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The Washington times., 1931-12-15
JUVENILE CASES INCREASE

the principal speaker, spoke on
"A States Adventure in Child
Welfare"
The following were elected di.
rectors for the ensuing year:
Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, Prof. H.
G. Spaulding. of George Wash
ington University; Paul Benja-
min, Mrs. Milton A. Francis, Mrs.
Donnel F. Hewett, Miss Jessie
LaSalle, Judge j. Wilmer Lati-
mer, Ellwood P. Morey and DR..
Winifred V. Richmond.
The Washington times., 1931-12-15

Decided increases in the mum.
ber Of children in the care Of the
Juvenile Protective Association
we're barred in the report of Miss
Mildred Terrett, executive secre-
tary of the association. The
association had 701 cases on its
active list for 1881, as compared
with 581 in 1880 and 356 in
1929, according to the report.
Arthur Dunham, of New York,
director of studies for the Family
Welfare Association of America,
The Washington times., 1931-12-15
BALLOU FLAyS WAGE CUTS

A denunciation of all policies
recommending a decrease in pub
lie school appropriations is voiced
by DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superin-
t,ndent of District schools, in an
article appearing in the Journal
of Education.
This article comes at a time
when he Bureau of the Budget
has recommended a decrease Ct
more than $1,500,000 for Washing
ton school buildings and grounds.
Advocating a stability in appro-
priatior. for Schoolhouse accom-
The Washington times., 1931-12-15

modations, DR.. Ballou points out
that although delay in the devel-
opment of ether municipal activ-
tiles may only cause inconveni-
ence or a time, time lost in pro-
viding an adequate program OF
eLucatl On for the children "can
never be made up, either by the
school system or by the child.
Government officials shoul d
recognize the fact, DR.. Ballou
says, that public schools train
young people for tn, business of
life.
The Washington times., 1931-12-15
Rhodes AU1rd GiUen
American u. Student

Albert Henry Garretson, grad.
uate student at American Univer-
sity, has been named one of the
80 Rhodes Scholars for the COM
ing year, according to tie an
nouncement of DR.. Frank Ayde.
lotte, president OF Swarthmore
College and secretary to the
Rhodes trustees.
He will finish his year at Amer.
ican University and go to oxford
as a Rhodes scholar next fall.
The Washington times., 1931-12-15
NeU Traffic Tickets
Issued to Policemen

Instructions to policemen con-
cerning new traffic ticket books
which they will start using at 8
a. m, tomorrow we're yesterday
issued by Inspector L. I. H. Ed
wards.
The new tickets will be made
out in triplicate. One copy goes
to the motorist, the officer keeps
one, and the third is to be filed
with precincts and bureaus which
will keep them on record until
the case is disposed Of.
The Washington times., 1931-12-15
Women Dry Foes
TO Hold Rally Here

Women opposed to prohibition
win air their views at the Masonic
Auditorium tomorrow night at
a meeting sponsored by the Dis
trict Council of the Women's Or.
ganization for National Prohibi.
tlon Reform. Mrs. Marion Booth
Kelley, of New York, will be the
principal speaker.
The District organization now
mas $500 members and is grow.
Ing at the rate of 20 daily, it is
reported.
The Washington times., 1931-12-15
HOLd-Up Plea Costs E
Boy Sum of S1.O9

A thirst for knowledge cost
nine-year-old James Day, Of 1440
w st. N. W.. exactly $1.09
Sunday when he persuaded two
colored boys to hold him up
while he peered in a window at
the National Museum.
Jimmy looked to his hearts
content and then the other boys
hastily departed. So did Jimmy's
pocketbook containing $1.09. He
tearfully told his story to Park
Policeman j. W. Sheedy,
The Washington times., 1931-12-15

Rugged sheep
lined coats Of
leatherette or
Caveltex dix e
leather). 8 to 1S.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
BILL PROVIDES
THREE VERDICTS
in MURDER CASES

