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Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13

NEW YORK, April 13. UP) -
Willard Huntington Wright, who
used the pen name S. s. Van Dine
to write a memorable series OF
mystery novels based on his dctec-
tive creation, Philo Vance, died of
coronary thrombosis at his apart
ment Tuesday night, it was learned
today
The author had been suffering
from heart ailment for several
weeks. He had just completed work
on the film version of his latest
book THE Oracle Allen Murder
Case" and was planning another
mystery novel.
Wright, 81, started his career as
a newspaperman, later became a
New Jersey police commissioner
and then started the long series Of
Philo Vance stories, many of which
we're made into motion pictures.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Eleanor Rulpaugh. She was
known professionally as Clare de
Lisle, a portrait painter, when she
married Wright.
The author often said that he
was lucky. He was. On Oct. l,
1910 the plant of the Los Angeles
Times. where he worked, was bomb
ed. Twenty-one members of the
staff were killed but Wright es-
capped.
For years he worked on the coast
in Los Angeles and San Francisco
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
But Perhaps He
Didn't Mean That

FRESNO, Cal, April 13. UP)-
After deciphering his letter, Of
ficials of the Central California
Tourist association today wrote
Andrew Regal, of Manchester. Conn.
that they were sorry but sending
lost cousins home is not within
their scope of duty.
The letter they received from
Regal said:
Dear People:
II write letter. To yours. l gat
coozin. She is old age 30 She is it
garell. She is my couzyn. Polish
Garell. She not got money to goe
to me. Please dear people send
her tome. My adris is it above.
SINCERELY. Good Bye. 1 am An
drew Regal"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13

yEhI OlQ III ldCs
Bell, so, reconted to police today
how he maSqueraded as Claus
Spreckels, one of the socially prom
ihent heirs to the multi-million
dollar Spreckels California sugar
fortune, because he liked the
glamour of the name".
Margaretta Davis, his bride of
six weeks and unsuspecting victim
of her husbands impersonation,
was under treatment at Detention
hospital, suffering nervous break
down caused by the shock of final
ly discovering that Bell was not
what he pretended to be.
Her small inheritance was gone,
her jewels were gone and police
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13

First Quarter Gain FL Per Cent
On New Years Day, I predicted
25 per cent increase for the first
half of 1899 over the initial six
months of 1898. The record shows
the gain for the first quarter has
been 81 per cent. However, I an
ticipated that business by Easter
would have seen a slight rise over
the year-end level. January busi-
ness stood at 100 on the Babson-
chart. Since then it has marked
time. February was 80. Marcl, 995,
and April is opening at 100. In
1893, the figures were 81 in Janu-
ary, 815 in February, and 81 in
March.
Does the failure of business to
rise since January mean that the
encoura ging predictions I made for
the entire year should be revised
downward? Definitely not, The i'm
provement has simply been post
poned by one war scare after an
other. Three out of every four
investors, bankers. business men,
and merchants whom I see say,
I'm not doing anything until I
see what Hitler does next" Those
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13

