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Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01
HolfuiLle Nazarene
Church Launches
Autumnal Program

Homecoming events were launch
ed this week by the Holtville Naz-
arene church as means of initiat-
ing events for the winter.
The whole day Sunday will be
devoted to homecoming programs.
Three services will be held and
dinner will be served at noon. Sun
day night the young people of the
church will present a Biblical play,
THE Cellar of Purple at $50
o'clock.
A pot luck dinner for the public
will be sponsored by the church in
the civic center at $50 o'clock Fri
day night. A brief address will be
delivered at the dinner by the Rev.
Mr.. A. E. Sanner, superintendent of
the southern California district.
The Rev. Mr. Bail Miller, former
Holtville pastor and new minister
and teacher in Pasadena college,
will be the speaker at a meeting
planned for the church Friday
night.
A IL by "a foot addition to the
church parsonage will begin next
week. The improvements will cost
$3.50. The interior will be redecor-
ated and the exterior will be paint
ed.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01
CCC VETERANS
PUT ON ROLLS

Enrolment in the veterans con-
tingent of the Civilian Conservation
corps was resumed Thursday in the
office of Charles Nice, Imperial
county INDECENT commissioner and
Veterans Service officer. The en-
rollment will end October Is. Nice's
office is on the second floor of the
county court house.
Eligibility requirements have been
modified to permit veterans who
are not on relief, Nice said, but
other requirements are the same
as in the past. 1t is necessary for
the applicant to have served in the
armed forces of the United States
during time Of war.
If veteran has had previous SER
vice in the CCC he may be enrolled
again if a year has elapsed since
his last discharge.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

cane-you ring-is- s-the-caneyou get
variety with Coney Island types OF
ballyhooers clamping on the hlgh
pressure.
Thingumabobs George Jesse
and Rupert Hughes are HollyWood's
top black coffee drinkers 6. Irving
Caesar. when not feeling in top
form. goes a night without sleeping
and feels fit again Lilly Pons
has gone ga-ga over American corn
ed beef and cabbage =. Steve Han
nagan is a breakfast onion souper.
Frank Shuts, Miami publisher,
is head of the biggest law firm in
Florida A Whistler pictures
that was once booed in London was
recently sold in the same gallery
for $4,700
One person dog note: My Boston
will follow anyone with a hat on.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01
e. on Sef f RANK
Il BY HOLDEN wAlANABt
HAT
BY ED HOLDEN

HIT
Who coagulatmg ideas for female hats?
asking that at myself every time | meeting one of
them stylish objects
| grnning up coat sleeve few years back when
lady wearing back side of ostrich birds coat she
bonnet
Them ostrich fellows not are selling any more
plume | guess. All this business going to parrots,
cannery birds and cabbage
When girl coming down street Of walk with fresh
hat it are hard telling if il modern lady or just
bird farm or carrot wagon.
Thank you, please
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01

cabinet two men of the op-
position party? Pre- sid en-
Roosevelt did.
He confided the great de-
partments most closely touch
ing the economic crisis and
it's solution to those progress
sive Republicans. Henry A.
Wallace and Harold L.
IckeS. To the Department
Public works Administra-
ton in the Interior Depart
ment was entrusted the larg-
est disbursement of funds
any government ever made in
peace time.
Through Wallace and Ickes
President Roosevelt m a d e
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01
Imperial Valley Press

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cept Saturday and Sunday (Sat,
urday afternoon issue now sue
ceeded by The Post-Press, Sun
days. by the Imperial valley
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street, Eel Centre, California.
Entered at El Centre, California,
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ter.
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sell Bennitt. Secretary-tre
ED. Fitzhugh, Managing Edi-
tor.
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Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01
HONORS PAID
NAVAL LEADER

WASHINGTON. Oct. /. U.D-Of-
ficial Washington joined the navy
today in parting honor to Rear Ad-
miral William S. Sims, wartime
commander Of the American naval
forces in European waters and one
of the most caustic of the navy's
critics.
Sims long and stormy career in
the U. c. navy terminated at his
home in Boston Monday night when
he succumbed to a heart attack. He
had retired from active service III
1890. The funeral services were set
for D. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01

