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Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
PONTIAC ON TRAIL OF NATIONS
HISTORIC OLD WOODEN INDIANS

wooden Indian had folded his tee
pee and skunk into the great un-
known. But, finally, searchers be-
gan to reap their rewards. Gradu-
ally the time-weathered warriors,
posed with nimble knee-action, a
wicked knife in one hand and an
equally deadly bunch of cigars in
the other, are coming out of their
dusty retirement to keep their vigil
by day and by night over their
namesake, the Pontiac 8, in sales
rooms throughout the country.
No Pontiac explorer into the mys-
teries of the wooden Indian as yet
has succeeded in bringing to light
one of the females of the tribe. Re-
member?-the cigar store Indian
with skirts and braided hair-the
one that stood on the other side OF
the entrance-They called her Po-
cahontaS.
Time marches on. 1t is 1000 years
from now, and an expedition from
a university in Mars has just un-
covered the ruins of goth century
American city. What 10, a pick
brings up the Splinters from a wood.
en- image. What strange manner Of
of people were there twentieth GEN.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
UNCLE WIGGILY'S MUD
PIES

Uncle Wiggily hoped, skipped
and jumped into his hollow stump
bungalow very fast. tR
whats the matter?' asked his
wife, who was sewing buttons or
one of his shirts. Uncle Wiggily was
rich, he had two shirts. Are you
having an adventure?" asked the
rabbit lady.
Il just had one!" painted Mr.
Longears, sitting down in chair
to catch his breath, which seemed
to be playing tag with him.
What kind of an adventure?'
asked Mrs. Longears
well" said the rabbit 81 took a
picnic basket of good things to poor
Mrs. Mouse. On my way back
picked up the basket which she had
filled with empty pots, pans and
dishes from her last picnic. Ano
when 1 was coming home through
the woods, the Fox and Wolf caught
me, took the basket away thinking il
had a lunch in. And when they
found only empty pots they were sc
mad that they banged each othe,
with them and I ran away"
That was some adventure!" sale
Mrs. Longears.
But what about my basket anc
! the empty pots, pans and dishes?'
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
By limited Press

WASHINGTON, June 20. - All
this wheel within wheel business
at National Recovery headquarters
over blue eagle labor leaders is be-
ginning to get the goat OF Gen.
Hugh S. johnson.
When last questioned about his
firing of John Donovan, president
of the clerks union at NRA, john
son growled angrily:
81 told you'll haven't any more
to say.o
A first class labor dispute within
johnson celebrated gold fish
bowl is something like carrying
Goals to Newcastle. The NRA has
championed the cause of labor
against discrimination because of
union affiliations in industrial dis
putes the country over. Now Don
ovan charges that the NRA itself
is discriminating against him be-
cause he is head of Local 81, Fed
Grafton of Government Employees.
Johnson says that Donovan is
talking through his hat, that he
was discharged because he dicn It
work hard enough at his job, as
sistant to the NRA's labor advisory
board.
Climaxing this odd intra mural
controversy is Johnson IS suggestion
that the union clerks take Dono-
vans case before the national
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20

CHICAGO, June 20. tSpeclaD =
The strangest pow-wow Of Indian
Chiefs ever held is being planned
for "a Century of Progress" some
time this summer. Pale-face braves
of the Pontiac Motor company had
guarded the plans jealousy in their
councils of war.
But now the secret is out. and
here it is-a conclave Of wooden cl-
gar store Indians, rescued from the
dust and damp of the cellars and
storerooms of America. They say
that dead men and Indians never
talk but it must have been one OF
these old warriors, a hero of many
sidewalk encounter that let the cat
out of the bag.
1t is understood that Pontiac deal
ers the country over are on the loose
these days looking for the almost
extinct relics of the mauve decade
to serve as delegates to the forth
coming pow-wow.
A search is even being made Of
the dealers NRA code to see whe-
ther it is permissible to accept a
good cigar store Indian as part pay
ment for a new Pontiac.
For a while it looked as if the
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20

