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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
A Days Menu

BREAKFAST
Halves of grapefruit, cereal,
cream. crisp bacon, corn
meal mullins, milk, coffee.
LUNCHEON
Buckwheat cakes, sausage,
applesauce, molasses cookies,
milk, tea.
DINNER
Consomme, bitocks, boiled
noodles, spinach with lemon
butter, minted carrots, cab
bage and raisin salad. date
pie, milk, coffee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11
Admitted to Circle

Misses June Gilman, Betty Clark
and Betty Granger are new mem
bers Of Mary Wheeler Shattuck
Circle, Junior Kings Daughters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-11

The marriage of Miss Margaret Mattingly defD
Sims kpace New Years
and Mrs Joseph E. Mattngly. (Voorhis photo)
Mr. A BronXvle, Y,
gagemen their
Indianapolis The wedding place Propyaeum
Oexhemer Carbon photo(
Mrs Wayne Warrick (righ Miss Helen Eser daughter
OF Mr. and Mrs Louis Eser before marriage
her1er-Carlon photo)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
KIDS Join IN
XMAS PART Y
GIVEN BY ELKS
Open Houses Held
\ In Ell Centre
Christmas

Hundreds of C h i d + n
gathered at the Ell Centro
and Holtville theatres long
before 10 o'clock Christmas
morning, ready to enjoy the
Christmas party sponsored by the
Ell Centro Elks lodge. The the
aires were crowded by these happy
Youngsters who enjoyed not only
the fine show but the bags OF
candy and fruits which the Elks
distributed to them later.
Open house was the rule Thurs
day, John Kepley having his an
nual party at the court house, the
state board of equalization play
ing hosts at another party, while
Christmas eve Mr. and MR.. Rus
sell Sherwood entertained their
employees.
One of the annual celebrations is
the open house sponsored by W..
j. Clements and Christmas morn
ing he, assisted by Frank Rich
mond dispensed hospitality to all
who called at the store.
Christmas eve and Christmas
morning st. Paul'S church, the
Lutheran church., ST. Mary's and
st. Josephs Catholic churches con-
Quoted Christmas services.
Post-Press employees also had a
Christmas party, the carriers being
guests at one held at the office
Thursday afternoon, receiving gifts.
Later in the afternoon adult en-
ployes were the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Jenkins, $50 Wensley av-
enue, where they also enjoyed
Christmas celebration, receiving
presents from the firm.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
VALLEY AUTO
CRASHES FAIL
TO TAKE LIFE

Automobile accidents on the
highways of Imperial county
Thursday night and early Friday
morning heightened the holiday
excitement but failed to claim a
life.
Austin Taylor is in the county
hospital for treatment of injuries
suffered at $3.50 a. m. Friday MORN
ing near the Heber turn on the
Calexico-El Centro highway. He
suffered a badly lacerated chin
and several damaged teeth. Cali
fornia Highway Patrolman Till
man Daley, investigated the acci-
dent.
AS a result of the same accident,
Herchel Lee Painter, 20, was book
ed at the Imperial county Jail for
reckless driving and hit and run
charges.
Buck Tackett of Ell Centro was
placed in the Brawley Jail by
California H way Patrolman
Walter Walsh on a drunk driving
charge He had parked his auto
mobile across the highway two
miles south of Brawley and was
blocking traffic at $3.50 o'clock
Thursday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
TWO BANDITS
LOOT GROCERY
ON XMAS EVE

Two Filipino bandits who robbed
the James Guon grocery store at
2l5 Main street of $50 op Christmas
eve were Is minutes too late to
obtain an additional 1915, Ell Centro
police reported Friday.
James Quon proprietor of the
store, had placed 1915 in a hiding
place Is minutes before the Fill
pinos entered the place, he told
officers.
The robbers were short and heavy
set. One held a revolver on the
three Chinese clerks while the other
scooped up $50 in silver and cur
rency from the till They backed
out the front door and fled.
OF Poi. one of the clerks. snatched
up revolver and gave chase. pur-
suing the bandits almost to Third
street and Orange avenue before
they disappeared in the darkness.
Poi fired two shots at the fleeing
robbers.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
LEADER HELD
BY WARLORD
is SET FREE
Chang Kai Shekt
Released After
FOurteen.Days

