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Evening star., 1936-08-16

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course, two spades, and under the
Four-Aces system responder jumps
promptly to four spades. This Jump
to four spades conveys the message:
Partner, I have fine trump and dis
tributional support, but no ace or
king in my hand" The original bidder
may now contract for six with com"
plete safety on the foregoing hand.
This Jump to four spades over an
opening two-bid does not conflict with
any normal bid. With a good hand
and trump support, responder may bid
three spades or show new suit.
A situation rather similar to the one
preceding occurs when the hand on
which one must respond to an opening
two-bid contains a seven-card suit
headed by queen Jackie or queen
iack-1O-9, and no outside ace or king.
For example, consider the following
hand:
Opening Bidder.
AAKQxx
vKx
"a
&AKxxx
Responder.
AK
voJ1osxxx
Xxx,
&xxx
It is obvious that the combined
hands should produce q small slam
in hearts, but it is only by means OF
our new Four Aces convention that
this slam can be reached other than
by a series of wild guesses. In re-
sponse to the opening two-spade bid
partner Jumps to four hearts. This
bid conveys the precise message that
he holds a seven-card heart suit
headed by king-j jack or queen jack 10
and no side ace or king. Now the
original bidder, with king and one
heart and no losers in the side suits
can bid six hearts. without this con-
vention, the bidding would have to
proceed somewhat as follows:
Opening Bidder. Responder.
"a INT
So ~
81 ~
Pass.
OF course, the original bidder might
now try for the slam, but he would
be disappointed II he found that re-
sponder's hand was somewhat like:
Ak
~Jxxxxxx
xxx
&Qx
Even with that hand q slam might
result. but 1t certainly should not be
bid, as the odds would be greatly
against making it.
An even better example Of the work.
ings of this bid may be seen in the
following hand as bid by Howard
Schenken and Oswald Jacoby in re-
cent duplicate game.
Mr.. Schenken.
~Aka a a,xxx
YAK
AK
Mr.. Jacoby.
AQJ xxxx
-
>xxx
&xxx
The bidding was very simple. After
looking over his hand, Mr.. Schenken's
first act was to make . mental note
that he wished he had held 1t in rub
Der bridge. Then he bid two hearts.
Mr.. Jacoby nova bid four spades,
Evening star., 1936-08-16
SOCIALISTS SECEDE

Pennsylvanians Threaten to Form
New Party.
HARRISBURG. Pa, August IS P).
The Socialist party of Pennsylvania
voted, So to 80, tonight to disafhliate
from the National Socialist party. The
vote came after three hours of bitter
debate.
Left wing members threatened to
form q new party.
Evening star., 1936-08-16
Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES
Artificial Conventions.

unvenors OF the system that has beaten other
Evening star., 1936-08-16

The next article in this series will ap-
pear tomorrow.
Evening star., 1936-08-16

TINE -Four Aces have always felt
that complicated artificial bid
ding conventions have no place
in bridge, and we have never
sympathized with the attempts of
other writer's to produce 10 or 20 spe-
cialized artificial bids every year or so.
This lack of sympathy does not mean
that all artificial bids are condemned.
In fact, we know that it is possible
to devise many complicated artificial
bids which, when used by two players
who are accustomed to playing to-
gether as partners with great fire.
quency. will prove valuable in many
instances.
But the ordinary complicated arti-
fetal bid recommended by a bridge
writer is supposedly devised for the
general run of players. Here the nee
essary complications become too great
because of the fact that the ordinary
player cannot hope to devote sum-
cient time to the game to master such
bids. And here is where the ordinary
writer on bridge gets into trouble. II
he simplifies artificial bids in the hope
that the general public will be able to
use them, he removes all their effec-
tiveness. If he complicates them in
order to make them valuable, he
makes it impossible for the ordinary
player, who cannot be expected to
devote the major portion of his life
to learning contract bidding to grasp
them.
In our opinion. the only artificial
bids for which there is any excuse
are those which are so simple that any
one can learn them in five minutes,
and which at the same time are un-
nlistakable in that they do not con-
fict with any regular bid, and which,
finally, are of such nature that they
can be used by any two players who
care to adopt them.
Several years ago we announced one
of these bids, illustrated as follows:
Opening Bidder.
AAKxxxx
xxx
OAK
Responder.
AQJxx
~xx
Qxxxx
AK
Evening star., 1936-08-16

