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Evening star., 1939-03-29
Music Lovers
OAttend
Concert
Elman Will Play
For Benefit of
Refugee Fund

Many of Washington music lovers
in diplomatic, official and residential
society will be on hand tomorrow
evening to hear Mischa Elman,
World-famous violinist, in his con-
cert at Constitution Hall. The pro-
ceeds are for the benefit of the
European refugees in America.
Chairmen of the Washington
committee for the non- -sectarian
refugee concert are Mr.. William L.
Bush, Mr.. M. F. Calnan and Col
William o. Tufts.
On the committee are the Rev.
Howard Stone Anderson, Miss Caro-
lyn S. Ball, Maj. Ernest w. Brown,
Mr.. Joseph Bloomfield. Mr.. Sidney
Blume, Miss Goldie Bachman, the
Rev. Fred Buschmeyer, Miss Grace
Mary CollifloWer, Mr.. Thomas F..
Carlin, Mr. George Cleary, DR.. Cros-
son, Mr.. James A. Councillor, Mr..
Jerome Crowley Mr. Morris Cafritz
Mr.. Seton Darr, Mrs. Ernest H.
Daniel, Mr.. Edward H. Droop, Mr..
Allen DeFord, Mrs. Sidney Dia-
mond, Mr.. Benjamin Dulcan, Mr..
John R. Fitzpatrick, Mr.. C. Marshall
Finnan. Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, Mr..
Isaac Cans, DR. and Mrs. Norman
Gerstenfeld. Mrs. Charles Gold
smith, Mrs. Henry Gichner, Mr..
Hyman Goldman, Mr.. Seymore
Guthman, Mrs. Morris GerWitz, Mrs.
Lou Harris. Mr.. George F. Harlan,
Mr.. E. j. Heffron, the Rev. Fred
erick Brown Harris, Mrs. Helen Raw
Hagner, Commissioner Melvin G..
Hazen, Mr.. Herbert Hollander, Mrs.
William Illch, Miss Cecil Lester
Jones, Mr.. Milton King, Mr.. Norman
Kal. Mrs. Joseph Kronman. Mr. Har-
rison Kahn, Mr.. Thomas Ellis Lodge,
Mr.. Sidney Lust. Mr.. Morris Klass,
Mr. Francis A. Mccain. Miss Mary
Mattingly. Miss Mary Merrick, Mr..
M. darcy Magee, Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Myers, Mrs. Louise Noonan
Miller, Mr.. Charles H. Mccarthy,
Mrs. Martin Mendelsohn. Mrs
Jessie Miller. Mr.. Herman Norwood,
Mrs. George Nordlinger, Mrs. George
OConnor, Mr.. Vernon T. Orrison,
Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, DR.. Ivy
Pelzman, Miss Agnes Regan, Mr..
Francis x. Regan, Mr.. John A.
Remon. Mr.. W. NJ Robey, Mr.. Ed
ward Rosenbloom. Mrs. Dunbar
Rosenthal, Mr.. Maurice D. Rosen-
berg, jr.. Miss Ruth L. SchWoerer,
Canon Anson Phelps Stokes. Mr..
Lester H. Steinem, Mrs. David
Simon, Mr.. Leo Schlosberg. Mrs. Ed
ward Sonneborn, Mr.. Coleman B..
Stein, Mr.. Joseph P Tumulty. Mrs.
Raphael Tourover, Miss Mary Walsh,
Mrs. Robert G.. Wilson and Mr..
Maury Young.
Evening star., 1939-03-29

the speaker, also gave a brief ex-
planation of the application of gov
ernment legislation in the counties
and townships of her State, Penn
sylvania. Both speakers agreed that
much of the corruption deplored in
politics could be stopped If legisla-
ton were properly applied, at its
source in small counties and town.
ships.
The program was arranged by
Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor. Mrs. Ed
ward E. Gam, president, presided
at the meeting.
Evening star., 1939-03-29
Meeting of w. c.. T. u.

