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Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
News Behind the News
Labor Relations Act Court Test
Comes at Crucial Time Clash Be-
tlUeen NeU Deal, Business >.

WASHINGTON.-The supreme court is call
ed upon to decide the validity of the National
Labor Relations Act at time when the MS
toric struggle over RooSevelt'S program LOT
packing" the court is in full fury
The fundamental clash over the Labor Rela-
tons Act toften called the Wagner AcD is be-
tween the New Deal determination to foster
strong labor movement which will bargain
for increased purchasing power and broader
distribution of national income and the deter
mination of American corporations not to have
their employees organized into labor unions
The act has come before court in five cases
wherein the national Labor Relations Board mas
found business concerns guilty of diSrnissng one
or more employees for labor union activity and
otherwise violating the law.
Here are the main provisions of the Labor
Relations Act:
Entitled Act to promote equality OF bargain
ing power between employers and employees, 10
diminish the causes of labor disputes y
1t created the National Labor Relations Board
to prevent unfair labor practices to near
complaints of employees wishing to hold secret
elections among employees, and to prosecute de-
fant employers in the federal courts.
1t provides that representatives for collec-
tive bargaining by majority OF employees snail
be the exclusive representative of all employees
for bargaining as to wages, hours and other
conditions of employment.
1t prohibits as unfair labor practices any
interference with, restraint or coercion OF en-
ployes in their guaranteed right to organize ana
bargain collectively. 1t also prohibits any doml-
nation or interference with formation of any
labor organization. or contribution OF financial
or other support ii it.
1t makes unlawful the act of any employer
who refuses to bargain collectively or engages
in any type of discrimination designed to dis
courage labor union membership or punish
complaining employees.
Employer lawyers have attacked the act be-
fore the supreme court variety OF constl-
tutionaI grounds. 1t is alleged the act does not
fall within the powers of Congress to regulate
interstate commerce because: employer relations
With employees are not matters OF interstate
commerce; the majority rule provision OF the
act violates freedom of contract; the Consttu-
tions "due process clause is violated; the act
is arbitrary and unreasonable" the act Is
labor law and not regulation of interstate
commerce; enforcement of the act constitutes
an unlawful interference with the normal right
of business concerns to manage their own busi-
neSSeS
The court might hold the act was unconsti-
tutiona as it applied to manufacturing and
constitutional as it applied to an employer more
obviously engaged in interstate commerce, such
as business. company.
1t is of tremendous importance to the New
Deal that it be upheld in its insistence on the
right to pass legislation covering manufacturing.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17

Some times the old stories go
best. At Henry Sells the other eve
ming the tales were mostly the witty
efforts of cosmopolites. References
to gay European capitals, skiing at
st. Moritz and cute cuttings OF in
ternational brightness. Yet the story
that chivvied up the heftiest laugh
was drawled by home-spun fel-
low visiting from deep Minnesota.
II was that venerable one of the
Swede who went buggy riding with
his girl, proposed, secured ready
acceptance and then lapsed into a
five-mile- long silence. Finally the
girl asked Ole why he didn't say
something and he answered he be-
lieved he had said too much already.
1t was in one of the fashionable
butteries ahum with fire-cracker
talk, hurrying walters and cocktail
mixing. Back of the bar were three
ambidextrous fellows filling shout
ed orders for Bacardis, Daiqulrls
and Side Cars. One was haro-
working colored man who, IN mios'
of the stir, took time out to receive
from patrons empty cigaret pack
ages from which he took and put
away tin foil. A red-faced drlnker
peering over his beuker OF Cour-
voisier, asked the why. Il turns II
into hospital" he explained
where it is sold to buy milk 1or
sick babies"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
February II, 1912

Roy Raycraft, who has herd of
Is milk goats which he is pasturing
east of El Centro, will drive them
through Ito the coast by way of
Devils canyon soon. The kids in
the herd he will leave at San Pas
quale. and the goats will be taken
to San Diego.
Residents in this section of the
valley today anticipated the end of
the current rain storm which has
made country roads almost impas-
sable.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
TWENTY YEARS AGO
February II. 1917

