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Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
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LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY

Fair tonight and Friday with ov-
ercaSt in morning; seasOnable tenn
perature and humidity. little
change; gentle to moderate wind
mostly southeast to southwest.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18

San Diegos buried alive" man, had a
fire in his grave yesterday. Coming
events cast their shadows before"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18

Great Britain has ordered American
chorus girls out of the country. How
about retaliating with a ban on English
lecturers, Mr. Roosevelt?
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18

nobody dares ask: What was that
last line?"
One Of the recent Broadhurst
stories concerned the Frenchman
walking the streets Of London.
studying English. trying to pro-
nounce through, rough, cough. hic-
cough, plough and though. He hap
pened 10 look up and saw an cleo
tric sign: "Cavalcade, Pronounced
SUGGEST" So he gave it up and
went back to Marseilles.
Some historian Of the times
should write down with a dia-
monded pen in gold ink the name
OF Elaine Swenson, as a 100 per
cent American not only Of words
but deeds. For three years she has
been working, without pay, on the
preparation Of a 900-Word English
vocabulary for the use Of foreign
beginners in English. It might look
easy at the casual glance but
means no end of toll in counting
millions Of words. segregating.
making frequency tables and try
ing the vocabulary out in actual
practice. Her 9OQ-word newspaper
The American World. is permitted
in all prisons. She is with the
Language Research Institute.
buxom, good-natured smiling
Swedish girl from Seattle.
City interlude There's the blank,
placid peace on the face Of a Sal
Yation lassie. There's the appealing
serenity Of a congregation moving
out Of a Christian Science church.
There's the exalted vision Of a Ne
gro al a revival. nlumined. But if
you wish TO see a bit Of heaven on
earth watch a small boy who's just
found a nickel in the gutter. I be-
held the miracle this evening near
Bryant Park.
The bulliest line I've encountered
Of a description Of the Great White
Way was by Colette, the harum-
scarum French actress and novel
lst On her first night in the city
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18

Monterey county farmers expect
to harvest about 100000 sacks OF
wheat this season.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Fair tonight and Friday. bu-
morning overcast near coast. nor
nal temperature; moderate north
west wind off coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
TEN YEARS AGO
July IL, 1925

Two cases Of heat prostration
were reported in the county yester-
day.
The movement Of grapes contin-
ues TO be strong throughout the
valley.
Paul Shaw Laurence and Ted
Rumsey left today for the Citizens
Military Training camp at Del
Monte where they will be encamp-
ed for SIX weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
"DONT QUOTE
ME"
By United Press

WASHINGTON, July 18 UH -
Sen. Carter Glass had best keep his
queen bees away from Hawaii if he
wants to prevent interference with
their love life.
Glass inSistence that he didn't
want Henry Wallace, secretary Of
agriculture, monkeying around with
his queen bees was one of the high
lights of senate debate on the con-
troVersial AAA amendments.
In Hawaii IL develops, the gov
ernment had no qualms about in
terfering with matters. 1t was re-
yealed by the Pan-Pacific Press
bureau.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18

The annual wool pool of $1,000
pounds OF the Gem county. Idaho,
association sold for 25lz cents a
pound
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18

Speaking Of George Broadhursc.
he is stnl around popping in at
The Lambs and Players at intervals
and going up the gangplank seas
Onally for Europe He's more ami
able. his friends say with the
years. aad his fund of stories is
meXhaustlble He likes a corner
table in club around midnight
with old eronies where his yarns
ere a contagious patter, quip after
cuip Rut he has one fault He
drops his voice when lac comes to
ihe point Everybody laughs but
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
LOCAL IEMPERAIJRTs

Data compiled by Howard En-
mons, local observer Tor The United
States weather bureau.
Maximum yesterday .......-.... .Il5
Minimum today ............. a.
Reading at Noon Today
Temperature ........ 1O3
Humidity ..... "a
Reading at . a. m. Ioday
Temperature rs
Humidity ~
Reading at ) p. m. Yesterday
Temperature ......... 1c3
Humidity Observation-Disclosures. y
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18

A Chicago doctor has cut out his own
tonsils standing before a mirror. Bet that
bird can make swell bow tie.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18

The bulliest line I've encountered
Of a description Of the Great White
Way was by Colette, the harum-
scarum French actress and novel
ist. On her first night in the city
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18

