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Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03
Don't Quote Me-
CBy United Press

CALIFORNIA; Central valley, one en-
bracing the New River in West Vlr-
ginia, and others taking in the wa
bash and White rivers OF Indiana
and the Arkansas river IN tne
southwest.
Congressional prospects are pref
ty dim for these step-children OF
the Tennessee experiment until the
IVA fight is over.
The proposals have hardly peen
mentioned since the IVA paOCie
began last winter.
The taxpayers dollar is spent by
the government for many things.
For instance, the report sent
back from Calcutta, India, by
George c. Howard, trade commits
sioner, stationed there to proyide
U. S. business men with pertinent
facts on the trade situation.
Howards report has TO do with
the state of the Indian motion PIC
ture industry. He advises that Tor
the first time in Indian history
star is being paid 100000 rupees for
a single picture. That's about
$36,000 in American terms.
The money is going to a Madras
stage actress. But no Garbo-Die-
trich- Crawford role is in store for
her. The Indian movie nabobS are
putting up the 100 grand to. see her
play the leading male role in the
Dicture.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03
Local Women VIII
Attend Conference

Meeting for the annual summer
conference of the Federation Of
Women's clubs, women of the sec
ond district will gather at Hotel
Del Mar on July 10. The confer
ence will last two days, adjourn
ing on July Il.
Reports of the state conference
recently held in Santa Barbara will
be given and Mrs. Clark AcEuen
of Riverside will conduct a forum
at which the following questions
will be discussed: Cd How can we
maintain our position in competi-
ton with the many specialized Or
ganizationS which are rising? (2)
How can we protect ourselves from
mob psychology and guard the in
tegrity of our opinions? CD How
can we gain security for our fed
Grafton by drawing into service
competent material for future lead
erShip?
Women from El Centro who plan
to attend are Mrs. F. D. Jacobs,
Mrs. Warren Currier, Mrs. Ray Ed
gar.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03
NEWS OF M'CABE DISTRICT
Dorothy Paine, Staff Correspondent

Angeles on Saturday in order to
arrange for the shipping of her
furniture to the valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Cook were
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Stall on Sunday
George Yukawa and r. Kodama
motored to San Diego on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs Irwin Morales of
Escondido visited Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Rodriguez during the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs Curtis Anderson OF
San Diego were visitors of E. N.
Frame and family on Sunday.
Mrs. Fred Sunstrom accompanied
by Bill and Frances motored to
Arcadia on Wednesday. Mrs. Sun
strom and Bill returned to the val
ley Sunday while Miss Frances re-
mained with relatives.
The many friends of Bill Paine
will be glad to know that he is
able to be about again after his re-
cent sickness.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD E. GARRIS
1a9S

much noise. But the big. banging
bombs made him jump like a pussy
cat when she hears a dog bark.
knowing the danger of burns from
firecrackers and torpedoes and
sometimes even from paper caps in
toy pistols, Uncle Wiggily never let
his bunny boys and girls have any
of these things. 1t seemed very
hard to them and they weren't very
happy when they knew that other
children were going to have big
cannon crackers and big torpadoes
and other things with which to cele-
brate the day.
But Safety First is my idea of
Fourth of July" said Uncle Wiggily,
and so it went. When morning came
the first thing the rabbit gentleman
and his wife and Nurse Jane did
was to stuff cotton in their ears
Then they were ready for all the
noise that could sound.
And there was plenty Of noise
made by the bunny boys and girls.
Uncle Wiggily got them hundreds
of paper bags and when these were
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03
OAKLAND HAS
FINE: RECORD
FOR SAFE T !
Aeo9~E/

Oakland. city of 100000 popUla-
ton, claims the best traffic record
Of any city of its size in the United
States. During an entire month
there was not one automobile
death on its streets.
The safety record is the result of
a crusade begun in 1923 by the
Eastbay Safety Council, which has
resulted in a complete unanimity
of law enforcement organizations
and civic groups in the desire to
halt the traffic death toll.
Police Chief Bodis A. Wallman
credits the record to these actiYl-
ties:
Cooperation OF individual police
men in carrying out orders that all
"beat men," whether in traffic or
not, issue tags to violators. Tho
traffic force is moved from point
to point as accident records re-
quire.
Strong support of the courts. In
1888, the court fines averaged $500
a month; SO far in 1885 the aver
age has been $4,000
A varied and continuous safety
education program. including traf-
fic schools for minors, where youth
full violators are sentenced" TO
learn the law and their own re-
sponsibility.
Unofficial" citations by a CORPS
of employment relief workers sta
toned at busy points TO watch vio-
lations. Run-of -the-mill yiolatOrs
are sent caution letters; others are
brought to court for lectures.
Nobody has a tag squared"
To date, in 1885, there have been
25 deaths. Last year, for the same
period there were 35.
Regardless Of how offending
drivers may feel about it. the rec
ords prove there can be lives saved
by intelligent planning and rigid
law enforcement commented j.
C. Mcpherson, president Of the
Safety Council. whatever en-
barrassment or inconvenience the
program may have caused, the re-
suits more than justify the effort"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03

