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Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
LINCOLN SCHOOL

There are workmen here at school
who are taking out all the old tree
stumps. They will plant some new
trees and maybe build something
new. They are measuring and
stalking off the land. l wonder
what they have up their sleeves. l
think they are going TO put in some
sidewalks. hope so.-Warren
Watus, Ga.
In our room we like to give re-
ports. This morning we had a re-
port on gems. 1t was made by
Frank Dixon. l shall soon give a
report on spiders and their relatives.
There are some spiders we have al
ready studied about They are the
trap-door spider and the tarantula.
The trap-door is the most interest
ing. No one can open his door un-
less the spider is killed. We like to
study all. the insects we can get
hold of.-Billie Shockley, Ga.
The winds are drifting desert sands,
Drifting it into piles.
And little children with patty pans
Are playing in it all the while.
The birds are flying overhead,
Singing their carefree song.
In the desert all is right
Nothing in the world is wrong.
The winds are drifting the desert
sands
And putting it In piles
So little children with chubby hands
Can play in it all the while.
--Lenna Arnold, Ga.
When the sun comes out to breathe
Moon and stars have to leave.
Moon and stars make their bed
After the sun has really fled.
When the sun goes away
Moon and stars come out to play.
When the sun is sleeping
Moon and stars are peeping.
-Nita Lee Cutter, ST..
About a week ago our teacher let
us draw anything we wanted. Most
of the children drew some sort OF
outdoor scenes. The teacher mount
ed most of them and put them on
the bulletin board. 1 thought ev-
erybody drew a good picture, and
you probably would think so too
Yesterday we painted pictures OF
birds.--Mary Earl Muncill, Ga.
On Friday, February %, the Lin
coin school children went to Will
son school where they heard speech
es given by members of the Amer
lean Legion. In between speeches
we sang patriotic songs. After the
program we returned to Lincoln
and were dismissed at 2 O'clock
Fred Bickhart. GA
This month we celebrated one OF
our greatest inventors birthday
anniversary. He gave us the cleo
trio lights. the phonograph. and
many other useful inventions. This
great man S name is Thomas A. Ed
ison. We are proud he was cit
izen of the United States.-Ortha
Console. Ga.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
To
OFFER STOCK
At LOW PRICE

Starting Wednesday, February 27,
and continuing Thursday, Friday
and Saturday the Dunlap company
announces it will conduct a "Dras-
tic Money Raising Sale to raise
cash needed to meet bills for their
big stock of merchandise on hand
due to slow business during January
and February.
L. A. Dunlap, proprietor, stated,
"Dunlap's, expecting big January
and February business, bought heav-
lily and filled their Ell Centro store
to the very doors with new spring
merchandise, but this business failed
to develop and we have only sold
about half what we hoped to sell
during January and February. AS
this goods must be paid for, we are
sacrificing our entire, big, new $780,
coo stock.
I'VE have spent week" Dunlap
continued, "going through our stock
marking down every item to sell at
drastic reductions. We believe all
our customers will agree that this
is the greatest sale in our historyl'
he concluded.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
President Keeps
Busy On Visit To
Hyde Park Home

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Feb. %. U.H
In the seclusion of his Hudson
Valley home, President Roosevelt
today put the finishing touches to
two important messages to con-
gress-on dealing with American
shipping, the other with transport
alton.
Mr.. Roosevelt hoped to complete
the shipping message within the
next "a hours. If no Interruptions
occur, he would have 1t ready for
presentation to congress by tomor-
row, or Wednesday, at the latest.
While he has given no inkling of
his recommendations, it was as
sumed he would urge a direct sub
sidy for American shipping to re-
place the present mail subsidies.
In the transportation message
friends were confident he would
ask congress to give the government
closer supervision over all forms of
land, water and air transportation.
Mr.. Roosevelt yesterday enjoyed
his first winter weekend at Hyde
Park since 1882. During the after
noon, he drove over his estate in
one-horse open sleigh.
The President will remain at
Hyde Park until late Wednesday
night, returning then TO Washing
ton. He will work on administra-
ton matters until he returns to the
capitol.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25

a short distance from his home. two
miles west of Weston.
The desperadoes had abandoned
the bullet-riddled car in which they
eluded the officers, after it ran out
of gasoline. Blood on the seat
caused officers to believe either
Hamilton or his companion was
badly wounded.
If Hamilton and his companion,
with their captive, continued west
on the road they were following,
they soon would have reached high
way IA, with the route open either
to Dallas and Fort Worth or north
ward to Oklahoma.
Hamilton and his companion es-
capped trap after exchanging gun
fire with a posse of officers who
surprised them on the highway two
miles north Of Mckinney.
They halted momentarily, appar-
emily to let the driver exchange
seats with the second man, then
sped down a country road toward
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS
WEALTH NOT EVERYTHING

