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Evening star., 1939-01-01
Tropical Park (Fast).

Tropical Park EAST.
By the Louisville Times.
l-Spittenimage, Dancing Cloud,
Princess Torch.
2-Taut, Chicharra, Jocks Betsy.
3-Distract, Balcony, Lina's Son.
"copper" Tube, Caught, Skaggerak.
5-Mucho Gusto, Histrionic, Hunt
ing Home.
6-The Story, Abbatoro. Dul0mer.
Flag Song, Crinoline, Last Ro-
nance.
8-What a Pal, Mystic Sign, Kin
dred Spirit.
Best bet-Mucho Gusto.
Consensus at Tropical (Fast).
By the Associated Press.
1-Spitterimage, Sun Madras, West
Star.
2-Alice Dodge, Chicharra, Jocks
Betsy.
3-District, Mixed Weather, Butter.
4-Skaggerak, Copper Tube, Caught.
5-Histrionic, Mucho Gusto, Court
Scandal.
6tAbbatoro. Jezreel. The Story.
Flag Song, Sunset Girl, Grace
Grier.
8-Mystic Sign, What a Pal, Exhort.
Best bet-Histrionic.
Evening star., 1939-01-01

SECOND RACE - GOLD
DART, JOCKS BETSY,
CHICHARRA.
GOLD DART turned in a
bang-up performance in his first
outing at this track and with Just
slight improvement is apt to visit
the winners circle. JOCKS
BETSY, with Meade doing the
saddle work, looms as a threat.
CHICHARRA is the logical choice
for third.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
SEVENTH RACE-HI TIDE,

SEVENTH RACE-HI TIDE,
SUNSET GIRL, FLAG
SONG.
HI TIDE has no imposing rec
ord but if we can believe what
the boys who nurse the split-sec-
ond tick-tocks tell us, he has out
worked his own shadow. SUNSET
GIRL has been threatening.
FLAG SONG is cheap but con-
sistent.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
HISTRIONI(

both his Florida tests. CAUGHT
lost his last by a nose.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
a Mrs. A. NJ. Creech
SEVENTH RACE-Purse. $500: claim
ing; 4-year -olds and up; l mile and 70

K Apprentice allowance claimed.
Evening star., 1939-01-01

EApp.sptics allowance claimed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
Ships Race Toward
Blazing Vessel

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. % CUP)-
Ten government and commercial
vessels today raced to the aid of
the Texas Banker, afire in the Gulf
of Mexico off the coast of Browns
vile, Tex.
The 2600-ton general cargo steam
er is afire 272 miles southwest Of
the Mississippi river passes and has
sent an SOS, coast guard head
quarters here reported late today.
Advices from the Texas Banker
said Nos. and holds were in
flames and the blaze was famed
by a high wind.
The coast guard ordered the cut
ter Tampa, from Mobile, the cutter
Saranac from Galveston, the patrol
boat Nike from Gulfport and the
patrol boat Legare which was on
duty at the Mississippi river en-
trance, to proceed to the freighter.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
Orsanist Tells Why
He Took Cir from
Home of Parents

PASADENA, Cal, Feb. %.
(UP) Police TO d a y said
Townsend Davis, 40, church
organist, had confessed he
abducted eight-year-old Anne
Louise Sweitzer last Sunday be-
cause her parents were moving
from the neighborhood and he fear
ed he never would see the child
again.
Davis is held on a charge of
child stealing and on suspicion of
morals offenses. He was arrested
Monday by Deputy Sheriff John
Crousen of Imperial county as he
attempted to cross the state border
at Yuma.
Because the front wheels of Davis
ancient automobile were a foot over
the boundary line he may face
charges of violating the Lindbergh
kidnapping law.
Police said Davis admitted law
ishing gifts upon the child to
gain her favor and that he had
confessed taking liberties with her
prior to their flight Sunday to
Arizona, where Davis said he plan
ned to leave the girl at the home
of friend.
Previously Davis had told author
tiles his motive for abducting the
child was that he wanted to get
her away from cher bad environ
ment at home The girls parents,
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22

