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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-28
1880 Cars of Beefs
Shipped from l.V.

One thousand eighty carlotS OF
sugar beets have been shipped from
the valley since harvesting started
one month ago, according to B. A.
Harrigan, county agricultural COM
missioner.
All shipments were sent to the
Los Alamitos sugar refinery plant
near Santa Ana.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-28
Wheat L-oun PIor,
Released by
Farm Group

Announcement by Roland Ballou secretary of the I'M
pera county agricultural conservation association that
wheat loans the 1889 crop will be offered producers
who keep within their acreage aotments under the AAA
farm program, confirmed Saturday by the Com
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-28

Professor Paul H. Douglas, or the
University of Chicago economics
department, and newly elected
alderman of Chicago's Fifth ward,
warns religious and charitable or
ganizations not to overwhelm him
with requests for contributions.
To satisfy all requests he would
be forced into the racket, he
says, because his salary as alder
man Is insufficient.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-28
Danger for Farming Interests Noted
In Forced Speeding Of Action
In California legislature

standards, tnere are Stlll 25OO DlllS
in committeeman the legislative
session has only two or three weeks
before the final gavel call and its
elimination.
This is the period, in other words,
when quack measures slip by and
spurious bills become law-due to
the fact that both Legislators and
| legislative representatives are too
occupied with their immediate
needs TO give attention to all the
hundreds of measures still pending
This is the period when shady
operators slip over sleeperS - and
when visionary experimentaliStS be-
fuddle the people. 1t is the most
dangerous period in the whole legis-
lative session.
California agriculture, which has
much to gain and nothing to lose
by intelligent laWmaking, rather
than the hit-or-miss policies that
ordinarily characterize the last
days of a legislative session, needs
TO take account of stock during
these final rush days and to keep
close tab on development in the
committees of both houses.
A good rule for both conscientious
legislators and hard-pressed tax
payers during the closing days of
the session, when there is q natural
disposition to rush through legiSla-
ton, is that every bill should be
judged guilty until proven innocent.
For most experienced legislative OBJ
servers recognize that many of the
bills which have been held back
and not pressed until the eleventh
hour are studded with jokers.
There are exceptions, of course.
Some good bills are still on file
but the good bills can stand rigid
examination. And it is safe to eS-
innate from past experience that
two-thirds of the measures which
are deliberately delayed until the
last hectic hours of the session are
the type of bills that cannot stand
the light OF day and calm legisla
tive deliberation.
California farmers, this year
have asked comparatively little of
the lawmakers in the way of legiS-
lative enactments. But they have
firmly demanded an end to ex-
travagant and experimental legis-
lation which would place new bur-
dens on agriculture, business and
industry.
And the Legislature, thus far, has
stood by its guns with splendid
determination in killing off big
spending proposals, new tax levies
and costly excursions into Utopia
The fact remains, however, that
there are still more than $500, 100000
worth of special appropriations
pending, either on the file or in
committees.
dIC ollll oIOlOo vi bliLo
awaiting action which are inimical
to agriculture - bills which have
been held in committee awaiting a
propitious moment, and which may
be sent onto the legislative floors
during the final days of the session.
Every one of those bills, in the
opinion of this writer, should be
forced to stand the test of public
committee hearings.
Farm leaders. at this juncture,
need TO be unusually vigilant. They
have a right to demand, In every
instance: rs this bill necessary
will it help or hurt California;
And if there is any reasonable
doubt as to the necessity of prac-
ticality of a measure, it should get
a thumbs down verdict.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-28

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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-28

BY even the most conservative
Evening star., 1939-04-16
200 Cigarette Workers
Told 10 Strike Tomorrow
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, April 1S.-A
strike involving about 1900 workers
in cigarette plants of the Liggett g.
Myers Tobacco Co. in Richmond,
Durham and San Francisco has
been called for Monday, negotiat-
ing committee of the Tobacco Work.
ers' International Union announced
here today.
Picketing will start at the local
Liggett & Myers plant Monday
morning unless an agreement is
reached before that time, the COM
mittee said.
Negotiations over a new union
contract, which have been in prog
ress since March %, collapsed Fri
day, and members of the Richmond
local Of the union voted to strike.
It was estimated by a union spokes-
man that 900 workers are involved
here, about 1,10O In Durham and
215 in San Francisco.
Negotiations, according to the
Union, were suspended because of
inability to agree on the unions re-
quest for Scent per hour wage in
crease for all employees and for q
preferential shop. G. Horace Flow
ers, manager of the local Liggett &
Myers branch, said tonight the
company had no comment.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
U. 5. Fleet Prepares
To Speed Back 10
Pacific Coast
Unexplained Commend Of
Navy Chiefs Follows PIeo
For Peace by Roosevelt

