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Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-29

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Is it possible that certain editor
and his paper are so deeply indebted
and obligated to certain factions that
it becomes necessary to misrepresent
facts to you?
Could it be possible that such a
newspaper has it's policies dictated
and is forced to print propaganda as
given out by Mr.. Hewes and the bond
holders whom it seems he is trying to
protect at the expense of the people?
Is it possible that this newspaper
is SO inconsiderate of its readers de-
sire for actual facts, or is it merely
ignorance that would lead paper to
state that Mr.. Brockman was can
didate against Mr.. Hewes four years
ago when it is common knowledge
that Mr.. Brockman gave his full sup
port to Mr.. Hewes and against Mr..
Dubois (much to his sorrow and re-
gret).
Is it possible that this newspaper
is being used for the exploitation of
the taxpayers of Imperial Valley?
This editor has stated in his arti-
Gle that Mr.. Hewes was more inter-
ested in his friends campaign than in
his own. Would this editor still be-
lieve this if he could have seen and
heard the arguments in Mr.. Hewes'
behalf made by public servants, (in-
GLIDING Mr.. Hewes,) paid by the tax
payers of the Imperial Valley. 1t is
quite possible if this editor had
sense of humor, he would have laugh
ed in glee if he could have seen
these politicians jumping and run
ming at Mr.. Hewes beck and call.
This editor also stated in an arti-
Gle that Mr.. HeWeS would base his
campaign on economic principles
alone. Would he have believed this
if he had heard the whispering cam
paign carried on by Mr.. Hewes' fac
ton? Or would he have decided that
Mr. Hewes' prediction statements
were all lot Of hooey and that Mr..
Hewes had decided to use as his plat
form and campaign the undermining
of his opponent, when even his sup
porters admit that Mr.. Tyler cannot
be bought or influenced by any indi-
vidual or group.
IAN Tyler Campaign COMMITTEES
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-29
SPARTANS WILL.
PLAY HORN ETS
OF CALIPAT RIA

Still in the thick of the battle
for the valley basketball cham
pionship. Ell Centres high school
Spartans will attempt to chalk
up their third straight victory in
the Central gymnasium tonight a;
the expense of the Calipatria hor-
nets.
The Central Eighties, also bat
Ting for the title, will be out TO
add the Hornet midgets to their
string of victims in game start
ing at 7:30.
The Spartans ran through a
short workout yesterday afternoon
and appeared to be much smooth
er functioning ball club than in
the game against Holtville last
week
The passing, shooting and defen-
sive work of the Central team APP
pears to be stronger and more GER
tain and as a result the title
hopes of the Spartans are higher
than they have been at any time
this season despite the fact they
will not have Carroll Smith in
the lineup after tonight.
Brawley Meets Imperial
The league-leading Brawley high
basketball Team will meet the,
cellar champion Imperial Tigers
in the Brawley gymnasium tonight
at $50. The c game between the
the two squads, which will start
at 1880, should be a closely con-
tested tilt.
The Imperial Eighties are given
a chance to upset the defending
champs but they will have to
show a better, brand of ball than
they have in their past two games.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-29
Central Meters
To Play Brawley

Ell Centre high school METERS will
meet strong Brawley tennis team
on the Ell Centre courts Saturday
morning at 9 o'clock, in the first
league match of the season.
Ell Centre is slight favorite to
annex it's opening enga cement but
the Brawley racketeers will give
the Spartans stiff battle for the
days honors.
Calexico defending champion and
ranking favorite TO win the title
again this season. is slated to meet
the Holtville meters, generally con-
coded to be the weak sister of the
loop.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-29
Thompson Tops Golfers
In San Francisco Open

INGLESIDE GOLF COURSE,
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. %. WD-
Jimmy Thompson, long-hitting pro-
fessional from Shawnee. Pa. top
ped the field in the first round of
play today in the $1,000 San Fran
cisco open with score of 81, four
under par for the Ingleside course.
Playing over course swept by
rain, hail and sunshine, Thompson
went out in SO and came back in
"a, going over par on only one
hole.
Tied for second with 18-hole
scores of So, thre under par, were
Charles Congdon of Tacoma, Horton
Smith, Orville White, Lawson Little
Of Chicago and Henry Picard Of
Hershey, Pa. .sSr
Scores of SO brought together in
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-29

In a tilt not nearly SO rough as
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-29

the next group Bill Nary of Vallejo,
Calf. Ed Dudley of Philadelphia
Byron Nelson of New Jersey. Neil
Christian of Yakima, and Jimmy
Hines of Garden City, N. Y.
These IL led a field of lat. To.
81 highest scorers, will play another
morrow the same group, minus the
IS holes to determine the Is play
ers for the match play Saturday and
Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-29
PASTOR FIGHTS
LOUIS TONIGHT

