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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-12-21

The Syracuse professors contention
that there was "too much femininity in
the saddle" was our first intimation
that Kate Smith was an equestrenne.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-12-21
L O O king
B a c k w a r d
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
December 21. 1915

Saturday afternoon the Palace
Theater was packed with children
who were each presented with a
sack Of candy by the manage
ment.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-12-21

Several hog ranches near Draw
ley were guaranteed yesterday.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-12-21

Radium is extracted from certain
kinds of pitchboard consisting large
" of uranium oxide.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-12-21

Smile: as spendthrift as an Italian
who drives his auto downhill without
turning off the motor.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-12-21

Prince Mdivani weds brothers ex-
wife. The heiress supply can't be as ex-
tensive as we thought
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-12-21

Mean" indicates "lowly" or "base."
Colloquial when used to mean cruel,
vicious, unkind, or ill-tempered.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-12-21
Correctly Speaking

Who is governor of Indiana?
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-12-21
GRAB BAG
What is an antitoxin?

What Roman general left his plov
to fight?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
OFFERED
BY JOHN REED CLUB
First of Series to Start
Tomorrow Night.

DR.. Alice Parsons, psychiatrist
and authority on child guidance and
health administration, will address
the John Reed Club at $50 to-
morrow night in the Castle Hall
Building, 230 E. Ohio-st, on Health
in Two Worlds"
DR.. Parsons, who is now engaged
in research in Chicago, has travelled
widely in Europe and especially in
the Soviet Union, where she spent
several months studying socialized
medicine, hygiene, and health adj
ministration.
DR.. Parsons talk is the first of a
series of 10 public lectures to be
given during the fall and winter
under the clubs auspices. Promi-
nent among the scheduled speakers
are Bishop Edgar Blake of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and
James Waterman Wise, scholar,
writer, and editor. Edward Dahl
berg, novelist, and Maurice Sugar,
Detroit labor lawyer, also will ap-
pear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
GAS HEAT HELD
NOT PRACTICAL
IN APARTMENTS
Owners Hear Reason Why
From Secretary of Old
Citizens Firm.

Use of gas to heat large apart
ments Is impractical at this
time, Frederic G. Rastenburg, sec
rotary Of the former Citizens Gas
Co.. said yesterday at a meeting OF
the Apartment Owners Association.
The official of the privately
owned utility. which was purchased
this week by the city of Indian
apolis, declared changes would have
to be made before city-Owned gas
could be used for heating the large
apartment houses Of Indianapolis.
Aided by motion pictures Mr.. Ras-
tenburg explained the manufacture
of gas from coal obtained in West
Virginia
The association discussed plans
for the establishment of a joint
purchasing bureau to reduce OPP
Grating costs Of apartment owners.
Roy johnson. attorney for the
Smoke Abatement League in In
dianapolis, reported that a series
of classes on fuel. heating and smoke
abatement would begin Sept. Is in
the Central Public Library.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
SOVIET UNION ERECTS
NEW TRAINING TOWER
Structure in Moscow to Be Used b.
Parachute Jumpers.
BIZ T-nitod PreSs

By United Press
MOSCOW, Sept. 12-Partly for
military training, partly for sport,
the Soviet Union is building in
Moscow steel tower some $50 feet
high, from which parachute jump
erS may be trained.
The tower, in pentagonal shape,
will have five platforms from which
parachute students may jump. To
simulate experience of making an
actual leap from a plane, the plat
forms will be made in the form of
an airplane cabin.
An elevator placed in the center
of the tower will carry jumpers to
the platforms. The tower also will
serve as a beacon for airplanes and
a mooring mast for dirigibles. Its
lights will be visible for 18 miles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12

