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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-02
Speaking of Sports
Schmeling VS..
Louis Bout Is
Sports Riddle
BY GEORGE A. BARCLAY


AHEN Joe Louis and Max
w Schmeling climb into the New
York ring to fight it out for the
heavyweight championship on June
%, you can be sure of one thing.
The fight experts won't be out on a
limb as they were two years ago
when these battlers first met. In
1896 the pr0gnosticators were unani-
nous in picking Louis. Columns
were written about his superiority
over. the stolid Schmeling. Betting
odds made Max long shot. 1t was
simply matter of how few rounds
it would take for the lethaI Louis
to do his stuff. ..
But you remember what hap
pened. It was pugilistic cinderella
story. The underdog emerged as the
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-02
Bling Crosby can continue with his
present radio sponsors for ten years

II ne wants to. It's
said the advertising
agency connected
would like him to
sign an agreement
for that length of
time, with the usual
year to year op-
tions. His present
contract still has
eight months to run.
Of all the Hollywood
folks who have gone
on the air, Bling has
4
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-02
Compelled to Kill SQUIRRELS

The large number Of squirrels
were such a menace in the early,
days that the Ohio legislature passed
law compelling each person to kill
a certain number of them each
year. The number was to be de-
termined by each township board of
trustees, and those who failed to
I'LL their quota were subject to
a fine.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-02
Use of the Oregon Boot

Once Oregon was famous for
continuance that was held in pardon
able distaste by prisoners who hap
pened to find themselves confined
within the cold gray walls of the
state penitentiary. The Oregon boot,
they called it, and it was used as
an efficient but not altogether hui
name method of keeping prisoners
from dashing off on their own.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-02
Home of COpernicus

Torun in Poland is the birthplace
of Copernicus, the great astron-
omer. The charming old city has
a statue to his memory and visitors
may enter the home he had 400
years ago,
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-02
Our Faith in Human Nature

"Our faith in human nature grows
so scant," said Hi Ho, the sage of
Chinatown, "that we soon arrive at
the belief that everybody who is or
dinarily polite is trying to deceive
u.s."
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-02

Sausage Tree Native of Africa
The sausage tree (Kigelia pima
ta) is native of Africa. It has
rough pinnate leaves and peculiar
flowers which hang suspended bv
long peduncles. From each flower
a large fruit develops which resem-
bleS a sausage,
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-02


awed and out-foxed him and wound
up by knocking him out.
Louis Explodes
Louis looked bad. A seven.day
wonder had exploded. Some who
had been .loudest in their paeans
now solemnly insisted that Joe was
all washed up. But he went on to
lick couple of set-ups, recovered
his form and equilibrium and really
showed championship caliber when
he knocked out Jim Braddock a
year ago and won the heavyweight
crown. =
So today, there is an air of eau
ton about predictions. It is an open
and shut question. You can get
Eyes and no" answers, but few are
willing to go unequivocally on rec
ord. fiji VII
Everybody is agreed that Louis is
fistically more grown up than when
he met. Schmeling two. years ago.
Everybody is likewise agreed that
Schmeling, is physically good deal
older than he was. At his time of
life athletically year or two makes
a tremendous amount of difference
in the performance of his legs, his
wind, his timing. He has looked
good in his recent fights, but it is
a question whether he is now hitting
as hard as he did when they met
before.
But there are some imponderables
involved and they can determine the
outcome as well as anything else.
Has Louis recovered psychological
ly from the beating Schmeling gave
him? Will he be as confident against
the German as he was against. Jim
BraddOck?
Schmeling is probably as smart
fighter as Gene Tunney was. He
studies his opponents and depends
on what he learns about them to
crush them. He made several trans
Atlantic trips in order to get first
hand evidence about Louis strength
and weakness before their last fight.
Both Louis and Schmeling have
demonstrated that they can be
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-02

circumstances, so they did not ac-
company the team abroad.
Francis Ouimet is an oldster of
forty-five years and has been a
member of every Walker cup team
since the competition began in 1922.
He has been captain of the last
three teams.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-02

Reference to Shaving in Bible
There are many references to
shaving in the Bible. In Genesis.
asia, we find that Joseph shaved
himself before going into the pres
ence of Pharaoh.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-06-02

lion. The crafty Schmeling got Lou
is off balance at the start, dubbed
him repeatedly with his right, over
awed and out-foxed him and wound
up by knocking him out.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28