The machine gun company of the
twenty-first United States Infantry,
Captain r. r. Glass commanding,
rode to El Centre this morning from
Calexico maneuvering for couple
OF hours on the new court house
site.
The valley was today visited by
a group of families from the mid
west, who are looking over the
farming possibilities in this section.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK. Feb. 1.-THE Gold
Digger, living on scant rations for
several years, is getting back into
the glitter again. Wall Street and
the night clubs are flourishing,
which means the girls who live by
their wits are coming down from
their walkupS and glancing upward
at the Park avenue pents again.
Many of them believe that the
heigh-ho era of chinchilla and day
and night chauffeurs is in the offing
When the spenders begin to spend
the ladies have little fear of the
future. For there has always been
enough saps TO go around-and to
spare.
II is estimated that some 10000
crepe de Chine sirens we're forced
into the humid -drummery of kitch-
enettes in far flung suburbs when
the market took its historic nose
dive and straying husbands began
to sit around home tuning in on
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DRINKING HOUR ENDED

CORVALLIS, Ore. W,p) - A city
ordinance banning sale of beer and
wines after midnight has gone into
effect here upon the recommenda-
ton of the police, who said most
intoxication occurs between the
hour of midnight and l am, state
closing hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
BAG
One.Minute Test

One-Minute Test
/. How many barrels (U. S.
measure) in a hogshead?
2. Which is heavier, cubic foot
of ice or cubic foot of water?
3. Who wrote Looking Back
ward?
Words of Wisdom
What sculpture Is to the block
of marble, education is to the HUI
man soul.-AddiSon.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
Hints OH Etiquette

Hints OF Etiquette
Courtesy and politeness are the
best protection against the rude
ness of others in business. He who
is able to maintain poise and dig
nifty amid the petty irritations and
constant noise Of the modern office
wins the confidence and respect of
his associates.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17

Amos n Andy
Some of the gals in the interlude
have been check-mated by ravages
of time and the law abolishing love
balm, that made existence plati-
mum limousined cinch. But many
others are dipping into the rouge
pots and plucking their eyebrows
confident that happy days are here
again.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
Onc-Minute Test Answers

One Minute Test AnSWtrS
/. Two.
2. Ice is lighter than water, vol
ume for volume. Water weighs
62.4 punds per cubic foot, and ice
weighs 62.4 pounds per 100 cubic
feet.
8. Edward Bellamy.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17

The dictators and the war -mongerS
may rant and strut and rattle their
sabers: all the while, these, self
effacing league workers are doing
their part to make men happier and
life richer-doing it with a serene
disregard for international boun-
daries, hatreds, or suspicious.
May the power of that example
have its effect on us, before the
world slips into the orgy OF collec-
tive throat-cutting which seems to
lie ahead of it.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
@ 1897. NEA

the studio gates to see. Burgess
Meredith is another with the same
sort of oafish look, enormous talent
and at-it-takes.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
TOday'S Horoscope

Persons whose birthday is today
may possess rare artistic taste.
They are known as lovers of home
and family
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17

ROCHESTER, N. Y. W.D - This
"Flower City" of Western New
York now ranks as one of the ma
tons most popular convention sites.
Last 213 district, state and national
conventions met here, and the con-
vention bureau has already booked
more than 23O group events for this
year.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17

curity assured to planters and work
ers in far distant parts OF the globe.
1t is continuing to help the Chi
nese in their reconstruction pro-
gram. League experts are busy
advising the Chinese on such mat
ters as health. finance, agriculture,
hydraulics, and flood control
The league also is enabling Chi
nese engineers and other specialists
to study abroad and get contacts
and information which will enable.
them to serve their country bette1t
The leagues health organization,
meanwhile, has been getting inter
national standards set for such
things as anti-pneumonia serum,
staphylococcus antitoxin. and so on.
Governments and commercial labor
atories throughout the world, as a
result, are enabled to give their
people better protection against
disease.
Standing alone, this catalog of
activities is impressive. 1t is only
when contrasted with the great
prevention work that the
league was destined to do that it
looks small. Because the league
has failed miserably in the larger
sphere, the solid and substantial
work it has done in the lesser one
escapes our notice.
And yet, with this kind of work
being done quietly, honestly, and
fully, we cannot say that the leagus
has failed For if it is doing moth
ing else, it is at least giving us
a constant object lesson in the value
of international cooperation and
mutual help.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17

