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Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19
New Officer Takes
Over Charge of
Recruiting Station

Sgt. Lawrence II. Kane, formerly
of the Los Angeles army recruiting
office, has taken over the command
OF the FL Centre recruiting office
stationed at the city post office.
Sgt. Kane takes over the duties of
Sgt. Winters who has been trans
ferred to Los Angeles.
Vacancies now exist, said Sgt.
Kane, in the Hawaiian Island and
in various assignments in Califor-
MIA. Applicants for enlistment must
be between the ages of 18 and 35, of
excellent character, physically fit,
and must be single. having no de-
pendents.
Sgt. Kane's offices are at Room
3, Ell Centre post office building.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19

The average age of supreme court
judges has risen, irregularly but
consistently in the long run, ever
since the government was estab-
Iished $50 years ago. For the first
time, this tendency Is clearly shown
BY the accompanying graphical
chart, carefully compiled by Sar-
gent B. Child and Dr.. George Nc
Farland.
Present-day readers, familiar
with q court whose average age is
r. find 1t hard to believe that the
first supreme court was made up of
men whose average age was under
so.
Yet that was quite in key with
the age of the men who made the
Constitution and who set up the
new government. The average age
of the men who wrote the Consti-
tuition was A. Four of them were
still in their 20's, is in their sos,
and 20 in the 40's. Only the vener-
able Franklin among them was old
as we think of it today, at 81.
Under IS for 80 Years
The government established, the
young men took most of the places
Of power. Washington, the father
of his country Is looked upon today
as venerable, yet he was only 81
when he became president.
/. The six judges named to the first
U. s. Supreme Court in 1889 fol-
lowed this tendency. AS you can
see at the left of the chart, they
averaged just under SO. For almost
the first 80 years of the new gov
ernment, they averaged under SIS
years, the present age of President
Roosevelt.
Then the judges ages began to
rise, and except for temporary re-
cessions when death took away the
old justices and new appointments
reduced the average age, it contin-
ued to rise, until, when the crisis of
the impending Civil War arrived,
the average age of the judges was
near to 10. a." 81
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19
Roosevelt Aims to Effect Drop


Iincoln's new appointments at
that time shook it down around 62
again, but the age level clung to
around 65 until well into the 1920's.
Since then it has climbed steadily
until today's all-time high average
Of ~ is reached.
The interesting revelation Of this
chart is not so much the short
swings" where deaths or resigna-
tions followed by the appointment
of younger men caused the average
to drop temporarily. 1t is the "long-
term" tendency of rising age cul-
minating in today's situation. The
chart shows a definite tendency
throughout the $50 years of the gov
ernment's existence for the supreme
court to be made up of older and
older men.
One of the immediate effects of
the Roosevelt proposals as relating
to the. supreme court would be to
cut this average again, perhaps
to around 65, if those appointments
should be made which have been
commonly rumored.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19

NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE
APPOINTED FOR PROVING
WILL AND HEARING APPLI-
CATION FOR LETTERS TESLA
MENTARY. 81 q
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF. CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL. fst = =
- the Matter of the Estate of
)WARD f. FOSTER,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that a
petition for the probate of the will
of Edward E. Foster, deceased, and
for the issuance to w. j. Meagher,
of letters testamentary, has been
filed in this Court, and that Friday,
the 26th day OF February, 1887, at
Two o'clock, PM, of said day, at
the Courtroom of said court, at the
Court House, in the City of FL
Centre, County of Imperial. State
of California, has been set for the
hearing of said petition, when and
where any person interested may
appear and contest the same, and
show cause, if any they have, why
said petition should not be granted.
DATED: February 18th. 1887. r.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
Clerk.
BY M. A. CHRISTIAN,
Deputy Clerk.
FRANK BIRKHAUSER,
F.l6-26 inc. Atty. for Petitioner.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19
Doctor Speaks
On tuberculosis

