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Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

Mrs. Albert Brewer returned
from a visit with her folks Mr.
and Mrs. T j. Napier of Ventura.
She left her three children up
there for a longer visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. T. Robinson and
family spent Sunday at Mission
Beach
Mark McGelland finished the
stucco on the Seeley School house.
w. L. Womack painted the in
terror, and has all the appear
ance OF a new school house
Mr. and Mrs. w L. Womack and
Miss Winona Womack and Jerry
left Thursday for Porterville where
they will spend the month of
August.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Napier and
two small children are home from
ten day vacation up north. They
visited Genes folks the T. j. Ma
pier family.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. p Hui and two
sons Robert and Richard had a
weeks vacation in San Francisco
taking in the San Francisco Expo
Sition.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas Cook took their
neice Barbara Necker to San Diego
where her mother met her. and
Miss Grace Cook accompanied her
sister and Barbara to Los Angeles.
Herman Oftelie now located at
Big Bear was home for the week
end and his brother Bert and
Brenton Gallaher accompanied
him back Monday
Mrs. Nettie Davis and Edgar
and Ralph Davis were San Diego
visitors Sunday.
Miss Betty Jane Swille enter
tanned company from Pasadena
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Huff re-
turned Wednesday after delight
ful eastern trip, wishing relatives
and taking in the New York Worlds
Fair.
Mrs. r. A. Howard and daugh-
ter Miss Elizabeth Howard left
Tuesday for Newport Beach for
a two weeks vacation
Mr.. and Mrs. N. P. Pearse and
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Schultz en-
joyed a picnic lunch near Live
Oaks Sunday.
Miss Louise Huff is spending this
month on the coast visiting friends
and relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. John McHone of
Chula Vista were all day visitors
at the J. T. Oftelie home Satur-
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

SELL farm produce thronsh
Post Press Want Ads! -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04
RemodeIing Of
SeeIey School
Is Completed
SEELEY NOTES

Mr.. and Mrs. John Bates are en-
tertaining Bates sister Miss Isa-
bella Bates and Mother Mrs. w.
r. Bates OF Stevenson. Texas.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04
WEATHER

data cOnpiled by observers for
The official United states weather
Bureau station Al El CentrOD
Maximum Thursday ............:..... LOG
Minimum Friday ..................:a.... 81
Reading at Noon Friday.
Temperature ............................,. 107
Humidity ................................. 30
Reading at 5 am. Friday
Temperature ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 83
Humidity ................................ "A
Reading at 5 pm. Thursday
Temperature ................,.......;....... 100
Humidity Observation-Disclosures. 38
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

B. l.. Hamburger. manager of
Sears Roebuck. announced this
week that the stores display win
dows had been remodeled. The
rev white background reflects
more light and makes the displays
stand out far better.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

Bert Purdy. manager Of Edgar
Implement store. reports wide
spread and fast-incressing inter-
est in the new Farmall "a" trac-
tor recently announced and placed
on display at the store. The new
machine has the drivers seat at
the side to provide better visi-
bility of cultivating tools.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

Proprietors Endsrs g. Pelletier
who have just opened q new Ger
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

Massey Horton continues TO pack
'en in at the Valley Drug! Tho
Valleys meals arc making big
hit with John o. Public and It
just took few regular adver-
tisements in the Post and Press
to get EN- coming IN. Massey runs
ar ad or so week Just SO they
won't forget to keep con5ins
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

Anchor Brand SupeYphosphate.
distributed on the west coast by
Wilson and Geo.. Meyer 81 Com
pany, is being advertised in 22-inch
space in Sunday Post Press four
weeks. Valley farmers are becoming
interested in fertilizers every day.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

j. C. Penney's July Bargain Days
event has proved big success, in
spite of some Of the hottest weather
al. summer. A large advertisement
was used in the Post and Press to
announce the event and the res
ponse was immediate! The entire
store is comrellingly decorated for
the event. =
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

