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The Omaha guide., 1938-03-05

The Mothers Council is sponsor
ing a trip to the Bond Bakery on
Wednesday, March Q, at 8 o'clock.
All persons interested are invited
to share the experience. Phone
Webster 1889 and make reserva-
tions. so sufficient cars may be
provided.
The Omaha guide., 1938-03-05

E. H. CO am married and have
four children but my health is SO
very bad. Would I be doing wrong
to do what I have in mind?
Ans: Absolutely not...-..ar-
range to go into New Orleans
right away for the series of
treatments that you have in
mind to take. You won't ever
get better until you do receive
treatment for this condition.
Do something right away.
The Omaha guide., 1938-03-05

Washington, D. C. Mar. Sen
ate attaches have estimated that
tho total cost of the anti-lynching
fllibuster was 100000, which sum
includes salaries, overhead and
printing of the Senate.
The Omaha guide., 1938-03-05

The Worlds featherweight
champion Henry Armstrong is
stu going strong. He knocked out
Charley Burns of Johnston. Pa. in
the second round of a ten round
bout. It was Armstrong; 34th K. o
4e 4ou sem or4a sEH 'slq5!J ae VI
The Omaha guide., 1938-03-05

Mrs. H. Vawter was hostess TO
a group of friends at a delightful
bridge luncheon, Monday, at her
home. 1716 No. 28th street.
Prizes were won by Mrs. I. S.
Mcpherson and Mrs. Viola Lennox.
Mrs Carrie Jewel won the BOBBY
prize.
The Omaha guide., 1938-03-05

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The Omaha guide., 1938-03-05

Mrs. A L. Hawkins, 2120h No
Path street, was hostess to the
Utopia club Wednesday afternoon.
Twelve guests were present.
The Omaha guide., 1938-03-05

The Worship Committee of the
Quack club is preparing a booklet
of Daily Thoughts for meditation
during the Lenten season.
The Omaha guide., 1938-03-05

The seventh birthday of Mrs.
Marguerite Herald's daughter.
Darline Marie was celebrated by
a party of II children Games were
played an a birthday lunch was
served.
She received many gifts.
The Omaha guide., 1938-03-05

It just drives me to do wrong.
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be done. If not...-...then Use
your own judgment about leav-
ing.
The Omaha guide., 1938-03-05

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F. MY son and his wife keep
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what to do,
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bic Of any kind and the less
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sides with either of them for
they are both in the wrong.
The Omaha guide., 1938-03-05

T.. T.-Does the boy I am going
with mean me any good and tel
me about the boy that | used to &c
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any more about you than your
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yourself Tilted again in a few
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X khfnk too much of the boys
you go around with. Your ex-
friend vii never mean anything
more to you.
The Omaha guide., 1938-03-05

s. My stepfather is in the
bed sick and he talks out of his
head all he time and l wonder if
someone on the job undermined
him. Let me know as soon as pos
sible what we should do?
Ans: Get a doctor and do so
Immediately. No one has tried
to harm him........he has just
allowed himself to get in a run
down condition and is the vic
tim of sickness right now.
B. M. o. DIS my husband deal
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shall l continue the work that |
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cess?
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as true to you right now as
he vas the first week of your
marriage. Don't put too much
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having done-.....it can't help
you too much.
c. B.-Please tell me if you
think it is wise for me to leave
my wife? 1t seems that we are
Always nagging at each other and
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
NEAR RECORD
CROWDS FLOCK
TO PLAYGROUND
See Ted Horn Speed to
Victory in Auto
Race Classic

IMPERIAL, Mar. 7.-Of-
ficial speakers for the open
ing day ceremonies at the
Imperial county fair failed
to arrive Sunday, because of
poor road conditions from the
coast, but near-record crowds
thronged the fair grounds to inspect
the unusual exhibits and enjoy the
afternoon and evening entertain
ment.
Speakers who were delayed were
1t. Governor George Hatfield and
Joseph Long, state commander OF
the American Legion.
Principal Entertainment of the day
was provided by a field of the ma
tion's outstanding race drivers who
smashed three track records in six
auto events.
Ted Horn took first place in the
main event of the day and divided
record smashing honors with Rex
Mays, nationally famous speed
king
Rita Named Queen
Rita Fabares, with other queen
contestants acting as her attendants,
was crowned queen of the fair in
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
PLAN ADVANCED
TO SOLVE JAIL
OVERCROWDING
Head Urges Transfer
Of Prisoners to
Work Camps

