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Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
COURT UPHOlDS VERDICT
IN KlDNAP CASE

SACRAMENTO, July 20. CUP)-
Merle Busby today was assured a
new trial on a charge OF abduction
for the purpose of prostitution but
the third district court of appeal
upheld his conviction on child steal
ing charges in Merced county, in
volving he abduction of Evelyn
Thompson, 14year-old Livingston
schoolgirl.
BuSby was charged on the abduc
ton and stealing counts and also
two other counts of conspiracy along
with his sister, Sally Stanford, de-
gcribed as the operator of a San
Francisco house of prostitution. and
Dorothy Heber, who lived with the
Stanford woman. Busby was acquit-
ted on the conspiracy charges.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
THE POST-PRESS

Published every Sunday by the
Imperial Valley Publishing COM
pany, 625 State street, Ci Centre,
California, as successor to the
Sunday issues Of the Morning
Post and Valley Farmer. and
the Saturday issue of the I'm
perial Valley Press.
Paul Jenkins, publisher; A. c.
Johnston, vice-president and
general manager; T.. A. FitZ-
hugh, secretary and managing
editor.
Entered at FL Centre. California
postoffice as second class mat
ter.
West Holiday Co. Inc, National
Advertising X epres @ natives.
Subscription rates: In California
&c per copy or, in conjunction
with the Imperial Valley Press
or the Morning Post. Per month
6Oc; paid in advance: months,
$1.G5; 6 months, $3.25; one year,
Publishers Association.
5000; outside California. $1.00
per month
Member California Newspaper
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
Editorials and Comment
SUNDAY, JULY 21 1910
SAFE AND SANE MOTORING
(ChriStian Science MOnitOr)


The old Joke about the careless motor
list TRYING to bunt the train off the track
with his automobile is not a joke after
ALL About SO per cent Of accidents at
highWay-railroad grade crossings in 1899
resulted from motor vehicles crashing
into the sides of trains, according to 4
recent report of the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Of the 3.079 grade crossing accidents,
1895 We're thus caused, resulting IN 2lo
fatalities and 1923 injuries. Many acel-
dents occurred even at crossings protect
ed by gates, Watchmen, or signals. IN
the quest for greater safety. avoidance
of SideSWiping of trains by motor cars
surely is worth trying.
Safety on the highways depends not
upon one. but many factors. The Cen
ter for Safety Education at New York
university has just begun a series of
automatic tests on motorists in an effort
to discover causes of accidents. Each of
twenty-five motorists to be tested has
driven at least 10000 miles in metropoli-
tan traffic without repOrtable mlShap
in the last five years. This series of
tests will be followed by another given
to twenty-five accident repeaters in order
to compare observations OF the good
and bad" drivers.
Essential to diminishing automobile ac
cdents is the will to lessen them. Right
thinking is necessary to right driving.
As a man thinketh, he drveth Perhaps
something like Golden Rule for motor
lists might help, such as, "Drivt with
others on the highway as You would have
them drive with you.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
Search Continues
To Identify Body

Imperial county peace Ulcers
searched their missing persons
files Saturday III an effort to es-
tablished identification of a decom-
posed body found near Jacumba
Thursday by four Imperial Valley
children.
So much of the body was missing
Undersheriff Rodney Clarke said
Saturday, that it was difficult to
ascertain if there was any reSem-
blance TO persons from Imperial
county.
A bus ticket bearing an April
date and a photograph of a man
and child were found near the
body. The people III the photograph
have not been identified as yet.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
Willis Thomtons Editorial On:
Our Civil Body PoIitiek

unto which we promise all due Sub
mission ana Obedience
Three hundred and twenty years
dissolve. and now we again set our
selves to the task of doing for l40,-
100000 people what these Pilgrims
did for a few hundred. We, too, are
about 10 choose for our better Or
dering and preservation" those who
shall enact and enforce such just
and equal laws" as we today believe
are for the good of all of us.
Our task is on a greater scale,
but who can say it is more difficult?
For them, the rocky coast, the
bitter cold. the hostile Indians?
For US, the riddle Of want amid
plerty, the confusion of world
shaken from known foundations. the
rising tide of hate.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF MEETING OF THE
COUNTY BOARD OF EQUALl-
ZATUON


