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Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-14
COULDN'T Afford RADIO

ONEIDA, N. Y. U.R)-Mrs. Lii
liam Smith, Ga, who complained to
a neighbor recently that she
couldn't afford a radio" to break
the monotony of her secluded life,
left an estate of $4,000, 1t was
learned two months after her
death,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-14
Urge Governor To
Stay In Hospital

SAN FRANCISCO, March IA U.P)
Governor James Rolph, Jr., was
urged by his physicians today to re-
main in ST. Francis hospital here
tor at least two weeks more.
The doctors reported that the
executive was chatting at his i'm
prisonment' but that he needed
more rest.
Rolph had expected to leave the
institution this week. He was
brought here from Marysville two
weeks ago suffering from lung con-
gestion and stomach disorder.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-14

ry of Trenton. N j., in 10 round
welterweight fight here on March
&c.
Larry White, manager of the for
mer champion, said that Corbett
had received an eye injury in SPAR
ring at Sacramento White intimat-
ed that it would be necessary to
postpone or call off entirely the
Terry bout.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-14
Exhibits Record
Barley Grouuth

A bundle of barley, better than 5
feet inches in height. was shown
at The Press office today by j. D.
Adams, who found the barley as
volunteer on his ranch between
Brawley and Holtville.
The ranch is planted in flax, but
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-14
Corbett Injured
In Training Bout

SAN FRANCISCO, March IA. U.P)
Local fight promoters were dis
mayed today to learn that Young
Corbett III, former Welterweight
champion, had received a training
injury that threatened TO interfere
with his plans TO meet Young Ter
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-14

had previously been used for bar
ley, some of which had not been cut
out when the land was prepared for
the flax.
The barley, nearly twice as high
as the normal growth, was presented
to B. A. Harrigan, county agricul-
tural commissioner.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-14

round non-title encounter with Kid
Moro Of the Philippines.
Moro. said TO be veteran Of 10
years of ring warfare, came TO Cal
ifornia from Manila only recently.
He scored a victory over Ceferino
Garcia, clever Los Angeles battler,
and met defeat at the hands Of
young Peter Jackson since his ar
rival.
Ross plans to leave for Chicago
after the Moro bout.
NEW YORK, March IA. - Nego-
tiationS for a heavyweight title
match this summer between cham
pion Primo Carnera and Make Bael
will be continued today. Col. John
Reed Fitzpatrick, president of Mad
iscn Square Garden, was unable tc
come to any definite agreement
yesterday with Louis Soresi ano
Ancil Hoffman, managers of the
champion and Baer, respectively.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-14

You'll be swept away by the beautiful
l. streamlining of the Ford V-s for 1884.
You'll want to open your wallet because of
the size and luxury of this car. And you'll
be "sold" forever when you look under
the hood -.
You'll find there the onLy V-8 engine in
Car that sells for less than $2,395. You'll
find there the type of engine that smashed
every record for speed on land. Every rec
ord for speed in the air. Every record for
speed on the water. The V-Type engine.
The V-s is an expensive-car engine. 1t
costs more to build. Only Ford has been able
put it into low price Car. And the same en-
5SI5 and ab-FO.B. Detroit. Easy terms through I'm,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-14

OAKLAND, March Il. - Barney
Ross. lightweight champion, meets
comparative fistic unknown to-
night when he tangles in 10
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-14

gineering skill that makes the Ford VS. easy
to buy has made it more economical to run.
The Ford V-8 for 1884 is far and away
the most economical car that Ford has ever
produced. Dual manifoIds and dual car
buretion send It even further per gallon of
gasoline than last years model.
The Ford VS. is the only American Car
that gives you free action for ALL toxr wheels
-tVitb the safety of strong axle construc-
ton.
Drive the Ford V-8 for 1934-"the car
without price class" And drive it before
you buy any car at any price!
SEE YOUR NEAREST FoRDIDEALER
rsai Credit Combany-he authorized Ford Finance Plan
Evening star., 1934-11-11

