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Evening star., 1934-12-08
Race Track Pictures
Due for Big Revival
Film Colony's Frenzy to Be OF to Santa
Anita Gives Producers Idea
BY MOLLIE MERRICK.

OLLYWOOD Calf, December 8 (NANA).-HolyWoods of
II to the races! .O''
Players enthusiasm for foot ball polo, tennis Or any
the which they've been interested in the
the positive with which
they're all planning attending the opening of the Santa Anita
Christmas day.
producers taking this indication that if the sport
kings fascinating to motion picture stars it will
doubted popular throughout the country planning to
Evening star., 1934-12-08

Here's the most amusing yarn 60
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28
EDITORIAL PAGE
and
FEATURES
A DOUBLE VICTORY

Again the courts have decided a mo-
mentous question concerning the Imper-
ial Irrigation District Judge O. K. Nor
ton, of Riverside, who heard the case of
the districts demurrer to complaint by
the Southern Sierras Power company,
seeking to prevent construction of die
sci plant at Brawey, upholding the de-
murrer.
True it is that the decision gives the
power company the right to file an amend
ed complaint, which it probably will do
within the specified 10 days, but point
is a point and the decision can be scored
as a victory for the district.
Drawing comparisons regarding the
ability of attorneys is not only unfair,
but il borders on the contemplate. None
can question the ability of the former
chief counsel for the district-Charles
L. Childers-a most able and efficient
lawyer.
The present chief counsel-Harry W.
Horton-is equally able and efficient Mr..
Childers, fair man, would undoubted-
ly agree to that statement.
When Mr.. Horton was appointed the
districts chief counsel a few months ago.
he was termed power company at
torney, and charges were openly made
in some Of the public prints that the dis
trict would never get anywhere in the
power company suit because Horton was
owned" by the power company.
Yesterday decision is distinct per-
sonal as we'll as a professional victory
for Mr. Horton. His loyalty to his eli
ents cannot be challenged, unless one
wishes to answer such a challenge be-
fore the bar of justice. If in the past
he has acted as attorney for the power
company, it is a certainty that the power
company had a fine attorney. 1t has
never been charged with employing in
efficient men. Acting in his capacity as
counsel for the Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict, the district, and the people who
own the district, can be assured that in
him they have fine attorney.
The district was fortunate in having
Mr. Childers as the head of its legal de-
partment for so many years. 1t is equal
ly fortunate that it has in his successor
an equally able attorney who gives every
thing that he has in legal training to his
clients and there is every indication that
he has plenty to give.
We hold no fears for the conduct of
the districts legal department under
Mr. Horizons direction.
-o
Tomorrow will be the morning after
the night before.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28
FORD SETS PACE FOR
AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

July since 1880 There we're 4,OlC
new passenger cars registered last
month as against 2,23l registered ir
July last year. unit gain of l,77o
and per cent gain OF better than 79.
Registrations of Ford commercial
cars and trucks in this state for this
six-months' period were 1852 as op>
posed to 1852 last year-a unit change
of 1920 and per cent change of 7l.9.
I'm Southern California. Ford VS.
passenger car sales totaled 2,481,
which almost equals the combined
sales of the next two cars during
July. In Los Angeles there were more
Ford VS's sold than were sold by the
next two cars. Ford also leads in
sales of commercial units and trucks.
Ford national sales in this period
amounted to Al per cent of all auto
mobile sales by the three leaders in
the lower price brackets" Grove con-
tinued. There were 295,ll4 passen-
ger cars and 6l,503 trucks and COM
mercial units sold, a total of 356.llo.
Ford sold 26,468 more passenger auto
mobiles than did the second auto
and l36,llo more than
the car holding third place in the sales
race.
Ford production expansion is pro-
ceeding along lines of pre-arranged
program and the building of a sheet
steel plant is being energeticaly car
rled forward. 1t is plain, by these in
that the Ford Motor Com
pany confidently expects good times to
ut is likely that the automotive in
1ustry as whole will continue pro-
1uction of their present models until
real recession in sales volume be-
comes noticeable and then the slack in
employment will be taken up by work
On the 1885 models Authorities seem
o agree that 100000 cars will be bIilt
n August. OF this volume the larg-
st number Of cars, we expect, will be
Ford V-e's."o
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28
Don't Quote Me-
) By United Press -