Frank Greges should be a warning to
those of us who think that material pros
perity is essential to success in life.
None will dispute that it is highly de-
sirable, providing one has the proper
mental balance necessary to maintain an
even keel.
Greges was a sandwich man" of New
York's Bowery, carrying sign fore and
aft on his body, advertising a passport
photograph agency, for which he receiv-
a dollar a day. He lived more or less
contentedly on his meagre fare.
A few weeks ago he found a bag of Sc
curities lost from Wall street and return
ed them to the owner For this he was
given substantial money reward, was
outfitted with splendid clothes and given
a good job. He was flattered for his
honesty by the ''big shots of Wall street,
was photographed and written up by the
newspapers and was the subject of
movie news reel.
1t all went to his head. He decided he
was God and turned into raving man.
lac, who is now in the psychopathic
ward of New York hospital, hopeless
ly insane. Doctors assert the sudden
change from a sparse diet to luxury was
too much for his system to stand.
Not all who become suddenly wealthy
go crazy as Greges did, but many do de-
vciop odd mental traits. They forget
their old friends and neighbors; they
seek only the bright lights of our mod
ern existence; the homely old virtues of
honesty, thrift, self-restraint and neigh
borliness are forgotten. They may not
&c so far as to imagine themselves God,
but they do think, in the language of the
street, that they are "some pumpkins
There were great many Frank Greges
prior to October 1929. Fortunately not
all of them developed insanity to the ex-
tent he did. Many were not able to stand
the sudden drop from affluence to pow
ertv, SO they jumped out of windows,
used guns or poisoned themselves. 9th
ers took the jolt with their chins up and
have been content with attempts to
fight their way back.
The great ajority have been trying
to maintain an even keel and not a few
learned their lesson-that riches are not
always desirable and that one can be
happiest with moderation in riches as
well as in foe and drink.
Greges, if he could recover his reason,
could probably say plenty on the old
maxim about the road to Hades being
paved with good intentions. He is the
unfortunate victin-not of his honesty
but of the good intentions of Others
What disaster there would have been
at Santa Anita Saturday if the predic
tions of all the racing experts had come
true Imagine 20 winners.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
HARDING SCHOOL

We have a picture of Lincoln on
our bulletin board. The reason we
enjoy it so much is that a little
pickaninny girl has slippedAinto the
arms of Lincoln's statue. Her doll
is in a little cart on the ground. We
have IL other pictures OF Lincoln
and Washington on our board, but
we like this one the best.-Lila Hunt,
4-A-2.
We are studying about Norway.
Geneva Smith brought good-sized
model of a Viking ship. For shields
they used bottle tops, painted bright
colors. The ship had curved lines.
with a dragons head on the bow
Ruth Parker. 4-A-2.
over the Atlantic Ocean blue.
Came a fighting Viking crew.
And on the sides of the pretty
ship,
Were shields that seemed to slide
and dip.
At first, l admit, I was afraid,
Of the giant dragons head.
Minerva Pacheco, 4-A-2.
We have had visitor in our
room all this week, His name is
Walter Provost and he lives in Lo-
mita. He works as well as anyone
in our room. He knows all of his
subjects very well, but likes arith-
metic best He is my cousin.-Har-
old Williams, 4-A-2.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
UNCLE WIGGILY AND
BUSTERS BANG

Buster Longears was a very noisy
little rabbit boy. He was the most
noisy of all Uncle Wiggily IS child
rem, even counting Baby Bunty,
the orphan rabbit, when she used
to cry loudly. OF course, now, that
Bunty was older, she didn't cry as
much as she used to cry when she
was younger.
but Buster makes more noise
the older he grows,o said Nurse
Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy as she looked for
some cotton to stuff in her ears.
Just then Buster was pretending to
be a gun. He was hopping around
the hollow stump bungalow shout
ing
"Bang! Bang! Bangity! Bung!
Binglo 1t sounded like real gun.
"Oh, rabbit boys must play"
said Uncle Wiggily as he put on his
tall silk hat.
cts all very well for you to say
that" spoke Mrs. Longears. "You
are going out adventuring and you
won't hear Buster making those
bangs, but Nurse Jane and / must
stay at home and listen to them.
"Unless Uncle Wiggily would
take Buster with him." said the
muskrat lady housekeeper hopeful
like.
Goes Along
eyes, I'll do that said the rab-
bit gentleman. "Do you want to
come adventuring with me, Bus
ter?p
eyes, Daddy, thank you'll - shout
ed Buster. He even spoke in very
loud voice. And now Buster was
so happy because he was going out
with his father that he began hop
ping up and down, making more
bangs on the floor.
"Oh, please, take him out, Wig
CYL" begged Mrs. Longears. "Hur-
ry!"
"Come on, Buster!" called Un-
Gle Wiggily.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25

