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Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-04
80 LATE
q NEWS
by United Press

LOS ANGELES, Nov. Acute
alcoholism was listed on the oor-
oner's records today as the cause
of death of Will Lexington Comfort,
noted western story writer and nov
elist, who died suddenly Wednes-
day night. An autopsy was perform
ed at the request of attending ply
sicians who said they were unfa-
miliar with the case. Funeral ar
rangements are incomplete.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. Ruth
Borman, who snatched her 3-yeaT-
old daughter from the home of the
childs mother, Mrs. VioicJ
Buchanan, was free today. She was
released from county Jail on ha-
beas corpus writ last night after
the county grand jury had failed
to indict her ON kidnapping charges.
M. E. Warner, young friend, who
helped the 2O-year-old unwed mo-
Their take her child, also was re-
leased.
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 4.-Mariall
Nixon, film actress, isn't sure who
it was held her up on a Santa Fe
train last year and robbed her OF
$500 in jewclry. Confronted in court
yesterday by Buster Bevill, young
San Quentin convict who was &C
cused as one of the bandits, MISS
Nixon said she couldn't say" She
was excused.
IAKEHURST, N. j., Nov. Am
officer and $50 enlisted men OF the
German navy were guests at the air
station here today after being taken
on a "a hour cruise of the dlrlglble
Akron. The big ship returned late
Yesterday from the flight which
took it over New York City, and as
far south as Virginia.
PARIS, Nov. 4.-Skirts longer
than nave been worn in years and
almost trailing the ground were
noticed among entre-acte promen-
aders at the opening of the reno
waited Paris opera last night. The
opera was "Jardin sur Toronto.
President Albert Lebrun attended.
ATHENS, Greece, Nov. 4.-Greece
is unable to pay the interest in its
debts in foreign currency, since
SO much gold is locked in the
strongrooms of France and the
United States that none is available
here. Finance Minister Agelopoulos
said today. Greece can only pay in
drachmas for the coming year, he
said, suggesting that the matter be
submitted to arbitration.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-04
PRISON GETS FUNDS

SACRAMENTO, Nov. A. W.P)-
California prisons have been al
lotted approximately 100000 for
support during the next two years,
it was announced today by Roll
land A. Vandegrift, state director
of finance.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-04

Leased Wire
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mothers studying adoiesceDi psychoi
ogy before their children are OUT of
the cradles. with child study groups
and parent associations and maya
zines and books of parenfhood and
the science OF giving their children
a square deal by learning 70 under
stand them-how strange that large
number of girls from intelligent homes
should complain of lack of under
standing
In former generations parents ex-
pected their children TO resemble
them, or al least TO fulfill precon-
ceived notions of what they wanted
them TO be If they did not they were
black sheep" TO be discussed only In
hushed tones in the family circle To
days parents. prepared for modern
youth" expect nothing more certain
than surprises in their offspring-and
they are surprised usually If their chill
dren do not surprise themi They ex-
pecf problems: they have been pre-
pared 10 expecf them
Therefore why this lack OF under
standingf The answer is 10 be found
In the remarks Of some girls thar their
parents were very busy with their own
afair4
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CLAY
BY DOUGLAS MALLocH

THEY call Us clay-and think what
L clay may bel
A mudhole In a highway, or field
Rich with the harvest that the clay
win yield.
Even as we shah yield one presently
Clover or thistles, mudhole, or a road.
Which shall we bear, and which TO
bear a load?
They call rs clay-and think what
clay may do!
Spatter humanity. or leave IL clean.
Be treacherous to travellers, or true.
They call US clay-think all that clay
may mean
Make easier or rough the road that
Must journey In nfe's moving caravan
They call Us clay-and think what clay
has beeni
Some daubed IL on their faces:
Phidias
Took common clay and put such
beauty in
The name of Phidias shall never
pass
So his own sculptor each shall sure
~ be-
What will you make of you shall
of me?
G. 1882 Douglas MaIloch--wNU Service
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OUR BEDTIME STORY
By THORNTON w. BURGESS