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23-Upon
the sixth floor of an outmoded
building here numerous heavy-set
men confer far into every night on
plans for the nationwide textile
strike, expected to be the biggest
labor uprising to beset the new
deal.'
The conferees for the most part
are typical labor leaders, who frown
more often than they smile, and
who have little to say-for publi-
cation. An exception is Francis j.
German, dapper first vice -presi-
dent of the United Textile Work
ers of America and chairman of
their special strike committee.
German is about five feet. four
inches tall, man whose black
shoes glisten, even though his linen
suit is sadly crumpled. He speaks
forcefully, uses correct grammar
smokes too many cigarettes. and
doesn't get enough sleep.
His hair graying at the tenn
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28
ED-TIME STORIES
since you can't pinch me.
No Use Looking
By HOWARD Z. GARRIS
tCopyrishk 1884 by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)

since you can't pinch me-
No Use Looking
"Thank you, but there is no use
looking for my hard shell,' said
the soft crab. LIT came off in
pieces and is no longer Of any use.
"You see, - he went on, 1--WE
crabs grow just as your rabbit
children grow. You wouldn't ex-
pect Baby Bunty to wear now the
same clothes she wore three years
ago, would you?"
"Oh, no, she outgrew them, said
Uncle Wiggily. You we no idea, -
he went on, somewhat sadly, chow
fast my rabbits outgrow their
clothes. 1t keeps me busy buying
new and larger clothes for them
each year,
"Well, we crabs are like that, y
said the other. "When I started
growing larger I had to crack off
my old, hard shell and be fitted in
to a new one. But the new shell
is very soft and flabby at first. 1t
is like mush, but if stay in salt
water long enough my soft shell
will get hard, sharp spikes will
grow on it and my claws, that are
now so limpsy slimpsy, will grow
hard enough so I can pinch very
hard. -
"'That's very wonderful" said
Uncle Wiggily.
"But while I am soft crab with
a flabby SHE'LL" said the creature
in the water, "almost anything can
eat me, even a bird. So that s why
I am worried and sad. I don It
want to be eaten.''
Uncle Wiggily Understands
~ don't blame you," spoke Un-
Gle Wiggily. 1.-The Bob Cat and
Fox are always trying to eat me.
But why don't you keep away from
shore. out in deep Water?"
"Alas," whispered the soft crab,
"if I swim in deep water fish
may gobble me up. And if I stay
too near shore a hawk bird may
get me. But as soon as my shell is
hard and spiky and my claws are
hard enough to pinch 1 am not
afraid of the fish or hawks. So
now I shy here where I can hide in
the grass and weeds that grow On
the edge of Wreck Pond. "
Uncle Wiggily twinkled his pink
nose. Then he laughed and said
81 have an idea! l think I know
way to keep you safe while you
are still a soft crab. You need
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28
ASK CANAL WORKERS TO SPEND
MONEY WITH VALLEYS FIRMS

Preparation of a letter has been
made by the Ell Centro Chamber
of Commerce which is to be sent
to each worker on the All-American
canal as soon as he secures the
Job, asking him to patronize I'M
perial Valley merchants and spend
his money in the valley.
The letter states the people OF
Imperial Valley have demanded that
the workers on the All-American
canal be chosen from amongst the
eligible list of the local residents.
The National Unemployment Of
flee in El Centro and the govern
ment and the contractors have
agreed to this. You are one of the
workers SO chosen. In return will
you net make a resolution to make
your purchases and spend your
money in Imperial county"
1t is pointed out in the chamber
letter that the All-American canal
was started largely to provide work
for the unemployed of Imperial
county and restore business and
prosperity here and that the canal
must be paid for by the people
of the irrigated portion of I'm
perial Valley. In order to make
the payment of this debt possible
each worker, as one who has secured
his job because the people of I'm"
perial Valley guaranteed this debt
and the wages the workers re-
ceive, is asked to make all pur-
chases and spend all money in
the cities and stores in Imperial
Valley, either the communities in
the irrigated valley proper or in
the Bard -Winterhaven district or
eastside Mesa stores, which are
also in California territory.
1t is further emphasizer by the
chamber that if money received for
wages stays in Imperial Valley
| it will help restore prosperity here,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28

