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The Washington times., 1935-03-29
j. Of MARYLAND
EDITORS GET
WARNING
DR.. Pearson Ready to Punish
Students If Attacks Continue;
Regents Probe Promised

University Of Maryland students
today continued their campaign
against DR.. Raymond A. Pearson,
president of the school for the
last eight years.
j. Marshall Matthias, editor-in-
chief of the Diamondback, stu
dent newspaper, issued another
statement assailing the president
and then went into hiding Ito
get some rest"
Matthias said he had not slept
for three days and nights, since
the pent-up feelings of students,
faculty members and alumni were
unloosed in an attack on DR..
Pearson Tuesday, with a demand
for his custer.
No Mud Singing
Meanwhile, DR.. Pearson was
testifying before the House Com
mittee on Agriculture in an effort
to get Federal funds for the agri.
cultural experiments in coopera.
ton with agricultural colleges.
Censorship of the Diamondback
today added fuel to the campus
fire. other developments in the
fight included the appointment by
Warren E. Tydings, president Of
the student council, of a secret
c o m m t tee to investigate all
charges and lay its findings before
the board of regents. The regents
have promised to meet in a few
days to consider the situation.
Matthias statement today Said:,
"The DiamOndback does not in
tend to allow this campaign
against the administrative poll
cies of DR.. Pearson to degenerate
into a personal mud-slinging con-.
test. The paper has backed up
its stand with very definite
facts, which have been denied
but not disprOved. We shall
await the promised action Of the
board of regents.
"Our primary purpose In
starting this thing was to bring
about restoration of the $4,000
budget cut. We have attained
that end and unless something
further develops we are willing
to let matters stand for the time
being"
DIR. PEARSON'S ORDER
The censorship edict came In
a letter to the student editors
from DR.. Pearson. It stated, in
effect, that the Diamondback
must quit printing "unsubstan.
tiated statements and making re-
marks that do not conform to
the generally accepted standards
Of good taste"
The Washington times., 1935-03-29
BERLIN IS SAFE
FROM AIR RAIDS

BERLIN, March 29.-Berlin is
safe from an enemy air raid, staff
officers announced today following
spectacular military maneuvers
over the German capital.
While planes swept over the city,
Stimulating an enemy attack, the
city was plunged into darkness
and residents rushed into their
cellars.
So thoroughly were orders obeyed
on the ground that the airmen
stated they were unable to see
lights in the city and believe that
enemy forces would not be able to
do effective damage.
The Washington times., 1935-03-29
Chevrolet Gets
Army Contract

Contracts for Army motor vehi-
cles totaling $2,540,O71 have been
awarded by Quartermaster Gen
eral Louis H. Bash to the Chew
rolet Motor Company, Flint,
Mich.
The Spadden Shipbuilding
Company of Baltimore, Md, was
awarded a $33,833 contract for
the construction of a 50-foot
motor tug.
The Washington times., 1935-03-29
HIGHER INCOME.
TAX URGED BY
Ia TOILETTE
Would Place Levy on Those
Making $500 Yearly and
Boost High Brackets
International News Service

Senator Robert M. La Toilette,
Wisconsin's youthful Progressive,
today staunchly defended his ef'
fort to boost income taxes all
along the line, and to bring into
the taxable class even those in,
comes of 5000 and $1,000.
Although temporarily blocked
in the Senate, the proposal may
reappear again later. Senator
La Toilette said:
"My position is this:
"1. We must continue to
make huge expenditures in
order to meet distress, secure
unemployment, distribute pur-
chasing power and stimulate
industry.
"2. This can be done only II
we tax heavily enough to main
tain Government credit.
CALLS TAX JUST
"3. The income tax in my
opinion is a just tax because
it distributes the burden in &C
cordance with ability to pay.
-. In this crisis, it is my pO-
sition that single person with
net taxable income in excess OF
$500 should be asked to make a
small contribution to the Gov
ernment, For example, a sim
gle person with a net taxable in
come of $1,000 would pay only
the normal tax of 6 per cent on
$500, or $12 per year-$1 per
month.
"5. Such a tax upon those in
the lOw-income group is justi-
fled, however, if we increase the
tax on those in the higher
brackets. My amendment does
this, going up to II per cent on
net taxable income in excess OF
$1,000, O,OOO."
Senator La Toilette conceded it
seemed rather severe to tax an
income of $500, in view of the
present cost of living, but de-
tended it on the ground the coun'
try is in the midst of a crisis.
Rare Subsistence
No governmental agency is
able to produce figures showing
what it costs the average man
to live, but an annual wage OF
$500 amounts to slightly more
than SIS a week. That Govern
ment economists agreed, is just
about the subsistence point.
In preparing administration OF
the pending notwithstanding
work-relief-bill, President Roosevelt
estimated subsistence wage at
$50 a month or 5000 year.
The Washington times., 1935-03-29
BILL
RECEIVES D, K,
International News Service

