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Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
N. Y. PLAYBOY
GOES TO COURT

NEW YORK, Nov. II. CUP)-Af-
ter drinking more toasts than he
has trust funds. Prescott Van
Wyck, self-styled "playboy of
Broadway. found himself standing
in West Side court today between
his Spanish wife and Miss Mozel-
lecita Stapp, follies dancer to
whom he once was engaged. Both
ladies were casting cold glances
at him and intuition told Mr.. Van
Wyck that somewhere in the early
hours of today somebody had had
somebody else arrested for some
thing.
Mrs. Lolita Cordoba Van Wyck.
rhumba dancer, got on the wit
ness stand and began waving her
arms:
I'VE were celebrating. I was a
bigamist. He was bigamist (Mr.
Van Wyck wincedD. Neither of us
is a bigamist. SO We celebrated. We
drank lots of champagne for many
hours. I'm sleepy right now
drank much champagne.
Magistrate Harry Andrews called
a halt. Patient questioning on his
part brought forth the informa-
ton that Van Wyck and Mrs. Van
Wyck had decided to sue each
other as bigamists a week ago but
that last night they had agreed to
drop the suits and celebrate their
mutual escape from the tolls of
the law. The basis for the bigamy
suits, it developed was that Mrs.
Van Wyck thought she might have
been married lust little bit to a
man long time ago.. Then Miss
Stapp stepped to the witness stand.
They came to my house again
and again between midnight and S
o'clock this morning" she said.
They wanted coffee. That woman
business of pointing finger at
Mrs. Van Wyck) kicked a bellboy.
I finally had to call the police The
cops took EN- away in a radio
car"
Mrs. Van Wyck nodded brightly,
confirming the salient points in
Miss Stapp's testimony. Van Wyck
looked like man on whom a
great light was dawning. Mrs. Van
Wyck began to talk rapidly in
Spanish. Magistrate Andrews told
her to be quiet and asked Van
Wyck whether he could furnish
bail for his wife on charges of dis
orderly conduct.
II inherited s50O.o00 from my
grandmother but I spent it all"
Van Wyck said. Il have an income
of $4,000 a month, but I have II
judgments against me. I won't see
any more of it for the next four
years"
The magistrate threw up his
hands in despair, and said he
would parole Mrs Van Wyck in
her own custody for hearing on
Thursday
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17

pofb from Guy engineers VINO De-
lieve the underground tunnel once
formed a crude aqueduct system,
long since covered by the march of
years.
Covering two square blocks in
area, the landslide was moving at
the rate of an inch a day. Unless
halted by natural force, it threat
enend to topple into busy arterial
highway and cover railroad tracks
in the Los Angeles river bed below
with two million tons of dirt and
rock.
The force OF the moving noun
tain already had snapped a huge
water main and menaced trans
mission lines along Riverside drive.
For more than a century. stories
have been handed down from ia
ther to son that early Spanish set
tiers bored a tunnel through the
rugged hills OF what is now Ely
sian Park, a mile north of the civic
center.
Tradition has 1t that in the days
of unrest and revolt which preced-
ed California's entry into the un-
ion, wealthy citizens gathered I'D
their gold and silver plate, coin
and jewels, and cached them in
the old tunnel to protect them
from plunderers and outlaws.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
FIELD LABOR
POURING INTO
VALLEY ANEW
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peas are rolling from the valley
every day, B. A. Harrigan, agri-
cultural commissioner, said. A to-
tai of 5000 acres of valley land
was planted to peas.
Relief rolls at the State Relief
Administration show no rise be-
cause OF the influx of workers,
Robert Elliott, head of the SRA,
said Wednesday. Many of those
not able to obtain work in Impe-
rial Valley after a few days search,
he said, continue to Arizona to
pick cotton there.
A check of the northend of the
valley revealed that approximately
80 per cent of the automobiles used
as transportation by the workers,
display license plates from states
other than California.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
FUR-BEARING FISH SEEN AS
REVERSION.TO ANCIENT LIFE

