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Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-14

Little Lorraine Simms is recu-
perating from a broken arm at hel
grandparents home, Mr.. and Mrs
John Kuhn, on West Main.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-14
Ne,us Items About
Valley Residents

Henry Swanson, Elks lodge sec
retary. is confined to his home by
illness.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-14

Mrs. ]. A. Simmons is visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Donohue.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
Contract Let on
Ogilby Project

E. w. Crandall, building con-
tractor of Ell Centre. was awarded
the contract for construction OF
an additional class room at Ogilby
school. G. B. Collins. county super
intendent VINO visited schools IN
the river district Thursday, an
nounced. Bids were opened Thurs
day at Ogilby.
Ogilby will open Monday and
the new class room is to be con-
structed to accommodate anticipate
ed increases in attendance.
Supt. Collins visited Winterhaven
and FIT. Yuma schools also and both
reported increases in attendance.
FIT. Yuma's attendance on the open
ing day was 1T as compared TO
109 last year.
Both schools are in good shape,
Collins said. TT. Yuma is now in
the new six-room school building
constructed by the government.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
"A MINIMUM
IN Ell CENTRO
ON THURSDAY

This years record summer heat
has made Imperial Valley residents
accept as cooler" temperatures
they would have considered almost
unbearable in years past, weather
records show.
The "a minimum temperature of
Thursday was hailed a much cool
er and more endurable" by a ma
jority of the residents. A minimum
temperature of "a was the highest
minimum recorded for the month
of September since weather rec
ords were established in the coun-
ty more than 10 years ago.
Maximum temperature for Thurs
Gay was Ill degrees. At noon Fri
day the temperature reading was
1O5 degrees with the humidity
standing at 80.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
District to Set Tax Rate Saturday
DIRECTORS TO
END WAVE OF
SPECULATION
Negotiations Carried Oh
With Holders Of
Bonds

The Imperial Irrigation
District tax rate will be set
Saturday.
ClimaXing months of poll
tical sniping and predictions
Of rate ranging from $13 per hun
dred down, the board of directors
of the irrigation district will meet
Saturday morning in a SESSION that
Will end speculation.
IirHctc"s W1re carrying cn nego-
t atiors Friday with bonlholder5.
looking fer a route toward settle
ment of the refunding issue before
the assessment rate is decided
These negotiations were expected
to continue until the last minute.
making any fair prediction of the
rate impossible.
One favorable indication came
Thursday from San Bernardino.
where Julge Benjamin F. Warmer
issued a statement causing the be-
Iief that he will grant the. districts
request for release of impounded
money to pay Jan. l, 1887 interest
on deposited bonds. Majority bond
holders had indicated that. if the
district is able to pay this interest,
they would discuss a refunding pro-
gram.
The bond issue bears directly on
the assessment rate because the dis
trict this year must consider a levy
to care for whatever sum is set
up to pay bond interest and, per-
haps, principal.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
BOAT RIDE PLEDGE
HALTS BOY SUICIDE

PASADENA, Sept. II. U.P)-The
promise of ride in a pOlicenRn's
sailbOat last night saved the life
of Ia year old boy who climbed
over the high "anti-suicide" fence
on Colorado street bridge and was
about to jump.
For half an hour Motorcycle Of
ficer Paul Goble stood on the bridge
and argued with the boy, Robert
Drollinger, who was crouched out
side the railing.
Robert, seen climbing over the
fence by motorists, said he intend
ed to drop down and kill himself
because he was flunking in En-
glish at high school.
Officer GobIe, after a fast run to
the bridge, found the boy leaning
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
Manh0le Covers
Aid War in China

NEW YORK, Sept. II. Dup
Police today blamed the disap-
pearance of three manhOle covers
from sewer openings i'm the
Bronx on the war i'm China.
They've stolen a dozen of
them since the war started over
there,' said William Griffen,
general foreman of sewers for
the gOrough.
"The covers weigh about $50
pounds each and they sell them
for S. apiece to junk dealers
who ship trem to China for
junk"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17

out and hanging on by one hand.
Goble, an avid sailboat fan as
well as an astute professor of boy
psychology, talked fast. He told
Robert about his sailboat noored
in Los Angeles harbor. He pulled
pictures of the boat from his pock-
cts and exhibited them in the beam
of his flashlight. Robert leaned
close to the fence, interested. The
policeman offered to take him for
a sail on his day off Saturday.
"All right" agreed Robert. He
pulled himself over the rail and
collapsed weeping in Goble's arms.
TITS all right sonny" soothed
Goble. "And I'm going to take you
for ride in my boat Saturday,
just as said l would"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
KNIFE SLAYER
SENTENCED TO
WOMAN PRISON
Probation Application
Denied; Term Not
Over 10 Years

