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The Washington times., 1936-02-24
Robbery Suspect
In Police Lineup

Richard E. Simmons, brought to
Washington Saturday by Detective
Sergt. ]. j. Tolson from New Or
leans on robbery charges, will be
included in the police lineup to-
night at headquarters. Simmons,
a pal Of Robert Lee Cummings,
wanted in the holdup and robbery
of Gems. Joseph A. Castor and
Edward D. Anderson and their
wives on January % while they
were playing bridge at 2122 Cali.
fornia st. N. W., will be arraigned
in a case involving the rohbing Of
Mrs. Helen A, Lowe in January at
her home. 1900 Forty-fifth St.,
police said.
The Washington times., 1936-02-24

tonic effect Of DR.. Pierce'S FAvOTite PrescriP.
tion nourishes and strengthens the body OF
the expectant mother, which means, Of
course, that it Is also strengthening the
child. Also for girls growing into wOmanhOod
and for women in middle life going through
the chang" '"Favorite Prescription" is
tUst the vegetable tonic needed Buy AOWl
New size, tablets Soc-, liquid 800 L l.3S.
The Washington times., 1936-02-24
ADVERTISEMENT
MYrs.x MOTHERHO

THE period
in a woGnan'S 5
life just before
her child is born
need not be a
time of illness
and anxiety. At
such a time it
is essential that
good health and
good spirits be
maintained. The
The Washington times., 1936-02-24

rhythm. As the strings die away
muttering notes Of gloom. a cres-
cendo roll of the snare drum leads
directly into the fourth move
ment.
The organ-ballets listed by T.
Arthur Smith Concert Bureau for
Tuesday night at Constitution
Hall seems to have been post.
poned. though we have not re,
ceiVed any direct information to
this effect.
Jose Iturbi, who will appear
here soon as guest conductor of
the Philadelphia Symphony Or,
cheStra, has accepted the post OF
regular conductor of the Roches.
ter Philharmonic Orchestra. thus
removing one of the more likely
candidates for successor to ToS,
canini for the New York Philhar'
monic Orchestra. Iturbi is the
first regular conductor of the
Rochester Orchestra for seven
years since Eugene Goosens left
the post to assume leadership of
the Cincinnati Symphony Orches,
ira.
The Washington times., 1936-02-24

Departures From Normal
Accumulated deficiency Of tenn
perature since January l, 1895,
292.
Deficiency Of temperature since
February /, 1885, 213.
Accumulated excess Of precipi-
tation since Janaury /, 1896, 3.25.
Excess of precipitation since
February /, 1886, 0.93.
The Washington times., 1936-02-24
World Of Music
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Theme From Third Movement. Symphony No. L.
By Shostokovitch

preserving daily music themes:
Many teachers music appreciation GdUiSe their pupils to clip
paste filing NTH the composers at
the top and file them in alphabetical 0rderJ
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-04
ALLIES STILL BELITTLE
OUR HELP Nv WAR

1t is just 1S years since the World
War ended, but our late beloved allies
have not yet given up the attempt to
prove that we really weren't nearly as
much help to them as we supposed at
the time.
David Lloyd George, who was prime
minister of England when we went into
the war, is still writing memoirs, and
his most recent volume includes some
sharp criticism of Gen. John J. PERISH
ing.
General Pershing has been criticized
by allied statesmen before now. He
wasn't quite the sort of thing they were
looking for; he had hard, square jaw,
and a mouth that could look like slit
in sheet of armor plate. When they
all rallied round and began telling him
how to run his part of the war, he had
a remarkable faculty for listening and
then saying mo" in a rock-ribbed eter-
nal sort of way.
Lloyd Georges complaint is the same
old one; that Pershing was as stubborn
as a Missouri mule about the idea of
keeping American troops under Amer
lean command, and that, because of this
fact, it took the United States altogether
too long to make its presence felt on the
firing line.
The Lloyd George idea had the beau
ty of simplicity. 1t was to feed American
troops right into the British army, by
companies and battalions. There would
be no American army, as such; instead,
there would be vast number of separ-
ate units brigaded into the war-torn
British divisions. AS fast as our boys
got to France, they could be put to work.
The best mark on Perching's record is
the fact that he said NO to this little
scheme, and said it often.
We owe this lantern jawed general of
ours, great debt of gratitude He stood
like a rock against unbelievable pres
sure.
He held out for the idea that if Am
erican boys had to fight on a foreign
battlefield, they would at least go in
under American direction, fighting for
American objectives.
If he is to be criticized, it has got to
be for some reason other than that
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-04
SPAIN. WHERE EVERYBODY
IS THE LOSER

