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Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-14

Britisher, a man who has looked
death in the face dozen times, and
looked at it with eyes that didn't
quaver, hands that didn't shake In
that mad, roaring whirl down the
sands the $4,000 will see the person.
ification of spirit, of daring, and
the will to carry on, no matter the
hazards.
And the $4,000, when it is all over.
will go away and say they have
seen Sir Malcolm Campbell. But
they will have seen only one side
the daredevil side of a man lifted
out of himself, man transformed
by his mania for speed and ad-
venture.
They would never recognize this
Campbell as the Campbell of the
ping pong table, now teaching his
1l-year-old daughter, Jean, the way
to make backhand shot, now sour
rying under tables and chairs for
bouncing balls. Nor would they rec
ognize him as the Campbell of the
hotel room, when the days work is
done. Then he is just slight, mid
ole-aged man, bit worn by it all.
Nothing of the speed king there, as
he sits, glasses perched on his nose,
catching up with his correspond
ence, going over his accounts.
Has Quiet Home
Nor did he look like the worlds
premier racer when found him at
his beautiful old Elizabethean home
Povey Cross, Surrey, last summer.
There, surrounded by the things
dearer to him than all the speed
records in the world, he looked a
typical gentleman farmer. AS he
walked about the little golf course
behind his home teaching his son,
Donald, to play the game, he SEEM
ed forever removed from the roar
ing road that has claimed SO many
of his friends. And it was hard to
picture the man riding down a
country lane on a delapidated bicy-
Gle, as the only individual alive who
has travelled over land at speed
in excess of 200 miles an hour.
Inside his home one felt even
further removed from the speedway,
for it Is home of quiet, and dig
nifty, and exquisite taste. His chief
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-14
CENTRAL HAS
FIRST TRYOUT
Of TRACKMEN

Track try-outs yesterday found
Central high school weak in class A,
fair in class B, with class c show
ings problematica1, according to
Coach w. s. Taylor of Central Un-
ion high school, who is conducting
final trials today in order to select
the team which will compete against
other valley high schools as well as
several coast schools in the relay
carnival to be held at Holtville on
Saturday.
With Kirkpatrick and Hernandez
gone, 13 sure points have been drop
ped, it was stated, leaving Dilbeck
as the only sure fire candidate in
the A division.
No other prospects were men
toned by Taylor. Final selections
will be announced pending the out
come of today's trials.
In addition to regular track men,
football lettermen will work out to-
day in preparation for the foot
ball relay in which each of four
men will run 100 yards dressed in
complete football equipment. -
Other interesting events on the
carnival program will be the ap-
pearance of five San Diego State
college track and field stars who
are scheduled to give exhibitions in
their favorite events. Among these
men is Jack Rand, N. c. A. A. pole
vault champion of the United
States, and Jack Dawson, Southern
Conference broad jump record hold
er.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-14
SANTA ANITA
RACE RESULTS,

SANTA ANITA TRACK, Feb. Ia.
(SpeciaD - Results of yesterdays
races; weather, cloudy; track, fast.
FIRST-$8O0, 4-year-olds and up
ward, California foals, rs miles.
Proud Hills, 103 22.4O 1000 $40
(Albrecht)
Parawick, 106 (Colpitts) $40 800
SalZ, los (Wielander) 4.40
Time, 1853. Westire, Moon Rose,
Warning and Irish Peer also ran.
SECOND - $1500, added. The
Santa Susana, 2-year-old fillies,
three furlongs.
Dunlin Lady, 119 14O0 7.60 4.80
(SaunderS
Rattlebrain, l19 1900 800
(Richards)
Reelon, 119 (Westrope) $40
Time, "a. Lady Florise, Blaze
Home, Two Bob, Totness and Santa
| Anita also ran.
THIRD-$8OO, 3-year-olds, seven
furlongs.
Polar Flight, lis $50 2.40 2.60
(Schutte)
Shining Jewel, III $40 4.80
= (Richards)
Watonga, Ill (Saunders) 10.40
Time, l:24 3-5. The Mauler, Car
manchita, Beadwork, Alice Byrd,
Deer Fly, Diavoless, and Deputa-
ton also ran.
FOURTH-$800 claiming, 4-year-
olds and upwards, six furlongs.
Cutie Face, l09 1910 $40 $40
(SaunderS)
Risky Miss, 103 CKing) $50 $50
Carlsbrooke, 101 KurtsingeD 2.60
Time, Ill As. Madwind, Little
Son, Gaillardia, Ina Count, Master
Toney and Jazz Band also ran.
FIFrH-$l,OOO, The San Diego
Handicap, 3-year-olds and up, one
mile.
Sweeping Light, 2O.8O 800 24O
100 Haas
Equipoise, 1913 (Workman) 2.40 2.20
Ted Clark, Ill (Richards) 2.40
Time, 1:36 3-5. Frank Ormont,
Spicson, Mad Trump, Bissagos and
World Series also ran.
SIXTH-$800, claiming, 4-year-
olds and upwards, Lie miles.
Regardless, ITO 800 $3.50 300
(Westrope)
Arson, 100 (Gray) $40 $50
Joe Flores, 1l3 (Richards) 400
Time, LAS l-5. Miss Corrine. Bar
ry, Even Up and Boy Valet also
| ran.
SEVENTH - $500, claiming, A.
year-olds and upwards. LIE miles.
WinSloW, l16 1880 $50 400
(G.Burns)
Athol, 112 Outher) 4.20 800
Brains, lot (Colpitts) 800
Time, l:46. Portcodine, Prince
Tokalon, Eighth Pole, Flower Day,
Publication, Cerveza, Faux Pas. Fair
Boy and Spud also ran.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-14
Ranage Rounding
Into Good Shape

