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Evening star., 1934-12-21

THIS Is to be a day Of recon-
mendations, urging you to
budget a portion OF your
Il Christmas cheer and New Year
revelry for
"Babes in Toyland," perhaps the
most delightful fantasy ever contrived
in Hollywood Previewed here last
night, with Ollie Dee and Stannie
Dunn (erstwhile Laurel and Hardy
playing the leads and supporting
cast, including every one from Mother
Goose and your nursery days. Little
Bc-Peep, the Three Little Pigs, the
Bogey Men. King Cole, all your
childhood friends and enemies. Mar
velously photographed and directed,
except for somewhat slow start.
Just as good for you old fellows as
the children. This one will be in
at Loew's Columbia Christmas day.
Sweet Adeline preview
of yesterday. Full of bustles, beer
and old lace. The Jerome Kern music
. is. as usual, swell, and Irene Dunno
Is no made" singer.
Don't go expecting to laugh your
head off. Even Ned Sparks cannot be
very funny with the book dealt him,
but the costumes, gorgeous settings,
the songs and Miss Dunno should be
enough. This one comes in at the
Earle a week from today, in time to
practice your ear for later Sweet
Adeline"
The nightly singing at Loew's Fox,
continuing through Sunday evening
Begins at 1870, with Arthur Godfrey
to announce and lead. Open up your
pipes and join in. Are We gong to
have people in Bunk Bunk Center say
ing Washington has no Christina!
spirit? A good crowd there last night,
sounding very much like well-trained
church choir. The vaudeville acts
slip away from backstage and join If
the songfest, showing you how attrac-
tive the idea is. .
The many local productions OF
Christmas plays. customarily tried
and-true manuscripts, with the better
Evening star., 1934-12-21

Y vOILYWOOD Calf, December q (N.AN.A).-When silent
II pictures by Hollywood producers, the
actor lost of the easiest positions he has held in
L the history Of the stage
little effort for the player to perform in the
day picture requisite that he
should the set when he needed certain
panomme necessary Of but that easily
mastered.
Evening star., 1934-12-21

, to give the proper results to take. y
In the picture on which we are now
working, "Clive Of India" I spoke the
line, IT pulled the trigger and twice
it missed fire, and I wondered "''
The sound department insisted that
I read the line miss fired" was
sure I had said missed fire." We
took the scene again. The sound de-
partment still maintained that I had
said, miss fired" 1t was a me-
chanical difficulty that we were able
to surmount only by changing the
lines Of the dialogue OF course, the
man who wrote the dialogue could
not foresee this difficulty.
Because of the constant interrupt
tions during the making of a scene,
the work becomes very tiresome at
times. 1t is also exasperating, after
you have finished scene in a salts
factory manner, to see 1t discarded
because Of some mechanical mishap.
In contrast to the stage, the actor
In sound pictures must learn his
lines and rehearse before each
Evening star., 1934-12-21
DECENCY GROUP FORMED
AL Smith Organizes Council to
Fight Immoral Movies.

NEW YORK, December 21 P.-
Alfred E. Smith has organized the
New York Council of the Legion of
Decency and pledged full support to
Cardinal Hayes in the crusade against
immoral motion pictures.
Smith conceded to reporters that he
seldom attended the movies" Asked
If he had seen any recent films, he
shook his head and said, mo, ]
don't have time"
Evening star., 1934-12-21

Weighs 100000, 900 Pounds.
Italy's 1884 wheat crop weighed
nearly 14o 100000 pounds.
Evening star., 1934-12-21
Colman Recalls Easy Days
Of Silent Film Making
Star of Both Eras Declares Sound Has
Made Movins-Picture Acting
Hard Work.
BY RONALD COLMAN.

(Ronald coman, rating through
both talking substitutes for Mote MerrtckJ
Evening star., 1934-12-21

Votes for Half Holiday.
Listowel, Irish Free State, has voted
for half holiday every week.
Evening star., 1934-12-21
GIRLS WORK TO MUSIC
Employer Tries to Make Task
Less Monotonous.

PITTSBURGH (P).-Winding arm
atures to the tune of dance band
is one company's idea of keeping the
working girls happy.
Announcing loudspeakers for broad
casting music have been installed ir
it's East Pittsburgh plant. an ofticia
of the Westinghouse Electric g. Man.
ufacturing Co. said:
Some types of work are necessarily
mononotous. If we can make it les;
so by the installation of monographs
we'll do it."
Evening star., 1934-12-21
Bette Davis Faces Charge.

