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Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
WHEN THE WOMEN
ENTER POLITICS WHOLESALE

Five hundred belligerent Phoenix
women, duly Incorporated as the Wonl-
ems Investigating Committee of 500,
have set politicians to wondering over
in Arizona if their municipal kitchens
are all in order. The women show the
way. 1t is the first time on record
vigilante committee has been incorpor-
ated
Membership being secret-or known
only to the leaders-there is no way
of knowing for a politician just how
many of his secrets the women have
uncovered. 1t would be rather discon-
certing for the chief of police, for in
stance, to wake up some fine morning
to the discovery that his cook is vigil
ante, or that his wife's conversation
over the bridge table the night before
was destined eventually for grand jury
ears.
1t is dangerous to predict anything
when you deal with a woman, and more
dangerous in the plural, but this much
is certain. AS long as the women main
tain their organization in Phoenix, any
crooked politics there will be very much
sub-rosa. Women just seem to have no
ideas of propriety when they discover
an odor.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
"a on SOL says
~ FRANK WATANABE
IVY BY ED HOLDEN
COLDS
BY ED HOLDEN

December are a nice month to catch
ing a cold on. Doctor gentmen they say
ACID are trap for cold. But if you
are under the influence of ALKALl a
cold cannot hit you or will be glanc-
ing blow as case may be. So please be
alkali if you can help it, Also medicine
gents they say 80 per cent of population
are acid :. | donno if that true because
80 per cent do not possessing colds
Does it? | thinking acid are very good
look what lemonades are doing. Now
thinking it shall be rich idea if them
alkali persons having football game
against the acid fellows :. whoever VIM
ming are right If them doctors wish to
making a chemical out of us might
Just as we'll have fun doing same.
Thank you please. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
Bruce Cation Sdys:>>
American parIor Fun Still Holds Its Lure

Do YOU remember finch = that
card game played with an amaz-
ingly thick deck of cards number
ed from one to fifteen? And bam-
boozle. a weird variant of 1t? And
rook. and pit-which used to cause
much loud yelling and soueals of
excited laughter-and that darkly
intellectual card game. authors?
And that st1nngeSt of all card
games, lost heir?
Someone could write a mono-
graph on those card games. They
flourished at a time when large
numbers of staid citizens felt that
ordinary playing cards were In
ventions of the devil and sure pass
ports to the land of eternal fire.
But they liked to play cards, just
the same; so these other card games
were brought out, to take the curse
off an enjoyable pastime.
Lost heir, If you can remember it,
was nothing in the world but the
ancient game of 500, played with a
special deck.
Then we come down TO modern
times with nah jongg and the re-
vival Of back-gammon-and, more
recently, with monopoly. All these
like their predecessors, remarks Mr.
Parker, held peak OF popularity
for about two years and then fad
ed-except that monopoly is still
going strong.
And what about it all? Well, Mr..
Parker says that while games come
and go, the habit of playing them
goes on undiminished. 1t Is about
as strong in summer as In winter
and it doesn't change much from
one generation to. another.
To divert us, we have autos,
movies, radios, and lot of other
things which our grandfathers did
not have. But grouping about the
living-room table. in an eager fam
lily circle, is a diversion that never
loses its appeal.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
UNIVERSAL BIBLE. SUNDAY
.SHOULD BE MORE UNIVERSAL

Universal Bible Sunday was celebrat-
ed last weekend in the churches of AM
erica. The celebration-for it could not
be called anything else-was sponsored
by the 12O-year-old American Bible So
ciety to remind the people of the nation
of the unrivalled place The Book has in
the life of the world. T.
There are too many persons who have
no knowledge of the Bible. Their loss is
great. There is no Agnostic who could
not enjoy reading The Book for its beau
ty of phrase if for no other reason. Not
because of religion alone is the Bible the
most popular book in the world. 1t is
interesting, enlightening and soothing at
the same time. No mind since time be
gan has outdone the thoughts embodied
in the Bible And it is the greatest sin
gle influence for peace in the world to-
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre
ByN'ilLionls