Mrs. Albert Brewer returned
from visit with her folks Mr.
and Mrs. T. J. Napier of Ventura
She left her three children up
there for a longer visit.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

Mr.. and Mrs. S. T. Robinson and
family spent Sunday at Mission
Beach
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-04

Work to be done
at rate prescribed
for craft perform
ing operation to
which welding is
incidental.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27

would prefer to remain under the present system, for the charter we now have makes it easier for their party to bore from within, which is the tactics of the Third Inter- national, not only in this country, but all over the world. The pre- sent system makes it easy for a small clique to control the whole government, and of course, the Communists hope some day to be- come that small governing clique in Waterbury. I am sure that all supporters of government of the people, by the people, and for the people, must be grateful to the Communists for SO effectively bringing to light the weaknesses of the present system and the ad- vantages of the city manager plan
 Theodore Nuhn said that "ouI opposition is now pretty well defined
 It consists of certain Self-seeking politicians and their henchmen, plus a few crackpots, and the Commun- ist party. Their tactics are typical
 What more could the great majority of honest citizens who sincerely de- sire good government want to know in order to prove to themselves that the present charter is the toll ot such groups, whereas the city man. ager plan places control of the gov- ernment beyond the reach of such groups by placing control in the hands of the people themselves?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27

pends on electing good men to of- flee and giving them 8 good char ter to work under. That's why we must give great attention to the election rules. That's why we in- dorse proportional representation.
 "It is amusing to find that our opponents have taken to demon- strating P. R. And what kind of a demonstration they can put on! One of these befuddled demonstra- tions was given in Green street last week. The gentleman who put 1t on didn't actually show any, ballots, but he used the names of Lombardi and Sincavage as the type of man the people wanted and he used the names of Baker and Bronson as typical of the silk stocking group.
 "Of course the names were fic- titious, that's all right. But the way I read the newspaper &C., count of the demonstration, the speaker implied, even if he didn't mean it, that votes were taken away" from Sincavage and Lom- bardi and given to Baker and Bronson much against the will of the voters who had no use for Baker and Bronson. Of course no such thing could happen. Ii the Italian voters of this city vote only for Italian candidates, they will elect Italians in proportion tc their votes.
 "If the Lithuanian voters vote only for Lithuanians, they will elect Lithuanians in proportion tc their votes. If the working men of this city vote only for labol candidates, they will elect labol candidates in proportion to theil strength. If manufacturers, bank CTS, brokers, and other so-callet "silk stocking" clements run fol council, they will be elected onll in proportion to the votes the. receive. That's what proportion ] al representation means"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27
Communists Vote On
 Plan Hailed By White
Opposition Best Recommendation for Adoption of New Charter Claims CGGA. President in Statement

Opposition to the city manager charter expressed yesterday by the Communist party serves as a recom- mendation for the plan, leaders of the Good Government association declared today.
 Harold F. White, president, said that mo better recommendation for the plan" could be made than hav- ing the Communists oppose it,
 "The Communist party is the originator of the modern dicta- torship," declared Michael Hy- land, land their opposition to the city manager plan proves con- clusively that the city manager plan, as proposed for Waterbury, would make 1t impossible for any, one to become a dictator here. And because they oppose the city man. ager plan, they automatically be- come the champion of the present strong mayor charter, under which we recently had actual dictator ship. Of course, it is easy to un- derstand why the Communists
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27
Senator Also Charges U. Francis Smith With
 Aiding Charter Plan
State Senator Repeats Previous Accusations Against Local Industrialists, Citing Names of "Out-in-
 Front Men" Directing Campaign

