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Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD e. 0Ax1l0
Copyright, 1928. by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY'S BEACH
PARTY

"Well,' said Uncle Wiggily one
day as he hoped up on the porch Of
his seaweed bungalow, q IN going
to have one. -
cone what?' asked Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy. "Do you mean a
drink of cool water? For l can tell,
10y the way your pink nose wrinkles,
that you are warm.
"Thank you, jamie, l will have
some water,' answered Mr.. Long
ears. ''But what l spoke of going
TO have is a beach party tonight. -
"Oh. how lovely" squeaked the
muskrat lady housekeeper. "a
party on the seashore beach! And
may | toast some marshmallow can
dies and pop some corn and fry some
carrots,'
"You may answered the rabbit
gentleman. 81 guess the children
bunnies will be glad to have you do
it. So. get ready for the beach par
~, Nurse Jane. 1t will soon be
night" ~
1t did not take the bunny boys
and girls, who were spending their
vacation with Uncle Wiggily at the
shore, very long to hear about the
party to 5e given on the sands that
night.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02

several FL Centre business men, it
was decided that several San Diego
men would visit the local chamber
tomorrow night and tell of the plans
for the excursion, which is'an annual
affair and has been highly enjoyed
by those making the trip in former
years. This years excursion will
last from October u TO November ]
and includes visit to Mexico City,
with intermediate stops in interest
ing cities of Mexico on both the
trip south and the return journey.
All persons interested in making
the trip or interested in hearing the
talk which will be given on Mexico
are urged to attend tomorrow
night S meeting and ". \. Scheni-
man, vice president of the chamber
of commerce, asks that those attend
ing bring their ladies as the cham
Der dinners are attended by ladies
as well as men. Scheniman also
states that he hopes to see a large
representation at the dinner meet
ing TO greet the San Diego visitors
for the purpose Of building the good
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
WOMAN ARRESTED
FOR NOT HALTlNG
AFTER ACCIDENT

Mrs. Blanche Robinson, 81, neg
ress, is in Jail here on hit and
run driver charge, and her husband,
j. Robinson, is in Jail for investi-
CATION, as result of an accident
near Brawlcy on the Calipatria
highway last Sunday, in which three
people were slightly injured and
their automobile wrecked when it
turned over.
According to the arrcsting Off
Ger, Mrs. Robinson, driving truck
belonging to a Brawley ranchcr, at
tempted to pass a car driven by
A. l.. Bartle, and in so doing forced
the Bartle ear off the highway
where it overturned. The woman
failed to stop and was arrested a
few minutes later five miles from
the scene of the accident on Dog
wood road south of Brawley.
Mrs. Bartle and her two children,
Leroy and Wilma, were injured
slightly, receiving numerous cuts
and bruises.
Robinson who was riding with
lis wife, was released following the
accident, but later upon investiga-
ton it was found the man had tax
en- the truck his wife was driving
from a rancher at Brawley without
the latter's permission, and he was
arrested for investigation.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
Brawley Recluse
Commits Suicide

The body of James bavis, 20 year
reclusc, residing near Brawley for a
number of years, was found at noon
today hanging from rafter in 4
small shed on his acre plot by slim
cord Investigators from the Braw-
ley police department and the coro-
ncr's office stated the man had been
dead for several hours.
Search for the body was started
this morning by 1 housekeeper of Il
nearby boarding house, where the
man had been in the habit of TAX
ing his meals. The body was hang
ing from the rafter with the feet
out few inches eff the ground.
While the deceased had been Z
resident for many years near Braw-
ley, where he owned the small piece
of land where he was found, and
another piece of property IN a dlf-
ferent part of town, little was
known of him. He leaves no known
survivors. According to investigat-
ing officers, there was no evidence
of foul play. The body was removed.
TO Hope s funeral parlor, where
fuuara1 nrranupmputs will he made
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
Nye Accepts
Woman's Def

