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Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-21
Estate Of Aged
Woman Probated

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 81. W.P)-
Most of the estate of the late Mrs.
Mary F. Francis, who died last
October at the age of "a, will go
to her three children.
In disposing of the 100000 es-
tate, the will, filed here for pro-
bate, specnieo that grandchildren
will receive small bequests aggre-
eating approximately $4,000, the
residue to be divided equally among
the three children, Eugenie Hobbs,
George E. and Donald Francis.
The estate was described as con-
sisting of real property and oil land
in Los Angeles and Kern counties.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-21
Missouri Senator
Resigns Office

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Jan. 81.
The resignation of United States
Senator Harry B. Hawes, st. Louis,
was received today at the office
of Governor Guy B. Park.
Hawes resigned SO that Governor
Park could appoint Senator-elect
Bennett Champ Clark of st. Louis
to the position, allowing him to en-
ter the next session of congress with
seniority over other newly elected
senators.
Governor Park was out of the
city today and will not take action
on Hawes' resignation until Mon
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-21
Hospital Puts Ban
Upon Auto Racers

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 81. (U.P:-
The doors of Los Angeles general
hospital were closed today to au-
tomobile races who are injured
while spinning around Ascot Le-
gion speedway.
The doors were tiguratively
slammed in letter written by
William r. Hartman, county sup
erintendent of charities, to speed
way officials.
THE general hospital is for the
poor and for persons meeting with
sudden accident, not for the cas-
ualties of commercial sport,
Chairman Frank L. Shaw Of t-~
county board of supervisors said.
THE promoters of auto races
should make provision before each
race for the paid disqualification of
any drivers injured
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-21
Prison Term For
Fund En1bezzler

LOS ANGELES. Jan. 21.-(UD-
Over the pleas of several Pomona
business men for clemency. j. w.
Mashmeyer, So, former treasurer
of the Orange Grove tract water
company, today was under sent
ence to San Quentin prison for
grand theft.
Superior Judge Elliot Craig sem
fenced Mashmeyer to one to 10
years. holding that the recommends
ations OF his friends and the pro-
baton officer were insufficient TO
justify leniency, since Mashmeyer
could not make restitution.
Mashmeyer pleaded guilty TO the
theft of $500 Of the companya
funds though 1t was understood
the total sum appropriated amounts
ed to approximately s7400.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-21
Many Injured In
Texas Cyclone

CLARKSVILLE, Tex, Jan. 81.
U.Pl-The number of persons in
jured in a cyclone that swept
through two northeast Texas
counties neared 80 today as relief
parties penetrated the section
where the full fury of the storm
was felt.
None was killed but stories of
miraculous escape from death were
numerous. Property damage was
heavy and much livestock was des-
troyed.
The storm, striking near How
land, Lamar county, cut narrow
Swath east through farm country
40 miles to Manchester, Red River
county, where more than a score
were hurt and dozen homes lev
eled.
Storm cellars saved many lives.
Nearly $50 of Manchester's 200 res
idents were thus protected.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-21
Improvement In
Roiph's Condition

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 81. UP
Governor James Rolph, confined
to st. Francis hospital with influ-
enza, was reported as improved to-
day.
His physician, DR.. John Gallwey,
said the governor would be confin-
ed to bed several days because of
the severe pulmonary congestion
which accompanied his illness.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-21
To
HEAD BRITISH
DEBT MISSION
Premier Expected By Political
Leaders To Supervise Confer
ence At Washington.
CANCELLATION Is HOPE
Delay Caused By Change In Ad-
ministraticn Disappointing To
England.
BY w. C. QUIsENBERRY
United Press Staff Correspondent

