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Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25

sary and would be Yatronized.
DR.. Merrill said the state depart
ment usually required a county TO
foot half the bill for such a clinic.
The total cost of the clinic is about
$4,000 a year. he said.
Due TO the great numbers of To-
cal residents taking treatment at
the clinic" DR.. Merrill said. "it
might be possible that the state de-
partment would pay all the cost
but the salary and travelling eX-
penses OF one nurse. Under the
present arrangement the regular
public health nurses must assist
in the venereal disease clinic. This
cuts down the efficiency of other
sections of the county department
of health. A special nurse is neceS-
sary to do the follow-up work in
the homes of patients treated at
the clinic"
A total of 100 local residents are
being treated at the clinic in addi-
ton to the so transient men and
women under treatment. DR.. Joseph
Copeland. physician in charge OF
the clinic, said Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
Youths Held for
Deadly Assault

SAN DIEGO, April %. CUP) -
Ronald Fink and Kenneth Wilson
23-year-old Idaho Falls. Ida.
ycutns, were in the county jail to-
Gay, awaiting sentence on charges
OF first decree rcbborv and assault
With a deadly weapon after thev
pleaded guilty to the robberv aud
slugging of an aged pawnbroker
Saturday night.
Police said they entered the shop
# Henry Kohn, II, slugged and
robbed him Of S86, a ring, 13 watch
Is and a pistol
The youths fled when Kohn re-
gained consciousness and screamed
for help. Police picked up the pair
s suspicious characters a few min
Utes later
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
Killer Jokes as
Death Date Nears

FLORENCE. Ariz.. April 25. CUP)
= Joking with his death watch
guards, Archie Lee Short, who will
Gle in four days for numbering a
deputy sheriff. today laughed at
what he termed his fate.
I've been IN prisons in Kansas,
Oklahoma ard Arizona ever SINE
was a kid" he told guards. Now
my fate calls me to something else
and III be ready
He will be executed in the lethal
gas chamber at 5 am. Friday NOR
ling.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
Methodist Unity
Delegates Meet

KANSAS CITY, Mo. April 25.
UP) - Unification of the three
branches of the Methodist church
divided since Civil war schism-was
planned today by 1000 denolnina-
tional leaders, including 60 bishops.
They met in committee sessions
md branch caucuses to prepare for
the first in a three weeks long
series of conferences which will
bring together the Methodist Epis-
opal church, the Methodist Epis-
copal Church South, and the Meth
odist Protestant church. The first
session of the uniting conference is
tomorrow.
Membership of the three branches
+otal nearly 100000 Unification
viii make the Methodist the largest
Protestant denomination in the
world.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
Wife Says Husband
Failed to Provide

Her husband failed to provide for
her, jewell Rodgers O'Malley charg-
ed in q divorce complaint filed
against Lawrence O'Malley Mon
day.
They married in Lordsburg, NM,
April 3, 1884, and separated April l,
1888 She asked the court TO per-
NIT her to use her maiden name,
Jewell Rodgers.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25

DALLAS. Tex, April IS. up
Wayne Ponder, y. having learned
his ethical lessons we'll wrote Il
note to his father confesSing that
he had stolen small sums OF money
from him and asking forgiveness.
Then he killed himself.
A few hours later, the father,
Walter w. Ponder. "a, was ar
raigned before a United States COM
missioner and pleaded guilty to
stealing money from the bank
which employed him as q teller.
The wife and mother was killed
five years ago in an automobile
accident and Ponder was accustom-
Ell to walking the streets at night.
grieving and brooding. When po-
lice found him, they handed HIM
his sons suicide note and the war
rant calling for his arrest.
The tragedy occurred Sunday
night but it was not revealed until
yesterday when Ponder was relees-
ed from Jail temporarily so he could
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
Lindbergh Urges
Mass Production

BUFFALO, N. Y. April 25. (UP)
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, on a
special mission for the U. S. army,
landed at Buffalo airport at 11:l0
am. today.
Brig. Gen. George H. Brett, chief
of the air corps materiel division at
Wright Field, said that Col. Lind
bergh was especially interested in
the work being done in the labor
atories and engineering divisions
here. He quoted the colonel as cit
ing the need for mass production
of planes to bring its flying force
to a parity with those of European
countries.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
Insurance Firm S
Instructor Here

r. A. West, field training instruc-
tor for the Metropolitan Life In
surance company, is in Imperial
Valley to assist Manager Guy Bey-
non in training two new agents,
Merritt w. Bradshaw of Ell Centre
and Leon Anderson of Brawley.
Beynon will leave May Is for
managers convention in New York
City. West will have charge of the
valley district during his absence.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
Mediator Enters
Coal Controversy