SACRAMENTO, Cal, May S. tU.H
"A verdict of guilty of murder
would require a mandatory recon-
mendation by the jury of one of
three sentences-hanging, life i'm
priSonment without parole and life
imprisonment with parole-under
provisions of bill reported to the
assembly today by the judiciary
committee.
The bill is a substitute for the
amended anti-capital punishment
bill by William B. HornbloWer, San
Francisco. so charged on the floor
or the assembly that it was killed in
its original pun. .ose TO abolish
hanging, and was introduced by c..
Ray Robinson of Merced.
No more than. 10 persons could
witness hanging in California un-
der terms of bill by Assemblyman
Chester Kline, San Jacinto, given
approval of the committee.
The public defender bill of As
semblyman Frederick Houser, AL
hambra, failed to receive sufficient
votes to send it to the assembly.
The measure provided for the ap-
pointment of public defender in
each county of the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
Fall Likely To
Obtain Pardon

WASHINGTON, May 5. U.H-Al-
bert B. Fall may have good chance
of obtaining pardon on the charge
of bribery for which he stands con-
victed. it is believed in some cir
cles here. due to his age and failing
health.
While his pardon appeal will be
passed upon finally by President
Hoover, it will be member of the
supreme court who probably will ac-
tually make the decision. That JUS
tice is Owen j. Roberts, who as
special government counsel prose-
cuted Fall. Pardon applications
usually are referred to the judges
and prosecutors. Friends OF Roberts
said last night that he had conduct
cd the governments case through
out without malice, and believed
his calm, judicious spirit might in
fluence him in favor of pardon
for the former cabinet member.
1t was held unlikely, however,
that Fall would be able to escape
paying the 100000 fine which is a
part of his sentence. unless he went
to the length of taking a pauper's
oath. His finances are said to be
depleted, the money he obtained
from Harry S. Sinclair and E. l..
Doheny having been largely swal-
lowed up by his Improbable ranch
in New Mexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
kDyR|sS!$Ss7:t !S7

BEVERLY HILLS, May
4. (SpeciaD we got
a dose of our own medicine
this morning in the paper.
We're always running off
investigating some other
country and coming back
reporting the shape it's in.
Well, some European
woman q think she was
French) has been looking
us over and reported our
condition to the League of
Nations. Course, what she
says don't listen SO good
to us, but the old gal is
about right at that.
Our so-called prosperous
times taught us bad habits
and this depression has left
us using cheap substitutes
for expensive bad habits.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
Report Princess
Ileana Engaged

BUCHAREST, Roumania, May S
U.P-Princess Ileana, 22-year-old
daughter of Dowager Queen Marie
will be married in June to Arch
duke Anton Won Hapsburg, en-
ployee of Vienna motion picture
company.
The engagement of the princess
whose romances since the time OF
her visit to the United States with
her mother have been widely pub
licized, was announced officially
last night.
Princess Ileara is an attractive
dark haired girl who has travelled
frequently with her mother in re-
cent years, one journey to Egypt
last year being made in an effort
to end the princess romance with
Count Alexander Won Hochberg
son of the Princess of Pless. The
princess had impetuously announced
her engagement to the count, only
to have the government cancel
what she had described as true
love match.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
.R11~'
a 1880 MsNausht synAseats ia
ALFONSO STATES
HE WILL ABIDE
BY ELECTIONS

MADRID, May 5. UP)-Former
King Alfonso was quoted in an in
terview with the representative of
the newspaper A B c today as say
ing he had decided absolutely 70
place no obstacles in the path cf
the Republican government, which
for me above all is now the govern
ment of SPAIN
IT am sincere and my action In
the future will demonstrate my
loyalty to this proposition the
exiled king was quoted as saying to
Juan Ignacio Lucatena, director of
the newspapers in an interview in
London.
"I want all persons whether they
be monarchists or Republicans to
know that I will be sincere, no
matter how my words may be mis-
interpreted Alfonso said.
"Monarchists who wish to follow
my lead should not only avoid rails
ing obstacles for the Republican
government, but should support it
in whatever may be patriotic meas
ures.'
1t was recalled that, in his last
message to the people, the former
king said he had not renounced his
rights to the throne but merely had
absented himself from Spain to
await the outcome of the June elec-
tions, which will be considered as
having the character of plebiscite
on the possibility of return of the
monarch. He has been quoted as
saying he would abide by the out
come Of the elections.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
WOMAN FACING
LONG TERM AS
TRAIN R0BBER

