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Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07

dent Evan T. HeWeS of the district
said Friday.
The power company offered We'd
nesday night to provide $500 worth
of installation on IA new street
lights and 26 new alley lights if
the city would sign a three-year
contract.
HeWes described the offer as an
outright attempt to discredit and
cripple the public power program
about to be put into operation
throughout Imperial Valley.
"It makes no difference whether
they spend $4,000 in newspaper ad-
vertising to defeat the program, or
use that same $4,000 to buy their
way into a market in which the
people would be buying power COM
pany energy in preference to their
own power" Hewes said.
"The crux of the thing is this: =
HeWes said, "the federal govern
ment at Washington listed the ice
company load as non-competitive
when they were considering the
matter of economic returns from
public power in the district. 1t was
credited to the power company. In
turn, we listed the municipal bust
ness in the valley as non-compet-
tive, assured to the district.
Evidently their attempt to gel
municipal business is an attempt to
discredit us in Washington"
"Will the district be able to make
the same terms to the city, Hewes
was asked
Naturally not" he replied. "We
cannot afford to buy our way into
market"
Hewes pointed out that the peo-
pie of Ell Centro, in company with
the rest of the district, last week
voted "a to / in favor of the public
power program.
"In view of this vote" he said
Il do not know how they can ex-
pect the people to bind themselves
under a contract to take energy
from the power company for three
years, or any other long term, when
public power will be available this
year."
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Russell Bailey Out
As Employment
Office Manager
Imperial County Chief
Of State Agency to
Leave Position

Russell Bailey's position as
director of the State Employ
ment service in Imperial
county will end Oct. 21, he
was informed Friday in a
letter from Executive Director Carl
l.. Hyde.
He was placed on the "lay Off
list, Hyde said, because the service
lacks funds to pay salaries of a
large number of managers and
field workers in the state. Bailey
was sent from San Diego last De-
cember and placed in charge of the
service IN this area.
Harry Carlson, vino has been con-
nected with the employment SER
vice for several years, was made
acting manager and instructed to
take over Bailey's duties. Mr.. and
Mrs. Bailey will continue their
residence in Ell Centro, Bailey said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
20.30 Club Gives
Schoolgirl Signs
In Safety Drive

Ten schoolgirl traffic signs were
formally presented to the city of
El Centre Thursday night at
meeting of the 20-30 club. Coun-
Gilman Harry Sones received them
on behalf of the city. The signs
have been up for more than a week
at various schools.
Next week all the signs will be
assembled at Sixth and Main
streets for public display
Gift of the signs to the city is
part of 20-30 club program all
over southern California whereby
other clubs have made similar gifts.
Proceeds from the 20-30 Charity
Ball, Friday night, Oct. IA, will go
toward paying for the signs.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Drinking Bout
Lands ; in Jail

AS an aftermath of a drinking
bout, one itinerant Friday started
serving a siX-day Jail sentence ant
two others who pleaded not guilty
will face trial Thursday in Ell Gen.
tro police court.
w. j. Wallace, 26. was sentenced
by Police Judge Lee Nuffer and
s. K. Mcpherson. Al, and Harvey
Hearst. so, will receive a hearing
next week. They were arrested at
Fourth street hotel after one of
the trio was playfully tossed out
side on his head. He was not hurt
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
BrawIey Woman
Protests Contract

Attacking validity of a contract
for paving certain Brawley streets,
Mrs. Anna M. Clark Friday filed
suit against the city, the city en-
gineer, the contractors, and others.
She alleged the absence of open,
competitive bidding resulted in the
contract going to B. G. Carroll and
Harry L.. Foster. She declared as
sessments against her property and
other real estate in the district
should not be considered liens
against the property because the
contract did not follow open compe
titive bidding.
In addition she attacked a patent
license agreement concerned with
the type of paving used.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Citizens
In Italy
Face Ban
Amer. Ambassador
Joins Fight to Aid
Hebrews Abroad

ROME, Oct. 7. (UP) =
Italy's 43,000,000 people were
resented today with a
sweeping racial program af-
fect;ng not only Jews but
Italian gentiles.
1t was said in usually trustworthy
quarters that American diplomatic
pressure save a3olt 200 American
Jews from expulsion under gov
ernment anti-Jewish DEGREES.
Foreign Jews who arrived in
Italy since 1919 have been ordered
to leave Italy by March II, 1889
American Ambassador William
Phillips, before he sailed for New
York recently, saw Count Galeazzo
Ciano, foreign minister, twice re-
garding Jews. He asked whether
the expulsion decree would affect
American Jews employed in or dir
Getting foreign business enterprises
in Italy.
1t was understood that Phillips
let Ciano know that, as the status
of citizens of the United States and
Italy living in each others country
are regulated by reciprocal treaties,
any discrimination against Ameri-
can citizens by Italy might jeopar-
die the status of Italians tempor-
arily resident in the United Statess
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Negro Relief
Chise|er Gets
20 Days

