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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-04
FUN IN THE PARKS

The National Parks of this country
were visited by 16.741,85 persons during
the 1910 travel year. which officially
ended on September 60, reports the q. S.
Department of the Interior. That number
is more than million larger than last
year. The National Parks have been made
accessible to the motoring public, and ac-
commodations to, stay night, day,
or a week, have helped to boom the
parks.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-04
Andrew Jackson was a

Andrew Jackson was great presi-
dent and he sponsored no-third term
an endment to the Constitution and An
drew Johnson urged Congress on two Oc-
casions to pass such an amendment We
have the opportunity to halt the third
-ein aspiration now, and later have the
Danger removed by a Constitutional amend
rent against third term. One of the rea-
sons this was not done before was that Con-
gress never thought, by any stretch of
in agination, that man would arise in
these United States who believed himself
indispensable. There has never been need
f-r such being in the past, there is none
,oH and there never will be.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-04
Today's Horoscope

Today endows with mind that
is prudent and full of resources.
There appear TO be surrounding
conditions that may lead TO trou-
BILE, and it viii require all the
natural prudence to overcome
them. The danger lies in bring
ing out traits that viii not tend
to the higher faculties. though
protecting the native from in
jury.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-04
SEEK CONTOUR AND NOT COLOR
If YOU WANT SCENE PICTURES
EDITORS NOTE: This is
the fourth in a series of five
weekly articles on taking pic
tures.)

/ (AssOciated Press Feature Service)
Amateur photographers are
generally at their worst when
they do landscapes and street
scenes.
What is more boring than an
evening spent with someone just
returned from a trip with a hum
dred snapshots? It's a rare thing
to see one interesting picture on
such an occasion.
The prime reason for this is
that people are much more sensi-
tive to color than to shape. The
amateur is attracted to a scene
because of the blue sky, the green
grass and the white house with
the green shutters. The color COM
binatiOn gets him and he shoots
By the time the picture comes
out in black and white, the point
is lost.
Look For Patterns
The problem is to train ones
eye to look for shapes and pat
tern in light and dark. Those are
the things the camera can record,
the things that make composition
and determine whether a picture
is worth looking at.
When you see a view you like,
determine what there is about it
that attracts you. Then aim to
make that reason come out in the
picture you take.
The acid test of whether you've
done a good job is to have some
one go through your photographs
and guess why you took each
one.
The tendency to see in terms of
color should be less of problem
when taking street scenes in the
city. Here the most interesting
material is in the activities OF
people in the streets or the de-
signs that variously shaped build
ings make. Your main tools are
camera angle and sunlight.
Watch The Light
If you are interested in the
shapes and contours of buildings
there's no sense In taking a shot
of a building as the sun is hitting
il head on.
II is necessary to watch the
light change on a building and
make the shot when the sun, by
hitting at an angle, emphasizes
! the contour you are after.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-04

Pampered children, who get every
thing they want, develop into adults who
want nothing that requires work, and
hence they are failures. Then, possibly,
they will condemn their parents for having
been too good to them, and justly blame
them for their condition.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-04

South America is deporting its Fifth
Columnists right and left, but the United
States either cannot find the Nazi agents
or let's 'em live, putting on the heat, per
haps, when it's too late and the damage
done.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-04
FORECAST

(Till 7:30 p. m, Tuesday,
Key West and Vicinity: Partly
cloudy with scattered showers
tonight and Tuesday; not much
change in temperature, moder-
ate to fresh easterly winds.
Florida: Partly cloudy tonight
and Tuesday, scattered showers
in south portion and possibly
near east central coast, slightly
warmer iB~extreme north portion
tonight.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-04

The man who takes himself as joke
Is accepted as joke, and the man who
takes himself too seriously certainly'is a
joke.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-04
Vote Tomorrow

1t usually takes less than four years
to demonstrate the foolishness of most
campaign speeches.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-11-04
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