International News Service
With a few exceptions, the
House Ways and Means Commit
tee today approved the Admins
tration's economic security bill.
The exceptions we're the volun-
tary annuity system, which was
eliminated by a 21-to-4 vote, and
old-age provisions, which are to
be finally acted upon early next
week,
The Washington times., 1935-03-29
PARTY POSTPONED

A bingo party planned for
Trinity Lodge No. S, Shepherds
of Bethlehem, tonight at 1880
K st. S. E., has been postponed
indefinitely, the sponsors an
nounced today.
The Washington times., 1935-03-29
ALEXANDER DEAD

HAGERSTOWN, Md, March
% (SpeciaD Charles w. Alex.
ander, 81, former city patrolman,
deputy sheriff and constable, and
well-known throughout this sec.
ton, died at his home here today
The Washington times., 1935-03-29
Do You Remember?

One month ago the fol-
ing names l)ere in the head
lines. Can you recall them?
Johannes BOrcher.
Francis J. Dillon.
Mrs. G. p. Putnam.
George C. Rutland.
E. M. Markham.
(AnSWerS on Page ~
The Washington times., 1935-03-29

out Of the game, but they
wouldn't let us. We feel hap
pier in Jail now"
The girls are being held in the
hope they will be able to help
police track down the counterfeit
gang.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06
CITY'S FINANCIAL CONDITION GOOD
THROUGHOUT DEPRESSION YEARS

Management of the city Of Ell
Centro by the city council during
depression years has been such that
no default was made in the payment
of any bond interest or principal in
municipal or street assessment
bonds, according to the annual re-
port prepared by Philip Knights,
city engineer, and presented to the
council at the meeting Wednesday
night. The report was accepted and
filed.
All bills have been paid promptly
and no warrants or demands were
registered, the report set forth.
The total of municipal bonds out
standing is 1896, 900 and the total of
outstanding 1915 act assessment
bonds is $254, $3.50, making a grand
total outstanding balance of $649,-
83096.
In discussing the tax situation,
Knights advised that consistent re-
ductions should be made to meet
existing levels but panic stricken
slashes certainly should be avoided
and all such measures considered
carefully, judicially and dispassion-
ately to the end that the proposed
saving will not prove a greater dis
aster than blessing"
The engineer explained that legis-
lative acts and regulations frequent
ly effect taxes. For instance, the
city now must collect through its
own tax rate, an amount equal to
three per cent of its purchases for
state purposes and all levies on
goods by reason of processing and
other federal taxes are compare
lively new additions to the city tax
rate.
The following tabulation was in
cluded in the annual report to pro-
vide comparative tax information
for four fiscal years from 1892 to
1934-35.
TOtai Tax Total Tax
Year Rate Levied Collected
1882 1.73 $181, ,75O.42 Sl61 ,548.69
Percent Delinquent ILLS.
1928 163 155,310.53 $121 ,250.15
Percent Delinquent 21931.
1933-34 LEO $138,453.2 S115,513.14
Percent Delinquent 1857.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06
POLL SHOWS
SOUTH FOR
NEW DEALERS

NEW YORK, Dec. g. U.P)-Five
southern states are expressing ap-
proval of the New Deal, while 13
states, mainly in the east and west
are expressing disapproval, accord
ing to the third tally of the 10000
900 ballot poll of the Literary Digest
announced today.
Pro New Deal votes total 87,156
for percentage of 444. Opposition
votes were 224, ,404, or $50 per cent.
At the conclusion of the second
tally last week, ALL per cent were
voting favorably on the question:
do you now approve the acts and
policies of the Roosevelt New Deal
to date?"
First reports from California,
Massachusetts, and South Dakota
all voting against the New Deal, and
from Kentucky, Tennessee and Vir-
ginia, all favoring it, were included
in today's report.
For California the vote to date
stood: Total vote 34,537; vote yes in
support of Roosevelts policies 42.15
per cent; vote no against Roose-
velt policies 5785 per cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06

