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Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-23

HOLLYWOOD, July 90. W.D -
Garnishing his conclusions with a
hatful of Six-cylinder words, Carey
Wilson, squatty, ginger haired
screen writer, said George Wash
ington talked like combination of
President Roosevelt, Sen. Carter
Glass of Virginia, and John (The
Great Lover Barrymore.
Honorable mention in the Wilson
class of those who talk like Wash
ington" goes to Lewis Stone, Walter
Huston, and Franchot Tone.
What brought it all up was an
argument of Wilson and Novelist
Rupert Hughes over whether Wash
ington should have an English ac-
cent in MIR. and Mrs. Washington"
a film tipoff on the family life of
the Father of His Country which
they are writing. After poking
among the records they decided he
should not.
"WashingtonS Diction," explained
Wilson, was that of English and
colonial gentlemen of the day, but
a speech quite unlike the modern,
over emphasized drawing room
English A bath to Washington
was a bath, never a 'bawth'. On
the other hand his talk wasn't ex-
actly like any going brand of US
Speech today is much more
colloquial than in revolutionary
times, when only the uneducated
used local idiom," pursued Wilson.
Hence, ordinary speech of that
time would seem pompous and
stilted today.
Modern 'Americanese' is a poly
glot resulting from peculiaritieS
bred by the original settlers and
perverted by millions of immi-
grants"
Wilson picks Roosevelt on his
Washington team because the pres
ident is "a fine speaker, trained in
the best traditions of the language
as handed down from the time of
the American Revolution"
Glass is chosen for the same
quality, except for a slight south
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-23
RIVERSIDE MAN
CLAIMS MURDER
PART OF PLAN

RIVERSIDE, Cal, July %. -
Fred Hart, 45, was held on a mur-
der charge today after he report
edly confessed Staying Mrs. E. d.
Martin as agreed upon in a sui
cide-murder" pact they entered
into four years ago.
According to District Attorney
Earl Redwine, Hart said he and
Mrs. Martin had made an agree
ment when they started living
together four years ago that each
would shoot the other and commit
suicide if either should go off with
someone else"
Hart claimed, according to Red
wine, he was living up to terms
of the understanding when he
shot down Mrs. Martin last Friday
at Indio, 60 miles south of here.
He said she left him two weeks
ago and was married to E. d. Mar
tin, Coachella Valley farmer.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-23
ACME BREWING
WORKERS HOLD
MEET AT L. A.

Three hundred executives and
employees of the Los Angeles Acme
Brewing company and Bohemian
Distributing company, including
sales personnel attached to the
Southern California division, at
tended an anniversary banquet July
81 in the Los Angeles Elks temple.
The occasion marked the first an
niVersary of the opening of the new
$1,250,000 Acme Brewery in Los An
geles, and the fifteenth anniversary
of its distributing organization, Bo-
hemian Distributing company.
President Schuster announced
that all previous records for west
ern beer sale swere broken by Acme
BreWeries during June, with total
sales of 1851 .13l gallons, of which
1,249, 1929 gallons were disposed of in
California. The record month for
1895 was August, with 1,072,683 gal
Ions sold
To consistent newspaper advertiS-
ing was attributed the great sue
cess of Acme BrewerieS since repeal,
asserted Vice President Foto, who
added:
"Since the relegalization of beer
the newspapers have been used as a
primary advertising media for Acme
beer"
Vitale oppressed the gratitude of
Acme Breweries and his own COM
pany, Bohemian Distributing COM
pany for the answering loyalty of
their hundreds Of employees, by
whose efforts Acme leadership has
been maintained in the west.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-23
Expense Account
Abuse Charge To
Be Investigated