Water and Sewerage
2 More Hotels and Apartments.
,. reach and Bathing Pavilion
4. Airports-Land and Sea-
). Consolidation of County and City Gov
CTnmentS.
8. A Modern City Hospital
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25
vaIleX Resid ent
Killed in Crash

deliver the message to officers. A
second message was dispatched by
another notorist and help soon ar
rived. Pete Dewitt. 80, Clearwater
driver of the truck, was uninjured
In the accident near Holtville the
victims body was knocked 81 feet
from the point where the car struck
it and dropped into borrow pit
beside the highway, officers said.
Clayton Hammond, %, San Die
gan, told a cCroner's jury in Holt
vile Saturday that the man stag
gered into the path of his car as
he drove along the highway a mile
ard half east of Hoitville shortly
after 8 pm. Friday. He said he
had no chance to sWerve his car
and miss the man.
Highway patrolmen arrested
Browns companion, Oscar MeScheck,
43, who told them he and Brown
Lad been drinking before they start
cd to walk home along the highway
from Holtville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest George OF
Ocean Beach, the bridal couple
Opal Hedges, Long Beach, another
members of the party, and Ham
mond were unirjured. A coroner's
Jury eXonerate0 Hammond, finding
the accident unavoidable.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25

'odIu IllC llllCldl oCoolOll WOulu Dt
devoted to preliminary inquiry into
the placing of listening device
in the hotel suite of Assembly
Speaker Gordon Garland. anti
administration Democrat of Wood
lake, allegedly by Robert E. Voshell
a private investigator who had been
in the employ of the State Relief
Administration.
Call assured the assembly last
night the inquiry would not degen-
crate into a witch hunt" and that
it would not try the administration
in the newspapers. All information
will be withheld from the public,
unless authorized in executive ses-
sion, until the investigation is COM
plete, he said.
With this assurance, the COM
mittee last night defeated an ad-
miniStration move to confine its
study to the particular incident
concerning Speaker Garland. The
vote was to 2, a strictly admins
tration - anti-administration divi-
Continued on Page 3, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25
Sweden Goes Off
Gold Standard

STOCKHOLM, Feb. "a. CUP)-
Sweden went off the gold standard
today as the government convokeG
special session of parliament for
Sunday afternoon and faced a diff
cult diplomatic situation as result
OF Russian denialS that Red army
planes had bombed the Swedish
frontier town of Pajala.
The government agreed to estab-
liSh foreign exchange control.
Previous restrictions on gold tran
SactionS were in force against pub
lie business, but special dispenSation
was granted to the central bank.
That diSpensation was revoked to-
day.
The financial situation developed
amid diplomatic events resulting
from Swedens proximity to the
Finnish Russian war and Russian
denial that Red army planes had
bombed Pajala
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25
Main Provisions
Of Relief Bill as
Enacted by Sions
81 Out of 100 Cents to
Go For Relief; Aliens
Barred From Rolls

SACRAMENTO, Feb. "a.
(UP)-The temporary relief
bill passed by the legisla-
ture last night over the Veto
of Gov. Culbert Olson has
the following main provisions, all
effective after April l:
/. Appropriates $l2,2O0,OOO for re-
lief until June l, 1910, including
S5 100000 for February and March;
$3,50000O for April, and 5000 900
for May. ($200OO0 expenses to con-
troller's office.)
! 2. 80 cents OF each relief dollar
I must go for relief; three cents for
works projects of which no more
than one cent for cooperatives.
3. Bars aliens who entered coun-
try illegally after June /, 1924, but
members of families unaffected.
4. Three years residence re-
quirement instead of one year.
5. Total family budget of $50
monthly in cash; permits additional
surplus commodities; must deduct
from budget income from those in
family, with minors earnings only
half.
6. Can spend relief money only
for food, rent, and necessities. No
payments of more than $5 monthly
on personal property except food
and clothing
7. Only one car per relief FAM
lily.
8. No political activity by SRA
employees; clients unable contribute
to political groups or labor unions.
9. All statements for relief ap-
plication under oath; counties have
right to inspect records.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25
Sorry Says Man Nabbed at BrawIey
For Wholesale Bad Check PassinQ

police Friday while attempting to
pass a bad check in BraWley
grocery store. AT the time of his
arrest he had q pocket full of blank
checks on valley banks. He printed
the words ~. S. Bureau of Reclama-
ton on the checks because that
made it easier for him to pass them,
Brawley police quoted him as say
ing. He learned the trick, he said,
when he worked for the bureau in
Arizona about six months ago.
In the county Jail where he was
held in lieu of $500 bail, Thorne
told Sheriff Robert w. Ware that
he had passed bad checks for small
amounts in Fresno and Los Angeles,
He declared he was too drunk to
remember where he had passed
others.
Ware sent the information to law
enforcement officers throughout the
west on a state wide teletype bull
letin.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25

