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Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16
BED TIME STORIES
By HOWARD E. GARRIS
Copyright, 1884 by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)

showers. So one day, when the Bob
Cat came to visit the Fox, the Bad
Chap with the silly little tail mewed
and said:
Lets give Uncle Wiggily a show
err"
Give him shower! What do you
mean?" asked the Fox. I'VE can't
make it rain whenever we want to.
Don't be sillyl"
I'm not silly" purred the Bob
Cat. L don't mean rain shower. -
What kind, then?" asked the
Fox.
"A shower of sticks and stones
that will break his bones,' snarled
the Bob Cat. 1--WE can knock him
down with a shower of stones and
catch him"
Once more, I say, don't be sillyI
laughed the Fox. You know we
can never get close enough to I'm
Gle Wiggily to shower him with
sticks and stones. He runs as soon
as he sees us. Silly"
He won't get a cnance to run,
this time" said the Bob Cat. Lis
ten. You know Uncle Wiggily has
his friends telephone him whenever
there is shower near their houses
and when there is none near his
bungalow. Then the funny rabbit
takes his umbrella and runs quick
ly to stand in the shower"
We'll, what elSe?" asked the Fox,
as the Bob Cat sat down on his
silly little tail SO his friend wouldn't
make fun of it. GO on!"
This is what we'll do whispered
the Bob Cat. We'll call Uncle Wig
gily up on the telephone. Well make
our voices sound like Mr.. Twisty-
tails or Uncle Buffers and We'll tell
Uncle Wiggily it is raining out this
way in the woods. He'll run here and
before he finds out it isn't raining
we'll shower him with sticks and
stones from this cave and we'll have
him. How's that for a trick?"
mot SO bad" barked the Fox. Its
worth trying. But 1 don't believe we
can make our voices sound like Mr.
TWistytail's or Uncle Buffers"
yes we cam said the Bob Cat.
We'll practice and we can talk
hoarsely as if we had colds. If IN
Gle Wiggily thinks there is some
thing funny about either of our
voices, we'll say it's a cold"
"All right said the Fox. So the
two Bad Chaps got ready to play
the trick on Uncle Wiggily. How it
turned out you shall hear in the
story tomorrow, which will be about
Uncle Wiggily and the trick. And !
hope the gas stove doesn't give the
rubber doll a pin cushion for pill
low or the poor thing will be too
stuck up to speak to the roller
skates.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16
Ito Be COntinued)
Dog Accidentally
Kills Boy Comrade

LOS ANGELES, April 16. U.P) =
Dickie Baird, 2, and Jerry, dog OF
nondescript ancestry, long were
pals.
Everyday Jerry would leave his
own home next door and come
barking over to Dickies, greeting
him as effusively as any dog will
his young master. They played,
romped, and, sometimes, ate toge-
ther. If a stranger spoke to Dickie,
the big dog would growl, cycling the
stranger suspiciously.
Dickie's mothe/ opened the front
gate for him one morning to play.
There was Jerry waiting as usual.
The dog leaped up to lick the boys
face. His huge paws caught Dickie
around the waist, tripped him. The
boy fell and lay still. His skull was
| fractured.
Today Dickie's heartbroken par
ents buried him.
Jerry is unconsolable. He mourn
fully wines about the house day
| and night.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16

saw this afternoon, driving by i'll
the storm?"
We'll, now, daughter said Mark
in his deliberate way, maybe I amt
seen EN- before. But they tell me
down the line apiece they was some
Polacks movin into the Old Joe
place!"
Into the Old Joe place!' ex-
claimed Doris. why, that's nothin'
but an old barn! They can't live
there-not in weather like this!''
"Well,' said Mark, that's what
they say all the same. And I hear
tell there's a smart young lad about
20 among 'em-bright-lookin', too,
they say
Jen looked up from her eating.
Perhaps because OF her fathers last
remark. Perhaps not. But she did
seem just the least bit flushed.
What = what are their names,
father?" she asked.
"JanoWski-if 1 remember Alright
Then after a pause, he added.
why, girl? Why do you ask?'
Jen busted herself eating again.
Il just wondered" she said. Il
! Just wondered-that'S ALL"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16

