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Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-15

Chamber of commerce members
and their invited guests enjoyed an
interesting luncheon meeting yes
terday at the Barbara Worth hotel,
with the various superintendents,
engineers and foremen connected
with the construction Of the ALL
american canal, present. Mayor
Charles E. Anderson welcomed the
guests on behalf of the city. Pres
ident w. H. Tyler, Jr., presided
curing the luncheon.
DR. Norman E. Dupont. chair
man of the national unemployment
committee. was introduced by Pres
ident Tyler and explained its pur-
poses. This committee is formed
on the same basis as the SERA
committee, =" Dupont stated, ''set
up by authority of the federal gov
ernment. and composed of men Of
each of the leading towns in the
valley. The purpose OF the COM
mittee is so see that the national
unemployment program in Imperial
county IS carried out according to
federal rules and regulations. Our
main objective is 70 see that the
work in Imperial county cn all the
PWA projects goes to local men
and the actual carrying out OF this
work is in the hands of Chan Liv-
inpston, El Centre manager CT the
national unemployment Office Hc
highly commended Livingston fol
his cooperation with the nationa
i unemployment committee.
Others introduced by Tyler were
Capt. w. N. Cunningham, specia
agent of the U. S. Farm Placemen
] Services: district directors, Irf
Aten and Mark Rose; M. j. Dowd
chief engineer of the Imperial II
rigation District, and w. w. Good
son, secretary; Frank Higley, sup
erintendent of the force accoun
section; Mr.. Todd, field accountan
OF the reclamation service; Free
] Baughman, United States weathe
observer; and E. J. WesterhouSe
engineer of the L. S. reclamation
service.
WesLerhouse stated that he wa
very aereeably surprised at tn
work being accomplished by tn
force account section. "The peo
pie of Imperial Valley and you
board OF directors" ne said, ga
no time misrepresented things. The
made good 100 per cent, and it
all question now Of whether 20
will beat us to the sand hills {
whether we will be able to get OF
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-15
Pheasant Shooting
Prohibited Here

Although the state game laws op-
en- the pheasant shooting season to-
day for period Of five days, B. M
Graham, chairman of the board Of
supervisors, today emphasized the
fact that shooting of these birds
in Imperial county is illegal.
Last year the supervisors passed
county ordinance protecting
pheasants in Imperial county at ali
seasons of the year and hunters
are urged to observe it as it is
still in force.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-15
GOVERNMENT
WILL PROBE
PHONE CO

WASHINGTON, Nov Is. UP
An investigation of the American
Telephone and Telegraph CO., to-
gether with associated Bell COM
panies and all subsidiaries. was
ordered today by the federal COM
nlunications commission.
Public hearings will begin ''some
time after January l, 1885, - the
commission said
,The investigation will go into
the entire corporate history and
financial structure of the A. T.
and T. Co. Examination also vii.
iucllde equipment manufacturing
subsidiaries and all related COM
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-15
HOW CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE
ASSISTS CITY

The Imperial Valley Press Is
glad to publish each day one
full text letter received by or
sent from El Ccutro Chamber
OF Commerce, to acquaint the
citizens of Ell Centre with the
work, detectives and accom-
plishments of that organization
in behalf of EI Centre and I'm
perial Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-15

panies affecting the communists
tions industry.
The examination viii include
the financial arrangements between
the American Telephone and TEL
egraph company and its subsidiar-
les, and The agreements. financial
and otherwise, of the various sub
salaries with each other. = the
commission IS order said.
License and service contracts be-
tween the parent American Tele-
phone and Telegraph company and
the various associated Ben COM
panies also will be the subject Of
a general inquiry, as will contracts
between the parent company and
the Western Electric company.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-15
Citizenship Glasses
VIII Start Tonight

