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Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Major Provisions
Governing Labor

WASHINGTON, Oct. "a (UP)--
Major provisions of the new wage
hour law effective today
Twenty five cents an hour min
imum wage.
Forty four hour maximum STAN
dard work week in any seven con-
secutive days.
ing plants lost their jobs when the
overtime.
Prohibition of all child labor
under IA years CT age.
Restricted employment of child
rem between IA and 16.
Restricted employment of child
rem between IS and 18 in nom
hazardous industries.
Double indemnity" for workers
who successfully sue because OF ov-
erwork and underpeyment.
$4,000 fine, six months impris-
onment. or both, for punishment
of employers violating the law
Fifty six hour maximum work
week in seasonal industries, with q
maximum work day or II hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Body Identified
ByFingerprints

The mangled body found on the
Southern Pacific tracks near Amos
late last week was identified this
weekend as Alfredo Martinez, 10,
Of Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Fingerprint classificasions taken
from the shattered hand of tho
dead man were telegraphed to inn
migration officers at El Paso. Texas.
Texas officers checked with their
records and established the identi-
ty Of the man He had been fin
gerprinted there during an investi-
cation of his citizenship.
T. Pacheco whose story OF know
ing the dead man was not believed
at first, assisted in the identifica-
tion.
Dsputy Sheriff Herbert Hughes
scheduled an inquest for the
Lemons mortuary in El Centre at
4 p. m. Tuesday
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Ranch Equipment
Stolen at Heber

McCABE, Oct. PA large guam
tity of farming implements and
tools we're taken from a ranch a
mile west of here during the last
month. Sunder Singh, Hindu. re-
ported TO Sheriff Robert w. Ware.
The Hindu said he put the equip
ment in what he thought was a
safe place well screened with brush.
The missing articles included two
harrows, two horse collars, a set of
lines, cultivator, two cement head
gates, and several chains.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
New Law Demands
Complete Records

WASHINGTON, Oct. "a. up
Under the Fair Labor Standards
Act, which became effective today,
an employer must keep the follow
ing records:
/. Employees full name, address,
date of birth, if under 10 years Of
age hours worked each day and
each week basis of pay. and the
regular rate of pay.
3 Additional wages for each week
attributable to the payment of over
time in excess of the regular rate.
, 4, Additions to cash wages at cost
CT deductions from stipulated wages
in the amount deducted at the coso
of the item for which deduction is
made, whichever is less.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24

turmoil OF early MIRA days as the
labor departments wage and hour
division came down the stretch to
the effective date.
The act imposes a rigid wage
minima and establishes a standard
work week 1t undertakes to abolish
Oppressive child labor. 1t was
enacted last June after political
battle royal which divided and
bruised the New Deal-Democrati
party. President Roosevelt forced
enactment.
After midnight it became unlaw-
full to:
l. Pay less than 25 cents an hour
or its equivalent to workers in in
terstate industry.
2. Pay less than time and one
half in cash for all work in any
week in excess of A hours.
3. Employ children in oppressive
labor; or employ a child under Ia
years in any capacity in interstate
industry.
The act became effective with
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Winter Comes TO Midwest on Wave
0fFreezing Temperatures; Snow
Blocks Highways in Three States

Wisconsin. Minnesota, and northern
Michigan which disrupted commun-
icatiors, blocked highways and iso-
lated several small communities.
Temperatures dropped below nor
NAL in Ohio, southern Michigan
the Mississippi and Missouri valleys
and the Great Lakes region.
U. S. Forecaster j. r. Lloyd at
Chicago said the cold was moving
eastward and predicted light
frost tonight in the Appalachian
mountain area.
Chicago saw its first snow Of
winter early today. 1t was miXeG
with rain and melted quickly. The
temperature Was 35.
Light snoWs were reported falling
at Minneapolis, and in La Crosse.
Lone Rock and Madison, Wis. Rain
fell in Iowa, Michigan, the Ohio
and lower Mississippi valleys and
the gulf states. A mixture of light
snow and rain was reported at
Dubuque, Ia.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24