NOTICE is hereby given that
the Assessor Collector of Imperial
County. California, has delivered
to the Clerk of the Board of Super
visors of said County, the assess
ment Books together with the map
books. and statements for the fiscal
year l940-4l. and
The said Board of Supervisors
sitting as a Board of Equalization
will meet for the purpose of equaliz-
ing said assessments on Tuesday.
july l6. 1910. at nine O'clock A. NJ,
and said Board will continue in
session from time to time until
the business of equali2ing is dis
posed of. but not later than Mon
day. July %, 1910, at 500 O'Clock
P. M.
The Clerk of said Board will be
in his office in the Court House
AT FL Centre, California, each buSi-
ness day between Tuesday, July lG.
1910. continuously until and in
Guiding Monday, July 20, 1910, at
500 o'clock P NJ. except on Sat
urdays after 1900 O'Clock noon and
on other legal holidays, for the
purpose of receiving requests for
equalization of assessments by tax
payers, and all persons are re-
queSted to appear before and file
with said Clerk any petitions for
equalization which they desire. On
such receipt the same will be re-
ferred to and considered by said
Board.
Dated: FL Centre, California, July
! lG, 1910.
w. J. McCIFII,AND,
Clerk Of the Board OF
Supervisors.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
Large Supply Of
Dope Seized

SAN FRANCISCO, July 20. up
u. S. customs agents today seiz-
ed a large supply of cocaine which
was being smuggled into the United
States from Japan aboard the
japanese frelghter Manman Maru.
The customs office announced
the arrest Of a japanese, identified
only as "Wada', WHO allegedly
attempted to bring the narcotics
ashore in smalf rubberizcd silk bags
under bis clothes.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
Hull Arrives for
American ParIeY

HAVANA, Cuba, July 20. CUP)--
U. S. Secretary of State Cordell
Hull said today that the inter- Am
arican conference would unqueS-
tionably demonstrate The Vigor and
vitality of American republics work
ing together in common interest"
The secretary said that he re-
turned to Cuba as Il friend among
friends and in the interests of
American solidarity.
we are meeting to discuss prob
lens essential to the life of the
Americas he said 81 have no doubt
that this consultation will prove to
be Il demonstration Of the Vi9or
and vitality of the American re-
publicS Workin@ together i'll COM
mon interest,"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
RFC Official
20-3O Speaker

R. R. JeWkes, examiner and legal
counsel for the RFC, explained
workings of the Disaster Loan CO..
poration at a meeting of the FL
Centro 20-30 club this week, accord
ing to AL Spicy, publicity director.
JeWkes declared he was surprised
at the lack of applications for earth
quake repair in the Imperial Valley,
expressing the belief that valley
residents apparently were unaware
of the service.
Bob Fields, BraWley, vas visitor
at the meeting. Sherman Eldlidge,
president, presided at the meet
ing, Bob Sheffield was program
chairman.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
Donabedians Will
Go ToCoast

Mrs. S. H. Donabedian and her
daughter, Miss Helen Siegel, plan
ned to leave El Centro Saturday
for Oceanside to spend the week
end with their daughter and sister,
Mrs. Hugh Geyer, and Mr.. Geyer
of Washington, D. C.
They will see for the first time
the Geyer'S l8-month-old daughter
Leanne
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
Damage Suits
Arise From Strike

SAN FRANCISCO. July 20. tUP)
Twelve damage suits asking a
total of $l3l.5O were on file IN
federal court today, instituted by
CIO fruit pickers involved in the
1899 Marysville strike.
The suits charged officials of
Yuba county with false arrest, de-
privation of civil rights and i'm
prisonmcnt in alAegedly disease
infested Jail cells.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
Open Season On
Election Signs

GLOBE, July 20. 'UP)-1t's open
season on election signs ard posters
in Crook national forest. Senior
Ranger Carl B. Scholefield warn
ed today. The ranger said it was
against the law for seekers of Of
fices to tack signs inside the forest
and that all signs found therein
would be torn down.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
Fourth Son Born
To Don Ameche

HOLLYWOOD, July 20. 'UP)-
Don Ameche, who recently starred
in the film, -Four Sons" today be-
came the father of a fourth son
when Mrs Ameche. the former
Honore Pendergast of Dubuque,
Iowa, gave birth to a six pound,
13 ounce boy in st. Vincent's hos
pital
Both mother and child were re-
ported doing nicely.
The film stars other sons are
Donald, 6'2. Ronald, AZ, and Tom
mie, who was one year old today.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
Uranium Crackers
NICKNAMES

NICKNAMES
Can you name the persons who
bore the following Well-knoWn nick
names?
|. The Great Snowman.
2. The Little Corporal.
3. The Maid Of orleans.
4. The Sage of Concord.
5. The Swedish Nightingale.
ANSWERS
!. p T. Barnum.
2. Napoleon l.
3. Joar of Arc.
q. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
5. Jenny Lind.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
New Border Patrol
Officers on Duty

