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The Washington times., 1934-01-27

II your story for the "Old-
Fashioned Girl" contest Is
written don't wait until Mon
day TO mail it to us.
The contest closes Monday
at noon. We mean It this
time. We are going to bundle
up all the stories on our desk
promptly Monday at noon and
send them to the National The
Gter to be judged.
Last time We ran a Chill
dren'S Theater contest q mum.
her Of you came rushing in
the final days after school.
You had all kinds Of excuses
but, as we told you then, when
we say a certain date and hour
we MEAN it.
As q last minute bit Of ad-
vice (if your story hasn't been
written), keep it SHORT. The
rules say not over 200 words
and we mean that, too.
We have noticed, by the way,
that the shorter stories are
nearly always the best. You
can tell almost any kind Of a
story in 200 words. A book,
Of course, is different. But
we are not asking for books.
In the last contest we noticed
some Of you thought we had.
The play will be here week
from today (February 81 at
1880 a. m,
The Washington times., 1934-01-27
CONGRATULATIONS

Members celebrating their
birthday anniversaries today
include Joseph BreguglOl,
Cora Marquette, and Mary
Louis Fowler, all Of Seat
Pleasant, Md; Francina Stone
sifer. CharIestOwn, w. Va:
Bernard McClOskey, 1921
Eleventh St. N. W.; Edwin
OBrien. 21O Twelfth st. 8.
w.: Leonard friedman, 1903
Seventh st. N. w.; Mary Sned.
cor, 4O13 Twenty-secOnd st.
N. E.; Lillian TOOIe, Mt. Will
son, Nd; Joy williams, HyattS-
vile, Md: Cecilia Miller,
Beltsville, Md, and Frank Hay
den, 3415 Brown st. N. w.
TomOrrOw's birthday mem
berS are George Augustine,
Nancy Grady, both Of Seat
Pleasant, Md: Louis Chaney,
Upper Marlboro, Md: Pauline
E. Gaines, 9O9 M st. N. w.;
William Maedle, 1903 Thir-
teenth St. N. W.; Jack Rib
nitzki, 1929 X st. n. w.;
Caroline Noble, 4O36 Twenty
second st N. E.: Janet Wyrell,
BIT WOOdley Rd. N. W.: June
Wheatley, PiScataWay, Md, and
Anita FOntaine, 6O7 Lamont
st. N. w.
Many happy returns, boys
and girls.
The Washington times., 1934-01-27

TWO MEMBERS are Dolly
Duff, age 1S, and Peggy Seek,
age 8. both Of 939 New York
Ave. N. w. Dolly Is an old
member Of our gang. Peggy
Con the right) just enrolled the
other day.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03
CHICAGO AREA
CRUX Of HUNT
FOR DILL|NCER
Believe Car Found Abandoned
Belonged To Nations No. |
Outlaw.

CHICAGO, May 8. U.P)-One CT
the vests most notorious outlaws
today was reported to be rushing to-
ward Chicago to join forces with
John Dillinger.
Clyde Barrow, the Texas terror
ist to whose bloody depredations a
half dozen lives have been charged,
was believed headed for Dillinger'S
hideout here.
With him, it was reported, were
Bonnie Parker, his cigar-smoking
sweetheart, and another outlaw.
A shoot to kill army Of 1000 po-
lice and federal agentS-realizing
that a union of Dillinger and Bar
row probably would spread more
death in the wake of the HooSier
outlaws maraudings-put new vigor
in their search for Dillinger whom
they felt sure is hiding here.
The officers belief that Dillinger
was in Chicago was based on the
finding of his bullet-marked, blood
stained automobile on the north
side late yesterday. There was ample
proof that it had been abandoned by
the killer.
There also was speculation that
Dillinger might be near death or
seriously wounded.
The theory Barrow might head
for Chicago to throw his lot with
Dillinger's gang against the maSSed
forces of the law unless headed off
doWnstate was supported by infor-
nation in possession of the federal
authorities.
Alvin Karpin and Arthur (Doc)
Barker have been identified as fol-
lowers of Dillinger when he spread
death and terror through northern
Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Both were members of the Barrow
gang when it cut a swathe of law
lessness through Oklahoma, Texas
and the southwest, eluding capture
in tn same miraculous manner as
Dillinger.
The frenzied manhunt for Dillin-
ger. the son of a Quaker farmer,
was converged on new subdivision
on the extreme northwest side OF
Chicago.
Federal agents and police, work
ing on tip that the outlaw was
hiding out with his lieutenants in
a bungalow there, threw squads
around a suburb known as Saugan-
ash.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03
URGES CITY GOVERNMENT SHOULD
BE PLACED ON BUSINESS BASIS
Womack Argues For Removal Of Political
Influence In Connection With Conduct OF
Civic Affairs.

