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The Washington times., 1937-08-12

FISCHER WITH BALTIMORE
Carl Fischer, with both Cleve.
land and Washington this year, is
back in the International League,
this time with Baltimore.
The Washington times., 1937-08-12

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Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
Party Clash Seen Behind
Mexicali Farmer Strike
CONTROVERSY
Or NATIONWIDE
SIGNIFIC ANCE.
GROIN Appears ON Verge
OF Throwing Weight
Back of Move

MEXICALI, April 26.
(SpeciaD - MeXicali's S it =
down strike in prote s t
against government Agrar-
ian policies, taking on a
highly organized city-wide aspect,
threatened today to set off bitter
national rivalry between the Revol-
utionary Party-the party in pow
Grand the Nationalist party, dor
mant for years.
While the Anti-Agrarian strikers,
encamped on the grounds of the
Palacio awaiting the governors
return from coastal communities,
set in motion the intricate machi-
merry of highly mechanical or
ganization, the powerful Mexican
labor union, GROIN, seemed on
the verge of throwing its support
to the administration party,
the NationalistS.
On orders from the Chauffeur's
Local of the labor union, every au-
tomobile in MeXicali was scheduled
to display a Mexican flag. A tele-
gram from farmers near Monterey,
one of MeXico's greatest cities, con-
graduated the Mexican sit-down
strikers and urged that the flag
be displayed on every home in
MeXicali.
The indication was important
in the Mexican national picture
because the Nationalist party has
made the Mexican flag its insig-
MIA. The Nationalists are bitter
ly opposed to the Revolutionary
party, and may attempt to make
the latter's Agrarian program the
basis of a national campaign to
discredit the administration of
President Lazaro Cardenas
Meanwhile, the MeXicali strike
gained headWay, with the full sup
port of labor unions. Headquar-
ters were established and strike
Continued on Page 2, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26

dictment for embeZZlement, told the
grand jury he took the only means"
at his command to reimburse him
self by depositing in his own bank
account certain sums taken from
the district treasury.
McIver blamed political persecu-
ton" for his plight.
1T has never been my intention
at any time" he said, "to defraud
the district"
McIver'S statement was left with
the grand jury March 81, and is
contained in a 1913 page transcript
of grand jury testimony filed Mon
day by Mrs. Hazel Livingston, short
hand reporter. Statement and teSti-
mony were taken during an in
vestigation of McIver's conduct of
affairs during his last year as dis
trict treasurer.
Investigation resulted in a grand
jury indictment against the former
treasurer, issuance of a bench war.
rant, his arrest in Long Beach
his return to Imperial county under
$4,000 bail, arraignment in superior
court and ultimate release from the
county Jail on bond. He will enter
plea Tuesday to 12 counts of en-
bezzlement and two counts of for
gerry.
The statement follows in full:
MY plea is for your sympa-
thetic understanding of a situa-
ton forced upon me by politics
not of my making. AS treasurer
of the district every consideration
was given to the present majority
members of the irrigation district
board as was in my power to give,
but having done my duty as secre-
tary of previous boards a personal
enmity was created and as a re-
suit have been prosecuted beyond
all reason.
Twenty three years of my life
were given to the formation of the
district with all my strength, 10y
atty and honesty. I have always
had the districts best interests at
heart and feel that no fair man or
woman could say otherwise.
"A scrutiny of the actions of
the directors will show some of
the determinations against me
from 1884 until the close of my
term of office; first by the no
toriOus illegal election in 1885,
at which 1 was rightfully elect
Continued on Page 2, Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26

weeks. The last to be Sacrlflced
under the wheels of travel went
down March 13.
Mrs. r. NJ. Chapman, Calipatria
resident. was instantly killed near
Westmorland Sunday night when
struck by a pickup truck piloted
by j. Nagaoka 48, japanese. She
was standing near her husbands
automobile and a tow car while a
flat tire was being repaired.
The lifeless body Of Jose Alonzo,
SO, BraWley, floated from under an
automobile Sunday morning during
attempts to lift a partly submerged
machine overturned in the Malan
canal on Tenth street, near the north
city limits OF Brawley. The machine
struck a cement abutment and over
turned in the canal at approximately
IL o'clock Saturday night but was
not observed until Sunday morn
ing. Officers are investigating the
possibility that others may have
drowned and floated away from the
machine.
Bomces From Car
Mrs. Marie Mckenzie, 33, Holt
Vile area resident. lost her life
when she bounced from a machine
driven by her friend, Mrs. B. G.
Gott, Holtville, and shattered her
spine. She struck on her head on
the last rail as the automobile
crossed the Southern Pacific tracks
on East Ninth street, Imperial,
Continued on Page 2, Col. g
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
ANO N Y M OU S
NOTES SENT IN
R ECALL FIGHT
Bitter Charges Made in
Letters Sent Thru
Mails