SACRAMENTO, July %. UP)-
Investigation of charges that Her.
bert c. Davis, executive officer
of the State Fish and Game COM
mission, had submitted irregular
expense accounts was ordered to-
day by A. E. Stockburger, director
of the department of finance.
Stockburger said he learned Da-
Wis had used railroad passes on
several trips between Oakland and
Los Angeles fer which he submit
ted vouchers covering railroad
fare as travelling expenses. Davis
admitted use of the pass, accord
ing to Stockburger, but explained
he put in the expense claim to re-
imburSe himself for airplane trips
he had not listed.
A check of airplane companies
was ordered tc determine if Davis
had made the trips he outlined,
Stockburger said. The finance
director also said he would ask
the attorney general for an OPT
Mon as to whether the state con-
stitutiCn provision denying the use
of railroad passes to any public
officer applied to fish and game
commission employees.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-23
WALLACE MAPS
APPOINT PLAN
FOR FARM AID

KANSAS CITY, Mo, July %.
U.P) - Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace today offered
the drought-ravaged prairie states
a four-point program to combine
with the administration soil con-
servation plan as a relief measure.
The secretary's recommended
tions were:
l. Judicious commodity loans.
2. The "ever-normal granary."
3. Crop insurance.
4. Government purchase of land
which never should have been
planted
After inspecting at first hand
the heat-baked drought states, Sc
cretary Wallace told members of
the international baby chick as
sociation here last night that the
government would enter the mar
kets Monday to purchase cattle,
unless rain comes. The purchases
will probably be 10 per cent OF
1884 purchases, he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-23
STATE RELIEF
BURDEN SHOWS
SHARP DECLINE

LOS ANGELES, July %. W.P)-A
sharp decline in the number of per
sons on state relief-from $4,000
persons in January, 1885, to approx
imately 10000 at present-was re-
ported today by the State Emer-
gency Relief administration, esti-
mating total relief expenditures up
to Dec. 81, 1885 at $235, 100000.
The report ascribed the reduction
to seasonal employment in agricul-
ture and other industries" perman-
ent unemployment, and transfer of
relief cases to federal WPA rolls
since September, 1885. A II per cent
reduction in both federal and state
cases over last year was reported
for Los Angeles county.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-23

A new star has appeared in the
movies, according to Ben Hulse of
the Ben Hulse Tractor and Equip
ment company, and that star is
none other than Caterpillar" tract
tor of which the Hulse organiZa-
ton has been distributor in Imper-
ial and Yuma valleys for many
years. Here's how he explains the
situation.
Recently Warner Bros. purchased
the movie rights from author Viii
liam Hazlett Upson covering those
e-splitting adventures of the ma
tural born" tractor salesman, Alex
ander Bolts, which have featured a
famous weekly magazine for several
years. Writers Richard Macauley,
Hugh Cummings and Joe Traub
were assigned to the screen story.
Raymond Enright was named as di-
rector. Joe E. Brown, the cavernous
comedian, was perfectly cast in the
starring role of Alexander Bolts.
June Travis and Carol Hughes fur
nished the love interest. Guy Kib-
bee was assigned the role of the re
luctant and often rebellious pros
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-23
Strolls Thru Hollywood

ern drawl which was added since
Washington'S time" and Barrymore
because he speaks pure English, his
voice "partaking of no school Of
pronunciation.
Kent Alexander, arty still photo
grapher who believes music helps
mugging has foreSWorn the radio
because he can't depend on it.
He was posing Mary Astor for
an exotic, languorous shot with the
radio bubbling Blue Danube" but
just as he was about to click the
shutter it switched to "St. Louis
Blues" and the effect was lost
Alexander hastily tuned in another
plaintive melody and was again all
set when the radio began to spout
representative Lemke's address to
the "old folks" party of DR. Fran
els E. Townsend.
Good Lord. I'm not quite 65,"
snapped Astor, and the mornings
work was ruined.
Odll GdlFlCk, lIlTOWn LOT loss
by OnSlow Stevens in a movie
tussle for Murder with Pictures.
is nursing a flock of bruises, but is
otherwise okay.
They had to wake up Jean Ar
thur to Photograph her asleep.
Arthur dozed off on a prop park
bench in which she was to be
snapped snoozing for Adventure in
Manhattan"
You'll have to wake up, Miss
Arthur" said Director Edward
Ludwig, when they were ready to
shoot. you don't sleep dramati-
cally enough"
Leo Carrillo, who recently offer
ed $25 for a name for his new
yearling racing filly, has settled on
"Bcrachita", but hopes it isn't
prophetic of the nag's future foot
work. 1t means in Mexican little
drunken girl" The $25 goes to
Marguerite Ortega of Acoma, N. M.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-23
Political Figure
Succumbs in L. A.
To Long Illness

