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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04

men without enough cash
to rent a tourist cabin or
even buy a good tent.
So a huge percentage of readers
merely looked confused for a
moment; then turned to the fun
MES.
A few inquiring minds perked
up and took notice. They stopped
along the road to talk to persons
who actually were living in the
darned things. They asked ques-
tons. They discovered many in
teresting and startling facts. I
will speak of these facts in detail
later.
A THIRD contingent, the tour
L n ist camp owners, hotel oper-
ators and persons with money in
vested in resort properties, already
knew about house trailers. They
had been wondering what to do
about them for several years. Mr..
Babson made them feel even
worse.
A fourth group, the politicians,
read Mr.. Babson's words with in
tereSt.
After all, they muttered, how
can you run city or state gov
eminent and provide jobs for the
boys and pay pensions and build
courthouses if half your taxpay-
erS sell out and begin living on
wheels that can whisk them over
the state line before you can even
call special session of the Leg
islature? BY lingo, it was prob
ably unconstitutional!
But to the persons already liv-
ing in house trailers, their num-
bers estimated at 100000 at the
time, Mr.. Babson's remarks were
no surprise whatever.
In fact, many of them were
ready to call him a hopeless con-
sentative and risk a shilling or
two that it would take only 10
instead of the 20 years he men
toned.
THE trailer manufacturers
u were too busy to pay much
attention to predictions. They
were sold out weeks or months
in advance.
New factories were springing up
every day or two; old concerns
were telling their bankers that
prosperity had returned and were
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04

sweep the kitchen and air the
kitty'S bed in a six-room house.
II
MO drawer or cupboard in the
IN tiny galley is more than half
a step from the gasoline stove.
Some stoves have ovens. The ice
box holds from Is to rs pounds.
Beds are usually double, one at
each end or an upper and lower,
but single beds are appearing
more frequently in the new
models.
The inner-spring mattresses are
more comfortable than the ones
mother gave you for a wedding
present. A dressing table with
mirror is standard equipment now.
All new coaches are we'll insu-
lated for warmth in winter and
GOODNESS in the sum- Small heat
ing stoves burn oil, coal, chips,
charcoal, wood or pine cones and
political platforms. One electric
circuit operates from the car bat
terry, another plugs in to any no.
volt socket when you are parked
in the camps or a friendly back
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04

borrowing money to enable them
to double and triple their output.
The Florida trailer camps ac-
tually were overcrowded by the
unexpected throngs last winter.
There now are more than ESQ.,
900 house trailers in use in this
country, according to statement
just made in national magazine.
If this is true there must be at
least 100000 living the gypsy life.
Compare this figure to the 100000
estimate made less than a year
ago.
If the numbers continue to
triple in like periods, we will be
talking of the trailer millions in
a year. 1t will be Big Business,
If it isn't already.
IVES, the house trailer, like the
i flying machine, is here to
stay. If the craze or urge or
whatever it is maintains it's pres
ent pace, you and I and all of us
soon will be more or less affected.
You may lose or make money
building trailers or accessories;
you may open a trailer camp; you
may own corner grocery and see
the gross fall away as the trailer
ties slip up side roads and buy
food direct from the farmer; you
may patent a gadget that every
trailer must have and watch the
dollars accumulate; your string of
summer cottages may go unoccu-
pied as the trailerS roll by; you
may have an income that will
enable you to lift your sore nose
from the grindstone and join the
parade.
You must admit there are many
possibilities, even if you slice Mr..
Babson's figures in halves or
quarters.
So whether you are trailer
friend or enemy or, as is most
likely, don't give a boot one way
or the other, it may not be time
lost to consider some reasons for
the astonishing popularity of auto
coaches.
THESE modern covered wag-
l. onS come in as many
shapes and sizes and prices as
the houses they are replacing.
When you park in a trailer camp
your neighbor on the north may
be living in an outfit built last
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04
It's Great Study of Contrasts

