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Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
Peace Efforts
With Sudeten
Party Collapse
Negotiations Refused
Until Settling of
Police Attack

PRAGUE, Sept. 8. (UP)
The Sudeten German par
ty today refused to resume
negotiations with the Czech
government for peaceful SOL
ution of the minority crisis until
the Maehrisch Ostrau incident is
"liquidated".
The Czech officials and the Brit
ish mediatorS here have been seek
ing resumption of the negotiations
which were broken off as a result
of the alleged beating of Sudeten
representative by Czech police at
Maehrisch OStrau. Nazi reports of
the incident described it as serious
whereas the British investigation
had not yet indicated it was of
grave nature in itself.
SCHUSCHNIGG ILL
VIENNA, Sept. 8. (UP)-Kurt
Schuschnigg, last chancellor of in
dependent Austria was reported
seriously i'll today.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
Gold Streams
Into u. s.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. (UP)-
The heaviest influx of foreign gold
into the United States from war
iittery Europe since Oct. 8, 1886,
was received in the week ended
Sept. 2, the commerce department
reported today.
Gold imports in the week ended
Sept. 2 totaled $87 769, ,l52, adding
to the already record breaking
monetary gold holdings of the Unit
ed States, which stood at more than
$13, 2OO,0OO,0OO.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09

The San Francisco labor council
announced the unions offer to
compromise the strike issues, made
before the Walkout, "are hereby
withdrawn" This further dead
locked the dispute.
While a crowd of 1000 onlookers
milled around the fighters and
nearly blocked traffic on Market
street, pickets and clerks returning
to work exchanged blows in side
walk battle that developed into
general free for all. Many of the
combatants were women.
Mounted policemen rode through
the crowd as the fight reached its
pitch and quelled the disturbance
A second fight broke out few
minutes later at another market
street entrance of the Emporium.
Police quickly stopped it and ar
rested a picket, William McCann,
30, on a charge of refusing to move
on.
AUTO UNIONS STRIKE
SAN JOSE, Calf, Sept. 8. CUP)
-Four San Jose motor trades un-
ions today went on strike against
20 automobile sales agencies, gar
ages and service stations.
STRIKE AYERTED
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8. CUP)-
A threatened strike of 1000 A. F..
of l.. milk drivers was apparently
aVerted today.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
Re esistration for
Voters to Open

Registration books will be avail
able at all city halls in the county
next week for the convenience OF
residents who wish to register,
County Clerk w. j. McClelland an
nounced Friday.
1t will not be necessary for resi-
dents to re-register if they register
ed since Nov, 1886, and voted at
the primary or general elections
since then. If they cast a vote at
the primary or general election this
year their names remain on the
great register for several years. Vot-
ing at city, school or district cleo
tions are not effective in keeping
the registrations alive, McClelland
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
IS Names Drawn
On Jury Panel

Names of 85 Imperial county
residents were selected in superior
court late Thursday to compose
the jury panel in october, Novem-
ber and December.
They will receive instructions to
report in court Oct. 2. From among
them will be selected juries to
hear evidence in criminal and civil
trials scheduled for the next three
months.
Retrial of the Ida Cleveland
manslaughter case is among those
scheduled for early October.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
Mexican Troops
On March in
Strike

CANANEA, Sonora, Mex, Sept. 8.
CUP)-Mexican federal troops were
reported marching here from Her
mosillo, Mex, today to prevent
bloodshed and disorder in a threat
ened general strike of workers at
the Cananea Consolidated Copper
company, rich mining center below
the Arizona border.
The troops were reported dis
patched by Gov. Roman Yocupico
of Sonora as federal director of
labor Villa Lobos sped from Mexico
City by plane in an effort to settle
the dispute before the strike called
for next Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09

Search for the secret desert grave
of an FL Centro man slain in
Phoenix holdup proved in vain Fria
day. Jimmie Hicks, 49, ex-convict,
who Thursday disclosed how he had
buried Bobby Morris, missing valley
liouor dealer, after Morris was
fatally wounded was unable to lead
officers to the grave, Sheriff Rob-
ert Ware and Patrolman T. M.
Sharp reported after returning from
Arizona Friday.
Hunt for the grave followed Hicks
story of Morriss death of gunshot
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
3 2ACKETEERS BOMB STORE
Sunday Services
Back Again as
Fishing Dwindles

