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Evening star., 1939-03-02
Amendment Proposes
13-Week Benefits 10
laid-0n Workers
Revision Of Nearly All
Stote Lows Would
Be Required
By I. A. O'LEARY.


Laid-off workers in industry would
have to be given unemployment
compensation benefits for at least
13 weeks in year, under an amend
ment proposed today to the pending
bill for permanent solution of the
unemployment problem.
If adopted, the amendment would
require revision of nearly all State
laws. 1t was presented to the Sem
ate Unemployment Committee by
Chairman Byrnes and was explained
by Evan Clague, statistician for the
Social Security Board.
Mr.. Clague testified Ohio is the
only State that now has fiat 16-
week benefit period. In other States,
he said. the length of benefit period
varies from weeks to 20 or more
usually depending on how long the
worker was employed before being
laid off.
Become Eligible Easy.
The reason for these shorter bene-
At periods now is that workers be-
come eligible very easily, in some
cases after working for only two
months, he explained
In listing the condition of unem-
ployment reserves throughout the
country Mr.. Clague said the District
OF Columbia had one of the most
favorable experiences during 1898.
paying out 26 cents on the dollar
collected for the unemployment re-
serve. California, paying out 38
cents on the dollar, and Texas, with
43 cents on the dollar, were other
favorable areas last year.
Michigan was on the other ex-
treme, paying out of its reserve SO
in benefits for every 81 collected last
year.
In proposing a longer mandatory
period of benefits of not less than 13
weeks, the new Byrnes plan, made
public for the first time today, would
allow States to make the rules of
eligibility more rigid.
End of Small Claims.
Senator Byrnes said the effect
would be to take out of the unem-
ployment compensation system the
small claims of Short-time workers,
who now draw few dollars in bene-
11t payments for one or two weeks.
The purpose of the bill is to elm
1nate gradually emergency relief by
broadening the social security pro-
gram.
The new plan still would give
States the option of basing eligi-
bility on length of time a person
has worked or on the amount of
money earned, but minimum STAN
dards would have to be met by the
States under either system. The
eligibility standards would be high
enough to avoid giving a worker 13
weeks of benefit payments unless
he had been employed in 26 weeks
of the year, and had earned at least
$3.50 in that time.
Delay for Investigation.
Senator Byrnes pointed out one of
the difficulties in administering ex-
listing unemployment compensation
laws is the delay necessary to inves-
tigate and certify many small claims
OF workers who have become eligible
for only a short period of benefits.
Senator Frazier, Republican, of
North Dakota asked if a man who
becomes idle should be given the op-
ton Of deciding whether to take his
unemployment compensation bene-
f1ts or go on the w. P. A. rolls. Mr..
Clague said he thought there should
be requirement that worker use
up his unemployment benefits be-
lore going on work relief projects.
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Evening star., 1939-03-02
Elephant Runs Awoy

Taking fright, an elephant on
which doctor was riding to visit a
patient near Lucknow, India, ran
away, and the doctor clung on for
two days before he could get up
sufficient nerve to jump. He landed
unscratched on a thatched hut.
Evening star., 1939-03-02

showed reluctance to testify and the
whole story has not come out.
The Governments contention WAS
that johnson got the gun with the
plan Of killing Mr.. Scandals and
that the deed was done wilfully.
Evening star., 1939-03-02

TO BE HONORED AS NEW UNIVERSITY HEAD-Dr Homer
P Raney recently designated president of the University of
Texas is shown with his family their Washington He
will be the guest of honor and principal speaker tonight at
dinner to be given by local alumni of the university the
tonal Press Club Although he will his new duties
until summer Dr. Rainey plans visit the campus
future Shown with him and Mrs Rainey their daugh
Iers' Lenore IL rlgnt), ana Helen, IA. A p Photo
Evening star., 1939-03-02

models up to IS feet long, with
corresponding increase in accuracy.
Evening star., 1939-03-02

The Arabians and the Jews are
the only surviving Semitic peoples.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13
Supervisor Group
0kays Relief Bill

