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Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
Baptist Church
Has Active Week

The past week proved a very
active one for the First Baptist
church of Ell Centro, with two OF
its organizations, the Emmanuel
circle and its junior auxiliary, meet
ing.
Thursday the Emmanuel Circle
held an all day meeting in the
church social hall, with the NOR
ming devoted to White Cross sewing
for the Baptist orphanage in Alas
ka, Mrs Merl Wilson and Mrs.
H. R. Johnston were in charge.
At the business meeting in the
afternoon, the circle voted $50 to
missions and also furthered plans
for their bazaar to be held in De-
cember. The program of the after
noon on India was given by Mrs.
william Measures, while Mrs. Har-
old E. Doty led the devotionalS,
Mrs. E. l.. Bennett presided.
Mrs. Doty, whose birthday was
Wednesday, cut the birthday cake
which was a surprise feature of
the luncheon social hour. Mrs. L.
w. Cope, Mrs. l.. A. Dunlap and
Mrs. E. ]. Skipper were luncheon
hostesses
Tuesday evening the Junior auXi-
liary held a pleasant meeting at
the home of Mrs. Velma Harris.
Mrs. Jewel Wood led the devotion
ais, preceding the business meet
ing presided over by Mrs. Rena
Brewer A social evening with
vacation "reminiscences and high
lighted by home movies of the
Harris trip through Yellowstone
closed with the serving of refresh
ments by the hostess.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23

In explaining the way time is
sliced from prison terms for good
behavior. he said a l0-year SEN
tence may be reduced TO six years
and six months. Two months is
sliced from the sentence for good
behavior during the first year and
five months off thereafter.
Road camps are conducive to
good discipline as one day off the
prisoners sentence is allowed for
each two days of work.
There are nine state penal insti-
tutions in California and two fed
eral ones.
John R. Robertson was chairman
of the day and asked School Super
intendent Guy Weakley to present
Stan Akin, music instructor Akin
played two violin solos accompan-
led by j. B. Fisher of Holtville.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
Czechs Organize
New Government

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Sept.
%. CUP)-Gen. Jan Syrovy, one
eyed World war veteran who fought
with the Russian forces against
the Germans, presented his new
cabinet to President Eduard Benes
today.
The cabinet members met Benes
at the presidential palace at noon.
They took an oath of allegiance to
the president and Czechoslovakia
They were scheduled to draw up
new government platform later
today.
The government announced that
Prime Minister Neville Chamber
lain of Great Britain in a note
from Godesberg had demanded that
a proclamation be addressed to the
population to avoid provocation
attacks, demonstrations and vio-
lence, particularly in mixed-lan-
guage districts
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
Storms in East
Awaken Memories

The terrific storm in the cast
this week recalled an experience
Russell Bailey, director of the State
Employment service, had in Florida
when that section was swept by a
similar storm in 1926.
1T was a horrible experience" I"
Biley said. Il was at West Palm
Beach and my wife and children
were at Miami. The wind blew $50
miles an hour for "a hours. The
wind there was worse than the one
in the east this week but the dense
population in the devastated areas
this time made the death toll great
ar,"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
Rhine Garrisons
Placed on Alert
By French Order

NANCY, France, Sept. %. CUP)-
All Rhine garrisons were placed in
a state of alert today.
Soldiers in war uniforms of khaki
with full equipment including gas
masks, occupied the advanced posts
of the Maginot line on the Rhine.
Horses and motor trucks were
being requisitioned for transport of
troops and materials throughout Al
SAGE and Lorraine
It was understood that the orders,
issued during the night, were given
because the government feared that
Adolf Hitler might demand the
resignation of the new Czechoslovak
cabinet because it was headed by
an army general.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Sept. 3D.
CUP) - The Methodist unification
plan, scheduled to become effective
next April, was described today as
an opportunity to hammer the
licensed liquor traffic into oblivion" 2"
The Rev. DR.. Edwin Forrest Ham,
superintendent of the Camden dis
trict. told the annual New Jersey
conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal church that unification would
bring together 100000 Methodists
like a huge burning glass" by
means of which the church could
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23

recommended leniency for first Of
tenders but severe punishment for
second offenders.
"The national average of parole
violations is 36.2 per cent. Paroles
must report monthly as must ex-
convicts who served their full time
Figures provided by the department
Of justice show that fewer men get
into trouble before the parole has
expired than afterward. Possibly
they are on their good behavior
while the parole is in effect"
He drew a vivid word picture of
life and conditions at San Quentin.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
Russia Demands
Peace in Poland