Cry and enables the rebels Of Santa
Ana to drive the President out Of the
country.
PTTCAIRN'S ISLAND. BY Charles
Nordhof and James Normal Hall.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
THIS last volume of the bounty tril-
ogy. preceded by "Mutiny on the
Bounty and Men Against the Sea, "
follows the mutineers of the Bounty
after they set Capt Bligh and his
loyal men afloat in an open boat for
what proved to be a terrible journey
of $500 miles. The mutineers. led by
Fletcher Christian. second in COM
mand on the Bounty. returned with
the vessel to Tahiti. but not to re-
main. They sought q permanent
refuge, in some spot remote from the
long arm of the admiralty" This
they found in Pitcairn's Island. south
east of Tahiti. far off the usual lanes
of vessels. There they settled in 1890
and for 18 years they we're undis-
turbed but all accounts agree that
those were years Of horror. Fifteen
men and II Polynesian women landed
on one of the loneliest islands in the
world; a decade later, though there
were many children. only one man and
10 of the women remained. Fifteen
of the 16 dead had met death by
violence. In 1903 the refuge was dis
covered by Capt. Folger of the Ameri-
can vessel Topaz, and after that
other visits were made to the island,
including very recent one by Mr..
Evening star., 1934-11-11
Hoarding Endangers
Vatican City Currency

VATICAN CITY B.-Hoardinr on
an international scale is endaneertng
Inc Vatican City currency.
In consequence the Italian mint has
received an order to coin the 1884
supply several months In advance be-
cause the 1888 supply is about ex-
hausted.
purchases In the Vatican are being
paid for Ia Italian currency because
there isn't enough Vatican money to
60 around.
The 1884 coming will amount to
10000 lire. This was the last year
In which this amount was to be
coined. the 1885 figure having been
set at SOC, 900. But rs matters stand
now 1t seems that more rather than
less money may have to be coined.
The boarding Of Vatican money Is
not done for the same reason as the
boarding that alarmed the United
States two years ago. It is the result
OF worldwide craze for curios.
Visitors come to Italy and think
how cute" it is for so little Q state
as Vatican City to have its own, cur
rency, and how mice" the money
looks. They gather together ss many
different pieces as they can get and
carry them away. Sometimes they
take extra series along for relatives
or 1rieudg
Evening star., 1934-11-11

of Conrad. The title perhaps needs
explanation. Cry" is a Dutch word
for horse, and the ship of the tale
takes its name from its figurehead of
horse. The intrigue in which the Cry
is involved is political In 1911 a
cavil war is on in Santa Ana and
Santa Barbara. a neighboring state,
shows signs of interfering dor both of
these places, on the Eastern Spanish
Main" see Mr.. Masefield's end-paper
picture maps. The Cry. loaded with
ammunition for the rebels of Santa
Ana, is seized and brought to port by
the efficient navy of Santa Barbara.
Here begins the climax of the excite
ment. Under the rifle ammunition,
unknown to the captors and even to
the captain who betrayed the rebels,
ARE between two and three hundred
of these quick firing Poiret guns, with
a thousand tons of ammunition for
them, on which we count for victory"
So the Cry, with its precious cargo
must be rescued. The story of the
rescue, which is accompanied by as
many hazards and hairbreadth escapes
as could we'll be imagined by one man,
is told by fourth officer on an Eng
lish merchant ship, named Charlie
who Is the leader of the expedition.
He is wizard with charts, in which
his interest began when he came
across an old chart of Sir Francis
Drake reproduced in the picture
maps, and through his wizardry and
daring he effects the rescue of the
Evening star., 1934-11-11
China Canal Project
Aids Food Problem

KWEIHUA. Suiyuan. China Cpl.-
Ten Chinese will be able to live where
one lived before. when the sprawline
SaratSi irrigation project. built
largely with American funds. begins
feeding water to the semi-arid lands
of Suiyuan Province.
This Is the belief of engineers OF
the China International Famine Re-
lief Commission who directed the con-
struction Of the intricate canal
system.
With an area Of zoe, 900 acres, the
lands Of the project have afforded q
precarious existence to about $4,000
Chinese settlers and . few Mongol
herdsmen. When water Is put on the
land 1t is expected to become i'm
mensely more productive and should
be able to support half million per-
sons. engineers say.
First surveys for the project were
made in 1929, after a dry Summer
had brought crop failure and famine
to the Saratsi Plain.
The work of constructing the main
part Of the system, including a main
canal A miles long and "a lateral
canals, was completed by the China
International Famine Relief Com
mission In 1882 at cost of about
100000. Two-thirds of the amount
was contributed by Americans inter-
ested in famine relief and the re-
mainder was put Up by the suiyuau
provincial governIsbnt.
Evening star., 1934-11-11
End of the Armistice?