Members of the California Super
visors association late last week
endorsed an assembly bill provid-
ing that all relief be turned over
to the counties, Supervisors Hugh
T. Osborne and I. Schlatter saio
Monday after they returned from
attending an association conven-
ton in Sacramento.
They endorsed the bill over the
protest of DR.. Dewey Anderson, re-
lief administrator, who declared
the governor would veto the bill il
it did pass the legislature. Gene
Greer, former association president
urged the endorsement of the bill
because California cannot be hall
production -for-use and half pro-
ductiCn for profit"
Supervisors voted to keep in
closer touch with senators and as
semblymen and passed a resolution
asking that the control of San
Francisco harbor be turned over to
the city of San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13
Police Courses
Planned to Keep
Cops Out ofRut'
Chief Oswalt Learns
instruction Ropes
At S. d. Sessions

Regular courses of in
struction for all "rookie"
policemen in California were
forecast Monday by Police
Chief J. Sterling Oswalt of
Ell Centro, following attendance
at school of police instruction in
San Diego.
'I don't believe there is a ques-
ton of doubt but that within five
or ten years at the most there will
be a state regulated system for
training officers, so that all will
have to come up to certain stand
ard before they may be accepted" !"
he declared.
Oswalt, one of nine officers from
Imperial Valley, who attended the
school last week, declared the
course was restricted to teaching
the students" how to instruct
other officers in the best detection
technique. Weekly lessons will be
delivered for officers, conducted by
Oswalt, George Bucklin and Frank
Smyer
cit is easier to get into rut
in police work than in any other
line" Oswalt said in praising per-
iodical checkups and school courses
for officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13

Randall Smart, Kansas City law
yer and sponsored, he said, by at
least so colleges from throughout
the state, was referred last week
to the house committee on public
health. That, said leaders of the
emancipation movement, is where
it shall remain.
Upon appearance of the bill
women's organizations here became
indignant, but it was not until
Sunday that concerted action was
begun. Mrs. Hazel M. Sheehan
president of the Business Women s
Democratic club, said Womens in
dividual rights were at stake and
she Immediately announced plans
for the march.
The statewide response was over
Whelming, she said. Either a repre-
sentative committee of women
would be sent to the capital to
fight the bill, she said, or, if a
greater show of strength appears
indicated, the army would march
en- maSSe.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13
Labor Meeting
Scheduled in SD.

More than Is Imperial Valley
residents will go to San Diego
Thursday night to discuss labor
relations with representative
group of San Diego residents.
County officials, members of the
clergy, businessmen, and farmers
will be included in the groups rep
resenting the two counties. The
meeting was called by the Asso-
ciated Farmers of San Diego coun-
ty and the Manufacturers and
Employers association of San Die
go.
The following are among those
blaming to make the trip, G.. G.
Bennett, H. E. Anderson, Charles
Nice, E. E. Cavanah, Keith Nets,
Argyle McLachlan, D. d. Brownell,
Harvey Hastain, DR.. George Thom-
as, Rev. Floyd Reeves, Hugh T.
Osborne, Otto Bradshaw, Sheriff
Robert w. Ware, Judge Vaughn N.
Thompson, and r. B. Whitelaw.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13
Wagner Act Repeal
Goes Before House
In Hoffman Bill
u. S. Labor Board Critic
Offers Law Revising
Industrial Rules

WASHINGTON, Mar. 13.
UP)-Rep. Glare E. Hoff-
man, R., Mich, planned to
introduce in the house today
a bill to repeal the Wagner
Labor Relations act and reenact.
with drastic revision, some of its
provisions.
Hoffman, a bitter critic of the
National Labor Relations Board
and the Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations, said his bill was a
direct and complete answer to
the demands of American Fedora
ton of Labor President William
Green for a "pro-America type OF
measure"
He said his revisions would bring
the labor law into conformity with
recent decisions of the supreme
court" and that one of his major
objections was ito legislate out OF
office the present members of the
board and all of its employees" ex-
cept those retained by the new
board
The bill would repeal the act, but
reenact some of its provisions, with
changes which would:
l. Exempt employers from being
held guilty of unfair labor prac-
tices when they have negotiated
"for a reasonable length of time
and on a reasonable number OF
occasions" but failed to reach an
agreement with employees.
2. Deny the protection of the
labor act to unions which strike
in violation of contracts, or with
Continued on Page 2, Col. 90
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13
Victim of
'UnIoaded' Gun
Dies in Hospital