NEW YORK, April IS. CUP)-
John r. Steelman. federal media
tor. undertook today what he des-
cribed as the very difficult task
of breaking the contract deadlock
which has kept $4,000 miners IN
the Appalachian soft coal industry
idle since April !.
Steelman entered tie joint con-
ference of representatives of man
agement and labor in the eight
state area under instructions from
Secretary Of Labor Frances Per-
kins TO do his utmost to find a
formula for bringing the two sides
together on a renewal Of the wage
hour contract which expired March
81.
The union demands a closed
shop, or an effective substitute.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
Bill Would Give
Help to Blind

SACRAMENTO. April %. tUP)-
TIE assembly ways and means com
nlittee today recommended for pas
sage bill 10 permit blind persons
to conduct vending STANDS in public
buildings and to appropriate $4,000
to aid them III setting up such bust
neSSeS.
Assemblyman Vernon Fitzpatrick
D.. Los Angeles. co-author with
Ernest Crowley, D., Suisun, declared
the measure should decrease ma
terially state money expended fol
care OF the blind. Funds advanced
to the vendors would be repaic
through a payment Of five per cent
of the blnsi persons net profits
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
New Food Purity
Standards Set Up

SACRAMENTO, April 25. tUF)-
The assembly public health COM
mirtee today recommended tor pas
sage two pills setting more striEsert
standards OF purity for food and
drugs sold within the state and in
Guiding a new definition for fais'
advertising of products.
Advertising misleading in any
particular" would be declared mis-
Gemeanors. where previously, willful
intent TO deceive had to be proved
The bills designate as state STAN
dards of purity these contained in
new federal act scheduled to go
into effect in June and provided
tor administration by the state
board of pubiic health,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
Fits Pet Dog
Cubs Rubber Bone

LOS ANGELES, April 25. up
District Attorney Buron Fits, who
flew to San Francisco Saturday in
connection with an investigation
into affairs of the Pacific States
Savings and Loan company, return
ed here today because of illness
IN his family.
Rumpus. his pet Scotty dog,
swallowed his rubber bone, and be-
cause he was unable to digest it,
an operation was performed.
RuInpus condition was reported
as improved" today.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
Bishop SpeIIman
Named Archbishop

VATICAN CITY, April 25. CUP)
Bishop Francis Spellman, of Bos-
ton, was named archbishop OF New
York today, it was announced Off
cially.
1t was considered here TO be a
foregone conclusion that he would
be named a Cardinal at one of the
early consiStorieS.
A native of Whitman, Mass, he
was the first American prelate to
be consecrated in the Vatican Basi-
lica. His conservation here in 1882
vas attended by the highest dig
nitaries of the church.
The new archbishop is so.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
Jifterbugs Infest
Haunted House

OIIVET, Mich, April 25. CUP)-
NeighborS frightened by wierd
sounds from an uninhabited house
rotified the town marshal. The
officer heard the strange noises and
advanced cautiously on the ram
sbackle building.
He found a group of Olivet college
iitterbugS who had sought refuge
in the house after being banned
from the college conservatory, dor
mitories, fraternity houses and
gymnasium
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
Inquest Returns Open
Verdict i'm Auto Deuth

suffered in the accident, DR.. L. C.
House testified in a statement read
to the jury
Rosary for Hashem was said at
the Hens chapel at 3 pm. Monday.
Funeral services were held at the
Catholic church at 10 am. Tuesday
with burial at Mt. View cemetery.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25

CALEXICO, April 25--A coroner's
jury late yesterday failed to place
the blame for the death of Abe
Hashem, 25-year-old Calexican, IN
car train collision at Heber Sun
day,
Three witnesses testified that the
wigwag signal at the crossing was
working and that the whistle and
bell or the locomotive were sound
ing as the engine and caboose ap-
preached the crossing.
Ruben B. Padilla, who followed
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
Son Admits Small Thefts in Suicide
Note to Father Who Robbed Bank

go to am undertaker's parlor and
lcok at his sons pody.
The federal warrant charged EN-
bezZlement Of $l750.
Bank officials said that the
money embezzled had been return
ed and indicated a reluctance TO
prosecute
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25

