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Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
News Behind the News
American Press Conference Unique
Questioning the Biggest Big Shot :.
Imagine Hitler AllOlDiHg 1t ..

WASHINGTON = The White House press
conference probably is an institution unique IN
the world. At least in no other foreign capltaal
do correspondents stand up twice week ana IRE
questions at Mussolini, Hitler Stain, the King or
Prime Minister of England or whoever else the
top Dig shot may be. ~.
The style press conference-lts IouI
years old now-iS RooSevelts own. Coolidge and
Hoover used to have a system whereby you wrote
your questions and slipped them to secretary
The President picked out the ones ne 1elt ike
answering and ignored the rest Roosevelt now
ever, decided he wouiu submit 10 VerDal questions
and give direct answers information Tor oacK-
ground or strictly "off the record replies -
Sometimes Roosevelt says he doesn't want
TO or isn't ready to answer question that ne
doesn't know the answer, that he hasn't ready
the statement report newspaper story 70
which the questioner refers, that the question Is
an "if question" that the, question is best
answered by another question which he there
upon propounds.
But most important questions get asked soon
er or later-embarraSsing or not-and SO IL was
with the question whether he would accept a
third term nomination if it were offered. Back
in 1927 newsmen kept slipping written questions
to Coolidge asking if he were a candidate Tor
denomination. Coolidge ignored them consist
emily Then one day the fellows ganged up and
each individually wrote the same question and
saw to it there wasn't another in the pile.
Coolidge turned them over, one after an
other until he reached the end OF them. And
then he began q l0-ullnuDe TdlHDuilS QlSquioieioh
on the subject-unless this writer's memory fails
of telephone rates in the District OF Columbia.
The correspondents were glad to get away from
there when he finished OF course eventually
Coolidge was smoked out to the point OF assert
ing that II do not choose to run.
Roosevelt was asked three pointed questions
about his own third-term thoughts. Seldom are
correspondents SO persistent in putting him on
the spot - '
The first was as to whether he had any
comment on Governor Earle's endorsement OF
Roosevelt for 1910. He merely shook his head,
The second was a flat one-Would he, II
offered it, accept denomination in 1910?
My gawd, how hot the weather isl" cores
pondents seemed to hear him say and then:
you go over in the corner and get Ounce cap
and stand with your back to the rest OF the boys"
But then the first correspondent came back
and asked if the situation were covered by the
February Victory Dinner speech in which Roose-
welt said he wanted to turn the country over TO
his successor in 1941 in better shape than it was
when Buchanan handed it to Lincoln. Roosevelt
then made his second Ounce cap nomination.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
YARDS NEED TENDING
IN THE SUMMER. TOO

If you are leaving your home for a
month or two weeks this summer, YOU
will be doing yourself and the community
service by arranging for someone to
take care OF your yard lawn, shrubs and
trees while you are gone Some of us
need no such reminder. Others forget at
the last minute-and return after our
vacations to find our yards pitiful, burnt
out spectacles which will need many
months of care before they are normally
attractive again.
The Imperial Valley sun is not kind
to untended shruhbery or lawn in the
summer. In brief two-weeks time it
can undo the work of an entire winter.
1t is important, therefore, that we make
some arrangement for the care of our
yards while we are away.
A beautiful residence section is a great
asset to any town or city, and especially
is this true in Imperial Valley surround
ed by desert. For many years, valley
residents have been too busy with the
material things of business and farming
to take much pains with the appearance
of their yards. During the last two or
three years this unseenlly neglect of
beauty has been overcome to a great
extent 1t should be our business, this
summer, to see that We do not lose
ground in our efforts to beautify our
homes and consequently, our community.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE
A. 0AAE5