1t seems that Hawaii has a
variety Of goose, known as the
Meme The birds exist nowhere
else in the world and now are
threatened with extinction.
Hoping to build up Hawaii's S
flocks, the territorial board of agri-
culture captured a few of the re-
naming NeneS with the idea of in
creasing their numbers.
The board gave the flock a fine
scientific pond putting in one
gander and dozen geese, as
chicken fanciers do with hens and
roosters.
Il doesn't look like that Meme
population-increase project will get
very far, however. The birds are
thriving but it develops that the
ganGer is homogeneous. He has
picked a mate and won't give any
OF the other geese a tumble. The
agricultural board is not idle, how
ever. 1t is considering taking steps
a perennial Washington problem
is that OF getting government en-
ployees to work and back home
again without taxing the citys
transportation problem to the break
ing point.
As a partial solution, some de-
partments have adopted staggered
hours TO spread the rush over a
greater period For instance, work
at the interior department begins at
a. m. instead of the customary
a. m.
Employees didn't like the system
very well at the start. Harold L..
IckeS, secretary of the interior,
polled his workers before putting in
the caller hour. Only q per cent
favored it, but it went in anyway.
After a years operation the de-
partmcnt was polled again. The
count showed II per cent favorable.
The early hour will be continued.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18

stove and uncovered the box in
which, nestled on soft cotton. was
the baby robin, its mouth wide op-
Smyrna times., 1935-04-18
Don't Use Your Head

The other day was idly turning
the pages of a magazine when /
saw the headlines Don't Use Your
Head" At once sat up and took
notice. Why only today one teach
er said, IF you would only think
a few minutes, you would be able
to do it." Or "If you would re-
member what you have learned you
would be able to do this easily"
All of which means, "Just use
your head and you will be able to
overcome these difficulties"
/ read the article searching for
some modern invention which
would write themes or do the home
work for the pupils, but in vain.
So I guess the pupils will have to
use their heads, or try to while
everyone else is using some mod
ern invention instead of his mind.
Ruth Moffitt.
Smyrna times., 1935-04-18
PIT. A. ADVANCE
IN DELAWARE
Membership Increase of 80 in
Two Years Reported at
Meeting in Dover
MEETING IN CHURCH

Membership in the Parent Teach
er Associations of the State in
creased Is per cent during the past
year and 35 per cent during the
past two years, according to re-
ports submitted, Saturday, to the
twenty-fourth annual meeting of
the association held in Peoples
Christian Church, Dover. Reports
showed increased interest and ad-
vancement in the work There
were 369 delegates registered, 1876
from New Castle County, 27 from
Kent and 146 from Sussex. John
B. Hutton, local attorney and an
official of the church welcomed the
visitors. Mrs. Robert E. Lewis,
vice-chairman presided over the
morning session while Mrs. Robert
P. Robinson, of Newport, president
of the organization presided at the
meeting of the afternoon session.
Reports of standing committees
took up much of the time of the
session Miss Eta j. Wilson, one
of the officers of the association
made the announcement of the total
increase in membership of 35 per
cent during the past two years.
She also announced that Seaford
with 532 has the largest member
ship of any association in the State
while Lewes with 526 is a close
second. Greetings were extended
by John Shilling, of the State De
partment of Education and by Dr.
A. c. Jost, of the State Board of
Health. Miss Sabina Kowalska, of
the Wilmington Music School gave
several violin solos. In the roll
call of banner associations, 16 in
New Castle County, 5 in Kent and
8 in Sussex were honored. The
Board of Managers of the State
Association held a meeting during
the noon recess which was followed
by luncheon in the church dining
hall. From 1 to 1:30 o'clock there
were sectional meetings. In the
afternoon in addition to further re-
ports the feature was an address
by DR.. George H. Preston, State
Commissioner of Mental Hygiene
in Maryland, who talked on The
Challenge of Modern Parenthood.
Smyrna times., 1935-04-18
Smyrna High
School .ACtil,itieS
Contributed Articles By Pupils Covering Literary
Efforts Sports and News of School Interest

bright scholars. But we don't have
a school paper, a paper written and
composed by the pupils themselves.
This would help to bind us togeth-
er in school spirit more than ever.
Half of what goes on in the school
is missed by a majority of people.
Parents, friends, helpers and those
interested in the school have no
idea of what is going on behind
these walls. 1t would give the pu-
pills newspaper experience, and give
us a place to put articles, such as
sports, ETC., where we can all see
them. 1t is my estimation, and
others, that very few peope read
all the articles. Most of them are
dry and written on subjects that
have no learning or relation to
school life at all
We could compose the paper, all
contribute articles, and sell it af-
ter it was printed at the printing
shop for five cents. This would, or
should, pay for the printing. I am
sure boys and girls would gladly
contribute their services.
We could have reporters" COW
ering the sports, society, theatre,
doings of various individuals and
then have space for jokes, essays,
etc.
Charles Thompson
Smyrna times., 1935-04-18
MODERN HOTEL. FOR DOVER
Philadelphia Interests Consider
Plans For New Building

