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Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13

dredgeS were thrown into the bat
tie against one of Imperial VAL
ley's worst canal breaks in history.
Wednesday morning Chairman
Evan T. HeWeS of the Imperial
Irrigation District announced the
district hoped to turn a 300-foot
head back into the canal by noon,
and expected normal conditions
would be restored by Thursday
night.
Damage to property near the
break, at Lateral l3 five miles east
of Holtville, was Slight.
"As long as it did happen, it
couldn't have happened at better
place" HeWes said.
Land Not Used
Land near the break is not in
cultivation. One shack occupied by
a lone Mexican laborer was flooded,
as was his automobile The MeXi-
can was forced to carry his bed
to higher ground, where he slept
on a ditch bank Tuesday night
Nobody knew what caused the
break.
1t might have been a gopher
hole HeWes said
Thirty minutes before the break
was discovered, Water Superinten-
dent Oscar Fudge of the Holtville
division passed over the spot, and
noticed nothing amiss. Half an
hour later line riders patrol car
ried him along the Highline. Water
was tearing through an eight-foot
gap in the canal bank.
That was at about noon. BY the
/ time the patrolman could summon
aid, and emergency crews arrived,
the torrent had preached more than
300 feet of the sandy. easily eroded
bank Water was racing across ad-
joining land sweeping into the
Holtville main drainage canal. The
drain carried off most of the flood
water
While dredges, men and bulldoz-
erS were hurried to the break, 2300
! feet of water was cut off at Rock
wood heading, SO the Eastside High
line could be cut out without plac-
ing dangerous stress on the rest
of the valleys canal system. When
the reduced head came down Tues
day night, water was cut to about
$50 feet in the Highline.
Work Under Lights
Under floodlights, emergency
crews pushed up earth on the east
side of the canal ready to shove
it across to plug the break in the
west side. What water was left in
the canal was tapooned off while
i the break was closed.
A head of water estimated at be-
tween 1000 and 100 feet was COM
ing down the canal when the break
was discovered at noon Tuesday. II
had been cut to $50 feet Tuesday
night. Wednesday moning the can
al was dry. Wednesday noon the
district expected to turn a 3OO-foot
head down the canal again, and
Thursday head of between 14OC
and 1900 feet will be turned in again
Continued on Page 8, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13

Se2fcN 1Or relallNcS OF lne IOSl
child who arrived on a bus from
Phoenix late Tuesday afternoon.
Geraldine Jenkins. g. was put
aboard the bus by her mother. The
child was TO be met in Holtville
by her grandmother, Mrs. Mary
Williamson. When the stage arrived
there was no one to meet her. A
harrassed stage driver placed hel
in charge of officers.
Then the hunt began.
Deputy Sheriff Robert Parrish
took over the task at 4 pm. Tues
day. He ended it successfully at 10
pm.
My grandmother is named Mrs
Mary Williamson" Geraldine told
the officer, Il don't know where
she lives. l was here before but !
don't know where she lived. Any
way she moved"
Kind Of in Country
Was it in town or in the coun-
try?" Parrish asked.
Il think in the country. kind of,
she said My mother sent her a
telegram to meet me-
Parrish discovered telegram had
arrived for Mrs. Williamson. 1t was
directed to General Delivery, Holt
Vile 1t had been taken to the
post office
BY this time the mailman had
some home SO Parrish telephoned
each. One OF them remembered
Continued on Page 3. Col g.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13
GINGER ROGERS WINS
DIVORCE FROM AYRES

HOLLYWOOD, March 13 (UP)-
Ginger Rogers, who rose to fame
as Fred Astaies dancing partner
in the films, today obtained di
vorce from Lew Ayres, Greta Gar
bo's former leading man and star
of "All Quiet on the Western
Front Miss Rogers charged Ayres
now starred IL the "Dr. Kildare"
series of films, deserted her almost
four years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13

peak of 10 The average would be
100 for the sly months period.
The plant Will replace an obsolete
sewage disposal system which was In
need of repairs for many years.
The new plant was declared TO be
planned as a health necessity and
a civic improvement.
Work included constructing .
pump pit, control house. digeetes.
oIarifier. floculator, outfall segog,
flume. sanitary sewer structuroq
lagoons and sllige beds; lA91no
ripe; installing electrical faetltt1
pipe, pumps. mechanical equipg1
and other utilities and operatt
facilities; excavating, grading, filliaC
and backfilling.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13
RUSSIA GAVE FINLAND: :
Alan Curtis
Awarded Divorce

