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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-05
POLICE
BILL IS OPPOSED
BYD|STR|CT HEADS
Report to Mrs. Norton Hits
Proposal to Restrict Chief
Appointment.
SNOW REMOVAL ACT
AMENDMENT URGED
Law Now Permits Suits Against
City by Persons Injured
in Street Falls.
BY JAMES E. CHM.

Opposition to the Jenckes bill pro-
viding for the appointment of the
major and superintendent of the
Metropolitan police force from among
the assistant superintendent and in
spectors was voiced by the District
Commissioners today in a report to
Chairman Norton of the House District
Committee.
The Commissioners pointed out that
under existing law they may select an
outsider" but at the same time eX-
pressed the opinion that the super
intendent should be chosen from the
ranks.
The Jenckes bill, however, the Com
missioners said, would tie their hands
and prevent the best results from a
public standpoint.
Would Amend Snow Act.
The Special Crime Investigating
Committee of the House in its original
report recommended the appointment
of an outsider" to replace Police
Supt. Ernest w. Brown, but that was
eliminated in revision ordered by the
full District Committee.
The Commissioners also sent to
Chairman Norton proposed amend
ment to the District snow removal act
which would relieve the municipality
OF any liability for persons injured in
falls upon the ice or snow or on any
sidewalk or public highway.
Because Of the language of the
present act" the Commissioners said,
"a number of actions for damages
have been filed against the District.
1t Is hard to believe that Congress
ever intended that the act should be
the basis for suits against the District
but rather what Congress intended
was to require property owners to re-
move snow and ice from the abutting
sidewalk"
Doctors Protest Received.
The proposed amendment reads:
THAT nothing in this act shall be
constructed as creating any liability
oSoAAAS1 Vic OStIlCI III IdVOI VI any
person or persons injured in falls on
snow. ice or sleet, on sidewalks or
public highways"
Besides the reports from the Com
missioners, Chairman Norton received
from the American Medical Associa-
ton a vigorous protest against a pro-
vision in the bill for prevention of
blindness in infants born In the Dis
trict. which would exclude its effect
on persons treating human ailments
by prayer or spiritual means as an
exercise or enjoyment of religious
freedom"
That provision, the association de-
clared, seriously impairs the usefulness
of the bill and will lessen its effec-
tiveness in the prevention of blindness
among infants.
The association explained that blind
ness in infants is the result of infec-
ton and there is not sciptilla of
evidence anywhere that it has ever
been averted or cured or that 1t can
be averted or cured by prayer or
spiritual means as an exercise or
enjoyment of religious freedom"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-05
TRAFFIC PENALTIES
INCREASE BY $50, 900
Figures for Year Show Autoists
Gave Up 1913, 162 for
Violating Rules.

An increase Of nearly $4,000 in
the amount Of collateral posted by
law-breaking motorists at the Trafnc
Bureau during the last fiscal year
over the corresponding period for
1884 is shown in figures just released.
In the fiscal year ended June 80
violators deposited $213.162. an in
crease of $59,439 over the first six
months of 1894, when $i5s,f23 went
into the police golfers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-05
Esperanto Glass Opens.

The Washington chapter Of the
Esperanto Association of North Amer
lea, will sponsor free classes in Esper-
anto, the international language. The
first class opens tonight at 7:30 o'clock
at Central High School.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-05
Six Hurt in Cuban Storm.

MATANzAS, Cuba. July tP.-Six
persons were SERIOUSLY injured, num-
Der of houses were blown down and
crops were damaged when a heavy
windstorm struck Manguito yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-05
THEATER ACT SIGNED
President Completes Action Of
Art Patrons Measure.

