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Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

Too many people 'let George do it
If George is willing, sometimes it's
labor saving habit-but 0 m m
George falls down on the job. He did
in one instance in this county, and the
men who wanted the job done went out
and did it themselves. There's a pretty
good example in their work for others
who want to get things done.
A WPA project for construction of
a $4,000 rifle range was set up and ready
to go, except for the money. The money
never came through. Members of the
Imperial Valley Rifle club, headed by
L. V. Hess of Ell Centre, Joined up with
the reserve officers group in the county
and built the range themselves. Charles
p. Delp was active in its construction.
which was accomplished under army
specifications.
Another set of men might have given
up. once they found out someone else
would't build the range for them.
There is a deeper lesson in the rifle
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Nav 10, 1916

Art and sewing productions of
pupils at the local schools are on
display in The windows Of Jasper
L. Trayers. contractor and builder
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
NEW YORK
DAY by DAY
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK. May 12-Johnny
Broderick is Broadway's most feared
minion of the law. He is the bare
knuckled flattener of wise guys,
sharp shooters and downright
toughs. A plain-clothes detective,
he is 5 feet 10 inches and weighs
around 100. With spats and a cane
he could pass for George McManus,
the CartooniSt.
He's a snappy dresser who came
out of a gas house district on the
lower East Side. And for a long
time talked out of the side of his
mouth. He has almost always en-
ployed his sidewalk technique of
swinging from the ankle in bring
ing in the boys who think they are
bad.
He has the police departments
gold medal for personal courage
and was the copper who faced the
barrage of bullets from the hide.
away of the notorious Two Gun
Crowley and brought that notorious
killer to book. He has been a fool
for walking smack into gun-fire.
Despite his bravery, Broderick has
never gotten very far in MS field
He is still a S3,000-a-year detective
Some say it's departmental politics
Others say he is doing exactly what
he wants to do. He is Al and an es-
pecial pal of Jack Dempsey.
n
James J. Montague fills the ira
ditional role of shy poet in real life.
A timid little man with a minaret
mind, he Shrinks from all public
contacts. Not long ago at a read
ing circle at The Players he tried
to read two of his poems, but STUN
bled and whispered so they had to
take his manuscript away and get
the robust Clement Wood to below
the lines.
The lie de France was held for 20
minutes a recent sailing for a be-
lated passenger. AS a result, a most
exasperated crowd of adieuers fair
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
One Minute Test Answers

!. The study Of fossil remains.
3 Senator Alben W Barkley of
Kentucky.
g. A canopied seat carried on the
back of an elephant.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
TOday's Horoscope

Persons born on this day have
the capacity Of becoming success
full teachers. Their intellect is keen
and they assimilatc what they
learn.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

l never saw a ghost. The near
est I have come to it is when in
such an mterlude as that through
which I am just passing. I am
haunted by a name I cannot quite
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

New York'S busiest woman is the
white haired magazine editor, Mrs.
William Brown Meloney She works
at her two desks II hours day.
One desk is at her office and the
other at her penthouse in West
9th, where she has a roof garden
growing with petunias, planted by
notable friends, including Nine.
Curie, 10 Davidson, etc.
They found this scribbled bit of
doggerel on the reporters table at
one of the boring banquets with a
succession of windy speakers:
Often at midnight I Shrek in af
fright,
Where is Frank Crowninshield din
ing tonight?"
Then comes the thought as I calm
myself down,
Somewhere they're laughing with
Charles Hanson ToWne.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
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Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
Famous Sayings

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
erapple them 10 thy som with hooks of steel
Shakespeare.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
WHEN GEORGE DOESN'T DO 1T
THESE HEN Do

A note of connendatiOn is due the
Imperial Valley men UItO, LUI,en WPA
plans for rifle range fell through,
trent out and constructed the range
themselves.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
Looking Backward

What The Press Files Tell of Imperial Valley This
Date in Past Years
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