while if it goes outside of I'M
perial Valley and the Winterhaven
district it will do no good to Cali
fornia or to Imperial Valley.
Copies of this letter, under the
signature of w. H. Tyler, presi.
dent and the directors of the Ell
Centro Chamber of Commerce, will
be sent to each worker on the
All-American Canal Immediately
upon his employment for this work
and it is hoped in this manner to
build up a general tendency on the
part of those employed on the
canal construction to buy their
necessities and spend their money
in California in order that the
people of this community may
have some prompt return for the
money they will later eXpend in
payment of the canal construction.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28

floated on the pond and they could
look at themselves in the shiny
water which was like a mirror.
One day as Uncle Wiggily was
standing on the shore of Wreck
Pond he heard a little voice down
in the sedge grass saying;
"Oh, dear! Oh, dearl'
Sounds Like Trouble
Hal That sounds like troubled -
exclaimed Mr.. Longears. "It is
rather a long time since have had
the pleasure of helping anyone in
trouble. This is my chance. "
He looked carefully amid the
grass growing at the edge of the
water but when he saw two NOV
ing claws, some moving legs, two
padding flippers and two bulging
eyes that seemed to be watching
him, the rabbit gentleman jumped
back and said:
"Oh, no! No you don't! You re
not going to pinch me Mr.. Crab!"
81 don't want to pinch you, +"
said the crab in low gentle
voice. GAS a matter of fact I
couldn't pinch you if I wanted to- -
"Why not?" asked Uncle Wig
gily. "All crabs pinch, don't they,
if they get the chance?"
"Well, yes, must admit that I
come of pinching family" was
the answer. "But just now
couldn't pinch a piece of tissue
paper"
Why?" asked Mr.. Longears.
"Beacuse am soft crab, ="
was the reply. ~ have lost my
hard shell with sharp points I
have lost my hard pinching claws
I couldn't harm a baby mosquito. -
"Where did you lose your hard
shell?p asked Uncle Wiggily.
"Perhaps / could help you find it
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28

Piles, is well-brushed, but his eyes
are red-rimmed and deeply circled.
He says there's going to be a
strike of at least 100000 textile
workers by September l, no mat
ter what, unless President Roose-
velt personally intervenes.
German makes his headquarters
in the sunny offices Of Chester
Wright, one-time newspaperman
turned labor publicist. There a
newly installed ticker pounds out
the news Of the day. German ig-
nores the London, Paris and Ber-
lin datelines, toSses away the stock
market reports aid hardly glances
at the baseball scores.
But when a story from Pawtuc-
ket, R. l., Greenville, S. c., or some
other textile center is tapped out,
he studies it carefully.
AS generaliSsimo Of a strike af-
fecting more than 100000 per-
sons, including families of the
workers, he is buster man than
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28

Gen. Hugh S. Johnson himself.
German says incidentally that
johnson invited union leaders to
confer with him, but that when
they arrived at the blue eagle
headquarters, they were told that
the general was taking a vacation.
That didn't worry German.
He figures there have been too
many conferences already, says
there have been too many promises
that weren't fulfilled, and insists
that strike is the only way to set
tie labor's grievances.
These are Illustrated by a pen
and ink drawing on the wall of his
office. 1t shows a stream of mill
hands walking past a large, but
empty cotton mill. The workers
carry posters which urge higher
wages and shorter hours, which ex-
hort the mill owners to live up to
NRA regulations and which demand
abolition of the stretchout system,
whereby each laborer is supposed
to spend up his own production.
School exhibits at the state fair
will be displayed in a temporary
building covering $4,000 square
feet
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28
UNCLE WIGGILY'S SOFT CRAB

Not far from Uncle Wiggily s
summer seashore cottage. little
way back from the sandy beach,
was small pond of water. 1t was
separated from the ocean by bank
Of sand though when the tide was
high the water from the ocean
flowed into the pond.
Wreck Pond was the name of the
small body of water and perhaps,
in days gone by, ocean ships were
wrecked on the sand near the pond.
That may have been how it came
to be so named.
This place reminds me of the
Duck Pond near my hollow stump
bungalow" Uncle Wiggily used to
say as he walked around Wreck
Pond, "except that the water is
salty from the osean. I like it
here
Around the edge of Wreck Pond
grew tall grasses and brown cat tail
plants that waved in the wind
Big white swans, like sailing ships,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28

protection, don't you?"
"Oh, indeed 1 dol" said the soft
crab.
"Then you shall have ito prom
ised the rabbit gentleman. "Wait
here until I come back' Away
he hoped, and if the broom will
take the dustpan to the movies to
see tennis ball catch a fish in the
net, I'll tell you about Uncle Wig
gily IS hard crab.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28

