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Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-04
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE

NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE
On March rs, 1887 at 10 o'clock
am. WALTER e. DEAN, FRANK
r. HODGSON, and H. w. BROWN
ING, as Trustees, or their duly
appointed successors, under and
pursuant to that certain trust deed
and the power of sale therein con-
tanned, dated February l, 1884
executed by FRANK H. McIVER,
also known as F. H. McIVER, and
BESSIE B. McIVER, his wife, and
recorded July 10 1884 in Book
385. page "a, of Official Records
in the office of the Recorder OF
Imperial County, California, will
sell at public auction to the high
est bidder for cash in lawful
money of the United States with
out warranty express or implied,
at North Entrance to County
Court House in Ell Centre, Impe-
sial County, State of California.
all right, title and interest con-
veyed under said trust deed in
the property situated in judicial
Township No. 2. in said County
and State, described as:
The South Thirty-four and
Thirty-two hundredths t3432)
acres of Lot Eleven I'D. and
the North Two and sixty hum
dredths (2.60 acres of Lot
Twelve d2) Section Seven
teen uD, Township Sixteen
(l6) South, Range Fifteen u5)
East, SB.M.. in the County of
Imperial, State of California,
according to United States
Government plat of resuryey
approved December %, 1915,
and on file in the United Stat
es Land office at Los Angeles,
Califoria.
The property hereinabove
described contains 36.92 acres,
more or less.
Subject to existing rights OF
way of record.
Together with all rights of
every kind and nature, how
ever evidenced, to the use OF
water bitches and canals for
the irrigation of said premises.
Said sale will be made to salts
fly the obligations secured by said
trust deed, with interest and ad-
yances, If any, fees, charges and
expenses of the Trustees, all as
provided by said. trust deed.
The beneficiary under said trust
deed, by reason of a default III the
obligations secured thereby, has
heretofore executed ana delivered
TO the undersigned a written dec
laration OF default and demand
for sale. A, written notice of breach
and election to sell said property
TO satisfy said obligations was duly
recorded December 3 1896 in Book
444, page 557 of said Official Rec
ords OF Imperial County, State of
California.
Dated: February %, 1887.
WALTER G. DEAN
Trustee
FRANK r. HODGSON
Trustee
II. W.. BROWNING
Trustee
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-04
TEN YEARS AGO
March a 1907

Captain Frank Oswalt of the state
traffic squad celebrated an anniver-
sary yesterday 1t marked one year
of service at the head of the I'M
perial county motor vehicle men
and set record for the time serv-
ed in that capacity, five men having
headed the department in its three
years of existence previous to the
arrival of OsWalt
A friend bet the captain he would
MT stay with it six months and
Oswalt made him q counter bet
that he'd stay at least year.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-04
LOOKING BACKWARD
What The Press Files Tell of Imperial Valley
for This Date in Past Years

has issued another warning with
the muzzling order.
Owing to the crowded condition
of the local superior court calendar
Judge d. v. West of Santa Ana
will sit in extra sessions here for
two weeks, beginning the latter part
of this week.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-04
or 21/ says
FRANK WATANABE
eY Ep hoI0EN
3 NEWS THINGS

"A air railroad to Europe are almost
ready to start flying. My mel What a
swift world we are living between. Pret-
ty soonly we shall be able to flying from
San Francisco to Los Angeles.
In New York they having a hipponor-
moulous Sporting Show. l went there. l
never seen so many ways to catching an
trout. One beautiful set of tackling rods
are guarantee to hooking every fish of
all sexes without noticing it.
England and U. S. have agree to
matching battle boats hoping it shall
not being tails we winning and heads
you lose. Like before. London are very
kindly to premit dear Uncle Sam to hav-
ing just as many as are possibly for
England to building for own pleasure.
Thank you please
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-04

In some parts of the countys it seems, the
husband must wash dishes until his wife is tall
enough to reach the dishpan.
Senate probe reveals Strike Mediator Nc
Grady shadowed Remembering McGradys
cross country dashes, the wear and tear spies
must have been terrific
The veteran rounder, an ardent labor man,
has ceased weeping in his beer since John
Lewis asked that there be no moaning at the
bar.
bleaching chemical was poured into Gin
c!natti mains during the flood, which made 1t
an unusual type of catastrophe Instead OF
turning mems hair gray, 1t turned women's
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-04
GRAB BAG
One-Minute TIE st

l. When does spring arrive off
cially" this year?
2. What are secondary schools?
g. Does the peninsula OF Lower
California belong to the U. s.. or
Mexico?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-04

