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Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-02
FINGERPRINTS
BETRAY BOYS

Two little lone wolves" BROTH
ers. 10 and y years of age, con-
fessed TO extensive burglaries in
BraWley and Long Beach after fin
gerprints betrayed their connec-
ton with burglary of two Brawley
service stations. officers said.
The boys described the methods
used in entering approximately a
dozen different establishments over
q period of weeks and helping them
selves to trifling articles they sold
or gave TO youthful friends, accord
ing to Deputy Sheriff Joe LIAR
raras.
Hardware stores, drug stores, fill
ine stations. and dime stores, ap-
parently proved to be the most
tempting.
They told the officer they went
to bed at o'clock each night at
their parents direction. arising lat
er to slip out of the home TO per-
petrate burglaries. Investigation OF
their activities still are underway
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-02
FIRM TO ABSORB FREIGHTING
CHARGES FOR BEET GROWERS

if this is done will construct a
series of Jumps at strategic points.
Should the project work out as
successfully as is indicated at pres
ent. the company within a few
years will probably construct
plant in the valley but in order TO
do this must have at least $4,000
acres in beets to make the project
possible
H.Lee Landerman. assistant farm
advisor. is giving a series of talks
at farm centers. explaining the re-
suits of trials in Imperial Valley.
There is no doubt but what good
sugar beets can be grown in the
valley if the right variety is plant
ed. said B. A. Harrigan. agricultural
commissioner. but the right variety,
the right type Of soil and care are
necessary if beets are grown to meet
the requirements Of the firm.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-02

Imperial Valley growers of sugar
bets will have every advantage that
those within one mile CT the Los
Alamitos Sugar Co S mill may have,
said Robert Hays. secretary OF the
chamber of commerce.
The firm has agreed to absorb
the freight. paying the growers
here 70 b. the dump, thus solving
The problem that has prevented
planting of much acreage to this
crop in the past
At the various meetings this
weekend wher9 the company's pro-
posed contracts with valley growers
were discussed, much interest was
shown. a number Of farmers sign
ing up acreage at once and others
signifying their interest in the new
project.
The firm this year wishes to sign
up 5000 acres Of sugar beets and
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-02

lieVed relations we're TO all purposes
suspended
German diplomats have boycotted
all recent ceremonies. Carl-Ludwig
Diego Won Bergen. German ambas-
sador to the Vatican, is absent in
Berlin. ostensibly on vacation. Dip
lomats do not expect him to return
He reaches retirement age this fall
Vatican officials refused to dis
cuss reports that MonSignor CeSare
Orzenigo. Vatican nuncio TO Berlin,
had been recalled. It was believed
more likely thai he was coming here
to report 10 the pope. on the preteXt
that he was taking a vacation.
German sources said that the Nazi
government considers the Vatican
reply to GermanyS protest against
the cardinals speech "unsatiSfact-
ory."
II was re-em9hasized that If
there is a formal breach in rela-
tions it will not come from the
Vatican. II is not the Vatican poll
cy to denounce treaties.
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+ III E Q r r ( r

SUPPLEMENTAL offer by The Nevada-l
4Calfornia Electric Corporation to the
AImperial Irrigation District:
\ The Nevada California E C tric c
Incorporation, supplementing its offer
sof May 5, hereby agrees that:
A |. If the electors of the Imperial 1r
Irrigation District at the election of
June 16 shall reject the offer of the
!, Public Works Administration for
loan and grant of S2,76O,000, and
y 2. If within six months, thereafter
such offer of the Corporation as here
in revised is accepted by the Board,
embodied in the form of contract
and approved by the people at an cleo
ton to be held for such purpose.
The corporation will advance to the
Irrigation District the necessary mon
eys up to said sum of $2,760,000, when
and as needed to complete the con-
struction of the four plants on the
All-American Canal and the general
ing Of power by said plants when wa
ter is first available for such purpose
in the All American canal.
The District shall be entitled to re-
tain $1,242,000 of such advances as
a grant from the Corporation in con-
sideration of the granting by the Dis
trict to the Corporation of an option
to purchase on the same terms as en-
bodied in the offer of May any addi-
tional power that may be generated
on the All American Canal over and
above that which the District will be
obligated to sell and the Corporation
is obligated to purchase, as provided
in said offer.
All sums in excess of $1,242,00O so
advanced are to be repaid to the Corp
oration by monthly credits on the Dis
trict's power bills for energy sold the
Corporation under the terms of its
said offer, such credit to be sufficient
in amount to repay the corporation in
even monthly installments over term
of ten years the principal amount of
its said advances over and above said
grant, plus AZ interest on the unpaid
balances.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-02


