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Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20

Attorney P N. Myers were ousted.
to take effect Immediately. Harold
Dickerson, night police officer, was
discharged, Chief of Police John
Reynolds receiving instructions to
make it effective May 81. Rowe and
Myers held their offices for ap-
proximately three years. Dicker-
son is a son of the former police
chief, Edward Dickerson, removed
from office weeks ago.
Councilmen refused to permit
Rowe and Myers to make any state
ment, ignoring their requests to eX-
plain their stand in the matter.
Economy was blamed for the
epidemic of discharges by Mayor
Theodore j. Schroeder and Coun-
ciImen John Hansen and Frank
Clevenger, who voted in favor of
the housekeeping. William Evans
and j. B. Miller opposed the ousters
The three to two vote is the usual
lineup in the council on questions
OF n political anglo.
The council control issued q
statement that they planned to do
without a police judge for awhile.
They either will ignore or have
not BEEN informed that a municipal
ity must have a police judge. Rowe
ard Myers denied they had been
requested to work for smaller sal
aries.
Thursdays general firing party
constituted the second time this
week the same scene with the same
actors was staged in Westmorland
The first scene was played in the
new city hall Monday night. The
council later was informed their
acts were illegal because they had
failed to pass resolution changing
the official meeting place from the
cid to the new. Their seconl per-
formance followed the rehearsal.
Schroeder and Hansen are out
on $500 bail pending hearing Nav
26 on charges of doing contract
business with the city in violation
of the political code. The COM
plant charging the hardware man
and the blacksmith was signed by
Thomas M Hancock, Westmorland
editor.
Enemies of the Schroeder Han
ssen regime failed to recall them
at a special recall election April 27.
False registration charges were
brought against woman who had
signed petitions asking for the re-
Continued on Page 2, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20
Carleton Files
For School Board
Raising Total to 5

w. I. Carleton has filed for the
Imperial Valley Union high school
heard, m7tino total of five run
n'no for the two vacancies.
Fred Hudson and f. NJ. Cosand
have filed tc succeed themselves
and other candidates are Jack Muir
phv and Nathan Denham.
vi Centrn's school elections were
umcontpstei vt noon Thursday the
lat date fer filing. f. F. Clements
ie running to succeed himself on
the elementary board. and c. e
Scnps and Dorsey Whitelaw, are
candidates for reelection to the
hioh school board.
Mrs. A. B. Hanson has ANNOUNCE
ed that che will not he candidate
for the high school board.
Albert L. Miller has filed as can
didate fer thu North End board
and Arthur S. Rocker for Westside
Union.
Thursday was the closing day for
filing.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20

death or serious injury at nandS OF
Richter was miraculous. The bull
let fired at Mrs. Knapp passed
through a table between her and
the window, was deflected down
ward through the chair cushion
upon which she sat- 1t then lodged
harmlessly in the wall in the ad-
joining breakfast room, officers
said. The charge fired through the
window at Knapp, Ell Centre real
tor and rancher, creased his trou-
sers and underwear. The rifle bull
let missed him only because he
sprang to his feet when he heard
the report of the gun aimed at
his wife. The bullet went through
the crown of Knapp's hat lying
on a davenport on the opposite
side of the room and thence into a
book shelf
Richter and Knapp had been
involved in long standing court
dispute over ranch property.
Richter ran from the Knapp
home at 1893 Sixth street, frighten-
ed from the scene, he told officers,
because Knapp opened fire with
a gun he obtained from another
room. Richter then stopped M, S.
Nickel on the street and asked
him to take him to the police sta
ton because of the shooting. Nick
ell refused but went to the Knapp
home TO investigate.
While Sheriff Robert w. Ware,
Deputy Sheriff Harry Stiff, Night
Matron M. Mason and Pitt Hamil-
ton, building custodian, were seat
ed in the sheriffS office early
Wednesday night, Richter walked
in and asked if there had been a
report of a shooting. Ware said
no and then Richter told how he
had taken a pistol and a rifle to
the Knapp home to kill Mrs. Knapp
before trying to kill her husband,
Ware said. Since the old fashioned
pistol failed to discharge, he used
the rifle, firing at the woman seat
ed reading across the table from
Knapp, according to officers. He
then fired at Knapp. When he
appeared at the sheriff's office,
he did not know Mrs. Knapp es-
capped unScathed, Ware said.
The trouble between Richter and
the Knapps grew out of a lease on
ranch property north of Ell Centro.
Their disputes were taken to court
and Richter was fined SIS for
attempting to assault Knapp. Their
trouble, which continued approx
mately three months, again went
Continued on Page 2, Col. 4
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20
Ia CHILDREN AT
IMPERIAL HURT
IN BUS CRASH
Sixty Six Youngsters
Escape as Machines
Collide

