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Evening star., 1934-07-15

ing water in the pot In his hut when he was
startled by vision. In the boiling water he
a face looking up at him. The face was
that of another Indian, Dekanawida who had
climbed on the roof of Hiawathas lodge and
was looking down the smoke hole.
To the unhappy Hiawatha this sudden ap-
pearance of the face was a mystic vision so i'm
preSSiVe that he foreswore cannibaliSm then and
there. Ready to see the world in new light,
he walked out into the forest. There Dekana-
vida approached him and talked about dream
of brotherhood. to band together the Iroquois
tribes and eventually TO bring about peace over
the entire world
For 80 years the two Indian reformers
worked to end warfare, murder and strife.
They We're Mr.. Hewitt says like an Indian
Messiah and st. Paul
Dekanawida evolved the plans. Hawatha
was his mouthpieee, eloquently arousing the
tribes to the cause. Some Indians today
say that Dekanawida had a speech impediment,
and therefore without Hiawatha he could never
have given his message to the people.
Out Of the 80 years OF political campaigning
grew the remarkable League of the Iroquois.
Five Indian nations in the region of New York
State and nearby Canada were banded together
in this league for brotherhood and peace. Later
a sixth nation was added
Each nation kept its independence. But
each nation sent representatives to sit at CEN
trail council, to decide important matters. That
was in its way the Congress of the Indian
United States.
Only six tribes ever Joined Dekanawidas
that the Indian reformers dream may have
had far-reaehing effect.
If Thomas jefferson did not model the
United States after the Indian league, where
else did he get the idea? Nowhere in Europe
was there such government-a group of po-
Evening star., 1934-07-15

SclouSly, never dreaming that the
Hiawatha he was immortalizing was
vastly different hero from the flesh and
blood Hawatha. But as a result of Longfel-
lows poetry, the hterary-artifcial- -Hiawatha
is the most famous Indian in America. The
Hiawatha of history has become a sub
merged personality.
Scientific research has brought the historic
Hiavatha to light. and Strengthened out the
mystery of what Longfellows hero is made Of"
The real Hiawatha was cannibal We may
well face that shuddery fact first. He
formed it should be added hastily in fairness
to him. And he had provocation, plenty of it,
for doing something mad and desperate.
Cannibalism happened to be Indian way
of taking it out somebody else when a
couldn't strike back at his real enemy. Nova
days, If we can't strike back directly, fellow
might try to get even with the world by bullying
the office force or turning into an unscrupulous
sharper in business.
The real Hiawatha lived about 1850 AID He
had genius for political planning. He lined
up with an even greater Indian genius and
the result of that team was something new
in government for Indian tribes.
From their revolutionary scheme of Indian
government, jefferson seems to have got his
inspiration for our United States of America.
All this being the case. Longfellow's Song
of Hiawatha" is curious memorial to a
great man.
If the real Hiawatha that Longfellow never
knew could stride back from the happy hunt
ing ground where he has been hunting all these
four centuries, and if he found his way to a
modern public school, he would be a puzzled
redskin. He would hear 7-year-olds piping
Justify in his honor:
Smiling dnSicered HtaDathG:
In the land OF the DdcotGhs
Lives the ArToao- Makers daughter,
Minnehaha. laughing Water"
Tor half hour the distinguished unseen
guest would listen to rippling lines about
Hiawatha'S bride, Minnehaha; Hiawathas in
genuity in concocting 8 birchbark canoe Hia-
wathas success in bringing the gift of corn
from the gods to the Indian And after that
We can imagine the shade of Hiawatha STUN
bling forth and murmuring sadly to himself
(dcubtless by this time in the meter which
Longfelow himself used) as follows:
"Aad I thought my deeds remembered.
Such is fdme-O Hidpdthal"
AS a matter of prosaic fact. Hiawatha's
ghost has not been reported haunting school
rooms. But the revival of Hiawathas career
and character is as impressive as the return of
his ghost would be
The real Hiawatha has one man in partic-
ular TO thank for his rescue from oblivion That
man is J. N B. Hewitt. an ethnologiSt who
specializes in digging out the facts about the
lroquois tribes
Up in his tower ONCE in the old Smithsonian
Evening star., 1934-07-15

Hiawatha was a real In
dian. He lived in the 18th
century.
The Hiawatha of history
was a cannibal - but he re-
formed.
The Hiawatha of history
deserves place in a national
hall of fame. He and another
Indian genius established an
Indian league of nations.
From that political invention
of the Indians, it is believed,
Thomas Jefferson got the idea
for a United States.
Hiawatha had two wives,
and neither of them was
named Minnehaha.
L0ngfell0w shouldn't have
gone to Schoolcraft's writ
ings for his Indian history.
Sch00lcraft was muddled on
some of his information,
Evening star., 1934-07-15
BY EMILY c. DAVIS.

