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Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-05

taTm center Meeting Magnolia
I Mulberry farm center viii meet Fri
( day evening, March :, at 7:45 in the
Mulberry school. Movies provided
! by the telephone company will be
! shown and explained by Russell
! lllicgol, manager; the III clah VIII
! show its exhibit at the fair which
took first prize; George WiHwright,
, assistant farm advisor, viii speak
on the dairy situation ana Mrs.
Frank iowdcn viii give = piano
olo.
Unity Mary Virginia Cum
mings will teach class of Unity
School of Practical Christianity. Kan
sas City, Missouri in suite 20G Hotel
California, each Tuesday and Thurs
day evenings, 7:30 to 9 O'Clock, be-
ginning Tuesday March Il, 1880.
Love offerings Unity literature
for sale. Hours for interviews and
private lessons TO ) p. m. and BY
appointment. 5t6
Mysterious Stabbing Affair - c.
'. Burnett and j. T. Allen, aged
in & fight ut the ice house 1t CALI
ratEia Monday night with the re-
suit that Burnett emerged with three
knife wounds although the testi
monT of witnesses show that the
men fought with open hands and no
one remembers seeing 4 knife in the
possession of either conbatant. 1t
was further stated that Burnett was
The aggressor and brought on the
affair after q trip 10 MeXicali.
Watch Wednesdays paper fer
Fire Insurance Talks" by ". ].
Stone.
Collision On Highway - W. r.
Murray Of Long Beach ard f.. C.
Grifits. Holtville had little mixup
on ;hc Holtville highway this morn.
ing which resulted in damage to
Nurray's ear but no personal in
;uries. According to the report at
the traffic office the collision was
caused when Murray ran into the
Itar of Grifits' truck Grifits had
- 1I4St SAS iIst44tN ~! - It4l tul L diiu
then stopped suddenly on the pave
Il ent. the report said.
Sciots, Attention. Dinner ana
cards March 7th, Masonic temple.
All Sciots. Masons and their wives
invited.
Dr.. Harry Hooper, Dentist. lie
North 9th St. Phone 3o2. adv
Check Passer Arraigned - l.. Il
Woodward was arraigned before |
Judge Mavfield this morning on q |
charge OF having issued fictitious |
check on November l., 1929. His |
preliminary hearing was set 70, |
March II. with bail at $500.
Or. 4. 3. Rausvn, Dentist, Davis |
Bldg Extraction specialist. adv |
Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-05

Expert Finger waver, Ruth's Mar
el Shop, 4th and Wensley.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-05
Wooda Blesy school OF Dancing
723 Orange. Phone 733-W.

4 Mrs. Charlotte Ellis, popular fac
nifty member OF the Mckinley school
and president of the. American Le.
pion Auxiliary, is leaving the valley
next week for Los Angeles where she
will be connected with the school
system of that city.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-05

Mt. Signal Dance Saturday, March
Good music. Prize dances. jt4
Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-05
i. Fresh Butte,e1 Popcorn at Psui't
Stages Depot. sd,

i. Fire calls Few - The local fire
department was called out five times
during February hut three seri.
Gus fires demanding their attention.
While property damage caused hy
these bla2es was light, estimated 4.
$500. three persons were buried To
death, the two small sons of Young
Byrd, and Booker T. Brooks
Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-05
Dr.. Harry Hooper, Dentist. lie
North 9th st. Phone $50. adv

Check Passer Arraigned - L. Il
Woodward was arraigned before
Judge Mavfield this morning on a
charge OF having issued fictitious
check on November l.. 1929. His
preliminary hearing was set 70,
March Il. with bail at $500
Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-05

Good "Tire insurance Talks by
w. i. Stone. Watch Wednesday s
paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-05
Farley Pound Guilty

Farley Found Guilty = Isaac
Farley was found guilty OF second
degree robbery this morning by a
jury in Judge Finney's court, this
being his second trial on the same
charge. He was previously found
guilty together with ". Davenport
but was granted a new trial on
plea of new evidence. The court set
Friday for the passing of sentence.
Prize Winning Sweet Peas All
eolors, including yellow and green
with, or without baskets. Also other
flowers. Strickler's Fresh Posies
Gl7 Orange Ave, Phone 407M. 5t2
Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-05

Cr. 4. 3. Ransom, Dentist, Davis
Bldg Extraction specialist. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-05

Sciots, Attention. Dinner and
cards March 7th, Masonic temple.
All Sciots. Masons and their wives
invited.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-05
Court Activity Iig'

Court ACTIVITY Light = Threc e
cases were brought before Judge
Perkins this morning in police court.
*. j. kurz. %, was given sentence
of $40 or 10 days for drunkenness.
Charges of vagrancy against A.
Churchill, iS, and c. Tottcn. II, were
dismissed.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-03-05
Mysterious Stabbing Affair -