Glen DeWebster, 16, died in the
county hospital Sunday, victim of a
supposedly unloaded gun in the
hands of his friend, James Spur
geon, 81, as they sat beside the
railroad west of Seeley last Feb.
25.
Before his death, DeWebster ex-
onerated his friend from blame
and said the shooting was acciden-
tai. Spurgeon, he said, was snap
ping the trigger on his pistol when
it suddenly discharged. A coroner's
jury Monday declared the shooting
was accidental.
Spurgeon is held in the county
Jail in lieu of $4,000 bail pending
trial on a charge of assault with
deadly weapon. The third men,
Der of the trio travelling from
Phoenix to San Diego, Frank Birch
alias Brabbin, is charged with vio-
lating the state law preventing
possession of gun by person
previously convicted of felony.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13
Presidents Message to Congress for
Additional Relief Funds DELAYED

WASHINGTON, March 13. CUP)
The White House announced to-
day that President Roosevelt had
been delayed in preparing his mes
sage asking congress for addition
al relief funds and may not submit
it before midweek.
The White House attributed the
delay to pressure of other business.
However, it was believed in some
quarters that Mr.. Roosevelt may
not yet have finally determined the
amount of relief funds which he
will ask congress to provide for use
of the Works Progress Admins
tration until June 80.
Indications have pointed strong
ly to a new request for $150,000,000
relief funds-the amount which
congress previously declined to pro-
vide. However, strong opposition
to so large an appropriation has
been expressed by many congress
sional leaders.
Strengthening belief that Mr.
Roosevelt desires to canvass the
situation more thoroughly before
setting a figure on relief needs, was
the fact that he planned to confer
late today with a group of senators
for a general discussion of relief
unemployment and the general
economic situation. The group in
cluded Sens, James Mead, D., N
Y, H. H. Schwartz, D., Wyo., and
Lister Hill, D., Ala, all staunch
New Deal supporters.
White House Secretary Stephen
T. Early attributed the delay ID
submission of the relief message,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13


until Wednesday.
Sunday, members of the con-
vention party from California, Ne
vada, Idaho and Montana - the
states through which the Canada
to Mexico highway runs - were
guests at the closing day of the
Imperial county fair
Harland E. Wells of Whitefish
Mont, was reelected president of
the association Saturday night as
the closing point of business ses-
sions. Robert Hays of the Ell Cen
tro Chamber of Commerce was re-
named secretary. Treasurer for the
next year will be James eastman
of Las Vegas. j. H. Shinn and
State Senator Ed Fletcher were
elected vice. presidents.
Next convention of the associa-
ton will be in Las Vegas in Janu-
ary.
Chief accomplishment of the
convention was formation of a
widespread publicity program de-
signed to increase travel on the
Four States route. Delegates ap-
peared to favor concentration up
on areas adjacent to the highway,
so that Montana and Idaho would
use Imperial Valley as a winter
playground and California and
Nevada would move north in sum-
mer for vacations nearer the Cam
adian border.
Key to the program will be a
rotogravure section of illustrations
showing scenic wonders along the
route. The section, as outlined by
F.. A. Gilman of Needles, publicity
chairman, will be inserted in daily
newspapers in towns along the
highway and also sent to chambers
of commerce at other points.
THE section. made up of pic
lures of scenic wonder along the
route, should go far toward ac-
quainting residents of the west with
the attractions that are near at
hand" Gilman declared.
The publicity program was out
lined following a mild criticism
from the Nevada delegation for the
manner in which the few bad sec
tions of the 1900 mile route have
been emphasized, rather than the
hundreds of miles of smooth high
Continued on Page 2, Col y
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13
Evan Hewes Named
Association Head

Evan Hewes, president of the
Imperial Irrigation district, Mon
day was the new president of the
Irrigation Districts association of
California, following election of
officers at the biennial conven-
ton in Sacramento.
Representatives of 101 irrigation
districts, county water districts and
reclamation districts attended
Hewes was formerly vice-president.
Action at the convention, accord
ing to Walter Goodson, district
secretary, was confined to discus
sion of impending legislation that
affects districts in the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13