The North Capitol w. G. T. U.
met at the home of Mrs. r. w.
Moore OH Rhode Island avenue NV,
with the president, Mrs. Mary
Arnold, presiding. Mrs. Eane
Wilf1ey, first vice president of the
District, and her daughter, Miss
Katherine, spoke on the life of
Frances Willard
A medal contest was held at the
United Brethren Church Saturday,
under the auspices of the North
Capitol Union. Silver medals were
presented to Louise Reese and
Rlchard Reese and gold medals to
Mavis Ockerhausen and Roland
Ford
Evening star., 1939-03-29
G. O. P. Women Hear
Mrs. LIVINGSTON

County legislation, its application
to national government and the
need for better understanding of
government law. was the subject
OF an informal talk given before the
League of Republican Women yes
terday by Mrs. John c. Livingston,
president Of the Montgomery
County, Md, League of Women
voters.
Mrs. Charles Lea, who introduced
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23
Senators Adopt
State Moratorium
On Salary Boosts
Budget Committee Urges
DO Without Things
We Cannot Afford

SACRAMENTO, May %.
(UP) The S n a te today
passed the Hays bill calling
for a moratorium on state
salary increases for the next
two years.
The bill bore the recommended
ton of the special senate budget
committee, which proposed reduc-
tions totalling $39,000000 in pro-
posed appropriations of $5570OO,-
600 submitted by Gov. Culbert Oh
son, and no new taxes of any kind.
The moratorium bill is designed
to save at least $4,500,000 and pos
sihly as much as $7000,000, the
author, Ray w. Hays, r., Fresno
said. The vote was 80 to 8.
Governor Olson said today he
would have plenty" to say later
about the senate committees pro-
gram of SIS 100000 in general bud
get reductions and a slash in re-
lief from $73,600000 to $50000,000
Senator Hays said he had cor-
ferred with Governor Olson in re-
Continued on Page g. Col g.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23
McWhirter Denies
He's Anfi.Semitic
Movement Leader
Banker Tells Dies Body
Story of Revolution
Fantastic Dream

WASHINGTON, May %.
(UP)-Felix McWhirter, IN
dianapolis banker and Re-
publican state finance Off
Ger, told the house commit
tee investigating n-American ac-
tivities today that his purpose In
making inquiries concerning Jew
ish connections" of several promi-
nent persons was to obtain "fac-
tual information" for his own
satisfaction.
McWhirter was questioned con-
corning a letter he wrote to James
Erwin Campbell, OWensboro, KY.
who is under investigation by the
| legislators in connection with an
alleged anti-Semitic campaign pur-
portedly designed to counteract g
leftist revolution.
McWhirter asked in his letter
whether "Hull's wife is a part OF
full blooded Semitic" and inquired
about the Semitic connections ol
ALT M Landon and William Aller
White.
Why did you want that informa-
Continued on Page 8, Col -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23

often been linked Win llldI VI eiie
Communist party. Dr.. Nylander Is
regional director of the National
Labor Relations Board with head
quarters at Los Angeles.
They were listed by five members
of the partisan league as
principal speakers at an open forum
for which the league wished to
obtain use of the Imperial county
fair grounds. Other speakers were
not announced.
President Ben Hulse of the I'M
perial county fair board said Tues
day the board will act on the re-
quest either Tuesday night or
Wednesday.
The request, couched in formal
statements, bore the names of Dave
Forbes of the CIO, Charles B. Cop
perman of the TeamSterS union, c.
l.. Doxey of the CIO, and two men
whose affiliations were not immed-
lately available, Glen R. Dalby and
j. c.. Francisco.
Patterson and Nylander were
listed as the main speakers of the
evening and will discuss farm and
labor problems, the letter from the
Laborers Non-Partisan League said
Further details of the program were
not listed in the communication.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23

against the council. The property
owners contend the paving is not
good. was too expensive, and asked
the court to declare liens against
their property uncollectable.
A. C. Clark represented those
protesting the paving. He mention
ed the plan to request grand jury
investigation and limited at plots,
collusion and fraud charges to be
placed before that body. He said
he was convinced several indict-
ments would follow a grand jury
investigation.
E. Nelson, another protestor, fav-
ored a tax strike and also referred
several times to calling on Cover
nor Olson and the attorney general
to "get justice" D. w. Jessup adopt
ed the role of peacemaker and ask
ed all sides to get together and
save the cost of expensive lawsuits
Approximately so person gathered
at the city hall for the hearing,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23
$4,000 Idle When
Strike Closes All
ChrysIer Plants
CIO Union Walks Out In
Bargaining Dispute at
Briggs Factories