Dave Aldridge and Lionel F.
lawson. graduates of the immigra-
ton border patrol training school
at FL Paso, reported for duty at
Immigration headquarters in Ell
Centro Saturday. Their arrival
brought to Is the number of new
men assigned to the patrol in this
district rs Il part of the national
defense program.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
M. A. No. O53O83
District Land Office
Los Angeles, California

DlStTlct Ldnu OiICe
Los Angeles, California
June 7, 1910
Notice is hereby given that The
Tycrctc Chemical Corporation, by
Louis A. Tyce. president, of Chula
Vista, California, has made appli-
cation for patent to the White
Crystal No placer mining claim.
embracing EA SEH NEl Sec. 16
and White Crystal No 2 placer
mining claim. embracing SWA NWA
NWH Sec. Is; SCI. NEh NEH Sec.
l6 all in T. II s., r. 8 E. SBM
containing 40 acres, in the FL Cen
tro Mining District, Imperial Coun-
ty, California. There are no ad-
joining or conflicting claims. The
location notices are recorded in
Book 359, page l48 and Book 358,
page 1875, and amended notices are
recorded in Book 460 page 488,
Book AGO, page 489. and Book 48l.
page 563. official records of Imper-
ial County, California.
PAUL B. WITMER.
Register.
Gll-A20 incl)
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
GENERAL PUBLICS
PICTURE DISTORTED

All of which is really worth no.
ticing: because the general public
has somehow got a distorted pic-
ture OF Jim Farley. and il ought
TO be corrected.
Farley is supposed to be Just a
politician with the accent on the
word just He happens to De a
lot more than that, and that he
never got credit for 1t is pretty much
the fault of the inrer-circle New
Dealers. All through the Roosevelt
administration whenever principl IS
had to be compromised for political
expediencY, FARLEY was the whipping
boy-the guy they blamed it on.
He always took the rap-and down
the years he took quite few oun
ones
A matter of fact. for prin-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
WEATHER R
FORECAST

Southern California-Falr tonight
and Sunday but local morning
cloudlneSS near coast; normal tenn
perature. gentle northwest wind oil
the coast.
Record for "a hours ending am.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
Barbs

That japanese admiral who Wis
tied the Philippines to inquire after
health of his cOuntrymen there
hoped to find them not only we'll
but active
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21

CHICAGO. July 20.-Jim Farley
isn't cOmiGn OUt OF this COnVCn-
ton WITH anything special except
some more experience unless YOU
count the increased respect and
admiration which a lot Cf people
have conceived for him since the
party clans starred rallHin2.
F0.lcy has been the chief victim
Of the adroir game BY which Preal-
dent Roosevelt killed off all nral
candidates. for the nomination.
Farley had ambitions of his OWL
but instead OF getting a run for bis
munpy. ne had to come out here
and take charge of the ceremonies
at WuIc,. ;i.e ashes Of his ambitions
We're quot. laid to rest. And 1t
nevcr kracKod the smile Of his
face.
Not oHce. during all the confer
cncCs. mnet!r-s and public apps ar
anco> which kept hlm busy b'lcrr
and dlr.ne the convention. dix Far
ley b. Word or action bctra" resent
ment at the way his chief had used
him. He wasn't happy You didn't
need to kreW him very we'll to sec
that but he didn't Whimper. he
did,-'t c,1t and he STAYED lOVal
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
HUGHES RETURNS FROM
TWO-WEEK VACATION

Deputy Sheriff Herbert Hughes
and Mrs. Hughes returned to FL
Centro this week after spending a
week vacation in the Los IN
gPleS area.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
NEW DEALERS
MADE TASK HARDER

Farlevs uncomfortable situation
at the opening Of the convention
was aggravated by the clumsine5S
with which the New Dealers played
their hand. Farley knew that a huge
majority of delegates were ready to
vote third term nomination., ana
he wasn't prepared to buck: all he
asked was that ;hings take their
regular order, with the names of
other candidates himself included)
being put before the convention to
get such votes as might be avail
able Yet the New Dealers continued
TO work for a nomination by accla-
nation, despite the plain warnings
that that would mean a fight.
To cap it all, the New Dealers re-
versed their field abruptly on the
matter of naming a rational chair
man At first they had done every
thing in their power to get Far
ley out; then. about the time the
convention opened they began to
realize that they needed him. and
having got him to the point where
he wanted to resign-th2y did all
they could to get him to STAY.
1t all added up to a bad situa-
ton. for the party and for Farley
personally. 1t would have been a
great deal Worse-especially for the
party-if Farley hadn't been able
to meet it with a good deal OF real
craftsmanship.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

ciples. honesty and general all
round decency Farley will stand
comparison With anyone, in the
cabinet-or. for that matter, in the
brain trust as well. And as for his
aWareness of social and economic
problems and his ability to APP
proach them intelligently-Well, on
the eve of the convention one OF
the most prominent and non-poli-
teal of the New Deals economic
general staff told me that he would
be perfectly content to see jim Far
ley ir the White House.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
Thoughts For The Day