An Imperial Valley resident was
killed IN a traffic accident east OF
Holtville Friday night - the first
valley resident on the list of six
traffic <,eaths thus far this year.
Leon 3. Brown, AZ, Negro service
station laborer employed part time
in Holtville, was struck and killed
when he staggered into the path of
& car driven by member of a
bridal party en- route to San Diego
after a wedding in Yuma.
More fortunate was William Nc
Grath, 48, Los Angeles. who was
taken alive from the wreckage of
his car after he sideswiped loaded
hay truck and trailer 38 miles north
west of BraWley at 11:45 pm. Fri
day.
McGrath was pinned in the
Wreckage for an hour because a
careless motoriSt entrusted with the
task of going for help neglected to
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25
BrawIey Negro Fight Over Pool Game
Ends with One Dead, -Four in Jail

rived to take him to a hospital.
After his arrest by BraWley po-
lice, Burley told Sheriff Robert W.
Ware that he stabbed Seats. He
led Ware and Brawley police to the
scene of the fight and picked a long
bladed pocket knife out of the mud.
Blood was found on the knife blade.
Burley and his two companions,
Phillips Boyd, 80, and Ocie Smith,
SO, were taken to the county Jail
10 await legal developments. Seats
companion, Venner Brooks, %, was
held in Jail as a material witness.
Officers took two knives from
Smith.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25
Fistic Encounter
EnIivens Dance

CALEXICO, Feb 24.-Mystery to-
day surrounded the details of a
1lstic encounter which enlivened a
produce ball held in the De ANA
hotel here Thursday night.
CaleXico police were summoned
to quell the disturbance but made
no arrests. Apparently they acted
in the role of peacemakers, restored
order, and withdrew from the
scene.
AS far as could be determined no
furniture was broken, no black eyes
given, and no noses punched.
Hotel attaches pooh poohed the
idea of fight and declared there
was nothing to it.
In the meantime, however, the
fight was the main topic of con-
versation in several quarters. One
man admitted that there had been
a little shouting, pushing and pull
ing. but others declared they knew
nothing about it.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25

COIllIlS DdCk W odCIdIIltllIO, WIFI
April 20, May 6 and May 13 under
consideration.
1t was not known definitely
whether Gov. Culbert Olson would
carry out his threat to call the law
makers back in a short time to
study his s50,OC0,OOO new tax pro-
gram but members of all factions
agreed it would be a useless gesture.
The hostile legislature quickly dis
posed of relief last night by over
riding the governors veto of the
S12 100000 temporary bill to last
until June l. The 60-day recess is
necessary to bring the legislature
back to Sacramento to work out
permanent solution for handling
relief for the second year of the
biennium, ending June 80, l941.
A bill returning relief to the
counties was passed this week by
both houses but the governor wrote
his veto message today. He may
elect to hold up the message until
the legislature recesses however
1t was doubted the assembly could
muster the required tWo-thirds ma
Jority required to override the
veto.
The special session lasted four
weeks. Little was accomplished ex-
cept that anti-Olson forces won
control of both houses and success
fully killed virtually his entire Ga
point agenda.
The governor was irate on re-
fuSal of the lawmakers to even
bring to a vote the many new tax
measures he considered necessary
to finance relief and balance the
budget. He has the power to call
a second special session at any time
and may choose to ignore the date
set by the legislature and fix his
own.
Without debate in either senate
or assembly, the legislators over
rode the veto of a $12,200,0OO relief
appropriation within u hours after
it was given to the governor.
Relief payments, which would
have ceased had the veto been suS-
tanned, instead will be delayed
about three days, Walter Cham
bers, state relief administrator said.
Thousands of clients in the state,
scheduled to receive checks today
and tomorrow, probably cannot be
disbursed until Tuesday. The &C
counting and check writing staffs
of the SRA and the diSh,lrSipp de.
partment of the state controllers
office will work day and night
Continued on Page 3. Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25
Farm Labor Study
Made in Valley

A federal survey of farm labor,
supply and demand. touched I'M
perial county Saturday with the
visit of two officials from WASH
lngton. D. c., to confer with state
and,valley officials.
O. d. Hollenbeck, national direc-
tor of U. S. employment service, and
M. " Allen, farm placement su-
pervisor for California. conferred in
E. Centro with Thomas N. Flnney
of the state employment service
Also with them was j. L. Matthews
former chairman of the state un-
employment commission.
Saturday afternoon the visitors
were in Yuma and were scheduled
to return through Ell Centre later
in the day. Hollenbeck is making
a survey of western states.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25
Negro Finds Gold;
Police Hunt Neqro

