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Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14

'traClOn OTgdnlZdtlOn.
Leech said that at least two Of
the SRA visitors who came to his
home to check on his relief appli-
cations were Communists. Dean
James Lands, presiding at the
hearing at Angel Island immigrs.
ton station, asked Leech to name
the two.
Leech, who testified previously
he knew Bridges was a Communist
hesitated in his answer.
Then he picked up pencil and
a sheet of paper, wrote something
on it, and handed it to Lands
The paper contained two names.
Lands did not make them public
Continuing his testimony. Leech
said it was the policy of the CON-
munist party in Los Angeles to see
that families of Communists were
put on relief and that such families
we're ordered to refuse to pay rent
and face eviction rather than use
relief money for anything except
actual subsistence. He said that
Communists had promised his wife
they would use their influence with
the SRA to see that Leech remain
ed on relief rolls even though he
was receiving $40 week as a Com
munist party member.
They told us it was done in other
cases. he said.
Leech said the $40 weekly pay
ment was regarded as expense mon-
ey rather than, as salary, He said
he spent most of It for party pur-
poses.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14

be shut-off, Commissioner Ernest
o. Thompson said, because stripper
wells that would suffer serious dam
age if closed down, will be permit
ted to run.
Thompson described the situation
as the supreme test" to see if pro-
ration can be made the tool of
monopoly"
when proration is used to put
the little fellow out of business
it isn't worth DAMN" Thompson
said. Texas has particular in
terest. Its university and its schools
have extensive oil lands. The state
has a right to demand that its
interests be protected"
The 20 cent a barrel reduction
in crude prices inaugurated Wed
nesday by the Sinclair-Prairie Oil
Marketing company had been fol-
lowed with similar reductions by
virtually every crude professor rep
resented in the midcontinent mar
ket. The wholesale action lowered
the tax income of at least a dozen
states, played havoc with small
producers and the budgets of tens
of thousands of oil field workers
and indirectly affected other mil
lions in the midcontinent area where
oil rivals agriculture as the prin-
cipal source of income.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14

killed and Ill were injured
Southern Pacific railroad police
took the man off a freight train
at nearby Sparks after an all-night
search for man of that descrip-
ton reported seen near the wreck
scene before six cars of the 17-car
train left the rails and plunged into
the Humboldt river.
The man, brought to police head
quarters here for questioning, in
sisted he had not been in eastern
Nevada recently
Very Bitter
Chief of Police Andy Welliver
said the man, about % years old,
had in his pocket a book of paper
matches from a Fernley, New. bus
iness place. Fernley is east of Reno
and on the line between Reno and
Carlin, near which the wreck oc-
CURED Saturday night
Welliver said the man was very
bitter against the railroad Rail-
road officials, who had announced
they had found definite proof Of
sabotage in the wreck, believed a
person either seeking revenge or
planning a robbery. were respon-
sible for the alleged track tamper-
ing which caused the accident.
The train-rider brought here is
an under-sized man with sparse
blond hair
He has ears but they are SO small
and apparently, deformed that they
are scarcely noticeable He has nc
left foot and he wore no shoe on
his right foot when picked up.
He blamed the railroad" for his
deformities.
THE railroad cut off my foot
two years ago in Montana and
cheated me out of money" he was
quoted as saying by William Sked
Southern Pacific special agent from
Sacramento. He said his ears also
had been mutilated in a railrad
accident.
Revenge or Robbery
Railroad authorities had no doubt
that saboteurs wrecked the train
Saturday night as it sped west
ward from Chicago with l49 pas
sengers and a crew of As aboard.
The motive for the sabotage, for
which they said they had conclu-
sive proof, was either revenge or
Continued on Pas 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
List of
Dead on
Train

