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Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03
THIEVES BUSY
IN Ell CENTRIC
ON WEEK-END

Burglary and petty theft played
a part in Ell Centre police depart
ment reports during the New
Years weekend.
A burglar who entered a room at
S67 Orange avenue. occupied by
Willie Harrison, Tony Limsone and
Sam Thompson, Negroes, ransack-
ed the room without obtaining any
loot.
Walton Johnson told police that
a gladstone bag containing cloth
ing belonging to himslef and his
wife was stolen from his front
yard. where he left it for a shorS
while after unpacking his car Sun
day night
George Lindsey, Meloland, re-
rorted the theft from his parked
car at Olive avenue and Fourth
street of a three-cell flashlight
and a Navajo blanket,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03
YOUNG GUNMEN
SERVICE.
STATION FLEE
WestmOrland Scene of $40
Stickup; Hunt Begun
For Two Thugs

WESTMORLAND, Jan. 3.
Two youthful bandits, be-
lieved to be the same ones
wanted for a stick-up in In
dio, held up a service station
here early Monday morning, flash
a gun to force two attendants to
lie on the floor while they rifled
the cash register of $40, and disap-
peared in an automobile.
The stickup men ran from the
station to a car parked nearby and
sped out of town. They were still
at large Monday.
Two hours before the stick-up,
Riverside county officers reported
a stick-up at Sandy Corners. near
Indio The bandits took $l60 in
bills and $40 in change. The men
were armed with .38 caliber revolv-
ers. Preliminary Investigations led
officers to believe the two stick
ups were managed by the same
men.
Westmorland police summoned
Sheriff Robert Ware and his dep
uties who blocked all roads lead
ing out of Imperial county and
initiated a systematic search of
country roads. Descriptions of the
men and the automobile they are
believed to have been driving, were
broadcast to all parts of the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03

ministration, will be invited to a
gigantic celebration staged for the
benefit of rural residents of I'm
perial Valley. Officials hoped to
arrange the ceremony before Feb,
The announcement was ~coinci-
dent with execution of contracts
for materials and equipment to
build the 600 miles of transmission
lines in the rural identification
project, part of the proposed All
American canal power system
M. J. Dowd, districts chief en-
gineer, presented the contract Mon
day to President Evan T. Hewes
for signature. 1t already had been
executed by the Benson Lumber
company of San Diego, which
agreed to supply 1000 poles and
10000 cross arms for the rural
lines.
Other contracts covering mate
rials and equipment for the rural
lines which have been executed,
Continued on Page 6; Col u
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03

Mr.. Roosevelt delivered his mes
sage personally before a joint ses-
sion of congress assembled in the
house chamber.
Reporting the world in a state
of high tension and disorders" f"
Mr.. Roosevelt foreshadowed an
early request for additional naval
construction with a warning that
I'VE must keep ourselves adequate
ly strong in self defense"
Mr.. Roosevelt condemned monop-
oily, and outlined a far reaching
legislative program of business re-
form, to be detailed in a later mes
sage, but asserted that capital and
reasonable earnings on capital are
essential to our economy.
Misuse of Power
Misuse of the powers of capital
or selfish suspension of the employ
ment of capital must be ended"
the president warned, "or the capi-
talistic system will destroy itself
through its own abuses"
He estimated that essential fun
tions" of government and provision
for the destitute henceforth would
maintain federal expenditures at
approximately $7,0000O0,O0O annu-
ally.
Mr.. Roosevelt proposed that this
sum be raised. the budget ultimate
Continued on Page 6; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03
Hope Expressed for
Power Holding Sale

of the Imperial Irrigation District Mon
Electric
Valley holdings the
irrgat "on
Remang that the United States Supreme Court two
the public
Valley said "Now that the rights
controlling the Nevada California Electric
recognizing the Importance of avoiding the economic
opposition will negotiate
local holdings to the people of Impe
Valley"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03

municipalities lOT COilSCIuCCIoIl Vi
power projects.
The supreme courts decision in
an Alabama power case fixed a
precedent under which legal OBJ
jections to the Imperial Valley prof.
ect will be dismissed. The objec-
tions were made by the Nev-Cal
company in an injunction suit filed
last February in the District of
Columbia Supreme Court. "a hours
after voters here had overwhelm-
ingly approved Public Works Ad-
ministration and Rural Electrified
tion Administration contracts for
construction of the valley system.
Construction to Start
The district will proceed at once
to obtain dismissal of temporary
injunction against the PWA project,
and then will start Immediately to
construct a net work of power lines
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03

