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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-14
Vikings Run
Up BigS Score
VALLEY DIVISION

Thursday Results
FIFE a. North Puyallup 40
Puyallup So. Sumner so
Buckley % EatonFlns 29
Auburn ~ Service Station 81.
For the third successive night OF
play the leadership Of the Valley
division Of the Western Washing
ton league changed hands
Fife Merchants scared into the
lead with a thrilling 42-4O victory
over North Puyallup at North
Puyallup. The Northsiders led
Until the final basket
Puyallup Totems smashed out
$50 verdict over Sumner Mer-
chants at Puyallup II was the
first Puysllup win over Sumner
In two years of Valley play.
Buckley Merchants kept the
home floor record clean with
2S-23 decision over Eaton
Vile Lumbe jacks. Jock Bon
alta led the assault Buckley
meets the Helen stephens
Olympic girls Saturday eve
ming.
Auburn Merchants took hard.
Fought 42-31 decision from Service
Battery AT Fort Lewis Don Locke
and Bob Hayes were high point
men.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-14
1870, sp~s1ss- -

party 10 their venture
on discovering rich silver vein.
the expedition returned the donkey
10 its owner sho claimed third
interest for the animal ard him
self ~ guardian. lnasmuch a. the
donkey had participated In The
lucky search for ore.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-14

one OF the most eolorful OF all
Tacoma bowling events Of the year
Is scheduled for Saturday and sun
Jay at the Broadway alleys. II Is
the annual handicap tournament
for Northwest women bowling
stars.
Tacoma teams to the mum
her of IL are entered In the
hig tourney and a. many
teams viii convene here from
out-of-tovn bowling centers 10
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-14
BAG BIG CATS

SACRAMENTO - Calf ornls
hunters set new record when
they bsgged "a mountain lions IN
one month. benefitting cattle Fsis-
ers Vho have reported a great Io;s
Of stock this year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-14
STANDS OUT

NEW yORk-The y Y. 4 has
ketbsll team u 1884 vas the
only metropolitan club 10 20
through a season indicated ~ 20
years.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-14

MIneraI ShlngIeWeaNcrs n
Sunshine Point CCC tied for first
place as the Nisqually Valley diW-
sion completed its first round with
Ashford Townies and Morton
Loggers deadlocked in third place.
Final games in the first round
resulted in Morton nosing out
Ashford. 24-22; Sunshine Point
CCC crushing Alder, 1928. and
Mineral outpointing Elbe CCC,
$500
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-14
HOCKEY!

SPOKANE Finding sn.togt
victories 10 their liking. the spo-
kxne Clippers defeated the Van
couyer Lions. 3 10 0. last night 10
ain their second successive Pacific
Coast Ice Hockey league game
Spokane beat Portland. 10 to o.
sunday
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-14

Los ANGELES - Los Angeles
mas an outdoor ZEE rink Of 1900
square feet which can ~ kept IN
perfect condition even in q Tenn
peratuTs Of 100 dsgresA
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-14
Loggers Lose Second Game

the foul line. making good IN II
out of II attempts. The Loggers
converted eight out OF is.
The lineups
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-14
Ni>QJ ALLY DIVISION

0UI7- NNUNT u H0UsU 1T. SHANE
non a. HAYES Ill, T. Strand a..
Emory "a.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26
Yuma Alfalfa Pest
Confined TO Ariz.,
Harrigan Reports
New Species of Weevil
Infesting Fields In
NeighbOring Valley

Heavy infestations of a
new species of alfalfa weevil
found in Yuma have spread
to fields in the Bard area,
B. A. Harrigan county agrl-
cultural commissioner report e d
Wednesday after an inspection OF
fields in that area.
Because the federal government
and Arizona have cooperated IN
a fight to curb the pest there Is
little danger the infestation will
spread beyond fields now afflicted,
Harrigan said.
The weevil, known as hypera
brunneipenniS, was identified by the
bureau of entomology and plant
quarantine of the U. S. department
of agriculture as native of Egypt
Ethiopia and India. The bureau
reported, however, the infestation
was identical in appearance to one
that has troubled Utah and several
northwestern states recently.
Discovery Of the Weevil was made
several days ago by DR.. Lawrence
P. Wherle, assistant entomologist
of the University of Arizona, at
the experimental farm in the Yuma
valley.
All movement of alfalfa hay out
of Yuma has been stopped.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26
Early Dates Set
For Bond HEARINGS

