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Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
AUTHORITIES TO
BAR CHILDREN
FROM FIELDS
Labor Laws Will Be
Strictly Enforced
In Valley

Child labor laws will be
strictly enforced to prevent
employment of children dur
ing school hours in picking
Imperial county's 5000 acre
cotton crop.
Anticipated influx Of families
from the dust bowl OF the middle
west is expected to create a prob
lem because many of them do not
know children under 16 years of
age must be sent to school, Deputy
Labor Commissioner Stanley Cue
said Tuesday.
All cotton growers will be in
formed of the law by Cue and
Roger Walton, county school atten-
dance supervisor, and their cooper
alton requested. Parents, growers,
and labor contractors are held re-
sponsible for violation of the child
labor law, Cue explained.
Cotton fields will be inspected
regularly to see that no children
under 16 are in the fields during
school hours. They may, however,
be employed after school or on
Saturdays.
In case of violation, the parents
and the cotton grower will be ar
rested and taken to justice court.
The fine is $50 and the Jail SEN
tence 30 days. Both may be imposed
by the justice of the peace. Each
child and each day is a separate
case, Cue explained.
A similar problem was created
in Imperial Valley after the war
when in a few months 300 cases
of violation of the child labor laws
were taken to court. The fines
mounted to thousands of. dollars,
and almost stopped the practice,
according to Cue.
The law applies to children of
the grower or contractor and is
effective even in the case of guard
ians.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
KIDNAP VICTIM FEARED DEAD
Wife Keeps Long
Vigil; No Word
Of ChicagOan

CHICAGO, Sept. 28. (UP)
Each tick of the clock be-
side the silent telephone in
the apartment home of aged
Charles H. Ross brought new
fears today that he had died in
the hands of his kidnapers.
Mrs. Ross kept vigil beside the
telephone, awaiting instructions
from her wealthy husband or his
kidnapers. None came. AS hours
passed without word, early hope
for her husbands safety waned.
Ross. u, was i'll when he disap-
peared. He suffered weak heart
which might have collapsed under
sudden strain.
Investigators reasoned that if
Ross were now in condition to
be returned to his home, the abb
ductors would have offered to re-
lease him, probably for $250,000.
Police saw indications that the
Continued on Page 2; Col. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
EIGHT CLEARED
OF CRIME NAL
SYNDIC CAL|SM
Liberals Score Victory
As Court Reverses
Conviction

SACRAMENTO, Sept. %.
(UP) Conviction of eight
defendants in Sacramento's
famous criminal syndicalism
trial of 1884 was reversed
today by the third district court
of appeal.
The court ordered the prisoners
released.
Those affected by the action,
which had become a cause celebre"
among Communists and other lib
erals, were Pat Chambers, Carol
inc Decker, Martin Wilson, Nora
Conklin, Albert Hougardy, Jack
Crane, Lorine Norman and Norman
Mini.
The courts action followed a
long period of deliberation. The
defendants appeared in court here
June to plead their own cases,
which rad been under submission
since
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28

the siege for nearly two hours, Boyd
surrendered.
Neither he nor any member OF
the posse was hurt.
Boyd was hunted as the kidnaper
assailant of Patrolman B. E. Ham
mond, who was abducted, shot in
the arm and slugged after he sought
to question him here last night.
The assailant escaped, but girl
companion who gave the name OF
Juanita Miller was held for ques-
tioning.
Some hours later, immigration Of
ficers exchanged shots with the sus-
pect as he fled across the border
into Tijuana.
Police said Boyd Is wanted by fed
eral authorities on several robbery
charges and on charge OF Inn
personating an army officer In Tex-
as. He also was wanted for break
ing Jail at Santa Ana, In 1888.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28

