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Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
Imperial suffered
blow to its pride

IN the matter OF supervisors I'M
Eerial suffered the severest blow
to its pride-a blow made none the
easier because K vas unavoidable.
F. S. Webster, who had been super
visor to San Diego from the I'm
perial Valley district, was to hold
over as supervisor on the new I'M
perial county beard. He lived in
Imperial lie favored FL Centre for
county scat &c was very unpopu-
lar in his nomc town
Tnc convention non mated as
ether supervisors $. MCHarg Of Cal
aX.c0. George r. Wade of BraWley,
Porter n Ferguson of HoiJville ana
r. H. Clark Of Ell Centre. They
couldn't very we'll help nominating
an El Centro man for supervisor,
since he was to represent the Ell
Centre district.
The only man on the ticket who
wasn't later elected was Hoffman,
who was defeated by Fred Fuller
for county assessor.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
Three wise men
of Imperial -.

On that fateful April "a there
was a meeting in Imperial. The
Imperial Daily Standard SAID IL
was called by the leading citizens
of Imperial The Imperial Valley
Press. from FL Centre, shouted that
II was called by three wise men
OF Imperial. and then forgot 70
mention the three wise men. 1t
did say that R D. McPherrin was
elected chairman ana Bert Chaplin
secretary.
The meeting was called for a pur-
pose everyone agreed upon. 1t was
TO start the machinery Of county
division. There the agreement end
ed. And there the struggle began.
Imperial. said the lusty youngest
city. was fearful TO wait for coun-
az division until summer was over
lest either Ell Centre would grow
so fast as to take away all chance
Imperial had of capturing the coun-
ty seat. or that Imperial, now dying,
would by that time be too dead TO
skin.
Fl Centre, beloved Imperial,
sought delay until fail so 500 alien
laborers could be imported IRON
los Angeles 10 vote for El Centre
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
Call a shovel by
some other name

Editor Denver Pellet Of the I'M
rerial Valley Pres probably didn't
mean to say what nc did Whcn,
commenting en- the arrest in words
nat favorable to the Imperial duo
declared.
whether Mc5sry Howe and Ul-
roy are guilty of criminal libel IS
yet to be determined by the courts,
but whether or no. these gentlemen
have no right to cast reflection on
50 large q body of men and it would
be better in the future should they
call a shovel by some other name. 3"
A later generation might grin
over Editor Pellets unfortunate
phrasing. but it was no joke to
Clarke H. Bradshaw. secretary Of
the executive committee favoring
Imperial fer county seat He took
down his gun. hung it to his saddle
horn. and went hunting Editor
Pellet
Editor Pellet took cover. however
and Sccreary Bradshaw returned
to Imperial, still fuming Wiley M
Weaver and Robert H Benton
other members of the Imperial
for County Seat" executive COM
mittee, fumcd along with him.
Along toward the middle Of June
BraWley got tired Of playing inno-
cent bystander. The Brawley Voters
League, F. a. Stahl, president, said
so in no uncertain terms in ads
printed in Brawley and Ell Centre
newspapers William T. Dunn was
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

The vote was l56 TO III in favor OF
proceeding Immediately.
Ell Centre pretended it h9dnt
lost the argument.
The action Of this meeting adds
the necessary dignity that was lack
ing 10 the Imperial meeting cH-
claimed the Imperial Valley Press
glibly
The die was cast and the qucs-
ticn was Put. II vas not, Shall
this become a separate county?
Ii was Shall Imperial or FL Cen
tro become county seat?' The busl-
ness Of county division was pretty
much routine. Petitions were placed
in the hands Of canvassers May p.
With more than the required num-
Der of signatures, the petitions were
filed with the San Diego supervisors
June 4. A hearing was set July D.
Three days later the San Diego
supervisors fixed August 6 as the
date for the election in the would
be county of Imperial. On that day
1862 persons voted, 1920 for division
and SO against. The vote was can
vassed and made official in San
Diego August II.
So much for county division. 1t
was the most peaceful phase Of an
episode that was best described in
the words Of Editor Edgar T., Howe
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
Hot at first but
hotter later on