oHitcu hEcSS otdil SOTIGS DDIiueHl
LONDON, Jan. 81. = The British
debt mission to the United States
will be headed by j. Ramsay Mac
Donald, prime minister, we'll in
formed political quarters believed
today.
Macdonald is credited with per-
sonally achieving the settlement
reached at the Lausanne repara-
tions conference, and is expected
to lead efforts to finish "the other
half of the job"
The prime minister regards the
debt question as the outstanding
problem of Britain. He wants to
give his personal attention, as much
as possible, to efforts to reach a
debt settlement.
The stock exchange opening was
cheerful in view of the United
States willingness to discuss war
debts. Trading was limited due to
the weekend lull. British gilt
edged securities opened from 1-16
to 1s higher.
Neville Chamberlain, chancellor
of the exchequer, was expected to
be member of the mission, al
though he will be busy on his bud
get in March and April The fin
ancial year ends April 80, and the
budget is usually introduced in the
first or second fortnight of May.
Stanley Baldwin was mentioned
as a possible member of the mis-
sion. He negotiated the original
debt funding agreement with the
United States. Politicians believed
he would be left out, however, be-
cause his inclusion would be GER
tain to start controversy here.
Pending receipt of Secretary of
State Stimson's formal invitation
no official action will be taken.
Well informed circles said, howev-
er, that the government was dis
appointed that six weeks must
elapse, before the British and AM
terican representatives can begin
work, and that the British had
hoped to use this time to lay a
thorough groundwork for the ne
gotiations.
Expect Reply Monday
The government was still said to
hope preliminary negotiations could
be carried out through diplomatic
channels, before the change in Am
erican administrations.
The British reply to the Ameri-
can invitation was expected to be
drafted at a cabinet meeting Mon
day. Macdonald was spending the
weekend at Chequers, his country
residence. He was informed of de-
velopments, but made no comment
for publication.
The Daily Mail said membership
of the British mission would be de-
cided upon Immediately. The e
British will present their case for
immediate scaling down of war
debts, with cancellation as the most
desirable solution, the Daily Mail
believed
The newspaper understood the
governments case was prepared
some time ago, using the term
scaling down" instead of flat can
collation. in the hope of not hurt
ing the susceptibilities of the Am
erican political opinion. The Daily
Mail understood Ambassador Sir
Ronald Lindsay would be instruct-
ed to discuss means of establish
ing preliminary negotiations with
Secretary Stimson Immediately.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-21
CONGRESSMAN is ELECTED

BELLEVILLE, Ill ;UPY - Con-
gresham Edwin M Schaefer, of
the twenty second Illinois District,
was elected in November after the
shortest Campaign" of any mem
Der of the next congress. Schae-
fer was nominated two days be-
fore the election after the death of
Congressman Charles M. Karch,
the original Democratic nominee.
He did not make a single speech.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-21
MOST LOYAL ALuMNuS

SEATTLE tU.P}. = The University
of Washington is convinced DR..
Alfred Strauss, of Chicago, is its
most loyal alumnus. He came all
the way from Chicago to see Wash
ington play the University of Sou
tEern California Thanksgiving day.
The Chicago physician and surgeon
played halfback on the Washington
varsity in 1908.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-21
Pippin Funeral
Rites Tomorrow

Funeral services for Velma Mac
Pippin, 15-year-old Imperial school
girl, will be conducted from the
Arnold Funeral home here at 2
o'clock tomorrow afternoon with
interment to take place at. Ever
green cemetery.
Miss Pippin died in her sleep
Thursday night and physician at
tributed her sudden death to a
heart ailment.
She was a daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bland Pippin of Imperial.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-21
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81. = The
spectacle of a lame duck congress
floundering in futile talk while it
waits for the undertaken is being
witnessed fer the last time.
Within a few days apparently,
there will be a goth amendment
added to the constitution to end
such performances by congresses
which have been repudiated at the
polls.
The Norris lame duck constitu-
tional amendment is on the brink
of final ratification by state legis-
la,tures. Only three more states
were needed today to make the
necessary Sc. A race is on in state
legislatures now. Indications are
that this will be one of the three
fastst ratifications in history. The
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-21
NEED THREE MORE STATES
RATIFY LAME DUCK BILL

BOISE, Ida, Jan. Fl. U.P)-
The Idaho legislature today
unanimously adopted the Nor
ris "1ame duck resolution and
thus became the 34th state to
approve the proposed Goth
amendment to the constitution.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-21
AMlLL-
Wty'R?s9}s!;f

BEVERLY HILLS, Jan. 20.
(SpeciaD = The number two
President went down to Wash
ington to confer with Huey
Long and Herbert Hoover,
with Hoover about firewood in
the White House basement and
Long on international and ma
tional affairs. Every U. S. cit
izen is taxed SIT a head.
That's $40 more than last
year. Every wage Garner has
been cut from 10 to so per cent,
but the cost Of being govern
ed has taken a 12h per cent
raise.
Then you hear birds say "all
you need to restore prosperity
is confidence Yeah? Well,
you will help restore prosper
ity if you put taxes in proper
ton to the benefits you re-
ceive for them, the same as
any other commodity. Did
you receive $40 more protec-
tion this year than last?
Yours,
zMk& R1~~
0isss MeNausht Syndicate. ins'
Evening star., 1933-07-09
HITLER FREES PRIESTS.
Expresses Satisfaction With Vatican
COncOrdat