Fourteen Imperial h g h
school and grammar school
children were injured when
thrown to the floor of two
buses in which they were
riding late Wednesday. Sixty-six
school mates, also in the buses en-
route to their homes after the
close of classes. escaped injury.
Victor McCann, 8, was the most
seriously injured. He suffered a
simple fracture of the left fore
arm. The other children suffered
cuts, scratches and bruises. All
were treated by a physician and
with the exception of the McCann
boy were in school Thursday, school
authorities said.
A bus driven by Henry Cauzza
stopped to permit children to leave
the bus when hailed by parents.
The second bus, driven by Robert
Savidge, jammed into the first
in spite of hastily applied brakes.
The brakes applied so hastily re-
ceived blame for the accident.
Others injured were: Mary Fer
guson. Willie Ferguson, Eleanor
Hernandez, Marie McCann, Billy
Joyce Brewer, Margaret Dunlap,
Garther Evans, Robert Evans, Wan
ola Mccain, Theodore Rabb, Da-
vid Smith, Elvira Florida, Helen
Worthington.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20

Outmaneuvered at every stage of
the battle over enlargement OF the
high tribunal, administration Stra-
tegists suddenly changed their tao
tics after Tuesdays jolting reverses.
They started a quiet undercover
campaign to salvage as much as
possible of the original judiciary
program.
The new strategy, it was assert
ed, did not mean that hope of en-
acting the presidents proposal for
six new justices had been aban-
doned but it was an admission by
leaders in the court campaign that
they are definitely short of senate
majority.
This admission was made un-
mistakable after the senate judi
ciary committees unfavorable re-
port and the retirement of Justice
Willis Van Devanter. The new line
of attack involved
l. A poll of uncommitted SEN
atorS to determine whether the bill
can be enacted or whether COM
promise such as an eleven justice
court or the proposal of Sen. M. M.
Logan, D.. KY, for a limit of one
Justice a year would be approved.
?. Permitting the judiciary bat
tie to cool while congressional at
tention is centered on legislative
proposals and such items as the
pending Sl,500,000000 relief meas
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20
Divers Discover Coat of Missing Child
ONLY TRACE OF
BABY LOST IN
AUTO PLUNGE
Junk Hampers Search
At Crash Scene
Near HOltville

HOLTVILLE, M ay 20,-
A little blue coat extricated
from six inches of silt in the
Alamo river late Wednesday
is the only trace of Betty
Anita Barton, 8, missing since
coupe in which she was riding
jumped an embankment at the
south city limits Tuesday night
and overturned in the water.
Fate Little, Imperial Irrigation
District employe, discovered the
coat under the bridge spanning the
highway a quarter of mile down
the river from the point the coupe
fell into the river. The coat was
spread over the sleeping child at
the time of the fatal accident.
District officials were forced to
order the water turned back into
the river Wednesday night after
the lowered water permitted an ad-
Dredge crews working down the
river from the accident scene and
the workmen at RositaS dam, still
further down the river, are watch
ing for the stream to give up the
body of the little girl. The head
of water turned into the river
Thursday may dislodge the body
or may bury it still deeper, Off
GERS said.
The presence of great quantities
of junk, including automobiles and
trucks dumped into the river near
the accident scene to prevent bank
cutting, made the search for the
child dangerous. Twenty district
employees suffered cuts and scratch
es from the metal debris encoun-
tered in their search. Several years
ago a man drowned near Holtville
and was not recovered for 10 days.
Mrs. Melba Pocina, mother of
the missing child and driver OF
the automobile, and Miss Josephine
Smith, 10, and H. o. johnson, %,
OUIler OCCupdllJS vi UilC llldCiililc
were scheduled to go to Los An
geles Thursday, relatives having
arrived from the coast city to take
them back. The three escaped with
slight injuries but the sleeping
child on the parcel shelf behind
the coupe seat cannot be found.
They were en- route from Texas
to Los Angeles, Johnson having
offered the two women and the
child a ride to the coast when
found them hitchhiking coastward.
Johnson drove to Yuma, there re-
linquishing the wheel to Mrs. Po-
Gina because he was tired from
driving IA hours, he told officers.
The woman said she did not no.
tice the turn in the highway near
the railway tracks and the brakes
failed to work when she discovered
her mistake.
The car dropped down a 70
foot embankment to reach the riv-
| er.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20
Farmers Protest Aqain
NEW CHARGES
OPEN MEXICO
AGRARLAN ROW
COniiscated Land Not
Yet Returned, Says
Ranchers

