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Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-24
Electric Store
Will Open for
Business Friday

Second new business TO announce
opening in FL Centre this week the
Imperial Electric. inc, store viii
open at $50 Main street in FL
Centre and 555 Main street in
Brawley Friday.
Otis Hinson. electrical contractor
here for 10 years. and Joe Scruggs.
who will supervise retail sales tor
the new firm. announced the open
ing. A complete line of General
Electric kitchen appliances. as well
as air conditioning units for both
home and commercial use. will be
available to customers, they said.
Fred Salmen. veteran domestic
service department agent of I'm
perial Valleys pioneer Genera J
Electric dealers. will handle the
anne department for the new firm.
Scruggs was empoyed by the Nev-
ida California Electric corporation
for the last two years. He started
a General Electric store in Indio
in 1929. Hinson will continue cleo
trical contracting in the new firm,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-24
Woman Motorist
Hits Another Auto,
Then Drives Away

a woman believed TO be Helen
{. Ackley. Santa Ana. who shouted
10 another woman that she worked
for tho California Highway Patrol
and eouli not b, held for automo-
bic accident damage. was sought
hy police n FL Ccntro and else-
where Thursday.
IT, woman, who appeared drunk
backed her sedan into an automo-
bic belonging to Mrs. william A.
Hid. Los Angeles, on North Fifth
street near Nam street Wednesday
ni2ht. Mrs. Hill sa d. and refused
4 stop. give her name or make
an accident report to police.
A lelctypC message 10 Sacrament
10 revealed uat tho license number
Oh The car was issued to Helen c.
Ackley Of Santa Ana Floyd V. hck-
Icy. FL Ccntro traffic officer. said
he had never heard Of the woman.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-24

had to 90 before the supervisors
and personally present a plea for
a plucking permit. Since 1929. how
ever, the county clerk has been
authorized to issue permits in be
half of the board.
One technicality which may
stump the flower sleuth is that
plucking permits may only be is
sued to museums, Libraries or an
Herbarium. According to Daniel
Webster's dictionary, an Herbarium
is "a collection Of dried or pressed
specimens" Technically, this ex
cludes amateurs. herbarium or 9TH
erwise. In practice, however, W. j.
McClelland, county clerk oVerlooks
this. because of the extreme diff
Guilty in differen.iating between
herbariums and others.
With permit in hand, the flower
sleuth is ready to venture forth
But. on second thought, perhaps
it's better to wait until there IS
something to pluck besides yer
bena. That probably will be in the
near future.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-24
Age Benefit Payments
Received by AS i'm ~.

Old aec security benefits we're
received By as persons IN Imperial
county during the month d March
at a cost OF s14.563 TO tn nation.
STATE and county
Phil Hoffman. county idigent Of
ficer. said the total for February
was Id. Ihc federal cosernm
pays hall OF every check up 10 $50
ana the balance must ta paid By
the state and county. Twenty -seK-
EN- applicants FOR the benefits fail
ed to cCme under the terms Of thu
act. he declared and did not 20 on
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-24

The TcgiStCr Tor rcgnIaf paYmcnts'
Imperial county has no state Cl
federal help in paying the Marcl.
bill of S8233l to SO INDECENT coufI
" residents.
Orphan aid in March went tc
l34 families at a cost Of S3.730 and
- persons received blind a. - a
sUst Of Sl267. All tn orphan ali.
bill Is paid by the state and fedora
government and the blind lid bill
Is paid much tn same a5 the oil;
age security bill. Hoffman explain
cd
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-24
Cop Waits Time,
Fells Cafe Thug

CHICAGO. Mar. "a (UP) -Po-
liccman William Armstrong. off
duty and in civilian clothes, calmly
waited in line to pay his dinner
check today while a bandit robbed
the restaurant cashier. Then he
killed the bandit.
Armstrong withheld his fire un-
~ the bandit moved out of line
of other patrons. With his target
framed in the doorway. Armstrong
emptied his service gun into the
fleeing bandit.
Ine panolt carried a social sec
urity card bearin9 the name Sid
ney Aubrey Law.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-24
BY PRESS FLOWER EDITOR
obviously Amateurl