1t was a hot Monday afternoon
when the delegates straggled into
the office of Water Company No.
at Imperial to choose candidates.
It was considerably hotter when
they left, but the heat was not all
a matter of thermometer readings.
Quantity. Editor Howe comment
nd in the Imperial Daily Standard
tlat among the 200 men in the
nall we're number Of ladies from
Imrerial and other sections of the
3alley"
The steam roller went to work.
:. H Day, Brawlcy, was named
hartman c. 3. Tout. Calexico.
VAS chosen secretary. Both were
FL Ccntro men. After that the re-
suit could be only one thing. The
Ell Centre ticket was nominated 100
per cent.
On that ticket were names since
enshrined in Imperial Valleys hall
OF fame. Franklin J. Cole, Holt
vile. was candidate for Judge. Mob
ley Meadows. CaleXico, got the
nomination for sheriff; D. S. Elder.
Brawley. county clerk; Thomas
J. Kellogg, Brawley, auditor; Paul
Roman. Holtville, treasurer; John
3. Baker. HOltWile. recorder; Thom-
as Harding, Silsbee, tax collector;
James B. Hoffman, CaleXico. as
SCISSOR; J. E. Carr, Heber, superin-
tendent of schools; E. E. Forester.
Silsbee, public administrator; T. ].
Mitchell, CaleXico, coroner; Z. II.
Gaines, CaleXicO, surveyor, and J.
NJ. EsheIman, CaleXico, district at
tGrney.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
Ripple, a shake,
division in air

Spring came on and summer ad
vanced. The flood receded. SO did
the conversation about it, and the
people turned to another subject.
The ripple became a tremor. and
tremor became a definite shake.
County division was in the air Even
then there was little hint of the
struggle TO come.
Imperial. proud queen-mother Of
Imperial Valley towns, looked down
a long nose at the upStart baby
city to her south, and smiled in
diligently. From across the noun
tafns, too. come tolerant smiles.
The patriarchs Of San Diego grim
ned outwardly- turned away
TO send loud horsc-lsughs up vol
luminous sleeves. # those desert
rats wanted to make a county OF
their wasteland let them.
john and Mary were in favor Ot
county division II really was rather
tiresome 10 travel a hundred-odd
miles TO San Diego for a marriage
license. Mother and Dad favored
the idea. too. II took a long time
TO 60 over the mountains just TO
file a deed.
From the beginning there was no
opposition in the county-to-be
against the division proposal. The
battle front laid elsewhere.
Like the rumble Of big guns
long way off. the break came April
"a. 1907. and what followed after
makes one Of the bittercst stories
in The history Of southern Califor-
mia cities. Only in recent years has
the memory lost its cutting edge.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
Putting an ear
to the keyhOle

There were several who had eX-
periencCs like that of r. p Moore,
then employed by the Holton Power
company. At the last minute Moore
had been named to the election
board to replace a regular official
who was unable to serve. Moore car
ried through his duties election
day and night according to Hoyle.
and thought nothing of it.
Then one day he noticed
strange, rather bedraggled appear
ig person who turned up every
where he went. That went on until
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
End under porch
of Hotel Imperial

lC2al machinery ground on, and
Imperial'S election contest went the
way CT Imperial's county scat hopes.
One day cditCr Howe of the Imper
ial Daily Standard printed 4 lead
story that said:
"One CT the funniest things that
has happened in months took place
yesterday under the porch of the
Hotel Imperial
There was a group of men there
and orc Of them said:
when l was in HoltYille ! was
shown a genuine bargain in land
One and all the men looked up
in a dazed sort of way, as though
they had heard words that were
familiar in their childhood days
but had long been forgotten.
Then they came to their senses.
readjusted themselves in their
chairs. and a smile spread over all
faces.
1T was the first time in a month
that any person had spoken a word
in Imperial Valley aside from the
regular political discussions"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

iildA AtIe u lie serious. really start
ed in the legislative halls at Sac
rsmento in February. 1907. Nobody
not even the legislators at Sacra-
mento. knew what they were start
ing. All they knew at Sacramento
was that they we're passing the
Broughton county division bill.
The bill provided in the best
legal language that a petition sign
ed by 30 per cent Of the electors
concerned could result in an elec-
tion to divide one part of a county
into another, separate county, pro-
vided the line of the new county
was not within five miles of the
parent county seat and provided
also that 65 per cent of the voters
favored the proposition at an cleo
tion.
Rather dull reading, that bill
was. Not a hint of the dynamite
1T contained for the eastern half
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
County Seat Fight Wrote Hectic Chapter

