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Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-20
Sewer Bonds Up
June 10 Before
Imperial Voters
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lCODllnueC IIOUl rage -
break in the past year, councilmen
said. Imperial now is using the old
El Centro- Imperial sewer line
abandoned by El Centro when that
city's new plant was completed
more than a year ago. If the new
plant is constructed. councilmen
said, Imperial also will abondon
the old line.
The plant will consist of build
ings, settling basins. treatment
tanks, and pumping equipment. If
the election carries negotiations for
federal funds will enter the final
stage Immediately. The proposed
plant could be connected to the
present city pipe line system with
out change to existing lines.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-20
Communist Union
Charges Hurled

WASHINGTON. May 20 (UP)-
Leaders of rank and file rebellion
within the United office and Pro
fessional workers charged today that
the International union is Com
munist controlled" and bitterly at
tackled Harry Bridges. west coast
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
ton director.
Ernest Norback, busines agent for
a San Francisco local. asserted that
Bridges was seeking to destroy his
unit and said that he would pro-
test Bridges illegal and undemO-
ratio" actions 10 CTO Chairman
John L. Lewis. - f..
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-20
CaleXicO Killer
Trial Date Set

CALEXICO. May 20 - Eugene
Gilbert, who admitted stabbing Per-
cy Alvin Dukes to death in an argu-
ment over S2.65. must 60 to trial in
superior court on a manslaughter
charge.
He was ordered held in the county
iail in lieu of $4,000 bail demanded
by Judge T. E. Anderson at a pre-
liminary hearing here Thursday
Gilbert stabbed Dukes 10 times with
a penknife in a saloon brawl early
Nav 6.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-20
Guns Write New
Chapter in Feud

JENKINS, Ky, May 20. UP)-
The Banks Breeding feud, which
has flared intermittently in the
Kentucky hills for many years, was
renewed last night when Anderson
Breeding. 55. and John Banks, 60
met near Grand Forks and went
for their guns.
Breeding was shot and killed.
Banks surrendered and was placed
in Jail
Authorities expected further
trouble Banks has 10 children and
Breeding also is survived by large
family.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-20
HOltville Boys
To Attend Meet

HOLTVILBE. May 20-Maurice
Galloway. Henry Schaffner and
Gordon Brown will represent Holt
vile in the second annual Boys
State, to be held in Sacramento
this summer. Grover C. Knight,
commander of the Holtville post of
the American Legion announced
that the Holtville Legion Post is
sponsoring these boys through the
help of the Holtville Rotary club
Ell Centre Eagles, and Ell Centro
ElkS.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-20
Action Delayed
On R.F.C. Loans

WASHINGTON, May 20. (UP)-
House leaders decided today to de-
lay action on the bill to liberalize
reconstruction finance corporation
loans to railroads.
The house leadership decided to
hold up action until the senate
acts on a similar bill pending in
that body. The senate recommit-
TED the bill ~ the finance commit
tee with the intention of attaching
an amendment to provide thai
loans should not be made TO rail-
roads which cut wages.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-20
Cardenas Moves
Against General
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at his estate at La Palomas. He
defied the government when he re-
fused to accept transfer to the
Michaocan military zone and sub
sequently was retired from active
army service. officially at his own
request, because of illness.
Reports were circulated that Car
denaS might punish the former gen.
eral by Seizing his La Palomas pro-
perty and turning it over to the
peasants.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-20
Pioneer Woman
Dies at BarstOW

Mrs. Roxie Belle Pollard, n, pio-
neer resident of Imperial Valley.
died Friday morning in BarstoW
She arrived in Coachella Valley
from the east in 1901, lived there
a short time and then moved to
Imperial Valley where she lived
for 26 years.
Funeral services will be held III
San Bernardino at 10:30 O'Clock
Sunday morning. Burial will take
place there.
Her survivors include three sons.
Walter of Ell Centro, Fred of Seeley.
and Will of Los Angeles; three
daughters, Mrs. Anola Chamber
lain, BarStow, Mrs. Marguerite Gra-
ham of Seeley, and Mrs. Harriet
Ford of Eureka; II grandchildren
and six great grandchildren.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-20
HITLER MARRIAGE
CALLED Fantasy

ROME, May 20. tUP)-Reports
that Fuehrer Adolf Hitler of Ger
many might marry Princess Maria,
% year old daughter of King Vic
tor Emmanuel, were termed pure
fantasy" today by government
spokesman.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-20

MOSCOW, May 20. CUP)-Four
Arctic aviators, including the fam
Gus M. S. BabuShkin. were killed
Wednesday when a giant airplane
crashed with them on a flight from
Franz Josef Land, it was disclosed
today. Twelve men of the crew of
l6 escaped.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-20
WPA to Carry Biggest
Relief Load Yet in '38