Spain in recent bloody months has
demonstrated one thing 10 the world :
that nobody can win in a civil war. Out
side the hysteria filled border of Spain,
no one doubts that the nation itself, and
every individual in the nation, has lost
by the conflict which now seems to
be drawing nearer TO its close. 1t will
take decades to overcome the damage
done to Spain itself.
Horror is the worlds natural reac-
tion to the riot of blood between neigh
bors and former friends Lust that
exceeds even that of war between one
nation and another has been demon
strated by the rebel and loyalist forces
in the European country. Atrocities
that are not human have been reliably
reported by disinteresed observers.
Neither side has confined itself TO the
so-called civilized methods of warfare.
Women and children, not to mention de-
fenseless prisoners, have been the ma
jor sufferers.
We in America are fortunate in a
form of government that permits us TO
see the horrible conflict in its true light.
We are more fortunate in the probabili-
ty that nothing of the kind will happen
here. Campaign blasts to the contrary,
the American people are not likely to
be engulfed in chaos very soon. They
have been trained in Democratic form
of government to- govern themselves too
wisely for that. Their leaders know
that they would not permit themselves
to be led into straits where such tactics
seemed necessary.
The only good that can come out of
the Spanish revolution will be its good
as an object lesson to other govern
ments and other nations.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-04
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre
ByWiLlioms

VOLTA! l peeked into the ice box just
on an off chance. There were the
cold potatoes. That is, they were
there for about 10 minutes and
down the hatch. Nobody can go
places with cold potatoes like L. l
don't even stop to salt and pepper
them. My notion of a midnight
spread-that and leftover dish
of cream gravy to sop. Cold gravy
that has formed a thick scum,
sprinkled with a little grated on
ion and flecked with chilli sauce.
Men, that's what call boarding!
But where I really burst into full
bloom is at one of those buffet af-
fairs. The Hunt Breakfast! Named
for me because late comers have to
hunt for something to eat. I'm a
buffet snaffler. While the hoity-
toity wave their forks over the dish
es in polite indecision, I have snaf-
fled a plateful, wolfed it and stand
about with the cat-swallowed-the
canary expression as though 1
hadn't had a bite. Anyway Jepson,
my fowling piece! It's the time
of day to stick up few grocery
boys delivering stuff about the
building. I have not had a smid-
gin to eat for more than an hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-04
News Behind the News
Profits in BoondOggiing A Big
Laugh For WPA Officials Texas
Furnish Earnings, Indirectly

WASHINGGTON.-WPA officials in Wash
ington are chuckling over one little "boondog-
gle' which has already netted the government
profit Of $2,000000 above its cost, and may
yield a great deal more When the profit
mounts few more millions, they're going to do
a little public chortling.
This "boondoggle" includes three projects
for white collar" WPA workers. set up by the
Bureau of Internal Revenue. One is for review
ing income tax return5 one for reviewing mis-
cellaneous tax returns, and one for investigat-
ing liquor dealers
Together, they've cost little more than
So 100000. And they've already collected more
tdan $5000,000 in taxes and made possible the
assessment of $8627000 more, which the
regular bureau administrators are moving to
collect
All WPA workers on the project were taken
from relief rolls but of course they were pretty
carefully selected and 3l85 of them given
a three-week training course, with little more
than 200 non-relef accountants and investigat-
ors TO furnish guidance.
The point is, that the regular staff Of the
Bureau OF Internal Revenue never has been big
enough TO comb through all the income tax
reports Usually the members check only the
pig ones. This WPA project made it possible
10 comb through great many more, and the
added tax revenues is the result. Incidentally,
they found something more than 1000 who had
oyerpaid their taxes and had refunds coming.
The liquor tax investigators worked by drop
ping In on saloons and taYernS and suddenly
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-04
.> Auction Philosophy >>
By d. L. ZINN

