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The Washington times., 1932-08-29
SOLAR ECLIPSE
VISIBLE HERE
WEDNESDAY
Nine-tenthS of Total Coverage
OF Sun by Moon Can Be
Seen in Washington

w a h ingtonians equipped
with smoked glasses or an ex-
posed and developed piece of
Photographic film will be able
to see nine-tenthS of the sun
overcast by the moon Wednes-
day afternoon.
The celestial show will last ap-
proximately two hours. 1t begins
about 2:25 p. M, reaches its maxi
mum about 3:35 and will be over
about 4:40 p. m.
Scientists Watching
The total eclipse will be visible
only over a belt approximately 100
miles wide, cutting across New
England. To this vantage point
astronomers and students of the
heavenly bodies from all parts
of the world are concentrating
with the latest scientific equip
ment.
While residents of the National
Capital will thus not be able to
see the majestic corona ringing
the sun during the period of to-
tai eclipse they will witness many
of the major phenomena.
Mercury May Drop
They will see the growing dark.
ness and the spread of a peculiar
yellowiSh dusk caused by the
elimination of blush rays emanat-
ing from the suns center. They
will probably note a sudden drop
in temperature and changes in
the direction and speed of the
wind.
And they may be able to appre-
ciate the fear and trembling the
eclipse caused in the earlier his
tory of the earth before science
removed much of the mystery sur
rounding it.
The Washington times., 1932-08-29
Father of IS Freed
On Rum Charge,
That's WHY

Because he has 13 children,
Charles Renzie Proctor, colored,
As, had good luck in Police
Court today.
Judge Gus A. Schuldt placed
Proctor on probation for one
year on a charge of selling a
pint of liquor and possession of
two more pints, after learning
about the defendants numer-
Gus offspring and that he had
no prior record.
Proctor was arrested by Po-
licemen F. w. Sanford and S.
R. Mckee, Saturday, near his
home in Belleview, D. C.
The Washington times., 1932-08-29
Newstip on Fatal Plane
Lean Wins the Kudos

A tip on the spectacular suicide
of Miss Margery Fletcher, the
4700 block Forty-eighth st. N. W.,
who leaped 1900 feet to her
death from the cockpit of an
open plane, won the weeks grand
prize of $40 in The Washington
Times newstip awards
The second prize of $40 was
awarded to a young woman who
sent in a tip on the collision of
two automobiles at Fourteenth
Street and Constitution Avenue
Northwest, with the resulting ar
rest of a New York tourist, one
of the drivers, and his confine-
ment at his own suggestion in
the city's most comfortable pre-
cinct station" to await trial.
Later he was released. q.
Fatal Beating
Third prize of SIS went to a
woman who sent information in
about the fata! beating of Joseph
Weissmiller, So, whose body was
found beside a lonely road near
Seat Pleasant. Md.
A So prize went to the tipster
who told of the shooting of a
colored man by a policeman.
the following stories were awarded
Tipsters who sent in leads for
So prizes; wrecking of a new
automobile by the Capital Linn
tied after a group of boys who
stole the car pushed it in the
path of the train; capture of a
colored burglar at Eighth and G
SITS. S. E.. by Raymond Whip,
the TOO block G. st. S. E., who
saw him trying to break in the
The Washington times., 1932-08-29
Artistic Floats To Feature
Bic Labor Day Parade

from New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Della
ware, Virginia and Ohio.
The bicentennial idea is being
carried out in the parade decora,
tons. although no decorations
motif has been officially desig,
mated.
Governor Ritchie of Maryland,
who reviewed the 1881 parade,
has accepted the invitation to do
so again this year. Governor
Clifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania,
and Governor Harry Moore of
New Jersey, are also expected to
be in the reviewing stand.
The Washington times., 1932-08-29
Robbers Get $3.50
From Taxi DriUer

After two colored men had
made him drive them to Balti-
more and back, William L. Nees,
a taxicab driver, of the 600 block
Kenyon st. N. w., said the men
robbed him of $3.50 at Four-and-
a-half and P Streets Southwest
last night.
Police also investigating a rob-
berry at the home of Ed Gill, in
the 470O block Blagden Terrace
N. W., last night. Gill said some
one entered with duplicate key
and stole jeWelry valued at SIS
and SIT in currency.
The Washington times., 1932-08-29
d. r. BOlUnldn Found
Dead in Apartment

