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Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-15

It has a regular editor and staff
photographer and copy is on each
table nightly. The sheet lists the
sirocco flow of celebrities, what they
wear and their eccentricities, also
prints one or two poses. The itch to
be spread upon its pages, of course,
brings customers.
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Lois Long, The New Workers.
Lipstick, proved herself the prince
or rather princess of good fellow
ship in recent water wagon wager
At one of the bars one late evening
somebody sighed he was tired of it
all and was going to chuck intox-
icants for at least a month: Several
others were SO minded and so ten
of them deposited a 500 check each
as a solemn pledge of abstinence
Those who failed forfeited their
deposits. All dropped out of the
race before the final day save Miss
Long, and when they gathered to
see her collect, she waited until
five minutes before the final hour
then downed a cocktail and handed
each pledger his check Not many
men would have been SO generous
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They buried Arakel, the Armenian
restauranteur, the other day. Fol
many years Arakel's was a stop ir
the rounds of trenchermen at its
unpretentious stand on lower
Lexington avenue. In the cashier;
cage Arakel with his bushy brows
piercing eyes and hawk-like nose
suggested an eagle. The cafe had the
true continental atmosphere. Never
crowded, leisurely service, and din
ers who remained all evening like
those at Foyot's and Laperouse
Arakel's soups were not potages, bu
inspirations. Such places always die
with their owners.
Thingumbobs: Marie Tempest
received letters from Oscar Wilde
almost every day he was in jail
but disliked him so she tore them up
as received-They would be worth
a fortune today-Jimmy Johnston
the fiery prize fight promoter, is
one of the towns most confirmed
tea addicts . Clare Boothe Luce
has dedicated the novelized version
of her hit play, "T'he Women" tt
her schoolgirl friend, Buff Cobb.
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I like the Rube Goldberg story
that has been going the rounds fol
some time now. On the off chance
you haven't heard it, here it is: A
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-15
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< FRANK WATANABE
4 En HOLDEN
BY ED HOLDEN
1T CANNOT WAS

Ford Planning $40 Minimum Day."
SO say the news. Then l start getting
upshoots of same with my thought dip
per- With first dip l thinking this: On
ten dollar daily, every & all autoskill-
man in U. S. shall be honking at Ford
doors for an job.
Second dipperful of thoughts: Union
Emperors is asking for about 81 each
day for employments. Auto Generals
say they not can paying seven, it are
not in the cars! But if Ford can afford
ing ten dollar, then we must subtract
one from three.
No Union not asking for plenty.
No. Auto Generals is fibster.
No. 3-Ford are silly.
thinking more better we calling them
ten dollar mum wage" Otherwise
umpossibly to keeping the pieces in U.
S. family. For 50 more even Mister Lew
is will working for Ford.
Thank yOH please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-15
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, April Is Joe Louis
| has become the sartorial hot dig
gedy along 7th and LenoX avenues.
The combined razzle dazzle of Duke
Ellington, Cab Galloway and Bill
Robinson almost suggest mourning
in contrast to the brown skinned
fighters dressy didoes.
In his formative fighting days,
Louis clung to blue sergeS, with only
an occasional peep of color, such as
bright-hued tie. But all of
sudden he jumped the gun and with
a resounding blooey, blooey cracked
the spectrum. He is Harlem's style
setter.
And has the most elaborate ward
robe that color-conscious Harlem
has ever seen. He sports pearl white
HombergS in Jimmy Walkers
jauntiest dip and wears high button
shoes with dove gray tops, to say
nothing of giraffe skin gloves at SIS
smack, which Gary Cooper
popularized.
His pantaloons are five pleated
swooping from his hips to a thin
and graceful cuff, his vests sawed
off to here and his shoulders padd-
ed out to there. One of his shirts is
blood red, which he wears with a
grass green tie. which gives you the
general idea. Joe, it seems, for some
panegyricS were turned off sudden
reason or other has lost consider
able face with the New York sports
writer's. Since his ascendency he
was showered with praise until his
fight with Bob Pastor and then the
panegyricS wehe turned off sudden
ly-like water by a tap. The hos
annals turned to boots almost as
venomous as the jeers for Max Baer
when he toppled from his pedestal
But, Louis no matter what his pu-
gilistic standin. remains the Bob
Bon Buddy in the Black Belt. He is
considered the social leader along
Strivers Row and Sugar Hill and
right now, of course, PAGES the
fashion fare. Already there is a
neon-signed Joe Louis, Toggery
exploiting styles he is supposed to
sponsor. Uptown he is known as
"Chappie." That's his manager Joe
Blackburn's name for him. When
the time comes for Louis to make
his kill Blackburn is supposed to
say'Let's go to town, Chappie," and
in that round the fighter brings his
man to the resin. The only Harlem
holdout in enthusiasm for Louis is
the black ex-champion, Jack john
son. He has said from the start that
any good right-handed puncher
could make a monkey out OF the
boy from Detroit.
y y
The restaurant Ell Morocco for
social stayouts. publishes minia-
tire tabloid weekly called No News.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-15
Bruce Cation Says:>>
tyranny Can't Happen Here? Ask Mr. Gedeon!