MOSCOW, Sept. %. (UP)-Rus-
sia has sent note to Poland, warn
ing that Russia will denounce the
Soviet-Polish non-aggression pact
if Poland invades Czech territory
it was learned today.
Vladimir Potemkin, acting COM
missar of foreign affairs, it was
disclosed, sent the note at am.
to Tadeusz Yankovski, Polish
charge d'affaires.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
Sai|boat Expert
Will Pilot Junk
Across Pacific

SHANGHAI, Sept. %, (UP)-J.
M. Nichols, San Francisco sailboat
expert, accompanied by a crew of
about 10 volunteers, will start a
proposed trans-Pacific voyage in
large Wenchow Chinese junk Oct.
Is, it was announced today.
The party's destination will be
San Francisco. Nichols, who last
year started alone from San Fran
cisco to Tahiti, planned to sail
first to Wake Island, then go on to
Honolulu in easy stages.
Included in the crew will be Ar
thur E. Gee, a reporter of the
North China Daily News.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
Imperial Valley Press

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post office as second class matter.
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
Farmer Lays Trap,
Captures Thief Z

Farmer John Hisel took the law
in his own hands Thursday night
by capturing and jailing man he
caught stealing gasoline from his
tractor.
The farmer took his gun and hid
near the tractor for four nights be-
fore he caught William Peavler, 81.
Hisel caught Peavler red handed,
he said, herded him into car at
the point of gun, and took him
to the county Jail. The Hisel ranch
is three miles northeast of El Gen.
tro.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
State Employment
Official Due on
Office Business

H. R. Harnish, area coordinator
for the state department of en-
ployment, will be in El Centro Tues
day to begin the search for new
quarters for the. State Employment
service.
State and city officials want to
move the office from its present
site on Sixth street between Main
and State streets because the
crowds of men block the sidewalk
in front of the city hall and NUM-
eipal rest rooms.
Harnish formerly lived at CAL
exico and is familiar with condi-
tions in the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
Church Plan Described as Weapon
To Hammer Liquor Evil to Oblivion

turn the white heat of Gods judg-
ment throne upon these modern
evils"
The Methodists, he said, must
hammer the licensed liquor traffic
into oblivion. They must strip the
billboards of insulting advertise
ments. They must remove from
the highways the -drowsy
drivers of zigzag cars. They must
defeat the gambling evil, and re-
fuse to place the Ten Command
ments for referendum on a political
ballot
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23

PHOENIX, Sept. %. (UP)-The
death of Gov. R. C. c. Stanford's
Public Works Administration Build
ing Prgram was signaled tday by
the state senate as the body de-
feated the first PWA measure to
reach the committee of the whole.
A bill which would have allowed
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
Theatrical Dog

Theatrical Dog
At l.. G. Goar's home the other
day a visitor started up the front
walk and Goar's big police dog
came out to give him a toothSome
welcome. Gngerly the visitor tip
toed up the walk, expecting any
minute to see and feel part of his
anatomy being forcefully separated
from the rest OF his body. AS an
anti-climax, after the visitor had
reached safely haven of the house,
Goar said:
Don't be afraid of the dog. He
won't bite
''No?" said the visitor. We'll, he's
a mighty good actor.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
Labor Fe ederation
Studies $50 Plan
Continued from Page |

(Contlnued from Page ID
candidates, for fear of acquiring
enemies in its fight against propos-
ition No. l on the November ballot
Another custer move against Ed
ward D. Vandeleur, secretary of
the federation, failed by more than
100000 votes. Returns from the
statewide election gave Vandeleur
1874 votes against 43,187 for
George Kidwell, business manager
for the San Francisco Bakery Wag-
on Drivers union.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
Nazis Blame Reds
For Border Fight
In SudetenIand

