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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17
$4,000 Damage
Suit Filed Here;
Alleges Injuries

Suit for $4,000 damages was
filed in the office of the clerk OF
the superior court this morning by
Joe Barnette against J. W. Bailey
The plaintiff alleges that he was
injured on the right ankle, BACK
neck and body in a collision pc
tween cars driven by the defend
ant and Cecil Hollingsworth at the
intersection of Fifth avenue west
and Buncombe street on March IA,
this year. Barnette was riding IN
the car with Hollingsworth at the
time.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17

GOES TO HICKORY
H. B. Kelley is in Hickory TO-
dav on a business trip.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17
WEATHER

Fair and somewhat cooler to,
d" ort;nucd fair Friday with
&c temperatures
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17
GOOD AFTERNOON

In a New York snoring con.
test we can hardly imagin. q
wife urging her husband on to
victory.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
Ten Lost When
Ferry Capsizes
In Shark Waters

SYDNEY, Australia, Feb. a. CUP)
Ten of us persons aboard a dou
ble-decked ferryboat that capsized
yesterday in hark-infested waters
while following the United States
cruiser Louisville remained missing
today.
Nine persons were known to have
drowned The bodies of four were
recovered from a cabin of the boat
by divers.
The tragedy occurred while the
ferryboat was following the Louis
vile which was departing after a
visit marking the l50th anniversary
of Australia. The Louisville hove
to when the ferryboat capSized. Two
of her boats were launched and $50
of her lifebelts were shot into the
water by automatic devices.
One officer, five seamen and Is
members of the ships band dived
into the shark -infested water and
attempted to break cabin windows
to release passengers.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
FARM BUREAU
OPPOSES CUT
I'm SOIL FUNDS
Directors Support Action
Against Slash in
Acreage Base

Farm Bureau directors of
Imperial county Monday
were on record as opposing
reduction in federal conser-
vation payments to valley
farmers.
At their monthly meeting Satur-
day afternoon in the courthouse in
Ell Centro the directors voted to
support proposed action of the
county agriculture conservation
committee protesting recent cuts in
base acreage standards.
The soil-depleting base cut, as
mapped by the state office in Ber-
kelley, will make difference OF
100000 to valley farmers in con-
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14

CQelT llOllle5.
The storm neared its end today,
however. Only occasional showers
along the northern coast of Cali
fornia were predicted by the U. S.
weather bureau, with clearing
weather tomorrow.
Seabound floodWaters met in
bound tides from San Francisco
bay along the Sacramento and San
Joaquin rivers, overfloWing across
broad stretches of rich agricultural
fields.
Shows clogged mountain roads,
isolating hundreds of village resi-
dents from the outside world. Only
a few Sierra Nevada towns had
telephone and telegraph contacts.
Automobile traffic was virtually inn
possible on mountain highways.
Slides blocked roads and rails
alike.
Yesterdays rain was unprece-
dented in its intensity. The follow
ing marks were recorded for the
"a hour period ended at 7 am. to-
day:
Eureka 1.34; Sacramento, 1,22;
San Francisco, 1.56; Redding, 1.26
Mt. Wilson l.72; Soda Springs 1.67;
Siskiyou 90; Rockland 1.41; Oro-
vile 90; Del Monte 80; Hetch
Hetchy 86; Colusa So; Merced 10;
Stockton 90; Sunnyvale "a; Or
land rs; and Salinas 81.
Where waters were receding and
skies clearing, there remained the
job of reclamation and reconstruc-
ton. Watsonville and Pajaro dug
out from five inches of mud,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
FUNERAL FOR
RAY EDGAR TO
Be HELD TUES.
Death Comes As A
Sudden Shock
To Valley