m 1AWATHA had a past Longfellow
never knew about.
The great poet made a new man
of Hiawatha. He did it uncon-
sciously, never dreaming that the
Hiawatha he was immortalizing was
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-23
SECOND DEATH
IN FAMILY Of
,EDF0RRESTER

Death struck the pioneer family
of Ed Forester for the second time
in two months yesterday when
William H. Forester, 81, died at
the county hospital after a short
illness.
A brother, j. l.. Forester, died
May % as the result of injuries
received when the automobile in
which he was riding overturned on
the Los Angeles highway north
west of Westmorland.
Forester was the son of Ed
Forester, and came here with the
family in 1901, and had since made
his home here with the exception
of service in the army during the
World war. He was a member of
Boyce Aten Post, American Legion,
and in addition to his wife, is sur
vived by his parents, six brothers
and three sisters.
The body is at Lemons funeral
parlors pending funeral arrange
ments which have not as yet been
completed.
The elder Forester, who suffer-
ed a stroke on the same day that
j. L. Forester was killed, is con-
valescing at Santa Monica.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-23
REORGANIZATION OF ARMY'S AIR
SERVICE URGED BY BAKER BOARD
Report Recommends Expansion Of Corps
But Opposes Plan To Merge Aviation
Branches In Single Unit. s.....

and by open competition. Sugges-
tions that the government estab-
lish and maintain its own airplane
factories were condemned.
Much attention was devoted to
the attempt of the army to carry
the mails. Figures compiled on
the flights were a revelation in es-
tablishing that few accidents ocur-
red while actually engaged in this
work despite hazardous weather
conditions. The report, while find
ing several lessons in the air mail
venture, was full of praise for the
morale and effectiveness of the
service under adverse conditions.
The findings of this score were
considered OF great significance be-
cause the board was appointed at
the time of the air mail contro-
versy and largely as result Of jlat
dispute.
The board was unanimous in iUG
recommendation with the excep-
tion that James H. Doolittle, noted
flyer, protested his belief that a
separate air service should be estab-
lished. He joined in the rest Of the
report, however.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-23

BOSTON, July %. WP)-Eleven
prominent actors and actresses and
the types of roles they portray
from time to time" were listed by
the Rev. Russell M. Sullivan S. j.,
spokesman for William Cardinal
O'Connell, to support charge the
motion picture industry uses its
best known stars to "glorify immor-
atty"
Father Sullivan, speaking to a
New England audience during the
Catholic truth broadcast, called up
on Hollywood for self-reform and
self censorship, and challenged Will
Hays ito join the campaign of de-
cency." He accused producers of
using:
Mae West to portray the worldly
wise, sophisticated vulgarian who
climbed the ladder of success
wrong by wrong"
Joan Crawford to teach little ones
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-23
Stockn1en Warned
OF Poison Feed

News reports from other sections
tell of farmers losing cattle by
poisoning from pasturing on
drought stricken sudan grass and
sorghum according to word receiv-
ed at the local Extension Service
office. This should be warning to
local cattlemen to be on guard
against such types of poisoning in
their dairy and beef herds. There
is no danger in paSturing grow
ing sorghums Or sudan grass or in
feeding dry fodder made from these
plants while making normal growth.
The poison develops in these plants
when they become stunted from
drought. In a field of sorghum
or sudan grass even a small patch
that fails to receive an irrigation
and thereby becomes stunted may
poison livestock pastured in the
field
Sweet or silage sorghum is par
ticularly dangerous to pasture when
stunted by drought. Grain sorghum
and sudan grass are almost as
dangerous to pasture in this stage.
The extension service emphasizes
that these crops should be either
pastured or cut for dry fodder be-
fore they are injured by drought.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-23
Los Angeles Gets
After Stray Dogs

LOS ANGELES, July 30. iU.P)-
The county board of supervisors
voted today, to l, to draft an or
dinance requiring licenses for $4,000
dogs in unincorporated areas of
the county. The action was taken
as precaution against rabies, an
outbreak of which has been re-
ported in the Whittier district.
Supervisor Hugh A. Thatcher. re-
marking that he had probably the
biggest representation of dogs in
the county" voted against the or
dinance.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-23
FARLEY URGES
FULL FAITH
IN PRESIDENT
Postmaster General Tells Reno
Audience New Deal Is Sue
cessful.