A temporary order was issued in
superior court late Tuesday re-
straining A. A. Brock, state director
of agriculture, and B. A. Harrigan,
county agricultural commissioner,
from enforcing inspection laws on
the Imperial Valley spring pea crop
pending a hearing set for Friday.
Five growers, Wilkerson Brothers,
L. l.. byerly, c. o. Hoober, l.. E.
Sinclair, and william Corn, signed
complaint charging that a sud-
den, unexplained, and unprecedent-
ed rigid enforcement of the inspec-
ton laws began Tuesday afternoon
and if continued would ruin the
spring pea deal.
They charged that Cell Ely. a
state inspector, arrived in the Cali
patria area Tuesday afternoon and
began to inspect the peas on the
basis of a rigid, severe interpreta-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
F ather Puts Torch
To Girls Face
GUAM ROW IN HOUSE

WASHINGTON, Feb. %. CUP)-
Rep. Joseph B. Shannon, Mo, a
leading Democatic opponent of the
proposed $5,000,0OO Guam naval
base told the house today the pro-
ject might lead to war with Japan.
Shannon noted that Guam is
only a relatively short distance
from Japan q,400 niles and de
clared the United States would
not permit Japan to establish an
air base IN such close proximity to
American shores.
ITO me-" he said, "it seems OBJ
vious that we are about to do the
thing which we would not permit
Japan to do.
Every American boy will have a
right to hold his congressman
responsible for his attitude on this
question. He will wonder why a
time was selected when such i'm
provements would inevitably be
looked upon as an unfriendly act,
a time when the whole world trem-
bles lest war be in the making"
Party lines were broken by the
debate on the $53,8O9,O00 authorize
ton bill sponsored by Chairman
Carl VinSon, D., Ga, Of the naval
affairs committee, for IL new naval
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22

to do so"
The testimony was given by G.
Grant Mason. Jr., member of the
civil aeronautics authority. He ap-
peared before the committee on
Jan. 80 to recite his impressions OF
the advances made by Germany
and other foreign powers in the
air.
A transcript made public by COM
mittee Chairman Morris Sheppard,
D., Tex. showed that he also said
both Germany and Italy were
making rapid advances which, il
not arrested, might well end in
virtually shutting the United States
out of the Latin American aviation
market"
Mason told the committee:
IF they fGermany) wished to
send-I have no indication or
thought whether they will or not
if they wished to send a large
number of bombing planes, four
motored bombing planes, through
Latin America to our southern
boundaries, they would have the
Continued on Page 2,.Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
Navy Defending Entire Hemisphere
From Mock Attack Directed Against
Coast of South American Nations

presidents aide, Capt. Daniel j.
Callaghan, pointedly noted that the
maneuvers are not being conducted
within the Caribbean sea itself and
that they did not relate specifically
to defense of the Panama canal.
It noted that the maneuver area
was some 1900 miles distant from
the canal
While the message did not SO
state, the area of the maneuvers
is to the east of the chain of is
lands which enclose the Caribbean
and is in the region in which an
attack aimed directly across the
Atlantic might well be directed.
It seemed apparent from the
presidents message that the de-
Tending portion of the fleet is seek
ing to repel the mock attack be-
fore the enemy fleet could obtain
landfall on South America or
any of the Caribbean islands.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
Truck Driver Hero
In Espionage Case
On Trial inL. A.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. %. (UP)-
A Hollywood cleaning truck driver,
who might have kept his mouth
shut and kept $50 bill, emerged
today as the amateur detective hero
of the alleged Russian spy plot for
which two men and blonde wom-
an are on trial in federal court.
1t was the big bill plus cryptic
notes and diagrams carelessly left
in the pocket of a suit sent to be
cleaned that first directed suspicion
at Mikhail Gorin, his wife Natasha,
and Hafis Salich. The three are
accused of stealing the navy's Sc
crets on Japanese armaments for
the use of Soviet Russia.
The $30-a-week truck driver
whose honesty and alertness put
G-men on the trail of the alleged
spies was l.. v. McCloud, who was
called as the governments opening
witness. McCloud testified he found
the money and evidence in suit
he got from Gorin, Pacific coast
manager of Intourist, Inc, the So
Wet travel agency.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
Texas Entry Wins
Livestock Show