Il ME Kentucky Derby is a great occasion for
- the study of contrasts. 1t is sort Of old-home
week for the underworld of the Ohio and Mississippi
valleys and Chicago, with many delegates from New
York and New jersey and gala occasion for those
magnates OF industry and masters of men who like
to mingle with crowds and talk horse AL Capone
and his men used to come down from Cicero ILL., in
a body and relax for few days at the Derby but
Mr.. Capone is away now and the angels have taken
many of his boys up to heaven Others have taken
their place.
The Derby attracts that kind of men,
After all, the facts of life what they are The
Kentucky Derby Is not all the glamour and the chiv-
airy and beauty that you might be led to suppose
from the legends that you have heard. It is great
promotion which puts Louisville in the papers for
weeks every spring leading up to one special week
of intensive ballyhoo
1t brings thousands of people to town with money
to spend on food liquor. lodging craps and roulette
For the respectable people of Louisville it happy
week In Which to meet old friends again and have
little fu 1t is the continuation of an old tradition
which ignores reality for the sake of sentiment
1t is just of those old American institutions
like the Mardi Gras in New Orleans or the million-
dollar fight anywhere Reform it, delouse it, SO to
speak, and you would have no Kentucky Derby but
just another horse race. The social side of the
Derby is just as important to the occasion as the
hasty scamper Of the little nags on the oval track
Without the monkey business it wouldn't be the
Derby, and without the race there would be no
monkey business
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04
Customers Forget After a Year

THE roster of those who always mentioned
as distinguished visitors changes from year to
year Capone drops out, but for the first tims
since he grew up, Babe Ruth finds himself unem-
poyed and therefore at liberty to attend his first
Derby. OF course, Jack Dempsey was here and as
usual, he earned his way and little more by
working as referee in fight
Sir Bede Clifford, the British Governor General
OF the Bahamas, was present as the guest of Mr.
Joe Widener, Philadelphia who owns big horse
farm nearby and is socially inclined English titles
have curious effect on Mr. Widener His nostrils
flare, his back hair goes up, he puts out his elbows
and scampers like colt in the presence of people
like that. You should have seen Mr.. Widener the
time he put halter on Lord Derby himself and
brought him down to Louisville for the Derby a
few years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04

any careless management, except
as to the running of the race
itself.
The race usually is truly run
and a sight worth seeing, but
always there are many patrons,
including some who have trav-
eled far, who do not get a fair
look at the horses because the
crowd gets out of control at the
crucial moment. BY the time the
customer who had bought the
seat has managed to bend chair
over the skull Of the gate crasher
who Is jumping up in front of
him shouting Come on" the race
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04
ahZnouh
by
WESIBRO0K PEGLER

T OUISVILLE, May 1.-The Kentucky
Derby is horse race for 3-year-old
steeds which is run every spring on the
outskirts Of Louisville, about 10 minutes
by cab from the heart of town. 1t is a
private enterprise, conducted for enormous
revenue by promoters who subject their customers
10 bad food poorly prepared and served at exorbi-
tant prices, bad handling by the staff and gener-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04

a former
member
MORE than half the population of the United States
will be living in house traers within 20 years.
This statement appeared last year in article by
Roger W. Babson economist, in the Los Angeles Times.
The representation caused little STIR Most of the
persons who Mr. Babson said would be living
wheels didn't really know house trailer from charabanc.
pressed they might have hazarded the guess that
house trailer contrapon wheels, with hunks and
prorudng section of stoveppe hitched to ancient
auto and inhabited by gypsies berry pickers and fisher
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04

uIBeu GdHQOH HOL 10 alIOW MS
name to be entered in the pri-
maries. After much toll and
trouble the California emissary
got the Governor on the wire and
was informed that he could not
"fly in the face of persons who
had expressed friendliness for
him." These were not persons
unknown, since Landon's fortunes
in California are being handled
by the newly formed Hearst
Merriam coalition. Shattuck made
doleful rejoinder that 'he was fly
ing in our faces and chat it was
purely a question of whose face
H. rt,oe oot,1c r. ixafnD
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04

