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Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
TWO LEAVE ON
HONEYMOON

Miss Dolly Mawby and Emmett
Layton were married at O'clock
Saturday night at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Nichols on the San
Diego highway by the Rev. Fred
Day, pastor of the Four Square
Gospel church.
The bride was charming in a
pale blue organza dress. She car
ried an arm bouquet of white roses
Miss Mary Kahn, the maidof-
honor, wore pink net. Edward
Dickie attended the bridegroom as
best man.
Immediately after the ceremony.
Mr. and Mrs. Layton left for a
honeymoon to be spent in Los An
geleS and other coast cities. They
will be at home to their friends
after September 7 at their home
IA miles north of Holtville where
the bridegroom is engaged in ranch
ing.
The bride is a sister of Mrs. Ray
mond Clarke of Meloland.
The list of wedding guests in
cluded: Messers. AMI Mesdames Bu-
ren Layton, Len Wood Kelly; A.
Rister and baby; H. Kitchener; M.
L. Charlie; M. Block; Ted Bucket
and family; P. T. Nichols; Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Clarke and daughter,
Jeanne; Miss Louise LaBorde, and
Miss Hilda Binter.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
PLUNGE PARTY
GIVEN MONDAY

Mrs. Mary Louise Christoph, who
soon will leave for Los Angeles to
make her home, was honor guest at
a plunge party given Monday night
by the feminine members of the
staff at the Nevada California COM
pany.
Ping pong and bridge followed
the swim. Refreshments were serv-
ed at the home of Miss Agnes Pen
nington at 88I Commercial street.
Mrs. Christoph was presented with
a going away gift.
Those present were: Mesdames
Harriet Cosby, Ethel Mills, Lucille
Reese, the Misses Katherine Won
Allmen, Ruth Campbell, Evelyn
Lewis, Helen Siegel, Clitus Town
send, Marion Call, Velma Sooth
and Agnes Pennington.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
Father Fears His
Daughter kidnapped
By Band of Gypsies

SAN DIEGO Cal, Aug. 81 CUP
"A fathers fear his 15-year- old
daughter has been abducted by a
band of gypsies today sent San
Diego county sheriffs on an inten-
sive hunt of the back-country here
Minnie Lewis, who lived with her
parents in North Hollywood, has
been missing since August 25, her
father, Stephen Lewis, told Deputy
Sheriff Morris Cope, at Fallbrook,
today.
81 believe my daughter was per-
suaied to leave home with a band
of II gypsies who camped near
North Hollywood for several days,
Lewis said. when last seen the
gypsies were heading toward Fall
brook.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
Crops Viewed by
Congress Visitors

FRESNO, Cal, Aug. 81 (UP)-
Abundant crops and the transfor-
nation brought by water in the San
Joaquin Valley was today brought
to the attention of three visiting
congressman on an inspection tour
of the Central Valley Water project.
After staying overnight in Sequoia
National park last night, the party
came to Fresno today and will in
spect the Friant Dam site of the
Central Valleys project tomorrow
enroute to Yosemite. Included In
the party are Representatives
James o. Scrugham of Reno, James
C. Fitzpatrick of New York City
and Emmett ONeal of Louisville
State Senator John McColl of Red
ding executive secretary of the
Central Valleys Water Project as
sociation is in charge of the trip.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
FLYER SEEKS
CRACK AT AIR
SPEED MARK

NEW YORK, Aug. 81 CUP)-
Maj Alex Seversky, veteran flier
and airplane manufacturer, hoped
to take off from Floyd Bennett
field today for a crack at Howard
Hughes trans-continental nonstop
flying record of 9 hours, 26 minutes
1t was possible, he said, that he
would be delayed until tomorrow
Seversky will fly his trim Com
mercial Version" of the Seversky
army Fighter, and hoped to reach
the Union Air terminal at Bur-
bank, Calf, within 10 hours elapsed
time.
His plane recently averaged 32l
miles an hour on test flight
from Belleville, Ill. to Wright field
at Dayton, O., but it was conceded
little chance of breaking Hughes
record.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31

