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Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-28
SPOR j s.
Layton Loses
Billiard Title

CHICAGO, Jan. %. U.P)-Johnny
Layton, king of three-cushion bill
lard players, today joined the
ranks of former champions, while
Allen Hall and Arthur Thurnblad,
rival managers of Chicago billiard
parlors, remained in competition for
the 1881 world title.
Layton, defeated so to 43 by Hall
in the 25th game of the 1881 titular
tournament, now can finish no bet
ter than second.
Halls victory over Layton and
Thurnblad's SO to 80 triumph over
Otto Reiselt of Philadelphia assured
an all-Chicago final for the 1881
championship, with a playoff be-
tween the winner of today's Hall
Reiselt match and the Hall-Thurn-
blad loser necessary to determine
second place in the tourney.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-28
GANGSTERS TAKE
ANOTHER VICTIM

CHICAGO. Jan. %. (UP)-Morris
Berkovitz, 81, was ambushed and
shot to death early today within
less than block of the spot where
in September, 1926, his brother.
Howard, was killed by gangsters.
Morris was the states star wit
ness in the trial of Robert "Pudgy"
Stamm, who was sentenced to pri-
son in 1926 for killing Howard. Po-
lice believed Morris testimony at
that trial might have led to his
Staying.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-28
SCHMELINC HERE.
TO PREPARE FOR
STRIBLINC BOUT
BY L. S. CAMERON
UNITED Press Sports Editor

NEW YORK. Jan. %. U.P)- The
big steamup for the next worlds
heavyweight championship bout
started today with the arrival OF
Max Schmeling. generally regarded
as the titleholder, in New York af-
ter stormy passage from his ma
tive Germany.
He is scheduled to defend his title
against William Lawrence C"The
Clutch') Stribling, in June and
probably in Chicago. He said he
was. pleased that this bout had been
arranged.
II had just as soon meet Jack
Sharkey as Stribling,' Max said
'The match was made by Jacobs
He's my manager. He arranges the
bouts and do The fighting No, I'm
not the least bit afraid of Sharkey
l really think Sharkey and Strib-
ling should nave met in an elimina
ton bout, with me meeting the win
rier, but I'm just as well pleased as
1t is"
Schmeling said he has much con-
fidence in Jacobs and that recently
he renewed contract with him for
five more years.
Schmeling looked fit. He said he
had been doing a lot of road work,
playing some golf and sparring
thrice weekly. He said he weighed
1872 pounds.
Asked about the low blow strucl.
by Sharkey which gave the title to
Schmeling Max said he felt the
effects of that blow from June until
November He said he was anxious
to start on his tour of the United
States which viii begin on February
and continue through April II.
After that he will begin to prepare
for his title defense.
The winner of the Schmeling-
Stribling bout is committed to meet
Primo Carnera, large Italian heavy
weight. OF him Max Schmeling
said, Il think he is a good fighter .
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-28
Actor Reported
Much Improved

CHICAGO, Jan. %. U.P)-The
condition of Grant Withers, screen
actor. who underwent an emergency
operation for appendicitis Monday
night, was reported as improved to-
day.
Physicians at Passavant hospital
predicted that the youthful actor
would be able to leave the hospital
next week. He was stricken at a
Loop theatre. where he was making
q person appearance.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-28

cat" his home being in Cadillac,
Michigan. Al has trounced all the
good boys in his old neighborhood,
and his list of victims looks like a
who's Who" among the boxers.
Jimmy Alvarado, who boxes with
considerable success when he is not
doing bits in motion pictures at
Hollywood, is up against a tough
boy N Young David, the local Fill
pino fighter, who is rated conner
with seven kayoes in eight starts.
Ladies with escorts will be guests
of the club this week and any of
the feminine fans who like to see
the boys give and take, will be in
for treat.
The first bout will be called as
usual, at $3.50.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-28
NOTICE TO ELKS

Owing to the dance to be given
by the Women's Ten Thousand
club Thursday night. January 29th.
the entertainment committee of Ell
Centro Lodge BPOE. announces
the postponement of their dinner
dance which was set for the same
date. All Elks and members and
their families are invited to attend
the dinner dance to be held Fri
day night, February 9th at 7:30.
LES ROGERS,
Chairman entertainment committee.
27t3
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-28
Andrade Prepares
For New Victory

