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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
NeutraIitylaw
Expires as Nation
Argues su.S.Po|icy
Congress, President in
Effort to Reach New
Basis for Agreement

WASHINGTON, May 1.
(UP)-The cash and carry
provisions of the neutrality
act expire at midnight to-
night in the midst of nation
al debate and uncertainty over most
phases of foreign policy except re-
armament.
Congress and the president must
agree on foreign policy to make 1t
effective. Jointly, they have launch
ed a rearmament program which
probably will require appropriation
of $1,7O0 100000 at this session of
congress.
Land, sea and air forces are be-
ing strengthened at a pace recall
ing the hurry-up defense program
of 1916. But congress and the pres
ident still are far from agreement
on what shall be our foreign policy.
Congress itself is divided.
The question at issue is simply
this: How may the United States
most effectively use its moral and
physical strength to maintain our
institutions and our standards of
living in event of war?
Congress and the president sought
to answer that question in the ex-
isting neutrality statute passed in
April 1887. 1t is up against for
further discussion partly because
the cash and carry provision is
expiring and partly few persons are
entirely satisfied with it. Whether
the act shall be improved" by
making it stricter as isolationists
desire or by relaxing its provisions
so that we could lend economic aid
to the democracies is what congress
is trying to decide.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Housewife Upsets
Bund Meeting

LOS ANGELES, May l. (UP)-
Mrs. Elizabeth Barber, who calls
herself IAN American housewife" "
today calmly went about her house
work apparently unperturbed by
the turmoil she caused at a Ger
American Bund meeting yes
terday at which she demanded that
Bund Leader Fritz Kuhn tell the
truth"
Kuhn, on a visit here from New
York, was in the midst of address,
ing 1900 persons at meeting in
Hindenberg park when Mrs. Bar
ber interrupted him by asking in
a firm tone of voice, why don't
you tell us the truth"
The bund leader, apparently TAX
EN- by surprise, did not answer Mrs.
Barber but members of his audience
shouted, IF you don't like it, get
out"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01

repercussions in Berlin. Moscow,
Warsaw and Bucharest, and Wash
ington.
Poland not only will fight any
Nazi attempts to take Danzig, but
will make demands on Germany,
Count jerry Potocki, Polish ambaS-
sador to the United States, said to-
day in Washington. He did not
elaborate on predicted Polish de-
mandS.
The Rumanian premier announc-
ed at Bucharest that his country
will fight rather than make any
territorial concessions.
Communist International leaders
m Moscow ordered Communist
workers of Great Britain, France
and the United States to support
their governments against aggres-
sion from Fascist nations. Hereto
fore it has been the Communist
policy to take advantage of a war
to overthrow any government.
In Warsaw, inspired newspaper
articles discussed the possibility
that Poland may assume a protec-
torate over Danzig, citing Ger
many's seizure of Czechoslovakia
as a precedent. Return of Danzig 20
Germany was demanded by Fueh-
rer Adolf Hitler last Friday.
While Hitler was boasting in a
May Day speech at Berlin that
Germany is now one of the most
heavily armed nations in the world
CommiSsar of Foreign Affairs Vor-
oshilov at Moscow was declaring,
of Germany's traditional enemy
1--WE not only know how to fight,
but love to fight" The Russian
people, he said, know the Red
army is not to be dragged into
petty adventures but is fully pre-
pared for a big war"
At Rome it was disclosed that
Hitler has urged Premier Benito
Mussolini to build up Italys war
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01

Federal Arts projects in New York
He said that on April 81 he sought
to have duplicates made by the
WPA in New York. The next NOR
ring, he said, an article in the Daily
Worker, official organ of the Com
munist party, protested against
questions DESIGNED to learn the re-
lief workers political and labor af-
filiationS.
He said the article advised work
erS not to answer the questionnaircs.
Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, D.. Va,
brought out that on April "a a
Workers Alliance delegation from
New York filed with the committee
a protest against the QUESTIONABLE
and that David LASER, president of
the organization, made a protest to
Howard o. Hunter. acting admin
istrator of WPA.
Woodrum then had Burton read
q telegram from Hunter to New
York relief officials ordering that
there be no circulation CT any ques-
tionnaire seeking to determine pol
itical and labor affiliations of en-
ployeS.
Woodrum also read a letter to
Chairman Edward T. Taylor, D.,
Colo, of the committee, in which
Hunter asserted that he interpret
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Pendergast Aide
Commits Suicide

