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Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
TRY, TRY AGAIN!
CENTRAL HIGHS
CAGERS DRILL

If at first you don't succeed. try.
try again. With this motto in mind
El Centro high schools basketball
team romped through a long work
out yesterday afternoon in prepara-
ton for their third meeting with
Mountain Empire varsity cagers.
The Mountaineers have defeated
El Centro in two previous meetings
and are favored to repeat in the
third tilt Thursday night on the
Mountain Empire court.
Coach W. S. Taylor announced
today that he would use UNDER
classmen during most of the game
in order to get q line on the club
ne will use against valley high
schools in the remainder of the
league games.
The Moun.aineers. who boast the
strongest team ever turned out AT
their institution, have lost but two
games this season and have met
some of the toughest schools in the
southwest
Calipatria, FL Centro, San Die
quito. Vista. Fallbrook and host
of other ball clubs have bowed to
the rampaging Mountaineers.
Thursday night. however, the
Mountaineers viii be in for their
toughest scrap of the year. The
Spartan underclassmen are deter
mined to make a better showing
against the Empire quintet than
did the senior team.
prol,,I,Ia etartipo- lI,1at1nr.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
CENTRAL WILL
PLAY BORDER
NET TEAM

FL Cehtros chances for cham
pionship tennis team will be deter
mined on the Ell Centre courts Sat-
urday morning when Coach Bur-
CHAINS netters tangle with the de-
Tending champions, Calexico.
FL Centre and Ca-exico are un-
defeated in league play 10 date and
will be battling for the league lead
ership and possibly the title when
they clash Saturday morning.
The match is expected TO be close
with Calexico holding a slight edge
in the betting. The Border City
team is especially strong in the
boys division and the Ell Centre
cagers are rated strongest in the
girls division.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
1able startlng lineups:
VINES BEATS
PERRY AGAIN

HOLLYWOOD Feb. IL U.P) -
Ellsworth Vines realized his ambi-
ton of beating Fred Perry before
an audience last night when he
subdued the former worlds amateur
champion 6-3, 6-3. Ga in a pro-
feSsional tennis match.
The lanky former University o.!
Southern California netter was at
the top OF his game to quell Perry
in straight sets before the top
hated crowd. literally sprinkled
with Hollywood notables. 1t was
the 11th victory for Vines in the
10 matches of their cross-country
tour.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Feb
II. UP)-Surrounded by double
layer of fog tSan Francisco's owr
kind) Max Baer recently gave of
broadcast in which he asked tho
people of America to believe him
when he said he WIS in serious
training and expected to defeat
Bob Pastor, Joe Louis, and Jim
Braddock in the order named.
Now, I'll believe almost any,
thing, as my record shows. 1 had
been voting three years before I
suspicioned the authenticity of the
Santa that is Claus, and it was
not until long after I had my first
pincenez that I abandoned the
rosebush and stork theory of life's
beginning. So you see I'm moi
what you could call skeptic. But
I don't believe Max Baer. I would
sooner believe that two can live
as cheaply as one or that all those
people who endorse cigarettes real
ly smoke them. than that the
butcher boy buffoon IS leading the
life rigorous.
I lost faith in Max and his
word in the steel-ribbed dressing
room of Yankee Stadium, one night
in June. And 1 believe a square
guy named Dempsey did, too, for
it was to Dempsey that Max gave
his pledge, and 1t was before
Dempsey's unbelieving eyes that
he shamelessly broke it a few
minutes later.
when they ring that bell,
Baer told Dempsey as he sat on
the rubbing table, hands taped
TO brick hardless, "Ill wade out
of that corner and belt him. To
hell with boxing I just wanta
bust that Louis"
You know how he actually did
come out of his corner.
As timidly as an old man cross
ing a crowded street; as meekly
as prisoner advancing before
the bar. I'll never forget the look
on Dempsey's face as the big 200.
FOUNDER crept from the corner.
I'll always maintain that Baer's
days as a fighting man came to
definite conclusion late in the
first round OF the Louis fight
when, with courage born OF fear,
lie straddled his legs in a corner
End made an effort to slug it
out with the Negro. A fury OF
punches and then he quit. And ]
don't think all the road work, all
the bag punching or all the calls
themes in the world, will regain
for him the something he lost in
the ring that night.
Baer now says that the training
he did before the Braddock fight
was farce. How are we to know
that what he's doing now isn't the
same thing? Certainly he MAIN
tanned before the bout with jim
that he never was in finer con-
dition, never was tougher, anc
never more unafraid.
Today, Baer says, his hands are
so tough that he would not hest
tate TO bank them through wood
en- door. Greatl Let him find
/ big, nice door somewhere out ther
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17