DR.. S. c. Farnsworth of the state
department of public health, dis
cussed the physio-pathology of tu-
berculosis, both child and adult
types, at a meeting Wednesday
night in the Calexico country club.
G. B. Collins, county superinten-
dent; l.. E. Hiteman, Calipatria dis
trict superintendent; DR.. Hams
worth MacCoy of the state public
health department; DR.. William
MacCoy, Miss Florence Ames, and
Mrs. S. Wolseth, state public health
nurses, DR.. Warren F. Fox, county
health officer; school nurses from
Brawley, Ell Centro and Calexico.
nurses from the county hospital and
county health department were
present. The evening ended in a
round table discussion of health
problems, including hygiene confer
ences.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19

at the north city limits and work.
men are engaged in laying out the
foundations for the proposed 200
tent sites and community and ad-
ministration buildings. Surveys for
the proposed sewer line are said
to have been completed within the
last few days.
Petitions containing the names Of
1000 Brawley residents opposed to
the camp are en- route to Governor
Frank Merriam, asking him to in
tercede with President Franklin d.
Roosevelt. Other petitions contain
ing an additional 1000 will be for
warded this week and still others
are being circulated among Brawley
taxpayers and residents.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19
Employment Has
Substantial Gain

The February issue of the Cali
fornia Labor Market Bulletin re-
leased today by Edward l.. Nolan,
State Labor Commissioner, shows
substantial gains in factory en-
ployment, payrolIs, and average
weekly earnings in January, 1887.
as compared with the same month
year ago.
Statistics based upon reports re-
ceived from 1912 representative
m a n u a OF u ring establishments
throughout the state, between jan
uary, 1886 and January, 1887, show
an increase of 9.3 per cent in en-
ployment, 1875 per cent in total
weekly payrolls, and 84 per cent
in average weekly earnings.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19
Taxpayers Send in
First Installment
For 1936-37 Levy

FL Centro taxpayers placed S1O3,-
1856 in the city treasury in first
installment taxes for the 1886 1897
levy, according to figures released
at the city hall today.
The levy for the first installment
was $l13,209. This left delinquency
of $l0,024 or 885 per cent.
Street assessments on the tax
rolls total $23,008 and the amount
collected was $l5,SO6. The delin-
quency on street assessment pay
ments was $7,20l or 31.30 per cent.
Delinquent tax collections from
assessments of past years total $13,-
ZIG. Second installments are COM
ing in at city hall but will not be-
come delinquent until April.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19

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Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19
LABOR CAMP WORK
AT BRAWLEY PUSHED

BRAWLEY. Feb. 19-In spite of
protest petitions containing thou
sands of names, construction of the
federal migratory agricultural labor
camp at Brawley is going forward
under the direction of resettlement
administration officials.
Frame buildings stand at the site
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19
Embassy

Syeo will enjoy HE ssstfvlness. CON.
tod and friendly splrh Of The Embossy.
eesily accessible 10 ihs downtown bus.
hess section end peinss Of interest !. ;.
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toS ANoellS iNveSTMeNr COMPANY
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19
Man On Chain Gang
For Staying in City

Walter McDernott, 20, is a men,
Der OF the Ell Centro chain gang
because he refused to leave town
four days ago. His present status
with the gang will continue for Is
days.
He was arrested by city police
Thursday night and charged with
Vagrancy. He was booked as an
itinerant invader.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19
CAR STOLEN
UNDER NOSES

BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan, Feb.
l9. WH = William Stoskopf was
working in the barn lot, his wife
was in the kitchen and their son
was in the barn. Each saw some
one drive the family car away and
each presumed it was one of the
other two. Hours later they dis
covered someone had stolen the car.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19

LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19
FRIGHT PARALYZES
VOCAL CORDS

NWARK, N. j., Feb. 10. W.P)-Be-
lieveing she had lost her pocket
book, Sophie Fqeischer, 20, was so
frightened that her vocal cords and
one arm were paralyzed.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19
APPLIES FOR PROBATION

L. B. Brewer, found guilty of
assault in a verdict returned in
superior court Wednesday, on Thurs
day entered application for proba-
ton. The hearing was set for
Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-19
JUDGES AVER LACE ACE
SHOWS STEADY RISE

A. scientist of Temple university
reports that headaches are caused
N,y the relative amount and nature
fluids surrounding the brain.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
Gork's Story
For Little