SAN FRANCISCO, May 5. W.P-
A 22-year-old widow, convicted of
completely in McAvoy, Cal, train
robbery, waited in Jail today con-
fident of mercy from federal judge
who expressed himself Mortified at
the necessity of sending a woman
to the penitentiary for 25 years.
A jury required only SIS minutes
to convict Mrs. Ellen Ellis and R.
E. Sherwood on charges of staging
the $4,000 holdup two years ago.
AS required under federal law,
Judge Harold Louderbank immed-
lately sentenced both to 25 years
Imprisonment.
His hesitancy in sentencing Mrs.
Ellis, whose husband, Frank Ellis,
was killed while escaping from Of
ticers seeking to arrest him on the
same charge, led her attorneys to
ask for probation. This was de-
MED.
United States Attorney George
Hatfield, who prosecuted the case,
suggested that Mrs. Ellis be SEN
fenced to two years on charge of
conspiracy, of which she and Sher-
wood also we're convicted, and given
a suspended sentence on the rob-
berry county. Judge Louderbank took
the matter under advisement.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
Woman Slayer
Escapes Prison


BOISE, Ida, May 5. U.P) A
swift and thorough search was in
progress throughout central and
southern Idaho today for Mrs.
LYDIA Southard, convicted slayer of
her fourth husband, after her SEN
sational escape shortly before mid
night last night over the walls of
the Idaho state penitentiary.
Assisted by pipe and a rope.
the woman clambered over and
down the walls of the penitentiary.
Apparently, Warden r. E. Thomas
said, somebody was awaiting her IN
an automobile.
Mrs. Southard was charged with
poisoning her fourth husband, Ed
ward Meyers.
She was sentenced in November,
1921, to serve from 10 years TO life.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
STRIKERS
FRI: ON
DEPUTIES
Officers Shot From Am
bush In Kentucky Mine
Warfare.
SEVERAL WOUNDED
ReinfOrcements Rushed
To Aid Authorities In
Impending Battle.
CTPIREpC EJpE p1

HARLAN, KY, May 5. UP)-De-
puties patrolling strike torn mine
section near here were ambushed
today. One of the officers was
killed, another believed fata l / y
wounded, and at least six others Sc
verely wounded.
The deputies were riding along
an outlying road when shots rang
out from behind a barricade. where
30 men were reported entrenched.
Deputy M. Daniels was slain as
he sought to lift machine gun
from an automobile, and several
others were wounded in the first
exchange of shots.
Deputy George Dawn succeeded
in setting up the machine gun be-
side Daniels body, and turned it
on the barricade. He reported by
telephone he believed he had killed
three men.
Sheriff John H. Blair, notified
here of the gun battle. sent 25 dep
uties armed with machine guns,
rifles and tear gas to the scene,
with instructions ITO shoot to kill
The battle took place near Evarts.
KY, 10 miles east of Harlan.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
Refuse Plane
For Governor

SACRAMENTO, May 5. U.H-
Governor Rolph's airplane crashed
on the table of the senate finance
committee today
The bill by Senator William e.
Harper, San Diego, providing s78,-
600 for a new plane for the chief
executive was promptly and vigor-
ouSly voted down by the committee
members.
While indicating a possible stand
by the upper house, Governor Rolph
still has a chance to realize his
fondest dream.
The bill by Assembly Roy Bishop,
Alameda, also providing for an Off
cial state plane, has been approved
by the assembly aviation committee
and is awaiting a final vote In the
lower house. Is
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
YOUTHFUL HERO
RETURNS HOME
FROM CAPITAL

TOWNER, Colo, May 5. U.P)--
Bryan Untiedt, 13-year-old hero of
the Pleasant Hill school bus disas-
ter, arrived in Towner today as
happy as a boy could be at the end
of as great an adventure as boy
could have.
Bryan climbed down the steps of
his railroad car with his eyes as big
as saucers as he looked out upon
the handful of residents of Towner
who met the train.
He was looking for someone 1t
was apparent. When he didn't see
whoever it was he was looking for
he seemed a little abashed. When
a few photographers had focused
their cameras the smile had gone
from his face.
None of his family was at the
train to greet him. or were any of
his playmates from the Pleasant
Hill school. There were just nine
children from Towner who stopped
at the railroad station enroute to
their own school and half dozen
groWnups.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
Border Closing
Bill In Senate

SACRAMENTO, May 5. U.H-
Another "home industry move
ment for California gained support
in the legislature today.
An assembly resolution by Ches-
ter M. Kline, San Jacinto, request
ing the federal government to close
the international border at Mexicali
at 6 p. m. instead of 9 p. m. was
placed before the senate.
The measure was adopted by the
assembly after Kline appealed for
its passage, declaring that hun
dreds of tourists were allowed to
remain across the border until late
at night, at the expense of the bus
ineSS men.
The government now closes the
border at Tijuana and other points
at 6 p. m, Kline pointed out.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
Bank President
And Wife Slain