Weston, l3 miles north of McKin-
ney. Two miles west of Weston,
their car was found abandoned by
the officers. 1t had run out of gas
oline.
The machine had been riddled
with bullets. Officers said they
couldn't understand how a person
could have lived and withstood the
gunfire poured into the machine by
the officers sub-machine guns, high
calibre rifles mad smaller arms.
The drivers seat of the abandon
ed machine was covered with blood,
strengthening the belief of officers
that either Hamilton. Texas killer
facing a death sentence, or his COM
panion was badly wounded.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
BANDIT PAIR
ESCAPE FROM
POSSE : FIRE

MCKINNEY, Tex, Feb. 25. U,P -
North Texas peace officers pressed
a search today for j. c. Lotus, 20
year-old farmer. kidnapped last night
by Raymond Hamilton and COM
panion as they fled under gunfire
from an officers trap.
Reports that Lotus wife also was
kidnapped and left afoot on the high
way were declared erroneous.
LOTUS was kidnapped by the des-
peradoes and his automobile seized
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
FiUe Die In Blast
On French Vessel

TUNIS, Africa, Feb. 25. Up)-An
explosion occurred on the French
liner Gouverneur General Jonnart
today. Five were killed and several
injured seriously.
The blast occurred when a box OF
explosives blew UP in the hold while
the ship was unloading. 1t was
heard in many parts of the port.
Authorities placed the wharves un-
der guard.
The Jonnart, of 4,513 tons, is own
cd by the French governments mer-
chant marine service,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
MCKINLEY SCHOOI
We went to the music room
We painted pictures.

We painted pictures.
We painted with water colors.
We like to paint.
Mrs. Buehner's first grade.
Miss Shively came today. She
told us we could make anything we
wanted to. We made pictures of
flower houses, fruit baskets, and
fruit, bird, truck, telephone poles
and wire, and some balls.--Mrs.
Miller IS first grade.
A full figure of George Washing
ton is being carved of rock on a
mountain in South Dakota. Now
the face is finished and the nose
is 13 feet long. Here are some more
that are going to be carved: Lin
coin, jefferson, and Theodore Roose-
velt.--Jonell Withrow, third grade.
A poem about George Washing
ton:
Oh, George Washington, George
Washington
You were q soldier true and great.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
lie SOUNDED Iike q reel oun.

Buster promised. "Go on, Dad
dy, please, look for another adven-
ture. -
"An right. But don't scare it
away" laughed Mr.. Longears. So
he and Buster hoped little far
ther on over the fields and through
the woods. Uncle Wiggily saw somc-
thing. moving behind a bush and
he was sure it was an adventure
when, all of a sudden, Buster
shouted.
"Wowl' The rabbit boy just
couldn't seem to keep quiet.
There was a furry of snowflakes
and, whatever the adventure was
back of the bush. it suddenly dis
appeared.
"Oh, Busterlp - said Uncle Wig
gily, Gwen never find adventures
if you keep on making noises.'
"I'm sorry" said the boy rab-
bit. 81 won't do it again. - So
they hoped on little farther and,
all at once, when Uncle Wiggily
was sure he saw an adventure be-
hind the tree, Buster loudly SnouC-
ed:
"Bangl Bangl Bangity Bung!
Bangi' 1t sounded just like a gun.
And then, out from behind the tree
ran the Bob Cat. He ran away as
fast as he could, taking his silly
little tail with him.
"Ha! Hal" laughed Uncle Wiggi-
ly. fIt's good thing YOU scared
that adventure away with your gun
bang, Buster. Otherwise the Bob
Cat might have bit us. You are a
good bangor, Buster. .
Then Buster laughed and he and
his daddy hoped home. And If
the carpenters saw doesn't get an
ache in one of its teeth, III tell
you next about Uncle Wiggily and
Tommie Cat.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
Interesting Items OF News
Written For The Press By
ri Centre School Pupils

