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Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13
February Lettuce
Shipment Totals
Told in Report

Imperial Valley lettuce growers
shipped 1920 carloads during Feb
ruary, B. A. Harrigan, agricultural
commissioner, announced Friday in
his monthly report.
Quality has been exceptionally
good for so late in the season. Mar
ket conditions, weak early in the
month, strengthened considerable
in the last week, Harrigan repcrt-
ed.
Grapefruit shipments have been
much heavier due to stronger
demand, as we'll as carrot ship
ments. Tomato shipments continue
steady. The spring pea deal is in
full swing with shipping soon to
reach a peak.
Asparagus harvest on the spring
peak is getting under way and so
far returns to growers have been
satisfactory
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13
SAGE Children Activity
Gains Headevay in County

j. Meagher is working half time
as the representative of the group.
The Save the Children Fund
of America is the organization
which played so active part IN
caring for the under privileged
children in the mountain sections
of Kentucky, work which spread
until 10000 children are served
hot lunches during the winter
months.
Food and clothing are obtained
for the children, their health
needs are looked after, and assist
ance is given in the home, schools
and social environment of the chill
dren, Voris said. 1t is hoped, he
said. surplus commodities may be
obtained from the government to
help with the luncheon supplies.
The group has been active here
little more than a week.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13
WORK RELIEF PROGRAM BECOMES LIVE CAMPAIGN ISSU

sound kind of silly In print, he said.
This program first was called the
Test Master" but when the fed
eraI announcer announced it at re-
hearsal, it sounded like Task Mast
er" Boutwell, changed It SO there's
be no mistake. After a few bars of
Good News" by Rudy Schram's
band, the dramatis personae start
asking each other questions about
nature and astronomy and mathe-
matics. The announcer urges the
listeners to take pencils, paper and
hand in the game, Rudy plays
School Days" and a good time is
had by all, including the 35 mem
bers of the federal radio staff.
These soon will be increased to 10
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13

port on the adVisability of reviving
the project.
Ell Centro Representatives were
informed week ago by the state
highway commission that no funds
would be available for the proposed
$250,000 project.
Introduction in congress of a bill
providing federal funds for a high
way construction system, with grade
separations receiving generous al
lotment, may mean new source of
money for the subway project, Hays
pointed out. The El Centre program
now has priority on the list of state
grade projects and probably would
receive first consideration under
any net setup.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13
RURAL LOANS
CUT OFF HERE

No more applications for farm
loans under the rural rehabilita-
ton division of the resettlement ad-
ministration will be accepted in I'm
perial county as California's quota
already has been filled. This an
nouncement was made by P. A.
Thaanum, head of the division in
this county.
Since the office opened early this
year. 251 applications for loans from
valley farmers were received, Thaa-
mum said. 1t requires 10 hours of
work to complete the farm man
agement plans or applications and
they then must be sent to division
officials.
There is a possibility, he said,
that the loans may be available
later
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13

the November election approaches.
Hopkins issued categorical de-
NAL of the charges, explaining
them with this statement: "Of
course, remember, this is election
year"
He promised, however, to inves-
tigate every specific complaint
against WPA." A resolution is
pending befre the senate to inquire
into work-relief activity.
Declaring there has been only
an inconsequential amount CT graft
since the beginning of the pro-
gram Hopkins announced:
"I'n fire any WPA man in the
country-no matter how high up
he is-if we find he's canvasSing
our people fer campaign money or
has been electioneering.
I'VE don't stand for anybody
playing politics with, our program. "
A Democrat, Sen. Rush D. Holt,
CT West Virginia, brought the most
serious charges. His statements
resulted in a Today investigation
ordered by Hopkins.
He said in series of senate
speeches that the West Virginia
WPA administrator w. F.. McCul-
Tough, was using his office to run
and develop factional politics; that
administrative jobs were given on
q basis OF political affiliations;
that administrative cists were ex-
orbitant.
The senator said his brother, M
S. Holt, Jr., had been discharged
as a district WPA engineer in re-
taliatiCn for his attacks.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13