Motor Company, Long Beach Branch
Production for this period amounted
20 536,637 units of all types and sales
totaled 356,llo. From percentage
standpoint this production represents
an increase of 135 per cent over last
year. The second car increased so
per cent in production, and the third
50 per cent.
"1n California, July sales of Ford
Y-Ss this year were better than any
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28

Published every evening Except Sunday by The
Imperial Valley Press. Inc. 625 State street.
n Centre. California W. C. Costello, business
manager. Telephone rs, business office: 700 edi-
torial department. Pull leased wire United Press
Associations
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28
PERjUlAL
pQRQCPnpHC


DR.. C. S. Brooks has returned
from a vacation spent in the north
west to take up his practice again
at his offices in the Professional
building.
Friends of Bryan Willoughby will
be interested to learn that he Is
entering Indiana Tech college on
September 4, where he will study
courses in aeronautical engineering.
He can be reached by mail at the
YMCA, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Mrs. Vaughn Thompson visited
the valley to cast her ballot in to-
days election. She is summering
on the coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28

Asks Annulment Decree-Charg-
ing that her consent was obtained
by fraud Hazel Maytorena filed a
complaint in superior court asking
that her marriage with Alex May
torena be annulled by the court.
They married August %, 1888 and
separated November 27, 1888, the
complaint alleges.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28
Leads Both in Sales and
Production in First
Half of 1884

"Ford leads in automotive produc-
iion and automobile sales for the first
six months, this year," said Ira B.
Groves, General Manager of the Ford
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28
SQUARE DEAL FOR POLICE

One can offer little excuse for the ver-
dict of Los Angeles jury last week,
which gave life Imprisonment to the
slayer of a policeman and found his
partner in crime not guilty.
Why the nine women and three men
who composed the jury refused to send
these rats with apologies to real rats)
to the gallows. is beyond comprehension.
AT the time of the Staying one or both
of them boasted that they were the new
Dillingers." They shot the officer down
in cold blood as he approached the stol-
Ell car in which they were riding, and
after they had shot at three or four other
policemen.
The jury, apparently, decided that the
shooting was all in good fun.
What hole has the public for decent
police protection, when the police them
selves are denied by citizens, the protec-
tion which they deserve? All of the nine
women and three men on this jury would
expect an officer to risk his life if they
called for his assistance. For what?
For $3.50 month or maybe less. And
the irony of it is that the policeman-any
policeman-would respond to their call.
This city had an example last night of
what policemen everywhere are called
upon to face. Officer Ronne Voyles
engaged in gun battle with two desper-
ate characters Although twice wound
ed seriously himself, he managed to shoot
and seriously injure one of the desper-
ADDE'S. The other was at the mercy of
Voyles' gun. Although he would have
been perfectly justified in shooting down
the second desperate, Voyles was con-
tent, despite his own wounds, to hold his
gun on this man until brother officer
came to relieve him of his prisoner. To-
day, in hospital, his thoughts are not
as much of his own wounds as they are
regrets that he had to shoot a man.
Many police are like that, and it is to
be regretted that too many juries are
like this Los Angeles one.
The old saying that good goods come
in small packages" has very good proof
of truth in the person of Miss Shirley
Temple. What gal
Tonight is the night when all newspaper
men rise up and call the direct primary
blessed. Only ladies should not be around
to hear the blessing.
We wish Mr.. Mussolin would go a step
further and tell us just who is going to
be in that war that he sees coming.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28
TEN YEARS AGO
August %, 1924

Imperial Valley date growers have
decided to exhibit fruit at the
Southern California fair, Riverside,
in October
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28
Looking BockuDarc
What the Press Files Tell OF
Imperial Valley for This
Date In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
August 28, 1914

Heavy shipments of steel rails
for use in the construction OF the
S. D. and A. railway are being re-
ceived every week at the local
freight yards.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Tyler ar
rived in El Centro today from a
tour of the middleWeSt.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28

SUBSCRIPTION RATES = Delivered by carrier
per month, SIS cents: by mall so cents per month
In advance Entered at El Centro, California, post
Office as second-class matter Member California
Newspaper Publishers Association. M. @. Mogen-
son, national advertising representatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28

