Show 9 0 0 r Martial Law Set Up In Quake Zone I PATROlS PATROlS' I GUARD MEXICALI A JIN All Sa Saloons Closed and Sale of of Liquor Stopped During Present Crisis PLANS TO REBUILD No Deaths Reported but Dozens Are Injured I by y the Fal Falling Falling- ing Debris r CAL CALEXICO XICO Cal 1 Jan 1 AP- AP Martial law oll wed New Ye Years s 's hilarity across across' ss V the international border when the first of ofa ofa a succession n. n of more mor than fifty ty earthquake sho shock ks entering In Ca Ca- and nd M caused damage at more than the entire Imperial valley valley val val- ley in fn the United States a and d VV Mex- Mex ice Ico V Governor Abelardo Rodriguez of Lower Lower- California declared martial law v In Mexicali 1 which with Calex- Calex leo shared the heaviest damage Governor Rodrigue rs clos closed d ll II Ithe the City further ale Of s PF pro prohibited during the crisis crisis' Chief of V Pollee- Pollee Joe Ji of Calexico here damage Was was placed at and prepared late today to create a special cial patrol of men to guard business pla places es ag agAInst in plundering Orders were Issued to shoot to kill Members Members' of the Calexico chamber of commerce called a meeting this this' afternoon to plan Immediate rehabilitation rehabilitation re- re habilitation of the damaged sections of 01 the city SHOCKS DIMINISH J No deaths w rEl reported from ariy any of the valley towns reported shaken by y the serIes of quakes that continued continued contin contin- until afternoon Dozens of t perSons persons per per- sons were slightly cut or bruised by falling faIling debrIs Subterranean rumblings were heard almost constantly constantly con con- this afternoon in Calexico but earth shocks were of diminishing diminish diminish- ing intensity l ire FIre added to the damage wrought by bythe the tremors In 1 The Continued on page 7 i PATROLS GUARD Continued from page 1 Aztec brewery was vIrtually destroyed destroyed de- de with an estimated loss of Fire followed the first earth shocks Dozens of adobe houses crumbled to dU dus wIth the Initial shocks I Breakage ot of Mexicali's water mains frustrated attempts of firemen firemen fire fire- men and volunteers to to halt the spread ot of fire The first shocks in Mexicali 1 at 1218 a a. a m turned terrorized merrymakers merrymakers merry merry- makers out ot of brIghtly lighted cafes and casinos into the streets The crash of falling walls and the underground un- un rumblings accompanyIng the earthquake silenced the gay mUsie mU- mU sie of the Reports that trickled Into ImperIal Imperial Impe- Impe rIal valley centers over crippled wIres told of successive tremors felt as far north as Anaheim Cal r nearlY miles dIstant and as far east as Yuma Ariz 1 WINDOWS SHATTERED El Centro county seat of Imperial Imperial Impe- Impe rial county suffered little damage Hundreds ot of wIndows were broken but walls of buildings withstood the recurrent recurrent shocks The Barbara Worth hotel El leading house had only a few windows broken At Heber a community of about 40 population five buildIngs were cracked Heber Is midway between El Centro and Calexico Radio reports from the steamship Emma Alexander at anchor off Ese Ese- nada about sixty miles south of ofSan ofSan San Diego on the Lower California coast said that passengers who had g gone ne ashore for the night were unable un- un able to return to the ship because of ofa ofa a heavy swell It was impossible to attempt the launching of a small smaIl boat Persons aboard the steamer were were unable to determine whether the city had suffered damage Residents of El Centro and vicinity vicin- vicin ity flocked to Yuma in automobile loads after the first shocks had frightened them from their homes Yuma uma reported a succession of shocks terminating at a. a m. m Brawley one of the large centers ot of population in the Imperial valley experienced more than a dozen shocks four ot of them particularlY heavy early this morning No damage damage dam dam- age was reported |