WATER VALLEY. Miss, May 5.
W.P-W ". Wagner, president OF
the Bank of Water Valley, and his
wife were found murdered near
their home here today, their bodies
hacked to pieces with an axe.
Wagner5 body was found buried
in a shallow grave about rs yards
from the house and his wife's body
in another shallow grave some 200
yards away.
Officers discovered the bodies
after following a bloody trail from
the house, Signs of terrific strug-
gle were seen in the house and Of
ficers believe the couple was at
tackled by fiend, who after killing
them with an axe, dragged their
bodies away and hastily buried
them,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05

TO BE GUESTS
HERE SATURDAY
District Plans For Enter
tainment Of Congress
sional Party.

Details of plans for entertaining
the congressional subcommittee on
appropriations when Its members
visit the valley Saturday and Sun
day were approved today by the
irrigation district board.
The committee is to reach Yuma
early Saturday morning and will be
guests of the Yuma reclamation
project during the morning and for
a public luncheon at noon.
Directors and officers of the I'M
perial district are invited to attend
the luncheon at Yuma and to take
charge of entertainment of the con-
gresham from then until Sunday
afternoon.
Trips to Laguna dam and to I'M
perial damsite on the Colorado
above Yuma will occupy the early
part of Saturday afternoon. Return
ing to Yuma the party will visit the
headworks of the district at Andrade
and will be driven from there to
Calexico and to Ell Centre.
In conjunction with the district
the Ell Centre Chamber of Com
merce is to be host at a banquet in
honor of the visitors Saturday night
at the Barbara Worth hotel. Res
ervations for the dinner are to be
made with the secretary of the El
Centro chamber.
Sunday morning the party will be
driven through the various sections
of the valley, stopping at Holtville
and Calipatria. A luncheon is to oe
provided at Brawley at noon Sun
day. In the afternoon the trip will
continue through Westmorland and
to Indio. Coachella valley people
are to entertain the congressman
there and have arranged dinner
Sunday evening. The special car in
which the party is coming west will
pick the visitors up at Indio.
Congressman Phil D. Swing to-
day wired the irrigation district thai
he will be in the valley on Satur-
day and will accompany the valley
delegation to Yuma to greet his col.
leagues. He will remain with the
party throughout its stay in the
valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
HEROIC TEACHER LOSES LIFE
IN ATTEMPT TO SAVE PUPILS

and June Mason, 3. Lester
Peterson. IL, brother of Beulah
and Edith, was one of the wit
nesses. He was under the tres
tie, calling frantically for the
trapped ones to jump, when the
tragedy occurred.
Miss Scott and the children
had planned a weiner roast for
last evening. They left i'm the
afternono to gather willow
sticks along the railroad tracks
to use in roasting weiners.
The three children we're on
the trestle when the train ap-
peared. Miss Scott rushed to
rescue them. She threw Edith
Peterson to safety as the train
roared toward them, its whistle
shrieking constantly as the en-
gineer set every brake. Edith
suffered minor injuries. The
teacher could not reach the
other two In time and died with
them.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
BRAWLEY MAN
CONVICTED In
BURGLARY CASE

Jose Gonzales last night was de-
clared guilty of second degree burg
larry by a jury which returned its
verdict in Judge Finney's court at
9 o'clock, and this morning trial of
Manuel Rodriguez on a charge Of
receiving stolen property was under
way.
Gonzales was found guilty OF
burglarizing the dry goods store of
r. Samaha in Brawley, and Rodri-
guez is being tried on a charge of
receiving the property stolen by
Gonzales. The jury is expected to
retire for deliberation this after
noon.
D. H. Wolford, deputy district at
torney, acted as prosecutor in the
Gonzales case, and is also acting in
the Rodriguez case.
Goods stolen from the Brawley
store included four pairs of trou-
sers, three pairs Of shoes, six caps
and l3 shirts. Gonzales and Rodri-
guez are charged jointly with burg
lary in one complaint, Gonzales was
charged with burglary in another,
and Rodriguez with receiving stolen
property in another.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05

