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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-31
CHICAGO GRAINS

CHICAGO. May 81. CUP)-wheat
climbed more than a cent on the
Chicago board of trade today be-
fore the advance was stopped.
Al the close, wheat was up A-ss
cent, corn up y cent TO off Y cent,
and oats 4 n cent higher
Corn prices were firm early, put
encountered hedge selling. Foreign
demand remained flat
Poor crop condition encouraged
commission house buying of oats
and rye futures.
Receipts included 376 cars OF corn.
20 81 wheat. and AZ Of oats.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-31
L. A. LIVESTOCK

LA LIVESTOX .... . ~ ..
Los ANGELES, May 81, GUPj-
Hogs saleable 500. Steady; bulk
715-7.35; top 7.35; locals 6.75-710;
sows 4.50-5.
Cattle saleable 400. Slow, steady
to weak; good Idaho fed steers
9.25; some held higher; glass steers
unsold; good fed heifers 9.25; few
good cows $50; bulk $3.50; cut
ter grade 3.75-5; bulls 6-7. Calves
saleable 400. Steady: vealers $40;
calves down.
Sheep saleable TOO. Steady; few
common lambs 7.25; good lambs
quoted 10 9.25; wo1led ewes 4.50;
medium shorn ewes $50.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-31
Major League
Attendance Drops

NEW YORK, May 81. CUP)-
Despite perfect weather over both
circuits, Memorial day baseball at
tendance for major league double
headers was more than $4,000 un-
der that for last year.
The American league attendance,
was more than 100000 under that
of a year ago. The National league
showed a slight increase.
The total for l6 games-seyen
double headers and a morning and
afternoon game between Chicago
and Cincinnati-was 52,809 against
$40 a year ago. The National
leagues games drew 135,305 spec
tators compared to 123,965 year
ago, while the American league
slumped from 2O7,275 in 1888 to
1l7,504 yesterday
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-31
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Hogue to Defend
Victory Record

Bigboy Hogue, Jacumba's contri-
button to professional boxing, drove
to San Diego Wednesday to con-
clude training for his Friday night
bout against Johnny Verdusco in
the main event at the Coliseum
athletic club.
Hogue will defend his record OF
II straight victories in Friday
nights scrap and the ringside ex-
perts predict the toughest battle OF
his career.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-31
Sell Farm Produce Through
Post-Press Want Ads
Markets At
A Glance

Stocks irregular and quiet.
Bonds irregularly higher; U. 5.
Governments irreg ularly higher
some at new highs.
Curb stocks irreg ular.
Foreign exchange about steady.
Cotton steady
Wheat up u * cent; corn up Is
10 off a.
Rubber firm.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-31
Cincinnati Suffers Double Shutout Defeat
At Hands Of Cubs; Yanks> Bosox Divide
Re DIS Lead Cut to Two Games as St.
Louis Cardinals Split Twin Bill
With Pittsburgh Pirates

Tigers, 8-3. Detroit came back to
win the nightcap, 8-3.
After losing to the Athletics, 81.
Washington won the second game,
Sd, to break its six-game losing
streak.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-31
Braddock TO Second Nova

YORK. May 81. (UP)-Former Heavyweight OhanpO
that he will be one Oh e
Lou Californian shuhes
of Stadium to fight Max Baer he m
from the title almost four years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-31
L. A. BUTTER & EGGS

Butter: extras 25kc. prime firsts
24i2c. standard 2212c, undergrade
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-31
L. A. GRAINS

Spots closed unchanged, middling
8. 40, sales POI bales.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-31
l.. A. HAY
l. a. BANKS

LOS ANGELES, May 81, UP)-
Transamerica ..... ca GA
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-31
MINNEAPOLIS FLAX

Flax quotations by courtesy Of
Flsxseed association.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-31
COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, MAY 81. UP)-

Spots closed higher. middling 9.Sl,
sales 800 bales.
Evening star., 1939-01-09
Capper Introduces
District Suffrage
Bill in Senate
Proposal Would Allow
Representation in
Both Houses

