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Capital mJoiiraal CIRCULATION Dally nvprime distribution for th Mouth ending December 31, 1033 CITY EDITION Cloudy with valley fogs tonight; Saturday occasional light rain; var iable winds. 9,678 Average daily net paid 9,253 Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Local: Max. 35; mill, 80; rain 0; river 6.2; cloudy; southerly winds. AKtt VI? A R 11 Entered as second cli SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1933 PRICE THREE CENTS 'gUSSSSAFcSSSt iwi.ii i ufiu, iu. ii mutter at Salem, Oregon o JL TOES MM. MM MM MHaVJ 0) 9)v gig ns BEER BILL TO INCLUOE WINES AS REWRITTEN Alcoholic Contents C u t From 3.2 to 3.05 Per cent in Revision Limits Penalties of Vol stead Act to Beverages Above Listed Percent Washington, Jan. 13 Fi A modi fication of the house of represen tatives beer bill was agreed upon today by a committee of senators, to provide a 3.05 percent brew in stead of 3.2 percent and also to allow wines. The house bill was drastically re written to make it air-tight against constitutional objections. The committee now will report to the full judiciary committee, which must pass on the proposition before It reaches the senate. The new alcoholic content repre sents 3.8 percent by volume as com pared with the house figure of 4 per cent by volume. The committee attempted to re move constitutional objections by avoiding a definition of what con stitutes an intoxicating beverage, but limiting the penalties of the Volstead act to those beverages above 3.05 percent alcoholic content. "(Concluded on page 0, column 6 Springfield, 111., Jan, 13 (IP) The Christian county coal fields, scene of bloody guerilla warfare, saw hope of lasting peace today in a truce effected at midnight last night by Illinois' new governor, Henry Hor ner. All factions in the dispute which has cost eight lives and wounded scores of men agreed, at the request of the governor to a general disar mament pending complete settle ment of the conflict. The United Mine Workers of Am. erica and their bitter new foe, the Progressive Miners Union, agreed to the request of the governor that ail followers' disarm and picketing cease. By terms of the pledge, the na tional guardsmen will remain the enly armed force In the county. It has been estimated that nearly one third of the able-bodied citizens of e community have been under rms at the height of the warfare. BEST MAN BOGGLES WEDDING PLANS Bethanv. Mo.. Jan. 13 (IP) A Jus tice of the peace Just had concluded a marriage ceremony at the court house. The best man sidled over to a desk In a far corner of the room and asked the man sitting there: "This Is a big occasion, could we get a little something?" "Well, we Just poured out a lot down at the jail a few days ago, but that's all gone," was the reply. "Ah-oh maybe I'm talking to the wrona man," said the best man. "I dunno," was the answer. "I'm Sheriff W. H. Webb." "Good day sheriff, I'll be seeing you sometime," concluded the best man as he backed nastily inrougn a door. PIERCE PLEDGED TO UMATILLA PROJECT Pendleton, Jan. 13 WH Pull co operation in the movement to con struct the Umatilla rapids project on the Columbia river was promised by Congressman-Elect Walter Pierce at a meeting of the Hermls ton Commercial club last night. The project development was dis cussed by a large group of boosters and plans were laid lor action &( the next meeting of the Rapids as sociation. Pierce declared he Is not "sold" on the domestic allotment measure pa'sed by the house Thursday. He said he leans toward the export de benture plan advocated by the na tional grange. BANDITS POOLED Portland, Jan. 13 (LP) Unilke most motorists, Lary Maricrson was glad when his machine ran out of gas. Two bandits threw Larry Into the back seat of his car and drove off v.ith the machine. Scleral blocks away the car ran out of t?. - HOPE SEEN IN HORNER TRUCE Good Evening! Sips for Supper By DON UPJOHN Friday the 13th today. Be very careful how you fall down three or four I lights of stairs, be run over by Automobiles or cross railroad crossolngs in front of oncoming trains. You might be unlucky and get hurt. Watt Thompson has been advis ing all and sundry that the name of the Catalo which is entertaining Salem throngs Is nothing else but "Sips." "And a darned good like ness of his namesake," says Walt. Which reminds us that yesterday we received a letter from the Cop per & Brass Research association of New York City. We can advise the assocltion it can stop its re search right now if it's looking for a Copper with plenty of Brass. GO TO SOUTH AFRICA AND LEARN HOW (Church Notice Contributed) Pastor Hugh McCallum of the Court St. Christian church will be gin a series