Watch Wednesday, paper for
Fire Insurance Talks" by ". !.
Stone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
Cherry Blossoms
In Washington

From the New York World.
AS rule, the real weakness in the
position Of the town booster Is that he
has nothing to boost. He regards it as
his civic duty to proclaim that his
town is the best in the United States;
but when you press him for proof Of
this, he usually has none, or II he has,
it turns out to be some foolish reason.
Furthermore, he has usually done moth
ing to supply the lack. The town may
actually be an appalling place; ugly,
dirty, churlish in its treatment of stran-
gers, utterly uninteresting. But 1t
rarely occurs to the booster to do any
thing about this, his belief, apparently,
being that If he only boosts enough,
everything eventually will come to him.
AS an object lesson in what even the
simplest attraction can do for town,
it seems to us that he ought to ponder
what happened in Washington, last
Sunday. There, countless Japanese
cherry trees are now in blossom. And
to look at them came automobile par
ties to an estimated number of $4,000,
causing what police officials called the
greatest congestion in the history Of
Washington for the season." This, too,
in spite of a rainstorm. And not only
did automobile parties come, but other
parGleS as well. len EXCURSION IEalIS
carried them to the city, and "other
trains were forced to attach extra cars
to take care of the passenger traffic "
And this whole throng came merely to
look at cherry blossoms, flowers that
cost nothing, save the pay of a few
gardeners to keep them pruned; that
toll not, neither do they spin; that lie
far outside the ordinary boosters
thinking. and have nothing to commend
them save that they are beautiful. Why
can't our American towns learn this
simple point? That they will thrive
best by becoming charming, pleasant,
worth visiting, worth living in? 1t is,
of course, by no means as easy as it
sounds. but it certainly is worth striv-
ing for.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
War Veteran Praises the
Service of Chaplains
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
In The Star the other evening an
article headed Rap at Chaplains
Arouses Ministers" caused me to think
back IL years, when my outfit, the
117th Infantry. entered the front line
near Ypres, Belgium.
Those were the days, when every min
ute we looked forward to concentrated
push by the Germans that would take
Calais from the British and leave the
allies in a bad situation in the north.
It was during these days that the
Army chaplain" first made his strong
est impression on me. 1t happened
that the chaplain attached to our bat
talon was a Catholic priest back
home, but lover there" he was just
little fellow" with a big heart, who,
under the most adverse and trying cir
cumstances, desired to administer the
Christian faith and do any act OF good
that presented itself.
/ never shall forget our first Sunday
at the front. We were in reserve posi-
ton, ready to move forward at any
moment. Our chaplain was holding
services in dilapidated old stable that
had only too recently been deserted by
the live stock. On this day, men OF
every creed stood and listened to talk,
delivered from the heart of little man.
which brought hope and continued
faith in the hereafter.
This little fellow" did not cease to
spread good after Sunday was ended.
When we moved up, he moved UP with
us. He was a friend and buddy"
Our first killed were given Christian
burial, and a record kept of the loca-
ton of their graves. Later I remem-
Der seeing him administering to lad
of my own platoon, who was gasplng
out his last breath and talking OF
mother and home. His eyes at that
time were a bit moist, as were my own,
but I know that the kid went west"
with a better feeling by having the
little fellow" with him to the last.
These deeds were not isolated occur
rences, but daily affairs.
DR.. AinSlie states that "there is no
more justification for being chaplain
in the Army or Navy than there is for
being a chaplain in speakeasy."
These are bitter words, and difficult to
swallow. I wonder If DR.. Ainslie speaks
knowingly? My opinion is that he
does not.
A few months ago I was a patient
in the Walter Reed General Hospital
there came in contact with the peace
time chaplain, Chaplain Oliver. That
esteemed gentleman works at his busi-
ness 365 days year spreading the Cos
pei and good fellowship among sick
veterans and men and officers of the
peace-time Army. 1t might do some
of the fellows on the outside some good
to meet and talk with Chaplain Oliver.
In closing would state that I am not
a chaplain and not overly religious, but
I like square deal and that is what
prompted this letter.
w. v. WILSON,
Elk First Lieut.. 117th Infantry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18

