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Evening star., 1938-07-17
Phantom Air Raider Does
LOyalists Heavy Damage

MADRID QP.-A phantom air raider
has done more damage to the republican
cause in Spain since the war started July
1s. 1896, than any two divisions of in
surgent enemy troops at the 'front.' His
destruction would be hailed throughout
Loyalist territory ss q major victory.
This air raider, who usually operates on
moonlight nights, has destroyed countless
gasoline and oil depots and ships, his
raids being carried out in the most spec
tacular fashion.
Very little is known OF the raider or
raiding plane, which at times carries .
two-man crew Some have reported the
plane to be Italian; others, German. It
is believed the intrepid flyers change their
equipment frequently, but never their
methods.
String Of Successes.
Because of censorship the world has
heard of this marauder only In recent
weeks when the plane began to attack
and sink British shipping. Prior to that,
however, the attacker had q long and
spectacular string of successes during which
1t is reckoned he destroyed around half
billion liters Of gasoline and oil along the
republican seaboard.
Evening star., 1938-07-17

fore, that the aviation industry heard the
had been named chairman Of the author
ity. 1t speedily became apparent, how
ever, that in the person Of Chairman Ed
ward J. Noble, self-styled liberal Repub-
lican." the industry Is getting . man who
Is far more than just q maker of those
little candies known, appropriately enough,
as Life Savers"
Though almost wholly unknown to avia-
tion people in general, Mr.. Noble is no
stranger to aviation himself. For many
years aviation has been his hobby He
travels In his own airplane and was one
Of the first to own an autogiro. He is
an industriaiist Of outstanding ability and
is known for his ability as an executive
and organizer-qualities OF very apparent
value in his new job.
Branch Demonstrates Ability.
The appointment Of Second Assistant
Postmaster General Harllee Branch Of
Georgia, former newspaper man, as vice
chairman, was not 50 much Of = surprise:
the will and ability to learn since he came
into aviation four years ago. Nor was the
naming of Grant Mason for 10 years man.
ager of the Cuban branch OF Pan-American
Always.
The last two appointments to the au-
thority bring two entirely new figures into
American aviation. They are Robert
Hinckley of Utah, assistant administrator
for the Works Progress Administration of
Division S, including States west of the
Rocky Mountains, and Oswald Ryan, gen.
eral counsel to the Federal Power Com
mission.
The vitality important post of administra-
tor went to Clinton M. Hester of Montana,
assistant general counsel. Treasury Depart
ment, who characterizes himself as "a
career man in Government"
Volumes could and probably will be
written In the future about the provisions
and effects of the new law creating the
authority, 64-page document which will
affect in some measure every person having
any connection with civil aeronautics In
any Of its phases. from the student pilot,
the airplane passenger and the mechanic
to the highest executive Of the most power
full aviation corporation. It is vital, far.
reaching contribution to the jurisprudence
of American aviation.
Under the new law, American aviation is
looking forward next month to the dawning
Of new and brighter day.
Evening star., 1938-07-17
Stage Is Being Set for War
In Russia's Far East Theater
Former Head of Secret Police, Who, Fearing
Purge, Fled to Manchul<uo, Reveals
Great Preparation by Stain.
BY JOSEPH II. BAIRD.

w YHEN Gen. Genrich Samoirovich
NA/ Lchekov, commander Of the
Russian secret police forces In
thu Gnvinf Far Toe al
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

quarters mere ana released by Rear
, Admiral Sinclair Cannon, COM
manding the l1th naval district
Admiral Gannon's announcement
said:
At 1905 am. Friday, EST
navy radio here received the fol-
lowing message: r. p. Scripps died
pm. aboard yacht Novia Del Mar
signed. Master
Other wireless messages said that
death was due to an internal
hemorrhage.
The body was transshipped from
the yacht to the Panama Pacific
liner Pennsylvania at 6 pm. Thurs
day, radiograms from the PennSyl-
vania reported. ,..
Scripps is survived by his widow
Margaret Culbertson Scripps, and
six children, Robert p. ir., 10
Charles F., H. Margaret Ellen, 16
Nackey Elizabeth. IA, Samuel H..
II. and Edward Wyllis 3rd, 8.
Santa Margarita Island, Mexico,
is 700 miles south of San Diego.
When Robert Paine ScrippS.
youngest son and heir of the foun-
der of Scripps-H Howard, E. w.
Scripps, was IL and tall, frail lad.
he announced that he would be a
poet. The Spanish walls of the
Scripps ranch. Miramar, did not
fall in. Nor did the great publisher
storm or rail at his sons deviation
from the sterner paths of journal
ism.
He let the fever of youth and
romance run its course. E. W. con-
tinued to impose three hours read
ing a day in history and the read
ing of all correspondence between
his father and Scripps executives.
E. WIS sister, an understanding
woman. privately published some of
Bob's poetry and gave the book to
him on his marriage day. But 100
copes were printed.
Own University
Robert Scripps went to school in
his fathers original university"
took his turn at managing Miramar
ranch, travelled in Europe, worked
as circulation canvasser and re-
porter in Philadelphia. as an editor
in San Diego, circulation hustler
in Bakersfield. Calf. reporter in
Eureka, Calf, and went on his
own out to Hawaii in Australia.
In Bakersfield, he toted a sample
washboard around to the back doors
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
RESCUE PLANES
BEGIN HUNT OF
MISSING LIN Err
Private Craft Join in
Search; Race Pilot
Lends Help

