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Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28
ALL AMERICAN
CONSTRUCTION
UNDISTUR B Ed
Williams Issues Note
Regretting Strike
On Gila Work

Construction of the All
American canal continued
undisturbed Wednesday with
no indications of a strike
noted by officials or con-
tractors.
Rumors that organizers were at
tempting to foment trouble among
the canal workers, were not sub
stantiated.
r. B. Williams, reclamation bu-
reau engineer in charge of All
American canal construction, issu-
ed the following statement We'd
nesday in commenting on the wage
strike at the Gila project in Ari-
Zona, across the Colorado river
from Laguna dam:
;. The action taken yesterday by
some of the employees of Mittry
Brothers on the Gila project tun-
nels in striking for higher wages,
is very much regretted.
The wage rates paid by the
contractor were in conformity with
the wage scale previously approv-
ed by the secretary of interior for
the All American canal and Gila
project and conformed wi h
recent determinations of prevail
ing wage rates by the secretary of
labor under the Davis Bacon act
for additional work on the All
American canal project. These ap-
proved rates are believed to be
very fair.
1T must be realized that all
funds provided by the government
for construction of irrigation works
have to be repaid within defin-
ite period of time by the water
users on projects who are directly
affected by any unnecessary de-
lays or needless expense to the
work.
I'm view of the difficulties be-
ing experienced, it is understood
Mittry Brothers have decided in
definitely to suspend all work on
their contract.
signed,
"R. B. Williams"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28
ARMY CLAMPS
BAN ON PHOTOS
OF RACE PLANE
Orders Shoot Cameras
Out of Hands of
Photographers

BURBANK Cal, April
%. (UP) = Armed guards
today were ordered to "shoot
cameras out of the. hands of
photographers" in the vicin-
ity of Lockheed Aircraft corpora
ton following publication of pic
ture of the mystery stratosphere
plane built at the plant.
Following publication of the
photograph, additional guards were
stationed at the corporations test
field where the plane had been
wheeled from the shop where it
had been built.
Reports from good sources dis
closed that military authorities at
Washington Were investigating cir
cumstanceS under which the plane
was photographed despite strict eff
forts to guard the craft.
Early today the augmented
guards were issued orders which
said:
Shoot cameras out of the hands
of photographers and ask questions
afterward-but destroy all Gamer
as"
The huge Stratosphere plane,
said to be the United States entry
into the race for air supremacy.
resembles a conventional Lock-
heed Electra passenger transport.
The photograph which aroused
the ire of plant officials and pre-
of army officers, clearly
shows the fuselage of the plane
from the wings upward. A group
of mechanics in the foreground
hid the lower portion of the ship.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28

I-oPc . uuIy W thpidll 10 lIle SILL
ate the claims of the recipients of
these nautical Socks-in-the nose
The marines seemed to be Just as
belligerent as the sailors, maybe
more So, the senate discovered as
1t considered the governments un-
paid bills.
Private Bill Daniels of the mar
inc corps, for instance, was riding
in a rickshaW on the night of May
26, 1881, in Shanghai, when his
hat blew off. Cheu Hal Kow ran
to pick it up and Private Daniels,
thinking he was trying to swipe
it, socked him. Cheu S. ziang and
Mo zung Poo stopped to watch
the fray and they got socked, too.
Corp. William H Moon hoped
off a passing street car, couple
of other marines came up and the
socking became general. It was a
lulu of fracas until the corporal
pulled knife and mob of Chi
nese started to chase him. When
all the blood was mopped up,
Cheu and Mo were found to be
badly bruised. They claimed $500
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28
DEMOS VOTE
AGAINST NEW
COURT SETUP

WASHINGTON, April %. W.p) =
Three Democratic members of the
senate judiciary committee = Pat
McCarran. D., New, Joseph c. o.
Mahoney, D., Wyo, and Carl A.
Hatch, D., N. NJ, committed them
selves against President Roosevelt's
supreme court bill today. making
certain an unfavorable report to
the senate on the measure calling
for addition of six justices.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28
San Diego Elects
Three COuncilmen
In Light Ballot

