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Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-20
EDITORIAL PAGE
and
FEATURES
HAIL, PIONEERS!

Our best wishes go to the Imperial val
ley Pioneers for a successful picnic to-
morrow at the county fair grounds IN
Imperial.
The men and women who came here
during the pioneer era prior to 1917
and who have since remained here, most
certainly are entitled to full day OF
the splendid enjoyment that comes from
visiting with old friends and recalling
old memories.
Every so often, in conversation with
the pioneers, we are thrilled by the tales
of the old days when trees and good
roads were conspicuous by their absence
in the valley, when travelling was dlftl-
cult and every day life was more battle
than pleasure.
Those Of us who came later, even in
the period of all our modern conven-
fences, are heard to grumbe now and
then about 'hardships." If we are hon.
est with ourselves we will admit that we
don't know what hardships are.
Such grumbers should invite them
selves to the pioneers picnic tomorrow.
Even if they can't participate actively in
the doings, they can absorb much from
listening to the tales of butter being
painted on bread with brush, if there
was any butter or any bread; OF water
being brought for miles by wagon to pro-
vide it for ordinary" purposes, with
baths being listed under the "extraordi-
nary heading; of vicious winds that
blew tons of sand and dust all about and
sometimes sent the pioneers mean lit
tie canvas shelters scurrying across the
desert.
They won't hear the pioneers discuss
ing such things as 'hardshlps however.
To the old timers they were just ordl-
nary events. But the newcomer may be
able to convince himself that life in the
valley is not anywhere near as difficult
as he sometimes thinks.
He'll also hear tales amusing enough
to make a wooden Indian laugh. Some
of the incidents they portray were SER
ious enough when they occurred but time
has given them humorous tinge for the
pioneers (thanks be to heaven) had a
fine sense of humor They had to have
it or they couldn't have stuck it out here.
There are fewer pioneers today than
there were year ago. There will be
still fewer next year. 1t is pity but it
is life. Those who remain carry on in
the old spirit, the spirit that made I'M
perial Valley what it is and which, if
adopted by those of US who came later,
will make Imperial Valley what we hope
it to be.
Men and women of the Imperial Val
ley Pioneers, we salute you and we
thank you. We salute you for the things
you have done and we thank you for
breaking the trail for US to follow. May
tomorrow and all the other days be
filled with a maximum of the joy and
happiness you SO richly deserve.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-20
Goodyear Plans To
Make NeU Tire

LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz, April
20. U.P)-A new automobile tire to
meet increased speeds on highways
will soon be on the market it was
announced here today by Burgess
Darrow, manager of the develop
ment department of the Goodyear
Tire Company of Akron, o.
with automobiles travelling on
the highways at almost race track
speed and with fast starting and
stopping it is necessary to develop
a new tire for the industry Oar
row told more than 10 company
officials from the Pacific Coast
attending a sales conference.
The Goodyear company has been
pioneering this new tire which he
said would revolutionize the tire
business. He. would not go into
detail on the new tire however.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-20
sDoH1't Quote Me'
by United Press