LIVERMORE, Calf, December 81
R).-Bette Davis, screen actress, was
arrested for speeding near here yes
terday. She was cited for doing 10
miles an hour and to appear in JUS
tice Court January 8.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-14
Fits AIDE
REbUKED BY
GRAND JURY

LOS ANGELES, Sept. IA. UP
The Los Angeles county grand jury
today sharply rebuked the district
attorneys office for alleged at
tempts to mislead the public as to
the impartial character of an in
vestigation into the affairs of Dis
trict Attorney Buron Fits.
The grand jury Statement, is
sued by Foreman John P. Buck
ley and Austin E. Cotton, the press
committee, was in answer to de-
mand made by B1ayney Matthews,
district attorneys Investigators, for
a hearing on rumors which he said
have been reflecting on him in
connection with the inquiry.
1.-The grand jury is conducting
this investigation with aD open
mind and while 1t will be thorough
in every respect, it will be done
without bias and in an impartial
manner" the jury statement read.
"It has been the policy of this
grand jury from the start to give
every prospective defendant an op-
portunity to appear at the proper
time. This is we'll known to the
district attorneys office and just
why they should apparently en-
deavor to lead the public to be-
lieve otherwise in this case is diff
ficult to understand. Neither the
district attorney, Mr.. Matthews nor
anyone else who may be involved
in this investigation need worry
for. moment about being given
every opportunity to make a
thorough explanation.
Meanwhile, the jury continued its
investigation into the affairs of
John P. Mills, wealthy business
man, and District Attorney Fits.
A personal accounting of the
$4,000 defense" of Mills to "love
mart" charges on which he never
was tried to be demanded of Mills,
summoned as a witness. Clarice
Tauber. whose strange disappear
ance on the eve of Mills trial,
also was summoned to appear.
Mills assertedly once boasted of
the amount of money spent in his
defense.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-14
FOR
WRIT TAKEN
FROM COURT
Application For Mandate To
Compel Payment OF Warrants
Withdrawn From Action.
WAIVE OTHER OBJECTIONS
Opposition To Districts Refi-
nancing Program Also Includ-
ed In Stipulation.

BY stipulation of both sides, the
application Of the Southern Sierras
Power company for a writ of man
date to compel the Imperial Irri-
CATION District to make a special
levy to pay its outstanding war;
rents held by the district, was dis
missed in the state supreme court
at Los Angeles yesterday.
In connection with its stipula-
ton, the power company also re-
moved its objections to the dis
trict's refinancing program.
This was the information given
The Press today by Harry w. Hor-
ton, chief counsel for the district,
who appeared for the district when
the case was called on the court
calendar in Los Angeles yesterday
ti'This particular suit of the
company against the district is now
q past issue,' Attorney Horton
said, "and removes a vexatious i'm
pediment from the refinancing pro-
gram adopted by the district board
of directors. -
The application for the writ of
mandate was one of three actions
brought by the power company
and its parent organization-the
Cal New Securities company =
against the district.
The first suit sought to enjoin
the district from constructing a
Va power plant at Brawley. This
was heard in the local superior
court by Judge o. K. Morton of
Riverside county. The court sus-
tanned demurrer to the complaint,
filed by the district, and gave The
power company 10 days to amend
its complaint. This time has been
extended, Attorney Horton said to-
day.
The third suit is an action in
the federal court. seeking to have
the act OF the 1919 California leg
islature, creating the Imperial r.
rigation District, and outlining it's
authority and powers, declared un-
constitutional
Attorney Horton stated today
that the clerk of the federal court
has ordered that this case be SUBJ
mitted on briefs before argument,
instead of the usual procedure Of
arguing first and then submitting
briefs.
It has been placed on Judge Hol-
ger IS calendar for hearing in San
Diego during his next session in
that city.
"The directors of the district are
highly gratified that this case has
been dismissed" President Evan
r. Hewes, of the district board
stated today. "Had it gone to trial
it could have seriously handicap
ped the districts refinancing pro-
gram and its elimination is GER
tainly good news.'
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-14
SITUATION IN
STRIKE AREA
DAN NGEROUS
Rhode Island Legislature Re-
jects Plan To Bring In Federal
Troops.

