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Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11
News Behind the News
WashngtOR'S Summer Laugh
Radicals Take Roosevelt to Breasts =.
Right About Face

WASHINGTON-One of the big laughs of
the summer in Washington is the way the
radical boys aud girls in the New Deal ranks
have taken Mr.. Roosevelt TO their boSomS and
proclaimed him as their hero and sole hope of
salvation
What l mean is the rather large sprlnkling
OF minor officials and rank and file employees
making from $4,000 to $4,000 a year-and in
some cases a little more-who were hired for
the new agencies though their views were more
SocialiStic than otherwise.
They owed their jobs to friends higher up
in the New Deal who considered them relatively
brilliant or able and took them in without
gard to their politics.
A year or two ago most of them were damn
ing Roosevelt all over the place accusing him
in their private sessions of being a Stooge for
Big Business, of being a hypocrite maSquerad-
ing a true liberal of taking the conservative
path rather than the road to the left in all
major pnches.
Today the very same crowd is almost unan-
imousIy declainling that Roosevelt is the only
alternative to stark reaction and early FaScsm:
that he is carrying the torch of progreSSivism
with a vigorous stride and that Governor Lam
den is tool OF Wall Street and Hearst.
Their vicious verbal attacks have been trans
ferred from one man to the other.
Most of this amusing conversion probably
can be attributed to a desire to hold onto jobs.
Federal employees outside civil service who once
affected an air of non-partiSan aloofneSS are
practically anxious about their future en-
poyment those who landed the payroll
as deserving Democrats.
There are other considerations, however. Most
radicals prefer Roosevelt to Landon, believe
they would lose all influence under a Republican
administration even if they allowed to
work in it, and feel that the type of progress
which they want to continue would come at least
temporarily to end il Landon were elected.
There will be no blind men, literally speak
ing, in the U. S. Senate next session.
Tom Cores primary defeat in Oklahoma
following the death of Tom Schal of Minnesota
has removed the two SighteSs senators.
Senator Schall was one of the earliest pub
lie figures tC attack the New Deal without
reservations and that perhaps his out
standing claim to fame. But his attacks We're
indiscriminate, so poorly aimed, and often
inclusive Of unprovable charges that they prob
ably did the anti-New Deal cause more harm
than good.
Gore has been more effective aside from
being recognized as the Senate's most accom-
plished WSecracker
He was voted out of Congress after he had
opposed American entry into the World War
and voted back in 1890 by Oklahomans who
apparently felt that perhaps he had been right.
But he had become conservative and his
oft-expreSsed contempt for the New Deal just
wasn't enough to renominate him.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11
OLYMPIC ATHLETES
AND TRAINING RULES

Three athletes have been discharged
from the American Olympic team, after
arrival in Europe for breaking training
rules laid down by their coaches. ANY
Of them might have won the United
States further points in Olympic COM
petiton-although American supremacy
was so definitely established that they
were not necessary. Unless, that is, in
the case of Eleanor Holm Jarrett. the
aquatic star. She might have saved the
American women's team from defeat
That she did not is her own falt, not
the fault Of the coaches. 1t was she who
violated the rules not they.
The American coaches were justified
in their action in each of the three
cases. If they had failed to discharge
the wayward athletes, their hold on the
other athletes would have been broken.
They would have retained not the slight
est Vestige of control, and for the athle-
tic good of their country, they needed
that control.
No athlete can be at his best when he
dissipates. Physical perfection is reach
ed only through the most rigid self de-
nial. A person not capable of such self
denial harms not only himself, if allow
ed to go unchecked, but sets a bad ex-
ample for all others with whom he comes
in contact.
Americas Olympic coaches, in dis
charging erring athletes, did only what
they had to do for the good of the team
as a whole. The athletes, not the coach
es, should be blamed for any resulting
loss of points
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF MEETING OF BOARD
OF EQUALIZATION IMPERIAL =.
IRRIGATION DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Assessor of Imperial Irri-
cation District, having completed
the assessment book for the year
1886 has delivered the said assess
ment book to the Secretary of the
Board of Directors of Imperial If
rigation District who now has it in
his office in the Masonic Building,
Ell Centro, California, where it will
remain for the inspection of all per
sons interested until August &c,
1896.
The Board of Directors of said
Imperial Irrigation District acting
as a Board of Equalization, will
meet to equalize assessments on
August 26, 1896, at ten O'Clock A. M.
and continue in session from time
to time thereafter as long as may
be necessary, not to exceed ten days,
exclusive of Sundays, at the office
of the said Board of Directors, in
the Masonic Building, FL Centro.
California, to hear and determine
such objections to the valuation,
acreage, or any matters pertaining
to the assessment, as may come be-
fore them.
BY order of the Board of Direct
orS.
w. w. GOODSON,
Secretary of the Board of Directors
of Imperial Irrigation District.
(A4-1118)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11
Other Editors Say
OUR FEET ON THE GROUND
(Tulare Advance -Register)