the group was young Joseph Bailey.
Unless politicians are mistaken, Mr..
Roosevelt was attempting to convey
to the Texas visitors that Long
Tom IS return to Washington would
be welcome. Rarely has preSi-
Dental rebuke been delivered un-
der such circumstances.
Statesmen ponder not only the
extent to which Mr.. Roosevelt will
carry his spanking campaign, but
also whether Texas editors were
pleased or displeased by the favors
shown Connally.
A month ago Bailey called at the
White House-before the veto vote.
Emerging he spoke Of his conver-
sation with Mr.. Roosevelt in words
suggesting to some that White
House favor lay with him.
Soon to the White House hurried
Long Tom. Emerging, he also
spoke and in a manner calculated
to offset any advantage Bailey may
have gained by his prior visit.
The Connally- Bailey set-to will
be one of the more interesting OF
primary engagements. 1t is sched-
uled for July %.
The first rule of politics is that
the White House stays out Of party
primaries. Rarely is it broken.
There are other punitive methods
as, for instance, that applied to
Sen. Huey P. Long (Dem.- Louis
ana, Louisiana federal patronage,
of which Long normally would be
dictator, has been handled since
March A, 1898, by Sen. Pat Harrison
Dem.) Mississippi.
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The Dairy Situation"
Mrs. Charles Hackleman. home
department chairman, discussed
disqualification" her talk being
followed by harmonica numbers
given by Ramie vanderlinden and
Earnest Stouch.
The Scandal" delightful COM
edy, was presented by the follow
ing group from Rose-Mesquite:
Mrs. A. o. Dolson, Mrs. M. Trent
ham, Mrs. Brandemburg and Miss
Ralphs.
Activities Of the home depart
ment were discussed by Miss Flor
ence Glenn, home demonstration
agent. Joe Enz, delegate to the
dairymen's conference in Berkeley,
reported on that event. Mrs. Gerald
England gave a piano solo, another
harmonica number was presented
as was entertainment by three
school children.
The Old Spinning Wheel" in
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a flower bed in his back yard, but
his rheumatism hurt him so that
he couldn't dig very well.
The Pipsisewah and the Skee-
zicks knew about this. So they
planned to dress up like tramps,
go to the rabbit gentleman and
offer to dig his garden for him,
and at the same time play a trick.
The trick was they were going
TO dig a deep hole instead of max
ing flower bed and push Uncle
Wiggily into the hole to catch him.
While the Pip and Skee were on
their way to make trouble for the
rabbit gentleman, Uncle Wiggily
himself was painfully sitting on a
box near where he had started to
make his flower bed.
"Oh, dear" he sighed. II wish I
didn't have this rheumatism. ]
don't see how 1 am going TO make
this flower bed"
Just then along came the Pip
and Skee.
There he sits!" whispered the
Pip to his chum.
Just waiting for us!" chuckled
the Skee. Shall 1 ask him if he
wants two tramps to finish that
flower bed or will you speak?"
You do it." said the Pip.
The Skeezicks, pulling his old
ragged hat down over his face SC
Uncle Wiggily wouldn't know him
spoke up and said:
Hey there, Mr.. Rabbit, do you
want us to do that for you?"
ID o what?" asked Uncle Wiggily
looking up in surprise, for he had
been thinking about his rheuma-
tism.
do you want us to finish maxi
ing that flower bed?" asked the
Pip, who also had his hat well
down over his face. I'VE are a
couple of tramps loking for work
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-20

WASHINGTON, April 20. - Pol
iticianS are wondering how far
President Roosevelt will go in pun
ishing Democrats who voted to beat
his veterans-economy veto.
Rep. Joseph w Bailey, Jr.,
tDem) Texas, able son of an able
father, received the first presiden-
tial spanking Bailey is a repre-
sentative-at-large That means he
was elected in 1892 in a statewide
campaign.
He is campaigning again, this
time for the senate seat occupied
by Sen. Tom Connally. The battle
will be won or lost in the primar-
ies-and it will be battle
On the veto vote Connally and
Bailey divided, for and against the
President, respectively. Connally
supported the President after long
thought and no little discussion
with his political mentor, Vice
President John N. Garner. 1t is
reasonable to believe that the ad-
ministration promised to aid the
Connally campaign if opportunity
offered.
Opportunity offered a bulls eye
this week when a delegation OF
Texas editors accompanied by Tex
as senators and congressman called
on Mr.. Roosevelt at the White
! House.
The President spoke of Long Tom
Connally. He remarked apprecia-
lively the pleasure he found in
working with a man Of such coop
eratiye spirit.
Standing conspicuously among
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first the Pip and then the Skee
into the hole they themselves had
dug. Head over heels into the hole
Uncle Butter knocked the Bad
Chaps.
"Hurrah!" cried Uncle Wiggily.
Then he and Uncle Butter pelted
the Pip and Skee with Jumps of
dirt until the Police Dog, for whom
Nurse Jane telephoned, came and
took the two make believe tramps
off to Jail.
Mr.. Longears thanked Uncle But
ter very much. And if the cork
screw will hold the lump of sugar
on the egg-beater to give it a
ride like merry-go-'round, I'll
tell you next about Uncle Wiggilys
flower seeds.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-20

pantomine and singing was pre-
sented. Amy Tuthill was seated at
the spinning wheel, Lorraine Brens-
house and Mercer Williams ap-
peared as the old-fashioned boy
and girl, Mrs. Hester Parsons
played the piano and the singers
were Mrs. Earl Davis. Mrs. Zahnter,
Miss Mollie Mcbride, Miss Evelyn
Maring and Miss Anna Enz.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-20
WOMEN GIVE
PROGRAM At.
ALAM0-VERDE

