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Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-14

trapeze artists. freaks and man
ayers groomed animals, hawked the
shows and shifted the nets and
pedestalS.
John Ringling North. executive
head of the show. said there were
200 strikers; Ralph Whitehead, eX-
ecutive secretary of the union, said
the number was 300 to 500.
The strikers belong to the Amer
lean Federation OF Actors. affiliat-
ed with the American Federation
of Labor They demanded regular
under canvas" salaries of 500
monthly and maintenance while
working the early season indoor
shows in Madison Square Garden
here and at Boston They had been
getting the 81 weekly winter quar-
ter wage, BY the agreement. they
will get S45 in New York and
Boston. beginning next season.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-14
PURSE SNATCHER
FEELS LIKE CENT

LES ANGELES, April IA CUP)-
June Ganahl was walking to her
home last night. A man leaped
from an automobile, snatched her
purse from her hand, leaped back
INTO the car. and sped away. Today
Miss Ganahl reported to police her
purse contained exactly one cent.
That's why she walked home.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-14
E. E. ANDERSON
CHOSEN HEAD
OF ROTARIANS

BRAWLEY April l4.-Succeed-
ing Stuart Green. Eugene E. An
derson II. vas elected president
OF the Brawley Rotary club by
the recently elected board of di-
rectors % that organization in n
noon meeting Tuesday.
The board also elected Harold
Brandt as vice president. and DR..
K. L. Secord as secretary and
treasurer. Board membership is
mace up of Tom Reha, Fritz Gel
selman, w. F. Peterson and Henry
kubo in addition to the president
vice president and secretary-treas-
urer.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-14
SIX YEAR TERM
IMPOSED ON ROBBER

Frank Perez, Brawley Mexican,
must remain in San Quentin six
years for robbing F. L. Torres of
S75 the night of Feb. 10, 1897, the
state board of prison terms and
paroles ruled. He was committed
to the institution from Imperial
county April 90, 1927 for second
degree robbery.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-14
Arizona Lettuce
Shipments Slow

PHOENIX. April "A cUP)-Salt
River Valley lettuce shipments
moved slowly today with demand
fair. The market was about
steady"
Carloads FOB. cash track:
Offerings light. mostly ordinary
to fair quality: 6's s3.5O-s3.75 oc-
casional poorer lower; SIS $3.50
S475, occasional poorer lower. One
car good quality SIS $3.50. 6's $3.50.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-14
Veterans to Be
Meeting Guests

Past commanders of the Imperial
Valley Camp United Spanish War
Veterans. will be the guests OF the
camp for a dinner meeting at $50
pm. Thursday at the Ell Centric
Veterans Memorial hall
Nineteen of the twenty past COM
manders are in the valley and 1t
is hoped that they all will be pres
ent for the meeting. The ladies
auxiliary will be in charge of the
dinner
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-14
Navy Planes Head
For San Diego

SEATTLE, April IA. (UP)-Five
U. S. navy flying boats of sqdad
ron VP-16 took off from Sand
Point naval station shortly after 7
am. today, en- route to San Diego,
Cal
The big ships, led by Lieut. Com.
Smiley Curtis, will stop overnight
at Humboldt Bay, Cal, and pro-
ceed to San Diego tomorrow, Comdr
A w. Radford, Sand Point station
commandant said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-14
Brawley Policemen
Pass Radio Exams

BRAWLEY, April IA. eUP)-With
the return OF officers Joe Gabbard.
P. L. Lovelady. Roscoe Phillips. and
Tom Greer from San Diego We'd
nesday afternoon after successfully
passing an examination the entire
Brawley police force is licensed to
operate the recently erected broad
casting station.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-14
Burglar BOrrOws
Trench to Steal
2R Tons of Coal

SALT LAKE CITY. April IA
tUP)-A burglar who last night
stole two and one half tons of coal
from local firm. borrowed the
company's truck to haul away his
loot. police reported. The burglar.
after completing the job, returned
the truck TO the fuel company's
garage.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-14
HORNE TO ATTEND
FARM LAW MEET