Plans for radical improvements
at the Ell Centro Country club
home on Sixth street are being
worked out by j. N. Orebaugh, new
assistant secretary
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
A,t 90 1910

The U. S. Army has come to the
assistance of the U. S. postoffice
and the valley is assured of regular
mail deliveries regardless of the
tie-up of rail transportation.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28

The first cotton picked this sea-
son sold for 35 cents per pound.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28

line pastors
the four singing Frohne sisters mortified beyond
this
billboard theater they marched
and filed $4,000 suit against the offending
playhouse unauthorized
several the stagebut not bueque Left right
Leonora. Alma.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28

Tonight is the night when all newspaper
men rise up and call the direct primary
blessed. Only ladies should not be around
to hear the blessing
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28

The old saying that good goods come
in small packages" has very good proof
of truth in the person of Miss Shirley
Temple What gall
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28

We wish Mr.. Mussolini would go a step
further and tell us just who is going to
be in that war that he sees coming.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-08-28

Tomorrow will be the morning after
the night before.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
MORRISSEY STUDIES
TINY RADIO SETS FOR
PATROL MEMS COATS

If plans of Police Chief Mike
Morrissey mature, city coppers
may resemble ventriloquists as
they stand on street corners and
off their chests comes the deep
baSso, "Hit-and-run driver, license
Zero Zero Zero Zero. Watch for
him.
For the chief plans to add a
second unseen voice to the patrol
men by placing radio loud
speaker under the bluecoat's coat
lapel so that he may hear the
latest news on the whereabouts of
John Dillinger.
The police department of Los
Angeles has portable radio sets
affixed to the patrolmen. Chief
Morrissey says the sets weigh
three pounds and considers them
too heavy for use by his men.
The chief, through Captain
Robert Bats, supervisor of po-
lice radio. is attempting to devise
a lightweight loud speaker.
He pointed out that seventy
men cover districts by foot daily
and that they could be informed
promptly of holdups or hit-and-
run drivers and thereby enable
them to catch culprits who might
pass their beats.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Harris Makes Denial

Ed Harris, publisher of the Rich
mond Palladium, denied today in
telephone conversation with Times
reporter that he knew anything
about the contents Of the utility
deal letters made public today by
the federal trade commission.
L never have talked to Judge
Beasley about the matters referred
to in the report" said Mr.. Harris.
Il don't even know the Mr.. Byrd
spoken of in the letters.
Il constantly have fought the In
sui interests IN the columns OF my
newspaper and also I have fought
the standby service. In the letter
quoted to me which speaks Of the
newspapers fight against lowered
rates, wish to make it clear that
we we're fighting an element which
was seeking to wrest the municipal
plant from the people Of Richmond
for private interests"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
D|LL|NCER HUNT
SPURRED HERE
State Police Join Search
After Reported Shooting
at st. Paul.

State and local police today were
working on clew that John Dill
linger and his one man and one
girl gang may have fled to Indiana
from st. Paul, Mimi, where they
are reported to have shot their way
out of a police trap Saturday night.
Credence was given this theory
shortly after noon yesterday when
Lieutenant Chester Butler of the
state police received word from La
fayette that a car carrying the
gangster and his companions had
been seen near there.
Police worked on the theory that
Dillinger is more familiar with high
ways of this state than he would be
in the northwest and heading this
way would offer the quickest get
away from st. Paul.
They also suggest that he may
have gone into Ohio, where hide
outs for the gang would be avail
able in some of the larger cities.
State police are positive that
since he escaped from the Crown
Point Jail a month ago, Dillinger
has spent considerable time in Chi
cago.
Captain Matt Leach declared that
he has no reason to doubt that it
was Dillinger in the st. Paul af-
fray and expressed belief that he
probably is still in that vicinity.
If his companion was John Ham,
ilton, one of the escaped Indiana
prisoners, he can be easily identified
since he is lame from wounds re-
ceived in the East Chicago bank
robbery Captain Leach explained.
Dillinger was being held at Crown
Point for murder of patrolman
Patrick O'Malley in the East Chi
cago robbery.
Captain Leach discounted the idea
that they would return to Indiana
and said either himself or a detec-
tive from the state police force would
go to st. Paul to gather up new
cleWs as to = Fingers where
abouts.