BERLIN. July 8 OP).-Chancellor
Hitler, expressing satisfaction over the
concordat effected in Rome whereby it
was agreed that the German Catholic
Church would abandon political AZ
tivity, tonight issued an order for the
release of Catholic priests and Leaders
arrested for political reasons.
The order also called for the re-
scinding of dissolution measures against
certain Catholic societies and organi-
cations.
Vice Chancellor Franz Won Papen.
who conducted the negotiations with
the Vatican. informed the government
that relations between the church and
the state had been determined and that
all possibilities of future strife had
been eliminated.
1t was explained that in the main
the concordat merely extends to the
whole Reich previous concordats which
the Vatican had concluded with the in
dividual States of Bavaria, Prussia and
SaXony.
With threat Of punishment the
chancellor forbade repetition of re-
preSsive measures against such organ
izations as are recognized in the con-
cordat
The concluding of the concordat, -
he said. gives sufficient guarantee that
German Roman Catholics will hereafter
unreservedly support the national So
cialist state
Il am happy in the conviction that
the epoch has closed in which religious
and political interests we're apparently
irreconcilably opposed.
Il sincerely hope the Protestant
church will settle its differences as soon
as possible"
Evening star., 1933-07-09
WOMAN PILOT DIES
IN RIVER PLUNGE
Would-Be Rescuer browns Trying
to Reach Plane-Para-
chute Fails.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Kans.. July 8.-Miss
Mildred Wright, 29-year-old woman
pilot of Warrensburg. Mo. fell 1000
feet to her death in the Missouri River
late today when her plane got out Of
control in stunting and Donald Moss.
%. another pilot. was drowned whea
he swan out to rescue her
While the plane was in the midst Of
tail spin the body of Miss Wright
was seen to shoot out. She wore
parachute and pulled the rip cord as
she fell. but it did not open until she
struck the water
Moss ran to the river. saw her sub
merged plane and reached the incor-
rect conclusion that she was in tine
wreckage.
While Daniel Covington looked on,
Moss swan out into the swift current,
which had borne Miss Wright and her
parachute rapidly down the river. Be-
fore he could reach the plane Moss
turned to Covington and shouted:
Il can't make it. The current is too
strong" He went under a moment
later.
Evening star., 1933-07-09
ROPER TO OUTLINE
INDUSTRY CONTROL
Secretary to Speak Tuesday
on u. S. Program for
Radio Forum.

