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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29

dbIellQ Due ch pIeoSCu oOIioN ViIh1
someone inadvertently used my
name as speaker" DR.. Towne N.Y.
lander, NLRB director, will be the
main speaker.
The county fair board first re-
fused permission to use the fair
grounds for the meeting because
they never heard of the organiza-
ton which requested it. the Labor
ers' Nom Partisan League. They
granted permission, however, when
Governor Olson approved it.
Walter I. Welden, secretary of
the Central Labor council said the
CIO and the A. F. of L. are not
affiliated and the meeting was a
CIO idea and CIO responsibility.
Charles Copperman, bus n e S S
agent for the Teamsters union, an
A. F.. of l.. affiliate, who signed
the original Laborers Nom Partisan
league petition, said he had little
idea of the purpose of the meeting
when he signed.
BY inference Copperman defend
ed the Associated Farmers of I'm
perial county against an attack by
Patterson late Saturday in which
Patterson labelled the farmers
radical" and Fascist minded" anc
classed them with "tory-reactionary
minded persons" who attempt to
stamp out civil liberties.
In an interview this weekend
Copperman declared he did not con-
Continued OH Page 6; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
Ydmafoda Trial
Near End atL. A.

LOS ANGELES, May %. CUP)-
Defense and prosecution attorneys
today began final arguments in the
murder trial of Hideichi Yamatoda,
japanese gambling baron, and two
of his aides who are accused OF
beating to death T. Namba. wealthy
Lodi rancher. May 81. 1893, in the
Little Tokyo cafe.
Throughout a two weeks trial
the state sought to show that the
three japanese and several others
who never have been apprehended
beat Namba to death with a BIZ
lard cue in an argument over a
gambling debt.
Namba'S body never has been
found but witnesses testified they
saw his limp form being removed
from the cafe in a blanket.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
Hall. f.and-Ha|f Conference Committee
Seeks Compromise in Budget Fight

also served on the sommittee and
is O,SCn'S floor leader.
The free conference committee
will begin deliberations later today
Several members commented un-
officially they believed a COM
promise might be effected by the
original committee and not force
4 second or third group to be
named to break a deadlock.
Assembly Speaker Paul Peek
named the assembly delegates while
the senate rules committee handled
the upper house group. There was
no attempt in either house to
stack" the committee to an undue
advantage. Rules required that each
house choose two members from
the prevailing side and one from
the minority.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
Murder Suspect
Nabbed in Valley

Four years of dodging officers
ended for N. w. Willie, 80, Negro,
when he was arrested by Imperial
county officers this weekend on a
charge of numbering his wife in
Texas in 1885.
Willrr, who was using the alias
Robert Brown" was arrested by
Sheriff Robert w. Ware and his
men working in cooperation with
Mexican officers in Mexicali He
was found in the Verde district.
The Negro denied the charge and
refused to discuss it but signed ex-
tradition papers. Sheriff Burl
Wheeler of Abilene, Tex, telephon'
ed that two men from his office
will call for the prisoner this week,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
English Threaten
Shipping Strike

SOUTHAMPTON, England, May
20. CUP)-Ship repairers threaten
ed to strike today, and reports cir
culated that the liner Empress of
Britain, which is to bring King
George and Queen Elizabeth back
from Canada, might be affected.
Officials, however, said that theu
believed there was no likelihood
that the ship would be affected
particularly because it is almost
ready and is to lie over at Quebec
for five days, which would be suf-
ficient to complete any work need
ed
Filters and electricians we're
brought to Southampton from
Portsmouth. They complained be-
cause they were still being paid
Portsmouth rates, which are low
er than those for similar workers
here.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
vandenberg Won't
Seek Nomination

WASHINGTON. May %. up
Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, r.,
Michigan, said today he would not
actively seek the Republican pres
idential nomination but mo Amer
ican could decline if chosen
Vandenberg said that the nom
inees for president in 1910 should
pledge not to seek more than one
term so that they would be free
of all incentive but the one job of
saving America"
He discussed the presidential
nomination in letters to Gov. Luren
B. Dickinson Of Michigan and Rep
Carl E. Pames, r. Mich. With all
IL Republican members of the Mich
igan congressional delegation. they
had signed letter last week urg-
ing that Vandenberg be drafted as
1910 Republican nominee.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
Vancouver Greets
British Rulers