New farm legislation will be dis
cussed in Los Angeles Saturday at
a meeting of the agriculture COM
mittee of TIE California Dangers
association. o. G.. Horne of Ell Cen
tro, committee vice chairman, will
attend.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-14

door came open. Miss De Carrie,
the driver. lost control of the car
in the confusion and it hit a tree.
The women were en- route to
Bakersfield to visit the wild flow
er fields
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-14

Sentenced to life Imprisonment
recently for the poisoning of her
two stepchildren, Mrs. Agnes
Ledford Of st. Helens, Ore, seeks
a new trial. Mrs. Ledford main
tanned the children died from eat
ing berries on which arsenic dust,
used by a neighboring farmer to
kill insect pests, had settled. She
is shown talking to her attorney
from behind Jail screen.
-E1utroI Brpes
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-14
ROUSTABOUTS BACK
ON JOB WITH NEW
WAGE AGREEMENT

NEW YORK April ID tUP)The first
Rouabouts
Bailey returned to work with
an after a conference
They three performances clowns
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-14
MRS. EARHART HURT
IN CRASH; FRIEND
DIES FROM INJURY

BAKERSFIELD Cal. April IA (UP)N1rs. Amy O. Earhar CO.
Eahart Mercy hospital
received freak
Benigna 70, Honolulu
sponsored
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-14
RELIEVE YOUR MIND.

Why worry along - alone -
about money-needs? When we can
help you solve them here We
probably can help you avoid the
conditions that brought about
your money shortage. And we
will loan needed Cash, quickly, to
any worthy family Or individual,
without unnecessary red-tape or
embarrassment.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
44O Manufacturing Estab-
lishments Show Sag Of
Only 4.6 Percent
Under November
NOT AS SERIOUS AS
IDLE RUMORS STATE
Weekly Earnings of Those
Working Went Up, Though
Few People Were Cut Off
and Payrolls Dropped
Some, Fletcher Says; Knit
Goods Best Paid

Raleigh. Jan. 14.-(AP)-Major A.
l.. Fletcher, State lator commissioner,
reported today that complete reports
from 40 manufacturing enterprises in
North Carolina showed they used only
4.6 percent less employees in a mid
December week than they did during
the comparable November week.
For the purposes of the labor sta
tistics, all employers report detailed
data on their work week ending the
nearest the fifteenth of December, as
COMPARED with the similar week OF
November.
"There is no doubt the recession has
made itself felt in North Carolina
but the cold figures certified by the
EMPLOYERS show that during Deem
her the unemployment was nothing
like as serious or widespread as IDLE
rumors would have made our people
believe" said Fletcher. "The manu-
featuring plants cut off a few people
the payrolls dropped some, put the
weekly earnings of those working
went up"
FLETCHER noted that because of sea
sonaI conditions employees increased
in retail trade establishments aho
dropped slightly in wholesale houses
The 40 manufacturing enterprises
said their December employees totaf
ed 111,325 down 4.6 percent from NO M,
vember, the payrolls totaled Sl'ooS'4oA
down 2.3 percent, and the man-hourS
of labor showed drop, with the az ~.
erage work week being 0.9 percent OIL
Rut the average weekly earnings
jumped 2.3 percent to $17.2.
The highest paid industrial workers
were in knit goods, as they averaged
s17.77 weekly for 1872 hours, the earn
ings being up 81 percent over Novem
Der in "a plants.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
All Possible Evidence Is
Sought as to Cause Of
Crash in South Seas
ON Tuesday
HUGE NEW SHIP is
BEING CONSTRUCTED
Will Garry II Passengers
and Have Weight Of 40
Tons; Will Be Ready for
Tests In March; Ca]ifor-
nia-Manila Service Goes on
Uninterrupted

