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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28
TB Seal Sale Sets
New Record Here

At the January business meeting
of the Woman's club held Wednes-
day afternoon in the club room In
the basement of the Lutheran
church, the ways and means COM
mittee, through Mrs. l.. F. Austin,
one of it's members, announced
March 10 and April % as the dates
for series of to dances to be given
in community hall for the benefit
of the library fund.
Mrs. D. S. Wilkinson reported the
amount of the sale of TB seals,
which ended January 26, to be
1854, a record sale. She also re-
ported the collection of $710, which
has been turned over to the coun-
ty nurse for the purchase of iodine
tablets, II school children having
enrolled to take the treatment this
year.
Announcement was made of the
resignation of Mrs. A. w. Borden
as supervisor of the hot lunch pro-
ject in the White Bluffs schools
and the appointment of Miss Mar
guerite Pate to take her place.
The meeting was presided over
by Mrs. w. H. Keal in the absence
of the president, Mrs. Frd Gilhuly.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28
Knute Hill To Speak
On River Development

possibilities of Columbia River
Development" will he discussed by
Congressman Knute Hill of the
fourth Washington district in a 15-
minute radio address Tuesday, Feb
ruary 1.
The address will be broadcast
over the nation wide network OF
the Columbia Broadcasting COM
pany from Las to 200 pm, local
time.
Commenting on the request of
the broadcasting company that he
tell of the possible development of
the Columbia, Congressman Hill
says:
Needless to say shall enjoy the
pleasure of acquainting nation
wide audience with our winding
Columbia which, rising high is the
mountains in Canada curls through
the eastern half of the state and
becomes one of the worlds best
sources of electrical energy. Al
ready two dams, the Bonneville and
the Grand Coulee, are halting its
progress in order to supply cleo
trical power and irrigate our desert
lands. But. the navigation POSSIBLE
tiles are as yet undeveloped."
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28
Engineers To
Move Here
February "A
Survey Party Makes Fin
al Arrangements For
Quarters.

Members of the federal reclama-
ton bureau survey party, who will
make White Bluffs their headquar.
ters for the next year or so while
conducting the preliminary survey
of the Columbia Basin project, and
their families were in White Bluffs
Thursday to make final arrange
rnents for renting homes.
The party, which will be trans
ierred here February IA, will be
made up of Mr.. and Mrs. Dick
Stevens and son, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Kirk and son, MIR. and Mrs. William
Golden and son, Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
nd Eccles and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Hayward Jones and family,
MIR. and Mrs. F. Van Liddle, Harold
Butler, Ralph Hautraun, G. R.
Peterson, j. M. Bird, Ray Hunt,
Robert George, G.. r. Emery, Harry
Wildey and M. r. Murray. MIR.
Stevens is in charge of the party.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28
Senior Glass Issues
Basketball Challenge

Confident of their ability to out
class other mortals in any field of
endeavor, the senior class of the
White Bluffs high school this week
issued, in no modest voice, chal-
lenge to all corners, farmers, bust
ness men, girls, fellow students, or
any group not included in these
categories, to meet them in a bas-
ketball game on the local floor.
When and if the challenge is
accepted, arrangements for the
game will be made.
Their challenge will be found OF,
page S of this issue.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28
Grandview Quint Wins
Scoring Marathon, 1880

With Munson, Grandview's ace
forward, setting a pace that was
TOO fast to check, the White Bluffs
town team dropped a scoring mara
tllon at Grandview last Saturday
night by a score of 1880.
Munson dropped in SO of Grand
view's total points while Bill Meek
melted 16 and AL Barnes Is for
White Bluffs. The scoring spree
started in the early moments of the
game, with Grandview leading, So
20 at the half.
The lineup:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28
Hartford Ferry Will
Make Port Soon

Arrival of the 65-foot twin-screw
boat, the Rogue, is expected within
the next few days at Hanford,
where it is to be put into service
as a free ferry by the state. The
boat, which is making the trip up
the river from Astoria, was reported
at Paterson on Wednesday.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28
BENEFIT DANCES

A series of two dances, proceeds
of which will be used for the up
keep of the White Bluffs public
library, will be given by the Wo-
mans club, it was announced this
week.
The first affair will be given on
March 10 and the second on April
%.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28
State Sets UP Rock
Crusher Near Cold Greek

