from Moscow.
The weather bureau said a low
pressure area above Point Barrow
indicated unfavorable conditions for
several days.
Rain and a low ceiling of clouds
here and an overcast sky at Point
Barrow made the outlook dismal.
The U. S. coast guard cutter
Northland, from Wainwright, re-
ported an unusual amount of ice
near Point Barrow, which would
make forced landing for planes
doubly hazardous. The Northiand
was having difficulty breaking her
way through to Point Barrow.
An emergency airway was routed
across the Arctic circle, however.
for American and Canadian fliers
searching for the lost Russian plane,
Russia's ice breaker Grassin was
ordered to shore several hundred
miles north of Alaska on the l48th
meridian, where the crew was to
establish an airplane base on an
ice cap.
The other base will be at the
Pole' where Russian scientists, en-
camped at meteorological station.
were instructed to prepare a land
ing field.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17

supervisors Monday afternoon,
Imperial joins four other Califor-
mia counties in informing all foreign
nations, all federal, state and coun-
ty governments of the United States
that henceforth the counties will
not commit or expend county funds
for the car, benefit, or assistance
of actual or potential nonresident
indigentS." Imperial, Tulare, San
ia Clara, Ventura and Los Angeles
counties concur in their refusal to
accept any responsibility for the
care of indigents from any other
nation, state or county.
Copies of the resolution passed
by the four counties were sent to
Imperial county supervisors and
the resolution moled to suit the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17

possibly longer than the five week
Shanghai war of 1882 in which
tens of thousands of japanese and
Chinese were killed and wounded.
The japanese apparently planned
a vast enveloping movement which
eventually may extend to the very
walls of China's national capital,
Nanking.
Generalissimo Chang Kai Shek
and his associates In the Central
government were ready to abandon
the capital. 1t was understood ar
chives were being shipped to Chang
sha, where the war capital may
DE established.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17

tOOk Jfe offensive on all 1rOnCS anC
appeared to have established their
supremacy in the air.
1t was reliably, although uncon-
firmedly reported that the Japa-
nese had landed two divisions OF
troops at Liuho on the Yangtse
river near the mouth of the Whang-
poo river mouth last night.
Late tonight close to a hundred
Japanese civilian refugees forced
entrance into the lobby of the Astor
house, at the north end of the
Garden bridge on the Bund, and
took possession of the hostelry.
A bitter campaign was indicated,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17

sen. george McGlll, u, Fan, III
an impassioned reply to charges
by Sen. Royal S. Copeland, D., N.
Y, and Sen Edward r Burke, D.,
Neb., declared that the question
of whether Black was Klan sym
pathizer" was based On prejudice"
and designed Ito prejudice the peo-
pie of the United States.
McGill defended Blacks record
in the course of a bitter senate
battle in which a minority bloc
of Republican and Democratic sem
ators sought to delay or defeat con-
firmation of his nomination to
succeed retired Associate Justice
Willis Van Devanter. Black absent
ed himself from the senate chamber
during the debate.
Copeland, reciting charges that
Black once had been affiliated with
an "un-godly, un- n-American" or
ganization, asked McGill if he
would vote against confirmation in
event it were proved definitely that
the Alabama senator had been a
member of the Klan.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17
Duee Goes for
Wall Flowers

GELA, Italy, Aug. IT. WR)-The
bellies of Gela were the laughing
stock of the town today, thanks to
Benito Mussolini.
Saturday night, II Duce strolled
up to terrace where an orchestra
was playing and dance was in
progress. He wanted to dance.
The towns most beautiful girls
crowded around him. II Duce polite
ly brushed' them aside, went to the
far corners of the terrace and
sought out the tirnid and not-so
beautiful wall flowers.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17
Fall Breaks Snuff
Habit of so Years

PATERSON, N. j., Aug. IT. W,P
When she was SO, Mrs. Nellie de
Lade began using snuff. Yesterday,
she celebrated her 103rd birthday
and revealed that she had broken
the habit. She was injured when
she fell down stairs last January.
While i'll, she wasn't allowed to use
snuff. When she recovered, she was
offered a pinch and refused it.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17

SHANGHAI, Aug. II. W.P)-Am-
erican consular authorities advised
all Americans today to take ANY
ship, anywhere" at once and get
out of war torn Shanghai.
Consular authorities estimated
that when the Dollar liner Presi-
dent Hoover leaves Friday a total
100 to 1900 Americans will have
been evacuated and that about
2600 will remain here. President
Hoover left Manila for Shanghai
today, bringing a company of U
S. marines.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17
Thirsty Swimmers
Land in Trouble

