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Evening star., 1936-09-26

with more use of the patient, accum-
ulated work Of the Governments OBJ
scure servants in the regular depart
ments over the past two generations.
Then again they might not have done
SO we'll. Another generation must give
the estimate Of the sorties of the past
three years.
There has been conservation before.
For 80 years it has been an issue in
American politics, and Theodore
Roosevelt was its messiah. But the
conservation Of the past has been, to
far too great an extent, isolated con-
servation. The ornithologist has acted
independently Of the forester, the en-
gineer Of the bacteriologist, etc.
The new conservation. which must
60 on regardless of who Is in COM
mand, must be co-ordinated conser-
vation, with forester. engineer, agron-
omist, biologist, entomologist, ethnolo-
gist, archeologist, town planner, trans
portation expert and q score Of others
working together on the same prob
ems. This is Mr.. Chase's message
to the American people. He has given
US the jeremiad of the time. Leaving
out of account all political considera-
tions, his book is q health-giving in
tellectual dose.
TRAVELS IN EGYPT: DECEMBER
1880 TO MAY 1891. The Letters
of Charles Edwin Wilbour. Edited
by Jean Capart. Limited edition.
Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum Press.
r EADERs who enjoy published cor
respondence can hardly do better
than read this volume-the letters of
a pioneer American Egyptologist re-
lating his experiences in excavating
half a century ago. For they are
pleasantly written, they convey a COM
bined sense Of personality and period
as only personal papers can do, and
they are about one OF the most fas-
cinating Of occupationS-that Of ar
theological study.
Mr.. Wilbour went out to Egypt to
conduct his Investigations regularly
each Winter in the period represented
by the volume. He wrote frequently
to his family, and the collection here
IS chiefly Of those letters. They tell
OF fellow excavators, Of personalities
Evening star., 1936-09-26
By Cedric Larson.

= TRAW-BALLOT time Is now in
full swing in the United States
- and poll sponsors are deluging
the country with . veritable
Niagara Of print about it all. Dozens
Of tests Of public sentiment, Of vary
ing magnitude, are now being carried
on, and it would be safe to say that
their combined prediction ballots,
gathered in, would easily reach the
so, ,000, 900 mark.
Although party sages have always
gazed into the darkest Of political
perspectives with the greatest of ease
prior to election time, the straw poll
as an election predictor came into ma
tional prominence only 30 late Is 1908
and 1912.
Once established, however, the straw
vote has nourished In an extraordi-
nary way and. drawing the statistician,
the political scientist and the journalist
within its quadrennial orbit, has
evolved from crude guesswork to an
exact science. with q technique and
corps Of practitioners all its own.
Indeed, when one sees public opinion
measured and forecast with such
deadly expectation of certain results
as to be carried to three decimals,
Bernouli and his mathematical FORM
ulae Of probabilities seem futile.
Newspapers were the trail blazers in
the art of conducting political straw
polls. The chief stimulus for this pre-
election vote gathering, of course, lay
In its news value. Although shrewd
estimates Of election outcomes have
always been made by political prog
nosticators, it was not until the pres
ent century that the method Of straw
polls was used extensively.
Several newspapers, shortly after the
turn of the century, began experiment.
ing with measurement Of public senti-
ment on various issues. One Of the
most noteworthy Of these attempts.
from . historical standpoint, was the
one carried on by the New York Her.
aid, first singly and later in co-opera-
tion with large dailies In other metro
politan centers.
This New York paper, according tc
the best account, in 1904 maintained
observers around the State and polled
several thousand votes in New York
City. Four years later this paper col
laborated with large dailies in Cincin-
natl, Chicago and st. Louis, and BY
means Of street-corner polls and re-
ports Of seasoned political scouts, At
tempted to forecast the presidential
election.
In the three-cornered political race
Of 1919 the four newspapers again
endeavored to fathom the public mind
prior to November. and on . more
ambitious scale, cooperating with
dailies in Boston, Denver and Los
Angeles, polling about thFee-fourtha
Evening star., 1936-09-26
By F.JayCarmody.