The bidding was very simple. After
looking over his hand. Mr.. Schenken's
first act was to make . mental note
that he wished he had held It in rub
Der bridge. Then he bid two hearts
Mr.. Jacoby nova bid four spades,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
CITRUS STRIKE
RIOTSQ QUELLED
IN ORANGE co.

SANTA ANA, Cal, July 9. W,P)--
Although six arrests were added to
the more than 100 already made in
connection with the month-ol
Orange county citrus strike, officers
today said violence was near an end
between striking orange pickers and
orchard guards.
Fullerton police arrested six men
last night on charges of disturbing
the peace and treSpassing after they
allegedly interferred with picking
crews near La Habra
Fullerton took on the appearance
of a movie city late yesterday when
neWsreel photographers attended a
mass arraignment of 118 MexicanS
on charges Of rioting. The defend
ants were carted from the county
Jail in Santa Ana in huge moving
vans, escorted by scores of officers.
Court was held on city property in
front of the Fullerton justice court,
where Justice HalSey l. Spence
bound all the men over to superior
court and set bail at $500 each.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
SLIGHT RAIN
ONLY TEASER
TO FARMERS
Sun Scorches Basin
Without Marked
improvement

CHICAGO, July 9. (UP)
The great mid-American
drought basin baked again
today under a blazing sun,
relieved only by tantalizlng
showers and sultry clouds in scat
tered sections.
There is no material change to-
day in the entire central states dis
trict," Forecaster J. R. Lloyd OF the
Chicago weather bureau reported
Its another sizzler."
Deaths attributed to the weather
mounted to at least 235 as the heat
wave moved across the prairie
states to the east. Conservative es-
Inmates placed the property dam
age at more than $200,000,000.
No Relief Seen
1T is not quite SC hot in North
Dakota and northwestern Mime
sofa today but the rest OF the
drought district has no relief In
sight" Lloyd said.
Hot winds Wilted already with
cred crops in South Dakota, Mon
tana, most of Minnesota, Iowa, Ne
Continued on Page 2; Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09

$175,0 a year, beginning imme-
diately, Chairman Evan T. Hewes
of the district board said Thurs
day.
Hewes termed the latest chapter
in the power controversy rather
amusing"
Commenting on the Southern
Sierras' request to the state rail-
road commission for permission to
file new rate schedules, Hewes
said:
although the Imperial Irriga-
ton District has been criticized by
some for incurring the expense of
installing the standby plant at
Brawley and starting the distribu-
ton of power by the district so
far in advance of the time when
power will be available from the
All American canal, it is rather
amusing to now find our competi-
tors, the Southern SierraS Power
company, principal critic of initiat-
ing the development of power at
BraWley by the Diesel engines, ap-
pealing to the railroad commission
for permission to reduce their rates
to meet those of Imperial Irriga-
ton District The power company
admits that they are forced to do
so in face of the fact that they
are losing their customers in the
city of BraWley so rapidly to the
Continued on Page 2; Col A.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
HAIL FALLS
IN Ell CENTRO.
Third Summer Storm
Of Week Hits
Valley