Early dates were set Wednesday
for hearings on Imperial Irrigation
district debt refunding procedures.
Back in El Centro after filing
the refunding petition in federal
court in Los Angeles, Chief Counsel
Harry w. Horton announced that
Judge Ralph Jenny will hold a
hearing May Is at p m. on the
matter of an injunction against
filing or maintaining any action ag-
ainst the district on its outstanding
bonds. At the same time, Judge
Jenny will take up the question of
disburSing under the refunding
plan, bond funds now in the dis
trict treasury.
The refunding plan will be SUBJ
mitted for approval before the fed
eral court in San Diego July IT,
Horton declared. He expected
Judge Paul J. Mccormack would be
the presiding judge.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26
Murder Syndicate
Links Is Persons
Reinsurance Plot

PHILADELPHIA, April 26. CUP
AT least Is persons were con-
nected with a monstrous murder
for insurance syndicate that killed
some 100 victims in several states.
authorities disclosed today shortly
after another woman allegedly con-
fessed to poisoning her husband to
collect $1,000
The arrest and purported confes-
sion of Mrs. Josephine Romaldo, Al,
mother of two grown children, that
she murdered her husband, Anto-
Mo. "A, in 1896, climaxed new de-
velopments in the investigation.
Three other women and a man
were taken into custody.
It was understood that the ar
rests resulted from disclosures by
Mrs. Carina Favato, A. who halted
her murder trial dramatically Fri
day by pleading guilty to the poi
soning of her stepson, her common
law husband and another man.
She is trying to escape the electric
chair by cooperating with au-
thorities.
1t was revealed that the syndi-
cate which specialized in death and
advice to prospective killers charg-
ed a minimum price of $500 per
murder. 1t operated in New Jersey,
Connecticut and possibly New York.
as we'll as in Pennsylvania, Off
cials believed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26
Students Take Over
BrawIey Govt on
Youths S Day

BRAWLEY April 26.-Youth
took over municipal and business
affairs of Brawley today with IS
high school and junior college STU
dents officiating in places normally
managed by adults.
Forty high school and Junior col
lege members of the Y. M. c.
A. ran the city government from
mayor to dog catcher and made
life miserable for crooks by the
mere force of numbers.
Thirty five girls, members of the
Tri-Y, tried their ability as clerks
and stenographers in various busi-
ness, commercial, industrial, and
professional establishments. They
were eager if not efficient in their
desire to serve the public.
The organizations stage a Youths
Day once each year to give the
school pupils look into the SER
ious business of running city and
private businesses,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26
Republican Heads Futile Contest
Against 1st Reorganization Plans;
Disputes Roosevelt Economy Claims

tered agencies into three new units
to handle works and relief; gov
eminent lending; and social security
and welfare activities.
Even the bittereSt opponents o.
the reorganization law under
which Mr.. Roosevelt regrouped ex-
ecutive bureaus under three new
agencies of Sub-cabinet rank, con-
ceeded the order could not be stop
ped and would take effect, as pro-
vAded in The law, at The expiration
of so days.
Criticism of the order centered
chiefly on two contentious:
/. That it grouped permanent
and emergency agencies together
tending to make temporary agencies
permanent.
2. That instead of producing an
estimated Sl5,000,000 to $20,000,00U
annual administrative saving, as MI
Roosevelt estimated, it would add
the expense of any temporary agen-
c;es made permanent.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26

Nickels-shiny new ones-were On
sale in Ell Centro wednesday for
dime, but not at the banks. The
banks stuck to the same old ex-
change of a nickel for nickel.
Among the first to trade ten
cents for nickel was T. E. ClaveA
cafe man, who reported the pur-
chase from a stranger. He showed
the coin and explained.
See the building there? No flag
pole. The man told me the U. S
Treasury department had recalled
all the nickels without flagpoles
and he was selling them for a
dime. He had a bunch of them"
Ell Centre bankers grinned when
asked if the treasury department
had recalled the newly minted,
flagpole- less coins.
I'VE have had no such request
from the federal reserve, as un-
doubtedly would be the case" H
H. Tyler of the Bank of America
said, and Louis Slee Of the Security
First National agreed.
IT doubt if they would recall the
coins, anyhow" Tyler said. They
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26
Water
Ratified
Coast City Ballots
To Accept Share
OfCanal Flow

