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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-08-30
ALLEN
CRASHES At
Los ANGELES
Flyer In Air Only Three Min
utes Following Delayed Take
off In Freak Ship
BENNY HOWARD IS WINNER
Chicago Aviator Beats Time OF
Roscoe Turner By Matter OF
Seconds


CLEVELAND, Aug. 80. WP)--
Bonnie Howard was declared
winner of the Bendix trophy race
from Los Angeles to Cleveland
today, defeating Col. Roscoe Tur-
ner, holder of the transcontln-
entail record, by 1871 seconds.
Towards elapsed time for the
2,O46 miles hoped from the west
coast was eight hours, 80 min
utes and 1873 seconds.
Turner's elapsed time was eight
hours, 80 minutes, 1913 seconds.
BY the narrowest of margins
Howard won the $4,000 first prize
offered by Vincent Bendix, sponsor
of the race.
Official timers in Cleveland said
the outcome of the race was sub
ject to correction after they have
checked their records with those In
Los Angeles, the take-off point.
The second prize of $500 will go
to Turner, if the records Of the
Cleveland timers are declared off,
cial.
None of the other nine pilots who
started the race in Los Angeles had
finished the long flight.
The race was marred by the
death of Cecil Allen, who crashed
and died in the cockpit of his can
tankerous Gee Bee plane shortly
after taking off from Los Angeles.
Two of the starting pilots, JAG
queline Cochrane, of Los Angeles.
and Royal Leonard, Kansas City
airline pilot, were forced out of the
race by motor trouble. Miss Coch-
rane landed at Kingman, Arizona.
Leonard landed for fuel at Wichita,
Kansas, only few minutes behind
Turner, but after taking off again
was forced to return to the airport
because of motor trouble.
Turner Has Enough
Roy Hunt. Oklahoma City, flying
a Lockheed Orien, Russell Thaw,
New York, in Northrup Gamma,
Amelia Earhart Putnam, New York,
Lockheed Orion, Russell Thaw.
man, Los Angeles, in a Keith Rider,
still were enroute to Cleveland and
each had a chance to share in
third, fourth and fifth prize money.
Il had to dump some gas. and
then after I got over there. I was
afraid to let it go after all, Turner
said. 1.-THE gas valve Is too close to
the exhaust. I was afraid I'd catch
afire."
Benny Howard was one of the
first to reach the colonel's plane.
How are you? Boy" Turner
shouted. Did you ever see any
weather than this to fly
imp"
1T was bad, particularly coming
over the mountains" Howard
agreed. I'VE had to go up to 81, 600
feet"
When photographers asked the
two to pose shaking hands, Howard
said: "We1l both smile until we
find in whose favor that % seconds
is"
Vincent Bendix was among the
first to greet the colonel. He asked
the colonel if he was thinking of
going to New York.
Through this stuff?' Turner re-
Continued on page g.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-08-30
English BattIeship
Hits German Vessel

DOVER. England, Aug. 80. W.p)
The British battleship Families
and the North German Lloyd liner
Eisenbach collided nine miles off
Dover today.
The Eisenbach has a displace-
ment of Also tons.
The Families was one of sever
al battleships which sailed from
Uheenress today to join the home
fleet at Portland.
The Families displacement is
29,150 tons. She carries crew
of more than 1000 Her length is
$50 feet.
The Eisembach's home port is
Bremen. She was said to be a
passenger liner although Lloyd's
registry left this detail in i'm
medIase doubt.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-08-30
Worker On PolUer
Line Meets Death

ONTARIO, Calf, Aug. 80. UP
One employee of the Los Angeles
Bureau of Power and Light was
killed and two others were injured
today when a cable broke while
hosting 2000-pound insulator to
a tower of the Boulder dam power
line in the foothills near here.
Swinging like a pendulum, the
insulator struck the three men,
John B. May, 80, suffered a crush
ed chest and fractured skull, the
injuries causing his death.
Gale Moore, believed to have suf-
fered a fractured back, and Edward
Reign, whose leg was broken, were
taken to a hospital.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-08-30
Probation, Granted
To Jimmy Nash

Probation was granted In super
lar court this morning to Jimmy
Nash on second degree burglary
charge and Judge McPherrin fur
ther ordered that he should be
sent back to his family In Ar
kansas as, a part of the probation
terms. Nash had been charged
with stealing a sum of money from
the Drive-In market here early
last month.
Hearing on the probation appli-
cation of B. S. Mitt Singh on
manslaughter charge resulting from
an automobile accident was con-
tinued until September 20.
Floyd Auten was arraigned on
charges of violating the state pro-
duce dealers act and will enter
his plea next Friday morning.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-08-30
LAS CRUCES
DAMAGED BY
HEAVY RAINS