of sermons Sunday evening on the general theme, "Bet ter Homes." The first sermon will be on the subject of "Successful Marriage." Other subjects of the series will be: "Marriage Predestined to Failure," "Failures after Mar riage, Why?" "The First Child," Managing Mothers," "Bringing Up Father," "Daughters Comes of Age," "The Real Man of the House, Tho Very Young," and others. These sermons were the result of child welfare work in South Africa during the five years Mr. McCallum was in that country. A guest at the Zonla club yester day was Miss Marjorie Money who accomnpnied Miss Aleno Phillips, the club's president. Aha, so the girls are getting so they have to bring Money along to the meetings with them. Dick Wetjen, James Steves and others of our literati are about to produce a literary marra?ine which they announce will tell of life just as it is. Look out. Life, old boy, you're in for it now. We wonder if they plan to tell it all? EINSTEIN WAS RIGHT A young lady called us yesterday to tell us that way last spring she wrote to a legislator putting in a bid for a job. The legislator as sured her he was for her. Time passed slowly. The job didn't ma terialize. Yesterday she received a note from the legislator saying, "I'm sorry. I've done my best. But the members have their relatives working and I'm helpless." The telephone company has just produced a little legislative tele phone directory of great value, showing phone numbers of members at their stopping places In Salem, also the newspaper correspondents, state department?, and various other information. But there's not a stcn- ographer's phone number In the book. Why, dogcrone you, Harry Collins. Reports indicate that there are some potential sculptors around the legislative ha!lr same being world champion chlseiicrs. SHOOTING TELLER Vancouver, B. C, Jan. 13 UK- Two bandits held up the Bank of Montreal here today, shot George Combe, teller, and escaped with $2,000. The bank Is located in the bust ness district. Combe was shot in the abdomen when he resisted the bandit's com mand to turn over the banks funds, The robbers fled in an automobile. Social And Political Informality To Rule Under New President New York, Jan. 13 iP) Staid old Washington is due for some surprises from the Roosevelt rule politically and so cially. The complete informality that surrounds almost all the activities of the president-elect is already bringing gasps from some of the callers here from official life. In this same spirit Mr. Roosevelt is looking over the field of cabinet material and here again some Jolts appear due for the political prog nosticators. He told newspapermen last niptht that no offers have been extendeu on the cabinet portfolios and none probably would be for some time, at Irast until next month. Meanwhile on the second floor or the white stone front home on hast CMh strert, the president-elect is listcriins to endless lines of callers M'NARY FAVORS FARM AID BILL WITH CHANGES Needs Simplification To Make It Practical and Constitutional Senate Committee Called To Begin Considera tion On Monday Washington. Jan. 13 Wl Support for the democratic farm bill "if wc can simplify it, make it practicable and bring it within the constitution" wfts promised today by Chairman McNary, republican, Oregon, of the senate agriculture committee. His comment was in an informal statement to newspapermen after he had called the committee to meet Monday to consider the bill. "I would guess," he said, "that with some simplification of lan guage and description of fair ex change values and the probable in clusion of all agricultural commod ities, subject to the decision of the department of agriculture with re spect to which commodities the Din shall operate on, the bill would be reported out favorably by the com mittee. "I am going to support it if we can simplify it, make it practicable and bring it within the constitu tion, because in theory the quickest economic recovery the country could make would be through increasing the purchasing power of agricul ture." McNavy said he personally did not (Concluded on page 9, column 4) ...wBa ON CRASH OF TRAINS FATAL Knoxville, la., Jan. 13 P) The head-on crash of two Burlington gas-electric railroad trains, one of which was disabled and towed by a steam engine on a wooden bridge near here resulted in deaths to four trainmen and injuries to 28 pass engers. The collision occurred last night and was followed by a roaring fire which destroyed the bridge and left one victim buried amid the tangled and charred wreckage. Woikmcn today were engaged in erecting a new bridge and railroad officials said traffic over the line would be resumed by nightfall. George Macintosh, of Knoxville, was one of the