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Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-12
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LAW FASTENS
CRIME CAREER
ON DEAD BANDIT

SAN JOSE, Calf, March IL.
W.P}-Sheldon James Mooney, al
legged college bred bandit" who
killed himself and his young wife
in suicide pact to escape capture
by a posse, was linked with many
Pacific coast holdups by authori-
ties today.
Traced through letters, Mooney
was definitely identified as the son
of former Mayor John Mooney OF
Wenatchee, Wash. His wife was
former Opal Vickers, 81, of Port
land, Ore, who married Mooney
in Vancouver, Wash, April 6,
1928. Mooney was a licensed air
plane pilot and a former student
of Stanford, Columbia and Wash
ington universities.
Officers investigating the strange
career of the couple believed drugs
were at the bottom of their
troubles. A quantity of narcotics
was found in their abandoned car,
which was found to have been
stolen in Los Angeles, March A.
After the car theft, Mooney and
his wife allegedly held up a drug
store on West Third street there
and took money and narcotics.
Chased by two officers, the two es-
capped by firing revolvers. Patrol
man Macarthur was wounded.
Wounded Officer
Mooney also was assertedly
identified as the bandit who SER
iously wounded Patrolman Eugene
keane in a San Francisco drug
store holdup last Sunday night.
Mooney and his wife entered the
suicide pact when posse was
closing in on their retreat in Silver
Creek canyon A few hours before
they had shot Deputy Sheriff Ed
Lowell of San Jose four times when
he attempted to question them as
suspects in the Keane shooting.
When the posse charged them,
the wife was found dead and
Mooney dying. An unfinished let
ter written by Mrs. Mooney was
traced to the addressee, Mrs.
Teresa Grundy of 1119 West Six
teenth street, Oakland, who said
she was the formers sister.
Police said all their investiga-
tions showed the Moneys appar-
entity led normal lives until a week
ago. Mooney, after attending COL
lege, had purchased an airplane
and transformed in California. 1t
was expected his parents would
come here to claim the bodies.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-12
CONGRESS FACES
DIFFICULT TASK
IN LEGISLATION
Three Major Bills Need
Careful Study By Sol
OnS Of Nation.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent

Copyright 1892 by United Press)
WASHINGTON, March II. Be
wildered in the face of three grave
decisions which aim straight at
the stomachs and pocketbooks of
practically everyone, congress is
listening almost frantically just
now for the voice of the people.
AS luck would have it, these crit
ical votes come just about the time
the voters are beginning to think
seriously whether they want to
make a change in their congress-
uen.
Monday the house will take a
test vote involving the question of
submitting federal prohibition to
the country for rejudgment.
A few days zater the house will
vote on the biggest peace-time tax
increase in history, including the
revolutionary sales-tax which would
place all except the smallest manu-
facturers under federal license and
levy pa per cent on most manu-
factured articles.
Following that the soldiers bonus
issue will come up again in pro-
posal to pay off in full the veteran
adjusted compensation certificates
at a cost of $4,000, 100000.
All of these questions drill down
to the most sensitive nerves of the
voters. The congressman who
guesses wrong may find himself in
the army of the unemployed next
November.
Now is the time for those who
think they know what this country
needs to speak up. Professional
politicians have many ways of run
ming public affairs to suit them
selves regardless of popular wishes
but in this situation, if congress
can find out what the country
wants. it will be only too glad to
provide it.
Seek For Guidance
Every member of the house rec
ognizes the country is falling far
behind in operating funds. More
than $1,000, 100000 has come out of
somebody's pocket. The fight Is
over whose pocket. The sales tax
WOulO 20 OH every IudlluldCIuIcel
article except certain foodstuffs
and few other exemepted articles.
1t would compel every manufac-
turer doing more than $4,000 worth
of business a year to take out
federal license. Opponents say it
would disproportionately tax the
little fellow. The outcome of the
fight probably will depend on the
recation from the country in the
next few days.
On the prohibition vote, many
members are trying to fathom the
feeling of their constituents, par
ticularly in hitherto dry districts
which are showing strong repeal
majorities in the Literary Digest
poll. The grip of the organized
dry forces has been SO strong that
only now some members are be-
ginning to wonder whether a shift
has set in which they would do
we'll to participate.
In the background, but advancing
grimly is the full soldier bonus pay
ment bill of Representative Pat
man, Dem) Texas. The house
ways and means committee will
hold hearings on it as soon as the
tax bill is passed.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-12
Evangelist Is
Named In Suit