Folks, have got to move Herbert Hoover over into
second place. | always called him the worlds hardest
loser, but AL Smith has him skinned mile. You re-
member AL grabbed his little brown derby in 81 and
home poutng. Now he appears back on the scene
with silk hat and bawling than calf that had
lost it's mother crying because ckes is in the cabinet
Was no crime for Herbert Hoover to be with Wilson.
The Republicans didn't elect Wilson But it's common
knowledge Progressive Republicans We're the means
of electing Roosevelt. Why shouldn't have repre-
sentative in the cabinet? And not only that we are
going keep right voting for progressive candidates
until party wakes up. Only two parties TINS tall
that is the and the old stand patters those
guys who think what good enough for dad is good
enough for me.
hayden sale high $1075O Don't look like the
prices did in the fall of so does it? Then you wonder
why am for Roosevelt | will be seein' you.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-04
Strolls Thru HOLLYWOOD

ruined a scene in Sam GoldWyn's
Irish revolution picture in which
principals were voting with one
voice: Aye. At the psychological
moment a camera truck ran over
Sindlers toe, and he moaned OR
decidedly not okay for Qdiber-
nian) sound.
Billy Mauch, IL, and Mickey Mac
Cleary, IA, both in "Penrod and
SAM" fought it out behind sound
stage until parted by an assistant
director. Seems Mickey had seen
Billy playing Anthony Adverse as
a boy in long, angelic curls, and
cracked that mo man would wearA
a costume like that"
Lion cubs awaited by Warner
Baxter and June Lang on the
white Hunter" set have arrived
three of them-but the player
haven't been able to inspect their
new pets yet. Mama lion served
notice on the world to stay away
from her den, and nobody doubts
her earnestnesS.
Mary Astor, of Lavender Love
Diary" fame, has completed her
second picture since her sensation
al court battle with her eX-hus-
band, DR.. Franklyn Thorpe, for
custody of their daughter. Seems
Columbia pushed production of
Lady From Nowhere" to cash in
on trial publicity. Astor has one
more to do for the studio under
her present contract.
Sonia Henie waited three months
for her screen debut picture to be-
gin. Now, as production gets un-
der way she developed a blister on
her lip, and the company will have.
to shoot around her the first week I
Cutting Room Scraps: AL Jol-
son is off to attend the World Series
after celebrating the eighth ami
versary of his marriage to Ruby
Keeler Hugh Herbert new
mayor" of Studio City, says he is
working on development of square
peas to end the trolling off the
knife" evil Bob Burns, Kansas
Cityward for personal appearances
i. Gertrude Michael will sail for
England Sept. 80 to do a picture
for British International Her
bert Marshall is also bound for Eng
land (Oct. 15) for a months vaca-
tion Dolores Del Rio has built
a dog drinking fountain in her
| back yard.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-04
The Democratic Viewpoint
EDITED BY
The Democratic County Central
Committee

The present contest between Mr.. Roosevelt
and Mr.. Landon for the presidency OF the
United States is not merely clash between two
ambitious men. nor is II mere conflict between
two opposing political parties
Looming large in the background and COM
pletely overshadowing the personalities of the
candidates or the platforms of the opposing
parties is a problem of human rights more
fundamental than any Of the party issues under
popular discussion.
Briefly stated, it is the conflict, in modern
version. that made Thomas jefferson and Alex
ander Hamilton violent opponents in the days
when the Constitution of the United States was
first being drafted.
Hamilton believed. and he conscientious
in that belief. that the common people were in
capable of self-rule. He wanted the control of
government retained in the hands of the gifted
aristocracy who should rule with a benevolent
despotism. He believed that no other form
OF government could survive
jefferson on the other hand, conceived a
union of states in which all men. through the
the representatives Of their choice, would have
unfettered voice in the management OF
public affairs. In the end, the Jefferson idea,
with some notifications, won and was embodied
in the Constitution.
But the Hamiltonian and the Jefferson ideas
are still battling for supremacy. The Hamiltons
of this day are the aristocrats Of industry-the
men whom President Roosevelt very aptly de-
scribed as economic royallsts'. They control
major share OF the wealth Of the country, and
the tools OF production. They look to the Re-
their all-poverful position will be maintained
They are bitterly opposed 70 President Roose-
welt because the New Deal is based on the JEFF
fersonian idea that equal economic as we'll as
political rights should be granted to all alike.
Their wealth is derived from the labor of
others-and they fear that If those who labor
are granted too much freedom. ii will interfere
with the special privileges which they enjoy.
Not all Republicans share this undemocratic
view. But unfortunately, the men who have for
years controlled the machinery OF the Republi-
can party, and who have supplied the bulk Of
the funds for party purposes are the industrial
aristocrats Of this period.
They are the men who are today financing
the vast campaign propaganda which Is being
issued from the Republican headquarters. Whe-
ther It Is true or not. they believe that Gov.
Landon will give them the same immunity
which they have enjoyed for many years under
Republican administrations. So FAR Landon
has not seen fit 70 deny this.
It is not merely a contest between Roosevelt
and Landon-it is the 1886 version Of the age
old conflict between the lords and the labor
ers. The outcome Is important this year, be-
cause the Republican administration which
came 20 an abrupt halt In 1893 was rapidly
reducing the great middleclaSs o: Americans 10
the role Of dependents with neither property
nor security. The American Constitution can
only survive long middle class America
survives and holds the balance o. power.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-04

