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Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11
LET THERE BE LIGHT

After than two years of preliminary work.
vexatious delays and disappointments, the work of
installing an ornamental street lighting system on
Main street is at last under way.
In a few months more the system will be complet-
ed and ready for according to the city engineer
The Ell Centro Chamber of Commerce and the city
council have worked together this plan, and have
been given the support of the property owners in
front of whose places the lighting standards will be
set.
That the system will be distinct advantage to Ell
Centre, is something that few people will doubt Not
only will it improve the appearance of the street. but
1t has distinct advertising value and in this dav and
few persons doubt the advsability of the right
kind of advertising.
Tourists and visitors passing through Ell Centro at
night after the lighting system has been installed, will
always recall this city, The passerby in the train
will make inquiry to find out the name of the city
with the brilliantly lighted business section. These
people are bound to talk about Ell Centre. Word of
mouth advertising considered be the most effca-
cious kind of advertising there is-provided the one
who talks has something good to say, and surely these
persons will talk favorably about Ell Centre.
Creating a good impression the public is as
much the duty of city as it is for the individual.
Plenty of light at night is good crime preventa-
tive it being well known that crime fourishes in dark
ness. AS soon possible the city council should take
steps to install bigger and better lights in all parts
of the city, not excepting the East Sde where plenty
OF light is needed not necessarily to curb awessness
but to give the taxpayers of that section their proper
proportion of the benefits of city life.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD &. GARIa
Copyright, 1925. by Mcclure
Newspaper SynEcSts
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE
SECOND NEST

Up in the apple tree the robin
sang:
"Chccr up! Cheer up! Cheer up! -
why are YOU always SO happy,
Mr.. Robin? asked Uncle Wiggily
as he hOpped beneath the tree, look
ing for an adventure.
Is there any reason why |
should not be happy'" sang the
robin bird. My wife and | have
a nice nest house III this tree, and
in the nest are some beautiful blue
eggs. Ont of the eggs. pretty soon,
will come some little birds. | want
them to he as happy as l am, so
| keep on singing.
You are always singing, it
seems to me went on the rabbit
gentleman. Are YOU never sad and
unhappy' DO YOU never sing
Cheer down instead of Cheer up
my friend''
"What good would that do?"
asked the feathcrcd chap. NO one
would pay any heed to me if [
sang about my troubles. So | al
ways sing about being glad and
every one listens
That 5 good idea = said Mr.
Longears with a laugh. for ii made
him happy just to near the robin
sing.
The bunny uncle watched Mr.. and
Mrs. Robin fitting about, picking
up stray bits of dried grass. a
loose feather from the yard where
Charlie and Arabella Chick lived.
or some hairs from he tail of Il
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11
TEN YEARS AGO
August IL, 1916

Manuel b. Letson has gone to
Long Beach for six weeks out
ing.
Vaughn Thompson, deputy county
clerk, has gone on his vacation. He
was accompanied by K. l.. Cooper
and family of Brawlev. The party
is off on an auto tour.
Imperial Valley is due for the
best fall business seen i'll six years.
Get your cash register oiled up.
b. H. Crocheron, head of the
state farm bureau, spent yesterday
with Farm Advisor Dougherty and
A. NJ. Nelson, county development
agent.
F. Nillesenor transacted business
in Holtville yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11
THEATERS

Arthur Rankin is one of the few
screen actors who can sympathize
with Lon Chaney's screen twist,
ings. For this actor has just joined
the ranks of the contortionists
which Chaney heads. And, if any
thing, he is going him one better.
In "Old Loves and New Marion
Fairfax's production of E. NJ. Hull s
celebrated novel, "The Desert
Healer,' which comes to the Air
dome tomorrow and Friday, Rankin
impersonates a wounded war vet
eran. 1t is questionable whether
CLANCY. for all his distortions, has
gone through more severe ordeal.
All of Rankin s time on the
screen is spent in a wheel chair.
But, being an able bodied, vigorous
young man, it is necessary to con-
ceal his limbs completely from the
camera S ferret sharp eye. Maurice
! Tourneur. who directed "Old Loves
and New which First National is
releasing, required that Rankin be
; on hand for call any minute. He was
not permitted to relax or straighten
up, as the process of binding is slow
and complicated because of the ne
ccssitv of concealment.
Chaney's most fatiguing ordeal
was probably in "The Hunchback
of Notre Dame 1t was said that
in this picture the strain compelled
him to take frequent relaxation.
In his current role young Rankin
gets no such opportunity for rest.
Lewis Stone and Barbara Bedford
head the "Old Loves and New
cast, which also includes Walter
Pidgeon, Katherine Mcdonald, Tul-
ly Marshall, Albert Cont and Ann
ROrk.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
August II. 1911

