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Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

wishes to be officially repreSeSted
at the wedding but the government
has advised against any member
being present, officially or other
wise.
The governments position against
British royalty being present at
the wedding would be tantamount
to forbidding it, but the situation
now is deadlocked.
The royal family is taking the
attitude that it is a family affair,
while the government points out
that turning attention to the we'd
ding by having British royalty
present would be likely to harm
all the governments efforts TO pop
ularize King George VI and Queen
Elizabeth
Meanwhile, in coronation cere-
monies the Duke of Windsor was
ignored. A speech made by the
king was eloquent of the attitude
at this coronation toward the mar
who left his throne, his people and
his country for "the woman I love"
no IL lle lldu llCFNI bCCli, lilo
brother-successor passed over the
Duke of Windsor's brief, troublous
reign today got no nearer to him
than his reference to "the respon-
sibilitieS that have so suddenly
and Unexpectedly come upon me"
The more conservative newspa-
pers contained no line of the life
of the Duke at Monts, France, and
for the moment he seemed for
gotten.
The priceless crown jewels were
removed secretly in the dark hours
of this morning to Westminster
Abbey for tomorroW's ceremony
and Scotland Yard clamped down
a crank watch" as railroads, buses
and airplanes poured more thou
sands of people into London to
join the hordeS already jamming
the streets.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
FAR M ERS WIN
CONCESSIONS
IN CONFERENCE.
General Strike Threat
Dims i'm Mexicali
Dispute

MEHlCALI, BE-, May II.
Threat of a general strike
w a s removed temporarily
here today as peace negotia-
tlons with farm strikers
gained headway.
Strlker spokesmen, meeting with
Gov. Sanchez Taboada, Gabino
Vasquez, Agrarian chieftain. and
Sanchez Mejorada, representing
President Cardenas won several
concessions that pointed to an ear
ly settlement Of the settle down
strike in the palace grounds.
A conference at the Governors
Palace was called for IL a m. Tues
day with GROIN leaders to settle
outstanding differences.
AT meetings Monday and Mon
day night, the government agreed
TO exempt several thousand mora
acres of land from seizure by
Agrarians and agreed to reimburse
farmers whose land has been dam
aged by confiscation. The govern
ment, however, refused a striker
demand to halt teaching OF Com
munlsm In schools. Agrarians will
be permitted to retain their guns.
IT was decided, and will be organ.
lzed into a form OF National Guard
An amity pact between Agrarians
and farmers will be drawn up.
New concessions raise to 70 0OO
acres the amount of land protected
from Agrarian confiscation. Presi-
dent Cardenas originally called for
protection OF $1,000 acres.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

PROBLEMS OF
VALLEY TOLD

Agricultural problems of Impe-
rial Valley were discussed by George
l.. Winwright, assistant farm ad-
visor, at the Ell Centre Lions club
meeting Tuesday noon in the Bar
bara Worth hotel.
Winwright pointed out that one
of these problems is securing in
creased yields for alfalfa. Each
district has it's district problems
and in the valley the two most
important conditions are adequate
moisture penetration, first, and
fertilization second.
The speaker also pointed out
that in his opinion California
should produce more livestock and
that the valley is in an advantage
GUS position to do this with its
abundant supply of feeds. Califor-
mia produces only one-third of the
livestock consumed within the state
the other 2-3 being imported.
ed.
Experiments being conducted in
sugar beet culture indicate, said
Winwright, that it may be an ex-
cellent crop for the valley.
C. H. H. Small, chairman of the
day, in introducing Winwright eX-
planned that valley agricultural
conditions have changed in that
the county no longer has monop-
oily on certain crops, as lettuce and
grapefruit, but has to meet COM
petition. He described the expert
mental work being done by the
agricultural extension service to
find new and profitable crops for
the valley
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
7 EST 0NY
FROM c | R |
DENOUNCED
Judgment Given to
Brawley Man by
Judge

LONG BEACH, CAL, May
l l. CUP) - Characterizing
part of the testimony of Es-
ther Hennessey, 18, as "pre-
posterous" Judge Fred Mil
Ter today gave judgment for the
defendant in the 100000 betrayal
suit of Miss Hennessey against John
A. Hall, rancher and stockman
of Brawley.
The trial has been under way
for two weeks without a jury.
Il am finding for the defend
ant despite the fact that believe
much of the testimony in this.
case to be untrue" Judge Miller
commented. while Miss Hennes-
sey was only 16 when the alleged
act of seduction took place, she
was different from the average
school girl inasmuch as she had
had certain experiences which had
emancipated her to a great ex-
tent.
Even schoolgirls have some OBJ
legation to look around them and
see II men making advances to
them are philandererS or have hon.
orable intentions"
Judge Miller said that testimony
by handwriting expert j. Clark
Sellers largely influenced his judg-
ment in favor of Hall.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
Body of Infant
Found in Canal
East of BraWley