oner would be unusual. but said
there was no law prohibiting it.
He also indicated the case would
be reopened if Parker or anyone
else found valid new evidence.
Egbert Rosecrans of Hauptmann's
counsel thought Parker was inves-
tigating the case only because of
a general interest in crime. But
it remained a puzzling feature of
a case that has been DR.. John F..
(Jafsie) Condor disappear on mys-
terious trips into the northeast,
along with rumors of new evidence
found in New Engand.
Court to Rule
The visit of the court of pardons
to Hauptmann is contingent on ac-
ton of the United States Supreme
Court, which may come Monday.
The court has before it a petition
to review Hauptmann's case on
the grounds that his constitutional
rights were violated in the trial
at Pennington. Should the court
decline to grant that petition.
Hauptmann's only resource would
be the New Jersey Court of Par
dons.
Hoffman made his secret visit
to Hauptmann aroun Oct. Is and he
went alone, about 8 p. m. Appar-
entity Hauptmann did most of the
talking while the Governor sat in
the death house and listened.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06
DEATH CATCHES
UP WITH OLD
ADVENTURER

PHOENIX. Dec. 6. UP)-Death.
who so often leered in his face
and then passed by. today had
taken Francisco Monroy, 95-year-
old Arizona pioneer and adven-
turer.
The first time death brushed
him with icy wings, Monroy was
five years old and lived with his
grandparents at Altar, Son., Mex
leo. His father had joined the gold
rush to California leaving his sew
en- small children with their grand
parents.
They lived in an adobe hut whose
only door was a coWhide stretched
over an opening in the wall. One
night, a huge wolf tore down the
door and attacked the grandfather.
The grandmother, realizing the
danger, hid the children in a small
storage space and joined her hus-
band in his terrific battle with
the Snarling beast. The wolf killed
and deVoured them both.
For "a hours Monroy and his
brothers and sisters huddled in
the cupboard until neighbor pass
ed by and killed the wolf, which
still was proWling about the house.
A short time later, Monroy was
working in the fields with his aunt
and her five children. A band of
fierce Apache Indians attacked
them, carrying off and killing the
aunt and three of her sons. Mon
roy and two little girls covered
among the cornStalks and escaped
the Indians notice.
Monroy first came to the United
States in 1875, when he visited a
sister and her husband at their
mine near Wickenburg. Later, he
became ranch foreman for his
brother-in-laW, who had bought a
large herd of cattle.
BY frugal living and wise invest
| mentS, Monroy and his wife amass-
ed a small fortune and retired to
their picturesque Blue Point ranch
near Tempe, Ariz., where they lived
the leisurely life of Spanish hacien-
! dadoS.
One night, during the World War
years, eight mounted men rode to
the house and asked for shelter.
Once inside the house, however,
the eight men seized Monroy and
his nephew, George Come, and
tied them to chairs. They stripped
off Monroys boots and socks and
held burning brands to his bare
feet to force him to tell them where
he had hidden his money. He re-
fused stoically.
Mrs. Monroy, sickened by the
torture her husband was under
going, finally revealed the hiding
place of $2,500 in $5 gold pieces.
The men took them and demanded
more money. She convinced them
the sum was all she had, and they
left-leaving her standing over
another and larger cache of money
beneath the floor.
Monroy never recovered fully
from the torture and his wife,
weakened by the horror of that
night, died a short time later.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06
DOWNTOWN
DECORATED
FOR XMAS

Efforts to encourage merchants
whose stores are fronted by Christ
mas trees used in street decorations
to see that their tree is decorated
are being made by the chamber of
commerce, Secretary Bob Hays said
Thursday.
Main street is now decorated with
three strings of garlands to each
block, illuminated by colored lights.
These will be augmented by three
more strings of lights to each
block today. In addition, tubbed
Christmas trees had been placed
on the curbing at 40 foot intervals
through the business section. Ar
rangements are now being made to
spray these trees with silver, Hays
said.
The decorations were obtained
through the efforts of the chamber
of commerce in cooperation with
El Centre merchants. The garland,
lights, and trees, were rented from
Langford decorating company, Los
Angeles. Business firms are bear
ing the majority of the decoration
expense on a front footage basis.
Electricity and incidentals will be
purchased with chamber of COM
merce funds.
christmas tree lane will be il
Illuminated through Christmas and
New Years." President Sem Bacon
said, land if each merchant will
cooperate by securing a few orna-
mentS for his tree the effect will
be greatly enhanced"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06
CHRISTMAS
- Invades -
FL CENTRO

