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Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
State Relief Funds VIII Be Used Up
In Mid-February; Appropriation Due

The SRA had $11 100000 on hand
as of Dec. 26, the controllers office
reported, and an estimated $50O,00O
was disbursed between that date
and the first of the year.
On the basis of an average in
crease in relief costs of As per cent
over a year ago for the last six
months of 1899, $5,700,000 will be
required in January and $6,160,000
in February, the office said.
The ledgers indicate then, that
the relief agency's cash will be
about $1GG0.o00 short of meeting re-
quirements for February.
Actually, however, the SRA will
run out of money before the books
will show they are out, because Of
the fact that there is constantly
a lag in the presentation of bills
Cor payment by the controller" an
official in the accounting office
said.
He pointed out that no state
agency can obligate money in ex-
cess of its legislative appropriation,
SO the spending must cease when
the last dollar is encumbered, evq
though million dollars might -
remaining in the agency's account
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
British Girl Who
PalIed with Hitler
Center of Mystery

Fol KFSTCNE. Eng. Jan. 8. (UP)
The Hon. Unity Milford
British noblewoman and friend of
Adolf Hitler, came home from Ger
many today on a channel steamer
over which three British fighting
airplanes circled.
The channel steamer to which the
blonde British girl was carried on q
stretcher at Calais put into Folke-
stone amid reports that Miss Free
man Milford was suffering from
mysterious gunshot wounds.
Officials took extraordinary pre-
cautions to prevent crowds from
approaching the landing stage.
An escort of soldiers in battle
dress and with steel helmets and
bayonets were on duty at the dock
An ambulance waited and plain
clothes detectives were at the rail-
road station.
Three military airplanes and a
helicopter flew over the ship as it
berthed
Miss Freeman Milford was ac-
companied by her mother and Sis
ter, a nurse and two private detec-
tives. Her father. Lord Redesdale,
who had been waiting at Folke-
stone hotel for two days. made his
way through cameramen.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Illegal Tax Suit
Order Bans Effort
To Recover Money

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. ). CUP)-
A decision of the state supreme
court today upheld constitutional
ity of political code section which
restricted the right to sue for re-
covery of taxes illegally collected.
The code section was passed by
the last legislature and barred suits
where the taxes assertedly collected
illegally have been applied to re-
duce the tax levy for a succeeding
year or applied for a public pur-
pose.
Basis for the suit was an excessive
tax rate adopted by Los Angeles for
the tax year 1896. The Southern
Service company, Ltd, sued the
city and county of Los Angeles to
recover taxes allegedly collected il
legally in that year For almost five
years thereafter the case has been
in litigation.
The high court, in a decision re-
turned yesterday, granted motions
of the city and county to dismiss
appeal of the Southern Service COM
pany. The court found the legisla-
ture had enacted the new section
ito obtain an orderly and economic
routine in the collection of taxes
and acted within its constitutional
powers.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Another Recall
Petition Launched
Against Governor

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 3. (UP)-
The fourth attempt to remove Gov
Culbert l.. Olson from office was
underway today with filing of ar
ticles of incorporation at The Sec
retary of states office for an asso-
citation known as the Olson Recall
committee.
Two previous recall efforts COL
lapsed recently through failure OF
the sponsors to obtain the neces>
Sary $4,000 signatures to the quail
flying petitions. Last week a third
recall action was started through
filing of incorporation papers by
the Citizens Olson Recall commit
tee.
incorporates of the latest group
to seek custer of the governor were
C. C. c. Tatum, realtor; E. c. Starr,
oil operator: E. H. Kelly, business
man, and William D. Neil, insurance
man, all of Los Angeles, and B. E
Montgomery. MADEIRA rancher. In
statement of the committees
aims, Tatum said:
This recall movement is indica-
tive of the popular demand for a
house cleaning in our government
a vehement protest against the radi-
cal sympathies of Governor Olson
which has resulted in the virtual
closing of the port of San Fran
cisco, has aggravated labor strife
and caused widespread crippling OF
commerce.
Governor Olson has demonstrat-
ed no ability as leader, with the
result that California has reached
an all time low both as to its fin
ancial position and the morale OF
its people. He has caused and per-
mitted the cost of government to
reach the point where confiscatorial
taxes, by his own admission, will
have to be levied if standards are
TO be maintained"
The committee announced it had
as yet no candidate in mind to re-
place Olson should the recall be
successful.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Yuma Holds Lead
As Grefna Green