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. %. CUP)
Publican Domino 10th. hereford
owned by C. M Largent & Sons,
Merkle, Tex, today won first money
of 5000 in class 81, senior get of
sire, of the Golden Gate interna-
tional exposition cattle show.
Second place went to Don Ak
tell 10Th, owned by j. C. Andras 81
Sons, Manchester Ill, carrying a
prize OF $l75, and third money of
$3.50 went to Star Domino 9Th, own
ed by the Wyoming Hereford ranch,
Cheyenne. .-.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22

Gov Culbert L. Olson, who has
been attempting to settle the diff
ferences between the two unions,
said he had been assured by the
CIO there would be no interference
with the AFL when work was re-
sumed.
About 30 AFL men resumed their
work of erecting camp buildings
and clearing brush at Delta, north
of Redding. A squad of 25 addi-
tional highway patrolmen was
rushed to Redding last night and
joined local authorities in patrolling
the highways and watching for
trouble. There are now about 40
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
CaIipatria Man
Held Forger

Rmilton Chapman, "a, former
Calipatria resident and recently
employed by the Imperial Irriga-
ton district at Imperial, is held in
the Imperial county jail on q
charge of forging checks amount
ing to approximately $3.50.
He also is wanted on charges
of forgery in Los Angeles, San Ber-
nardino, and Whittier. He is said
to have blamed his habit of gam
bling for his difficulties.
Three weeks ago Chapman left
his wife and two children in I'M
perial and abandoned his employ
ment as a clerk at the district Of
flee. Since then he has been visit
ing friends on the coast and. off
GERS said, forging checks on ac-
of his friends.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
Freak Clues Found
In Stolen Machine
Following Crash

California Highway patrolmep
Wednesday had collected a gun, q
handful of Los Angeles Jail re-
ceipts, an overcoat, a smashed wind
shield, and a club to help them
solve the mystery of the Negro who
vanished after an automobile acci-
dent east of Ell Centro Monday
night.
The windshield was smashed in
two places. This led PatrOlmen
Bill Mitchell and Roy Wells to be-
ieve there were two men in the
car. This was substantiated by the
discovery of two sets of footprints
leading from the abandoned auto
mobile, one into field east of
Central Valley highway, one into a
field on the west of the highway.
They found the pistol where it
apparently had been tossed aside by
one of the car occupants. One of
the fugitives left an oVercoat. In
its pockets were found a handful
of LOS Angeles Jail receipts used as
notepaper.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
Paderewski Plans
Farewell Tour

NEW YORK, Feb. %. (UP) -
Ignace Jan Paderewski prepared to-
day for another musical farewell
to the United States-22 recitals
which will take him from coast to
coast in his 10th concert tour OF
this country.
The frail. 79-year-old maestro ar
rived last night aboard the lie de
France. White-haired, wearing a
heavy gray sweater under his coat.
the first premier of modern Poland
said he was mot in a political mood
these days. He has lived quietly in
his Switzerland home since his last
visit here in 1888, limbering aging
fingers in occasional concerts, hop
ing paSsionately for peace in Eu-
rope.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
$500 Ransom Paid
For Return of Bow
kidnaper Admits
Accountant Reveals How
FOur-Year-Old Boy Was
Taken by AbductOrs