turv Americans" says the chief OF
the party. Look Here is wooden
monument, erected, no doubt, IN
memory of one of their great flg-
ures in history. And what is this
strange bunch of things in its hano
that resemble small torpedoes? we
must carry this back to Mars with
U.S."
And that is 1000 years from now.
Today the cigar store Indian is al
most as great a curiosity. 1t IS an
ANTIQUE, and a total stranger to tne
Younger generation. Only those IN
whose memories linger flamoeau
parades. horse-drawn drays and
mustache cups will greet an olu
friend at "A Century of Progress.
AS for the old sidewalk chle1s
and warriors themselves, this will be
the first great fair they have seen
since the last one in Chicago IL
1893. And thanks to the Pontiac MO
tor company, they will have thelf
expenses paid botn ways.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
BED TIME STORIES
By HOWARD E. GARRIS
Copyright, 1884 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate)

pine needles were the pots, pans,
empty dishes and the basket.
Just as I thought" said Uncle
Wiggily. "All here safe where the
Bad Chaps dropped them after their
fight. Now I'll pack them in the
basket hgain and take them to
Nurse Jane
Then, all of sudden, Uncle Wig
gily thought of something else. He
saw a little spring and brook of
water near the place where the
scattered pots and pans were and
the rabbit gentleman noticed that
there was some nice squidgie
squashy mud on the edge of the wa
ter.
Whats to stop me from making
some mud pies?" asked Uncle Wig
gily of himself, there being no one
else in the woods to talk to, not
even Bad Chap, thank goodness.
"I could make some lovely mud pies
here by the brook" went on the rab-
bit gentleman. II have the pots,
pans and dishes to put them in and
out on that flat rock the sun is
shining brightly so it is like a gas
stove oven. There could bake my
mud pies to the Queens taste. II
] do it"
When he was a little boy rabbit
! Uncle Wiggily had always wanted tc
make mud pies, but his mother ne
yer would let him for fear he woulC
| soil ,his paws. When he grew to be
a bigger boy rabbit, of course, he
didn't want to make mud pies, fol
grown up boys never do. But still
Mr.. Longears could never get ovel
not having been allowed, when hi
was little, to make mud pies
But I can do it now!" he said
laughing and twinkling his pinl
nose There is no one here to stol
me or make fun of an cid gentle
man rabbit mixing mud pies. I triet
it once before, not SO long ago, bu
I didn't do very well. Now is m,
chance. Ho, for some lovely nut
pies in all these empty pots, pan
and dishes!"
Rolling up his sleeves, Mr.. Long
ears began. And what happened t
him and the mud pies you shall hea
tomorrow night in the story "Uncl
Wiggily's Queer Dream" And pleas
don't let the coffee pot give tn
clock a cup of tea or it might was
its face in it and that would not b
polite. do you think?
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
CHAMBER To
STUDY CURB
ON PEDDLERS

The Ell Centro Chamber of Com
merce has received a copy of an or
dinance adopted by the city of
Santa Rosa, designed to curb house.
toulouse selling through declaring
1t a nuisance to disturb household
ers in this matter. This ordinance
imposes no license and is designed
to provide no discrimination as
between business callers. 1t is re-
ported that the courts have ruled
that municipalities have the police
power ito protect the life, health,
convenience and comfort of their
citizens and that the prohibition
of door-to-door canvassing comes
within these terms.
The principal sections of an Or
dinance as passed by the city Of
Santa Rosa under the heading of
"an ordinance in relation to the
practice Of entering upon private
residences by solicitors, peddlers
and transient vendors and declar-
ing the same under certain con-
ditions to be nuisance" are as
follows:
THE practice of going in and
upon private residences in the city
of Santa Rosa, California, by soli-
citors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant
merchants and transient vendors
Of merchandise, not having been
requested or invited to do SO by
the owner or owners, occupant or
occupants of said private residences
for the purpose of soliciting orders
| for the sale of goods, wares and
merchandise, and-or for the pur-
pose of disposing of and-or ped
ding or hawking the same, is
hereby prohibited, declared to be
nuisance and punishable as such
as misderleanor.
ANY person convicted of vio-
lation of this ordinance shall be
fined in a sum not exceeding $1O0
or confined to the city jail for
not exceeding 80 days or by both
such Zine and imprisonment"
This ordinance will be studied
at the next meeting of the board
OF directors of the local chamber
to decide If such an ordinance
would be beneficial in Ell Centro
in curblng the nuisance of house
toulouse canvassing and increas-
ing the purchases made through
the established business houses Of
the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS
WATCH THE FIREWORKS