heroes of the wreck battering down a baggage room door and leading hysterical women to salcty after they had attempted to Jump through windows into a pool oi blazing gasoline. Cut off by a curtain of fire, help It ss witnesses watched veteran En gineer Charles D, Hayes, 65, strug gle vainly to free himself from be tween engine and tender. Hayes of Albia, Iowa, piloted the steam engine, train No. 28, enroute from Dcs Moines to Ottumwa. Workmen hunted today for the body of J. I. Warren of Ottumwa, engineer of train No. 179, enroute from Peoria, 111., to Des Moines. The other dead are H. G. Hallberg of Burlington, Iowa, baggageman, and J. A. Baker of Ottumaw, con ductor of No. 179. HUGE EAGLE KILLED Perry, Fla. (LP Eli Dorman shot and killed an eagle measuring seven feet in wing spread that had been carrying off pigs, kids and two large ducks near here. and studying national problems. A hearty laugh echoes downstairs frequently from the open room above In which an artist sits paint ing the Roosevelt portrait through all conferences. But the occasional laughter from upstairs Is about all that gets to the outside world from these meetings. He is making no commitments. Night time has found Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt dining out frequently with friends. Last night they were the guests of Basil O'Connor, the law partner of Roosevelt. Friends or the family are con- (Cynchuled on ptne 0, column 7j Open Battle For Inflation In Congress Washington, Jan. 13 iu.pJ A pow-1 erful non-partisan house group to day moved to force through con gress a drastic currency Inflation plan which may eventually means the Issuance of (3,000,000,000 in new currency. The proposal was approved last night in a secret caucus by 30 mem bers of a so-called sub-committee of the inflation bloc. It will be pre-1 sented tonight to the full group said to number more than 100. It was considered possible that the house inflation group might join hands with senators who have been conducting a filibuster to force consideration of the inflation issue and direct relief proposals. Another proposal to ease debt burdens and restore commodity prices developed from the house coinage committee whose chairman, Representative Somers, democrat of New York, announced hearings on Conciuded'on pnge8coiumn 6) BACK TO LAND TREND OF TIMES Spokane, Wash., Jan. 13 (LP) All previous yearly land sales were sur passed in 1932, Ward K. Newcomb, head of the land department of the Federal Land bank, said today in announcing decided activity in the "back to land" movement. Sales of land accumulated during the past few years in transacting farm mortgage business aggregated $2,183,787.88 in 1932 for Washing ton, Oregon, Idaho and Montana territory served by the Spokane bank. The total exceeds the 1931 figure by $868,339.38. Sales in Washington aggregated $720,614.68, in Oregon $339,031.68, in Montana $814,009.91, in Idaho $310,131.61. The bank met its problems of ac cumulated farm lands by publicizing advantages of farm life and pre vailing low prices in a scries of con centrated sales in tho four states. "The trend to the country from the city by those seeking greater economic security also contributed to the result, Newcomb said. "No noticeable shifting of the po pulation from one farming section to another was indicated in tracing the source of 1932 purchasers," he said. "The largest group came from the renter class, who had accumu lated enough to take advantage of the low sales price, aided by the Land Bank's lenient contract con ditions." TWO LEADERS Moscow. Jan. 13 UR) The cleans. ing of the communist party designed to wipe out opposition to the five year plan and the Slalin regime led to the expulsion of two high of ficials of the party today. The central executive committee, which heard Josef Stalin tell of So viet preparations for war and re ceived details of a new system of grain collections from Premier Mo lotov, ordered the expulsion of Ni colas Eismont, who was commissar of supplies until his arrest recently, and of former Commissar of In terior Affairs Tolmachov. Former Premier Alexcl Bykov, now commissar of posts and tele graphs, and Michael Tomsky, mem ber of the central executive com mittee, were warned that they must Join the fight against the opposi tion, or suffer serious punitive mca. surcs. Bykov and Tomsky were ac cused of having had contact with Eismont and others who allegedly sought to slow down the five year plan of Industrialization and the collection of grain by the state. Resolutions adopted by the cen tral executive committee, Including the expulsion orders and tho re moval from the committee of for mer commissar of agriculture A. P. Smirnov, acknowledged the most re cent fight