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Evening star., 1936-02-09
New Planetarium Ordered.

JENA, Germany CP.-The first
planetarium in the Far East is to be
installed at Osaka. Japan, by the Carl
Zeiss firm here, which also has an
order for one at the Paris World Ex-
position in 1887. They are similar to
the planetaria in New York, Phila-
delphia, Chicago and other American
cities.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
NEW YORK AWAITS
VICE REVELATIONS.
Dewey Believed Holding Key
to Solution of ST, 900, ,000-
a-Month Traffic.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 8.-For COM
mercialized vice-$1 100000 month.
Where does it go? Who gets the
lions share?
Not to the women. says Special
Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey.
Who then?
Dewey, young nemesis of racketeers.
was believed to hold the answer to-
night after a cyclonic offensive against
the city's biggest vice combine.
If the history of previous vice in
vestigations is repeated, police sources
pointed out, both police and political
figures may be dragged into the in
quiry.
Dewey Silent ON Plans.
The swift raids of last week end, and
the subsequent police activity, swept
scores of men and women into cells
as active participants in the $4,000
900 a year traffic in women.
So far, however, there has been no
hint from Dewey as to what. if any,
sensational information he may have
uncovered.
In the last city-wide vice investi-
CATION neither the Police nor the Mag
istrate's Courts escaped criticism. The
vice squad" of the police department
was virtually demoralized by the
charges and testimony brought
against it.
Evils Believed Revived.
Dewey, working under broad man
date from Gov. Lehman to clean up
New York" has been careful not to
tip his plans, but some of the ques-
tions his investigation is expected to
answer are:
Have some of the evils previously
exposed been quietly reinstated?
Is it possible, as has been charged,
for woman to buy" her way to free
dom when arrested for prostitution?
Are women without pull or funds
being subjected to severe penalties on
conviction while others repeatedly es-
cape?
Are the reports of health authorities
being used by magistrates in deter
mining the degree of punishment fol-
lowing conviction?
Hoover Reveals Long Probe.
Federal agents extended the scope
OF the picture with a series of arrests
In New York and Florida.
Commenting on the arrests, j. Ed
gar Hoover, director of the Justice
Departments Bureau of Investigation
said an extensive investigation OF
Mann act violations had been under
way for months.
Mink-coated Mae Scheible, alleged
operator of places in New York and
Pittsburgh. was the Federal agents
"prize" capture.
Ten men now being held in high
bail have been named by Dewey as the
leaders of the vice ring.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
ENGLAND SEEKS FAV0RS
FROM FRANCE FOR LOAN
Trade Concessions Are Demanded
on Paris Request to Borrow
1886, ,oOo, 900.
BY the Associatea Press.

BY the Associates Press.
PARIS. February 8.-An authorita-
tive source disclosed tonight that Great
Britain was demanding trade conces-
sions from France before floating a
loan for the French government which
may be as large as 5000, ,000, 900
francs-s335, 900, 900.
Marcel Regnier, minister Of finance,
told the Finance Committee of the
Chamber of Deputies of this develop
ment when he informed the Legislators
that the French treasury needs IT,
600, 100000 francs-s1, ,139, 900 ,000-in
1896.
He told them that he had. however
denied British request for repayment
of the loan according to the present
gold equivalent and that he also had
resisted request that France grant
preferential tariff on British coal.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
CHEST DATA OFFERED

Accurate information as to the
exact location of firms solicited by
the Group Solicitation Unit of the
Community Chest will be made avail
able to that unit as a result of an
offer by John E. Brewrink to pre-
pare such data voluntarily.
Recently retired from the Chesa-
peake & Potomac Telephone Co.,
where he was employed for 25 years
as an engineer, Brewrink will take
charge of the technical work involved
in the preparation of maps showing
the geographical distribution of firms
by area, division and section.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
BANKHEAD WILL RUN
Files Notice He Seeks Reelection

Files Notice He Seeks Reelection
in Home District.
\ MONTGOMERY, Ala, February 9
@.-Representative w. B. Bankhead,
Democratic floor leader, today filed
notice with Secretary of State Howell
Turner that he would be a candidate
for denomination in the May Demo-
cratic primary in the seventh Alabama
district.
Turner received a letter from Bart
Cowart of Hayleville. Winston County,
asking for a qualification blank and
stating he expected to oppose Bank
head. Walter Totten of Winfield
already has filed notice of his candi-
dacy.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Auto Crazes House,
Chimney Falls and
Kills Woman Driver
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, February g.
A chimney added a name to the
list of the city's traffic dead
today.
Mrs. Lena Wright, 40. at
tempted to drive her automobile
past a house, which was being
moved. Her car grazed the struc-
ture, causing it to teeter slightly
on the rollers. and the chimney
collapsed. Bricks crushed the top
Of her car.
Evening star., 1936-02-09

