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Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21
Ask New Marine
Railway at Base

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 21.-Addition-
al recommendations that the navy
department appropriate funds for
the construction of another marine
railway at the submarine and des-
troyer base have been made by Capt.
Harry l.. Brinser, commander of the
base.
Two years ago the commander of
the Pacific destroyer force and llth
naval district officials called the
department s attention to the urg-
ent necessity for another marine
railway here. No funds for this
project, however, have been carried
in any of the budgets and none IS
contemplated for this year.
Estimates for the 1925-26 budget
for local naval improvements, naval
authorities here say, will include
an initial fund for starting work
on the new Broadway warehouse
pier and for minor projects at the
naval training and naval air sta
tion.
Captain Brinser is particularly
anxious to have sufficient money
for the proposed marine railway in
cluded in the forthcoming budget
owing to the increasingly large
number of -destroyers, submarines
and district craft that are being
handled by the local repair base.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21
Oceanside Plans
Carnival Sept. II,
ROdeO and Races

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 21.-Oceanside
plans to entertain next month at
a "beaeh carnival and rodeo,'
which will attract thousands of Wis
itors to that favored place. A five
days program has been prepared
combining most of the better fea-
lures of western entertainment with
seaside sports. The carnival and
rodeo viii start Friday, September
12, and continue until the follow
ing Tuesday. j. Chauncey Hayes,
Jr., in charge of the program, prom
ises interesting events each day.
The program as outlined by
Hayes includes a national "De
Tense Test Day Parade" an exhibi-
ton of fireworks and dancing at
the Strand pavilion. A race pro-
gram for the next day includes a
600-yard horse race, best two in
three heats, for purse of $40; a.
300-yard race for pones, purse
$40; fitting at rings, footraces
among men and boys and a speed
contest between horses and motors.
For Sunday, September IA. 500
yard handicap horse race will carry
a $50 prize; a quarter-mile dash, q
$25 prize; a ladies' saddle horse
race, 500; titling at rings for a
So prize, and Il fat men s race with
a S. reward for the survivor. Fast
horses meet again Monday in a
600-yard handicap; ponies and
small ponies and ladies' saddle
horses also are scheduled to race.
Tuesday, the final day, will be
Derby day and the pick of the
horses will race for 800 purse
over the 700-yard route, best two
out of three. A quarter-mile dash,
consolation race, saddle horse
race, fitting contest and other
events will feature the wind-up.
Rodeo numbers will be held dur
ing the week with dancing each
night, ivlsa~4.> Ga
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21
Accidents We're
Reduced During
Hotel Building

One of the most remarkable re-
cords for accident prevention during
construction on large scale was
attained by the Scofield Engineer
ing Company of Los Angeles, while
erecting the new Los Angeles ,Bilt-
more hotel, one of the world s Iarg-
est hostelries, according to a state
ment just given out by officials of
the firm and based upon statistics
recently completed by the company.
Work on the hostelry, which re-
quired IS months to complete. was
begun in April, 1929, with the ac-
tual employment of only two men,
The number of men employed on
the job was actually increased to
u maximum of 1900, large NUM-
Der of whom were engaged in the
structural work which entailed con
siderable hazard.
According to statistics compiled
by the company and which were
gathered by the time sheet records
ON the job, approximately 1,767,-
232 man hours were consumed dur
ing the course of constructing She
hotel. Against this number of man
hours We're charged 226 accidents.
Based upon careful estimates of
the company officials these 226 ac-
cidents will not amount to more than
1000 man hours lost time. Allow
ing for so per cent error in the
estimate, company officials say, the
time lost by treason of mishaps to
workmen will not exceed 5000 man
hours or seventeen tenths of one
Dprcpnt
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21
Shell Company
Cooperates With
Forest Service

Our attention has been called to
the splendid work the Shell Com
pany of California are doing in CO.
operation with the United States
forest service by assisting to edu-
cate the public in the matter of fire
prevention. A campaign TO prevent
forest fires has been inaugurated
throughout the entire Shell organi-
zation, extending from Vancouver,
B.. c., to the Mexican border, and
from the coast to the Rocky Noun
tains.
These thousands. of men have
been supplied with quantities of
posters, mailing cards, poster stamps
and other literature which carries Il
message of caution to the motorists,
urging that they avoid careless or
thoughtless acts that might start q
eonflagration, and pointing out the
terrible consequences that result
from such carelessness.
The large Shell road signs along
the highways leading to the forest
regions are being re-painted with
warnings against throwing lighted
matches, cigars, or cigarettes out OF
automobiles. Posters with a similar
warning have. been posted at all
Shell service stations; and all Shell
service station employees have been
instructed with regard to the i'm
mediate transmission III ,informa-
tion and reports of fires to forest
rangers and other authorized Off
eials. In fact the whole power of
the, vast Shell organization is co.
operating in this work to protect
the National Forests against fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21
Del Monte viii
Play on Courts,
Recalls Old Days