A spirit of festivity has taken
possession of the city. Crowds are
larger, conversation more lively,
laughter more frequent. A brighter
spirit has seemingly been injected
into everyone.
Brightly colored packages wink
their red, blue, and green wrappers
at the passing crowds. Shiny toys
and attractive gifts beckon from
the windows. Long rows of green
needed fir trees line Main street,
SWaying gently to the holiday
tempo, while glittering stars sus-
pended from evergreen archWayS
reflect the spirit of festiVity from
overhead.
Busy crowds hustle from store
to store, mentally revelling in the
thousands of gifts which spin be-
fore their searching eyes. Eager
hands search through tables piled
high with holiday mercandise
while laughing eyes apraise and
minds consider the state of pocket
books.
Behind their gaily decorated
windows merchants serve the mill
ing public. Customers and sellers
appear equally animated. An in
definable force of lightness and
gaiety seems to be penetrating
minds and bodies like a charge of
electricity-people, color and life
sweep through the ity in waves as
refreshing as the clean smell OF
the frs which line the pavement.
Christmas is coming to town.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06

bergh, Jr.
There will be eight of these men
members of the New Jersey court
of pardons, who hold the sway OF
life or death over Hauptmann. No
court can overrule them, and it
is within their power to free Haupt-
mann in the face of a jury verdict
and appellate opinions to contrary.
Secret Trip
These facts became known to-
night when Gov Harold G. Hoff-
man of New Jersey revealed that,
as a member of the court of par
dons, he already had made a secret
trip to the death house Of Trenton
State Prison and talked for an
hour with Hauptmann about the
crime that shocked civilization.
Into the case today stepped a
bald-headed man who has the
reputation of being one of the
ablest detectives on the east coast.
He is Ellis Parker of Burlington
county, who has attained enough
prominence to have a book written
about his exploits in the pursuit
and capture of criminals.
Private Sleuthi1g
Hoffman said Parker was con-
Quoting an independent investiga-
ton of the Lindbergh crime.
But 1 have not authorized a
private investigation of any kind,
Hoffman added. MY only interest
is, as a member of the court of
pardons, to see that justice is done" F"
Hoffman conceded that to have
the court of pardons visit pris-
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06
Hugh Johnson Declares Both New
And Old Deal Have Gone HayWire

IF either party would take the
original Democratic program of 1882
and live up TO it that would solve
everything. But its hopeless, be-
cause nobody will believe the
promises of either party.
Gen. Johnson criticised Hoover
and Roosevelt alike. He said:
"The Republican party has neither
a man nor plank. 1t has no more
chance than one-legged man in
pants-kicking contest unless it
gets away from the Old Deal"
A heckler in the croWc asked: do
you consider yourself to have been
less inefficient than Rex TugWell?"
CReXford Guy TugWell, under secre-
tary of agriculture).
Rex TugWell is marcelled ass"
Johnson replied.
why were you kicked out of the
NRA?"
II wasn't asked out of the NRA,
and you can spell that any way you
want to-" shouted johnson.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06

PASADENA, Dec. 6. U.P) - Gen.
Hugh S. johnson, fiery former NRA
boss, pounded a lecture rostrum
boss, pounded a lecture rostrum here
Thursday night and shouted that
the New Deal and the old deal
have gone haywire, and we're sit
ting quiet in the middle and taking
1t in the neck"
Constitution and government"
was announced as his topic before
the Pasadena community lecture
group. Chester RoWell, editor of the
San Francisco Chronicle introduced
him.
Il won't talk on that" shouted the
general. I'm going to talk on so
what?'
"The New Deal has gone haywire
and is headed for Socialism and
ruin, the old deal of the Republican
party has gone overheard on a re-
dictionary program. So what? So
we get it in the neck.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06
FARM BUREAU
ELECTION SET
FOR SATURDAY

The annual farm bureau luncheon
and election of officers will be held
at noon Saturday in the California
hotel. The home department and
All clubs will join with the bureau
at luncheon for which a program
of entertainment and a series of
speakers have been secured. Farm
erS from every point of Imperial
Valley are expected to attend with
their wives and families, Farm
Advisor Frank Beyschlag said
Thursday
Following the luncheon program
the farm bureau will adjourn to
private meeting where directors for
the coming year will be elected.
The home department and All
clubs will also hold afternoon ses-
sions.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06
'LOVE-CRAZY'
MAN GOES ON
SHOOTING ORGY

