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Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-23

en- relief rolls. On these farms per-
sons adapted as farm operators and
laborers would be trained in pack
ing.
Interest in the proposition has
also been shown by directors of the
farm bureau who see in it an op-
portunity for those who might wish
to habilitate themselves on farms to
the benefit of themselves and the
valley as whole as the experiments
would include crop diversification
under the supervision of competent
instructors.
When the program as outlined
has been completed, 1t will be sub
mitted to San Francisco for ap-
proval.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-23
Bic CLIPPER
LANDS SAFELY
At ALAMEDA

ALAMEDA AIRPORT, ALA
MEDIA, Calf, April 23. U.P)-
Pan American Always four
motOred Clipper ship roared in
across the Golden Gate from
Honolulu today, completing an
epochal commercial exploration
of trans-Pacific airlanes.
The Clipper came into the
sight of mainland spectators at
2:52 p. m. (PST). Several thou
sand persons were stationed on
roofs of San Francisco houses
and buildings watching the Clip
per's return.
Approximately 10000 persons
were at Alameda airport.
Escorting airplanes flew out to
sea to meet the big sky crusader.
The arrival of the Clipper was
the inspiration for an elaborate
imprOmptu aerial demonstration
over the bay region.
The Clipper coasted to smooth
landing at 2:58 p. m.
Arrival of the giant 'airship
signalled completion of the first
step in linking the United States
with the Orient by air and mark
ed the first successful round "trip
flight to Honolulu.
ALAMEDA AIRPORT, ALAME-
DA, Calf, April %. UR-Pan-A Am
erican Airways our-motored air.
liner roared toward the mainland
at 1T miles an hour, less than 300
miles from the Alamdea airport at
1890 p. m. today.
The ship virtually was hedge
hopping" at 600 feet elevation as
Capt. Edwin C. Music increased its
speed in the final drive for its
home terminal. The airport crowd
had increased to 10000 persons,
anxiously awaiting the crafts ar
rival, which was not expected be-
lore 2:30 p. m.
Among the officials waiting to
greet the Clippers crew of six vet
eran airmen were 1t. Gov. George
J. Hatfield, state director of pub
ic works. Earl Lee Kelly, repre-
Senting Gov. Frank F. Merriam,
and Mayor George P. McCracken,
If Oakland.
While the throng waited, the
Clipper fought eastward into the
,eeth of a "a mile an hour head
Wind. The ceiling was 1900 feet
md visibility approximately Is
niles.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-23
DISTRICT WILL ASK PWA FUNDS FOR POWER
'irst Secretary OF District Principal In Tragedy
Seek SERA Funds
For Recreation

Possibility for recreation prof.
ects were discussed at last night S
meeting of the coordinating coun-
Gil held at the Wilson school.
Charles McCalmon, representing
the SERA, spoke to the 25 mem
bers present in regard to securing
SERA funds for this project. Cor
don Scriven was appointed by
Warren Currier chairman, to head
a committee to work with SERA
officials on details for a recreation
project in the city park. Possibil- =
ity of establishing Fairgrounds,
equipment and supervisors, in 9TH
er districts was discussed
Miss Mabel Carberry made a de-
tailed report on the mental tests
which she has made OF various
problem cases, doing this work
both for the schools and the pro-
baton department. 1t was brought
out that Miss Carberry's work is
valuable both to the schools and
the probation department.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-23
Actress Admits
She Planned To
Share Judgment