HOLLYWOOD, March 13 CUP)-
Alan Curtis, leading man for Joan
Crawford and Alice Faye, today
was divorced by Priscilla Lawson,
tilm actress, after she testified the
actor was cruel to her. Curtis did
not contest the action.
The complaint gave the legal
names of the couple as Priscilla
Ueberroth ana Henry Ueberroth.
They married in Las Vegas, New,
on Nov. Il, 1887, and separated
two years later.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13
DizyDean Ends
Hoidout in Chi

CHICAGO, March l3. CUP)-The
Chicago Daily News said today Jer-
ONE Herman Dizzy Dean had end
ed his holdout and agreed to sign
new baseball contract with the
Chicago Cubs.
P. K. Wrigley, owner of the club,
had offered Diz $4,000, exactly half
the salary Dean received for his in
termittent efforts last season. Diz had
threatened to retire to his Texas
farm permanently unless given SIS
000
The News said he refused to dis
close the terms but said I'm plenty
| satisfied"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13
British Official
Slain by Gunnnan

LONDON. March 13 CUP)-An
Indian gunman today shot and
killed Sir Michael O'Dwyer, former
lieutenant governor of the Punjab,
and wounded Lord Zetland, -secre-
tary for India, at meeting of the
India Association in London.
Sir Louis Dane and Lord Lam
ington also We're wounded. Lord
zetland, it was established, was
only slightly grazed by the gum
mans bullet.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13
BOMBERS LEAVE ON
SOUTHWARK FLIGHT

HONOLULU, H, March 13 CUP)
Navy headquarters announced a
group Of patrol bombers had left
today on "southWard flight" "
While the destination was not dis
closed, it was presumed the planes
would visit Johnston and Canton
islands. The number of planes
involved was not announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13
Three and half months and $4,000 to I0OOOO Tires
Casualties only be approximately later.
FINLAND GIVES RUSSIA

FINLAND GIVES RUSSIA:
|. All of the Karelian ISthmuS
and the entire shore of Lake La
doga, wiping out all man-made and
many of Finlands natural defenseS
against invasion from the East
2. Hango Peninsula ION lease).
8. Ribnii and Srenti Peninsulas
in northeast Finland
4. The city of Viipuri Finland's
second largest city,
5. Free transit through north
Finland between Russia and Nor
way.
g. Right to construct a railroad
through Finnish territory to link
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13
War Ends as Russians Exact
Terrific Toll from Firms;
British Chided for Failure
BU UNITED PRESS

V
blessing Adolph
An ace signed late yesterday by which Finland ee territory and trade
military
said
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13

l. Part of the Rybachi Peninsu-
la in the Arctic near the Soviet
Arctic port of Murmansk.
9 The part of the Karelian 18th
mus near Leningrad which would
have included most of the Manner
helm line.
3. A naval base on the Hango
Peninsula. commanding the Gulf
of Finland.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13
Graveyard Clue
edds Child to
Nv. ReIdti iVeS

vague memory of graveyard solved the problems Of
modern babe in the woods" Wednesday and brought
her safe and sound to her grandmohers home Holt
vile.
Location of the grandmother ended frantic six hour
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13
East Hi9hline
Cracks Open.
Torrent Freed
Emergency Crews Struggle Thru Night
To Control Runaway Wafer Cause
Not Known. May Be Gopher

Emergency crews struggled Wednesday to close break
in the East Highne canal that for while sent 100
foot flood ripping through sandy banks spreading across
nearby acres and washing out one home.
Tuesday night 15O men. three budOZerS and two
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13
p AMBLING
X EPORTER

