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The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18

where Alice used TO live, all the
places with which he had been ia
miliar. But that could wait. He
wanted to get this business of the
hospital fixed up first.
He found there were formalities.
He couldn't just transform a hos
pital room into any kind of a free
place he wished at will. There were
officials and there was board. But
fortunately the board had a meet
ing that morning, and he was in
formed that he could present his
proposition at IL o'clock.
The board was gracious to this
opulent stranger who was willing to
pay cash for room that very often
stood idle because it was available
only to wealthy people. When the
arrangements were completed Greg
went to see about having the bronze
tablet made for the door, and ii was
late in the afternoon before he got
back to the hospital.
He found the nurse just coming
out of the room.
1--WE been trying to telephone
you," she said. ''She woke up few
moments ago and insisted on get
ting right up and going away. I
told her that would be impossible
,,r41 +ho doof0r oavoa fbok uya had
no right to let her go away until
she had been dismissed. Then she
said she absolutely must. That she
had to 60 somewhere and apply for
job. She seemed awfully upset
that she hadn't got there by eight
o'clock. I've had a time keeping
her quieted down. / thought per-
haps if you could come in and jolly
her along little it might help"
'.Pn GOMEZ" said Greg with a
light in his eyes.
When Greg arrived the nurse
swung Margeret's door open and
said in a clear. CHEEKY tone:
miss McLaren, I'm bringing
visitor to see you. This is Mr.. Ster-
ling, who picked you up yesterday
and brought you here. He's been
anxious to know how you are, and
l knew you would want to thank
him."
The girl on the bed turned quick
troubled eyes toward the young
man, and a little color sprang INTO
her white cheeks.
Greg went toward the bed with his
cheerful grin.
But sayi" he exclaimed eagerly.
You're looking better already,
aren't you? / certainly am glad.
You had me scared last night.
The girl managed wan smile.
'It was very good of you to care
for me-" she said. I'm sorry L
had to make so much trouble for
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18
Two-Faced Politicians.

COMEBODY says the type of poll
- tician who swaps worthless
promises before election for the
publics confidence-and its votes
reminds him of Janus. Janus was
a god with two faces, and the an
clients finally got so they couldn't
trust either one of them. But it took
them a long time to catch on.
Might I be pardoned for thinking
of a homelier simile? I'm thinking
of the pack-rat of this western coun-
try. The thrifty pack-rat slips with
stealthy tread into your camp whilst
you slumber and carries off some
thing of value. But he doesn't steal
it-nothing like that. He merely ex-
changes with you, you being asleep
at the time. He leaves a dry twig
behind and totes off side of meat.
He confiscates one of your boots,
but, in return, confers on you a
couple of dead cactus stalks. His
intentions may be honest, but there
is no record showing where pack
rat ever got the worst of trade.
/ figure he's part Scotch.
And the profits resulting from his
professional dealings certainly may
be likened to the career of many a
chronic officeholder now flouriShing
in our midst.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18

Sixteen million thunderstorms
sweep the earth every year.
Taking into account an average OF
20 seconds between two lightning
bolts, mankind must get used to the
idea that 100 lightning flashes rip
across the skies around this globe
every second.
These figures have been gathered
by DIR. Popowsky, the German me-
teorologist, reports London United
Press correspondent in the Phil
adelphia Inquirer.
According to DR.. Popowsky, a
thunderstorm is the result Of a
''thermic bubble" caused by sun
heated air quickly rising into the
cooler heights of the heavens.
Thunderclouds carry up to 300, 900
tons of rain, sufficient to fill 5000
big rail trucks.
Two German scientists, Renard
and Hochschwender, have con-
structed thunderstorm ma
chine
They have estimated from it that
tension accumulated in large thun-
dercloud could be anything up to
5000, 100000 volts.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18
HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONS

Storing Summer GarmentS.-All
garments in the summer ward
robe should be cleaned before
storing. Soil and stains allowed
70 remain In such garments when
put away may cause permanent
discoloration.
Dumplings for Stew.-Two cups
-four, two teaspoons baking pow
der, one-haH teaspoon salt, two
cups milk. Sift the dry ingredi-
ents. Add the milk slowly and
beat until smooth. Mixture should
be just stiff enough to drop from
the end of a spoon. Steam for
about ten minutes, tightly COW
cred.
FreShening COcOnut.-Shredded
coconut that becomes dry can be
freshened by soaking it in milk for
five minutes before using it in
cookies, cakes, frostings and pud-
dings.
To Prevent Rugs From Slipping.
Jar rubbers securely fastened
by sewing on the under side will
prevent throw or scatter rugs
from slipping on smooth floors.
To Roll Corn Flakes.-Lay a
clean towel on the table and put
the corn fakes in the center. Fold
each side of the towel over the
dakes, turn both ends over to the
center and crush with a rolling
pin.
Touches of Stitching. - The
vogue for embroidery gives the
home dressmaker chance to de-
sign some pretty, interesting and
distinctively individual costumes.
On the shoulder or at waistline of
a black crepe dinner dress, one
might put loose, informal-looking
spray of white wool flowers and
leaves. A black street dress, seen
recently, has two long pointed
breast pockets covered with red
wool flowers. The matching jacket
has red wool embroidery across
the back.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18
A Three Days Cough
Is Your Danger Signal

No matter how many medicines
you have tried for your cough, chest
cold, or bronchial irritation, you can
get relief now with CreomulSion.
Serious trouble may be brewing and
you cannot afford to take chance
with any remedy less potent than
CreomulSion, which goes right to
the seat of the trouble and aids ma
ture to Soothe and heal the infamed
mucous membranes and to loosen
and expel the germ-1aden phlegm.
Even If other remedies have failed,
don't be discouraged, try Creomul-
sion. Your druggist is authorized to
refund your money if you are not
thoroughly satisfied with the bene-
fits obtained from the very first
bottle. Creomulsion is one word-not
two, and it has no hyphen in it.
Ask for it plainly, see that the name
on the bottle is CreomulSion, and
you'u get the genuine product and
the relief you want. (Adv0
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18
One Hundred Lightning Flashes Sweep
Across Skies of Globe Every Second

This tension, together with elec-
trio power quantities from 10000
amperes, would suffice to supply
big country with electric power for
a whole year if it could be collected
and utilized.
Two other scientists of the Berlin
Institute of Physics, Lange and Ur-
ban, have made efforts to collect
huge energies contained in thunder
clouds for industrial power pur-
poses.
A huge wire netting was hung UP
between the slopes of a rocky valley
in the north of Italy, which is noto-
rious for severe thunderstorms.
Electric energy accommodating in
the air was conducted to two poles.
A tension of 100000 volts was
gained which could be used to devel-
op sparks 54 feet long.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18
Tvo4ite Recipe
OF the Wek@
Glace Apple Tart

Glace Apple Tart
3 cups sugar l peppercorn
IL cups water Lemon and orange
blade mace peel
Pinch piece stick "a cup lemon juice
cinnamon 3 pie apples
tsp. whole 4 tart shells
cloves
MIX sugar and water in large
A'A skillet. Add spices and thin
pieces of orange and lemon peel
tied loosely in bag. Bring to a
rapid boil, skim carefully, add
lemon juice. Peel, core, and cut
apples into eighths. Simmer gen
tly, turning apples frequently until
tender and clear. Remove apples
to plate. Remove spice bag, and
boil syrup until it sheets from
spoon. When apples are cold, ar
range in tart shells. Spoon cool
syrup over apples, serve with
plain or whipped cream if desired.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18
The Christmas Bride
By GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL

@ Grace Livingston Htl
WNU Service

people. Obviously he couldn't lei
that grandfather and grandmother
know. He couldn't go all over the
state of Vermont asking for Marga'
ret McLaren's grandparents.
He put the letter slowly back into
the envelope. He wished he knew
how she was.
Early in the morning his tele-
phone rang. causing him to waken
sharply to sudden anxiety.
SIS this Mr.. Sterling? Well, this
is Miss Gowen. the nurse. just
wanted to tell you that our patient
rested nicely all night took her
medicine and nouriShment like a
lamb and is still sleeping. The doc
tor came in in the night and says
she is doing well. He says she may
sleep right on through the day. you
can't tell"
Greg felt like a child on a holi-
day after he had hung up. Why
was he so glad about an utter stran-
ger? Well, he was. 1t was some
thing to have somebody to care
about, even a stranger about whom
he knew nothing. He had saved
her life perhaps. Didn't that give
him some right to be glad?
He ate his breakfast joyously.
planning what he would do. He had
intended going out to see the old
landmarks that morning. his old
home, the schoolhouse. the church
where his mother and he used to go
regularly on Sunday, the house
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18