The 1900 cows in milk at Adohr
Farms. Los Angeles County, pro-
duced an average of 1892 pounds
of fat each last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-04

equation that we too often forget:
the British navy.
AS long as that navy remains
dominant. only one side will come
to our shores to trade in any Euro
pean war which involves England.
If we sell any goods at all, we shall
be selling them to England and her
allies and to no one else. To the
extent of those sales, We. shall have
1917 all over again.
That is not to say that the law
would not help. 1t would. But
whether it would help enough to
keep us out of war is still an open
question.
MOSLEMS SEEK
PROGRESS. NIX Wells
--Moslems today asked the gov
ernment to strip the wells from
their women on grounds of social
progress. They said the Koran
did not require the wearing of
wells, which is "only custom"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-04
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
March 4. 1912

There will be great excitement at
Heber tonight, when the suffragettes
of the Heber Dramatic club put on
the suffragette play which was such
a sensation in London recently. "The
Winning of The Vote"
H. C. Barrfell returned yesterday
morning from the Arey mines 35
miles north of Brawley, with a
handsome showing of Placer gold.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-04

One Minute Test Answers
l. Sunday, March 81
2. High schools
8. Mexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-04
TWENTY YEARS AGO

Plans for the proposed new jail
were presented to the board of SUI
pervisors today.
City health officer Charles Fields
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-04
Thought for the Day

Envy thou not the oppressor. and choose none of
his ways.-Ppoverbs 3:3l
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-04
Words of Wisdom

Words of Wisdom
Our object in construction of
the state is the greatest happiness
of the whole, not that of any one
claSs.-Plato.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-04
Todays Horoscope

Persons whose birthday is today
are usually sincere and emphatic
in their statements. They may rise
to high position.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-04
Hints on Etiquette

1t is never correct to use initials
in signing a letter The full name
should be used in every circum-
stance.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-04


BRINGING
II. TIE NEWS
TO IMPERIAL.
VALLEY
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-16
Probe Blast
That Killed
Score Miners

Sullivan, Ind, July 16 (AP)-State
and Federal Investigators CROPPED to-
day through a fog of gloom envelop-
ing this community for an explanation
Of a sudden underground gas explo-
sion which cost the lives OF ~ coal
miners yesterday.
Scared, mangled bodies OF the VIC
Tins. removed from the scene of the
blast PIP feet below the surface OF
the Glendora Coal Company's Baker
mine. near here, were taken to Sulll-
vans two mortuaries, where relatives
sadlv claimed them.
Families of the dead miners were
still too grieved to talk about funeral
nlans. Friends said, however, tenta-
tive arrangements would call for Sc
narate services and burials.
Nine other miners were hurt, TOUR
seriously enough to remain in hos
nital here. Two of them may die.
One hundred seventy-four miners
escaped the force of the explosion
Yesterday. They organized rescue
efforts and brought the injured to the
surface, but fire and poison gases
prevented them from reaching the
dead. - --- .AAAl1EE
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-16
2 Negroes
PayPenalty
1nCas Room
Confession Made OF
Murder of Charlotte
Taxi Driver; Delay
Second Man

Raleigh, July 49, (AP) = Fred
Steele and Samuel James Jones died
in the lethal gas chamber today for
taxicab operator.
Steele went to his death first and
Warden H. H Honeycutt said he con
fessed his guilt and implicated Jones
The executions started at $3.50 a
M, earliest on record here, and Jones
was pronounced dead at 9:45 a. m.
There was delay between the exc
cutions while DR.. G. S. Coleman, pri-
son physician, treated a prisoner
rushed to the hospital with a severed
artery received while working al
nearby Polk prison farm
Steele, "a, native of CASTOR county
walked into the death chamber at 8:4C
a. M, after witnesses had watched the
warden and prison attaches make last
minute preparations. The gas was
started at 8:42 a. M, and ten minutes
and 81 seconds later DR.. Coleman pro-
nounced him dead.
After the chamber had been clear
ed of gas and the physician had re-
turned, Jones walked in at Gal a. m.
and the gas was started at 9:43. He
died in ten minutes, 43 seconds, but
appeared to lose consciousness after
less than half a minute.
Steele, Warden Honeycutt said, ad
mitted he fired two shots into the
body of Thomas Clifford Fowler, Char
lotte taxicab operator, and contendeo
Jones shot the man once. Jones, 81
said he was with Steele, but walked
off just before Fowler was shot, later
rejoining Steele to go off and go tc
sleep. This morning, the warden and
Rev. K. F.. Battle said, Jones told
them he guessed he was guilty under
the. law, as he was with Steele, but he
still contended he did not actually
participate in the killing.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-16
Posses On
Trail For
FMgitiUes