Maxim Gorki's "The Lower
Depths" will have its Washing
ton premiere this Sunday, smash
ing two years tradition as the
first foreign language picture
ever presented under the present
policy at the Little Theater.
The picture won the indorse-
ment of Cork, himself, who
had defied the screen to re-
create his world famous novel
of human misery and brood.
ing realism In pre.revolutionary
Russia.
Laid in q flop-house, in which
congregate the most DEGRADED Of
human backwash, the picture is
at once tender and bitter, re-
volvtng about Kostylev, receiver
Of stolen goods and proprietor Of
q night shelter where outcaSts
of life come to sleep between
living Nightmares and dreams,
the story involves every type of
lost soul-the poetry-readinE
prostitute, the iquof-mad actor,
the cynical, bankrupt nobleman.
the handsome thief, the sadistic
police officer, KoStylev'S deli.
cate. 1dealistic daughter.
Zach Is o facet Of o powerful
composite picture Of humanity
sunk to its lowest depths, pite-
ously fighting to raise itself, vet
brutally smashing It's own saliva
tion at every turn. Together
they love and hate, laugh and
cry, cling to one another and
cut each others throats.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
Howard Lists
4 Ink Spots

The Howard TheAter pre-
sents, in person, Friday, the
-Four Ink Spots.
You've heard them many
times on the cir waves.
The Four Ink Spots head an
all star musical revue Radios
Ramble Of 1885," featuring
Jigsaw Jackson, the marvel Of
the age, and the music Of the
Sunset Royal Orchestra, South
lands kings Of Byncopation, who
come to these parts from Jack.
sonville, Fla.
On screen Boris Karloff in
one Of the finest roles Of his
career, ''WeSt Of SHANGHAI"
Gala midnight show Saturday
with reserved seats.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
Band Is.
Booked, Dec. 3
Lopez speakingl"

LOPEZ speakingl"
That greeting, 30 familiar to
radio listeners, will be heard
from the Earl Theater, stage
starting Friday, December 3,
when Vincent Lopez and his
famous orchestra begin q weeks
engagement. rs.
The popular maestro, whose
piano Specialties are an impor-
tant part in all his proRrarns.
will present a large array Of tai
ent in his show. The Lopez radio
favorites include Johnny Morris,
Singing Drummer Nam; Fred
L,owery, "Whistling Troub a.
dour";; Bob Litell, Ballad
Singer" +" and Bob Smell, Singing
Comedian"
Johnny Woods. Originator of
Radio Satire" and Nicholas and
Roberts, King and Queen Of
shag," also will appear with
LOPEZ
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
By ED SULLIVAN
Take the Stand, Mr.. Amechs

A0ke the Stdn0 Mr. An1ecnS
eyou SWEAR TO TELL the truth truth and nothing
A-Nothng win help me. ,. --s,., s...
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huh worked there in an iron mine ,,, Italians or At
outside Springfield H. in the coal mines and he worked
in the psnnsyyania coal mines rsru wers v horn on
Esnosns school D.bqaSs Iowa Wsshng
at University of Wisconsin at Madison And OH yes
aYou got lot Of mileage school, Dominck-were
hard to get along withp to say, did you-
A-1IO. I didn't get heAvc. out.
that nss my q ts % e
stock and the featured player an auto accident
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I'd played in Wisconsin stock suggested give radio addition
Chicago he JOB radio that test
NO out here, paid my to be screen
for turning me down. and sending me back to Chicago.
80 went back the radio Tom Oakley, friend Of mine
back to New York and interested Tvente centyFox So eW
f. MY f'
S 1t true Don that association with Catholic cegymen
has you a
pictures boadcastS remotely suggestive?
Al guSE the to that would be ye" Father sheehy
OF Catholic who introduced wife, who married
baptized the first baby great friend and severe critic I'd
read line Of dialogue that would offend him After ALL isn't
necessary. Entertainment never need be off color.
Q--Where did meet your wife? t.f.
ADubnque family lived there in house. sort
held house for the kids ct school and all used
there Sunday afternoons and sing and started
geter and for two she girl and fellow
Then LEFT town. didn't each other for One ne
Chicago after Of the radio broAdca friend called
Honora would them program and
30 out So we fell in love all again. and about two weeks
we were married. go
F. Q-How old are you now Don?
A-Tu be 80 in May. - .....
Remember the mite at the we first met? You
we're roaring at comedy number Sophie ngneand
I've never seen anybody enjoy anything much -.
AIM great audience, Ed really get terrific belt
9 OF tne Sunday mite absolutely amazed
rudy Vaue He is fellow in this business really admire
always improving himself in lust
catching on aS favoren the meantime he's developed
into one OF the greatest Showmen in the business
Q-Anythng else wish to say in self-defense?
Allow about an odfashicned cocktail? You do? Two old
faShionedB please. Give Sullivan the check.
Copyright
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
Clearance
Evening Dresses