Parents of El Centre should cooner-
ate with the request made yesterday by
officials of the fire and police depart
ments, regarding the discharge of fire
works in forbidden areas.
Although July Fourth has long been
associated with the discharge of fire
works, 1t is an extremely dangerous
sort of amusement, demanding at all
times supervision by adults Youngsters
run too many chances of injuring them
selves, others or property when hand
ling fireworks.
The national holiday is still two weeks
away, but the popping of firecrackers
and other explosives has been heard for
several days past.
There are few among adults who can
throw the first stone at the youngsters
for doing this. All of us were guilty of
it in our younger days and for this
reason none wishes to be harsh on the
present day youths.
The danger here of damage to proper
ty, is greater however than in other sec
tions of the country. Buildings are
thoroughly dried out by our climate, as
are other highly inflammable materials.
A spark is sufficient to start a serious
fire.
This year, with a serious water short
age approaching nearer and nearer, the
danger of fire is emphasized.
Fire and police officials have de-
clared youngsters discharging fireworks
will be brought into court. In that they
are only doing their duty. At the same
time such a course is disagreeable, to
parents, to the youngsters and to the Of
ficials.
This disagreeableness can be avoided
if parents will put it up to their young
sters in the right light. They must
help prevent danger and in nine cases
out of the 10 the youngster will be
found willing to cooperate. The tenth
will have to be dealt with as the condl-
tions demand.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
SALES
INCREASE IN
PAST MONTH

"One of the best indications Of
returning prosperity is the mount
ing sales of cars in the lower price
brackets said J. H. Edgar, local
Ford dealer. Reports from all
over the country indicate that the
public is again buying automobiles.
"In Southern California, during
May, Ford sold 2206 cars, which
is So more than were sold by
Chevrolet, Plymouth and Oldsmo-
bile combined. In metropolitan
Los Angeles there were So more
Fords sold than the combined
sales of the four next sellers,
namely Chevrolet, Plymouth, Buick
and Oldsmobile.
Statewide figures show that
there were more Fords sold than
the combined sales of Chevrolet
and Plymouth. Nationally, from
January l to April 80, the best
authoritative figures indicate that
Ford sold 1928 cars as contrast
ed with the sale of 146,328 Chew
! rolets; 91,553 Plymouths; 3li13O
Dodge Brothers cars, and 23,437
Pontiacs.
I'm Detroit, the hub of the au-
tomotive industry, figures for
Wayne county have been compiled
showing that there were 1850 new
Ford registrations as against
Chevrolet's 1143 and Plymouth's
720. Detroit is in Wayne county.
From coast to coast the motor
trade is buzzing with favorable
comment on the sales gains made
( by Ford"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
f1o Tor some mud pies

asked Nurse Jane, who came into
the room just then to hear the last
of the adventure story. where are
my pots and pans?"
81 ran away and left them in the
woods where the Bad Chaps were
fighting SO hard they didn't notice
me running away" chuckled Mr..
Longears.
you don't mean to say you left
the things in the woods?" squeaked
the muskrat lady housekeeper.
II didn't dare stop to take them
away from the Fox and Wolf" said
Mr. Longears.
Just fancy that" said Mrs
Longears.
why, the very ideal" cried Miss
Fuzzy Wuzzy. MY pots! My pans
My dishes and the basket"
Now don't worry" said Uncle
Wiggily. when the Bad Chaps get
through fighting each other they'll
see how silly they were quarrelina
over lot of empty pans. They'll be
SO ashamed that I got away from
them, that they'll run away ano
leave the basket, pots, pans ano
dishes there in the woods. I'll &c
there tomorrow and get them foi
you"
"Oh, you'd better not. The Bao
Chaps may be hiding in the bushes,
warned his wife.
Il think not, my dear" said Un-
Gle Wiggily. They'll be too ashamed
to linger around. I'll be all right.
So the next day Uncle Wiggily
went back TO the place in the woods
! where the Fox and Wolf had acted
SO silly and there, surely enough
scattered about on the leaves and
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
sDor1't Quote Me-
BY United Press

