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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-30
Systematic
Method
Your
Year Ahead

Your year ahead continues to
offer you opportunity through
other people-partners, allies,
mates, teachers, and those con-
nected with distance. From jan
uary 4 this connects with occu-
patton. Danger: now-June is:
September. 12-October 81; Jan
uary 28-April !, 1899.
Tomorrow
Direction more important than
distance; SideStep peSSimiSm.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-30
Your
Stdr
By Wynn


Personal motives and affairs
strong. Routine a. m; lean
against financial puzzles in p.
M, paying and collecting where
money is due. Evening is on
the sentimental side, with weak
nesses, if any, coming up for
inspection; be alert.
Systematic
Method
Astrology's scientific students
have a rational, a philosophy
theory underlying their search
or u n derst landing of man
through his contacts with the
laws of nature that are above
and beyond the physical.
Physical science is today
making definite strides in its
own way, from various angles Of
approach, toward the same type
of work, and will probably ar
rive at very similar conclusions.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-30

MUTED ROSE and
N4 violet shades take
the fashion spotlight for
fingertips this Sc a o NJ
Such nail-polish colors are
more subtle than ever be-
fore, and in addition are
becoming to all skin tones,
lily-white to the capable
athletic hand. Here is a
popular shade, tokay, that
registers its affinity to
natures true palette for
luminous grapes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-30

Ill laughter 10 II
In that question a wise hint
is given by Mrs. william G.
Winter. former president of the
National Federation Of Won.
ems Clubs, who thinks the dire
predictions made by present
day speakers are not helping to
correct world plumbers; that too
many isms, handed out by
speakers and pen.pushers, i'm
pede the progress of our own
ship of state.
And so, ladies, mightn't it be
we'll if we take our own laugh
ter-lessons now? Begin with the
strutting little boys playing at
being world dictators in your
own backyard, or on the lot.
It's the very latest little boys
game, and they do it pretty well.
Play at
Being Dictator
Watch your little son or a
neighbours boy putting out his
cheeks, saucepan on head for
a helmet, strutting and play.
ing that the world trembles at
his frown.
Or can you smile and pre-
tend not to see when another
kid steals a bit Of horse-hair
stuffing from the old sofa, and
makes a grotesque little mus
tache, like Charley Chaplin's-
the kind that made Charley
feel so sorry for himself, be-
cause no one would take him
seriously, even off the stage?
Can you laugh when another
youngster, still playing dictator,
looks slyly down his nose and
orders: you guys stand up
against that fence, while I have
you shot. I'm ordering a purge,
see!"
See It's
Funny Side
If you can see the humor in
these little.boy antics, acted to-
day under the worlds big top
by grown-up little boys, who
love to strut and have managed
to put their act across tenn
porarily, you may help to
straighten out this cockeyed
world.
The power of suggestion is
one of the greatest of world
, forces, and if you sit around
women's clubs, or continue to
eat something creamed out of
a ratty-shell at ladies' lunch
cons, listening meanwhile to all
the dire predictions made by
various speakers, you'll prob
ably begin rolling linen ban
dageS for the next world war
before the holocaust begins.
Humor is almost as tremen-
dous a world force as sugges-
ton, and there is no more pow
erful antidote against all the
strutting, cheek-puffing, tin,hat-
wearing, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
acting, than good ringing laugh
ter.
eThey Waited
Too Long
Let our laughter begin at
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14

LONDON. Nov IA. ,UP1-Prlme
Minister Neville Chamberlain told
the House of Commons today that
the government was not contem-
plating transfer of any former Ger
man colonies in Africa which are
now under mandate 10 the British
empire
Reports that Britain would ap-
proach the United States with a
plan TO create a Jewish state IN
South Africa and asking an Ameri-
can guarantee OF its integrity We're
denied.
We already have quite as many
Jews as We can hold South
African spokesman said
a British spokesman also denied
the report
Germany recently renewed de-
mands for return Of her pra-war
colonies and there had been in
dications that Great Britain vas
prepared TO make some kind Of
settlement. After the war. the
British took over German African
territory in southwest Africa. Tan
ganyika and part of the Cameroons.
Chamberlain position was made
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
Valley Escapes
Severesf DAMAGE
From Cold Spell
Continued From PAGE d

