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Evening star., 1936-05-13
SENATE FAVORS
NEW COURT NAME
Would Avoid Confusion by
Having District Tribunal
for D. c.

The District Supreme Court hence
forth would be known as the district
court of the United States for the
District of Columbia" if the House
approves bill the Senate passed yes
terday.
In recommending the change the
Senate Judiciary Committee said Sc
rious confusion arises from the SINH
larity of the courts present name to
that Of the United States Supreme
Court, with both tribunals located in
the same city.
The local court got its present name
when it was created in 1868, but since
that time. the committee points out,
it has been given added jurisdiction
in matters strictly of a Federal nature.
At the present time a considerable
part of its business is that Of the
Federal District Courts, with which
1t most closely compares. The pend
ing bill would not affect the present
jurisdiction or functions of the court.
The change is in line with law
passed in 1884, which changed the
name of the District Court of Appeals
to the United States Court of APP
peals for the District of Columbia.
Expenses in ID. c. Bill.
At the present time all expenses
of the District Supreme Court and
of the Court of Appeals are carried in
the District appropriation bill, which
means that the local community meets
these expenses, except for the small
percentage which the Federal Gov
ernment pays through its lump-sum
contribution. At present this lump
sum is only IS per cent of the total
of District expenses.
While the bill to change the name
has no effect on the method of financ-
ing the court, the committees state
ment that much of the courts busi-
ness Is of a Federal character, serves
to emphasizes a point local citizens
have made in the past when weighing
the equities in the problem of fiscal
and District of Columbia.
4 Justice Stephens Testimony.
In this connection it was recalled
today that Justice Harold M. Stephens
of the Court of Appeals, testifying be-
fore the Senate Subcommittee on Dis
trict Appropriations recently, urged
that the budget of that court be trans
ferred to the Department of Justice,
where the budgets of all other United
States courts are handled. The Office
of the United States attorney and
United States marshal for the Dis
trict already come through the De-
partment of Justice appropriation
budget. Referring to the Court OF
Appeals. Justice Stephens said at the
recent hearings:
1T has no proper place, from the
financial standpoint, in the District Of
Columbia bill. The great majority
of our work is Federal work, and the
District ought not to be burdened
with our support in any degree at all
any more than any of the other
courts should be classed outside the
Federal Courts"
Evening star., 1936-05-13
STRUCK BY AUTO

Five-year-old Mani Lowell, 1475
Monroe street, was recovering in Gar
field Hospital today from the effects
of being struck by an automobile. She
was hit yesterday afternoon in the
street in front of her home, suffering
minor cuts and bruises.
George Robinson, 81, colored, 1925
Park road, Supreme Court messenger,
who was driving the car which struck
the child. was released by police after
questioning.
Evening star., 1936-05-13
Aid to Blind Is Discussed.

Mrs. Eleanore Brown Merrill of New
York, associate director of the Ma
tional Society for Prevention of Blind
ness, spoke to the District society at
its monthly meeting yesterday in the
Community Center. Plans for an 40.
tive program in the FAN were dis
cusesd. Mrs. Alen L. Worries presided.
Evening star., 1936-05-13
FOXHALL FESTIVAL SET

To raise funds for chancel fur
nishings Of their new church building
now under construction. the parish
toner's Of st. Patrick's Chapel in Fox
hall Village will hold family fes-
tival" Saturday.
A doll parade, dog show, o cam
era contest, horseshoe pitching. q
prize cake contest and a barbecue
supper are included on the program,
which Is scheduled to begin at I pm.
A variety Of carnival attractions will
be available.
Evening star., 1936-05-13
Africans May Add to Park.

Kruger National Park, In South
Africa, may be doubled in size this
eyear. =
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-21
SHERWOOD HOST
TO CITY COUNCIL
AT FIRE HOUSE

Russell Sherwood was host to the
Ell Centre city council and munici-
pal department heads at q dinner
at the fire hall on State street Tues
day night
Prior to the serving of the dinner,
Fire. Chief Tom Reams displayed the
new equipment at the station and
demonstrated new types of fire
fighting apparatus.
Fire Commissioner Harry Sones
presided at dinner and called upon
each person present to outline the
problems and plans in the individ-
ual departments of city government.
Arrangements for more complete
cooperation and more efficient in
ter-department relations were dis
cusSed.
Special guests for the occasion
were: John Brunner and Harry
Stockird.
Those present were: Mayor Roy
Womack, Councilmen H. w. Faw-
cett, j. P. Eyer, Gordon Scriven,
and Sones, City Clerk Calvin G.
Mousseau, City Engineer Philip w.
Knight, Fire Chief Reams, Assessor
Roscoe He'll; Cornelius Reed first
assistant fire chief; Hugo Miller,
member of the fire department;
Drummer and Stockird
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-21
PROPOSITION NO. II,
INSTRUCTORS TENURE