RENO, New, July %. W.P)-Post-
master General James Farley asked
for faith and confidence" in Presi-
dent Roosevelt's administration dur
ing a short visit today 10 dedicate
Reno's new post office.
Each succeeding day brings en-
couraging news Of the success OF
his plans" Farley declared. "Un-
disturbed by the fearful; forebear-
ing with the critical; firm with the
impatient; and with malice towards
none he leads the way to ma
tional we'll being.
Iet our faith and confidence be
responsive to his and with him let
us dedicate ourselves anew to the
service of our country"
Farley said the post office de-
partment in cooperating with Presi-
dent Roosevelt to maintain bal
anced budget had wiped out def
icit of $2O6 100000 and for the first
time in Is years is self-sustaining.
Farley arrived from San Fran
cisco this morning to be greeted by
hundreds of citizens and public Of
ficials.
His visit was construed as being
the start of an intensive campaign
on the part of the national admin
istration to re-elect Sen. Key Pitt
man of Nevada.
Pittman is said to face the most
critical period in his % years as
senator. Opposition has been re-
ported throughout the state.
,Pittman is regarded by many as
President Roosevelts right hand
man in congress Pittman is Presi-
dent protein of the senate and
chairman of the powerful foreign
affairs committee.
Farley praised Pittman in his
speech. Pittman, he said "ably fills
the exalted office of President pro-
tempore of the United States SEN
nate" He merely mentioned New
ada's Junior senator, Pat McCar-
ran, and Congressman James Scrug-
ham.
Senator Key Pittman is report
ed to have aroused the antagon-
ism of the American Legion,
whose members constitute 58
per cent of the registered voters In
Nevada, when he supported Presi-
dent Roosevelt's veto of the SOL
diers' bonus measure at the last
session of congress.
Farley conferred with local DEM
ocratic party leaders before he left
for Sacramento in the afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-23
Shuttle Reds
Back And Forth

SANTA BARBARA. Calf July
%. W.P)-Thirteen asserted Com
munists, expelled from San Jose
by citizens committee, have re-
turned to San Jose after being held
in the city Jail here for six hours
for investigation. it was reported
today.
The band was released late Sat-
urday. Police said they under
stood the group arranged trans
portation and returned to San
Jose Saturday night.
The suspected Communists start
ed for Los Angeles when they were
ordered from San jose. Counties
north of Santa Barbara paid their
transportation beyond their own
boundary lines. Local officers arr
rested them on suspicion when they
arrived here
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-23
BURNHAM tn
SPEAK HERE
WEDNESDAY,

Confirmation was received today
at the Ell Centre Chamber of Com
merce of Congressman George
Burnham'S statement of two weeks
ago that he would be present at
the local chamber dinner to be held
on Wednesday, July 25. In his let
ter Imperial Valleys representative
in Washington stated that he would
only be able to remain that one
day at this time and the Ell Centro
chamber is therefore planning to
make this a valley-wide dinner
meeting in order that representa-
tiveS from other communities may
be present to hear Congressman
Burnham speak.
Representative Burnham will
speak after the dinner on matters
which came up before congress dur
ing the session just completed and
particularly on those matters which
affect Imperial Valley. During the
past session of congress civic and
commercial organizations appealed
to Congressman Burnham on many
occasions to take definite action on
bills which affected Imperial VAL
ley and its people and a report will
be made to the people of this COM
munity on these various bills at the
Wednesday evening meeting.
The Ell Centre chamber dinner
will be held at the Hotel Barbara
Worth at $3.50 o'clock, Wednesday
night of this week and. in order
that seating arrangements may be
made in advance, those planning
to attend are asked to notify the
chamber staff, as an unusually
large gathering is expected.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-23
By JOHN A. REICHMANN
United Press Staff Correspondent