Sapulpa Okla, July 16.-(AP)-
Possemen stood watch on blockaded
highways today for Roy pete" Trax-
Ter, the southwest's No. 1 badman, be-
lieved fleeing northward after releas-
ing the kidnfDed son of wealth New
York oil man.
The youth. 21-year-old Baird Mark
ham, son of General Baird Markham,
an official of the American Petroleum
Institute was seized near Ada, Okla,
Traxler, his left arm shattered by a
bullet. and two companions, all es-
capped Texas cOnvicts, took young
Markham's car and forced him to &C
company them. Markham was releas-
ed near here after eight hours and
10 minutes during which time he said
the men criss-crossed over the coun-
try trying to escape a posse.
Markham, Yale student, is work
ing for an oil company during the
summer. His family formerly lived In
Oklahoma City. Young Markham said
all three men admitted they were
fugitives from the Texas Prison Farm
at Huntsville. Beside Traxler, he iden-
titled second man as Charles Chap
man. Chapman was wounded in the
shoulder, Markham said.
The third man, Markham said, was
referred to as Fred" Fred Tindol
OF Jasper, Texas, was one of the nine
men who with Traxler and Chapman
escaped the farm amid gunfire July 8.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-16
EXPECT ARREST OF
RED-HAIRED WOMAN
South Carolina Officer Says Suspect
May Be Taken MOmentar-
ily Out of State

Columbia, S. c., July Is (AP)-Ar-
rest of the red-headed woman in the
Sowell murder case at point "out-
side the State" was expected momen-
tarily today by Lieut. Leo Jenkins
State highway patrol identification
officer, who has been in charge of the
investigation since the Lancaster po-
liceman was shot July 4.
"We've run down good many red
headed women since this case started
Jenkins said, but 1 think we have
something definite now. Every red
headed woman in the South who has
acted a little strangely has come un-
der some sort of suspicion from some
body"
Jenkins would not reveal where the
search for the woman was conferred
but said he would likely have a story
later in the day.
Robert S. Smith, an escaped NORTH
Carolina convict, was held in thu
State pententiary for Sowell's Stay
ing, and the red-haired woman want
ed as his companion when the police
man was killed.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-16
PREACHER ADMITS
KILLING OF WOMAN
Says She Was Leaving Her
Home and Husband, and
Wanted Him To Go

Pittsfield, ILL.,, July 16 (AP)-An
eleven-page signed statement of a soft
spoken pastor that he struck "his de-
voted friend" Mrs. Dennis Kelly, with
a hammer during a roadside quarrel
after she deserted her husband, was
claimed by authorities today.
They said it solved the bizarre Mis-
sissippi river floating body mystery.
Rev. C. E. Newton, 81, married
man, toiled in rolled shirt sleeves and
stocking feet for six hours in. the
Jail here over his version of how his
former Paris, Mo-, parishioner met
violent death.
States Attorney Merrill Johnston
of Pike county, Ill, announced the
statement.
Johnston quoted Newton as saying
Mrs. Kelly insisted he accompany her
(Con' inued on Page Eighty
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-16
McNary Says Only Confer
ences After Robinson's
Death Were at the
White House
CALLER SURPRISED
AT BARLEY LETTER
Gillette Talked With Presi-
Client Thursday; Petitions
Circulated Asking for En-
actment of Farm Measure
Embracing ever Normal
C1ranary"

Washington, July 16.-(AP)-Sena-
tor Gillette, Democrat, Iowa, express
ed a hope today President Roosevelt
would still "see fit to take some &C
ton to forestall resumption of hos
Titles over the court reform pro-
gram.
Gillette was one of four Democra-
tic senators who urged the President
yesterday to sidetrack the court leg
islation.
New echoes from the presidential
letter asserting it was "the duty of
Congress" to act on the Judiciary re-
form legislation at this session were
heard Immediately after today's State
funeral for Senator Robinson.
Senator Burke, Democrat, Nebras-
ka, a leading court bill foe, said:
Some one has lost his sense of pro-
portion"
Senator McNary, Republican leader
commenting on the chief executives
charge the period for mourning Rob-
inson's death was being violated, de-
clared ct was only at the White
House that conferences were held.
and political activity was observable
Gillette expressed frank surprise
that the presidential communication
Continued on Page Eighty
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-16
Oil Blast
Threatens
In Jersey

