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Evening star., 1937-04-05

ALGEBRA. penmanship. all grade sub
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Evening star., 1937-04-05
JUST OPENED.
APARTMENTS FURNISHED.

Different. attractive singles and large
rooms: meals optional. 1I52-4-o Que 81.
". Decatur 5I50.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
LUVOY FULLER
FAMILY VISITS
FRIENDS HERE

Professor and Mrs. Luvoy Fuller,
their nine-year- son, and Full
ler's stepmother, Mrs. F.. B. Fuller,
visited friends in Imperial Valley
this weekend.
Fuller is a son of the late F. B.
Fuller, pioneer Ell Centro banker.
He arrived in the valley with his
parents in 1904 from Hereford
Tex, and was graduated from the
Ell Centro grammar school and
Central Union high school. After
a law course at Stanford univer-
sity, he joined the faculty at Ore
gon university. He went to Duke
university, in Durham, N. c., two
years later. He has been head of
the law school at this university for
six years.
He is a member of the faculty
at the use. law school during
his three-month vacation. He plans
to return to the faculty at Duke
this fall.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
UTILITY VALUE
HERE FIXED
BY BOARD

SACAMENTO, Aug. 3 = Public
utility property throughout Cali
fornia was valued at $1,004,518, ,26C
for assessment purposes in a re-
port filed today with the state
board of equalization by A. G.
Mott, director of the boards val
uation division.
This total included tangible pro-
perty valued at $949, ,423 $40, ano
intangible property, or solvent
credits, amounting to $55, 5,O94,920
The whole represented an increase
of approximately per cent over
the value set by the board in 1896
and followed closely the increase
of approximately G per cent estab-
lished by independent county asses
SorS on common property.
In Imperial county the 1886 uti-
lity values included: tangible pro-
perty $5,782,3OO as compared with
1887, tangible property of $6,269, ,210
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
ID. A. May Drop
Contempt Charge

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 3. U.P)-
District Attorney Otis ID. Bah
cock indicated today he may
abandon attempts to obtain a
grand jury indictment against
Raymond Kahl. assistant SER
geaDt-at-arms of the state as
sembly, for assertedIy accepting
money to influence legislation.
Further efforts to indict KahI
probably will hinge on the out
come of contempt proceedings
against Sidney G. ParshalI, South
Pasadena city councilman, he
said.
Superior Judge Malcolm c.
Glenn yesterday took under ad-
visement Babcock's request that
ParsbslI be held in contempt for
refusing to testify before the
county grand jury considering
the Kahl case.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03

brick wall beside her.
DR.. Phillip zoller, an inferno, de-
manded that police lower him into
the shaft. Police protested that the
risk was too great.
II think that girls back is brok-
en-" said Zoller, 180-pound former
New York university football player
"If she isn't handled properly, she'll
die. I'm doing down.
zoller found Marilyn too seriously
injured to be hoisted to the roof
Even had he been able to extricate
her. He gave her sedative, told her
she was a brave little girl" and by
shouting, directed the attack on the
wall
Forty-five minutes after the first
sledgehammer had been swung
Marilyn was lifted out through a
three-foot hole. A rude plank
stretcher and splints had been pre-
pared. Zoller climbed out after the
child and worked on her for a few
minutes before placing her in an
ambulance.
Marilyn waved an arm feebly,
and stammered broken thanks to
her reScuers.
I'm not going to cry she whis-
pered. Il want my mother" Six
hours later she died.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03

III lliCii LJd5b llNtI lltlSllDOIIlOOu,
away from the hot pavements and
heavy traffic.
With Marilyn leading, the girls
started to climb across a narrow
shaft to adjoining roof. AS they
stepped upon a strip of wire mesh
pncealed by tar paper which form
Cd a covering over the shaft, the
rusted wire gave way. The children
plunged five floors down the shaft,
which was % inches wide at the top
but only 10 near the bottom. There
they stuck.
-Four thousand persons watched
the rescue efforts of an heroic am
bulance surgeon, police and firemen.
They cheered when Patrolman
William Gossman was lowered into
the shaft at the end of rope held
by comrades, and removed Lorraine.
She died a few hours later.
Gossman reported that he could
not reach Marilyn. Her fall had
left her Wedged in a Granny from
which she could be extricated only
by breaking through an eight-inch
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
n. Y. Man Tells of
Hollywood Attack