NEW YORK, Fe b. %.
(UP)--George Katz, a Brook
lyn accountant of moderate
means, revealed today that
his son, Michael, a, had been
kidnapped Monday morning and re-
leased that night after payment of
approximately $500 ransom. The
boy was not harmed.
The kidnapers, two unidentified
men, had demanded $1,000, but
agreed to the reduced ransom when
Katz told them that he could pay
no more.
About $3.50 am. Monday, shortly
after Mrs. Katz had started for
the. New York school where she is
teacher, Michael left the house
with a Negro maid TO go to kinder
garten. Two men approached the
maid, wrested Michael from her
arms, tossed him in an automobile,
threw the maid a note, and drove
away.
The note contained ransom de-
mands and instructions as to how
1t should be paid. The maid turned
it over to Katz
katz said that he and an inter-
mediary, whom he refused to iden-
tify, went to the "vicinity of Broome
street in Manhattan" to meet the
kldnapers late in the afternoon. He
said the abductors were i'm an allev
as they approached. Someone called
here we are, after which the in
termediary entered doorway and
talked to one of the kidnapers.
The intermediary and kidnaper
conversed few minutes and then
the money was paid. A few minutes
later the child was freed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22

Flax and sugar beets are destined.
TO become two of Imperial Valleys
most important crops =.
These were a few of the views
of Harry Hammond, publisher OF
the Riverside Press, expressed
while on a brief visit to Ell Centre
Wednesday,
"Whoever follows Roosevelt in the
White House will have a dickens
of tough time" Hammond said.
For the good of the country L
think it would be best to have an
old line Democrat in office to
straighten out the budget and put
the nation back on paying, busi-
nesslike basis
Hammond waved aside queries
concerning radical" legislation
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22

that Gov. Culbert l.. Olson has
been reported considering.
"A good deal of that was CAM
paign talk" he declared. 81 believe
Olson will settle down and prove
a good governor. 1 doubt very much
if fancy relief theories will be out
into practice. We have consider
ably more conservative legislature
now"
Hammond, accompanied by his
wife and Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Ham
mond, made a brief visit to the
valley and visited Imperial dam
and inspected part of the All
American canal. They returned to
Riverside Wednesday, While in Ell
Centre they visited Mrs. w. C..
Costello, Hammond's daughter.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22

air bases in the Pacific, Alaska and
continental United States.
The house resumed general de-
bate on the bill with indications
that a showdown on the Guam
proposal and passage of the whole
measure would not come before to-
morrow.
Chairman Carl Vinson, D., Ca,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
Wierd
Torture
Probed
Burns Inflicted as
Punishment for
Buying Shoes

Ell PASO, Tex, Feb. %.
UP) Cristina Peschard,
pretty 16-year-old welder's
daughter, said from a hos
pital bed today that she
could never forgive her father for
burning her face with blow torch,
then withholding medical attention
for 10 days-because she bought
shoes with a bonus earned at a
laundry.
A measure of her bitterness was
provoked by the report of surgeons
who examined the broad, raw
wounds on her cheek, neck and
shoulder last night when police
brought her to the county hospital
from the home where she had been
held a virtual prisoner. Their re-
port was that the deep burns prob
ably would leave livid scars.
Cristinas story was one of a
life of drudgery in a family of
eight, of a "tyrannical" father who
took every cent of the Sc weekly
Continued on Page 2, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22

patrolmen assigned TO Redding be-
cause of the labor dispute.
The next development is a hear
ing tomorrow at Redding In which
the CIO will be ordered to show
cause why 1t should not be re-
strained from interfering with the
AFL workmen. who hold a contract
for the relocation work from the
United Concrete Pipe company Of
Los Angeles. contractors on the
project. The hearing was con-
tinued from yesterday
Sheriff w. w. sublett sent spe-
cial deputies to the scene Of work
this morning but there vas no disc
turbance, he reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
NLRB Agent Still
Sought byPoIice

