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Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03
FIVE DIE IN
TRUCK CRASH

ALTURAs, Calf. Aug. 3. UR)-A
coroner's jury was summoned to-
DAY to determine responsibility for
a highway accident in which five
workmen, one Of whom was said
to be a relative Of governor of Tex
as. were killed and seven were in
jured.
The accident occurred on the Al
turas-Redding highway last night
when two trucks sidesWiped.
The dead are. Manley Alfred, 81,
Alturas, supposedly a second cousin
Of Governor James v. Alfred Of
Texas; Clarence Chance. IS, and
Jack Asher. 81, both Of Altur;s;
Roscoe Conklin. ., Cedarville; Snd
| Wesley Polander. Al, Lake { .ty
Alfred. Chance and Polander we're
married men.
None of the injured was in ser
| iOus condition.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

drifting"
Doesn't Want Oars
oars! Oars' snarled the Bob
Cat. I don't want to eat oars! 1
want a rabbit to eat. What's the
good of taking the oars?"
IF take the oars" said the sly
and cunning Fox, "he can't row
away from here The wind will
blow him and his boat on the rocks.
He will be wrecked and then we can
easily catch him."
"All right" meWed the Bob Cat.
Softly the Fox swan out under
water and when close to the boat
he pulled the oars away and let
them drift off. Then Uncle Wig
gily, who was half asleep, began to
drift in his boat toward the rocks
where the two BAD Chaps waited
him. But all of a sudden Uncle
Wiggily awakened and saw what
had happened.
my oars have drifted aWayl" he
cried, not knowing the Fox had
taken them. without oars can't
row back to shore. But I know
what I can do. can sail backl
have my umbrella" opening his
truSty umbrella, Uncle Wiggily held
lit so the wind blew on it as if on
a sail and soon he reached the shore
near his cottage and was safe. The
Bad Chaps were fooled again. And
when you see the kitchen table
dance on one leg, I'll tell you about
Uncle Wiggily's funny fish.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03
DON'T QUOTE
ME"
By United Press
(By United Press

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. - Run
ming an elevator is a pretty dull
occupation but not in the new la
bor department building.
The elevators are on either side
of the main corridor and are wired
with separate indicator systems
This means a person has to press
the buttons on both sides Of the
hall 10 be sure of getting lift.
Frequently the rival elevators ap-
pear at the same moment. That
delights the operators. When the
patron enters a car, the rival oper-
ator waits to hear whic hfloor is
wanted.
Then both cars whiz upward with
a swish in a race to get to the
floor first. The patron, stepping
out a little dizzily, like as not, finds
the second elevator already await
ing him in case. he wants to ride
down again.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03
Suicide Attempt
Fails To Succeed

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3. up
He lost his sweetheart and his
wealth, so Ted Bradford, New York
and Hollywood dancer, attempted
suicide today, police reported.
Death evaded him, however. and
ne was recovering from near as
phyxiation after treatment at DO
lice receiving hospital. Henry Earl.
a friend Of is years, found him un-
conscious on the floor of his apart
ment, windows closed and gas pour
ing from q heater.
I have nothing to say except
that I missed" Bradford told po-
lice
Earl related that Bradford had
been out of employment for six
months whereas he had earned as
much as $500 a week before. He
lost 100000 in a New York bank
failure and his former dancing
partner and sweetheart married am
other man, Earl added
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03
FEVER BALKs THERMOMETER

DECATUR, Ind UP)-Physicians
were baffled when they attempted
to record the fever of Russell But
Ter, 10, a sunstroke victim, and dis
covered that the thermometer did
not have enough figures on it. They
believed that the fever for a short
time reached 122 degrees. The vic
tim recovered.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03
Loo king
3 &C k w ard
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
August 9. 1920

Imperial county board of super
visors yesterday received from the
highway coElmission a report ad-
Vising construction OF % miles of
paved road.
Imperial county will officially
participate in a campaign to Sc
cure more equitable freight rates
for the valley.
J. c. Tate spent the weekend
with his family in San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

dress suits men wear at class re-
unions and the vintage Of irwin
Cobb's. The one with frog buttons.
Menjou and Jack Whiting gum up
ful evening attire for most Of US.
Maybe, too, it's the end Of the
Dress Suit Era. Stacks for a slack
period
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

