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Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
RANCH WORKER
FACES 50-YEAR
PRISON TERM

Earl H. Jackson, SO, Negro, was
sentenced to Folsom penitentiary
Saturday with recommendation
that the term be for so years. He
had waived all formalities in the
lower courts, pleading guilty to a
charge of rape.
The huge laborer was arrested
in the Calipatria area after he
brutally attacked the Mexican wife
of a Hindu rancher He admitted
in court Saturday that he had
beaten the woman with the ham
die of his knife and pounded her
in the face with his fists.
He appeared at her home during
the absence of her husband, drag
ged her from the house TO a ditch
bank, tore her clothes from her
body and attacked her, according
to his testimony and that of his
victim.
Recommendations for the 50-year
term were made by Judge Vaughn
N Thompson and District Attor-
ney Elmer Heald
Jackson weighs l72 pounds and
is five feet 10 inches in height. He
said he had been working on ranch
es in the Calipatria area.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

Batting averages took a steep
rise this week when old-timers
whitfield down their pencils, sharp
ened their memories and jotted
down answers to last weeks know
Your County" questions in the Post
Press.
Best answers were submitted by
Mrs. George H. Johnson, j. D. Nc
Cary, A. B. Derrick and Earlene
Northrop. Miss Northrop is the
daughter of pioneer.
At the same time, the Post-Press
stood ready to admit itself in error
about the first white woman to
settle in Imperial Valley. Anthem
tic information conferred the honor
upon Mrs. Andy Elliott, who, al
though sshe did not file upon land.
engaged with her husband in the
cattle business here before Mrs.
John Shenk settled here and filed
upon land.
Answers to last weeks questions
failed to settle another controver-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
Steel Strikers
Return to Work
WALKOUT ENDS
'ON AGREEMENT
FOR BALLOT
LabOrers Will Vote on
Representation in
Bargaining

More t h an $4,000 steel
workers returned to their
jobs in the Jones and Laugh
lin Steel plants of Pennsyl-
vania today. while officials of the
steel workers organizing commit
tee met to consider failure of large
independent steel producers to sign
union contracts.
The j. & workers ended their
strike under an agreement provid-
ing for an employe election to de-
termine whether the SWOS shall,
represent workers in collective
bargaining.
In the automobile industry, a
counter union move by Henry Foro
conceded with settlement OF e.. a
series of spontaneous strikes in
General Motors plants. Ford warn
ed his employees to stay out OF
unions and said his company al
ways made a better bargain for
our men than an outsider could
Striking movie technicians III
Hollywood prepared to hold mass
meeting tonight, undaunted by
their failure to disturb premier
OF Captains Courageous last
night.
In st. Louis, employees Of 20
leading hotels struck today af-
ter the hotel association refused
to recognize their union. The strike
involved about 5000 employees,
union leaders said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

Modesto and Merced applications
over power company protest. "It
is highly gratifying Webb said.
that time has demonstrated that
the commission then used good
judgment in approving the pro-
jectS."
Modesto and Merced have not
only made a profit, he added, but
district operation of power has
been SO successful that private
power companies are being elm
mated from both fields.
Returning from the Los Angeles
hearing, an Imperial Valley dele
CATION described the testimony and
the opposition offered by the New
Cal company, which was repre-
sented by Attorney Henry w. Coil
of Riverside and Fred o. Dolson,
general manager.
Witnesses favoring the project
described the government offers OF
power construction funds as the
climax of battle which included
the fight for Boulder Dam and
for the All American canal. The
commission was told that the peo-
pie of the valley will heal tily
endorse the proposal
The offers in question are those
of PWA to give the people $l,242,-
900 or As per cent of the total, ana
loan them $1,518,000, to be paid
exclusively from power revenue
The money would be used in con.
struction of a power plant and
main distributing system.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
SEX SLAYER
ADMITS GUILT

FRESNO, Calf, May IS. UP)-
Roy. L. lighthouse, 27-vear-old
confessed slayer, freshly shaven and
his clothes neatly pressed. pleaded
guilty to murder charges in super
ior court here today.
Superior Judge Ernest Klette set
Monday as the date for fixing the
degree of the crime and of passing
sentence.
The youth, who admitted strangl-
ing Mrs. Alma Estep, 38-year-old
nurse and mother of four children
accepted the attorney appointed by
the court and indicated his belief
that he will be given life impris-
onment "if the judge can see things
my way"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
Assassin of Buron Fits Confesses
TWO OTHERS
EX-CONV VICTS.
STILL ON RUN
Shooting a Paid Job
For Revenge Says
Prosecutor