The regular board of supervisors
is in rcgualr monthly session today.
Chairman Clark and Messrs. Carr
and Wills being present. Messrs.
Boyd and Bennett are on the coast.
The supervisors today made their
regular monthly count of county
money and found total of $l40,-
072.4S. OF this $99,542.4S is cash
and S49,j3O bank deposits. OF the
cash about half is school money,
and of that $4,000 has not yet been
apportioncd.
W. 5. Edwards, for a year princi-
pal of FL Ccntro grammar schools,
now of Santa Barbara, passed yester
day i'll town.
Mrs. G.. w. McCollum has gone to
coast points to be absent for two
months.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11

men saw Il big, black, old Tom Cat
sncaking through the grass toward
the tree where Mr.. Robin had been
singing.
"Oh, the bad Tom Gait" thought
the rabbit. " He is going to cat the
robins eggs, so no little birds can
hatch out. Get away. Scat. Scoo.
loot! cried the rabbit to the
Sinking creature. But still he crept
on toward the tree and Uncle Wig
gilv ran 50 fast to drive the cat
away ithat the bunny gentleman
slipped Oh a wet place in the grass,
near a spring, ald fell down.
Whumpitv ump' he srunted as
II" tumbled down. And before he
could pick himself up he saw the
cat scramtlilE M into the tree.
Then down she. cane again with
5, mething in her mouth.
''Oh, Nr. Robin.'' called the
"unny rs he at last loppcl to his
Iret, ''%.'i the Tom Cat get your
w:fes 5 eggs? [ tried to drive him
away, Int l slipp and fell. [ am
so sorrv.'
Don : worry.' said Mrs. Rob
III, perching on branch and
Laughing. ''That old eat got to our
first nest, but all he found to cat
was "A mouthful of feathers, anil
he II choke on tllm -
" Then he didn t get your eggs, "
asked the bunny.
No. sang Mr.. Robin. "Our
eggs are i'll a second nest we built
higher up in the tree. You see. -
he explained. "we have raised one
family of little robins already this
summer. We are nov raising our
second family and l told my wife
we ought to have larger nest. SO
we built a second one, higher up
i'll the tree, and the Tom Cat didr t
know aobut that
- m very glad spoke Uncle
Wiggilv. And he laughed to think
how funny the Tom Cat looked with
his mouth full of feathers instead
of eggs or tender little brds.N So
this teaches us that it is wise
sometimes for birds to have Il Sec
ond nest. And if the trolley car
dOesn t run off the track and bump
the lollypop on the nose, I'll tell
you next about Uncle Wiggi!y and
the funny markles.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11
MeXicali Labor
Leaders Arrested

Jose Castillo, publisher of Gel
Regional' in Mexicali with eight
other political leaders, is under ar
rest charged with defamation of
character and criminal libel. Those
named with Castillo in the COM
plaint are: Juan Nelson, candidate
for congress in the recent northern
district election; Prof. o. Gomez
Moran, Jose M. Gascon, Rafael Sin
fuentes, Sebastian Armento, Fran
cisco Guerrero, Rodrigo Gonzales and
Tranquiline Mayoral.
The group is charged with cir
culating Il publication containing at
tacks on Alfonso Tovar, Pablo Bur
rola, Enrique Pena, Ventura Juarc-
qui and Wcnceslao Duran, all prom
inent in Lower California labor syn
dicates.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11

horse who had trotted near a bram-
BILE patch. The tail of horse of
ten catches on a briar bush, and
hairs are pulled out, not hurting
the horse at all, but making ma
terial for a soft lining in the nest
of a bird.
Mrs. Robin filled her beak full of
soft grass-so full that it would
seem she could not fly up with it.
But she did, and even though her
I beak was full she managed to call
to her husband:
q am carrying more to our
nest than you are, Rob!'
''Oh, l haven't gathered up half
[ am going to carry.' said Mr..
Robin, and he picked up bit of
fluffy cotton from dried milk
weed pop until his beak was so
filled tna- he could not sing.
81 thought your nest was all
finished, spoke Uncle Wiggily.
You said your wife had laid eggs
/ in it, Mr.. Robin"
$50 | did, answered the bird
who left the fluffy stuff for his wife
to pluck about and settle in the
nest. "But we always add a bit
of soft lining before the little birds
hatch out. That is what we are
gathering stuff for now -
Uncle Wiggilv watched the father
and mother robin gather more soft
grass and horse tail hairs, and he
was thinking how jolly it would be
after the little birds came out, when
all of sudden the rabbit gentle
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11
Mission Xavier =
Is Wonder Sight