pomp, propaganda. Bands and guns
and flag wavings, murderous
preachments and manufactured pa
triotiSm; they all help to fertilize
against the ultimate harvesting.
Befuddle the first-born on dreams
OF drunken glory. Teach him the
neighbor over the way is an enemy
who must some day be crushed
without mercy. Make him believe
his country's destiny demands re-
venge for old hurts, reprisals for old
losses. widened boundaries writ in
blood.
And then, in about 20 years. you
have a nation ripened for ruin,
race of mothers ready to offer their
sons to the slaughter. It's a slow
crop, but a sure one, and highly
gratifying to professional sword-rat-
tiers and power-mad dictators, to
profiteerS and financial hijackers.
Let's see, come 1888, it'll be just
about 20 years since the last time
the world cut its own throat.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18
This Man Dewey.

WHEN the Republicans get out
w the hound-dawgs to run down
their 1910 nominee, they might
search in the tall timbers of Man
haitian island.
There's young fellow there, the
name being Dewey, and he being
kin to the great admiral whose
deeds cracked at Manila one May
day morning like the lightningS on
Mount Sinai. He comes of old
Yankee stock. He halls from de-
batable state, Michigan; lives in
pivotal state, New York. Still in
his mid-thirties, he smashed the
foulest, securest nests of labor rack
eteers and vice racketeers in Amer
lea.
He married a sweet Texas girl,
as southern as they make 'em. Her
grand-uncle was Jeff Davis. My
daddy was jeff Davis relative, too.
And this young Dewey trained for
grand opera. Speaking of this charm
thing, think of a President who'd
wind up his fireside radio chats sing
ing Home on the Range"
Yes, sir, the G. o. P. might go
farther and fare worse.
Nordic Supremacy.
ID ECENT events bring to mind a
IN little story of some years back
when night-riding patriots in an
Arkansas county felt called on, as
sacred duty imposed upon all true
Caucasians, to put the Black broth
er in his place; said place, in at
least one instance, being a colored
cemetery.
Also, there had been a flood Of
notices to vacate sent through the
mail to members of the African
race, followed by unpleasant sur
prise parties did the recipients fail
to heed the gentle warning.
So the community was getting
more Nordic by the hour and the
sound of the Anglo-saxophone was
heard oft in the Silly night. That's
the scene and the plot. Now for
the sketch:
Pelagria Perkins meets Hook
worm Hostetter on Main street:
''Hooky," says Pelagria, "effen
you wuz to git letter frun desc
here wife shirts, whut would you
do?"
MEL" says Hookworm. boy,
I'd finish readin' it on the train"
IRWIN S. COBB.
Copyright.-WNU Service
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18
SYNOPSIS

Young Gregory Sterling. having made
a fortune in the West, reluctantly re-
turns to his home town, and takes lux
urious room at the Whittan House on the
edge of town. AS he looks across the
street to the park, he sees girl sitting
on a park bench suddenly keel over. and
rushes to her rescue. He takes her. still
unconscious. to a hospital. where the
doctor pronounces the case starvation.
Gregory engages a private room and
special nurse. Miss Gowen. and gives
orders to keep secret the identity of the
girls benefactor. While Gregory con-
siders endowing a hospital room in
memory of his mother. for the free use
Of strangers, he finds a purse beneath
the park bench where the girl had sat
Opening it. he found it empty except
fer a letter addressed to Miss Mar
garet McLaren, l456 Rodman street.
with a blurred Vermont postmark.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18
HOW OFTEN
CAN YOU KISS AND
MAKE UP?

L1EW husbands can understand
l. why a wife should turn from a
pleasant companion into a shrew
for one whole week in every month.
You can say I'm sorry" and
kiss and make up easier before
marriage than after. If you're wise
and If you want to hold your hus-
band. you won't be a three-quarter
wife.
For threegenerations one woman
has told another how to go "smil-
ing through" with Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. It
helps Nature tone up the system.
thus lessening the discomforts from
the functional disorders which
women must endure In the three
ordeals Of life: 1. Turning from
girlhood to womanhoOd. 2. Pre-
pairing for motherhood. 3. Ap-
preaching middle age"
Don't be a three-quarter wife.
take LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND and
Go Smiling Through"
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18

survive the horrors
of one war never
willingly enlist for
another. Meanwhile
be sure the women
have been bearing
children, since chill
dren are the seed
corn Of your future
sowing.
AS the newer gen.
Grafton grows up
dose it on the old
reliable P. P. P.
r
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18
Amonq Great Truths

