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Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-19
OASIS SHRINE TO
GIVE CARD PARTY

Among the many interesting
events scheduled for Halloween week
is the benefit card party to be given
Thursday, October %, by Oasis
Shrine, w. S. Of J.
The party will take place at 8
o'clock in the Masonic Temple,
where the hall will be effective with
Halloween decorations. All appoint
ments will carry out the same mo-
tif. Refreshments and prizes will be
special features Of the evening.
The public is invited TO attend
this party and Mrs. Duane Stafford,
279, will be delighted to take res
ervations, or they may be made with
any member Of the order.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-19
Former Residents On
Visit To Ell Centre

Mrs. Dan Nolan of Los Angeles,
former resident Of this city, motored
to FL Centro yesterday with Mrs.
R. w. Campbell, and will be the
house guest of DR.. and Mrs. w. w.
Apple until Wednesday when she
returns to her home Mrs. Apple
entertained Mrs. Campbell n d
Mrs. Nolan at an informal breakfast
party this morning.
Mrs. R. W. Campbell, also a for
mer resident OF this city, is spend
ing the winter in San Diego, and
is in El Centro for few days. She
is the house guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
R. A. Chestnut. Both Mrs. Camp
bell and Mrs. Nolan will be din
ner guests tonight of Mrs. c. J. Ritz.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-19
| OF Interest to Women
Churches
Schools
HOUSEKEEPING IS
WEEK END EVENT

Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Dilbeck en-
tertained recently in celebration of
their wedding and also as a house
warming for their attractive new
home on Wensley avenue.
A Mexican theme was carried out
in decorations and refreshments.
The guests enjoyed an evening of
bunco at which prizes were won by
Mrs. A. w. Page and Miss Louise
Kelley.
Guests included Mr.. and Mrs. A.
w. Page. Mr.. and Mrs. o. L. Davis,
Miss Louise Kelley, Miss Cassie
Richter, Mrs. Trevor Modem, James
Persinger, Hans Merklein, and Bu-
ford Purl.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-19
Items Of News
About Town

Mrs. o. j. Bradshaw has returned
from a weeks visit to San Diego,
where she visited her mother and
sister while Mrs. Bradshaw attended
the sessions of the Masonic grand
lodge. Mr.. and Mrs. Bradshaw re-
turned to Ell Centric last night.
Miss Ciarice Freeman and Messrs.
Joyce Boyd and Clifford Stiger of
Los Angeles were Sunday guests of
Miss Marjorie Owen at the Harvey
A. Kenyon home.
DR.. and Mrs. Warren Fox spent
the week -end at Oakwilde.
f. A. Nance, former resident of
this city, is visiting in Ell Centro TO-
day.
H. L. Slauter is in Los Angeles on
business trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Duke johnson have
as their house guests, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ben Jones of Dallas, Texas. Mrs.
Jones and Johnson are sister and
brother.
S. c. Ferguson arrived last week
! from Indiana and will spend the
winter here with his children. En-
route west he visited relatives in
Kansas City.
H. j. Ramsey, manager of the
field department of the California
Fruit Growers exchange, was in I'm
perial Valley on business Saturday.
He left today for Yuma and the
Salt River Valley.
George McKain of the Bank of
America is recovering after severe
+, illness.
| Charles Matlin, travelling freight
| and passenger agent of the Sar
Diego and Arizona railway, spent
the weekend with his family in Los
Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-19
BrdUiey Country Club
Has Official Opening

Official opening of the Brawley
Del Rio country club took place
yesterday and a number of E
Centrans were guests on that day,
enjoying the course which is in fine
shape Tor the fall season.
The club is planning many events
for the winter which will be OF in
terest to The golfers Of the COM
munity. 2sk
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-19
DEPENDAB!LITY

If you have a dress that you are
especially fond of, remember that
The Marsh Dry Cleaners have q per-
sonal service that begins to function
when you phone your call Your
instructions are written down-and
those precise instructions are posi-
lively adhered to through every
process in their plant.
Special Care means something
at Marsh's.
Location: Barbara Worth hotel
building. Telephone 435.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-19
Committee Expresses
Gratitude To Scouts