when things really get going, Bout
well said He is sending Phillip II.
Cohen, his personal director. TO
Springfield and Boston, Mass, to-
night to conduct additions. Boutwell,
now has 500 applications from would
be federal radio performers, most of
them CCC woodsmen. These latter
seem to thing that swinging tune
ought to be easier than swinging an
axe
Boutwell, and his staff have been
working ever since the WPA allot-
ted the $4,000 TO the federal bu-
reau of education They have pro-
duced 16 separate radio programs,
but the chief would talk about only
those which definitely will be pro-
duced.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13
Easy Ironer Expert
Will Show Machine
At Edgar Brothers

Mrs. Grace Mcclure, factory DEM
onstrator for the Easy Ironer, will
show the machine in front of Edgar
Brothers Hardware store on Main
street Saturday morning from 10 un-
til IL o'clock. The remainder of the
day she will demonstrate it at the
county fair grounds.
Mrs. Mcclure says the Easy IRON
er takes three-fourths of the drudg-
cry out of ironing and shows how
to iron shirts, dresses and ruffles
in addition to the flat work.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13
HOPE REVIVED
FOR UNDERPASS
IN Ell CENTRIC

Reviving hopes for Ell Centro's
grade separation project, c. D. Ham
ilton, state highway commissioner,
Friday pledged himself to continue
the fight for funds.
Hamilton, confined to a hospital
by temporary illness, wrote Robert
Hays Of the Ell Centro chamber of
commerce, that he will make a com
plete survey Of the situation and re-
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13
NeeV Deal VIII Educate
America Via AirqVaVeS

compliments of Secretary of Interior
Harold L. Ickes and Relief Admin
istrator Harry L. Hopkins.
This will be continued twice a
week thereafter until the $4,000
runs out, probably in September
William Dow Boutwell,, the federal
radio impressario, told us about it to-
day. but he made us promise not to
quote any of the first program, en-
titled: Answer this one" 1t might
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13

Activities of the Save the Chill
dren fund of America is destined to
become valley-wide in the course
of aiding the under privileged
children of the community accord
ing TO j. Walker Voris, California
director of the organization. Voris
is in the valley organizing the
work.
At present the organization is
helping serve school lunches in the
Ell Centre area and later the same
type of work will be carried on
throughout the county. Mrs. W..
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13

WASHINGTON March 13. OPP
On Monday night at 6:35 p. m. EST.
the New Deal will inaugurate a
$4,000 nationwide radio broadcast.
combing soft music, sex appeal, and
sugar-coated education.
There will be a boy and girl in
love, swing music by Rudy Sehram's
jazz band and assorted information
on assorted subjects coming out of
the nations loud speakers. with the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13
Hopkins Refntes Charge
OF WPA Politics, Graft

WASHINGTON March OPThe $40O0OOOOO0 work program
1886 campaign today Harry L. HOPKINS
politics his Works Progress
Virginia Illinois, Acigah
Pennsylvania accusations other states as
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13
0UN!IYBRIEFS 0UN!IY1BRIEFS

Building Permit Issued-A permit
to move house on lot at 134
Hamilton avenue was issued at city
hall Friday to William Horace Gen
try. The permit was for $25. This
brought the building total thus far
this year to $33,308.
Two Notices Fiied-Notices of
intention tC wed were filed at the
county clerks office Thursday by
John Dominguez, %, and Josephine
Rosas, II, both of Calipatria and
j. r. Walls, 26, of CaleXico, and
Dorothy Hicks, II, of Ell Cenjro. =
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13
Meet me at SherwooGs.
(O2fP-A25A)