LOS ANGELES, May 10.
(UP) - District Attorney
Buron Fits announced to-,
day that the three men who
shot him in the arm in ar
attempted assassination two months
ago had been identified, and one
was under arrest and had con-
feSSed.
The two still at large are eX-
convicts of Los Angeles, he said.
"The shooting was a paid job in
revenge against my prosecution OF
criminals"
Fits returned last night from
Oakland, where he went by plane
with his deputy, Eugene d. Will
liamS, to question the confessed
assassin, whose name was with
held. The man was arrested on
suspicion OF burglary and was sad
to have confessed to District At
torney Earl Warren of Alameda
county of his part in the plot
against Fits.
The man told Fits he was Of
fered $1,000 for the killing, and
was paid only 5000 because Fits
was only wounded. He told Fits
the names of his two accomplices
but said he did not know who the
"higher-ups" in the conspiracy
were, that his companions made
the financial arrangements.
Fits was alone in his autono-
bile when he was shot from am
bush.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

les Davis, many years ago. When
her son died eight years ago."
Grandma was adopted by the
Elks,. an organization with which
her son was affiliated. The PEG
chapter also adopted her. She was
established in small cottage at
the county hospital because she
said that was where she wished
to live the remainder of her life
Every holiday was frightened by
gifts from friends and the two or.
ganizationS. Her failing health die
not lessen her interest in the ac.
tivitieS of the world and she al
ways welcomed visitors. The last
social function she attended was
the Elks Mothers day party hello
May 7, at which she was a special
guest. When her son died, Grand.
ma" was left alone, the last of her
family.
She will be buried at Evergreen
cemetery beside her son.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed from the Lemons chapel at 2:30
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The
Elks will be in charge of the rites
with the Rev. E. K. Latimer, pas
tor of the State Street Christian
church officiating.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

Harry l.. Hopkins by July /. More
over, the average apparently will
be exceeded during the early months
of the fiscal year, when the de-
mandS on WPA should be lightast,
Hopkins told a House Appropria-
tions subcommittee:
I'VE do not arbitrarily drop any
body from the WPA rolls who is
in need of relief The thing that
we can control is the number of
new people coming to our program.
IF we shut down the intake. we
get a net reduction each week in
the number of people working for
us. In effect, that is the way we
do it"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

Northrop says that the author ack-
nowledgeS patterning the character
after the daughter of w f. Holt,
who was the niece of Leroy Holt
although the story does not pretend
to be an autobiography
4. The largest stamp mill ever
erected in North America was in
stalled at the old mining camp of
Hedges in eastern Imperial county
by the Hedges Mining company
during the 1905. 1t consisted OF
l40 stamps of 1900 pounds each
thus exceeding the capacity of the
famous Treadwell, S. D., mill of
$50 stamps weighing 1900 pounds
each
5. The Yuma Project canal which
conveys water from Laguna to tho
Bard -Winterhaven and Yuma Val
ley farm areas passes through q
tunnel under the Colorado river
near Yuma. The tunnel is ap-
proximately 1000 feet in length.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

Only a drastic reduction from
now until fall will allow any in
crease in WPA employment when
normal layoffs begin in private in
dustry toward the end of the year,
officials indicated
The bill, in its present form is
designed to eliminate the possib-
ility of a deficiency appropriation
for relief during fiscal 1898. That
makes it essential that WPA work.
Crs average considerably fewer than
100000 during the year beginning
July l.
There are 100000 now employed
by WPA and reduction of only
100000 iS'eXpected by Administrator
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

sial issue, however. The Post-Press
had believed that the character
Barbara Worth, in Harold Bell
Wright's novel was the only prin-
cipal character in the book not
sketched from real life, but Miss
Northrop cites the authors acknowl-
edgement that the character was
patterned afer the daughter of w. F.
Holt. Miss Northrop, Derrick and
Mrs. johnson concurred. McCary's
answer agreed with that prepared
in advance by the Post-Press.
Otherwise, correct answers were
given by: Question No. |, Miss Nor
throp Mrs. johnson. No. 2, Miss
Northrop, Derrick, Mrs. Johnson.
McCary. No. 4, Miss Northrop
Derrick Mrs. Johnson, McCary. No
S, Derrick, Mrs. Johnson, McCary
Derrick did not attempt to answer
the first question and Miss Northrop
did not attempt to answer the last
90
Editors NOte;-In considering
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
WIFE OF FILM
STAR DIES

