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Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25
RLESY PUPILS
DELIGHT WITH
ANNUAL REVUE

Last night the pupils of Mrs.
Wooda Blesy danced before a large
and enthusiastic audience in the an
nual revue, given at the Fox I'm
perial Theatre. Credit is due Mrs.
Blesy for the individual perfection
and finished performance and also
for the unusual and attractive COS
tunes which were designed by the
teacher
The dances of Claire Newkirk and
Harriet Stafford met with their
usual acclaim and were accomplished
in a highly professional manner.
The program opened with an
amusing "Pickin' Cotton" dance,
with the little dancers carrying dunn
mics which appeared to be carrying
the dancers on their backs in bas-
kets. This dance was given by the
two intermediate classes and closed
with clever tap dance by Harriett
Stafford.
Margaret Swanson, in the " Moon
Dance deserved praise and little
Margaret Louise Miller in "Baby
Incense Dance showed unusual
ability.
Cne Of the most attractive num-
bers was the National Baby Dolls -
presented by the baby class, which
includes Burton Henry Lemons,
Helen Mae Beronio, Patricia Jean
Hickcox, Shirley Jean Herring,
Jane May Aubrey, Dona Rath,
Doreen Meager, Gloria Wyeth, Len
navicve Arnold, Barbara Jean Don
levy and Phyllis Purdy. Each little
dancer represented a nation and did
its national dance.
The Wooden Soldiers" dance in
Guided William Ward, Rosemary Le-
Blanc, Billy Bezdecheck, Betty
Lemons, Francis Ward, Marjorie
Hovcy, Fern Bezdecheck and Helen
Burke.
The older class, composed of
Cheryl Clancy, Evelyn Russell, Fran
ces Allen, Betty Going, Mary Louise
Burk, Eileen Lowitzki and Mildred
Marcot, were seen to advantage in
Russian folk dance.
Dinah, the final ensemble
number included speciality tap dane
cs by the Intermediate classes and
the pantoninc of Fern Bezdechcck
and Buddy Rogers won special ap-
plause. Claire Newkirk and Har-
riett Stafford also appeared in this
number in a quaint hoop skirt cos
tune and tiny Jean Maitland, Vir-
ginia Lee Jones, Beatrice Burke and
Elrose Marquardt, completely cover
ed by large high hats joined for the
finale.
Accomplishments for the entire
program were played on the pipe
organ by Florence Seis, organist at
the Fox imperial Theatre.
At the close of the performance
Mrs. Blesy received a large basket
OF roses from the mothers of her
pupils.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25
Hav Demand Is
Holding Firm

A report received today at the
Imperial County Farm Bureau states
that the hay market is holding
steady at $23 to $24 ton for L. ).
No. ] on track at Los Angeles. This
should net the producer $l7.50-ls.50
fob. ears Imperial Valley points.
Arrivals are reported as light and
demand, active. Some hay is com
inc in from the San joaquin and
Antelope valleys and it is expected
that heavy shipments from Ian
caster and Owens valley will begin
within 10 days,
An inquiry has been received for
500 tons to go east but it is feared
that the freight rates are too much
against the proposition.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25
Bill Suffering
From Sunburn

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, May
25. W.R-Ahead of his schedule by
half mile, Bill Williams, pea,
nut-pusher extraordinary, came out
of his bivouac this morning, nursing
stiffencd joints and tortured mus
cles.
The hot sun of the past fey after
moons has somewhat parboiled his
back and shoulders and he was an
xious to knock off a mile as soon as
possible.
Williams is attempting to push a
peanut up Pixies Peak to wln a $500
bet. He is using a wire frame push
er attached to his head.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25
Reject Change In
Divorce Code

ST PAUL, Mimi, May %, U.H-
Willful desertion shall not be drop
ped by the Presbyterian church as
q ground for divorce, it was an
nounced here today at the 14lst
Presbyterian general assembly.
BY vote of $50 to 80 the Pres
byterians of the nation signified
that willful desertion should not be
eliminated from the grounds for di-
vorce leaving but one cause-un-
faithfulness. The vote was made on
an overture sent out by the 1928
general assembly.
A study of the vote revealed that
most of the sentiment for the
tightening of the divorce code came
from the rural regions while the
larger centers of population We're
not in favor of change.
Los Angeles and San Francisco
voted against the change.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25
DUTY ON
FIGS IS
BOOSTED
House Agrees To Protect
California and Texas
Fig Industry.
SMELL WORKS FAST
Rules Committee Leader
Rushes Through Flock
OF Amendments.
BY JOSEPH WAsNEY