rpOWer line carrying electrical ener-
gy into the Salinas valley, "the
nations lettuce bowl, vulner-
able stretch of U. S. Highway 10l
and a bridge across the Pajaro
river.
Thomas Joyce, superintendent of
the state highway maintenance
division, said he believed there
was little danger of the slide block
ing the highway or damming the
river. Others were not so optimis-
tic.
DR.. Albert Newlin, seismologist
at Santa Clara university, said
I'D hate to try and tell what
might happen if new rains loosed
more earth. The forecast was for
All who checked on the slide with
stakes found it was slowing up.
1t was travelling roughly at four
inches an hour late yesterday, too
slow for its movement to be noted
by the human eye.
Out of the rolling hills and
rangeland of Lomerias Muertas
THE dead hills, it had cut a
sWathe mile long and a quarter
of a mile wide since it started
off a week ago with a boom heard
miles away.
Visible from Gilroy, six miles
to the north, it looked like a giant
highway construction cut spewing
out fanshape over the lowlands
AS it reached the lowlands it slow
ed its pace, leading to the hope il
would scatter out and halt before
traversing sthe quarter of mile
to the power line and the halt
Continued on Page 2, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13
Robbery Suspect
Returned TO Ariz.

Harold l.. Keys, arrested in I'M
perial county Friday as a suspect
in the robbery of bank messenger
in Phoenix Feb. 20, left Sunday for
the Arizona city.
He was in custody of two Mari-
copa county deputy sheriffs who
took him back to face trial on a
charge of taking $25,151 from a
bank messenger. Keys decided to
waive extradition after refusing to
do so shortly after his arrest while
he was working on an All American
canal power drop east of Calexico.
Three other men were sentenced
to prison for their parts in the
robbery.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13
Riot Breaks Out
In CzechosIovakia
CZechoSloyakia,
BRATISLAVA

BRATISLAVA, Czechoslovakia.
March 13. CUP) - Heavy rioting
broke out tonight in the Republic
Square between the National thea
ter and the Hotel Carlton. Police
charged a big Slovak independence
demonstration with bayonets and
tear gas bombs.
Police ordered the demonstrators
to disperse and charged when the
crowd demanded the whereabouts
of arrested Hlinka guard leaders
and shouted I'VE want indepen-
dence."
The incident increased the
mounting tension in Bratislava and
there were persistent reports that
plans had been made to proclaim
an independent Slovakian state by
tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13

showing OIL tne lOuh annual agrl-
cultural exposition.
The 10000 attendance record top
ped the previous high mark estab-
lished in 1898, by $4,000 and
brought forecasts of a bigger and
better fair in 1910 from Ben Hulse,
president of the board.
Actual paid attendance was es-
timated at more than 10000 per-
sons, Hulse said. Ticket receipts
crossed approximately $4,000
This years agricultural show
was the greatest of all time" Hulse
said. Attendance was greater.
there were more commercial agri-
cultural and livestock exhibits and
quality of each was superior"
Junior livestockmen led the par
ade of advancement in the 1888
fair with increased entries and
with improved quality of exhibits.
Baby beef brought 45 cents per
pound for the grand champion
steer, and the runners up to the
champion netted owners a larger
profit than did the grand cham
pion of the 1888 sale.
Late Sunday night, when fair
visitors were still streaming thru
the entrance gates, Hulse and Dor
man Stewart, secretary, discussed
plans for improvements in the
1910 fair.
Booth facilities will be improved
new junior livestock barn may be
built, and more prize money will
be distributed
More than $4,000 was carried off
in prize money Sunday night as
exhibitors started breaking camp.
Three thousands dollars of the
sum was awarded to junior live
stock owners and $4,000 more went
to winners and champions of the
horse show.
Sundays program was featured
by final events of 36-event horse
show and by arrival of a caravan
of 500 autos from San Diego coun-
ty.
Mayor Percy Benbough of San
Diego, headed the coast delegation
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13
Firemen Put Out
Blaze in Home

Quick work by Ell Centro fire
men early Monday morning pre-
vented serious loss in a fire that
started in a small home at 1863
Orange street. The loss was esti-
mated at $100.
Three small homes were involv-
ed, occupied by Rufas Smith, j.
Jessop and Willie Ford. Firemen
said the cause was probably a
cigarette.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13
Storm Sweeps East
Leaving wreckage
In Midwest States
Warnings Posted Along
Atlantic SeabOard
By Weather Bureau
BY United Press