Oddly, the old Flatiron, first sky
scraper, is better tenanted than a
half-score modern and higher
spires. Frank Munsey's offices we're
Herewith the throne Herbert
Corey's. Jimmy Allison's. The ave-
nue. tapers from 23rd to the arch
into q soft, mellow glow. a benson
that slows pedestrians into a saun-
ter. One thinks of Mark Twain, o.
Henry and many more whose gifts
make life more endurable.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

Published every evening Except Sunday by The
Imperial Valley Press, Inc 625 State street,
e Centre, California. W. c. Costello business
manager Telephone g. business office. 700 edi-
torial department. Fun leased wire United Press
Associations
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

I noticed a chambermaid with
white cap and apron peeking down
from a hotel window near Madison
Square. Tired, faded, gray. It's a
job many ladies of other days seek,
a way to hide People only glance
at a chambermaid.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03
TEN YEARS AGO
August 2 1925

Imperial Valley has the world
beaten when it comes to dairy
ing" it was declared this morning
by r. II Cary.
Fire of undetermined origin
completely destroyed a packing
shed on Olive street last night.
The total number of marriage
licenses issued during the month
of July was 61.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

Floyo Fike, dairyman of Hard
wick, Kings county, recently pur-
chased % young Guernseys in Wis
consin.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

Wineries have been contracting
Muscat grapes at SIS ton in Kings
county.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03
ODDITIES in
THE WORLDS
NEWS NOTES
(By United Press

NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-MrS. Ma
bel Brevoort Steven ordered her
grape crop harvested. Her crop
comprises precisely eight punches.
Her arbor is on the terrace of her
18th floor penthouse. Ten tons of
top soil had to be carried there in
tubs to grow the eight punches OF
grapes.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Aug. 3. -
The prosecutor said he sent Carl
Davis notice of an assault charge
preferred by a neighbor, and Davis
was equally insistent no notice ever
was received. AS they argued the
office mail arrived and with it the
prosecutors notice. Across it was
written:
unable to deliver account Davis
dog will not permit me to enter
Davis yard"
PASADENA, Calf, Aug. 8. -
Mrs. Edna Wedemeyer's canary
worried today over the baby birds
she is mothering because all OF
them are bigger than she. The
newcomers are bull finches and al
ready a job for the tiny canary to
handle.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3.-Hen-
ry Seller wants returned to him the
tax money his family has been pay
ing the Esquimault, B. c., town au-
thorities for so years.
The tax was on a lot. Seller
finally went to see the property.
Maps showed it at the end of a
street, and the end of the street
was under many feet OF water.
CHICAGO, Aug. 3.-When Mrs.
Kate Thies, 10, was knocked down
by a street car she had no thought
of medical aid.
When picked up, her hair ruff
fled and her plumed hat batted to
one side, she shouted:
where are my false teeth?"
She was not injured.
CUMBERLAND, Md, Aug. 3. -
TWelve-year-o Vernice Higgins
Stolter was the mother today of a
six pound boy. The boys maternal
grandmother is only 26 years old.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS
NOT MAKING PROGRESS

While President Roosevelt was telling
a press conference yesterday that he eX-
pected q heavy pickup in employment
during September and October, eStlmat-
ing that three-Quarters of the emplOyableS
on relief would oe cared for by the work
relief program, other dispatches from
Washington stated the administration
has dim hopes of abandoning the dole by
November /.
On the contrary, the indications were
that the FERA will be forced to continue
administering relief until the early part
of 1896.
The employment program has prog
ressed only far enough to permit relief
reductions to be made in 13 of tie 48
states
Congress appropriated S88O,OO0,000
for direct relief, of which $240,0O0,000 re-
mains, direct relief having required $780,
000, 900 since April S.
The balance of S240,0O0,00O left in the
direct relief fund will last, at the pres
ent rate of expenditure, through Novem-
Der. Then it will be found necessary to
dig into the S4,000,OOO, 900 work-relief
program, unless the employment pro-
gram is speeded up sufficiently, some
thing which officials doubt will be done.
At present there are 3.500,0OO employ
ables on the direct relief rolls. The
President said approximately 100000
Of these will be working on federal prof.
ects by mid-autumn. leaving 100000 un-
employed, which he hopes can be assim-
Hated by private industry, between now
and November.
Mr.. Roosevelt is to be commended, of
course. for his efforts to supply jobs for
all But it is hard to understand how he
can feel satisfied with getting 100000
men back on the payrolls of private in
dustry leaving 100000 still to be sup
ported by the government, even though
they may be working" The 27000 900
also belong in private industry. They
could be absorbed there if private indus
try could only figure out just what the
administration is trying to do. In the alb
sence of any such information private in
dustry must blunder along, cautiously
and fearing every step may be the
wrong one.
1t is a certainty that many of those
100000 could be absorbed by private in
dustry if portion of the effort put forth
to assist the individual were directed
toward assisting industry to regain its
feet.
Our guess is that Representative Pat
ton had an elephant in that cigar box
Italy and Ethiopia may lose something
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