labor disputes under NRA. The
board has decided several hundred
cases since, code making started
and almost every case had as its
crux the charge that somebody was
fired because he was a union men,
ber. l.. L.
Johnson says that he will abide
by the labor board IS decision. The
militant clerks promise that the
board will receive the case.
About 1000 employees of the NRA
! are members Of the union, which Is
affiliated with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor Locals of the
union also are established in all
other governmental departments,
] but heretofore have obtained no
widespread publicity.
Another angle of Washington IS
labor situation, may be discovered
at a squint at the new telephone
directory, which contains 514 pages.
The previous directory, issued six
months ago, had only 498 pages.
Federal employment statistics in
dicate that 10000 persons were add
ed to government payrolls between
! editions.
So much legal business is the
/ government causing, meantime, that
| the classified section of the direc-
tory contains 16 SOLID pages of at
! torneys' listings. Washington is
said to contain more lawyers per
capita at the moment than any
other city in the country.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
EDITORIAL PAGE
and
FEATURES
WE'RE 'AGIN' 1T

We are against a water shortage, en-
phatically and even more emphatically.
1t is easy, even for a city resident, to
visualize what such a disaster will mean
to Imperial Valleys ranchers. In all
sincerity we hope that either the rain
gods will soon cry over the places where
crying will do the most good, or that
sufficient water may be stored to see
the ranchers through until the crying
does occur.
But, selfishly, our first revulsion to
water shortage, touches nearer home than
that
Many summers have taught us the
carelessness into which men fall when
the women leave the valley for other
and cooler spots. Daily shavers be-
come tri-weekly and even bi-weekly
shavers, with highly undesirable results
to the good appearance of the valley.
If a water shortage comes, shaver
slackers are going to have fine excuse
for raising boards and will brazenly
wear them, at the same time bowling to
high heaven that they are patriots"
willing to suffer in good cause, per-
fectly willing to pass up the pint or
half-pint of water needed to remove
their boards, in order that the rancher
may water a few acres of crops or
herd of cattle with it.
Lest we be condemned for preach
ing," we hasten to explain that the bulk
of our fears are personal and even
though shaving may not improve the
physiognomy any, we know too we'll
what not shaving does to it. What ap-
plies to US applies to the bulk of our
fellow-men Not even the Smith Broth
ers can be considered beauties by our
modern standards and our modern men
seem totally incapable of raising thatch
such as they have, and anything short
of that is a terrible thing.
We fear an epidemic of slayings if
water shortage compels period OF
beard raising. Safety also demands that
there be no water shortage.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
Hog Reduction
Quota Received

Valley growers who have signed
hog reduction contracts will be in
terested in learning that the quota
for the valley has been received in
a notice sent TO tee farm ad-
visor's office.
The quota given is slight re-
duction, approximately 1000 head,
from ;he number estimated by the
local group, that number being ap-
proximately $4,000.
The committee will meet at once
and revamp the contracts to take
up this reduction and the contracts
will then be ready for signatures
which should be within q few days,
states George L. Winwright, as
sistant farm advisor.
When the contracts are given
their final signatures they will be
sent 10 Washington and within a
few weeks the signers will receive
their checks according to the
terms Of the contracts, 1872 having
signed contracts in the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
BUSINESS IN TOLEDO UP

TOLEDO, o. U.D = May busi-
ness was up 80 per cent, in To-
ledo over May, 1888, according to
Bank debts for the month were
s97.279, ,555, as compared with
ST., ,375, ,668 for the corresponding
month last year. Real estate
transfers numbered 693 during
the month, to 608 for the same
period last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20

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Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20

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Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20

So Mrs. Roosevelt is listed as red:
We shouldn't be worried about it. we
are still the same nation which called
saurkraut liberty cabbage.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20

Conviction of Banker Hartman Will
he as satisfying to some folks as though
John Dillinger had been put behind the
bars-again.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20

The Superior fruit ranch, Ceres,
Stanislaus county, has rose hedge
more than a half mile long on one
side of its property.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20

Harvard's most distinguished living
graduate enters the enemys gates at
Yale today, to receive an honorary de-
gree. In other words the Bulldog beats
John Harvard again.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20

Trying to explain quintuplets is about
as easy as trying to explain lot OF
other of life's mysteries.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
TEN YEARS AGO
luna on 1924

TEN YEARS AGO
June 20, 1924
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Brock and
family have gone to the mountains
for a few days.
Tonight at the newly constructed
band stand in Brawley the string
band will give their first free con-
cert.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell of
Imperial Valley for This
Date In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
June 20, 1914

The customs port of CaleXico Is
second in the amount of customs
business in the southern district of
California for the month of May.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20

