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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-03-26

the Oversea Road and Toll Bridge
District. this afternoon said over
long distance telephone that the
highway will be opened Tuesday
morning. March e. and final
preparations, for this suspicious
moment are well underway.
The chief engineer was asked
whether II would be possible 10
drive trucks and other Ike heavy
vehicles over the roads and bridg-
es, and replied that this matter Is
now under consideration and
positive reply would be ann0unc-
ed later.
Mr.. Duncan had been away for
several days IN Washington.
where final arrangements for the
opening next Tuesday were con-
Guided. and afterward went 20
New York where additional mat
tiers requiring attention were ar
ranged satisfactorily.
He is expected IN town some
time tonight John r Costar. vice
chairman Of the Overseas Road
and Toll Bridge District. and
members c. c. Syrnonette and
Mayor Willard ~. AIbury VII IN
teFview the chief engineer On his
arrival and also sometime over
the weekend expect 70 make a
first hand inspection Of the con
difion Of the bridges and decide
II Il Is advisable 90 run heavy
traffic over them
The final concrete by = special
process. Is expected % b DRY and
hard n seven days The sevenih
day viii be t0rorroW. and The
condition q the concrete then All
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22
Rail Commission
Kills Threat to
Cut Off Power

Threat of the Nevada California
Electric corporation to cut off Serv-
ice to the Holtville plant of the
Imperial milk producers association
was nullified when the state rail-
road commission INTERVIEWED on plea
of the milk producers.
Complaint filed with the railroad
commission by the milk association
charged the power company de-
manded a new contract be executed
by Sunday, Feb 20. or the company
would refuse to provide electricity
for the plant.
When the railroad commission re-
ceived the complaint formal request
was forwarded to the Riverside
headquarters of the Nev-Cal COM
pany, requesting that service be
continued, pending a hearing.
Milk producers contend that the
company demanded the Holtville
plant abandon use of diesel motors
installed about six years ago and
accept from the company all energy
required, under a three-year con-
tract; or execute a one-year con-
tract under a schedule calling for
division of the load between the
company and the milk plant dieselS,
with an alternative three-year con-
tract for standby service,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22
FARMERS NEED
WORLD MARKET
SAYS WALLACE
Secretary Blames Trade
Clogging for War
MOngering

SACRAMENTO, Feb. %.
(UP) = Secretary of Agri-
culture Henry A. Wallace
said today there can be no
doubt that at least a part
of the present day war mongerlng
is due directly to the clogging of
tn echannels of world trade"
In a nationwide radio address
he said: American agriculture has
a great deal to lose and very little
to gain by nationalistic programs
of elf-sufficiency''
American farmers have geared
their plant to a world market. 1t
is true they must adjust and keep
that plant in balance, but they
should not be lured from their
market merely to the tune of pleas
ant sounding slogans.
Secretary Wallace told assembled
farmers here that:
I'm the past we have done every
thi ngWe could through high tariffs
to see to it that foreign countries
could not sell to us-and at the
same time we have lameflted loud
ly as we watched our fruit, wheat,
dairy products, cotton and lard
exports steadily shrink.
Nov we are trying to build back
some of our lost ground. The reci-
procal trade agreements represent
IN effort to reopen foreign market
that have been closed to us"
Secretary Wallace warned farm
ers against Smoke screens of mis-
representation which will be thrown
out by powerful interests to OBJ
Scure the essential needs of Amer
ican farmers"
He said enactment of the farm
bill by congress forged "a new and
stronger instrument" to make prac-
tical functioning, ever normal
granary
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22

twas sung. Minor fights broke out
Police arrested two students, eject
ed all students from the building
dispersed bystanders and closed the
school.
Schuschnigg men were the first
victims of the ban against demon
strations Even before the clash at
the university Catholic students
tried to march to the chancellery
to cheer Schuschnigg. Police halted
| them.
DR.. Arthur Won SeysS-Inquart
minister of interior and only Off
cial Nazi in the new Austrian cabi-
net, broadcast to the nation today
few hours after the closing OF
the university building, a speech
explaining the new ban on demon
strations. He appealed to Nazis:
Maintain order to discipline
What is now necessary is construc-
tive cooperation.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22
10000 ACRES
UNDER WATER,
800 HOMELESS