1HE League of Nations is hiber-
mating again. On the door of
the debating rooms there are
Il signs Please do not disturb" :"
Every time some innocent visitor
asks, What about Ethiopia" the
League officials talk about the incle-
ment weather on the Lake of Geneva.
Evening star., 1936-02-09

At one time, japanese diplomats
were worried lest the League of Ma
tions might want to take away the
mandate. But now the attitude Of the
Eastern Empire toward the League is
very clear. It has been expressed
bluntly by a number Of japanese dip
lomats and officers in four words:
Come and take them"
Evening star., 1936-02-09
Trade Trebled.

As the result of sending official
trademakers to Sweden. South At
ricas business with that country has
more than trebled in the last two
years.
Evening star., 1936-02-09
NAzI SPY CONVICTED,
Sonnleithner Case Continuance Of
Austrian Purge.

VIENNA, February (R.-The Aus
trian government continued its drive
to purge the country of "Nazi treason"
today by convicting DR.. Franz Sonn-
leithner, former chief of the govern
ment Secret Codes Bureau, of es-
pionage.
He was sentenced to two years at
hard labor.
Sonnleithner, jailed since October,
1884, was accused of transmitting to
NaA headquarters at Munich details
Of Austrian security measures during
the Nazi putsch of July, 1884.
The trial in a closely guarded court
room was secret, but the government
previously indicated it had obtained
the code with which he communicated
with Nazi leaders.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-09
X X X X X
GUBBlE

- UBBLE was a small green
" caterpillar, and he lived by
himself under a shining green
leaf.
One day little boy came into
the forest of trees, and took
Gubble home in glass bottle.
The little boy lived far in the
heart of the city, and he put Cub
BILE on the windowsill of his bed
room. There he fed him leaves
and grass, and watched him in
his little glass cage.
Gubble lived quite happily there
in the sun light, and he ate a
great deal. The little boy brought
all his friends in to see his new
pet. Everyone thought him lovely,
but none of the little girls would
dare to touch him.
But one morning the boy got
up early, and went to put fresh
leaves in the bottle for Gubble.
A strange sight met his eyes. His
caterpillar was oddly changed.
Instead of the silky smooth green
fellow of the forest, the boy was
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-09

surprised to see a funny-looking
little house that looked like
shell, and it was clinging to the
stem of the leaves in the bottle.
At first the boy thought Cub
BILE had run away, but his father
said, mo, indeed; Gubble is inside
of that little house on the stem,
Watch for him to come out"
The boy watched the little
house every day after school, and
before school in the morning. 1t
looked just the same. But there
came a morning, bright and
sunny, when the boy rushed over
to the bottle, and what do you
think he saw?
The little house broke open, and
out of it slowly crept the most
beautiful butterfly you have ever
seen. The boy was delighted, and
clapped his hands, and danced up
and down. The family came rush.
ing in, and admired the beautiful
creature.
Then the boy did just what you
would have done -. he opened
the window and set the butterfly
free. Free, to go winging back to
the forest, where he had once
lived as a smooth green cater
pillar.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-09
4 X X X X
HOLIDAY HERO

THERE is one little cocker
spaniel dog living in San Jose,
who surely knows that Christmas
presents are pretty special bund-
les.
On Christmas morning last, a
spark from an open fireplace ig-
nited pile of tissue paper under
the gay tree. 1t was not very
big fire, because the boy who
owned those precious gifts threw
a rug over the blaze and smoth-
cred it, BUT, while he was busy
being a fire-fighter, and calling
to his parents, who rushed in
filled with concern, they failed to
notice the antics of the little
cocker.
Then, they all stopped at once
and burst into roars of laughter;
the spaniel was carrying the
gifts, one at a time, into the hall
. for safety.
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sister. She was good, and did all
she could to help him get as
much book -larnin' as was pos
sible in that wild land of few
schools.
The boy had no love for trap
ping, though his father thought
it an excellent way to make a
few pennies to help with the
farms small earnings. All, many
a time the boy was punished be-
cause he had freed some small
frightened animal from the jaws
of a trap. He was a tender
hearted little boy who grew up
a tender-hearted man.
When he was sixteen he was a
ferry-boat skipper on the Ohio
river. That is, he piloted people
halfway across, to the passenger
boats that waited in the middle
of the stream.
Later, he built and ran his own
boat. He was proud and indepen-
dent at having his own money.
Then, perhaps he saw for the first
time the coin motto "E PIurtbus
Ununl" (From Many One). On
the coin too, was the word Glib
erty." How he came to defend
that word later in his lifeD
While Abe was happily running
his boat, two other ferryboat
operators took him to court, be-
cause they did not like the com
petition he was giving them.
They claimed he had taken pas
sengers across to the Kentucky
side, when he only had the right
to take them to the halfway
boats. Abe went to court, and
proved himself in the right.
Then, he became interested in
law, and spent many hours lis
tening to trials in the room where
he had been acquitted. Yes, Abe
was boy who had wanted, from
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-09