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. IA. CUP)
Following is the list of dead and
injured in the wreck of the city
of San Francisco near Carlin, New.
The dead:
Milton Borta, (white) cook; Burl
Bowens, (coloreO, porter, Oakland.
Cal; Francis Gibbons, (colored,
Oakland, CAL; Dess Hawell, Omale).
Oakland, CAL; Helen Henry, Oak
land, Cal; w. v. Jensen, New
York, N. Y; Charles A. johnson.
(coloreO Oakland, Cal; Myrtle Ko-
bosky, Wis; Charles w. Lewis, jr.;
Union Pacific; William Henry Lloyd
tcolored porter, Chicago; Eleanor
D. Martin, Oak Park, ILL.,; George
c. Mcdaniel. (coloredD Oakland.
CAL; Leon Moore, waiter, Oakland.
Cal; Betty Naujoks, Chicago, ILL.,.
Arnold Robar twhite) asst steward,
! Oakland, Cal: William Burton (col-
ored Oakland, Calf: Harry
Schwein (colored Oakland, Cal:
Katherine E. Kuntz, Chicago: H.
c. Werst. Pittsburgh, Pa; an uni
Identified man.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
New Equipment
To Be Installed
At tBrawIey Plant

Indications that the Imperial IT.
rigation District power division will
be in position to launch a COM
prehensive sales campaign with the
beginning of winter were given
Monday in the announcement that
gigantic new equipment will be in
stalled in the Brawley plant be-
ginning this week.
The first of two 360O- horsepower
diesel generators-bigger than any
of the six now installed at the plant
will be put upon its foundations
by district crews who will start
work before the next weekend
Framework for the power-house ex-
tension has been completed by the
Pacific Iron and Steel company.
Chief Engineer M. j. Dowd an
nounced.
The new generators will bring
the district plant to full capacity
for carrying the power load until
completion of the All-American ca
nal, and will furnish a gigantic
reserve.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
Fire Raging in
Hills Near I.v.,
Burns 5000 Acres

SAN DIEGO, Aug Ia. UP)-
State and federal forestry fire fight
ing forces joined today to battle a
raging brush fire which has swep,
over more than 1000 acres in the
Warner Hot Springs district and
defied the efforts of 300 men to put
1t out since early yesterday.
Whipped by a southwest wind,
the fire. which at one time threat
ened the country estate of Sen. Ed
Fletcher, was being fought by 500
men.
The additional 200 men we're dis
patched to the scene of the fire to.
day. after district ranger. F. H. Hay
ward, in charge of fire crews. re-
ported 800 men on a two-mile front
were unable to check 1t.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
Leagues Danzig
Commissioner
Off TO Germany
Believed to Have Talked
With Hitler, Presumably
On Free City Affairs

LONDON, Aug. Ia. (UP)
Great Britain has been Of
ficially informed that DR..
Karl j. Burckhardt, League
of Nations high commission
er for Danzig, left Danzig for Berch-
tesgaden, Germany, Friday night in
compliance with an invitation by
the German government, it was
disclosed today.
Belief was expressed here that
Burckhardt had conferred with
Adolf Hitler at the Nazi Fuehrer's
mountain villa near Berchtesgaden
and had now returned to Danzig.
Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian
foreign minister. and Joachim Won
Ribbentrop. German foreign min
lister, conferred with Hitler Satur-
day afternoon and yesterday morn
ing. -.
A British spokesman explained
that in his capacity as high conf
missioner, Burckhardt was author
lied to discuss only Danzig.
The notification was made con-
fidentally and officially to Great
Britain as secretary of the league
committee of three nations on
Danzig, France and Sweden or the
other nations.
It was understood that immedi-
ately on his return to Danzig Burck-
hardt would confer with Marian
Chodacki, Polish diplomatic repre-
sentative for Danzig. and Arthur
Greiser, president of the senate,
the ruling body of the free city.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
Officers Interfere as Boys Attempt
ToLead Tom SawyerLife on Colorado

attracted the attention Of a rail-,
road emergency crew. The rail- d
road men found the two runaways
cooking their first meal in many
hours. Highway PatrOlman AL
Alleger was notified. He called
Deputy Sheriff Bob Parrish from
Ell Centre.
Well fed and sleeping sOundly.
the youngsters arrived in Ell Cen
tro to stay until their relatives
come for them.
Both were more than ready to
go home, they said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
Plane Piunges
ToGround, Kills
Two Persons