ing OF the u polling places. Jeal-
ously, adherents Of either side stood
by while election boards made their
canyasscs. Then the result.
But the fight was not over
Fraud was Impcrial's answer to
the figures That night Imperial
decided 10 contest the election.
] Ike battered but gallant ship
limrms cut Cf the storms vortex,
Imperial battled on. But now the
fight took q new direction. Private
detectives were hired from Los An
seles. 50 convinced was the In
Eerial group that all was not as it
should have been that The dctec-
tives were assigned to shadow elec-
ton board members and others who
might have had a hand in the elec-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

of the Imperial Daily Standard:
The issue made larger than
county seat. 1t is made a ques-
ton between peace and war, be-
tween decency and shameless and
senseless riot Of base passions -
Enthusiasm may nave sharpened
Editor Howe's adjectives, but he
wrote more truth than he knew
when he opened the question be-
tween peace and war 1t did not
long remain a question. The an
swer was war! War to the hilt.
A moratorium was called on libel,
and SANDER was an every day street
corner happening. Nobody paid any
attention to the laws of libel until
one day S. J. Ulrey wrote something
about c. H. Day. an El Centro par
tisan. and Editor Howe published
it. Day became angry. He sWore
out warrant for the arrest OF
Ulrey and Howe on criminal libel
charges subsequently dropped.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

as county seat.
Brawley. CaleXico and Holtyllle
looked on in disdainful AMUSEMENT
1t wasn't their fight. That IS, they
thought i wasn't
Pioneer tempers are hot tenn
pers; and one man was gifted with
foresight. Months before any one
else more than dreamed of the
county seat struggle. he had pur-
chased or established newspapers
in Calexico. Holtville, Brawley and
Ell Centre. He was w. F. Holt, hero
or william of the epic battle-de-
pending on your viewpoint. Now
Holt brought his editorial pens to
bear and one by one Brawley, Cal
exico and HoltYille were drawn into
the maelstroni
Imperial, mother city, found her
brood with teeth barred in defiance
of parental commands. She stood
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
aDer screams
CAlaT0eS 10 VOtofS

As August G approached, any re
naming ,csG-c OF friendship, self
csHtrol CT caution was erased.
Voters" screamed the Imperial
Iailv Standard. How do you like
the fact that To-Day two carloads of
men viii leave the Natick House.
Les Angeles. and enc carload Will
leave Rejlands, all coming to I'M
rcrial Valley to vote for El Cen
tro Ter county seat"
1t is customary for the bully TO
always furnish an excuse for hav-
ing gotten licked rejoined the
stately Imperial Valley Press.
August 6 dawncd.
Scme places men wore guns that
day. and eyed one another warily.
Other places gnarled knuckles were
bruised. and beefsteak appeared on
many an eye. Otherwise there was
no trouble. That is, nobody got
killed.
Anxious moments followed clos
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
Oldest, Youngest
Cities Fought
For HOnOrs
= BY Z. A. FIIZnIGu

Clarke Bradshaws lookn' for you, Den. He's got d
gun
II pioneers true to pulp fiction form, Editor
Denver Il. Pellet of the Imperial Valley Press would
have swung his smoke wagon 10 his hips, paced up
the street and faced Clark Bradshaw in a battle to the
death. But Editor Pellet did moi to fiction
form He believed is far better live for ones prin
cples than to die for them he disappeared time
Bradshaw went home to Imperial his cartridge case
still full
The Bradshaw-Peet skirmish like others of the time
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

of San Diego county; not a whisper
of the bitter feuds, fist fights and
lifelong animosities it was to create.
Just legal words.
Just the tiniest ripple-It might
have been a foreboding passed
over the territory that was to be-
come Imperial county later that
same year People were still too
busy talking about the Colorado
river flood they had just conquered.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

place
Not to be caught mapping this
time, the Ell Centro contingent EMU
lated the early bird. CaleXico, Holt
vile. BraWley, SilSbee every nook
and Granny of Imperial Valley was
canVassed. The story is told in the
ticket put forward by the Ell Cen
tro group. Not one Ell Centro man
was on that ticket What El Cen
tro wanted was the county seat
not the county officers.
Then the early bird proceeded to
&c the worm.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

Tor IL CcnUo).
Holts newspaper. Hollis corpora
tions. Holt's town lots, Holt's banks.
Hclt vas pictured by his Imperial
eaemie5 as q Ncritable monste.
palt'u . swallow little towns with
cut even q dash of sauce
II Centre protested ho,ly that,
after all. Holt wasn't the issue Of
lhe cle.jau. imperial insisted he
WaS.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24
Charged Ell Centre
lots given away