ng TO B. A. Harrigan of the county
agricultural office
j. A. Garrett Of the 1. V. Grape
fruit Growers association said dam
age to the valleys 5000 acres Of
citrus was slight, if any. George
Dorman OF the Asparagus Growers
said the cold had ended the aSpar .
aguS harvest. which was due to
malt in a few days anyhow.
Vegetable quotations moved up
ward on most exchanges. accordine
to the federal-State market news
service. Pea prices which Saturday
we're $3.50 to S275 were quoted al
F3 Monday
Imperial Valley apparently farce
much better that other agricultural
sections. Killing temperatures il
San Joaquin Valley brought an
estimated 20 to so per cent loss
IN Tulare county's citrus crop. Har,
vesting had just started.
Sixty per cent Of the valleys
olive crop was destroyed and the
cotton crop reduced. The pea crop
IN Tulare and Fresno were believed
total loss.
Rising temperatures were predict
ed from Los Angeles after marks
as low as % were recorded for the
citrus belt. Santa Ana reported sc
EStondido and Bonita 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
Left-wingers Map
Salvage Strategy
Continued From Page |

CNAA N~A4 ASNA l Jill aSC ~
the margin of northern and western
Republican supremacy. That might
make a big difference in the 1916
presidential election.
An 'ncOnclusiye progressive New
Deal meeting took place in New
York Saturday between LaGuardia
and GOV. Frank Murphy of Michi-
gan. Murphy is a 100 per cent
New Dealer who was voted out OF
office largely by a combination Of
rural and small town middleclass
protest votes against his handling
Of the sitdown strike epidemic in
the automobile industry.
LaGuardia's version of the New
York conference was that there had
been discussion of whether and how
to undertake a third party progress
siVe movement if the New Deal of
the Democratic party loses control
of the 1910 Democratic nationaI
conyention-that is. if the Demo-
cratic conservatives kidnap the
presidential nomination in June OF
1870.
LaGuardia generally is said BY
his int'mates to oppose a third tern,
Roosevelt candidacy.
Murphy emerged from the mayors
office expressing the opinion that
leadership Of the progressive move
menV should be by Mr.. Roosevelt
ana that all concerned should keer
an open mind" on a third term.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
Pharmacist Dies
OF Alcoholism

Arthur Joseph NIcAuley. 55. phar-
macisr. died Of alcoholism early
Sunday morning while sitting IN a
chair u an e Centro apartment
house.
The body was discovered by FREQ
Hughes. apartment manager. who
investigated the reason Tor Nc
Auley's long stay in his room
Deputy Coroner Herbert Hughes
said
McAuley had q habit Of takinz
liquor % his room every day anG
drinking L there. He last was seen
alive 5srIy Saturday morning. Of
fIcers find two dozen empty liquor
bottles scattered around the apart
menc. The body was taken 70 the
Lemons mcrtUary. Funeral arrange
merits await instructions from rela
rlVes = Canada.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
Truckers to Meet
Tuesday Night

Members OF the Truck and Ware
house association of Imperial and
San Diego counties will mset at the
Fl CentrO Chamber Of Commerce
al 7:30 p. m. Tuesday night to dis
cuss rates, rules. and regulations OF
the railway commission.
They will discuss adyisability of
sending a representative to a rail-
way commission hearing in San
Francisco Nov. %.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
German Stock Market in
ToiIspin as Jews Hasten
TO Meet Nuzi Restriction

BERLIN. Nov a. tUP) - The
stock market slumped sharply to-
day as leaders Of Germany's 100000
Jews frantieally sought to satisfy
increasing Nazi demands designed
TO eliminate their participation in
German life
Many stocks dropped three. four
or more points. largely because Of
sales by panic-stricken Jewish lead
crs who sought funds to repair
damags-as ordered by the gov
ernment-done in anti-Semitic riot
ing and 10 pay the s400 600 900 mass
fine ordered By the Nazis as a pen
atty for the murder of a German
diplomat in Paris
Aryans added to the financial
slump by seeking quick funds 10
take over business Of prominent
Jews who organized TO finance the
repairs and the fine.
There were almost no buying or
ders, indicating that business lead
erS generally looked nfavprablv on
the possible economic consequences
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
CARDINAL URGES CATHOLICS
TO RESIST CAMPAIGN
County Traffic
Toll Reaches 70