BRAWLEY, Nav 1.-THE body
Of an infant was found floating on
the surface of the Maple canal eight
miles east of Brawley Tuesday
morning when William CLANCY
was irrigating on the Ralph But
ters ranch.
He took the body from the water
and telephoned Brawley police who
turned the case over to Deputy Cor"
oner Herbert Hughes
Condition of the body led officers
to believe it had been in the water
but a short time. The fact that no
child had been reported missing,
gave rise to the theory that the
child may have been thrown in the
canal.
The child was a boy, officers said.
the body being approximately 20
inches in length
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
HALL WINS IN BETRAYAL SUIT
NUDE RU N N { R
SHRIEKS HELP.
FOUND SLAIN
Mans Body Gashed With
Knife, Run Over by
Automobile

HAYWARD, Calf, May
II. (UP) - The mutilated
body of Charles O'Keefe, as,
chemical engineer at the
Newark plant of the Cali
fornia Chemical corporation was
found today on the Newark Cen
terville highway south of here. Po-
lice Immediately opened a murder
investigation.
The body was found shortly af-
ter motorists on the Dumbarton
bridge reported seeing a nude man
running along the highway shout
ing:
Help! They're trying to kill
mel"
The body, nude, had been hack
ed, apparently with knife. The left
side was gashed by a long, deep
knife cut extending from the groin
down the leg. Several automobile
tire prints were found on the body,
indicating, officers said, that a
car had run over 1t more than
once.
O'Keefe, native of San Fran
cisco, was bachelor. He attended
Santa Clara university Two years
ago he worked as a WPA drafts
man for the U. S. Forest Service
in San Francisco.
Detectives Grover Low and Dou-
glaS Webb of the Alameda county
sheriffs office, Deputy Sheriff j.
M. Ritchie of Hayward, and In
spectorS George Henningsen and
Lloyd Jester of the district attor-
ney'S office started an intensive
search for clues along the highway
in an effort to reconstruct circum-
stances of the death.
A houSe-to-houSe canvass was
started in Newark and Centerville
small towns on the southern rim
of San Francisco bay-in an at
tempt to get lead.
Deputy Sheriff Ritchie said il
was his theory that O'Keefe hao
not been killed at the place where
his body was found, but that he
had been slain by knife thrusts
with subsequent loss of blood, then
had been taken to the side road
where an automobile had been
driven over his body.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
Sit Down Strike
On AlimOny Ended

LONGMONT, Colo, May II. U.P
-Longmont's alimony sit down
strike was over today. but Mrs.
Genevieve Johnson, 90, the sit
doWner, has not relented in her
campaign to compel her estranged
husband, Ralph. to contribute to
her support. Police routed her last
night from her rocking chair on
the lawn of the Guy Johnson home
where she had held forth day and
Qight since April 26.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
BOULDER DAM
POWER OUTPUT.
TO BE RAISED

WASHINGTON, May II. W.P)-
Boulder Dam will begin power gen.
Grafton at it's 1ull production cap
acity June /. Secretary of Inte-
rior Harold L. 1ckes announced
today.
He notified the cities of Los An
geles, Burbank, Glendale, and Pas
adena, Calf, that on June ener-
gy will be available on firm pow
er basis, requiring the payment
of 1853 mills a kilowatt hour.
Lake Mead, in which is stored
Colorado river water, is expected
to reach a depth of 420 feet by
June l, the minimum head for
operations on a continuous basis
of the four turbines in the power
plant.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
Legion Endorses
Plan For Vote on
Power Program

Executive board members of the
Imperial County Council of the
American Legion Monday night en-
dorsed the plan for permitting resi-
dents Of the Imperial Irrigation dis
trict to vote on power development.
The board members decided to ask
the California Securities commits
sion 10 permit the proposition to
be put TO a vote of the people The
special meeting was called by Com
mander Mike zavala. Present were
Claude A. Ritter, Calexico: Walter
Collins Westmorland; Frank DON
aldson. Imperial; II. K. McClimans,
FL Centro; j. II. Gabard. BraWley;
Lawrence Richards, Holtville: C. C.
Rambo. CaleXico; Glen Killings
worth, Westmorland; and Dr.. O. II.
Van Eman; Ell Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
SOCIETY GIRL
TURNS BLAME
UPON LAWYER
Attorney Forced Her to
Seek Annulment,
Says Mrs. Brill