Included in the buildings destroy
ed were several powder magazines,
at Corning and Glaize mills. The
explosions of the powder magazines
four miles north of here rocked
the countryside and could be heard
for miles.
Authorities feared that major
conflagration would result if the
dynamite were exploded. The work.
ers started back firing in an at
tempt to shut off progress of the
prairie fire toward the building
where the dynamite was stored.
The prairie fire was from one
fourth to one-half a mile wide
and about a mile long. Officials
had not determined what started
the fire but it had swept into the
area where the buildings were To-
Gated before any effective attempt
at extinguishing it could be made.
Workers at the plant fled when
the buildings caught fire. The fact
that the buildings were situated
over a wide area was credited with
averting casualties and heavy dam
mage.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Speeder Crowds
Traffic Officer
From Highway

BRAWLEY, Oct. "a. - Highway
Patrolman Walter Walsh miracul-
ously escaped serious injury near
here this weekend when an un.
identified driver crowded the patrol
car from the highway where it skid
ded so feet in the borrow pit, jump
ed a 15-foot canal, struck a con-
crete syphon and overturned.
The patrol car was badly damag-
ed but Walsh escaped with slight
hip injury, a bruised shoulder, and
a stiff neck. The first vehicle to
reach Walsh was a truck driven by
G. Moore of Fontana, to whom the
officer had given a traffic ticket
a few moments before the accident.
Walsh sent Moore to Brawley for
help.
Moore said speeding sedan
crowded his truck from the high
way and forced him to drive into
the borrow pit to avoid a collision.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Several Hundred
Here Affected
By ywage.Hour Law
Status Puzzles Many in
Valley Business Life
As Act Becomes Law

Several hundred persons
worked in Ell Centre Monday
subject to the new federal
wage and hour requirements,
but few noticed any differ
ence.
Although more than a score of
large firms operate from Ell Centre
under interstate commerce and thus
are affected employees wage and
hour schedules will not be greatly
altered, employers agreed. Wages
already paid are above the minima
quoted in the law in virtually every
case, survey showed, and chief
effect will be on hour limitations.
| Ell Centro employers were divided
into three camps, two of which were
| filled with distinctly puzzled bust
nessmen. Employers who were posi-
tive they do not operate under
interstate commerce rested comfort
ably, unaffected by the law. In the
other two camps were employers
who knew definitely that they op-
crate under interstate commerce
and businessmen who were not sure.
Both we're more puzzled than wor-
ried and awaited answers from
Washington to messages of inquiry
General feeling was expressed by
one businessman:
I'VE are glad to conform. although
it will make no real difference to
the employees, for they already are
receiving considerably more money
than the minimum set forth in the
act"
A few employers reported that
their staffs probably would be in
creased because of the 44-hour week
limitation.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Labor Challenges
Pension Plan as
Issue in Election
Hatfield Gives Merriam
Full Support, Flags
30-Thursday Scheme
SACRAMENTO. Oct

SACRAMENTO, Oct. "a.
(UP) = With the general
election only a fortnight
away, the labor issue chal-
lenged the $30-every-Thurs-
day controveFsay today as~the chief
factor facing the California cleo
torate on Nov. 8.
Labor ranks UP and down the
state were split over the endorse
ment Of Gov. Frank F.. Merriam by
William L. Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor. A
resolution criticizing Green split
the San Francisco labor council in
vote of 160 to 98 repudiating
Green, and Merriam's record was
praised and attacked by various
factions within the AFL.
The Green backing followed en-
dorsement of the Democratic can
didate, Culbert l.. Olson, by John
L. Lewis, head of the Committee
for Industrial Organization.
Proposition No. l, regulating labor
unions, continued to draw heavy
fire FROM labor groups, particularly
in San Francisco where sentiment
was reported about equally divided
Merriam headed into southern
California today with the full back
ing of Lieutenant Governor George
j. Hatfield, who lost out to the
governor in the primaries. Hatfields
weekend statement was a Joint
endorsement of Merriam and a de-
nouncement of the $50 pension plan.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Education First
Step in West

SAN FRANCISCO Oct "a. CUP)
Wesley o. Ash, newly-appointed
administrator &C the fair labor stan
dardS act in the far west, took office
here today with a prediction that
his work at first would be mainly
along educational lines.
I'VE feel that the act will pro-
tect employers who want to pay a
living wage from unfair competi-
ton he said. Especially as the
standards set under it are not high
initiaily, we expect the chief diff
Guilty, if any, will come later"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
1877 San Francisco Warehouses Open
Again After LONG Strike Shutdown

