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Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
NEW NURSERY
OPENED UP BY
CUFF-ARCHIAS

Cuff-Archias Seed company of
BraWley rallies to one of Imperial
Valleys greatest needs by opening
a new nursery embracing the larg-
est display of nursery stock ever
seen in the valley. This has been
the desire of j. C. ArchiaS. head of
the firm, for many years. After
spending several weeks inspecting
stocks on the coast, ArchaiS has Sc
lected excellent specimens of only
the varieties of plants, shrubs. ev-
ergrens, rose bushes, vines and orn-
amentals especially suited to this
climate, it was said.
The new nursery is located Just
east of the American Legion hall
on G street in Brawley. Lath hous-
es have been erected to protect the
stock. The arrangement is describ-
ed as being very beautiful and
there are rockery displays showing
plants to be used for this particular
purpose. A total of about 10000
plants are now on display.
Archais wishes to impress upon
the public that in this collection
there are nothing but plants which
will thrive in Imperial Valley. He
invites inspection.
Larry Cooke, an experienced nur-
seryman, is in charge of this de-
partment., He has had many years
experience and has a thorough
knowledge of landscaping. He is
willing to spend all the necessary
time in making suggestions and as
sisting the patrons with gardening.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
0UNTBRIEFs

! Guaranteed Laying Mash, Growing
Mash on Chick starter At the new
location, 115 miles east on Main
street. (O21-O3D
| Migrants Jailed-George Watson,
48, and Salvador Vasquez, &C. are
serving 15-day sentences in the
county Jail after conviction of vag-
rancy in inland
Win One of Those Cash or mer-
chandise prize dances at the Silver
Slipper, Imperial Valleys most pop
ular night club, located in Impe
rial. A prize dance every half hour,
every Saturday and Sunday night.
New floor show every Friday night
(O30-O3D
! Held To Answer Ralph Harri-
| son, 20. who was arrested in Ell
Centre on charges of contributing
| to the delinquency of a minor was
held to answer after his arraign-
ment held Friday.
! 90
Visit Townsend Headquarters, 67O
Main. Vote Ed Sample for con-
! gress. (O16-N2)
Wooda Blesy Dance Studio re-
opens. All types taught. 723
Orange. (O26-N8)
! .-OO-
Licensed to Wed-A marriage Ii
cenSe was issued at the county
clerks office Saturday to David
Pidal, %, and Matilda Tejada, %,
residents of Ell Centre.
Sherwood's Care-Air cooled foI
Your Comfort. (M17-TFn
The TrocaderO for your evenings
entertainment. (J28tG
Gets Divorce Decree-An inter-
locutory decree OF divorce was
granted Myrtle Winford Saturday
in her suit against w. A. Winford
on the grounds of extreme cruelty
and wilful neglect. She was given
custody of their three minor chill
dren.
Now the Don Room for your steak
dinners. (J2Stfl
If You Have the Grain we can
furnish the other ingredients and
save your money on your poultry or
stock feed. See us on your feeding
problems. Nice's Mill, IL miles east
on Main street. You can't miss it.
(O21-O3D
Calling All Hens. Calling all hensl
It's time to feed Nice's Guaranteed
laying feed. 1t still sets the stand
ard of quality as for six years. Give
your hens a better chance to pay
you dividends. You can't go wrong
on NiceS feeds. Made right, priced
right and are right. Buy at Nice's
Mill, 112 miles east on Main street.
(O21-O3D
Nice Moves from 536 State street
to IL miles east on Main street
You can't miss it. The same high
quality feeds, the same courteous
treatment. We welcome both old
and new customers. (O2l-O3D
90
Coming Events? Roosevelt in
flation. chaos, Communism, Rebel
lion. God Fordbid! A. H. Rehkopf.
(O24-N3)
It's Your MOve-Dependable eX-
perienced men and equipment Pi-
amos and household goods. Phone
l. Pioneer Truck and Transfer.
.(O3D
| 90
It's Time To Change the color of
that summer dress. Let us dye it
one of the new fall colors. Amer
lean Cleaners, 536 Main. Phone 81.
(O3D
Specializing In s-Ruffled
or plain. Drapes lined or refined
Luggage covers and pillows Mrs.
Cecil, Heber. (O31-N3)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
HELD TO
PIERCE THE VEIL

