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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18

heads of the advancing men. When
the guards opened fire, the pickets
quickly scrambled back up the hill.
and disappeared.
The High Splint mine has been
operating since Tuesday 1t re-
ported a force of about 300 men at
work today. The attack occurred
shortly before the days working
force was due to report.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Labor Council
Backs LaFoIIeffe

The Imperial Valley Central
council this week adopted a reso-
luton requesting Senator James
Byrnes to do all in his power TO
get an appropriation of 100000 to
finance additional investigation by
the LaFollette Civil Liberties com
mittee in California.
ByrneS neads the committee on
audit and control of contingent ex-
penses before which the resolution
now is pending in Washington. The
council asked Byrnes to get the
resolution reported favorable to the
United States senate.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Investigation Of Lewis
Miners Union Demanded

WASHINGTON, May IS. CUP)-
Rep. Glare E. Hoffman, r., Mich,
today introduced a resolution CAL
ling for a house investigation OF
John L. Lewis and the United Mine
Workers union.
Hoffman called for appointment
of a five man committee to in
vestigate:
lon what pretense" Lewis and
the UMWA assume to declare that
no man shall work in the coal mines
until he has joined the UMWA."
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
HAM EGGERS PUT PRESSURE ON OLSON
Senate Approves
Big Navy Bill

WASHINGTON, May IL. tUP)
The senate today passed a rec
crd breaking s773,i2O,241 naval
appropriation bill to provide
funds for the naval expansion
program.
The bill retained the house
provision fOrbidding the navy to
buy any more Argentine canned
beef. President Roosevelt tried
to have the ban lifted.
Just before final passage, the
senate defeated by 4 voice vote
u proposal by Sen. William H.
King. d., Utah. to recOmmit the
bill and reduce its total 10 per
cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18

nam ana eggs OlliCldiS, Wcic
closeted with the governor nearly
a half hour before they slipped out
a side door, ostensibly to go after
a half million petitions asking the
governor to call a special election
on the pension proposal.
The governor later admitted
newpapermen long enough to say
he had been invited TO attend
mass meeting at the state fair
grounds tonight but had not de-
cided whether to go or not He said
he refused to receive the petitions
at the night meeting and demanded
the officials bring them to his Of
flee.
The petitions were returned in a
short time but Governor Olson was
eating his lunch and the presenta-
ton was delayed short time.
With neWsmen at first barred
from the office, Olson kept a pro-
cession of attaches, state officials
and secretaries running in and out
with statements and counter state
mentS that had everyone bewilder-
ed. Included in the huddleS were
State Finance Director Phil Glib
son, Public Works Director Frank
w. Clark, Prison Director John
Gee Clark, and less important Off
cialS.
There was no evidence of the
thousands of pension advocates
supposedly massing Sacramento.
owens and Allen explained many
of the pension advocates would not
arrive until this evening for a DEM
onStration.
Allen optimistically predicted the
pension marchers would total be-
tween $4,000 and 100000. A figure
closer to 5000 or 10000 was antici-
pated. Allen claimed 25,OOO persons
Continued on Page 6, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18

Inc meeting, called by mayor H.
W. Fawcett to get to the bottom
of the reports, was held at the city
hall late Wednesday afternoon and
brought these chief results:
Decision not to close the schools,
on complete agreement among phy-
sicians that children would be safer
under expert supervision.
Disclosure that there have been
only seven cases in the entire val
ley this year and there is only
one case at present.
At the same time, physicians re-
viewed the history of the disease
here and disclosed data on all
cases. DR.. Warren F. Fox, county
health officer, gave this summary:
Since the first of the year there
have been seven cases in Imperial
Valley. OF these, four were fatal.
There is absolutely no founda-
ton for wild rumorS that are going
about of the many paralysis cases.
Physicians Agreed
The three other physicians pres
ent, DR.. c. s. Brooks. DR.. F. A.
Burger and DR.. Philip Hodgkin,
concurred.
First case in 1899 was on Jan. 26
when Jerald Martin of 2l9 South
G. street, Imperial, six-year-old
reported on Jan. 90 He later died.
Second case was of Marcia Farrell,
7, of 300 South X street, Imperial,
Continued on Page 6; Col. O.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Farley to Receive
Wild West Welcome

