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Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-31
Vera Stretz Near
Collapse at Trial

NEW YORK, March 81 UP)-Vera
StretZ fought with cracking nerve
against cross examination today TO
maintain her statement that she
killed DR.. Fritz Gebhardt in fren1y
of fear and pain during a perverted
attack in his apartment.
Prosecutor Miles O'Brien, de-
manding her death because she shot
Gebhardt TO death last Nov. IL, said
that completion of cross examina-
ton begun last night would require
almost all of today.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-31
Veteran Turfman
Killed by Horse

SAN BRUNO, Cal. March 81. up
-Tanforan track officials marked
up the first casualty of the 25-day
earing meeting today with death
Of J. w. Harris, 65-year-old turf
man, at Mills Memorial hospital.
Harris was injured Thursday
when he was run down by the
horse Inhertor as he led another
horse along the inside track rail
toward the barn. Inheritor, eXer-
cising between races, kicked him
in the head.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-31
Townsend Board to
Meet i'm Ell CentrO

There will be a meeting of the adj
visory board of Ell Centre Townsend
club No. /, at the home of Dr. Gobel
Hurst, Seventh and Brighton streets,
Wednesday, April l, at 1880 p. m. All
members are requested to be present.
L. p. Sargent will preside.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-31
Huge New Zeppelin II
Starts First Cruise

FRIEDRICHsHAFEN, GerlYlany,
March 81. UH-The great new yep
pelin Hindenburg noSed out north
ward and northWcstward today over
the new garrisons along the Rhine.
to the Netherlands and the se4 of its
first transatlantic cruise,{ 6.21O
miles to Rio de Janeiro
Five weeks from now-May Git
viii start for Lakehurst, ~ j., on its
first visit to the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-31
HOLDOUT FIRST BASEMAN
SIGNS WITH WHITE S0X

CHICAGO, March 81. WP)-The
Chicago White Sox office announc-
ed today that zeke Bonura, hold
cut first baseman, had wired ac-
ceptance of contract terms and
would report Immediately.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-31
NEW USED CAR
POLICY ADOPTED


A nationwide used car policy has
been adopted by all Ford motor car
dealers.
Under the new set-up. according
TO w. o. Hinderks. sales manager
for Edgar Bros. Co. used cars are
divided into three groups: renewed
and guaranteed, square deal, and as
is Cars in the first two groups are
reconditioned, those in the first be-
ing overhauled and renovated in
every respect, including upholstery,
paint: even painting the motor.
All the latest colors in paint jobs
are being used on these cars" Hin
derks stated. "A few of them are
palm beach grey, stratosphere blue,
palm green, polychromatic, platinum
grey, Danube blue and. of course,
the regular Ford cordova tanS, greys,
black etc.
I'VE believe" HinderkS stated,
that this new policy of ours marks
a change in used car sales proceed
ure generally"
OF its success. if given even Il fair
degree OF intelligent management,
the writer concludes.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-31

Calexico - City Engineer Ted
Byle announced Saturday that the
city's water supply. evidently as
result of silt and flood control at
Boulder Dam, shows considerable
Improvement over the same time
last year. The water comes through
more uniformly, and is far clear
er than in former years, he re-
marked.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-31
AREA SEEKS TO
JOIN IMPERIAL

special of the state Legislature will be necessary
bring about annexation of portion of San Diego county
by Imperial county.
Residents of the surrounding Jacumba recently
began circulating petitions that section the first step
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-31

Lent Is Here So are Hot Cross
buns at Martins Bakery. (M5-tD
l3-
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-31

lures, but the Messrs. warner eX-
plain they held her in minor roles
to permit her development. Now
she has reached the mature age
of they are ready to shoot the
works.
Sybils performance with Al Jol-
sen in The Singing Kid con-
vinced her elders she has what
it takes. Shirley is challenged on
her own home grounds, and the
tournament of the tots is on.
For the statistically minded, Syb-
lis real name is Jacobs, and her
parents, Jack and Mary Jacobs,
live in her native Capetown.
In Hollywood she is under care
of her uncle. Harry Jacobson,
London radio actor, who taught
her to sing, dance, mimic, play
the piano and smile on all comers
alike.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-31

Brawley-Mr, and Mrs. Ernest
Dishman and four children, recent
ly Of Oklahoma. are staying with
Ezra Lee until they can locate per-
manent quarters. They plan TO
make their home in Imperial Val
ley.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-31


