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Evening star., 1939-01-09
By the Way
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Third the Canadian legation Mr. Charles Rche
Washington London where he will
of the Canadian high commissioner
which representatives travel
that
foreign Ritche will sail from
Halifax S.. Duchess of Atho
this Canadian
little house been the of
humor delightful
him of friends Telling Of his
other Rche hat Els
facilitated the discovery that buffalo
delighted
not to have them to pack!
suddenly becoming conscious,
deserting bridge tables
light of 8 of the
married set meet at night club to take lessons IN
all from of betterknoWn instructors and
the hold their with
Of the debutanes
Wasngonans Baltimore Saturday night to attend
anniversary of Mr. Mrs Wallace Lanaha
beautiful place. Long Crandon The dinner
served at small tables in the dining drawing with
good
silver with orchids shoulder after dinner
adjourned the garden especially
dancing entertainers the whole
couldn't possibly have been more fun.
washington the evening
did also Arthur Krock, and
and Mrs
Club Lawrence Baker had young
people dining with them
: letter Sands New York q
Bethlehem Pa with Mr. and Mrs John Gross Mariana
happy that it's
called Mrs Bethlehem
home she in Washington Lauas
children James Curtis spending
happies
Way
Mrs Benjamin hope
be q really
Evening star., 1939-01-09
Miss Rice Hostess

Miss Evangeline Rice entertained
at a supper party at her home, 1749
Irving street NV, last night. The
guests included 1t. and Mrs. L. H.
McCulley, 1t. and Mrs. Robert Nc
Gill, 1t. Archer Vandergrift, jr., and
1t. Robert Little of Quantico, Va,
and Miss Amber Youngblood of
HOLLYWOOD. Calf.
Evening star., 1939-01-09
Benefit Luncheon

The National Council of Jewish
Women, Washington section, will
hold a luncheon January 81 at the
Mayfower Hotel, proceeds to be
used to further the philanthropic
work of the council. Miss Agata
Borzi, who has recently had an
addition at the Metropolitan Opera
House, will be one of the enter
tainerS
Evening star., 1939-01-09
DR.. .CheValier Jackson
Will Be Feted

DR.. Chevalier L. jackson, profess
sor of clinical bronchoscopy and
esophagoscopy at Temple Univer-
sity School of Medicine in Phila-
delphia, will be the guest of honor
at luncheon to be given tomor-
row by DR.. William B. Mason at
the Army and Navy Club.
Evening star., 1939-01-09

Friday at the Mayhower her guests
included Senator Pepper. Col. Mar
vim Mcintyre, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Murchison of Jacksonville and Mrs.
Wally Dunn Of Kensington, Md.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
High Court Takes
Antitrust Case

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. CUP)-
The supreme court announced today
that it would hear arguments in g
Ease in which three San Francisco
glass companies challenge the val,
idity of subpenas issued by a fed
eral grand jury investigating char
ges of antitrust law violations
against them.
Government attorneys considered
the case as having an important
bearing on their prosecution of an.
ti-trust cases. If the court upholds
the contention of the glass COM
Danies that the subpenas are in
valid, there is a possibility of ex-
tended delays in grand jury pro,
ceedings involving such cases.
Cobbledick Kibbe Glass CO.; w
p Fuller co. and the Grove Glass
co. brought the suit to quash orders
requiring them to produce certaia
BOOKS and records to be examined
by the grand jury. The companies
complained that the subpenas were
Oppressive and unreasonable"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
Gun Shots Called Doctor
70 Duty in Eorly Days
Veteran Medieo Recalls

co, held back only by slender le-
wee. Doc rented a boat and roWed
across the mile-wide eXpanse OF
New River. then a raging torrent
to care for "a case on the other
side
Signs of Business
The wind was blowing so hard
md the current was so stiff the reg
alar boatman was afraid TO go!
Doc recalled.
Every time Doc heard gunshots
in town he knew it meant business
for him. Many's the time he patch
I'd up cursing cowboys. seWed ur
the knife eashes and sent them
back to fight again.
Once he was called to treat 9
young American with a gunshot
wound in his leg. The youth was
IN Mexicali's boX-car jail. 1t was
near Christmas time and the pa.
tient was homesick and remarked
Gosh. I'd sure like to be home
for Christmas
Doc said nothing. but the next
day he brought a railway spike in
his bag and left it beside the patient
With the innocent remark:
THE boards over that window
ought to be nailed tighter.
The boy was home for Christmas
Docs transportation varied. Al
first he went on foot, then on horse
back
The roads were bad and I was
lucky when I had a saddle horse
that I could guide with my knees
because frequently l had to carry &
bag of instruments in each hand.
March of Progress
Later I got a two wheeled cart
1t was rough when the horse was
forced to jump ditches!'
Next came the buggy and finally
many years later, the motor car
Doc laughed when it was suggested
that he would be flying an airplant
next
The difficulties under which he
had to work IN the early days were
enormous, although Doc speak,
lightly of them now His stock of in.
struments was adequate but fal
from elaborate. His operating
room was wherever he found him.
self and he carried all his tools witt
him.
"At first I operated under tht
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18

