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Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14

fire last summer, has been almost
entirely rebuilt, with new interior
decorations and alterations accord
ing to plans drawn by Sandy San
ford, Sones architect. Jack Harri-
son handled the contracting.
I7e f.0-g pan renamed virtual
" the same except for installation
of a lavatory and a porte cochere
and enlarging one room New land
sea- ping featured the exterior.
Principal interest centerS on the
homes interior, except for the roof
which Asher with fire prevention
in mind ordered rebuilt with John
Manville asbestos shingles.
A room-by-room description Of
the rebuilt residences follows:
LIVING ROOM
A fireplace redesigned under Col
onial influence dominates the spa
cious living room. Six feet wide,
with a three foot throat, the fire
place is of brick as far up as the
mantle piece. Beyond. painted pine
paneling extends to the ceiling
Walls are of plaster painted in neu-
trail shades and the ceiling is of
ceIotex
MASTER BEDROOM
The IA by 10 master bedroom IS
equipped with two closets, 4 by 6
and two windows, as well as French
doors leading into the sleeping
porch. Walls are papered, with the
ceiling in celotex. The sleeping
porch, 14x9, is screened on two
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14
Mediation in
Strike Begun
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south of Imperial Dam. All work
was halted in the sector at 6 am.
Monday. Activity had not been re-
sumed Saturday afternoon.
Strikers, who have been working
for 45 cents an hour in a maxi
mum work week of 40 hours, de-
mand an increase to so cents. In
their list of grievances, supported
by numerous affidavitS sworn to
Friday by laborers, are mentioned
charges that many men are forced
to work seven days a week in order
to get in 40 hours, that they are
forced to work overtime and, if
they ask for overtime pay, are
discharged, that they are worked
few hours and then must wait
on the job for a few more hours
work. and that common laborers
are forced to do skilled labor with
craftsmen's tools without receiv-
ing a compensating wage scale.
The strikers proposed an agree
ment providing that eight consec-
utive hours shall constitute a work
day, that five consecutive work
days shall constitute a work week,
and that any work done in excess
of this shall be paid for at time
and one half as overtime.
A. F. of L. Approval
The only proposed change in the
wage scale would give cleanup
and various other labor" 60 cents
instead of As cents an hour.
The strike was called by the IN
ternational Hod Carriers, Building
and Common Laborers Union of
America Local No. 1864, with the
approval of the American Fedora
ton of Labor. Skilled laborers left
the job, according to George Peter
son, at his suggestion SO that fed
Grafton of labor affiliates would
not be embarrassed by being asked
to work while another group was
on strike.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14

be paid by Mexico. The exact date
of the distribution of the money
was not announced by the United
States general claims commission,
the bureau which handled nego-
tiations. Claimants received word
recently to anticipate payment this
spring.
Claims were based on the dam
age done by the river when 1t
broke through a man-made cut in
the bank below the Mexican bor-
der in 1905 and ran rampant
through the valley. Salton Sea was
formed by the river emptying into
Salton sink. The torrents cut the
channels of New and Alamo rivers
deeper and slashed meandering
gashes in the land by flooding the
section west of the Brawley amin
canal to a point east of Westmor-
land.
Damage claims approXimating
$2,000,000 were filed by residents
of the two valleys in 1908. They
filed them with the United States
government for negotiation with
the Mexican government. The gov
ernment did nothing about the
claims until 1929 because of poll
tical turmoil in Mexico.
A convention was held by repre-
sentatives of the two governments
with Josephus Daniels playing an
| important part in the negotiations.
In 1882 it was decided to settle
the matter by arbitration. BY this
time, it was explained by Frank
Birkhauser, Ell Centro attorney,
who represented large number Of
| the claimants. damages against
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14

