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Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03
County Recorder
Back From Trip
To Fresno Meet

Mrs. Evalyn B. Westerfield,
county recorder. has returned from
the annual convention of the re-
corderS of California held In Fres-
no last week, which. in her opin-
ion. was one of the best she has
attended from the standpoint OF
program and accomplishments.
Legislation was emphasized at
the convention at a special legiS-
lation meeting held Wednesday of
last week preceding the conven-
tion. A number of bills have been
introduced in the state legisla-
ture affecting the recorders offices
and the recommendations OF the
recorders association are 20 be
presented to the county boards Of
supervisors in the immediate fu-
ture.
Jack A. Ross of Riverside was
elected president and Ted Carpen-
ter, secretary-treasurer. San Ber-
nardino is to have the 1888 con-
vention.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03
Annual Campaign
OF Brawley Scout
District Delayed

Brawley Scout district has post
poned its annual campaign, to
have been conducted this week. to
March 25-27, making this change
to avoid conflict with the chamber
of commences membership drive
Warren Currier. council finance
chairman, addressed the Brawley
district committee and the lead
ers' training conference who met
in joint session. Monday night in
Brawley. talking on Dividends OF
Scouting. Other officers present
were: Eugene Anderson, district
chairman; George Maurer, district
finance chairman; Ed Uhlig. Les
lie White and Carl N. Helmick.
Scout executive.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03
Still Coughing?

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 a chance
with anything less than Creomul-
sion, which goes right to the scat
of the trouble to aid nature to
soothe and heal the infiamed MEM
braneS as the germ-laden phlegm
is loosened and expelled.
Even If other remedies have
failed, don't be discouraged, your
druggist is authorized to guarantee
Creomulsion and to refund your
money If you are not satisfied with
results from the very first bottle.
Get Creom,ilsion right now. (Ady9
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03
Residents Urged
To Speed Filing
OF Tax Returns

Come early and avoid the
rush" is the advice of r. D. Kirk
lighter, deputy collector of inter-
nal revenue, who is at the Ell
Centro post office to aid residents
in preparing their income tax re-
turns.
The returns must be in the
mails prior to midnight March Is,
he said, and it is better to get
them out of the way before that
time to avoid confusion.
Kirklighter has offices in the
basement at the post office and
is available Saturdays from $50
until 1890 and the remainder Of
the week, except Sunday, from
$3.50 am. until pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03
Principals to Give
Dinner March 5

Imperial Valley Principals asSo-
citation will entertain at dinner
for Miss Helen Hefferman, chief
of the division of elementary edu-
cation and rural schools when Miss
Hefferman is in the valley or
March for a local institute in
Holtville Methodist church and
Miss Hefferman will talk on coun-
ty and state activities.
Miss Hefferman is also 10 speak
on March at the annual school
trustees meeting at 2 p. IN. III
Wilson school,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03
Home Department
Will Offer Skit

Calipatria home department is
contributing a skit to the farm
center program to be featured
Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock in
the Calipatria high school. Oth3f
numbers on the program include
talk by H. Lee Landerman. as
sistant farm advisor, on Calap-
proved seed, and one by Earl Nor
throp on rural electrification.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03

almost all parts of the United
States, the poll showed.
With al states now represented
the total votes tabulated scared
above a third of a million, but
maintained their constant trend of
almost two to one against the pres
ident's proposals.
The totals For the plan, 1926.
against it, 22O,l8l, a total of 33S All
votes. The list of cities participat-
ing, and the total continued to
grow hourly.
OF the 2l3 cities polling, 5S were
showing majoritieS for the plan
and l55 continued TO roll up maj
critics against it.
The opposition, however,s SEEM
ed stronger in the smaller COM
munities than in the larger ones.
A special tabulation of 81 cities
whose population is more than
100000 each. showed only 55 per
cent opposed to the plan as COM
pared to sc per cent over the en-
tire country. The 1856 smaller ciies
participating registered 76 per
cent opposed to the plan or a
higher ratio than the general one
for the whole country.
PLACE For Against
Ell CENTRIC 20 "a
ALABAMA 873 l,l72
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03
FIREBOATS GET RADIO