You fought to make your country
free.
Your birth we celebrate.
Betty Jane Phillips, 4th grade
Safety rules, safety rules.
We must always know.
If we don It learn them at home,
Learn them at school.
Helen Schumm, 4th grade.
Safety first, safety last.
Stay on the walk and never go fast
Raynell Armstrong, 4th grade
We had a program on George
Washington s birthday. Every room
had something to give. The sec
ond grade sang songs. One girl
said a poem.-Joyce Elaine Sunder-
man, 4th grade.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
BED TIME STORIES
Dy HOWARD 2. GARRIS
Copyright 1884 BY Mcclure Newspaper syndios.sI

Uncle Wiggily and Buster hop
ped over the fields and through the
woods. All of a sudden, just as Mr..
Longears thought he saw an ad-
venture ahead of him, Buster gave
a loud shout and cried out.
"Bool'
9Boo!p
"Oh, my goodnessl Why did you
do that?" asked his father. "Now
you have driven the adventure
away
I'm sorry,'' said Buster. What
sort of an adventure was it, Dad
dy?"
"Well, it looked like an adven-
ture with a snow bird. But when
you made that loud noise the bird
flew away
Makes Promise
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
EDITORIAL PAGE
and
FEATURES
NEED FOR PRISON REFORM

When We read of athletic events. the
atricals, radio programs and other means
OF diversion being given in penitentiaries,
whose inmates enjoy sufficient food,
clothing and shelter, while many desery-
ing and law-abiding men and women are
without these necessities, many of Us
agree that prison reform can be carried
too far.
But that there is another extreme
which indicates the need of reform is
proved by an incident of the past week
IN the Nebraska penitentiary at Lincoln.
A change of wardens there brought
out the information that two convicts,
who had been kept in solitary confine-
ment in dungeons for nine years, were
permitted to return to ordinary cells.
The news did not occupy much space
in the papers, in fact in most of them it
was covered in few lines.
1t would be difficult to make some of
US realize that such medieval punish
ment exists in these days of supposed en-
iightenment. Putting men in dungeons
for long periods of time was the rule
when the divine right of kings was recog-
nized. 1t became passe years ago, or at
least the majority of us thought it did.
One of the Nebraska prisoners is So
years old; the other is 3S. No man of So
can be so dangerous that men much
younger than he is cannot manage him.
We can conceive of no situation arising
which would warrant placing him in
dungeon and keeping him there for nine
years.
Granted that bad" prisoners must be
dealt with severely, this does not justify
the condition exposed in Nebraska.
There is an amendment to the consti-
tuition of the United States which forbids
"cruel and unusual punishments. It
may be that the founders of the country
did not intend that this should apply to
felons, deprived of their citizenship
rights, but we believe this view is open
to argument.
Certainly the expose of conditions at
the state penitentiary is nothing of which
Nebraska may be proud, and it makes
citizens of other states wonder if like
conditions may not exist in the prisons
of their own states.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25

Published every evening Except Sunday by The
Imperial Valley Press Inc, 625 state street,
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Associations.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
NIGHT SCHOOLS SHOW GAIN

DETROIT UP)-Gains Of nearly
1000 students attending Detroit
night schools was announced at
opening of the mid-winter term
here. Students this year number
1929, compared to 12,5l7 at the
same time last year,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
TEN YEARS AGO
FPhrnarY %. 1929

Eliot Grinnell Mears, professor in
the department of economics at
Stanford university, has been max
ing a racial survey in Imperial
Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25

N. H. Locke, veteran Jersey breed
er of Lockeford, San Joaquin coun-
ty, died at his home on January a.
FILTERS
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell OF
imperial Valley for This
Date In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
February 2. 1918

The directors of the irrigation
district are today working out plans
for borrowing 100000 from the Los
Angeles banks.
The origin Of the strange tblack
hand" missiye still remains baff-
ling mystery.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
Eehruarv 25 1110

After a two days stay, during
which they delightfully."- entertain
ed the people of Ell Centro with
band concerts, the Rowing Marines
left last night for Yuma.
The meeting of the college wom-
en- S club has again been postponed
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25

Wonder if the President sang Jingle
Bells" as he rode in his one-horse sleigh.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25

SUBSCRIPTION RATES - Delivered by carrier,
per month, SIS cents by mail, so cents per month
in advance Entered at Ell Centro California post
office as second-class matter Member California
Newspaper Publishers Association. M c. Moeen-
son. national advertising representatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25
over s12O was collected in El Cen

tro yesterday in the Y. w. G. A.
drive for the Girl Reserve fund.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25