WASHINGTON, July % OUP)-
The Republican national committee
today published a booklet called
Quotations from Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, charging the president
with intellectual dishonesty" and
"brazen reversals of position"
An accompanying letter from
Franklyn Waltman, committee pub
licity director, explained the book
let was prepared for Republican
campaign speakers. The theme of
the 100 pages of quotations taken
from Mr.. Roosevelt's public utter
ances over period of eight or more
years was indicated by quotation
on the cover from Benjamin Frank
lin: Saying and doing have quar-
relied and parted"
In preface outlining the method
of selecting material, it is explain
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
U. 5. Farm Agency
Playing Politics,
Senator Charges

WASHINGTON, July %. CUP)-
Sen. David I. Walsh, D., Mass, OF
the senate campaign expenditure
investigating committee today ask
ed the agriculture department to
investigate charges the farm Sc
curity administration is playing
politics in South Dakotas general
election.
Walsh wrote Secretary of Agri-
culture Henry A. Wallace, asking
an inquiry into charges that the
farm security administration mail
ed publicity under its franking
privilege, designed to influence the
general election in South Dakota
Former Governor Tom Berry
publican, are battling for the South
Democrat, and Chan Gurney, Re-
Dakota senate seat Walsh asked
Wallace to ascertain who was re-
sponsible for the farm security
publicity and to report to the COM
mittee.
1t was the second committee
move to investigate the South OAK
ota charges. Chairman Morris
Sheppard, D., Tex, of the COM
mittee yesterday wrote Postmaster
General James A. Farley, asking
an inquiry into alleged abuses of
franking privileges in that state.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
S2b,407 Handed
Job|ess in County
From State Fund
Unemployment Insurance
Payments Reach Big
Total in Ell CentrO

Unemployed residents in
Imperial county received
$26,407 in 1884 unemploy-
ment compensation checks
distributed up to July l by
the State Department of Employ
ment.
Ell Centre claimants received ST.
1874 in 1872 checks distributed in
June, Russell Bailey, director of
the Ell Centre headquarters said
Thursday. These checks we're con-
verted into cash at grocery stores,
department stores, by landlords and
dozen other classifications, Bailey
declared.
A survey of several thousand
checks made by the Sacramento
headquarters showed that at least
portion of each check is spent
in the place it is cashed.
Up to June 30 total of 1035 ,928
unemployment checks had been
written in California to bring the
statewide total to $989O,497. In
June the department distributed
271,343 checks totaling $2,558,O77.
Bailey declared the money thus
received makes a rapid turnover
in trade channels.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
CaIexico, Imperial Voters TO Cast
Ballots Friday on Bond Issues
SuppIementing U. S. Grants

IMPERIAL, July 28.-Residents
of this community will vote Friday
at a double barreled" special cleo
tion called to vote $4,000 bonds
for high school building and $18 900
for elementary school construction
The high school bonds are sought
to supplement a federal grant of
$25,18l for construction of COM
bination gymnasium and auditor
ium. The total cost of the building
would be $58,181. The federal grants
will not be sought if the elections
fail to carry.
Elementary school bonds would
supplement federal grant of $14,-
727 for two-class room building
and two-room addition to Lincoln
school. Two separate elections are
scheduled for the day.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28

CALEXICO, July % Friday Is
election day here with the voters
scheduled to go to the polls to
cast their ballots for or against
a S25,000 bond issue to help pay
the cost of a new gymnasium at
CaleXico Union High school.
A federal grant of $2l 900 already
has been made as the governments
share of the $4,000 building pro-
posed for use of the school pupils
and Calexico residents in general.
The building will be rs by $50 feet
i'll extent.
Polls will be open at Hoffman
school from am. until pm.
Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
Flying Lab Lands
AT Burbank After
Sub-Strato Flight
Plane Completes Jaunt
Testing New Equipment
For Craft of Future

