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Youth ADMITS
TEMPLE Note
FOR RANSOM
Wanted Money From Par
ents of Shirley; Got
Idea in Movies

ATLANTA, Ca, Sept. 10. -
(UP).-Frank Edward Stephens,
a fivelfoot 16-year-old boy who
chews gum and calls himself ED
die" confessed last night that he
attempted to extort $4,000 from
the parents of film star Shirley
Temple because l thought they
would pay off"
The boy admitted writing a
threatening letter to the mother
of the juvenile cinema star after
conceiving the idea while he
watched a gangster movie with
his girl"
Arraigned before U. S. Com
missioner Ed S. Griffith on a
formal charge of extortion under
the Lindbergh act, the boy admit
ted his guilt but was permitted to
sign his own bond of $500. Grit
fifth expected to communicate with
Alabama juvenile authorities who
paroled the youth on July 5, 1884,
from the Alabama industrial
school for boys at Birmingham.
Eddie admitted having spent six
of his 16 years in an industrial re-
form school.
Picked up in a restaurant where
he worked as a bus boy, Eddie at
first denied to federal bureau OF
investigation agents that he had
written a letter demanding S25,-
600 and warning the Temples to
"get the money if you want to
keep Shirley"
Dressed in flamboyant high
wasted "gaucho Stacks" held up
by suspenders and brushing back
his slick black hair nervously, ne
finally broke down and admitted
the act under questioning by u
Men.
81 wrote the letter with my left
hand" said Eddie, "and addressed
it to Mrs. Shirley Temple, Hol-
lywood, Calf mailed it on
August l."
The boy said ne gave the name
of Curtis Palmer" a title ne
had picked up from a motion pic
ture entitled "Thirteen Hours by
Air"-and instructed the Temples
to mail the money in bills to
grocery store where he was en-
ployed as a delivery boy on Sat-
urday afternoons.
A. Hale Watkins, Oman attach
ed to the Atlanta bureau of IN,
vestigation, said Eddie telephon!ed
the grocery on August 8, lnqulr-
ing if he had received package,
1 am expecting from Hollywood,
That set the G-Men on his trail
and they picked him up at the
restaurant early yesterday;
81 read in the papers about
boy out in Nebraska who tried TO
get money from the Temples,
Eddie told newspapermen. i tlg-
ured that they would pay of bet
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Young Lady's
Painful Condition
Relieved by Cardui

For over fifty years, Cardui has
been recommended by mothers to
their daughters for the relief of func-
tional pains at certain times and as
a tonic to improve nutrition.
81 was very weak and nervous
when a young girl at home" writes
Mrs. j. H. Daniel, of Biloxi, Miss.
my mother was so uneasy about me-
she did not ask me to help with the
work. My mother decided to give me
Cardui and she didn't want me to
miss dose, after she found 1t YVES
helping me. I gained and 1t was
splendid how I responded to the
treatment. After six bottles OF Car
dui, I was regular and the pain and
trouble stopped. I grew strong.
Thousands Of women testify Cardui bene'
fitted them. If it does not benefit YOU
consult physician
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Rotarians Are
Host to Coaches

The Rotary club today was host
to Hugh Kolb and John Stevens,
head coach and assistant coach re-
spectively of the HendersonviIle
high school. -,
In speaking to the club both
coaches declared that they were
glad to be in Hendersonville and
that their main purpose in the ath-
letic program were the develop
ment of clean sport and the build
ing of character.
Visiting Rotarians at the meet
ing were Joe Willard, Hickory; u,
R. Tenant, Gastonia; Dwight
Nay, Miami, and NJ. j. Megginson'
Charleston.
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PERSONAL
PARAGRAPHS