Almo-Verde home department
put on the program for the Alamo
Verde farm center at its meeting
held last night in the Alamo school
and which was particularly well
attended.
Movies on Fire Prevention" were
shown after which George L. Win
wright farm advisor, talked on
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"PIease Find
Check
Enclosed"

THE RETURN to
i the use of checking
accounts instead of the
use of currency is an en-
couraging symptom of
recovery.
Keeping a balance in
Bank and checking a
gainst it not only is a
sign of recovery but it
helps recovery. Your av-
erage checking account
balance may not seem
much to you, but the
mass of all of them is a
valuable addition to the
general capital of the
community.
Get back on a checking
balance basis. 1t will be
better for you, and bet
ter for everyone.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-20
RIVER READINGS

Modoc county is operating two
shifts of $50 persons each, on as
paragus.
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n 'Waatl@!

LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY
Fair tonight and Saturday, with
overcast night and morning; mod
crate temperature with little
change; rather high humidity;
gentle changeable wind, mostly
southwesterly.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-20
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell of
Imperial Valley for This
Date In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
AnriI % 1914

A jolly crowd of Ell Centrans
motored to Campo and spent the
weekend dancing and visiting
Morena dam.
Interest is deepening in the re-
vival meetings at the Baptist
church.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-20
TEN YEARS AGO
ApriI On 1904

L. House returned from Santa
Cruz last night.
Mrs. Alice Carter left for Los
Angeles last night after seven
weeks visit with her sister, Mrs. II.
c. Coe.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-20

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
April 20, 1919
Woodlawn park will reopen TO-
night after two weeks suspension
for repairs.
Imperial Valley farmers nave
clubbed together and raised fund
to find out whether or not the new
county dog ordinance is constitu-
tional.
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Great Was PoIa

I am interested-though I do
not commend-the plan which
will have him play the honest po-
lice captain in a reissue Of 1.-The
Racket" with somebody else play
ing Nick Scarsi. In other words
the idea is to give a role brim-
ming with appeal. I am sure he
will act it well, but I doubt if he
will ever approach the solid con-
viction he gave to the snarling
menace "ScarSi" in the footlight
version.
This brings me to the boys
in the back room, those who
belonged to the original Harry
M. Crandall organization. Isn't
there one ready to toss in q
ballot for Pola Negri'S Pas
sion" This made Negri and it
also made Hollywood conscious
Of q fellow named Ernst Lu-
bitSch. Did this make money
at the Metropolitan on F. Street?
What picture, before or since,
has given the Metropolitan so
much money.
never realized just how good
Pola's Madame Du Barry was
until saw the terribly coy little
milliner that Norma Talmadge
perpetrated for the screen as her
last release. Soon we will see
Dolores Del Rio in the same role
and there will be the chance for
further comparison.
In tanning with Carter Barron
yesterday it was agreed that
Jimmy f9unn and Sally Eilers
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come DICKS W "S"
a great load Of old timers the
pewblic is always writing in about.
Rita Kaufman has a perfectly
elegant new idea for dressing"
pictures at studios where they
have no steady designer. She can
make money for herself and save
money for the organization. The
College Inn at Chicago would like
it to be known that it was there
seven years ago; that Leroy Prinz
taught Helen Mack a vaudeville
dance routine she is now using in
"You Belong To Me-" with Lee
Tracy.
Paul Cavanaugh, a Paramounter,
is the only English star in the in
dustry having a clause in his con.
tract allowing him to take 10
minutes off work in the afternoon
to have a dish Of tea. James
Blakeley collects pennies Of all
different vintageS. james Buck
Ter, one of the new Columbia i'm
ports, got lost while hiking in our
local hills and was led out to
safety by a lady member of a
nudist colony who had nothing on
but shorts.
One of the most versatile
women in the cinema is Kathleen
Howard (the former fashion ed.
itor of Harper's Bazaar, and one
time leading prima donna of the
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Marion Is COMING

