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Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18

, non-fiction is attributable to the
lists.
The library was glad to join in the
sponsoring of excellent monthly
book reviews by Mrs. Virginia Cole
Pritchard of Los Angeles.
New Quarters Planned
With the addition of two steel
book stacks, all available floor space
in the library building is now
utilized The librarian is glad to be
able to note in this report that the
city council together with the
library board, has under considera-
ion the erection of a civic building
designed to accommodate tn e
library, as we'll as municipal offices.
Mr. Claude Beelman of Los An
Gales has been retained to prepare
plans for the projected building.
The steady increase in public use
of the library, evidenced in the fact
that our circulation per borrower is
IT (whereaS the average circulation
per borrower in other libraries is
seldom more than 81, and the major
part the library plays in the cul-
tural life of the community, makes
the possibility of a new building
designed to afford proper space for
reading rooms and the book collec-
ton a most gratifying announce
ment.
Books IN the Library
Total volumes in the library
July l, 1884 ............................ 27,370
Books added by purchase
1885
Books added by gift 80.
Books added by binding SO.
Total volumes added during
the year ................................ l,7l3
Books lost &c.
Books discarded 834.
Total volumes withdrawn
during the year .................... 900
Total volumes in the library
July l, 1885 ....,...................... %, l83
Membership
Cardholders added during
the year ................................... 10
! Cardholders withdrawn
during the year ................... 33
Total cardholders July l,
1885 5,9O6
Circulation
Books lent for home use
during the year .................... 95,728
Periodicals ........... ................... 5,434
Pamphlets, pictures, and
maps of4
Total lent for home use ..........lOl ,306
The librarian wishes again to
acknowledge with thanks the hearty
support of the library board and
the city council in all matters per-
I tanning to the welfare of the library
and the staff for its splendid work.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18

ed the milk control bills which
passed the legislature and were
signed by Governor Merriam. and
which L. E. Sinclair and Joe Enz OF
the Milk Institute worked to have
adopted. Under this law, qualified
milk producers in one established
area may ship Grade A products to
any other area, providing all re-
quirements of the health depart
ments are obeyed.
In adjourning the meeting, Vice
President Sam E. Robinson of the
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
ELKS OFFICIAL DIES

COLUMBUS, O., July 18 0UP) -
William G.. Robertson, postmaster
of Minneapolis, Mimi, who was to
have been installed as grand treas
urer of the Elks' lodge at the list
convention here today, was found
dead in his hotel room. Robertson
was believed to have suffered a
heart attack.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18

Milk Institute. stated. agricultural
IN Imperial Valley is fundamental.
and our greatest agricultural enter
prise is the dairy industry"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18

, The $4,000 hives of bees feeding
on sage and wild buckwheat on tho
west side of the San Joaquin valley
are expected to produce over 1,000,-
600 pounds of honey.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18
NazIS ARREST AMERICAN

BERLIN, July 81. U.R)-Nazi Sec
ret police today arrested M. G..
Harbeck, an American citizen, Of
the Watchtower Bible and Tract
Society and International Bible
students association, on charges Of
attempting to remove from Ger
many funds of the society under
attachment at Magdeburg.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-07-18

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have made KellOgg's Corn
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Kellogg i'm Battle Creek,
Evening star., 1935-11-12

Across.
J. Tabulator.
7. Exhaust.
II. Anglo-Saxon money of account
Il. Chinky.
is. One who excels in anything;
colloq.
Is. Genus of cattle.
IT, Roof repairman.
10. To reprove gently.
20. Sickly.
81. Ballet-girl: Fr.
%. Medieval vessels.
rs. Adduces.
26. Vulgar fellows.
80. Eaglestone.
80. European pike.
80. Trojan maid.
81. Inspired.
36. A dessert.
81. Impediment.
40. Venoms.
Il. Sour ale.
a.. Mediterranean island.
43. Noxious poisons.
a. Dance step.
IS Stalk of grain.
49. To annul.
SO. Kinds.
50. First man in Hindu mythology.
So. Pearly.
Sc. A kernel.
81. Awned.
60. Reproach.
50. A mass.
63. Mimic.
81. One who benefits.
65. Self.
&c. Indian weights.
81. Insects.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
CANNES of Royalty,

Princess Mary Of England loves
dogs, but Is an enthusiastic raiser Of
rabbits and poultry on q very extern
sive scale. But her brothers are ex-
tremely fond Of dogs. The Prince Of
Wales prefers Cairn terriers, while the
Duke of York's favorite is . beautiful
golden Labrador. The Duke of Glou-
cester admires the Afghan hounds
presented to the King and Queen by
ex-King Of Afghanistan. The Duke
of Gloucester rears fox hounds, while
Prince George is proud of his wonder
full Alsatians.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
Narcotic Use Gains.