study are:
l. How to get private capital in
terested in constructing one, two,
and four family homes and big
apartment projects
2. How to lower interests rates to
aid tenants and decrease building
costs to help home buyers.
Mr.. Roosevelt said the housing
study covered the possibility of an
annual wage for building mechan-
les in an effort to reduce building
costs.
Mr.. Roosevelt said that the cur
rent lag in housing construction
had been caused by high real estate
charges, high materials prices, high
labor costs in some sections and
the fact that private industry has
done little to produce homes on a
volume basis.
Mr.. Roosevelt indicated he hoped
to encourage masses production OF
homes, pointing out that it obvious
ly costs more per unit to build five
houses than it would 100.
The president cited high interest
rates as hindrance to large scale
construction. He said rates aver
aged 9 per cent on first, second and
third mortgage housing money in
the north and from 10 to 12 per
cent in the south.
The Structural Clay Products in
Stitute. Spokesman for brick and
tile manufacturers, threw its sup
port behind the plan to attack bus
mess recession through privately
gnanced construction.
The institute urged creation Of a
central mortgage bank by the fed
eral government and reduction Of
base interest on federal housing
loans TO a gross of AZ per cent
from the present 6H rate.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14

Brothers, Mrs. B. M. Graham, Mrs
]. j. Elmore, c. A. Gray, DR.. Sem
Bacon, Gilbert WilloughbS, Bank
of America Calexico, Richard
Haas, and Jaboneria-MeXicali
Barbecue supplies were donated
by: Safeway stores, A and p store.
Cox Brothers, Golden State cream
cry, I. v. Milk Producers, Cramer
Bakeries, Pacific Land and Cattle
CO., Lon Cromer, Elmer Sears, John
Marlborough.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14
BUSIN ESSME EN-
URGED TO AID
HOME BUILDING

As a means of encourage
ing home building in Ell
Centro, chamber of COM
merce directors at a recent
meeting suggested that bus
inessmen assist their permanent
employees TO build homes by pro-
viding secondary financing.
The employer could provide
what is lacking in many instances
after a prospective home builder
has completed arrangements with
the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration. Sometimes, directors said.
just few hundred dollars are all
that prevent the construction OF
new home In the case of per-
manent employees upon whom the
employer may depend, a second
mortgage could be arranged.
Such plan, 1t was pointed out,
could be managed so that the en-
ployer and his employe would be
satisfactorily protected The de-
tails should always be adapted to
the individual deal.
Directors decided this type of
second mortgage should be volun-
tary, personal matters between the
individuals concerned and not a
matter of public interest. No ma
chinery should be set up, no office
established but the suggestion made
TO employers.
At the same meeting, directors
discussed to possibility of forma-
ton of a local second mortgage
company to supply the few hun
dred dollars so often needed. Moth
ing definite, however, was done.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14

sides, from the ceiling to within two
feet of the floor. Canvas is ar
ranged to cover the screen if need
ed.
CHILD'S BEDROOM
A 4 by closet and lavatory and
three windows feature the child's
bedroom which has a French door
leading into the garden. The 1212
by 16 room has plaster walls and,
ceiling.
DINING ROOM
Four windows add to the attrac-
tiveness of the 1872 by u dining
room. The plaster ceiling is light
blue with harmonizing wall paper.
A china cupboard of medium size
has been built into the wall.
KITCHEN
The kitchen has been altered con-
siderably to give more space. The
old room, 18 by 13, has been eX-
tended by removal of the service
porch. into an by 1712 room.
Eight feet of new cupboards, in
cluding a broom closet with swiv-
el type metal ironing board have
been installed.
The new front porch. 9 by 10. is
of wood with a 8 by IA foot section
screened in. The way to the front
door has been left free of screen
ing.
A new 10 by IA basement has been
built, with space for water heat
er and gas hot air furnace.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14