HerriCk.
A very learned gentleman and
highly successful author writes me
Interestingly of the new custom
among certain writer's, Damon Run
yon and Hemingway at times, to use
the historic present tense. He
says the writer's think it makes
things more real, but it doesn't. He
thinks the writer using this form
is saying what might happen and
not what does. He comes into the
room should be used with if. He
came into the room" is how we
would tell it in conversation and
that gives the effect of the present.
He says the French use the present
tense occasionally to change the
dictiOn, but he believes it failure
in English Still Runyon and
Hemingway get along fairly well.
Lowell Thomas is among the last
of the bCWtlelSts He has worn
nothing but the bow since school
days up CMurmuring lady over my
shoulder: of course it wouldn't
read as well dropping that up.'O Nor
ris Gest has worn that exaggerated
bOW-like do-funny for 80 years.
George White for many years wore
only a black midget fly, but lately
he has gone expansive and dons an
came scurrying up the gangplank.
occasional four-in hand
-O
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

Member California Newspaper
Publishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12
WOULD YOU TRADE
THE GOOD FOR THE BAD?

Approval by the UOterS of a proposed
constitutional amendment in CdIifor-
mia for repeal of the sales tax" Uould
substitute bad for good, making ruin
alton certainty for the states school
and financial systems.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

The lie de France was held for 20
minutes a recent sailing for a be-
lated passenger. AS a result, a most
exaSperated crowd of adieuers fair
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

BRINGING ALL
THE NEWS TO
IMPERIAL
VALLEY
RESIDENTS
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-12

NJ. c. Mogensen e. Co, National
Advertising Representatives.
Evening star., 1936-05-07

with the Barker Karpis gang. Ziegler
had been happily eliminated by q
fellow thug at Cicero on March %,
1884, and the objective narrowed to
Arthur (Doc) Barker and the sullen
silent and shifty Karpis-not noisy as
his mates and therefore harder to
catch.
Kept His Hands on.
J. Edgar Hoover vehemently urges
everybody, including country sheriffs,
not to touch any evidence of crime.
A crossroads sheriff, near Portage.
Wis. heard and needed. When some
farmers located some gasoline cans.
abardoned under suspicious circum-
stances, he forbade anybody to touch
them and wired the G-men. On one
of them, they found fingerprint of
Barker. There was other evidence
that the car had been driven by the
Bremen kidnapers.
From that point, the whole case
began to unwind like a ball of string.
There had been previous information
that the gang had proceeded by flash
IiSHL SlSuhiS. 4he special agents
showed pictures Of Barker and Karpis
to all flashlight dealers In st. Paul.
Karpis was identified as the pur-
chaser of four flashlights. Next came
the breakdown of handlers of the
ransom money, the flushing Of DR..
Joseph P. Moran, who did the Karpis
face alterations, and the wreck of
various political fixers and fences
along the line, all Of which collateral
happenings would make fat book
While the main point of interest,
for the moment, is that Alvin Karpis
is in jail. it is to be noted that such
a case history as this reveals the first
national crime drive as cutting a wide
swath. While the G-men were after
Evening star., 1936-05-07

