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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Agriculture Gets
New Burden Under
State Tax Ruling
$4,000 Workers Brought
Under Unemployment
Insurance System

SACRAMENTO, Mar. 10.
(UP)-SiXty thousand work
rrs engaged III packing and
pre-. ossing agricultural prod
lcts will come into the state
unemployment insurance system OF
April ! under terms of a decision
reached vest 1rday by the state en-
Elovment commission.
The commission refused a pro-
poSal to exempt from employment
insurance the packing house work
ers and instead broadened defini-
ton of agricultural labor to bring
many other classes within the scope
of the system.
The agricultural producers labor
committee proposed the exemptions
to BRING the state insurance system
into iiIle with minimum require
mentS set up under a recent amend
ment to the federal social security
act. American Federation of Labor
Continued on Page 8. Col. A.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
County Gives Big
Sum to March of
Dimes Across U.S..

Imperial county's contribution to
the March of Dimes this year was
S1,l74.b8 DR., Warren F.. Fox, county
chairman, said Tuesday.
Half OF the amount was sent to
the national foundation for Infan-
tile Paralysis and half will be used
to fight infantile paralysis in I'M
periai county.
BraWley headed the list with
Sl4699; Ell Centre was second with
Sl34.66; Holtville was third with
SHIP: CaieXico was fourth with
S64.67; imperial was fifth with
S39.8l; Calipatria was sixth with
5000; and Westmorland was sew
enth with 1922.
These totals, Fox said, do not
include the amounts raised by the
theatres of the county. They rails
ed $6793l.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Bond Debt Rulinq
Termed Favorable
To District Here
State Court Says Bond
Payments on PrO-rata
Basis Constitutional

A ray of light appeared
Tuesday in the confusing
shadows of litigation that
shrOud the S12,00O,OOO re-
funding program of the I'm
perial Irrigation district with the
announcement that favorable
court decision had been reached
on one of the programs chief foun-
dalton stones.
Chief District Counsel Harry Hor-
ton Tuesday forenoon received no.
tice that the California state third
district court of appeals at Sacra-
mento had ruled that in cases OF
permanently insolvent irrigation
districts, bond repayment may be
made on a pro-rata basis rather
than on strict basis Of regiStra-
ton and presentation.
Without this ruling, the Impe-
rial districts refunding program
would have been hamstrung, for
one of the main points is for treat
ment of all bondholders alike, rath-
er than giving preferential pay
ment to the first bonds registered
and the first presented for pay
ment.
The specific case involved the
Compton-Delevan Irrigation district,
Continued on Page 8, Col. y
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19

and buy food on these new reduced
budgets
N. c. Hayhurst, principal of the
Herbert Hoover high school in Glen
dale, described "liberalized' pro-
gram of free school lunches provided
by the SRA.
The principal said that he had
reported 43 students as requiring
free lunches and that Jerry Dunkel-
berger, commodities supervisor for
the SRA. convinced him that ne
should accept federal surplus COM
modities on the basis of 600 needy
Dunkelberger said that he was
given instructions last month by
the relief agency to promote a
sort of free and liberal program"
whereby public school cafeterias
could BE- made outlets for djstribu-
ton of surplus commodities. The
surplus foods included butter. apples,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19

William ODWyer OF Kings county,
New York, the long tentacleS OF
the law reached from New York
via Imperial Valley to Los Angeles
to fasten on Irving Cohen, one of
the members of the murder syndi
cate credited with at least 80 muir
derS.
Employees of the syndicate con-
tracted to murder for fees as low
as SIS but the syndicate heads were
said to have collected huge sums
for making the arrangements.
OsWalt recognized a photograph
of the fugitive gangster wanted by
ODwyer in his cleanup of the
murder gang as motion picture
bit player he met last summer at
Make Rosenbloom' resort in Los
Angeles.
Acting on orders from ODwyer,
Oswalt carried a secret message
from O'DWyer to the Los Angeles
sheriffs office Oswalt told the
officers where he had seen Cohen
and that he had played a small
part in a recent motion picture.
The fugitive was known as Irving
Cohen, alias Jack Cohen, and in
New York was called Big Gangie"
Cohen was held without bail in
the Los Angeles Jail Tuesday. He
was charged with being a fugitive
from justice wanted for murder
in Brooklyn. He fought extradition
to New York.
Big Gangie" was last seen in
person by his Brooklyn friends
when he jumped out of a car IN
Sullivan county, New York. and ran,
yelling for help, because he be-
lieved his own gang was about to
give him the same treatment given
to a man he had just stabbed to
death with an ice pick. Those same
friends saw him on the motion pic
ture screen, playing the part OF
Continued on Page 8, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Killer Boasts He
Won't Go Back

