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Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
Street PLANS
LAID BEFORE
CITY COUNCIL
Paving Program in
ECentrO Under
Consideration

Improvement of Ell Cen
tro's principal unpaved ar
terial and residential streets
as tentatively considered by
City Engineer Philip w.
knights was laid before the El
Centre city council Wednesday
night.
The discussion was founded upon
the statement of J. w. Donohue,
district freight and passenger
agent for the Southern Pacific
railroad, that unimproved condi-
ton of certain streets is advanced
by several industrial interests as
the reason they will not enter El
Centre at the present time. Dono-
hue expressed the opinion their
objections are unfounded.
Working from a chamber of COM
merce plan which proposed oiling
and graveling of all unimproved
streets, the council arrived at a
modified program tentatively set
for immediate consideration. 1t
envisaged extension of CONNER
cial avenue from First street to
the Dogwood road and cutting
through of new street, Fairfield,
in the newly planned northeastern
industrial section.
Next it looked to surfacing of
State street and Broadway between
Eighth street and Imperial ave-
nue., and went on to principal res
idential streets.
The discussion gave rise to con-
sideration of purchase by the city
of mixing plant which would
make it possible for the city to
improve its own streets and MAIN
tain existing pavements without
calling upon contractors.
Consideration was given to or
ganization Of special assessment
districts to finance the proposed
Improvements. No action was TAX
en-.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17

South winds, sweeping through
the Alpine district 35 miles south
of here, where the search is con-
centrated, cleared the skies of fog
and snow.
Although skies remained over
cast, visibility was rapidly ap-
preaching normal. The official
government forecast indicated a
two-day storm definitely was abat-
ing.
The civilian and army craft,
pressed into use in preference to
regular transport ships, will pa
troll the Lone Peak and Mt. Tim
panogos area in an attempt to
sight the missing airliner.
The smaller craft will be able
to Swoop low and fly through mar
row chasms in the mountains IN
which the liner may have fallen.
AS the ships left the airport,
more than 200 men, including far
mers, forest service men, and CCC
crews, swung into action from
three separate points in converg-
ing drive on Lone Peak and Mt.
TimpanogoS.
Handicapped by deep SHOWS and
inability to use SnowshoeS because
of the dense underground, 80 CCC
men from Pleasant Grove, under
supervision of John I. Hess, made
their way toward the summit of
Lone Peak to search the area
where Hess yesterday found in
dications of a possible airplane
crash.
This group again will enter the
chaSm which Hess and a party
explored In thick fog yesterday.
Hess believes the airliner is on
Lone Peak.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
BOARD TALKS
OVER JUNIOR
COLLEGE NEEDS

Central high school and Junior
college problems were discussed
Thursday morning by high school
Aubrey A. Douglas, chief of the di-
vision of secondary education, state
department of education, and Walt
er E. Morgan, assistant state super
intendent of public instruction.
Curriculum developments, posSi-
bilities of increase in the Junior col
lege enrolment, housing needs for
the junior college were some of the
topics covered.
Wednesday night Dr.. Douglas and
Supt. Morgan were guests of honor
at a dinner meeting at the Califor-
MIA hotel attended by teachers of
high school, junior college and also
seventh and eighth grades.
Problems of curriculum and guid-
ance were discussed, the two visitors
outlining various phases of second
ary education. DR.. Douglas spoke
on the work of the new state COM
mittee of which he and Miss Helen
Heffernan. chief of the division of
elementary education and rural
schools, are co-chairman.
Guy A. Weakley, district superin-
tendent of schools and high school
and junior college principal. is %
member of this committee which is
building new curriculum for the
seventh and eighth grades and jun
ior high schools.
C. B. Collins. county superintend-
ent, and Mrs. Collins, Miss Helen
Thomas and Miss Edith Redit, coun-
ty instruction supervisors were pres
ent from the county office, speaking
briefly.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
TER ms CIV ( N
FOR R ELE ASE
OF GEN. CHANG

SHANGHAI, Dec. II. UP)-Gen.
Chang Ting-Wen, one of the group
selxed at Sian-Fu, informed the
Marking government today that
vopns Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang
Il ready 10 release Generalissimo
Chang Kai-Shek If some of his
demands are met. Hope was arous-
ed that civil war would be averted.
General Chang Ting Wen Is due
in Nanking tomorrow afternoon
nom Sian-Fu. where he was releas-
ed by Marshal Chang to return to
the national capital and enter the
negotiations now proceeding for the
eeneralissimo's release.
I. v Soong. brother-in-law OF
The imprisoned strong man" OF
China. was expected TO fly to SIAN
Fu after the general reports on the
dfmands o. Marshal Chang, who
has insisted on immediate war with
Japan.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
LAW CATCHES.
UP WITH MAN.
IN THEFT CASE.