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. "a. CUP)
One hundred and thirty seven San
Francisco bay area warehouses,
some closed as long as 10 weeks by
a dispute with the Committee for
Industrial Organization Warehouse
mems union, reopened for business
today under terms of a new agree
ment and released log jam OF
wholesale supplies to the city's re-
tail markets.
Approximately 1900 union ware
housemen and 1900 office and sales
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Marriage Permits
At All Time Low

Imperial county this month struck
the all time low for the issuance Of
marriage licenses with only three
recorded in the vital statistics de-
partment of the county clerks Of
flee.
cupid didn't do so we'll here in
October" declared Deputy County
Clerk Genevieve Kenyon. "or he
has been taking most of his victims
to Yuma to avoid the three day gin
marriage law of California"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
$1,000 Lose Jobs
In Texas Plants

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Oct. "a
'UP)-More than $4,000 persons
normally employed in San Antonio
garment factories and pecan she'll
ing plants lost theri jobs when the
wage-hour law went into effect to-
day
All of the so pecan shelling
plants in the city closed, the owners
contending tnat they could not pay
the wages demanded by the law and.
meet expenses. The pecan Smelling
industry formally employs about
1900 persons.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Fanatic Confesses He
Killed Maid as Devil

HOUGHTON, Mich, Oct. "a, (UP)
-Wilfred Pichette. a fervent reli-
gious fanatic who bought the
power of Christ" from a rowing
Gypsy band for $4,000, confessed
with his husky wife today that he
killed their 19-year- old blonde maid
to rid the household of evil spirits.
Pichette, sullen under question
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24

was known, officers SAID, as George
Mason and Fred Sommers. He was
arrested with his brother, Ray Bates,
so, alias Ed Ray. According to Of
ficerS they admitted being in the
gold mining business in California
before coming here.
Los Angeles officers said they
were rushing papers for Grover
Bates extradition to face charges
of gold mining promotion swindle.
Vancouver police notified BeXar
county authorities that he was
wanted there for questioning in an
$4,000 "swindle" They were mail
ing details of the charges.
Arrest of brothers followed a raid
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24

the pleas for help seemed to come
from man suffering intense pain
and that at times the voice lapsed
into delirious singing. The last cry
was heard at midnight, Riley said.
Deputies hoped to be able to
locate the man this morning, but
a low-hanging fog enveloped the
district and made it impossible to
see more than a few feet III any
direction.
A coastguard plane had been Or
dered to fly over the district, but
it was grounded because of the fog
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Negro Swims Out
Of Submerged Car

BRAWLEY, Oct "a Arthur
Wright, Oalipatria Negro, swapl
,uninjured from his automobile this
weekend after he drove it head-on
into an irrigation canal at Swink's
corner south of Brawley.
He missed a turn in the highway,
he told Highway Patrolman Paul
Brown, because the lights on the
car were on the wrong beam and
failed to show the turn. The cur
rent carried the car between 20
and 80 feet downstream from the
point it entered the water.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24

near Elmendorf on an old rock
house, on the edge of the wild
brush country Seventeen rifles and
four pistols, which deputies said
were included in $4,000 of arms
and ammunition stolen from an
Oklahoma City hardware company,
were recovered They believed the
remainder had been Smuggled across
the border, or stored in the San
Antonio vicinity.
Deputy Sheriff John Kleven-
hagen, who directed the raid, be-
lieved four or five men were in
volved in the smuggling and said
the rifles were of a type suitable
for military use.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Ida Cleveland
Goes TO Tehachapi

Ida Cleveland, 35, Negro mousse
maid convicted of manslaughter
last week for shooting her husband,
Monday was sentenced to the Wo-
mans prison at Tehachapi from one
to 10 years.
A motion for probation was made
by her attorney, Lee Nuffer, but
the motion was denied by Judge R.
D. McPherrin. The date for trans
ferring the prisoner from the coun-
ty Jail to the prison has not been
set by Sheriff r. W. Ware as yet.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24