The progress being made in admins
tering the industrial control section Of
the national recovery act will be out
lined Tuesday night by Secretary of
Commerce Daniel c. Roper in the Ma
tional Radio Forum. arranged by The
Washington Star and broadcast over
the Nationwide network of the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co.
Secretary Roper is chairman Of the
Cabinet Advisory Committee appointed
by President Roosevelt to supervise the
functions OF the industrial control sec
ton. of which Brig. Gen. Hugh S.
Johnson is administrator.
Since President Roosevelt returned
to the White House this week from his
New England vacation he has been in
conference with Mr. Roper and admin
istrator johnson on several phases Of
the recovery program. The cabinet Of
ficer is expected to outline part Of the
developments Of his conference with
Mr.. Roosevelt and will go into other
features of the program.
Mr.. Roper also has named an ad-
visory committee of this country s
leading business men to confer with
him on developing long-range planning
for his department He will outline in
his speech just what has been accom-
plished by this committee
The speech is to be broadcast here
over Station WRC.
Evening star., 1933-07-09
CATHOLIC ACCORD
REACHED BY REICH
Concordat Is initiated by
Cardinal PaceI|i and
Won Papen.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY. July "a concor-
dat between the Holy See and Germany
was initiated this evening by Cardinal
Pacelli papal secretary of state. and
Vice Chancellor Franz Won Papen of
the Reich.
The accord Is designed to regulate
all the questions arising in the super
vision of church organizations in Ger
many and to prevent conflict between
the two governments.
Won Papen has been in Rome for
more than q week negotiating the agree
ment for which the preliminary dis
cussions were started at his earlier
visit here in April
The concordat. consisting of IS arti-
cles, combines in one treaty all the
rights guaranteed to Catholics by exist
ing accords with Prussia. Baden and
Bavaria. At the same time it does not
eliminate the lesser concordats juridi-
cally, although such is the practical
effect.
Important Points in Pact.
Two million Catholics who are net
named in the three state concordats.
are included in the new one which en-
braces Wuerttemberg. HeSse, the Palat-
mate. Anhalt and Saxony.
The most important points are: First,
the church agrees 10 keep its priests
and religious associations tut OF poll
tics second. the state agrees TO the
continuance Of Catholic religious asso-
Citations. whether clerical or lay. pro-
vided that they be confined to religil US
activities
The pact merely specifies this seconc
! point as general principle without
naming the associations to be permitted,
a definite list OF which will be drawn
up later and inserted into the con-
cordat on agreement by the two authorl-
ties when the pact is signed.
The accord deals with other questions
usually found in concordatS. such as
, religious instruction in elementary
schools. the nomination Of bishops and
marriage.
The first point in the concordat pro-
yides that Protestant or Catholic in
struction shall be compulsory, accord
ing to the faith Of the majority of
pupils in a school district The minority
shall receive instruction apart in their
own faith.
Free 10 Choose Bishops.
In reference to the nomination OF
bishops the Pope was left at complete
liberty to choose them without veto
BY the state but in practice the present
custom OF referring such nominations
for the governments opinion will be
followed.
With reference to marriages. the pres
ent system requiring that civil cere-
mony be performed before a magistrate
in addition to the religious marriage
will be continued.
The concordat nowhere mentions a
national church, either Catholic or
Protestant
German circles said that the Bava-
rian legation at the Holy See Will re-
main for the present, but may be abol-
ished later.
Herr Won Papen will leave for Ger
many almost Immediately. but will re-
turn in a fortnight for formal signing
of the treaty.
Evening star., 1933-07-09
MARYLAND WOMAN
is SLAIN WITH Ak:
FARM HAND ARRESTED
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them on "a wild goose chase" avoiding
the woods. Gertrude then decided to
come here for aid En- route she STOP
ped Earle Hamilton. well known farm
er. and told him that she feared some
tnlng had happened to her mother
Hamilton told the jurors he returned
to the farm with the girl. where he
found the other two girls with Jupiter
He made the farm hand aid him in an
other search Hamilton testified that
he noticed Jupiter stayed clear of the
woods, so he took it upon himself to
search in the underbrush. Jupiter re-
fused to join him because he said briars
would hurt his feet
The farmer said he searched only
short time while in the underbrush with
the girls trailing him until he found
the body. He then mc de- Jupiter com
into the woods. he testified. When tn
farm hand reached the spot Hamilton
told the jury. he noticed the man at
tempt to hide an object on the ground
Examination. he said. revealed the
blood-stained AK.
Hamilton testified he Immediately
placed the farm hand under arrest and
turned him over to Deputy Sheriff How
ard. Later he said he found the COL
ored mans blood-stained clothing
Tribute Paid Mrs Reifschneider.
Citizens here paid tribute to Mrs
Reifschneider. They said she managed
the farm during the daily vegetable
peddling trips of her husband and the
boys. During the Winter, they said.
she found employment in a hotel at
La Plata. walking the distance of l6
miles daily to and from her home.
One year ago, her SON George Moore.
%. met his death by drowning while
swimming in nearby Mattawoman
Swamp.
The family came here about six years
ago from Wilmington, Del, according
to friends. )
Jupiter told officers he had been
working on the Reifschneider farm for
about two months to repay a $50 debt
he owed the family Officers said he
Lived at Shiloh, short distance from
here.
They said they were checking a 1e-
port he had served a sentence in the
Maryland Penitentiary for having at
tempted to attack girl The man
denied he had ever been arrested before
This little town and the entire area
took the reports Of the killing calmly.
Sheriff Cooksey said he did not plan
to double the guard at the jail in La
Plata, for he did not anticipate trouble.
Evening star., 1933-07-09