Blessed they that mourn: for they shall be COM
forted-Matthew 5:4
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
Famous Sayings

Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal
Moore.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
MEMBER

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. National
Editorial Association. Cali
fornia Newspaper Publish
erS Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-07-21
OLD FASHIONED +
IkI,'NIN Al.

Charles T.. Fuller,
Director l'Ors.cful
Gospel rrrI,'hin.
OLD Hymns Ot th.
Faith Every sun
300 u. M. Il \o-
1900 Il ilOcAcles
4 Nationwide
Gospel l'rO.rniii
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-07
MoreIand Has
Role In
'Bowery Boy

HOLLYWOOD (TYP)-Republic
Pictures have cast Mantan More
land, prominent colored comedian,
in "BoWery Boy" now in produc-
ton with Dennis O'Keefe, Louise
Campbell, Jimmy TON Brown"
Lydon, and Helen Vinson.
Movie audiences will remember
Moreland in n long list of film
roles. His expressive, mobile coun-
tenance has graced such pictures
as Frontier Scout" Next Time
I Marry" Irish Luck" Riders of
the Frontier" Drums of the
Desert" ana Laughing At Dan
ger"
"Bowery BOY" also 1ncIudes
amongst its highlights, cafe
scene in which a group of colored
performers make up a comic Ha-
Waiian band This production is
the story of a young product Of
New York's famed BoWery who un-
Willingly becomes involved In a
food scandal, innocently betraying
the young doctor who had be a
friended him.
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-07

HOLLYWCOD-(ANF)--Weu. 1t
looks as if after all the sep1a play
ars of cinem&land will have few
breaks coming TO them before the
Christmas shopping season is over
as several picture now in produc-
ton will be using considerable
numbers between now and the big
day. Hattie Mcdaniel and her
brother Sam are working in Bette
Davis new feature at Warner
Bros. First National, and others
as atmosphere or bit players are
scheduled to &c added as 1t progress
eS. ParamCunG'S Road to Zanzi-
bar" starring Dorothy Lamour
however, will pe using the largest
numbers as natives, half-castes, etc.
Road to Zanibar" started shoot
ing the coloced sequences last week
after fitting out nearly a score of
pretty girls VINO are to dance in an
important scene. Leroy Prinz, IA
nous dance director who takes
pride in hauGling colored players,
is in charge of the dance sequen-
ces, and they are expected to be as
colorful as his big scenes in Big
Broadcast" the stage musical
comedy Lucky Day" and many
others.
The girls who started to work
last week we're selected from over
30 sent on interview by Charles
Butler, who still holds the impor-
ant position Of casting director of
eoloyed talent for Central Casting
bureau. Th% are Lucy Battle.
louise Franklin, Avanella Harris,
May Johnson, Juanita Moore, M
Jortina, Doris Axes, Anita Brown!
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-07
Cab Sets Another
Record In PhiIly

PHILADELPHIA, Is N S)-Cab
Galloway, the master Of Hi De Ho
rhythm, has chalked Up another
high water theatre mark when he
shattered the record for gross re-
ceipts at the Earle Theatre, Phlla-
delphia, last week with a figure Of
ficially announced as 7,503.15.
This unprecedented high was
recorded for six days. Theatre at
fractions playing Philadelphia
play in Camden on Sunday, bus
this total is not included in the
weeks gross. Cab and his Cotton
Club revue crossed about $4,000 in
Camden.
Cab. like "Oie Man River" keeps
rolling along. This is his tenth
year as a top flight star in the
theatre fIrmament. In this decade,
he has probably crossed more
money than any other colored at
traction.
The Philadelphia week, in ad-
oition to being a happy one for
Cab professionally, brought him
additional JOY with the second
birthday of his daughter Con-
stance. He was hcme on the morn
ING of her birthday and showered
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-07
Tapping Wires