KANSAS CITY, May /. CUP)-
Edward l.. Schneider, secretary
treasurer of Boss Thomas j. Pen
dergast'S Ready-Mixed Concrete
company, committed suicide today.
Schneider, who repeatedly had
been questioned by the grand jury
that indicted Pendergast on income
tax evasion charges, parked his car
on a bridge over the Missouri river
and jumped in.
The car was found within a few
hours after Pendergast himself had
appeared in federal court and
pleaded not guilty to the charges
against him.
In the most recent indictments
against the political boss Schneider
had been named as a straw man"
through whom Pendergast tried to
hide his income.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01

'uIlNcll ny JdllltS HdCllldllOo. INV
machine bounced from that into a
truck driven by George BacoliS,
plowed under the second vehicle,
and skidded backward % feet down
the highway, Highway Patrolman
Paul Brown said. The front door,
cowl and windshield of Obeso's car
were embedded in the truck.
Kaemanos told Brown he saw
the speeding car approaching and
tried to get out of the way. Kae-
manos was towing the truck driven
by Bacolis. The MeXican'S body
was taken to the Fields mortuary
where an inquest was scheduled for
4:30 Monday.
Judge Agustin Santacruz Marti-
nez, 80, died in Ell Centro hospital
this weekend of injuries suffered
when his car collided with a loco
motive at Heber April %. Abe Ha-
shem, 25, lost his life in the same
accident.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Crossing Crash
Takes Six Lives

LOS ANGELES, May l. CUP)-
A motorists attempt TO outspeed
an interurban electric train to a
crossing today was believed by Off
GERS to have been the cause of a
crash that took six lives.
The Pacific Electric train filled
with pleasure seekers returning
from Santa Catalina island last
night struck the automobile driven
by Vincent Loretto, 35, at the Will
lowbrook Junction, near the town
of Compton, and scattered the We
hicle and its passengers, all Comp
ton residents, a distance of $50
feet.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
William Green Denounces Wagner Act
As Instrument Of Oppression, Asks
New Board with CurtaiIed Powers

WASHINGTON, May l. CUP)-
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor today
urged abolition of the present Ma
tional Labor Relations board, ac-
cusing it of dictator tactics" and
CIO bias, and recommended estab-
liShment of new five member
board with curtailed ptWer.
Testifying before the senate edu-
cation and labor committee On
AFL-sponsored amendments to the
National Labor Relations act, Green
denounced the present members of
the labor board for "distorting the
act into an instrument of oppres-
Sion.' He accused them of eStab-
fishing precedents whereby the So
called economic philosophy OF one
labor group is encouraged and sus-
tanned, while that of another is
suppressed and even obliterated.
He demanded amendments to the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Blind Aid Totals
S1422 in County

Average aid to the blind Of $45. SO
per person was granted TO 81 per-
sons in Imperial county during Feb
ruary of this year, according to
study of blind aid in California
counties, made public by California
Taxpayers association Monday. The
total amount of payments TO the
blind in the county was 1922 for
the month, the association found.
Over California as a whole, the
association stated, 6253 persons
were granted an average of $47.96
in aid during February Costs Of
this aid will approximate $3,442 900
for the current year, for which the
state and counties each will provide
about $1,l85 900 and the federal
government $1,072,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Defenses Planned
For Puerto Rico

WASHINGTON, May 1. (UP)-
The war department today desig-
mated Puerto Rico as a separate
military department, similar to that
Of the Panama Canal Zone, as a
first step toward strengthening the
canals outlying defenses.
It's proposed to establish an air
base in Puerto Rico, and to make
the chain OF islands bordering the
Caribbean a sort of "breakwater"
to protect the Caribbean and all
Atlantic approaches to the canal.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
If POLAND FIGHTS, BRITAIN FIGHTS
REDS BLOCK WPA QUIZ

WASHINGTON. May /. UP)-
H. Ralph Burton, investigator for
the house WPA investigating COM
mittee, testified today that a pro-
test by the Workers Alliance, back
ed up by relief officials, prevented
him from asking white collar prof.
ect workers in New York whether
they belonged to the Communist
party.
Burton, first witness at the re-
sumption of the inquiry. described
a QUESTIONABLE he attempted to
circulate among employees of the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Give Me Break
ProwIer Pleads

Give me a break, fellows. l just
got in a JAM" begged Henry j.
Munson, %, when he was arrested
Saturday night on a charge of
prowling around the Lott Vickers
home at Sixth and Holt.
Special Deputy Sheriff Vickers
was one O. the officers sent from
the sheriff's office in response TO
telephone call from his wife.
Munson relapsed into silence as
soon as he was told it was the Of
ficer'S wife he had terrified by his
stealthy proving.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Prisoners Escape
Camp on Desert