SHANGHAI, Dec. 25. tU.D
Chang Kai-Shek, general
issimo of the Marking gov
ernment, was released from
the walled city of Sian-Fu
after being held prisoner for IA
days, it was announced officially
today.
Government officials, who believed
Chang would proceed to Marking
tomorrow, said they were unaware
of the terms of his release.
The Christian general who rules
millions of Chinese was released
at $50 p m. today $3.50 a. m.
EST by his repel captor, Marshal
Chang Hsueh-Liang, former Man
churian war lord.
He was taken to Loyang, not far
from Sian-Fu, while troops of the
central Marking government were
pressing in upon Sian-Fu and pre-
pairing to storm its ancient walls.
The generalissimo's attractive
wife, the former Melting Soong;
her brother, T. v. Soong, governor
of the Bank of China, and w. H.
Donald, Australian advisor, accom-
panied him to Loyang in an air.
plane.
Four military planes escorted
him to freedom.
First information of the kidnap-
ed generals release, which pre-
Sumably averted a vast civil war
in China, came to Shanghai in
telephone message from General
Ho Ying-Chin of the ministry of
war in Marking.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
HITLER PONDERS
CRUCIAL DECISION

LONDON, Dec. 25, UP)-Chan-
cellor Adolf Hitler sat before a
Christmas tree today, ,high in the
Bavarian Alps, and pondered a dec
ision that may carry Europe TO
the brink of another great war.
Diplomats of the great powers,
their yuletide cheer jolted by the
fear of a gathering crisis, waited
apprehensivaly for the fuehrer to
answer a blunt proposition put to
him by France and Great Britain
He must choose between two
courses
/. The plea of Generalissimo
Francisco Franco of the Spanish
rebels that he send 10000 Nazi
troops into Spain to deliver a final
crushing blow to the loyalists.
2. A promise of gold from Bri-
tain and France to free the German
people from the economic shackles
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25


of the editorial column To-day,
which was published ON the front
page of Hearst newspapers and in
about 200 other newspapers
throughout the country
In his column published in morn
ing newspapers which appeared al
most at the hour of his death today
he observed that this Christmas
still finds the world place of war,
cruelty and sorrow, and said:
Happy he who, today, can bring
smiles to the faces of other children
and to the faces of careworn
mothers -. -.-..- =---- .------s..
Brisbane repeatedly received
salary OF '$260,000 year for his
column, which he usually dictated,
talking into a recording machine
at fast clip to set down his COM
ment on. great variety of the cur
rent news, ranging in one column
from perhaps an international prob
lem to some little incident of hu-
man drama.
He had extensive real estate in
tereSts and was the builder of the
Ritz Towers, the first apartment
house in New York to be built on a
skyscraper design.
Brisbane, born in Buffalo, N. Y,
the son of Albert Brisbane, began
his journalistic career as report
er on the New York Sun in 1883,
when he was 10. He told an inter-
viewer once that he supposed 1t was
because of his father that he enter
ed newspaper work.
His father, he said, had very rad
ical ideas and in order to give
them publicity he bought weekly
column on the front page of the
New York Tribune and there ex-
pounded his views. am paid for
doing badly what he did we'll and
paid for, besides. -
At 81 Brisbane became London
correspondent of the Sun, returning
after several years to become editor
of the Evening Sun. In 1891 he
went to Joseph Pulitzer's New York
World. Those were the days when
Pulitzer and Hearst were battling
furiously and Pulitzer discovered
one day that Hearst had hired
away Ills tilUlIc oullIdy SIdll. L ullI-
ger asked Brisbane to take charge of
the Sunday edition and gave him
authority to hire anybody in the
world you want to-"
Brisbane rapidly built up the
circulation of the Sunday paper
and for six years continued with
the World os managing editor of
various editions.
In 1897 he applied to Hearst for
position and became editor of
the New York Evening Journal, a
post which he held until 1921.
1t was shortly after he became
editor of the Journal that he began
running his column of editorial
comment on the front page.
An interviewer once remarked
to Brisbane that many others had
tried to emulate his editorial style
Brisbane grinned and replied
but that none succeeded SO well.
Les Style, c'est l'homme." (the
style is the mani.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25

TWO weeks ago and came to the
castle of Baron Eugene De Roth
schild, 25 miles from here.
Church members believed Edward
chose Christmas day to demonstrate
that he intends to remain a devout
member Of the Church of England
despite the attacks heaped upon
him by the Archbishops of Canter-
bury and other dignitaries.
dignitaries.
The Duke of Windsor who ex-
changed Christmas greetings by
telephone last night with Mrs.
Wallis Warfield Simpson, who is at
Cannes on the French Riviera, ap-
peared pale and nervous when he
stepped into the pulpit.
He pulled nervously at his neck
tie, but a moment later he began
reading the second lesson of the
scripture in a pious, clear voice.
Edward raised his voice Justify to
Join the choir and congregation in
the singing Of God Save The King"
at the conclusion OF the sermon.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
Seasons Greetings
Brought Children