San Francisco, Cal, Jan. 14.-(AP)
Naval authorities, seeking all posi-
BILE evidence of what caused the
Samoan Clipper tragedy, planned an
other search today of the South Seas
area where the Elton flying boat
crashed and burned Tuesday, killing
Captain Edwin Musick, and six crew
men.
A navy plane from Pago Page, Am
erican Samoa, flew yesterday over the
spot II miles out where the craft
struck after turning back on flight
to Auckland, New Zealand, because
of motor trouble.
In dumping gasoline before an en-
Urgency landing the huge plane
caught fire and presumably was shat-
tered ty a mid-air explosion.
Charred bits of wreckage and Few
pieces of tattered clothing were all
that searchers recovered.
Officials said a Acton, 72-passenger
plane being built expressly for the
route, would be ready for tests IN
March. They declined to reveal plans
for service on the line pending COM
pletion of the new air giant
Operation of Pan-American Callfor-
nia-Manila service went on unlnter-
rupted.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
CLAIM RAIL RATES
LOWEST IN WORLD
American Railroads Say
They Must Have More
Money To Live
BY CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer

Washington, Jan. 14.-The railroads
as we know, have been beseeching the
Interstate Commerce Commission re-
Gently to allow them to make con-
siderable increase in their passenger
and freight carrying charges.
At present rates, they say they can
not continue to operate and "break
even", to say nothing of having q
small profit margin left over.
The shippers counter-argument is
that they are trying to fix their tar
ifs upon basis of fictitiously inflat-
ed valuations of their properties; that
the transportation figures they seek
to impose will make prices so high
as to slow up business generally.
This reasoning hurts the feelings OF
the Association of American Rail
roads, from which I have received a
complaint of unfair treatment in some
newspapers.
Naturally I invited the association
CONTINUED on Page Three.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
MANY JUDGE RACES
LOOM THIS SPRING
Judicial Contests To Be
Among Outstanding in
Coming Primaries

Raleigh, Jan. 14-Hotly contested
races for superior court judgeships
are certain this spring in at least five
districts.
Twelve districts elect judges this
year and it is likely that the fighting
will extend to more than the five pre-
dicted, for while judges are presum-
ably out of politics while on the bench
they usually get right out and scuffle
for their place there just like any
other politician.
The districts in which primary cam
paigns already seem certain are first
second, sixth, eighth and tenth. Other
districts which elect this year are
fifth, Judge j. Paul Frizzelle, Snow
Hill; ninth, Judge N. A. Sinclair, Fay
etteville; twelfth, Judge H. Hoyle
Sink, Lexington; fourteenth: Judge
w. F. Harding, Charlotte; sixteenth
Judge Wilson Warlick, Newton; nine
teenth, Judge A. Hall Johnston, Asne,
Vile: and twenty-first, Judge T.. =
Bivens, Mt. Airy.
The prospective contests shape ul
about like this:
First: Judge Walter L. Small o.
Elizabeth City, has been physlcali9
fCortin1,ad on Page Sikh
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
President of American
Newspaper Publishers
Speaks at Florida In
.dustries Day
DIR. CHARLES HERTY
HONORED AT EVENT
Stahlman, Nashville Pub
Usher, Predicts Billion Dol
lar Annual Paper Business
in South; Secretary Roper
Urges Cooperation of All
Agencies

