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Evening star., 1937-05-20
GROUP COMMENDS
TRANSIT POLICY
Southwest Citizens ASSoCia.
tion Votes Appreciation
for POIiteneSS EdiCt.

As q result Of a series of pictures
published in The Star yesterday
demonstrating the new 40 rules of
politeness' policy of the Capital
Transit Co., the Southwest Citizens
Association last night voted to ex-
press appreciation to Vice President
J. H. Stephens of the transit COM
pany for inaugurating the new system.
The measure was introduced by
Harry S. Wender, chairman, Law and
Legislative Committee, who declared
there has been great need, in the past,
tor the adoption of this policy.
DR.. Leon S. Gordon, director of
tho medical division, Metropolitan Po-
21ce Boys Clubs, was praised for his
work by President Jacob M. Schatfer
and other members of the association.
He is responsible for raising the aver
age health of southwest boys material
", Schaffer asserted.
DR.. Gordon, who is also chairman
of the associations Public Health
Committee, announced plans for in
creased activity at the boys clubs
Summer camp in Southern Maryland.
This year, DR.. Gordon declared. his
division hopes to have all the BOYS
attending the camp innoculated
against typhoid fever. He reported
on free dental treatment given to
southwest boys at the dental clinic.
A resolution seeking additional w.
p. A. funds for relief of unemployed
employables was adopted.
Other action included Endorsement
OF the Commissioners plans for i'm
Evening star., 1937-05-20

Hamilton in the last of the Repub-
lican National Committee chairman's
current radio series Sunday night
over the Columbia network at 10
o'clock.
Bacon will discuss Republican
Progress" Hamilton's topic will be
Looking Ahead"
Evening star., 1937-05-20

proving the water front; vote OF
thanks to the Washington Sanitary
Housing Association and to Miss Ellen
Vinton for support in efforts to re-
habilitate the southwest section and
opposition to daylight saving time for
the District
Evening star., 1937-05-20

Basket ball teams Of China and
Japan are meeting in large cities Of
japan.
Evening star., 1937-05-20
BACON TO SPEAK

Representative Bacon, Republican
OF New York will speak with John
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
BAILEY SURE
SUCCESSOR TO
JOE ROBINSON

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, July %.
DENOMINATION of Gov Carl E.
Bailey as Democratic candidate for
the. senatorial seat vacated by the
death of Sen. Joseph T. Robinson
was regarded as certain in politica,
circles here today.
The State Central Democratic
committee was scheduled to meet
late in the day to decide on g
method of selecting the party's
choice. The committee may NOM
mate it's own candidate or call a
special primary. Political observers
were convinced that Bailey would
be nominated by the COMMITTEES.
Nomination as a Democrat is tan
tamount to election.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23

Chairman Carl Vinson, D., Ga, of
the house naval affairs commit
tee, that the report was desired
by the president" and was an ad
ministration measure.
The bill calls for construction OF
six tenders, oilers and tugs. Halt
of the work would be done in pri-
vate shipyards,
The house fight developed after
the senate added proviso that
the president would be given dis.
cretionary powers to increase the
original $5OOOO,O0O in the bill by
an additional $10,000,O00.
Navy officials requested the pro-
viso, asserting that rising costs
made it doubtful that the ships
could be built within the limits
Chairman William B. Umstead
D., N. c., of the house appropria.
tions committee led the attack on
the report, criticizing inability
of navy officials to give accurate
cost estimates. And asserting that
the navy could get deficiency ap-
preparation later if costs exceeded
$50,000000.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
new TEACHERS
IN FL CENTRO
GIVEN PLACES
Guy Weakley Announces
Staff Appointments
For Next Term

New teaching contracts
and assignments for 1898
were announced Friday by
Guy Weakley, superinten-
dent of the Ell Centro high
school and elementary schools.
Remaining vacancies left, it is
expected, will be filled within a
Few days.
In the elementary schools the
following new teachers have been
given assignments: John H. Redo,
physical education and English at
Wilson; Jacquelin F.. Warner, kim
dergarten at Harding; Hazel M.
Tilson, art supervisor for ali
schools; and Bessie Lee Stansbury
kindergarten at Mckinley. Charles
Montague, who has signed a con-
tract, has not been assigned his
position yet.
The high school has enlarged
(Coninued on Page 6; Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
Committee Okays
Slum Clearance