LOS ANGELES, May II.
(UP)-Nan Pierson Brooks
Macy Brill, New York So
cialite, who sought an an
nulment of her marriage to
William Hunsaker Brill. wealthy
sportsman, after he walked out on
her, today charged her attorney
had forced her to proceed with
the annulment suit.
The slim society girl made a
fearful court appearance today dur
ing which she informed Superior
Judge Leslie E. Still that she did
not want to go through with the
annulment because she had lived
with Brill for few days following
their elopment to Yuma, Ariz.
Mrs. Brill accused Attorney r. D..
Gardner of telling her before court
opened that if she did not go
through with the annulment suit
she would be forced to appear at
Ventura, Cal, where Brill also filed
suit for annulment.
Following Mrs. Brill's fearful
speech to Judge Still, Attorney
Gardner abruptly announced he
was withdrawing from the case.
That's all right with me-" Mrs.
Brill snapped.
She eXcitedly started her state
ment to Judge Still by saying:
"He was my husband for one
night only. He is in love with me,
and I am in love with him.
II won't let fraud interrupt a
proper marriage-he spent all
night with me, and we did what
married people do"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
Health Problems
Will Be Discussed

Public health problems in I'M
perial county will be discussed for
Acacia farm center Wednesday night
by DR.. Warren F. Fox, county health
officer.
Tho center will meet at 7:45 pm.
in the Acacia school. Frank G..
Beyschlag, farm advisor, will talk
on the payments in the 1887 agri-
ultural conservation program.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

man John B. Pelletier, Los Angeles,
would add between $100,000,000 and
SITS 100000 to the biennial cost of
the pension in California, and no
legislator volunteered to say how
the state and counties could raise
that much money. There were
suggestions, however that lotteries.
legislation of slot machines, taxing
of stock transactions. and licensing
Of bookmakers may be advocated as
revenue producers.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
TEST ON
$50 PENSION BILL

SACRAMENTO, Cal, May II.
WR)-Assembly doors were locked
at 1890 pm. today as the first
showdown test of a $50 pension
bill forced call of the house to
bring in four absent members and
give supporters of the Pelletier pen
sion measure a chance to attempt
jockeying five additional favorable
votes. ae.
The first vote on the bill to raise
the pension from $35 TO $50 a month
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

md lower the age requirement from
SIS to 60 years was AZ to 49, A two
thirds majority, 81 votes, was need
Cd to send the bill to the senate.
Although members admitted the
bill would not stand a chance" of
passage in the senate, many of
them urged a favorable vote for
political purposes" because they had
campaigned on $50 a month PEN
sion plan"
The bill, introduced by Assembly
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

plane.
Four warships are rushing to the
scene of the crash, the air base
commander said. The names of
those aboard the plane were not
available here.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
one MISSING, FOUR
RESCUED FROM
NAVAL AIRPLANE

WASHINGTON May H. (UP)-One person was re-
ported missing and four rescued from navy patrol plane
which crashed in the caribbean 1876 miles northeast of
the Cocosolo air base Panama the navy department
advised today The commanding office at the arbase
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

ported that the plane nosed over
during a forced landing on the sea
and broke in two, but remained
afloat
-Four of the five persons aboard
were rescued and are being return
ed to the airbase by another navy
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
DISTRICT MOVES TO
SPEED POWER VOTE
PWA, REA Contracts, Resolutions
Needed For Ballot Read at Meeting;
To Submit to Commission
---OO--

Hastening vote by the people immediate construc-
ton of All American canal hydro-eectrc SYSTEM the
Imperial Irrigation District board of directors Tuesday
moved to accomplish approval by the California District
Securities Commission of proposed revenue bonds
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
Royalty Clashes
On Windsor Rites
Insist on Being Represented at Dukes
Wedding; Government Objects
Coronation Speeches
Copyright 1897 by United Press

LONDON, May II. (UP)-A clash between the Royal
family and the has broken over the we'd
ding of Mrs. Wallis Warfeld and the Duke of Windsor
the United Press informed today The royal family
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