LOS ANGELES, March u. U.P)
Property of Mrs. Aimee Semple
Mcpherson Hutton, evangelist, was
under attachment today following
filing of a suit of $9,782 in super
ior court.
R. D. Clarke, as assignee of Lyn-
den Bowring, attorney, is plaintiff
in the action, which also names
David L. Hutton, husband of the
evangelist, as a defendant
The action was brought against
Mrs. Hutton as a stockholder of the
Angelus Memorial association, for
which it is claimed Bowring per-
formed legal services and paid costs
and disbursements
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-12
Screen Writer
Marries Artist

PASADENA, March IL. U.P) -
Zoe Akins, playwright, and Hugo
Rumbold, artist, were married at
Green Fountain, the brides home
here, today with rs guests, most of
them motion picture celebrities,
present.
The services were simple, the
ceremony being conducted by the
Rev. Leslie Learned Of the Pasa-
dena All Saints church.
Immediately following a wedding
breakfast the couple left on their
honey moon.
Those present at the wedding in
cluded: Tallulah Bankhead, Jobyna
Howland, Polly Moran, Billie Burke,
MRS. Florence ziegfeld, William
I1aines, and Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Bennett.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-12
Probation Given
Former Official

SAN FRANCISCO, March 16. W.P)
j. E. Cotton, former mayor of Mar
tinez, was fined ST 900 and granted
two years probation in federal court
today on his plea of guilty to pro-
hibition law violations. y
Probation was granted after U.
S. Attorney George H. Hatsfield
said he had no objections because
of Colton's advance age and i'll
health.
Cotton admitted he conspired
with others in the operation of a
still at the Cotton Bonded Winery
at Martinez.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-12
Rabbit Drive At
HOltville Sunday

Holtville ranchers hope to at
tain relief from the rabbit pest
after tomorrow's rabbit drive in
that area, the drive being planned
and mananged by the agricultural
commissioners office.
Those who wish to participate
are asked to meet at the Holtville
Chamber of Commerce at 8 o'clock
tomorrow morning. The compis-
sion is purchasing ammunition and
will sell it to participants at
wholesale. Each must provide his
own gun,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-12
|WlLL
w ..S0yS:

BEVERLY HILLS, March II.
(SpeciaD-My good old friend,
Arthur Brisbane, sure put one
over on me, showing the differ
ence between a good reporter
and a punk one.
Two weeks ago I had two
hours with Al Capone. (That
raises Arthur one hour) He
told me all that read today
he told Mr.. Brisbane, and more.
But there was absolutely no
way I could write it and not
make a hero out of MIN, and
even as superb a writer as Mr..
Brisbane couldn't either. Ev-
erybody you talk to would
rather hear about Capone than
anybody you ever met.
What's the matter with an
age when our biggest gangster
is our greatest national inter-
est? Part is the governments
fault for not convicting him on
some real crime. Now will some
body please suggest what to do
with the story 1 got bottled
up with me and be fair to ev-
erybody?
Yours,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-12
AGED RECLUSE DIES

NEW YORK, March II. U.R) -
Ida Mayfield Wood, 93year-old
Manhattan recluse who lived ID
years in a dingy hotel room just
step from Broadway with million
dollars pinned in her skirts and
hidden in her mattress, died to-
day of pneumonia.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-12
BEAR CUB VISITS ROANOKE