Meet me at SherwooCs.
Us (O2fP- -A25A)
90
Visit Here-Mr. and Mrs. George
Mertz of Beverly Hills were in Ell
Centre this week on business and
planned to leave Friday for Phoe-
nix and Ell Paso.
Lent Is Here so are Hot Cross
buns at Martins Bakery. (M5-tD
13-
MelOland-Mr. and Mrs. j. r. Kin
naird enjoyed visit last weekend
from Mr.. and Mrs. Jack. Dunn of
Hollywood and Mrs. Wade Stamp.
In addition to their house guests,
the KinnairdS invited Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hartzog, Miss Hazel Hartzog,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lytle Kinnaird for
dinner Sunday.
Business Trip-R. F. Ingram, SUI
perintendent of rural rehabilita-
ton in this district, arrived from
J Riverside Friday on business
"trip.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13
Meet me at Sherwoods.
(O26P- -A36A,

Agent Arrives-A. II. Baer, tenn
porary purchasing agent for the
h-Morrison Winston company
on the All American canal. left the
project this week and E. r. Kibler,
permanent purchasing agent, ar
rived to take charge. Kibler was
connected with the Six Companies
at Boulder dam.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13

Today, for the first time in the history
of the industry, Kelvinator provides you
with a Certificate of Low Cost of Opera
ton. The 1886 Kelvinator uses one-baG
or One-tbiy9 as much current as many
refrigerators now in use. This saving
alone may justify replacing your old
refrigerator.
Evening star., 1936-02-29

Of English boy and girl. A nice
book-but what Of it? (
CITY FOR CONQUEST. BY Aben
Kandel. New York: Covici Friede.
A novel that is q demonstration,
rather than study Of New York's.
particular brand of vulgarity. One
.opines, unkindly, that q good bit
Of the demonstration is uncon-
scious on the authors part.
MARINA DARRELL. BY Beverly r..
Tucker. Boston: The Stratford
Co. Story Of lovers reincarnations
through the ages. .i,...s.,
FIVE LITTLE HEIRESSES. BY Alice
Duer Miller. New York: Dodd
Mead & Co. Lovely society girl
playing chaperone to earn her
living. Perfectly routine Miller
novel,
MoNSIGNoR. BY poran Hurley.
New York: Iongmans Green Il Co.
Story OF ambitious priest rather
naively told. ..S .. ...,5..<
DOCTOR or THE NORTH CouN-
Evening star., 1936-02-29
Non n-Ficti0n.


AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC AND
CONSULAR PRACTICE. BY
Graham H. Stuart. New York:
D. Appleton Century Co. A COM
plete survey Of the history, organi-
zation and working Of the ma
.chinery that conducts United
States foreign relations, by a pro-
fessor Of politics, Stanford Uni
versity.
IN PROGRESS. BY
Esse v. Hathaway. New York:
Mcgraw Hill Book Co. The lives
and achievements Of pioneers of
science and invention done in the
familiar manner.
THE STRANGER IN AMERICA. BY
Charles William Janson. With
introduction and notes by DR.. Carl
s. Driver. New York: The Press
of the Pioneers, Inc. The expert
ences Of an Englishman In the
United States back In 1893, first
printed in 1907, proving chiefly
that the visiting sB-itisher has not
changed much since those days.
Some interesting passages.
JOYS OF THE TRAIL. BY Hamlin
Garland. Chicago: The Book
fellows. Nostalgia essays on the
passing beauties Of the wilderness
BY veteran American writer who
ought to know. A very pleasant
little book.
WHY BRING THAT UP? A Guide
to and From Seasiclness. BY DR..
J. e. Montague. New York:
Home Health Library. Amusing
but useful information along the
lines the title indicates. written by
an eminent physician.
THE TRIUMPH OF THE PASSIVE
VIRTUES AS ILLUSTRATED IN
THE ODYSSEY or HOMER. BY
Rev. Charles =. Coolidge. Boston:
Evening star., 1936-02-29
Brief Reviews of New Books on Varied Themes