WASHINGTON, July %. U.R)-
The senate education and labor
committee today voted a favorable
report on the compromise Wagner
housing bill providing for a bond
issue to finance loans and grants
to communities for slum clearance
and low housing projects.
Proponents of the measure said
they expected it would be approved
by the senate this session. Whether
1t will be acted on by the house
was said to depend largely on how
long congress remains in session
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23

graduate expressed fear that she
had been kidnapped or murdered.
Mrs. j. Clark Samuel, of Whining
ton, Del, who had been Miss Wohl-
sens hostess at her Red Point
summer cottage. appealed to fed
eral agents to join the search.
Miss Wohlsen disappeared from
rowboat in which she had set
out alone on a fishing trip alcns
the river. The boat was found later
with her shoes. sweater and fish
ing tackle. In the belief that she
might have drowned. police set Oft
heavy dynamite charges In the
river. Nothing came 10 the sur
face, and fears that she had met
some other fate were strengthened.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
FARM TENANCY
BILL APPROVED
BY ROOSEv ELT
Ten Million Dollars to
Be Spent Relieving
Land Renters

WASHINGTON, July %.
(UP) - President Roosevelt
today signed the compromise
farm tenancy bill w h i C h
seeks to alleviate tenancy
evils under an experimental pro-
gram of federal aid to farmers pur-
chasing their own lands.
Approved by congress after long
battle extending since the start OF
the session, the measure authorizes
immediate appropriation of $4,000
900 to begin the program and con-
duct it's first year of operations
expenditures of $25,000 600 in the
fiscal year 1899 and $5O,O00,000 il
1910.
AS originally sponsored by Sen
John H, Bankhead D., Ala, the pro-
gram envisioned a gigantic pro-
gram to eradicate tenancy with the
aid of a $l,OO0,OOOOOO bond issue.
The plans collided with President
Roosevelt's strict governmental &C.
onomy program and the measure
approved today was compromise
which provides only a tentative ex-
ploratory program.
The measure was hailed by Bank
head and Chairman Marvin Jones,
D., Tex, of the house agriculture
committee as a start" toward So
luton of the tenancy problem. Both
pointed out, however, that little
headway could be made against
the problem without expenditure
of several times the amount au-
thorized in the act.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23

FOLSOM PRISON, Cal, July %.
,UP)-Two Negro convicts went to
the prison hospital today after
fighting with daggers which they
had fashioned from knives stolen
from the dining room
The fight occurred in the cell
occupied by the two men. Before
guards could separate the battlers
Walter E. Brown, 81, incurred
bad cash in his right shoulder and
lacerations on the face. John Will
son, 81, suffered deep wound in his
side under the left arm and various
other cuts.
Both were badly cut up but
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
Shower General
In Valley Area

Light showers fell in some parts
of Imperial Valley during the early
morning hours Friday with thunder
and tightening characterizing the
storm experienced throughout the
area.
Ell Centro recorded III OF an
inch of rain, Brawley and Impe-
rial only slight spatter, light
showers at Seeley and no precipi-
tation at all in many sections.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
CHINA ORDERS
TROOPS BACK
FROM BATTLE

TOKYO, July 49, U.P)-Gen. Ha-
jime Sugiyama, war minister, told
the cabinet today that Chinese
troops of the 29th army were quiet
ly withdrawing from their posi-
tons in the Peiping war zone
under the agreement effected be-
tween northrn Chinese officials and
Japanse army men.
This reassuring news was given
the country as the diet met in a
special two weeks session which
though called before the Chinese
crisis, was expected to devote most
OF its interest to the developments
In China.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23

ment.
Either the housemaid's aim was
poor or she meant to frighten him
as the wound was only a superb
fial one, Ell Centre police Officers
said. Low appeared at police head
quarters shortly after the Black
shere woman was arrested and
asked that she be released. He
advocated her release on the grounds
that she had not hurt him much
The other woman left Low and
ran from the scene as soon as her
rival appeared and asked to speak
to Low.
Friends of the knifer. arrived at
police court Friday morning in
jovial moods. The prisoner laughed
gaily as she was taken before Judge
Lee Nuffer. All the laughter stop
ped, however, when he sentenced her
to 80 days in the county Jail for
disturbing the peace.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
$4,000 TranSients
Crowd San Joaquin
For Cotton Harvest

BAKERSF1ELD, Cal, July Is.
U6-Upwards Of 10000 transients
camped in the San Joaquin Valley
expected to benefit from $4,000, 600
which it was estimated today would
pe the cost Of harvesting the valley
greatest cotton crop in history.
Figures made public by semi
official estimates placed the ap-
proximate value of the crop at
S50,00O,000 and the cost of the
September harvest at $15,O0O,0o0.
1t is expected that $4,000 bales OF
cotton will be the San Joaquin's
contribution to the world market.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
GILA PROJECT
FUND DEBATED