DETROIT, May %. (UP)
"A strike at the Briggs
Manufacturing ON p a n y
plants forced all Chrysler
corporation plants to sus-
pend operations today and made
63 900 workers idle.
The number of workers affected
was the greatest since the sit-down
strikes of 1887.
Chrysler, De Soto, Plymouth, and
Dodge Motor car production was
halted less than "a hours after the
United Automobile Workers union
(CIO) called a strike at the seven
Briggs plants in Detroit. The Chrys-
ler corporation factories were
forced to close because of a short
age of Briggs-built bodies
The Chrysler truck plant contin-
ued in operation. OF Chrysler's
55 900 workers, approximately 50,-
900 were idle, those working being
employed at the truck plant or in
maintenance or shipping.
Approximately 10000 workers were
involved in the Briggs strike.
Working shifts at the Plymouth
factory were cut short yesterday
two hours after the strike was call
ed at Briggs and the work day was
Continued on Page 8; Col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23
Fate of State Street Underpass Up
Before Highway Commission Friday;
Chamber Records Stand on Project

Chamber approval followed an
appeal from Mayor FaWcett for CO.
operation among city factions. Only
opposition was voiced by Henry
Harris, who opposed changing the
present route of highways through
The city. Harris was reported cir
culatin2 petitions Tuesday favor
ing retaining Main street as the
highway route.
Mayor Fawcett explained coun-
ell action favoring Adams avenue
as a highway route was taken to
consolidate opinion behind the
State street project, and to place
the council IN accordance with the
Vaughn Plan" originated by
High way Commissioner Bert
Vaughn, fer solving traffic diff
cultieS.
Mayor FaWcett assured directors
that business concerns would be
given full consideration before any
changes are made in traffic rout-
ingS.
Later Mayor FaWcett explained
the Adams avenue route as merely
part of an agreement made three
years ago between the city council
the chamber and the Adams avenue
group. At that time. city leaders
agreed on paper to work first fol
the State street project and as soon
as it was approved to work unani-
mously for the Adams street pro-
ject, which would include highway
routings there and eventually an
other underpaSs.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23
Convicts Freed by
Cyclone Killed in
.Hand.Hand Battle

PINE BLUFF, Ark, May %.
CUP)-Two dangerous, long term
Negro convicts who escaped in the
confusion following a cyclone that
struck this prison farm were killed
today in hand to hand fight with
two prison trustees IN a swamp near
the CumminS prison farm.
They were:
Archie Goodwin, 33, sentenced from
Ouachita county, Ark, in 1884 for
assault to kill and burglary, sery-
ing life imprisonment.
James Patterson, a. sentenced
from Columbia county. Ark, March
1887, serving seven years for burg
larry, and wanted in Natchodoches
Parish, La, on a sheriffs order.
The two trustees found the con-
victs in the swamp after searching
Throughout the night for at least
10 prisoners who escaped when
cyclone struck the prison barracks
leveling it.
One of the convicts jumped from
behind a clump of bushes and at
IdCheu olle Vi CIle bluStleS, III dl1
effort to get his gun. When the
second trusty tried to help his
companion, the other convict at
tackled him.
Then one of the TRUSTEES managed
to reach his pistol. and Shot the
conyicts
The TRUSTEES reported the killings
to prison officials and returned to
the swamp to search for the re-
naming fugitives.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23

The company charged that it's
loss of business and extraordinary
expenses resulting from the strike
had cost it $2,500,000. 1t asked
threefold damages as provided by
the Clayton antitrust act.
1t named almost TOO individuals
and union officers in Cleveland,
Youngstown, Warren, Niles, Cam
ton and Massillon, all in Ohio, as
defendants.
The suit was filed in federal dis
trict court here. 1t said the "un-
lawful acts of force, intimidation,
threats, violence, destruction OF
property, injury to persons and OBJ
struction of commerce to and from
the plants were part of a con-
spiracy to compel the company to
sign a proposed collective bargain
ing contract with the S.WO.C."
A precedent for the suit has been
established in Philadelphia where
a federal district court jury award
ed the Apex Hosiery company SILL
392 representing threefold DAM
ages, against the American Fedora
ton of Hosiery Workers for dam
ages and loss of business suffered
during seven weeks sit-doWn
strike in 1887. The union filed a
brief with the circuit court of ap-
peals there yesterday asking to
have the Judgment set aside.
Republic Steel corporation based
Continued on Page 8; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23

Fate of e. Centro's State street
grade separation project will be
settled Friday when it is formally
presented hefere the State High
way commission at Sacramento.
Mayer H w. FaWcett and City
Engineer Phil knights will leave
Wednesday for the state capital tc
lend their support.
"If the project fails of approva!
this time, ii means at least two
mere years before we can again get
consideration" knights said.
One resolution, favoring State
street project and urging Adams
avenue as route fer Highway 80
through Ell Centro, already is Oh
file with the highway commission
1t was passed last week by the city
council.
Another resolution, favoring the
project and opposing State street
as a highway route, was passed
Monday afternoon by the chamber
of commerce directors.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23