TRY. BY EaVl Vinton McComb.
, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co
Realistic picture of a country doc
tors life by an author who Is a
doctor himself.
AUGUSTUS. BY Gunther Birkenfeld.
Translated from German by Wini-
fred Ray. New York: iveright
Publishing Corp. Novel on the life
of the first Roman Emperor, we'll
and convincingly done.
MONTANA BOUND. BY Stuart Hardy.
New York: Green Circle Books.
Western stuff and then more West
ern stuff.
HOMICIDE HAVEN. BY J. v. Turner.
New York: D. Appleton-Century.
Mystery of corpse on the floor,
solved by Scotland Yard with
amateur assistance.
THE JAIL GATES ARE OPEN. BY
David Hume. New York: D. Apple
ton Century Co. Detectives Cardy
and Son help Scotland Yard solve
the mystery Of the counterfeiters.
DEAD END STREET. BY Lee Thayer.
New York Dodd Mead & Co.
Peter Clancy solves the killing Of
Patrolman. Duffy and gets into no
end Of adventures the while.
THE CRIMSON PATCH. BY Phoebe
Atwood Taylor. New York: w. w.
Norton Il Co. Murder down East.
with the aniable wise-cracking
detective, Asey Mayo, doing the
solving.
THE A. B. G. MURDERS. BY Agatha
Christie. New York: Dodd Mead
& Co. Murder in q series, solved
by Poirot, Miss Christie's very = yer
French sleuth. :
Poetry.
THE TITANIC. BY =. ]. Pratt. To-
ronto: The Macmillan Co. Of
Canada. Fine narrative poem CONF
naemorating the great seq disaster
Of 1912.
Evening star., 1936-02-29

The Stratford Co. Religious in
depreciation of the Greek classic.
Superficial.
THE JEWISH PROBLEM. BY julius
Hahn and Henry Mueller. Boston:
Meador Publishing Co. Advocacy
of Christianization of Hebrews,
written by an American and
German In collaboration. Foolish.
WAKE UP AND LIVE! BY Dorothea
Brande. New York: Simon &
Sch1ster. Pep psychology about
how to become q terrific success
by following a set Of rules. Sur
prising from an ordinarily en-
lightened publishing house.
A NEW STANDARD BIBLE DC
TTONARY. BY M. w. Jacobus, T..
G. Lane and A. G. Zenos. New
York: Funk q Wagnalls Co. The
third revised edition OF this work.
Fiction,
CLOSE OF PLAY. BY N. Warner
: Hooke. New York: e. p. Dutton
q 90. Smiles s-and-tears romance
Evening star., 1936-02-29

old folks can remember. Epecially in
Washington, it seems to the average
citizen, the season has been especially
severe. There has been nothing like
it since 1918, and even then the cold
was not so consistent, nor the snow so
enduring.
Now, bad Winter is rather i'm
portant matter for most Of us. 1t has
a more immediate, profound effect on
our lives than most man-made affairs
can possibly have. Taxes may 60 sky
high, but they hardly can advance
for the average citizen more than the
price of a couple of extra tons of coal,
a lot of extra doctor bills and the other
additional expenses that come with
prolonged cold weather. The money
item is important enough, not to men
ton the discomfort, the inconven-
ience, the menace to life and health,
or the absolute physical suffering.
Naturally. nearly every one wants
to know the reason why one Winter
should be almost April-like from De-
cember to March with, at the most,
only a few light snow f1urries. while
another remains almost consistently
below freezing. with streets ice-covered,
walks to be shoveled day after day,
and the coal pile vanishing faster
than a snowdrift under hot sun.
There isn't any very satisfactory
answer. For such as there is. one
goes to j. B. Kincer, chief of the
division of climatology of the Weather
Bureau. His job is to keep track of
those seasonal and annual trends of
weather which constitute climate.
Beyond much doubt, says Mr.. Kincer,
climate runs in cycles. There will be
a period of steadily increasing tenn
peratures for number of years, fol-
lowed by period of steadily decreas.
ing temperatures until the point is
reached from which they first started
to rise, after which they will 60 up
again.
There are all sorts of such cycles.
We are very familiar with one of
them--the year. The four seasons re-
peat themselves every IL months. We
safely can predict today that there
will be some uncomfortably warm
weather next July and some uncom-
fortably cold weather next January.
Only about once in a century would
our predictions 60 wrong-at the
worst.
THIS annual progress of the sea-
sons is unique among weather
cycles. We know the cause of it
Evening star., 1936-02-29