Oul Oh Iurn-
j. V. Dad" Taggart, sage of
Holtville, will be careful hereafter
with his wisecracks. More than
that, he'll have an apology ready
and waiting.
Dad was chatting with his family
at Holtville Tuesday night when
the fire siren let loose a blast, and
to fires.
You know" Dad remarked,
we've got good fire department
here. 1t saves the lot every time" p"
A few minutes later a friend
stuck his head in the door
Say, Dad" he remarked that
was your building that was afire."
1t would be nice to leave the
matter here, but in justice to the
fire department, it must be re-
marked that there was very minor
damage to the building.
Possibly it's a good thing the fire
laddieS didn't hear Dads earlier
words
BuSt Our Speed
RR'S a bit l.urt. The c. r. Eng
lands and the Perry Hunts gaze a
Grapes of Wrath party at the Barb
ara Worth Country Club last Sat
ulSiay night, replete with tacky
clothing. food served as per migrant
family dinners. and all other trim
lEingS in keeping. How they could
have overlooked inviting RR to a
thing like that is beyond our ken.
Such is Fame
Managing Editor Ed FitZhugh,
who's averaged nigh onto a thOus-
and words a day for 10 years or so
in news anG feature yarns, po-
litical chatter and What-not for
newspaper consumption, announced
coyly Wednesday that he has at last
broken into print. Street q Smiths
magazine, Wild West Weekly, ap-
peared on the news stands with his
fiction yarn, Crossroads of Ven
geance". Tie that combination, if
you can! The story's laid in the
Imperial county sand dunes, which
prompted RR'S sotto voice mutter:
There's paydirt in them there
sand dunes, podner."
There's Reason
For long time. neighboring
Aranchcrs considered a certain I'M
rerial Valley dairyman in the
southern part of the valley a radio
fjend. Night ana day, without
stop, his radio was going. But now
the nei2hborS have changed their
minds They discovered the dairy
man runs the radio continuously
because it keeps his COWS quiet.
Music hath charms, you might
say, to so-th the bovine beast.
The Kind We Want
We need couple of subscribers
like Dan West and his family are
back home. Since 1880, the West
family has subscribed to the same
paper-a handset one, at that. Mrs
Dan West USED to set type on the
paper, Arcadia, Kan. Journal. dan
incidentally SubScribeS here too
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13

T. IIuIIIUtI OF SlIIdII ISIdlluS
in the Gulf of Finland.
Russia offered to give. Finland:
|. A non-aggreSSion and trade
treaty.
2. The part of Soviet Karclia in
habited by Firms.
3. Withdrawal of Russian objec-
tionS to the fortification of the
Aaland Islands.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13

Russia and Norway.
7. An agreement not to MAIN
tain WarshipS, submarines, or air.
craft in Arctic region except small
coast guard boats.
RUSSIA GAVE FINLAND:
l. A non-aggression treaty.
,. A trade treaty negotiations
to begin at once).
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13
Here is Price
FinI and Must
Pay to Russia
RV limited PRESS

Because Finland refused to accept these Russian de-
n,ands the started NOr 30 1899:
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-13

Butter: Los Angeles 30c; but
terfat, Imperial Valley I. o. b. ranch.
grade A. 39c; manufacturing milk
33c; route gathered cream 29c.
L. A. hay: U. s. No. l Si4.50-sl5;
u. S. No. 2 leafy Sl3-S14; L. 5. No.
2 S1I.0O; Mpls. May flax Sl.96.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08

him. And he killed a nice buck.
He wanted to go driving the last
day Of the season, but was him
dered by snow.
Ran up with S. P. Halves, the
Morning Star representative, and
with him we had a chat about old
times. Once upon a time Mr..
Halves went with us on a rabbit
chase. We had a rifle and Mr..
Halves had a double barreled shot
gun. The rabbit came by and we
took a crack at him first. Missed
completely, but sent him in higher
gear right down the middle of a
road toward Mr.. Halves. Hes 60
ing right toward your we yelled,
and about that time-"Bang! :.
Bang" And when we got around
the curve we saw Mr.. Halves al
most doubled up in laughter. "You
know" he said, that bunny jump
ed over both loads!"
In our travels we came along
the road from Makatoka to Bolton
and got another glimpse of those
beautiful Christmas rec cedars
trimmed with snow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
BY BEN HARDY
AP Feature Service

BLACKSBURG, Va, Jan. You
can't count your chickens before
they hatch, but perhaps you can be
sure they have a family tree worth
Growing about. DR.. Reece T.. Bry-
ant, of the Virginia Agricultural Ex-
pertinent station, is trying to find
out.
To determine whether longevity
is a family trait in poultry as in
man, he undertook a breeding ex-
pertinent two years ago that may
continue for another five years or
longer.
I'VE have not yet proved that we
can produce longevity by breeding"
DR.. Bryant says, "but there are def
mite indications that way. Our rec
ords tend to show that INABILITY
is a family proposition, and that
chicks Matched from older hens live
longer than those of one-year-olds."
If DR.. Bryant proves that scien.
tific selection can develop poultry
strains with longer life span than
others, his research will be valuable
in persuading poultry breeders to
keep records of family strains as
well as of individual birds. and in
increasing the income of poultry
men by extending the average egg.
laying lifetime of their hens.
The most important result to date
is finding that there is less mortal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
Hutham Reviews Various Activities
Ut Farmers In Columbus, Brunswick