light of whatever was handy, a can
lie or a coal oil lamp. Later. I used
to carry a flashlight that snapped
to my clothes and would shine
ahead, leaving both hands free"
In emergencies Doc called in
whomeyer was handy as assistant
surgeon. On one terrible occasion
he had to deliver a premature child
in a tiny shack far from help The
child was dead There was no time
to move the mother. Doc knew it
meant delivery then, with instru-
ments-or never
Calmly, he asked the distraught
husband to administer the chloro-
form and showed him how to hole
the mask and let the anesthetic
trickle out. drop by drop. Then Doc
went To work with steady hands.
But the husbands hands were not
50 steady. He collapsed when the
Doc was half through.
Little beads of perspiration ap-
pearsd on Docs brow but his de-
termination never Wavered He went
on alone, with only the patients
labored breathing breaking the 81
lence as he worked. With one hand
Doc gave the anesthetic, with the
other he delivered the child The
mother lived.
Doc sighed happily and there
was a half smile of satisfaction on
his face as he skinned back ovei
the years when both he and the
valley we're youngsters.
You know he said, Il wouldn't
take anything for my first year :.
Ten years of that kind of life is
worth three score and ten of any
other -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
BY LOGAN JENKINS

A spattering of revolver shots
Jared CaleXieo and awoke Doc as
he Law in a tent house near Bob
Davis pool hall. Still half asleep
he reached for a sock.
They'll be coming for me in a
minute. I might as well get up now, :
hc thouoht and stumbled out into
the border night
That night and many other days
and nights were recalled this week
by DR.. F. w. Peterson of FL Centre
rs he slipped into his 35th year of
Imperial Valley residence with
scarcely an added wrinkle of care.
The sturdy, white-haired dean Of
the valleys medical corps sat at his
office desk the other morning ana
with chuckles and sighs recalled the
gay. mad days when the valley was
an infant and he was Young Doc
on his first case.
The Doc said he had been called
1t midnight the night before and
hadn't got to bed again until a. M,
hut he didn't show the lack of sleep.
The Lord only knows how many
times the Doc has craWled out OF
bed on Just such errands since he
landed in Calexico more than "a
ears ago!
In those days of '05, Docs office
was a shack near Imperial avenue,
lust below Second street. He lived
n a tent house in the back and
Bob Davis poolhall was next door
Only one relic of the place sur
Vives today-a pepper tree that
nsed to stand near his office.
Not The First
Docs years at Wisconsin uniVer-
itv and Northwestern and the
eloistered, refined life soon gave
way to the frontier atmosphere and
ven drew draWled You shore
have changed!' from Bob Davis.
II wasn't by any means the flrsf
DOCTOR" Doc recalled. There was
Or. F. j. Bold at Imperial, an ole
eollege friend of mine who now lives
N Los Angeles, Fowler was al
8rawley and Greenleaf at Holtville
Griffith preceded me at CaleXico.
Doc spent two years on the border
before moving to Ell Centre ano
they were years crammed with ex-
periences no young doctor ever gets
today. He mended heads cracked
by beer bottles, he delivered babies
in Indian tepees, he probed for bul,
ets while the patient lay bloody
n the dust of MeXicali.
Doc went everywhere, anytime II
hose days-and still does.
Once, during the flood, when tht
water stood five feet above CaleXl,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
Migratory Party
Plans Announced

BRAWLEY, Dec. l8.-Ilckets iof
the old fashioned Christmas party
at the federal labor camp here Dec.
"a will be distributed at the camp
gate on the day Of the party, camp
officials announced Monday.
Popcorn, fruit and milk will be
distributed at the gate. Adults and
children will be served meat sand
wiches. meat, milk and soft drinks
inside the camp. Each child will
receive toy, candy, fruit and nuts.
Gates will open at pm. and
the Christmas program start at 2
pm. Imperial Valley churches and
musicians planned to assist In the
program.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18