don Magic club. will try to match
spooks with Houdini's widow IN
Hollywood.
In Chicago. ILL.,. Leonard Hicks,
manager of the Morrison hotel,
who learned coin paintings and
card tricks from Houdini. will hold
another ghost hunt.
Mrs. Houdini. slender, fraii
woman who had kept light burn
inc over a picture of Houdini, set
in a shrine-like cabinet. since the
night of his death, said she would
never again try to call out her dead
husbands spirit if today's effort
fails.
"Houdini could escape anything
alive she explained. IF he can
not escape from the other side in
10 years, then | cannot believe that
anyone can"
A year ago Mrs Houdini held
similar seance at midnight in her
Laurel canyon home. before group
from the Pacific Coast Magician's
association.
At that time--with Dr. Edward
Saint, bald, blue-eyed mystic con-
Quoting the hunt-a strange, rumb-
| ling voice came out of the silence.
Upon investigation it turned out to
be asthmatic breathing of a news
paper reporter who had fortified
himself against ghostly preSences
and gone to sleep in a corner.
Once on Verge
Only once previously has Mrs.
Houdini been apparently on the
verge of contracting the shade of
| the magician That was in the cell
ebrated seance of the Rev. Arthur
Ford in New York City in 1929.
Ford claimed he heard a message
in code words from a mysterious
Fletcher" supposed ghost, which
translated into the word believe. .
Subsequently it developed the code
had been used for a century as a
stock stage master-minding method
and was contained in Houdini'S own
autobiography. Mrs. Houdini adj
mitted the code was correct. but
never accepted it as eminating from
pSychic sources,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
ARMY UNIT TO
HOLD PRACTICE
MANEUVER HERE

FL Centro city park will become
miniature army encampment
November 5, when the SO coast ar
tillery of Fort Macarthur will ar
rive for practice maneuvers to close
in this area November 9.
The men will arrive during the
afternoon of November and en-
camp at the city park. The defense
of the county airport at Imperial
will take place the night of Novem-
ber from an invading bomber
from March Field This event pro-
vides the problem for the SO for
this phase of the annual two week
practice march.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

years ago come Halloween eve, Will
get its last chance to come
through" today on the plush-car
peted roof of the Hollywood Knick-
erbocker hotel
There, gathered in plain view of
a score of observers, the dead ma
gician's tiny white haired widow.
Mrs. Beatrice Houdini, will grip
hands with some of the country's
most notable ghost raisers, in an
effort to complete a bargain she
made with Houdini 10 years ago.
The bargain was that on each
Halloween eve, anniversary of Hou-
dini's death at Detroit, Mich, Oct.
81, 1926, Mrs. Houdini would hold
seance and try to raise his ghost
This year the last of the annual
Houdini spook hunts will be signal
lied by a worldwide collaboration
of table thumpers, mediums and
unconvinced friends of Houdini
Simultaneous seances will be held
in half a dozen countries and 25
principal cities.
New York Group
In New York, Theodore Harden
brother of Houdini will gather a
cluster of fearless ghost chasers
aided by Jimmy Collins, for 20 years
an aide of the great magician.
Across the Atlantic, Col Harry
Day, of the Stand, London, and
Will Collision, founder of the Lon
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
JUDGE REFUSES
NEW TRIAL IN
FAWCETT CASE

Judge George R. Freeman in
Imperial county superior court Sat-
urday denied motion for new
trial in the H. w. Everts suit
against the Sunset Farms, Inc,
and VIII S. Fawcett but set the
bond on appeal to higher court
at $1,000.
The motion for new trial was
submitted without argument. The
bond question, however, was ar
gued for two hours. Everts, through
his attorneys Ross HickcoX and T.
Layman, had requested that the
bond on appeal be set at 0,000
or twice the probable deficit.
Everts was awarded a $279,000
deficit against the Sunset Farms
case after a prolonged trial held
this summer.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
WIFE LEADS ATTEMPT TO BRING BACK GHOST OF HOUDIN
JUDGE BALKS AT
RED DEMANDS
Continued from Page u