NEW YORK. Aug. 3-To SIT top
gallant and sway with the elephan-
tinN lumberings Of a Fifth avenue
bus, watching the staccato Of life
OF sidewalks and streets below. Is
about as much fun as the meUropo-
lis offers. Every block a microcosm
as shifting as the kaleidoscope.
Across from my perch this sun
down was a graceful smokerette
lost in the style sweeps in tne
pages OF Harper's Bazaar. In front
a harried Casper A1lQuetoast with
an umbrella and a dent in his der
by. And across the aisle a bripkin
with q never worn pair Of gloves
in mis- breast pocket.
Remindful Of Bill Nyes simile
His gloves stuck Up out of the
pocket Of his coat like the fingers
of a drowning man calling for four
more beers We halted a moment
IN front OF a feminine type Of res
taurant with window tables and
there came this reflection:
never saw a skinny girl eating
0t4E va AAAA1- eAfAhe A-AAA-+A aAAfa=AAh]
chocolates. And I never saw a fat
woman who wasn't. A lurch and an
elderly gentleman drops his glasses.
They were run over. the glass pow
dered fine enough to put into an
enemy's oatmeal
Too. a girl silhouetted at Hick' s
fountain. churning her drink with
a spoon and swinging the glass in
circles TO get the last mixed drop
Darling though: Soda jerkers have
studied so years and the Confec-
toners journal has given recipes
Of millions Of drinks with palate
pleasing names. but no one has
beaten the good old chocolate ice
cream soda. f. Berry Wall has hao
his 3 p. m. daily chocolate soda al
Rumpelmayers tor % years.
a sheen Of B0wery brass in the
avenues pomp A flight-up "Dres.
suit for Hire parlor A statisticiar
should strike the average age o.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03
Y 'Wiea::!!:tI.h@:';E!:
Los ANGELES AND VICINITY


Fair tonight and Sunday; over
cast night and morning seaSonable
temperature and humidity with lit
tie change; gentle wind, mostly
southeast to southwest.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
data compiled by Howard En-
mons, local observer for the United
States weather bureau.
Maximum yesterday .-....................l06
Minimum Today .......-..............-..... 70
Reading at Noon Today
Temperature ...-..........-..... ............ lO3
Humidity ................ .................. 30
Reading at a. m. Today
Temperature 19
Humidity ................. %
Reading at p. m. Yesterday
Temperature ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1O2
Humidity ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. %
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

Frances Perkins, secretary OF Ia
Dor. rides these elevators along with
the general public. She has a pri-
vate elevator but doesn't like to put
on airs.
In spite of this, as soon as Miss
Perkins enters the elevator, it
shoots right up to her floor without
waiting to discharge other passen-
gers. The same courtesy is eX-
tended TO assistant secretaries Of
labor.
The direct-floor for high officials
is a customary thing in Washing
ton government building where
private lifts have not been installed
for the use of executives. The SEN
ate. Of course, has long had its
private elevator although repre-
sentatives still ride up and down
with the common folks.
The works program publicity de-
partnent has the same trouble
that newspapers Go about getting
names, locations, ETC., spelled cor
rectly.
The latest is a correction on a
New Jersey county described in a
release as "Arlambic county" Turns
out it should have been Atlantic
county"
A few days previously an allot-
ment Of several thousand dollars
TO Pennsylvania county was list
ed. This was cancelled when it
developed there was no such county
IN the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

A lady spiraled up to our con-
ming tower at the public library.
She opened a book I've wanted to
read. Lowell's Bigelow Papers. This
was a George Ade sum-up of
things in the generation before
Ade. The most interesting of all
biographies should be one that AIDE
turns out. The only real modern Of
his generation.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