BY a sudden change in book
ingS, Marion Davies new cosmo-
politan picture, Operator 49,"
comes to the Fox screen next
Friday. This replaces "The
Thin Man." with William Powell.
Miss Davies role in this film
has met with the highest praise
in its West Coast previews. She
has the strong support of Gary
Cooper, Ted Healy, Katharine
Alexander, Jean Parker and the
four Mills brothers. They should
make it a crackerjack picture.
Richard Boleslasvsy, who was re-
Sponsible for Men in White" is
the director.
Robert w. Chambers authored
the story of Operator 49," It is
described as a tender romance,
embossed with comedy, of the
South when the colonies still
drank their mint juleps and kept
slaves. Miss Davies plays a spy
during the Civil War.
The Davies fans never fail to
ring up a great box-office week
for her movies. She has the en-
viable reputation Of never flop
ping on F Street. And one of
them broke all records at the Pal.
ace a few years ago-in Holy
Week at that.
Put a big check beside "Oper-
ator Is" for next week at the Fox.
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SOME MORE FAVORITES
National Players to Close for Season
Saturday Night; Marion Davies
Picture at Fox Friday
BY ANDREW r. KELLEY

In looking the various lists of Ten Favort Motion
Pictures which feature of the Hollywood Parade
section of The Washington Times Saturday. have been
impressed by the few which include Cavacade in their
choices and by the fact that have named Silver Dollar
'Cavacade' is my idea of the best motion picture ever
made. You may have your "Birth of Nation and other
choices that have endured popular fancy through the
but will take Noel Cowards story for acting directing and
all around excellence Give Brook Diana Wynyard will
always remain with for their magnificent performances
In feature.
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in bad Girl" was the picture
over which we had shed the
most tears. I doubt if Jimmy
Dunn will ever equal that one.
Or Sally Eilers either. Looking
further back I recall Mary Carr
in cover the Hills" That was
a tear jerker sure enough but
it was so fragrant an assault on
the ducts which moisten the eye
and its appeal for sympathy was
so patiently manufactured I doubt
if it ever will be included in any
enduring "Ten."
Believe it or not this column
was written while waiting for
the family physician to call and
interpret shooting pains in the
lower shoulder. He calls it in
tercostal neuralgia and leaves
sundry prescriptions and an or
der to go to bed. After which
he discusses the merits of "Sailor,
Beware" and the prospects Of
seeing the Camera fight.
don't think he figures I'm sick
man. Maybe he's right.
National Closes
Sailor Beware" will end the Ma.
tional Players season on Satur-
day night after six weeks. There
will be three more performances,
no more no less" says Manager
Steve Cochran who calls on us to
spread the news.
Mr.. Cochran refuses to gamble
with the weather. Sailor Be.
ware" the nautical and naughty
farce has caught on like a house
in flames but Mr.. Cochran feels
that Old Sol might turn on the
heat and just ruin prospects for
a second week.
think Mr.. Cochran still has in
mind an experience of three sea-
sons ago. He took $4,000 in the
first week Of Eugene O'Neill's
Strange Interlude" and decided
on a second seven days. At that
time the June weather decided to
get hot. To Mr.. Cochran's amaze
ment the weather man turned on
five days of the most blistering
blasts and before it was over the
first weeks profits had entirely
melted. A five and one-half hour
show on hot night was too much
for even steady playgoers.
So the National Theater pre-
pares to fold for 1933-34. That's
all. Except a couple of in
dignant ladies from the Holton
Arms School dropped into the
managers office yesterday and
requested that the banners of this
exclusive educational institution
be removed Immediately from the
sets of Sailor, Beware"
Two Of the fair students saw
them at the Wednesday matinee
performance and felt outraged.
What I'm trying to figure out
is why these two sensitive inge-
nues came to see the Wednesday
matinee. Or don't they read the
Washington critics out at Holton
Arms?
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HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP
ICOVeF
Hollywood
BY LLOYD PANTACES
PUBLICATION R'sGfS kEsERvso

. Century Opera Company. She
is an authority on costumes Of
various countries, and was
awarded a brooch by the Car OF
Russia for a command perform
ance, and Is now stealing scenes
in practically every movie in
which she appears .Muriel Kirk
land wishes 1t to be known that
she has named all her pet gold
fish after her favorite comedians.
Lyle Talbot's pet economy is
buying inexpensive sox. He's not
the only one. Buddy Rogers
contract at the fair keeps him, at
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Went to War