LOS ANGELES, July %. UP
Edwin Baker, So, longtime politi-
cal figure and former U. S. Gus
tens Collector at Nogales, Ariz,
died at his home here last night
after a lingering illness.
In politics since 1905, Baker was
port collector at Nogales for three
years before coming to Los An
geles in 1908. Since then, he had
served as state assemblyman
and city councilman. Upon re-
tiring from public life, he became
a real estate broker and tax coun-
sellor.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-23
Will Rogers Son
Acquires Paper

LOS ANGELES. July %. Up)-
Will Rogers. Jr.. son of the late
humorist, added a new link in his
neighborhood newspaper chain
today by acquiring the Los An
geles Press, semi-weeNy shopping
paper published in the the VIII
shire district. The paper will be
consolidated with the Boulevard
Record, published in the same dis
trict, and given the name of the
Metropolitan Shopping News.
Young Rogers. owns two other
neighbCrhood publications
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-23
Missouri Couple
Recouers Rapidly

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., July %.
U.P)-Leonard Johnson and his
wife were reported slightly i'm
proved today after lingering near
death from exhaustion and lack
of water when forced to walk
through the desert for two days.
The Johnsons were travelling to
an extinct volcano crater, but their
automobile stalled and they started
back on foot. After two days they
were rescued. They plan to re-
turn to Kansas City when able
to travel
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-23

foundation and inconsistent with
the policy to- which I have uni
formly adhered"
Informed of the governors de-
nal, Edgar declined to comment,
other than to say Il was subpoena
ed and under oath when I made
my statement"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-23

by Edgar in a court action brought
by eight former employees at Los
Angeles to force return of their
jobs and back salary since last
December, when they were dis
missed.
He declared the statements at
tributed to Edgar were without
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-23
:, Ray Edgar Declines NeqV
Statement on Deposition

SACRAMENTO July 23 UPCharges that
recommended the dismissal several board equalization
control officers in Los Angeles shortly after
board member that today
issued by the The deposition
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-23
LONG WEIGHT

LONG WEIGHT
BRUNSWICK, Mo, July %. UP
Officials of an elevator here re
ported loads of oats brought for sale
at their place always contain sew
eral bushels of grasshoppers.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-23

The know about the will appreciate
the value built Pontiac Eight. Money buy
smoother, eight and in addition, it economical
as the threr everything motoring provides,
the lowest possible cost-buy Pontiac Eight
*one 1000 Pontiac who recently have written vol
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-23

ern draWl which was added since
Washington's time" and Barrymore
because he speaks pure English, his
voice "partaking of no school of
pronunciation"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-28
: A COSTLY SHORTCOMINC

A retired naval officer who finally picked Hen
Jacksonville as the most desirable home he could
find for his family, after travelling four thousand
miles over number of states seeking suitable
location. is thoroughly satisfied with his choice ex-
eept for one thing-the school system.
In talk to the PARENT Teacher Association of
Hendersonville, chroncled in the, Henderson
vile Times News, this man points out very clearly
the need for voting local supplemental tax levy
there in order Ito restore the once fine educational
system &C..
In practically every instance where there are
children of school age il. the family the biggest
factor in determining the desirability of a COM
muny from a residential standpoint, is the edu-
catonal facilities provided
The Record is thoroughly convinced that good
schools are the pest public investment any city can
make. Not only from the standpoint of attracting
more desirable residents but also because the bet
ter we educate our boys and girls the stronger and
more resourceful will our citizenship become. In
the long run the taxpayers cannot afford not to
provide the best that is possible in the way of
school opportunities for their boys and girls. The
history of civilization is repete with ample proof
to convince any thinking individual that it is i'm
possible for a people to forge ahead industrially
or commercially, if education is permitted to lag
behind.-Hckory Record
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-28
A SIcKENINc PRETENsE.