The use Of drugs has greatly In
creased since the beginning Of prohi-
bition days.
Evening star., 1935-11-12

OOWhs
/. Poisonous gas.
2. To quarter.
g. City in Italy.
4. Small bed.
S. Applied.
6. Glacial ice.
Z. Scorched.
8. Word of surprise.
8. Brother of Romolus.
10. God of love.
II. Oriental sash.
u. Russian river.
13. Residue.
10. Compulsion.
%. African river.
"a. Fishes.
27. Tenor viola.
20. Cabinet member.
20. Bends in timbers.
81. Silkworms.
33. Filaments.
IS. European republic: abbr.
36. Sudden sound.
81. Hindu gentleman.
SO. Masculine name.
80. Lacerate.
40. City in Colombia.
AZ. Courses.
a.. A servitor.
46. Pertaining to a frog.
Al. A talisman.
48. Irrigates.
so. Column shaft.
81. Great roll.
81. Luzon tribesmen.
IS. Thin layer.
81. Veneration.
So. Fragment.
SO. Proposed language.
81. Energy.
Evening star., 1935-04-01
INQUEST HELD TODAY
FOR DICE GAME VICTIM
Police Say Colored Man Admits
Shooting-Murder Charge
Filed.

A coroner's inquest was being held
today in the case of John Mickins,
81, colored. Ill K street, allegedly
murdered early yesterday by William
Taylor, alias Morgan, 81, colored, 800
block of L street, during an argument
over a craps game.
Taylor, police say, admitted shoot
ing Mickins in the HOO block of Third
street. and also confessed wounding
three other colored men in another
gun battle in Myrtle street early
Saturday.
Taylor, who is being held on q
murder charge, said both shootings
were the aftermath of a crooked"
dice game into which he was enticed
after he had won considerable money
in the numbers" game. He was ar
rested yesterday at the home of rela-
tives by Detectives ]. j. Flaherty, B. 7.
McAllister and r. z. williams.
Evening star., 1935-04-01
CITY Parks Recreation Funds
Cut Nearly Half in T,co Years
Reduced Schedule of activities Forced
With Jurisdiction Change Despite
added Population and Acres.

organization of the Government here,
and this became effective in August,
1888, sending the old ONCE of Public
Buildings and Public Parks into the
National Park Service.
For the fiscal year 1888 general ex-
penses for recreation totaled S38, 900,
with s21 200 for salaries, .aggregating
SIS, 200. For the fiscal year 1884 gen.
eral expenses were Slashed to $40, 900
and salaries to $40, 1900. For the fiscal
year 1935-the present one-general
expenses were $4,000. while salaries
were cut to Sl4900-a total of but
s34, 300. compared with $4,000 two
years ago
This retrenchment has resulted in a
curtailment of recreational opportuni-
ties afforded the public, officials re-
veal, such as the inability to provide
attendants at tennis courts and to
give Washingtonians other services
during the late Fan and Winter
months.
The National Capital Parks Once
courts at Henry Park in conjunction
with the Mall development. Further,
recreational activities at Seventeenth
street and Constitution avenue-in-
cluding swimming pools and tennis
courts-are slated to be abolished
shortly, when the Government officials
start to construct dyke as part Of
the Federal flood control system here.
Officials concede that there are no i'm
mediate plans to replace all these
facilities. although they have asked
Secretary Ickes for new swimming
pools, under the public works set-up.
Evening star., 1935-04-01
ALLEGED ROBBERS
HELD UNDER BOND
Bail Fixed at $4,000 as Judge
Holds Two for Grand Jury
Action.

Accused of having held up and
robbed Fred Harper, 1888 New Hamp-
shire avenue, last week, Rueben Rose,
$40 I street, and Frank Acton, SOC
Seventh street southwest, were ar
raigned before Judge Ralph Given in
Police Court today, waived preliminary
hearing and were held for action of
the grand jury under bonds totaling
s25. 1000.
Rose and Acton were arrested by
Detective Sergts. Robert e. Barnett
and Van D. Hughes at the street
address several days after the alleged
robbery. in which they secured $663,
according to police.
Acton, who is alleged to have held
the gun during the robbery, was held
under $4,000 bond and Rose under a
$4,000 bond. Police presented the
court with long records on both men.
Evening star., 1935-04-01