Ell Centro junior college basket
ball players, players who have been
unable to click all season, viii re-
ceive a valuable lesson in ball hand
ling, shooting, dribbling and pass
ing Monday night when the Arabs
will furnish opposition for Olsen's
Terrible Swedes.
Oisen's Swedes, considered the
greatest transforming cage team in
the nation, will give an exhibition
of basketball as it should be played
plus a few tricks of their own toss
ed In.
While the Swedes will not at
tempt any football formations, or
dice games as did the Colored
Clowns, they will provide feats
that would make the eyes pop out
of the Colored Clowns heads and
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
JUDGE CLOSES
COURT, STARTS
GHOST SEARCH

LOS ANGELES. Feb. II. UP
Superior Judge George A. Dock
weller announced as his court
disclosed today that he was going
ghost hunting bright and early
tomorrow morning and taking the
court with him.
Calmly ignoring such old-fash-
ioned beliefs that ghosts do their
stuff only in the midnight dark
ness Of a graveyard or under the
fitful light of gibbouS moon,
Judge Dockweiler decided to get
down to brass tacks on the SUBJ
ject of a residence lease which
the spirits were alleged to have
broken, and TO do it in broad day
light.
So he ordered the court to con-
Vene at the house which William
Celestin leased from DR.. John r.
Mccoy and which, the doctor al
leges in his damage suit, CelestiB
vacated before the expiration of
the lease on account of night
noises.
Celeston, in a deposition, defend
ed his hasty exit, by allegations
that bells rang at eerie hours and
doors slammed in most discon-
eerting fashion during the dark
ness.
The doctor said talk of ghosts
was preposterous.
Somebody else intimated that
mice had got into the bell wires
Judge Doekweiler opines that
he'll know tomorrow after he sees
the house.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
LEE RAMAGE
BEATS BAUER

LOS ANGELES, Feb II WR>-Lee
Ramage of San Diego, with dyna-
mite in each glove, won a techni-
cal knockout victory over Joe Bauer.
of Cleveland, O., in the 10th round
of the main event last night in the
Olympic auditorium.
Referee Jack Kennedy stopped
the bout only 40 seconds from the
final bell when Bauer was Defense
less in the ring Ramage had ham,
mered him relentlessly about the
head, winning six round
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17

Jaycees to Get Lesson
In Fancy Cage Playing

which will send valley fans into
Mysteries.
The center, j. Campbell stands
six feet eight inches in his stock
ing feet df he can find stockings
10 fiD and is one of the deadliest
shooters in the game.
The Swedes put on a show before
the game that is alone worth the
price OF admission, and they promise
an unusually entertaining game de-
spite the fact their opposition will
not make the going tough.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
JUST A JOKEv
SAYS PROF in
EXAM STRIKE
%

NEW YORK, FEB. II. OPT was
"just a good adolescent joke"-that
sit-down strike Of % first year Ger
man language students at Lincoln
school. SO said DIR. John r. Clark
principal He chuckled when he
thought how surprised the boys and
girls would be when they entered
class today to face a stiff examina-
ton in German They had protest.
ed against too many examinations
and believed they had won a sweep
ing victory.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17

NEw COACH or 7AG
usAveRslTJ or AEsRAskA
f.oo1eAlL. leAAA sNc6eors6
DANA BletE
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
Basket Ball
BY UNITED PRESS

John Tarleton 46, Decauter Bap-
tiSt Is
Daniel Baker 80, Southwestern
81
North Texas Teachers 81, South
west Texas Teachers 26
Wentworth 43, st. Pauls 16
st. Benedicts 50, Haskell %
Creighton As, Washburn 81
Colorado State 43, Colorado
Mines 33
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17
FORMER UNIVERSITY
PLAYER SIGNED