at the hospital when the columnist
died.
Only one of Broun's columns ap-
peared in the New York Post after
his switch last week from the
World Telegram. That was on Fri
day. Broun's last column in the
World Telegram appeared on Thurs
day
DR.. Alvan I. Baraeh, Broun's
physician. said the cause of death
was influenza bronchial pneumonia.
complicated by heart trouble.
The physician said Broun hao
been unconscious for "a hours be-
fore his death.
Last rites of the Roman Cathoac
church were administered 10 Brour
.ast Friday morning.
At the bedside when the end came
! addition to Mrs. Broun and the
zon. was Irving Broun. a brother
DR.. Barach said that there was
no serum for the type OF pneumo-
ia which Broun had.
The newspaper guild constitution
provides that the new president
hall be elected by special assembly
f the international council. The
council is made up Of representa-
tives of each local guild throughout
- country. the number of votes
f5r each guild distributed accord
~ u its total membership.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
Nazi WarpIanes
Sink 4 Vessels

Berlin. Dec. IS. tUPl-Ger-
an warplanes yesterday sank four
British ships and seriously dam
aged three auxiliary vessels, the
official German news agency
d. n. 3. said today.
Expanding the high commands
communiaue ID. y. B. said that
the ships sunk by German ma
chine cunning and bombing
planes included the patrol boat
Pearl and the coastal steamer
Serenity.
Damage to the ships attacked
was confirmed by the fact that
they listed over afire or from
smoke from them" d. n. B. said.
Crews of the attacked patrol
ships replied briefly to German
fire and then took to their boats,
according TO the announcement.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
I. MayfieId
Funeral Mondav

HCLTVILLE, Dec. 18.-Funera.
services for 7. T. Mayfield, 81, JUS
tice of the peace who died at his
home here Sunday morning, were
held at the Church of Christ at 2
? m. Monday.
Mayfield. had been in i'll health
for more than a year.
He had lived in holtyille for ls
gears and had served this commu,
nlty as justice of the peace for the
last eight years of his life. He was
buried at Evergreen cemetery with
the Fields mortuary in charge OF
the rites.
His survivors include his wife,
TWO daughters, and two sons.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
Two Injured in
Fight at BrawLey

BRAWLEY, Dec. 18. (UP)-TWo
men were injured Saturday night
in a braWl in an eastside cafe
Don Leeter, %, laborer, suffered
a stab wound in his side Gene
Duran, 30, was lying unconscious
on the walk in front of the cafe
when BraWley police arrived. Duran
was treated at the county hospital
and later transferred to the county
jail pending further investigation
of the fight.
After treatment by Brawley
physician, Letter went TO his home
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
Foes Study PIon
For Strike Truce

clerks, has already announced the
unions negotiating committee was
prepared to recommend acceptance
of the formula at a membership
meeting scheduled tonight and will
SO inform the governor.
The board of directors of the
Employers association scheduled q
meeting this morning at which time
they will consider their reply. Greg
ory Harrison, Employers attorney,
indicated following a meeting Sat
urday that they objected to phases
of the governors proposal.
Olson had asked the groups to
lay aside their suspicious of the
ultimate aims of each other and
placed in their hands copies of
the four-point peace proposal which
was based on report of his five
man fact-finding commission.
Il appeal to you in the name OF
and on behalf of your state and its
people that you both lay aside you
suspicious of the ultimate aims OF
each other, accept this proposal
and let us hope that solution sat-
isfactory and just to all concerned
may be arrived at through further
investigation and negotiations and
without interruption of harbor oper-
atoms by strike conditions.
Olson's plan is an amended yer-
sion of recommendations made to
him by his commission, and in
cluded elimination of two of the
unions demands = preference for
monthly clerks and registration OF
clerks-from any new contract con-
cluded.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
Haywood Broun
Dies in New York

NEW YORK. Dec. Is. fUP1-Hey-
wood Broun. president of the Amer
ican Newspaper Guild and New
York Post columnist. died at csc
am. today Of pneumonia IN Hark-
ness Pavilion.
Broun,s condition, complicated by
heart trouble. took a turn for the
worse early today. Yesterday and
Saturday he had seemed 10 be i'm
proving.
The last bulletin before Broun's
death said that his condition ha6
become worse since 5 am. when
tn turn for the worse came and
that his temperature at that time
was 1852.
Mrs. Broun, the former Connie
Madison, and Broun's son by his first
marriage, Haywood Hale Broun. were
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
Trail BIazed for
New GIamis Road

Twenty Imperial Valley residents
travelled across the sandhills in
eastern Imperial county Sunday to
study the route of a proposed road
to provide Glamis with a direct
outlet westward
They made the trip aboard a
huge trailer pulled by county road
district tractor, presenting pic
ture of "streamlined trailblazing. -
Further study was needed, coun-
ty supervisors said, before they
could reach definite decision about
the poposed road to permit easier
access to the mining district in the
Glamis vicinity.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
Living Skeleton
Recaptured Again

