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Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-01
Brawley Mexican
Stabbed in BraWl

Faustino Moreno, Brawlev Mexi-
can, lies in the county hospital suf-
fering from stab wounds inflicted
by unidentified assailants, who knif-
ed him as he stood on the pave
ment in front of Main street cafe
in Brawley Saturday night.
Brawley police, engaged in the
case, arrested several men believed
to have engaged in fight Saturday
night but thus far have been un-
able to connect them with the stab
bing, the police reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-01
Convict Stabbed
In Chest in Prison

FOLSOM PRISON, Cal.,. Feb. l..
W.D - F. j. Hudson. 80, Tehama
county robber, was seriously wound
ed when another convict stabbed
him in the chest and back today
while he was working the the pri-
son quarry.
Maintaining the usual convict
silence, Hudson insisted he didn't
know" the identity of his assailant.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-01
Big Power Holdings
Turned Over in L. A,

LOS ANGELES, Feb. |. OUp =
Los Angeles was made the largest
holder of public utilities in the
world early today when the hold
ings of the Los Angeles Gas &
Electric corporation were trans
ferred to the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-01

Time To Quit
Won Azhderian had been prac-
ticing up on his puts, drives and
approaches for days. Finally, feel
ing that he was in fine fettle, he
took to the Barbara Worth golf
course for full fledged game.
On No. / he scored a four, which
is pretty good on No. or any
other fairway. He repeated on
No. 2. On No. 8 he got five. Won
paused, contemplated his score
card, and made tracks back to the
club house. With score like
that, he exp;a:ned, he wasn't 60
ing to ruin the chance for con-
versational triumphs for many
days by going on with the game.
o
A Problem Solved
Deputy Sheriff Park Burritt an
nounced to his compatriots that
he had become father Sunday.
What did you name herr'
someone asked. t
Michele Janine."
"What?"
Michele Janine!"
oh, yes" said Jai!er Ernie Cox,
Il get you. Her names Mike
And Mike it has been all day.
Idle WOnderings-
Another question evolved by RR' S
Feeble Minded at Play Club: How
do they make the holes in Spag-
netti?
Watch The Calendar
RR feels just the tiniest bit
sheepish today. Here there have
been stories for days that Feb.
is the deadline on auto license
plates-with doubled penalties af-
ter that-and RR only just real
lied that failure to obtain new
plates has put him in the class with
all the other procrastinators. Well
get them today, sure!
O.
Speaking of Politics.
1t is one OF the humorous lights
of the irrigation district campaign
to see Postmaster Penny Rich
mond racing away from any gath
ering which looks like politics
might be its theme Wonder how
the P. M. will vote?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-01
13 BOLSHEVIST
LEADERS DIE

MOSCOW. Feb. |. Thirteen
former Bolshevist leaders, convict
ed of treason by the military COL
legium OF the supreme court, were
shot by firing squad today, it
was announced officially.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-01
Roosevelt Urges
Acceptance of Gift

WASHINGTON, Feb. /. WD -
President Roosevelt recommended
to congress today that it pass legis-
lation enabling the United States
to accept the art collection offered
as gift to the government by An
drew w. Mellon.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-01
ODDS ARE Is TO 1
! THAT MARK ROSE
WILL BE ELECTED
BY EDWIN A. FITZHUGH

Divided the belief that votes already set in the
way they will go Wednesday, but united in the determna
ton take no chances candidates for office in the
peria Irrigation District campaign swung into the last
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-01
% Alpine Soldiers
Killed by Avalanche

lCUNEO. Italy Feb. 1. W.p) =
Twenty-thr Alpine soldiers of the
Piedmont patrol have been killed
by an avalanche at Dronero ~
miles northwest of here, army head
quarters reported today.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-01
Speedy Passage
Sought for Big
Deficiency Bill

WASHINGTON, Feb. l. (UP)-The senate began its
first big legislative battle today when administration lead
bill speedy passage to provide funds quickly for flood
relief Chief points of dispute attempt by a
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-01
Court Rejects
New Attack on l
Job Insurance

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. (UP)-The supreme court
today rejected attack on the New Deals unemploy-
ment insurance provisions involved through the Mas
sachusets state law provisions of the federal act
The test case was brought by Howes Brothers compa-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-01
Valley Traffic
Toll Increased
II for Year
Brawley Man Dies When Car Overturns
Crushing Him; Two Companions
In Accident Injured