The Metropolitan Hotel Corpora
ton which operates .the Ritten-
house Hotel, Chestnut at 22nd
street, the Marlyn Hotel, Walnut
at 40th street, the Gladstone Hotel,
11th at Pine street and the Wash
ington Hotel at 7th and Dauphin
street, in Philadelphia, has about
decided to build modern, hundred
room, four story hotel with ele-
vator service, in Dover. Dover
Council at it's meeting last week
complied with substantially all the
company's requests and architects
were in Dover to make preliminary
sketches. The new hostelry is to
be located on lot east of the City
Hall, which has a frontage of ap-
proximately 300 feet on the Plaza
with a depth of $50 feet. The To-
cation is owned by the City and is
to be given the hotel company. The
structure which is to be modern in
every detail, with hundred bed
roms and baths, as well as private
dining rooms, is to be of colonial
architecture in keeping with the
other buildings which it adjoins.
Smyrna times., 1935-04-18
Why L Welcome Spring

Away with these wintry scenes.
There is a south wind rising; the
cold, gray clouds open; the sun
breaks through. Then comes =
warm shower. A day or two Of
such showers and sunshine win
bring blossoms upon the trees and
birds from their nests. All this
means that spring is here or on it.
way.
The flowers creep up with the
help Of nature The swallow la.
come to sing before the daffodils
We see him darting through the
air. The blue bird in the apple
tree is prophesying spring. All
things are new, even the buds and
leaves. Last years nests, that are
beneath the caves, are vacant
In the spring afternoons, one car
stroll in the shade of bright, green
parks or along lanes in the coun-
try 1t is very pleasant to sit or
the bank Of a river watching the
fish rise to catch flies skimming
over the water. Each bird pour,
forth his song of Joy. Children
play on the soft green grass. 9th
ers pick fresh flowers, while the
sun shines warm. Spring is an en-
joyable season because it brings
happiness to all.
Mary Anna Wright.
Grade Eight
Smyrna times., 1935-04-18
Base Ball Schedule

The baseball schedule of the
school is nearing completion. AL
teams scheduled for home games
at Clayton will play on the schoo
diamond. Home games as a rule
begin at 4 o'clock. The schedule
follows:
April 18, Leipsic, away.
April 26, Frederick, away.
May 1, st. Georges, away.
May s, st. Georges, here.
May 16, DUPONT, here.
May "a, Mt. Pleasant, away.
May %, Frederica, here
Home and home games have also
been arranged with the second OF
Jr. team of the Sudlersville High
School. Suggested dates Of May
20, here, and May 13, there, have
been sent to them and a reply is
expected soon.
The boys second team will also
play some games all of which vii
begin at 4 p. m. Although incle-
ment weather has kept us off the
diamond the most of this week, we
hope to get in some real practice
soon.
Smyrna times., 1935-04-18
CATCHING CRABS IN STATE
No License Required and Nothing
i'm Game and Fish Laws Prevent

IF anybody thinks he has to get
a license before going grabbing this
summer, he is mistaken. There is
nothing in the new game and fish
laws just passed and now in force
that requires anyone to buy a fish
ing license in order to catch crabs
with hand lines and dip nets"
This statement has been made by
the Delaware Game and Fish Pro-
tective Association for the purpose,
it explains, of clearing up what
seems to be a misunderstanding in
the minds of many person, mostly
in lower Delaware, who think that
crabs come under the fishing-lic-
ense requirement. Grabs under
the law are not classed as fish,, the
statement continues, land hence it
is not necessary to purchase a fish
ing license to catch them. OF
course, one should bear in mind the
other laws in force relating to
Grabbing, such as the law prohib-
iting the sale of hard crabs caught
/ in certain waters and the law
which limits the number of hard
crabs a person may catch in day.
But no one needs to fear it will
cost him license fee to enjoy the
ever popular sport Of going crab
bing."
Smyrna times., 1935-04-18
Thriftiness

