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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-26
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our many friends, relatives and neighbors for their sympathy and kindness shown us during our recent bereavement the death Of our beloved mother, Mrs. Mary Hubbard.
 Tho HUBBARD FAMILY,
 MRS, MARGARET ALAttD,
 MiiB. GRACE SAVAGE.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-26

New Yorchd Nobes Of Sweet Sue" the net- works classic One of the better the drummer Benny Goodman amazing Reporter Ens plec q from shanghai filling history Marion Hughes Pierces in- difference to the prohibiting the without leas and How'd like this heat?"
 Langs ve-dance in the forthcoming Al Baba Jeanette MacDonads sopranoing "The Fey' Capt John Craigs Danger Is My Busines in the Sept Cosmopolitan exciting reading John Edgar piece in the American "Gunmans Love" Lberty "Why Hitler Sleep"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-26
COMPLETE ENTRY LIST
| Mangini, Roselyn Mautina, Jackie lAAaRannaii RafRif

McDonnell, Patricia A. Mc0rath, Denise Daurine MeluikoAs, Leaeia c. Micary, Richard Miiot, Rita Montesi, Albert Moriarty, William M. Morin, Shirley Moscariello, John 0Loughiin, John Michael Oueiette, Robert Packard, Raymond Bruce Palomba, William Robert Pirro, Joan Philbert, Marcel Prigorieri, Anthony A. Rinaidi, Nicholas Rizk, George Romanauskas, Anthony Rosenbaurn, Rochelle Russo, Ester Saunders, Royal c. scanneli, Ruth Ann Sexton, Louise eignore, Sally Ann Stack, fiienn Sullivan, Irene Uriano, James Henry Vadnais, Anna M Yackei, Robert Henry Yannieiii, Carmen Crowley, Robert Timothy Fibre, Rose Marie
 Green, Clifford
 Hailock, Lois
 Ippoiito, Vincent Laurine, Denise Nardieiio, Richard c. Sabra, Anthony Thompson. Lucille Uaccaro, Richard Saunders, LeLon ?. Saunders, Randall Chmielnicki, I'd.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
G OF G. TAKES
UP PROBLEM
OF PARKING

In an attempt TO solve the COM
plex parking problems which con-
front El Centre retail merchants.
President Walter B. Havekorst of
the Chamber of Commerce appoint
ed a committee comprising L. l..
Odle. chairman. H j. Heisch and
Louis Moore, to at once make a
survey of the city and prepare a list
of all vacant lots in the downtown
district which might be used for
free parking for the benefit of
shoppers.
so important is the matter "
HavekorSt stated in appointing this
committee, with the early approach
OF the heavy cantaloupe shipping
season. that l have asked this COM
mittee to make an immediate cam
vass of the city downtown blocks
and to report vacant lots at the
meeting of the chamber directors
and members Wednesday at noon. "
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
War Lord Broken
In Red Shakeup

MOSCOW. May Il. U.P)-Marshal
Michael Tukhachevsky, regarded by
many as the Soviet unions most
brilliant soldier. was removed to-
day from his post as vice commissar
of defense.
A. l. Yegorov, former chief of the
general staff. replaced him.
The change was regarded as the
most important in the Red army
since Leon TrCtSky was removed
as war lord.
B. M Shaposhnikov was named
chief OF staff and j. E. Jakir, gen.
eral of the first rank, was sent to
the important Leningrad military
command from Kiev.
Tukhachevsky was ordered TO the
relatively unimportant Volga mill
tary area, as commandant.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

Judge Clarence F. Terry, San
Diego municipal judge, told mem
bers of the Imperial County Safety
Council. assembled at the court
house Monday night, that there
was no such thing as an "unavoid-
able" traffic accident. He empha-
sized that automobiles crashed be-
cause people do not think.
The speaker advocated the eStab-
lishment of traffic schools as an
effective remedy.
Other high-lights of Judge Terry's
remarks We're: that the driver of
an automobile should consider he
is driving an instrument of death;
that the smart aleck" is the one
who gets into trouble; that motor
lists driving at a high speed should
be prosecuted for reckless driving;
that the largest percentage OF accl-
dents can be attributed to the vio-
lation of the right OF way; that
driving is a matter OF common
sense. traffic citations should not
be fixed: people who will not CO.
operate in traffic law observance
should be given tickets; driving an
automobile is not a matter of right
but of privilege and that the fin
ger-prints of all motorists should
appear upon their drivers licenses.
At the regular business session.
Captain A. F.. Oswalt head OF the
California highway patrol, valley
division. reported that during the
month of April. 33 drivers licenses
had been suspended for drunk driv-
ing and that people had been
killed on Imperial highways since
the April meeting OF the council
Only one of the deaths occurred on
a patrolled highway, according to
the captain.
In response to a suggestion made
by California Highway Patrolman
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