Board of Directors
Imperial Irrigation District
Ell Centro, California
MY DEAR MR. HEWES:
In your letter of May l8, as directed by
the district Board you asked our company to
fix price for the sale of its Imperial Valley
holdings. I can best answer your request by
quoting from my letter of May 5, addressed
to the Board of Directors Of the Imperial Irri-
CATION District as follows:
Under no circumstances will the corpora
ton voluntarily dispose of its electrical proper
ties or retire from the power business in I'm
perial Valley
Our position stands today as it did on May
5. The power business in Imperial Valley has
been pioneered and built up by the corporation
over a period of twenty years, during which
time many millions have been invested, devoted
to the service OF Imperial Valley
We have brought metropolitan service to
the entire urban areas OF the valley and TO
over 81 per cent of the rural areas and If 1t
had not been for the opposition of your board
there would be today substantially complete
service of the rural sections.
Throughout the entire period, rates have
been progressively decreased During the past
ten years alone, the corporation has made five
major rate reductions SO that the average valley
residential rate is today 81 per cent below that
of 1926, only one-seventh of which reductions
have been made since District operations were
commenced at BraWley.
AS result of aggressive sales campaigns
and the offering of electrical merchandise on
terms that those with the smallest incomes
can meet, we have brought aoout in Imperial
Valley the highest residential consumption Of
power in California, if not in the United States.
After year Of competition with District SER
vice at Brawley, a majority of the consumers
have indicated their preference to remain
with the corporation.
We will not voluntarily turn over this sue
cessful business, built up over the years to
another agency. There is nothing in the his
tory OF the Irrigation District with it's record
OF constantly increasing taxes, followed by
default and bankruptcy. which justifies the
belief that District management of the power
business will be successful.
In your letter of May 10 you invite our
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7 II ( L IT T E r

company to support the PWA contract at
the June Is election. Our position with refer
ence to the election I believe, clearly set forth
in my letter to you under date of May l3, in
which we agreed to offer no opposition to the
approval of the P.W.A ALLEGATION and loan or
to the payment of the monies, provided your
Board would agree to submit the cooperative
offer of the company and the competitive plan
of the District to the Bureau of Reclamation
for report with recommendations, and that
an opportunity be given the people at the bond
election to express their choice between the
acceptance of the Corporations offer and pro-
ceedng with the competitive plan.
In the three weeks which have elapsed
since our offer of May 5, there has apparently
been no effort by your Board either to place
before the people a report on the merits OF
the Company's offer by impartial engineers or
to permit the people themselves to exercise
their choice between the two plans.
Under these circumstances, you leave us
no choice but TO oppose in every legitimate
way the two bond issues and the payment of
either the PW.A. grant and loan or the RE.A.
loan If the proposed bonds should be approv
ed your Board would be clothed with authori-
ty to proceed with the competitive loan and
the people would have parted with all control
over the situation.
However we recognize that as the matter
now stands the people may hesitate to accept
funds will not be available for the construction
of the four power plants on the All American
Canal, the electrical output Of which is to be
purchased by the Company over period of
forty years.
To meet this situation and in order that
the people may be able to vote June 10, with
the assurance that if the bonds are defeated
the door will still be open to accept the cooper
alive plan, we herewith submit to your Board
a supplemental offer, under which the corpor-
alton will undertake the financing OF such
plants up to a total amount OF $2,76OOO0 on
the terms and conditions therein named.
The new offer of the Company will exactly
match the offer of the P.WA for a Loan and
grant insofar as the cost OF money to the Dis
trict is concerned and will at the same time
avoid the issuance of any additional bonds fof
power facilities.
Respectfully submitted,
THE NEVADA-CALIFORNI
ELECTRIC CORP.
BY A. 3. West, President.
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Woman Refuses
To Tell Identity,
Ordered North