within the communist party, which had been widely known but not hitherto officially recog inzed. Russian Steamer Thought Lost at Sea Tokio, Jan. 13 (U Fear that the Russian steamer Sakhalicm may have sunk in the Sea of Okhotsk increased today after weak radio messages. Indicating the ship was on fire and surrounded by ice noes, ceased. The messages were inter cepted by the Hakodate and Oha stations. They were wean ana gar bled. The last known position of the ship was east of the Island of Sak halin, off the northeast coast of Siberia. The number of parsenpers and crew aboard vns no, officially determined. although Japanese raurcpi estimated the total at more than 200. JAPS CAPTURE STRATEGIC CITY IN JEHOL DRIVE Swift and Decisive Vic tory Scored at Yung anpao by Nipponese Northern Advance Con tinuedChinese Deny Peace Negotiations (By tho Associated Press) Pushing on into Jehol, Japanese troops are reported to have cap tured the city of Yunganpao In a brief battle which brought cavalry, infantry and bombing planes into action. Apparently this force was that which several days ago left Shan haikwan In a march toward Jehol City by way of Lingyuan in south ern Jehol. In the northern part of the same province another Jap anese expedition was reported on the march toward Tungliao. In other sectors there were no reports of activity. The British ambassador at Tokyo called on the foreign minister there directing attention to threats to British interests in north China as a result of the renewed hostilities, but there was no official statement. At Geneva Dr. W. W. Yen, head of the Chinese delegation to the League of Nations, denied a report that the Nanking government had appointed a representative to nego tiate for a settlement of the Shan- haikwan incident. Peiping, Jan. 13 (LP) Chinese forces under General Tang Yu-Lin halted the Japanese offensive against Jehol today by carrying the (.Concluded on page 8, column 6) LIBBY OFFERS TO GIVE UP RICHES Wilmington, Del., Jan. 13 fU.fii Libby Holman Reynolds today of fered io relinquish her baby's and her own rights to the estate of the late Zachary Smith Reynolds, her father, Alfred Holman announced. She would retain, Holman said, "only a comparatively modest sum in each case," and with the remain der establish an endowment "de voted to public uses." . Although it has not yet been es tablished whether Mrs. Reynolds and the new-born child will receive any share in the $20,000,000 estate, her attorneys claim she and her child are entitled to a major por tion of young Reynolds' estate. Holman, a Cincinnati lawyer, said that his daughter would retain a small portion of what they expect to get from the $20,000,000 fortune, only because she is now deprived of her earning power. Under such cir cumstances the endowment, he said, would be established in memory of young Reynolds and his late father, the tobacco millionaire. JEWELER CANCELS BILLS COTTAGE GROVE Eugene, Jnn. 13 JFi Friday the 13th will be a lucky day for many Cottage Grove residents. Declaring that In these stringent times each must help the other, Prank Mendenhall, operator of a jewelry store in that city, today announced the cancellation of all accounts due his store, starting the year with a clean slate. 3000 MILES RAILROAD ABANDONED, 3 YEARS Washinton, Jan. 13 (IP) Abandon ment of nearly 3000 miles of Amer Jean railroads has been authored by the interstate commerce com mission in the last three years, due largely to growing motor truck com. petition. Data made known at the com mis sion today revealed that In Novcm bcr alone, 222 miles of track was authorized to be scrapped, the larg. est mileage for any biiiglc month in years. The abandonment mostly have been branch and feeder lines which were dcvcloprd in the pre -motor era to curry traffic from sparsely settled sections to mam lines. Good roads unci fust truck wrvlre have nirtde counties numbers of these fetders unprofitable and their ex penic of operation too great for the dtbt-b utltnrd curriers to bear. Politics To Any Hard Boiled Pruning Of Budget By HARRY N. CRAIN With two weeks behind it. one in special session and the other in regular assembly, the 37th Oregon legislature is practically where it started from in the matter of accomp lishment but it has, nevertheless, made progress and can be said to have pointed itself in at least one general direction. With reasonable assurance It can be predicted that out of the maining weeks of the session will come some form of sales tax to be referred directly to the people at a special election, and that the three mill state property lax will remain and be collected for the first half of 1933 at least. As for the 10,000 fiddled away during the special session it is at least