Sanders as national chairman Is for
mer Senator Jim" Watson Of Indiana
politician par excellence, great ex-
horter Charles D. Hilles Of New York,
an old-timer and a vice chairman and
chairman in the past. is another. Col
Frank Knox. now publisher of the Chi
cago Daily News, has something of a
following.
Undoubtedly the Hooverites in the
Republican party. In the saddle during
the last administration. are keeping a
wary eye on the situation in the Re-
publican camp. They are making no
effort at this time to put forward Mr.
Hoover as a probable presidential can
didate in 1896. But they are not will
ing to relinquish control Of the Re
publican organization II they can
help 1t.
Evening star., 1933-07-09
GREEN TO APPEAL
FOR RESTORATION
OF FEDERAL JOBS
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husband, Robert L. Smith. is as a sub
Stitute railway mail clerk, who gets but
li.tle work He was idle from February
to September, last year. she said, adding
that his pay on June Is, last. was
So 02 and on July l, S5l. They have
one child. and when Mrs. Smith was
employed shs received $l,560 as a
clerk -typist. She had been in the Gov
ernment Is years. four and a half Of
which were spent in Naval Communica-
tons. Hers was the most extreme case.
In outlining the purposes of the meet
ing. Simpson. recalling that 1000 en-
ployeS have lost out here, said that
organized labor believes that they
should have an opportunity. Immediate
ly If possible. again to go on the pay
roll. at living wage where work Is
needed"
Distressed by Developments.
Green then entered for his brief i'm
promptu talk, saying he is greatly dis
tressed over the developments which
have taken place" He added that 1T
seems TO me almost tragedy. that
thousands who firmly believed they had
civil service status are being dismissed.
Taking up the splendid service be-
ing rendered by the Government
which is intended to combat conditions
which have bred 12,500 900 idle. Green
said that labor was glad to cooperate
and hoped for its success.
He added however, that it seemed the
height of inconsistency to be making
an effort in this direction, designed to
restore employment and increase wages
and buying power, and on the other
hand to throwing men and women out
. of work
Terming this "indefensible morally
legally or otherwise" the labor leader
was cheered when he asserted that the
voice of labor is being raised in solemn
protest against this injustice being done
Government employees"
Roper Promises Assailed.
Shaw told the meeting that Secretary
OF Commerce Roper is 'ballyhooing
plan to put Government workers into
private industry that is impossible Of
accomplishment.
Mr. Roper is doing more to hurt
than help the Government employees by
leading friends Of the employees to think
something is being done for them when
nothing is being done for them" Shaw
said.
In connection with the general en-
ployment situation it was learned yes
terday that the Unemployment register
esta ablished last October at the Civil
Cervice Commission now contains about
1000 names This gross includes about
500 carried over from the old list. and
the transfer pool, which were merged
The list as now constituted includes
dismissed employees and those fur
loughed and about to be furloughed
Up until the first of last month 1t had
been used to fill about 300 vacancies,
approximately a third Of which were
in Washington. Since that time about
100 have moved off. approximately 10
getting located in the service here
principally in the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration. This organiza
ton also has taken about 800 employrs
from regular registers for places the
other could not supply.
Evening star., 1933-07-09
mrs. PUTNAM SETS
NEW FLYING MARK
Crosses U. S. in II Hours
and 7T2 Minutes to Break
Women's Record.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEWARK. N. j., July St"Dirtier
than ever before" to use her own ex-
preston, Amelia Earhart Putnam, with
a new woman's transcontinental record
in hand, brought her red Lockheed
Vega monoplane down at Newark Air
port at 8:19l2 pm. eastern daylight
time) today. II hours 7l2 minutes after
she left Los Angeles.
Her former record was 19 hours and
minutes The worst part of her flight,
Mrs. Putnam said. was after she left
Amarillo, Tex, where she stopped to
let mechanics tighten loosened hatch.
Between Los Angeles and Amarillo and
between Columbus, Ohio. and Newark
she made her best time, she said, with
tail winds most Of the way.
Rounded Thunderstorms.
She flew at an altitude of between
5000 and 5000 feet, and rounded sew
eral thunderstorms. Over the Allie
ghenies she encountered rain, she said.
She attributed the success OF her
flight in a great measure to her variable
pitch propeller which, she said, gave
her greater speed and an easier take
off, and enabled her to get the maxi
mum speed in the air She estimated
the elapsed time of her stops at two
hours and q half
During a great deal Of the fight,
Mis- Putnam said. she was bothered by
gas fumes IN the cockpit. Her over
alls were quite soiled with grease when
she landed.
Takes Wheel Of Auto.
I'm dirtier than ever before she
said. as she climbed out of the cockpit
before a small crowd and greeted her
husband, George Palmer Putnam. M.
H. Goodenough of the New Jersey State
Aviation Commission timed her landing.
And then with no more ado Mrs.
Putnam climbed into the automobile
her husband had brought to the neld,
took the wheel herself, apparently un-
fatigued by her long flight, and drove
off to their home in Rye, N. Y.