NEW YORK. tUP)-A new era in
communication for fire depart
ments will be inaugurated this
Spring when a new two-way ra-
io-telephone system will link
York'S nine fireboats to the Man
haitian Fire Alarm central office
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03
NAOTAKE SATO
OFFERED POST
OF MINISTER

TOKYO, March 3. W.P)-Naotake
Sato Japanese ambassador to
France, was offered the post of
foreign minister in the cabinet of
premier tSenjuro Hdyashi today.
Sato is vacationing in Tokyo.
The post previously had been
offered informally to Hiroshi Saito,
ambassador to the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03
By HENRY SUTHERLAND

HOLLYWOOD, March 8. UP
Chubby Wallace Becry will off Fri
day night for a forced march on
snoWshoes to rescue his favorite red
flannels from a ruined cabin in
the high sierras.
A storm -loosened land and snow
slide knocked Beery's summer home
for a ground loop after wrecking
five other shanties on the shore
Of Silver Lake, 300 miles northeast
Of here, and scattered the actors
outdoor props to the winds.
Beery flew over the place, al
though unable to land, and report
ed the $4,000 layout looked like a
total less, less $4,000 worth Of in
surance.
He was unworried about salvage
until a frostbitten forest ranger
hove into town with a snapshot
showing hillbillies or the region
lolling in arInchairs in the middle
of the lcebound lake Win their
shoepacs propped on expensive chif-
foniers amid clothing, bric-a-brac
and hunting gear strewn by the
slide
Now Beery thinks it's time to
pick up the pieces and has per-
suaded Metro to suspend production
of The Old Soak" to give him a
full weekend for the trip.
Plows have opened the road TO
within five miles of the camp.
Thereafter it'll be snowshoes, skis
or dog team.
-OO--
Tyrone Power must ride a bicycle
from Hollywood and Vine to New
Orleans before Sept. / to win a
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03
LUMPS OF COAL
SAVE MANS LIFE

CLEVELAND, March 4 Up) -
When fire broke out in the lore
peak of a docked ore boat, Michael
Mcneil, the mate, only man aboard
slept soundly. Members of the crew
of nearby ship awakened him by
bombarding his quarters with Jumps
Of coal, thrown across SO feet OF
water.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03
NATION BALLOTS
IN , TO | RATIO

of five Imperial Valley
residents wednesday disapprova
Rooeves plan
o3 NEA nationwide
pol In dsapproyal valley
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03

transcontinental train trip nursing
his six-months- old Irish terrier pup
Patricia, who developed distemper
shortly before Chicago. Patricia
went in and out of Chicago dog
hospital between trains and other
veterinarians boarded the car at
Kansas City and Albuquerque for
further treatment. Pup is up and
about again.
Three gal writer's pull triple
play on Univcrsal's Live Alone And
Like It." all-feminine story on how
to be successful old maid. Mar
iorie Hills wrote the book. Faith
Baldwin adapted it for the screen,
and Adele Comandini, who scripted
Three Smart Girls" is adding fin
ishing touches. There's no casting
yet.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03

will get under way about April l.
90
Cary Grant may contribute
right-handed pitcher To the Los An
geles Angels (Pacific coast league)
this spring in person if his stand
in, Mel Merrihugh who formerly
burned EN- over for the Kansas
City Blues. Merrihugh gave up
pitching after injuring middle diget
of his pitching hand a season or
two ago, but Grant will stake him
to an operation by surgeons who
say they can make the salary wing
good as new The Los Angeles
club has promised him a tryout.
90
Douglass Montgomery, socialite
Pasadena actor, and Lorraine Eddy
Mclean, former wife Of Producer
Douglas MacLean, are engaged and
will marry this spring. Mrs. Mac
Leans divorce becomes final with
in three weeks
Tenor Michael Bartlett spent his
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03

demonstrating what ship line officials
scale when found the clearance OF inc
225-foOt Golden
model Schuler
avoid the danger Of sash-
She did hcr
of the
nd money
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03
Strolls Thru Hollywood