BUTTE, Mont, Sept. y. tUP)
Members of the United Con-
gregaticnal church can start at
tending services on Sundays
again, the Rev. Emerson Harris
said today.
The fishing season in Montana
is about over, so the Rev. Harris
intends tc resume re ular Sun
day services Sept. IL. Early in
the summer, when attendance at
the Sunday morning services be-
gan to dwindle, Harris announc-
ed that he would switch the wor-
ship date to Wednesday, 80 that
the men folk can go fishing"
He reported an immediate in
crease in attendance.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
HOSPITAL INSURANCE
FOR 50 A YEAR

CLEVELAND, Sept. 8. CUP)-The
economies committee of the Aca :
denny of Medicine today proposed
hospital insurance for the general
public at SO yearly in what was be-
lieved to be the first support by
the medical profession itself of
universal disqualification plan.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
Child Injured in
Rock FusiIIade

A fusiliade of rocks from young
sters living in the vicinity of Fourth
and Hamilton streets, FL Centric,
resulted in injury to Stanton Kirby.
II. son of E. H. Kirby, the father
told Ell Centro police Thursday.
The boy and his brother rode
their ponies to FL Centro from the
Kirby nome on the Holtville high
way Thursday afternoon. Stanton
was injured so severely he was put
to bed, his father said. Police or
dered the rock throwers to police
headquarters for an explanation.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
NEGRO, NABBED IN YUMA,
BROUGHT TO VALLEY

Floyd Pruitt, 81, Negro, was ar
rested in Yuma Thursday at the
request of Imperial county officers
and taken to the Imperial county
Jail pending investigation of
charge of contributing to the delin-
Iuency of a minor.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
HIGHWAYMAN SEARCH
TURNS TOWARD GLOBE

GLOBE, Ariz., Sept. 9. (UP)-
Search for two highwaymen who
donned masks and flourished guns
in old-fashioned western style in
robbing a U. S. mail stage near
Taylor, Ariz., turned to the noun
famous Globe district today.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
Japanese Open
Unified Drive
Upon Hankow

SHANGHAI, Sept. 9. CUP)-Japa-
nese military officials announced
today that they were opening the
greatest unified offensive of the
China war in an effort to capture
Hankow before the end of Septem-
Der.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
RIGHT OF COMMUNISTS
ON BALLOT UPHELD

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9. (UP)
The California supreme court up
held the right of the Communist
party to remain on the November
election ballot, refused a writ of
mandate in connection with the
recall election of Mayor Frank Shaw
of Los Angeles, and denied a re-
hearing of Sausalito newspaper
woman convicted of contempt, in
rulings on record today.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
STEP-SON ACCUSED
OF STEALING WEAPON

Mrs. S. Faulkner, Negro resident
of Ell Centro's eastside, told police
her step-son, Harold Faulkner, had
picked the lock on a dresser drawer
Thursday night and taken an auto
matte pistol, a gold nugget stick
pin, gloves and other articles. Po-
lice are searching for him.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
Ranch Worker
Burns to De ath

INLAND, Sept. 9.-Salas Valdez,
Mexican ranch worker, burned to
death today in his little shack on
the Obayashi ranch north of town.
Details of the tragedy were not
available Immediately following
discovery of the body.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
Business as Usual
On Admission Day

Admission Day, Friday, passed in
Ell Centro with business progressing
as usual in all quarters except
state, county, and city offices, banks
and title companies.
The state holiday prevents the
transaction of official business on
Admission day. Many state, county
and city officials and employees took
advantage of the closing to "catch
up' on their work.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09

allel the corporations existing facil-'
tiles and that need for additional
generating capacity will not be re-
quired for many years. The state
ment was made by company officials
in response to a request from repre-
SentativeS of the Post-Press news
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09

VALLEJO, Cal, Sept. g. UP)-
The 88th anniversary of CALIFORNIA; S
entrance into the Union was OBJ
served here today by thousands in
>sn Admission day ceremony spon-
psored by the Native Sons and
Daughters Of the Golden West.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09

papers.
Imperial Irrigation District Off
cials Tuesday called a special cleo
tion for Sept. 30 to vote $1,045 600
bonds in response to a PWA offer
Continued on Page 3, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
Distinguished Guest

Distinguished Guest
Have you seen my father, Henry
Ford?"
Phil Holman of the county well
fare office shook his head in dumb
amazement at the visitors ques-
kion.
Well, I'm EdSel and you'd better
give me that letter from pappy-
or else!"
Holman glanced at other men,
bers of his staff, pinched himself
and decided he wasn't dreaming.
so you won't talk, eh? Give me
that phone, I'm going to call De-
troitr'
This brought Holman out of his
stupor.
''Not on my phone" he sputtered
with vision of the phone bill.
He called the sheriffs office.
AT the county jail the stranger
tinkered with a dead phone in
vain attempt to reach Detroit and
when asked if he designed the Ford
car, replied:
"Confidentially, 1 wouldn't be
surprised"
Friday the stranger, still name
less except for "Edsel Ford, faced
a sanity hearing.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
Violent Fist Fighting Breaks Out
Among Pickets and Loyal
EMPLOYEES of San Francisco Stores