Supported by a small, prejudiced
group in the ranks of c f o + n
school teachers, Initiative Proposition
No. IL on the Nov. ballot, creating
dictatorial state tenure board of three
members and fixing permanent tenure
rules for California instructors, has met
such a storm of opposition that it almost
surely will be defeated.
In Imperial county, the local teach
ers' association has Joined with the state
association in formal opposition to the
amendment on the grounds its provisions
are highly undesirable from a profess
sional standpoint, whereas its good feat
ures already have been accomplished IN
existing state law.
Perhaps the outstandingly objection
able feature. and one sufficient of itself
to condemn the proposed measure, is
that it would place dictatorial powers
in the hands of a three-man state board
"a board which would have jurisdic-
ton over 5000 school districts where the
local school boards would lose the power
to determine which teachers shall be
permanently employed.
Vote mo" on PROPOSITION NO. IL.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-21
News Behind the News
The Lion of Idaho Dynamite For
COP Bdckers Just One
Speech Needed

SPRINGFIELD, Il-Just one of those
speeches which Senator Borah refuses 10 make
for the Republican ticket might easily cinch
Illinois and her 20 precious electoral votes for
Governor Landon.
Mention the Lion of Idaho to any regular
COP politician in Illinois and you produce
an instanteous explosion.
For Inois-one Of those states which Lam
don must carry to beat Roosevelt-is danger
ously doubtful And Borah, whose power in
the state was demonstrated when he jolted
Col Frank Knox by carrying everything in the
presidential primaries outside of Cook county,
has left the party singing the mournful melody
and bitter refrain of Here Am l, but Where
Are Your
So many cross-currents concealed daggers,
new unguessables possible phenagings and mag
oozlings are TO be found that few gamblers
dare offer odds worth mentioning on the out
come. 49,
Democrats have begun their campaign late
not really starting until the presidents Cmcage
speech In April's primaries they piled up
half million more votes than Republicans aho
Illinois then seemed sure New Deal bet
Vigorous Republican efforts since Landons
nomination have produced some oackSwing
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-21
THE BUSINESS BAROMETER
RISES SHARPLY

Steel is the barometer of business in
the United States, perhaps, but just as
good barometer has been the railway
business. Slower to react, perhaps, but
for that very reason more sure as an
Indicator of the general national trend
on the upgrade.
And rails are decidedly on the up
grade.
Railway Age, national trade maga-
zine, reports that the railways of the
United States ordered "a locomotives
and 100 freight cars in September. This
made this years nine months orders of
both classes of equipment nearly double
the amount ordered last year. In the
entire year of 1885 the number of loco
motives ordered was 83. In the first
nine months of 1886 the number ordered
was l5S. These figures exclude power
units for streamlined trains.
A prosperous people travels. In this
day of travel by motor car and airplane,
as we'll as by rail, an increase in busi-
ness expectations such as that indicated
in the railway orders is one of the most
accurate signboards along the road to
ever-increasing prosperity. Battling to
retain their passenger travel against the
threat of automobiles stages and air
planes, the railroads have been success
full to degree allowing them expansion
as we'll as replacement.
This does not necessarily mean that
they have won back that portion of the
travelling public which had turned to
other modes of transportation, however.
1t more surely means that more people
are travelling.
And more travel means more prosper
ity.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-21

through the purchase of revenue
bonds to be issued by the District,
containing the terms and subject
to the conditions hereinbefore re-
ferred to. The District is requireSr
to comply with all applicable laws
and to furnish proper records OF
account and to cause said revenue
bonds to be issued in compliance
with the terms and conditions OF
said contract as herein briefly sum-
married. A copy of said contract
is now spread upon the minutes OF
the Board of Directors of Imperial
Irrigation District and copy there
of is on file in the office of the
Secretary of said District and open
to the inspection of all interested
persons during business hours. Ref
erence is hereby made to said Rural
Electrification- Administration Con-
tract SO filed and entered for further
particulars thereof and the same
is hereby incorporated herein and
hereby made a part hereof.
Dated: Ell Centric, Imperial
County, California, this Goth day OF
October, 1896.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS OF IMPERIAL 1R-
RIGATION DISTRICT.
w. w. GOODSON,
Secretary.
(O21-26 Inc)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-21
The Republican Viewpoint
EDITED BY
The Republican County Central
Committee
AN IMPUDENT BROADCAST
Editorial From The Chicago Daily New