DIIIOt IttoU HIBIIV POIIIt IIdNO dU"
tempted to locate voice which
pleaded for help from somewhere
out in the tules, but which, because
of darkness and fog, they were un-
able to find.
The man was believed by police
to be Robert Burton 33, Negro
ranch foreman who has been unre-
ported since he left home yesterday
morning to go duck hunting. A car,
registered to Burton, was found
parked on the bluffs overlooking
the swamp.
Deputy Sheriff Earl Riley said
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24

forces iubilantly returned to work
under the provisions of a master
contract with the San Francisco
Distributors association ratified dur
ing the weekend.
AS the warehouses opened, sup.
plies Of groceries, liquors, drugs,
dry goods, hardware, paper sani-
tary supplies and other wholesale
goods moved rapidly into retail
channels, Retail stores restockea
with staples and canned goods.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
lie esion lie aders
Attend ParIey

Bill Dunn of Imperial commander
of the fifth area of the American
Legion: d. H. Wolford of Brawley,
commander of the twenty-second
district; Max Brents of Calexico,
and Phil Holman of Ell Centre went
to Riverside Sunday to attend a
meeting of the twenty first Legion
district.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
By UNITED PRESS

Freezing temperatures, snow and
rain checkered the northern portion
of the country today as winter
swept in from the far north and
overspread midwestern states as far
south as Oklahoma and Arkansas.
The cold wave followed a heavy
snow and sleet storm in northern
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24

told Prosecutor Condor.
II am the Messiah. the only man
that can bring goodwill to man and
peace ON earth.
"She was the devil, and ! had
to drive her spirit from the house
The Pichettes we're arrested after
they confessed to Father Ethelnert
Harrington at their church IN Calu-
met that they had killed the devif .
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Last Night School
Call Made Tonioht

Final enrolment in night school
classes at Central Union High school
will take place Monday night.
All classes but the drama group
will be dropped if 20 persons are
not signed Monday night, Super
intendent Guy Weakley said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Chinese Pirates
Gun u. S. Vessel

SHANGHAI, Oct "a. up
Chinese pirates turned a machine
gun today on a tender owned by
the American Dollar liner. which
was operating in the Yangtse river
so miles from WCosume. below
Shanghai One Chinese passenger
on the tender was killed.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24

ing. related to Prosecutor Frank
Condor that the divine power"
drove HIM to hammer Marian Doyle
to death with a flatiron. Mrs. Pich-
cite confessed that she aided by
striking the girl 10 or 70 times"
with poker while her husband
pinned the girl to the floor.
Il was going to drive the evil
spirits out of the house." Pichette
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Fog Hampers Search for Man Caught
In San Diego 1uIe Swamp; Voice
From Dark Only Guiding Clue
Voice Pleads For Help, Sings DeIiriously in
Brackish Slough; Police Believe Victim
Is Negro Foreman Missing Since Sunday

CORONADO, CAL, Oct. "a. (UP)-Silence and dank
curtain of fog hampered police sheriffs deputies and
coasguardsmen in their fight to unknown
from the braksh swamps of lower San Diego bay where
he is believed lying wounded, unable to summon aid
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Powder Blasts Roze Eight
Buildings. Set Prairie
Afire; Dynamite Periled
5Hundreds Fight to Avert Explosion Of
Magazine in Path Of Spreading Flames
Raqinq Uncontrolled in Kansas

COLUMBUS, Kans., Oct. "a. (UP)-Eight buildings at
the Hercules Powder plant north of here destroyed
by series of explosions and fire today No hurt.
Hundreds of workmen and volunteers fought to save a
dynamite magazine which in the path of prairie
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Swind|ing Charge Laid Against Man
Held in Huge Arms Smuggling
Plot AIonq Mexican Border

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Oct "a (UP)-Los Angeles an
Vancouver, B. c. authorities today asked ReXar count
officers to hold of two arrested in purporte
plot to smuggle into Mexico.
The they sought was Grover Bates 80 who ais
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
IT Millions Put
On New Schedule
For Work Week
Boisterous Turmoil Surrounds Opening
Hours Of Administration; Ist Goal
Abolition of Sweat Shop Labor

WASHINGTON, Oct. "a. (UP)-First federal regua-
on of and hours generally in interstate industry
became effective for 100000 workers :01 today
under the New Deals Fair Labor Standards Act
There was a touch of the bosterous confusion and
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24
Moist Ending

