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Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
GEO. WHITLOCK
LOSES tilt IN
SALARY BATTLE

George Whitlock, center of a
stormy fight in Imperial Irrigation
District affairs, lost a round Mon
day in his suit to collect $1,518 in
back salary when Judge F.. A.
Leonard of San Bernardino ruled
that petition of mandate did not
constitute cause of action and
would not permit the plaintiff S
testimony. Whitlock may appeal
his case to higher court or file q
different type of action.
Suit was filed in Imperial county
superior court by Whitlock in an
attempt to collect salary he alleged
was due him as deputy collector In
the office of Miss Winnie Barry
then district assessor collector. No
salary had been paid him, he alleg-
ed since the district board refused
to approve its payment January Is.
1886. He named five district Off
cials and employees as defendants.
The district board then accused
Whitlock OF owing SCOTS for salary
illegally drawn and for automobile
mileage and expenses. The board
alleged that Whitlock was appoint
ed deputy collector to get the salary
after his services as field deputy
assessor had been discontinued.
Whitlock no longer is connected
with the assessor collectors office
as he was not among the staff in
stalled by w. A. McFadden, new
assessor collector.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
INDICT N < N IS
Will BE ASKED
IN CAR DEATHS
Safety Council Requests
Action in Valley
Fatalities

Grand jury indictments for driv-
ers believed to be responsible for
traffic fatalities in Imperial county
will be asked by the district at
torney's office in conformance with
resolution passed by the county
safety council Monday night. c. L.
Mclaughlin, driver of the car held
responsible for the death of Mrs.
Zorah Kirby on the Yuma high
way January II, was named in the
first resolution asking an indict-
ment. The names of other drivers
involved in traffic fatalities will be
placed on similar subsequent reso-
lutions to be passed by the council.
The council fact finding commit
tee will make study of fatal ac-N
cidents occurring in the county and
If coroner's jury verdicts are be-
lieved to be at fault, the matter
will be taken to the district attorney
with the request that he place it
S>AOAS Wiz SAdiAo July. LIE Ire
quent unavoidable accident" ver-
dict of coroner's juries was declared
to be inadequate and unsatisfactory
in the face of evidence frequently
presented at inquests.
Copies of resolution urging
Justices of the peace to inflict larger
fines and stiffer Jail sentences for
traffic violators will be taken be-
for all organizations represented in
the council and unanimous endorses
ment requested. The resolutions
then be placed before the justices or
the peace by special committees
from the council membership.
Colonel Foster of Calexico urged
the widespread publication of the
fact that the better safety record
the county maintains, the less the
insurance rates will be.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09

lock of Ell Centre, drove a pick
up truck into the engine. The We
hicle struck the engine in front of
the front wheel, killing the driver
instantly. The engine was pull
ing a string of 80 empty vegetable
cars and was reported proceeding
SO slowly that it was possit/ to
stop within so feet after the i'm
pact. Crowley's body was not bad
ly mangled, Undersheriff Rodney
Clarke, who was summoned by the
train crew, reported.
The dead man was not identi-
fled until several hours after the
accident, Clarke said, as he was
not we'll known at Calexico. He
had been making his home al
sheep camps in the more isolated
sections.
The accident occurred on Wes
Birch street where sthe Southern
Pacific tracks cross near the I'm
perial Ice and Development plant
An inquest will be conducted a.
the Hems-Rugg funeral establish.
ment in Calexico Thursday morn
ing. Crowley was a native of Ire
land and had been in California
for 10 years. His only survivor Is
son in Ireland.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
L LAME GAME COCK
Adopted by Police Station Janitor-
RETIRED ON CRUTCH

Kid Homer TheOpholus, III, came
back from the Great Divide Sun
day night TO change the place of
his earthly abode because Emmett
Terrill, Negro janitcr, was on hand
when Kid Homer's limp body was
carried into the FL Centre police
station. official reports revealed
Tuesday.
Kid Homer is a valuable Cornish
game cock. formerly the pet and
property of o. l.. Hill, $50 South
Fifth street, but now the ward
and patient of Terrill, the Negro
ianitor. The story of the Kids
HOmeric adventure was revealed
when Hill went TO report that
the rooster was lost. strayed or
1tolen.
The Kid disappeared from his
pen in the Hill back yard Sunday
afternoon or night, his patron told
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
new CURRENCY
SYSTEM NEAR
SAYS RIEDLIN
Old Standards Features
Will Be Combined,
Banker Asserts