The nationwide Tammany organized for our
New York state president by New York's Jim
Farley is Unsuitable. Needing big vote in Chi
cago, this new Tammany first called itself with
the corrupt vote-Stealng Kely-Nash machine.
Then it settled upon us a swarm of federal
bureaucrats, who expected 1to act as vote
herds in November. Then it reached out to
regiment into the New Deal ranks Chicagoans
who on relief, who work for WPA or
PWA. Now it is reaching out to regiment for
Roosevelt the Chicago public schools
Yesterday at AS p. m. classes were suspend
ed, while the school children were invited to
listen to a New Deal propaganda broadcast The
day before, the teachers gave the pupils
nouncement slips of the event to take home,
SO that the parents, too would listen. The pur-
pose of the broadcast framed and sprung on the
children and parents in the midst of presiden-
tial campaign, was TO persuade them that the
New Deal was taking paternal interest in Chi
cagoS schools. The implication was that if
only the parents would vote for Roosevelt,
there would be more PWA money for the schools.
The school board, in permitting this impu-
dent political broadcast has been false to its
trust. The Chicago public schools do not be-
long to the Democratic party They do not be-
long TO the school board. They belong to the
people Of Chicago And the money granted the
Chicago schools did not belong TO the Democra-
tic party. 1t did not belong to the New Deal.
1t did not belong to the PWA. 1t was the
peoples money Thus the PWA stood before the
school children and their parents yesterday in
the position of hypocrite who sezes a mans
money with one hand and gives it back with
the other asking gratitude in return
But of course the pupils were not told that.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-21
The Democratic Viewpoint
EDITED BY
The Democratic County Central
Committee
From address of Franklin ID. Roosevelt
at Chicago)


Always month in and month out during
these three and one-half years. your govern
ment has had but one sign on its desk-"Seek
the Greater Good of the Greater Number of
Americans And in appraising the record.
remember two things First, the administration
was called upon to act after a previous admin
istration and all the combined forces of private
enterprise had failed Secondly, in spite of all
the demand for speed, the compleXity of the
problem and all the vast sums of money in
vowed We have had no Teapot Dome
I'VE found when We came TO Washington in
1888 that the business and industry of the ma
tion were like a train which had gone off the
rails into the ditch. Our first job TO get
it out of the ditch again far as the shops.
Our next job was to repair it-Athei broken axles
which had gotten ii off the road, the engine
which had been worn out by misuse.
What was it that the average business man
wanted government to do for him-to do inn
mediately in 1888?
I'D Stop initiation and falling prces-and
We did.
"t2 Increase the purchasing power of his
customers who We're industrial workers in the
citieS-and did
"(3) Increase the purchasing power of his
customers the farms-and We did.
"(4) Protect him from the losses due to
crime, bank robbers, kdnaperS, backmailerS
and We did
"(5) Decrease interest rates, power rates
and transportation rates-and We did.
How did We do it? BY a sound monetary
policy which raised prices BY reorganizing the
posts. BY bringing the business men of the
country together and encouraging them to pay
higher wages. to shorten working hours and TO
discourage that minority among their men,
bers who Were engaging in unfair competition
and unethical practices.
Through the AAA, through our cattle buy
ing program, through our program of drouth
relief and flood relief, throuh the farm credit
administration, raised the income of the
customers of business who lived the farms.
BY our program to provide work for the un-
employed, by our CCC camps and other meas
ures, greater purchasing power was given to
those who lived in our cities.
Money began going round again. The
dollars paid out by the government were spent
in the stores and. shops of the nation and
spent again to the wholesaler, and spent again
to the factory and spent again to the wage
Garner, and then spent again in another store
and shop The wheels of business began to
turn again. the train was back on the rails
Mind you. it did not get out of the ditch
itself; it was hauled out by your government"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, do
hereby certify that we are asso-
ciated together and transacting
business in the State of California
and in the County of Imperial. un-
der the firm name and style OF
GEORGE w. CONDOR COM
PANY" of Omaha, Nebraska.
That the full names Of all the
members of said firm are George
w. Condor, Chester w. Cunning
ham, Wilbur C. Cole, Arthur H.
Carley, and Alfred w. Gaines; and
that the places Of our respective
residences are set opposite our re-
spective names hereunto subscribed
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we
have hereunto set our hands this
18th day of September. 1886.
GEORGE w. CONDOR, Omaha
Nebraska.
CHESTER w. CUNNINGHAM
Omaha, Nebraska.
WILBUR c. COLE, Yuma, Ari-
IONA.
ARTHUR H. CARLEY, Omaha
Nebraska.
ALFRED w. GAINES, Omaha
Nebraska.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
SUMMONS
-NAA

