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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-03


Here and there throughout Ell Cen
tro's residential areas are entire city
blocks with but one or two neatly kept
homes and attractive yards with green
grass and shrubs and flowers
A resident the other day complained
that in her block, hers, was the only
pretty yard and newly painted house.
She bemoaned the absence of neighbors
who found it worth while to take an
interest in their abodes and in the value
of growing flowers and trees.
This lady, from a sentimental mo-
tive, puts her finger on an economic
need of the community. Leading civic
leaders would do we'll to give the COM
plant considerable thought.
1t is evident that many parts of every
city are not beautiful purely as the re-
suit of financial inability of residents to
bring their places up-to-date. On the
other hand, many cities are almost uni
versally attractive, neat and clean be-
cause their residents are home-minded
and civic conscious. This latter type are
the places where visitors are impressed
favorably, just as stores and the ar
rangement Of merchandise invite or re-
pulse potential buyers.
FL Centric has real future Now on
the verge Of coming into its own, its
growth and expansion can be materially
stimulated and fastened by energetically
assisting in a movement to increase home
pride, without which no city can grow
beautiful, prosperous and satisfactory.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-03
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
March 3. 1921

The following officers of Ell Cen
tro Lodge were elected last night
for the coming year Installation
will take place the first meeting in
April.
Exalted ruler, Irl E. Hinrichson;
Esteemed Loyal knight, Lou Phil
ley; Esteemed Lecturing knight, o.
L. Davis; Secretary, II. B. Ellison;
Treasurer, Fred Gianola; Trustee,
Leo Hetzel; Tiler, Al Nelson; Dele
gate to grand lodge, c. E. Pitzer;
and alternate to grand lodge, o. E.
Ohmstede.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-03
Correctly Speaking

Separate a short direct quotation
from the rest of the sentence by a
comma
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-03
GRAB BAG

Who said: England expects ev-
cry man to do his duty?
What is an internal combustion
motor?
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-03

Field work on the annual coun-
ty assessment was inaugurated by
the county assessor Wiley M.
Weaver %hen eight deputies took
the field bright and early this
morning.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-03
Famous Sayings

The second world war is inevitable. Within two
years they will choose sides in Europe"-Gen. Smed-
ley d. Butler.
a.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-03

Ten business men of Calexico are
taking time from their respective
businesses in the interest of Chas.
Downing's candidacy for sheriff.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-03
NEW YORK
DAY by DAY
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, March 3.-Diary,
kid picture Grace Drayton made
for me before crossing the border,
placing it between originals by
Peter and Clare Briggs. So at my
mail and note from Christie Mac
Donald and pow-wow with my tax
accountant, David Adlerblum.
Roscoe Peacock, in town from
North Cohocton, dropped by and
gave a droll imitation of a town
medicine seller hawking his Ojib
way Pain Killer. And jeffrey Roche,
Arthur'S boy, in a minute too. So
out with my lady and put in to see
Steve and Buff Cobb Brody and the
youngsters.
The Isle Bells to dinner and
Lisle told of some James Thurber
school day antics in Columbus, o.,
and then driving along the docks,
passing sleepers wrapped in news
papers. Then to call on Mrs. Slime
Silverman and Edward G.. Robin
sons and Regina CreWe had just
left.
edness geySered into the headlines
recently as a result of vice crusade
that Jailed the Mott Street Mob
The iostling area of crooked streets
is still honeycombed with sunken
hideaWays that even the police Of
ten cannot find. There are trap
doors of the dime novel, innocent
looking shops that lead to rabbit
like warrens and a system of warn
ings that make it the most confuS-
ing district in the metropolis to es-
cape the law.
Ginger Rogers was another cine
ma Cinderella to come back to New
York, where she once lived in the
atrical boarding houses, thre e
flights up and all the way back,
and queen it in an elaborate Wal
dorf suite with a secretary, French
maid and caparisoned flunkieS at
the outer door. Ten years ago, too,
Miss Rogers was a ginghamed,
freckled redhead swinging on the
garden gate in front of an UMPIRE
tentious cottage in a jay town n
Texas. One of the small-time
troupers so frequently fictionized by
Vina Delmar. Then that skyrock-
citing success that filters metropoli-
tan hotel Hobbies with autograph
seekers.
Cheer section: A huzzah for the
only director the Metropolitan ever
had to give American singers a
real break-Edward Johnson.
More than one theatrical produc-
er is beagling for a play in which
to star Gloria Swanson in mother
role. Her love for children has
long been an outstanding emotion
in real life, although she never had
the opportunity of so expressing
herself on the screen. Her devotion
TO her own children, along with that
TO a boy she adopted, has been one
Of the Hollywood sagas. Those who
know say she has neat sense of
values for the spoken drama-but
the problem has been to find a play
that may give an outlet for a long
hidden talent.
The call to the South Seas is be-
ing needed by the majority Of those
tired of it all and longing TO get
away from the mad whirl" more in
sistently than ever. Fifteen Green
wich Villagers departed in a month
Somerset Vaughan touched off the
hegira to tropical isles with his
novels, and thus tug was made
tauter by the novelization and film
ing of 'Mutiny on the Bounty" and
the serial THE Hurricane" The re-
suit in Tahiti has been the usual
one. Prices have become prohibitive
for those seeking lower living and
established eXpatriates have pulled
up stakes. Newcomers stand for
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-03
WHY UNSFGHTLY
HOMES?