LOS ANGELES, April %. W.p-
Sari Fedak, once known on the
continental stage as "the Sarah
Bernhardt of Hungary" admitted
in court today she was to have
received one-third of whatever
Judgment a fellow-actress won in
a $250,OO0 breach of promise suit
against Ernst Vajda, Hungarian
playwright.
Cross examined at her trial on
perjury charges, the 55-year-old
actress said the guarantee was in
corporated in a contract she sign
ed in Budapest.
Wilma Aknay, plaintiff In the
breach of promise action which she
later dropped, offered her a share
of the damages in return for fin
ancial assistance Miss FedEk had
extended her, the witness testi-
fled. Miss Aknay also has been in
dicted on perjury charges growing
out of the breach of promise ac-
ton.
Miss Fedak flatly denied she
ever sought money from Vajda.
"I never asked any man Tor
money, not even my own legal hus-
band" shouted the former wife oil
Ferenc Molnar, noted Hungarian
playwright.
Deputy District Attorney Percy
Hammond said he would recall
Vajda to the stand to refute the
statement and repeat assertions
that Miss Fedak sought funds oil
him.
The two actresses we're accused
of perjury and charged with main
tanning false civil action in con-
nection with the breach OF pro-
mise suit.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-23

To Meet Monday

Shippers and growers of the val
ley are asked to .-,et with the
board of supervisors in department
No. l court room on next Monday
night at 7:30 o'clock for the pur-
pose of discussing labor conditions
for the approaching harvest season.
, Relations between field and shed
workers as also other matters per-
tinent to the industry will be dis
cussed at this meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-23
TO OPEN CANAL BIDS THURSDAY
Reclamation Service Will Decide On Further Exca-
vatiOn Contracts

Thursday morning at 10 O'Clock,
Yuma time, bids for the excavation
of 90 miles of the American
canal will be opened at the office
of the reclamation bureau in Yu-
ma. This section will be located
from 18 miles west to 43 miles
southwest of Yuma or from 10
miles east to 35 miles northeast of
CaleXico.
1t will involve l1.261 400 cubic
yards of common excavation and
the work is to be started within 30
calendar days after date OF receipt
of notice to proceed and shall be
completed within 21s years from
tine date = receipts of such notice.
Awarding of these bids will COM
plete the cycle of excavation work
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-23
Asks Damages AS
Result OF Crash

Charg/g that the defendant so
negligently operated her automo-
bile that II collided with the mo-
torcycle on which plaintiff was rid
ing and caused injuries which viii
be permanent Albert Noffsinger
has brought suit In superior court
against Mrs. Adele Lingo asking
damages OF $4,000.
The accident happened on the
highway between INLAND and Cali
patria on November 5, 1894.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-23
InUite Educators
To Round Table

Local educators have received in
vitations to the annual Round Table
to be held Friday and Saturday of
this week at San Diego State college.
This Round Table is attended by
educators from all parts of Southern
California and is an outstanding
annual affair attended by many
from the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-23

on the canal route and leaves only
the Imperial dam and power struc-
lures along the canal still to be
bid on and constructed.
At irrigation district headquar-
ters this morning 1t was said that
since the district has no bid offer
ed for this work, nor has its en-
gineers drawn up any estimate for
this section, no special representa-
tive of the board will be designat-
ed to be in attendance when the
bids are opened Thursday. How
ever, w. w. Goodson, secretary,
and M. j. Dowd, chief engineer,
will be present. 1t is also expect
ed that several of the directors will
also be on hand for the opening
of the bids.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-23
GOING TO CAPITAL

Evan T, Hewes, chairman and
Harry w. Horton, chief counsel of
the irrigation district will leave
here tomorrow morning for Sac
ramento. The district officials will
be present when certain bills af-
fecting the district are introduced
into the state assembly,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-23
Glendale Man
Ends His Life

GLENDALE, Calf, April 23. UH
Fred Rushton, 33-year-old book
keeper, collapsed at the feet of his
father-in-law today Immediately
after telling the elder man:
Goodbye dad, I'm going to
work"
He died a few minutes later in
the Glendale sanitarium.
Police said he had taken quick
acting poison. Relatives were un-
able to explain a motive.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-23
STAYS WIFE
AND SELF At
COAST HOME
George L. Melton Active In
Organization Of Imperia |
Irrigation District
TEACHER AT REDLANDS
Ill-Health Blamed For Act Re-
vealed In Note Mailed To
Close Friend
TEACHER AT REDLANDS