SAN DIEGO, Calf. April 20. U.P)
Less than one-third of the reg
istered voters in San Diego went
to the polls yesterday to elect three
city councilmen, survey of the
complete but unofficial returns re-
vealed today
w. S. Crandall, A. E. Housh and
Herbert E. Fish, all endorsed by the
civic affairs conference, were elect
ed to the council by one-sided mar
gins.
The voters also ordered establish
ment of municipal courts; voted
down a plan to refinance the
Hodges dam project; approved tide
lands trades. with the government,
and granted the navy use of parts
of Balboa Park for recreational
purposes.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28
Stickups Nabbed
By Yuma Officers

Imperial county's famous road
blockade was utilized Tuesday night
at the request of Yuma county Of
ficers on the hunt for a carload
OF stickup men.
The quarry, however, did not
head toward Imperial Valley but
were arrested at Wellton, Ariz., Sev-
eral hours after the blockade was
requested.
-Four men were implicated in the
stickup.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28

pay increases, established a picket
line and set up tent colony. They
said they would remain until Nit
try grants their demands.
I'VE have plenty of money and
can stay as long as Mittry can stay
away" said j. Fleming, strike COM
mittee chairman of the CIO union
Sheriff T. H. Newman, at the
same time, said he would post
a deputy at Mittry's property to
guard it and warned strikers he
would tolerate no disorder or de-
struction of property.
r. B. Williams, U. S. reclamation
engineer in charge of the project,
said wages paid by Mittry were at
prevailing rates approved recently
by the secretary of labor.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28
RELIEF SETUP
TO COME UP
IN ASSEM- BLY

SACRAMENTO, Cal, April 80
lU.P)-Tideland oil and unemploy-
ment relief administration were
the two outstanding subjects sched-
uled for discussion in the legisla-
ture today.
Delayed "a hours by a successful
drive to withdraw from committee
the Olson bill which passed the
senate last week, consideration of
four bills aimed at development
of the state-owned oil pool at
Huntington Beach was expected
to occupy most of the day in the
assembly.
At the other end of the capitol,
senator's prepared for a debate on
the so-called supervisors bill wnicn
would transfer relief adminiStra-
ton to the counties. This was one
of three conflicting relief reorgan-
ization bills sent to the upper
house by the assembly.
A dispute over the old question
of direct VS.. indirect development
of the Huntington Beach oil de-
posits got away to a flying start
in the lower house late yesterday
when members, after a sharp de-
bate, agreed to withdraw the Oh
son bill from the oil industries
committee. The vote was 81 to 7.
SACRAMENTO, Cal, April %.
UP)-The assembly constitutional
amendments committee today con-
sidered recommendation for q
state constitutional convention to
be held here in March, 1888.
SACRAMENTO, Cal, April 49,
U.P) P)-Proponents of a bill to legal
ize gambling in California met
with failure last night in a hear
ing before the senate revenue and
taxation committee.
BY a vote of to 3 the commit
tee refused to recommend a bill
by Senator Dan Williams, Sonora
which sought to license slot ma
chimes on sliding scale basis.
Sixty per cent of the proceeds
would have been used for old age
security.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28
Hearings on JObless
Census Authorized

WASHINGTON, April %. up
The. senate commerce committee to-
day authorized public hearings on
an unemployment census bill less
than "a hours after President
Roosevelt said there is no need for
such an enumeration.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28
STOCKTON PLANTS REOpENED
q 3.NFTEn NNESs

and the Mor-Pak The Stockton
Food Products company, scene of
rioting and bloodshed last week
did not reopen today, but was eX-
pected TO go into production next
week.
The busy hum of machinery and
the quiet of the countryside today
presented a marked contrast to
last weeks disturbances in which
more than so persons were injured,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28

STOCKTON, Cal, April %. WP)-
With full steam up by midmorn-
ing, three of the four strikebound
food cannerieCs in the Stockton
area reopened today under an
agreement reached by cannery
workers, officials of a new union,
and Gov. Frank F.. Merriam at Sac
ramento.
The nlants oneratinp todav were
the Richmond Chase, the Packwell,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28
II Amt Right

II Amt Right
The BARRIERS OF the valley are in
dangerous mood, and it is dangerous
to get a barber in dangerous
mood, as anyone can testify who
has ever been shaved. Fact is, they
object to reports-not published in
the Post-Press, by the Way-that
CLIO. is organizing BARRIERS here.
They're 100 per cent A,F. of L., all
wool and a yard wide, and don't
think so much of this vertical union
idea, according to Lloyd Bennett,
G. C. Knight and G. C. Robinett.
1t just struck RR that, if he was
a CLIO. organizer, he would not
like to be shaved by an Imperial
Valley barber.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28