Mrs. Minnie Hansen, "A,
"paring knife" slayer, was
sentenced to the woman's
prison at Tehachapi Friday
for a term not to exceed 10
years.
Judge r. D. McPherrin would
not accept her application for pro-
baton because this class of Offend
ers is not given the right to file
such an application. When per-
son is convicted of a crime where
a deadly weapon is used, Judge
MPherrin said, probation is not
open to them.
Commitment was withheld for
two days to give Mrs. Hansen time
to place her affairs in order.
She was convicted of the "paring
knife Staying of her husband, Ed
Hansen, in a domestic fight at the
Hansen home in Brawley early in
July. She told the court she had
had child every two years from
the time she was 16 years of age
until she was 30..
The last woman sent to Tehacha-
pi from Imperial county was Ella
Culberson, Westmorland Negro, sent
to the institution on morals offenses.
Five other women have been sent
to the institution from this county,
officers said.
She was convicted of manslaugh-
ter by a jury after less than six
hours deliberation at the close of
one-day trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17

planes and surface vessels attack
ing neutral shipping in the Mediter-
ranean almost at will. An excep-
ton will be made in the case of
such vessels attacking under the
international rules of the 1880 naval
pact providing for prior warning
as measures for the safety of pas
SengerS and crew.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
IS STUDENTS
ENROLLED IN
CENTRAL J. C..

Forty-five new students were en-
rolledI in Central Junior college
Thursday, the opening day OF re-
gistration. OF these 45, 80 were new
students, and Is, former students
of the institution
Pre-school registration is being
conducted at the junior college this
year and students may register Fri
day and on Monday. Glasses are
to begin on Tuesday.
School authorities have urged
that all possible register early TO
avoid confusion the opening day.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17

land by a wide margin in the Re
publican voting. Copeland ran on
both Democratic and Republican
tickets and was actively backed by
former Gov. Alfred E. Smith. La
Guardia got more than $4,000 DEM
cratic votes on a write-in vote.
Incomplete returns, Republican
primary:
LaGuardia 80,652.
Copeland 47,209.
Democratic primary:
Mahoney 412,103
Copeland 41,097.
The "Write-in' vote for La Guar
dia seemed to make it evident that
he would get the votes of thou
sands of Democrats at the general
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17

election in November, and his sup
porters already were declaring that
he was assured of another four
year term in city hall.
Copelands defeat was a severe
blow to Tammany Hall and to for
mer Governor Alfred E. Smith, who
campaigned for him.
Although most leaders had con-
tended that the New Deal was not
an issue, Mahoney declared in a
victory" statement:
"We realize fully that this is not
victory for ourselves personally
but for the cause which we repre-
sent. This is a victory for Franklin
D. Roosevelt, our great president"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17


in the Lotien, Liuhand and Aikue
sectors. Reports from the front told
of savage hand to hand fighting
in which the Japanese called for
reinforcements.
The Chinese continued their
gradual withdrawal to a new de-
fense line. But it had become evil
dent that their retreat was a plan
ned one, as they asserted, for the
movement of the scores of thou
sands of men involved seemed eff
fected with the clocklike precision
and rear guards challenged the
Japanese at point after point.
10
PEIPING, Sept. II. U,P)-Three
Catholic missionaries, held captive
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17

AnlmaS, Colo, who contends she
is the widow Of the late Isaac
Harry. Negro, who lost his life in
an automobile accident on the CAL
axico-Y Yuma highway June 4, 1886.
The other suit was filed by Pearl
Harry, who also contends she is the
widow of Harry, and Jewell Harry,
alleged son of the FL Centro Negro.
Long was driving an automobile
Hancock was passenger when the
car collided with one driven by
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17

by a Chinese volunteer army of
nearly 1000 men since Aug. 80, were
released today.
Along with three other Catholic
missionaries they had been forced
to accompany the marauding band
for nearly month. The volunteers,
who call themselves the national
peoples army, have constantly en-
gagged the japanese in guerrilla
warfare.
Those released today were the
Two cases of revolvers and two
Edmund Stephen of Czechoslovakia
Three others, a French Brother
Faustus, Brother Jose Vincente of
Spain and Brother Leo Laver of
Continued on Page 2, Col. 50
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
BLARING RADIO
BROWNS SHOT