'COilbhluCQ lIO1ll rage u
Charles McLauchlan, as he was
about to enter a San Bernardino
radio station, and escorted him out
Of the city.
He was forcibly bundled into
his automobile, and then ordered
out Of town. Two cars conveyed
him several miles beyond the city
limits to see that the order was
obeyed.
Witnesses said the mob did not
harm him. -.
McLauchlan was believed to have
headed for Los Angeles.
He was scheduled to return here
Tor a broadcast today, but sta
ton officials doubted he would
appear. Members of the mob were
said to have warned him against
returning.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01

Decree Granted-An jnterlocutory
decree of divorce was granted Frank
Lopez in superior court Friday from
Eulozia Lopez on the grounds of
extreme cruelty.
Frolic at the Silver Slipper with
the joy-makers Halloween, October
81. Favors for all and a Midget
Radio to the lucky one. (O30-O3D
Marriage License Obtained-A Ii
cense to marry was obtained from
the county clerk Friday by Pedro
Espinoza, 26, and Mary Flores %.
They gave their residence as Cal
eXico.
Win One of Those Cash or mer-
chandise prize dances at the Silver
Slipper, Imperial Valleys most
popular night club, located in I'm
perial. A prize dance every half
hour. every Saturday ard Sunday
night. New floor show every Fri
day night. (O30-O3D
For Sale-The best poultry feeds
possible for us to make. Tested un-
der valley conditions for six years
and gets enviable results. Nice's
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
Methodist Church
Interior Remodeled

Methodist church members are to
have a surprise Sunday for their
church has been remodeled and
now presents a dignified and at
tractive interior that is in keeping
with the tradition of the church.
New panelling, a new pulpit,
Venetian blinds at the windows are
some of the new features that will
greet the congregation. Mrs. Ar
thur l.. Schultz will be soloist.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
BULLETIN

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 81. W.P)-
The Ten-year hunt for the ghost
of Harry Houdini. world famous
escape magician, ended in failure
tonight. With several hundred
persons gathered as witnesses on
the roof of the Hollywood Knick-
erbocker hotel, Mrs. Harry Houdi-
nj, tiny white-haired widow of the
magician, held her tenth and final
seance or the anniversary of Hiu-
dini's death on Halloween, Oct.
81, 1926.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
RURAL LETTER
CARRIERS NAME
NEW OFFICERS

Imperial Valley Rural Letter
Carriers Association held its quar-
terly meeting recently in Calexicc.
Officers for the coming year were
elected as follows: president, Roy
Maddox if Cascxroo -presi-
dent, E. N. Hopper of Holtville;
secretary-treasurer, S. N. Frost OF
Holtville.
w. o. Huson, Seeley carrier who
retires this month, was unani-
mously elected an honorary life
member.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
VOTE SUPPLIES
ASSEMBLED IN
COURT HOUSE

Election supplies for the 83 vot-
ing polls in Imperial county are
assembled in huge canvas sacks
piled in the board of supervisors
room at the county court house.
They will be distributed to the
precincts scattered from the bor-
der to border of the county by
the road foreman in each dis
trict. Brawley's supplies already
have been collected.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
Bids to Be Opened
On Bridge Project

PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 81. WH-
The U. S. bureau Of public roads
will open bids in San Francisco
Nov. II on construction of a pro-
posed $l50,000 bridge across the
Colorado river at Parker, it was
learned today.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-01
FARM BUREAU
WILL GATHER

Farm bureau members will meet
at the Holtville civic center Sun
day afternoon at 2 o'clock for q
community sing led by Gilbert
Wilson, director. Those who are
planning to attend the national
farm bureau convention in Pasa-
dena in December are particularly
urged to attend as music by a
large farmers chorus is to be a
feature of that convention.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-09
NEW YORK
DAY by DAY
By O. O. Mcintyre

