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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
MARKHAM SUPPLY co.
CARRIES G. E. APPLIANCES

The spirit of Christmas is all
around you. You are saying,
what shall l give him, her or
them to make them happy
The manager of the Marrinan
Supply Company, located at al
443 University at Arundel, says:
eve have recently placed in con-
nection with our business General
Electric appliances. We have the
ideal gift for the family. The gift
that will spell cheer throughout the
year. It's good news from Santa
Claus. For your convenience and
to save you we have done this.
Come in and see our complete and
latest stock of electrical appliances.
We have an easy payment plan and
solicit your patronage. See our
ad in this paper"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
Guaranteed Coal
Satisfaction

If you need fuel, why not buy it
from a firm which solicits your
business? You will find that the
fuel dealers who advertise in
YOUR newspaper want your bust
ness and will give you service and
quality to get it and keep it.
Look through the columns of this
newspaper for your fuel wants.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
COrinthian Temple
Elects Mrs. Susie
Triplett Princess

Corinthian Temple No. 80, S. M.
T., election of officers was held by
National Grand Deputy Naomi
Thomas, December 13. Newly
elected officers are Susan Triplett,
worthy princess; Inez Ford, worthy
vice princess; Helen O'Neil, worthy
secretary; Myrtle Harris, record
ing secretary; Annie Jordan, chap
lain; Annie Blair, Joshua; Susie
Gaylord, junior marshal; Ora Reed,
senior marshal; Frederice Wheel
din, chairman of sick committee;
Lillian Brown, inner doorkeeper;
Lena Brown, outside doorkeeper;
Florence Mercer, Zilla; Pilot, Har-
riet West.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17

First colored magistrate of New
York, appointed by Mayor La
Guardia with salary Of $4,000 a
year for ten years, who will deliver
the convention address at the 31st
meeting of Alpha Phi Alpha in
New Orleans on Tuesday evening,
December %. A native of Mont
gomery, Ala, Magistrate Paige
was educated at 'Bama State, Fisk,
Howard and Columbia. He was as
sistant Attorney General of New
York before becoming a judge.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
Citizens Confer
With Federal
Agency Heads
okBAN LEAGUE HOLDS Sue
CESSFUL MEETING WITH
FEDERAL AGENCIES

FroDlems confronting Negroes in
relation to New Deal agencies
We're discussed at meeting held
Wednesday, December 8, in the
Governors dining room, State Can
ltol. The meeting was called NV
the Inter-racial Committee of the
minneapolis Urban League and
was attended by the following
agency representatives: Victor
Cnrlstgau, Works Progress Admin
lstrator for Minnesota; VIM. A.
Fitzgerald, Supervisor, Sumner
Fieid Housing Project; Judge
charles F. Hall, Director, Chi
aren's Bureau, State Board of Con-
troll; M. l. lyman, Director. Divi-
sion OF the Blind, State Board of
Control; Mrs. Annie Dickie Olesan
State Director, National Elmer.
gency Council; C. S. Rondesvedt
supervisor, Enrolment Division
~. Herman Aufderheide, Ad-
minlstrator, State Relief Agency
was represented by Miss Ruth /,
ocnrader. P. j. O'Connor, Admins
lratiVe personnel department, w.
+. A, accompanied Mr.. Christian
Urban League representatives.
and civic representatives who at
tended from Minneapolis were.
MRS. James Paige, Mrs. Ethel Will
nams' W. M. Smith, Reverend d. P.
Young, Howard Hush, Charles w
washington, Clifford Rucker Pat
ration, Vance Williams. Miss
katherine M. Kohler. Rabbi Albert
e. Minda, Inter-racial COMMITTEES
chairman, presided.
The possibility of closer co-oper-
aeion between the Urban League
and Federal Agencies was empba-
sized. Mrs. olesen advised that
Negroes become more familiar
WIN the services of Federal Agen-
eieS and organize their forces SO as
70 demand equal participation in
the benefit of these agencies.
VIM. A. Fitzgerald urged that
more Negroes apply for residence
In the Sumner Field Homes.
Rabbi Albert Minda announced
that similar meetings with several
otner important groups have been
scheduled for 1885,
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
Elks Minstrel
Tuesday Night
At Mpls. ArmOry