PHOENIX, Ariz., Aug II WD-
Juvenile authorities today held two
boys, Is and IA years old, because
swimming made them too thirsty.
The youngsters, whose names were
withheld, repeatedly admitted they
burglarized a bottling plant here af-
ter swimming party, and, finding
it easy, returned to plunder the
cash register. They were caught
by a watchman.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17
Boats Named for
6. O. P. States

PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. IT UP)
Two ships, the ex-Pacific Pine
and Pacific Hemlock, recently pur-
chased by the States Steamship
company, will be named Maine"
and Vermont, in honor of the two
states remaining in the Republican
camp at the last presidential cleo
ton, it was announced by Charles
E, Dant, president of Dant and Rus
sell, chief stockholder in the States
line.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17
BURON Fits ON STAND

LOS ANGELES, Aug. II U.D-
District Attorney Buron Fits testi-
flying in the murder trial of Albert
Dyer, today described the hysteria
OF the 32-year-old WPA crossing
guard at the time he confessed the
Staying of three little Inglewood
girls, June 26.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17
GAS TAX, FINE
PIE is DIVIDED
EVEN STEPHEN

Imperial cOunty's gas tax
mOtOr-vehicle pie was divided
"even Stephen" among the five
supervisOrial districts at the
board of supervisors meeting
Monday.
The five way split of she
S39,947.56 fund gave each road
district S7,989.5I. This county's
share of the gasoline tax for the
last period was S3S,4O2.06 while
motor vehicle fines adde S1,545.5O
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17
WOMAN ACTS AS
OWN DEFENSE LAWYER

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. IT. W.P)
"A pale and nervous woman stood
before judge and jury in superior
court here today, acting as her
own attorney in case in which
she is charged with assault and
intent to kill San Francisco bank
er, George j. Panario. She shot
Panario in the arm last May II,
on crowded downtown street.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17

needs of this area.
This action was taken as a pro-
lection against the anticipated in
flux of the destitute from the dust
bowl areas and sections affected
by drouth, crop failures or unem-
loyment.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17

WASHINGTON, Aug. II. U.P)-
President Roosevelt today decided
to send 1900 additional U. S. mar
ines Immediately from San Diego,
Calf, to Shanghai to reinforce the
marine guard stationed there.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17
Copyright 1897 by United Press)

WASHINGTON, Aug. IT. W.P)-
The first preliminary draft of the
administrations new tax program
for 1888 will be ready within a
fortnight and probably will contain
recommendations for revision OF
the excess profits and undistributed
corporate profits levies, 1t was
learned today on high authority.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17

WASHINGTON, Aug. IT, W.P)-
The house of representatives served
notice it is ready for adjournment
today by approving a leadership
resolution suspending rules which
cause procedural delay.
Leaders expressed confidence the
1887 congressional session could be
ended by the end of the week.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17
kLANCHARCE
DIRECTED AT
SEN. BL CK
Senate Foes Challenged to Give Proof
OF Accusations; ImpassiOned Reply
Made to Kluxer ReprOach

WASHINGTON, Aug II. (UP)-Admnistration forces
fighting for confirmation of Sen: Hugo L. Black
member of the supreme court challenged senate oppos
ton coalition today present proof that the Alabama
Democrat had been member of the Ku Klux Klan
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17
Copyright 1887 by United Press

SHANGHAI Aug. II. (UP)-Japan tonight launched
grand offensive designed to drive more than 100000
Chinese soldiers from the vicinity of this blood spatered
city of O0OOO Reinforced by regiments of the Japanese
home army landed during the past "a hours the japanese
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17
County Supervisors in
Refusal to Give Aid to
Migrating Unemployed

nonresident indigents will find no welcome latch
string dangling at the doors of Imperial county since s
peesoTs passed resolution renOuncing all responsible
ty for their and maintenance
BY means of the resolution passed bv tbe hoard of
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17
FIRES FOLLOW
RAIN OF SHELLS
UPON SHANGHAI
--OO-
RULLETIN

SHANGHAI Wednesday, UR)-Fes great
fierce artillery lombard
the Pootung Hangze Poo Chapel seconbut
picaby he gun duels suddenly a
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17

RAISED AT
SAME TIME
City in Position to Pay Cash; No Bond
Issues Needed, WOmack Announces;
New Improvement Slated

Ell Centre city councimen lowered the tax rate and
the total assessed valuation Monday night
orng the rate to 88 500 valuation and the assessed
valuation to $11O77190 The two cents under
the rate of last and the assessed valuation
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17
~ AMBLING
NEPORTER
Says:
That Stopped Him