Many residential areas are insight
In because of lack of home and ciUic
pride.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-03

NJ. c. Mogensen e. Co., National
Advertising Representatives.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-03

Member California Newspaper
Publishers Association.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-28
MANY FARMERS AT
SCHOOLS ON "PICS''

College Station Raleigh, Dec. 28.-
Large numbers of farmers are attend
ing the thrifty pig schools being
conducted over the State by H. w.
Taylor, extension swine specialist at
State College.
The schools are being held this win
ter in approximately 80 of the States
100 counties to bring farmers more in
formation about feeding, manage
ment, breeding, and worm control in
raising hogs.
Taylor discusses briefly various
points in swine production, then gives
the farmers opportunity to ask ques-
tons. Two short movie films on grow
ing hogs and controlling worms are
shown at each school.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-28

Chapel Hill, Dec. 26-Pictured above
are J. Edgar Hoover, Director, and the
seven officers and instructors of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation on
the faculty of the Today school for
North Carolina law enforcing officers
to be held here January 5-14. The
school, which is being arranged by the
Institute of Government and which is
the first of it's kind held in this State,
will also draw on outstanding State
and local officials for it's staff.
Director Hoover is shown at the
left above. The seven federal experts
on the training staff are: Top Row
Cleft to right Hugh H. Clegg, Direc-
tor of the National Police Academy;
E. P. Coffey, head Of the Crime La
boratory of the "FBI;" and l.. c..
Schildre, Director Of the national fin
gerprint files. Bottom row: Lawrence
HI Hincet administrative assistant;
r. T. Harbo, director of the Crime
Statistics Divhsion; Myron Gurnea;
firearms expert, and Graham N. Low
don, special agent in charge of the
Charlotte bureau.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-28
INITIATION: THEY
HAD 1T IN 1870
Early North Carolina Judge Wrote of
Difficulties in Making Both
Ends Meet Then
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Rv II q ia SIX ZIP WILL.
FRY

Raleigh, Dec. 28.-That modernity
Is not the mother of the high cost Of
living and cheap money is shown in
a letter / .um ora Of the first aSsO-
ciate justices Of the United States SUI
preme Court whose home was in
North Carolina. The jurist was James
Iredell, appointed by President Wash
ington, on Feb. 10, 1890.
Members of the Supreme Court for
merly Travelled about from state to
state holding sessions in various towns
Expenses are enormous" Justice
Iredell wrote his wife, who was sis
ter of Samuel Johnston, an early Gov
ernor of North Carolina and the first
Masonic grand master of this State.
my last jaunt on the circuit" he con-
tinued, 'has cost me $500, and the de-
probation will certainly proceed most
rapidly, for they are giving away the
money at the printing office in so
public and careless a manner as to
make it quite contemplate"
In another letter Justice 1redell
wrote: every state in the Union, in
every instance where it's sovereignty
has not been delegated to the United
States, consider to be as completely
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-28