Under wartime pressure for speed,
the United States feet was prepar-
ing in Hampton Roads last night
to carry out an unexpected and un-
explained command to return to the
Pacific Coast.
Reinforcing President Roosevelt's
appeal for peace in Europe, the Or
der went from the Navy Department
at midday yesterday, turning back
about 64 craft, including eight bat
tleships, that were scheduled along
with the Atlantic squadron and re-
Inducements, to remain on the
eastern seaboard about five weeks.
Secretary Swanson. at the Presi-
dents behest. directed that the feet
return. when refueled," to normal
operating areas in the Pacific"
Under normal conditions, that
would mean IL days. However, the
Associated Press reported from Nor
folk that Admiral E. C. Kalbfus,
said that in emergency three days
would be sufficient. Officers at the
Norfolk Naval Base said the ships
would be ready to weigh anchor by
Thursday.
Vice Admiral Ernest J. King, COM
manding the air squadron of the
Battle Force, and a former COM
mandant of the air station at the
naval operating base at Norfolk, be-
came acting commander of the fleet
in the Hampton Roads Yorktown
area, with the departure of Admiral
Kalbfus, commander of the Battle
Force, for special duty here.
Hour After Peace Appeal.
Secretary Swanson's order came a
little more than an hour after Presi-
dent Roosevelt had proclaimed his
peace appeal to Chancellor Hitler
and Premier Mussolini.
The Navy did not explain the pur-
pose, but official circles decided
quickly that it would have one or
possibly both, of the following two
effects:
l. Quiet any uneasiness in Ger
many and Italy over the unusua |
presence in the Atlantic of one of
the words principal armadas.
2. Restore the balance of world
|Coo M E1rWO -
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Canadian War Veterans
To Guard Key Plants

TORONTO. April Is canadian
Press) World War veterans will
go on special guard duty at public
utility and industrial plants in sew
eral Ontario cities next week and 1t
was understood today that more ex-
tensive mobilization of guards would
be undertaken If the European situ-
alton became worse.
The National Veterans Security
Committee for Ontario, composed
Of officials of ex-service mems or
ganizations, requested Canadian
Legion branches to recruit the
guards.
It was emphasized that no emer-
gency had arisen but that i'm
mediate special protective steps
were considered imperative at some
points.
Niagara Falls is to have 253 men
for the Welland Ship Canal and
power houses Of the Ontario Hydro
Electric Power Commission (Kitch-
ener) asked for Is men.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Claude Debussy Recordings
To Be Available Tomorrow
Symphony Broodcosts

The three compositions of
Claude Debussey which are in
cluded in the next group of re-
cordings to be made available
In The Stars music apprecia-
ton campaign will be played
over WMAL at 5 pm. today
on another Of a series Of pro.
grams arranged through the
cooperation of the National
Broadcasting Co. The works
to be heard are Afternoon of
q Faun," Clouds" and "Fes-
tivals."
Excerpts from the recordings
Of these compositions, as well
as the five other symphonic
masterpieces released 50 far in
the campaign, also may be
heard on 'Today's Prelude" a
program scheduled daily except
Sunday over the same station.
The recordings are played at
approximately Z am. The rec
ords themselves may be OBJ
tanned at the special booth in
the lobby of The Star Building
each weekday from 8 am. to 8
pm. The booth Is closed Sum
days.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Gridiron Skits
Pick Townsend,
Garner for 40