Dallas r. Bowman, So, was
found dead today in bed in his
apartment in the 14OO block Of
Chaplin st. N. W., by his wife,
Mrs. Margaret Bowman. Police
were told he had been under
treatment for heart trouble for
some time by DR.. w. C. Gwynn,
of the 1900 block of Thirteenth
st. N. w.
Acting Coronore A. Magruder
Macdonald issued a death certifi-
cate due to natural causes.
The Washington times., 1932-08-29
J. H. Hayden Victim
Of Work and Heat

John Henry Hayden, 80, of the
700 block of Thirteenth st. NV.
collapsed today while working in
the office of the official reporter
of the board of tax appeals, in
the Earle Theater Building, and
was taken to Emergency Hos
pital.
1t was Believed that the heat
and heavy work at the office in
the last few weeks were respon-
sible.
The Washington times., 1932-08-29

'Store; and injury of three men
in a fall from a sCaffold.
Squirrel Prize
News of the death of Elsie
Fitzgerald, former house director
of the Episcopal Eye, Ear and
Throat Hospital, while she was
swimming in Maine; a picture
tip on the young squirrel owned
by Miss Myrtle Forney, 1900
block Monroe st. N. E., which
nurses from a bottle; and death
of a man in Takoma Park, Md,
from fumes of a spray he was
using.
The Washington times., 1932-08-29
Stork Has Busy Time
In Reptile House
At Zoo Park

or Joe Stork has been so
busy at the Reptile House at the
Zoo this month that he hasn't
had time even to look in at the
other animal enclosures.
So far he has delivered three
filters of timber rattlesnakes,
four filters of water snakes, any
number of young hopefuls in the
cages of more common snakes
and some three or four hundred
(they haven't been counted
baby jewel fish.
The Washington times., 1932-08-29
Pedcen1aker Hurt
In Cutting ScrQpe

Gus Larsen, %, of the 900
block of M st. N. W., is in a
serious condition at Emergency
Hospital suffering from knife
wounds received last night when
he INTERVIEWED in a quarrel be-
tween his landlady, Mrs. A. NJ.
Glascoe, and Jesse Robbins, "a,
of the 900 block of M st. N. w.
Robbins is being held at the
Second precinct station pending
the outcome of LarSen's injuries.
The Washington times., 1932-08-29
Man Shot in Fight,
Woman Arrested

George Hardy, 35, colored, Of
the 200 block of F ST. S. W., is at
providence Hospital with bullet
wounds in his leg and arm. follow
ing an affray at F. and Third
Streets Southwest. Juanita Har-
his, colored, of the 40 block of
Fifth st. S. W., is held in the case.
The Washington times., 1932-08-29
THIEVES GET S77.10

Thieves forced an entrance into
the store at Minnesota Avenue
and Sheriff Road Northeast some.
time between Saturday night and
8 a. m. today and stole jewelry,
cigars and cigarettes valued at
$77.10, according to F. L. Wat
kins, the manager. Watkins said
entrance was gained by breaking
glass in a basement window.
The Washington times., 1932-08-29
True to Type
"OR-ELSE" SYSTEM
MORE SERIOUS
THAN STOCKS
BY GILBERT SELDES-

THE or-ese" system of getting out of the depression
has made Roadway during the past few weeks and is in
full operation in Nebraska and Iowa, where farmers
strike is in progress. If | the President,
candidate for the presidency would pay attention
The Washington times., 1932-08-29

I think the governor of Oklahoma, Alfalfa Bill Murray,
of the earliest practitioners of this system. Oil
selling at price which dspleased the owners; yet the
operators would not agreement limiting
ducon. The governor took action He established ar
ficiaand satisfactory-prce for OIL and for time
it that oil not sold below that price Oklahoma had
second honeymoon with prosperity [ doubt whether the
marriage legal and afraid that separation has
since occurred.
It is remarkable that the farmers Of the Middle West can't
bring themselves to believe in the kind Of Govern
ment they somehow will understand that the savagng of
the bankers really intended to help the farmer In their
hard obstinate way they insist that they will not sell grain
and except at profit They have the odd idea that
since they pay since they went soldiers since
they honestly willing salute the flag pay governmental
salaries and suffer dpresons they ought to participate
the prosperity of the country Perhaps they also
member that 10 months before the panic in Wall Street the
troubles of the farmer had been talked about campaign
speeches. perhaps they think four years long, long time
The Washington times., 1932-08-29

to this new development than to the
nine-point rise in the stock market;
what goes up, they told us in 1929,
has to come down; but split milk sells
at nothing quart. The striking
farmers are picketing roads leading
to the great market cities to prevent
shipments of milk, livestock and pro-
duce from reaching the wholesalers;
the governor of Minnesota is in SYM
pathy with the strike; the police of
Sioux City are upholding the law and
helping trucks run the blockade. Is
this war or prosperity?
The Washington times., 1932-08-29

by our constant notification of the Eighteenth Attachment
It private life few days friend told me
that he had offered the lease his apartment
if the landlord would give him reduction The landlord
singular feIow-reused. lawyer could only advise the
tenant pay much he could afford giving him the
consolation of crowded cOurtSary suit for the balance
due would up for about two years SO friend
is paying about half the rental agreed upon the other
The Washington times., 1932-08-29
Half Rent