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May -. U.P>-
The house today adopted an amend
ment to the tariff bill changing the
proposed duty on figs from two to
five cents pound.
Chairman Hawley of the ways
and means committee announced
the increased rate was necessary to
protect the California and Texas
fig industry. Figs under the pres
tnt tariff law are on the free list.
The house today settled down to
the routine procedure of passing
ways and means committee amend
ments to the tariff bill with only
slight murmur Of. opposition from
the Democratic side.
Only two Democrats, Rep. Loxicr.
Mo, and Mrs. Mary Norton, y. j.,
opposed committee changes to the
bill when - al \ ndments were rush.
ed through by Chairman Smell of
the rules committee.
After the first three or four
amendments were cleared, Smell
asked for viva vote ON new
amendments as quickly as the clerk
could read them TO the membership.
This really prevented those OPP
posed from using five minutes to
sreak on the changes, for unless the
ucInbcr was exceedingly active the
vote was recorded before he could
rise 70 his feet
Beats Directors
The procedure was so rapid that
in one instance Smell called for the
votc and before anyone could an.
swcr he announced the amend
ment is agreed to-
Democrats. realizing they are
too outnumbcred 20 contest commit
tee changes, were reserving their
strength for n supreme effort to
send the bill back to committee for
changes in the administration pro.
visions.
Two test votes on the bill taken
yesterday showed administration
leaders had sufficient strength to
pnss il when the final roll tall is
taken. The test votes showed o34
to l3s and 2l7 to 1879 in fevor of
the bin.
While there are II committee
amendments yet 20 be acted upon,
leaders said # all were not reached
by 3 O'Clock next Tuesday the re.
mainder would be voted on in a
group 50 they could be included in
the bill.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25
More AviatOrs
Seeking Record

WICHITA, Kan. May 25. W.H-
Two more aviators took the air here
today in the aviation industry's con
test to set new endurance tests.
They were Gene Shank and Owen
Haugland, Minneapolis flyers, who
will attempt to beat all world en-
duranee records. They will fly a
circular course over Wichita, Min
neapolis and Ranger, Texas.
They made their first refueling
test at 10 a. m. after taking off
from Braley flying field at $3.50 this
morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25
Hopes To Beat
Jensen'S Mark

Los ANGELES. May s5. UP
Lieut.. Herbert J. Fahy hopped off
a. a;o9:sy a. IA. today in stock
model l.oekheed Vega cabin mono.
plane in an effort 90 break the en-.
daraace solo fiight record of IS
hours 3s minutes now held by Mar.
tin Jensen u New York.
Fahy, chief pilot ~ the Lockheesi
eompany, must remain In tho air IL
ha@l one heuF more thAn tha pFs@
cat record In order 20 rssAbllsh ~,
feially 4 ucw mark.
HIS plane carried as gallons u
gasoilae when n took off from I>os
Angeles Metropolitan Airport. seens
q the Qaestion Mark ~a1uranse
test.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25
Accuse Gypsies
OF Cannibalism

PRAGUE, May 25, W.D-Trial of
10 gypsies charged with eanibalism
was continued in Cosice, Czecho.
Slovakia, court today.
Prison Warden Mihalifalvi insist
ed the confessions of the gypsies
were made voluntarily.
A prison Inspector said two of the
gypsies, Hudak and Ybar, described
how they had cooked and eaten
human bodies.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25
FATAL PLANE CRASH

JACKSON, Mich, May %. WR)
Arthur j. Cohen, 81, was killed
and two other men seriously injured
when an airplane crashed to the
ground near Reynolds Field, the
municipal airport, Friday evening.
The crash occurred when John Mil
Ter, the pilot, banked for a turn.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25
FLYERS
remain
ON HIGH
Kelly and Robbins End
Six Days in Air And
Are Going Strong.
SET MARK TONIGHT
Question Marks Record
Due To Fall From All
Indications.

