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Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
Los Angeles Grain

LOS ANGELES, June "a. W.P)-
Prices quoted on the Los Angeles
grain exchange today:
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24

MARKET hunters operating sections OF the
country They kill birds throughout the with
gard for closed designed especially
for the business OF wholesale slaughter
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
Poultry for Sale
Special Notices

SEWING MACHINES repaired
Work guaranteed. Phone 1196-R.
24-6
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
Livestock for Sale


FOR SALE - Nine head Holstein
dairy COWS. one bull. IL miles
north FL Centro gas plant on
Fourth st. j. A. Johnson. 22-3
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24

Southern colored woman
between 80 and 40, for cook and
housekeeper. Must be unencum-
bered Local references preferred.
Phone Ell Centro 679. 24-3
Imperial Valley press., 1935-06-24
Flax Market
L. A. Hay

LOS ANGELES, June "a. U.P)-
Receipts equivalent 43 carloads.
U. S. No. .......................S14.50-15.00
U. S. No. Leafy .......-.$13.50-14.00
U. S. No. 2 ...........-...........$12. So 1900
Evening star., 1935-07-12
AUTO HITS GIRL, g.;
FOUR HURT IN DAY
Traffic Accidents Include Injury
of Two Boys and Man
of 81.

Three-year-old Elizabeth Anne Fon-
niti, 1914 U street southeast, was one
of four victims of traffic accidents
yesterday. The child was struck in
front of her home by car driven by
Madeline H. Day of COS Raleigh street
southeast, receiving injuries to her
head and leg.
Two other children were treated for
slight injuries as the result Of acci-
dents in front Of their homes. John
S. Lane, S, of 156 Sixth street south
west, was injured about the head when
struck by an automobile driven by
Elmer Barber, 821 Maryland avenue
northeast. He was treated at Provi-
dence Hospital and returned home.
John Brown, S, of 480 I street south
west, also was treated at Providence
for slight injuries when struck by an
automobile operated by Pearl A. Grit
fifth, 816 F street northeast.
Brant Bowman, 81, of 901 H street
received injuries to both legs, his right
shoulder and face and hand, when he
was struck by q car driven by Hen
rietta Wilhelm Of Boulevard Heights,
Md, as he attempted to cross the
street against the traffic light. He was
treated at Providence Hospital.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
EXPORTS TO EUROPE
SHOW BIG SLUMP
Account for Approximately All
of Decrease in Foreign Trade
in Five Months.
BY the Associated Press.

oy Iuo hSSOCldLeO freSS.
Large decreases in exports to Europe
were shown by Commerce Department
figures today to have accounted en-
tirely for the decline of American ex-
port trade for the first five months of
this year as compared with last year.
Exports to every other section of
the world increased some $50 076, 900,
while those to Europe decreased $61, =
$4,000, leaving a net decline in ex-
ports of 11,746, 900.
May figures showed that Southern
North America, Asia, Oceania and
Africa made slight gains in purchases
from the United States compared with
May last year. Imports for the month
were generally larger from every Sec
tion of the world, the total gain being
$109,070,0 900. AS shown by previously
published foreign trade figures, the
United States still had a favorable
trade balance for the five months.
having sold some $4,000, 900 more in
that period this year than she has
bought.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
MENINGITIS CASE
DISCOVERED HERE
Investigation Begun to Pre-
vent Renewal of Epidemic
in City.

With the discovery of a new case Of
epidemic spinal meningitis in local
hotel, District health officers today be-
gan an investigation of the victim s
home surroundings and his working
conditions at the hotel in an effort to
check any threatened renewal of the
outbreak of the disease here. They
said, however, they are not particu-
larly alarmed by the finding Of the
new case.
Arthur Jenkins, SO, elevator operator
at local hotel, and who lives at 905
H street, the new victim of the epi-
demic disease which has had wide
range of spread in Virginia and the
Carolinas recently, was taken to Gal
linger Hospital Wednesday. Attaches
at the hospital said he had all the
symptoms of epidemic spinal menin-
gifts.
The total number of cases In the
District this year, since January l.,
has been 174 from which 81 deaths
resulted. Two of the deaths occurred
last week, health officers said. For
the same period in 1884, only seven
cases of the disease were reported and
only two deaths resulted.
The height of the epidemic here was
during the Winter and early Spring
months when the disease broke out in
the Transient Bureau and transients
were quarantined several days.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
z TRUCK DRIVERS
KILLED IN CRASH
Carolina Vegetable Carriers
Collide on Washington.
Richmond Road.
BY staff Correspondent of The Star.


DUMFRIES, Va, July IL. Two
drivers were killed and two truck
owners injured when two North Caro-
lima vegetable trucks collided on a
curve of the Richmond-W Washington
Highway here early today.
The dead are: w. T. Fraley, 50, of
Cooleemee, N. c., and Parker Connor,
"a, of Orangeburg, N. C.
Ira r. Bailey of Cooleemee, owner
Of the truck driven by Fraley, and
Cecil Bonnette of Orangeburg, owner
Of the second vehicle, were injured.
Fraley was instantly killed in the
crash. Connor died an hour later in
the post hospital at the Quantico
Marine Barracks.
The truck operated by Fraley was
en- route north with a load of to-
matoes. Connor's vehicle was return
ing empty to North Carolina.
Following an investigation of the
accident, DR.. E H. Marstellar, Prince
William County coroner, at noon is
sued certificate of accidental death for
Fraley and Conner.
The owners of the trucks were not
ordered held.
Connor Is a son of DR.. A. w. Con-
nor Of Orangeburg. Arrangements
are being made to send the bodies to
North Carolina tonight.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
DETECTIVES MUST
SUBMIT REPORTS
Order for Comprehensive Weekly
Account Step in Efficiency
Drive.

Headquarters detectives were under
orders today to make comprehensive
weekly reports on their activities to
Chief of Detectives Frank S. w. Burke.
This was another development in
Police Chief Ernest w. Browns drive
for efficiency in the department.
Form blanks containing questions 10
be answered by the detectives we're
issued to the go headquarters men
last night by Burke, who explained
how the questionnaires must be filled
out.
The new system will enable the de-
tective chief to keep complete statistics
on the number of arrests, unsolved
cases, hours and official activities of
each member of the force.
Burke said that while good detective
work is something too intangible to be
revealed by cold statistics" the sys-
tenn should act as a reminder" to
each detective to cover the whole field
of his duties.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
u. S. Scout Cars
To Surrey Routes
OF Scenic Road
Ickes ApprOres AllOt'
nent of So, 500 for
Initial Study.

Scout cars of the national park po-
lice are to be sent out in a short
while to survey various routes for a
Washington-to-W Worcester parkway tc
serve as a connecting link between
the New England resort section and
the Shenandoah Great Smoky Noun
tains park system in the South.
Approving the idea of making the
South's most-famous scenic region
more accessible for Northern tourists
by boulevards protected against COM
mercial encroachment, Public Works
Administrator Ickes yesterday ap.
proved an allotment of $2,500 for the
preliminary survey. The reconnois-
sance will cost a total of $4,000, with
the Bureau of Public Roads defraying
the balance.
While the plan has been advanced
from time to time during the past
year, no definite route has ever beer
decided. Government landscape en-.
gineers will take two or three months
to do the job. They will explore sew
eral routes to determine the posSibili-
ties for a scenic parkway.
When the route is selected, Admin
istrator Ickes will take under advise
ment the cost of building a parkway
with a Government right-of-way on
each side averaging about 100 acres
to a mile. At Washington Northern
tourists would have a direct route to
the Shenandoah National Park re-
gion and then through the great scenic
regions of North Carolina and Ten
neSSee. The national parkway in these
sections already is under construction
Evening star., 1935-07-12
Judge Ciren Plans Real Rest
after AZ Years in d. C.. Seruice
Hopes to Enter Private La,U Practice.
Passed Judgment on 100000 Cases
in 6H Years on Bench.

two clerks in the Office to handle
them.
Since Judge Given has been on the
bench he has disposed of approxi-
mately 100000 cases.
The two things which stand out the
most forcibly in Judge Given's mind
as having occurred during his years
as prosecutor are that he assisted
in the prosecution of Coxey's Army in
the early part of the century and that
he prepared the first information
against prohibition law violator, Sc
curing the first conviction for this Of
fense in the entire country. The pro-
hibition law went into effect one mid
night, an arrest was made 10 minutes
later and at 10 o'clock the next morn
ing Judge Given was in court to Sc
cure the conviction, which he did.
Judge Given Is married and has two
sons, Harvey T. Given and Ralph
Given, jr. His principal hobby is fish
ing in mountain streams of West Vir-
ginia, where he has spent his annual
vacations for years.
Evening star., 1935-07-12

is feet high. It will cover the 6-inch
transit in the center of the building,
which is an extension of the clock
house, the vault in which the valuable
time clocks are kept. It will be elec-
trically driven.
Observations made with the 6-inch
transit are used for the correct time
service which is flashed all over the
world from the Naval Observatory.
Recently a Chinese scientist was in
Washington from Marking and told
Capt. Hickey Of receiving the observa-
tory's signals there.
At present, Capt. Hickey said, the
sun SO heats up the floor that some
times the scientists cannot even lie
down to take their observations
through the open roof. The heat rays
come up from the floor and affect the
temperature and reading Of the
instruments. q . = p 4
Evening star., 1935-07-12
$4,000 CONTRACT LET
FOR SCHOOL ADDITION
Hugh M. Browne Junior Project
Must Be Completed Within
24O Calendar Days.

Contract for construction of an ad-
dition to the Hugh M. Browne Junior
High School, at Twenty-fourth and H
streets, extended, northeast, was
awarded today by the Commissioners
to the Highway Engineering & Con-
structing Co. for $166,000.
The contract allows the contractor
240 calendar days for completion of
the work.
The Commissioners also awarded
a contract to the George Hyman Con-
struction Co. for $4,000 for con-
struction of additional units for the
new adult tuberculosis hospital being
built at Glen Dale, Md, under a loan
to the District by the Public Works
Administration.
The new contract covers construc-
ton of a warehouse and garage build
ing and additions to the heating
plant. The work is to be finished
within 180 days.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
Six:lnch Observatory Transit
To Be Guarded by Sun Screen

The Navy Department today an
nounced the signing of contract for
a canvas sun-screen at the Naval
Observatory here to prevent heat from
affecting the instruments used in
celestial observations in the 6-inch
transit building, in conjunction with
the correct time service.
The $793 contract was awarded to
the Baltimore Machine Works, 421
West Camden street, Baltimore. It will
be executed under the direction of the
Bureau of Yards and Docks as part
Of a $117.873 public works program
for various parts Of the country, just
announced.
Capt. Andrew s. Hickey, acting
superintendent of the observatory, ex-
planned today that the sun screen will
be feet wide and will run on q track
in the shape Of q Roman arch. It
viii be so feet In length and around
Evening star., 1935-07-12
Mouse Hampers
Delivery of Mail;
u. S. Asked to Act
Woman Who Finds Him
in Box Wants Some
thing Done about Ii.

Frances Lundquist, who resides on
a rural route outside Of Brookfield,
Conn.,, has fleld-mouse troubles and
wants the Government to do some
thing about it. Her plea, addressed
to Uncle Sam, U. s. Post ONCE"
showed up at the department today.
Dear Uncle" (she wrote):
what shall do about 1t? A field
mouse with long ears and big eyes has
made a nest in my mail box, and
every time lift the top I disturb him
and he disturbs me-and howl have
to leave this post card on top.
"Affectionately, you niece.
FRANCES LUNDQUIST."
Postmaster General Farley. unable
to do anything about the problem, Is
going to turn it over to the Agricu1-
tural Adjustment Administration and
recommend that a field mouse reduc-
ton program be inaugurated In the
neighborhood Of Brookfield.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
BUS PLANS RUSHED.
FOR NEARBY LINES.
Change on Anacostia Run
to Be Made Monday,
Firm Announces.

With plans complete for substitu-
ton Monday Of busseS for street cars
on the Anacostia line, Capital Transit
Co. officials today turned to the mat
ter of bus schedules on upper Con-
necticut avenue and on Wisconsin
avenue, north of the District line.
where street car service also will be
abandoned.
Through busses probably will con-
meet Garrett Park, Md, with down.
town Washington and possibly with
Anacastia, w. B. Bennett, assistant to
the president of the transit company,
declared.
Other buses from the center of the
city will have their terminus at Chevy
Chase Lake. Still others will run
only as far north as Chevy Chase
Circle.
Bennett said it is likely that all
the Connecticut avenue busses start
ing or ending their run in Maryland.
will be expresses, with stops only in
prescribed sections.
Some time ago the District Public
Utilities Commission authorized sub
stitution Of busses on Connecticut
avenue from Calvert street to the
circle, effective September l, and yes
terday the Maryland Public Service
Commission approved abandonment
of the street car line in Maryland.
At the same time, the Maryland
commission authorized abandonment
of the Rockville trolley line.
This means the company will go
forward Immediately with its plans
to erect a combination street car and
bus terminal on Wisconsin avenue at
the District Line. As soon as this
structure is completed the Rockville
street car service will be stopped and
bus line put into operation connect
ing the Maryland town with the Dis
trict by way of the Old Georgetown
road. The Alta Vista cars also will
be taken out of service.
In addition, the Montgomery County
bus service along the Rockville Pike
will be continued. This hourly serv-
ice will be staggered with old George
town road buses so that there will be
transportation available every half
hour to Rockville along one of the two
routes.
Buses in Barns.
Twenty-three new busses for the
Anacostia service were in the Capital
Transit Co. barns today being touched
up with paint and made ready for
operation.
The new bus line will connect Ana
costa and Congress Heights with the
downtown business district, with add
ed rush hours service along Constitu-
ton avenue to the new Government
buildings.
The route of the Anacostia buses
will be from I street south on Tenth
to H, west to Eleventh, south to
Pennsylvania avenue, east to Sixth
street, south to C southwest, east
along c. Canal and E streets to Fourth
street southeast, south to Virginia
avenue, east along Virginia avenue
and K street to Eleventh, thence
across the Anacostia Bridge and along
Nichols avenue.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
CRIME COMMITTEE
PLAN IS REJECTED
Commits SSioners Doubt
Worth of Suggestion; Other
Changes Approved.

Proposed creation Of a permanent
citizens advisory committee on crime
vas disapproved today by the Board
of Commissioners in passing judgment
on a number of recommendations
made a week ago by committee Of
District officials, appointed several
months ago to digest results Of the
work of the Housing Crime Investiga-
ting Committee.
The Commissioners approved several
other suggestions of their committee,
including the following:
That steps be taken to form a small
body of interstate detective work, in
cooperation with Maryland and Vir-
ginia;
That captains of the metropolitan
police force be held strictly account
able for crime conditions and crime
enforcement in their districts;
Would Limit Paroles.
That the Parole Board consider
adoption of stringent restrictions"
against the granting of paroles to
''habitual criminals; and
That the system of examinations
for promotions for the Police Depart
ment be revised so that 70 per cent
of the credit be given to experience
and efficiency and 80 per cent to writ
ten and mental tests.
The last recommendation already
had been covered in a proposal sent
to the Civil Service Commission.
The Commissioners rejected another
proposal of their committee which
would have abolished competitive writ
ten examinations for promotions of
police officers to the rank of captain.
The city heads agreed this should be
continued. Their fear is they will be
overwhelmed with political arguments
for the promotion of this or that lieu
tenant if the tests are abandoned.
Doubt Effectiveness.
Members of the Commissioners COM
mittee we're Corporation Counsel E.
Barrett Prettyman. chairman; Assist
ant Engineer Commissioner Howard
F. Clark and George w. Offutt, head
Of the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board.
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen said
the board had failed to find there
would be any great amount of good
accomplished by the permanent oper-
alton of crime committee.
Another proposal of the committee.
for the complete rewriting of the Dis
trict criminal code, was greeted IA
vorably and Prettyman was asked to
consider an item of necessary expense
in framing his estimate for his Office
for the next fiscal year.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
DU POINT GLIDES 80 MILES
May Have Set New Altitude
Mark Also in Flight.

ELMIRA, N. Y, July IL R.-
Richard c. du Pont of Wilmington
Del, was credited with the longest
flight made to date at the sixth an
nual national soaring contests here
yesterday when he piloted his sail
plane to West Franklyn, Pa, approx
mately 80 miles by air.
He scared at an altitude of between
5000 and 1000 feet and may have
broken the national record Of 1924
feet, which he himself made last year
His official altitude will not be known
until his barograph has been cali
brated.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
OPERATION SUCCESS
Senator Couzens Reported I'm.
proving at Mayo Clinic.

ROCHESTER, Mimi, July IL @.-
Senator James Couzens of Michigan.
operated on yesterday in the Mayo
Clinic for gall bladder ailment, was
improving satisfactorily" today, his
personal physician stated.
'"The Senator's condition is very
good" the physician said. It is ex-
pected Senator Couzens will be con-
fined in the hospital at least two
weeks.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
GIRL SPY AWAITS TRIAL

MARSEILLE, France, July IL R.-
A beautiful girl spy, charged with at
tempting to ferret out French air
service secrets, is waiting trial here,
police revealed yesterday.
The girl, who gave the name Bur-
que, and her age as 26, was alleged
to have been hired by a foreign con-
Sular official who had fallen into dis
favor. Recalled by his government
on account of his marriage, he sought
to regain the confidence of his chief,
police said, by using the girls serv-
ices.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
BODY FOUND IN RIVER

Frank N. Blatt, SO, Veteran, Had
Been Missing Since Wednesday.
The body Of Frank N. Blatt, 80, of
1905 F street northeast, who had been
missing since Wednesday, was found
yesterday in the Anacostia River near
the foot of c street southeast.
It is believed that Blatt, q World
War veteran and q victim Of sleeping
sickness, was drowned while swimming.
The day Of his reported disappearance,
police were told, he was seen playing
with q ball In the river.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
SECRET A. A. A. HEARING
HIT BY MILLS OFFICIAL
Producers, Professors and Con-
sumers Denied Light on Amend
ments, Says Davis.

BY the Associateu Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, July 12.-Donald
s. Davis, president Of General Mills,
Inc, yesterday criticized what he de-
scribed as "the arbitrary and un-
precedented action" of the Senate
Committee on Agriculture in holding
closed sessions OF. the amendments to
the agricultural adjustment act
He asserted hearings were refused
to producers, professors and con-
sumers on the amendments, notably
that which would Increase wheat
processing taxes as wheat prices ad-
vanced.
He described the alleged act as ''un-
fair, un-American ana subversiye of
fundamental principles Of democracy"
Evening star., 1935-07-12
BY LESTER N. INSKEEP.

A panorama OF the Seamy side OF
life such as few persons have beheld
passes before Police Judge Ralph
Given as he prepares for the first rest,
other than regular vacations, that he
has enjoyed for the past AZ years. The
rest is the one thing Judge Given has
promised himself as he waits to step
from the Police Court bench after
six and one-half years, which followed
So years in the district attorneys
Office here, to give way to the recent
appointment of Walter S. Casey to the
Police Court bench.
Judge Given also faces another un-
usual situation, for, in his 67th year,
he probably will engage in the private
practice of law for the first time.
While he has not definitely decided
what he will do after his rest, he
thinks it probable that he will prac-
tice law, to be joined later by his son.
Ralph Given. jr., who has just COM
pleted his first year at the George
Washington University Law School.
Joining the district attorneys Office
in 1893, first as a clerk and later as
an assistant district. attorney, Judge
Given has come into contact and
dealt with a side of life which most
people are fortunate enough to have
missed. He has come into contact
with the sordid, the vicious, the weak,
the strong and the broken, cruelty
and kindness and, most Of all, ignor-
ance, to which he attributes most Of
the troubles Of the world.
Both Kind and Just.
The retiring Judge radiates fairness,
kindness and sense of humor. Dur
ing his many years as prosecutor and
judge he has released or succeeded in
having personal bonds taken in
the cases Of thousands Of persons
whose redemption he believed depend
ed upon kindness. At the same time
he has shown no quarter to confirmed
criminals.
Discussing his service to the District
Of Columbia, Judge Given said yester-
day he felt he had served the people
well, and this made it easier for him
to turn the position over to another.
When Judge Given first entered the
district attorneys Office in 1893 there
were 4,00G cases handled annually by
one assistant district attorney and
himself, then an 18-year-old boy.
Studying law while he performed his
own duties he was admitted to the
bar in 1901, continuing his clerkship
until he was made assistant district
attorney, in charge of the Office In
1904. He was assigned one clerk and
one helper from the Police Depart
ment.
During this time the number of
cases had grown to between 5000 and
1000 a year. where they remained
until 1921, when national prohibition
came into effect At that time he was
assigned an assistant to handle pro-
hibition cases and later two more
were added, one for prohibition and
another to assist him in the general
prosecutions.
10000 Cases Yearly.
At this time the number of cases
handled in his Office had increased
to approximately 10000 a year. the
average when he accepted the ap-
pointment to the bench.
With the repeal Of prohibition the
cases dropped last year to 6,722, with
six assistant District attorneys and
Evening star., 1935-07-12
PRICES UP 6 PCT. IN YEAR
Wholesale Level 1S Pct. Above
Two Years Ago.

Wholesale commodity prices yester-
day were reported per cent higher
on July than a year ago and nearly
10 per cent above the level two years
ago.
The Labor Department added that
there was an increase Of three-tenths
Of / per cent during the week.
Evening star., 1935-07-12

Meeting, Gulf Refining Co., Hamil-
ton Hotel, 1 pm.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
Child Labor Opposed.

South Africa has q campaign
against child labor.
Evening star., 1935-07-12

Meeting, A. F. @. E., District de-
partment, Thomson School, Twelfth
and L streets, 3 pm.
Evening star., 1935-07-12
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TNnAv

Meeting, Military Service Legion,
Mayf1ower Hotel, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1935-07-12

Dinner, General Electric Co.
Wardman Park Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Evening star., 1935-07-12

Meeting, Capital Canary Club. 712
Twelfth street, 7:30 pm.