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Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
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DATA GATHERED
FOR REFUMDlNG
" asl,ingtOn Considers
New Proposal for
Adjustment

The Imperial Irrigation
Districts bonded debt puzzle
moved nearer solution Sat
urday when the district be.
can collecting valuation data
for the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation at Washington preli-
Urinary to asking RFC help in 4
new refunding program.
A plan under which bondholders
would turn in so Ger cent of the
districts outstanding bonds at rs
cents on the dollar and exchange
the remaining bonds for a refund
inc issue bearing four per cent
interest was laid before RFC Chair
man Jesse Jones at Washington by
Robert Fullerton jr.. chairman of
the bondholders' committee, and
Evan T. Hewes. president of the
irrigation district.
Fullerton acted with consent of
bondhOlderS whose securities total
S8,000000 or the SIS $4,000 dis
trict debt. Hewes said. Before the
RFC will agree to act. the district
chairman said, he believed agree
ment of bondholders representine
two-thirds of the bonds will be
necessary. The bondholders' COM
mittee now is negotiating for such
an agreement. he oIded.
Although the RFC has never
made loan on sr1h a proposal
as that submitted by the bond
holders and the district, Fullerton
and HeWes were told at Washing
ton that the $l7298,5OO fund origi-
nally approved for a loan to the
district Gn:luding $1,950,0O0 for
drainage) is still available provid-
ing a new application can show
proper valuation qualifications the
district chairman said.
Paving the way for such new
application, the district began COL
lecting up-to-date data to show
that payments can be met under
the proposed refinancing program.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
Mountains Searched
For Missing Plane

SAN DIEGO, Cal, April 2. (UP)
Ground crews of bluejackets to-
day went into the Rincon, Lake
Henshaw. Pine Mountain and
Black Mountain areas to check
reports plane which might have
been that in which Lieut.. Comdr.
Larue Lawbaugh and Aviation Ma
chinist f. Key disappeared Monday
had been heard in those areas.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
TIE NTH VICTIM
OF SERUM DIES

ORLANDO, Fla. April 2. up
Edward Bolte. 20, formerly of Chi
cago, died in a hospital today, the
10th person to succumb after re-
ceiving a new treatment for cancer.
Bolte's death came as laboratory
technicians rushed analysis of two
preparations which were admin
istered to cancer sufferers inter-
changeably
The nine women and a man who
died from the treatment all ex-
hibited symptoms of lockjaw.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
Loyalist Chiefs Changed
To Stiffen Resistance

HENDAYE, FRENCH : SPANISH
FRONTIER, April ?. CUP)-Spanish
Loyalists effected the biggest mill
tary shake-up of the civil war today
in an attempt to stiffen their resis-
tance on the Catalonian front AMI
save their cause from disaster.
The entire Catalonian high COM
mand was altered and every officer
of the old regular army who had
been in a key command was re-
placed by a militia officer-one Of
the civilian volunteers who saved
the Loyalist government at the out
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

set of the civil war.
Coincidently, the Loyalists dis
closed that the famous international
brigade had been reformed after its
heavy casualties in the Belchite
area at the start of the Nationalist
offensive.
These men, in command of an
American, are at Lerida. 1t is be-
lieved that they are the ones who
are largely responsible for a sudden
stout stand that has delayed the
Nationalist advance.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
Son of Billy Sunday,
Evangelist, Is Dead

LOS ANGELES, April 2. (UP)-
Billy Sunday, jr., son of the late
Billy Sunday, baseball player who
turned Evangelist, died today in
the Queen of the Angeles hospi-
tai. He suffered an attack of pneu-
monia
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
Ickes Issues Stringent
Regulations on Oil Land

one mile of the exterior boundaries
of naval petroleum and military or
naval helium reserves.
The secretarys order followed
federal court ruling in California
which declared section SO in the
Elk Hills territory to be govern
ment property, and assessed the
Standard Oil company of Califor-
MIA $6,O0O,OO0 in damages.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
SETT | { M I N 7
PREDICTED IN
POWER STRIKE
Utility Workers Holding
Plants Following
Seizures
BULLETIN