wear. pinning derisive notes tc coat
tails is an ancient and hallowed laugh
getter.
The heather-covered highlands Of
Scawtland each April / resound with
the deep and merry roars of Scotsmen
doubled up at the prospect of their
favorite hoax-"hunting the gowk." "
A gowk in Scotland is a simpleton
These innocent numbskulls are sent
on long journeys with note sup
posedly requesting information from
some person, but actually reading:
This is the first of April,
Hunt this gowk another mile"
Each person to whom the fool de-
livers the note sends him further
over hill and dale until some baddie
reveals the truth.
Day Aided Historic Escape.
April Fool enabled French noble
man and his wife to escape from a
French prison in the fifteenth GEN.
tury.
The Duke and Duchess of Lorraine,
dressed as peasants, were spied by an
lulCI dS GllSy WClC PoooAAiS W bAiCA
freedom through the gates of Nantes
dungeon. The onlooker raised cry,
but when the guard appeared the
duke gleefully shouted April Fool
and the two went on their way to
freedom.
But another French April Fool joke
worked the reverse and put its per-
petrator in Jail for year. A woman
identified as the culprit in the theft
of her friends watch -poohed
the matter as a guileleSs April Fools
joke, but the judge thought other
wise and sentenced her to think up
jokes in prison until the next April
Fools day comes around"
London, too, has had its share OF
April Fool excitement. There was
Lord Broughton. gay wag who one
year ordered the entire contents OF
fruit stand sent to prim old maid
at o'clock in the morning.
Broughton made himself famous
in 1860 when he sent post cards to
dozens of London residents inviting
them to view the annual washing Of
the lions at the white gate of the
Tower of London. A mob of eager
people packed in hanSoms tried all
day to find the non-existent white
gate so that they might watch the
washing of the imaginary lions.
Evening star., 1935-04-01

Appropriations for recreational ac-
tivities in Washington's parks, which
have now been under the jurisdiction
of the National Park Service of the
Interior Department for almost two
years. have been cut nearly in half
since the change has taken place.
This was revealed today, following
a study of the funds available in
the park system for recreation. now
that the subject has come into public
focus again. with increasing demands
for the providing of additional SWIM
ming pools and play opportunities
generally; Senator Kings investigation
of the whole subject, and the move
ment of the newly organized District
of Columbia Recreation Committee to-
ward getting competent superintend-
ent to unity scattered activities here.
Funds for recreation in the parks
have been dropping lower with each
succeeding year, since the National
Park Service took charge, and this
has come about in the face Of great
ly increased population since the New
Deal moved into Washington and the
fact that additional land is being
added to the park and playground sys-
TEN here by purchasing activities of
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission.
Formerly the parks here were under
the independent Office of Public
Buildings and Public Parks of the Ma
tional Capital, with q director reSpon-
sible only to the President. In June,
1888, President Roosevelt issued his
famous executive orders for the re-
Evening star., 1935-04-01
MOTORIST TO SERVE
120 DAYS IN JAIL
Drunkenness and Leaving After
Accident Charged to Col.
ored Man.

One charge Of driving while drunk
and two charges of leaving after col
liding resulted in sentences totaling
100 days in jail today for Henry A
Jordan, colored, "A, $500 block Blair
road. Sentences were imposed by
Judge John P. Mcmahon in Traffic
Court.
Policeman J. F. Hasty testified that
Jordan first backed the oil truck,
which he was driving, into a parked
car at Seventh and o streets and later
fed after colliding with another auto
mobile at Seventh street and Rhode
Island avenue.
Despite the weather yesterday
which ordinarily reduces the number
of cases in Traffic Court, 73 persons
were on the collateral list alone in
TRAFFIC Court today. Seventeen OF
these we're charged with speeding; one
william L. Harris, SAIL James place
northeast, paid a fine of SIS on a
second charge of speeding. Other
fines ranged from IS to $40 in each
case.
Evening star., 1935-04-01
Estimates Transmitted to
Budget Bureau for
Fiscal Year.
LARGEST ITEM 100000
FOR SEWER EXTENSIONS
Funds for District Penal Mainte.
nance and City Hospitals
Listed.