he gives the stories Of number Of
trials of less serious nature. Among
these is the case that distracted the
clerical world of England-the grave
scandal of the archdeacon's pajamas
and the shocking career Of the abom-
Unable Yelverton, who married neither
well nor wisely.
On the whole, 1t would seem that
Mr.. Pearson's method of handling
the records Of crime is the most
healthful one possible. He neither
gIorifies the criminal nor horrifies
the reader. but contrives to make the
whole subject contemplate. chiefly by
showing its ineptness. As has been
said. he is unique in this somewhat
difhcult field.
MURDER FOR WHAT7 BY Kurt
Steel. indianapolis: Bobbs-Mer-
rill Co.
COME months ago the author of
- this second novel produced his
first, called Murder of Dead Man."
The publishers for some inexplicable
reason announced at the time that
he was the holder OF a Phi Beta Kap-
pa key. The present reviewer re-
marked that, even so. he knew how
to handle the popular Manhattan
argot. The present book bears fur
ther shining evidence that this is SO
and. while the first one was pretty
good. viewed just as a. mystery, this
one. viewed just as a mystery, calls
for downright enthusiasm.
Mr.. Steel does not 60 in for purple
hangings and oriental idols as seem
cry for his detective. neither does he
conceive of crime as something to be
done in fancy dress. He gives us a
perfectly routine little homicide.
State policeman in upstate New
York, found shot to death in the
woods. The sleuth is the Hyer Of
his first novel; matter-of-fact per-
son hailing from Iowa. Hyer makes
use neither of the sixth sense nor
hasheesh in tracking the miscreants
to cover. He does seem to one trifle
indefatigable as wise-cracker, some.
times. but that is his worst fault.
He solves his mystery by such means
as appeal to ones common sense. He
is a distinct relief among the current
run of fiction man hunters.
It is to be hoped that Mr.. Steel does
not wear his creditable creation thin
in forthcoming books, but he probably
will. In the meantime. Murder for
What?" Is q superior detective story.
Evening star., 1936-02-29

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that seems to be a shade worse even
than it is at home.
One wonders if debunking move
ment for travel books is under way.
BY some standards it is due, though
certain dreamers will no doubt regret
the change. Anyway, the present
book is no cruise literature.
TREASURE EXPRESS. BY Neill G..
Wilson. New York: The Mcmillan
Co.
THIS is series of narratives. told
in good swinging style, about the
hold-ups or the attempts at hold-ups
of the stages which carried the treas
ure out of the gold fields Of our West,
in the glamorous days of the SOS.
Robberies, pursuits, captures, escapes
and lynchings fill the hearty pages. It
is a slice of typical Americana. to use
a phrase beloved by critics. and it is
carefully authenticated, too. One can
commend it without reservation.
MORE STUDIES IN MURDER. BY
Edmund Pearson. New York: Har-
rison Smith and Robert Haas.
THERE is no one, perhaps, who
writes Of the human animal gone
wrong more engagingly than Edmund
Pearson. He has the faculty for re-
lating gruesome crimes without being
either too appalling or too clinical.
In his most recent volume he relates
the stories Of some dozen or so GRIM
inals 1T makes an uncountable num-
ber of crimes) with such propriety
that you might give the book to your
most sensitive friend without causing
offense. And yet he does not slight
horrid details, either. Clearly, he is
unique in this kind Of writing.
His wretches here range from such
heights of infancy as those achieved
by j. P. Watson, who could not re-
member how many women he had
murdered for their money, to little
known, obscure characters, who killed
from sheer stupidity. In addition to
crimes for which malefactors have
been brought to justice. he cites the
facts Of certain unsolved mysteries
notably the Elwell case and the Lizzie
Borden legend-and the spectacular
career Of Jack the Ripper. In these
latter instances he tells the facts
that actually were discovered and bal
ances them against the accumulation
of popular myths. 1t all makes re-
markably good reading.
Then, as q sort Of comic epilogue,
Evening star., 1936-02-29
TOWNSEND PLAN DISPUTE DOMINATES WEEKS BOOKS
PENSION IDEA is DISSECTED
Elizabeth Bowen Does Fascinating Novel Pattern Of L
and Love of Some Distinguished Characters-Chinas
Change Analyzed-A New Max Miller Volume