Atlantic City, N. j., July 16. (AP)-
A series of explosions at the Pure Oil
Company storage plant, including two
1O,OOO-gallon gasoline tanks, flooded
square city block with burning fluid
and injured at least ten persons today.
Beaten back by the heat of the
flames and the possibility of more ex-
plosions, firemen dragged hose to the
roof fthe nearby editorial building
of the Atlantic Press-Union newspap-
ers, and aimed streams of water onto
the streets and in the direction of the
neighboring A. & p. Coal Company
yard, where gasoline and flames
were seeping into the fuel.
The injured, including three fire
men, were taken to hospitals for first
aid treatment None was believed Sc
riously hurt.
Occupants of tenements and bust
ness buildings evacuated as the fire.
men directed their efforts to confin-
ing the blaze to the immediate area.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-16
Peace Plan
ForSpanish
acceptable
Powers Unanimous
On It AS working
Basis for Limiting
Spanish War

London. July 16.-(AP)-The Brit
ish compromise plan for keeping Ell
ropean hands off Spain was reported
unanimously accepted as "a basis Tor
discussion" today, an hour after the
committee of 81 powers resumed att
ernoon deliberations.
A subcommittee was expected to
meet Tuesday to consider details OF
the agreement.
A conference had been recessed Tor
several hours when Charles Corpln,
French ambassador to London SAID
he needed time to get further lnstruc-
tons.
A French cabinet meeting, 1t was
learned, has instructed Corbin to APP
prove the plan Gin principle" only.
The ministers meeting with French
President Albert Lebrun decided
France would insist on substantial
progress" in establishing control OF
Spains ports and the withdrawal Oh
Continued on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-16
Japanese Losses Increased
to 20 Killed and 60
Wounded Since Fight
ing Began
REJNFORCEMENTS TO
BOTH SIDES READY
Chinese Accuse Japs of Try
ing To Provoke Conflict as
Pretext to Extending Their
Territory There; Japs
Throwing Up Strong Forti-
fications
nv The Associated Press.)

1ananese officials at Peiping re-
norted new clashes between Chinese
end Japanese forces in North China
today increasing japanese losses tC
% killed and 60 wounded.
The said the Japanese army was
compelled ito take adequate mea-
cures" because of the intermittent
fighting for the past ten days.
Both sides were reported moving
heavy achievements toward the
poining area of undeclared war
where the Chinese accuse japan OF
attempting to provoke still wider con-
flict as a pretext of for extending her
influence there.
Japanese said 100 Chinese soldiers
were disarmed % miles southeast of
peipinp and other Chinese troops dis
bursed after an exchange of fire.
japanese official said two new
Japanese deaths occurred yesterday
in clash between Chinese force
and Japanese troops at a station eight
miles south of Fengtai on the Peiping-
Tientsin railroad.
Chinese reports said Japanese forti-
fications were being rushed in semi
circle to isolate Peiping from the rest
of China. Japanese, Korean and
wealthy Chinese residents began to
flee
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-16
Nations Great Assemble In
Senate Chamber for State
Funeral for Great
Leader
AIR STRONG WITH
FLORAL FRAGRANCE
Special Seats Provided Next
to Bier for Members of
Family; Mrs. Hattie Cara
way, Widow of Former Ar
kansas Senator, Sits By
Robinson's Vacant Chair

Washington, July 16 (AP)-The ma
tons great, led by President Roose-
welt, paid their last respects today to
Senate chamber.
At the stroke of noon, the throng
of frock-coated dignitaries headed in
to the gold and marble Senate cham
Der for a simple State funeral. The
air was heavy with the fragrance of
flowers.
Linen-clad spectators crowded the
galleries. The dead leaders massive
s;lvery casket, almost hidden by
wreaths, occupied the center of the
hall. An arms length away stood the
empty chair Robinson had used dur
ing the last of his "a years in the Sen
ate.
Special seats thanking the bier were
occupied by his immediate relatives,
Mrs. Robinson, her brothers, Charles
and Grady Miller and their families;
Joseph Brewer and Joseph Robinson,
Jr., nephews of the senator and their
wives.
Mrs. Hattie ;Caraway, Robinson's
colleague from Arkansas, sat next to
his vacant chair in the front row. She
was dressed in black.
The widow wept as the Rev. z. T.
Phillips, Senate chaplain, intoned the
centry-old Episcopal service
The gray-haired minister intoned
few verses from the gospel of st.
John "In my Fathers house are
many mansions'-as the audience sat
in reverent stiffness.
During the reading, President Roose
welt sat with his hands clasped in
his lap and his eyes downcast. DR..
James Shearer Montgomery, House
chanlain. nrQn0unced the henediction
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-16
LnbOrBOdy
Accusation
Hits Steel