FREDERICK Delgado, 33, and Jose
Reyes, 81, disappeared from the I'M
perial county prison camp at Super
stition mountain during the early
morning hours Monday.
Camp guards missed them when
they made the morning check-up at
tbs am. Monday. Footprints in
the sand showed the fugitives had
headed across the desert in the
direction of Plaster City.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Suspects Held in
Hif-Run Accident

BRAWLEY, May 1.-R. Salcido
25, and Jesus Salcido, 38, are held
in Jail here while police investigate
the charge that one Of them drove
the automobile which struck down
Manuel Padillo. 25, at Tenth and
Main streets early Sunday morning
Pieces OF headlight lens found at
the scene of the hit-and-run auto
mobile accident matched missing
pieces from a smashed headlight
on The Salcido automobile, BraWley
police said. Padillo was not seri-
ously injured.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Mrs. Wallace Beery
Obtains Divorce

CARSON CITY, New. May /. (UP)
Fifteen years married life of the
Wallace Beerys ended here today
in a Nevada divorce court when
Mrs. Arieta Gilman Beery charged
the veteran actor with cruelty.
Judge Clark j. Guild granted
the decree after the expensively
dressed former actress appeared
here. accompanied by Mrs. Lou
Gammell, wife of the Reno, New,
police chief and close friend of the
Beerys for years.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Heiress Sorry
AT Mothers Death

RENO, New, May l. (UP)-Ann
Cooper Hewitt Gay Bradstreet,
sterilized heiress, was shocked to-
day at the death of her mother,
the one time glamorous Maryon
Hewitt.
II am so Sorry-I had premo-
milton all was not well,'' she said
when someone told her the news
as she was dancing in a Reno
night club.
Ann said she was deeply sorry
despite the fact that in a sensa-
tional suit in 1886 she charged her
mother had her Sterilized in an
asserted plot to keep her from in
heriting S10,000,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
JUDGES DISQUALIFIED
FROM ALAMEDA CASE

OAKLAND, Cal, May l. (UP)-
Superior Judge Lincoln S. Church
today disqualified himself and all
other Alameda county judges from
hearing the trial of Mark Lee Nc
Gladdery, jr., and Edwin t. Geary
on grand theft and bribery con-
spiracy charges.
Judge Church said a prejudice
had been raised in his mind" by a
letter written him by Megladdery's
attorney, Leo Friedman. Friedman
in the letter asserted Church and
other members of the Alameda
county bench had "prejudiced" the
Megladdery case.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Meeks kidnapers
Sent TO Folsom

YUBA CITY, Cal, May 1. CUP)
Robert Grimes, "a, and his bro
ther Ollen, 80, were sentenced by
Superior Judge Arthur Coats to-
day to serve one year to life in
Folsom prison for the kidnapping last
November of Mrs Norma Meeks,
wife of a Rio Oso orchardist.
The court imposed two sentences
one TO 25 years for kidnapping and
one year to life for kidnapping with
intent to commit extortion-but or
dered that they be served concur
rently.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Hipass Receives
Building Material

HIPASS, May /. - Three truck
loads OF building materials and
equipment were delivered at Hipass
Health camp here Sunday to pro-
vide American Legionnaires with
supplies for construction now un-
derway at the resort.
A new electric plant and a we'll
are the newest additions at the
camp facilities.
E. B. Covington, Calexico coach
who will be camp director this year.
will announce the camp staff soon.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
FEDERAL PRISONERS
BOARDED BY COUNTY

Federal prisoners again will be
housed and fed at the Imperial
county jail, the board of super
visors agreed Monday in renewing
a contract with the government.
The same schedule of costs as that
of last year was agreed upon.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Earthquake Hits
japanese Province

TOKYO, May I. CUP)-A severe
earthquake occurred in Akita pre-
lecture today. Communications
were broken and it was difficult
to get an estimate of damage or
possible casualties. However, it was
known that store windows were
shattered in the city of Funako-
shima and fires were raging.
First reports said houses in Caa.
osu Pass were destroyed.
The earthquake was of the severe
vertical type, the type which caus-
ed the great disaster in 1928.
Akita is one of the northernmoSt
prefectureS of the main island
HonShi.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Inquiry Links
Juvenile Crimes