testing the liquor on The spot They made Il
tough for lot Of chlseling proprietors who
were palming off bootleg stuff On unSuSpectinz
customers VINO were satisfied with legal-lOok-
ing label.
These tax investigations were made not only
in Washington. but In other places. TIE Tex
tax board, for instance. set up a project %
ferret out untaxed land.
1t seems that lots o. land In Texas Sss sur
veyed in the early days only by the rudest
means, like counting the revolutions Of a wagon
wheel as IL traveTsed the land. Tax officials
there believe that, as result, perhaps 10 10
i2 per cent Of all Texas land Is untsxed
WPA project people were put 10 Eork on
that, some 5000 Of them. and already they've put
on the tax duplicate land never listed there be
fore It is expected 70 bring Texas more than
$500 600 annual revenue.
Virginia is sponsoring a similar project for
digging up uniaxed land and IN Pittsburgh
similarly employed WPA tax project workers
actually found a $1,000 residence that had been
overlooked by the assessors for IS yearz They
found at least 100 unasseSsed buIldings
Some 800 former relief workers are dOing
this WPA job in Allegheny county.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-04
The Republican Viewpoint
EDITED BY
The Republican County Central
Committee
FARMS BACK TO THE FARMERS

The attempts. of the present administration
to improve agricultural conditions by revolu-
tonary methods have not met with success.
nor have they solved the problem. The chief
cause OF its failure is that the system OF pat
ernal control it has been and is endeavoring to
establish. involving the expenditure OF vast
sums that obviously cannot be continued year
after year works at cross purposes with nature
and Is out of harmony with the law of supply
and demand.
While it is true that the farmer has this
wear obtained good returns for farm products,
the improvement is largely due to the drought
conditions in the middle west or. in other words,
it is due to the hand of nature. This is en-
phasized in Imperial County and is borne out
by the fact thu. at harvest time during the
year of 1885 .le price of grain returned to the
farmer little more than sufficient to pay produc-
ton costs.
Governor Landon has pledged that if elected
he would fulfill all outstanding obligations
made by the present administration with the
American farmer" BY this it would appear
that he intends to carry out the governments
obligations as expressed in contracts, or other
forms of agreements. 1t is clear that good
faith on the part of the government and simple
Justice demands this. He says further that
"those of our farmers hard hit by the drouth
will be generously provided for until they can
raise a crop. This means continuation OF
relief checks Sentiments of humanity cer-
tainly justify this program.
The Landon plan would take the control OF
the farms out of the hands of the Washington
Bureaucrats and would restore them to the farm
ers. It would put an end to the RECOMMENDATION
and give the farms back to their owners. 1t
would give them independence and freedom to
produce as they will. This is of greater i'm
portance to the farmers than any purely eoo-
nomic considerations for the present program
if made permanent would reduce the farmers
to a state of servitude on level with Europ-
can peasants. Without this independence, the
country would lose the chief stone in its foun-
dation as a land Of free men. In this vital
particular alone the Landon plan should appeal
to all as a vast and needed improvement in
the interests of the farmers and OF the nation
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-04