CHICAGO, Sept. ?. U.P)-Senator
Gerald p Nyc, of North Dakota,
today accepted Congrcsswoman Ruth
Hanna Mccormick s challenge to
prevent her from employing detee-
tives to shadow his activities as
chairman of the Senate committee
investigating campaign cXpendl-
lures.
With Senator Porter II. Dale, o.
Vermont, Senator Nyc reopencd his
investigation into Mrs. Mccormick 3
successful campaign for the Repub-
lean senatorial nomination i'll llll-
nois. Of the first II witnesses
called, ten were connected with the
w. c. Danncnbcrg Detective Agency
of Chicago.
This is regular meeting of the
investigating committee" Nye said.
"Wc will see whether Mrs. McCor-
mick has the right to put private
detectives on the trial of the sem
ate committee and its agents.
Senator Nye revealed last week
that he and his agents were being
trailed. Today Mrs. Mccormick,
who is just launching her campaign
for election to the senate, issued a
statement saying that she had hired
the detectives who were invcstigat-
ing Nye and asked "What is Sen
ator Nye going to do about it?'
Today's hearing opened i'll Judge
Carpenter s court room in the Chi
eago federal building.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
RADIO APPEAL
USED IN BEACH
Staying CASE

LOS ANGELES, Sept. .. U.p)-
American and Mexican authorities
turned to the radio today in public
appeal for aid in unraveling the
maze of conflicting clues and evi-
dence in the knife murders of Lois
Marion Kentle, sorority girl, and
her fiance, Francis COnlon, "a.
Radio listeners We're asked to help
search for "goldtoothed man y
suspected as the possible slayer. The
paiama clad bodies of the couple,
covered with knife wounds, were
found half buried in the sands at
Enscnada, Lower California, week
ago today.
The gold-toothed man engaged in
a fight with American tourists
camped on the beach the day pre-
ceding the double murder. He drew
a knife but was overpowered, and
left with threat that he would "likc
to kill all gringos.
Authorities also investigated the
possibility that woman may have
been responsible for the murders. 1t
was learned that Conlon had made
previous trips to the Mexican resort
in company with other girls. How
ever, this was regarded as remote
clue.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
DOVE SHOOTER
REPEATS WORK
OF LAST YEAR

In keeping with their policy of
the past, the Imperial Valley Hard
ware store yesterday Offered first
and second prizes to the first two
FL Centre hunters bagging the limit
of ID doves on the opening day of
the dove season.
j. F.. Slovak, residing two miles
east of El Centre, and last years
winner again took the first prize
of 100 rounds of Winchester shells,
when he reported with his doves at
5:32 o'clock yesterday morning. To
prove that his hunting wasn't just
luck he repeated his performance of
last year, and brought along his
Winchester pump gun to bear wit
ness to the fact that he uses the
proper hunting equipment.
J. c. Cox, of 1864 Brighton
street, took second prize when he
appeared at the store at 5:45 o.
clock, l3 minutes after Sovak.
Dozens of hunters, arriving later
at the store, reported plentiful sup
ply of doves in all sections.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
OIL COMMISSION
WILL REPORT ON
YEARS. PROGRAM

LOS ANGELES. Sept. ,. (U.P)-
Rationing of oil production in Cali
fornia during the past year was 70
be reviewed here today as the Cali
fornia oil and gas commission began
its three day meeting with commit
tee sessions.
Result of the conservation pro
gram put in force nearly a year ago
was to be disclosed by the report
of the special committee, which
opened the meeting. The quota set
at the beginning of the curtailmcnt
program was 100000 barrels daily.
1t is reported that the lowest daily
production obtained was 100000 bar
rels daily.
Among the problems to be consid-
cred by the association is production
in the Venice Field. now the most
active oil area in the state. Fol-
purpose of conservation. it was said,
the field will be grouped with seve-
raj fields in the San Joaquin Val
lev
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
Limit On Doves
To Be Enforced

With the opening of the dove sea
son yesterday, Imperial Valley
sportsmen report plenty of the birds
and many succeeded in getting the
limit the first day the season open
ed.
That the laws governing game
will be enforced here is indicated
by the presence here yesterday of
f. II. Glidden, deputy of the state
fish and game commission, who was
checking up on hunters.
Glidden is reported to have stop
ped group of Los Angeles and
San Diego sportsmen who were al
legged to have exceeded the limit of
IS doves per man and relieved them
of their illegal quantity. 1t is un-
derstood no arrests were made, the
men being allowed to 90 with
warning
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
Convicted Star
Makes Comeback
In Stage Play

