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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
British Protest
To Japan AWaited

SHANGHAI. Aug. 27 G.N.sJ,
Fighting for life after being
wounded by a Japanese machine
gun bullet, British Ambassador
Sir Hughe Knatchbull- Hugessen
spent a fairly comfortable after.
noon" a medical bulletin stated
late today.
The bulletin added:
1T is now evident the right
kidney was damaged but the
hemorrhage is moderate and
decreasing. The ambassadors
general condition has definitely
improved"
PROTEST AWAITED
The ambassador was wounded
when two japanese planes ma
chine-gunned and DO m b e d the
automobile in which he and his
aides were travelling from Nan
king toward Shanghai. The Incl
dent has provoked one Of the
gravest international crises in the
Far East in three decades.
A sharp protest from Britain to
japan is awaited and the British
government is ready to send thou.
sands Of infantry and artillery re-
Inducements to the British gar.
riSon here.
In British circles, indignation is
high owing to japanese attempts
to sidestep blame for the shoot
ing on grounds the ambassador
did not inform japanese authori-
ties he was making the trip.
Japanese authorities said any idea
the envoy was shot Intentionally
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27

UN.S.) The AAA today an
nounced that a hearing on a milk
marketing agreement for La Porte,
Ind, will be reopened Monday,
August 30, at La Porte. The first
hearing was held June %.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
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Eden, expressing the deep regrets
of his government over the attack.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27

BERLIN, Aug. ~ I.N.S,).
The municipality Of Bilba d,
Basque city conquered by Span
ish insurgents, has ordered one
of its main streets named "Ger.
many Street" and two others
named after Italy and Portugal,
the German official news agency
reported today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27
NeWsin
Brief

CLEVELAND, Aug. ~ Q.N.S)
Still held by police today was a
former hospital employee who was
questioned in this city's mySter.
ious series of torso murders after
boasting Of his skill at dissection.
The man told friends he had been
discharged from the hospital be-
cause he was too good at dissec-
ton for the doctors"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27

AKRON, Ohio. Aug. ~ G.N.SJ.
With union leaders predicting an
8 to / victory, employees Of the B.
F. Goodrich Company her today
finished balloting in a quiet NLRB
labor representation election. Issue
at stake was whether the United
Rubber Workers, a C. I. o. affil-
late, should represent Goodrich
workers exclusively in collective
bargaining.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-08-27

CHELSEA, Mass, Aug. n
(I.N.S.).-TwO children and two
adults barely escaped death to.
day when . pyrOmaniac soaked
the second floor of y three-stOry
building with gasoline and ig-
nited it. While flames rOared,
Mrs. George Baker and her two
children and Edward McNulty
huddled on a third-fIOOr porch
for half an hour until firemen
rescued them via ladders.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-21
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Leader Of Democracy is Adler than Dictator

the last word. as
There is an interesting contrast
in the way Germany and England
set about rearming.
Hitler took office. said bluntly,
I'VE are going to rearm'-and that
was that. Stanley Baldwin. pre-
mier of England, recognized at once
that England must rearm, also; but
could he say what Hitler did and
sit back in contented satisfaction?
He could not First he must show
the people of England that rearma-
ment was necessary. He must show
them out in the open, so to speak.
knowing that if he presented his
case too sensationally, he might
create international complications
He must spend two or three years
arguing, explaining. and revealing;
only after that could he begin to do
what Hitler had been able to do
riht at the start.
The plain fact is that the dictator
occupies a bed of roses compared
with the chief of a democracy. It's
a whole lot easier to command than
il is to persuade
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-21
By HENRY SUTHERLAND