RetOrt Courteous
Charles Gillett, looking for a
place to park the other day, finally
decided on a vacant lot which he
owns. The woman next door, ignor-
ant of Charleys ownership, disap-
proved. She went so far as to tell
Charley in no uncertain terms what
she thought Of people who park
their automobiles on vacant lots,
bOthering all the neighbors. Charley
waited for a pause, then:
You're right, lady" he said, you
can't say too much to a fellow who's
been dumb enough to pay taxes for
20 years on one vacant lot"
Somebody's face was red
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waited for a pause, then:
You're right, lady" he said, you
can't say too much to a fellow who S
been dumb enough to pay taxes for
20 years on one vacant lot"
Somebody's face was red.
Winters Coming
It's an entirely unseaSonal topic
all right all right. but is just now
came to RR's notice What? Oh, yes.
The double barreled stove Harold
Sweitzer built out of a couple of
old oil drums, with pipe connections,
draft arrangements and every
thing else you can imagine. Looks
like a Rube Goldberg device, but
they do say it works. RR didn't
want to test it. this weather.
T'ain't So
Bertha Collins and Carl Rogers
had a peck of fun at Brawley the
other night, kidding their friends
with the fabrication they'd been
married at Yuma Somebody even
went SO far as to have the orches-
ira play the wedding mach-and by
that time everybody believed them.
Trouble was. everybody went right
on believing them after they called
it off and tried to explain that they
were Just foOlin' They're still deny
ing it.
A Sore Subject
If you want to get the goat of
young Dick Watson out at Road Dis
trict No. 2 Shops, stroll in and ask
him where he got the fancy-colored
drapes and the PopeyeSailor tow
els that decorate the office and
wash room Dicks been blamed with
the things SO much that he's liable
to erupt like a volcano when the
subject is mentioned.
Mascara's Better
Joe Lizarraras fingerprint sleuth
at the sheriff's office, is looking
for some unknown with blood in
his eye-but his face still shows a
tinge of black Somebody, it seems,
installed a dab of fingerprint ink
at the base of Joes shaving brush,
with the inevitable result when joe
lathered his features. It's hard to
get off. 100.
Greatly Exaggerated
A call from the TT. Yuma reServa-
tion that an Indian had died as the
result of an accident sent deputy
coronerS in Ell Centro into a lather
of activity, calling together wit
nesses, arranging for a deputy dis
trict attorney to conduct the in
quest, and gathering up a coroner's
jury When the hurry-up arrange
ments were complete, the d. c.'s
breathed a sigh of relief. The tele-
phone rang. 1t was the woman who
had called from Ft. Yuma in the
first place.
you'd better postpone that in
quest" she said. THE victim isn't
dead yet"
A Vocal Strain
If Walter Goodson is hoarse for
q couple Of days, excuse it, He spent
Tuesday reading aloud the $4,000
odd words in resolutions and pow
er contracts to the irrigation dis
triCt board, and $4,000 words would
make anyone hoarse.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

Butter: Los Angeles 80; butter
fat, Imperial Valley, fob. ranch.
Grade A Al; manufacturing milk
35; route gathered cream 81.
L. A. Hay: u. $. No. leafy $500
$1,000; U. S. No. l Sl7.50-S1s.OO; u. 5.
No. 2 leafy s17.00-Sl7.50; u. :. No. 2
S15.50-SI650. Minneapolis flax SILL
S2.16.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
A Vocal Strain

4 Vocal Strain
If Walter GoodSon is hoarse for
a couple Of days, excuse it. He spent
Tuesday reading aloud the $4,000
odd words in resolutions and pow
er contracts to the irrigation dis
trict board and $4,000 words would
make anyone hoarSe.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
Baseball Results

Thy United Press)
NATIONAL
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going about forty miles an hour, hit them.
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Weather Today GU. s. Weathe CT Bureau)

Some snow squalls and fog were reported in the vicinity of Ruby early this morning, other wise generally fair weather pre- vailed over central, western and northern Alaska. Rain was fall ing in the vicinity of McGrath & over southeastern Alaska.
 nhemperatures continue some what below the seasonal average over western Alaska while they are near normal in other sections of Alaska.
 Low barometric pressure covers Alaska and the north Pacific oc- can with the lowest readings ov- CT the Gulf. This pressure dis tribution should cause partly cloudy weather for Nome and
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-05-11

