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Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21
SCHOOL VOTE
IN CITY TO BE
.UNCONTESTED

Ell CentroS school election will
be uncontested, no other candidates
than the incumbents whose terms
expire having filed E. E. Clements
is running for the elementary board
and Dorsey Whitelaw and 6. E.,
Sones for the high school board.
In general little interest has been
shown in the school elections, for
with the exception Of Calexico and
Imperial, few school districts will
have more than one candidate for
each office. In some districts no
candidates have filed at all and
voters will have to write in names
at the election June 4.
DR.. A. l.. Findley of Brawley fill
ed too late to have his name placed
on the Brawley elementary school
ballot. Thursday was the last date
for filing and his application was
not received at the county super
intendent of schools office until
Friday.
In Calexico, Coy j. Ritter, in
cumbent, and Mrs. Argyle MacLach-
Ian are opposing one another for
the one vacancy on the elementary
beard and for the high school board
there are four candidates for two
vacancies, Coy j. Ritter and p. H.
Wofford, incumbents, being opposed
by Mrs. .MacLachlan and w. L.
Jacobs.
For the Imperial elementary and
high school boards five candidates
have filed for each of the two va
cancies. For the elementary board
E. N. Cosand and F. M. Hudson
incumbents, and Nathan Denham,
Jack Murphy, and S. D. Thomas
are candidates while for the high
school the first four names with
w j. Carleton are candidates.
In Holtville, Mrs. Della Baker,
incumbent, is opposed by Mrs, L. A.
Harris.
Roy E. Breedlove filed Thursday
for the Heber board and Chester
Vaughn for Westsida. n
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21
PUPILS FIND
BABY'S BODY


UOLTNITTE. MAY 81. ~ The
lifo'eSS body of Betty Anita Bar
ton, blonde thrse-year- old, vino
was drowned i'm the Alamo river
when an automobile in which she
was riding plunged down a 75-
fOOt embankment Tuesday night.
was found Friday three miles
down river from the scene of
the accident.
Paul Burch. Holtvilie high
school pupil, discovered the bad
ly swollen body whirling about
i'm the current while on an in
sect hunting expedition with
classmates. A bend i'm the river
forced the floating object to the
brush grown banks.
They summoned HOltviile pO-
lice. Chief of Police Tex Cornell
son telephOned the county sher-
ifs office and Deputy Sheriff
Bill SchOfield assisted In taking
the body from the water. Deputy
Coroner Herbert Hughes ordered
the body taken to the Fields un-
dertaking establishment. An In
quest will be held at 2;30 pm
Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21

everyone IN tnlS town Is going 10
be implicated In some way or
other District Attorney Ernest S.
Brown said.
Following a raid on a Chinese
gambling house last night netting
$4,000 in morphine and cocaine,
federal agents last night arrested
Chris Hansen, narcotics bureau
agent for Nevada and eastern Cal
ifornia, and A. V. McAvoy, for
mer internal revenue department
employe, on charges of conspiracy
to violate the federal narcotics
law.
Woo Sing, operator of the club
and leader of a powerful Chinese
faction in western Nevada, and
five other Chinese, You Woo, Yee
Fong, Harry Chez, Jim Woo and
William Woo, were arrested on
charges of violating the state law
prohibiting sale of narcotics.
Sales of morphine have appar-
emily been made openly from this
club for several years" Brown said.
Anyone who had dollar could
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21
DISTRICT FACES
$4,000 SUIT
OVER COUPONS
BOndhOlder. Charges No
Payment Made on
Obligations