The other evening 1 went up to
Spuyten Duyvil and climbed many
steps to a building that teetered on
the very point of bluff, like a
tippy chalet on a Pyreneean crag,
overlooking the Hudson and Harlem
rivers and the new single span
bridge. The living room offered a
view rarely matched in New York.
l unused what a room this would
be in which to sit at a typewriter
on rainy afternoon, snug by an
open fire, and peck out column" :"
And my host, writer, as though
divining my thought, observed: Il
rented this place because this room
seemed a grand place to write. But
l have never been able to write a
line in it. l just sit and stare. "
Writing is that sort of a trade.
Buddy Ebsen. the -limbed
dancer, seems the only cinema per-
former bit proud of his gawky
manner and homeliness. His hair
is always in tousle, his coat sleeves
too short and he never uses make
up. Yet an observer in Hollywood
tells me Ebsen has become one OF
the personality plus" boys that
tremulus young things hang about
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
ROCHESTER CONVENTION CITY

Edward Bellamy.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-11
Kirk Miller
SPORTS EDITOR
Says:---

Wash B. Williams, the
big bituminous man, ardent
baseball fan and soft-drink
impressario, can hand you
the telephone book and say
to you: "Here is a list of
my friends"
But after November 6 he will
have to revise his list so it can
be written in an ordinary vest
pocket diary.
For Wash B. is throwing birth
day party on November 6 at which
only 200 souls can sit, and there
S going to be a lot of red faces
and pink necks when his legion OF
friends hear about this. &
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then, we'd have won the game
in a walk"
This is not a new cry by any
means. All season long it has been
heard. The Griffs left nearly so
men on bases in their first five
games of the season, and they've
been going strong ever since.
If George Case continues his
hitting barrage, he may con vince
President Clark Griffith that he is
worth that $1,000 bonus he so
manfully tried to extract from the
Washington clubs exchequer.
The rookie followed his fine per
Torrance of Thursday with three
rip-snorting hits, including a dou
BILE. He and Rick Terrell were the
only members Of the Griffs who
managed to get more than one hit.
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Ask Eddie Eynon

All of which may be neither here
nor there, for the thing that I am
worried about is how Wash Will
liams is going to pack into 200
seats the thousands and thousands
Of business and personal acquain-
tances of which he boasts here,
there and yonder.
The only suggestion I make to
aid him in his dilemma is to step
out to the ball park and consult
Eddie Enyon.
You know Eddie had charge of
the seats at the July 7 all-star
game, and with $4,000 tickets at
his command had to satisfy about
three times that number of appli-
cantS.
Well Wash, you asked for it.
You got it.
You brought it on yourself.
MY, my, N.Y." as Walter will
say when he hears about all this
goinEson.
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TO ROLL
RICHMOND FOE

The long eight-month battle for
retention Of his No. / duckpin
crown begins tonight for Astor
Clarke when the Arlington, Va,
bowling king tricks to Richmond,
where he will shoot his first spe-
cial match of the embryo season.
At Bill HaSkin's Health Center
Clarke will battle Gordon Cald-
well, one Of Richmond's top-flight
stars in a five-game singles clash.
A mixed doubles attraction will
witness Clarke pairing with Helen
Randlett, Richmond's leading girl
roller, against Caldwell and Ida
Simmons, the No. fair bowler of
the United States.
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Old Enough to Know

fish, fish, fish, you may be
tish-tishing by now, but honestly,
don't you think Walter is old
enough to distinguish right from
wrong, and aren't you willing to
abide by his decision that there is
really nothing harmful in basking
in the aroma of the finely cured
and pungent vegetable?
You know your President, MI.
Roosevelt smokes 'em, as have most
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'ToDAY's PITCHERS