The clinic was opened in the
basement Of the county court house
in FL Centre early this year after
the county board Of supervisors
agreed TO provide the quarters if
the state department of health
would pay salaries of the required
physician and nurse and provide
equipment and supplies. The agree
ment was to continue during a six
months probationary period to as
certain if such a clinic was neceS-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
DIMAGGIO TO WE'D

HOLLYWOOD, Cal. April %.
CUP)-Dorothy Arnold, a blonde
screen actress and night club and
radio songstress, announced today
that she and Joe DiMaggio, slug
ging outfielder for the New York
Yankees, will be married some
time this summer.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
Get Up Nights?
sNature'S Warming.
of Sluggish Kidneys

VI CiuSSiSh hiuiiCyS
This 4-day test must please or
YOUR 25c BACK. Kidneys need Oc-
casfonaI flushing as well as bowels
This helps eliminate excess acids
and other wastes which can cause
Irritation that wakes you up. Say
Bukets TO any druggist. YOUR 25c
BACK IF NOT PLEASED. Locally
at CLEMENTS DRUG.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-25
County Must Aid
Free Clinic Here

Imperial counys free clinic for treatment of venerea
diseases nearing the close of siXmonths trial period
will be continued only if the county shares the expense
with the state department of health Dr. NJ H. Merrill
chief Of the state bureau of venereal Diseases said in Ell
Evening star., 1939-03-12

the principal attractions. Although
there are no auto roads, there are
two resorts, Rock Harbor and Belle
Isle, from which radiate rough hik-
ing trails totalling about 80 miles.
Dedication of the isle as nation
al park is expected by id-summer,
when the last of the private hold
ings are taken over by the Govern
ment. Meanwhile, the Interior De-
partment has arranged its steam
ship schdule. The lake steamer Vir-
ginia, with So staterooms and q
capacity for about 800 passengers,
will leave Houghton, Mich, on Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays, stop
ping at Isle Royale enroute to Fort
william, Ontario. Return trips will
be made on Tuesdays, Thursday and
Saturdays.
Explaining the convenience of the
service, the Interior Department
says:
I'm addition to providing regular
transportation facilities for summer
tourists Isle Royale has
not had in many years-a direct
short route to the Province of On
tario, Canada. will be available. This
will reduce the running time be.
tween this Canadian lake port anc
Chicago and other Lake Michigan
points to about "a hours.
The type Of service provided will
enable visitors to Isle Royale to re.
main as long as they desire ans
either. continue into Canada later, O.
to return to the States" Automo
bile tourists may ship their auto
mobiles on the Virginia, lay owe
as long as they want and find thei
automobile awaiting them on tn
Ontario shore when they continu
the journey"
Evening star., 1939-03-12
The Travellers Notebook
Quaint Americana Of Isolated Mountain Life to Be
Preserved in Great Smoky National Park; AutoIess
Isle RoyoIe to Have Regular Steamer Service

roads, trails and bridges in the
areas selected for the establishment
Of the field exhibits would be pre-
served. The buildings would be
located to show how isolation, to-
pOgraphy and other natural features
of the several regions influenced
the lives and handicraft of their
owners, but they would be near
enough to public campgrounds to
permit tourists to view and study
them.
The proposed central Mountain
Culture Museum probably will be
located in the Mingus Greek area,
about 10 miles from Newfound Gap
There will be information on noun
tain medicine and surgery, black
smithing, coppering, tanning and
leathering work. numbering, milling
and stilling-this last showing a
typical moonshine still set up in
running order with a label to ex-
plain the reasons for this practice
and the mountaineers' attitude to-
ward laws"
And the forms one might see
pursuing the mountain crafts. sing
ing old ballardS while they ply
trades that have come down through
generations, might not be ghosts
, the Park Service is considering re-
tanning some of the mountain folk
to keep the spark of pioneer life
glowing within the park.
\ +
Tri-weekly steamship service, te
be inaugurated June %, will max,
accessible Lake Superior's Isle
Royale. which has a reputation fol
seclusion from automobile traffic
and formal ecreating facilities
where rest, fishing and escape from
the tribulations of hay fever are
1
Evening star., 1939-03-12
Cruises Hold Spotlight
In March Travel