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Sept. IA.
pOminous tension keyed the
Rhode Island textile districts to
hysterical edge today as the leg
islature met to reconsider its re-
lection of an appeal for federal
troops. r
In Woonsocket, where two were
killed and scores wounded in wild
rioting and looting and in Sayles-
vile where other scores were
wounded, the Rhode Island militia
ruled with bayonets and rifles. For
the moment, peace prevailed, but
commanding officers prepared for
a renewal Of fighting. They be-
lieved agitators were circulating
among textile strikers and SYM
pathizers, goading them to new
violence.
It was not believed, however,
that any new rioting would reach
proportions of fighting in Woon-
socket Wednesday night unless tex
tile mills there reopened. Gov.
Theodore F.. Green ordered the
closing of seven mills which were
the objective of mass picketers.
Governor Green was believed to
plan requesting operations to close
all textile mills in the state, hop
ing in this way to end what he
termed "insurrection." The mills
ordered closed included the Sayles
finishing plant at Saylesville and
the Woonsocket rayon mills, Woon-
socket, scenes Of the widest riot
ing.
There seemed little or no possi-
bility of the legislature authoriz-
ing an appeal for federal troops.
From Hyde Park. NJ. Y, came
word that President Roosevelt
would grant such an appeal only
after the most careful study. Re-
publican legislators favored the
Democratic governors assertion
that only the regular army could
save law and order in Rhode Is
land. Democrats wanted instead
the closing of every mill in the
state. The Republicans control the
senate; the house is evenly divided,
so Democrats. so Republicans.
Round Up Reds
Throughout the tiniest state of
the union, state police rounded up
suspected Communists. Those ar
rested by the military in Woon-
socket and Saylesville were said to
total about 200. Governor Green
charged Communists with respon-
sibility for the rioting and looting
and ordered their arrest.
Continued on page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-14
MERCY SHOWN
BY MERRIAM

SACRAMENTO, Sept. H. W.P)-
Executive clemency spared the lives
of two convicted slayers who were
to have been hanged simultaneous
ly on the gallows at San quentin
prison today.
Gov. Frank F. Merriam commut-
ed to life Imprisonment the death
sentence of Arthur Shorten of Los
Angeles and granted stay until
November of the sentence of Man
uel Larros of San Bernardino.
Shorten IS communication was based
on recommendation made by seven
members of the jury which con-
yicted him. They said they believed
his plea of not guilty by reason of
insanity. Trial Judge Isaac Pacht
and Deputy District Attorney S. E.
Roll also recommended commuta-
ton. NA
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-14
CLOSE WATCH
UPON STRIKE
BYPRES|DENT

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Sept. IA. UP)
= Whether President Roosevelt
takes direct hand in the Rhode
Island textile, strike depends on a
conference tomorrow at Newport
with Secretary of War Dern and
Major General Fox Connor, he said
today.
The President said that he would
meet the two men at Fort Adams.
On what they tell him depends
! whether he will witness the inter-
national cup races aboard the Astor
yacht Nourmahal or go aboard a
navy destroyer to be h"cpared for
eventualities.
Should it be necessary for him
to go aboard the destroyer, it was
indicated here, he would proceed
to Providence from Newport in
order to be in a commanding pos
ition right in the heart of the
strike area.
no ilc lSlt TOusilhttpoit duOdiu
the Nourmahal, Mr.. Roosevelt said
he planned to keep in constant
touch by radio with the strike de-
yelopments.
He explained that if by any
chance the legislature called on
him for dispatch of federal troops
action would not be taken until
Dern and Connor surveyed the sit
uation and reported back to him
personally.
Close White House friends, how
ever, were of the firm opinion that
federal troops would not be asked
for,
The President drove. in a driving
rain to a Poughkeepsie lumber yard
dock where he went Immediately on
board the yacht.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-14
COURT ORDERS
NEW TRIAL IN
LOCAL ACTION

In a remittitur from the district
court of appeals receisd at the
county clerk office this morning
1t is ordered that the judgment
and order in the action brought
in the local superior by E. c. Spar
against F. w. Byers, ct al, which
set aside the order granting new
trial, are reversed and the cause is
remanded for new trial.
This action had been brought to
quiet title to property situated in
this county. Rosa Byers, one of
the defendants named in the or
iginal complaint, filed a cross
complaint asking that the title TO
the property in question be quieted
to her.
At the conclusion of the trial
before Judge Vaughn Thompson,
the court entered a judgment for
the cross-complainant on February
l, 1892. On February 8 the plain
tiff filed his notice of intention to
move for a new trial. On March
30 the court granted this motion
and later set the order aside. The
appeal to the district court follow
ed this latter action.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-14
DISTRICT FILES
ITS ANSWER IN
as RAILROAD SUIT

