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Evening star., 1936-12-25
BY JOHN LARDNER.
YEW YORK, December 25.-One
Of kin clinlxac& - a Lao ,o,,a

v Va IllC SllCkcSU uldkc- eli.
u work-for-you managers of all
time was the late Willus- Britt
Of South-of- -the-slot San Francisco,
who handled his brother, Jimmy Britt,
a good lightweight, as well as the
great Stanley Ketchel.
The boys used to call Willus the
best rough-and-tumble fighter that
his city ever produced. They would
lock him in the back room of a saloon
with some offensive citizen and in
struct the winner to knock at the door
when he was ready to come out.
Willus always did the knocking. The
other guy was much too unconscious
to do anything but lie in the middle
Of the floor.
But Mr.. Britt had no desire to make
fighting his profession. 1t was strictly
hobby. He hated to think of the
stiff training period, the long days of
total abstinence, that prize fighter
has to go through. So when his
brother Jimmy began to show promise
as an amateur lightweight. Willus
organized partnership with James
as the fighter and himself as manager
and custodian Of so per cent of the
profits.
This arrangement did not appeal to
James at first, but Willus convinced
him in short order
Listen" he said. "I can whip you,
and you know it. But with me as the
brains and you as the mere animal
strength, we will do very good for our
selves. So let's get going. The cut Is
fifty-fifty."
Couldn't Whip Cans.
JAMES became pretty we'll known in
the fight game. and rose to a point
where he could claim the white light
weight championship of the world"
He never did get past Joe Cans, the
black champion. Willus saved him
from knockout at Cans hands once
by pleading "a busted ulna bone"
The Baltimore ghost was cutting
James to ribbons.
1t was unusual, though, for Willus
TO save his brother from punishment.
When Packey Mcfarland was murder
ing James one day, and bouncing him
repeatedly to the floor, the elder Britt
wrung his hands in futile rage
Get up, you unbrotherly such-and-
such!" He yelled from the corner
"Have you no regard for my feelings?"
James finally was saved by his father,
who tossed in the towel Rumor had 1t
that the father of the family could
lick both his sons.
When James value as a meal-ticket
expired, Willus Britt scratched des-
perately around for new fighter who
would keep him from going to work.
Stanley Ketchel was on the coast
then. a young middleweight with
plenty of promise. managed by an
innocent newspaper photographer
The photographer heard that Willus
Britt had designs on his fighter, so he
locked him up in back room with
no clothes. But Willus climbed a
rainpipe and got in through the win
dow.
In Is minutes, his eloquence had
dazzled Ketchel, and the fighter, clad
in bathrobe and slippers, climbed down
the rainpipe with Willus and followed
him to Jim Coffroth's saloon, where
they signed a contract. He was Mr..
Britt's fighter from then on.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
STEERED BROTHER
CLOSE TO THRONE
SWiped KetcheI From Under
Managers Wing-HimseIf
a Tough Hombre.

The fight manager, phose er-
ploitation of "ansles" sets the pace
for the pugiltstic industry. Is cele-
brated here In a series OF sir arti-
cles OF Which this is the fifth. The
adventures and strategems OF some
OF the more celebrated and colortul
American prize fight managers are
described by an experienced sports
Uriter.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
KetcheFs Intellect Null0.

IT WILL take him to New York"
said Willus, land pass him Oh as
. college boy working his way through
college. Them New York suckers will
fall for anything"
Cooler heads dissuaded Willus from
this policy. Finally he compromised
by taking Ketchel to New York as q
cowpuncher, disguised in chaps and
q ten-gallon hat.
Early death cut off Mr. Britt at the
height of his career, but he already
had won undying fame-So much Sc
that when the San Francisco earth
quake of 1906 happened to spare a
row of fats OWNED by Mr.. Britt q To-
cal lawyer used the point in arguing
an important case.
How can you call the earthquake
an act Of God" reasoned the barris-
ter, when 1t destroyed all those
churches and spared those fats Of
Britt's?"
The man who succeeded Willus in
the management of Ketchel, inciden-
tally, was the late Wilson Miner, IA
bled in American history as wit.
playwright and soldier of fortune.
Miner used to strive to sharpen
Ketchel's intellect. Ketchel asked him
about the theory of evolution once,
and Miner explained it with the as
sistance Of a bowl of goldfish.
I'VE were all something along the
fish line at first, Stan," he said, point
ing to the goldfish, "and then gradu-
ally we changed and changed until
We got to be like we are today"
This lecture impressed Ketchel at
the moment, but later he rebuked Mr..
Miner for disseminating false in
formation.
THAT evolution thing is the bunk,
Bill" he said. II been watching them
goldfish for two hours straight and
not . damn one Of them changed"
Evening star., 1936-12-25
Virginia Planting Trout.