IT it4were not for the WPA machine, WPA and
PWA-money and the federal patronage, of which
he has secured larger slice than anyone else Mr.
Guffey would have not the slightest hope of carry
ing Pennsylvania. Mr.. Jones is Senator Guffey's
man. Now that the facts about Mr.. Jones have
been brought again to his attention it will be in
teresthg to whether Mr.. Hopkins acts with that
,swtft end stern resentment to politics in relief
which he processes, fires Mr.. Jones and puts in
man who will clean things up. Or whether press
ed by Mr.. Guffey and Mr.. Farley, he ignores the
mess there he did in West Virginia. yields to the
argument that that sore of action might ,imperi
the Roosevelt chances of carrying the state in No
vember. Even if he adopts the former alternative,
it is little late to seem voluntary But, if he does
not, then all preense that this administration is
non-potical in the matter of relief OF in anything
else should be abandoned. Even now it is sicken-
ing pretenseto those who face the tfacts.-Frank
Kent in Charleston News and Courier :1g
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-28
BEHIND THE SCENES
I'M WASHINGTON
sY RODNEY DUTCHER-

The detective agency assigns him
a number and gives him elaborate
instructions for making daily re-
ports, so he won't be caught. Usu-
ally there are other spies to check
up on him.
Occasionally The spy is caught
and sometimes promises to work
for the union and double-cross his
employer if the union men refrain
from beating him up.
Many 60 into the business be-
cause it's the only work they can
get.
Judging from the evidence, most
employers who engage spies are
satisfied if they can learn who the
keymen are in any movement to
unionize their employees and to fire
these keymen forthwith. But 9TH
ers, evidence indicates, have the
union men beaten by agency thugs
as a method of encouragement.
CITY officials have joined labor
~ leaders in charging that
agencies supplying spies and
.strikebreakers often deliberately
create inhamed pictures in the
minds of employers. Assistant So
licitor. VI. Herbert Slime testified
that in a recent roundup of strike
breakers in Philadelphia, 4s of,50
arrested were found to have GRIM
inal records. !
He charged that detective agen-
cies often schemed to keep en-
ployers and employees from getting
together, lest. their profits be lost.
Numerous attempts to frame"
union organizers by female. oper-
atives have, been described to La
Toilette, who hopes to obtain a
full Senate investigation OF labor
spying and civil liberties viola
tionS. -
downright, 1886, NEA Service lnc)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-28
wal:
q
Minute,
Please
By
Noah
Hollowell

HENDERSONVILLE seems. to
have full share of her sons in
the reportorial or advertising de
partments of newspapers. Wilson
Honeycutt is 'functioning in Rocky
Mount. William. Freeze is per-
forming in Miami. Cameron Shipp
and Samuel Justice are report
ING in Charlotte, to. which point
Messrs. Trotter and CaWthon land
ed after leaving llenderSonviIlc
10 or II years ago. Walter Hes
ter is ranking high in the advcr-
Using department in High Point
and Gordon Darlington has done
some big climbing to the advrr-
Using heights in Knoxville Cur
It's Russ landed nearer home, be-
ing editor Of the WayncsviiIp
Mountaineer.
looked in on Russ ut AShcvi!lc
Saturday night while he func-
llOllcu dS DlcSiuclIL VI tIit w est
ern North Carolina Weekly Press
association with boys there from
Charlotte to the east, Tryon to
the south. Franklin to the west,
and Marshall and Spruce Pine
northward. He had the job we'll
in hand. Russ has taken well IN
WaYneSyille, where the civic in
tcrests look to him for good work.
He is president Of the Rotary club
and a director Of the Chamber Of
Comemrce. He is producing Il
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-28
FLOP GOES THE LAKE
BY WICKES WAMBOLDT