Civic organizations, womens clubs
and Imperial Valley stores joined
on Christmas Eve to bring seansonal
greeting to unfortunate children and
inmates of the Imperial county hos
pital in an annual Christmas party.
Replete with Santa Claus and
other seasonal trimmings, the party
was made possible by the ElkS lodges
of FL Centro and CaleXico, associated
women's clubs of the valley. the El
Centro police department, Ell Cen
tro Campfire Girls and stores of
Brawley, Imperial, El Centre, Holt
vile and CaleXico.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
Xmas Observed
By ROtarians in
Holiday Meeting,

Rotarians observed Christmas at
their luncheon meeting Thursday
noon in the Barbara Worth hotel,
the Christmas message being deliv-
cred by the Rev. Irving T. Raab
The speaker expressed his belief
that the spirit of Christmas, which
is that of doing unto others as
ye would have others do unto you"
is prevailing more and more
throughout the world.
A Christmas party, followed, men,
bers exchanging gifts.
Phil Knights gave his life history
in interesting fashion.
M j. Dowd, president, presided
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
Roosevelt Joins
Xmas Celebration

WASHINGTON. Dec. 25. WP)-
President Roosevelt joined the rest
of the nation today in celebrating
Christmas with his family,
The chief executives day began
early when the first of his six
grandchildren to awaken ran into
his room and aroused him. The
ether children soon were out Of
bed and awakened all members of
the household
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
Woman Wounds
Daughter, Z, Self

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec. 25. W.P)-
Mrs. June Ryan, IS, fired a bullet
into her 7-year-old daughters chest
and turned the gun on herself in a
downtown hotel today, police an
nounced.
Both were critically wounded.
Police said i'll health was a pos
sible motive. The woman's hus-
band, William e. Ryan, said she
left home last night mad after q
quarrel with him.
Early today she registered at
the hotel with the daughter, Nancy,
and hotel employees later heard the
shots.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
LOYALEST CUTTER
@ SEsZES NAZI SHIP

MADRID, Dec. 25. UP)-A loyalist
coastguard cutter today seized the
German marchant ship Palos in
the Bay Of Biscay after firing sew
eral shells across its bow, it was re-
ported from Bilbao.
The PaloS, according to the Febus
news agency, was taken into the
loyalist port of Bilbao, near which
it was seized.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
OFFICERS RAID
TINY ARSENAL

-Four Imperial county deputy sher-
ifs converged on a Filipino filled
house on the Elmore canal near
Brawley shortly before midnight
Thursday in search Of a reported
young arsenal They found two
shot guns
Reports received at the county,
sheriff's office led to the big raid
which turned out to be a dud.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
Edward Reads Sermon in Church
BUNS DRIVEN
FROM HOME

A new place to spend Christ
mas probably constitutes the
main objective of group of
buns routed out of the "jungles"
a mile north of El Centre by
Deputy Sheriffs Frank McCaslin
and Park Burritt.
El Centro police asked that
the accumulation be broken up,
declaring the jungle inhabitants
made inr0ads into Ell Centre
nightly.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
u. S. MISSES
XMAS SNOW
BY UNITED PRESS

Gay bobSled~ and skating parties
in keeping with the seasons spirit
were cancelled today as the nation
aWoke to virtually "snowleSS'
Christmas.
Higher than seasonal tempera-
lures under drab, cloudy skies
reached from coast to coast, gov
ernment weather forecasters said.
Light SHOWS were believed pos
Sible in the Dakotas, Minnesota
and Montana where temperatures
were falling gradually. Tempera-
lures, however, were well above
normal.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
Rancher Kills Self
Near Christmas Tree

TOMBSTONE, Ariz., Dec 25. UP)
Earl Merchant, 36. rancher and
World war veteran, drove into the
plaza last night, sat gazing at the
gaily-hghted community Christmas
tree for a time, drew out a revolver
and shot himself through the head
Friends said he was despondent be-
cause of i'll health He leaves his
widow and o brother.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
F.D.R. Asked to
Delay Sea Order