James H. Jordan, Impe-
rial Irrigation District bond
holder, Friday fill e d suit
against the district for $751;
972 he alleges the district
refused to pay him when he pre-
sented matured bonds and cou-
pons for redemption.
He alleged he owns $4,000 OF
third issue bonds and $1,000 OF
fourth issue bonds and the follow
ing coupons seven $3.50 each of
first issue; seven of $25 each OF
the first; seven of $25 each of the
second; three of S27.50 each of the
third; five of $50 each of the
fourth; and seven of $50 each of
the fourth.
When he presented them to F..
H. McIver, then district treasurer,
Jordan said he refused to accept
them, Or stamp them for non-pay-
ment or make a record of the
transaction. He did accept, how
ever, Jordan'S itemized list of the
bonds and coupons. McIver also
handed him a statement explain
ing that the treasurer was not
authorized to pay or register for
payment bonds or coupons of old
outstanding issues if they antidated
the issuance of refunding bonds
because the government approved
the plan. The statement further
declared bonds and coupons could
be accepted only for purposes of
exchange, previous outstanding
bonds and coupons having no force
or effect and were not subject to
registration.
Jordan declared he had not re-
ceived payment since July l, 1882
and mentioned having presented
the bonds and coupons for pay
ment again on May 7, 1887.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21

CATION. uF
Terms of the compromise-adv
Gated to permit Boulder power to
compete with that from Bonne-
vile, which can produce it cheaper
call for a lowering of the pres
ent four per cent interest rate
on its investment charged on
Boulder power contracts to three
per cent.
The $25,O00,0O0 charged against
power as a flood control ALLEGATION
would be deferred until other am
ortization is completed while New
ada and Arizona, if their state
legislatures approve it, would get
flat sum of 100000 per year
each instead of the present sys-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21
LOWER Interest on
DAM PAYMENT ASKED

WASHINGTON, May 81. UP)-
Members of the California and
Nevada congressional delegations
demanded today that the house
rivers and harbors committee at
tach compromise rider to the
proposed Bonneville dam legisla-
ton to permit lowering of inter
est rates on Boulder dam power
repayment contracts.
The compromise" was reached
was morning after conferences
among representatives of Califor-
mia, Nevada and the interior de-
partment. Sen Key Pittman, D.,
New, spokesman for the group,
said that it would be backed also
by the Arizona congressional dele
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21

tenn of 1884 per cent of excess
revenues.
Pittman urged inclusion of the
compromise, fearing that early
congressional adjournment would
preclude passage of a separate
Boulder bill this year.
In transmitting the text of the
compromise to Rep. Charles j.
Golden, D., Calf, committee men,
Der, Narthan r. Margold, interior
department solicitor, pointed out
that it was reached so hurriedly
that it had not been discussed with
the budget bureau and that he
could not commit his department
to approve it. -, ----.-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21
MOTHER FOUR
OTHERS HELD IN
GIRLS DEATH
Strangled During an
Attack Attempt,
Says Sheriff

BAKERSFIELD, Cal,
May 21. (UP)-Pretty nine
teen year old Dorothy Marie
Schrum, whose nude body
was found in her home by
her mother Tuesday, was stran-
gled to death during an attempt
ed attack, Sheriff Ed Champness
said today.
The sheriff definitely abandon
ed the theory that the girl was
accidentally strangled during an
attempted abortion when labora-
tory reports showed that the girl
was not about to become mother.
The revelation that the girl was
murdered threw additional mys-
| terry on the case that has baffled
officers since bruises were discov-
cred on the girls mouth and neck
by mortuary attendant who no
titled the coroner.
The mother and Seventeen-year-
old sister, and three men friends
of the slain girl are being held as
material witnesses. The sheriff in
timated he was still seeking an
other man. What his connection
with the case was, he refused to
reveal.
Mrs. Hildreth Schrum, the moth
er, Bernice, the sister, and Percy
G. Mason, water well driller, who
rented the house in which he and
the SchrumS lived; w. G. Benton,
another roomer in the home Her.
man Cash, who admitted being
with the girl the night before she
was found dead, are being held
in technical custody.
All five according to Sheriff
Champness, tell the story that
they believe the girl died as the
result of an appendectomy six
weeks ago. They also denied hear
ing any unusual noise in the house
the night the girl was killed. No
charges have been placed against
them.
"All tests show that the girl was
not pregnant, coroner N. =. Houze
said. yet she was horribly lacer-
ated but there were no external
wounds"
Sheriff ChampneSS said that
members of the household de-
stroyed any possible evidence in
the room in which the body was
found, when, after the body was
removed they cleaned up the room
and turned over bloody mattress.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21