Grateful appreciation Of their
services is expressed to Scouts Of
Troops 7 and IA, by the public
service committee of the Woman'5
Ten Thousand club.
For the past three Saturdays
these Scouts have made a house
toulouse canvas to collect clothing
for the committees work in out
fitting local needy school children.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-19

advisable to turn this phase over
to them.
Other lines of activity have not
been assigned as yet but arrange {
ments will be completely as rapidly
as possible.
Members of the master committee
met several times last week and
several meetings are scheduled for
this week. 1t is hoped the whole
program will be in full operation
within short time.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-19
Imperial Group Plans
Card Party For Friday

The social clup OF Golden Rule
chapter, o. E. s.. extends a cordial
invitation to FL Centrans to attend
card party Friday evening, Octo-
Der %. in the Masonic Hall at I'm
perial.
These card parties are always en-
joyable affairs and interesting plans
are being made for this weeks
event. A slight admission charge
will be made.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-19
PIONEER WOMAN
DIES FOLLOWING
LENGTHY ILLNESS

Mrs. lone Rhodes, II, who settled
in Imperial Valley in 1908, died in
Indio at noon yesterday as result
of a long illness caused by cancer
She was born in Mississippi "a
years ago and joined her huss.,,;s,:::.ca, s::a
j. L. Rhodes, at Imperial in 1908
She moved to Ell Centro in 1909 and
made her home here until recently
when she went to Indio in hope her
health might be improved by the
change.
Mrs. Rhodes was in Imperial VAL
ley during the years of early devel-
opment and was a genuine pioneer
When she arrived from the south
she made the trip from Old Beach
to Imperial aboard stage driven
by her two sons. Her husband, who
preceded her in death by 81 years
had the first short order restaurant
in a tent house in Imperial.
She was member of the State
Street Christian church and the
Imperial Valley Pioneers associa-
ton.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed from Williamson'S Funeral
chapel in Indio at 2 o'clock tomor
row afternoon and interment will
take place at that city.
Her survivors are: one daughter
Mrs. Nan Anker of Ell Centre; foul
sons, J. H. Rhodes of FL Centre, d
H. and Charles N. of Indio and w
T. of Tulare; IL grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren
Kern County has provided work
without wages, for the travelling un-
employed who lack bed and meals.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-19

The Merced irrigation district Is
in a serious condition and will have
to be re-financed.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-19
LIS like kHlS.: VIII,

LIS HRC ms: WHEN YOU
the way the shoes are made their shape. You try them
to see if they ft-if they satisfy you.
cigarettes? You want cigarettes that are made from
the very best tobacco-mid, ripe, sweet You want
them made right. You want them free from harsh
ness and bite and "pnches In other words, youwant
cigarettes that satisfy you.
WHEN YOU GO TO BUY FRUIT-OrangeS grapefruit,
appes-you want ripe fruit fruit that has matured
before being taken from the tree fruit that has been
handled right and packed right; fruit that's the
throughout-not green on one side and ripe on the
other.
Why not apply the same test in purchasing your
cigarettes? You want cigarettes made from tobaccos
handled right by the farmer-ripened, Sweetened in
the sun and cured right You want cigarettes that
taste the same, day in and day out. You want them
pleasing in taste-nild and satisfying.
WHEN YOU BUY CANDY, you want to know, above all
things that it is pure Is real candy or there
lot of other things mixed in with it? And you want
it fresh You want it freshly made and you want it
so packed as to reach you just as it was when it
made.
Why not apply the same test when you buy your
cigarettes? You want cigarette that's pure; for
purity counts in cigarettes just as it does in candy
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-19
Three C'S VIII Meet
Tomorrow Afternoon

Mrs. w. H. Tyler, Jr., COL Vine
avenue, will entertain the members
of the Three Cs, or the Christian
Church Circle, tomorrow afternoon
at o'clock.
Members are asked to bring ma
terial for aprons as this will be
the project for the afternoon. The
Three C's is the newly organized
womens organization, including the
old missionary and ladies aid socie-
ties.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-19