similar IeQerdl prOJecUS.
He forecast the possibility of new
Pittsburghs-vast cities of whirling
machinery-arising to concentrate
great industrial population on
the rural landscapes Immediately
adjacent to these vast undertakings.
But Mr.. Roosevelt proposed, in
stead, that the power should be
diffused over the countryside as
widely as possible, to remote farm
Steads and to small communities SO
that they may enjoy modern elec-
trical blessings and thrive.
Thinking of the nation so or 100
years from now, the president in
timated that emphasis will fall away
from great industrial concentrations
of population to further the growth
of smaller communities.
my conception of liberty" he
said, docs not permit an individual
citizen or group of citizens to COM
NIT acts of depreciation against
nature in such a way as to harm
their neighbors, and especially to
harm the future generations of
Americans"
He estimated that $2,O00,000, 900
could have been saved the taxpayers
if government many years ago had
had the knowledge and willingness
to undertake policies fostered by
the New Deal.
Some newspapers and some politi-
clans, Mr.. Roosevelt charged, have
uttered misleading and utterly un-
true statements" that his national
planning by regions would set up
all powerful authorities which would
destroy state-lines, take away local
governments and make what people
call totalitarian or authoritarian
or some other kind of dangerous
national centralized control"
The president said that was not
true and that most people realized
the opposite was the fact. He said
his national planning was "decen-
tralizing" instead of otherwise.
Mr.. Roosevelt came here toward
the end of a transcontinental
pulse touching journey which his
associates believe has demonstrated
continued popular support for New
Deal objectives. Crowds have swarm
ed around the train at every stop
and thousands have gathered at
way stations merely to see it pass
by. Only in Wyoming was there
hint Of chill in the reception.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
LAWYERS OPEN.
WITHERING FIRE
ON ROOSEVELT.
Resolution Drawn Up
COndemning Black
Appointment

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept.
%. (UP) II h e American
Bar Association today pre-
pared a resolution condemn
ing the appointment of Hugo
L. Black to the United States Su-
preme Court while its 5000 conven-
ton delegates applauded speakers
who denounced President Roose-
velt'S New Deal.
The lawyers were fuming over
President Roosevelt's constitution
day address, in which he criticized
the profession. Carl D. Weygandt,
chief justice of Ohio and toast
master at banquet for 1000 law
yers last night, said I'VE have not
completed OUR job of getting our
president told"
Then he presented Joseph B. Ely,
fomer Democratic governor of Mas
sachusetts, who said that Mr.. Roose-
velt had "eXpounded a new idea
of revocable liberty"
Ire resolutions committee of the
convention studied a proposal sub
mitted by Robert Lee Tullis of
Baton Rouge, La, which demanded
that the bar association be permit
ted to select an impartial commit
tee of five to examine Justice
Blacks fitness.
1T is the sense of this associa-
tion," the resolution read that men,
bership in a secret, oath-bound or
der actuated by religious and radical
animosity is Incompatible with men,
bership in the supreme court. The
resolution will be reported to the
general assembly Thursday, along
with a score of others.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
FAR M BUREAU
TO DRAW PLAN
FOR REFUNDING
Tax Committee Votes
Endorsement of New
Rate on Levy

A supplemental proposal
to Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict bondholders for refund
ing the districts debt will be
worked out by the Imperial
County Farm Bureau tax commit
tee, the secretary indicated Tues
day after a meeting at which the
committee voted unanimous en-
dorsement of the districts new
$3.78 assessment rate.
Awaiting a court order authoriz-
ing the district to pay bond cou-
pons maturing Jan. /, 1887, the
committee will seek an alternative
proposal to overcome objections
voiced by some bondrolders to the
proposal of Aug. 7, Secretary Scott
B. Foulds said.
The efforts were spurred by the
belief of the committeeman that
the $3.78 assessment rate, although
fair rate this year, is too high
for a permanent assessment level
Olluoudlly SOOd COlluiOiOllo Oll LII
perial Valley farms this year will
allow farmers to meet the current
rate, the committee believed.
Aug. Proposal
The August 7 proposal contem-
plated a refinancing program to
refund so per cent of the districts
debt at rs cents on the dollar, and
to replace SO per cent of the bonds
with new par value securities at
four per cent interest. A Recon-
struction Finance Corporation loan
would retire the first half of the
debt, and would also carry loan
of $1,95000O for drainage.
Need for the refunding program
was pointed out in the committees
estimate that a rate to meet all
present claims against the district
would result in from 40 to SO per
cent delinquency, and consequent fl
nancial breakdown.
Troubles in Mexico, a rising water
table and loss of $4,000 acres of
land gone bad for lack of drainage
were cited as additional factors in
Continued on Page 2; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28

ably walked from the house, his
hands upraised in a gesture of sur
render.
He had been hunted "a hours n
both sides of the Mexican border
since he allegedly shot and wounded
a San Diego policeman.
After shooting his way out of an
immigration patrol trap and out
whiting a posse which thought they
had him surrounded in the Tijuana
river bottoms, the fugitive made his
way to an abandoned house near
Tijuana on the south side of the
international. border. The posse
finally trailed him there.
A barrage of tear gas was dis
charged but Boyd replied by firing
through the windows.
Asked to surrender, he shouted:
"I'm not going to Alcatraz."
Officers laid down another bar
rage of tear gas and followed it
with gunfire. After withstanding
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
Flying Fortress
May Span Pacific