Bob Thompson ran Gi0Gy from
his home in the California hills
because he todnted to be an air
mail pilot, rather than a cattle
rdncher like his father. He
"hitched' ride on a truck to a
San Francisco airport. then lcOn-
dered Just iohGt he should do
ne,rtg One thing ioGS important
:. he had been hungry for hours.
CHAPTER 4.
rHE Runaway hesitated just
beyond the gates to the air
port. He was not afraid. but just
uncertain which way to turn first.
Then his eye caught the white
sign that marked the port res
taurant. His forgotten hunger re-
turned with a rush, and he almost
ran to the door of the eating
room.
Restaurants, like the truck ride
and running away from nome.
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THE FOX HUNT

nRICK was a little reddish fox
y who lived in a great green
field There was grass and flowers
in the field, and it was a happy
place to be.
One sunny morning, Brick
heard a new and very strange
sound. He ran to his mother and
asked her what it could possibly
be. The mother fox looked very
worried, and hurried Brick into
their house under the ground
Then she told him.
THAT noise, my dear, is the
horns and calls of a fox hunt.
Men in red coats ride out with
horses and dogs and look for
fox. When they see one, they
chase him until he can run no
longer. That is how 1 lost your
father"
We'll, for goodness sake" said
Brick, all round-eyed with Won
der. do you suppose they'd chase
me if 1 went out just to look at
them?"
"They certainly would" said
his frightened mother. young
man, you stay right here in this
house until this day is over"
Brick didn't like staying in the
house all day. And when the noise
of the horses and the barking of
the hounds sounded over his head,
he could hardly bear it. He wanted
to SEE.
Now Brick was very foolish
little fox, and he just wanted to
peek" So, when his mother was
busy out in the kitchen, he slipped
up the front stairs and looked
out.
Far across the field he could
see horses and men. But closer
in the field were hundreds of dogs,
with ears tapping and tongues
waving. They were headed
straight for the front door, where
Brick was poking his head out.
On and on they came; Brick had
never seen so thrilling sight, so
he just stood there and LOOKED!
Then, before he knew what it
was all about, there they were at
his very door no, at his very
nose!
Then the dogs stopped barking.
Brick smiled at them and said,
Are you tired ?"
The dogs looked at each other,
and then they glanced back over
their shoulders at the men and
horses in the distance. Then one
of them did an amazing thing
he sat down in front of Brick
and he whispered: GET BACK
IN YOUR HOUSE, YOU SILLY
YOUNG THINGi YOU'RE NOT
HALF FOXY ENOUGH FOR US
YETI" Then away they all went,
bowling and yipping in another
direction.
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lNDIANS!!!
HE Delaware Indians had a

THE Delaware Indians had a
strange custom. They would
make an opening in coffin where
the head was placed, so that the
spirit of the deceased could wan
der about.
Although the Apache Indians
are the handsomest of the red
skins, they live in tepees, which
are called wickiups.
After a kin of a Navajo In
dian dies, the .redskin deserts his
hogan and builds another one
some place else.
The dolls of the Hopi Indians
are carved from cottonwood
roots, and they represent differ
ent gods of their legends.
Taos is the largest Indian
pueblo in the world, and the Taos
Indians live in that one spot.
The Zuni Indian women wear
cotton skirts, which are very full,
and gathered blouses. Around
their waists they wear white
aprons, usually trimmed with
lace.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-09