The traffic death total in Impe-
rial county mounted 10 20 this
weekend with the death OF K. G.
Lansdowne. so, Of injuries suffered
~ an accident near Plaster City
Oct 25.
John Walker drove his car into
lockwood canal south of Brawley
this weekend and almost drowned
before he was rescued. He was
jailed on a charge of drunk driv-
ing.
+. E. Cannon. Al, Holtville. suf-
lered shoulder injuryMonday
morning in an automobile accident
mile southwest Of Saudia. Reyes
Ramerez drove the other car in
volVed III the collision.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14

L. A TroW. 80, in a shallow grave.
Mrs. Knox was held in protective
custody at Plymouth county hos
pital, pending completion of the
search and investigation of stories
told Sheriff Frank Scholer by her
neighbors Her mental condition is
such. Scholer said that she cannot
be questioned detailedly at present.
He said she had admitted cashing
several $50 monthly checks her
mother had received from the gov
ernment as n widow of a civil war
veteran. She also admitted that
she had brought another woman
into her home to impersonate her
mother to quiet the suspicious of
neighbors.
Scholers deputies unearthed the
mothers body late Saturday after
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
Ace Mexican Law
Officer Promises
Aid Against Dope
Continued From Page

'COnIlNQed From Page II
to deal with the machine gun type
yet. We have many killers. but they
haven't got far from the old six
shooter"
Toledo appeared greatly interest
ed IN plans for model" prisons in
various parts of the United States.
Aomlttlng that years in prisons Of,
Ten harm rather than rehabilitate
the prisoners, he felt some new
procedure would be advisable
capital punishment met with n
firm no. There is no supreme nen-
atty in Mexico.
Most murders are committed in
passion Toledo declared. "and
We feel the slayerS can be rehabili-
sated. 1t is the same with Americans
as with Mexicans. People sav that
americans are cold blooded. but
that is not sol"
Toledo chuckled and sidestepped
neatly when questioned on the re-
ported unwritten law of the fugitive
by which prisoners are allowed To
escape and then shot down.
l don't know about that. It is
not legal" he smiled.
Most of Mexicos celebrated GRIM
mai cases during the last decade
have found Toledo in some manner
IN the investigation. Perhaps the
best known is the forger Sampietr
who succeeded in passing nearly
s2-OOO,O0o in fake American $50 bills
before captured by Toledo and an
. American detective. After serving
part of his term Sampietri escaped
AND is now at large
But We viii get him" Toledo
said philosophically. He will start
making money again"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
Self Regulation Of Radio Necessary
TO Save Industry. Sneaker Warns

Cemc-ratic solution for problems o.
tr- American system of broadcast
in. Such solution. he said, mus
ba democratic one.
Samo i. also chairman OF the
board O. ihe National Broadcasting
company. VAS tirse witness as the
federal communications commission
opened an extensive hearing t"
determine whether mOnopolistic
practices exist in the broadcasting
industry.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14

they had started investigation of
rumors which had spread through
the community concerning bodies
in The Knox rock garden" They
found the body in coffin which
had been crudely fashioned from
parts of a kitchen cabinet. 1t was
in a grave a foot deep in a corner
OF The garden The garden is a large
one and the search will take some
time, Scholer said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
Six Escape Hurt
In Auto Accident

WE,STMORLAND Nov. "A. - Six
feminine employees OF the Nevada
California company in FL Centre
escaped serious injury near here
late Saturday when a tire on their
car blew out and the car Somer-
saulied
The Misses Evelyn Lewis. Janet
REID Nerna Rugeles. Ethel Mills
Agnes Pennington. and Katherine
Non Almen were en- route 10 the
company cabin at Forest Home IN
the san Bernardino mountains for
Their annual weekend OF winter
sports, They suffered only minor
cuts ana bruises.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
Crop Insurance
Deadline Set

November 30 has been set at the
deadline for application for wheat
crop insurance, according to Ru-
dolph Miller.
Application may be made at the
county conservation office. Those
growers waiting for lease renewals
may make applications and actu-
ally sign up later, Miller said. The
application is not binding.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
Rental Group to
EIe Office ers

Members Of the Fl Centro Rental
Protective association will meet
Tuesday night at 7:30 at the cham
Der of commerce to elect new Off
GERS. Annice Vedder. secretary, an
nounced Saturday The present
president is Ed Royce.
Association members were recent
" entertained at a dinner in BraW-
ley given by Mrs. Maade Mercer.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
Ballet Caravan
Presented Toniuht

