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Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11

aNowing staunch New Deal support,
Moore repeatedly has gained wide
spread backing on the strength OF
his plan to have Mexico grant Arl-
zona seaport rights at the head OF
the Gulf of California.
A dream" Of many Arizonians
including Isabella GreenWay, who
succeeded her husband in the Unit
ed States senate, the project in
wolves obtaining permission from
Mexico for rail and airway rights
over a comparatively short span
of desert land separating lower
Arizona from the head of the gulf.
The plan, its advocates contend,
would give Arizona cotton and cit
rus products the benefit of steam
ship rates for water borne traffic.
1t also would provide lower freight
rates for Arizona copper in move
to meet South African competition.
1t was advanced vigorously by
Henry Norton when he was secre-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11

including his pretty sister, Evelyn,
who joshed him with you remem-
ber me, Doug"
Police closed in to form a body
guard, but Corrigan waved them
back with a "get the devil out of
here" His gold tooth cleaning in
the sunlight he amiably posed for
photographers, but, momentarily
baked at kissing his sister "for
publication"
Mayor Thomas M. Eaton headed
the civic welcoming committee,
while on the outer fringe of the
crowd sulked Paul Engstrum, Los
Angeles county's official host, who
was ''frozen out" of the welcoming
proceedings in Los Angeles by
Mayor Frank Shaw.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
FRENCH TROOPS
SWARM TO FRONTIER

PARIS, Sept TO- UP)-France
today moved tanks, gigantic rail-
road guns. and other heavy artillery
into the Maginot line on the Ger
man frontier, it was reported IN
reliable quarters.
Additional troops were euartered
in villages in the foothills OF the
Vosges mountains.
The government ordered all bus
drivers and conductors on leave to
report to police and register for an
urgent call to duty-to act as army
transport crews.
Leaves of arsenal workers at the
great Mediterranean navy base at
Toulon were Cancelled.
The Renault factory in the Paris
area began delivering trucks and
mechanical units to the army as
they left the assembly belt of the
factory. Many were unpainted.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
Germans Mass
Nazi Troops
Against Czechs
London Fearful As
French Move Big
Guns to Border

LONDON, Sept. 10. (UP)
Reports were published in
London today that Germany
had massed an army of 2OO,-
900 on the Austrian Czecho-
slovakian frontier.
They were followed by a report
that the government had received
information that some high officers
of the German army were opposing
Adolf Hitler's policy in the Czecho-
slovak dispute.
The reports were circulated on
one of the gravest days that London
has seen in 20 years.
Prime Minister Neville Chamber
lain and key cabinet ministers held
conference after conference in
Downing street.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
Farn1er.Labor
Party Foreseen

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. CUP)-
Chairman John G. Townsend, r.,
Del, of the Republican senatorial
campaign committee, charged today
that President Roosevelt's drive
against conservative Democrats was
designed as preliminary step for
the formation of a farmer-labor
party to win third term.
"It appears" he said, that his
idea is to form a farmer Labor party
but hold onto the name of Demo-
crat. Roosevelt is too smart poll
tician just to start this drive against
conservative Democrats and then
stop. He has something IN mind
and it must be that"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11

AIRY of the Arizona state chamber
Of commerce but remained in the
background until Moore again ad-
vanced it as a campaign issue.
Moore first suggested to voters
that American nationals be indem-
nified by the United States gov
ernment for lands seized "in the
last 20 years since Mexico en-
barked upon the policy and prac-
tice of confiscating American own
ed ranch land"
All of us who know Mexico re-
alize full we'll that IL has no in
tention whatever of voluntarily
making any compensation for the
property taken,' Moore said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
Two Pass Yuma
In FraiI Boat
On Colorado
-
Plan to Paddle Down
To Guaymas, Mex,
On Naeatiol, ,=--=..==,;.-.. ,--.z=--;--=..=-=:--,..-,,,... !.