@NE night when Johnny
OWeasel went to visit Tommy
Muskrat, he heard a frightful
racket coming from Tommy's
house Suddenly, small form
came sailing out of the window,
and hit the ground with a loud
THUDi
Johnny rushed over to the little
form. "Why, it's Tiny, the white
mouse:" he exclaimed.
Just then Tommy came rush.
ing up and shouted, HE was
trying to steal my food"
But my family of ten children
haven't eaten for a week. and
they are AWFULLY hungry"
cried Tiny.
Johnny Weasel glared at Tom
my. Tommy looned surp. ..eu,
then ashamed. well, why didn't
you tell me that before ?" he said.
"I was going to, but you didn't
give me time to say anything.
You just started punching me-"
wept Tiny.
Now everything is all right, "
said Johnny Weasel, while he
patted the mouse on the head.
Tomorrow there'll be big bas-
ket of food at your house for your
children"
Then Johnny shook Tommy all
the way into the house, because
he had hit so small a fellow as
that white mouse, Tiny.
BY Robert Thompson.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-09

his earliest childhood, to know
about everything.
When he was nineteen, he
worked on a freighter on the
great Mississippi river. He learned
the tricky navigation of this
waterway =. and how to handle
the ways of local bullies as well.
One night, when the boat was
tied up to pier. six negroes
boarded. and were making Off
with the cargo. Abe tangled with
them, and after a rough and
tumble brawl. he chased them
into the woods with a club. Dur
ing the fight he received a cut
above one eye G. the scar was
still visible when he was Presi-
dent of his country.
In New Orleans, he saw his
first slave auction. There he
knew for certain sure that his
place was out in the world of the
things that interested him, more
than a life like his fathers-a life
spent on poor farm.
He made several trips to New
Orleans, and each time he found
it harder to stay on the farm. He
wanted to go his own way. He
wanted to start finding his spe-
cial place in the busy world that
interested him so. Still, he knew
his father needed him, and home
he went.
When he was twenty-one his
father moved again, this time to
Illinois. On the long journey, Abe
sold needles and pins to the
country folk, and thus earned the
money for the trip. In Illinois he
made his first speech" =. stand
ing on a box.
After he saw his father settled
in his new home, the urge to go
his way alone returned. He took
his few little belongings in a
bundle and, with head held high,
he went out to meet the world.
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happened just one month after
Vespucci had landed in South
America, trying to find India, too.
Of course, a sailing vessel in
those days couldn't expect to lay
a direct course and stay with it.
No indeed They had the moods
of the winds and the currents to
deal with so the trip was a
long one.
Once the ships of the little feet
got separated, and there was a
great deal of anxiety. But, when
they did sight each other again,
they celebrated with all the
rumpus of a modern Fourth of
July. They even fired stone canon
to express their joy.
Vasco took four days to round
the Cape of Good Hope. Up the
coast they went. OF course they
made several landings, and then
they struck out across the Ara
bian Sea. There they met a boat
load of Moors who were friendly.
Next, they sailed straight for
the city that we now call Calicut.
De Cana sent flattering mes
sages to the King there, telling
him that he had not come for
gold or silver, but only to bring
a message of friendliness from
the King of Portugal.
At first, the King of Calicut did
not think so much of this caller
from a distant land. Then he
changed his mind, and gave
Vasco a letter to HIS king.
Vasco and his men had many
difficulties getting home. There
were many deaths from scurvy,
but the commander hurried home
as fast as he could The whole
: journey took over two years.
The king was very grateful to
Vasco, and well he should have
been. He even made him viceroy
i of India little later on.
And so, another boyhood dream
\ had come true.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-09
SPEAKING OF FISH

One good bit of advice about
your pet gold fish is keep
them well out of reach of that
cat we spoke of above. Some cats
don't mind if their fish is NOT
cooked.
If you are just beginning to
like gold fish for your special
pets, let us tell you some impor-
tant things about their care.
If you plan to put them in an
aquarium, clean it first with salt
water. (You need not go all the
way to the sea for it, make it at
home.) Then after the aquarium
is clean, put some nice gravel on
the bottom and fill it from the
cold water tap.
Put in some fresh water plants,
too, making little place for the
fish to play hide-and-go-seek. Be
sure you do not crowd the fish;
have plenty of tank for the num-
Der of swimmers.
When you are going to take
the fish out, have a little net on a
stick for this purpose. Don't use
your hands
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were new experiences to Bob.
But the want of food, and the as
surance that he could pay for it
made him bold.
He hoped upon a stool, and
while he waited for the girl to
serve him, he looked about. I'm
agine eating in the airport! Gee,
the kids up at the ridge school
should see this!
The waitress looked at him
over her shoulder, and went on
talking to two men sitting op-
posite Bob at the far counter.
Then, after what seemed a very
long time to the hungry boy, she
turned around. Gosh, the two men
were motorcycle officers. Bob's
heart stood still, but the men
went on with their joke, and
seemed not at all concerned with
the newcomer in the lunch room.
A little door opened, and a man
in an olive-drab uniform came
and sat beside the policemen.
Bob's eyes were round as saucers
here was a flyer, a real one.
The waitress turned away
again, and said, THE same,
Frank ?" Then, without waiting
for the man to answer, she put
two doughnuts on a plate, and
poured steaming cup of coffee
for him.
Bob shifted the coffee. At home
(gosh, home seemed awful far
away he had never been allowed
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-09
RUNAWAY!
A STORY FOR CHILDREN
BY Paula Norton