WESTMORLAND, April
26. = Prediction bitterness
in the recall fight over pro-
posed removal of two coun-
C il m n in Westmorland,
reached its high point this week.
end with the mailing of an unde-
termined number Of anonymous
letters to residents.
"Riff-raff and racketeers were
welcomed to WeStmorland with
open arms and now are running
the city, We're quoted as some of
the allegations and charges con-
tanned in the two-page mimeo-
graphed miSsives postmarked at
Westmorland Saturday.
WeStmorland voters will 60 to
the polls Tuesday to decide for
or against recalling Mayor j. Shroe-
der and Councilman John Hans
sen from the city council. Most of
the population of the city is said
to be lined up on one side Or the
other. A big vote is anticipated.
The fight started after a chief
of police was discharged and an
other employed in the asserted con-
formance with grand jury edict
demanding a city-wide cleanup of
vice and gambling conditions. Ed
ward Dickerson was discharged
from the office of chief of police
and John Reynolds appointed to
the position.
Petitions calling for the recall
of the two men were filed early
this year and the date of the elec-
ton.
Mrs. Luz Sotelo arrested on
charges of illegal registration af-
ter she signed both petitions, still
is held in the county Jail on $500
bail. Preliminary hearing was set
for Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
COURT AGREES
TO PASS ON
PENSION ACT

WASHINGTON, April 26. U.P)-
The supreme court today agreed
to pass on the validity of old age
pension provisions of the New
Deals social security act, under
which 26,O00,O00 workers and 2,700,-
600 employers are paying taxes.
The test case was rushed to the
supreme court with record speed
by the government after a declar-
alton 10 days ago by the u. S.
circuit court of appeals at Boston
that the old age pensions provi-
sionS Of the law are unconstitu-
tional.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
OFFICERS CENSURED
FOR ACTIVITIES IN
STRIKE AT STOCKTON

THE society unequivocally con-
demns the actions OF the so-ealled
law enforcement bodies of the city
of Stockton and the state of Cali
fornia for their strike breaking ac-
tivities in the canner-union dis
pute at Stockton. We urge that
severe action be taken against r..
Raymond Cato. chief of the State
Highway patrol, whose duty IL is
to regulate traffic. and who, with
the consent of Governor Merriam.
ordered highway patrol squads u
the Stockton area to act as strike-
breakers under the flimsy guise OF
maintaining law and ORDER
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
New Clues Found
On Mystery Car

Yuma, Ariz., April 26. U.R)-The
sheriff's office said today federal
bureau of investigation agents had
found new clues" on an ausomo-
bile abandoned in the desert near
the Mexico line, car which Sher-
iff T. H. Newman said may have
been used by members of the Alvin
KarpiS gang.
Motor and serial numbers of the
machine, a model "a" Ford, had
been chiseled away, but according
to deputies, the FBI agents found
secret numbers placed on the car
by manufacturers.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
COURT FREES
COMMUNIST

WASHINGTON, April 26. UP
Angelo Herndon, Atlanta, Ga, Com
munist organizer, today was freed
by the supreme court by a five to
four vote from the 18 to 20 year Jail
sentence imposed on him after con-
viction on charges of violating a
Georgia reconstruction days sta
tute forbidding The advocacy Of
forceful resistance to the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
Carving JobLeads
To 80 Days in Jail

CALIPATRIA, April 26. = Intri-
cate carving on the cheek, back
and arm of a man who refused to
give him a dime, did not get the
coin for Everett Holman, %, Negro,
but it did get him a 30-day Jail
sentence.
He was sentenced for battery at
a trial in Calipatria Monday and
now is numbered among the guests
at the county jail. The victims was
injured only slightly by the knife
thrusts, Deputy Sheriff Frank Ra-
ney said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
TWO KILLED.
5 HURT AS
CAR HITS BUS