Justice was not slow in the case
of Simon Damondon, Filipino, who
stepped before Superior Jud g e
Vaughn N. Thompson Thursday to
plead guilty to grand theft and hear
himself sentenced to San Quentin
penitentiary.
Damondon was arrested in Los
Angeles Tuesday on information
furnished by Deputy Sheriff Frank
McCaslin of this county, returned to
the county Jail here and arraigned
Tuesday night. He went into super
ior court Thursday, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced.
Damondon, officers said, forged
the signature of a fellow country
man on pink slip, sold the other
mans automobile to Sam Naliboff
for SITS, purchased a used car from
an Ell Centro dealer with a $140
down payment, and fled to Los An.
geles, where he was arrested.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
RECORD HIGH
FORECAST FOR
XMAS MAIL
Rush of Business
Noted at City
POStOffice

Volume of mail and parcel
post at the Ell Centre post
office this week is almost
certain to reach a new all
time record high for t h e
Christmas holiday season. Penny
Richmond, postmaster, announced
today. Postmen and employees are
working overtime, he declared. to
handle the rush. Richmond pre-
dicted this years postal receipts
will surpass the former 1880 high
by $4,000. Wednesday night 101
sacks of parcel post were sent out.
The stamp and parcel post VIM
dows will remain open all day Sat-
urday, Richmond declared, to take
care of holiday business. Other
windows will close at II noon.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17

tries guarding against a surprise
attack
Citizens, their morale unshaken
by the worst bombing of the war
yesterday, when a squadron of 45
airplanes attacked the Tetuan, and
De Las Victorias suburbs, prepared
to bury the 80 estimated dead and
treat the 300 injured.
The two suburbs were desolate.
Whole blocks of workingmen's
apartments were ruined. Two build
ings were struck squarely by $50
pound bombs, burying an estimated
so persons of whom most were wo-
men and children.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
GRAND JURY
CONFERS ON
LEGISLITION

Legislative proposals affecting
Imperial county government and
residents of the county were under
consideration Friday by the county
grand jury, preparatory to grand
jury report and recommendation to
the coming state legislature.
Among others slated to appear
before the inquisitorial body were
c. o. Hoober, president of the colln-
ty farm bureau, and S. E. Robinson,
legislative chairman. 1t is probable
that members of the county board
of supervisors also will be heard.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
JUNE ROBLES
TESTIFIES IN
KIDNAP PROBE

TUCSON. Ariz., Dec. IT. U.P)--
Little June Robles went before a
federal grand jury today to tell
what she remembers of her abduc-
ton nearly three years ago.
She was expected to be followed
into the courtroom by her father,
Fernando Robles. Tucson electric
shop proprietor and son of wealthy
Bernabe Robles, retired cattle baron.
Meantime. federal officials in
charge of presenting the case ap-
peared confident the grand jury
may return indictments and solve
publicly what long has been listed
as the only unsolved kidnapping on
records of the department of justice.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
EDWARD WILL
PLAY SANTA
FOR CHILDREN
Copyright, 1886. By United Press

Copyright, 1896, By United Press
ENzESFELD, Austria, Dec. IT,
U.P)-Edward, Duke of Windsor, Is
going to play Santa Claus for the
children of Enzesfeld, it was under
stood today, in the traditional red
suit and white beard of the patron
of the Christmas feast.
Baroness Eugene Rothschild, host
ess of the recent king -emporer, has
drafted him because of his popu-
larity with children to assist as
Santa Claus in distribution of pres
ents at the Christmas party she
will give for children of the village
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
Witness Called
In Rates Probe

State railroad commission eXami-
ners continued Thursday to ques-
ton witnesses called in a series of
hearings intended eventually to es-
tablish minimum and maximum
rates governing truck hauling from
Imperial Valley to Los Angeles
points.
No decision is expected until COM
missioners have examined the find
ings of the examiners sent here.
Thursdays session in the county
court house was devoted to hearing
the application of Hue Follendore
for a certificate of public convent
ence allowing him to operate a
trucking service for valley growers
and shippers.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
FARM BOYS
STEER WINS IN
STOCK SHOW