A rock crusher is being set up
at the gravel pit near the White
Bluffs Hanford junction on the va
hhna road by the state highway
department., and will be used in
crushing about 5000 yards of grav-
Ell, which is to be stock piled near
the road on the Brown ranch at
Cold Greek.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28
FORMER RESIDENT WEBS

Among marriage licenses issued
hast week by County Auditor H.
q. Chapman was one to D. j. Boag,
SIS, and Minnie Bennett, 81, both
CT Prosser. Mr.. Boag, who is a
Prosser real estate agent, formerly
resided here, having owned hotel
at Old Town during the early de-
Velopment of the valley.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28
Grange Gives Dance
Saturday Night

Everybody is invited to attend the
White Bluffs Oranges dance at the
Grange hall Saturday night, Jan
uary 30. A good time is promised
and refreshments will be served.
Admission will be 40 cents.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28

Niagara roared the Dry Falls Of the Columbia Central
on 4o0oot face this WATERFALL three and oneaf miles from
bank to bank picture released readers through the
operation of the Washington
Washington Newspaper Publishers Association of which
this newspaper q sustaining menber)
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28
The Weather

Maximum and minimum temper
atures recorded by observer Moffitt
at the Hanford weather station:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28
Eagles Make
Last Bid For
LeagueHonors
Benton City Downed Sec
ond Time BY Score of
"a to Is.

The White Bluffs Eagles chalked
up another victory in their pursuit
of conference honors Friday night,
downing the Benton City quintet
"a to Is in a rough tussle on the
local floor. Their lead was never
threatened but the scoring was
slow, the score at quarter time
reading 20 and at half time, 9-5.
Jack Gilhuly was high point man
with 8 counters, followed by Will
son, Benton City forward, who
Tailed 6 points.
Two other games, preliminary to
the main clash, provided a long
evenings entertainment for the
fans, the Eagle reserves downing
the Benton City seconds, 81 to 10,
with Sigurdson netting Z points for
high score horors, while the White
Bluffs girls team downed the Ben
ton City girls with little trouble,
10 to g.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28
Meeker Family Honored
At Community Party

Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Meeker and
family, who are leaving soon to
make their home at Sunnyside,
were honor guests at community
party at the Vernita school house
Saturday night. About 10 friends of
the Meekers attended the party,
and presented a farewell gift to
them.
A program, arranged by Mrs
Glenn Slower, included games, an
old-fashioned spelling bee, cards
and dancing, which was followed by
refreshnent
Surveying the approaches to the
Hanford ferry crossing, party of
six state highway engineers spent
several days here this week.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28

Precipitation of .O3 of an inch
was recorded on January 20.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28

Inc HrSC team lineup.
White Bluffs (24) Benton City (15)
Bus Meek 2 IF ........... Richman
Gilhuly 8 f ........ Wilson 6
Bill Meek 2 .......c..... w. Roop
Anderson 2 ......g... Van De Venter
Curry 2 .........g.. Montgomery 2
Substitutes: White Bluffs Pom
sat g.. Clark 4, Worby, Codding 2;
Benton City-Culp 2, M. Roop.
This Friday evening, the Eagles
will travel to Hover for the second
tilt of the season with the strong
Riverview quintet. This is the cru
cial game of the conference for the
locals, as Riverview already holds
one victory over the Eagles, who
will be out of the pennant chase
unless they can upset the dope and
defeat the doWnriver squad. A vic
tory, plus win over Richland next
week in the last conference game,
will boost them to a tie for first
place.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1938-01-28

This Friday evening, the local
squad will meet the Bricks aggre-
cation of Kennewick in return
game there. With an earlier victory
ever the Kennewick squad, the TO
calls are hopeful of turning in an
other win
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18
REWARD PUT UP
FOR A|RPLANE
LOST IN MARCH

SAN DIEGO, April ID. CUP-
The navy today posted a reward
of $500 for information leading to
the finding of, or definitely es-
tablishing the fate Of small cabin
type navy transport plane in which
two flyers disappeared March %.
announcement OF the reward was
made at the North Island naval air
station toward which Lieut.. Comdr.
Earue Lawbaugh and Machinist's
Mate E. Key were heading from
Palm Springs when they disappear
ed.
The plane was last seen as it
entered a pass in the San Jacinto
mountains. Airplanes, cooperating
with ground crews, have combed
every inch of territory over which
the plane could possibly have
flown, as far south as the Mexican
border. without discovering a trace
of the craft.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18
KIDNAP SCARE
ENDS; FATHER
TOOKDAUGHTER
Two Halted at Jacumba,
Released on Giving
Identification