The fish resembles a trout IN every
respect evcept tnat 1t has a rich
coat of fur completely covering its
body in longitudinal stripes, brown
and grayish, much on the order of
chipmunk. The stripes run from
snout to tail.
"I nominate it for leading place
in the book Wielandy said, "for
I doubt if there will be ever another
freak just like this. In life it would
weigh about two pounds. 1t has the
head, jaws and snout of a trout.
frankly admit I can't explain it."
Wielandy suggested that inbreed-
ing had produced a reversion to
some long extinct type of fish.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17

fish, caught in an underground lake
on a Pulaski County, Mo-, farm,
may be a reversion to a possible
ancient type of piscatorial life.
But, protesting to be more of
fisherman than a biologist, Frank
F. Wielandy, former Missouri state
game and fish commissioner, pre-
fers to let science decide what man.
ner of fish had chosen to strike his
line.
The fish was taken out of what
is called the trout pond on the acre
age known as the Blue Bird Farm
owned by the Wielandys and locat-
ed near Waynesville, Mo. 1t was
mounted and brought to st. Louis
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
Students, Convicts
Use Same Topics
In Conversation

ST LOUIS, CUP)-Prison In
mates and university students have
the same chief topics of conversa-
tion-namely. sex and religion--ac-
cording to the Rev. Donald M.
Cleary. Catholic chaplain at Cor
nell University and former New
York State prison chaplain.
In a talk before the third Ma
tional Catechetical congress here,
Father Clearly related that while
a prison chaplain he had asked 20
inmates each day what their chief
conversational topics. The answers
We're almost invaribly "sex and
religion.
In the two years he has been at
Cornell, Father Clearly said, he
has continued this practice among
the students. He said the responses
have been virtually the same.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
LABOR MEET
RESUMPTION
POSTPONED

WASHINGTON, Nov. II. UP)-
Resumption of peace conferences
between the American Federation
of Labor and the Committee for
Industrial Organization, scheduled
for tomorrow, was postponed until
Monday,
Spokesman for both factions said
the postponement was ordered be-
cause of engagements of conferees
conflicting with tomorrow's meeting
date
The conference, at which 10 rep
resentatives of the A. F. of l.. and
three delegates from the G. 1. o. are
attempting to compose differences
which have split labor into two
camps for nearly two years, recessed
Nov. 9.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
COURT NAMES
GRAND JURY

Imperial county's 1878 grand
jury met Wednesday for its organ
izat;on meeting shortly after the
10 men and women were selected
in Judge r. D. McPherrin's divi-
sion of superior court.
j. E. Brock was elected foreman
but the secretary is yet to be an
nounced. Other members of the
investigating body are Clarence j..
Park, John Fiala, DR.. Forrest Kutz,
George w. Cutshaw, Argyle Nc
Laughlan, Mrs. Ross T. Hickcox,
Samuel Lee Robinson, Mrs. Clara
M. York, Luray Mouser, j. D. Hus-
ton, Earl Waugh, Alexander H.
McRae, George Buffers, R. p.
Moore, Thomas M. Montgomery,
William Burke, jr.. Roy Westmore-
land, Ray Edwards.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
COUNTY BRIEFS

Valuables Stolen While Moving.
Why invite such risk. Patronize
local experienced, bonded and uni
formed employees by phoning /,
Pioneer Truck and Transfer Co.
MIG
Community auction at ten sharp
Friday. one good complete herd,
making over a pound average per
day now, Springers, fresh cows,
heifers, pure bred Holstein bulls,
extra good Guernsey bull, heifer
calves, bull calves. horses 80 feeder
pigs 10 gifts, ready to farrow,
chickens, turkeys. disc, wagon,
grader, cultivator furniture etc. Be
at the Zinnerie sale corrals ten
sharp Friday zinn and zinn,
Auctioneers.
Permit Granted-A. r. Hens
Wednesday received permission
from the city engineer to under
take alterations to an apartment at
$50 Broadway at an estimated cost
of 5000.
Intend To Wed-James Eugene
Hefner. 81, and Cenith Melesin
Lay, 10, Holtville residents, Tues
day filed a notice of intention to
we'd
Plan Marriase-Edward D. Pier
son, 26, and Sophia Madero, 10,
Yuma residents, Tuesday filed a
notice of Intention to wed accord
ing to a notice filed with County
Clerk w. j. McClelland Tuesday.
Notice Filed-A notice OF inten-
ton to wed was filed at the county
clerks office Tuesday by Henry Al
len Poore, 25, San Gabriel, and
Inez Copeland, FL Monte school
teacher.
Camp Shack Looted - Groceries
and army blankets were taken from
William Van Renselar's camp shack
on the Bell ranch northwest OF
Brawley while he was at work
Tuesday, he told deputy sheriffs
Wednesday. Officers are searching
for the burglars.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
Woman Marshal
Spurns Use of Gun