That Slip of someone calling Jesse
Jones Jesse James in Washington
III a public speech was awkward.
But Jones was gracious. L was
bonn in Clinton county, next 10
Clay county, where the James boys
held forth Frank James used to
stop at my fathers hotel My father
enjoyed recounting a visit friend
of his, a theatrical advance agent,
made to a sort of museum place at
Liberty, Mo. There was on dis
play a number of old objects con-
neeted with the James boys career.
The advance agent handed his
card to the doorkeeper and was
bowed in with a flourish and
we always recognize the profess
ton" Paul Calico is taking
years vacation from writing sports
column. To turn to fiction. Al
most every man achieving a mod
icum Of success writing promises to
do that. But rarely is the promise
carried out. That inSidiouS old
whisper, Never trade a certainty
for an uncertainty" II has Stulti-
fled much genius.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-09
News Behind the News
Constitution on Every Mind =. SH-
preBle Court in Every Nightmare
Politics Keeps Watch =.

WASHINGTON Washington lives from one
U. S. Supreme Court decision to the next.
The court and the Constitution are on every
mind and every tongue. Much OF the taking Is
done in whispers.
Most persons here sense a dull lethargic at
mosphere which doubtless comes from the gen.
eral belief that the court will go right on kill
ing legislation until there's next 10 nothlng leIt
of the New Deal.
Anti-New Dealers are tensely alert for every
possible political advantage. Old men humble to
their wives at night. Government employees 60
around asking one another ARE you unconstitu-
tional yet?" The whole tempo of the Capital has
slowed down.
In the White House Roosevelt discusses the
court and the Constitution with his advisers
and many visitors. again and again. He has little
hope that much but fragments will be left OF
the New Deal
His congressional leaders have told him that
any immediate attempt to pass legislation curb
ing the courts would be too great risk. He
lust waits, while many of his supporters take
occasional cracks at court and strain their ears
for the popular reaction.
Everybody agrees that popular reverence for
the court tradition of Instability will die hard
Out of the budding and buzzing and plot
ting come certain fundamental implications
which are now thoroughly appreciated by both
sides, but which thus far have been little pub
hcized.
to see second New Deal
In other words as some of the New Dealers
already are predicting, the legislation killed by
the court-or laws of the same type-may be
enacted all over again in RooSeveltS second
term with the likelihood that nearly all of them
would be validated by the court.
OF course the idea is that Roosevelt might
get the opportunity of appointing two new JUS
tees Of liberal trend. Because the average age
for justices is H. and for other reasons it is
generally believed F. D. R. will have such
chance to 're-make" the court if he stays in
the White House.
Conservative Justice Van Devanter's health is
none to good and it is ruIIored that he-as well
as Conservative Justice McReynods-wouldh have
retired this if he could have been sure of be-
ing replaced by a conservative
Whether either would try to stick another
four years after Inauguration in January, 1887,
is questionable
Certain Liberty League orators already have
warned the voters that Roosevelt will pack"
the court if he gets back in. ANY such choice of
words is also questionable.
Presidents have constitutional prerogatve of
appointing supreme court justices. If the voters
name if he gets chance they can head him off
next November.
The voters might as well know that Roose-
welt probably will appoint liberals of the Bran
dies-Stone-Cardozo type if he and the Lib
erty League might well pipe down in case it
can't beat him this year.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-09

everything and to be nothing of
value.
What tremendous wealth there Is
in the possibilities of man! There
is a rich vein of gold in most OF
us that all too frequently goes UNI
discovered, therefore unmined.
Happy the person who puts great
value on human personality, who
realizes his possible self and seeks
to develop it. Tragic the case OF
one who never plumbs the depths,
who never ventures beneath the
surface of life to ascertain its po-
tentialities.
This story is told of John Ruskin.
One day out walking, he passed
over a little stream. STOPPING, he
picked up handful of mud and
took it to his laboratory to analyze
it. Under analysis it showed sand
and clay, carbon and water. Study
ing the possibilities of those ele-
ments Ruskin saw in the sand the
potential sapphire, in the clay
the potential opal; in the carbon
the potential diamond; in the wat
er the potential snowflake.
Without discernment, without
analysis, without insight, there was
only an ugly mud. With those
things the common mud became
potential beauty and possible
wealth.
So with men we have unlimited
possibilities. There is the actual
person we are and the possible
person we can become. But study
of self, meditation on our charac-
Geristics and temperament must
be undergone if any potentialities
are to be known, let alone realized.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-09
L o O king
B a c k W a r d
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
February 8, 1916

