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Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29
BED.TIM E STORIES
BY HOWARD Z. GARRIS
Copyright 1884 by Mcclure Newspaper Syndic.te)

busy in the night. His cold fingers
had cracked the outer husks or
coverings on the nuts. ChestnutS
are small and brown and are cov-
cred with sharp, prickery burrs
Hickory nuts come in a smooth
bark like shell. Black walnutS are
covered with thick, green husk
which turns brown as it dries. Be-
fore it dries this husk stains all it
touches a beautiful brown. Beech
nuts are three-sided and have a
thin outer shell.
Fuzzy Fox Appears
But Jack Frost cracked open all
the thick outer coverings of the
nuts, letting them drop and scat
ter on the ground where the squir-
rel boys gathered them. Uncle
Wiggily gathered many chestnuts
for them. And, when he had his
bag nearly filled, the Fuzzy Fox
came sneaking along, hoping tc
! eat the rabbit or a squirrel.
perhaps you d like few nuts
first?" asked Uncle Wiggily, po-
litely.
81 nMght!" snickered the Fox
"Try these prickery nuts!' y
chuckled the rabbit. He kicked a
pile of the sharp chestnut burrs in
to the open mouth of the Fox. And
when the Fox bit on them it made
his tongue SO sore that he gave a
loud howl and ran away. Then
the bunny and the squirrels fin
ished gathering the nuts and took
them home. And Mrs. Bushytai
made Mr.. Longears a fine cake.
Now, please don't let the ice box
put the apple dumping in the
soap dish or I can't tell you next
about Uncle Wiggily's pumpkin
pie.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29
UNCLE WIGGILY AND THE
PRICKLY NUTS

One day when there was no
school Uncle Wiggily hoped over
the woods and through the fields
until he reached the tree house
where Johnnie and Billie Bushy-
tail, the squirrels, lived Mr.. Long
ears saw Johnnie and Billie jump
ing up and down, Tipping their big
tails and laughing with Joy
What's the matter?" asked the
rabbit gentleman.
"Oh, nothing is the matter, -
chartered Johnnie.
Everything is just fine, chat
tered Billie.
eBut why are you skipping
around so?' asked Uncle Wiggily.
ats on account of Jack Frost, -
said Mrs. Bushytail, the lady squir-
rel, coming to the front door with
the dishpan in her hands, for she
had just finished her morning
work.
.'Jack Frost!" exclaimed Uncl
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29
DOINGS IN AND ABOUT SEELEY

Mr.. and Mrs. w. West and family
came down from Jacumba Satur-
day after spending the summer
there.
Fred Mastick has been assisting
Walter Hansen at Sandia in build
ing onto the Foster residence.
J. C. Spencer entertained his
Sunday school class Tuesday eve
ming with a wiener roast and the
evening was spent playing games.
It was held on the vacant lot near
the parsonage, II boys being pres
ent.
Mrs. Ruth Handshy and hus-
band of Watsonville were visiting
relatives in the valley the past
week. She is a niece of Mrs. j. q.
Gallaher and visited at the Gala
her home Tuesday.
Mrs. I. S. Elliott returned from
her visit in San Diego last week
to her home in Plaster City.
Mrs Mamma Herrick was WIS.,
tor in San Diego over the weekend
and this week has her daughter.
Mrs. Aida Cobleigh, and little ba-
by, Nancy, with her from San Diego.
Spencer Young is home again
after the summer spent in differ
ent parts of northern California.
Judson Payne and sister, Mrs.
Victoria Rich, are back at their
ranch home on the Westside, and
enjoyed the summer at Laguna re-
sort.
Mrs. Westmorland and children
moved down from Jacumba Sum
day where they spent most of the
summer months.
A church meeting was held on
Wednesday evening with nine pres
ent. Mr.. Spencer was asked to
remain in Seeley this coming year
and accepted. Some of the men,
with Ed Diehl as chairman, are
planning on barbecued veal sup
per to be given on October "a and
the proceeds will go towards roof
ing the church which is in bad
need of a new roof.
Hobart Herrick is spending this
week in San Diego and will then
go to Los Angeles where he Is to
enter the Hemphill diesel engine
school. -
Harold Robinson was guest Of
Merlin Wooliscroft over Saturday
night.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29