To live in the presence of great
truths and eternal laws-that is
what keeps a man patient when
the world ignores him, and calm
and unspoiled when the world
praises him.-BalZac.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18
Unit of Measure Called Candy

Candy or handy is a measure Oh
weight in the East Indies. In Mad
ras the candy is equal to 493.1
pounds, in Bombay it is $50 pounds
and in Ceylon it is equal to scr
pounds.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18
|N3jl:3:I.13E:li3H

MO person can be we'll and happy il
~ constantly distressed with the evil
effects Of constipation. And no person
needs to risk i'll health by neeleeting
to keep the bowels wholesomely
clean. Yet so many suffer- Are you
one Of them? Is constipation keeping
you unfit and Observation-Disclosures,
bloated, tired; without appetite, ambi-
lion or energy? Then try Doan's Resu-
lets They act mildly and without dis
tress, contain no calomel nor habit
forming drugs; tone the liver, stimu-
late the How Of bile and promote we'll
balanced sctivity Of the intestinal
hset Be regular with Rssulss. Sold
ct al drug stores.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18
In Our Need

Just to realize that there are
friends in the world who care is
great help.-Sir Wilfred Grenfell.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18
uJt%t Q
dY~nIma
S.N1obb
NIvlbD about
Growing Cannon Fodder.

CANTA MONICA, CALF.
- TO produce this crop
takes time and planning.
First your veterans must grow
past fighting age because those who
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-11-18
Reward of Innocence

Mirth and cheerfulness are but
the due reward of innocence of
life.-Sir T. Moore.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-01-29
CITY RESPONDS
TO APPEAL FOR
FLOOD FUNDS

Ell Centrans are coming to the
front in their support for the Red
Gross flood relief campaign, a
total of 1910 having been turned
in to the city banks and various
organizations having pledged con-
tributions.
Any one wishing TO make cash
contribution may do SO at either
the Bank of America or the Sc
curity First National where the
money will be collected and turn
ed over to the Red Cross only, the
entire collection going to that or
ganization and no other.
Spanish War Veterans and the
Auxiliary each pledged donations
at their meetings Thursday night
as did the 20-30 club members who
voted 100 per cent contributions.
Those who have made dona-
tions to the banks are: anony-
nous, A. G. Farrar, Mr.. and Mrs.
T. w. Seal. w. r. Cubbon and
Peggy Eye. M. o. Best, v. H. Azh-
dorian, jerome Sales Co., B. E.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-01-29
ROSE -HEWES
CLASH DRAWS
item TON
Campaign Nearing
Deadline With
Interest Hot
BY EDWIN A. FITzHUGH

In a campaign drawing
critically near the deadline
when votes will be cast,
strategy conferred SO def
nitely Friday in Divisions No. !
and 2 of the Imperial Irrigation
District that voters of three 9TH
er divisions found their interest
breaking division lines to focus
on the Mark Rose-Evan Hewes
battle in southern Imperial Val
ley.
Principal reason why voters In
Division No. 3, 4 and found
their interest wandering from
their own directorships was the
lack of belief that balloting will
be close in any of these divisions.
Charles Morrow, incumbent. is
without opposition in Division
No. 4. Director w. E. Youngis
opponent in No. 3 is w. v. Cohee.
who polled SO votes in 1888 against
480 for Young and 372 for w. 0.
Blair. Cohee's strength, a survey
of residents in the Calipatria area
showed, is expected to be slightly
greater in 1887 than in 1933-but
not enough to elect him.
Personalities
Division No. presented a more
interesting study, not because Of
the campaign there but because
of the personalities engaged. Mark
Rose, Oldest director In point OF
service on the board. former con-
trolling factor in every Imperial
Irrigation District move, was not
particularly concerned about the
opposition offered by Ollie d. Stew
art. He expressed himself as vir-
tually certain of reelection, and
few observers, even Of the enemy
camp. disagreed with him.
Among those norninally opposed
to Rose in his own division there
was a growing feeling that. al
though he has lost the greatest
measure of his power, he remains
an asset TO the irrigation district
as a balance wheel against too
one-sided system. These persons,
supporting policies of the present
directorate, favored retention OF
Rose as a safety-valve.
Freed of what he considers Sc
rious opposition, Rose is free to
throw his efforts into the cam
paign in Division No. and 2,
working for defeat of Evan T..
Hewes in the first division and
Ira Aten in the second.
Rose support of w. J. Gregg
against Aten was considered by
observers to be good politics in
his own division. at least. because
Gregg's interests in Holtville have
made him popular there. Thus
the Rose championship of Gregg's
campaign, with or without Gregg'S
Continued on Page 2, Col. D
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-01-29