Mrs. F. A. Taylor and Mrs. R.
L. Fox of Leesburg, Fla, are the
guests of Mrs. J. w. Miller at her
residence in Laurel Park.
Jesse Reese left today for Chap
ell Hill. where he is student at
Carolina.
Lester Gibbs has returned to
Tampa. Fla. to attend for the
third and last year the Florida
Fundamental Bible School.
Jacob Williams has returned to
the University at Chapel Hill to
resume his studies.
Misses Eleanor and Anne Bobo
left this morning for visits IN
Lynchburg, Va, and New York
City before returning to their
home in Clarkesdale, Miss. The
Misses Bobo are among the annual
summer visitors who spend the
season here.
Mrs. James A. C. Dauer and
grandson, Mr.. Princeton Dauer,
left this morning for Charleston,
s. c., after spending awhile at
Oak Retreat.
Mrs. Hudson D. Baines and
daughter, Dorothy, have returned
to their home in Washington, d.
c., after spending six weeks with
the formers mother, Mrs. j. u.
Waldrop, at Maple Grove.
Miss Betty Atkin left yesterday
afternoon for Knoxville, where
she will enter the University OF
Tennessee.
Jack Howard, who left several
days ago, has accepted a position
in Savannah, G., former home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. John Webb Howard
and their son.
Miss Gladys Maxwell left this
morning for he rsenior year at
High Point college, High Point.
Mrs. George Wright returned
this morning after spending the
summer with her daughters, Mrs
Chauncey D. Blackboard, in Mid,
land, Mich. and Mrs. Harold
Goetz in Mi1dletown, o., and Is
again at the Cedars.
Miss Wilma Young left this
morning for Charleston, S. g.,
where she will resume her studies
500 nat the College of Charleston
Miss Nancy Rose McManaway
left for Greensboro this morning
where she is a student at W. c. OF
L. n. G..
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presiding.
The program was opened with
prayer by Miss Lillian Perkins.
The opening song was Publish
Glad Tidings." A reading was
given by Norris Zimmerman, Jr.,
on Christian Education. Mrs. Sci
bert discussed the need of the
Christian college and Mrs. Tim
norman gave comments from vari-
Gus authors on Christian Educa-
ton.
The minutes of preceding meet
ing were read and approved, and
dues taken.
1t was decided to postpone the
study course until books could be
secured.
At the close of the program de-
liciouS refreshments were served
bv the hostess Mrs. Zimmerman.
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ter than anybody else so wrote
them the letter"
Although he is 16 years old,
the freckled-faced boy said he
only was in the seventh grade. His
six years in the Alabama reform
atory had retarded him and a
brush with Atlanta police, when
he was charged with Burglary for
picking up milk bottles, kept him
out of school. The Atlanta charges
subsequently were dismissed.
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ANDY CLYDE MAKES HIS
DEBUT AS DRAMATIC ACTOR

"Straight From the Shoulder"
which plays at the State Thurs.
day, brings to the screen one of
fiction's favorite characters, -.
NJ. Pyne," beloved old philosophy
cal gunsmith of series of stories
in the Saturday Evening Post.
The film introduces Andy Clyde,
the be-spectacled, walrus-mous-
tached comedian, in the first dra-
matte role of his career, as the old
gunsmith who believes that every
thing in life, not only guns, must
be shot straight and true. When
his daughter falls in love with a
young widower the old man rec
ognizes the silent antagonism be-
tween the girl and her fiance's
young son. He sees that the boy
resents and is jealous of the wo-
woman who is coming into his ia
1
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during the emergency landing.
A large force of fishermen sue
ceeded last night in dragging the
$4,000 ship from the swamp and
Bleaching it. The plane was not
badly damaged and may be able
to start for New York in a day
OF so if a suitable place can be
found for a take-off.
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STORM STILL THREAT
TO ATLANTIC COAST

Continued from page one)
flight from Great Britain to New
York.
Rickenbacker took with him ex-
ira gasoline and spare propeller
blades to repair the Lady
Peace" which smashed its prop"
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LETTER

Edneyvillc, N. c.,
Sept. II, 1886.
Palmer Stone Wks., Inc:
] wish to give a word of thanks
to the Palmer Stone Wks.. Inc,
for that beautiful monument
which has just been erected in st.
Paul's cemetery.
| think it is the most handsome
for the price and quality of any
in the cemetery.
| also wish to speak word for
your agent, Mr.. d. B. Green and
helpers who erected the monu-
ment, for their courtesy and kind
ness.
Respectfully yours,
MRS. SALLIE HUDGINS.
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FIVE GENERATIONS
MOURN WOMAN 1913
YEARS OLD AT DEATH