Hail fell in Ell Centre
Wednesday afternoon during
a downpour of rain, in the
third severe storm to visit
the valley in four days.
Calexico and Brawley reported no
rain but a violent windstorm hit
both cities.
The freak storm struck suddenly,
spent it's fury in less than an hour,
and passed on to the northend of
the valley.
The rainfall totaled 81 inches,
according to Howard EmmonS, gov
Crnment weather observer The
wind reached a peak of SO miles per
hour at 4:10 o'clock.
Minor damage was done to crops
of the valley, according to B. A.
Harrigan, county agricultural COM
missioner.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
DRIVER TAKEN
ON COAST FOR
OUIZZING HERE

James Long, 20, driver of the au
tomobile involved in the accident
which caused he death of I. H.
Harry, Negro, June 4, was arrested
in Los Angeles Wednesday on a
warrant charging him with reckless
driving. Captain Frank Oswalt of
the California Highway patrol will
leave Friday to bring the Holtville
youth back to Imperial Valley.
The accident occurred on the Cal
exico highway near the G. M. Ranch.
Longs car crashed into the rear of
a car driven by Harry. The Negro
died at the county hospital shortly
after he was taken there for treat
ment of his injuries. Long and two
other persons were injured in the
wreck, Robert Walker. 10, and
Charles Jacobs, 40
Further investigation of the re-
Sponsibility for the collision was
recommended by the coroner's jury
after an inquest held in Calexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
COMMERCIAL DEPT.
MAJOR LEAGUE
-SCORE ES

AMERICAN
st Louis .......020 $50 OOO-5 6 .
Philadelphia .O1O 21O 21x-7 Is .
HoGSett, Knott and Hemsley;
Rhodes. Kelly and Hayes.
Chicago ........001 100 OO0--2 10 .
Boston .........021 002 02X-7 IL 5
Whitehead, Lyons and Sewell; w
Ferrell and r. Ferrell.
Cleveland .....052 O2O 2OO--11 Is 0
New York 400 600 600 a s l
Allen, Galehouse, Hildebrand and
Pytlak; Pearson, Broaca, Hadley, w.
Brown and Dickey.
Detroit .......,... .O2O 100
Lawson. Sullivan and Hayworth: :
Whitehill and Bolton.
NATIONAL
Philadelphia lib 900 600 Is .
Pittsburgh 264 900 04X-16 16 0
Kowalik. Moore. Bowman, At
wood and Wilson; Lucas, Birkoffer
and Todd.
Boston at Cincinnati, night game.
Brooklyn ..... 900 OO2 O1O 600
Chicago ....... 200 600 100 600
Mungo and Berres; Carleton and
O'Dea.
New York .............00
smith and Mancuso; Parmaiee
and Davis,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
IS LOTS PUT
ON TAX LIST
THRU SALES
City Council Sells
Tax Deeds To
Builders

Bids for Is tax delinquent
lots in Ell Centre were pre-
sented to the city council at
the session Thursday morn
ing and the city made the
sales. No sales were made unless
the bid was accompanied by the
price Of the lot.
This brought to 80 the total of
lots sold by the city in its cam
paign to encourage the building
of homes.
Details of the transactions were
aired at the session. Dorsey White
law, city attorney, was asked for
legal advice in ironing out the
difficulties encountered.
The city in each sale sells to the
purchaser only its interest in the
property and the county and ir-
rigation district do the same. The
city does not guarantee title and
it is up to he individual purchaser
to clear the title, WhitelaW explain
ed. Purchasers are advised to
consult title companies in this
phase of the deals.
In the sale of each lot, the city
cancels all delinquent taxes and
penalties, costs and street assess
mentS in order to get the property
back on the tax rolls.
Lot purchasers will turn the
money over to the escrow agent,
Continued on Page 2; Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
HE'S IN AGAIN
ERE HE'S OUT.
OF JAIL HERE