LOS ANGELES, Feb. IA. Wp) -
Lee Ramage, San Diego heavy
weight, will be in perfect condi-
ton for his bout with Joe Louis
here February 81, Trainer Jimmy
O'Grady declared today.
After long workout in Los An
geles gymnasium, Ramage today
moves his training quarters to an
outlying gym at Culver City.
Meanwhile Louis has been Civ
ing his training partners a hard
beating. Yesterday he knocked out
Bobby Milsap through the ropes
with right cross to the chin af-
ter bruising him for several rounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-14
Camera To Meet
Ray In,peUettiere

NEW YORK, Feb. IA. U.H-Pri-
mo Cameras search for a fight
was ended today as he and Ray
Impellettiere went into training for
their super dreadnaught" match
which will take place February %.
The Madison Square garden ring
will groan under more than a quar-
ter of ton when they square off.
The ponderous Italian, beginning a
march over the long, Cough trail
he hopes will lead back to the hea-
vyweight championship he lost to
Max Baer last June, weighs 268
pounds and stands feet 6R.
This time he won't look down
upon the top of an opponents head
for THE Imp" is an inch taller and
will weigh only five pounds less.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-14
BY HENRY McLEMORE

United Press Staff Correspondent
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Feb. ID.
Within a few days upward of
$4,000 people will choke with awe
on the dunes of Daytona Beach as
a little man in a big automobile
gets out on the beach to challenge
death.
The $4,000 will see in the little
man a coiled spring in cockpit;
man with eyes as blue as dia-
monds in the sun and just as hard.
AS he blazes past their vision. his
head bobbing ABOVE Blue Birds
steel and thunder, Sir Malcolm
Campbell will be a man wrought
from whipcord and whalebone; a
man without nerves.
They will see, in the wiry little
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-14

hobbies, aside from speed, are an
tiques and gardening.
And Sir Malcolm didn't look the
part of daredevil last night as
he sat at the ringside of q wrest-
ling match, laughing at the antics
OF the groaning pachyderms. Sitting
there under the floodlights, which
brought out the gray in his hair.
the lines in his face, it didn't seem
possible that few days would see
him riding thunderbolt across the
earth in search of speed that will
devour a mile in IL seconds.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-14
ITALY DEFERS TO JAPAN

ROME, Feb. IA. U.p)-In a "spir-
it of Olympic chivalry toward ia
pan and Asia generally" Italy will
waive its claims to be host for the
1910 Olympic games, SO that the
games can be awarded to Japan to
coincide with the 2,6OOth anniver-
sary of the empire. In return, Italy
expects to play host in 1914 The
Olympic committee meets at Oslo
February 25.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-14

commissioners held made equate
training responsible for Firpo's ILL.,
ness, which prevented the fight
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-14
BOARD CLEARS FIRPO