NEW YORK, March 11-With
Easter falling April and with the
winter vacation season traditionally
extending to that holiday, cruises
and Southern travel promise to con-
tinue in the spotlight during March.
Summarized briefly, cruise business
is reported by all lines as better than
that of last year; railroad carvings
are running about the same, with
some gains up to 10 per cent; and
airlines report increases of 80 per
cent and more.
March is particularly rich in
cruises. Such regular lines as Grace,
Furness, United Fruit, Canadian Ma
tional and Clyde-Mallory are Offer
ing SO voyages-13 more than they
did IN February. Anchor, Cunard,
Gdynia America, French, Hamburg
American, Holland America, Nor
Weglan America and Swedish Amer
ican are offering II voyages, and all
report a very good season. Holland
America is 20 per cent over last year
while Furness reports that Bermuda
Easter sailings are already heavily
booked, and Canadian National that
its West Indies sailings are carrying
large passenger lists. Grace Line
finds the Caribbean very good and
the Clarke Line expects March to
exceed last March by 20 per cent
This line will try an innovation in
April, by sending one cruise from
Charleston and one from Charleston
and Savannah, ports not ordinarily
used for cruises. Puerto Rico is hav-
ing the best tourist season in its
history, and Furness reports that as
result of the New York Worlds
Fair, demand for summer reserva-
tions is the heaviest 1t has ever
known.
Evening star., 1939-03-12
Cruise Ships Make
Miami Busy Port

MIAMI, Fla, March 11.-Cruise
ships making Miami a port of call
this season are keeping docks in the
harbor the busiest they ever have
been. Added to the fleet of large
pleasure yachts wintering in Bis
cayne Bay, the de luxe liners have
made dockage space at premium at
times.
Five cruise ships brought 1000
passengers to the winter resort city
In one day last month.
Evening star., 1939-03-12
Fun-Robbine Bugaboo
On Cruise DispeNed
By Ship Hostess
Clothes and Tips
No Cause for Worry,
Says Miss George

NEW YORK, March 11.-Some Of
the most important features Of
tropical cruise life are the very
phases that books and travel lit
erature seldom mention At least,
that is what Miss Otillie George
thinks, and Miss George ought to
know what's what in the cruise
world, because she is a short-cruise
social directress, and life during the
season is just one fiesta voyage after
another for her.
For instance" says Miss George,
there is this business usually re-
ferred to as ship as hotel meaning
that travellers sleep aboard in port.
That isn't very complimentary,
1t seems to me; cruise ship Is more
truly home than a hotel. And
also hotel just stays in one place,
but cruise boat follows one around,
like a seagoing trailer. But a still
more practical aspect of the ar
rangement is that the ship hotel
or however you wish to classify her,
is honey, comfortable and economi-
cal-not just in one harbor, but
every night, wherever she is. People
who have roamed about vagabond
and free lance in the tropics will see
the distinction there.
Scoff at Tip Bugaboo.
Then, prospective cruisegoers are
almost always concerned about extra
expenses, especially about tips for
the various stewards, and so forth.
Some of them overestimate and al
most frighten themselves out of
going at all. On the other hand,
there are some rare individuals who
go to sea with the naive idea that
the West Indies will be the one place
in the world where people on vaca-
tion don't spend any money except
for the bare essentials of board and
room.
of course one tips, and spends
little foolish money and picks up
a few souvenirs. 1t isn't necessary
to worry about how much to be-
stow in largess, because that comes
mostly at the end of the voyage, and
there are always 'old-timers' among
the crowd who know about that, so
every one does. 1t certainly does not
amount to enough to worry about.
THE greatest bete-noir of first
cruise folks, however, is the subject
of so-called cruise clothes Some
how or other real crisis situation
has grown up about this in the pub
lie mind. We need a policy of ap-
peasement' to ease the tension, and
my solution would be just to say
'Piftle'-in ladylike way, of course.
Solution Really Easy.
Most people who take a cruise
have some clothes to wear to dance
and an outfit to wear for dinner in a
hotel dining room-wel, they can
wear those on the ship. They also
generally have some sports clothes
suitable for deck games and swim
ming and going on shore excursions.
So, what is there to get excited
about? The fact is that nearly
every one fits up with something new
(and in the case of the girls some
thing pretty) especially for the boat,
but that only amounts to buying
some spring flnery a little early and
getting some good out of it during
the winter.
In fact, all one needs to do to
settle these problems is to remember
that cruise is just for fun, anyway.
It's not an ordeal, but a vacation,
and a mighty reasonable one, every
thing considered, I think"
Evening star., 1939-03-12
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Great Smoky National Park
lies in territory granted by Eng
lish King Charles II to the Lords
Proprietor in 1868. First Euro
pean settlers and those Dho fol-
loWed after the Revolution
largely English, Scotch Irish,
Germans and Irish 1Dho fought
for Americas independence
took hardihood, thrift, resource
tulneSs and skill in crafts into
the mountains to form a SELF
sufficient redlm.- What De call
progress spread across grQDing
America, but the pioneer culture
OF. the 18th and early 18th CEN
turies, fortified By a torbidding
topography, continued pirtually
unaffected until the present gen.
Grafton OF road builders.
Evening star., 1939-03-12
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, Jr.