Deficiency appropriation estimates
totaling s480,602 have been trans
mitted to the Bureau Of the Budget by
Maj. Daniel j. Donovan, District
auditor. it was learned today. The
funds are requested for the current
fiscal year.
The largest item is a request for
100000 for sewer, assessment and
permit work. This fund is needed to
make water extensions to recently
constructed homes.
Three Penal Requests.
Maintenance of District prisons and
reformatories will require three items
as follows: District Jail. s14,e00;
work house and reformatory. SIS, 900,
and National Training School for
Boys. $4,000.
A total of $4,000 was asked to sup
ply fuel, gas and electricity for the
public schools for the remainder Of
the school year.
Hospital needs were included in the
following items:
Children's Hospital, $4,000.
Emergency Hospital, $4,000.
Casualty Hospital, $4,000.
tuberculosis Hospital, $4,000.
Children's tuberculosis Sanatorium,
$1,000.
Gallinger Municipal Hospital, $10 900.
Isolation ward at Garfield Hospital,
$4,000.
Other Items in List.
Other items included in the list
were as follows: Employees compensa-
ton fund, $1,000; collection and dis
posal Of refuge and street cleaning,
S14,600; fuel for the Fire Department,
$4,000; jurors for Juvenile Court, s702;
division of child welfare. $4,000; re-
pairs for the Industrial Home School
for Colored Children. $4,000; main
tenance of the Industrial Home School
for White Children, s2,5O0; Home for
the Aged and Infirm, $4,000; medi-
cine for the relief of the poor, $4,000.
The Commissioners asked for early
consideration of these items in order
that they may be transmitted to Con-
gress for inclusion in the pending de-
ficiency bill.
Evening star., 1935-04-01
12PERSONS HURT
ON NEARBY ROADS
Man Critically Injured as
Auto Hits Disabled Bus
: s.s at BeltsviIIe.

An underlined man was critically
injured early today when sedan
containing two couples crashed into a
disabled intercity bus on the Balti-
more Boulevard at Beltsville, Md. The
accident was one Of several on nearby
Maryland and Virginia roads which
sent - persons to hospitals over the
week end.
Prince Georges County Policeman
Albert Anderson was searching today
for the driver of the car which hit
the bus. According to the officer he
disappeared after the crash.
The other man in the car was
rushed to Providence Hospital in an
unconscious condition. He is about
IS years old, and hospital authorities
said they believed his last name is
Brady, but do not yet know his first
name or address.
Driver in Bus.
According to police the bus broke
down last night and a relief. driver,
Robert Burnell, HOO block of L
street, was sitting inside when the
accident occurred. The passenger
car first hit the back of the bus.
knocking it off a jack which was
supporting the rear wheels, and then
hit tree and landed in a ditch
Bertha Cline. 28, of Capitol Heights,
Md, was seriously injured when an
automobile operated by her hit a
pole on Central avenue. near Largo,
according to County Policeman r.
Arnold Naylor Otto HUNT. a pas
Senger in the car, escaped injury.
Miss Cline is in an undetermined
condition at Casualty Hospital.
Mrs. Pearl Hancock, %, 1000 block
of Thirteenth street southeast, suf-
fered severe head injuries when car
which police said was driven by her
husband Benjamin, 81, hit a pole in
avoiding collision with another ma
chine on the Marlboro pike, at For
estville.
The couples daughter Betty Ann,
19 months, escaped with minor cuts,
but Mrs. Gertrude Edelen, so, 900
block of K street southeast, another
passenger, sustained a broken arm.
Hancock was badly cut about the
head. All were taken to Casualty
Hospital.
Evening star., 1935-04-01
CITIZENS OPPOSE
DOG RACING BILL
Prince Georgians Start Campaign
to Defeat or Modify
Pending Bill.
BY staf Correspondent Of The Star.

MOUNT RAINIER, Md, April IL
Fearing conversion of the La Fontaine
property into dog-racing track, citi.
zens of this vicinity today moved to
block passage Of bill legalizing such
track in Maryland.
Resolutions asking that the meas
ure be defeated, or at least amended
to provide for a referendum on such
sport in Prince Georges County,
we're passed by church congregations
here last night and forwarded to
Delegate Egbert F. Tingley.
Today clergymen are meeting in
st. Johns Episcopal Church here to
make preliminary plans for a mass
meeting of protest against the bill.
II, as is expected, the proposal passes
before the General Assembly adjourns
at midnight tonight, the mass meet
ing will frame plea to Gov. Nice to
veto the bill.
Although the measure was almost
slipped over" on the House as an
amendment to Senate bill. it re-
ceived a substantial majority on a
test vote and is now on the third
reading calender.
1t may meet stiff opposition when
it comes up for final passage, how
ever, for the motion picture theater
owners of the State went into action
over the week end and expect to have
powerful lobby working against it
today.
Evening star., 1935-04-01
M. E. CONFERENCE
OPENS WEDNESDAY
ESQ Clergymen and Delegates
Will Attend Hyattsville
Sessions.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