They did not certify the upholster-
er's guilt, nor did they compel
their readers to look OH the kind
of pictures that are usually reserV-
ed for the back room of One
chair barber shop. But in New
York the sky was the limit.
This went on for a week or more.
And then what happened? Gedeon
was turned loose, and all talk about
his guilt" was forgotten. Instead
the police announced positively
that the solution of the crime would
lie elsewhere; young sculptor
would be shown to have commit
ted the crimes, and, just as soon as
they could catch up with him, the
case would be closed.
II i X
Now the point of all this IS tilaC
these enthusiastically blhndering
coppers managed to put their big
feet on the observation-disclosures
anteed rights of this man Gedeon
in way that the worst dictatorship
could not surpass. Aided by yellow
journalism, they tore his reputa-
tion to tatters And he has no re-
course, no redress.
This is a free country, and you
are protected against tyranny-un-
less some policeman happens to
decide that he can sweat you into
confesSing to murder he isn't
bright enough to solve by lawful
means
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-15
Hints on Etiquette

It is not customary for elaborate
engagement gifts to be presented
to the bride-t -to-be. Intimate friends
and members of her family may
give showers and send personal
presents, however.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-15
News Behind the News
Interior Department Gets a Building
Utility First Consideration :. Vered
Bureaus GiUen Respite

WASHINGTON - Herbert Hoover Andrew
Mellon and other leaders of our Republican past
planned and built many handsome gaudy gov
ernment buildings which began to be completed
about the time Roosevelt and the New Dealers
We're ready to move in. Some of these struc-
lures seem to have been designed to provide
homes for great open spaces.
The first big federal building here to be
initiated, erected and now completed under the
Roosevelt regime is the new Department of In
terror Building, into which various scattered bu-
reaus under Secretary Harold Ickes are now be-
ginning to move after much vexation and delay.
Plan rather than Stylization, utility in prefer
'ance to classy frilly-frillies, efficient place
for work rather than imitation Parthenon-
that was the idea Ickes had for this building
after he found his department and his PWA
scattered around Washington at 20 different ad-
dresses.
Perhaps the official chiselers soon will have
to chisel out the words Department of Interior"
now cut into the stone above the entrance on
Constitution avenue, and chiSel in Department
of Conservation" There would be fine chance
for a typographical error Department of Con-
servation" Anyway, one of the least controversial
phases of the Presidents reorganization program
calls for a change in the departments name The
present Interior building across Rawlins Square,
"a connecting tunnel runs under this Square)
will be known the North Interior Building,
but might later become headquarters for new
Department of Public Works
The exterior of the building is both simple
and handsome, and there's question that
Ickes and the architect achieved economy on
space About 5000 employees will move in during
the next two months. The building consists of
wide center wing two blocks long with six
wings on each side. 1t is SO constructed that
one will have to turn more than one corner
to reach his office if he takes the right eeva-
tor Cost was about S13J000000
EScalatorS operating between the first and
two floor levels and the basement are the first
facts and features include 1000 electric clocks
automatic air-conditioning, library with
capacity for 100000 volumes, auditorium with
1000 art gallery, conference rooms special lunch
room and kitchen for executives, basement gar
age for hundreds of and a broadcaStng
studio
Annual saving due to moving of Interior
offices from leased space is estimated at $751;
$50. Also, 10 or IS per cent reduction in aver
age operating costs for government buildings is
expected TO result from simplified methods of
maintenance.
The new building will help solve a cockeyed
housing problem which has become common
among federal departments and New Deal agen-
cies, and has forced the government to rent
than 2500000 square feet of privately
owned office space here, in addition to buying
up some hotels, apartment houses and other
structures
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-15

ventriloquist was desperate because
his act was Hopping. He heard spiri-
tualiSm was a good business an
opened seance parlor. A widow
came in to talk to her departed
husband. The ventriloquist did his
stuff ana she was delighted. She
paid a handsome fee and asked if
she might come back the following
week to talk again. The ventriloquist
new to his role, said: Madam, I'll
not only let you speak to him but
I'll drink a glass of water"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-15
SIS Reward