Then again. you want a cigarette that's just as fresh
as when it was made.
Now if you apply to cigarettes all the tests that you
apply in buying shoes and fruit and candy you will
purchase CHESTERFIELD like millions of other
smokers.
First because tobacco men will tell you that in Tur
key Kentucky, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia,
and Maryland, only the mildest, ripest tobacco is
bought for CHESTERFIELD-tobac cured by the
suns pure rays by the farmers slow-burning ovens,
and finally by great high-pressure steam drying
Chimes In the tobacco regions where they grow to-
bacco and know tobacco, CHESTERFIELD is usually
the leading seller
Second because the carefully selected CHESTERFIELD
tobacco leaves are blended and 1voss-blended This
exclusive CHESTERFIELD blending method is not just
mixing together different tobaccos-it is mixing
them in such a way as to bring out the finer qualities
of each It's like producing ne7O and better type
of tobacco-tobacco with greater mildness, more
srnoothness much better taste. .y
Third because the cigarette paper is selected with
the same care. CHESTERFIELD paper the pures the
best that money can buy. Then the cigarettes
made and packed by machinery in clean, sanitary
factories And the moisture-pr attractive package
free from heavy inks or inky odor-comes to you
just if you passed the factory in the morning and
took your CHESTERFIELDs from the machine.
Good :. they've got to be good.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-19

October % will be newspaper
mems day at the annual apple show
at Yucaipa, San Bernardino coun-
~
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-19

Kern County has provided work
without wages, for the travelling un-
employed who lack bed and meals.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-19

G 1881, LIGeETT & MYERS TOBACCO Co,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-17

most of the things its experts have
been saying about pressures and their
effect on the working gas appliances.
This demonstration has already been
given for the newspapernnen, and was
very effective. 1t showed, for instance,
that pressures are measured by the
number of inches of water in q tube
of uniform bore that the pressure will
support. Two inches, the present legal
minimum, will be supported by the
lightest of Spring zephyrs, or a baby's
breath. The normal person can blow
in a tube and push the pressure read
ing around to about to 10 inches.
Late Yesterday afternoon the company
called as a witness in favor of higher
treasures Bert H. Peck. formerly chief
engineer of the Public Utilities Commits
sion and now assistant to the president
of the company. Mr.. Peck had hardly
spoken in favor of the higher pressure
sought when Peoples Counsel Richmond
r. Keech greeted him with an extract
from Peck's now famous report OF Oc-
tober q. 1880, on that subject.
In his report Mr.. Peck had written:
"The most satisfactory pressure from a
consumers standpoint Is undoubtedly
from 4 to inches of water. This gives
him reasonably rapid service and also
gives him the maximum burner en-
Cheney" This report, of course, was
written when Peck was in the employ
of the commission, although thereafter
he transferred to the gas company az
higher salary.
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est. H. L. Stuart and Charles B. Stuart
are identified only as bankers.
1t Is charged the defendants, without
regard to values, conspired and fraudu-
lently agreed to exploit the properties
concerned for the purpose of selling
bonds to the public, knowing that the
true earnings of the properties, If and
when there were any, were insufficient
to justify compliance with the require
ments Of the blue-sky laws.
Properties Listed.
The properties involved were 27OO
Connecticut avenue. Department of Jus
tice Building. four buildings at Con-
necticut avenue and Davenport street,
Boulevard Apartments, Stoneleigh
Courts, Wardman Park Hotel, the Chas-
Teton. the Highlands, North end Cen
ter Cathedral Mansions Caritrn Hotel
and the addition to the Wardman Park
Hotel.
1t is alleged the bankers connived
and conspired with the other defend
ants to remain in the background and
appear to be innocent purchasers for
value of the relnancing mortgage bonds
which subsequently were publicly sold.
The suit said the profit to the bankers
amounted to $1,372 900. The bankers,
1t is alleged, have remained in the back
ground, but have nevertheless actively
directed the affairs of the several Ward
man corporations.
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tCOUtlnuSQ F1ISb 6hEc.I
attacked present conditions in the utili-
ties securities field, warning that the
State regulation.
Ross G. Butler, chairman of the
Commerce Committee, assailed the anti
trust laws, charging they ignore eco
nomic considerations.
James D. Francis of Huntington,
w. Va, vice president Of the Island
Greek Coal Company, raised dissent
ing voice in arguments against the
antitrust laws.
william J. Donovan. former Assistant
United States Attorney General, argued
that Federal regulation of public utili-
ties was wrong because. only 1871 per
cent of the total electricity is in inter-
state commerce. He advocated State
compacts to govern this current.
Turning to crime, Col. Joseph A. Gurk
chief of the st. Louis police and prest-
dent of the International Association OF
Chiefs of Police, said obstructionists
tactics Of defense attorneys in criminal
trials was one of the most serious OBJ
stacles confronting the police.
The Wickersham report was assailec
by Joseph o. Smith, prosecutor fol-
Essex County, N. j., who objected to the
committees condemnation of third
degree" methods. Smith said the Wick
ersham'report gave criminals confidence
the police no longer could obtain con-
LESSONS.
Joel H. Moore, supervisor of the
United States, urged wider use Of the
probation system for certain offenders
and protested against misuse of the
prison for social revenge.
Newspapers were praised by Judge
Eugene O,Dunne of the Baltimore SUI
preme bench, as being close allies to
the judiciary in the interests OF justice
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LAWYERS DISCUSS
PLANS FOR INQUIRY
Board Meets to Determine
Course From Findings
of Grand Jury.