In the Superior Court OF the State
of California, In ana for the County
of San Diego
In the Matter of the Estate of
JENNY l.. HANSON, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that under
and pursuant to the law made and
provided the undersigned, Arthur
w. Eckman, administrator with
the will-annexed will sell at pri-
vate sale, to the highest and best
bidder, subject to confirmation OF
said Superior Court on or after
the 26th day of July, 1887, at
the office of Eckman and Lind
strom, 420 Story Building, City OF
Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles,
State of California, all the right,
title and interest of said deceased
at the time of death and all the
right, title and interest that the
estate of said deceased has acquir-
ed by operation OF law or otherwise,
other than or In addition to that Of
said Jenny L. Hanson, deceased, at
the time of death, In and to all that
certain real property particularly
described as follows, to-wit:
Lot z6, Fuller Land Co.'S. Tract
No. S, Imperial County, contain
ing 435 acres;
Terms or sale Cash IN lawful money
of the United States on confirma-
ton OF sale, or part cash and bal
ance evidenced by note secured by
mortgage or Trust Deed on the
property s, sold Ten per cent OF
amount biz to be deposited with bid.
Bids o.. offers to be in writing
and will be received at the afore-
said office at any time after the
first publication hereof and before
date OF sale.
Dat,d this 1st day OF July, 1887.
ARTHUR w. ECKMAN,
AS Administrator with-the-will-
Annexed.
EcKMAN ana LINDSTROM,
Attorneys for Administrator.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11

They have been having quite q
time lately in the pleasant little VII
lage of Grand Detour, Ill, celebrat-
ing the Tooth anniversary of the
invention of the steel plow. Good
looking Illinois farm girls dressed
up in 1837-style clothes, cumber-
some wooden plows of the pre-
steel era were dragged around by
patient oxen, and testimonial to
one of the really significant events
in western history was put on the
records.
And this homely little anniver-
sary deserved all the celebrating 1t
got. For we make a mistake when.
we think that it is only the great
eyents-the battles, the discoveries,
the founding of great cities ana
the birth of great leaders : that
shape history. The humble things
can be far more significant.
When the human tide spilled over
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Humble Events Often Make Biggest History

the Alleghenies and went flooding
westward, early In the last century,
one of the greatest natural granar-
les the world ever knew was walt
ing for cultivation. The rich
prairie lands of the great river
valleys were deep with black soil,
and grass as high as mans waist
rippled in the breeze. The new
comers could hardly believe in their
luck.
For here, ready to be exploited
was bread basket that could pro-
vide the sinew for the growth of q
giant. The American nation was
inspired from the beginning by the
dim notion that men on this con-
tinent somehow would be able to
work out a way of life in which
the ordinary man would have bet
ter time of it-would be freer, would
live better, would have few more
of this worlds goods-than was the
case elsewhere. And these rich mid
dle-western prairies promised the
abundance that would help make
the dream come true.
But to exploit this rich land, men
had tools no better than the ones
with which European peasants had
titled their acres in medieval times.
Something better was needed -
something that would cut the mat
ted soil more quickly and easily
than the clumsy implements Of the
age of scarcity. And SO some bright
farmer in Illinois got the idea of
turning the soil with an all-steel
blade.
Simple device, or course-but defi-
nitely significant, because SO much
grew out of it. Not only were the
unnumbered millions of acres of the
rich west put to work to nourish
the swiftly growing nation; first
| oeCP hAoNA bCCit OdhCli IliC c.
ton of taking the drudgery out of
farming, of freeing the farmer from
his old slavery to unending toll. =
America was not merely to hay
abundance; 1t was to have abunX
dance at a steadily diminishing cost
In human labor. Life was to be
easier here, as we'll as richer.
Is that reading too much into q
modest little invention that some-
one was bound to make some time?
Not at all; it is these modest little
discoveries that do the trick. We
put up monuments to soldiers,
statesmen, explorers, but it is the
quiet men who find simple ways to
make life easier and richer who
really have us in their debt.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
What Other
Editors Say :
WAGNER ACT CREAKs AGAIN