LOS ANGELES. Sept. II CUP)-
Roger w Sture, 25, an unemployed
accountant. killed himself with a
bullet Though the head today af-
ter turning on his radio to drown
out the pistol report, according to
police.
The apartment house manager
told police he went to Sture's apart
ment after other tenants COM
planned of the blaring radio Re-
ceiving no response to his knock,
he opened the door and found the
body in bed, a pistol beside it.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17

Harry. The Negro died later of
injuries suffered at the time of
the collision. Long was freed OF
responsibility in the case by jury
in superior court.
The two women filed the damage
suits on the same day.
In answers to the two suits, the
defendants ask that all defendants
be made plaintiffs in one suit or
that the suits be tried as one.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17

emphatic a period of military and
naval cooperation between Britain
and France in the Mediterranean
unprecedented since the World War,
signalized earlier by their mutual
abrogation of the naval control
system of the Spanish coast with
out consulting Italy and Germany
Under the addenda to the Nyon
accord, signatories may fire on
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17

'ot any one part Of the union ad-
Yersely affects each ana every part"
he said on the Civil war battlefield
where $4,000 northern and south
srn soldiers died.
1--WE stand ready in all parts to
lend a helping hand to those Ameri-
cans who need it most"
About $4,000 persons, many of
whom carried American and Con-
federate flags, gathered here, but
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17

only a few were able to hear all
of the address due to faulty loudS
speaker equipment. Senator Mil
lard E. Tyiings, Democrat, Mary
land, introduced Mr.. Roosevelt.
The president drove rs miles from
the capital to speak briefly at OBJ
servances of the anniversary of the
Civil war battle which historians
consider gave President Lincoln the
cue for his emancipation proclama-
tion.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
New State Highway
PatrOlman Reports

Alfred Bisgard, California High
way patrolman. reported for duty
in Ell Centro Friday morning at
the office of Captain Frank Oswalt.
He was transferred from San Diego.
Day F. Dunning, transferred from
Ventura county, is scheduled to
report october l.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
B 0 A R D I 0
INVESTIGATE
RE 0 UES I { D
Sen. Wheeler Joins
Justice Black
Scandal

WASHINGTON, Sept. IT.
UP)-The controversy re-
sulting from a newspaper
"expose" alleging that Su-
preme Court Justice Hugo l..
Black is life member of the ku
Klux Klan was extended today.
Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D, Mont,
demanded that President Roose-
velt appoint an impartial board
to investigate.
Wheeler, who directed the sue
cessful campaign against the pres
iden+'s supreme court enlargement
proposal, said that If Mr.. Roose-
welt failed to act, ''the senate
should do So"
"If the charges made are true,
the president should ask for his
(Blacks) resignation he said in
a statement telegraphed to Wash
ington from Fargo, N. D.
Wheeler said he withheld his
vote when the senate confirmed
Blacks nomination, because there
had been no denial of a charge
made in the senate that Black was
Klansman.
William H. Bankhead, speaker
of the House, declared at his Jas
per, Ala, home:
st have never belonged to the
Ku Klux Klan I never was invited
to join. That is that"
Bankhead's statement was re-
ply to Rep. Hamilton Fish, R., NY,
who had said that 'if Klan affilia-
tions are to be a test of office, it
migrt be well to find out the status
of the speaker of the house, who.
like Black, halls from Alabama"
LONDON, Sept. II. U.P)-Justice
Hugo l.. Black will sail from Ire
land for the United States Septem-
Der Is with Justice James G. Nc
Reynolds, fellow member of the
United States Supreme Court bench
as fellow passenger, the Man
chester Guardian reported today.
There is the possibility here of
some interesting encounters on
board" the Guardians London cor
respondent commented on the pros
pect that Black, the new liberal
justice and McReynolds, a eader
of the conservative group, might
sail together
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
HOltville Man
Dies on Vacation