"Old Doc" Townsend-the coun-
try's foremost pensioneer-as the
next presidential candidate of the
G. o. p, and "Old Man Garner" as
the Democratic hope of 1910, were
put forward by the Gridiron Club
last night at its annual spring din
ner In the Willard Hotel.
With President Roosevelt, Vice
President Garner and new and old
leaders Of the Republican party
as honor guests, the famous WASH
ington newspaper mems club gave
its Interpretation of national and
international events. Gathered at
the board also were members of
the diplomatic corps, the cabinet,
the Supreme Court, the Congress
and leaders in business and finance,
writer's and editors and probably the
next President of the United States.
The skits presented by the news
papermen took the guests from q
more modern King Arthur's court,
where New Deal wizards attempted
to prod the dragon Business back
to life, to far-oh Guam, where iso-
lationist Senators found themselves
marooned in the beginning of the
1910 reelection campaign.
"Old Man Garner"
To the tune of "Old Man River"
chorus chanted at another point
in the dinner:
HE may get weary and sick of
fishin'
But nothin' on earth can stop
Wishin'
That Old Man Garner
He just keeps running along"
The Republicans finally emerged
with DR.. Townsend as their presi-
Dental candidate. The chorus sang
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Pittman Denounces
Japan and Favors
Restrictions on Trade
Senator Brands Nation
As VioIotor of
Nine-Power Treoty
BS the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Denouncing Japan as violator Of
the nine-power treaty binding her
to respect the territorial integrity of
China, Senator Pittman, Democrat,
of Nevada, said last night the
United States would be justified in
placing restrictions on trade with
her.
In radio speech the chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee said. TT would not be i'm
proper, in the circumstances, in my
opinion, to authorize the President
to place such restrictions upon our
trade with Japan as might be neces-
saTy to induce Japan to cease such
violations. or at least to give assur-
ances by action that she was taking
steps that would terminate such
violations in reasonable time"
Discusses Neutrality Act.
Senator Pittman made his OBJ
Servations in general discussion of
the various changes in the Neu-
tranty Act which have been pro-
posed.
He has suggested amending the
law to permit cash and carry"
sales Of arms to belligerents. I'm
der the law as it now stands, an
embargo on arms sales to nations at
war becomes effective as soon as the
President recognizes that a state of
war exists.
Senator Pittman said he recog-
nized that some opposition to his
proposal was based on the theory
that it would leave Japan, a mari
time nation, free to trade here,
while China. lacking vessels, could
not come to this country to buy
arms.
My sympathies in this matter are
(See PITTMAN, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Pedestrian Control
'Crack-Down Brings
40 Arrests in 7 Days
First Womun Is
Charged; 2 Autoists
Are Also Ticketed

Arrests Of pedestrian traffic law
violators mounted to a two-day
total of 40 last night. with the name
of the first woman victim of the
Police Departments crack down"
going on the books at the Traffic
Division.
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, police
superintendent, gave the drive
against jaywalking his continued
blessing and said THE regulations
are meant to be obeyed and it is
the policeman's duty to enforce
them"
First of the fair sex to experience
the rigid enforcement was Mrs.
Marian Mock. 46, of 1864 Columbia
road NV. who, according to police
records, was arrested while crossing
against a red light at Ninth and G
streets NV. She was taken to
headquarters by Officer E. E. Wat
kins of the Traffic Division and
chose to forfeit 81 collateral on
charge Of violating pedestrian con-
troll regulations.
Two Autoists Ticketed.
While police were buckling down
on pedestrian violators, at least
two automobile drivers were ticketed
for failure to give those on foot
their right of way. They were
Cameron E. Huffman, Is, of 512
Tenth street Sc, and Peter Mag
gos, At, of 3409 Fourteenth street
NV, both of whom posted S. col
lateral at the Traffic Division.
The wave of pedestrian arrests be-
gan Friday on orders by Maj. Brown,
who expressed amazement at flag
rant disregard of control laws after
he had made an inspection tour of
the city. Eighteen arrests had been
added by 4:30 pm. yesterday to
Fridays total of %.
The first arrest yesterday brought
Leroy c. Montgomery, 10, colored,
1888 T street NV, to the first
precinct unable to post the 81 COL
(See PEDESTRIAN, Page A-18D
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Italy, Spain Reported
Planning 1angier Coup
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TANGIER, April 15.-Rumors
spread today that Italy and Spain
were planning coup in this North
African international zone opposite
British-ruled Gibraltar.
Well-informed sources said hun
dreds of italian soldiers had ar
rived the last few days dressed in
civilian clothes to allay suspicion.
Reports circulating in Tangier
said these troops would join with
Spanish troops from neighboring
Spanish Morocco in the rumored
coup.
The recently arrived soldiers were
reported quartered in the italian
legation and in italian schools.
Approximately 5000 Spanish
Phalangists were understood to be
holding bi-weekly meetings with
Italians and were being given mill
tary training.
French authorities were said to
be aware Of the activities and to
be ready for "all eventualities. :"
Two French destroyers usually are
kept at Tangier's port.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Afternoon of q Foun'
Is Featured in Sixth
Of Stars Music Series

