davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
News Behind the News
- Wire Tapping Squabble

WASHINGTON.-Secre Honest Harold
Ickes has just undertaken to assure top officials
of PWA and the Interior Department that they
are not being subjected TO wire tapping, dicta-
phone planting and other espionage.
Ickes acted to solve a coeKeyed situation.
Responsible, highly paid officials were COM
planning to each other of tapped telephone con-
versations OF surveillance OF visitors TO their
offices and of being shadowed outside
Some officials even had private electricians
search their offices for possible dictaphones or
hidden wires. Ickes himself apparently to make
sure no one shopping without his knoWi-
edge had the telephone company check lmpor-
tant offices recently-including his own
So the secretary summoned several dozen
officials to a departmental conference He said
he had heard some were disturbed by talk OF
overlapping and dictaphones, that there had
been some of that once, but wasn't any more
He hadn't delegated the authority for such
measures TO anyone; he had retained it.
Then up spoke Nathan Straus, the new ad-
ministrator Of the u S. Housing Authority. Bear
in mind that Straus. whose agency operates
autonomously under the Interior Department,
was bitterly opposed for his job by 1ckes.
Straus demanded to know whether Ickes had
any right to tap wires and so on. He added
his opinion that it a criminal olfense
Ickes snapped back that he was able to run
his own department.
I'm going to get opinion from the attor-
ney general about it," insisted Straus, whose
own telephones connect through the Interior
switchboard.
The attorney general only gives opinions to
heads of departments" said 1ckes.
We'll. you're the head OF department,
returned Straus, indicating that he would still
seek an opinion if Ickes didn't.
The meeting broke up amid considerable
embarrassment and Numerous predictions OF
further hostilities.
Official speeches most worth watching, next
to the Presidents are those of Jimmy Roosevelt,
his son and secretary.
Jimmy has been and occasionally will be
used to release occasional trial balloons. He
spoke with entire confidence, if not with some
significance, when he recently told a Cathonc
youth organiza ton at Chicago
American democracy is prepared today to
do whatever needs to be done and to go as
far as it needs to go to keep the fate of many
from falling back into control of the few.
Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia criticized
rural resettlement housing project in his state
so violently that some drastic economies were
made Scheduled plumbing installations were
abandoned in favor of small houses to the rear.
The tenants call these structures Byrd
houses"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
Bruce Cation Says:
- viri|e Industry Can Solve Our Problems

The present session of Congress
is beginning to resemble the meet
ing of that western frontier debat-
ing society, whose president an
nounced that the evenings topic
would be What's this country
coming to?" with the high school
teacher taking the affirmative and
himself the negative.
Which is to say that while Con-
gress is full of talk about what this
country may be coming to, it is
having a mortally hard time decid-
ing Just what the affirmative and
negative sides of the issue should
be.
There is the matter of the bud
get, for instance. Congress wants
to see government expenditures cut,
but the cutting tool has a handle
like a red-hot poker. The army and
the navy are costing enormous
sums. and bids fair to cost more;
but with the world in the state 1t
is in, the army and the navy look
like first-rate insurance which is
worth whatever it may cost.
Then there Is relief-a Stupend-
ously expensive thing, which must
be bitten into pretty materially II
we are to get our government costs
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
Manufacturing the Future
On the AII-Ameriean Canal

