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Evening star., 1937-03-24
Residential Social Notes
Mr. and Mrs Stotesbury Hosts at Recep-
ton Yesterday.

parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ney
of Woodley Park Towers
Miss Betty Du Pre- will spend the
Easter holidays with her parents. Mr.
and Mrs. D. L. Du Pre-, at 6308
Brookeville road, Chevy Chase, Md.
Mrs. W. P Hicks has returned from
a four-month stay in the South.
Mr.. Matthew G. Tighe is at Sum-
merville, S. c., recuperating from
recent illness
Mr.. Frank T. Page of Philadelphia
is at the Hotel Raleigh for several
days while in Washington.
Mrs. Dorothy Bendell of the In
terror Department is on a vacation of
some 10 days to Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Peters and
their family are in Washington for
few days and are at the Carlton
Hotel. Their home is in Great
Falls, Mont.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. R. Fully Of Woon-
socket, r. l., are at the Hotel Raleigh
for ar indefinite stay. Mr.. and Mrs
Fully are planning to make their home
IN Washington.
Mrs. H. c. Tully, with her son, Is
stopping at the Carlton while in
Washington. Their home is in Glen
Ridge, N. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Mckinley OF
Harlan, KY. are at the Hotel Raleigh
while in Washington.
Evening star., 1937-03-24
Social Lethargy Relieved by Foreign Visitors Capital
By the Way
Beth Blaine

O SENATOR AND MRS MIIARD TYDNCs goes the nalro for
self possession great
other evening about 20 of dining with the
most popular couples in all of Washington We stood about
the beautiful drawing for several minutes after the
pointed awaiting the of the last guessEeanor and
Mlad Tydngs They were not more than 10 minutes late and
with apologies their hardness and that
the hostess had waited for them
until after had been announced that we
learned the OF their late arriUal.
ac sa id Peea ed m ea
a IT m taste an and
all the Tydngs ueasures-rus paintings fine old furniture and
The a agas ng 9 a9 t. 9a9sS" 2S q
the Gn@ cd Of d @ can6 To h ] 6 M
that nam6sr the Thss tSsy hey @
eoad eo o ay sf at "a "s
dsSosa NTH @s G1 and
Nth na'gs o s to 5S 1G 5
una ais vel that ends we'll Senator mat Of Tydng put in
Whst j oyS VENT up dinner When ar
faulty Chimney house treasures saSed
This was real lesson inspiration to all present of self
GROUP in the diplomatic devoted friends of Baron and
Embassy Ma yesterday
We Beus Tho for
them.
parting gt P7sasaS gatSsT1g: bit
5soH S' ss SS IN S
JACK VIEToRs Nineteenth street is without
the interesting habltaS Washington
This shall refer interior, uraS
tqu furniture but to the inmates with whom he shares his
haven.
ingenuity and originality doubt another collector
could successfully compete NTH Jack Outstanding the
Parlato 1Uith Dhom Jack shares his hos
pce Naper though original in himself is not howeUer
the inmates" to UhOm reterring We refer to
his t10o filled ith pengunS from all the vod!
Collecting three his total number OF these
humorous birds totals into the thousands Fashioned glass
she'll and reindeer horn as ueH as hunks OF ead the
effect asounding Ouer the antlepiece t0o beautiful
theme and several OF oil used ddDer
Hoceuer, the glass arranged NTH
direct ghtino hold the center of interest h their hundreds
OF Penguns carefully placed in all kinds OF groups
asoundingy humorous, human qualities of form and
character found these birds often have caused them be %
Anatoe satrical Penguin Island
of venerable nearSighted monk Fa
ther Mae faithful analogy of mankind After Father Maels
baptizing penguns thus endoWing them with i'm
mortal chaos rgned Heaven Thence quickly follows the
trials trbuaons when he sailed in hi.
the Island of Aca did dream Of
what he was letting himself in for.
gigantic Jacks collection become due to his untir
ing efforts kindly interest of his friends the Dorld
been forced to it, Indeed from the touch
hh Jack has the history of possession of Of
at his finger tips, hare to look
him another St. Mael ldte due to his diligence Father
Mdel cdnOnieedJ.
his charges souls It's that
dusts with each Of
his belongings them least Of corporea
Evening star., 1937-03-24
Wedding Yesterday.