VAN NUYS, Cal, Aug. IA. UP)-
The wreckage of small biplane in
which two persons were killed was
being investigated today to deter
mine what caused it to crash when
its motor and controls apparently
were working properly.
The plane crashed in power
dive from an altitude of 1000 feet,
killing w. r. Harper, 40, of Van
Nuys, the pilot, and Dr. Thomas
r. Thorn, 33, of Hollywood.
Witnesses said the ship was fly
ing low over Van Nuys when sud-
denly it went into a power dive
and crashed, burying the motor two
feet in the ground.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14


plane were so nearly consumed by
flames that effective examination
was difficult, and both survivors
were suffering from severe shock.
The plane had circled normally
for landing in the harbor People
awaiting it at the airport, relatives
and friends of passengers and Pan
American officials, saw it disappear
behind the marine arsenal, as all
planes do, preparing to alight. A
few minutes later a message was
received that the plane had crashed
into the harbor in flames.
1t had dropped suddenly, appar-
emily after an explosion. 1t had
crashed against the top of a high
drydock adjoining the arsenal. One
of its two motors had remained
dangling on the edge OF the dock
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14

Runaway adventure might be
all right for Tom. Sawyer and
Huckleberry Finn on the Missis-
sippi. but 1t is highly overrated
for Sam Moore, 13, and Leslie
Royalty, Is, on the Colorado, the
two boys decided Monday.
The Iona Linda boys were in
protective custody of Imperial
county deputy sheriffs Monday
because they built fire under
a railroad bridge to cook a cat
fish they had snagged out of the
Colorado river Sunday night.
The fire famed so brightly it
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14

The rest of the flaming plane plung-
ed into the narDor, nose in the wa
ter, tail blazing torch.
Three men were thrown clear.
One died in hospital; the others
were semi-conscious In hospital to-
day.
Those aboard we're:
Died
Eddy, Miss or Mrs. Henrie May.
Gainesville, Fla.
Landman, Robert, New York City.
Rogers, Prof. James Harvey. New
Haven, Conn, professor at Yale.
Person, Capt. A. A., Miami, chief
pilot.
King, Capt. George B., Miami,
second pilot.
Jenkins, Russell radio man
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
Infant Killed by
Falling Debris
In 40-MiIe Gale

BUCKEYE. Ariz., Aug. IA. CUP)-
A seven month old child was killed
and an entire cotton camp was de-
molished when a 40 mile an hour
wind raced through this district
late last night and early today.
The violent wind. accompanied
by a fall of hailstones described 'as
hens eggs" blew across the fields
and uprooted tents and shanties OF
the workers.
The victim. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Marion Atkinson. was killed by fall
ling debris. Mrs. Atkinson was in
jured slightly.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14

GERS; we have to draw our own
guns"
Such stars as Jean Hersholt. Jane
Wyman, Ray Milland, Hugh Her
bert, Eddie Cantor, Pat O'Brien,
Boris Karloff, Binnie Barnes. Jean
Muir, Adolph MenJou. Lawrence
Tibbett and Mischa Auer howled
their applause. The stadium was
jammed with union members, whose
chauffeurs waited outside.
Continued on Page 9, Col. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14

QeclQeS tildJ CHe SIdSe ndnQS union
may keep the night club performers
union their jurisdiction, the movie
stars said they would do more than
protest. They said they'd quit work
I'VE are taking our provisionary
strike vote now by mail" announced
President Ralph Morgan of the
Screen Actors Guild at a meeting
of some 1000 members last night
at the Hollywood Legion stadium.
This is a precautionary measure.
Faced with gunmen, with racket
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
SaIvagers to Lift
SquaIus tuesday