Ownership of certain rights-of-
way claimed by the Southern Pa
cific Railway company are denied
in an answer filed this morning by
Harry W. Horton, chief counsel for
the irrigation district to the suit
brought against the district by the
railway company.
The Southern Pacific had asked
damages of $1856.35 as well as a
claim to these rights s-of-way and
easements in the form of "V"
drainage bitches located along the
railway right of way near Frink
and inland in this county Eor-
tons answer admits that the
plaintiff has demanded the pay
ment of this money from the de-
fendant district but denies that
this sum, or any sum, is due the
plaintiff from the defendant.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-14
DR.. WRIT IN
NEW ATTACK
ON NEW DEAL

WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass; Sept.
ID. U.P-The fgame of the new
Dealers has been to outwit the
politicians and thus ''secure con-
troll of our government indirectly, -
DR.. William A. Writ, Gary, Ind,
schoolmaster, said in speech here
today
''No one can successfully deny
that they have succeeded he add
ed.
Dr. Writ, who became prominent
through his charges that BRAIN
trusters planned a "red' revolu-
ton, was addressing the 21st an
nual national business conference
on "the other side of the new
deal.''
Many persons, - he said, "think
that when we delegate the govern
ment a grant of power we are
trusting benign old Uncle Sam
who is all wise and good and will
deal justly with his dear children.
"They do not realize that in so
doing we are turning absolute pow
er over the ordinary politicians who
happen to be in political office.
History teaches that men have al
ways suffered much more from the
tyranny of politicians in control OF
absolute governments than they
have suffered from any other form
of tyranny. OF course, it is not sur
prising that these politicians do not
object to this grant of absolute pow
er so long as it is granted to them
selves"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-14
CRIME HITS
LOW RECORD
Continued On Page 8,

Chimes sure have gone off col
or officials at the county jail
stated this morning. There's
something wrong somewhere, +" was
added.
"Here we are with the greatest
unemployment problem Of modern
times on our hands, which would
seem to tend toward real crime
wave, and yet we have fewer pris-
oners in the county jail than at any
other period within the past five
years if not since the county
started,' was said
The roster showed that at pres
ent there are but 81 prisoners con-
fined in the county bastile, four OF
whom are women. Many OF these
are serving out sentences while
others are still awaiting trial on
crimes ringing from theft to MUIR
der.
While commenting In this fashion
on the scarcity OF prisoners under
their charge az present. jail Off
cials are satisfied with existing
crime conditions in the county and
hope that their comment will not
be taken as hint to criminally In
clined persons to start something.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-14
TEACHERS READY FOR OPENING
OF CITY SCHOOLS ON MONDAY

Several hundred Ell Centro young
sters will resume their education in
the grammar schools Monday,
which is not exactly news for any,
one having school children in the
family, or indeed residing on the
same block.
Following are the teachers who
will make up the grammar school
faculty this year:
Wilson School
Sophia Dunlap, principal
Mabel Carberry
Paul Cook
Jens Hutchens
Gladys Ikenberry
Margaret Kendall
c. G.. Montgomery
Dorothy Shively
Mildred Smith
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-14
GROVES MUST
SERVE TERM

Following arguments by counsel
in superior court this morning,
Judge Vaughn Thompson decided
that his court no longer had juris-
diction to hear the second appli-
cation for probation presented by
Wallace Groves, and the case was
brought to close, and Groves must
serve the term imposed by the
court.
Groves is under sentence to San
Quentin prison on charge OF
manslaughter. Following his con-
viction and sentence he applied for
probation, which was denied.
Through his counsel he then ap-
pealed the judgment of the superior
court to the appellate court which
sustained the decision of the lower
tribunal.
He was convicted of manslaugh-
ter in connection with the death
of Crawford Clark who died as the
result OF fractured skull received
when his head hit the pavement
on a Brawley street He had been
struck in the face by Groves just
before he fell according to the evi-
dence brought out at the trial, fol-
lowing an argument between the
two men on a Brawley street cor
per. = &l. 2lk
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-14
Engineer Urges
Care With Water

Care in the use of the city water
supply is urged by Phillip W..
city engineer. in a statement issued
this morning.
1--WE do not intend to return, to
the former restrictions Immediate
ly unless forced to-" knights said.
"Citizens are urged to be as SPAR
ing as possible in the use of water
for irrigating their trees and shrubs
so, as not to overtax the pumps
at the city water plant which are
replinished the city supply" he
said. =
He added that wnen it was no.
ticed that the present supply was
reaching too low a level to be
consistent with safety, the form
er ruling which restricted irrigation
of trees and shrubs to one day a
week would again be put into
force.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-14
Mexican Residents
Get Married Here