WASHINGTON, July %. - The
United States army air corps must
be reorganized and brought to the
highest efficiency in the world, the
Baker board reported today to Sec
retary of War Dern.
The nations civil and naval avia-
ton branNhes are second to none
the board declared, but the army
largely because of congressional
sluggishness, is woefully laggard
and requires immediate moderniza-
tion.
The report, compiled by board
headed by Newton D. Baker, Secre-
tary of war under President Will
son, made an exhaustive study of
all phases of military aviation. 1t
recommended:
/. Expansion of the army air
corps to 1920 planes, the number
provided in the 1926 congressional
act, with a larger ratio of combat
planes.
\ g. A national aviation policy be
decided on and retained for at least
reasonable" length of time.
3. Retention of the present air
set-up with a closer coordination
between ground and air troops.
Suggestions of merging all military
and naval aviation into separate
unit was called extravagant and i'm
practicable.
4. Encouragement of the avia-
ton industry to permit it to ex-
pand quickly and efficiently to war
time productive demands.
S. Revision of the internal or
ganizatioE of the air corps. In
crease in the number of flying
hours per pilot from the present
$50 to 200 hours to 300 hours year
ly, greater training in flying un-
der hazardous conditions and with
instruments such as are used on
commercial planes.
6. A liberal policy in encouraging
and perfecting experimental devel-
opments and in permitting the Sec
retary of war to purchase by de-
sign competition, by negotiation
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-23
Inuites Candidates
To WinterhdUen

All county candidates for office
were invited today by Tom Worth
ington, mayor" of Winterhaven
and publisher of the Winterhaven
News, to participate in an open
forum to be conducted at Winter
haven on August 2.
An opportunity will be given all
who desire to speak to do so,
Worthington said, and nobody will
be barred who wishes to state his
reason for seeking office.
Speaking will start at $50 Cali
fornia time.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-23
UNION GROUPS
TAKING VOTE
San Francisco Strike Collapse
Proceeds As Men Ballot On
Arbitration.
SAN FRANCISCO, July %. W.p

SAN FRANCISCO, July %. W.H
The million dollar a day mari
time strike on the Pacific coast
was collapsing on all sides today as
striking longshoremen voted on ac-
ceptance of arbitration in the dis
pute which led to their walkout on
May 9.
The vote of $4,000 members of
the International Longshoremen's
association was expected to return
large majority in favor of sub
mitting their wages and working
conditions demands to President
Roosevelt's national longshoremen'5
board. The vote is to be an
nounced Tuesday.
Such action automatically would
bring to a close the great strike
which, before it ran its course, in
volved rine other maritime unions,
led to a general strike in San Fran
cisco, brought national guardsmen
to waterfront cities and caused VIC
lence in which nine men lost their
lives and hundreds were injured.
In anticipation of an early settle
ment of the strike, all ports began
to resume normal activities. Trucks
manned by union drivers moved
from the piers cargoes which lad
been tied up for II weeks. Ship
ping lines resumed normal sailings.
Ocean carriers whose bottoms had
been rustslg in docks got up steam
for new voyages. Seattle sent west
ward its first Orient-bound passen-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-23
President Nears
Ha.Uaiii's Shores

ABOARD THE U. S. S. NEW Or
LEANS. WITH ESIDENT T
ROOSEVELT AT SEA, July %. (By
radio to the United Press)-The U.
s. cruiser Houston, carrying Presi-
dent Roosevelt over smooth seas to
the Hawaiian Islands, drew close
to its mid-Pacific destination today
BY dawn tomorrow the Houston
and the U. S. S. New Orleans, &C
companying it, will be within sight
of Hawaiian shores and before noon
they will dock at Kailua according
to present plans.
A tremendous welcome awaited
The first President to visit the pic
turesque insular possessions.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-23
MARTIAL LAW
EXPECTED IN
M|NNEAP P0L|S
Militia Assembled By Governor
Ready To Enter City If Re-
quired.
BY FRED BAILEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

lNSS otdll
MINNEAPOLIS, July 23.-Strik-
ing truck drivers defied police to-
day and halted the movement Of
city garbage trucks in the face of
warming from Gov. Floyd B.
Olson that renewed violence would
be met with maruaI law.
More than 200 pickets blocked
the trucks roadway with a line
of cars a block long, Tim Buckley,
a garbage collection superintendent,
reported.
More than 1000 national guards
men and naval reserves were as
sembled to move into the strike
zone on orders expected moment
arily from Governor Olson.
Squad cars of police returned to
duty today with orders from Mayor
A. G.. Bainbridge to escort supply
trucks to hospitals.
Other groups of strikers con-
verged on the market district tc
prevent the movement of trucks
1t was there that police fired
into pickets halting a truck Friday
fatally Woupding one man and
sending SO others to hospitals.
Police squad cars were reported
encircling Commissioner Row, the
center of the market district. My
les Dunno, strike leader, said
there's trouble in the air and it
may break any time now"
Several strike pickets were post
ed near Seventh avenue north of
Third street bearing a flag, wreaths
of flowers and a banner reading
Here fell Henry B. Ness. men,
ber of the local STA, veteran of the
World war and martyr of labor
struggles; shot down by police
Died July 21st. 1894
Ness was wounded fatally during
disturbance Friday when police
and strike pickets clashed over
movement of a truck. Twenty six
others, four of them in a critical
condition, remained in a hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-23
CARDINALS SPOKESMAN HITS FILMS
Lists Stars And Roles Given Them AS Reas-
ons For Present Crusade