laying down certain rules the stu
dents would have to follow, and if
they followed the faculty instead Of
our rules. We kept them off the
baseball team, and debating team"
RevOlts Against School Teachers
Even at that tender age Huey
Long knew how to build up a fol-
lowing and how to keep his follow
erS in line. And when the faculty
banned the secret order and ex-
PEELED him as a ringleader he took
action in a manner which was later
to become a fundamental part of
his political attack. He took his
case directly to the people. Mr.
Deutsch quotes him:
L was the one they had it in
for, because I had published a sheet
attacking the faculty members
every now and then, so I was the
one they expelled Before leaving,
though. 1 carried a petition over
the town, asking the removal of the
school principal who expelled me.
got it signed by a large majority
of the school patrons of the COM
munity. The school principal was
removed, but I did not 90 back to
school, 1 had run away from home
twice before, but each time they
caught me and brought me back.
This time I walked away and 1
stayed"
1t is matter of record that up
to his sixteenth year the lad at
tended church regularly, spent much
of his spare time setting type at the
office of the Baptist Monthly
Guardian, and did not use pro-
family.
Religious Under CompuIsion
While at home I was, under COM
pulsiOn, regular attendant of all
religious ceremonies" he says in his
autobiography. ON Sunday morn
ing about 9 we went to Sunday
school. Church services immedi-
ately followed. On the same Sun
day in mid-afternoon I went to the
church for the young peoples re-
lgiouS society meeting. On Sun
Gay night we returned for more
church services. On Wednesday
night we attended prayer meeting.
We went to every funeral within
10 miles Most of us read the
Scripture from cover to cover"
1t was about the time that he was
getting expelled from school, how
ever, that his father discovered that
Huey had taken to chewing tobacco.
He discovered it when a plug slipped
out OF the boys overalls on to the
spring seat of a wagon he was driv-
ing. The father picked up the plug
and muttered a strangely echoing
prediction. If you stay alive until
you are D." he muttered, 1T will
be the wonder of the world"
Huey Long lived twice that long
and before he died he had converted
his state from a backwoodS settle
ment into a modern commonwealth.
He had built paved roads and con-
crete bridges everywhere. He had
built 33-Story new capitol in
Baton Rouge. new buildings for the
state university, great bridge
across the Mississippi at New Or
leans.
Preparing for the future he had
built on the shores of Lake Pont-
chartrain the greatest land and sea
airport in the entire world. In the
seven short years that he had
charge Of things he lifted Louisiana
out of its nineteenth century ox-cart
past and made it a pushing. self
conscious part of today and tomor-
row.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
AWARD ROAD CONTRACT
Union Asphalt Co. Gets Paving
Project on U. S. 81.

Contract for the paving of 381
miles of U. S. Highway 81, through
Greenwood, has been awarded by the
State Highway Commission to the
Union Asphalt Construction Co., In
dianapolis, on a bid of S23, 493. The
road will be paved with rock asphalt
and reinforced concrete.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
CLOSES CONVENTION
Moderator Is Chosen as
Sessions End.

The two-day sessions of the In
dianapolis Baptist Association closed
last night in the Memorial Church
after the Rev. o. B. Sarber had
been elected moderator.
A former head of Indianapolis
missions, Mr.. Sarber is acting pas
tor of the Central Baptist Church.
AS moderator he succeeds George
F. Woody.
The constitution of the associa-
tons new permanent council was
formally adopted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
YOUTH HURT IN CRASH
Messenger Hurled From Bicycle
When Hit by Truck.

A broken pelvis and head inju-
ries were received yesterday by AL
vim Gentry, II, of 1885 Brookside-
av, telegraph messenger when he
was knocked from his bicycle in the
1900 block of w. 3Oth-st by truck
driven by Clyde Bridges, %, Negro,
2945 Martindale-a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
AUTO SHOW TO START
AT PLAYGROUND NOV. 9
indianapolis Exhibit Will Introduce
Latest Model Cars.

The annual indianapolis auto
show will be held Nov. Gle in the
Manufacturers Building at the In
diana State Playground, w. j.
Robinson, Auto Trade Association
president, has announced.
The 1886 model autos will be ex-
hibited here, Mr.. Robinson said, in
the second large auto show in the
country this year The New York
exhibition will start Nov. 2 and Chi
Cages show will be held Nov. 1928.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
COUNTERFEITINC
SUSPECTS HELD
Federal Agents Nab Four
Believed Members of
100000 Ring.
By Times Special

By mes Special
MISHAWAKA. Ind, Sept. 12.-
Federal Secret Service agents to-
day arrested four Mishawaka men
and one from Detroit as members
of a 100000 counterfeiting ring that
has been operating in New York,
Chicago and Detroit.
The prisoners are Danny Kolza,
40; Tony Misuraco, Al; Aldao Lom-
bardi, 50, and John Bonaldi, As, all
Of Mishawaka, and Vincenzo Bucci,
40, of Detroit.
The agents this afternoon were
searching for a counterfeiting press
which they believed the suspects
have concealed in the Kolza home
where the raids we're made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
Two Injured in Collision