MODESTO, Calf, April 26. U.P)
Two men were killed and five
persons injured, two seriously, to-
day when a passenger car skidded
on the highway near here and
collided with a Greyhound bus.
owner and driver of the passenger
G.. w. Tennisen, Ripon Tavern
car was believed dying in McPe-
ter's hospital here. also near death
was Mrs. Marie Santos, of Merced.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
They Asked For It

They Asked For It
Particular, these U. S. Immigra-
ton Border Patrolmen. Last week
they wanted a kitten of the right
sex, the right color, and a lot of
ability-to catch mice. Somebody
offered a kitten but it wasn't a
female. Somebody else offered an
other. but is was black. Both were
turned down. Now somebody has
solved the problem-and taught the
b. D. that it isn't wise to be too
choosy. In the dead of night Sum
day, the border patrol received a
cat. 1t was the right color. 1t was
the right sex. But it wasn't a kit
ten. That seemed a drawback-but
lust about then one border patrol
man. one of the married ones, motto
ed that the kittens are to be eX-
pected momentarily. Trouble now
is. the border patrol can't find any
one to officiate at the coming bless
ed event. The boys, it seems, are
to have their choice of a kitten,
whether they want it or not.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
POLICE BREAK THRU
STRIKE BARRICADES

door to the room.
Come on out Of there" a police
man yelled.
In reply the strikers turned a
fire hose on the police Fumes
arose from the lye as the water
struck the barricade but the police
pressed forward. The strikers sur
rendered Immediately.
OSHAWA, Ont, April 26. UP
More than 5000 employees returned
to work today in the General
Motors corporation of Canada plant,
closed Sinced April by a strike
called by the United Automobile
Workers union.
PARKER. Ariz., April 26. UP
Friction between American Fedora
tion of Labor unions, who said they
wanted to return to work, and a
striking CIO group which halted
work on the Los Angeles aque'iuct,
increased today as a mediation
board pondered the CIO demands.
90
NEW YORK, April 26. UR)-An-
other two day postponcment OF the
threatened strike of 25000 railroad
employees was announced today by
the Brotherhood of Railway ami
Steamship clerks, freight handlers.
express and station employees.
The union refused arbitration. but
called for the appointment of an
emergency committee by President
Roosevelt
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26

hear OF a plan for the longshore-
men to come to Stockton.
The Lubin society. an agricul-
tural research organization, also
censured Sheriff Harvey Odell and
Ignatius Mccarthy. tear gas sales
man, and made a plea for funds
for the Stockton agricultural work
ers union. The statement said in
part,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
Court Refuses to
Test T.B. Program

WASHINGTON, April 26. (U.P)-
Dairy cattle owners of Stanislus
and Merced counties, California.
today were denied supreme court
consideration of their attack on
the validity of the cattle tuber-
culosiS eradication programs of
their respective counties.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
Impossible to Avoid
Air Raids, Says Expert

WASHINGTON, April 26. WR-
Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, chief
of the Navy bureau of aeronautics.
today told the house naval affairs
committee that it probably would
be impossible to stop an air attack
on the Pacific coast in event of war
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
SOcialite Discovered
Working in Movies

HOLLYWOOD. April 26. UP
Mrs. Lois Clarke De Ruyther
Spreckels Clinton, San Francisco
socialite, today was discovered work.
ing in motion pictures in a minor
role.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26

He was the most severely injm-
ed of more than so persons who
were treated in hospitals.
Police denied a report they plan"
ned to stop five carloads of long
shoremen from San Francisco be-
fore they could enter Stockton. Re-
porters rushed to the city limits
but found neither police nor long
shoremen Police said they did not
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26

STOCKTON, Cal, April 26. (UP)-The condition of
John Drake picket shot in the face last week during
otng In the canneres strike continued critical today
law enforcement officials underwent censure in state
ment issued by the Simon j. Lubin society San Fran
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26

other unit where 18 or more men
were barrcaded in the drug store
room
The lye barricade jammed the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
GRAND JURY
TESTIMONY
DISCLO Ed
Former Treasurer, Blaming Politics For
Plight, Declares He Reimbursed
Self After Salary Cut