Prisoners from Imperial
cOunty's overcrowded j a |
will be housed at a work
camp at Superstition noun
tain and put to work on the
rock crusher if tentative plans of
the Imperial county board of super
visors reach maturity.
District Attorney Elmer Heald
suggested to the board at a Monday
session that the camp be estab-
lished to relieve congestion in the
institution frequently forced to
house double the number of prison.
erS intended to be packed within
its walls. Supervisors declared they
would consider the plan as a pos
sible solution of the Jail problem.
The rock cruher already is es-
tablished and men could be kept
at the place under guard while
preparing rock for use by the coun-
ty, Heald told the board The plan
was to be discussed further.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
FARMERS FIGHT
SLASHING u. s.
HIGHWAY FUND

Imperial county Farm
Bureau Saturday went on
record as opposing discon-
tinuance of federal aid to the
nations farm to market
roads in short directors meeting
at the county court house.
Bureau directors passed a resolu-
ton instructing Imperial Valleys
senator and representative to op-
pose the attempt in congress to dis
continue federal aid to farm-to-
market roads.
Discussion on the question point
ed out the need for construction of
such roads in the valley and IN
other agricultural communities of
the nation.
The directors set April 2 as the
date for the annual regional con-
vention of the five southern coun-
ties. The convention will he held
in the California hotel
A resolution was passed asking
city councils of all valley cities to
to pass an ordinance requiring the
registration. of all goods bought by
second hand dealers.
Such an ordinance, bureau dir
ectors pointed out, would eliminate
a share of the burglaries in the
valley.
w l.. Wilson, safety engineer for
the State Industrial Accident COM
mission, urged the bureau to start
a safety campaign in the county.
Charles l.. Wieman, president of
the farm bureau, presided at the
meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
COURT RULES
ON OIL LANDS

WASHINGTON, Mar. 7. UP)-
The supreme court today specifi-
cally reversed itself in two long
standing landmarks of tax law and
ruled that profits derived by pri-
vate companies from state e-oWned
oil lands operated under lease are
subject to federal taxation.
The tax decision approving levies
by the internal revenue bureau
against the Mountain Producers
Corp. was expected to have far
reaching effects.
The tax decision highlighted a
session of the court at which was
presented an opinion holding
Charles E. Mitchell, former Ma
tional bank chairman, liable for
fraud penalties on his 1929 income
tax return.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
OFF POLICY
ADOPTED BY F. D. r.

shot-in the arm high finance which
would start business on an upward
cycle. e .-.t
Congressional sources and others
closer to Mr.. Roosevelt, and more
sympathetic with his aims assert
confidently now that the forthcom-
ing message to congress on mono
poly and evil business practices will
be pale compromise of the vigorous
demand for immediate legislation
which Mr. Roosevelt ,contemplates
when he submitted his annual mes
sage to congress on Jan. 3. His
suggestion to congress is expected
now to be limited to a request for
study of the conditions for which
it originally was planned to request
remedial legislation. ,-.-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07

so miles northwest of Los Angeles.
There was a funeral for 18 today
at Anaheim. Most of them were
drowned in the Atwood and La
Jolla area nearby, when the San
ia Ana river left its bank and
took a new course down the main
street OF Atwood. 1t is a Mexican
community.
Anaheim, a few miles down the
river from Atwood, was a desolate
place today. Thick, sticky mud
filled the streets. Broken timbers
and driftwood lay in heaps in every
direction.
FRESNO, Cal, March Z. CUP)-
San Joaquin Valley relief agencies
reported today that an estimated
5000 migratory workers made
homeless by last weeks floods were
being provided with food and shell
ter "as rapidly as supplies become
available They denied reports OF
starvation and disease among the
refugees.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
AgrarianS Battle Floods
CREST SW EEPS
PAST ANDRADE
TO FARMLANDS
Two Fall Into Yellow
Torrent at Yuma;
MeXicans Periled