Paramount is the latest studio
to color. announcing plans for four
tinted films to be made in the
next six months. Frank Lloyd,
who directed "Mutiny On The
Bounty" and Under Two Flags
on other lots. will make the first
one when he becomes a producer
April /. No story has been select
ed but it will probably be a sea
picture, he says.
Earl Rogers, California cowboy,
accepted a movie job when M-G-
M talent scouts found him singing
and punching on the B-Bar-B
ranch near Palm Springs, but his
luck left him unimpressed. Next
day he showed up at the studio
with two "podners," and refused to
go to work until they were hired
too.
Idea of the perfect job-that of
fifteen male (and glad of IT'D ex-
tras who have nothing to do all
day long but hold hands with 10
pretty extra girls at the Walter
Wanger spread The girls are sup
posed to be manicurists in Big
Brown Eyes" Joan Bennett IS
only the mitt of Cary Grant.
A replica, cat least partiaD, oil,
Madison Square Garden will be
built for Rhythm on The Range
so Bing Crosby can fall off steers
against an authentic background
for a movie New York rodeo.
Seems lot of unnecessary trouble.
1t would be pleasant to see Crosby
fall of anything anywhere.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-31

Brawley-Workmen began Mon
day clearing debris from a Main
street site where Will be erected
a building to house the City Meat
market. which must be moved 10
make way for new theater build
ing planned by Principal TheaterS,
Inc The meat market site is that
formerly occupied by the A. and
+. store, recently damaged by fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-31

Lantana The two Homer Greer
children are slowly recovering from
diptheria.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-31

Lantana-The program for Easter
was started at Lantana Sunday
Rev. Buffers of the Methodist
church of Ell Centre gave the SER
mon.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-31

Lantana Arlo Harrisburger and
family visited their parents home
in Riverside this week.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-31

Lantana-Alberta Mealey attended
a party given by her teacher to the
sixth grade students Saturday morn
ing in Imperial.
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French Bank Loses

PARIS, April 9 G.N.SO.-The
Bank of France lost 1,670, 00O, 900
gold francs (about $1,000, 00O)
during the week ending April 8,
it was announced today. This
reduced the gold coverage from
$3.50 per cent to 67.42.
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Police Stage Party,
Even TO the Liquor,
In Interest Of Safety

CLEVELAND, ohio G.N.S0.
Cleveland police and carefully
selected group of guests are stag,
ing a drinking party here today
WhiSkey is being furnished by
the police. and those who drink
it are doing so by special request
of Sergt. Arthur Roth.
The number of drinkers has
been limited to four men who have
volunteered to be human guinea
pigs" in the interest of science and
for the benefit of safety on the
highways.
The other guests merely look on
and watch what happens. The
party" will test scientific ma
chine which police claim can de-
termine whether an automobile
driver is northumberland to what
degree.
The motorist suspected of being
drunk looks through the ma
chine at various slides on which
are all sorts of figures. If he
sees too many figures, or can't see
the smaller ones, it's because he's
had too many under the belt"
The four human guinea pigs"
used in today's test are to stay
at the hospital after the party
to be "Sobered up"
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0KAYS
FLOOD AID


Offering Federal aid for the
rehabilitation of flood and tornado
stricken areas, the Senate today
passed a House bill, making relief
loans to individuals, corporations
and cities available through the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton and the Federal Housing Ad-
miniStration.
The Senate provided a $50, 0OO,-
900 RFC fund for loans to re,
habilitate Stricke"
authorized the FILA to insure
banks on any loans ulauu 49, ---
purposes
The RFC funds would be avail.
able to rebuild or repair homes,
factories, highways, bridges and
utility systems. The FILA guaran.
tee would cover any banking loan
to repair property destroyed in a
catastrophe.
The bill went back to the House,
which had authorized only $685.
100000 RFC fund, without provid,
ing the FILA aid.
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WHIPP|NGP0S7
FOR VAGRANT

