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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
Townsend Bill Up
In Move TO Record
Vote of Lawmakers
Vote Getting Promises
Will Be Tested In
Pension Strategy

WASHINGTON, May "a
(UP)-The house ways and
means committee today vot-
ed to report the Townsend
bill for 5000 per month old
age pensions without recommen-
dation" in a move to put pension
advocates on record on that con-
troversial plan.
House leaders said privately that
the Townsend bill hasn't a
chance. The strategy was agreed
upon in the Democratic-controlled
ways and means committee to force
showdown among house members
who were elected to congress on
platforms including Townsend plan
support
Chairman Robert l.. Doughton,
Continued on Page 3, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
Accidents DemoIish Trucks, Cause
$4,000 Damage, Flood Highway in
Southern Part Of Imperial Valley

IMPERIAL, May 24.-Traffic ac-
cidcnts north of here early today
brought $4,000 loss to two truck
owners, demolished an Imperial r.
rigation district syphon, floodee
the highway and slightly injured
one man.
The Southern California Tcle,
phone company suffered a loss es-
timated at between $4,000 and SIC,
900 in a fire which destroyed q
truck and It's contents three miles
north of Imperial. The new truce
was loaded with telephones and
other expensive equipment. Willis
Snead, sWamper wrenched his arm
when he pitched from the truck
while fighting fire.
A Desert Grain and Milling COM
pany truck was demolished when
the driver missed the highway
curve at the north city limits OF
Imperial and plowed over a district
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
Aged I.V. Rancher
In Lonely Vigil
To Summon Help

Sick and almost helpless, an aged
rancher dragged himself to a rura.
mail box near his isolated shack
Wednesday morning and awaited
the arrival of the mail carrier, his
only contact with the outside World
Frank HuSS, 80, huddled beside
the mail box two miles south o.
Magnolia school when Carrier E. 4
Lee arrived, He took the aged iQar
back to his shack and summoned
county authorities. Now Huss is
being cared for at the county hos,
pital
He received old age security BEN
Gifts for several years but refusec
to leave the ranch he used to own
The present owner, Judge H. &.
Griffin of Brawley, let him live in
tie shack because he was not happy
elsewhere.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
Witness Describes
Death Struggle in
Yamatoda' Trial
kidnap-Gambling Sequel
Written as l.. A. Court
Hears Mystery Case

Latest sequal to Ell Cen
tro's oriental "kidnap-gam-
bling" case of last winter
and spring went forward
Thursday in Los Angeles
where Hideichi Yamatoda, reputed
gambling overlord, and two COM
patriots are on trial charged with
numbering wealthy japanese
whose body has never been found.
The cold-eyed Oriental who was
arrested by Police Chief J. Sterling
OSWalt and brought to Ell Centre
to face gambling charges, hearo
F. Takeuchi testify he witnessed a
fierce fight in Little Tokyo"
gambling den that ended in death
for a gaming patron.
F.. Takeuchi testified against
Yamatoda. M. Inoye and S. Kino-
waki after the state ismiSSed
charges against him and called him
to the stand as a prosecution wit
ness. Takeuchi, speaking through
an interpreter, reluctantly told OF
witnessing a fight in a Little To-
kyo" gambling den the night Teru-
hike Namba, Lodi rancher, disap-
peared without a trace. BY deduc-
ton the prosecution sought to es-
tablish that it was Namba who
was beaten before TakeuchiS eyes.
The witness said he entered
back room to find Yamatoda and
M. IShihara, a fugitive, struggling
with a strange man for possession
Continued on Page 8: Col -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
Wanted Boys Get
Ride with Sheriff

Two youths who thumbed a ride
from Undersheriff Rodney Clarke
and Deputy Sheriff H. E. Cox Tues
day were amazed to discover that
the car radio had just told the
officers that the boys were wanted
in connection with a burglary at
Winterhaven.
The officers recognized them
from the radio description.
joe Watterson, 20, and Quentin
Randolph, l8, were headed for Los
Angeles, they said, when they un-
fortunately thumbed ride from
the officers Watterson later ad-
mitted breaking into the Winter
haven store and taking $3.25 and
four packages of cigarettes. The
boys shared the money.
Arthur Seeley, IA, was arrested
at Winterhaven by Deputy Sheriff
John Crousen and held as a mater
ial witness.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
200 Tons of Poison
Bait Put Out Here