Washington, July 16 (AP)-The Ma
tional Labor Relations Board charg-
ed the Republic Steel Corporation to-
day with a long list of unfair labor
practices" before and during the re-
cent steel strike.
The board ordered hearing here
Wednesday on it's complaint, which
covered only the company's Ohio
plants.
First item on the boards complaint
list was its allegation the company
discharged rs employees for joining
the SWOC, subsidiary of the John
Lewis CLIO. Other workers were
threatened with discharge, the board
said.
1t added Mossillon, Ohio, and Can
ton, Ohio employees were locked out"
as the result of union activity.
The comany also was charged with
maintenance of extensive arsenals"
at the Youngstown, Niles, Warren,
Canton and Cleveland lants "for the.
purpose of interfering with, restrain
ing and coercing it's employees at said
CONTINUED on Page Eighty
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-16
Roosevelt Won't Halter
Business, Babson Thinks
Can't Afford to- for Democ rats Can Hold Power Only
So Long as Business Stay Good; Prosperity Need
ed To Finance Govern ment; Buy Good Stocks

Above this normal line are blackink
prosperity areas, surl as existed frOr:
1a1. to 1914, FROM 1916 to 1920. and
ION 1923 to 1929. Below tho normal
line are red-icl depression s'eas, suc.
as existed irol 1'1l to 9ib, from
1920 to 1923, and froin 1"2t to 1895
I..ring the past year the country has
crossed normal and is in the begin
ming of another black l4lk prosperity
ak. a.
1t is true that ordinarily the stock
market reaches its peak in lie early
I art of a prs >rity area. No one
however, reall5 knows vi at thi:
early part" is until the entire area is
COZ, pleted! Al depends rron thu
=: 9Th of the area. If the ne-- area is
% last some ,ts1s tn~3 ae taini'
have not reached the stock-selline
CONTINUED on Page Tw0l
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-16
Airmen Near End
OF Earhart Hunt

Honolulu, July 16.-(AP)-Navy
airmen, plagued by scOrching heat
and binding rain squalls, moved
today toward the close of their APP
parentIy hopeless South Seas hunt
for Amelia Earhart and Frederick
NOOnan.
Four massed flights over the
vast equatorial area, where the
pair vanished July 2, have melted
not a clue to the filters from the
aircraft carrier Lexington.
Somewhere in the waters sur
rounding Rowland island the avia-
trix and the navigator disappeared
while attempting 2,57O-mile flight
to the mile and a half long island
from New Guinea.
Aboard Coast Guard Cutter It.
asca, July 16.-(AP)-The Itasca
headed back toward Rowland is
land island today after searching
the Gilbert islands group for three
DAYS without finding trace of
Amelia Earhart and Navigator
Frederick NOOnan who vanished
July 2 while enroute from New
Guinea to Rowland Island on their
globe-girdIing flight.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-16
ONSLOW MAN DIES
OF SPIDERS BITE
Joseph Banks, So, Lumberman OF
Richards, Did not Know When
He Was Actually Bitten

New Bern, July 16 (AP)-Joseph
Banks, 81, prominent lumberman
of Richards, died in KinstOn
hospital Wednesday night and the
death certificate said death was
due to the bite of a poisonous
snider. Funeral service was held
at Richlands Thursday afternoon.
Banks was quoted as stating be-
fore he died he did not know when
he was bitten. He first felt pains
Monday night. He was taken to a
Kinston hospital Tuesday and died
the following night.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-16
BY ROGER w BABSON,
Copyright 1887, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.

Babson Park, Mass, July 49,
Bankers and brokers doutblessly COM
nit many sins. We all do for that
matter. It is not their fault, however,
that people reach for stocks when the
market is high and active, as in Sep
TENDER, 1929, or July, 1888, and be-
cause people refuse to pickup stocks
when the market is low and dull, as
during the past few weeks. The had
fact lis that the vast majority of those
who pudchase stocks use no sense or
logic as to when to buy. They buy on
ly when stocks are high and boiling.
They should invest when stocks are
low and listless. That means that now
may be a good time to buy.
Why I Am Bullish.
For over thirty years have studied
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-16
FURTHER DECLINES
IN COTTON MARKET
Wall Street Liquidation on Favorable
Crop Advices Depresses
The Market

New York, July 16-(AP)@Cotton
futures opened barely steady to 18
points lower under Wall Street liqui-
dation, owing to favorable crop adj
vices. October recovered from 119e
to 1905, leaving prices generally 5
to II points net lower, except July,
which was % points lower. October
advanced on moderate demand to
1907 and prices generally were 2 to
6 points net lower at midday.
Futures closed steady to points
lower. Spot quiet, middling 1852.