A cast of forty will take part in
the Elks Minstrel Show, sponsored
by Ames Lodge No. LOG, I.B.P.O.E.
w. at the Minneapolis Armory,
Tuesday night, December "a. The
show, which was first scheduled for
the Lyceum Theatre for December
%, was advanced to December 81,
and taken to the Armory where the
people who care to may dance after
the show.
The curtain will be at $3.50 p. m.
sharp when the show, staged and
directed by Clint Pop" Davis, will
be offered to the public.
Featured in the minstrel will be
such well known persons as Pinkey
Lewis, favorite of many previous
minstrels; Jimmy Garbage" Ray
mond Whiting, Tom Lewis, Jimmy
Gresham and the three Pettiford
Sisters, the 29-inch midget dancer,
Mary Turner, the Daughter EIks
Choral Club, "Little Georgia, !"
Bruce Patterson, the wizard of the
banjo, Maxine Jones, Clint Davis
and Curtis Van Wrinkle, who will
serve as master of ceremonies.
1t is reported that Mr.. Davis has
whipped together a red hot show.
Music for both the show and the
dance which follows viii be fur.
nished by Rube Floyd and His
Memphis Blue Devils.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
Merchants Offer
/ Holiday Bargains
Through Paper

Readers who take the time to
read the advertisements will find
that most of the ads in this issue
carry "good news" Some of the
best and most reliable merchants in
the city are Offering the public
holiday bargains unexcelled in re-
cent history.
Jewellers, clothiers. hatters, cleo
trio appliance dealers, liquor stores,
etc., are offering the readers of this
paper the best of merchandise at
economical prices.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
STILL NO PEEK AT
DIVINE'S WEALTH

New York (C)-For the 'steenth
time, Father Divine successfully
eluded the searchers after his
worldly goods in Supreme Court
Tuesday. Divine answered ques-
lions about his money from coun-
sci for ex-Angel Verinda Brown,
seeking return of $4,000 allegedly
given the cult leader, as follows:
''The heavenly treasure, the way l
observe it, is an impersonal, i'm
material treasure of the storehouse
of wisdom. In short, it's store
house of principle" Divine left
court in Dusenberg.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
Farmer-LabOr
Card Party
Friday Night

Members of the Rondo Farmer
Labor Club will play host to the
public at card party tonight (Fri-
day, Dec. I'D at Pioneer Hall, 5S8
Rondo Street.
Among the awards will be 10
pound turkey. The 25-cent admis-
sion will entitle those who attend
to free lunch.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
OFFER $50 OFF ON
JEWELRY PURCHASES

Everyone appreciates jewelry as
a gift for Christmas. It is some
thing that is lasting.
The LANCER Bros, jewelers., 10
Gated at 450h Wabasha, st. Paul,
say, "Our Xmas gift to you is $3.50
reduction on all merchandise we
have in stock. Just bring our ad
from this paper"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
PHYLLIS WHEATLEY
CAROLERS TO SING AT
SUNDAY FORUM

The Minneapolis Sunday Forum
win meet Dec. 18th at the Phyllis
Wheatley House.
The Phyllis Wheatley Carolers
will give a presentation of Christ
mas songs assisted by Thomas
Russell as narrator. Mr.. Russell
is the dramatic instructor at Phyl-
lis Wheatley House. The Carolers
will be CARRIED in their new cos
tunes.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
Wages And Hours
Bill Unfair To
Negro Worker
Study Reveals Cost OF Living
Higher Than In Parts
Of North

gument that the cost of living in
the South is so low that lower
wages can be scheduled in the
pending wages and hours bill is not
based upon facts, according to the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, which
cited Department of Labor statistics
to prove that it costs almost as
much to live in the South as it does
in the North.
In fact, the statistics by the Ma.
AC.P. indicate that in some south
ern cities it costs more to live than
it does in Chicago.
The Associations objection to
the favorite argument of those who
want a wage differential inserted in
the pending bill was contained in
letter to the New York Herald
Tribune December 6.
Issued by the Organization
"There is a widespread notion"
the letter declares, "that a benefi-
cent climate and other natural ad-
vantages permit southerners, both
white and colored, to live an idyl-
lie life at considerably less cost
than persons living in other Sec
tons of the country.
"This myth is completely explod-
ed by recent study by the De-
partment of Labor. This study re-
veals that the cost of rent, fuel and
light is lower in the South but that
clothing, house furnishing goods
and other necessities are more ex-
pensive.
"For example, the index of the
cost of goods purchased by wage
earners and lower-salaried work
ers, as of September Is, shows that
the average for all items in Chicago
is BIB, but in Atlanta the average
is $50; in Baltimore, 1872; in Jack
sonville, S2.4; in Norfolk, 500; in
Savannah, 1913; in Memphis, S2.9;
in Mobile, 85.1; in New Orleans,
85.2.
The cost of living in these va
rious southern cities differs very
little from that of New York
where the average is S6.7 and of
Washington where the figure is
1877, widely known as two of the
highest priced cities in the United
States"
The letter states that there is a
growing opinion in the South, con-
trary to the views of the politicians,
that the South must have the bene-
fit of differentials in order to exist.
The letter asserts that differentials
in favor of the South viii mean not
difference in cost of living 'but
in lower standards Of living which
in turn mean higher morbidity,
mortality and illiteracy rates, low
er moral standards and other con-
ditions detrimental to the South
and to the country as a whole"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
Dance to End
Elite Annual
Xmas Campaign