A Negro relief chiseler was given
the maximum Jail sentence in Ell
Centre justice court Friday and a
white man was arraigned on a
charge of committing two similar
offenses.
Herschel Younger, Negro, was
sent to Jail for 80 days for inducing
woman and her daughter to pass
as his wife and child so he could
get three SRA checks.
Thurman Hall, now serving a
county Jail sentence for being
drunk, was arraigned in justice
court on two charges of obtaining
relief while employed as an agri-
cultural worker by Felix P. Leh-
man. Bail for him was set at $3.50.
A. R. Boss, SRA paymaster, was
the complaining witness in both
cases.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Oct. 7. (UP)
- President Roosevelt said today
that he is concerned over the activ-
tiles of foreign spies in America
and is studying means OF COM
batting them.
The chief executive told news
papermen that he talked over the
spy situation this week with Lamar
Hardy, United States district at
torney for New York.
Hardy, who conferred with the
president here, is prosecuting a
German spy case that soon will go
to trial in New York City. He re-
Gently returned from Europe, where
he went to obtain information in
connection with the case.
Mr.. Roosevelt said that foreign
agents activities presented ma
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7. (UP)-
Three persons were dead today after
an autumn rain storm swept over
northern California, damaging crops
and creating traffic hazards.
The storm was accompanied by
electrical disturbances which claim
ed two lives and were particularly
frequent in the Santa Clara Valley.
Near San Jose two Mexican girls
were stunned when lightning struck
in a prune orchard. At Modesto,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Schedule of Ickes
Two-Day Visit to
Valley Announced
Interior Secretary Due
Here Oct. II to Turn
On Public Power

Approval OF the program
fwo-days' visit to imperial
Valley by Harold L. Ickes,
secretary of the interior, was
received from Washington
Friday at Irrigation district head
quarters. The secretary will be the
guest of honor when the valley
celebrates Inauguration of power
service on REA and PWA electri-
fication projects the night of Oct.
II and will dedicate Imperial Dam
on the morning of Oct. 18.
Schedule of the secretary's visit
follows:
Monday, Oct. 18th
$3.50 a.m.-Escorts call for the
Secretary and his party at Mission
Inn, Riverside.
1920 am. = Arrive Metropolitan
aqueduct location for inspection OF
San Jacinto tunnel.
IL noon-Leave aqueduct for drive
through Coachella Valley and visit
to date gardens.
6 pm.-Arrive Barbara Worth
hotel, Ell Centro. .s...-. ..........,-s. ..-
8-9:15 pm.-CeremonieS in BraW-
ley. inaugurating power service on
REA and PWA power projects; pre-
ceded by barbecue in Brawley start
ing at 5 pm. and followed by street
dance.
Tuesday, Oct. 18
$3.50 am.-Secretary and party
leave Barbara Worth hotel, El Gen.
tro for Imperial Dam.
II a.m.-Dedication of Imperial
Dam on the Colorado river Is miles
northeast of Yuma, as first water
is turned into All-American canal.
2:3O p.m.-Secretary Ickes leaves
for San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Labor Shortage
Worries Germany

BERLIN, Oct. 7. (UP)-Robert
Ley, labor minister, is planning to
issue call to German citizens
throughout the world who are skilf-
ed laborers to return to the father
land, where there is an acute shor-
tage of skilled labor, it was learned
today.
Many of the workers left Ger
many when economic conditions
were bad and found jobs abroad.
Ley's appeal will point out that
there is need for $4,000 skilled work
ers in the Fallesleben popular
priced automobile industry alone.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Northern Calf. Storm Takes Three
Lives, Causes Big Crop Damage

Walter Varain, 90, was electrocuted
when ne attempted to repair q
fence which had been mildly
charged" with electricity to pre-
vent cattle breaking through it.
Other storm victims were Alex
ander Pavo, 38, San Leandro dairy
man, killed when he stepped on a
high tension wire blown down by
the storm; and Sven Rasmussen,
10, retired Eureka seaman, who died
of fall while attempting to clean
a roof gutter clogged by rain.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Mystery CIoaks
Telephone Cries