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 2. WH -
Showering sparks fit to curdle
greasepaint, ELISA Landi, redhead-
ed Italian spitfire, denied all ma
trimonial intentions towards liquid
eyed Nino Martini, film and opera
tenor.
I'm not engaged to anyone"
stormed Landi. when I am I'll be
the first to admit it. I'll shout it
from the houSe-topS"
Martini was present at the time
visiting Landi's "cockeyed cruise"
set-equally deprecating reports he
and Landi were altar-bound, but
seeming somewhat aghast at her
vehemence.
st am continually being reported
engaged" boiled the actress. "Re-
Gently it was to j. F. T. O'Connor,
comptroller of the currency-later
to Douglas Fairbanks, jr.-now to
Mr. Martini.
"Mr. O'Connor happens to be a
good friend of our family, and that
is all. I believe had dinner once
with Mr.. Fairbanks. Mr.. Martini
are just friends. Can't I associate
with amusing men without being
engaged to every last one of them?
And worst of all, it's bad pub
licity for me. I don't believe my
public likes to believe that I am
engaged to one man one day and
another the next. That's the sort
of thing that starts all kinds of
impossible wild rumors about Hol-
lyWood."
Anyway it seems she isn't en-
gagged to Nino Martini.
Dear Old England, in case it
minds, is about to lose Fred E.
Bartholomew paternal grand-par-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Bar
tholomew I, to Hollywood.
The old couple (both over 70)
came here for a three-monthS visit,
stayed six, and are now returning
to sell the family home in War
minister, Wiltshire, after which
they'll move to Hollywood for good,
to live with Freddie and his aunt
(their daughter, Myllicent Bartho-
lomew) in newly purchased home
in WestWood Hills.
Meanwhile Freddie's mother and
father have returned to England
following their attempt to regain
custody OF the boy from his guar
dian Aunt Myllicent, which was
settled for a slice of Freddie's
earnings.
Irving Sindler, property man,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-04
rHE POST-PRESS

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pany, 625 State street, Ell Centro,
California. as successor to the
Sunday Issue Of The Morning
Post and Valley Farmer, and the
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Valley Press.
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post office as second class mat
ter.
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Bennitt, General Manager: Rus
sell Bennitt, Secretary-treasurer
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tor.
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Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-04
kitten in either.

%
Here, for instance, is an average
winter breakfast: A bowl of cereal
covered with sliced bananas and
cream three eggs, golden side heaV :.
onward, five links of Major Dick
sons He'll and Maria sausages, a
side order of fresh potatoes, Sauc-
er of jam, a quart pitcher of milk
and a plate of buttered toast. In
summer I taper off a bit and have
the toast unbuttered. The garbage
boys have long since stopped calling
at our back door. No leavings. No
swell sWill.
There's Frank Mcintyre the actor
He shares my name. I don't see
why I can't share his poundage.
He has enough to spare to make
two Odd McIntyres and couple of
midgets. When he walks along the
street people glance for the truck
number. And when walk the same
street people have to look twice to
see anything. The way I have to
pick my way over the sidewalk
gratings for fear of falling through
makes me mince along like sissy.
A dash of lavender!
90
When I raid the ice box, do I
spear a little of this and smidgin
Of that, like most midnight sam
pies? Not by a jugful. I go the
distance. When Mother Hubbard
sees her cupboard the next day it's
as bare as a front-roW Paradise
cutie. And these forays take place
about twice a week-not once a sea-
son. 1t may be coincidence, but
I notice the cook keeps the dog bis
cults out of reach on the top shelf
And the other day she boiled bowl
Of potatoes and set them away to
chill for salad the next day. That
would be the fine and dandy evening
| got home late after watching a
wrestling match between Clark
Gable and Jean Harlow-nothing SO
fatiguing as modern love! = and ct
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-04
Troops Will Hold
Regular Meeting

Troop 7, B.CA., will hold regular
meetings each Monday at 7:30 p.
m. in the Scout hut, beginning Oct.
S. Walter Phillips Wilson school
teacher is the new Scoutmaster and
will be present Monday to take
charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-04
Horoscope for Sunday

A person whose birthday is Sun
day may be conscientious, true and
careful in money matters. He is
apt to be successful in his under
takings, providing he does not de-
stroy his physical systems by a
nervous breakdown.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-04

One Minute Test Answers
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