Schroeder retaining his job, 109-81.
The election, which was marked
by no disorder, drew a majority
of the city's voters to the polls to
express their opinion of the city
government.
The victory of the two council
men, though close indicated the city
dads would follow much the same
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28

governing policies that have held
sway during the past several
months.
The recall election followed a
bitter campaign among political
leaders of the city after a series
of warnings and orders from county
officials regarding vice conditions
in the north end city
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28
Maybe Long Time No See
But Eventually 1t Pays
To Be Socked by Marine

WASHINGTON April 28 (UP)-Sen. James P Pope,
haired Democrat from Idaho doing the explain
ing and the trouble seemed be that almost every time
sailor gets drunk he socks somebody.
AS member of the foreign relations committee it was
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28
Striker Crews
Near Dam Paid.
Activity HaIts
Disgruntled Workers on Gila Project
Set Up Tent City as Contractor Shuts
Down; Will Stay Indefinitely
90

YUMA, Arz. April 49, (UP)-O. X. Mttry Los An
gees contractor today paid off his striking workmen
and informed them he had closed down work his sched
ule of the Gla Reclamation Project for the summer
The strikers, who walked out to enforce demands for
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28
no Compromise
Say Sitdowners
In. Land Fight
Walkout of All Laborers in Baja Calf.
Threatened as Unions Throw Full
Support Behind Anti-Agrarians

MEXICALI, April 28-A general strike of all labor
ers in the northern territory of Baa California in protest
against Mexican government Agraran policies depended
today the outcome of conference late in the day
tween Sanchez Taboada and leaders of Anti -Agrarans
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28
OFFICIALS RETAIN
PLACES IN VALLEY
RECALL ELECTION

WESTMORLAND, April 28.-Rival political factions
of Westmorand withdrew to their respective camps tonight
the cys voters ruled that John Hansen and Theodore
Schroeder should be retained on the city council.
Baoting was extremely close with Hansen holding
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28

Lear flh. we get, uOIl we. 100
blase at times? Too much, one
might say, of the Boulder daming,
All American canaling, China clip
pering sort OF thing. Anyhow, now
and then we are reminde1: Cliff
Richards, the druggist, Padre game
wards Sunday, pulled the first two
miles of the hill in silence. Then:
Looks like it might be right
tough ploWing in these parts" opin-
ed Cliff, -to-earth like.
Bill Gets ScOOped-
Bill Clements dashed from his
drug store in quite a hurry Tues
day night, leaving an unfolded copy
of the Imperial Valley Press scat
tering to the wind behind him. He
had read that his lawnmower was
stolen-and was going home to
check up on the story.
It's Really She
Mrs. Millicent Mcclure, who won
the Womens golf championship of
Imperial Valley, Sunday, vehement
ly denied, "Wednesday, that she was
A. H. Mcclure, of Yuma, all done
up in wig and skirts. (Mac did that
once, in a Scotch foursome. AS
far as she knows, there's no rela
tionship, Mrs. M. M. informs RR
Be that as it may, RR always
thought golf made us all brothers
and sisters under the skin. Ut
does have a way of getting under
the skin, you know)
How About Advice
Now that j. w. McGill has gone
back to school in Los .Angeles-it's
a school dealing with industrial
lubrication-RR knows where to go
for the advice he has been wanting
What kind of oil, Mac, do you use
on a dime-sized Swiss watch? (And
the office pest wants to know what
kind to use on customers who want
what you haven't gct)
Attention, Bob Hays
Imperial Valley peace officers, all
agog, were watching the highways
for stickup crew from Yuma
Tuesday night. A car breeZed by
Bill Kendall, Holtville, and failed
to stop when he stepped on the
siren. Bill lit out after it-but
couldn't catch it. Park Burritt,
Bill Scoftald and Don Campbell,
in another official car replete with
red lights, siren and other appur-
tenances, saw Kendall's difficulty.
They took up the chase in their
faster machine Siren screaming,
red lights blinking, they roared
down the highway The racing
motorist put on more speed-but
they began overhauling him. The
officers poked shotguns out the Win
dows. They were taking no chances.
The man slowed down, just as
someone was about to blast his
tires. He stopped, and stepped GIN
gerly from the machine, hands high
in the air. He wasn't one of the
stickup bunch! Instead, he asked:
us this a stickup?' He was told
it wasn't.
Don't you know" someone asked,
that you're supposed to stop when
you hear a siren, and see red lights
on carp"
We'll" the trembling motorist
replied, you know how California
isl
-.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-28