-SettloI1ient d, StTlhe III WHICH
utilities workers seized control of
power facilities throughout the
Saginaw Valley appeared immi-
nent today when court injunc-
ton preventing negotiations was
dismissed at Jackson.
SAGINAW, Mich. April
2. QUP)-Two thirds of low
er Michigan was at the mer-
cy of striking utility work
ers today as sheriff's depu-
ties and state police guarded
AGAINST further peaceful seizures
of consumers power company plants
and sub-stations.
Company officials reported this
morning that members of the utili-
ty workers organizing committee
took over strategic Croton Dam
in western Michigan, increasing to
six the number of key plants
under control of the strikers.
Strikers. with electric service to
$4,000 customers at their mercy.
refrained from pulling master
switches which would paralyze one
of the nations most highly indus
trialized sections. Albert Stonkus,
national director of the UWOC.
said the switches would not be
pulled at least until Gov. Frank
Murphy has been given a chance
to arbitrate the dispute.
Murphy was speeding north from
Florida for a meeting Monday in
Detroit with representatives of the
company, the CIO, the American
Federation of Labor and an indie
pendent union.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
SRA BURDEN
INCREASES y

State Relief administration head
quarters in Ell Centro Saturday re-
ported last weeks case load %
greater than the week before.
Robert Elliott, SRA director in
Imperial county, said TAT families
received checks. The total included
653 resident families and "a tran
sient families. Applications for re-
lief increased, he declared. because
the pea harvest is nearing the close
and many families in the migratory
group need money to take them to
harvest fields in the north.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

WASHINGTON, April 2. UP)-
Secretary Of Interior Harold L..
Ickes issued stringent regulations
today to prevent private eXploita-
ton of the nations petroleum re-
serves at Teapot Dome, Wyo., Elk
Hills, Calf, and all other naval
petroleum and helium reserves.
The general land office was no.
titled to reject all applications for
oil and gas leases on lands within
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

British protest against two recent
incidents in which British troops
and japanese civilians were con
cerned, a japanese spokesman an
nounced today.
The spokesman added an angry
comment on the attitude of Gen.
A. P. D. Telfer-Smollett, British
commander n-chief, who made the
protest.
1T is matter for regret" the
spokesman said, that British Com
manderin Teller Smollett
acted from one-sided observation
and assumed discourteous attitude
toward the commander-in n-chief of
the japanese forces"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

cancellation was the result of a
hint from the Nationalist side that
repatriation of the soldiers would
be regarded as French interven-
ton in aid of the Loyalists.
Apparently the government hop
ed, however, that by offering the
soldiers - LoyalistS - their choice
of sides, Frances legal position
would be sound
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
Fire, Explosion Held
Cause Clipper Crash

WASHINGTON, April 2. UP)-
An air commerce bureau investigat-
ing board reported today that the
probable cause of the crash of the
Pan American Airways airliner
Samoan clipper was fire and ex-
plosion occurring during dumping
of fuel.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
CENTRAL GIRL
TAKES 1STIN
SPEECH MEET

Mary Ann Riddle of Central Union
high school took first place in hu-
morous defamation at the Red
lands University speech meet Sat-
urday
Third place in that group was
won by Dorothea Eiler.
The Central debate team con-
sisting of Louise Pennington, Gwen
dolyn CHM and Dorothea Eiler, had
reached the Semi-finals at debate.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
NATIONALISTS PLAN TO CUT
HIGHWAY WITH COMMANDMENT

WITH SPANISH NATIONALIST
ARMY, Catalonian Front, April 2.
CUP) - Nationalists are preparing
to put the Barcelona Valencia
highway, last great artery between
Catalonia and the rest of Loyalist
Spain, under a joint land-sea bonn
bardment, it was learned today.
WarshipS were patroling the
coast today opposite the point at
which Nationalists expected to
drive for the sea.
1t was asserted officially ihat
troops under Gen. Garcinn
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
ADAMS TO GET
HEARING MON

Burleigh Adams, former Imperial
Irrigation District director, will be
given a hearing in FL Centro justice
court Monday on a complaint charg-
ing him with threatening to harm
his family.
The complaint, signed by his wife,
asked that Adams be placed under
peace bond. The hearing is sched-
uled for 2 pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

istration agreed to compromise on
outstanding issues in the bill.
The agreement evidently had the
approval of President Roosevelt.
House leaders, while refusing to
confirm that the president had
agreed to compromise in the bitter
est struggle since the supreme court
battle, moved Immediately to place
the compromise in effect.
1t was understood that leaders
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