LAS CRUCES, N. M, Aug. 80.
U.P) - An estimated damage of
100000 was done here today when
a torrential rainfall struck Las
Cruces.
Houses, which had stood for so
years, collapsed when the heavy
downpour soaked the adobe mud
from which the majority of houses
are constructed. No loss of life
was reported.
The rain started at II o'clock last
night and continued today. During
the period of the downpour it was
estimated six inches of rain fell in
Las Cruces. 1t was the heaviest
rain recorded here in more than 80
years.
The highway between Las Cruces
and e. Paso, Texas, was impossible.
The railroad track was washed out,
stopping all traffic.
The storm extended from An
thony to Elephant Butte. All the
dry arroyos flowed bank full dur
ing the storm and dumped the
water into the Rio Grande river.
Because of high water in the river
it was impossible to pump the water
out of Las Cruces.
The residential section of the
town suffered the heaviest damage.
AS the water started to recede res
cue parties worked to salvage furni-
ture and household goods, buried
under the debris of the crumbled
houses.
Most of the houses are construct
ed of adobe. The adobe soaked up
the water and then the houses COL
lapSed.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-08-30
Extension Granted
On DoUe Season

Ten days additional shooting will
be allowed Imperial Valley dove
hunters according to information
received here today, advising that
the season will open on September
81. instead of October l, as preW-
ously announced. The announce
ment has to do with the federal
regulations governing dove hunting.
J. N. Darling, director of the U.
S. biological survey, in answer to
many protests from sportsmen in
the west and southwest, prevailed
upon President Roosevelt to modify
the previous order, the information
said.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-08-30
Hangn1an Flunks
His Examination

NEW MADRID, Mo, Aug. 30. U,P)
Sheriff Sam Harris of New Mad
rid county failed to pass his final
examinations as a hangman today,
and substitute sprang the trap
that sent Roy Hamilton and Eddie
Raymond to death.
For weeks Sheriff Harris has
been taking lessons in the art" OF
hanging from Phil Hanna OF Ep-
worth, Ill.
But as the time drew near for the
execution, Harris turned the task
over to his teacher and 1t was
Hanna who adjusted the moose
around the necks of the slayers and
gave the signals to a deputy to pull
the lever.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-08-30
Woman "Eloper' To
Face Theft Charge

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30. WD -
Mrs. Joyce Peters, pretty 25-year-
old former chorus girl. today was
ordered returned to Point Pomeroy,
Wash, to stand trial on charge of
stealing a team of prize horsese and
an automobile from her husband, a
wealthy farmer.
Tired of life on the farm, Mrs.
Peters is said to have sold the
horses and used the automobile to
"elope" to Los Angeles with Will
lard Peters, l6, cousin of her hus-
band.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-08-30
By LUCIA RIZZARDI
United Press Staff Correspondent

Copyright, 1895, BY United Press
BRUSSELS, Aug. 30-The body
of Queen Astrid was brought to
Brussels today and placed in state
in silver and black draped recep-
ton room at Laeken palace to await
a funeral Tuesday.
1t was taken to the palace in a
motor hearSe. Escorted by cavalry,
from the Care du Nord where it
arrived at $3.50 a. m. in a special
funeral train from Arlon, on the
Luxembourg frontier.
Soldiers lined the route from sta
ton to palace and behind them
were thousands of silent people.
Many women were crying.
A guard of honor was placed over
the coffin in the palace reception
room.
King Leopold left the train at
outlying Leopold station, unable to
face the crowds of his subjects in
the streets. A few minutes after
the coffin arrived at the palace. he
went into the reception room, his
lip bandaged, an arm in a black
silk sling.
He asked that the coffin be op-
ened. The guard of honor retired
and the king stayed for a few min
utes in the room alone looking at
the face of his wife, killed near
Lucerne yesterday when an open
Packard touring car which he was
driving swerved from the road as
he turned to look at a map which
Queen Astrid, beside him, was hold
ing.
The queens body was shrouded in
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-08-30
LABOR LEADER DIES

NOGALES, Ariz., Aug. 30. Up)-
Robert A. Campbell, "a, prominent
for years in Arizona labor circles,
died last night at his home in
Patagonia, near here, it was learn
ed today.
Campbell was chairman of the
Santa Cruz County Democratic
Central Committee at the time of
his death. His death resulted from
cancer, from which he suffered
for years.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-08-30
Mans AssaiLant
Not Yet Captured