NEW YORK, May 1.-The Un- tied States Circuit Count of Ap- peals ruled unanimously that Charles Mitchell, former presi- dent of the National City Bank of New York, must pay seven hundred and eighteen thousand dollars income tax for the year 1929.
 Mitchell claimed the loss was incurred through the sale of shares of National City Bank stock. His wife was present in court.
 The Court ruled that the sales of stock were not genuine trans actions"
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Fire
 Truck Ordered
 by City Nome

tContinued From Page Two) required by law, for the six year period of the present corpora tions ownership.
 Mayor Seidenverg then took up the question of motorized equipment for the fire depart ment, informing the council that he intended to fight it out along these lines if it took the remain der of his term of office. After expressions of views from mem- bers of the council and some of their guests, on notion passed, with Councilman Anderson as the lone dissenter, the mayor appoint ed a committee consisting of him self. Councilmen Taggart, Basset and O'Connor, with the Mayor as chairman, to study the various types of fire fighting trucks and to make purchase of same at such time as this committee makes a definite selection.
 Mayor Seidenverg brought up the question of modifying and improving the working system of the fire department. AS result the council instructed Chairman Taggart of the Fire and Police committee, to draw up set of rules and regulations patterned after those of the Anchorage fire department, which among other things calls for men on duty at night as we'll as during the day.
 The meeting adjourned at HOO P. M.
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HUGE NEW PLANES
 TO CARRY 72 PERSONS

SEATTLE, (AP)-The Boeing Aircraft corporation recently an- nounced it's factory had started construction of six super-fying boats for Pan-American AirWays at a cost of $3,0O0,O00.
 Each plane will cost $500, ,000 and will carry 72 passengers, an additional 5000 pounds of freight, 15 tons of fuel, a crew of eight men, will have cruising speed Of 200 miles an hour and a range of 5000 miles.
 The planes will be built lO9 feet long with l50-foot wing spread.
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Coach Slicked Up

- The state coach in which King George and Queen Elizabeth will drive to Westminster Abbey for their coronation has been special Iy smartened up for the occasion.
 Early one morning, to attract as little attention as possible, it was taken to an old firm of coach builders in Chelesa for re-gilding and renovation.
 :. Although built 175 years ago for Queen Anne, the coach h still in good running order and repair. It is very heavy and is generally drawn at walking pace by eight horses.
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s NYASSA, Oregon, May 1lth- Four persons were killed when their car was struck at railway crossing by a west bound Union Pacific freight train. The dead who were all badly mangled, were tentatively identified as, Eugene Trash, l7 year-old son of Mrs. Marie Graham, 35, who was crit cally hurt: Mrs. J. J. Darlington, aged 30; a Miss Kruger, an uni identified woman.
 The women were riding in a closed car when the freight train
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Newspaper advertising will develop new business for you.
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Georges Busy
 Day Is Highly
 Of Ceremonies
(Continued From Page One)


 Edwards crown and reverently places it on the kings head.
 Guns at the Tower of London, signalled by a telephone opera tor high in the Abbey, boom out the news and the people-inside and out-shout God Save the King" The peers put on their coronets, trumpets blare and the Abbey bells peal.
 After the benediction the king goes back to the throne.
 Shouts of God Save the King" again swell through the Abbey as drums roll and trumpets blare. Coronation of the queen follows, then the procession returns to Buckingham Palace over six mile route. The imperial crown which George win wear on this drive weighs more than three and half pounds compared with the few ounces of the derby he usual
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vicinity tonight and Wednesday with not much change in temper ature.
 Fairbanks reported huge ice jam of four feet in front of town while the Nenana ice was stil. solid at 8 am.
 The lowest Nome temperature last night was 16 above at four ann, while the highest yesterday was 38 above.
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Ddy OA
 . Back at the Palace, the mOn- archs will appear on spOt-lighted balconies in late afternoon and evening in response to the surg | ing crowds.
 :. The kings last major duty of the day will be the broadcast to his empire.. Special radio equip ment is being installed in the palace for this.
 . For the royal rulers it will be an exacting day-but for their loyal subjects it will be a color ful, exciting one. Something of the carnival spirit will prevail in the crowd which will flow thru Hyde Park-transformed for the occasion with refreshment stands, first aid shelters and troop tents.
 Floodlighted buildings will add to the spectacle, and, from scores of restaurants, pubs and theatres will re-echo the cry God Save the King" as the masses drink his health and watch special en- teruainments far into the night.
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Day of Merriment

ly weais.
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SAN DIEGO, May 11th-Ths

SAN DIEGO, May 1lth-The freighter City of Singapore, bat tered by an eighty mile hurri- cane for four hours, limped into the harbor here, with twenty in- jured seamen and a deadly cargo of Cyanide floating in her hold. Captain T. R. Watkins said the hurricane was the worst he had experienced in forty years at sea.