WASHINGTON, Sept. % CUP)-
A Pacific flight. likely to include
Hawaii and Alaska in a gigantic
aerial maneuver, ma5 be the first
assignment of the United States
armys Flying Fortress" bombing
planes, it was learned today.
High military authorities reveal
ed to the United Press that long
distance navigation flight project
is being planned by the war depart
ment for a group of the Flying
Fortresses.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
Court Order to
Prevent Change in
Business Issued

A temporary restraining order
was issued Tuesday by Judge R. D.
McPherrin to prevent any change
in Valley Steam laundry affairs
pending settlement of litigation.
j. j. Foster requested the order
in suit filed late Monday against
the laundry in El Centro. its board
of directors. A. j Mercier, Lawr-
ence Duff, Bert Stevenson and
Mercier and Duff as individuals.
The order will hold company at
fairs in allegiance until a hearing
Thursday.
Foster alleged Mercier and Duff
planned to sell 1880 shares of
laundry stock owned by him and
named as collateral security in a
note dated Nov. /. 1882.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
REDLANDS i.
PREXY HURT

REDLANDS, Cal, Sept. % CUP)
DIR. w. Edward Raffety, acting
president of the University of Red
lands, died today in Redlands Com
munity hospital Of injuries suffered
in an automobile accident last Sat
urday.
Mrs. Raffety, injured in the same
accident, was reported at the same
hospital as being in serious condi-
ton. a.,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
HITLER DUCE
DECLARE THEY
WA Mt Pc
Only Friendly Manner
Toward Europe, Say
DictatOrs
BULLTIN

BERLIN, Sept. 2S. U.n)-Premier
Benito MussOlini, openly announc-
ing that thousands of Italian vol
unteers had perished in "the Fascist
defense of European civilization"
i'm Spain, proclaimed to a madly
cheering throng of Germans to-
night that "Eurore tomorrow will
be Fascist"
BERLIN, Sept. %. (UP)
Premier Benito Mussolini
and Fuehrer Adolf Hitler
assured a vast, cheering
throng at the Oh m p C
grounds tonight that Germany and
Italy have only peace to offer west
ern Europe.
The Rome-Berlin axe is not
directed against any third power"
MusSolini declared.
Behind this visit" he asserted.
there are no secret intentions and
nothing will be framed here that
would increase Europes troubles
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
Truck Driver Jailed
For Failure to Provide

j. G. Kirby. Ell Centre truck dri-
yer, followed his wife into justice
court Tuesday and surrendered to
the court after she signed a COM
plaint charging him with failure to
provide for him family. Judge John
E. Simpson set the bail at 5000 and
Kirby was taken to the county jail
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
CONVICTS FACE
INDICTMENTS

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Sept. %
(UP)- The Sacramento county
grand jury today indicted five Fol-
som convicts for the murder of
Warden Clarence A. Larkin.
The felons, survivors of an at
tempted prison break which also re-
suited in death of two of their num-
ber and Guard Harry E. Martin, al
ready were under indictment for
Martins Staying.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
Disabled Lumber
Schooner Beached

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 28( UP
The lumber schooner Caspar was
beached near Point Reyes today af-
ter it struck the rocks on the Point.
Twenty six members of the crew
manned the pumps while the craft
was steered to a sheltering cove.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
SaltOn Sea Activity
To Start Next Sunday

Activities at Salton Sea will open
next Sunday when the owners of
some five or six boats plan to
start the fall and winter season and
will have their boats in the water
then
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
Menjous Adopt
15-MOnths-Old Boy

HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 28( up
Adolphe Menjou, suave screen ac-
tor, and Veree Teasdale, his ac-
tress-wife, went into Los Angeles
superior court today and formally
adopted Peter Adolphe Menjou, a
15-months-o boy.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
CUNMAN GIVES
SELF UP AFTER
2-HOUR BATTLE