walk in and buy a Specially-pre-
pared shot of dope. We are also
investigating reports that peddlers
made sales on Reno streets"
Bail for Hansen and McAvoy on
the federal charge was set at $4,000
each after Brown said McAvoy con-
fesSed to him and U. S. Attorney E.
P. Carville that Hansen had given
him two. ounces of dope in two
night clubs for resale to Joyce
McAllister, %, Santa Barbara girl
who cooperated with federal agents
in trapping the peddlers.
Hansen and McAvoy will be ar
raigned tomorrow at 10 am.
Woo Sing and Woo Suey had
their bail set at $4,000 each, Vow
Woo at $4,000 and the other four
at $4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21

greSSlOndl ldfOI ItSlSldtloii ito'''S
that the proposed bill to accom-
pany the wage and hour message
would seek to put TO work 400O,OOo
of the nations JCblesS.
Under the proposed program, en-
bodied in tentative bill already
in the hands of various congress
men. the federal government,
through board would seek an
objective of 40 cents an hour and
a 35 hour week, but would be en-
powered to fix 40 hour week or
possibly "A hour week in indus
tries where special conditions pre-
vailed.
On a national scale the board
would be required to establish at
least basic 40 hour week and a
40 cent an hour scale. The board
would be empowered, however, to
make shifts depending on seasonal
character of certain industries but
in no case be permitted to go below
a 35 hour week work level, or
reduce the 40 cent an hour wage.
1t was reported the American
Federation of Labor, the Committee
for Industria Organization, the La
Dor and Commerce departments
were in agreement on the general
principles of the plan.
The bill carries a child labor pro-
vision designed to prevent ship
ment of goods in interstate COM
merce manufactured in establish
ments employing persons under 16
years of age.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21
HEWES, WEST
TO TALK FOR
UNITED OF c

Evan T. Hewes, chairman of the
Imperial Irrigation District board,
and A. B. West president of the
California Nevada Electric corpor-
alton. will be the speakers when the
Associated Chambers of Commerce
assemble in Ell Centre for the last
meeting of the season May %.
Election of officers for the ensu-
ing year will be held at this time.
The meeting will be held in the
banquet room at the California no.
tel beginning at pm. The Or
ganization will adjourn for the
summer months, according to Ro-
bert Hays, secretary.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21
MRS. LUCKETT
OUT ON BAH.

Mrs Thomas O. IuCkett. indicted
with her phvsician husband for
performing an abortion upon a
juvenile girl was released from
the county iail late Thursday upon
furnishing $2.500 bail.
Her failure to obtain the services
of an attCsncy to represent her in
court Friday caused Judge r., d.
McPherrin to postpone setting the
date for the trial until Friday Of
next week He indicated, however.
he planned to set trial for DR.. and
Mrs Luckctt June 81
DR.. Luckett still is prisoner in
the county Jail, failing thus far
TO furnish $500 bail demanded by
the court He was arrested May 8.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21
Three Survive in
Quadruplet Birth

MUSKOGEE, Okla, May 81. U.P)
The three surviving members of
quadruplet birth, doing nicely and
sort of pinkiSh now" slept in incu-
bators at Baptist hospital here to-
day while nurses and attendants
prepared to name the babies and
their dead sister by drawing slips
Of paper from a hat.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21
Quick Settlement
In Film Strike Seen

HOLLYWOOD, May. 81. W.R)-A
quick settlement in the three-week-
old strike of the Federated Motion
Picture Crafts was foreseen today
when it was disclosed that the or
ganization is considering a peace
proposal termed "the first definite
basis for settlement"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21
VISITOR CONFERS
ON FLAX STRAW

