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Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09
INDUSTRIAL CONGRESS ADOPTS
PLATFORM TO AID BUSINESS

NEW YORK, Dec. 9. CUP)-The
Congress of American Industry,
sponsored by the National Associa-
ton Of Manufacturers today ad-
opted an eight-plank platform for
1888 designed to promote business
confidence and make the products
OF industry available to more of
the nations millions.
1ndustry's New Years resolutions.
approved by 1000 manufacturers
and business men attending the
congress, were based on the thesis
that progress can be maintained
"only If American industry pro-
duces more so that all can have
more" They would, in the main.
seek freedom from federal con-
trolls, extend high business stand
ards, maintain the "open shop"
while recognizing the right of COL
lective bargaining, level seasonal
valleys of production and employ
ment, oppose government collecti-
vlsm, and seek International peace.
While specific reference to exist
ing legislation was lacking. it ap-
peared that the manufacturers de-
sired changes in the Wagner labor
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09
Tommy Manville
Seeks Successor
To Blonde StenO

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y, Dec. 9.
(UP)-Tommy ct Pays to Adver-
tise) Manville was ankle deep to-
day in applications for the job of
Miss Dolly Goering, his blonde
secretary who was so economical
that she used to sit on his lap
to take dictation so that none of
the Manville millions would have
to be squandered on an extra chair
Miss Goering gathered up her
peck of jewels, her dozen evening
gowns, ordered her town car and
-poufl-quit the job on five min
utes' notice Manville retaliated by
placing large advertisements in
New York newspapers today, read
ing: Wanted a Secretary-Tommy
Manyille." One hundred kilograms
were waiting when Tommy woke
UP this afternoon and he said he
guessed he would have to send a
station wagon to the postoffice for
the letters of application.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09
DOUBT CAST
UPON VALUE
OF SPINACH

ITHACA. NY. CU.P) Mothers
may be over~rating the value of
spinach when they plead with
their children to "eat your spin
ach. dear. it's good for you"
For a long time the values of
spinach have been extolled from
various quarters. but recently, ac-
cording to Prof. Hazel Hauck of
the New York State College of
Economics. it has been discovered
that spinach has its faults.
Scientific experiments ss w
that the calcium in spinach is not
assimilated as easily as that in
milk, Miss Hauck pointed out. This
seems to be due to the oxalic acid
in spinach. she said. which COM
bines with the calcium not only in
spinach but other foods as well,
and becomes waste matter.
Spinach should not be discarded
as unit, but on the contrary should
be eaten along with other green.
leafy vegetables. it was suggested
by Miss Hauck. No food is perfect.
she explained and even the best
of foods may do harm if over en-
phasized.
Many other greens are good in
Vitamin A and iron. OF the green's
thus far tested those found to
contain none or only trace of
oxalic acid are lettuce, kale. en-
dive, Brussels sprouts. dandelion
mustard greens and turnip tops. p"
Another criticism of spinach is
that not all of its iron is available
for blood-building Although scien-
lists need more evidence. present
knowledge shows that the per-
centage of total iron available for
building blood is generally less in
green, leafy vegetables than in
other foods such as grain cereals,
egg yoke and liver.
Green leaves are not without
value in this respect, however, ac-
cording to Miss Hauck. Greens
still may be valuable sources of
iron. she explained, because they
are relatively richer in iron than
many common foods.
If the general public would for
get the much-publicized panacean
qualities of spinach. it would help
vegetable growers to cultivate a
greater variety of green's and at
the same time would result in a
more sane understanding of the
true value of spinach. Miss Hauck
ventured.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09

YOU haven't read ALL the NEWS
until you READ the ADS
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09
LUMBER WORKERS VOTE UPON
JOINING CLIO. OR A.F.L. RANKS

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 8. CUP
Idle lumber mill workers went
to the courthouse today to vote
their preference between the Com
mittee for Industrial Organization
and the American Federation of
Labor in Gov. Charles H. Martins
collective bargaining election.
The governor was determined to
end a struggle between unions that
has paralyZed the lumber industry
here and left 10000 men idle for
four months. He charged that rack
eteers had gained control of unions
and that the National Labor Rela-
tionS board was "a traitor TO the
New Deal for sitting idly by
while workers are forced to suf-
fer"
The NLRB has credited the CIC
union as collective bargaining
agent for lumbermen. but it never
held an election and Gov Martin
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09
NEW PLAN TO
FINGERPRINT