Every thirty days the report
cards are distributed among the
student body, bearing on them the
grades received in the different
subjects. This is on one side, and
on the other side are different top
les to be marked telling our ability
to do different things and our ac-
tions in some cases. For instance
there is dependability, promptness,
courtesy, cheerfulness, cooperation,
etc, and one to take notice of is
thrift.
In our room there are thirty pu-
pills, and only two of these get &c"
on their reports in thrift and the
remainder get ''P". The reason is
depression, say the pupils.
Yes, I agree with them, it is very
true, but every class one goes in,
one must walk to the back of the
room, thence to his seat; where as,
if one were able to walk in the
room and go to his seat the short
est way he could save that much
shoe leather and put the money
which it costs in the School Saw
ing Fund, so the dear teachers
could give him &C" in Thrift.
Let's all make a thrift drive, so
we all can get CO.
r BRADLEY
Smyrna times., 1935-04-18
Do You Remembers

l. When Virginia Mills was
captain of Clayton's Girls Dodge
Ball Team for 3 years.
2. When Frank Cole kicked the
ball for a goal to beat dupont in
soccer.
8. The chorus of our first oper-
eta The Tea-House of Sing Lo."
A. When we had our lunch room
in our own school building.
5. The day the corner stone OF
our new school was layed.
Funny Bone TickIers
Actual Glass Room Happenings
Mr. Hickman, to the Seventh
Grade: Now, Glass. you must re-
member that the State Tests stress
accuracy as well as speed. Be sure
that you work fast, and that your
problems are correct"
Bright young Seventh Grade
Boy: Gee, even tests are getting
streamlined."
A supervisor was visiting a class
that was in the midst of a study OF
the Anglo-Saxons. In this period
the pupils were making pottery
suggestive of this race. The su-
pervisor approached young Miss
and said: We'll, young lady, l see
that you are a potter"
mo sir" replied the fair one. l
am an Anglo Saxon
Smyrna times., 1935-04-18
Hints on Conversation

Are you ever foundered in sea
of thoughts for conversation If
you are, just follow these general
rules.
Rule 1. Mention the weather;
no matter what kind of day it is,
you are sure to get response.
Rule 2. Say anything at all
about the depression, and you will
immediately know its causes and
cures. The topic is so old and we
have heard so much about it that
we scarcely need to think what
comes next. just like repeating
poetry
Rule 3. Mention one of your
troubles and you will find that you
have brought up d long and tire
some conversation. Your own diff
ficulties will seem trifiing when
compared to those of others. (they
range all the way from broken
hearts to broken bones.)
My Utopia would be the good old
days when there were no depres-
sions and but few worries; when
Alley Oop rode his dinosaur, and
fruit and meat grew wild.
There is one topic that has been
and always will be present, and
that is the weather. Even CEN
tury from now when all of us have
forgotten the topics of depression,
suicide, love, murder, and war
there will be the old topic of the
weather and if our friends and en-
emies look high or low for us
(those are two places we may
comment on the mild climate or
the extreme heat.
Homer Goldsborough
Two little lambs and their mothers
Came running from the neighbor's
field
They frisked about for while
Then it began to rain.
The lambs sought shelter in the
shrubbery
Away from their mothers
They shivered and nestled together
And it rained on.
The mothers baaed and baaed
For the little lambs to come
Then the rain stopped
And the sheep went along home.
Mildred Simpler
Smyrna times., 1935-04-18
FORMER JUDGE
COCHRAN DEAD
Edwin r. Cochran, Jr., of Del
aware Bar, Suffered Skull
Fracture in Accident
HIT CROSSING STREET

Edwin r. cochran native of Mid
dletown, former judge of the Mum
icipal Court, of Wilmington, died
Saturday morning at his home,
1911 Rodney street, Wilmington,
after being injured by an automo-
bile on Friday, March Is. He would
have been 6S years old next May
27. Suffering from fractured
skull, Judge Cochran had been in
the Delaware Hospital two weeks
following the accident which hap
pened at Delaware avenue and Ad-
ans street. He was crossing the
street at the time. The automo-
bile was operated by Leslie t. Max
well, of GOA West Twenty-seventh
street, Wilmington. Leaving the
hospital, Judge Cochran was taken
to his home and showed improve
ment for a while. However, he
suffered a relapse several days ago.
Judge Cochran, a Democrat, was
appointed to the judgeship of Mu-
nicipal Court by Governor Ebe w.
Tunnel on October %, 1900. He
served as judge II years. Previous
to his appointment he had been
deputy judge of Municipal Court
for four years. Judge Cochran was
born at Middletown on May 81,
1867, son of Edwin r. Cochran.
His father was at one time Clerk
of the Peace Of New Castle Coun-
ty. Judge Cochran received his
early education at Middletown Ac-
years at Swarthmore Preparatory
School, and then entered Lafayette
College, where he took a special
course for three years. In 1888 he
entered the law office of Bradford
and Vandegrift. He continued his
education by becoming student at
the Law School of the University
of Pennsylvania, from. which he
was graduated in 1891. He was
admitted to the bar of New Castle
County in 1892. In 1897-98, Judge
Cochran was attorney for the
House of Representatives. He was
also attorney for the Trustees of
the Poor for five years, and served
a four year term as secretary of
the Democratic County Executive
Committee. He was a member of
the old Wilmington Club, Eden
Lodge of Odd Fellows, the Young
Mems Democratic Club, the Demo-
cratic League and the Bayard Le-
gion. Judge Cochran had two
farms, one near Middletown and
the other in Maryland along the
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.
His father was noted peach
grower of the Peninsula. Judge
Cochrane is survived by his wife
and one daughter, Mrs. Katherine
Cochran Taylor, Of Ardmore, Pa,
and two sisters, Mrs. Ada C. Hard
castle, of near Reading, Pa, and
Mrs. Blanche Pierce. of Wellesley,
Hills, Mass.
Smyrna times., 1935-04-18
An Apology