SIutTatlOn Dy CaDlleC MINISTER'S OF
a problem that contained possibili
ties of international repercuSSions
Last night the ministry of inte-
rior ordered three special trains
made ready to take the refugees
to Cerbere, on the Catalonian from
tier, whence they would be sent
to Loyalist territory.
This order was cancelled sud-
denly and it was rumored that the
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

had smashed their way to within
half a mile of Gandesa, which is
% miles from the sea at the south
ern end of the Catalonian front.
Nationalist hoped, it was indi-
Gated, to have the coastal highways
under a heavy fire from the war
ships and artillery within few
days.
There were reports today that
Loyalists during the night had
evacuated Lerida fiSst ksuo. city AZ,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

of the presidents fight shortly will
offer two amendments to the bill
They would:
l. Empower congress by concur
rent resolution to override the
presidents reorganization orders
within 60 days of PRONUNCIATION.
?. Exempt the bureau of educa-
ton from the general plan to re-
align and reorganize executive
agencies.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
France Appeals to
II. s. to Halt Navy Race

~ WASHINGTON, April 2. (UP)-
france appealed to the United
ates and Great Britain today to
nttempt TO forestall world naval
4 armament race with a limitations
= agreement by the three democratic
powers.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
Strike in Frisco Club
Spreads to Golf Links

SAN FRANCISCO, April 2. CUP)
Strike of culinary workers at the
Olympic club in San Francisco
spread today to the lakeside Coun-
try club which is under the same
management.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

Now 1t GENES Out
Frel Ferguson, quiet hammered
Barbara Worth hotel manager, has
been holding out since he came to
Imperial Valley, it developed the
other evening. The ads may say,
MY friends laughed when l sat
down at the piano." but there was
no longer laughter among his friends
when Frf exercised his tonSilS for
the first timc-at least ON RR's rec
Crd--a2d demonstrated his ability
A.as . ~-1a.0r. NOW RR's willing to
49, Frad's against any voice in
va1ay.
KroH i--g Flow
Sc, ra1-score Rotarians and their
frian ) n ana about Ell Centre are
thrrc 10 aiv sold now on the ability
Ct [ Ell, NcCarty not only to sing,
but to T. il o"cheStras and choruses.
Lem W their confidence at the
R5tarv t'uh party when he brought
alcpo his + gh school orchestra and
cherus-and put the Philharmonic
to shame.
Still Holding On
Herb Norris has got ten dollars.
He has had the same ten dollars
since before Christmas. 1t isn't
his. He's working like a Trojan TO
get ri1 of itIand so far hasn't
been able to.
It's the last time, Herb AYERS, he'll
Lee Pyle Wagered Benny Young
five dollars along about the time
the winter baseball season set in
here that shortstops don't bat above
a $50 average Lee didn't like a
certain shortstop, and that's how
the discussion got started. They
put up the stakes with Herb. He's
still got the bills.
Herb has expended 30 cents of
his own money on booklets he be-
lieved might decide the question.
Latest figures, he declared, indi-
cate Young as Winner-but he's still
not quite sure.
Another First
Sunday is the birthday of Henry
Davis, Ell Centro, and Helen Davis,
Lone Beach. son and daughter of
j. E. Davis. one-time Ell Centre
druggist. OF course birthdays hap
pen to everybody, but a birthday
only happens once a year to the
first set of twins born in Imperial
Valley. which is what Henry and
Helen are.
Scene About Town
Early morning scene on Main
street: An unidentified milk deliv-
eryman mournfully surveying the
remains of a few score of milk
bottles, which had somehow or other
tumbled out of his truck opposite
the Barbara Worth hotel
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
COMPROMISE ON
REORCANIZINC
BILL DECIDED

WASHINGTON, April 2. Administration lead
staemaed by embatted coalition, decided today
after telephone conference with President Roosevelt
present amendments to the reorganization bill
representing capituation to opposition demands
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
FRANCE TO SEND
SPAIN REFUGEES
BACK INTO WAR

PARIS, April 2, UP)-The ministry of interior an
nounced today that 1000 Spanish Loyast soldiers refu
in the south of France would be back to Spain
at - to Loyalst Nationalist territory they
elected. The decision after day of anxious con-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
BRITISH PROTEST REJECTED
BY JAPAN IN STRONG TERMS