S10O note from George Martorn
visiting former schoolmate.
Matinee idol let himself in for
the bet boasting his prowess with
wheel and pedal but vows he'll win,
because Il want to make the trip
anyway"
Soon as Cafe Metropole' folds
UP fabout March l5) Power will
off to Mexico City to climb Mount
Popccatepetl for training. He'll go
up on foot. however, fearful OF try
ing to bike up hill he can't even
pronounce.
"Kathy" in THE Student Prince"
has been chosen by Metromen as
the role of Ease Della Lind, blond
Viennese singer, into the Hollywood
spotlight
Studio imported the gal with
trumpeting and burning of red fire
six months ago, then let her idle
while they hunted a suitable debut
part. Metro did the Sigmund Rom
berg operetta silently dmasine)
eight years ago, and have been
planning a remake ever since sound
came in.
No male casting has been an
nounced to date, although Nelson
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03

Tyrone Power must ride a bicycle
from Hollywood and Vine to New
Orleans before Sept. to win a
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-03

Eddy looks like the lad. Picture
will get under way about April l..
Evening star., 1937-08-04
.LEHLBACH Dies;
WAS IN CONGRESS
New Jersey G. 0. P. Repre-
sentative for 10 Sessions
Was Prohibition Foe.

Frederick r. Lehlbach, 81, former
Republican Representative from the
twelfth district OF New Jersey, died
this morning in his apartment at the
Kennedy Warren. He had been i'll
for some time with heart trouble
A member Of Congress from the
slxty-fourth through the seventy
fourth sessions, the former Repre-
sentative was particularly known for
his championship of civil service re-
classification and his strong opposi-
ton to the eighteenth amendment.
In December 1920, as chairman of
the House Committee on Reform in
the Civil Service, he sponsored the
Lehlbach bill giving classification
schedules for Federal employees, which
eventually became the classification act
Of 1928.
AS an opponent OF prohibition, Mr..
Lehlbach told fellow members on the
floor OF the House there was only one
way to enforce prohibition, and that
1t was to drop shams and subterfuges,
declare the user of alcoholics a GRIM
lnal and have prompt and certain
showdown on the issue
Born in New York in 1876, he moved
to Newark in 1884. He was graduated
from Yale College in 1897, and studied
law in the New York Law School. He
was admitted to the New Jersey bar
in 1899 and had practiced in Newark
ever since
A former member of the Newark
Board Of Education. he served three
years in the State General Assembly,
from 1908 to 1905, and from 1903 to
1913 was assistant prosecutor Of Essex
County.
After failure to be reelected to the
present Congress, the former Repre-
sentative opened law Offices in the
Shoreham Building here.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Frances M. Lehlbach, a brother and
two sisters.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

TODAY.
Senate:
Continues debate on Wagner housing
bill
Considers conference report on Dis
trict tax bill.
Rail Finance Committee continues
investigation Of Van Sweringen sale.
House:
Considers minor legislation.
Banking Committee continues hear
ing on housing bill.
Rules Committee studies new A. F,
Of L. amendments to vage-hour bill
Senate-House Committee continues
drafting bill TO close tax loopholes.
Agriculture Committee considers
crop insurance bill.
Rivers and Harbors Committee con-
tinues hearing on regional planning
legislation.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
May take up court procedure BILL If
Wagner housing measure Is passed.
Heuse:
Considers special rules.
Subcommittee on Naval Affairs be-
gins hearings on bill to amend cate
gories Of vessels limited by London
and Washington treaties, 0:30 am
Subcommittee of District Committee
begins hearings on bills authorizing
Commissioners to restore to duty four
dismissed policeman, 10 Am.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
CARMEL SENTENCED
TO $50 DAYS, fine
Witness in Lyddane Case Pleads
Guilty to 10 Cases of False
Pretenses,

