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Evening star., 1938-02-24
Nazis Replacing
B. C.. and A. ID. With
German Symbols
By the Associated Press.

BIZ the Associated Press.
BERLIN. Feb. 24.-B. c. and
A. D. as symbols for before and
after Christ are being replaced by
V. Ztr. and N. Ztr.-vor Zeitrech-
nung and mach Zeitrechnung,
meaning before and after time
computation.
The National Socialist Teach
ers' Society established the new
system for uniform time designa-
tions in German ancient and pre-
historic periods.
Evening star., 1938-02-24

By the ASsoca lated Press
~ R. FRANCIS E. TOWNSEND.
who came back to the Capital
to serve 30-day Jail sentence
for contempt OF a congress
sional committee, announced today he
would appeal to the Supreme Court
instead OF going to Jail.
The elderly advocate of old age
pensions stepped of train here early
today with the expressed intention Of
serving out the Jail sentence imposed
by the District Court. But after con-
Evening star., 1938-02-24
Woman Asks "a, 900 a Month Per-
manent Alimony.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. ~ Op-On
hts golden wedding anniversary, Hy-
man D. Stack was sued for separate
maintenance by Mrs. Ella Stack.
The couple was married in Wilkes-
Barre. Pa, February %, 1888.
Mrs. Stack charged her husband de-
serted her in 1882. She asked IL 900
. month permanent alimony, 320, 900
for lawyer fees and 42,6O0 court cost.
Evening star., 1938-02-24
RULING QUEZON TERMED
"INHUMAN" is REVERSED
Philippine Contractor Is Ordered
to Pay $500 to Mother Of Il
Laborer Drowned at Work.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA. Feb. 24.-The Philippine
Supreme Court today reversed deci-
sions of two lower courts in a COM
pensation case which several months
ago led Commonwealth President
Manuel L. Quezon to attack what he
termed "inhumanity" of court deci-
sions involving labor
The Supreme Court held contrac-
tor must pay $500 compensation to
the mother of laborer who drowned
while attempting to carry out orders
to recover piece of lumber from a
river,
Evening star., 1938-02-24

(see TOXIC, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1938-02-24
KEYSTONE STATE
PARTY ROW TAKEN
TO WHITE HOUSE
Guffey and Others Hope
President Can Unscram.
bile Situation Today.
LEWIS NOT INVITED,
ASSOCIATES DECLARE
Dissension Among Democrats
Brought Into Open by Earle's
Candidacy for Senate.

BACKGROUND
Election of George II. Earle as
Pennsylvania Governor in 1894
broke Republican domination OF
politics in the Keystone State for
first time in 40 years. This re-
suited from grouing hostility of or
ganised labor toUard G.. o. p. re-
gtmes, but Democrats, according to
recent indications, hare been un-
able to Uork hormoniously uith the
labor support that swept them into
Office.
Evening star., 1938-02-24

70. 3. Weather Bureau ForecastJ
Partly cloudy and colder tonight, with
minimum temperature about IS; tomorrow
fair: moderate northwest winds. Temper
atures today-Highest, A. at midnight;
lowest, 36, at 1890 am; 40, at 3 pm.
Full report on page Az.
Evening star., 1938-02-24
WED so YEARS, SUES

(see TAXES, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1938-02-24

tSee PENSIONS, Page A-4.)
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
A|RL|NER
B j R n { D
IN CRASH
9 Victims Perish
AS Dense Fog
Blurs Way

SAUGUS, May 18. (UP)
Plainly visible from a
main highway a mile an a
half away, a giant Lock-
heed air transport, missing
for more than 40 hours with nine
passengers aboard, was found to-
day crumped against the slopes OF
the Jagged Sierra Pelona mountain
range 20 miles north of here.
All the passengers were dead
and had been burned.
The body of Pilot Sidney Wiley,
80 was found at the controls. One
other passenger was in the plane.
The others had been thrown from
the Wreckage.
Shrouded in fog since early
Monday afternoon, the wreckage
was not sighted until early this
rlorning, although hundreds of
motorists and searchers had pass
ell by on the highway relatively
short distance away
The plane, enroute to st. Paul,
Mimi, via Las Vegas, New, lett
Continued on Page 6, Col Al
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18

