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Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26
Court Decision
Upholds Papers

SACRAMENTO, Cal. Feb. 26. UP)
Newspapers publishing truthful
reports OF divorce actions involv-
ing a correspondent are not sub
ject 10 suit for libel.
Such was the ruling of the third
district court of appeal here today,
action by the Los Angeles
superior court in dismiSsing suit
against the Los Angeles Examiner
tor $500 damages for libel, filed
by Lucille Mortenson and Athalie
OF Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26

LOS ANGELES, Feb. &c. UP -
Livestock.
Hogs-Receipts, 25; steady; few
truckins, $7.75; good light easternS
quoted around $500.
Cattle-Receipts, 800; holdoVers,
248; she stock steady; steers slow;
best held above $500; odd lots light
Texas steers, S7.5O-785; load Texas
heifers, $3.50; good Imperial and
Colorado COWS S585-6.50; mulk COWS
S450-5.75. Calves - Receipts, 200;
steady; medium to choice vealers,
S1O50-13.50; Texas calves, s975-
900.
Sheep Receipts none; medium
to choice lambs quoted S700-8.5O.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26
Flyer Claims
He Set Record

LOS ANGELES, Feb &c. UR) -
Lieu. Allen Van de Mark today
claimed a new speed record tor
commercial air trips from New YORK
TO Los Angeles after completing the
trip with three passengers In 10
hours. IS minutes.
The east-weSt tranScontinental
record for all planes is y hours, 25
minutes and IS held b. Frank
Hawks.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26
BANDITS LOOT BANK

KANSAS CITY, Kans., Feb. 70.
U.P)-Fiye bandits entered the Sc
curity State bank here shortly be-
fore noon today, forced seven en-
ployees and six customers TO lie on
the floor, snatched S65Oo IN cur
rencv and $4,000 in Liberty bonds
and escaped
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26
Reject Proposal
For Oil Embargo

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. U.P)-
Republican members OF the house
ways and means committee voted
against all oil embargo proposals,
Chairman Hawley announced.
Republican members OF the COM
mittee voted against reconsidering
oil embargo proposals. which the
full committee laid aside Monday
after receiving a report from spe-
cial b-committee which investi-
gated possibilities Of compromise.
The act was regarded as ending
all possibility OF legislation at this
session.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26
Famous Woman
Flyer Missing

LOS ANGELES. Feb. &c. U.P =
A countrywide search was underway
today for Edna Mae Cooper, 26, CO.
holder OF the women IS world endu-
rance flight mark, missing for 48
hours from her home in the Holly
wood Hills.
Miss Cooper left her home Tues
day morning TO walk TO the car line,
a mile and a half away. At the
time she was reported wearing s4500
in jeWelry.
With Miss Bobbie Trout. she set
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26

Pass. Chief Engineer Weymouth is
covering every section OF the line
from the intake at Upper Parker
Canyon on the river to the several
possible reservoir sites in the vi
einity OF the cities to be served.
Chief Field Engineer J. b. Bond,
one Of Weymouth's chief assist
antss. is in charge OF field work.
The work now gong forward. II
was explained. is that OF establish
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26

Out along far-hung line of op-
srations extending across noun
aims and desert country distance
of go miles-or more-feld engi-
leers with the Metropolitan Water
District are pushing forward the
.xacting task OF establishing the
precise location OF the gigantic
.queduct that will bring water
rom the Colorado River to the
.ities in the Metropolitan District.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26
Hundred Killed
In FIJI Islands

SUVA. FIJI Islands, Feb. 27 U.P)
With the death list known 10 eX-
ceed 100, buildings, crops and ore
entire Fijian village were laid waste
today by q tropical hurricane that
swept the island OF Fiji.
So devastating was the force OF
the storm that inland rivers were
reported lifted from their banks an7
driven through new channels across
the countryside.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26

Under the direction of Chief En-
gineer Frank E. Weymouth. tie
engineering forces OF the District
now are concentrating their efforts
on the Parker route-the line Off
cially selected by the Metropolitan
District board of directors as the
most practicable and economical OF
all routes suggested.
With field headquarters located
at Beaumont on the San Gorgonio
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26

been found unconscious in the bed
of a Tijuana river, near the city.
Sheehans death was said by
hospital authorities to have been
due to acute alcoholism, but Ii
juana police are Investigating to
determine whether the liquor was
poisoned and where the men OBJ
tanned 1t.
One of the men was identified as
William P. Mcclure, address un-
known.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26

ing the exact grades and lines to
be followed by the aqueduct
throughout the 252 miles OF its
length. These locations are being
established along the general
Parker route. selected by the Dis
trict Board upon the recommenda-
tion of Chief Engineer Weymouth
and an Engineering Board Of Re-
view composed of three other in
ternationally famous engineers.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26
BLAME DEATH ON
POISONED LIQUOR