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8. (UP)-Vioent fist fight
ing broke out today among pckets and employees at the
Emporium of the cy's largest stores the A. F. of
L. retail clerks strike against 35 department stores went
into its third day without prospect of settlement.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
City Council Acts to Move State
Employment Office; Sidewalk Crowding
On Sixth Street Protested

III Centro city councilmen and State Employment SER
vice officials plan to the employment office from
present quarters sixth street to suitable site
within the city.
The new site has not been selected
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
Nev-CQI Protests
PWALodl1, Grant
For District

The Nevada California Electric corporation Friday
filed protest in Washington against PWA loan and
grant to extend All American canal power development.
It's protest based the grounds that the proposed
ALLEGATION of PWA funds will further duplicate and par
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
TOUGH
ON CARS


If you took a long vaca-
tion trip this year you
probably found that out.
Why not turn the "old
boat" in now on a good
used car that will give
you care-free service all
winter? Get prices and
t term m $ in the Vests
greatest used car mar
ketplace-Classification
Sd in Post-Press Want
Ads.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
Czech Crisis at
Explosion Point.
War Peril Grave
British and French Armed Forces Ready
To Unite in Event Of War-Joint
Defense Plan Worked Out
By WEBB MILLER
- Copyright 1888 by United Press =

LONDON, Sept 9. (UP) = The British government
has received information which to believe that the
Czechosovak situation is at the explosion point
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
Baseball Results
NATIONAL

NATIONAL
Brooklyn .......... 001 1-020- 0-400-7-13-O
New York ........ 001 000-000-1- 9-4
FitzsimmonS g. Campbell; Coff-
man, Brown, CaStleman & Danning.
Boston .............. 000-000-2- 6-1
Philadelphia .... 010-O02- 02-O1x-4-1O-2
Fette & Lopez; Passeau g. Davis.
AMERICAN
New York ....... 0O-20O-2-5-0
Washington 1900 -000-000-0-8-O
Hadley & Dickey; Leonard &
Ferrell, Giuliani
Philadelphia zee. 000-000- 0-040-4-9-1
Boston ................ 001 -000-O2O-3-7-0
Ross & Wagner; Bagby & Pea
cock
Detroit ............ 3O0-2O5- O5-O10-11-l4-O
Cleveland ...... 00-10O-030- 5-1O-1
Bridges & York; Hudlin & PVT
lax.
st. Louis at Chicago postponed,
rain.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
BRITISH, FRENCH
FORCES UNITE

LONDON, Sept. 9. CUP)-Plans
for joint naval, air and land action
by the British and French forces
in event Of war have been worked
out by the high commands of the
two countries, it was learned to-
day
The plan, it was understood, in
wolves the transfer of British
bombing and fighting planes to
pre-arranged French airdromes. The
army command plans to send high
ly mechanized expeditionary forces
to France, but does not contem-
plate any such outpouring of men
as in the World war.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09

OIIIcIaI as WeII as unoI1IcIaI
quarters asserted that the crisis
was the gravest since that of Aug
uSt 1914.
1t was understood Great Britain
and France were ready at a mo-
ment's notice to put into effect a
joint defense plan which their
general staffs had spent months in
perfecting.
Both the French and British
fleets were ready Tor action.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
Ahead of Time

Ahead OF Time
Somebody is rushing the seasons.
Louise Roberts reported she saw
two men trying to play golf on the
Barbara Worth links the other day.
Last time RR drove by the course
a player would need a scythe to
find his ball.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09

Butter: Los Angeles, 26isc; but
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch,
grade A, 35I5; manufacturing milk
27Jac, route gathered cream 24ise.
L. a. ray. q. 5. No. 1, Sls-lS.50:
No. 2 Ieafy S12-12.50; No. 2 S10.5O-1f
Minneapolis flax, Sept. $685..
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
Pictured Proof

Because Harry Woodbury. "cried
wolf so often about going to the
hospital for an operation, he was
afraid his friends wouldn't believe
him when he really did so. So he
brought home a picture of his
nurse, to prove it!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09
Principle of the Thing