obviously Amateur
II gold is where you find it,
then so are wild flowers. Only in
Imperial Valley at this stage of
the season it's IF" you find them.
A few will be easily found. a
purely amateur survey showed. A
few more would take, Tonto the
Indian guide. to trace. The major
ity need the stimulation Of Mother
Nature plus moisture and sunshine
Right now a regiment of Sherlock
Holiness armed with magnifying
glasses as big as the Palomar tele-
scope couldn't locate them.
Wild flowers on the desert in
Imperial Valley easily located by
amateur flower sleuths are Of two
kinds: Verbena and more verbena.
The more sleuthing the more YER
bena.
Verbena To Win
It's possible the sleuth may stum-
BILE upon a few budding ocotillo. but
don't bet on it. Play verbena to
win.
Most easily accessible ocotillo are
near highway 30 between Yuma
and the turmoil to Ogilby, the sur
vey revealed Most accessible YER
bena are here and there along
highway 30 in no particular locali-
ty
Before sleuthing after Abronid
Villosa Watts for keeps. (transla-
ton: organizing an expedition bent
on plucking, picking, mutilating.
digging or otherwise mlstreatlng
the flower. desert verbena with the
intention of taking pieces Of 1t
homeD it would be best TO consult
YOUR nearest congressman on pos
sible international complications.
II that is impossible, the next beSt
method TO escape prosecution IS
acquire permit from the Imperial
county board Of supervisors ad-
thorizing you to pluck, mutilate.
etc, three specimens of the val
ley's desert flora and take them
home to junior. This, however, eX-
cludes Carnegica Gigantea.
Personal Plea
County ordinance no. 81, which
covers the protection Of wild flow
ers, is not clear on just what Car
negica Gigantea is. But you can't
pick it anyhow.
Time was when the flower sleuth
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-24
SET IN HIS WAYS

CAMDEN. N. j., March "a CUP)
James Fitzgerald, serving six
months for intoXication, slipped
out of the Camden county Jail at
the end of his third month and
dashed to a place dear to his
heart-a corner saloon. He was
found there two hours later in such
state Of intoXication that he bat
tied II policemen for 30 minutes
before they could drag him back
TO iail.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-24
EX-COnyict Held
For EmbeZZling,

HOUSTON. Tex. Mar. "a tUP)
Frank Joseph Aenew, IS, former
San Quentin convict with II
year polca record. was held for
California officers today in con-
noctica with a SD 372.7 70 bank en-
'3cz9,omont.
AeneW is charged with aidine
and abetting George N. Knox, a
ornb zzle the money
from the First National Bank of
Ontario. Cd.I.. last September g.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-24
PLANE SPEEDS
TO SHIPS RESCUE

SAN DIEGO. Mar. "a up -
Three San Diego coast guard aIi-
ators sped northward toward San
Nicholas Island in their plane ear
ly today to offer assistance to the
capsized fishing boat, Nora II, re-
ported sinking with three msn
aboard.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-24
l. V. EXECUTIVES TO
ATTEND MEEING

Norge factory distributors will
meet in Phoenix Friday afternoon
for an annual conference TO dis
cuss company sales progress
Howard p, Meyer, E. E. Ander-
son, Warren Currier and Norman
Hindle. " Hardware officials, will
attend the meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-24
NECK AND NECK

DODGE CITY, KanS., March "a.
oUPJ-Women will have an equal
voice with men in the primary
election next week. The registra-
ton books showed 2,420 women and
2,420 men listed.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-24
POKER GAME
OF SKILL

LONDON. March "a. CUP)-Stud
poker, like cricket. is a game oi
skill and not Of chance. police mag
istrate Walter Hcdlcy ruled today in
dism ssin2 a summons against 4
card club on charges of gambling.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-24
FLOWER PICKING
A COMPLICATED
BUSINESS IN |. V.

to the Flower Editor" story
With here Names
mostly any similarity anything
anyh responsibility
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
TOKYO CLOSES
DOOR to- ARMS
FARLEY, VIEW
u. S. Will Push Present
Program in Face of
Blunt Reply