, white flags and handkerchiefs, 1t
was asserted.
Strong Loyalist detachments sur
rounded Belchite, in the heart of
Gen. Francisco Frances eastern
salient, which was poorly fortified.
while Insurgent commanders rush.
eo reinforcements from the north
to the aid of the beleaguered town
The government declared that
the fall of Belchite was imminent.
Capture of the town, it was hoped.
would provide the first major VIC
tory of the Loyalist triple Aragon
offensive, launched five days ago
The Loyalists already have Sc
vered communications between
Saragossa and Huesca, and hao
pushed along the Ebro river to
within a few miles of Saragossa.
The offensive was essential be-
cause the Nationalits had driven
wedge into Loyalist sections east
of Madrid, threatening to surround
the city and isolate it from the
temporary capital of Valencia and
from Barcelona, it's chief sources
OF supplies and reinforcements.
In southern Spain the Loyalist
drive on Granada reached it's peak.
the government asserted, but ad-
mitted that its troops had been
forced to retire under Rebel pres
sure.
Nationalist reports from the Ara
gon front insisted that several
Loyalist efforts to gain ground were
repulsed, notably in the region of
Villamayor, few miles northeast
of Saragossa.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
Clara Boav Brings 1T
To Restaurant Business

symbol of IT,.
WoWie!
The hair of the girl, whose movies
once were Hollywood's greatest
money makers, flames as brightly
as ever. Her eyes still sparkle, her
cheek still are round, while her
figure, well, it's the same copy
righted model which no other film
star eyer quite achieved.
She wore a brown hat to COM
plement her scarlet curlS, a tobac-
co colored suit to match, and a
smile as bright as the blue white
spot light which glistened on a
bowl, carved from solid ice, and
filled with caviar.
"And don't get me wrong" she
said, removing her lemon colored
gloves and Slicing turkey for the
well wishers. Don't call me a lady
Jack Dempsey. I'm not going to
be any cocktail lounge hostess.
We've got our own money in
this business, Rex and I, and we
are going to supervise it's operation. "
Rex is Rex Bell, her cowboy actor
husband, who calmly nodded his
head and dished out oysters-im-
ported all the way from Baltimore
at direction of the cameramen.
"Ill be here frequently, of course" 4"
Miss Bow continued. "I'll bring the
baby in from the ranch on week.
ends and I'll eat here asd be glad
to see my guests when 1 am here,
but I'm not going to be an ordi-
nary hostess"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 81. U.P)-
Clara Bow, the red headed woman
who turned an impersonal pronoun
into an international spinal shivver,
brought sex appeal today to the
restaurant business.
With appropriate fanfare, elbow
bending, soft music and slicing of
turkey for honored guests, she OPEN
ed the "IT'' Cafe-get it?-in what
was once the Cocktail Lounge of
the dignified Plaza hotel
She ordered all the drab colored
muralS torn down, to be replaced
with glittering mirrors.
And over the bar I am going
to have great silver statue of
girl, whose dress is falling from
her shoulders and whose hair is
solid gold" she said. 1T will be
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
Sore Foot Brings
Capture of Driver

MODESTO, Cal, Aug. 81. UP
II it hadn't been for his sore foot.
Normand Trouder, "a, of escalon.
VOWS he'd never have been caught
by officers E. L. Elmore and C. A
Brink.
Trouder got the sore foot when
ne began kicking his car when the
officers stopped him for drunken
driving. He tried to run away but
his foot slowed him down. In court
late yesterday, he was fined 5000
after pleading guilty.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
FIRST WHITE CHILD
BACK AT BIRTHPLACE

FRESNO, Cal, Aug. 81 UP)-
Mrs. F, w. Levitt, 81, the first
white girl born in Fresno, return
ed to her birthplace on her birth
day yesterday and inspected old
landmarks. Mrs. Levitt was born
here Aug. 80, 1875 when there were
only seven buildings on the present
site of the city. The pioneer is a
resident of Avalon and Santa Ana,
Cal
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
Two Men Held in
Attack on Rancher

FRESNO, Cal, Aug. 81. W,P)-
Two men were held today pending
investigation in connection with
an attack on Abdullah Joe, Clovis
rancher, who was shot in his home
two weeks ago. Henry Rosenbaum,
26, and John Burton, Al, a Negro
both of Fresno, were arrested late
yesterday as suspects.
Robbery was believed by officers
to be the motive for the attack
on the Hindu. Joe was taken to the
Fresno general hospital unconscious
and was unable to identify his as
sailants. He is still confined in the
hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
El Centre 45th
In Bonded Debt