new $1,000,0O0 office building, accord
ing to these who have been studying
the matter here, with the result that
the State would have to put up only
about $500, 900 in order to get a new
12-story office building, provided it is
built On land already belonging to the
State. 1t is also known that for the
past two years Governor J. G. B. En-
hringhaus has been urged to instigate
ate the construction OF new State
office building.
ANY move t.. tui:d 81 new building
on the blind school PROP erty, how
ever, is expected to meet with strong
opposition from Raleigh real estate
men and Raleigh and Wake county
politicians, since they will want to
sell The State new property, at very
high prices, around Capitol Square. 1t
is also. expected that the contractors
and architects here will oppose such
a move, and favor the building of two
more new five-story buildings adj
jacent to the square, since they will
cost more, hence pay larger profits.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-28
Ten-Day Police School
Will Have Strong Staff
Event at University To Inc lude Director ClegS and
Five Ranking Instructors In National Police Aca-
denny; Institute of G overnment Sponsor

Chapel Hill, Dec. 28-The Institute
of Governments Today school for
law enforcing officers here January
3 IA, arrangements for which have
just been completed, will have a staff
of outstanding local, state, and fede-
raj officers, headed by six of the
ranking instructors in the National
Police Academy.
Hugh H. Clegg, who heads the list
is Director of the national school,
Three others head major divisions of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation:
E. p. Coffey (crime laboratory L.
C. Schilder (finger-prinD and r. T.
THarbo Criminal statistics) Myron
Gurnea is the firearms expert and
Lawrence A. Hince an administrative
assistant of the "FBI"
The announcement of the school,
which is the first of this length held
in the State and which will have one
of the strongest stats of any SINH
lar school, has met with an enthu-
siastic reception.
Although formal application blanks
did not go out until a Few days ago,
reservations have already been receiv-
ed from number of departments in
Guiding Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Ra-
leigh, Duham, Rocky Mount Sails
bury, Kinston, Washington, Oxford
Roanoke Rapids, Sanford, Selma,
Fort Bragg, and Randleman. With
the opening date almost two weeks
off, indications are for a wide attend
ance.
The school is part of The Institutes
program of city and county training
schools, and there is no registration
fee or other charge, the only expense
being the officers room and board
while in Chapel Hill.
The training by instructors from
the National Police Academy will be
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-28
TOURIST CARS AND
TRUCKS MENAC|NG
These Speeding Vehicles
Greatest Danger To
School Buses
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel
IN j. &. RASN ERVILT,

pqlrgN Dec. 2S.-Speeding trucks
and automobiles, especially cars driv-
W, by Juurists from other states pass
IN, through North Carolina, are
on,cua NE worst hazards school bus
nt,,rs have to contend with and
@a,sr many more accidents involving
.,h,a, buses or school children than
ac drivers of school fuses, accord
ne TO Executive Secretary LLOYD
c-iffm Of the State School Commits
Jan. and l.. G. Thornton, of the trans
ro,tation division which has direct
Supervision Of the more than 1000
sehool buses which transport some
o-ooe1 school children to and from
school every school day
"The drivers CT the school buses
tell lis that they fear heavily loaded.
shedding trucks, such as that which
ran INTO the school bus in Cumberland
county some three weeks ago, wreck
inc II and causing the death of four
children. more than anything else"
Thornon said. Next to these trucks
they say they fear the cars driven by
tourists from other states, on the
grounds that more of these cars and
their drivers disregard the law re-
curing all cars to slow up before pass
inc a school bus and to stop when
ever a school bus halts to unload.
"rhe drivers of North Carolina cars
seem to observe the law better and
to be more careful in passing school
buses or in stopping when the buses
stop to unload, although some of them
disregard the law and speed right on
tv. But they maintain that the drivers
Of cars from other states drive faster
and show less regard for the laws
about passing school buses than any
others.
Both Griffin and Thornton COM
mend Capt. Charles D. Farmer, of the
State Highway Patrol for his warning
to truck operators and drivers that
they must slow down and for issuing
order to patrolmen to arrest any
truck drivers found travelling over 35
miles an hour or trucks with trailers
travelling more than 80 miles an hour
the speed limits fixed on trucks dur
Ing the 1885 General Assembly.
The truck which struck the school
bus in Cumberland county, in which
four children were killed, was travel
ing between so and 60 miles an hour,
according to reliable estimates, and
was carrying four-ton load.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-28