LOS ANGELES. Dec. 25. CUP -
Striking insurgent east coast sea-
men today demanded of President
Roosevelt that he order three
months delay in applying the sea-
mems discharge boom provisions OF
the new maritime act which be-
comes effective tomorrow
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
One Dead in Ariz.
Xmas Eve, Accidents

PHoENfX. Dec. rs: Christ
mas eve automobile accidents in the
Phoenix district left a toll OF one
dead and five injured so seriously
they were expected to die.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
Firemen Prevent
Serious Blaze Here

Ell Centre firemen Thursday night
prevented a serious blaze In the
home Of Mrs. Eyalyn Boman
Westerfield, 705 State street. by re-
moving an oil stove which hnd ex~
ploded
Summoned by telephone, the fire.
men carried the blazing stove out
side to extinguish it. Only minor
damage was done.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
FIRST APPEARANCE
HN PUBLIC In VIENNA

VIENNA, Dec. 25 (UP)-Former King Edward step
ped into the pulpit Of Vennas English church today and
to the amazement of Worshippers read Christmas les
son from the bible 1t Edwards first public appear
in the city since he abdicated the throne ENGLAND
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
Past Grand Exalted
RUIer Of ElkS Dies

NEW YORK, Dec 25. U.P) -
Joseph T Tanning, 78, past Grand
Exalted Ruler of the BPO,E., died
at his home here today. Funeral
services will be held Monday morn
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25

Rest In Peace
The Rambling Reporter rambled
far and wide and handsome last
night with the result that he had
a very bad night. Oh my, oh my!
Quick, Cuthbert bring the ic2
Water-and the pledge.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
Newspaperrnan
Succumbs S To
Heart Attack
Famous COlumnist And Editor Had
Long Career Closely Linked With
Journalism in u. S.; Started 1883

NEW YORK, Dec. %. (UP)-Arthur Brisbane, noted
coumns died of heart attack at his home at $50 M
today The 72year-od editor had been suffering from
heart trouble for several days. but his death unexpec
ed Brisbane, long associated with the William Randolph
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25

that have brought wartime food
rationing.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-25
MARKETS IN BRIEF

butter; Los Angeles 331zc; Butter
Imperial valley fob. rauch,
Trade A, 4?1Hc; manufa curing milk,
'12ci route gathered cream. 331ac.
l.. A. Hay-u. y. No. I extra IeaTy,
~<i-22; L. =. No. 1 O1S-IS.5O; u. =.
No. leafy, $fs-f5.JO; u. :. No. =,
2.29A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-27
Mixed Suite

Mems clothes grow confusing. Not con- tent with changing the dress suit rules to admit blue and white as substitutes for black, the tailorS are mixing up the styles for daytime wear. Thus Chicago merchant tailorS announce that it is all right to wear coat and vest of one color or pat tern with trousers of a different color or pattern. The obvious merit of this lib- erty is that by buying two suits a man may have four Thus with blue suit and check suit he may wear either com plete by iself, or the blue coat and vest with checked trousers, or the check coat and vest with blue trousers.
 The possibilities grow as the nifty dresser, with a taste for variety, dwellS on the problem Anyone who will rise to the luxury of three suits, by working the system to the limit, may win a sartorial reputation by appearing in nine different outfits in as many days Or maybe more. We get lost in the higher mathematics of such a wardrobe. And for the fellow who can manage to ac- quire four or five suits of different pat tern and color, the potential variations must run into astronomical numbers.
 This speculation, though, hasn't every thing to do with good taste. Birds and animals, we notice, usually have rather harmonious dress scheme, being clothed in one color of varying shades, or in simple, harmonious combination ot colors, without much pattern.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-27
The Black Legion Crime

A grim lesson is taught in Michigan to secret groups anywhere who may fancy themselves above the law. Eleven mem- bers of the Black Legion have been found guilty of murder, seven of them in the first degree and four in the second, for their killing of Charles A. Poole on the charge, which incidentally was untrue, that he had beaten his wife.
 This is one of the strangest cases on record Apparently the killing was done in a sort of perverted playboy spirit, by grown men imagining themselves re- sponsible for regulating society and feel ing like savages that they would be heroes if they killed somebody. It carried to the extreme limit a psychology which is too easily cultivated among weak minds in an atmosphere of darkness and disguises and secret oaths not meant to be taken literally.
 It is little wonder that in such sur roundings, minds sensitive to suggestion, should take dreadful oaths seriously. With all the freak organizations tolerated in free country, it is strange, perhaps, that such crimes have not occurred oftener.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-27
Our Works May Vanish