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. .. U.H-
Dorothy MacKaye, noted stage star
who served term in San Quentin
prison in connection with the death
of her husband, Ray Raymond, made
her debut here last night in " A
Gun of Sugar her first attempt
to regain public favor.
Tears filled Miss MacKaye's eyes
as she received an ovation at the
end of the first act. She attempted
no curtain speech but in her dress
ing room she told friends, "Yol
don It know what relief it was to
hear the applause.
Dramatic critics said Miss Mac
Kaye accomplished doubly diff
cult task because of her choice Of
plays. The Lynn Starting vehicle
made her slightly tipsy young ma
tron, the central figure of risquc
plot.
Miss MacKaye served most of a
one-year sentence for conspiracy in
RAYMOND s death. Paul Kelly, the
actress alleged paramour, was inn
prisoned for manslaughted on testi-
mony that Raymond died after a
fist fight with him. Miss Maekaye
was accused of coneealing evidence.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
THE WEATHER

For Los Angeles and Vicinity;
Fair tonight and Wednesday with
moderate temperature; gentle west
erlv winds; cloudy or foggy near
the coast in the morning.
For Southern California: Fair II
night and Wednesday but fog to-
night on coast; normal temperature
gentle to moderate north and north
west winds off shore.
Fire Weather Forecast: Fog on
coast, fair without change in tenn
perature or humidity over the inte-
rior: gentle variable winds; normal
fire hazard in the interior.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
CHIEF OF DRYS
TELLS MEN TO
GET BIG ONES
By CECIL OWEN
limited Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. U.p}--
Prohibition Director Woodcock, IN
opening the school for prohibition
agents established to improve tech
nique and morale of the prohibition
forces, said today the government $
first objective is to stop commercial
violations of the 18th amendment.
Addressing 81 picked men as
sembled here for instruction which
they later will transmit to federal
dry agents throughout the country,
Woodcock said he wished them 70
PASS onto the other operatives the
thought that their chief efforts
should be against large-scale highly
organized violations.
Woodcock thus indicated further
the policy of his regime not to
bother with "hip-pocket" eases and
not to molest the individual citizen.
"Stick to the law as it stands and
don't urge on agents that they seek
TO make border-line cases. Wood
cock added. I'VE are not interested
in test cases. The law has been
blazed out sufficiently for our pur-
pose and there should be no diff
Guilty in telling an agent his rights.
Woodcock said his aim was to
make the prohibition bureau superb
or to any other governmental agency
engaged in crime prevention and
that he considered educational work
of vital Importance to this end.
"1ou must impress upon the
agents. he said, THAT they are en-
gagged in profession and are doing
a difficult task. in a professional
manner. The daY of the rough and
tough agent is gone; we want none
such in the service. Honesty we take
for granted but you should urge the
Importance of an intellectual as well
as q moral honestly -
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
FORTUNATE .4ZUMA

Zensaku Azuna Of Los Angeles gets
our admiration for doing something that
practically all of us dream of doing but
which few of US really succeed in achlev-
ing" showing up" the critics of our boy
hood time.
He left his home town in Japan some
wears ago, not only an unknown, but in
disgrace ard shame, because he would
not follow the family wishes and become
a priest. He returns national hero with
ali Japan singing his praises.
. Azuma landed in this country and set
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
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THERE IS A DIFFERENCE
W. g, COSTELLO,
Manager

There were many thousands of scared
folks up in Los Angeles last Saturday
afternoon, but nobody would ever suspect
it from a perusal of the coast papers on
Sunday.
The metropolis of California received a
mighty hard shaking from old Mother
Nature, the shock lasting fully a half
minute.
Fortunately no serious damage occur
red A little broken glass, few cracks
here and there and some tumbling CHM
neys. One shudderS to think how bad it
could have been. Nevertheless it was
enough to put plenty of fear into the peo-
pie.
One had to look with a magnifying
glass to find out anything about it in the
papers, yet it was severe enough to make
news agencies telephone down here to
find out if Imperial Valley had felt the
shock. 1t SO happened that we didn't
We cannot help contrasting the atti-
tude of the coast papers when they have
a quake on the homegrounds with the
way they handle it when we have SINH
lar occurrence down here. Aside from the
big quake Of four years ago, Imperial
Valley has had only slight shocks, even
the one in Brawley last spring being
greatly magnified by home talent.
Yet every little spasm we get down
here is played up in scareheads on the
coast. The papers print the widest sort
of yarns and do incalculable harm to this
community by the stories they send out
Some of this, of course is due to unscrup-
ulous newspaper representatives here in
the valley, who think of the financial re-
turn to themselves instead of about the
harm they may be doing the community
in which they live.
But no small amount of it results from
the colossal and almost childish ignor-
ance about Imperial Valley, existing on
the coast in places where one would least
expect to find it.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
San DIEGO men
WILL ADDRESS
LOCAL CHAMBER