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The Washington times., 1937-11-25
SONG CONTEST

Cardozo High School Alumni
Association is sponsoring an alma
mater contest which opened yes
terday and will close on January
Z. Original words and music to
an alma mater song must be COM
The Washington times., 1937-11-25

posed. The prize will be a $40
Government bond. The alumni
body is under the guidance Of
Miss F. L. johnson.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25
CHANNEL TO BE DREDoED

U.N.S.) The War Department
today allotted $4,000 for main
tenance dredging to restore the
channel from Arkansas pass to
Corpus Christi, TEXAS.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25

story Of Love IN the South Pacific by
lean a WSskiS with sundays Herald Times.
The Washington times., 1937-11-25

ANN CoRIo, called
Queen Of Burlesque, who
will be the extra added at
traction ct the Gayety The
ater beginning Sunday
matinee.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-31

preparing for production In
England and Warner Bros.
will increase the output from
its British studios.
American producers have
become busy in England as
a measure of self-protection.
They have long been plagued
by the English quota law
which provides that Is per
cent of the pictures shown
on the screens controlled by
His Majesty's government
must be produced by domes-
tic studios.
This quota law was re-
newed and strengthened this
week, even though it has
produced nothing more than
celluloid tripe, hastily made,
poorly produced pictures,
utterly feeble as a COM
petitor for the Hollywood
product.
In London and vicinity movie
patrons stay away from the
theaters that they know show
quota" pictures. These Ameri-
can producers who have exhibi.
tor outlets, or theaters playing
Continued on Back Page)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-31
HOLLYWOOD InVadeS NlOVieland Of John Bull
Producers Plan
Their Own Pictures to
Defeat Quota Law
By ANDREW R. KELLEY

All the influence and power of the British government is
behind the movement to rehabate the English motion pic
ture industry, mired in the bankruptcy courts seemingly
helpless to meet the Hollywood competition.
Over in London the moment is Louis Mayer, head of
GodwynMayer arranging to begin production there
with American stars echncians and ideas RkORadlo IS also
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-31
HOLLYWOOD this week
became Rosalind Russell's

became Rosalind Russell's
permanent home when
she signed a new long
term contract with Metro
G Of W y n Mayer, pur-
chased a Hollywood home,
a horse, decided to re-
linquish her membership
in New York's Junior
League. Miss Russell
came to the film city
three years ago with the
intention of spending
only half of each year in
Hollywood. Her current
screen assignment is with
Robert Montgomery in
Love, Live and Learn.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-09
PRETEND TO Be
ENGLISH TO GET
JOB IN MOVIES
Directors Seem to Want
Foreigners, but then Good
Americans Will Do
By ROBIN COONs

| HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June 9. =
Margaret Lindsay of Dubuque, Ia.
who once pretended with profit ar
English origin, is working now ir
typically American picture called
slim"
Middle western Margaret is oppo-
site two middle-western boys named
Pat OBrien wisconsin, and Hen
ry Fonda (Nebraska) The story is
William Wister Haines' account of
perils and romance in construction
of those magic steel towers which
bring power across deserts, noun
tains and prairies to the home.
Iowas Peggy Kies fooled Hollywood
by getting a role in the "all-English
cast" of Calvacade." Her success
therein established her firml y
enough that it didn't matter; some
time later, when her real origin was
revealed. She dropped her affected
English accent, and nobody cared.
Praises "I0wa Sense"
If the accent got her into pic
lures, she thinks now, it was her
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-09
VOICE OF MOORE,
'KREISLER MUSIC
HERE AT CAPITOL
Booth Harrington Teams
Jane Withers and Jackie
Scarf in Laugh Finn