merger of gangs, his own and that Of
his chief rival In the racketeering field
Bugs" Moran.
The amalgamation of these two law
less organizations has been effected with
as much ceremony as that which attend
ed the recently accomplished consolida-
ton Of great steel manufactures. The
result of the merger is q crime trust
that absorbs the two greatest law
breaking organizations in America. It
does not completely unity all the rackets
or the gangs, leaving out the O'Donnel
and the Sheldon groups, which have
frequently figured In Chicago enter
prises. And the next few weeks may
witness some lively doings, as these
smaller competitors try to gain their
own places In the sun.
One OF the explicit purposes of the
amalgamation of Capone and Moran
is to put an end to gang gunnery, which
has caused hundreds of deaths in Chi
cago within q few years. But If two
units Of organized racketeering are left
out Of the combination there may be
some lively craftsmanship. The prin-
ciple Of the merger is that there are
to be no fields of operation" in Chi
cago and the profitable hinterland. The
works of the trust are to cover the
entire area. All income from gambling,
vice resorts and liquor distribution are
to be paid into community chest"
out Of which viii be paid the profits and
whatever protection funds may be re-
CURED. The reports do not state
whether the Capone or the Moran con-
tingent will have charge of the chest.
1t may, however, be in the custody of
board, equally representative of the two
heretofore rival groups.
1t is, indeed, something of which
America may well be proud that crime
has been brought to the basis Of a big
business, organized into q commanding
trust, managed as q syndicate. This
shows that the evolution of industry
which has brought the country to such
a high state of prosperity is still pro-
crossing. There is nothing static about
the American civilization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18

ish on May 20, finds two dyed-in-the-
wool representatives of their respective
elements pitted against each other.
Grundy is the living incarnation of big
business. Davis is the breathing exem-
pliflcation of the working class-though
the Secretary Of Labor long since passed
from the horny-handed wage-earning
group into the higher brackets of the
income tax list. Pennsylvania Repub-
licans, at any rate, have an ideal oppor-
tunity to make a choice between an in
dustrial plutocrat and tin worker still
known as Jim the Puddler."
\ y
Ransford S. Miller, one Of the vet
Grams of the American foreign service
and now United States consul general
at Seoul, Korea, since 1919, is on leave
in Washington with Mrs. Miller. They
have been stationed in the Far East
since 1895, when Mr.. Miller became sec
rotary of the Japanese Young Mems
Christian Association. He speaks Japa-
nese like a native of Nippon, and for
years was the vernacular language sec
retary-interpreter at our embassy in
Toxic. The consul generals daughter,
Lillian May, is an accomplished artist
in wood-block color printing, and is now
in the midst of an American lecture
tour, explaining and exhibiting the IA
nous Japanese reproductive art.
X X
The United States National Museum
in Washington is taking more than
passing interest in the Forthcoming ex-
petition to Easter Island, in the South
Pacific, by group of 20 University of
Pennsylvania scientists. Easter Island, a
mysterious triangular pinpoint of vol
canic land more than 1000 miles off the
Chilean coast, got its name because of
its discovery on Easter Sunday, 1922.
One Of the hundreds of colossal stone
bustS scattered over this isle of mystery
was brought to this country by the
United States Navy many years ago and
is now in the National Museum. DR..
Walter Hough, one of the museum's
anthropologists, likes to tell visitors that
the sailors transported the huge, gro
tesque and solemn visaged figure under
protest that U. S. S. Mohican wasn't "a
freight boat" Paymaster william j.
Thomson u. S. NJ, visited Easter Island
in 1888 and deciphered some of the
hieroglyphics on its ancient ruins for
the Smithsonian Institution.
(Copyright, 19SO)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
Zeppelin Stamps
Held for Collectors

From the Lynchburg Daily Advance.
The Post once Department will issue
this month three so-called Zeppelin air.
mail stamps as a sort of tribute to the
air achievements OF DR.. Hugo Eckener,
commander Of the Graf Zeppelin. The
postal archives are to be used on mail
TO be carried by the Zeppelin on its
projected flight to the United States via
South America and on mail to be car
r1ed from the United States to Europe
on the return trip to Friedrichshafen.
The Post once Department expects to
sell the entire issue of one million copies
OF each stamp In denominations of 81. so,
81 80 and IS cents. Undoubtedly the
whole issue will be purchased by the
thousands of stamp collectors in this
country, and a great majority Of the
stamps viii be put aside never to be
used on mail.
Many stamp issuing countries have
found that the stamp collector or phi
lateiist Is good source of revenue, and
scores Of useless ,adheSives have been
issued to trap the lobbyist. In some
ways, the issuance Of the new United
States air mail stamps is scheme to
reap profit from the stamp collecting
fraternity. The Post Once Department
viii receive $4,550,000 for the entire
issue. We doubt II more than 81, O0O, 600
value viii be actually used for postage.
However, most of the philatelists will
no doubt be willing to bear the cost in
order that the United States NAV honor
an outstanding figure in the field of
aviation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
Newspaper Man Made
President of College