1nat otOppcu hhh
While examining hearts OF the
children at Hipass Health camp,
DR.. Warren F.. Fox, county health
officer. had a habit of saying to
each child, Take a deep breath,
let it out and don't breathe again
for 10 minutes" This held the child
motionless for about 20 seconds. He
used the same gag on Bennie Aires
of Holtville Monday but it didn't
work. Bennie looked the medico
straight in the eye, and said:
1T can't be done"
It's Very Peculiar
E. E. Wallace, state highway en-
gineer, and Sam Robinson, well
known Imperial Valley resident,
look enough alike to be each other
In fact, they may be each other.
Bitter And Sweet
A glowing account OF the ex-
cellent sanitary conditions prevail
ing at the Imperial county Jail was
contained in report made follow
ing an inspection by the state de-
partment of social welfare Opposite
a question relative to the building
appeared the words, "old but clean"
At the bottom of the report were
the words, I'VE recommend that q
new Jail be built" 80
Ghosts! SpOoks! Spir.ts!- -.
Ell Centros city Jail was almost
torn from its foundations Monday
A Negro prisoner ran amuck when
ne discovered he was to be penned
up in the same building in which
a man died two days before.
II doesn't care what happens to
me-" he said with chattering teeth,
Boss, ain't a-carin' nuthin' bout
nuthin just SOS 1 gets out a-here.'
What's Button
George w. Forester, jr, had two
buttons off his shirt Monday. Chest
expansion did it. And no wonder
He has a brand new daughter to
be proud of.
Another Victim
Roy Womack has the bug.
That is. the trailering bug. He
bought one and he and Mrs
Womack, Helen, 9, and Jackie, 7.
will set sail. Roy says he can't
select destination because he does
MT know just how to navigate one
of the moving campsites.
It was little Jackie who selected
the name for the land yacht. Her
pet name is ME and Helen" so
that's the title of the dry land
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17
Baseball Results

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Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17
It's Very Peculiar

E.E. Wallace, state highway en-
gineer, and Sam Robinson, well
known Imperial Valley resident,
look enough alike to be each other
In fact, they may be each other.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17

Butter: Los Angeles 33; bub.sr-
fat, Imperial Valley, fob. ranch.
grade A IS; manufacturing milk
38; route gathered cream 33h.
L. A. Hay: U. S. No. | leafy $40
2O.5O; U. S. No. S18-18.5O; u. 5.
No. 2 Ieafy S17-17.50; u. s. No. 2
S15.5O-l6. Minneapolis flax $2.0IIs.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-17
Ghosts! SpOoks! Spir.ts!-

What's a Button
George W. Forester, jr., had two
buttons off his shirt Monday. Chest
expansion did it. And no wonder
He has a brand new daughter to
be proud of.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-03
Jerry Dalton
Taken After
PrisOnBreak
Captured in Lexing-
ton w t h Nj / | k
Truck H e Drove
from Central Prison

Raleigh, Sept. 3.-(AP)-Jerry Dali
ton, Al, mountaineer convicted of STAY
ing his sweetheart in a triangle love
affair, who escaped from Central Pri-
son here yesterday, was captured at
Lexington, Hugh Wilson, new warden
said today.
The break, first to occur since a
new set of prison officials took office
this week, was discovered at rail- call
late in the afternoon.
Then Dalton's absence and that of
Homer Kaylor, 80, who was sentenced
in Caldwell county for criminal as
assault, was discovered.
Warden Wilson reported he had no
information of the whereabouts of
Kaylor, serving five to seven years for
the assault.
Wilson said Lexington Police Chief
Price got Dalton, with the highway
and public works department truck,
in which the two escaped after de-
livering milk to the Cary prison farm.
No one was hurt and Dalton was ex-
pected to be returned to the prison
during the day. Prison attaches said
Dalton, sent up from Macon county
for first degree murder in 1922, was
caught during the night. Originally
sentenced to be electrocuted, his SEN
tence was committed first to life inn
prisonment and later to 20 to 80 years.
He had escaped twice previously.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-03
HobesFade.
FOr15Men
OnSteun1e1o