One OF The first acts Of the gov
ernment, headed now by DR.. H. H
Kung as president of the executive
Yuan, or cabinet, and finance min
iSter, was to order reformatories
throughout China emptied. Prison.
ers in these institutions are almost
all political prisoners. and the politi-
cal prisoners in turn are almost all
communists.
Nevertheless. Chinese said. the
new government did not mark a
turn. toward the left but on the
contrary was turn to the right
and a victory for more conservative
elements.
The principal effect of a change
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03

"The American Civil Liberties
union is getting interested in this
Howard told Ware in a long-dis-
tance telephone conversation Sat
urday night.
Il expected them to-" Ware an
swered.
The Civil Liberties union is the
same organization which interven-
ed unsuccessfully on the side of
assertedly radical organizers of a
lettuce harvest strike here several
years ago. A. L. Wirin, attorney
for the organization, was kidnapped
by band of unidentified vigilantes
and left on the desert with orders
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03
1888 STARTED
WITH HEAVY
TOLL OF LIFE
BY UNITED PRESS

Traffic accidents, shootings, poiS-
onings, and drownings lock-stepped
with the nations New Years cele-
bration bringing sudden death to
at least $40 persons. There were
625 deaths recorded during the
Christmas weekend.
Traffic accidents took the great
est toll, accounting for 222 deaths
Illinois led other states in total
fatalities with Sc. Twenty three
were caused by traffic accidents.
Cook county (Chicago) reported 80
deaths.
Five boys and two girls. all Ohio
high school students, were killed
when their automobile crashed
through guard rail at downtown
Butler, Ind crossing and was struck
by a New York Central railroad
passenger train.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03
Merriam Slated
To Visit Ell CentrO

Gov Frank F. Merriam Will at
tend the Associated Chambers of
Commerce meeting in Ell Centro
Jan. 26, according to an announce
ment by Robert Hays, secretary Of
the chamber.
Merriam will be accompanied to
the valley by w. T. Hart, state high
wav commissioner, and Herbert f.
Fish, San Diego councilman.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03
INTERNATIONAL
CLASH OVER
Joke AVOIDED

A drunken fruit workers idea of
joke almost precipitated an "in-
ternational incident" in Ell Centro's
foreign district this weekend.
Stickers bearing the slogan Boy
colt japanese Goods" appeared in
conspicuous places on Broadway'S
Japanese establishments bright and
early Sunday morning. The Japa-
nese didn't like the idea and at a
conference decided the Chinese
must have been responsible.
Before the Stickers could be "un-
stuck" from the stores up and
down the street, the jokster con-
fessed and international communi-
cations between the japanese and
Chinese were resumed.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03

of governments by which power was
centralized and Generalissimo Chi
ang Kai-Shek, commander In chief
of the armies, relinquished the exc
cutive Yuan leadership to his broth
er-in-law, DR.. Kung. would prove
more efficient fight. Chinese as
serted.
Chinag. though he gives up the
title OF what approximates that OF
prime minister. loses no power He
remains commander In chief OF lie
general staff and chairman OF the
new national military council which
now controls industry and agricm-
ture with dietatorial powers.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03

Aqua CALIENTE, Baia Cal, Jan.
3. CUP) - -Four hundred Mexican
workmen seized the swank Aqua
Caliente Hotel company property
today at the hour when the gov
ernment was to appropriate the
$1O,OOO,OOO resort for a military avia-
ton school.
The Workmen, with their wives
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03

to leave Imperial Valley imme-
diately and never come back. He
has never returned.
Critics Order
The name of the organization
was mentioned when the labor re-
lations board man criticized Ware
for orjering union pickets away
from the 7. A. Allen sub-contract
on the Pilot Knob check and waste
way construction project. The pick
cts attempted to induce laborers to
walk off the job, demanding a
closed shop in which only union
members would be employed.
Continued on Page 6; Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03