Another of the 10 groups of SYM
phonic masterpieces included in
recordings being offered by The
Star in its music appreciation CAM
paign will be made available to the
public tomorrow.
The new release, the sixth offered
since the campaign was launched,
features three compositions by the
FIRST musical impressionist," Claude
Debussy. The compositions, which
have been recorded on three 12-inch
double-faced recordings by a IA
nous symphony orchestra, are De-
bussy's Afternoon Of a Faun,"
Clouds" and Festivals"
Since this is a three record group,
the complete set will be available
to music lovers at the same unu-
sually low price as the first i've
symphonic masterpieces released.
The new offering may be obtained
at the special booth in the lobby
of The Star Building, beginning at
8 am. tomorrow.
Az usual. the booth viii remain
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Evening star., 1939-04-16
Kirk Ordered 10 Berlin
As Charge d'Affaires
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
Alexander Comstock Kirk, Amer
ican Charge d'Affaires at Moscow,
has been ordered transferred to
Berlin in the same capacity. An
official said last night the date for
his arrival in Berlin had not
been set.
Mr.. Kirk, whose home is Chicago,
will take the place of Prentiss Gil
bert, who died last month. Indica-
tions are he will be in charge of
the Berlin Embassy for some time,
since there is no indication Presi-
dent Roosevelt will permit Hugh R.
Wilson to return there as Ambassa-
dor until relations between the two
countries better.
Ambassador Wilson was recalled
last November for report and con-
sultation following an anti-Semitic
outbreak in Germany.
Mr.. Kirk has been in the foreign
service for "a years and has served
in many important posts.
Raymond H. Geist, American
Consul General in Berlin, has been
In charge Of the Embassy since
Mr.. Gilbert,s death.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
$4,000, 900 PIone Order
BY China Reported
3y the Associated Press.

zkSSUCIdC6U TTESS.
HONOLULU, April 15.-A. L. Pat
terson, representative in China for
the United States Aircraft Corp,
said today he would fly to San Fran
cisco tomorrow with a contract call
ing for the purchase of SIS 900 900
worth of American war planes by
the Chinese government.
Mr.. Patterson said he completed
the contract recently in Chungking,
the wartime inland capital of. China.
He said it specified rush construc-
ton" in American factories and i'm
mediate shipment to China via an
undiscloSed military route,
Evening star., 1939-04-16
D. A. R. 10 Consider
National Defense
And Neutrality
1000 Delegates
Gathering for the
4Sth Congress

More than 1900 delegates and
alternates were gathering in WASH
ington today for the 48th Conti-
mental Congress of the Daughters
OF the American Revolutions
congress that will give major con-
slderation to the problems of ma
tional defense and neutrality.
After memorial services and pill
grimages today, beginning the COL
orful pageantry of the congress,
the formal opening session will
be held at $3.50 pm. tomorrow IN
Constitution Hall. The congress
will get under way with the i'm
pressive entrance march of the
president general, Mrs. Henry M.
Robert, jr., of Annapolis, Md, and
other national officers, escorted by
pages carrying State flags.
Guest speaker at the opening
session will be Secretary of War
WoQdring. His subject will be
National Defense"
Prior to the opening session, the
National Defense Committee, ira
ditionally the strongest group of
the D. A. R., will sponsor a forum
mass meeting tomorrow at 2 pm.
at the Mayflower Hotel.
Maj. Eliot to Speak.
Guest speakers will be Senator
Key Pittman, chairman of the SEN
ate Foreign Relations Committee,
who will discuss "Our Foreign Poll
cies";; Maj. George Fielding Eliot,
U. S. A., retired, who will speak
on Defense of the Americas" and
Representative Martin A. Dies,
chairman Of the House Committee
on Un-American Activities, who
will speak on "Un-American Ac-
tivities."
Mrs. Imogen B. Emery, chair
man of the committee, will pre-
side. An attendance of more than
1000 Is expected.
This meeting will emphasize the
consideration the congress will
give to national defense and neu-
tral1ty during the five days it is in
session. 1t is expected to reiterate
the usual stand Of the D. A. R. for
a strong national defense program.
On the question of neutrality
there may be split. A growing
sentiment is reported among some
members for departure from the
organizations traditional isolation
policy to one of cooperation with
other democracies to preserve the
principles OF democratic government.
Memorial Service Today.
Today's program will begin with
q memorial service at 2 pm. in
Continental Hall for members who
have died during the past year.
At 3 pm, a tribute will be paid the
founders at q service at Founders
(SAe n A. r. PAGE A.el
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Funeral Check Held Stolen

