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The Washington times., 1937-04-29
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popular people in Washington or
wherever they happen to be. Their
house on Massachusetts, Avenue
has many beautiful furnishings
brought from China and Turkey
where Admiral Bristol was sta
toned. Their supper party the
other night was given for Captain
and Mrs. Thomas Kinkaid who
are about to leave Washington.
Captain Kinkaid will take charge
of the U. S. S. indianapolis. The
guests at the supper were mostly
Navy people known on various
posts to the host an hostess.
At Mrs. Hitchcock'S dinner the
Austrian Minister and Madame
Prochnik and Representative Wal
ter Chandler, of Tennessee, were
the ranking guests. Mrs. Hitch
cock has one of the finest houses
in Washington. She has the
knack of collecting congenial
guests. Likewise she has genius
of a cook.
The Washington times., 1937-04-29

Miss Elizabeth Narrower, Manas-
Sas, Va, recently elected secretary.
treasurer of the University of
Maryland Riding Club, is working
on the committee with Miss Jean
Barnsley, Rockville, Md, making
arrangements for the annual horse
show to be staged by the club in
the Byrd Stadium May %. Other
members of the committee are
Fred Hughs, Chevy Chase, Md,
and Marty Cox, Silver Spring, Md.
Miss Narrower was graduated
from Haymarket High School in
Virginia with honorS and entered
Maryland as a freshman last Sep
TENDER. In her first semester she
compiled a perfect scholastic rec
ord, to be ranked the smarteSt CO.
ed in her class.
One of the prettieSt girls in her
class, she was named the coed dor
mitory entrant in the beauty con.
test now being staged by the
campus yearbook. other actiVi-
ties include membership in the
International R Citations Club,
Alpha Lambda Delta, coed honor
society, and the campus Y. w. c.
A. She is majoring in business
administration in the College Of
Arts and Sciences.
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
$75O,0OO ASKED
FOR FLOOD AID

With the Potomac River gradu,
ally falling to normal, Governor
Harry w. Nice, Of Maryland, yes.
terday took action to facilitate
repairs to State property and
roads in the flooded areas Of
the State.
Sponsored by the governor, a
bill authorizing a State bond is
sue of $75O,00O for repairs. was
introduced in the General Assem-
bly,, sitting in a special session at
Annapolis, by Senator Harry
Legore, of Frederick county, Re-
publican floor leader.
An initial figure of 100000
was raised by the governor after
he had received a report from
DR.. Homer Tabler. chairman Of
the State Roads Commission. who
is in Western Maryland making
a survey for the executive.
DR.. Tabler reported that $780,
900 would be insufficient to repair
the damage done to roads when
the Potomac sWirled over its
banks throughout the western
and southern sections of the
State.
Governor Nice declared that
although the greatest damage
was inflicted in the Cumberland
area, the appropriation would
also take care of repairs in other
sections.
Comment on the bill at An
napoliS was favorable and it is
expected to meet little opposition.
Meanwhile residents of Hancock,
Brunswick and other towns were
returning to their homes. Rehab-
ilitation began with firemen wash
ing out homes and cleaning the
streets,
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
WELFARE BODY
REVISION IS
PROPOSED

Abolition Of the Board Of Pyb-
lie welfare and creation Of a new
one of three members, composed
Of representatives of labor. civic
and business organizations, is pro-
posed in a bill introduced today by
Representative Reuben Wood CD
of Missouri.
The bill would abolish the pres
ent paid positions of director and
assistant director, and substitute a
paid secretary, who would receive
$4,000 a year. Members of the
board. who under the present set
up are not paid, would receive
$4,000 a year each. Wood said:
"The present board Is not as
efficient as it should be and 1
believe a paid board would be
more accountable for its stew
ardship."
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
NOTED ATTEND
FUNERAL OF
POLLARD