Police found home in wild dis
order but no one to arrest early
Friday morning when they an
swered a frantic phone call for help
in Ell Centro.
A woman's voice shrieked for Of
ficers over the phone and then
stopped abruptly when the receiv-
er apparently was torn from her
hand. Police traced the call to
Hamilton avenue and Officer Jack
Tackett, w. l.. Tackett and T. M.
Sharp investigated. The home was
torn up as though after a fight,
but deserted and neighbors could
give no clue to the mystery.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Boy Hurt as Bike
Strikes Auto Here

Harold David Stevenson, Is, who
according to police failed to make
a boulevard stop, was injured
Thursday evening in Ell Centre
when his bicycle crashed into an
automobile driven by Mrs. Elvira
E. Mailman on Fourth street.
The carrier boy was taken to his
home, suffering from scratches and
bruises. Mrs. Mailman said the
boy apparently did not see her car
before too late to avoid collision.
There were no lights on the bicycle.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Workers
Cited
Green Calls Special
Session to Discuss
Plans for Action

CONVENTION H A L L,
Houston, Tex, Oct. Z. (UP)
President William Green
today called the American
Federation of Labor's power
full executive council into special
session tomorrow to consider sur
prise and bluntly-worded demand
that new peace talks be initiated
with the Committee for Industrial
Organization and that the dispute
be mediated by outside forces, II
necessary.
The proposal that the American
Federation of Labor mediate It's
three year struggle with the Com
mttee for Industrial Organization
with the aid of outside 'unpreJu-
diced" persons was made by Daniel
j. Tobin, head of the International
Teamsters union.
The lorid-grey- y-haired unionist
shouted a demand that the feder-
atoms 58th annual convention in
struct the executive council, OF
which he is a member, to keep
the door open to a truce with the
rival forces led by John l.. Lewis.
Tell the council in unmistakable
terms that it must meet with these
people (CIO) if called on" he
cried Tell them to reach an agree
ment on every point of the dispute
that is feasible and then, if needs
be, leave points in disagreement
to an unselfish person or persons. !"
Pounding the speakers stand, his
voice breaking, Tobin warned the
federation chieftains that their first
responsibility is to the millions of
the nations workers, organized and
unorganized.
Tobin's suggestion of outside med
iation of labor's civil war caught
President William Green and other
federation leaders by surprise. They
had just applauded savage attack
on the national labor relations board
by Joseph A. Padway, chief counsel.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Absentee Voters
Favor District Plan

Absentee voters balloted oper-
Whelmingly in favor of the Impe-
rial Irrigation district power bonds
at the election last week, a count
at district headquarters revealed
Friday. ....
Officials opened q absentee bal
lots and all of them contained a
vote of yes in favor of the ST.
cas- 900 loan and $855,OOO grant.
The grand total vote certified by
the district board was 7,940 with
1923 in favor and 3l2 opposed
More than So per cent of the total
vote was ''yes."
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Aged Roumanian
Taken by Death

BUCHAREST, Roumania, Oct. 7.
CUP)-Ilie Macaneatca, whose age
was reputed to have been 122 years,
died in the village of Onceshti Giur-
giu today. He was said to have
taken part in the uprising against
the Turks in 1880.
He worked in the fields until he
was 1T years old, neighbors said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
AFOL Attorney Attacks
Labor Board Euvoritism

CONVENTION HALL, Houston,
Tex. Oct. 7. UP)-Joseph A. Pad
way, chief counsel of the American
Federation of Labor, today attack
ed the National labor relations
board and warned that it must re-
verse decisions guided by the rule
of favoritism" to the CIO or "con-
gress will do So" "t
He accused the board of "brazen-
ly perverting the spirit and intent
of the Wagner act under which it
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Foreign Spy Problem in U.S.. Vexes
Roosevelt; Special Agency May
Be Formed to Tackle Problem

tional problem without question
He added that the governments
objective was to separate two forms
of activities by foreign governments
within our borders-propaganda and
military and naval spying.
He observed that present federal
machinery for >ooting out the spy
evil was not compact enough and
indicated that the study pointed to
the creation of a special agency
to tackle the problem.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Cotton Picking
Ne arIy Normal

BAKERSFIELD, Oct. 7. UP)-
A marked trend toward normal pro-
duction was reported by Kern coun-
ty cotton growers and gin opera
tors today despite assertions OF
leaders of strike of cotton pick
ers that harvesting of the county's
$8,000,000 cotton crop was at
virtual standstill A survey OF grow
ers revealed the picking was at
85 per cent OF normal.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Upward Building
Trend Continues