FRESNO, Calf, March 4.
(UP)-Six rescue airplanes
took off from Fresno air
port today and started an
aerial search for a missing
Transcontinental & Western Air
ways airliner, feared wrecked with
its nine occupants dead in the
Sierra Nevadas 60 miles northeast
of here.
TW.A officials believed they
would have nearly 80 planes avail
able for the search late today
Fifteen were expected to join the
hunt late today. The planes con-
centrated on a 80 square mile area
near Shaver Lake, where the lost
transport plane was last reported
Tuesday night during a snowstorm.
Frank Fuller. San Francisco air
speed racer who won the BendiX
air trophy last year, arrived here
and joined SearcherS. He flew his
low winged monoplane. Three navy
reserve planes were enroute here
from Oakland. Roy Daton, private
pilot Of Modesto, and three private
planes from the San Francisco air
port will join the hunt, it was an
nounced.
Reports of clearing weather in
the mountains freed the rescue
planes, which have been grounded
here three days while 400 ground
searchers-most of whom were on
skis-reported no trace of the air.
liner
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

.BiScailuZ of Los Angeles county
issued orders to bring in looters
alive, if possible-but bring them
in
Trains Halted
All rail transportation was halted
by landslides and washed out
bridges and roadbeds. Los Angeles
received its first mail in two days.
A coast guard cutter brought it
from San Diego.
A large part of the 100000 pop
ulation in the flood districts still
was completely cut off from COM
munication with the outside world,
making surveys of suffering and
damage practically impossible.
American airlines sent a special
plane with milk and other supplies
to Palm Springs, playground of
the movie stars where power was
out and candles were reported SELL
ing for ST each.
The resort city was completely
isolated due to rail and highway
WashoutS.
San Bernardino, Riverside, San
ia Ana, Anaheim-all prosperous
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

Bright sunshine and clearing
skies in Imperial Valley Friday
promised fair days for the fair
scheduled to open at 10 o'clock
Saturday morning at the Imperial
county fair grounds.
Promptly at 10 o'clock the big
gates will swing open. The key will
be delivered by Holtville and I'M
perial school boys after a relay
race. At IL am. the main exhibit
ton building. with its wealth of
color and interest, will open. A
Negro program, sponsored by the
Negro Masonic lodges, will go on at
pm. The day is dedicated to the
'odge, the knights of Pythias and
the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
The Imperial Valley Boys band will
play, the finals in the queen con-
test will be run off and five acts
of vaudeville presented during the
opening day.
Veterans will start their part in
the program at 7 pm. Colors of
all veterans organizations will be
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

citrus producing areas-were isol-
ated and without communication
Camp Baldy, Palm Springs, Vic
torville and San Bernardino were
only a few of the communities
where food supplies were running
low as washed out roads blocked
all efforts to make shipments.
Twenty four men and woman
were trapped and without food at
Wildwood, north of Glendale.
At Trail Canyon, off Big Tujunga,
49 men were marooned and without
food.
One hundred men in federal
transient camp in San Antonio
Canyon, north of Ontario, were
isolated and have been without
food for several days.
At Camp Rincon, a few miles
above San Gabriel Dam No. l,
northeast of Pasadena. score OF
persons were reported marooned
without food supplies.
There was not road in San
Bernardino county, largest in the
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
AUTO DEALERS
PLEDGE AID IN
OLD CAR DRIVE
Ell Centre Agencies Join
National Campaign
To Open Market