CROWLEY. La, tUP)-No gun
toting' in the picturesquely tradi-
tional manner of the old-time
peace officer is needed by Mrs.
Beulah Sigur, city marshal, to
keep order in Crowley
Mrs. Sigur. who already has serv-
ed three terms, wears a small
badge on the front of her dress
an inconspicuous emblem of her
office.
Presenting a kind, motherly ap-
pearance. the widow of the late
A. o. Sigur. whom she succeeded
as city marshal, can become stern
when the necessity arises. But, she
says. she never has any trouble
enforcing city ordinances.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
Chinese Flee
To Interior
Continued from Page ID

CONTINUED from Page d
lection 10 Sc americans in Nam
king. More than 200 other foreign
ers-British, French, German, Rus
sian, Danes and Poles are in the
city.
Chang Kai-shek, the country's
strong man, was reported to have
relinquished his post as head OF
the executive council, correspond
ing to cabinet, to devote his en-
tire time to the army. Chinese
military authorities were expecting
the first japanese attack on the
capital from the Yangtze.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
Three Die From
Poison Following
Meal at Funeral

TUCUMCARI, N. NJ, Nov. IT.
CUP) - Three persons died and
four others were in a serious con-
dition today from poisoned food
eaten at the home of a man whose
funeral they had attended few
hours earlier
Ten persons returned from the
funeral and ate canned chilli. With
in an hour they were violently i'll.
Three died within five hours. Four
others were in a dangerous con-
dition.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17

dent of the Milk Institute of I'M
perial Valley, Stewart stated: I'VE
are grateful for the whole hearted
support which the National Milk
Week is being accorded in in I'M
perial Valley. The slogan Keep
Youthful with Milk" seem to be
going over in the schools and in
the homes. We are receiving fine
support The merchants of Impe-
rial Valley generally appear to be
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17

whole heartedly behind the move
ment, realizing that not only from
a health standpoint but the eco
nomic value of our dairies in I'm
perial Valley. The milk industry of
this county is entitled to full pub
lie support and We are to say that
so that the results of this weeks
work will further the use of health
giving milk in Imperial Valley ma
terially and permanently.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
Milk WEEK MEETS HEART

National Milk Week in Ell Gen.
tro appears to be meeting a heorty
reception. Sponsored by the Milk
Institute of Imperial Valley, the
Dairy Distributors, and the mer-
chants generally. the message use
More Milk" is reaching deep into
Imperial Valley homes.
One of the most interesting
phases of the program is the large
number of essays on why I
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
Cyclists Ride to
Funeral Service

ST. LOUIS CU.P)-This city saw
its first motorcycle funeral when
pallbearers and nearly 100 friends
rode in the funeral procession for
Murrell Kemp, 26-year-old rider,
killed in a race at Jerseyville. Ill.
Dressed in uniform breeches
and white shirts, the cyclists rode
in pairs behind the hearse which
carried the body to the cemetery.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17

Should dring Milk, submitted by
Imperial Valley school children.
These are being examined by a
committee and awards will be
made before the end of the week,
All over the cities and towns of
the county attractive milk week
posters are on exhibit. In the drug
stores, soft drink establishments
and restaurants clerks and walters
are carrying attractive badges, di-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
SNAKE VENOM
TO AID FIGHT =
ON PARALYSIS

PHILADELPHIA, Penn. (UP) =
Snake venom and vegetable COM
pounds will be enlisted in the war
against dread infantile paralysis,
in experiments by DR.. John A.
kolmer, Philadelphia scientist.
Otto Vogt Won Sickingen, scien-
tist and explorer, will lead an ex-
pedition into Brazil soon to collect
necessary venom and vegetable
compounds.
YOU haven't read ALL the NEWS
until you READ the ADS
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
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Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
Former Valley
Resident Dies

Andrew K. Campbell, IS, form
ef resident OF Imperial Valley, died
Tuesday in San Bernardino after
a prolonged illness.
Campbell, who came to the valley
in 1912 and who moved to the coast
in 1925. was born in Paris. Ill, in
1861
He married Julia Long in 1886
and is survived by daughter Ruth,
and his wife.
Funeral services will be at Ste
phen and Babette funeral parlors
in San Bernardino Wednesday af-
ternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17

green pastures and desert sunshine
that does this, and puts the preci-
Gus vitamin D as well, in to the
family bottle of milk of Imperial
Valley"
In message released by Nor
man v. Stewart of Imperial, presi-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17

recting the customers attention. to
the fact that it is Milk Week and
urging the selection of a milk
drink.
Particularly in Imperial Valley"
said Walter c. Macdonald, city and
county milk inspector, should our
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17

people be aware of the advantages
of drinking milk because our I'm
perial Valley milk is far higher in
body building elements, calcium
and phosphorus than any other
milk found throughout the United
States. 1t is the combination of
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
State Fair Grounds
To Get New Buildings