SACRAMENTO, May Is. (UP)-
Postmaster General James A. Far
ley will be given a wild west" well
come when he arrives in Sacra-
mento tomorrow to confer with
Gov. Culbert Olson and address a
joint session of the legislature.
The No. l mail man will be
whisked from his train and carried
away in stage coach. The Sacra-
mento-Golden Empire Centennial
committee will present him with a
10-gallon hat, and mounted sher-
ifs posses will guard him on a
tour of Sacramento which will take
the famous Democrat to the old
pony express terminal and then TO
the governors office.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Unrest in Czech
Provinces Told

LONDON, May l8. CUP)-The
Warsaw correspondent of the Daily
Herald, labor party organ, quoted
frontier reports today as describ-
ing numerous evidences of unrest
in the Czech provinces of Bohemia
and Moravia.
One report, he said, was that q
we'll known Prague lawyer named
Sekanina and three former Czech
deputies had been arrested and
sent to a concentration camp in
Germany in connection with the
discovery of a plot against the life
of Adolf Hitler.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
LaGuardia Action Believed Death
Blow TO Nazi Bund ActivifyinN.Y

business of publishing pamphlets,
selling Nazi uniforms, and supply
ing other bund decorations and
paraphernalia.
1t was alleged that the individu-
ais and corporations had evaded
payment of the city emergency re-
lief sales tax to the extent of about
5000.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Fund Set Up to Pay G-Men Who Spy
On Foreign Spies After U. S. Plans

to the house for action. The meas
TIRE was the last Of the regular ap-
preparation bills for the 1910 fiscal
year.
A record of Hoover's testimony.
filed with the bill, showed that al
though spy cases averaged only 80
annually for the five years preced-
ing 1898, 634 such cases were in
vestigated last year and the chief
G-man anticipates 772 cases during
1899. Hoover said the army and
navy have asked G-men to estab-
lish counter-espionage offices in
Puerto Rico, Hawaii, the Panama
canal zone and the Philippines.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18

pletely informed tax expert but do
not represent program likely to
be snatched up soon either by the
New Deal or its opponents, There
is dynamite in it, especially in the
proposal to lower personal income
tax exemptions and to raise rates.
Some congressional veterans believe
however, one party or the other
will be driven to this tax program
if other budget balancing plans
fail.
This long view of the tax situa-
ton is considerably less bright than
immediate prospects. Congressional
conservatives appear now to have
the votes to force a business ap-
peasement tax program at this ses-
Continued on Page s.; Col, 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18

2.-What sums Lewis and his
union have expended to Influence
or compel workers to join the un-
ion" or submit to its demands.
3.-Whether Lewis intended to
prevent, by mass picketing or by
the use of force" Kentuckians or
anyone else from working.
4-Whether Lewis has received
any assurance from any govern
ment officials that if the UMWA
attempts by force to prevent any,
one from working that the "arm-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18

of additional revenue can be had If
deficits are not otherwise dealt
with.
This plan, by imposing higher
levies, would raise $3,l60,O00 600
more revenue as follows:
Liquor and tobacco taxes, $lyO00,-
100000.
Personal income tax, $4,000 600,
Corporation income tax, $780,
100000.
Manufacturers sales tax, $780,
100000.
Tariff on coffee and tea, $50
100000.
Other tariff increases $50 0,000,0 900,
Tax on state employees and Secur-
tiles, $100. 100000.
These figures are from COM
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18

ed forces of the United States Will
be used by the said Lewis" against
state troops If they seek to permit
those willing to work to 90 TO their
jobs.
The resolution would give the
committee subpoena powers and
direct 1t TO make recommendation
"as to how and in what manner
the rights guaranteed to the citi-
zens OF this country by the federal
constitution may be upheld and
maintained"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
HOPE ABANDONED
FOR SWEDISH Filler

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 18.
(UP)-Hope was abandoned today
for Charles Backman, 25, Swedish
flyer who took off from Botwood
airport, Newfoundland, Tuesday for
a solo airplane flight to Sweden.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Wonder What He Said

Wonder What He Said
At the stag party at the county
fair grounds the guests looked over
q cleaning motor boat offered as
a prize. Dorman Stewart said:
IF I win that thing I'll have
some tall explaining to do!''
He got it.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
p ANBLING
IMPORTER
Sudden Discovery

Sudden Discovery
For eight years he signed his
name at school as Bobby Temple
Then he suddenly changed his name
to Bobby Tempel and the change
attracted the attention of Ruth
Sprinkle, grammar school office
clerk, who investigated. She found
that Tempel was correct!
Apparently Bobby just caught
on
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Thousands Pledge Selves to Fight New
Order in Holy Land; New Zionists
Call for Armed Revolt Thru World