John H, fGoogy) Carnell. ex-police-
man. who turned States evidence in
the Lyddane case in Rockville, Md,
pleaded guilty to 10 cases of false pre-
lenses before Judge John P. McMa-
hon in Police Court today and was
sentenced to serve 800 days and to pay
fines Of $500 or serve an additional l35
days
All of the charges against Carnen in
volved Issuance of worthless checks.
These were for small amounts, ranging
from So 20 $685. and totaling s5s.40.
He had previously been arrested on
two charges and demanded jury trials.
Today. however, he withdrew his de-
mand when the other charges were
preferred against him.
Robert A. Dunn, who has been IN
jail since June Is serving a six-month
sentence for bad checks following his
conviction by jury, pleaded guilty to-
day to the issuance of three more
worthless papers and was given los
days by Judge Mcmahon.
Police informed the court that the
three checks, aggregating S35, had
been issued prior to the time Dunn was
sent to Jail The latter was brought
from the District Work House to an
swer the additional charge.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
MRS. M'FARLANE, 81,
DIES IN HOSPITAL
Wife of Naval Lieutenant Was
Native of Texas-Rites
Tomorrow.

Mrs. Charlsey Reid McFarlane. 80,
wife of Lieut. Robert N. McFarlane
U. S. N. attached to the once Of the
chief of naval operations here, died
Sunday at Columbia Hospital.
Mrs. McFaglane came here on the
lst of July from San Diego, Calf,
where her husband was with the de-
stroyer battle force. They moved then
to their home at 34l0 Fifteenth street
in Clarendon
Born in Texas, she was graduated
from Brenau College at Gainesville,
Ga, and later lived in Washington.
During the season OF 1928 and 1929
she played with the Little Theater
group in Schubert's Theater.
She Is survived by an ls-month- old
daughter, Charlsey, and by her
parents, Judge and Mrs. L. v. RSd,
and three brothers, Rayford, Moody
and Thomas Reid.
Funeral services will be held in Fort
Myer chapel tomorrow at 3 pm.
Burial will be in Arlington National
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
MARSHALL FACES
KIDNAPPING CHARGE
Youth Held for Grand Jury I'm.
der $4,000 Bond After
ArraIgnment.

Police planned today to push a kid
naplng charge against Charles W.
Marshall, 18, before the grand jury.
after Marshall's arrignment before
Judge John P. Mcmahon in Police
Court on a charge of housebreakine
Pvt. w. C. Grooms told the court
that Marshall had broken into a
sports goods store in the 900 block
OF D street on the night of July 90,
where he stole five pistols Judge
Mcmahon held Marshall for the grand
jury under a $4,000 bond.
While the locked-up list showed
Marshall was charged also with kid
naping. it was decided in the prosecu-
tors office of Police Court to have this
matter presented directly to the grand
jury.
1t is charged that on the night
Marshall stole the pistols, he held up
Aubrey T. DAILY, president Of candy
manufacturing plant IN the 900 block
Of PENNSYLVANIA avenue. and forced
the manufacturer TO drive him MAR
shalD to North Beach. Md, where
he was arrested July 30 Town
Policeman John Taylor and returned
here to answer the two charges.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
Diplomats Widow Takes Oath;
viii Furnish i. S. Embassies
Mrs. Warren DelanO
Robbins Assumes
Ne,U Duties.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A diplomats widow who has opened
and closed 30 houses in 10 countries
undertook today the Job of helping
Uncle Sam furnish his 800 embassies,
legations and consulates.
She Is Mrs. Warren Delano Rob-
bins, sparkling Argentinean whose
husband was United States Minister
to Canada when he died in 1895. He
was a first cousin Of President Roose-
welt.
Mrs. Robbins took her oath Of Of
nee yesterday as assistant chief Of
foreign service building in the State
Department. She will keep a regular
workaday schedule.
or commonplace into something
pretty" she said. Il like all phases
OF decorating. For years l did it only
by instinct, but last Winter 1 worked
for New York firm to learn the
practical side
Il learned how to make scheme
books and draw floor plans I studied
furniture, style and colors"
The varying needs Of buildings in
tropical and arctic regions do not
frighten Mrs Robbins She speaks
five languages and has kept house in
all climates. Her own furniture has
been dragged all over the world.
In Berlin she served meals or re-
freshmens to 1900 persons in one
year. She dealt with servants in San
Salvador, where hosts order for
stuffed turkey" once resulted in a
bird crammed with newspa pers.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
Chinese Cut D0,un Like Wheat
BY Japanese, Says D. C.. Man