as a point Of focal Infection. He had
a fat dossier on the journeymen
"snatchers" and killers who enjoyed
sanctuary there.
On June is, 1898, william Hamm,
rich brewer, was banged on the head
with a pistol butt as he left his ONCE,
tossed into a car, taken to q hidssout
and held for 500 900 ransom. Prom
inent in Hoover's st. Paul crime
anthology was one Shotgun Ziegler, a
rather ornate thug, supposedly highly
educated. At that time, the outlines
of the Barker-Karpis gang were rather
vague in the F. B. I. files, but Ziegler
seemed natural" for such an enter
prise. He was one of the most gar
rulous of killers and the G-men had
had word that he had been planning
to branch out.
Prints Taken From Bottles.
The day after Hamm was kidnapped
st. Paul newspaper told the police
the address of a suburban house where
Hamm possibly had been taken, as
previously told here. Fow the police
passed up the beer bottles also has
been told. G-men are trained in
routine as thoroughly as a quarter
back in swapping the ball. 1t was
routine for them to lift a couple Of
prints from a beer bottle and shoot
them to Washington by air. 1t was
also routine for mystifying machine
to kick out the identiflcations of Frank
Nash and Paula Harmon, quicker than
you could say J. Edgar Hoover. Frank
Nash was arrested.
Two days after the Hamm kidnapping
three gangsters killed Nash and three
officers, at Kansas City, trying to
rescue the former from the Federals.
Had it not been for that fingerprint,
Mr.. Hoover's beagles on the Hamm
case would have been off on q false
trail. A sequence of evidence, started
by the print, linked Nash with the
Hamm kidnapping and hung the Kansas
City massacre on Verne Miller, Pretty
Boy Floyd and Adam Richetti, to all
of whom the Federals later dealt just
retribution.
In one years operations, the Barker
KarplS gang cleaned up about $50U,000
in cash. When, on January II. 1884.
they kidnapped Edward George Bremen,
president of the Commercial Bank of
st. Paul, they raised their ransom
price to 100000. But by this time.
the special agents were riding hard
on their trail. That fateful finger
print had linked Nash with shotgun
Ziegler and thorough shakedown
of Ziegler evidence had linked him
Evening star., 1936-05-07

search Of his room In a midtown
theatrical hotel failed to disclose any
uncaged reptiles.
Miss Florence Zoda, partner of
Smith, who is known as abdul Saud,
Egyptian snake artist" went to the
room yesterday, removed her pet ALL
gator and police then evacuated the
hotel for a poison gas attack by
fumigators from the city health de-
partment.
The bodies Of nine stiff snakes, still
In their glass cages, were removed
then to police headquarters, where
they were cast into a furnace.
Evening star., 1936-05-07

bitten by an adder. was in critical
condition today and no longer the
owner Of nine reptiles.
Montreal police saw to that yester-
day, some is hours after Smiths
hand was amputated in an effort to
halt spread Of poison through his
system. They gassed the snakes and
burned them.
Doctors operated ON Smith less than
an hour after he was poisoned Tues
day night, but said they would not
know definitely for at least nine days
more whether he would recover.
For some time police feared three
Of Smiths snakes were missing, but
Evening star., 1936-05-07

Karpis, they also cleaned such illus
trious crime impresarios as Bill
Weaver, Harry Campbell, volney
Davis. Fred Barker (bullet-riddled
with his implacable and rheumy-eyed
old mother IN Florida) Arthur (Doc)
Barker. Kate Barker and Edna Muir
ray-all dead or permanently out Of
circulation.
In what respect are Mr.. Hoover's
operations unique? What are the G.
men doing with their great "crime
laboratory" their 100000 finger
prints, their thirty mine sub-bureaus.
their shooting gallery, their police
school and their army Of 1,700 indoor
and outdoor sleuths? What are the
political restraints on the federal war
against crime? Like a Photographic
plate in dark room, the picture de-
velops If one explores the Federal
Bureau of Observation-Disclosures as
disparate as the nuts and bolts in q
conveyor belt factory. but quite as
perfectly integrated.
(Copyright. 1851
Evening star., 1936-05-07
Bird Banding Opposed.