tempt had failed, they would not
have escaped.
But what can be the nature of
policies that are so bold as to plunge
occasionally into that mode of Of
fenslve? They are undoubtedly bent
upon war: all the peaceful professions
that are broadcast on their behalf
cannot be considered as ANYTHING
more than tactical make believes,
Moreover, in the background q solid
fact must be taken into account.
Within three or four months, now.
the German Army will be established
upon the basis of 100 divisions
which. of course. would expand in an
emergency. In a psychological sense
the German people already are at
war. The Hitlerian regime is less
political regime than the lever of
permanent general mobilization.
Hints of War Preparations.
Thus we get at the inner sense of
the economic and financial policy en-
forced by DR.. Schacht. Thus we are
able to understand the frantic search
for Substitutes" which has been going
on for months, and perhaps for years
The Germans, it may be observed
hardly go to the trouble of hiding
their preparations. I am told that
lately the air attache of an important
embassy in Berlin was authorized to
visit a plant which is building military
airplanes of such structure that they
cannot possibly be represented as
carriers of passengers or goods.
Henceforward French policy must as
sumo that from Germany the worst
can be expected. It's only safe belief
Is unbounded pessimism.
Where can we look for hope?
In the vivid realization of the dan
ger by the governments of all the
peace-seeking nations in Europe.
Whatever the form that it eventually
assumes, pact of mutual assistance
against the aggressor will certainly
materialiZe. And Notwithstanding the
great obstacles of home policy that
are IN the way, some sort Of Franco
Russian military agreement will be
reached.
FOOLS Paradise.
Italy and Poland, it is true, still
sit on the fence. But in the negotia-
tions now in progress, the last word
has not yet been said. Is it SO un-
reasonable to hope that the British
cabinet will finally abandon its blind
indifference? That the United States
will at least make clear that they
would not stick to moral aloofness?
Germany can hardly win land per-
haps the foolhardy Hitlerians will not
take the risk, if FOOLS paradise does
not lie before them. Well, the fools
paradise OF the BRAND Chamberlain
Stressemann period has vanished alto
gether.
Evening star., 1934-11-11
Soviet Likely to Adopt Positive Policy
Soon in World Affairs Through League

and the future Of the Little Entente.
shaken by King Alexander's death. in
doubt, Moscow Is expected to embark
Immediately upon positive policy.
Whether this viii dovetail with the
policies of the new French foreign
minister. M. Laval, remains to be
seen.
The Russians are also expected to
form a hyphen between the United
States and the League in respect to
Pacific questions. The interests of
the two countries in that region are
similar. Russia's presence In dis
armament discussions (now with the
full authority of great league pow
err is likely to give Washington q
powerful friend in court" particu-
larly In council discussions, where
Americans do not take part.
AS for creating "superstate" out
OF the League-an ambition ascribed
to the Russians by some states which
opposed her entrance into Geneva
c1rcles-there is little reason for ap-
prehensions in that direction. While
the Russians might be willing to join
In international economic, financial.
moral or even military action against
a nation disturbing world peace, they
are not likely to be enthusiastic In
FOSTERING up existing Il. e. capital
lSt1c) regimes In various states.
One thing that is causing consider
able concern is the belief that the
Russians contemplate hailing the jap
anese before the League at the firxt
opportunity. Japan, although she has
omcially given notification of with
drawal, remains under League iuris-
olction until March, 1885. Conse-
quently. any aggressive action con-
templated by Toxic naturally win be
postponed until after that date-and
until after the naval negotiations with
Great Britain and the United States.
lnto Wmcn Russia is seeking to enter
ARE concluded. Sr
Evening star., 1934-11-11