Principle of the Thing
Once a westerner, always west
erner. And how they they cling to
their customs!
1t hurt Guy Wood, Calipatria
police chief to have to change
from his felt ten-gallon topper
to something lighter in the summer
months; but he consoled himself
that the present hat is just like a
ten-gallon, only a straw model.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-09

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept.
9. UP) Labor racketeers
defied the county grand jury
investigating terrorism in
Koncoc Cit,, todav hv TOSS
Evening star., 1938-07-24
by Sylvia Blythe

lacked vitality and sheen. The plain.
boE,sh bob. was not becoming.
Three weeks went into making this
woman CHIC and attractive Her hair
offered promise OF latent beauty.
Brushing, massaglng, and creams,
c0aXed into starved cells, restored its
vitality. At the end of the recondi-
tionlng period, the hair cleaned with
new luster, snapped at the brush,
cracked under the comb Then came
the permanent wave and the thinning,
shaping and styling, to counteract
that long and unhappy look
Parting the hair on the side and
raising it over the temples and above
the ears made her brow look wider,
and her face shorter and more youth
ful. The soft line across the brow was
kept broadly horizontal from temple
to temple. At each of these points
curl. anchored with small comb,
began to swirl IN curved line from
Evening star., 1938-07-24
WILL THIS CATCH YOU MAPPING?

Il told you not to get into that
crazy dance marathon
IAN right, Pa. It's all over now.
I've had my lesson. But should have
come home with a thousand dollars.
That 50 600 prize was in the bag.
Yesterday, there were only three
couples left This morning one OF them
drops out, and the other couple need
smelling salts to keep them gong,
I'm so droWsy | feel like I'm in a
coma. But, Joe IS spry and clipper
and he around like a
gazelle. He keeps telling ME. Hold
out, kid. we're practically home.
Easy to say. with me half dead and
hum as fresh as daisy.
Then. just as the judges decide
10 eliminate that other couple for
stalling, and the attendant is sent to
escort them of the floor. whaddya
think that big shot Joe does? With
the first prize practically in our hands.
he falls dead
Evening star., 1938-07-24

IN the hitle story printed bei0T, Ger
tain key u0rds rare been omitted. E0rh
blank space represents SINGLE letter
of a Word; three blanks, IKE this:
- indicate a thres-lette1 W0rd.
and so on The first key W0rd, PA
already is filled in To form the second
key word, use all the letters IN the h1sf
kew word, and add one more. The order
of the letters may be changed. The same
procedure IS used to form the succeeding
kew words. Like this: not - don't -
noted - stoned. Answers are on
Page Is.
HELLo, Myrtle. how are you?
"All right, Pa
"How's your friend Joe?'
Friend, He's no ---o oi minc
any more. Why. I'd ilke I" BRAN hlm.
Now. Myrtle. don: get yourself
excited. You look bad enough as It IS.
You're as as----a as ghost.
We'll. what do you expect after four
straight days and nights On my feet!
Evening star., 1938-07-24

the side of her head to low line in the
back. where it lost itself in the fiatter-
ing upturned roll of hair across the
base of the neck. Her hair, kept plain
in the back was shaped to give her
head young, round contours.
Every detail of the coiffure was
planned to lift width from the jawline
and place it at the hairllne. And that
works like charm in taking off years.
Evening star., 1938-07-24
Moods and Modes

You con change your personality
TO suit your mood - merely by
doing your hoir differently. Our
ieofief suggests several styles TO lend
slomovr or pjqvoney or poise. TO
get il, send O thrse-eent stomp Ito
cover the cost Of moijing) with O
note to Syivio Blythe, This Week
Magazine. in core Of this newspaper.
Evening star., 1938-07-24

|" HE princess, who said, when her
well-shaped head was admired:
The credit belongs to my hair
dresser, not to my ancestry expresses
the modern beauty's philosophy. She
studies her features and the contours
of her face, and works with her hair
to bring out the best points and MINI
mize defects.
If you have round face, and your
mirror tells you that it should appear
a fraction more oval, part your halr
in the middle, pushing it back off your
forehead. and pillng 1t high on your
head This HAIR arrangement will also
make you appear taller.
If your face is longer than you
would like it to be, brush the hair out
from the sides in a fluffy arrangement.
But keep it close to the head on top.
Every inch added there defeats your
intention of widening your face.
Choose a side part instead of a center
one, as the latter adds length, Try
bang effect to veil the forehead and
make YOUR face look wider. If your
hair is quite dark. cut your bangs
lightly, to give a fluffy, will-o' the
wisp effect. If the hair is light in color.
the bang may be cut more thlckly.
This same flattering bang. which helps
to increase the width across the face.
also makes long nose appear shorter.
If the nose is a trifle large, care
should be given to arrange the haT
softly around the face, with the out
lines rounded Focus interest on the
eyes and mouth, with makeup. Watch
the hair IN the back, and keep II well
built out, rather than close cut.
Do you feel discouraged because at
times your face looks older than 1t
should? If you do. recent experiment
IN a New York beauty salon should
prove helpful,
The subject was young career
woman. She wrote in prize-winnlng
letter, which won her this experiment
in beauty, that her face was long
and unhappy looking" and that she
was frequently taken to be years older
than she actually was. Her hair.
though of pleasing reddish-gold color.
Evening star., 1938-07-24
THREE LIARS