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5 0P) - A
story of disordered romance, in
which a wealthy Cleveland,
Ohio, contractor, ruined by love" 3"
chased his supposedly common law"
wife halfway across the country and
cornered her with her newly-mar-
ried husband, ended today in an
orgy of shooting in a downtown
hotel.
Jake j. Berkowitz, the abandoned
lover, lay gasping his life away in a
hospital with a bullet in his stom-
ach; the woman's husband James
Neary, was critically wounded with
a slug fired through his throat, and
the woman, Mrs. Katherine Neary.
"a, had a gunshot wound through
her shoulder.
In a dramatic windup of the
tranScontinental tragedy, which eX-
tended from Miami, Fla, to Cali
fornia, BerkoWitz cornered the Wom-
an and the man she married in the
hotel corridor, intending to kill
them, lost his nerve and started to
run.
When Neary gave chase, he turn
ed and sprayed nine bullets along
the hallway. One struck Neary in
the mouth, another splintered
doorway and struck Mrs. Neary in
the shoulder, and he fired the final
slug into his own body.
Mumbling his story through blood
less lips, the stocky, middle-aged
contractor, told how, with wife and
two children living in San Fran
cisco, he had been driven crazy with
love" for Mrs. Neary.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06
REDS MENACE
LUXURY LINER

NEW YORK, Dec. 6. U.P)-The
North German Lloyd luxury liner
Bremen, center of one information
al controversy, was given a large
coastguard and police escort Thurs
day night when she arrived in
quarantine as result of an alleged
communist plot to bomb the vessel.
The coastguard cutters Calumet
and Icarus, coastguard patrol boats
157 and 172, and police launch No.
3 were rushed to quarantine to
stick close to the huge ship through
out the night and warn off any
suspicious boats which come too
close.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06
Plans for Soil Tests Delay Huge
Yuma-Gila Project Temporarily

PHOENIX, Dec. 6. UP)-Suspen-
sion of work on the huge Yuma
Gila reclamation project is only
temporary and may be resumed
after soil investigation, Gov. B.
q. Moeur was informed today by
Or. ElWood Mead, U. S. M. reclaim
alton commissioner.
A halt to work on the project,
bids on the first unit of which
were to have been opened at Yuma
Yesterday, was ordered because the
department of agriculture contended
the soil in tee proposed project
was unsuitable for irrigation, Dr.
Meade explained in a telegram to
the governor. His message, in full
was as follows:
In reply 10 your telegram of
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06

the fourth, work was suspended on
the Gila project on representations
of the secretary of agriculture that
the land was unfit for irrigated
settlement. The suspension is only
temporary until suitable soil in
vestigation."
Gov. Moeur telegraphed federal
authorities yesterday, demanding
an explanation for the sudden gov
ernment order to stop work on the
project.
The suspension, a complete sur
prise to state officials, was an
nounced by District Reclamation
Engineer r. B. Williams at Yuma
two minutes before IS bids to con-
struct gravity canal could be
opened.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06

The engineer called attention to
the fact that taxes levied in 1892
were 1924 per cent greater than
those levied in 1925 and the taxes
collected in 1892 were 43.166 per
cent greater than taxes collected in
1934-35.
Tabulations printed herewith per-
tain to taxes only and do not include
other sources Of revenue such as
tines, licenses, permits, water reye-
nue., etc.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06
Rise in PhilcO
Prices FOreseen

Gay Underwood, Philco factory
representative visited Pete Schmitt
here today to discuss 1886 policies
with the valley Philco dealer
Philco prices. Underwood told
Schmitt, will advance sharply after
Jan. in all lines. He did not have
definite information on the extent
of the rise. however.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06
BLIGHT DOOMS
JAPANESE GIFT

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6. UP) -
Root crown gall, mysterious
blight that brought orders for a
state quarantine investigation, to-
day doomed 600 Japanese cherry
trees, friendship gift of Pacific
coast japanese to Los Angeles.
State investigation was requested
by the Griffith Park commission
after the blight had slowly killed
one hundred of the trees planted
within the park.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06

1934-35 1.55 $134,39680 $112,83990
Percent Delinquent 1903.
Taxation in relation to population
is revealed in the following table
which also was included in the an
nual report:
Estimated Total Per Total Per
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06

Harold Lloyd got into his first
studio by donning makeup and
sneaking in with bit players re-
turning from lunch.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06
Members Of Pardon
Board TO Visit Him

TRENTON, n. j.. Dec. g. (UP)-If the United States
Supreme Court rules against him. Bruno Richard Haup
will be allowed to make last fight for his life by
standing face to face in the death house with the only
who him and try to convince them he innocent
tlo rdnr LII ln Id
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-06

Cary Grant, film actor, at the
age of II ran away from home TO
join an acrobatic troupe.