Mrs. Cora NJ. Clifford, 73, sent
to the Travellers AID Society in FL
Centre for some reason this week,
was transferred to Los Angeles by
the organization because she had
lived there for many years.
The aged woman was SteadfaSt
in her refusal TO diyulge facts con-
cerning her past life. Society heads
cannot understand why she should
have been sent TO e Centro from
San Diego for her health" She
had only $50 in her possession when
Sha arrived in the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-02
LIBERALS WIN
CHURCH CONTROL

PHILADELPHIA. June .. UP
Liberals We're in temporary control
Of the one year old Presbyterian
Church of America today following
an election at the opening of their
third general assembly here.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-02
Roads Forbidden
To Stop Service

MEXICO CITY. June 2. U.Pl-Of-
ficials Of the Southern Pacific Rail-
way OF Mexico were given official
notice by the government today
that under no circumstances would
they be permitted to suspend freight
service in northwest Mexico
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-02

I The foregoing offer on the part of
the Corporation will:
|. Assure the District of the neces-
(sary funds as estimated by our engin-
GERS that will be required to construct
the proposed plants on the All Amer
ican Canal.
2. Give the District grant of ST.
242,0OO, the identical amount as offer
ed by the PWA.
3. Make available to the District the
balance of the moneys required for its
power project at the same interest
rate and cost of money as if furnished
by the PWA.
4. Assure the investment of $70O,OOO
in rural lines in Imperial Valley with
out the creation by the District of any
additional Indebtedness
5. Permit the payment by the Dis
trict of its obligations in connection
with construction of canal plants en-
tirely out of power sales to the Corp
Grafton.
6. Entirely avoid the issuance of ad-
ditiona bonds by the District, either
for the purpose of power develop
ments on the Canal or for rural cleo
trification.
Opc1 dJillS uluCl Jllc loI CSOlilS Pioii
with water flows as shown by the lat
est estimates of the United States Bu-
reau of Reclamation, our engineers
estimate that the Canal plants will
over forty year period show aggreg-
ate net earnings of $28,399,900 over
and above all power plant costs, in
Guiding operation, depreciation, inter-
est and repayment of advances due to
L L. ..aI 20.
$1,689,000 in excess of the probable
construction cost Of the All American
Canal based upon latest estimates of
the Reclamation Bureau.
Respectfully submitted,
The NEVADA-CALI-
FORNIA ELECTRIC
CORPORATION.
By A. B. West,
President.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-02

ASHLAND, Pa. up - Ashland
had a banana tree back in 1897
that bore fruit in mid-December
WPA workers dug up that infor-
nation from yellowed files of the
Ashland uaily News while in
search of data for a history OF the
borough.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-02
Definite RUPTURE
LOOMS BETWEEN
VATICAN GERMANY

VATICAN CITY June Dpomats accredited to the Vatican
expressed relations between the
Vatican Germany seemed almost inevitable.
speech in which Cardinal
said they be-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-18

the worst plumbers of the Federal Farm Board
with the primary fallacies of the AAA."
The story of Joseph and his agricultural
and economic operations in Egypt, even
after lapse of several thousand years, is
people. On the whole, JOSeph'S enterprise
was successful. One fact, (perhaps the
most important in the entire Scheme) how
ever. which must always be kept in view
in order to correctly appraise Joseph's sue
ceSSful operations, is that the Hebrew who
became the ruler of Egypt was, according
TO the Biblical record, in partnership with
Jehovah.
Joseph had inside production and mar
keting information, as we'll as inside in
formation from the weather bureau.
Are Secretary Wallace and the new
dealers in partnership with the Almighty?
Do they have divine intuition as to wealth
er. droughts. favorable and unfavorable
production conditions advance knowledge
of the size of crops, and many other de-
tails which are certain to be found abso-
lutely essential if the farmers and their
production are to be "cOntrolled,' prices
showed high enough to satisfy the agricul-
turiStS. and at the same time, low enough
to satisfy the consumers?
1t will readily be admitted, Of course,
that the average new dealer Secretary
Wallace is above the average) always acts
ike he was in partnership with the Al
mighty; but serious doubts as to the GER
tainty and accuracy of this connection are
disturbing the minds of many citizens.
Nevertheless. dear reader, you are war
ranted in turning back to read again the
comment of Wheeler Mcmillan and Frank
Kent, to get fair start in the game OF
striving to solve the puzzle of the ever
normal granary.'
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
CROWDS NO CRITERION