The move to give Washington
voting representation in both
branches of Congress and in the
Electoral College was launched at
the Senate end of the Capitol today
when Senator Capper. Republican,
Of Kansas, reintroduced a joint
resolution calling for constitutional
amendment. The resolution was Of
fered in the House several days ago
by Representative Mary T. Norton,
Democrat, of New Jersey.
The Capper proposal will be re-
ferred to the Judiciary Committee,
which has jurisdiction of all sug-
gested changes in the Constitution
The resolution also would give resi-
dents Of the District the status of
citizens of State. for the purpose
of suing and being sued in the courts
of the United States.
The proposed constitutional amend
ment would empower Congress to
extend to the District residents the
right to elect one or two Senators,
OF Sucn OLner representation IN the
Senate as Congress may determine,
together with representation in the
House according to population, and
presidential electors equal to the
number of the city's aggregate rep
resentation in both houses.
Congress would provide by law
the qualifications of voters, and the
time and manner of holding elec-
tions.
Senator Capper, who has advo-
Gated District suffrage for a number
of years. believes sentiment in favor
of the proposition is growing in
Congress and that it was strength
ened by the favorable vote in the
unofficial referendum conducted last
spring.
Evening star., 1939-01-09
68 Indicted in New York
Alcohol Tax Frauds
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Jan. 9.-In-
dictments charging 68 defendants
with completely in the operations
OF a Central New York alcohol ring
alleged by Government agents to
have defrauded the Treasury De-
partment of $5.OOO,OOO in taxes were
handed up here today by Fed
eral grand jury.
The indictments charge the ring
with operating % stills in several
upstate counties, United States At
torney Ralph L. Emmons said.
Mr. Emmons quoted Treasury
agents, who have been investigating
the rings activities for more than
a year, as saying that the illicit
alcohol was sold through underworld
channels in Utica. Watertown, AL
bany, Newburgh, Plattsburgh, Olean
and OsWego, as well as through out
lets in Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania
and Canada.
Salvatore Falcone and his brother
Joseph, both of Utica, were named
by Mr.. Emmons among the lead
ers' of the ring.
Evening star., 1939-01-09
Fire Destroys IS BUILDINGS
At Old Poughkeepsie Plant
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, Jan. g.
Three charges of dynamite set off
by fliremen brought under control
today a fire that had DESTROYED IS
OF l8 buildings in the former Moline
Plow Co. plant here.
The Moline plant. all but one
building of which was unoccupied.
was composed of wooden structures
two to three stories high and sit
uated along the Hudson River water
front half mile from Poughkeep-
sizes business section. The fire began
shortly after pm. last nifiht.
F1rechief Chris w. Noll described
the blaze as one of the worst in
the city's history. Six other COM
munities responded to an emergency
call.
Last years assessment on the prop
erty, which was taken over by the
city at tax sale, was s24O,OOO. When
the plant was going concern it was
assessed at sl,0OO,00O. There was
no insurance.
Evening star., 1939-01-09
Capture Of n Villages
Is Claimed by Insurgents

ZARAGOZA, Spain, Jan. 9 (F.-
Spanish insurgents hurled heavy
artillery. tanks, planes, infantry and
machine gunners against govern
ment forces today in a, line-straight-
ening drive between Balaguer and
Lerida on the highway to Barce-
Iona.
The insurgents said they captured
the town of Fuliola, 10 miles east
and south of Balaguer, with bayonet
charges backed by machine guns.
Southwark, the insurgents said
they passed Vimbodi on the way to
Montblanch on the TarragoA,a main
road. The insurgents saiG they
hoped to reach Tarragona SOON.
They listed capture of 81 villages
and 1,100 prisoners In the SUI day
offensive. The southwestern drive
by the Barcelona armies was re-
pulsed with heavy losses to the at.
tackers, the insurgents said.
Evening star., 1939-01-09
Rain Aids Farms in Southwest
As Storms Kill 3, Iniure Score