YUMA, Ariz., Sept. 10.
(UP)--Paul Thompson, Tue
son, Ariz., rancher, and HUI
bert Merriweather, Univer-
sity of Arizona student,
stopped here today on their way
to Guaymas, Mex, from Boulder
dam, New, rowing frail, canvas
boat in the choppy waters of the
Colorado river.
Thompson said the trip, a vaca-
ton voyage, took them two weeks
from Boulder dam.
Were just out to look at the
scenery, not to collect any scientific
data" Thompson said.
He said they expected to be two
more weeks navigating the delta
region of the Colorado before push
ing down the Mexican west coast
to Guaymas.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
State T. ofC
Condemns $50
Pension Plan

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Sept. 10.
(UP) - CALIFORNIA; $50 every :
Thursday pension proposal, the
single tax and the Garrison revenue
bond bill today carried the dkap-
proVal and. condemnation of the
California State Chamber of Com
merce.
Directors voted opposition to the
three measures to appear on the
November ballot, and also the vet
eranS' tax exemptions from in lieu
auto tax, and extension of present
tax exemptions on places of religi-
GUS worship.
Seven propositions were approx
ed, including No. /, the labor initi-
ative which defines lawful picket
ing, boycotting, displaying of ban
ners and recognition of employees
rights to strike and collective bar
gaining.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
F. R. DiscIainns
Alignment
With Europe
Repeats Stand Against
Aggressors. But
Denies Link

A B OARD ROOSEVELT
SPECIAL, en- route to Roch-
ester, Mimi, Sept. 10. (UP)
Roosevelt sped
west today to the bedside of
his ailing son, James, after inferen-
TALLY reiterating his stand against
aggresSor nations but disclaiming
any moral alignment with European
democracies in stop Hitler" bloc.
The chief executive, who left Hyde
Park at midnight aboard a special
train, reaffirmed his foreign policy
to correspondents by calling atten-
ton to his speeches and those OF
Secretary of State Cordell G. Hull
on the international situation in
the last six months.
To queries that the impression
was growing in foreign capitals that
his administration was leaning to-
ward a moral allegiance against
totalitarian states and their die
tators, ne caustically retorted that
such impressions we're the result OF
political Interpretation by some Am
erican newspaper editors and col
umnists and were entirely wrong.
Moreover, Mr.. Roosevelt said that
portion of the press which has been
giving a domestic political angle
to the international situation was
behaving badly. By so doing, he
said, it was creating a false i'm
preston.
White House attaches said that
the president probably would remain
two or three days in Rochester, de-
pending on the condition of James,
who will undergo an operation at
the Mayo clinic Monday for a
gastric ulcer.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
Bancroft Holds
To Slight Edge

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16. CUP
The Philip Bancroft-Ray Riley
race for the Republican nomina-
ton to the U. S. senate remained
unchanged today, with Bancroft
still leading by approximately $500
votes.
The count was Bancroft $4,000,
Riley 285,0O0, from practically all
of the states 12,438 precincts. The
tabulation included all absentee
ballots cast in San Francisco and
approximately 400 absentee votes
from elsewhere in the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
Candidate for
Congress Shot

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 10. CUP)
james H. Morrison, candidate for
Democratic nomination for con-
gress from the sixth district, was
shot and wounded by an unidenti-
fled assailant at his home near
Covington today.
Attendants at Touro hospital here
said Morrison, an attorney, was
wounded in the left arm but was
resting well.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
Dinosaur Bones
Found in Montana

BILLINGS, Mont, Sept. 10. CUP)
Remains of two dinosaurs which
roamed over Montana thousands OF
years ago were sent today to the
American Museum of Natural His
tory in New York following their
accidental discovery by Roland
T. Bird, New York paleontologist.
Bird and George Shea, retired
hotel proprietor and member of tte
American Museum of Natural His
tory, said they made the fossil dis
covery IN a region which had been
thoroughly searched for dinosaurs
remains seven years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
Hunt Resumed
For Secret Crave

PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 10. (UP)-
Sheriff Roy Merrill led another
band of deputies into the desert
north of Phoenix today in second
hunt for the body of a slain robber,
assertedly buried in a wash by a
companion who admitted participat-
ing in the holdup Staying several
months ago of Arthur H. Burton,
tavernkeeper.
The sheriff and his men returned
last night from the first hunt, un-
able to find the unmarked grave
where an ex-convict, arrested at
Arcadia, Calf, said he buried his
companion.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11

III voice OF QedCly earnest prOpn-
ecy:
eff fate should win and another
World war come, Germany would
not lose but win!"
Goering previously delivered a
scathing attack on Czechoslovakia,
branding it "a little state guilty of
oppression"
One of the highest men in the
Nazi party, he addressed a labor
front gathering in the congress hall
of the annual party rally.
"a little state annuys a minor
ity," he declared. "a cultureless
people, coming from no one knows
where, is depressing a people of
culture.
I'VE know it is not the pygmies
themselves over there but that be-
hind them lies Moscow, the Jew
MarxiSt demons.
IF the world rings with cries of
"oA OiiCii OCliiOCl dllC COuIlUIltS dl-
ways tag the guilty parties-Ger-
many and Italy, countries which
at least have established internal
peace and order.
THE Rome-Berlin axis is as
bold as ever against any attempts
to disturb it.
Both our peoples, with the Japa-
nese, build the only bulwark
against the world pest Of Bolshe-
vism s. never in her history has
Germany been so strong, SO unified
as today.
"On our western frontier we have
Notifications through which nc
power on earth will come onto Ger
man SOIL
The audience cheered wildly.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11