F. H. Mclver, former treasurer of the Imperial Irrga-
ton District appropriated $2S5 of irrigation district
funds to himself because he felt that and addi
onal $1,000 due him in salary filing of grand jury
hearing transcript revealed Monday McIver under
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
Service Par Excellence

Bill Bailey, vino presides behind
the counter at the golf club, is an
obliging sort of gentleman. as Mrs.
Bob Mcnamara discovered Satur-
day. Arriving for the Women's tour
nament too late to find a partner,
Mrs Mcnamara was out of luck,
it seemed-until Bill doffed his
apron, dcnned a golf bag-and
ulayed the nine with Mrs. Mac.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
Hero OF The Day -

Clyde Lee is the big shot in the
Ell Centro street department, at
least for the day. Clyde slammed
out a home run in the street de-
partment-fire department contest
Sunday. AS it turned out, the homer
really wasn't needed, for the street
lads proved that knowledge OF
pavement pounding is better than
speed when they downed the fire
men, 1871
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
Iaie. But EARLY

LHVV, bNV T9tff ~
This arrived late but the event
happened early enough to qualify.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Varney, 1T
seems. were married Sept. 10. 1897.
which qualified them last week for
ducats to the United Artists thea
ter's Anniversary Week. The week
is over, now, by the way.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26

DETROIT, April 26 (UPl-Polce smashed through
barrcades Of lye in barrels and bags today to
of st-down strikers who held possession of $2000
600 worth of drugs and narcotics in the closed plant of
Parke, Davis & Co.. said be the worlds largest
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
That's How II Is

Not playing?" someone asked
Mrs. Lola Johnson at the Barbara
Worth golf club the other day.
mo I'd like to--but Walt took
my clubs.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26
TWO WOMEN.
MAN PERISH
IN ACCIDENTS
County Toll Boosted to q By Fatalities;
Calipatrian Hit by Truck; Driver
browns in Automobile

Death struck three times in Imperial county this week.
end snuffng out the lives of two and in
traffic accidents to raise the highway slaughter to % thus
far this year.
Hghways Of the county had not claimed victim for
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26

iaIeuicl VI pIidl liildCcuUlCaio
The officers had eVicted without
disorder more than 300 strikers who
held the cafeteria of the plant, then
moved on to the sixth floor of an
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-26

Butter: Los Angeles 3D.; butter
fat, Imperial Valley, fob. ranch.
Grade A Az; manufacturing milk
35la; route gathered cream 3213.
L. A. Hay: u. s. No. 1 S17.00-I7.50;
u. $. No. 2 leafy S16.50-I7.00; u. >.
No. 2 $500 1900; Minneapolis flax
S2.09-S2.14.
Evening star., 1937-01-22
Frame-Up Ring Foiled.

One of the most extensive police
shake-ups in the history of Australia
took place at Sydney following an
official investigation. Seven police
sergeants and Is constables were sus-
pended from duty after report by
the royal commission on betting op-
erations had been filed with the House
of Assembly. Judge Markett of the
commission found that Is civilians
had been convicted wrongfully by po-
lice testimony.
Evening star., 1937-01-22

Library Brings $10S,000.
A. w. M. Mensing Of Amsterdam,
Holland. has sold private library for
100000.
Evening star., 1937-01-22
CHAIN STORE FOOD
SALES GAIN 4 PCT.
Average for December Shows
Almost No Change Over De.
cember. 1885. However.

Daily average sales Of chain grocery
stores for December showed practically
no change in value as compared with
December, 1885, but were per cent
above the total for December, 1884, ac-
cording to preliminary estimates Of the
Bureau Of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce, Commerce Department.
December sales were only l per cent
greater than In November. This Is
below the usual increase for the month,
it is shown by . comparison with the
average ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS totals for
the past seven years. November sales.
however, were more than seaSonally
high, which may account for the failure
of the Christmas period to show .
larger increase.
Average daily sales for the year
Evening star., 1937-01-22