VIRGINIA has taken Q step this
year which should give us that
sort Of fishing. Within the next few
weeks about 100000 home grown
trout, most Of them legal size, will be
released. BY the time April rolls
around these fish should be ss wild
as the widest.
Most Of them are being placed in
the mountain streams. Carl. H. Nolt-
ing, chairman Of the Commission of
Game and Inland Fisheries. has fin
ished an inspection tour, and says
that many Of these streams were made
practically fishless by the drought.
Evening star., 1936-12-25

years ago by Reub Hines, who now
is the manager at Congressional. Two
par S holes will be included in the
first nine, with the first hole to be
made into a par 4 to be played to
what now is the second green. The
present fifth will be the first par S
affair, to be the fourth in the new
set-up.
All the fairways have been sown
to a cover crop and after the Manor
Club invita- ton tourney next May the
new noles probably will be opened
for play.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
BY GEORGE HUBER.
Y YHEN Virginia's trout season
~ opens in the Spring the
! " artificially propagate d

now are being planted, will have be-
come so wild that you will not be able
to tell the difference between them
and their native-born brothers.
Hatchery reared trout are fed on liver
and other bits of meat. They become
so accustomed to hand feeding that
they swim to the edge Of the rearing
tank when q keeper approaches and
do everything but stand on their hind
legs and beg for food.
This sort Of thing doesn't make for
willy, suspicious trout, the kind anglers
must have If they are to get the max
imum sport from their casting. Find
a pool where a newly released trout is
hiding and you'll find fish more
than willing to meet you half way. It
gladly takes anything offered and
you don't have to use skill or dexterity
in presenting your fly. Toss it out
and he'll grab it.
However, II the trout has
been away from his childhood
home for any length Of time the
set-up Is . bit different.
In q few months Tending for itself
1t will have acquired all the suspicious,
all the distrusts, Of the native fish.
Then q lure will not be so readily
gulped, and fly fishing takes Its right
full place as tops Of all forms OF
angling.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
METHODIST PROTESTANT.
Season Records.

Season Records.
High team game-Rhode Island Avenue
No. l. SIS.
aish team set-Mount Tabor No. Il
High individual average - Lindbergh
Mount Tabor No. u. lll-24.
High individual game-Jones mount
Tabor No. -. 155. ,
High individual set-Ross tcalvary).
High strikes-Jones Mount Tabor No.
High spsres-Mahoney rort Myss
Heights), 7S.
Evening star., 1936-12-25
ILLNESS OF WIFE
| KEEPS HIM HERE
Probably Will Be Able to
Compete in Only Few
Events in South.

BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.
w yIFFY COX has had a rough
M time this year. The guy
" " had planned to play in all
the Dre. Christmas t0lrna.
Evening star., 1936-12-25

High averages-Perce Elicit, 121-l4;
George Glossbrenner. 115-S.
Hirh spares--Perce ElIett, 134.
High Individual same-deorse Gloss
High individual set-George Glossbren'
ner 400.
Hgh fiat SANCTION Kelly, e7.
Hish HER team team ssneGolSS%si'i sssssn%ecosmSis sSi
Evening star., 1936-12-25

A JOLSON called golf the "hoof
~ and mouth disease" explain
~ ing that golfers hoof 1t all
A a day and mouth it half the
The Fort Peck press., 1936-05-21

P. j. Meckler returned to Clas-
gov after spending several weeks
in Wheeler.
Fred A. Rutan of Seattle, Wash
ington transacted busin, SIS here
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Besson Mr..
and Mrs. H. F. Driver, and A Nor
ton motored to Glasgow Thursday
evening
Mrs. I F Dahl of Frazer visited
at the Hanson and Weasa homes
last week.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-05-21