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 3. WP)-Je-
rome zerbe, 33, prominent New
York photographer, told police to-
day he was stopped by two men
near his home last night and beat
en-.
AS he neared his home a man
stepped from the curb and halted
his automobile, Zerbe told police
The man grabbed the keys to the
car and two other men came up,
dragged zerbe from the car, and
started to beat him, but were
frightened away by two passing
motorists who took the photo
grapher to a hospital.
After treatment he was taken to
his home.
Zerbe arrived here recently on
assignment from a nationally
known pictorial magazine. He could
give no motive for the attack.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
SOCIALIST OWNER
QUIZZED IN STRIKE

side. He went back for his shotgun
and returned to fire one blast.
Although he is Socialist by
political preference and has made
a hobby of Studying labor move
ments of the past generation, Lip
scomb's plant is a closed family
business operated on a capitalistic
system. Three generations of the
family work in the mill here. The
elder Lipscomb had all but retired
and surrendered the management to
his son, Forrest w. Lipscomb, but
when 25 grain professors called a
strike at his mill 10 days ago, he
took over active control again.
LipScomb said that although he
firmly believed in workers rights,
They're not entitled to get rough
like they have been doing" He
has been carrying on regular nego-
tiations with the strikers union,
seeking a compromise.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
AriZ. Lawmakers
Still DeadlOcked

PHOENIX, Aug. 3. U.P)-The state
legislature. still deadlocked by Mari
copa county's stubborn refusal to
allow the INDECENT sick burden to
be thrown to the counties, heard as
sertions today that "Maricopa coun-
ty really is losing money" if the
present bill is changed.
Sen. James f. Babbitt, Coconino,
member of the fifth conference
committee to argue the INDECENT
sick proposal. introduced in the SEN
ate figures from the state tax COM
mission which disclosed amounts
budgeted by the states ID counties
for INDECENT sick relief during the
1867 fiscal year.
The total of all the counties, the
figures showed, amounted to 1884,
65049, of which Maricopa budgeted
SITS 130.49.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
UnSOld Tomatoes
Threaten Market

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3. U.R-
More than 1000 cases of canned
tomatoes remain unsold in the Pa
cific area, the northern California
canning tomato stabilization COM
mittee reported today. The commit
tee made an appeal to the West
ern States chain grocers associa-
ton for assistance in stabiIizing
the market.
Tomato growers expressed the
fear that the large carryover from
last years crop might seriously
affect grower returns on the crop
which will be picked in August
and September.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03

SPRINGFIELD, Mo, Aug. 3. U,P)
Caleb Lipscomb, 79 year old grain
company president who fired a shot
gun at a group of strikers in front
of his mill Monday and wounded
Mark Hunt, 23, was called in for
questioning today by the county
prosecutor.
Hunt was not seriously hurt. He
was among group of pickets who
we're gathering up rocks, pre5um-
ably for another stoning of Lip
scomb's mill.
The elderly employer was leav-
ing his office for the evening when
he saw the hostile movements out
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
SIX PERSONS
DIE AS FIRE
CUTS CABIN

RAND, Colo. Aug. 3. U,R)-Six
persons burned to death today when
a fire of undetermined origin guttei
the cabin of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Briggs in this tiny mountain town
located in the northern end of the
state.
Coroner M. A. Durham, who came
from Walden, Colo, 25 miles north
of here, identified the victims as
Mr.. and Mrs. Briggs, both about 26,
the three Briggs children, Colleen,
three, another child, two and one
seven months and Loan Boltz, As.
a ranch hand, believed to be from
Laramie. Wyo.
Coroner Durham reported that the
townspeople, who were without fire
fighting apparatus. stood helplessly
by as the fire enveloped the cabin
while the victims slept.
The burned and blackened bodies
were taken from the charred ruins.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
MADRID FEELS
HEAVY FIRE
OF GUNS

MADRID, Aug. 3 (UP)-Nationa-
list artillery pounded Madrid mer-
cilessly today and killed or wounded
some 40 persons. The bombardment
started in the early hours in re-
sponse to a Loyalist barrage, and
continued all morning.
Loyalist artillery opened on the
Nationalist lines in the university
city sector in the northwest suburbs
soon after midnight, laying a bar
rage for Loyalist infantry who were
On the attack.
For three hours the artillery on
both sides continued firing.
More than 500 shells, of 3-inch,
6-inch, and 9-inch calibre, fell in
the city. The Cortez Plaza, where
the United Press offices are situat-
ed suffered most. A 9-inch shell
opened a nine foot hole at the top
of the United Press office building.
None of the United Press men on
duty was injured.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
Cannery Workers
Agree on Wages,
Hours Proposal