FORT WORTH, Tex, May 25.
U.P)-A bright sun beamed down
on Meacham Field today, bringing
added cheer to Reg Robbir. and
Jim Kelly, youthful airplane pilots
whose efforts to establish new
sustained flight record seemed des-
tined to end in success. The two are
on their sixth day of continuous
flight. ~
Rain fell yesterday and last night,
adding to the difficulties Of the
flight, but before midnigh: the
skies cleared.
The monotonOus roar Of the re-
built whirlwind motor of the Ryan
monoplane has droned in the ears Of
the two men nearly six days. They
went aloft at 11:33 a. m. Sunday
and if their circling continues, they
will pass the Hath hour at 11:33
a. IN. today.
About seven hours later, Robbins
and Kelly will equal the present
sustained flight record, providing
nothing develops to bring sudden
end to their flight. The record,
l5O:40: 16, was established by the
army plane Question Mark.
The passing of that mark, at
6:13 p. m. today, will not see the
end of their efforts, however, ac-
cording to the two. They hope to
continue soaring over Fort Worth
until a record many hours greater
is esta blished.
1--WE II stay up here 200 hours if
the motor holds together" Reg
Robbins, pilot of the endurance
plane Fort WORTH" said today
in a note dropped to the Fort Worth
Press.
The two weary men have taken
turns at the controls of the plane
during the last week. The notes
they have dropped to the crowd Of
Spectators at Meacham Field in
dieated their spirits are high.
There remains only the one sus-
tanned flight record to break. They
have passed all others, the last to
be broken being the mark of 119
hours set by the French dirigible
Dixmude.
Strain Is Telling
The strain of their efforts is tell
ing, according to the refueling
crew, X. K. Hoffman, and H. s.
Jones. They said the faces of the
young men are drawn and pinched
from the constant strain of tending
the motor, the roar of the engine
in their ears and the fact that their
sleep is broken.
Nonetheless there is nothing bull
optimism evidenced in the notes the
Port Worth - crew have drop
ped. They are eheered by word from
welt wishers on the ground and
their wives frequently come up in
other planes to wave courage to
them.
sheafs of notes, kilograms and
letters have been delivered in the
refuelings. Thy can read how the
world is watching their flight in
clipping from many newspapers
which are lowered to them. along
with food aud clean clothing.
Robbins takes delight in telling
the watchers how Kelly misses his
bride of six weeks. - IN afraid we
can't last much longer" he said in
one note. Kelly is thinking of his
wife and | cant refuel alone ["
The d 'ermincd spirit " the two
was evidenced in another note
which ended by rcmarking. "two
Texans can beat what any other six
guys can do There were six men
IN the army plane Question Mark.
Editors Eote--Question Marks
crew Was five menl
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25
WHAT'S DOING

TONIGHT
Fox Imperial Theatre, The
Donovan Affair.
TOMORROW
Church services, all churches.
Radio KXO, 1912, 90.
Baseball, $3.50, Eastside
grounds.
Fox imperial Theatre, IN
nocents of Paris
MONDAY
Masonic luncheon, Barbara
Worth.
Radio KXO, 7-8, Ill.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25
GEHRIG GETS ANOTHER

BOSTON, May %. W.p)-Lou Geh-
rig, Yankee first baseman, hit his
10th homer of the season today off
Russell Of the Boston Red Sox in
the first, inning OF the first game of
a double header. He scored Combs
ahead of him.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25
VERY BAD FORM

OAKLAND. Calf, May 25. M.P
In a divorce suit on file In su-
perior court here today, Mrs. Francis
A. Doble is accused Of loudly De
nouneing her husband while they
were riding ON a crowded San Fran
cisco street ear.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25

Ten streams in Tulare county
We're closed to fishing this year as
they were last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-05-25

stanisiass eeanty gro~srs have
sauognscd they siii asa sleo . tea
for their tx sseP.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01