Among the Calipatrians who at
tended the Armistice day exercises
in Brawley were Mr.. and Mrs. M,
A. Short. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Phil
lips. Mr.. and Mrs. w. j Young
and children, Mr. and Mrs, R. E,
BedWell, Mr.. and Mrs. w. w
Smith, Mrs. Alice Bradford, Mrs,
Grace Mcdonald, Miss Julia Riley,
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Sperry and
M L. McKendry.
Chapter CIV of PEG. met at the
home of Mrs. D. d. Brownell Tues
day afternoon. Mrs. c. O. Hoober
was installed as a new member
The program was given by Mrs
j. j. Farmer. Members present
were Mrs. j. j. Farmer, Mrs. Frank
Hewett. Mrs. John Scott, Mrs w
B. Dixon, Mrs. C. G. Brownell
Mrs. f. L. Mead, Mrs j H. Harris
Mrs. C. A. Sperry, Miss Adella
Travers, Mrs. C. o. Hoober, Mrs
william Corn, Mrs. Vance Wilson
and the hostess, Mrs. Brownell.
Mrs. Herbert Reedy entertained
the wednesday card club this week
at her home in the country near
Calipatria. Prizes were won by Mrs
w. j. Young and Mrs. j. A. Wal
lace. Others present were Mrs. j
C. Writ, Mrs. Ted Becker, Mrs
Albert Pond, Mrs. Harrison Mar
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14
MILK INSTITUTE DIRECTORS
FINISH PLANS FOR OBSERVANCE

Directors of the Imperial Valley
Milk Institute Saturday completed
plans for widespread observance in
the valley of National Milk Week,
BEGINNING Monday.
In El Centro, Mayor Roy Womack
issued a proclamation calling upon
every resident of the city to parti-
cipate.
1.-The value of milk in the diet of
both adults and children is unques-
tionable," said the proclamation.
ut is the one food which all au-
thoritieS endorse.
I'm El Centro, we are particular
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14
y. S., Mexico, Cuba
Asked to Intervene

WASHINGTON. Nov 13 up
Haiti today asked the United
States, Mexico and Cuba to tender
their good offices in composing a
dispute which has arisen between
the Dominican and Haitian gov
ernments over the alleged mass
acre Of Haitian national on Domi-
nican S0l.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14

Sentenced to Jai.-Sentences of
five days each in the El Centre city
Jail for drunkenness were imposed
by Police Judge Lee Nuffer Satrlr-
day on Leo Smith, So, Pat Roach,
SO, and G. r. Chilstrom, 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14
Mexico Will Pay Up
Old Flood Damages

The Mexican government this spring will pay certain
claims filed by Imperial Valley residents for Colorado
river flood damage in 1905.
Approximately 200 valley residents and 60 in the Yuma
area waited 80 years for that their claims would
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14
Legislation Proposed
BY Roosevelt 10 Help
Boost Building Activity

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (UP)-President Roosevelt
today added item to his program for the special
session of congress- He said he hoped congress would
speedily approve legislation to aid private interests
big house building drive throughout the nation.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14
ASHER HOME AMONG
NEWEST RESIDENCES

"Faceftng" operations this week have transformed
the Jerry Asher home $40 Sandalwood into of Ell
Centros attractive residences The rebuilding job
completely finished this week It is of Sones Lum
Der companys projects The residence damaged by
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14

Pea picking, which began early
this week. was suspended from
Thursday till Monday as the peas
were ripening slowly.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14

Mrs. Medora DIETRICH who makes
her home in Long Beach during
the summer months came down
Sunday to spend the winter with
her daughter and son-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. w B. Dixon.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14
WIRTS SPEND
ARMISTICE IN
SAN DIEGO
CALIPATRIA NOTES

Mr.. and Mrs. j. G.. Writ and
children Wayne, Grace, Blanche,
Bob, spent Armistice day in San
Diego with another son, Glenn,
who is attending college there.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14

YOU haven't read ALL the NEWS
until you READ the ADS
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14

Mrs. Al Smoot of Long Beach is
visiting at the home Of her son
and daughter -in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Smoot.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14

Milton Vivian of Keseyville and
his daughter, Mrs. Pat English of
San Diego, visited at the home OF
w. j. Young the first of the week.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14

Mr.. Roosevelt said that, following
his conference with business lead
ers, the government is studying the
means of rejuvenating business
through a housing program.
The two chief phases of the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-14

tin, Mrs. c. A. Sperry and the
hostess.
Mrs. Ted Becker war hostess to
the Tuesday sewing club this week;
having as her guests Mrs. Cecil
Scott, Mrs. Wolstrom, Mrs. Al
Smoot, Mrs. Harrison Martin, Mrs.
w. j. Young and Mrs. F.. S. Nut
brown.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-18
Beavers Reformed
In Black Hills