The marriage Of Miss Else Strauss,
daughter of Herr Herman Strauss and
Frau Strauss of Germany. and Mr.. A.
Y. Cowen of this city took place yes
terday afternoon, Rabbi Abram Simon
officiating.
Mr.. and Mrs Cowen will spend some
time at Virginia Beach before taking
possession of the apartment in the
Cavalier. where they will make their
home. Mrs. Cowen who came to this
country about eight years ago is a
niece of Lieut.. Comdr. F. j. Neuberger.
U. S n
Evening star., 1937-03-24

afternoon at FL MlraSOl, IN
Palm Beach, in honor of the French
Ambassador and Nine. Bonnet.
DR.. and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton
Rice will give a dinner tonight at
Palm Beach for the Ambassador and
Nine. Bonnet.
Mrs. FurloW, wife of former Repre-
sentative Alan Furlow Of Minnesota,
entertained at luncheon yesterday
at her home in Somerset, Md The
luncheon was in honor of Mrs. D. w.
Dickensheet of Minneapolis, Mimi,
who is in Washington for short visit.
There were IL guests
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Hurja enter
tanned at dinner last evening in their
home in Georgetown in honor of
Senor Joaquin Elizalde, who is in this
country as economic advisor to Presi-
dent Quezon and the Philippine Mis-
SionS.
Mrs. Harrington Mills, who spent
the Winter at Daytona Beach. has
gone to New York for a short stay.
Mrs. Victoria Faber Stevenson,
former national president of the
League of American Pen Women, has
returned from visit in the West.
She spoke at the University of Min
nesota on feature writing and spent
sometime in Des Moines, Tulsa, st.
Louis and Pittsburgh, Pa.
Miss Audrey Jean Ney of Purdue
University will arrive home Sunday
to spend Easter holidays with her
Evening star., 1937-03-24
Musicale to Benefit
Symphony Orchestra

Mrs. E. Francis McDevitt of Wood
side Park, Md, will give musicale
at her home, 78O Dale drive, Thursday
night, April Is, for the benefit of the
National Symphony Orchestra. The
affair will be under the auspices of
the Silver Spring Committee of the
National Symphony.
A program including Well-known
artists and composers is being ar
ranged by Mr.. Justin Lawrie of Sligo
Park Hills, Md, choir director of
Methodist Foundry Church, and radio
director.
Evening star., 1937-03-24
McMullen.Wingo
ENGAGEMENT Broken

DR.. and Mrs. John McMullen an
nounce the termination of the engage
ment of their daughter Margaret
Eleanor to Mr. Otis Theodore Wingo,
son of Mrs Wingo. and the late
Representative Otis T. Wingo.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14
.SPORTSM4NSHIP'S PLACE
IN THE POWER BATTLE

IL is unfortunate that mercenaries i'm
the current power controversy have, in
some cases, allowed partisanship to over
come the instinct for sportsmanship.
There are not many more hours left be-
fore the people themselves will decide
if they want to distribute their own pow
er, or if they want TO allow the Nevada
California Electric corporation to dis
tribute it, The campaign that began
along such clean-cut lines should end
that way, without personal bitterness
on either side.
The best fighter is the man who can
remain friendly with his opponent, in a
battle such as this. Perhaps there are
no close ties of personal friendship be-
tween Evan T. Hewes and A B. West, or
between NJ. J. Dowd and Albert Cage, but
at least these leaders have not allowed
their campaign battles to make vicious,
unethical fighters out of them. They
remain sportsmen.
1t is to be regretted that the same
cannot be said of some minor spear
heads in the controversy. The blame does
not attach to either side Rather it is
the fault of a weakness in human nature
which does not recognize that there is
a dividing line between personalities
and issues.
Regardless of our personal viewpoint,
we should remember that the merchant,
business man or farmer who publicly
expresses his opinion on the power issues
does so because he feels it is his duty to
his community to do so. In FL Centre
there are several merchants who public
ly espoused the cause Of public owner
ship and distribution of All American
canal power, and in SO doing perhaps
lost a great deal of business for the time
being. That they were willing to make
the business sacrifice in the interests of
their community is high tribute to their
characters.
It is fortunate for Imperial Valley
that it has men who place service above
profit in the matter Of a community pro-
ject.
We do not condemn the power compa-
nv for using every legitimate means at
its disposal to keep its monopoly in I'M
perial Valley-nor can anyone condemn
the people for attempting to lower their
taxes and power rates through munich
pal ownership.
The only thing we do condemn, and
that heartily, is the use of underhanded
unsportsmanlike tactics by either side
in any phase of the controversy.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14
OF ASSESSMENT
NOTICE
PETROLEUM AND GAS FUND