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 3. UP-A
move by state federation of labor
officials to win a uniform wage
hour agreement for all of northern
California's cannery workers today
bore approval of 500 Sacramento
cannery unionists.
Members of the Sacramento cam
merry workers union, local 20324,
approved the proposed pact in a
referendum last night. Drawn in
Oakland at conference attended
by representative of IL unions and
96 canneries, the proposal provides
5212 cents an hour minimum for
men, 421a cents for women. and "A
cents for piece work. The work
day would be limited to eight hours
normally and 10 hours during peak
operating periods.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03

known MISS Earhart in her child
hood.
The community band played
America" and THE Village Chapel.
Rev. E. E. Tillotson the First
Methodist church offered the open
ing prayer. He said that although
there was slight possibility of her
being alive, this town of her birth
still had hope for her.
Rev. B. H. Smith, rector of Trim
ity Episcopal church where Miss
Earhart was baptized, spoke briefly.
DR.. Burris Jenkins of Kansas City
was the principal speaker. He quot
ed from a poem that Miss Earhart
once wrote for a magazine:
"'How can life grant the boon
of living, compensate for the dull,
gray ugliness and pregnant hate,
unless we dare?'
1T is this very quality in Miss
Earhart," DR.. jenkins said, that
lifted her above all petty rivalries
and jealousies, criticism and con-
demnation. How do we know that
this flight failed or that it wasn't a
great triumph"
Rev. Richard Burns, o. S. B.,
pronounced the benediction. Mayor
Albert II. Lehman presided over the
ceremonies.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03

He promised he would fight until
can't talk" to avoid extradition to
San Francisco, where the mother of
his late wife, Mrs. Charlotte f..
Pendergast, demanded that he re-
linquiSh custody of Patricia Ann
Hayes, % months old.
The wealthy Mahwah. N. J.,
sportsman was cheered by comments
OF Judge Lambert K. Hayes, who
issued the warrant yesterday so
Hayes could free himself under
81 900 bond.
"A father has the right to his
own child" the Judge said. From
what I know of the situation, there
is no reason for issuing a warrant
charging child stealing"
Hayes and his daughter were taken
Sunday from an east bound airliner.
at request of California authorities.
Hayes explained that his wife died
while a divorce suit was pending.
Mrs. Pendergast, he said, took the
child to safeguard" her inheritance.
She started guardianship proceed
ings but withheld them when Hayes
put his share of his wife's estate
in trust for his daughter.
Hayes obtained his daughter by a
ruse, and fled the state by airplane.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
sportsman Will Fight Charge He Stole MoterIess Dauqter
Glacier Priest Will Prepare History
Of White Skinned Esquimoux Tribes
90

NOME, Alaska, Aug. 3 (UP)-Father Bernard R. Hub
bard the GLACIER priest from Santa Clara university
Calf, preparing today to leave for Point Barrow
Alaska and thence for King Island to attempt compile
history of the native "white skinned Esqumoux living
there.
These people, of the surviving tribes of "orginal
Alaskans believed to hold the the migration
of humans from Asia to the American continent
The other tribe the Herschel Island Indians have been
depleted by inbreedng epidemcs and starvation less
than dozen persons, all but two of whom are blind
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
Purse Snatcher
Flees Over Roof

OAKLAND, Aug. 3. U.P)-Police
searched today for a purse snatch
er who escaped with 5000 in flight
over roof tops. The thief took the
money from Mrs. Amelia Kahn,
cafeteria cashier, on her way to
bank. He then darted into a
building, took an elevator to the
top floor and vanished over the
surrounding rooftops.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
LOyalists Bomb
Important Fort

GIBRALTAR. Aug. 3 (UP)-
Two Loyalfst airplansii today
bombed heavily the new Spanish
Nationalist Notifications near
Algeciras, across the bay from
Gibraltar. Nationalist anti-craft
guns fired without effect on the
planes.
The Notifications of Algeciras
are an important part of those
built by the Nationalists i'm re-
cent months, aIlegedly with Ger
man aid. They dominate Gibral-
tar ard have caused anxiety
to scme British readers, includ
ing Winston Churchill.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
Carl Rogers Weds
GeOrgiana Cook

Miss Georgianna Cook and Carl
Rogers were united in marriage at
Yuma Saturday afternoon. Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert johnson of Ell Centre
were wedding attendants.
The Ell Centre couple spent a
brief honeymoon on the coast. They
then returned to Ell Centre where
they will make their home.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03