CHICAGO. Feb. Ia. tUP)-The Il
linois boxing commission cleared
Young Firpo and his handlers yes
terday of suspicion that the
Philadelphia junior welterweight
boxer was drugged last Friday be-
fore scheduled match with Frank
Saglio of Chicago.
Chemical analysis of contents of
Firpo's stomach revealed no drugs,
commission physicians said. The
Evening star., 1935-02-03

except on his nights or. Then he did not
return until morning.
What was he afraid off" asked Pop "why
that chain lock on the door? And UNDER
stand he seldom left the house"
"Mr. Norton was very peculiar man. Gar
field answered. HE didn't confide in me, of
course, but his orders very definite
was never to admit any one to the house with
out first asking him. The lock on the door
when was engaged by him."
did he have many vsitors?"
practically none. The only one can
member is his brother, Mr.. Charles Norton
But he hadn't called for several months L
rather think they didn't care much for each
other. Not like real brothers at all"
Him." said Pop. You often go on benders
like that?"
"I beg pardon?"
"You often get drunk like that?"
"oh, no. sir" replied Garfield. "I just had
. glass too many. A little relief Working for
Mr.. Norton was very trying, at times"
did you have key to the door?"
mo, sir. Mr.. Norton had the only key"
DRYANT joined in the questions and when
- the butler was finally dismissed he said to
Pop: well, what do you think of it?"
Pop shook his head. There's couple Of
things don't look exactly right to me. Matthews
and his men think Norton killed by some
body who got into the house to rob it. But T
don't know. Look at the way he was beaten
It wasn't necessary to do that And this fell
low Garfield. He's got an alibi all right But
that's just the point. I'm always leery of the
man with a pat alibi."
What do you mean?" asked Bryant. "The
time of death shows that Garfield was being
lugged out of that bar room when-"
That's just It," interrupted Pop. Garfield
didn't kill him. His alibi proves that But why
the alibi? If he didn't need it, why did he
have it?"
Il can't follow you" said Bryant.
"Look at it this way answered Pop. Gar
field said he's no rummy Yet on the one
night he needed to be some place else he gets
drunk and locked up. The homicide squad
men have been through Norton's papers and
accounts and they found cancelled checks show
ing that he a regular contributor to the
Anti-Saloon Society. Do you think he would
have stood for butler who drank"
Bryant nodded. "I see what you're
driving at" he said. you think Garfield
knows something?"
"If he doesn't I'd like to know why he had
that alibi" answered Pop.
How about his room?" asked Bryant Have
they frisked it?"
mot thing there" answered Pop "Of
course, they weren't really looking for any,
thing And they're trying to locate the
brother. What's his name-Charles?"
Pop paused for a moment. "You know,
that's funny thing" he continued. There
plenty of Cancelled checks there that had
been made out to his brother. And yet Gar
field says they didn't hit it off " Again he
Evening star., 1935-02-03

drawing wisdom from the well Of experience.
had certain definite ideas and suspicious.
So far, however, he had been unable to trans
late them into action. His shoes were off and
he was carefully rubbing his feet. They were
large feet, large and sturdy in clean gray socks.
But they had failed Pop. Forty years of police
work had broken their arches, fattened them
and left them with odd protuberances and
tendency to swell with pain.
Another man would have quit, would have
rested after 40 years on the pension he had
earned. But not Pop. There still life in
him and brain in him, a brain filled with
names and faces and thousands of old bits Of
time collected information. And there was q
human heart in him, too
When he heard the Pop, oh Pop of the
calling phone clerk, Pop drew on his shoes and
grunted as he laced them. "All right" he
beloved I'm not deaf"
The clerk gave him the few facts he had
been able to get from the excited patrolman
and Pop set out.
Patrolman Winwood opened the door as Pop
came up the steps. With q few words of ex-
PLANTATION he led the way back into the living
room. Pop examined the body, which lay near
the overturned chair beside the desk.
His heads beaten to a pulp" said Pop. He
Strengthened up and looked around. Forty
years had not dulled his true policeman's hatred
for murder such as this.
! his partner as a detective, came in on the
run. "Whoever did it left by the front door,"
Pop said. 1--WE tried all the other doors and
windows and they're locked on the inside. From
the way it looks he must have been sitting at
his desk when he got It, Probably from behind.
The first one, anyway.
"Winwood says he seldom went out and had
only one servant, a butler. Just as starter
we'll check on him. Funny sort of fellow.
Norton I mean. Winwood says he always
locked UP himself at night and wouldn't open
the door for the Lord Almighty. But some
body opened it,"
Then the homicide squad, who came from
headquarters and were, oddly enough, jealous
of Pop, came marching in, five of them with
Lieut.. Matthews in command. He answered
Pops greeting with a nod and kept nodding
as first Winwood and then Pop told what little
they knew. Then, "All right, boys" he said,
and they got busy.
When they left the house, leaving a uni
formed patroman to guard it, a general alarm
had gone out for the butler
1t was the next afternoon before Pop had
chance to question him. That was after the
drunk and disorderly charge on which he was
being held had been summarily dismissed so
that the homicide might first question him
after he had come to in the station house and
revealed his identity.
The butler able to give little information
OF any real value. His name was Garfield, he
said. He had been employed by MIR. Norton
Tor eight years and knew of no enemies his em-
ployer had He explained that he was the
only servant and that he slept in the house
Evening star., 1935-02-03