uring up to 5 inches, continued to-
day.
In Texas, two deaths were attrib-
uted to a 66-mile gale at Dallas.
More than a dozen persons were
injured by windblown debris there
and at Cisco.
All western states shared in the
rain benefits.
Ccttonlands in South Texas were
seasoned for planting. Wheatlands
in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and
the Texas panhandle were revived.
Rangelands in the west gained
needed moisture.
Soaking rains Of an inch and
more-just the thing for wheat
fell in Western Kansas and Okla
homa. Fast melting SHOWS aided
soil conditions in Colorado.
Rains were forecast in Texas, Ok
lahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas,
Nebraska and Iowa.
Evening star., 1939-01-09
Hull Offers World
Lima Principles
As Charter
Says Code of Conduct
Is Based on Equality,
Justice and Freedom
BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON.
(TeTt OF Secretary Hulls statement
on page A-1O)

(Tert OF Secretary Hulls statement
on page A-1O)
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-Cordell Hull
offered the world today the prin-
ciples adopted by the Eighth Pan
American Conference as "a charter
for international conduct
The Secretary of State and chief
United States delegate to the recent
conference, at Lima, Peru, said such
a charter would be based on equal
ity, Justice and freedom-indis-
pensable foundation of peaceful and
friendly relations among nations of
the world"
Sun-tanned and evidently we'll
rested as the Santa Maria ap-
preached her New York dock, end
ing his six-and-a-h half week journey
to South America, Mr.. Hull added:
Il return from the conference with
the conviction that its results will
have real and permanent value and
that, as time goes on, the far
reaching effects of principles there
enunciated will become more ap-
parent and more significant"
Flanked by other members of the
American delegation, the white
haired Secretary of State character
lied the Lima meeting as an lex
ample for the conduct of interna-
tional relations by friendly discussion
rather than by force or violence"
He called attention to the i'm
portance of resolution adopted at
Lima for reduction of trade barriers
at home at moment when "eco-
nomic chaos is existing in consider
able parts of the world
The declaration of continental
solidarity for defense, Mr.. Hull said,
represents great progress beyond
agreements adopted at former inter-
American conferences"
"Outstanding at the conference, J"
he declared, was the realization
by the delegations that interna-
tional lawlessness and International
anarchy exist in many areas of the
earth and that the situation can be
cured and that rights of nations and
their peoples can be protected only
by acceptance of system of law
and order based ultimately on in
ternational justice and good faith"
The United States, he asserted,
neither desired nor sought military
alliances at the Lima Conference.
The American republics made it
clear that they were ready to CO.
operate with all nations of the
world" he said.
Evening star., 1939-01-09
Advisory Unit Warns Congress
To Bolster Air Defense
Aeronuutics Committee Cites Rising
Aviution Power of Nuzis

dealing with aeronautical develop
ments in Europe, especially in Ger
many, have formed a vitality i'm
portant source of information and
are echoed throughout in the report,
it was admitted.
Members of the committee have
expressed themselves as seriously
disturbed over criticism in the
United States of Col. Lindbergh's &C
tivities in Germany. This criticism
is believed to have caused him to
leave Berlin and abandon studies
which might have been of inesti-
mable value to the United States,
they said informally.
The sudden and rather general
appreciation of the potentialities of
modern air power is the most sig
nificant event that has occurred
in modern times in connection with
strengthening the desires of peo-
Piles to avoid war" the N. A. C. A.
said in its annual report sent to
Congress today by President Roose-
welt.
"Air power at the present time
(See DEFENSE. Page A-l0)
Evening star., 1939-01-09
B, the Associated Press.