WASHINGTON, Feb. %. (UP)
The United States will ignore
any overtures from Japan to halt
the international naval building
race, a high administration Off
cial indicated last night.
1t was said that Japan's recent
blunt refusal to divulge her build
ing plans eliminated any possibil-
ity of the United States agreeing
to a world arms limitation confer
cnce, at least until President
Rooscvelt's expansion program,
calling for a 20 per cent increase
over treaty limits, gets under
way.
Referring to Japanese Foreign
Minister Koki Hirota's statement
to parliament Saturday that ia
pan has no intention of joining
a navy race and hopes to "stop
such a race by appealing to the
powers sense Of fairness and JUS
tice," the official said the United
States is not in position now to
enter an agreement.
1t was pointed out that a limi-
tation agreement now might tend
to weaken the United States ma
val position, assuming that ia
pans refusal to announce her
program was tantamount to con-
firming that she is building super
dreadnaughts.
Such an agreement would leave
the United States with her pres
cnt battleship strength plus the
Washington and North Carolina,
now on the ways, while Japan re-
pOrtedly has three OF four un-
completed dreadnaughts of much
greater power than the two this
country is building. However, the
official said, possibility of a con-
ference a year from now - when
the United States is expected to
have six battleships under con
struction, with four being in the
neighborhood of $4,000 tons-lS
much brighter. =,
Meanwhile, the congressional
conflict over the alleged vulner-
bility of battleships to aerial at
tack, repeatedly proved in secret
tests, was to reach its peak today
when Glenn L. Martin, Baltimore
airplane manufacturer, tcstlileS
before the house naval affairs
committee on the presidents eN-
CONTINUED on page three)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
MAN HELD FOR
INVESTIGATION

Ralph McHouston, who gave his
home address as Athens, Tenn,
was being held in the city Jail this
afternoon for Greenville, S. G.,
officers after his arrest this morn
ing by Greenville and Henderson
vile officers at a local roomlng
house.
Chief Otis Powers said the man
was being held for investigation
by the South Carolina officers and
that he had been fingerprinted and
photographed today. -,
He was arrested for Greenvllle
officers, who today were securing
the Chestnut Springs section OF
upper Greenville county for Bill
Morgan and Lester Dill, said to be
escaped convicts in South Caro-
lima.
Morgan, it was reported, escaped
while serving sentences OF forty
years for bank robbery; Dills SEN
tence was not learned.
Greenville officers surprised the
men and three women, said to be
from Hendersonville, near Chest
nut Springs last night. Morgan
and Dill escaped on foot into the
mountains and were said to be
heavily armed. Greenville officers
reported three women held there
but their names were not given.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
P.-T.A. MOVEMENT STARTED IN
IOWA TOWN IN 1882, WRITES
w. JOHNSON; RECORDS KEPT
Retired Educator Recalls
Incident During His
Oskaloosa Principalship
By J. w. JOHNSON

This is a true story, "believe il
or not" and the records are in
OskalVosa, Iowa, to prove it.
l was principal of the city high
school in 1882 and Homer H
Surlcy was superintendent. We
were talking in his office at the
close of the day when two ladies'
R. Anna Morris, ward principal
and Virginia Knight Logan, direc,
tor of music, came in.
Miss Morris spoke: "Will you
men Ok. Il plan to found a new
order if we outline it to suit
you?"
Sure" we said in unison, "pro-
ceed."
at is our thought that parents
and teachers should be brought
into closer contact, should get
better organized, should know
each others problems and find out
how to solve them. In fact this
new order with its programs and
social hour should become a vital
part of our educational system.
The parents would have a better
understanding Of what we are
trying to do and will have far
greater interest in it's success"
Fine" we said, ~et's begin
at once"
They proceeded: eve will call
a meeting at the house of Mr..
and Mrs. II. l.. Spencer, the larg-
est and finest in the city Of 5000.
The teachers arc all invited, and
to begin with the parents of the
high school students will also be
invited 600 or more). At subse-
quent meetings parents of gram
mar grade students will be invit-
ed, and programs will be arrang-
ed accordingly. At later meetings
the parents of the primary grade
students will be invited"
Surley said: "That's wonderful,
why have you not thought of all
this before ?"
To which Miss Logan replied :
why did not Columbus discover
America before? He had our per-
mission"
We (Surley and y gave our
hearty approval, and he appoint
ed the ladies a committee to go
ahead, but they insisted we keep
up our part Of the play, which we
did.
The first meeting was decided
success. The two young daughters
of Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer were on
the program. Mrs. Logan sang
las she did some years later IN
the American Opera company,
travelling from coast to coast and
lakes to gulf, Miss Morris gave
the talk that kindled the flame
that put this movement up to the
National Mothers congress which
met in Washington eight years
Continued on page three)
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troops but appealed to minister OF
interior and public security, DR..
Arthur Won Seyss-Inquart, to hur-
Iy to Graz.
was the dispatch of units of the
state police political branch" to
Graz, IS miles south of Vienna, to
augment the military forces.
The Nazi minister was expected
to come to Graz late today, how
ever.
Dr.. Seyss-Inquart's refusal to
.jnterccde and use his new powers
Us minister of public security en-
ragged the Syrian Nazis who al
ready had charged him with be
traying" Austrian Nazism.
In Vienna the Austrian peasant
leader, Joseph Reither, asserted
that ninc-tenths of the nations
peasants were solidly with SchuS-
thnigg and would defend Aus
trian independence with our
blood" The Syrian Nazi peas.
ants ne described as professional
grumblers.
The troops, sent from Vienna
across the Semmering alps into
Syria province, occupied all
strategic points in and around
Graz and the city Of $4,000 pop
ulation was under virtual martial
law although civilian authorities
remained nominally in control.
Machine guns, with sprinkling
of motorized light artillery, were
set up behind barricades at main
street intersections and at bridges
across the Muir river, turning
back bands of peasants attempt
ing to reach the city.
The peasants offered no resist
ance to the warlike display when
told to return to their villages.
The government had ordered
all peasants kept from the city,
Continued on page thrcc)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS NLRB POWER;
AUSTRIA IS UNDER ARMS TO
THWART NAZI PUSH; EARLY
MOVE ON VIENNA IS BLOCKED