Thousands Of miles apart-off the
Michigan mainland and along the
Tennessee-No Carolina border
are being developed two areas that
should find a place in the hearts of
American travellers. One will appeal
particularly to that small but
staunch band of tourists whose in
terest leans toward appreciation of
Americana; the other offers a haven
from the pell-mell life of the modern
city.
Many are the motives that inspire
travel, but whatever they be, plans
usually are garnished with the COM
forts of modern transportation and
with as pleasurable living quarters
as the purse can afford. Beaches,
sports and night life in the teeming
resort centers are more than spice
they are objectives. But the Ma
tional Park Service more frequently
fashions its attractions along rugged
lines-or, more accurately, stays its
own creative hand-and particu-
larly is this of the development now
going on in Great Smoky National
Park and in the less known but in
triguing Isle Royale, in Lake Su-
perior
While the Park Service is disposed
to let Natures works speak for
themselves, without the embelish-
ments of man-made Improvements,
the Great Smoky area will preserve
the crude accoutrements attesting
the mode of life that original white
settlers literally carved out of the
wilderness with ak and auger." For
they are valuable segment OF
American history. The pioneer cul-
ture, with its homecrafts and quaint
olden speech, Is rooted In the soil
Founded more than a century and
half ago, 1t contrasts sharply with
the world of magic machines, COM
plicated economics and sophistica-
ton of learning that have develored
in the lands outside the mountains
Il 4 4
It is typical of the Interior De.
partment's National Park Service tc
reject the incongruity of running
modern, high-speed highways to the
very door OF 18th century life. In.
stead, practical sort of compro.
mise will bring this picture to the
American traveller, although he must
meet 1t more than half way.
When the Federal Government
took over the Great Smoky area
the majority of the descendants O,
the pioneer settlers moved away
They took with them their skill ir
domestic industries which had beer
developed through the decade.
under the stern code of make it OF
do without it," But many of thu
facilities for spinning, tanning, cob.
bling, weaving and milling were
abandoned, inviting decay to obliter
ate the remnants of this peculiar
phase of American life. Already ths
Government has begun to acta Some
of the structures chosen for pres
ervation were carefully torn down
piece by piece, and each part mum.
bered for reassembly on a site neal
enough for the traveller to reach
without hardship, yet preserving 6
sympathetic scene.
"The proposed program for pre-.
serving more or less living recorc
OF this mountain culture, include.
plans for the establishment of 6
central museum area and a numbe,
Of field exhibits located in differ.
ent parts Of the national park.
the Interior Department explains
These exhibits would consist O.
groups OF original mountain build.
ings-cabins, barns, old mills, corr
cribs, with all their surroundins
fields, gardens and orchards. OK
Evening star., 1939-01-14
Louis Hayward .
Finds 1t Strenuous

Louis Hayward, whose performance
in THE Duke of West Point" won
him the assignment to play the
leading role in the forthcoming pro-
duction, THE Man in the Iron
Mask" is rapidly learning that a
film star must be very versatile
person.
When Hayward was assigned 10
play the role of a West Point cadet,
he had to go into strenuous exercise
covering such sports as rugby, box
ing, football, fencing and ice skating,
the latter including rough and tum-
BILE work as an ice hockey player.
Now that he is about to start
work in "The Man in the Iron
Mask" which is to be Airected by
James Whale, he has started an
entirely new course of training.
Since the story requires much fast
and hazardous horseback riding, he
is spending several hours each day
in the hills back of Hollywood, not
only riding, but doing dangerous
work in jumping. He is .using the
two beautiful Arabian horses he will
ride in the film. On top of that,
Hayward is taking more advanced
lessons in fencing, since there are
numerous sequences where he must
prove himself an expert in that
ancient method Of fighting.
"The Man in the iron Mask" has
been scheduled for the cameras at
the Edward Small Studios shortly
after January Is. The screen play
was written by George Bruce from
the famous novel by Alexander
Dumas.