Glasses in citizenship, under the
supervision Of Glenn Kiefer, of the
high school faculty, will be start
ed tonight at 2 O'Clock and will
continue each week on Mondays
and Thursdays at the same hour.
until further notice.
Glasses will be held at the high
schccl and all interested in instruc-
ton in citizenship are invited 10
attend.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-15

by Leo Hetzel, taken on the re
cent three day excursion sponsored
by the chamber Of commerce.
Regrets were received from sew
eral persons who were unable to
attend: Roy L. Igo, Herman Gun
ther, Y. P. Gray and Major L. D.
Crawford, engaged in the canal
construction; and from r. B. Viii
lianss, General construction e,ngi-
neer, whose post kept him at Yu.
ma.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-15
DIVING CHAMP RECEIVERS

BROCKLINE, Mass, Nov 10.
U.P) - Georgia Coleman, Olympic
women IS diving champion, who re-
Gently underwent a delicate brain
operation at New England BAPTIST
hospital, is out Of danger, it was re-
ported today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
CCC MEN RIO
IN WORCESTER

WORCESTER, Mass, Nov. 5
G.N.SO.-Five railroad coaches,
not one of them with a single
pane of glass left in their win
dows, today pulled out of this
city for New Haven, Conn.,, carry
ing nearly 800 CCC workers en-
route from Gardiner, Me-, to
Maryland and Virginia, who late
last night staged a disturbance
which took the night police force
of $50 to quell.
Enraged because they were left
on a siding in unlighted coaches
for nearly two hours, the CCC
men locked up their officers,
broke all the windows in the
coaches and aroused the entire
district of South Worcester by
shouting.
One of the officers who had
been locked up in a small COM
partment at one end of a coach,
broke a window, climbed out and
telephoned Lieut.. j. H. Kane at
Fort DevenS. The latter notified
Worcester police, who went through
the coaches, liberating the Off.
GERS and ordering the men to
be quiet.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
HEAVY VOTE DUE
IN BALTIMORE

BALTIMORE, Nov. 6 I.N.SO.
Indications that this election will
poll one of the heaviest votes in
this city's history were seen today
when the polls opened at 6 a. m.
Despite a rainy night and early
morning, each precinct had long
lines of men and women waiting
to mark their ballots before going
to work. Officials estimated that
between 6 and 8 a. M, on the
average of Is persons voted at
each of the city's hundreds OF
precincts.
The contest between Governor
Albert C. Ritchie, Democrat, who.
is seeking his fifth consecutive
term-an honor no State has ever
given a governor-and his Repub-
lican opponent, Harry w. Nice.
overshadowed the Senatorial and
Congressional contests.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
DOROTHY ROUND
Assault In Cell
Sends Fighter
Back to Jail

Charged with assaulting an.
other prisoner while both we're
in a cell at No. l precinct yes
terday, Harry Lewis, 38, caused
Police Court spectators consid-
cradle entertainment today and
talked himself right back into
jail.
Taking the stand in his own
defense, Lewis demanded of
Judge Isaac r. Hit:
your Honor, want to ask
you some questions. When was
I locked up?"
How should know? l didn't
lock you up"
Lewis stated he was an ex.
prize fighter who confined his
fighting to the ring. Then, amid
increased laughter, he informed
the court he spent ten days at
Gallinger hospital because I got
a sinner in a fight two weeks
ago, and it was a pip"
He was fined SIS for assault
Ing Thomas Schildnecht and $40
for being drunk.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
EX-W|FE SEEKS
AL|MONY

A petition asking that Fred
erick j. Kyttle, manager of the
Cairo Hotel, be adjudged in con-
tempt of court and imprisoned for
failure to pay $50 a month ali,
mony for the support of his minor
child was filed today in District
Supreme Court by his divorced
wife, Mrs. Dorothy B. Kyttle.
The wife, through Attorney
Jean M. Boardman, informed the
court she obtained an absolute
divorce from Mr.. Kyttle and Gus
tody of the child last September
Z. The decree ordered Mr.. Kyt-
tie to pay $50 month alimory
and the petition related that he
is now $3.50 in arrears in the pay.
ments. The petition also stated
that a few days after the final
decree, Mr.. Kyttle contracted a
second marriage.
Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat
signed an order giving Mr.. Kyt-
tie until the first Tuesday after
copy of the order is served upon
him to show cause why he should
not be adjudged in contempt and
imprisoned.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
BRIGHT LIGHTS
Of BROADWAY
LURE GIRL, "A
Pretty Jane MerreII Back
After Five Days With
Stranger on Tour