H. H. Ramsey, REPRESENTING the
Champagne Paper Co., of new York
City, conferred with the Southwest
FlaXSeed ssociation directors
Thursday relative to the proposed
utilization of valley flax straw in
the manufacture OF paper products.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21

Br-r-r-rh. Feel That
It's a cooler what am a cooler,
or Miss Vivian Moffat has the
worlds most vivid imagination.
Breezes from the favorite coolers
in the district attorneys office
waited the atmosphere down to a
nub for the season. Vivian banged
away at her typewriter, longing
doubtless, for a fur coat. When
she presented the letter for sigma
ture, it was dated December 20,
1887"
Speaking of Coolers
Just as a friendly tip, RR advises
anyone thinking of constructing a
cooler to journey first to the office
of Phil knights. the city engineer.
RR. who didn't, regrets it. The
engineering gentleman has more
ideas for coolers than you could
crowd into a service club meeting.
Slips That Didn't Pass
The Post-Press recently carried
an editorial headed;
WE SHOULD REM EMBER
THERE AREN'T MANY
POLICEMEN
In the composing room, some
body cot the lines switched. and
it almost went into the paper thus:
THERE AREN'T MANY
POLICEMEN
WE SHOULD REMEMBER
LOT tn hn
either side of the question.
The Legal Mind
A rather nervous woman. de-
fendant in current case, approach
ed Darwin Wolford, deputy district
attorney, in the upper hall of the
county court house.
"Oh. Mr. Wolford," she asked,
will yoI tcl mc where the laiy's
powder room iS?"
Darwin. his legal mind clicking
on all oieht. replied cautiously:
"To The best of my knowledge.
It's ever there" 1ndicating)
Dort Hide II. Slim
Il M. Graham developed hithcr-
to unnoticed streak of modeSty
Thursday night when a,younG wom-
an. hearing several members of
the county beard of supervisors i'll
choir practice at local establish
ment. cooed,
Who Is It that has that beautiful
bass voice.
Slim kept quiet.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21
35-Hour Week
Called For i'm
Wage Program
Roosevelt's Plan For Labor Conditions
I'm Interstate Business to Provide
4O-Cent an Hour Low

WASHINGTON, May 81 (UP)-Presdent Roosevelt S
wage and hour program expected next week
probably will call for 40 cent hour minimum wage
and hour week maximum for industries in Interstate
commerce. il was learned today 1t reported by con
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21

sey City, N. Y, on charges of
hacking ner mother to
death with a hatchet. They are
pictured as selection of the jury
got under way, Miss MacKnight
neatly dressed and pOker-faced
as always, Wightman looking
bOyishly guileleSS.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21
VICE CONDITIONS OF
RENO SPLIT OPEN IN
SUDDEN DOPE RAID
City Officials, Prominent Night Life Figures
Involved as Federal Agents Disclose
Widespread Narcotic Traffic

RENO, New, May q. (UP)-Investigation of dope
pedding activities in wideopen Reno today threatened
mplicate prominent night life figures and local off
cias federal narcotics agents and Washoe county
thortes continued their PROBE at looks if nearly
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21
FINED $40

FINED $40
Fred Quon of the Brawley In
ternational market appeared before
Judge Griffin in Brawley Thursday
on a charge of violation of the egg
Standardization act. He was fined
$40.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21
Assembly
TO Repeal Gin
Wedding Law
Legislative Battle Moves Into Senate
Over Three-Day Wait For Nuptials;
Bill For Labor Board Blocked

SACRAMENTO, Cal, May 21. (UP)-Renewal of
legislative fight repeal Cafornias "gin marriage" law
moved to the senate today after the assembly had voted
az to 35 to abolish the hree-day wait now required be-
NAV obtain marriage licenses.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21