ABOARD THE YACHT MARY
Chiffon. off Portsmouth. NJ H.,
Aug. IA. UP)-(Via Radiophone)-
Cheered by President Roosevelt's
personal message of well done"
navy salvagers hoped to lift the
sunken submarine Squalus and its
26 dead men 100 feet nearer the
surface tomorrow or Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
Dogs-Not Gone

Dogs-Not Gone
The Massey Horizons are not going
TO have a dull summer-not If
friends and neighbors have any,
thing to do with it. All summer
more or less, the Horizons have TAX
en- care of somebody's dog during
somebody's vacation. operating on
the theory it's just as easy to take
care of two, three or more as one.
Next week the peak comes. The
4. 2rtons will have six dogs to herd.
~1'What those people need Is ken
mel Or fewer friends with dogs.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
Firemen Extineuish Blare
In Power-Pole Arm

BRAWLEY, Aug IA. - Brawley
firemen Sunday night used a fine
spray of water to extinguish fire
which had burned from a nearby
grass blaze up to the first cross
arm on an Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict power pole a mile south Of
here Service to electric consumers
vas not interrupted.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
d AMBLING
EpoRTER
The Way They 60

The Way They CO.
E. w. Riggs, Mrs. Riggs and a
couple of friends, fishing in the
mountains, were mighty proud of
the even dozen fish they had hook
ed and landed. The finny trophies
were languishing on string neat
ly fastened to the bank. Then Mrs
Riggs hooked No. 49,
With the fish landed and re-
moved from the barb, Mrs. Riggs
reached for the string to add him
to the collection. She unfastened
the string Then the freshly caught
fish unfastened himself from Mrs
Riggs grip. He dived for the water.
Mrs. Riggs dived for him. The fish
was the best diver. He got away. So
did the IL others, in the excitement
that followed.
n At least that's the story they
(the fishermen tell.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
Pride GOeth-

Pride GOeth-
YOU'D better let me catch that
mare for you. She's pretty skit-
tish," RR urged Tom Reams, with
whom he'd just dickered to change
the shoes on saddle mare.
Heck, I can catch any horse YOU
ever saw" remarked Tom. and there
followed narrowing tales of wild
horses tanned at the very touch of
the Reams hand. SO RR gave in,
Tom went out alone to catch ano
shoe the mare.
Monday Tom appeared at the
office.
well. did you get her shod?" RR
asked by way of conversation.
"You know" said Tom a bit de-
jectedly, she ate out of my hand
She nuzzled my pockets. She's as
friendly as they come. But. durn it
all, every time you move to grab
her she's off like a forest fire. Nope,
she amt shod yet
SO Toms off to try again.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
|EARLESS' Man JAILED in TRAIN CRASH
Witness Charges IS Reds
I'm Relief Office at L. A.
Ex-Communist T ellis Bridges He airing
Two SRA Visitors Party Members;
Examiner WithhoIds Names

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. a. (UP)-John Leech, for
Communist party organizer in Los Angeles county
testified at the Harry Bridges deportation hearing today
that there Communist faction, party unit of a
least 35 members in the Los Angeles state relief admins
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
Rails Displaced.
StreonnIiner Leaps
Tracks, Kills 20
Sabotage Blamed for Tragic Accident
In Nevada; Susp Denies He Was
At Scene Says He Hates Railroads

RENO, New. Aug IA. (UP)-A imam without ears"
who said he bitter against railroads because they
mutated and cheated me out of my money was
picked up here today for questioning about Saturdays
streamine wreck in eastern Nevada in which 20 were
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
Airliner Bursts Into Flames, PIunges
Into Water. Taking 14Lives; Two
Men Thrown Clear, Survive Though Hurt