PHOENIX, Dec. 18. CUP)-Brino
Hanks, the living skeleton" was
back in the state hospital today
and authorities were truly thankful
The six foot, three inch, 80 pound
maniac escaped at Tucson while be-
ing returned here Saturday but was
found a few hours later crouching
in a dark corner of a dingy subur-
ban garage.
At the order of Gov. R. T. Jones
Brino was brought back to Phoenix
in a state highway patrol car.
The q year old maniac first got
away from the state hospital five
days after Winnie Ruth Judd only
to be captured in FL Paso, Tex, two
5ags later. He was being brought
here from El Paso when he broke
away Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
Canadian Troop
Train Wrecked

AMHERST. N. s., Dec. 18. up
An army corpotal was killed and
five other soldiers were slightly in
jured here today when a troop train
colIded with a freight.
The train was derailed when the
freight crew mifook the position
OF a yard switch and pulled foul OF
the army train, derailing one cal.
according to brief announcement
from Canadian National Railways
Corporal R. w Connors, of Lon
don. Ont, was killed. The injured
also from London, were Lance Corp
oral j. I. Hood, and Priyates j. B.
Heinrick, F. c. Hanley. C. B. Forbes
and H. CT. Landry
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
Box Car Sealed
On Two Transients

INLAND, Dec. 1.-TWO men rid
ing in box car as unpaying guests
of the railroad, were badly frighten-
ed Sunday when they discovered
they were sealed within the car.
Calbert Cleaves Robinson, 25, en-
route to FL Centro from Oakland,
and Joseph Carr Wilson, %, en-
route to FL Centro from Center
vile, pounded frantically on the
car door until they attracted the
attention of railway officers in the
freight yards at INLAND.
They were rescued unharmed,
told TO stay out of boxcars, and sent
on their way.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
State Employees to
Install Officers

The desert chapter OF the Cali
zaInsa State Employees association
#eaeae'e9 installation of officers at
meeting II thc Ten Thousand
sl=a u :. Tsatro 1T s pm. Tues
c.
s. CT Reed OF the California
u5ga44s patrol was scheduled TO
be installed as president; F. NJ. Nc
cure. division of highways, vice.
resident: Hazel MeElhany OF the
SRA. secretary; and Lee Miller,
s.rision of highways, treasurer.
4 skit arranged by Stanley Wolf
.shu NJ slated to provide the en-
teruzla mant. Refreshments viii be
eTYed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
Hugh KeIso
Dies at Home

Funeral services for Hugh B. Kel-
so. SO, who died at his home east
of FL Centre Sunday afternoon, will
De conducted from lemons funeral
home Tuesday afternoon at 2:30
Rev. Doty OF the First Baptist
church will officiate.
Kelso a resident OF the Imperial
Valley for g years, IS survived by
his wife, Dora Kelso. son. C. J.
Kelso, two grand daughters and
two great grand sons.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
News Notes from
The Elm District
ELM NOTES

GLll wv 1D
Mrs. hmuel Rister and son, Ger
aid. accompanied by Mrs. Olive
Cannon and Mrs Iva Lee Higgins
were in San Diego Monday and
Tuesday, Mrs. Rister visited with
her sister.
Mrs. Evalyn CHM was visiting at
the home of Mrs. F. O. Rosenbaum
Monday.
c. E. Gear left for Bishop.
Mrs. Lottie Shelhorn and Mrs.
Max Mckee of Long Beach were
visiting a few days recently with
Mrs. Nellie Lowe Mrs. Max Mckee
was formerly resident of the val
ley.
Theodore Solito was operated or
recently for appendicitis,
J. F.. Sears and Fred Gault Of
Lake Side were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Cannon Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs Bud Vess and chill
dren enjoyed a few days with Vess'
parents at Phoenix.
Taylor Oldham came down from
the coast and was guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Ray Kramer.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18. (UP2
Committees representing striking
hip clerks and the Dock Checkers
Employers association were to meet
Gov. Culbert L. Olson late today
to convey to him their formal re-
sponses to his proposal for the i'm
mediate reopening of the port oil
San Francisco.
Harry Bridges. spokesman for the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
RECOVERING FROM BURNS
FRESNO. =

FRESNO, Dec. 18. fUP)-J. B.
Wilson was badly burned when he
used match TO discover there was
sun gasoline IN his automobile tank
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18
BUYING A CAR?