OF the Presidents enthusiastic reception on his
western trip Walter Brown writes from Washing
ton:
"Whercvcr the presidential special stopped, Mr..
Roosevelt was greeted by an Outvpuring of people
and by no stretch of the Imagination could anyone
write that the man in the White House had ceased
to bc the master political personality in these
United States"
Nobody could agreed. but we base our opinion
that Mr. Roosevelt continues to hold top rank in
popularity upon other factors, not upon the size
and cheering of crowds. That can be misleading.
Dos you remember the biz, applaudng crowds
that greeted Herbert Hoover during his second
campaign, just before the voters showed him I'M
der?
And the rccord-brcaking thrones that hailed Al
Smith in the previous campaign JUST before said
voters landslidcd him into political oblivion?
And the consistently large and enthusiastic
crowds that always turned out to cheer William
Jennings Bryan when he spoke but that turned out
to vote for the other man when he ran Tor office?
Not to mention the fact that John 7. Duncan in
his several campaigns for governor of South Caro-
lima got both the most applause and the fewcst
votcs.-Grccnvillc IS. c. Piedmont.
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N. {. Commission
Must Keep Track
OF $3.50 Smiths

RALEIGH. Oct. tS.-CUP)-
when Captain John Smith started
the Smith family on American
soil in 1907, he did something
more than make it the most com
mon name in the United States
he gave the North Carolina un-
employment compensation COM
mission $3.50 Smiths to keep
track Of.
4 chcckup Of thc commissions
social security numbers today
disclosed that many Smiths re-
corded, not 10 mention five Smyths
and four SmythCs.
There are also 6,325 JoncsCs,
$3.50 Browns and G,27O Viii
liamscs.
Other family names topping the
security lists arc Davis, 1000;
Moore, $3.50: Johnson, $500;
Wilson. ESQ: Taylor, 2.T2O:
Harris 2,G95; Mile" and white
tied at 2.GiO; and Hall and Ed
wards even Mt 1000; Thomson,
H.a2O; Walker. 300; Martin, p
40. and Allen. $40.
There ere 90 Annie Smiths, -
without a middle name; is Ed
ward Smiths, seven without \ mid
die name; IL Ernest Smiths, nine
without a middle name; rs Frank
Smiths. y with no middle name;
l59 George Smiths. PC with no
middle name; 10 George Wash
innton Smiths; 10 George W.
Smiths: 90 Henry Smiths. with
% of them Just Henry; 396 James
Smiths. ~ with no middle name {;
3l5 John Smiths; II plain John;
etc.
The mv'iads of John, James
and William Smiths form the main
reason why every worker should
have and chang on to" a social
security number, Charles G. Pow
ell. commission chairman, points
out.
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THE N e. vT y e AL
IN WyA SEIHJ GTON
--RY RODNEY BUTCHER.
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service SlnN rnrresnNnhcnk

umUy act will be left for the
regular session bCginninL in jan
uary.
Anyone who wants to guess
what actually viii happen 10 this
program must inquire into the
reasons for the Presidents conf
dcncc that it can be put over in
face of the fact that the same Con-
grcSS didn't pass it last summer.
In the first place, Roosevelt is
stin glowing with the memory OF
his western trip, on which he was
assured by large crowds, politi-
clans, newspaper correspondents
and others that he had lost none
OF his hold on the people.
His hardest fight will be on the
wage-hour bill. A version OF
the original measure has passed
the Senate and was held up in the
House Rules committee, from
which it undoubtedly will be
wrCstcd in November.
The real backbone Of the oppo-
Sition to this bill was furnished by
the southern Democrats. It is rot
unnatural for the administration
TO think that the current cotton
crisis in the south will provide a
lever with which TO soften oppoSi-
ton TO the wagr-hour bill. affect
ing southern workers, by keeping
that well-advanCed caSure
ahead Of action affecting southern
farmers.
Finally, it is traditional that
President commands a more near
ly united support when he is fight
ing a business recession or Il
threatening international Situa-
ton. If business doesn't pick up
between now and Nov. Is, RooSe-
welt will have both those poten-
tial aids. .'.I.E ..ra nH..
(Gopyrightrls3I NEa Service, Ine.)a
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WASHINGTON. - Mr. RooSe-
w velrS confidence in himself
and the achievement of his cur
rent program has not been di-
minished by the dcbaclc Of the
last session of Congress. Hence a
new special session at which he
expects rapid action on major
legislation.
If there was ever a time when
the Presidents spirits sank, that
period is over now. The Black
K!an issue has been blurred of
the front pages by the information
al situation as il has appeared
since the Chicago speech, and
Roosevelt, although laboring in a
period of manifest uncertainties,
is convinced as ever that the pco-
pie are with him and that Con-
s"eSS will accept his leadership.
The only item conspicuous for
its absence from the menu 20 be
put before Congress is one which
would be designed to curb the
Supreme Court. The President
having had his fingers badly
burned on that Issue, will lay off
it-at least for awhile. If the
court gives the New Deal bad
breaks in pending power cases
IVA, PWA grants and the hold
ing company act-he will take up
the shillalah again with a pro-
posal presumably different from
the last orc. ,
The four main items presented
to the new session will be left
overs from the last Session-wage-
hour bill. farm legislation, gov
eminent reorganization and the
seven regional planning develop
mentS.
Taxation, anti-monopoly laws
and-accoI ding to present plans
any possible changes In the neu-
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NEITHER SECURITY NOR FREEDOM