Butter: Los Angeles 33Is; butter
fat, Imperial Valley, fob. ranch,
Grade A 411a; manufacturing milk
3513; route gathered cream 321a.
L. A. Hay: u. S. No. l S17.00-17.50;
u. s. No. 2 leafy S16.50-17.00; u. $.
No. 2 S15.00-16.00: Minneapolis flax
S2.09-S2.14.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-30
Smokes Defeat
Pelicans In llth
With 2-Run Rally
BY UNITED PRESS

Top ranking positions In the
Southern association remained un-
changed Thursday as three games
were raincd out and the Knoxville
Smokes hammered out two runs
in the 18th to defeat New Orleans
Cd.
The Pcls, with three runs in
the first and one in the sixth in
ming, took an early lead, getting
nine hits off pitchers Moon, Win
ston and Mcclure. The Smokes
made their first run in the third
and tied the score in the ninth, A.
4, with a three-run drive.
Knoxville, punching most of
their hits in the last three frames,
got l3 off Perrin and HUMPHREYS.
The surprising Little Rock
travellers remained in first place
in the association with nine wins
and two losses. The Pebs' game
with Chattanooga was postponed
yesterday because of rain, as were
the Memphis Atlanta and Nash
Vile Birmingham games.
The Pelicans, with five wins
and eight losses remained in sixth
place. Knoxville moved up from
tie for last to seventh place.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-30
FIND so. AFRICAN
DESERT is GROWING
300 ACRES YEARLY

CAPE TOWN, Apr. 80. (UP).
A wilderness in the making in
South Africa, where already 49,
600 acres of valuable land have
been swallowed up by drift sand
and the dunes are spreading year
by year.
That is disclosed in Il report by
ID. p. kcct, director of forestry IN
the South African government.
Kcct says that more than $500
600 would be needed to reclaim
the land now under drift sands.
The southwestern portion of
Cape Province is the worst affect
ed. In the brcadasdorp district
more than 10000 acres have been
swallowed up, and IL is feared that
it will lose 800 rich acres yearly.
"Thc condition of the BrcadaS-
dorp coast is dcspcratc,' kcct de
clarcd, land unless reclamation Il
taken in hand, much Of it will be
turned into IA wilderness
A grim picture of conditions on
the Southwest African coast Is
given by the director.
"Herc exists a belt of drifting
sand of enormous extent he re-
ported. Between Boat BAY ana
the KuiScb river, opposite WalVIS
bay, sand dunes have been driven
inland for so to 50 miles and are
piled up To 700 feet high. Inc
area of this belt Of Said is est
mated at 500 miles. In its lower
reaches the KuiScb river has been
DETECTED from its course by the
steadily advancing sand mass.
"Thc dunes present a sight OF
dcSolation that bcggarS dcScrIp..
ton. They are barren and bare oil
vegetation. Aridity of climate
alone, apart fro mthc vaStncSS OF
their extent, places reclamation 81
these dunes beyond human capac-
ity. Nature herself will have To
solve the problem
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-30
How CARDUI
Helps Women

Cardui is a purely vegetable
medicine, found by many
women to case functional
pains of menStruation. 1t also
helps to strengthen women
who have been weakened by
poor nouriShment, by increas-
ing their appetite and i'm
proving their digestion. Many
have reported lasting benefl'
from the wholesome nutri'
tional assistance obtained by
aking Cardui. If you neeo
help like this, get Cardui al
the nearest drug store, reae
The directions and try 1t.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-30

their runs two at a time-in the
first, fourth and eighth-and all
were the result of triples. Borda-
garay's three-base blow came aft
er S. Martin had walked. and
Medwick'S fly drove Bordagaray
home. Medwick tripled in the
fourth, and scored on Mics in
field out. Pepper Martin walked,
and scored all the way from first
when Durocher drove a liner off
Myers glove and Goodman Jug
gled the recovery. The last brace
in the eighth came when Warncke
walked, Martin tripled, and Myers,
taking the relay from the outfield,
overthrow the plate. Davis was
the losing hurler although he held
the Red Birds to four hits in the
six innings he pitched. L. Moore
gave up another in finishing.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-30
3 PRISONERS
SLAIN in DASH
FOR FREEDOM
General Riot Threatens as
Other w. Va. Prisoners
Hurry to Cover