SAN DIEGO. Cal. FEB. u. UP
Earl Sheely. Boston Red SoX scout
today SAID he had signed Bill Archer,
former University OF California
baseball captain and all-around
athlete.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-17

had nothing on the tusSle between
the jaycee and Yuma players IL
Tuesday nights game. Only the
occasional drone of the referees
whistle broke up the free for all
The junior collegians started of
in fine style and led 1873 at the
intermission but in the second
half of play the Yuma cagers lit
orally trampled the Arabs under.
Unable TO penetrate the Yuma
defense The Arabs scored but two
points in the third quarter, both
on free throws. while the Yu-
mans ran the score to 1917 with
8 digits.
In the final period the teams
fought, clawed and drove their
way up and down the floor in a
desperate try for victory.
Time and time again the referee
would emerge from the maze OF
players and call personal fouls,
first on one team then on the other.
The Criminal cagerS capitalized
on one more free throw than did
the Arabs and as a result chalked
I'D their second win in two starts
against the jayceeS.
Goff, small but tricky forward
led the Yuma attack with ten
points. but it was the brilliant
passing of Montague and Free
man which paved the way for the
Criminal scores.
Holbrooke led the jayceeS with
- points. The rest OF the team
was not outstanding.
Evening star., 1937-09-21

ing at scratch on April S. the corps
was established so rapidly that by
july close to l 400 camps had been
established and 100000 young men
and war veterans given jobs in the
woods.
From 1888 to June 30. 1897. the
strength of the corps f1uctuated in
keeping with the need for employment,
reaching a peak of 506,00 men in
August. 1895. Under the new legisla-
ton, effective July i last. the maxi
mum authorized strength of the corps
was set at 100000.
For the first four and a quarter
selected from families on public relief
rolls. Present legislation does not re-
quire that a boy must come from 4
family on public relief. Rather 1t pro-
vides that the prospective enrollee shall
be unemployed and in need of en-
ployment. Preference will be given to
applicants whose families are on the
relief rolls. Applications from boys
whose families are in need of finan-
cial assistance will also be given prior
ity. even if the parents of those youths
are not actually on relief rolls. AS in
the past. the selection OF all Junior
enrollees is done by State directors of
selection under the Department of
abor.
Total Enrolment.
The enrolment of 100000 men in
October will bring the total number
of men who have been enrolled in the
Civilian Conservation Corps at one
time or another during the four and
a half years that it has been in op-
Grafton close to the 1000 900 mark.
Today enrolment in the Civilian
Conservation Corps offers q boy many
more practical advantages than could
be extended back in the Fall of 1898.
That is true because more than four
years of operation have taught every
body concerned with the corps \ great
many things. Today, the boys re-
celve better food-because it ID better
Evening star., 1937-09-21

prepared Housing conditions are
much more honey and comfortable
Clothes are neater and better fitting
and kisure-time activities are greatly
improved. Work projects are more
complicated. OF higher standard and
more interesting.
Both during and after work hours
the Civilian Conservation Corps en-
rollees who 60 into the camps today
have an opportunity for practical edu-
cation which was not possible when
the camps began in 1888 In each
camp there is an educational adviser
who is prepared to help each enrollee
determine his needs and interests and
plan 4 program of instruction which
will be most beneficial. Assisting the
educational adviser there is an aver
age OF about IL instructors Of each
company, consisting of the advisers
enrollee assistant, the company COM
mander and his subordinate officers.
the project superintendent and his
foremen. qualified enrollees and local
school teachers and others. Many Of
the camps have already been provided
with class rooms and shops. libraries,
reading rooms and 4 considerable
amount of vocational and other equip
ment and supplies. With the excep-
ton of job training, which is done in
connection with the work of the camp,
all educational activities are conducted
during leisure time, that is from the
close Of supper until approximately 9
O'Clock each evening In great many
camps, the enrollees are transported
to nearby schools and colleges in the
evenings or on Saturdays An am
bilious enrollee may find from 10 to
Is hours each week in which to pre-
pare himself for employment and civic
life
5e,eos Taught to Read.
For Illustration. since the corps
was established a little over four
years ago, more than $4,000 young men
have been taught to read and write,
5000 have been enrolled in ele-
Evening star., 1937-09-21

life unscarred by contacts with our
fellow men.
The corps will supply these needs.
1t will teach these boys the lessons of
orderly living, clean bodies, strong
bodies; 1t will give them true esprit
de corps for having worked and played
side by side with other boys through
their two years in the corps.
They will learn something OF dis
cipline from the officers and foremen
with whom they are associated each
day. They will learn something OF
self-discipline in the camps. Ameri-
can youth, believe, will continue to
be eager to join the corps. After
spending from six months to two years
in the outdoor camps they will look
back with pride upon the days wher
Evening star., 1937-09-21
FECHNER OUTLINES
ADVANTAGES
Director Tells of Benefits
to Country in Radio
Forum Talk.