The old Spanish mission San Fran
cisco Xavier del Bac on the line of
the Southern Pacific at Tucson, Ari.
zona, is one Of the Best preserved of
these interesting structures.
This ancient mission is a monu-
ment to the spiritual labors of Padre
Eusebio Francisco 5,Kino who is
credited with founding the original
mission of which the beautiful struc-
ture forms present architectural ex-
preston. y
San Xavier is well worth stop
over at Tucson. The mission build
ing, nine miles south Of the rail-
way station, is easilv v reached in a
leisurely trip by automobile, during
which one gets Il taste of genuine
desert scenery.
The mission building is one Of the
most beautiful examples of Span
ish ecclesiastical architecture iN
America; its pure white walls rising
lonely in the desert, stately towers
and dome, silhouetted against the
depths of the translucent sapphirt;
sky, lends an Oriental suggestion. =
Here daily services are still held,
also u parochial school for the Pa
pago Indians for whom the mission
was built in 1873 and whose primi3
tive habitations are scattered about
as the mission S only near neigh \
bors.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11
Sisters Diary
Obtains Divorce

san FRANCISCO, Aug. IL
Allegedlv burning passages from the
purportcd diary of Miss Dora Lynn,
an honor student at Pomona college
today helped win for her sister, Mrs.
Florence Hopkins an intcrlocutory
decree of divorce from Charles H.
Hopkins, manufacturers agent III
Los Angeles. The diary excerpts
were read to Superior Judge Daniel
C. Deasy. One ran:
II am weak. | should have con
troll over my passions and be a
guide and comforter rather than a
temptress in his sight. But my true
love has my heart and | have his. -
Mrs. Hopkins charged her sister
with alienation of Hopkins affcc-
tions.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11
OLD FASHIONED DANCE
POPULAR AT EUREKA

EUREKA, Aug. l1.-Humboldt
State Teachers College is unmind-
full, temporarily at least, Of the jazz
era. It is turning its attention to
the dances of, as some have it, bet
ter days. The quadrillc, the schot-
tischc and the like. Under the di-
rcction Of George c. Gas, supervisor
of education at the summer session
here, more than 100 students are
learning the steps Of their GRAND
parents, and they like it.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11
Famous Iceman
Back on Job
by United Press Leased Wire

WHEATON. ILL.,, Aug. 1l-Harold
(Red Grange is back on the ice
wagon again.
Armed with his solid silver ice
tongs and clad in a khaki shirt and
trousers, "Red' covered his ice
route yesterday for the first time
since completing his moving picture
efforts.
Grange is teaming with Archie
acKinney, Wheaton college ath-
lete, on the ice wagon squad. His
resumption of work in the ice bus
mess was taken as an indication
that Red is already in training
for professional appearances this
fall.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11
Conway Held For
Superior Court

James Conway, former officer in
the British army, with record Of
service in France during the World
war, was ordered held for trial in
superior court on charges of forgery,
following Il preliminary hearing be-
fore Justice Lorenz in Calexico
yesterday. t.t
Conway was arrested when it
was found that IA check he attempt
ed to cash in Calexico was Il forg-
cry. He denies knowing the check
was worthless and declares it was
given to him in payment of gamb-
ling debt by stranger he played
cards with i'm Mexicali.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11
Looking Backward
What the Press files tell o. I'm
perial Valley for this dase
in past years.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
AuouSt II 1906

Miss Eupha Young entertained u
party of friends ut her home last
evening.
Mrs Morse and Mrs. Allison Peek
and baby left yesterday afternoon
for Iowa.
Mr.. Bradshaw is assisting in the
post office during Miss Allatt S alb
Sence.
Mrs Jim Moore left this morning
for TIE coast.
Is. +. Nozler was selected by the
dairymen at their meeting last Sat
urday to buy and weigh cream at
this place, +. w. Ecker who form
erly held the position, having gone
to San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11

\ rest and recreation camp for
farm bureau women was establish
ed in the Mt. Lasscn region and
was attended by women from Te-
hama, Glenn, Yolo and Solano coun-
ties
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11
THE WEATHER