BOULDER, Colo, March 10. (UP)
Guarded by armed officers who
said they would shoot to kill rather
than permit him to add to his
list Of escapes, Robert Lacy Cash,
convicted Texas murderer, sat in a
Jail cell today and stoutly main
tanned that Il won't let them take
me back to Texas"
Sheriff George Richart, who cap
tured Cash last night on high
way near here, said officials of both
Texas and Arizona were en- route
to Boulder to demand that the eS-
cape artist be turned over to them.
II don't care who gets him." the
sheriff said. Il know 1 don't want
him."
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19

Ftested by Willard B. Hargrave of
the Auricular Foundation of Los
Angeles. They were ali problem
children, suspected of deafness or
too small to be tested by the audio-
meter
Mrs. Margaret Radcliffe, society
secretary, reported to the board
that of this group % had a loss of
80 per cent or more in the speech
range, SO had a loss of Is per cent
or more, ten children had retracted
ear drums, 81 showed such loss
of hearing in the higher frequency
ranges that nerve deafness was
suspected and SO of the group DEL
initely need lip reading.
Figures cannot possibly tell the
story of childhood suffering and
mental anguish through failure at
school because of impaired hear
ing Mrs. Radcliffe said Three
children, formerly thought to be
feeble minded, could not hear the
voice without application. Sew
eral had no ear drums at all. How
can they possibly be expected TO
compete at school with normal
children without the additional aid
of lip reading and amplified speech?
The tests also showed many
children whose ears were discharg-
ing and should be examined i'm
mediately before mastoid trouble
develops. One small fellows ears
were in such bad condition that
Hargrave advised medical atten-
ton without delay. The rural nurse
in charge of the child's school re-
ported that his parents had been
but had refused to act There Is
nothing we can do to force paren
tai cOoperation!'
Hargrave reported while in I'M
perial Valley that five times as
many hard of hearing children are
found in juvenile halls than in
public schools. More than Az per
cent of the second and third OF
tenders in juvenile courts in Los
Angeles during 1889 had a hearing
/ loss of Is per cent or more, he de-
clared So many men in San QUEEN
tin need attention that lip read
ing teacher was sought but none
could be found willing to accept
the job behind penitentiary walls.
THE cost of finding these chill
dren while they are in school is tar
less than the expense of keeping
them in our detention homes, jails
and penitentiaries," Mrs. Radcliffe
declared
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Old Drydock on
Trip to Hawaii

NEW ORLEANS, March 10. (UP)
The u. S. navy's drydock. located
al the Old Algiers naval station
since the turn of the century, today
began its long journey to Pearl
Harbor in Hawaii-the second larg-
est drydock in U. S. naval history
to be lowed that distance.
1t is large enough to accommo-
date any cruiser in the navy or two
deStroyers at one time. 1t swung
out into the current of the Mis-
sissippi river under the guidance
of three tugs.
Built in 1898, the drydock was
stationed at the Old Algiers naval
station in 1901. Recently, the gov
eminent spent approximately $l63,-
600 for Improvements.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19