Advantages of the Civilian Con-
servation Corps to the UNEMPLOYED
youths enrolled. and the benefits
which the country is deriving from
their work. were pointed out in an
address last night by Robert Fechnsr.
director of the corps.
Fechner spoke on the National
Radio Forum, sponsored jointly by
The Washington Star and the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co. His review
OF the c. C. c. was particularly
timely because a new enlistment oe-
riod begins October /, with 100000
vacancies to be filed.
Citing the educational courses Of
fered enrollees in their spare time
and the practical training given them
In their work, the director spoke also
Of the reforestation. erosion prevention
and other conservation measures which
the C. c. c. is carrying out on a
large scale.
The text of Fechners address fol-
lows:
For the seventeenth time since the
Civilian Conservation Corps was
launched as an emergency relief and
reforestatlon measure in the Spring
of 1888 the doors of hundreds of
c. c. c. camps will be thrown open
next month to admit requirements
needed to fill vacancies caused by the
discharge of enrollees who have found
private employment or who have left
the corps at the conclusion of their
period of enrolment.
One hundred and twelve thousand
young men and 5000 war veterans
will be needed on October to fill
vacancies in the l ,604 c. c. c. camps
scheduled to continue operations this
Fall and Winter. To be eligible 20
enroll in the c. c. C. during the en-
rollment replacement program begin
ming October l. a young man must be
unmarried. at least II and not more
than 23 years of age. unemployed and
IN need of job, of good character and
physically and mentally able to do
vigorous outdoor work.
The invitation extended by The
Washington Evening Star to speak
tonight upon the activities and ac-
complishments Of the c. c. C. comes
at most opportune time. for it gives
me this chance to call the attention
of the National Radio Forums coun-
try-wide audience to the new oppor-
tunities for enrolment in the Civilian
Conservation Corps. The invitation
was timely also because it arrived
just as We had completed four and
quarter years of c. C. C. activity under
emergency legislation and were setting
out TO establish the corps upon what
We hope will become a permanent basis
under new legislation enacted on
June 28. This latter act extended the
life of the corps for three years. be-
ginning July last.
Chain Of Outdoor Camps.
Under the original legislation ap-
proved by Congress and the President
on March 81. 1888, a great Nation
wide chain of outdoor camps was
established and operated for the dual
purpose of assisting unemployed young
men whose families were on relief and
for launching the Nation on a huge
program for the protection and con-
servatlon of our natural resources,
principally timber and top soil. Start
Evening star., 1937-09-21

they We're members of this organiza.
tion. The Civilian Conservation Corps
mas made history during the past four
years. 1t will continue to write
splendid pages in the conservation
history of this country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-27

WE CALLED IT ODD HOUSE
 Up and coming business woman announces she is looking for a build- ing lot on which she can build a house without . front yard but with plenty of space in the rear yard. hAnd we're not going to have any dining room" she advises, "but eat all over the house, in the patio and in the garden. We are going to have Q biz kitchen with a rugged fire. place, and down the middle of the room heavy long table with benches with backs along either side of 1t, our guests always settle In the Kitchen anyway, 80 we may as well go early American"
 So I didn't> Invent the idea. For that matter, who ever originates an idea anyway Possibly one gets an Idea from the suhconscious or the unconscious now and then--at least 1t seems that way when one happens to remember or recall 1t on waking but nearly ell ideas are born of sug- gestion, Don't blame me, then, if any of these ideas of good housing strike you as freakish. We called it odd House when we introduced the subject here, and invited readers to contribute their ideas.
 Mrs. w. J. w. reports she Is 68 and may yet build an Odd House herself, with her own hands. She needs more ideas. She has some hand d-made block letter notices on the walls of her present house, her favorite sayings (not her own say ings), and her friends tell her they are atrocious. The latest Is one she put on the wall over the work table In her tiny kitchen. It reads "Cul- mary studio"-with credit to the Brady column. Sorry, Madam, but the Brady column cannot accept re- sponsibility. Perhaps the suggestion to hang signs about the place came from Q college freshman of the class of 'ee.
 L. K, of New York offers 8 sugges- ton concerning floors for the Nut House, as he facetiously calls it:
 "rhe COTS should be made of tiles, which are easily kept clean and most sanitary of all floor materials. Wood- on floors, while warmer underfoot, require frequent scraping, repaint- ing, vanishing, waxing, etc. They develop squeaks and often provide @ hiding place for insects. Large red or other colored tiles are flreproof, decorative and everlasting: they re- quire no further painting or var iiishing after first cost of installa- ton"
 Ever since I began imulling this thing over I've been trying to get up courage to plump for some such floors throughout, floors from which the rugs could be lifted while the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-27
Your Children
By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