Yellow floodwaters Of the
Colorado river swept past
Yuma and the Imperial r.
rigation d is t r C t s head
works at, Andrade Monday
under complete control.
Below the international border,
however, Gov. Rodolfo Sanchez Ia
boada had modified. every avail
able Agrarian farmer to combat the
menace of flood to low-lying Mexi-
cali Valley farm lands.
In the Wellton Valley 35 miles
east OF Yuma farmers banded to
plug an ancient river channel
through which they feared Che rag
ing Gila river would pour muddy
torrents onto valuable farm lands
Tuesday or Wednesday. s.-
Two men at Imperial Dam mar
rowly escaped death in the Colo
RADIO river flood when they tumbled
off temporary bridge at Imperial
Dam into the water. One, Mexi-
can, clung to a floating log and
came to shore mile downstream.
The other, a white laborer, held
heroically to a bridge cable until
his fellows could pull him to safety.
They found he had broken leg
The white man was Carl Collette,
job superintendent for the M.U.W.
company. The Mexican was Dam
Doten.
- No Danger
To long established farmlands in
Yuma and Imperial Valleys there is
no danger, officials agreed.
Chairman Evan T. Hewes of the
Imperial Irrigation District board
returned, from an airplane survey
of the flood d-threatened areas Sun
day to-, report that the river will
not endanger headworks or levees
along the Colorado channel. Flood
waters in the Colorado river itself
have already subsidized, and the
Gila river torrents are flattening
out over loW-lying river bottoms
between Gillespie Dam and Well
ton so that not more than 10000
second feet should reach the Colo
RADIO river, Hewes said.
At Parker, damsite for the Metro
politan Water District, a peak of
$4,000 second feet on the Colorado
Friday had receded to normal
flow of approximately 1000 feet
Sunday. The flood crest passed the
Andrade intake without trouble.
The 100000 second feet pouring
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07

an elaborate ceremony.
Judging of exhibits at the fair,
delayed Sunday because judges
could not arrive before Monday,
was moving ahead at full speed
Monday. Domestic art exhibits had
been judged by noon and judging
of All and FLA. livestock was
expected to be completed before
evening.
Judging of poultry was nearly
complete by noon.
More than 1000 Imperial Valley
school children swarmed over the
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
IN
FLOOD TOLL

SACRAMENTO, Mar. 7 CUP)-
California'sl unprecedented flood
losses, public and private, total
more than $52.000,0OO, Gov. Frank
F. Merriam announced today in an
appeal to President Roosevelt for
federal aid in rehabilitating strick-
en- areas.
Merriam's appeal informed the
President that California faces
relief and reconstruction problems
reaching the proportions of a mai
or disaster"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07

Gays alter the disaster.
There were 139 persons listed as
dead in the 10000 square mile area
and it was estimated that 200 or
more, had died. - ....,
To Keep out. sight-seers and loot
ers during the rehabilitation work
national guardsmen were on pa
troll at Anaheim; sheriff's men
blocked the roads in San Bernar-
dino county, mounted posses guard
ed the banks of Lytle creek and
Santa Ana river in several counties.
Nine more men were added to
the death toll last night when a
haggard party. of two women and
four men emerged from Tujunga
Canyon, and reported that nine
of their companions had been
drowned when a torrent swept
down upon a construction camp
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07

Sunday with the arrival of mail
accumulated since train service
was cut off by a railway bridge
Washout near Beaumont. The Ell
Centro post office received 26
pouches of first class mail and 100
sacks of parcel post. Postal en-
ployes worked all day Sunday sort
ing mail and carriers went to work
at a. m. Monday to distribute
the mass of letters, papers, and
packages. Mail from Los Angeles
arrived by truck to Indio, via train
to INLAND and to Ell Centre by
stage. -.
Western Union and Postal .Tele-
graph companies established direct
communication with Los Angeles
Sunday after operating for several
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
KIDNAPPED BOY
STILL ALIVE,
DAD BELIEVES

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y, Mar. 7.
CUP)-Murray Levine, whose 12-
year-old son, Peter, was kidnapped
Feb. "a, clung to the hope today
that his son still was alive despite
the fact that he has had 30 con-
tact with the kidnapers for a week.
The New York attorney suffer-
ing from suspense and anxiety,
said in a telephone interview with
newspapermen that he believed his
boy was alive but admitted he had
heard nothing from the abductors
since the finding of ransom note
last Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
Islands Claimed
For i. S. to Help
Aviation Growth