New York Yankees. Wicker; Wash
ington Senat tors, Phebus.
New York Giants. Meltoni Boston
Bees, Fette.
Brooklyn Dodgers. Fitzsimmons; Phila-
delphia Phillies, Mulcahy.
Detroit Tigers. Auker; Chicago White
Sox, Kennedy (first camel.
Detroit Tigers, Lawson; Chicago
White Sox, Lee (second game).
Chicago Cubs, Davis; Pittsburgh
Pirates, Bauers.
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N]AERE 90 We SIT AT NANS VARTT?
of his predecessors, such as Mr..
Coolidge, Mr.. Hoover, and land
sakes-ail down the line with very
few exceptions.
So it may be that at this fiftieth
birthday party, Vice President Gar
ner may lean over to Walter, the
while he fumbles around in his
white starched vest, and say:
"Have a smoker"
To which Walter is more than
likely to respond:
Don't care if I do, Jack, pro-
vided it isn't too strong"
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the banquet.birthday party for
the greatest pitcher and grandest
gentleman of them all. Probably
Mr., Garner and Farley will be the
principal speakers Of the evening.
And now I am going to let you
in on a deep, dark secret which
YOU otherwise probably wouldnf
discover until Walter returns nex'
week from a radio broadcastin
angagement in Chicago.
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Walter Succun1bs

And in the next all-revealin
paragraph, I do hope that will
not break the hearts of all the
little girls and little boys who hold
Sir Walter so high on pedestal
because of his reputation for hay
ing no worldly habits whatsoever.
Walter, my dear little chick-a-
deeS, has taken to the weed.
Yes. the big fellow, feeling that
he is now a grown man approach
ing his half-century milestone, has
gone to smoking cigars-but only
the very, very mild variety, such
as Clark Griffith, Gray Walters
and Eddie Eynon smoke.
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omen TO PLAY
IN Benefit GAME
By JENKINS

It's sand1ot baseball day in
Griffith Stadium.
This afternoon, at $3.50, the
cream of sandlot baseball in
Washington will oppose the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation nine
in a benefit game for Tony Bar.
ruto, widely known sandlot base
ball manager who has been i'll for
some time.
It is expected that several
thousand sandlot devoteeS will
witness the game.
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Major League Standings

Games behind leader.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS
Philadelphia, 5; WASHIN G..
TON, 3.
Boston, 4; New York, 3.
Cleveland, 6; Detroit, S (caIled
seventh, rain).
Only games played.
TODAY'S GAMES
WASHINGTON at New York.
Detroit at Chicago (2).
Boston ut Philadelphia. ...
st. Louis ct Cleveland.
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Johnson Is Nemesis
To Griffs at Philly

today for us with the champion Yankees their conquest Of
the Red Sox and Athletics end As matter of fact their
conquest Of the Athletics ended yesterday when Bob johnson
held something of field day, smashing his wenyfrst home
of the and driving four for the afternoon
This is considered good days work in any league.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-09-11

Racing was assured at the track
under the management of Walter
E. O'Hara at least until Tuesday
when the State division of racing
holds a hearing on a threat to re-
woke its license. postponed from
yesterday after the Rhode Island
supreme court quaShed an order
of the division ousting O'Hara.
STRETCH STRING
Odds of 4-to-5 were quoted on
the C. S. Howard entry, out to
stretch a string of consecutive vic
tories to eight against a field Of
six that offers but one dangerous
contender, Shark of the Wheatley
stables.
Jockey Red" Pollard will be
astride Seabiscuit, carrying top
weight OF 1872 pounds. Shark, car.
rying lit pounds and ridden by
Johnny Longden. was a 4-to-1 bet
ting choice.
Betting odds on the other start
erS were Aneroid, 10-1; Calumet
Dick 12-1; Up and Up, pol, and
New Deal, the Mrs. O'Hara en-
try, pol.
MARK TINE
Meanwhile, the dispute be.
tween O'Hara and Governor Rob-
ert E. Quinn CD marked time,
with indications the next phase
of the battle of 'Gansett" would
be fought in the civil courts.
O'Hara, at liberty in $4,000 cash
bail following arrest on two counts
of criminal libel, may be faced
by civil suits aggregating $1,000
900 to be filed against him by
Governor Quinn and others who
were attacked in the O'Hara
newspaper, according to reliable
reports.
Undaunted by two legal vic.
tories won by the O'Hara forces,
Governor Quinn announced the
fight to GUST O'Hara has "just
begun" and predicted Narragan.
sett Park would be closed to rae.
ing ithin a few days"
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The Griffs are plunging wildly
ahead to a record for leaving men
on bases. They added IA to their
credit yesterday in Quakertown.
When the game was over the same
cry rang through the dressing
room:
"If we had only gotten a hit
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Tuesday "Deadline"
For Closing of Track