VIII bC COlASiOClSQs
Pat Casey, producers spokesman,
last night rejected a strikers peace
offer containing the Objectionable
demand for a preferential" shop.
Casey countered with a statement
that studios are ready to negoti-
ate whenever the present strike
is called off"
Charles LesSing, acting head of
the striking federation. pushed
plans for the Boycott and made
it clear he was counting on John
L. Lewis powerful Committee for
Industrial Organization for sup
port. LeSsing declared:
We expect to have $4,000 men
and women OH picket lines in cities
throughout the country by tonight.
Within a week we expect to have
the active aid of 100000 workers. "
He said the CIO has promised
the support of its 2,500000 men,
bers. The International Painters
Union also was asked to supply
picketS.
The boycott. LeSsing said, is
being concentrated in industrial
areas where movie-goers preSum-
ably are union partisans. First
picketing was scheduled in New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleve-
land. Detroit. Pittsburgh. Minnea-
polls and st. Paul. ...
In rejecting the strikers peace
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

offer last night Casey offered to
recognize the painters union with
out any strings attached and to
deal with each of the other nine
striking crafts-proyiding all went
back to work.
He stipulated that the crafts
would be dealt with separately,
excluding the Federated Motion
Picture Crafts which seeks to
speak for them as a whole.
Casey said producers are agreed
to re-admit the painters to the
so-called studio basic labor agree
ment and give them the 10 per-
cent wage raise that others in the
agreement received last month.
Painters withdrew from the agree
ment five years ago in a jurisdic-
tional dispute.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
JUDGE SPEAKS FOR
SAFETY COUNCIL

Walter Walsh, a committee COM
posed of civilians was appointed by
Chairman w. H Rhodes to cooper
ate with law-enforcement officers
in investigating serious traffic ac-
cidents. Members appointed We're
George Cutshaw of Brawley, Phil
knights of FL Centre and the chair
man.
I. A. Thomas, head of the Cali
fornia highway maintenance de-
partment in Imperial county, re-
ported that the Stop Sign program
is under way for valley highways.
Colonel Leroy Foster of CaleXico
advised that he had conferred With
Supervisor Ike Schlatter in refer
ence to widening the underpass into
Bard, through which SO school chill
dren pass twice daily.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
Grand Jury Indicts
Former FOllies Cir

NEW YORK. May IL. U,P)-Betty
Randolph. the former Follies girl
whose marriages, divorces, and 9TH
er legal entanglements have kept
her on the front pages for years,
was indicted today by the county
grand jury on a charge of extcrt-
ing money from Louis Bamberger
wealthy broker.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
JUDGE DENIES
INJUNCTION
IN PICKETING

SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, May
IL UP)-Superior Judge Charles L.
Allison today had refused to issue
an injunction sought by the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization
to restrain the John F.. Shea Con-
struction Co.. from interfering with
peaceful picketing" of Parker Dam.
The injunction was sought by
Grover Johnson. attorney for the
American Civil Liberties union. on
grounds picketS had not been per
mitted to approach within two miles
of the dam site.
Following Judge Allison's adverse
ruling. Attorney johnson was quot
ed as declaring 'if this keeps up
We'll sent 500 pickets TO the dis
trict and have a real showdown"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
Church Destroyed
In $4,000 Blaze

SAN JOSE, Calf, May II. UR)-
Fire. believed caused by an eXplo-
sion of an oil furnace, last night
destroyed the First Christian church
at a loss OF $4,000 and threaten
ed the apartment house district
here
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
SLEEPER DIES
IN FIERY BED