LAUREL, Miss, Sept. 16. -
(UP).-Mourned by five genera
tions of survivors, Mrs. Alzada
Courtney died yesterday at the
age of 1O8. She was 33 when the
Civil war started, and witnessed
guerilla fighting between rebel
soldiers and natives of this area
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LRNlNG BRIDGE
k0pS VISITOR

l. 0. Roy Keith compliment
b.. 4. H. Rochelle. of Allan
b.. wi.h q beautifully appoint
fit.e yesterday. Mrs. Rochelle
h CUES. hi, week Of her
|Ea:er, yl-s. 0. Roy Keith. Jr.
(!Ome g.aiioI and dahlias in
Il tones graced the home in
Bic arrangement.
, ,ere was a guest gift for Mrs.
|he..e. Ms. Roy Keith, Jr.. won
Top score. and the consolation
cut by Ms. ". 4. Keith. A
course was served to guests
30 tables who attended this
Is party.
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TWO TRAINMEN KILLED

JACKSON, Tenn, Sept. 10
(UP). - Walter Hartwell, engl-
neer, and fireman George Bum
gardner, both Of Water Valley,
Miss, were killed late yesterday
when Illinois Central freight train
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who formed the Free State of
Jones County" and refused to
join the war. Mrs. Courtney had
been blind for Is years. She
never rode q train.
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No. rs was derailed near Toone,
Tenn. 20 miles south of here. The
accident was attributed to lose
rail.
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PTlST BUSINESS
lNEN IN SESSION

b September session of the
-sss Women's Circle of First
= church. met with Mrs. P.
zimmerman Monday evening,
NcS. Zimmerman. chairman,
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he fears that she will destroy the comradeshp
which between them.
The old sets out to win the youngsters friendship and sue
him that life played straight from the
shoulder honestly and willingly and that must never be ke
the Of straight From the Shoulder Ralph Bel
lamv Locke David Holt
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Several men, and not one indi-
vidual. hold credit for discovering
photography.
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WAKE UP YOUR
LIVER BILE


Without Calomel-And You'll lump Oui Of peo u
,he Morning Karin &c Go
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Iiauid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile
is not flowing freely. your food do"sn' Z digest
Il Just decays in the bowels. Gas h'osts dp
your stomach. You get conEtipa;ed. Your
whole system is poisoned and yoI feel sour.
sunk and the world looks punk.
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DR.. BERTHA w. BRANSTETTER
Osteopathic Physician
Colonic Irrigation
Home and Hotel Appointments
442 N. Main ST. Ground Floor
Phone sos
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Edneyvillc, N. c.,
Sept. II, 1896.
Evening star., 1936-12-16

In all red II desired.
Beautiful tall graceful Candles for
Christmas decoration. Dripless, 10
assorted colors Or assorted to the
box. Come early and get yours.
Complete centerpieces as illustrated are
designed to sell at reasonable prices.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-28
NO PLACE FOR RELIEF
IN STRIKE PICTURE

Indications from Washington point to
the intention of WPA officials, among
them Harry Hopkins, to furnish federal
relief to laborers engaged in strikes.
Those who are unalterably opposed to
federal relief in any form welcome the
rumored plans, sub rosa. They believe
that there is no surer way to bring WPA
into nationwide disrepute. Those who
believe that federal relief should CONT
nue., in some form, see in the strike re-
lief plans menace to any form of con-
tinued governmental help for the unem-
ployed.
The result of relief to strikers has
been seen in Imperial Valley. There was
not before, nor has there been since,
such a storm of protest against federal
relief agencies as went up when agrl-
cultural strikers were granted the prlvl-
leges of relief. If the same thing became
true on a nationwide scale, the entire
relief structure would be placed III
jeopardy.
Strikers should not be numbered
among the unemployed They are not
unemployed because they cannot find
Jobs; they are unemployed because they
object to the jobs they have found.
Sometimes there is merit IN their OBJ
iections; sometimes there is only class
hatred DenlnQ Inelf JODleSS STATUS. olllh-
ers are men and women who will not
work, for one reason or another. Federal
relief is intended for men and women
who cannot work, either because they
are unable or because they cannot find
Jobs. Strikers are not in this classlflca-
ton.
By furnishing a livelihood to striking
laborers, the federal government takes
their side in their dispute with the em-
ployers. The government of the United
States is basically a paternal one, not
devoted to the interests of one group or
another. If it sides with one group
against another, it is abusing its ideal.
Strikers, such as those engaged IN
the tiresome maritime walkout, are
rapidly losing public favor. They are
doing harm not only to the industry IN
which they are engaged, but to numerous
other industries and to other laborers
who have no interest in their problems.
They are becoming candidates for the
blacklist of public opinion.
If federal relief is extended to strlk-
ers as matter of policy, the death knell
of federal relief will begin to sound.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-28
CHINA'S AWAKENING
ACCOMPANIED BY PAINS