Three years ago. when times began to get
better, the viewers with alarm" and the
prophets of despair" told us it wouldn't last
Since that time the per capita income in AM
erica has risen some 500 annually, and indus
trial production is back to the level of 1927.
One would get the idea from this that the
upswing is no mere temporary bulge, but is
actually sound at the core. And the other day
a report came out that pretty well clinches the
argument.
Real estate values are going up.
Now these seldom move during short-term
furries in the level of economic activity Yet
today in California land values are figured at
around six per cent better than at the first of
the year, and thirty per cent higher than de-
preston lows.
Moreover the national survey remarks,
"given an increase Of ten per cent in general
business activity, the continuance Of easy money
and no material change in real estate taxes,
it is reasonable to expect further improvement
IN real estate values
OF course the adoption of any such tax
change as the Single Tax to put the entire
State tax load on land would completely nullify
that promising prediction. But with half
chance, land values will come back to something
like normal level.
And the best part of it is that this means
we're advancing sCundly all along the line, with
our feet the ground.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11
SEARCH SHIFTS
FOR BEAUTIFUL
CHI NESE GIRL

LOS ANGELES, Aug. II. UP
Search for Maria Wendt, beautiful
Chinese girl who eluded a police
trap after she was released on a
charge of possession of narcotics
valued at 100000, today shifted to
Salt Lake City and New York City.
Reports were checked that she
boarded a plane for New York and
a bus for Salt Lake City.
Miss Wendt was arrested on
Japanese ship in San Pedro harbor
with Simon Harris, war veteran,
and later released in an effort to
trap other members of an assert
ed smuggling ring. She walked out
of a hotel and disappeared while
federal agents watched from an ad,
joining room.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
CERTIFICATE OF FICTITIOUS
NAME.

I, the undersigned do hereby
certify that I am transacting bus
mess at my ranch located four
miles south and one mile east of
Holtville, Imperial County, Califor-
MIA under a designation not show.
ing the name of the person inter
ested in such business, to-wit:
RIVER BANK RANCH.
Dated this goth day of July, 1886.
.... ... 80. FRAZIER ALLDREDGE,... ...
Residence, four miles south and
one mile east of Holtville, Calf.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
)Ss
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL,
On this Goth day of July, A. D.
1886, before me Clarence B. Smith,
a Notary Public in and for said
County and State, personally ap-
peared Frazier Alldredge, known to
me to be the person whose name
is subscribed to the within instru-
ment, and acknowledged to me that
he executed the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
my official seal the day and year
in this certificate first above writ
ten.
c. B. SMITH,
Notary Public in and for Imperial
County, State of California.
(Notarial SeaD -28-A4-1D
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11

Achmed Abdullah, Gelett Burgess
Harold StearnS, Isaac Marcosson,
Arthur Roche, Juliet Tompkins and
many leSSerS.
I like IdWal Joness story of the
corpulent fellow, glitteringly ar
rayed, riding down Hollywood boul-
evard in a flashy limousine a re
cent dusk. Joe Kerrigan. the Alb
hey player, who was with Jones,
said the obese show off sharply re
called the elder Dumas, half mulat-
to and most spectacular of the au-
thors. Dumas's son used to say:
Mon pere is SO vain and ostenta-
tiouS he is capable of riding be-
hind in his own carriage to per-
suade people to believe he keeps
a colored footman." That's the
showinesS that makes New York
New Yorkish.
IdWal Jones, by the way, has just
finished volume of Chinese tales.
There are to be only a thousand
copies, privately circulated and I'm
privileged to be on the list Jones
is one of the delivers into the for
eign quarters of such cities as New
York, San Francisco and New Or
leans, and knows them well. He
is listed by the Literary Guild as
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11
TEN YEARS AGO
August IL. 1926