Water board has secured a per-
nit to install a brush weir in the
Colorado river at Hanlon's Head
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20

The city of Imperial has ordered
all stage lines to find stands on
unpaved streets wherever they can
get permits from owners.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-20

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
June 20, 1919
The peak of the melon season il
expected to be over within th'
week.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-26

AS to the models illustrated, the
spotlight is being thrown on just such
practical about-town tailored velvet
suits as the one pictured to the left
In the picture. 1t is Of black transpar-
ent velvet and has the new narrow
straight skirt. The jacket could not be
simpler and neater II 1t tried. The
velvet-covered buttons are tres chic.
A white and silver blouse with scarf
collar is worn with this tailleur. The
velvet hat Is a modish tricorne. Two
rhinestone clips hold the face veil In
place.
Conferred above in this Quartette Of
velvet fashions is a dinner suit. Vel
vet ensembles Of this type are extreme
ly voguish for semi-formal occasion.
They carry that luxury look which is
so Indicative Of dress-up modes this
season. Observe, the skirt Is floor
length, which at once distinguishes 1t
from the practical daytime velvet suit.
The blouse top Is of gold-striped vel
! vet It is new this fall to wear for
NAL hat with this type Of costume
Chenille-dotted net and velvet fash
ions this stylish toque with its cum
ming veil.
The young woman wearing the four
strand pearl necklace with matching
bracelet understands the art of dress
ing for she demonstrates that nothing
so sets handsome jewelry off to per-
lection as black velvet fashioned as
simply as possible. 1t has high cowl
neck in front, cut very low at the back.
With this gown, to give 1t variation,
comes pair of long detachable white
lace sleeves. Real jade and carnelian
plaques clasp both necklace and
bracelet.
Big corded balloon sleeves and a
high neck slit down the back are the
distinguishing features of the gown
worn by the fortunate young woman
possessing the silver-mesh bag and
scarf.
G. Western Newspaper Union.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-26
SYNOPSIS

Jim Wall. young cowpuncher from
Wyoming, seeks a new field in Utah.
He meets Hank Hays, who admits be-
ing q robber, and tells Wall he is
working for an Englishman, Herrick.
who has located q big ranch in the
mountains. Hays and others are plot
ting to steal their employers cattle
and money. Wall saves Hanks life
by blufflng a gambler out OF shooting.
With Hays and two other rustlers.
Happy Jack and Lincoln, Jim Wall
goes to Herriek's ranch. Herrick an
nounces that his sister, Helen, is COM
ing to the ranch. Hays unfolds his
plan for getting possession of Her
rick's $4,000 head OF live stock. He and
his lieutenants ride away TO drive off
the first bunch of cattle. Heeseman,
Hays rival among the cattle rustlers,
tells Wall that, Hays was once his
(Heeseman's) partner and double
crossed him. Herrick delegates Jim to
go to Grand Junction to meet Miss
Herrick. Jim gets Barnes, a young
cowboy, to tell her that he (Jim) is a
desperate of the worst type. Barnes
does so, but the girl treats the in
formation lightly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-26
Smart Parisians Now Are
Going About Bareheaded

Parisians, the smartly dressed fem
nine ones, are going about bareheaded,
according to stylist Marjorie Howard,
who recently returned from France.
If no hat at all is too much of a
fashion leap to take at once, the next
best thing, says Miss Howard, is a hat
with high crown.
'1The things that are definitely out,
finished, are flowers and the shallow
hat. We shall see no more of either
for Bit" she declared.
American buyers grabbed all the
hfgh-crowned hats they could get their
hands on at the recent Paris mid
summer openings in reaction against
the potato chip" kind Of headgear
that's been worn all summer, she says.
In a season that is not lacking in
the spectacular In clothes the split
skirt is the most spectacular fashion
of all
DAY dresses are so close-fltting they
need the Sits. Evening dresses are
slit to the knee or even above" said
Miss Howard.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-10-26
Counterfeit Wampum

Counterfeit wampum came into be-
ing with the white mans arrival In
America when family Of European
immigrants of Paskack. N. J.. with the
aid Of steel drills and lathes, became
proficient In making wampum from
the cheap. plentiful sh Ills Of the com.
mon Busycon conch Of the Gulf coast.
This counterfeit Indian money cir
culated as far west as the Mississip-
pi valley.