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 81. lU.H -
Chewing automatically on a syn
| thetic straw, Robert Montgomery,
smoothly veneered young leading
man, conf;des he's learning how to
be farmer from correspondence
school located in the most rural
section of Chicao's loop
I'm going to develop my farm in
Putnam county, New York, boast
ed Montgomery, so I've got to
learn about crop rotation. soil con-
servation, scientific livestock feed
ing, and all that sort of stuff"
Which is a high and noble re-
solve, for at last report Farmer
Montgomery's brown acres offered
lots of room for improvement
Farmer Montgomery bought the
plot out of sentiment because it's
located near the spot Deacon.
N. V where he spent his barefoot
boyhood.
Ali the land in the neighborhood
is said to be owned by five or six
ancient families, one of which let
Farmer Montgomery have 180 acres
out Of pure friendship, otherwise it
wouldn't have been for SALE Pre-
sumably, they are the kind Of peo-
ole who spend their autumns sitting
on horses while foxes are chased
over the neighbors> back fences.
Equipment of the Montgomery
homestead is as follows: one farm
house, vintage 1872, done over in
the Hollywood New England man.
ner; four horses: two cows: an as
| sortment of chickens: 1000 shoot
ing pheasants impounded in the
wood lot: innumerable brook. trout
tanked in two streams which run
through the place, but no golf
course.
Last year Farmer Montgomery
demesne produced what his pub
licity men call "a good CROP land
under cultivation consisting of two
acres, on which the cook raised
beans and cabbages and things for
Farmer Montgomery's table.
But let his correspondence school
agricultural lore increase ever so
much, you can bet your bottom
dollar Montgomery will always re-
main simple dirt farmer at heart,
as his publicity stills will probably
show.
Farmer Montgomery will never
tas the late President Calvin
Coolidge once did permit himself
to be photographed while pitching
hay in a boiled shirt and hard
collar.
Farmer Montgomery is an actor.
Incredible as it may seem, odds
are dropping sharply against red
headed Anne Shirley and owen j.
Davis, jr., becoming ''Mr. and Mrs"
before long. Only thing staying
them is said to be objection of the
18-year-o mama, who likes
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-21
BRINGING ALL
THE NEWS TO
a IMPERIAL "a
- VALLEY ~
HOW ABOUT QUALITY
As WE'LL As QUANTITY?

"Californians have reason to be hap
py." says Frank G. Jordan, secretary
of state, in predicting that the states
population will be doubled in ten years.
California would have far more reason
to be happy, it seems, if they could be
assured that the new residents will be
sober. Industrious citizens 1t would be
of no benefit to the state-a hindrance,
rather-if those who swelled the popu-
lation were the kind who have swelled
the states relief rolls to the largest
total in the nation.
Imperial Valleys population has been
increased considerably this winter Some
of the new residents are highly desir-
able citizens. Others are merely people
looking for a warm climate. Cts not
their fault if Mother Nature pulled
joker out of her weather pack.) The
undesirable contingent has done nothing
to help Imperial Valley, aside from swell
the total of an unofficial population
report. They have, rather, been bur-
den on the community
If California can do something to
attract ambitious, industrious residents,
an increase in population is highly de-
sirable If, on the other hand, the in
crease is to come from the poor white
trash of the south, east and midwest,
who cannot make living in their own
communities because they do not want
to work for it, then an increase is the
last thing to be desired
California's population will increase.
So will that of all western states. Com
pared to the eastern seaboard, and even
to the middle west, the west coast is
still in its industrial and business in
fancy Years from now, these will be
regarded as among the pioneering years
although we now are inclined to feel
that we have emerged from the pioneer
ing era The west coast undoubtedly
will rank in Importance with the east
coast in business and industry. Such
a development cannot help but bring
new residents to the west
1t is our job, insofar as we are able,
to make certain that these new residents
are desirable residents.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-21
WHAT WILL TIE AUTOMOBILE
OF THE FUTURE BE?

Those who belong to the ever dwir-
ding reactionary ranks, who believe
that progress has reached its peak,
might be interested in booklet pub
lished by one of the major oil compa-
nies. 1t presents, in pictorial form, the
progress of the automobile industry
from the days when an automobile was
an internal machine, to the present,
when it is almos a necessity for the
American family. The period covered
is within the memory of almost all OF
US; yet how easily we forget the quaint
appearance of those early machines!
There were the autos we entered from
the rear, the coach-like contrivances
which could hardly stand good breeze
against their high Sides. and even the
steam driven contraptions. No wonder
the horses were frightened
They were marvels in their own times,
these machines. Our automobiles of to-
day are marvels in these times. What
will the next generation think of them?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-21
News Behind the News
A Message to Roosevelt The Dan
ger of Courier What They THINK
About Reorganization -.