Fcrnandina, Fla, Tan. 14.-(AP)-
James Stal,lman, president of the
American Newspaper Publishers AS
ISOLATION, predicted today that with
in the next ten or fifteen years the
South will experience an industrial
economic and social reha- ilitation
such as it has never heretofore known.
He spoke at the celebration of Flor
ida Industries Day, honoring DR..
Charles Herty, of Savannah, Ca, for
research into the use of Southern pine
for making newsprint, kraft paper
and fibre board.
The rehabilitation, Stahlman said,
will come about through the applica-
ton of DR.. Herty's research to the
many uses to which southern pine can
and will be put
81 predict, he added, "that within
this snort period, we will see kraft,
newsprint, rayon, ccllophane and col
lateral industries using southern pine.
with an annual turnover of not less
than one billion dollars.
81 see depleted farm lands and
eroded hillsides turned into gorgeous
groves of waving slash pine
Secretary of Commerce Daniel
Roper, another speaker, called for CO.
operation through the conference
table method" to build confidence
Roper said the success of the future
depends upon sincere cooperation and
constructive criticism between bust
ness, industry, labor and govern
ment."
''The complexities of modern civlll-
zation," he declared, naturally re-
ouire more regular activity on the
part of the government than under
o1r former economic system of agrar-
ian and handicraft production. We
are in the midst of social situation
that, in the sweep and pervasiveness
of it's influence, more radically differs
from that known to the founding
fathers than their social situation dit
fered from conditions in the stone
age.'
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
Definite Program of Action
With Govern ment Is Goal
of White House
Conference
DISCUSSIONS WILL
BE CONTINUED SOON
Roosevelt Says He Favors
Elimination of All Holding
Companies; German Am
bassador Protests to Hull
on Dodd's Attack Upon
Adolf Hitler

Washington, Jan. 14-(AP)- Six
representatives of finance, industry
and labor declared after an hour and
a quarter White House conference to-
day they were DESTROYS of working
out with the administration a ode
finite program of action" in dealing
with the present economic situation.
John Lewis, CLIO chairman, acted as
spokesman for the group as they left
President Roosevelt's office.
1--WE attended this conference with
the President, and discussed with him
the gravity of the existing economic
and industrial situation in this coun-
try" he said.
"The discussions will be continued
at the Presidents discretions."
Others at the conference were Owen
Young, General Electric Company
chairman; Thomas Lamont, partner
of the J. F.. Morgan banking house;
Philip Murray, chairman of the CLIO
steel organizing committee; Charles
Taussing, president of the American
Molasses Company, and A. A. Berle,
of New York, former administration
advisor.
The President said, meantime, he
favored the elimination of all holding
companies. He made the statement at
a press conference in expressing un-
alterable opposition to the modifica-
ton Of the death sentence" in the
utility holding company act. which
had been proposed by Wendell Will
kie, head OF the Commonwealth g.
South Corporation, as one condition
to an understanding" with the adj
ministration.
Other developments:
German Ambassador Hans DECK
hoff protested to Secretary Hull a.
gainst William Dodd's address in New
York last night in which the former
American envoy to Berlin attacked
(Cortinued on page EIGHTY
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
Louisiana
TriO'HnMg
As Killers

New Orleans, La, Jan. IA (APl~
Joseph Ugarte, q; Owen Cauche' ~,
and Anthony Dallao, 33, were nangeo
in that order shortly after noon TO-DAY
for killing a bank guard IN So'loo
hold-up.
Freshly shaved and bathed, the
three men had paced their small cells
here early in the day, often kneehns
TO pray. They had known the noon
hour isignalleh the time for their
hanging. =,
The three, condemned to die for a
hold-1p murder, saw all but one
thread holding them to life cut away
last night when the Louisiana Board
of Pardons declined to interfere IN
their case.
The mems mothers said boodlbye to
them before midnight.
The three were convicted OF STAY
ING Pierre N. Rizan, bank guard,
during a hold-up here New Years eve
in 1880. The bandits escaped with
$500. -,---l---i-AALMlAA
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
ROCKY MOUNT TRIO
ADMITS ROBBERIES
Confess Theft of Aldermans Car Jan.
and Breaking Into Two
Stores at Lucama

Rocky Mount, Jan. 14.-(AP)-
Three men arrested here last night
have confessed stealing Alderman J.
p. Johnson's automobile January z,
and using it in two Wilson county
store robberies January 8, Police Of
ficer H. G. Sellers said today
The men, booked as L. A. Taylor,
%: Marshall Sullivan, %, and BERTHE
Rocks, "a, all of Rocky Mount, were
in Jail here in default of $4,000 bond
each.
The policeman said the men had
confessed robbing two stores at Lu-
CANA, taking a safe containing a.
round SIS from one, and small a.
mount of merchandise from the other.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
All Exchange Transactions
Throughout Country In
definitely Suspend
ed There
LABOR UNREST AND
LOW MONEY CAUSE
Chinese Forces Spurred To
Desperate Counter-Attacks
bv Presence of General
Chang; Spanish Conflict
Quiet Pending Start of New
Battles
(pv The AssOciated Press.)