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. Id. (UP)-Investigators we're
at loss today to explain the tragic crash Miami to
Buenos Aires arlner here in which ii persons of them
Americans, lost their lives. There two survivors
The four men of the crew, including two ace pilots
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
Unique

Unique
There's nothing like good pipe
of tobacco when a chap goes home
from the office all tuckered out.
Ask George Kirk George got home
one day recently, hunted up his
favorite pipe and prepared for
good relaxing smoke Then came
realization. The pipe was not as
II should be.
1t was some days later when
George learned the truth. His young
son, visiting downtown, was telling
an adult acquaintance how he helped
his daddy. (The acquaintance told
George0
why" he said. Il even filled
his pipe with water the other day"
No sir. there's nothing like IL
Ask George.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
Movie Actors Threaten Strike. Tying Up
Entire Industry. If AFL Rules
Against Them in Jurisdiction Fight y

ATLANTIC CITY, N J, a. (UP)-A spokesman for the
that the councils
deferred
In event the spokesman said
public
HOLLYWOOD, Aug IA (UP) - Movie actors the
worlds hghest-pad union laborers, dispatched the
American Federation of Labor today final threat of
strike which may lock the sound stages the first time
in their history. If the executive committee of the AFL
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14

oil fields, met in Austin and order
ed the shutdown for 15-day per-
iod. Earlier the commissioners had
considered a 30-day shutdown.
The action was the first definite
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14

move any of the oil producing states
have made since the cut in crude
prices was initiated last week by
Harry F.. Sinclair's company.
The entire Texas output will not
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
Texas Cuts Off Oil Output.
Calls Price Cutters Bluff

DALLAS, Tex. Aug IA. UP)-Most of the $1,000
were ordered today to shutdown tomorrow in protest
against the action of the big oil companies in reducing the
sion bOdy in charge of
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14

Butter: Los Angeles. a6oi but
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch,
grade A. 35c; manufacturing milk,
27cI route gathered cream, 24tsc.
l.. A. Hay: u. =. No. I, $3.50;
us. No. 2 leafy S11-12.5O: us. No.
2 S1O.5O-11. MINI. flax Sept. si.0.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-14
Baseball Scores

AMERICAN
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
Madden Opposes
EmpIOye Penalty

WASHINGTON. May IS. up
Chairman J. Warren Madden of the
National Labor Relations Board to-
day told the house labor committee
he opposes writing "enploye pen
alties" ana discipline into the Wag-
ner act.
He outlined his view in response
to questions by Rep. George Heineke
who Contended that some provisions
should be made to penalize Illegal
acts of employees and their IN
ions"
Madden said there may be no
way" OF imposing employe penal
ties other than the present legal
method of punishment in the police
court or restraining them by in
functions or by damage suits such
as the Apex case and the one the
Republic Steel filed yesterday
Those old-fashioned, rough-and-
ready legal methods are the only
ones to restrain wOrkmen and un-
ions from misconduct" he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25

Thursday
Ten-minute talks viii be given
by four adults and five minute
talks by two youths in the farming
program arranged by Cayanah.
george Winwright. assistant
county farm advisor. will discuss
dairying and the reasons for its
decline from a major Imperial Val
lev industry to one Of the lesser
ones.
Argyle McLachlan, manager Of
the Stuthwest Flax Seed association.
will tell of the progress made in
the growing and marketing of this
comparatively new crop in the val
ley. B. A. Harrigan. county agrleul-
tural commissioner. is scheduled 10
give the latest bulletins in pest
control and describe preparations
made to protect valley agriculture
from pests.
Accomplishments of the Associ-
ated Farmers in Imperial county
will be outlined by G G Bennett
the president.
Elmer Haws and Hugh LtTell.
All club members viii tell what
Imperial Valley farm youths are
accomplishing Haws Will describe
his success in raising sheep and
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
La Rue Family
Leaves Valley
For Summer
ELM NOTES