That the city government of Ell
Centre should be taken from the in
fluence of politics and set up on the
firm basis of a strictly business re-
gime was the proposal presented by
Councilman Roy H. Womack at a
meeting of the city council last
night. Womack was elected to the
board at the April city election.
I'VE want everyone to have the
highest respect for our city and its
government and this can only be
had when business methods sup
plant politics in the running of city
affairs" was the sentiment express
ed by the councilman in his talk to
the board close to the end of the
evenings meeting.
Womack first entered a protest
against the activities of city en-
ployees during the recent election,
stating that numerous complaints
had been brought to him by citizens
that these employees had used city
time in political fights arising
out of the campaign issues.
Mayor Anderson reminded him
that these employees were merely
following certain human instincts
which prompted them to fight for
their jobs by getting into the cam
paign behind certain candidates as
they feared these jobs might be lost
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03
Road Crash
Injuries Five

Five persons were injured in an
automobile accident which happen
ed shortly after 4 O'Clock this morn
ing near Gray's Wells on the El
Centro-Y highway according to
report made at the traffic office
Mr.. and Mrs. F.. j. Villacusa, Mr.
and Mrs. Jerry Scoville and Cash
White, all of Tucson are the in
jured with Mrs. Villacusa and Jer-
ry Scoville receiving the most SER
ious injuries. They were all taken to
the county hospital following the
crash. At noon today physicians had
not completed their examinations
and for that reason the exact nature
of the injuries could not be ascer-
tanned.
The accident happened when the
Arizona car, which was travelling
into the valley, crashed into the
rear of a truck loaded with cotton
which was parked at the side OF
the road. Another car coming from
the opposite direction at that time
distracted the drivers attention and
he failed to see the parked truck
until it was too late to avoid run
ming into it.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03
Expect Japan Will Reply to United StatesNote
MRS. JOHNSON
CLAIMS COURT
MADE ERRORS

Charging errors committed by the
court at the time of her trial for
carrying a concealed weapon with
out permit, and the hearing on
probation, Mrs. Grover G. Johnson,
late yesterday filed formal notice of
appeal to the superior court from
the decision of the local justice
court. Oral notice of this appeal
had been given the court following
her sentence to the county jail
The document received here yes
terday by special delivery mail
states that the verdict is contrary
both to law and the evidence pro-
duced in the case; that the court
erred in refusing instructions to the
jury offered by the defendant; that
it erred further in refusing to ad-
nit testimony offered by the de-
fendant and also in ruling that the
defendant was not eligible for pro-
baton.
Mrs. johnson was released from
the county Jail last week when bail
of $3.50 was posted in her favor
pending the hearing of her appeal.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03
RENEW SHORT
WEEK BATTLE
BY EDWARD w. LEWIS
limited Press Staff CORRESPONDENT


WASHINGTON, May 3.-House
advocates of the 30-hour work
week bill renewed their fight for
action today by filing a petition
to force a house vote.
Indications developed that the
administration may accept a COM
promise proposal.
Chairman William P. Connery
DemD, Massachusetts,, of the
house labor committee and author
of the bill, informed the house that
he and President William Green of
the American Federation of Labor
were conrerr-ng with Frances Per-
kins, secretary of labor, and Don
aid Richberg, NRA counsel, ito see
if we can't get together on bill
which the President can approve" ."
Connery explained that he had
asked other advocates of the meas
ure to delay the petition fight un-
til the outcome of the conferences
was known.
The petition was filed by Rep.
Marion Zioncheck CDem), WASH
ington, who sharply criticized Hugh
S. johnson, recovery administrator,
and urged house action on the bill
this session.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03