LITTLE ROCK. Ark, Feb. %
CUP)-Levees crumbled under the
flood waters of the Little Red
river near Foreman, Ark, today.
inundating 10000 acres of Lowlands
and forcing 800 persons to flee
their homes.
Two Negro children were report
ed drowned.
Foreman was almost isolated by
the overflow All highways to the
town were impossible under sew
eral feet of water and the Rock Is
land railroad provided the only
means of transportation.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22

that would have Stumped Harvard
professor.
Barney Olifield, cigar clenched
between his teeth to absorb the
shock between his lower jaw and
his upper molars had raced around
Imperial Valley, over a course 203
miles long, at the unheard of aver
age speed of 43 miles an hour. He
won $4,000 for doing it.
And a spee1-mad generation had
cheered wildly when George Hill.
another driver in the spectacular
road race of Feb. %, 1913 changed
a tire in worlds record time-22
seconds. The old record had been
25 seconds.
Up in The Air
What most bothered fully half of
the 5000 Imperial Valley spectators,
however, was the question: How
Continued on Page q Col ~
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22
District Repeats
Request for Court
To Rule on Bonds

The Imperial Irrigation District
again asked for a court of equity
to take jurisdiction in boni, war
rant and taxation litigation aimed
at the district.
In answers and supplemental an
swers to two petitions for writs Of
mandate filed by M. E. Oswald.
district bondholder, the district
Monday reiterated the stand taken
after the original petitions were
filed last fall The district asked
the court to determine the ability
CT the court to pay bond and war
rant obligations, to determine the
rights of all parties and determine
the tax the district should levy in
conformance with the ability OF the
taxpayers to meet the levy.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22

uelllOCldClcS.
Ickes' address, rebroadcast in
England, was the first of an inter-
national radio series entitled Am
erica Speaks.
The address was rebroadcast in
England during a government crisis
at a time when Premier Neville
Chamberlain was iniating discus
sions with the Italian government
for a rapprochement with Great
Britain.
Ickes said the Democratic prin-
ciple is under attack in all por-
tions of the world Democracy, he
said, cannot live side by side in
the same country with either Fas-
cism or Communism = 'fanatical
foes which have the will to con-
quer at all costs"
Totalitarianism, either of the
right or the left, is alien to the
spirit that dominates the English
speaking democracies of the world -
Continued on Pave 2, Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22

dilOIliCl MehlCdIl, lS III IIle Vdllty
hospital here. He suffered three
stab wounds. Angel Aguino, Fill
pino, is in the county hospital for
treatment of a stab wound in the
chest Holtville police and deputy
sheriffS thus far have been unable
to determine who inflicted the
wounds.
Scarcity of work Tuesday result
ed in a pitched battle among the
members of a mixed crew of work
men at the Garin carrot field,
Sheriff Robert w. Ware said. The
men began to quarrel over the rows
of carrots they wanted to harvest.
The knife battle ended with the
Wounding of the three men.
After the fight, Deputy Sheriffs
Frank Raney and Peter Klyne said,
the wounded Workmen were taken
from the field by their friends
while other workmen returned to
the harvest.
Automobiles and clothing of the
workmen yielded a variety of
machetes, razors, pocket knives
and iron clubs when searched by
officers. The knives used in the
stabbings, however were believed
missing.
Chief of Police w. H. CorneliSon
Fancy and Glyne rounded up work.
men and the persons who took the
wounded to the hospital and sent
them to the county jail for ques-
tioning. The fight took place shortly
after 7 am.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22
Suspect Declared
Guilty of Charge
Brought by Boys

A jury in Imperial county superior
court Monday found Thomas w,
Carleton guilty of attempting to
molest four small white boys near
an Ell Centro school last Dec. 23
Jurors deliberated approximately
two hours after the fate of Carleton
was placed in their hands at 3:55
pm. Monday afternoon. The case
went to trial Monday morning in
Judge r. D. McPherrin's court with
Deputy District Attorneys D. H.
Wolford and c. G. Halliday handling
the prosecution and E. B. Patterson
appearing for the defense.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22

insurgent troops from the north
and the south.
Through the night flames tinted
the skies over Teruel. Nationalists
said that the Loyalists set fires as
signal for a general evacuation
and that they covered the retreat
with a bloody rear guard action
while the main column filtered
through a weak spot in the en-
circling Nationalist line.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22
Elderly Man Leaps
To Death in S. ID