WASHINGTON, May 20 (UP)-Faced with a serious
relief crisis Works Progress Administration officials pre-
pared today to meet the heaviest relief load in
the history of WPA.
WPA Administrator Harry l.. Hopkins pessmistically
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-20
StockhoIder a Sucker
Declares Roger Babson
BY ROGER BABsON

BABSON PARK Mass, May 20-The average small
stakeholder sucker He puts his money into the secur
tiles of companies about which he knows little moth
ing The information he receives is incomplete, and
meaningless He has practically voice in the companys
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-20
WEATHER

Los Angeles and Vlcinity-Consi-
derable clOUdiness and somewhat
unsettled Friday night and Satur-
day; seasonable temperature with
little change; light variable wind
mostly southeast TO southwest.
Santa Clara and Salinas Valleys
Partly cloudy and mild Friday
night and Saturday: overcast in
early morning; northwest wind.
Southern California - Generally
cloudy and unsettled Friday night
and Saturday; showers in the noun
tains; normal temperature; light
variable wind off the coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-20
MONKEY BITE
DAMAGE ASKED

HOLLYWOOD, May 20. (UP)-
Dorothy Lamour, film star, todaya
was named a defendant in a $50
900 damage suit filed by Caroline
Faber, secretary, who alleged she
was bitten by the trained Chin
panzee, "Jiggs," at Palms Springs
last Nov. Is.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-20

YOU haven't read ALL the NEWS
until you've read the ADS!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-29
Not on Issue

We've been looking carefully lnto the matter of institutional expansion in thiS state and have come to a definite con clusion that it is not political issue ln this current campaign nor should 1t ever he one Care of the states dependents IS not something that must be panoieo about by political leaders. It IS service that is bevond the political ramifications cf onv form of government. It is inter. estinc to note, though, that the frequent lv-utfered charges that the tremenoous I3rogram which this state undertook last wear is actually underway. ss,
 We have long contended that our oIIl- c,als were backward in recognizing the needs of various institutions. our state hosnitals were and still are a typical axamnle of that The hospital at Middle town has been pointed out year after year as veritable fire-trap into which too noanv natients have been crowded. Otner Sanifs were seen at Norwich. Even the new hospital at Newtown proved Tar 700 small. That's just one branch of service in which the state has failed to keep pace
 If was wears before the State Tubercu- losis Commission was able to sell the idea of new and modern buildings ana equipment for its several sanatorla, scat tered about the state. Legislators never rerarded the college at Storrs, now known aN Connecticut State College, as anytnlng more than mere land-grant ana agrlcul- tural school. It outgrew this status wears ago and is a very fine institution of learning today, one of which we should hA proud and certainly not ashamed to send our children to for the finest Of train. inp and education in many branches or iearning. Yet financial aid in replacing old. deiapidated structures; in building new ones is slow in materializing.
 Go down through the entire list or state institutions and it's simply ma. ter of having put off until tomorrow what should have been done yesterday. It's all in our lap now and we're engaged in a major task of rehabilitating state insti- tutions. A $23, 3,000,000 building program looms as something tremendous and awe inspiring. It is, of course, but actually the state could spend twice that amount and still be able to find projects over looked. It all adds up to this - when Jobs are put off year after year. there comes a day when an unpleasant duty is faced. We face 1t now. It's no political issue, despite the fact that blame could be attached for procrastination. Our institutional expansion program demands the sane and unbiased attention and approval of every loyal citizen Of Con- necticut.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-29
Democracx's Last Stand

"The naked truth is that we (mean- ing the nations) are back where we were 100 years ago. We are back to the idea of personal government, personal leader ship and personal responsibility. The per- sons in power make history first and try to get the sanctions of the people and parliament later. Reasons can always be found to explain the why's and wherefores to the people. The leaders always say they are working for peace. How they are working for peace the peo- ple never know, for they don't negotiate anything. The people are always faced with the accomplishment"
 This statement made by an American authority on international problems, is something for every lover of freedom to think over. There can be no question that such arbitrary procedure is coming to be the rule, not merely in countries governed by frank Relationships, but even in countries protesting to be democratic. We have Seen recently how the prime ministers of Great Britain and France, considered the two greatest democracies in the world after our own, recently made an epochal treaty with the German dic- tator without troubling to get the sanc- tion of their parliamentS, until 1t was too late to change the terms
 It is going to be of first importance, from now on, to see that nothing like that happens in the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-29