Europe's warning powers
Wavered uncertainty Tuesday
between the remote POSSIBLE
ity of peace and the increasing
threat OF total war.
In Berlin. Adolf Hitler continued
to set a furious diplomatic pace
and renewed threats of powerful war
blows against the Allies to cling
to the offensive in drive that
Nazis yet hope will bring them
victory without major warfare.
German sources that are in a
position to know the governments
attitude said that Hitter and Italian
Premier Benito Mussolini had for
mulated the terms on which Ger
many expects eventually to restore
European peace: that Soviet Russia
will be brought into the program
for pacifying and driving out Allied
influence in the Balkans and that
the Reich will be satisfied only with
equalization of Great Britain.
The likelihood of triangular talks
between Rome, Berlin and Moscow
was stressed in we'll informed quar-
tiers after Hitler returned from his
Bremen Pass conference with Mus
SOlini.
In London. Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain reviewed the Allied
position in the face of a long series
OF Nazl diplomatic triumphs and
clarified the British and French
determination to carry through the
war against Nazism.
Fully realizing that any peace now
could be only German triumph,
the British ana French press con-
tinued to call for governmental
changes that would speed up prose-
cution of the conflict and make
amends for diplomatic defeats that
already have sealed the German
north flank against attack and
threatened to seal the southeastern
European front against the Allies.
Both Allied governments were under
increasingly sharp criticism.
In Rome and Vatican City, the
emphasis was on the possibility Of
peace discussions in which there
was an obvious effort to interest
the United States. The Vatican was
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Inquiry Puts Blame for
SRA Cuts on Chambers.
Abso|ves Legislature

LOS ANGELES. March 10. (UP)
"A legislative subcommittee inves-
tigating relief placed on the state
relief administration today the re-
sponsibility for reducing doles 40
per cent
Chairman Frederick HouSer, as
semblyman from Alhambra, bluntly
informed James Reese, SRA. adj
miniStrative assistant, that the COM
mittee held the relief administra-
ton, not the legislature, to answer
for the reductions.
apparently, Mr.. Reese" the Re-
publican legislator said, you blame
the legislature for these cuts.
However, we of the committee
place the blame on the relief ad-
miniStrat:on and the way it handled
the job"
Reese had asked HouSer how he
expected relief clients to pay rent
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Wealthy Friend Of Governor Faces
Arrest for Stumbling Race Committee

foran vice president, denied yester-
day such contribution had been
made.
Kyne was sought for further ques-
tioning on the manner in which
Church became a stakeholder at
Bay Meadows
Church. it was indicated, would
be given an opportunity to amplify
his denials of testimony of Alfred
Worthington, former state race in
cpector who told the committee
Church had asked him to alter a
state document, and to make state
ments on other testimony affecting
The race horse owner and associate
OF the governor.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19

flour and staple groceries
Gov. Culbert Olson was sternly
rebuffed by pickets who had formed
line around the state building
when he had offered to go out and
speak to them. One group repre-
sented In the picket line wa the
State. County. and Municipal Work.
ers association. It asked that Olson
meet with It's spokesman and dis
cuss certain demands. 49,
The S.CM.WA. asked tha9 con.
troll of SRA policy b. returned
to State Relief Administrator Wal.
ter Chambers and not be vested N
the board of personnel standards
and appeals.
The organization demanded tlDee
all Its members who were laid ~
SRA roles be reinstated' sss1 t)8o1
future layoffs be governed ~ mntoe.
ity,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Idea was Fine, But
Cons |nferfered

LOS ANGELES. March 10. G1F,
Richard D. Smith, "a, and Lloyd
Harper, 49, Today were out exactly
$40 in fines because of the bright
idea they conceived last Jan. 2j--
the day it ralned cats and dogs
Police said the two men deci1ed
they would stop up storm drain,
flood the intersection, and then Of
fer to tow stf lied automobiles from
the flooded area. They were arrest
ed shortly after they had launched
their lowing business. Witnesses
testified they saw Harper stuff the
storm drain with trash. rubbish
and an automobile fender.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Valley Organizations Get Behind
Religious Training Plan for Migrants

Religious teaching for the migrant
group in Imperial Valley next year
was predicted Tuesday as valley Or
CARNATIONS prepared to back the
program advocated by DR.. William
p. Shrlver. secretary of the board
of national missions.
The FL Centre Ministerial aSSo-
citation at its meeting Monday pass
ed a resolution inviting the coopera-
ton of DR.. Shriver's organization in
preparing To enrich the religious
BACKGROUND of the migratory Ia
borerS and their families.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19

aide, and M. Stanley Mosk, were
implicated in an investigation in
which Philbrick shouldered the en-
tire responsibility for a dictagraph
being placed in Assembly Speaker
Gordon Garland's hotel room.
Olson had indicated that severe
measures might be taken with those
implicated in the dictagraph in
cident, even to dismissal. Philbrick
was the only one directly connected
with the matter, but Henderson and
Mosk, private secretary to the gov
erpQr. were witnesses at the hearing.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19