NEW YORK, Jan. 20. W.p)--Col-
legiate Bob Pastor staked fistic fame
today on stout heart and a round
house right, but the bettors were
offering 81 those factors were not
sufficient to overcome Joe Louis
tonight in Madison Square Garden.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-29
STANFORD FAVORED
TO BEAT TROJANS

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30. - UP
Stanfords high scoring basketball
team, paced by the spectacular
Hank Luisetti, was favored to sweep
the crucial two-game series tonigh
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-29
CHICAGO BILLIARD
CHAMPION LEADS

CHICAGO, Jan. 20. -tU,D = Jake
Schaeffer of Chicago held 1900 to
1178 point lead over Willie Hoppe of
New York as they began play in the
seventh block of their battle for the
worlds 1872 balkline billiard title.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-29

I the varsity game but just as wild,
the Holtville Eighties ran roughshod
over Calexico Gees for their second
league win, 30-12.
Walker with Is points led the
Holtville midgets.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-29

Farmers of Van Zandt County,
Texas, consider five geese as good
as one farm hand for wedding cot
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-29
THE CASE AGAINST MR. CHAS. H. MORROW AND
AND MIR. EVAN T. HEWES

Mr. Hewes determined to
control the office of Assessor Collector
repeatedly
certain of office
I majority sponsoring
this special and election
N M s atasxs me the BY ee s the saao"
not hare been made all that 1882
rigorous attempt up they belong
ed had the and the should hare
and ssuemp payers pouldh aueresu ll.k
duration
becoming at adj
justnen then blanket reduction
the District ~od grossly and oud
and much justly criticized therefor reduced values where
they should haze reduced Reduc largest lands Which
could not the cost of production
Mr. Mow of his personal friends yho land the
highest type the Valley Heae" Southern paeie lands the
Southern Pacific
railroad The saHer Southern Pacific
lands assessed Uaiue other lands Southern
Pais
lands immediate
my show
nes seemed fair Just whehr Southern Pacific Pou
Bank Individual
sHay lies ultimately
The the Secretary of
Equalization adjourned nina the rolls oas letter to the board
Of Directors stating the valuations ~hich had fixed
The Board Of Directors
Mr.
period
Under the la the Of member %
Equizaon to
reed those values at the time the Board Equalization
The aw makes the Board sitting
responsible for changing the values "as Just"
ted to explain they
e ' ss and s ssos 4a Z. Hs 6 % s s sv lana TIER
iss .sM M "ssg for soad " y
change ~ values might haze made woId still
WINNIE RARRY
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-10-28
BUSINESS WOMEN GIVE STATE MEDICAL GROUPS
NIGHT CLUB DANCE HERE WAGE WAR ON SYPHILIS
STATE COLLEGE BAND TO
FURNISH MUSIC

The Cadets of Mississippi State
College will furnish the music Fri
day evening for a might Club
dance sponsored by the Business
and Professional Women's Cub
at the Skating Rink in Durant.
Two floor shows will be given
lat ten o'clock and at midnight.
The entire skating rink will be
deliberately decorated in the Hal
|loween motif and a huge throng
|of dancers are expected to be
present from Durant and adjoin-
ing towns to take part in the fes.
Itivities.
An admission charge Of $1.00
per couple will be charged
for dancing and spectators will
be charged 25 cents.
Dancing will start at nine
o'clock and last until one.
Specialties in the floor show
will include dance numbers by
students of Debeaux M. Ackley,
teacher of dancing in Lexington.
Her students will give tap, toe
and acrobatic exhibitions in solo
and group numbers. Leroy Paris
will be master of ceremonies
Special song numbers will be
given by Anne Elizabeth Grimes
and Clara King and Clara and
|Eloise King will also give an ex-
|hibition of tap dancing. The or
|chestra has a number of special
tiles, too, that will be given dur
ing the course of the evening.
Hat check girls and cigarette
girls in brief costumes add q
might club touch to the evening
festivities, selling cigarettes, can
Idly drinks and the like.
The public is cordially invited
to attend the night club dance
given fSir the benefN Of the Bus
mess and professional Women
Club. 49, 49,
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-10-28
3O3, 900 ACTIVE CASES IN
THIS STATE