WASH1NGTON.-A Negro messenger recently
was observed staggering across pennsylvania
Avenue toward the White House, heavlly laoeil l.
with a pile of bound, typewriter pages about
two feet high.
If it had been known in time what he was
carrying, he almost certainly would nave oeeh
waylaid by 10 cabinet members, hundred pu-
reau chiefs and commissioners, and small army
of other New Deal officials
For the messengers load was the report OF
the presidents committee on .reorganlzation OF
government = consisting OF Louis Bro"nloW'
Charles E. Merriam, and Luther Guck.
Significance of this doesn't rest in the GU
rious fact that the report wasn't toted In TAXI
or a government wagon but in the lnslstence
of thos. who saw the pile that only small por-
ton of the committees actual report has been
transmitted to Congress.
Roosevelt gave Congress only At pages which
laid down general principles and outlined speci-
fically only those broad, major changes recon-
mended by the committee which require con-
gresSional action. ii %-.ss-
The actual program for regrouping more
than a hundred government agencies, commits
sions and blreaus-including such big ones as
WPA PWA, Social Security, CCC, and IVA
there is every reason to believe, is locked up IN
the presidents desk for use after Congress gives
him power TO use II.
An enormous amount OF subterranean lobby
ing, directed at the White House, already has
begun Many officials suspect they know what's
in the suppressed bulk of the Brownlow report
and are bringing such pressure as they can in
cases where they don't like 1t:
Roosevelt seeks to give the impression that
aside from creation of the Social Welfare and
Public Works Departments the White House
secretariat expansion. and other phases of his
congressional message, the program isn't worked
out-implying that nothing else is final deci-
sion.
Neatly and as if without guile, the president,
in his special press conference on reorganization,
sought to spike the guns Oh Senator Harry F.
Byrd of Virginia, chairman OF Senate COM
mittee on reorganization, who keeps insisting
that hundreds of millions OF dollars can be saved
through pruning and reorganization
Explaining why no great saving could be
made without emiation or curtailment of fed
eral functions-by doing less work. which is
not matter of reorganization-the president
suggested that by consolidation of overlapping
functions the federal government probably could
save proportionately as much. as states which
had reorganized their governments with great
public acclaim
He mentioned New York. Maine, Virginia,
and other states Then he said that in no
case did any state reduce expenses more than
IL per cent through reorganization or less than
y per cent.
Byrd's chief claim as reorganization expert
rests on the fact that as governor, he super
yised a consolidation in Virginia which merged
95 departments into II departments and two
agencies
Roosevelt didn't say whether Virginia had
saved IL per cent y per cent, but no cor
respondent was So du-witted as TO miss the
point. stt
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF HEARING TO
ESTABLISH BIRTH
No. g731

NO. S73l
In the Superior Court of the State
of California, In and For the
County of Imperial.
In the Matter of the Petition of
CATALINA GUERRA GRIMA, to
establish the birth of
HELEN GUERRA DHILLON.
Notice is hereby given that CAT
ALMA GUERRA GRIMA has filed
a petition in the above entitled
Court to establish the birth of
HELEN GUERRA DHILLON Said
petition will be heard before the
above entitled Court on Friday, the
Goth day of January 1887, at the
hour of 200 O'Clock P. M. of said
date, at which time any person in
terested may appear and show cause,
if any they have. why an oroer
should not be made establishing the
birth of Helen Guerra Dhillon.
Reference is hereby made to said
petition for further particulars.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk and EX-Officio Clerk
of the Superior Court, Imperial
County.
DOROTHY S. REYNOLDS,
Deputy Clerk.
(SeaD J18-28inc
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-21
Other Editors Say
SHIPS AND GROWERS
THE San Francisco News)