OAKLAND. Calf. May II. UP)-
William Reid 20, of San Jose, was
burned fatally last night in a fire
apparently started from a lighted
cigaret which ignited his bedding
in San Pablo avenue hotel where
he had registered, police reported
today.
Attendants at the hotel said Reid
burst from his room and ran down
the hall, his clothing a mass of
flames, an hour after he registered
at the hotel. He died later at Ala
media County Emergency hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
Children Burned
To Death in Beds

OAKLAND, Calf, May IL. U.R)-
Three small children in one family
were burned to death in their beds
in their home late last night and
four other persons. two firemen and
two policemen. were seriously burn
I'd in futile attempts to save them.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
Bids Called on
Canal Structures

Bids were called Tuesday by the
United States Bureau of Reclma-
ton on All American canal struc-
lures near CaleXicO, to be opened
at Yuma at 10 am. June T.
The structures include wash ST.
phons and similar works.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
NATIONWIDE BOYCOTT OF HOLLYWOOD FILMS

bas, 68, the artist whose painting,
September Morn" set two contil
nents talking in 1912. died yester-
day after a long illness.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
MOTHERS DAY"
BABY BORN

Nancy Diana McElhany, a real
Mothers day baby was born Sun
day at the El Centro hospital to
Mr.. and Mrs. C. D. McElhany of
Imperial. The baby weighed six
pounds, IA ounces at birth.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
DOG RULING

CLEVELAND, May II. W.P)--City
council of exclusive Shaker Heights
oday outlaWed the owning Of more
than two dogs by any resident. Pup
pies under three months old don't
count. they ruieu.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
100000 SLATED
TO JOIN MOVEMENT

HOLLYWOOD May Il. NUP-Strkng
today to enlist 100000 persons
boycott Hoywoods films.
Picture
utiatum that strikers
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
Ira Aten Writes
Ranger Memoirs

Memoirs of a Texas Ranger" is
the title of an article by Sergeant
Ira Aten which appears in the June
issue Of a current magazine.
This article is the first of a
series written by the well known
Imperial Irrigation district direc-
tor to appear in the magazine. He
tells the story Of the years he serv-
ed as a Texas ranger, using facts,
dates, figures, and names as the
historic background for his ex-
periences.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

w. M. Paine of Chula Vista was
in the district Saturday and Sun
day on business.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
WESTMORLAND
BY MRS. X. f. MITCHrLL

The community extends its deep
est sympathy to Misses Aloha and
Iva Dysche in the loss of their
father, M. A Dysche, Saturday
%
Mrs. Aubrey Lee spent the week.
end with her mother in Compton
Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Lee,
Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Gentry. Aubrey
Lee. Miss Patricia and Janet Ram
Saur. Jimmy Ramsaur. Joan and By
ron Kahn spent the day at Palomar.
Mr.. and Mrs. K. f. Mitchell were
hosts at a colorful Chinese dinner
party Saturday night. Chow Mein
was the main course of the dinner,
which was served buffet style. The
house was gayly decorated with
Chinese lanterns and spring flow
ers. Guests were: MeSSrs. and Mes
DANES J. C. Ramsaur, William Nc
Fadden. I. H. Gentry, w. T, Lee,
Ravden Cartwright and Mrs. w. f.
Gullett.
Janet RlmSaur entertained at a
birthday party Saturday afternoon
at the plunge in FL Centro. After
the swim the party adjourned to
the RamSlur home for games and
refreshments. Guests Wer2: Peggy
Lawson. George Cox, Ernest john
son. Virginia Ray, Loretta Killings
worth. Betty Haskins, Elizabeth
Graham. Roy Gilbert, 10 Randolph,
Pauline Cnaffee. Betty-Jo and
Martha williams. Patty RamSaur,
Joan Kalin, Donna Ostrander,
Jackie Yates. Assisting Mrs. j. c.
Ramsaur was Mrs. G.. p. Randolph.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Walker spent
the weekend at the coast visiting
friends and relatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

Held On Bail-C. L. Sims, D. is
held in the county jail on $50 bail
pending trial on charges of petty
theft He was arraigned Monday
following his arrest west of Ell
Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
WOODIN'S SON
ESCAPES INJURY

PHOENIX. Ariz May II. UP
William H. Woodin, jr son of the
late secretary of the treasury, and
John d. Miner young Tucson pilot,
narrowly brushed flaming death last
evening when Miners airplane
caught fire near the airport here.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