All flivvers may look alike to
some persons, but not to Slick
Ackley, county traffic officer. II
Slick insists every flivver has q
tinguishing marks and that no mat
ter how hard Mr.. Ford tries to
standardize his product every fliv-
yer has its distinguishing mark
or squeak as the case may be.
AS a result of Ackley's keenness
in noticing these differences,
Negro is resting in the county Jail
awaiting the outcome Of an inves-
tigation to determine the owner of
the car he was driving last night,
when arrested by Ackley.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11
BAJA CALIFORNIA
OFFICIAL DIES

SAN DIEGO, Aug. II. W.R-De
nitro Solana, 45-year-old chief of
the bureau of military and civil
athletics of Baja California, died
today after a short illness, the ma
ture of which was not determined.
Officials said an autopsy would
be held. Solana was said to be
close friend of President Cardenas.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11
THIRTY YEARS AGO
August IL, 1906
BY Ed HOLDEN

Miss Eupha Young entertained a
party of friends at her home in
Imperial last evening.
B. E. Nozler was selected by the
dairymen at their meeting last Sat-
urday to buy and weigh cream at
this place, E. w. Ecker, who for
merly held the position having gone
to San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

one of "the four leading Welsh
writer's" To which he replies: 81
don't know who the other four may
be. Reminds me of Queen Victoria
who knew only two tunes: one was
God Save the Queen, and the other
wasn't E"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11
LOOKING BACKWARD
What The Press Files Tell of Imperial Valley
for This Date in Past Years

and family of Brawley The party
will enjoy an auto trip.
Imperial Valley is due for a great
year, according to reports from
leading Imperial Valley business
men.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-THE ap-
pointment of Richard Watts, Jr.
now Dickie Watts along the
Rialto-to succeed the popular
Percy Hammond, makes him the
youngest dramatic reviewer to
spangle the Death Watch. 1t was
Hammond's wish that the ruddy
Irishman should take on his criti-
cal chore. .-..
Watts has proved himself not
only a skilled writer, but one of the
interesting figures of the New York
scene. Just shading the 30s, he has
journeyed to all parts Of the world
Bespectacled and collegiate, his pro
totype may be seen on any college
campus. A shy fellow who bushes.
He attends first nights always
with his mother, whose familiar
sprays of orchids are as much a
part of the premiere as Herb
Swopes curtain time rush to his
front row seat. Watts began his
newSpapering as the movie critic
on the same paper he now adorns
And is one of the town night owls
A meticulous dresser, he is never
theless an evening clothes atheist.
And always appears in a business
suit with a bluecollared shirt. He
is a native of Charleston, w Va,
coming from a family of wealth and
aristocracy, making him nearest to
the Richard Harding Davis type
of the era.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11
TWENTY YEARS AGO
August IL, 1916

Manuel B. Letson has gone to
Long Beach for a six weeks outing.
Vaughn Thompson, deputy county
clerk, has gone on his vacation. He
was accompanied by r. L. Cooper
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11
GRAB BAG
One-Minute Test

I. What is a hippocampuS?
2. Name the capital of Kentucky.
3. After how many years of mar
riage does one celebrate a Silver
Wedding?"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11
Hints on Etiquette

When a man wants friend Of
the opposite sex to visit his home,
he should ask his mother or wo-
man relative to extend the invita-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11

Persons whose birthday is today
are very perservering. They like
to dominate, but can be led if peo-
Pile approach them tactfully.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11
Words of Wisdom
TodaY'S HOrOScOne

Leave in concealment what has
long been ncealed.-Seneca.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11

One-Minute Test Answers
l. A small fish commonly known
as a sea-horse.
2. Frankfort
3. Twenty-Five.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11