SAN FRANCISCO, May 3. U.P)-
California counties were divided into
three groups today for completion OF
CWA projects under the conditions
outlined by the State Emergency
Relief Administration.
The IL counties in group l will be
asked only to furnish supervision of
the projects. The state relief organ
ization will assign the labor, meet
the cost on a work relief basis, make
available all materials formerly
purchased by the CWA for the pro-
jects to be completed, and in emer-
gency cases furnish additional ma
terials.
Counties in this group, all of them
eligible for receipts of federal re-
lief funds, are Marin, San Francis
co, Alameda, San Mateo, San Luis
Obispo, Los Angeles, San Bernard
ino, Orange, San Diego, Riverside
and Imperial.
In the second group are placed
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03
Temperance Head
Loshes TuglUeU

LOS ANGELES, May g. (U.P) -
Ethel G. Huber, editor of The Ma
tional Voice, organ of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, today
published a letter written to Rex
ford G. Tugwell, undersecretary of
agriculture, in which she took him
to task for suggesting women pat
ronize cafes and beer gardens.
rs there no end to the degener-
alton and degradation the people
of the United States must undergo
at the hands of the new deal brain
trusters?" she wrote
rs the future prosperity of our
country dependent upon the crea-
ton of millions of women barflies?"
the letter asks.
I'VE take vigorous exception to
your remarks which you recently
made before the Women's Demo-
cratic club in which you suggested
that the women of our country
should accompany their men to the
cafes and beer gardens and con-
sumo at leisure the long, slow drinks
which are appropriate to pleasant
conversation and mature social re-
lationshipS'
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03
BROADWAY OF AMERICA GROUP
TO LEAVE Ell CENTRIC FRIDAY

proposed change to route the high
way from Phoenix to Los Angeles
through Blythe.
Saturday night will be spent ii
Ell Paso, and the local delegation
will leave the Texas city on Sunday
morning for Dallas.
A delegation from San Diego is
scheduled to reach here tomorrow
noon and may be picked up by the
local delegates at Ell Paso, proceed
ing with them to Dallas. The local
men were informed today that
Yuma will probably have two cars
going to the convention and Winter
haven is also planning to have a car
and may join the Ell Centre dele
cation.
I'VE plan to put up a vigorous
fight against changing the routing
of the Broadway of America" Het-
eel said today, land will be backed
up by every community between
San Diego and Phoenix to offset the
attempt being made to cut out San
Diego and Imperial Valley in favor
of Blythe and Los Angeles"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03

Determined to keep Imperial VAL
ley on the Broadway of America,
Leo Hetzel, Robert Hays, secretary
of the Ell Centro Chamber of Com
merce, and A. J. Mercier of CaleXico
will leave here tomorrow morning
at o'clock for Dallas, Texas, to at
tend the annual onvention of the
Broadway of America association,
scheduled in that city for next week.
Hetzel is director at large of the
association and Mercier is a direc-
tor from Imperial Valley. Hays will
hold the proxy of w. A. Tondro, the
other valley director, who will be
unable to attend the convention.
The local men will represent Is
voting memberships in the associa-
tion.
They will proceed to Douglas, Ari
zona, tomorrow, stopping overnight
there for a conference with Douglas
leaders who are interested in main
tanning the present alignment Of
the Broadway of America, terminal
ing at San Diego, as opposed to the
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03
SAYS NATION
FACING DOLE

SACRAMENTO, May 3. U.P)-
A warning by a university profess
sor that America was heading
straight for the dole and the end
of democracy added new discus
sion topic to the California Con-
gress of Parents and Teachers to-
day.
Nearly 5000 delegates heard DR..
Anthony F. Blanks Of the Univer-
sity OF California blame "jackas-
sian democracy for threatening
to plunge the nation into disaster.
"We are trying new ideas in gov
ernment," he said. If they fail.
the years 1933-34 will mark the
beginning of drift toward certain
ruin of democracy. If they fail,
Franklin Roosevelt will be the last
President of the United States. He
says so himself. He has launched
forces which have already gotten
out of his control.
"Wiser tactics may postpone and
possibly avert disaster. -
DR.. Blanks said the depression
was the end of the old order, fin
ancial, social and political, and that
the government was so far in debt
that politics could not be depend
ed upon to straight out the situa-
ton. He claimed any form OF
despotic control would mean a cur
tailment of public education and
an increase in tuition. He urges
parents tn take advantage of pres
ent education facilities.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03
TEXAS CHILD
NOT KIDNAPPED
TUCSON GIRL
Identification Quashes Theory
Missing Youngster Had Been
Located.