GENEVA Soviet Russia
has been q full-f1edged member of
the League Of Nations now for several
months, diplomats here and in vari-
| GUS European capitals are still un-
certain of the implications involved.
There has not been enough time to
| analyze Moscow's position and the
Bolshevists seem to prefer to keep
the League guessing. During the few
Council meetings which were held
after Russia was admitted, Maxim
| Litvinoff's action was reserved and
circumspect. He did not develop into
the expected bull In the china shop"
He left that role to the late Foreign
Minister Louis Barthou of France.
Out of Moscow, however, has come
indications which are arousing inter-
est. Prognostieators claim that the
Russians will shortly move to put
teeth" into the League Covenant
by asking that certain words in that
document be specifically defined. The
word "aggressor" interests them par
ticularly. They also are expected to
put new life in the drive to bring
the League Covenant and BRAND
Kellogg outlawry of war pact into
harmony.
An inkling of what is in Moscow's
mind is revealed in two recent edi-
torials in Isvestia and Pravda. The
former is the official spokesman of
the Bolshevist foreign Office and the
latter of the Communist party. Karl
Radek Is director Of kvestia.
Isvestia says:
The Soviet Union represents q
force capable of defending its frontiers
on whatever side they might be
threatened. But this does not remove
from it the responsibility Of doing all
in its power to strengthen the general
cause of peace and security. The
stronger the Soviet Union becomes
the more emphatically 1t Is obliged to
do everything In its power to CO.
ordinate its forces with those Of all
countries that are prepared by COM
mon effort to combat the danger Of
war. The Soviet Union will fulfill
its duty and the public opinion of
the Soviet Union welcomes the fact
that not only the masses Of the
people throughout the world, not only
the neighbors of the Soviet Union,
but also the representatives of the
ruling circles of such great countries
as France have understood the sig
nif1cance of the Soviet Union as a
factor for strengthening the cause
Of world peace.
Pravda says:
The withdrawal from the League
Of Nations Of Japan and Germany
that Is, countries which do not even
consider 1t necessary to conceal their
resolve to satisfy their imperialist
desires by rearmament, annexation
and war-has raised the question
whether the League may not, to a
certain extent, become the center Of
q group of forces, which, regardless Of
motives, for one reason or another
/" combine for the strengthening
Of peace"
That the Bolshevists are working
| toward d program whereunder League
members will be obligated to come
| to the assistance Of nation victim
of aggression" is generally taken for
| granted. What direction this "com-
mon action" will take is matter for
conjecture. Litvinon and the late
M. Barthou are known to have had
! q complete understanding, aimed
chiefly against Germany. Now. with
French influence declining IN Poland
Evening star., 1934-11-11
BY SARAH BOWERMAN

Hall himself. Later visitors found the
descendants Of the mutineers living
in a tropical Utopia. In narrating
the destinies of the Pitcairn refugees,
Messrs. Nordhoff and Hall have of
necessity pictured what is at times a
lurid scene. The niceties Of life were
not always observed in the relations
Of the white and brown races on the
island, and men who had gone through
a mutiny together we're not likely to
be squeamish In their future relations.
The authors simply tell the truth.
The tense interest Of the story does
not fall below the standard set In the
two former books.
ELIZABETH. BY Frank Swtnnerton.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran
g. Co.
IN A long. leisurely novel, not the
equal Of "Nocturne," but still very
satisfying in its realism Of the type
OF Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett,
Mr.. Swinnerton contrasts two girls,
both named Elizabeth, and describes
the high and low effects of a real
estate boom in an English seaside
town. Beth Swift is the sweet
natured, favored daughter of a not
too self-satisfled writer Of best-selling
stuff. Eliza Cordell is the utterly un-
attractive and ill-natured daughter OF
an unsuccessful writer of stuff which
rarely sells at all, who finds oblivion
for himself and poverty for his family
in drink. Beth is perhaps too sweet
Eliza, the most appealing character in
the story, is painfully tragic in her
acute suffering because of the lack OF
all opportunity for escape from her
unhappy surroundings. Three doctors
all excellently drawn, are influential
in the lives of the Seahampton folks
the two Bradley brothers, of Sea-
hampton and London. and Julian
Bradley, son of the latter The rea.
estate boom, promoted by the un.
scrupulous Lott, which ultimately gives
the honest, steady Tom Root his
chance. provides good proportion OF
the plot, but is subordinate in interest
to the personalities and affairs of the
residents of Seahampton and then
London acquaintances-the repulsive
Champollion, manager of the boom
hotel; the promiscuous Saba, who
makes a mess of Julians life; the
minister. Carthwaite, and his priggish
son and two complex-ridden daugh-
ters: all the unfortunate Cordell fam
lily and the many hackers of the boom
and intriguers in its and their owr
behalf.
DRURY RANDALL. BY Mary John
ston. Boston: Little, Brown e. Co
GONE are the days when youne
people watched alertly for a new
romance by Mary Johnston, in order
to become acquainted with still an
other dauntless hero of Colonial anc
Revolutionary days and an incom-
parable heroine destined to be hi.
bride. Miss Johnston's romances
now have the fragrance and fragility
Of lavender and old lace. Their ap-
peal is to older rather than younger
read ders. Drury Randall is q vir-
ginia gentleman of the last half OF
the nineteenth century. whose intel
lectual and spiritual kinship is with
the New England Emerson and
Thoreau. whom he meets. not with
his own men-of-action ancestors
Continued on Fifth Page.)
Evening star., 1934-11-11
VIEWS AND REVIEWS.

ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM. By
Stefan Zweig. Translated by
Eden and Cedar Paul New York:
The Viking Press.
"HE downcast eyes and inscrut-
able smile of the Durer por-
i suggest the man who did not
accept the popular or partisan
beliefs of his age. either in religion
or in politics, who had in his mind
many questions. 1t is q satisfaction
that Stefan Zweig, a master writer
of the new biography" should have
chosen the subtle character of Eras-
mus for q subject, one as far re-
moved as possible from that OF light.
pathetic Marie Antoinette, the sub
ject of his biography of year ago.
1t Is Erasmus the humanist. rather
than Erasmus the cleric, who inter-
ests Stefan Zweig, Erasmus OF Rot
terdam, the greatest and most bril-
liant star of his century"
Born about 1906, at the time OF
the transition from the fifteenth cen
tury of the Dark Ages to the six
JCCIl1k1 SCAlOAJ ol bAAC AsSAAo AAsSeAAASS,
Erasmus was "the first conscious
European, a lover Of poetry, philoso-
ply, the arts, of books. languages and
people. He detested bigotry and
fanaticism and considered intellectual
intolerance the greatest of human
evils. Faced by the great issues Of
his time. chief among them the
Protestant Revolution led by Luther,
his intense love of freedom prevented
him from becoming partisan, SO
that he met the approval of neither
Catholics nor Protestants. He was
forced to leave Louvain because it was
too Catholic; he was forced to leave
Basle because it was too Protestant.
He suffered the fate of most liberals
who cannot align themselves with
either conservatives or radicals, he
died a lonely man while the world
passed him by. Everything he had
longed for, had fought for-mutual
understanding and kindly concilia-
ton in the place of savage warfare
had been shipwrecked upon the
-" The exalted dream of a spiritu-
ally united, humanistic Europe had
come to an end" But. after the
lapse of centuries, history has as
signed him a place as the foremost
liberal scholar and the most far
seeing thinker Stefan Zweig notes
the parellels between the thought of
Erasmus and that Of some twentieth
century liberals who have worked
and are working for the peace and
unity of the world, and between the
philosophy of power and conquest OF
men of the time of Erasmus, such as
Ma chiavelli. and their SUCCESSORS OF
today. This Is the most Thoughtful
of all Stefan's biographies, and the
closest in its relation to our own
time and problems, though Erasmus
died 400 years ago.
y y r
THE TAKING OF THE CRY. BY
John Masefeld. New York: The
Macmillan Co.
THE poet laureate of Great Britain
is at heart a sailor even though
he now sails the seas only in his prose
and verse. 'The Taking of the Cry
is such another good sea yarn as THE
Bird of Dawning" and. though Mase-
fields method is simpler than that of
Conrad, by both its intrigue and rhyth-
mical prose it summons the ghost