Societies for the prevention Of cruel.
ty to animals everywhere have re,
ceived protestations against the band.
ing Of migratory birds, but thorough
investigation has revealed that no
cruelty Is involved.
Evening star., 1936-05-07
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

bI Il Il hAhAoANs
Ma Barker was a wicked old Harri-
dan with the deadly eye of the basilisk.
She whelped a brood of killers, all
done for now-thanks to the G-men
and their own occupational hazards
and Ma, too, is a casualty OF j. Edgar
Hoover's open season for murderers,
losing the decision in a machine gun
argument with the Federals. Thus
the Barker interests of the Barker
Karpis murder syndicate were liqui-
dated. and now the Karpis holdings
are written off with the doubtlessly
permanent isolation of the homicidal
but ratty and slack-featured Alvin
Karpis.
1t is said that cold-blooded reptiles
don't die until sundown. So with the
gangs. One could go back 80 years
to the demise of some notorious West
ern bad man, in roadside brush with
the law, and find that the elimination
was like lifting a single scale from
gila monster. The crime hook-up
runs back through decades, as did the
Barkers and their cumulative VII
lainies. That's why Mr.. Hoover and
his special agents have gone in for
historicity rather than histrionics. To
break widely ramifying and inter-
locking gangs, they must get the
whole picture.
Office Sleuths Invaluable.
The 100000 fingerprints in the files
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
would be just so many ciphers without
an integer to give them meaning.
Finding these integers is the work OF
Mr.. Hoover's unique organization Of
police techniques and intelligence. In
nv sessions with the G-men, during
the last three months, I realized
clearly that their remarkable showing
of efficiency is the harvest of organ
ization, systematization, coordination
and research, a vast amount of which
may have no bearing for the moment
on any particular crime, but which is
more than likely to disclose some ten
drill of evidence which leads to the
criminal Office sleuths, following
such lead, are quite as important as
the men in the field.
Early in 1888, Mr.. Hoover's men were
paying special attention to St. Paul.
It was a grand hunting preserve for
crook catchers. Local police had made
the town king's-X for thugs, on con-
dition that they work at their trade
elsewhere. Trying to isolate the crime
virus, Mr.. Hoover had located st. Paul
Evening star., 1936-05-07
New Pyrethrum Record.

Japan's exports of pyrethrum fiow-
ers, from which insecticides are made,
totaled 16,897 500 pounds in the last
year, new high record.
Evening star., 1936-05-07
POISON OF ADDER
MAY KILL VICTIM
Police Gas Reptiles Owned by
Snake Raiser, Then Burn
Their Bodies.

By the Associated Press.
MONTREAL, May Edward E.
Smith, the Louisiana snake raiser,
who lost his left arm after being
Evening star., 1936-05-07
TRA|L|NGOF KARP|S
!: CUT WIDE SWATH
G-Men's Technical Staff
Proves Invaluable in By
path Discoveries.

A criminal case history, demon
strating the spectacular and prac-
tical results obtained by the G.
men through their implacable and
INTELLIGENT depotion to detail, Is
presented here in the second OF a
series of four articles. The wr,ter
is a newspaper man ,Dho ,Das priut-
leqed TO look into the inner pork-
irqs of the Governments crime
laboratory in Washington.
Evening star., 1936-05-07

It's FUR STORAGE time-phone
Ma. 1888 and our bonded mes
senger will call for your garments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-28
|EOXX HAS FINE
 CHANGE TO TOP RUTH |. R, MARK
Red SOx SIugger Three Ahead of Babes
 1927 Record
RY FRANK MURPHY

United Press Staff COrrespondent.)
 Boston May 2S-(UP)-The James Emory Foxx home run factory was stepping up production today ct . rate that had the more rabid boost- CTS of double x" discussing possi- bilities of Q new modern record.
 Celebrating birth of second son by clouting for the circuit on suc- cessive days against the New York Yankees, the slugging Red Sox first baseFiaan had moved three f1otches ahead of the pace Babe Ruth was setting when he cracked out 60 hoEIl- CTS in 1927. (
 sox Subdued
 Jimmy manufactured "No. 13" off Johnny Broaca of Lawrence and Yale university, the Yanks' be- spectacled right-hander, as the Sox dropped a 0-0 overtime battle to the Gothamites yesterday.
 On the corresponding date--May 27---in 1027 the Sultan of Swat had baggcd only 10 fotir-base blows.
 In their conviction that Foxx will prove Q real menace to the lsuthian record this season, Jimny's admir- CTS argue from several standpointg.
 For one thing, they point out, Jimmy has rapped 10 of his B home run drives to date over the short left field fence at Fenway park. And the Bostonians play almost half of their remaining IA galnes--63 to be exact .-on the home field.
 And the fact that Toxx has hit five circuit blows in the last eight games shows he's plenty hot, the TooterS declare.
 Up and Down
 Jimmy started the season ct . so- 50 pace, bagging i've homerS dur. ing April and three during the first seven days of May. But after get- ting Q brace of four-baggers against the St. Louis Browns here on May 2, Jimmy went into c two.week dump. It wasn't until the Red Hose met the Browns again on May 20 in St. Louis that Foxx corra1led No. g..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-28
MORIARTY GOES TO
 WILKES.BARRE TEAM