ALAMEDA. Cal. CUP)-Invention
! of a scientific innovation which
may revolutionize known systems
of fingerprint classification has
been announced by B. c. Bridges,
noted criminologist and supernten-
dent of the Alameda police bureau
of identification.
Now in a preparatory stage, the
new system provides for the auto
matte location of fingerprints and
parts of prints in a regular fin
gerprint file The method is called
t he Bridges Mono-Digit- Micro
scan System"
The process, which involves the
use of super-sensitive machine,
would be equally effective in any
file of fingerprint records regard
less of the size, its inventor says.
F. b. I. May Use System
Development of the method
being carried out in the closest
secrecy, is intended when COM
pleted to become the exclusive
use of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation, it was intimated.
The invention has already been
outlined to ]. Edgar Hoover, head
of the bureau.
Bridges believes that papillary
patterns are definitely hereditary
and may be linked with behavior
characteristics.
I'm years to come. a single i'm
preston left at the scene of a
crime may reveal to investigating
authorities the race. age, sex, be-
havior, characteristics occupation
and even the diseases from which
the individual may be suffering
is likely TO contract" Bridges said.
Son Like Father
Definite proof of this hereditary
factor, he said, is to be found in
the likeness of his own finger
prints to those of his 16-year-old
son. David.
Skin patterns are sure to vary
like other indicative bodily fea-
lures, and certain diseases leave
an indelible mark, he said.
"The Identification expert may
look forward with increasing in
terest, and not little hope, to
future scientific contribut / o n S,
speeding the day when all this is
possible, Bridges said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09
ART IMPORTER
HURLS SELF
FROM ROOF

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec. 9. CUP
"A man. identified by police as
jana E. Gazvini, art importer
hurled himself from the roof of
the U. S. Grant hotel in the heart
Of the downtown district here to-
day.
He was rushed to a hospital
where it was said he could not
recover.
While hundreds of Christmas
shoppers looked on horror struck
from San Diegos historic plaza
Gazvini's body catapulted to the
street and landed in a passing
garbage truck.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09
Damages Asked
For Time in Jail

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec. 9. CUPJ
For two hours and As minutes
spent in the San Diego city Jail,
after an assertedly false arrest. An
drew K. Weir today demanded S25,-
600 damages in suit against AL
bert Silvera, which went to trial
IN superior court.
Silvera, proprietor of an import
ing company, assertedly caused
Weir's arrest last May 80 when he
charged him with a morals code
violation.
Weir was booked at the city Jail
and held less than hours when
he was released after Silvera as
sertedly. could produce no evidence
70 substantiate his charge
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09
PILOT DIES IN
FIERY PLANE

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Dec. 9.
CUP)-Lieut. Edward L. P. Burke
of Helena, Mont, United States
army air corps pilot, crashed from
an altitude of 5000 feet and was
killed today while on a weather
observation flight
The plane burst into flames when
it hit and the pilots body was
badly burned.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09

set up the election machinery in
the Multnomah county courthouse
to take over a function that is
delegated to the NLRB by federal
law
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09

act. taxation, and tariff policies
which increase imports of foreign
goods competing with domestic in
dustry and labor
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-09

Part of the John d. Rockefeller
millions will one day go to a
foundling-the 4-year-old, curly
haired little girl who has just
been adopted by Mrs. Elisha
Dyer Hubbard, above, of Middle
town, Conn, daughter of the late
Edith Rockefeller Mccormick of
Chicago. AS Mrs. Hubbard, the
former Muriel Mccormick and a
granddaughter of John D. Rookie
feller, is widow, the girl who
came to her from foundling's
home becomes her heir.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01
NOTICE OF ELECTION