OF the United Mine workers OF
America, who was endorsed by ma
tional Democratic Chairman James
A. Farley, conceded the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination to Char
les Alvin Jones, the regular organi-
zation candidate.
Kennedy claimed a moral vic
tory and his congratulatory tele-
graph to Jones was not Immediately
followed by any pledge to support
the Democratic ticket.
Kennedy's acceptance of defeat
and substantial leads by other
Democratic organization candidates
apparently meant a clean sweep
for the primary ticket backed by
State Democratic Chairman David
L. Lawrence.
Gov. George H. Earle had prac-
tically impregnable lead over S.
Davis Wilson, the CIO-ticket cam
didate for U. S. senatorial nomina-
ton.
just before Kennedy conceded,
the tabulations showed 525, ,70l votes
for Jones to Kennedy's 426,793 with
6629 of the states 8076 precincts
reported
At Washington, Chairman John
D. M. Hamilton of the Republican
national committee, terming the
Pennsylvania primary a rebuke to
President Roosevelt, predicted a
nationwide Republican victory in
the fall elections.
Hamilton joined Republican con-
gressional leaders in claiming the
Pennsylvania primary signalizes the
turn of the tide against the New
Deal.
Farley intervened in Pennsyl-
vania politics the day before yes
terday's primary with a compro-
mise endorsement of Kennedy from
one ticket and Earle from the op-
position Democratic slate. But Earle
repudiated his action and stood
by his running mate, Jones.
Likewise damaged by the primary
backfire is the political position
of Sen. Joseph F. Guffey, D., Pa
who Joined with Lewis to bring
Continued on Page 6. Col a.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18

y
board also was in Imperial Valley
Wednesday.
P. L. Carpenter, the contractor,
still refused to comply with union
orders and continued working his
crews on a plant addition as ar
ranged under PWA CONTRACT with
the government.
Union pickets stationed in front
of the entrance to the plant We'd
nesday began the second day of
patrolling the place. They displayed
placards declaring the place unfair
to union labor.
Picketing began Tuesday after
Carpenter refused to discharge N.
r. Onstatt, carpenter sent to
him by the State Employment ser
vice. Joe Humphries, head of the
Carpenters union local, ordered the
contractor to fire Onstatt because
he had worked on the Lewis Cham
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18

in Ell Centro Wednesday.
FILA farm loans in the valley
may be further obstructed by the
opinion among farm credit and
land bank officials in Washington
that the valley is a bad risk, HeWes
indicated.
FILA will not play Santa Claus,
HeWes was told by j. D. Babcock,
head of the underwriting division,
he said. Babcock declared FILA did
not ask for the farm loan provi-
sion but that congress wrote it into
the bill. For that reason FILA will
proceed slowly to set up the farm
division. 1t may be necessary to
send appraisers to Imperial VAL
ley for a complete survey before
loans are considered here, Babcock
indicated to Hewes.
HeWes believed most difficulty
would be met in overcoming Bah
cocks prejudice.
This morning" the letter said,
"he (Babcock) admitted that his
mind was not so open. He said he
had received a telephone call from
Senator McAdoo and apparently
thereafter he had inquired further
about Imperial Valley from farm
credit officials, and had received
unfavorable information"
HeWeS reported that an addition
Continued on Page 6, Col d
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
FARMER TRUCK
BODY TO TELL
OF OPERATION