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Feb. 26. up
Possibility that poisonous liquor
was responsible for the death OF
one man and the illness OF two
others. is being investigated by IT.
juana police today.
Richard j. Sheehan, Of Massa-
chusetts, died in Tijuana last night
after he and two other men had
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26
Guu Powder Opium In lures II

PEIPING, UP)-One spectator
was killed and II injured when an
ti-opium officials mistook a tin of
gun powder for tin of opium
and threw it on a bonfire at Tsin-
an, Shantung province, recently.
The gun powder exploded, result
ing in the serious accident.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26
SOUIRRELS-NOT ROBBERS

MEMPHIS, U.P)-When a squirrel
chewed the telephone wire leading
to a resident here the family be-
lieved robbers had clipped the lines
preparatory TO a hold up and hur-
riedly summoned police. Upwards
OF 100 telephones were out OF order
because of the accident.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26
NEW BOOKS AT
CITY LIBRARY
Fiction

fltIlOn
Murder on the Bridge. by Lynn
Brock; q detective story.
Archibald, by Frederick Mark
ham; a story of a young man in
theatrical and advertising worlds
River Girl" by Homer Croy;
steamboating or the Mississippi in
the days just preceding the Ciyil
War.
The Rector's Daughter by F.
M. Mayor: a tender story of a
middle-aged spinster in England
Roman Holiday" by Upton Sim
clair.
The Last Shot, by Lee Thayer;
q mystery story.
The Man With the Scared
Hand, by Henry Kitchell Webster.
Non-Fiction
Farm Children. by Bird T.
Baldwin.
when Ships Were Ships and Not
Tin Pots. by William ". Barnes.
The Negro Sings q New Heaven
by Mary Allen GriSsom.
County Libraries by Julia
johnson.
Man vs.. Microbes. by Nicholas
Kopeloff.
Our Criminal Courts. by Ray
mond Moley.
Henry White, by Allan Nevins.
Letters OF James Whitcomb
Riley, by William Lyon Phelps
The John Riddell Murder Case.
by John Riddell.
Simon Bolivar. by Guillermo
Sherwell.
Our Times. Pre-War America
by Mark Sullivan.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26

The last shipment of turkeys from
Yerington. Nevada, brought so
farmers $4,000 the prices being
higher than for Thanksgiving or
Christmas.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26

Floriston, Nevada County. flour
ishing paper mill town 80 years
ago, lost its last family of resi-
dents February 7.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-02-26
@dartetS

LOS ANGELES, Feb 26. W.p) -
Following arc today's market quo
tationS:
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RETIRED MECHANIC
KILLS SELF BY GAS
w. F. ZeitIer, 80, Said to
Have Been Suffering
From MeIancholia.

William F. zeitler, so-year-old me-
chanic, said to have been suffering
from melancholia, killed himself early
today at his home, 626 A street south
east. He died shortly after his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ida Clark, found hin. I'M
conscious, a rubber tube extending
from his mouth to an open gas jet
A certificate of suicide has been
issued by Coroner ]. Ramsey hewitt.
Mr. Zeitler was found in the base
ment Of his home when his daughter
arose TO investigate shortly after 5
o'clock when she Smelled gas. Mrs.
Clark summoned the fire rescue squad,
but the man was pronounced dead
$50 East Capitol street.
The dead man retired from active
work about four years ago, after serv-
ing as master mechanic at Blue
Plains. Members of the family said
that although he had been in good
health. he had been suffering from
dependency for some time and sew
eral times had threatened to end his
life
He Is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Nettie Zeitler; four daughters, Mrs.
Clark. Mrs Clara Thomas. Mrs. Emma
Phillips and Mrs. Catherine Holloran,
and three sons, Gus H., Oscar F. and
William L. Zeitler, all Of this city.
Funeral services will be held Mon
day at Zurhorst undertaking parlors.
Burial will be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
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Jury TO GET HESS
GALL|NGER VERSION
Representatives Secretary
to Tell of Complaint
Made by Jaffee.