The special board of 5 prominent
Washington lawyers appointed by the
District Commissioners to investigate
the charges against the police depart
ment in the recent grand jury report
met today in the Office of Henry p.
Blair, and discussed the procedure to
be followed in its inquiry.
The organization meeting OF the
board lasted for several hours. but MIR.
Blair, who served as temporary chair
man, declined to reveal the course of
action decided upon. He announced,
however. that the board intended to
send a letter to the District Commits
sioners some time this afternoon, out
lining it's program, and that any In
formation in connection with 1t would
have to come from the District Building.
The Commissioners, in the mean
time. continued their efforts to select
the personnel of an extraordinary
civilian trial board to be set up and
held in readiness to act in the event
the board of lawyers finds, in its in
dependent investigation, that any
members of the police force should be
prosecuted.
Thirty Names Submitted.
Tile civilian board will be picked
from a group of 80 representative citi-
zens whose names have been submitted
to the Commissioners by presidents OF
Washington'S five major trade and
civic organizations.
DR.. Luther H. Reichelderfer, president
of the Board of Commissioners, an
nounced after a conference with Police
Commissioner Crosby and Corporation
| Counsel Bride, that progress is being
made toward the selection of the trial
board, although he did not believe the
entire personnel would be chosen for
several days. Members of the board will
not be disclosed, it was said, until all
of the persons requested to serve, have
notified the Commissioners OF their &C
ceptance.
Albert w. Jacobson, attorney for
Policeman Joseph H. Hunt OF the second
precinct, who the grand jury said
should be dismissed for the part he Is
alleged to have played in the framing
of former Policeman Orville Staples,
called at the District Building to renew
| a request that his Client be suspended
Immediately and placed on trial.
Angry With BroOkhart.
The lawyer conferred briefly with
CORPORATION Counsel Bride, but mdlca-
tions are that no action Will be taken
on his appeal until the board OF law
yer3 completes its investigation.
Jacobson has been assured, however,
that Hunt will receive justice. The
same assurance has been given to other
members of the Police Department who
had any connection with the Staples
case.
jacobson said he was particularly
irked by the action of Senator Brook
hart of Iowa in writing to the Com
missioners, inquiring why Policeman
Hunt had not been suspended after the
grand jury report. He declared he con-
strued Senator Brookhart's move as an
effort to threaten the Commissioners
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THIRD-DEGREE PROBE
BELIEVED EXTENDED
TO HEADQUARTERS
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arrested in connection with another
charge.
Court house records show Policemen
Ferdinand p. Martin, Irving Rosenberg
and Rupert Mcneil, all of Nc. 3 pre-
cinct, testified against the pair during a
grand jury hearing last May.
Sullivan was sentenced October II last
to a fiye-year term for HOUSEKEEPING
and larceny, on five separate counts.
Court records show testimony against
him was given before the grand jury
by Headquarters Detectives A. T. Fihel-
ly, N. S. Hopkinson, B. c. Kuehling,
Charles E. Warfield. Michael Dowd and
Leo Murray, and Policemen Elmer L.
Mussleman and Harry A. Reed of No.
precinct.
Believe is serving year and half
at the District Jail for false pretenseS,
forgery and uttering. He was indicted
December IL. 1880, after Lieut. E. w.
Thompson of police headquarters had
testified against him.
Jackson Serving Larceny Term.
jackson is serving three years for