TIME sea apparently Is Joining the
land In going back on man.
In seeming resentment against
- his efforts to intensity it, yield
Of foodstufis. 1t s proving that It's
bounty Is something less than limit.
less.
Commercially extinct" those words
written with such finality beside the
names Of certain species Of hsh, are
becoming more commonplace in the
books In which the Federal Govern
ment writes the story the American
fishing industry.
For centuries the contest was fought
ON even terms. The sea produced as
fast, or faster, than men could deplete
its stock of foodstuf1s. The convic-
ton developed that the situation
always would continue unchanged. 1t
might have been justified had man
continued to fish by the age-old
methods, but he did not. Scientific
fishing came into the picture, just As
did scientific farming and scientific
fabrication of manufactured products.
The result Is that man Is asking the
yea to give more than 1t positively can.
It's resources are drying up despite the
fact that the sea itself remains as
wide and q deep and - mysterious ~
ever.
Unlike the farm problem, the fishing
problem has attracted very little at
tention. 1t lacks the drama that in
heres in land blowing away, in the set.
tlement Of Kansas dust on the desks
Of Government officials in Washing
ton. Like the sea itself. the problems
Of those who take living from IT are
remote and mysterious.
The difference between the two
types of industrial problems, fishing
and farming, was perfectly illustrated
during the past week. An mternA-
tional conference on the former was
held in New York. Representatives
of four nations sat in on it. They were
the United States, Canada. Newfound-
land and France. Few persons knew
anything about it, or cared. It re-
ceived but scant attention from the
press. What a difference had the
conference been an international ses-
sion on saving the farm industry Of
the worldl
IT MUST be granted. of course, that
for all the goodness Of its taste,
"haddock" sounds extraordinarily dull.
1t may make good eating, but never
good reading.
The New York conference was great
ly concerned with haddock. This
species Of fish, indeed, would appear
destined to be the next beside which
the words commercially extinct" may
be written. There is q possibility, Of
course, that the mackerel may beat
the haddock in the race toward the
oblivion which already has en-
shrounded the shad Gndustrially
speaking). the river herring and the
sturgeon
"Once upon q time" mans most
nostalgia phrase, already is true. too,
Of salmon and halibut fishing In the
once bounteous North Atlantic.
Representatives Of the United States
Bureau of Fisheries, and those Of
equivalent agencies in foreign govern
ments, do not grow lyrical when they
sit down to confer on methods Of
putting fishing on basis Of preserva-
ton Of the study.
A lyricist among them, however,
Evening star., 1936-09-26
NDERER SUBJECT OF CHASE's
Economist Dramatzes the Story of Americas Attack Soils
Bounty-An Egyptoogist Tells the Tale of IL Years Exca
vatons-Other Books Reviewed.

met in his travels and Of his actual
work. That work was carried on un-
der conditions considerably more DIFF
ficult than those which face the
Egyptologist today.
For, as far ~ one can gather from
this correspondence. q veritable state
Of anarchy existed IN the field Of OK.
cavation. The natives had become So
phisticated. They had learned that,
Europeans would pay fee ancient OBJ
jects. The rifling a toGhs therefore
had become . well-established native
profession. but one. unfortunately,
which was conducted with little dis.
elimination. It seems to have been
the custom Of the local villagers to
open whatever tombs they discovered,
carry the movable objects on to their
homes and then, quite piecemeal. offer
their findings to any and al Euro
peans. In this manner, naturally, the
relics were mixed In confusion and
scattered about irretrievsbly. At the
time Mr.. Wilbour's correspondence be-
gins. the French government was en-
desvoring to bring some order into
conditions. and he worked with the
most eminent French and German
students.
He writes untechnically but with
evidence Of his great scholarship. The
consistency Of his letters. over 80 long
q period, should make the collection
of value to students, while the charm
Of hts style unQuestionably commends
the volume to readers Of general in
terest. NC. r.
CATALOGUE. BY George Milburn.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co.
WRITING with salty and Sometimes
~ brutal rusticity. George Ailburn
gives US here . series Of related stories
based on the arrival at An Oklahoma
post ONCE Of the Fall and Winter
catalogues sent out by the large mail
order houses. The stories themselves
are not wholly unconventional, but
the book has considerable merit in
the directness of its treatment Of its
country population. Mr.. Milburn does
not romantici1e. With q few excep-
tions, he sees his rustics as ignorant,
cruel, greedy and debased generally.
Yet he contriyes to write of them In q
genial mood and his book has some
moments Of real Rabelaisian humor.
On the whole 1t can be commended.
NC. r.
THE SKY BUT NOT THE HEART.
BY r. L. DufIus. New York: The
Macmillan Co.
THE world Is full Of q number OF
oddities political. social and
Observation-Disclosures days, and Mr.. Duff
fus has put them into a book. Read
ing it, one might think Zone did think,
indeed) that it has the flavor of q
talent which seems combination
of Aldous Huxley and Robert Nathan.
There Is satire in it, but there Is more
of a melancholy irony. The pattern is
not unlike that Of Huxleys Brave
New World" but the mood is akin
to that in Nathan's Road of Ages"
But enough Of these comparisons.
Mans acute sense OF defective social
and political principles in world that
has grown a bit too complex for him
is the essence of Mr.. Duffus' tale.
BY way Of getting 1t started, he
takes US to Georgiana, q sort of no
mans land which grew out of an
error In map-making when the world
was being reapportioned after the
World War. Alfred Alexandrovitch
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
FIRST AIRMAU
FLIER DIES OF
HEART DISEASE