Traffic accidents took life in Imperial county this
weekend and 10 persons various hospitals for
treatment of injuries suffered in highway crashes
ring in widely scattered The traffic fatality total
is IL since January Henry Could Brawley Negro
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-01

northwestern bloc TO raise the total
TO 81 200 0000,000 and a liberal drive
to knock out house rider to pre-
vent federal relief agencies from
cooperating with congressional in
vestigators.
30
WASHINGTON, Feb /. tUp)--The
house appropriation committee to-
day approved a $1,046, ,757,l43 inde-
pendent offices appropriation bill
to provide funds for almost two
score federal agencies. Including
the social security board and the
veterans administration. during the
1888 fiscal year
The bill as reported was $3.50. 900
under President Roosevelt'ss budget
estimates, but was $59, ,703,2l8 high
er than the same measure reported
last year. Plans were ,t to bring II
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-01
Battle Lines
Drawn Against
Raging Waters
Hundred Thousand Fight to Protect
Rich Lands from InnundatiOn;
Army MObilized in Crisis
BY UNITED PRESS

The flood situations
MEMPHlS-The U. S. Army guarded the Mississippi
river evees from Cairo Ill., the gulf as the Ohio flood
crest rolled nearer. One hundred thousand fought
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-01
P AS BULWARK AGAINST FL(

Butter: Los Angeles 33i6c;
Butterfat, Imperial Valley fob.
ranch, Grade A, 421sc: manufac-
turing milk. 371zc; route gather
ed cream 331ac.
L. A. Hay: U. s. No. l extra
Ieafy, s27.O0; U. s. No. I S25-26;
U. S. No. 2 Ieafy $24-25; u. ).
No. 2, S23-23.50; Minneapolis flax
S2.18--2.25.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
DEBATE BENEFITS
OF ROBERTS FLOP
Open Question Which Side
Gained by Justices Switch
On Ruling
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, March Sit is ar
open question whether supporters OF
opponents of President RoOsevelt's
plan for Supreme Court reorganiza'
ton profited more by Justice Owen
J. Roberts recent flop on the issue
of the constitutionality of minimum
wage legislation.
It will be recalled that, originally,
the court was (Justice Roberts, Will
lis Van Devanter, James c. Mickey
nolds, George Sutherland and Pierce
Butler) to (Chief Justice Charles
Evans Hughes and Justices Louis ID.
Brandies. Harlan F. Stone and Ben
ianin N. Cardozo) against such leg
islation.
Now Roberts has gone over to the
side of Chief Justice Hughes, ct al,
leaving what was the majority group
in a minority
PRO AND CON
Folk who oppose the presidential
proposal to modernize the court ar
que that Roberts flop proves the pre-
sent courts ability to do its own mod
ernizing.
On the opposite hand the reorganl-
zationist faction reasons that the
courts reversal of itself demonstrates
that it's own membership is none too
sure of it's own wisdom
And it does seem like an erratlc trl-
bunal.
However, what guarantee is there
that it would he any less erratic with
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
One Village Captured and
Way Opened for Direct
Attack on Large
Coal Mines
SWEEPING DEPLOY
CUTS RAIL LINES
Army of $1,000 Insurgents
Threatened With Trap and
Cut Off from Retreat; On
Far Southern Coast Insur-
gents Are Being Slowly
Pressed Back

Madrid, April (AP)-The govern
ments southern army turned the in
surgent left flank north of Cordoba
TODAY, capturing the Village of La
Granjuelga and opening the way for
direct attack on the PenarrOya coal
mines.
The sweeping movement around the
northern end of General Gonzalo
Queipo de Llanos insurgent army cut
the railroad running between Belmex
lust south of the coal fields, and AL
marchon, division point linking the
branch line that serves the fields and
trunk lines to the deeply held insur-
gent fields to the west.
The fall of La Granjuela followed
the capture of Valesquill, three miles
to the north, which had been the first
objective of the thanking columns.
Five columns of the governments
southern army smashed against the
insurgent lines, threatening to trap
General de Llano's army of $4,000
men, and cut them off from retreat.
Pivoting on a base established by
direct attack of the two sOuthernmost
columns, the northern columns swept
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
MAXWELL WILL Be.
REAL REVENUE BOSS
Re-Appointment by Hoey
Means He Will Be In
Absolute Command
EMPLOYEES DELIGHTED
With MaxwelPs Pledge There Will Be
No Firing, Personnel of Of
flee Buckles Down to
Hard Work
Daily. Dispatch Bureau.
I'm the Sir Walter Hotel.