ROANOKE, Va, (U.P,-Mrs. Earl
Simms went out TO her backyard
one night to investigate a noise
and found a bear cub raiding her
garbage can. The family dog in
truded and the bruin slapped him
away. In one instance the cub
trotted along Main sreet, keeping
just ahead OF It's pursuers.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-12
QUITS AFTER 81 YEARS

FORT WORTH, Tex. iU.Rf-John
A. Alphin, 65-year-old rural mail
carrier, has retired after 81 years
of continuous service. On his first
trip, Alphin carried IL letters and
6 newspapers, driving over his
route in a buggy.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-12
CHINESE LIKELY
TO UPSET MOVE
in PEACE PACT

SHANGHAI, March II. - Chin
ese peace negotiations with Jap
anese without prior withdrawal of
japanese armed forces were doubt
ed today by foreign observers who
saw a Chinese bid for world SYM
pathy for a possible military cam
paign against the new Manchurian
state.
Quo Tai-Chin, spokesman for the
Chinese foreign office, said China
would insist on japanese withdraw
al for all Chinese territory now oc-
cupied, as a prelude to negotiations
The statement was in reply to a
Japanese request for the Chinese
definition of the term withdrawal
of japanese armed forces
At Nanking, foreign office state
ment called the new Manchurian
state a "puppet government" en-
gineered by Japan and reiterated
that the nationalist government
would never recognize the new state
The government also released all
notes exchanged between the Chin
ese and japanese foreign offices on
the subject.
The foreign office termed the
states administration a rebel regi-
me, and charged that sovereignty
of China was impaired and that
administrative rights of the nation
alist government were usurped.
A Chinese note charged that
Chinese who formed the state did
SO either at the inStigation of
Japan or under japanese coercion.
The foreign office also claimed
that the hoy emperor" Henry Pu-
vi, went to Changchun under du-
ress to become the states chief ex-
ecutive.
MOSCOW, March IL. U.P)-Re-
bellion of Chinese against the new
Manchurian republic formed under
japanese tutelage was reported to-
day in Soviet dispatches from Bla-
goveshchensk, Siberian city on the
Amur river bordering on Man
churia.
The reports said 10 japanese off,
cials and two civilians had been
killed by Chinese troops which re-
volted at the garrison Of Sakhalien,
Manchurian city across the Amur
from Blagoveschensk. The rebels
repeatedly captured the military
commander of the new government
ze-Yui, and began looting Sakhal-
len.
Foreigners sought refuge at Bla-
goveschenSk, the reports said.
Stray bullets fell on the Russian
side of the river. The rebels re-
portedly looted four Chinese banks
and attacked the English customs
office and a branch of the Soviet
Trading organization.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-12
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT

Sanitarians' association, 1880,
Barbara Worth hotel.
Valley theatre, ARIZONA Ter
rOr".
Fox Imperial theatre, "Cheat-
erS At Play.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-12
TOMORROW

TOMORROW
Sunday services. churches.
Golf tournament, Barbara
Worth country club.
Band concert, 3, city park.
Baseball, 2, high school.
Valley theatre, sally of the
Subway.
Fox Imperial theatre, "Mata
Hari".
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-12
MONDAY

Twice Told Tales, 2:30, Len
Rey.
Masonic luncheon, 1880, Bar
bara Worth.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-12

Continued On Page 6)
The Washington times., 1932-04-06
1ow do you Weigh Value?

1t is perfectly easy to size up relative auto
mobile values
An automobile is certainly not to be
regarded as so much steel and other ma
terials selling at so much a pound. 1t isn't
wheelbase alone, or horsepower alone, or
weight alone, or price aIone-it isn't any
one thing alone that determines cars
value, but the combination of everything.
That's why ChrysIer value scales up
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pared with it. ChrysIer value is more ex-
tenSive. Covers more things. Involves
greater initiative in engineering. Includes
a greater number of important and basic
engineering developments. Entails greater
results in car action, car ability, car COM
fort, car endurance.
It's what Chrysler does to the Intervals
of car that counts. It's what ChrysIer does
to make Car smoother, livelier, quieter
The Washington times., 1932-04-06