In a current series OF photographs, tie
Imperial Valley Press and The Morn
ing Post are attempting to show resi-
dents of Imperial Valley the progress
of work on the All American canal. The
series is interesting, the photographs
show fascinating phases of the construc-
ton Job, and the pictures show that
work is farther along than most OF us
,,ealize-but there never was any series
of photographs which could do justice
TO this gigantic industry that is even
now manufacturing the future for lmpe-
rial Valley.
You should study these photographs,
perhaps, but they should be only sup
elemental reading" First you should
visit the All American canal to- see IN
nersnn the work that is going on.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
NOTICE OF SALE OF PROPERTY
TO SATISFY LIEN OF KEEPER
OF HOTEL. INN. OR FUR
NISHED APARTMENT
HOUSE FOR GUESTS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that Allied Properties, hotel, inn
and furnished apartment house
keeper, will on the 10th day Of
December, 1887, at the hour of 10
o'clock AM, at the American Stor-
age Building, 1886 Beverly Boule-
ward, in the City of Los Angeles,
County of Los Angeles, State OF
California. sell at public auction to
the highest bidder. the following
lots of baggage and other property,
to satisfy charges due from tenants
or guests and for costs.
The names of the debtors, the
amount due from each and a brief
description of the property to be
sold is as follows:
Lot No. Mrs. Henry Busse,
S2760, one bag, contents unknown;
Lot No. p. A. Hennessey, $36.19,
one Gladstone bag, contents un-
known:
Lot No. 3-Captain c. A. Mcbride,
$44.40, one suit case, contents un-
known;
Lot No. Ruth Steward, 1885,
one suitcase, contents unknown.
DATED: Nov 9. 1887.
COL. e. c. JENKINS,
Licensed Auctioneer.
ALLIED PROPERTIES
BY B. H. DORR,
v, Office Manager.
ta.rrf N 10 II "a. d l.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
The Best Rule of All
For Highway Safety

Ten persons were injured on Imperial
county highways last weekend, just as
the Imperial County Safety council was
perfecting plans for traffic schools for
erring motorists The list of accidents
proves beyond the shadow of doubt
the need for some such program as that
planned by the safety council, but it
proves also the need for a quality which
too few motorists seem to possess-com-
mon sense.
A traffic school can teach the rules
of the road and the rules of courtesy.
Whether it can drill common sense into
heads where that item seems to be absent
is another matter.
Since automobiles were young there
has been one unfailing rule by which
more motorists have kept out of acci-
dents than by any other. If the traffic
schools can implant this rule in the
minds of all drivers who attend it, our
highways will be far safer places for
travel. The rule, applicable to every
driver, is this:
Always drive as though the persons
behind the wheels of every other auto
mobile are insane. Drive as though every
other driver were intending to crash
into you if he can. Drive safely yourself,
remembering that the other fellow will
NOT
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
Small Homes and
City Beautifieation

Small home owners and renters in FL
Centro have an opportunity as good or
better than the owners of large homes
to profit from the City Identification
contest now being carried on by civic
groups here, including the Ell Centro
chamber of commerce and the city OF
Ell Centric Not only is their chance to
share in prizes good, but their personal
profit from more attractive homes
should be greater.
All this is true because it is the small
homes in Ell Centro which are most sadly
in need of Identification, and this beau
tification contest does not specify that
the most beautiful garden or yard shall
win first place The first prize will go
to the place which shows most improve
ment.
A small home can be just as attrac-
tive as larger, more expensive one. 1t
is the effort and planning put into it
that makes a place attractive. A S25,OOO
home can be just as unattractive as
$4,000 one, but it is seldom that the own
ers or leases of the finer homes allow
their yards and homes to deteriorate.
Unfortunately, those living in smaller
places often do.
A city of small homes is more attrac-
tive than city of large ones, when the
small homes are carefully groomed and
the yards and gardens are kept in good
shape.
1t is up to the small home owners
and renters to make Ell Centro's city
Identification campaign a success.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
Other Editors Say
FREEDOM OF THE HIGHWAYS
(SOuth Coast News)

When the teamsters union in Los Angeles
told the Associated Farmers of California, You
cannot use the public highways unless you
unionize truck drivers" Col. Walter E. Garrison,
Lodi farmer, who won his title in France, replied,
"rThe freedom OF the highways is just as sacred
TO the farmers freedom OF speech.
The farmers won the right to haul their own
products in their OWL trucks with their own
drivers.
The bald statement from the union leaders
that the farmers could not use their own drivers
was a challenge that struck at the very heart
of CALIFORNIA; greatest industry, agriculture The
unions stepped on the wrong toes when they
undertook to tell the farmer what he can do
and cannot do.
Long the target of slickers grafters and
union racketeers, the farmer has taken all he
intends to take. The teamsters wanted to get
the six hundred million dollar industry IN their
power so they could squeeze the earnings OF the
farmer into their pockets.
Not only is freedom of the highways sacred,
but the freedom of life and liberty is more
sacred and the general public is getting fed
I'D" on the "musts" showed down their throats
by the men who call themselves leaders OF
labor.
1t has taken long time for the tide TO begin
to turn against the tyranny OF American racket
eering but the trip down the long lane has
been made, and the turn has been reached
There has been no freedom along the high
way to happinss for the great middle class of
America since two men decided to become the
countrys Simon Legrees. But they have violated
the sacredness of that freedom The great
middle class and the farmers have had enough.
It's their turn pretty soon, and they will do
nice sweet job when they get just bit more
rel
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
Auction Philosophy
BY ID. L. ZINN