PASADENA, April %. W.p) A
friend summoned by frantic note
today broke into the luxurious
home of George L. Melton, former
instructor at Redlands university,
to find the former educator dead
of asphyxiation and his wife slain
BY axe blows and strangulation.
Police pronounced it murder
and suicide.
Discovery of the bodies was
made by M. B. Kerr, who said he
had received a mailed note from
Melton urging him to come at
once. The note said the writer
needed help Immediately"
Kerr broke into the house to
find Mrs. Abbie Vanway Melton,
AZ, dead in a front room. Her
head had been crushed by sharp
blows of an axe. Around her
throat was a coiled rope, pulled
taut.
In the kitchen, Kerr found the
body of Melton. Jets from the gas
range were squirting poisonous
lulilCS lllOO Ollc fOOlil.
Police said 1t was evident Mel
ton killed his wife, then himself.
Police believe Mrs. Melton was
slain yesterday and that her hus-
band died during the night.
Kerr refused to divulge the en-
tire contents of the note. He said
it was vague and incoherent. He
ln6
Melton feared his wife would pre-
cede him in death, leaving him
without companion.
Both had been in i'll health, Kerr
reported.
The Melton home is in one of
Pasadena's most exclusive residen-
tial districts.
Melton was well-to-do. After re-
signing as history instructor at
Redlands university in 1909, he be-
came a citrus grower. He was SIS
years old.
Leroy Holt, vice-president Of the
Bank of America, today recalled
Melton when informed of the above
Tragedy Dy lne FTeSS.
"Melton was first secretary of
the Imperial Irrigation District, ~
Holt said and was active in the
organization of the district He
came here from Redlands after he
resigned from the university and
took up land southwest of Holtville,
pow owned by the Timken COM
pany.
Tout's "First Thirty Years. re-
veals Melton as being active in 1911
with the late John Eshleman, Phil
D. Swing, M. w. Conkling and w.
F. Holt in addressing meetings
throughout the valley urging for
nation of the district under the
Bridgfort act.
Melton was the first secretary of
the district, serving in 1911, 1912
and part of 1913 when he was sue
ceeded by Harry L. Barker.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-23
SPROUL SAYS
PROFESSORS
ACT UNW|SE
University Head Cond e mn S
Protest OF Faculty Against
Anti-Red Bills

SACRAMENTO Calf, April %
W.R)-Dr Robert c. Sproul, president
of the University of California,
notified Assemblyman Frank G.
Martin today that he would be un-
able to appear before the lower
house judiciary committee tomor-
row night when so-called "anti-red"
bills will be considered.
In reply to Martins letter invit-
ing him to attend the committee
meeting and explain why 18 profess
sors objected to bill tightening
provisions of the criminal syndicai-
ism act, DR.. Sproul wrote:
Unfortunately, it would be prac-
tically impossible for me to appear
before the committee Wednesday
evening. 1 hope, therefore, that my
telegram and this letter to you, to-
gether with the enclosed clipping,
will explain satisfactorily the atti-
tude of the university on the funda-
mental questions at ISSUE
He said he could not answer
questions as to why the 18 uni
versity professors protested A. B.
LOT, in its entirety, or did not have
the courage to appear in person"
before the committee and voice their
objections, because "the professors
acted entirely on their own re-
sponsibility.
Frankly" DR.. Sproul added, Il
think that they used extremely poor
judgment in their method of at
tack upon the bill of which you are
co-author."
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-23
NATIONAL LEAGUE

AT Brooklyn r H E
Philadelphia ...022 600 0lO- 10 8
Brooklyn ....101 604 00x-12 Is l
Hansen, Bowman, Pezzulo, Jor-
gems and Wilson; Leonard, Clark,
Vance and Lopez.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-23
AlS$zqgig7ao &29g&
&A SAYS