The city of San Diego
eventually will drink water
from the All American canal
D ecause of a proposition
which was passed by a more
than two thirds majority in NUM-
cipal elections, final returns show
ed Wednesday.
According to United Press dis
patches, San Diego voted 25,l72 to
lO.367 to exercise an option on
100000,000 gallons of water daily
from the All American. A two thirds
vote was required. Cost to the city
would average $4,000 a year for
38 years, which would include the
city's part of the cost of the canal
and Imperial dam, based upon the
proportionate flow from the canal.
San Diego probably will not ac-
lively exercise its right to the water
for years after the water is avail
able, Fred D. Pyle, hydraulic engi-
neer for San Diego, explained.
When it is needed to supplement
the present water supply which
comes from mountain reservoirs,
canal water will be brought over
the intervening m yum TIA ms S by
means of pumps and a seven mile
tunnel from Banner to point
above Ell Captain reservoir. Pyle
estimated that it would be 1875 be-
fore there would be actual need for
the water.
Mayor Peter j. Benbough and
two Benbough- endorsed city coun-
ell candidates won healthy major
tiles in Tuesdays elections. Ben
bough defeated Jacob Weinberger
32,O45 to 9,064 while Louis Weggen-
man and Albert Flowers scored
victories over Wilbur Thomas ana
John Siebert, incumbents, in the
two contested council district races
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26

by a bipartisan coalition which
blocked administration efforts last
night to force the budget out with
less than a two-thirds majority,
The senate finished up a brief
calendar and marked time waiting
for the budget bill to come out OF
the lower house. Capitol interest
veered at noon to an assembly COM
mittee investigating athletic al
fairs when charges were made that
nest wrestling bouts were fixed y
without action of the state athletic
commission.
Meanwhile, the administrations
compulsory health insurance pro-
gram, major plank in the Demo-
cratic party platform, went to the
assembly with a favorable recon-
mendation by the unemployment
committee The health plan Wouii
apply to all workers in the state
earning less than $4,000 per year
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26

WASHINGTON, April 26. CUP)-
Rep. John Taber, r., N. Y, today
introduced a resolution to reject
President Roosevelt's first reorgan-
ization plan, although he admitted
there was no chance of setting
aside the presidents sweeping
order.
To be effective, the resolution
would have to be approved by a
majority of both houses within so
days.
Taber, ranking minority member
Of the house reorganization COM
mittee, said he sought to put the
administration forces on record in
regard to what he described as a
rotten job" Of reorganization.
Congressional reaction was gem
orally favorable to the first reor-
ganization plan = combining scat
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26
Aviation Research
Plans Eliminated

WASHINGTON, April 26. CUP)
House and senate conferees to-
day eliminated $4,000000 for new
aviation research station at Sun
nyvale, Calf, from the second de-
ficiency appropriation bill.
The funds were eliminated de-
spite testimony of military experts
that the army air corps present
research and experiment facilities
at Langley Field, Va, are made
quate to meet German competition
in aviation development The con-
ferees approved $2,140,000 for addi-
tional facilities at Langley
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26

be introduced by the government In
the house of commons. In addition
he said the bill would empower the
government to call up any and all
reserves.
The announcement in commons
was Chamberlain advance reply
to Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's speech on
Friday, and a warning to the world
that Britain is prepared to fight
aggression.
The number of men involved In
the 20 to 81 categories was esti-
mated by Chamberlain at 10000
annually. not counting reductions
due to exemptions. From the tone
of Chamberlain's announcement, IL
appeared likely that if grave dam
ger threatened, other classes might
be called up, resulting in trained
army of perhaps 100000.
After their six months training
Chamberlain said, the conscriptS
could join the territorials for 31a
years, or otherwise would be oblig-
ed to enter the special reserve OF
the regular army.
CONSUMPTION was Britain'S an
swer to F'uehrer Adolf Hitler's re-
fusal to see British Ambassador Sl
Neville Henderson, and to the re-
port by Foreign Minister Grigort
Gafencu of Rumania that Hitlel
told him Great Britain is unable t
defend herself, much less defen>
| Poland and Rumania.
Chamberlain announcement {
British precedent of centuries anC
Continued on Page 2, Col. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26
Soil, Land Use
Committee TO Meet