Hewes, district chairman, formally
Hewes that Administrator
Harold L. Ickes had given his final
Saturdays action clears
the way for an election, slated for
Sept. 80, to approve or disapprove
ST ,O45, ,0O0 in district bonds as Sc
curity for the proposed loan.
The PWA funds, if approved by
the voters, go toward increasing
the facilities of public power de-
velopment from the All American
canal. Increased capacity of the
Brawley standby plant, conStruc-
ton of another power plant on the
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
Raney Bre axis Up
Hay Deals

Bill Gifford's hay deals struck
a Snag Saturday when Deputy
Sheriff Frank Raney arrested him
on a charge of stealing six tons
of hay from the Fisher ranch in
the Holtville area.
The prisoner admitted taking the
hay Thursday night and trucking
it to ranch a short distance away.
He contracted to deliver six tons
to his customer, Raney said, but
lost two tons off his truck on the
first turn after leaving the Fisher
ranch. He received $34 for the
stolen hay, Raney said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
Three e Building
Permits Issued

Three building permits issued at
city hall Saturday added $3.50 TO
the annual building permit total
and boosted II TO $235,970.
H. M. Shaw obtained a permit 10
build a $4,000 duplex dwelling ar
6l2-6l6 Orange avenue. Partitions
to be installed at the United Artists
theatre viii cost 800 and additions
to a dwelling at 3ii Hamilton ave-
nue. will cost Mrs. s. Samaha $50.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
$4,000 Troops
Of j.. 5. Assemble
In War Games

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. (UP)-
Thirty thousand American troops
have been assembled near the Mexi-
can border in routine maneuvers
and general precautionary measures
have been taken on other fronts.
a survey revealed today.
American officials are fully con-
scious of the huge armies mobilized
in Europe. They dwarf this coun-
try's land forces. Like some OF
the European troop concentrations
in strategic areas, the military
moves along the Mexican border
have been affected by routine man.
euvers and war games.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11

The smiling Irish youth landed
his plane at Municipal airport at
11:O4 am. (PST) after flight from
Phoenix, Arizo where he took off
at ITO am. (PST).
Wearing his famous leather jacket
and time honored old pants he
stepped from the cockpit OF his
plane and said:
"Howdy folks. California here we
are"
Six United States navy planes
which took off from municipal air.
port when word was received that
Corrigan was nearby, escorted him
to a perfect landing.
A crowd of nearly 10000 persons
greeted Corrigan as he jumped to
the ground. He Immediately was
surrounded by host of relatives,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
Pedestrian Lines
In E. {. Repainted

Pedestrians will be safer in down.
town Ell Centro hereafter. CRY
crews are engaged in repainting
white lines designating pedestrian
safety zones.
Neither motorists nor pedestrians
will have any excuse for ignoring
the warnings plainly shown in glar-
ing white paint.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
School Teacher
Married d in Yuma

Miss Mildred Hubbard, Ell Centro
school teacher, and Keith Metz,
Holtville rancher, were married in
Yuma Friday by Judge A. Kelley.
The bride was gowned in a white
sports ensemble with green acces-
SorieS.
Mrs. Charles Provence, who at
tended the bride as matron of hon
or, wore a beige sports suit with
brown accessories. Provence was
best man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nets are honey
incoming on the coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
Council Ne etin9
Moved to Tues.