D. Taft of Watertown. leading city manager proponent, as Socialist. How did they sqee7e this uzlcon- stitutional piece of paper through a senate. where there were II Demo- crats, IS Republicans and two So- cialists?" asked Senator Culhane. "IIl tell you. They did 1t through the leadership of the Democratic organization of the state of Con- necticut.
 Party Leaders Afraid. Ashamed'
 "Isn't it strange that the leaders of both the political parties here in Waterbury are afraid or ashamed to come out in the open either for or against the city manager charter? They are playing either fast or slow politics. If it were adopted there would be no further use for either political party in Waterbury and there would be no opportunity for you young voters to work your way up in governmental affairs"
 "The board of directors of the Good Government association was picked by a certain few and some- one injected into them suddenly the idea of a city manager charter. The 5000 who had signed up were not consulted and I know most Of them are opposed to it."
 Would Debate With White
 "They held meeting of the die rectors in Post college and invited me to it, and when they asked me to favor 8 city manager l told them I positively would not. Later a meeting was held at the Women's club, presided owed by Francis T. Reeves, counsel and officer of Sco- wills, at which, for the first time, Julian Hearn of Wheeling was brought in, who was supposed to be lthe last word in promoting city man. ager charters. They asked me to sign a petition for the city manager charter then and I refused.
 'They are trying to divert atten- tion from the faults and unconsti- tutional provisions of the city man. ager charter by sneering at my charter amendments. Well. admit I am not perfect. may have made mistakes, but any mistakes I made were with the intent to benefit the people of Waterbury. I'm willing te debate with Harold White any time on which has done the most for the people of Waterbury.
 By the way, would like to ask MT. White if it is true that he die not become interested in the city manager plan until after the assess ment of his plant was raised and h. failed to get the city government t' reduce it?
 Two years ago did any of thos' now prominent in backing the cit. manager charter make any effort a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27

denies claims that he gave his ap- proval to a city bond issue when allegedly threatened with higher as- sessment of his factory property,
 The statement by MT. Chase fol- lows:
 Referring to MT. Udelowitz's ref- erenee to me in the Sept. 26 issue of The Waterbury Republican, &C., cording to the minutes of the addi- tional water supply committee, no meeting was held in 1886 as MT Udelowitz states. There was, how ever, a meeting held on Feb. 19 1887, at which there were present in addition to "Messrs. Goss and Chase: Mayor Frank Hayes, City Engineer Robert A. Cairns, Alder man Charles Sciullo, Alderman Pe- ter Griffin and Comsrs. William s Jones, Charles Schmidt, James A Phelan, Hugh L, Thompson and Corp. Counsel Charles s. O'Connor
 MT. Cairns made very full report calling attention to the serious situation with which Wa. terbury was confronted by being dependent upon a single pipe lint that had been in use for more than 40 years, and which was 1T great need of repair.
 Comsr. James A. Phelan sait ] the city should be guided by tn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27

Leading opponent of City Man
 ager Plan hurls charges against
 party leaders, ae manufacturers.
 Plans Broadcast at ZOO tonight. makers and speakers TOT the city manager plan, Senator Culhane re- Eerred to their factory utilization. He listed Harold F. White, president of the Good Government association, hs treasurer of the Blake & John- Son Co.,; Arthur Goepel, promotion manager for the Scovill Mfg. Co.,; Paul Egan, foreman at the Platt Bres. Co.,; William F. Burke, ac- countant at Scovill's and Edward II. Davis, Scovill statistician. He also mentioned Orton P. Camp and Francis T. Reeves, the latter Secre- tary of the Scovill firm.
 "They are all close to the man. lfacturers," he said. "The manufac- turers came close to controlling the city during the Hayes regime and when they saw Hayes was done they thought up this scheme for con- tinuing their control"
 Senator Culhane attacked Horace
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27

government if the council comes under the control of spells politicians who appoint a dishonest city man. ager. The Citizens Good Gov ernment association has never claimed otherwise. We know about Kansas City, but we know what was wrong with the Kansas City charter. It did not provide for non-partisan elections by propor- tional representation. The facts are that the city manager cities are better governed, and those cities that have the city manager plus the merit system plus elec- tions by proportional representa- tion have established outstanding records. You don't hear our op- ponents denying this.
 Good government really de-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27
Manufacturers Dominate City Government Says Cuhane
\ Commissioners Kearney
 Warns School Teachers
Claims Unwarranted Statements Made By Opponents
 of City Manager Plan Concerning School Dept