Cecil B. DeMille. who is now
producing Cleopatra" ran away
from home when he was a boy to
join the army in the Spanish
American War, but was sent back
home when his true age was dis
covered,
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RevivaIists Sing In
Mae Vests Next

Inspired by the popularity of
the Elder Micheaux revival meet
ing broadcaStS over CHS. each
week, Paramount brought in 90
Negro spiritual chanters for a
novel number in Mae Vests new
picture, ct Amt No Sin" George
Reed, Negro character actor, plays
the deacon. Libby Taylor, Macs
maid, and oscar Smith, studio
bootblack actor, lead the shouting.
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it is they're al
W Us rubbing
G q r BIO about
the size Of her
"tootsieS'' when
Janet Gaynor,
one Of our most
p e title stars,
straps hers in
to size 6h...
P a r amounterS
have suddenly
b e C o m e Boy
Scouts seeing
as how they're
giving chances
for sore e n
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"CavaIcade" and "SiIver Dollar"
Outstanding Films Not Listed
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Tops EN- All

In spite of its general excel
lence and its universal appeal 1
doubt if it made as much money
for Fox as the comparatively
trivial Estate Fair" AS a matter
of fact I'm told by those pre-
sumed to be informed that Cav
alcade," on gross receipts in
America, realized but little more
than its production cost. It was
in Great Britain and her colonies
that "Cavalcade" amassed such
dividends as accrued to the Fox
treasury.
AS for "Silver Dollar" that
screen story of the picturesque
HaW Tabor struck me as one of
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the most interesting expositions
of semihistorical fiction I have
ever seen screened. Indeed, the
performance of Edward G. Robin
son, as the Colorado miner, was
something worth cheriShing.
I may have been exceptionally
impressed because I had read
about Haw Tabor's wedding at
our Hotel Willard with President
Arthur as invited guest, how he
fooled the good fathers at ST..
Patrick's into performing the
ceremony, how a great hotel was
erected in Denver by him in his
heyday, and still stands, as Charlie
McClintock and all theater agents
who visit Colorado will testify.
As a matter of fact consider
Eddie Robinson one of the great
est living actors. This is no flash
opinion for I watched his career
as a $50 a week stock actor for
George P. Marshall and Monta
Bell, as a leading man for Mrs.
Leslie Carter in "Stella Dallas" as
a leading man for Ethel Barry
more in Royal Fandango" as well
as in everything he has ever done
for the cameras and sound boxes.
I think his Nick Scarsi in The
Racket" was his greatest acting
performance on the stage just as
I think he has never surpassed for
Hollywood his characterization of
Haw Tabor in "Silver Dollar"
There will be those who will
contend Eddie Robinson reached the
peak in Little Caesar but I will
take Haw. The Robinson handi-
cap is that he happens to be an
"itless" actor. Like Walter Hus-
ton he has never been known to
give an ingenue high blood pres
sure and he remains a male ia
Vorite.
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t he moment,
from accepting
all the moving
picture offers
W hich h av e
been slung in
his direction
Al nm Sothern
is a composer
nd composes
little ditties
when she's do
ing n o t h / n g
else on the set
Walter Con.
molly has a pas
sion for old
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shoes N d IS Ann eoutheFn
still wearing a pair that have seen
seven summers and winters.
The Brethren Warner have
suddenly discovered in Jean Muir
(who heretofore has been dressed
as a country Crib a really very
fine clothes horse as well as a
splendid actress.
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Copyright. 1894, King Features
Syndicate, IncD


Ruth Donnolly has received a
proposal of marriage from a
farmer in Lone Ellen, Kan. She
modestly claims it's probably be-
cause he saw her as a cook in
ever In My Heart"
David Butler reports that he
and his wife Elsie were followed
to their Malibu home by four
suspicious looking gentlemen who
jumped out Of their automobile
upon arrival and pointed what
looked like sawed-off shotguns at
them, but they turned out to be
Stephen Ames' Hawaiian Orches-
ira all holding their instruments
and come to serenade the wrong
people!
A lady would like to know why