WASHINGTON, April l6.-Eniott
Roosevelt has decided never again
to challenge the fishing proves OF
his father, or anyway, not SO long
as his parent is President Of the
United States.
Among the public were many who
did not approve of Elliott's publish
ed remark that the President
couldn't be much Of a fisherman
because he hadn't caught any fish
on his West Indian vacation.
Many of those who did not ap-
prove have written the younger
Roosevelt. The burden Of their let
tiers, Elliott sorrowfully confides, is
about like this:
How dare you, young mani How
could you speak in such manner OF
your poor, hard working father
President Roosevelt will not be
dissuaded from writing books by
protests uttered by Senator Thomas
D. Schall, (Rep) Minnesota. The
Senator thinks the President is
making too much money-perhaps
Sl,000,000 a year in royalties. There
have been two books, Looking For
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16
Miners Killed
By CaUe-Ir

PLACERVILLE, Calf, April 16.
ADMINISTRATION of cave-in at
the Montezuma gold mine, II miles
south Of here, which resulted in
the death of two miners, was ex-
pected to get under way by state
mine inspectors today.
Pete Bebich, SO, was instantly
killed when a tunnel roof gave way
suddenly, burying him under tons
OF rock and earth. The other VIC
tim, Dick Walton, IS, died last
night at a Placerville hospital from
a crushed chest and internal in
juries. Ten other workers in the
tunnel narrowly escaped when the
caye-in occurred Saturday.
Rescue crews succeeded in dig
ging Walton out of the mass of de-
bris shortly after the accident. but
the body of Bebich was not reached
until yesterday. The mine is oper-
ated by the Utah-Apex company.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16
(WINTER)
Chapter 1

Jen Shaw left the baked potatoes
till the last. That was her way. Be-
cause if you took them out much
before you were ready to eat them,
they lost their snow-White inside
fluffiness. They became gray and
salvelike. So she waited until every
thing else was on the table-baked
beans with pork, molasses corn
bread, chilled parSnips fried in I'M
sailed butter, fresh warm milk for
Bunny and Johnny and steaming
hot tea for the grown-ups. Then in
her full, sturdy stride, she walked
to the kitchen stove and with a cute
little yellow holder which she her.
self had made, she opened the oven
door and stepped quickly back for a
moment to escape the first sudden
out-rush of heat. Then one by one,
she rolled the fat baked potatoes off
the CRATE and onto the big blue
platter
Supper she called.
And in they came-all six Of
them.
How good, she thought, to do the
cooking for the whole family. From
the very first day she came, her
Stepmother, Cora, had been all too
glad to let her assume proprietor
ship of the kitchen Doris, her STEP
sister of Seventeen-younger by two
years-was more flighty than Jen
and had never taken much to the
Kitchen. Her older brother Ollie
, liked to scrub around in the kit
chen, but since ne was home from
college on his Christmas vacation,
Jen somehow felt that it wasn't
quite right for him to have to help.
Her father, Mark, was of course
busy outside or doing other chores
around the barn or in the house.
And Bunny and Johnny were real
| ly too young to be or any substantial
help-although she did let them do
few little things, if they wanted
to, like sugaring the doughnuts or
| taking the apple jelly from its tum-
bier. Accordingly, there was no one
left but Jen herself And Jen was
glad of it.
So when they came trooping in
and seated themselves around the
| table with the red checkered table
cloth, it gave her an agreeable sense
of being useful, fine feeling of
really being needed. 1t had been a
cold and clustering afternoon out
side and all of them-with the eX-
ception Of Cora, who couldn't stand
the cold very well-had for one rea-
son or another been out of it.
MY, but those baked potatoes
sure do smell good, Jen,' exclaimed
Ollie. Don't get them much at
college, you know. Mostly its lumpy
mashed or leathery, lukewarm fried.
Jen smiled She liked Ollie. Ollie
was going to amount to something
He was different.
I'm glad, Ollie" she said quietly
Eat as many as you want. baked
a lot"
That's right, son." Mark put in.
'They give you bulk"
And as he said it, Mark plunged
fork into one himself. Mark was
a good solid man. He liked his child
rem. He liked to work during the
day to provide for them. And with a
days work done-and done we'll
Mark liked his supper table.
Say, Pop said twelve-year-old
Bunny, "who were those people
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16