PHILADELPHIA, April IS OP).-
William Grabowski, IS, was held for
grand jury action today on a charge
Of stealing from his widowed moth
er a $16l social security check that
Detective John Diamond testified
was intended to pay for the faith
er's funeral.
Mother and son stood q few feet
apart at magistrates hearing, ex-
changing neither word nor glance.
Grabowski was held in $500 bail.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Yankee Clipper Wings
Way to Burmudo
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April 16 Sunday -
The Yankee Clipper reported by ra-
dio to Pan-American Airways it was
345 miles from Bermuda at 1890 q m.
eastern standard time) today on its
return transatlantic flight.
Capt. Harold Gray. celebrating his
33d birthday anniversary on board
with 81 companions, reported the "a
passenger plane would arrive at
Hamilton at about $3.50 am. eastern
standard time) and leave about an
hour later on the last leg to Balti-
more.
Since leaving Horta, the Azores,
the plane travelled 1,750 miles In 13
hours and 20 minutes, Capt. Gray
said.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Plea Hailed as Opportunity
To Bar E European Catastrophe
Presidents 'Stotesmonlike Initiative
Is sAppIouded by Chamberlain

a proposal for 10-year non-aggres-
sion pact.
The British government statement
also indicated similar optimism In
Britain, expressing "the firm hope"
that the dictators' replies will open
the way to further steps of which
the President speaks"
President Roosevelt's offer to act
as an intermediary" in the cause
of peace and readjusted world trade
came at a troubled moment in war;
threatened Europe.
On the Rome Berlin axis side,
Italy was in the act of taking con-
quered Albania within her growing
empire: Reichesfuehrer Hitler's
right-hand man, Field Marshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering. was
conferring with Mussolini In Rome;
Evening star., 1939-04-16
BY ALFRED TOOMBS.

Several months ago, Margaret
Braun, 46, quit an easy job in
Kansas City. Mo-, to go to work
for IS week as q housekeeper in
the home of a family high In the
counsels of the political machine
that was running her home town.
She hated the machine with Bit
terness engendered over q period
OF years and she hoped to obtain
information that would help her
smash 1t.
Last night, her adventure had
come to IN end. Mrs. Braun was
In the WomAnb Bureau. charsed
Evening star., 1939-04-16
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, April 15.-Both Britain
and France tonight grasped Presi-
dent Roosevelt's plea for at least 10
years of peace as an opening for a
non-aggression pact while the lead
ers of Germany and Italy were
silent.
The Presidents Intervention was
a Saturday surprise" far different
from those that Europe has grown
accustomed to receive from Hitler
since his rise to power six years ago.
Prime Minister Chamberlain
hailed 1t as "statesmanlike initia-
tive" A British government state
ment which he authorized called it
"a real opportunity of averting the
catastrophe which overhangs Eu-
rope"
France quickly and unreservedly
accepted the American telegram as
Evening star., 1939-04-16
O'MulIey Notes Given to F. B. l.
By { Ex-Servont, Pendergost Foe

with petty larceny. Her employer,
Lambert OMalley of 1929 Ingra-
ham street NV, a son of the man
indicted with Boss Tom Pendergast
in the probe that is rocking Mis-
souri,, swore out q warrant charg-
ing her with stealing his confiden.
tial papers.
Mr.. O'Malley brought his charge
day after a st. Louis newspaper
printed number Of letters, allegedly
written by members of the OMalley
family in Kansas City, which were
said to be Of . damaging nature.
Mrs. Braun denied stealing the
(6Ao N6fG3 fa9a z.30
Evening star., 1939-04-16

NEW ORLEANS, April Is R.-
Josephus Daniels, United States Am
bassador to Mexico, arrived here at
1925 pm. by airplane from Mexico
City and departed a few minutes
later en- route to Goldsboro, N. c. He
was en- route to the funeral of his
brother, Judge Frank A. Daniels, 81.
Evening star., 1939-04-16

Rodio Programs. Pose F-3
Complete Index, Pose AZ
Evening star., 1939-04-16

(See LONDON, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1939-04-16

.(See BERLIN, Page A-40
Evening star., 1939-04-16

(See D. A. r., Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1939-04-16

(See FLEET, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Weather Forecast

Cloudy and rather cool today, showers
by tonight or tomorrow; slightly warmer
tomorrow; moderate northeast winds to-
day. Temperatures yesterday-Highest
II, at l pm; lowest, IS, at am. Full
report on page Al.
Evening star., 1939-04-16

(See GRIDIRON, Page A-8.)
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Daniels in u. S.

(See ROOSEVELT, Page