Can this be perpetual motion? Perhaps Hartford may have solution to the age- old problem. At any rate 1t seems to be getting very good idea about how its sewage disposal plant should be operated. Electric power is required to operate the new plant the city has just put into oper- ation on South Meadows. The city pres ently buys power from the Hartford Elec- trio Light Company. Engineers propose that electric power be generated by burn ing waste gases created in disposing of the sewage wastes. That's quite an Idea and If 1t works out successfully the city can be complimented for turning an appar- ently expensive service into a paying proposition. In short, when the sewage Is carried into the disposal plant and treated the gases created will be ignited and their force used to drive 500-horse- power engine-generator which will create sufficient electrical energy to make the wheels go that make the sewage wastes turn into gas. Sounds like round and round, but it's good engineering.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-29
Another Slice for Hitler

Since Hitler's Czech coup, people every where have been wondering what his next move would be. It is taken for granted that as soon as he has consolidated his gains" he would start again on the road of conquest, peacefully if he can, but uS- ing force if he has to.
 Writing in the magazine Ken, Ladislas Farago maintains that Hitler intends pushing on into Russia, to grab large slice of the rich Ukraine grain fields, in 1940. Everybody has known that the Nazis covet that region, and it is laid down in "Mein Kampf" as one of the important conquests required for the Nazi empire. Most onlookers, though, expect that Hitler will do some more mopping up in southeastern Europe be- fore he tackles that job.
 The tip-off writer tells of a special mil itary organization already prepared un- der the direction of a renegade Russian general, to plan the Ukraine invasion. If he is right, 1t looks to an outsider as though Stalin and his associates had better stop their executions and unify their own people against the testing time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-29
A Doughty Saint
St. Christopher's Invocation by Captain of Great Queen Mary Shows How Tremendous Is
 Faith in This Patron of Travellers.
NEW YORK SUN

over the Christian world for more than fifteen centuries. Nobody knows exactly when or where he lived, but he probably was 6 martyr in about the third century. The favorite leg end about him is that he was mighty man of his hands who, after conversion to the Christian faith, was set to the task of carrying pas sengers across e turbulent river. One day he started across with child who, as the twain advanced, became heavier and heavier until finally the burden taxed even Christopher's gi- gantic frame. The passenger then revealed himself as the Creator and Redeemer of the World, bidding Christopher to fix his stan in the ground and return for 1t the next morning. When he came to the place at that time he found his rod trans formed into @ palm tree and bearing fruit. The story of this miracle brought so many Christian converts that the pagan ruler of that land caused Christopher to be beheaded
 Other and more mystical accounts of him have been given. The name is from two Greek words meaning Christ-bearer. According to an ar- ticle in the Catholic Encyclopedia the idea conveyed in this name, at first understood in the spiritual sense of bearing Christ in the heart was in the twelfth or thirteenth cen- tury taken in e more realistic sense In any case, Christopher has long been esteemed as patron of travellers especially venerated in places where travellers might expect to encounter peril by sea or land.
 When the master of the Queen Mary was trying to decide whether to try to dock that vessel without the aid of tugs, he reports that he took out his medal of St. Christopher and asked, Shall I do it2" He felt as If the saint had replied, Garry on old man. and you'll do It." It requires no belief in the miraculous to sup pose that one SO doughty as Chris topher must have been in the flesh would have returned just such an answer if he had been there in the flesh to make 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-29
Selected Poem
THORN-APPLE

THORN-APPLE
 Frances Frost in the New York Times) By this love did measure love: the blossom of thorn-apple: and in Winter the thin veins of the clenched and single leaf fragile with ice the white stem tight to the harsh and tender twig By this love did I measure love: the ptals fallen bruised in the upland pasture, the small round fruit wounded by Autumn stubbe, the rough tree holding one wry russet apple into December, and the letting go. By this love do measure ove the slant roots clutching in the frozen hill, the snow-rbbed leaf upon the Winters sky, and slowly on the bitter branch the swelling dark buds that break to bloom between the thorns
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-29
Discussing School Costs

The New Britain Herald finds much to comment upon in the discussion over school costs with which we are presently engaged here in Waterbury. The relative costs of various Connecticut cities, as previously revealed here, are mentioned by the Herald editor who finds the per capita cost in his city quite to his liking --$79.42. He also draws attention to the fact that in Bridgeport the per capita cost is only $7S.69 while in Hartford 1t is the highest of all the state - $126.02. We are familiar with those figures, hay ing seen some of them in Griffenhagen's report.
 But the editor makes the following parallel from the figures: .. "While this warfare goes on in Waterbury, we re- main content with what we have. New Britain's cost is far below the median of $1O5.45. Waterbury's cost is $3.80 above that. New Britain's $260S below. This, of course, in 1935-36, since which time comparative changes may have devel- oped. We are quite sure New BritainS educational results are not inferior to that of Waterbury. For all we know, Bridgeport's may be quite equal to our own. .. ."
 We could be catty about that last state rnent and point to the fact that Water bury has just had another natlVe son, product of its local school system, con- secrated Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, but we know that New Britain would point with pride to its own Bishop Francis P. Keough. And that would make us boast about the fact that Water bury has given the ecclesiastical world four bishops, one of them an arch bishop. But that still does not prove a clty's educational superiority over another. New Britain and Bridgeport are apparently satisfied with what they are eetting for what they spend on their schools.
 over here in Waterbury we're quite safisfied with the results, too, and that's whv we don't want the system disrupted for the sake of economy. If it's results that count, then there is no need for economy along educational lines, com parativs statistics to the contrary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-29

