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Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-06
PERSONAL POSSIBILITIES

Fish appears to have started
his latest survey of the United
States with his personal c.. 0. P.
presidential canditatorial possibili-
ties in mind.
Or perhaps his lieutenants were
the folk who gave the impression.
Their version was that he was the
individual they were trying 20 NOM
Continued on Page 8, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-06
NEW DEALS
FARM PLANS
DEALT BLOW
Decision Makes Further Legislation
Appear Impossible Without
Constitutional Amendment
90

WASHINGTON, Jan. g. (UP)-The supreme court
today struck down the New Deals farm recovery program
provided for the AAA by holding the law an unconstf
tutlonal attempt to control production.
The decision rendered with an opinion so sweep
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-06
BUDGET PLAN
TURNED OVER
TO CONGRESS
F. d. r. Forecasts Work Relief Deficit
OF Between One and Three Billions
For 1897 Fiscal Year

WASHINGTON, Jan. g. (UP)-Presdent Roosevelt
today submitted to balanced budget for regular
federal expenditures in the 1887 fiscal year. budget
which doubt will have to be greatly revised in OF
the Supreme Court decision Outlawing AAA
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-06
z Late News
MRS. TODD CRITYCIZES

Los ANGELES, Jan. 6. (UP)-Energng from her
third appearance before the Los Angeles county grand
jury, the mother of Thelna Todd blonde film actress,
summoned newspaper reporters and branded the nUes
tigatiOn of her daughters death the WOrk of "cheap
politicians"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-06
TOWNSEND PROBE ASKED

WASHINGTON Jan 6. (UP)-A resolution calling
for congressional Investigation of the Townsend old age
pension organization introduced in the house today
By Ep. Marion ZiOncteck, d., Wash.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-06

Los ANGELES, Jan. 6. (UP)-llatheU Gay, 5S-year-
old professional high diUer made his last thrilling diUe
today
POsng himself on the eleventh floor of downtOUn
building, he spread out his and in perfect
diDe, plunged to his death.
Evening star., 1936-12-20

BIG NAMES TWINKLE AT
FILM PARTY. Having a good
time like any ordinary mortals
at a little get-together are
(left to right Harold Lloyd
and his wife, Mrs. Jack War
ner, Director Ernest Lubitsch,
Mary Pickford and her fiance,
Buddy Rogers. Ca r fn0'0
Left: SHIRLEY THROWS A
PARTY, TOO. Guests who en-
joyed games in the famed Miss
Temples garden included some
of her little Oriental friends Of
the studios.
Evening star., 1936-12-20

FOR PARIS FETE. A
"Catherinette" in the pictur-
esuue headdresS worn for the
celebration of St. GATHERINGS
day in the French Capital.
g Wide world
Evening star., 1936-06-08
EXTRAD|T|ONCASE
ISLOST BY RILEY
Fight of Alleged Kidnaper
Against Removal to Mich
igan Fails.

Jerry Riley. local cigar store pro-
prietor, and allegedly the last member
Of the notorious Legs" Lamar gang
still unconvicted, today lost his fight
in the United States Court of Appeals
against eXtradition to Michigan, where
he is wanted on a kidnapping charge
The appellate court affirmed ac-
ton by District Supreme Court dis
missing petition for writ of habeas
corpus which Riley sought after his
attorneys were unable, during an ex-
tradition hearing. to convince the
judge he should not be sent back to
Detroit.
The hearings were held December
6 Of last year. and Riley has occupied
District Jail cell since.
The Laman gang was broken up
in 1880 and five members were sent
to prison after they were proved guilty
Of five kidnapings.
Ray Andrews. confessed gang mem
Der. now serving from 20 to 40 years
IN the Michigan State Penitentiary,
was brought here last December and
identified Riley as having participated
in two Detroit kidnapings.
Although the Washington man is
charged specifically with only the
kidnapping of Charles Matter, Detroit
produce man, September 9, 1928. An
drews testified he also took part in
the 'snatching" of David CaSs, %,
who was beaten to death. Riley op-
Grated a cigar store near Fifth and
E streets before his arrest.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
WEEK END ROBBERS
GET VARIED LOOT