The inaugural program the Freshman orchesadians featuring
thirty piece orchestra under Hugo
Marian will be NBC system Tuesday night at $50
SLEEPY Valley Waltz for her first
number and presents Lifetime" from "Vanties OF 1928
a second
will be the opereta broadcast by
Light Opera Company Tuesday night at O'CLOCK through
stations Of Columbia Broadcastng system
program popular pieces including compositions by Victor Her
Iea the Mederraneans in their
weekly broadcast through Tuesday night at o'clock
Under direction orchestra will play Victor Her
bers woodland Eva Waze from the light opera
of that Carver OF Chaninades Scart Dance
and the exotic intermezzo-walz from Delibes Malta
Te March Mozart 1.-THE Magic Flute
the through the NBC system Tuesday night
at 10 o'clock
Songs made onetme popular band OF
will be revived over the air by the Dutc Mas
during broadcast through the NBC system TUESDAY
night at $780, -. -, .,r.. c.u.ou
Quartet and THAT Old Song while Silver Threads
JOSE who to lame as
voiced specially selected vocalist
concert arrangement spiritual Deep River WIN pc
played Seay Air Weav orchestra under ocuon OF L
during through the NBC System Tuesday ngn at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
WHITE AGAIN JUDGE
Reappointed by Jackson to
Municipal Bench.

Dan v. White, 80 North Airing
ton avenue, today began his second
four-year term as municipal court
jugde after Governor Ed Jackson
announced his reappointment Mon
day afternoon.
White won the place over William
H. Sheaffer, former deputy prose-
cutor; Thomas G. Whallen, former
city judge, who is henchman of
George v. Coffin, district Republican
chairman, and H. B, Pike, former
county pauper attorney.
White received his first appoint
ment as municipal judge when the
court was created in 1925. For more
than two and half years he served
on the bench Of the criminal mu-
nicipal courts at police head
quarters
White is as years old and was
born in Upton county. During the
war he organized employment
Offices in the state, working under
the war department.
White is a member of the Scot
fish Rite, Irvington Masonic lodge,
Century Club, Loyal Order of Moose,
and the Society of Indiana Pioneers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
SUIT TO DECIDE
WHOLE FUTURE
OF UTILITIES
Railway Case Is of Vast
Import; Hearing Opens
Wednesday.
BY RUTH FINNEY
Times staf Correspondent

WASHINGTON. Dec. 81 The
whole future Of regulation OF public
utilities hangs in the balance in a
case to be argued before the United
States supreme court Wednesday.
1t is the so-called OFallon case,
involving the question on how the
interstate commerce commission
shall value the property of railroads
in determining what rates shall be
charged.
Some years ago the commission
placed a valuation upon the ST.
Louis 81 O'Fallon Railway Com
pany properties and determined
that recent earnings had been in ex-
cess of 6 per cent upon this valua-
ton, and therefore were subject tc
recapture.
The company took the case to the
courts declaring the commission
should have taken into account the
cost Of reproducing its properties at
present prices in determining value.
The court upheld the commissions
decision, refusing to go into the
question Of how a valuation should
be made.
This decision the railroad now is
appealing TO the supreme court,
contending that the lower court
should have exercised its judgment
as to the true value Of the prop
erty and that it should have arrived
at this true value on the basis Of
reproduction cost
The case, in addition to being ar
gued b yattorneys for the United
States and the railroad will be ar
Bued by counsel for the National
Conference on Valuation of Ameri-
can Railroads.
The question at issue, says this
organization, in a brief filed with
the court, is one of extraordinary
public conren. Leaving out the
question of whether production cost
is the correct basis for valuation, it
stresses the Importance of the other
two conflicting theories or regula-
tons Observation-Disclosures valuation
is a judicial function always to be
determined ultimately by the courts,
or whether it is a legislative func-
ton, with final decision in the l..
G. c., as representative of the leg
islative branch of government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
Fishing the Air

raddo station be included in the great
Bsane makes
10y night 1t is station WHO'D St.
Johns island member Of
National Broadasng the most costly station
country 1t viii be the air nightly from
! IN. or kiocycles
south stations the United States to
on string National Boadcaing
Copanys hookrp $3.50 $3.50 Mon
station 38o miles farther south than station which
previously a regular a national hookup.
program of the CicquOt Club
through network of
stations of system Tuesday night at o'clock.
Dolores Cassnel soprano and again
Sevanos to be broadcast
through of the NBC system Tuesday night
at $50.
The Octoroon presented by Hank Simmons Show
night at stations OF the Columbia
Broadcasting system.
Louisiana family Threatened with the
Of its and the octoroon
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
LESLIE WILL SPEAK
AT FAIR MEMS DINNER
State Association Will Meet Jan. 8
at ClaypOol.

