Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-16


wiches that an insurance man T.
w. Ingram. financed a new stand
built of cement stone and sporting
a castellated turret, two feet high..
They called it The White Castle.
Anderson has retired to a beach
in California. Ingram, SO and re-
Elective, has headquarters IN COL
umbus. o. He heads a company
that owns l23 castles with 700 en-
ployes in eleven states.
Twentv-six of the castles are in
New York City metropolitan area,
The metropolis has gone for the
hamburger, western style III big
way. James Barton. leading man
in Tobacco Road, is a regular Gus
toner. Rudy Vallee can down half
a dozen hamburgers with two cups
OF lava, after a performance. Larkin
w. Shakleford, hometown boy,
manages the metropolitan business
from a shiny office in 42d street.
Will Irwin wears q hearing de-
vice to aid an ear deafened by eX-
plosion in the war And he's one
of the most sincerely anti-war of all
writer's Eddie Rickenbacker
chews gum and tips back in his
chair when he's at ease with a
visitor Rita Weiman, author,
looks stunning with her whitening
hair. She was always a beauty
In most states you are within your
legal rights in talking back to a
policeman. but it's a grand idea to
waive some of ones most precious
rights.
You can't walk through the slum
areas of Harlem, the Lower East
Side. or HelSs Kitchen without
pulling for Mayor LaGuardia's plan
to end slums in New York. The
Mayor wants to borrow money to
pay interest on the undertaking,
since slum -.iWellers can't afford to
pay rent that will give investors
their deserved return. The Federal
government has built a few new
houses in cleared areas. but they're
hardly drop in the bucket. Watch
the alf-starved, ill-clothed children
lodging trucks as they play cops
and robbers in the slum street, and
your heart will ache.
Prelude to tragedy: My taxi driver
last night said to me, If you read
about hackman chopin his wife
TO pieces with an axe, that'H be
me. We've got a ring in hook an
it costs II per cent for the money
VIC got on it. She won't let me pay
it Off because she wants our little
rilc in a savings bank at three per
cent She can't understand that
three from twelve is nine, an I'm
likely to kill her" I'm glad my
wife doesn't expect so much of me
in financial matters
I like the Empire State tower
best when white clouds drift in from
sea and swallow up its bizarre PIN
naCle. Al Smith doesn't like it 50
we'll then as he does when visibility
is clear and customers roll up by
the Wagon-load. But it gives me
the feeling of human aspiration
building upward into the mysterious
skies, when the limit of mans up
ward reaching is swathe1 in opal
escent suggestion of infinity Econ
omists tell us that the Empire State
IS the tallest and last Of the sky
Scrapers. but it is stimulating TO
imagine otherwise.
met Helen Mcnkcn at a quiet
gathering at the home of her hus-
bands brother, Ben Smith, actor, a
few evenings ago. The woman who
created a furor on Broadway as the
star in The Captive" is now the
wife of DR.. Henry Templeton Smith,
eye specialist. Miss Menken (as
She is still called by most Of her
friends) is attractive, with reddish
hair and good converse ton. She
told me this: Don't believe stories
YOU hear about fighting and quar-
Teljng between stars of the stage.
Long ago we learned that we're
darn lucky when we have good jobs,
and we don't risk them by fighting. "
Smoking in subway stations in
creases. II is as dangerous as target
practice in a dynamite factory.
Sorry, Mr.. Mayor; afraid well have
To have real ponc i'm tho cltbuavc