DEL MONTE. August 21.-With a
large entry list of first ranks play
ers waiting to take the courts, Del
Monies s annual tennis champion
ship tournament, begins tomorrow
morning, and promises to recall the
old days when the Monterrey, Pen
insula resort was the state S tennis
capitaL
The tournament will continue
three days, with the finals schedul-
ed for Sunday afternoon, August "a.
The principal trophy at stake will
be the Del Monte championship cup
for men s singles. The cup is at
present hel dby Morgan Pottrell,
who has entered this year to defend
his title. Other strong competitors
for the title will be Bill Parker,
Homer Eevinson and Bowie Detrick.
Fottrell and Detrick will also de-
fend the men s doubles title which
they won last year.
Women S singles, mixed doubles
end consolation tournament for
novices, all carrying handsome tro-
phics, are also among the events
carded for the tourney.
Il Del Monte courts, adjoining the
Roman plunge and considered among
the best in the state, were pronounc-
ed today in perfect condition for the
tournament, after a complete reno
| vation by caretakers.
Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San
Jose, San Francisco and the east
| bay district, as well as the big sum
mcr colony on the Monterey Pen
insula, are well represented by the
field of players. a criterion that the
| tournament viii be one of the most
Interesting ever held here.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21

farm said this morning, that Nurse
Ellen Johnston, who took care or
the injured man at the county nos.
pital was largely responsible for
lis improved condition. Mr. Wier
said that the nurse remained on
duty at all hours of the day and
night and by her conscientious at
tention had brought the patient out
of danger.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-08-21

Try Press Want Ads.
Smyrna times., 1924-03-12
KENT CONSTABLES ARE NAMED
William R. Smith, Still Continues For
District of Smyrna and Vicinity

Election of county constables and
the receiving of the monthly reports
of the county officers occupied the at
tention of the Kent County Levy
Court at their last regular meeting
on Tuesday. All the members of the |
court were in attendance. The con-
stables appointed were as follows: |
First District, William R. Smith,
Smyrna; Fifth District, Frank Van |
SAINT, Dover; Seventh District, William |
T. Jewell, Wyoming; Eighth District,
E. R. Hughes, FELTON,; Ninth District,
M. c. Adams, Harrington; Tenth Dis
trict, j. E. Salevan, Milford. The re-
ports of the county officers showed a
total of $2,737.83 received in fees dur
ing the month of February. The re-
port of the ProthOnotary Daniel NJ.
Ridgely showed S313.12 received in
fees while the Register of Wills, Will
liam H. Willis, collected $786.96. Re
corder of Deeds, Edgar H. Atkinson,
led the list with a report of $1,017.75.
E. Frank Burris, Clerk of the Orph-
ans Court collected $445O and Edgar
E. Clements, Clerk of the Peace, re-
ceived S512.3O in county fees and
S142.58 in State fees. Sheriff, John
H. Bullock collected $62.25.
An order was ordered drawn in
favor of S. Carl Hughes, Treasurer
of the Board of Poor Trustees for ST.
100 to be used at the Kent County
Almshouse.
The Levy Court was informed of
some difficulty between certain prop
erty owners in the Seventh District
over the location of dirt road. COun-
ty Engineer, T. Marvel Gooden was
called before the court to explain the
trouble. 1t appeared that some fenc-
ing has been improperly placed which
resulted in traffic being directed of
the proper course and Engineer Good
en- explained to the Court that the
matter had been adjusted by the prop
erty owners agreeing to place theil
fence on the proper lines after which
the county would place the road il
proper condition.
The balance on the special road as
sessment for the past three years ha!
amounted to almost ten thousand dol
, lars and the Levy Court directed that
this sum be placed in the good road
: fund and be apportiOned among thu
districts according to the amount o
taxes paid. The Levy Court decides
to purchase one motor driven roa'
! grader for use on the dirt road
l throughout the county.
Smyrna times., 1924-03-12
ANOTHER RAID NEAR DOVER
Still Was In Operation At Home of
John Collins Near Rising Sun