grand larceny Court records give the
name of the arresting officer as Frank
E. Dodson of No. precinct.
Strange was convicted of assault with
dangerous weapon upon Policeman
Henry c. Houck of No. 2 precinct last
August. The officer testified that
Strange stuck pistol against his abdo-
men when he attempted to make the
arrest.
Approximately rs witnesses. mostly
colored, were on hand when the grand
jury began its deliberations today. U. s.
Attorney Leo A. Rover said there was
possibility criminal aspects of the in
quiry would be concluded late this aft
ernoon, but that indictments would not
be returned before next Wednesday.
In view of the indicated desire of the
grand jury to make an extensive in
vestigation of third degree abuses. re-
gardless of Indictment possibilities, EVIL
dence will be presented in many cases
regarded by Department of Justice au-
thorities as lacking conclusive proof
The inquisitorial body Is DESTROYS of
obtaining a broad picture of the third
degree. situation, with view to- ascer-
tanning how long brutality has been In
use in the Police Department, and the
cause for its existence.
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control stations where readings are
taken by the commission, gas pressures
last December had undergone a sub
stantial increase. Mr.. Allen denied this,
and to substantiate his statement that
the pressures were not higher in De-
cember than in october, November and
January, he reached behind him, and
with the air of conjuror. produced
pile of pressure charts about three feet
high. This unexpected move threw the
sedate hearing into the utmost confu-
sion, and Mr.. Roberts sought valiantly
to have the exhibit excluded on the
theory that it was too bulky to be
filed as part of the case.
Mr.. Allen said that the clerk, who
Rad taken the readings had assured
him that they showed pressures in De-
cember had nots decreased. TINS was
stricken from the record as hearsay,
but apparently the charts remained in
evidence although they were not marked
for Identification. They were taken at
80 stations throughout the city.
Mr.. Allen next went on to discuss
the makeup of an estimate design to
show that II the commission insists on
pressure limit of two to six inches
the company must Immediately embark
on the expenditure of $500, 900, of which
$450,000 will go for Improvements OF
the transmission system and $4,000
to distribution system improvements.
Russell Cross Examined.
At yesterday afternoons session, Mr..
Roberts, cross examining Walter M.
Russell, the company's chief engineer,
sought to show the economic motive
behind the request for higher allowable
pressures. Mr. Russell said it would
take capital expenditure of 100000,
as calculated by statisticians in his
office, to carry an expected so per cent
increase in the gas load this Winter
at the allowable maximum of inches.
All of the money must be expended for
this heating season, although some OF
the improvements would serve to carry
further increases in succeeding years.
He also produced a report prepared
independently by engineers of the
Philadelphia, showing that it would
costa $429 900 for installations to carry
a 80 per cent increase in load over the
next five years at present pressures.
Part of the u. G. I. recommendations
have already been carried into effect,
he testified.
These figures are to be examined
much more closely as the hearing
progresses, to see which items going to
make up the 100000 budget have al
ready been installed, and therefore just
how much cash difference installation
of the balance would mean to the COM
pany, If it is to be required to hold to
the 6-inch maximum allowable pres
sure.
Much interest was aroused yester-
day by the offer of the company to
demonstrate by practical experiments