Neil Durant, 81, of SAB N. Sem
ate-av, and Miss Edna Doher, 81.
of TIA Fayette-st, both Negroes.
were injured seriously yesterday
when their car was struck at 10TH
st and Stadium-dr by a truck driven
by William Robbins, 80, of 1742 S.
Meridian-st.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
Police Grill HOIdup Suspects

Detectives today questioned Ernest
Robinson, 425 w South-st, and
Warren Purvis, SAT Vinton-st, in
connection with the burglary on
Sept. 3 of a filling station at 401
Kentucky-av. A safe was lifted out
of the stations window and broken
open.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
FEMININE HITCH HIKER
OUTLINES LIST OF RULES
Don't Thumb Rides Is Advice of
Girl Who Travels 400 Miles Daily.

By United Press
TUCSON, Ariz., Sept 12.-These
are the rules of Miss Shirley Will
liams for hitch hiking:
Don't thumb rides. Don't travel
at night. Never ride in trucks or
on freight trains. Never accept
rides of less than 100 miles.
i make an average of better than
400 miles a day." she said. She says
that she has crossed the country
four times, and stopped here on her
fifth trip. She has contract with
Paramount when she gets to Holly
wood, she reported.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
SEEK TAVERN VANDAL
Police Search for Youth Who Used
Sling Shot TO Break Front Window.

Search was made today by police
for a Hoosier Peck'S Bad Boy who,
using a sling-shot, cracked the front
window of a beer tavern owned by
George Sutton. 1040 S. Vests
Seven ball bearings. used as shot,
were found BY Mr.. Sutton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
Faces Gaming Charge

Harry Mullen, owner of a barber
shop at 1O4 S. Illinois-st, today
faced charges of operating a gift
enterprise and violating the 1895
slot machine law following his ar
rest last night by Sergt. Carl Ash
ley. A slot machine was found in
his shop, police say.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
STRIKE FIGURE is DEAD
Manufacturer Lost Fortune in Long
Fight With Mad Hatters."
BIZ Lnited Press

DANBURY. Conn, Sept. 12.-
Dietrich E. Loewe, 83, hat manu-
facturer and central figure in the
famous Mad Hatters" strike of 1902,
died today from a complication of
ailments.
Once one of the most powerful
overlords of the industry, Mr.. Loewe
lost practically his entire fortune
during the mora than 10 years the
strike case went through the courts
to finally uphold his stand, and in
recent years his concern engaged in
but dribble of its former business. .
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
High School Trophies Stolen

Warren Central High Schools
most priced possessions, her athletic
trophies, were stolen last night by
burglars who also looted the schools
book store, G. E. Fash, principal, re-
ported to deputy sheriffs this after
noon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
BY EARL SPARKLING
Times Special Writer

He only AZ years old when he died and he born
in log cabin He probably the last tribune of this
republic who will claim that honor. He the old
America gusy strong and sefwed and he determined
the complex civilization America has become he
fit
Louisiana, except for glitterng, cosmopolitan New
Orleans at the mouth of the Mississippi primitive
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
ATTORNEY DEAD
Boston Lawyer Active in Defense of
Communist Pair.
BIZ United Press

By Hlfed Press
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass, Sept.
12.-William Goodrich Thompson,
10, Boston lawyer who figured
prominently in the defense of Sacco
and Vanzetti, world-known Com
munists, died of heart disease at his
home here today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
10000 THREATEN TO
JOIN TEXTILE STRIKE
Rhode Island Leaders Meet to Set
Date for WaIkOut.
BIZ United Press

PROVIDENCE, R. /, Sept. 12.-
United Textile Workers of America
will meet here tonight to set the
date for a statewide strike as
protest against the reported re-
fusal Of manufacturers to recognize
their collective bargaining rights,
Vice President Horace A. Riviere
announced today.
The strike would affect $4,000
employees in Rhode Island wooden
and worsted mills.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
NEW BETHEL EXHIBIT
TO BE COUNTY FAIR
Corporation Papers Amended for
Annual Exposition.