partially justified in the crys- talization of purpose and the fact that it will probably be offset to some extent by shortening the reg ular assembly. There are some things very ap parent as the lawmakers pause for three days of rest and attention to their personal affairs, aside from the indications of final enactment Concluded onpnge 8, column ) Portland, Jan. 13 (A'j No infor mation confirming a ransom note Indicating Lee Schlesinger is being held by kidnapers, has been received by Prescott W. Cookingham, his personal attorney, Cookingham said here today. The attorney said all information he has indicates strongly that Scnlesingcr, prominent young mer chant and sportsman, drowned ac cidentally when his automobile pliuigcd from a dock into the Co lumbia river nt Vancouver, Wush., the night of December 29. The car was recovered. Cookingham said a letter received by Mrs. B. F. Schlesinger In Sun Francisco, purporting to come from a band of kidnapers, undoubtedly was written by a crank. Although Mrs. Sleschlnger said she had for warded the letter to Cookingham It had not reached his office today, he said he will turn it over to police. "The information we have un covered so far points strongly to an accident," Cookingham said In commenting on rumors that Schles inger has been seen in various parts of the country. "Wc will continue to make every effort to find his body." COUSINS PLEADS SELF DEFENSE Vancouver, Wash., Jan. 13 (Pi- Completing testimony hi support of a self-defense plea for Jesse Cous ins, 48, Probcstcl rancher who is on trial for slaying a prohibition agent, the defense rested its case In sup erior court today and it was expect ed the Jury would retire before night. Cousins, who admitted in his tes timony yesterday that he shot and killed R B. Vlasich, Tacoma federal prohibition officer, and Ballard Turner, another federal agent, de clared he fired only to save himself and in the belief the officers were hl-jockers. He is on trial for slay ing Vlasich. The two purchased liquor from him, he said, and Vlasich pounced on him, shoving him to the ground. Turner drew a revolver, the accused man declared. Then Cousins reach ed Ills own pistol, fired and fled. Pilgrimages To Vatican Arranged For Royalty During Year Of Jubilee Vatican City, Jan. 3 (U.R) KinK-s, jut'ons, and royal princes have begun arrangements for pilgrimages to the Vatican during the holy year recently proclaimed by Pope Pius XI, It was learned at Vatican City today. The royal visits will be accom panied by the greatest pageantry. Now that railroad trains can be brought directly Into the Vatican state, the royal visitors may step out of their private cars on Vatican lean soil and be received Immedi ately by emissaries of the pontiff. The new railroad Arrangements will mean abandonment of the old custom of driving through the city of Rome and viMting the king be fore going to the Vatican. The kings and queens will visit the Basilicas after paying homage to the Pope, however, and arc expected Thwart FINAL TRIBUTE PAID TO BUTLER The Dalles, Ore., Jan. 13 (IP) The body of Congressman R. R. Butler arrived here early this morning from Washington, accompanied by his mother and other relatives and- a congressional guard of honor. The body rested in state this morning at a local funeral chapel, pending funeral services from the civic auditorium this afternoon at 2:30. A delegation from the state leg islature also was here today for the funeral. Rev. W. I. Eck of The Dalles will deliver the funeral ser mon. Representative Hawley of the congressional relegation also will speak. Mrs. W. R. Butler of Bristol., Tenn., the congressman's mother; Mas, J. A. Sprouls, his sister; Con gressman W. C. Hawley of Oregon, Ralph Horr and Albert Johnson of Washington, Robert Simmons of Nebraska, and R. L. Doughon of North Carolina accompanied the body to The Dalles from Washing ton. From the Oregon legislature Senators Kiddle, Yates and Upton and Representatives Snell, Christ- man, Best, Lynch, Scott and Staples attended. Members of the congressional and legislative delegations acted as honorary pallbearers. The active pall-bearers were urn. K. num. George Glaff. Dr. W. N. Morse, John Gavin, Pat Foley, J. H. Peare, John Crawford and R. J. Carsner. The Rev. W. I. Eck of The Dal les was selected to preach the fu neral eulogy. Interment was In the Odd Fellows' cemetery here. JAPAN RESENTS HOOVER HINT Tokio, Jan. 13 (LP) President Hoover's intimations that Japanese aggression might follow Philippine independence caused a wave of re sentment to sweep through the ranks of Japanese officials today. Although the United States presi dent did not mention Japan direct ly In his veto message, his state ment that the Filipinos