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Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Olson Appointee
ToI.V.Fair Board
Quits Farm Group
Dreasher Resigns from
Associated Farmer,
Refusing Comment

A. A. Dreasher, Brawley
rancher appointed to the
Imperial county fair board
by Governor Olson, resigned
from the Associated Farm
ers Wednesday.
He gave no reason for his act
at the time he resigned and re-
fused to comment on the matter
when reached by telephone by u
Post Press reporter.
His resignation is believed to be
based on the recent uproar occa-
stoned by the fair boards refusal
to permit the Labor's Non-Partisan
league to stage meeting at the
fair grounds and present Lieut.
Gov. Ellis Patterson as the main
speaker The board refused per-
mission by unanimous vote. The
refusal followed an Associated
Farmers protest against the meet
ing
The vote also was unanimous
when the board reversed itself at
the request of Governor Olson and
gave permission for the meeting.
Dreasher, a we'll known Demo-
crat, was appointed to take the
place of Judge Sam Rowe of West
morland, a Republican who had
been a member of the board for
many years.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Neutrality Points
Win Approval

WASHINGTON, June 7. (UP)-
The house foreign affairs commit
tee today approved sections of the
administrations approved Bloom neu-
trality bill, empowering the presi-
dent to define war zones and to
prohibit Americans from travelling
on vessels of belligerent states.
The committee defeated an
amendmnt by Rep. Andrew C.
Schiller, r., w. Va, to reenact the
present mandatory embargo on
arms, ammunition and implements
of war-which would be repealed
by Blooms bill. 1t was defeated
by 13 to 9 vote along party lines
and represented the second time
the committee upheld administra-
ton recommendation for elimina-
tion of embargo provisions.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Governor Orders
Revenue Action

SACRAMENTO, June 7. CUP)-
Gov. Culbert Olson, irked at the
dawdling of the legislature, today
ordered his revenue measures
brought out on the assembly floor
at once in an effort to hasten ad-
journment.
At the same time, the governor
said he had not signed the drash-
-slaShed budget handed him by
the legislature although the de-
partment of finance has complet-
ed its checking of the amendments
for the governor.
Olson said he would sign the
budget bill within the 10 day limit,
which ends June Is.
Action on the budget, revenue
bills, special appropriations and re-
lief legislation stand in the way OF
setting a definite date for ad-
journment. Prompt handling would
make a June II closing date pos
Sible.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Mrs. Roosevelt TO
Present New Deal
To Royal Visitors

WASHINGTON, June 7. up
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt revealed
today that King George vi and
Queen Elizabeth have asked the
White House to provide them an
opportunity to learn the answers
to specific questions about the
United States The royal couple
enters the United States today at
Detroit.
To give them a chance TO obtain
the information first hand, Mrs.
Roosevelt has arranged a small
confidential team at the White
House She has invited about a
score Of persons qualified to discuss
the matters in which the royal
couple is interested.
The First Lady would not indi-
cate who have been invited TO the
function nor the nature OF the sub
jects in which the royal couple has
expressed interest.
1t is known, however. that the
guests will include a group of New
Deal officials handling such prob
lens as unemployment, child well
fare, youth, housing, public health
and social security.
Labor union leaders might be
present TO tell the king and queer
about American labor Developments
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
b.Year-0Id Mother
With Infant Son
Government Wards
Peru Assumes Complete
Charge of Child Who
AstOunded Doctors

LIMA, Peru, June 7. (UP)
-Six-year-old Lima Medina
and the son to whom she
gave birth May IA were made
wards of the Peruvian gov
eminent today, to be reared and
educated on a basis similar to that
of the world famous Dionne Quin-
tupletS.
The pale, timid little Indian girl,
her chestnut hair drawn up by
a blue ribbon, has been under close
watch by leading physicians OF
Peru since she was brought to the
maternity hospital here. But she and
her son, whom she has named
Gerardo Alexandra, have done well.
The boy yells Justify.
The government, in assuming the
upbringing of the child mother
and her boy, named a special COM
mission, headed by Garcia Arrese,
prosecuting attorney of the superior
court, and including in its men,
berShip Maria Ferre y Rosalaiza,
Continued on Page 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07