BERLIN, Sept. %. (UP) - The
DNB, German official news agency,
reported today that Communists
and Sudeten Germans clashed at
Aussig, northwest of Prague, near
the German frontier.
The report said that the mayor
of Aussig had been placed under
arrest. The agency said that Czech
troops had again moved TO the
border. They said the soldiers ar
rived in lorries at dam near
Schreckenstein, with explosives,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
German Army on
Czech Frontiers

GODESBERG, Germany, Sept. %.
(UP)-News reached the British
conference delegation today that
Germany had % army divisions
about 100000 men, it was estimated,
if they were on war footing-in the
immediate neighborhood of the
Czech frontier on all sides.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
Rambling ReporteI
Continued from Page u

trying to give his fighter moral
support that he wiped his brow
and said:
ANY more fights like this and
I'll have to go into training. I'm
exhausted"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
PARENTS OF SON

Mr.. and Mrs. Adron Afford, $50
Maple avenue announce the birth
O. son Adron Odon jr., born
september 16 at tlles Ell Centro
hospital Adron jr. weighed seven
and one-fourth pounds at birth,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
BRAWLEY COUPLE
INTENDS TO MARRY

a notice of intention to wed was
filed in the county clerks office
Friday by Francisco NJ. Ulloa, 43,
and Vicenta Jaramillo, IS, Brawley.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
HOFFMAN ATTENDING
WELFARE CONFERENCE

Phil Holman, director Of I'M
perial county welfare. is attending
a meeting OF the state welfare
board in Los Angeles this weekend
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
Sudeten Guards Battle Czechs in
Fierce Border C|o she's: Guns Roar
- Copyright 1888 by United Press =

STADT JAOERNIG CzechOslovakia Sept. %. (UP)-
Sudeten free corps forces battled Czech today in the
Satzdorf Friedeberg and Krauenwadig sectors of the
German frontier. Machine guns. rifles. armored and
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-23
Sheriff Describes Crime Prevention
Methods at Rotary Club. Says
Most Criminals Young Men

Close-ups of modern methods of handling CRIMINALS
and effects of punishment and parole given Ri Cen
tro Rotary club members Thursday by Sheriff Robert W.
Ware. Crime, he said takes its greatest toll from among
between the ages of % and "a years The average
Evening star., 1938-07-31

tic. Like wedding cake. And did it look nice.
All white icing with pink jggerdaws, curling
up over the outside. Nobody, not Yen
guard. would want cook to bust cake like
that just because it wouldn't fit through
hole in door.
High? Three and half feet. measured
it myself. 1t looked so good wanted to take
bit. never seen anything like it.
Fats wouldn't let anybody else touch it.
Handled it like it was holy. Well a cake is
only cake to me, but will say, the sight
of the thing was enough to make a guy
hungry.
They was all set Everybody got on the
stairs mean, everybody in on the break; not
me, of course. But saw the whole thing from
the kitchen. They were lined up one after
another. Fats on top, at the door, The next
fellow with the muck to throw in the guards
eyes.
You see, they figured Fats would start
to hand the cake to the guard that opened
the door. Then fast, hed slap the whole seven
layers into the guards face And wham -
they'd all tear through the door. Lou - er -
the second man would throw his tubful of
Evening star., 1938-07-31

this is all theoretical. see - could get in that
guardroom with all the guns and bullets and
things.
Warden, never once thought of such
thing. But there was the guardroom, right
up at the top of the stairs, and can't guaran-
tee the thoughts of all the other boys. Some
of them use to figure how to get past that big
steel door at the head of the stairs. Like
problem in the paper, Warden You know,
just to see if they could find the answer.
''Oh. it's always locked tight enough. The
thing was to find some way of getting the
guards to open the door.
"Oh. sure Sure. 1t was all theory, sir. At
least it was till Fats started to get into the
spirit of the thing Fats got an idea, Warden,
got it about six months ago. 1t was one OF
those things that take big build-up. but
some of the boys must of felt it would work.
Even a prison keeper is human sometimes,
and those cakes of Fats would tempt one of
the saints to give up fasting for keeps.
Did Fats bake cakes for the guards? Amt
| telling YOU Every Sunday Fats would
waddle up the stairs after lunch and give the
guards a cake. Yeah. and holidays, too.
Christmas it was chocolate layer and New
Years it was Boston cream pie. Imagine,
Warden. Six months And Fats never repeated
himself once.
mo, Warden. They never let him in the
guardroom. That door at the head OF the
stairs is steel. and heavy There's little door
in the top half of the panel About twelve by
twelve That's so the guards can see who's
there without opening the bolts. Fats used to
pass his cakes in that window 1t got so the
guards were laying bets as to what the next
cake would be.
Evening star., 1938-07-31