ELM NO1ES
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred LaRue left
Friday for Hanford where they
plan TO spend the summer with
their sons, Harry and John LaRue.
Jasper Carlton returned to Ber-
kelley where he is a graduate from
college He visited several days with
his mother and sister, Mrs. Ruby
Carlton and Lillian.
Saturday Dallas Tanning left for
the coast TO visit with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amuel Rister and
son Gerald accompanied by Mrs.
Gene Higgins and Mrs. Olive Can
non motored to San Diego Monday
Mrs. Cannon visiting with her par
ents at Lakeside. Mrs. Rister and
son remained in San Diego where
little Gerald entered the Mercy
hospital for an operation.
Thursday evening several friends
of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred LaRue ar
rived at their home TO give them
a farewell as the La Rues left for
Hanford Friday. Guests were Mr..
and Mrs. Earnest Shumard and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Stuart
and family, Mrs. Ollie Boone, Mr..
and Mrs. M L. Boone and family
and Mr.. and Mrs. M r. Boone and
daughter, Bobette.
Refreshments of ice cream and
cake were enjoyed at late hour
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
Tilted Boy Kills
Young Sweetheart
After Argument

RICHMOND, Cal, May 25. CUP)
"A broken engagement ended in
murder and suicide today when IT.
year-old John Gray, high school
athlete, went to the home of his
former sweetheart, Opal Odem, IL,
shot and killed her as she returned
his ring, and then killed himself.
The shooting occurred in the
girls bedroom where Gray followed
her after appearing at the home as
she was eating breakfast with her
mother, Mrs. Olive Odem. and her
sisters. Verda and Laura.
Miss Odem and Gray, noted last
year as Il high school quarter miller
were engaged to be married this
summer. They quarreled, police
learned, and the young woman
broke the engagement.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
Widow, Children
Befriended Here

A widow and five children, hitch
hiking from San Francisco to Fort
Worth. Tex, found a haven of rest
in Ell Centre Wednesday night.
Hungry and without a place to
stay Mrs. Helen Beeler was found
walking the streets by Officer r.
r. Voyles and brought to the police
station where officers "chipped in"
and bought them a meal. Later
they slept at the Salvation Army
headquarters and were released to
continue their journey Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
Compensation Checks for April Here
Total SIS, ,2bO; Average S1OEach

Unemployment com pens ton
checks received in Imperial county
in April totaled sl5,26o, a de-
cided drop below the $21,348 total
of March.
The April total brought the coun-
ty total to $190,912 in the 21,148
checks distributed to date. Thomas
Finney. director If the State En-
ployment service said.
In California the April average
per check was $40 as compared to
the March average of slightly less
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
Doctor Displays Device to Aid in
Child Delivery by 'TeIegraphing
Difficulties of Expectant Mother

siye force of birth. II was de-
veloped only recently by DR.. San
dor Lorand of Budapest. Murphy
has the only one in the United
states and has experimental with
it in 800 births.
It is a tiny box containing a
clock-like spring arrangement that
carries a tiny roll of paper across
the point of a small pen. The
pen is attached to a spring and
protruding button. In use, 1t Is
attached to the expectant mothers
abdomen by an elastic waist-band.
Movements OF the abdominal
wall against the button make a
waye-like graph on the paper, y
Murphy said The frequency and
severity of the contractionS indicate
the nearneSS to delivery. The
movements are magnified seven
times on the graph and make avail
able a record of normal and pre-
labor movements"
If the lines OF the graph proceed
evenly. he said, indications are
that there are no complications
Depending on the spacing of waves
of the graph the physician can de-
termine whether the mother Is hav-
ing a quick labor or whether the
labor will extend over a period OF
days
Thus" he said. the doctor
would know days III advance if il
appeared that the delivery was 60
ing to be difficult what to anti
cipate and, if necessary, whether
to administer drugs to speed ii
up."