Ell Centre automobile deal
ers Friday morning in a
general meeting here pledg-
ed enthusiastic support of
National Used Car Exchange
Week and Immediately swung into
action with plans for a huge used
car parade through the downtown
business section beginning at 2 o.
m. Saturday.
Through cooperation in the ma
tional event, Ell Centre dealers
hoped to do their part in haIting
business setback in the automo-
bile industry that has been felt
in all walks of life, one dealer
said.
Forming on North Eighth street,
Saturdays parade of used car val
ues will be headed by the 35 mem
bers of the Imperial Valley Boys
Band in uniform. The parade will
go east on Main street to Fourth
street, north to Broadway and west
back to Eighth street, where it
will disband.
Every automobile dealer in El
Centre will be represented. Parade
marshals were endeavoring late
Friday to obtain as parade en-
trants several of the racing auto
mobiles scheduled to take part in
the county fair program sunday.
National Used Car Exchange
week will be observed in Ell Centre,
as it will nationally, from March
5 to II.
The week was developed by the
entire American automobile indus
try as a cooperative plan to lift
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
Many Still
Missing in
Flood Area

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 4. tUP)-
The flood i'm brief
Los Angeles - Eight, Identified
dead: Mrs. Ruth Randall, %; Leon
ard Randall, s.; Mrs. Rachel Whit
man, 80; Donald Whitman. 1la; Fred
Wilke; w. E. Stone, 68; Walker
Gray, so; Phillip X. S. Stephenson.
Los Angeles cOunty-Twenty three
missing. Damage inestimable.
Riverside-Fifteen believed dead.
including William Campbell, John
Gentry. Four bodies recovered:
Philip r. EvensOn, three unidenti-
fled men. Malcolm Massey, 10, kill
ed by lightning.
San Bernardino-Ten dead. in
Guiding Il. II. Messing, San Jose;
Mrs. J. F. Daley, 20; and Jimmy
Mcdonnell, Ia. Food shortage due
to lack of transportation.
Long Beach Four dead, five
missing. Dead, but bodies unre-
covered: p. E. Caye, "a, of the U. S.
S. Chicago; William v. Gray. 81;
Lem Stewart, 54, of New York:
Charles YOunt, 25, of the U. S. S.
Arizona.
OntariO-Three dead, Mrs. Iona
Lackey; Melba Lackey, 6; Jack
Lackey, Is days. Fear some of 134
occupants of transient camp miss
ing. CucamOnga canyon CCC camp
destroyed.
North Hollyw5od-Nine dead, nine
missing. Dead: Carmen AlvidreZ,
10 months; SantarO Fujihara, 40,
his wife, 35, and IL year old son,
jason WelbOrn, 6; unidentified man,
so; unidentified woman, 40; bodies
recovered; and Shitern Fujihara.
8, Meyo Jujihara, 10, missing. Dis
trict still flooded.
Glendale-One dead, Warren II.
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

Riverside county line, was an island
of desolation Friday. All means,
except airplanes, of entering or
leaving the desert oasis were swept
away in the storm, leaving resi-
dents stranded without lights or
insufficient food
Flooded pavements. washed out
bridges, and the disrupted coastal
utility service wreaked havoc with
the pleasure resort and its wealthy
inhabitants. Efforts to send aid
continued Friday afternoon.
Travel from Imperial Valley to
Los Angeles over highways was re-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
PERSHING
UP, ASKS TO
READ PAPER

TUCSON, Ariz., Mar. 4 CUP) =
Gen. John j. Pershing sat up in
bed today and asked to see a news
paper SO that he could read the
news of the world from which he
was almost removed by death.
The n year old soldiers strength
increased hourly, and he chatted
gayly with his sister, May, MS son.
Francis Warren, and his personal
aide for IT years, Sergt. Crawford
C. Shaeffer.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
HEALTH ASSN.
TO AID VALLEY
FARM WORKER

SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 4 (UPl
The Agricultural Workers Health
and Medical association was form
ed today under the farm security
administration TO serve thousands
of agricultural workers In San
Joaquin and Imperial Valleys who
are ineligible for state and county
aftl. or unable TO pay for medical
service
The association will be financed
with S200.0 900 OF FSA funds. It's
program will function first In the
San Joaquin and Imperial Valleys,
shifting and extending later as the
migratory population moves TO new
crop areas.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

sumed, despite washouts, by a route
carefully charted by highway in
vestigators. Railway transportation
to Los Angeles probably will not
be possible for four or five days
and only meagre bus service, via
San Diego, was possible Friday.
Direct Link Impossible
Direct telephone service to Los
Angeles was impossible, due main
ly to flooded phone offices thru
out the coast area. The local tele-
phone company still has been un-
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
Father pie a ds
With Kidnapers
To Release Child