this year, because of the cold
weather. He was sailing down a
line pile Of hams, shoulders and
mlddlings when we called at his
nome last Thursday, and we
walked away with one of his nine
pound hams, with his consent. of
course.
Earl Goodwin, who has occunied
MS new home about four miles
south of Chadbourn, was digging
a llghtwood stump out of his gar
oen when we called to see hin,
last Wednesday, and he showed us
a smokehouse well supplied with
freshly killed porkers.
we also saw Daniel Peterson In
cnurch a few days ago. He is
ABOUT ninety years old, and has
oeen one of the most ardent deer
hunters we have ever met. He has
sro"n very feeble, he says, and
Is no longer able to strike out in
chases as he used to. During the
past season he was helped to a
iavoflte stand, and because of i'm.
pared hearing, he took along a
ii1ehd to listen for the dogs for
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
PEANUT HAY CROP
LARGE IN STATE
Growers Produced Approx
mately 14S, 900 Tons Dur
ing Past Year

RALEIGH, Jan. 7.-Peanut grow.
ers of North Carolina produced ap-
proXimately 14S,0 900 tons of peanut
hay in 1889, it was reported today
by DR.. I. O.. Schaub, director of eX-
tension at State college. Those
who produce peanuts primarily for
the edible trade sometimes tend to
forget that the peanuts yield an ex-
cellent hay that is generally baled
or otherwise stored under cover,
making the peanut crop even more
valuable to the state" he declared.
The average yield of peanut hay
per acr is about one-half ton. This
hay will become increasingly val
liable as the livestock industry de-
velops in Eastern North Carolina,
where most of the peanuts are
grown, DR.. Schaub stated.
Commenting on the market for
peanuts, the extension leader said
that renewed buying activity may
be expected this week because stocks
Ill lIlG lldIluS VI ll10 IIdQ0 LII city
markets are still not large. Before
the holiday period the price trend
vas strong, but there was a lessen
ing of movement of farmers stock
to market during Christmas week.
One factor that may tend to weak
en- the market was the latest stocks
report of the U. S. department OF
agriculture, which showed a nation
wide production of 1,1S0, 600, 900
pounds of peanuts. an increase from
the November estimate of 8 1000, 900
pounds. The estimate for North
Carolina was increased 5000, 900
pounds as belated reports of good
yields reached government officials
DIR. Schaum said that the crop in
North Carolina and Virginia was con.
siderably larger than in 1888, but
because of a relatively poor crop in
the southeast, the total U. S. produe-
ton was about 1926, 900, 900 pounds
below the previous year..
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
Clubs
Select Slogan For Year

tically every phase of rural life.
For instance, they propose to
fill a canning budget, increase
their income by making clothes
at home, keep farm and home
records, arrange furniture more
attractively, carry out planned
planting in each community
every club member have a lawn
and have the house, uIlderpinned'
hold round table discussions bas-
ed OIL teaching children to be
happy" add to income with arts
and crafts, take advantage OF
community recreation schools to
learn how to play, participate in
cooperative markets. keep an
adequate poultry flock and keep
records on the flock, screen their
houses, increase the family milk
supply and handle it better i'll
the home, and read good books.
All of these goals will result
in Better Living With the
Means at Hand" if they are full
filled.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
And M0reEg9s
Northumberland

ity among the offspring Of older
birds than of pullets. DR.. Bryant
thinks this is because weak birds
those Of inherently short lived
strains-have died out in the older
flock and left a select group capable
of transmitting the desirable trait
of longevity.
The study began with 562 chicks
from year old hens and 9O5 farm
hens three to five years old. Seven
teen per cent of the chicks OF the
year old hens died as chicks, and
only IA per cent of those of older
hens. At IL weeks of age the males
were discarded. After the pullets
were housed, at five months of age,
% per cent of the daughters of the
years olds died and only 10 per cent
of those of older birds.
DR.. Bryant has divided the birds
into a high mortality and a low
mortality group, both fed and man.
aged the same way, as a check
against each other.
In the high mortality group only
81 per cent of the housed pullets
from older hens died as compared to
81 per cent from year old hens.
In the low mortality group, six per
cent of the pullets from older hens
died and eight per cent from year
olds. The conclusion is that chicks
Matched from long-lived parents
have a better chance of living to
old age.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
IMPORTANT MEETS
PLANNED
College Will Be Mecca Fol-
Hundreds OF N. C.. Farm
ers In January