More than 200 tons Of poison bait
has been distributed to valley farms
during the past six weeks in a
fight to curb the annual grasshop-
per invasion, B. A. Harrigan, agrl-
cultural commissioner reported
Wednesday.
Several cars of bran have been
shipped for mixing more poison
Harrigan said, and several tons per
day are being sent to all parts of
the county.
Good results have been obtained
and damage has been kept to a
minimum. Poison is furnished by
the U. S. department Of agriculture
and is mixed and distributed by the
county office.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24

'IlldIl, WHO CldllHeQ De IcpltotlltSu
"a group of Main street businessmen,
led a fight against designation of
Adams avenue but failed to alter
the councils position.
"I will tell you frankly" Harris
said, that if this resolution is not
changed we cannot support the
State street project"
The council refused to take new
action.
Also present and supporting Har-
ris were Frank Waehler, auto court
man, and Fred Ferguson, hotel
manager.
Clearest outline of the problem
was given by Councilman Gordon
Scriven in reply to Harris charges
that rerouting highways would do
great damage TO his own business
as well as Main street merchants.
Il personally doubt if the state
highway commission will route the
highways down Adams avenue in
the near future. 1t is a matter OF
years away However, there is no
question but that they will be rout-
ed down Adams avenue eventually.
In any event, the highway COM
mission will place the highways
where they please and this gesture
of the council in supporting Adams
avenue, as required by the COM
mission as a condition for approx
ing the underpaSs, is merely a mat
ter of form"
Harris maintained, however, that
council approval of Adams avenue
would mean placing the highway
there within nine months.
Joining in the general discussion
and favoring the Adams avenue
designation as the only means OF
gaining the underpass We're John
B. McNeece and w. A. Tondro.
Councilmen privately expressed
fears that any considerable opposi-
ton to the Adams avenues State
street underpaSs would wreck the
continued on Page 8, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24

Joint commencement exercises
for the 78 graduates from the eight
rural schools in the Ell Centre high
school district will be conducted
Wednesday night at O'Clock in
the high school auditorium.
These 70 graduates come from
Acacia, Heber, McCabe, SilSbee, Eu-
calyptus, Elm and Seeley schools.
New Horizons" was the general
theme for the program, developed
by DR.. George w. Thomas, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church,
who was chosen to deliver the COM
mencement address.
The graduates participate in the
program in a series of poems and
songs in which the entire group
is heard either in the choruses or
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
Iron Lung Fails
In Yuma Crisis

YUMA, May "a. (UPJ-An iron
lung sped across the desert from
Phoenix today failed to save the
life of Ruth Lentz, "a year old sales
woman. Physicians said Miss Lentz
died shortly after she was placed
in the mechanical breathing ap-
paratus.
The Woman's normal breathing
stopped yesterday and she was kept
alive for nine hours by artificial
respiration.
She complained of a headache
when doctors were summoned 70
aid her but DR.. A. P. Kimbell said
he was unable to determine the
cause of a paralysis in her respira-
tory system.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
Eiqht Rural Schools Graduate Is
Pupils at High School Auditorium

in the verse-speaking selections.
Miss Barbara Borden, county music
has been in charge of
the music, and Mrs. Eva Rade-
macher, county instruction super
visor of the poetry.
Guy A. Weakley, district super
intendent and principal of Central,
was to welcome the graduates to
Central, and DR.. E. A. Palmer OF
the Methodist church was chosen
to pronounce the invocation and
benediction.
Diplomas are TO be presented by
E. l.. Hiteman, county superinten-
dent of schools.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24

ficials were informed. are useless
during the present administration
A year ago arrangements were
made to build a structure on the
park site north of the county court
house for all state offices and ag-
encies in the county. Two members
of the board of supervisors baked.
State officials refused to provide
the money to build it anywhere
else in Fl Centre and would not
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
Alice Jones Explains
She Was Afraid Someone
Would Voice Criticism

Since May IA San Diego
police have hunted Alice
Jones, 20, in San Diego, and
Imperial county officers
have hunted her in Imperial
county.
Tuesday Sheriff Robert w. Ware
of Imperial county sent Deputy
Herbert Hughes to San Diego to
help the coast officers in their
search for the missing girl,
Tuesday night. Miss Jones was
found working in a San Diego cafe.
The former El Centro girl was
not worried about the widespread
search that was started when her
grandfather, E. B. Stone of Ell
Centre, reported her missing be-
cause she failed TO return TO her
San Diego rooming house.
Il was afraid someone would
criticize me for staying out late
Continued on Page 8, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
Jury Travelling
Expenses SIashed

Imperial county jurors will have
five cents mile Topped off their
mileage fees henceforth.
Governor Olson signed a bill
Wednesday which set the fee at
10 cents a mile for transportation
for each day served. The former
fee was Is cents a mile.
Assemblyman Clarence Walker of
Imperial county fathered the bill!
as a part of his economy campaign
The cut will save the county several
thousand dollars a year. depending
upon the number of jury trials ano
grand jury Investigations.
Jurors will receive their usual $3
day Zee for serving.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
Fox Quarantines
HoItyiIIe Family

A hitherto unreported case of in
fantile paralysis, in which the vic
tim is recovering satisfactorily, was
added Wednesday to the short list
Of such cases in Imperial county
during recent week.
The case was not diagnosed as in
fantile paralysis until the 10-year-
old boy who had been afflicted was
almost recovered. DR.. Warren E
Fox, city and county health Of
ficer, said. He Immediately quar-
antined the family
AWE Barrows, the patient, lives
in the Alamo district south of Holt
vile.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24

tlonaI affairs the King has ever
made-were heard by scores Of
millions in his far flung empire
which covers one fourth of the
earth's surface.
The king said: Canada and the
United States have had to dispose
of searching differences of aim and
interest during the past 100 years;
but never has one of these differ
ences been resolved by force or by
threat. No man, thank God, will
ever again conceive of such arbl-
trament between the peoples of my
empire and the people of the Unit
ed States"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24

Thus the king, as king of each
of the separate dominions, pledged
them SO far as he was able, to
peace with the United States. He
cited the example of the United
States and Canada living as good
neighbors for more than 100 years
without recourse to war.
This incursion into the field of
international politics broke another
tradition in a series of Smashings
of precedent on the royal visit
which brought the king and queen
today to the heart of their Cana
dian dominion
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24

: Republican forces in the senate
failed by three votes of obtaining
the required 2/3 majority to sus-
pend the rules and vote on the
budget amendments as a whole.
The vote was "a to 16, with every
member present. When the. roll
Uas first called, the count was "a
to Is with John F. Shelley, of San
Francisco, IN administration Demo-
crat, not voting. President pro TEN
Jcrrold Scawcll moved a call of the
house in an attempt to swing the
necessary three votes but efforts
of the Republican group were cut
recording OF the final vote.
Debate on the separate amend
ment5 to Gov. Culbert OlsonS $751;
100000 biennial budget probably
will require at least a week, and
success of the reduction program
itself was in jeojardy because a %
vote is required for final passage
Of the budget.
The senate fight followed closely
minority budget report by Sen
ators r. w. Kenny, Les Angeles and
Harry c. Westover, Santa Ana, both
Olson Democrats. They agreed
every economy in state govern
ment must be brought about" but
criticised the majority recommended
tions as a partisan report and
not one of true economy
Gov. Culbert Olson heartily en-
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24

syohcn. Water gushcd ever the
highway, Riley Nash, The driver
missed the turn, he said, because
he leaned out of the cab to listen
to the motor, The truck was dc
molished. The loss was estimated
at $4,000. District employees cul
thc water off to step the flood
Origin of the fire in the telephone
company truck was not Immediately
determined. Firemen from BraW-
ley rushed to the rescue but could
not eXtingulsh the flames.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24

consider building it In any city
but the county seat Before the
muddle could be Strengthened out
the legislature embarked ON itA
economy program and decided 70
cut down building projects.
"All we get out of II" state
employe said sadly is horseshoe
pitching court 10 look at every time
we gaze in the direction Of the court
house park"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
Lard Suffocates
Missouri Bull

KANSAS CITY, Mo, May "a.
(UP)-The cattle front today;
AT Blythedale, Mo, Jerry Roche's
bull stuck his nose into lard bucket
tc find out what was inside. His
nose got stuck. He suffocated.
AT Joplin, MO, o. C. Weeks, a
goat dairy owner, complained to the
city council that larger diaries were
selling cows milk and representing
II as coats milk.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
Hope Abandoned for New
State Building in Valley

Hope for new state building for
Imperial county was abandoned
Wednesday with the announcement
that the state building fund is
empty.
Negotiations for the 100000
building were caught between a
sectional squabble in the valley and
the economy bloc in the legislature
Plans for the building. county Of
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
King George, Shatfering Precedent,
Pledges British Empire to Peace
With United States for All Time

WINNIPEG Man, May "a (UP)-The United States
and the British empire will settle their differences
by force threat King George VI told the world ferventy
today in Empire day broadcast.
His words-the most vital pronouncement on interna-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
Olson Supporters Force Separate
Vote on Each Budget Reduction Item
Recommended by Senate Committee
Republicans Fail by Three Votes to Obtain
Mass Approval for Cuts; Action Pr0lOngs
Economy Battle by Full Week, Is Belief

SACRAMENTO, May "a. (UP)-The Olson admins
traton crucial victory in fight the biennial
budget today by forcing the senate to vote separately
165 reductions in appropriations otang 500 100000
commended by the special budget committee
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
Adams Avenue Highway
Resolution Stirs Row
Over State st. Project
Auto Court Proprietor Threatens
Fight Against Underpass Unless Council
Rescinds Action on Highway Routing

Unveiled threats to oppose Ell Centros State Street
underpass project in the event the city council failed to
alter resolution favoring Adams highway
route through the city made Wednesday forenoon
at special council session. Henry Harris auto court
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
Is Brought U p
IN, Diving Bell
From Ocean Floor
Water Rushing Into Comp partments Kills
Sailors Aboard Sunken Underseas Craft
Divers Labor to Rescue Survivors

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., May "a (UP)-Navy divers
down to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean 16 miles
here today and reported that 26 aboard the
i'll ated submarine Squalus undoubtedly were dead and
others alive and we'll Fifteen of the survivors were
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
Baseball Results
AMERICAN

AMERICAN
Detroit e. ......-.... 100 040 Ol0-6- 100
New York ........ 600 O0l 0OO--1- 10
Trout & Tebbetts; Ferrcll, Sum
dra, Hadley & Dickey.
Cleveland ........ 021 O0l 011-6-11-
Boston .............. 900 002 000-2- Al
Hudlin & Hemsley; Wilson, Hev-
ing & Peacock
st. Louis ......................... 3O2 O10
washington ........................ 003 544 0
Kramer, Mills & Glenn; Master
son, Chase 81 Early.
NATIONAL
New York ....... 600 900 00O-O- SO
Cincinnati ........ 200 030 0lx-6- 1870
Gumbert, Lynn, Coffman g. Dan
ming, Derringer e. Lombardi.
Brooklyn -. OlO 900 01l-3- 9-2
Pittsburgh ....,... 001 O04 Olx-6-l 1910
Tamulis, Fitzsimmons, Casey g.
Phelps; Bowman & Berres.
Philadelphia 80. 900 900 2OO-2-11-l
Chicago .......... 200 100 OOx-3- I'll
Passeau & Davis & Lies; French
81 Mancuso.
Boston ................................. 600 nm
St Louis ............................ 2OI ma
Sullivan, Shaffner e. Mast; Davis
81 Owen.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24
p AMBLING
IMPORTER
Secret Practice

~N 6N
Secret Practice
When Cliff Reid, the highway
patrol sergeant, was introduced as
a new member of the Toastmasters
club. some wit remarked:
Cliff wants to practice up so
he won't stutter when he says:
Where's the firc?'"
Slightly Strained
We cheWed a pencil and grinned
inWardly when Bill Reed struggled
and strained to invent an RR item
so as to get plug for Jimmie James,
the sleepless automobile driver now
doing 100 hour stretch behind a
wheel in Ell Centro.
"Its turrible" said Bill. Mayor
Herb Fawcett locked Jimmie to the
wheel and took the key with him
to Sacramento! Jimmies liable to
be stuck here for a week! Wen
never get those handouts off him.
We were grinning because Mayor
FaWcett called at the police station
before leaving town and asked them
to keep the key.
Never mind" said the officer
on duty. Every COP in town has
key to fit them"
Anyhow, Bill got the plug.
Masquerading-
There seems to be lot of things
happening to cops lately, because
here's another on the law
r. r. Voyles and Curt Heating
were cruising about in the patrol
car one evening and drove past
the neighborhood where Jack
Tackett and T. J. Harris live. They
noticed cars lined the streets near
several churches.
"Tackett and Harris sure live in
religious atmosphere, Voyles
commented. Il guess they neco
it,"
yep" said Keating. They're
just couple of goats in sheep
skins"
Breaking Right
Once in awhile something hap
pens to counteract the necessity for
stomach tablets that is routine for
newspaper desk men. Such a thing
occurred Tuesday when The Press
hit the street with the current sub
marine disaster story played in
full. Opposition from coast after
noon papers was practically nil
The story broke too late for them
Sunset Fred
Fred Bright appeared at his Of
flee with new costume. pink
pants and a lavendar shirt and for
an hour afterwards the office force
had to wear dark glasses. When
the story was told to RR we re-
marked:
"Only pink and lavendar? That's
not news for Fred Bright"
Early Birds
Herb Kern was bit aStonished
to see in the society columns that
the Elks dance would run from 10
a. m. to p. m. ut was a typo
graphical error, or something)
MY gosh said Herb, that
means 1 gotta get up awful early"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24