Police are investigating the cir
cumstances surrounding the stab
bling of B. Perez, 102 Holt avenue,
last night but have been unsuccess-
full as yet in locating the mans
aSsailant. Perez was brought to po-
lice headquarters about tbs o'clock
last night with a deep knife wound
in his back near the spine, said to
have been inflicted by some I'M
known Mexican who made good his
escape.
The stabbing took place on the
corner of Third and Main streets.
Brought to the police station the
wound was treated by a physician
and Perez was then returned TO his
home.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-08-30
BLAST WRECKS HOME

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30. UP)-
Explosion of gas heater in home
in Wilmar, a suburb, today rocked
the entire neighborhood. The house
was destroyed by fire with damage
of $4,000.
Frank La Casella, owner of the
home, and his family were at a
beach resort when the blast occur
red.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-08-30
MONKEY Rites Roy

LAGUNA BEACH, CALI, Aug. 80
U.P)-William Holt, aged 8, who
lives with his grandmother in La
guna canyon, was seriously bitten
today by a large monkey.
Police later shot the animal
They said the owner permitted the
monkey to run loose in the neigh
bprhood.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-08-30
SPRECKELS DEFAULTS FINE

RENO, Aug. 80. tUH = john D.
Spreckels III, prominent San Fran
cisco socialite in Nevada seeking a
divorce from Roxana G.. Spreckels,
today defaulted SIS bail WHEN he
failed to apepar in court of Police
Judge George Bryson to answer a
charge of speeding SO miles an hour
on a downtown street.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-08-30

Many more thousands of her sub
jects will have the opportunity to
shed a brief tear at her. bier before
the funeral next Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-08-30

Brooklyn at New York. rain.
Only games scheduled.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1935-08-30
Baseball Scores
BY United Press
AMERICAN LEAGUE
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Boston at Philadelphia. rain.
Evening star., 1935-05-26
By Leila Mecklin.

TINE members annual Summer
exhibition at the Arts Club,
which opened last Sunday. to
i continue throughout the sea-
son, is excellent and very de-
lightful. Twenty-seven oil paintings
are hung in the gallery. about an
equal number Of water colors are
shown in the reception and dining
rooms and in the hall may be seen
not only water colors, but prints and
drawings, and yet there Is no effect
Of overcrowding. For the most part
the exhibits are conservative in char
acter, but they are also, for the most
part. quite up-to-date-broadly rem
dered. direct, fresh and colorful-and
this is well.
The first thing that catches the
visitors eye upon entering the gal
lery is Mary Lewis Halls portrait,
Girl Out Of Doors" which received
an honorable mention in the Society
Of Washington Artists Annual, but
appears TO even better advantage here,
hung between two quaint and charm
ing flower studies by Mathilde M.
Evening star., 1935-05-26
Amber Brings Prosperity.

A MBER, the petrified resin from
some prehistoric forests. forms
one Of the most important sources of
revenue in Lithuania Severe storms
along the Baltic Coast usually result
in large quantities of the amber being
thrown up on the shore or becoming
entangled in the sea weed along the
shore. Persons finding the amber re-
ceive fairly large returns for their
work. A piece the size of an ostrich
egg usually brings a price Of about
IS, while others which contain petri-
fled remnants Of pine cones and other
objects in the interior are valued as
high as $40 for comparatively small
pieces.
Evening star., 1935-05-26
ART SEASON NEARS CLOSE
Many Capital Schools Preparing End the
Exhibition Opens at the Arts Club-Corcoran Gallery
Receives Valuable Tapestry Gift

Carge size) for medal Of the Asso-
citation Of Federal Architects.
In short, despite the draft that the
independent exhibition made on local
studios there seems to be no dearth
Of good, available material; no lack
of work produced with skin and en-
thusiasm, no drying-up Of sources as
q result of either overproduction or
the depression. Art Is indeed a hardy
perennial. But such works Of art as
these now on view in the Arts Club
should not be allowed to long go beg
ging.
COME years ago Hattie e. Burdette
- painted portrait Of Clifford K.
Bergman, cartoonist Of The Star,
which was exhibited at the Arts Club
and elsewhere and acclaimed an ex-
cellent likeness as well as very COM
petent piece of work. Miss Burdette
has now painted a no less excellent
portrait Of Mrs. Bergman which has
been shown informally during the past
week in her studio TO the family and
a few friends. Mr.. Berryman's por-
trait was in profile, but Mrs. Berry
man has been painted three-quarter
Evening star., 1935-05-26