to all parts of Imperial Valley,
President Evan T. HeWes indicated
The supreme court action will
make available to the district all
needed money from a grant of ST.
242,000 and a loan of $1,518,000 to
construct the system. A part of
the PWA fund already has been
received for work not covered in
the power company's injunction, in
Guiding construction of power
house at Drop No. 4 on the All
American canal and enlargement of
the standby plant at Brawley, as
well as lines to connect these with
the rural electrification project
sponsored by REA.
The U. S. supreme court decision
wrote the beginning of the last
chapter in a fight that started 20
Continued on Page 6; Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03
UTILITIES LOSE
FIGHT TO KILL
GOVT GRANTS
Competition Lawful, Says
High Tribunal in
Electric Fight

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.
(UP)--Supreme court action
advanced t h e n ew Deals
power and utilities program
on three fronts today. One
decision-validating Public Works
Administration power grants and
loans-was hailed by the admin
istration as a major victory.
The supreme court action came
as the tribunal met in its initial
session of the New Year Justice
Banjamin N. Cardozo was absent,
due to illness.
Court actions:
Approved as constitutional p.
WA. grants and loans to munich
palities for power projects. PWA
Administrator Harold L. Ickes
said the decision meant construc-
tion will start on 81 projects held
up by court injunctions.
Opened path toward possible
Overturn of the 39-year- judi
cial theory that reproduction
costs must be considered in eyal-
uating utilities for rate purposes,
President Roosevelt seeks to re-
place the reproduction cost theo-
ry with the prudent investment
theory, as a move i'm a drive to
lower power rates.
Accepted for an expected early
hearing the Electric Bond and
Share company, test of registra-
ton and mail-ban provisions of
the 1895 utilities holding compa-
ny act.
The PWA decision was unani-
nous and was presented by JUS
tice George Sutherland in tests
brought by the Alabama and Duke
power companies. 1t held the util-
tiles were without grounds for
complaint against the power loan
and grant program.
Ickes Immediately mailed the
PWA power decision decision as a
thorough vindication of his pro-
gram.
This decision" he declared, ZAP
pears at the end of a long trail
on which certain selfish corpora
tions south to block the will of the
people.
"The people have won"
Immediate effect of the decision
will be to allow construction to
proceed on 81 power projects in
some % states with total estimated
construction cost of sl46917. .808.
The projects have been held UP by
injunction proceedings pending su-
preme court determination of con-
stitutionality of the loan and grant
program.
The courts validation of the
PWA loans was based primarily
upon a finding that construction
of power projects by the munich
palities was fully valid under state
law. Competition of municipal pow
er with private power, the court
held, is fully lawful
Sutherland's opinion rejected the
utilities contention that the gov
ernment had engaged in a conspir-
acy to force them to lower rates
The principal decision of the
court was in the challenge of the
Alabama Power company, to four
proposed PWA power projects in
its Alabama territory. The Duke
case was determined upon the prin-
ciples laid down in the Alabama
decision.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03
HAY GROWERS
WIN VICTORY

Imperial Valley ran1hers and
hay growers achieved another vic
tory in their fight against Team
ster Union attempts to stop valley
hay shipments, when Los Angeles
creameries and manufacturing
plants decided to accept milk
whether the union marked 1t hot"
or not.
Their decision was reached at a
conference this weekend They
promised TO aid the farmers OF five
southern counties in their fight
to get their products to market
without interference and without
danger to truck drivers.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03
WORKERS DEFY GOVERNMENT,
seize Aqua CALIENTE HOTEL

and children trailing along after
them. marched into the grounds and
saf1 they would hold the resort in
protest against government seizure.
Eight men were posted at the
padlocked gates to the grounds, and
they told reporters they would hold
the grounds until they were remoV-
eel by force, by soldiers.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03

OF |. V. GAINS

Population of Imperial county
as of January l, 1888, is estimated
to be $4,000 according to Califor-
MIA Taxpayers association. This is
an estimated increase of 1907 per-
sons, as compared with the 1890
census figure of 60,9O3 persons.
Total population of California
is estimated as 6,576,OOO as of Jan,
l. The 1880 census showed the pop
ulation of the state to be 5,677 Isl
persons.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03