BEVERLY HILLS, April %.
(SpeciaD-I bet any Sunday
could be made as popular at
church as Easter is, If you made
'em fashion shows, too. The au-
dience is so busy looking at each
other that the preacher might
just as well recite Gunga Din.
We will do anything, If you just
in some way turn it into a show.
They say children in kindergar-
ten must play in order to get 'em
to learn. What do you mean
children? Cross word puzzles
learned grown folks more words
than school teachers, and what
arithmetic the women folks know
they got at bridge table. Our
splendid English comes from at
tending the movies. My geog-
raphy comes from an airplane
window. Yes, sir, there is 100
million in the American kinder
garten.
Yours,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-23

SACRAMENTO, Calf, April %.
tU.R)-ControverSy over protests
against "anti-red" bills sent to the
Legislature by Is University of CAL
ifornia professors continued to sim
mer today after university officials
denied the professors were ''radi-
GALS" and ASSemblyman Frank G..
Martin, Altadena, politely asked
them to prove it.
Luther Nichols, university comp
troller, appearing before the as
sembly ways and means committee,
last night said the professors were
protesting only a part of the bill
as individuals.
Il doubt if you will find a radi-
cal in the group, but they were op-
posed to a law which would make
them felons merely because they
carried the teachings of Karl Marx
into their classrooms,' Nichols
said. "They are not interested in
the perptuation of Communism"
In another telegram to DR.. Rob-
ert Gordon Sproul, university pre-
sident, Assemblyman Martin again
asked DR.. Sproul to appear before
the assembly judiciary committee
tomorrow, and also extended the
invitation to the 18 professors or
their representatives
The request was made so the
university officials could "offer
constructive suggestions" for legis-
lation aimed to penalize subversive
activities which seek to overthrow
the goWrnment by force and vio-
lence.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-23
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Hadley, Linke, Petit and Bolton;
Cain, Lieber, Mahaffey and Foxx.
Evening star., 1935-12-01
Today's S Film Schedule

WARMERS EARLE-"So Red
the Rose" at 2:50, $40, 7:50
and 1920 pm. Stage shows at
2. 4:25, $50 and $40 pm.
LOEW'S FOX-"The Man Who
Broke the Bank at Monte
Carlo" at 2, 4:3o, tbs and 10
pm. Stage shows at 3:55,
$40 and 9:O5 pm.
R-K-O Annie Oak
ley" at 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 pm.
PALACE-"The Crusades," at 2,
4:30, 7 and $50 pm.
METROPOLITAN - "Rainmak-
ers," at 2, 3:55. $50, 7:45 and
$40 pm.
COLUMBIA-"Two Fisted," at
2:20, AIS, 6:l0, sos and 10
pm.
BELASCO-"Mr. Hobo" continu-
GUS afternoon and evening.
LITTLE-"Dinner at g." at 2:33,
4::52, TIL and $50 pm.
Evening star., 1935-12-01
IndOrSe $50 Red the ROse''

and know that all Southerners will
be as pleased as I am.
For the first time I feel that, in
SO Red the Rose Southern story
has been told as we Of the South would
like it told.
THE novel was written by South
erner-Stark Young. The director Of
Paramount's motion picture version
King Vidor-is q Southerner. Almost
all members Of the cast were born and
reared south Of Mason and Dixon's line
Margaret SULLIVAN, Randolph Scott
and myself. Walter Connolly is, be-
lieve, the only exception.
The real South is in this feature,
so Red the Rose 1t is there in the
boys gallant admiration of his mother;
in the husband who still pays his wife
compliments after 20 years of married
life; in the women who seem so care
free and frivolous but who prove them
selves to be so brave and so wise; n
the faithful servant who asks for moth
ing but to 60 on serving his white
folks
IT was born in Savannah, Tenn,
only miles from the Shiloh battle
field which I visited many times" Miss
Patterson explained. "One Of the most
important sequences in SO Red the
Rose takes place there. and I was es-
pecially interested to note the great
authenticity with which this scene
was reproduced"
Evening star., 1935-12-01