The world Is approaching some
new type of international cur
rency standard which will COM
bine the good points of the gold
standard and the managed cur
rency systems. That was the be
lief Of Gustav Riedlin, interna-
tional banking expert as expressed
in talk Tuesday noon before the
Ell Centre Lions club
Riedlin Is assistant vice-presi-
dent, international Banking De-
partment Of the Bank of Ameri-
ca. He spoke to members of all FL
Centro service and civic clubs
invited to attend the Lions club
meeting.
Native of Germany, Riedlin re-
cited the major histories of world
currencies since 1914. Up until the
World War, he said, the Gold
standard had served satisfactorily
to stabilize world markets and in
ternational exchange as we'll as in
ternal conditions in this and other
countries.
Following the war, he said, al
most every country experienced its
own economic troubles resulting
with initiation and similar evils
The final elimination of unrest
in world markets came in 1891
with the result that no nation to-
day remains on the gold standard
as it prevailed in former years
Riedlin added.
True Stabilization of economic
conditions in this country is be-
ing enhanced, according to Ried-
lin, by the progress being made in
this field of finance. The accord
between the United States, France
and England and now shared by
several smaller nations, is a par
tial union of the gold standard
idea and the managed currency
plan. 1t is, he felt, a progressive
step toward some ultimate new
plan which is yet to be evolved,
He expressed optimism with re-
gard to the international economic
trends of the day.
Riedlin spoke on. program ar
ranged by DR.. Merritt G. Garfield,
President Cecil Ashley, presided.
Walter Havekorst, general manager
of the Bank of America here, made
the program possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
Deadlock Tightens
In Auto WalkOut

DETROIT, Feb. 9. UH = Gov.
Frank Murphy insisted doggedly
today that General Motors corpora
ton and the United Automobile
Workers were closer together than
at any time" during weeks search
for strike settlement, though both
had issued statements to the con-
trary
Murphy exercised authority grant
ed him by President Roosevelt 10
bring the negotiators back to con-
ference table on which lay their
respective statements announcing
a complete irreconcilability on the
paramount issue of the 42-day old
industrial dispute-the unions de-
mand for sole right to bargain col
lectively for workers in 20 Genera,
Motors plants now closed by its
strike.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09

LdIo ana faltdlOn RlngOr, were
captured within a few months and
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
Ringer died in prison.
A tip from an informer set Har-
old Gillett. former Imperial county
deputy sheriff now connected with
the bureau of criminal identifica-
tion at Sacramento. on Rondares'
trail. He worked on the case. in
Imperial county and recognized 1t
when told Filipino was in San
Jose who had some connection with
a Hindu murder somewhere in Cali.
fornia. He telephoned Sheriff W.
Ware, in Sacramento for a confer
ence. and turned the information
over to him.
Ware started on the trail of the
man wanted as the last one in
volved in the shooting of Brahm
Singh and the brutal beating OF
Sham Singh. The trail led through
Filipino camps. to ranches using
Filipino labor, in San Jose and
Stockton and the foreign districts
in nearby towns. Three months
ago he was here. one japanese
rancher told the sheriff. Another
said he had collected a paycheck
three days ago. Finally he was
arrested in San Jose.
Imperial county officers have
been looking for you long time
Ware said to him.
Yes replied the Filipino. land
1 was scared all the time" He ad-
mitted his connection with the mur-
der, declaring he had spent the
time since the killing in the San
lose district. His preliminary hear
ing will be conducted in Ell Centre
justice court at II o'clock Wednes-
day morning.
The murder and slugging occurred
near a pea camp in the Calipatria
area on the morning of November
%, 1894. as the Hindu employers
and the F'ilipinos brought the money
to pay off the workers. An argu-
ment over wages took place be-
tween Calipatria and inland as
they neared the camp. Sham Singh
was shot through the arm and
shoulder beaten over the head and
tossed from the machine as dead
Brahm Singh was shot and killed
The Filipinos with their ghastly
passenger drove down Estelle road
until canal bank barred their
flight. They abandoned their car
and fled into the desert.
Sham Singh was found and pro-
vided the officers with descriptions
of the murderers. One was arrested
in San Jose. second returned from
Hawaii by Undersheriff Rodney
Clarke and the last arrest COM
pleteS the catch"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
DOG WATCHED
IN Ell CENTRIC
RABIES SCARE