LOS ANGELES, Dec. II. W.P) =
Cattle raisers of the nation today
acclaimed Cleo Yoder, l8-vear-old
farm boy from Wellman, Iowa, who
didn't have enough money to come
here to see his 1O0O-pound steer
Diamond City" win the grand
championship of the Great West
ern livestock show.
The black Aberdeen Angus will
be auctioned Saturday to the high
est bidder and is expected to bring
at least $4,000 for its youthful
owner.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
XMAS PARTY
WILL BE HELD

McCabe-Eucalyptus farm center
will have its Christmas party and
program Friday night at 7:45 o'clock
in the school.
Men of the center are presenting
a skit and in addition there will be
a Christmas tree. with presents for
all to be distributed by Santa.
Dancing and a recreation pro-
gram are planned.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17

principal rail carrier to oppose
this differential in favor of Phoe-
nix, and the chamber joined with
the railroad in protesting the mat
ter about six months ago, but was
unsuccessful In having the decl-
sion set aside. 1t is believed how
ever, that shippers having seen
the effect of this differential in
freight rates will wish to support
the chamber in again presenting
the matter before the commission.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17

which the right of PWA to make
loans or grants for municipal power
development is questioned was re-
ferred back to federal district court
for retrial. The supreme court, in
its ruling, made no statement on
constitutionality of PWA loans and
grants for power purposes. The
district court had upheld the right
of PWA to make such loans.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17

applying from California and
Yuma.
According to the communication
sent by Manager Robert Hays to
all shippers. this difference means
Is cents per crate or $58 per car,
and with lettuce selling at a low
price, is sufficient difference to
make it profitable for the Phoenix
grower to ship and impossible for
the Imperial Valley grower to ship
except at a loss.
The Southern Pacific was the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
Asparagus Growers
In Business Meeting

Imperial Valley Asparagus Crow
ers' association had a dinner and
business meeting. Wednesday night
at which results of the fall season
were summarized. Plans for maxi
ing the association serve the needs
OF the members even more effi-
ciently were discussed.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17

ment was told TO President Evan
T. Hewes of the Imperial Irrigation
District in letter received Thurs
day from Phil d. Swing. district
representative in Washington.
Ickes was quoted as saying that,
although he was disappointed in the
supreme court action. he will con-
tinue to approve ALLEGATION of fed
eral funds to municipalities for
power development.
The Duke power company case, in
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
Spectacular Fire
On Frisco Waterfront

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. II. WP)--
City authorities today attempted to
determine origin of spectacular
fire which swept the Panama mail
lines 800-foot pier on the San
Francisco embarcadero last night.
1t was estimated the loss was
$500,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
How The Boss Works
A Modern TrOubadour-

jeff uses no mandolin, but the
diminutiye caddy at the Barbara
Worth country club nevertheless
is the modern counterpart of the
ancient trouDadourS. The realiza-
ton came when RR discovered
that Jeff-no one knows the rest
OF his name-is the possesSor OF a
B. A. degree from Harvard, and
just caddies around the country
because that's as good as any
lthing else.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
Fifty Feared Dead in
Wreckage as Airplanes
Bomb Madrid Homes
Dense Fog Hampers Rescuers Digging in Debris
OF Tenement Houses; Surprise Attack
BY Enemy Expected

MADRID, Dec. II. (UP)-A dense fog today hampered
rescuers digging in the wreckage of two air bombed ten
nement houses if of SO persons believed trapped
were alive. With visibility of only few feet, army
authorities ordered searchighs manned and double
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
PROTEST AGAINST LETTUCE RATE
FAVORING ARIZ. URGED BY C. OF c.

Valley being urged by the Ell Centric
petoning Interstate Commerce
aside its whereby lettuce and other perisabe
products originating shipped
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
You Shall Know Him

Anyone looking for Langston
Goree at the golf club smoker
Thursday night had merely to
wait until mass singing Of MY
Wild irish Rose" began - then
single out a doubtful baritone and
follow the sound to its owner. That
was LangSton.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
POWER PLANS TO 60
FORWARD, SAYS ICKES
Courts Failure to Pass on Legality OF
Federal AllOtments Will Not
Delay Program, He Says

Public Works Administration aotments for municipal
power projects will not be delayed by supreme court
decision of last week in the Duke power company
Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes declared in Wash
ngon soon after the decision The secrearys
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
LAST MINUTE
FLASH ES.
TWO BACK AFTER
ATTENDING SCHOOL

Roy Brooks and M. q Magarian,
statesmen for Edgar Bros. Co, re-
turned recently from a commercial
school in San Francisco where both
received high grades.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
JURY OF FARMERS
FINDS GIRL GUILTY
IN FATHER KILLING