RoIie Clark accompanied C. H.
Small and family to San Diego on
Saturday. While there, they with
other valley friends, met at the
home of Mrs. Imogene Peterson
and her mother. Others who were
present were Mesdames Ethel
Stuart. George Russell, M. z.
Downing, Frank Fisher, Rollle
Clark and Messrs. Harry Cooper
and Frank Fisher.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Osuna, Mrs.
Andrea Osuna and Joe Rodriguez
drove to Valley Center on Sunday
to attend the funeral of Mrs. Osun-
as niece. Mary Peters.
E. N. Frame, accompanied by
his small son, Curtis, and his faith
er-in-laW, Charles Anderson, OF
San Diego returned to the valley
on Thursday.
Miss Marie YukaWa was hostess
TO about 25 young people on sun
day. It was a Christian EndeaVor
gathering. They had a picnic sup
per on the Yukawa lawn and spent
the evening playing games.
John Sumner who has been at
Altadena for the past week, re-
turned home on Wednesday.
The Pinochle Gesellschaft meets
with Mr. and Mrs. James Forester
on Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. f. Alexander of
Redondo accompanied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Andy GROCER and daughter of
st. Louis were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Evan Hewes recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Hershell Grandy
and daughter, Berta Mae, enter
tained at their Jacumba cabin the
following guests: Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
La frankie, Mr.. and Mrs. Charley
Clusek, Oliver Royce, Donald NC
Elhaney Arlene Allen.
Mildred Frohley spent the week
end with the Camp Fire girls at
Laguna.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Martin and
family left Saturday for Los An
geles where they will spend the
summer.
j. E. Brock was a dinner guest
Sunday of Mr., and Mrs. George
Austin.
Mrs. Rose Hickey drove to Los
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03
WEDNESDAY-JULY 3, 1885.
UNCLE WIGGIL-
UNCLE WIGGILY'S FOURTH
OF JULY

Though the humming bird had
taken some OF Uncle Wiggily'S ear
cotton and though the rabbit gem
tleman had given some to his wife
and Nurse Jane TO put in their ears
so they wouldn't hear the Fourth
Of July noises, the rabbit gentle
man still had plenty of the fluffy
stuff left for himself.
Though I wouldn't, if were you,
Wiggy" his wife said to him, I
wouldn't stuff cotton in my ears
until the noises start
I'll take your advice" said Uncle
Wiggily. THE Bob Cat nearly
sneaked up on me when had
cotton in my ears yesterday for
practice, as I was hopping through
field, If it hadn't been that the
humming bird, wanting some cot
ton for his nest, pulled it out of my
ears. I never would have heard the
Bob Cat in time to get away"
So came the day before the
Fourth of July and even then some
who could not wait for the right
time began shooting off firecrackers,
firing guns and banging of torpe-
does.
Z guess III have to start putting
cotton in my ears now." said Uncle
Wiggily TO his wife.
Couldn't Wait For 4th
"Oh, wait until tomorrow, the
real Fourth" she advised. This
noise will soon stop
And it did. Though, as it grew
dark. some skyrockets and some
Roman candles, sent up by others
who couldn't wait, made streaks OF
fire in the sky. Uncle Wiggily liked
fireworks if they didn't make too
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03
SAVES STARS LIFE