'tBlues on Parade" Album offer the
band in thorough study of the
blues and ali its variations. The big
gest kicks CAME to this writer from
the origina; blues songs by Her.
man and boys from his band, Blues
Upstairs-B Blues Downstairs; River
Red Blues; Dupree BlueS-C -Calliope
Blues while better known items as
Farewell Blues and Dallas Blues Of
fer secondary delights. Unusual har-
mony, chords, phraSing by ensemble
and soloists in addition to the
blues chanting by maestro Herman
all tend to make this one of the
top Albums in Ne popular field OF
all time. Piano, Trombone, Clarinet
and Trumpet lead the way in solos.
Other numbers included in this col
lections are: Laughing Boy Blues
Peach Tree st. eet, Twin City Blues,
Blues on PaTade (the latter two
not really blues but ensemble riff
items). I'm told a descriptive book
let is included but haven't received
it as yet-Ihe Columbia Label
comes forth with very interesting
Album especially for lovers OF semi
classical music, "Show Tunes OF
Jerome Kern" This fellow, Kern,
really writes 'en when it comes to
show and production numbers as is
proven by the current interest in
his songs although many were writ
ten years ago and Al Goodman
radio maestro for comedian, Fred
Allen. on CHS, leads his band thru
excellent versions of Oh Man River
Why Do I Love You; Smoke Gets
In Your Eyes-Make Believe; Who
All the Things You Are; Silver
Lining--They Didn't Believe Me
The only thing lacking is a varia-
ton Of arrangements which tends
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-07
Radio Premiere Of Cabin
In The Sky TO Be Friday
Ethel Waters
Singing To
Be On CBS

NEW YORK CITY - (SNS)-
Kate Smith will present a micro
phone double feature, the an
rouncement Of her Fifth Annual
All-Collegiate Football Team and
ne radio premiere of the new
broadway musical hit. Cabin In
the Sky" on the Kate Smith
Hour" over the Columbia network
friday, Dec. 6. tWABC-CBS, 800
to 8:55 PM, EST. Rebroadcast II
Midnight to l2:55 AM, EST
SLEEPY jim" Crowley, Fordham
University coach, and Ted Collins
will assist Miss Smith in announc-
ing the First, Second and Third
Teams.
The committee Of six famous
coaches who polled 800 of their
follow gridiron members in Kate's
behalf consisted of Crowley, as
chairman; Iyn Waldorf, North
western; Frank j. Murray, Univer-
sity Of Virginia; o. E. Holling-
berry. Washington State; Homer
Norton, Texas A. t& M, and Wal
lace Wade, Duke.
"Cabin In the Sky" with music
by Vernon Duke and John La
touche. is an all-Negro fantasy
starring Ethel Waters in the role
Of "Petunia,' Rex Ingram as "Lu-
c;fer, Jr," Todd Duncan in the
guise of Ode LaWd's General" )"
Catherine Durham as Georgia
Brown" and Dooley Wilson as the
unfortunate "Little Joe" whose
ill-sCvised adventures with loaded
dice lead to a fatal encounter with
razor.
The Kate Smith Hour is
rounded out by Nan Rae and
Mrs. Waterfall, Ted Straeter's
Chorus, Jack Miller's Band and
Andre Baruch.
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-07
Handy To Lead Parade
To Memphis Blues Bo1uL

ion has reNived the endorsement
Of Mayor Chandler in letter which
stated in part:
Il will be very glad to attend the
football game wherever you hold it,
and certainly hope that it will be
a great success in every way.
when the dong of good can be
combined with clean craftsmanship
an athletic competition, the result
is doubly bsneficial."
Arrangements for the event are
being complete More than IA busi-
ness and civic units will march in
the parade. A queen will be select :
ed to lead che parade. AT the sta
dium Booker I. washington grid
squad is slated to meet the Clarks-
dale. Miss, nlgh school Aggies. Pro-
ceeds will go to the Beale Street
Elks Christmas Charity func.
The Phoenix index., 1940-12-07

MEMPHIS.--(A (ANP)-W. G. Han.
dy, in whose honor the fete is plan
ned, will be j.. Memphis in person
when the SCI end annual Blues
Bowl football game is held Decem-
ber 9 at Washington stadium,
members or the Beale Street Elks,
sponsors of the celebration, said
Wednesday,
Handy viii lead the parade and
participate IL other activities
planned before the game and will
play a revised version of his popu-
lar Memphis Blues" during the
game at the stadium. Theme of the
event, 1.-The Return Of the Memphis
Blues, was selected following the
announcement that Handy had re-
gained control Of the songs copy
right.
a. Meanwhile, the annual celebra :