Panama City, Fla, Sept 3.-(AP)-
Scant hope was felt today for the
lives of Is men missing from the sun
ken steamship Tarpon.
Fourteen of the estimated 20 per-
sons aboard the freighter have been
accounted for since the Tarpon found
cred early Wednesday in heavy seas
20 miles off East Pass, Fla, in the
Gulf of Mexico. All those missing are
Negroes.
The bodies of Captain w. G. Bar
row and Second Mate W. Fl. Russell
were recovered by the Coast Guard
cutter Triton, near where the ship
sank. The Triton at the same time
picked up nine survivors. Three gain
ed the shore unaided.
A coast guard fleet early today con-
tinued the search that began yester-
day morning when Adley Baker, 25-
vear-old Mobile, Ala, oiier, swan
ashore and gave first word Of the
tragic plunge of the Tarpon.
F. C. O'Connor, general freight
agent for the owners of the Tarpon,
said there were ten white men and
about 10 Negroes on the vessel.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-03
Texas Senator To Fight for
Interests of Southern
j Growers At Next
Session
InHN LEWIS SEEKS
FARM-LABOR UNION
Cattle Prices In North Caro-
lima and South at New High
for Recent Years; Roose-
Welt Starts Fishing in Long
Island Sound Cove Coun-
frV

Aboard Press Yacht Indian, Sept.
app President Roosevelt, on the
oobt Potomac, arrived in Fort Pond
bav near Montauk Point, Long Is
Iond today after a leisurely 2OO-mile
horseshoe run overnight from Pough-
keepse, n Y.
before taking the launch to try his
1ucl for hluefish and bass in this
sheltered part of Long Island Sound,
tho President announced the recess
commitment of William Dawson, of
Minnesota, as minister to Uruguay.
lanes Roosevelt, secretary to his
father megaphoned the diplomatic APP
nointment from the Potomac's rail to
newspaper men on the accompany
inc Yacht Indian.
To Fight For Cotton
Meanwhile, at Washington, Senator
Connally, Democrat, Texas, promised
determined fight" in behalf of cot
ton when the administration crop
control legislation comes up in the
next session of Congress.
John Lewis, meanwhile, indicated
in the capital he would bid for a poll
teal alliance of farmers and labor in
broadcast address tonight.
His add1 ess will be broadcast by a
radio network from $3.50 to 10 p. M,
eastern standard time.
Other developments:
Cattle Prices Up
The Agriculture Department report
ed the South has been almost entirely
free of cattle ticks and the value of
southern cattle has reached the high
est average in five years.
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
figures, recording an upswing in aver
age cattle prices in the South, includ-
ed North Carolina, $2O.6O in 1888;
$3.50 in 1886, and $3.50 in 1887.
The bureau reports the number of
head of cattle in the listed states has
remained about the same in the 1888
to 1887 period.
The estimated Moth Carolina total
for 1887 is 651,00O head.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-03
SHANGHAI IN PATH
OF CHINA TYPHOON
Great Wind Storm Sweeps on Past
Hong Kong After Wreak-
ing Death and Damage

Hong Kong, China, Sept. 3.-(AP)
Hong Kongs devastating typhoon
roared northward out of this British
colony tonight, leaving the harbor
strewn with death and wreckage. The
storm was expected to strike the Chi
nese coast again not far south of War
torn Shanghai.
The death toll appeared likely to
exceed first police estimates. Three
hundred bodies were collected along
one section of the waterwront, where
a tidal wave swept inland.
The storms havoc greatly accen-
tuated the misery in this city, packed
with war refugees and fighting a
cholera epidemic, in which two-thirds
of the cases have tceen fatal.
The only foreigners reported to
have persisted were two Portuguese
on a small yacht.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-03
INSURGENTS BLOCK
SPANISH SEAPORT
International Shipping i'm Last Gov
ernment-Held City i'm North
Is Bottled Up

Gijon, Spain, Sept. 3 (AP)-The
Insurgent cruiser Almirante Cervera
blocked this Bay of Biscay port today,
bottling up international shipping. in
GLIDING seven British merchantmen
engaged in evacuating refugees.
Two insurgent mine layers and an
armed merchantmen backstopped the
cruiser, closing the harbor, while the
insurgent army 20 miles away pushed
toward the government-held city.
General Francisco Francois airmen,
supporting the campaign to drive the
government out of Oviedo province, it's
last foothold on the north coast, made
frequent bombing raids.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-03
HEAVY CASUALTIES
SUFFERED BY JAPS
IN CHINESE DRIVE
Chinese Gunners Show Sur
prising Improvement in
Workmanship With
Big Guns
MARINE BARRACKS
STRUCK, BY SHELLS
No Damage Done, B ut
American a n d Foreign
Warships Prevent Jap Ma
val Vessels from Respond
ing, But Japs Will Ignore
Foreigners Hereafter