Folks, I don't pIame Penny Rich
mond for Dragging on the big cat
fish he caught and he had me
come down to his home and look at
the fish swimming IN the tub;
but why Milton CHM mot Zlnn)
should give a Democratic post
master this fish is some thing else
and should be Investigated by Mr.
Farley sounds fishy to me. BY the
way, John Wagner caught an
eight pound catfish last week and
he caught this fish on liver bait,
not Democratic Bait.
1t begins to look like this spe-
vial session of congress has the
filters and the most of 'em are
sore because they had to go back
to work so soon.
I look for the biggest crowd we
ever had at football game to be
on hand Thanksgiving day. Boys,
wait until after the game to eat
that turkey and you boys from
Calexico, if you don eat before
you come it's going to make you
awful late for dinner.
The Zinnerie clan, 35 strong
will gather at our place for
Thanksgiving dinner. We are old
fashioned and believe wherever
possible the children and grand
children should gather around
grandpa and grandma's table on
Thanksgiving day, and am NIGH
ty thankful to have my mother
with us on that day for she is
mother, grandmother, and great
grand mother of the zinnerie
tribe.
ri be seein' you,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
S u M M O N s

- ~ lvh ~ ~
No. 17733
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT, Plaintiff
E. M. PEASE, ct al,
Defendants.
Harry w. Horton and Geo. r.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA SEND GREETINGS
TO:
E. M. PEASE, THE FIRST MA.
TIONAL BANK OF POMONA, a
Corporation, National Banking
Association, ELMER L. HENDER-
SON, CLARK HORSFORD. JEAN
SMITH FJERESTAD, CHAS. r.
STEAD, HUBERT LEBUS, H. G.
CLARK, JOHN DOE, JANE DOE,
RICHARD ROE, JOHN DOE COM
PANY, a Corporation, and RICH
ARD ROE COMPANY, a Co-part-
nership, Defendants.
You Are Hereby Directed to Ap-
pear and answer the Complaint in
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in the Superior Court
of the County of Imperial, State OF
California, within ten days after
the service on you of this Summons
if served within this county; or
within thirty days if served else
where.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, or
it will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court Of the
County of Imperial, State OF Cali
fornia, this 30th day of June, 1897.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
(SEAL) County Clerk
BY G. o. KENYON,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24

down to anything resembling nor
NAL But while Congress sidles up TO
this subject, the Cassadra voices OF
the conference OF mayors ring in
it's ears, warning that to cut re-
the carload lot.
Mayor LaGuradia of New York
says bluntly that relief is going
to cost more, not less. The present
business recession, he warns, means
increased unemployment; far from
tapering off, the relief load is due
to increase, and increase material
ly. in the coming winter.
Mayor LaGuardia is followed by
Mayor Harold H. Burton of Clev-
land, a conservative Republican.
Conservative Burton talks just
like Left-Wing LaGuardia, when
relief is mentioned.
Cut off the federal relief pro-
gram. says Mayor Burton, and in
Cleveland 100000 people will be
compelled to choose between STAR
vation and a lawless search for
food.
Other mayors talk in the same
vein; and from their remarks one
senses that the relief load, onerous
though it is, is something that can
neither be talked away nor ignor-
ed. We still have this enormfss
undigested mass of unemploya>L
men; humanitarian reasons aside,
we cannot, in sheer self-defenSe,
do anything but continue to carry
it as long as it exists.
Which seems to indicate, then,
that our immediate salvation may
not lie in the direction of cutting
expenses and slicing into the de-
ficit. We should stop spending
scores of millions on relief, but
we can't do it while need exists;
the need will go on existing until
private industry is able to absorb
the jobless workers.
So Congress might well think
about industry instead of the fed
eral treasury. for a while. 1t might
think about that delicate, tenuous
thing called confidence, and how
it can be restored; about the pro-
position that if government can't
get business back on its feet, 1t
could try letting business get back
unaided-and unhampered. For
our problem can be solved, ap-
parently. only in terms OF genu-
| inc business revival.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
NOTICE INVITING BIDS