OAKLAND, Feb. "a. CUP)-George
w. Leggett, Negro employe of a
wrecking company, found $1,000 in
gold coins while tearing down a
house, and today police were trying
to find Leggett.
The workman was helping raze
the old Ida F. Wagner home on the
site of a new Oakland low-rent
housing project when he discovered
the gold in leather pouch hidden
on rafter.
He tossed S. gold pieces to four
CT his fellow workmen and said he
would be back to work Monday.
Later he told friends he was going
to bank the money today.
Police were trying to find him
because the law requires that they
hold such find for 60 days and
if it is then unclaimed it belongs
to the finder.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25

1llt lOIlllllulllluC odlNt llldJ II.
fighting yesterday more than 1000
Russians had been killed on all
fronts.
Using tanks and snow plOWs, Rus
sian troops struck in heavy snow
and fog at the second line of the
Mannerheim dctenses to meet strong
resistance which, reports from the
front said, held the Red army in
its tracks.
Russian attacks were repulsed at
Via -Somme, near KoiViSto, and at
Kaemaeiae.
Two Russian detachments, the
communique sad, were trapped east
OF Lake Muola inside Finnish lines
and were annihilated More than
LOCO Russians were killed.
In the Taipale region, at the op-
posite end of the Mannerheim line
from KolviStC, repeated Red army
attacks were driven off by Finnish
counter attacks.
Northeast of Lake Ladoga, enemy
attacks were repulsed and the Rus
slams were forced to retreat, leav-
ing 1000 dead and Is tanks on the
field of battle, the communique
said.
In the Kuhmo sector of the CEN
tral front there was sharp patrol
fighting in which the Red army
lest $50 dead.
Two Russian planes were shot
Down, the communique said. 1t
Continued on Page 3. Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25

Murder was charged against o. z,
Burley. %, diminutive BraWley Ne
gro, Saturday because he stabbed
another Negro to death in knife
battle in Brawley Friday night.
Knives flashed as group Of
Brawley Negroes fought with dem
liens of the hobo jungles at the
close of all argument over a pool
game played in Ninth street cafe
the night before.
William Frank Seats, 27 was
stabbed in the chest over his heart,
Brawley police said. He staggered
a short distance after being struck,
then dropped to the pavement. He
was dead before an ambulance ar
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25
accompanies Bid
For AirnaiI Line
ToServe Valley
Western Air Express to
Join Other Firms in
Requesting Franchise

Three companies will bid
for permission to provide
Imperial Valley with airmail
and passenger service when
the Civil Aeronautics author
ity meets in Washington May 27,
American Airlines and the Trans
continental Western AirlineS will
be joined by the western Air EX-
press in the battle to serve the
valley.
This three-Way bid for the privi-
lege was indicated Saturday when
the Western Air Express telegraph
ed the Ell CentrO Chamber of Com
merce that officials of that COM
pany will be III the valley next
week to confer with aviation lead
ers. They said they contemplated
asking tie authority for permiS-
sion to extend their San Diego
West Coast line to provide the val
ley with an airline.
Indication that the federal au-
thority is gathering information for
the hearing in May was given Sat
urday when c. E. Carl. surveyor
for the authority, checked over the
facilities at the Imperial county
airport
while only one company can
get the franchise to bring air SER
vice to the valley Manager Rob-
ert Hays of the Ell Centro said. the
fact that three companies are in
terosted is a good indication. The
big airlines are showing an inclina-
ton of wanting to serve smaller
cities which they would not have
considered a few years ago"
Date of the conference with the
Western Air Express officials had
not been set Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25
Senate Considers
Rural BuiIdinq

SACRAMENTO, Feb. "a. CUP)-
An administration bill to create
q state housing authority empow-
cred to undertake an S8O,OOO,O90
rural construction program today
was referred to the senate finance
committee.
The bill, introduced by Assembly,
man Augustus Hawkins. Los An
geles Democrat, was passed, AS to
%, by the assembly earlier in the
week to become one of the few
measures sponsored by Gov. Culbert
Olson to win approval of even one
house 1t faces stiff opposition,
however, in the senate.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25
Hitler Wants More
Room for GERMANY,
He Tells Subjects
Nazis Have Not Yet
Taken All Territory
They w ant, Ruler Says