Each prepared
to blame the
crime on the
other in a deS-
perate e f f ort
to evade { h e
electric chair,
Gladys NJ ac-
X n j G h t, IL
year-OId girl
athlete, a n d
her one = time
S W e e t h e art,
Donald Wight
man, Is, went
on trial in Jer-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21
Baseball Results
NATIONAL

Boston ....,.......... -200-0O2-6-10- o
Pittsburgh ....... 100000 1OO-3- IL
MacFayden and Lopez; Bowman,
Hoyt, Brown and Todd.
Philadelphia .. O-2OO-110-5-11-1
Cincinnati ....... -0OO-31X-6- 90
Passeau and Grace; Derringer and
Lombardi.
New York ........ 1O0-l0O- -20l-5- 60
Chicago ......... 006-000- -20x-8-12-1
Schumacher, Melton and Dam
ming; Shoun and Hartnett.
Brooklyn .................................. OOO-O
ST. Louis O24-0
Butcher and Spencer; johnson
and Owen.
90
AMERICAN
Cleveland ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 200 200-21
Washington ........................ 000-300-01
Whitehill and Pytlak: Deshong
and 'MillieS.
Chicago ......... -200-00l- Al
Philadelphia w 010-003- -00x-4-10-1
Stratton. Brown and SewellS,
Caster and Brucker.
st. Louis w 01-000- 101- -00-3-11-1
New York , 100000 1000 -O1-4-13-0
Hogsett Caldwell and Huffman;
Pearson, Murphy and Dickey.
Detroit ...... 000-000- 200 -02-4-8-1
Boston ............ O0O-O O-O2O- -0O-2-8-0
Coffman and Cochrane; Grove
and DeSautels.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-21

Butter: Los Angeles 33is; butter
fat, Imperial Valley. fob. ranch,
Grade A az; manufacturing milk
351a; route gathered cream 3S.
l.. A. Hay: U. ;. NO. ieafy $4,000
500. 50; u. S. No. S18.00-Sl8.50; u.
S. No. 2 Ieafy S17.0O- $500; L. ;.
No. 2 S15.5O-S16.50.
Minneapolis flax S2.O4 -s2.OoR.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
FOLEY RESIGNS P. w. A.
FOR TREASURY POST

Edward H Foley. jr.. hss resigned
as general counsel of the Public Works
Administration to become assistant
general counsel of the Treasury De-
partment.
Administrator Ickes announced late
yesterday he had accepted Mr.. Foleys
resignation with regrets"
Mr.. Foley went to P. w. A. in 1888
from the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
to head the group of lawyers brought
together under Secretary Ickes TO dis
charge the greatest task of public con-
struction, contract writing and NUM-
cipal bond purchasing in history.
Now that the P. w A. is winding
up its program, reducing its personnel
and receiving no new funds, the ad-
ministration offered Mr.. Foley a wider
field of duty He is native of
Syracuse, N. Y, and practiced law in
New York City prior to entering Gov
ernment service.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
CHICAGO GRAIN
BY the Associated Press,

oN (iIt hSSOCld leC tTeSS.
CHICAGO, Nov. 2O-With North
American wheat export business more
active overnight although still disap-
pointing, prices gained about 1le cents
bushel today A rally in stocks
helped sentiment.
The markets strength resulted from
absence of selling pressure and quiet
buying by commission houses Foreign
markets were slow, Liverpool prices
closing l-llz cents or less decline than
expected as the result Of yesterdays
drop here.
Reports of scattered export sales
overnight accompanied talk that Ar
gentina was not offering wheat 1s
freely as usual. Australia, however.
was understood to be pressing the
market. Observers pointed out pros
poets for export of increased quantities
of American wheat continued to
brighten, while crop estimates in most
European countries and ocean freight
rates steadily declined.
Corn export business continued to
attract attention and some traders
predicted reduction in the country
movement soon. Corn priceA ad-
vanced almost cent. largely re-
sponsive to wheat action and to these
factors in the corn market. Oats
showed little change, while rye rose q
cent in sympathy with wheat.
Provisions declined. responsive to
hog market breaks this week.
Around midsession, wheat was IL y
higher compared with yesterdays fin-
ish, December, 912s; May. 91ss, and
corn, Sis higher; December. 54, and
May, 81.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
MRS. MARY R. WATERS
EXPIRES: WAS ILL LON
Her Father Is Dean of Episco,
Church Diocese-Funeral Sew
ices Set Tomorrow.