BELLE FOURCHE, So. Dakota.
U.P - Harry Henderson. trapper-
warden for the South Dakota state
game and fish department has
taken a cue from the Federal gov
ernment and has started rehabilita-
tion projects for the states beavers.
Henderson removes the dam
building animals from property
where they are causing damage to
remote sections of the Black Hills
where he rehabilitates them.
I'VE give them a chance to start
housekeeping all over again. Hen
derson said. when a farmer or
rancher reports beavers are dam
aging trees or are insisting on
building dams where they should
not. we go out and trap them"
Entire colonies of beavers are
trapped before a dam is left Work.
men start a new dam in some
remote stream. In virtually every
instance, Henderson said, the beav-
ers will adjust themselves TO their
new home and complete the dam
the state starts for them.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-18
DEATH RAISES NORMA SHEARER
TO IND RICHEST MOVIE QUEEN

HOLLYWOOD. Nov. Is fUP1-
Dreamy eyed Norma Shearer be
came the second richest movie
queen in Hollywood today when
she discovered for the first time
that her late husband, Irving Thai
berg, left her a million dollar es-
tate.
So vast were the holdings of the
young producer that his widow did
not know the extent of his land
herr wealth until an inventory was
filed in Los Angeles probate court.
showing he was worth s4.469. .0l3o8
at the time of his death a year ago.
With her two small children, she
virtually all of it.
Except for state ana federal taxes,
Miss Shearer would have been able
TO match bank accounts with Mary
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-18
Utilities Magnate
Urges Program
To Boost Building

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1s CUP) =
Henry l. Hartman. Boston utilities
magnate and former president of
the chamber of commerce of the
United States. suggested five
point program to stimulate the
tagging construction industry and
help ward off depression.
The lean bespectacled industrial
ist blamed alleged obstructionist
tactics of union labor, and unfair
tax burdens on real estate, for
the building slump which. he said,
is appearing in the face of l,50O,-
900 housing shortage.
He endorsed President Roose-
velt's program to revive the in
dustry and said he believed I'VE
should make it possible for private
capital and private initiative to go
ahead and not be dependent on
federal aid"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-18

Pieklord. who earned the greatest
fortune or az being Americas
Sweetheart for so many years.
state and federal inheritance taxes
plus income taxes and probate costs
reduce the total Of the ThaIberg
fortune 10 approximately s2.244.0 900.
according 10 the inventory.
Miss Shearer and Americas girl
friend are not alone I'm controlling
million dollar fortunes. Constance
Bennett Is regarded as a seven
figure bank customer.
Another in the top bracket is
Mae West. who has earned as high
as a third of a million a year In
Hollywood. Claudette Colbert has
invested her tremendous earnings
tsi50.0O0 a picture) wisely and
well.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-18
Annulment Sought
So Girl of 13 Can
Return to School

SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. Is. Mrs.
Lois Marsh, San Francisco. today
sought annulment of the marriage
OF her l3-year-old daughter Gladys
Stafford Robbins so that the girl
can return to school.
The girl was married to Forest
Robbins in a Las Vegas, New.
elopment last June. The couple
lived in Oxnard, Ventura county.
A week ago the child bride return
cd here with her mother.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-18
LIVING COST
UP IN CANADA

OTTAWA CU.P)-The cost of liv-
ing is rising steadily in Canada,
according to findings OF the Fed
eral Department of Labor.
The primary index of 100 is
based on the year 1913 In Au-
gust of last year it was 127. BY
the same month in 1887 it had
risen to 1872. Incomplete figures
show the upward movement con-
tinuing
Calculation of the index is
based on a study of the prices of
such primary necessities as food.
fuel, clothing and rent. The most
recent calculations give Sl748 as
the cost of these necessities per
week to a family of five, exclusive
of clothing. Last year the cost
was S16.72.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-18
Oil Concerns Begin
Price-Fixing Defense

MADISON. Wis, Nov. 18 CUP)-
Attorneys for 10 major midwest
oil companies and as defendant
executives began individual argu-
ments for dismissal of the govern
ment's charge of price-fixing to-
day after their pleas for blanket
dismissal of the case had been
oyerruled
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-18
BAD BOYS TO
BE EXTINCT