Inc cOI1Illdlluei, 1lcuJ.-Soiii-
mander Oliver Naquin, reported by
telephone that all aboard were
alive and well. He said there was
sufficient air to last for at least
another 48l hours.
Although there was water in sew
eral of the after compartments,
Nauuin said the rest of the craft
had been kept dry by closing water
tight doors.
Communication was broken dur
ing Naquin'S conversation with the
submarine Sculpin, which had
picked up marker buoy. released
by the stricken submarine and car
rying a telephone line. The buoy
drifted away, the line severed.
The buoy = bearing the legend.
.'the submarine Squalus is sunk
here"-was found by the Sculpin
12 miles southeast of Portsmouth
and about five miles south of White
island.
A coast guard amphibian took
off from the Salem Mass, air base
in the hope that the Squalus' exact
location might be sighted from the
air.
Also enroute to the scene was
the submarine Falcon of New Lon
don, Conn.,, carrying a dozen of the
navy's best divers and a rescue
chamber
In his brief conversation with the
Sculpin, Naquin recommended that
a diver be sent down to repair the
faulty valve from the out,4de. The
jammed apparatus was an induc-
ton valve used to admit air into a
Continued on Page s, Col y
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23

vice of City Attorney A. L. Sebille
and refused to grant a taxpayers
request for $3.50 to finance a sclen-
tific analysis of the paving. 1t was
decided to call a meeting for next
Monday night City Clerk May
Wear was instructed to ask paving
contractors and the Southern BIZ
tuals company, the concern ALLEGED
to be responsible for the installa-
ton of the $4,000 paving job, to
attend.
Councilmen announced they will
wait until after settlement of two
civil suits brought by 27 property
owners on A, b, c, D, and E
streets against the city and Coun-
Gilman S. D. Carey before voting
money for a scientific analysis.
Henry Archias, councilman and
one of the defendants named in
the suits now pending in superior
court, said he could not see the
logic OF voting money to get infor-
nation to be used in the suit
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23
Valley May Be Put
On Air Mail Route

The American Airlines, Inc, April
81 filed application with the Civil
Aeronautics commission in Wash
ington for a certificate to fly pas
sengers, mail and express from San
Diego to Phoenix with a scheduled
stop at the Imperial county airport,
Manager Robert Hays of the El
Centro chamber of commerce saio
Tuesday.
Hays said he received verification
of the application from Congress
man Ed V. Izac. The congressman
Hays said, told him the application
now is being considered by the
authority and soon will be called
for a hearing.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23
Queen Mary Unhurt
As Auto 0yerturns

LONDON May %. CUP)-Queen
Mary, mother of King George VI,
escaped injury today when the
automobile IN which she was riding
overturned in a collision at VIM
bledon.
The queen, who will be 72 years
old on Friday, was driven to her
home, Marlborough House on Pail
Mall, after the accident.
Her automobile collided with an
other car in the Wandsworth sec
ton of Wimbledon, just outside
London.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23

primary need was a system under
which the central government shall
in the common good draw the con-
tract with those agencies which
carry on interstate business.
In one of the few anti-adminls-
tration speeches of the two-day
meeting. which last night heard
President Roosevelt defend New
Deal spending. relief and tax poll
ceis, John w. Rudin, preaident-
treasurer of Dowds-Rudin COM
pany's department store. declared
that there was an immediate need
in the government Of more real
statesmen OF the Andrew Mellon
type,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23
Wheat Loans TO Be
Made TO Farmers

Wheat loans will be available to
farmers on wheat now being har-
vested, Roland Ballou, secretary of
the county agricultural conserva-
ton association announced Tues
Clay.
The average national payment
will be 81 cents per buShel as COM
pared to an average of SO cents
last year Ballou said. Imperial
Valley growers will receive slightly
less than the market price of rs
cents per bushel.
Additional information regarding
loans will be released by the USDA
in a week.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23

AllNlOudI oIdlCo.
I'VE are witnessing the multipli-
cation of state laws to establish To-
cal preferences, he said. "All
sorts of barriers are being raised
to interstate business by state leg
iSlatures.
He said that corporations are
creatures of the state because they
are Incorporated under individual
state laws. Yet most of them op-
crate in interstate commerce, he
added.
Pointing out that the constitution
of the United States took away
from the states and vested in the
federal government the power to
regulate commerce among the
states, OMahoney said that the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23
Housewife Fined
As Drunk Driver