Senator William f. Borah of Idaho said some
thing the other day about rights and personal free
dom and security which is worth more than a
casual thought because it describes pretty well what
we apparently were about to do only little while
ago.
I'm those countries where the people have been
induced to give up their rights as free men and
free women under the promise of security said
Senator Borah, ''they have lost both"
Security is a fine slogan to play with, but one
thing should not be forgotten, that there can be no
security for nation people who entrust their
destiny in any other hands than their own,
Security is the chief benefit promised in Russia,
Italy and Germany, by the detators, in return for
the rights and the liberties which belonged to the
people.
And there is nothing more certain than the en-
tire lack of anything in these countries Savoring
in the slightest degree Of security, either for the
people as individuals or for the nation as whole
One has only to look about the world even quite
casually to discover that the only nations which
even appear to be secure those in which men
and women are acknowledged to be free citizens
with rights which must be respected by government
and authority.-Rock Hill Is. c. Herald.
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DON'T WORRY FRIENDS 1T
HURTS YOU BODY AND SOUL!

It's Ger a source Of grief to me,
such troubled souls to find
Those folks who worry day and
night, and have no peace OF
mind"
No matter what our station here,
W. all have ills to bear
There's never lived human soul,
entirely free from care.
We trust our parents trust our
wives, and others without fail
But when it comes to trusting
God, why, that's another tale
And yet when Gods dear Son
was here and clothed in human
form
Was He exempt from human ills?
and saved from wind and
storm?
Why no He felt our every pain,
He fought our every foe
And vet possessed that inward
peace" that humans crave to
So LET rs have faith in God,
Let's trust His guiSing hand.
And be content IA .leaye those
things we do not understand ID
- : aJ"u ] -Kempster. "'
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LIGHT AND SHADOW
Rv Maudc WnddelI

Rv Maudc Wnddell
The sunlight plays upon the old
wall,
Where shadows move and creep,
OF lingering leaves that fIuttcr
as they fall,
The tears that wintry trees
must weep.
And over all the white clouds
drift.
As lost loves ghosts Of long
ago,
For mcmorv'S CLEAN shines
through a rift,
On ycatcrycar's all vanished
snow.
| look the while the hot tears
start,
On what I loved now seen no
And shadows play across my
heart,
Where sunlight shonc before.
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sALUDA'S APPLE CROP: The

SALODA > hfTLE NtOt: Inc
ncigh6oring county Of Folk has 4
wide diversity Of farming inter-
csls, an important one of which.
this year, is the apple crop, which
the Tryon Daily Bulletin SAYS is
between 40 and 80 thousand bush
els, with SaIuda as the center of
commercial apple growing. Saluda
recently had q successful apple
show and this will likely become
Western Cardinals second organ
lied apple growers district. In"
only existing one to my knowl-
edge being that in Wilkes county.
The growers are so closely group
ed It should noN be difficult for
those on commercial scale to
organize FOR sales and the udliZa-
ton Of the bv-pyoducts. reaching
over into Henderson county after
becoming we'll united.
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Tricksters did rushing business selling
four rickelS for a quarter to New Workers
lined up at subway change booths during
the world series. Isn't New York the place
where they think people who live in small
towns are easy marks?