February 8, 1916
An effort to hold a meeting to-
day of the general committee of
Imperial Valley Chamber of Com
lnerce was not highly successful,
probably due to the numerous 9TH
er assemblies to attract attention.
There were about Is directors
present, and it was decided to
give a banquet at the Barbara
Worth Tuesday at o'clock.
February 8, 1921
With the Republicans in control
of national affairs it was to be
expected that there would be can
didates from the Republican ranks
for the poStmastership. Those who
aspire to succeed Postmaster Dool
of CaleXico are F. w. Roach, JUS
tice of the peace; Paul Lee and
Walter Cockley at present clerks
in the office in that city.
February 8, 1926
Returning today from Los An
geleS Miss Agnes Ferris, city lib
rarian, reported that the confer
ence of the library association of
the sixth district, which she at
tended, was most worthwhile
event. Miss Evalyn BoGlan, county
Librarian, was also present.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-09
District Agrees
With POwer Plan
Of Farm Grour

We urge that public resources
OF all kinds be conserved and re-
served to the end that special inter
estS may not exploit them for private
gain, but that the public receive
the full benefit of their develop
ment."
While speaking at the conference
in San Diego on the construction of
Boulder Dam, December IL, 1921, r.
b. Peters, president of the San Ber-
nardino county farm bureau quoted
the above words as a resolution of
the American Farm Bureau fedora
ton in its program of work for the
year 1922 He said this statement
represented the opinions of nearly
100000 farmers throughout the
country.
This desire for the public deyel-
opment and distribution of electric
energy has been that of Imperial
Valley ranchers for many years past
and comedies completely with senti-
mentS expressed by other American
farmers.
The board of directors of the I'M
perial Irrigation District, represent?
ing the ranchers of the district, has
taken this same stand in reference
to the power question and by resolu-
tions has repeatedly affirmed that
all power from the All American
canal should be distributed for the
entire benefit of residents and tax
payers of this district
1T is only by the distribution of
All American canal power through
the agency of the district that our
ranchers will receive the full benefit
of wider use of power through low
rates to enable them to completely
electrify their homes and ranches
and so share in the many comforts
and conVeniences enjoyed by city
residents" according to a recent
statement on this matter issued by
the board.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-09
VISITORS NEED
RECREATIONAL FACILITIES.

Imperial Valley derives its income
chiefly from agriculture and traffic 1t
possesses another potential source of
income which can bring in, if not as
much money as agriculture, at least
very material amount of new income.
Almost every day we hear of stranger
expressing surprise at the delightful
winter climate here but for some reason
or other these people do not seem to
accumulate here except in isolated in
stances. Just the other day two visitors
arrived, gloried in the sunshine and told
how mid-westerners have not seen the
sun in thirty days. These two visitors
wrote and urged friends (who own and
travel in their own airplane) to fly out
to the county airport and spend few
weeks in FL Centre. The very climate
which drives visitors away in summer,
can be made to bring corresponding
visitors here in winter The only draw
back is the absence of recreational pass
times for the winter vacationist. AS soon
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-09
Truck Operators
Face Penalty If
New Act Ignored

Word has been received by Per-
Gle G. Thacker of the Pioneer
Truck and Transfer company that
fines ranging from 500 to $500 a
day face motor carrier operators
and transportation brokers hand
ling interstate traffic who continue
operation after Feb. IL and fail be-
fore that date to comply with the
federal motor carrier act passed by
congress last August.
The warning was sounded by
Harold d. Mccoy, interstate COM
merce commission representative
from Washington D. c., who is in
southern California to help citizens
subject to the act prepare applica-
tons to the commission.
Mccoy has been in southern Cali
fornia for several days and will be
available for advice at Barbara
Worth hotel Monday, Feb. 10.