An abduction scare IN Ri
Centro Monday turned out
to be a father "kidnaping'
his own child.
The father, p. l.. Critser
of Turlock, was stopped at Jacumba
after worried relatives reported TO
Ell Centro police that Lois Critser'
6, had disappeared on her way to
Harding school.
First word of the disappearance
came from Russell 10y Palmer, 10,
son of DR.. and Mrs. R. L. Palmer,
who telephoned his father that two
men in a car" had taken Lois He
gave the cars license number. LOIS
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
P. L. Critser, who are separated.
Mrs. Critser is DR.. Palmer's daugh-
ter. The child is staying with the
Palmers while her mother is in Las
Vegas
A sheriff's office broadcast re-
suited in the car being stopped in
Jacumba. With Critser was his
cousin, John Moss of Oakland. DR..
Palmer Immediately drove to ia
cumba to identify the child's father,
Critser continued on to the coast
after the identification.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18
) II u R 7.
IN AU 7 0.
CRASHES
Serious Accidents
Mar Easter
Holiday

Three serious traffic acci-
dents marred the Easter
weekend in Imperial Valley.
Mrs. G.. A. Worst, 60, SUI
fered a slashed artery in her
throat when a car in which she
was riding plunged into the AL
der canal at Curphey's turn south
of Ell Centro at II am. Monday.
Manhattan Nunley, q, is in the
county hospital in a condition so
serious he may die. He was injured
when a car in which he was
passenger, turned over several
times on the dogWood road near
Imperial Saturday. Joseph M. zeit-
vogel. 81, suffered chest injuries
when he catapulted out of his car
after it struck the soft shoulder of
the highway one mile south OF
Imperial. He was given a ticket
for drunk driving.
Alexander Garden, "a, is held on
a reckless driving charge as the
driver in the accident in which
Nunley was injured. Highway Pa
trolmen Day Dunning and Alfred
Bisgard took Garden to Jail after
other occupants of the car said
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18

Kildow's badly decomposed body
was found Friday in car parked
in the desert north of Plaster City.
KildoW was Teamsters Union Or
ganizer in Imperial Valley. Since
discovery of the body, intensive
investigations have been carried
forward under the personal super
vision of Sheriff Robert w. Ware
At an inquest held late Satur-
day, a bullet was found to have
passed through the heart, Deputy
Coroner Herbert Hughes said. The
bullet entered the chest on the
left side, ranged downward through
the heart and left the body below
the ribs. Prior to the discovery that
Kildow had been shot through the
heart, a spent bullet was found
embedded in the seat cushion upon
which the body rested. The course
of the bullet through the body is
believed to be in line with the
bullet in the cushion. The bullet
was sent to the state bureau OF
criminal investigation for ballisticS
experts to determine if it came
from the ..38 calibre pistol lying
under the dead mans hand.
Capsules found on the running
board of the car and scattered 6
few feet from the machine were
found to contain no poison, labor
atory analysis revealed. They con.
tanned a compound for nasal all
mentS.
Fingerprints were absent from
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18
BRAWLEY
H A N c A R
B j R N { D
Arson Suspected in
Destruction of
Building
. BY ROY MOSER -

BRAWLEY, April 18. =
Leaving t h e charred and
twisted skeletons of seven
airships in its disastrous
wake. fire demolished the Brawley
airport and all contents
at about 7 o'clock Sunday night.
Valuation of the ships was not
less than $4,000 and the hangar
itself was valued at several thou
sands of dollars. Field attaches
said that as far as they knew only
one ship, that of Ira Rogers, was
insured. They doubted that the
others were.
Origin of the fire, which began
in the northwest corner of the
hangar was undetermined Sunday
night, field authorities said, but it
might have been purposely set A
man was seen around the hangar
late Friday night, who ran across
a ditch east of the hangar and
escaped into the darkness when
approached by the Watchman, they
said.
Destroyed in the blaze were three
dusting planes belonging to Mel
Carberry, valued at approximately
$40, 900, a Cessna four place cabin
ship of Ira Rogers, valued at
around $500, two place Rearwin
ship, property of Bud Randolph,
valued at around 1900, two place
Taylor cub, Jointly owned by Bill
Wilke and Paul Sherlin, valued at
about $1,000, and a Rose "Parakeet"
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18
U. S. CONQUEST
DANGER CITED
BY NAVY GROUP
House Committee States
Nation i'm Danger;
Needs Ships