Funeral services for Ray
Edgar, 66, Imperial Valley
pioneer who d ie d at San
Clemente Saturday, will be
held at the Greenwood ceme-
terry chapel San Diego, at | o'clock
Tuesday aftersoon.
Edgar died of a sudden heart
attack while playing golf with his
daughter, Miss Roberta Edgar, at
the San Clementa golf course Sat
urday afternoon News of the death
Of enc CT the valleys foremost
pioneer residents came a. shock
10 his hundreds of friends. business
associates, and acquaintanceS thru
out The area he helped to reclaim
from desert
He arrived in Imperial Valley IN
1902 and three months later estab-
lishei at Imperial the original Edgar
Bros. Implement company, in small
adobe building in the heart OF the
tiny desert settlement. He started
the retail establishment for his
brothers, Arthur and Will Edgar.
Announcer DlOlIlGl, y. II. GdSdl, ttI
rived in the valley later and the
four were associated in business for
many years. Ray Edgar retained
his interest in the company in spite
of other activities and was a vice
president and director at the time
of his death.
Born i'm Iowa
Edgar was born in Mitchell coun-
| ty, Ia. in 1872 and went to South
Dakota with his parents in 1882
After a trip from South Dakota
to California in a covered wagon
train, the Edgars arrived at Perris
Valley in 1892. He arrived in I'M
perial in 1902 and thereafter played
a leading part in valley settlement
and development The company in
corporated in 1908 ana shortly after
that, he went to Calexico TO have
charge of the branch there. He
organized the Edgar Brothers Realty
company in Ell Centro and was ac-
tive in the concern until few years
ago when he was made southern
district representative on the state
board of equalization.
A short time ago at a gathering
of southern California officials, Ed
gar was presented with a medal in
appreciation of his 25-year affilia-
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
Valley Woman Recalls Mcintyre
As Gang|ing YOUTH Just a Pest

O. a gangng mischievous youth Galpols
o., when
in
years
The his after he
coumn they endured with distaste by youthful
CALI
pranks, mischief.
and after Henking
Of
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
Planes Landed at
Icy Airfield in
Rescue Efforts

MOSCOW, Feb. IA. CUP)-The
icebreaker Taimir landed two air
planes on an improvised ice-floe
airfield today, seeking to reach four
Russian scientists isolated on the
ice a few miles off the Greenland
coast.
The Taimir sought to blast its
way yard by yard through the ice
jam with dynamite. SO thick was
the ice that in many hours yester-
lay only $3.50 yards was made, and
then the Taimir's master decided
to try the planes.
Working throughout the night
under searchlights, whose rays were
visible to the scientists, the Tai
Mrs crew made ready for the take
off and this morning they were
out on the ice.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
Nev-CaI Against
Selling Property
pWA Heads Told
Company Won't Consider
Transfer to District,
Foreman Says

Public Works Administra-
ton officials in Washington
have been told that the New
da-California Electric COM
pany will not consider sale
OF its properties in Imperial coun-
ty to the Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict DR. Clark Foreman, chief of
the PWA power division, said Mon
day.
DR.. Foreman visited Imperial
Valley to inspect the All American
canal and district power project,
financed by PWA and REA. He
left Monday noon to inspect other
projects in the northwest.
A. B. West, president of the pri-
vate power company, told officials
during a recent visit to Washing
ton that his company will not con-
slider sale of its properties to the
district, DR.. Foreman said. At the
same time, the PWA power chief
offered to sit in on a conference
Continued on Page 2. Col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14


at this session. Congress earlier ap-
proved the $2,000,000,000 housing
program.
The final vote was 56 to 81.
Senate approval was given the
farm bill after Republicans bitterly
denounced it was a false promise
to the farmers Of the nation and a
forward step toward RECOMMENDATION
Sen. Hiram w. Johnson, R, Cal.
who told the senate that he had
voted for every farm bill presented
during the last 20 years, declared
his opposition to the administration
measure because it was the begin
ming of the end
Sen. William Gibbs McAdoo, D,
Calf, attacked the farm bill with
a protest that the cotton section
would cut off the livelihood of many
California farmers
McAdoo opened final debate with
reference to the influx of 250,000
persons from the dust bowl to Cali
fornia. Many of them came from
Texas and Oklahoma and began
raising cotton i'll the San Joaquin
Valley. he said.
Minority Leader Charles L. Nc
Nary, r., Ore, said that the bill
did not make good the admins
tration's promise of an every
normal granary and parity prices.
Condemning the concentration OF
power provided by the bill, Nc
Nary cried, this measure makes
the farmer |. vasSal of the secre-
tary of agriculture
Administration leaders defended
the measure as means of stabil-
izing prices through crop control.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14

state of mobilization in readiness
for an attack SO that no accident
and no tricks from external enc
mics can catch US unawares,' Stall
in said in letter to the Commu-
mist organ. Pravda.
He called for powerful increase
in the strength of our Red army,
the Red fleet and aviation" and
urged that the working classes of
the bourgeois countries be organ
led to help the working classes
OF Russia in the event of conflict
He declared the victory of social
ism is not yet final and said it
would not be until external con-
tradictionS are overcome.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
.ONLYWIFE,
DOGS with
HIM INEND
Most Popular of All
COlumnists Goes
Peacefully