Predictions were made that water
traffic would be resumed by Mon
day.
Standing in the way of peace were
two issues-more pay for sailors on
steam schooners and the eight hour
day for cocks and stewards on pas
senger boats.
Differences between longshore-
men and shipowners were reconcil-
ed last night, paving the way for
complete settlement of the contro-
versy that has cost millions of dol
lars and paralyzed shipping for
more than three months.
Union leaders said they expected
an immediate referendum by the
10000 strikers, with the probable
ity that voting will begin tomorrow
regardless of whether the two issues
with steam schooner sailor and pas
senger boat cooks and stewards
were adjusted or not.
Definite announcement that peace
is near was expected to be made
later today when strikers and ship
owners report to the San Francisco
bay area mayors and other city Of
ficials who OH Tuesday gave the
disputants 48 hours to reach an
agreement or submit the matter
directly to President Roosevelt.
At the conclusion of last nights
meeting Henry Schmidt, president
of the San Francisco local of the
International Longshoremen's as
ISOLATION, announced an agreement
had been reached between ship
owners and longshoremen and that
strikers would probably be back
to work Monday.
The 1. l.. A.. is the most powerful
of the seven striking unions in the
Maritime Federation of the Pacific
and it was believed that acceptance
of a peace plan by that union would
be followed without resistance by
acceptance on the part of the other
groups.
Terms of the proposed truce, as
announced by Schmidt. were that
longshoremen would be paid 95
cents an hour for six-hour day
with overtime at $l.40 an hour and
no relief gangs after pm.
This latter point was considered
important by the strikers as without
this concession they would. they
felt, have little opportunity to OBJ
tain overtime work.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-01-29
TEN POUNDS
OF DYNAMITE
DISAPPEARS

Ten pounds of dynamite, TOUR
pounds of black powder and So
foot fuse disappeared from pros
pector's automobile parked in the
rear of a Brawley liquor store
Thursday night.
Charles Hopes told Brawley po-
lice he purchased the dynamite,
powder and fuse a short time be-
fore he parked his car. The pur-
chases had disappeared when he
returned to the machine.
Dynamite used by proSpectors Is
said to be of low pressure but
capable of doing considerable dam
age.
Disappearance of the explosives
calls to mind the dynamite scares
of late 1895 and early 1896 in I'm
perial Valley. On November 10,
1885, IL bombs were discovered in
the Wisteria canal near Calexico
by customs border patrolmen. A
50-pound case of go per cent dy-
Mantle was stolen from an oil,
company magazine west of Braw-
ley December 7, 1885. Two days
before the magazine burglary, IL
sticks of 40 per cent dynamite
were found on the Southern Paci-
fic tracks near Ell Centre.
Ten sticks of 40 per cent dyna-
mite were discovered hidden in a
meter box at the Pacific Fruit
express plant in Ell Centre.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-01-29
Fugitive 20 Years
Free to Return to
Home in Valley

STATE PRISON, FLORENCE
Ariz., Jan. 20. W.p)-Prudencio
Castro, who escaped from Ari-
IONA State prison more than
20 years ago and who was re-
turned here three months ago
because he talked too much,
was free today 70 return to his
home in Ell Centre, Calf.
Castro escaped from a prison
road camp = few months after
he started serving q sentence
of three to 10 years for grand
larceny. Settled in FL Centre
where he confided to a friend
he was wanted in Arizona. The
friend informed authorities and.
Castro was returned. "A
The board because Of Z
good record during his 20 years
pf freedom, committed his e1u-
tence to time served.
Castro was arrested in 81
Centre last October byn imnat-
grafton border PATRIOTISM upon
information that he was an cs-
capped convict. The immigra-
ton officers turned him ever
to the county sheriff's depart
ment. Prison officials at Flor
ence were notified Of his arrest
and he was returned to Ari-
IONA.