The bareback against the Wag-
ner Act, with which the American
Federation of Labor is now OPEN
ly dissatisfied, according to Direct
or of Organization Hines of that
body, is not unnatural. But Mr..
Hines and his organization are in
the throes of partisan activity, and
it is therefore unwise to conclude
with him that the National Labor
Relations Board has adopted pro
CLIO. attitude" From the facts,
the trouble seems to be that the
fault, if fault there be, lies in the
act itself, not in its Interpretation
by the board, as far as concerns
the AT. of L.-CI.O. controversy.
This is exemplified by one of the
specific instances of alleged favori-
tism given by the A. F. of L., that
of the Auto Stamping Company.
In this case it appears that the
skilled craftsmen of the company
had organized under federation aus
pices, When the United Auto Work
ers came along with it's appeal to
the less skilled or unskilled it de-
manded the right to represent all
the workers, including those in the
A.F. of l..
The board has accepted the petit
ton of the U.A.W. to hold an
election, and it is here that the
Federation's claim of Partisanship
shows itself. Under section 9 (b) of
the Wagner Act, the board shall
decide whether the unit appro-
pirate for collective bargaining shall
be the employer unit, craft unit,
plant unit or subdivision thereof
This rather puts the board on the
spot. Faced with making compul-
sorry decision, the natural thing,
it would seem, would be for the
board to fall back on the entire
company as the appropriate unit,
any other decision would require
some clear-cut Justification. Yet
if the board does take that action
1t would be prejudicial to the inte-
rests of the AT. of L., since semi
skilled or unskilled workeds usually
predominant in mass production
industries.
The Wall Stret Journal has sew
eral times pointed out the inequali-
ties in the operation of the Wagner
Act; how management is unpro-
tected at every turn, and labor
forced to assume no responsibilities
commensurate with its new-found
power. Now we have an instance
in which the law is apparently
working to the advantage of one
section of organized labor at the
expense of another. This newspaper
is not partisan in the conflict be-
ween the CLIO. and its older rival
But we cannot refrain from OBJ
serving that it is an odd sort OF
law which, while presumably de-
signed to leSen industrial strife
works to the advantage, apparent
ly, not merely of only one economic
group-organized labor-but also OF
only a section of that group.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORIA, IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL
No. 1880
SUMMONS

IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT. Plaintiff. VS.. SARAH M.
STEPHENS. ct al, Defendants.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO SARAH M. STEPHENS,
JOHN DOE, JANE DOE, RICH
ARD ROE, JOHN DOE COMPANY,
A CORPORATION, AND RICH
ARD ROE COMPANY, A CO.
PARTNERSHIP, Defendants.
You Are Hereby Directed to Ap-
pear and answer the Complaint in
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in the Superior Court
of the County of Imperial State of
California, within ten days after
the service on you of this Summon
If served within this county; o.
within thirty days If served else
where.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
Or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, or
It will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plaint.
Given under my hand and the seal
OF the Superior Court Of the. Coun-
ty of Imperial, State of California,
this 9Th day of May, 1887.
(SEAL
w j. McCLELIaAND
AL. County Clerk
BY ELEANOR McGIRK
Deputy Clerk
May 2, IA, 81, %; June 4, II, 10,
Is: July 2. 10.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
REBUKE TO
HERR HITLER

1t may not be the most telling blow
delivered at Adolf Hitler's anti-Semetic
mania, but the now-famous story of what
novelist Sinclair Lewis and playwright
Sidney Howard wrote recently to Ger
man producer will stand as the most up
roarious rebuke ever given the little
Bavarian paperhanger. The two had
dramatized Lewis "DodsWorth'', and the
holder of the German rights to the play
was forced, before he could produce it,
to ascertain that its authors blood held
no Hebrew taint To his request, the two
Americans replied formally that they
were unable to furnish guarantees OF
their Aryan descent, since they were as
ignorant of their own ancestors of the
past few hundred years as Hitler was OF
his. In closing, they asked that our
proper legal names of Sinclair Levy and
Sidney Horowitz" be used. Needless to
say, 'sDodsworth" won't be produced in
Germany and the authors will have lost
some money by their flip response. But
they have earned respect as men OF
principle from an American public which
already admired them as artists.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
New York Day by Day

everybody was ealing Maggie be-
fore the party broke up.
Names, names. Anita Loos, Carl
Seitz, Mike Donlin, James Keeley,
Blanche Sweet, Mickey Nielan, Re-
gina Wallace, Tom Mix, Bryan
Washburn, Bob Wagner, Ted Cook,
Harrison Fisher, Victor Schertzing-
er, with few bars of "Marquita," +"
Floyd Gibbons, Vincent Lopez, Ben
Bernie, James Montgomery Flagg,
Helen Menken, Morris Gest, Charles
G.. and Kathleen Norris, Deke and
Dot Aylesworth, Gary cooper,
Flora Zabelle, Will and Betty Rog-
ers, Meredith Wilson, Fannie Hurst,
Fred Astaire, Winnie Sheehan and
Jertiza, Katharine Brush, Barbara
Stanwyck, Frank Fay. How mar
yelous to know then in fireside
intimacy! .sz-..-=.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
"A on Sol
X FRANK WATANABE
XNS sY 20 HOLDEN
HOW TO SUCCESS
ny 20 HOLDEN