DOVER, Del, April 9 Q.N.SO.
Pointed warning to all Migrants
to keep out of Delaware" will
be posted Saturday in the Essex
county Jail yard at Georgetown.
Sometime before noon," under
order of Chief Justice Daniel j.
Layton, the county sheriff will
strap Charles Jackson, Norfolk,
CVa) Negro, to DelaWare's whip
ping post and lay on 10 lashes
of a whfstling cat-o'nine tails.
Jackson was convicted of steal
ing seven valves from a fishery
plant. His pleas he was hungry
and intended to sell them to get
food did not move the court, which
sentenced him to six months in
jail in addition to the lashing.
Justice Layton said today:
"The courts are tired of such
characters who force the tax
payers to keep them in idleneSS.
We want to discourage in this
State your kind coming here.
The sentence would have been
much greater had not the laShes
been imposed. Let this be a
warning to all those who drift
into Delaware for a few weeks
and go on a stealing rampage,
as many have done within the
past few months"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-09
ETHI0P|ANS
TO TALK
PEACE
Agree to Meet Italy in
Farley If League Is
Represented

ENEVA, April 8 0.N.S0.
Bowling to an appeal from Great
Britain and abandoning her stand
against bi-lateral talks, Ethiopia
agreed today to take part in di-
rect peace negotiations with Italy
providing a League Of Nations
observer is present.
Despite this Ethiopian conces-
sion, however, Italy was expected
to refuse to negotiate in the pres
ence of a League representative
even in the unofficial capacity
Of observer.
Wolde Marian. Ethiopian min
lister to Paris handling Ethiopia'S
case at the current sessions Of
the Leagues mittee Of
Thirteen, aimed at quickly end
ing hostilitieS in East Afric a,
agreed to this procedure as a
result of an appeal by Foreign
Secretary Ant ony Eden, OF
Great Britain.
Plan Up to Italy
Any accord reached under this
arrangement would be submitted
to the League for ratification.
Negotiations for peace could be-
gin next week, diplomats said, II
Italy should agree to the plan.
which was to be submitted to
Baron Aloisi, Italian representa-
tive here. later in the day.
Coincident with a reaffirmation
of her willingness to open immedi.
ate peace negotiations under
League of Nations auspices, Eth
opia today received another dis.
couraging blow at the hands Of
the League.
Legal experts appointed to study
the question announced tn e
League Cancellation committee of
Is had no jurisdiction over mutual
Italian and Ethiopian charges of
war atrocities.
Only the League Council may
take up Ethiopia'S allegation,
backed by Britain, that Italy has
been using poison gas The
council is due to meet in May, but
a special session could be sum-
moned earlier.
Frances ambitious plan for a
commission governed pan-Europe
federation was Shelved today as
Britain battled against French
Continued on Page 3, Col. u
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King Edward Gives
Aims to Subj ectS

AZ women according to the
Kings age, but Edward decided
to set the number on the basis
of his fathers years, just as
though he were living.
Followed by the King, in morn
ing dress and carrying the tradi-
tional nosegay of flowers and
sweet herbs, the Archbishop of
Canterbury led a procession from
the abbey nave to the chancel.
After he joined in the singing Of
hymns, the King gave each of the
II men and II women bag con-
tanning II pence equivalent to
about $1.42) in specially minted
maundy money.
The old tradition, long aban-
doned, called also for distribution
of food and clothing. Instead,
Edward gave each woman purses
containing e. shillings ($21.25)
and each man "a is shillings
($23.75).
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-09
WAR STAFF
KNEW OF
PLOT
Informed Of Surplus
Goods Conspiracy In
1881, House Told
International News Service

Frederick Payne, Assistant Sec,
rotary of War in the Hoover Ad.
ministration, and other high War
Department officials were in.
formed in 1881 Of a conspiracy to
divert Army surplus goods from
charitable purposes to private
channels Of trade at huge profits,
the House Military Affairs Com
mittee was told today.
Lieut. Col. william r. Gruber,
assistant to Payne at the time, said
he heard details of plot, which he
at first viewed with "skepticism,
to defraud the Government
through purchase of its surplus
goods and informed his Superiors.
AS result, Colonel Gruber said,
an offer by Robert Byers, Adjutant
of the Michigan Department of the
American Legion at that time, was
turned down by the War Depart
ment.
Later, however, he said, sale of
surplus goods was approved by the
House Military Affairs Committee
after the Legion's national rehabili-
tation committee had submitted
a plan whereby the goods would
be used for charitable and relief
purposes.
Byers and George Krieger. a
surplus Army goods salesman, were
indicted and tried on fraud charges
growing out of diversion of the
goods from charitable to private
channels. They were convicted but
appealed and the case was re-
manded for new trial on the
ground that the trial judge had
erred in his charge.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-09
Gamblers Vengeance
Blamed for BOMBING