WISE Va Dec IT, UA of IL Southwest Virginia
and farmers today guilty degree
murder of her father Trigg Maxwell The
at 20 prison The
the eco~d time that youthful
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
Ships Roar Over
Mountain Area
As Fog Clears
Civilian, Army Craft Pressed in Service
To Search for Luxury Plane Lost
With Seven Persons Aboard

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. II. (UP)-Six air.
planes roared southwark from Salt Lake City today
what hoped will be the final phase of three-day
search for Western Air Express liner believed to have
crashed with of three and four passengers aboard
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
Stop, LOok-and Read

This Is the second time RR has
seen a similar happening. An un-
fortunately crippled man was try
ing to cross Main street in a
pedestrian zone. where signs warn
motorists to stop when pedes-
TRANS are i'm cross walk" Five
Imperial Valley autos passed with
out stopping. while the cripple
hesitated uncertainty. Finally a
machine with a New York license
came up. stopped, and he was al
lowed to cross. Cannot Imperial
Valley drivers read9
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
Not In Writing

Not In Writing
Mrs. M j. DoWd won the unbe-
lieying applause OF the city council
and spectators Wednesday night.
Called upon to express her opin-
ion, Immediately after Friend Hus-
band had voiced his, on the library
.auilding question, Mrs. Mike rose
the occasion.
= For my personal opinion, OF
course she said, my husband
speaks for me -
And Mike was the most unbe-
lieving.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
Good Luck, Anyway

Good Luck, Anyway
Yes, w. E. Hancock said, he Is
going to attend the wedding OF
his daughter, Fannie Lee, Friday.
Where Is it to be? Well, in some
Los Angeles church, he said. 1t
it's not in one of the Los Angeles
churches, RR suggests that he Try
the suburbs.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
That's The Life

Along the Calexico highway
Tnulsaay morning there was d
family when haa arrived in two
dlscrepit old motor cars. They were
calmly eating breakfast while the
launury dried on some farmer 5
fence. 1t sort OF killed the Gypsy
in RR.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
The Annual Event

The Annual Event
Once again. for the 'Steenth time
John Kepley is planning his an
nual Day before Christmas party,
winch has become SO much part
OF Christmas that it would seem
ike the rSrth OF July ii John
suddenly decided not to play host.
.
How The Boss Works
For two days passers-by had
puzzled at the unmoving presence
OF lonely figure perched high
on a raoio tower pole at Eighth
and Main streets, evoking memoir
les OF the late unlamented cpl
demic OF 1lagpole sitting. One city
employe was SO puzziea he lnVeS-
tigated-and came away with new
iueas about supervising Workmen.
Inc man on the pole was foreman
on a re-roofing Jop-and ne was
ng-aCJualiy-the work Of
ms men.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-17
MAa,eErs AN aIEF