IYiggily. eyes, it Is cold. I sup
pose Jack Frost makes the boys
feel lively and like playing tag
eyes, and something else," said
Johnnie. "You tell him, Billie.
m going to turn a Somersault. "
So, while Johnnie turned two SOM
ersaults and part of another, Bill
lie said to the rabbit gentleman:
"'It was very cold last night.
That means Jack Frost was here
and when Jack Frost visits the
woods that means the nuts fall off
the trees. Today Johnnie and l
are going to gather nuts
Asks To Go Along
"May come with you?" asked
Mr.. Longears.
FSureiyl" We'll be pleased to
have you help us gather nuts, y
said Johnnie as he finished his
third somersault.
"I don't eat nuts said Uncle
Wiggily, "but think it will be fun
to gather them"
off the boys get enough I'll
make a nut cake for you," prom
ised the squirrel lady. "I'm sure
you can eat cake"
"Oh, yes" said Uncle Wiggily.
"Thank you, so much!"
So, Uncle Wiggily hoped to the
nut woods with Johnnie and Billie,
scampering along with him. Soon
they saw trees on which grew
chestnuts, black walnuts, hickory
nuts and beech nuts.
"Oh, what a lot OF nuts!" chat
tered Billie.
"More than / ever saw before y
shouted his brother. "It's a good
thing Uncle Wiggily came with US
/ for by ourselves we could never
carry all the nuts we can pick up
off the ground.
Jack Frost had. indeed. been
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29
A SPORTS THRILL

The thrilling climax in the National
baseball leagues baseball race is some
thing that fans dream about but seldom
realize, and centers the attention of
many who have been lukewarm in fol-
lowing the national pastime on the drive
the st. Louis Cardinals are making
against the New York Giants.
1t is a safe bet that the hopes of the
majority of the fans are that the Cardi-
mails will win out, the tendency through
out the country being to want to see New
York trounced.
Nowhere is that feeling stronger than
right in political though never real
part of New York City, the former city
of Brooklyn, now Incorporated in Great
er New York
To Brooklynites the city of Brooklyn
still exists. Residents of Ft. Worth
and Dallas or of San Francisco and Los
Angeles, love each other to distraction
compared to the feeling between Brook
lynites and Gothamites.
Naturally this feeling extends to base
ball and it is intensified this year by
scurrilous remark on the ability of the
Brooklyn team made early in the season
by the manager of the New York team
By the irony of fate, Brooklyn and
New York play the two final games on
their schedules. New York is now tied
for the lead with st. Louis, which also
has two games to play with Cincinnati
Based on a comparison of baseball
strength, New York should beat the
team from across the bridge, but base
ball strength is sidetracked by the in
tense desire of Brooklyn to get revenge
for the SANDER against its ability. 1t is
an ideal set-up with all the drama any
fan or lover of sport could wish.
There are many more important things
than this baseball mix-up but at any
rate it offers couple of days of well
come relief from Sinclair, Huey Long,
Hitler, General Johnson, Hauptmann and
other nuisances.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29
OLDEST POSTMASTER

FORESTVILLE, Conn. Up) =
James F. Holden, n, claims to be
the oldest postmaster in the United
States in point of service. He has
served as years, 81 of them contin-
uously, and was appointed by Pre-
sident Grover Cleveland. He's still
on the job.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29
HOW CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE
ASSISTS CITY

The Imperial Valley Press Is
glad to publish each day one
full text letter received by or
sent from Ell Centre Chamber
OF Commerce, to ac4uaint the
citizens of FL Centre with the
work, objectives and accom-
plishments of that organization
In behalf Of Fl Centre and Inn
perial Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29

Published every evening texcept Sunday by The
Imperial Valley Press Inc, Gas State street,
Il Centre, California. ". C. Costello business
manager. Telephone &c. business office; TOO edi.
torisl department Full leased wire United Press
Associations
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29

The guyale rubber factory at Sa-
linas is being overhauled and 1000
acres Of the plant will be harvested
and procesSed.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29
University of Redlands,
Redlands, Calf.