CLEVELAND, Ohio. April 8
0.N.SO monroe F.. Rubin, radio
station operator and general con-
tractor, today blamed gamblers
vengeance against a cruSading
radio program for the bombing
of his home in Cleveland Heights
last night.
Rubin, his wife and three small
children narrowly escaped injury
when a bomb exploded on their
front porch. A program, called
1.-THE Ghost Reporter" which
has broadcast names and ad-
dresses Of alleged gambling places
and bookmaking establishments,
will be discontinued after to-
night.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-09
SEES
PRESIDENT
By GEORGE DURNO

WARM SPRINGS, Ca, April 9
G.N.S)-President Roosevelt ar.
rived here from Florida at 9 a. m.
(C.S.TO today for a one-day stay
at his Little White House." but
only after his train had run
through a section of Georgia which
bore brutal marks of last Mondays
tornado.
Outside of Macon, the presiden-
tial special crawled over tracks
covered with more than a foot of
water. On both sides, the flooded
area was more pronounced, with
trees and telegraph poles partially
submerged.
Dismal weather prevailed as
President Roosevelt began the
drive to his cottage on the slope
of Pine Mountain. This did not
deter the infantile paralysis pa
tientS from giving their chief
sponsor a rousing welcome. They
were lined up outside of Georgia
dall III WHEEL CLldA1S w CA1COA do
the President passed.
A little later in the morning, the
Executive motored to the enclosed
pool for a swim.
The Georgia political situation
was to be canvaSSed this afternoon.
A. B. Lovett, of Savannah. and
Marion H. Allen, of Atlanta. lead
ers of the Roosevelt forces in the
State, had IN appointment at the
cottage. In opposing Governor
Eugene Talmadge. avowed Admin
iStration antagonist, Lovett and
Allen have been trying to force the
calling of a presidential prefer
ence primary.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-09
S0V|ET'S N T W
AID HERE

Constantine Umansky, formerly
chief Of the press section of the
Soviet foreign office, was ex-
pected in Washington today to
assume new duties as counsellor
of the Russian Embassy.
Accompanied by his wife and
young daughter, Nina, he will re.
place Boris E. Skrivsky, first
counsellor, who left February 81
for Afghanistan, where is Soviet
ambassador.
Umansky, who arrived in New
York yesterday, was a member OF
he OGPU, secret police, while
connected with the foreign office
Newspaper correspondents claimed
he was responsible for keeping
them in Moscow for three months
during the famine in the Ukraine
in 1888.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-09
WILL BARE
NEW DEAL
ERRORS
Research Group Head
ed by Yale Professor
Gets Busy
international News Service

Republicans moved their heavy
artillery into the firing line
against President Roosevelt's re.
election here today, as COP.
National Chairman Henry p.
Fletcher formally announced for.
nation Of a research committee
charged with the duty of expos
ing the "fallacies" of the New
Deal.
Headed by Prof. o. G. Saxon
Of Yale, and already boasting a
working crew of so, the new unit,
said Fletcher, will make "Scien.
tific studies" OF all Roosevelt
legislation, and distribute the re-
suits of their findings to all who
care to read.
Gathers Data
AS Fletcher outlined the work
of the newly formed research
committee, it was pictured as a
powerful ammunition store for
the Republican attacks on the
present regime. So enthusiastic
was Chairman Fletcher over the
work he expects of the new Re.
publican "brain-trust," as it was
Immediately dubbed by reporters,
that he made this optimistic
statement:
1--WE hope the results of the
research will aid us in solving
problems when we take over the
Government next year."
Quickly came a question:
els that a predictiOn?"
And Fletcher replied:
ut certainly is"
SAXON IS HEAD
DR.. Saxon, who was at the con.
ference, frankly said he voted for
President Roosevelt in 1892 and
regretted it," He added that the
Republicans could approve many
Of Mr.. Roosevelt's detectives, but
said he believed the studies which
the group he heads will make
would show that many of the
methods adopted by the Demo.
Gratis under Mr.. Roosevelt have
impeded progress toward those OBJ
jectiveS rather than giving impe.
tus.
Fletcher declared that, as far as
possible, the experts under DR.
Saxon would make their studies
on a "factual basis"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-09
D DYNAMITE
BLAST SET
NEAR HIS
WINDOW
Baltimore Executive
Has Marrow Escape
From Death