VANCOUVER. B. c.. May 20
CUP) - King George and Queen
Elizabeth reached Vancouver. true
crossroads of empire, today and re-
ceived a laundering welcome as a
prelude to the western climax of
their historic tour of North America.
An estimated half a million per-
sons-twice the population of this
metropolis OF western Canada -
packed the streets and cheered their
majesties in perhaps the most cos
mopolitan greeting they have re-
ceived on their whole journey from
London.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
Boy Experiments
With Death-Dies

SAN FRANCISCO. May %. CUP)
"A 16-year-old high school boy who
a few days ago said he was inter-
ested in finding out how it would
feel to be saved from the brink of
death" was found dead today,
hanging from a pipe in the base
ment of mis- home.
He was Virgil Alan Harris, a stu
dent at Mission high school. Physi-
clans said he had been dead IL
hours when his father found him
this morning.
Police. after an investigation. said
young Harris curiosity about the
sensation of death caused him to
experiment-but he carried the eX-
pertinent too far.
The rope had been twisted three
times around the pipe, but was not
tied. An open pocketknife lay with
in reach on a rafter. Apparently
young Harris had intended to cut
himself free just before he strang-
led, but he died before he could
retrieve the knife.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
Freezing Air|ines Peril
SquoIus Salvage Divers

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., May 29'
CUP)-Under a cloud flecked sky
the navy resumed full salvage op-
erations on the sunken submarine
Squalus today while ashore the post
chaplain announced plans for
Memorial Day services honoring the
ships rs dead.
Commander Albert E. Stone said
he would eulogize the lost crew OF
the Squalus in a brief sermon at
the National cemetery on hilltop
in the yard. He also planned a
special afternoon Memorial service
for the crew with simple music and
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29

The task of raising the flooded
submarine and the 26 dead of her
crew became increasingly difficult
because of weather conditions, and
some naval authorities believed it
might not be completed before late
in the summer. In view of the de-
lay, the navy was beginning an Of
ficial investigation of the mishap
without waiting for the Squalus to
be brought up and examined. AS
the first step in the investigation
written reports were taken from
the 33 survivors of the crew and
from civilians employed in the navy
yard here.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
Puddle
Missing
Mystery Ooaks
Tiny Crafts Fate
On Long Flight

CROYDON AIRDROME,
London, May 20. (UP)-Fear
that Thomas H. Smith, EN-
route from Maine in a 81 800
plane, had failed to span the
Atlantic ocean was expressed by
some British aviation experts to-
night as darkness closed in with
out any definite word from the
American flier.
Reports of small monoplanes
that might have been Smiths four
cylinder Baby Clipper" were re-
ceived from northern Ireland and
northern England but the trans
ocean ship failed to reach Croydon
long after the reports would have
indicated it was due. Checks on
other airports in Ireland and Eng
land produced no definite word OF
his fate.
The fact that many small planes
were in the air throughout the
British Isles because today was the
Whitmonday holiday was believed
by some airdrome officials to have
resulted in receipt of various mis-
taken reports that plane believed
to be Smiths had been sighted.
The little $500 Baby Clipper"
plane was first believed sighted over
Londonderry, on the north Irish
coast, but flying too high for iden-
tification. Later, the officer on duty
at Croydon airdrome, outside Lon
don, told of receipt of a message
from control officer at Foynes air
base on the western coast of Ire
land saying Smith had landed
Continued on Page 6; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
Temperatures Up
To New High Point

The sun drove temperatures to
the seasons high of 1903 degrees
Sunday and Monday threatened to
even go beyond this mark.
Previous high point had been los
recorded Saturday at the Ell Centre
weather bureau.
At noon Monday the mercury
stood at los and weather observers
anticipated close to ITO degrees be-
fore late afternoon. Humidity stay
ed fairly low, except for early NOR
ming hours. At am. Monday it
was 81, but had dropped to % by
noon. Sunday at pm. the hui
midity was 13.
Mondays minimum temperature
was So degrees. recorded at am.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29