KANSAS CITY, Jan. 9.-Much-
needed rain and snow soaked the
southwestern wheat belt today but
the Joy of farmers was tempered
by the death and destruction
wrought by accompanying high
winds in Texas and near-blizzard
In New Mexico.
Three persons died in the storms,
a score were injured and Dallas
counted 100000 damage. Agricul-
turelists said, however, the value
of the beneficial moisture would
far exceed the property losses.
In New Mexico Lieut.. Wallace A.
Nau was killed when his Army
plane. surrounded by fog and whirl-
ing snow, crashed into a mesa yes
terday. A motorist identified as
Joseph c. Wilson of Mount Vernon,
ILL.,. was injured critically when his
car plunged from q snowy road
near Willard. The snowfall, meas
Evening star., 1939-01-09
Bridges Challenges
Roosevelt Right
To Appoint Pope
Senators to Consider ;
Other Nominations
During Week

n ueDdJe over uIle TlRQC OF 1Ormer
Senator James P. Pope to men,
bership in the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority today opening a week during
which the Senate or its commit
tees will consider three other con-
troversial presidential appointments
Felix Frankfurter, Frank Murphy
and Harry Hopkins.
Senator Bridges, Republican, of
New Hampshire, told the Senate
President Roosevelt had no authority
to name former Senator Pope be-
cause there is no vacancy on the
T. V. A. board, from which Mr..
Roosevelt ousted Arthur E. Morgan
last spring. Mr. Morgan now is
engaged in a court fight for the seat.
Senator Norris, Independent, of
Nebraska, author of the legislation
setting up the T. v. A., defending
the Pope nomination. charged that
Senator Bridges was demonstrating
hate" and malice" in challeng-
ing it.
Seven Invited to Hearing.
A subcommittee of the Senate
Judiciary Committee sent invita-
tions today to seven persons to tes-
tify tomorrow on the nomination
OF Mr.. Frankfurter for the Supreme
Court post vacant since the death
of Justice Cardozo. The Harvard
law professor will not attend the
hearing. He will be represented by
Dean G. Acheson, his attorney.
At the same time the Frankfurter
hearings open, another judiciary
subcommittee will consider Mr.. MUIR
phys nomination as Attorney Gen.
eral and decide whether to hold
hearings on the appointment. Mr..
Murphy has expressed a willing
ness to testify regarding his han
ding Of sit-down strikes while he
was Governor of Michigan.
The Senate Commerce Commit
tee planned to meet in executive
session this afternoon to consider
whether and when it would hold
hearings on the nomination of Mr..
Hopkins as Secretary of Commerce.
Committee members indicated they
would question Mr.. Hopkins about
how relief was handled when he
was the w. P. A. administrator.
They also wanted his views on
the report of the Senate Campaign
Expenditures Committee. The re-
port holds that relief funds have
been diverted for political pur-
poses.
Those Invited to Hearing.
Those invited to the Frankfurter
hearing, most of whom have filed
protests against his nomination, are !:
George E. Sullivan, Washington at
torney: Coils Redd of Washington,
head Of the Constitutions. Crusaders
OF America; John B. Snow of New
York, representing the League for
Constitutional Government; H. A.
Walsh Of New York, Allen Zoll of
New York, representing the Amer
ican Federation; Mrs. Charles Fee
han OF Haverhill, Mass, representing
the Massachusetts Women's Consti-
tutional League, and Col. Latham
r. Reed of Washington.
The Boston Bar Association, in a
letter from its president. Damon F.
Hall, informed the committee it in
dorsed Prof. Frankfurter's nomina-
ton heartily and sincerely"
Senator Bridges opened the de-
bate by announcing he had no per-
sonal objection to the appointment
of Mr.. Pope, but argued the Senate
|Cne EP ANYETIPTEp po0o A-lI
Evening star., 1939-01-09
West Virginia Faces
Sheriff's Action for
Owing Self Taxes
BY the Associated Press.