MEXICALI, May 2O.-A
new outbreak in Baja Cali
fornia'S troubled farm stu
alton was feared today as
disgruntled ranchers charg-
ed Agrarians had failed to return
10000 acres of farmland as pro-
Vided in a recent peace agreement.
GROIN leaders, continuing to side
with the farmers against Agrarian
land confiscation, backed up the
protest with a threat of a gen.
eral strike for sometime next
week unless demands are met.
Juan Buelna, president of the
organized farmers who recently
sponsored a settle-doWn strike in
the grounds of the Governors Pal
ace as protest to government land
policies, maintained the AgrarianS
had returned only 1900 acres OF
confiscated ranches. A peace agree
ment, which ended the settledown
strike, called for return of $4,000
acres, Buelna maintained. The gov
ernment, according. to Buelna, is
ready to make financial restitution
but the ranchers insist upon re-
turn of the land itself.
r Ranchers were cheered by wore
from Mexico City that General
Francisco Mujica. minister of tran
sportation and communication, one
of the strongest government sup
porters of the Agrarian movement,
will be transferred to Argentina
as ambassador The transfer is re-
garded as seriously weakening the
Agrarian cause.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20

speeding automobiles high dive in
to the Highline canal seven miles
east of Holtville late Wednesday
afternoon earned c. A. johnson,
only a small bump between the
eyes.
Four hundred feet from the
bridge over the canal, his car went
off the pavement, then swayed on
and off the concrete until it snap
ped off three 10 10 supports be-
fore topping head first into 10
feet of water johnson swan out
of the car and crawled to safety.
The accident was investigated
by Captain Frank Oswalt of the
Highway patrol and Patrolman
Mitchell and Tiny Bump.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20
1900 CLOTHES
WORKERS GO
OUT ON STRIKE

Los ANGELES, May 90 WP)-
Approximately 1900 garment work.
ers went out on strike today, crippl-
ing the mems garment manufacture
ing industry. BY noon "a of the 90
shops operating under the mems
clothing manufacturers association
were closed down.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20
Deadline Extended
In Movie WalkOut

. HOLLYWOOD, May 20. UP
The Federated Motion Picture
Crafts extended its deadline anoth-
er IL hours at noon today when
only one producer repeatedly had
accepted its demands for union
shop under threat of extending
its strike to all independent stu
dioS.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20

tHoU UI f1UIUVIIIt.
Roland Carver, 80, Holtville,
driver of the other car involved
in the accident, suffered a dislo-
Gated shoulder and other injuries.
The automobile driven by Clink-
scales and Carver collided in the
intersection near the old store as
ClinkscaleS was driving from the
r. E. Hazard Construction compa-
ny gravel pit nearby. He was
employed by the company.
The body of the traffic victim
was taken to the Fields undertake
ing establishment here pending an
inquest at 2:30 pm. Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20
INQUIRY APPROVED

WASHINGTON, May 20. (U.P)-
The senate today approved a resol-
ution proposed by Sen William G..
McAdoo, D., Calf, calling on the
federal home loan bank board to
supply complete statistics on oper-
alton of the Home Owners Loan
corporation of California.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20
sNIPER OPENS FIRE
on FL CENTRIC PAIR
TRY TO
PUSH LABOR
LEGISLATION

SACRAMENTO, Cal, May 20. W.P)
Labor minded legislators made
one last attempt today to win ap-
proval of a plan to create a state
mediation board to help settle dis
putes between labor and industry.
The only measure which men,
bers conceded a fair chance of
adoption was a new bill introduced
in the senate. to create a mediation
board to investigate labor Difficult
ties.
Sponsored by the state fedora
ton of labor, the bill would not re-
quire arbitration, outlaw sit-doWn
strikes, guarantee collective bar
gaining rights or propose any 9TH
er controversial restriction which
impeded the progress of other mea-
SmeS ON the subject.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20
NEW LINE O. ATTACK FOLLOWED
EN DRIVE TO CHANGE COURT