Raleigh, April commissioners A.
j. Maxwell of the Department of Reve
nue., the first major state official to
be either appointed or reappointed by
Governor Clyde r. Hoey, will in fact
as well as in theory be the head OF
the revenue department for the next
four years, with full and complete
authority to hire and fire its person
mel
During the administration of form
er Governor J. c. B. Ehringhaus, Com
missioner Maxwell was actually in
charge of departmental policies only
since the personnel was almost en-
tirely under the control of Assistant
Commissioner of Revenue M. G. S
Noble, Jr., and regarded by most OBJ
servers as the direct representative
of the governor in the revenue de-
partment. It is no secret that many
employees were fired and hired by DR.
Mobiles plans for the reorganization
of the revenue department were put
into effect often times with only the
briefest sort of conference with
Commissioner Maxwell.
But these conditions will prevail no
longer. For in announcing the re-
appointment of Commissioner Max
we'll, Governor Hoey said:
'Mr. Maxwell will be the executive
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
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Six Drowned As
Two Boats Upset
At San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas, April s.
fAP)-Gale-tossed Madina Lake
was dragged for bodies today
after a woman, girl and four
men were drowned by the capslz-
ing of two boats yesterday.
laughter which had greeted a
SUNDAY race only few minutes
before. was replaced by screams
az sudden storm churned the
surface. turning over one boat ana
drowning three occupants. An
other boat set out to the scene
where victims were pleading for
helm It upset and three were
drowned. A fourth man MADE CWO
heroic rescues.
A girl from the first boat swami
+hrouph the chilly waters anu
E;remen recovered two BODIES
before darkness prevented furtner
rescue work.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
DENTIST TO PLEAD
TO SECOND DEGREE
Agreement Reached on Charlottesville
Doctor in Death of Pretty
Cleo SprOuSe

Charlottesville, Va, April 5.-(AP)
Commonwealth Attorney W. O.
Fife, announced today DR.. r. G.. Mil
Ter. Charlottesville dentist, would en-
ter a plea Of guilty to second degree
murder in, the death of Cleo Sprouse,
in Aibemarle circuit court Wednes-
day morning.
Fife said Judge Lemuel Smith
agreed today to hear the plea We'd
nesday at 9:3O instead of today, as
originally planned. He decIi3ed to
say whether he had reached an agree
ment with defense counsel on the
length of the dentists sentence, which
under Virginia law, might be from
five to twenty years for second de
gree murder.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
Supreme Court Statement
Read by Justice Stone,
When Adjournment
Is Taken
GEORGIA POWERS
REQUEST REFUSED
Company Had Sought
Right To Fight IVA Acti-
vities Outside Own State;
Court Refuses To Review
Another Challenge of
Wagner Labor Statute

Washington, April 5.-(AP)-The
Supreme Court deferred today until
at least next Monday a decision on
the constitutionality of the Wagner
labor relations act.
After deciding minor District of
Columbia case in a decision read by
Justice Stone, the tribunal ended its
decision session until next Monday.
Action also was postponed by the
justices on an appeal filed by Angelo
Herndon, Cincinnati communist or
ganizer, seeking to escape a peniten-
tiary sentence imposed by Georgia
courts under an anti-insurrection law
enacted during Reconstruction Days.
The tribunal rejected a petition by
the Georgia Power Company for per-
mission to carry on agitation outside
of Georgia in it's efforts to stop the
Tennessee Valley authority from ex-
banding it's activities in that State.
At the same time the court refus-
ed to review another challenge of the
Wagner labor act, filed by the Mara
thon Electric Manufacturing Com
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
Thousands Resume Jobs
In Auto Plants In West
AS Coal Miners Return
Labor Picture Especially right in Lansing and Fnt
Early Settlement of Strke Troubles Predicted; Ala
bama Miners w ant Raise Also

president of the United Mine Workers
of America, announced at Birming-
ham the union would seek the same
pay increases for the Alabama miners
that were granted in the Appalachian
field.
Declaring there was nothing to in
dictate further serious trouble, Cover
nor Murphy of Michigan planned in
the next day or two to confer with
representatives of the other automo-
bile labor controversies in Michigan,
particularly those concerned in the
Hudson and REQ strikes, while John
L. Lewis, union leader; Walter p
Chrysler, chairman If the automobile
corporation, and tt 'overnor were in
conference yeSter members of the
United Automobile orkers Union pa
raded around the State Capitol at
Lansing.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
Permanent
CCCASked.
For Nation