In a recent article entitled DO
You Remember, we included an
item that asked 'Dou you remem-
Der when the Clayton Music Team
of Nancy Slaughter, Marshall
Clough and Clarabelle Solloway
won the Team Award for the State
of Delaware in the Music Memory
Contest at Dover" We should
have placed the name of Flo Hol-
lett on the list as one of the repre-
sentatives of our school.
Smyrna times., 1935-04-18
Yellow Jackets Sleuth
for This Game Warden

Hanford, Calif.-Because a game
warden knew the habits of yellow
jackets, sawmill caretaker was
fined 500 on game law charge.
The warden, George Smalley. no.
ticed flight of yellow Jackets, all
headed In the same direction. He
traced the buzzing line to the saw
mill and found two pieces of out
of-season venison which had attract
ed the insects.
NJ. Saltz, caretaker, was arrested,
taken into Justice court and fined
500 when he pleaded guilty to pos
sessing venison Illegally.
Smyrna times., 1935-04-18
The Life of a Grocery Clerk

To a grocery clerk there are two
types of people in this world, those
who are pleasant to wait on those
who are not. It is interesting to
watch the reaction of a clerk when
he spies an old crouch coming in
the store. You can tell by the ex-
preston Of the clark and the man.
ner of service that if there were
any way possible of avoiding this
person the clerk would do it. What
a different story when a pretty girl
comes to be waited on. The clerks
are all smiles, and each one tries to
outdo the others in attempting to
wait on her. You can believe me
when I say that many a romance
has been started in a little grocery
store.
Frank Ross.
Smyrna times., 1935-04-18
What Next.

Tests! Book reports! Themes
Themes Book reports! Testsi
What next
have a moments peace, than we
are again disheartened because of
some more bad news. If we have
just finished studying for a test or
reading a book to report on, we
are notified that we are to have
written nice long theme in very
short time.
Finally we are all caught up
again with back work.
Ida May Wright.
Smyrna times., 1935-04-18
How Trees Beautify Our Highways

/ think that / shall never see
A poem as lovely as tree.
These words spoken by Joyce
Kilmer in the favor of the tree by
man. Though Kilmer spoke the
truth few people realize that 1t has
MANY uses besides firewood. Lets
imagine it is June and take an I'M
aginary trip down the highway.
The first tree we pass is an Old
old, oak that has weathered many
a blast. what gooo is it?" you
ask. For one thing it prevents
erosion, or the wearing away OF the
soil by winds and rain, l reply
Secondly, it inhales carbon dloxlde
which we exhale, and exhales OK
vgen which we inhale. We all
know that oxygen is essential 10
life.
AS we go along we notice many
trees. Some remembered for their
blossoms which are mostly very
sweet smelling, some for thelr
shade and so on. For their shane
the maple, oak, and ash are noteo
while the cedar and pine are noteu
for their agreeable odor. We take
notice of the magnolia, dog wooo'
Smyrna times., 1935-04-18
Bit IS o. Blarnev

Bits O. Blarney' is anl
erela q be given by tha|
and Eighth Grades on n
7::45 p. m. The scene y
entrance to a private es
carelaker's cottage can b
the background. /
The characters are as 4
Peggy, a much adored /
Marion Jane Horn.
Patrick, in love with
Leonard Pinder.
Robert, also in love wia
Theodore Rohman.
Mary, in love with Robs
Bickling.
Mike O'Noole. the d
Leslie Silpath.
Agnes, Jeanette Loder.
Rosie, Rose Clayvile.
There is also a chorus
and girls consisting of Julj
Catherine Wright, Ernd
Laura Smith, Edna Ennis
Reed, Grace Salter, al
Frances Walker and |
Hutchison, Rhesa TValtunl
lock, Charles Salter, John |
and Charles Poore.
Don't forget to come 4
an evenings entertained
Mary Anna \
Grad