~ ARAMOUNT'S $50 Red the
Rose" based on Stark Young's
novel of the South, has passed
4 what might be considered an
acid screen test of authenticity. 1t has
been Endorsed as accurately rejecting
the spirit Of the South during its con-
flict with the North by Mrs. Annie
Massey, general president of the
Daughters of the Confederacy. Mem
bers of this exclusive organization,
however, did not have to wait for a
reaction until the picture reached the
screen; they had a representative of
the group right on the set throughout
production. She was Miss Elizabeth
Patterson, member of the Confed-
eracy's Shiloh Chapter, who plays one
of the principal roles in so Red the
Rose"
AS an actress, Miss Patterson had an
opportunity to watch Director Vidor
bring the Young novel to the screen.
Day by day, during this transition be-
fore the camera, Miss Patterson stood
by. or participated in scenes of the
picture which stars Margaret SULLIVAN
with Walter Connolly. Janet Beecher
and Randolph Scott in featured roles.
Working in this picture in the role
of Miss Mary Cherry, naturally have
seen almost the entire film being
photographed" said Miss Patterson.
Il have observed everything about 1t
Evening star., 1935-12-01
Start Anthony Adverse" :"

Start Anthony Adverse" :"
A CTUAL production has just begun
at the Warner Bros West Coast
studios on the long-awaited screen
version Of Anthony Adverse" the
famous romantic best-seller by Hervey
Allen, which has been adapted for
motion pictures by Sheridan Gibney.
Mervyn Leroy is directing the produc-
ton, in which the title role is played
by Frederic March, who returned to
Hollywood recently from a long vaca-
tion spent mainly in Europe.
Other prominent roles are played
by Olivia de Havilland. Claude Rains.
Anita Louise. Edmund Gwenn, Stefh
Duna, Alma Lloyd, Mathiede Comont,
Marjorie Gateson, Gale Sondergaard.
Henry O'Neill, Pedro de Cordoba and
Leonard Nude. Many of the 7a
speaking roles in this most elaborate
and populous of pictures are still un-
filled, and screen tests are being held
daily by Director Leroy and his as
sociates.
Anthony Adverse" is expected to be
in production for at least three months.
The script calls for 131 different sets.
-Four of the big sound stages at the
Burbank Studio will be exclusively de-
voted for weeks to come to Anthony
Adverse" and, in addition. an extern
sive area beside the studio lake has
been set aside for exterior settings.
Further cast announcements will be
forthcoming very soon.
Evening star., 1935-12-01
Way MUSICAL HIT COMES TO THE NATIONAL
Rudy Vallee
COnningHere
In"Scandals"
George White Musical
Comes to National
Next Week.

THE twelfth edition of George
Whites stage Scandals" will be-
gin weeks engagement at the Ma
tional Theater on Monday evening,
December 9. The Broadway premiere
Of the new extravaganza will follow
at the New Amsterdam Theater i'm
mediately after its local presentation
here.
THE new Scandals" states Pro-
ducer White, has been a year in the
making. Dozens Of sketches, dozens
Of production ideas and dozens of
songs have been written and rewritten
before each individual item in the pro-
gram was finally accepted as worthy
Of the newer and greater Scandals I
have been aSsiduously laboring to pro-
duce. An instance in point is my
chorus ensemble, always noted for its
rare beauties. Having set a high mark
with my gorgeous dancing girls in the
past, determined to outdo myself on
this occasion and interviewed upward
Of 5000 beauties before I selected the
rs which now comprise my Scandals
chorus.
1T is an honor, indeed" concludes
Mr.. White, Ito bring Scandals here
before the Broadway showing, for here,
as has been definitely proven in the
past, am assured of enthusiastic re-
action on the part OF theater lovers
who appreciate the living theater at
its glorifled best"
The new Scandals" is in two acts
and 35 scenes and boasts a cast Of
more than 100. Rudy Vallee, Willie
and Eugene Howard, Bert Lahr, Cliff
Edwards and Oracle Barrie head the
array of stars gathered by Mr.. White
for the new Scandals" Others in
the cast include Shea and Raymond.
Jane Cooper, Harold Willard, Hal
Forde, three Were brothers, Sam,
Ted and Ray; Stanley Twins, Lois
Eckhart, Richard Lane, Jack Hartley,
Apollo Quartet, Peggy Moseley. Claire
McQuillen, Jean Gale and Helene
Miller.
Evening star., 1935-12-01
Has Two Leading Men.