Importance of San Francisco's shipping in
dustry to the growers of California is emphasized
by the annual report OF General Manager j. L.
Nagle to the Califona Fruit Exchange.
At least $50 more carloads of grapes and
pears could have been sold abroad by this CO.
operative alone if it had not been for the mari
time strike said Mr. Nagle. And he urged what
we regard as the impracticable and un-Amer-
ican remedy of compulsory arbitration OF all
disputes affecting rsrishable products. We have
acute sympathy with Mr.. Nagle and his growers.
But it just won't work skiful permanent
Federal mediation board will
Turning to the bright side, the manager of
the worlds largest cooperative of deciduous
fruit growers stressed the increasing importance.
of foreign trade The exchange started develop
ment Of foreign markets onlys.five years ago.
In 1886. 10 per cent of the companys tonnage
was exported-1060 cars with net return OF
81 OBS, 100 TO the growers. Most noticeable was
the gain in trans-Pacifc shipments and to the
United Kingdom and Europe.
Manager Nagle has been an intelligent pio-
neer among growers in seeing the importance
of foreign markets as competiton in the home
market increases from Eastern 7 fruit producers
and in promoting more enlightened trade poll
cy with respect TO tariffs
lingo dictators anxious to get that next war
worked up will be glad when Mrs. Simpson and
the House of Windsor dispose, OF their newspaper
rights o. AZ
Al, Atlantic CITY liphthouSe Is for sale. In
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-21
NEW HOMES GOING UP
IN CALIFORNIA

Savings and building and loan instl-
tutions in California report that 80 per
cent of their home mortgage loans up
to December LIST We're made for construc-
ton of new homes Further, the aver
age cost of the new homes is $4,182.
There could be no better indication of
the prosperity that is engendering
feeling of confidence throughout the
state.
Construction of new homes is a neces-
sity nowhere more than in Imperial Val
ley. This winter has revealed an acute
housing shortage, especially in the coun-
ty seat. Not only are prospective rent
ers almost unable to find suitable quar-
ters. but well-to-do transients cannot
find sleeping quarters over night. The
man who builds new home here is
rendering community service, as well
as a service to himself. AZ
The only thing wrong with the in
crcase III home construction is that there
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-21
New !. York Day by Day
T.. E.. By @. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, Jan. 21.-Some of
the perky society oebs thought it
would be larkisn and quite cock-a
hoop to be snapshotted slotting
nickels and carrying their dishes to
the tables atuhe Automat near. the
Globe. So, tfurred and orchidsd,
they descended at one of the busy
hours of the evening.
But they reckoned without their
host When the camera men ar
rived they were told nothing doing.
The Automat did not care to be pic
tured as spot where frisky young
ladies went Summing Indeed the
Automat is not ashamed of itself
entele. And rightly So
For in many instances the Auto-
mat patronage is about the most
cosmopolitan slice of dining out life
/ the city has on display. It.has many
gradationS. it is true, but as a COM
posite whole it is extremely color
ful. And great place to study what
Shaw calls the "Eupepsiasto" 4. -.
Almost always magazine illus
traitor is at one of the tables sketch
ing types. The Automat is not with
out its carriage trade" Along with
racketeers and a soupcon of that
| its beautiful girls. men about town.
brassy gentry known as the metal
lie moniker of 'tin-horn sports"
%
believe my father enjoyed the
Automat as much as any prowling
bravura in New York-save per-
haps that old Hippodrome spectacle
featuring Slivers, the clown and the
mermaids who vanished in the div
ing tank. A hotel man, he had a
high time wandering about with a
rifle of nickles, popping out this
dish and the other. Especially was
he intrigued by the coffee spigot
that unleashed Spurt of black java
and then a.jetgof cream that filled
| it neatly to the rim. And he thought
the contrast among the crowd the
greatest he saw in the metropolis.
Also he saw the late Charles Dill
lingham having piece of pie
| I. 90
| Inc AutOmat Is, lnclQentally, the
former site of IA barber shop popu-
lar with -theatrical folk in the early
bend of theNcentury The Webber-,
Field crowd made it rendezvous.
And it was the locale of a famous
and oftrepeated story about Nat
Goodwin. de had dropped in for a
shave one morning after a loose
night and duripg the barbering kept
falling asleep to the annoyance of
the wretched tonsor Finally in
desperation: ':Mr. Goodwin, if you
keep noddine eff I can't shave you y
Mumbled Goodwin "All right then.
Just cut my hair"
Society seenissassured Gloria Van
derbilt's experiment in opening a
gown shop was an earnest adventure
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-21