CHARLESTON. w. Va, Jan.
9.-The State of West Virginia
owes itself four years delinquent
taxes on between 5000 and
5000 acres of undeveloped coal
land and apparently there is no
money to pay the bill.
The property must go back to
the sheriff, officials said today,
to be auctioned along with other
delinquent properties unless
some department can find cash
to redeem the property from
the commissioner of forfeited
lands.
The property was decided to
the State last December 81 by
the Raleigh Land Co., a non-
resident corporation, which
withdrew.
Evening star., 1939-01-09
Cotton Growers Ask
$8o,000,000 More
In Crop Reduction
Seek Return of
1900, 900 BoIes in
Lieu Of Production
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Grumbling against the farm
program has been loud since last
summer, Uhen it became dppdr-
ent that great surpluses in ma
jor crops 1Dould depress prices
and hurt the farmers income.
Republican gains in the farm
belt in November encouraged
critics OF the program to reneu
their demands for basic changes
in policy.
BY the Associated Press
Farmers from cotton States asked
Congress today to expand the crop
reduction features of the present
Farm Act by a plan that would cost
at least s8000O,0OO above present
farm benefits.
Meeting with more than a score
of Senators and Representatives,
spokesmen for the cotton growers
asked that some 100000 bales on
which the Government already has
made loans be returned to growers
in lieu of new-crop production.
For several days the growers have
been discussing the world cotton
surplus with representatives of the
Agriculture Department.
Ransom Aldrich, president of the
Mississippi Farm Bureau Fedora
ton, acted as spokesman for the
cotton growers at today's meeting.
voluntary" Reduction Plan.
He said the growers wanted to
continue ALLEGATIONS made under the
present program and add to them q
voluntary reduction plan by which
growers could cut acreage from 20
to Is per cent in addition to the
announced program. In exchange,
he proposed that they receive bales
now piling up under the Govern
ment loan plan.
Mr.. Aldrich estimated that this
would take at least 100000 bales
out of the surplus now piled up un-
der Government loan.
Several Senators noting that cot
ton was now worth $40 a bale and
the program would cost the Gov
ernment upwards of $4,000, 900,
asked how it would be financed.
Mr.. Aldrich replied that was "a
problem for Congress, but that
growers thought the cotton problem
should be financed in the same way
(See FARM, Page A-30
Evening star., 1939-01-09
jewelers. Widow Dies
In Six-Story PIunoe
By TIE Associated Press.

s5s ek4e zxSSUNIdIcU 1I6SS,
NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-Mrs. Nellie
Castelberg, ST, whose late husband
established the Castelberg Jewelry
Co. of Baltimore, Md, jumped or
fell to her death today from a sixth
door window of a nurses home
where she was a patient.
Her daughter Clare said she suf-
fered a nervous breakdown last No.
vember. Other survivors are two
sons, Joseph and Harold.
Evening star., 1939-01-09
Two $1,000, 900 Checks
Exchanged as Final
l. Payment Is Made
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-Two,
checks for over $4,000, 900 each
were exchanged today-but only
about $4,000 was left when
the transaction ended.
City Controller Joseph D.
McGoldrick gave representa-
tives of the Manhattan Railway
Co. bondholders a check for
$9.050, ,3o1, the final payment of
the $12,500,0O0 purchase price
for the Sixth avenue elevated
line.
Immediately, the bondhold-
ers turned over to the city
treasurer a check for $9,O10,656
In payment of taxes due the
city.
Evening star., 1939-01-09
Mrs. John Roosevelt
Treated at Hospital
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BROOKLINE, Mass, Jan. 9.-Mrs.
John Roosevelt, daughter -in-law of
the President, was treated at hos
pital yesterday for a minor all
ment,' which attendants declined to
identify.
The socially prominent bride, the
former Anne Lindsay Clark, was
said, however, to be resting COM
fortably. Her mother, Mrs. F. Haven
Clark, was in New York.
Evening star., 1939-01-09