The story of the master of the Queen Mary and his little image of st. Christopher is doubly welcome as e pleasant anecdote and as Q re. hinder that this saint is as popular as ever among those who go upon long and arduous journeys. That certain saints have their special vogues is, of course, well known. Mere antiquity doesn't seem to have anything to do with this, Ste. Ther- csc of Lisieux, the Little Flower, was canonized less than fifteen years ago, yet already churches and sanc- tuaries bearing her name have sprung up In all parts of the world.
 But St. Christopher, patron of travellers, has remained popular all
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-29
Current Comment

I wasn't the tiniest bit afraid. Natalie Bic, steamship pas- senger of the Atlantic coast. who wished out loud for 8 hurricane shortly before she got one.
 You've got to be optimistic. It sometimes gets to be q strain on Q man, but you've got to do 1t. Harry A. Peters. school head- master of Cleveland, O., on teaching school.
  They're not diabetics at all; they're just fatties.
 Professor l.. II. Newbnrgh of the University of Michigan, on 50 per cent of the nations diabetes" sufferers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-29
Press Comment
GooD-BY. GUIMPE AND CORES
 Christian Science Monitor)

Styles in clothing for inmates of public homes for the aged change once century, in New York City at least. Perhaps not tAat often in some almshouses. New York, an- nouncing new fall fashions for the 2800 men and women in its two in- stitutions, has written finis to l00- year old clothing styles and ordered new and up-to-date garments, hats, shoes, and stockings.
 As a result of innovations by Rus sell Forbes, Commissioner of Pur- chase, and the department adminis- tering the institutions, 1t may now be told:
 Gone are the sunbonnets and high shoes with elastic inserts and the old plaid shawls that queeret' the women at the City Homes The Clothing Committee is contin- uing its efforts, also. to relegate the old Mother Hubbard checked dress, with its guimpe and gores and gath CTS, to the past. The simple expedi- ent of specifying pre-shrunk mate- Elbt HOW NlUkoo " PuoSiptC tO pEOVloe pajamas for the men which will not shrink to little boys sizes in Q couple of washings. and the insides of the new shoes are comfortable and have no nails or rough edges.
 Even black cotton stockings, which left their mark. will give way to tan shades. Those sunbonnets such as pioneer women wore are passe, and felt hats for winter and straws for summer are in vogue. More than e hundred textile speci- fications of over 800 commodities have been approved by the Board of Standardization for better and more suitable clothing.
 What the well-dressed guest in Q city home wears has 6 good deal to do with how he or she feels during days that sometimes seem long. Perhaps New York is setting a style which @ill be copied elsewhere.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-29

You'd probably like to get hold of the new distance tables that the State High way Department has just compiled, for they compute the distance from every point in the state to every other point even down to tenths of a mile. The tables are not for public usage, however, but will be used by the several state departments that need such statistics at hand constantly. The chart is quite big one, almost yard long and many of the figures on 1t are so tiny that we wouldn't be surprised if a special fount of type was used to print them. Only a limited number of the charts were printed up and for OFFICIAL USE ONLY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-29
Questions and
 Answers
By Frederick M Kerby

@. Where is the highest point on the Atlantic coast, south of Maine?
 A. Todt (Toad or Iron) Hill, Staten Island, N. r., rises from the Richmond road at Garretson's sta- ton on the rapid transit railway, and overlooks New Dorp and the Moravian cemetery. 1t is 409.8 feet above sea level, and is the highest point on the Atlantic coast south of Maine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-29
Daily Almanac
Moon sets 9:57 D. m.

Moon sets 9:57 ?. m.
 Sun rises 6:iS a. m; sets 4:52 p. m.
 All vehicle must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 So far as we can check up the change of the moon from last quarter to new was the only one this month that brought about a weather change. We've been looking for one all month as each phase occurred at an hour calculated to provide ensuing foul weather The month, however, remained fair and baimy until the moon entered the new moon phase on October 2S.