WASHINGTON, Mar. 7 (UP) -
The White House today said Presi-
dent Roosevelt's official order claim
ing Canton and Enderbury islands
in the Pacific was motivated by
commercial aviation needs and not
war reasons or plans.
The White House statement re-
garding the islands came after it
was recalled that President Roose-
welt has issued an executive order
claiming title to the tiny atolls
White House Secretary Stephen
T. Early said that conflict in claims
between the United States and
Great Britain undoubtedly will be
adjusted amicably."
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
Ground Searehers
Run Down Clue to
Missing AirIiner

FRESNO, Cal, Mar. 7. CUP)-
Two transport planes and a search
ing party left at dawn today for
Goat Mountain, where a rancher
reported that he saw, from a dis
tance, an object that resembled an
airplane, possibly the Transconti-
mental and Western airliner that
disappeared last Tuesday ngiht car
rying nine persons.
Ground searcherS reported at
mrd-morning, however, that a closer
inspection of the mountain indicat-
ed the plane was not in that
vicinity.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
ills.

unemployment ills.
SACRAMENTO, Cal, March z.
CUP)--Announcement of Gov. Mer-
riam's special session subject list
drew instantaneous opposition on
half dozen frcnts today.
George Sehlmeyer, master OF the
California State Grange, said his
organization was prepared TO resist
passage of amendments 10 the
agricultural prorate act.
He charged the commission has
become an organization of Job
seekers and said California farm
ers are tired OF being higb-prea-
sured into signing agreements.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07

procIamation list Of 35 subjects
were other measures to amend the
agricultural prorate act, set up uni
form personnel standards for coun-
ty welfare workers, consolidate the
state relief commission and depart
ment of social welfare and continue
a l0-year delinquent tax payment
plan.
Merriam said two appropriation
measures, one for a $3,O00,000 allo-
cation to the governors emergency
fund, and another appropriating
$4,900,000 would make $1O.9000O0
available for rehabilitation of the
states flood areas and to remedy
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
MANCLED
BY AU 7 0
" H T { | s
Hundreds Look on
AS Boy Struck
At Fair

Thomas Lee Davee s,
struck down by an automo-
bile in front of the county
fair grounds at 10:30 pm.
Sunday, lies in Ell Centro
hospital suffering from broken legs.
a broken shoulder, conclusion of
the brain, and possible skull frac-
ture.
The boy went down before the
wheels of a car driven by Fred
Petree, 20, Holtville, as crowds
thronged across the highway to
automobiles parked across from the
fair grounds. Agonized screams of
the boy startled hundreds of merry
makers inside and outside the
grounds. The child had not regain
ed consciousness at noon Monday,
his physician said.
When the child left the fair
grounds with his mother, Mrs. A.
Davee, 335 E street, Brawley, and
group of other adults, they cross
ed the highway 1875 feet north of
the pedestrian zone guarded bv
highway patrolmen. Petree, driving
south, told Highway Patrolmen Bill
Mitchell and Roy Wells he saw the
pedestrians crossing the road and
noticed the adults stop at the center
line. The child ran across the pave
ment into the path of the oncomipg
car, Petree told officers. He said he
swerved to the right and applied
the brakes. The car, the officers
said, silidded 35 feet before striking
the child and went off the pave
ment for 60 feet into the borrow
pit.
The injured boy was rushed to
the hospital and Petree was taken
to the county Jail and booked on a
charge of reckless driving
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
Former Valleyite
Hurt Swimming
In Flooded River

Fancis Crocker, former Nevada
California employe at Ell Centro
and present company superinten-
dent at Palm Springs suffered a
broken hand. sprained ankle, and
severe bruises when he swan the
flooded Whitewater river with a
line to repair break. He was
washed down stream 300 feet be-
fore he reached the other side with
his line. There was no other way
tC repair the break.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07

years of application still have not
disposed of the unemployment prob
lem nor erected effective barriers
against violent business recession.
The president is receiving con-
flicting advice from within his own
circle OF advisers. Secretary of
Treasury Henry Morgenthau jr.
heads the group insisting upon fed
eral economy. From without the
cabinet there is strong pressure for
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
Pioneer Resident
OF Valley Is Dead