Representatives of the San Diego
chamber of commerce viii be the
guests of the FL Centre chamber at
the dinner meeting TO be held to
morrow night at $3.50 o'clock, 0 a
which time they will speak on the
Mexican tour which will be made
October y, under the auspices Of the
San Diego chamber. Members OF
the tour will pass through Imperial
Valley and Arizona and il is ex-
pected that a, number of persons
from each place viii Join the San
Diego group and continue on the
tour.
Because of the interest in this trip
TO Mexico which has been shown by
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Son OF Wealthy
Parents Held

Los ANGELES, Sept. >. UH-A
youth who told officers he was too
proud to write home for money, to-
day was in Jail here on robbery
charges.
The prisoner, Charles +. Brink,
%, said to be the son of wealthy
Omaha, Ncb., lumberman, was ar
rested in an asserted attempt to
holdup pillow shop.
He was captured after short
chase, by r. c. Crow, a truckdrivcr
who was attracted by the screams
of Mrs. Bessie Goodman, propric-
tress of the shop.
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The bunny children held the
mnr,hmal1ows on sticks.

"Oh, hurray." cried Baby Bunty.
81 IN going to take off my shoes
and go in wading. "
"You might wade too far out and
90 over your head" said Jingle.
"There will be bright moon to-
night and | can see where l am
going" said Bunty.
"Oh, won't that be lovcly!
yelled Buster, a boy rabbit. - l I'm
going to eat lot of toasted marsh
mallows. Swell fun!''
"Ubly; ell 'un!' said Tootsic,
who was such a little, new bunny
child she had to speak baby talk
when she said: Lovely; swell
funl'
Uncle Wiggily got everything
ready for his beach party. He
hoped TO the villaS store and
bought kernels of corn to pop over
the fire. He bought boxes Of white
narshmallow candies all covered
with sweet, powdered sugar. He
bought some carrots to fry, for rab'
bits are very fond Of carrots.
come on, 1cllOWs. cdlleQ buStti
to his brothers. ave II get lot of
driftwood to build a big fire!"
The sun went down and the moon
came up. Down on the sand hoped
all the little rabbits, with Uncle
Wiggily, his wife and Nurse Jane.
The boy rabbits had gathered much
wood and Uncle Wiggily soon had II
fine blaze going Mrs. Longears
watched to see that none of the lit
tie ones went too close. She did
not want them to be burned.
" Ready, now, to toast marshmal-
lows!' called Uncle Wiggily. Some
of the bunny children gathered
about the beach fire and over the
red embers, held the white marshmal-
lows on long sticks The candies
began to get brown and puff up like
little balloons.
At another fire Nurse Jane was
popping corn, shaking the pepper,
made of wire mosquito netting, over
the blaze until the white Kernels
were dancing a jig inside the wire
box on its long handle.
At another fire Mrs Longears
fried some carrots, setting the pan
ON some stones within which the
wood blazed. Uncle Wiggily hoped
here and there seeing that every
body was having good time at his
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02

party. Besides his own children,
there came to the party Jackie and
Peetie Bow Wow, the puppies; Curly
and Floppy Twistytail, the pigs;
Jacko and Jumpo Kinkytail, the
monkeys, and many other animal
boys and girls who were also spend
ing the summer at the shore.
All of a sudden Wopsie, little
baby girl bunny, began to cry.
"What's the matter'" asked
Uncle Wiggily.
ooh, Dadditums! lisped Wop'
sic, 81 dwopped my 'arshello in re
shand an now my mouf feels so
funny!'
"You mustn't eat marshmallow
candies after they drop on the
sand," said Uncle Wiggily. "Hcrc s
"a nice clean one" SO Wopsie
stopped crying and everybody was
happy.
Well, it was the most jolly beach
party you can imagine. Hardly any
marshmallows fell into the fire to
be burned, the corn popped nicely
and the carrots fried beautifully.
The moon shone brightly and it
didn't rain. When everything had
been eaten, the bunnies hoped back
to the seaweed bungalow to go to
bed.
"Your party was wonderful, =
said Mrs. LOngears.
eyes, | think so, my dear, an
swered Uncle Wiggily as he emp
tied lot of sand out of his shoes
on the floor before going to bed.
And it's good thing he did
mean, it was good he spilled the
sand. For in the night a Sea Wolf
crept into the bungalow to catch a
baby rabbit. But the Bad Chap
slipped on the sand Uncle Wiggily
had emptied out of his shoes and the
Wolf made such noise that Nurse
Jane got up and hit him on the
nose with her broom. So the Wolf
ran out bowling, "Yappity, yappity
yap,' And he didn t catch anybody
SO it was all for the best.
Put if the rubber doll doesn't t try
to stretch out and make herself as
tall as a clothes pole, III tell you
next about Uncle Wiggily and the
hard shoes.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
TEN YEARS AGO
September 2, 1920
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treatment Of Stomach Ulcers.
On hand at your druggist.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
New Governor
Fails To Arrive