YUMA, Jan. 3. (UP)-Despite
competition from nearly 20 Arizona
villages. hamlets and towns, Yuma
the states original G~at''7 Cre51-
continued to lead all Others il
speed marriages." by issuing 6999
licenses in 1889.
S. Mont Smith, clerk Of the su-
1erior court, said the 1889 tota
rcF Al inc~aasc of almost 1000 over
last year. Primary reason for the IL
-.-ala IL sid, could be traced to
JAe azW Cahto"aia law reuuirine
marriage license applicants to take
pre-marital medical examinations
Serious threats in the field OF
wholesale weddings in being Offered
by numerous southern and western
, border towns. Principal among these
! IRE Salome, Wickenburg, Glendale
Wenden and Tempe.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03

! and durable peace.
The old conditions of world trade
made for no enduring peace; ano
when the time comes, the United
States must use its influence to
open the trade channels of the
world in order that no nation neeo
feel compelled in later days to seek
by force OF arms what II can vel.
gain by peaceful conference. For
this purpose, we need the trade
agreements act even more than
when it was passed
Il emphasize the leadership which
this nation can take when the time
comes for a renewal of world peace
Such an influence will be greatly
weakened if this government be-
comes a dog in the manger of trade
selfishness."
Mr.. Roosevelt's message recon-
mitted him TO George Washington
policy of no entangling alliances,
He expressed understanding OF
those-the isolationists-who warn
that they never again would con-
sent to sending American troops
abroad to fight.
But, as I remember" said the
president, nobody has asked them
to consent-for nobody expects such
an undertaking
There is q vast difference, he said,
between keeping out of war and
pretending that this war is none
of our business. explaining that with
out going to war We can, at least,
strive with other nations to en-
courage the right kind of peace.
For it becomes clearer and clear
err the president continued, that
the future world will be a shabby
and dangerous place to live in
even for Americans to live inf it
is ruled by force in the hands of a
few.
Already the crash of swiftly mov-
ing events over the earth has made
all of us think with a longer view.
Fortunately. that thinking cannot
be controlled by partisanship. The
time is long past when any political
party or any particular group car
curry and capture public favor by
labelling itself the peace party or
the peace bloc That label belongs
10 the whole United States and to
very right thinking man, woman
md child within it."
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
AFL Planning New
Court Attack on
Labor Board Power

/ WASHINGTON. Jan. 3. CUP)-
The American Federation of Labor
tentatively planned today to begin
new legal proceedings in an effort
to invalidate the National Labor Re-
lations boards designation of CIO
union as bargaining agent for 1900
Pacific coast longshoremen.
AFL attorneys said they hoped to
make use of what appears to be o
new avenue of approach to the ques-
ton left by the supreme court yes
terday when it specifically hello
that federal courts have no author
ity to review labor board repreSen-
tation cases.
The new attack would be taken
in federal court of equity, charg-
ing that the labor board injured
the AFL "unlawfully" when it cer-
titled the Congress of Industrial
Organizations International Long
Shoremen's and Warehousemen's
union as bargaining agent for work.
ers over a wide geographic area
The AFL contends that the law
permits designation of union to
represent only employees of an in
dividual employer
Justice Harlan F. Stone, in the
opinion yesterday, refused to rule on
the question whether the Wagner
act prohibited federal court from
exercising its equity jurisdiction in
a dispute like the longshoremen's
case.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Librarian Kills
Mother in Dispute,
Attempts Suicide

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 3. (UP)-An
assistant librarian at the University
Of West Virginia strangled her mo-
ther to death with a scarf, then
tried to take her own life today by
leaping from the sixth story of a
hotel.
Miss Agnes West, "a, told officers
she strangled Mrs Helen G.. West,
So, of Morgantown, w. Va, because
Of a dispute" that arose over a
difference of opinion. Mrs. West
was secretary of student health SER
vice at the University of West Vir-
3inia.
Miss West leaped out of the win
dow of her hotel room but struck a
false tin roof in an alleyWay. The
tin gave way and she was found in
a squatting position by police. a
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
AG1osheF Arizona
CITY Gets Record