A slightly bewifdering game ap-
parently is amusing Raul Rodri-
guez, prisoner at the Imperial
county Jail, who was out and in
again before he was supposed to
be out
He was sentenced to Jail for six
months on a petty theft charge
February 7. He was made a kitch-
en- truSty. This gave him five
days off of each month OF the
sentence, resulting in his release
from the institution Wednesday,
July g.
Early Thursday night, Rodriguez
was arrested in Brawley railroad
yards and booked for being drunk.
He drew a 12-day Jail sentence in
Brawley police court Thursday
morning.
Rodriguez, after he serves the
12-day stretch, will be released
before the end of the original six
months sentence. He must like
the place.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
USE OF DOPE
IN BRAWLEY
AREA PROBED
Bartender Taken At
Port of Entry
With Drug

Investigation Of rumors
of the widespread use and
sale of narcotics among the
denizens of Brawley's red
light district, led to the ar
rest Wednesday night of Harry
Tobin, alleged bartender at the
Milt Green saloon on I street, as
he entered the United States with
metal pill box filled with liquid
opium.
The arrest was made north of
the Calexico port of entry at 7
o'clock Wednesday night by Fred
Bradford, customs border patrol
man, and Deputy Sheriff Frank
P. McCaslin.
Tobin had concealed the small
metal container under the belt of
his trousers. 1t was found when
the officers stopped and searched
the suspect. Liquid opium, accord
ing to McCaslin, must be injected
into the veins of the user by means
of a hypodermic needle.
The Negro told the officers that
he came to Imperial Valley from
Los Angeles two months ago and
had been working as bartender
in the saloon run by Milt Green,
Brawley Negro, at 920 street.
When questioned concerning his
possession of the liquid opium, To-
bin told the officers the box was
thrust into his hand as he stood
at bar in MeXicali saloon. He
insisted, according to the officers,
that he did not know who gave
him the box or what it contained.
Persistent reports of the sale
and use of drugs by certain of the
denizens and frequenters of the
vice denS huddled along the street
in the 900 block on I street and
along the 400 on G street, led
to the area being placed under
surveillance by deputies from the
sheriff's department. Tobin's ar
rest followed the Investigations
carried forward during recent
weeks.
The narcotic angle came close
upon the heels of revelations of
the vice conditions existing in the
same area of the north end city.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09

lHDOT.
The council resumed sessions for
today for what was officially de-
scribed as its first effort to deal
with Lewis insurgent committee
for industrial organization.
But it was learned the battle
actually broke in secret at the
first session yesterday when John
P. Frey, president of the metal
trades department, firmly demand
ed that the council suspend the G.
/ o. unions, which seek to or
ganize one big union in each in
dustry as opposed to the A. f. oil
l.. policy of craft unions.
With the Lewis faction lnaug-
urating a sweeping campaign to
unionize 100000 workers IN the
steel industry, it appeared every
resource of the federation lader-
ship would be necessary to prevent
complete collapse OF negotiations
to heal the split in labor's united
front at a time of grave crisis.
President William Green an
nounced that the council failed to
take UP the CIO issue at the
opening session. The meeting to-
day was to hear representatives
of the United Mine workers, lead
ers in the rebel faction.
But no U. M. w. representative
will appear. Nor will the insurg-
ent ladies garment workers appear
rs scheduled this afternoon. The
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
BANK PASSES
OUT CHECKS
Liquidation Ended
Assets Will Be
Passed Out

Liquidation of The Holt
vile Bank, closed in Sep
tember, 1881 will be COM
pleted on granting of a pc
tition in superior court ask
ed by Friend w. Richardson, state
superintendent of banks, to distri-
butte the remaining assets to the
depositors.
In the final distribution, savings
depositors will receive a dividend
of 10 per cent, making a total dis
tributed to these depositors of 81
per cent. Depositors in the COM
mercial department will receive a
dividend of 515 per cent, or a total
recovery of 6814 per cent on the
total deposited.
The following statements being
forwarded to the depositors gives
in detail the financial affairs of
the two departments of the bank.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09

compiled by the state department
showing the number of export Ii
censes for arms, ammunition and
airplaneS issued last month. In
all, $1,8O7, ,743.96 worth of fighting
equipment was supplied to the
rest of the world in June by Am
erican manufacturers.
Italian purchases largely con-
sisted of airplane parts - wings,
hulls and engines.
Summary of exports gave a
rough chart of political condi-
tiOns throughout the world. China,
fighting Communists in the south
and perhaps preparing for further
Japanese inroads in the north,
continued to be the largest indi-
vidual purchaser, taking $299 1920
worth of war materials,
These included machine-gunS,
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
STATE BOASTS
HUGE ACREAGE
UNDER COTTON

SACRAMENTO, July 8. AU'R) -
California this year has the largest
cotton acreage in the history Of the
state, the federal-state crop service
reported.
The cotton acreage under cultiva-
ton July l was estimated at 37O,-
900 or 1853 per cent of the 1885
acreage. The previous highest total
was the $4,000 acres planted in
1929.
The acreage includes the follow
ing:
Stanislaus county. 1000; Merced,
22,2OO: MADEIRA, 45,300; Fresno, 8l,-
700; Kings, 37,200; Tulare, 82,40O;
Kern, 78,5OO Riverside, 1880; I'm
perial, $500; San Bernardino, 40.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
FOREST fire SENDS
ASHES OVER PRISON
CANAL BREACH
REPAIRS DONE
BELOW BORDER

Water service by the Imperial 1r-
rigation District will be back to
normal Friday for the areas east OF
New River since Mondays 10 foot
canal bank break was repaired.
The break occurred at $50 o'clock
Monday night. Crews closed the gap
Tuesday afternoon. The regulation
head of water was started from An
drade at 4:50 o'clock. 1t will reach
the areas served by the main Alamo
canal on Friday, according to M. j.
Dowd, chief engineer.
Seepage under the canal bank was
blamed for the break on the main
Alamo canal 10 miles below the line
in Mexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
CLERK DENIES
THEFT CHARGE

LOS ANGELES, July 8. U,P)-
John S. Lester, former Santa Mon
ica license clerk, accused Of the
embezzlement of more than $4,000
of public funds, returned to the
stand today to renew denialS he
had misused sums given him as
part payment for license fees.
One of the seven counts OF grand
theft charged against him in a
grand jury Indictment accused
him of receiving partial payments
of fees and diverting them to his
own use.
Later, defense attorneys indi-
Gated, Lester would deny he knew
that city funds had been missing
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
COUGHLIN BODY
MEETS SUNDAY
IN COAST CITY

Followers in Imperial Valley of
Father Charles E. Coughlin's Ma
tional Union for Social Justice
will go to Los Angeles Sunday for
a pre-convention meeting of the
II southern California counties,
an announcement from Los Angel
es headquarters said Thursday.
The meeting will be held at
Lincoln Park, Main street and
Mission road. Registration OF Of
ficers and delegates will begin at
10 a. m. The program will begin
at | p m. with A. A. Roe, deputy
state supervisor, as chairman.
Officers and delegates of con-
gressional district units and Off
GERS of congressional assemblies
will attend.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09

which swept over several ranch
houses in Cummings Valley.
Rangers reported that several
dozen men, women and children
were forced to leave their homes
in the agricultural area as the
flames advanced upon them COM
pletely out of control.
The fire was reported to have
Continued on Page Q; Col, 81
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
LAST MINUTE
FLASHES
ANTI -NAZI FLARE
BARS PLANS

Los ANGELES, July .. (U.H
Opposition to the city appro-
priating $1,000 to transfer the
official Olympic flag to Berlin
developed in the city council
today with n flood of anti-Nazi
OratOry descending upon the
heads OF fidgety council men,
berS.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
MEXICAN TROOPS
KILL REBELS

MEICO CITY, July 0. WP)---
Federal troops killed five rebels,
and arrested three in am encount-
er at La Vaqaera, State OF Jaiins-
co, today. EstanisIao Yaxquez.
chief of JaliaeO rebels. was cap
tured. Dispatched from Ayam-
barO, State of Michoaean, said
federal troops at Cerr0 DE Torres
killed five rebels during a two
hour battle.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09