A. A. Thaanum returned to San
Diego Saturday after spending
three days here on business.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
September Morn
Artist Dies at 68

PARIS, May Il. WR)-Paul Cha
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

The pea crop in Carpinteria VAL
ley Santa Barbara County, was
badly damaged by the freeze.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

Mrs. w. L. Carr and Mrs George
Bailey motored to San Diego Sat
urday to remain a week to visit
Mrs. Carr's daughter Billy.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11
McCABE
Caroline Paine

Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Richardson
and children spent the weekend
in Orange.
NJ. f. Stuart returned to San
Diego after visiting his daughter,
Mrs. p. A. Thaanum Saturday
and Sunday. Stuart accompanied
Mr.. and Mrs. Aries Adams who
spent the day in San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

The community extends its deep
est sympathy TO Misses Aloha and
Iva Dysche in the loss of their
father, M. A. Dysche. Saturday
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

Mrs. Aubrey Lee spent the week.
end with her mother in Compton
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

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fold down at the ends
for opening the hinged
cover. They are large
enough for hundreds Of
uses - Specially priced
for your Sunday outings.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

Cooper, Hendan, WHshire
From these three fine makers come
these new patterns in woven fabrics,
corded styles, tiny checks and stripes
also plenty of white broadcloths and
white on white figures 200, for
$50
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-11

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-13

The Chinese people, though strangely url- like us in so many ways, are easy for us to get along with. We can understand each other. We can laugh at each others jokes. Both nations are democratic. And China shows signs of reviving and be- coming a great power. She may be in the long run more important to us than Japan.
 Yet we want to get along with Japan, too, if possible. We could be better friends if Japan were more nearly democ- Hatized, if the people really controlled their government, if they would renounce the old, bold, bad ways in which all the powers, including ours, have seized terri- tory and trade in former years.
 This is a new era. Or at least, many nations are trying to make it new era, with more international fairness and de- cency. It must be more decent, more tol- erant, more cooperative, or this civiliza- ton will wreck itself through short sighted selflshness. The present Situa- tion is whether Japan will go along.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-13
Billions for Armament

wall Street is getting quite thrill" observes New York business writer, "in toying with the idea that President Roosevelt's quarantine speech was the prelude to series of similar talks to sell the nation on the idea of a gigantic armament program. Market men have been milling over the thought. Obvious ly, they report, program for building from $2,00O,000 ,000 to $3,000, 100000 in armament would stimulate the heavy in- dustries and keep men on payrolls. That looks good for the stock market" Maybe so. But it doesn't look good to people out around the country.
 There would probably be no objection to an expansion of our air defense, to make us safer against any possible inva- sion and protect our cities from aerial bombing. But beyond that, our people are more interested in balancing the fed eral budget than in wing with Great Britain in new armament expenditures. If we have to spend new billions, it would be more popular to spend them on per- manent domestic improvements. And John Q. Citizen would probably add that whatever we decide to do in Asia had bet ter be done by remote control.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-13
"WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1s, 19t
A Thought for Today
eco Not HothouSe

Americas lot in the depression was bad enough to suit the most discriminating pessimist, but along with the hard jolts came a few innovations which proved their value not only as emergency trouble shooters but as semi-permanent projects as well. One of these was the Civilian Conservation Corps Its immediate service was to take thousands of boys off the highways, out of railway yards and slum districts, away from the evils Of idleness and give them job to do and a decent place to live. Through all the pit falls of changing government policies, through the criticism of skepticS, and the dangers of possible exploitation by mlll- tariSts, the eco was kept respectable And it earned it's place as probably the noblest of all the New Deal alphabetical agencies, both in purpose and in practl- cal accomplishment.
 For those reasons, citizens have per- sonal interest in proposal made by the Veterans of Foreign Wars at their recent national convention. A resolution "de- manded" that the S00,000 youths now enrolled in the CCC be signed as perma- nent corps and be recognized as comple- ment to our national defense"
 This plan, carried out to it's logical con- clusionS, would mean, in the first place, that every boy seeking the advantages of the CCC as 1t stands today would have to admit the governments right to call him out for military duty in case of war. It follows also that the duties which the CCC has performed so admirably thus far in conservation and community building projects would have to be curtailed to al" low for the teaching of the basic princi- pies of army practice.
 Out of 1t all would come the inevitable growth of a junior military clique pat termed after those now in vogue with the European Relationships. Of course, the CCC candidate himself would have to ap- prove this plan before 1t could be put into successful operation, supposing, naturally, that enlistment would be voluntary.
 But the blessing of the American public would be necessary, too. And 1t is ex- tremely doubtful whether that blessing would be forthcoming. For one thing, the eco was accepted as a depression emergency measure and should be con- tinued only as long as the emergency exists. Opposition to this proposal and insistence on keeping the CCC on its pres ent basis until it can be disbanded will prove that the nation is smart enough to know just how far to go with good thing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-13
Speediest Living Thing