SAN DIEGO. Cal, Feb. % CUP)
"A man, identified tentatively as
j. B. Finnan, 70, plunged to his
death here today in a suicide leap
from a 18th story window of the
Bank of America, in the heart of
the downtown district
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22

autopsy revealed Unat The lSlanQer
had eaten a huge quantity of pork
liver. He died at 80 am. Tuesday.
Joe Arde and Angel Mony ad-
mitted helping Pagador kill two
pigs at the Charles Ralphs hog
ranch, later carrying them to a
house they occupied on the Donada
ranch where Agustin ANGLER help
ed scrape and clean them.
A trail of blood led from the
Ralphs hog lot to the house where
a group of Filipinos lived. Deputy
Sheriff Frank Raney said. In the
blood spattered k&chen, officers
found a pan Of fresh pork under
a table and cooked pork on top of
it. Most of the meat was stuffed
n a cardboard box, he said, and
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22
Pershing Takes
Turn for Worse

TUCSON, Ariz., Feb % UP)-
Gen. John j. Pershing's rheumatic
ailment became suddenly worse
today and his condition was said
to be serious.
Plans were made to remove him
Immediately to the desert sanitar-
ium.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22

WhiCh they hope TO divide into Two
parts and thereby isolate Madrid
from Valencia and Barcelona.
The insurgents had been driven
out of Teruel three months ago by
a surprise Loyalist offensive. Today
they won it back i'm one of the
bloodiest battles of the war.
The Nationalists claimed that
hundreds of Loyalists were slain or
captured as they attempted to es-
cape an encircling movement of
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22

Yeah. That's It
Mrs. Laura Shepard, secretary of
the Imperial Valley Beekeepers as
sociaton, came to the board Of
supervisors meeting armed with
all the scientific, botanical, mec-
hanical and technical terms and
language she could find to bolster
up the argument in favor of a
county ordinance to govern busting
of plants by airplane and other
means. She used the tWenty-dollar
words freely throughout the discus
sion, and NOBODY could argue with
her They didn't know what she
meant
Finally Bill Young numbered to
his feet.
Il don't know much about all
these fancy words" he comment
ed, but | raise a few peas up in
the north end-and l would like
to be able to protect them from in
sscts"
Mrs. Shepard leapt into the fray
peas do not enter into this
discussion" she averred. They're
There was a momentary stunned
silence, with Bill most stunned OF
all. Then, from the back of the
room, came small, penetrating
voice.
she means,' it informed the
gathering, that they're not of the
gollrd family"
Ceiling Note
Les Rogers is getting ready tC
sell his golf clubs again. No other
set of clubs RR has heard OF has
been sold and re-bought so many
times.
The Final Word
The young daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. d. b. Roberts, who has list
ened occasionally while her par
ents discuss the effect of milk on
her constitution had not been be-
having exactly according to Hoyle
one day recently Mother proposed
the usual parental punishment,
But Mama. protested the
young one, I'm allergic to spank
ing"
We're Very Sorry
A polite but definitely angry
note in Tuesdays mail suggests
that RR unleash the full blast OF
his words against motorists who
edge their motor cars into the
Main street traffic stream from an
intersection-and then hold up
traffic in one lane while they seek
in vain for path across the other
lane. RR would be very glad to
oblige except for one thing. 1t was
probably he who edged into Main
street After all. he'd been waiting
half an hour for chance TO get
across.
His Fatal Charm
Practically all the male custom
erS at the Calexico bouts Monday
night spent a lot of time trying
to catch the eye of one of the
women wrestlers on the program;
but. as far as RR could observe
Al HaywCrth was the only one who
had any success. Considering the
strength of the feminine grapplers
it seems applicable to say, More
power to you, AL.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22