N. G.. State college will be the
Mecca for hundreds of farmers and
agricultural workers this month.
Starting with the conference Of all
Agricultural Extension service rep
resentatives, which convenes jan
uary 9, a short course for nursery
men will be held January II and IL.
the fourth annual tobacco short
course is scheduled January 1919,
and the second annual Veterinary
conference will be held January
1926.
The Extension conference is a re-
sumption of the annual meetings of
county agents, subject m e r
specialists, and administrative lead
ers of the State college agency. In
recent years district conferences
have been held instead of the state
meeting. Due to the critical agricul.
tural situation created by the Eu-
ropean war, and the need for great
er Investigation of farm enter
prises, Dean I. o. Schaub, the Ex-
tension director, deemed it wise to
call a meeting of all extension work
ers at the college, to fully discuss
the problems to be encountered in
1910.
The agents will come to Raleigh
in time for the first session Tues
day morning, DR.. C. w. Warburton,
director of the Extension service of
the U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture; j. B. Rutson, assistant admin
istrator of the Agricultural Adjust
ment administration; and Louis H.
Bean, economist of the U. S. D.. A.,
all of Washington, D. c., will be
among the principal speakers dur
ing the four-day meeting, which will
end at noon on Friday.
There are more than 300 extern
sion workers in the state, including
over 225 county farm and home
agents and assistants, and approx
mately rs subject matter specialists
and administrative leaders of State
college. John w. Goodman, assist
ant extension director, and Miss
Ruth Current, state home demon
stration agent, are in charge of ar.
rangements for the conference.
The Nurserymen's Short Course
is being sponsored jointly by the
State College Horticulture depart
ment and the North Carolina AS
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
FLOYD ANNOUNCES
WEED DEADLINES

RALEIGH, Jan. z. Final dates
for applications for 1910 allotments
on new tobacco farms have been an.
nounced by E. Y. Floyd, AAA execu-
tive officer of State college, as: jan
uary Is for flue-cured farms, and
February 1, for Burley tobacco
farms.
Under the federal farm act, a new
farm" is defined as a farm on which
tobacco was not produced in any of
the five years, 1885 to 1889, but on
which tobacco will be produced in
1910.
Floyd explained that the quota for
new tobacco farms in 1910 is limited
to not over t%wo-tenths of 1 per cent
of the national quotas, as c%ontrasted
with 1 per cent in 1889. This limi.
tatlon was made in view of the large
surplus supply and the sizeable re-
duction of paintings being made by
old tobacco growers, the AAA Off
Ger stated.
The county AAA committee will
determine the allotment for a new
farm on the basis of the past to-
bacco experience Of the farm opera
tor, and the land, labor and equip
ment available.
The normal yield for a new farm
will be figured at what the local COM
nittee determines is reasonable for
the farm as compared with yields
for other farms in the locality on
which the soil and other physical
factors affecting the production of
tobacco are similar.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08

ing "high'' was higher than average.
When asked which of several
agencies had been most helpful in
selecting analyses or grades of fer
tilizer used, 6S per cent of the farm
ers voted for the fertilizer dealer or
agent, that is, the man who sells
fertilizer locally. The answers to a
number of other questions show the
tremendous influence of the expert.
ment stations, extension services,
and of the press and radio, but the
fact that 60 per cent of the farm
ers interviewed acknowledged the
helpfulness of the local agent,
should be especially interesting to
each of the $1,000 local fertilizer
agents who will receive this issue
of the Review. That fact also indi-
Gates quite clearly that in any con-
certed effort intended to induce
f--rmers to use better fertilizer, the
cooperation of the local fertilizer
agent should be sought.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
Fertilizers Importance
As Investment Is Shown
Tobacco Plant Bed
Season Under Way

WILSON, Jan. THE tobacco
plant bed season is in full swing
in Wilson county, reports j.. o.
Anthony, farm agent of the
State College Extension service.
During the past few days, the
agents office has been kept busy
cleaning seed for the growers.
Some farmers have already COM.
pleted seeding their beds, while
others are hard at the task.
Anthony also reported that re.
cent rains have been beneficial
to the wheat and fall-sown Oat
crops, since dry weather had
stunted growth in many in.
stances.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-01-08
BY JOSEPH S. HUFHAM
(Star COrreSpOndent)

DELCO, Jan. 7.-Since writing
our column last week we have been
over several sections of Columbus
and Brunswick counties, and fol-
lowing are some of the things that
were seen or heard:
The beautiful home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Mintz, of the Freeland
community, which we wrote about
several weeks ago, was RACED by
flames a few days before Christ
mas and many of the large pecan
trees which surrounded the dwell
ing were killed by the flames. Mr..
Mintz said that he expected to re-
build sometime in the near future.
7. B. Vereen, who likes to do
reel fishing in fresh water, has re-
turned to his old favorite haunts
in the Exum community after CO.
ing merchandising business in
several sections of the United
States and Cuba.
Sinclaire Gore, Of the Ash Sec
ton, said that he had struck just
right in his hog killing business