News dispatches carry many no.
tees of Americans journeying to
Mexico to obtain their marriage
licenses but few are the instances
in which Mexicans cross the border
for that purpose.
One such occurred here yesterday
afternoon when Francisco Fontes
80, and Carlota Robles, 80, were
given a marriage license at the
county clerks Office. They both
gave their home address as Mex
icali.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-14
MONEY WILL
BE AVAILABLE
Immediately
District Also To Be Reimbursed
$4,000 For Preliminary
Survey Work.
SWING SENDS MESSAGES
Appropriation Makes Possible
Construction OF Western Sec
tion Without Delay.
SWING SENDS MESSAGES

Early construction by force ac-
count of the 1115 mile section OF
the All-American canal from the
central to the westside main Is as
sured by the allotment of s1,000.000
for this work this morning by Sec
retary Ickes of the department Of
the interior, according to tele-
gram received at district headquar-
tiers today from Phil D. Swing, its
agent in Washington, who also ad-
vised that the government Is pay
ing back to the district $4,000 adj
vanced several years ago for sur
veys of the canal route.
SWINGS telegram advises that
he had just left Ickes' office after
watching the secretary affix his
signature to the document author
izing the transfer of the necessary
money from the public works funds
to the reclamation bureau account.
Efforts to secure the allotment
and the approval Of the work on
what is known as the Calexico Sec
tor of the All-American canal were
started about two months ago. It
was pointed out that owing to the
great number of unemployed living
in the county at present and the
possibility of an extremely small
fall crop being harvested this year
because Of the water shortage, some
work must be provided to tide the
valley over until an increased flow
of water in the Colorado river
would enable crops to be raised
here next spring.
Force account work on one or
more sectors of the All-American
canal was suggested q; the best
means of solving the present diff
culties of the valley and following
resolutions to that effect adopted
by civic and governmental agen-
cies in the county, Swing was in
structed to see what could be done
in Washington in the matter.
Little hope was at first held out
that the quest would be successful
since two sections of the canal had
already been let out to contract,
but Ickes' action of this morning
III oikkilllB Vic llCCCooQly 9RRA va
ton is looked on here as meaning
that the work will get under way
with little delay.
A band of engineers has been en-
gagged in making surveys along the
proposed route of the Calexico Sec
ton of the canal and with this
nearly completed active operations
under the force account method, di-
rected by the reclamation service.
are expected soon.
Money On Way
Swing in his telegram further
advised the district that the treas
ury department was preparing to
refund the money advanced by the
district for preliminary surveys
made on the canal route. This re-
fund was to be in the form of two
checks to the credit of the district,
one for $4,000. the other for $10,-
900. They were to be mailed from
Washington today, according to the
telegram.
Owing to the fact that the board
of directors spent most of today in
making a survey of properties con-
cerning which tax adjustments
fCcntinued On Page a.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-14
BY GEORGE E. HELMER

OutCu fTcSS SbdiI SOTTtSpOiucHt
SACRAMENTO, Sept. ID. W.P)-
Refusal of an assembly committee
to aid Upton Sinclair IS program or
to concern itself with specific wor-
ries of Los Angeles county caused
another delay today in progress of
a proposed unemployment relief
bond issue through the special leg
islative session.
A constitutional amendment, re-
vised by a joint committee and
drawn along the lines of federal re-
lief plans, calling for a $24,000, 900
bond issue, underwent new changes
today and was not expected to
reach the assembly floor until late.
Its appearance then was to signal
the.start of new flight, legislators
believed.
Changes made by the committee,
which ordered the bill back to the
printer today, removed a. section
which coincided closely with Sin
clair IS epic" plan of unemploy-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-09-14

Louise Stewart
Mckinley School
Nora Epler, principal
Elsie Couch
Nilla Harris
Amy Miller
Alice Trout
Buick Underwood
Winifred Woodward
Lincoln School
Leo De Celles, principal
Mary Griffin
Eunice Hunter
Fannie McCrory
Eunice Sprinkle
Hazel Ve,man
Eva Walker
Harding School
Estelle Reid, principal
BERTHE Caldwell
Merry Cartwright
Dorothy Armstrong
Gene Edgar
Margaret Hedrick
Josephine King
Harriet Raab
Catherine Roberts
Geraldine Shaw
Irene Varney
Winifred Wilson
East Side School
A. E. Prince, principal
Lucille Culberson
Clothilde Curry
Gladys Gier
w. A. Jackson
Octavia Payne
zenobia Payne
Emily Robertson
Ruth Sims