Secret Practice
When Cliff Reid the highway
patrol sergeant, was introduced as
new member of the Toastmasters
club, some wit remarked:
Cliff wants to practice up so
he won't stutter when he says:
where's the firc?"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24

Butter: Los Angeles. 25e; but
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch,
grade A, 32cI manufacturing milk,
251zc; route gathered cream, BE.
l.. A. HaV: U. s. No. l.. $500;
No. 2 Ieafy, S14-14.5O: No. 2 s12.50-
I3. Minneapolis flax July si.7O.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24

Early Birds
Herb Kern was bit aStonished
to see in the society columns that
the Elks dance would run from 10
a. m. to p. m. ut was typo
graphical error, or something)
MY gosh said Herb, that
means I gotta get up awful early"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-24

Total cash, checks and drafts sent
through the two EI Centre banks.).
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-27
Pulse Of the
Public
PRAISES POLICE FOR
TRAFFIC ATTENTION

Editor, The Times: cannot
let 60 unchallenged the letter by
A. G. L. regarding prominent
business man. who stepped out
of his car on a downtown corner
for a moment" left his motor
idling," and got a ticket for this
infraction, to say nothing of be
ing near a bus zone"
II A. G. L. operates a car in
this manner, or sees no wrong
in someone else doing so. then
/ would say this person Is not
fit to operate an automobile, or
have a drivers license. And
speaking of grudges, it seems
the grudge is with the writer Of
that letter, because the car oper-
ator did not get away with the
violation.
To leave a car standing. with
the motor running, is in itself a
sufficient law violation to war
rant ticket.
This was the most ridiculous
defense ever heard OF. for some
one who was deserving OF the
ticket, and a fine.
I congratulate the officer, who
certainly was on the job, and
who has as much right to be in
a cigar store rs anywhere else
where his line Of duty falls.
have no connection with the
police department, but l know
that IL / ever get a ticket it will
not be for the many violations
that were brought out in A. G.
LIS letter.
Some of these car drivers think
they can get away with any
thing, and I sometimes wonder
that our law enforcement officers
can ever have a happy moment.
Yours for more sense in car
operation, and accordingly. fewer
tickets and happier officers.
M NJ
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-27
And Now The Fun Starts!

And that the turkey ID gone let's get busy
Christmas!
Our remark follows heard in the office-"How
dread Christmas shopping!'
That's traditional saying that really is dead the
dodo Perhaps the time when Christmas shopping
hard to do time before the magic Of modern merchandis
ing took hold Today for month, city stores and win
dows become really faryands of breahess beauty Every
thing done for your comfort and pleasure find extra
help to you music and displays for your entertain
men courteous assistance in your buying Stores light
and airy gift suggestions hand Best of all
is the feeling Of breahless excitement of happy antcpa
ton the faces of children the look of happiness of those
who shopping to bring pleasure to some loved
Say wen bet that those who repeat the old saying about
dreadng Christmas shopping would be the first to yell
they were denied the privileged
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-11-27
QUESTIONS TO TEST
YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Can you answer seven of these
test questions? Turn to the
woman's page for the answers.
1. In which state are the
Everglades?
2. What is gold bullion?
8. What is genealogy?
4. Which state is known as the
Sunshine state?
5. What does the word COM
munique mean?
8. What is the name of the fa-
nous sword of King Arthur?
Z. With what sport is E. J.
(Dutch) Harrison associated?
8. Name the next to last let
ter of the Greek alphabet.
9. Who is prime minister Of
Belgium?
10. On which race course is
the perilous Becher's brook
jump?