IlouOt Sutoto Ol o'iN
Mrs. M. l.. Boone from La Mesa
were Mr., and Mrs. Glen Lewis and
sons, Jack, Joe and Jimmie.
Mrs. Ruby Carlton and daugh-
ter Lillian motored to Palomar to
spend the weekend.
Arriving recently from Colorado
Mr.. and Mrs. Ewing Boone and son
Jim are visiting in the valley with
relatives. Mr.. Boone is a brother
of H. l.. Boone and NJ. L. Boone
and Mrs. Boone is a sister of Mrs.
Fred LaRue.
Misses Irene and Norma Geer at
tended an Easter party at the home
if Miss Iva Nell Odell Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Demononing goni
and son, Roy, and daughter, Cen
eva, visited Sunday with friends at
Holtvillc.
Mrs. Iva Lee Higgins and Mrs.
Olive Cannon attended the annual
grain growers banquet at the Plant
erS hotel at Brawley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred LaRue, Mr.
and Mrs. Ewing Boone and son,
jim, motored to Hanford to visit a
few days with relatives.
Miss Betty Boone was honored
by birthday party at the country
home of her father, H. l.. Boone
Monday evening. Guests were: Mr..
and Mrs. Bloemsuma and daugh-
ters Pauline and Francis of Aca-
cia. Miss Maxine Murphy, Mar
garet stark, June Miles. Elizabeth
Erickson, Eva Schumard, Marjorie
Jean Taylor, Virginia Lee Taylor,
Fern Shumard, Glenn Shumard,
Jim Boone. Mr.. and Mrs. K. Tay-
lor. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Armstrong,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Taylor, Mr..
and Mrs. Fred LaRue. Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Shumard, Mr.. and Mrs.
Curtis Boone and daughter Ruth
Janet, Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Stewart,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ewing Boone. Mrs.
Ollie Boone, Mr.. and Mrs. Johnnie
Dun, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. l.. Boone
and sons Philip, Russell and Don
aid The evening was enjoyed with
games and late refreshments. Miss
Betty received many useful gifts.
A merry group enjoyed an Eas-
ter picnic on the desert near Plas-
ter City Sunday.
The Elm school enjoyed an Eas-
ter egg hunt Thursday noon given
by the teachers, Mrs. Ruby Carlton
and Mrs. Loren Brewer Refresh
mentS of ice cream, cake and punch
we're served after the hunt
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
Friends from
Coast Visit
Boone Home
ELM NOTES

Easter house guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. l.. Boone from La Mesa
were Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Lewis and
sons, Jack, Joe and Jimmie.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13

said they may move to annul
their marriage.
Bell, held on a vagrancy charge,
told police he had always been an
admirer of the Spreckels family,
and especially Jack Spreckels.
Municipal Judge Thomas Pen
dergast sentenced Bell to six
months in the county Jail.
"You ruined a girls life, and
that's about the most vicious and
contemplate a thing man can
do" Judge Prendergast said. "I'm
sorry I haven't the power to Jail
you for a longer period"
The judge brushed aside Bells
attempt to convince the court he
still loved his wife.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13

under the peak of two years ago.
Excepting only 1897, activity this
spring is the highest for any SINH
lar season in ten years! This does
not sound quite SO bad as the ay-
erage person has been led to be-
lieve, does it?
Just to show readers how ac-
tivity in various industries con-
traSts with the low levels of 1888
and the good volume of 1897, here
are some simple percentage COM
pariSonS.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
l.. A. CIVIC LEADER HERE

Calvin E. Bream, representing the
agricultural department of the Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce, was
in Imperial Valley Wednesday ac-
quainting himself with farming
practices and agricultural prob
lens in this area,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
FELIX GRAY'S SISTER
DIES SUDDENLY

Felix Gray, janitor at the I'M
perial county court house, received
word Wednesday that his sister,
Mrs. Hidinia Pruett, died suddenly
Tuesday at her home in Oakland.
A stroke of paralysis caused her
death.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
Campus Notes
From Central
High Schoo!
BY JACK KINNE

Robert Ware. sheriff of Imperial
county, spoke on the duties of
sheriff at the Hi Y club meeting
Tuesday evening. Ware also ex-
libited articles that he had con-
fiscated while making arrests.
FL Centre junior college will pre-
sent the play, You Can't Take it
With You, IN the Ell Centro high
school auditorium April 81, %.
El Centro high schools orchestra
will play for the Holtville Union
high school Friday morning at IL
o'clock. according to Stan Atkin.
music director at Ell Centre high
school.
The Ell Centre Hi Y club will
hold a private swimming party April
l8, according to Bob Womack, pres
ident of the club.
Finals in the Ell Centro high
school Novice Tennis tournament
will be played this week, Bill Max
well, tennis coach at Ell Centre, an
nounced Thursday.
Bill Payne and John Hunter will
play in boys division and Betty
Cook and Jean CrisS will play in the
girls division.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
ROBBERY TERM FIXED

Frank Hotel, sentenced to San
Quentin penitentiary for first de-
gree robbery in Imperial county
in 1896, must spend seven years in
the penitentiary, the state board of
prison terms and paroles ruled.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
Author of PhiIo Vance Stories Dies
After Lengthy, Many-Sided Career

then came TO New York. He be-
came literary editor Of the old New
York Evening Mail IN 1917 Later
ne was police commissioner of
Bradley Beach, N. j.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
Business Good,
Fear Unjustified
Declares BubSon
BY ROGER BABSON