of education issued the following statement today:
 I regard my membership on the board of education as placing me i'll a position above politics. Sc far as the public is concerned, fl is my opinion that school board members should be officially neu. tral during the charter campaign
 But due to the exaggerated statements currently being made by opponents of the city manager charter, I believe that-so far as I am personally concerned-I would be remiss in my duty to the teachers and to the general public if did not make public answer.
 There is absolutely no truth in the charge that the city manager plan would place the teachers under the orders of the city man. ager or his personnel director. Ex- actly the opposite is true, and l am at a loss to understand how any intelligent opponent of the city manager plan could say such things, unless he has the deliber- ate intent to mislead the teachers and the public. cannot escape the conclusion that certain mis- statements are being made by op- ponents of the city manager plan with such deliberate intent to mislead the teachers and the pub- lie; therefore, I feel perfectly ire, to deny such charges-in fact, I think it my duty to do so, just to keep the record straight. There is nothing improper in a member of the board of education de- nouncing underhanded tactics in a political campaign-1lor is there anything improper in my warn- ing the teachers and the public to weigh carefully the statements made by persons who show them selves to be utterly unreliable in their claims made to the public.
 Sections 48 and 49 of the pro- posed administrative code-which becomes effective with the city manager charter-clearly provide that the teachers shall remain un- der the sole Jurisdiction of the board of education. The well known politicians who are making contrary assertions must certain ly know the real facts. There fore, I warn the teachers and the public to take their statements with a grain of salt. If they mis- represent one thing, they would not hesitate to misrepresent oth. CTS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27

larger taxpayers, of which group Comsr. Chase and Comsr. GoSs were members, and he said it was gratifying to him to see them in favor of this project. City Engineer Cairns reported that Clifford F. Hollister had authorized him to state that he, MT. Hollister, was in favor of this project.
 At a subsequent meeting on March 8 of the same year, the same group being present, quoting from the minutes: Tt was generally agreed by the committee that it should only consider the laying of that section of the second pipe line that would run through Watertown, as the laying of the whole line would take approximately three years and the city was in no position to tackle the project in its entirety at the present time" The city engineer reported that this would cost approximately $25O 900 and, therefore, on motion of Comsr. GosS, it was voted that the committee recommend this to the board of aldermen to issue bonds to the amount of $250,0 900 to furnish funds to pay for this project.
 There was no question raised a. to the city bonding itself for three million dollars for general purposes as MT. Udelowitz stated, for the ad- ditional water supply commission had nothing to do with other prob- lens other than its own. To the best of my knowledge and belief, at no time discussed with tht mayor any other city bond issue MT. Udelowitz has evidently beer confused and the inference that ont might draw from his statemen' that I had been forced to approve the issuing of bonds by the city II order to prevent improper taxation of the properties they represented has absolutely no foundation. I is regrettable that charges of thl! sort should be so loosely made il order to try and defeat the city manager charter containing amont other things what would seem tx the ordinary taxpayer as very de sirable, the merit system and pro portoinal representation which in sures minority representation, am an opportunity of knowing wha
 was going on in connection wit
 future administrations.
 ] (Signed F. s. CHASE"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27
MARIE CLASBERC
 IN MINOR MlSHAP

Miss Marie Glasberg of East Main street who is visiting in Lebanon, New Hampshire, was reported to have been in an auto-truck accident while enroute to the La Salette Seminary in Enfield, New Hamp- shire.
 The car was considerably dam- aged. All the occupants of the car were shaken up and received minor bruises, but none required hospital treatment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27
CuLhar1e On Station VERY
 At 7 O'Clock