NEW YORK, Feb. IA (UP)
Odd Mcintyre, the
small town reporter who be-
came t h e country's most
syndicated CO u m n S t by
making his readers feel that they
knew the doings of New York and
its celebrities almost as well as their
own neighbors, died today from
heart disease after brief illness.
Only Mrs Mcintyre and their two
dogs-the Boston Terrier named
Nimble and the Sealyham about
whom he often Wrote-Were in the
columnist's elaborate Park avenue
apartment when death came.
Shortly after midnight as he grew
weaker, he said to his wife turn
your face toward me SO I can see
you"
In a few moments he was dead
Mrs. Mcintyre said it was as if he
had gone peacefully to sleep.
Mcintyre, who would have been
54 on Friday, did not believe in
doctors and none attended him in
his final illness.
He became i'll on Saturday and
wrote in bed the last of the New
York Day by Day" columns that
were printed by 508 newspapers
with a combined circulation of l5.-
100000 copies. He had columns
written for about two weeks in
| advance.
Grew Weaker
On Sunday he became weaker al
though he apparently had no aware
ness that he was seriously i'll. A
Christian Science practitioner visit
ed him on Sunday.
To many native New Workers the
amazing popularity of McIntyre's
800 word daily stint outside of the
city was somewhat of a puzzle, but
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
MAN BURNED
IN EXPLOSION.
OF OIL STOVE

Serious burns suffered by Jack
Hampton when an oil stove eXplod-
ed in his home at 523 Vine avenue
Sunday. sent him to the hospital
after first aid treatment was ad-
ministered by the Ell .Centro fire
department.
Fire resulting from the explosion
']id only minor damage, the fire
department reported. Hampton s
hands were severely burned, a re-
port said
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
5-MONTH OLD
CHILD DIES

Robert Steelman, five month -old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Steelman
of CaleXico, died Saturday after
a brief illness.
Funeral services was held at the
Assembly of God church, Ell Gen.
tro, at o'clock Monday afternoon
with B. E. Lemons, FL Centre fu-
neral director i'm charge. The baby
was buried at Evergreen cemetery.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
butcher Answers
Where DO We Go
from Here Query

President Roosevelt has not
enough political strength to put
his program through congress
and congress has not enough
strength to put over any pro-
gram the President does not
want.
The result, is a stalemate.
These are the opinions of Rod
ney butcher, expressed in his
Washington column ON the edi-
tcrial page today. butchers col
umn, which attempts today to
answer +he question, "Where do
we go frcm here?" is regular
feature of the Post and Press.
The editor does not necessarily
agree with butchers opinions.
but believes them interesting.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14

for the trial of his sanity under
his dual plea of not guilty and
not guilty by reason of insanity
Both sides rested soon after the
case was called before the same
jury that heard the murder evi-
dence and convicted Wright.
The sanity issue was to be sub
mitted on argument, on the basis
of testimony recorded at the muir
der trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
Accused Officer
Faces Court on
Bombing Charge

LOS ANGELES. Feb. IA 1UP)-
Police Capt. Earle Kynette, who
confidently told a radio audience
last night he would be shorn Of
bomb charges today, was called into
court this morning to learn how
accurate his predictions may have
been.
Kynetta is head of the police spy
squads. He is charged with at
tempted murder in the bombing OF
Harry Raymond, vice inve ve5tigator
and former San Diego police chief.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14

Wright, 38, was convicted Satur-
day on a double charge of man.
slaughter for the admitted white
flame" Staying of his wife, Evelyn,
30, and John Bryant Kimmel, 80.
He said he was seized by white
flame of rage" when he assertedly
found his wife and Kimmel in an
abnormal embrace in the Wright
home last Nov. 8.
WRIGHT returned to court today
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
MatherOn Funeral
Set for Tuesday

Funeral services for Ernest Math-
eron, Sc, will be held at the Cath
olic church in Calexico at o'clock
Tuesday morning with B. E. Lem
ons in charge. He will be buried at
Evergreen cemetery.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
Here's BOB BURNS Who Says:
WELL I'LL TELL YOU -"

guess maybe it's because this is a country out
here but people to be kinda restless. They wanta
keep movin around all the time and don't stay with one
job very long like they do down home.
The other day applied to me for Job worhn
around the house and says "Wel want good steady
that'll stay with me-
He says well you can depend ON mel give you
recommendations of pa people that worked for last
year
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
One jump Too Many