In the social excitement of the Derby however,
the patrons achieve forgivng mood. Almost every
body gets tight the Friday night before the race
and again on Saturday night after it. There is
dancing and wide-open gambling in rural dives on
the Indiana side of the Ohio River There are
house parties in the homes of the local arstocracy
and In the country mansions of the Eastern capital
lists who run horse farms in the Blue Grass terri
tory around Lexington,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04

yard. Most trailers built in the
last year have both circuits.
Two wheels have replaced the
four that were found on most
early trailers. They are placed a
bit back of the center line in Or
der to put some weight on the
rear Of the tow car and eliminate
sidesway at higher speeds. A few
of the newest models have a third
wheel, just under the trailer nose,
to aid in parking and save the car
springs.
TINE all-metal, streamline de-
i signs are replacing the box
like, plywood affairs of yester-
day. Chemical toilets and show
ers or even tubs are optional.
Running water flows from the
tanks by pressure or gravity or
is pumped.
There are more concealed
closets and hidden appliances and
trick space savers in a trailer
than there were secret drawers
in a medieval sideboard.
When the host is through pull
ing screens from the walls, beds
from the floor and ironing boards
from a crack in the ceiling you
expect him to unScrew a hollow
leg. from the card table and pro-
duce a case of iced beer. Some day
he will figure way to do it, too.
Airplanes, yachts, Pullman cars,
autos and modern houses all have
contributed their best features to
today's auto trailer.
TOMORROW: Why the trailer
has become SO popular.
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II Seems hM
BY
HEYVO0D.BRoUN

NEW YORK, May 4.-Sooner or later
the voters will want to know whether
ALT M. Landon is cagy or just Gagged. The
evidence seems to show that the Kansas
Coolidge" is captive canary.
Arthur Krock in the New York Times
tells Of slight misunderstanding which arose in re-
gard to the California primaries. Ed Shattuck, at
that time president of the California Assembly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04

But that where Ed Shattuck made his little
mistake. ALI M. Landon will fly in the face of no
one because ALT M. Landon can't fly unless Mr..
Hearst chooses to open the door of the cage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-04

AbOve-What it looked like at
the Tin Can Tourists Convention
in Sarasota, Fla, only three
months ago. More than 1000
units - trailerS, house cars and
tents were assembled on these
grounds.
Left-The Denny trailer puts up
in a shady Florida nook.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-12-03

northerly at right angles 100
feet to the place Of beginning;
together with the ground permit
from the ureat Northern hallway
Company to the land on which
said warehouse is located. s,
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that
on Saturday, the 18th day of Deem
Der, 1896, at ten o CLOCK in the fore
noon of said day. I will sell the above
described property, or so much thereof
.,s may be necessary to satisfy sad
Judgment, together with interest.
costs and increased costs. in all
amounting to the sums above named,
plus interest thereon from October
18th, 1886.
Said sale will take place at the
'front.' door of the Court House at
r!phrata, in said county and State.
and will be at public auction. for
cash in hand to the highest and best
bidder.
Dated at Ephrata, Washington. this
10Th day of November, 1895.
VEkN ADAMS,
Sheriff of said County.
19-5tc
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-12-03

and against Q. C. Simpson as Receiver
OF the Apple Lane Orchard Company,
together with interest, costs anu IN
creased costs, and to me directed am
delivered, commanding me to sell the
Following described real property to
satisfy said judgment, to-wlt:
Tracts II to ~, inclusive, and
The East Half OF Tract ~, and
Tracts rs to So, inclusive, and
Tracts "A to AZ, inclusive, of the
Second Amended Plat of We
natchee Apple Land Company
Orchard Tracts, in Grant County,
State of Washington.
The above described property is to
be sold subject to the equity Of re-
uemption provided by law, and the
following described property is to be
old absolutely and not subject to any
.lghts of redemption. viz:
One-half interest in one frame
warehouse with composition roof.
situated on the following describ-
ed lands in Grant County. Wash
lngton, to-wlt:
Beginning at a point IS feet
southerly at right angles from
the center of the main tract OF
the Great Northern Railway Com
pany's railway, as measured
from a point in said center line
at survey station 1878 plus So;
thence easterly parallel to said
center line zoo feet; thence
southerly at right angles 100
feet; thence westerly parallel to
said center line 2OU feet; thence
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-12-03
Cause No. 1904