"the ennobling romance of kept
women"
Barbara Stanwyck and Helen
Twelvetrees to show them "the up
lifting ways of fallen women
Jean Harlow and Clara Bow to
teach "the alluring attractiveness
of partial nakedness.
George Raft and George Ban
croft to glorify "the admirable cour-
age of murderous gangsters."
Clark Gable and william Haines
to show "the way of insidious male
lure
Adophe Menljou to teach young
men "the gentlemanly ways of the
rake"
Father Sullivan called on Hays
to appoint local censors for the
film distributing centers, who would
have authority to delete objection
able scenes and thus prevent impo-
sition of threatened boycott which
will begin locally against objection
able films on July 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-23
FEDERAL OFFICERS SILENT ON
RUMOR COMPANION Of OUTLAW
GAVE FATAL SIGNAL To THEM
Final Chapter Written In Life Of Nations
Leading Desperate AS Department OF
Justice Men Guard Source Of Tip

Dillinger died as he lived-in
hail of bullets.
He died last night at 10:40 O'clock
with a smile on his lips and a
woman on each arm.
Twelve federal agents and five
policemen, shooting through a
crowd of men, women and children,
dropped the little desperate as he
left motion picture theatre six
blocks off the famous Gold Coast"
Three bullets ended the career
that started with the escape of 10
convicts from the Michigan City,
Ind, state prison, continued with
he murder of Sher. Sarbert at Lima,
O., brought death to IA men and
was climaxed by Dillinger's TOY
gun" escape from the Crown Point,
Ind, Jail.
Dillinger spotted the ambush al
most as the officers located him
in the after theatre crowd.
! He yanked at tiny .38 pocket
automatic favorite, small but
powerful gun of gangsters.
Pistols of the law crashed in a
deafening fussilade. Men, women
and children nearby screamed and
trampled each other in the flight.
Two As caliber slugs smashed
into the outlaws chest. He whirled.
He stumbled. His arms failed
! aloft. Another slug burned into the
back of his neck, crashed through
his head and came out over his
right eye.
Two women, crowded into the
line of fire, fell with bullet wounds
Mrs. Theresa Paulus was shot in
the hip; Mrs. Eta Natelski in a
leg.
Stumbling, his eyes already glaz-
ing, Dillinger dove clear through
the line of guns, swayed hundred
feet to an alley and fell dead.
He died there-the man who
had squandered hundreds Of thous-
ands of stolen dollars-in the dirt
of a dark alley.
His two women companions, last
Of an changing stream of
! feminine favorites, abandoned him
at the first sign OF danger and
escaped
Saw Gangster Film
In the morgue was found their
! justification. Carefully cased, in
the back of their escorts watch
was the photograph of another
woman, Marion Evelyn Frechette,
half breed Indian girl who went
to prison because she aided him.
Ironically. Dillinger just had
seen on the silver screen within
the Biograph theatre a career al
most paralleling his own. He had
watched another criminal walk to
! the electric chair-he had seen
prison lights dim under the pail
of death-dealing load = had
thought, perhaps, of the fate await
ing him if he ever was captured.
| The picture was Manhattan
Melodrama," pointing in breath
less action the moral that crime
( never pays.
| Dillinger'S face had been lifted
by means of plastic surgery in an
effort to avoid recognition, accord
ing to Melvin H. Purvis, the fed
eral governments chief manhunter
in the Chicago area, who directed
the ambush.
At the county morgue. how
ever attendants and police officers
said they were sure the outlaws
facial characteristics had not been
| altered.
1T was a good job the surgeon
| did" Purvis said, but I knew
him the minute I saw him.
Purvis said he was standing In
front of a beer tavern a short
! distance from the neighborhood
theatre when Dillinger passed him.
HE gave me piercing look, )"
he related. Just after he went by
Imperial Valley press., 1934-07-23
TO AUCTION WINE

LOS ANGELES, July 49, U,P)-
Federal officials will auction off
250,000 gallons of wine manufac-
tured in Southern California before
repeal of prohibition unless the
internal revenue tax of 10 cents
a gallon is paid by Thursday mid
night, it was announced today. The
government refused to permit man.
ufacturers to dispose of the wine
before payment of the tax. Approx
mately 100 wine makers are invol-
we'd in the pending libel proceed
ings