which said: Amos N Andy: Perk
up That got us more than anything
we ever heard. It was the cause
of our making additional effort. In
fact those few words caused us to
change our plot and plan the Sc
quence We did in Hollywood recent
ly. occasionally using movie stars
in our program" Pride is bit
justifiable in their reaction, for be-
fore l knew I had such a small part
in the Hollywood angle 1 thought
it the best of their many diversions.
And someone in Hollywood sends
along the idea of an outside part
time secretaryship" for celebrities
that strikes me as a corker. 1t in
cludes among its clientele Miriam
Hopkins. Dorothy Fields, Jerome
Kern, Arthur Kober, Moss Hart and
other busy folk. The organization
offers a part time secretary service
for prices ranging from $26 month
up. They phone each day for as
signments. Letters may be dictat-
ed over the phone. They arrange
parties, invite guests, and attend all
details. Accept telephone calls and
even argue-What a break with
bill collectors. Also attend to travel
reservations, hotel accommodations
and keep in special files bills and
personal papers. DO the shopping,
research and even make flying trips
to New ork and elsewhere.
90
Broadway is shucKed OF some of
its street carnival hoWdy-pOWdy by
abolishment of the pin games. For
a time the sports palaces" jetted
the most profitable of the genteel
gyps. -Four prominent corners,
along with many in the middle of
blocks, were occupied by concession
aries. When business reached low
ebbs, the pin game halls were al
ways packed. Only one Of the
stands remains and it has become
catacomb of novelty stands of the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01
CORN PAINS
STOP QUICK!

Use END-O-CORN tonight and
tomorrow morning the pain will all
be gone, in a few days you won't
troubles. Don't suffer minute
longer. END-O-CORN kills the
pain and ends the corn.
The Valley Drug Co. sells END
O-CORN. 1t is worth $50. but only
costs fifty cents. Get a jar TODAY
and GET RID of your corns. adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01
One-Minute Test Answers

/. In japanese this word liter
ally means stomach cutting. 1t
is an ancient and honorable Jap
anese method of committing sui
eide. by running "a sword through
the abdomen.
2. Nc. they bring forth living
young, the eggs being retained in
the mothers body until hatched. n
3. The Leader or The Chief
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01
Both Sides of the Campaign

EDITORS NOTE: The articles appearing in
this column are not presented representing
the opinions of this newspaper During the
vacation of Mr.. Rodney Dutscher, who conducts
"News Behind the News, both sides of the cam
paign are being pictured here without dscrim-
nation
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01
BY JOHN HENRY BARTLETT
Former Republican Member L. 5. Civil
Service Commission

1 have seen great many administrations
change in Washington. Never have l seen so few
descriptions in that backbone of administrative
of administrative efficiency, the permanent civil
service of devoted and women who have
made it career.
What other president ever appointed to his
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01
Hints on Etiquette

When a woman announces that
she is Eat home, she usually eX-
poets her guests 10 stay from a
half hour TO am hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01

NEW YORK, Oct. Julian
Street has been making a leisurely
minor trip about America. Recall
ing his memorable Abroad at
Home" Series in Golfers some 20
years ago. But this time the auth
or is merely pleasure bent-castlng
a practised eye on what is going
on in the changing nation.
He thinks one of the most en-
chanting stretches of America IS
from San Francisco north to the
Canadian border. Considerably
travelled but not as it should be.
He believes that what the region
north of San Francisco needs is
more hotels and tourist camps, reas-
onably tariffed.
An off-key note in his observa-
tions is: Old American virtues Of
self reliance. enterprise and indie
pendence are being widely under
mined by political handouts. He
believes one thing that has got us
into trouble is widespread install
ment buying. Instead of out Of saw
ings.
The tempo of living beyond
means. he has found in part ac-
countable for needs Of the aged,
among certain classes, of projects
such as the Townsend plan and
sentiment for taking it away from
the rich" People who do not pay
taxes feel Sam owes them living.
The axiom, man reaps what he
sows," forgotten!
Amos n Andy have become al
most as much a part of our nation
al consciousness as the 7th inning
stretch. No radio performers have
so consistently kept to top form.
and they are where they are be-
cause, in the language of the race
they portray, they are "strivers." "
I'm revealing a bit of personal cor
respondence with them to emphasize
their humane trait. One of their
original fans. I wrote the first mag
azine piece about them but some
months ago 1 had a feeling OF
slight let-down in their routine. 1t
bothered me and, tactfully and
mildly, l wrote a line soley for
them. Recently they wrote: Some
weeks ago you had few words
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01

If your birthday is today you
are apt TO be sensitive, intiuitive,
affectionate and demonstrative.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01
Words of Wisdom
Today's Horoscope