Government officials and Vir-
ginia legislators today mourned
John Garland Pollard, a man that
they and the nation knew as a
lawyer, educator and governor of
a State.
The body of the former Cover.
nor of Virginia, who died yesterday
of bronchial pneumonia at his
residence 1925 Sixteenth Street,
rested throughout the night and
morning in a local funeral parlor.
Escorted by a special Gordon of
Metropolitan and Virginia State
motorcycle police, motor cortege
and his bier left Washington at
II o'clock today for the Virginia
State capital.
In accordance with the family
wishes, the services in Richmond
will be of a simple nature. They
will be held in the Grove Avenue
Baptist Church late today with
the Rev. DIR. w. C. James, pastor,
and the Rev. DR.. Rufus Weaver,
of Washington, officiating. In
terment will be in Hollywood
Cemetery.
Governor George C. Peery, pres
ent chief executive of Virginia, was
unable to come to Washington,
but detailed two members of his
staff to accompany the body to
Richmond. At Richmond the cor
tege will be met by detachment
Of State Militia and escorted both
to the church and cemetery.
Haded by Governor Peery, some
Of Virginia's most distinguished
sons will attend the funeral Serv-
ices. Those who left Washington
with the body were: Senator
Harry F. Byrd and group Of the
Virginia delegation to Congress,
including Representatives Norman
R. Hamilton, Thomas G. Burch
and A. Willis Robertson.
From the Veterans Administra-
ton, Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines,
administrator of Veterans afafirS;
Harold w. Breining. assistant adj
ministrator in charge Of finance
and insurance; R. L. Jarigan, vice
chairman of the Board of Veter-
ans Appeals, and several members
of the board.
Active pallbearers, including his
lifelong friends and relatives,
were: Senator Byrd, Leslie C. Gar
nett, District Attorney; Christie
pher Garrett, Hilton Jackson, all
of Washington and Federal Judge
Robert Pollard, Stanley Clarke,
John Bagby, all of Richmond, and
Garland Cox, student at the Uni
versity Of Virginia.
Mr.. Pollard, native of King
and Queen county, Virginia, was
the son of the late Rev. and Mrs.
John P. Pollard. He served as
encouragement for the State of
Virginia, delegate to the Virginia
constitution convention, member
of the State board of education,
and was elected governor in 1880.
He came to Washington in 1884
after being succeeded as governor,
and was appointed chairman OF
the Board of Veterans Appeals.
Surviving is his widow, the
former Violet Elizabeth MacDou-
gal, of Canada; two sons, John
Garland Pollard, jr., and Charles
Pollard. and a daughter, Mrs. H.
Lee Boatwright, of Washington.
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
EIWood Street Defends
Boards Present Setup

Continuance of the presen t
set-up of the Board of Public Wei
fare was urged today by Welfare
Director Elwood Street in answer
to the bill introduced in Congress
by Representative Reuben T. Wood
for drastic changes.
The Wood bill provides for a
paid board of three members,
rather than the present unpaid
one of nine, and abolition of the
offices of director and assistant
director, to be replaced by Sec
rotary.
Street, who draws $4,000 a year
as director, said a number of the
States had experimental with paid
welfare boards, but a majority had
turned back to the system of an
unpaid one. The present Set-up
has been in effect since 1926, Street
recalled, and a thorough study
was made before the organization
was decided upon,
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
TAX
IS PRESSED

ANNAPOLIS, Md, April ga
vigorous fight to enact a tax on
cigarettes was under way here to-
day despite strong opposition from
the five tobacco-growing counties
of southern Maryland.
Speaker Emanuel Gorfine and
Delegate William Howard of Bal
timore county led the campaign.
Both have sponsored relief pro-
grams in which cigarette taxes are
included. Confines calls for a
1-cent tax per package, while How
ards calls for 2-cent levy.
The two tobacco tax proponents,
aided by members of the Balti-
more city delegation, already con-
cerned over inability of the senate
to agree on a tax schedule, decided
to press their campaign for tax
on cigarettes, which they regard
as luxurieS.
No vote on the proposal was
taken in the house ways and means
committee, but it was reported the
sentiment was evenly divided.
1t is estimated the cigarette tax
will raise in the neighborhood of
100000 yearly.
After the Senate, acting as a
committee of the whole, had sat
for two days considering relief
taxes, it voted last night to scrap
the entire program and begin
anew.
The backbone of the Senate pro-
posal was an income tax which
would range in scope from one-half
of l per cent to l per cent. This
also was estimated to raise $4,000
900 annually.
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
VA.R0ADW0RK
PROGRAMS SET

ALEXANDRIA, Va, April 90.
Widening of the 100 miles of U. S.
Route /, from here to Richmond,
will be started this summer by
the State Highway Commission,
officials said today. A total of
$815,5 500 has been allocated for the
work during the 1878 fiscal year.
The highway, part of one of the
principal north,south arteries in
the East, will be widened to pro-
vide for four lanes of traffic. 1t
was extended to a three-lane road
way several years ago.
In its final ALLEGATIONS, male
recently, the commission allotted
$172,500 to the Culpeper district,
for use in widening the road from
Fredericksburg to Alexandria, and
an additional $4,000 for widening
Hunting Greek cauSeway here.
Other ALLEGATIONS were: SAB, 900
to the Fredericksburg district, for
16 miles of work north of Fred
erickSburg to ChoppawomSic
swamp, and $15O,OOO to the Rich
mond district, for widening work
north of Richmond in Henrico
county.
Surveys are now being made by
engineers of the State Highway
Department preparatory to ad-
vertisement of bids for the work.
Practically all necessary rights Of
way for the extra traffic lane
were obtained at the time the
highway was first Widened several
years ago.
In addition, the Richmond dis
trict will spend more than $500, 900
on Route l south of the Capital.
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
Today's Foreign Short-Wave Radio Schedule

TOKYO, 4 p. M.-Broadcast to
eastern section of U. S. A. JVN,
28.14 M, 1856 meg; JzJ, 25.42
M, 11.8 meg.
SCHENECTADY, 5 p. M.-Span-
ish Program. W2XAF, 31.4 m,
9.53 meg.
BERLIN, $50 P. M.-Karl Helm
rich Waggerl. DJD, 25.4 M, lit
meg.
LONDON, 7:15 P. Infamous
Regimental Marches. GSF, 1913
M, 1914 meg: esd, 25.5 M, ITS
meg; GSB, Bis M, 9.51 meg.
CARACAS, 8 P. M.-The Thea
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
Festival AT School
Planned SATURDAY

The annual May Festival OF. the
Chevy Chase School, 6410 Con-
necticut Ave-, will be held Satur-
day at p. m. in the Sylvan The
ater on the campus. Miss Mary
Carey, of Pittsburgh, will be
crowned May Queen, and a play
will be presented by the Mummers.
the dramatic club. A ballet and
maypole dance are also on the
program.
The Washington times., 1937-04-29

lter Of the Air. YV5RC, SIT M,
So meg.
BOSTON, 8:15 P. M. Boston
Civic Symphony Orchestra. WI.
XAL, 25.4 m. 11.79 meg.
BERLIN, 8:45 P. M.-German
Reconstruction (English). DJD,
254 M, lit meg.
LONDON, 9:55 P. M.-"Crown.
ing the King" No. 2, talk.
GSF, 1913 M, 1914 meg; esd,
25.5 M, ITS meg; Csc, 31.3 M,
9.58 meg.
PARIS, HAS P.M.-Waltz Dream
%. Strauss. TPA-4. 25.6 m, 11.72
meg.
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
Hunt W. Va. Prisoner
After Prison Escape

MOUNDSVILLE, w. Va, April
20 G.N.SO.-JeSse James Mccoy,
youthful descendant of a re-
nowned southern West Virginia
feud clan, was the object of an
intensive search today after he
escaped from the State peniten-
tiary while working outside the
walls. Mccoy was serving a six
year sentence for robbery from
Logan county.
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
BIG NAVY BILL
BECOMES LAW
International News Service

Authorizing the second largest
peace time naval appropriation in
history, President Roosevelt yester-
day signed the naval appropriation
bill for 1888.
The measure, carrying with 1t
funds for construction OF two new
battleShipS, totals $500, 1858, 1903.
This sum is only slightly under last
years all-time record appropria-
ton of $528,O00,000 for continu-
ance of the peace time naval estab.
lishment. 1t carries with it $780,
100000 replacement construction
of warShips.
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
Advertising Man
To Address Club

Frank Romer, advertising ex-
ecutive, will speak before the Cos
mopolitan Clubs meeting at the
Carlton Hotel today on Good
Will and the Peculiarities of Peo-
pie" President Arthur w. Defen-
derfer will preside.
The Washington times., 1937-04-29
COL. SAMUEL t. MACKALL