BABSON PARK, Fla, April 13.-Busness today is
better than the business thinks s Actually
is fairly good 1t could of course be better could also
be In cold figures business is % per cent above
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
Career Of Sham
Ended by Arrest

SAN FRANCISCO April 13. (UP) = George Bells
of sham spurred by his yearning to be glamour
boy with champagne and all the frs caught up with
him today at the police station but it too late to
the hearbreak and disillusionment it cost his 26
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And What
They Do
War Quiets Down
Pondit Nehru's Fight
Against British
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

Mahatma Gandhi has indicated
that. in his opinion, q world war
against Adolf Hitler is justifiable
and possibly necessary. The British,
with their imperative Job Of keep
ing their great Indian empire In
hand, probably aren't worrying
about Gandhi. More important is
the attitude and activity of his
vigorous and popular understudy,
the 44-year- Pandit Jawahharial
Nehru. The latter has been boldly
resistant to British rule, spent six
years in Jail and has acquired pop
ularity and leadership as Gandhi
reaches his I'D year.
Meager news reports from India
indicate that Nehru has been calm
ing down in his agitation against
British imperialism, and that. few
weeks ago, he was vehemently de-
nouncing Fascism and the new Ger
man aggression. London is reas-
sured, but watchful, as Asia may
become balance of power in the
clash of world dominions and Nehru
has been an active protagonist OF
pan-Asiatic doctrine, summoning
browns and blacks to resist what
he believes to be the aggression Of
the whites.
Born of noble caste, Nehru was
educated at Harrow and Cambridge,
taking honors in the classics. His
father, the Pandit Motilal Nehru,
was lawyer and the richest man
In Allahabad. He gave away his
mansion and moved into a shabby
little house when he became a con-
vert to Indian Nationalism. His
son, reared in splendor, had no such
ideas when he came home from
England. He was strong supporter
Of the British regime until the
Amritsar massacre of 1919. Then
he burned his SO British suits,
donned native dress and became an
agitator for the Nationalist cause.
However, he was no devotee of loin-
cloth asceticism. He was all for
fighting, and 1t was as the most
belligerent of all the Indian leaders
that he came to the presidency of
the All-Indian Congress in 1885. He
was at times sharply opposed to
the non-resisting Gandhi, but ap-
parently their differences have been
resolved. He is handsome and en-.
gaging, a vigorous assailant of the
ancient caste system of India.
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LONDON, Sept. 11.-Censor-
ship has closed radio facilities for
picture transmissions from Lon
don to New York, while picture
transmissions from London by
cable have been sharply restrict
ed due to the crush of news copy
to be sent by the same means.
An order from the Britich
Board of Trade stated no photo
graphs whatever could be i'm
ported into Great Britain.
A shipment of Associated Press
pictures dispatched in ample time
to have caught the Clipper plane
which left Foynes, Ireland, last
Wednesday, was not received
when the plane arrived at Port
Washington, Long Island, Fri
day.
AS result of the censorship
imposed in Britain, the vast ma
jority of pictures received in the
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tAelr attention
from 1910. They
are not blood
thirsty souls, yet
it's an open Sc
cret that the
incense - burners
sometimes called
the palace group
consider t ha t
prolonged con-
f1ict in Europe,
whether we're
in it or not,
i'm m e n S e ] y
strengthens F.
D. RS third
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F. H. A. Holds to Limit
On Low Income Project
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The United States Housing Au-
thority insisted yesterday that only
persons with incomes of 1889 or
less be admitted to residence in the
red hook" low cost housing project
in New York City.
The New York City Housing Au-
thority has taken the position that
the project should be opened to
families Of incomes between sl,040
and 81 1923. The U. S. H. A. contends
that Congress intended the Low Cost
Housing Act to apply only to families
in the lowest income third and has
prescribed range of 1862 to 81, 1899.
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frain from any measures prejudicial
to Japan's position in China" The
Island Empire resents the Nazi-
Soviet pact even more bitterly than
Italy does. 1t considers that, in
multiplying the nti-Comintern pact,
Hitler double decreased his axis asso-
ciates.
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kindergarten to Bower