Then a new thought struck Peter.
There was no fun in playing all alone.
No, sir, there was 10 fun in playing
all alone. He wanted some one TO
play with, and that was Just why ne
mad started out that morning TO call
on his neighbors. only 10 find them
all so busy. Now ii suddenly came
over him that each had been working
all alone and each had seemed perfect
~ happy. Could it be that they found
happiness in their work? Peter stared
thoughtfully down one of his private
little paths through the brambles of
the Old Brier Patch
Il haven't eny work TO do" thought
he There is no sense In working
unless one has TO, and | don't have
TO. There isn't thing for me TO do.
so why shouldn't loaf all l please?"
H. continued TO stare down the pri-
vate little path. Presently he noticed
that sly old bramble had crept
across the private little path Every
time he hoped along that particular
little path he had TO hop over those
brambles, all because be had been too
lazy to cut them out
mo, sir, there isn't a thing for me
TO do" said he again, and then with
fuzzy feeling Of guilt looked around
TO see If anyone had overhead him.
You see ii suddenly popped into bis
foolish little head that there was work
for him to do. and had been for long
time. He simply had been too lazy
TO do it Those sly brambles creeping
across the little path in front of him
should have been cut out long ago.
Some time he might have to use that
little path in a hurry. and one Of those
sly brambles might trip him up. Pc
ter continued to stare down the little
path for a few minutes longer. Then
he got up and stretched
Seeing that everyone else seems to
be working, ] may as well do little
myself" said he "Tn Just cut those
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muffin tins twenty minutes Serve

muffin tins twenty minutes Serve
with:
Orange Tea Biscuits.
Take two cupfuls OF -four. onehak
teaspoonful Of salt. four tabIespOonfuls
OF shortening, four teaspoonfuls OF
baking powder. threefourths OF q cup
full of milk. Mix as usual roll our and
cut with q small cutter. Meanwhile
allow as many cubes OF sugar 70 soak
in orange juice Press half q loaf IN
each biscuit before putting into the
oven. Some may ike the addition OF
a little of the grated rind TO tse bis
cult mixture; fl adds favor.
Salmon Fritters.
Take three-fourths OF q -pful On
salmon, drained and faxed; 10 this
add one beaten egg the juice OF half
a lemon. one and onehalf cupfuls OF
-four sifted with one teaspoonful Of
baking powder and one-half teaspoon
full of salt Add a dash of cayenne
Fry by spoonfuls In deep fat and serve
with tartar sauce
1891 Western Newspaper Onion
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parture had left him lonely, vaguely
restless. puzzled with himself.
Nice dog in the manger, this Para
dis. The head man OF LeBlond had
only run true 10 form in spying on the
girl who laughed at him. Then the
sngered Stuart rasped aloud: Get
lead, eh. IL come again? If i could
meet Monsieur Paradis here. I'd come
tomorrow J"
''Weel today do?" From the thick
spruce in his rear a voice wheeled
Jim in his tracks, as Paradis ap-
peared in the brush back OF the canoe,
carrying gun Stuart was unarmed-
With evident satisfaction, Paradis
leered ST the man VINO watched him.
"WeIl. Monsieur Stuart here ees
Paradis! !" he tainted You have your
weesh- What weel the writer Of love
notes do about eet?"
You're a pretty specimen OF man,
Paradis." said jim coolly, refusing 10
take the situation seriously. You
swing q gun on me, then ask me what
l intend 10 do. Drop that gun and
come down here on the beach, IL you're
not afraid. and I'll show you what I'll
do about it
"Ah. he boasts" Paradis grinned
IN derision-
well there's only one way 10 call
g bluff" drawled jim You hold the
cards It's Your play"
yes, il ees my play" As Paradis
bent with laughter. Jim edged yard
nearer. But / have not made up my
mind weder 10 shoot you for de insult
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A prime minister is q leader of
group sent out 70 preach the gospel
A swain is country boy who takes
care of the swine
The ships bottom is scraped as
il comes into drydock to remove
shoals and other articles from the
sides
In the Olympic games they ran
races, jumped hurled the biscuits and
threw the java The reward 70 the
victor was a coral wreath
The liver is an Internal organ of
the body.
Katrina Van Tassell was q country
croQuette- like q ghost
The steDographer atomiZed the bin
= 1881 Bell syndicafa-wNU service
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brambles out and get this path clear"
So Peter went 10 work cutting out
those sly brambles which had crept
across his private little path There
were more of them than be had
thought for. When be had cleared
that little path be went TO another In
which he remembered that the same
thing had happened Now Peter has
many little paths through the dear
Old Briar Patch. and most of them
had been sadly neglected during the
summer. Only those little Mrs. Peter
used had been kept clear and open.
AS soon as be had one path clear Pc
ter went to work on another. Pres
emily he had forgotten all about his
hurt feelings II was surprising how
fast time few. Once more the day
was bright and beautiful Peter had
made a great discovery. He had dis
covered that one never is so happy
as when busy. he was no longer
loafer.
&C. 1854 byT.w. Burgessp-wNUs ervice-
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Inc faster they slip by.
DETER RABBIT sat in his favorite
spot in the dear Old Brier Patch
wholly out of sorts II was a clear,
cool, beautiful autumn day, just such
day as makes you Jingle all over
with good feeling and high spirits
But Peter didn't Jingle. No, sir, he
didn't Jingle single wee bit as he
sat there in the dear Old Brier Patch
He had tingled early that morning,
but he didn't Jingle now. All the Joy
and brightness had gone out of the
beautiful day for Peter. The fact is
Peters feelings were hurt That is
what was the matter, his feelings were
hurt
''Loafer," mumbled Peter TO him
self. They called me a Ioaferl Well,
perhaps am, but why shouldn't loaf
If | haven't anything 70 dot What
harm is there in loafing when you
have no work TO do, I'd like TO know
Striped Chipmunk called me a loafer,
Chatterer the Red Squirrel called me
a Ioafer, Happy Jack called me
loafer, Jerry Muskrat called me a
loafer, and even little Danny Meadow
Mouse called me a loafer. II wasn't
so much the name as the way in which
they. said it 1t seemed TO me that
they sort Of despised me just because
| wasn't working. II they have to
work, and | suppose they do. ii is all
right: but / don't have to. and as long
as ] don't have TO. why should they
look down on me because | don't
work? ] should think they would
envy me- It's a great deal nicer just
TO sit around or play"
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What a pity then, In an age which
offers TO all parents the wherewithaI
in information and training TO be com
panions and friends TO their children
in a world that is ready and eager 70
equip those parents TO be experts al
their most vital of jobs. TO equip them
10 earn thier children's confidence
and so assure their greatest safeguard
that In such an age all that should
be wasted by their being too busy with
other thingsi
q %. Bel syndicste-wNU Servfca
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Midair Dining Room