In a raid made late last Wednesday
evening, by Sheriff Bullock, assisted
by Chief of Police Lane, assistants,
Dickerson and Cummins, John Collins,
living in the tenant house on the John
A. Barnard farm, near Rising Sun,
was taken into custody on charge of
manufacturing Intoxicating liquors,
one still being found in full operation
from which one gallon of liquor was
seized. A second still was also found
but not in operation. Two ffty-gal-
lon barrels of mash of wheat, raisins
and prunes were destroyed by pouring
coal oil in them. Collins was brought
to Dover and lodged in Jail. Collins
was given a hearing at Dover Thurs
day morning and held in $1,000 bal
for Court. j. A. Barnard went or
Collins bond and he was released.
Smyrna times., 1924-03-12
The Little Country Paper

Tisn't filled with cuts and pictures nor
the latest news dispatches;
And the papers often dampened
and the print is sometimes blurred
There's only one editor, and the eyes
glance often catches
Traces of a missing letter, or at
times a misspelled word.
No cablegram or special anywhere the
eye engages;
The makeup is perhaps a trifte
crude and primitive.
But an atmosphere Of home life fills
and permeates the pages
Of the little country paper printed
where you used to live.
How the heart grows soft and tender
while its columns you're persuing;
Every item is familiar, every name
you know full well.
And a flood Of recollection passes o'el
you while you're musing
On the past, and weaves about yOl
an imaginative spell.
You can see the old home village onc'
again in fancy, seeming
To be clasping hand of neighbors
and of friend and relative;
And their faces rise before you a
you're idly, fondly dreaming
Der the little country paper printe
where you used to live.
Smyrna times., 1924-03-12

Last year and because Chief Derrick
son did some of the inspection him
self, all of the growers who wanted
their fruit inspected were accOmodat-
ed But whether this can be done this
spring is a question. The matter of
appropriating enough money for this
work will be brought to the attention
of the legislature at its next session,
because the money so spent is one of
the best investments that could be
made for the state, not only as a
means of aiding apple growers mar
ket their goods, but from the adver-
tising value that will come to the
state because of its product being in
demand.
Smyrna times., 1924-03-12

Missing her footing while descend
ing a stepladder at her home Mrs.
Mettie Walls, Of Georgetown, widow
Of Winfield Scott Walls, fell and broke
her left arm.
Smyrna times., 1924-03-12
Early Apple Inspection Start in Jull

The inspection Of the crop of early
apples will start in July and Chief
Derrickson is trying to see if things
cannot be managed so that there wall
be money enough to carry on such In
spection for at least month this veal
| by those apple growers who wish it
Evening star., 1924-10-12
At Community Centers

flower making basketry. lamp shades,
ETC., 1880 to 1890.
observation-disclosures. Eighth and T
| streets northwest:
Tuesday-Class in millinery and
lampshade making. Amphion Glee
Club, South Carolina State Club,
class in paper flower making and en-
broidery, 1880 to 1880.
Thursday Saxophone Orchestra,
Douglass League, sewing class, class
! for making silk and paper flowers
| and other ornaments, Texas State
Club, 1880 to 1920.
Saturday-Rythmic dancing class,
| 10 to IL am.
Birney. Nichols avenue and How
are street southeast:
Tentative schedule: Mondays, 80
to 10 80. Choral Society. needle class
and Athletic clubs; 5 to 4 80, Boy
Scouts and Dramatic clubs.
Wednesdays - Hairdressing, Dress
making and Athletic clubs, including
Anacostia Athletic Association, Z 80 to
10 30.
Fridays-The lamp shade making and
reedwork classes and athletic classes
for girls and boys, Z 80 to 10 so.
Registrations will be held for piano
classes.
BurrvfIle. Division avenue and Cor
coran street northwest:
Monday-lndustrial Art Club and Up
holstery Club, to 10; study hour for
children. to g.
Tuesday-Orchestra, Clef Club and
group for boys games. Z so to 10 80 ::
music class. to 5, and a group for
instruction.
Wednesday - Industrial Art Club.
millinery and the study hour for chill
dren ! 80 to 10 so
Friday-Classes for children in mu-
sic, games and visual instruction, 3 rs
to ).
West Washington, Phillips School
Twenty-SeVenth and n streets north
west:
nomics class. Young Women's Art
Club, Mems Whist Club. Community
Center Orchestra and Georgetown
Athletic Club, 1880 to 10.
Friday-Clover Pleasure Club. Trio
Pleasure Club, Mohicans Dramatic
Club, Young Womens Whist Club and
the Children's Study Club. 1880 to 10.
The public is invited to d musical
program, given under the auspices Of
the Citizens Association of George
town, S.
Dunbar, First and y streets north
west:
Thursday-Simon Commandery, Elks,
Columbia Lodge drill practice, Lamp
Shade Making and Millinery Clubs.
young women'S swimming class, s.
chlldrenS supervised study hour, Z
TO S; registrations for an organization
TO provide books for needy high
school pupils, 5 to $50; class for in
structins in reed art work. This class
is for the benefit of teachers in this
industrial art
Miner Normal. Georgia avenue and
Euclid street northwest:
Tuesday-Sewing, millinery and
embroidery class, Choral Club. Red
Cross classes in home nursing, first
aid and food selection. 7:30 TO 1890.
Young mems athletic clubs will meet
in the gymnasium. A mems current
event club is being organized.
Friday-Industrial art. the Choral
Club. Red Cross classes. for adults.
The children's classes are as follows:
Athletic Club, Achievement Club and
Art Club, for girls; whiting Club
and Athletic Club. for boys. There
Will be community singing for boys
and girls.
Evening star., 1924-10-12
MANHATTAN DAYS AND NIGHTS
BY HERBERT COREY.

NEW YORK-One of the 6vastar
uptown photographers-he would be
ruined if l gave his name-showed a
wall full of society photographs yes
terday. He's in the society line. He
knows when to call d dowager Maudie
and when to act to a flapper as
though she were the young princess
on walk through papa's estate.
What do you get from 'em?" he
asked
Nothing. particularly" I said.
That's it," said the camera man
beautiful, but dumb
He couldn't understand it. he said.
The young women of society go to
finishing schools. they have in Sc
ouence nurses governors, tutors and
personal maids. They ride. drive,
swim, play violent games and pet in
moderation. They acquire line of
mechanical prattle which sounds live
ly. but isn't.
But they don't know anything" he
said. Nov and then l have a call for
a really fine portrait for the use of an
artist or an advertiser Always |
have to get out of the social bullpen
10 find a model. There isn't anything
behind these pretty faces of Park
avenue"
will Rogers had similar expert
ence. His monologue depends on the
intellige nee of his auditors, and, to a
very great extent, on their acquafnt-
ance with current events. If they
do not read the days newspapers he's
d bust.
81 made my talk before dinner
given by a real leader of New York
society,"" said he. "and it fattened
like spilled mush. L thought that
either the monologue or my manner
of delivering it was wrong. But the
next night l did the same thing, In
the same way, before the convicts at
Sing Sing, and it went with roar.
I'm at Sing Sing they read the papers"
"See Chinatown for a dollar.
The go-see-um guides yowl that
every night beside their busses on
broadway. They always catch a
.rowd. too. If you happen to be on
NIT or Pell street about midnight
yo> IL see a crowd of earnest seekers
;te,N,ing on each others heels while
Chir-atown grins. Not one of them
cen = see the real show. OF course,
theFS tsn't any real show in China
town low, any more than there is in
san Francisco's Barbary Coast. Prog
ress and prohibition have spilled the
beans of spectacle.
Rut if you're wise you'll visit Min
er's Theater on the Bowery. The
great men and women of day before
yeste rday played there. little later
il became the home of the real roar
Evening star., 1924-10-12

ing melodramd Then it had inter-
walls of experiment. and some of the
theatrical finds of the present genera
tion were made upon it's dingy boards
Now Chinese grand opera COM
pany is singing scores that were
written more than a thousand years
ago on its stage. 1t is said the prima
donna-for even the Chinese theater
has progressed and female parts are
sung by women now, instead of by
boys in girls clothes-is a Manchu
princess Set that down to the imag-
inatlon of a press agent, but the fact
remains that the music produces the
purest ecstacy in the Oriental breast.
The scenery is adequate to the pres
entation of themes which show the
history of ancient China, and the cos
tunes are superb
The really interesting element is the
audience. Ten years ago the last
Chinese theatrical performance in
New York ended in a gun fight be-
tween rival tongs in the filthy old
theater on Doyers street, which had
been temple until religion ceaeSd to
pay. Three died in the aisles and
half dozen in the narrow street out
side the door,
Nowadays the audience is of a diff
/ erent sort. The best ats cost SIS and
are always filled. The Chinese men
and women are clean, we'll dressed
and obviously prosperous. even if in
| the grubby gallery one sees wrinkled
| old yellow men who have failed. Some
travel for 100 miles or more to see the
| show. There are Chinese bankers
| who are-one never knows about Chi
nese-certainly rich and, perhaps,
! millionaires
DO they smoke hop nowadays?'
I asked.
| The plain clothes man said they
do. 1t was his opinion that all Chi
! nese hit the pipe. Perhaps 1t does
not hurt them at ALL
! It'll find as many white men who
have been injured by too much fac
tory pie-relatively-as Chinese who
| have been ruined by opium" he said.
But I've never known a white man
| to clear up after he's once taken to
! the black smoke. He's gone"
/ 1t was the Cinnamon who cleaned
up Chinatown. They got tired of
having their privacy invaded by visi-
tors from the sticks. Nowadays they
do their smoking in nearby towns,
where the police do not bother, said
the P. c. Just now and then a few
friends get together here for party.
Copyright, 1924
Evening star., 1924-10-12