BRAWLEY, May l.-Repolts OF
school boys missing from Brawley,
stolen automobile, flight OF boys
surprised stealing gasoline in Nj
land, and arrest OF a juvenile boy,
became one police case Sunday
night after officers succeeded in
unscramb,ing the tangle.
Three Brawley boys helped them
selves to car in BraWley and
started out to see the world. They
ran out of gasoline in inland and
tried to take some from another
car. One of the boys was arrested
in inland shortly after fleeing from
the scene of the gasoline theft.
His companions were arrested Mon
day morning as they trudged along
the highway toward home.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Ike Price Burned
In ManhoIe Blast

Ike Price, employed by the FL
Centro street department, was burn
ed on the face and arms in an eX-
plosion caused when he lighted a
match while working in a manhole
back of the Barbara Worth hotel
Monday morning.
FL Centre firemen administered
first aid and Price was taken to
physician. His burns were said to
be painful but not serious.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01

and another girl chum Is In the
Juvenile Detention home at Impe-
rial for refusing TO reveal the girfs
whereabouts.
She ran away, officers said, be-
cause she did not want 10 accom-
pany her family 10 Mexico City.
Mexican officials have charge of
the case.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Tractors, Rails
Stolen in Phoenix

PHOENIX, May /. (U)-Thieves
operated in a "big way" during the
weekend, police reported today.
A search was asked for five $4,000
pound tractors stolen at carp, Cal,
near the Colorado river.
But the "payoff" was a stolen
railroad section in the Tonto ma
tional forest of central Arizona.
Twelve sections of rail, each 15
feet long, were reportd off from
little-used spur line.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01

act that would prohibit any board
from alleged discrimination against
the AF'L-type craft union in favor
of the industrial unions of the
Congress Of Industrial Organiza-
tions. 'The abuse of power" by
the board, he added, threatens the
continued existence of the oldest
labor organization in the country.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01

SANTA ROSA, Cal, May l. CUP,
(UP)-Fire broke out in the busi-
ness district of Santa Rosa today,
spread rapidly through block of
stores, warehouses and garages,
and destroyed or damaged at least
five buildings at an estimated dam
age of 100000 before it was
brought under control by the fire
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01

ed the law to mean that inquiry
ON such subjects shall not be tol-
Grated"
80 it seems Woodrum COM
mented, that the advice of the
Daily Worker, backed by the ad-
ministrative advice of the WPA,
stopped you from getting informa-
tion which you had been directed
by the committee to get?"
1T did. sir Burton replied.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Senate Approves
F|aq Salute Bill

SACRAMENTO, May /. UP)-
The senate today passed a bill
authorizing local school districts to
require compulsory participation Of
students in flag salutes, proposal
strenuously opposed on religious
grounds by the Jehovah's Witness
SeS sect.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Jury De|iberates
Robbery Evidence

Daniel Nethery, 80, resident of
a northend pea camp, was tried in
superior court Monday on a charge
of taking $50 in a daylight stickup
in Brawley March 16.
The case went to the jury less
than two hours after court con-
vened Monday morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01

cabin.
After the pilots retreat the Pan
ola ambled into the control cabin
and approached Capt. Don Terry.
Casing took over the controls while
Capt. Terry tried to catch the
panda.
Eluding Capt. Terry, the animal
managed to bite Casing as the
first officer calmly brought The
plane to a landing.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
County RepeaIs
Occupation Levy

Imperial county supervisors Mon
day repealed the county occupa-
tion tax ordinance.
This ordinance has been the
bone of contention between the
board and a group of owners of
small businesses in rural areas for
more than six months.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01

ly, although the 70-pound animal
bit First Officer M. H. Casing on
the hand as the ship came to
earth. Passengers on the TWA were
unaware of the struggle.
The panda was chained in the
planes baggage compartment when
Tommy Tomlinson, chief test pilot
for TWA, attempted to step thru.
The animal nipped at his trousers
and chased him back into the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
YOUTH PLEADS GUILTY
TO ESCAPE CHARGE

James Long, Holtville youth,
pleaded guilty in superior court
Monday to escaping from the Holt
vile Jail. Two other counts, resist
ing an officer and escaping from
an officer, were dismissed
He applied for probation and
will be given a hearing Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01

her father. Deputy Sheriff Joe Liz
arraraS and Mrs. Leona Jacobs,
deputy probation officer, located
the girl when neighbors of her
MeXicali friends recognized her
photograph.
Two of the Vale girls young
feminine friends, a chauffeur, and
a taxi driver are in Jail in Mexicali
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Baseball Results
NATIONAL