The third annual Elite Recorder
Christmas charity campaign will
close on Monday, December 20,
with a mammoth charity dance at
Halle @. Brown House. Miss Bea-
trice Schuck, chairman of the En-
tertainment Committee, late Tues
day night had tentatively secured
the music of Ell Herbert and his
band to play the charity dance
Monday night.
Meanwhile Elite Club canvassers
were combing st. Paul in a late
drive to boost the funds total. The
So ial-Ettes Social Club donated
$1.0O; the Senior Credjafawn Club
$500; Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity
donated $3.50 instead of the $1.0(
mentioned in last weeks edition
The three dollar contribution
enormously attributed to the Pos
tai Alliance last week should have
been credited to the Postal ALI
ance Women's Auxiliary. The Elitt
Club wishes to apologize to the
Auxiliary for that mistake.
Up to Tuesday noon the contrib
utors' names turned in were Mrs
Hazeldel Warricks, Mrs. Barber
Mr.. H. w. Warricks.
At the last regular Elite Clul
meeting held at the home of the
Misses Elizabeth and Beatrice
Schuck, the Welfare COMMITTEES
presented a list of Is names Of
needy children and a tentative list
of the amounts of candy, nuts anC
fruit to be ordered. The Entertain
ment Committee completed its
plans for the December 10th dance
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
DIR. WEBER HEADS MEMS
CLUB

DIR. Earl S. Weber was elected
president of the St. Peter Claver
Mems Club at its recent election of
officers. DR.. Chas. Williams is
vlce-president; Henry Gordon, sec
rotary; A. M. Mcfarland, recording
seerstaryI and David Payne, treas
sA
The president-elect announced a
movement to sponsor parish BAN
quet to be held Monday, Feb. z.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
LELAND MILTON wEsTBERRY

Leland Milton Westberry, age 9,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. William West
berry, SIS Emerson Ave. North,
died Monday, Dec. ID.
Funeral services were held We'd
nesday, December Is, at the Wood
ard Funeral Home chapel, with
Rev. 81. w. Bolts officiating. In
torment at Crystal Lake cemetery.
The deceased is survived by his
mother and father; Vincent, Ronald
and Norman, brothers; Jacqueline
and Frances, sisters.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
MRS. COLEMAN ELECTED
WORTHY MATRON
ST. PAUL o. E. S.

Minnesota Chapter No. 4 o. E. S.
held their annual election of Off
GERS Thursday. The newly elected
officers are: Leona Coleman, Wor-
thy Matron; Florence Doty, Asso-
ciate Matron; Harry Reed, Worthy
Patron; Fife L. Larkins, Secretary;
Lucy Quigley, Treasurer; Annie o.
Jordan, Conductress; Worda John
son, Associate Conductress; and
Emma Cobble, appointed Warder.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
A. ]. LEWIS STILL
IN HOSPITAL

Alfred ]. Lewis of 418 Charles
st. is still confined to Miller Hos
pital where he underwent an oper-
alton two weeks ago.
Mr.. Lewis is. government food in
spector at the local packing plants.
He is vel known in fraternal
circles and is member of Mu
Chapter, Alpha Phi Alpha.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
4 BLIND MAN SLUGGED AND ROBBED
NAME TAMPA HOSPITAL FOR
COLORED WOMAN

Tampa, Fla. (C)-The new
100000 municipal hospital for
colored here has been named for a
colored woman, Clara Frye, pioneer
welfare worker. Mayor R. E. L.
Chancey gave his approval to have
this name cut on the cornerstone
Clara Frye Tampa Municipal
Negro Hospital" = after hearing
pleas from colored delegations.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
Next Issue Out
Early In Week

Advertisers, correspondents and
others should have copy for our
Christmas edition in our Mime
apolis office, 800 Third Street
South, by Tuesday by 5 p. m, in
order to have material in our
Christmas edition. Please take
notice.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
THANKS