Wrestling with MississippIN
gigantic syphilis problem, the
State Board of Health and the
physicians of the State r pool
ing their efforts according to
statements made by DR.. j. P. Wall,
Speaker of the House Of Dele
gates, Mississippi Medical Asso-
citation, in a recent interview.
"At present." DR.. Wall said,
"our best hope for the eventual
conquest of syphilis rests in the
knowledge that the cause is
known, the diagnosis can be made
and the patient can be cured
and rendered incapable of trans
hitting the disease if early, prop
er and adequate treatment is CIV
en-"
The speaker continued, cit is
a well established medical fact
that half of the syphilitic cases
are victims of the disease through
no wrong-doing. Until quite re-
Gently this subject has been taboo
in ordinary conversation because
of a false modesty and the all
too-common belief that syphilis,
with it's train of awful consequent
ces, is the result of immortality.
We must get away from the old
idea that nice people don't have
syphilis, nice people don't talk
about syphilis. and nice people
shouldn't do anything about hav-
ing syphilis.
"Syphilis was the most prolif-
ic cause Of disability among U.
S. soldiers during the World
War. From figures Of the 0. s.
Veterans Administration, we have
now approximately $4,000 whites
and 10000 negroes r now sui
fering from syphilis in some one
lot aitsr thaneLxAAesa. Nv,
"In a survey made by the Mis-.
sissippi State Board Of Heath in
five counties. 9,758 negroes were
examined, and 20 out of every
100 showed the presence Of syph,
Ills. In Kinds County q routine
denomination Of $500 negroes con-
|dncted ~ DrsW. e .Noblin, the
county health officer. showed that
% out of every 100 examined
were suffering from this plague
DR.. Wall concluded, nowhere
has syphilis declined without aa.
Tive governmental control Of some
kind. The more drastic the in
|tervention and the more far-see-
ing the social policy the better
1.-THE control
"Both public health Officials
and private physicians must be
Irealigned to form a united army
every member of which has been
educated to diagnose and to treat
properly the manifestations OF
lsyphilis."
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-10-28
'mifd-temp,red Herbert Hoover
that we remember in the White
House., He seemed to, have dom
ned his fighting clothes to talk
"peace" to the Republican par
ty. 80.
.4Whatas Your namei'

u1sHo yO0A A0sAAcs ei
Bill Smith, ma am"
The question was asked recent
" in q Mississippi town by an
interviewer for State Employment
Service. A canvass was being
made to employ workers for q
new work project.
Didn't l interview you yes.
terday at Ridgelandi" she ask
ed. ~
"Naw'm," said the negro In a
shaky tone as he began marshal
ling his, negro wits for an emer
gency.
The alert young woman ran
through her file and pulled out
an application card. She asked
the usual questions ON the appli-
cation. Every answer was iden.
tical with the card. Undoubted.
ly he had applied the day before
under another name.
ever hear of lobe Brown?'
he was asked.
"Yes'm, yes'm, we're twin
brothers,
Glow can Bill Smith and Tob,
Brown he twinsf"
well, you see, ma IN, we haG
the same mama but different
papas."
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-10-28
GRAPES N GIVES
BIG HALLOWEEN DANCE

A large crowd of dancers are
expected to attend the Halloween
daiice given Friday evening, Oc-
ober 90, at Grapes Camp, one
mile north of Pickles.
Masked dancing will be enjoy
ec from $50 until nine O'Clock
ard the regular dance will start
at 80 and last until two O clock.
Snow" and H., Night Hawks
will furnish music and a gala
crowd is expected to attend.
The price of admission is script
Sl.0O.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-10-28
HILLMAN coLIKuE SINGERS
JONI TO DuRAtT SUNDAY

The public is invited to attend
the services at the Durans~D Bop
fist Church Sunday evening at
which time special music will be
given by the quartette from Hill
man College.
Some of the members of the
Hillman College Glee Club will
also be present and participate in
the program as will Miss Crone.
piano instructor at Mississippi
College; Mr.. Frank Slater, voice
teacher at the same institution,
and DR.. NJ. P. L. Berry, president
of Hillman College. I'll
An unusually interesting mu-
steal program for the evening is
assured. s. ~
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-10-28
CRIMINAL DOCKET
OF CIRCUIT. COURT
OPENED MONDAY
MURDER CASES ARE NOW
BEING HEARD