HOLLYWOOD, July 8. U.H -
Olivia de Haviland, screen actress,
today disclosed that Elmer Fryer,
studio portrait photographer, saved
her life at Laguna Beach when
she was thrown into the surf by
large wave. While she was strug-
Cling and unable to free herself
from her clothes, Fryer jumped IN
and brought her ashore, she said.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03

blown up and cracked they burst
with a sound like a firecracker.
And, best OF ALL there's no dam
ger of burns" said Uncle Wiggily.
So his bunnies burst paper bags
and made lots of noise which their
father, mother and Nurse Jane
didn't hear because Of the cotton in
their ears.
Picnic i'm Woods
But making noise isn't all the
fun you are to have on Fourth OF
July" said Uncle Wiggily to the
children when they grew tired, after
while, Of banging the bags. we
are to have a picnic in the woods.
There will be ice cream and cake
and lemonade and candy"
"Oh, Murray! Hurrayl Hurray!'
cheered the rabbit boys and girls.
Uncle Wiggily took the cotton out
SO he could hear their happy voices.
Then came the picnic in the woods.
And because in other places than
around the hollow stump bungalow
many firecrackers were shot off, the
Bad Chaps, fearing they would get
hurt, stayed all day in their dens.
So neither the Fox, the Wolf nor the
Bob Cat made any trouble.
At night Uncle Wiggily had thou
sands of lightning bugs give an ex-
hibition in front OF the bungalow
The fireflies zoomed around like
skyrockets and Roman candles and
ali the children said: "Oh! All"
SO it was a very happy Fourth
for the animal children. And II
the postman doesn't hide in the let
ter box when ne playing tag with
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03
FARMER INFANT DIES

Funeral services for James Par
mer, infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Odel Farmer of this city, who died
yesterday morning at II o'clock,
will be held this afternoon at 4:30
o'clock at Evergreen cemetery
where interment will take place,
under the direction of B. E. Lem
onS.
Services of the Church of Christ
viii be held at the cemetery.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03
hollands Plan For
Golden Wedding

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Noland, $50
Commercial pioneers Well-known
throughout the valley, will cele-
brate their fiftieth wedding ami
versary Sunday, July II.
They were. married in 1885 by
Rev. c. p. Shining Of the Presby-
terian church in La Cygne, Kansas.
Mrs. Nolands maiden name was
Mary A. Divilbiss.
In honor Of the happy occasion,
Mrs. Edna Morrison Bevens, daugh-
ter Of the Nolands plans to hold
open house in the afternoon at her
home south Of Seeley. Friends are
invited to attend.
Among friends and relatives from
San Diego who will be present at
picnic diner to precede the cele-
bration are Mrs. Angie Wilson, Mr..
and Mrs. Phil Davenport. Mary
Noland, Robert Noland, Harry No
land and Frank Morrison.
the baker, I'll tell you next another
story about Uncle Wiggily.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03

was a cherry red typewriter. And
her dress was the exact color of
the machine. I'd like TO have some
thing like that tor my workroom.
But I suppose people would talk.
Religious observance at sea note
On one of the big liners, radios H
B. s., during the Sunday chapel
services, the quarter in the slot
gambling machines are covered
with large black cloths.
No sidewalk gyp endures as that
known as the fur racket" For
years it flourished in the fur dis
trict at dusk. The racketeers, with
windy pretense posed as truck dri-
vers with furtive furs, supposedly
stolen, they sold for a song. For
SIS or $40 you got a one dollar fur.
Today the fur men work only at
the bridge approaches. Holland
Tunnel is a paradise. They look for
out-of-town licenses and many
clean up from SIS 10 $50 a day
Oddly, most are settled family men
with suburban homes.
Nothing wearies me more jour-
nalistically than the annual over
worked effort of Greta Garbo to
provoke publicity by appearing to
dodge it. Her coy reluctance in
running up back alleys and hop
ping freight elevators is one of the
hilarities of the passing picture. Ir-
vim Cobb wrote a short story called
The Thunders of Silence" II
showed what might happen TO big
shot who was Of a sudden by pre-
arrangement completely ignored in
type. The thunders cf silence would
stop the Garbo foolishness. Indeed
so much so she'd probably be goine
over Niagara in barrel to attract
the headlines.
Earl Carroll producing at the
Winter Garden shows that theat-
ricals, as well as politics, make
strange bed fellows. one Of the
Rialtos most pers:stently swoller
four -cornered hates was among
Carroll, ziegfeld, George White
and the Shuberts. Their mutua
dislike was bitter and inspired
many manifestos Of inyectiye. But
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03
EDITORIAL PAGE
and
FEATURES
FOURTH OF July