SHANGHAI, April 2. (UP)-Gen.
Shunroku Hata, japanese army
communicating chief at Shanghai,
has rejected lin strong terms" a
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
District Will Ask
RFC Help on Bonds
TELEPHONE HEAD
ATTACKS REPORT

WASHINGTON, April g (UP)-The Federal Commu-
ncatons commission split sharply tonight proposed
report congress urging drastic regulation of alleged
monopolstc tendencies within the sprawlng American
Telephone and Telegraph company empire and 25 per
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
Coast KiIIinq
Confessed bv
Attack Suspect
Prisoner Who Claims He Assaulted Girl
At Bonds Corner Also Says He
Murdered at La JOlla
: BY MARGUERITE BROOKS =

An unkempt barefoot wanderer, arrested suspicion
of having attacked Bonds Corner school girl Saturday
brought San Diego officers rushing to Ell Centre by alter
naey confessing and denying the murder of Ruth Muir
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

Maximum temperature oO'0Inmum IL; am.
temperature AZ, humidity 4O temperature II.
humidity Il; pm temperature 76, humidity IL.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03
Scene About Town

Early morning scene on Main
street. An unidentified milk deliv-
eryman moumfully surveying the
remains of a few score of milk
bottles, which had somehow or other
tumbled out of his truck opposite
the Barbara Worth hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-03

Butter: Los
Valley, fob, ranS
milk, 291ac; route
l.. A. Hay: u S M
S14.OO: u ) No. 2. S13N
SI.99.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-30
frog,
ROW far he's going to Jump"

30 1t was with Waldo T found off
from others that he owned a small
mountain range consisting of hun
areas OF acres; land in several other
places; hundreds of beef cattle which
/ ne shlps by the carload; a part inter-
est IN warehouse in Asheville, where
ne works IN the fall and winter: a
BOAT in Florida, where he and a
crowd of his neighbors go for a month
or so IN the winter, and go deep-sea
fishing. -
Waldo just fishes for fun and eats
MS fish, although he could buy fish
~ the carload, if he chose. He likes
very much to help visitors at the lake
10 catch fish. He tells. them that he
llshes 285 days in the year, and everv
sunday, although he attends the beau
tlIui mountain church on Sunday.
ABOUT a mile from the lake
incidentally, Waldo graduated at
the A. and NJ. College at Raleigh some
years ago. On and on we fished I'M
III finally pulled out about two
FOUNDER, something like a foot long.
And still l fished until l caught an
other. They were carp, and very
edible. Waldo throws the hooks to the
bottom where they rest, without the
use of cork. Lots of time the very
small fsyh, that are too small to
swallow the hooks, will nibble all the
bait from around the hooks, and thew
have to be pulled in and re-baited.
told Waldo that l intended to come
up and spend whole week with him
and do nothing but fish, if we lived
until next summer
The others came back from Soco
Gap just before supper, and I truly
had two real fish to show them Cous-
in Eunice Crews Cutler had invited
us to spend the night (Monday) with
them, so we did. She and her two
daughters, Misses Frances and Nor
ma, are spending the summer there.
The girls are busy all the time boat
ing, swimming, taking the Sunday
school or church courses given by the
assembly, singing in the choir, draw
ing, and many other things. You can
see most beautiful view from their
porch. They live next to the cottage
where the Shamburgers and Taylors
are spending the month.
We enjoyed very much seeing
Cousin Eunice and the girls and sat
up far, far, into the night talking
It was real cool (almost cold) and
we had good fire. AS we intend to
start home early tomorrow, I must
close and get to bed.
T. MOSES JONES.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-30
GT1tS aH1dA
Gravel
Saturday, July BOZ
BY 7. MOSES JONES