While Congress ponders pro-
posed slashes in expenditures for
the 1888 budget, public school
officials are making plans for
preparation of the 1884 estimates.
Plans are being made by the
Board of Education for the an
nual spring meeting Wednesday at
8 p. m. with representatives OF
civic and parent-teacher groups
and school field officers, at which
time requests for the 1884 fiscal
year budget will be submitted.
The estimates must be sub
mitted to the District Commits
sioners by the end of this month.
Requests for construction OF
new buildings, replacement OF old
buildings and the acquisition OF
additional land for new schools
and Fairgrounds are expected to
be made by the various civic
groups.
These requests will be assembled
by school officials and submitted
The Washington times., 1932-04-06

and easier to drive. It's what ChrysIer does
to Ike a car stronger and safer and
longer-lived.
Outstanding engineering developments
such as Floating Power engine mountings
that give Chrysler cars the most fascinat-
ing performance there is. Great conve-
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Squeak-proof springs - distortion-proof
frames-clash-proof gear shifting shock
proof steering self-equaIizing hydraulic
brakes -CentrifuSe brake drums, providing
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balanced wheels-vaIue features that build
up Chrysler value to where it simply can
not be matched in today's market.
The best demonstration of ChrysIer value
is demonstration of the car itself. Drive
one and see.
The Washington times., 1932-04-06
Arlington KiWGnis
Observe Arnly Day

Army day will be observed by
the Arlington County Kiwanis
Club with a luncheon program TO-
day at the windsor Arms Tea
House. Major r. L. Maxwell,
Fort Myer, will speak and Col. S.
Gordon Green will be in charge.
The Arlington club was host
last night to the Washington and
Alexandria Kiwanis clubs at an
oyster supper in the Auth meat
packing plant on D Street South
west.
The Washington times., 1932-04-06
j. 8. PENALIZED
MILLIONS IN
SHIP LOANS

The Shipping Boards policy of
making loans to Shipbuilders at a
rate less than l per cent per year
will cost the United States Gov.
ernment $15,00O,000, Senator Nc,
Kellar CD of Tennessee said to.
day.
Mcclellan has sponsored a joint
resolution to increase the rates
of interest on loans already made
to a par with the lowest rate of
yield of Government bonds issued
subsequent to April 6, 1917. He
said:
"The Shipping Board has
loaned scores of millions of the
American peoples money at
OutrageOuSly low rates.
''In one instance the interest
was at low as 70 of l per cent.
In other instances they were as
low as 20 and Il of 1 per cent.
"The excuse of the board is
that the merchant marine act
of 1928 enabled it to lend
money at a rate of interest as
low as that on which the Gov
ernment had borrowed money.
The board asked the Treasury
Department what was the low
est rate of interest on which it
had secured money.
Former Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon certified that
on one occasion the Govern
ment borrowed on a ShOrt-time
obligation at IA of l per cent.
The board then fixed that rate
as the rate at which Shipbuild-
erS could borrow"
The Washington times., 1932-04-06
Race Horse Money
CirCUL1teS in COUntV

Prince Georges county store
keepers know the Maryland rae
ing seas,n is on. They have
started to receive the 81 bills
that seem to follow the horses.
The storekeepers say they never
get much of the "race-horse
money" except when the Bowie
and Laurel tracks are open.
The Washington times., 1932-04-06
WOMEN TO ELECT

The Woman's Improvement
Club of Silver Spring will elect
officers tomorrow night at a
meeting in the clnbroom on Geor-
'gia Avenue. Mrs. H. H. Hewlett
is chairman of the nominating
committee.
The Washington times., 1932-04-06

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The Washington times., 1932-04-06
SCHOOL BUDGET IS STUDIED

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The Washington times., 1932-04-06
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Evening star., 1932-08-29
BUREAU OF BUDGET
GETS 1884 FIGURES
Few U. S. Departments Have
Yet to Present Estimates
Before September 8.