JERUSALEM, May 18. (UP)-Tens of thousands of
Jews dramatically pledged themselves to fight on for
homeland Palestine in defiance of Great Britan's plans
for creation of independent Arab-domnated state
general strike serious riotng, fasting, ncendiarisn
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Embryo Budget Balancing Tax Plan
Given Preview in Private Paneys
As Federal Deficit Continues Up

WASHINGTON May 18. (UP)-A balance-the-budget
program tapping rich and poor and aimed especially
at LIQUOR and tobacco is circulating privately here today
in pre-vew of what ultimately may hit American tax
PAYERS 1t is an authoritative outline of where large sums
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Doctors Criticize Wild Rumors of
InfantiIe Paralysis. Disclose Only
One Active Case in Valley Now
Civic Leaders at Meeting Here Decide City
Schools Best Kept Open So Children Can
Receive Competent Medical Attention
Editorial Comment on Page Ten

Wild of of infantle paralysis cases IN
Ell Centre punctured Thursday after meeting of
physicians city councimen and school board members
at which doctors disclosed there only active
within the city, in that the child recovering
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Slight ExaggeratiOn--

Slight ExaggeratiOn--
This outlandish infantile paraly-
sis scare that we hope is about
over is not without a certain hu-
morous side. For example, (and
this case is only one of many
someone called Mrs. Vivian Bur-
nett and poured out sympathy re-
garding the serious illness of her
daughter, Kathleen.
my goodness" said Mrs. Bur-
nett. Kathleen has been keeping
something from me! She's really
quite well and in school,"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Pension SchemerS
March on Capital
To Demand Ballot
Olson Grants Audience to Petitioners
Asking Spe eciaI Election on Revised
Thirty-Thursday Scrip Payment Plan

SACRAMENTO May 18. (UP)-Gov. Culbert Olson
today conferred with two officials of the $3OEvery hurs
day pension plan but became involved in series OF
unexplained office that knew the out
Of the meeting Roy Owens and willis Allen the two
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Caricature---

Caricature--
Bob Procsal, Future Farmers
president, hit home Wednesday
night when he introduced Milton
>Zinn, honorary member, as:
1.-The man who gets up on a
Soap box and yells:
"Wa-wha -wha- -WAH! SOLD"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
Baseball Results
AMERICAN

AMERICAN
Chicago ............ 900 600 1903 IL
Boston ............ Oil 900 30X-5-l1-3
Whitehead, Rigney and fresh;
Auker, Heving and Desautels.
st. Louis ........... 900 100 000-1- 6-2
New York ........ 204 200 00x-8- 100
Mills, Harris, Marcum and Sulli-
van; Donald and Dickey.
Cleveland ... 900 600 l02 00-3-7-2
Philadelphia 900 OO2 OO1 Ol-4-6-0
Allen. Humphries, Pytlak, Dob
son, Hemsley; Caster, Dean and
Brucker, Hayes.
Detroit ............. 020 900 000-2-4-1
Washington ...... 900 0l0 002-3-5-0
McKain and York; Alexandra &
Giuliani.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
NATIONAL

Philadelphia ZOO $40 900 0-4 II 3
Pittsburgh ..,...220 900 900 is 8 3
Hollingsworth and Miles; Tobin
and Mueller.
Brooklyn 400 100 0l0-2 7
Chicago ..............00 900 004 00X-4 7 0
Mungo, Casey and Phelps; Lee
and Hartnett.
Boston .................020 900 000-2 6
Cincinnati 800 900 00x-3 7 0
MacFayden, Lanning and Lopez;
Vandermeer and lombard
New York .00l 0
st. Louis oil 2
Salvo, Brown and Danning; Da-
Wis and owen.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
What's the Use

What's The Use
1t must be terrific disappoint-
ment sometimes this being an Of
ficer of the law.
After attending police schools and
learning all abount handling dam
gerous criminals, an El Centre Of
ficer was sent out to answer q
ncomplaint and discovered one
eighbor objected to another neigh
pbor's pumpkin vine, which had
grown across across an intervening
fence.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18
This'll Learn Him

This'll Learn Him
From now ON Fred Ferguson
probably will call his saddle horses
something besides dogs When
19-month- Sherry, daughter OF
Mrs. Russell Smith, first viewed the
horses she gurgled:
"Oh! Bow vows"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-18