China, threatened on one side by Japan
and on the other by Soviet Russia, soon
NAV become the wonder-nation OF the
world. Asleep for centuries in its Orien-
tai isolation, China is finding that IS
cannot live its own life within its own
boundaries, free fr o m molestatlon.
Growing pains are afflicting the Oldest
nation in the world.
The recent kidnapping and release OF
General Chang Kai-Shek, Nanking goy-
ernment leader, is of more Importance
to the rest of the world than may appear
on the surface 1t is, above all, an indi-
cation of the political upheaval that Is
gaining headway in the Chinese repub-
lie. 1t is a milestone on the path of
transition followed by China, biggest
country in the world.
A united China could swallow Japan
at one gulp, then turn to Russia with a
threat that would give even the Soylets
a more than momentary pause. CHINA
is by no means united today, but the
political earthquakes now shaking the
far east may be merely a welding to-
gether of the peoples of China. If this
is true, then there is that happening IN
China today which should provide food
for thought in the capitals of the world.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-28

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. %. U.P) =
Shakespeares classic advice =
Neither a borrower nor a lender
be"-had a hollow ring in 1886
Hollywood where producers lent
and borrowed more acting talent on
the hoof than in any previous pic
ture year.
Only one player in the entire
film colony is considered not sub
ject to loan-Metro's Greta Garbo
Almost any other can be had.
The. new film slave market"
places actors in a worse position
than baseball players, traditional
worst victims of human ivory
peddling.
If ball players are hawked from
one club to another with great adj
vantage to their owners but none
to themselves SO are film actors
but more frequently and with utter
ly no personal advantage save the
spectral quantity of prestige. An
actor risen to popularity while
seWed up in a long-term contract
seldom knows where he'll be work
ing from one week to the next.
If the significance of all this isn't
at once apparent, recall meagre
casts of few years ago with the
all-star lineups of current top pic
lures, and the moral is obvious.
It's virtually impossible for even
a large studio to complete its annual
film quota without entering its con-
tract list in the "slave market, and
shopping lists of other outfits. The
exclusive contract is just a trad
ing advantage now.
In former typical talent deals the
borrower paid the lender twice the
players salary plus salary accumu-
lated since his last picture, but that
is changed too. Most deals are
highly individualistic now, with
equal trades the basis and cash
boots less in use A producer with
no talent to exchange is usually
out of luck.
By no means complete list of
1886 loanouts, but one covering most
of the top names follows. Some
have been sold down the river two
or three times
Charles Boyer co, Madeleine
Carroll 80, Henry Fonda 90, Gary
Cooper, Clark Gable, Sylvia Sid
ney %, Robert Taylor, Myrna 10y,
Claudette Colbert, Alan Baxter,
Jean Arthur CD, Joel McCrea %,
Richard Dix, Ann Sothern 90, Do
loreS Del Rio Edward Arnold 90,
Mischa Auer 80.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-28
GET YOUR 1897
AUTO LICENSE EARLY

Don't forget, you who drive cars, to
get your new 1897 license plates early.
The State Department of Motor Vehl-
cles will begin issuing them January z,
and you'll have until midnight of Febru-
ary to get them. After that, you'll have
to pay double.
The state is no more anxious TO col
lect double than you are to pay. The
idea is to finish this gigantic job of IL
censing CALIFORNIA; more than 2,250,000
motor vehicles as eXpeditiously as pos
sible
This year, as last, the registration fee
will be So, and the ''in lieu" tax, sub
stituted a year ago for the personal
property tax, will be levied on basis
of Sl.75 per $1O0 Motorists have al
ready received notices showing the
amount of the latter, and these, together
with registration certificates, must be
presented when applying for new IL
censes.
Those ubiquitous plates, soon to be
proclaiming the new year so insistently.
will have orange lettering on a black
background, the reverse Of the 1886 color
combination. Nineteen other states prac-
tice this color-reversing procedure. Only
one state Arizona, will not change, re-
tanning black letters on copper.
As for the rest of the stateS-Well,
they'll have enough varied colors to out
do college freshman's pennant covered
study, ranging from maroon to colonlal
blue, and including silver, old gold, emer-
aid green, turquoise blue, ivory, ana
canary yellow.
But about that deadiine, in California,
of February 4. Don't wait till then, or
even week before Get your new license
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-28
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Is There Unwritten Constitution in u. S.?

attitude does in effect amount + =
either an amendment, or an ado
ton, to the ''unwritten constitr-
ton This is very real part of
our government.
For instance. as electors gather
to make official the election OF
Franklin D. Roosevelt. there is
nothing in the written Constitution
to prevent them from getting to-
gether and electing Joe Doakes
president Originally, the electors
for whom you really voted instead
of for Roosevelt or Landon, we're
expected to exercise their own
judgment in voting for president.
Today they would not dare vote
for any but the candidate favored
by popular will. But it is all part
of the "unwritten" rather than the
written Constitution that they do
SO.
There is nothing in the Constitu-
ton to prevent state seeding
from the Union. But the bloody
war of 1860-65 amended" the "un-
written constitution" SO that today
no state would consider secession.
There is nothing in the written
Constitution to prevent a man seek
ing the presidency for third time.
But so strong is the "unWritten
constitutional provision against it.
that such effort would probably Y 7
foredoomed to defeat Popular re \
sentiment of the violation of tradi-
tion would assert itself.
Thus it is quite possible that if
the "unwritten constitution" grows
strong enough, it may become i'm
material whether the written one
| is ever amended or not.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-28

NEW YORK. Dec. 28.-Diary: A
nip in the air and feeling coltish.
Came news that Mike Hogg had
struck a big flow of oil in Louisiana.
So with my lady in her Whitehall
guard hat for late breakfast at
Michels bijou cafe. And girl at
the bar very weepy. win triste, "
shrugged waiter.
In the afternoon to see Lisle Bell
brought to a wheel chair with a
broken leg but merry withal. And
on to tea at the Thomas Watsons
and later to Fanny Hurst's. And
across the park in the cleaning
J wishing I were a painter to i'm
prison the enchanting Central Park
South skyline on canvas.
The Meredith Nicholsons, on fur
Tough from the U. S. minister post
at Venezuela. to dinner. And Mere
dith told me he was three score and
no more than so and has as youthful
heart as any one know. So talk
ing of George Ade, Harrington
Riley and others of his Indiana lit
erary belt.
With the pattering deluge of new
and eccentric dancers there are few
with the originality of Tom Dingl;
with his long-legged professol
prance; Charlotte Greenwood witt
that awkward grin, Ida May Chad
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-28

While proposals to amend the
Constitution continually are being
advanced, comparatively little is
said of the "unwritten constitution
which is perhaps almost as i'm
portant.
Making his annual business fore
cast, Leonard Ayres, prominent
Ohio economist. points to this "un-
written constitution as virtually
having amended the written one
since the depression.
Ayres points to universal accept
ance of the idea that the federal
government is responsible for the
economic well-being of the coun-
try and its citizens. That. he con-
siders, is an amendment to the
Constitution" more important than
any of the other 81.
That this is a momentous change,
nobody can deny when he goes
back with Ayres to President
Cleveland's veto of the Texas seed
bill in 1885. A severe local drouth
in Texas brought forth a bill to
appropriate $4,000 to buy seed for
farmers who were burned out.
Cleveland, regarded then as lib
eral, if not radical, vetoed the bill
saying, It do not believe the power
and duty of the general govern
ment ought to be extended to the
relief of individual suffering which
is in no manner related to public
service or benefit
x x X
1t is likely that Cleveland today
would not feel SO. For when I'm
dividual suffering" mounts to an
Overwhelming total, it is distinctly
related to public service or benefit :
But the point is, the change in