Sarabia had taken off from Bol-'
ling Field, U. S. Army air field,
at $50 am. (EST) for a return
nonstop flight to Mexico City.
The motor failed suddenly about
mile from the field after the
plane had gained altitude of about
so feet. 1t plunged into the river
about 200 feet offShore. The flier
was trapped in the planes cockpit
and was blieved to have drowned.
Two hours later a police launch
and two navy boats towed the plane
to the pier of the nearby Anacostia
naval air station and placed it on
a pier.
The body, jammed in the wreck
ed cockpit, bore what appeared to
be only superficial injuries.
President Roosevelt ordered the
war department and civil aeronau-
tics authority to make joint ar
rangements to send Sarabia's body
back to Mexico in an army plane,
The war department announced
Immediately that if the Mexican
government accepts the offer, an
army air corps ship will make the
flight, with an aide to Assistant
Secretary of War Louis Johnson
accompanying the body.
The aide will carry letter from
Mr.. Roosevelt to President Lazaro
Cardenas of Mexico, expressing the
presidents personal sympathy ano
condolences.
An investigation board of three
army officers was appointed i'm
mediately. Sgt. Robert Norris, in
charge of the Boiling Field crew
which serviced Sarabia's plane, told
Salvador Du Hart, second secre-
tary of the Mexican embassy, that
ne believed the plane was in good
condition when it took off.
The fuselage of the plane was rip
ped and torn but the plane showed
no extensive damage.
Sarabia was flying the plane II,
which he recently completed the
Mexico City-New York dash in 1C
hours and 48 minutes, breaking by
three hours and 81 minutes the
old record set by the late Amelia
Earhart.
Fliers called the plane which car
rid the Mexican ace to his death
Continued on Page 8; Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Osborne Says Two
Trucks Stalled at
Blythe by Strike
Associated Farmer Head
Plans to Take Action
To Free Vehicles

Hugh Osborne, secretary
manager of the Associated
Farmers of Imperial County,
said Wednesday afternoon
he planned to leave immed-
lately for Blythe to free" TWO
trucks stranded there because OF
a Teamsters Union strike in Arl-
zona.
The United Press reported from
Phoenix that the strike ended
peacefully Wednesday morning
when the Associated Farmers oil
Maricopa county stepped in to pro-
test any tie-up of trucks.
Osborne said he based his ac-
ton on telephone call from
George Smith of the Merchants
and Manufacturers association OF
Los Angels. Smith, he said, tele-
phoned him from Phoenix saying
two trucks, one loaded with meat
and one with perishable produce
were stranded at Blythe. Smith
asked cooperation of the Associat-
ed Farmers of Imperial county
Osborne said.
Smith asked help of the farmer
Continued on Page 8, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Mexican Injured
Hits Bus

HOLTVILLE, June 7-One man
was badly cut on the face and head
when a coupe in which he was rid
ing crashed into a bus stalled Off
the highway a mile and a half
west of town early today.
Helidaro Mangurez is in the VAL
ley hospital for treatment of his In.
juries.
Ramon Vargas Gonzales, 81, Holt.
vile, drove the coupe into the All
American stage stalled off the high
way, Highway Patrolman A. T
Bump said. The coupe careened
down the road for 300 feet after
the crash. Gonzales told Bump ne
saw the stage lights but became con.
fused by the lights of an on.coming
car. The stage was damaged
slightly
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07

MEXICO CITY, June 7. (UP)-
The government controlled Mexican
petroleum board and its dlstrlbut'
ing agency charged in bitter state
ment today that foreign oil com
panies had opened a campaign OF
propaganda and even sabotage
against the government in their Ell.
forts to regain their appropriated
property.
"a campaign of intrigue and at
tack has been intensified in the
oil producing zones themselves IN
the last few weeks" the statement
charged.
"On companies have distributed
money literally to win over certain
unscrupulous and irresponsible in.
dividualS. CalumniouS reports
against the petroleum board have
been distributed and all means, not
excepting criminal action, have
been used in efforts to make 1t
appear to the nation that the gov.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07