that if he could find none near his
hollow stump bungalow he would
hop for the nearest one even if it
were mile away.
ANY time you see a shower near
your house and there is none near
my bungalow" Mr.. Longears used
to say to his friends, "just call me
up on the telephone. I'll hop right
over with my umbrella"
Thus it came about that several
times in the day, when Uncle Wig
gily was sitting at home in his bum
galow, wishing the rain clouds
would blow up, his telephone would
ring and a voice would say:
This is Twistytail, your fat pig
friend. There is a shower blowing
up near my house. Come on over
and get wet"
I'll be right there" the rabbit
gentleman would say; and away he
would hop with his umbrella, as
fast as could be.
Or it might happen that Mr..
Whitewash, the polar bear gentle
man would peer out Of his ice cave
and see a shower on the hill near
him. Then Mr.. WhiteWash would
call Uncle Wiggily up on the tele-
phone and ask:
"Is there a shower at your bun
galow, Wiggy?"
mo, I'm sorry to say there isn't
the rabbit gentleman would answer
well, there's one near my ice
cave" Mr.. Whitewash would tele-
phone. Come on over
And over Uncle Wiggily would
hop. All his friends knew how jolly
crazy he was about showers, and
every time they could they told him
where he could find one.
Now it happened that the Fox
and the Bob Cat heard about this
queer habit OF Uncle Wiggilys in
always wanting to be out in April
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16
AS THE
EARTH TURNS

LAS the Earth Turns one of the
best selling and best written books
of 1888, has been made into a mo-
ton picture by Warner Bros. 1t will
be presented soon at United Artists
theatre.
1t promises tie be an outstanding
film of 1884, the story being an eX-
ceptionally clean and wholesome
one and Warner Bros. have insist
ed that the picture remain true to
the story in every way.
An excellent synopsis of the story.
written so theatre patrons may get
a better idea of the picture, will be
printed by The Press, the following
being the first inssallment:
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16
HOLLYWOOD TRAGEDY

The pomp and glory of the movies is
continually placed before us. It's sordid
side pops up now and then but not all
ways in the same headlines that the for
mer receives.
There is the case of Karl Dane featur-
ed in the famous Big Parade of a de-
cade ago, as typical of the hard-fight-
ing, reckless, devil-may-care American
soldier
Few who saw the epochal film can ever
forget Dane part in it. He had been
taken from carpenter shop on one of
the film sets and given the role of an
actor. He made good. The inelegant
but characteristic tobacco eXpectoration
episode in the Big Parade" was intend
ed for comedy and it was comedy, but it
had its grim bit of pathos too. 1t stood
out as one of the big incidents in the pic
ture
1t made Karl Dane. He was sought
after for additional roles and all the
fame of a successful picture star was
his. He rode on the top wave of sue
cess.
Then came the talking films. 1t was
found that Dane could not be used in
them, a tragedy which was brought home
to the door of more than one who had
known success in the days of the silent
picture.
The new style of movies didn't need
Dane. He tried hard to hang on but
man can stand only so much. He even
had the courage to don his carpenters
apron once more and attempted to work
at his old trade but he couldn't even
get that sort of work.
Saturday he gave up the struggle.
Alone and in poverty he ended his life
with gun. The body of the man once
hailed as a Hollywood success, lies un-
claimed in morgue. Unless friends pre-
vent it, burial will be in a potters' field
The movies were cruel to Dane. He
was satisfied in his original role as car
penter but the movies saw a chance to
profit by using him. Having used him
they cast him aside.
He'll not be buried in a potters field.
Hollywood pride will see to that. Holly
wood charity might have prevented the
tragedy but it is too late now.
-O-
An earthquake is reported in Vermont.
Probably nothing more than over-full
maple sap buckets falling off the trees.
Youngsters are already beginning to
cast eyes ahead toward the close of
ccboO1
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16
Burns RecoDers
From Injuries

j. E. Burns, formerly co-proprie-
tor of the Brownbilt shoe store Of
this city, who was seriously injured
not long ago in an automobile &C
cident, has returned to Brawley.
Burns suffered two broken legs,
and cuts and bruises. He is now in
his home at Brawley and hopes to
be able soon to continue with his
preparations for opening a shoe
store there.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16
Don't Quote Me-
By United Press

ward" and ON Our Way" the lat
ter just out.
Writing for publication extends
beyond the President at the White
House. Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dali, the
Presidents daughter has written
for magazines since her father came
TO washington.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has
been conducting a domestic coun-
sci page in a women's magazine.
Elliott has been aviation editor
for a newspaper chain.
Louis McHenry Howe, No. !
White House secretary, was we'll
paid radio speaker during the first
months of the Roosevelt admins
tration. His connection with COM
mercial program aroused congress
sional criticism.
Before coming to Washington
Mrs. Roosevelt edited Babies; Just
Babies" a periodical.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16
DRINK WATER WITH MEALS
GOOD FOR STOMACH