Tomorrow the United States of Am
erica celebrates its 159th birthday. hav-
ing declared Its independence from Great
Britain on July 4, 1776.
Over l20,000.000 Americans will OBJ
serve the day and a large percentage of
these will give absolutely no thought to
the ideals which prompted the founders
of the nation in setting up a new nation,
or the reasons which prompted them to
do SO. This fact Is one of the answers
to the question-what is wrong with the
nation?
To a great many Americans it will be
Just holiday, to spend in pleasure and
forget the cares which confront them.
We moderns scoff at the old-fashion-
ed Fourth of July celebration, with its
gifted orator making patriotic addess,
and some other celebrity reading the
Declaration of independence yet it was
by paying just such attention to pa
triotism that this nation was builded
into the foremost among all others.
Not for moment would we pose as a
klll-Joy who says the holiday should not
be observed as one wishes, but we do
say that some thought to the real signi-
ficance of the day should be given by all
who call themselves Americans. If pos
sible they might, with profit to them
selves, read the Declaration of lnde-
pendence. 1t will not take long and
copies are easy to get. Or while setting
off their firecrackers or resting after
their picnic lunch, they might give few
moments of reflection to Philadelphia on
July a, 1776 and what was done there.
One can enjoy the day and still give
a few moments to its meaning.
In these days we read much of Ameri-
canism, as preferred to Communism,
Facism or Socialism, and no loyal citi-
zen will dispute the preference. But
Americanism includes paying some at
tention to the founding of the nation, to
the men and women who labored to
found it and perpetuate it and to the
ideals which inspired them to do so.
The United States of America is an
idealistic nation, founded on the broad
doctrine of liberty and equality, and un-
less we, to whom has been committed the
care of the nation founded on July 4,
1776, adhere to the doctrines and ideals
of the founders, we must go the way of
Rome, Greece and other nations, which
perished because they exchanged their
ideals for materialism.
Let July be a holiday by all means,
but don't overlook the true meaning of
the day.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03

when the stage went through the
financial Wringer, many grievances
were squeezed out. The Ziegfeld
Follies played the ace house of the
Shuberts Now Carroll is making
a stand there. And George White is
producing his Scandals" at the
New Amsterdam, long the home Of
the Follies.
Psychiatrists say the reigning
New York hypochondria is a fear
Of the open spaces. And there's lit
tie that can be done 50 long as
people are niched in the skyscrap-
er hurrah. For a period I was nag
ged by this ridiculous neurosis.
Crossing Central Park touched off
a clammy dew and made the throat
q Sahara. I mastered it by walking
through Brooklyns prospect Park
one midnight alone. Several times
I was on the edge of the horrors
but II did the trick.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
SOCIALITE DIVORCED

LAS VEGAS, New, July 3. U.P)-
Rufus J. Chapman, son of we'll
known New York broker, today pre-
pared TO depart for California af-
ter winning a divorce from Mar
garet Hull Chapman.
Chapman is the son of Marvin
A. Chapman and is a real estate
broker at Palm Springs, Calf. He
charged his wife. a Pasadena,
Calf, socialite, with extreme cruel
ty and was awarded custody Of
their two minor children.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03

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Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03

WASHINGTON, July 3. - Talk
about your government red tape
Washington has bales and bales
OF it, neatly bound up and filed
away for future reference.
With the housing problem for
new government agencies getting
critical officials are learning just
how much red tape has accumulat-
ed over the years.
They discovered that thousands
of square feet of good office space
was being occupied with files con-
cerning matters that seldom or ev-
er required reference.
A campaign has started to clear
out these files so that space could
be found Tor the new bureaus and
expanding OLD ones. So far two
whole floors Of a munitions build
ing wing have been cleared but by
this process and the houseeleauing
is hardly under way.
Until the Tennessee valley auth
ority ran into a storm OF legal
squalls and political opposition,
plans had been booming for set
ting up of a whole flock of little
TWAS"
There were plans for an Iowa
iva, an upper Mississippi valley
IVA, a Nebraska iva, one for the
Pacific northwest region, one for
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03
Y 'TW(a:!!th@:E
LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY

Fair tonight and Thursday with
some morning cloudiness; little
change in temperature and humid
ity; gentle to moderate wind, most
" southwest.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS
PRESIDENT THROWN DOWN