Cummings Valley and Bear Valley
districts while state forestry dis
patches summoned additional men
from Los Angeles and Sequoia Of
ficeS.
Although the fire came within
few miles of Tehachapi state
said the institution was not en-
Women's prison, forestry Officials
dangered by the conflagration
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
Eagles Lodge Team
Pays Off Forfeit

Chicken and all the appropriate
accomplishments were served at the
Eagles lodge Wednesday night to
the winners in the recently COM
pleted membership drive.
The meal was served by the los
ing team to more than IS lodge
members who assembled for the oc-
CaSion,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09

typographical union president, an
other CIO member, will not appear
as requested tomorrow,
Green, sitting as head OF the
council, knew none of the rebel
unions would accept the councils
invitation, but he estimated that
discussion of the issue would con-
tinue until next week when, he
said, a definite decision en- the
suspension demand will be reach
cd
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
MRS. DIONNE
BEARS ONE SON

CALLANDER, Ont, July .. W.P)
Another DiOnne baby was born
tOday--a brother to the famous
girl quintuplets. Mrs. Olivia Di-
Onne, the mother. gave birth Ia
the little son, in the same rural
home where the quintupIets we're
born on May 28, 1894.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
-
# &C. ~
- AMBLING
NEPORTr1ETR
Says

If only the wives OF some of I'm
pcrial Valleys summer bachelors
could get a load of their dearly be-
loveds developing housemaids' knee
and dishpan hands in an attempt to
rid the family home of signs of
these dust storms! The women have
the laugh-but they'd better not
exercise it where the men are.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
Dying Winds Bring New Hope to Crews
Battling Tehachapi Blaze; Peril
To Penitentiary AUerted

BAKERSFIELD, Cal, July 8. (UP)-A drop in tenn
peraure and dying winds today brought hope to 800 fire
fighters that they may bring brush fire Tehachapi
mountains under control within few hours. The blaze
swept through 10000 acres of grain lands and brush in
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
235 Dead From Heat in Drought Regions
Hewes Credits New
Valley Power Rate
TO District Plant
BrawIey Program Directly Responsible in Saving
To Consumers of Two Valleys Chairman
Says of COmpanys Request

By forcing the Southern Serras Power company to
lower its rates throughout Imperial Valley, the Imperial
Irrigation Districts standby power plant at Brawey
will result direct saving to the power consumers of
Imnerial and Coachea Valleys of between $15OOOO and
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
Italy Buys Heavily
Of War Machines i'm
Trade With America
Lifting of Arms Embargo Sends Mussolini's Mer
Into Munitions Markets to Replenish
COuntry's Depleted Supplies

WASHINGTON, July g. (UP)-Italy, freed of the
embargo laid down by the United States during the
conquest of Ethiopia eaped into the American munitions
market and bought $40200 worth of materials in the
last days June This revealed today in statistics
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
Well Be Quiet

In the mornings mail:
Dear RR:
I noticed your item about popping
Wrigley's product in the show the
other night and your complaint
about the person sitting next to
you. Might / suggest that your
auditory nerve be turned in the
direction of your cNn mouth. I
was seated right behind you and
your own little Cor big) piece Of
treckle 90 was popping and squirt
ing for who tied the COW. People
who live in glass houses shouldn't
throw stones.
"A reader Of your column.
RR's Note: 1t must have been
another night.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-09
Fined for Advertising

Fined for Advertising
John R. Robertson, it develops,
raced from Alpine to Ell Cajon re-
Gently with speed cop after him.
John sWears he didn't know of the
pursuit, but paid the fine willingly
because it was worth the money
to know it took a motorcycle Off
Ger 40 miles to catch a Buick. (NoW
watch the automobiles stories pour
in.)