The assessment of property and
levy OF charges under and in pur
suance of Chapter 7l8, Statutes of
1915, amended 1917, 1919, 1921 1929
1881 and 1893. has been completed
and the records of assessment con-
tanning the charges due will be de-
livered TO the State Controller on
the first Monday in July. Any per-
son, firm, corporation. or aSsocia-
ton dissatisfied with the assessment
made or charge fixed by the Di-
rector of Natural Resources may at
any time before said first Monday
in July, apply to the Board of Re-
view, Correction and Equalization
to have the same corrected in any
particular.
The said Board shall have power
at any time before said first Mon
day in July to correct the record of
assessments and may increase or
decrease an assessment or charge
therein If in its judgment the evi-
dence presented or obtained war
rants such action.
The Board meets at the State
Capitol, Sacramento, California.
Dated June 5, 1897.
GEORGE d. NORDENHOLT
Director of Natural Resources
tJl4)
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14
THIS BUSINESS OF
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION

The power company says 1t Is Wiling
to spend 100000 in the immediate fu-
ture in serving electricity to farm homes
not now getting electricity, if only the
people will turn down REA and PWA
contracts at Wednesdays election. Let
US examine the offer.
We find, in the first place, that the
power company could not do so under
present conditions and did not do so
when such service was possible. Only If
the irrigation district entered into con-
tract with the power company could such
extensions be made in the future-and
such contract is extremely unlikely.
The conclusions are obvious.
If REA and PWA contracts were de-
feated, rural electrifitation would be
at standstill here.
If such extensions were possible to the
power company, in the light of past eX-
perience, they would not be made unless
provided for in a contract with the dis
trict.
If the contract was entered into, the
power company could spend $7OO,OO0--
the amount prOpOsed-On rural electrltl-
cation, and need never spend another
cent on serving new farm customers.
For the future benefit of agriculture
and farm homes here, a Eyes vote IS
imperative on Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14
Bruce Cation Says:>~
Theme for Practical Commencement Talk

schools, and myriad peace and anti
Fascist leagues have brought us no
nearer, in actual practice, to inter-
national honesty than we were be-
fore, during and after the World
War.
1t does not take genius at mo-
dern history to recall how the allies
colored half the facts and conceal
ed the other half in order to drag
the United States into the World
War. 1t is on the record that Japan
sided with the allies because the
japanese We're offered an easy grab
of German possessions in the Orient.
And in the case of Rumania, which
sold out to the allies merely be-
cause they could promise more war
spoils, We have a classic example
of intrigue on the grand scale.
Il
After the World War came a
flood of white Books" Red
Books" and yellow Books" issued
by the individual governments in
feeble effort to whiteWash their
own guilt. They provided valuable
details for the technical historian,
but they did not reveal the schem-
ing and plotting or the under hand
methods of war making that might
steer future generations away from
the same kind or trouble
Experience still is our best tea
cher, and American who feel the
STRINGS of interest in some "glori-
Gus cause" overseas should refer
without delay to the current mani
| pulation OF Spain's White Book"
| and all that it implies.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14
StrollS Thru Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, June 14-iUP)-
Ballyhooing potential film stars by
hurting them into synthetic roman
ces is today the quickest and most
effective way of gaining recognition
for unknoWns. This system was
forced upon press agents when the
sacrosanct Hays office banned the
photographing of legs for publicity
purposes.
Thus to the pres agents manifold
headaches was added the further
discomfort OF playing cupid. True,
he is a cynical cupid with his
cheeks and his fingers crossed, but
he does the job rather we'll without
thanks and invitations to engage
ment parties.
Romance building, as il is now
carried on in Hollywood, is a serious
business with ethics and rules. The
press agent, stepped deep in the
caste system, must remember that
potential "A" starlet must never
be coupled with a. "B" possibility.
Love has nothing to do with this
technique. The prime purpose is
to introduce a new girl to an esta-
bliShed leading man, or vice versa,
and bid the couple to hit the night
clubs and high spots. Every now
and then, when only the best news
papermen and columnists are look
ing they must hold hands under the
table and look adoringly one at
| the other.
In very few days the news will
get around that so-and-so appears
to be very much in love with this
and-that. Under the careful scrutiny
OF the press agent concerned, this
romance will wax hot and cold at
proper intervals. Suspense is an i'm
portant element in it's success.
Every now and then true love
does make its appearance and when
it does most publicity departments
get additional white hairs worrying
over this unorthodox mishandling of
affairs. 1t may be safe to say that 90
per cent of the film romances are
contrived and that SO per cent never
develop more heat than is suggested
In newspaper paragraphs.
Every so often one of these studio-
made romances fruit into something
more substantial than gossip. The
Eleanor Whitney-Johnny Downs
romance was started by a publicist
neither of the parties will ever
thank. They may marry, and that
will be surprise and perhaps a
shock because no press agent wants
that to happen. 1t ruins his con-
tinuity and story, and the respon-
sibility is more than he cares to
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14
In The
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA


In and for the County
of Imperial
Notice of Time and Place Appointed
for Proving viii and Hearing APP
plicatiOn for Letters of Admins
tratiOn with the Will Annexed.
In the Matter of the Estate of
NELLIE DAVIS DICKEY, deceas-
ed
Notice is hereby given that pet
ition for the probate will of MEL
LIE DAVIS DICKEY, deceased,
and for the issuance to Mrs. Edna
Buster of Letters of Administration
with the Will annexed has been
filed in this court, and that Friday
the 18th day OF June, 1897, at 2
o'clock pm, Of said day, at the
courtroom of Dept. No. 2 of said
court at the Court House in the City
of FL Centro, County of Imperial,
State of California, has been set
for the hearing of said petition,
when and where any person inter-
ested may appear and contest the
same, and shows cause, IL any they
have, why said petition should not
be granted.
Dated June A, 1887.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
Clerk.
BY Citha Lamson,
Deputy Clerk.
(June TIT Incl)
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14

The Spanish government has pre-
pared a white Book which presents
its case to the family of nations
much in the same manner OF a
little boy telling" on the neighbar-
hood toughies who beat him up.
This white Book is supposed to
be a complete and unlimited resume
of the conditions under which the
government was forced into civil
war and how it was unfairly clout-
ed by outsiders awaiting their
chance to Scavenge the marbles
that might roll from the Spanish
pockets. ...
All this is we'll and good. There
should be a frank record of a Sit
uation which has been SO covered
with the slime of intrigue and CO.
vert plotting and SO fraught with
the danger of a general war. But
the record doesn't end there.
Gables report that the White
Book, as prepared for the League
Of Nations Council, deals solely with
italian aggression" against Spain,
with no mention of Germanys part
on the Rebel side. The only logical
deduction is that the Loyalists, with
the silent approval of France and
Great Britain, were moving TO min
imize German intervention, allow
Hitler to withdraw from Spain
without loss of prestige and thus
bring about split in the lately
cultivated Berlin-Rome friendship.
Summed up, this means that di-
plomacy the strict ethical require
ments Of vaunted foreign service
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14

assume.
The Sonia Henie-Tyrone Power
comaraderie is another romance
that is developing beyond eXpecta-
lion and both are cooperating
splendidly by stating that it is
beautiful friendship. BY virtue of
their regard for each other they are
being co-starred in a picture to-
gether.
The Robert Taylor-Barbara Stan
wick cooling was first suggested as
a possibility and it caught on with
further embellishments. Both will
deny that there is anything serious
in their affection for each other but
that is part of the game. AS Holly
wood is now constituted, its citizens
choose to believe what is unsaid
rather than place too much faith
in the spoken word.
The minute Taylor and Miss STAN
wick announce that they will marry
their romance will take on all the
characteristics of 'phoney." And
the press agents, who should know
Vic lilCClitillCS vi IlISll OWIl QCVlCcS,
will be the first to find new mates
for them.
Romances, when intelligently Gre
ated, are good business getters.
Through its means a young girl
with no previous film experience
can find herself on the same level
with someone already established.
It's like begging a ride on a nice
yacht. If you make it you're ac-
cepted socially.
Apart from its constructive value,
romance making has it's personal
side. Because of it, young girls
new to Hollywood meet nice
young man no later than "a hours
after their arrival. In the Old days
they were forced to tWiddle thumbs
in lonely idleness until someone
offered to take them out.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14