Charles Mckenzie Wednesday
evening. A birthday han1keI chief
shower was given in honor of Mrs
Lily Jewel.
Mrs. Howard Robinson enter
tanned at two tables of bridge Fri
day evening, The occasion being
the hostess birthday. The guests
presented her with two lunch cloths
High score at bridge was won by
Mrs. Lulu Hammerbacker.
Mrs Lena Schmitt was a caller
in Glasgow Saturday.
Bill and Joe Broderick of ICELAND
North Dakota arrived in Wheeler
Wednesday to visit their father.
Pat Broderick. They returned TO
N OAK. on Friday.
Mrs. Leon Besson and Mrs. How
ard Driver were shoppers in Cas.
cow Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Vogel mo
tOred TO Mlssoula Wednesday
where Mr., Vogel will undergO an
eye operation.
Mrs. Chris Gamrath and Dwight
of Opheim visited here Friday
with Mr.. Gamrath, who is employ
ed at the Moose Market.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sandknop
are the parents of a daughter born
at the Deaconess Hospital in Glas-
gov on Wednesday, May l3.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nick Peters and
children visited at the j. w. Calfee
home in Frazer Wednesday.
Pat Broderick and sons, Bill and
Joe, were business callers at the
Pete Wittmeyer ranch at Eighth
Point Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ted Reeves visited
Sunday at Richland at the home
of MIR. and Mrs. Carl Krayik,
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Bradstreet
motored to Grand Prairie Saturday
to look after farming interests.
Mrs. William Duce and Mrs.
George Morris were business callers
in Glasgow Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herb Repp of
Stule, North Dakota we're overnight
guests at the Hotel Wheeler Satur-
day.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-05-21
BUSY WHEELER
By Mrs. Howard Driver.

Mrs. Marse Watchell and sis
ter, Ann McCormic, and Miss DorO-
thy Hazzerd returned from Bis
marcK, North DAKOTA, Tuesday
evening after few days visit at
the Mccormick home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pete Lukin of Os-
wego visited Friday at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. A, w. Bruce.
Mrs, A. M. Weasa and children
visited relatives at Frazer on
Thursday and Friday.
Mrs. Don Morrow, recent bride
was guest of honor at shower at
the home of Mrs S. Fersche on
Wednesday.
Mrs. Charles Geldner returned
to her home at Bainevllle Satur-
day, after visiting few days
with her son and daughter in-laW
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Lamphere.
Mrs. Frank Vale and infant
son returned from the DeaconesS
hospital in Glasgow to their home
in Lakeview Tuesday.
Lois Narmbrod was awarded
with high score at bridge at par
ty at the home of Miss frances
Beachler Friday evening.
Mrs. G. Mckenzie had as her
guest her brother, Douglas Carter
from Conrad.
Mrs. h. j Peters acted as hos
tess to the CoZy Home Club at
her home on Thursday. Ruth
Scheyer won high score at bridge.
Mr. and Mrs. c. A Casterine
motored to Vida last week to look
after farming interests.
The Idle Hour was moved from
its old location to North Main ST
last week.
Mrs. Ben Carter arrived here
from Hilcrest, Alberta Canada
Sunday to visit at the home of
her son in law and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. C. Mckenzie.
Clarence and John Ross went to
Opheim last week to spend the
summer months at the home of
their grandparents. Mr.. and Mrs
Novacek.
Mr.. J. B. Seeley is visiting at
the home of Mr., and Mrs AL Seel-
ey.
Fifteen high school pupils and
their instructors mot0red here
from Richland to tour the project.
The jolly Twelve Bridge Club |
met at the home of Mrs. George |
Sitter Tuesday Mrs L. A. Mason
received high score.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Dunn and |
Mrs. Zippefian of Fort Peck we're |
callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs ,
Frank Beachler Thursday
The Young Woman's Sewing
Club met at the home of Mrs.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-07
SHOW TROUPE
OF HORSES AT
CALIFORNIA u.