less Chinese there and in nearby
villages.
Saturday, Japanese troops in
vaded my compound. The Amer
ican flag was flying over it, but
they paid no attention to that.
They took our food and any
thing they thought might be valua-
BILE, including $500 mex. Then they
had the nerve to offer me = drink
Of my own beer.
Il didn't see it, but I can pro-
duce at least 80 Chinese farmers
who will swear that Japanese
troops looted homes, threw chill
dren from the windows and doors,
and attacked girls and women.
Some Of the retreating Chinese
who didn't cross the Yungting
River took to the hills and began
plunderinr.'
Lamb said he hoped to return to
the hills to rescue an estimated
200 Chinese girls from Summer
camps.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
A. F. TO ORGANIZE
ALL SHOW BUSINESS
Every One From Opera Divas to
Burlesque Performers to Be
Sought in Drive,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August "A drive to
organize every person in America S
entertainment industry"-from Met
ropolitan Opera divas to stage hands
and burlesque's rso-tossers-was pro-
1ected today by American Federation
Of Labor leaders
They planned to adopt the rival
G, I. O. principle Of vertical unionisn,
but without sacrifice of craft union
autonomy
This they propose to do, said George
z. Browne, president of the Interna-
tional Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employees and Motion Picture Machine
Operators, through creation of a giant
governing council in which dominant
unions in every branch of the amuse-
ment field would be represented.
Browne, long union leader in the
show business said the council would
include representatives of the I A.
7, S, (which covers mechanical en-
psoyes-the American Federation of
Musicians and Associated Actors and
Art1stes Of America
Browne said the council would d.
rect Nationwide organizing drive.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
T0STAY
IN MAYORAL RACE
Proposed Compromise, With
WhaIen Also Withdrawn,
Is Refused.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. August 4.-Tammany
today made final" refusal to with
draw the name of United States SEN
ator Royal S. Copeland. its anti New
Deal candidate in the city mayoralty
primaries.
Leader Christopher D. Sullivan dis
closed he rebuffed emissaries friendly
to Postmaster General James A. Farley,
who approached Tammany overnight
with a proposal to withdraw Grover
A. Whalen, pro-New Deal Democratic
primary candidate, provided Tammany
would also withdraw United States
Senator Royal S. Copeland. its des-
ignee, in favor of compromise candi-
date. who would not be vocally opposed
to the New Deal.
Frank V. Kelly, New Deal supporter
and Democratic leader OF Brooklyn,
now the city's largest borough. was the
chief emissary. His mission had the
Endorsement of the Democratic leaders
OF the Bronx, Queens and Staten Is
land. These four had previously
agreed on the candidacy Of Whalen,
head of the New York 1899 World Fair
Commission.
The backing Of Mayor Fiorello H.
La Guardia, whose closest advisers urge
him to make an independent run for
reelection, was growing today still
more subject to the confusion which
has overtaken the major party organi-
cations in the present primary fight
Republican leaders Of Brooklyn,
Queens and the Bronx reiterated their
determination not to follow the leader
of the Republican leaders Of Manhat-
tan and Staten Island in backing La
Guardia for the Republican nomina-
ton.
American Labor party officials,
strong hackers Of La Guardia, pointed
to uncertainty in Republican, Fusion
party and Independent committee
backing of La Guardia in declining to
name any other candidates but La
Guardia on the American Labor party
ticket.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
RESIGNED TEACHER
D|ESAF AFTERPLUNGE
Miss Marjorie Paul, a.,
Took Poison, Then Dropped
Five Stories.