GLENDALE, Cal, July %. U.P)
Earle l.. Ovington, listed in gov
ernment annals as the first air
mail pilot, died last night in a
sanitarium here of heart complica-
tions resulting from a long illness
and several operations. He was
56 years cid.
Never an aviator by profession,
Ovington saw the thrills and pos
sibilities of flying shortly after his
graduation from Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology in 1904
He went to Pau, France, and en-
rolled in the Bleri0t school of
aeronautics. In 1911 he returned
to the United States and soon con-
vinced the government it should
allow him to make an experiment
al flight carrying mail.
Receiving the permission of
Postmaster General Frank H.
Hitchcock, he took his trip to Gar
den City, New York, and on Sept,
%, 1911, flew to Mineola, l.. l., 10
miles away with a sack of mail.
Ovington retired several years
ago and moved to Santa Barbara
where his interest shifted to yacht
ing. He soon became commodore
OF the Santa Barbara yacht club
and was a admiral of the
Southern California Yacht club.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
JeweLl Smith Weds
Earl c. Hamblin In
Ceremony at Yuma

Miss Jewell Smith, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Smith of Calexico
became the bride of Earl c. Ham
blin of Ell Centro at Yuma recently.
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. Raymond Acherson of the
Presbyterian church. Mrs. Eula q.
Null of Ell Centro attended the
bride as matron- f-honor and
Woodrow Welch officiated as best
man.
Immediately after the wedding,
Mr. and Mrs. Hamblin left for San
Diego and other coast cities for
their honeymoon. They will re-
turn in the fall to make their home
in Ell Centro where Hamblin is en-
ployed by the California Pine Box
company.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
Airline Traffic
Increase Reported
For Current Year

NEW YORK, July %. WR)-United
Air Lines air passenger, mail and
express traffic rose to new records
during the first six months of 1896,
President w. A. Patterson said to-
day.
Revenue passengers increased Is
per cent, air express so per cent.
air mail IL per cent, and mileage
20 per cent over the corresponding
period last year.
United planes carried 1880 rev
enue passengers, 1,042, ,482 pounds of
express. and 2,681,144 pounds of
mail. The total miles flown were
7,833,635. During the corresponding
period last year United carried
10000 revenue passengers, 692,685
pounds of express, 2388,158 pounds
of mail, and flew 6,544,5O4 miles.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
Federal official Made
Victim of TaVo Sluggers

SAN MA2INO Cal, July %. UR-Davd Head commissioner
Angeles
justice sought
entering
appeared down.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
AMERICA HEADS
OLYMPIC LISTS

BERLIN, July %. U.P)-United
States, with a maximum of 81 en-
tries, heads the list of nations who
will compete in track and field at
the Olympic games next month,
according to the final entry list
published today.
A total of 1,089 athletes, of
which 118 are women, will repre-
sent As nations in track and field.
Germany is second to the U.
S. with rs entries; France is next
with 60 and Japan fourth with SO.
England entered SIS, Canada SIS and
Finland SO. Jamaica, in the Bri-
tish West Indies, will be repre-
sented by one athlete.
Most entries in one event are
SO in the 100 meter run. Hammer
throw was the smallest individual
entry list-33.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
Hungarian Writer
Waits Citizenship