A aerial ferry which plies across
the harbor ar Barcelona. Spain, In the
passenger traffic Is operated on a
heavy cable suspended 2U0 feet above
the wafer by three towers and on top
of the central one of these towers
there is a cafe capable of serving 30o
persons
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you give me-or take you to Louis Lee
Blond and let you taste de sting Of
Black Jules dog-whip."
AT the fantastic threat the hard
thinking Stuart grinned in derision.
but the situation was not humorous
Was this wild-eyed Paradis. lingering
the trigger Of his rife, fifteen feet
away, unbalanced over the girl-or
drunk? Either condition was equally
dangerous with that gun.
shoot me. eh?' Jim scoffed, slid
ing a moccasin foot nearer the man
who covered him. You'd hang, IL
my man. Omar, didn't get you first.
and they'd run the Northwest Trad
ing company out Of the bush" Then
an idea flashed through his active
brain as the infamed eyes of Paradis
glared at him. Take me to LeBlond.
It's his daughter. Let him settle It"
Il settle my own affair" The face
Of Paradis was distorted with pas
sion. Slowly be brought the rifle to
his shoulder.
Stuart's heart started with a leap.
The man was crazedl He would shoot!
With a desperate hound Jim strained
10 reach the madman-to defect his
aim; but fell, sprawled in low brush
far short of his goal, as Paradis
backed away, his gun still covering his
enemy.
"Ahi" chuckled the other, that was
worth de blow in de face at Medicine
Stone-to see you jump like frog"
Jim got TO his feet, his eyes on the
grimacing face behind the rife barrel
He must get closer-risk being hit, TO
get that gun. But how?
Lowering the rifle, Paradis said
with a chuckle: Now that / have
made you jump, / weel make leetle
hole through your heart Monsieur
Jeem Stuart" Then he raised the
rife and took deliberate aim.
The leveled gun was yards away,
with low bush between. II was hope
less. If he rushed. Paradis couldn't
miss him. Then, sucking in deep
breath. Jim deliberately folded his
arms over his chest, and taking des-
perate chance, challenged: "An right,
I'm ready! Now-right through the
heart :"
For a space the black tube covered
the chest Of the man whose eyes did
not waver. Your arm is cen de way.
De shot weel not be clean one" NUT
tered the man whose finger slowly
curled on the trigger.
=-h- hal
grimacing face behind the black tube
sighted on his laboring heart, but doubt
slowly chilled him Had be misjudged
his man? Did Paradis, after all, in
tend TO murder him? Slowly, under
the strain. the sweat broke from his
forehead Better TO take the chances
Of a rush than TO be shot like a spy
against wall Then, as Jim stiffened
for headlong leap. with a laugh
Paradis dropped his gun butt
Now we 90 an see LouisLeBlond.
Jim let the breath out OF his lungs.
II had seemed minutes while he
looked into that gun muzzle- II had
taken all the nerve he had But il
had worked-fhat trick; or was Para
dis merely batting him?
Get into your boati Take de stern
and paddlei If you move, shoot you
for sureI" ordered Paradis
Jim did as he was told Facing him,
with the gun in his hands, Paradis
sQuarled in the bow OF the boat, and
they started along the shadows Of the
shore
You think You are luckee / deed
not shoot you, Monsieur Stuart Of de
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Important Small Things