From the New York Times
1t cannot often have happened that
newspaper man has been made presi-
dent OF a university. Recently it was
announced that after the troubles at
the University of Missouri. leading to
the retirement of DR.. Brooks, the dean
of the School of Journalism, Walter
Williams, was made acting president,
with the promise that he would re-
ce1ve the permanent appointment later.
This is an event worth notice as re-
Spects both the press and higher edu-
cation.
Mr.. Williams was for a long time
a practical newspaper man, having
been editor and part owner of several
publications in Missouri. He is per-
fectly familiar with all aspects of the
printing business. In 1908 he became
dean of the School of Journalism con-
nected with the university at Columbia
and has since had the widest possible
contacts with the press and with press
associations in all parts of the world
At many foreign congresses of journal
lists he has been the chosen representa-
tive of American newspaperdom.
Certainly the career of such a man,
with. such antecedentS, at the head of
a great university, will be followed with
peculiar interest. From the very be-
ginning 1t is evident that he enjoys,
as he enters upon his new duties, what
French premierS are accustomed to
call "a good press"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18

compel the abandonment of anv prac-
tice by which other lines were being
injured or routes and rates upset. The
commission should assume that it has
the power to control consultations and
act with determination If unsanctioned
steps are taken. The Commission
might also better assume that its con.
Solfdation plan, as published on De-
cemoer II, is, until formally altered
by due process, the law of the land"
If the holding company is merely
an instrument of investment" main.
tains the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
1t should be willing to come in under
the cover OF the laws relating to oper-
ators; II 1t has come into being to pull
Without Official sanction, these wires
must be cut by legislation. Otherwise
the whole system of governmental reg
ulation viii be in fair way to break
down."
The Couzens legislation is declared
by the Milwaukee Journal to be sound
In safeguarding the public" in view
OF possible 'piecemeal consultations.
while the Spokane Spokesman-Review
records that ut Is considered significant
tnat the purpose of the resolution has
tne approval OF a group within the
Interstate Commerce Commission"
Conceding that "the problem win be
complicated by the status of the hold
ing company created under a State
charter" the New York Evening Post
adds: How to bring it within the
realm Of Federal jurisdiction viii be
the question. But the obvious dim
culties should not deter Congress from
turning the full light on this problem
OF the holding company, which Is re-
lated not only to the railroads, but
also to general public utilities"
The Columbus Ohio State Journal,
critical of these proceedings, argues:
THE Government has sought to have
railway consultations pushed ahead.
With much expensive work in that line
under way, it is poor time to change
the rules, unless there can be produced
very convincing reason for the changes"
The Port Huron Times Herald, taking
this same position, adds that cit is
difncult to see where any investigation
win help the situation or clarity any
thing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18

cepted appointment. Senator Nye be-
comes chairman In the place Of Senator
johnson. The other two members of
the committee are Senators Wagner Of
New York and Patterson Of Missouri.
1t is a strong committee and the Sen
ate membership is satisfied with the
appointments.
Senator Nye, Republican, is of the
progressive group on the majority side
of the chamber. Senators Dale and
Patterson are classed as regular
Republicans and Senators Wagner and
Dill are Democrats. None Of the I'VE
is Of the Older group of Senators. In
deed, the committeeman who has had
the longest service is Senator Dill of
washington, now at the beginning OF
his second term of six years. Senator
Dale came to the Senate soon after
ward. Senator Nye entered the Senate
In 1925, Senator Wagner entered the
Senate in 1927 and Senator Patterson
came to Washington to take his seat
IN the Upper House at the beginning of
the present Congress.
The work of the campaign inyesti-
eating committee is likely to be arduous
and continuous. That may be one of
the reasons it was found necessary to
PICK younger members of the Senate and
tnoSe not having the additional duties
OF chatrmanships of standing commit
ices IL is true that Senator Nye, despite
ms more recent entrance into the Sen
ate, is chairman of the committee on
pubic lands. But Senator Nye is not a
Stranger to senatorial Investigations.
He became chairman of the public lands
committee during an important investi-
CATION regarding oil leases and showed
himself both a persistent investigator
and level-headed.
None Of the members of the Senate
has clamored for appointment to the
campaign investigating committee. The
service on the committee not only i'm
poses much hard work, but it also may
be necessary for the committee to 20
into the campaign activities of sitting
members OF the Senate. 1t is not a
pleasant duty to attack the activities of
senatorial colleagues, even by inference.
Senatorial investigations have in a
measure become byword. Frequently
they have been criticized outside of the
Senate. They have been called "inqui-
sltlons," unfair and tyrannical. Never
theless, the Senate, through its in
Vest1gations into many matters affecting
the public business, has exercised a
wholesome and beneficial influence. In
some instances the Senate inquiry has
been the only avenue of attack, appar-
emily, upon evils which have developed.
Certainly the influence of the Senate,
with its inquisitorial powers, stands as
q deterrent.
The campaign investigating commit
tee has serious duty ahead Of it. No
patriotic American can look with
upon the use of great sums
of money or of undue influence to bring
about election to public office. The
purchase of office, If acquiesced in. leads
to other great evils. 1t is possible that
the very existence of the present Senate
committee will have the effect of pre-
venting the use of money in elections
this year which otherwise might be
expended with comparative impunity.