BURBANK, Cal, July %.
CUP) : Northwest Airlines
f Y i n G laboratory in
which a party of aviation Of
ficials and a Mayo clinic
physician tested Sub-stratospheric
flying equipment, arrived at Union
Terminal at 11:38 am. psf today
from Salt Lake City and Mime
apolis.
No attempt was made to set
speed records between Minneapolis,
Billings, Mont, Salt Lake City and
Los Angeles, and Pilot Nal Free
burg, holder of a congressional
medal for heroism, kept the ship
between $4,000 and 10000 feet alti-
tude en- route.
The equipment consists of masks
ingeniously devised to cover the
nose but not the mouth or eyes
Oxygen supplied from a central
tank maintains sea level pressure
throughout the highest flights.
DR.. w. R. Lovelace, one of three
Mayo clinic physicians who de-
vised the mask, said that army
filters had successfully tested the
equipment at elevations of $4,000
feet.
'1t is like breathing on the
ground DR.. Lovelace remarked
Il made frequent tests of the heart
lungs and respiration of the nine
members and pilots, and all react
ed normally.
Under ordinary flying condi-
tions at higher attitudes, lips and
f1ngernails of the passengers be-
come blue. None showed this con-
dition during the flight"
Also aboard the ship were Co.
Pilot E. F. Ritchie, Supt. l.. F..
Koerner, Pilot Mel Swanson, F.
l. Heldeck, r. E. Geror, j. B. La
Mont, James Buelow and Iouis
Marodi of the Northwest Airline
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
Hughes Plans Hop
To South America

MIAMI, Fla, July % UP)-How-
ard Hughes and his globe girdling
crew, it was revealed today plan
to complete round trip flight from
New York to South America in lit
tie more than three days.
Huges itinerary, as outlined to
Pan-Afherican airways, calls for a
1920 mile nonstop flight from
New York to Rio De Janeiro. From
Rio De Janeiro, Hughes will fly
to Buenos Aires, 1918 miles, for the
second stop.
From Buenos Aires, the route will
take the plane over the Andes above
La Paz, Bolivia, to Lima, Peru, 2157
miles, and on to Mexico City, nom
stop from Lima, more than 1000
miles.
A nonstop hop from Mexico City
to New York would conclude the
trip.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
Pdymaster and
Payroll Missing

Abel Corrales and an $500 payroll
still are missing from the Myers
packing shed in Ell Centre despite
two day search by Ell Centro
police and deputy sheriffs.
Company officials said Corrales
was paymaster for a crew of melon
plckers anc took the money to
pay the weekly wages early this
week. The Mexican and the money
disappeared. U. S. officials asked
Mexicali authorities to ascertain if
Corrales had crossed the border.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28

been unfepOfUeQ Since III SUdIueu
short flight last night, came
word that fog had forced the cam
collation. of plans and the party
had spent the night at Carcross,
Yukon territory.
With Hepburn were Bernard E.
(Sell En- Benz Smith, Wall Street
operator who prospered during the
darkest days of the depression; j..
P. Bickell, mining millionaire; and
James Towne, the pilot
Almost simultaneously several
messages to the outside world told
of the safety of the party.
At Edmonton, Alta, United Air
Transport officials said the plane
got as far as Taku Bay, few
miles from Juneau, before the bad
weather forced Towne to turn away
from the town to assure the safety
of his passengers.
A telegram from Cliff Rogers,
president of the White Horse-Yu-
kon railway, to Trans Canada
Always at Montreal merely said:
Hepburn and party returned Car
cross and remained overnight ac-
count heavy fog
Until these succinct messages
brought convincing assurance of
the safety of the party, it had
not been heard from since 11:22
pm. EDIT yesterday.
None of them gave any eXplana-
ton of the failure of the travellers
to report their whereabouts by
radio. The plane, owned by Bickell,
was said to be amply equipped
to comn4unicate with distant points.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
Power System
Contracts 0kayed

Imperial Irrigation District head
quarters Thursday was notified of
PWA approval for contracts to
furnish all materials for use in
construction of municipal power
system in Imperial Valley from
Sub-stationS to consumers.
Six firms will participate in the
contracts totaling approximately
100000.
Firms and the materials they
will supply are: Superior Pole
Treating Co., Seattle, poles; Elec-
trio Supply Distributing Co., San
Diego, wire and meters; Rome Ca
BILE Corp, Rome, N. Y, service en-
trance cables; MaydWell & Hartzell
Los Angeles, insulators and miscel-
laneous materials; Standard Trans
former Co., Warren, O., transform
ers; and Graybar Electrical Co.,
Los Angeles, fuses and cutouts.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
Negro Identified
As w. Bandit