of a resolution from the bureau py
which the board of supervisors re-
placed two members of the county
board of education with persons
who are not paid members OF the
school system, the move took Oh
added significance.
The resolution, passed last week
was apparently aimed at mounting
school costs and called attention TO
the fact that education board mem.
bers have in the past been teachers
or other paid members of the sys.
tenn.
L would particularly call your at
tention to the increase in the ele.
mentary school tax rate, which has
more than doubled in two years,
Foulds wrote the trustees. I'm most
districts little or none of this IN
crease can be attributed to lower
valuations.
There has certainly been no in
crease in the ability of the farmers
and businessmen of the valley to
paw taxes during the past two
years. We trust, therefore, that
the trustees this year when con.
sidering budgets, will keep in mind
that these increases represent a
heavy burden on the taxpayers who
have to pay them, and will en-
deavor to reduce these rates back
to normal
Inclosed with the letter were two
tables comparing elementary school,
tax rates and high school tax rates
over the period from 1867 to
l938-39.
According to the tables, element
ary tax rates, averaged for the val
ley. have increased Ill per cent
for this period. The high school
boost was more than 19 per cent.
The junior college rate was .Os
in 1867, .04 in 1878 and .09 III
1938-39.
Elm was the only school district
which had no special tax rate dun
ing these years to raise funds sup
plementing regular county and state
appropriations. Eucalyptus had none
in 1861 or 1878 but set a rate
of IL in l938.39, and Heber nae
none in the first two years but SET
a rate of IA in 193839. Highline hat
no rate the first year but .l3 tnt
Continued on Page 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Beautiful Girls
Lure Thugs Victim

When an unidentified Negro Of
fered to show him some beautiful
girls, v. Mason of Mexicali be-
lieved him. A short time later,
however, when the Negro and pal
assaulted and robbed him, Mason
lost his faith in his guide.
In broken English Mason early
wednesday morning told Ell Centre
police that the first Negro had led
him from the Broadway area to a
shack near Third and Main streets
where another Negro helped beat
him. The two colored men took
$50 in cash and a wrist watch.
Mason never got to see the
beautiful girls.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07

the only survivor of the powder
puff administration, which took
office in 1887. The new male coun-
Gil repeatedly was preparing to
make it clean sweep by naming
a successor to Mrs. Cline when
the new council of men organizes
the first of July.
John Fleasher headed the male
ticket, ousting Mrs. Stella Eddy,
a physicians widow, as mayor.
Mrs. Eddy bland her defeat on
bit of sharp political maneuver-
ing by the men. She charged that
the men, without warning, held
a nominating meeting while most
of the women of the towns 500
residents were attending gradua-
ton exercises in Middlebourne.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
New River Project
DELAYED { Months

WASHINGTON, June 7. (UP)-
The federal power commission an
nounced it has consented to with
hold action for six months on the
application of Arizona for a pre-
liminary permit for the proposed
Bridge Canyon project on the Col
orado river.
This delay, requested by the COM
mittee of IA of the Colorado river
basin states, is to permit time for
study by all interested parties.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Sly Political Coup Ends Powderpuff
Rule in West Virginia Village

FRIENDLY, w. Va, June 7. (UP)
"A sly political coup today ended
this villages two year old petit
coat" government.
Election returns yesterday show
ed that males were swept into every
office except one, marking the col
lapse of the only all woman gov
ernment in the country
Police Chief Josephine Cline, re-
manned in her appointive position
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Mexico Charges Oil Companies Using
Propaganda, Sabotage Against Govt

ernment is incapable of managing
this fundamental industry"
1t was alleged that the expro-
priated companies, within and with,
cut the country, have directed
against the federal government ait
the Mexican people campaign IN
which they have not spared ex.
pense nor dark methods to cause
harm to the nation in consonance
with the historic antecedents OF
the companies in their relations
with the economic life of Mexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
U. 5. Housing Act
Terms Continued

Credit extensions under the
amended Housing Act, as signed by
President Roosevelt June 5, will re-
main materially the same as under
the previous Act, o. G.. Horne OF
the Security-First National bank
in Ell Centre declared Wednesday.
Title l loans are continued and
loans on existing structures will
still be made, he declared.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07

she was sitting The men were
questioning the girl concerning
some holdups which she said had
been planned for this area.
Suddenly she had a gun in her
hand" Swatji said although 1t
was only cap pistol it was dark
and looked like a .25 Colt auto
matte.
she pointed the gun at us and
said: Drive me to Landsford or
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Cohen Case Goes
To Jurors Here