would be helpless to prevent infiltration of neighbors was regarded as a direct intimation that he feared a Jap anese invasion of the islands. While expressing resentment at that inference, official Japan never theless admitted the danger of Phil ippine indeiendencc unbalancing the Orient and increasing' the pos sibility of Sino-Philipplnc compli cations, should the independent Fil ipinos try to prevent Chincsi pen etrations of their islands. Liberal officials favor preserva tion of the present status quo situa tion In the Philippines, and demand that the government outline a def inite policy in regard to continental Asia. They Join other ofllciale in fearing Philippine Independence would complicate Japan's outlook since the islands constitute "poten tial sources of Slno-Japanese com petition." to pass through Rome In full cere monial, with all the pomp and dis play given royal arrivals and with troops lining the streets. King Victor Emmanuel of Italy and King Albert of the Belgians, with their queens, plan to visit the Pope during the holy year beginning on Palm Sunday. Alfonso of Spain and Amanullah of Afghanistan are among the former monarchs expect ed at Vatican City. Ex-queens will Include Victoria of Spain, Amelia of Portugal, and Zita of Austria-Hungary. All the royal princes of Catholic countries will be (Concluded on piufe 9, column 7) HOUSE PASSES MEASURE OVER HOOVER VETO President Sees Danger o? Foreign Invasion ancf Economic Downfall v Chaotic Situation ri Orient Stressed Responsibility Evaded Washington, Jan. 13 fn The house today passed the Philippine independence bill over the veto of President Hoover. The senate has yet to act. The vote whs 274 to 94. A two-thirds majority was neces sary. Senate protests are uncertain, but in at least some Informed adminis tration quarters there Is a fear thafi the senate will likewise vote against the president's position as recorded in a stinging veto message that had been read to the house but an hour, or so before it voted. In the house vote, 93 republicans and 1 democrat, Martin of Oregon, voted to sustain the veto, while 193 democrats, 80 republicans and one. farmer-labor ite, Kvale of Minnesota, voted to override. Washington, Jan. 13 (LP) Presi dent Hoover today vetoed the Phil ippines Independence bill on the grounds that it does not fulfuill thtf United States' triple responsibility to the American people, the FUl (Concluded on" ptige9coiunin 5), RIVER PROJECT CONTRACT LET Portland, Jan. 13 (LP) The Ma- kela company of Astoria offered the low bid of six proposals received yesterday for the construction o dikes on the upper Willamette river, the United States bureau of engine eers announced. The Makela com pany bid was $21,651.90. The project contemplates the con struction of 1623 linear feet of dikes, involving 11 sites below Salem. Other low bidders were Parker Schram company, $23,579.70; Gilpin Con struction company, $28,624.70, and the Portland Drdedging company, $29,175.50. Bids for dredging at ClackamaA rapids in connection with the ex panded channel project between Portland and Oregon City, will b opened January 31. HISTORIC ARMORY DESTROYED BY FIRE Baltimore, Jan. 13 iJP) The his toric fifth regiment armory of the Maryland national guard was de- stroyed by firo early today, at 4 possible lass of $1,500,000. Only the thick granite walls; among which the flames raged for hours, remained of the 30-year old! building where Wood row Wilson was nominated for president in 1913 and Franklin D. Roosevelt ended his southern presidential tour last fall. The fire, of an undetermined ori gin, was discovered at 1:50 a.m. and within a few minutes a general ularm summoned all the fire fight ing apparatus of the city. Unable to bring the flames under control, the firemen turned their attention to numerous small fires started by flying embers, scattered over a wide area by a 30-mllc north western wind. Col. Washington Bowie, Jr., com mander of the regiment, said If the walls and structural steel are ser iously damages, the loss will total $1,500,000 but If the walls and frame work survived the fire, the damage probably will be about $500,000. FIREMAN KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK Ontario, Cal., Jan. 13 (IP) Ilia fireman of a Southern Pacific train was killed and the engineer badly scalded today when the engine and ' two cars were derailed eight mlle cast of hero. The man killed wan R, R. Koontx. Los AtiKcles. Engineer Wesley Courtney, Los Angeles, was taken to the San Antonio community hos pital near death from bums. Sand, blown by the gale which swept this section two days ago. drifted across the track, causing the wreck. No posicnuers were hurt. The train was the Imperial valley local.