Joe Andrade, who captured the
Junior division national champion
ship in the Junior Olympics last
year, is getting in training for an
assault on the senior record this
year.
With the passing of another year,
Joe automatically enters the senior
division and hopes to repeat his
success at the games this year.
At his home in sCalexico Joe is
undergoing a steady campaign with
particular attention to basketball
throwing, in which he proved to be
weaker than the other events. E.
j. Hannah, coach at lockwood
school, is taking care of Joe's ath-
letic efforts.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-28
WOODBURY. HAS ~
FANS PUZZLED
WITH HIS CARD

How come that fellow who head
lines the card at the Main street
club in Los Angeles one week, opens
the show at the Imperial Valley
Athletic club the following week?
This is the question local fans
would like to have solved for them,
after reading that Johnny Mar
tinez is booked to meet Mariana
Cebu in the first of five six-round
bouts offered here Friday night.
Harry Woodbury. has the answer
but what it is he is not giving out.
The fans might also ask how
Woodbury. has been able TO get six
main eventers to take various places
on the card. ssa1s
Sammy Aguirre, frankie Arregon,
Johnny Ramirez, Jimmy Alvarado.
Young David and Mariana Cebu
have all headlined at the local club.
With the exception of the last two
named all the others have head
lined in coast clubs.
Aguirre is gwen the top spot on
the card and those who saw him
belt Vivencio Alicante all around the
local ring few weeks ago will
agree that he is entitled to the po-
sition. He meets Mickey O'Neal, a
hustling New York main eventer,
who is out to convince coast pro-
moters that he is going some place.
Mickey has a decision oyer Sammy
Mandell, former lightweight cham
pion, to show how good he is. -
Russ Bradford is another boy who
ran out of good opponents and has
come to California to see what can
be done about getting some new
ones. He halls from Wisconsin and
has been signed up with frankie
Arregon, to see if he can do the
things his press clippings claim / he
can do.
Like Bradford, AL Wolgast is a
newcomer. He is brother of Ad
Wolgast, former lightweight cham
pion, known as the Cadillac Bear-
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-28
School Pupil
Dies Suddenly

PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. %. U.p)-
Funeral arrangements we're made
today for l5-year-old Thomas Full
Ter, Phoenix high school student.
who dropped dead from heart at
tack during a training period.
Fellow students said Young Full
Ter, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Full
Ter OF Phoenix, collapsed without
warning and that he had not been
struck by ball or contestant.
The elder Fuller is a prominent
northern Arizona cattleman.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-28
FLAGSTEAD SIGNED

PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. %. tU.p)-
Ira Flagstead, former Boston Red
Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates out
fielder, signed contract to play
with the Portland Beavers this year,
it was announced at the Portland
team office today. The addition of
Flagstead gives the Beavers 10 out
fielders, tentatively.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-28
County Working
Two Score Men

Forty-tWo men are working out
the wages of sin on chain gangs,
and in the county garage and gar
den, according to figures compiled
today by Jailer Eddie Nett at the
sheriff's office.
The prisoners at the county jail,
serving sentences for many offenses,
work about the county court house,
ard the chain gangs work ON coun-
~ roads and at the fair grounds.
While the county must feed and
board these men, it is estimated
that they more than earn their liv-
ing while in Jail. At So a day for
each of the men, if they had been
hired to work on their various jobs
the county would be paying s84 a
day for work that is done in expia-
ton of various crimes.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-28
RIO GRANDE CROPS SLUMP

LAS CRUCES, N. M, U.p)-Total
crop returns of the Rio Grande fed
cral irrigation project show an
average loss of S24 an acre over
1929, according to figures released
10y L. r. Flock, project superinten-
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-28

To January 10, Carlsbad, San
Diego County, had received six
inches of rain, while last year to
same date the record was only 1.l6
inches.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-28

LANSING, Mich, Jan. %. 0.P) -
Tony Herrera, Chicago, scored a
technical knockout over Phil Nc
Graw, Detroit, in the fourth round.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-28

A new wallboard factory will soon
be built at Midland, Riverside
County, near the Colorado River,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-28
Here and There
In Sport World

STANFORD, Conn.,, Jan. %. U.p)
Make Rosenbloom, light heavy
weight champion, Knocked out Gene
McCue, Newark. N. j., in the third
round Of non-title fight.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-28

dent. The total value of the crops
was S8.104,903 as compared with
$10,6f4,670 for 1929.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-11
The Prevailing Wage