university VI TlSOldiiuo,
Redlands, Calf.
El Centro Chamber of Commerce,
El Centre, Calf.
Dear Sir:
am writing to ask for map of
the city of El Centre, showing
streets and districts, as nearly as
you have.
I am in a course of urban sociolo-
gy and we are required to have
maps of some city familiar TO us. 1
came from Calipatria and Ell Centro
is the nearest, but I really know
very little about the best residen-
tial district, central business dis
trict, "slums" etc.
Any information or literature re
lative to this subject would be
greatly appreciated.
Sincerely yours,
Name withheld
Imperial Valleys Largest Used
Car Market Fourth and Main,
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29
Don't Quote Me-
BY United Press

ministration. Republicans had 100
more seats in the saith congress
than in the 53rd.
Republicans, whether they admit
it publicly Or not, would be more
than satisfied to win so additional
seats this November. They appear
certain TO pick up a few in Mis-
souri, and Kentucky. Both states
picked house members on "at
large" basis in 1882. They've been
redistricted since.
Work and age take their toll Of
congressman. Among the 96 SEN
ators with seats in the 73rd con-
gress, four have died. Speaker
Henry r. Rainey was the l4th
house member TO die since Novem-
Der 1892.
A survey by New York psychol-
ogists to determine how 16,500
housewives in 40 states felt about
| the NRA is receiving interested
perusal by NRA officials here. Last
January 55 per cent thought the
NRA was working well.
Checked again early this month
only 39 per cent felt the same
way.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29

The 4873 acres of tomatoes in
Monterey, San Benito and Santa
Cruz counties are expected to aver
age six tons to the acre.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29
EDITORIAL PAGE
and
FEATURES
PASTOR WILL BE MISSED

Departure from this city of V. E. But
terworth, pastor of the State Street
Christian church, who breaches his fare
well sermon tomorrow, will be sincere
ly regretted, not only by members of his
congregation, but by host of friends
throughout the city to whom he has en-
deared himself during his pastorate here
A high type of minister who puts into
every day practice, the meaning of the
gospel of the brotherhood of man which
he breaches, Mr.. Butterworth has been
devoted worker, not only for his con-
gregation but for the spiritual and ma
terial benefit of Ell Centro.
He has cooperated readily and whole
heartedly with every activity intended
to make a better city and has given much
time and assistance to good works not
confined to the immediate sphere of his
congregation
Personally The Press feels real loss
in his departure for frequent contacts
with him during the past years have
cemented real friendship with the staff
of this publication which augmented the
deep respect one instinctively feels for
this fine Christian gentleman
1t has not been our privilege or pleas
ure to know Mrs. Butterworth, but we
recognize her from accounts of church
work as worthy helper who has worked
hand in hand with her husband in his
church activities.
We join with all their friends in wish
ing them success and happiness in their
new field and assure them that they will
be missed in the community which has
been bettered by their work here.
-o
San Francisco is crazy about bridge
but it is the big trans-bay structure and
not the sort that makes four friends en-
emies.
Get ready for the best fall opening
celebration the city has yet put on and
it has had some fine ones.
San Francisco is to see another labor
battle but this time labor itself is stag
ing it.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2s-social
items:
Curtis D. Wilbur, federal circuit
court judge and Herbert Hooyer's
navy secretary <for a tirne) is
spending few days here. He was
at the White House this week, but
not alone. A dozen or so other
circuit judges were there, formal
ly introduced TO the President by
Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes
of the supreme court. The cere-
mony occurs once year.
Former Gov. Ralph Brewster of
Maine is in town. Brewster was
the only Republican candidate for
a house seat to win in Maine
elections. He is house hunting.
Rep. Charles West, D. O., also is
in town. Some say he is looking
for q federal job. West was In
duced by administration figures tc
run for the senatorial nomination
He lost out.
mo, we are not packing up
said his office. I'VE are only send
ing back to Ohio some material
used III the campaign. Remember
Mr.. West is still congressman un-
til January"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29

We don't know what should be done
with the guy who said at the football
game last night that Central has Tay-
tornado team. 1t has all right but pun
is always cause for killing.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29

The biggest off-year gain OF
house seats in the last so years
by the "outs" was half way through
the second Grover Cleveland adj
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
September 20, 1919
John ZoomD is Kim johnson IS
new mascot. The monkey, ID weeks
old, is present from the Sid Chap
lin corporation.
Mrs. Frank Rice and two children
are back from their vacation at San
Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29
TEN YEARS AGO
September 30, 1924

Estimates of cotton ginned to
date in the valley are placed at
1900 bales.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Duke Johnson visit
ed Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Tate in Cal
ipatria yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29