A real show troupe of Arabian
horses is boasted at the w. K
Kellogg Institute OF Animal Hus-
bandry, of the University of Cali
fornia. There are fourteen pure
blood Arabian horses in this troupe.
and Manager H. H. Reese says they
are booked up for all summer. The
troupe is headed by King John,
the only desert-bred Arabian stall
lion in America, and Jadaan, a
stallion already famous as a movie
actor.
Trainer Mark Smith has devel-
oped some new stunts" in which
this troupe engages. and their first
call is the Sunday afternoon shows
at the kellogg ranch. Between
Sunday shows the horses will com
mute to Imperial county where
they will engage in the filming of
a new desert moving picture, being
produced by the Selznick Inter
national films.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-07
ROOSEVELT PILES UP HUGE VOTE
Strike Violence in
Celery Area Feared

LOS ANGELES, May 7.
(UP) - Violence between
pickets surrounding celery
fields and non-strikers was
feared today following an
outbreak in which three workers re-
portedly were kidnapped
The three men employed by Jap
anese growers were found by deputy
SheriffS in an abandoned shack
where they said they had been
dumped by group of men who took
them from their jobs.
Reports that pickets and workers
were massing for a battle brought
several carloads of police to the Gel
cry fields but the disturbance did
not matcrialize.
Assignment of Los Angeles Off
GERS to guard the fields which are
outside the city limits was protest
ed by the American Civil Liberties
Union also charged that the strik-
ers were being intimated by the
"lawleSS red squad"
Clinton j. Taft, representing the
Civil Liberties Union demanded
that Mayor Frank L. Shaw take a
hand in this desperate situation"
I'VE insist that the lawless REQ
squad Of police officers observe the
legal rights of Mexican and Filipino
laoorers,' Taft declared.
The mayor referred Taft's com
munication to Police Chief James
E. Davis.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-07
Clew to Fugitive
Proves Useless

NEW YORK. May 7. WP)-An as
sistant to District Attorney Will
liam F.. X. Geoghan of Brooklyn
reported today from Mt. Holly, N
J., that he had been unable to
find any trace of Ellis Parker, ir.,
despite apparently authentic in
formation that the fugitive son of
the famous rustic detective was in
hiding in his home town.
The search for young Parker. in
dicted in the strange kidnapping of
Paul Wendell, brought Assistant
District Attorney Francis A. Mad
den and a squad of police and
state TROOPERS to the home of Ellis
Parker, sr.. late last night
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-07
FOR
ENDING ORANGE
DECAY STUDIED

Results Of a new treatment to
prevent decay Of oranges during
storage and shipment are announc-
ed by the University Of California
College of Agriculture. The treat
ment has been developed and test
ed by DR.. L. J. Klotz. of the Citrus
Experiment Station. Riverside, in
cooperation lNith the staff of the
Field Department Laboratory of
the California Fruit Growers Ex-
change, and of the Wallace and
Herman Products company.
Nitrogen trichloride gas, prepar
ed with a special treatment ap-
paratus which generates it as a
gas highly diluted with air, is in
troduced into refrigerator cars or
storage rooms and made to circu-
late rapidly by the use of electric
fans. The method IS now used by
twenty packing companies and
may ultimately be adapted to the
protection of lemons and grape
fruit as we'll as oranges.
The procedure chosen in apply
ing the gas treatment depends upon
the manner of handling the fruit.
In long storages, one to three ap-
plications of gas are made at in
tervals of three 10 four days when
the fruit is first placed in the
storage room. Additional gassings
are made at weekly intervals, just
before removal of the fruit from
storage, and after the fruit has
been packed in the refrigerator car
For fruit held in storage only a
short time the same procedure is
followed. After the first sterilizing
treatment, however. there would
necessarily be fewer gassings dur
ing the shorter storage periods.
Fruit that is not placed in storage
room, but is packed out and load
ed at once, receives only the sin
gle gaSsing in the refrigerator car
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-07
JUDGE ANGRY AT
COOLIDGE SALE

NORTHAMPTON, Mass, May 7
W,P)-Probate Judge Henry P. Field
in whose office Calvin Coolidge
studied law, today aSsailed as dis
graceful to the city of Northamp-
ton" the Coolidge auction which at
tracted hundreds of persons to
Smith school arena.
Judge Field, president of the
board of trustees of Forbes library
which possesses many important
Coolidge mementoS, said
Some of the furniture auctioned
is a bunch of junk. I believe that
Mrs. Coolidge (vacationing aboard
would stop the sale if she were
here.
when people outside Northamp-
ton see the motion pictures of the
auction, they will get the impression
that we are allowing valuable Cool
idge memorabilia to be disposed of
at public sale, 1t is a disgrace to
the city"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-07
FIRE STARTSM
FILM STUDIO