GOOSE CREEK, Tex, May 3.
W.P) Federal agents today definitely
established that a small girl held
here with a woman was not June
Robles, 6, kidnapped Tucson, Ariz.,
child.
Gus T. Jones, department of JUS
tice agent, informed local author
tiles to release the woman and
child, held here since Tuesday, for
questioning.
TUCSON, Ariz., May 3. U.P)-
Negotiations for payment of SIS, 900
ransom and return of June Robles,
6, kidnapped heiress. were believed
to have been reopened today.
The belief was founded on a mys-
terious trip by Al Aguirre, reputed
Intermediary in the case, and friend
of Bernabe Robles, 73, retired cat
tie baron. grandfather of the kid
naped child.
Aguirre dropped out of sight as
authorities prepared to renew their
search for the child's abductors.
He disappeared after boarding a
bus at Nogales, border town, for
Tucson.
When the bus reached here, he
was not aboard. This caused re-
ports he had embarked on a secret
mission to arrange payment of the
ransom.
The bus driver, who was two
hours late in arriving here, denied
Aguirre had been a passenger but
Nogales newspaper men insisted
they saw him depart.
1t was believed he left the bus
secretly to throw possible pursuers
off his track and to assure secrecy
of his movements.
Aguirre had accompanied Robles
into the Mexican state of Sonora
last week END when the 73-year-
old rancher was understood to have
established a contact with the kid
napers. At the time, Robes was
said to have been ordered to pre-
pare for second trip to Sonora
to meet the ransom demands in
exchange for his granddaughter IS
release.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03
Bishop Cannon
TO Keep Office

JACKSON, Miss, May 3. U.P)-
Bishop James Cannon, Jr,, for
years the storm center of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
today won overwhelming endorse
ment of his contemporary church
leaders when they voted 269 to ITO
against a plan to retire him.
The retirement plan was believed
to have been a direct result of the
wide publicity Bishop Cannon
gained through his trial under the
corrupt practices act growing out
of his activity against Alfred E,
Smiths presidential campaign in
1923.
Vote to continue Bishop Cannon
on the active list came at the gen.
eral conference of the church after
its committee on episcopacy, sole
judge of qualification for fitness OF
bishops, faiieG ~ recommend his
continuation in office. He would
not be subject to retirement, nor
mally for another two years.
The committee of episcopacy
nevertheless passed Bishop Can
mons character along with those
of all other bishops of the church.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03

should other candidates be elected.
Womack said that he realized the
force of this argument and stated
further that no employee. of the
city had anything to fear from him
SO long as the position in which he
was working was filled efficiently
and satisfactorily.
Sterling OSWalt, chief of police
stated that in his opinion politics
in city government could be done
away with only when all city jobs
were put on civil service basis,
citing that in certain California
cities of the same class as El Centre
this had been tried and found to
work out satisfactorily. Womack
agreed with this statement, still
maintaining that politics must go by
the boards here.
Urges Wage Raise
Following the discussion of this
point, Womack brought up the Sec
ond item on his list which was to be
brought to the attention of the
board at this meeting. This was the
question of raising the salaries of
city employees.
With the mention of this item
much interest was shown by other
members of the board and the small
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03
City Figures In
Betrayal Suit

LOS ANGELES, May 8. U.P) -
Damages of $4,000 were sought to
Gay by Miss Jewell Milligan, 20, in
a suit against Emmett H. Davis,
wealthy Los Angeles architect, who,
she charged, betrayed her on sew
eral occasions in 1882.
The girl said she first met Milli-
gan in Las Cruces, N. NJ, when she
was 18 and that he took her with
him on trips to Wilcox, Ariz Ell
Centro, Calf, and later brought her
to Hollywood. She charged he de-
serted her to marry another wo-
man after promising to marry her.
Davis wife, Mrs. Emily R. c. Da-
Wis, recently was awarded $4,000
Judgment in a suit in which she
charged her husbands love was
alienated by his sister, Mrs. Doro-
thy Conant, and Frederick Conant,
his brother-in-la
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03
ASSIGN COUNTIES SERA PROJECTS
Entire State Divided Into Three Groups For
ALLEGATION Of Relief Work

the 81 counties which are expected
to furnish both labor and supervi-
sion for completing the CWA pro-
jects. These counties include those
with taX-raised or state unemploy-
ment relief bond funds of their own
or which have not completed their
cooperative programs with federal
and state agencies.
In group 3 are the counties in
which no work is recommended be-
cause of lack of CWA projects or
because of the character of those
suggested. This group includes Del
Norte, Lake, Lassen, Modoc, Plumas
Trinity Calaverai Kings, Alpine
Inyo and Mono counties, 1t was eX-
planned that should any of this
group submit approved projects the
work will be done with the under
standing that the county will pro-
vide labor and supervision and the
state organization will supply avail
able materials.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03
MISSOURI ON
|NANHUNTF | FOR
CLYDE BARROW
Capture Woman But Express
Doubt Outlaw Was Her Com
panion.