Get ready for the best fall opening
celebration the city has yet put on and
it has had some fine ones.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29
Looking Backward
What the Press File. Tell Of
Imperial Valley for This
Date In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
September 20, 1914

A great electric storm passed
northward along the west side of
the valley last night.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29

Imperial Valleys Largest Used
Car Market Fourth and Main.
| El Centro. Edgars. 28tf
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29

Bowers superb orchestra, con-
sisting of six pieces, opened the
Tulane theatre last night to a
large and appreciative audience.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29

San Francisco is to see another labor
battle but this time labor itself is stag
ing it.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-29

San Francisco is crazy about bridge
but it is the big trans-bay structure and
not the sort that makes four friends en-.
emies.
The Washington times., 1934-08-25
GIRL ARRESTED,
QU|ZZED ON
VAN METER
Sweetheart in St. Paul Was
One He Waited for on Corner
When Police "Got Him"

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Aug. Is G.N.
S0.-Tell-tale bits of information
left by the slain Homer Van Meter
today guided st. Paul police and
Federal agents in their man hunt
for the kill-crazy George Baby
Face" Nelson, Dillinger gangSter
and Americas Public Enemy No. l.
Utmost secrecy screened prog
ress of the two-fold search for Mel
son, foremost survivor of the John
Dillinger gang, as reports circu,
lated that officers were close on
the gangster's trail.
Girl Friend Talks
Shoot to kill" was the com,
mand issued to Department OF
Justice agents and st. Paul police
with a warning of Nelson's ruth
less tactics.
Papers found in money belt
worn by Van Meter yielded 1nvalu'
able information concerning his
goingS and comings.
Through further questioning OF
Miss Opal Meliga, 81, van
Meters attractive girl friend who
is under arrest, authorities hoped
to gain information concerning
the all-important hideout.
A search was launched for
Marie Conforti, 81, another OF
Van Meters sweethearts in the
hope that she might shed some
light on Nelson's whereabouts.
Authorities learned she had
visited Van Meter here recently
although a condition of her
parole required that she remain
in Chicago.
No Grave Found
Department of Justice agents
tended to minimize reports that
Hamilton, one of the cruelest OF
Dillinger's band, had been slain
while fleeing that North Woods
trap. RumorS of his demise have
led to a careful search in the
swamplands along the Mime
apolis- Wisconsin State line, but
no grave was found.
No word has come to authorities
concerning H am il on's where
abouts since he and Dillinger
dashed into south St. Paul the
day after the flight from Mercer,
Wis.
The Washington times., 1934-08-25
NRA BAN FAILS
IN CHICAGO

CHICAGO. Aug. Is GN.S),
Normal traffic and patronage
was claimed today by officials OF
the Chicago Motor Coach Com
pany on the second day of oper.
alton without the Blue Eagle
insignia of the National Recov'
cry Administration.
John A. Ritchie, president, who
broke with the NRA over the dis
charge of Is A. F. of L. union
employees, announced that regu
lar schedules we're being main
tanned and that there had been
no lessening of patronage, al
though the buSses have been
stripped of their Blue Eagles.
With bus driver members of
Local No. 1922 of the Amalga'
mated Association of Street, Elec;
trio Railway and Motor Coach
Employees of America on strike.
the buses we're being operated
by employees belonging to the
company union.
Although refusing to authorize
a sympathetic strike of 10000
street car and elevated line en-
ployes who are affiliated members
of the Amalgamated, the Inter-
national Union sent a representa-
tive here to confer with chieftains
of the bus, street car and elevated
unions.
President Ritchie today clung to
his stand that he Is union EN-
ployes in question were discharged
for "incompetency and ineffi
cheney" and not for their activity
as the National Labor Relations
Board claimed in ordering the
company's Blue Eagle taken away
The Washington times., 1934-08-25
8 ISSUES AWAIT.
ALLEN 'SRETURN
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administrator. The changed set
up will obviate this, and will put
much more work on the Allen
end of the District Building fifth
floor.
The question of "open bars" is
expected to be settled by Com
missioner Allen. who is unfavor-
able to tearing down the screens
and letting the mixologiSt out in
public view.
He stopped it before when the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
made a plea for open cocktails
openly arrived at, and it is ex.
pected he will stop it again. The
last time he said the bars would
be open "only over my dead
body"
The big housing scheme he
limited at before he left on his
mysterious gumShoe trip among
the bread lines is still to be con,
sidered. There has been air
of mystery surrounding it at the
District Building. and, although
the Emergency Work people have
been engaged in some prelimin-
ary survey or project connected
with this tremendous housing
scheme, no one can get a peep
of information on the subject
Senators Rap Plan
The FERA people, or whoever
it is that sponsors the expert.
ment, were scared off by adverse
publicity from conservative Sen
ators and have given instructors
barring all publicity until further
notice.
Also the Rehabilitation Cor
poration, which is to be the father
of all the cooperative enterprises
is still to be put in motion by
the signing of certain documents
After that there may be a defi
mite attempt to put thousand
or so relief clients to work in
some self-supporting cooperative
enterprise.
Another matter hanging fire is
the rumored appointment of Miss
Frances Woolley as superinten.
dent of Fairgrounds to supersede
Miss Sibyl Baker, incumbent.
Miss Woolley has been the dark
horse for that job since last No
vember, and the latest rumor
from the offices of the commits
sioners is that the appointment
awaits Commissioner Allen.
The Washington times., 1934-08-25
SKIES AID
GIRL FL|ERS