Danger of rabies among dogs
of the neighborhood Tuesday put
residents of Adams avenue and
the vicinity on the alert against
warning symptoms.
A large female police dog was
under observation after she ran
amuck Monday afternoon, biting
at least one other dog and pos
sibly more. 1t was not known il
the animal attacked any children
The impounded dog is owned
by J. D. Barragan, a resident OF
the neighborhood. The animal will
be under observation for at least
10 days to determine definitely
if it is afflicted with rabies.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09

police. Thereupon police memory
recalled that an unidentified young
man had carried a game cock into
the police station Sunday night.
depositing the limp body In the
hands of officers. The rooster had
been badly treated. appearing az
IL mauled by Cog or struck by
an automobile.
II was love at first sight for
TerrilI, who was there. Police al
lowed him to take the bird. Ter
rill carried Kid Homer tenderiy
home, constructed a crutch and
other pseudo-surgieai contrivanceS.
and set the Kid ON the road TO
recovery.
Hill. hearing the story. considers
ed.
"Let him keep the rooster h<
said. Hes probably saved its Iife.r
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
80,
REPoR4ER AMs5lMs
Says

Let's Go GoIfing-
The Del Rio golf course up Braw-
ley way is today's happy hunting
ground--so get set
Ceiling nerves suffered a severe
shock Monday when glance at
the Lettuce Tournaments board show
ed 100 score opposite the name of
Don Rex. ONLY, well = closer
scrutiny showed a Junior" after
the name. Don, senior, came
through with 66. which seems to
show this heredity business is great
ly overrated.
Pete Peterson had become the
father of 10-pound boy only a
few hours before he took to the
course-and shot 76 He's break
ing all kinds of records.
Frank Pierce. by the way is lead
ing the Lettuce tournament field
head and shoulders. proboscis an6
going away There was nothing on
The board to compare to his 131.
Get Out Of This
Staff members usually are taboo
but the readers are entitled to know
about this. Burdette Kinne, the
sports editor. was outlining the
duties of a sports editor in a talk
Tuesday.
The first requisite, he said. is the
ability to talk yourself out of some
thing you've written yourself into.
O.
Now She's Indignant
A woman relief seeker was doing
her best to get on the county relief
rolls in the office of Charles Nice.
Finally the clerk who was question
ing her said:
well you seem to be INDECENT"
"Whaddya mean," queried the
woman. "That I'm ornery?"
A New Inducement-
Walter Havekorst has hit upon
a new way to insure full attendance
at directors meetings of the Ell Cen
tro chamber of commerce. Says
Walter. in announcing directors
meeting:
I'm addition there will be a
highly interesting poker Sdiiie'
And if the art work that goes
with the announcement is Walters,
then he'd better turn artist. II
shows four aces and Joker (Won-
der why the jokero
O.
Now He'll Listen
Highway Cop Bill Mitchell didn't
pay much attention when Roy Wells
told him the crack in his motor
cycle windshield might do some
damage some day--but IT did. Chas--
ing reckless driver at high speed
Bill suddenly became the target fol
flying glass when the windshield
shattered under air pressure. MOS,
of the glass missed Bill-but he gcl
his man.
The greatest injury he suffered
was Roy's II told you So
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
Probation Sought
For Suspects in
Robbery of Store

Application for probation was en-
tered in superior court Tuesday BY
Roy L. Woodward, woodrow Wood
ward, and Clarence Burnham Thev
were accused of robbing the Mt
Signal store. Probation hearing
will be held February l5.
They were arrested in northern
California and fingerprint records
connected them with the burglary
of the store. They were returned
to this county by Sheriff Robert w,
Ware, who obtained signed confess
sions from all three.
l.. G.. Brewer was arraigned on a
charge of assault with deadly
weapon. His plea will be entered
February IL.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09

companied by personal suggeS-
tion that the retirement age for
supreme court Justices be set at
IS instead of 10 as Mr.. Roosevelt
suggested.
This would reduce the number
of appointments which the preSi-
dent could make to the supreme
court to three as Of the present
date. However, two more justices
reach the age of rs within the
next few weeks.
The presidents proposal as SUBJ
mitted, called for appointment o'
a new justice for each jurist who
reached the age of 10 and failec
to retire. This would give MI
Roosevelt six supreme court ap-
pointments.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
Former Central
Student Dies