Farmers. businessmen and their
families will assemble at the county
fair grounds at Imperial at 7:30
pm. Wednesday to hear how the
Farmers Transportation association
plans to protect transportation OF
farm products to and from markets.
Hugh T. Osborne. secretary-man-
ager of the Associated Farmers and
leading figure in the transportation
association, will outline the associa-
tion's activities in the rural areas.
Elmer Hewlett, president of the
Merchants and Manufacturers asso-
citation in Los Angeles, will explain
the associations effectiveness in the
metropolitan market area.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
CHIN ESE CITY
BATTER Ed BY
JAPAN'S GU N S
Invaders Clear Pathway
So Army May Enter
Embattled Town

SHANGHAI, May Is (UP)
= Japanese troops attacked
the outer defenses Of Hsu-
chow today under cover of a
terrific barrage of artillery,
dispatches from the front reported
It was asserted that the attack
was started from the west and
southwest sides of the city after
airplanes and tanks had assisted
in battering a path through the
Chinese provincial troops left as a
rear guard to die at their posts.
Japanese airplanes turned their
attention to the Chinese still re-
ported in great numbers northeast
of Hsuchow, and sought by bomb
ing them to clear path for a
japanese column in the TaierhCh
wang sector.
The Japanese were attacking
Hsuchow with a deliberation which
revealed their determination to
take no chances in this final assault
on the city that had been their
objective for months and which
lad cost them the most humilia-
ting defeats a japanese army ever
suffered.
For more than "a hours artillery,
including mountain guns which
arrived west of the city and were
dragged by hand up the mountain
slopes, had bombarded HsuchoW
without pause.
The battle as a whole was still
in the developing stage.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
Spending-Lending
Study Completed

WASHINGTON, May 18. CUP)-
The senate appropriations deficien-
cy subcommittee today completed
hearings on President Roosevelts
$3,154,425,000 recovery bill and
made plans to report it to the SEN
ate Saturday.
The committee recessed until Fri
day, when it will consider the bill
for amendments with the hope Of
reporting it to the full committee
and the senate Saturday. Under
this plan the senate would start
debate Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18

Reception committees will be On
hand at three airports in Imperial
Valley Thursday to greet special
airmail plane which will pick up
letters in connection with observa-
ton of National Airmail Week.
At Calexico, where the plane will
start its hop to Los Angeles, POST
master John Carol, and Assistant
Claude Ritter will be present with
officials of the chamber of COM
merce to start the ship on its iaunt
northward with airmail letters at
1925 am.
In Imperial the plane will be
met by Postmaster Frank Richmond
with a delegation of Ell Centre Off
Gals headed by Gordon ScriVen as
acting mayor in the absence of Her
bert FaWcett. Also present will be
Postmaster Denny McChriSty and
Bill Dunn of Imperial, Postmaster
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
Special AirmaiI
Covers Ordered

A new supply of special airmail
envelopes were available Wednesday
at the Ell Centro chamber of COM
merce for sending messages to Har-
lee Branch, in charge of airmail
at Washington D. c., urging air.
mail service for Imperial Valley,
Secretary Robert Hays announced.
The envelopes, carrying the val
ley's special cachet, may be sent
out on either the Los Angeles plane
Thursday or another ship which
will pass through Ell Centre en-
route to Phoenix.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
Petted Rather,
Dies in 3 Days

Pctting a rattlesnake cost the
life Of Yee Suie Ming, 81, rancher
of the Mexicali district.
The Chinese captured the
snake and boxed IL ready to send
to relatives i'm China. He was
Sc attracted by the beauty of the
reptile that he strCkcd its head.
The rattler resented the demon
stratiCn of admiral ton and buried
its fangs i'm the OrientaPs wrist.
Ming died Tuesday after three
days of suffering. A Chinese flu
neral took place at the Hens
chapel i'm Ell Centre at 4 pm.
Wednesday. He was buried at
Mt. View cemetery.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
FIRE RAZES ICE PLANT
Flames Shoot High
In Air; Firemen
Suffer Burns

