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Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-11

Official VisitOr-R. P. Gingerich,
supervisor of market milk and
market cream specialists, arrived in
Ell Centro Monday for his semi
annual inspection trip. He plans to
remain for a week.
90
Have You Seen the General Blow
out Proof Tire. 5th & State?
(M10-M17A)
90
Inspects Labor Situation - R. H.
Towns, field supervisor for the Ma
tional Unemployment service, was
in Imperial Valley from San Fran
cisco Monday for a ruotine lnSrec-
tion of labor conditions.
90
Have You Seen the General Blow
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-11

The P.-TA. held their last meet
ing for this year Wednesday evening
and the three teachers gave a dem
onstration with their pupils of some
of the work that had been done
during the school term.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-11

Temple Robinson of San Diego
is spending the week end with the
family.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-11

Ed Campbell of San Diego is
visiting his brother George Camp
bell and his daughter, Mrs. Gladys
Swayze, over the weekend.
The Seeley Ladies Aid served a
lunch all day during election day IN
Community hall. Those serving on
the election board were Mesdames
Diehl, Pollard, Graham and Can
non, Miss Katherine Mackey and
Clark Adair
Evening star., 1936-06-30
Residential
Washington
Social Notes
Mrs. Davies and Her
Daughter Going to
Sugar Hill.

"a FRS. KNIGHT DAVIES and
M her daughter, Miss Emlen
V Knight Davies. will go TO
4 L Sugar Hill, N. H, this week
and will occupy the estate of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles A. Rich of New York,
who will spend the Summer in Char
lottesville, Va. Miss Davies recently
returned from month or more stay
at Bermuda.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry P. Davidson,
jr.. have closed their Summer home
at East Norwich, Long Island, and
gone to their ranch near Entrance in
Alberta, Canada, to stay until Sep
tember.
Mrs. F. Clyde Baggarly of 2915
Connecticut avenue has as her guest
at Avon Hall, her Summer home near
Washington, Va, her brother and
sister-ln-law, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert o.
Trott. and Miss Evagene Sears of Cal
vert County, Md.
Evening star., 1936-06-30

Mr. and Mrs. George Tillman Bell
have taken a cottage at Lake. George,
where they will be Joined by their
Evening star., 1936-06-30
Republican Club
Meeting Planned
For Ratification

THE National Capital Republican
Club is starting the campaign with
a ratification meeting at its club house,
Sixteenth street at Scott circle, to-
morrow evening, July |. at 8 o'clock.
The principal address will be given
by Mr.. Thomas E. Rhodes of Missis-
sippi, former Assistant Attorney Cen
eral.
There also will be community sing
ing of campaign songs.
The party is in charge of the En-
tertainment Committee, headed by
Miss Edna NJ. Patton, chairman; Mrs.
G. Louis Weller, vice chairman, and
the following assistants: Mrs. Henry
Albers. Miss Mary r. Baker, Mrs.
Raymond w. Bellamy, Mrs. James C..
Bishop, Mrs. j. H. Branson. Mrs
James A. Councillor, Mrs. Edith E.
Dillenbach. Mrs. Frisbey G. Eiker,
Mrs. John P. Evans, Mrs. Eilene L.
Evanson, Mrs. Henry D. Fry, Mrs. A.
Fulton, Mrs. Herbert H. Hall, Mrs.
James w. Hays, Mrs Pearlie M. Jones,
Mrs. William Fitch Kelley. Mrs. F.
william Loetsch, Miss M Pearl Nc
Call. Mrs. Frank w. Mondell. Mrs.
B. Frank Murphy, Mrs. Charles H.
Pardoe, Miss Daisy Prentice, Mrs.
Samuel J. Prescott, Mrs. Ellen E.
Rolph. Mrs. George F. Snyder. Mrs
Virginia White Speel. Miss Alice Whit
aker and Mrs. Charles J. Williamson.
Evening star., 1936-06-30

L. Prince, Mrs. Clark Hawkins and
Mrs. RoAer Larkin. all of Washing
ton. DR.. Charles Rozier Larkin, who
passed several weeks as the guest of
his brother and sister -in-law, has
returned to Lehigh University in
Pennsylvania, where he is a professor.
Mr.. and Mrs Holt w. Butt of
Portsmouth, Va, have returned home
after a week end spent with Mrs.
Butts brother-in-law and sister, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Pickett, in Fairfax,
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Son of Late Diplomat
Marries Miss Rowland
Wedding in Washington Club Attracts So
ciety-Other Marriages of
Late June
Late June.