The case of Jake Cohen, charged
with cattle stealing and conspiracy
was placed in the hands of a supe-
rior court jury at noon Wednesday
Cohen, stock buyer, was charg-
ed with stealing IL heifers belong
ing to John Bulloni, rancher of the
Imperial district.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Bowron Reveals
Cleanup Plans

LOS ANGELES, June 7. CUP)-
Mayor Fletcher Bowron, in a radio
address last night, revealed that
federal authorities had promised
to cooperate with local officials
in a thorough investigation of Los
Angeles vice conditions.
The mayor, a former superior
court judge who was elected by a
reform movement that successfully
recalled Mayor Frank Shaw, added
that federal officials believed re-
ports on vice conditions here have
been "overdraWn."
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07

country.
1T is a great injustice to San
Francisco to have that place of hor
ror on the doorstep OF the city
Murphy said at a press conference.
"The whole institution is conduc
i've to psychology that builds up a
sinister and vicious attitude among
prisoners he said.
Murphy said no definite action
was likely for two or three years,
but that he had ordered justice de-
partment officials to study the sit.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07

uation.
ut won't be changed he said,
until something better in the pub
lie interest is arranged"
Murphy inspected Alcatraz dur
ing a recent west coast trip. He
said he found that the prison had d
great psychological effect on pris
oners held there.
There is more evidence there
than elsewhere of conditions con.
tributing toward making prisoners
stir crazy" he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Baseball Results
By UNITED PRESS
NATIONAL


NATIONAL
Chicago ..............OO0 l2O 30l-f IL l
New York ............ .001 900 000-l 5 4
Passeu and Har;nett; Melton, w.
Brown, Lynn and banning.
Pittsburgh 900 10l 0O0-2 10 2
Boston ............... 900 900 600 7 0
Swift and Berres; MacFayden,
Sullivan and Lopez.
Cincinnati .........102 ITO 000-5 8 D
Philadelphia 900 O02 300 l3 0
Moore and Lombardi; Butcher,
Hollingsworth, Harrell, Poindexter
and Davis, Miles.
st. Louis at Brooklyn night game.
AMERICAN
Washington ...020 051 020-l0 IA 0
Cleveland 900 200 002- 7 2
Haynes and Early; Milnar, Zuber,
Sullivan and Hemsley.
New York ITO 030 000-5 9 0
Chicago ................. 200 900 OO0-2 7 3
Gomez. Murphy and Dickey; Lee,
Frasier, Brown and Rensa, Thresh.
Philadelphia 200 002 0l0-5 IA l
Detroit ................ 900 OIL 0ll-4 7 0
Nelson and Hayes; Rowe, Thomas
and York.
Boston.St Louis ppd., rain.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
THIEVES MAKE OFF
With EGGS. MEAL

BRAWLEY, June 7.-OmeIet and
boneless stew will be ON the menu
for burglars who raided the icebox
at the Pacific Fruit Express cook
house between 2 am. and 4 am.
today.
The raiders took 10 dozen eggs
and 40 pounds of boneless meat.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07

III blow your damn brains out
1--WE told her we would drive her
anywhere. Then Franklin pulled
out his 80 automatic and fired one
shot into the back of the car
The bullet missed her
"She said shoot again and III
blow your damn brains out Frank.
lin just pointed his gun 20 the
back seat and kept his finger on
the trigger"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Show Costs Man
S58 and Passport

BRAWLEY, June Z. - Enrique
Travizo, ranch worker, enjoyed the
costliest show of his life last night
A pickpocket relieved him of $685.
handbook and his passport as he
sat in a moving picture theatre.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Cap Pistol Bluff Brings
Death to 14-yeur-OId Girl

MAUCH CHUNK. Pa, June T..
(UP)-Frail, IA year old Joan Ste
vens was shot and killed by
state trooper after she pulled a
cap pistol from her purse, it was
testified today at coroner's inquest
into the Staying.
The testimony was given by Ed.
ward Swatji, who was with Corp
Benjamin Franklin when he fir
ed his automatic into the back seat
of a state motor police car in which
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Japanese Sentry Strikes
Woman; Britisher
Killed by Lending Party
international Incidents Arouse Tension
In Shanghai Area; Mission Worker
Struck for Failing to Halt Quickly