Greenwich Village is trying to
shake off its past and thumb away
from the Bohemian rigamarole
that has aureoled it with free love.
sandaled its feet and streaked it
with atheistic gibber viii Irwin
claims much of the supposed Bo
hemia today exists only in the
minds of press agents who empha-
size the idea that genius lives il
garrets to rent uncomfortable rooms
and squeaky Walk-ups. Many be-
lieve The Village has had it's purge
and is today as free of Leftists
and sundry garrulous crack pots as
Sutton or Beekman Places.
-OO-
The Village is the sixth richest
of 26 districts in New York and has
greater percentage Of home owners
than any other section. SO far this
season, more than 5000 window
boxes adorn these homes, which
are not indicative of a mass of isms
or a morass of long hair. There are
more shade trees in the village per
acreage than in any other metropol-
itan area. There are blocks, too,
that suggest the Pare Monceau
and Trocadero district of Paris
Church attendance in the Wash
ington Square neighborhood is the
highest per capita Al Smith once
described THE Village" as "the
final stronghold of New York fam
lily life" The Village suffers from
its plethora of goofy cafes and
shiftlesS poseurs.
90
Among The Villages treasured
traditions is that nine out of 72
people in the Hall of Fame once
called The Village home. w. q.
Bryant, an eX-Missourian, who
runs the weekly, The Villager,
claims more top notch American
writer's have been hatched in The
Village than anywhere else. He
points to John Masefield, Sinclair
Lewis, Floyd Dell, Inez Haynes II
win, Sarah Comstock, Theodore
Dresser, Hendrix Van Loon, Joseph
Wood Krutch, Ida Tarbell, Fannie
Hurst, Edna ST. Vincent Millay,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11
249 Make Absentee
Ballot Applications

A total of 249 absentee ballot ap-
plications for voting at the August
25 primary election were made at
the county clerks office, according
to Clarence Hinderks, deputy coun-
ty clerk.
Eighty-six already have been cast
at the clerks office and 1853 ha6
applied for absentee ballots as Of
Monday night.
August 20 is the last date upon
which applications for absentee
ballots may be made, Hinderks
pointed out.
The Santa Cruz farm bureau is
sponsoring a movement to have
5000 acres of redWoods in that coun-
ty made a national forest.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-11

THERE many hundreds of plants which nectar bu
only about dozen furnish in worthwhile quantit
All the gardens large cities would not
ain than a few dozen bee colonies .
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Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

National-''The Great Ziegfeld." at
2:30 and $50 pm.
Earle-"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"
at 1890 am, lis, 4:05, 6:55 and
GAS pm. Stage shows at 1885, 3:25,
6:15 and s:o5 pm.
Loew's Fox-"The Country Doctor"
at II am, lao, 4:25, ITO and $50
pm. State shows at 1880. 3:35,
$40 and s:o5 pm.
R-K-O Keith's-"Love on a Bet, )"
at 1855 am, 1856, 1856, 5:56, 1855
and 9:56 pm. March Of Time" at
1892 am, 1882. $3.50, 5:32, 7:32 and
9:32 pm.
Metropolitan-"Rhodes, the Empire
Builder" at 11:1o Am. ITO. S:15,
$40, 7:25 and $50 pm.
Columbia-"Charlie Chan at the
Circus" at HOS am, 1850. $40,
4:30, 6:15, 8:04 and $50 pm.
Palace-"Captain January" at 1880
am. 1:35. 1886, $40, 7:45 and s:45
pm.
Tivoli-"Desire," at 2, $50, $40,
1880 and $40 pm.
Ambassador-"Mr. Deeds Goes to
Town." at Sis, 7:3o and 9:15 pm.
Howard-"The Singing Kid" at
1915, 2:45, Sis, 7:45 and 1915 pm.
Stage shows at las, AIS, 6:43 and
OILS pm.
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cts Life Worth Living?" three-act
satire on the effects of steady diet
Of heavy drama on the residents OF
the little town Of Inish, written by
Lennox Robinson, will be played May
8 and Q by Cue and Curtain, dramatic
club ut George washington univer-
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"Great Ziegfeld" Fulfills
Highest Expectations
Film Extravaganza at the National Attains
New Peak in Musi- Comedy Field.
Powell Stars.
Powell Stars.
BY ROBERT b, PHILLIPS, JR.

behalf Of Zegfed"
musicals opened at the
delighted hrstnight audience
adjectva praise had bied the
which labeled without qualification
achievement of its kind yet to out Hollywood
Of show business rode into town the crest Of
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Beauty Play
For Children
Ends Season
New York Company
Is Clever in Story
at National.