Holyoke, Mass, May 28-(Up)- Eddie Moriarty, former Holy Cross baseball captain, planned c brief va- cation at his homo here, before re- porting Saturday to Wilkes Barre in the New York-p Pennsylvania league to whom he was optioned by the Boston Bees last night.
 Moriarty, who had been farmed out to Syracuse in the International league earlier this season, was transferred to wilkes Barre when Syracuse was unable to give him 6 regular starting berth and needed fielding experience. A year ago Mor- iarty made 6 sensational debut with the Boston Braves, but after . week of spectacular siugging withdrew from baseball temporarily.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-28
Chase And Tinker
 Win One-Sided Games In Loop

Hard hitting featured in the Division A grammar school base- ball league games played yester- day ct the parks about the city. Hendricken was victorious over An- derson e-3; Hopeville topped Reid- vile 0.5: Tinker swamped Mary Abbott 10-1; and Chase won a orle- sided game from Park Road 27-2.
 A nice mound exhibition on the part of King, twirler for Anderson, proved futile as the Hendricken players played heads up on the sacks. The losing hurler hit home run and allowed his opponents { hits. The losers were allotted only s scattered bingles by Green, the op. posing nnoundsman. The score by innings:
 IEendricken 100 3o2 0--0 42
 Anderson 1000 l10 Ia 3 l
 Green and LaParta; King ard Breen. Umpire Fryer.
 Hit Hard
 Colllni and Newman, storm troopers of the Hopevilie lineup proved their worth yesterday ct Washington Park, hitting timely to timely to aid in scoring enough tale lies to topple the hopes of Rockville. Donofrio excelled for the losers. Tl,o score by innings:
 Hopeville ..40l 400 0x-9 14 2
 Rockville ...102 GOO 20-6 @ {
 Fantano and santopietro; Dono- frio and DiNunzio. Umpire Laddcn.
 Mobile and DeLucia of the Tinker combine drove home runs with two mates aboard while Denny Jamelll slapped another with 6 mate on, ell of which added to the total of the Town Plotters. Mobile all wed three hits and had n strikeouts. The score by innings:
 Abbott ... .O00 100 co -1 37
 Tinker ...6i0 (i0 00x--l6 l2 0
 Mendsrino, Orsatti, Rena and Accousti; Mobile and Wright. Um- pire Dobkins.
 Munstn, Baker and Heaton of the Chase team lead the attack oppo- sition. The losers had 10 errors. The score by innings:
 Chase ..... .106 673 4-27 i0 0
 Park Road ..0oi 900 Ia 3i0 ~ Heaton and Baker: Drumri, Aracy, Falecoln. Umpire Wood.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-28
NO OPERATION FOR BILL D|CKEY
Yankee Catcher Coming Along We'll in Boston
 Hospital