BRAWLEY, May 18-The
new storage plant for the
Brawley Ice company was
a blackened, charred skele-
ton today after a $50, 900
blaze ragged through the building
for an hour and a half yesterday
afternoon.
The blaze, which started at $50
pm, was brought under control
at 7, but a hose stream was Kept
going all night playing on the
emberS. No one was injured seri-
ously at the fire, one block south
of the city limits, although several
firemen suffered slight burns.
Flames at one time shot 30 feet
into the air and were visible Tor
many miles. attracting curious spec
tators from as far as Westmorland.
Origin Unknown
OF undetermined origin, the lire
almost completely destroyed three
monster storage rooms OF the new
plant. which was TO start operations
today. The building housing the
preceding machinery however, was
not seriously damaged. The loss
was covered by insurance. ID. o.
Craig. ice company manager, SAID
Firemen narrowly escaped injury
in a score of cases when roofs of
100 by rs foot building cayed IN
and when the 60-foot walls crashed.
A short delay in fighting the lire,
after the alarm, was explained oy
Fire Chief Harry Stewart as due
TO the plants location outside tns
Continued on Page g. Col. %
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
WALLACE SIGNS
MELON MARKET
CONTROL PLAN

The marketing agreement to con-
troll cantaloupe and melon ship
ments from Imperial and Yuma
valleys was approved Tuesday by
Secretary of Agriculture Henry a..
Wallace and will become effective
Friday, Imperial Valley growers
announced Wednesday,
The agreement will affect inter-
state shipments in case of low price
conditions. The state agreement
should be approved within week,
growers said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
Model Telephones
Man, Kills Self

CHICAGO, May 18, tUP) :
Gretchen Bowers, %, beautiful
artists model. telephoned a man
last night and talked about the
rainy weather then she put on her
most expensive gown. rouged her
lips. and shot herself to death.
A four page note to the man was
found on her dressing table 1t
said that he had ended their love.
He was identified in the note only
&c "St0OV"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
Groups to Meet
Mail FIiers Thursday

Majors Of Heber and Postmistress
Ada Schultz Of Seeley, Robert Hays
of the Ell Centre chamber as we'll
as Malcolm Spence, Ell Centre SUI
perintendent of mails. The plane
will pick up Ell Centro and Imperial
mail and continue on to Brawley
where another delegation will meet
it.
Heading the Brawley reception
committee will be Mayor Frank
Kretz and Postmaster Inca Adams
as we'll as Paul Palmer, Stuart
Green and Charles Nice of the
chamber of commerce.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
F OR T |C N
M { N ACE
OUTLINED
Ell CentrO Amateur
RadiOman Tells
OF Danger

Branding Italian and Ger
man radio broadcasts aimed
at South America as a "seri-
Gus menace to the United
States, Charles Blalack of
Ell Centre, radio league director,
Wednesday proposed a campaign
by amateur radio operators working
with the government in counter
acting foreign propaganda in the
western hemisphere.
Blalack, farm implement dealer,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
Plan Opposed

WASHINGTON, May Is. tUP)
Radio industry leaders, con-
tending that Nazi and Fascist
propaganda in South America
has "backfired," today opposed
government radio brOadcastS to
the western hemisphere.
Mark Ethridge, president OF
the National Association of
Broadcasters, registered the COM
PLANT before a senate interstate
commerce committee considering
a bill authorizing establishment
of S3,OOO,000 government sta
ton near San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18

clinic in the court house base-
ment. Association members oppos
ed the establishment of the state
federal clinic and urged that local
physicians be delegated to staff
clinic at the county hospital. Ru-
mors of retaliation were unbound
ed, House declared.
No personnel is Immediately
available for the clinic here, state
officials said. A physician trained
in the diagnosis and treatment of
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
Pea PickerS Go
Back to Fields

SACRAMENTO, May 18. UP)-
Nearly 5000 pea pickers in the
Clarksburg area near here were
back in the fields today, following
settlement of a strike which threat
ened the loss of the large crop.
The pickers, who struck for 25
cents per hamper and later held
out for one cent per pound, were
reported receiving the latter de-
mand on most ranches. This repre-
sents about q cents per hamper.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
CITY GAG
INQUIRY LAUNCHED