WASHINGTON, May 90 (UP)-The administration
pushing another legislative in front of the
battered supreme court bill today 1t move that was
expected to decide whether President Rooseve judiciary
program will be compromised or killed
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20
Driver Fatally
Injured in Car
Another is Hurt

HOLTVILLE May 20.-Modern transportation took
its twentyfifth victim in Imperial county Thursday
ing when James Richard Cnkscales, 23 Lincoln Acres
died in the Valley hospital of INJURIES suffered in
mobile accident the old Highne store IL miles north
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20

Political Row
Flares Anew
Police Judge, City Attorney And
Patrolman Thrown Out by Council;
Economy Blamed

WESTMORLAND, May 20-City councimen swept
three city officials out of office by three to two vote at
special session Thursday morning the latest develop
ment in the political shakeup which has rocked the city
since early this year Police Judge Sam p Rowe and City
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20

ure until an opportunity has been
afforded to repair, if possible, the
damage done by mismanagement of
the court bill campaign.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20

SACRAMENTO, Cal, May 20. U.H
A legislative attempt 10 penalize
states where high taxes are levied
against California wines was halted
today as a result of Governor Frank
f. Merriams veto of assembly bill
2794
The bill would have forbidden sale
in California of anv alcoholic hev-
erages manufactured in states levy
ing reputedly discriminatory taxes
against this states products.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20
MIR. And Mrs. c. W. Knapp MiracuIously
Escape Death as Rancher Sends
Two Bullets Into Home

Amel Richter 52 Imperial county rancher for 80 years.
is held in the county jail in lieu of $4,000 bail
counts of assautng Mr.. and Mrs c. W. Knapp by firing
at them they sat in the living of their home in Ell
Centre Wednesday night The elderly couples from
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20
The Omiet Life

The Quiet Life
FL C"ntro residents in the vicin-
ity of FL Centro avenue and Elev-
enth street, or Twelfth street. or
whatever it is, were convinced by
some farmers COW who came tc
town Wednesday night and made
pasturage out CT the lawns in that
vicinity, that this rural life is not
all that it's cracked up to be. The
bovine prowler had too much voice
for the size Of her auditorium.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20
Another Red Face.

Since warm weather started, the
Barbara Worth golf club has be-
come mor2 or less a bachelors re-
treat. The ladies stopped going
The fact accounts for Howard Jones
acute embarrassment when young
lady appeared unexpectedly at the
club at psychologically the wrong
moment. HoWards state of dress
was not what perhaps. ii should
have been.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20
Add Convert List

Newly made devotees of this and
that in FL Centre include F.. w. Cal
lahan, who's decided that there's
nothing like q house trailer for
Week-endS and vacations, and
Merle Gillett, who'd rather Say
meme and work Gn a cooling system
that threatens to revolutioni2e the
cooler business.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20
His Intentions Are Good

j. B. Norton, plant patheologist,
is back in the valley again with
proof that plants are not the only
things he knows how to grow. He
has whiskers, and, ladies and gen.
tlemen, when we saw Whiskers We
mean WHISPERS. The whole works.
j. B. brought back something else,
also, as a matter OF curiosity. In his
possession were several marriage
charms, something along the voo-
doo order. RR is inclined to thinl
the whiskers interfered with Nor
tons vision, however, when he Of
ferad one to Eloise Richardson. The
young lady doesn't need any.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20

Butter: Los Angeles 321s; butter
fat, Imperial Valley, fob. ranch.
Grade A 4O16; manufacturing milk
341s; route gathered cream 32.
l.. A. Hay: u. 5. No. leafy $4,000
S2O.5O; u. S. No. S18.00-Sl8,5O; u.
S. No. 2 leafy S17.OO-$18.OO; u. ).
No. 2 S15.50-S16.50.
Minneapolis flax 2.051A -S2.O9ls.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20
Tive Other WClnen-