Mrs. j. G. Rives. who was a
guest of her daughter. Mrs. o. M.
Stark in Ell Centre, Monday re-
ceived notice of the death of anoth-
er daughter, Mrs. Wilma Donovan,
in San Jose. Mrs Donovan was a
graduate of Central Union high
school and lived in Ell Centre until
1929.
Funeral services will be conducts
ed in Ell Monte, home of relative.
The hour and day of the rites have
not been set.
Mrs. Donovan was nurse in
San Jose hospital and had been IL,
but a short time prior to her death.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
.FDR APPROVES
RELIEF BILL TO
SAVE PROJECTS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. W.p) =
President Roosevelt today signed
the $949 100000 deficiency relief bill
providing $79O,000,O00 to continue
the governments work relief and
flood rehabilitation program until
June 30.
The president signed the measure
within "a hours after 1t was receiv-
ed from congress, where both houses
approved the bill after compromis-
ing an argument over use of gov-
ernment employees by congressional
investigating committees.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
COURT ATTACK
OPENED UPON
WAGNER ACT

WASHINGTON. Feb. 9. W.p-Be-
fore tense and crowded courtroom
John w. Davis, one-tine democratic
presidential candidate. today opened
supreme court attack on the Wagner
labor relations act. keystone OF the
New Deals labor legislation,
Davis appeared before the court
as national attention was focused
on the high tribunal due to Pres
ident Roosevels's far-reaching pro-
posals for enlargement Of the court.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
ENGINEERS
GO TO YUMA TO AID
IN BLOCKING FLOOD

traverses the many miles to the
Colorado, the flood is expected to
reach Yuma in three days, after
the peak of the present rise has
passed
How much of the 40,000 SECOND
feet will reach the Colorado could
not be estimated. Much. of it will
be dissipated in the brushy river
bottom of the Gila.
Upstream, the Colorado river
was falling. From $4,000 second
feet at Parker Monday morning
it dropped to $4,000 second fee
Tuesday morning, and was still
! falling.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
Light FrOsts, Fair
Weather Forecast

Light frosts and continued fair
weather is the prediction for I'm
perial Valley made by Fred A.
Baughman,' meteorologist for the
U. S.. frost service. Ell Centro's
minimum temperature Tuesday
morning was 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
TORNADO WIND
INCREASES WOE
IN FLOOD AREA
Crest of Big Torrent
Moves Slowly Down
Mississippi

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. 8. WP)-
The crest of the super flood" NOV
ed slowly down the Mississippi river
from here today while dozen val
ley sectors checked damage from
tornado winds which added to the
suffering in parts of Arkansas, Mis-
souri,, Indiana and Kentucky as a
prelude to colder weather.
At Evansville, Ind, already strick-
en- by the Ohio rivers outpouring
45-mile-an-hour winds demolished
several small structures and damag-
ed homes in an eleven-block area
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09

estimated 5000 second feet of tur-.
gid water swept past Yuma.
Flowing toward the Colorado
down the bruShy bed of the Gila
river was another flood. At the
junction of the Gila and Salt
Rivers Monday morning, 10000
second feet of water rushed from
bank to bank. Fattening as II
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
GOAR TO SPEAK
AT FARM MEETING

L. G. Goar, superintendent of the
Meloland Experiment station will
talk on Calapproved seed and
foundation seed at the meeting of
the Calapproved seed committee
Wednesday. The committee will
meet at 1890 at the California
hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
PLANE RUSHES
KIDNAP CLUES

MOVES, Mimi, Feb. 0. WP)-An
airmail plane sped across the con-
tinent TO Tacoma, WASH, today with
the fingerprints and photographs OF
Stanislaus Poracki. "a, suspect in
the Charles Mattson kidnap- murder.
In Tacoma. the photographs will
be shown to William Mattson, Jr
16, and Muriel, Ia, brother and
sister of Charles
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
Special Court of
Honor Scheduled

A special court of honor for Ell
Centro Scouts, combining observa-
ton of National Boy Scout week
with the regular Scout leaders
training course, will be held to-
night at 1880 at Wilson school,
Carl N. Helmick, scout executive
announced. The meeting is open
to all parents, leaders and friends.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
LEGION WILL
HOLD JOINT
RITES TONITE