VIENNA. Feb. %. (UP)-Aus-
trian troops and police in all po-
tential trouble ccnterS were re-
ported today to be under state
Of semi-alarm as Chancellor Kurt
Schuschnigg was determined to
suppress illegal Nazi activities.
There were even uncontirmed
rumors that detachments of police
men and soldiers were hidden III
towers in vantage points in other
cities as well as here, awaiting
Nazi disorders.
Graz, capital of tn" province OF
Syria, regarded as the most dam
gcrous spot, was the scene of tense
vigilance today after motorized
troops had been sent there yester-
day and prevented rcputcd Nazi
push.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
FUNDING BILL IS
FIRST ON DOCKET

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. CUP
Congress wa sready today to re-
lieve business of burdensome tax
es quickly, but headed toward
dispute over government reor-
ganization which threatened TO
divide the new deal-Democratic
legislative forces still further.
When government reorgani2a-
ton comes up in the senate today
group of Democrats who oppos-
ed judiciary reorganization will
resume the battle against what
they consider to be a centraliza-
ton of powe rim the White House.
The house, resuming its discus
sion or the $126, 00U, 700 interior
department appropriation bill, eX-
poets to reach the tax bill this
week and to pass it in short or
der. Next up for house considera-
ton will be the emergency naval
construction bill, presented to
congress as a $800,000,000 mea-
sure but conceded now to require
pl,OUO,uUU,OOV vi
The supreme court, meeting to-
day to render opinions after
two weeks recess, may rule on the
national labor relations boards
authority to withdraw recognition
as a collective bargaining agent
from labor organization found
to be a company union Like
wise subject to possible decision
is the Electric Bond and Share
company's challenge of the con
stitutionality Of the 1885 public
utility holding company act.
There were reports here as the
court reassembled on decision day
that Associate Justice Benjamin
Cardozo, seriously ill for many
weeks, may be permanently inca
FACILITATED and that Mr.. Roosevelt
soon may have occasion to make
a third new deal nomination 10
the high bench.
Cardozo's physicians, however,
issued a bulletin stating that the
iurist was in "thc convalescent
stage" and was making steady
progress" Replacement of Car
dozo would not strengthen new
deal forces on the court because
the stricken associate justice in
the vital terms of 1934-35-36 vot.
ed more consistently to uphold
Roosevelt legislation than did any
other member of the court.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
THREE Held IN
SPY PLOT ALL
WAIVE HEARING
Other Arrests in Anti-U. S.
Activities Foreseen Early
This Week
FIRST ARRESTS END
LONG WORK BY FBI