NEW YORK, Nov. 6 GN.S0.
The mysterious disappearance Of
pretty Jane Merrell, 14-year-old
daughter of a retired night club
owner, was solved today with the
return of the girl to her home.
She was not kidnapped, as police
and her frantic parents had be.
lieved for the last five days. In.
stead, she said, she had been
lured from her suburban Forest
Hills home by Manhattan's bright
lights.
She said she had accepted the
invitation Of a strange man to
go on a Halloween sightseeing
tour of the city. Instead of re-
turning home, she remained in
a furnished room in the city to
which the stranger took her.
Police Hunting Man
1t was near this rooming house
in Seventy-eighth Street she was
found today. Police began an i'm.
mediate search for the man, whom
Jane knew only as Jimmy Ross.
She told police:
He came along in his car
where was standing on Queens
Boulevard and asked me where
was going. / told him 1
wanted to go see New York and
he took me in his car"
Dressed in a ragamuffin cos.
tune, the girl had gone out osten.
sibly to join some friends in some
halloween calls Wednesday night.
She was not seen again by her
parents until today. An intensive
police hunt had been launched
before she was found.
Bought Her New Dress
Police said James mysterious
friend had introduced the girl as
his cousin at the rooming house,
where he paid $3.50 for a weeks
rent and brought her a new dress.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
TOWN PROBES
FATAL CRASH

LEESBURG, Va, Nov. 6.-An
inquest was under way today in
Middleburg to determine the
cause of the automobile accident
yesterday in which Jabe Hollings.
worth, %, of Middleburg, was
instantly killed and Mrs. R. L.
Edwards. of Washington, injured.
Mr.. Hollingsworth, who was
manager of a filling station at
Middleburg. was thrown from his
car and his neck, legs, and arm
broken when his car collided
head-on with Washington taxi,
said to have been driven by R. L.
Edwards, at a sharp turn on
Winchester-W Washington Pike.
Mrs. Edwards was rushed to a
hospital. Town Sergeant E. W.
Bosher and State Policeman
Miller. of Frederick county, will
testify at the hearing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
SLAYER CAUGHT
AFTER % YEARS

PIKEVILLE, KY, Nov. 6 GN.S).
After escaping justice for % years
Gilbert c. John Hall, 10, today
faced a 11-year prison sentence for
killing Long Jim" Swiney near
Elkhorn City, KY. on June 6, 1905.
Hall, who finally was caught on
August /, 1884, was convicted here
last night on the ancient murder
charge. The jury deliberated 40
minutes.
The prosecution was handicap
ped by the death of many witnes-
ses, but established jealousy over
Miss Mary Hall. a cousin of the
defendant, as the motive for the
fatal shooting.
Hall testified in his own behalf
and told how he had roamed over
the country in the % years he was
a fugitive from the law.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
PENN sly LVAN|A
SEEKS STOLL
K|DNAPER
Suspect Picked Up, Released
With Apologies; Police Close
on Robinson Trail

BROWNSVILLE, Pa, Nov. 6
0.N.S0-Department of Justice
agents and State police today
launched a search in western
Pennsylvania for Thomas H.
Robinson, jr., alleged kidnaper Of
Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, Louisville,
KY, heiress, when it was revealed
the suspect held here was not the
man for whom a general alarm
was broadcast this morning.
1t was revealed at the same time
by Department of Justice men
and State police that man
actually believed to be Robinson
passed through Washington, Pa,
October %. The trail of this
suspect. however, was lost at
Pittsburgh.
The man held here was identi-
fled as Adam Pollock, 25, OF Chi
cago. He was released with
apologies and given a police escort
to the Connellsville State Hospital
where his mother was reported in
a critical condition.
Meanwhile. Frank Hinerman,
driver Of a bus on which another
man resembling Robinson was seen
earlier in the day, said Pollock
was not the man who was aboard
his bus and whom he reported to
authorities. The bus dispatcher at
Washington, Pa, told authorities
he had warned the driver of
bus bound for Clarksburg, w. Va,
to be on the lookout for a person
resembling Robinson. The driver
had mistaken Pollock for the man.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
HOOVER URGES
STRONGG. O.P.