If you spend thing you cannot
have it.-Plautus.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01
GRAB BAG
One-Minute Test

!. What IS hara-klrl?
2. DO rattlesnakes lay eggs?
3. Give the literal meaning Of
title, II Duce.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01

the fund control non-partlsan at the source
1t is a well-known fact in Washington that
these gentlemen stated their departments with
more Republicans than Democrats.
1 know nothing directly, of course, of the
party affiliations of their men in the field.
But this thought occurs to me: with the num-
Der and the power of the newspapers that are
frankly and so fiercely opposed to the New
Deal if there had been partisan scandals out
through the country in the administration OF
these huge funds, our ears would have been
ringing with the story.
can honestly say that under none of these
predecessors have the men charged with the
administration of the civil service laws been
as considerate of and as obedient to the pur-
poses of the law as have the men under Pres
ident Roosevelt
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01

Eastern mills report heavy advance
demand for wooden underwear, which is
understandable, since we all have itched
for red flannels.
Prof. Einstein, it is reported, has be-
gun new calculations Of the outer uni
verse. Maybe he can find some trace OF
the League of Nations.
AS result of poor crops resulting
from the drouth, the real corn-fed girl
ought to be worth her weight in gold.
The American government probably
would be glad to join the embargo on
munitions if U. S. gangsters were in
cluded on the blacklist with Spain.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01

In their inception, in their management of
personnel, and in the policies looking toward
their termination I believe these emergency
agncies have adhered admirably to the spirit
of civil service There was good Republican
precedent of course for their exemption. Pres
ident Hoover set up the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation under law empowering it to choose
personnel without regard to civil service require
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01

The administration has been attacked be-
cause it did not put the strictly emergency
agencies under civil service. How much more
severe would that attack have been if these
temporary agencies had been made perma-
nent part of the government by inclusion OF
their personnel under civil service protection
When the emergency ended it would have
proved difficult indeed to disband them. 1t can
not be questioned that many OF this tempo
rary personnel, too were of the Republican
party In the emergency that called for the
agencies creation, when action was the need
of the hour it would have taken months to
create the places under civil service and ex-
anime and choose applicants.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-01

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Evening star., 1936-05-11
COUNTESS LOSES
LIBERTY BATTLE
Second De Benque Sentence
Upheld by U. S. Court
of Appeals.

The lengthy fight by Countess Grace
de Benque for release from prison
failed today when the United States
Court of Appeals upheld the legality
of second sentence imposed on her
last December 20.
Two years ago she and George
Gormley were found guilty of grand
larceny of more than $4,000 from Miss
Louise Maret, co-proprietor of fash
ionable girls school here. She was
sentenced November 81, 1888. under
the then new indeterminate sentence
law, to serve from two to four years
in prison.
New Sentence Imposed.
Contending the sentence was void,
since the crime was committed before
the law under which 1t was imposed
was adopted, she obtained her release
from the District Workhouse at Occo-
quan through a habeas corpus writ
and was brought before Justice Joseph
w. Cox of District Supreme Court
for resentencing. Taking into con-
sideration that she already had served
25 months in prison, he imposed a
new sentence of Is months to run
from that date.
In her appeal the countess contended
Justice Cox was without authority to
resentence her, since the court term
during which judgment was entered
had ended, and that, in any event, the
new sentence should have been made
to run from the date of the original
sentence. The court decided against
her on both points. Assistant United
States Attorney John ]. Wilson repre-
sented the Government in the case.
Basis of Accusation.
The countess was the wife OF a
Frenchman. She and Gormley were
charged with taking money from Miss
Maret on the pretext that 1t was to
be used to buy of a policeman who
had accoSted Miss Maret and Gormley
while they were riding in nearby
Maryland.
Evening star., 1936-05-11
1850 IGNORE CASH
DUE THEM BY BANK
Second Dividend Awaits Deposi.
tors of Closed Franklin Ma.
tional Institution.