Legion posts of Imperial VAL
ley tonight will conduct joint
initiation at 8 o'clock in the FL
Centre Veterans hall. The cere-
mOny is open TO the public.
A ritualistic team composed
of past commanders of BOyce
Aten post will be in charge. A
dance will follow the service.
The hall will be heated.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09

perintendent M. j. Dowd of the
irrigation district, preparing Tues
day morning to leave for Andrade.
He will complete precautionary
measures there against the peak
the Colorado river flood, expected
at Andrade Tuesday night or early
Wednesday morning.
The gauge had risen four feet
at Andrade Tuesday morning. An
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
FLOOD PIRATES
LOOT STORES

LOUISVILLE. KY, Feb. 8. aU.P,-
Flood pirates looted Louisville stores
and homes of more than $l,000,00O
in goods and personal belongings.
ii was estimated unofficially today.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09

Engineers of the Imperial Irrigation District and the
federal government prepared welcome at Yuma and
Andrade Tuesday for the flood peak rolling downstream
in the Colorado river.
1--WE believe there is danger TO the evees," said Su-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
Court Reform to
Pass, Majority
Leader Predicts

WASHINGTON, Feb 9. (UP)-Senate Majority Lead
Joseph Robinson forecast today that would
enact President Roosevets judiciary program-incud-
ing supreme court features-but admitted notifications
probablv would be made Robinsons statement was ac-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
Fugitive Killer in
4-Year Old Valley
Murder Captured
Long Hunt for Third Member of Party
That Murdered Hindu Ended by
Sheriff. Ware in San Jose
- 90

. -Four years fugitive from Justice ended Tuesday
for Prudenco Rondares, 27-year-od Filipino when he
was ordered held without bail for the murder of Brahm
Singh in the Caipatria November 22, 1884
His companions in the paw roll stckup GOavino Man.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
Valley Herder
Dies Instantly
Near CaIexico
County Traffic Toll Continues Steady
Climb to II; Identification of
Victim Delayed Hours

CALEXICO Feb 9.-The traffic death toll in Impe-
rial county this to II early today when sheep
herder drove his truck into moving locomotive the
Imperial Ice and Development plant north of here.
John Crowley. sheepherder employed by w. P Spur
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09

Butter: Los Angeles 33iae:
Butterfat, Imperial Valley fob.
ranch. Grade A 42c; manufactur-
ing milk SIC; route gathered
cream 33c.
L. A. Hav: u. :. No. extra
Ieafy, S27-28; u. ;. No. l s26-27;
u. s. No. 2 Ieafy $24.50-25.50: u.
S. No. 2 s23-23.50; Minneapolis
flax s2.24-2.32.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-09
BANK DEBTS

Today
S581, 1,076.3O
BUILDING PERMITS
To Date This Year
S28,995
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-19

troller-general's office.
 3-Power to appoint a board which would have power to fix hours of labor and wages up to 80 cents an hour or $1200 year.
 4Power to establish a new AAA crop-control system.
 5-Power to set up seven cheap electricity flood = control coriser- vation projects like IVA. |. Right up to the November day when he was reelected, Roosevelt rode great wave of protest against things as they were, against the distribution of power as it was. There can be no question that he received 8 mandate" in that elec- tion. But a mandate for what? And where do we go from here?
 Opposition Solidifies
 Your "war correspondent" m Washington seeks only to present these essential facts:
 1-Roosevelt, considering himself the representative and champion of a substantial majority of citizsnry to which he had made certain prom ises, advanced bold reform pro- gram which he believed would serve the best interests of that citizenry- with special emphasis on the "one- third of our people ill-fed, ill., clothed and ill-housed." The pro- gram was advanced with the cus- tomary Roosevelt self-conf1dence. but in spots with an unaccustomed clumsinesS.
 2-The variegated forces of oppo- sition have solidified grimly and eff fectively. The outstanding surface issues are the stoppage or contin- uance of the New Deal reform pro- gram and control of the Democratic party in 1940.
 3-Unless some unexpectedly de- cisive victories are won, the fight for power will continue through the 1888 congressional campaigns and the presidential election two years later.
 Roosevelt's enemies say that his program stirs up "class hatred" His critics call him a brilliant rabble- rouser. Roosevelt thinks of himself