Pippin is in the Ell Centro
hospital suffering from serious
head injuries and has not regained
consciousness since the accident at
$50 O'Clock Sunday night. The
horse was killed and the automo-
bile badly damaged, Carl Hime,
18, driver of the car, escaped with
slight injuries.
Miss Millard 1911 Wensley Ell
Centro, who had been riding the
horse, was thrown a few moments
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03

before the accident. She ran to
the top of a ditch bank and saw
the running horse crash into the
automobile. she told Highway Pa
trolmen Paul Brown and Al Bis
gard. The driver of the car, she
told officers, apparently saw the
horse charging toward him be-
cause he skidded several feet try
ing to avoid the crash. The horse,
Continued on Page 6; Col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03
Roosevelt Condemns Mon obolies,
Outlines Plan for Business Reform
Balanced Budget
Still in Future
President, in Message to Congress, Says
Tax Changes Needed But Federal
Income Must Not Be Cut

WASHINGTON, JAN 3. (UP)-President Roosevelt
today abandoned hope of balanced budget in the next
fiscal year and in his annual message skeched
farreachng business industrial banking and labor pro-
gram to increase national income and purchasing power
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03

It's A Democracy
Humanity was boiling outside
and in at the California Highway
Patrol office in the basement OF
the county court house. There was
grumbling, cuSSing and complain
ing aplenty. There was a line five
or six miles long out in front The
poor clerks weren't sure of any
thing except that this was Monday
the first business day of 1888, and
automobile license time.
The telephone intruded upon
Captain A. F. Oswalt's tired nerves
Hello" he said
Say" said an unidentified voice
belligerantly, "if you think I'm go
ing to stand in line Tor hours to
get my license plates, you're crazy"
Sorry, sir" soothed the captain.
What do you expect to do?"
What the unidentified voice said
wouldn't pass the censor. The tele-
phone wires are still smoking. FL
nally it ended:
And what's more, l don't like
the way you're running your Of
flee" Etc, etc, etc.
1t was all the captain could
stand.
you can go to some other Of
flee, then,' he remarked. You can
go to some other county You can
go to Sacramento. You can go to
- Just then the captain re-
membered that he was a gentle
man, so he hung UP instead of fin
ishing the sentence.
BY The Way
Monday, Jan. 3, is Frank Bowles'
birthday anniversary. Which one?
Well, Frank says he happened
some time after the Civil War"
Understand
A coroner's jury decided that
the victims death was, to quote
the verdict, due to cerebral cor
tical degeneration due to throm-
bosis of the artery leading to that
area of the brain" What odds there
was medico on that jury?
The Final Chapter
Jim Carson has shaved the NOUS
tache on which RR commented
the other day. 1t seems young Jim
my didn't like dads facial foliage.
o.
Dangerous Sport
Bert Atkins and his 10-year- -old
son almost made the headlines,
quite innocently. At II am. Sun
day they went hunting in the Mt.
Signal district. At $50 pm. they
were not home, and Mrs. Atkins
was worried The search began.
Friends, neighbors and officials
joined.
A little while later the weary
hunters struggled in, all agog about
the fuss that was being made.
They'd been stuck in the sand.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03
New Deal Power
Plans Approved
Way Cleared for
Full Development
Of Canals Power

Full development of All American canal power by the
Imperial Irrigation District in competition with the Neva
daCaliforna Electric company was made possible Mon
day when the United States Supreme Court ruled that
the federal government has the right to loan money to
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03
YOUTH INJURED As
HORSE AUTO COLLIDE
Runaway Mount Crashes Thru Glass of
Car Near Ell Centre; High School
Lad i'm Critical Condition

runaway horse crashed through the windshield of
automobile country road south west of Ell Centre
Sunday night and seriously injured Leland Pippm II,
Central High school pupil who in the
Louise Miard of EI Centre the accident.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03
Celebration to Mark
Start of Power Lines

People of Imperial Valley will celebrate the setting
up of the first pole in their rural eecrificaton project
within the few weeks Imperial Irrigation District
officials announced today.
John Carmody chief of the Rural Electrfication Ad-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03
PRISONERS FREED TO
FIGHT FOR CHINESE
New Govt. Pledges Finish Fight, Orders
Guerrilla Warfare Intensified,
Opens Bombing Campaign