1896 were I per cent above those for
1885 and were 8 per cent higher than
for 1894, It was reported.
The estimates, which allow for vary
ing numbers OF business days from
month to month and for the varying
sales importance Of the different days
Of the week, are based upon figures
furnished by eight large chain organ
izations and represent stores continue
ously tn operation since 1929, it was
explained. As q result they are be-
heved to show changes in the value of
consumer purchases rather than ex-
pansion or decline of the chains in
cluded. The figures are based upon
the dollar volume Of business.
The figures for complete years show
that sales decreased 221a per cent in
1929, 18 per cent in 1880 and II per
cent in 1881 and gained 6 per cent in
1882, 121z per cent in 1888, 8 per cent
in 1884 and per cent last year.
The Washington times., 1937-02-25

ADVERTISEMENT
The Washington times., 1937-02-25

Babies" He wrote the screen
plays "The Great Filtration" and
Elmer and Elsie" and wrote the
original story and collaborated on
the film version of Red Salute"
Health Not Good
The Pearsons leased their pres
ent home here last September out
for many years, because his
health was not good, he has been
spending large part Of his time
in Palm Springs, driving to Holly
wood only when obliged to by
studio calls.
Chief Boiler said the Pearsons
lived quietly and were regarded as
"a very affectionate couple"
A detailed statement was OBJ
tanned from the butler and prepa-
rations we're made to question Mrs.
Pearson as soon as she was in con-
dition to talk.
Palm Springs, playground Of
millionaireS and film colony
notables, was in an uproar today
over its most sensational story
in years. Little was heard in the
fashionable hotels and exclusive
homes but speculation on the
Pearson case"
One theory was that Pearson
had committed suicide and that
his wife had removed the gun
from the room in her hysterical
grief.
Another was that she had shot
him after a quarrel, but this
theory was discounted by those
who knew of the PearSonS' happy
married life.
A third was that an enemy had
fired the fatal shot through the
bedroom window and that the
gun found in another room was
not the lethal weapon.
The Washington times., 1937-02-25
ARRESTED
IN DOPE RING

NEW YORK, Feb. IS GN.S).
Four Chinese and a Negro, de-
clared by Federal narcotics agents
to be the heads of one of The
largest opium rings operating in
the Eastern States, were under ar
rest today. It was estimated that
the ring had sold $500,O00 worth
of drugs during the past two
years.
Two Chinese, Leong Sal Lun
and Lee Sing, were held here in
default of $4,000 bail each, and
a third Chinese and a Negro have
been arrested in Chicago, Federal
agents said.
The Washington times., 1937-02-25
, FILM
WRITER, SHOT
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found Pearson lying on the bed,
dressed in a yellow sweater and
trousers. Mrs. Pearson was in a
dressing gown.
Death q Mystery
Police said they were unable to
determine whether the death was
suicide or murder.
The PearSonS had been living
in Palm Springs since September,
when they leased the home in
which the tragedy occurred.
Pearson was an advertising
writer before entering the films.
Authorities said:
at looks like murder"
Although two bullets had been
fired by the gun, only one bullet
hole was found in PearSon's body,
Police Chief ]. L. Boiler reported.
He said:
"The butler told US that he
heard no shots but was aroused
by noise in the living room. When
he got there Mrs. Pearson was
on the floor screaming into the
telephone for a doctor.
"Then she got up and ran
into one of the bedrooms. The
butler said when he walked into
the room Pearson was sitting on
on one of the twin beds, his
head against the wall. Mrs.
Pearson was begging him to
wake up
THE body, which may have
been balanced up to that point,
suddenly fell over sideways upon
the floor. That's where it was,
anyway, when we arrived"
MURDER SUSPECTED
Boiler said he hadn't decided
whether it was a case of muir
der. The sheriff's office at River
side, however, said indications
pointed to murder.
Pearson's body was removed to
the morgue at Banning for an
autopsy. Pearson. who came to
California from New York about
seven years ago, has been re-
garded as one of the outStand-
ing adapterS of stories for the
films.
Formerly an advertising man
in the Middle West, Pearson
wrote a number Of plays and
soon received an offer which sent
him to Hollywood for a new
career.
Among the productions he
adapted for the films were Rug.
giles Of Red Gap" What Price
Hollywood, and Aggie Appleby,
Maker of Men" the latter in
collaboration with Edward Kauf.
man.
Pearson did the dialogue, with
Monte Katterjohn, for Broadway