Building permits for 1888 in Ell
Centre continued their upward
surge Friday with granting of six
applications, boosting the total to
$308,483 since Jan. /. The increase
totaled $l750.
Permits were granted r. Knapp
for $45 repairs at 457 Main street,
Rogers-Tison for 500 repairs at
760-68 Main street, Lee Pyle for
$40 repairs at 142 North Eighth
street, Otis Hinson for a $500 garage
addition at 720 Ell Centre street,
j. r. Salassi for $500 alterations
at 500 Brighton avenue, and to
Malcolm Huey for $3.50 repairs at
Fifth and State street.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07

the pair was guilty OF IAN unIaw-
full exercise of discretion and an
abuse of it,"
But the NLRB has not heard
the end of that decision ne said.
1T will have repercussions In and
out of court. Either the NLRB viii
reverse the principle OF that decl-
sion, or the courts OF congress viii
do so. We insist that that declsion
must not stand
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Scout Group Ne ct
In We stmorIand

Westmorland Boys Scout district
committee Thursday night made
plans for a training course on Oct.
"a, appointed cub master for
Westmorland's new cub pack and
set Nov IA as the date for the
first court of honor at a meeting
at the Westmorland school.
j. G. Ramsaur, chairman of the
group, presided at the meeting.
Others present were: William Raine,
Kenneth Mitchell, Frank Johnson,
Charles Dreasher, Everett Page and
Hugh Wilcox.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Public Debt Again
At ALL Hioh

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. (UP)-
The public debt reached new high
for the third successive day on
Oct. 5, the treasury revealed today.
That day. the debt stood at $3S,-
28,368 707. This was about one
million dollars in excess of the
previous high.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07

Tough Subject
The barber fastened doubtful
gaze on Romeo Smiths Uranium
and heard his customer say:
Trim it in back and keep the
clippers on the shelf when you get
round to the sides"
The barber made a professional
circuit of the hair, keeping his
eyes on the subject of operation.
what will I do with the drift
wood on top?' he asked.
Just brush that off," said Ro-
meo.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07

was created and said that the fed
GRAFTON will demand that the law
be amended in the coming congress
to prevent attempts by tire CIO to
"destroy our unions"
Padway directed his fire at Edwin
S. Smith and Donald Wakefield
Smith charging that in the boards
decision involving A. F. of l.. and
Clio. attempts to unionize the
Serrjck corporation, Muncie, Ind,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07

his high chair and had landed upon
his head against the shingle and
nail.
He was taken to a hospital. The
attending physician believed it was
safe to pull the nail straight out.
Jackie's mother agreed, and Jackie
sat through the ordeal without
shedding tear.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Infantry School
Organized d Here

Small arms and anti-aircraft
problems will be studied this win
ter by enrollees in a special infan-
try school scheduled to meet the
second Thursday night of each
month il the basement of the Ell
Centre post office building.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07

Ur uII IIIOII ytoVCI Uuy'
Jackie's mother, Mrs. William H.
Holt, returned TO the kitchen from
another room. There sat Jackie
with a shingle fastened against the
top of his head. 1t was held tightly
by a nail driven into his skull as
cleanly as with a hammer. Jackie
had tripped over backward from
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07

20 SklOOO.-
The world rose tinted Friday al
the county welfare office. Rose
tinted, not for the office force SC
much as a 7n-year- -old visitor in
to check up on his old age pension
600 morning." said the visitor
and it wasn't his false teeth that
garbled his speech, but tonic.
Goo morning, you shoor gotta
lotta goo lookin' chickens in here
Goo morning gals"
Accustomed to virtually any shock
from anything human that care
less nature dishes out, the staff's
collective mouth dropped open.
Il got religion last night. Yesshur.
was up all night prayin'. That's
why I'm so tired today" he said.
Fifteen minutes later he left, with
out a convert.
Professional Courtesy
Queried about his football team
at Brawley, Coach Bob Erskine said
over the phone:
THE boys weren't bad at all. l
was mighty pleased
A minute later, over the phone
to Coach Noval Walker of Holt
vile, Bob said:
"They were terrible. Never saw
anything SO fierce" H
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Baby Smashes Nail Into Skull, Sits
Quietly as Mother Removes II,
Continues Game on Kitchen Floor

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oct 7. (UP)-Jackie Holt who
13 months old and apparently doesn't approve of babies
crying, back at his favorte diversion of playing
the kitchen linoeum today, seemingly suffering no ill
effects from nail which penetrated his head the depth
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Biggest Shakeup in Quarter Century
ReaIigns Agricultural Department
To Meet Growing Farm Problems
Wallace Resorts to Direct Action to Place
New Deal Program on Active Basis in
Handling Marketing, Control Policies.