HOLLYWOOD, May 7. UP) = A
second alarm fire at the goth Gen.
tury-FoX motion picture studio
vas brought under control this
morning by half dozen pieces of
equipment which were summoned
when the studios own fire depart
ment could not stem the blaze.
The firemen fought for more
than an hour to keep the fire from
spreading to highly-inflammablc
sound stages, made of wood and
lined with felt.
An exterior setting. used in doz-
ems of motion pictures. was de-
stroyed and portion of the stu
dio'S lumber yard was burned over.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-07
SOIL CHEMIST
TALKS TO CLUB

Reclamation of alkali lands was
the topic discussed by E. f. Thomas,
soil chemist from the Riverside Ex-
pertinent station, for the members
OF the Ell Centro Rotary club at
their meeting Thursday noon in
the Barbara Worth hotel.
Thomas has conducted reclama-
ton experiments on alkali lands
near Ell Centro, these experiments
bringing the land back into such
shape that it grew alfalfa success
fully. Methods used were describ-
ed including the heavy deep irriga-
tionS to leach the soil. Frank G.
Beyschlag, farm advisor, was chair
man of the day.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-07
Woman Arraigned
In Perjury Actor

Mrs. Isolena Martinez was ar
raigned in Ell Centre justice court
Wednesday on jurjury charges and
bail was set at $1,000. Preliminary
hearing was set for 10 o'clock Mon
day morning
The woman was arrested in Judge
Vaughn N. ThompSon's division of
superior court during the trial of
Mason Todd on charges of murder
ing Simon Guzman, because she
was said to have repudiated testi-
mony given at a preliminary hear,
ing held for Todd.
Judge Thompson ordered the
woman placed in custody and a per.
jury complaint prepared by the dis
trict attorneys office.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-07
MAN LOSES LIFE
IN GASOLINE
TRAILER BLAST

VERNON, Cal, May /. UP)-Ex-
plosion of a gasoline tank trailer
today following an automobile ac-
cident in which one man was kill
ed seriously burned four Vernon
firemen.
William Lee Aherns, 80, Hunting
ton Park electrician, was killed in
stantly when his automobile COL
lided with the truck and trailer.
AS a result of the accident, fire
men reported, the Aherns automo-
bile burst into flames and ignited
gasoline in the tank trailer The
tank on the main truck did not ex-
plode.
Several companies of firemen
were rushed to the blaze and four
men were burned.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-07

and two Republican states had d
combined total of 746, l64 votes
from all but about 600 of the states
1l,708 precincts. The Roosevelt
slate received 1890.
The Roosevelt drive for votes
suffered no setback in the other
three primaries. He was not op-
posed in South Dakota and was
assured of Alabama's 90 votes at
the Philadelphia convention. AL
most complete returns in the In
diana primary showed that the
states entire congressional delega-
tion-ll Democrats and a Repub-
lican had been renominated.
With slightly more than 200
thinly populated precincts unre-
ported in South Dakota, Gov ALI
M. Landon appeared to have de
feated Senator William E. Borah
In the Republican presidential
primary by approximately 1000
votes. At least seven of the eight
delegates to the national conven-
tion at Cleveland are scheduled to
vote for Landon.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-07
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Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-07
General Warrants
Called in Arizona

PHOENIX, Ariz., May 7. UP)-
State Treasurer Nit Simms today
called all state general fund war
rants registered during March for
payment May 18. The call, he said,
will retire 1862 .58235 in obligations.
The treasurer, in a call yesterday,
paid off more than $280,00O of war
rants registered in February.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-07

Some of todays BEST news is
in the advertisements!
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-07
MAJOR WALKOUT IN
SALINAS THREATENED

SALINAS, Cal. May 7. 0UR-With
the threat of a major walkout
hanging over them, lettuce growers
and shippers of the Salinas valley.
a S3'OOO,OO0 crop at stake, today con-
tinued to maintain a firm stand
against demands of the striking
packing house employees.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-07

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Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-07
oLANDON VICTORIOUS
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
BY UNITED PRESS

Virtually complete returns in Tuesdays primary in
California revealed today that the slate of delegates
pledged to President amassed than all other
candidates the ballot His two Democratic opponents