WASHINGTON, May 10. UP)-
Attorney General Homer Cummings
said today the justice department
is investigating conditions in Jersey
City to determine whether any per-
sons in that area have been depriv-
ed of civil rights under the regime
of Mayor Frank Hague.
Cummings said the inquiry Is be-
ing made by the departments Grim
inal division and has been under
WaV for a week or two.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
Hoover Announces
Arrest of Six

KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 18.
UP)--The arrest of five men and
woman in Hot Springs, Ark, in
Guiding three officials OF the police
department and a man in st. Louis,
all on charges of harboring men,
bers of the old Karpis- Barker gang,
was announced today by j. Edgar
Hoover, head Oman.
The men allegedly aided the out
laws in 1885, Hoover said
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
Escaper En- Route
TO Folsom Prison

Tony Ysabel. 35, convicted of
escaping from the county Jail, left
Ell Centro Wednesday for Folsom
penitentiary in custody of Deputy
Sheriff Robert Parrish. The Mexi-
can escaped from the Jail and
later was arrested at San Gabriel
and sent to Mcneil Island for coun-
terfeiting. He was arrested and
held for trial in Imperial county.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
Doctors Will Maintain
County Hospital Work

venereal diseases must be obtained
and a public health nurse hired
for iollow-up work. DR.. Donald u,
Davy, head of the veneral dis
ease bureau for southern Califor-
MIA, said the clinic probably will
not be in operation for a month.
Supervisors decided to give the
free venereal disease clinic for in
digents and transients six
month trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
SLEEPER SAVED BY
POLICE ARRIVAL

Lucky for Sam SiSkron, 37-year-
old Phoenix salesman, that the
police arrived when they did. Sis
kron was asleep with his head on
rail near the Southern Pacific
depot in Ell Centre. The police
arrived before a train did, and
Siskron went to Jail on a drunk
charge, instead of elsewhere.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18

Physicians and surgeons on the
staff at the county hospital will
continue to donate their services
to the institution, DR.. l.. G. House,
county physician, said Wednesday.
The County Medical association
oid not discuss possibility of re-
fusing to serve and most of the
members did not consider resign
inc because the board of super
visors decided to permit installa-
ton of a free venereal disease
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18

was back in Ell Centro Wednesday
after a flying trip to Hartford,
Conn.,, to attend directors meet
ing of the American Radio Relay
League, an organization of $4,000
members, charged Italy and Ger
many were "bombarding" South
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
California to Protest
In Oil Land Deal

SAN FRANCISCO, May ID. UP)
California will protest officially
against attempts by the federal
government to gain control of ST.
600 100000 worth of oil tidelands
presently owned by the state, it
was announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
Today's Results
NATIONAL

Nh to4>hh
st. Louis ....... 00l l2l 250-l2 l3 l
BROOKLYN ........ 900 013 600 4 e 2
Weiland & Owen; Pressnell, Mar
row, Butcher & Phelps.
Chicago ............ 100 900 012-4 10 0
New York ...... 600 I0l 000-2 4 l
French, Root & Hartnett; Hub
bell e. banning.
Cincinnati at Philadelphia, post
poned, rain.
Pittsburgh 900 100 600 600 oO-1 5 ]
Boston .... 900 Ol0 900 000 01-2 6 0
Klinger & Todd Turner & Lopez.
AMERICAN
Boston at Chicago, postponed,
rain.
New York-200 0
ST. Louis-210 l
Gomez 81 Dickey, Jorgens; New
som IL Heath.
Philadelphia Neutrality-suspicious.. OOO 20O U
A. Williams, Smith & Hayes; Eel
ler q HemSley.
Washington ..., l0l 030 000-5 10 l
Detroit ............... 900 900 l00-1 6 l
w. Ferrell & r. Ferrell; Poffen-
berger, Eisenstate & York.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
UNIONS PUT full
FORCE In EFFORT
TO GET LABORER
District Standby Plant Picketed in Attempt to Force
Discharge of Carpenter Who Worked
On Lewis Chambers Job