Supervisors of Imperial county
Monday thanked DR.. Shriver for his
activity in getting help for the
migrants.
Present plans call for the board
OF national missions to send a mis-
sionary nurse to Imperial Valley
next October and instruct her to
work with the migrants and their
families until May. The missionary
nurse, Shriver said, always works
in harmony with health and camp
authorities.
Ministers of the city said min
listers of other valley communities
planned to join the Ell Centre group
in getting finances to help the
Shriver group.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Water Plant TO
Beautify Grounds

A Identification program was we'll
under way Tuesday at Ell Centre 5
water plant.
The program includes planting
trailing lantana along the bank of
the settling basins on Eighth street
and giant lantana and oleanderS
around the corner of Tenth and
Vine avenue. A sprnkling system
has been installed for a portion OF
the Eighth street project, Plant
superintendent Aubrey Boles said.
Eventually, the city hoped to ring
the entire water plant section with
hedge or flowers.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Prisoner Seeks
Freedom Here

Bill Clinton, arrested by deputy
sheriffs at inland eight days ago,
Monday filed application for writ
of habeas corpus, alleging that he
was unlawfully detained in the
county jail.
He declared that he was taken
into custody without a warrant for
his arrest, that none had been
issued and that he did not know
why he was jailed.
Sheriff Robert w. Ware said
Clinton was arrested at the request
of a United States marshal in Okla
homa, who said he had a warrant
for him.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19


members of his official family who
were involved in recent incidents
exposed by legislative investigating
committees.
Ralph w. Evans, state building
and loan commissioner, and Norman
w. Church, wealthy turfman and
custodian of the state seized Pacific
States Savings and Loan company
were involved in an asserted attempt
to obtain campaign contributions
from Hollywood Park. ~
Howard s. Philbrick, state director
of motor vehicles, Lieut.. Col.
Clio rloc IIoudersop OlSOn,S military
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Ethel Roosevelt
Falls from Horse

WASHINGTON. March 10. CUP)
Ethel Dupont Roosevelt, wife of
Franklin D. Roosevelt jr,, was in
jured today when her horse fell
during a morning ride near their
home at Charlottesville, Va, the
White House said.
Mrs. Roosevelt was taken to Uni
versity hospital at Charlottesville.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Damages Asked for
AIieqed Assault

Damages totaling $1,000 we're ask
ed by Braulio Diaz from Salvador
Miranda Monday because, he al
legged. Miranda attacked him Feb.
25.
Diaz in a complaint filed in SUI
perior court ALLEGED that the attack
was unprovoked and took place in
the DiaZ home.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Famed Handwriting
Expert in Valley

Clark Sellers, handwriting expert
used in the Lindbergh case, testi-
fled in a forgery case in Imperial
county superior court Tuesday.
He testified that handwriting of
the defendant, Kenneth Stephens,
matched that on the forged checks
The other defendant, C. d. Leach,
already admitted the forgeries.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Valley Ships First
CantaIoupes to LA.

First crates of Imperial Valley
cantaloupes were shipped to Los An
geleS from the Charles Freedman
shed in Ell Centre Monday. q days
earlier than first shipments in 1899,
according to 3. A. Harrigan, county
agricultural commissioner.
A dozen cantaloupes were also
shipped Monday from the w. H.
Graham ranch near CaleXico, Har-
rigan said.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Olson Mum About
Furnishing Aides

LOS ANGELES, March 49, (UP)-Gov. Culbert Olson
weary today of questions about affecting his
administration He said he regarded it waste of time
to answer them.
The chief executive said he had done nothing far
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Problem Children
In Valley Found
Hard ofHeQrino
One Third Of Ia Tested Discovered
To Be Deficient in Hearing. Society
Told; So Need Lii Reading Training

More than one third of la Imperial Valley children
tested in recent survey require lip reading lessons mem
ber of the advisory board of the Society for the Hard of
Hearing told Monday night at meeting in the Ell
Centre chamber of commerce Offices The children were
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Contract Killing
Suspect Nobbed
With Oswald Aid
California Highway Patrol Captain Here
Tips Off Ho||y wood Police Syndicate
Murder Agent is Now Film Player