Members OF the Imperial County
Soils and Land Use committee will
meet at the county court house
Tuesday night at 7:30 to discuss a
summary of valley problems listed
at series of meetings of valley
farmers.
Many land use problems were
listed at the meetings of valley
farmers, Frank Beyschlag, farm
adviser, said, and Tuesday nights
meeting of the committeeman is
the first in a series to probe con-
ditions and seek solutions to these
problems.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26
Banks Stick to Nickel for Nickel
Exchange Even Though Customer
Asks S. for FIagpoIe-less Coin

probably would merely change the
die in case of an error and go
right ahead. The rumor of their
value has certainly got around,
however. One man came in this
morning and wanted to sell a flag
pole-lcss nickel for five dollars!'
Best explanation of how the
sale" started pointed at Walter
Winchell, cclumn:St, who recently
poked fun at the federal govern
ment for minting coins which car
ried the image of a building lack,
ing a flagpole,
because the coins were bit
different the rumor probably grew
that they were valuable to collect
ors," Tyler remarked. "They could
Mt be very valua Bile, because 1 un-
derstand 45 million of this issue
nave been coined and they are
still being turned out!'
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26

'FTeSno and northern Kings Couil-
ties, the insects devoured tree
leaves, gardens, lawns and shrubs.
Residents patroled their yards,
fighting the invasion with poison
bran mash, house broomS and in
secticide spray guns of all descrip-
tions. Doors and windows of the
homes were tightly closed.
Some gardeners covered their
most priced shrubs with cheese
cloth only to see the hoppers devour
it with apparent relish.
City officials emphasized the hop
pers were only in outlying districts
and that they moved into town
in separate droves branching OIL
from the main hordes moving in
a general southerly direction to-
ward the nearby Kettleman Hills
oil district. There are about thou
sand homes in Avenal.
Near Murray, 10 miles to the east,
and at Coalinga across the line in
Fresno county, the hoppers were
being kept from entering the town
residential districts. Rings of pol
son mash were placed around the
towns. Large fields alive WIN
hoppers were burned.
The plague was most severe IL
the Coalinga -Avenal-Murray dis
trict at the southern end of a strip
of barren plains and foothills lying
along the eastern base of the coast
range.
From Avenal the plague extend
ed as far southeast as Bakersfield
and north more than 100 miles in
western Fresno county.
State and county agricultural ex-
perts said main damage to crops
so far had been confined to some
1000 acres in the rich Pleasant VAL
ley region and at scattered San
Joaquin Valley points to the east.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26
Henderson to HAND
British Message
To Nazi Under|inq
Hitler Drafts Fateful
Speech for Friday as
Envoy CoOls Heels

BERLIN, April 26. (UP)
Sir Neville Henderson, Brit
ish ambassador, unable to
see either Adolf Hitler or
f orei gn Minister Joachim
Won Ribbentrop, made an appoint-
ment today to present to Baron
Ernst Won WeizSaecker, secretary
of state of the foreign office, the
message he brought from his gov
ernment.
Henderson had sought vainly to
see Ribbentrop and Hitler. Both
had been too busy" Rlbbentrop
was entertaining the Jugoslav for
eign minister and Hitler was work
ing on the speech he IS to make
in the Nazi Reichstag Friday an
sWering President Roosevelt's APP
peal for peace.
Nazi quarters expressed doubt
that either Hitler or Ribbentrop
would "have time" to see the am
bassador before the speech was
made, and British quarters be-
lieved that Henderson was being
deliberately snubbed.
Hitler knew that Henderson's in
structions were to urge him to
tone down his Reichstag speech
and to say that continuation OF
European tension compelled the
British government to take up the
question of conscription, though
not as a threat to Germany.
Hitler was reported to be thor
oughly angry at the British deci-
sion to send Henderson back, after
five weeks absence, to try to get
him to modify his speech. Nazis
saw the British move as an effort
to put Germany in the wrong.
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26

The commission should not per-
NIT the establishment of the pro-
posed estimated weights in the aD-
sence of proof that the resulting
charges will not be unreasonable Or
otherwise unlawful"
He said the proposed higher
rates were estimated TO be IN ex-
cess of SO 100000 annually from
California and Arizona, approx
mately $4,000 annually IRON
Texas and between $500,oOo ana
100000 annually from Florida
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26
NLRB Agent Pays
HoIfyiIIe Fine