Ell Centre ranked 45th from the
highest in bonded debt per capita
amcng cities of California accord
ing to Taxpayers association sur
vey, based upon June 30, 1886 The
per capita bonded debt on that date
was $5008 or a total of 1927, ,375,
On June 30 1885, the debt per
capita was 1892 or a total of $685.
600, the association pointed out
Only 81 cities in the state, in
Guiding Westmorland, showed no
bonded indebtedness on June 30,
1896.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31

designed to insure growers a re-
turn OF II cents a pound, were
offered to farmers who agree to
cooperate in whatever program
congress devises for controlling
1888 production.
The announcement gave no in
timation as to what regulations
farmers may be required to COM
ply with IN order to qualify for
the loan-subsidy. Tentative de-
partment Of agriculture plans, how
ever, call for 80 per cent reduc-
ton OF cotton production next year.
Loans will be offered on the en-
tire production of each farmer who
signs 1898 compliance agreement,
but the subsidy payment will be
limited to 65 per cent of the base
production of each cooperating
farmer. The subsiny will be the
difference between the average
markt price of the cotton when sold
and II cents, but not to exceed
three cents a pound.
The Reconstruction Finance cor
poration loaned the Commodity
Credit corporation $15O,O0O,OOO with
which to make loans. Congress ap-
propriated $l3OOOO,OO0 for subsidy
payments.
A condition of each loan is that
the producer borrower agree to
participate and comply with the
1888 adjustment program. Loan cot
ton must be stored in warehouses
approved by the Commodity Credit
corporation. -Four per cent interest
will be charged on the loans ma
turing July |, 1888
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
Al Killed in Farm
Strike in Poland

WARSAW, Aug. 81. U.P)-Forty-
one persons were killed and "a
seriously wounded during the re-
cent farmers national strike, it was
announced officially today. The
casualties occurred in fighting be-
tween police and strikers.
A government announcement said
that in some clashes between au-
thorities and the striking farmers
Communist elements" were present
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
CAR OVERTURNS.
KILLS DRIVER

CASA GRANDE, Ariz., Aug. 81
(UP)-A soft rear tire which for
ced his car to careen from the high
way overturn several times was
blamed today for the instant death
of William White McQuaid, Sc, re-
tired California hotel and restaur-
ant man, of Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
CONTRACT LET ON
BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 81. U.p -
Award of $310.468 contract to
Lord & Bishop, Sacramento, for
constructing a bridge across the
Salinas river at Soledad on the
coast highway was announced to-
day by Earl Lee Kelly, director of
public works.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
MARTIAL LAW
CONSIDERED
IN JERUSALEM

JERUSALEM, Aug. 81. fU.P,-Mili-
tary commanders in Palestine, fear
ing renewed clashes between jews
and Arabs, held an emergency
meeting today to consider the ad-
visibility OF declaring martial law
Sporadic fighting has broken out
in the past two days. The latest
incident was an armed attack upon
the Jewish headquarters last night
In the last hours three Jews and
five Arabs have been killed.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
Husband Describes
Hatcheting $50 Wife

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 81 CUP)-
Fifty year old Setrek Arefkian told
a superior court jury how he hat
cheted to death the young wife he
bought in Armenia for $50, as she
cat before mirror "beautifying
herself.
The jury was expected to act to-
day on Arefkian's plea of self-de-
Tense. He said he killed Mrs. Ana
hid Arefkian, 80 because she was
attentive to other men.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
Move to Nullify
Stamn Call Made

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 81. UR)-A
move to nullify the recent call for
bids on $50 100000 liquor excise tax
stamps was under way today after
the state board of equalization
adopted a resolution recommending
that Finance Director Arlin F.
Stockburger place an order for 37,-
100000 stamps with the firm which
has supplied them during the past
year.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
PIRATE SUBMARINE
TORPEDOES FREIGHTER

ALGIERS, Aug. 81 CUP)-An un-
identified pirate submarine" tor
pedoed and sank the Russian
freighter Temryazew last night
five miles off the coast between
Dellys and Tigzirt, it was learned
today.
The crew of 90 men and three
women aboard the vessel were saved.
The Temryazew was enroute from
Liverpool to Port Said with a cargo
of coal
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
Russell Sherwood Jr.
Receivers in Hospital

Russell Sherwood, jr., 13-year-old
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Sher-
wood who was operated on for ap-
pendicitis Sunday night, Tuesday
was reported recuperating. He is at
La Solana hospital.
Russell became i'll Saturday even-
ing. He will be in the 9th grade
at Wilson school this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
Customs Officers
Takes County Post

Harry f. Bowman, formerly con-
nected with the customs service
at Calexico, is recent addition to
the staff of the state board OF
equalization in Imperial county.
He will check shipments into
California at the Winterhaven dis
trict which are subject to the Cali
fornia Use Tax act, according to
Charles Farrell.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
First Man Nabbed
On Felony Charge

MODESTO, Cal, Aug. 81, (UP)-
Harry lara, 38, the first person
arrested in California on a felony
charge of possession and cultivation
of marihuana, today faced q supe-
rior court trial after being bound
over to higher court.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
Rebel Soldiers
SIay Officers,
Join LoyaIists