BRAWLEY, July &c. Walker,
%, Negro, Thursday was identified
as the stick-up bandit responsible
for robbery at the Planters gar
age here this week, police said.
He was arrested by Joe Babard,
Brawley police officer, and identifi-
ed by victims of the stick-up, which
netted $12. Walker was sent to the
county jail pending additional in
Vestigation.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28

ment of the Green river basin in
Wyoming.
At a banquet yesterday spon-
sored by the Green river commu
nifty club, Clifford H. Stone, pre-
siding officer, explained the con-
ference situation. He pointed out
that the Los Angeles area is seek
ing to lower the rates of amortiza-
ton and to defer payment of $25,-
100000 to be set aside by the
Boulder, Dam act for flood control.
This action, Stone said, would re-
suit in lowered power costs and
a subsequent concentration of in
dustry of the Pacific coast, with
out giving the remaining basin
states a chance to develop their
own industry,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
l.V. Grape Growers
To Ignore Ballot

Imperial Valley grape growers
will virtually ignore the grape pro-
rate referendum Friday, county
growers and shippers announced
Thursday.
Valley growers pointed out that the
valleys table grapes would not be
affected by over production in wine
and raisin grapes.
Meloland store will be Imperial
county's only polling place.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28

StCOlollo III Ulle ClIy.
THE men on duty in Ell Centre
during the night have orders to
shoot to kill any person they find
prowling in streets, alleys, or on
residential property Oswalt said
Il told them to shoot on sight
all suspicious characters lurking
around homes. Burglaries, the ter
rorizing activities of peeping Toms,
proWling, and thefts forced me to
resort to drastic measures"
Hundreds of jobless wanderers,
he declared, pass through Ell Cen
tro every week. These penniless
mobs help themselves to anything
lying loose, he said, and enter
houses through unlocked doors or
windows or force entrance by re-
moving screens or picking locks.
Public cooperation is imperative,
to be successful. He asked residents
OsWalt explained, if the drive is
to telephone police Immediately
upon noticing a prowler. He urged
that the address be given care
fully and a description of the
prowler be provided if possible.
'El Centro police are glad to
answer calls, no matter how many
or what time of night they come
in," OsWalt declared. Don't ge
SO excited the address is not cleal
to the desk sergeant. Don't hans
up the receiver until you are Ger
tain the man at police headquar
ters has the correct house numbel
and street.
The augmented night force will
stay in effect indefinitely.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28

determine Boulder Dam power and
water rates for southern California.
The delegates heard seven rep
resentatives of the city of Los An
geles present California's case in
the Boulder Dam rates conference
that would result in cheaper power
for industry ON the west coast.
While Herbert S. Sands, Denver
engineer for the upper basin states
league spent the afternoon con-
ferring with the west coast repre-
sentatives in an effort to arrive
at points of difference between
upper and lower basin states of
the Colorado river, a fact finding
committee representing the four
league states devoted its time to
an extensive program of develop
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
McAdoo Campaign
Fund Inquiry to
Get Under Way
Charles Kramer to Head
Committee Probing
ShakedOwn Charge

LOS ANGELES, July %.
(UP)--With accusations that
Sen. William G b b Nc
Adoo's machine was "shak-
ing down" federal employees
for campaign contributions still
filling the air, Congressman Char
les Kramer of Los Angeles today
was appointed sub-chairman of a
congressional committee to inves-
tigate campaign expenditures.
Speaker w. B. Bankhead of the
house of representatives informed
Kramer of his appointment. The
Continued on Page 2; Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
Divorce Ends
StatIer Romance

LOS ANGELES. July % (UP)-
The six months old marriage Of
Ellsworth M. Statler, 25, wealthy
hotel fortune heir, and Barbara
M. Statler, 81, came to an end today
when Superior Judge Edward R.
Brand granted the wife an uncon-
tested divorce.
Immediately after their marriage
last Oct. l, marital difficulties be-
gan between the couple, Mrs. Statler
testified. They had met four months
previously at a dude ranch where
Mrs, Statler, an $85 month dental
assistant, was vacationing.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
COP Charges Roosevelt Guilty Of
Intellectual Dishonesty

ed that the quotations are grouped
in three sections, first, Mr.. Roose-
Velt's pledge to the people, second,
particularly cogent quotations, and
third, the main body of quotations.
Administration Of claims OF
credit for recovery are especially
useful" the preface states, "in fix
ing responsibility for the Roosevelt
depression, for in the words of the
president, we planned it that Way.''
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28