Gard Leslie Young, "A, of Holt
vile, died Thursday night at La
guna while on vacation from
Imperial Valley.
The body was returned to the
B. E. Lemons mortuary in Ell Cen
tro to await funeral arrangements.
He was born in Pennsylvania and
came to the valley seven years ago.
He was employed by his brother,
Ben Young, of HoItville.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
Jury Takes Case
Of Legislator Flint

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Sept. II.
W.P)-Superior Judge Dal M. Lem
mon completed instructions to As
semblyman Gene Flints bribery
trial jury at 1887 am. today and
the jurors retired to deliberate on
O. verdict.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
4 CANDIDATES
INITIATED BY
ELKS LODGE

-Four candidates were initiated
into the Ell Centre Elks lodge at
the meeting Thursday night; Will
liam Mooney, Jimmy Wolf, j. J.
Hart and A. Jensen.
Friday delegation of Is officers
and members of the lodge left the
valley for Huntington Park to in
itiate class of candidates for the
coast lodge.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
PRISONER HELD
FOR BAKERSFIELD

Bruce Whitton. alias Charles
Thomas. 27. was arrested In FL
Centre Thursday night on a war
rant issued from Bakersfield.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
Double-Widow Case
Back in Limeliqht

Ell Centros celebrated 'double-widow" case back
in the limeght Friday when request filed in supe-
ror court by James Long, Charles Hancock and his guard
an w E. Hancock that two $4,000 damage suits be
bned into One suit filed by Fannie Harry of Las
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
War Opened on
Pirate Planes

GENEVA, Sept. II. (UP)-Nine Mediterranean powers
headed by Great Britain and France, signed accord
tonight authorizing signatories of the Nyon agreement
fire pirate planes and surface ships as we'll as
submarines in the Mediterranean. The accord made more
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
u AMBLING
IMPORTER
Retort COurteOu-

hetOrt COurteOuS-
Imperial Valley has been noted
for holding its own, or little bit
better, for several years, but it re-
ma ned for Jean Miller, vacationing
in Canada, to put a diamond-stud-
ded point on the fact. Miss Miller
had been hearing for years-aS who
hasn't-about crumpets. Trouble
was, she didn't know their native
habitat breakfast. luncheon. tea
or '1inner--and so decided to find
out. She asked The waitress was
BIT miffed that anyone shouldn't
knew what crumpet is. She was,
in fact, almost supercilious about it.
She went back, and from her ac-
tions Miss Miller judged that she
was telling the rest of the staff
about the ignorance OF the poor,
benighted heathen who didn't know
what a crumpet was This time
Miss Miller was a bit miffed
When the Canadian step-child of
the British empire returned to the
Miller table. Miss Miller spoke very,
very sweetly.
I've changed my mind about
these crumpets,' she said. "I think
I'll have a taco, instead"
The waitress discovered suddenly,
if a bit belatedly, that food is
~matter of geography. She, it seems,
had never heard of a taco.
.
The Tent Maker
When you happen to see him,
ask Henry Loud how come his
nickname got changed from "Pinky"
to Omar all of sudden.
It's Bribery
Ike Schlatter and Charles Halli-
day thought nothing of it when
the first girl barged into Charles
office at the court house during
conference to thank Evan Hewes for
buying her nice cool soft drink,
put when the second one came in
few minutes later to voice voci-
ferrous thanksgivings. they began to
wonder and when the third appear
ed. 1T got worse. Then when others
kept interrupting to thank the ir-
rigation district man for the same
thing. 1t became unbearable 1t
looked like Evan was buying drinks
for every girl in the court house.
Charlie muttered and went de-
tectiving.
What he found out was that
Hewes had bought the girls their
drinks on the condition that they
interrupt the conference every so
often to thank him-and make the
mouths of Charlie and Ike water
The last word was Charles. He
came up with a photograph, taken
In the winter of 1882, showing his
grapefruit grove.
The trees were laden with snow
The Wrong Asnwer-
Mrs Bob Erskine of Brawley.
thinking it was her husband AMI
that he was trying to kid her when
a friend called up on the telephone
to ask is she knew where Coach
Erskine is?'', replied, What do you
think"
Then she found out it wasn't Bob
on the other end of the line.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
:. .. r. Speaks
On Battlefield

SHARPSBURG, Md. Sept. II. (UP)-President Roose-
vet said today the 18th anniversary of the battle of
Anteam that perhaps before the United States
thought and acted with such national unity
Deeply appreciate that the distress difficulty
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
Chinese Smash
Japanese Lines s;