The criminal docket of Circuit
Court opened Monday, October
25, with Judge s. F. Davis pre-
siding, and a number of cases
were disposed of when the court
was adjourned to meet Wednes.
day morning when murder cases
were to be heard.
The case of the State VS.. w. HI.
Inrguson opened Wednesday. Flu.
guson was indicted on a charge of
manslaughter and is being tried
Cor the death of Gilbert Moslev.
a Carroll county farmer who liv-
ed near him. The man was kill
ed or the 10Th Of July andFur-
guson is said to have claifed the
man was molesting him. He is
said to have shot the man and
called the sheriff and given him
self up.
An attorney from Birmingham,
Alabama, Mr.. Trippe, is defend
ing Furguson, while District At
torney Earl Thomas is handling
the prosecution, assisted by j. M.
Foreman, Indianola attorney.
The jury on the case is as fol-
lows: s. B. Roach, Tom Parkin-
son, w. P. Taylor, w. d. Ford,
Jim Wilborn, Fl. Il. Brock, J. L.
Timplc, Clay Herrin, George Ez
ell, G. X. Ellis, Sam Carpenter,
and E. L. Brock.
Jurors seeing service this week
on other cases disposed of were:
No. l: R. X. Farmer, s. E. Ad-
ans, George W. Ezell, j. F. Tenn
pie. Raiford j. Killebrew, w. E.
Spencer, Sam Carpenter, Herbert
Marshall, Fl. B. Brown, w. D..
Ford, j. I. Parkinson, r.. r. Tru-
lit.
No. 2: E. M. Spell, s. B. Roach,
Quilla~ Bevill, f. 4. Brock, G.. Il.
Ellis, j. B. Williams w. P. Tay-
Tor, FL. L. Brock, j. T. Paxton, O.
j. Farmer, Herbert Dendy and
y. G. Minyard.
Among other cases disposed of
this week were: City of Durant
VS.. Magnolia Johnson, dismissed
with Writ of Procedendo to May
or's Court, charged with assault
with knife.
Robert Patton, accused of re-
ceiving stolen property in two
cases, was sent back to JP court;
Sarah Louise Beasley, accessory
to forgery of $500 check, Mol
Pressed; Walter Hoskins, assault
and battery, sent back to JP
court.
Charley Berry. trespassing by
destroying a house of Henry Nc
Lean, fined $1.OO and costs; Titus
Shelton. indicted for murder,
found guilty of manslaughter, to
be sentenced; Ike Watson, found
guilty Of simple assault and bat
terry fined $500 and 80 days in
Jail; Custer Carr, cofored, charg-
led with rape. Mol Pressed first
ase second case same party, rape
under IL years, found guilty Of
ssesRFt,~tOAeseHtsssssa ssssisv .,
Benona Williams found guilty
OF simple assault and battery.
fined $1,000 and 80 days in Jail;
|bockett Mays, assault and battery
with intent to kill, passed to files
In first case seS0nd case, same
party and charge, 12 months in
jail and won't be sent to farm.
Aaron Miller, charged with bur
glary and larceny, Mol Pressed:
Wade Horton, plead guilty to pc
tit larceny and fined $500 and
costs: Daddy Red Thurman, charg
ed with petit larceny. stealing
corn. sent back to Judge j. B.
Williams Up court: J. w. Latham
rs. Sara Vann, ct al, judgment by
efault to plaintiff.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-10-28
COMPULSORY CONTROL
STATE VIEWPOINT ON
new AGRICULTURE BILL
HOLTON SAYS FARMERS OF
ETATE APPROVE PLAN

That Mississippi farmers favor
controlled production of cotton
as a means toward increased mad
stable income, is the conclusion OF
j. G.. Holton Commissioners Of
Agriculture, after attending two
district meetings attended by del
egations from about half of the
states counties.
Preparatory to the hearings "
the agricultural subcommittee OF
the United States at New Orleans
o n October 90 and Memphis Oc-
tober %, stated the farm commits
sioner, meetings were held at Tu-
pelo and at Hattiesburg in order
to obtain the viewpoint OF the far
mers and to present these view
points at the official hearings.
The scheduled meetings were wide
ly publicized because large num-
bers of farmers had expressed
dissatisfaction with other control
programs, and / wanted to make
sure that the Mississippi view
point be truthfully and forcibly
presented.
approximately 135 farmers
from IL North Mississippi coun-
ties attended the Tupelo meeting,
and 200 farmers from % South
Mississippi counties attended the
Hattiesburg meeting. At both of
these meetings a spokesman from
every county represented was CIV
en- time to present the county
viewpoint. Almost unanimously
in both meetings the conviction
was expressed that production con
troll is a vital necessity
AT both these district meet
mgs resolutions were adopted en-
dorsing the maintenance of soil
fertility by means of benefits to
farmers based on compliance with
sound farming and soil building
practices. Reduced production
should be no more drastic than
necessary, but should be compul-
sorry and applicable to every pro-
Queer alike. Discriminatory Fed
eral and State laws must be re-
pealed, and the division of pay
ments between landlord and ten
ant was recommended on the
same basis as this year.
"The U. S. Senate Agricultural
Committee, through several SUBJ
committees, is holding a series Of
commodity hearings throughout
the United States for the purpose
of determining farm sentiment
and securing information as the
basis of the new agricultural law,
consideration of which has been
set as the first order of business
at the converting of Congress on
November Is. The Mississippi
viewpoint. was presented at New
Orleans and Memphis and from
newspaper reports it appears that
this viewpoint, COMEDIES with the
viewpoint expressed by other cot
ton states in which hearing have
been held"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-10-28
RED CROSS HEADS
ENERGETIC SAFETY
CAMPAIGN HERE
SAFETY IN HOMES AND ON
GHW URGED