CONTINUED from Page One)
the new office building and the newly
created Unemployment Compensation
Commission, which had to lease space
in an office building here last week,
could use a floor of space Immediately
and eventually will need two or three
floors, it is agreed. The State En-
ployment Service, which is now spend
ing several hundred dollars a month
month for rent, could also use an en-
tire floor in new State building.
Fright now existing State agencies
need from six to eight floors of office
space which is not available in any
State buildings and for which the
State or the Federal government is
having to pay rent" Commissioner
Fletcher said. "In addition, there are
the various Federal agencies, such
as the WPA, the Resettlement Adj
ministration, and others, which would
be only too glad to pay the State rent
for office space, if it had such space
available. For most Of the buildings
where these agencies are row located
want them to move as soon as posi-
,tle, since they can get more rent from
| the same space from private renters.
| AS a result, I am convinced that the
State could use History office build
! ing Immediately, or at least history
| building. And I think this building
should he constructed so that another
ten stories can be added to it later
as more space is needed, since in an
other ten years I feel certain the
State will need a 20 or % story build
ing"
Since there is strong opposition to
building any State buildings around
the Capitol Square of more than five
stories, and which would not har-
monte with the present buildings al
ready there, Commissioner Fletcher
thinks the thing to do is to build the
new office building on the old blind
school square, already owned by the
State and only two blocks from the
Capitol Square. Thus the State woulc
not have to pay anything for new rea
estate and could put all it's money into
the building. This old blind schoo
property, which now has the Boarc
of Health building on one end would
also offer plenty of parking space
10th for employees and those having
business in the building and would
thus relieve the present parking con
gestion around the Capitol Square.
There is reason to believe that the
State can obtain as much as $600,O0(
in a grant from the Federal govern
ment towards the construction of {
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-28

to speak with you then"-he smiled
at the recollection-"bu you were
ungracious enough to knock me
down."
"Great heavens, and yet after
that you welcomed me as the sue
cessor of Colindale!"
81 bore no grudge-you were
trying to escape, and acted accord
ingly, but I was glad you cam0
because I knew you were a friend
of hers and of the children"
"And now they have gone," Reid
said bitterly.
"Mr. Reid, we want the help of
that detective, Selden-he's got
more brains than both of us put
together, saving your presence.
Inspector Hutchins came this
morning-Lady Severinge told me
to phone him-he is there now.
and has wired for Mr.. Selden to
come. He is very upset about this
recent development"
! There was a curious look in
James eyes, and Reid was quick
| l.
my absence has caused the in
spector to wonder how far I ana
implicated"
A slow smile spread over the
buffers face. 'I think, Mr.. Reid,
that he suspects us both; he was
making inquiries about you, and
I shouldn't wonder if either he or
Mr.. Selden comes here to ask some
questions"
'"Tell me this, James, do you
think that Colonel Graham mas
anything to do with the murder or
the disappearance Of the chill
dren ?"
his manner was very grave. "That
I can't say, but we shall know
soOn."
"How?" Reid asked in astonish-
ment at the words.
eff he is murdered, it will prove
his innocence"
Before Reid could comment on
this amazing statement, a sound
was heard below, and James placed
a warning finger to his lip.
t'May we come up?" Graham
called, and he and Lady Sewerage
tramped up the narrow cottage
stairs.
$50 you have got him to bed
that's right, James. Reid. here's
Lady Severinge come to see you.
I've told her all about your adj
venture and made my apologies.
She is naturally upset at the dis
appe arance of the children.
Hutchins has wired for that young
detective. Not that I think much
of him, but understand, in spite
of my protest to Sir James Boyle,
he is still in charge of the case"
'I am SO sorry, Mr.. Reid Lady
Severinge added. what an awful
adventure you had! And if you
had only been at the Abbey this
might not have happened"
Really, Hilda," Graham said
harshly, II don't see quite what
Mr.. Reid could have done. To my
mind, it's obvious that the girl has
taken them off somewhere, and if
necessary shall have to put my
bloodhounds on the track"
Reid would have sprung up at
the base insinuation about Sylvia,
but James placed warning hand
on his arm.
] (To BE Continued)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-28