Beacon Light S. D. A. Church
members express their apprecia-
ton to Miss Marles Griffin and C.
Edward Sailing for the inspiring
recital rendered Dec. IL, 1887. The
church and friends wish you Gods
blessings to higher attainments.
Beacon Light S. d. A. Church.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17

Card Party and Dance given by
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-
tiers, Saturday, January 8, 1888, al
8 p. m, Fellowship Hall, 3O13 Gar
field Ave., Minneapolis. Entertain
ment committee: B. L. Morris
C. v. Cockrell. Cash awards. AID
mission Csc hitterlings.-Adv.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
GET YOUR CHRISTMAS MONEY

Associated Negro Credit Union
has your ~Xmas" money on hand.
Why don't you avail yourselves of
the opportunity? Call Regent 2528
or Colfax 618S. Prompt service
Adv.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
Slugs Blind
Man, Gets 30
Days in Jail

Frank Jones, a blind man, is con-
hned to the Minneapolis General
Hospital and Oscar Hayes, 81, is
serving a 80 day sentence in the
Worknouse for smuggling Jones.
The fight" occurred in Hayes
nome at 4O7 Bryant Ave. N.
Jones told police hayes roboed
MIN.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
UNCLAIMED CLOTHES TO BE
SOLD BY LOCAL CLEANER

Curtis Harris, proprietor of 10th
Century Dry Cleaners, 406 East
18th Street, is planning soon to sell
large stock of unclaimed mems,
women's and children's suits,
dresses and coats at low and rea-
,onable prices.
Watch paper for sale date.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
MAZDA COLLIER

NADIA Collier, wife of Prince D.
Collier, died December Is at her
residence, 1896 Fourth Ave. So.
Remains resting at Neal Funeral
Home, Inc, Minneapolis. Funeral
arrangements later.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
Chas. Colby,
Duluthian, Hit
By Automobile

Duluth, Dec. 14.-Charles Colby
of GA East 4th Street was knocked
down by an automobile on Fourth
Street Saturday at 500 p. m.
He received chest injuries.
His condition, while serious, is
improved.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
PILGRIM B. Y. P. U.

The Pilgrim B. Y. P. U. cordially
invites you to attend their Forum"
Sunday, December 10, at $3.50 p. m.
Music will be the background for
the subject, "The Prophecy and
Birth of Jesus Christ"
Come, and may you spend every
Sunday evening at our services and
bring your friends.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
Club Meeting Sunday

The Rondo Farmer Labor Club
The Club will hold its regular
meeting Sunday, December 10, at
400 p. m. All members are urged
to be present on time.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17

crime, Governor Hubert White
committed his sentence to life i'm
prisOnment. We guessed right in
the first place. To use the street
phrase, EFT uh nevah happen"
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17

Mrs. Arthur Lyons, rs Hyland
Ave. No., left Wednesday, Deem
Der Is, for Moberly, Mo-, for an in
definite visit.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
Ike Sperling
Now Leads In
Mayor Race

Ike Sperling is now leading in
Como Temples Mayor of Golden
West contest. The standing this
week is as follows:
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
NEGRO COUNCIL MEETS AT
PIONEER HALL SUNDAY

The Minnesota Negro Council
will meet at Pioneer Hall, st. Paul,
Sunday, at 700 p. m.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17
READERS

Do your Christmas shopping
early, from the pages of YOUR
newspaper.-Adv.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17

Intelligent citizens read this
paper line by line, each week
Adv.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17

For Rent-Three room DUPLEX,
reasonable price, 1880 Hiawatha
Ave.-Ady.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-12-17

HALLE @. AUXILIARY MEETS
The regular meeting of the Hal
lie Q. Brown Auxiliary was held on
December Is at 200 p. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-18

have caved in, and church and large school
house have been imperiled.
h 10 one ever knows when or where the fire
INwill break through. One day last summer
dweller in this area discovered that his sole
source of water suddenly and unaccountably
had gone dry. Even as he investigated the cis-
tern began to emit smoke. Then the terra Gotta
casing which projected from it began to crack.
He decided it was time for him to get away
from there. With the help of neighbors he
moved the house and shortly afterwards the
cistern became roaring chimney.
Driving his horses home from pasture,
farmer his prize mare stumble and sink
almost head first into fiery chasm. He was
helpless and turned his head to keep from see
ing the animal roasted alive.
About year ago, pupils of Newstraitsville's
$4,000 high school complained of the heat even
though the furnace out This led to the
discovery that the underground fire was within
25 feet of the structure. An emergency crew
dug through the basement and around the fcun.
dation, removed the smoldering coal, and saved
the building.
One of the strangest things about the New
stratsville fire." as it has been known since II
first started, is that none of the men who al
legedy caused this wanton destruction ever
were arrested
Mine owners offered tempting rewards to
learn the names of the guilty persons. Detec-
tives worked on the case for years. Yet nearly
everyone in this region conceded that it would
be impossible to obtain jury that would con-
vict.
PAGE FIVE
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-18