SUMMONS
No. 17276
In the Superior Court of the State
of California, In and For the
County of Imperial.
CITY OF Ell CENTRIC,
a municipal corporation, Plaintiff
VS.. PAUL E. COOMBS, LOIS r
COOMBS, MARY E. BRIGHT
MAN. JOHN DOE, JAMES POE
JANE DOE, and JOHN DOE
COMPANY, a corporation, De-
PENDANTS.
DORSEY WHITELAW,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
The People of the State of Califor-
MIA Send Greetings To:
PAUL E. COOMBS, LOIS r
COOMBS, MARY E. BRIGHT
MAN. JOHN DOE, JAMES POE
JANE DOE and JOHN DOE COM
PANY, a corporation, Defendants
You Are Hereby Directed To Ap-
pear and answer the Complaint in
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in the Superior Court
of the County of Imperial, State OF
California, within ten days after the
service on you of this Summons
if served within this county; Oh
within thirty days if served else
where
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, OF
it will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the com
plaint, as arising upon contract, oi
it will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County o. Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, tbs 18th day of August
1886.
EDWARD H. LAW,
Clerk
BY DOROTHY S. REYNOLDS,
Deputy Clerk
(S9-16 1890 O7-14-21-28 ma
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRA-
TION WITH THE WILL
ANNEXED
No. 27O4

No. 27O4
In the Superior Court of the State
Of California, In and For the
County of Imperial. Z
In the Matter of the Estate of
ALBERT STEPHAN ROGERS,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that RUEL
H. LIGGETT has filed with the
Clerk .of this Court, a petition, pray
ing for Letters of Administration
with Will Annexed, of the estate of
Albert Stephan Rogers, deceased,
and Friday, the 9th day of Novem-
ber, A. D., 1886, at 2 o'clock P. M.
of said day, at the Courtroom of
the Court of Ell Centro, in the Coun-
ty of Imperial, has been set for
hearing said petition, when and
where any person interested may
appear and show cause why the said
petition should not be granted.
Dated October 20, 1896. -
EDWARD H. LAW,
Clerk.
BY CITHA LAMSON. 5,
Deputy
(SeaD- (O20-NO
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-21

Whether the Republicans can successfully meet
the impact of the Chicago, state and federal
Democratic machines Nov may depend on
the amount of money they can toss into the
pot.
Mayor Kelly of Chicago says privately Roose-
welt will get 100000 votes in Cook county and
Landon between 100000 and 950000.
II Kelly and Boss Paddy Nash and their
city machine can make good~on that estimate
it may be TOO bad for the Republicans, who
aren't hoping for much better than 100000
plurality in the rest of the STATE.
Roosevelt carried Illinois by 100000 in 1882
and Hoover by 65OOOO in 1928 lyaoosevet's 1892
lead came half from Chicago and half from
downstate.
Effect of state contests Eorf, the national
elections in Illinois is variously interpreted
Nash machine in April after it tried TO deny
him a denomination, is battling for reelection
against Republican Curly" Wayland Brooks,
fomrer assistant states attorney in Chicago.
In Chicago one hears Horner will run be-
hind Roosevelt; downstate, that he will run
ahead. On the other hand, you hear many
voters say they'll vote for Roosevelt and Brooks
which doesn't help clear the picture
The extent TO which the feud between Hor-
ner and the KellyNash machine has been
patched up is uncertain. Some believe Kelly
and Nash are sharpening the knife for Horner
in Cook county. But preponderant opinion is
that they'll go down the line for Roosevelt, If
only to preserve a stand-in at Washington in
he is reelected.
Downstate farmers are likely TO decide the
Illinois result Except in a--s<AaA area they
have escaped the drouth. Their emotions seem
mixed between anger over agricultural imports
and pleasure over greatly improved farm prices
Republicans need much better than $3.50 break
on the farms to give them the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-21