HENDAYE Franco-Span Frontier Aug 81. (UP)
An entire company of Nationalist troops deserted to
Loyalist the northeastern Aragon front
dispatches said today The nsurgent company killed its
officers and marched into government trenches waving
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-31
TUESDAY, AUGUST 81, 1897
LOANS OFFERED
TO COTTON MEN
IN CROP PLAN

WASHINGTON, Aug. 81 (UP)-The administration
today made $2800OOOO available to southern cotton farm
ers who to conform with production control pro-
which congress has promised to pass early
sion. Loans of 34 pound plus a subsidy
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-02
Er7c,in Mill
.StYikeEnds
AtDurhnn

Durham, Dec. (AP)-Wheels whirl-,
ed again at the No. 4 plant Of the
Erwin Cotton Mills today and 500 tex
tile workers of the day shift returned
to their tasks. It is expected the sec
ond shift, another 500 employees, will
return to the machines at the regu-
lar hour, 4 40 o'clock this afternoon.
While apparently not entirely salts
fled, the SO bobbin men of the battery
crews seemed to view the readjust-
ment in the battery department a lit
tie differently after explanation of the
plan at a conference yesterday, mill
officials said today, and at a second
conference this morning proposed that
operation be resumed at once. Presi-
dent X. p. Lewis, Of the mills, said the
management heartily acquiesced and
the power was turned on.
The use of larger bobbins introduce
ed at the No. plant will be continued
as at the No. 1 mill. The larger bob
bin, running longer, it was explained,
makes fewer bobbin changes necessary
and hence enables each bobbin chang
er to care for more looms.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-02
Tobacco Market Now Lacks
Only 1,447, 162 Pounds
of Exceeding En-
tire Season
MONEY WELL ABOVE
LAST YEARS TOTAL
$26.85 Average Likewise
Better Than 1896 Figures;
Much "Storm-T ossed" Leaf
Now Being Offered; Holt
days Begin Wednesday,
December Is
BY r. wv. MCFARLAND,
Sales SunarYiSOr.


Official figures through last night
reveal the fact that the Henderson
market lacks only 1,447, 1852 pounds of
selling as much tobacco as it sold the
whole season of 1896, which ended the
latter part of hast January, and up to
last night the market has paid out
around 100000 more money than it
paid out for the entire marketing
season of 1896.
Official figures are as follows:
Tonnage to date, 19,635,846 pounds;
money, 1921, 3754O, making an aver
age for the whole of $26.85 per hun
dred pounds.
AS in every other section of the to-
bacco belt, sales have been light since
Thanksgiving. AS was expected, Hen
derson is now selling great deal OF
storm-tossed tobacco, and this ma
turally pulls down the general average
for the season, but certain grades OF
this storm-tossed tobacco are selling
better than it did before Thanksglv-
ING The letter grades of tobacco are
selling now being sold are selling at
about the same price that they SOLO
before the closing down for the hoil-
davs. From information avallapie
from the markets reporting for their
daily papers, it appears that Henoer-
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-02
CHINESE RAID JAPANESE
POSITIONS AT. SHANGHAI

Shanghai, Dec. 2.-(AP)-Two Chi
nese airplanes raided Japanese posi-
tons in Shanghai today in the first
aerial attack in more than a month.
One bomb dropped near the former
anchorage of the japanese flagship
Idzumo, near the Japanese consulate,
but did not damage.
Japanese said the Chinese planes OPP
Grated at a height of 10000 feet, sue
cessflully evading pursuit craft.
They declared, however, in an air
battle near or over Marking, six ia
panese planes shot down 13 of China $
new northumberland planes.
China was said to be massing a
fleet of 300 Russian-built war planes
for a renewal of aerial attacks on
Japan's advancing armies.
DR.. r. E. Brown, of Ann ArDor
Mich. forwarded to Japanese authorl-
ties the appeal of "a Americans and
several other foreigners that a neu-
trail zone be established at Wuhu. AS
in the case of similar appeals by
Marking and Hangchow residents
there was no answer.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-02
Texas Member in Wheel
Chair Affixes Final Sig
nature Necessary
for Action
PASSAGE APPEARS
AS CERTAINTY NOW
Effort Made in Senate To
Send Farm Bill Back to
Committee; Wage Hour
Backers Snapped Every
thing but Capitol" Repre-
sentative Fish Asserts