Water with meals helps stomach
Juices, aids digestion. If bloated with
gas add a spoonful of Adlerika. One
dose cleans out poisons and washes
BOTH upper and lower bowels.
Clements Drug Store. adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16
CHEESE WON DIVORCE

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. U.H -
Mrs. Violet Van Awnings testi-
mony that her husband helc
strong cheese under her nose un-
til she became nauseated, won hel
a divorce in superior court or
grounds of intolerable cruelty.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16
Rental Group To
Meet Tuesday

Revision of the delinquent list is
the important business to come be-
fore the Rental Protective aSsoci-
alton at it's next meeting. Men,
bers who have additional names for
this list are asked to bring them.
The meeting will take place
Tuesday evening, April IT, at 7:30
o'clock in the chamber of COM
merce building.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16

Published every evening Except Sunday by The
Imperial Valley Press, Inc, 625 State street,
FL Centre California. W. c. Costello, business
manager. Telephone &c, business office; 700 edi-
torial department Full leased wire United Press
Associations
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16
EDITORIAL PAGE
and
FEATURES
BOY SCOUTS GET HELP

Businessmen of Ell Centric. as repre-
sented in the membership of the three
service clubs-Kiwanis, Lions and Ro-
tary-have come to the assistance of the
Boy Scouts and tomorrow will put on a
campaign for funds to carry on this i'm
portant work in FL Centre.
The Importance of the Boy Scout
movement is summed up in a few words
by nationally known educator who
says, THE Boy Scout organization is the
best insurance a boy can have, for it
helps him over the most dangerous time
in his life-the leisure time when he is
not in school or home"
Statistics show that most malicious
mischief in which boys are involved, and
which quite often turns into criminal &C
tivity, is committed during their leis-
ure hours. The Boy Scout movement
gives the boy wide field wherein he
may use, with benefit to himself, the
mental and physical energy which is the
heritage of every healthy boy, and teach
es him how he may use it to benefit him.
self in his present and future life.
The Boy Scout organization develops
initiative and resourcefulnesS in youths
and insures good citizenship. 1t develops
the boys physically, mentally and spirit
ually and is recognized force for good
in every community.
AS a developer of character, the Boy
Scout movement is given high praise by
educators, social workers, religious lead
ers and citizens in general.
The Importance of the Boy Scout
movement to Imperial Valley, where
normal recreational facilities and the op-
portunity to indulge in the activities
which attract boys are necessarily limit
ed, cannot be over-emphasized. 1t is
needed here more than in older settled
communities which have had the oppor-
tunity to develop adequate parks, play
grounds and other institutions for juve
nile recreation.
The businessmen of the city are to be
congratulated for giving their assistance
to this important work, and it is to be
hoped that they will receive the fullest
cooperation of the community.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16

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in advance. Entered at Ell Centro California post
Office as second-class matter Member California
Newspaper Publishers Association M c. Mogen-
son, national advertising representatives
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell of
Imperial Valley for This
Date In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
April 16, 1914

Sheriff Mobley Meadows return
ed this morning from Sharp's Head
ing where he spent the night and
reported everything quiet there.
Mexican soldiers stationed there
gave the assurance there would be
no. trouble as far as they were con-
cerned.
A jolly party of Ell Centre people
left last night for mountain climb
on Mt. Signal.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16

E. w. Richard, Hemet, Riverside
county, has been appointed dried
fruit buyer for the California Pack
ing corporation in Southern Cali
fornia.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16

Mr.. insult denies that he ran away
but he can't deny that he didn't want tt
come back.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16

A woman who smoked pipe all her
life died yesterday at the age Of 123
years. Which goes to show what hap
pens to those who insist on dissipating.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16
TEN YEARS AGO
April l6. 1924

Mike Westerfield of Riverside ar
rived in the city today on bust
ness trip.
The week of April 21-27 has been
set aside as Forest Protection week
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
April l6. 1919

April 10, 1913
A land owners meeting will be
held at the Barbara Worth hotel
next Saturday at II a. m.
S. L. Vaughn is a recent arrival
from San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16