SHANGHAI Sept. II. (UP)-Chnese, seizing advan-
tage of heavy rains that immobized japanese arpanes
and tanks, attacked ferociously all along the Shanghai
front today Infantry "dare to die units big sword
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
Sen. CO peIand
Beaten i'm r.. Y.
Mahoney Wins

NEW YORK, Sept. II. (UP)-Jeremiah T. Mahoney,
New Deal candidate overwhelmingly defeated Tammanys
mayoray candidate Sen. Royal S. Copeland in yester-
days Democratic primary almost complete returns showed
today Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia also defeated Cope
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17
Baseball Results

NATIONAL
Brooklyn ....... 010 900 003-4 10 l
Pittsburgh -. 002 600 80X-10 13 l
Hamlin, Marrow and Phelps;
Brandt and Todd.
New York .....001 200 021-6 13
Cincinnati POO 600 001-3 3
Gumbert and banning; Derringer
and lombard, Campbell.
Philadelphia 1000 o02 600 2 5 2
Chicago .-....601 900 12x-10 Il l
Lancaster, Jorgens, Birkhardt and
Atwood; French and Hartnett.
BOSTON U
st. Louis ........................... 900 0
Fette and Mueller; 81 Johnson
and Brewer.
AMERICAN
Cleveland 900 010 500 5 l
Boston II 100 900 000-1
Allen and Pytlak; Newsem and
Desautel5.
Other games postponed. rain.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-17

Butter: Los Angeles 81: But
terfat. Imjerial vaIIey,f.o.D. ranch
grade A AZ; manufacturing milk
d0;r QUITE gathered cream 36is.
LA. Hay; us. No. | S17.50-1s.
No.2 Ieafy SI7Uv-17.50: Us NO. 2
$4,000.
Minneapolis Flax Sept. S2.06
Evening star., 1937-03-02


here. All her search for it has turned
up nothing and if you don't mind I'd
like TO ask you few questions. Sit
down. Why don't you open your coat?
It's warm here"
mo, thank you. sir" said Marie.
Marie, where did you work before
you came here?" he asked, stopping
in his stride to look at her like a
pointer that has scented his game.
las Mrs. Shelton knows, this is
my first job. I lived at home until
I came here
We'll, now; suppose that on a
small salary there must be lots of
things a young girl cannot afford to
have. But that is sometimes q good
thing, as it is often a test Of char
acter," observed Mr.. Benson.
"Yes, sir. But what has madam
mislaidP Perhaps could tell her
where it is" Marie gave what to the
suffering Mr.. Shelton looked like .
brave little smile.
mo doubt. no doubt" said Mr..
Benson. Its little matter Of some
gems. A string of valuable pearls
that we have reason to believe you
could tell us right where to lay hands
on! Why don't you open your coat?"
X X X X
FOR an awful moment there was
silence. Before she spoke, Marie
stared hard at the three people there
before her L think I begin to see!
I'm supposed to have swiped those
pearls, am I? Well, if I had. let me
tell you that I wouldn't have gone
to the 10-cent store today and paid
20 cents for a string of imitation
pearls" She pulled open her coat and
handed the glass beads to Mr.. Benson.
They're false, all right" he NUT
tered. inspecting them.
Mrs. Sheltons pearls are at the jew
eler's being restrung." Marie put in.
The handle broke of her mirror and
! she dropped it on the pearls on her
| dressing table. When she asked me
to have it fixed I naturally thought
she meant the pearls, too. There!"
She pulled out jewelers. receipt from
her pocket and flung it at Mr. Benson.
"One mirror-f1x handle" he read.
"One string pearls-restring. Umph!"
He studied it for several minutes.
Mrs. Shelton turned pale, then rosy
pink. He looked at her and set his
| lips.
rs there anything more?" asked
Marie. turning to the door.
How silly this all is. Marie" said
Mrs. Shelton, finding voice MY
dear, when those pearls are fixed I
want to give them to you. I'd been
saving them as surprise for you
anyway"
"Is there anything more?" repeated
the unforgiving Marie.
yes" said Henry. I'm having
the things moved out of the spare
room down here on the first floor
tomorrow and I want you to move
into it. It's getting too cold for you
to be living upstairs there any more" ="
He glowered at his wife.
"Oh, thank you, Mr.. Shelton!"
said Marie. She smiled at him and
went up to her attic room, now for
the last time.
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