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN TO
the electors of Central Union High
School District of Imperial County.
California, that an election will be
held on the 4th day of June. 1897. for
the purpose of electing two trustees
for the said Central Union High
School District for term of three
years.
For the purpose of holding the
said election, the polls will remain
open between the hours of six
O'Clock am. and seven o'clock pm.
at the High School for the Ell Cen
tro School District and between the
hours of eight o'clock am. and five
O'Clock pm. at the Acacia School
House for the Acacia School Dis
tflct, between the hours of nine
O'Clock am. and five O'Clock pm. al
the Seeley School House for the
SeeIey School District between the
hours OF twelve o'clock M and five
| O'Clock pm. at the McCabe School
House for the McCabe School Dis
| trict, between the hours Of ono
thirty O'Clock pm. and five thirty
O'Clock pm. at the Eucalyptus
School House for the Eucalyptus
School District, and between the
hours of one o'clock pm. and five
O'Clock pm in the following elemen-
tary school districts, viz; at the Elm(
School House for the. Elm School
District, at the Heber School House
Tor the Heber School District. at
the SilSbee School House for the
Silsbee School District, at the West
side School House for the Westside
School District, at the Sandoval
General Store, located on the Seeley
CaleXico highway in Section 6, T. l..
II. 13 for the Centinella and Lone
Star School District.
Signed: o. CT. HORNE
Clerk, of the Board of Trustees
of Central Union High
School District
May 10, Is, June 1.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUN-
TY OF IMPERIAL
No. 17121
SUMMONS

IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT. Plaintiff, VS.. RUTH PECK,
JOHN DOE, JANE DOE, RICHARD
ROE, JOHN DOE COMPANY, A
CORPORATION, AND RICHARD
ROE COMPANY. A CO-PART-
NERSHIP, Defendants.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE.
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO RUTH PECK, JOHN
DOE, JANE DOE, RICHARD ROE,
JOHN DOE COMPANY, A CORP
GRAFTON, RICHARD POE CO., A
CO-PARTNERSHIP, defendants.
You are Hereby Directed to APP
pear and answer the complaint i'm
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in the Superior Court
of the County of Imperial, State of
California, within ten days after
the service on you of this Sum-
monS-if served within this coun-
ty; or within thirty days if served
elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
dbo'c Icquileu, lllt odlu pldlilGill
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, or
it will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State Of Cali
fornia, this 9th day of December,
1885,
CSEAbl
... w. j. McCLELLAND
Clerk
By C1T'HA LAMSON
Deputy Clerk
april 1927; May 4-1l-l8-25; June
1-8-l5-22
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01

Thare has been regular rash Oh
anniversaries in the collegiate world
IoteIv From the Harvard terceh-
tenary on down, campus AFTER cam
ms has celebrated its birthday III
come GOOD round number, ana cap
acknowledgement speakers have urg-
Cd the world to witness the STRIDES
America has made IN the nelo ol
higher education.
We get another of these ami
versaries this june, one winch Will
not cause as much of a stir as some
of them have, but which will DE
well worth noting, even so. III Is
the centennial of Blackburn COL
lege, at Carlinville, Ill.
y n
Blackburn College is small m
stitution, and it is not especially
famous. 1t is noteworthy for be-
ing one of the most advanced OF
the progressive" colleges which
make education available to young
sters who are hard up for money.
Students at Blackburn can work
their way through by working with
their hands for two and one-hali
hours daily. Jobs are sandwiched
in between studies. All of the
physical facilities of the place
laundry. bakery, kitchen, power
plant and so on-are operated by
students. When fire swept the
campus some years ago it was the
students who did the rebuilding.
This kind of program has made
college education available to
great many ambitious young middle
Westerners who would not, other
wise, have been able to get one.
And it is a pretty safe bet that
since they had to work for it they
have made good use of 1t.
This leads us to consideration
of the place that the small college
occupies in the American scheme
of things.
There are good many places
like Blackburn College in America.
They are practically unheard OF
in the world which judges colleges
by athletic records. size of student
bodies, extent of endowment funds
and social prestige: yet they do a
tremendous amount of good work,
year after year, and their alumni
make records which indicate that
these little places arc, in their way,
quite as useful and valuable as the
big ones.
On the face of things, all of these
little colleges should be third-raters.
They lack the library, laboratory
and research facilities of the big
institutions. They cannot hope to
compete for distinguished faculty
members. If other things were
equal, they should be educating
their young people only about half
as well as the big places.
But other things aren't equal.
These little colleges do not get those
swarms of aimless youths who are
in college for no earthly reason but
that their parents thought they
ought to go there. They do not
get the ambitious lads who are out
to make contacts" that will be
useful in a career of bond selling
later on. They do not get the
idlers and the drifters, the people
who want little social polish.
No. They get young people who
want to be educated, and who want
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Worthwhile Dividends from Small Colleges