BALTIMORE, April 9.-Not .
bomb-but a stick Of dynamite.
Such was the deadly missile
hurled early today at the home Of
Mayor Howard w. jackson, in
what police believe was an at
tempt to assassinate him, investi-
CATION revealed.
The opinion that the blast,
which occurred at 1884 a. M, was
caused by one stick Of dynamite
with a fuse attached, came from
DR.. Robert w. Wood, expert on ex-
plosives at Johns Hopkins Univer-
Sity. after he had examined q
large hole in the lawn Of the Jack
son property.
Close to Bedroom
The hole is only II feet from
q spot directly below the window
Of the bedroom in which Jackson
had retired about rs minutes be-
fore the blast.
Police expressed opinion that
the dynamiters had trailed the
mayor from the downtown dis
trict, where he had made a radio
talk and later visited a conven-
ton at the Lord Baltimore Hotel.
Knowing that Jackson usually
read for some time after going
to bed, the authorities said, the
dynamiterS waited until they saw
a light in his bedroom-at that
time the only Illumination visible
in the houSe-and then hurled
their parcel of death.
Police believe the dynamite
either fell short of its goal, or
was DETECTED by a tree.
TraiIed In Auto
The man or men responsible,
police believe, had followed Jack
son in an automobile, and threw
the missile from the car.
Jackson had entered his pa
latial home, built of stone and
located in the exclusive Home
land section of North Baltimore.
about ITO. he said today, after
his chauffeur. Joseph Addison,
had driven him to the front door.
The mayor said he went into
the kitchen to get a drink Of
water, and then went upstairs
to bed and started to read q
newspaper.
Shortly afterward, Jackson de.
Continued on Page 2, Col. u
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LONDON, April 9 Q.N.S).
Appearing at his first public
ceremony since his accession,
King Edward VIII today at
tended the Maundy Thursday
service in Westminster Abbey,
personally distributing aims to
142 aged and infirm men and
women in a ritual that centuries
ago also required the King to
wash his humble subjects feeC.
Forty-two men and AZ women
sitting on either side of the choir
actually received gifts from the
Kings hand. Checks were mailed
to SO others.
This was only the second time
in $50 years that the English
sovereign made his maund" in
person. His father, the late King
George V, attended a few years
ago.
Maundy pence should have
been given to only AZ men and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-09
Obliging Street Car MOtOrmen
Rebuked By Auto Drivers

To John A. Hanna, president of the Capital Transit
Company
Numerous the complaints against the practice
of street car motormen stopping outside of safety
zones or away from loading platforms to take
discharge passengers 1t has been repeatedly pointed
out that your employees endanger the lives of passen
gers and jeopardize the driving of motorists by this
practice, particularly in rush hours.
6~?<'~-~
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-09
japan Officer Slain
BySoviets, |sCharge

HARDIN, April 9 U.N.S).
Manchukuo charged officially to-
day that IA members Of the Soviet
secret police had attacked Man
chukuoan patrol of four soldiers
and japanese officer on Man.
chukuoan territory, killing the
Japanese officer.
This latest of a series of serious
border clashes was alleged to have
occurred slightly east of Pograni-
chnaya, a town on Manchukuo's
eastern frontier about 100 miles
northwest of Vladivostok and
about $50 miles southeast of Har-
bin.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-09
Sylvia Sydney TO Ask
For Divorce TODAY

LOS ELES, April 9
O.N.S0.-Sylvia Sydney, petite
screen star, was to appear in
Superior Court here today seek
ing a divorce from Bennett Cert,
wealthy New York book pub
Usher.
The couple was married in
Phoenix, Ariz., last october
after an airplane eoplement. The
actress charges his objection to
her continuation in her career
wrecked their marriage. Cert
has on file a blanket denial of
her charges.
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WASHINGTON FORECAST
Today cloudy, probably showers tonight and
tomorrow; tomorrow slightly warmer; lowest
temperature tonight about As degrees.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
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Rain Postpones
Griff-Dodqer Game

Today's scheduled exhibition be-
tween Brooklyn and Washington
at Griffith Stadium was post
poned because of rain and wet
grounds. The Philadelphia Ma
tionals will be played here at 3
o'clock tomorrow.