PRESCOTT, Ariz., Jan. 3. (UP)-
Bisbee was not the only city in
Arizona to complete 1899 without
a single fatality within corporate
city limits, Prescott city officials
claimed today.
For the second consecutive year,
the city of Prescott completed a
year without fatal traffic accident.
Prescott is now eligible for a Ger,
tificate of recognition from the
national safety council.
Although Prescott and Bisbee pre-
sented good claims for renown. the
city of Miami came along with a
clai mthat is even better. Passage
of 1899 marked the sixth consecutive
year in which no traffic fatalities
have occurred in Miami.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Fred Robinson
Hurt in Accident

Frederick Robinson. son OF Sebe
Robinson Of Seeley, was in the
county hospital Wednesday after
an automobile accident late Tues
day or early wednesday near Seeley.
Robinson lost considerable blood
while lying in his wrecked automo-
bile for several hours before he was
found and taken TO the hospital.
A TRANSMISSION was planned.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
ST. Strike Ends
Affer54Days

Continued From Page One)
Immediately and last for 10 days
if that is necessary. At the end OF
that period if no agreement has
been reached on points remaining in
dispute, Dean Morse will be request
ed TO arbitrate unless the two par
ties agree TO extend the period OF
negotiation.
This plan eliminates from con-
sideration the registration of all
waterfront clerks and preference
Of employment for monthly clerks
who are members of the union. II
was these two matters that created
the deadlock which brought the
strike order on Nov. 10.
Although the number of ship
clerks who actually went on strike
was only about 500, in excess OF
1000 longshoremen likewise were
idle because they declined TO pass
the picket line of their affiliated
union.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03

SACRAMENTO Jan. 3. jUP) =
The state controllers office estimat-
ed today that relief funds will be
completely exhausted about the mid
die of February-two weeks after
convening of the special session OF
the legislature on January 29.
And because of the necessary
routine in distributing dole pay
ments, more money will have to be
appropriated several days before the
last of the $35 100000 allotted by
the legislature in June is gone, to
insure on lapse in the aid checks
The result probably will be that
the legislators will follow the prac-
tice adopted at the regular session
of voting a small emergency appro-
priation to carry the SRA over the
period taken up by debate on a
biennial relief bill, it was indicated
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Deficit Exceeds
Estimate byFR

WASHINGTON, Jan. ;. (UP)
The federal government ended
the first six months of this fiscal
year with a deficit more than half
that which President Roosevelt
estimated for the entire year.
Spending to Jan. l exceeded
income by S2.023,23S,159, the
treasury revealed today. The
budget forecast a gross deficit of
SS.426,S43.0 900 for the entire fis-
cal year.
The new budget, which the
president submits to congress to-
morrow, is expected to revise the
estimates for the current fiscal
year. Fiscal experts expected that
both the spending and deficit
figures will be higher than orig
inally forecast.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
MeIo!and Station
Gets 4O.Acre Gift
From County Board

Agricultural tests at the Meloland
experimental station will be dou-
bled Immediately because the board
OF supervisors Tusday added &C
acres to the station property.
You will find This purchase OF
land good investment" L. G. Goar
station superintendent, told the
board at the time the deal was COM
pleted, because tests now under
way at the station will put thou
sands of acres of so-called useless
land back on the tax rolls"
The successful results of drainage
and soil tests on land now useless
to farming, the board decided, made
1t imperative that the county help
further in getting the new 194O
acres ready for Goar to start ex-
perimenting there.
Board members voted to cooper
ate still further with the agencies
now engaged in the experiments
and set the machinery in motion to
provide Goar with what will be
needed.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
FDR Asks New Taxes, Trade Treaties;
Reaffims Hope for Continued Peace
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Continued From Page One)
Modern man." he said, can nc
longer live a civilized life if We
are to go back TO the practice of
wars and conquests of the 18th ano
18th centuries"
Mr.. Roosevelt said blind econo-
mic selfishness" here and in other
countries after the last world war
produced trade restrictions which
blocked commerce between nations.
From that premise, he devoted the
mid-section of his message to a
defense of the reciprocal trade
agreement program sponsored by
Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
Authority for negotiation of those
agreements, which are conducted
by the executive department with
out congressional consent or ad-
vice, will expire in June
1T is not correct" he said. Ito
infer that legislative powers have
been transferred from the congress
to the executive branch of the gov
ernment. Everybody recognizes that
general tariff legislation is a con-
tAOooiOAAdA AdAAOS4OAA. OGb VIC hAlOM
that, because of the stupendous task
involved in the fashioning and pass
ing of a general law, it is advisable
to provide at times of emergency
some flexibility to make the general
law adjustable to quickly changing
conditions.
we are in such a time today
Our present trade agreement meth
cd provides a temporary flexibility
and is, therefore. practical in the
best sense. 1t should be kept alive
to serve our trade interests-agri-
cultural and industrial-in many
valuable ways during the existing
wars.
But what is more important,
the trade agreements act should
be extended as an indispensable
part of the foundation Of any stable
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
WEATHER