Our guess is that Representative Pat
ton had an elephant in that cigar box.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

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Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

A Claire Luce type swings daintly
out Of Dunhill's with one Of those
Bedlingtons on a leash. The dog
tnat looks and acts like a shy
lamb. That such a noble animal as
the dog should be subjected to
changing styles Where is the
Spitz Pug, Newfoundland and the
Caniche? They vanish Ike the buff
falo and Indian. I hear there's not
French poodle in all Paris. Not
even in the Pare Monceau.
A half dozen women smoking in
a single block. Not one self-con-
/ scious. I remember my father re-
turning from New York to tell the
! old Nestors on his hotel verandah
D Of Rosina Vokes smoking a cigar
lighting the wrong END so the
wrapper unrolled II was supposed
TO be the funniest thing on the
stage. Rosina Vokes was a cult.
/ Like Cornell, 3. Lille and Tallulah.
One must be in advance of so to
remember. Beatrice Herford once
opened a ROsina Vokes theatre.
! There were Rosina Voles cigars,
hats, etc
The five-and-ten building that
! covers the Wendell acreage is un-
| dergoing the finishing touches.
/ More than London Tower, the ven
| cradle mansion was cloaked in
gloom. There was a knothole in the
high spiked fence where the pedes-
trian could see the asthmatic dog
Toby in its several million dollar
playground. Shutters tapped in the
wind. dim lights fickered myster-
iously az windows and now anc
then late at night a shawled Wen.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

dell sister would peep furtiyely out
the door and scurry 10 drop a let
ter in the corner box. A sepulchral
haunt made for mystery makers.
Poe would have loved it.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

CUMBERLAND, Md, Aug. 3. -
Twelve-year-old Vernice Higgins
Stolter was the mother today of a
six pound boy. The boys maternal
grandmother is only 26 years old.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

Italy and Ethiopia may lose something
at this Geneva conference but it is one
big cinch that England won. What l
have l hold" is John Bulls motto.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

A gentleman never puts lady ION the
spot" and Controller Riley might have
thought of that yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-03

a sheen Of Bowery brass in the
avenues pomp A flight-up Dress
suit for Hire parlor A statistician
should strike the average age Of
The Washington times., 1935-01-30
Tells of Fisch

Mr.. Reilly asked Mrs. Haupt-
mann about the night the late
Isador Fisch came to their home
for the last time before going to
Germany. That was the night the
shoe box containing Lindbergh
ransom money was left by Fisch,
according to Hauptmann.
Q.-Were you at home that
night? Ayes.
Odd you see him bring some
bundles in with him? A.-No. l
was upstairs when he came in.
Q.-But you saw him that
night? Ayes.
Mr.. Reilly asked her to describe
the closet where Hauptmann testi-
fled he placed the bundles Fisch
brought to his home-the bundle
he said he later found contained
the Lindbergh ransom bills.
She left the witness stand and
demonstrated, by pointing to the
wall. she would not have been able
to see the top of the top shelf in
the closet.
She corroborated Hauptmann's
story concerning the leak In the
The Washington times., 1935-01-30
| WEEPS AS WIFE BACKS HIS KDNAPNNG Al
Hauptrnann Returns
To Witness Stand

South Pole expedition. He named
other books.
Hauptmann was asked about
the trunk in which he kept money
in his home.
Q.-There was something about
the trunk you kept the money in
something about it being
broken. Ayes.
Q.-When was it broken? A
1t was in 1888, didn't have any
money in it then.
Q.-Recall the month? A.-No,
I can't.
Mr.. Reilly shifted the interroga-
ton to Hauptmann's forme er
friend and business partner, the
late Isador Fisch-the man the
defendant says left ransom money
in shoe-box which lay in the
Hauptmann home while FiSch
went to Germany where he died
last March of tuberculosis.
The defense lawyer asked if
Hauptmann had received letters
and cards from Isador Fisch when
FiSch went to Germany, and, if
so, where the communications
were. Hauptmann said:
II received about four letters
and some cards. Last 1 seen Of
them they were in my home"
The Washington times., 1935-01-30
FLAYS
HER STORY ON
R A n { D NJ
som money ever go into your