NEW YORK, Feb. %. (UP)-
Federal investigators, digging into
a maze Of espionage plots by an
international "spv ring" which
sold American war secrets to an
unnamed European power" said
last night that several more ar
rests would be made, probably
early this week.
Three persons already are in
custody, including rcd-haired
hair-dresscr, Miss Johanna Hof-
man, arrested Saturday aboard the
liner Europa, and a former L. S.
Army sergeant, Gunter Gustav
Rumrich, described as one Of the
ringleaders.
Federal agents said the ring OPP
Grated by "boring from within the
army" The third person arrested
was soldier at Mitchell Field,
Erich Glaser, who was accused Of
stealing air corps secrets, includ-
ing secret code book, and ped
ding them to European agents of
the ring.
Reed Vetterli, head of the Fed
eral Bureau Of Investigation here
said "more arrests were expected"
but refused to divulgc the nature
of information CLEANED by federal
operatives.
The three prisoners are held in
$4,000 hail each, after waving
hearing. The case will be present
ed to the federal grand jury this
week.
Six federal agents left the FBI
offices late Sunday, but their des-
tination was not revealed. Vet
terri declined 10 say whether" they
had made an arrest.
The capture of Rumrich and his
two alleged aides followed more
than a year and half of investi-
CATION, Vetterli revealed. The spy
corps had operated from the Pan
anna Canal to the east coast, pill
fering documents and fertilization
plans. These were seized together
with a "code book" of the espion-
age ring, which federal men said
disclosed "windfall of informa-
ton"
The arrest Of Rumrich followed
an abortive effort to obtain SO
American passport applications,
which were to be used to obtain
entry of other members of the
ring into Russia as American citl-
zens. according to Vettcrli.
The FBI agent revealed that
premature report of Rumrich's ar
rest nearly exploded the case be-
fore Chaser or Miss Hoffman had
been taken into custody. Rumrich
had posed as "Mr. Weston" of the
United States state department, in
seeking to obtain the passport
blanks.
Most of the operations of the
ring were described as "crude and
amateurist." Federal agents said
they did not believe the men ar
CONTINUED on page three.)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
Japanese Vandalize, Will Not Permit
Reopening OF SO,OOO,OOO University,
America Cultural Gift To Chinese

PEIPING, Feb. %. (UP)-Thc
ministry of education of the pro-
visional Peiping government, es'
tablished after Japanese Occupa-
ton of the city, announced today
that Tsinghua university, Ameri-
cas- greatest cultural gift to Chi
Ma, will not be reOpened.
The university was occupied by
Japanese troops last October.
The once-beautiful campus and
the well-euuipped buildings today
are nearly ruined. The buildings
and equipment, valued at approx
imately $2O,OO0,000 Chinese
were paid for from the American
Boxer indemnity. 1t would re-
quire many millions to restore the
school.
Normally in charge of a SSpe-
cial committee of Is TsInghua
and six provisional government
appointees, the whole university
has been directly controlled Oy
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
BARUCH CALLS
FOR RELIEF IN
BUSINESS TAX
Says Time Here to Choose
Between European,
u. S. PHILOSOPHERS
PROFITS PLAN WOULD
HASTEN RECOVERY

WASHINGTON, Feb. %. (UP)
Bernard Baruch. close adviser Of
President Roosevelt, today de-
clared the nation must choose be-
tween the profits system and hope
Of gain and the new European
ideas of state regulation and fear
of punishment.
TcStifying before the senate un-
employment and relief committee,
Baruch declared that, if it became
clear tomorrow that America def
nitcly had chosen the traditional
profits system, forces would be re-
leased to hasten recovery and re-
employment.
Baruch then urged modification
of the capital gains and undiStrib-
uted profits taxes, contending that
they greatly repressed business
expansion and activity"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
mrs. BANGS IS
LAID TO REST
Rites Held at Presbyterian
Church Sunday: Burial
in 0akdale

Funeral services .or Mrs. W. IL.
Bang, wife Of .hy superintend-
knt Of the Duke Power company,
pho died a. her residence on
North Main stree, on Saturday
f0rninc al 7.2U O'clock. were
Conducted yesterday afternoon at
4 o'clock q. The Presbyterian
fhgrcH, oS which she was a men,
b.
Services We're conducted by the
f.. L. 7. W,.ts. pastor. and bur
b. followed in OakdaIc cemetery.
PaI.Deagers were +. 3. Creech,
Nathan Pa:,a, Sidney Powers. c.
FeT, Pau. English and y. c. Fos-
|ey.
\ native Of New York state.
~. Bangs had been a resident
q HeaierSonwllc since 1913. She
+ survived by her husband; three
|oHS K. Il. and ". c. Bangs. of
fenterSony;.te. and \. c. Bangs,
Z Greensboro: one daughter,
us Mary Joe aBngs. of Hender-
|CH7i..e, and two brothers and
|gO sisters.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-28
U. S, Mobilization Plans Perfected
To Place | 100000 Troops In Field In
4Months; Reserve Supplies Urged

transformed into important sup
ply depots. They were selected
from among 10000 plants which
were canvassed to determine what
specific tasks they could perform
in event Of war.
Two methods of recruiting
troops are included in the plan.
One provides universal conscrip-
ton. The other calls for creation
of citizens committees which, In
cooperation with $1,000 American
Legion posts, would campaign Tor
volunteers.
While these recruits were being
enlisted the war department would
thrust 100000 regular army and
reserve forces into the field as
shock troops. Further calls on
both units can boost the total to
100000 in 80 days, and, with the
new recruits, to 100000 within
Continued on page three)