Will be paid by the manufacturer
for any Corn GREAT CHRISTIE
PIER POSITIVE Corn Cure can
not remove. Also removes Warts
and Callouses. 35c at Clements
Drug Store. (Adv.)
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-15
TOday's Horoscope

Many persons born today take a
genuine interest in problems of CIV
ilization. They are noted for their
scholarship.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-15
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

/. Who is German minister OF
economy?
2. What city is capital of the
Basque provinces?
3. What U. S. president served
only one month of his term of Of
flee?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-15
Words of Wisdom

1t is astonishing how little one
feels poverty when one loves.-Bul-
Wer.
Evening star., 1937-11-07
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF
TODAY.

lODAY.
Meeting. Photo Engravers' Union
Hamilton Hotel. 10 am.
Installation of officers and dinner
knights of st. John. Ladies' Auxiliary
District No. !, 24o0 Sixteenth street
NV. 4:3o pm.
Meeting. Irish History Study Club,
1900 Newton street NE, 8 pm.
Dance, Phalau Social Club, Ham,
Nton Hotel, pm.
TOMORROW.
Committee meeting, National League
Of American Pen Women, Willard
Hotel, $50 am.
Luncheon, Washington Executives
Association, Willard Hotel. 1890 pm.
Glass, Life Insurance Institute, Will
lard Hotel, 5 pm.
Dinner. Linen Supply Exchange,
Willard Hotel, 6 pm.
Meeting, Child Care and Training
and Library Committees, Columbia
Chapter, No. 1858, Women of the
Moose, 4510 Georgia avenue NV,
. pm.
Meeting, Treasury Department Lo-
cal, No. 262. N. F. F. E., Washington
Hotel pm.
Meeting, Washington Section, In
stitute Of Radio Engineers, P. e. p.
o.. Auditorium, 8 pm
Meeting, Park View Citizens Asso-
citation, Park View Platoon School,
3 pm.
Meeting, Washington Slovak Club,
S20 Tenth street NV, 8 pm.
Smoker. Variety Club, Willard Ho-
tel, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1937-11-07

to complete the shave and its thor
oughness.
The opening show. to start at 1880
pm. tomorrow, will be featured by a
"barnyard contest" on the stage in
one end of the large exhibit hall. The
contest is to be open to all show
patrons who may initiate any barn
yard animal or fowl. The one doing
the best imitation, to be judged by
the volume of applause from the audi
ence, will be given a special award.
Besides the awards to the winners
of a special contest each night of the
show, II awards, including an auto
mobile, will be given away during the
course of the six-day affair.
Beginning Tuesday, matinees will be
held each day from 2 to pm, to
be featured by baby show each aft
ernoon. Santa Claus will be on hand
at the matinees to distribute gifts to
all children under 6 years of age.
Hundreds of gifts of food are to be
presented show patrons.
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Bible Study Cut Hit.

Shortening Of Bible study in
secondary schools of Argyll County,
Scotland, to give more time to physical
training has caused row. Baille M.
Mackie OF Oban. champion of Scottish
Sabbath observance, declares the move
Is the thin end of a wedge to oust
religious education entirely.
Evening star., 1937-11-07
RAILROAD PASSENGER
SUES AFTER COLLISION
B. & o. and Transfer Company
Are Named in $4,000 Damage
Action of Arlin rfnn Man

Reed K. Pond Of Arlington, Va,
f1led suit in District Court yesterday
for $4,000 damages from the David
son Transfer & Storage o., 2215
Fifth street NE, and the Baltimore
d Ohio Railroad for injuries allegedly
received in collision between q B.
d Q. train and a truck owned by the
co-defendant last February Is.
Through Attorney Daniel B. Maher,
the plaintiff said he was a passenger
on the train, en- route from Washing
ton to Baltimore, when it was in COL
lision with the truck near Dorsey. Md.
Evening star., 1937-11-07
Y YOMEN who have laughed at
\N| their husbands antics be-
fore . shaving mirror will
be given an OppOrtunlt,

NC given all OPP0A eoAAAoJ w
try their own hand at shaving them
during the course of the District Gro
eery Stores, Inc, tenth annual food
show which will begin tomorrow night
and run throughout next Saturday.
A shaving contest, with women
shaving their husbands, beaux or any
man willing to submit to the ordeal,
will be held as feature event on one
of the evenings of the show. which
will be in an exhibit hall in the $500
block of Connecticut avenue NV.
Any woman will be allowed to use
either a straight or safety razor, ac-
cording to her own choice, although
the man to be shaved is expected to
have something to say about the kind
OF razor. The winner of the contest is
to be judged through the time taken
The Washington times., 1937-04-23
Tow Looks Good
In Workout