NEW ROCHELLE, NY. Mar.
(UP)-Murray Levine, prosperous
attorney, waited today for the kid
napers of his 12-year-old son, Peter,
to respond to his appeal to sur
render the handsome, blue-eyed
boy and collect their ransom. re-
putedly 100000.
II am ready" the distraught
father said. THE way is open"
Police and G-men left a clear
channel to the $23 900 Levine home
in this suburb of New York City.
Levine issued his appeal his
second since Peter disappeared
eight days ago on his way home
from school, thorugh newspapers
late yesterday. and repeated 1t in
two radio broadcasts last night.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

ministration clung to the same OBJ
jectives and the same ideals.
However, said Mr.. Roosevelt, it
is worth while to draw a distinction
between those objectives and the
policies carried out in order to at
tain them.
He warned plainly that the ad-
ministration would go ahead with
its war ON special privilege and de-
clared that he felt encouraged, too,
that so-called pressure groups were
being eliminated
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
POSSIBILITY OF
u. 5. NIPPON
CLASH DENIED
Each Must Stick to Own
Spheres, However Says
Foreign Minister

TOKYO, March. 4. (UP)
Relations between Japan and
Russia are "delicate", For
eign Minister Koki Hirota
told the Diet today.
As between the United States
and Japan he said, there is mo
chance for a clash" if each main
tains its separate sphere of influ-
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

SlXth year IN Jnt WnIUt HOUSE WICIl
a declaration to 100 newspapermen
who crowded his oval executive
office that:
After five years the old ship of
state still is on the same course"
Mr.. Roosevelt presented his state
ment after he returned to the
White House from st. Johns church
where, as on Inauguration day five
years ago, he had attended brief
services. .a -,
The president emphasized that
through his years in office the ad-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

St.rm Echoes
Remember Wednesday night?
Well it was the night the El Cen
tro city council met in regular ses-
sion. Also it was the night there
wasn't any power after ll:20
Bill HudginS of the Nev-Cal COM
pany was among visitors to the
council chambers that night. Bill
Stro'led in early in the evening
Under his arm was flashlight that
was all OF three feet long. Naturally
the council took notice,
We'll" explained Bill, Il just
thought II bring it along so the
council couldn't say the power COM
pany was falling down on the job If
the Juice goes Off
That was before l1:20.
AT 11:20 the power went off
quite conclusively.
The council looked around for
Bill and his flashlight. Both were
gone.
Finally the city dads ended up
their session by the glimmer of a
gasoline lamp.
Thank You, Lady
To Rose Brown, president OF
the Business Women's club of CAL
exico, RR is indebted for a very
kind-and very flattering invita-
ton to the clubs benefit dance at
the Calexico ElkS hall Saturday
night. But that last remark in
your note, Rose, was that just
exactly kind?
It's Ever The Way
RR's heartfelt sympathy goes out
to the big hearted Ell Centran who,
on a recent trip to Santa Ana, pick
ed up a hitch-hiker and was NOV
ed to compassion by the itinerant S
hard luck story. The Ell Centran
brought the chap home with him,
gave him a job and provided Sleep
ing quarters.
A day or two later the good
Samaritan decided enough was
enough. BY way of gentle hint,
he set the hitch-hiker's suitcase on
the front stoop and closed the door.
A few minutes later he happened to
go to the back door There was
the suitcase, and the hitch-h -hiker
was still in residence. Three times
in the next two days the perfor-
nance was repeated.
Now the Ell Centran is consider
ing employment of pest extermi-
nator to get rid of his faithful but
unWanted servitor. -
These Technicalities-
Rosario Valverde, who became in
ebriated one recent night and made
off with a policemans horse, was
taken into superior court Friday on
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

ing activities at this years county
fair with potential development
of the valley.
Comment from representative
Continued on Page 2; Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
SUNSHINE PLEDGED
FOR FAIR OPENING

assembled in front of the grand
stand. Martin Munson, chairman
of the county council of the Amer
ican Legion, will officiate
Department Commander John
Long of the American Legion will
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
FAVORABLE COMMENT GIVEN
POST PRESS FAIR EDITION

The 1888 Fair Edition of The Morning Valley
Press published Thursday scale
radically different style approval
readers The 24page edition. pictures
aved the stories
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
Communication
Resumed with
Flood Regions

Imperial Valley, isolated since Wednesday nights
storm Friday resumed with the flooded Los
geles area as severed communication and transportation
lines were repaired emergency service arranged.
Palm Springs resort of the wealthy the Imperial
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

new to valley special editions. Par
ticularly noticeable was the de-
parture to magazine style" make
up in Section III, which was de-
voted to eight general stories link
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
Robert Scripps>
Head of Chain
Of Papers, Dies
Passes at Sea on Yacht; Wireless Says
Internal Hemorrhage Cause; Body
Transferred to Liner