HOLLYWOOD, May Is. W.R-
Mrs. Marguerite Conklin, As, wife of
Chester Conklin, comedian of the
silent screen, died today. Her pass
ing brought to a close one of Hol-
lywood's most beautiful romances
Five years ago Conklin was en-
tertaining a group OF crippled per-
sons and among them was Miss
Marguerite Rouse, once an accom-
plished violinist, but bound to a
wheel chair by paralysis following
fall down the stairs of a Chicago
treatre.
A friendship sprang up between
the helpless woman and the come
dian; it ripened into love. and in
May, 1894, they were married.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

Flludy.
Handing down the commission s
ruling authorizing an election to
approve PWA and REA grants ano
loans for construction of the peo-
pies power system on the Ali
American canal, Webb declared
that the district should not pass
up the opportunity to obtain such
favorable financing"
with such favorable federal fl
nancing available for only a linn
tied time" Webb said, certainly
the opportunity should be taken.
even though at some later date
the Nevada California company
might avoid losses to its stockhold-
ers by selling out to the Imperia,
Irrigation District or by some 9TH
er arrangement"
That the commissions action was
based on past experience was in.
dicated when the chairman cited
Modesto and Merced irrigation dis
trict experiences.
when Modesto and Merced ap-
piled to the securities commission
to issue bonds for power purposes,
the attorney general said, "the mat
ter was bitterly fought by private
power corporations on the basis
that the districts should whole
sale power, if permitted to develop
energy at ALL"
The commission approved the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
3 MONTH OLD
BABY DIES IN
C. A | { X | co
Mercury Continues
To Climb i'm
Valley

' CALEXICO, May Is. =.
Summer heat in Imperial
Valley claimed its first vic
tim this year with the death
of Jerry Martinez. 3-month
old son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Mar
tinez, in CaleXico late Friday af-
ternoon.
I The child was stricken early in
the afternoon, living but a few
hours after prostration occurred,
according to Deputy Coroner Her.
bert Hughes. The intense heat OF
the last three days was blamed
for the death of the child at the
family home at 927 Sixth street.
This years first heat victim was
claimed more than a month earlier
than the first to succumb last
year. In 1896 the first heat death
occurred June % in Brawley.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed from the Riggs undertaking
establishment in Calexico. No in
quest will be held, Hughes said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
Danes Pay Homage
To Tall Monarch

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May
Is. W.P)-King Christian X. Eu-
ropes tallest monarch, celebrated
his silver jubilee today.
A three-day festival began in
honor of the reign of one of the
most democratic kings in the world.
A hundred thousand Danes gath
cred outside the Amalienborg cas-
tie today and cheered the king. He
appeared on the balcony holding
his 2-year-old grandchild, Princess
Elizabeth, in his arms.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
SIX CARS OF
CANTS GONE,

Six cars of cantaloupes have been
shipped to date. the first car from
Brawley being shipped by Richman-
Samuel with the assistance of six
or seven growers.
This pool car was shipped under
the Sweet Eatin" label as were the
two shipped to date by Golden
Valley. Charles Freedman Co. has
also shipped two cars.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
MERCURY GOES
TO 11O DEGREES

Saturday temperatures fell be-
hind those of Friday, missing by
two degrees the high point of
the day before.
AT 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon
the thermometer had mounted to
ITO degrees after a hike of two
degrees over the reading of the
previous hour. The recording at
noon was 105 degrees.
Hourly readings for the day
were: 81 degrees at am, SO at
am, 102 at 10 am, 1031a at IL
am, los at noon, l08 at pm,
and 110 at 2 pm. Humidity at
noon measured Is.
The heat subsidized little from
the 112 of 2 o'clock Friday after
noon when the reading was taken
at 5 pm. that day the tempera-
ture was LOT degrees. The mini
mum temperature for Saturday
was SO degrees at 5 am.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

answers to the following questions.
il will be assumed that the areas
described by the terms IMPERIAL
COUNTY or IMPERIAL VALLEY
have been so designated at all
times i'm the past. In submitting
answers, the best of which will
be published next week, be sure
to be specific as to names, dates
and locations. Quote authorities
when possible. Some questions
may be controversial.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
No DetOurs-