As a matter of fact, it is nullifica
tion-a word and idea to which we
have grown accustomed in the East
The Washington times., 1932-08-29

the spectacular suicide and injury of three
The Washington times., 1932-08-29
A Forerunner

Or else
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-09

| SPOR i s
OLYMPIC GAMES
FUND SUFFERS
FROM RACKETS

LOS ANGELES, April 9. U.P)-
Racketeers who have yictimized Los
Angeles business men of large sums
through fraudulent Olympic games
solicitation have seriously handicap
ped the legitimate raising of ex-
pense funds, the finance committee
of the games reported today
Representatives seeking to raise
$4,000 to provide for American ath-
leteS have met with blunt rebuffs
from many victims of racketeers,
Edmund ID. Regan, secretary of the
committee, said.
Because of racketeering organi-
cations which have reaped a rich
harvest during the past 18 months
through the sale of bogus emblems
and stickers, our agents are exper-
fencing extreme difficulty in con-
vincing the business men that they
are not just another group of rae
keteers in new guise," Regan said
I'VE find the public ready and
willing to help the Olympic games,
but find work of raising our fund
of $4,000 is progressing under the
most difficult conditions because of
well-founded skepticism on the part
of the public"
The money is sought through sale
Of a special emblem.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-09
QUAKER STATE
DEVICE GUARDS
AUTO BEARINGS

"The constant threat of burned
out and imperative bearings result
ing from insufficient or faulty lub-
rication need no longer worry mot
orists," said j. E. Mccormick, vice
president and general manager of
the Quaker State Oil Refining Com
pany of California, discussing the
remarkable new plan of insured
fabrication inaugurated by his firm
recently.
Every motorist who adopts the
simple, sane plan of Quaker State
fabrication and equips his car with
the new and unusual Roll-o-Miles
device, is given free a one year
written guarantee insured in The
Travellers Indemnity Company of
Hartford, Connecticut, which pro-
vides for payment of the customary
cost of replacing or repairing any
burned out and inoperatve bearing
resulting from faulty or insufficient
fabrication, continued Mccormick.
THE plan is a decided innovation
in automobile fabrication, but we
feel such confidence in the new
Quaker State greases and transmits
sion oils that we are anxious to ac-
cept the responsibility for the per-
feet performance under all motor
ing conditions of cars and trucks
properly fabricated with Quaker
State products.
Millions Of bearings are replaced
each year according to a national
survey believed to be authentic. and
in the great majority of cases the
trouble has been traced to faulty or
Insufficient fabrication. The Quak-
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-09
CENTRAL TAKES
TR0UNCING FROM
BRAWLEY TEAM

Finding three Ell Centro high
school pitchers for IA hits, BraW-
ley high schools baseball nine yes
terday afternoon ended the first
half of the valley league season by
decisive 10 to victory over the
Central Union High School Spar
TONS
Seemingly doomed to a poor sea-
son, the Ell Centro team during the
first half of the schedule has offer
ed little competition to other schools
of the valley.
Solomon, Fisher and Price at var
ious times took up the pitching
burden for Ell Centro, while Coach
Robert Armstrong, from the side
lines, prayed that benevolent di-
ETY. send him an effective pitcher
for the second half of the season.
Young of Brawley proved an eX-
ceptionally effective hurler, allow
ing only six hits, no two of those
in the same inning. He struck out
eight Ell Centro batters. Solomon
struck out six Brawley men, Fisher
famed one and Price famed two.
1t was a good game for the first
four innings, but Ell Centro blew up
in the fifth and Brawley took a 7
to lead. Then, with six scores
in both the sixth and seventh inn
ings, Brawley turned the game into
track meet.
Solomon pitched we'll for four
innings, but was relieved by Fisher
when he walked one man and al
lowed three straight hits. Fisher
lasted about an inning, and was re-
lieved by Price, who had some
trouble finding the plate. Price sue
ceeded in shutting out Brawley in
the eighth inning.
Cunningham with two hits and
Price with a home run were hitting
aces for Ell Centro, while Daniels
and Immanuelli were big stickers
for Brawley. Daniels also starred
in the fielding department.
The second round of the Imper-
ial Valley league opens next week,
when Calpatria will meet El Gen.
tro here.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-09
Title Retained
By Mrs. Cheney