Mrs. Pauline A. Werner secretary to
Representative Hess Of Ohio, was OK
pected to tell the grand jury today OF
complaints made to Mr. Hess by an
eX-service man from Cincinnati OF al
legged brutal treatment received by him
self and other patients at GalIlnger
Hospital recently.
The complainant. Joseph Edward Jaf-
fee. testified before the jury for 40 min
utes yesterday before leaving the city
with the expectation of returning in a
few days to learn if the jury wishes to
recall him.
officials of the hospital deny Jaffee's
charges and declare they welcomed a
full investigation of allegations that
Jaffee was unnecessarily detained at
the institution and that he and other
patients were abused by orderly
patients"
Assistant District Attorney Julian I.
Richards. in charge of the jurys in
quiry, said it was optional with that
body as to whether it would visit the
hospital or summon officials of the in
Stitution to testify.
Hospital authorities say Jaffee was
under treatment for 48 hours for sup
posed overdose of some drug, and that
he was in 'stupor' and unable to
care for himself at the time he asked
to be discharged. They have been I'M
able to corroborate Jaffee'S story of
mistreatment either among attendants
or among Jaffee's fellow patients in
wards to which he was confined from
Friday to Sunday noon.
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ALDRIDGE AWAITS
EXECUTION AGAIN
Officers Slayer, Convicted Third
Time, Prepares to Die
October 80.

Alfred Scott Aldridge. colored con-
victed OF Staying Policeman Harry j.
Mcdonald on July 6, 1929, must again
go to the death house in the District
Jail to await electrocution on Octo-
Der so.
Aldridge was convicted for the third
time in District Supreme Court fort
night ago after the United States Su-
preme Court had set aside verdict
of guilty of murder in the first degree.
Justice Peyton Gordon sentenced the
defendant late yesterday after he had
overruled a motion for a new trial.
Attorney James F. Reilly for the de-
tense gave notice of appealing to the
Court of Appeals.
According to testimony, Aldridge and
his brother had been caught by Nc
Donald in an attempt to rob drug
store. While being taken TO a patrol
box. Aldridge shot Mcdonald and fled.
Mcdonald shot and killed the fleeing
brother, and Aldridge, after being ap-
pretended, claimed it was the brother
who shot the policeman.
The case is said to be the first in
the District records where a conviction
of first degree was obtained after a
new trial had been ordered by the
United States Supreme Court. In his
first two trials Aldridge was a witness,
but at the last trial he did not take
the stand.
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BUYS SITE IN WAY
OF MEMORIAL PLAN
Arlington Bridge Commission
Closes Deal for Standard
Oil Building.

The Arlington Memorial Bridge Com.
mission has Just completed purchase O!
the building of the Standard OH GO. OF
New Jersey at Third street and Penn
sylvania avenue for $250OOO.
Will Be Torn Down.
Announcement of the purchase was
made today. Government officials eX-
planned this property is to be torn down
soon to make way for the widening ana
improvement of Constitution avenue,
which will cross Pennsylvania avenue IN
that vicinity.
The Standard Oil Co. proposes to
construct a new Office building across
from B street. between Second ana
Third streets. opposite its present loca-
ton. The District Government Is eX-
pected to proceed Immediately with
tearing down buildings purchased Tor
the Municipal Center development IN
that location.
Work TO Start Soon.
Plans for the new Standard OIL
Building are being prepared in New
York, the company's officials here said
TODAY, and the new construction Will
likely go forward in the near future,
The District government proposes 10
put in the curbs for the improved Con-
stitution avenue in the vicinity OF the
newly acquired property during the cur
rent fiscal year. The permanent paw
ing Will be put in after next July.
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Three Improvements Would
Surround Building With
New Surface.
CONSTITUTION AVENUE
PAVING is SUSPENDED
E Street Widening Is Held I'm
perative to Avoid Traffic
Congestion.
Extensive street improvements in the