More than 1880 depositors of the
!, closed Franklin National Bank have
not called for their money, now await
ing them in the form of a second
dividend declared by the Franklin
Liquidating Trust.
This was learned today from Sam
uel M. Thrift, secretary of the trust,
which is maintaining special Office
at 72l Tenth street.
Certificates of participation are
necessary as Identification before the
check can be turned over to deposi-
tors, it was emphasized. The second
dividend amounts to rs per cent of
the unpaid balance of the original
deposit in the old Franklin National
Bank.
Until further notice, the bank room
at 721 Tenth street will remain open
for the convenience of claimants,
from o am. to S pm. daily except
Saturday, when the hours are am.
to IL noon.
Evening star., 1936-05-11
FOUR HURT AT FIRE
ARE RECOVERING
American Chlorophyll Blaze In
vestigation Soon Complete.
Loss $25, 900 to $50, 900.

Fire Marshal Calvin G. LAUDER to-
day was completing his investigation
of the fire which swept the American
Chlorophyll Co. plant Saturday night,
caused damage estimated at between
$4,000 and $4,000 and resulted in
injury to four men.
The injured men, Stanley Entler.
IS, a plant employe; Lieut.. H. l..
Harding, 80, of No. 16 Engine Co.:
Sergt. M. C. Mason, 80, Of No. 2 Truck
Co., and Pvt. Lemuel Battles, "a, Of
the harbor police, were in Emergency
Hospital today, recovering from burns.
None was seriously injured.
The blaze started from an explosion
on the first floor and quickly spread
through the three-story brick Struc-
ture, as gasoline stored in drums in
the basement caught fire. Twenty
eight pieces Of apparatus were called
out before the fire was extinguished.
three hours after the first of three
alarms was turned in.
Evening star., 1936-05-11

at was wonderful" she sighed.
after riding all Friday night in a
truck and then trying to sleep on
tables Saturday night.
I'VE didn't plan to stay in Washing
ton more than day or so" she con-
tinued. I'VE had no idea Mr.. Hopkins
wouldn't see us, but when we found
we were getting the same old stock
phrases that the handicapped have
been getting for years we just decided
to stay on.
We are not sure what is going to
happen to our jobs, but I have a
letter to my Office from the w. P. A.
requesting that I not be dismissed for
my absence this week, and several
who work for the w. P. A. also have
letters. I don't know what will hap
pen to those who are working in pri-
vate industry. They are taking a
chance and staying on"
Evening star., 1936-05-11
CYCLE ACCIDENTS
HURT BOY AND GIRL
Child, 8, Injured in Dash Be.
tween Parked Cars
While Playing.

A boy and a girl in their teens, in
jured seriously in motor cycle accidents
yesterday, were in Casualty Hospital
today in somewhat improved condition.
The girl is Virginia Frye, Is, of 1881
r street northeast. who was hurled
from the rear of motor cycle at Lam
ham, Nd, when the machine struck
a hole. The driver was Howard Culver,
909 Lawrence street northeast. The
girl received a brain conclusion. pos
sibly internal injuries and cuts.
Gilbert c. Waite, 10, of 4525 Ninth
street, received a brain conclusion,
ankle fracture and other injuries in a
similar accident at Seventh street and
Orleans place northeast.
Boy Runs Into Truck.
A game Of hide-and-seek, dash
between parked cars and a blind
plunge into a numbering truck sent
8-year-old Richard Thompson, col.
ored, Ills Third street, to Freedmen's
Hospital last night with a fractured
skull and possibly internal injuries
His condition was critical today.
Ruth Hancock, 10, Boulevard
Heights, Md. was taken to Providence
Hospital with head injuries and cuts
yesterday after a car driven by her
father, D. c. Hancock, was in col
lSion with another at Pennsylvania
and Alabama avenues southeast.
Yesterdays accident victims in
cluded two colored persons, a 10-year-
old boy and a middle-aged man
Ernest Hughes, 49, found lying uncon-
scious in the street at Thirteenth
street and Michigan avenue northeast
was believed the victim of hit-and-
run driver. He was treated at Cas-
ualty Hospital for head injuries.
Accident Driver Unknown.
Norman Cole, 10, colored, s42 z
street southwest, received scalp wound.
and cuts when struck by an automo-
bile at Seventh and E streets south.
west. Police say the driver left the
scene without giving his name.
The Associated Press reported from
Media, Pa, that young woman, who
gave her name as Miss Frances Carter
%, of 1925 Sixteenth street, was re-
leased in 50, 500 bail last night pending
an inquest in the death of Philadel.
phia man struck by her car on the
Baltimore pike near Media. Mis-!
Carter is w. p. A. typist.
Evening star., 1936-05-11
COURT OF APPEALS
RULES ACT IS NOT
Discriminatory
Finds Prosecution Possible
for Same Action Under
2 Measures.
POWER OF CONGRESS
BACKED BY OPINION
No Violation of Fifth Amendment
Is Seen in Interpre.
tation.
Constitutionality Of the Districts