HOLLYWOOD, July %. WP)-
Melchio Lengyel, famous Hungar-
ian writer, was back in Hollywood
after spending several days in Mex
leo while awaiting entrance into
the United States under the Hun
garian quota SO he can eventually
become an American citizen
Two other film colony residents
also visited Mexico in the past few
days to enter under quota numbers.
They are Anita Jason, l8-year old
sister of Sybil Jason, child actress,
who entered under the British
quota, and Countess Iphigenie Cas-
tiglioni, Viennese actress. who came
in under the Austrian quota.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
THUGS ATTACK u. S. COMMISSIONER
OLIVER FARM IMPLEMENT AGENCY
TO BE HANDLED BY VALLEY FIRM

farmers singing the praises Of
this great plow. We feel fortu-
nate in securing this line"
The Imperial Valley territory
was chosen by Hadley and Shasky
after an investigation of several
ether available territories. Both
men have a wide experience in
their field.
e. J. Mack, vii known to thou
sands of farmers in Imperial Val
ley through his connection with
the farm implement business, will
have charge of sales for the con-
Germ. Il am very we'll pleased with
my connection said Mack, Il
know that in the Oliver line and
in the Cletrac tractor 1 have some
thing 1 can unhesitatingly recon-
mend to my friends"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
Los Angeles Lifts
Milk Ban on North

LOS ANGELES, July %. U.p)-
A report from the department OF
agriculture that the number of
tubercular cattle in Humboldt coun-
ty had decreased greatly today led
Los Angeles county health author
tiles to lift their ban on dairy
products from the northern county.
Health Officer John Pomeroy had
barred dairy products from Merced,
Stanislaus, Marin and Humboldt
counties because he said cattle there
did not conform to the county's re-
quirements for tubercular tests.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22

Announcement was made this
week that the Imperial Valley
Tractor and Implement company
at 424 Main street Ell Centre, had
been appointed Imperial Valley
distributors for the Oliver line of
farm implements and the Cletrac
craWler type tractor.
Owners of the tractor concern
are Irving l.. Hadley and Robert
E. Shasky OF Ventura. In speak
ing of their appointment Hadley
said, Il feel that in the Oliver
line we have just the type of tools
to meet the rigid requirements OF
farming operations in Imperial
Valley. Oliver wheel tractors and
farm tools have been on the mar
ket so long that their worth is
proven without question"
yes that is true" went on
Shasky, the other member of the
firm, "There is one tool in par
ticular in the Oliver line that
seems to have justified more than
its wonderful reputation and that
is the Oliver plow. Everywhere I
go in Imperial Valley, 1 find the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
TESTING
ARIZONA DRUNK
DRIVING LAWS
90

PHOENIX. July %. Og - Ari-
zona's drunk driving law, which
makes a 30 to 90-day Jail sentence
mandatory upon conviction, today
was headed for a test in supreme
court.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
THRIFT COOKER

The Thrift Cooker cooks an
entire meal of meat. vegetables.
dessert - without transfer of
favor or odor-or bakes one
potato without need for heating
up the oven. II adds e whole
new bag of tricks to the home
makers routine,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
Itinerant Freed
Of Spy Suspicion

LONG BEACH, July %. UP)-
Anthony j. Paris, 25-year-old timer
ant, who was taken into custody
because he jotted down shorthand
notes of what he saw and heard
aboard the navy aircraft carrier
Saratoga, was at liberty today to
continue his wanderings about the
country.
Police released him from Jail on
orders of department of justice
agents who decided there was no
justification for holding him for
further investigation. He had been
held since Sunday on vagrancy
charges.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
Ell Morado Offers
Unique Service

The Ell Morado Drapery Studio is
offering a unique service to the
housewives of Imperial Valley.
Drapes, upholstering and furni
ture may be cleaned and stored and
delivered in time for home coming
again in the fall, or at the con
venience of the customer. All work
is fully guaranteed and insured
against any loss.
The studio announces that the
new fall line of drapes is now COM
plete for showing. They feature
free sample and home advisory
service.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
Townsend Club To
Sponsor Meeting

Ell Centre Townsend club No. l
will entertain with an ice cream
social at city park at 7:30 o'clock
Thursday night, members OF the
club having invited friends of the
organization to join them.
A brief business meeting is plan
ned after which the event will be
turned over to the social commit
tee. Prizes and surprises are
promised by the women in charge
of the entertainment.
Proceeds from the affair will
be turned over to club funds.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
Japan Reopens
Toxic Exchange

TOXIC, July %. (U.P)-The Toxic
stock exchange rsopened today
following a shutdown precipitated
by reports the government was
planning drastic measures to curb
speculation.
The government denied the re-
ports and some measure of con-
fidence was restored. Prices, how
ever, eaSed further after their
sharp break on Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22
SPY EN- ROUTE
TO u. S. PRISON

LOS ANGELES, July % UP)-
Harry Thomas Thompson, 30-year'
old former U. s. navy yeoman, was
en- route under heavy guard today
to Mcneil Island federal prison to
start serving a 15-year term for
conspiring to sell naval secrets to
a Japanese navy officer. Five 9TH
er federal prisoners were taken
along with him by U. S. marshals,
making the trip by automobile.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-22