CLEVELAND. up David J.
Wiens, chief of the bureau of at
tendance of the Cleveland Board
OF Education, predicts that the
bad boy" soon viii be extinct in
the schools OF America.
Educators now realize. SAYS
Wiens. +" that the so-ealled bad boy
was usually just a lively boy who
was not interested IN the unimagi-
native school programs OF the
past"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-18
Burglars Escape
In $4,000 Theft

HOLLYWOOD, NOV. 10. UP -
A $4,000 Burglary of the mansion
of Louis d. Lighton. motion picture
producer. was reported by police
early today.
The home in the Bel-Air district
was ransacked of jewelry. furs and
silver. To carry away their loot
the burglars stole an expensive au-
tomobile owned by George Temple
ton, also a producer and friend of
Lighton.
Lighton makes pictures for Para
mount studio. Among his recent
films was Lives of A Bengal
Lancer.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-18
Veteran Educator
Dies at Oakland

OAKLAND, Nov. 18 (UP)-Julius
c. Hammel. Oakland educator, died
at his home today after an illness
of several months.
After serving in Santa Monica
and San Luis Obisbo school dis
tricts. Hammel came to Oakland
In 1898 and became head of the
DeMeY school.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-18

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10 CUP)-
Ebert v. Smith, 26, a transient
told police today he used nothing
more lethal than a toothbrush un-
der a handkerchief to rob a grocer
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-18
TOOTHBRUSH FAKEDAs HoLDuP Gun

of s23il. Radio paffalman aara
cruising about the ueizneuaesd m
search OF the rohbef wien HmHa
hailed them Don't zhusI hal
I'm the guy you want. be Yeliaa
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-18

As Nazi Germany looks covetous-
ly on the fertile lands of demo-
cratic Czechoslovakia, Herr Kon-
rad Henlein, "Fuehrer" Of Nazi-
minded Germans in Czechoslo-
vakia, becomes key European
figure. Herr Henlein, who claims
to speak for three and one-half
million Czechs, recently wrote
letter TO President Eduard Benes,
demanding immediate autonomy
for the German-speaking districts
of Czechoslovakia.
Central Press
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-23
SAME OLD TEACHERS
server.

With the opening of the Raleigh city schools
three weeks off, the report of superintendent
Claude Gaddy is that not one of the teachers has
signed contract for the coming term, which is the
eight months the electorate refused to liner by
supplement. If he did not encourage them to de-
Law, the superintendent would, it would seem, will
lingly left the contracts open that the Raleigh
teachers might better themselves if they could.
And this smacks of that ordinary decency which
should make for a better understanding of school
executive and his helpers. II he cannot find for
them salraies as good as those paid by other city
school systems he cannot honestly do less than to
leave them free to look after their own interests
But we have often wondered, with what the
Dragging chamber of commerce and other civic
organizations do about their public schools--some-
times they may know whereof they speak, but more
frequently they doubtless do motif those who
man the faculties of grammar grades and high
school do not grow accustomed to thinking OF
themselves as citizens of the community in which
they work first and sometime thereafter members
of a profession which is fast becoming trades
union, if not industrial.
So often are they told that the adults and the
smal-fry owe them so much that some of them
come in time to believe it, and do not wish to go
elsewhere merely for the very few dollars more
that might be secured.
1t would probably serve Raleght right if 1t had
on the opening day of schools to go out and bar
gain for classroom teachers, but We don't think
such will be the In the main the same teach
ers will face new pupils at the capital city.
Half of them, we daresay, would be hard put to
it to rustic the railroad fare to go to better jobs
if better jobs were to be had.-Greensboro News
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-23

for those who know it, and it is
healthy, wholesome business
too. | have made money all thru
the depression; and have been
contented.
81 am not going to send my
children to college or even all the
way through high school and risk
their getting a lot of notions into
their heads that will lead them
off to the cities. | am going to
educate them in a way that will
make them love farming. A person
loves to do what he knows he can
do well.
"Big cities are the curse of ev-
cry nation. We never would have
had a depression but for our over
load of cities and industries. Too
many cities, too many industries
that is what is the matter with
America.
"You can't srarve an intelligent
farmer who owns his farm; he