Butter: Los Angeles. 25e; but
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch.
grade A, 32c, manufacturing milk,
251ac; route gathered cream, 23c.
L. A. Hay: u. S. No. 1. Si4.50-l5;
No. 2 Ieafy, S14-14.50; No. 2 $3.50
13. Minneapolis flax May SI.69ls.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-21
PAO PEI is FEATURE
IN DOMKE CHINA PIX

Clifford Domke, Carleton College
student, who served two years as
a student teacher in China, is plan
ming for lectures based on reels of
moving pictures he took in China,
during his holiday vacation, 1t was
learned through his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Domke, this week.
He will be available after Friday
of this week to clubs or church
groups in this community for eth
er afternoon or evening showings.
Clifford, who served as a teacher
in the Ming I Middle School that
was moved from Fenchow south in
the face of Japanese advance, Is
well versed in what is known as
China's New Life movement. I'm
der the plan the Chinese have vir-
tually started over in their indus
trial system. Feature of his NOV
ing pictures is actions of Pao Pei
pronounced Bow Bay, the 75-
pound baby panda he brought from
China for the st. Louis Zoo. The
reels contain some 200 feet Of this
interesting subject snatched en-
route across the Pacific. Cliff re-
turned to the States early this fall,
returned to Carlton College. He
will arrive in the city Friday for
a two weeks holiday vacation. For
dates and information for appoint
ments for his lectures and pictures,
call the home of his parents here
in Sank Centre.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-21
Composite PhotOgraphy

There probably were earlier ex-
periments Of composite and trick
photography, but the most notable
examples appeared after the assas-
sination of President Lincoln. There
was great demand for his pictures,
but there was none showing him in
the heroic postures which the Amer
lean people wanted. Earlier states
men had been painted in such poses.
So photographers took pictures Of
the posed, draped figures of such
men as John c. Calhoun and Henry
Clay and superimposed the head Of
Lincoln. Currier & Ives had issued
a Autograph showing Lincoln's
deathbed scene with Vice President
Andrew Johnson present. After
ward, when Johnson became unpop-
ular and was impeached, the head
Of General Halleck was substituted
for Johnson's.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-21
Ancient Mound Gives Up
Bones and Queer Relics

UNIONTOWN, PA.-Excavations
Of the Pennsylvania Indian research
are revealing remnants of the civ
ilization of the prehistoric mound
builders on farm near New Salem,
Pa.
Archeologists of the research
group are slowly piecing together
data and relics from a camp site of
the mound builders, a people who
flourished before recorded history.
In the early stages Of excavation
on the old Langley farm, skeletons
have been uncovered, according to
Philip Ventura, president of the
Pennsylvania Indian research.
The bodies have been identified as
those Of mound builders by George
S. Fisher, Of Finleyville, archeolo-
gist for the research organization.
Also found in one mound located
in the former mound builder city
were rocks carved with peculiar in
scriptions, a stone carved in the
shape Of a turtle, and other relics.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-21
Balloon Test Flights
Aid Airplane Pilots

Meteorologists who watch vari-
colored balloons float into the sky
are responsible for the most ac-
curate method devised for guiding
airplane pilots through hazardous
winds, according to Ebert F. Cor
win, Rensselaer, Polytechnic lnsti-
tute meteorologist.
The new technique, with its mar
rowed margin Of error. is expected
to prevent fliers from encountering
violent up-winds and treacherous
down-drafts that sometimes suck
planes into mountainsides. Pilots
will know at which levels they may
fly to avoid the currents.
Corwin said that the new method
utilized geometrical principle. de-
termining distance through
angles. Weather observers at pres
ent base calculations on an assump-
ton that balloons always rise about
600 feet per minute.
Corwin and two student assist
ants, at the request of the United
States weather bureau, for months
sent colored balloons into the air
and observed their fight to heights
Of five miles and distances of from
10 to II miles.
1t was found that up and down"
winds accelerated, slowed, or even
reversed, the balloons normal rate
of climb. Thus, the Rensselaer,
findings showed, the pilot Of an air.
plane might encounter violent winds
by trying to avoid them, because
winds, reported at 10000 feet, might
really be at 5000 or $4,000 feet.
The new method utilizes small
balloon tied by 100-foot line to the
main sounding" balloon. A special
theodolite, similar to those used by
weather observers and surveyors to
study angles, would then measure
the angle between it and the two
balloons. Calculations then deter
mine to within relatively few feet
their height.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-21
Engineers Seek Ways to
Build Solid Foundations

Tests with the object of construct
ing buildings that will not settle are
being conducted under the auspices
Of the Engineering foundation.
Prof. Gregory P. Tschebotareff of
Princeton university, who is head
ing part Of the studies, said build
ings constructed on rock-such as
in New York-do not present prob
lem to engineers.
But not to all Cities" he said
'are equally fortunate to have in
many places rock within easy reach
from the ground surface"
He cited Shanghai. New Orleans
and Mexico City as examples wher :.
soft soil deposits handicap the en-
gineer.
Rock lies at such depths" he
said, that it cannot be reached by
any known foundation method. In
such cases, considerable settle
ments become unavoidable. in
Shanghai, one-foot settlement is con-
sidered quite normal for buildings
founded on piles driven into the riv-
er mud.
I'm Mexico City, which holds the
world championship for the most
difficult foundation and soil condi-
tions-soft mud 600 feet deep
heavy buildings resting on concrete
RATS floating on the surface Of that
mud have been known to sink about
nine feet into the ground"
Tschebotareff said there were sin
Vulnerable soils" which would settle
under pressure and said the "extent
and manner" Of yielding varied
greatly.
For instance, when a sand layer
supports a load and when no
trenches have been dug nearby
which would permit its lateral yield
ing" he said, ''the sand would only
be slightly compressed in itself.
This compression would occur in the
early stage of construction.
"A clay layer saturated with wa
ter would behave quite differently
under similar conditions. The wa
ter filling the voids Of the clay would
be expelled from them only grad
ually due to the fine-grained and
therefore impermeable nature Of
the type of soil.
"As a result the often consider
able compression of such clay
layer would proceed very slowly.
Structures erected on thick clay de-
posits have been known to settle Cor
many years, the rate Of subsistence
slowing down little by little"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-21
u. S. Information Service
Gets Many Odd Requests

He is taxpayer. So he writes
to the United States information
service about this: An English
friend is sending him some riding
boots. But he has heard that Eng
lish and American shoe sizes differ.
He takes 6h D in American. What
is it in English? .- .-.,.-s..
That's a sample Of the problems
that are dumped into the lap of the
Great White Father. They are an
swered.
The agriculture department got
these:
I'VE have a COW and her hide is
coming out around the neck"
How can I raise and market
tarantulas?"
"Send information on cockroach.
I will thank you very much. Please
rush."
And this one:
"Send booklet telling how little
ailments turn into big ones. How
can I tell such an ailment when I
wake up in the morning with coat
ed stomach. I may guess wrong"
Here's big business deal: rs
there any place in the government
I can get free money. That is mon
ey don't pay back. I need 81 zoo"
What would you do about snakes
in the cellar; would you besmirch
your patriotism if you hauled down
a dirty American flag and washed
it? It's all in the days work for
the Great White Father.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-21
Three-Mile Limit

The idea of three-mile limit of
jurisdiction off the coast was first
set down by Hugo Grotius. a bril-
liant Dutch lawyer. in 1908. in his
Mare Liberum," wherein he OBJ.
served that the sovereignty and
jurisdiction Of any state extended
as far over the marginal seas las
those who sail in that part of the
sea can be compelled from the shore
as If they were on land" A little
later Cornelius van Bynkershoek,
a Judge of the supreme court of APP.
peal Of Holland. in his DE Do
minion Maris Dissertatio." Caput II,
pages 1854, 365. expressed Grotius'
idea by saying that the control of
the land over the sea extends as
far as cannon will carry and that
''tiie control from the landk ends
where the power Of mems weapons
ends"
Is YOUR, SUBSCRIPTION DUE?
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-21

c. H. Harder, Watford City, N.
D., came to Sank Centre Monday
from Eagle Bend, and spent several
days renewing old acquaintance.
Mr.. Harder is one of the old-time
residents and his visit to this city
was inspired through the desire to
again visit the old home town. Mr..
Harder came to Sank Centre in
1877 in a covered wagon, several
years before the railroad was ex-
tended to the city. Sometime be-
fore 1879, he subscribed for the
Herald with J. H. Simonston, first
editor, and has been a subscriber
for at least sixty years. For II
years he was engineer in the mill,
and knew most all Of the old-tim-
ers, whose ranks have thinned con-
siderably in recent years. He spoke
of the many changes in the city
and he especially noted the pro-
gress and improvement of both city
and community. Mr.. Harder has
two brothers, who reside in Eagle
Bend, and one in Hibbing, all form
err residents of Sank Centre.