r AUGHTER and fairlike beauty
were mingled to the complete sat
isfaction Of the juvenile audience that
gathered in the National Theater Sat-
urday morning for the concluding pro-
duction of the season by the Chill
dren's Theater of New York. 1t was
the popular Beauty and the Beast"
and its appeal to the child mind was
made realistic by combination in the
cast of the actors who have made this
institution a tradition of the last
few years and Of several who have
recognized place on the adult stage.
Mrs. Clare Tree Major, founder and
wise manager of the Children's Thea
ter, has added to her several child
stories dramatic talent which has
been inherited from distinguished for
bears on the stage. She has been able
to visualize the fairy tale in terms of
scenes and acts, with the result that
Beauty and the Beast" one Of the
best of the bright-hued nursery tales,
is seen as one of the finest of the
stage offerings for her audiences.
Three companies on tour have carried
casts of actors who have won success
in New York, without the handicap
Of being organized for the road work.
This plot, as presented Saturday,
centers around an Oriental merchant,
with the background of 1.-THE Arabian
NioIotc - yx-hncn y~oicfnrtt,rnr hoyn loft
him a poor man, but whose recovery
comes through the admirable quail
ties of his most devoted daughter.
named Beauty. She performs great
service for a prince, who has been
doomed to carry the likeness of a
beast, but through kindness she
breaks the spell.
involve the impositions of less worthy
sisters, but in the play the fine char
acterization of Beauty by Jewel Morse
is materially aided by the actions of
Emily Partridge and Dorothy Robin
son as the sisters. The father is well
done by Wendell Written, and the
brightly entertaining Aunt Hippolya
ID pIcStHCcu ny Sic'Cl NAoi q 4AAOPP'
whose name is known to the stage as
one of the most successful Ibsen stars.
Her attendant. Beanstalk. is played
by William Courtleigh, jr., another
name in more serious drama. The
effulgence of the enchanted price is
made obvious by Kenn Randall. John
Radcliffe is sufficiently mischievous
as Donchian.
The organization announces as its
schedule for next season: Sleeping
Beauty" october "a; Mrs. Wigs of
the Cabbage Patch" November 81;
"Pinocchio," December 26; Little
Women" January 80; "Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm" March 6, and
Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks With the
Circus" April 10. D. c. C.
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be laid on the chronological or factual
accuracy of the tale, for it follows
the record only in general outline,
bending its best efforts toward the
creation of a lively drama and q
fast-paced divertismen. Inthis at
tempt it has men with complete sue
cess.
Not even the most optimistic could
have supposed it possible to produce
three-hour musical picture entirely
free from an occasional tagging mo-
ment. These lapses are so few and
far between, so quickly counter
balanced by superbly conceived cpl
sodes. however, that they may scarcely
be charged against the production in
a final accounting.
Only the statisticians know how
many scores of stars, featured and bit
players and super-numeraries con-
tribute to the sum and total of this
film. Chief among them in addition
to Mr.. Powell are Luise Rainer as
the famed Anna Held, Myrna 10y as
Billie Burke, Fanny Brice as herself,
Frank Morgan as Jack Billings (sup-
posedly Charles Dillingham;, Zieg-
fields friend and rival; Nat Pendleton
as Sandow: Ray Bolger. Joseph Caw-
thorn, Virginia Bruce, Ernest Cossart,
Reginald Owen and others ad in
finitum. Each of these was shrewdly
cast. and individually and collectively
they have acquitted themselves with
distinction. Just what they are called
upon to do, I suggest you would be
extremely wise to discover for yourself.
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COMEDIANS AND BLONDS
FEATURE GAYETY SHOW
Laughs and Optical Attractions
Available in Current
Burlesque Attraction.

o1 4CS4oS "a ttA hStA
THANKS principally to two come
dams and two blends, "F1apper
Follies," currently offered at the
Gayety, under Col. Lakes incom-
parable egis, shapes up as burlesque
attraction Of more than routine mo-
ment.
Mike Sachs. Of the gutteral accents
and mobile features, and the ebullient
Billy Fields are on hand to demon
strate once again that they rate near
the top in their branch of the funny
man business. Both coax the laughs
on practically every effort, with Sachs
performing to best advantage in the
"dance hall" skit and Fields shining
In "pinochle."
A platinum-topped beauty and pleas
Ing dexterity, both of which are
adequately displayed in her specialties,
point to a short term Of smaller-type
billing for Patricia Morgan, which
statement the reaction of a Sunday
matinee audience tends to sub
stantiate. Mae Brown, somewhat thin
Of voice, but going to neither extreme
in figure. gives Miss Morgan strong
competition all the way, and Is easy
on the eye In the process.
The specialties of timber Anna
Smith, Herb Leipsig's acceptable vo-
calizing and support in the skits and
Alice Kennedy's efforts in the same
direction also deserve consideration in
any appraisal. There is, too, a salts
factory chorus and the colonels usual
compliment-provoking sets.
G, A. M.