Ell Centric city councilmen viii
meet Tuesday at l pm. instead OF
on Monday, Mayor H. w. Fawcett
announced Saturday.
Much of the official business
scheduled for the Monday session
will be considered then.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
INLAND School
OPENS Monday

INLAND, Sept. 10.-Niland school
will open Sept. IL with Mrs. William
Thomas, the new principal, in
charge.
Other members of the teaching
staff are G.. B. Morse, Miss Doris
Thresher, Miss Harriet Cooper, and
SMisS Dorothy Vickers.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11

canal and building transmission
lines are planned.
Approval by PWA followed close
on the heels of a protest filed in
Washington D. C. Friday by the
Nev-Cal Electric corporation. New
Cal claimed that proposed district
power development would further
duplicate and parallel the corpor-
1ations existing facilities.
District officials said the propos-
ed loan would be retired by power
revenues and does not require any
assessment against lands.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
CITY ENGINEER HOME
FROM BUSINESS TRIP

City Engineer Phil knights re-
turned to Ell Centre late Friday
after an official business trip to
Sacramento and to Santa Barbara.
In Santa Barbara he represented
Ell Centro at convention of the
California League of Municipalities.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
Democrats viii
Organize

Imperial county Democrats will
organize the county central COM
mittee at a meeting scheduled for
the county court house at 10 am.
Monday.
Committeeman from the five dis
tricts in the county will elect a
chairman, vice-chairman, and a
secretary to take the lead in party
affairs.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
GEORGE AUSTIN IN
CRITICAL CONDITION

George Austin, rancher of the
McCabe district, is in a critical
condition at a hospital in San
Bernardino. He has been taking
treatment there for several weeks.
Mrs. Austin is with her husband.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
BENES PROCLAIMS
CZECH POWER.

PRAGUE, Sept. 10. (UP)-Presi-
dent Edouard Benes proclaimed the
power of Czechoslovakia's bril-
liant" army and the strength OF
her resistance against invasion in a
broadcast to the people today.
Il know that our state will emerge
victoriodsly from it's present diff
culties," the president asserted.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
'Howdy, Folks Says Corrigan as He
Lands Mistake Ship at Long Beach;
California, Here We Are!!'

LONG BEACH, Cal, Sept 10 (UP)-Douglas (My Mis-
tae Corrigan landed his 5000 crate here today and thus
completed New York to California trip he started two
months when "slight error the part of his COM
pass carried him to Dublin, Ireland.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
New Designation

New DesignatiOn--
When Paul Palmer noticed a
black -shirted figure on a BraWley
street he remarked:
II knew Germany had brown
shirts, and Italy had black shirts,
but down in Imperial Valley l
thought it was no shirt
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
Mexican Seaport for Arizona Urged
As Outlet for Cotton, Citrus
Products TO Gulf Steamers

PHOENIX Ariz, Sept. 10. (UP)-A Mexican seaport
for andocked Arizona ected into the states pri-
mary election campaign today by James R. Moore, PhOe-
nix attorney who is running against John R. Murdock for
Arizona lone seat in congress With both candidates
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
Insult u Injury

InsuIt % Injury
During merchants meeting in
BraWley a neWspaperman and a
merchant fell into a mild alterca-
ton over business conditions, with
the former maintaining business
was rosy and the latter the re-
verse After the meeting the mer-
chant, by mistake, walked out with
the newspaperman's hat.
Hold on" said the Fourth Es-
later, business is good but not
THAT good!"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
PWA Gives Its
Approval TO
Loan, Gron& PIoF
Program for Further Increasing Public
Power Development D Gets Okay;
Bonds Vote Set for Sept. 30

The Public Works Administration Saturday put It's
stamp of approval proposed $855000 grant and ST.
045, coo loan to the Imperial Irrigation district.
Announcement in a telegram from Kenneth A.
Goodwin regional director at San Francisco Evan T.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
Goerins HurIs
III eW Defiance
Toward World
In Another Conflict. Nazis Would Win!
He Tells Roaring Thousands; Aims
Attack at CzechosIovakia

NUREMBERG, Sept 10. (UP)-Field Marshal Her.
mann Wilhelm GOerng thunGered warning to the world
today to keep hands off central Europe.
The cimactic sentence of Goerng's speech unloosed
storm of applause in the vast hall Goering declared
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11


ers to know he is Les Rogers bro
ther. Just listen to his voice.
She's Got Troubles
This is about a saddle horse nam
ed Dixie, who has a conscience.
Put out to pasture on the Earl
Northrop ranch, Dixie was troubled
by the Worthlessness of it all so
she started out to do something
with her wasting life. First she fol-
lowed the milk COWS to the barn
every evening and waited patiently
for the milk mansto-exact-1hisrt toll
No dice.
- Broken hearted Dixie returned
NO the pasture to think, alongside
the mules. Then one day a hired
man harnesSed up one of the mules
to a fresno and went to work on a
read job. Dixie followed on the
faint chance she might pick up
an odd job and get "off relief"
Round and round the fresno went
and round and round Dixie went
keeping the mule company. Thought
Dixie 10 herself: What a life! This
is darned hot work, but if you're
on WPA you gotta take what you
can get"
BY the end of the day Dixie's
bones were tired but her heart
was light. At last she had turned
a hoof in an honest days labor
Back at the corral she rolled in
the dust in delicious eXaustion and
the next morning was back on the
Job. But after a few days the road
Job was done and Dixie had to go
back on relief.
Saturday Dixie munched her hay
and probably thought to herself:
''The grub's good here, but the
worst part is the uncertainty of it
ALL"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
A. F. OF l.. ACCUSED
BY TYPE UNION