1t badly enough to work for it.
And the fact that they get these
young people and, on the whole,
do so well by them is significant.
They are filling place that the
richer and more famous institu-
lions have left vacant.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01
Hints on EtinncLlr

At private dances chairs should
be arranged in small, informal
gruops where persons not dancing
may gather for conversation.
Straight lines of chairs along the
wall should be avoided.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

/. Who is sovereign of the state
of the Vatican city?
2. What is the capital of Texas?
3. Does England have consti-
tuition similar to that Of the United
States?
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01
New York Day by Day
TUESDAY, JUNE l, 1887
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, June Manhattan
garded by many as a city for per
feet sleep. George M Conan for
years kept a hotel room facing
busting Times Square because he
could always, when Worn TO a fraz-
zle. catch up with sleep there.
Mrs. Rex Beacn used to come to
town from Ardsley for a refreshing
nights slumber. And Montague
Glass, worn by tossing innumerable
nights in a leafy countryside sane
tuary in Connecticut. would often
motor to town to rest for a few
nights.
Just this morning l talked to a
gentleman from Hartford who had
been sleeping ever SO badly for
months. But on his first night in the
roaring metropolis he had slept un-
til IL am. the next day. And was
ducking a matinee SO he could get in
a nap.
Noise does not seem TO bother the
calloused Gothamite. He can sleep
anywhere. Almost every Whang-
bang subway car has nodder or so.
All the people asleep at cafe tables
are not DRINKS. And there are re-
cords of chronic snorers at theatre
cal first nights. One is always
watched by uShers.
Frank Sullivan. trigger-mlnded
humorist. if there ever was one
muffed golden opportunity at a
Dutch Treat show. He was playing
Charles the Second and carrying
his decapitated head in the crook
of an arm Marc Connolly, playing
opposite to him, said: Speak loud
err. they can't hear you out front. y
And Sullivan merely simpered I'm
yelling as loud as I CALI" A second
later he suddenly thought how he
might have shrieked I've already
yowled my head off" He won't get
such a chance again, so he won't.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01

Creative ability along poetic
and musical lines marks persons
whose birthday occurs today. OF
quiet nature, they realize the value
of meditation.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01
One-Minutc TEST hnswers

/. Pope Plus XI.
2. Austin.
3. No. 1t has an unWritten, in
definite body Of legal rules and
principles, partly 'the result of jul
dicial decision and partly taken
from acts Of parliament. Certain
public rights, however, are embodied
in special documents, such as the
Magma Charta.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01
News Behind the News
SEC Finds Vering Problem Who
Deserves Fair Treatment Lands
Sets off The Works
WASHINGTON.-The question whether the