Head reported. The blows were
struck SO rapidly, he was unable
to get a good look at his assail-
ants, Head declared.
His chauffeur, William Long,
found him lying unconscious near
ly an hour after the attack oc-
Cured
The assailants did not touch
$50 in cash and a valuable ring
the commissioner had en- his per-
son.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20
'SUpERSPEED' IS STORY OF
 AUTO RAGING
Norman F oster Seen as All American Football Play
 CT Turned Inventor

Automobiles skidding perilously on dirt tracks. speedboats bursting into flames. football players pounding the opposing line. dishonesty and treach- cry in big industry, coupled with a spirited romance, are the ingredi- ents of "Superspeed" Columbia ac- tion drama which opens tonight at the Coliseum Theatre
 The story concerns itself with the struggles of Norman Foster as an all-America football player who re- fuses to capitalize on his gridiron laurels. He singlehandedly develops q combined supercharger and car buretor which will benefit automo- bile manufacturers. However, he is forced to undergo many hardships and risk his life in hazardous eX~ ploits before he achieves success.
 Featured oposite Foster are Flor ence Rice and Mary Carlisle. How Foster solves his dilemma and res cues romance from rip-roaring dan ger is interestingly portrayed
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20
Skiers May Come to Alaska After
 Crossing Canada

STOCKHOLM, March 20.-A B. 000-mile ski trip across Canada is being mapped out by three young Swedish ski-runners.
 The distance skiers, who hope to start from Quebec some time this month, are j. A. Boden. who has to his credit several long journeys in the Scandinavian countries; Karl Yngve Hallstroem, an artist who will make a photographic record of the trip, and Lieut.. Birger Hult- strand.
 The plan to travel either north from Quebec, crossing the mouth of Hudson Bay on the ice, and then continuing due west. south of Great Bear of Hudson Bay, which would offer an easier but less ex- citing route.
 Reports of exceptionally heavy snowfalls in Canada have given them hope that they may be able to ski their way westward most of the summer and thus avoid halt some- where in the northern wilds
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20

The point where Colorado New Mexico, Utah and Arizona touch is the only spot in the United States bounded by four States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20
MARTHA soCIET-,

Martha Society Food Sale, Satur- day, March 21. Light lunch to be served beginning at 10:30 o'clock. At Sanitary Grocery. a
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20
LAUREL AND HARDY SEEN
 AT CAPITOL
Famous Com edy Pair in Bonnie Scotland''
 Draws Laughs

When Laurel and Hardy unwit- tingly enlist in Scotch regiment about to embark for India, the fun begins in their latest Hal Roach M-G-M comedy feature, Bonnie Scotland" which opens tonight at the Capitol Theatre.
 A romance involving pretty Lorna McLaurel tJune Lang) a Scotch Lassie. and Alan Douglas (William Janney) a barrister's clerk, is woven through the story of the picture. The supporting cast includes Anne Grey Vernon Steele. J Jimmy Finlayson. David Torrance, Maurice Black, Daphne Pollard, Mary Gordon and Lionel Belmore.
 The picture involves Laurel and Hardy in intrigue in the bandit in fested desert stretches of far away India Aided and abetted by his warm friend and counsellor, MT. Hardy Stanley McLaurel journeys to Scot land to claim his share of fortune left by an uncle he has never seen. When his portion of the legacy is revealed as worthless heirlooms Stan is Respondent Stranded in strange country, the boys inadvertently sign army enlistment papers and before they realize it they are attired in the uniform of Scotch Highlanders and are off to India for desert patrol duty
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20
GRIpLEY ro MRANGELL

Ross A. Gridley. State. Engineer Inspector of the Public Works Ad- is to leave on the Vic toria today for Wrangell, where he will view the new PWA street pro ject. He will return on the Yukon
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20

About 12 percent of the worlds to- tai population lives in the 626 cities of over 100000 population.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-20
Straw Stack Imprisons
 Lost Calf for $ Days

SANGER, Texas, March 20.-The proverbial needle had nothing on Farmer J. c. Wagoner's lost calf.
 Wagoner advertised he had lost a valuable calf. He thought it strayed or stolen. No trace of it was found for 55 days.
 Then his son, Rex, passing a large straw stack in pasture, noticed slight movement in the straw. He investigated and found the missing calf It had gotten in- side the stack in some manner and apparently could not get out. It had become blind in one eye.