IMPERIAL, Mar. - Mrs. Mar
tha A. Caradine, resident of Impe-
rial Valley for 81 years, died at her
home here at noon today.
This Imperial Valley resident
was born in Hood county. Tex, in
1858.
Her survivors include one son,
Henry Caradine; five grandsons,
Roscoe, Vance, Marshal. Clyde and
Robert Caradine; and two great
granddaughters.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07

to make such a policy possible.
That explanation came in the
midst of substantial reports that
congressional umeasiness over busi-
ness conditions and a disposition
to oppose New Deal measures would
compel Mr. Roosevelt to withhold
further reform" proposals from
this session.
There are indications also of un-
easiness within the cabinet. That
uneasiness arises from doubt of the
wisdom of methods which after
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
Scripps Funeral
Will Be at Ranch

SAN DIEGO, March T. CUP)-
Private funeral services for Rob-
ert P. Scripps, controlling stock
holder of the Scripps- Howard news
papers, will be held at 4 pm. today
at his ranch, Miramar, near here.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
MASS FUNERALS
HELD FOR COAST
FLOOD VICTIMS

LOS ANGELES, March 7. (UP)-Southern California
started holding funerals today for the who
died in last weeks floods The passed along
streets half buried in mud and DEBRIS where groups of
grim and weary still searched for the missing five
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
State Assembly
Meets Today i'm
Special Session

SACRAMENTO, Cal, March 7. (UP)-The California
legislature met at today at the call of Gov Frank
r. Merriam to deliberate problems of unemployment and
disaster relief deand OIL better housing and sum clear
Grouped with these primary the governors
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
FLOOD-DELAYED MAIL
FLOWS INTO VALLEY
Direct Communication to LA. Restored;
Highway Travel Possible
Despite WashOuts

Direct communication between Imperial Valley and
the flooded along the coast was back to normal
Monday while transportation companies made travel pos
sble despite washouts. t..~
Imperial Valley post offices had floods of their own
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
Bu LYLe Wilson

WASHINGTON, March 7. (UP)-Close associates of
President Roosevelt said today that he had adopted
handsoff policy toward congress because conviction
that the of emergency had essened sufficiently
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
Code Expert Wanted

A letter delivered at the Imperial
county sheriff's office was address
ed thusly: ito the probeshtion High
shief, Elcentro." That was pretty
easy to figure out 1t meant, ITO
the Probation High Sheriff, Ell Gen.
tro.' OF course it's just techni-
cality, but there isn't any such Of
flee What was really difficult was
the scrawl, down in a corner of the
envelope: 'genglede.' After much
head scratching, the experts de-
clared it must have meant, Gen
eral Delivery" The writer was eau
tious, however. In the upper cor
ner was the admonition to Uncle
Sam: after days tern to Spur,
Tex"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
Program for
Fair Tuesday
Tuesday, Mar. 8
DAIRY DAY

DAIRY DAY
900 a.m.-Judging of dairy cat
tie.
1000 a.m.-EXhibit building open
for inspection.
2:30 p.m.-CCmplete new stage
show main exhibit
building.
1880 p.m.-Five free acts of
vaudeville.
$3.50 pm.-Amateur contest.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
Slips That Pass

It's TOO bad j. B. McNeece WASH t
on the Post-Press payroll last Fri
day.
1t would have been SO much fun
firing him.
Paul Litchfield president of the
Goodyear Tire and Rubber cdm-
pany, accompanied by Vice-Presi-
dent T. Tompkins and a party of
10 others, drove into the McNeece
service station at $50 pm. Friday,
filled up with gas, grouSed a bit
about n three day delay causeds by
storms while they were en- route
to a western ayers conference
at Los Angeles, and departed.
And j. B. didn't think to tell any
one until after they were gone
Penalties of Virtue
Haste makes waste" reflected
Frank Birkhauser as he sat in his
automobile after the ball game Sun
day and watched the zillion other
automobiles scramble and unScram-
BILE while they tried to get away
first. So Frank waited until the
parking lot was clear. Not car
was left in his line of vision nor the
lot. He started the motor, slipped
the clutch into reverse and started.
Wham!
The fellow. in the parking place
directly behind Franks car had had
the same idea. And he had start
ed out at the same time.
No damage was done.
o
IL Is The Weather
How come. someone asks, the fire
departments Big Bertha has miss
ed her daily noon broadcasts lately?
Bad cold?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-07
IL Is The Weather

How come. someone asks, the fire
departments Big Bertha has miss
ed her daily noon broadcasts lately?
Bad cold?