BY the ASSociated Press.
HENDAYE, France Cat the Span
iSh FrOntier), Jan. 9.-SpaniSh In
surgent armies striking down the
main highway of Catalonia from
Lerida to Barcelona reported today
the capture Of the important town
of Mollerusa.
This meant an advance of about
3 miles, giving insurgents control Of
stretch Of highway Is miles east
Of Lerida to Mollerusa. IS miles
west of Barcelona.
A similar length OF the Lerida-
Barcelona Railroad line. parallel to
the road, also was reported captured.
Communiques from the Spanish
armies today reported victory for
the insurgents in the east and for
government forces in the west.
Troops under Gen. Jose Niaja, said
the government dispatch, smashed
through Generalissimo Frances
lines on the southwestern front.
hoving toward the Portuguese border
and taking Granja de Torrehermosa.
NC" DIlvc xHTCAIcnS.
The insurgents reported their war
machine rumbling eastward toward
Barcelona captured series of small
villages in the Artesa sector, bring
ing two competing columns together
for new drive on the Catalan
capital.
Each communique minimized
claims of the other.
The Barcelona communique, how
ever, acknowledged heavy fighting
was in progress eact of Balaguer.
The insurgents hailed as a major
field operation the junction of two
columns operating in the northern
and southern sectors of the Catalan
battlefield.
Military observers at the border
declared closing of the front lines
at Bellvis, between Lerida and Bala-
guer, meant the insurgent offen-
sive was pointing toward Barcelona
and Tarragona on the coast-78 to
80 miles away.
Push Toward Portugal.
OuIlIlS CIlc cdStcIu llSIlIlliS, SOV-
ernment forces were pushing toward
Portugal in the Penarroya mining
zone with the intention of splitting
insurgent Spain in the same way
the insurgents have divided govern
ment territory-the Catalan seq
ment and the Valencia Madrid Sec
tor-by driving through to the Med
iterranean.
Both sides claimed to have in
flicted heavy losses on the other
during the Sunday fighting.
Insurgents said their land and
air forces laid down a deadly bar
rage Of bombs and bullets. BARGE
Iona declared insurgent garrisons,
striving to stem the southwestern
advance, were wiped out in the path
of the overpowering government Of
fensive.
The insurgent generalissimo was
reported to be sending reinforce
ments to the western sector to at
tempt to halt the government
western drive.
Evening star., 1939-01-09
BACKGROUND-

BACKGROUND
Congress-, 1Uhich assembled last
1Ueek, heard President Roosevelt
defend spending program. First
test OF Lawmakers attitude is
scheduled to come ,Uhen bill ap-
propriating sS75,OOO 900 for w.
P. A. for rest OF fiscal year is
poted upon. All w. P. A. relief
methods, including charges OF
political actiDity in organization,
are expected to be scrutinised
before final action on proposal.
BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON.
In the face of the overshadowine
influence of air power in interna.
tional affairs" the United State.
must build up its air defenses, in.
crease the productivity of its air.
craft industry, train flying person.
mel and increase basic aeronautica
research, Congress was warned to-
day by the National Advisory Com
mittee for Aeronautics.
Secret reports received by the
N. A. C. A. from Col. Charles A
Lindbergh, one of its members
Evening star., 1939-01-09
Summary Of Todoy's Star

Page. Page.
Amusements, Obituary A A-10
B-16 Radio ~ Bill
Comics B-14-15 Sports A-11-12
Editorials - AS Society -- B-3
Financial Alb Woman's Page,
Lost and Found Bio
Bill
Foreign.
Nazis ignore charge of interference
with clergymen. Page Al
Hungary delays Ministers return to
Prague. Page AS
Duce calls Grand Council meeting
to map policies. Page AS
Notionul.
Labor Board wins review in inter-
state commerce case. Page Al
Rain aids farms as storms kill
three. Page Al
Seven invited to testify at Frank
furter hearing Page Al
House group completes hearing on
w. P. A. funds. Page Al
Hull offers world charter of inter-
national conduct" Page Al
Fight started to protect New Deals
farm control'program. Page Al
President confers with Congress
chiefs on defense. Page Al
Old-age pension advocates in Con-
gress prepare for fight. Page Az
10 Navy war planes take off on
Caribbean flight. Page AS
Auto workers union on verge of
showdown. Page Al
Michigan doctors approve group
medical plan. Page Al
Camps for jobless men and boys
urged. Page B-1