WASHINGTON, April 18.
(UP)-The senate naval al
fairs committee today re-
porte d Presidents Roose-
velt's $1,560,000,000 n a va J.
expansion program to the floor and
urged its prompt passage with the
warning that the United States
with her present armaments can
be defeated and conquered without
a military conquest.
The report said that it was the
committees opinion that the navy
should be employed to guard the
national interest in order to assure
the security necessary for the de
velopment of national welfare
THE term national defense on
ly," it said should connote the
national security which means de
fense of homeland and outlying
territory from invasion and aircraft
attack; protection of citizens on
legitimate business abroad; protec-
ton of commerce and merchant
marine to maintain the American
standard of living; guarding ap-
proved national policies against
foreign encroachment or abuse, and
maintenance, without offense to
other nations, of our prestige and
international stature"
Although recognizing the impor-
tance, of aircraft in the national
defense scheme, the report stated
that planes cannot deny an enemy
control OF the sea- without assis-
tance of a mobile, powerful fleet,
but added that a sufficiently pow
erlul fleet could do it without air
craft assistance
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18
Jewelry Stolen
From MeXicali

MEXICALI, April 10. - Jewelry
and silverware valued at 1000 pesos
are sought by police as the loot
taken from the Adalberto Merenio
Jewelry store here late Saturday
niqht.
Two men believed to have part
of the missing articles, checked
out of a Calexico hotel before the
arrival of CaleXico police. The de-
scriptions were broadcast via po-
lice radio and officers on both sides
of the border asked to search for
them.
Loot consisted of watches, purses.
rings. and silVerWare.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18
DAYS OF PIONEER ERA
TO BE- RELIVED IN PRINT

"Cabarker Caaaabarrrrrkerrrr!'
Bearded frontersmen gathered up their gear and
descended from the train 1t just after the turn OF
the century, and the train had stopped beside box car
= box car that represented the first FL Centro
From that point onward Ell Centre history will be
lived again next Sunday in the PostPress Anniversary
issue which will commemorate the 30 years Of growth
since Ell Centre Incorporated in 1908.
How the pioneers looked, what they did, what clothes
tbpv wore who they were, will all be brought out IN
both pictures-stacks of themand stories-scores OF
them-al in black and white The monster issue con-
tanning local photographs than any other issue ever
nmblished in Imperial Valley will take up the threads
of El Centre where they started in box car and 1o-
low through the years to today.
The issue will be history, i'll black ana Whle
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18
Power Companies
Renew IVA Fight

WASHINGTON. April 18. CUP)
Eighteen power companies today
icined in asking the supreme court
to review the constitutiOnality of
the Tennessee Valley Authority act
and legality of IVA operations.
The companies, all private utili-
ties operating in the iva area
asked the high court to review the
decision of a three Judge federal
district court approving constitu-
tionality CT the act and of fmc-
tions now being carried on by IVA,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18
Boys Lose Both
Money and Faith

Two youths lacked both SO and
a faith in human nature Monday.
after reporting TO Ell Centre police
that an unidentified Mexican had
bilked them in a clothes" sale.
J. N. Hernandes and f. Madriei
told Officers they made a deal with
the Mexican to buy So worth OF
clothes. The Mexican entered a
building at Fifth and Main streets.
telling the youths to wait and he
would return with the clothes They
waited in vain.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18
Former Methodist
Pastor Here Dies

The Rev. M. w E. Malan, pastor
OF the First Methodist church in
Ell Centro for four years, died sud-
denly in Pasadena Sunday, friends
and relatives in Imperial Valley
were informed Monday.
He was pastor of the Hartzell
Memorial church in Pasadanea at
the time of death. He and his
family left Ell Centre in 1884.
His is survived by his wife, three
daughters, Mrs. Franklin Garrett
of Calipatria, Miss Jean Malan.
and Miss Phyllis Malan. both of
Pasadena; one son, Edward: and
a brother, Charles Malan. also of
BraWley.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18
POPE RLESSES
SPAIN REBELS