President Roosevelt today signed an
act of Congress permitting the incor-
poration of the American National
Theater and Academy. This measure
does nothing more than grant per-
mission for a Federal incorporation
charter for the academy.
This legislation was advocated by a
group of theater and art patrons hav-
ing as their objective the building up
both of appreciation for and better
development of a truly American
legitimate theater.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-05
20 DRIVERS ARRESTED
State Police Stage Drive on
Drinking Motorists. 49,

BY Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
WALDORF, Md, July State po-
lice here are believed to have set q
record yesterday when they arrested
20 persons for drunken driving. Pa
trolman z. B. Danerbower alone ar
rested IL. q
Despite heavy holiday tfafac, only
one minor accident WAS reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09
NOTABLE SERVICE
GOES UNSUNG

One of the most worthwhile enter
prises in Imperial county, while not en-
tirely unseen by the public eye, has
achieved little of prominence it deserves.
OF all the federal governments many
agencies tied directly or indirectly to the
national relief program, it is perhaps the
most basically sound. There is hardly
a person who cannot tell you, with only
the initials to go on, what SERA, PWA
or WPA stand for, and what they at
tempt to accomplish. The number Is
considerably greater who do not know
the meaning of another set of initials
MRS.
Yet the National Unemployment Ser
cice, directed in Imperial county by Chan
Livingston, is the spear-point of the ad-
ministration's program to put the job
less back into private industry. 1t is the
governments employment office. where
any man or woman may go and be as
sured that every effort will be made to
locate a suitable Job.
Imperial county's experience with
MRS has been a happy one. The ideals
motivating management of the office are
the ideals to which Imperial Valley has
clung since it first became something
more than desert. A desire to give ev-
cry man an opportunity, without hamper
ing him. has marked operation of MRS
here. Success of the office has followed
equal consideration of the problems not
only of workers but of employers.
Cooperation has been another keynote
in service rendered the community by the
unemployment office. Partially through
the efforts of Livingston, anCl partially
because of the cooperation of County Di-
rector Homer T. Miller of the State
Emergency Relief Administration, activ-
tiles of MRS have resulted in a marked
decrease in the number of persons on re-
lief in Imperial county. Both agencies
have cooperated to the fullest extent with
farmers and other employers of the val
ley to assure maximum of efficiency
which means saving to the taxpayer.
Most spectacular duty of MRS has been
assignment of men to jobs on the ALL
American canal. Hundreds of valley
laborers and skilled workers have been
sent out by Livingston to work on the gil
gantic project. The problems of canal
contractors are the problems of the re-
employment office. In addition, the
office has had complete control of as
signments to force account sector of the
canal, where contractors have no hand.
1t is triumph for Livingston that there
have been no large-scale complaints,
either from contractors or laborers.
Summarized, the duties of MRS are
these-to fill assignments to private en-
ployment from relief rolls, to Locate men
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09