som money ever go into your
stock accounts? A.-No.
Hauptmann was asked If he
know that Henry Uhlig and 1Sa.
dor Fisch had an apartment some.
where in New York city. He said
he did not. Uhlig, a 29-year-old
furrier, was a friend of both
Hauptmann and Fisch.
Q.-When you wrote to Pincus
Fisch, ISador's brother in Ger.
many, and said you had given
Isador $500 from your private
bank account" what did you
mean by private bank account?"
Al didn't have a private bank
account, to make it more short
and clear used the words "pri.
vate bank account"
Q.-You didn't have a private
bank account? Al got d little
bank account that amounted to
5000.
Referring to the sentence in the
same letter I'VE share the profits
and the loss" Mr.. Reilly said:
Q.-But you did not use the
words $3.50? A-No, used half
and half,
The Washington times., 1935-01-30
Visited Germ,unu

Mrs. Hauptman told how, out
Of friendship, she took Mrs.
Achenbach's nine-year-old child on
a trip to Germany in 1881. She
explained she had to advance
the child some Of her own money
before the trip was over.
Odd Mrs. Achenbach paw
the child's expenses over. A.-Yes,
she had a round trip ticket.
Q.-The child was then 9? A
Yes.
Mrs. Hauptmann said she took
the little girl to her grandmather's
in one Of the German provinces
and the child celebrated her tenth
birthday there.
Q.-Was there an added charge
because Of the child's age being
10? A.-YeS.
Q.-How muchg Al can't re-
member.
Q.-When you came back, did
you give Mrs. Achenbach a bill?
A.-Yes. $50 or $35.
The Washington times., 1935-01-30
Wife Nervous

Mrs. Hauptmann seemed nerv.
Gus when she was sworn. She
wore dark blue dress and a small
black hat from which dropped a
nose veil. There was a silver
ornament at her breast. Her
blonde locks curled out from un-
der her hat.
She nervously placed her hand
on the bible, Swore to tell the
whole truth. and gave her full
name, Anna Hauptmann.
Defense Attorney Edward j.
Reilly, as he began questioning
Mrs. Hauptmann in gentle tones,
said:
"Please speak up SO the jury
can hear you"
Turning to Justice Thomas w.
Trenchard, Mr.. Reilly said:
I'll have to ask your honor
If we can't have more quiet in
the back of the rOom."
The judge glared at the noise,
makers. Silence Immediately fol
lowed.
Justice Trenchard, however, or.
dered the attendants to clear out
the Standees. This was done.
In answer to one of Mr.. Reilly's
first questions, Mrs. Hauptmann
said she came to this country from
Germany in February. 1924.
She said she went to work for a
Mrs. Rehecca Rosenhaunf In the
The Washington times., 1935-01-30
His Pay Small

In response to another ques-
tion, Mrs. Hauptmann said her
husband told her shortly after
they met how he had entered the
United States.
Q.-And as result. did he give
you his savings? A.-Yes, we
opened an account.
Q.-How much was your hus-
band making when you first mar
ried him? Al don't know. 1
think $66 a month at first.
Mrs. Hauptmann'S nervous man.
ner dropped from her as the
interrogation proceeded. She was
now talking clearly and in con-
fident tones.
Q.-When did Mr.. Hauptmann
buy his first automobile? "A
secondhand Chevrolet two or
three weeks before we were mar.
ried.
Q.-How much did he pay?
Al don't know. Two or three
hundred dollars.
After they were married, they
went to live at 155 157th Street,
NEAR Broadway, In New York City.
The Washington times., 1935-01-30

Bronx shortly after her arrival.
Mrs. Hauptmann's answers were
very faint. She seemed to be ap-
prehensive.
The proceedings were halted
again while the guards pushed
protesting standees from the
courtroom, and finally Justice
Trenchard ordered a five-minute
recess so the courtroom could be
completely cleared of those block
ing the aisles and sitting upon the
window lodges. Several women in
mink coats protested vigorously to
the State troopers, but they had
to leave.
During the recess Mrs. Haupt-
mann chatted with her husband.
He smiled at her frequently, but
her face remained solemn.
The recess over, Attorney Reilly
asked Mrs. Hauptmann her occu-
patton in the United States. In a
high. flat voice. she said:
II was a hOusemaid. 1 made
$50 a month the first year and
$55 the second year."
She said she met Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann three months
after she came to this country.
She said they were married Oc.
tober 10, 1925, in City Hall, New
York city.
Q.-Had you planned to go to
some Western State on your
honeymoon? Ayes, to Cali
foT.Toia