One Jump Too Many
Mrs. Hazel Purdy, who is an en-
thusiastic and expert horsewoman,
met her match Sunday-and chose
very bad place to do it. She was
jogging along with a riding party
on the desert when her steed, as
steeds will, objected to something
or other. He went up in the air
and came down hard. Mrs. Purdy
stayed with him. He went up again
and still she stayed. Ten times
the horse jumped legged, try
ing to unseat her. The tenth buck
was the tragic one. Mrs. Purdy and
the saddle separated. Mrs. Purdy
and the horse came down at about
the same time, but not together
The horse landed on his feet. Mrs.
Purdy didn't. And-worst OF all
in a territory where brush was
Scant, she chose the only grease
wood bush in a hundred yards To
light in. Today Mrs. Purdy Is try
ing several kinds OF liniment.
o
And Another One
Speaking of spills, it will be some
time, too, before Joe Thompson
works up any enthusiasm about
trying out new racing cars. WIN
Ike Stafford, he went to Long
Beach Sunday to test new speed
ster. He was in the middle OF q
race when something happened
Maybe the track moved but more
likely it was the car. At any rate
Joe catapulted 40 feet through the
air and landed like an ACROBAT OIL
a swinging trapeze. AS he got u
his feet, rumor reports, he wa!
heard to mutter something aoou
not expecting a course in aviation
Record Breakers
Here's one record nobody VII
ever break, and few will ever equal
J Bud Bridegroom Bump, customs
officer. and H. F.. Voight, immigra
ton patrolman, startled even them
selves at the Imperial-Yuma Plsto
club matches here Sunday by shoot
ing perfect scorszes3O0 each ou
OF a possible 300 each. And eacf
OF them spent the rest OF the da.
casting glowering looks at tn
other for stealing half the glory.
o.
Not FAREWELL
Mrs. Ruth Marable Johnston
who will leave Thursday on
transfer from the Imperial count.
highway patrol office to the Po
mona office, might think she's 60
ing to leave Imperial county 10
good but RR has a different ldea
She's been in the offile here 10
u years-and the place sort OF get
a hold on one in II years. Beside
that. a lot of friends will do thel
utmost to persuade her to return
at least for a visit now and then
O.
That's Patriotism
Bishop Charles Frances Budd,
was speaking at dinner honorlns
the 25th anniversary of st. Mary
parish. He was right in the middle
of discourse telling the thing
he had heart about Imperial count.
in the summer, when Secretary Bo
Hays of the Ell Centre chamber o
commerce got to his feet, turned
and walked out. Irony of the thin
developed a few minutes later whel
IL appeared that what Bob wen
out for was to get an honorar
membership in the chamber o
commerce for the bishop. And that
ladies and gentlemen, is what
known as turning the other cheek
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
Fights Break Out
I'm Lettuce Strike

SOMERTON, Ariz.-Peace officers
in surrounding areas were calico
here Monday to stop fighting at
the scene Of a strike at lettuce sheds
here.
Deputy sheriffs and city police oil
Yuma joined Somerton officers anG
other officers in an attempt to avert
trouble.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
First Lady Uses
Lipstick LIST Time

WASHINGTON. Feb Ia. (UP)-
Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt APP
peared today for the first time
with her lips touched with lipstick
of light red shade.
She explained that she decided
to use 1t on advice of her daughter,
Mrs. John Boettiger of Seattle,
Wash.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
BOURGEOIS WAR
INEVITABLE. SAYS
SOVIET DICTATOR

MOSCOW, Feb. IA (UP)-War with Bourgeois
tries is inevitable Josef San Russian Dictator declared
today reaffrming at the time the doctrine of world
revolution and calling for the cooperation of the working
classes of all nations. I'VE keep all the people
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
FLOOD WATERS
COVER $4,000
ACRES III STATE
Nineteen Day Storm Nears End After Score OF
Communities Isolated; Run off Waters
Bring Destruction

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. IA (UP)-Fifty thousand
acres of farm lands flooded today by deluge OF
runoff waters from 10 day storm that isolated score
of communities tied up railroad service, disrupted COM
uncaons and forced hundreds of persons to eVacuate
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
q. 9. Mcintyre DIES In r. Y.
Alienist Asserts
Wright Sane in
Staying of Wife

LOS ANGELES, Feb. IA. (UP)-Paul A. Wright, for
president of Union Air Terminal was sane when he
was examined in the county jail hospital, Dr. NJ E. Rowe
courappointed psychatrist testified today at the open
ing of Wrght's sanity trial in Judge gall Bulls court
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
SENATE SENDS FARM
BILL TO ROOSEVELT
Approval Climaxes Bitter Fight Against
New Deal Measure; Fought as False
Promise to Agriculture

WASHINGTON, Feb. a. (UP)-The senate today
pleted congressional action the administrations S440,-
100000 farm bill and the the White House
for President Roosevets signature.
The farm bill the second major New Deal measure
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14