VATICAN CITY. April 49, UP)-
The pope telegraphed to Gen. Fran
cisco Franco today in reply to his
message of thanks for yesterdays
lamentations. comforting the Apos-
tolic blessing on Frances cause in
Spain.
I'VE rejoice to feel in your vibrant
message from Catholic Spain the
hereditary faith" the pope said
and from the bottom of our hearts
we send the divine favors of the
Apostolic blessing"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18
Missing Postal
Clerk is Sought

Imperial county peace officers are
searching for Victor Cline, 46. pos
tai clerk in FL Centro, missing
since April 16
Relatives asked Sheriff Robert
w. Ware to assist in the search.
Cline left the home of his sister,
Mrs. C. H. Heffilin, Iona Portal,
at 2 pm. April l6 en- route to get
fishing equipment before return
ing to Imperial Valley. He has not
been seen since The bait was at
docks as yet unidentified, Ware
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18
Go Strikers SIashed
From SRA Relief List

all but l8 were found to be ineligible
for state aid, Pomeroy said. He
said approximately 80 more by the
fact that they refused to come in
were held ineligible
Il will not operate the camp on
other than a relief basis ara l
do not intend to use state funds
for people not in need" he explain
ed. Il am all through being con-
siderate OF impossible and unreason-
able demands. The emergency pre-
sented by the demonstration on the
Capitol grounds last Monday is over
and l see no reason why these peo-
pie should impose On the state to
sustain a union demonstration.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18
MILLION CHINESE
MASS FOR ATTACK

japanese were surrounded near
Yihsien. in lower Shantung, in i'm
minent danger of humiliation. Re-
ports from Chinese. Japanese and
foreign military sources indicated
that the fighting there was the
most violent of the months
old war.
Reports from the battlefront
we're delayed, but Chinese dispatch
es indicated that the Chinese Sun
day morning were slowly closing in
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18
800 Picket Ford CO,
Plant at Long Beach

Beach officers were on duty on
the east side of the plant while
Los Angeles officers. patroled the
west side.
Personnel officials within the
plant claimed that more than $50
men of the 700 normally employed
had appeared for work today.
The strikers charged the Ford
plant with refusal to bargain col
lectively with the majority of its
employees and violation of a YER
bal agreement regarding seniority
and Speed-up tactics.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18
SPENDING PLANS
TO BE APPROVED
PREDICT LEADERS

WASHINGTON, April 18 CUP)-
Congressional leaders indicated af-
ter a conference with President
Roosevelt today that they expected
congress to approve the admins
tration's $4,512000000 lending and
spending program without any
considerable delay.
Another phase of the program in
the campaign against depression
the revised tax bill, was dead
locked between house conferees
The house group again refused to
submit the controversy over the
undiStributed profits and capital
gains levy to the house for a show
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18

There is considerable speculation
on the role to which Mr.. Garner
will assign himself in the turbulent
summer session of congress which
nows seems more likely than the
early adjournment plan about which
congressional leaders are talking
The White House insisted that
there had been no break between
President Roosevelt and Vice Presi-
dent Garner.
Lots of people are trying to make
a break" Secretary Stephen T
Early said in response to a direct
question on the subject, but the
president has denied it and I stand
with him
Reports of a tiff between Mr..
Roosevelt and the vice president
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18

down vote.
Mr.. Roosevelts legislative spokes-
man said after the conference
about the anti-depression program
that the discussion today was in
general terms and that no deci-
sionS had been reached. Those
who went to the White House were
Vice President John N. Garner,
House Speaker William B. Bank
head and House Majority Leader
Sam Rayburn. Rayburn said that
he saw no sign that congress
tween May 20 and June despite
would not be able to adjourn be-
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18
Film Executive
Charges Swindle

SAN DIEGO, April 49, (UP) -
Charging false representations were
made regarding a l250-acre ranch
he purchased near BonsaH, Douglas
Shearer. Hollywood film executive,
today filed suit for S87, ,48843 dam
ages against Charles L. Cooper.
prominent race horse owner and
rancher
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-18

SACRAMENTO, April 10. CUP)-
State Relief Administrator Harold
Pomeroy today issued eviction orders
to approximately one-third the
membership of an emergency relief
camp set up on state property to
care for refugees from the Grass
Valley-Nevada City mining area.
Those ordered to quit the camp
by s pm. tonight were single per-
sons AMI families found to possess
sufficient funds to provide for them
selves. or those who ignored a re-
quest to appear at SRA hcadquar-
ters Saturday TO be investigated as
to their eligibility.
OF those who appeared Saturday,