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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-11

Along with schools throughout the
State, all school pupils in the city and
county schools here will be furnished
free textbooks during the coming ses-
sion. up through the seventh grade,
it was announced today by Superin-
tendent E. M. Rollins. Supplies of the
free and rental texts are already be-
ing received, and the entire stock IS
expected to be on hand by the date
of the opening on Thursday Septem-
be, 9.
Mr. Rollins said he estimated some
$4,000 vo,umes would be necessary to
take .,are of the needs of the city snd
county pupils, of which there will De
around |: 900 to 5000.
< Under an act OF ne 1887 General
Assembly free textbooks will be sup
Piled to all children through the
seventh grades. From and including
the eight grade on through the high
sche oil, texts will be rented at 10"
rate. The change, effective for the
iii S, time this term, is expected to
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-11
PROPERTY VALUES
BEING DETERMINED
Total Will Be Ready for City COuhcll
To Fix Tax Rate at Meet
ing August % :.

Property values accruing from the
1897 listings for the city are being
compiled at the city clerks office and
the total valuation is to be available
for the City Council at it's regular
monthly meeting for August on the
fourth Monday, it was stated today
CITY officials are hoping for ar
aggregate valuation of around ~,
100000, but will not even guess that
it will ,sc quite that high. Last year
the figure was, in round numbers
$6,5OO,OOO.
Estimates, or perhaps guess
would be just as good word, of the
probable tax rate for the new fiscal
year have ranged all the way from
$50 to as high as 50 by comparison
with a $1.25 valuation for the past
several years.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-11
IAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Fuge -Four

l. Who took the championship title
away from John l.. Sullivan?
2. What was the date of adoption OF
the stars and stripes by the Con-
tinental Congress?
3. Does an alien man become an
American citizen by marrying a
woman citizen of the U. S.? (
4. Name the first woman aviator who
flew across the Atlantic Ocean.
s. Where was Edgar Allan Poe born?
s. What sort of fur is dyed coney?
Z. What insect has the nickname
''Child of the Earth?"t
g. Who was Richard Savage? =
g. What is the surface distance from
the South to the North Pole?
10. Name the eleventh President OF
the u. S.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-11
MEDLIN is CHOSEN
FIELD SECRETARY
Former M. p. Pastor Here Goes With
Christian Endeavor Society
Of the State

Rev. Luther r. Medlin, for two
years pastor of the Methodist Pro
testant church here until a year ago,
has been elected field secretary of
the North Carolina Christian En-
deavor Union, and will give his en-
tire time to the work, it was learned
here today Rev. Mr.. Mediums selec-
ton for the work was made at a Joint
meeting of the finance and executive
committees of the Christian Endeavor
Union held last Saturday in Winston
Salem.
A full-time secretary for the State
organization has been for years the
dream of leaders in the movmeent.
Those here who remember Mr.. Medlin
as we'll as officials of the association,
consider him well equipped for his
new duties. He is graduate of High
Point College in the class of 1880, and
for the year 1928 he served as State
president of the union. After resign
ing the pastorate of the church here,
he became principal of a Gastonia
school.
Information available here was that
he would begin his new duties on a
part-time basis, tut that his duties
will be enlarged to full-time work in
a short time.
Rev. Kendall Schoffner president
of the State union; Rev. Aubert Smith
chairman of the finance committee,
and Harry Hirst, treasurer, were nam
ed as an advisory committee to as
sist in working out the enlarged pro-
gram.
There are number of local units
of the Christian Endeavor in Hen
derson and Vance county, being chief
ly in the Methodist Protestant, Con-
gregational Christian and Presby-
terrain churches.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-11
HOME SECURITY MEN
TAKING BOAT TRIP

l.. R. Garrett, assistant manager OF
the local office of the Home Security
Life Insurance Company, E. M. Ed
wards and son, J. T. Edwards, left
this morning to attend the annual
convention of the company, which will
be held on a three day boat and sight
seeing trip from Norfolk, Va, to Wash
ington D. c., and Baltimore, Md.
Approximately $50 agents and Off
Gals will attend the annual event.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-11
Daniel Declares
Price of Tobacco
Highly Pleasing

"Prices highly satisfactory, aver
ages about twenty-five cents" said
telegram this afternoon to the
Daily Dispatch from w. b. Daniel
Jr., of this city, who with A. III.
Moore is operating one of the
larger warehouses on the White
vile market i'm the border belt ter
ritOry, where season sales got I'M
der way yesterday. The telegram
bore out press dispatches yester-
day and today from the border
belt, and lent additional encOur-
agement to those who have be-
come more optimistic over the out
look for this section, where the
season opens on Thursday, Sep
temher 16, little more than a
month hence.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-11
JUNIOR ORDER TO
MEET ON THURSDAY

The Raymond B. Crabtree councli
If the Junior Order will meet Thurs
dav evening at s o'clock in the orders
hall. and councillor E. M. Powell has
urged all members and officers TO DC
present.
A discussion of a fish fry to be held
Il the near future will be held, ana
important matters concerning dele
gates to the state meeting in Durham
August 1918 will be talked.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-11
Free Textbooks Will Be
Furnished School Pupils
Will Be Provided Up Throu gh Seventh Grade and Kent
ed from Seventh Grade o n Through High School;
Will Require About $4,000 Volumes Here

be a tremendous saving to parents Of
SCHOOL children in the State.
instead of teachers DISTRIBUTING
lists of textbooks on the opening DAY
ard instructing the children to edull
themselves with the books by the fol.
lowing day, as heretofore, the DOCKS
will he on hand in the class rooms or.
opening day, Mr.. Rollins said.
The fall term will get under way
en- Thursday, September 9, which ~'ll
be the day for registration. On FRI
slav lessons will be assigned and az
i've class work will start on thu fol
loving Monday
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-11
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST II, 1897
MAYOR POWELL HAc
LIGHT CITY DOCKp,

Mayor Henry T. Powell bos
cases scheduled for trial in cit nu two
today, only one of the defans court
appearing for trial. 'auants
William Taylor, Jr., Negro ch
with being disorderly and fo Ti1uidrsed
pay Csc food bill at Rex CO. ig to
called and failed, and a cam was
issued for him. pas was
Reginald Parkinson, of Wasbin
D. c., paid $3.50. and costs for u'
ing. speed
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-11
BUSINESS SCHOOL
PLANS FOR OPENING

In preparation for its OPENING G.
TENDER 6, Henderson Business sep Sep'
is having it's interior repaintoS S'nO0l
redecorated, according to Mrs = ana nc
Everitt, owner of the school u
Mrs. Everritt expects a argo
rollment Of students this year o. ana Gu
looking forward to another succ a Is
full year. 00eSS-
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-11
Value OF SIS, 400 Placed
On Health Work 6 Months
Dr. Gregg Enumerates Work of County Department tor
First Six Months of 1887; Examinations and Treat
ment of Preventive Nature Are Shown

BY way of showing the value of
services performed by the Vance
County Health Department, Dr. A.
D. Gregg, health officer, today made
public a statement of what had been
done in the first six months of 1887
and computed the service on the basis
of what would be charged by regular
practicing physicians for the same
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-11
Condition Unchanged.

The condition of Mrs. George E.
Kicks, who is very i'll at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. w. H. Windley on
Young street. was reported unchanged
today, Her daughter, Mrs. w. L. Full
cher, Of Morehead City, has arrived
to be with her.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-11
PRAYER Meeting Tonight

Prayer meeting service at the First
Methodist Episcopal church will be
held at o'clock this evening, it was
announced today by the pastor, Rev.
r.. E. Brown.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-11

Lions Meet Tonight-The regular
weekly meeting of the Lions Club vii!
be held tonight at Z o'clock at Hill
Top tea room.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-11

Natfalia Crane of Brooklyn, N. Y,
onetime child author, born in New
York, "a years ago.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-08-11
WAKE UP YOUR
LIVER BILE

Without Calomel-And You'll Jump Out Of Rod !.
the Morning Karin to Go
The liver should pour out two ror,,
liquid bile into your bowels dailv i Il th;uo o.
Is not flowing freely, your food doesn y as que
1t just decays in the bowels. Gas bl SatsesI
your stomach: You get constipated "y y. up
whole system is poisoned and You feel s auur
sunk and the world looks punk. ~'' 'Our'
Laxatives are only makeshifts. A mer.
takes those good, old Carter's Tittio aT Ts II
Pills to get these two pounds of bile ao m,Set
freely and make you feel up and IN" Tgw orrus
less. gentle, yet amazing in making b;e saa-
freely. Ask for Carriers Little Liver p;l,u INV Nv
name. Stubbornly refuse anything else a.'s Ss 7,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
To the Ladies -
(AN EDITORIAL)

High credit is due members of the Womans Ten Thou
sand Club who, without experience and knowledge of
the tasks enailed in newspaper publishing, have work
ed earnestly and hard in preparing and publishing to-
days feature sections.
For two weeks large corps of these has been
gathering and writing and feature stores selling
the advertising which makes possible the edition. taking
orders for special copes planning the proper pic
lures and taking classified advertising.
That the women, unframed in the exacting methods
of newspaperdom have been able to perform the count
less duties without previous training is tribute in itself
to the sincerity, capabty and earnestness of these
ladies and their fine organization
Especially high commentator is due Mrs Warren
Currier president of the club who publisher of the
day marshaled her forces, perfected her organization
readily grasped the huge size of the job and that
every detail properly taken of. Similar
mendaon is due those of her immediate executive staff
upon whose shoulders descended the responsibilities of
the various departments.
Obviously it is impossible to list the 40 so others
who assumed duties and performed their tasks like old
tmers-tasks which took their time and energy and
which they accepted and performed 100 per cent
They have every reason to be proud of this edition.
which is their handiwork Our pride in presenting it
to readers is second only to pride in the women
who made it possible and in the type of modern
hood which these ladies exemplify Without hesitation
can publicly say that there should be fear for
the future of Americaor civilization long it is sup
ported by such competent leaders these Women of
1887. ..z
PAUL JENKINS, Publisher.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10

old youth was arrested in the physi-
clans office at the same time.
Luckett was not present at the
time the officers arrived at his
office at Fifth and Main street
but returned later.
Officers took the girl to the
county hospital while the men
were taken to the county Jail.
Luckett was arraigned before
Judge John E. Simpson in Ell Cen
tro justice court and bail set al
$4,000. The complaint charging him
with performing the abortion was
signed by Frank P. McCaslin. dep
uty sheriff.
Instruments, bedding, and equip
ment used by the physician were
confiscated by the officers to be
used in the prosecution of the case
The act with which the physician
is charged is felony. Punishment
for conviction of the crime is cov-
cred by section 274 of the pena
code. Conviction carries a sentence
of not less than two or more thar
five years Imprisonment in thg
state penitentiary.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
.ULTIMATUM N IN
MEXICO FARM
STRIKE ISSUED

MEXICALI, May 10-Trouble be-
tween the Agrarians and the strik-
ing farmers of the Mexicali Valley
will be settled at a conference at the
palacio at 7 o'clock Monday night
or general strike will be called by
labor unions in 48 hours, striking
farmers declared Monday.
The conference will be attended
by Governor Sanchez Taboada,
Gabino Vasquez, head of the Agrar-
ian department.; Luis Sanchez Me-
jorada, personal representative of
President Cardenas; and represen-
tatives of the Agrarians, all labor
unions and the striking farmers.
Late Monday afternoon the farm
ers sent a telegram to President Car
denas asking that Mejorado be re-
placed by another representative be-
cause he is too i'll to handle the
problems and settle the difficulties.
The third week of the Sit-dOwn
strike found between 10000 and
$4,000 men, women and children
encamped in the palacio park.
TOO much talk with no action, -
received the blame for lack of re-
suits from repeated conferences, the
striking farmers said. They allege
the representatives seek only to de.
lay settlement until the Agrarians
have all the land.
Farmers visit the various colon
les daily to care for what crops are
left, leaders said. They declare they
will have won little if they win the
fight but lose their crops.
None of the strikers have left the
park, according to leaders.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
DR.. TO. LUCKETT BEHIND BARS
10000 GROUP
TAKES HELM
Women Edit Their
Own Edition of
POst-Press

With today's issue, the I'M
perial Valley Press and The
Morning Post present to the
newspaper public of Impe-
rial Valley the Woman's
Ten Thousand Club edition, feature
sections of which were written anG
edited by members of the Ell Gen.
tro Woman's Ten Thousand Club.
Most of the advertisements ap-
pearing in the edition also were
old by members OF the club. A
percentage of revenue goes to the
clubs treasury.
With Mrs. Warren Currier. pres
dent, as publisher for the day, the
Woman's club aided by the Junior
Ten Thousand Club, marshaled its
membership for the purpose OF this
edition into a closely knit news
paper organization, with regular
PoSt-Press staff members serving
only in an advisory capacity. While
members of the clubs editorial
Continued on Page 8, Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
HONORS GO TO
VALLEY ENTRY
in YUMA SHOW
PitZer's Horse Takes
Championship at
Annual Event

YUMA, May 10. Patsy
Lou, three-year-old, belong
ing to Mrs. Charles Pitzer
of Ell Centro, won the grand
champion award at the Yu-
ma horseshow Sunday.
The black mare took the trophy
as grand champion and three cups.
the best ladies three gated, three
gated open, and the competition
for colts foaled in 1884. Patsy Lou
was ridden by Mrs. James Stone
Of Calexico.
Susann, year-old bay belonging
to Mr.. and Mrs. Pitzer and half
sister of the grand champion, took
first in the yearling class.
John Elmore, jr, riding Mar
quita, took first in horsemanship
for 10-year olds and younger and
second for yearling colts in the
thoroughbreds with Lady Weeds.
He took third in the open stall
lion class with Prototype.
Miriam Elmore was fourth, with
Rita Wilkinson in the children
pair class and sixth in the open
horsemanShip of all ages with Mar
quita.
jeanne McKim, Imperial, won
second in childrens pairs and with
her father, j. l.. McKim, third,
in the parent and child class.
Their horses were California
Knight and Desert Dawn.
Fourth in the parent and child
class was won by Rita wilkinson
and her father, Reed Wilkinson
of Caiipatria.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
Bullet Kills l.. w. Allen
GUN GOES OFF
ACCIDE ENTALLY
IN WIFE'S HAND
District Accountant Dies
In Home; Working
On Automobile

Imperial, May 10-A bull
let from an "unloaded" gun
in the hands of his wife, cost
the life of Lauren w. Allen,
38, Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict accountant, late Saturday af-
ternoon.
Allen died instantly. The charge
entered his head back of the left
ear, according to Deputy Coroner
Herbert Hughes. Allen was sitting
in front of workable at the fam
lily home at 1882 West Eighth while
he and his wife worked on some
guns. Mrs. Allen, she told officers,
took the clip of shells from her
automatic while attempting to re-
pair it. Her husband took a gun
book from shelf and seated him
self at the table while studying
it. She stood behind him with the
automatic in her hand. She said
it discharged in her hand, appar-
emily from a shell in the barrel.
She dropped the gun on near
by table and summoned the fam.
lily physician but her husband was
dead when he arrived.
Officers found Aliens body lean
ing back in a chair before work
table with his feet braced against
the back of the bench. A pool Of
blood was found back of the chair.
Mrs. Allen said she did not know
how the gun was discharged. After
describing the shooting, she was
not held by officers. She went to
the home of her brother, Richard
Emerson, in Calexico.
An inquest was scheduled for 3
o'clock Monday afternoon.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed from the Lemons chapel at 2
o'clock Tuesday afternoon with
the Imperial Masonic lodge in
charge. Rev. A. D. Buffers of the
First Methodist church of Ell Cen
tro will officiate. Burial will take
place at Evergreen cemetery.
Allen was born in Long Beach 80
years ago and arrived in Imperial
Valley with his family in 1908. He
attended the Eastside school north
of Holtville until the family left
the valley for several years. He
served with the American Expedi-
tionary forces during the war in
the fortieth division. He was en-
ployed by the district for approxi-
mately IA years. He was Mason
and an American Legionnaire.
His survivors are: his wife, Mrs.
Violet Allen; his mother, Mrs. Sar-
ah A. Allen, Ell Centre; three sis
ters, Misses Evelyn, Pauline and
Margery, all of El Centre; four
brothers, Wilfred H. of Brawley,
Bernard R. of Kansas City, Cecil
D. of Holtville, and Jack of El
Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10