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Nov II
UP)-Approval of architectural
plans for two new buildings at the
California state fair grounds to
house exhibits of the Future Far
mers and All clubs was announced
today by directors of the annual
exposition.
The structures will cost 100000
each and are part of a Sl,232, 900
building program adopted by the
board
YOU haven't read ALL the NEWS
unti: Won READ the ADS
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
Settlers Attribute
Landslide in L. A. to
Lost Gold Tunnel"

IUS ANGELES Nov. Il. tUP)-OId-time settlers,
marking to legendary tales of buried Spanish gold have
attributed menacing landslide in Elysian Park to
lost tunnel in which early Cafornians supposedly banked
their fortunes Their bizarre theory received sup
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17

Emmanuel circle of the First
Baptist church has an all day
meeting and pot luck luncheon
scheduled for 10 o'clock Thursday
at the church social hail
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17

Los Angeles and vicinity-Cloudy
and unsettled; probably occasional
rain tonight or Thursday: season.
able temperature with little
change; moderate southerly to wes-
terly winds.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-17
WEATHER

data compiled by observers for
the official United states weather
bureau station mt Eel CentrO.l
Maximum Tuesday .......-................ SO
Minimum Wednesday .................... As
Reading at Noon Wednesday
Temperature ....-........ -. ............ 81
Humidity ............................. "a
Reading at am. Wednesday
Temperature ............ ..-.................. SO
Humidity ......................... 81
Reading at pm. Tuesday
Temperature ............. -. ............. 68
Humidity ............................... At
Evening star., 1937-12-08
Dancer and Fighter.

1t was in 1895 that husky young
Gerardo MachadO stepped out to fight
for Cuba libre. Fighting and dancing
were his dish. He held a record in
stepping through the furious "danzo"
for II hours without stopping. He was
similarly determined and durable in
shooting Spaniards. He took Cuba,
but the "libre" part of it never came
through. He was dodging bullets
when he boarded an airplane in 1898,
and now, under the hard-boiled
Batista, who picked up the pieces,
Cuba is still no Plato's republic.
Old and i'll, the former President
and dictator submits to arrest in New
York on charges of murder and en-
bezzlement. Cuba will press for his
extradition. He has been in Montreal.
1t was in 1888 that his world of splen-
dor and power crumbled overnight,
and he has been fugitive since then.
He ruled by the sword, as does the
big, knobby, hairy-chested Batista.
Cuba, being an island, might be nicely
isolated for some detached research in
power politics. 1t ought to yield an
epitome of something or other.
Copyright. 1879
Evening star., 1937-12-08
Governor Aiken
Gardeners Are Planners, Patient and Humane, and
the Vermonter Is Gardener.

pierce your bedroom window with its
scented candles. You can build 1t into
a wall for privacy, its dark-green
heart-shaped leaves glossy until the
srows. Who lives with lilacs needs no
bougainvillea.
A Humane Sort.
Gardeners are humane. Don't tear
flowers of their stems; don't trample
the beds; don't dig up plants and for
get to trench them until they find
another home. If you do the garden
er's eyes will blaze at you, and he will
hold you in contempt, for barbarian.
His whole passion in life Is to make
the world more comely. I never knew
q gardener who didn't shudder at
slum.
My dear father spent his life try
ing to save souls-with his pockets
full Of sweet-pea seeds, which he
dispensed along with prayers for the
discouraged and milk for the baby.
Plant them deep" he would warn.
"Sweet-peas are cool flowers. Plant
them early, in deep, cool earth, and
give them lots of water. Let us
pray" God and sweet-peas were,
somehow, indissolubly linked in his
mind. along with Elizabethan poetry
which was often most ungodly.
Aiken, the nursery man, from the
State of Vermont is not bit Mortified
at all the radical social innovations in
the New Deal. He is only panied that
so many petunias that should be blue
turn out magenta after all. The rosy
dawns" turn out a gloomy shade.
People who claim to be gardeners
should do their pruning more care
fully.
But just now he has been directing
his remarks at the Republicans, "a
party Of old men whose leaders are
apparently more concerned with con-
trolling the party machinery than in
American welfare; party in a nearly
complete state of generalization"
"Getlemen," he says in effect, "at-
tend to your hoeing Pull up the
avaricious weeds that choke the
flowers. Turn over the soil, counter
act the acid, let in the air, disperse
the shade, get access to the sunlight.
Wake up! And hear the birds sing!"
tCopyrisht. 1879
Evening star., 1937-12-08