Administration support of the prevailing wage
bill writing into government building contracts the
proviso that present wage standards must be main
tained would be heartening if the measure as
evolved were stronger.
Laborites, who supported the Couzens amend
nents, claim the administration substitute is
weakng with neither teeth legs" It's true
that the bill provides penalties to punish con-
tractors who violate the prevailing wage proviso
that there is machinery for appeal to the secre-
tary of labor in cases Of dispute in local community
as to the prevailing wage, that it does not go into
effect until thirty days after passage, when many OF
the government contracts will have been let
However, in view of the laissez faire policy OF
the government in labor matters, the esposal of the
principle of high wages is something One not
blame President Green of the A F. of L. for accept
ing the bill as "the best we get"
Since the administration has fathered the bill it
also assumes the burden of its rigid enforcement
Especially will this be expected since President
Hoover often has repeated his conviction that only
by high wages can the depression be bridged.
Surely the government will put stop to the
wage e-slashing reported on government jobs.
A weak law be made strong by determined
enforcement. The country will expect the govern
ment to set the example to private employers by
seeing that wage-cuttng contractors get exactly
where with government contracts.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-11
All Is Not Gold That Glitters

Fear that demands for immediate cash payment
of more than S3,OOOOO0OO0 of veterans bonus GER
tihcates would threaten the governments regular
financing operations already has become fact Dur
ing last week there serious market decline in
governmental bonds, representing the worst break
in ten years.
With government bonds in such state, it requires
no imagination to see what would happen if the
proposed bonus bond issue-te largest bond issue in
our history, with but exception-were dumped on
the market
will have difficulty in March with its previously an
nounced refunding of two issues of treasury notes.
$1100,OOO,OOO operation.
Not only the government is suffering but the
private bond market as well. Last week a selected
list of rail- utility and industrial bonds fell below the
1880 low levels.
Those veterans who like to believe that all this
has nothing whatever to do with them are overlook
ing the very big fact that unemployed veterans can
not get jobs until there is business revival.
Chances for quick return to prosperity are none
too bright and the prospect will be dark indeed if a
flooded bond market prevents industry from nitiat-
ing new business projects this spring
The cash value of the individual bonus certi7-
cate is so small that it not possibly compensate
The unemployed veteran who thereby would ruin his
chance of getting job this spring
1t is easy enough to make an appeal for cash for
the veteran. But the veteran who stops to think
twice will have time to remember the ancient wise
crack that all is not gold that glitters
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-11
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-Tlere are many
smoke violations each hour of the
day which put the "tallow-pot" on
the locomotive to shame, yet there
seems to be nothin done to elimi-
nate it, although if the "tallow-pot" t"
gets picked up for three violations
in a month, he may be fined, and, as
in one case I know Of, penalized a
round trip on his run.
Who are the ones making the big
gest cry about abatement the ones
compelled to make some Of it, and
their dependents, Or the ones who
feel sure they can eat, drink and
be merry, smoke or no smoke?
Is the smoke from locomotive
any more harmful than that which
is poured from hotel and factory
stacks? Is the steam for power and
heat any more important in these
places than it is in the locomotive,
to move passengers quickly and in
comfort, and to move many tons
of material and necessities to thou
sands Of people?
The "tallow-pot" is instructed
that black smoke is waste Of fuel,
yet the womens prison on north
Randolph street poWs out great
volumes Of it ten minutes out Of
every twenty, so if it is waste, as
we are instructed, the smoke in
spector could save the taxpayers
quite a sum Of money if smoke is
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-11
A Great Victory