abel" Of Coleridge, and much of
Dome. N
Some amusement may be aroused by
the editors. extremely careful discus
sion Of his own canons Of selection.
when, as for example. he discusses
whether . poem celebrating person
of an undesirable social order" should
be included or not. Happily this fus-
Evening star., 1936-02-29
By Thomas r. Henry.

"ODAY is the end Of Winter
the ofncial Winter Of Govern
ment weather forecasters, re-
II gardless of the calendar.
All over the United States 1t has
been about as hard q Winter as the
Evening star., 1936-02-29

siness has not seemed to intrude in his
work and perhaps the publishers will
omit the introduction in future edi-
tions. For the present the book is
good addition to that dubious literary
group-the anthologies.
FOG AND MEN ON BEHRING SEA.
BY Max Miller. New York: E. P.
Dutton Il Co.
MAX MILLER, who covered the
water front SO famously, in this
present work writes of trip on the
Northland, the Government boat that
patrols the edge of the Artic icepack
and the forbidding coasts of Alaska
and its islands. He Is humorous and
grim; his book has q distinctly indi-
vidual favor among the great welter
of travel tales of the loyely-lovely va
riety. He goes neither mystic nor
chatty, as so many of our glove -trot-
ting scriveners do, but tells a concen-
trated and pungent tale Of what he
observed. Much of that was unpleas-
ant; he does not gloss it over. Still
he contrives less unpleasant reading
than do the many who are so deter
minedly radiant in reporting their
journeys. With so obviously a fair
for travel writing, he moves one to
hope, albeit cautiously, that he will not
stay home too much in the future.
And that is very large concession.
MEN IN SUN HELMETS. BY Vic
Hurley. New York: E. P. Dutton
& Co.
THIS is q collection of brief nara.
tives from the lives of white men
living in the Philippines. The author
has already written one book about
that corner Of the world-"Southeast
of Zamboanga." He has spent num-
Der Of years down there, and his pres
ent volume would seem to be chiefly
random stories taken from memories
OF his wandering existence.
Some of them are pretty good.
They deal variously with white men
and women and natives. The impress
sion which the whole collection gives
is Of q life that more often is des-
perate than glamorous, that more
often destroys than allows to flourish.
One can by no means commend the
work to the bankerer after romantic
tropical nirvanas. It deals pretty ex-
clusively with what is known as the
Seamy side, and, in the Philippines,
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-04-30
Teeth regain dazzling whiteness

EILM is the cause of dull, dis
l. colored teeth. 1t is also the
cause of serious tooth and gum
disorders. Run your tongue across
your teeth and you will feel this
film. 1t absorbs stains from food
and smoking and turns white teeth
dull. 1t clings to teeth and hardens
into tartar. Germs by the millions
breed in it. And germs, with tar
tar, are the chief cause of pyorrhea.
Ordinary brushing fails to remove
film successfully. So dentists urge
the specials ilm-removing dentifrice
called Pepsodent.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1936-04-30

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then removes it in gentle safety to
enamel. No other way will make
teeth as sparkling white.
Pepsodent contains no pumice,
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is so safe that dentists recommend
it for cleaning the soft teeth of
children.
accept Pepsodent Test
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