to have coffee-that was a grown
up drink. Well, you can hardly
consider him a child anymore .
wasn't he we'll on the way to be
a mail pilot, and who could inn
agine mail pilot drinking
MILK
Whats it to be ?" The waitress
had finally decided to serve him
at last. He did not hesitate.
"Doughnuts and coffee"
He heaped four spoonsful of
sugar into the cup, and stirred 1t
around and around without TAX
ing his eyes from the flyers face.
He ate the doughnuts without
tasting them. and drank the
coffee slowly from his spoon.
Soon his stomach felt easier, and
he was warm and happy. He
fingered the money tied up in the
corner of his handkerchief. He
had already read the sign on the
wall that said. DOUGHNUTS AND
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IN and on they go!
~ All the stories of great dis
coveries seem to begin with a
small boy dreaming. 1t was so
with the discovery of America,
and it was surely true of the find
ing of an ocean route to India.
That route, that so many men
sought, and so many boys dreamed
of finding.
Vasco De Cana, had heard of
the voyages and adventures of
his time, and he too dreamed of
distant lands. When he grew to
manhood he was a soldier in the
King of Portugars army, and
later a mariner.
Now, the King thought he'd
better reap little glory for HIS
country, so he sent a small feet
of ships around the Cape of Good
Hope to try and find that much
sought India. Vasco De Cana
was made commander. This all
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try and round up the wild horses
in those hills. 1t just couldn't be
done.
Then, young flyer named Bill
Monday took his plane over the
rocky retreat of the wild horses,
and he chased them right out
into the open. After they were
on the plains the regular cowmen
handled them nicely coaxing
them into strong corral.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-09
STRANGE BATH

IN Bramberg, South Carolina,
there is a cat that is mother
to-all-the-farm-y yard. Her mis-
tress reports that not only does
the motherly creature lick her
kittens clean, but she goes
through the same process with
the baby chicks.
Since they ARE only babies,
they probably think that being
washed daily by a mother cat, is
quite the regular order of things.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-09
NO RAT AND CAT GAME

THERE is an eight months old
white rat living out in Salt
Lake City, and this tough guy
isn't afraid of any big, bad, cat!
OF course, his name is Mickey,
and his best friend is Fluffy. Yes,
you guessed it Fluff is great
big gray cat. The wrestling
matches these two stage are
something to see.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-02-09

COFFEE, 15c. Carefully he un-
tied the money and put the quar-
ter on the counter. The girl
brought his change. With his
spoon he scooped the last of the
sugary mass from the cup, while
he planned the next step in his
career.
The two policemen got up and
left the room; the flyer started
his second cup of coffee. The boy
waited. Just as he had decided
that the best thing to do was to
speak to the flyer right now q. . .
another uniformed man stuck his
head in the door and called,
Telephone, Frank"
The man tossed off the last of
the coffee, said, 'I'l be seeing
you" and went out.
"Didja want anything else,
kid ?" 1t was the waitress.
II don't think so J.. say, that
man that just went out . he's
a flyer, isn't he?"
I'll tell the world" Deity the
girl mopped the counter. Hes
one of the best"
Whats his name?"
Frank Harmon, and a swell
guy if anybody asks va"
Bob didn't doubt it. He got
down off the high stool and,
glancing over his shoulder at the
waitress, said, "I'll be seein' ya."
He heard the girl laugh, as the
screen door slammed behind him.
Continued next week.
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hopes for him.
Through all his
Ii t t | e. b o y
y e a r S S h e
notedhis quick,
bri ght ways.
But, before she
could see him
through his
childhood, she
in truth, be-
c a m G a n
a n e e -
mother.
Then, a step
mother came
to take care of
Abe and his