Los Angeles and Vicinity: Fair
tonight and Thursday with moder-
ate temperature. Foggy or cloudy
in the early morning.
Southern California: Fair tonight
and Thursday but cloudy or foggy
near the coast tonight; normal tenn
perature and normal humidity.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11

One thing wrong with the United
States is the Atlantic ocean ism t
as wide as the Pacific.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11

If this ism hot enough for you,
YOU know where YOU can go.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11

Going without stockings isn't cx
pensive enough to become a fad.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11

Get Il iegible laundry mark
Laundry marks make fine clues.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11

our main streets, num-
dreds Of cars have
been made-have ex.
isted for a year or two
and then died out.
Time, that test Of
all things, has weeded
out the many unable
to make the grade"
and left the standard
cars Of today.
Like these automo.
biles, non. .detonating
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11

Consider these facts
when you buy your
gasoline. Consider
that drivers of all
kinds Of automobiles,
from the earliest
model to the most
modern, have oper.
ated on and been
given satisfaction
with non detonating
Union Gasoline.
That 10 your guar.
antee.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11
Since the Vests first Automobile

% ACK in 1899, the first crude
- automobile made its appear.
ance on the Pacific Coast. People
easped in wonder at the sight Of it,
and a few daring ones actually
trusted themselves to the dangers
Of the "horseless carriage"
What strides have been made in
the automobile industry since then!
You can easily recall the topless,
high. h.seated bicycle effects in the
early modck-the outside brakes
and gear levers chain drive.
Then came the first improve.
ment, a snappier looking car. And
thus we graduated into more com.
Portable machinss.
Step by step there developed the
automobile Of today.
In the years that have passed,
since people stood astounded while
the earliest products chugged down
Imperial Valley press., 1926-08-11

Union Gasoline has progressed. Has
stood the test Of years.
Just as constant thought and re-
search have been directed toward
improvements in automobiles, 50
has Union Oil Company Of Cali.
fornia constantly improved nom
detonating Union Gasoline and the
methods Of refining this fuel.
And now when you buy a car
you do not only consider the looks
Of the machine. You ask how long
has it been manufactured, what .
the record Of its makers.
How has it stood the test Of
time!
So with gasoline.
In non-detonating Union Case.
line you get the perfection result.
ing from four decades Of refining
and marketing-of over forty years
Of research-au to serve you.
Evening star., 1926-12-17

and light-heartedly about the consid-
Grafton of a case the outcome of
which meant so much to the present
and future well-being of the country"
After stating that he did not want
to be understood as criticising the at
titude of Senator Heflin, Senator
Walsh declared
Conduct of Judge Praised.
81 feel impelled, however. Mr.. Pres
ident, to say that in my Judgment the
structures upon the presiding judge in
the trial, Judge Hoehling, are not war
ranted by his conduct of the trial,
which l think was characterized by
dignity, discernment and impair
tiality.
Il think. perhaps, the Senator from
Alabama would not have been as Sc
we're upon the learned Judge as he has
been if he had read more carefully
that portion of the instructions of the
Judge which became the subject Of
his critical comment"
Senator Walsh said he felt sure
Senator Hefiin must have referred to
the admonition given to the jury, not
with refernce to returning for further
instructions concerning the law in the
case. but for the purpose of request
ing that specific exhibits be sent to
the jury Senator Walsh added:
Il am sure that the Senator's stric-
lures upon the judge must have arisen
by reason of the following from the
judges charge. He said: One other
matter feel I should mention to you,
and that concerns the exhibits in the
case. Under the practices in this jpfis-
diction the physical exhibits in the
case are not permitted by the court
to be taken or to be sent to the jury
room, save only upon consent of coun.
sci on both sides. But. even then, It
is preferable that individual exhibits
be not thus singled out for inspection
in the jury room, If that course
reasonably can be avoided, and I say
that for the reason that, by detaching
one exhibit from it's associates, it's
seeming Importance. or lack of i'm.
pOrtance, may appear out of proper
ton to the whole picture from which
it was taken. AS far as 1t may be
reasonably possible for you to do so,
the court suggests that you try to
reproduce. in your memory, the whole
picture and its several component
parts.
AS I stated at the outset, we both
Evening star., 1926-12-17