Little failures and little successes
little faults and little virtues, few
kind words here, a few sharp words
there. helping or hindering more than
we know-life made up of these small
things. We can live only day by day.
The truly great events are few and
the TRIES many, and 1t is out OF the
seemingly unimportant that we must
build our character, our human
existence and our eternal record
Exchange.
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THROUGH A
Wmanss Eyes
By JEAN NEWTON
mot UNDERSTOOD"
AT HOME

sc o MANY of the girls seem eager
~ to explain al great length why
they are misunderstood al home"
That is the remark OF a prominent
woman educator who sent TO q large
number of girls ranging in age from
twelve 10 nineteen years question
naire on their personal problems and
their attitude toward their parents
Not understood" al homel Thar
seems an echo from a bygone age
when the picture OF q clustered
mother, stranger to ner children's
problems. and an trate father, nard-
narrow, and -old fashioned" indi-
Gated an impossible gap between the
older and younger generations.
But 10 the modern age with
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SEVERAL GOOD THINGS

a GOOD sandwich 70 give the chill
dren for their luncheon is the fol-
lowing:
Fudge Shortcake.
Take one-third of cupful Of short.
ening. two-thirds of cupful of sugar
one egg. two-thirds of a cupful of
milk. one and two-thirds cupfuls of
-four. three and one-half teaspoonfuls
of baking powder. one-half teaspoonful
Of salt and one teaspoonful of vanilla
Mix In the order given and bake 10
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FROM THE BEGINNING

Sunset House Canadian
trader charge with his headan Omar sscues girl from
girl Paradis displays LeBlond
knowedges his debt Of gratitude Sunset House.
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Abilities

Natural abilities can almost compen
safe for the want of every kind of cul-
tivation but no cultivation Oh the mind
can make up for the want of natural
abilities -Schopenhauer.
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PETER MAKES A GREAT
DISCOVERY

There's nothing like a little work
To make the moments ny.
The buster you keep yourself
The faster they slip by.
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Think what you please. but keep
mosi of your thoughts to yourself
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lions have developed the 1900
acre farm now titled by brother,
H. S. Hanna, and jointly owned
by them.
Hanna moved out Of the huge
farmhouse to his cottage after his
wedding.
He is a radio fan, an astute and
wealthy bank director.
Il get queer letters from all
over the country" he said, dis
playing a cigar box full. Farm
ers in southern Illinois swear Biz
ger never was hanged. They hear
the roaring autos and machine
gun fire of his gang at night, they
write me. Like a ghost story
Hanna always spends the last
hours with a condemned man, fire.
quently staying all night in the
death cell. They always are
friendly to him, he says.
He tells of one man who asked
to have the trap sprung at the
third stanza of The Old Rugged
Cross"
1T was sung by women sta
toned behind the gallows," Hanna
said. But the officials weren't
familiar with the hymn and the
trap was sprung on the first
chorus"
Relatives of Hanna'S friends in
White county are pressing Ari-
IONA authorities to have him pres
ent for the execution. He has
received one letter, but it was not
very definite, he says.
Mrs. Hanna comfortably nodded
as an aside when Hanna was
asked if he would go.
I'D just like to know it was
done right Hanna said.
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STREET CAR TO
BE ABANDONED
'Dinky' Line to Be Replaced
by Bus Sunday.