On two successive days President
Roosevelt has met with overwhelming
defeat from his own party in the refusal
of the house of representatives to accede
to his wishes and pass the so-called
death sentence on public utility hold
ing companies.
That the refusals were made in the
face of vigorous lobbying by the admin
istration is indicated by the action Of the
house in voting Immediately for an IN
Vestigation of charges that pressure had
been brought to bear on representatives
to support the clause favored by the
President.
The charges of lobbying by the admin
istration are not entirely Republican
charges Representative John H. HOep-
pei, a California Democrat, declared on
the floor of the house yesterday that he
had been advised that California relief
appropriations would be more generous
if he voted for the bill written as the
President desired it.
Yesterdays defeat was even more oV-
erwhelmingly against the President than
the teller vote" on practically the same
issue, taken on Monday. In that
instance the vote was 216 to 146 against
the President. Yesterday the vote was
30 to 81 against him.
mere Is no uOuDC CldC the puUllc uIlI-
tiles have also done extensive lobbying
on this particular measure. 1t will be
charged that the utilities influenced the
vote against the President. They prob
ably did, but in this instance, if they did
influence the votes, they influenced
Democratic votes and not Republican
votes. If one is to believe national cleo
ton propaganda, the public utilities are
supposed to own the Republican party
lock, stock and barrel, while the Demo
cratic party has always been free from
such control
Whatever the cause of the votes being
as they were and whether or not extern
sive lobbying was carried on by both
sides, the fact remains that Democratic
congress has turned on its leader, some
thing that was unthinkable in January
and February, 1888 but which seems to
be the rule now, rather than the eXcep-
ton.
The honeymoon" has long since van
ished and it is family fight right now
with the outcome unpredctable. Mr..
Roosevelt has slipped a lot and there is
every indication he is going to slip more,
with his own Democratic party making
him do the slipping.
Christmas isn't the only time for pres
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03

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L king
B a C k W ar d
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Files for July-August-S t-September
destroyed by fire.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
July 3, 1920
Gas users Of Imperial Valley
were astounded upon receipt Of
current bills.
Imperial city council is planning
the erection Of a band stand in city
park.
A membership drive will be held
Sunday at the A. NJ. E. church.
TEN YEARS AGO
July 3, 1925
Several hundred people enjoyed
the watermelon feast given at
HoltYille last night under the aus
pices Of the American Legion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rodney jenkins
and two daughters are spending
the weekend in Los Angeles.
J. F. Luckey plans to spend the
weekend IL san Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03

NEW YORK, July 3.-Reinald
Werrenrath, one Of the better
known concert singers, has ridden
the depression figuratively on a
hand car. In other words, he has
been out transforming. The eco
nomic stress made things as diff
cult for singers of the world as for
those in any Of the arts.
Big cities that offered several
concert stars each week were forced
10 shave down TO one a month. So
Warrenrath decided to take to the
road and made a Whirlwind tour OF
one night stands through such mid
dlewest states as Iowa, Nebraska,
Wisconsin and so on
He appeared in dinky "opry
houses, town halls and in the
lodge-rooms over the hardware
store. He used local orchestras and
choruses and played to capacity
, wherever he stopped. Sometimes
he gave a morning recital IN one
town AN afternoon in another and
an evening in still another.
Aside from the adventure being
profitable, the singer had the time
Of his career and learned much OF
the content Of a Main street front
porch life he did not know existed.
Werrenrath, known to his lntl-
mates as Weary, has long been
a moving spirit in the Dutch Treat
club
Metropolitan phenomenon: No
noise is quite so important sound
ing as that sudden tinkle Of the lit
tie bell on the hanolebars OF a
messengers bicycle.
II is one of those pert botlques
along Madison avenues ultra shop
ping strip. Catering chiefly to the
needs Of private bars-al the gilt
terry gadpets Of de luxe cocktail
serving. one honey is a chromium
ferris wheel in miniature which re
wolves little trays Of sundry edible
I'D -bits TO 60 with the aperatit. Also
the sllvern makings for that gas
tronomic table-side bonfire called
crepes snzette. But what got me
was the beautiful secretar1al LADY,
4 ringer fer Ina Claire IN her Be
lasco day. IN the rear who sat at
doggy milk-white desk on which
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Fair tonight and Thursday but
morning clouds near the coast; no
change in temperature; moderate
northwest wind off the coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03

Now it is the heat that is giving the
Midwest the heebie jeebies. If it isn't
one thing it s another back there.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03

Christmas isn't the only time for pres
ents. Fourth of July brings $15,00O 600
to the valley for the All-American canal.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-03

Which reminds US, that the civil war
between the two Helens, ought to furnish
plenty of fireworks