NEW YORK, Oct. 21-Mortuary
records show suicide leaps go in
the proverbial threes. Some har-
ried soul takes off in a spectacular
high dive TO oblivion and in short
space two others follow. So much
so, special suicidc guards are on
watch Immediately after No. l
makes the headlines.
Psychiatrists declare the ma ajority
of skyscraper plungeS are born OF
sudden impulse. A gaze over a
high parapet and there is some
resistable and unexplainable tug
to jump. Often by those who never
had before thought of self destruc-
ton as a way out
In two instances on the Empire
State tower the victims had mo-
ment before been in happy moods.
They peered down and then in
seizure of cataleptic frozen hor-
ror were hurting through the air
to sudden death. There was no
known unhappiness in either case.
One man who was coaXed back
from a ledge below an 18th story
hotel window confessed he had no
desire to die He was well off,
healthy. But in looking down to
the street he was lured, like the
bird charmed by a snake, before he
realized it was courting death.
I recall Fathers telling of leap
ing epidemic that afflicted Chicago
during the first worlds fair. Some
| one got to the top of what was
| called, if memory serves, the Mason
ic Tower, and jumped. Two others
| followed on successive days. And
| next day they had to place a screen
over the jumping place.
90
Speaking of jumping, one of my
! favorite burlesque olios in the mid
| die west was Zarko, performer on
/ the bounding mat. In a Pierrot
| costume with clown white face he
whirled into triple somersaults and
dizzy spins. For finale, he would
bound over three horses in a row
| And one day he missed. Recently
"mugg" on Variety told me zarko
was running a dinky stationery
| shop on Third avenue and I went
over. He was near the entrance
in a wheel chair and brought out a
scrap book of triumphs. He seemed
tremendously pleased he had been
remembered. once trouper-al-
| Waysi lHa
There are stout rumors along
| Radio Row that entertainment pro-
grams are facing a doWn-to-the-
quick pruning process. Not long
ago a platoon of Efficiency Boys
were turned loose by a group OF
| radio spenders-and the report sc
far as waste was concerned was
| sour. It was discovered one OF the
most responsive programs was of 9
| tobacco company presenting the II
| hit tunes of the week. Several pro-
grams that exploited ideas instead
| of famous players-at a compara-
| lively small cost-were ring the bel
| every time out. In other words
the radio, ike the stage, may soor
have a group of the once high -pcjc'
ed. now "At Liberty"
| 90
That silly knock-knock Jingle
gave a sudden upshoot to the sag.
| ging career of the glossy -hairec
Vincent Lopez. While he has beer
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-21
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre
ByN'iiIion1s

has been taken for 100000 in an
afternoon.
90
Those pert maids who pop out OF
the side street bistros in a cocktail
GLOW at eventide can make a fellow
feel quinky no end. This evening
I was the only pedestrian on the
block when two approached. One
chirped: Here comes our dream
prince. now we won't go home un-
til morning" You could nave
lighted a match on either temple.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-21
GRAB BAG
Ope-Minute Test

/. In what American court may
the citizen of one state bring
action against the citizen OF an
other?
2. In law, what is an lndlct-
ment?
3. What is the sign OF quaran-
tine on a ship?
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-21
PROPOSITION NO. -,
A COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS

Proposed state constitutional amend
ment No. 13 on the Nov. 3 ballot would
saddle a 100000 yearly additional tax
burden on Californians by creating an
appeal court to handle nothing but ap
peals from criminal trials in the lower
courts, a duty now discharged satisfac-
torily and as speedily as is consistent
with careful con s er a i o by the
various district appeals courts. The
only benefit from this amendment would
be to lawyers appointed to the new
court and those employed by it. The
proposition has been condemned by the
state bar association as expensive and
unsound.
Vote mo" on PROPOSITION NO. u.
Young lads who used to run away
from home have to be careful, in this
trailer era, that the opposite doesn't oc
cur.
A columnist reminds US that lately
we've heard little of the Spanish bull.
But then he mustn't have been reading
war dispatches.
The Wisconsin man who sleeps
through winters is postponing this years
Information to Nov /. Unless, of course,
he happens to hear an election speech.