He was informed that he could not
be prosecuted under the Lindbergr
kidnapping law, as it does not per
tain to parents who take their OWL
children across state lines, providing
there is no extortion.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03

PHOENIX. Ariz., Aug. U.p)-
Arthur McCann, alleged Long
Beach, Cal, burglar, left for the
coast city under guard today to
face trial on burglary charges after
an effort to free him on a writ
of habeas corpus failed. McCann's
extradition was ordered by Gov.
r. G. Stanford last week. His re-
lease was sought on grounds he as
sertedly was in Texas when the
Long Beach burglary was commit
ted.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
MAN, 67, WEDS
11-YEAR-OLD

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo, Aug. g.
U.P)-William H. Grimes, 81, and II
year old May Frances Anderson
who went for a walk in the woods
and interrupted a preacher engag-
ed in cutting railroad ties long
enough to marry them, were held
by authorities today.
Grimes was in Jail, charged with
falsifying the girls age when apply
ing for a marriage license. The girl
was held by juvenile authorities.
Grimes. a farm laborer, and Mary
Frances went walking in the woods
near Neeleyville. They encountered
the Rev. Carl Holiday, who was
hacking away at railroad ties. They
decided then and there to get mar
ried.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
Felony Court TO Hear
Crandmother's Charge
Against Wealthy Man

CHICAGO, Aug. (UP)-John NJ. Hayes, charged with
stealing his own child from his mother-n-law was
summoned to felony court today to be arraigned on
fugitive warrant Im the babys father" he said "and
IN her legal guardian l don't know what thew mean
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
Girl, 9, Second Victim
Of Tumble From Roof
In Tenement District

NEW YORK, Aug. 3. (UP)-Marilyn Murphy, 9, Joined
her playmate Lorraine Chnchar, 10, in death odayan
other victim of New Yorks crowned tenement districts.
Like thousands of other children, Marlyn and Lorraine
had been playing the roofs of the fvestory enements
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-03
Dr.. Burris Jenkins i'm
Earhart Tribute When
Her Home Town Mourns

ATCH1SoN Kan Aug 3. WR-Amelia Earhars home
memorial service last night the
could be provided for the Pacific
ocean month Her nearest living relative
uncle the platform there who had
Evening star., 1937-07-25
Game Deuced Six Times,

"A SIX-TIME deuced game, on
March's service, finally went to
the Heffner-Johnsen duo for 81,
and johnson then served a love game
for the set and match, the final point
being a service ace.
The straight-set victory of Lynch
and Breese over Blade and McCaskey
completed the advance of the seeded
No. 2 team to the finals without the
loss of set. johnson and Heffner,
seeded 4, dropped one set en- route to
the title round.
Blade and McCaskey offered stiff
opposition in all three sets before
losing. being tied at A in the first
before Lynch's service produced a
Sd advantage and he and Breese
cracked Blades for the set. Although
the winners got off to 81 start
In the second, McCaskey and Blade
soon deadlocked the score, carrying
the fight to IA games before losing.
Following today's title doubles
match, Charley Charming will play
Ralph Buddy Adair in a special
singles match, the winner to get the
fifth place on Washingtons Junior
Davis Cup squad which will play
Philadelphia's on July 28 At present
Charming is rated No. S, but Adair
currently ranked sixth, can force an
exchange of places by winning.
Evening star., 1937-07-25
Last Set a Real Scrap.

CAMES went against service for the
first four games of the second set,
but with the score at 2-all, March won
on his to give himself and Ritzenberg
an advantage in games for the first
time Reffner quickly tied it up at 3-3
and went ahead when he and johnson
broke Ritzenberg's service in the next
game. Behind, l5-l4, in the eighth
game, johnson pulled it out of the
fire for a 5-3 lead, and after March
had won on his own service, Heffner
held his for set.
The real battle came in the last
set. which found March and Ritzen-
berg unable to hold leads of 81 and
5-3 After the ultimate winners
tied at SIS by breaking Ritzenberg's
service and winning on Heffners, they
muffed their first chance to end the
match at IS and 40-l5. Here,
Heffner doublefaulted and Johnsen's
volley dropped outside, wiping out
the second successive match point
Another match point came up when
Heffner socked placement, but
Ritzenberg retaliated with place
ment of his own which clipped the
taseline to deuce the score again.
Another burning placement by Ritzen-
berg gave the advantage to his team
and Hefner's out tied the score at
-
Evening star., 1937-07-25
Only Grateful Cheers Likely
Should US. Regain Daris Cup
after Dreary lO-Xear Quest