The peoples front government OF
France collapsed in factional strug-
ole today, tired infantrymen at
Teruel Spain, rested in slush and mud
for battles to come, and in the Orient
half million Chinese and japanese
soldiers were locked in a see-saw bat
flo TO determine the fate of central
China.
The Bank of France ordered all ex-
change transactions suspended until
further notice." while President Al
bert Lebrun sought a new government
70 replace that of the resigned Camille
Chautemps. He first invited Chau-
tamns to form a new cabinet, hut the
latter declined.
Socialist members of the second
neople's front regime, formed last
lime resigned in sympathy with the
opposition of the extreme left segment
of the front, the communists, VINO
opposed the policies, especially regard
ing labor, of Chautemps, radical So
cialist.
The radical socialists are the most
conservative of the three parties that
had formed the leftist-incllned peo-
pies front.
The crisis was precipitated by grow
ing labor unrest and the fall OF the
franc. which in unofficial trading
dropped to 1920 francs to the dollar
Some observers felt the new govern
ment would be a middle-of-the-road
cabinet, carrying out the policies OF a
sphere of opinion somewhere between
the "leftism" of the former working
union of socialists, communists and
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
Wayne Man
PerisheS In
Truck Fire

Clinton, Jan. 14.-(AP)-Roy Coley'
middle-aged Mount Olive man, was
burned to death when his truck
wrecked and caught fire here early
today. His companion, Charles New,
man, 10, of Greenville, S. c., escaped
with severe bruises and laceratlons'
Police Chief E. L. Cherry said the
big truck, driven by Coley, LETT tne
road and crashed head-on into a large
oak tree just inside the town limits
The driver was wedged in the can
when the engine was driven back IN
to the truck.
Coley was returning to Mount owe
with an empty truck from Greenvilie
Newman, the sheriff said, was hltcn-
hiking to Washington to visit an un
Gle. He was brought to a hospltal a.
Fayetteville.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
BY ROGER w. BABSON,
Copyright 1888, Publishers
Financial Ruraau Inc

Babson Park, Fla, Jan. 14.-The
biggest problem facing the nation to-
day is not the recession; rot the job
less, not the railroads. It is our taxa
ton system. If we continue at the rate
we are going, we will ultimately COM
NIT suicide by taxation. Government
spending is eating up our present as
sets. Taxes are hindering us from
building up new capital More than
any other reform" our taxing meth
DDS, from Federal down, need a COM
plete and thorough overhauling dur
ing 1888.
Our present system is just a big
piece of patchwork. It's only basic po-
Icy is to conceal taxes from the ul-
innate payer-the consumer. 1t is
short-sighted, unequitable, unreason-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
Highway 1
Re-ROuted
In Raleigh

Raleigh, Jan. 14.-(AP)-The High
wav and Public Works Commission
voted today to reroute U. S. Route No.
through Raleigh, Chairman Frank
Dunlap, said, and then disposed OF
routine business.
Route 1 will enter Raleigh from the
north as now, turning west on Eden
ton street to Salisbury street, turn
ing south on Salisbury for a block'
and leaving the city out Hillsboro
street to the west. Now the route
leaves the city by Western boulevard
to the west. The route of the nigh
way had been the subject of a local
controversy for some months, ana
finally Sandhills section towns asked
it's routing as approved by the com
mission.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
Federal Sales Tax Soon
Inevitable, Babson Says
Present Tax System Head ng United States Straight
Toward Bankruptcy and Initiation; Gives Ten Re-
Communications for Reforms in Taxes