An earthquake is reported in Vermont.
Probably nothing more than over-full
maple sap buckets falling off the trees.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-04-16

Youngsters are already beginning to
cast eyes ahead toward the close of
school.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-29
AT THE MOVIES
Joe Brown Has Comedy
Method All His Own

When it comes to comedy, there's
only one question, rs it funny?"
To this simple fact Joe E. Brown
owes his fame, his car, his prospects
and his bank account. The guy who
is now starring in the First National
picture, "A Very Honorable Guy" at
the Capitol Theatre, is really funny.
He started as a circus performer
but getting laughs on flying trap
eeze worked out badly for Joe, when
the head man dropped him fifteen
feet and kept on laughing. Then he
tried baseball but a pitcher mistook
his mouth for the plate and Joe took
his smile where it would be less like
" to injure him.
He has comedy method all his
own, which includes the use Of q
mouth the like of which has never
been seen on land or sea. It has got
ten to the point where Hollywood
smarties refer anyone looking for q
good opening-to Joes mouth.
"A Very Honorable Guy" is highly
amusing comedy based on the story
by Damon Runyon. There Is tai
ented supporting cast which includes
Alice White, Robert Barrat, Alan
Dinehart, Irene Franklin and Hobart
Cavanaugh.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-29
Blondes and Bandits
Mix in Film Thriller
By George Clark

With soft-hearted marines, OBJ
streperous blondes and cruel, hard
hearted, jungle-natives. Paramount's
action packed romance, Come On
Marines!", comes on Wednesday and
Thursday to the Paramount Theatre.
Richard Arlen. Ida Lupino, Roscoe
Harms, Grace Bradley, Monte Blue,
Toby Wing and Fuzzy Knight make
up the major part Of the cast, which
was directed by Henry Hathaway.
Come On Marines!" is a lusty,
high-spirited. comedy Of the adven-
lures Of soft-hearted leathernecks
with South American bandits and
members of the fair sex.
Warned against getting himself
into any more jams or his Officers
Training School application will be
taken back, Richard Arlen goes ashore
and runs s1nackdab into an old
dancehall flame.
He gets in bad with the general
and is sent back to the jungle to
again work his way up from the ranks.
His company gets q hurried call to
rescue some children from an exclu-
sive school who have been shipwrecked
on guerilla Infested island. They
rush to the scene Of action and find
the children are really grown-up
beauties.
No sooner do the marines land,
than the blondes have them well in
hand. Then the fun and the guns
start popping and nobody stops until
the last shot is fired. and both
the hattie and blondes won.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-29

TO preserve ancient manuscripts In
the Vatican library, two types Of cleo
trio air conditioning devices have been
installed, one drying the air In sum-
mer and the other moistening It In
winter.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-29

Loudon's oldest bank is Hoare's. It's
age Is uncertain, but there is IN exls-
tence receipt, dated 1883, for money
deposited there with Lawrence Hoare,
who was q goldsmith.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-29

An Aberdeen upholsterer bequeath-
ed $4,000 to Aberdeen University for
the foundation Of scholarships, a.
though he never earned more than
~ = Ye1k
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-29

Stepping on pedal on the back Of
. new long-haudled dustpan presses
It's edges tight against the floor to
receive III sweepings.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-29

Drowning persons do not always
come up three times; they may rise
many times or they may never come
up ct all.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-05-29

Palestine Is governed BY Great Bril-
tain under ! mandate granted BY the
xnom1o r ottonk
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-06-25
BOY, PAGE SOCRATES
By WTCKES WAMB0LDT

Honesty is the last thing that
most politicians want iii politics.
For if honesty should predomi-
nate in politics, most Of the pol
iticians would have 10 get out of
politics or completely change
their ways. Honesty should pre-
vail rigidiy. not only throughout
the federal government, but down
through the state, county and
municipal governments where at
the present time it is more con-
spicuous by lis absence than by
its presence.
Honesty, says Mrs. Roosevelt,
will do more than anything else
to put the new deal over in a
bio way. There never was a
tIuer statement.
Honesty commonly practised in
on. political and business affairs
would Of itself he a new deal, a
brand new policy, a brand new
treatment Of governmental and
commercial matters. and it would
cali Tor brand new personnel in
many angles Of life
Yet the job Of getting honesty
into our national life could be
ypeeded up and made effective
with less delay than YOU might
think, il our leaders would but
he honest. or if we would de-