PAWTUCKET R. L. Sept. 11.-Seabiscuit the betting
avore in the 900 Narraganse special for three Odds
and up the mile and at Narraganse Park
his aft
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Tenpus Fugits

Because the birthday party Is
going to be for Walter johnson,
who will achieve his fiftieth tgeez,
how time clicks along) birthday
on the above date, and naturally
all of Washington as well as out
lying points, will wish to be in on
the celebration.
Vice President John Nance
Garner has accepted the honor
airy Craftsmanship of the johnson
birthday celebration and in a tele-
gram yesterday from Uvalde,
Texas, accepting the honor, stated
that Walter johnson is as much
a part of Washington as the
United States Senate itself, and
he would not only be the honorary
chairman, but would be present
stogie and all.
In time, it will be announced
also that Postmaster General jim
Farley will be the POSTMASTER for
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Games behind leader.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS
Boston, 2; New York (1S 10
ningS).
Chicago, II; St, louis. q
Pittsburgh, Z; Cincinnati. 8.
Only games played.
TODAY'S GAMES
New York at Boston.
Chicago at Pittsburgh.
Cincinnati at st. L0ulA
Philadelphia 1t Brooklyn.
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LLAMA FACES
POLISH FLASH
FOR net TITLE
Bulge Can Hold I
Crown for u. S.
BY DAVIS ]. WALSH
Copyright, 1887. by international
NaMs SerYical


News servics)
FOREST HILLS, Sept. 1.-THE
curtain is ready. The great mo-
ment is at hand. The last act is
about to open on the hit melos
drama, entitled Bulge and the
Baron, while over a huge, concrete
amphitheater, comes the sudden.
breathless hush that means people
are stirred beyond the gift Of
mere words.
The principals-John Donald
Bulge, Of Oakland, Calf. &C.
cepted everywhere as the worlds
ranking amateur, and Baron Colt.
fried Won Cramm, of Germany,
equally without a doubt the No. q
man of the tennis world.
The time-mid-afternoon, to-
day. The occasion-a final round
meeting such as probably no
American tennis championship in
mems singles has ever known,
something that not even Tilden,
Johnston, Mclaughlin, the old
Australians and the newer French
could produce. The crowd-20,000,
meaning capacity of 1880 in
side and the rest in the streets.
turned back and away by regret
full management that started out
to hold tennis tournament and
now finds itself with circus.
ALL-FOREIGN MATCH
The act with the big billing will
be preceded by the f1rieSt all-tor-
eign women's final in the history
Of our tennis. It will feature Jad.
wiga Jedrzejowska, of Poland, and
Anita LLAMA, of Chile, meaning
that the title must leave the coun-
try for the second time.
More than that, there remained
the disquieting possibility that all
Of our tennis titles will leave the
country simultaneously, a thing
unheard of and not to be contem-
plated except with misgiving. The
Baron and Henner Henkel have
already taken the doubles at Long
wood and now all the former has
to do for a clean sweep by in.
vaders is to beat Bulge today.
One can say much the same
thing by declaring that all Milton
needed was his eyesight. But
don't tell me the Baron can't win.
It's barely possible, in fact, that
Bulge may have reached super.
greatness "a hours too soon.
NEEDS IT FOR BARON
He didn't need it against frankie
Parker yesterday. He'll positively
need it against the Baron today.
with the bare chance that the lat
ter has been stiffened by superior
competition through the week;
whereas, Bulge has yet to lose
set to anybody or even be carried
to the point of extra games.
Possibly I'm just a collegian at
heart, but I never saw anybody
play tennis as Bulge did against
Parker-and that goes for Vines
performance against Cochet five
years ago and for all the Ttldens;
the McLaughlins, the Cochets and
the Norman Brookes I've been
able to see through IS years OF
peering furtively over the key
board of a typewriter. But the
Baron was pretty impressive, too.
He just did beat Bobby Riggs IN
five sets, after the American juve'
nile had taken the first two. But
Riggs himself was almost fool
proof at the outset and never
worse than very good at any time.
The Baron, therefore, had to
touch the top to come on and win.
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