Bob Tow, elongated Alexandria
heavyweight, yesterday cut loose
like a mailman in a workout for
his 1O-round match with Eddie
Nader Monday night at Turner's
Arena, cracking three ribs Of Billy
Edwards, Negro sparring partner.
Edwards was treated at the hos.
pital. Following the tune-up with
Edwards, Tow kayoed Buster
Wages, another Sparring partner.
Matchmaker Goldie Ahearn to-
day received word from Matty
Herbert, manager for Eddie Ma
der, who stated that Nader had
been signed for a non-title fight
with John Henry Lewis, Negro
Interchangeable champion, May
S in st. Louis. If Nader beats
Lewis he will be given a shot at
the crown.
The Washington times., 1937-04-23

rounds concerning him, for no No.
5 man can't be so essential to a
club, particularly when Nos. /. 2,
3 and 4 outrank him for the nonce.
But Griff also denies there is
any trade in the wind for Newsom,
an old custom at the ball park of
keeping the public in the dark on
player shifts-which is their own
business.
The inference naturally carries
from such denfals that Newsom is
too vital to the club to be consid.
cred in a trade.
Which brings us face to face
with the question that if Newsom
is so indispensable to the club to
trade, why doesn't he pitch some
ball, or is his condition as No.
Continued on Page SO, Col. A.
The Washington times., 1937-04-23


The laudatory words were
spoken by none other than John
F. Kanfield, tennis coach at the
University of North Carolina and
a man noted far and wide for his
ability to develop star players out
Of youngsters.
Kenfield hopes to be able to
bring four of his star tennis
players to the nations capital for
the washington division Of the
Grand National, June IL to June
20. The four are Ramsey Potts,
captain of the North Carolina
team and its No. / player; Archi-
bald Henderson, who last week
made such a great showing in the
Pinehurst Amateur; Eddie Fuller,
one of New England's leading
players, now a member Of the
North Carolina University team;
and, Gordon Robinson, former
Junior champion Of Canada, also
The Washington times., 1937-04-23

now a member of the North Caro-
lima University team.
Potts is an outstanding star. He
was ranked No. 3 among the
intercollegiate players Of last year
and No. by the Southern Lawn
Tennis Association. Henderson is
ranked No. 8 in the South. Rob
inson is ranked No. 8 in Canada.
Potts home Is in Memphis, Tenn,
Henderson is a local boy, Fuller
halls from Salem, Mass, and Rob
inson'S home is in Niagara Falls,
Ontario.
Expressing enthusiasm for the
Times-Hearst Grand National,
North Cardinals willy coach said:
Tournaments like this Times
Hearst Grand National stimu-
late public interest in the game,
help youngsters to develop by
giving them q medium through
! CONTINUED on Page SO, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1937-04-23
BrdddoCk Ready
For Siege

CHICAGO, April %: - Heavy
weight Champion Jim Braddock
announced today that he is
through fiddling around with light
workouts and will Immediately get
down to the business Of training
for his battle with Joe Louis, to
be staged here the night Of June
% barring an adverse court de-
cision.
Braddock, after playing hockey
for two days to attend the Cubs
Pittsburgh baseball games, was to
box four rounds with Sparring
Partners Charley Massera and
Jack Mccarthy today as the wind
up Of his first strenuous gym Ses-
sion since he left his northwoodS
training camp in Wisconsin.
Louis, meanwhile, departed for
StevenSville, Mich, to confer with
Co-manager Julian Black, postpon-
ing his scheduled departure for
West Baden, Ind, where he in.
tends to do his preliminary con.
ditioning.
The Washington times., 1937-04-23
Western Choice
Over Riders
Today
BY GARRETT WATERS