MUNICH. Feb. "a. (UP)
-Fuehrer Adolf Hitler in
timated to a cheering audi
ence of Nazi leaders and fol
lowers tonight that Germany
has not yet occupied all the terri
tory in middle Europe to which
she is entitled.
There still are some regions
which Germany built in which she
is entitled to leibensraum or room
to live, the fuehrer said
Hitler said further that his sec
ond aim is return of her lost col
OnieS.
I'VE demand the return of the
colonies robbed from us by the
capitalistic plutocratS.' he declared
Continued on Page 3, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25
Market Pointed
Out TO Farmers

DES MONIES, Feb. "a CUP)-
The vast domestic market offers an
outlet for farm surpluSeS ever
though the European war cuts off
American exports, Milo Perkins,
president of the Federal Surplus
Commodities corporation, told the
National Farm Institute today.
The unSatisfied wants of two
thirds of our people make up the
greatest market that has ever LOOM
ed before businessmen and farmers, ''
he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25
IT'S COMING

The next best thing to trip to the eleventh annual
Imperial county fair will be published next Wednesday.
Nothing. of course car compare to an actual visit,
but the Post-Press Fair Edition comes close as PIE
lures and type can come Within its three sections will
be painted word pictures of the and exciting scenes
in for 60, 600 visitors who will visit the monster
exposition between Mar , and Mar. TO-
In addition there will be other meaty pages devoted
to novel and interesting sideights on Imperial Valley
life.
Remember Next "Wednesday The Fair Edition.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25
Relief Roll Drops
In Valley Area

SRA relief cases and applications
for aid droppeo this week for the
first time since the winter influx
Of migratory workers, Director Ned
Holmes said Saturday.
This weeks case load was 1913
families. Last week the total was
867 families. Applications for aid
dropped to 90 this week or "a less
than those of last week.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25
Nev-CoI
Mum on
Refusal
Power Firm Silent
While Studying
District Reply

a couEter-offcr from the
Imperial Irrigation district,
suggesting that the Nev-Cal
Electric sell its system to
the district, was greeted by
official silence Saturday.
There was no statement forth
coming from company offices in
Fl Centre nor from head offices
in Riverside President A. 3. West.
who recently advanced a proposal
whereby Nev-Cal would supply
needed extra juice to the district
lines, could not be located in River
side. 1t was doubtful if he had
received notice of the districts re-
tusal of the power plan or the
COunter-Offcr.
r. P. Moore. head of the COM
pany system in Imperial Valley
declared:
y have received no word from
Riverside concerning reaction to
the districts proposal, nor to denial
OF the NeV-Cal offer. l imagine it
Will take several days to study the
reports. There undoubtedly will be
statement in due time"
Evan t. HeWeS. district chairman
left Ell Centre for Los Angeles Fri
day night after a conference with
the Objective Committee of the
Ell Centro chamber of commerce.
The conference was devoted to dis
cussion of the recent Nev-Cal offer
and the districts position. The
committee took no action, accord
ing to Paul jenkins. chairman.
Friday, the district board of dir
ectors turned down the Nev-Cal
proposal to supply extra power
Continued on Page 3, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25

IyKP, TO, IaSC night after a long
feud Ward said Tyke had called
him yellow"
"Them's words no man worth the
powder to blow him to hell will
take Blackjack said. so I went
to my car and got my gun. I shot
him once through the windshield +"
Tyke fled and Ward got out of
his automobile and ran after him
in high-heeled boots and tight blue
jeans. He killed him. firing as he
ran.
Il fed that varmint for on to 10
years Blackjack said. He was
always pester!n' me and wanting to
fight"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-02-25

mately 5000 motor vehicles, of
which roughly 10 per cent are pas
Senger cars.
2. A Pontiac sedan purchased by
the department of finance is as
signed to Lieut.-Gov. Ellis E. Pat
terSon, although his official duties
60 not call for automobile trans
portation."
3. Several state officials whose
duties confine them to Sacramento
have state-owned automobiles as
signed them.
4. Director of Penology John Gee
Clark purchased La Sale last
June, although it is questionable
that this office requires this type
OF transportation"