BEST SELLERS OF THE BOOK WORLD

Green Light" by Lloyd Douglas.
novel by the author of 1.-THE Magnificent Obsession"
"Of Time and the River" by Thomas Wolfe.
An finer book than the authors Look Homeward
Angel"
Time Out Of Mind" by Rachel Field.
Splendid story of New England folk
National Velvet" by Enid Bagnold.
An English race horse story and a good one.
Come and Get It." by Edna Ferber.
A very popular story of the Northwest.
Roll River" by James Boyd
A novel Of the Pennsylvania country and Its people.
Evening star., 1935-05-26

Civilization In the Middle West, 1880
1900" and Marcus l.. Hansen, profess
sor of history In the University Of
Illinois, sums up with some general
remarks. The papers are somewhat
argumentative In nature and make
frequent reference to the earlier work
of Frederick j. Turner, THE Signifi-
canoe Of Sections In American His
tory" in which he voiced the idea
that the end Of the frontier and free
land closed an outlet for the am
bilious poor and meant painful read
Justment in American economic life.
Prof. Wright in his paper holds that
the Middle Western frontiersmen were
lacking in creativeness and patterned
their political institutions after those
they had left behind in the East
quite a natural thing to do, 1t would
seem. Prof. Hicks shows that in a
later period, after they had become
established, Middle Westerners con-
tributed many new ideas to American
government. Who can doubt that.
thinking Of the La Fo,lettes. Senator
Norris and a number of others who
might be mentioned? The papers are
all suggestive rather than definitive.
HOUSE OF EARTH. BY Pearl S.
Buck. New York: A John Day book.
Reynal g. Hitchcock.
A LMosT Immediately following the
publication of the third volume of
Pearl Bucks Chinese trilogy, comes
this fine thick volume containing be-
tween its covers all three of the
novels, which are really one epic
THE Good Eearth," Sons" and "A
House Divided" This work, covering
in fiction whose interest never lapses
so years Of Chinese life in a section
probably more or less typical Of many
sections, is destined to endure as long
as the history of twentieth century lit
erature is remembered at all. The
three generations Of the Wang family.
beginning with the peasant Wang
Lung and evolving through thrift, even
more through looting and war -lord-
Evening star., 1935-05-26
Milk Production Drops.

MILK production in the United
States fell of considerably last
year, the total receipts being 4,000,-
600 900 pounds, or roughly 1000. .o00.-
900 quarts less than the year before.
This was due largely to decrease in
the number Of dairy animals.
Evening star., 1935-05-26
Art and Artists

THE National School of Fine and
Applied Art will hold its twentieth
annual exhibition of students work
at the school, 1747 Rhode Island ave-
nue., on the first four days Of this
week. This school, of which Felix
Mahony is both founder and director,
has made a name TOR itself in the
training Of students in the so-called
commercial arts. and in poster and
other competitions in which its
students have entered has scored high.
Mr.. Mahony promises an exceptionally
noteworthy showing this year.
THE Textile Museum Of the District
of Columbia was closed to the
public May 25 and will not reopen
until September /. A visit to this
interesting museum last Tuesday
evening was one Of the pleasurable
features Of the American Federation
Of Arts most recent convention.
THE season of exhibitions by artist
members of the District of Col
umbia League of American Pen
Women, arranged by the art chair
man, Miss Dorothy Gatchell. was
concluded recently by the award of
the following prizes: First prize to
Grace Merrill Ruckman for a paint
ing entitled Snow; second prize to
Hazel Cameron Menk for Man and
PloW";; third prize to Margaret S
zimmele for Arts Club Doorway"
and popular prize to Florence c.
Estabrook for a water color, White
Mountains" The first three awards
were made by a jury consisting of
Ruth Porter Ward. Rowland Lyon
and Helen Collinson; the fourth was
by vote of those in attendance.
A RT scholarships and prizes were
= awarded tremendously at the
Cardozo High School last Tuesday
afternoon at which time Burtis Baker.
vice principal of the Corcoran School
of Art made an address on Art in
Character Education" A new tech
nique has been developed at this
school in the making of linoleum
blocks, and an interesting collection
OF cut-out relief posters, illustrating
the evolution of the American home
the work of pupils-has been on ex-
hibition in connection with the
Better Housing Campaign" in the
Potomac Electric Power Cos. Offices
for some weeks. The school exhibi-
ton this year stressed Illuminated
selections from famous authors. The
jury OF awards was composed Of art
teachers from the leading professional
schools, craftsmen and designers of
achievement.
THE Yard School Of Fine Art. 21l7
Leroy place, will open its annual
exhibition Tuesday. May %. This will
comprise not only the drawings and
paintings by children under Miss
Margaret Yards own supervision
with the purpose of developing the
creative instinct, but of adult classes
In composition and dynamic symmetry
Under the instruction of Auriel Besse-
mer, and sculpture under the direction
OF William Calfee, both of whom have
been added to the faculty this year.
Mr.. Bessemer Is a former pupil of
Howard Giles. onetime dean of the
Master Institute of the Roerich
Museum, New York: Mr.. Calfee
studied in Paris and under Carl
Miles. formerly of Sweden. now Of
the CranbrOok Academy Detroit
Evening star., 1935-05-26