Francisco, the drivers threatened
to tie up the monster transporta-
ton system unless union recogni-
ton was granted.
Imperial Valley would be direct
ly affected in case the walkout
materialized. Five buses day
leave Ell Centro carrying passen-
gers for either San Diego or Los
Angeles. Five buses come to Ell
Centro from those points. In addi-
ton, three buses go to Yuma and
three buses reach Ell Centre from
Yuma each day. There are two
runs of valley buses from CaleXico
to INLAND and return.
A. Blackburn, Greyhound man
ager in Ell Centro, was unable to
comment fully on the proposed
strike. He said:
There has been some talk of a
walkout, but I had not heard it
was decided upon"
Brotherhood officials announced
the strike was authorized to start
at 10 am. May 81, the United Press
said.
Issue of the dispute, according
to the Brotherhood. is Pacific Grey
hounds refusal to recognize the
Brotherhood as the bargaining
agent for the bus drivers The
Brotherhood recently Won a Ma
tional Labor Relations Board con-
sent election over the AFL Anal
gamated Association of Street,
Electric and Motor Coach Employees,
local 227
Pacific Greyhound said it can
not bargain with the Brotherhood,
despite the NLRB election, because
Of prior and existing contract
signed with the AF'L union.
The Brotherhood is an indepen-
dent union.
w. P. Nutter, special representa-
tive of the Brotherhood, said the
union will seek satisfactory set
tlement" of the dispute before the
strike deadline. Nutter said the per-
centage of the strike vote was 30
per cent greater than necessary
to order strike under the Broth
erhoods rules.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
5-Day Week for
State Workers Out

SACRAMENTO, May 30. up
The senate today went on record
against a five-dsy week for state
employees by a vote of 5 to %.
The vote was on a resolution by
Senator Roy Nielsen. r. Sacrament
to. directing the state personnel
board to establish such working
schedule in so far as existing legal,
budgetary and personnel limita
tions" permit. Nielsen said the
board already has power to set up
such working hours as it chooses
under the 1887 civil service act.
Principal objection was that it
would greatly increase the cost of
state government.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
Graves of War
Dead Decorated

PARIS, May 30. UP-Graves of
10000 American war dead we're dec
GRATED in French cemeteries today
as the climax of a weekend de-
voted to manifestations of French
American friendship. =
Six of the graves we're those of
sailors killed in the battle between
the Confederate man of war Ala
bama and the Federal warship
Kearsarge off Cherbourg June 10,
1854. The Alabama was sunk.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29

prayers for their souls.
Children. marching with veterans
organizations from Portsmouth and
Kittery, will scatter lilacs and other
flowers from a bridge into the Pis-
cataqua river as a marine and navy
bugler sound taps.
Work has been halted tempor-
arily because of the danger that air
lines would freeze but after a diver
had tested the water in an elec-
trically- heated suit, others return
ed to the job breathing an oxygen
helium mixture that had a lower
freezing point than ordinary COM
pressed air.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29

Memorial Day will be observed
in Imperial Valley Tuesday by
special services in charge of vet
Grams organizations in the various
valley cities, by general school
holiday. and by an almost universal
closing of business houses and Of
fices.
In Ell Centre the services will
take place at Veterans Circle in
Evergreen at a. m. Boyce Aten
post of Ell Centro and Holdgkom
post of Imperial will represent the
American Legion. They will be
joined by the Spanish American
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29

6.-Use common sense In swim
ming. Wait at least an hour after
eating. Don't go in while overheat-
ed or If you have a weak heart.
Don't show off by swimming TOO
far or in dangerous waters.
Five children at Tama, Ia. died
when they we're trappd In their
flaming home. Their parents were
away.
The oldest death over the week
end was that OF Peter Kodylak. -.
who died at the "old swimming
hole" at Greensburg, Pa. when an
airplane crashed on him.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29

y
nose down into four feet of water
and a heavy deposit of mud, Depu-
ty Coroner Herbert Hughes sale.
The car overturned and was resting
top-doWn when found.
Only one wheel of the car was
visible at the time N. l.. Allender,
rancher, passed the bridge at $50
am. Monday He telephoned for
help. The body of the Japanese
was not discovered until tow car
succeeded in overturning the ma
chine and dragging it from the
mud.
Ara's body was taken to the
Lemons mortuary in Ell Centre
Hughes said an inquest will be held
Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29