SUMMIT, N. j., Nov. 6 G.N.SO
Herbert Hoover's name was in.
jected into the hectic off-year
election today with publication
of a letter by the former Chief
Executive indicating his belief
that failure of the Republicans
to capture an adequate opposi-
ton" in Congress would consti-
tute a threat to survival Of
American institutions.
In letter to Rudford Frank
lin, president of the Republican
Club of Summit, Mr.. Hoover said,
in part:
"The country indeed needs a
live and virile Republican Party.
The whole protection of human
liberty lies in free criticism and
debate. That does not alone
lie in a free press and platform.
1t lies also in adequate repre-
SENSATION in the halls of legis-
latureS, and that cannot be OBJ
tanned without party Organiza-
ton and party support.
"In these days when liberty
is endangered and when intol-
erance seeks to stamp out the
very suggestion of doubt, the
country needs a Republican
Party as a virile organization
more than ever, and it needs an
adequate opposition in the Con-
greSs if our institutions are to
survive"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
FERRY SERVICE.
POSTPONED

Extension of time for beginning
ferry service across Chesapeake
Bay, between Chesapeake Beach
and Trippes Point, was granted
to the Chesapeake Beach Railway
Company Ferry by the Interstate
Commerce Commission today.
The company, in a petition filed
with the commission, stated it
would not be able to start work on
the date originally agreed upon
and asked that the date be moved
up to May /. 1885, for beginning
the work. and January l, 1887,
the date for its completion.
This was the request granted
in the commissions order today.
1t was signed by George B. Nc
Glnty, secretary.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
TakOna Y. F. w.
To Install Officers

Annual installation of officers
will feature a meeting of the
Takoma Park Post of Veterans
of Foreign Wars tomorrow eve
ming in the auditorium of the
Philadelphia Avenue School.
Officers to be installed will in
clude A. B. Ground, commander;
James E. Conley, senior vice
commander; E. Brook Fetty, jun
ior vice commander: William F.
Fischer, sergeant-at-arms, and
II. r. Thompson, chaplain
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
TO Repay Backers,'
Sir Charles Goal

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6 1.N.SO
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and
his navigator, Capt. P. G. Taylor,
here after a transpacific flight
from Australia, hope to better
the recently established air record
from London to Melbourne.
First, however, Sir Charles de.
clared, he hopes to become the
owner of the blue Lockheed mono.
plane in which he made his
recent flight. He said:
my first thought is to re-
pay my hackers for financing
my flight. Including the ship,
the cost is in excess of $50, OOO."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
D. A. R. LISTENS
FOR POLITICS
IN SPEECH
Mrs. Becker, Seeking to Head
National Group, Expected to
Attack New Deal on Air
BY RILLA SCHROEDER