OF The army general Staff, Who IS
the party's leader. and Count Lud-
wig SZchenyi. his chief aide.
A police communique said docu-
ments seized at the headquarters
that Szalasi's national Socialist
party had planned a putsch.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22

serious blow will have been struck
at the principle of sanctity OF
treaties. This principle long has
been one of the corner stones of
American foreign policy.
Two Attitudes
There appeared to be two schools
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22

actlon Is taken. Britain eventually
may be forced into war
Chamberlain, having disposed of
Capt. Anthony Eden, league cham
pion, as foreign secretary, openly
decried the weakness of the league.
1t was the first time a British
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22

officials indicated today.
Reluctant to comment while the
crisis in Britain is in "a fluid
state" officials indicated, however
that if Chamberiain's hint of diplo-
matte recognition of Italy's con-
quest of Ethiopia and loan or
credits to Italy for exploitation OF
Ethiopian resources are granted, a
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22
Mopey Dick Makes
Appearance in Frisco

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb % OUP)
-Mopey Dick, the whale. dispell-
ed all doubts that he is still wan
dering around San Francisco bay
when ne made a sudden appear
ance in full view OF Transbay Fer
ry commuters today, The whale
bobbed to the surface. spouted into
the fog then disappeared under
water.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22

Police said Is of the eonspirators
had been sentenced previously for
political offenses.
Szalasi has a Well-organized and
disciplined following. He has been
arrested several times.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22

prime minister had confessed OPEN
ly the inability of the league to
accomplish anything as it is con-
stituted at present.
He did not repudiate the league,
Continued on Page 2: Col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22
Franco Forces
Retake TerueI

HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Frontier, Feb. % (UP)
The Nationalist forces of Generassimo Francisco Fran
recaptured the strategic and ruined of Teruel
today. Thus more they drove spearhead of
and steel eastward into the Spanish Loyast territory
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22
u. S., ENGLAND
PRESSED APART

WASHINGTON Feb. D. (UP)-The British cabinet
crisis the resignation of Anthony Eden foreign minister
and the future foreign policy tentatively outlined by Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain expected to isolate
the United States farther than from European affairs
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22
IS Years Ago Today
Barney OIdfieId
Thrilled Valley

Washingtons Birthday, 25 years ago.
The world was on the edge of the worst war it ever
fought but Imperial Valley had startling things to
talk about 1t had unbelievable speed record to
count, and a problem in higher and lower mathematics
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22
League FIayed
As a WeakIinQ
BY Chamberlain

LONDON Feb %. (UP)-The League of Nations does
not provide adequate collective security Premier Neville
Chamberlain told the House of Commons today as he
defended the governments policy of seeking
with Italy Chamberlain expressed belief that unless such
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22
FASCISTS PERIL
WORLD, ICKES
TELLS EUROPE

WASHINGTON Feb. % (UP)-Secretary of Interior
Harold L. ckes, speaking to Great Britain inter-
national radio hookup today termed Fascm the greatest
threat in the modern world and said totaarianism in
any form is alien to the spirit of the EngIsh peaking
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22
POLICE SMASH NAZI PLOT
Putsch Averted
As IS Arrested
InHungary Raid

BUDAPEST Hungary, Feb. % (UP)-Police charg
ing Naz plot overthrow the government by force and
seize power raided the headquarters of the uraNaz
party headquarters today and arrested rs persons.
Those arrested included Maj. Franz Szalas formerly
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22
FEAST OF STOLEN
PORK FATAL TO
VALLEY FILIPINO

Stolen sweets fatal to Pauline Pagador, Filipino
who died Imperial early today after he and group
of friends enjoyed midnight feast of stolen pork.
PagadOr taken to the mOrgue and three of his
companions to the county Jail grand theft charges An
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22
Three Stabbed in
Field Knife Fiqht
Pitched Battle Breaks Out Among Crew
OF Workers on Valley Ranch;
Suspects Rounded Up

HOLTVILLE, Feb. 22.-Three stabbed, two
perhaps fatally in bloody battle work in carrot
field near here early today.
j. M. Garcia Mexican is in the county hospital suffer
ing from stab wound in the back Francisco Hernandez
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22

buried in the yard. Ralphs signed
a complaint against Arde, Mony
and ANGLER. They are held in Jail
in lieu of $500 bail
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-22