Or return of properties expropfiat-
ed by the government.
He asserted that Mexico was anx-
ious to pay for everything expro-
priated-including foreign owend
oil properties--but that 1t was i'm
possible to do so unless she was
able to sell her oil abroad.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
Forest Fires
Under Control

forestry officials reported today
the forest fire situation in northern
California was no longer acute and
that all fires except the Red Cap
prairie blaze in the klamath forest
were under control.
Ground crews which attempted
unsuccessfully to check the Red
Cap fire for more than week
were expected to get it confined
within firelines today, foresters said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28


the dope across the Mexican bor-
der in gunny sacks, Chief H. M.
Bump of the patrol, said Thursday.
Patrolmen captured Munoz and
found a large quantity of the drug
in a bag carried on his back The
unidentified men with Munoz drop
ped their sacks and escaped in the
darkness. All three men had been
carrying portions of the opium
which was wrapped i'll packages
weighing 2l3 pounds. Paper and rags
were stuffed around the costly
packages.
The trio had penetrated United
States territory and Travelled q
quarter of a mile north from the
Mexican border when the patrol
men, saw them, Bump said. The
arrest took place at 10:30 pm
| wednesday on the desert three
miles west of Calexico.
Munoz was arraigncd before
United States Commissioner Dor
sey WhitelaW in Ell Centre and
ordered held for federal authori-
ties. He set bail at $1,000. Muno1
is held in the Imperial county
Jail pending transfer to San Diego
The Mexican said he obtained tht
drug in Sonora but thus far ha
refused to tell where he was tax
ing it for delivery.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
DICK BATES SUCCUMBS
AT BEVERLY HILLS

Dick Bates, former manager for
the Gilmore Oil company in I'M
perial and San Diego counties, was
found dead in his bed at his home
in Beverly Hills Wednesday morn
ing, friends in FL Centre were in
formed Death was attributed to
heart failure.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
Mexico Will Reject U. S.
Demand for Payments

MEXICO CITY, July 28 up
Informed quarters today believed
that President Lazaro Cardenas
would reject United States Secre-
tary of State Cordell Hull's request
that Mexico arbltrate American
claims growing out of appropriated
American owned farmlands.
Cardenas announced that a reply
to Hull's note would be made next
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
lAGUNA ROAD ROUTE
PI AN GIVEN IMPETUS

Hope of direct, short route
from Imperial Valley to the Mt
Laguna recreation area and ad-
ditional camping facilities for that
section were advanced this week
by Congressman Ed v. Izac and A
P. Lean. Cleveland national for
rester. They hope to obtain small
appropriations for camp improve
ments.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28

week. 1t is understood that it is
being drafted.
In an interview with foreign cor
respondent, the president said his
administration intended to continue
its policies of tending to "ameliorate
the masses, regardless of foreign
demands for immediate payment
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
When It's Moving Day

When Its Moving Day
RR shouldn't have to tell any
body that this business of moving
the Ell Centro library from there
to here is a matter of transport
ing thousands Of books, etc, etc.
The opening is necessary, however
to tell about the moving crew,
which is made up OF Bill Christian,
Othniel Horne, Howard May, Rob-
ert McCaslin and John Touch
feder. Quite a crew! But that's not
all. Principal part OF the moving
concern is the venerable old auto
mobile, first launched in 1920. The
boys have more trouble getting
the truck to run than they do
dragging the books around. About
every other round they've had to
step for a refill of the water order.
The car, they agree Indignantly,
takes more water than a camel can
consume at one gulp. The engine
boils madly as they chug back
and forth.
For the, finishing touch, the pro-
prietors decided the cab added
nothing to the vehicles appearance
SO they took it off. Besides, its
absence saves climbing in and out
Imagine Shakespeare riding
around in a thing like that
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
KILL PROWLERS, SAYS CHIEF
$2I.459 in Bank.
Yet He Bess for
Crust of Bread

SAN RAFAEL, July % (UP)
"A wrinkled little cid man who
had been asking housewives for
lust crust CT bread for an
old man, please" was found to-
day to have S21,495 in King City
and San Francisco banks, po-
lice said.
Officers said they discovered
bank books showing the depo-
sits when they arrested Carlo
Maggetti for vagrancy. In his
pockets they said he also had
S44 in cash and a crust of bread.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-28
Delegates Study
Boulder Power

GREEN RIVER, Wyo, July 28 (UP)-Members of
the upper basin states league, representing Colorado,
Wyoming New Mexico and Utah continued discussions
and hearing of reports today in preparation for decisive
meeting in Yellowstone national park this weekend to