A walk of three blocks took him to
the street line where he waited,
an inconspicuous figure in dark overcoat. He
rode nearly q mile into the center of the city
and got of. Simpson was waiting for him at
the corner.
Simpson asked, "How Is hep" The butler
replied He said he was going to read while.
Hell probably be up" Simpson looked at his
watch. "An right" he said, Get going"
The butler walked on. Simpson boarded
street car and rode back in the direction from
which the butler had come.
He retraced the buffers journey and nearly
an hour after the latter had left the house
Simpson was jerking the old-fashioned pull bell
A wait and then q mufhed voice called, Who
Is it?" Simpson said "Open up"
The door opened and a man in brown
dressing gown said, "Oh it's you?"
who the hell did you think it WASP" asked
Simpson.
He pushed his way in. ignored the others
"what's the matter?" and went into the living
room. He noted the drawn shades and then
suddenly pointed to one.
whats the idea of leaving the window
Open?" he asked.
The man in the brown dressing gown turned
his head. Simpson brought the concealed
blackjack down. The man crumpled, but
Simpson caught him before he fell. He eased
the body to the floor. Then his blackjack rose
and fell again and again.
fine sweat was breaking out on his body
when he paused and listened There was no
sound. He went to the front door, fastened it
and then came back He began dragging the
body toward an old desk in the corner of the
room.
THE butler was drunk He was loquaciously
and pugnaciously drunk Whisky had slop-
ped onto his clothing and twice the bartender
had warned him that If he kept it up he'd be
thrown out.
The butler demanded to know who was going
to throw him out and threw glass at the bar
tender. It shattered against the mirror over the
bar.
The butler wasn't thrown out. He was drag
ged out by two policemen, fighting every foot Of
the way. He wasn't handled gently when he
was finally thrown into a patrol wagon and
later into . cell.
"In get his name in the morning." said the
turnkey Hes too drunk to tell it now" The
butler, collapsed on the cell bunk began to
snore.
That was at 9:03 pm. by the station house
clock. The turnkey was certain of that later
And so was the sergeant in charge of the sta
tion house desk. There was no doubt about it,
The time was 9:03, just IL minutes after Patrol
man Winwood following his usual custom at
the request of Mr.. Norton, tried the door of the
latters home, found it open and, flashing his
light, went in. 1t was two minutes later that
Patrolman Winwood telephoned his own pre-
cinct station house.
Winwood was young and new at his lob It
was the first time he had seen deaths handi-
work in violent form. The clerk had difficulty
in understanding him and told him to take it
easy" Then the clerk understood and said
"Au right, you'd better stick there. The pre-
cinct men will be right up"
He took OF the headpece and called "Pop
oh. Pop. Old man Norton's been murdered"
DOP HANSON was resting himself Only he
wouldn't have called it that. He would have
said that he was preparing report on recent
outbreak of local burglaries about which pop.
Evening star., 1935-02-03

HE butler said Good night" and
closed the door behind him. The
chained bolt ratified into place. He
grinned and went down the steps.
A walk of three blocks took him to
The Washington times., 1935-11-29
Do 1t Now!

Now that you've dgeed that big Thanksgiving dinner you
can your foresight and consideration for others by getting
down to the pleasant business of doing Christmas
shopping.
We're heading right into the Christmas season now and
your shopping going be pleasure had better be done
right away
Of course you really enjoy getting caught in that last
minute crush being pushed and maud by thousands Of other
puersof getting only the remnants Of the fine stocks
that Displaying why the thing to do to
resist all opportunities to do the job now.
BUT IF YOU LIKE A LITTLE SPACE WHEN YOU
SHOP If YOU LIKE TO HAVE FIRST CHOICE OF THE
ARTICLES YOU WANT TO BUY IF YOU WANT TO KEEP
THAT SHINE ON YOUR SHOES FOR FEW MINUTES,
WHY THEN YOU'LL GET OUT THAT SHOPPING BAG
TODAY AND GET 1T FILLED.
The upturn in business particularly in Washington insures
that this is going to be busy shopping
In day the checks Of the Christmas Savings Clubs
to the amount Of about $5000000 will be out and lot Of
that money going be poured right into Christmas shopping
So don't get caught in the rush.
Do your shopping you
Both you and those for uUhOn you are shopping uiu
benefit.
The Washington times., 1935-11-29
The Human Side of the News
Bv EdlCin C.. Hill