BRAWLEY May 18.-Internationa labor union Off
cias Joined the local Carpenters union Wednesday in
attempting to force private contractor to discharge
carpenter working at the district standby plant here.
Dr. Towne Nyander of the national labor relations
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
CIO-NEW DEAL
DEFEATED BY
PENN VOTERS
Lewis-Farley Bid for Power Fails in
Industrial State; Regular Demo
Ticket Swept Into Office

PHILADELPHIA, May 18. (UP)-John l.. Lewis bid
for political power in Pennsylvania failed today despite
last minute primary coalition of the Roosevelt New
Deal and his Committee for Industrial Organization.
Lieut.. Gov. Thomas A. Kennedy secretary-treasurer
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18
Plane Found: All
Passengers Dead
VALLEYFARMLOAN
CHANCES PERILED
BY RELIEF CRIES
District Chairman Reports Opposition Meets Local
Demand for FILA Drainage Funds; Cites
Bad Risk Idea in Capital

Imperial Valley may endanger its chance of obtaining
Federal Housing Administration loans for farm drainage
systems emphasis placed here the need of the valley
for relief President Evan T. Hewes told the Imperial
Irrigation District board of directors in letter received
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18

Luxury Angling
Joe Hurst, who went deep sea
fishing recently with Amos Chick,
should write a book on, How to
Fish With The Least Effort.
The undulation of the boat began
to tell on Joc's stomach soon after
they left the wharf and Joe found
that the only way he could keep
body and stomach from parting
company violently was to lie on his
back on the deck. In this position
he was perfectly comfortable.
Out at the fishing grounds, Good
Samaritan Amos decided that Joe
shouldn't be cheated out of a days
fishing just because he had to lie
OH his back so a pole was rugged
up and baited and Joe held it. All
morning long Amos faithfully baited
Joe's hook and helped him with his
fish. In between times he tried to
fish himself.
Back in the harbor, Joe had
caught the most fish of the party.
One of the best trips I've been
on said Joe, got a lot of rest
Ii IbIN WCIt SIllCh ilC Wolio w
d-----ed suspicious.
New Name For It.
Roy Dupont, when he really wants
to- can sling the African dialect
with twist that makes even the
original eXponents envious. The
other day Roy repeated CONVEX
sation he had overheard among sew
eral dusky prisoners at the city jail.
Said one prisoner: Il likes this
Jail. 1 don't care if they keeps me
here a thousand years. Or even a
Century,"
Said his pal: Boy. you don't know
what you're talking about. When
you been here century they calls
you a 'centurian'!'
Later on, one remarked about Los
Angeles:
LOS Angeles? know where that
is. It's up in Fresno county
Ducky- -Wucky-
What ever happened to the QUAR-
ter-pint duckling that Noel Smith
adopted by means of paying dol
lar? RR heard Noel boarded him
out after the duckling cheWed up
his clothes.
Bribery
This is a daily ritual at one Chi
nese grocery store in FL Centre
Enter 3-year-old Mexican child
who hands the butcher an empty
bottle and stands mutely looking
at the counter.
Wong fluey," says the butcher.
or words to that effect, meaning
'go home" Then the butcher says
go home" in seven different lam
guageS, each time adding verbal em. i.
broidery. Still the lad stands
watching him.
Finally the butcher runs out of
new languages, reaches for a bottle
Of soda pop, gives it to the boy who
marches off still without a word.
Before some one else tries IT,
RR can warn them that it doesn't
work. RR stood around poplesS for
half an hour before he gave up.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-18

Butter: Los Angeles, 26c; but
terfat. Imperial valley. fob. ranch
grade 4. 3le; manufacturing milk
28e; route gathered cream 25c.
l.. A. Hay: u. 5. No. 1, Si6-i6.50.
No. 2 leafy SI5.-15.5O; No. Si3.50-ii
Minneapolis flax, May, $1S6.