When Mrs. William A. Becker,
New Jerseys candidate for presi.
dent general of the D. A. R. next
spring, goes on the air tonight to
discuss National Defense Through
Patriotic Education" over a ma.
ton wide hook-up there will be
thousands of Daughters listening,
anxious to detect traces of Mrs.
Becker's alleged anti-administra'
ton sentiment in her talk.
D. A. r. members generally are
greatly exercised over the last
edition of the National Defense
News, official organ of the all
powerful national defense COM
mittee, of the D. A. R., of which
Mrs. Becker is chairman.
Reviews Hoover Book
The bulletin contained two
items which are regarded as
dynamite" by the Daughters.
The first. a review of former
President Hoover's book, The
Challenge to Liberty" says:
"Mr. Hoover protests against
the eclipse of liberty. He ex-
presses the fears which are
asSaiIing thousands of Ameri-
can citizens regarding bureau-
cracy and national regimenta-
ton and he gives splendid defi-
nitiOns of Fascism, Socialism,
NaziSm and Communism"
Another paragraph reads:
ut is a book which analyses
our EaSt abuses of liberty and
clearly reveals the dangers into
which we may be drifting. 1t
is book one will want to read
and reread and study and think
over"
D. A. R. members, especially
those in the Democratic South,
are asking point blank:
care these Mrs. Becker'S own
opinions? And if so how will
they affect her administration
of the d. A. r. if she is elected
next spring in light of the fact
that the national conventions
are scheduled next June and
the presidential election for
1885 in November"
Mrs. Becker is known to have
differed sharply recently with
Mrs. William Russell Magma,
president general of the D. A.
R., who has insisted that politics
be kept out of the organization.
RumbIings of Discord
Mrs. Becker has, however, a
large following in the D. A. R.
which is in accord with her
views. Although Mrs. Magma
has been powerful enough to keep
the D. A. R. in line with her
program. there have been grum-
blings and rumblings of dissatis-
faction throughout her admins
tration.
The former Princess Cantacu.
zene, always figure in D. A. R.
circles, resigned her Craftsmanship
of the committee of which Mrs.
Becker is now chief when Mrs.
Magma took office. refusing to
work with the latter. Other
groups, equally powerful, have re-
sented their leaders policies in no
uncertain terms.
Mrs. Becker's talk tonight Is
scheduled as being sponsored by
the D. A. r. las part of a cam
paign for stronger national de-
tense through increasing the Army
and Navy and arousing the patri-
otto spirit of the nation"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
FRED PERRY
REPORT READY.
ON SHIP FIRE
BY International News Service

By International News Service
Findings of the Commerce De-
partment's investigation into the
Moro Castle disaster off the New
Jersey coast will be reported to
Secretary of Commerce Roper by
Dickerson N. Hoover, assistant
director of the Bureau of Naviga-
ton and Steamboat Inspection,
Wednesday or Thursday.
Mr.. Hoover, questioned today,
declined to reveal any of his
findings. Asked if his investiga-
ton indicated whether the fire,
which cost 1874 lives, was caused
by lightning, bombs, arson, or
spontaneous combustion, Mr..
Hoover said:
THAT will be given in the
report. 1 have disclosed none
of the contents of the report
to anyone, and any statement
as to its contents is merely
guess-work."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
Spells System Hit
By Miss McNally

Sharp criticism of consolida-
ton of the Executive Council
and the National Emergency
Council with presidential authori-
Zation for appointment of EN-.
ployes without regard to the
civil service laws" was expressed
last night by Miss Gertrude Nc.
Nally, secretary-treasurer of the
National Federation of Federal
Employees. She declared:
To-day we are witnessing a
wholesale return to the SpOils
system. Tens of thousands of
Positions are being filled on
the basis of political expediency
rather than on fitness and
qualification"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
Spiritualists Hit
"Fakir" Invasion

Deploring an invasion" Of
Washington by charlatans posing
as religious spiritualiSts, the Fed
Grafton of Spiritualist Churches
of Washington last night adopted
a resolution condemning spirit
ualist "fakirs.'
The Rev. Arthur Perry of the
First Spiritualist Church, pre-
sided. The speaker was the Rev.
Jane B. Coates, of the Ama16can
Order of the White Cross.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
Next N. J. Governor
To Be Ex-RepOrter

RENTON, N. j., Nov. 6
0.N.SO.-A former newspaper
man will be inaugurated governor
of New Jersey in Memorial Hall
here, Tuesday noon, January Is.
Both William L. Dill, Democratic
candidate for governor, and his
Republican opponent, Harold G..
Hoffman, served as newspaper re-
porterS,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
QUITS HOSPITAL

Mrs. Esther Fox. 30, Of the
900 block Morton Pl. N. E., was
discharged from Casualty Hos
pital today after being treated
for poisoning. She was taken
to the hospital late yesterday by
police who said she had swallowed
a poison tablet.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-11-06
Miss Finney to Talk
On Character Work

The character education expert
ment being conducted in the pub
Tic schools here will be explained
by MISS Ruth Finney, at ASbury
Methodist Church tonight. Mem
berS Of the Board of Christian
Education and the Workers Coun.
Gil OF the church will attend the
meeting.