SHANGHAI, June 7. (UP)-Dspatches from Canton
reported today that American had been struck
by Japanese sentry when blinded by driving rain, she
failed to halt her automobile quickly enough at his chal
enge The woman the dispatches sad is Miss Anderson,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
U.s.. Attorney General Calls Alcatraz
Place Of Horror Indicates New
Federal Prison Site May Be Sought

WASHINGTON, June 7. tUP) Attorney General
Frank Murphy today termed Alcatraz prison place OF
horror and proposed transfer of hardened criminals
from the crock" in San Francisco bay to new security
nenitentiaY be located in isolated part OF the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Speed Ace Dies
When Plane Hits
Potomac River
Jinx Ship P|unses Into Water Shortly
After Leaving Washington Field for
Nonstop Flight to Mexico City

WASHINGTON June T. (UP) = Francisco Sarabia,
"Mexcos Lindbergh", who recently established speed
record for a nonstop flight from Mexico City to New
York. killed today when his fiveyear old speed plane
crashed into the Potomac river.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Farm Bureau Cites Hike
Of Hundred Per Cent in
Countv's School Levies
Elementary District Rate Over Double
Figure Of Three Years Ago. Writes
Secretary to Boards Making Budgets

hint gentle but firm, that school costs somewhat
out line and the Farm Bureau in Imperial county would
look favorablv upon decreases included in letter
sent out to more than 100 school trustees Wednesday by
Eonlds bureau secretary. Coming the heels
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Contrary to HOyIe--

Best laid plans occasionally go
awry, as In the case of an old su.
perstition about the wedding cake
You recall, no doubt, how it goes
The ring, penny and thimble are
cooked into the cake and whoever
gets the ring will wed soon, who
ever gets the penny will have riches
and whoever gets the thimble will
be an old maid.
At a wedding party given for
Winnie Trudell in recognition OF
her engagement to George Leder
man, something slipped up and in
the individual piece at the place OF
the bride.to-be was the thimble!
Rosalie LaBrucherie got the ring
and Mrs. Benny Kellerman the
penny.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Evidence After Fact

That temporary bulge in The
cheek of Josephine Eady must bt
the wisdom tooth from which She
separated company. 1t couldn't bt
Climax.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07

Butter: Los Angeles. 25iaci but
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch,
grade A, 3213c; manufacturing milk.
26c; route gathered cream, 23lsc.
L. A. Hay: U. S. No. 1, $500;
No. 2 Ieafy. S14-145O; No. 2 s12.50-
1900. Minneapolis flax July S1.74ls.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
u AMBLING
IMPORTER
Out From Under

Out From Under
Remember black haired, bright
eyed Gene MouSSeau? He got back
from school at Seal Beach in time
to have an operation Wednesday
in Ell Centro. While still groggy
from the anaesthetic he mumbled
rs the operation over?"
Mrs. Pearl Burke told him it was
and he closed his eyes and replied
Hot dog"
A bit later Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Johnstone were puzzled for a few
seconds when the youngster NUT
tered:
Pig! Pig"
Then they recalled that Roy had
promised him pig as a reward
for undergoing the operation.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07

Unscheduled Adoption
When w. E. Hancock goes out
showing property there is no tel.
ling what he may bring back in
tow. -.......-
According to a correspondent
Hancock was looking over an al
falfa ranch the other day when he
noticed a two.day-old calf nearly
starved. Hancock reported the
youngster to a neighbor who TOOK
it in charge and now the calf Is
doing fine.
They named her Hannahw said
our correspondent. We presume
after the founder.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07

Good Mixer
The lemonade season is on. Wal
ter Riedy has made his annual pill
grimmage to the Post-Press with
jug of his best and the Post Press
staff has placed its hearty approval
upon the product.
Walter has been making the do
nation yearly as long as anybody
around the office can recall; and
we're in favor of him keeping il
up ad infinitum.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07

$476,414.06
$571,367.S3
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07

Total cash, checks and drafts sent
through the two El Centre banks.)