Landscape gardening at the Hunter
residence, 1864 Brighton, Harry SUIT
ten discovered the years best ex-
ample that salt grass will grow any,
where. 1t was a buried sponge rub
Der ball, somewhat worn down by
erosion-and through it was grow
ing a nice stand--three shoots, to
be eXact-of salt grass. Harry
brought in the proof. The ball
etill bounceS.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
THIS WEEKS QUESTIONS

I. Where and what are the So
called Travertine rocks?
2. What are Elephant Trees, and
where in Imperial county are they
found?
3. Where was the first Protestant
church erected in Imperial county?
4. When and where was the
first hemp crop harvested in I'M
perial county?
5. How soon after the discovery
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
AL Smith Sails on
First Ocean Jaunt

NEW YORK, May s. UR)-Al-
fred E. Smith sailed today aboard
the Conte Di Savoia on his first
ocean voyage declaring he was sure
he would be SeaSick.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

The Only SOiution-
Raoul Matthews, Mexicali, mad a
worried appearance as he glanced
now and again at the clock IN a
local dispensery Friday night. some
one asked why.
AT six o'clock" grumbled Raoui'
Il have three appointments. one
in FL Centro, one in Mexicali ana
another some place else" He cogl-
tated a minute. IF l keep one, I'm
eoins to insult the others" ne
added For a while longer he wor-
ried about it. Then a ray of SUM-
shine broke through.
Il have it," he said. Il won't
keep any Of them. Then nobody'a
feelings will be hurt"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
DRASTIC SLASH IN
WPA RANKS HINTED
In NEW RELIEF BILL
Measure Will Prohibit Workers Returning to Rolls
After Summer Spent i'm Private
Employment
-----OO-

WASHINGTON, May 15 UP)-The $1,000, 100000
relief bill which the house will consider next week will
prohibit the rehiring winter of workers who leave
the Works Progress Administration rolls for private
ployment during the summer, it appeared today
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
'Grandma' Davis, Protege of
ElkS, P.E.O., Dies at Cottage

Grandma Davis 68, beloved protege of the Ell Centre
Eks and the PEO society died in her little cottage at
the county hospital Friday night result of attack
of pneumonia. Mrs Annie Davis was born in Ohio April
90 1865 and Imperial Valley with her son Char
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

of America by Columbus was I'M
perial Valley visited by Europeans?
LAST WEEKS ANSWERS
|. A former citizen of Mexico
then resident of Yuma, by the name
of Pacacho, discovered the first gold
in the famous Picacho mine in 1865
In 1872 he recorded the claim at
Tucson ana started development
work Descendants of the original
discoYerer still live in Yuma.
,. Water from Carri2o creek
flows into San Felipe creek and
thus into Salton Sea.
8. tOriginal answers) The char
acter Barbara Worth is the only
important character in the Harold
Bell Wright story by the same
name which was not founded upon
some individual In real life. (An-
swers submitted during the weak
indicate that the Post-Press staff
may have been amiss in its answer
to this question Miss Earlene
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
Action on Power
Ballot Explained
BY Atty. Gen. Webb

That the Nevada California Electric corporation might
avoid losses to its stockholders by selling out its Imperial
Valley system to the Imperial Irrigation District the
opinion expressed by Attorney General u S. Webb, chair
Of the California Districts Securities Commission
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
Attention, Brawley-

Jimmy Dungin has been mas
querading on the Brawley police
department for long time under
that name. Perhaps it would be
better to let it go-but what's the
difference? Records reveal that his
real name Careful now, Jimmy is
Lemuel Ichabod Dungin. At that,
RRll trade you mIldle names,
Jimmy.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
ADD STRIKE ........... Pc
GENERAL MOTORS
STRIKE SETTLED

DETROIT, May Is. W,p) The
United Automobile Workers union
settled the last of the newest SER
les of spontaneous strikes in Cen
eral Motors plants today, while
Continued on Page 3; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
Wuxtra, WuXtra!-

If a cook fried an egg, now, IL
isn't news, but when. However,
let's start at the beginning. At the
sheriff's office there was a note
on the report about labor trouble"
at a local cafe. Bill Scofield went
out. He came back grabbed pen-
Gil and reported:
Cook fried by proprietor"
Could he mean fired?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
A Cool Subject

1t looked something like a frame
up, what with Bill Strickland a
title man, and Hal Tyler, an in
Surance man, discussing earnest
ly with DR.. Phil Hodgkins, owner
of a new home, the merits and
dement's of cooling systems, ct
cetera and so forth. Nobody, how
ever, tried to sell anything.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16
A New Resolution