Cause No. 1904
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF
NEAL ESTATE UNDER
ORDER OF SALE
In the superior Court OF the State
OF washington. tor Grant County.
Federal Land Bank OF
Spokane, a corporation,
Plaintiff.
VS..
John Willging. Jr.. and
Katherine WIllglng, husband
and wife; and odessa National
Farm Loan Association, a
corporation.
Defendants. J
Under and by virtue OF I'm Order OF
sale issued out OF and under the seal
OF Washington, holding terms at
hphrata, in and for said County, on
the 9th day of November, A. u. 1895,
upon judgment rendered in sald
Court on the 4th day OF November,
A. u. 1896, in favor OF The Federal
Land Bank OF Spokane, a corporation.
and against John Wlllging. Jr. and
Katherine WilIging, husband and
wife; and Odessa National Farm Loan
Association, corporation, tor tue
sum Of Fourteen thousand five hun
dred sixty-four and $500 Dollars,
together with attorney 3 fees, interest,
costs and increased, costs, and to me
directed and delivered, commanding
property to satisfy said judgment.
|.o-Wit:
All of Section Nineteen, in
Township Twenty North, Range
Thirty. East OF the Willamette
Meridian.
The West Half of Section Twen-
ty, Township Twenty North, Range
Thirty, East of the Willamette
Meridian.
The Northeast Quarter of Sec
ton Twenty, Township Twenty
North. Range thirty, East OF the
Willamette Meridian.
Except the tract of land con-
veyed by deed IN Book IS, page
529. All situated in Grant County,
Washington.
NOW THEREFORE, NOTICE Is
HEREBY GIVEN, That on saturday,
the 18th day of December. A. u.
1895. at ten O'Clock In the forenoon
OF said day. Will sell the above de-
scrlbed property or so much snereof
as may be necessary to satisfy SAID
judgment. together with attorneys
ices, interest, costs and increased
costs. in all amounting to the sum OF
Fourteen thousand seven hundred
thirteen and 08-lO0 Dollars, plus
|Sherlff's increased costs.
SAID sale will take place at the
'front.' door of the Court House at
|Ephrata, IN SAID County and State,
|And Will be at public auction, for
cash In hand to the highest and best
bidder.
Dated at Ephrata, WASH, this 9TH
Lay OF November. A. u. 1895.
VERN ADAMS,
h9.5tc sheriff.
1
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-12-03
NOTICE OF sHERIFF's SALE OF
REAL ESTATE

REAL ESTATE
In the Superior Court Of the State
# Washington, for Grant County.
WENATCHEE PRODUCTION
CREDIT ASSOCIATION, q
corporation.
Plaintiff,
G. C., SIMPSON as Receiver Of
Apple Lane Orchard Company,
Defendants.
Under and by virtue of an Execu-
ion under Foreclosure issued out OF
ind under the seal of the Superior
court of the State of Washington, in
md for said County, on the 10th day
Of November, 1886, in favor Of
(a) Wenatchee Production Credit
Association for $14,052.17.
(b) Washington Water Power
Company for IS, 356.l6.
(c) Wenatchee Production Credit
Association for $5,776.05.
(d) Washington Water P over
Company for s4,595.O6.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-12-03

seat is full width, with folding divided
seat back. The spare tire is carried in
a compartment back of the driver. The
deep luggage compartment can se
reached either through the rear deck
door or by fitting down the right seat
back. New "fnger-tip" steering ard
new easy action safety brakes are feo-
tured. Two engine sizes are available.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-12-03

THE smart new front, new bar-type
! bumpers, slanting V-type wind
shield and smoothly flowing lines of
this fve-window coupe, pictured
above, typify the advanced design of
the new Ford va cars for 1887. The
coupe, which is offered both with and
without de luxe equipment, is the
only single-seat closed body type. Its
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-12-03

The baking of a fruit cake weigh
ng five or SIX pounds will take about
,hree hours In a slow oven-from
200 to 275 degrees Fahrenheit.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1936-12-03

should ask for a "young hen" or
young tom" if they wish a light
weight tender bird less than year
old.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13
INCOME BLANKS
ARRIVE AT &C.
FOR Ell CENTRIC