Datn compiled by observers for
he official United states Weather
Bureau station at Ei CentrO.o
Maximum Tuesday ........................ SO
Minimum Wednesday ................... Al
Reading at Noon Wednesday
Temperature Observation-Disclosures. 73
Humidity ....................-........-- SIS
Reading at 5 a. m. Wednesday
Temperature "a
Humidity ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 78
Reading at p. n. Tuesday
Temperature 63
humidity 68
Southern California Partly
cloudy and mild Wednesday night
and Thursday. Local fogs west
portion Thursday morning; light
variable wind off the coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Final Beesemyer
Hearing Held

SAN QUENTIN PRISON. Cal,
Jan. 3. tUP)--The state board
of prison terms and paroles to-
lay conducted its third and what
vas expected to be its final hear
ing into the parole application
of Gilbert Beesemyer, former
Hollywood financier.
Leslie Gordon, chairman of a
stockholders group of the Guar
,nty Building and Loan associa-
ton, requested the third hearing.
II was expected he would pre-
sent objections to the release of
BseSemyer, who has served al
most ten years of 4O-year sem
tence on charges of taking SS,-
OOO,OOO from the building and
loan association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
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Published every afternoon excepi
Saturday and Sunday SATURDAY
afternoon issue now succeeded
by the Post-Press Sunday, tes
tablished 1880 by the Imperial
Valley Publishing company, bzo
state Street. FL Centro. Calif.
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johnston, vice-president, and
general manager; Il. A. fitz-
hugh, secretary and managing
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atives.
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ter.
Subscription rates. SC per copy
In conjunction with the POST
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Soc; paid in advance, 3 months
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
County Clerk viii
Have Mezzanine
Floor for Records

Imperial county supervisors Tues
lay decided to call for bids for gas
0line for county use and for install.
alton of a mezzanine floor to hole
records in the county clerks Office
The y by 40 foot mezzaninc
floor was planned to provide stor,
lge space for the files and records
now crowded on the main floor in
the county clerks office or packed
away in basement vaults, County
Clerk w. j. McClelland said.
Invitations for bids to supply the
ountv with gasoline is an annual
'roceeding.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
'a'exican Beats
life. Kills Self

CCo-tinueI 'Eirom Tage O1e)
---ae borrowed z pocketknife from
.Yn. BINS found the house locked
hen he returned from town, coulo
ouse no one, so he called police,
ne said. Mrs. Burns was near death
in the county hospital, suffering
from innumerable blows on the
head.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Harness Returned,
Thief Sentenced

BRAWLEY, Jan. 3.-Five sets Of
harness stolen from Jess Hutchinsons s
ranch near here last Saturday night
were returned to him Wednesday
and the thief sentenced TO so days
N the county jail.
Jesus Puente, 35. was arrested
and charged with the theft of the
harness. He confessed to Deputy
Sheriff Frank Raney and led the
officer to five different places
where he had hidden the harness
along ditch banks in the Brawley
area.
The Mexican was sentenced in
Brawley justice court Tuesday
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Man losses Fruit
AT Wronq Autoist

A hitchhiker picked out the wrong
automobile to smack with pome-
eranate Wednesday.
Jose George Vigil, "a threw the
pomegranate into the side of Dep
uty Sheriff Robert Parrish's car as
the officer was transporting two
prisoners and a matron along the
highway between Imperial and
Brawley Vigil was held for in
vestigation.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
1sf kickeIodeon
Proprietor Dies