Butter; Los Angeles 3318c; Butter
Iat, Imperial valley fob. rauch,
trade \. 42Iac; manufa curing milk,
Js%ci route gathered cream. Sage.
l.. A. Hay-u. =. No. I extra Ieafy,
N2O-2i.OO; 4. =. No. I $3.50; Us. No.
: leafy. S17-17 80; u. =. No. .. $16-
Id.'Oi Minneapolis flax S2.I72.20A.
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But 1t was such hard work. And
everything was against her.
With a sigh she gave it up,
turned to her real comfort, her
diary, penned swiftly:
How I hope to write? I am
only a prisoner, and mother is the
jailer who won't let me get away
to learn anything about life. Here
sit. day after day, trying to write.
Studying. Reading. Working till
my head swins, but without in
spiration. Oh, the deadly mono
tony, the emptiness of our pam
pered, sheltered lives. The four
of US, mother who is too old to
care about anything but comforts
and food, and Christie and Adele
and I who have been so sheltered
we don't know what real life might
give us, if we only had the free
dom to get it before it's too late!"
Donald Latham turned the key
in the lock Of his apartment, and
paused, a faint furrow forming
between his eyes.
Hello. darling!" a voice called
from within. You're surprised,
aren't you?"
Very! How are you. Eve? How
did you get here?" He smiled,
went to the little table where his
mail lay. was lost in it, almost
at once.
His mother, who had taught
him, and not without struggle,
to call by her given name,
watched with an indulgent smile.
Really. I could shake you at
times, Donald! Did you ask me a
question, and do you want to hear
the answer, or don't you?"
Yes, surely. I'm listening"
with one ear. Really, I don't
know why the girls all want to
cast themselves at your feet.
Certainly you're the most indif-
ferent. bad-mannered creature.
You haven't even said that you
were glad to see mel"
He laid down letter, tore open
another envelope with his strong,
delicate fingers. "You know I'm
always glad to see you, Eve. How
long are you going to stay?"
She glanced at her pretty. still
youthful reflection in the mirror
behind him, patted her bright
brown hair, smiled more warmly.
CAS- long as you'll squire me
around. and be sweet to me!
WILL you put down that stupid
magazine and listen to me?"
tits a very interesting medical
journal. Didn't you tell me that
my work must always come first?
It seems to me that remember"
"Of course. darling. But after
your mother-that's understood
always. Will you take me some
where nice to dinner? I thought
once of cooking something. but
the kitchen things didn't look
very clean. Oh, not dirty, but
one wonders about a furnished
place-who used them before"
He was pulling change out of
his pocket. 1.-TWO dollars, two
fifty, two eighty. and five dollars
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that I really ought to give the
garage man. We can't go any.
where very exciting on two eighty
five"
"Oh. dear, brought my dinner
dress, and 1 have a new hat and
thought"
VERY well. The garage man
shall wait. He'll probably starve,
along with all his seven children"
oh, dear! If you weren't quite
as conscientious about paying for
things! Well. we'll go somewhere
nice, but cheap. After ali, I came
to see you. I just had to run
away. This business of being a
grandmother. BY the way, Edith
sent her love, and the babies are
fine, but so wearing. And as for
that husband of hers"
THAT perfect son-in-law you
picked out for yourself, Eve?"
"Oh-a girl. A young girl.
Donald, you're-don't get mad
again, but you're not getting IN.
terested in some new girl? Darl-
ing, I'm sure Adele expects-and
I've hoped So"
"Oh, I'll marry Adele-if she'll
have me. This is only kid, as I
saba child. It's nothing, Eve,
stop rubbing me the wrong way,
will you?"
She smiled. leaned back in the
car. "All right. That was all 1
wanted, dear-your promise"
~
Autumn passed, and winter,
and spring came again.
Christie, who had been pale
and listless all autumn, and list
less and bored through the win
ter, bloomed again.
She thought it was because
she was busy. Donald Latham
had got her interested in a day
nursery where working mothers
left their babies. She worked
like slave, and loved it. Talked
about it until even patient Aunt
Nettie sighed and Adele refused
to hear another word.
Isabelle tried it, too, for a little
while, but soon gave it up. II
can't be tied down-must have
freedom to express myself" she
said.
So Christie went alone every
day and saw less and less of the
family. And if she still cried her
self to sleep occasionally no one
knew or cared.
She told herself that she no
longer loved Gene, that she had
never loved him. That it was
just a childish infatuation and
sickening, sad mistake.
But, though she could persuade
herself that she was we'll out of
it and never wanted to see him
again, she couldn't forget him.
He haunted her. He tainted
her in her sleep. He was so
closely associated with all her
dear memories of home and the
dead Adolphus. When she thought
of Spanish Pass she thought of
the dusty red road and the old
dairy, with big Pete Dubois in
patched jeans and little Madame
Dubois in her petticoats and
shawls. Shed dream of the
flower-dotted slope to the icy
little creek where the watercress
grew and the little brownish
frogs lived on the rocks.
And then she'd see Gene, his
dark head, his liquid black eyes,
his flashing smile. For little
while she'd be happy and young
again, and then she'd hear him
saying:
Ito Be Continued
Copyright, 1885. by King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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''LOVe'S Litany''
Defrauded of Inheritance
Christine Fights Way
To Social Heights
WHAT Has HAPPENED
BIZ HAZEL LIVINGSTON

Christine Cooper II and lovel is the daughter of the
rich and eccentric Adophs Cooper She becomes secretly
engaged to a childhood sweetheat Gene Dubois, oOho
promptly breaks her heart By forbdng her to speak of
their love to anyone.
He goes to the city aChout bidding Christie goodbye
Aunt Nettie, Adolphus second a0fe and Chrise late
mothers sister, returns from trip NTH her daughters
Isabelle and Adele Christie does for Aunt Nette
but tries to hide her feelings As to the girls she does not
pretend to like them they her,
In Honolulu Adele met young Dr. Latham. Shortly after
their return Aunt Nee suddenly developed sinus condi-
tion At her suggestion, the family to Piedmont.
Christie becomes scss and her father thinking she needs
change sends her to fashionable school in the East
Shortly AFTER Adophus is stricken Nth pneumonia Dr.
Latham sends for Christie Adolphus dies hout making
wiU Christie, broken-hearted sends for Gene Aunt
Nette acts the rief-stricken Cidow to perfection.