Maurice Howard, national labor
relations board representative,
wanted on a charge of disturbing
the peace in Holtville, still was at
liberty at press time Wednesday.
A warrant sent to Los Angeles
police had not been served at noon
Wednesday and a teletype bulletin
sent throughout California had
brought no results.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
GaIento.Fe|dmdn
Fight Postponed

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. %. CUP) -
Threatening weather late today
caused Promoter George R. K. Car
ter to postpone tonight's scheduled
fight card on which Tony Galento
and Abe Feldman were opponents
in the feature match.
The program will be held tomor-
row night If weather conditions per-
nit, Carter said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
Mistake Fatal 10
Herd Of Cattle

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Feb. %.
(UP)-Lenten Caldwell went into
the hide business today but he still
stood to lose around $4,000 by the
sudden demise of his cattle hero
Caldwell told hired man to go
out and salt the herd of At head.
Later he went to inspect the herd
personally and found the pasture
strewn with dead cattle. The hired
man had served them poisonous nj
trate of soda instead of common
salt.
Only six head survived.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. %. (UP) =
With President Roosevelt on the
scene, opposing units of the navy
were believed to be making con-
facts today in war games designed
to test the vulnerability of the
western hemisphere against aggres-
sive attacks directed from Europe.
The president was aboard the
cruiser Houston, the wide scope OF
the war games-technically known
as fleet problem No. 20-was en-
phasized by Mr.. Roosevelt himself
in a brief message from the Hous-
ton.
The message, signed by the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
Pea Growers Fight Sudden Campaign
Enforcing inspection Laws to Hit,
Declare Spring Deal May Be Ruined

tion of the agriculture code rule
that the pea pods should be well
filled and mature"
The growers contend that no
peas in Imperial Valley or any,
where else could meet the rigid
standard suddenly set by Ely and
demand to know the reason for
the sudden, unanounced act on the
part of the department of agri-
culture.
Growers and representatives of
the agricultural marketing and in
Spection service are scheduled to
attend the hearing set for 10 am.
Friday in Judge r. D. McPherrin's
court.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22

of the house naval affairs commit
tee, who sponsored the measure,
predicted that the Guam provision
would be retained. but Republican
opponents of the proposal-branded
by Rep. Hamilton Fish, r., N. Y,
as a dagger at the throat OF
Japan'-Were equally confident
that it would DE eliminated.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22

Will be made IN NbtSB headquar-
ters in Washington in the regular
order of business and the result
forwarded to the growers and ship
pers, Examiner Joseph Mcguire said
during the closing session. No date
for a decision was announced.
The last session of the hearing
closed shortly after pm. Tuesday.
William Walsh, board attorney,
throughout the hearing followed
a line of questioning designed to
place Imperial Valley farming in
the "big business" class and thus
force it under the supervision of
the NLRB Growers and shippers
and their attorneys followed a plan
designed to show that packing is
only one phase of general farming,
only an incident in farming, and
thus placed outside the jurisdiction
of the NLRB.
A squabble between the CIO, the
union which asked that the NLRB
hearing be held, and the Fruit
and Vegetable Packers association
of California overshadowed the
designated purpose of the hearing
as the two organizations fought out
personal" battle.
The CIO tried to discredit the
association and keep it from being
included on the ballots in case shed
elections are held.
Association members and their
attorney presented evidence of their
activities in Imperial Valley and
the part they played as bargaining
agents between employers and shed
employees in the past.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
kLRB Shed Vote
Hearing Closes
After Four DAYS
Labor Board Agents Leave Here With
Testimony to be Presented Before
National Officials for Decision

National Labor Relations Board representatives left
Ell Centro Tuesday night at the close of
devoted to gathering testimony to be used in determining
if elections to select bargaining agents be held in
ImperiaValley packing sheds Decision in the matter
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
Roosevelt Will Be Out of Job After
1q4O, Visiting Publisher Believes;
Se|f-He|p Relief Plan Won't Work