Most of the Government departments
have submitted to the Budget Bureau
their estimates for the fiscal year 1884,
it was learned today, but several more
still remain to come in before the final
day for submission, September 3.
Hearings on the estimates will start
after Labor day in preparation for the
big Government budget which President
Hoover will submit to Congress in De-
cember.
Hearings to Start in Fall.
Hearings on the supply bills will start
in the late Fall, it was announced by
Chairman Byrns of the House Appro-
priations Committee in order to have
two or three supply bills ready for
House consideration Immediately upon
the convening of Congress.
Although President Hoover has not
issued specific orders to department
heads to slash expenses where possible
this year, as he did last, it is understood
at the Budget Bureau that his previous
instructions to pare costs to help reduce
the Treasury deficit have been followed
The President asked Congress last De-
cember for S3,942, ,754614 to operate the
Government during the current fiscal
year but this was augmented by about
billion dollars through appropriations
for the administrations economic relief
program and outlays to the Veterans
Bureau for loans on bonus certificates.
Budget S52,271,92O.
The budget for this year was So, 2,271.-
920 less than for the preceding 12-
month period. Congress slashed the
Presidents estimates of appropriations
making savings through the economy
bill.
However the demand for economy in
Government and reduced taxes are ex-
pected by j. ClaWson Roop. budget di-
rector, to result in further cuts in the
departments estimates.
The figures will be made public in
President Hoover's annual budget mes
sage to Congress in December.
Evening star., 1932-08-29
MEANS TO CONTROL
UNIFORMS SEX SEEN
Use of LaCtiC Acid and BiCar-
Donate of Soda Reported
Successful.

By The Associated Press.
ITHACA, n. Y, August ga meth
cd by which parents may control sex Of
their children before 4rth, described as
successful in II out offs trials, was re-
ported today at the International Con-
gress of Genetics.
1t involves use of Tactic acid to insure
that the expected baby will be a girl
and bicarbonate of soda, an alkaline,
to produce a boy. The method was
worked out by Dr. F. UnteTberger of
Koenigsberg. East Prussia, and was de
Scribed here BY DR.. Jacob Sanders of
Rotterdam, Holland.
Boy babies were born to II out of
78 German women VINO used bicarbonate
of soda according to DR.. Unterbergers
directions. DR.. Sanders said. Many of
them already had had one or more girl
babies and had expressed a desire for
male child The woman who used the
method unsuccessfully was believed to
have failed to follow directions.
Testing the same method on rabbits.
the use Of Tactic acid produced litterS
with twice as many females as males,
and bicarbonate CT soda reversed the
proportion. Supersaturated solutions
Of Tactic acid and soda produced re-
Spectively three females to one male
and three males to one female.
Use of Tactic acid on six cows pro-
duced 100 per cent female calves.
Possibility that use Of radium on to-
mato plants may some time be used to
help grow bigger and iucier tomatoes
was shown in an exhibit viewed by the
geneticists today, Growing tomato
plants were on display whose stem
color had been changed by spraying"
radium rays upon the genes, or heredity
carriers, in their parents. Similar
methods may be used to improve the
tomatoes themselves, but will take time,
said M. NJ. Rhodes.
NaSturtiumS that have sweet Odor,
produced by breeding, contrary to ordi-
nary nasturtiums. and cabbages, melons
and beans especially bred to resist
disease, also were seen by the genet
icistS.
There can be no such thing as per
feet man" and he is not wanted any
way, Prof. j. B. S. Haldane, famous
British scientist, declared in comment
ing on the future Of the human race.
And no man, however perfect, can
have a successful marriage unless his
wife can do at least one thing better
JIldA ileI IlILSbdllu, IlC DClACNSS- XVI a
happy home, he holds mutual respect
to be essential.
Prof. Haldane, noted as biochenist,
geneticist. soldier and author of scien-
tiic books for laymen, is here to speak
on evolution.
America, through its school system,
he finds, is developing just the opposite
of what he considers an ideal society"
In Prof Haldane's ideal society there
would be many different kinds of peo-
pie, each of whom would excel at some
special task for which he was best fit
ted, the right man in the right job.