Notice Is hereby given that seal
ed bids will be received by the
Board of Supervisors of the Coun-
ty of Imperial, State of California,
at the office of w. j. McClelland,
Clerk of said Board of Supervisors,
in the Court House in the City of
Ell Centro, County and State afore-
said, up to and including the 9Th
day of December, 1887, at two
o'clock PM. for the furnishing of
all necessary labor, materials and
equipment for the erection and
construction of an annex to the
County Hospital situated on the
County Farm of said county and
belonging to Said county, the same
to be done in accordance with the
plans and specifications therefor
as amended November 18, 1887, on
file in the office of said Clerk.
Each bidder is required to accom-
pany his bid with certified check
or a cashiers check payable to the
County of Imperial for an amount
equal to 10 per cent of the amount
of his bid, all checks to be return
ed to the unsuccessful bidders at
the time of acceptance of bid by
said Board of Supervisors and to
the successful bidder upon his sign
ing a contract and executing and
filing with said w. j. McClelland,
Clerk of said Board of Supervisors,
at his said office, a bond with good
and sufficient sureties, the same to
be approved by said Board of Super
visors: the same to be conditioned
for the faithful performance of
the terms of the contract. and also
bond or the payment for all
labor to be performed in the execu-
ton of this contract and for all
materials furnished in accordance
Herewith as provided by Chapter
303 Statutes of 1919 as amended.
All bids must be addressed to the
Board of Supervisors, Ell Centro,
California, in care of w. j. Nc
Clelland, Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors; and such bid must be
enclosed in a sealed envelope and
endorsed IBID for furnishing labor
material and equipment for erec-
| ton of annex to county hospital.
Said board of Supervisors reserves
the right to reject any and all
bids.
Bidders attention is called to the
provisions of Sections ITO to 1881
both inclusive of Labor Code of
the State of California, which re-
quire Boards of Supervisors in ad-
vertising for bids for work and
material to ascertain and deter
mine the prevailing rate of per
diem wages for each craft or type
of workman or mechanic needed
to execute the contract which is to
be awarded; notice is hereby given
to bidders that under the provisions
of said Sections said Board Of
Supervisors has ascertained and
determined such prevailing rate of
per diem wages to be as follows:
Per Hour
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
By O. o. Mcintyre

motion for its glide off into the
fathoms of darkness, the tail light
cleaning red. Airplanes travel is
exciting, but only in the takeoff
and landing. A liner voyage is the
same calibre-after few hours only
the monotony of vast expanse OF
water. There's no time on train
when a traveller cannot look out
the window and feel the thrill OF
adventure.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24

her store she metO. o. Mcintyre
rug buyer-of all people-fell in
love and married. Her next book
of verse had the apologetic title:
Il Take it Back"
She was also confirmed cliff
dweller, to whom the city was the
only livable place. But that was
before her marriage. Her husband
took her to a home in the suburbs
and now she spends her spare time
working in the garden and signing
over leaving it daily for the city.
However, Miss Fishback is not the
only successful poet to win fame
at a desk in an advertising office.
Ogden Nash was dashing off copy
for book publishing concern when
between tasks he discovered his
jingles were salable. And quit ev-
erything to WOO the muse.
There are minnesingers to whom
verse comes as natural as breath
ing. Gelett Burgess can walk along
the street and sing-song poems of
beauty and comedy from the things
he sees en- paSsant. The columniSt
F.. P. A. is said to have the most
remarkable memory for poetry of
all modern baris. Given the first
line OF any verse from the oxford
collection or the various anthologieS.
he can complete it. Meredith
Nicholson, while better known as
an eSSayiSt and novelist. is so Doeti-
cally minded that any beautiful
scene will inspire him to murmur
his thoughts in rhyme. But only to
close friends. Frank Sullivan likes
to scurry up Parnassus when no.
body is looking, too. ..
Poetry appreciation begins-like
so many good things-for most peo-
pie at 40. Before that time much
of the poetry. save for few saltier
classics of the barrooms when one
is bit maudlin, bored me no end.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24