WASHINGTON.-The question whether the
Securities Exchange Commission should empha-
size desire to be fair to the brokers and bank
ers" or a determination to protect the inves-
tor" has again become issue. following reSig
nation of Chairman James M Lands
Crusaders for adequate regulation and for en-
forcement of the New Deal act. claiming that
the New Deal has provided neither insist that
RooSevelts decision will tell whether the adj
miniStration really means its frequently reiter-
ated promises to protect security holders
Commissioner William o. Douglas is out in
front as the most likely successor to Lands But
if the professional manipulators of what JUS
tice Brandeis used to call "other peoples money"
have anything to do with it, DougaS won't get
the jop.
Douglas is an able lawyer and an expert on
corporation law When he at Yale he
said to be of the highest paid law professors
in the United States He has had experience in
the securities business.
He handled one of the SECS outstanding jobs
an investigation of corporate reorganizationS
and the work of protective committees, with
report and legislative plan submitted to Con-
greSs He demonstrated his fearleSsneSS in
speech to the Bond Club during which he told
gypped by financial concerns which reaped
missions stock and bond flotations far in
excess of the value of their services.
Douglas boldly declared in favor of COMPETE
issues against the traditional Wall Street
custom which he said often enabled certain
banking houses to monopolize such business He
charged that fees were being exacted for under
writing when there need for it,
Wall Street didn't like it at all. And its ennis
Saries, as Douglas presumably must have antici-
pated, have been pulling all possible wires here
to see to it that Douglas doesn't succeed Lands.
Investors may well watch as closely they
can the progress of this oehind-the-scenes bat
tie The appointment of SECS next chairman
will shed some light to the integrity of the
New Deal.
If Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas goes on
the Supreme Court the fight for the very impor-
tant post of majority leader in the Senate is
expected to be between Senator Alben Barley
of Kentucky and Senator James F. Byrnes OF
South Carolina. Don't ignore the "if'O
Barley would be the administration candi-
date for the job He is liberal without being
radical and comes from a state which is far
enough north and far enough south to figure
tonal problem in Congress. He gets along
well with all factions and has qualities of lead
erShip.
Byrnes also is popular but not SO much with
liberals as with conservatives. 2 Although his
ability is obvious and his relationships with
Roosevelt have been close in the past, the White
House hasn't forgiven him for seeking an amend
ment to the Guffey coal act which would have
forced the President to sign-or reJect-an I'M
qualified condemnation of Stdown strikes
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01

The list. however, overlooked the
No. l party whooper upper-Harry
Evans. One of the alliterative So
ciety scribblers described him as "a
beaming bounce of banter" Florida
born, he came to New York as a
movie critic on the old Life, later
published a magazine of his own,
and also acts as a talent scout for
a Hollywood studio. He is ball
room dancer of professional calibre,
a raconteur extraordinary, plays the
piano and has a trigger mind for
smart talk. He often takes over the
entertainment when he visits a
night club and soon has everybody
on the floor cutting caperS.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01
Words of Wisdom

Honor and shame from no con-
dition rise; act well your part,
there I'll the honor lies.-Pope.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01

Douglas Fairbanks on his drop-in
to town a year ago had begun to
look droopy and curly around the
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01

A social secretary provides a celeb
rity list which she considers parfait
for New York tea. One which she
said would make any host or host
ess purr. Here il is: Joseph Herge-
sheimcr Evelyn Laye, Clifton Webb
and his mother, Ina Claire. Fanny
Marianoff, Fanny Hurst, Carl Van
Vechten, the Lawrence Tibbetts,
James Forbes. the Jock WhitneyS,
Fredric March, the Brock Pember-
tons, Tallulah Bankhead, Noel Cow
ard, Gertrude Lawrence, Alexander
Woolcott and Walter Chrysler, Jr.
She also said many on this list re-
ceived several invitations for teas
daily, but attended only one or two
a week.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01
Thoughts for the Day

In those days there king i'm Israel: every man
did that which was right in his own eyeS.-Judges
2l:25
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01

Apropos of nothing whatever, L
believe the most aristocratic of all
names was that of the late Brit,
isher-Captain the Honorable Fred
erick E. Guest.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial VAL
ley for This Date in
Past Years.
Twenty-Five Years Ago
June l, 1912

o. B. Tout publisher OF the Pro-
gross and CaleXico Chronicle, is sick
with appendicitis in San Diego.
Bert Mitchell, electrician of the
Ho'ton Power company, was mar
ried to Miss Martha Arvola.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01
Twenty Years Ago
June l, 1917

Program for a Red Cross street
celebration was announced by Mrs.
SWeringen.
Valley residents sought out the
cool spots today as the summer sea-
son began to set in. Until today
the valley had enjoyed compare
lively cool weather, but apparently
those days are over until fall.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-01
Ten Years ago
June l. 1927

June l, 1927
Three shots over the head of
Mexican relieved the man of $1.55
last night but failed to halt his
flight long enough for Patrolman
RosequeSt TO catch him.
Announcement was made today by
Dale Ramsey that special excur-
sion rate will be offered to residents
of the valley for the opening days
races at Tia Juana On July 2.