Abandonment of the Twenty
seventh street free ride "dinky''
street car line will take place Satur-
day and the new through bus serv-
ice for the district will be inaugu-
rated Sunday as scheduled under
the public service commission aban-
donment order, it was announced
today by the Indianapolis Street
Railway Company.
The new bus line service sched-
uled Sunday provides for a bus
leaving keystone avenue and Mil
lersville road every half hour from
Sis a. m, until HAS p. m, with
the last outbound trip leaving the
Circle at 1910 a. m.
Weekday and Saturday sched-
ules will be every half hour leaving
Keystone avenue and M1llerSville
road inbound at Sis a. M, until
11:45 p. m. Leaving the Circle out
bound every half hour from 5:45
a. M, until i1:45 p. m, with the
last trip at 1910 a. m.
Fare will be 10 cents with a free
transfer for any other bus Or street
car and the school communication
tickets of 614 cents will be good on
this line as any other line of the
indianapolis Street Railway Com
pany and the Peoples Motor Coach
Company.
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CRIMINAL s. HIS HOBBY
Illinois Banker Has Fitted Moose ON % Doomed Men
BuNEA serrfce

By MA Scrrfce
EPWORTH, H., April George
II Phillip Hanna, banker, farm
er and volunteer hangman, ex-
poets to assist in the execution of
Winnie Ruth Judd, the Phoenix
(Ariz) trunk murderess.
Hanging is Hanna's hobby. I'm
a humane man." he says. When
I witnessed by first execution
many years ago, at McLeansboro,
H., the prison crew bungled the
job.
1T was brutal, horrifying."
SO Hanna got his own rope,
studied hanging, and since then
has set the fatal moose about the
necks of sixty-two condemned
men.
The last man he executed was
Charlie Burger Of Cairo, Ill, Little
Egypts' notorious gang leader and
terrorist, who was hanged at Ben
ton, Ill.
Hanna, So, and bachelor until
four years ago, lives in a snug
little cottage, Shady Rest" with
antiques of his grim avocation
lining The walls Of the living
room.
Heavy set, almost ponderous in
manner and appearance, he is Of
delicate sympathy and perception.
Il haven't much nerve" Hanna
said. Il dread hangings. I'm up
set for days before and after
ward, When I hanged Burger,
bad man, 1 had the moose behind
my back until the cap was ad-
justed."
ID ECENTLY sparrows were driv-
IN ing the wrens away from
around his cottage. Hanna Dor
rowed an air gun to rout the in
vaders.
But he couldn't shoot. Instead
he built more birdhouses to care
for the aliens.
But he has followed the Judd
case closely. His fame as an exc
cutioner has spread through the
middle west. Arizona authorities
are considering inviting him to
come to Phoenix for her execu-
ton, now set for May IL.
Il may co." Hanna says. "I've
never seen a woman executed and
I'd want to be doubly sure that it
is carried out with minimum of
pain"
If he does go, he will carry with
him the rope with which he
hanged his last fifteen condemned
men. 1t is handmade of four-ply
long fiber hemp and cost SOS at
st. Louis" He tests it with sand
bags to make sure it will stand the
strain.
Mrs. Hanna, plump and smiling,
was at ease in the curiously fur
nished living room. Birger's
machine gun, a weapon with
record of scores of murderous exc
cutions during the Birger- Shelton
gang feud, rests in corner.
An ak, a rag-wrapped brick,
shotgun, all weapons once used by
men he has executed, adorn the
walls.
Intermingled are antiques of the
Hanna family, Civil war relics,
and Colonial pieces.
Il
HANNA is Irish. His ancestors
Il Il settled years ago in White
county, Illinois, and for genera
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BANQUET. Dance on Program

Father and son banquet will be
held Friday night and a spring
festival dance Saturday night at
the Indianapolis Athletic Club. A
mother and daughter banquet will
be held April Is.
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represent Indiana. He is the first
Butler student to be the Indiana
orator in the competition.
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AS by-product of the clearing
of timber land, British Columbia
is now establishing a charcoal in
duStrY.
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Candidate to Be Sneaker

William Henry Harrison, Repub-
lican candidate for congressman
Twelfth district, will address the
Wayne Township Lincoln Club, 523
North Belle Vieu place, Thursday
night.
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The home of Phillip Hanna Epworth, Ill.,
with many hangings
has oated wealthy banker and farmer shown at lower
with
Charlie Burger Illinois gangser Hanna after executed
right judd
communication
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BUTLER ORATORS HOST
Interstate Contest to BE Held at
Church Friday.

NNAAA NAA AAN"N9Js
Butler university will be host to
representatives from four states in
the annual interstate oratorical con-
test, in Central Christian church,
Delaware street and Fl. Wayne
avenue, at Friday.
Paul Duncan, Butler student, will
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night in winamac hall, Twenty
ninth and Clifton streets. with H.
H. Jones. president. in charge.