ASA DE, WARDEN? Aw, you know bet
MI ter than that. Amt my record
M good
Well if Officer Curran says was standing
there. guess | was, sir. But | wasn't any
where near Fats No. sir was at least ten
feet away Five anyway. You ask Officer
Curran | was way over on the other side OF
the kitchen.
WHY, Warden, l never had anything
against Fats Dupre Course know he's big
French ape, but he's the best chef this prison
ever had. And, like the feller says, Fats is
man who suffered for his art.
You mean Fats amt going to die:
Honest
We'll, not meaning to put the finger on
anybody. it was Fats own fault.
"Ha, ha! No. Warden. He didn't beat
himself up Like the bulls always say IN court,
he fell downstairs.
= Fats said that Why the dirty double
crosser,
''Awright If Fats is playing that way. III
put the spike in his wheel. The nerve OF that
frog, Making hero out of himself and buns
out of the rest of us. If he's that kind, Warden
I'll tell you the real inside.
That's right, Warden. Brownie, and
Louie, and Murph. and Abe. That's the
whole kitchen detail, outside of Fats and me-
Well. sir this whole thing = Fats getting
slugged and everything - started because
the kitchen is in the basement, and up one
fight is the guardroom. Where the keepers
SIT when they amt on patrol duty Once IN
while, when we was working in the kitchen.
the bows would get restless and they'd talk
about how nice it would be if somebody try
ing to go over the wall - anybody Warden
Evening star., 1938-07-31
A short short story with
a long long laugh
bv HOWARD BRESLIN

muck, it'd be a quick fight and they'd have
plenty of guns to make for the gate with,
easily
''Sure he opened the door. First, the whole
line crouched behind Fats. He kicked at the
door. and a guard opened the peep-hole.
Well, he says, Fats. Some cake. You've
outdid yourself And Fats says I hope the
Captain likes it. Then, in second Fats says.
sad like, Dammit. it s too big for the wicket
Hold on, says the guard, Don't bust it.
Wait'll open the door, Well. every man on
that stairway stopped breathing
"Oh, no, sir, not for long The bolts on the
door sounded like Shots Then the hinges
squeaked, and we heard the guard say, All
right, Fats, let's have it, The boys on the
stairway is all set, muscles tight, everybody
waiting to hear Fats yell
Nothing happens. Warden! Not one cock
eyed thing Fats mutters something low. and
starts to back away from the door. The damn
door slams shut before anybody realizes it,
and we could hear the bolts being shot back
again. But there amt no rush! There amt no
fight It's bust!
Who me? Oh. no. amt sorry, Warden.
Not me. But, there was nothing to do. so the
boys backed down into the kitchen. Fats.
being on top, naturally got there last.
You should of seen him. Warden. He
looked like dog that had its bone stolen
Just seein' him like that made everybody feel
kind of sad After all, the whole thing was his
stunt, Warden, and we figured he felt kinda
downhearted.
Nothing much, Warden. All the boys
gathered around him. We - they patted him
on the back. He looked like he was gonna
bawl I'm sorry, mes amis, says Fats. talking
frog like he always does when he's upset.
I'm sorry, so sorry. could not.'
Finally one guy says, What happened,
Fats? Did that son have his gun out when he
opened the door,
That's what l thought. too. Warden.
But we're both wrong Fats shook his head,
and said, Mon Dien! could not do it. My
too beautiful cake! l couldn't throw it at him.
1t was made but to be eaten. couldn't, boys.
My arms they would not move!
Honest. Warden! That's word for word.
couldn't forget! There wasn't sound. The
boys - Louie. and Murph, and Brownie. and
Abe, and me - just stood there and looked at
Fats. After what seemed about an hour some
body said in whisper, You mean he didn't
have a gun? 1t would have WORKED And
Fats nodded. And he says. He had no gun.
But couldn't do it. l, the creator, could not
shatter that masterpiece of a cake.
Yes, Warden. That's when! don't know
who hit Fats first. But everybody hit him,
After all, there's such thing as carrying
this artistic temperament too far.
The End
Evening star., 1938-07-31