"shims," for any dish a bit nyster-
ious. And when We plagued her
for advance news of Xmas gifts
tell us mysteriously to expect a.
SILVER wait awhile" and golden
NIKE" 1t would set us crazy.
Bagatelles: Mervyn Leroy used
to sell newspapers in front of San
Francisco's Alcazar theatre to his
favorite matinee idol, Bert Lytell :.
Now successful director. Le-
Roy lives a neighbor to Lytell in
Hollywood E. Harry Salsinger, ace
Detroit sports writer, was offered
w. o. McGheehan's place on the
Herald Tribune at the latter's pass
ing. but refused it O.. Chic Sales
autograph on a picture to a friend
reads: They just don't build 'em
any better" Noel Coward's op-
ening night seats at $l1 a throw
was the seasons high.
Charlie Hughes relays j. P. Nc
Evoy's grand gag brought back
from the Orient. A Chinese school
boy was asked by his school teacher
to tell who Tallyrand was. "An
American fan dancer" answered the
modern Oriental, land you can cut
out that baby talk, too"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
Other Editors Say
THE BIBLE INTO ENGLISH
(ChIistian Science MOnitOr)

The fourth century of the martyrdom OF VIII
liam Tyndale translator of the Pentateuch, the
New Testament and other parts OF the Bloie'
meant more than such celebrations usually do
For il was the occasion when for the 1lrst tlme
in history, it became generally recognized by
the public and not by a few scholars only, that
Tyndale influenced the way that English-speak-
ing peoples have thought and written more per-
haps than any other single person.
Tyndales heroism, his singe-minded deyo-
ton to the cause of making the Bible familiar
book even to common people, have been shin
ing page in history.
It has also been long recognized that Eng
lsh literature is built up on the Authorized
Version of the Bible completed in 1911. From the
soemnities of Sir Thomas Browne and the mag
nificence of Milton to the light gracefulneSs OF
Thakeray the paramount influence of the Bible,
both in thought and in expression, can be
clearly traced in English literature.
But until lately, greatly as he was honored
among scholars, it not widely appreciated
that the Authorized Version of the Bible was
substantially determined by the work OF Tyn-
dale Yet so the fact is Ninety per cent of
the Authorized Version. says Mr.. A. w. Pollard,
distinguished oxford scholar. is Tyndales. 1t
is well that Tyndale's four hundredth anniver-
sary should be honored by a full recognition
of the enormous influence for good which he
has exercised, and will continue to exercise
down the centuries
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
Str0lls Thru HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 7. U.P)-Red-
Tipped Elaine Barrie, 21-year-old
bride of John Barrymore. has re-
modelled the Great Lover" so COM
pletely astonished natives hardly
recognize him.
Profile John" hasn't been late
for stage call in weeks, or failed
to show up with the clear eye and
steady hand that speak of eight
hours sleep.
He glanceS sharply to left and
right before dropping a naughty
word these days, and as a trium-
phant climax Sunday Elaine pre-
miered him as a bona fide social
lion. That was the most incredible
touch of all.
AS late as the Dolores Costello
administration backing Barrymore
into a stiff shirt was regarded as
an engineering feat at least equal
to launching the r. M. s. Queen
Mary
Until Elaine took charge, Barry
more's idea of party was to gather
a few old friends-in bottles and
out-on the moth-eate bearskin
rug Of his trophy room for discus
sion without benefit of collars. 1t
was part of the Barrymore pride
that he almost never attended Hol-
lyWood's gaudy functions.
Elaine unveiled the new Barry
more" amidst heaviest fog seen in
these parts for coon's age at an
intimate little gathering of 60-odd
head of the incest people" in her
l5-room Benedict Canyon cabin.
The new Barrymore" grinned i'm
peccably in white tie and tails, and
appeared to like it,
Silver embossed invitations for
the bean-feast weighed a quarter
pound apiece. Important guests with
stomachs wrote on table cloths.
Equally important dowagers sat
sharp-shooting through lorgnettes.
Footmen who appeared to have
been stuffed by expert taxidermists
abounded II was terrific. 1t still
is
Hal Mohr, top cameraman about
TO debut as a director, refused to
- ~
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
THE WAR IN SPAIN
PROVES SOMETHING