Alencon lace, the long fitted sleeves
finished in points over her hands
Her tulle veil was arranged in halo
effect on her head and held by dainty
clusters of orange blossoms. She car
ried gardenias with a shower Of lilies
of the valley.
Miss Betty Rowland was maid of
honor for her sister and had dainty
costume Of fuchsia mouSseline de sole
made over taffeta with shirred cape
OF the same material. The brides
other attendants were Miss Sheila
Broderick, sister of the bridegroom,
Mrs. Leon Dostert and Miss Frances
Leibel. They were dressed in shades
of hi-light blue maize and spray green
mousseline de sole fashioned like the
gown Of the maid of honor. They
each had a wreath of small flowers
in their hands and carried a bouquet
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D. A. r. Regent Feted
At Bridge Luncheon

Mrs. Charles Carroll Haig, State
regent, District of Columbia, D. A. R.
was guest at the bridge luncheon
given by Capt Joseph Magruder Chap
ter last Friday at the home of Mrs.
Ira c. Whitacre, Woodside, Md. Mrs.
Earl Brentwood Fuller. State CORE
spending secretary and member of
the chapter, was present.
Mrs ToWson Price had charge Of
the arrangements, assisted by chap
ter members. Mrs. Arthur s. Field
is regent. and during the past year
the chapter provided funds for a
scholarship in an approved school
and also sent children to Summer
camps.
Evening star., 1936-06-30
Miss Beck
Married at
Fort Myer
Daughter of Army
Officer Bride of
Mr.. Kerkam.

A WEDDING of much interest
~ to Army and Washington resi-
~ Dental circles was that yester-
n day Of Miss Eleanor Beck,
daughter of Maj. Clyde Mckay Beck,
Medical Corps, and Mrs Beck of Fort
Myer, Va, and Mr. John Freeman
Kerkam, son of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Barron Kerkam, sr, this city.
The ceremony was performed in
the red brick chapel Of Colonial de-
sign at Fort Myer, Chaplain Ralph c.
Deibert of1iciating, at o'clock.
Arrangements for the wedding were
charming in their simplicity, only
palms and ferns being used on the
chancel and altar, interspersed with
five and eight branched candelabra
holding tall white tapers. The family
pews were marked by hanging baskets
of pink roses and tulle.
AS the guests assembled, Miss Mary
Schick, organist at Walter Reed, gave
program of nuptial music and also
played the wedding marches.
Maj. Beck escorted and gave his
daughter in marriage She wore a
gown of imported French white NOUS
seline de sole, nodded to the figure.
and made with a high neckline, a
shirred yoke, and long, billowy train.
formed Of deep. cascading ruffleS. The
sleeves were long and full, with a
tight, shirred on cuff, and the bodice
was fastened in the back with a row
of tiny buttons. The circular veil Of
tulle followed the modern mode in
f1nger-tip length, and was held about
the brides face with a twisted band
Of satin, and caught at the back of
her head with a spray of valley lilies.
She carried a shower bouquet Of
orchids and lilies OF the valley.
The brides attendants all wore gowns
of net over taffeta, and were in three
shades of pink, varying from a pale
pink to deep shade
Miss Katherine Brown was maid OF
honor, and Mrs. William Barron Ker-
kan, jr., was matron Of honor. Their
gowns were Of a deep shade of pink and
were made on high-waisted lines with
short puffed sleeves and circular godet
skirts The bodice was belted with
2-inch-wide grosgrain ribbon, in a
Continued on Sixth Page)
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Mr., Mrs. Freeman
Announce Daughters
Marriage Saturday

MR.. AND MRS. RUSSELL PREM
TISS FREEMAN announce the
marriage of their daughter. Katharine
Russell, to Mr. Eric Rafter, which
took place last Saturday.
The bride, a graduate of Gunston
Hall School is junior at Bryn Mawr
College and the bridegroom, who was
graduated from ST Adams School, is
now a senior at Dartmouth University.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rafter are now at
tending Summer classes at George
Washington University and in August,
upon completion of the Summer
school. they expect to spend the re-
mainder of the Summer in Maine.
Evening star., 1936-06-30

TINE wedding of Miss Katherine
Darling Rowland. daughter of
Mrs. Rowland and the late
l. Mr.. G. Edwin Rowland, Of
Chevy Chase, D. c., and Mr.. Maurice
Joyce Broderick, son of Lady Broder-
lex and the late Sir John Joyce Brod-
erick of Sandycove. County Dublin,
Ireland, took place last evening. The
ceremony was performed in the
Washington Club the Rev. Father
Moran of ST. Thomas the Apostle
Church, of1ciating at 8 o'clock. An
improvised altar was arranged with
lilies, ferns and palms and wreaths
of bride roses we're hung about the
walls. A white velvet carpet covered
the floor before the altar and the
aisle leading to it. A string orchestra
played before and during the ceremony.
The bride was ecorted by her uncle,
Mr.. Frank Stetson, and her wedding
gown was of white satin made with
a long square train and a coat of
Evening star., 1936-06-30
M aryl a n d
And Virginia
In the News
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis
Larkin Hosts at
Dinner.

ER. AND MRS. FRANCIS
M NORVELL LARKIN of Fair
k fax, Va, had as their dinner
4 4 guests last evening Mrs. (.
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Continued on Fourth Page.)
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DIR. Hunter Sails.

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Evening star., 1936-06-30

DR.. s. A. Dulany Hunter Of George
town University and Mrs. Hunter.
with the latter's son Bobby, will sail
tomorrow for an extensive cruise to
the Pacific and will not return until the
Autumn.
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Continued on Fourth Page
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The Closing of June Boasts Wedding of International
Mrs. Roosevelt to Return
To Washington Tomorrow
From Visit at Hyde Park

line Soviet AMBASSADOR ana NINE. lfOya-
novsky Will Entertain at Dinner Tonight
in the Embassy.
ROOSEVELT will return to the White House tomorrow
I'M residence Hyde Park where she went after the
i close of the Democratic convention.
wife will hold her next conference Thurs
day morning at II o'clock
Mrs George H Dern wife of the Secretary War;
yesterday afternoon at her home on Stephenson
place in from Utah to the Democratic
National Convention.
The Ambassador Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics
and Nine Troyanovky dinner this evening at the
embassy on Sixteenth street
The japanese Ambassador and Nine Sao and their family
Thursday for Virginia Beach where they have taken
cottage at the Golf Club for the Summer
The Greek Minister Mr. scanos the honor
guest yesterday Mrs William Russell Burwe VINO
spending Other guests were the counselor OF the
ton Lely Miss Katharine Halle and MISS Gloria
Braggott
Senator and Mrs James Byrnes have returned to their
apartment at the attending the Democratic con
venton in Philadelphia will three or tour Gays IN
Washington before going to their home at Spartanoug D.
Senator William Washington last night for Idaho
He delayed his departure for his home state SO ta ne %
Capital two weeks to join Senator Boah IN BOISE
Gen. and Mrs Robert spent the week end at the
Carlton having from their home in New York City,
Lieut. Col and Clarence have their guest in
Hooner of San Francisco through July Mrs
Hooper formerly Miss Betty Lee Partridge.
Halard y s N has arrived in Washington
Cornado, Calf and is at the Carlton
Mai and Mrs E. E. Hdreth Maxwell Field, Mont
Farfax gaPfaz AID" "iS ''''''S ''''''N' '>''' w
Mr. S. legal assistant to the chief OF finance
Gardiner entertained group OF end at olner 4aS
at Shoreham
Evening star., 1936-06-30
Former Senator Here.

Former Senator Davis Elkins of
West Virginia is at the Carlton for
few days.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-15
BY John McClelland

OST CITY the crumbled ruins of a metropolis
- that f1ourshed on the other side of the world
when the empire of Rome was declining, is
slowly being hidden for all time in a second
burial from which there can be no resurrection.
nrifted sands of Nevada's arid southern re-
gions held the secrets of a race of Americans
never seen by white men for than thou
sand years. Then the remnants of forgotten,
unrecorded race were discovered and barred in
their desert grave in 1924. And now at the will,
seemingly, of the Water Gods worshipped by the
ancient people, the dead city will be buried again,
this time beneath the damned up waters of the
Colorado River.
Lost City lies in that doomed valley behind
massive Boulder Dam. Gradually the waters of
the Colorado, flowing steadily out of the Grand
Canyon into the Moapa Valley, are rising up the
hillsides that now form the shores of Lake Mead.
The valley floor has become a lake bottom, and
the partially excavated Indian metropolis soon
will be submerged for as long as the dam re-
mains standing.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-15

Lost City before it completely buried by the
wind blown sands. But then there were
no inhabitants
The Spaniard Francisco Garces was the first
white man to cross what is now southern Ne
vada. That was in ITS, but he saw no evidence
of an Indian city.
1t has been definitely established that this
Oldest of American civilizations came to end
in the latter part of the seventh century, 600
years before Columbus discovered America. The
city was abandoned, either suddenly gradu
ally, and except for the ravages of age, left in
exactly the condition in which it was discovered
Why these primitive people of western Amer
lea left their home is unknown. What became
of them is mystery that battles event the sci
entists. A whole race simply vanished from the
face of the earth.
Pueblo Grande de Nevada was the official
name given Lost City when it discovered
The expanse of ground which it covered and
the number of houses and graves unearthed have
led archaeologists to believe that it was the
largest city built in Nevada. This assump-
ton means that 700 years before any white man
set foot on the American continent city with
a population of some 100000 larger than Reno
the states most populous city today, existed in
the Nevada territory.
TWO BROTHERS, John and Fay Perkins,
stumbled upon Lost City in 1924. They re-
ported to Col ]. G. Shrugham, then Governor
of Nevada, that they had seen fragments of
painted pottery and traces of some kind of
ruined buildings among the sand dunes on the
east side of Muddy River above the village of
st, Thomas.
Immediately exploring expedition led by
Shrugham confirmed the discovery and excava-
tions were begun Through the following years
a gradual piecing together of the ancient history
was possible as the desert sands were thrown
back to reveal scores of primitive dwellings and
graves.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-15

The earliest explorations were carried on for
the museum of the American Indian by the Heye
Foundation in New York Then the work was
discontinued for several years and the ruins
fell prey to pot-hunters and vandals. In the fall
of 1888 an Emergency Conservation work pro-
iect was organized under the auspices of the
National Park Service in cooperation with the
state of Nevada and since then enough work
has been carried on to make the tale OF the
Lost City people nearly complete.
Back beyond even the Lost City period sci
entists have searched to lay the beginnings of
their story.
Near the end of that great era $4,000 years
ago. when sheets of glacial ice covered nearly
all of North America, southern Nevada was
well-watered country with numerous lakes and
rivers formed by the melting of the ice. Here
lived many strange animals now extinct, such
as the mammoth sort of elephant, huge long
horned bison, several kinds of camel, numbering,
shaggy ground sloths, and native species Of
horses.
THE PEOPLE who lived in this section were
/ called the First Corners" Next came race
known as the "Basketmakers" who migrated
down out of the Northeast 1500 years B. G.
During the first century the Basketmakers
entered second period in which they learned
to mold pottery and use the bow and arrow.
The Lost City people, called Early Pueblo came
from the north to invade the Moapa Valley
about the year 500 A. D. and joined with the
later era Baslsetmakers to build a great city.
In a short time there developed as complete
a culture as any among American Indian tribes.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-15

Most Indians worshipped the personifed powers
of nature, usually considered the helpers of
with the But the Pueblos were desert
agricultural people. Their existence depended on
rain and water and they Worshipped especially
the powers they believed controlled such things
Short, sturdy and round headed, the Lost City
Puebos were an Industrious They spent
their days hunting deer and mountain sheep
with their bows and arrows or "atlatl" Sings
making clay pottery, or tending their crops of
corn, beans, and squash Pottery they made by
the ancient coil method with wheel or me-
chanical aid.
They had no metals. All their instruments were
of stone or wood Men smoked pipes made
straight like cigar holders The children amused
themselves with bone dice, marbles, game count
ters' dolls and other toys (All these facts let it
be remembered are based on finds that are
being made daily in the excavations.)
from articles found in the ruins it Is known
that the Lost City tribes carried on an ex-
tensive' trade with other Indian people, They
obtained shell ornaments from the Pacific Coast
and pottery from Colorado River and north
eastern Arizona tribes. The mediums of ex-
change were the products of the mnes-rock
salt and beautiful pieces Of turquoise fashioned
into ornaments.
Excavation of more than a score of houses
reveals that the ancient Pueblos built their homes
of rough adobe and stone Rooms were small
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-15

Waters of Man-Made Lake Mead Will
Stop, Leaving This Reconstructed Group
of Houses of Lost City Near Its Shores.
and inter- connected. Evidently the valley
dwellers were just learning the art of house
building, for all their structures were one story
mere beginnings Of the high, many-roomed
houses built by later southwestern Indians.
Dress of the men consisted of breach CLOTH
girdle, headband, sandals, ear-pendants bead
necklace, and rabbit-skin blanket. Women wore
purpllsh blue cotton dresses, girdles sandals,
earrings, bead necklaces, shell bracelets and
cotton blankets. Both men and women had love
for the decorative. They manufactured pigments
and streaked their faces with red yellow, white
and black paint
These primitive bronze skinned Americans al
though not strong enough to preserve their home
or even win their battle for self preservation
still were able to develop culture of peace
and love of art at time when the white peoples
of Europe were sinking into period of war
and turmoil that led to the barbarous era of
the dark ages.
Pottery found among the ruins shows that the
Pueblos had definite artistic tastes Straight
lines and angles were preferred to curves in
their decorations On the walls of caves found
near the city are well-executed drawings of
ground-sloths, mammoths, bison camels and
horses.
THE DEAD were respectfully buried under
the floors of the homes. The fact that pottery
was buried with the dead indicates belief in
future life where the spirit of the person
might use the spirits of the utensils. Many of
the best-preserved relics have been found In
the graves.
The Pueblos learned to cooperate amongst
themselves. Working in harmony they built
vast city, and they must have had an efficient
and effective system of government in order
to maintain community of so many thousands
of people,
And this all took place thousand years ago
when city of like size in feudal Europe would
have been an impossibility.
But the Pueblos, for all their highly develop
ed civilization, vanished completely from the
earth. Like specie of animal, they became ex-
tinct. When they had gone another race of
Indians, the Piutes, settled In the region.
Visitors in southern Nevada today will see
the descendants of these early Piutes-a some
what listless race still making pottery, baskets,
and blankets But ask them if they know any,
thing about the ruins or the hieroglyphics of
Lost City, and they'll answer: mo makum
Work of little devils"
Perhaps legendary tales a thousand wears old
have come down to these present day Indians
tales of the small statured people who seldom
were more than five feet tall They might have
been remembered as devils" for some peculiar
characteristic of which Lost City reveals no
trace.
None survive the ancient Pueblos And when
the murky waters Of the Colorado close over
their graves down In the Moapa Valley only
the display cases In little adobe museum near
by will remain to tell a never-to- be- finished
story of the lost people of a lost city
PAGE THREE
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-15

Not merely one of the extremely old ruins
found in the area of the United States, Lost City
is surprising superlative. It is the oldest known
city north of the Mexican line. Hundreds of years
before men of the old world even dreamed the
continent that is America existed across the sea
that was to them the edge of the world whole
civilization came into being, fourished through
several centuries and vanished from the earth
One cannot wonder, then, at the feverish race
against rising water that is being carried
near Boulder City That Unsuitable curiosity
about the secrets of the unknown which spurs
on most scientific endeavor has seized upon the
minds of even the CCC boys, who doing the
bulk of the excavation Archaeological and his
torcal experts of the National Park Service and
the Southwest Museum of Los Angeles, who
directing the work. find it hard to restrain the
boys desire to dig in hurriedly and save as many
relics from the rising waters they can un-
cover
~ ENJOYING the easily broken fragments that
* have lain hidden through dozen centuries
is work that can't be rushed, even though de-
liberate excavation means that the men who
are uncovering one of the most significant arch
geological finds in America must stand by and
watch the lake surface creep up the slopes of
the hills to destroy forever the evidence of the
earliest known civilization of whole continent.
With hand trowels and brushes the graves, ruins
of adobe houses, pottery, and ancient implements
must painstakingly be uncovered and studied be-
fore being carried out of reach of the destroying
waters.
At present the dry months in the southwest
keep the Colorado low, and the lake is filling
slowly. But late winter will bring the flood state.
Most of the work of removing the priceless relics
must be completed before year has gone by.
Material salvaged from the buried city is being
stored and displayed in a low adobe museum
standing on what will soon be the north bank of
the 125-mile long lake.
Forces of the great dam however, are by no
means winning the race against rising water.
Concentrated excavation by the CCC during the
last three years and occasional work carried on
during the first nine years after the discovery of
the city have made it possible to piece together
an almost complete history that was made before
recorded history began.
OF course no white man ever saw the Lost
City people. Some persons believe that the COM
munity was one of the famed Seven Cities of
Cibola," discovered in 1889 by Father Marcos de
Niza one of the holy men sent to Mexico with
the Spanish invasion But this probability has
been proven impossibility.
IF the invading forces of Francisco Coronado,
| tyrannical Spanish conqueror of Mexico, had
not stopped at the Grand Canyon in 1910 when
they journeyed north to seek the riches reported
by Father de Mia, they might have come upon
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-15

Whence Did the Inhabitants of the Lost City Come, and
Where and When Did They Go? The Answer Is Lost in
the Msts of the Past Only the Skeletons of Their Dead
and the Crumbling Walls of Their Dwellings Remain