President Roosevelt the other day
sent an appeal to the governors of
10 states. urging ratification of the
child labor amendment; and the
sending of this appeal helps to IL
lustrate the peculiar difficulty un-
der which the leader of a democracy
has to work
Here we have president who
holds office bv one of the most
sweeping landslides in all history.
His party has a majority in Wash
ington and in the 48 gubernatorial
offices that is fairly topheavy. The
measure he is urging is an integral
part of his program.
And yet the most he can do is
appeal to the governors. He cannot
command, he cannot pull strings
that will make the law go throuoh
automatically; he has to ask the
governors to ask their legislatures
to act, and both governors and leg
islatures have a perfect right to
turn him down If they feel like it..
That. OF course, is Just the way
it should be. Anything less than
that would not be democracy. But
if you have ever felt that it takes
an immensely able man to be a
dictator, you might reflect that it
takes a much abler man to head a
democracy
For the dictator simply decides
what his policy is to be and issues
the necessary orders to put it into
effect. The head of a democracy
cannot order: he must persuade.
He must have both the insight
to know the peoples desires and
the ability to convince the people
that those desires can best be full
filled by the specific program ne
is advancing.
In the long run, of course dc
tator will be thrown out if he does
not come fairly close to expressing
the will of his people. But the
dictator can silence opposition ana
stop criticism.
When he sets out to persuade
there is no one to get up the next
day and knock down all his argu-,
ments. He has the first word and
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-21

in good faith. She is at her salon
at 9 a. m. promptly and waits on the
patrons who ask to- ner But most
ly she attends to the designing side,
inspecting sketches that come be-
fore her for approval. On her desk
incidentally is picture of her much
publicized daughter Gloria. Open
ing gown shop is nothing new in
the social realm 1t is the avenue
many take. Such as Peggy Hoyt,
Mrs. William Thaw, III, and others.
The improvidence of actors is al
most universal Yet Chic Sale was
AN exception. He was. not only a
practitioner of thrift but set many
vaudeville pals on the road to in
dependence. His entire fortune in
royalties from that fast selling
brochure dealing with the vanquish-
ed medieval chalet and called THE
Specialist" was chucked into an an
nuity for his wife. And through the
years he established trust fund for
her and his children which will
make them comfortable for life.
90
Nothing catches the eye like those
Wacky luggage shops piled with
tumble of bright blond and brun-
cite travel accessories. The neat
toilet compacts-one always desires
but when acquires never uses
fancy manicure dinguses, travel
clocks and special games to while
away liner and train tedium. Just
a prowl among them inspires "go-
ing away yen. Earl Carroll was
once given a blinger and took off
the next week for the Orient. In
one I saw a fitted travelling case
costing $1,000. 1t had everything,
including a Thermometer. I was
told Lii Damiti owned one that set
some gallant back $4,000.
Overheard at one of the terminal
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-21
Editorials and Comment
THURSDAY, JANUARY q, 1887
. OH Sol says
@ FRANK WATANABE
THE zoo
BY ed HOLDEN

Other day / visiting the zoo.
l went there to observing mother ma
ture in furs One lady locker she says
How sad to keeping them animals be-
hind wirei''
So / asking a wolf what HE thinking
about it.
well, feeling pretty safety because
a fence are subtracting me from those
fierce looking humanity Also can
bowling POO POO at taxes. | looking
at persons who is not sure of eating
meals every day like are. And when
my wife have puppies she gets four doc
tors free because | got no money. All
US animals got old age pensions and we
never having religious arguments That
what the wolf uttered.
So | skulk off with a bent neck feel
ing sorrow for us fellows OUTSIDE
the cage.
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-21
THE MAGNITUDE OF THE
ALL AMERICAN CANAL

John c. Page, acting commissioner of
reclamation, is responsible for an in
teresting statistical comparison. Enough
earth -43 100000 cubic yards of it
has been excavated from the All Amer
lean canal to date, he reveals, to form
a solid column city block square that
would match in height the second tall
lest peak in the Rocky Mountains. The
peak is Mummy Mountain, 13,413 feet
high.
Yet there are some persons living in
Imperial Valley who have not yet seen
the All American canal under construc-
ton. Some human beings may need less
curiosity, but so do some need more.
Home, home on the range" Dora
thought. was a new idea in trailer heat
inp