of the Lonesome Pine" in natural
color. and the Hollywood studio.
He is semi-official shopper for
members of the troupe.
When he pulled into the studio
yesterday with a load of film, his
shopping list ran something like
this:
For Fred MacMurray-A pound
of Players Blend tobacco and a
dozen razor blades.
For Sylvia Sidney-Electric pad
Cto warm her feet at night, a bot
tie of April Showers cologne, all
nwe Ray Noble records and a box
of Rye Crisp.
For Cameraman Duke Green-A
bottle of bicarbonate of soda.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 8. U.P) -
Just a pair of gullivers on a cooks
tour - Herbert Hirst and A. D.
Schroeder.
Annually they travel 5000 miles
to take pictures. They snap 5000
stills each a year, and most of
them are the Kind that no self
respecting photographer would keep
in his album.
Hirst is head of the location de-
partment at the RKO-Radio studios
Schroeder his assistant For 12
years Hirst has been hobbling back
to the studio loaded down with
PICTURES of houses. trees, barns,
junkyards. bridges, street corners
fences. sWamps, country railroad
stations and uninteresting bits of
landscape.
It's His Job
It's not his hobby; it's a job.
Steel filing cases in Hirst's office
contain $4,000 folders, carefully in
dexed and oss-indexed. The fold
ers contain every type of setting
that a director could ask, and
Hollywood directors are eXacting.
Suppose Cecil B. Won Sternberg,
preparing a script for Frozen
Heels decides he wants New
England colonial home. a section of
the Maine coast or an Argentine
pampas for his settings.
He calls Hirst, and Hirst re-
spends with three or 20 or 100
stills from his files, each contain
ing an index as to where it can
be found, the distance from the
studio, the best roads, rental price,
housing Accommodations in the vicin-
ity and other vital statistics. Cecil
B. can take his pick.
May Reproduce
The nearest location is chosen,
as a rule. TO save expense. Some
times the studio art department
can reproduce the setting on the
lot, but spectacular backgrounds
are expensive 20 initiate.
Technicians are gradually beat
ing this game by progress shots.
A cameraman will be sent to OBJ
tain a shot of a New York skyline
from a ferryboat. The film later
is projected on translucent screen,
before which the action takes place
on a studio-built ferryboat while
the cameras grind again. l defy
you to spot the deception.
If This be Treason
1t was so cold the other morn
ing that the alligator used in
Gentle Julia had to be warmed
up before it could go through its
routine for the camera.
Jane Withers, the star of this
goth Century-Fox film, has a COL
lection of insects, animals and rep
tiles which she releases in the
midst of garden party.
An overnight drop Of tempera-
ture left the amphibian in a state
of suspended animation. Archie
Beckingsale, custodian Of the mena-
gerie, revived the alligator by hold
ing him in the warming rays of
a l0O0-candle-power lamp for Is
minutes.
Linguistic Singer
Marta Eggerth will sing tunes
in Song of JOY" in four languages
- Spanish, French, German and
English Constance Bennett
who hasn't made a picture for
M-G-M in a year, is washed up
at that studio Ring Lardner
jr., comes west to write publicity
for David Selznick Chic Sales
next two-reeler will be "A Tribute
to a Dog" from the speech of the
late Senator Vest
Warmers has given Kay Francis
a new three-year contract
Midsummer Nights Dream has
crossed $241 900 in II key cities
in II weeks. That's about 20 per
cent of the coast Gary Cooper
didn't shoot any wild boar in Mex-
leo John Halliday leaves for
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09
New 7 ofk
DAY
by
DAY
%-OO.McLn1yre
by
DAY

NV divining rod of suspicion
twitches when strangers on trains,
aboard ship, or indeed anywhere, be- >
gin conversation without lntroduc-
ton. Especially when they overflow
with friendliness. I sat next one at
Music Hall He chatted amiably at
the intermission and because he look
ed as slick and successful as the Blue
Train I catalogued him as Walllng-
ford and was unnecessarily grumpy.
A half block from the theatre touch
on the arm. MY amiable friend. L
think YOU dropped this" he said. 1t
was a silk muffler, gift OF senti-
mental value. Before l could thank
him he was gone and l stood a fool
transfixed. TableauX!
How proud writer's are over sud
den writing success. Governor Nor =
ris writes me of his enthusiasm for
the showing of Avn Rand, who at 20
has a play on Broadway and book
on the presses. A Russian girl who
mastered writing beautiful English
in three years. She asked Morris to
criticize her first novel. Except
mending a split infinitiVe, he found
nothing he did not wish he might
have done himself. Fun-writing a
column like this Of miscellany. Re-
member those home town paper
filters? At the bottom Of the leading
Page l story: women. outnumber
men two to one in Siam" Or: THE
| fork billed nut-hatch has become SO
rare that the Audubon Society knows
but a single pair in the United
| States"
It's only when work bears down
that a long abandoned cigaret habit
plaques. At the moment I feel few
deep inhaleS-like those dizzying
drags I used to indulge before break
fast-might uproot a few fancies
from a tuck in memory. There was a
time I automatically lighted Gig
aret before answering the telephone.
you know, to pep up palaver and get
off things. It's literary fiXation that
to be fluent one needs drink and
nicotine. How about Kathleen Nor
ris and Edna Ferber, who do neitherP
The Weedy young messenger, who
from the aroma, is Sneaking off few
puffs himself on the sly, peers in with
an inquiring glance at the clock.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09

NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-It's Ais p.
m. and a messenger from the syndi-
cate sits outside waiting. Unless he
delivers this column to Times
Square office by o'clock, it will not
appear in print. Which might be
minor worry TO readers but Sleep
less night for me.
Not in 20 years have I ever been
left at the post and I won't TO-DAY.
To make it tougher, had a page OF
notes cached in suit that went TO
the cleaners this morning and the
servant who took it is gone for the
dav and don't know the cleaner
address.
DELAYED this chore because
thought it would be cinch with
those notes. My opinion Of John o.
Hara's book, "Butterfield 8" will PAD
out a few lines. Written to shock the
reader. And after 70 pages l opened
the windows and sent it out to the
night garbage man. He thinks ltS
swell. Or perhaps sWill.
This writing against time is some
what a Maskelyne and DeVant trlcK
making things appear out OF thln
air. A wave of the wand and cas-
cade of paragraphs! And out OF the
torrent one hopes for but rarely gets
real pearl, one that fits slickly IN
the mind like grape in the mouth
One may always resort to those
columnar cliches. Chucking in a
comma shifting sentence that makes
different meanings. Thus: Woman,
without her, man would be a saw
age" And: Woman, without her
man, would be a savage" And what
modern writer touches for gran
deur the Biblical description of a
depression-"the years the slocust
hath eaten?"
A lost notation comes to me but
the source I cannot recall. A fel-
low in early 30's on a honeymoon
ocean trip. In the brilliantly lit din
ing room the second night out, he
suddenly grabbed his brides hand
Don't be alarmed he whispered
They'll have those lights fixed in q
moment. They often go out with the
roll of ship!" She asked what in the
world he was talking about. Then he
realized. He had been suddenly
stricken blind.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09
DEPEND DIRECTLY ON WHEAT

MELFORT, Sask., U.P)-A total
of 275,0O0 Canadian families, rep
resenting 100000 men women and
children, depend directly on wheat
growing for a living, Hon. Robert
Weir, minister of agriculture, es-
timated in a speech here.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS
CRIME WAVE
NEEDS DISCIPLINE

The news report of two little seven
year-od girls who made miniature
crime wave in Pasadena Thursday would
have been amusing had it not been so re-
vealing of the disgraceful lack of home
discipline and training existing in fam
lilies today.
The children stole a tricycle. and a
pair of roller skates, ran away from
home. subssted on fruit and candy stolen
from stands and finally were caught in
their hiding place in beauty shop.
I'VE saw lots of policemen they said,
"but we just laughed at them because
they didn't see us
Interesting indeed would be study of
the home training of these children to
discover how two youngsters could have
such little regard for law, honesty and
respect for the rights of others.
If they had no conception of these
things at seven years, it seems almost
certain, according to psychologists and
child experts, that they never will have.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09
GRAB BAG

What is the Green Mountain
State?"
What African Negro republic
owed its founding to the efforts OF
Americans?
Who was U. S. vice president
under President Coolidge?
Correctly Speaking
A comma should not be used with
parenthesis marks unless it would
be required were there no paren-
thetic matter.
Words of Wisdom
The picture Of a shadow IS
positive thing-Locke.
Answers to Foregoing Questions
/. Vermont.
2. Liberia founded in 1922.
8. Charles C. Dawes of Illinois.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09

Published every evening Except Sunday by The
Imperial Valley Publishing Company, 625 State
street, El Centre California. Telephone 500. Full
leased wire United Press Association. Entered at
FL Centro, California post office as second-class
matter. Member California Newspaper Publish
ers Association. NJ. c. Mogensen, national ad-
vertising representatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09

From Sacramento come twin dis
patches that an employe of the state
printing department has been purchas-
ing automobile tires at state discount
and selling them to individuals at a
profit, and that the state no longer will
accept personal checks for new automo-
bile license plates. The state has been
in the rubber business in big way, it
seems.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09

missouri mules can't stand African
heat" That's odd for a breed that sneers
at muledriver's fire and birthstone.
Tobacco Road it seems, is a play
and not an anti-nicotine sketch showing
smoking youngsters treading the lane to
perdition.
Those Manhattan police who failed to
fathom the gangsters delirious state
ments might have called in Gertrude
Stein.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09