the screens favorite leading men,
Brian Aherne and Cary Grant, ap-
pearing with her in her new R-K-O
Radio picture, Sylvia Scarlet" Both.
incidentally, are English.
1t is Aherne who carries the ro-
mantle interest opposite the star,
while Grant steps out of the leading
man classification to score in force
full and colorful character role. The
story, in which the three are central
figures, revolves about the amazing
and romantic adventures of Sylvia
Scarlet, high-spirited girl who mas
querades as boy, at first from neces-
sity and later in quest of excitement
London and rural England are the
principal action backgrounds.
Evening star., 1935-12-01

satirical picture Of the importance
play in the routine of Washington
politics. It has been confected BY
George S. kaufman and Katharine
Dayton, whose Washington articles
must be familiar to every reader OF
George Horace Lorimer's Saturday
Evening Post, and it opens at the
Music Box. These allied circum-
stances should be enough to make
its opening of major importance, even
if Jane Cowl and Stanley Ridges were
not the starred players.
ONLY two or three theaters have
about them a cachet of success
that gives producers and managers
pause. but such an atmosphere hangs
about the Music Box and the En-
pire. and enters as a tangible factor
in the staging of a show-like seating
capacity, acoustics and stage depth.
No first-nighter worthy of the name
would absent himself voluntarily from
a premiere at either playhouse. The
New Amsterdam, too, has a devoted
following which is sure to overflow
its green plush aisles whenever a new
play opens. There also are jinx the
aters whose record for the housing of
dramatic catastrophes has become a
legend, but. in the interest of not aug
menting such hexes, they shall be
nameleSS.
4 X X
THEATERGOERS who took pleas
ure in last seasons Pulitzer
award play, THE Old Maid" will do
well not to pass up drama in the
same handsome costume tradition.
Pride and Prejudice" This DRAM
atiZation CT the Jane Austen classic
is by no means compelled to rely upon
its time and setting for its excellence,
but its authenticity in both fields is
a notable contribution toward its sue
cess. Staged by Robert Sinclair, one
of the theater's most polished and
meticulous scholars, the production
contrives to invest with the breath of
vitality the Rennet family, Mr.. Bing-
ley, Miss Bingley, Lady Catherine de
Brougn and all the characters whose
stances and posturings amidst Geor-
gian social commotions have been ia
miliar to four generations of readers
of English letters For an entirely
amiable if not fevered evening, it
should be on the must list of those
who enjoy the busting off of classics.
4 + 4 4
IRON Jubilee" for the first time
since it opened, there comes this
week no news of commotion or con-
flagration, no tidings Of public tumult,
no intelligence of panic, atrocious as
sault or other scandalous and cheer
full endeavor. Neither nose-pasting
nor hysteria has made its home at
the Imperial these seven days and
nights. Moss Hart's blood pressure is
down to normal and Mary Boland
fears neither darkness nor monday
any more. It's all too, too like some
thing out of the Book of Revelation.
Evening star., 1935-12-01
Green Pastures Singers.

HE famous Hall Johnson Cholr OF
= Negro spiritual singers will appear
in the screen production of The
Green Pastures" it is announced by
Warner Bros. One of the outstanding
features in the original stage play
was the work of these singers, who
also have appeared on the concert
stage in this country and in Europe
with great success. Marc Connolly,
author Of The Green Pastures who
will be closely associated with the pro-
duction Of the fllm, Is now en- route to
California. It is expected that pro-
duction will begin within a month.