Saturday, July BOZ
This is Monday, our last day at the
last. 1t is not raining, but is cloudy
The fisherman was out at the little
wharf at his fishing bright and early
so 1 want to join him He catches
more fish than all the rest of the
folks totaled at the whole lake.
He makes ibis own bait out of
dough and other things I have his
formula written down in my little
book, along with the names and ad-
dresses of about a couple of dozen of
the finest folks | ever met. I have
promised them each a copy of the
write-ups of our trip. One of them
took my pictures with those huge
enormous, mammoth fish I caught.
truly hope they do not get lost in
the mails. The fisherman throws his
hook away out as far as he can, an6
sticks the end of his pole in the
ground. When the tip of the pole
bends and touches he water, he knows
that a real fish, anywhere from two
to 20 pounds has swallowed his hook,
and it is fun to see him pull them in.
He got out of bait, so we took him
down to the store at the entrance and
he got fresh supply and made it up.
He helped us fish all morning. 1t
turned out to be the sorriest day for
fishing of the whole month, so he
said. But l was determined to catch
a real fish, which he promised me.
I ran in to dinner and back. Just
then a big bite was going on.
loI xxyI,o !, sol
a three FOUNDER or more, a foot and
a half long. 1 did not know how to
pull it in, and let that big fish hit
a rock at the edge Of the water The
next second he jumped the hook and
was gone. That sure did break my
heart.
But he still guaranteed me big
fish The others went to ride over to
Soco Gap about II miles away They
wanted me to go, but I was fast evolv-
ing into a real fisherman, so would
not go.
| at last found out a little about
the fisherman. Everyone calls him
Waldo. At first l took him to be
about 80 years old, and questionen
him gently until I learned that he
was possibly As or Whereabouts. He
was dressed just like tht typical noun
taineer that he is-a purple shirt,
cap, a pair of old work pants. But
just like those old things l have re-
peated in this column before:
"You cannot tell the depth of a we'll
BY the length of the handle of the
pump;
You cannot tell from the looks of q
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-30
WEATHER RETARDS
CROP MARKETlNGS
Wide Ranges in Quality Bring Like
Varying Prices in Most
Green Vegetables

Raleigh, July 30.-Trading in North
Carolina, fruits and vegetables, while
fairly active this week, was handi-
capped early in the period by daily
heavy rains and later by high temper
atures. Wide ranges in quality of most
green vegetables brought correspond
ing spreads in prices at relatively low
levels, whereas, fresh fruits, princi-
pally peaches, following normal re-
ceipts, movtd out satisfactorily at
slightly higher levels, the weekly price
summary of the United States and
State Departments of Agriculture re-
vealed today.
At Chicago the two-way trend in
hog trading of last wick carried over
into this week but the trend was re-
versed as medium weights were 10 to
Is cents lower and heavias were 10 to
Is cents higher. Highly finished, good
and choicest steers sold off early in
the period but closed the week at
most all markets with the advance re-
gained Compared with last Friday,
spring lambs and yearlings fluctuateG
mildly during the week and closed
at Jersey City at 9.75 for good and
Choct Virginia Springers.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-30
LIONS RALLY AND
DEFEAT ROSE "a
Civic Team Unlimbers Big
Bats In Seventh For
Six Tallies

The Lions scored six runs in the
seventh inning to get an ga verdict
over Rose in city softball yesterday,
thereby moving up to third place
in the standing ladder.
Ralph Finch had succeeded in keep
ing the Lion safeties well scattered
up until the fatal seventh when the
civic team couple seven hits with in
field outs to score their tallies. Many
of the ticks were for extra bases with
the base paths occupied.
Dodd and c. D. Riggan led the bat
ting with two hits each for the Lions,
Bell and S. Boyd got two hits each,
and Ed Beckham accounted for the
only other safety of the Rose team.
Through an error, the Gro Swlfts
got credit for whipping the Under
writer's twice. This has been corrected
n the standing ladder, leaving the
GrCcers in fourth place.
John Church was on the mound Tor
the Lions, after Lee Marbury made a
faulty start, and Bill Register did the
catching. Ralph Finch pitched and
Bell caught for Rose.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-07-30

Nevada's 1875 deaths per 100000 as
highest in the land.
Thirteen states had rates of 100 or
better. Rhode Islands $50 deaths was
the lowest in any state.
The Tar Heel rate was worked out
from figures showing that 2,446 deaths
occurred in the State last year from
accidents. Of the total nearly so per
cent died in automobile accidents,
which claimed 1923 victims for the
period.
Other causes of death listed as "ac-
cidental' were railroad accidents, air
transportation accidents, conflagration
and accidental burns, drowning, acct
dental shootings, falls and occupation
al accidents.
The Safety Council figures show that
a solid block of II western states, ex-
cepting Utah, had higher death rates
for the year than any other group Of
states in the country. Washington
Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada,
Arizona, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado