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Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
WilIoughby Down
In Golf Tourney

Laddie Willoughby, defending
champion. was one down going to
the 18th hole to Bob Albright in
a semi-final match of the lettuce
mems golf tournament at Brawley,
according to reports from the Del
Rio club Saturday afternoon. In
the other semi-final match. Tunney
Williams was three up on Benny
Kellerman.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
GOVERNOR HUNTS FOR
STEER-TYlNG SHERIFF

SACRAMENTO, Feb Is. CUP)-
Gov. Culbert L. Olson today was
trying to find a steer roping" sher-
if to answer a challenge for a Cali
fornia sheriff to meet Arizona S
former world champion cowboy,
Sheriff Ed Echols CT Pima county.
To the winner of the steer roping
contest goes the modest title "Sher-
iff championship of the United
States"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
Messenger Struck
From Bicycle Here

Guy Austin Franklin, messenger
boy, escaped with only bruises and
mud stains to show Saturday after
an automobile knocked bicycle
from under him Friday.
Russell Wagner, driver of the
car said Franklin declined to be
taken to a physician and Wagner
took him home to Imperial. The
accident occurred on Imperial ave-
oip
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
EIks TO Entertain
District Employees

Imperial Irrigation District
night" is to be observed by the FL
Centro Elks lodge next Thusrday
Norman c. Deaton, exalted ruler
announced Saturday.
I'VE expect to entertain as our
guests approximately $50 employees
of the district" Deaton said.
There will be a dinner at TOO
p. M.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19

the air.
For seasoning we Will need
water with a high silt content"
Foster declared. 1T Is just a ques-
ton of waiting until 1t comes down
the river. At present. however, 80
are experimenting along the ~
mile stretch to spot the points
where the soil is the most porous
and where leaks might develop"
Foster estimated the canal Itself
is 90 per cent finished He point
ed out however, that a number OF
structures are yet 10 DC completed.
including turnouts and the Alams
Continued on Page 3, Col. %
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
PILOT FORCED DOWN
ON ARIZONA DESERT

AJO, Ariz., Feb. 10. tUP)-Forced
down on the desert by motor trou-
BILE in his plane, Frank Byers,
Blythe, Calf, pilot walked 35 miles
here today to report he had landed
safely. Byers said he had spent
the night on the desert after his
plane en- route to Tucson. landed in
a sandy waste at Covered Wells.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
Dutch Agents Here
To Buy Planes

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. up
Two military missions from the
Netherlands, one from the Neither
lands navy and the other from the
colonial army, are in this country
to purchase alrpianes, motor tor
pedo boats, anti-aircraft equipment
and other munitions, the Neither
lands embassy disclosed today.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
Plans to Light Stadium.for Night
Baseball Games Cancelled by City
On Discovery Of Error in Estimate

the most expert night games would
cost many thousands of dollars, 1t
was said.
The plan will be officially res
cined at the next city council
meeting, it was expected.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
Vote for Bond Refinancing or
Pay Soaring Tax Attorney Warns
p AMBLING
4\EpORTER
Just a Miniature

Just MINIATURE
RR didn't know whether to be
inSulted or not when he heard this
from Don King. the lively publicity
man for the movie colony now try
III. to film Beau Geste at the Sane
Hills.
A real. live colonel from the
French Foreign Legion visited tbs
location. He glanced over the sane
hills, shifted and remarked:
"a very nice title desert you have
here. It's about the size Of my
shooting range"
Complete Outfit
Douglas Ferguson 5, was discus
sing his family the other day with a
friend. Douglas, the son OF MI
and Mrs Forrest Ferguson of Holt
Vile. remarked:
We're getting lot CT new thing
these days. We got a new house
and new car. and now we're going
to get q new baby!
Sure enough, the child arrived
safe and sound and when Forrest
Ferguson was telephoned about the
arrival. he couldn't remember what
the name was to be.
Two in One
There is che thing that Aaron
Afford will not have to worry about
in connection Win ms two young
sterS, Tommy and Mike. 1t will be
quite a spell before the two demand
that he get them a pony, because
their dog Prince, a st. Barnard, can
pinch hit for pcny any day
Prince weighs around l5O pounds,
is as friendly rs only dog can be.
and Can eat his own weight Wher
he's of mind to it.
Up With TIE Times-
This was slightly mystiiying tx
RR when it came in the mail, anc
still is. but we pass it Gil with gooC
wishes.
The mcroWned co-cnampionS OF
chess IN Ell Centro, Messrs Upholt
and Marsh. were noticed engaging
in a riotous game of Chinker-Chek
The chess board was laid aside,
neglected
Misses Nothing
Lyle Van Norman stompeG into
shCe store to buy a new pair anC
the salesman prepared to show his
wares
Right or left?" the salesman ask
ed. meaning which shoe he wished
to try on first.
Both" said Lyle with puzzled
frown.
At The Hearing
This brought real, stomach
laugh from the assembled farmer"
at the NLRB hearing. Duke Gun
ningham, a union man. said,
Here the farmers have ploWeo'
under their lettuce to force the
price up to $6 crate, when they
can make a profit at 81 2rate!"
Another laugh came when. after
lawyers had been in huddle with
Joseph Mcguire, examiner, over
when to continue the hearing, Ma
guire spoke to the audience:
I'm just as worried as you are
about getting to see part of that golf
tournament at Brawley!"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19

where an operation was performed. .
He failed to rally from the opera
ton.
williams had worked for various
municipal water districts after his
arrival in the valley. Three years
ago he was chosen Works Progress
administrator for Imperial county.
He was born in Kentucky. In 1881
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19

he married Helen Moore, music
school teacher at Calipatria.
Funeral services will be held at
the Hopes chapel in Brawley al
2:30 o. m. Monday. He is survived
by his wife, Mrs Helen Williams;
and a sister, Mrs. Herbert Robert
son of Henderson, KY.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
Police, Secret Service Men Chase PrOwler in
Dense Underground; Manhunt Launched as
Special Train Carries President Away

FLORIDA CITY Fla, Feb. 1S. (UP)-Poce and secret
service men today found making his way through
underbrush near the which President Roosevelt was
having breakfast with friends.
They gave chase but the escaped through the dense
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
Arthur Meade Williams, Pioneer Here
Since I9Il. Dies Suddenly at SD.
Hospital; Funeral Services Monday

Arthur Meade Williams, so, Caipatria resident OF
Imperial Valley since 1911 died at Paradise Valley sani
tarium near San Diego at am. Saturday.
He had been in i'll health for time and suddenly
became worse Friday. He taken to the sanitarun
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
French Purchased
One Of Nations
Two Best Planes
Chief of Staff Reveals Value "details
Laid Bare to Foreign Mission; Executive
Considers Dea Just Good Business

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is. (UP) - Gen. Malin Craig
chief of staff disclosed today have told the
senate military affairs committee that a light bombing
plane which has been sold to France of the T.
armys two valuable military secrets if lead in
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
Water Covers Y Miles Of Big Ditch
AsU. S. Reclamation Bureau Begins
Seasoning Canal: Structures Done

Water covered the bottom of the All American canal
for p miles Saturday from Imperial dam Pilot Knob
and more will be turned in sufficient flow
of sity water comes down the Colorado river
"The rapidity with which the canal is seasoned de-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19

Four workmen were seriously in
iuredThursday when an elevator
CAGE in Treasure Islands 1851.
ski jump plunged TO earth after
a cable snapped. The elevator
had reached the first landing
70 feet up when the cable
parted. Safety dogs" made
for use in such emergencies,
failed TO catch. Dotted line in
dicates how far the injured men
fell. All four we're rushed to
hospitals with broken bones.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
WEATHER

Maximum temperature so, minimum as; am
nmperature Al, humidity SO; noon temperature 81
umidity So; pm temperature SO, humidity So
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19
MARKETS IN BRIEF

Butter: Los Angeles, 2714c; Butterfat, Imperial
Valley, fob. ranch grade A, 34l2c manufacturing
milk, 2sc; route gathered cream 2519c.
L. A. Hay: U. S. No 1, S15-15.50; us. NO.2, leafy
S14; U. S. No. 2 s13; MINI. Flax May SLIT.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-19

Total Cash, Checks and Drafts Sent
through The Two FL Centre Banks
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-01
Editorials and Comment
THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1889
THE WRONG WAY
TO DO IT
lWaIl SLreet JOurnaD

tWdIt street journal
Senator Mead of New York has intro
duced a bill authorizing the RecOnstruc-
tiOn Finance Corp, an arm of the gov
eminent, to insure commercial bank
loans up to S1,000000 to a single bor-
rover. The Senate Committee on Bank
ing & Currency will begin hearings on
the measure today.
The purpose of the Mead bill is to make
it easier for small business men and
corporations to borrow at the bank. The
insurance coverage would be limited to
80 per cent Of the loan, 50 that the lend
ing bank would not be wholly relieved
of risk or the necessity Of exercising
wide discretion in passing upon loan ap-
plications. The RFC would be authOriz-
ed to charge an insurance premium vary
ing between one-quarter of l per cent and
/ per cent and 10 refuse to insure for
any bank which offered only its less
meritorious loans for insurance.
Senator Mead's impulse is a kindly
one, but the bill is bad. 1t has no such
justification as may be claimed for fed
eral deposit insurance There all banks
are compelled to insure depOsitOrS-up
to limit of individual deposit-against
the danger of their becoming the inno-
cent victims of bad banking in parti-
cular bank. The effect Of the Mead bill
could and probably would be to offer the
owners Of a bank insurance against the
carelessness or incompetence of directors
and officers they themselves had chosen.
This is a species of partial government
guaranty Of an investment in bank stock,
a thing which is absent from deposit in
surance.
Any insuring agency, for its own pre-
servation, must have the power to select
the risks it inures Therefore the RFC
would necessarily become another bank
examiner, in addition to the three fed
eral and the respective state authorities
which already play their parts in setting
banking standards. The present RFC
personnel is no doubt canny enough to
watch its risks, but a greater multiplicity
in bank examination is highly undesir
able.
If the smaller business units are en-
titled to more bank accommodation
or more captal-than they can now OBJ
tain, this is a wrong way to go about
supplying their needs
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-01
DON'T THROW AWAY
YOUR VOTE

If at any time in the coming months
you feel inclined to complain about the
way your school system is administered,
first stop and ask yourself:
Did | vote at the school board cleo
ton ?"
If the answer is NO." then keep still.
You will have no right to complain
In Imperial county, school boards in
both high school and elementary school
districts will be elected Friday Every
person who is entitled to do so should
vote
The person who fails to vote in such
an election is doing a double injury. He
is depriving himself of the privilege
given him to have a voice in manage
ment of the system for which his taxes
pay and he is giving double strength to
the vote of the unWise person whose
choice may be wrong, but who neverthe
less DOES vote.
This is true in every election. If you
favor d man for office, but fail to vote,
then you might as we'll cast two votes
against him The people who do not vote
make it possible for organized minori-
ties or special interests to put their man
in office.
In almost every instance in Imperial
county, the school board elections hinge
on matters of personal choice. Most of
those seeking office are high minded per
sons anxious to perform public service.
The only questions involved in most cases
are questions of ability, efficiency and
qualifications.
Those are questions the voters must
decide
So remembering your responsibility,
examine the records and qualifications
of your school board candidates, find
out what time the polls open in your
particular district. and then. above all
Cast your vote.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-01
BEEF HASH
(Christian Science Monitor)

(Christian Science MOnit0r)
The fuss that's been made of the pres
ident's defense of the American navy's
purchase of Argentine canned beef turns
out to be funny. Everywhere in the COW
country President Roosevelt was criti-
cized for daring TO suggest that the dom
este product was inferior. Yet the cat
tie states themselves eat Argentine can
ned beef
OF course, there's reason, and, you've
guessed it; it's the packers. AS good beef
as you could possibly find is produced on
the Western ranges, but the packers don't
can that kind of beef; it is too valuable
They use only stringy old cows for can
ming, say the cow punchers; and so,
when the West has need to eat corned
beef, which isn't often, it turns to the
Argentine product. Correspondents have
found cans of this dreadfully foreign
product in stores right in the heart of the
cow country, even in southwest Nebras-
ka itself.
Presumably what's good ashore should
be equally good afloat. And the imprm-
atur of the coWhands themselves should
be enough for the most discriminating
Presumably the presidential offense lay
in telling the world" In this narrow
natiOnalistic world every country is in
tent upon persuading the consumer that
the best is produced within its own bor-
ders instead of laying the basis for the
exchange of trade.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-01
hRMBEn
WHY WOMACK PERSONIFIES
AN IMPORTANT SCHOOL POLICY

IN the school election Friday voters
Of FL CentrO and the Central Union
nigh school district have real opportu
nifty to take an important step forward.
For years, there has been continued
progress toward synchronizing the mem
bership Of the FL Centre elementary
school board with the FL Centre mem
bers on the high school board. A three
member board controls the city elemen-
tary schools. A five member board con-
trolls the administration of the high
school and Junior college Of the five.
four are considered as representing FL
Centro The worthy assumption and be-
lief is that the three members Of the e.
Centre elementary system should also
act as FL Centros representatives on
the high school board. This would tie-in
closely the operations of the two sys-
TENS and be a large improvement over
the present setup whereby Guy Weakley,
school superintendent Of both systems,
must serve two completely different
boards Under the ideal plan, he would
automatically be working with the ele-
mentary school board when working with
the five member high school board Mem
bers of both boards approve the plan
and have approved it for years past.
Friday for the first time, the voters
have chance to place on one board
man who is director on the other board
by voting for Roy Womack. Mr.. Wo-
mack already is a member of the elemen-
tary school board He is also a candi-
date for election to the high school
board If elected, and we believe that
every thinking person will cast their bal
lot for him, he will be the first person
ever to serve on both boards simultan-
eously, and personify careful step to-
ward a most deserving, efficient, and
worthy objective.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-01

TO ring, and they rang all nIght. a
couple OF officers in the operations
section had 10 stay up all night
to answer them.
One white bearded gentleman
came down TO the navy yard III
person with a couple OF metal
shackles in his hand, he wanted
the navy TO make two just like
them. only big. hook one onto each
end Of the sunken sub, and then
haul it to the surface.
The navy tries TO be nice TO all
of these people. In the first place,
they are American citizens, we'll
intentioned. who deserve a decent
hearing. In the second place, they
are voters, and the naVy's fate Is
forever in the voters hands.
When King George visits the
Washington navy yard he Will get
all the honOrS the book of regula-
tions prescribes-bu he'll get them
in the wrong order.
The U. S. Navy doesn't have much
eXperince with kings, but when 1t
meets them it gives them the same
honorS that the President Of the
United States gets. That is to say
that the visitor is "piped over the
side TO the burbling trill of bos-
uns whistle while eight sideboys
stand by
Reaching the deck, the visitor
faces a guard Of honor which snaps
TO present arms, and band which
gives vent to four flourisheS
four ruffles, and then plays
the ma tional anthem. AL
hands not otherwise occupied break
out in their most formal salute
and when the anthem ceases the
guns start banging out a 2l-gun
salute.
King George and Queen Eliza
beth will get all of this at the
navy yard here, but the order has
been shuffled bit.
AS they come through the gate
at the navy yard entrance-as
they will on June 8, to cruise doWr
To Mt. Vernon on the preSident'S
yacht Potomac-the 21-gun salute
will begin. The roadway leading
from the gate to the dock will be
lined with bluejackets and marines
at attention.
The honor, guard of marines will
be drawn up on the dock, instead
of on the deck, because the U. S. S
Potomac just isn't big enough for
them. Similarly, the band will pro-
duce the flourishes, ruffles and
national anthem on the dock in
stead of aboard the ship. Then, last
instead of first, the sideboys will
appear and the royal guests will be
piped over the side.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-01
Famous Sayings

Those processes" said Francis
J. Curtis. which are five years
old are looked upon with suspi-
cion. and those 10 years old can
almost be assumed TO be out Of
date"
This is a chemist speaking. Cur
tis, a representative of one of the
more prominent American chemical
companies was speaking to meet
ing of purchasing agents. He re-
ferred specifically to his own in
dustry, chemicals, when ne added
that development in the past 20
years has been so phenomenal that
We can hardly believe it ourselves,
and spend most of our time Won
dering what is going to happen
next
Experienced men in fields like
this seldom predict specifically, not
so much for fear that they will be
wrong, but for fear that perfor-
nance may quickly surpass or over
shadow their most enthusiastic
predictions.
Automobile bodies have already
been made, eXperimentally, of plas-
tics. II is easily conceivable that
soon articles like a whole bed
stead or perhaps the frame Of a
carved chair might be pressed out
in almost a single operation from
plastic materials. Textile fabrics in
sheets like cellophane, new in
organic insulating Varnish made
from clay, revolutionary ideas in
heating enclosed spaceS-ideas like
these Whirl about in the brain of
the chemists, and come closer to
reality with each Whirl
The puny changes which politi-
cal man is imposing ON the world
are nothing beside the revolution
ary changes which scientific man
is about TO impose. Think of the
changes latent in ideas like these,
none of which seem far-fetched
when viewed alongside actual ac-
complishment of the near past.
Imagine a country turned back TO
forest because broad farm acres
have been made Unnecessary by
chemurgic farming" From this
inexhaustible supply or annual
crops, plastic materials are de-
Vised which take the place of met
allie articles now laboriously mined
smelted, and fashioned.
Nations once dependent on sup
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-01
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Disseets the News

WASHINGTON. - Two kinds of
reaction TO the new labors of the
Dies committee are to be had
from New Dealers here
The left-wingers are frankly un-
easy Their attitude is that the
Ethiopian hasn't changed his skin.
and that he is still lurking in the
Woodpile: that Dies is still Gar
ner'S man: that he Still dLslikes
organized labor, and that the cur
rent exposure of the batting
reactionaries is simply build-up
to make the committee look good
when, presently, it returns TO the
radicals once more-aS, say the
left WingerS, it will before long.
Among the slightly-left- of center
New Dealers, on the other hand
there is no worry at all. The pres
ent probe is looked on as useful
in itself; and if the Dies commit
tee gets after the radicals again
and does a more effective job on
them than it ever did before, the
liberal -but-not red crowd won't
shed any tears at all.
AS a matter of fact, there are
these two groups in the New Deal
It's hard to define them very ac-
curately, except to say that the
one is pretty much left-Wing while
the other is-Well liberal.
And some of the liberals arr
beginning to get a trifle fed ur
with the left-wingers One of then
remarked the other day that if thu
Dies committee makes some of the
left-Wing crowd run for cover II
Will be doing Roosevelt a service
Speaking of the navy: every sub.
marine disaster seems to bring al
of the countrys crank inventor.
to the fore, instantaneously. Tht
submarine Squalus went down lat.
in the afternoon; Immediately thu
Navy Department phones startec
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-01

plies of iron or coal beyond their
borders become suddenly indepen-
dent of them because the iron and
coal themselves are no longer nee
essary to anyone.
Labor dislocations beyond any
thing dreamed of today would nee
essarily follow such developments.
And the strain of adjusting mans
institutions to a manner of physi-
cal life changing so fast that not
even the scientists themselves can
keep abreast of it, would become
tremendous.
The thing that lags behind in
this furious forward race is our
own minds. All the imagination,
the foresight, the wisdom, that
man can muster will be needed in
adjusting man and his institutions
and ideas to the facts of the new
world
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-01
Barbs-

Republicans are holding a series
OF Washington dinners to intro
duce presidential candidates. When
the guests get tired of the speech
they pass the celery.
Europe would be an ideal place
FOR Daniel Boone. Every day IL
has new frontiers.
No married men are wanted un-
der the army's new expansion pro-
gram. They use up their fighting
energy at home.
The Nazi government has a
public debt Of S11,243, ,92O, 900. IL
also owes a few apologies.
When the U. S. capitol,s light
ing system failed, it was simply
q case of the law of averages.
Usually Washington has us in the
dark.