Human speed demons of air, water and land racing have nothing to brag about, if authorities at the American Museum of Natural History are correct in their state- ments about a fuzzy botfly called Cephe- nomyia. This parasitic insect is said to be the fastest thing on earth. It travels faster than sound, making, so the scien- lists tell us, speed of 1,20O feet second, well over 700 miles an hour.
 Just what Cephenomyia gains by travel ing so fast isn't quite clear The species of deer under the skin of which this insect de- posits her eggs does not run so swiftly and could be overtaken easily by much slower enemy than the fuzzy botfly. Somehow this terrific speed ought to be put to use. Couldn't a flock of these creatures be harnessed together and used to haul something?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-13
War Referendum

If special session of Congress is called, says Representative Ludlow of Indiana, it's first business should be to adopt Q plan for referendum on American par ticipation in any foreign war. He pro poses a constitutional amendment mak- Ing such action permanently compulsory but would also put the principle into Q congressional enactment for immediate application.
 It is sound proposal Surely, if there is any type of national action on which the people themselves should be con- suited, and heads counted, 1t is this bus mess of making war abroad. A defensive, domestic war, in which we merely re- sisted foreign enemy on our own terri tory, is another matter. That is probably the only kind of war in which we should ever engage In such war, of course, we'd fight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-13
FlO1gerS Of Autumn
Profusion of Blooms Along Connecticut Roads
 Like Season Only Short-Lived.
HARTFORD COURANT

with gold a the center, predomi- mates. Nature has taken good care that 1t will not soon die out. Every olunnp has a score of stems, and every stem is loaded with what seems to be a hundred blossoms. Other forms of native flora may be disappearing, but the wild aster seems destined to survive forever without the help of man and his legislation.
 The searcher after wild flowers in the spring considers the lady-slip- per the most desirable find. He who walks the rural lanes in the early tumn is most alert to find the gen. tian, closed or fringed. It is not easily discovered, and many Q walk CT in theautumn has forced him. self to be content with the sight of the red naples turning in the swampy places, the ruddy gold of the Virginia creeper as the after noon sun slants across 1t, the taste of wild grapes draping over Q broken wall, the tang of an apple picked up in Q deserted orchard. Yet on 6 lucky day he will spy Q clump of purple blooms as he walks down some little used dirt road, the firing ed gentian. If the day is bright and the time about noon, its four fringed petals will be open to show the inner surface of the flowers cup; when one returns in the evening, after the sun has gone, the petals will be neatly curled shut, the fringeS making a soft cap.
 No use to pick 1t, for the flowers will close soon after being plucked, and the plant will not stand rough treatment. A better decoration for the button-hole is @ sprig of the asters, which will thrive regardless or few blazing leaves plucked from the bay that stands in every pas- ture, or @ bright leaf from the naples. The flowers of autumn have brief life. Like the high, arch- ing sky, they are best retained fl, the memory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-13

The sentiment voiced in the memorial catalogue of paintings by the late Elsie Rowland Chase, sums up the character and artistic attainments of this repre- sentative member of our local commu- nity. The paintings, numbering 49, are to be on exhibition for great part of the month at the Mattatuck Historical so- ciety galleries. The tribute is singular ly opposite and sincere one which voices the sentiments of all who knew her: Mrs. Chase has bequeathed to Waterbury in the example of her life a very precious heritage. Everything she touched seemed to glow with certain radiance which emanated from her rare personality. She was not one who dwelt apart. She was not remote or unapproachable. She was essentially human, and to those of us who were privileged to come into close asso- citation with her a benediction."