Shanghai, Sept. 3.-(AP)-China's
armies surprised the Japanese tonight
with a smashing offensive which
shifted the warfare back to the city
proper and placed in new jeopardy
the lives of Americans and other fore
igners.
The Chinese attack stalled Japan's
Compromised "big push" and forced
revision of japanese strategy.
Chinese big guns and machine gun
nests sprayed shells and bullets on
Japanese warships and troop trans
ports. Eight Japanese transports fled
downstream.
Shells crashed into the internation-
al settlement and the French conces-
sion. One projectile struck the roof of
the second United Safes Marine bat
TALON barracks, but failed to explode.
Marine officers said it was one
pound anti-aircraft shell.
Japs To Ignore Foreigners.
Even greater danger doomed for the
I United States warship Augusta and
other foreign warships. A Japanese
naval spokesman announced Japanese
ships would fire across the foreign
naval contingent lying in the Whang-
poo in punitive bombardment of Chi
nese artillery positions.
Chinese gunners showed surprising
Improvement in craftsmanship They
scored three direct hits on the Jap
apese consulate, wounding three Jap
anes consular police and one Japanese
newspaper man.
Many Japs Killed.
Many Japanese lbluejackets on
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-03
REPUBLICANS LET
DEMOCRATS TALK
Willing To Stand to Side
and Let Them Chew Each
Other To Bits
BY CHARLES II. STEWART
Central Press COIumnist

Washington, Sept 3-There is more
political talk today, in connection
with the 1888 congressional campaign
than, in all probability, ever was cur
rent before as far in advance of a
coming election.
What is still more peculiar is the
fact that Democrats are doing al
most all of it.
The Republicans have let out few
faint chirps. Representative Hamil-
ton Fish, Jr., has given his party a
certain amount of quite forcibly-ex-
pressed advice. Former President
Hoover has issued a statement which
attracted little attention. G.. O. P. Ma
tional Chairman John D M. Hamilton
also has issued a statement which fell
pretty flat.
But in the main, thus far, the
fight seems very little like an inter-
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-03
Ships of Home Fleet Rush
ing to Western Mediter-
ranean for Guerilla
Menace
TO BLANKET OCEAN
FOR INTENSE HUNT
Tanker Sunk and Destroyer
Attacked; Double-Barrel-
ed Policy Adopted by Bri-
tain To Curb Mysterious
Outrages on Shipping

London, Sept. 3.-(AP)-Four 1.-THE
destroyers of His Majesty's home fleet
furrowcd the swift path toward the
western Mediterranean today to help
track down guerilla submarines that
have terrorized international shipping
with torpedo attacks.
The Admiralty announced the Fury
and Forester, sailing from Forts
mouth, and the Fortune and Fire
drake from Chatham, would join five
other destroyers in a heavy cOncentra-
ton off Spain's east coast.
These war craft will blanket a
wide area of the Mediterranean about
the spot where the British destroyer
Havock and the British tanker Wood
ford were torpedo targets. The
Havock escaped, the WOodfOrd was
sunk
The four destroyers comprised the
eleventh division of the iixth home
fleet flotilla. The 18th division was
already on search duty off the Span
ish coast
Naval experts said the eleventh di-
vision could reach it's destination in
three days at forced draft or five days
at cruising speed. Inc AuuMIdlIJ .
speed order was not disclosed.
This direct naval action was but
one point of Britain's double-barrelled
policy to curb the mysterious mari
time outrages. The other avenue was
through negotiations toward unified
action by affected powers. France, a
pretty consistent ally of Britain thro-
ugh the trouT,lous months of trying
to keep the Spanish war in Spain, was
expected to propose a method of col
lectiye action at a conference of
Mediterranean powers late next week
at Geneva.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-03
Tax Values
OF Utilities
1910 Million
S222,622,755 Already
Fixed, Not Includ-
in e $47 Million
Power Firms

Raleigh, Sept. 3.-(AP)-The State
Board of Assessment fixed $222,622,-
1881 as the 1887 tax valuation today
for most of the States public service
corporations, but did not include the
$47, O0O, 900 Duke Power Company and
$2,5OO,0OO Virginia Electric & Power
Company valuation.
Over $3,OOO,OOO Increase.
Without the two power companies,
and nearly score Of smaller public
service corporations, for which valua-
tions have not been made, the tax
valuations run more than 100000 a.
head of the $219,567 687 for 1886.
The counties used the valuations in
levying taxes, and this years assess
ments are considered unusually inn
portant, as it is quadrennial revalua-
ton year throughout the State.
The Southern Railway system is
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