able! It penalties initiative and thrift.
It handicaps industrial growth. T.
hinders the normal operation of bus.-
ness It retards new building. It en-
courages loose fiscal policies. 1t fos
tiers sit-down strikes of capital 1t is
heading the United States straigh!
toward bankruptcy and initiation
There are at least ten different steps
that should be taken Immediately to
relieve the current crisis:
1. Broaden The Income Tax Base:
Five years ago the income tax was
the major source of Federal Govern
ment internal receipts. Despite the
passing of many new revenue laws.
it still contributes 40 per cert. Yet in
1928 only 4,O7O,O 900 filed income returns
and of these only 2,523,0OO pad a tax.
Hence, the burden of income taxes is
(CoE+inued on Page SIX
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
Dean Noe
GOntin MeS
His "FnSt'

Memphis, Tenn. Jan. IA (AP)-lne
Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe entered
his thirteenth day of abstinence from
food and water today, his vigor APP
parently unimpaired and his spirit
unbrOken.
The pale and thin dean of st. MARY >
Episcopal Cathedral has shown no
public sign of weakness, although meo
ical friends predict inevitable collapse:
One physician said the 46-year-olo
clergyman could last only a re"
days."
But the dean told his Bible class last
night his next lesson would be two
weeks hence, explaining he would at
tend meeting of the church in Knox
Continued on Page Four.l
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
VIRGINIA SALES OF
TOBACCO ARE HEAVY
2O,137,419 Pounds for 1894 Average in
December; Season 88,789,56S
Pounds

Richmond, Va, JAM. 14.-(AP)-
Virginia producers sold 20,1S7, 4l9
pounds of leaf tobacco in December
for $3,412, 1852, for an average of $16.94
per hundredweight, Henry Taylor,
Federal-State crop statistician, an
nounced today.
Total seasonal sales, he reported,
were 88,789,562 pounds, which is 20
percent of above sales through Deem
Der of last year. The average price to-
day is S2438, compared with $2258 for
the same period last year, and $2O,-
78 for 1885.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
TARBORO MAN PUT
ON RURAL BOARDS
Governor HOey Announces Naming Oh
G.. A. Johnson; Important
Meeting Arranged

Raleigh, Jan. IA (AP)-Governor
Hoev said today c. A. Johnson, OF
marlboro. has been elected director
IF the North Carolina Rural Rehabl-
litation Corporation.
The directors will hold an unusual
Nv important meeting here January 20
to consider future policy of the cor
poration," Hoey salu.
Johnson succeeded the late Leland
Kitchin, of Scotland Neck.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
Grady Sure
FOrCOdWin
Certiorar
Jurist Suggests That
Course to Defense;
Probation Ord e r
Still Stands

New Bern, Jan. IA (AP)-Under-
standing that Solicitor Claude Can
nadv of Harnett county had refused
to permit Mrs. Sina Pope Godwin's
counsel an extra week in which to
perfect an appeal, Judge Henry "A.
Grady said here this afternoon he de-
cided to suggest to the defense that
it apply for a writ of certiorari.
That, Grady said, he is sure will be
granted, especially if he recommends
it, and will be the same thing as an
appeal.
Neither the order placing the twice
convicted defendant, charged with the
Staying of her third husband, on pro-
baton, nor the order for hearing
in Greenville, at which defense attor-
neys have been ordered to show cause
why that order should not he set
CONTINUED on Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-14
FURTHER DECLINES
IN COTTON PRICES
Disappointing Gables and Liquidation
Depress Market During Fore
noon Period

New York, Jan. 14.-(AP)-Cotton
futures opened unchanged to four
points down on disappointing cables
and liquidation March, after the first
half hour, was 1854, with the list three
to file points net lower. The January
option expired at noon today. BY mid
dav March was selling at 1853, and the
list was four to seven points net lower
Trading in January contracts ended
at noon with final price of 8.46, or
eight points net lower.