Col. Samuel T. Mackall, Assis,
tant Chief of Staff, Military In.
telligence Section in France dur
ing the World War, died late last
night in Walter Reed General Hos
pital, where he was admitted Janu'
ary 3. He was Sc years old.
Burial with full military honors
will be held tomorrow morning
in Arlington National Cemetery at
II o'clock. Services at the grave
will be conducted by Chaplain Ora
j. Cohee.
Since July of last year, Colonel
Mackall had been on duty with the
Military Intelligence Division of
the War Department General
Staff here. Until his recent i'll
ness Colonel Mackall lived with
his wife, Mrs. Catherine Mackall
at 1870 wyoming Ave. N. w.
A native of Maryland. Colonel
Mackall was a graduate of ST.
Johns College, Maryland, and be-
gan his military career as a sec
ond lieutenant of Infantry in 1901
He rose through the ranks and
was commissioned colonel in
1888.
After returning to the United
States at the end of the World
War, Colonel Mackall, who was in
charge of Civil Affairs, Luxem
bourg, Germany, from April to
July in 1919, was assigned to the
Geographic Branch of the Military
Intelligence Section of the War
Department in Washington.
Besides his wife, Colonel Mac
kali is survived by his daughter
Mrs. Matthew K. Deichlmann
wife of Lieutenant Deichlmann
y. S. A., stationed at Manila, P. I.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14
FOUR PICKERS
INJURED IN
ROAD MISHAP


SEE1EY. June 14-f'our canta-
loupe plckerS suffered slight iniur-
les when spilled from a truck six
miles southeast of this place at s
o'clock Sunday morning when John
H. baBott, Ell Centre, piloted the
truck from the highway. the front
wheels coming to rest in the borrow
pit.
A load of empty crates spilled to
the roadway at the same time the
pickers were streWn along the high
way. officers said.
Officers said tire tracks showed
LaBott had driven off and on the
pavement several times, before
turning to a dirt road He contin-
ued weaving back and forth sew
eral times. just missing the borrow
pit. before the truck stopped. The
pickers were en- route to the Bright
Peterson ranch. The driver had
been drinking. according to Y. Tani-
guchi, who transported the injured
to an El Centre physician for treat
ment
The injured, treated for cuts,
scratches and bruises, were: Jose
Lopez. 80; F. Beltron, %; F. Cruz
43: Mike Fernandez, 36
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14

attendance whch the state may
allow seven school districts. Ac-
cording to the state law a school
district which has suffered a ma
terial loss in average daily attend
ance due to some disaster, as flood,
fire, ETC.. or to epidemics, may ask
the state to grant an average daily
attendance figure which Is an es-
innate of what the attendance
would have been, had such cpl
demic or disaster not occurred.
This districts have asked for this
estimate and the attendance figure
quoted includes these estimates.
The majoriy OF losses Of attend
ance were in the cities due to
epidemics, flue, etc. a few rural
schools also reporting heavy loss
es from illness.
Increase in average daily at
tendance was found in the river
district where the construction
work at Imperial Dam has brought
and in INLAND, where the new to-
in heavy increases in enrolment,
mato district has increased popu-
lation.
The county will have earned sew
eral additional teacher apportion-
ments this year. some districts hav-
ing earned one or more teacher ap-
portionmentS, and a few. due to
heavy decreases in attendance. los
ing apportionments.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14
MASS MEETING
TO BE HELDN
PARK TONIGHT

Featured by a mass meeting in
the e. Centro city park at 7:30 to-
night. the Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict's campaign for approval at the
polls Wednesday of PWA and REA
contracts to finance construction
of an All American canal power
system drew rapidly near a close.
Voters will be addressed here by
President Evan T. HeweS, Direc-
tor Mark Rose. Engineer M j.
Dowd. of the district staff. and D.
L. zinn. auction philosopher The
speakers stand will be set up in
the park near Sixth and Adams
streets.
Mass meetings also will be held
in Brawley and Holtville Tuesday
night.
Speakers will urge a record yes"
vote on contacts to install pub
liely owned power system on the
All American canal.
At a mass meeting in the city
park Saturday evening. Ray E.
Johnson, El Centre attorney and
Townsend Club leader. voiced his
objections to the voting of power
bonds next Wednesday.
On the same program was G.. r.
Bshaw, Holtville rancher, attacked
the district boards administration
of the irrigation district. and sing
led out the record of Mark Rose.
Holtville representative on the board
of directors of the Imperial Irri-
CATION District.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14
Size OF Majority
In Vote Debated
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contracts is merely side-issue.
Those who take this view believe
that the power company contem-
plates a later move. possibly an
other and more favorable offer for
purchase of electric energy from
the canal, and is making the cur
rent campaign stepping stone to
a better public reaction for any
future proposition.
Whatever the opposing views.
neither side had relaxed its inten-
sive effort Monday to get voters
to the polls. Agents OF the power
company were completing house
toulouse canvaSses aided by every
kind of advertising. Public COM
mittees formed into precinct groups
worked for approval of the COIL
tracts in personal contact and
through perfection of an organiza-
tion to take voters to The polling
places Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14
CONSTITUTION
FOR INDIANS
UNDER STUDY