The New Bethel annual agriclA-
tural exposition will be known as
the Marion County Fair, according
to an amendment to corporation
papers made yesterday.
Association officers are Ray Fish
err, president; Harry Roberts, vice
president; Mrs. Mary Sutherland,
secretary treasurer, and Frank Ber-
ry and Clifford Walters, directors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
Hoosier Grows Six-Eared Corn

By JHitcd Press
LINTON. Ind. Sept. 12.-William
Meredith today was displaying an
ear of corn with six fully formed
ears growing from its base. The
entire husk weighed 26 ounces.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
Democrats to Hold Fish Fry

The ne-in-Twelve Democratic
Club will hold a fish fry for men,
berS and friends Sept. %.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12
HUEY LONG PROBABLY LAST
WORLD-FAMED AMERICAN
TO Be BORN IN LOG CABIN
Early Backwoods Struggle Gave Him Spirit
Of Revolt, Ambition for Power,
Love of Speechmaking.

IS the Of artc
BY
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-12

Assets aggregating more than
S12,OO0,O0O passed to the city Of In
dianapolis Monday when the city
became owner of the Citizens Gas
Co. Upper left is shown one of
the fuel storage elevators at the
plant. Upper center is one Of the
huge gas holders and upper right
is a view of the furnaces used as
a part of the gas manufacturing
process. Coke is a by-product of
gas manufacture and in the pic
ture dover Left is shown the
smouldering coke before it is con-
veyed to classifying bins. Coal
is fed into the furnaces through
the vase-like holders pictured
lower right.
The Washington times., 1935-02-19
Tea Today For
Mrs. Sanger

Mrs. John H. Howard will en-.
terrain at a tea this afternoon
from to z o'clock, at her home
in Twenty-third Street, in com.
pliment to her house guest, Mrs.
Howard Hubbell Sanger, of
Detroit, Mich.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sanger have an
nounced the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Frances
Margaret Sanger, to Mr.. Phil
brook Gushing, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William P. Gushing, of
Groton, Mass, and grandson of
Col. Harrison Howell Dodge. Of
this city.
Miss Sanger was graduated
from VaSSar in the class Of 1888,
and she is a member Of the
Detroit Junior League. Last
spring, she spent several months
in Washington.
Mr.. Cushing is a graduate Of
Groton, and he attended Yale
University and Massachusetts,
Institute of Technology.
Plans for the wedding are as
yet indefinite.
Mrs. Robert L. Houston Is ct
the Barclay in New York.
The Washington times., 1935-02-19
To Wed March IS

The marriage of Miss Ruth
Marian Quigley, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Quigley. of
Cleveland and Palm Beach, Fla.
to Mr.. Robert A. Moffett, son of
Mr.. James Moffett, Federal
Housing Administrator, Will
take place in Palm Beach on
Monday, March 25.
The wedding will be small
and will be held at the home
of the bride-elect's parents.
Miss Quigley will be attended
by Miss Constance Wadley
Bader, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis F. Stanton. Of Palm
Beach and Dover, Mass, and
Mr.. Moffett will have his father
as his best man.
Miss Quigley and Mr.. Moffett
met during the holidays when
the latter was with his father
and Mrs. Moffett in Florida on
their yacht, Bidou. Miss Quig-
ley made her debut last year
and attended school in France
prior to that.
Mr.. Moffett is now in Chi
cago.
The Washington times., 1935-02-19
Miss Palmer
Wedin NY.

Miss Laura Creighton Pal
mer, daughter of Rear Ad-
niral and Mrs. Leigh c. Pal
mer, was married in New
York yesterday to Mr.. Harold
Norman Henry, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Norman George Henry, of
Albany, N. Y, the ceremony
being performed by Supreme
Court Justice w. Hartman
Black, a friend of the bride,
in the presence of members of
the two families.
The bride wore an informal
powder blue dress of simple
lines, with large hat of two
shades of blue trimmed with
forget-me-notS and roses. She
carried a muff of real forget.
me-nots and sweetheart roses.
The brides only attendant
was Miss Eleanor Horton Tay-
lor, and Mr.. Francis Meade
Tompkins, Sd, acted as best
man for the bridegroom.
Inc ceremony was followed
by wedding breakfast in the
Sert room OF the Waldorf
Astoria.
Since he resigned from the
Navy, Admiral Palmer has
been living in New York. Miss
Palmer has been making her
home with her mother in
Washington and they left sew.
eral weeks ago for Florida.
Married in 1881 to Mr..
George Purnell MacGregor, of
New York, Miss Palmer OBJ.
tanned a divorce in Reno, Sep
TENDER S, 1884, resuming her
maiden name. She is a gradu-
ate of Spence School and
made her debut in New York.
Mr.. Henry and his bride will
make their home in Washing.
ton.
The Washington times., 1935-02-19
Cabinet Wives
To Receive

Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, wife of
the Secretary of the Interior,
will be "at home" tomorrow
afternoon from 4 until 6 o'clock
at her residence in Spring
Valley.
Those presiding at the tea
table will be Mrs. Claude A.
Swanson, wife of the Secretary
of the Navy; Mrs. Daniel c.
Roper, wife of the Secretary of
Commerce; Mrs. William Zim-
norman, jr., Mrs. w. w. Hus-
band. Mrs. c. w. KutZ, Mrs.
Roy Lyman Sexton, Mrs. Gene
We've Herrick and Mrs. Michael
Strauss. Miss Lois Walters will
assist the hostess.
Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, wife
of the Secretary of Agriculture,
will also receive tomorrow after
noon.
The Washington times., 1935-02-19

March 4, to be given in COM
pliment to her young kins-
WON an, Mrs. Frederick
Colby.
The Comptroller Of the
Post Office Department and
Mrs. William L. slattery are
among the most interesting
members of the Little Cabi-
net. They live at Kensing-
ton, Nd, not so much because
they like suburban life, but
because they are devoted to
their dogs, fine pedigreed
ones of which they are justly
proud, and want them to
have plenty of room to run
about in.
Mr.. slattery has lived
abroad practically since the
war, and it was there he met
and married his very charm
ing wife who is French. She
has a lovely olive complexion
and dark hair, and when I
met her at a tea Saturday
was wearing black velvet
with a turban to match.
With her husband, she has
travelled extensively, spend
ing much time in Egypt and
Turkey, as well as on the
Continent.
Mrs. Katharyn Fuqua, who
is one of Washington's pref
tiest and most attractive
matrons, is leaving very
shortly with her daughter,
Katharyn, for a several
months stay in New York,
during which they will be
widely entertained by friends
there.
Mrs. Henry Morgen-
than, jr., 1Uife of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury,
aOhO aOas accompanied to
the Violim recital By Yehudi
Menuhln at Constitution
Hall, Sunday, by her small
daughter, Joan, qOore a deep
purple crepe goaUn, the
coaOl neck made of a deeper
shade of satin. With this
she qU0re a ve1Vet beret to
match.
Joan 1Oas IN a frock of
rich bro1On Velvet, 4Uorp
.NnGer o. OLue coat 3O1th
darker blue VelUet ldpels.
The Peruvian Ambassador,
Senior Don Manuel de Freyre
y Santander, and his small
daughter, Peggy, were TAX
ing a walk in Connecticut
Avenue, Saturday, the former
looking very dapper in a gray
suit and hat, with a blue
shirt and darker blue tie.
Peggy chose blue for her cos
tune, a French blue coat,
made on tailored lines, with
a darker blue felt hat
trimmed at the side with a
tiny red feather.
Until tomorrow!
m 4 ~. \
The Washington times., 1935-02-19

outh. Aiken calls to the fashionable u t / n e
rustic and exclusive Its dirt roads, rural landscapes cabin
settings add to the peaceful atmosphere which prevails this
place where the population does exceed four thousand.
The Thomas Hitchcock family of county;
Mrs. Avere Clark the former Helen Hitchcock
hounds the local hunting field referred The Hitchcock
Woods and the polo field will history field
which Tommy Hitchcock, of the world pracced
Mrs Joseph Letter. with her daughter Thomas
the Washgonans who spend long intervals Aiken,
visiting Mrs Letters sister, Mrs. Huston Raws.
Mrs Eppes Halves Preston young
irons here is due to the resort at early date
Those who have winter there include Mrs Oliver
1sen Hamilton Fish Benjamin Thay the
Albert Zabrise Grays Each brings different families
mostly 'horsey folk for it's place unless know
thing about riding hounds that the chief sport
Magnolia Gardens Attract Visitors
The country this popular South Carolina
uresque and lovely with tobacco fields extending far
rona resort which famous for its old Colonial history