GENESEO. ILL.,, May 5. U.p)--
School children upon whose
memories was stamped forever
the picture of their teacher and
two playmates being trapped on
a trestle and ground to death
by a passenger train when
called today to tell a coroner's
jury what they had seen.
The teacher. Miss Helen
Scott, was celebrating her 26th
birthday yesterday when she
failed In an heroic attempt to
throw three children from the
trestle as the shrieking train
bore down upon them.
She succeeded in saving one
child, Edith Peterson, 8, but
there was not time to reach two
others, who stood as If hypno-
tized, waiting, Mortified, in the
path of the train.
Besides Miss Scott. those
killed were Beulah Peterson, !,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
Senator Objects
To Marine Story

WASHINGTON, May S. U.p)-
Senator King, Democrat of Utah,
has formally protested to the state
department against statements by
a marine officer regarding continua-
tion of United States occupation of
Haiti.
He asked Secretary Stimson to
repudiate an article by Colonel
Frank E. Evans in the Marine Corps
Gazette, in which Evans said,
Future events may see the Unit
ed States assuming a resumption of
it's present activities in Haiti fol-
lowing our withdrawal in 1896. Of
ficers who have served there may
return for another tour. Under the
treaty provisions the United States
will not evacuate Haiti until 1886,
and until the Haitian loan is fully
discharged, our financial supervi-
sion of the island republic will con-
tinue."
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
Flyer
Makes Progress

NEMURO. Japan, May 5. (U.P)-
The second leg of a proposed flight
from Japan tc the United States
was completed at 1850 a. m. today
by Seiji Yoshihara, young Japanese
pilot, when he arrived here from
Numasaki.
Yoshihara's flight began Monday
in Toxic, whence he flew to Nu-
masaki. He left Numasah at 8:47
a. m. today and made an average
of almost 100 miles an hour in his
all-metal seaplane on the 297-mile
flight to Nemuro.
The third of 20 stops on his route
along the Aleutian islands will be
Tokotan, on Urupp Island, 269 miles
from here.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
Border Observes
'Cinco De Mayo

Cinco de Mayo festivities are
taking place in Mexicali today, the
event being the anniversary of the
Mexican victory over the French
army of invasion. Two former gov
ernors of Baia California. Abelardo
Rodriguez and Epigemenio Ibarra.
both of Ensenada, are guests of
Governor Carlos Trejo y Lerdo dc
Tejada.
Target practice took place dur
ing the morning and at o'clock
this afternoon a polo game was
scheduled. Dedication of additions
to Mexicali's lighting system Is
scheduled for o'clock to be fol-
lowed at 6:l0 by dedication Of the
new Ortiz Rubio open air theatre.
The new theatre seats 1000 per-
sons.
Songs, athletic exhibitions and
folk dances will constitute the pro-
gram at the theatre, the governor
to lead one dance. Dedication OF
Pueblo NueYo, new residential
section, will take place during the
evening. Band concerts and dances
will conclude the program.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
'COOTS' DAVIS
STILL HELD ON
FEDERAL COUNT

Conflicting reports here on M. K.
"Coots" Davis habeas corpus pro-
ceedings in Los Angeles yesterday
afternoon today agreed on only one
thing-that Davis Is still in the Los
Angeles county Jail and probably
will be held there until May %,
when an extradition hearing will be
held.
District Attorney Elmer w. Heald
today, in a long distance telephone
conversation with the United States
district attorneys office in Los An
geles, was told that the writ was
denied yesterday afternoon, and
Davis ordered held for extradition,
Information from the office of
Ernest R. Utley was to the effect the
writ had been granted, but a new
complaint filed against Davis, who
is charged with the murder of Will
liam Presley in Mexicali. Davis al
legedly knitted Presley in the Bristol
Bar in Mexicali February S. Presley
died in the county hospital here
March Is.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-05
Obtain Jury In
Staying Case

LOS ANGELES, May 5. W.p)-A
jury was sworn in today to try the
case of ROBERT O'Neili and William
Hudson, charged with the murder
of Perman Calderwood, deputy city
marshall.
Deputy District Attorneys William
Mckay and George Penney have at
tempted since early yesterday to
secure a jt.ry. Six tentative jurors
were dismissed this morning when
they said they disapproved on the
death penalty.
Later, however, jurors were OBJ
tanned Who prepared to pronounce
on verdict of hanging If necessary