WINDOW ROCK CNavajo Capt
tab Ari2., June ID. U.P)-Estahlish-
ment of formal government for
$4,000 Navajo Indians. The ma
tions largest tribe. neared today
as the constitutional committee of
the Navajo tribal council adopted
The initial draft of a constitution
The committee, composed of
"headmen" of the huge tribe, ad-
journed sessions which began in
April. They will reconvene July
6, after consulting with tribesmen,
and make final alterations in the
Navajo charter of government.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14

TO CONDUCT
FLAG RITES

Flag day exercises will be con-
Quoted by the Ell Centre Elks lodge
Monday night at 73O o'clock on
the Wilson school field. the cere-
monv being opan to the public.
Officers of the lodge will be in
charge of the Elks flag day ritual
and Norman c. Deaton. esteemed
leading knight viii deliver the
address
Imme iiately following the exer-
ciSeS. at $3.50 o'clock. the ball game
between the lodge and the Junior
chamber of commerce will take
place.
The ritualistic team won second
place Sunday in the contest with
San Diego. the coast team winning
by slight margin.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14
Children Playing
Nearby as Guns
Thunder in Spain
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numbering OK carts carried loads
of shells where motor transport was
impossible.
I saw two children about five
years old playing in yards where
four inch batteries were firing con-
tinuouSly, unheeded by the chill
dren.
I saw a man on top of ridge
where shells were flying getting a
haircut while fighting with rifles
and machine guns continued a mile
ahead and 1000 feet below us.
Davila is proceeding without un-
due haste, utilizing the superiority
of his air force and artillery to
blast out the Basques, avoiding
heavy casualties among his own
men.
While refugees streamed north
westward from the apparently
doomed Basque capital, thousands
of men and women remained to
defend their homesites. The women
did not engage in actual fighting,
but many labored with the young
er and older non-combatant males
to build barricades for last stand.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14
Imperial Valley Press

Published every afternoon except
Saturday and Sunday Saturday
Afternoon issue now succeeded by
The Post-Press, Sundays) by the
Imperial Valley Publishing Com
pany, 625 State street, Ell Centre,
California.
Entered at FL Centro. California
post office as second class matter.
Paul Jenkins, publisher; A. c.
Johnston, vice-president and gen
eral manager: j.. A. Fitzhugh,
secretary and managing editor.
West-Holliday Co, Inc, National
Advertising representatives
NJ m ber California Newspaper
Publishers Association.
Subscription Rates: DC per copy.
In conjunction with the Post
Press fSundays), per month. Soc:
Paid in advance months. 81 60.
months. 1928; one year $500.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14
&Mat!M!<
Local Tenp.r.turrs

Local Temperatures
; data complied by Howard En-
mons. observer for the official
United States weather bureau sta
don at FL Centr0.l
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14
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OLD COLDS were first to use Cello
phane wrapper as an added protection
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A good idea. SO good that all other
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good idea = but not good enough.
OCTOBER, Ioa, Double Mellow
OLD COLDS introduced the EXTRA Jack
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TODAY -. The OLD GOLD weather tight.
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Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14

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cover and handy bail for
carrying. Use this for field
drinking water or carryingg
periShable foods across the
desert on hot days.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14

graduates for the county is con-
siderably less, being 9O6 last year
and only 821 this year.
Reason for the discrepancy lies
in the fact that this year Ft. Yuma
was organized as a new district
with the addition of 96 units of
average daily, attendance. More
over the figures for the year just
include the estimate of
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14
Scouts to Confer on
National JambOree

Scouts ami leaders who are
enrolled for the national jamboree
are TO meet Tuesday night at 3
O'Clock in the court rooms at the
court house TO discuss final ar
rangements.
Special meeting of the Scout fin
ance committee has been called for
Wednesday night at 7.30 o'clock in
Scout headquarters at the court
house.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14

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Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14

GRADUATES FEWER
FOR YEAR 1887

daily attendance the
tary reported
county daily attendance for the
past year elementary
year number elementary school