perts in administering first aid
perts ina administering first aid
has resulted in the training of an
unusual number of persons dur
ing the past fiscal year, accord.
ing to Roy Lyon, chairman Of
the Durant Red Cross Chapter.
1T is possible to note unnlis-
taxable signs of progress in MAX
ing the country first-aid consci-
ous," Mr. Lyon said. "This is
not from statistics alone, but from
the obvious interest that is being
aroused among children in schools
employees in large industrial COM
panies, owners of isolated farms,
and parents as well.
"This interest last year led
256,884 persons to take special
lied courses in first aid, certi-
ficates being awarded in classes
varying from three to as many
as fifty.
The immediate treatment of
those injured on1eess highways IS
.onq efsthe chief Rds In the .slim-
inzt1on of deaths and permanent
RjGries from automobile accidents
ALyon pointed ont. I'VE have
fSfnd the greatest danger spots
to be those in rural rather than
IN urban areas, and to combat
this danger we have inaugurated
and are rapidly expanding our
system of first aid stations along
the highways from Maine to Cal
ifornia."
The Chairman explained that
the American Red Cross had al
ready established approximately
1900 Of these emergency highway
first aid stations, placing them in
filling stations, roadside inns, po-
lice sub-stations, and fire depart
ments, at the same time training
an adequate number Of persons in
the immediate vicinity or con-
nected with the filling station or
inn sponsoring the projects in or
der to keep them manned constant
ly.
Through the past year the
Red Cross has also been concen-
tratin9 on the establishment Of
mobile units Of first aid, Mr..
Lyon explained: Several thous-
and trucks belonging g 1tffity
companies. highway police patrols
shipping concerns, and state high
way departments are being equip
ped with first aid kits, while their
drivers and other workers are be-
ing trained in the administration
Fof first aid to care for accident
victims until a doctir's care is
available"
1t was pointed out that Red
Cross first aid was not intended
to place regular medical atten-
tiOn, but rather to render only
first aid during emergencies
when such care should be con-
sidered a safeguard until compe-
tent medical care can be given
victims of crashes or other acct
dents.
"Better employment conditions
have brought increased demands
for first aid training in indus
tries" Mr.. Lyon said. ''Uur local
chapter of the Red Cross, as well
as the resources and the teach
ing staff of the national organi-
cation, is concentrating on reach
ing an increasingly large mum
Der or persons in order to spread
the teaching of first aid as wide
ly as possible.
cit is a deplorable fact" Mr.
Lyon concluded. "thta accidents
on highways are increasing rath.
er than decreasing. While we
are doing all possible to cut these
| accidents down we must rpcop.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-10-28
CORRECTION FROM LAST
WEEKS EDITION GIVEN

An error in name appeared last
week which we desire to correct
today. It was Matt Herrin, Sal
lis. who died instead of Matt Mar
tin as printed. The rest of the
information given in the article
vas correct, only the error in
name being made.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-10-28

What interested us in the above
story was that there was a negro
or a white man In Mississippi so
eager to get work that they
would attempt registering twice
for a Job. Two chances instead
of one as il were.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-10-28

nize the fact that many of them
seem to be inevitable. and our
task is to prepare as many per-
sons as possible to cope with
them"
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-10-28
THROUGH
HAZEL EYES
Elixir Of Sulfanilamide (SUL-
fa-NIL-a-mide) is the drug in IL
BY Hazel B

quid form which
has caused the
deathes of over
80 Americans in
the past month.
Prontosil a n d
Prontylin lin Ia
blet and LIQUID
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1937-10-28
|DURANT LOCALS

QUAINT IUCAIO ..'.. =. :.
Mrs. Joe York, Jr., nee Sara
Howard, win arrive this after
noon from Memphis where she un-
.derwent an operation for appen-
|dieitis two weeks ago.
Friends of Mrs. j. B. Williams
will regret to learn that she fell
recently and disiocated her shout
der. She is resting as comfortably
Jas could be expected.