President Roosevelt will not be in the White House
after 1910
Self help, production for programs in California
to solve relief problems will not work. if they be
put through the legislature which is doubtful =.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
Germany Has Facilities. Personnel
ToLaunch Air Attack onU 5. Across
Southern Border, Committee Informed
Expert Tells Senate Group Nazis Could Use
Latin American Pathway for Aerial Drive
On This Country; Urges Defense Program

WASHINGTON Feb. %. (UP)-The senate mitar
affairs committee today revealed testimony by govern
large bombing planes through Latin America the Unite
States southern boundaries theY would have the factie
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
AFL Resumes Work on Shasta Project
After Go Promises Olson Members
VIII Keep Peace; Officers on Hand

REDDlNG, Cal, Feb % (UP)-Amercan Federation
of Labor workmen railroad relocation project at
Shasta Dam returned to work today after two weeks of
deness because of stormy weather and iurisdctiona
labor dispute with the Congress of Industrial Organza
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
y AMBL|NG
IMPORTER
Too Much to Bear

Too Much to Bear
Attention Penny Richmond:
An unidentified man walked INTO
the poStoffice, paused by the writ
ing desk and peered distastefully
at the pens supplied by Uncle Sam.
He CROPPED in his pockets, appar-
entity after a pencil, but his hands
emerged empty Signing, he reach
ed for a pen. The pen wrote per-
fectly and the man tainted.
Common Source
Rocky Ford, Colo. must have
something. Or perhaps it should
be HAD something.
1t was distinct shock to RR
to learn that these valley men,
M. o. Best, Don Rex and Jerry
Asher of Ell Centro, Elmer Sears,
George Jones, George Swink and
Robert Wilson of Brawley and Floyd
Smith of Holtville all came from
Rocky Ford!
In case you'd forgotten, that's
where the cantaloupe business got
its big start.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
Common Source
Spring Fever

spring FeVer-
RR has been uncomfortable now
for exactly two hours, because two
hours ago he saw S. T. Marshall.
Uncomfortable because he has been
plagued with:
Visions of sunlight dancing on
blue fishing waters 4. the haunt
ing memory of sails swapping in a
brisk blow and the way a tiller
kicks d. the thrill of a strike and
the joy of muscles aching from
holding taut heavy rod -.
Marshall, you see, was carrying
a fishing rod across Sixth street.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
'Triflc Rushed

Triflc Rushed
A. A. Moody is always just a hop
behind himself when it comes to
directing song services or singing
in quartets. Telephoned Wednes-
day concerning a quartet perfor-
nance, he said:
"Oh, am I singing in that? Glad
to hear it, 1 have to watch the paper
mighty close to find out what pro-
grams l am on"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
Music and Smiles

The International Trio, made up
of half-pints Carl Maggie, James
Schiller and Calvin Furukawa who
perform with accordions,, made a
deep impression Tuesday night at
a brief recital. What went over best
with the audience, however, was
the embarrassed grin that flicked
over young Furukawa,s face when
ever he saw friend in the crowd.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22

Rutter: Los Angeles. 27isc; hut
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch,
grade A, 341ac; manufacturing milt
2So; route gathered cream, 25isc.
l.. a. Hay: u. s. No. I, S1S.50-tts
$17-18; u. 5. No. 1, SlS.50-14; No.
No. 2 Ieafy. S12-12.5O, No. 2. Sl0.5O-
IL; Minneapolis flax May SL76Is.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22
Hyar Yuh, Bill?-

w. A. Tondro is going to be a
surprised man when at least 100
city employees suddenly become fam
iiar enough to call him Bill. At
a city employees meeting he men,
toned that he liked to be called by
name and that Bill" was music
to his ears.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-22

Total cash, checks and drafts sent
through the two I'll Centre banks.)
Wednesday
Legal Holiday