the climax of busy highly
with
of nhering the title which him unexpectedly only
a of
make his in the world He chose public life and after the
with Miner,
kindergarten who formed the
England of the Roundabe
1916 Lloyd George made him his secretary that until the postwar
period
the English Liberal the 192o he might found himself
loose his Rhodes sufficiently
Finally
public Office chancellor of the Duchy
English public
He known in this country of course who from olive
Shaftesbury
became after Alexander Pops day the bower of Lady Asor
Tory politics. probably
children. Unqueionab
the rather amorphous et"
favored the
appeasers sharply
his friends including the President that
him right is remembered
Cat Anyway
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The Star is pursuing a policy
Of discarding or explaining pro-
paganda pictures during the pc
Rod of strict censorship. Where
the photos originate from an OBJ
viously partisan source, this will
be pointed out in the captions,
which also will explain the nature
of the propaganda.
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Is Bodies Removed
From Sunken Thetis
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 11-Eighteen
bodies have been taken from the
sunken submarine Thetis, in shall
low Moelfre Bay of the north coast
Of Wales, and divers hoped for good
weather today to recover the re-
naming 81.
Sixteen were brought ashore yes
terday. When the Thetis sank in
a test dive June l only four of her
103 occupants escaped.
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Theuter Fire Kills 40

ATHENS, Sept. II (P)-A fire in a
movie theater killed 40 persons,
mostly children, today on the Island
of Lemnos in the Aegean Sea near
the Dardanelles. Eighty other per-
sons were injured,
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advisory boards
q p poi n t e d in
connection with
the W ar emer-
gency.
The true sig
nifcance of this
comment is not
at all one of re-
Election on t h e
past services of
the group of COL
lie G e professors
and youthful eX-
perimenters who
have been DASH
Ing in and out
of the w hi t e
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Mr.. Lippmann and let him take
over the national sponsibilities
which are so clearly his?
There is work to be done at
Washington. There are decisions to
be taken, actions to be commenced,
plans to be made. In this process
there is room for all patriotic men
of good will, including Mr.. Lipp-
mann himself and his conservative
friends. But the sooner they for
get the idle dream that the reward
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Murphy's Strenuous Life.

The sudden, catastrophe shift in
world affairs is keeping the Depart
ment of Justice almost as busy as
its fighting brethren. War and Navy.
Hardly any major Government
move, in the kaleidoscope field of
questions churned up almost hourly
by events in Europe, can be made
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the United States watching over
the distribution of the Rhodes
scholarships. He knows this coun-
try better than most of its inhabi-
tants, must be aware of the pitfalls
which await him, and has just the
exterior, amiable but not too i'm
posing, which is best calculated to
please. He can even-wonder of
wonders in diplomat-get on with
the press.
And then. besides being we'll
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The Capital Parade
Lord Lothian Faces Difficult Task With
Number of Unusual Assets

delicate Washington Philip Henry
Lothian who the the
hands questions involving
forces the of cordially the cry Of perdous Albion will instantly
advantage Since 1926 as
Rhodes he tong
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ne KNOWS now TO please. The best
proof is the story of his emergence
from the White House, after pre-
senting his credentials to the Presi-
dent. He was greeted by the news
photographers, who had been
warned that here, at last, was a
biddable diplomat. They did not
quite believe it. AS Lord Lothian
has no skirt to lift a few inches
higher, they could not demand the
usual cheese cake" but they did
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their contunacy the
gift Of the inside track the political nglehod on the
administration they
dangerous times which lie ~ ~ 80 ~
Features nc)
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might be called public relations
He amateur his job maang Just the kind of dealim
President,
the President
depressing unproessiona
accustomed by
double word He already
both of and good other
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British Censors Close Radio
For London-to-U. S. Photos

United States in the last several
days have been from Berlin, rep
resenting copy which has been
passed by the German Ministry
of Propaganda.
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HE opinions OF the urtters this page oun
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented IN The
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
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Brain Trust
Goes as War
Ends Reform
Administration Seen
Turning to Right
In Emergency
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