Residents of Mexicali were disap-
pointed this morning when General
Arturo Bernal, newly appointed
governor Of the Northern District
failed to arrive in the capital as
expected.
Representative citizens and Off
cials of the Mexican government
had been notified to expect the gov
ernor this morning and were on
hand to greet him.
Later advices stated that he had
been detained at FL Paso and would
probably arrive late tonight or
some time tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
Issued Daily, Except
Sundays. Entered at the
Post Office, El Centre,
CalIf., as Second Glass
Matter.

to work. Eventually he had his own res
turant business, prospered and became
interested in aviation. He took flying
lessons, purchased plane and this spring
announced his intention of flying to his
old home in Japan.
Few outside of his immediate friends
took him seriously although newspapers
gave him considerable space at the time
of his take--off. He made the trip across
the United States to New York in short
hops and after that he appeared to have
dropped from sight until his arrival in
Toxic.
He shipped his plane by boat fom New
York to Europe and there resumed his
flight, crossing Europe and Asia and
dropped down in Toxic airdrome, his
objective, on Sunday, to be acclaimed as
hero ranking with Seija Yoshihara, ia
pans great aviation hero who almost at
the same time completed spectacular
flight from Berlin to Toxic.
Thousands of his countrymen were on
hand to give him royal welcome and
one can we'll imagine that in this crowd
of welcomers there must have been many
who few years ago wagged their heads
and ventured the opinion that boy will
come to no good end" And it is not diff
ficult to imagine the pride and happiness
that must have been Azuma'S on the oc-
cason of his triumph He had Shown
them" and that is a great satisfaction to
anyone.
Azuma deserves commendation, not
only for his great flight, which would
have been remarkable for a professional
pilot of long experience, but for his conf
dence in himself and his own ability,
which made his flight possible.
Labor day is probably called so be-
cause the next day we have to quit sum-
mer loafing and get down to labor.
The Chicago air meet cost almost as
many lives as Chicago ordinarily loses in
a week of racketeering.
This Peruvian trouble and strong rum
ors down in Brazil and Argentine, indi-
cate that South America is due to get In
the spotlight along with China and India.
--O
Wise folks in the valley are getting
ready for the biggest and best fall and
winter we ever had.
One thing that needs plenty Of relief
RIGHT now is dads pOcketbOok.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02

Engineer +. c. Scobey, who has
been employed by the valley water
companies during the past year or
more, in seepage and evaporation
Investigations, and more recently by
the water commission in securing
data upon the probable cost of get
ting water into the valley from tine
Colorado river, leaves tomorrow to
accept a position with the United
States government
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
Looking Backward
What Tho Press Files Tell Of
Imperial Valley for this Date
In Past YeArD
TWENTY YEARS AGO
September 2, 1910

Judge Franklin j Cole is here to-
day, holding court so as to have
law and motion day. He is only
going to stay two days, when he
will return to Los Angeles and take
up the job of issuing divorces to
the people of that city.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02

ID. Eyman Huff, Orange County,
las taken 90 of hia famous purebred
Jerseys on circuit of the state
and county fairs.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
W. /. Stone - NOn-B0ard Insurance

State Insurance Commissioner requirements the
same as for Board companies The prices to you
remarkably lower Let US show you this real saving.
Phone w. /. Stone 24S OF yS7-Office S3I Main. Alss
collection service
Imperial Valley press., 1930-09-02
Radiator Repairing

Also Radiator Recoring and cleaning, cleaned with
out injury to the Imperial Valley Sheet Metal
Works, 515 Broadway Res. Phone 1928. Bus
Phone 1177