WASHINGTON Oct 7. (UP)--Secretary Wallace, in
the drastic shakeup of agriculture department per-
sonnel in quarter century, sent executives to key
positions today in reorganization to coordinate the
New Deals farm program. Resortng direct action
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
Nev-CuI Would Use CITY
To Discredit District
Program Declares HeWes
Power Company Offer to Council Called
Attempt to Buy Way Into Market
Originally Called Non-C competitive

An effort by the NevadaCaliforna Electric company
to tie the city of Ell Cenro up to hreeyear contract fol
street lighting is nothing than attempt to buy
foothold in power market the Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict described at Washington as non-compeve, Presi
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07
On Forgetting

\ On Forgetting
At one time or another RR has
forgotten such important things as
the World Series dates, where he
last hooked his watch, where he
parked his auto, when he was
born Intentionally, when he bor-
rowed five bucks double inten-
tionally), and on one terrific occa-
sion he forgot Gen. John j. PERISH
ing had been to town and ignored
him in the paper. But never, oh,
NEVER, has he forgotten that he
paid bill!
Such happened Friday when Mrs.
Tom Reams tried to pay the same
water bill twice.
RR's biggest difficulty is remem-
bering that he HASN'T paid it.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-07

Butter: Los Angeles, 29et but
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch,
grade A, Csc; manufacturing milk
sOc: route gathered cream 21e.
l.. A. Hay: u. S. No. 1, S13-lS.5o;
No. 2 leafy Sl2.5O-12; No. 2 Sio.50-ii.
Minneapolis flax. Dec, SLIT.
Evening star., 1938-05-01
PRESIDENT OF G. U.
RETURNS TOMORROW
The Very Rev. Arthur O'Leary to
Be Host to Knights of
Columbus.

The Very Rev. Arthur A. OIearv
8. j., president of Georgetown Univer.
sity, who has been mingline with
alumni in the West for several weeks
Will return to the Hilltop tomorrow
from trip that took him to the
Pacific Coast.
He will be host next Sunday to the
washington Assembly, Fourth Degree.
knights of Columbus, in honor of
Mothers Day. The Georgetown rector
VIII celebrate mass in st. Williams
chapel at 8 am. and then preach a
sermon. After mass the visiting
knights will be his breakfast guests
IN the college dining hall.
A huge New York audience last
night heard the Georgetown Glee Club
whose members combined with the
Glee Club of the College of New
Rochelle. N. Y, in a concert at the
Roosevelt Hotel Patrick Cardinal
Hays, archbishop of New York, headed
the list of honorary boxholders. The
New York alumni turned out in large
numbers for the event.
The annual examinations for the
6elIarmlne prize in international law
will be held May 7, the Rev. John E.
Grattan, S. j., dean of the college. has
announced. The date for the Gaston-
White debate, between members of the
sophomore and freshman groups, was
announced for May 9. The topic had
not been selected at this writing.
Evening star., 1938-05-01
WASHINGTON COLLEGE
HOLDS Benefit DANCE
1888 Year Book Fund Receives
Proceeds From Affair at
Kennedv-Warren

A large group of the faculty, stu
dent body and friends of Washington
College of Law last night attended a
dance at the Kennedy Warren, given
for the benefit of the 1898 year book
fund. The committee in charge of
arrangements was headed by I. Lee
Bunch.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Chapter of
Sigma Nu Phi announces the pledp-
ing OF the following to membership:
Theodore Bowen, Harley Cimpson.
Thomas w. Collins, William E. Coyle.
Thomas w. S. Davis, Eugene Dunno.
Lyle c. Howg, John w. Langford.
Wilfred E. Lawson, Arthur C. Meu-
shaw, jr.; Warren j. Moore, Bentley
Mulford, Rudolph L. Nelson, Louis A.
Pawlowski, ]. Murray Parker, Richard
H. Stringfellow, Fred Turpen and
Charles White.
Alpha Rho Chapter of Sigma Delta
Kappa announces that the following
candidates have accepted their bid to
membership: William Chisholm, Earl
Hillstrand, Elmer Myers, John
Whaley, Gerald G. O'Brien, Howard
E. Morris, Peter Dias and Milton
Smith.