Butter: Los Angeles. zoe: but
terfat. Imperial Valley. fob. ranch
3fc; route gathered cream zoe.
L. A. Hay: Z. 5. No. $500
1900; No. 2, leafy, S1I-14.50; No.
2 Si3. Mpls. Flax, May sos.
Nv Lettuce fob. ct. As. 90c-sl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-10
Mrs. John Keeley Is
 Honored At ShouUer

Mrs John Keeley, the former Margaret Chipman, was guest of honor at c surprise miscellaneous shower given Thursday evening at the scovili Girls club by Mrs. John Dillon, Mrs. William Chipman and Miss Mae Dillon. During the eve. ming entertainment was enjoyed and refreshments were served. The honored guest was the recipient of many beautiful gifts.
 Those present were: Mrs. Edward Conway, sr., Mrs. Michael Hyland. Mrs. George Byron, Mrs. oenevieve Kosmolski, Mrs. William Ward, Mrs. Edward Thibodeau, Mrs. Wil- liam Hopkins, Mrs. Alice Keeley. Mrs. Louise Jessup, Mrs. Poucher, Mrs. Homer l.. Heureux. Mrs. John Accetura, Mrs. Edward Conway, jry Mrs. James Darling, Mrs. Mae Cun- ningham, Mrs. Raymond Darling, Mrs. Mary Lewis, Mrs. Robert Caol- Her, Mrs. Edward Croke, Mrs. Vin- vent Kiernar, Mrs. Joseph Chipmafi, Mrs. Edward Biancardi, Mrs, Pat- rick Mcclure, Mrs. William r. Chip- man, Mrs John Dillon, Mrs. John Keeley, Misses Mae Dillon, Doris Mcouire, Lucy Moss, Alice Mra2, Irene Kane, Mary oreaney, Lena Aldorisio, Mae Conway, Ann Nc. Evoy, Terry Aldorisio, Irene ouel- iette, pegi Errico, Nancy Aldorisio, Kay Yarmala, Anne Sullivan, Eve- lyn Aldorosio, Jennette Bowling, Helen Murphy, Mary Crane and Muriol Warrington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-10
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MISS RUTH BARRY
Alun1nae Purifiers Plans
 ForSiLuerJubiLeeLuncheo

Elton. Miss Lucy Bowes, president, Is general chairman, and Is being assisted by Mrs. EdwnAi McDonald, honorary president of the organi2a- ton, Mrs. William J. Shea, Mrs. Jo- seph Cassin, Miss Kathryn Hayes, Mary Shanahan, Agnes Fitzpatrick, Nancy Delaney, Margaret and Cath erine Maloney.
 The occasion next Saturday marks twenty-five years Of existence of the local chapter which was organized as Q state chapter, In It's first years numbering about fifteen members. Eventually the chapter became R local one, and subsequently, other state chapters formed, Waterbury remaining the main and largest one. The first public gathering of the group was held at the Hotel Elton, with six local members present. The membership increased each year with local students at the college practically every year since 1918. On next Saturday 1t is expected that Alumnae will attend from Bridge port, New Haven, Hartford, Meri- den, Norfolk, Danbury, New Mile ford, New London, and other cities of the state, as well as former local members who have gone to live else- where outside of the state.
 Saturdays program will be fea- tured by an address and review of tho history Of the chapter by it's honorary president and one of the two founders, Mrs. Edward J. Me- Donald. Brief remarks will also be made by other state chairmen. It Is expected to have representatives from the faculty at the college pres- ent as well as G representa- ton from the national chapter of which Miss Katherine Mclaughlin of Newark, N. j., is president. under- graduates will also attend and lead in an impromptu 'sing" of songs Of the college. An Instrumental trio will furnish luncheon music.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-10
Nursing Entrant Is
 Honored At Party

A surprise party was held recently in honor of Miss Ruth Matzkin at the home of Miss Adele Lauria Of Woodlawn Terrace. Miss Matzkir will enter the Beth Israel Hospital Training School for Nurses in New York. She was presented with Q travelling bag.
 Those attending were: Misses sal- ly B. Frank, Sylvia Fielder, Coldie Shiler, Marion Korkin. Freda Gil- den. Sylvia swirsky, Adele Lauria Ruth Matzkin and Mrs. Nathan Lauria, Mrs. Samuel Cohen, Mrs Morton Prillig, and Mrs. Samuel Matzkin. Prizes for bridge were awarded to Miss Ruth Matzkin and Freda Gilden.