Imperial said w. F.. Holt was
giving away FL Centro lots TO win
votes for his town.
Out Of the struggle Holt emerged
as the william Cf you were for I'm
ppriaD and the hero df you were
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

Moore, leaving the power company
office one day, opened the door sud-
denly. The private detective, for
such he was, tumbled into the room.
His car. was red where it had been
to the keyhole.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-24

"a ma WOrnl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
District Seal Sale Goal
Is Placed at 100000

The annual Christmas seal sale to
help carry on Washington's fight
against tuberculosis opened today,
with officials of the District Tuber-
culosis Association setting a goal Of
$50 1000 needed to carry forward its
work in 1899.
DR.. Luther H. Reichelderfer, vice
president of the association, pointed
out that Washington's annual tu-
berculosis mortality has declined
more than so per cent in the last 80
years. and that the organization
anticipates further reduction if
funds are provided to expand the
X-ray program begun this year in
the schools to include all persons
in the 15-to-25 age group.
ut is also proposed" he said, Ito
give much greater attention to
health service and educational work
among the Negro population of the
city, in which the tuberculosis NOR
tally Is still 5-to-1 as compared
with that of the white population
The association also hopes to ex-
pand its summer camp program for
children to three months instead of
two next year, DR.. Reichelderfer
stated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
6,400 Arlington Phones
To Get New Numbers

Approximately 6,4OO households
and businesses on the Walnut tele-
phone exchange in Arlington Coun-
ty, Va, will change to telephone
numbers on the Chestnut exchange
Sunday, December 4.
The new Chestnut dial telephone
service will be inaugurated at 1901
am. December f. For the last few
months telephones on the Walnut
exchange have contained a remov-
able paper tab in the center Of the
dial which may be torn away when
the new service becomes effective.
The reassigned Chestnut numbers
lie beneath these paper tabs.
The new directories are now being
printed and will be released about
the time the new system becomes
operative. Even though equipped
with dials, the Walnut telephones
are now operated as manual in
struments through an operators
switchboard. On December a dial
tone will be heard instead OF the
operators number, please"
The Chestnut exchange is situated
in the new telephone building at
1925 North Irving street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Prince Georges c. Of c.
Sets Booster Niqht

Booster Night" will be observed
by the Prince Georges CMd) Cham
Der of Commerce at the regular
monthly meeting to be held at the
Lord Calvert Inn, College Park, at
8 pm. Monday, it was announced
by c. D. Anderson, secretary.
Among the speakers will be r. M.
Watkins, who will discuss industrial
development of the county; DR..
r. c. Wiley, who will talk on edu-
cational advantages offered IN the
county; T. Howard Duckett, mem
Der of the Maryland-National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commission,
whose subject will be industrial
coming in Prince Georges County"
and L. E. Williams, first vice presi-
dent of the Washington Board OF
Trade, who will discuss Prince
Georges County's Place in the In
dustrial and Commercial Develop
ment of the Washington Metropoli-
tan Area"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24

t1ful playing OF great pOetlc con-
sistency.
It was the Beethoven Concerto
No. 3 in C Minor, op. 81" that Miss
Hess elected to perform on this pro-
gram. Superbly noble in the broad
manner of her presentation of the
first movement, she rose to such
expressive power in the Adagio as
to hold her listeners spellbound.
With the first note she had the
mood in her graspand with infinite
appreciation of the emotional sig
nificance before her, read it with
exquisite sensitiveness that caught
every iota of its deeply poetic mean
ing.
With the greatest delicacy of
touch at her command, she brought
to bear all the warmth of her feel
ing and her fine musical under
standing to the exposition OF one OF
the most beautifully lyric of Bee
thoven's writings. 1t became poem,
not needing words but its meaning
clear by the grace of the rare COM
bination of gifts that is Miss Hess
special endowment. With equal
facility she took up the gay tempo
of the Rondo playing it with whimsi-
cal charm and delicacy Of execution.
The audience could not resist such
enchantment had it wished and it
was but natural that it begged to
hear more. But contenting herself
with smilingly acknowledging the
ovation which she insisted DR.. Kin
dler and the orchestra should share,
she gave no encoreS.
$3.50
The program was a Bach, Bee
thoven and Brahms one and for the
orchestra was reserved the first and
the last of these great men. Edgar
T. Pauls arrangement of the Bach
'Prelude and Fugue in c Minor"
opened the program and called
forth the full sorority of the or
chestra. The balance is unusually
we'll maintained in this arrangement
between the lighter and darker
voices of the orchestra and under
DR.. Kindler's direction 1t was full
toned and majestical in outline. A
definite contrast was established be-
tween the rich sound of the Prelude
and the softer intoned Fugue which
was kept at tempo to preserve the
clarity of the development and
which progressed to its climax with
skillfully proportioned increase in
power.
The Brahms symphony No. 2 in
D Major, op. 70" was the conclud-
ing number. This work reveals an
other Brahms, one neither tortured
by the tragic depths of his nature
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24