ney beat Dempsey at Chicago for the
second time and people argued about
the long count" The Yankees won
ITO games, the pennant and the world
series. Babe Ruth hit so home runs.
Bobby Jones won the amateur and
Tommy Armour the open. And the
American Davis Cup team still had
Bill Tilden.
The team breezed through to the
challenge round the next year. but the
French made their intentions about
the cups retention pretty definite by
licking Tilden. John F. Hennessey
and Frank Hunter. The score was Al
and the only American victory was
Tilden's. He beat Rene Lacoste in the
singles.
Young Blood From L. s. Fails.
IT WAS closer the next year, 80, but
the French won again. Henri Co.
chet played singles at Stadium Roland
Garros and he beat Tilden and George
Lott. Tilden beat Jean Borotra and
the crack American doubles team Of
Wilmer Allison and Johnny Van Ryn
doUned Borotra and Lacoste. The
French were better in 1880 and won
again in the challenge round. Al,
with Cochet, Borotra and Jacques
Brugnon playing superb tennis.
That year there were grumblngs
in America about he age of the Amer
ican team and the need for young
blood. The young blood arrived in
1881 in the persons Of Sidney Wood
and Francis x. Shields, but it didn I
account for any riotous cheering. For
the first time since 1927 America
failed to make the challenge round.
Great Britain beat America in the
inter-Zone finals, 3-2. The British
team with Fred Perry and Bunny
Austin just beginning to ripen into
tennis greatness lost to France In
the challenge round.
American hopes were high a year
later. Ellsworth Vines had come out
Of the West with a service, fast as
Tilden's' and he had able assistance
America entered the challenge round
again, but the team of fading French
veterans was too smart for the chal-
lengers and retained the cup. 3D.
The Americans went home and talked
about next year.
Evening star., 1937-07-25
Cup Committee Vindicated.

DARED by the local Junior Davis
Cup Committee for this particu-
lar tournament, March and Ritzen-
berg amply rewarded their sponsor
by reaching the semi round.
That their conquerors were fellow
Junior Davis Cuppers only added to
the delight of the committee which
thus saw its proteges advance into
the final round of a sectional and
senior tournament.
Seemingly improving with every
start. Heffner and johnson never
theleSs found themselves with a real
battle on their hands, with hot hand
to-hand Volleylng at rackets' reach
across the net marking the Commute
scrap. Double-faulting by Ritzenbere
at crucial moments hurt his side
cause IN the first and third sets, but
he more than atoned for these when
ne led counter attack which STAYED
of three match points in the four
teenth game of the third set and one
In the sixteenth, and last game, before
succumblng.
March and Ritzenberg did not get
a lead until 80 in the second set
the closest they came to sticking with
their rivals in the first ending when
Johnsens service broke a tie and
gave his team a 4+3 lead. Gutenberg
had a chance to tie the set on his
own serve, but with the score 40-3C
In his favor, pulled the first of his
double faults and Hefner and John
sen won at deuce for a 5-3 ad-
vantage.
Evening star., 1937-07-25
Then RritOns Get Busy.

(OMEHOW that didn't come off
~ either. The British were getting
better and better and when they
caught the Americans in the inter-
zone finals they gave them thorough
going over. Austin beat Vines and
Allison. Perry trimmed Allison and
then Vines retired in the fifth set
Of their hectic match. Perry and
George Patrick Hughes lost to Alli-
son and Van Ryn In the doubles and
the United States got one point in
flve.
In 1884 and 1885 the United States
was in the challenge round, but the
new crop of American players didn't
do much. Great Britain won. Al,
in 1884, and year later the United
States was handed SO defeat,
made possible by the victory of
Hughes and Charles Tuckey in the
doubles. 1t was England's first dou-
bles victory in challenge round
since 1907.
For the second time since America
lost the cup the team failed to get to
the challenge round last year. The
Australians beat America In the
North American zone finals, 81
Bulge and Allison played In the
singles, and great was the outcry
when Allison dropped both his matches.
Bitsy Grant had played against Mex
leo in North American zone matches
and the South thought he should
have been in there against the Aus
sizes
Since the Davis Cup was first put
into play in 1900 by Dwight F. Davis,
later Secretary Of War under Presi-
dent Coolidge, the United States has
won the cup II times England has
nine cup victories, Australia seven
and France six. The cup is closed
corporation for these four nations
No other country has ever produced
Davis Cup winner