WASHINGTON, July %. U.R)-
The senate had under considera-
ton today a conference report ap-
proved by the house on the $l33,'
100000 interior department appro-
priation bill for 1898.
The house made several changes
which will have to be ironed out
with the senate before the bill,
last regular appropriation measure
before congress can be sent to
the White Honse for presidential
signature.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
RELIEF LIST
CUT TO 125

Relief roll totals for the State
Relief Administration dropped
to 215 families in Imperial coun-
ty this week as additional fami-
lies obtained employment I'm
agriculture.
The decrease I'm the numbers
of families receiving relief thru
this agency began early i'm
March. The drop has been grad
ual and is expected to continue
slowly as more and more per-
sons go to work harvesting fall
crops.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
level Thieves Taken
For Slug Robberies
THREE WOMEN
$4,000
TO GANGSTERS
Victims Slugged by Gem
Gang After Going
To Hotel Room

NEW YORK, July %. WR
"A band of jewel thieves
which operated by Turing
wealthy wome EN- to hotel
rooms where they were slug
ged and robbed was broken up to-
day, police said, because two of its
members saw detectives and flee
unnecessarily. ... -
Confessions to three robberies
totaling $4,000 have been obtained,
police said Victims of other re-
cent thefts, including Gypsy Rose
Lee the strip tease queen, will be
asked to view the prisoners.
The victims of the robberies SOL
we'd were listed as Mrs Elizabeth
Williams of Narragansett, RI,
slugged last Wednesday in Boston,
Mrs Lucille Douglas of the Lin
coin hotel here, robbed May 18,
and Mrs Anne Wilson, a Texas
visitor held up April 8, in local
hotel.
Police said, the victims were spot
ted by finger man" in night
club or bar because of the amount
Of jewelry they wore and were fol-
lowed to their homes.
The band then set about getting
information concerning them ant
utilized this to strike up casual
friendship.
The prisoners gave their names
as Mayer Lembersky, salesman,
Jack Davenport, waiter, Frederick
Mangieri, and Murray Cohen a
LAWYER.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
Negro Convicts Battle
In Folsom Prison Cell

neither is in dangerous condition, ="
Warden Clarence Larkin reported.
After necessary treatment, the
men will be placed in solitary con-
finement
Guards were informed the fight
resulted from an argument over a
baseball game.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23

with several men aboard, was seen
hovering about Miss Wohlsen's
craft.
Police, disinclined to believe the
girl had drowned, feared she might
have been abducted or slain.
Friends of the pretty high school !
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23

DAY.
Mrs. Walkup's body was found
in the brush on the edge of the
Flagstaff Country club course about
1890 am. by four young moon
light mixers" She had shot her
self through the center of her
chest with .306 calibre SPRING
field rifle.
Ed Conrad, 20, one of the mixers,
dashed back to town and notified
the sheriff's office.
When Investigators went to her
home in the residential district,
they found the bodies of her four
children-two boys and two girls
shrouded under sheets in their
beds.
In the downstairs bedroom were
Danny, 10, and Phoebe, 21a. Later,
the bodies of Jackie, 5, and Rose
Marie, 8, were found in their
beds upstairs.
Nostrils Taped
Danny's nostrils had been taped
shut with adhesive tape. Nostrils
of the others had been plugged
with cotton.
Each had been stabbed twice
over the heart, apparently with an
ice pick. The weapon was not
found Immediately.
Coroner Max Miller said all but
Jackie had been choked. Either
by hand or with a towel. Their
necks were bruised badly.
-Four notes were found at the
house, one, tackled onto the front
door and addressed to DR.. M. z.
Fronske, prominent Flagstaff ply
sician, said:
Look in the bedroom"
DR.. Fronske said he had been
treating Mrs. Walkup for an intes-
final ailment recently and she call
ed him last night to visit her this
Continued on Page 6; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
Mexican Jailed
For Knife Play

BRAWLEY, July pa. Orona, A,
Mexican, concluded a drunken spree
on the eastside OF the city Thurs
day night by slashing at bystand-
ers with a knife, according to
Brawley police.
The Mexican was taken to jail
before he succeeded in doing much
damage.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
San DiegO.Sets
New Auto Record

SAN DIEGO, July %. W.P)-An
all-time high for automobile regis
trations was established in San
Diego county during the first six
months of this year, it was an
nounced today, when it was reveal
ed 1882 cars had been licensed
For the entire 1886 period only 97,-
745 cars were registered in the
county.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
CIO Farm Labor
Union Organized
For Beet Harvest