TWG UINtT WLNltT-
The faces CT two Ell Centro wo-
men nameless here for Obvious rea-
sors. were tinged with pink We'd
resday night When they journeyed
to what they thought was the Wo-
mans fen 7 nousand clubhouse to
hear a student recital-and didn't
find cat until the hymn books were
passed around that they had gotten
into a church by mistake.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20
What's The Use?-

what's The Use?-
The Power of the Press and RR's
belief in the intelligence of human
beings received a severe setback
"Wednesday night at Imperial, when
Highway Patro!men Roy Wells and
Bill Mitchell stopped an automo-
bile because it had barged past a
stationary school bus without even
pnlSing.
"Doa't you know" said one OF
the officers TO the Two women in
the machine, that there is a law
AGAINST passing school busses when
They've cone to a Stop?'
"Humph! Ii there is, it certainly
hasn't been given much publicity y
5lid one.
Lid you ever hear of Walter
Walsh's safety classes at Central
high schoCl?" the officer pursued.
No" declared the other woman
firmly. I've never heard Of such
q thing--and I've taught school in
FL Cenuo for quite while, tool
The Officers decided to let the
Judge tell them about the law.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-20

HIGH DIVE
INTO CANAL .g.r IA RI.
HOLTVILLE, May 20. = H is
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-04-23
1900 TRAFFIC DEATHS ARE
CHARGED TO BOOZE

"That alcoholic beverages last year
caused 5000 traffic deaths, and was a
factor in more than 100000 automo-
bile accidents, and that a larger pro
portion than ever before of the in
creased fatalities over the records of
the previous year was due to liquor, F"
was asserted in a statement made
public at Chicago last week from the
headquarters of the American Bust
ness Mems Research Foundation.
"It is no longer possible for sta
tisticans or propagandists for the Ii
quor trade to successfully soft pedal
or suppress the tragic part which in
toxicants are playing in the nation
wide, year-long highway massacre"
said the Foundation statement, which
continues:
"The steady increase in liquor con-
sumption, reaching in December and
January just past, q total SURPRISING
that of any other sixty-day period
since repeal, and coinciding with the
most astonishing upward leap in
traffic deaths and accidents through
out the country, are twin facts which
can never be ignored or explained
away"
I'm other words" said the Found
alton statement, during the past
sixty days traffic deaths recorded
through the Government Bureau of
Census from eighty-five major cities,
toad 1890, more than so per
cent increase over the similar period
a yeag ago.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-04-23
CRIT1CIsEs EDUCATION

It is a good sign that so many
people are coming out with criticisms
of our educational systems and meth
DDS, states a prominent educator.
Everything which affects the public
welfare needs to be challenged ever
so often. If it can't stand UP under
scrutiny, it should be reformed or
abolished.
The latest criticism of American
educational methods is that we have
followed too blindly the European
tradition that education is intended
to create a superior culture which
only a few can acquire.
One of the failings of American
schools is that they tend to impose
upon youthful minds the idea that
education has no relation to the real
tiles of life.
There is only one educational pur-
pose which justifies taxing the whole
people for it. That purpose is to en-
able those who get an education to
understand life, not different kind
of life but the life of their environ
ment and upbringing, and as to fit
more easily into the actual life OF
their people and their times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-04-23
GOVERNOR NICE CALLS SPECIAL
SESSION OF LEGISLATURE

Governor Nice on Friday night
called upon the General Assembly of
Maryland to meet in special session
on Thursday of this week. the 22nd,
to draw up a new relief tax bill.
One of the primary designs is the
raising of at least Sc, 100000 year
TOR social welfare and direct relief
purposes.
Governor Nice pointed out to the
General Assembly two alternatives
% his relief-tax recommendations.
He reminded the legislators that a
two per cent consumers sales tax or
q schedule Of levies on business
transactions each would produce at
least 100000 a year, but en-
phasized that he was recommending
the enactment of his program based
on q three-uuarters of one per cent
gross receipts tax and a combination
Of special imposts.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-04-23
OYSTER CROP BEST IN FOUR
TEEN YEARS

Maryland's oyster crop for the past
season was the largest in fourteen
years, it was reported at the office Of
he State Conservation Commission.
Although accurate figures for the
entire season, which closed for dredg-
ing operations on April l and for
longing on April Is, have not been
compiled, it was estimated that ap-
proximately 100000 bushels had
been harvested. The figure was g.
100000 bushels as of April /.
The oyster yield in Maryland has
not exceeded 100000 bushels since
1928, it was said, while during the
six years there has been an almost
continual increase in the crop. With
he exception of one season, the oy-
ter harvest increased steadily from
L.775,737 during the winter of 1890
81 to 2,44O,750 bushels in 1886.
The Navy has had six vessels which