ConStitutionality Of the Districts
indeterminate sentence law, chal-
lenged on the ground it is discrimina-
tory, was upheld today by the United
States Court of Appeals.
In the same opinion, delivered by
Associate Justice Harold M. Stephens,
the court ruled a man may be prose-
cuted for the same action under both
the alcoholic beverage control act and
the hquor-taxing act of 1884.
The questions arose in the appeal
of Corlis Sims, who was convicted
in Police Court on charge of violat-
ing the alcoholic beverage control act
and later was found guilty by Dis
trict Supreme Court jury of violat-
ing the tax act. For the latter Of
fense, he was sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for an indeterminate term of
from one to three years.
Asserts Law Unconstitutional.
He maintained the indeterminate
sentence law is applicable only to
offenses prohibited by the District
code and may not be applied to
offenses against the general laws Of
the United States.
It was further urged that the law
Is unconstitutional, since it violates
the provision of the fifth amendment,
granting equal protection to all.
AS to this latter point, the court
held that equal protection of the laws
means merely that a law must deal
alike with all of given class within
the Jurisdiction to which it is ap-
plicable. Sims had contended he was
Disseminated against in that he was
not sentenced under the statute ap-
plicable to other Federal Jurisdictions.
Holds Act Is Legal.
Justice Stephens declared 1t was
within the power of Congress to pass
the indeterminate sentence act even
though it applies only to offenders
convicted in the District and not to
offenders convicted elsewhere. He held
it applicable to violations both of the
District code and of the Federal
statutes.
Prosecution Of man under both
the alcoholic beverage control act and
the Iquor-taxing act was upheld on
the ground that different sets of evil
dence are required for conviction under
| the two laws.
Assistant United States Attorney
Allen j. Krouse represented the Gov
ernment in arguments before the ap-
| pellate body.
Evening star., 1936-05-11
Rebellion Starts
against Lifting of
Hats In Elevator
Opponents Find "Old
Southern CustOnl''
Out of Place.

Rebellion has broken out here
against lifting hats in an elevator, or
elevating hats in lift.
The ants say it's an old Southern
custom, anyhow, and has no place
in city famous for the daily elevator
push of homeward- bound clerks. Some
cavalier may break an arm in the jam,
they claim.
Thus the first chapter of the Assoc
iation for the Prevention of Taking Of
Hats in Elevators will hold an indig-
nation meeting at the National Press
Club Saturday.
Sponsors say the gesture is mean
ingless as it is foolish" and that il
makes the male sex an object Of
derision" and that the ladies are in
clined ito litter
Several prominent newspaper men
are listed to debate the issue along
with Representative Maury Maverick
The gentleman from Texas may be
disqualified, however, on the ground
his 10-gallon hat has no business in ar
elevator anyway.
Evening star., 1936-05-11
.POPULAT|ONHERE
REACHES 594,O0O
rs Per Cent Increase Due to
Influx of Federal Work.
ers and Families.

One of the largest population gains
in the country was revealed for the
District of Columbia yesterday in a
Census Bureau report showing the
population of the United States had
grown 100000 in five years.
The population in the District in
1885 was 594, 1000 as against 486,869 in
1880, representing an increase of al
most Is per cent.
This increase was due almost wholly
to the influx of Government workers
and their families with the growth of
Federal activities here.
The report compares the years 1880
and 1885. According to Census Bu-
reau figures, the population Of the
United States was 127, 7,521 900 as of
July l, 1885. compared with 122,775.-
o46 in $780,
The population Of Maryland was
1851, ,526 in 1880 and 1863, 900 in 1885,
while that of Virginia was 2,421 ,851
five years ago as compared with 2,637.-
900 last year.
The figures for the country at large
showed population shifts that left II
States with less residents than they
had in 1884.
The States which registered actual
decreases were: Michigan, Wisconsin,
South Dakota. Nebraska, Kansas, Mis-
sissippi, Montana, New Mexico, Ari-
zona, California and Rhode Island.
New York is still the most popu-
lous State, with 12,889,000. while
Pennsylvania continues to rank sec
ond, with 10,066,000
Among States gaining the most in
the first year period were South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee.
The following table compares popu-
lation in 1885 and 1890: