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Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-27
GRIND
EXPECTED To
De CONTINUED
Pair Have Been In The Air At
Meridian, Mississippi, Sine e
Fourth Day OF June
MAY STAY UP WEEK MORE
Aviators Threaten To Attempt
Remaining Aloft At Least
Until Fourth OF July

MERIDIAN, Miss, June 27. U.P)
"A new flight record was eStab-
lished this afternoon when the oil
spattered cabin monopiane "Ole
Miss" passed the endurance re-
fueling record set by the Hunter
brothers in Chicago five years ago.
Piloted by another brother COM
bination, Algene and Fred Key, the
"Ole Miss" had been aloft 554
hours, Il minutes and 80 seconds at
3:13k o'clock (CST. This was one
hour longer than the time set by
the Hunters, and was required TO
make their mark official.
Cheered by thousands who watch
ed the record-smaShing feat from
the municipal airport, the Key
b brothers gave no indication when
they would descend. Previously
they had expressed a desire to stay
aloft until the Fourth or July or
longer.
The flight, sponsored by the
Meridian Chamber of Commerce,
started on June a. Since then the
flyers have made 73 refueling con-
facts without mishap taken on
4,887 gallons of gasoline, and trav-
eled 43,440 miles.
Clear and walm weather favored
the flyers most Of the time, but
once they were forced to fly into
Alabama to escape storm.
Success was threatened another
time when Al was seized with a
toothache. He remedied the tooth
by lancing it himself.
MERIDIAN, Miss, June 81 U.P)-
The endurance plane "Ole Miss"
eql.alied the world record at 2:13h
o'clock this afternoon. Piloted by
two brothers, Algene and Fred Key,
the plane had been aloft 553 hours,
4l minutes and 80 seconds at that
time.
If all goes we'll they will have a
new record to their credit at 3:131s
p. m. (CST).
MERIDIAN, Miss, June 27. U.H
Two small town Mississippi
brothers in their grimy plane, "Ole
Miss" looked down on excited thou
sands today as they roared in huge
circles to almost certain possession
of an endurance flight record
They had only to keep their vi
brating cabin plane aloft until
1:13h p. m. (PST) to set new
marked for continuous flying.
Bathed. shaved and wearing
fresh clothes which their refuelling
plane let down on rope, Algene,
%, and Fred Key, 25. jostled and
frolicked like school boys as they
took turns at the stick" Their
motor functioned perfectly-better
than the day it left the ground,
June d.. they radioed Joseph j.
Porter, airport manager.
Twenty-three days of living up
in the clouds has taken 20 pounds
off 2O0-pound Algene Key. Wiry
little Fred who chambers over the
catwalk. has gained about 10 and
now weighs more than $50 pounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-27
JUDGE TURNS MAGICIAN

CHICAGO, June 81 W.p)- They
were magicians, Peter Boughton ano
his wife, Mildred.
But Peter didn't confine hi;
magic to the stage, Mildred COM
planned to Judge Rudolph Desort
"He disappeared every nignU after
the performance" she sobbed, Jus!
as if I had said hokus-pokus."
"Presto!" said the judge, you're
divorced"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-27
WORKERS GET RAISE

TOLEDO, June 81. U.P)-Operat-
ing workers and office employees
of Toledo Edison company were
granted a per cent wage increase
today by Edward F. McGrady, first
assistant secretary of labor, acting
as sole arbiter in a wage dispute
between the company and its en-
ployees.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-27
NATIONAL LEAGUE

At Boston Qst game)- r H E
Philadelphia 1000 900 100 2
Boston ............201 040 40X-11 13 0
E. Moore, Prim, Jorgens and
Todd; Brandt and Hogan.
AT Boston (2nd game)- R H E
Philadelphia .022 201 001--8 Is
Boston 100 003 400-7 Is 3
Bivin, Bowman, Davis and Will
son; Brown, Benton, Smith and
Spohrer, Hogan.
Only games scheduled.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-27
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SNk &AYS'

BEVERLY HILLS, June 26.
(SpeciaD The first battle of the
next war was fought in N. Y.
City Tuesday night. Big Italy
met little Abyssinia and Musso-
lini's first spring drive was halt
ed in it's tracks. Gen. Joe Louis,
head of the Ethaopina forces,
met El Duce Camera (the biggest
Roman of them alb, and treated
him like a Christian of gladia-
torial days. Now there is a
movement on to send Lion"
Louis to Abyssinia to meet Mus
solini's whole army. His trip is
being gladly paid for by several
American philanthropists (new
friends of AbysSinian liberty a
Mr.. Braddock a Mr.. Baer mot
Bugs, and even German Mr..
Schmelling, has contributed to
make Mr.. LouiS,s trip to Africa
more permanent.
Yours,
MG Ro1u<,
0 eisss. heftaught syaAssass. isA
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-27
Baseball Scores
BY United Press
AMERICAN LEAGUE

At Chicago r II E
Detroit ................222 900 ILL., 13 2
Chicago 900 900 140-5 5 l
Crowder, Rowe and Cochrane;
Kennedy, Fischer, Jones and Shea,
Sewell.
At New York r H E
Washington 200 o10 020- IA 2
New York DOB 800 70X-15 10 0
Burke, Linke, Bean, Kress and
Bolton; Ruffing and Dickey, Jor-
gems.
AT Philadelphia r H E
Boston .............0OO 001 010-2 2
Philadelphia .00l l52 23X-l4 Is 2
w. Ferrell, H. johnson and r.
Ferrell, Berg: Marcum and Rich
ards.
Only games scheduled.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-27

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Coast 70 Codn
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-27

Only games scheduled.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-16
D. A. R. URGED
To FIGHT REDS

Charging that the world today
is too full of protesting attitudes
and loose thinking" Mrs. Russell
William Magma, president-general,
today demanded constructive &C
ton by the D. A. r. in their
fight against the dissemination of
SubverSive propaganda.
In her final annual report as
president general, before the Sec
ond session of the organization's
forty-fourth annual meeting in
Constitution Hall, she said:
81 reiterate my firm belief
that we get no where by pro
testing against that we lend
constructive effort when we
educate for"
FINANCES GOOD
Mrs. Magma paid tribue to Mrs
Roosevelt for her many courtes,
les and unfailing kindness" Mrs
Roosevelt has been drawn into the
election fight.
The president general, in her
report, was optimistic over the
financial condition of the society,
CONTINUED on Page ,, Col. y
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PENSION DRIVE
|NPER|LS BILL

A drive to place temporarily all
the burden of old-age pensions on
the Federal Government threat
ened the Administrators eco
nomic security bill today.
The quiet campaign conducted
apart from the futile drive of the
"Townsendistes" is regarded by
the leaders as the most dangerous
counter-proposal to the pension
plan.
The fact that many States are
near bankruptcy and cannot pay
old-age pensions for years was ad-
vanced as argument for amend
ments to the bill.
While the Administration pro-
poses to match State pensions up
to SIS month, a bloc was form
ing to demand that the Federal
Government pay all pensions for
the next few years.
Another proposal frequently
made was to require the Federal
Government to pay two-thirds the
cost of old-age pensions. One Ad-
ministration leader said:
This is a threat not only to
the pending bill but to future
Congresses.
"If the Federal Government
assumes the greater portion of
the burden of Old-age pensions,
we will have a perpetual fight
which will make the soldiers
bonus battle look like a tea
party.
"Once this policy is adopted
every demagOgue will cam
paign for Congress on the
platform of bigger OId-age
pensions. There are many
people that seem to believe
the Federal Treasury is mex.
hauStible."
Many staunch Administration
supporters are urging that the
Federal Governments contribution
for old-age pensions be raised
from SIS to $40 or $25. They
would, however, retain the pro-
vision requiring the State to
match the amount.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-16

from a newspaper photo, had
been superimposed on the nude
form of another woman, and in
this manner purported to show
the victim of the plot with a
man.
Mrs. Harris notified her hus-
band who summoned the police.
The letter instructed Mrs.
Harris to enclose the $4,000 in
book and deliver it to a
messenger who would call at her
home. On the outside of the
envelope appeared the name: &c.
Clarke, Tuxedo Park"
Several times Clarke" tele-
phoned Mrs. Harris. She prom
ised to have the $4,000 ready.
One of the men, subsequently
identified as Ulisse, rang Mrs.
Harris doorbell and told a de-
tective posing as her butler he
came for the package for Mr..
Clark. The detective gave him a
fake package and then seized him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-16
OPENING GAME.
POSTPONED
BY FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL
Times Staff WRITER

WaShington'S 1885 baseball
opening against the Philadelphia
Athletics, which had been sched-
uled for 3 o'clock today, was
called off at noon today in def
erence to the comfort of the Pres.
ident of the United States, who
was to throw out the first ball, as
well as that of the 10000 fans
who had bought reserved seatA
for the inaugural.
The program which had been
arranged will be carried out to
morrow on the same schedule,
with the gates opening at II am,
a band concert to start at noon,
the arrival of President Roosevelt
to throw out the first ball at 2:45,
march to the center field flag
pole to hoist Old Glory at ESQ
o'clock and the actual starting of
the game at 3 p. m.
The weather prediction for to-
morrow is warmer"
DETROIT, April 16 UN.SO.
The Tiger-W hite Sox season
opener was postponed because Of
cold weather.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-16
HUEY FACES
LOSS Of PWA
CIR A \ 7 s
IckeS AssaiIs "Emperor" of
Louisiana; Declares U. S.
Will Control Funds

Branding the Louisiana State
legislature as the "Longislature"
and declaring that Emperor
Long" is creating a situation in
that State that may result in
cancellation of all Public Works
funds to Louisiana, Public Works
Administrator Harold L. Ickes
today declared he would not per-
nit use of PWA funds to build
up Senator Longs political ma
chine.
Mr.. Ickes' attack was an an
swer to Senator Longs statement
that he would create a public
works board in Louisiana to take
complete control of the PWA pro-
gram there. Mr.. Ickes angrily
declared:
"Huey Long isn't going to
dictate to us on how to conduct
the Public Works program in
Louisiana. We will reserve the
right to run our own prOgram&
Mr.. Ickes said the proposal Of
Senator Long to create in Louisi.
ana a State public works board
would mean only a delay in the
States works projects. He added:
"Huey wants to share the
wealth but he fOrgets to share
the work."
Today's attack by Administra-
tor Ickes was the first direct
answer to many challenges of
the PWA by Senator Long in
recent months.
U. S. Holds Control
How the Federal Government
could cope with Huey" in the
event he is successful in his
attempt to gain control of the
entire works program in the
State, was explained by Mr..
Ickes:
"The contracts between Lou
iSiana agencies and the PWA
gives us the right to cancel
the allOtmentS if we in Wash
ington do not feel the money
is being properly expended.
1t will be an easy matter to
halt the PWA projects in
Huey's State if it becomes nee
esSary."
Several million dollars already
have gone out from the Federal
Treasury to the State, it was
said today. Much of this money,
however, has not been actually
expended, it was said, and could
be ordered back to the PWA
purse.
Calls Him emperor"
Asked if the situation in Louisi-
ana is really threatening" Mr..
Ickes answered:
ut is being created. Yes,
by Emperor Long"
Should the PWA order a
wholesale cancellation of works
projects in Louisiana, it will mark
the first drastic Administration
step against the self-styled king"
fish"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-16
MRS. BEALL'S
FEARS Of HIS
WIFE CALLED
.GROUNDLESS
Mrs. Lyddane Received Many
T. Offensive Letters During
Year, He DiSCloSes

Two new developments at Rock
Vile today appeared to plunge
the Lyddane murder plot" in
Nestigation into a deeper morass
of mystery, charges and counter
charges.
For the first time it was re-
vealed that Mrs. Anne Lyddane,
blue-eyed bank clerk charged with
plotting the death of her husband
and Mrs. Josephine Beall, OF
Jamestown, Md, had been the
recipient of scores Of scurrllous
letters at the same time that Mrs.
Beall was receiving similar mis-
sives. This kept up for more than
a year.
It also was revealed that Mrs.
Beall had appealed personally to
Francis Lyddane, the accused
woman's husband, for his help in
breaking up an alleged affair be-
tween Mrs. Lyddane and Mrs
Beall's husband, a Jamestown
garage keeper.
On three or four occasions, Mr..
Lyddane said, he conferred with
Mrs. Beall, once in the Lyddane
home, with Mrs. Lyddane present.
Five New Witnesses
These developments came short
" after it was learned that States
Attorney James H. Pugh, Of Mont
gomery county, is prepared to pro-
duce five surprise" witnesses
against Mrs. Lyddane and three
men accused with her. Mr.. Pugh
also let it be known that Mrs.
Beall also will be questioned.
He added that the stories of the
five witnesses are being kept under
lock and key until the case goes to
court. The preliminary hearing is
set for Saturday in Rockville
police court.
In revealing the receipt of the
letters over a period of several
months UP to a year ago, Mr.. Lyd-
dane said all of them were OBJ
scene, some of them threatening
and others pleading with him to
break up the friendship between
his wife and Mr.. Beau.
They were mailed in Rockville,
Hyattsville and washington, he
said, all of them printed with
pen and ink. He said:
"There was no secret about
them in our home. Anne told
me about them as she received
them and we talked the matter
over"
THREE HAD CONFERENCE
Mrs. Lyddane said all of the
letters, at least 40, had been
turned over to Post Office Off
Gals, but that none of them has
been traced to the writer.
In discussing his conferences
with Mrs. Beall. Mr.. Lyddane
said:
"About IA months ago, one
Sunday morning, Mrs. Beall
called me on the phone and
asked If she could see me. 1 in
vited her to the apartment where
Anne and I were living.
"Anne was in the room when
Mrs. BealI entered. Mrs. Beal
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-16
Detroit to Fight
New Gas Rates

DETROIT, April 16 G.NSO.
Issuing. "a declaration of indie
pendence from the tyranny of
utility companies" Mayor Frank
CouzenS and city officials moved
today to establish municipal own
ership of gas producing and dis
tribution facilities.
Aroused by a rise in rates of
the Detroit City Gas Company,
Mayor CouzenS, addressing mayors
Of metropolitan Detroit, proposed
a referendum on public owner
ship, and a survey Of natural gas
supplies and requests for bids
from producing fields.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-16
SnOw Flurrie.
Stir Question,
Is Spring?

Perhaps it is because the
baseball season was scheduled
to open today. Anyway, here it
is the sixteenth of April, well
into spring, and it showed.
Starting about 5 a. M, thick
flakes fell for almost half an
hour.
At $50 it showed for a Sec
ond time, with the mercury
falling until it reached 80
degrees.
It was a dry snow, however,
so it melted as fast as it struck
the ground.
The weather Man promised
fair weather for this afternoon.
1t will be snappy, he warned,
and it will be advisable to wear
an oVercoat,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-16
BYRNS TELLS
HOUSE TO
SPEED Up
Speaker, Angered by Delays,
Demands Body Finish Its
Business and Adjourn
International News Service

Speaker ByrnS, in a surprise
speech in the House today, de-
manded Congress clean UP its
business and go home.
The ire of the Speaker was
aroused by early adjournment OF
the House yesterday and request
for a weekend adjournment be-
cause of Easter. He said:
81 am convinced that it Is
important from the cOuntry'S
standpoint that Congress close
up its business and adjourn"
CITES DELAYS
Congress, he said, has been
criticized for dilatory tactics,
This criticism, he added, does not
take into account the fact that
the meeting date of Congress
has been changed from December
to January. He warned:
"If we're thinking about
early adjournment, and most
of us believe it to be in the
interest Of the country, we will
have to stay on the job.
know of no better way Of
observing Good Friday, except
by going to church, than to
come here and devote ourselves
to the business of the country"
Mr.. ByrnS said the House SHOULD
finish the economic security bill
by Friday night. He said that
there would be but few contro
verSial amendments.
Points to Bills
He told the House that the
naval appropriation bill, the bank
ing utilities, bus and transporta
ton, and similar bills will be
ready for House action at any
time. Extension of the NRA is
necessary, he said. Congress, he
added, also must pass a tax bill
He said:
Don't say there are going to
be new taxes! Possibly we can
relieve industry of some of its
burdens"
The Administration program
calls for extension of $50 millior
dollars of taxes which would ex
pire June 80.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-16
100000 TOLL
Of RED FAMINE
BY HARRY LANG

Mote: Mr.. Lang 1Uas born in
Russia in 1888. He came to the
United States in 1904. For a
number OF gears he WGS labor
editor of the Je1Uish language
Daily For1UGrd, a Socialist 1e1DS-
paper. He is no1D member of
the editorial staff of that ne1DS.
pGperD
We arrived in Kharkov, then
the capital of the Ukrainian Sow.
let Republic. The first street
scenes I saw spoke their own Ian.
guage. Men and women were re.
turning at sunset from the great
tractor plant and other factories.
Their clothes were old, dirty
strips of sacking. Their shoes
were of shriveled leather or rot.
ten rubber, full of holes.
Many women were carrying in.
fantS in their arms. There are
no baby carriages in Soviet Rus
STA.
And all, men and women alike
thousands Of them had Jumps OF
black bread under their tattered
sleeves. On the way, they nib
bled at the bread and swallowed
every crumb. The hand of hun.
ger was sticking out from the mu.
tilated chunks of bread.
A high official of the Ukrain.
ian Soviet, with whom we estab.
lished contact, confidentially adj
viSed me to take a trip to the vii
lagos. Only there he said would
Continued on Page S, Col. p
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-16
Accused
In Nude BlaCknail

NEW YORK, April Is GN.SO.
A former chauffeur of the socially
prominent Mrs. George U. Harris
was named today as the man who
turned an amateur talent for
photography into an alleged plot
to blackmail his former employer
with faxed camera studies of
nudes"
Two youths, charged with ex-
tortion in the police lineup after
they were arrested on the steps
of Mrs. Harris apartment build
ing, accused the chauffeur and
insisted they were his dupes.
Arthur Ulisse, "a, alias Joseph
Cont, said:
HE told me he was an anna
teur photographer but 1 didn't
know anything about any black
mail scheme.
II only agreed to go to the
address he gave me and get a
package. He said would be
well paid"
The package was to have been
a $4,000 bundle of currency. But
Mrs. Harris, refusing to be black
mailed, notified police.
The companion of Ulisse, Domi-
nick Pilotti, Is, also denied any
share in planning the original
scheme to eXtort money.
On April 8, Mrs. Harris re-
ceived a letter containing a
photograph and a crudely written
demand for $4,000, under threat
of sending a copy of the picture
to Mrs. Harris husband. The
photograph had been constructed
by means of trick photography.
A head of Mrs. Harris, taken
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-16
TIMES INDEX

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guarantees Home Delivery serv-
ice every evening. Should you
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trict 1000 promptly any time
before 1918 p. m. and your
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-16
LEAGUE.
CON DENIM
REARM|NG
Allies Are United at Geneva
In Appeal for Sanction
To Curb Pact VioIators
BY H. r. KNICKERBOCKER
Copyright, 1885, by International
News Seryice)
GENEVA, April 16 GN.S0.
"Germany'S act of the sixteenth
of March must be condemned"

GENEVA, April 10 GNSJ.
"Germany'S act of the sixteenth
of March must be condemned"
Foreign Minister Pierre Laval,
Of France, made this statement
today in the keynote speech open
ing one of the League of Nations
Councils most historic sittings.
At 4:30 p. m, after a 20
minute private session, the coun-
Gil moved a public sitting and the
French resolution of protest
against Germany's rearmament in
violation of the Versailles Treaty
was laid before it.
Backed BY Allies
Previously, it had become known
Great Britain and Italy had ranged
themselves on the side of France,
backing the protest officially in a
surprise move, as at Stresa they
had promised only moral support.
Laval exclaimed:
"The council must accept its
responsibility"
Silence fell over the crowded
hall, with its glass walls fronting
Lake Geneva. The IA councillors
leaned forward attentively in their
seats at the great horseshoe table
as Laval began to speak.
Here was the resolution that the
French foreign minister demanded
the council adopt:
''The council declares that Ger
many has failed in the duty
which lies upon all members Of
the international community
with respect to undertakings
which they have contracted, and
condemns and unilateraI repudi-
alton Of unilateraI obligations.
PERIL TO LEAGUE
"COnsidering unilateraI re-
pudiatiOn of international obi
cations may endanger the very
existence of the League Of Ma
tiOns as an organization for
maintaining peace and prOmOt.
ing security, the council de-
cideS-"
And here followed recommen-
dation to appoint a committee on
economic and financial sanctions
against future treaty violators.
The resolutions paragraph on
sanctions was extremely carefully
worded. It read:
"The council decides that uni
lateral reputation of treaties,
without prejudice to application
of measures already provided in
international agreements should,
in the event of having relation
to undertakings concerning the
security of peoples and mainte.
nance of peace in Europe, call
into play all appropriate meas
CONTINUED on Page 4, Col. s.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-16
First Woman Set
To Hang on Island

ST. PETER PORT, Guernsey,
April 16 GN.S0.-For the first
time in the long centuries of this
little Channel islands history, a
woman today was sentenced to
death for murder.
Eleven "juratS" and a bailiff,
sitting in a semicircle before the
blue-clad figure of Mrs. Gertrude
de la Mare, unanimously decided
to send the 27-year-old woman to
the gallows.
She was convicted, after a
sensational two weeks trial, of
knitting to death Alfred Brouard,
76-year-old farmer whose house.
keeper she had been for years.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-16
Canada Will Pay
$35O,OOO for Fumes

The State Department today an
nounced the conclusion of a con-
vention with the Canadian govern
ment whereby the Canadian gov
eminent will pay $35O,000 for
damages done in the State Of
Washington by fumes discharged
from the sulphur of the Consoli-
dated Mining and Smelter Com
pany at Trail, British Columbia.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-16
TO WE'D MILLIONAIRE

HOLLYWOOD, April Is G.N.SO
Vera Steadman, film actress, and
Martin Padway, Beverly Hills.
Cal, millionaire, today will apply
for a marriage license, which
they will use within a day or
two" the actress said. Miss
Steadman said she would con.
tinue her film career.
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