A Los Angeles woman is suing her
parents-in-law for $4,000 for alternating
their sons affection for her. It's funny
how the value of mans affection al
ways seems to fit the size of the aliena-
tors pocketbook.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09

Joe Louis, uncrowned heavyweight
champion, has been matched to battle
Isador Castanaga at Havana soon. Ever
heard of Isador? Sounds like bull fight
from here.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09

for public works jobs, and to maintain
an even balance in community employ
ment
The job is no easy one-but it has been
we'll done
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09

Charles Ferguson returned home
Sunday from Inyokern, accom-
panied by Mrs. Ferguson.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09

They Never Change
Movie people never change
they're always wanting something.
Joe Holfner, studio chauffeur
has been driving 200 miles a day
between Big Bear Lake, where Wal
ter Wanger is filming The Trail
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
November 9. 1920

Mrs. Hudson and Mrs. Wachte
OF Imperial were in town yester =
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09
ONE-ARMED PIANIST WINS

WINNIPEG, Man, UP) y Miss
Mar jorie Num-, one-armed anna
teur pianist, won the semi-final
of an amateur contest here.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09
Looking Backward
What The Press Files Tell of Imperial Valley This
Date in Past Years
TEN YEARS AGO
Move mber 9. 1925

Mrs. VIII Meyer of Meloland left
for Los Angeles this morning with
friends from. CaleXico.
NJ Gnnr.rn nnrrrnr, rrrnc IN Il
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09

H. c. Suttle, Of Los Angeles, is
valley visitor, looking after his
property interests here.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09
TWENTY YEARS AGO
November 9, 1915

Manager Joe Seymour last night
announced that season ticket will
be awarded the person suggesting
the most appropriate name for the
E. Centro baseball outfit.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09
Leicester Wagner
Strolls Thru HOLLYWOOD

New Zealand in two weeks to fish
for sharks
Imperial Valley press., 1935-11-09
Words of Wisdom


The picture of a shadow IS
positive thing.-Locke.
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e ST. n E. 640--Large. bright front
room with alcove for Ink. reasonable
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CLEARANCE SALE
TRUCKS
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Lowest prices Attractive terms
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coMM MN S;S E. g:,. g. n,0Dasa %
he received at Room 500. District Building.
publicly publ opened pe as follows: Cs) On July
10th, 1885 for improving Rock Creek and
Potomac Parkway. N. W. from K Street
to Que Street with about $500 tons OF
about $4,000 square yards of reinforced
cement concrete base course and about
1900 linear feet of combination cement
22nd. 1885 for grading. paving. ,curbing
and otherwise improving the roadway of
Foxhall Road, N. W. from Canal Road to
Reservoir Road with about 10000 square
ment and about 5000 linear feet of cement
concrete curbing. Plans and specifications
may be obtained at Room 427. District
Building. The attention of bidders is di-
Mub-letting or assigning the contract and
to the use of Domestic Materials. also TO
the following. Bids are requested on the
basis that if subsequent Federal legislation
shall require observance of minimum
wages and or maximum hours of employ
ment and or limitation as to age of en-
ployees, in the performance of Government
contracts. the contract for this project and
any subcontracts entered into Hereunder
shall be subject to modification to accord
with such statutory requirements to the
extent authorized or required by law. "
Tho minimum wage paid TO all skilled
labor employed on each contract shall be
not less than one dollar and ten (S11O)
cents per hour. The minimum wage paid
10 all intermediate labor employed on each
contract shall be not less than sixty five
I(S0.65) cents per hour The minimum
wage paid to all unskilled labor employed
on each contract shall be not less than
forty-five (SO45) cents per hour. The
Director of Unemployment for the District
of Columbia is Mr.. Edgar b. YOund. $50
Indiana Avenue. N. W.. washington D. c.
COMMISSIONERS, D. c.. Washington, July
8, 1885. Sealed proposals will be re-
ceived at. Room $50, District Building nm
ill 2 o'clock p. M. July 20. 1885. for
furnishing Textbooks for the Public
schools. b. C. For specifications and in
formation apply to Room 800. District
Building.
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- OWEN PL. n E.. 1119-Nicely furnished
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