CABOOL, Mo, May 3. U.P)-Run
to ground in the rough Ozark -
by state and county officers, two
men today abandoned their car
and woman companion and fled on
foot.
Officers aided by bloodhounds
were close on the trail and expect
ed the keen nosed dogs to eventu-
ally lead them to the men.
The woman was caught near the
car Capt U. D. Sheppard of the
state highway patrol said she was
not Bonnie Parker, tough compan-
ion of Clyde Barrow, southwestern
desperate.
Captain Sheppard also said he
was sure the men sought were not
Barrow or any of his gang. It was
possible, he said, they might be
Alvin Karpis and Fred Barker,
wanted on murder charges and sus-
pect in the Bremen kidnapping
CABOOL, Mo, May 5. U.P) -
Scores of state highway patrolmen,
reinforced by posses of sheriff's Of
ficers, left Cabool and other Ozark
towns at dawn today on a hunt
which they hoped would result in
capture of Clyde Barrow, notorious
gunman, and Bonnie Parker, his ci-
gar smoking women companion.
Patrolmen believed Barrow, Bon
ME and another outlaw unidenti-
fled, were in the Ford roadster
which fired shots at Patrolman Ben
Graham, at a truck driver, and at
Mountain Grove citizens at mid
night.
All roads in Ozark counties were
blocked. Highway patrolmen or
sheriffs officers stopped each auto
mobile to determine identity of oc-
cupantS.
A Willow Springs filling station
employee first called the Barrow
alarm. He advised Graham that the
Ford stopped at his station for gas
oline. He said he was positive Bar
row and Bonnie Parker were in the
car.
Graham pursued the car and ex-
changed shots with the trio. He
chased them as far as Mountain
Grove where their fast car outdis-
tanced him. At this point the trail
was lost after the fugitives shot at
citizens. Graham notified the
Springfield patrol office which or
ganized the search.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03
5TRAWN SAYS
NEW DEAF. |S
NOT SUCCESS
Tells United States Chamber
Of Commerce Nations Budget
Must Balance.
BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN

United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 3.--America
must balance her budget, return to
the gold standard and revise her
securities act before there can be
any real prosperity, SilaS H. Strawn,
distinguished Chicago attorney, in
sisted today.
His prepared address before the
22nd annual convention of the Uni
ted States Chamber of Commerce
was one of the most vigorous criti-
cisms of the new deal yet voiced by
an American business leader.
Strawn'S remarks were addressed
to the same 1000 executives who
heard H. I. Hartman, president of
the chamber, defend the admins
trations recovery policies yesterday
and endorse the principles behind
the National Recovery and Agricul-
tural Adjustment Acts.
Most of the executives had heard
also an impromptu address by Hugh
S. Johnson, recovery administrator,
before the American Trade associa =
ton executives banquet at which he
told them that events of the next
few months would determine whe-
ther the NRA would become per-
manent. He said that new drive
to popularize the blue eagle would
start in six weeks or so.
Strawn gave voice to many of the
leading objections to the recovery
program, Tax burdens, he said, are
becoming more unbearaple, if not
'indeed confiscatory" while lack of
confidence and restrictive legisla-
ton is holding back business and
driving capital into hiding.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-05-03
Sues For Injuries
In Auto Accident

Damages of $l1 900 for personal
injuries are asked in complaint
filed in superior court this morning
by Walter Moore with Walter Pa
paz ct al, named as defendants in
the action.
The complaint alleges that as
the plaintiff was crossing the San
Diego highway in the vicinity Of
Dixieland on January 10 of this
year he was struck by an automo-
bile driven by the defendant and
thrown to the pavement with con-
siderable force. AS a result of this
accident the plaintiff alleges he
received injuries to his legs and
arms which will be permanent.
He asks general damages of S10,-
1000, with $1,000 as special damages.