xINERS and operators of the Vests gold
M and silver mines are watching with intense
interest the ceaseless efforts of state and Fed
eral engineers to bring under control one of the
most destructive fires the world has ever known
which has burned steadily in the caverns of
Ohio's coal deposits For although every safety
measure is taken to prevent fires in western
mines, records which include even recent years
show how valuable properties have been ruined
by disastrous flames and by flooding operations
whereby these were slowly extinguished.
Other mine fires have occasionally burned for
months and years. but have roared deep
underground for So years has the creeping
inferno which moves reentlessly through south
ern Perry Countys once unmatched coal lands,
and today occupies more than seven square miles
between the little coal mining towns of Shawnee
and Newstraitsville.
This roaring fire dragon, burning continu
ously and furiousy since 1884, has eaten more
than $5O,OOOO0O worth of high-grade coal and
now threatens the great Hooking coal fields
with their billion dollar treasure of unmined
fuel.
Turning fireman in a big way Uncle Sam is
using steam and electric shovels dynamite and
the hard-swinging picks of WPA workers to
tame the "inferno," as Perry County miners call
the subterranean con1agration that has been
making a charred and desolate waste of the
landscape, filling the air for miles with fumes,
smoke and SCOT and defying all previous efforts
to subdue it.
The state has joined the Federal Government
in this ambitious 1855, 900 battle to check the
ravages of this destroyer and choke off what is
declared to be the worlds greatest fire of it's
kind.
ONLY now, after weeks of strenuous labor by
some 300 men and many powerful machines, 1t
is announced that the tide of battle is turning
and that the ferocious fire demon soon may be
clicked But the fight is not yet won.
The strategy of the battle is to "cage the
dragon"-to isolate the blaze and it's immediate
fuel and to let it burn itself out. Like the pio-
neers who plowed burrows in the path of a
prairie fire, the coal fire battlers digging up
the veins of coal that the mine flames in their
natural course would follow.
Plans of government engineers call for the
erection of three barriers to hem the fire demon
in effectually. By thus confning the conf1agra-
ton to this relatively small area, engineers be-
lieve it will be possible to save the rest of the
extensive Hooking Valley deposits from which
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-18

barren mans land, to watch the flames roar
and the vapors squirt hissingly from glowing
crater-like holes and to see the miners go gin
gerly about their dangerous work
David Rush and Willard Andrews still live
with their families, in two homes on Plummer
Hill, almost within stones throw of the baz-
ing area. They say they are used to the fire and
do not believe there is any danger, but officials
predict they will have to move out soon.
Supposedly started in the great coal strike of
1884 by miners, this 3d. 3-year-old fire has been
spreading over what coal regard as the
very heart of the great Hooking coal fields one
of the richest deposits in the world. Many acres
of woods and farm lands have been ruined
homes hurriedly abandoned, paved highways
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-18

of Mines in drafting plans to isolate the fire.
estimated it would take year and half to
cork up the three "bottlenecks" of the burn
ing area.
If this is done effectively, the fires course
will be halted. Otherwise it is conceivable that
the flames will sweep on until eventually they
reach almost to the Ohio River, nearly $50 miles
south of Newstraitsvile.
Gargantuan trenches and tunnels sixteen feet
wide and from eight to thirty more feet deep
are being dug out in this strange but highly
scientific campaign to head off seeming un-
conquerabe force of devastation.
One of the serious problems of the fire fight
ers is the influx of visitors. Motorists COM
ing long distances to inspect this charred and
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-18

Workers Are Making a
Ditch TO Be Filled With
Non-Inflammable Material
TO Prevent the Fire From
Spreading to Nearby Pro-
ducing Mines and Destroy.
ing a Million Tons of Coal.
AT Left Is Miner David
Rush. His Home Stands
1000 Feet From the Fire.
Returning From Work He
Looks Over His Farm TO
See How Far Flames Have
Advanced in His Absence.
A Crack From Fire Holes
Passes His Front Window.