Roosevelt Highs hopeful base
ball team makes its debut in the
1887 interhigh series today, meet
ing Western at the Western sta
dunn at $3.50 p. m.
The game is thorough test for
the Rough Riders in that they
will be facing the team that is
doped to defend its 1886 title sue
cessfully this spring.
Anything Coach Littman's crew
does today, therefore, will be en-.
couraging. Particularly if the
Georgetowners are given a close
battle.
The Roosevelts are still in the
uncertain stage in their training.
Coach Littman has yet to decide
on a regular catcher, while he
would like to see his pitching staff
round into little stronger fettle.
Art Miller, 1886 vet, started out
as the teams backstop in drills.
But now Miller has been shifted
to the outfield, and Maxwell, an
outfielder, turned into a receiver.
Other candidates are Billy Rich
ards, of football fame, and Jack
Adamson.
Sammy Mallos, Lefty Conover
and Bill Hudson are the chief
pitchers. Mallos is considered the
best of the lot, because Of his
experience from last year. Con-
over and Hudson have shown
promise. however, in drills. but
they still need polish for topnotch
interhigh efforts.
Teddy Lagos, second baseman,
Is the find of the season. He has
worked himself into the regular
Second-base position and by doing
so, has beaten out several other
aSpirantS.
Because of his size, Littman has
made him the lead-off man in the
batting order. And he's not bad
hitter for midget" either.
Now in Westerns behalf. Coach
Cliff Moore exhibited an up-and-
coming pitcher in Toby Bright.
young left-hander, last week.
Bright hurled the Georgetowners
to an easy 10-to-2 victory over
Central and pitched as steadily as
you could imagine for a lad Of high
school age.
Because of this fine effort,
Bright is expected to draw the
assignment again today and if he
scores a second triumph, Western
fans might go right ahead vision
ing another title. For pitching
was the only preseason "if" the
team had,
The Washington times., 1937-04-23
Major Ledguers
Admire Form
Of Rivals
BY FRANK BUCK" ONEILL

by FhANN DUN " NEAAA
The Griffs sat in the clubhouse
this morning chatting about base
ball, which is a habit that ball
players have. Buddy Myer spoke
of Charley Gehringer and his
faultless style at the plate.
"YOu can tell he's a star the
way he handles himself. Every
move is a picture. If / had young
ball players to develop, I'd make
them study Gehringer's style.
He'd help them"
AL Simmons sat listening to the
talk, and chuckled softly at Myers
dissertation on form.
Don't you agree with me?"
asked Myer.
"Sure, do" replied simmons,
''but I'm glad that form isn't
everything. It helps, but there's
no substitute for hitting the BAN.
Connie Mack once forbid me
to join the Athletics for spring
training. Not only once, but two
or three years. He told me that
I'd ruin any young bali player,
or any group Of young bali
players.
FORM UNORTHODOX
my form is unOrthOdOx," Sim.
mons continued. "I've been told
that my habit of pulling my left
foot back kept me in the minor
leagues for year or two. Well,
I guess it isn't the best way in
the world to bat, and / know
that / wouldn't recommend it
to youngsters. But you must adj
init I've made many a base hit
in my major league career.
Connie wrote me q letter in
the spring Of 1880 and told me
to stay in Hot Springs and keep
away from the ball club. That
suited me all right. like to
train in Hot Springs. / come out
Of there down to weight and
feeling like a million bucks.
al can't hold you up to the
youngsters as an example in
batting form, so you stay away
from Fort Myer and join the
team in Philadelphia Connie
wrote to me.
II trained with the Milwaukee
club and had a lot of fun and
came out Of Hot Springs ready
to go. 1 had a right good year,
too. 1 hit $3.50 and drove i'm a
lot Of runs. But ] guess Connie
was right, because I do some
things that the ordinary player
could not do. And some of
them do things that I couldn't
do,
TAKE HORNSBY CASE
"NOw take the case of Rogers
HOrnsby," piped Simmons. "HOw
many players could stand the
way Rogers does, and still hit
the ball the way he can?
"Of course, when he takes his
stride, he steps into perfect bal.
ance and gets q terrific belt
with his wrists into the finish
Of his swing. / can understand
how he gets results, but ut the
same time I'd hardly recon.
mend that the average young
player follow the style Of
HOrnSby,
The Washington times., 1937-04-23
PICKUPS AND PUTOUTS

The Georgetown relayers will
sadly miss those few precious
yards which Leroy Green used
to give them in that final burst
of speed of his when they COM
pete in the Penn Relays tOmOr
row Green always had
bit of reserve for that last min
ute =. However, the HoyaS are
still powerful and hopeful &.
and feared =.
Jack Milligan is still guffaw-
ing over the recent predica.
ment of his friend, Harry War
hurst, a fresh water fishing
companion at Big Hunting
Creek Warhurst reeIed in a
15-inch rainbow trout and
dropped 1t in Jacks creel
The Washington times., 1937-04-23

Both forgot the finster until
Milligan emptied his haul at
home Next day Jack sent
the fish to Warhurst at the
Commerce Building Harry
relayed the fish to Fred Der.
singer, Commerce Dept. aquar.
ium director. for temporary
safe-keeping Oersinger i'm.
mediately started an investiga-
ton, believing someone was
filching his aquarium's rainbow
trOutS
Bernard Wade, ex.Easterr
gridder, will stammer 81 do"
tomorrow al st. Thomas Church
with Harriet Ramey, a Central.
lite, ech0ing him ). 'sPoSs" HoI.