JTICU VIII UO dII III IFS pUWVI 10
put the issue before the public at
the earliest possible time, he told
President A. B. West of the Nevada
California Electric corporation in
letter mailed Monday.
6. if the people fail to build
their power plants, they will have
no power to sell. 1t will not be
worth $35,00O.000 - or 35 cents"
HeweS told West.
His letter was in answer to one
from West, decaring that any move
by the district to proceed imme-
diately with an election for approval
by the people of Public Works Adj
ministration and Rural Electrifica-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
500, 900 Fire Hits
Frisco's Waterfront

SAN FRANCISCO. May 10. UP
A spectacular waterfront fire broke
out on pier so today and spread to
pier SOB. Within three hours, dam
aged was estimated at 100000 and
AZ firemen were overcome by smoke
and treated for burns. as the flames
burned out of control and threaten
ed destruction to both piers.
Cargo valued at about 100000,
was menaced by shooting flames.
The blaze started in creosote soak
ed wooden pilings underneath the
asphalt floor of pier so. t ..,
Flames gradually cracked through
melting asphalt, and IL was feared
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
HOOber to Attend
Hearing on Power
Loans to District

c. o. Hoober, president of the
county farm bureau, will represent
that organization at the hearing to
be conducted by the state securi-
ties commission relative to the I'M
perial Irrigation District R.E.A. and
P.WA. power projects in this coun-
ty.
The hearing will take place in
San Francisco Friday at which time
the commission will consider the
practicability and feasibility of the
projects for which the district is
seeking federal funds.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10

with a barbed wire fence and over
turned in front of the Kennedy
Store.
Mrs. Childers suffered a frac-
tured pelvis while Childers and
Graves suffered cuts and bruises.
The occupants of the car were
thrown through the top, officers
said. The car was said to have
travelled in. the borrow pit for 275
feet before striking the fence. 1t
carried fence and posts with it
for 40 feet before overturning.
Mae and Noble Bard, Indians
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10

the top wooden structures of both
piers might be destroyed.
Four hundred firemen and AZ fire
engines-virtually the entire fire
fighting force of the city - we're
summoned by four alarms. They
were augmented by three harbor
fireboats. the Dennis r. Sullivan, ID.
A. White and Edward ScannelI, the
Coast Guard Cutter Tahoe and TWO
Navy minesweepers
Dense oil smoke which billowed
along 1900 foot front on the two
piers virtually logged" the ferry
lanes between San Francisco and
Oakland on San Francisco Bay.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10

of the Yuma reservation, suffered
injuries when their car collided
with one driven by Elmer L. john
son, 81, of Los Angeles three miles
west of Winterhaven. The Bard
machine turned over after the COL
lision, according to officers.
A blow out was responsible for
j. Rodriguez and his automobile
taking a header into the borrow
pit beside the highway in the Sis
bee district late Sunday afternoon.
Rodriguez escaped uninjured.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10

ton Administration grants ana
loans would be regarded as a re-
lection of the power company's
offer to purchase power from the
district for $35,000,000 over a 40
year period.
Hewes' letter, in full follows:
Permit ME to acknowledge re-
ceipt of your interesting letter of
May Z, which was received also
by oE local papers before it
reached me.
Your reference to an interview
quoting me. published in the I'M
Continued ON Page o., Col, b
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
STATEMENT
ANSWERED BY rTEWES
Thieves Get $3.50
But It's ON TheC Cuff
CPOST-PRESS ENGRAVINGl

IMPERIAL, May l0.-RobberS took
$3.50 in credit slips from the Sea-
side Service station here. They en-
tered the station by taking a card
board off a broken pane in a side
window. Chief of Police William
Burton said
The burglars took the cash regis
ter to the rear of the building and
rifled it, Two rolls of pennies were
ignored.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
Prisoner Kills Self
Just Before Release

FOLSOM PRISON, Cal, May 10
U.P)-Only a month before he was
to be granted parole, Charles Ver-
non CALI, 40, Fresno petty thief
committed suicide today by diving
under the rear wheel of a heavy
truck, prison officials reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-10
First Car of Cants
Will Leave Soon

First car Of cantaloupes for I'M
perial Valley will go out this week
and will be shipped by Golden VAL
ley Produce Co., said B. A. Harri-
gan, agricultural commissioner.
A ear is being spotted and will be
loaded within the next day or SO.