Extensive street Improvements in the
vicinity of the new Department of Com
merce Building were planned today by
officials Of the District highway de-
partment.
The work. TO begin about July 20.
includes resurfacing of the west side
of Fourteenth street from E street to
Constitution avenue, resurfacing of
Fifteenth street from E street to Con-
Stitution avenue, and widening and re-
surfacing of E street from Fourteenth
to Fifteenth streets.
Park to Be Reduced.
In connection with the widening of
E street, highway officials contemplate
extending that thoroughfare from
Fourteenth street to Pennsylvania ave-
nue., which will cut off a portion OF
the park in front Of the District Build
ing.
To avoid serious traffic congestion at
Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue. highway officials declare the
opening of E street from Fourteenth
street to Pennsylvania avenue is i'm
perative, because the Federal building
program calls for the closing of Ohio
avenue. c and D streets, eliminating
existing east and west traffic outlets
between Constitution avenue and Penn
Sylvania avenue.
Constitution avenue already has been
widened and resurfaced from Four
tenth street to Virginia avenue. and
the projected improvements will pro-
vide a new surface entirely around the
Department Of Commerce Building.
Work Is Suspended.
No further paving work will be done
this year on Constitution avenue. but
next year this thoroughfare will be
widened and resurfaced from Sixth
street TO the Capitol. leaving only one
stretch between Sixth and Fourteenth
streets to be completed in 1898.
The highway department also has
made plans to improve the roadway of
the Virginia approach to Highway
Bridge. This project involves new
link connecting the roadway with the
new Mount Vernon Boulevard. as we'll
as reSurfacing the existing roadway ap-
proach where it connects with the
newly surfaced Lee-Jackson Highway
paralleling the railroad tracks to Alex
andria. The District has jurisdiction
over that part of the road, although it
extends for some distance beyond the
Virginia abutment of Highway Bridge.
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POLICE SEEK DRIVER
AFTER FOUR CRASHES
Stolen Automobile Abandoned in
Fight of Colored Man at
Twenty-First Street.

Third precinct police were searching
today for a colored man who crashed
into four machines while driving a
stolen car early today and then es-
capped on foot after abandoning the
automobile
Charles L. Borden, 23 of Pill Eight
zenith street told police ne was driving
north on New Hampshire avenue when
a sedan driven by the colored man
came out of Twenty-first street and
struck his car.
The sedan then turned into Ward
place, where it struck three parked
cars owned by James S. Moran
= Riggs court; A. A. Barkwell, 1880
New Hampshire avenue, and Helen
Henry, 1916 o street.
The driver then halted the machine,
raced through the alley and disap-
peared, with Borden and several
passers-by in pursuit. The car driven
by the colored man was stolen July 6
from Israel Pomerantz, 1887 Nineteenth
street, police said.
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AUTO TITLE RULING
ADOPTED FOR D. c.,
EFFECTIVE IN 1882
All Motor Vehicles to Require
Ownership Certificates
Under New Regulation.
DEALERS DUE TO USE
SPECIAL BLANK FORM
Applications Prior to January l
Will Be Received by Director
of District Traffic.

The District Commissioners today
adopted regulations governing retitling
of automobiles in the District under
authority of the traffic act passed at
the last session of Congress.
Under terms of the regulations 1t Is
mandatory for all persons operating or
permitting the operation of any motor
vehicle in the District to obtain a GER
tificate of title for it. The penalty is
fine Of $1,000 or Imprisonment for
rot more than one year, or both.
Dealers to Use Special Form.
The dispute as to whether manufac-
turerS OF motor vehicles would be re-
quired to fill out for each vehicle sent
into Washington special forms prepared
here was settled by a regulation that
no dealer shall acquire new vehicle
after January ! unless he obtains at
the time of its acquisition such writ
ten evidence of origin and ownership
and of any liens, encumbrances or trust
agreements existing against said We
hicle as may be satisfactory to the di-
rector"
1t is left to the director OF traffic's
discretion TO work out with the manu-
facturers the method by which this
written evidence is TO be furnished.
Will BE Effective January /.
Although the terms of the new regu-
lations are not compulsory until jan
uary /. the director will be prepared to
furnish certificate of title to those APP
plying prior TO that time who wish to
do so. They must present satisfactory
evidence of the ownership of the motor
vehicle. No 1882 registration tags will
be issued except to owners who present
certificates of title to the automobiles
which they desire to register.
The new regulations, which occupy II
closely typed pages, go into great detail
as to the method of obtaining title and
as to the transfer of titles either by
sale or gift of the cars or by transfers
through banks or finance companies.
Applications for the certificates of
title are to be made on forms furnished
by the director which will provide spaces
for full description of the car. together
with a statement of the applicants
ownership and any liens or encum-
brances on 1t.
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HERO'S BODY
AFTER FIVE DAYS
Rivermen Discover Remains of
William McVerry, Who Gave
Life for Companions.