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. 10,
(UP) - The International Typo
graphical Union was asked today to
suspend payment of dues to the
American Federation of Labor and
to demand that the A. F. of l..
cease its attacks on the Committee
for Industrial Organization.
In resolutions submitted to the
unions 82nd convention in session
here, the A. F. of l.. was accused
of supporting such enemies of all
working people" as Gov. Martin
L.. Davey of Ohio and Mayor Frank
Hague Of Jersey City. - r
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
GERMANY THREATENS WAR
Shoppers Join
In Attempt to
Break Strike
Mayor Summers Leaders
In Peace Move at
San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.
10. (UP) = Mayor Angelo
Rossi summoned leaders of
both sides to confer with
him today in an attempt to
settle the strike of A. F.. of l.. sales
girls and clerks against 35 San
Francisco department stores.
Hooting strikers, including SYM
pathizing longshoremen, ware
housemen and other union men,
bers continued on the picket lines
as the strike went through it's
third day.
Excepting for hooting and jeer-
ing Of shoppers and workers, the
day was comparatively quiet in
contrast to wild disturbances yes
terday when pickets attacked
workers, precipitating fights on half
a dozen fronts.
Stores continued to report "al-
most normal business. A shoppers
revolt against the strike was re-
portedly spreading, with volunteer
groups urging friends to ''buy now
- do your Christmas shopping
early."
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
Sight Unseen

Sight Unseen
You don't have to see Carl Rog-
ers to know he is Les Rogers bro
ther. Just listen to his voice.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-11
MARKETS IN BRIEF

Butter: Los Angeles, 26hc; Butterfat, Imperia
Valley, fob ranch grade A, S51ac manufacturing
milk, 2719c route gathered cream, 2419c.
L. A. Hay: U S No. 1, $13.59-I4 U S No. 2, leaf
$12-125O; S.No.2S11-i1.50 Minn.flax Sept. Sill
Evening star., 1938-04-10
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The Washington times., 1938-12-29
MRS, De SIbOUR
TO SING IN CAFE

Still another society girl has
turned from the fitting Of teacupS
to the singing of sob songs.
And this time it's a Washington
socialite, none other than Mrs.
Henri de Sibour, daughter-in-law
of the late Count Henri de Sibour,
famous architect and scion of
ancient French nobility.
Mrs. de Sibour, who began her
vocal career as a soloist at the
Church of the Epiphany here,
will warble torch tunes at the
Raleigh Hotels Pail Mall Room
beginning January 10. Rehearsals
are now under way and the
friends who urged her to take
up her new vocation declare she'll
NOV 'em down"
The Washington times., 1938-12-29
DRIVER OF BUS
BEATEN, ROBBED
AT TERMINAL
Autoist Loses SIG When
He Stops for Light

Another in a long series of hold
ups of bus drivers at Fifth and W
Streets Northwest, terminal of a
Capital Transit Company line, was
among the robberies reported to-
day by Metropolitan Police.
Today'S holdup. police said, oc-
Cured when two men, one armed
with a blunt instrument tied up in
a red handkerchief, robbed Will
lard R. Stroup, %, of the 4100
block of Ellicott st. N. W., a bus
driver, of $16.75 in change and
street car tokens.
A stop light hoIdup" occurred
this morning while Harry Golden
horn, of the 5000 block of Thir.
teenth st. N. W., waited for a
traffic signal to change at Seventh
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
Northwest. A man jumped on the
running board of Goldenhorn' s
car. opened the door, waved a gun
at him and took SIT.
When he was about to close q
fish market at Eleventh Street
and Maine Avenue Southwest last
night, John Norris, of the 900
block of G st. S. W., was held
up by lone bandit and robbed
of SIG.
In the only purse snatching
reported today, Mrs. Emily D.
Parker, OF the 1900 block of Fiji
teenth st. N. W., was said by
police to have lost 50 to two boys
who grabbed her purse while she
was walking in the 1900 block of
Sixteenth st. N. w.