youth to "help produce and distribute
larger volume of goods and services
to, all' is characteristic of Gov. Aiken
and of the little State which he rep
reSentS
Gov. Aiken comes from Putney, and
he is gardener-a nurseryman, and
the author of one of the best books
eXtant on American WildhoWers. I
have never known gardener, now
that think of it, who was either
stuffed shirt or a reactionary. And if
you spend your life producing hybrid
delphiniums, acclimatizing Alpine
plants, and naturalizing wild flowers, I
don't see how you can be very deeply
committed to the theory of laissez-
faire Gardening is continual
struggle not to let nature take its
course. Every perennial plant was
once weed, but the gardener has no
passion for weeds. My own garden, in
July, is-to quote Ruskin, on the
river Rhone-like the glass of a
painted window melted in the sun,
sky-blue, peacock blue. river of para
disc blue, acquamarine, ultramarine. :"
with Mr.. Aiken's delphiniums, whom
nature never never made that way.
Is PIanner.
A horticulturiSt is planner-but
not hasty one. Nobody pulled that
incredible spire of flowers, their eyes
coal black. their petals mauve on vio-
let-blue, out of hat or blue print
1t took time and careful experiment.
A clear cerise phloX that does not go
magenta on you is piece of planned
eugenics, and so Is frilled and or
child -colored petunia. But the gard
ener is careful about generalizing. The
wood ashes from the kitchen stove are
fine for the lawn, but don't try them
on the rhododendrons or sZaleas. Sun
is everything to a garden-but plant
the foxgloves and the monks hood
in the shade. In gardening there can
always be too much of anything-even
of good thing.
Gardeners are patient, too. They
have to be. And the rule is: If a
thing is growing all right where it is,
don't move it. Maybe the peonies
would look little better somewhere
else, but just there, where they get the
sun and yet are somewhat shielded
from the wind, just there they have
blossomed every June for the last nine
years, huge creamy, rosy blossoms,
drenching the evening with dewy
fragrance. So, for heavens sake,
1eqVa u-p11 enough o1oopt
Good gardeners know their limita-
tions. One can't, for instance, change
the North into the South, or vice versa.
Don't hope to grow hybrid tea roses on
a Vermont Mountain top. Don't yearn
for magnolias. The common lilac has
its points. Age will not wither it; 80
below zero will not destroy it; custom
will never stale it. You can prune it
into tree to reach the roof and
Evening star., 1937-12-08

New Deals tame capitalist
place at during the
business.
He began talking his idea his
and Means Committee
feared that the which had
He wanted to discuss the matter with President The
very busy James Roosevelt sought fathers
orgenthau feeling himself out the rather
petey and the unhoy between the two ensued.
To balance the
ISM there the which threatens
Treasury General Counsel Ophant
mas built congressional fire under the policies of his chief Secretary
Mr. Ohphan the father undisibued
present agitation against makes him feel like watching
child being sacrificed Secretary
aware Mr. Indeed Mr. ophant has taken
tuny try Mr. Morgenthau his conciate
business Because the disagreement Roswell Mag
been made the Treasurys spokesman.
few days Olphan inviedt before Of
liberal Congressman by
Maverick Ophant
air his his
Mr. OHphants the
he he offered questions Perfectly naturally the
Congressman asked him modification
distributed profits naturally Olphan
thought the axchange schemes
had obeyed orders kept silent until the discussion
Nevertheless, Mr. Oliphants remarks stirred liberal
legislators Neuer friendly the changes they
enemies there strong fight
the tar changes the floor.
Mr. ELEPHANTS theory is that business
smoke the Other
in the administration equally convinced that the effort modify the
Evening star., 1937-12-08

dictatorshps fiddle part
spread very fast.
Indo-Chtn1.
iepe that they been
uarshpnaH unttshaue been ordered
Satgon-he China
there If necessary.
The French Government beginning
fate OF their Eastern colonies panAasm spreading
continent
japanese do good deal in Frances
outside Africa
Evening star., 1937-12-08

do. incidentally, instead of free
trade between our own States, tariff
barriers are growing up through va
vious guises so that, in time, States
will be seeking to make themselves
self-sufficient, or at least to compel
discrimination against products made
outside their respective boundaries.
Again the National Association Of
Manufacturers has met and denounced
most of what the administration is
doing, without offering program that
will make the American people vote
to drive out of power the administra-