A TeXas-born storm which
scattered rain, sleet and
snow in a weekend dash
across midwestern states
rolled over the Appalachians to-
ward the Atlantic coast Monday.
The U. S. weather bureau at
Washington ordered advisory storm
warnings posted along the Allan
tic coast from New York to Cape
Hatteras, off the coast of North
Carolina.
The storm belt, the weather bu-
reau said, would extend from west
ern Pennsylvania to the coast and
northeaStward into New England
states.
Clear skies and rising tempera-
lures followed the storm in most
midWeStern states, which had eX-
perienced ''quickie" floods and
sleet- disrupted transportation and
communication during the week.
end.
Originating in Texas PAN
handle" dust storm early Satur-
day, the disturbance moved north
eastward across Oklahoma, Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, In
diana, Ohio and Michigan.
Thundersqualls, snow, rain and
destructive winds attended its
movement over eastern Kansas and
Missouri. The northern edge of
the storm area touched the Mis-
souri-Iowa line where the ice
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13
Down with Repression! We Want Free
Play for Big Toes, Shout Missouri
Women Protesting Plot Against Feet

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March 13
tUP)-An army of angry women
modified today for march on the
state capital at jefferson City to
protest legislation which place in
bondage every feminine big toe in
Missouri
1t was an army dedicated to "big
toe emancipation" and its em-
mediate purpose was to sabotage a
plot engineered by some so legis-
lators who want, to ban the sale OF
toe-less and heel-less shoes for
women during spring, fall and VIM
ter months.
The bill, introduced by Rep. w,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13
Attacker Injuries
Woman at Carmel

CARMEL, Cal, Mar. 13. CUP)-
Marie Pollack Gator, pretty 20
year-old bride of Ted Gator, Carmel
post office employe, was beaten and
possibly fatally injured by an un-
identified assailant in her home to-
day.
The assailant apparently attack
ed Mrs. Gator from behind and beat
her into unconsciousness with a
claw hammer and tire iron, then
fled. Both weapons were found in
the house near Mrs. Gators pros
trate form.
Her husband was at the post Of
flee at the time of the attack.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13
Bill Brings State Senate Battle on
Deficiency Appropriations to Head

before they are made.
In the assembly, a transaction
tax of one per cent, to apply to all
business operations within the state
except those involving the United
States government, was proposed by
Henry Meehan, D., Oakland.
The present deficiency system
which, has drawn strenuous objec-
ton during the last few days, Is
to call upon the legislature to ap-
propriate money to pay obligations
which already have been incurred.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13

which Mr.. Roosevelt last week said
he would have today, to pressure
of presidential engagements. He
said Mr. Roosevelt had not had
time to write the message and said
that it might not be ready until
after tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13

SACRAMENTO, March 13. CUP)
Bringing a senate fight against
deficiency appropriations to head
a bill was introduced to repeal the
statutory provision by which the
governor and director of finance
may authorize departments to over
spend their budgets.
Senator Randolph Collier, r.
Yreka. author of the bill. explain
ed that the provision would in ef-
feet require the legislature to ap-
prove extraordinary expenditures
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13

The report, made by Dmitrl q.
Manuilsky, a member of the exc
cutive committee of the Com
munist Internationale, said that
universal reaction of Fascism had
strengthened the Communist par
ty's influence and membership
Growth of the party from 10000
to 10000 in the United States,
Manuilsky said was due to it's ac-
tivity in assisting industrial trade
unions: Because it has recently
developed its work among members
of the reactionary American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, and because it
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13

body did not correspond with that
of any missing persons on their
reports.
Those in nearby Encinitas who
viewed the body said the woman
was evidently a stranger.
The sheriffs office said it was
possible that she may have fallen
or jumped from a ship offshore,
and that the body may have been
washed ashore.
Gershon said an immediate au-
topsy would be performed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13

has carried the struggle for restora-
ton of trade union unity on the
basis of the class struggle"
The weakest point in the Ameri-
can Communist party's strength,
he said, was Its poor contact with
the farming masses
The report praised the foreign
policy of the United States as
creating a bloc Of resistance 10
Fascist expansion" and bitterly at
tackled the policies OF Great
Britain.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-13

lence were apparent on The BODY,
and that it was impossible to de-
termine whether death resulted
from drowning.
The body was found by Frank
KrauSe, Encinitas, while he was
strolling along the beach, the sher-
ifs office reported.
Gershop said the woman ap-
peared to be between the age of
35 and 40. She was dressed in
slacks, had reddish hair and wore
blue tennis shoes.
Police said the description of the