You can feel the cold winds out of empty space blow down the back of your neck-if you care for such an experience t-by taking look at an article written for the current Scientific American by Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, president of Oglethorpe University. Dr. Jacobs Sug- gests that we ought to build a crypt of stainless steel and fill it with records, working models, pictures, and descrip- tionS of modern American civilization. Then, he says, we should seal it and leave it to be opened in the year 8113 A. D., so that remote poSterity can have an idea of what sort of people its ancestors were and how they lived.
 There is nothing especially creepy about that of course. But Dr. Jacobs goes on to add that by 8113 it is more than probable that every other record of the civilization of 1886 will have vanished from the earth. Our great steel and stone buildings, our vast engineering works, our libraries, and our archives-all will have disappeared. If people remember that North America was populated in 1886 they will remember it hazily as we remember that someone was living where Persia now is 5000 years ago.
 It takes a scientist to put things like that. The rest of us go about our day-to- day business without thinking of the dis tant future at all; or, if we do think of it, we assume that what we are doing today B being done for all time-that there is a permanence to the society we live in which will outlast change. We may be right, but the odds are against it. When the scientist steps out of the procession and takes long view, he can see that change is the one unfailing law.
 The best things and the worst things we do today will inevitably be forgotten The same obScurity will cover our tri- umphs and defeats. Our follieS and our virtues will finally drop out of sight. From the distance of 5000 years Woodrow Wilson and Bruno Hauptmann will be exactly alike in that both will be con- pletely invisible.
 Does all this, then, mean that 1t doesn't make much difference what we do with ourselves and with our civiliza- tion, since oblivion is awaiting all our achievements Not at all. Those hay, far-off people of 8113 AID. may not know one thing about uS but what they are and how they live will be shaped and molded by what we think and do.
 For although what people make and do may dissolve in the acid of time, the spirit and the intelligence with which they make and do things become part of the undying heritage of the race The man who goes to the scaffold for justice and freedom may be forgotten; the scale of values which led him to the scaffold becomes absorbed and transmitted to the farthest generations. Nothing worth sav- ing is lost
 A bit ponderous, all this? No doubt. But worth thinking about, even SO. It is by understanding that the spirit lives onSWhen the deed and it's consequences die that we can fit ourselves to make the world a better place for those who come after us.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-27
Weather Forecasts

It's all right to kid the weather man he expects it. But when not done in fun, it isn't fair. A Washington authority reports that, taking the United States as whole, the official forecasts are accurate 87 per cent of the time. If they are lower in some areas, the Middle West, for example, where conditions are more var fable, they are higher in regions of greater stability such as the Pacific Coast states. Moreover, the degree of accuracy is con- tinually increasing.
 This progress is largely a, result of the new forecasting method, based on "air mass analysis" which is made possible by aviation and pooling of observations over wide areas. Dependable weather information is essential for the flying business, and in turn helps everybody else.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-27
Choking the Fishes

Soil erosion is bad for fish, too. In all parts of the country, according to E. G. Holt of the Soil Conservation Service, muddy waters and silt are diminishing the fish population. Eggs laid by the game fish, he explains, can't hatch and survive if the streams are full of mud and debris. When the bottom of the streams are cov- cred with ooze and silt, worms and insect larvae on which the, fishes feed are de- stroyed.
 Game fish need clear, running water. "Unless sitting of stream channels IS stopped, there is no reason to expect that the fish can be brought back and the stock restored" If fishermen can be enlisted in the anti-erosion campaign, they will be powerful recruits
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-27

President Roosevelt did not do what he promised to do, 1t is stating an ncontrovertible fact. But the evidence is also very strong that had he, kept his promise 1t would have been 2 catastrophe for the country. The theory which has been several times expressed by the cpposi- ton in this campaign, that the national budget is5like a domes- tic household budget, that the government, that is to say, must live annually within It's income. is certainty open to question. Of course the government must live within its income, but there are periods when 1t is far more necessary to increase the sources of that income than 1t is 'to bal atlce books. The governments position is not that of the small householder on 8 fixed budget. It is rather that of avery great business. And great businesses do not attempt to balance their budgets annually, but to balance them over the business cycle which includes boom and de- precision. Tn times of prosperity they retire their debts and build up reserves. In times of depres- sion they use up their reserves, borrow money to keep the plant going and very often unbaiance the books.