The Ell Centro chamber of COM
merce Friday received income tax
return blanks from the office of the
FranciSe tax commissioner The
blanks are available for distribution
to all who call at chamber head
quarters.
The supply of blanks includes in
dividual income tax returns, sched-
ule of farm income and expenses
and partnership return of income
After filling cut these blanks, they
must be filed with the francise tax
commissioner of the income tax di-
vision on or before April is.
F. r. McReynolds, area supervis-
or of the office of the franchise tax
commissioner, said that D. K. Van
Buren, from that office would be in
El Centro at the chamber Of COM
merce on March 10 to 81 and from
the 26th to 28th to assist residents
of Ell Centre in making out their in
CCme tax returns.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13
RELIEF CRISIS
TO BE STUDIED
IN CONFERENCE

LOS ANGELES, March 13. UP
The California relief commission
will hold an emergency meeting
here tomCrrC y over a threatened
shortage in relief money. State
funds are said to be $3000,000 short
Of caring for the load CT 10000 in
digcnt families.
Plans for the meeting have been
kept secret at the commissions re-
quest so that the seriousness of the
situation might be discussed with
local officials without alarming
publicity.
County Supervisor Herbert Legg
expressed belief that the state rap
idly is approaching a relief crisis
and that nothing short of a special
session of the legislature will solve
the problem.
There is little likelihood of help
from the federal government, Of
ficials said, and 10000 families are
due to be dropped from the WPA
rolls before June |.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13
4-H CLUB MEMBERS PREPARE
FOR SHOW AT FAIR SATURDAY

Odds and ends of livestock judg-
ing were completed Friday at the
Imperial County Fair grounds and
preparations laid for All club and
Future Farmers day Saturday.
A delegation of so All club mem
bers from San Diego county will
arrive for the celebration with
Eric E. Eastman, farm advisor, who
will help judge the demonstration
team competition. Other judges
will be Prof. l.. B. Smith, assistant
state farm advisor leader. and Mrs.
K. K. Davis of San Bernardino
county.
After the All club auction at 9
am. when more than so pigs and
Is calves will be auctioned Off the
livestock parade will be held in
the afternoon.
A japanese program of speeches.
native dancing and fencing was to
feature Friday nights performance.
At the horseshow Thursday, Ev-
elyn Johnson of Calipatria won
honors as the Imperial Valley high
school girl who will represent the
county at the Salinas rodeo. Win
ner of the contest there, the most
typical western, outdoor girl, will
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13
THREE DIRECTORS
FAVOR RFC PLANS

Director Mark Roses opposition to
RFC refinancing efforts of the I'M
perial Irrigation District brought a
counter-mov Friday by remaining
members of the districts board of
directors, who telegraphed to Wash
ington their support of Chairman
Evan T. HeWes.
The telegram to Emil Schram,
chief of the drainage, levee and ir-
rigation division of the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation, followed
a wire dispatched Thursday by
Rose, in which the director charged
that HeWes is acting entirely on
his own behalf, and not as a repre-
sentative of the district board
Rose further opposed any financ-
ing of irrigation district bonds and
warrants at sum any greater than
rs cents on the dollar. HeWes is
attempting to obtain refinancing at
approximately 80 cents on the dol
lar.
The telegram sent Friday by Di-
rectorS Charles Morrow Ira Aten
and w. E. Young, said:
I'VE are reliably informed that
opposition to our efforts in further
ance of RFC loan is being sent
your office. We as members of I'm
perial Irrigation District board are
fully aware and in accord with Mr..
HeWes' actions in Washington. He
has our support and we stand un-
qualifiedly behind him"
The refinancing battle is believed
by political observers TO be a part
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-13
G-MEN ARREST ,
WEYERHAEUSER
CRIME SUSPECT

NEW YORK, March 13. UP
Edward Bentz, wanted in connec-
ton with the kidnapping of George
Weyerhaeuser, yong heir to lum-
Der fortune, last year, was taken in
to custody today by federal agents
who bombarded his flat with tear
gas bombs.
Bentz also sought as participant
in several bank robberies, was found
hiding in a dumbWaiter, clad only
in his underwear. The flat yielded
two machine guns, rifle, three
pistols, and hundreds of rounds of
ammunition.
Federal agents said Bentz was a
suspect in the Weyerhaueser case
but refused to divulge what this con-
nection was.