LOS ANGELES, April 9. U.H-
For the fourth consecutive year,
Mrs. 3. D. Cheney of San Gabriel
today was Women's state golf
champion, the title earned by de-
feat of Miss Helen Lawson of Los
Angeles, and in the tournament
finals yesterday at the Riviera
Country club.
After weakening her opponents
morale by scoring brides on the
first two holes of the 36-hole match,
throwing Miss Lawson's drives off
line for the first time during the
tournament, Mrs. Cheney went
around the course in women's par,
78. Miss Lawson got an 81.
Increasing her lead during the
afternoon to eight holes, MR.
Cheney was threatened during a
rally which gave Miss Lawson three
consecutive holes. The champion
came back strong, however, and
took the match.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-09
Pacific Coast
League Scores
BY United Press

After holding out almost a week
in the face of dWindling audiences,
the San Francisco Seals and Mis-
sion Reds capitulated to demands
of baseball fans today and inaugur-
ated reduced prices.
The Seals, tied with Sacramento
for league leadership, and the Reds
use the same stadium in San Fran
cisco. From now on best seats will
cost rs cents and a section formerly
called the "bleachers" so cents. The
fact that at one game this week
only 500 fans attended may have
had something to do with this.
Previous prices were 81 and rs cents.
Joe Bearwald of the Reds and
George Alfred Putnam of the Seals
said they couldn't change bleacher
prices without consent Of other
league moguls but they got around
that by changing the bleacher Sec
ton itself
Apparently the revision broke
Manager Jimmy Caveney's streak of
luck. At all events, the Seattle In
dians, after losing three in a row,
turned on the league champions last
night and drubbed them, 9 to 8
Six runs in the seventh told the
story.
The Missions played in Sacra-
mento, where the Senators took
them, 9 to 7. The Reds got Is hits
two more than the winners, but
couldn't make them count.
In another bat crashing affair
Los Angeles trimmed the Portland
Beavers, 12 to 8. Orwell was re-
lieved in the fourth by Osborne af-
ter the Angels had scored nine runs,
and then Brundin was called for
the last two innings.
Oakland evened its series with
the Hollywood Stars by taking yes
terday's encounter, to 8. The Wis
itors tied the. score in the eighth
with two runs but the Oaks came
through with the winner marker
in the last of the ninth.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-09
VelascO Loses
At Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, April 8. W.P) =
Taking all rounds except the
eighth which was even, Jimmy
Evans. 149, San Francisco, took an
easy decision over David Velasco,
148. Mexico City, in the 10-round
headline bout at Hollywood Legion
stadium last night. Velasco was
floored in the tenth for a count of
one, but Evans lacked sufficient
power for a Knockout.
Other results: George Hansford,
130, Los Angeles, technically knocked
out Nino Uimenthal, 130, Los An
geles, in four rounds; Ralph Car
penter, 1870, decisioned Wally Hunt,
176, in four; Willie Davis, 1874, and
Joe Ponce, 1873, drew in four; Pete
Bautista, 100, decisioned Ray
Tavared, 118, in four; Frank ARA
gon, 1876, decisioned George Atwood,
134, in four.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-09
.Japanese Plan
Church Service

japanese Christians in Imperial
Valley, some 600 or more strong,
will gather ct the county fair
grounds at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning for joint services which
will occupy most of the time until
2 o'clock in the afternoon, it was
announced today.
j. Kokubun, pastor of the Japa-
nese Christian church in Ell Centro,
will officiate. Morning services will
include Sunday school, while regu-
lar church services will be held in
the afternoon. All japanese in I'm
perial Valley are invited to attend
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-09
Eastman To Try
For New Record

PALO ALTO, April 8. U.P) - Ben
Eastman, Stanfords bespectacled
sprint champion, planned an assault
on the worlds 880-yard record to-
day in three cornered track meet
which the Cardinals were favored to
win from San Francisco Olympic
club and University of San Fran
cisco.
"Blazin' Ben" who two weeks ago
set new worlds 440-yard mark of
46.4 seconds hoped to pass DR.. Otto
Peltzer record of 1:516 seconds for
the half mile.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-09
Jackson Defeats
Detroit Boxer