RR, who can't answer third
OF the Know Your County" ques.
tions appearing each Sunday in
the Post-Press, was somewhat star.
tied to find Mrs. George Johnson,
Holtville, answering most of them
correctly and giving as her source
various past issues of the Press
or the Post within the last three
years. Maybe we'd better start
reading our paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

of America by Columbus was I'm
perial Valley visited by Europeans?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-16

Editors NOte:-In considering
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-06-10
Sugar Company
Putting Up
Beet Dumps

Sugar beet paintings in this
area are sufficiently large to justi-
fy the erection of a beet dump here,
and the work has already been
started. Foundations for the scales
and the dump are being built on the
N. P. right of way west of Fruitland
street and worhmen state that the
job calls for completion by the
first of the month.
Beet crops are coming along IN
good shape in this community In
the majority of cases, and Utah
Idaho Sugar company furnishing
the contract labor for the produc-
ton of the crop.
Several local farmers have ind1-
Gated intentions Of increasing acre
ages of beets the coming year u
the crop turns out as well as early
predictions indicate.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-06-10
The Week in Business


After working summers In q fill
ing station and as a deckhand on
company tankers, Harry F. Sinclair.
r., 81 years old and fresh from coll
lege, Joins the board Of directors OF
his fathers $40, 000, 900 CONSOLIDATE
ed Oil Corporation =. New Treas
ury notes for $500, 000, 900 appear in
two series, bearing interest at l 8 70
and ~ percent Of previous issues
Called as a witness by the Sc
curities & Exchange Commission,
Waddil Catchings, former presi-
dent of the Goldman Sachs Trad
ing Corporation, admitted that his
company's assets shrunk from $685.
600, 900 in 1929 to only $34 LOCO, 900 In
1892, q loss of 80 percent in three
years I. Private reports indicate
q wheat harvest Of $4,000, 900
bushels, largest since 1892, an esti-
mate which caused sharp break
in the price of futures -. Stock
holders of corporations this month
will receive dividends Of 1888, 039.-
600, an increase of % percent over
dividend declarations for the same
period last year. '1~ss".+A
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-06-10
Definite Plans Not
Yet Announced

Much speculation has been ram
pant throughout Kennewick and
vicinity the last couple OF days, rel
alive to the activity near the flour
mill. .-e
Workmen are busy there digging
test holes for foundations, apparent
ly for large buildings. Nelson Mort
enson, representative Of the III. N.
Laython Co., general contractors OF
Minneapolis, has charge Of the
work and is exceptionally non-com-
initial. .Ee E 70
Inquiry discloses that a large
eastern manufacturing firm is In
vestigating conditions here upon
which to base conclusions regard
ing the erection of manufactur-
ing establishment. No definite in
formation is being given out at
present, as TO who the firm is, what
the product is nor when the plant
will be started, IL ever. 6
Judging from the depth and To-
cation Of the holes, IL is evident
that large structures are in con-
temptation. It is known that vir-
tually all the property in the tri-
angle formed by the three railroads
has been taken under a 90-day
option, and that investigations con-
corning water supply, fire protec-
ton and sewage facilities have been
carried on In this vicinity for sew
eral weeks.
That the plant will employ q
large number Of men is evident
from the extraneous activity which
has resulted from the investigation
being carried on. Virtually every de-
sirable vacant lot in the city has
been tied up and should the new
industry start here a serious hous-
ing shortage will undoubtedly re-
suit.
Officials state that definite an
nouncement concerning the COM
pany's intentions will be made pub
lie within two weeks.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-06-10
River Side Grocery
to Have Opening
Saturday PM.

The River Side Market g. Grocery
is announcing its summer opening
for Saturday Of this week. The
neat little place half a mile west or
the city limits on the River Road
has been newly decorated and sew
eral improvements made. The stock
OF groceries and meats has been en-
larged and fresh vegetable rack
has been installed.
A. I. Smith, who operates the
places. will again make a speciality
OF the products, fruit and yepe-
tables, grown on his own and near
by places. The larger building ad-
Jacent to the stand viii be USED so,.
storage and display Of his fruit and
vegetables. anu
Mr.. Smith reports that the HIGH
WIND Monday afternoon did a Iot ~
damage to his peach crop. as we,,
as causing a considerable loss =,
cherries. He states that there w,,,
De not more than a quarter cron ~
either fruit this year. "
Refreshments viii be served Ga.
urday afternoon at the opening.