HYATTSvILLE, Md. April 1.-Ap-
proximately $50 clergymen and dele
gates are expected to attend the
Washington District Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church
South Wednesday and Thursday in
the First M. E. Church South of
Hyattsville. The district embraces
the District of Columbia and nearby
Maryland and Virginia.
The conference will open Wednes-
day at 9 am. with DR.. j. Howard
Wells of Washington, presiding elder
of the District, in charge. Bishop
Edward D. Mouzon of Charlotte. N.
c., will preach at IL am. and prob
ably will preside at some of the ses-
sions., At 8 pm. Rev. w. D. Keene,
pastor of Calvary M. E. Church South
of Washington, will preach.
Sessions will be resumed Thursday
at 9 am. and at II o'clock DR.. W.
Angie Smith, pastor of Mount Ver-
non Place M. E. Church South, will
be the preacher.
Dr.. H. H. Sherman, executive Sec
retary of the Board of Education OF
the Baltimore Conference, is sched-
uled to speak during the conference,
but the time has not been set.
Visiting clergymen and delegates
will be entertained Wednesday night
in the homes of members of the host
church and will be served breakfast
Thursday morning. Luncheon will
be served Wednesday and Thursday
and supper Wednesday by the women
Of the host church.
Rev. George G. Oliver, pastor of the
First M. e. Church South here, has
named general committee on ar
rangements to arrange for the various
details. It comprises Mrs. James
Severe, chairman; Prof. K. J. Morris
and Mrs. B. l.. Malone.
Evening star., 1935-04-01
CELEBRATION ATTRACTS
IRISH ORGANIZATIONS
Travellers Club of Catholic U. to
Sponsor First Program in
Series of Events.

All Irish organizations of the city
have been invited to attend "a Night
in Ireland celebration Sunday eve
ming by the Travellers Club of Cath
olic University.
The program. which will be staged
in the knights of Columbus club
house, Tenth and K streets, is the
first Of series Of similar presenta-
tions scheduled at three-week in
tervals.
DR.. Patrick ]. Lennox, professor
Of English at Catholic University,
will be the guest speaker. Michael
MacWhite, Minister from the Irish
Free State, has been invited as guest
Of honor.
Evening star., 1935-04-01
PROPER LEADERS
URGEDF0R YOUNG
Necessary Part of Com.
pIetsbecreation System,
SAYS Commission.

Adequate proper leadership FOR
young children in the "piastic age
as necessary part Of q complete
recreation system is urged by the
Central Planning Commission of the
City-Wide Playground Council In Its
campaign for broadening the Dis
trict's playground facilities.
This group of citizens holds hap
hazard play on partly developed
grounds is a waste OF taxpayers
money,
"The first requisite in training
small children is supervision. There
is a tremendous need for 1t today
on what few Fairgrounds the city
operates" said Mrs. Carroll john
son, 36l9 Van Ness street, vice chair
man of the commission. >.
30 Recreation Heads.
"How are children to get the bene-
fits of sportsmanstip If they cannot
be taught craftsmanship"
At present the Playground Depart
ment has 80 recreation directors or
its staff. In some instances ,one
supervisor has as many as 700 chill
dren to watch out for at one time
Proper direction of effort is impos-
sible under such conditions, accord.
ing to members Of the City Wide
Playground Council.
The $751 900 public works program
for playground improvement SUBJ
mitted to the Commissioners repre-
Sents five years of a six-year i'm.
provement plan evolved by Miss Sibyl
Baker, playground chief. Proposal
of DR.. William Deviny, chairman OF
the Central Planning Commission
practically comedies with the tenta-
tive public works outline.
Criticism Unanswered.
But the construction plan provides
solely for physical improvement and
leaves the criticism of Inadequate su-
pervision unanswered.
"The Capital should try to attract
young college graduates to do play
ground work." according to Mrs
johnson.
I'VE need young men and women
to inspire the children to recognize
craftsmanship and fair play. Eager
interested leadership will produce
strong -charactered youths, lower de.
linquency and raise the level of citi.
zenry."
Evening star., 1935-04-01
COURT APPROVES PLAN
TO REORGANIZE CLUB
New Racquet Set-Up Calls for
Issuance of $575, 900 in Re-
funding Bonds.

A plan for reorganization of the
Racquet Club, 1135 Sixteenth street,
was approved in District Supreme
Court today.
The club property has been liable
for the payment of S575,000 in first
mortgage bonds, bearing interest at 2
per cent. This bond issue went into
default in 1881.
The reorganization plan calls for
issuance of refunding bonds in the
same amount, but bearing only 8 per
cent interest. The plan also works
out q settlement with all creditors.
The club was represented by Spencer
Gordon, who said the club is now In
. better position to carry on Its &C.
tivities than at any time since It's
establishment.