have our duties to perform in our
several places; / fill one place. you
fill another; but we are both ministers
Of the law; and now you enter upon
the discharge of your final duty.
After reading this part OF the In
structions to the jury. Senator Walsh
continued:
Judge Hoehling apparently was fol-
lowing the practice of the District OF
Columbia not to send exhibits to the
jury, but 1t will be observed that he
did not refuse to do so: nor did he say
that he would not send even indi-
vidual exhibits to the Jury If they re-
quested them, but he suggested to
them that it perhaps would not be
wise for them to ask for single ex-
hibits, because that might lead to an
erroneous conclusion.
II feel that in simple justice to
Judge Hoehling, whose conduct or
the case, it has seemed to me from the
rather limited information l have
about the matter. was past all criti-
cism, these few words should be said. :"
When asked today by a representa-
tive of The Star whether he had read
Justice Hoehling's charge to the jury
before commenting on it in the Senate
Yesterday afternoon, Senator Hefiin
said he had read parts of 1t which
appeared in Washington newspaper.
Evening star., 1926-12-17
MAYORS VOICE ON RADIO
TURNS ON $500 LIGHTS

By the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, December 1.-THE i'm.
pulse of Mayor Victor J. Miller's voice,
transmitted by telephone to radio sta
ton KDKA at East Pittsburgh, and
there re-transmitted by powerful short
wave equipment, last night turned on
more than $500 street lights here.
Radio engineers said 1t was the first
time the feat had been accomplished.
Special receiving equipment, ar.
ranged so as TO actuate extremely sem
sitive relays, picked up the impulse
and threw into operation a sub-station
controlling the lighting system. The
sub-station, which is entirely auto.
matte, Is provided with an astronom.
ical clock, which will regulate the
turning on and off of the lighting sys-
tenn, according as the days lengthen
and shorten throughout the season.
Evening star., 1926-12-17
WALSH HITS HEFL|N
SLAP AT HOEHL|NG
Oil Case Judge Defended by
Montanan Against Alabama
Senator's Criticism.

In a denunciatory speech in the
Senate yesterday afternoon following
the verdict of acquitted in the Fall-Do-
heny case Senator Hefiin, Democrat
of Alabama, assailed both the judge
and jury in the case.
a few moments later Senator
Walsh, Democrat of Montana, who
was active in pushing the oil inquiry
several years ago, arose to the defense
of Justice Hoehlings method of CON
Quoting the trial.
Referring to Justice HOehling, Sen
atOr Hef1in said he did not know him,
but that the judge was appointed by
President Harding, in whose admins
tration Fall was a cabinet member.
The Senator added that this case
should not have been tried by him in
the circumstances"
Judges Charge to Jury.
Later in his speech Senator Heflin
criticized the judges charge to the
jury. and said:
'The papers have been full of this
trial, and the judge did a strange
thing when he charged the jury, a
very strange thing. ! will read what
one of the Washington papers said
about the judges charge to the jury
in the Doheny-Fall case:
justice t1OenllnS III 0lS cndISe
warned the II men not to ask the
court for any particular piece of evi-
dence. He said the case had been
presented in it's entirety and that they
should make UP their minds on the
face of evidence as they had already
heard it,
THAT is the first time. so far as
know, in the history of American
Jurisprudence that a judge ever fore
stalled a jury in the outset and told
them not to come back and ask for
light or instructions on any particular
phase of the testimony. In the hum
blest courts of the Nation. from the
justice of the peace to the h'~hest
court in the country, the jury has the
right, which no judge should deny, to
come out of the jury room and walk
up to the Judge on the bench and say,
If your honor please, we are not clear
on this particular phase of the case.
The jurors do not agree as TO what
you said on this point. We would like
for you to tell US just what you did
say touching this particular phase of
the case.
But here the judge closed the door
on that. He tells the jury, according
to the newspaper, before the case is
finally submitted to the jury that he
is through with it, that they are to
take it, with all the confessional COM
plications that the shrewdest and
ablest lawyers in the Nation can
throw into it, and says, in effect, to
them, You stay in there and handle
it the best you can am through
with it. Do not come back to me for
Instructions
Evening star., 1926-12-17
Refers to Jury's Singing.

The Alabama Senator also referred
10 published reports that the jury was
heard singing on the evening it was
locked up to reach a verdict. He said:
Il have read the grewsome story of
Nero ffddling while Rome burned.
This is the first time / ever heard of
jurors, solemnly charged with a grave
and responsible duty, going merrily
The Washington times., 1926-08-14
Bath HOuse-Picnic Tables

A large bath house, the use Of which is FREE Il
those interested in Beverley Beach, is at your con
venience for making changes into your swimming
togs. Picnic tables have been provided enabling
you to eat your picnic luncheons on the grounds