Maurice Howard, field represen-
tative of the National Labor Rela-
tons Board who was tried and
found guilty of disturbing the peace
in Holtville, recently paid the $25
fine imposed by the court
He formerly had served verbal
notice of appeal but changed his
mind before time to file formal
notice.
The federal official was tried be-
fore a jury in Holtville justice court
last month and found guilty oil
disturbing the peace at the Got
fried packing sned there during
a wage dispute.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26
NewfieIds Found
Not Guilty Here

A jury of nine women and three
men took less than 20 minutes
Wednesday forenoon to decide that
Arthur and Victor NeWfield were
not guilty OF charges of maintain
ing public nuisance at 533 Orange
street, FL Centro, where they have
a garage for storing machinery
Neighbors had complained of
noises and Objectionable language
Prosecution neighborS were chiefly
women neighbors The NeWfields
maintained any noises to which
neighbors might have objected
ceased after a warning from the
police department.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26
Mexican Asks Aid
In Funeral Plans

BRAWLEY, April 26.-Susano
Fierro wanted to do the correct
thing when his wife, Candelaria
Nabarrete, SO, died early Wednes-
day at his ranch but his ideas of
the proper procedure were vague.
He dressed the body in burial
clothes. placed it in the rear of
his sedan, drove 10 miles to town,
and asked Brawley police what to
do with it. They called Deputy
Conorer Herbert Hughes and he
ordered burial.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26
Examiner Turns Down
GRAPEFRUIT Rate Boost

WASHINGTON, April 26. (UP)
The interstate commerce COM
mission examiner recommended
today against a proposal by rail-
roads that would increase by ap-
proximately $4,50O,000 the annual
freight charges on citrus fruit ship
ped from California, Arizona, Tex
as and Florida.
The railroads had proposed that
freight charges on fruit shipped in
standard containers be based on
average weights rather than arbi-
trary estimated weights now used
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26
Demonstration of
Drainage System
Set for Friday

A drainage demonstration meet
ing at the j. E. Harshman and
Charles Wieman ranches west Of
Brawley have been scheduled for
Friday afternoon at 1:30, accord
ing to Frank Beyschlag, farm ad-.
visor.
At Harshman's ranch the opera
ton of tile laying machine in a
citrus orchard will be seen. Frank
Beyschlag and Major John Lamb
of the Irrigation district, will out
line engineering services offered
farmers for installation of the
drainage systems.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26
Fl Centro Coppers Cut Cigar Ash
With Bullets at Emp|oye Meeting

cards with bullets, shot away chalk
held by aides and peppered targets
Climax was flicking cigar ashes
with lead while Roy Dupont held
the cigar in his teeth.
Also on the program were a vio-
lin number by Stan G.. Atkin OF
Central high school, a dance by
Geneva Abel, accompanied by Paul
inc Oswalt, Jeanne Burger, Elrose
Maquar and Virginia Jones sang.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26

in computing charges. Examiner
Paul o. Carter found that the aver
age weight basis was acceptable.
but the the railroads failed to show
that resulting increased charges
would be reasonable.
The proposed change, the COM
mission estimated, would result in
Texas freight charge increase OF
from 23 to 13 per cent; Florida ILL.,
per cent and California 3.3 to 1913
per cent.
The examiner concluded:
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26

Police pistols barked Tuesday
evening in a noisy but harmless
symphony that was the climax OF
an entertainment program for the
city employees of FL Centro, meet
ing at the Ten Thousand clubhouse.
w. S. Keating, Floyd Ackley and
Jack Tackett, all police officers,
put on the demonstration, split
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26

The Texas officers said a friend
of McCulley's disappeared four
years ago and soon thereafter Nc
Culley took possession of the miss
ing mans property. Thus far the
body of the missing man has not
been found but the officers said
they feel certain McCulley can tell
them where 1t is,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-26

The prisoner was serving a So
day Jail sentence imposed for petty
theft in Brawley when the Texas
officers arrived. They had received
, notice from the federal bureau of
Investigation that McCulley was in
custody in Imperial county.
McCulley denied the murder and
, insisted he knew nothing about it.