WOODLAND, Cal, July %.
DIFFERENTIATION of farm
labor local union affiliated with
the Committee for Industrial
Organization was completed In
the Knights Landing area today
and a drive was started to en-
roll members before the sugar
beet harvest begins.
Luther j. Cow, CIO organizer,
addressed the organization meet
ing attended by 100 persons last
night.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23

lnqulr1ng: Are BONDS NOS. I5B4
and 1886 o. K. What will you pay?"
Treasurer McManus, checking
records, found that these two
bonds, each fr $1,000, were amng
ten bonds stolen in the Glendora
bank robbery. Eight of the missing
bonds had been located previous
ly.
When the Glendora bank ban
dts made their raid, the Pacific
Indemnity company which had in
Continued on Page G; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23

Miss Wohlsen, 18 year old daugh-
ter of Lancaster, Pa, manufac-
turer, vanished Wednesday from a
rowboat from which she had been
fishing on the Northeast river,
Shortly before her absence was
discovered, a black-hulled sailboat,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
Body Of Heiress
Taken from River

ELKTON, Nd, July 23. (UP)-Fishern,en todav re-
covered the body of Janet Louise WohIsen Isyear old
Pennsylvania heiress, from the Oaers of Northeast ruer
Where she had been fishing before her disappearance
Wednesday afternoon
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
Long Distance Love

Long Distance Love
Just what commercial affiliation
there is between the Sandia store
and the Mount Signal store may not
be apparent to the naked eye but
official documents prove there is an
amorous one. Maximo Garcio, 26
of the Sandia store and Ramona
Morales, Is, OF the Mount Signal
store filed a notice announcing their
intention to marry. Any Doubling
Thomas may ask County Clerk
w. j. McClelland. He can prove 1t
Toe Much Is Plenty
Deputy Coroner Herbert Hughes
has an after vacation grievance
Upon his return to duty he dis
covered that Deputy Sheriff Frank
Raney and Mrs Hazel Livingston.
shorthand reporter had wrecked the
coroner departments budget in con-
ducting scads of inquests in cases
of heat and traffic deaths. He founo
it in his heart to forgive them be-
cause he knew they couldn't help
it. What makes him sizzle is the
highhanded manner in which they
depleted his supply of official writ
ing paper, official affidavit forms,
and even the special type of ink
used in making permanent records
of deaths and inquests. In fact, II
was the empty ink bottle that re-
duced him to a crisp.
Sympathy, Just sympathy
Sam Cox now knows how house
wives suffer at house cleaning time
Store repairs at the Cox Brothers
market on Main street are teaching
him the difficulties of carrying on
BUSINESS as usual while the whole
place is an uproar.
O.
Anyway, He Tired
s Ike Blair, tab lanky Negro light
weight, stumbled and fumbled In
his efforts to get through the ropes
into the ring at the fights Thurs
day night all the time Announcer
Dave Perkins Grated about the
Coker-L Laster bout He wanted to
challenge the winner "Mistah, All
wants to" he stammered as he
thrust his head through the ropes
Perkins paid no attention. "Mistah
All challenges" he tried again
as his foot slipped off the canvas
Still Perkins failed to recognize him
"I,ll beat the" shouted the
Continued on Page 6; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23

ELKTON, Nd July % (UP)-Search of nlets and
backbys of the Northeast river today failed to disclose
clue to the whereabouts of pretty Janet Louise Woh
missing heiress the black hued sailing boat be-
lieved to be linked in manner with her mysterious
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
Stolen District Bonds
Presented in Chicago
4 Years After Theft
Securities Among GlendOra Bank Robbery Loot
Cleared Up When Two Remaining
Bonds Are Presented

Final roundup of $4,000 worth of Imperial Irrga-
on District bonds stolen May g 1933 in stick-up of
the First National Bank of GendOra completed today
Anna McManus, district treasurer, received tele-
gram Friday morning from Weinress and Co., Chicago,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
Note Directs
Searchers to
Little Bodies
Two Boys, Two Girls Strangled, Stabbed
By MatrOn DespOndent Over
Lack of Discipline

FLAGSTAFF, Arz, July % (UP)-Mrs Marie Walk
up S5, prominent Flagstaff matron murdered her four
children by srangng and stabbng them they Law in
their beds last night then miles from town and
shot herself to death the sherfs office learned early to-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
HOUSE BEATS
BILL. OKAYED
BYROOSEVELT
Naval Building Measure Turned Down
In Face of Plea President Asked
Favorable Consideration

WASHINGTON, July %. (UP)-The house, by vote
of 225 to s6 today rejected the report on the
$50 900 naval auxiliary craft building program and
the bill back the conferee for attempt to reach
with the The house overrode pleas Of
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
NEGRO STABBED
BY GIRL FRIEND