SHANGHAI, Jan. 3. (UP)-A Chinese govern
ment, pledged to finish fight against the Japanese
leased all political prisoners today, ordered ntensf
cation of guerrilla warfare and opened arpane bomb
ing CAMPAIGN against japanese held areas.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03
LABOR CONTROVE
ON CANAL FLARES UP
Civil Liberties Union May Take Hand
Says Ware; Sheriff Criticized for
Action Against Picketing

Possible Intervention by the American Civil Liberties
Union the side of labor union members in the latest
All American canal strike forecast Monday by Sher
iff Robert w. Ware following conversation with J. A.
Howard, field agent for the National Labor Relations
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03

Butter: Los Angeles 35; But
erfat, Imperial valley. fob. rancr
grade A IS; manufacturing milk
3S; route gathered cream 34iS.
L. A. Hay; u. S. No. $3.50
$1,000. No. 2 leafy S17.50; No.
2. Leafy s16.-S16.50
Minneapolis Flax, May s1.99lh
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03

The Final Chapter
Jim Carson has shaved the NOUS
tache on which RR commented
the other day. 1t seems young Jim
my didn't like dads facial foliage
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-03
BANK DEBTS

BUILDING PERMITS
TO DATE THIS FEAR
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-07-19

renee because on what seemed to
be well-balanced diet for a child,
these diseases developed with great
regularity.
Besides that, vitamins influence
such things as growth and immu-
nlty, and hence are especially need
ed in childhood.
But there is a trend toward the
icea that at least one vitamin is
very necessary in adult life and
middle age and that perhaps
Ior some reason the adult does not
get enough Of it. And that for this
reason 1t should be added to the
uiet III concentrated form.
- me vitamin the adult needs is
.. According to formal classifi-
catlons there are two BIS, but prob
"p.y the adult needs both Of them.
vitamin B is being used to aug
ment the diet in liver deficiency,
~ dhemia, in govt, in arthritis, In
1 noihe forms Of heart trouble, for
.a a. OF stomach secretions. in neu-
taCs and in loss Of tone Of the
= WIN be noticed that all Of these
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-07-19
By LOGAN CLENDEN1NG, n. d.

By LOGAN CLENDEN1NG, M. D.
WHEN OUR still new knowledge
Of the vitamins was still newer, the
idea became pretty general among
practicing physicians that while it
was necessary to see to it that GER
tain vitamins were present in chill
dren's diets, the adult could pretty
well get along without giving any
thought to whether his diet had
vitamins in 1t or not. A we'll bal
anced diet Of any adult, they said.
contained enough vitamins anyway.
Children's diet needed the addition
of Vitamins C and D. which pre-
vented respectively scurvy and
ricketts,; this was proved by expe-
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-07-19

dealer: South. North-S South
vulnerable.)
This deal arose In a rubber game
and the South player started the
bidding with 1-No Trump. After
a response Of 2-No Trumps by
North, South called 4-No Trumps
and North took this to Ono
Trumps.
When the club J was led, de-
tricks and, noticing that West dis
carded three hearts, decided that
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-07-19
FLARE FOR FANCINEsS

It Is a mistake to spurn the low
ly finesse and strive always to
make a fancy end play or squeeze
Sometimes a finesse can be the
surest kind of safety play, when
taken before other suits have been
run and before outstanding thir-
teeners have been set up. The
finest players may strive to avoid
unnecessary illnesses. but when
one is clearly the correct play,
they do not let any flare for fanci-
ness keep them from using it.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-07-19

DR.. Clendening will answer
questions Of general interest
only. and then only through
his column.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-07-19
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

!, thirteen tricks could be made in.
clarer won in the South hand with
the A. He then ran four diamond
stead Of the small slam. He next
cashed the spades A, K and @ and
when the suit failed to break, went
after the clubs, cashing the K and
Q. He was not disappointed that
that suit did not clear, because of
the original lead, but read West
as holding now one club, one spade
and one heart, and being quite
sure that West would not have
BANKED the K, took that finesse
When it failed, West cashed his
three tricks.
East's safety play is to enter
dummy at the second trick and
take the f1nesse at once. then run
ming his twelve tricks.
T0mOrrow's Problem
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A976
4875
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NA53
KQJ
dealer: South. East-West vul
nerable.)
How should South play for q
Hearts after the lead Of the spad.
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