Captain Frank Oswalt of Ell Centre revealed Tuesday
how he helped put the finger Los Angeles gangster
wanted New York fugitive member of murder syn
dictate operating from New York to Hollywood.
Because of Oswalt's friendship with District Attorney
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
y AMBL|NG
x Ep0RTER
New Name For En-

New Name For En-
Would that all children were as
coOperative!
Three year-old Donna Gail Borg,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. l. F..
Borg of BraWley was visiting her
aunt, Mrs. Frank Console in Ell
Centre. In the course of play the
child'S hair was muSSed up bit
and Mrs. Console announced:
That hair needs combing!"
Brightly, the child announced
"All right, and l promise not to
cry when you comb out the Wrin-
kleS!"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Feathered Friend

Somehow it struck our sense of
hunor to see the pet of a yOungSter
at Tenth and Adams avenue the
other day. The youngster, girl in
a gingham dress. was crossing the
yard of her home followed by a
tiny yellow duckling about so high.
The duckling was talking loudly
lust like Donald, only in slightly
higher pitch.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
Mechanical Struggle

Mechanical Struggle
Things mechanical are not for
Zenobia Wright. She had best stay
with high school plays.
The other day Zenobia decided to
unscrew a garden nose in her lawn.
The first attempt was failure.
Must be stuck" she thought and
went to fetch some tools. In the
family tool box she found wide
assortment of implements and with
more regard for variety than prac-
ticability she gathered group of
tools that covered the range from
plumber to brlcklayer.
Now here's a fine gadget!" she
said to herself, welding a big screw
driver. She poked at the hose fas-
tening without results and then sell
ected a brace and bit. This made
a dandy hole but didn't do a bit Of
good toward undoing the hose.
EscheWing saw. tabout this time
she was gravitating toward the
proper procedureD she grabbed a
monster wrench that was large
enough 10 Tx d WdIel Nlttlll dlllI
clamped its jaws about the weary
nozzle.
Zenobia then threw all her 1O5
pounds into the task of freeing the
hose. She pushed and pushed and
pushed and was about to cry quits
when a neighbor remarked that
she was twisting in the wrong dir
cction. She reversed and off came
the hose!
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19

Butter: Los Angeles soc; but
terfat, Imperial Valley Z. o. b. ranch,
grade A. soc; manufacturing milk
33c, route gathered cream zoe.
L. A. hay: u. s. No. S14.50-Sl5;
U. S. No. 2 leafy S13-S14; U. $. No.
2 S11.OO; Mpls. May flax S1.97.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19

Just Warm-up-
The varied activities of an Impe-
rial trio are enough to make RR's
old bones ache just to think Of
them.
Bob Danskin, Billy Littlefield and
Tom OkutSu must have felt they
needed a speck of exercise Monday
and started out easy with dozen
games of pool. From there they
bowling and cimaxed the day with
striking golf balls for a few hours
at the driving range. For all we
know they probably played basket
Continued on Page 8; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-03-19
It'll or
Lea q S
Ru &C
Nazi Diplomatic
Victories Stir Up
Allied Uneasiness
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Foreign News Editor

Europe's warning powers
wavered uncertainty Tuesday
between the remote POSSIBLE
ity of peace and the increasing
threat OF total war.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-28

Subscribe for The Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-28

cess of this program. Most of Paraguay's recent presidents have sent their children to it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-12-28
25O KIDS ENJOY CHRISTMAS
 7pEE FESTIVITIES

Some 25O Juneau children at- tended last nights Union Christ mas tree at the Union Hall. The party was put on by the Juneau Union Industrial Council.
 The program was as follows: community singing; God Bless America, ? by Erna Slender, Helen Claire Lister, Sylvia Lister and Charlotte Mason; solo by Patsy .Fleek; duet, Away in Judea' by Mason and Erna Stem der; solo by Jackie Schmitz; reel tation by Sylvia Lister; Silent Night" by Erna Slender, Sylvia Lister and Charlotte Mason; ac- cordion solo by Tony DelSanto; recitation by Charlotte Mason; reading by Myrtle Mello.
 Santa Claus appeared at the end of the program and passed out sweets.