Moist Ending
Slick Ackley and Howard Hensley
got both ducks and a ducking on
a shooting trip Sunday. The duck
ing came when they were just
getting ready to land after negotia-
ating several miles of New river
safely in a roWboat. Ducks, guns
and shooting clothes with Howard
and Slick inside dumped overheard
into the swift current. While Slick
fought a terrific battle with the
lily pads Howard calmly salvaged
. the guns and started upstream in
the waist deep water, towing the
boat behind. When Slick remon-
Strated:
whats the idea of letting me
half drown under these blankety
blank pads?"
Howard replied: Il figured this
was more important"
SOngbirds-
Notice how careful Charles Farrell
\ Charles Slocum, ana Curtis Nance
have become with their vocal pipes!
They've been watching their smok-
ing and staying out of drafts so
that the delicate tones required
for singing in the Lions Club Shin
dig won't be impaired.
Cinch Winner
Talk about winning in a walk"
Ted Kip won a race at practically
a complete standstill. AT the Elks
Pony race Sunday in BraWley Ted
was aStride burro named Charity.
If Charity began at home, he
never got far away because he's too
slow. He was so slow that a sick
tortoise could have ambled past
with ease. The only living thing
Charity could beat in race was
Fidelity, the burro that slumbered
beneath Harry Stewart in the same
race.
Anyway. I'm a cinch for second
money, because there's just Ted and
me racing" Stewart said. The
judges wrecked his chances by re-
fusing to wait until next day for
him to finish.
Lon Cromer and Roy Farr, aboard
a pair of snappy mounts named
Shingles and SoapSuds, gave the
real exhibition of speed. Lon rode
so fast he lost hat and chaps.
Another half a quarter and I'd
Continued on Page 2, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-24

Butter: Los Angeles. 29ci hut
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch.
grade A, Csc, manufacturing milk
50c; route gathered cream 2lc.
L. A. Hay: U. 5. No. l, clS.50i
No. 2 Ieafy S12.5O; No. 2 SLIGO;
Minneapolis flax, Dec. sf.73ls.
Evening star., 1938-04-01

the bill came from Representative
Lamneck. who said its real objective
was to perpetuate the Roosevelt regime,
perhaps with w. p A. Administrator
Harry L. Hopkins as President.
Mr. Hopkins, he contended. is GER
tain to be named Secretary of a pro-
posed new Department of Welfare,
which would make permanent the
"octopus-like" relief machine as the
most potent force in the United States
for many years to come" he added:
WHO knows?' say the members of
the Hopkins tub-thumpers, it might
make Harry President
Under this bill, Harry would do
everything for the worthy voters ex-
cept wash their faces and comb their
hair
Referring to proposal to supplant
the Civil Service Commission with q
single administrator, Representative
Mead, Democrat, of New York. said
recent Investigations by non-political
and bipartisan agencies had recon-
mended the change without excep-
ton. The New Yorker is expected to
submit further amendments on this
issue today.
Representative Warren, Democrat,
of North Carolina, who played large
part in framing the general reorgan-
ization provisions, remarked:
Congress can try from now until
eternity and will never make a dent
in the bureauracy that exists today
1t can only be done by one man.
IF you lack confidence in that man,
if you distrust him then you
ought not to vote for this bill"
Evening star., 1938-04-01
MAHARAJAH, 4 WALLETS
LAND IN u. S. 'INCOGNITO'

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 1.-The dark
and alert Maharajah of 1ndore ar
rived today in the Bremen, accom-
panied by four Wallets, 100 pieces Of
baggage and a registered nurse.
He said he was travelling incognito,
because when he was here last time he
was constantly pursued by persons
seeking to gaze at his jewel collection.
He would not pose for photog-
raphers, but handed out large. ex-
pensive photographs of himself taken
at Delhi, India.
The Maharajah is in his late 30s.
His name is Sir Yeshwant Rao Holkar.
He will be in this country seven weeks,
probably going to the West Coast, be-
fore returning to Europe.
He would not say whether he is one
of the wealthiest men in the world.
Evening star., 1938-04-01
TOURIST TRAVEL TOPIC
National Parks Broadcast to Be
Made by ]. W. Gerard.

Promotion of tourist travel in the
national parks will be the subject of a
radio broadcast to be given Monday
evening over the Blue Network of the
National Broadcasting Co., by James
w. Gerard, Interior Department con-
sultant in the development of the U. S.
Tourist Bureau.
Mr.. Gerard will appear as the guest
OF Lowell Thomas, radio commenta-
tor, on his Monday evening program
at 6:45 pm. He will be heard locally
over Station WMAL.