There are two schools of postwar
thought. One believes that isolated con-
flicts since the World War are merely
in the nature of settling shocks, and that
peace will come without another major
worldwide conflict. The other believes
that the present day drift is toward an
other major conflict which will be even
worse than the World War. Either may
be right.
To both schools, however, the current
civil strife in Spain is of intense inter-
est. Either side can find in it an eXam-
pie to prove its contention. For this rea-
son, it is interesting to examine closely
the Spanish situation in its effect upon
the rest of the world, and to see what
lessons can be derived from it.
Those who believe that peace is des-
tined to be the eventual result of the
World War see in the barbarity of Spain
a revolving picture that will turn the
peoples of the world further from war.
Tales of women and children slaughter
ed. of brother fighting another of ma
tional tragedy and wholesale destruc-
ton. they believe, will make the idea
of war so revolving that no right think
ing person would want to engage in such
conflict.
On the other hand, militarists of the
world are using Spain as laboratory
to determine what methods are most ef-
fective for destruction in the event they,
themselves, are called upon to use them.
Those who believe another world war is
inevitable see Spain as nothing more
than a testing ground for modern me-
thods of warfare. The effectiveness OF
armed troops. airplanes, artillery and
various defense precautions are beng
proved or disproved in Spain, they say,
for the edification of other warminded
peoples.
There may be merit in both schools OF
thought Certain it is that the world,
nor any nation in it, should not sit back
contentedly in the belief that there will
be another war Lack of preparedness
is one of the major causes of war, under
the present system.
We in America are inclined to peace.
We want to see the rest Of the world
peaceful, because the troubles OF our
neighbors in other nations cannot help
but affect u.s. We must realize, however,
that peace, like war, must be built up.
We must establish peace machinery. just
as we would establish war machinery.
We have a standing army-and it is
necessity-but we should also have equal
provision for peace and for maintain
ing peace. If the nations of the world
spent as much money in preparing for
peace as they spend in preparing for
war. the peoples of the world would
take the greatest single forward stride
in the history of civilization
In this country the newspapers, the
radio. the magazines, the motion pic
lures and a myriad other agencies are
engaged every day in a concerted cam
paign to prevent fatal automobile accl-
dents on the highways. A worldwide
campaign. one-half as concentrated,
would make peace certainty.
From Spain we can derive the inspira-
ton for peace, or we can derive inspira-
ton for war. The choice is ours.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07

in New York, Philadelphia and
Washington g. Enrol F1ynn's Eur
opean jaunt is postponed so the
Irishman can return to Hollywood
and do soldier of fortune" role
in Prince and the Pauper" -.
Dick Forhan, Princeton COWBOY.
bought two more horses a.. Lew
Ayres is learning the pipe organ.
Eleanore Whitney is back from
the east wearing a large diamond.
She won't tell but it's suspected
Henry Hart Jr.. whose papa man.
ages Chicago's Boston store. put it
there. David Butler will direct
Saratoga Chips" Eddie Cantor's
llrSt Tor Fox Jane Withers
VIII put in personal appearances in
Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland i'm
mediately after Christmas Re-
make OF Seventh Heaven" got un-
der way at Fox, but double -barrelied
Simone Simon won't go TO work for
a week Jean Hersholt, finish
ing his Metro contract, will 60 10
Fox "
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
Tell Of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
nerember J. 1911

Under the heading "Holtville
Happenings, its reported that At
torney F. j. Cole purchased a new
Smith Premier typewriter for his
office.
Under the heading Public Mar
ket Places for All Imperial Valley,
the following ads are found:
"Wanted-Team that will work to
bus, not over 1000 pounds each.
Must be city broke and young
Apply Oregon hotel.
For Rent-Ten acres of the Ell
Centro townsite located half mile
from the Ell Centro bank-inquire
at the st. Thomas hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07

jinx. so Evelyn Venable passed up
the feminine lead in "Class Proph-
ecy." Virginia Bruce got the job.
Mohr did the chivalrous thing
however, and said he wasn't super
stitious and didn't fear working with
Evelyn would tumble their marriage
the way of many famous director
star domestic combinations.
Reason he vetoed his wife in his
first picture, he said, was that he
fears it might flop, and he doesn't
want her to be exposed to taking
the rap for his gamble.
Mischa Auer, sad-eyed Russian
comic, achieves the ambition of ev
cry comedian TO play Hamlet"
straight, but all it will get him is a
flock of laughs. Auer, who started
acting as Shapespearian ham, will
do "Hamlet's Soliloquy" with auth
entic makeup and a straight face
in Top of the Town" Universal
istas believe it will roll the custom
ers in the aisles--simply because
it's Auer doing it,
Anton Walbrook, German actor
says he's freezing to death in
phony Siberia" in the Hollywood
foothills. Walbrook is playing lead
in RKO-Radio's Michael Strogoff," :"
same role he did in French and
German versions and all scenes so
far have been shot at night.
AS captive courier of the czar,"
Walbrook wanders a Siberian "pris-
on yard" set exposed to the chilly
Pacific breeze in thin, tattered
shirt.
IF had known I'd have to work
this sequence in Hollywood night,
I'd have had a fur coat written in,"
he moaned.
Title department: Universal
changed Blonde Dynamite" to
She's Dangerous" which is logical.
And Goth Century-Fox altered
Peach Edition" to Woman Wise"
which Is not.
Cutting Room Scraps Marsha
Hunt off to do personal appearances
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATORS
SALE OF REAL ESTATE AT
PUBLIC AUCTION.