News are teaching me that Honorable
Boom Crosby cannot reading a measuls
note of music. Yes he are US Champlng
barreltone! And he receiving more as
200 thousand dollar every annual Tor
same!
Grover Jones are the Champingly
writer of Hollywood pixtures. But on
the age of II he were hurled out of gram
mar school because his language was so
bad and his spelling was obnoxious. So
he getting so thousand dollar for writing
the words for one set of reels.
If crime don't paying neither do educa-
ton. under such cases. When we attend
ing at college for 20 years and end up
selling gaslen, let us not being sour
gripes. Maybe we should start singing
If you wish being a expert singer or
writer as case may be, you must shun
from music or burn up all grammatical
bookware. 1t seem.
Secret are to originate own game &
changing the rules as you go along. Then
YOU will be one in box.
Thank You Please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11

NEW YORK, July 10, Diaries
are generally dangerous. Even
Pepys, who set down his most in
| innate thoughts in what he thought
was his own unsolvable shorthand
was embarrassingly and postum
mously deciphered. The next best
bet for pleasantly recalling days
agone is the guest book.
/ have been rifling back through
ours today So many gone. So many
who were intimates now SO remote
they seem almost strangers. Some
who were nobodies when register
ing now of worldwide fame. The
first entry is Henry L. Doherty,
whose address was THE Roost," his
bachelor quarters on Bridge street
| On the same page Bessie Shaw
Stafford, sterling Atlanta news
paperwoman. And the Duncan sis
ters-Rosette and Vivian-then in
the flush of a stage fame that
dwindled. And skimming along: the
H. T. Websters, the r. M. Brinker-
hoffs and Ray Rohn, in day we
were practically inseparable.
Too: "Old Man Lew Cody to and
from Nowhere" And the late Mabel
Normand. Gypsy O'Brien, once OF
the stage, and whose handwriting
is the most distinguished in the
book. Such names, too as Frank
Goodwin, w. r. Hearst, jr., Rupert
Hughes, Frances White, Jane Dixon,
Allan Dwan, Rita Welman and
Jeanne Judson.
Also in succession Monta Bell, be-
fore his 'adven: as cinema direct
or, Spencer Penrose OF Colorado
Springs, the Courtney Ryley Coop
ers, Achmed Abdullah, Karl K
Kitchen, Bill Steinke, Meredith
Nicholson his sons Meredith, jr and
Charles Lionel, Anon Carter,
George AIDE, Edna Ferber and Dean
Cornwell.
There Is a signature record OF
"a night when George Gershwin
and Irving Ceasar dropped in-long
before either was famous-and
Gershwin in melancholy mood sat
dreamily improyising, lost in his
own melodies until dawn. In the
guest book beside his name are sew
eral bars of his then best known
tune, Nobody But You"
Then: w C. Hogg with the date
717-22 which marked the beginning
of the staunchest, most satisfying
and loyal friendship I've known.
left him in Berlin, after a motor
trip from Paris, through France,
Belgium, Holland. and Germany in
1880 Three days after [ diSembark-
ed from the Europa came the stun
ming cable of his unexpected pass
ing at Baden Baden. So interviewer
had become our lives that existence
has never been the same for me
since.
90
One page seems loaded with
ilustrious. From top to bottom IN
the following order: Peter B. Kyne
Beebe Daniels, Roy Howard, Nata-
cha, Ramboya, Rudolph Valentino,
Frederick ArnoId Hummer, Alice
Robe, Ryley Wilson, "Hello!Gert- |
rude Lawrence, Peggy Hoyt, Gene
Mstkey, Irwin Cobb, chic Sale,
Earl Carroll, Adolphe Menjou and
his mother.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11

Statistics show that of the $4,000
gypsies in Spain, there is not one
left who can make the stock prom
Use of wealth and long life.
Spain may be on it's last legs due
to the influence of too many arms.
Russia is getting % new theaters,
and it was not long ago that the
worlds their stage.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
By O. O. Mcintyre