Mrs. Mary R. Waters, 80. wife
William F. Waters, died YESTERDAY
the home of her sister, Mrs. Ch9rl1. -
P. Dunnington, 1343 Taylor sire
NV. She had been i'll about a We.
Mrs. Waters was the daughter O:
the Very Rev. and Mrs. Henry Con-
verse Parkman Of Indian Head. NJ"
Her father is dean of the Southerl
Convocation of the Washington Do
ceSe of the Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Waters formerly was a resident
OF Washington, where her husband
was in the automobile business. In
August. 1886, she went with him to
Asheville, N. c.. where he is now en-
gagged IN that business. Mrs. Waters
returned here last March. some time
after becoming i'll, TO be with members
Of her family.
Besides her husband. parents and
sister, she leaves two children by a
former marriage, Mary Elizabeth Clark
and Ann Randolph Clark: two other
sisters, Mrs. Margaret Parkman We'll
Ions, Hawthorne, New, and Mrs. John
j, He'll. wife OF Capt. He'll, United
States Marine Corps. who now lives
at Fort Benning. Ga, and a brother.
Theodore G. Parkman, Hillandale, Nd.
All members Of the family we're here
when she died
The funeral service and burial will
be at pm. tomorrow, at Grace
Church, Woodside. Md.
Evening star., 1937-11-20
Homecoming
Continued From First Page.)

long field goal Twice this year
Mondorff has won games for Mary
land by placements, producing 80 vic
tories over Virginia and v. NJ I.
Maryland had its own specialist in
the ball-carrying division, with Jim
Meade providing a striking contrast
with Mellendick. Whereas Mellendick
is shifty. elusive and fast runner,
Meade is the plunging type of back
who relies on power.
II both Mellendick and Meade are
stopped both teams can resort to the
aerial game. In Tommy Keating, a
local boy, Georgetown has a standout
passer in addition to a smart quarter
back. In Charley Weidinger, Maryland
has counter-threat in the air.
In the line the teams presented
stand-offs, with Maryland'S Iron
man" forward wall appearing to be
little better than Georgetown's. Each
team has had two opponents run up
large scores on it, but in no other game
has either Georgetown or Maryland
yielded more than one touchdown.
Pennsylvania and Penn State, Mary
lands only conquerors, won by 1921
and 21-14, while Georgetowns maulers
were Holy Cross by 27-6 and Manhat-
tan by 20-12.
To this, the seasons last game for
Georgetown and the next to last for
Maryland, the Hoyas brought a rec
ord of two victories, three defeats and
tie; the Terps, six victories as
against two defeats.
A smoker for Georgetown alumni
and dance for the student body were
pre-game high lights last night. Jack
Hagerty, Georgetown coach, and
Frank Dobson, Maryland mentor, dis
cussed the chances of their teams at
the smoker, held at the MayfloWer
Hotel under auspices of the Law
School Alumni Club.
The prom was staged at Wardman
Park and was arranged by the staff
of the Hoya, student news publica-
ton. The collegians "squired" girls
from most of WaShington's private
schools, including Trinity College and
the Georgetown Visitation Convent.
Archbishop Michael ]. Curley Of
Baltimore was scheduled to attend the
football game as special guest of the
Very Rev. Arthur A. O'Leary, S. j.,
president of Georgetown.
H. c. Byrd, president of Maryland,
also was to attend.
Other prominent guests will include
Gov. Harry w. Nice of Maryland, Sem
ator Tydings of Maryland, District
Commissioner Hazen and Count jerry
Potocki. Ambassador tom Poland.