Washington, April 5.-(AP)-Presi-
dent Roosevelt recommended to Con-
gress today on the fourth anniversary
of the CCC the creation of a perma~
nent Civilian Conservation Corps OF
100000 members.
Under the present law, the corps,
created April 5, 1888, as a means OF
employing youths on such projects as
reforestation, road building and park
development, will expire June 80 1887.
Actual CCC enrolment at the pre-
sent time is about 100000 men, in
Guiding war veterans as well as the
young men recruited from scores of
American cities.
In his message to Congress, the
President praised the work of the
corps, and said its continued function
ing would not be contrary to the
normal course toward recovery"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
PORTSMOUTH MAN
HELD AS SLAYER
Fatally Stabbed Member of Faculty
of Suffolk High School on
Ferry To Norfolk

Portsmouth, Va, April 5 (AP)-
Portsmouth detectives arrested Sid
ney Peele, %, at his home here to-
day on a charge of fatally stabbing
William Daughtery, 25, faculty mem
Der and coach of the Suffolk high
school, on ferry boat last night. De-
tective Sergeant P. A. Talbot and De
tective c. w. White said Peele told
them he slashed Daugherty, a promi-
nent Hampden-Sydney College ath-
lete of few years ago, and seriously
wounded J. E. Brooks, a sailor at
tache to the U. S. S. New York.
The attack occurred on the Norfolk
Portsmouth ferry as the boat was en-
terlng its slip here about 9:10 p. m.
Saturday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
(By The Associated Press.0

Shrill, blasts of automobile factory
whistles called thousands of men back
to their jobs today.
The labor picture was especially
bright at Lansing and Flint, Mich,
where officials predicted an early set
Element of strike troubles in the auto
mobile industry.
Approximately $4,000 men in nine
Chevrolet plants at Flint went back
to machines and assembly lines, while
1900 were to take up their jobs in a
Ford plant at Kansas City.
A large army of soft coal mine
workers went back to the pits. The
Appalachian contract ayr ement
reached Friday directly concerns 3OO,-
900 miners.
In Alabama 10000 union miners re-
manned idle. William Mitch, district
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
Pending Major Problems
May Keep Congress Busy
Throughout The Summer
Many Matters Already Sett led but Barrage of Roose-
welt Measures May Follow Conclusion of Court Issue;
Wage and Hour legislation Coming

Washington, April 5.-(AP)-Con-
gress started it's fourth month today
with an imposing legislative record,
but it. still faces enough major pro-
blems to necessitate a late summer
session.
Each house has passed almost a
score of important bills, but many of
them still are tied up while commit
tees are trying to revise different pro-
visions in the Senate and House YER
SionS.
The Roosevelt court bill, proposed
two months ago. is the key to the leg
islative situation in both houses. Still
tied up in Senate hearings, it alone is
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
TARBORO STRIKERS
RETURN TO POSTS
Women Workers Name Grievance
Committee To Confer With
President of Mill

Tarboro, April 5.-(AP)-Twenty-
nine women strikers at the Runny-
mede mill here returned to their MAJ
chimes today after a grievance COM
mittee had been named to present
wage demands to Rawls Howard, mill
president.
The women left their machines Fri
day, demanding a wage increase Of
half cent a dozen in looping sox.
GAIL of the strikers are back at
work today" Howard said. II expect
to receive their own committee OF
twelve in the next few days, when we
will try to work out satisfactory ar
rangement for every one in the mill.
I refuse to deal with one department
at the expense of all"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
Ministerial
Student Now
Named Killer

New York, April 5 (AP)-POlice
today designated Robert Irwin, 20,
sculptor and divinity student, as
the killer in the triple Staying on
Easter morning as they sent out
a general alarm for his arrest.
Detectives watched subways,
railroad stations, air fields and
all transport lines.
Irwin, recently asked to leave"
st. Lawrence University at Can
ton, N. Y, after taking mental
treatment three years in the Rock
land State Hospital at Orange
burg, N. ", was last seen in the
city two days before the murders.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
Six Children Are
Burned To Death
When Home Burns

Fort Allegheny, Pa, April o
(AP)-Six children were burned 10
death today in a fire which swept
the home of MIR. and Mrs. Ger
aid Sweasey, near here.
The dead were Marjorie, Ii;
Mary Ellen, IL; Geraldine, 8;
Gerald, Dr., 5; LeOla, 8, and MAX
inc, five months. Their father
and mother were seriously burn
ed.
Sweeney and his wife were
awakened at 8 a. m. by the heat
which had already shut them Off
from their children.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
DECLARATION ON
STRIKES CHANGED
Byrnes Alters Proposed
Congressional State
ment on "Sitdown"