No. 1901 In Probate.
In the Superior Court of the State
of California, In and For the
County of Imperial.
In the Matter of the Estate of
GEORGE w. ALLEN, :~-s
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by Garfield
Allen, Administrator of the Estate
of George w. Allen, deceased that
he will sell at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash, in lawful
money of the United States, and
subject TO the conformation of said
Court on Thursday, the 28th day
of December 1896 at the hour of
twelve o'clock noon, at the premises
known as
Lot Seventeen I'D in Block
Thirty-eight (38), Townsite of Ell
Centro, al ~
located at 734 Brighton Street, El
Centro, Imperial County California;
all the right, title, interest, an
estate of said George w. Allen ac.
the time of his death and all the
right, title, and interest the estate
has acquired by operation of law OF
otherwise, other than or in addi-
ton to that of said deceased at the
time of his death, in and to that
certain lot, piece, or parcel of land,
situate in the City of Ell Centre,
County of Imperial, bounded and
described as follows, to-wit:
Lot Seventeen QD in Block
Thirty EIGHT (38, Townsite of
Ell Centro, Imperial County,
California.
Terms and conditions OF sale;
Cash in lawful money of the United
States; 10 per cent of the purchase
price to be paid to the administrators
on the day of sale and the balance
upon confirmation of sale by said
Superior Court and the delivery OF
a conveyance.
Dated this 3lst day of October,
1896.
GARFIELD ALLEN,
Administrator of the estate OF
George w. Allen, Deceased.
CLARENCE B. SMITH,
Attorney for the Administrator.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07

NEW YORK, Dec. DIARY: A
mercy cable from the E. D. Cob
lentzes and Will Hayses in Italy.
So out in a nippy gale and passed
Nella Webb. the astrology lady.
And through the park and up
Broadway stopping in the Ansonia
to see Theodore Dresser and later
to call on Jean Douglas, the poet
lady.
At my stint until Georges HAT,
a Paris journalist, came and he
described the war situation in Eur
ope as "a mere touching of pawns
with no major moves" Later with
to River House to Christie Mac
Donald's tea and she as lovely as
in her starring days.
Lucy Virginia Long to dinner
and 1 told her how Irwin Cobb
thought her name so pretty he had
so named a character in his radio
program. And then took her to the
tram for Greenwich and came up
on Genevieve Cooper theatre
bound, Courtney, being off on lee
ture tour.
To my notion the bravest flair of
writing in some time was encom-
passed in the letter the talented
Gouverneur Morris wrote to the
mother of the young man found
dead on his California estate. He
seemed trying earnestly to console
| her vet could not hide his bitterness
in being caught in the back-wash
of what he thought laundering in
vestigations and thick headlined
scandal. 1t is but just to chronicle.
Morris has always been interested
in careers Of talented young folk.
On occasions he has written me
about this newcomer and that who
showed promise. One of them, in
cidentally, authored hit Broadway
play last year.
The vast change in the standing
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
TEN YEARS AGO
nacau,bar Y 1000

Ell Centro residents who have not
yet visited Imperial Valleys splen-
did fair at Brawley should attend
the closing session tonight.
Central Junior college debate
team will meet the Pasadena Junior
collegians tonight. Steve Harris and
Merle Cosand will hold up argu-
mentS for the Central team.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
TWENTY YEARS AGO

DeCtmDtT 7, l5IO
A sale of blooded Holstein stock
at the Harold Bell Wright ranch
was attended by TOO buyers. Eight
cen cows averaged $247 each and
38 heifers $180 each.
William C. Silver of Calexico was
an Ell Centro visitor today.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
GRAB BAG
One.Minutp Test

1. What is the meaning of table
dhote"?
2. Name the most important
malignant tumor?
3. What name is given the dwell
ing of an Eskimo?
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
Thought for the Day

Because thou hast kept the word of My patience,
also Will keep thee from the hour of temptation,
which shall come upon all the world. to try them
that dwell upon the earth.-Revelation $40
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
TOday's Horoscope