H'No Nv V'IO "V.'1 OI OIIV IUuI UdJ
holiday.
Take it easy" the council warn
ed in releasing six rules for safe
Memorial Day:
Don't overdo in exercise, ex-
posure to sun or eating.
2.-Check your car before the
trip-especially tires, brakes and
steering apparatus.
Stake it easy on the road.
Give yourself enough time. Don't
speed or take chances in passing.
4.-Don't drive if you drink.
Don't take anything for
'ranted at railroad crossings.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
WOLINIST RETURNS
HOME THROUGH CANADA

QUEBEC, Que, May 30. CUP)-
Yehudi Menuhin, youthful violin
ist, and his wife, arrived in Quebec
today aboard the Cunard liner As
cania. The Menuhins are en- route
to their home at Santa Clara, Cal,
where they will spend the summer
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
CantaIoupe, Beet
Shipments Up

Cantaloupe shipments from Inn
perial county totaled $50 cars Mon
day, according to statistics obtain
ed from the Southern Pacific rail-
way offices. as compared to 805
cars on the same date In 1888
Sugar beet shipments to the San
ia Ana refinery totaled ITO cars.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
Baseball Results
BY UNITED PRESS
aNTEDIr

BY UNITED PRESS
AMERICAN
New York ..........O10 03O 200-6 3
Boston ................. 900 600 000-1 2
Hadley, Murphy and Dickey;
Bagby, Heving, Wade and Desau-
tells, Peacock.
St Louis ..... .........#...-.=... l02 ll2 OF
Detroit .........-......-...........1 003 OF
Lawson and Glenn; McKain, Els
enstate. Coffman and York.
Philadelphia ......................01l 200 90
Washington ........................1l0 020 90
Ross and Brucker; KrakauskaS,
Kelley and Ferrell.
Only games scheduled
NATIONAL
New York ..... 003 003 0O1-7 II /
Philadelphia 010 ITO 200-5 10 2
CaStleman, Salvo 81 Danning;
Hollingsworth, Poindexter and Da-
Wis.
Boston ......-.. 900 900 000-0 2 0
Brooklyn ...... 900 900 01x-1 s
Lanning and Lopez; Pressnel and
Todd.
Chicago ....... 900 0l0 002-3 !
Cincinnati .. 900 010 05x-6 10 l
Lee. Whitehill, j. Russell, Hart
nett; Grissom and Lombardi.
Pittsburgh .......................-....... 0l3 90
st. Louis 900 90
Klinger and Berres; Weiland, Nc
Gee and Owen.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
Merely an Attempt

Merely an Attempt
When Ernie Cox was sent out
to a roadside drinking establish
ment" to answer call in his busi-
ness as deputy sheriff, he found a
66-year-old Mexican in the throes
of alcoholic enjoyment. Ernie's no.
tation on the Sherirf's office log
read:
Turned Mexican over to care
of his family and when last seen
he was trying to make explanations
for the spree. He was just trying.
He wasn't getting anywhere"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
Ell CENTRAN HONORED
AT STATE CONVENTION

Deputy Sheriff Joe LizzarraraS OF
FL Centro was elected director OF
the California division of the IN
ternational Association for Identifi-
cation at the annual convention in
Oakland Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
D AMBLING
IMPORTER
Eve for Business

Eye for Business
Les Rogers, although always am
using, outdid himself Sunday While
driving to San Diego.
Les was driving over that stretch
of the Mountain Springs grade that
soon will be abandoned in favor OF
the new highway. He had driven
for several minutes without COM
ment. which is something for Silent
Leslie, when he burst forth with
this thought:
"I'll bet you could buy this road
at a bargain right now Think I'll
buy it and make toll road out OF
it There wouldn't be much over
head, because you wouldn't get any
traffic"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
Safety Council Focuses Attention
0nPeacefime Parade of Death in
Warning Of Memorial Day Dangers
By UNITED PRESS

The National Safety Council Monday focused national
attention the other Memorial Day parade-not the
bands and marching troops but the parade death and
injury that accompanies it and which had claimed LOG
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
Driver browns in Overturned Auto
After Crashing Through Bridge
Rail: Death 18th Since Jan. 1st
Rancher Sees Wheel Above Water, Summons AID
To Remove Machine Embedded in Mud; Body
Found When Tow Car Rights Wreckage