Imperial valley Music Teachers
association will present the famous
Ballet Caravan. directed by Lin
coin KRISTEN, in recital Monday
night q 6:15 o'clock in the high
school auditorium.
The Ballet Caravan has Just COM
pleted a successful performance il
San Diego and will be presented
in Los Angeles Immediately follow
ing the valley appearance. This Is
the frs event in the series spon-
sored each year by the association
Only few tickets remain for the
performance and may be purchased
al the door Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
Court Of Honor
Sched duIed Here

Ell Centre Boy scoutdom will be
rewarded for its progress Wednes-
cay night at tho monthly court OF
honor at Wilson school.
The program, featured by musi-
cal selections, short talks and the
presentation of awards to scouts
will start at 7:30, according to
Hugh Wilcox. scout director.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14

Tor orders from Jews.
Foreign financial circles believed
that the government would use the
annual October census in which
Germans stated the amount Of their
property as the basis for collecting
that 340,600000 mark fine.
Ii was suggested that the levy
probably would not be carried down
10 the lower brackets. but would
- worked out with particular Sc
verify on the wealthy and promi-
nent Jews.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14

Of the governments sweeping new
anti-Jewish laws and further re-
strieuons which have been promiS-
&c.
L was reported from Hamburs
thai a prominent Jewish banker.
FRITZ Warburg. had been arrested.
Nazis made a quick effort %
limit the slump when the Reich
private bankers organization III
sructed members not to accept or
ders from jews for sale of securities
ana not To lower their price limits
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14

SELF REGULATION-3-Fl
WASHINGTON. Nov. Il UP
President David Sarnoff OF the
Radio Corp. Of America warned to-
day that the fate Of broadoastine
in other nations makes it imper1-
tive for the radio industry here t
establish a system OF voluntary self
regulation.
Attacks on democracy throughout
Inc world, Sarnoff said, clearly in
dicate the necessity for finding a
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
Britain Denies Report of Plan to
Establish Jewish Nation in Africa

clear in a reply TO the question
Of Labori,e Frederick John Bel
lenger. who asked whether the
government was contemplating
transfer OF former German col
onies in africa on any terms
whatever.
No. sill tie prime minister re-
piled He did not elaborate his
YpDly
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
Bath Punishment
For Vaq Prisoner

Take q bath" was the only order
given James ValeculoneS. AZ. Rus
sian. as ne was herded into the
county Jail Sunday night.
He was arrested at the request Of
residents OF an auto court east Of
f Centro. They became frightened
they said, because he went from
cabin door TO cabin door begging
for d Ood.
Sheriff r. W Ware and Deputy
H. E. Cox decided a bath would be
sufficient punishment.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
Lettuce Growers
To Me ct Tuesday

Arizona lettuce growers from the
Salt River valley area and the
Phoenix area will meet with I'M
perial Valley lettuce growers and
shippers Tuesday night at the court
house to discuss a plan which would
eliminate shipments of No. sizes
and smaller.
B. A. Harrigan. agricultural COM
missioner. will preside at the meet
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14

Defendants.
The People of The State of Cali
fOrnia send Greetings to:
CHARLES E. EDGE. SUSIE
LEONA EDGE, THE PEOPLES
ABSTRACT AND TITLE COM
PANY. Corporation, JOHN
ERNST. JANE DOE ERNST, MAR
GARET ARM1NN. and K. P. AR
MANN. JOHN DOE. JANE DOE
RICHARD ROE, JOHN DOE COM
PANY. a Corporation, and RICH
ARD ROE COMPANY, a CO. part
nership, Defendants.
You Are Hereby Directed to Ap-
pear and answer the Complaint ir
an action entitled as above, brough,
against you in the Superior Court
Of the County Of Imperial, State
OI California. within ten days after
the service on you CT this Alias
Summons - If served within this
county or within thirty days if serv-
ed elsewhere.
And you aIe hereby notified thai
NAAA1'p JNN ol'l('ol anu dIlSHCI d.
above required the said plaintiff
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 29th day of October
1893.
w. J. McCLELLAND.
tSEALJ County Clerk
BY CITHA LAMSON,
Deputy Cle"k
O.3l-N.7 IA u 28-D5 II 10 &c
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
Bodies Sought in Rock Garden Of
Woman, so, Who Cashed Checks
Made Out 10 Her Aqed Mother

lie MARS, la" Nov. Il (UP)-IhS little community
was Mortified today police began search Tor add-
tional bodies in a rock garden owned by Mrs. Sumner
Knox SO, prominent sOcaite and dry crusader
They already had found the body Of her mother, Mrs
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14