Editors note: These reviews of
new books were written by Mrs.
Bowerman before the accident
which resulted in her death
Wednesday evening. May 1.
Evening star., 1935-05-26

ship, into members Of the propertied
class, are not only an example Of the
history of many great Chinese fam
lies but have also q universal human
significance. In THE Good Earth"
Wang Lung and his entirely earthly
wife till the soil and produce offspring
until, driven from their land by floods
and famine, they become nomads in
cities and through q lucky looting
escapade found the fortunes of the
family. Wang Lung then deserts both
the soil and his Vrtuous habits. In
Sons" the fortunes OF Wang Lungs
three sons are followed, especially
those Of Wang the Tiger, who becomes
a war lord. In "A House Divided" +"
the son Of Wang the Tiger, grandson
of Wang Lung, is the central figure,
as he struggles between his loyalty TO
old Chinese traditions and modern
foreign influences.
GROWTH OF THE SOIL. BY Knut
Hamsun. Translated from the Nor
wegian by w. w. Worster. New
4Olh. 4IC
THIS novel Of elemental strength,
with the powerful universal urge
toward the soil for its motive, is an
excellent choice Of The Modern Lii
brary for republication. Its veteran
Norwegian author, known all over the
world through translations Of his
novels. and recipient of the Nobel
prize for literature in 1921, has never
in any of his work. equaled The
Growth OF the Soil" He here inter-
prets in a tale of heroic proportions
the alliance and the hostility between
man and nature throughout all time.
A Norwegian peasant couple are his
characters but they symbolic all men
and women whose lot it is to struggle
with the soil The Modern Library
has within the past decade become
one Of the most carefully selected and
successful of the collections of re-
prints of older and more recent class
les. Its list, constantly growing, shows
some Of the best books in various
classes to be found In the literatures
of mary nations,
Evening star., 1935-05-26

I CHANGE WORLDS. The Remak-
ing of an American. BY Anna
Louise Strong. New York: Henry
Holt g. Co.
A NEWSPAPER woman for many
years, especially given to assign
mentS where revolutions were in prog
ress, as in Mexico, China and Russia,
Miss Strong did the logical thing
when, finding herself in enthusiastic
sympathy with the ideals of the So
Wet Union, she went TO live in Rus
sia. Il have built myself into this
new land by choice and struggle" In
this book she tells not only of the
process by which she changed worlds.
but also of many years Of her expert
ences in other countries. When
America became "the worlds banker
and ceased to be the worlds pioneer"
Miss Strong lost my America" She
resented the inevitable change which
takes place everywhere when popula-
ton increases, frontiers vanish and
pioneering is over. She remarks, with
no great originality, that the World
War changed everything Her admi-
ration turned to Lenin and soon op-
portunity came to 60 in body to Mos
COW, where her spirit had already
gone. She has stayed. She has found
there form of pioneering which sat-
isfies her. Inspired oy Borodin, she
organized the Moscow News. Now that
Lenin is gone she worships Stain She
has a great capacity for both denun-
citation and enthusiasm. The enthu-
siasm alone is applied to Soviet Rus
sia and her book seems too unified
paean of praise to be considered dis
eliminating She hints, however, that
she may return to America to carry
Soviet gospel. yet such is the para
dox of my flight here that the more
I know and love the Soviet Union, the
Evening star., 1935-05-26

DON'T YOU WEEP DON'T
YOU MOAN. BY Richard Cole
man. New York: The Macmillan
Co.
"A S IN Du Bose Heyward's "Porgy,"
the scene of this novel of Negro
life is Charleston, and some of the
pictures of the water front and its
denizens recall "Porgy." The sea
islands, with their swamps and plan
tations, are also part of the setting.
Negroes of many types contribute
action. superstition, love-making and
humor to form the plot. Some are
servants in the aristocratic old fami-
lies below Broad street; some live in
shanties almost anywhere. 1t is diff
cult to decide which interest us more,