Beatrice Blackstone 2 Negro housemaid stabbed friend
Low, 90 the with penknife Thursday
jealous Edna
the boxing events at the Ell Centro
The knitting the plain fight
altof thu hlidn
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23

Butter: Los Angeles 341l; Butter
fat, Imperial Valley, fob. ranch.
Grade A 46H; manufacturing milk
3815; route gathered cream 81.
L. A. Hay: U. s. No. l leafy $40
2O.5O; u. S. No. 1 SIS-1S.50; u. s.
No. 2 Ieafy $17-I7.5O; U. S. No.
S15,5O-16. Minneapolis flax S2.0s.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23

laHs pouring OUT OF CHe pulIulIiS
1t the conclusion of the entertain
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-23
BANK DEBTS

; . BANk DEBTTS
THURSDAY
$4O7, ,O5O.96 .4.
BUILDING PERMITS
To Date This Year
$169.862
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-13
Thinning Fruit of
Frozen Palms in
Valley Advocated

Fruit punches of frozen date
palms should be thinned heavily
this year, according to the conclu-
sion reached at the 14th annual
date growers institute conducted
recently at Indio and attended by
Frank CT. Beyschlag, farm advisor,
and by several valley and Bard date
growers.
Frozen palms are producing a
normal number of fruiting inflor-
essences this spring because the
blossom buds were formed before
the freeze and were SO well in
sulated that they were uninjured by
the freeze. Palms having q large
proportion of their leaves killed by
the freeze will be unable to produce
satisfactory fruit unless the fruit
is thinned to a small fraction of a
normal crop, the thinning being
proportional to the foliage injury.
If thinning is not done, this years
fruit will be unmarketable and for
the next few years few fruiting
inflorescences will be produced.
A revival of interest in date plant
ing is taking place. Coachella VAL
ley has over 5000 acres in dates and
the production last year was $780,
900 pounds. The manager of the
AAA low grade date pool said that
they had a successful season, dis
posing of several hundred thousand
pounds of the low grade dates into
by-product channels at an average
price of better than four cents per
pound.
A study of water usage by A. F..
Flllsbury Of the research staff of
the University of California, indi-
Gated that thrifty bearing date
palms can use $40 acre feet of
water annually.
Research by Frank M. Eaton of
the U. S. department of agriculture,
shows that even fairly small guam
titles of salt reduce yields of nearly
all crops proportionately as do
larger quantities of salt. Drainage
and deep irrigation are necessary
In keeping the salt content in desert
soils at minimum. The contour
basic method of orchard irrigation
was recommended for this purpose
and is now being tried out in Goa
chella Valley. These trials are pat
termed on the successful use of this
method by the CaleXico Land COM
pany, j. r. SouthWorth and r. S.
Nelson. grapefruit growers, and c..
S. Seigrist, pecan orchard, Imperial
Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-13
Couples Married
25 Years or More
To See Show Free

How long have you been married?
The Post-Press Tuesday complet-
ed arrangements with Manager
Herb Norris of the United Artists
theater. celebrating Fox West Coast
theaters' anniversary week next
week, to admit free of charge dur
ing the Week any Imperial Valley
couple who have been married Is
years or more. and have evidence TO
prove it.
Norris, casting about among his
personal acquaintances, namel a
surprising large group in the 25-
year-married class, then ventured
the opinion that a surprisingly large
number of valley residents will be
found to fall in that category.
Tickets to Anniversary Week
shows at the United Artists theater
will be given the old-timers in ma
trimony because the weeks theater
attractions have been arranged
with an eye to better -than-average
entertainment, and because the
thsater's attention has been focused
by its own anniversary on the an
niversaries of others, Norris re-
marked.
Tickets may be obtained any time
oy presenting proof of the matri-
monial status at either the Post
Press office or the United Artists
theater.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-13
Farmers Slated
To AttendC of C.
Lunch Wednesday


Farmers living in a radius of five
to ten miles of Ell Centro will gath
er at luncheon Wednesday noon at
Barbara Worth hotel as guests of
the El Centro chamber of COM
merce. This is the result of a tour
made of the Ell Centre ranches dur
ing the past few days when cham
Der committee of directors and
members visited all the farms in
this locality and presented farmers
with complimentary tickets to the
luncheon.
The speaker will be L. G. Goar,
superintendent of the Meloland Ex-
pertinent station, who will speak
on Imperial Valleys Agriculture of
the Future"
According to President Walter B.
fiaVekorst all members of the
chamber and the public generally
are welcome to attend.