NATIONAL
New York .......... 900 900 002-2-4-0
Boston .............. 1874 900 00x-7-l0-1
Castleman, Lohrman, Brown and
Danning; Posedel and Lopez.
Philadelphia :. 020 200 107-12-15-3
Brooklyn -. 401 410 0l2-13-15-2 2
Passeau, Burkart, Smith, Henry
and Davis, Coble, Miles: Tamulis,
Pressnell, Wyatt and Todd.
Cincinnati ....... 900 600 100-1-6-O
Pittsburgh ....... 101 900 O0x-2-9-1
Cleveland at Detroit postponed.
Benefit Inter-League Game
(N) Chicago Cubs 900 900 100
-l-l0-3
(A Chicago White Sox 0O3 100 00x
A 80
Dean, Higbe and Hartnett, Gar
bark; Whitehead and Silvestri.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Missing EI Centro Girl Located at
Home of Friends in MexicaIi as
Officers End Week of SEARCHING

Consueo Valle 16, Ell Centre girl missing for week.
found hiding at the home of friends in Mexical this
weekend
The girl had been the object of intensive search
both sides of the international boundary since she dis
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Pilots Struggle with Giant Panda
As Transport G|ides Into
Landing at Pittsburgh Airport

PITTSBURGH, May l. (UP)-Three transport plane
pilots struggled with giant panda in mid-air today
the animal, being flown country, wandered into
the control cabin when the airner into Allegheny
county airport for landing The plane landed safe
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
Senate Committee Urges 80 Million
Slash in State Budget as Assembly
Economy Bloc Musters Full Strength
Lower House Split by Battle to Win Needed
Ballots to Send Appropriation Measure to
Upper Chamber; Olson Statements Denied

SACRAMENTO, May l. (UP)-With the adminstra
on $557 100000 budget at the crossroads of the egs
ture today the senate committee financial and
ment cooperation in majority report recommended tn
huge expense bill be trimmed $50, 900 900.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
7 '11f'ruffic Deaths
Reach q Since
First ofveur
HoItviIIe Mexican Dies in Crash with
Truck; Impact Embeds Front Of Machine
In Larger Vehicle; Jud se Succumbs

HOLTVILLE, May 1.-Traffc deaths climbed to 23 in
Imperial county this year when Erasamo Obeso Hotville
was killed a mile north of town early today
The mangled body Of the Mexican tangled in the
wreckage Of his He drove his into pickup truck
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
English Declare
Policy as Poles
Answer Germ any
Rumana Takes Stand Against Meeting
Nazi Demands; Communist Leaders Tell
Followers to Support Anti Fascists

LONDON, May 1. (UP)-A British government spokes-
declared today that "f Poland fights, Britain and
France will fight too
Bluntest declaration of British foreign policy since
the World War the statement May First set off
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-01
2 AMBLING
IMPORTER
He Who HeSitateS-

To everyone else this is May Day,
but to Percie Thacker it is the an
niversary of his great MISSTEP.
Twenty eight years ago Thacker
came TO Ell Centro. Because no
train left on the day of his arrival
he stayed. The hesitation was fatal.
He stayed permanently.
Pretty Catsy-
Be foreWarned. That guileless
visage that Al Hayworth carries
around hides more than bit of
slireWdneSs and if you are not fore
warned you may end up with cat,
AIS procedure is to turn the sub
ject of conversation to pets, then
stress the fine qualities of cats.
After the patient is well prepared
for the blow and virtually aching
in every limb for a cat as a pet,
AL mentions that his pet feline has
Just given birth to a number OF
similar creatures. Without pausing
for breath and not allowing the
victim TO speak. Al clinches the bar
gain with:
What? You want one? Dandy,
I'll send it right overt Then he
dashes away, presumably after a
kitten.
Slightly Feathered-
Roy Misenhimer bagged his first
"birdie" on golf course Sunday,
but it didn't help his score bit.
His shot to the green collided with
q sparrow, and ball and bird drop
ped to the ground together. The
bird got up, shook itself and flew
away. The ball did no such thing.
Japanese Adeline-
A friend of ours overheard Don
Bitler recalling what must have
been a very amusing occasion. Don
went to a japanese wedding with
several friends and during the
course of the evening there was
some slight indulgence in Saki, the
potent rice wine.
by the time we started home
the boys were trying to yodel jap
aneSe songs!" Don recalled.
That would be something to hear
and something to treasure forever
more.
FOOtsOre Fergie-
Anything is worth a trial, ap-
parently. In this case it was worth
$165
Forrest Ferguson, playing miser-
able golf, limped around to No. 18
tee and with one hole to go his
control snapped. Muttering TO him
self he took off first one shoe and
then the other and threw them into
the pond. Wriggling his toes in
the grass he addressed the ball.
THAT feels better" he said and
hit a screamer His second was on
the green and his four was good
enough to win him $1.65.