trimming or the
Catholic Univer-
sIty team. had for
ba ok ground citi-
zenry, local and
visiting = every
last one IN the
crowd efferVeS SC
ing over the one
s. u b j e c t in all
America that is
each fellow 5 own.
The one eXccp-
tion was a an,
heefy as 10 con-
tour and sulphur
Gus In the matter
of ton que. lie
had bet all of $40
ON tine Mats and
was eruptlug pro-
fanitN with a gov
Evening star., 1924-10-12
Take a few ''Pape's Diapepsin"
When | feel Dyspeptic l just

Anytime, When food hits back and
meals don't fit snugly you can correct
your digestion and have your dis
ordered stomach acting fne-almost
at once.
Millions of folks depend upon this
pleasant, harmless corrective, diges-
Evening star., 1924-10-12

owns a nice little farm out there at
Great Falls and expects to keep right
along raising her beans and eggs ana
doing her washes. THE Lords cert'n y
been good to her, and If ANYBODY
wants to find a woman happier than
what she is, they would have to traVel
a right smart of a ways"
Which gives another cheerful PROOF
that happiness may be the cheapest
thing in life-for all 1t is a precious
that money cannot puy.
Evening star., 1924-10-12
Acts as Counter-Irritant.

From the London Telegraph.
Father" said Clementina. do you
enjoy hearing me singT'
Well" was the answer. IT don't
know, but it's rather soothing in a
way. 1t makes me forget my other
troubles"
Evening star., 1924-10-12

TT was the night of the first big
game and a hotel lobby was
alive with excitement over Its
outcome. The khaki and blue
of the 1st Division soldiers, on
for the dedication of memorial TO
dead buddfes who will never die, and
ouantico marines, eXulting over their
Evening star., 1924-10-12

tive and antacid to keep their
stomachs in prime condition.
Just eat a few tablets of "Pape's
Diapepsin" whenever your stomach
bothers you. Distress just vanishes
Your druggist guarantees . 60-cent
package TO please YOU
Evening star., 1924-10-12

Alaska has Federation of Women'e
Clubs. consisting of eight clubs and ESQ
members
Evening star., 1924-10-12
Murtex
Face Cloths
l9c; 3 for SOC

A large assortment OF
extra fine quality Wash
Cloths, many pretty de
signs. Special. 19c; 3 for
SOC.
Evening star., 1924-10-12
Savings for Monday!
THE RIG G

Pure White Linen-hnished
Writing Paper. "a sheets and
"a envelopes in an attractive
box. A splendid quality sta
tionery that you'll be proud to
use. Special, 39c box.
Evening star., 1924-01-15
COAL DEALERS MOVE
AGAIN ON U. S. YARDS
Ask Bureau ofs Mines Tor More,
Data on Cost Of Handling
Fuel, =.
PETITION WAS REFUSED ONCE
fanai Action, However, Rests With
Congress, It Is Said.

hetaii coal dealers are preparing to
resuomit to Secretary of the Interior
work a proposal for taking over of
Gil the government coal business and
closing the government fuel yard. 1t
was learned today. Dealers have
called upon the bureau OF mines for
further information as to cost Of
handling coal by the fuel yard, in
GLIDING checking, weighing. trucking
and absorption of amortization and
interest.
Ten days ago Secretary Work re-
FUSED petition signed by seven deal
ers. They claimed they could handle
an the government business on a
nlnety-two-cent margin, and bonded
themselves on that basis. This mar
gin. they claimed, was considerably
oeloW the margin allowed for opera
ton by the fuel yard.
Secretary Work questioned their
margin. pointing out he had been ad-
vlsed 1t did not cover all costs and
that in the event the government. busi-
ness was transferred to the local deal
.ernment still would have to stand
comparatively large share Of the cost
on handling the coal. which would re-
suit IN an actual loss to the govern.
ment OF nearly q half million dollars
over hve-year period.
Secretary Work, in case he decides
aavorably on the forthcoming request
gress that the fuel yard be closed and
the business turned over to the dealers
mere. Final action in the matter, how
ever, rests with the legislative body.