DR.. Townsend's supporters are boom
ing him for 1886 as presidential candi-
date We for one will take the Doc in
preference to Huey Long.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25

A New York church offers an inter
pretive dancer for the Psalms. Any 9th
er church can get bigger crowd with
Mickey Mouse.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-02-25

What disaster there would have been
at Santa Anita Saturday if the predic-
tions of all the racing experts had come
true. Imagine 20 winners.
La opinión., 1935-07-01

tos, es ell referente a la ley de am
nistia general a los expatriados pc
l~iticos, que segun todas las pro-
babilidades sera aprobado en- bre-
We.
Que ell P~residente Cardenas no
expedira personalmente la ley de
amnistia, considerable que dicha
ley corresponds solamente expedir
al congress-, fue 10 que Sc dijo hoy.
Sin embargo, ell ~presidente ordena
rs ell sobreseimiento de todas las
causas pendientes por rebellion, de
tai manera que todos los exiliados
poIiticos puedan resresar al pals
cuando gusten, sin tenor. de ser
aprehendidos y procesados.
En- las mismas fuentes Sc ase-
gura que manana ell Presidente
Cardenas dictara tambien, por con
ducto de la Secretaria de Goberna-
cion, ordenes a todas las autori-
dades de migracion en- la fronte-
"a, a fin de que den paso a todos
los exiliaGos amnistiados, sin ext
girles tramite alguno.
Finalmente, Sc sabe que ell via
jc del Sub -Secretario de Goberna-
cion Arroyo CHI, quien saldra ma
mana de Topic para Nogales, esta
conectado o ell regreso de los ex
patriados politicos q la repub,ica.
La opinión., 1935-07-01
NEGRI Sc CASA.
RA OTRA VEZ
United Press para LA OPINION

United Press para Ia OPINlON
MIA, Franeia, JUNO &c. Pola
Negri, ex-estrella polaca de la pam
ITALIA y ell gran amor" de Rodolfo
Valentino, anunclo hoy en- Ia no.
che aqui que .esta proxima a con-
traer matrimonio, siendo su futu-
no esposo un miembro del Parla-
mento ingles, cuyo nombre Sc ne
go q revelar la actriz.
Miss Negri Sc halla descansan-
do en- esta ciudaG despues de ter
minar su primera pelicula para Ia
compahia UFA, en- Alemania, ha-
eiendo ell papel principal en- la
obra "Mazurka", para la cual OBJ
tuvo permlso especial del Cancf-
Her Adolf Hitler, porque ell Minis
terio de Propaganda lie habfa pro-
hibido trabajar en- Alemania. Miss
Negri esta contratada por la UFA
para hacer otra pelicula.
Su proximo matrimonio sera eli
tercero de Ia actriz. Cuando tenfa
solo II amos de edad Sc case Ia
primera vez, con ell Condo Doms-
ky. Su segundo esposo fue ell Prin
cipe Sergio M'divani. de quien Sc
divorcio en- Paris, en- 1881.
La opinión., 1935-07-01
SURGE GRAVE.

Vie1e de la Ia. Pag.)
no Green que las relaciones entire
Russia y ell Mikado Sc encuentren de
masiado tirantes aunque Sc hizo hin
capie en- que ia denuncia de Russia,
hacienda aparecer a los soldados
japoneses como i%nvasores &c So
suelo. no es otra cosa sino una
propaganda en- favor de SUI BAN
dera, para desprestigiar al gobier-
no imperial de Japon', consiguien
do de csc modo la atencion mum
dial acerca de las actividades de
las tropas del imperio del Sol Ma
ciente en- la parte Septentrional de
la China.
FL actual conflieto es de carac
ter meramente commercial, puesto
que mientras los comerciantes ia
tratan de obtener oil con-
troll de la Mongolia exterior que
ha estado siendo dominada por la
invasion de los m%ercaderes rusos,
ell gobierno de Mosc1 trata de des-
prestigiar la labor de los prime
ros.
'Rusia estA llevando a cabo n
propaganda anti-iaponesa muy In
tensa. t-atando de hacer Greer al
mundo que ell Japon Sc gufa por
una politica de absorcion. En- cam
bio, 10 que sucede es u ell Japon
no trata sino de u mer
cados que justamente lie pertene-
Gen. reptile ell portavoz del de-
partamento diplomatico.