A man called up the superin-
tendent of the water department:
Say" said the man, "what's the
matter with the water? 1t smells
so bad we can hardly drink it. 1t
didn't used to be that way. We
are supposed to have the finest
water in the world. What ails ~"
1.-The trouble is" replied the
superintendent, that the artificial
lake, from which we get our wa
ter, has recently turned over"
"Say," shot back the man, 81
asked you a civil question, and
Pm entitled to civil answer
not some smart talk intended to
be funny"
T'm not smart-talking or try
ing to be funny" answered the
superintendent. Pm merely stat
ing scientific fact" He con
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-28
KEEPING THE RECORD
STRAIGHT

"A news item sets forth that Dr..
John Condor, the "Jafsic" Of
Lindbergh fame, has further i'm
mortalized himself by coming a
new phrase to describe the seat
Of his trousers which he terms
1.-The bosom Of my pants
Far be it from me to dim one
whit the blazing light OF any
man S,eVerlasting glory, but the
bald fact is that when | was three
years old somebody taught me to
rGcite a Jingle which carried this
lofty and inspiring refrain: "Oh,
he kicked me again in the bosom
of my pants, in the bosom of my
pants, in the bosom OF my
pants"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-28
Editor The Tmes-Ncws:

Editor The Tmes-Ncws:
Dear Sir
All over the state is a move
afoot in the larger towns and
cities to add one month to the
present minimum school term OF
s months as provided by the state.
] believe this would be wrong and
unfair.
First it would make our dual
control of our schools Estate and
locaD. Then our rural children
would be penalized for living ON
farm or in a small town. This
would not improve the position of
the teachers.
| believe the state should have
absolute control over the schools
and provide at least a 9-month
SchOO! term. .~. e.. .. ......
And the state should pay the
teachers q minimum salary Of $500
per year to be paid monthly, and
naturally higher salaries accord
ing to ability and length of ser
vice. 1t also should start pen
sion plan for the teachers, half
of the cost paid by the teacher
and the other half by the state.
This would be fair to teachers and
to the children, as naturally, II
the state offers better salaries
plus security through pensions we
can expect better brains of the
teaching profession and the chill
dren would benefit. And let's not
forget that the salary is better If
paid by the state and safer, as
seen during the. depression when
even the larger cities fell behind
in paying their teachers. In 9TH
en- words the education Of the
children is less of a hazard if adj
ministared by the state in regards
to finances and politics.
Yes, this will cost money and
it is simple Let's place a luxury
and amusement tax as follow: IS
One cent per package of Gig
arettes, tax in proportion on
cigars and all other Forms of to-
baCco.
Three cents additional tax per
bottle of beer and a tax in pro
portion on tap beer and light
wines.
One cent tax on all soft drinks
in bottles and all soft drinks sold
otherwise.
Ten cents tax on all dance tick
cts sold at so cents or less and
25 cents on all tickets up to $3.50
and anything above this 80 cents.
A one cent tax on all movie
tickets sold up to and including
70 cents, 2 cents up to and IN
Guiding 20 cents, 3 cents tax up to
and including 80 cents.
These taxes should be ear
marked for school purposes only,
and these taxes should make 1t
possible to remove the sales tax
from the essentials Of life like
salt pork butter, eggs flour,
bread, and salt. AS the sales tax
at present works a hardship on
the. less fortunate citizens of this
state folks that are forced to eX-
iSt on three to ten dollars per
week and raise family OH this
amount.
Naturally there would be pow
erful opposition t. this tax from
interests affected by said taxes,
hut | believe if the parents unite
they can defeat any lobby in
RALEIGH and after all the people
are the state and not the corpOr-
atoms. .-~s
- .... LUDWIG SCHALLER.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-04-28

was that the top layer OF the lake.
sank to- the bottom, forcing the
water in the bottom of the lake
to the surface. Thus literally, the
lake turned over; and in turning
over, there were brought up from
the bottom certain plant and ami
NAL organisms and sediment that
affected the favor Of the water.
IAN analysis Of the water
showed that some Of the organ-
isms thus brought into -cmcula-.
ton, were unfriendly to human
health; 50 we increased the per
centage of chlorine which as you
doubtless know is regularly add
ed to our water to purify it as 1t
flows into the mains. G d.
"Thus,ther@ have recently been
two influences which temporarily
affect the taste and odor OF the