SAN DIEGO, Sept %. (UP)-William E. Boyd, 27-
yearod desperado surrendered to early last night
after two hour gun battle in which tear gas had failed to
dislodge him from abandoned house.
The siege noisy but bloodless ended when Boyd peace
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
Youth of Many
Aliases Admits Guilt

George Glover, youth of many
aliases, pleaded guilty in Ell Centre
justice court Tuesday to passing
fictitious checks He applied for
probation and the hearing was set
for THURSDAY.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
SPREAD POWER
TO FARM AREAS.
+. p. r. ADVISES

BONNEVILLE DAM Ore, Sept. g. (UP)-President
Roosevelt stood today before the New Deals
dam site here and coupled promise balance the budget
the next fiscal year with policy of the widest use
for the hydroeectrca energy be developed by this and
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
WILD PARTY LANDS z IN JAIL
Mother Given
Coal Oil Bath
During ReveIs

How 70year-od Mexican mother dipped in
kerosene bath by her and his friends during midnight
reve of alley scavengers told by Ell Centro police
ords Tuesday. The woman, her face and body swollen
from the bath, arrested along with three who
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28
Baseball Results
NATIONAL

Boston-New York, postponed, rain
Brooklyn Philadelphia, postponed,
rain.
st. Louis ;..........02O 900 OO0--2 7 8
Pittsburgh ..020 040 0Ox-6 10
Johnson, Sunkel and Bremen;
Brandt, Kleinhaus and Todd.
Chicago 900 O20 000-2 5 l
Cincinnati 900 900 0O0-O 2 l
Bryant and ODea; Davis and
Lombardi.
Second game, Boston at New
York, postponed, rain.
AMERICAN
First Game
New York 900 03O 402-9 II 0
Washington 900 900 OOO-0 2 O
Ruffing and Dickey; Weaver, Lin
ke and Miles.
Philadelphia Boston, postponed
by rain.
Cleveland .....130 Dol 00l II IL 3
Chicago .... 021 I01 001 0-6 2 l
Hudlin g. Pytlak; Lee e. Sewell.
Detroit 022 101 0
st. Louis ............................. 900 100 0
Gill g. York; Trotter 81 Guiliani
Second Game
New York ... 100 600 000-1 7 0
Washington ...... 010 100 0Ox-2 8 0
Pearson g. Jorgens; Krakauskas
g. r. Ferrell.
Second game = Philadelphia -Bos-
ton, postponed by rain.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28

DR.. r. l.. Palmer, e. l.. Palmer
and w. l.. Palmer, brothers, had
relatives they didn't even know
they had visiting them. eyes, deal
readers, the grammar Is correct)
Their mothers father, it seems
married their fathers mother, max
ing their mother and father ster
brother and sister. You 60 on from
there!
There's No Belfry-
RR has often suspected it, and
now even the bailiffs admit 1t
There are bats in the superior court
room here-and Judge Vaughn N
Thompson can't fine us for con-
tempt, either. because it's true ano
it's news. The bats live in the
court room desert cooler, where
the mosquitoes live until the bats
find them. They then become a
part CT the bats.
The Reason For It
If you've wondered about the
sudden les of interest among I'M
perial county peace officers when
pistol shooting Oh the target range
is mentioned. you can stop won
dering. 1t has long been the am
bition Of the local lads to equal
the target work of Henry J. Adams
alias Hank, who used to work here
Hank has SO many medals he can
not wear them all. even If he pins
them on his back and down his
legs. The other day, however, Hank
now a deputy sheriff in San Diego
got into a gun battle with thug
at foot range, and missed with
every shot. That's why the lads
here have lost interest. . ...a
# o. s.-. g. -- $50. ~
Pardon Us, Please
1t was bad enough in yesterdays
paper when the reporter smackeo
the wrong typewriter keys and hao
the coroner public administrator
delegates all, ready to go out an7
get themselves the limit of ducks
which are distinctly out of season
but it was worse when the morning
paper came along with this classic
by the linotype operator: the fugi-
tive made his way to an abandoned
,orse near Tijuana
No matter what we poor report
ers do. we can't get ahead of the
bows in the back shop.
Overheard
Say, boss, is this heah breac
brown or white" inquired the white
haired old negro, waving a loaf ir
the general direction of the gro
Gerry store clerk, who was busy.
Its Is cents" said the clerk
and rushed on about his business
It knows it's Is cents" sale
the old chap patiently, "but what
I wants to know is, is it brown
or white?"
IF you knew. why the devil die
you ask me-" thundered the clerk
and rushed away.
Both the old Negro and RR wan
dered away somewhat puzzled.
o
The Correct Count
So many people think the Guy
Weakleys have four sons, RR has
discovered, because Pat is Frank
or Frank is Pat, which ever way
you would rather put it. Frank, il
seems, picked up the name of Pat
somewhere, and some people cal
him Pat. while some people cal
him Frank SO. when you hear
Pat called Frank. Orwell, finish
it yourself. if you can. Anyway
Pat and Frank are the same boy
-.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-28