Boston, May 2s.-(Up).-Cat Bill Dickey of the New York Yan. kees was "much improved" today at St. Elizabeths hospital, where he Is being treated for internal in. juries suffered in Q collision with Eric McNair, Red sox shortstop Tuesday.
 Hospital attendants reported Dic- key had passed "a very comfortable night" and Dr. Edward J. O'Brien, Red sox physician, said he was "in fine shape" o'Brien definitely as- serted on operation on Dickeya bruised kidney would not be neces- sary.
 Though out of the lineup for c fortnight ct least, Dickey won't be out of touch with conditions on the field. Yesterday, he had nurses rec laying reports of the il.inning 0-e thriller" to him, and today his Yankee mates were planning to give him Q radio to follow the team.
 DickeyS wife m d brother, "Skeets," reserve Red Sox catcher, were the only persons allowed to visit him yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-28
Sor Oarlous Father Proung Sensation On1ercdn Leagu
MANSFIELD TOPS. STATE NET PLAY
 IN FIRST ROUND
Yale Student Won in Singles and Doubles
 Matches Yesterday

New Haven, Conn, May 2s-UP) Ed Mansfield, Yale, first to gain the semi-final round, today paced the field in the Connecticut tennis championship matches at New Hav- en Lawn club.
 Mansfield defeated Don Cram. Stamford, straight sets and paired with Stevens to defeat Rice and Jones in a second round doubles.
 Hobey Hyde and John Cow, Hart. ford, gained the quarter-final dou- bles round by eliminating Stephens and Dalrymple, 60, 6-3.
 Tn the Women's division, Mrs. 8. Moves and Miss M. Arguimbeau ad- yarced into the semi-finals after defeating Ann Ellis and Miss Hem. ingway respectively. Misses Arguir1- beau and Van schaike gained the doubles serni-finals by eliminating Misses Gaillard and Stevens.
 Green gold is generally an alloy of gold and silver.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-28

Runs Crosetti 8, Rolfe 2, Dikag- gio, 0ehrig, Sellkirk, Lazzeri, AL made, F'oxx, Cooke 2, McNair, Wer. Der 2, Kroner. Errors None. Runs batted in-selkirk 2, Chapman, Di- Maggie 2. Rolfe 2, Crosetti, Cooke, Foxx 2, Armada, Berg {. Two-base hits-RQlfe, selkirk, Jorgens, Oeh- rig, Alniada, Cooke 2. Cronin, Mo. Nair, Berg. Three-base hits-Roife. Home runs-DiMaggio, Foxx. Stolen bases-C Chapman, Crosetti 3. Double plays-C Crosetti to Lazzeri to Qehrig: Kroner to McNair to Toxx 2. Left on baSes-New York 6, Boston 6. Bases on balls-Off Broaca q: of Kleinhans 2; off Marcum 8: off Gas. carella s. Strikeouts-By Broaca 2; by Kleinhans 2: by Hadley 1; by Pearson 3: by Marcum 1; by Wal berg 3; by Cascarella 2. Hits-OR Broaca 9 in s 2-3 innings: off Klein. hans l in 2-3: of Hadley 1 in 2-3; of Pearson 2 in (: ot7 Marcum { in ii-3: off Walberg 3 in 42.3; of Cascarella 5 in 5. Wild pitch--Mar- cum. Winning pitcher-Pearson. Losing pitcher-C Cascarella. Umpires Basil, Kolls and AEoriarty. Time -2:63.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-28
The Greatest Baseball Game
 Ever Played On This Date
. By B. E. JARRETT
CUBS WON FROM CARDS 8 TO 7 WHEN LEACH
 SCORED IN SEVENTEENTH AT CHICAGO
MAY 2S, 1913

innings Pierce, Cheney pitching Chicago while e and Harmon performed for St. Louis
 Zimmerman had been disposed of the Cubs half of the eenth Saler singled Harmon passed Bd well i'll the sacks Archer bunted Konetc forcing Safer at home the bases still ammd and Cheney upwo seS and three balls frantic started with the pch being fle wid Cheney did not know such bedlam of here Leach tearing safely in
 This broke 7 tie and the duel between Harmon and which ninth the twice to force the Into innings.
 This the Afty-sxh longest game played in the major eaRu