Senator George T. Culhane will speak against the city man. ager plan in 8 radio address over Station VERY at ! o'clock tonight. The talk will be an- other in the senator's series of talks against adoption of the proposed new charter.
 Senator ,Culhane will deliver another radio address Friday night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27
BURKE BROADCAST ION MANAGER PLAN
Good Government Results From Selection of Hon-
 est, Capable Candidates

The P. R. method of voting called for in the city manager charter came in for high praise last night in a radio talk by William F. Burke of the Citizens Good Government association.
 He declared that good government can be had under the present char ter if honest and capable men are elected to office. He devoted part of his speech to a discussion of the Kansas City scandal.
 MT. Burke said in part:
 "It is possible even under a city manager charter" ito have bad
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27

Charges that local manufacturers |are hacking the campaign for adop- |ti1n af he city manager charter efs renewed last night by Sena- lssr earee T. Culhane in talk be- E1Te members of the Young Pro- Igressive Voters league at the YMCA, lHe declared that. the referendum bill was aided in its passage at Hart ford by the Democratic state cen- ltral committee, of which J. Francis 6i.nth of this city is chairman.
 Referring to recent statement
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27
REoeaE WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S IN . PROPOSED S!!x MANAGER caa!a

between fhe city Plan and ihe present ehu
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27

cleaning up conditions in the city, when and many others were buck ing the Hayes regime? I had nerve enough then to do what they fear ed to do, and I have nerve enough now to oppos, this unconstitutional piece of paper they are support ing"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27
E. s. CHASE ISSUES
 PUBLIC STATEMENT
Replying to UdelOwitz Ex- plains His Vote of Alp.
 prOval on Bond Issue

Frederick S. Chase, president of the Chase Brass & Copper O., de- clares that the city manager char ter has features which are "very desirable" in a statement answering claims by Edward Udelowitz, city manager plan opponent. Mir Chase
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-27

School teachers are invited to a meeting at the Central Y. M. c. A. at 8 o'clock this evening when Har- old F. White, president of the Cit- izens' Good Government association, will discuss the proposed city man. ager charter as it applies to school teachers. MT. White will answer all questions about the charter which are asked by the teachers.
 In connection with the pro and con discussion of the future of the school department under the pro- posed City Manager Plan Commis- sioner John J. Kearney of the board
Evening star., 1939-08-15
Wholesale Commodity
Index al New Low

Price declines in a wide range of
commodities last week took the
wholesale commodity price index
compiled by the National Fertilizer
Association to the lowest point
reached in more than five years.
This index in the week ended
August II dropped to 703 from 70.9
in the week preceding. A month ago
1t was 716. year ago 731 and two
years ago 875, based on the 1868
average as 100. The highest point
reached in the recovery period was
1873 and the high for this year was
1873.
Declines during the week were
common to most commodity groups.
The food price average receded to
new low for recent years, with IA
items included in the group de-
clining and only two advancing.
A new low was also made by the
farm product average, with the prin-
cipal decline in the group being in
livestock quotations.
Other group indexes which moved
downward during the week included
those representing the prices of
fuels, textiles, building materials and
miscellaneous commodities. The only
index to advance was the metal
average, rejecting slight increases in
steel scrap, silver, tin, lead and zinc.
Evening star., 1939-08-15
5. &C. Delays Hearing on Reich
Foreign Debt Registrations

The Securities and Exchange
Commission has postponed until
September 18 q hearing scheduled
for today to determine whether
grounds exist for issuance of a stop
order suspending the effectiveness
OF registration statements filed by
the German government and the
Conversion Once for German For
eign Debts.
The commission had ordered a
hearing on the registration state
ments after repeated failures by
the German consul general in this
country to furnish information on
the fiscal conditions of the German
government, as required by the
statutes in this country.
The registration statements cover
a proposed offer whereby American
creditors would receive 50-year 8
per cent funding bonds in lieu OF
unpaid interest for 1887 and 1898
on the outstanding bonds for Ger
man states, cities and corporations.