nor transported by the tender, lyri-
cal moods which inspired his love-
Hest songs. Yet there is a touch
of each present but held in the bonds
of more reasonable thinking How
ever, the greatness of his musical
invention could respond to every
state of mind and in this symphony
new and arresting facets of his
genius stand revealed. DR.. Kindler's
Interpretation OF it was a sympathe-
tic one and the orchestra seconded
him with its best efforts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Four Star Club Gives
Dinner and Dance

The Four Star Club, made up of
statesmen Of the District Motor Club
Of the American Automobile Asso-
citation, last night was host at a
dinner and dance for employees of
the local organization at the Ma
tional Press Club.
Among the honor guests was Rus
sell F. Singer, general manager of
the national organization, who
praised the Washington Office for
it's cooperation with District schools
in developing a traffic safety pro-
gram.
An increase in membership in the
local club to figure exceeding IT.
600 was reported by j. Webb Shively,
manager of the travel and service
division.
Other honor guests included
Washington I. Cleveland, manager
of the District club; Richard M.
Ham. director of safety; Charles M.
jenkins, night sales supervisor, and
Joseph F. Mudd, assistant sales
manager, who acted as POSTMASTER.
The event marked the second ami
versary of the Four Star Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24
Myra Hess Again Enchants
Audience at Symphony
Catches Poetry, in Beethoven's
Concerto No. 3 in c. Minor, OPP. 37,
But Grants No Encore
Nv ALICE EVERSMAN.

Last evenings concert by the National symphony
again soost that splendid artist
Heading pianist of the present day and
of opponents OF this msru-
nen she an calling dims
their reward beau
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24

Hippo Smoshes Car
A hippopotamus fighting another
hippo, quit the battle to smash a
mail car in Uganda.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-24

An expedition is studying hot
springs near Mechigme Bay, Siberia.
Evening star., 1938-12-15
Bids on Three District
|P.W. A. Projects Opened

Bids for construction Of three
District P. w. A. projects, filed yes
terday by contractors, were consid-
cred today by the District Commits
| sioners.
One was for the construction of
foundations to the cell blocks to the
additions to the District Jail, an
| other for additions to the sewage
disposal plant at the District Tuber-
culosis Sanatorium at Glenn Dale,
Evening star., 1938-12-15

Nd, and the third the nurses home
at Gallinger Hospital.
John w. Hunt Co. was the low
bidder on the project for excava-
tions, construction Of pilings and
footings at the Jail. The company
submitted bid OF $24,928. Charles
II. Tompkins Co. was second low
with a bid Of $25. .636.
Victor r. Beauchamp, Inc, of this
city was the low bidder for the
Gallinger Hospital project with q
Evening star., 1938-12-15

bid OF $80, 100. The Essex Construc-
ton Co., with a bid of 1882, was
the second low bidder.
Wagner Larsen Construction Co.
was the lowest bidder for the work
Evening star., 1938-12-15

at Glenn Dale. This company bid
$l7,800 for the work.
Evening star., 1938-12-15

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Evening star., 1938-11-04
Naval Acodemy's Goat Is Held
Violation of Anti Trust Laws

the mascot infringed the Sherman
Act and the Clayton Act and all the
amendments of both acts. 1T is
time for Uncle Sam to act" the
letter writer declared.
The Navy Athletic Association,
whose receipt of an official report
about the odd inquiry has been held
up by the slow processes of red
tape, informally combated the mo-
nopoly charge by a recitation Of
the history of its goats.
The current goat, a pure bred
Angora, priced throughout the
academy as the most spirited and
tempestuous in long line of
Annapolis goats, was presented to
the academy by the Texas Centen-
nial Fair at Dallas two years ago
and was raised by B. M. Halbert of
Sonora, Tex.
First One From West Point.
When he arrived at the Academy,
he found an elderly goat already
installed as mascot, bpt the gray
beard soon died. The pedigree Of
the present goat Is well known, but
his predecessor was picked out of
q stock yards in Baltimore Just after