Butter: Los Angeles, 30c; but
terfat. Imperial Valley. fob. ranch
grade A, 38c; manufacturing milk
34c; route gathered cream SOC.
l.. A. Hay: u. ). No. l $500
1900; No. 2, Ieafy, S14.50-15.00; No.
2, $500. Mpls Flax, May, S205is.
I.V. Lettuce. fob. CT, 90c.
Evening star., 1938-12-28

cally swooned with joy.
Under ordinary circumstances no
one would have paid much atten-
ton. There were plenty OF young
things around the lodge who didn't
know the difference between pair
of skis and a bobsled, but Sam and
Phyllis Clark had an understanding.
They were a swell couple and every
one hated the idea of baby-vOiced
blond being the cause of a breakup.
Moreover, it was bad for business.
The Norge Club, of which both Sam
and Phil were members. was de-
pending on those two. Sam was a
jumper, had record of 152 feet,
and was expected in the forthcom-
Ing meet with the Eskimos to win
the trophy hands down.
Phil was entered in the girls
cross-country run, and the odds
were strongly in her favor.
No, if it weren't for these things,
nobody would have paid much at
tention. But, under the circum-
stances, plenty of attention was paid
and plenty of advice given. When
Sam cut short his practice period
so he could spend more time show
ing Janet Riggs how to do a stem
turn, Eric Mayfair, as president of
the Norges, felt justified in regis
tering a complaint. Sam listened,
and then got mad. He told Eric and
practically every one else to go run
up tree.
So Eric and the rest of us de-
cided the best thing to do was to
keep quiet and watch. Curiously
we didn't worry about Phil. We
should have, too. We should have
been smart enough to know she was
putting on an act, pretending. while
all the time her heart was breaking.
To see her you'd never dream
Sans interest in Janet Riggs made
a speck of difference. She still
smiled and was bright and gay. and
every morning she shouldered her
skis and trudged over to Whaley's
Ravine and did the course she would
have to follow in the meet.
Three days passed and Friday ar
rived. Saturday was the day of the
meet, and Friday night Eric and
Burt Yeaton and 1 held confer
ence. Sam, we decided, was def
nitely out. Pinning our hope on
him was a mistake. Cal Rhodes,
the Eskimos' jumper, would take
him easily. Sam was a fool. A
dim-witted little blond had made a
laughing stock of him, and the big
lug seemed to like 1t.
Well, there was no good moaning
Next season we'd groom another
jumper, one with big ears and a
long nose and a cast in his eye One
that no girl would go gaga over,
no matter how many records he
broke.
AS for now, well, our only hope
Evening star., 1938-12-28

Eric and I went over to Whaley's
Ravine early in the morning to
watch Phil do her practice run. The
ravine is a sort of amphitheater,
with the starting point on the east
slope.
We noticed a girl in white suit
pushing of as we headed along the
ridge toward the starting point. We
watched her idly, impressed by the
way she handled herself, by the
way she took the corners and per-
formed neat gelandersprung at
the old stone wall. She was a
stranger, and 1t occurred to us that
the Eskimos might be pulling a
trick out of the bag. This girl was
better than Phil.
Up at the starting point were two
figures. They were standing silent
and curiously tense, watching the
girl below. One of the figures was
Phil Clark, the other Sam Yeaton.
Sans face was white and his fists
clenched. He didn't speak to us, nor
even look our way, but kept his eyes
rigidly fixed on the girl in white.
We sensed that something was
wrong, and were smart enough to
keep quiet and wait. The girl in
white was coming up the ski tow.
A minute later she arrived To say
that it was surprise to discover 1t
was Janet Riggs is putting it mildly.
WELL" she said brightly, looking
at Sam, aren't you proud of your
student?"
Sam said soberly: so you were
able to ski all the time. eh? You
were only kidding me. You're going
to enter the run and-and-" He
broke off. We knew what he was
thinking. He was thinking of Phil
and how Phil had worked and
worked to get herself ready for the
meet.
But aren't you pleased?' Janet
asked. Il was saving it as sur
prise"
"No," said Sam, I'm not pleased.
I've been a fool. I've let you make
monkey out of me. Well-I'm
going to make a monkey out Of
your champion iumper!"
He did. too He beat his own rec
ord by feet, and won the meet.
But it didn't please him much.
There was only one thing in the
world that could please him now
Phil's forgiveness.
Nobody knew how they patched
it up, but the outcome was salts
factory. BY mutual agreement, no.
body ever mentioned the name of
Janet Riggs. And that made both
Sam and Phil happy.
(Copyright. 1889