MOUNDSVILLE, w. Va, April
3O.-(UP)-Four convicts were
shot down by West Virginia pen
itentiary guards late Thursday
when they dashed from milling
crowd of 1000 prisoners and
made a desperate attempt to cs-
cape in a stolen truck.
Two of the prisoners, all serv-
ing long sentences, were killed in
stantly as their truck neared the
main gate-and freedom. The
others were riddlcd with rifle and
machine gun bullets and one of
them died later in the prison
emergency hospital.
The attempted escape occurred
in the prison yard while convicts
were taking their mid-afternoon
summing. A general riot threaten
ed when prisoners who did not
Join in the break made rush
for the penitentiary building to
escape gunfrc.
The four convicts, armed with
knives, overpowercd a husky driv-
cr of the truck. Then, shouting
defiance at the guards as the
heavy machine rolled towards the
wagon gate, they topplcd one by
one from the cab as bullets
struck them.
Ralph Richards, %, Wcllsburg
, w. Va, and Pittsburgh robbcr,
and Clifford Stewart, CabclJ
county, w. Va, were dead when
! guards reached them. Harry Bat.
tie, 35, Wheeling negro, slayer OF
a policeman, died shortly after
ward, and Roy Altizer, &c, of Nc
Dowell county, w. Va, was crit
ically wounded.
Nearly $50 shots were fired
Battle, who killed Wheeling po-
liceman, was hit so times. He liv'
ed 80 minutes.
Richards was serving 30 years
for robbery and Stewart IL years
for armed robbery. Altizer hao
six years to serve on an armed
robbery conviction.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-30
NEUTRALITY
BILL PASSES
Compromise Measure Is
Rushed to Roosevelt
for Signature
WASHINGTON. April 30. -

WASilNGlON. April ~. -
A compromise neutrality bill
which serves notice on foreign
countries that the United States
will have nothing to do with their
wars, was passed by the house and
senate Thursday and rushed to
President Roosevelt by airplanc
for his signature. He is on a va
cation cruise in the Gulf of Mex
leo.
The vote in the senate was al
to Is. House passage came by
voice vote.
The measure makes permanent
legislation banning loans and mu.
nitionS to nations at war and
grants the president discretionary
authority for two years to put
trade with belligerentS on "casf
and carry" basis. This means, un.
less the president DEGREES other.
wise, that if warning nations want
to buy from this country they
must do so at their own risk anC
use their own ships.
Both house and senate speedily
accepted a controversial house
senate conference report to get
the bill to Mr.. Roosevelt for sig
nature before the temporary leg
islation expires Saturday mid
night.
The conference agreement
reached Tuesday after Ions
fight between discretionary" anC
mandatory" factions, compro
missed differences over thu
amount of lecway to be givci
the president. Chief opposition
came from a small band of man
datory" adhercnts who charged
the president could exercise hi
discretionary power to "chang'
the rules of the game" and thus
commit acts which would plunge
this country into war.
AS finally approved the bill
provides:
|. Mandatory cmbargocs or
arms and implements of war tt
belligcrcnts.
2. Discretionary authority fol
the president to forbid American
ships to carry any additional ma
terials he specifies.
3. Discretionary authority tt
outlaw shipment of any goods
whatsoever until title in them ha:
been transferred to a foreign
agency.
a. Mandatory bans against
lending money to bclligcrcnts
dealing in their securities or so
Letting contributions for them.
5. Mandatory ban az a MS
Americans travelling on ships OF
belligercnt nations, except under
emergency conditions.
6. Mandatory pro h b / !
against arming of U. S. merchant
vessels trading with belligerents.
7. Discretionary authority fol
the president to forbid use OF
American ports as base of sup
ply by vessels of belligercnts.
8. Discretionary authority FOL
the president to apply all Prov
sions of the act to any civil wal
which may endangcr American
peace.
The controversial provision fol
restricting general commerce to &
leash and carry basis was &C
ccpted only as a two-year expert
ment and will expire on May l
1889.
Senator Arthur II. Vandcnbcrg
r., Mich, and Senator Hiram w
Johnson, r., Cal, vigorously OPP
posed what Johnson termed "tht
delegation of unlimited power to
declare war" to the president by
claving application of the 'casf
and carry" policy to his discre'
ton,