A memorable night recalled by
this entry: John Ringling, June
%, 1925" The cicrus man dropped in
after theatre. Someone had just
sent me a case of ale from Canada
his favorite beverage. 1t was a
sweltering night of summer still
ness and with a bucket of well
iced bottles at his side, coat and tie
removed he began to remember
when about circus days-stories OF
performers, animals, Hey Rube"
flurries, tales of grafters and CLEAN
ers in wake OF the big tops. Never in
the theatre or movies have I been
more fascinated. People were going
to work when he went down the
hall to the elevator
There's touch of the Sam Gold
wyn Alva Johnston glorifies in
With Best Wishes from Great
Admirer-Samuel Goodwin" And
Wilson Miner perpetrates a whim-
sey with small booked for the hun
dredth time-Wilson Miner" F"
Small booked" is a police station
term. Then Kin Hubbard and a
grotesque thinning of Abe Martin
Townsend Netcher. Many, many
more.
A residential interlude at % aven-
ue Henri Martin in Paris is festoon-
ed with such visitors as Gene and
Polly Tunney, Lucille Cavanaugk,
John and Margaret Kennedy, Ralph
Barton, Micheal Arlen, Lisle and
Bertha Bell, Arthur Moss, Paul
Whiteman and Jimmy Gillespie,
Mrs. Irwin Cobb, Mrs. Roy Howard,
son Jack and daughter Jane, Mrs.
willis Wood, Sinclair Lewis and
nnirable dictu!-a real Spanish
Princess, Marie de Bourbon, whom
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
Horoscope FOR Sunday

If your birthday is tomorrow, you
are inclined to be an independent
thinker, preferring to figure things
out for yourself rather than to &C
cept pat" solutions.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
Today's Horoscope

Persons whose birthday occurs
today have sound judgment. They
are noted for their tenacity.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
Thoughts for the Day

as a countenanee is made beautiful by the souls
Shining through it. SO the world is beautifted by the
shining through it of God.-Jacob-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
Grab Bag
one-Minute Test

1. Who is military dictator OF
Cuba?
2. What is the capital of Austria
ia?
3. What material is used chiefly
In the manufacture of lead pencils?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11

One-Minute Test Answers
1. Col. Fulgencio Batista.
2. Canberra. ,
3. Graphite.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
Hints ON Etiquette

When two women whose ages are
obviously different are introduced,
the younger should be presented to
the older.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
Words Of Wisdom

Learning makes a man fit COM
pany for himself.-Cato.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11

everybody was ealing Maggie be-
fore the party broke up.
Evening star., 1937-07-23
BANQUET IS HELD
BY POLICE ACADEMY
Law Enforcement Should Be Made
Career, Cummings Tells Group.
Praises Hoover.

Law enforcement should be made
. career rather than lust another
Job" Attorney General Cummings
declared last night 1T q banquet of
the Federal Bureau Of Investigation &
National Police Academy in the May
flower Hotel.
Cummings praised J. Edgar Hoover,
p. B. I. director, for his efforts to
place law enforcement generally on
. professional basis, through estab-
lishment Of the academy for free
training Of police ofhcers tn crime
detection methods. .
He said the =. B. !. has done much
to coordinate the country's Federal,
State and local law enforcement
agencies into = cooperative network,
making it dimcult for rowing criminals
to operate. -
The Attorney General said the
bureau has made more progress under
Hoover than at any time IN It's
history.
Evening star., 1937-07-23
PHYSICIAN INFECTS
SELF WITH fever
Dr.. Edward Francis Confined to
Baltimore Hospital After
Tick Bite.

DR.. Edward Francis, noted dean OF
the infectious disease division OF the
United States Public Health Service,
again has been stricken with disease,
self-infected in the interest Of science.
DR.. Francis is confined at the Ma
rine Hospital, Baltimore, probably In
definitely, with relapsing fever, con-
tracted through the bite Of a baby tick,
offspring of relapsing fever infected
ticks. The transmittal of the disease
through this channel Is hailed by Pub
lie Health scientists as An important
development. indicating as 1t does that
once . tick is infected, successive
generations will be likewise
The scientist is recovering, but it
was said today that this period Of con-
valescence probably is indeterminate
right now, for not much is known Of
relapsing fever, and each victim In
likelihood reacts differently.
Several years ago DR.. Francis in
fectsd himself with the microbe Of
tularemia. or rabbit fever. and has
since had recurrent attacks.
BY the same method DR.. Francis
proved that . wood tick can carry
undnlant Or Malta fever.