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 3. (UP) =
Harry Davis, 7s, co-founder Of the
first moving picture house, "The
Nickelodeon" died yesterday after
spending the last II years confined
to his hotel apartment from a
stroke of paralysis.
Davis and his brother-in- law.
John p Harris, established THE
Nickelodeon" in 1905. 1t seated
96 persons In 1927 Davis sold his
theater holding for a sum reputed
to be more than S1,000,O00.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
70 Die in Hotel
Fire; Ice Stalls
Rescue Attempts
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saved by jumping from windows
in the upper floors of the three
story building. Some managed to
crawl to fire escapes.
Two hundred residents of the no.
tel were routed from their beds by
/ the fire which was discovered short
/ ly after 6 am. Those who could rar
from the building in their night
clothes.
Neighbors said they were awaken
ed by the screams of those trapped
inside. They took overcoats and cof-
fee to those who ran barefooted into
the icy streets. The temperature was
below zero.
Firemen arrived within 10 min
utes after the fire was discovered,
out they were hampered by the
extreme cold and it was another
Is minutes before they could bring
heir hose lines into action.
Water from the hoses froze on
the outside of the building and the
street soon became a frozen pond
Within a few minutes the building
was blazing.
Screaming women and children
Jumped from second and third story
windows into the icy streets. Many
were trapped in their beds.
Others ran into the flaming hall
ways where firemen found their
charred bodies.
Neighbors for blocks around re-
ported that they were awakened
shortly after 6 am. by the screams
of the dying and injured.
District Fire Chief William Hutt-
ner said IL bodies were taken to
the Hennepin county morgue. With
in a few minutes a United Press
correspondent counted seven more
bodies carried from the hotel by
firemen.
A. B. McWade, AZ, who lives
across the street from the Marlbor-
ough said he was awakened by "the
worst screams I ever heard He
said he looked out the window and
saw the entire hotel, covering hal:
a block, in flames.
II saw child trapped in the
middle of the building on the third
floor" McWade said.
There were flames all about him
and he just stood there screaming
THAT lasted for Is minutes anG
then he was quiet. 1 was through
the war, but I never saw or heard
anything like this
H. o. Williams, who also lives
across the street, said he saw "at
least 40" persons carried from tho
building.
A fire department official said
1T was reported TO us that there
was an explosion. When we got here
the entire roof was ablaze and every
stairway was blocked by flames
Leo Martin, 43, salesman, who
lived on the third floor, said he hac
his head out the window when ht
5aW a woman in a neighborins
apartment jump through the win
/ dow and land head-first on the
/ pavement below.
Otto Knaack, 40, janitor, said ht
/ went to the furnace room thl;
morning.
when I opened the door I was
struck by a blast that knocked me
10 feet across the hallway" he sale
at General hospital.
"I got up and tried to run, bu
fell down. 1 saw a sheet of flame
leap out at me and that's the las
I remember. How I got here I don
know"
At least 40 were injured. OF these
% required hospital treatment
Amcng the injured were two fire
men.
Ten were injured seriously wher
they jumped from the second anc
/ third stories.
Fire Chief Huttner said the exac
cause of the fire was not known
but he believed boiler exploded
/ IN the furnace room.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Germany Prepares
Food Substitutes

BERLIN, Jan. 8. CUP)-New and
repeatedly improved substitutes for
coffee, tea, cream, milk, mayonnaise.
egg whites, liquors and 20 other
products scarce or nOn-existent
since the war, are to appear on the
market before the end of January
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
70 Missing When
Steamer Sinks

LONDON, Jan. 3. (UP)-Twenty
persons were missing today after a
German submarine torpedoed and
sank the Swedish steamer Svarton,
2,475 tons, off the north coast of
Scotland.
Eleven survivors were picked up
by a life boat. They said their
ship went down a minute and a
half after the torpedo struck.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
Physicians Check
CCC Applicants

Army physicians were scheduled
to examine applicants for admission
to Civilian Conservation camps at
the county welfare office IN the
court house at a. m. Thursday.
Imperial county's quota for the
January enrolment was set at Is
young men, County Welfare Direct
or Phil Holman said Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
BANK CALL ISSUED

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. up
The comptroller of the currency to-
day issued a call for the condition
of all national banks as of Dec. 80.
1899.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-03
TOKYO WRECK
KILLS ELEVEN PERSONS

TOKYO, Jan. 3. CUP)-Eleyen
persons were killed and 72 injured,
Il seriously, when electric trains
.ollided u the suburbs.