If SO, it will pay you to let us
finance its purchase on a con-
venient installment plan. Motorists
who have used our service all
agree that our plan is fair and
equitable. Interest charges are
kept down to a minimum. Call
and let us explain our plan III
complete detail. You will incur
no obligation.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18

J. F. Sears and Fred Gault Of
Lake Side were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Cannon Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Bud Vess and chill
dren enjoyed a few days with Vess'
parents at Phoenix.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18

Theodore Solito was operated or
recently for appendicitis.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-18

Mrs. Evalyn CHM was visiting at
the home of Mrs. F. O. Rosenbaum
Monday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-06
LEGION CHOOSES
 FOUR DELEGATES
Same Number of Alter mates Nam e d For
 Bridgeport Convention

Corp. Coyle post. American Lee zion, last night selected four dele- gates and four aiternates to repre- sent 1t at the annual state conven- ton in Bridgeport July 27-29. The delegates Commander George Kar- nofsky, Past Commanders Walter Angle and Newton W. Alexander, and Walter Dews. The alternates are Past Commanders George Me- Duff and Walter Jarvis, Fred Hager and Charles Melville.
 The post entertained Arthur Baldwin, of Milford. national dele gate-at-large for the Connecticut department; Department Vice. Commander John McCreery of Wa tertown, Department Historian Ed- ward O'Connor of Watertown, and Benjamin Bernstein, of Ansonia, of the 40 and 8.
 Chairman Wallace J. Inglis of the poppy committee, reported that more than 14,000 peoples were sold in Waterbury, giving this city the Iaegest total in the state.
 Tribute to Corp. Frank Coyle, after whom the post is named, was paid by Col. William J. Shanahan, who served with him In Mexico and in France.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-06
9 STORIES
 IN STAMPS
Recalling the Rise Of American Forrninq

NOTHING is more epic in Amer ican history than the con- quest of the west and the rise of the great plains farmer. A few years after the Civil War the country between the Mississippi and the Rockies was unbroken wil- derness, save for a few mining camps, military and trading posts. By the turn of the century this same country had become the ag- ricultural heart of America.
 The great rush to the frontier began with the passage of the Homestead law in 1862, but the Civil War and the Indians held back settlement. By 1876, how- ever, the Indians were practically conquered for all time, so that homesteaders moved in to blow where the ground was still hard- packed by buffalo herds. There- after 1t was only matter of time until the lions share of the na- tion's wheat was being produced on the last. frontier.
 But all this came only with bit- ter struggle, for the farmer bat tied blizzards and drouth and grasshoppers and money panic. At the same time he battlcd the big cattlemen who had driven their herds into the great plains even before the farmer. The cattlemen wanted unlimited range; the farmer wanted fences. Not until 1890 did the farmer finally win. But today, ironically enough. there is talk that in many sections the cattlemen might have done better for the west than the farmer.
 In any event, farming was in its heyday around 1900. A west- ern farm scene Is shown above on a stamp of the Trans-Missis- sippi Omaha" Exposition issue of 1898. Recent copper red, enlarged.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-06
coPYRI0HT. to3o. NgA SERVICE. ING

"T'm going to bed. And everyone else who isn't biased fool will do likewise"
 They sat on the edge of the swim- ming pool and dangled their feet in the limpid, -streaked water.
 Darling" said Royalton Augus- tus Herring, "in sea-going attire you look even pettier than when dressed for land trafic. And I didn't believe that possible. How about one of those long, devoted, and potent kisses of yours?"
 Babs pulled off her bathing cap and shook out her short black hair. No. Not even a little one until you tell me how you did it." "It's a long explanation" said Roy, "fraught with scientific ref- erehces. Won't it keep till later2 I'd rather talk about you"
 "No, it won't. Shoot"
 "Well, keep this in mind. The dinosaur stands on movable platform. All had to do was push. And then, well, I put my fiashlight in the things head. You know how hollow 1t is. And the effect was sewll. Sort of like Dracula."
 But how :"
 "Take 1t easyl' 'Roy's arm stole around her. "Just get comfortable and shall tell all. Comfortable now?"
 And that's that" he wound up some time later. But I shuddei to think what would have hap. pened if anything had gone wrong"
 "shall I tell you2" asked Bar. bara, rubbing her head against hi' chin.
 "Yes, you little devil. Making me scheme like that"
 "Well, I'd have told Ronald ane Wilfrid to go and roll hoops"
 "You would? Well, why didn't you do 1t in the first place"
 "Ohl" She smiled up at him T wanted to make you perform that's all"
 Perform? What do you think ] am, a trained seal?"
 "Yes, mine. Do you know what seals do, Roy?"
 Sure. Chase fish"
 I'm a fish," cried Barbara, and tumbled into the pool.
 (THE END)