Five days after he was drowned in
the Patuxent River near Point Pa
tience, Md, the body of William Nc
Very. 20, of 300 Todd place northeast
Washington, was found today in the
mouth of st. Leonards Greek, at Brooms
Island
McVerry was drowned July S in an
attempt to rescue a companion, John
Glascoe, 81. of Hyattsville, when the
latter fell into the river from a boat
they had hired for fishing. Glascoe
grabbed q life preserver thrown to him
and was saved, but before one could
be thrown to McVerry the boat had
c.rifted too far.
The swell that threw Glascoe into
the water also is said to have thrown
John Gleason, 81, and his brother Ross,
10, both of the 100 block of Fifth
street northeast, from the boat.
McVerry supported Ross until a life
preserver was thrown. He was a good
swimmer, but it was believed he had
become exhausted in his rescue efforts
William Wiles. "a, of 800 T street north
east. made futile attempts to throw him
life preserver, but the engine of the
motor boat had stalled and the boat
could not be handled in time to save
him.
For five days. river men had dragged
for the body until it was recovered this
morning some miles away.
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that he had another home somewhere.
Miss Rose Flynn. camp superintend-
ent, learned from the dog license Off
cial that Rags was listed to Mrs. A. B.
Butrick Of the 1900 block of Ingraham
street.
There was nothing for it, the camp
agreed. amid the signs of the younger
members, but to return Rags.
This Miss Flynn proceeded to do,
driving Rags back to Ingraham street
in her automobile and receiving from
Mrs. Butrick a dollar bill for the chill
dren.
The bill was converted at a bargain
counter into three pairs of small pa
jamas-Rags' contribution to the camp
wardrobe.
But the young hopefuls cleaned
further word of comfort from Rags
mistress.
Rags is a confirmed wanderer." she
said. Il seem to spend half my income
getting him sent home-n1aybe he II
come to see You again some time"
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WOMAN RECOVERING
AFTER SUICIDE TRY
Mrs. Anna Schaffer Sought to Kill
Self and 3-Year-0ld
Daughter.

Thwarted last night in an attempt to
kill herself and her 3-year-old daugh-
ter Lenora, Mrs. Anna Schaffer, 80. oil
769 Quebec street. was recovering today
at Casualty Hospital.
The woman and child were found
lying on the kitchen floor of their
apartment with gas pouring from SIX
open stove jets. A neighbor, John P.
Watson, had detected the odor of escap-
ing gas and traced it to their rooms.
Members of the fire rescue squad re-
vived the two Neithsr the child nor
her mother was believed to be in seri-
Gus condition.
A desire to die rather than continue
suffering from i'll health was believed
to have prompted the suicide attempt.
She had been i'll for some time, tenth
precinct police were told.
Albert Schaffer, her husband. who
was in Baltimore on a visit. moved here
with his wife and daughter from Poland
about four months ago. He is tailor.
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FRIENDLY POODLE SENT HOME
TO CAMP CHILDREN'S SORROW
Rags Makes Friends Quickly but 1t Is Decided Owner
Should Have Him.

The interlude Of bliss that followed
upon the advent Of Rags was all too
brief for the so boys and girls at the
tuberculosis Associations health camp
near Fourteenth and Upshur streets
yesterday.
Being quite a vagabond, the small
blue poodle had wandered far when he
trotted in during an afternoon lull, coat,
disheveled, tongue hanging out, but
none the less ready to make friends.
In less than two wags of his tail
Rags was the center OF large and en-
thusiastic juvenile reception commit
tee. the camp directors being in con-
ference.
Before the conference broke up, Rags
had shaken hands with every young
ster on the lot and was as thoroughly
at home as If he had cut his teeth on
the camps tent stakes.
But when the conference broke up
sorrowful discovery was NADIA
license tag which Rags bore on his
shaggy neck. significant of the fact
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PICNIC TO MARK DATE
OF MANASSAS BATTLE
Speeches, Music and Recitations
Will Feature Gathering at Henry
House Hill July FL.

Concentrating the anniversary OF
tie battle of Manassas, the annual PIC,
mic on Henry House Hill VIII pc nelo
committee in charge of arrangements:
A program Of speeches. music and ,,
recitations will be the feature OF the
gathering on the historic site on the t
Lee Highway. The speakers VIII IN
clude David L. Pulliam OF Richmond
Va, and Col. c. Seymour Buiiock.
Preparations are in charge OF the 1oi-
lowing trustees John w. Rust, presi-
urer, and J. Roy Price, director. The
committees include Fred P. Meyers,
chairman of committee representing
Washington Camp of Sons OF Conteder-
ate Veterans and the Virginia SocleIy
Committee on Flags; Arthur Clarendon
Smith and Mrs Elizabeth c. Fred,
Committee on Music.