once again the golden voice OF
Grace Moore rings out from the
screen. in Columbia's new musical
romance, THE King Steps Out"
which is scheduled to open Sunday
at the Capitol Theatre. 1t is the
diva's third picture since her re-
turn to the screen in the sensa-
tionally successful "One Night of
Love-" in 1894.
On this occasion Miss Moore has
for her leading man Franchot Tone,
who has grown in short time into
one of the most popular stars Of
the screen. Tone is seen in the role
of Emperor Francis Josef, VINO woos
one daughter of Duke Macmillan
played by Walter Conolly-and
finally marries another. The other,
one might safely presume, would
be the lovely Miss Moore.
Also seen in leading roles are
Raymond Walburn, engaging char
acter actor who will be fondly re-
membered for his drunken politician
in Thanks a Million" his valet
in Mr.. Deeds Goes to Town." and
other DEMONSTRATIONS; and Victor
Jory, the Oberon in Midsummer
Nights Dream" and leading man
in many other pictures. AS for
Walter Connolly, he has recently
been seen prominently in She
Couldn't Take 1t" and THE Music
Goes Round"
1.-The music in THE King Steps
Out" was written ny Fritz Kreis-
Ter, who is accepted to be the
worlds outstanding exponent of the
violin and a composer of classical
calibre His famed composition Ca
price Viennois" is sung in the film
by Miss Moore, with lyrich by Dor
othy Fields, who also penned the
words for the other Kreisler music
in the picture.
At Coliseum
In Gentle Julia" the Fox pic
ture which comes Sunday to the
Coliseum Theatre, Booth Tarking-
tons funniest story and one of the
screens most talented little COM
ediennes are brought together in
a heart warming romance Of the
dear old days when men wore peg
leg trousers and automobiles were
gasoline carriages.
Jane Withers, in her most mis-
chievous mood, is the leading player
of this picture, which features Mar
sha Hunt, Tom Brown and Jackie
Scarf, the little villain of Ginger,
in principal supporting roles.
Dealing simultaneously with Jane
and Jackie's hilarious feud and Miss
Hunts romantic difficulties, the pic
ture shifts it's attention from chill
dren to adults, until it finally blends
the two streams of the story to make
little Jane sort of inadvertent Gu
ipid.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-09

confronted with Hollywood's de-
mands for experience" have put
over the vague but satisfactory
"Oh, stock in the Middle West"
Hollywood Thick Skinned
1t is no longer fashionable for
Hollywood people to leave and give
out interviews slamming the town
but Hollywood is not sensitive
about that either. P. G. Wode-
house, who attained considerable
fame in this respect when he talked
about his munificent working
contract, is back again and work
ing Grace Moore, who finished
THE King Steps Out" and gave
sundry reasons why she would not
come back, has been doing Inter
lude."
If these things make Hollywood
bit sore at times, the pain is quick
ly forgotten or attributed to the
TRIALS OF art.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-09
WE'D TODAY

Miss Vivian Bernice LIE Master
and Marshall Freeman Erwin are
to be married at o'clock this after
noon by the Rev Erling X. Olafson
at the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. e. S. Croken. Friends Of tho
couple will gather at 8 O'Clock to-
night for the reception which is
also to be held at the Croken home.
The bride attended school at Sc
attic and then came to Juneau with
her parents several years ago to
reside, and was employed in the
Forest Service as bookkeeper.
Mr.. Erwin is an Al miner and
came from Oklahoma about three
years ago The couple plan to make
heir home in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-09
PIcKETINC is
ON, KETCA!KAN

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. g.
The first picketing on the docks
here started last night and is con-
tinuing today. A dozen longshore-
men surrounded the cargo on a
small boat which had returned from
Prince Rupert with several hundred
dollars worth of meat and assorted
groceries.
Part of the cargo had been dis
tributed when the pickets arrived.
The longshoremen conferred, then
decided to release all meat as a
necessity, but barred the groceries.
The picketing is peaceful. Duty
had been paid on the cargo.