Traffic deaths reached 25 Imperial county this year
when a japanese ranch foreman drowned in coupe he
drove off New river bridge early Monday morning.
Masao Ara AZ was imprisoned in the which struck
bridoe rail mile southeast of Mt Signal and plunged
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
Bus Drivers Vote
Strike to Tie Up
7WeStern States
Imperial Valleys 20-Bus Sched duIe May
Feel Direct Effects Of WaIkoutIf
Jurisdiction Dispute is Not Settled

strike that would tie up Pacific Greyhound bus ser
vice in western states-ncuding the 20busaday
schedule in Ell Centro-was threatened Monday after
drivers voted by 969 per cent majority to walk out Wed
nesday According to United Press dispatches from San
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
4-Lung Airp|ane
Lost Over Ocean
AFL Washes Hands Of Laborer League
Meeting at Fair Grounds tuesday,
Says Gathering Purely clio Baby
Transfers Union Agent Who Signed Request
For Use of Public Auditorium Declares He
Knew Little About Purpose of Gathering

American Federation of Labor representatives washed
their hands of the public forum at the fairgrounds at 80
pm Tuesday and Monday declared it "CIO baby"
This left the CIO with program minus Lieut.-Gov.
Ellis Patterson who only teegraphed he could not
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
Willie Gets a Hand


ster's point.
Willie Gets a Hand
Returning from a Riverside high
way patrol meeting Sunday were
Bill Tackett, Bill Mitchell. Paul
Brown, Roy Wells and Tillman Da-
lev. Their car developed a fiat
tire near Oasis and there followed
an argument as to whether the tire
should be changed by them on the
spot or changed by garagemail,
Bill Tackett held out for the SELF
help solution and reluctantly the
others agreed However, only one
to make a move toward changing
the tire was Bill Tackett.
bill, can we help your the grim
ming officers asked from the cush-
ions of the car, and answered Bills
"Yes" with such remarks as:
bill always did try and hog all
the fun. Won't let a chap do any
thing around here. He's a rugged
individualist."
Meanwhile Bill was becoming
more and more rugged as the sun
bored into his toiling back and
the perspiration dripped from his
classic profile. Finally, when the
tire was changed and Bill was
spluttering with anger, Paul Brown
and Bill Mitchell condescended to
take the spare a few feet to the
garage and fill it with air. Coming
back to the car they both stagger-
ed with exhaustion and pleaded
with Bill:
MY gosh, Bill, give us a hand!
Don't make lis do ALL the work."
Bills answer was: t. -"
Censored.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29
Polite Shut Up

Polite Shut Up
1t took a youngster to quiet the
fight crowd the other night when
ringsiders we're believing advice to
Bigboy Hogue,
The youngster, just barely able
to get his chin above the canvas
apparently grew tired of comments
from the armchair quarterback5
and shrilled over his shoulder:
"Pipe down there! Bigboy knows
what to dol
The crowd piped down and Big
boy continued to prove the young
ster's point.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-29

Butter: Los Angeles, 25Isei hut
terfat. Imperial Valley fob. ranch.
grade A, 32I5c; manufacturing milk.
26c; route gathered cream. 23lso.
l.. A. Hay: U. S. No. I. $500:
No. 2 Ieafy, Sf4-14.5O: No. 2 $3.50
1850. Minneapolis flax July Sl.7Ois.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-01-07
Investigation
Board Grows
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, jan. Fired G. Handy, di-
rector of the North Carolina Bureau
of Identification and Investigation,
moved yesterday into the old red
brick State office building, where his
bureau has seven rooms on the top
floor. Youngest of the States major
bureaus, this one has been treated
like a red-headed stepchild for office
room. Starting in a cubby hole in
a temporary office in the highway
building, it was moved some months
ago to the Carolina hotel.
With more than $4,000 worth of
modern scientific equipment, includ-
ing all sorts of cameras, finger print
ing material, ETC., the Identification
bureau is rapidly assuming the i'm
portant place it was originally design
ed to fill. Mr.. Handy expects that it
will be attached to the department of
justice, if the present legislature does
the expected and sets up such a de-
partment.
Excavating for the new justice build
ing at the head of Fayetteville street
was begun several days ago. The
building will house the Supreme Court
the attorney generals office and the
Identification bureau. These State
activities have already been tenta-
lively assigned space there, even if
their work is not co-ordinated by the
legislature.
The only amendment to the present
Jaw which Mr.. Handy as director ex-
poets to request is that justice of the
peace courts be placed in the same
category with superior and other in