This was all the build-up,
Warden. The boys in the kitchen
was getting a little impatient,
but finally Fats passed the word.
The date set for the break was
yesterday. Yesterday was the
Captain of the guards birthday,
and Fats promised the Captain
a cake like he couldn't buy if he
was J. P. Morgan. For a week
Fats was getting the parts OF the
receipt together.
Poison? Ugh! No, Warden.
Honest. Anyway, Fats is too
Evening star., 1938-07-31

much of an artist. He was really going to
town on this cake.
We'll, you'll see in minute. e-that
is, the others in on the break were going into
that guardroom. That stairway is like
regular prison one, built so that only one guy
can stand on a step at time. Those guys
that design prisons figure they've thought of
everything, but, for once, the stairs beng
narrow was on our side mean. speaking as
convict, Warden On the side of the convicts.
Because any number of guys could lineup
on that stairway behind somebody as big as
Fats And the guard. Warden, couldn't see
nothing through the peep-hole but Fats and
his cake BY this time they was awfully used
to Fats.
Yes, sir. 1t was pretty clever, at that
One of the boys went to the prison library
and studied up on some chemistry book or
something. They made washtub full of
stuff - out of cleaning fluid and junk like
that Ammonia. 1t smelt like an eight day
corpse when they had it cooked up.
Louie? Well yeah, he does read lot,
Warden, but that don't mean nothing. You
iAAA SoaAoSAA III ~ AyAo ~
better himself Those was your very words.
"Oh, no. No. Warden. OF course, that
wouldn't be trying to better himself. Even if
it is nicer outside. Anyhow the stuff they
made was to throw in the guards eyes.
reckon it would have blinded them awright
The feller with the tubful was to be on the
step behind Fats. The others - you'll excuse
my not mentioning names = grabbed what
they could.
Officer Cwran said that? I'm surprised.
hate to call anybody liar, but -
'Awright, Warden Awright. If he says
had frying pan handle he could be right.
Come to think of it. now, did pick it up
after the fight started. Self-defense. you
understand.
How would they get in? Why through
the door, of course.
Sure it was locked. Sure! But they'd d have
to open it for the cake Fats had made.
That's the whole point, Warden. They
couldn't take this cake in through the peep
hole opening. Not this cake. Fats saw to
that. Layer after layer 1t was too big. Gigan-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-06
Back in the Fold

Albert Levitt, stormy petrel of Connec- ticut politics of several seasons ago, would return to the Republican fold. Hedoesn't exactly say that he desires forgiveness nor that he wants the leaders of the party to announce that the past is forgotten and once more the Bedding stalWart is to go on the warpath. However, MT. Levitt has let it be known that he desires noth- ing more right now than to take to the road at the complete disposal of the Re- publican party of this state.
 He has offered his services to Chairman Benjamin E. Harwood of the Republican State Central Committee and wants to aid in putting "forward-looking Repub- lican party" back on the map. Let's see, it was back in 1882 that MT. Levitt last appeared on the ballots in this state. At that time he was a candidate for gov ernor on the ndependent-Republica ticket. It was the beginning of the "in- dependent" party movements in this state, all of them being offshoots of major parties. Though he fared ill in that cleo tion, MT. Levitt soon after vaulted to fame and prominence as member of Presi- dent Roosevelt's administration in vari- ous capacities.
 He was in Attorney General Homer s. Cummings department for a time and later went to the Virgin Islands to act as judge there. Now, however, things are different. MT. Levitt has washed his hands of the New Deal and writing to Chairman HarWood says Republicans must 'bring back constructive leadership in Connecticut" You have the patience, tact, and courage to make the best of this opportunity. :" Hardly nice compli- ment for Governor Wilbur L. Cross who has certainly given plenty of constructive government in the past seven years, would you say?
 The Levitt reincarnation if go.p habili- ments will be eagerly awaited by horde of us who relish his entrance into state politics and the excitement it is bound to provide.