BRAWLEY, May 23-Clara Ted
row, 80, Brawley housewife, was
fined $50 in justice court here yes
terday for drunk driving on the
Crita road a mile east of town
this weekend.
She suffered a black eye, cuts,
and bruises, when her car crashed
into a canal bank and overturned.
E. Ellsworth, 72, a passenger in
the car, suffered an injured hip,
Highway Patrolman Walter Walsh
said. Mrs. TedroW was sent to the
county Jail at Ell Centre pending
payment of the fine.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23
Permit Denied to
New Market Here

Proximity to Salvation Army
headquarters in Ell Centro was the
reason for refusing the Internation-
al Food Market a license to sell
beer and wine, the state board Of
equalization announced Wednesday
The application was sought by
Fred Quon, Bob Hong, Lester Quon,
Woo Bill, and Hong Back Gin for
their new market at 632 Broadway
El Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23
Olson Offers Plan
To Study Pension

SACRAMENTO, Cal, May %
CUP)-Gov Culbert Olson revealed
today he is "favorably Inclined to
appoint a committee of nationally
known economists to make an inn
partial study of the ham and
eggs" pension plan before a specia.
election is held.
The governor said he was favor
ably impressed with suggestions
that group of experts study the
$50 Every-Thursday plan. He men
toned Irving Fisher, of Yale Uni
versity, as one possibility and cited
that economists from California
universities would be willing to Of
fer their services without remun-
Grafton.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23
No New Paralysis
Cases Reported

DR.. Warren F. Fox, county and
city health officer, announced Tues
day that there have been no new
cases of infantile paralysis since
the death of a nine-year-old girl
in Ell Centro May II.
Physicians, school authorities, and
public health officials will continue
their vigilance, Fox said, and check
all patients for signs of the disease
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23

Mr. roosevelt feVedleQ ne ndS
abandoned hope of balanced bud
get in his second administration
and told the retailers that he and
the New Dealers were the true
conservatives while opposition
groups were the radical gamblers
with the nations safely.
Partisans, he said, were soaring
well-fed parents with warnings
that their grandchildren would
have to pay the increased national
debt and he charged that the Re-
publicans were merchandising
horror by their effort to make this
national debt week
Certainly this is not as alarm
ing Mr.. Roosevelt said, "as tel
ling parents who are already starv-
ing that an untrammelled business
setuo will provide their grandchild-
rem with food in 1888. Yet this Is
what the radical gamblers OF bust
ness and politics might have to
say if they put their theories into
practice next year. A reasonable
internal debt will not impoverish
our children
That reference to the 1910 presi-
Dental election coupled with the
brisk challenge to conservative
plans for tax revision and economy
raised immediate speculation
whether the president had deter
mined in his own mind that
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23
Legion Post to
Entertain Council

Boyce Aten post of the American
Legion will be hosts to the CO.
ordinating council of Ell Centre al
the post meeting at El Centro Vet
Grams nall Tuesday night
A five-piece orchestra will play
during dinner
Tommy Daniels, high school STU
dent, will deliver his prize winning
defamation Afraid of The Dark
the Vinfrido sisters will give their
adagio dance, and a group of high
school pupils will present special
ty act. Chicken" Jones will give
representations.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23
SUBMARINE SINKS With 81 ABOARD
G.Men 10 Direct
|. A. Vice Cleanup

Ell PASO, Tex, May %. tUP)
Attorney General Frank Muir
ply, Federal Bureau of Investi-
CATION Director j. Edgar Hoover,
and their assistants will arrive
in Los Angeles tomorrow, re-
portedly to coordinate a general
vice cleanup.
Murphy said they would be
met at their plane by a federal
bureau of investigation agent
who had been in Los Angeles for
three weeks doing special inves-
tigation work.
The attorney general said the
investigation involved in civil
liberties case and an enormous
swindle.s
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23
Maybe Yes
NEW DISTRICT POWER
PLANTS NEARLY READY

Two new power plants which will
supplement the machines now op-
Grating at the Imperial Irrigation
District diesel plant at BraWley are
nearing completion, M. j. Dowd,
district chief engineer, announced
Tuesday. One plant is SO per cent
complete and the other rs per cent
ready, Dowd said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-23
QUIET RESTORED

WARSAW, May %. CUP)-Polish
and Danzig authorities agreed to-
day that they considered liquidated
the incident in which a Polish
chauffeur shot and killed a Danzig
German at Kalthof, in Danzig ter
ritory.