writer and eXecu-
tive in a large de-
partment S t or e,
she also finds time
to turn out salable
books of poetry
from time to time
Young, bright
eyed, and with
hair the color OF
pulled taffy. she
long poetized her
spinsterhood. And
then one day in
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
One-Minute TEST Answers

/. Nelson T. johnson.
2. Winter officially begins at
1922 pm. Eastern Standard Time
Dec. %, this year.
3. Warren G.. Harding, Repub-
lican, and James M. Cox, Demo-
crat.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
CERTIFICATE OF DOING BUSI-
NESS UNDER FICTITIOUS
MAMIE

NOTICE is hereby given that the
undersigned Gene Higgins is tran
sacting business in the City of Ell
Centre, County of Imperial, State
of California under the name OF
Golden Valley Dairy.
That his full name and place OF
residence is as follows:
Gene Higgins, two miles West OF
the City Limits of Ell Centre on the
San Diego Highway; Route 2, Box
1913, Ell Centro, California.
GENE HIGGINS.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
TOday's HorOscOpe

Many persons whose birthday oc-
ours today constantly seek recog-
milton. The desire TO be honored
spurs them on TO exceptional achi-
eyements.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24

A DETROIT sanatorium promis-
ing drink cure in three days,
overlooked a promotional angle by
not throwing in the day after free.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
Words of Wisdom

Poverty possesses this disease
that through want it teaches man
TO do eyil.-Euripides.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
New York Day by Day

NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-No one
has more successfully combined
poetry with business than Margaret
FiShhack AS a highly paid copy
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }

COUNTY OF IMPERIAL SIS.
On this 9th day of November, 1887,
before me, l.. Lee Nuffer, a Notary
Public in and for the County of
Imperial, State of California, per-
sonally appeared Gene Higgins,
known to me to be the person whose
name is subscribed to the within
instrument and acknowledged to me
that he executed the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
my official seal the day and year
in this certificate first above
written.
L. LEE NUFFER,
Notary Public in and for said
State and County.
(Notarial SeaD
=. NJ IN ~ % n I
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24

old and new, and the majority OF
my book purchases have been those
of poems.
Among the most widely Travelled
married couples in America are the
Watterson Rothackers, who divide
their time when in this country
largely between New York and
Hollywood. Rothacker, as originator
of a filming process in the early
days of motion pictures, retired
sensible fellow. before recalling 40
His first gesture was to see the
world, which he has with his wife
circled many times. Since that
first swing they have travelled to
out-of way hooks left largely to
those who exploit sight in
the travalogues.
The young George Vanderbilts
with a 100000 yearly income, have
also become thorough-going travel
ers among the American young
sters. He had made several journ-
eys into the jungles of Africa and
Borneo with scientific expeditions
before his recent marriage. For a
honeymoon trip, he took his bride
around the world, and since then
their time is spent studying maps
for new places to see on the worlds
outer rim.
I mosey over to Grand Central
now and then just to watch a crack
train pull out. Several gate-men
know I'm a train nut" and wave
me through. There's no transporta-
ton thrill to me like the conductors
cry of "Board!" the convulsive Jerk
and strain of a train getting in tC
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
The Grab Baq
One-Minute Test

l. Who is U. S. ambassador to
China?
2. When does winter begin (of-
ficially) this year?
3. What two newspaper publish
ers contested for the u s. presi-
dency in 1920?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
Thoughts for the Day -

Behold happy is the whom God correeteth:
therefore despise not thou the Christening OF the
Almighty-Job 55:l7.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-24
Hints on Etiquette

An envelope should always beal
the full name of the person II
whom the letter is sent.