ourenu station at El CentrO)
BY UNITED PRESS
Los Angeles and Vicinity - Fair
Monday night and Tuesday; con-
tinued cool; local morning frost;
LIGHT variable wind.
Maximum Sunday Observation-Disclosures. 60
Minimum Monday .--.... 80
Reading at Noon Monday
Temperature .-.... ........ -.-..-..-...---- TO
Humidity ........ ...... ....... l9
Reading at ) a. m. Monday
Temperature ............--............- SO
Humidity .........-.... ..--......--...-.. 80
Reading at p. m. Friday
Temperature ...- 50
Humidity --......-.... ...... AZ
Southern California - Fair Mon
day night and Tuesday; local morn
ing frost in interior; light variable
wind oil coast
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14

ARE these busy, trying days for you?
n Do you find yourself, at days end,
irritable, nerve-weary? Take moment
study the dog above. He's resting
his nerves. Even in the midst of stren-
uous action he will stop, relax. The
dog does that mstinctiveiJ though his
nerves are complex, high-keyed like
our own.
We, trained for the intense stress
of modern life, are likely to ignore the
distress signals of our neryes-the
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
81 Cenfro Buiidinu
Permit Total
ssb9.s23

An S8050 increase Monday
brought tie e Centro building per-
nit total up 10 1863 1923 since Jan
!. The boost was included in four
permits. Jessie Craig received .
$500 permit for alterations, H. G.
Miller a $4,000 permit for a home at
1882 Hamilton street and George
Bucklin a $1,000 permit for a dwell
ing at 608 Commercial avenue A
A. Moody is contractor for the
Miller home and J. p Harrison &
Son for ,he Bucklin residence. T.
J Olson received a $3.50 permit for
an addition at 843 Woodward ave
uue.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14

NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE
APPOINTED FOR PROVING
WILL AND HEARING APPLI-
CATION FOR LETTERS TESLA
MENTARY.
No 1896
In the Superior Court of the State
of California, in and for the
County of Imperial
In the Matter Of the Estate Of
JAMES r. McNEECE.
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that a
petition for probate # the VIII Of
JAMES r. McNEECE. deceased. and
for tne issuance 10 JOHN 3. Nc
EEECE Of letters testementary. mas
been lied in this court. and that
Friday the 25th day of November
1888. al 200 O'Clock PM, Of said
day. at The courtroom Dept No. 2
Of said court at the Court House
IN the City of FL Centro, County
Of Imperial. State Of California
has been set for the hearing Of said
petition. when and where any per
son interested may appear and con-
test the same, and show cause, u
any they have. why said petition
should not be granted.
DATED. November 10. 1888.
w. j McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY CITHA LAMSON,
Deputy Clerk.
Clarence y Smith Attorney for
Petitioner.
N. 1923 Incl.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14

'SO4AA-4lQEG 4Dlll EdEE u
in Germany and the storm of pro-
test evoked in Great Britain.
JEWS BANNED FROM
NAZI PUBLIC SCHOOLS
BERLIN. Nov. Il. up - Jews
have been banned from all public
schools in Germany. it was an
nounced officially tonight.
The official news agency an
nounced:
Pending regulations by law. min
lster Of Education Bernhard Rust
has decreed, effective Immediately
that Jews are forbidden 10 attend
German schools and may attend
only Jewish schools. All Jewish
school children now attending Ger
man schools must be expelled i'm
mediately
CARDINAL URGES CATHOLICS
TO RESIST CAMPAIGN
VIENNA. Nov. a. CUP)-Theo-
dore Cardinal IanItzer. archbishop
of Vienna urged Austrian Catholics
today 10 resist new efforts to weak
IN the Catholic faith.
In a pastoral letter which created
a mild sensation, Cardinal Innitzer
denounced as a malicious inven-
ton rumors that a new church tax
was to be imposed.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
WEATHER

nntn compiled by observers FOR
the official United states weather
aurenu station mt El CenfrO.)
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
Legal Advertisement A
ALIAS SUMMONS
No. 1853

In the Superior Court of the State
of California, in and for the
County Cf Imperial
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT. Plaintiff
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14
British Cabinet
Considers Protest

Continued From Page u
in Germany and the storm of pro-
test evoked in Great Britain
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-14

CHARLES f. EDGE. ct al,
Defendants