SAN DIEGO, April 9. UP)-After
young Peter Jackson, 1877, California
lightweight champion, had led all
the way to the fifth round, he
opened a bad cut over the eye of
Alex Hadrian, 1879, Detroit, in
their bout last night and the ref
cree stopped the fight to give Jack
son technical knockout.
Husky Velasco, 1870, San Diego,
knocked out Billy Gordon, 1291a, in
the second round of the other fea-
ture bout.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-09
SPORTS PARADE
OFFERS VARIETY
In T0DAY'S NEWS
By HENRY McLEMORE
United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, April 9. = 1t was a
very elegant interview, this chat
with Herr Max Schmeling as the s..
S. New York barged slowly up the
harbor from quarantine. Elegant,
that is, until Donna Blanka arrived.
Make had overlooked nothing in
preparing for our arrival. Deep
cushioned chairs were scattered all
over his luxurious suite and the
portfolios were thrown wide afford
ing breath taking view of the Jer-
sey bogs. AS we talked stewards
offered large breakers of boaming
buttermilk and crisp, buttered gra-
ham crackers.
The champion already had tipped
us off that he weighed 1874, never
felt better in his life, had no in
tention of retiring, expected to whip
Sharkey in less than Is rounds,
and how he bagged a manificent
stag just before sailing. He was
just preparing to disclose the round
he hoped to put the old convincer
on Mister Sharkey when-Donna
Blanka arrived.
Donna Blanka did not arrive
empty handed. She came bearing
gifts, so to speak, in the form of
three sailors who had no better
sense than to hang onto her leash
Donna Blanka, in case you Won
der, is a police dog. Probably the
meanest police dog in the world
And she is strictly one man dog
That is, she eats only one person
at time.
The moment your correspondent
the same correspondent who
braved a lions den a few days ago
the moment he saw Donna Blan-
ka, he remembered having left his
hat on the top, or sports deck. On
arriving on the top, or sports deck
one second later, imagine his sur
prise finding that all his fellow
craftsmen, as we'll as Champion
Schmeling had lost their hats too
And under the same lifeboat!
Why" asked your correspondent
as soon as he had caught his breath
did you bring that hound of the
Baskervilles to this country?"
Gift For Friend
81 bring her. replied Herr
Schmeling, "for friend. For Mis-
ter w. o. Mcclellan. 1 think DON
ma Blanka make fine pet. Are you
sure that the door leading to c
deck is locked?"
do you mean to say that you
are going to give that man eating
criter to anybody as a present? II
so. where is the shotgun that goes
along with her? And if that is a
present for friend what would you
bring an enemy? A sabre toothec
tiger, hand grenade equipped?"
"Ha! Hal" laughed the cham
pion as he took another look toward
the door to G deck, you have Don
ma Blanka down wrong. She is 9
wonderful dog. For two years she
was pride of Berlin police depart
she chew leg Off Two sic ems ano
she chew leg off. To sic ems ano
she chew arm off, maybe. Three
sic ems and you'd better run like
hell and save what's left. Some
times Donna Blanka not even need
any sic ems to make her chew. u
The baying and bowling down
below ceased.
Maybe, suggested Joe jacobs
Donna Blanka has found stray
sailor and we can slow down." Each
man armed himself with belayin
pin and crept down the stairs
Jacobs was right. AS we hurried
by the ships concert room we spieo
Donna Blanka in the act of polish
ing off a second assistant purser
HE was a nice guy, too," said
Max as he hustled down the gang
plank. I think l get Jack Sharkey
about the ninth or 10th, maybe"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-09
[lUBREGA,NK HON

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the Quaker State Insured Guarantee.
Ask Quaker State dealer about Insured LubraOn check and
mail the coupon.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-09
Scottish Rite
Meeting Tonight

All Scottish Rite Masons in I'm
perial Valley are invited to attend
meeting to be held tonight at
Masonic hall, Calexico, at 7:30.
The seventh and fourteenth de-
grees will be conferred and So
journing Masons Of the Scottish
Rite who are in the valley will be
especially welcome to attend.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-09

er State Oil Refining company has
studied bearing wear very carefully,
and is SO firmly convinced that the
right Quaker State lubricants in the
right places at the right time will
entirely eliminate all trouble, that
we unhesitatingly offer this plan
of insured fabrication.
Newspaper advertising, which
has proven so successful in increas-
ing the sale of Quaker States 100
per cent pure Pennsylvania super
refined Motor Oil until this firm
is the worlds largest refiner of pure
Pennsylvania crude oils, will play
the major part in informing motor
lists of this new plan of lubrica-
tion," continued Mccormick, "and
the quick way in which dealers who
display the familiar green and white
Quaker State Motor Oil signs have
accepted the new fabrication plan
indicate to us that our choice of
newspapers to carry the message
of insured fabrication permits us to
tell the unusual offer to all motor
lists at the lowest possible cost"