also ran. There has to Do Q last, always, and some children appear to be especially fitted for the role.
 If there was just somethipg she could think of to show the other children that Johnny was worth their respect, 1t would help him, too Once he got the notion that he counted, maybe it would pep him Up and he would say, Here, now, I'm tired of being last. Give me the drum instead of just this old stick over my shoulder, or I'll push you the way you did me-" What joy 1t would be to hear Johnny say something like this. She wanted nothing on earth 50 much as to go out and do Q little pushing her. self.
 Finding His MetIer
 "I'll so up to the attic " she said, land get fathers big bugle." Then realizing that she could not buy pop- ularity for her boy, she decided against 1t. Tt must be something that's fair" she thought. "some- thing regular. Otherwise 1t won't set Johnny up in his own estiina. ton. Tommy is good ct bossing, Dick Is good at ideas, Jennie has e lot of grit and courage. What has Johnny? Let me think.
 Suddenly she had 1t. Johnny could run. Those skinny little legs of his could outdistance anything living. She took broom and cas- ually swept the porch.
 Children" she called, "why don't you have Q race? l never see any, body have a race? I'll give a prize. The first to the corner gets @ lolly- pop"
 Tommy wasn't interested, but he grudgingly put away his bike and got in line. She made them toe a mark, and when she said "go" they started. Of course Johnny won.
 'Hurray." yelled Mir. Morris at the gas station. Good for you, Johnny. Say, you've got some legs there."
 It worked. Tommy a bit sullen at first, conceded honors later. When Mrs. Smith looked out next time. Johnny was third. Nearly all children have one asset through which pride and place may be es- tablished.
 Copyright. 1887. NEA Service. Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-27

This k the second in Q series of l2 articles illustrating the play of national champions in tourna- ments where they gained renown.
 Oswald Jacoby is one of the worlds most famous contract stars A former member of the -Four Horsemcn," one of the great tourna- ment teams of four, he is now q member of the -Four Aces,' even more famous.
 He is also q member of the na- tional championship team of four at knockout play, having won with his teammates at Asbury last sum mer.
 Unlike many of the nations out standing stars, Jacoby plays and bids his hands with little loss of time,
 Tn today's hand, East and West cashed the first three tricks with the ace, king and queen of hearts, but the hand still looked safe.
 A club was next led, and Jacoby, sitting South, won with the nee. He now laid down the ace and king of trumps, only to find that East still held the guarded jack, and thus must make trump trick, unless South could shorten his own trumps to two and lead from dummy at the eleventh trick.
 Solution to Previous
 Contract Problem
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-27
.PARENTs-

For the tenth time that morning, Mrs. Smith looked out ct the chil- dren playing. It was always the same. Johnny at the end of the procession, Johnny being left out of secrets" Johnny first to be "1t". Once Tommy had pushed him, but Johnny had not pushed back. He was always getting the worst of 1t and it made her furious.
 What should she do? To go out and speak to the children was use- less, she knew, because these little rascals were more than likely to call him "baby" If she did. Instinc- lively they would recognize such ifl- terference as unfair. If Johnny could not take his own part, they wanted none of him.
 Natural Also Ran
 Tommy was commander in -chief of the street crowd. Tommy, 1t was who arranged turns and perrnis- sions. The other youngsters did what Tommy said, but with the true flair for generalship this boy se- lected and placed his cohorts acc cording to his ideas of merit. Dick was his aide, Jennie second com- mand, Bob came third and Phyllis fourth. Last of all came poor little Johnny. Not because he was young- CT, but because he did best as an