Success has crowned the efforts of years
to supplant the poor house with a pension for
those whose only crimes are poverty and old
age
The movement started a decade ago by
the Eagles lodge, by citizen Of Indiana,
Frank Herring Of South Bend, has reached
many states and finally law has passed both
house and senate providing for this form Of
relief
The measure still has a few hurdles to
pass, but certainly the opposition of the
Governor must fade before the judgment Of
both legislative bodies.
In principle, the OLD age pension intro
duces a new era. 1t recognizes the right of
the soldiers of industry as we'll as the soldiers
Of war, to care in their declining days. 1t
recognizes the principle that governments
are made for men and not men for govern
ments.
To those whose pocketbook nerves have
been chilled by the wholly unwarranted
statements of the high cost of this new
emancipation from the poor house, comfort
comes from the reports Of states which have
put it into effect and found it not only benefi-
cent, but economical
There IS a similar law in Utah. Here is
the statement of the very conservative
Deseret News, a paper never unmindful OF the
cost OF things to taxpayers:
Figures for 1929 show that Salt Lake county paid
out in ordinary charity $1188l4 In 1880 there WAS a
vast increase in persons who had to be aided SO that
charity payments in the chief cities OF the united
States increased 45 per cent above the payments OF
1925 This county saved 48 per cent in charity pay
nlents as compared with other cities in the country
If we had been under the old system and our re-
Lief payments had increased elsewhere, the coun-
tys charity bill in 1880 would have been Sl7230O'
instead of S114O67 This is a saving OF $582l3 as
compared with the outlay OF other cities. This coun-
ty paid in pensions November, 1928, to November
l930) $54,282, which gave us net saving OF S3,95l
under the pension system During its operation the
old age pension plan has lifted 500 from the county
charity lists besides aiding with small amounts l42
persons who were heretofore being supported, as besJ
they could be- by poor relatives who were hard put
to provide for themselves.
Additional facts are brought out by j. H Paul, di-
rector Of OLD age pensions in Salt Lake county, who
says:
The Salt Lake county cost Of old age pensions av-
erages S132 per year. The cost in the infrmary is
S3l9 per year In 1925 the United States depart
naent of labor published comprehensive monograph
The Cost OF American AlnlShouses. The maintenance
cost for each inmate averaged $33464 per year, adding
interest at per cent the investment the cost was
sac rs per year. In small amshouses average main
enance amounted to $5O8 per inmate Fifty per cent
OF this cost is overhead; only half of the maintenance
goes to the inmates. With pensions, more than "a
per cent reaches the pensioners
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-11
Questions and
Answers

Is the Irish Free State indepeu-
dent of Great Britain? What power
does the governor general have?
1t is self governing dominion
within the British empire. The
Irish parliament in Dublin enacts
the laws and the governor general
who represents the British crown
signifies the kings assent to bills
passed or deemed to have been
passed by both houses of the
oireachtas (parliament). He can
not signify Or withhold such assent.
or reserve a bill for Specification of
the kings pleasure save upon the
advice of the executive council.
What Al Capone's address? Is
he married?
His address is 1874 Prairie avenue.
Chicago. He is married.
When was the eagle adopted as
the emblem of the United States?
June 20. 1882.
What does the name Kieffer
mean?
1t is a German occupational sur
name meaning "barrelmaker" OF
cooper" j"
Where and when was Irene Bor-
doni born? How many times has
cE,a bean Y,.arried9
She was born in Ajaccio on the
Island of Corsica, in 1895. She has
been married and divorced twice.
Her first husband was Edgar
Beeman, and she later married E.
Ray Goetz
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-11
Three Good Men

Recent events inspire the observation that often
more suffering can be caused by good men than by
sinners. We have in mind three wholly upright and
honorable citizens Of these United States whose very
righteousness has been and is causing no end of woe
and injustice
The first is Chief Justice William H Waste of the
California supreme court He is a church man. Y
M. c. A. Official of spotless probity in private
life. Yet because of a certain moral myopia he has
failed to the shocking injustice of the Mooney
and Billings scandals and because of his influence
the other good of the supreme court partly
responsible for his courts refusal to grant justice
The second is Judge John Barton Payne head
of the American National Red Cross Also an i'm
peccaby upright man is he, yet by his refusal to
accept congressional funds he may become the in
strument Of intensifyng the very hunger and dest-
tuition which his organization is pledged to relieve
The third is Harry Fitzgerald president-treasurer
of the Riverside and Dan River cotton mills Fitz-
gerald is Presbyterian pewholder. a man of char
scter and even something of humanitarian
Yet he could stand by stubbornly for four agon-
tzng months Of strike and watch the men and women
who had made his fortune being driven to their knees
by hunger, cold and sickness and never once sit
down and talk things over with them
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-11
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

the blood, and an attack of ground
itch, the suspicion arises that he
suffers with this disease.
At present, following extensive
Investigations made through the
Rockefeller Foundation, three drugs
are used regularly in the treatment
Of hookworm disease.
These drugs are thymol, oil of
chenopodium and carbon tetra-
chloride. Thymol has been used for
the longest time, but various physi-
clans differ in their choice of rem
edies for individual patients.
The treatment is, however, ex-
cedingly simple 1t involves usually
the clearing out Of the system by
use of purgatives at night, and the
administration on the next day of
the proper dose Of the remedy when
thymol is used.
When oil of chenopodium is
used it usually is not desirable to
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-11
7d6AEF BTTE1e7
ANNIVERSARY
DANIEL BOONE'S BIRTH