State Association VIII Meet Jan. 8
at ClaypOol.
Governor Elect Harry G. Leslie
will be principal speaker at the an
nual banquet CT the Indiana Asso-
citation of County and District Fairs
in the Claypool, Jan. 8, E. j. Barker,
etary-treasurer announced to-
day.
After a welcome by Mayor L. Ert
Slack, the morning session will be
addressed by F. j. Claypool of Mum
Gle. A. P. Sandles of Ottawa, O.,
will address the afternoon meeting.
Annual conference of the Indiana
board Of agriculture will be held
Jan. 9 in the house of representa-
tives. Speakers will include Gov
ernor z. jackson. Levi P. Moore of
Rochester, president, and Secre-
tary Barker.
Members of the board from the
Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth and
Eleventh congressional districts will
be elected. A reorganization will be
held in the afternoon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
REALTY BILL PLANNED
License Measure Will Be Drafted at
Meeting Wednesday.

A real estate license bill will be
drawn up by the legislative commit
tee of the Indiana Real Estate As
ISOLATION when it meets Wednesday
at Q p. m, at headquarters, 824
Lemcke building.
Members of the committee are:
r. 3. Wilson, indianapolis, chair
man; r. E. Worley, Terre Haute;
John M. Fox, Gary; Walter L.
Curdes, TT. Wayne; Glen L. Sur
prise, Hammond, cnd Eli G. Huber,
Evansville. William H. Surbaugh
of Anderson, retiring president of
the association and Fred w. Keller
of South Bend, new president, has
been asked to attend.
Annual convention of the asso-
citation last September went on rec
ord as favoring state license law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
Indy TO dine HERE
Credit Men viii Be Hosts to
Filters.

indianapolis Association of Credit
Men will entertain Colonel Charles
A. Lindbergh and William P. Nc
Cracker Jr. at dinner at the Co.
lumbia Club Jan. "a.
McCracken is first assistant in
charge of aeronautics in the United
States department of commerce.
City officials and others interested
in the establishment of municipal
airport will be invited. Ulysses
Grant, association president, will be
POSTMASTER, and Louis Ludlow,
congressman, will attend.
Lindbergh is chairman of the
technical committee of Transcon-
tinental Air Transport Company,
Inc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-01
-. Radio -
- kauI0 --
JAZZ STAYS ON
RADIO THRONE,
SURVEY SHOWS
Proportion 4 to | Over
Serious Educational
Features.

| By Times Special
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-The next
time some ser1ous-minded soul
breaks out with that remark about
the marvellous educational influence
of the radio, you can show him
this:
1.-The proportions of the programs
broadcast over America today is
four hours of jazz and popular airs
to one Of serious informative talks
and education"
This is the report of Charles
Merz, critic, writer and himself a
radio pioneer, who has checked up
on what is going on in the air, and
draws his conclusions in an article
appearing in the current issue of the
Golden Book magazine.
"Ten of the typical smaller sta
tions at Des Moines, Philadelphia,
New York, Nashville, Hartford,
Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago,
Kansas City and Dallas were on the
air for 294 hours in recent week, :
reports Merz. They gave twenty
eight hours to talks, seventy
hours to serious and PARKWAY
serious music, and 189 hours to syn
copation.
'"Ten of the larger stations in
New York, Schenectady, Pittsburgh,
Chicago, Cincinnati, Davenport, De-
troit, Springfield and Minneapolis
were on the air for 357 hours in
the same week: used f1fty-six hours
for talks, forty-two for serious mu-
sic and 259 for harmony and
rhythm"
And there you have the figures
on what the American radio audi
ence demands-for the stations are
cureful to give it what it wants.
But the real dominance of jazz
is even greater than the figures
show, the Golden Book article points
out, since the talks and serious fea-
lures of the program usually are
used to fill in the gaps in the day
light hours, while light music and
wise-cracking vaudevillians take up
almost aft the evening hours, when
upward of 100000 people are
likely to be listening.
But MerZ is CRITICAL neither of
the radio directors nor their audi
ences. On the contrary, he declares
that radio ought not to be criti-
cised if 1t fails to take over the
functions of laboratories, books and
art museums. For after all, there
are plenty of ways of studying sci
ence, drama, literature and his
tory.
1.-THE function of radio is lynn
panic. Into a nation that lives at
top speed and comes home much
too awake 10 settle down, the radio
brings a stimulus for tired nerves
and something to distract us while
we wash dishes or entertain the
neighbors. That is its function