1.-THE end of the brain trust"-so
speaks Stephen Early, secretary
to the President, in announcing the
personnel of the new officials and
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Indeed, some of these courtiers hold
that if war is still raging next sum-
mer, there will be so universal a
demand for the Presidents renom-
ination and reelection that the
Republican nomination will not be
the prize it has hitherto been con-
sidered.
After all, if Mars remains en-
throned where is the American who
would begin to measure up to Frank
lin Roosevelt's equipment as a
leader of his country? He was
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
from the moment the World War
began and for two years and a half
after the Armistice. He saw the
hideous thing at close range in
Europe. At Washington he was
identified with each and every stroke
of governmental policy in connec-
ton with both the waging of the
campaign and its back-stage diplo-
matte and political conduct. The
President is graphing effectively
with successive American phases of
Hitler's war because Roosevelt is
able instantly to apply to 1t the
background of his 1914-19l8 expert
ence.
Is Lone Hand the Thing?
No White House inkling is forth
coming as to the Presidents attitude
toward a suggested coalition or BIZ
partisan war council to aid and
advise him now and at future stages
of the international situation. Tenn
peramentally constituted as he is,
the chances are Roosevelt doesn't
think much of the idea. To begin
with, he harbors a bitter grudge
against the dissident Democrats and
the Republicans. who, under isola-
zionist leadership, wrecked neutral
ity revision. His resentment of that
reverse and of the unholy alliance
which brought it about makes mos.
Washington observers feel the
President is in no mood to ask any
of the crowd in question to sit in
and tell him how to run the country
at this witching hour. The fact
that they bet wrong on war has
not raised their advisory" stock at
No. 1900 Pennsylvania avenue
Nevertheless, there>are sincere we'll
wishers of the President who believe
he would not only render America q
patriotic service, but strengthen his
own reelection fortunes, by inviting
respected Republicans to join him
in keeping us out OF war or helping
us wage war, If we do.
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WAR HAS ITS
HUMAN SIDE, TOO!

When great nation goes to war-that's news. But
when its peace-loving people are forced to spend
their nights in underground afraid shelters and
their days sinking about the streets with gasmasks
slung from their shoulders+thats human interest"
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Cot Anyway

find cat to him to the test He the
cheerfuly nesting
a n nj
the will
it, certainly
b. e Mort Amt
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We, the People
Introduction of Coalition Cubinet'
Would Add to Confusion, Observer Saws
By Jay FRANKLIN.

Mr. Walter Lppmann something than his usual clear
Whn ne
the presidency Of the United
of the European crisis
The proposal that
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BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

War problems absorb President
Roosevelt and his official advisers,
but New Deal politicos aren't allow
ing Hitler's war utterly to divert
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Thomas r. Henry,
The Stars noted writ
err on science and a
skilled reporter, is in
London - constantly
on the alert for the
kind of gripping, vital,
human stories that
won him the recogni-
ton of the Pulitzer
Journalism A W ards
Committee during the
unforgettable "bonus
march" of 1882.
Mr.. Henry's highly
readable stories from
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VINO happens to S1t IN on cabinet
meetings and other gatherings of
legislative leaders at the White
Housewife not very reassuring re-
suits, Senator Arthur Vandenberg
of Michigan and Senator Robert
Taft of Ohio 1.-TWO aspirants for the
nomination of the Republican
minority shall somehow be taken
to Mr.. Roosevelt's presidential
bosom.
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Auckland, New Zealand, has
banned motorcycle novices from the
main streets.
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Republicans Guessed Wrono

1t Roosevelt Republicans
wrong here to
uneeced
moment their political
bankrupt.
1t be noted that
to speak out In belated repeating
1t is Roosevelt could admit
thereby further lending to the calculations
Hitler the Naz
Executive
the time when decision
the
New Dealers asking all dressing
Taft
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Ford dump truck which hos been operated 4ll.ooo
miles-or the equivalent Of more thon sixteen trips
around the earth OF the Equotors here en- route from
the Golden Cote international Exposition to the Ford
Exposition at the New York Worlds Fair
This veteran Of the highways, which hos transported
thon 100000 tons Of sond gravel and other build
ing moteria or sufficient to fill 1000 rorood hopper
eor hos been dspoy at the Ford Exhibit at Treasure
ON DISPLAY TO THE
SERVICE PARKING CO..