supplemented as to North Carolina
phases by outstanding State and To-
cal officials and by members of the
Institute of Government staff. Among
those on the completed staff are:
State officials: Capt. Charles D.
Farmer, State Highway Patrol; Arth-
ur Fulk, director, State Division of
Highway Safety; Edwin Gill, Commits
sioner of Paroles; and Sherwood
Brockell, State Fire Marshall; Frank
trial Commission.
Police Officials: F. N. Littlejohn,
Chief of Detectives, Charlotte; Walter
F. Anderson, Chief Of Police, Winston
Salem; Herman w. Zimmerman, Iden
tification Officer, Lexington; w. J.
Groom, Director of Public Safety,
Durham.
Others: Graham N. Lowden, Special
agent in charge of Charlotte bureau,
"FBI"; w. A. Coble, North Carolina
representative, Automobile Underwrit-
ers Detective Bureau; Judge VIM.
York, Greensboro Juvenile Court; A.
J. Littleton, Investigator, Alcoholic
Tax Unit, Treasury Department.; F.
l.. Wyman, firearms expert, National
Rifle Association.
Institute of Government Staff: Al
bert Coates, Director; Edward Scheidt
Special Agent of the "FBI" assisting
in the police training program in
North Carolina: Harry w. McGalliard
author of Guides to Highway Safety.
The training will cover all major
phases of law enforcement work I'M
der the main divisions: criminal law,
criminal investigation and apprehen-
sion, scientific ads in crime detection
patrol and traffic, firearms instruc-
ton, first aid, police administration
and records, cooperative measures
and crime prevention.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-28
THINGS TO COME"
SCREENS BIGGEST

For sheer bigness of undertaking,
there has never been anything in all
the bleath-taking annals of Holly
wood production to challenge Things
To Come" H. G.. Wells amazing fore
cat of the future, produced by Alex
ander Kctda and due to begin two
days engagement at the Vance the
atfe w dnesday.
The difference between things 10
Come and all other films dealing
with the future is that Wells vision
Is no mere imaginative Utopia, but
PRACTICAL livable world, based on
scientific and economic truths.
This naturally complicated prob
lens of production, for Wells could
nor conscientiously leap from 1896 to
2l36, emitting the tran sitional per-
iods between. Consequently, Things
To Come" had to be treated as three
separate stories in which the present
the near future and the distant flu
ture play the roles of three indiv1d-
ual protagonists. Beginning in 1910,
This time-trilogy shows the world at
the brink Of war which destroys CIV
li2ation leaving in it's wake hand
iul Of primitive survivors, ready for
another war In the beginning of the
twentyfirst century a group of scien-
lists take control Of these few and
start building a marvellous new world.
In this wonderful world of the FL
ture, cities are subterranean-vast
excavations, dug into the hills and
equipped with artificial light. heat
and air. Buildings are constructed al
most entirely Of glass, and constantly
bathed in artificial sunlight. Human
bergs carry portable television sets
sending direct images and communl-
cations between persons, instead OF
stations. Colds, rheumatism and 9th
ef common ills of today are unknown
and the average life-span is prolong
ed far beyond three score and ten.
the working day is compressed into
two hours and leisure becomes a high
y organized department of life. Blu
perhaps the greatest invention OF al
Is the gigantic space gun used to pro
pei human beings to the moon.
Swedes belong to the same Teutoni
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-28
Drastic Tax Probable
On Intangibles
Continued from Page one.)

regarded as practical before, since the
Constitution formerly made it man
datory to tax intangible property at
the same rate as tangible property.
But since the new amendment was
adopted authorizing the classification
of property and the fixing of different
tax rates for different classifications,
it will now be possible for the State
to levy tax, say, of one-half of one
per cent, or one-fourth of one per cent
on bank deposits, savings, notes, NOR
tgages, stocks, bonds and other intan-
gible property and require that the
tax he deducted by the banks, mort
gage companies and issuers of stocks
and bonds and then be paid by them
to the state. Since an effort will be
made to keep the rate low, it is be-
lieved that very little effort would be
made to evade this tax and that it
would yield large chunk of much
needed revenue.