Washington, April 5 (AP)-Sena-
tor Byrnes, Democrat, South Carolina
changed today the form of his pro
posed congressional declaration on
sitdoWn strikes.
He withdrew an amendment he Of
fered to the Guffey coal control bill,
which by indirection would have con-
demned the use of the sitdown tech
nioue in the coal industry. In its
stead he proposed a new amendment
specifically condemning such strikes
in general.
"It is the sense of Congress tnat
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
MOTHER, DAUGHTER
BEATEN TO DEATH
Brickbat Killer in Los Angeles Sought
by Police With Only Meagre.
Clues AS Yet

Los Angeles, CAL, April 5.--(AP)-
Smudgy fingerprints and the outline
of mans foot speeded search today
for the brickbat killer who crushed
the skulls of Mrs. Edna A. Worden,
48, WPA worker, and her 12-year-old
daughter, Marguerite Estelle.
It was the sixth case since JAN
uary of brickbat assaults against wo-
men here.
Mother and daughter were slain
early Sunday morning in their small
Hillside apartment block and a half
from downtown Los Angeles. Appar-
emily neither victim was criminally
attacked, an autopsy surgeon said.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05

almost enough to assure a long sum-
mer session.
While the court bill overshadows
all other controversies, there are
plenty of additional ones to worry
congressional leaders,. Among them
are such troublesome problems as
farm tenancy, relief, wage and hour
legislation, government reorganiza'
ton and taxes.
Major bills so far passed and sent
to the White House include Spanish
neutrality, extension of r. F. c..
monetary powers and reciprocal trade
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
DIVINITY STUDENT
SOUGHT IN KILLING
Desire To Question Him Does Not
Mean He Is Suspect in GedeOn
Staying, However

New York, April 5 (AP)-Police
said today they were seeking a ST..
Lawrence University divinity student
for questioning in connection with a
triple murder, in which Veronica
Gedeon, artist model, her mother and
a roomer met death.
Acting Lieutenant Thomas Martin
of the Manhattan homicide squad
said "the police are very, very anx-
ious to question" Robert Irwin, 49,
but emphasized this did not mean he
was a suspect.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
Open Bids
Apml8Om
$50 Buses
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
I'm the Sir Walter Hotel.
nv 7. G.. BASKERVILLE

Raleigh, April 5.-The State School
Commission will open bids on some
$50 new school buses Thursday, April
8, it was announced today by Lloyd
Griffin, executive secretary of the
commission. The number actually
purchased will depend upon the prices
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
ODDS ON WAYN|CK
CONTINUE TO RISE
Coan Now Is Believed Out
of Running for High
way Craftsmanship
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the. Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, April 5.-The betting odds
that Capus M Waynick will be reap
pointed chairman of the reorganized
State Highway and Public Works
Commission continue to rise here, due
to a number of factors.
The foremost of these is regarded
as the almost complete collapse of the
boom for George w. Coan. Jr., pre-
sent State administrator of the
Works Progress Administration, fol-
the craftsmanship. For the belief OF
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-05
WreckageOf
PlaneMayBe
Missing Ship
Douglass Air Liner
Started East From
Burbank Saturday;
Eight on Board

Gallup, N. NJ, April 5.-(AP)-
me sheriff's office of st. Johns
Ariz, reported today the wreck
age OF an airplane had been lOcat-
eu mile and half frOrn Alpine,
on miles from there.
oearchers for a Douglas air
inner lost since Saturday with
e'ght persons asked for quick de-
Winslow, Ariz., April 5.-(AP)- A
HMTSsloie clue developed in tue White
-ouhtains of Arizona today to thu
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Evening star., 1937-05-23

STEALING GLIMPSES OF THEM
AT GOLF. Distonce, enforced
BY the French police, b|urs the
figures q bit, but you see the
Duke Of Windsor in the dork
sweoter ond light knickers ond
Mrs. Worfield in the Iorqe
checked bIozer. The course is
near their retreot at Monts.
The Washington times., 1937-08-19
HALEY BABY'S
CHANCE CROWS

Baby HALEY, who was born
three months too soon, Friday,
August 10, in Silver Hill, Md,
continues to thrive at Providence
Hospital, attendants announced
today.
When she arrived at the hos
pital in the cardboard box in
which her father had placed her,
physicians said chances were TO-
900 to / she would not survive.
But, aided by every precaution
that science can provide, the in
FAINT is battling Justify for life
and the chance for normal child
hood and each day that she lives
her chances grew brighter.
She will require at least six
more weeks of disqualification,
with feeding through a special
stomach tube every two hours. In
about two weeks she may be able
to leave her electrically heated
incubator. She sleeps now most
of the "a hours.