|" HE Royal Hunters and Anglers
Club, whose membership is Sc
verely restricted, permits out
slders to enter its halls only once a
year. Then members may invite guests
to the annual ball.
The temptation TO pose as one of the
elect is too much for some of the
guests. Let's break in on small group
who are showing each other pictures
purporting to evidence familiarity
with rife and rod, and listen to their
conversation.
Jones: This is picture of tiger
that l shot about 800 miles inland
from the Cape of Good Hope"
Smith: The giraffe on the left is
male l heard him calling to his mate
and snapped this picture"
Williams: ut was pitch-black and
l could see the eyes of that leopard
shining at me through the dark. So l
got out fashlight bulb and made
this picture"
Brown: "a beautiful specimen of
goldfish, isn't it? The only one like
it in my aquarium Of all the strange
things in the world, do you know
where got it? He was frozen in cake
of ice that my gardener cut out of my
lake last winter put it in water and
the poor fish thawed out and then
swan around"
Three of these men are ilnposters.
Which one is the bona fide member of
the Club? (Answer on Page 15}
&. E. RICHARDS
Evening star., 1938-07-24
THE TRAP
Continued from poge five

Florence was aware Of narrow, waist
high tables covered with white sheets.
The coroner stood by one of the tables
and beckoned her to his side. He drew
back the sheet Her glance fled quickly
from unacceptable features to note
that the body was clothed in Torbey's
clothes,
Yes" she said. drawing back.
Doc Seaver replaced the sheet.
"That's fine, Mrs Torbey'" he said.
Il knew you could take it O. K. Now,
my dear = just one thing more. |
didn't get a chance to mention it
before" He turned to the next table
and took hold of the upper edge of the
sheet. You sec your husband wasn't
alone in the car. There was another
man with him. We can't figure out
who he was or what he was dong
there. Perhaps you can identify him"
Doc Seaver twitched the sheet back.
r lOTcnCe WdS COIiSIlOuo vi q otohiSo'
weather beaten windbreaker, thread
bare, faded overalls pushed into high
leather boots, the charred remains of
battered felt hat
1t was a week before the Grants
family doctor would permit the COZ
oner, the town prosecutor, the state
police and the insurance investigator
to talk to Florence Torbey. Mrs.
Grant had carried her bodily from the
morguc to the Grant farm after her
collapse Or rather, George Grant had
carried her bodily and his mother had
supplied the spiritual power that had
cowed the coroner and the other
authorities. 1t was an opportunity to
be neighborly which Mrs. Grant could
not possibly forego.
Florence Torbey told the whole
story as far as she knew it. lying on the
couch in the huge, low-cellinged, oak
panelled living room of the Grant
farm
At the end of it Doc Seaver said,
that clears up a lot of things He
glanced apprehensively at Mrs, Grant.
1--WE thought the suicide was bona
fidcy all right. what with the letter and
all. But the second body had us buff
faloed When we found the car at the
foot of Marble Hole - it's an eighty
foot straight drop - 1t was lying on
its side partly burned. The body we
thought was Torbey's was inside. But
the other body was hanging through
the open window on the drivers side,
with the head and shoulders wedged
under the steering wheel. He was
wearing a sort of a belt. piece of
, trunk strap that held his windbreaker
together That was caught around the
door handle" The coroner cleared his
larynx triumphantly. 1T must've hap
pened like this: Torbey stood on the
running board steering the car through
the open window over the rough
ground between the road and the edge
of the quarry He had to do that to
make sure the wheels didn't hit rock
and slew the car the wrong way HE
intended to drop off just before he got
to the edge Hls belt caught in the door
handle and he went over with the car.
The fire accounted for our not beng
able to identify hun
Nobody disagreed with Doc Seaver
The insurance investigator SAID the
company would pay the claim. They
would have done SO III any event, as
the policy carried the two year suicide
clause. The Fad