NEW YORK, June 14-Diary: Be-
times to the docks to breakfast a.
boardship with PurSer Villier of
the Normandie And then poking
about the water front and through
the tumbling tenements OF West
47th street. So home and found 4
sickening letter from an anony-
nous writer in Seymour, Ind, trying
TO justify his poisoning of dogs.
Hamish McLaurin, here on a fly
ing trip from California, swooped,
he having decided to shutter their
Nyack home and reside permanent
ly on the coast, as have SO many
lately. Then out and by the AmbaSS-
ador to see Emily Ringing a mo-
ment and sat awhile with Dean
Cornwell
Tonight We had our first dinner
served by the bonnie new Scottish
maid, with a Will Eye accent. And
so in the car, picking up the Henry
Sells, and driving across Long Is
land and toward the sea. After
ward home and reading an auto
graphed volume E. Phillips Open
helm sent from the Island OF
GurnSey.
Now and then l get the reactions
of modern youth to the current
what-ho by spending an evening
with an Old Lyme, Ct, friend who
has two lively daughters, 18 and 10.
From the girls l keep up in cur
rent heart throbs in the movies. /
began TO slough off in my cinema
devoirS about the time Adolphe
Menjou reigned as the most de-
bonaire of the so-and-Sos. The next
thing 1 knew Menjou was playing
elderly parts. with all his spruce
ness gone. I trailed Clark Gable
awhile, watching him pitter-patter
the yearning hearts. And just about
the time he became the accepted
Great Lover, along came Robert
Taylor and chivVied up the deepest
sighS of all. Last night / learned
that Taylor is likely to be shunted
TO the background for still another
newcomer have never seen, named
Wayne Morris. II is all very con-
fusing.
Memory: That ticklish feeling in
walking barefoot in crib of shelled
corn. Then, too, lying flat and bury
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14
News Behind the News
The Republicans Study Europe :. But
OnlD Engidnd's Conservatives
Liberdiized From Within

WASHINGTON.-Chairm John Hamilton of
the Republican National Committee has gone
abroad to study European political methods.
Possibly that sounds rather peculiar to any
one who remembers all that said in the last
campaign and none too quietly either, about the
American way" and the New Deals importa-
ton of foreign ideas.
Hamilton, however, is just being smart.
He is going to study the methods and setup
of the Conservative party in England and as
far as your correspondent learn, that's all.
The British Conservatives were out of power
for about 20 years before they outSmarted the
liberals and Laborites and regained control. In
the meantime, their workers infiltrated in the
trades union field, and the party took over many
labor ideas, platform planks and leaders.
There have been indications that the party
management has been making some effort to
lioeralize the party from within. This move
ment is an attempt to steer the COP. on
path of intelligent conservatism which will have
enough liberal aspects to WOO back a few million
votes There are still plenty of wealthy Repub-
lcans however, who don't get the point
The recent series of four Republican half
hours on the radio with Hamilton and men,
bers of Congress delivering speeches refreshing
ly free from vituperation against the admnistra-
ton, suggested the presence of some new ghost
writer's.
It's worth noting that two able and keen
minded newspapermen. Leo J. Casey and William
Hard, now attached to the committee, one
as publicity director and the other assistant
to Hamilton in charge OF radio.
Here are a few quotations from the official
party speeches.
Congressman Robert L. Bacon of New York:
Wage workers have the right to bargain with
their employers not only through their repre-
sentatives, but also through any units that they
themselves prefer Some businessmen COM
plain about the antitrust laws. I do not, and
the bulk of businessmen do not Now, and
some of the credit for the change goes to the
New Deal our corporations give detailed informa-
ton to their stockholders every year but
little or nothing about the working conditions
of the men and women employed. Let me tell
the stockholders of America here and now that
they should demand from our corporations labor
reports as well the customary financial re-
ports"
Congressman Charles A. Halleck of Indiana
The honest man who cannot get a job is not
asking charity He has right to relief"
Congressman Francis Case of South Dakota
AT this point 1 want to commend the people
who are administering the Social Security Act.
They probably more than anyone else, realize
the shortcomings of the act as ii now stands :.
Senator H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire:
Employers must not hire labor spies and con-
duct an espionage system against workers
These excerpts were sometimes qualified by
context. But they're strange sounds for some
of the partys largest contributors.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-14
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files =
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years.
Twenty Five Years Ago
Juna ID 1919

A furry of hot weather last week
started the cantaloupes ripening in
a hurry but the temperature quickly
slid down from its high perch. Ship
pers are sending out some of their
best quality melons ever produced.
The flag raising is certainly hav-
ing its share of action. Misunder-
standings regarding conflicting ar
rangements led to the confusion as
to date and place. Notice of definite
and dependable plans will be an
nounced very soon.