L l.
NN Feb. Is, 1875, Daniel Boone, a
~ famous backwoodsman and pio-
neer, was born in Bucks county,
Pennsylvania. His father, a farm
er, moved to North Carolina when
Daniel was Is years old.
The boy had little education, but
he knew the woods and Indian life.
When "a years old, he went with
five others into the wilds of Ken
lucky.
He had many adventures and
fights with the savages, and was
captured by one of them, but
escaped.
Shortly after he moved his own
and five other families from North
Carolina to Kentucky, he built a
fort on the Kentucky river which
he named Boonesboro.
The Indians attacked the fort sew
eral times, but were driven of. In
1778, they caught Boone and carried
him to Detroit, where one of them
adopted him as a son.
Hearing of a plan to attack
Boonesboro, he ran away and,
reaching his fort, defended it with
fifty men against large forces Of
Indians and Canadians.
He lived in Boonesboro until
about 1890, when he lost his lands
through defective title. He died
In 1920,
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-11
Economic Loss

TINE committee has more to say
l. upon this subject Of ugly build
ings. It continues:
In 1929, $1,000 600, 900 in value o.
new buildings went up, and go per
cent of that amount, or about So
000,00000O, in 1880. It is time in
vestors and public awoke to the fact
that nearly 90 per cent in number
of these buildings of 1880, over So
000,000,000 in value, belong to that
bad building class which have made
our cities so intolerably ugly.
There is therefore some consola-
ton for the falling of in volume
of building in 1880. Some way must
be found to correct the situation
before the volume Of building ma
terially increases again.
Without benefit of clergy, as
the old saying goes, or rather with
out the help of a trained architect
or any other competent designer,
these buildings have been put up,
and are continuing to be put up.
by the careless and thoughtless OF
the country.
And the worst Of it is that the
much greater blight and loss must
be suffered willy-nilly by owners OF
property unfortunate enough to be
in the immediate neighboriood into
which these bad buildings intrude
themselves.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-02-11
- II n SnNT ~ FREDERICK
ANA<A AOO4 lands

NTE are glad to read that the war department has
w devised new gas mask which will be more COM
Portable than the old one.
1t should become very popular with the readers of
modern fiction.
General Pershing states in his story of the war
that the king OF Belgium was surprised by the way
some American congressman slapped him on the back
He was in luck that they didn't slip him few
garden Seeds
It's not surprising to read that Mosein teacher
started riot in India by cooking some beef prod
uct Of the COW considered sacred by The Eindus
AS you may remember, the Sepoy rebellion in IN
Ola was caused by the fact that the British used hog
fat in their cartridges.
l. Hindus to whether the COW should be wor-
shipped or consumed is of the sources of endless
irritation in India and of the things John Bull
tried in vain to iron out in his recent conference at
London.
What fools these mortals bel"
It would be interesting to ask Newman Hershfleld
what his sensations if any, between the time he
died" in that Kansas City hospital and the time he
brought back to life by the injection Of adrenan
If he could cook up good story he ought to go over
big as a lecturer.
Two gentlemen shot at each other after an autos
mobile collision in northern Indiana which is depor-
able, of course, but have wondered for long time
what enabled the rugged sex to remain so lamb-like
under such extreme provocation
OF course it is going too far to shoot driver who
~ is not intoxicated but we should like to have this
legislature not only legalize the perfor III of
drunken drivers, but place bounty thei elts.
There's one good thing about the drought and it is
that with water scarce has to be bought r1any
are drinking it for the first time in years
Stain tells the Russians they must hurry with the
world revolution which isn't worth mentioning except
that when politician keeps promising the people
buckets of gore the time finally when he has to
start something loose his job
This last fellow who wantd to shoot MusSolni
seems to be q sardine from Sardinia