CHICAGO, Aug. Is GN.SD.
Mary Elizabeth Owens and Jean
La Rene, the two Texas girl
fliers, today settled down to the
routine of housekeeping in the
sky over CurtisS-ReynoldS Airport,
determined to set new refueling
endurance flight record.
1t was their second day aloft
in their monoplane, and they
breathed a sigh of relief, a note
dropped to the ground said, with
the subsiding of persistent elec-
trical storms that had buffeted
them about.
They completed their first a
hours in the air last night. The
plane was refueled at p. m. for
the third time and again this
morning with Kenneth Hunter
plotting the gasoline ship.
For dinner last night they had
steak, French fried potatoes,
rolls. string beans and coffee.
Hunter lowered the basket Of
food in a basket suspended on a
rope from the refueling plane.
The girls take on about 30
gallons of gasoline with each
refueling contact.
The Washington times., 1934-08-25
Quiet Funeral Planned
For Homer Van Meter

FORT WAYNE. Ind. Aug. Is
0N.SD They brought the body
of Homer Van Meter, latest OF
the Dillingers to be slain, back
here for burial today.
Private funeral services will ',e
held for the paroled convict at
the home of his brother, Harry
Van Meter. The rites will be
quiet in contrast to the theatrical
display that accompanied the
burial of his chieftain, John Dill
linger, at Indianapolis less than
five weeks ago.
Van Meters body was sent
from St. Paul, Mimi, where po,
lice guns wiped the gangSter out
Thursday night when he walked
into trap.
WAYNE, Pa, Aug. Is GN.s)
Mrs. Helen Ober, a resident OF
this quiet Philadelphia suburban
village and a sister of Homer
Van Meter, slain henchman OF
the late John Dillinger, desires
only to "live a peaceful life and
forget about awful things" she
declared today.
Mrs. Ober, the wife of John L
Ober, returned home from a
summer resort with her husband
following news of Van Meters
death at the hands of st. Paul
police.
The Washington times., 1934-08-25
IN TRUNK
FOUND IN n, !.
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had returned home when he first
saw the trunk. When he looked
for other baggage and found
none, and with drawn curtains
obviously indicating the house
still was closed, he examined the
trunk more closely.
The body was entirely strip.
ped of clothing, revealing heavy
muscular shoulders and the up
per body. The body itself had
turned a livid hue.
The trunk was Of an unusual
width and 18 inches deep. 1t was
black and constructed Of cheap
material. The corners we're bound
with thin imitation brass knobs
reinforced with strips of thin imi
tation brass.
Sent No Baggage
Miss Helen Stotesbury,. daugh
ter of the General, was reached at
the tamlly'S Maine retreat by tele-
phone. She said:
Father went on a fishing trip
to the Canadian border today
and won't be back before night
fall. Fathers office just called
and told us about the trunk"
DO you have any idea who
might own the trunk?" she was
asked.
"Of GERS not-hOw would we
know that?" she replied.
I'VE have sent no baggage
home, and the trunk does not
answer the description of any of
our baggage"
After saying that none of the
family servants had a trunk re.
sembling the murder baggage, %
Miss StoeSbury declined further
comment, referring all queries to
her father upon his return.