IAN open boat from Burton Point
for the islands.
Only four miles from home were
they, by o short route through a
dangerous channel. But only one
returned, one Of the 20; one
Of a family of eight which was on
the boat.
That melancholy story will be
told as Patrick Gallagher tells II
today.
"All went well until we reached
the narrow part of the sound. My
father decided to take a short cut
There was a heavy squal and
he shouted to shorten sail, as the
boat was driving fast. But before
we could act, the boat struck q
rock and we all were thrown into
the sea.
Mine were left clinging to the
boat when it swung around.
ONLY ONE RETURNS
"Others I saw in the water
throwing up their hands and cry
ing out as they went under.
"The next thing I remember
was a high wave coming in and
sweeping five away from the boat,
and then another wave, which left
only my father, my brother
Michael and myself.
I'VE shouted ourselves hoarse,
but nobobdy heard us. We held
on desperately in the darkness
until at last my father was over
come, and I cried out to God as
I saw him swept away.
II clung fast to my brother
Michael throughout the night and
when light appeared I saw a
house on the island.
II shouted hard and the people
heard me. But Michael, who had
gripped me, had been cold for a
long time"
The church bells toll on
1nisheer, IniShmaan and IniSh.
more. The black-shawled women,
old before their time, walk silent
ly. with a far-away look in their
eyes. The sturdy fishermen fol-
low after, speaking, If at all, in
subdued Gaelic.
A melancholy people? Does
anyone wonder why?
Copyright, 1888. by King Features
Syndicate)
The Washington times., 1935-11-29
MEN OF ARAN

The playwright John M. Synge
in his Riders Of the Sea" and
"Playboy of the Western World"
gave us stirring dramas Of the
story of the Aran Islands. Last
year Robert Flaherty, the motion
picture director, came along with
a remarkable picture Of Man of
Aran" to do for the screen what
Synge had done for the stage.
The islands are three, Inisheer.
IniShmaan and IniShmore and the
inhabitants are 1000 Irish men,
women and children, manning the
last outpost Of Gaelic speech and
traditions. They live on the three
rocks in the sea at the mouth Of
the Bay of Galway.
The storm, the fog and the
stone are bred into them. Since
the dawn Of Christianity, and long
before, they have fought the ele-
ments.
Their whitewashed cottages Of
stone and plaster are scattered
about on the limestone formations
which rise from 200 to 800 feet
above the angry Atlantic.
No living thing, save an indomit-
able race, such as the Aran Island
erS have proved themselves to be,
could exist on the black, wet rocks
which know neither tree nor grass
nor flower.
MELANCHOLY PEOPLE
To be sure, there is grass, but
only because the islanders have
cultivated it in small patches to
provide fodder for the cattle and
soil for the meager supply Of po-
tatoes.
The Irish, on the whole, are a
melancholy people whose sweetest
songs are those which tell the sad
dest things"
Nowhere is this melancholy more
intense than it is among the men
of Aran in their homespun and
Tam o. Shanters, and the women
of Aran in their black shawls.
With it goes the folklore, the
stories of the spirits which walk
the cliffs at night, or which in
habit the ancient fortress of the
old Scottish chieftain, or the
ruined monastery of the saints.
For be it known that Aran was
the retreat Of religious teachers
and ascentics who, in the early
days of Christianity, set forth
from its bleak rocks to spread the
gospel through Europe. Synge, in
the years he spent on Aran, had
the strange sense Of exile and
desolation." He wrote:
II walk around the island nearly
every day. yet I can see nothing
anywhere but a mass of wet rock
a strip of surf and then a tumult
of waves"
Fifty years from now another
Synge, or a like spirit. will sit be.
fore turf fire in Aran and hear a
native tell in mournful Gaelic the
tragedy of a night in November,
1885.
It will be the story of the 20
harveSters, who returning from
the fields in Scotland, set out In