If your birthday is today, you
may have much natural intelli-
gence and keen foresight. You may
get angry and say harsh things,
but you regret 1t afterward.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
Hints on Etiquette

When man calls for a woman
to escort her anywhere, he should
go to the door to announce his ar
rival and wait for her. He should
never sit in his car and blow the
horn to attract her attention.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07

The fright" bank OF a river is
the bank TO the right of a person
looking down stream.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07

1t has been estimated that there
are more than 1000 miles of blood
vessels In the human body.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
PHOTOGRAPHS

Both butterflies and mosquitoes,
common in warm regions, have
been found in extreme Arctic re-
gions.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07

One-Minute Test Answers
l. Table OF the host.
2. Cancer.
3. Igloo.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
Words of Wisdom

Mercy to him that shows it is
the rule.-Cowper.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07

The Ohio hypnosis birth in which the mother
was hypnotzed was unusual, though new faith
ers usually appear to be in that state.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07

of the professional pug is among fhe
social phenomena of the period.
Once champion was hailed chiefly
in the saloons and at sporting
events and wound up running bar
whose clientele was chiefly gam
blerS. Today Jack Dempsey ad-
dresses womens clubs, speaks at
notable banquets and is often a
polished figure in the drawing
rooms. Tony Canzoneri is another
regarded and hailed as a perfect
type of little gentleman-welcome
everywhere on Broadway. What
many do not realize is that the per-
son who put boxing on such high
plane and kept it there is the fight
er perhaps least seen of all-Gene
Tunney. Carl Hubbell and Lou
Gehrig are doing the same thing
for baseball.
Personal nomination for the re-
cent tunes: Jerome Kerns's THE
Way You Look Tonight
Most cinema ladies who breeze
into town from Hollywood toss out
interviews that are 18 karat blah.
But I snagged this from the Metro
politan born Sylvia Sidney, who
gave as excuse for her arrival: Il
wanted to see the leaves turn"
In one Of the brighter cafes a re-
cent dinner hour, too I noticed the
Talmadge Trio-Norma, Constance
and Natalie. The world grows older
but they seemingly do not. They
are still a startling resemblance to
the three Brooklyn girls who made
such triple impress on the movies
of the day. The tradition is to be
carried on by Natalie's son. Whose
Daddy was long the No. Dead
Pan-BuSter Keaton.
90
Memories: Grandma'S name.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07

An absent-minded Norfolk, Va, bandit, who
tried TO rob a shooting gallery, learned that the
proprietor knew his business.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07

Hal Mohr, top cameraman about
TO debut as a director, refused to
tussle with domestic team picture
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07

Personal nomination for the re-
cent tunes: Jerome Kerns's THE
Way You Look Tonight"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07

The movie actor who complained that fame
was fleeting would have something to cry about
if he the 1000 000th visitor to exposition.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07

OUTLAW Gets Life Term for. Hamm Kidnap-
ing serious offense in these days OF high
meat prices.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07

midwest senator was hit by lightning, but
pot. it appears, just after he had promised TO
work heart and soul for bis constituents
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07
1oeSn1 live here any more

Itake 1 Carter's Little Liver Pill before
and after meals and get relief. @ CC.M.Co.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07

The vast change in the standing
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-07

Cutting Room Scraps: Marsha
Hunt off to do personal appearances
Evening star., 1936-09-23
Japan Sails Inland.

Hitherto penetration" of China by
Japan, inaugurated five years ago this
week with operations that eliminated in
occupation of Manchuria, has been the
task Of the army. Now the Japanese
Navy is taking a hand in the game.
Utilizing as a pretext the murder Of
five Japanese subjects within the past
two months and the refusal or inability
of Chinese authorities to deal deter
minedly with such outrages, the Toxic
navy department has ordered strong
force to take up its station at Hankow.
To that important inland commercial
metropolis q fleet Of Japanese destroyers
is now proceeding six hundred miles up
the Yangtze River.
The communique announcing these
measures, which provide for disembarka-
ton of formidable landing parties Of
marines, justines them on the ground
that "anti- i-Japanese terrorism has ex-
tended across Chinese territory and is
becoming worse" It is afhrmed, In
further extenuation, that until now "the
navy has remained calm, out of con-
sideration for Sino-Japanese relations.
but existing conditions no longer permit
Japan to rely upon China to suppress
anti Japanese outbursts." Besides dis