SAN DIEGO, Cal. March 4. (UP)-Robert P Scrpps,
controlling stochoder of the Scrpps Howard newspapers
died at pm, psf Thursday aboard his yacht Novia Del
Mar. off Santa Margarita island in Magdaena bay.
The received in message navy radio head
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
Still Same Course,
Says Roosevelt on
Fifth Anniversary

WASHINGTON, March A. (UP)-On the fifth anniver-
sary of his Inauguration President Roosevelt today reaf
rmed his determination to carry forward with principles
and program of the New Deal
Mr. Roosevelt took occasion to mark the start of his
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04


Many communities still isolated and without
communication facilities.
Looting of abandoned homes widespread
Six arrested for looting. Sheriff Eugene w.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
Looting Spreads
In Stricken Area
Special Plane Sent to Desert Resort Carrying FoCd Supply
Running Low in Communities Surrounded by
Destroyed Bridges and Roads


in
dfoodwo reach2O
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

deliver the address of the evening.
SCHOOLS TO BE
DISMISSED EARLY
Ell Centre elementary and nigh
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

Butter: Los Angeles, 29isc: But
terfat, Imperial Valley. fob. ranch
grade A. 3716c; manufacturing milk
32I9c; route gathered cream zoe.
L. A. Hay: q. S. No. $500
1900; No. 2, leafy Sl4.00; No.
2, $3.50; Mpls. flax. May, S2.03.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

These Technicalities-
Rosario Valverde, who became in
ebriated one recent night and made
off with a policeman's horse, was
taken into superior court Friday on
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The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-08
Behind the Scenes In
American Industry"
CONTINUED from page One)

variety said 10 ripen week or ten
days earlier than the ordinary
kind :. A device which locks two
auto doors simultaneously when a
key is turned in one A cap for
medicine bottles that shows when
the next dose is TO be taken; a
tiny steel ball in a ribbed groove is
moved to the hour or half hour
mark as a reminder A new type
oil filter for automobiles, said to
cut down consumption, clean and
recondition the old oil, thus elimi-
mating the need for frequent chang
ing.
HEADLINES IN NEW YORK
Radio Corp, of America acquires
rights to new patent which may
overcome the almost "prohibitive"
cost of establishing a network Of
SIdllOuS LOT COulUleICldI lc-NlSlOll
broadcasts Nickel Plate Rail-
road defers interest payment on 4
y per cent bonds; Lehigh Valley
and Baltimore & Ohio Railroads
move for temporary scaling down
of interest payments . California
bonds sell lower as State Supreme
Court approves inclusion of the
1880 every Thursday" pension plan
on November ballot Silk mills
more active in August . Federal
Surplus Commodities Corp. to pur-
chase 100000 pounds of butter d.
. Potato growers in 10 late pro-
ducing states refuse to support pro-
posed AAA marketing agreement .
d. Government takes loss of from
four to seven cents a bushel as
wheat export plan begins with
shipment of 451, 900 bushels.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-08

Master George Kenneth Nowlin
celebrated his fourth birthday Sat
urday September 3, with birthday
party given for him by his grand
mother, Mrs. George A. Nowlin.
Among his playmates who attend
ed were: Jimmy Dixon, Dolly Dee
Waggoner, Florence; Stanley, Hin
ton and Kay Ellis, Corkey Guild
and Jackie Hawkins of florence,
big Shot" Morris, Bobbie Harid-
gan Diana an dMelvin Mirkin.
Buddie Nowlin; Jimmy, Esperance
and Yespie Daw, Julia and Rose
Nasser.
Not to be outdone by the young
man, his grandfathers, George A.
Nowlin, and Jeff Beeson, had a
joint birthday party on Sunday,
September 18th, at the Jack Coker
home in Mammoth, attended by 80
members of the families.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-08

In the Tempe Tournament, the
Coolidge Boosters have won two
and lost one game, so far. Thurs
day night they trimmed the Mesa
All Stars TO l, Sunday night they
beat the John Foot All Stars l to
0, and Tuesday night they lost to
the Arizona Sash & Door team,
to 2.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Wilson are en-
joying a visit this week from their
son. Loyal Wilson, and family, from
California
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-08

Miss Lawanna Veazey who has
spent the summer in Texas, is re-
turning this week to resume her
school work here.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-08

John Robertson, a state prison
guard, was in Coolidge Tuesday,
looking for some escaped prisoners.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-09-08

Miss Francis Short returned Fri
day from a vacation spent in New
Mexico.