Butter: Los Angeles 37 But
terfat, Imperial Valley. fob. ranch
grade A a.; manufacturing milk
40 route gathered cream 36iE.
L. A. Hay; U. S. No $18O0 $40
S15.50- $1,000.
$4,000.
Minneapolis Flax Sept. $205is 49,
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-05-08

agents have estimated the eofoi- alton rush and money contrlou- tions at something like the foi- lowing table;
 One hundred thousand Amefl- cans at $375 per person. S31' ''oo'- GOO; 3O,OOO Canadians at sooo per person. sl5.o0O,OOO; 25,ooo Aus tralians at $500 per person, siz'- 500, ,o0O; l5,OOO Indians at Sooo per person, S7,5OO, ,OO0; 10000 South Africans at $500 per person, so,- 100000; 10000 New Zealanders at $500 per person, s5,O00,00O; 1000 scandinavians at $500 per person, $500, 100000; 10000 French at s25o per person, s2,5oo, o,ooo; 1000 Greeks, Egyptians, and eastern and central Europeans at S50o per person, S5OO,OOO; 2OOO eels- ians at $25O per person, S5OO,OO and five thousand colonia!s at $500 Der persons, S2,5OO, ,00O: mak ing a grand total of 2lo,oOo visi- tors, $89,50O,OO0.
 The steamship passage bill for all empire visitors was estns ated at S28, ,750,OOO in addition 10 the above amount.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-05-08

land,
 This figure represents what ac- tually goes into the pockets of traders. It does not include tran sportation expenditure.
 It is believed that the average visitor from the dominions or col onies will spend $500 here, mak- ing the total estimated dominion contribution $45, 100000.
 American visitors, it is figured, on the other hand may slip off to the continent sooner than visi- tors from the dominionS and there fore may drop only around $375 per person. so that the total Ann erican donation will be S37, ,50O,- 900 plus travel costs.
 Few Irish Expected No Spaniards and few Balkan ties are likely to come to the coronation in numbers and very few Irish are likely to cross the Irish sea in view of President Ramon de Valera's attitude to- ward the British crown.
 Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler per mits Germans to take only ten marks ($4 out of the country, so that balks the German conting- ent. Premier Mussolini is not likely to encourage Italian travel to England and the Russians have not yet become a touring nation.
 The French possibly will come to England in larger numbers than any other continen tai nation als. But they are thrifty and will not throw their money around like visitors from the United Sta tes and the dominionS are ex- pected to do.
 Transportation and shipping
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-05-08
British Count On U. s. Cash
 At Coronation

LONDON, (AP) - American visitors are listed as the probable heaviest contributors from sin gle nation to the pockets of Great Britain's tradesmen and hotel keepers in revised estimates now made by shipping companies of the hosts expected here for the coronation celebrations.
 Most of the money will pour in from the dominions and the Un- ited States. Little cash propor- tionately is expected from contin ental Europe, Russia or Asia, where currency restrictions bar travel.
 100000 Americans Expected
 onlpplnS companies are eStlmat ing that with accommodations on every big liner leaving for Eur ope sold out until July, at least 100000 Americans will visit Eng land during the coronation per- iod between May and July 1. The coronation itself takes place on May 12.
 It is estimated that 90,00O visi- tors will come to London from the British dominions and 5000 from British colonies. A scatter ing of visitors from other places is expected to swell the total number of visitors to around 21O, 1000. These visitors are expected to drop about $9O,OOO,OOO in Eng