Miss Marjorie Paul. A, who re-
signed as a teacher at Woodrow Wilson
High School in June because Of Ill
health, died early today, \ few hours
after taking poison and plunging from
the fifth-floor fire escape landing of
an apartment house at 5000 Sixteenth
street.
Miss Paul lived at 1850 Park road
with her stepmother, Mrs. Edith Paul.
who said that she had been de-
spondent because of her i'll health and
the death OF friend. Coroner A.
Magruder Macdonald withheld Is
suance Of a death certificate until
completion Of sn autopsy.
Roger Thurston. colored elevator
operator at the Sixteenth street apart
ment house. told police that Miss Paul
rode up to the fifth floor about 7
O'Clock last night. She dropped from
the fire escape landing few moments
later.
The body plummeted to earth a few
feet from Roy Dent, so. resident of
the apartment house, who was sitting
on the lawn in a wheel chair. Miss
Pauls stepmother was attracted to
the scene by gathering crowd as she
returned from dinner in a nearby
restaurant
Miss Paul was taken to Emergency
Hospital, where she died at Ito m
Physicians there found that she had
swallowed small quantity Of a
powerful antiseptic before the fatal
plunge.
I A native of Washington, Miss Paul
had taught in the public schools here
for more than 10 years, most of her
service being at Western and Woodrow
Wilson High Schools.
Evening star., 1937-08-04
RING
CHARGE HOLDS 8
New Workers Responsible
for Halt Bogus Money in
U. S., Agent Says.
By the ASSOCIATED Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 4-Willian n.
Houghton, IN command Of the Secret
Service agents in this district, an.
nounced today the seizure Of a gang
Of eight persons, responsible, he said,
for the circulation Of haf the counter
felt money IN the country.
Houghton said the investigation Of
the gang lasted four months. so
thorough was the search for evidence
and so clever were the members Of
the band.
The last of the eight was seized this
morning, Houghton said.
The capture netted 500 900 in
counterfeit $50 New York Federal Re-
serve notes and in $40 silver certlfl-
Gates, dangerous enough TO fool the
average small shopkeeper." but not
good enough to fool bank clerk, the
Secret Service agent said
Woman Arrested.
One Of those arrested, he said, was
4 woman, in whose fiat the agents
found a quantity of narcotics as we'll
as a card index of nearly thousand
names.
The names, Houghton said, uers
probably customers" for party girls
out undoubtedly also included soma
drug addlcts.
Those under arrest Houghton iden.
tilted as follows:
Robert Rosenthal, 26 Anthony Riz-
70, %, Vtncenzo Coniglio. alias jimmy
Cont, 81; Frank Poppalsrdo, 81: FL
eanor Poppalardo, "a, said to be his
wife; Edward Wagner alias Niger.
4s; Pompeo Perfetn, 43, and Louis
Blanco, Al.
Supplied Bills TO Cities.
Houghton said the members OF this
ring supplied counterfeit bills to trad
ers in bogus bills from Cleveland.
Kansas City, Baltimore and other
cities.
"As New York goes, so goes the
Nation as far as counterfeit is con-
cerned,' he said. Fully so per cent
of the counterfeit passed IN the
United States passed through hands
in New York City"
The eight will be arraiened .ater
before United States commissioner
on charges OF sale and possession OF
counterfeit money. The Poppalardo
woman also faces a Federal narcotics
charge.