Washington, Dec. 2.-(AP)-- The
House leadership broke the prolonged
deadlock over wages and hours legis-
lation today when the 218th member
signed a petition to force a vote ON
the measure by mid-December.
Representative Mansfield, Demo
crat, Texas, rolled UP on his wheel
chair to be the final signer, amid a
roar of cheers.
Just before Mansfield put down his
name, Representative Smith, Demo-
crat, West Virginia, had jotted down
his signature-No. PIT.
Before the 218th signature went on
the petition, the House heard a Re-
publican demand today for investiga-
ton of statements that hackers of the
administrations wages and hours bill
"swapped everything but the Capt.
toll" to insure vote on the measure
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-02

Washington, Dec. 2.-(AP)-Secre-
tary Morgenthau announced today the
Treasury will confine it's December
refunding maturing securities. He said
new issue of $45O,O00,O0O of govern
ment securities would be offered the
public Monday. The type and inter
est rate of the securities have not
been determined.
Holders of $277, 100000 of 2 SD per-
cent Treasury notes falling due Feb
ruary 1 will be permitted, if they de-
sire, to exchange their securities for
a part of thississue. Funds raised from
this sale will also help to pay off
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-02
lob PLACEMENTS
1911 LAST WEEK
% Percent Less Than 1895
Previous Week; 1913
Listed for Work

Raleigh, Dec. 2.-(AP)-Placements
in jobs last week by the State En-
ployment Service totalled 1,071, down
23.2 percent from the 1895 in the pre-
ceding week, but TAI per cent of the
placements last week were in private
industry.
Mayne Albright, director of the SER
vice, announced the figures today and
said registrations totalled 2,O47 and
pushed to 74,143 the persons listed as
wanting work. During October, he
reported, "all but eight states showed
a decline in the number of private
jobs filled, as compared with the rec
ord for September.
Reviewing four years of work, AL
bright said the employment service
had registered 689,730 job seekers and
placed 469,619 of them in work.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-02
HuntPLnne
In Waters
Va. Beach

Norfolk, Va, Dec. 2.-(AF)-Navy
airmen scanning the shore line at
Virginia Beach, where a plane which
had carried two men plunged into
the Atlantic last night, reported today
they sighted a parachute a mile IN
land from where the plane fell.
It's discovery on a pond edge fol-
lowed a Virginia Beach residents re-
port to the Norfolk naval base he saw
rocket flares near that place just be-
fore dawn today. A searching party
started to the spot.
Coast Guardsmen and men from the
naval base worked off-shore during
the night in vain efforts to locate the
plane wreckage.
Discovery of the parachute inten-
sified hope that Aviation Cadet j. j.
Jones, of Washington, the pilot, and
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-02
High School Boy
Given Life Term
In Dual Staying

South Paris, Maine, Dec. 2 (AP)
Paul Dwyer, 49, year-Old high
school youth, reversed his inno-
ccnce plea today to the Staying OF
Mrs. James Littlefield and plead
ed guilty.
He was sentenced Immediately
to life imprisonment.
The plea came shortly after the
Oxford Superior Court reopened
for the third day of his trial.
Dryer, also accused of the strang
ling cf DIR. LittIefield's wife and
transporting the bodies of both on
six-state "death tour" to North
Arlington, N. u. entered his plea
before Judge George Emery as he
stood erect between his counsel,
Walker Abbott and Peter Nc
Donald.
He will serve his sentence in the
State Prison at ThOmastOn.
1t was not until the youth had beer
to cell in the Oxford coun
ty Jail that his composure broke. I'm
emotional and at times sullen, since
his arrest in New Jersey, he entered
the cell and wept profusely severa
minutes. Recovering, he reached TO-
a magazine and turned to a story
IL 81 I &NE
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-12-02
Nazi Ambassador To China
Would Be Medium of
HitIer's Arbitra-
ton Efforts
WOULD MAKE CHINA
CUT RUSSIAN PACT
Japan Would Withdraw
Troops from China and
Give Assurances Against
Territorial Aims i'm North
China; Chinese Planes
Raid Japanese

GERMANY DECLARED emf
Hankow, China, Dec. 2.-(AP)-It
was authoritatively reported today
Germany had offered to negotiate ia
panese-Chinese peace through Oskar
Trautmann, her AMI assador to China.
Trautmann was in Marking confer
ring with General Chang Kai-Shek.
head of the central Chinese govern
ment
The terms of the German offer, it
was said, included China's participa-
ton in the German-Italian-Japa
anti-communism pact, withdrawal of
japanese troops from China, and as
surance by Japan that she does not
seek territory in North China, but on
" economic cooperation.
early in November a trustworthy
source close to the Berlin chancellory
reported Adolf Hitler expected to
mediate the Far Eastern conflict after
unofficial feelers had been put forth
by Japanese and Chinese)