Robbery of filling station at Wis
ronsin avenue and @ street at GAS
am today of $24 brought the total
week end loot of footpads and house
breakers to S244.60 in cash, S20l worth
of cigarettes and cigars, two goldfish
with bowD and two brooms.
The filling station burglar, unarmed,
talked for Is minutes to Paul Ebener,
19, attendant, who was hired just two
days ago, and then strolled over to
the cash register when Ebener. unsus-
pecting, turned his back to 60 about
his duties Before Ebener realized
what had happened, the friendly thief
had disappeared around the corner.
A less calculating robber was the
8-year-old colored urchin who seized
S64 in bills from the paywindow of the
Capital Transit car barn at East Cap
itol and Fourteenth streets. Otis L.
Hinson, a conductor of 1901 Isher-
wood street northeast, had just laid
the S64 down when a small black hand
grabbed it.
The owner of the hand sped bare
foot south on Fifteenth street south
east, trailing dollar bills over the side
walk as he scuttled. The conductors
who Joined in the chase recovered S14,
but their quarry escaped with $50.
A housebreaker evidently determined
to have something to show for his
work, yesterday entered the rear win
dow of the first-fioor apartment at
5219 Mount Pleasant street and walked
out with two brooms and a bowl of
goldfish belonging to Elizabeth r.
Brown.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Philanthropist Dauis Reveals
Plan to Further World Peace

in a smaller community. The English
speaking peoples must unite in an in
ternational police force which would
cover one-third of the globe"
His idea isn't new, he admits, but
he is prepared, at least, to offer a
symbol for this union Of the United
States and the British Empire. He has
designed a flag of union" an emblem
similar to the standard which George
washington raised after one of his
Revolutionary War victories.
Davis explained the seeming para
dox of flag of independence used as
a flag of union. He said:
81 think Washington and the Ameri-
can people wanted independence from
British rule, but they never intended
a separation of interests so inherently
common to the two nations. If you'll
Just read the Declaration of Inde-
pendence again you will see that. AS
international transportation grows, so
must world peace grow. But when
international discord hinders the
growth of transportation, peace must
be maintained. 1t cannot be main
tanned unless 1t is enforced"
Evening star., 1936-06-08
MATERNITY DEATHS
TERMED EXCESSIVE
U. S. Mortality Rate Twice as
High as it Should Be-
Report States.
e1 the Associated Press.

ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June s--The Mater
nifty Center Association, reporting on
its activities for the years 1880 to
1885, said yesterday this country's
maternal mortality rate is more than
twice as high as it should be-"
I'VE stand today as a nation where
We stood 20 years ago" the associa-
ton asserted, but it added that in
the Swear period thousands had
learned "at least the simple facts
that more than half probably two
thirds" of mothers who die in child
birth could be saved by good care"
A three-fold plan Ito save mothers
lives in the United States" was ad-
vocated:
l. Study of existing facilities for
the care of expectant mothers and
formulation of a plan to remedy
faults and supply services lacking"
3 Coordination Of AL health, So
cial and recreational resources Of
every community to meet needs of
each patient
3. Ample public funds to care for
every eXpectant mother"
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Roosevelt Denies
Ctemency to GOoch,
Robber-Kidnaper

President Roosevelt today denied
clemency to Arthur Gooch, South
western bank robber and kidnaper,
who is the first criminal sentenced to
death under the so-called Lindbergh
law making kidnapping a Federal
crime
Gooch previously had failed in two
appeals to the United States Supreme
Court. He is scheduled to be hanged
June 19 in the city Jail at Muskogee,
Okla.
The President acted on recommen-
dation of Attorney General Cum
mings, who had received Gooch's ap-
plication for Communication of SEN
tence, supported by numerous pleas
In behalf of the convicted man. Cum
mings held that in view of Gooch's
long record in crime and of the fact
that he injured his victim, a police
officer, in kidnapping at Paris Tex,
November 26, 1884. Gooch should re-
ceive the full penalty of the law.
Gooch and his companion in numer-
Gus holdups, Ambrose Nix, escaped
from the Jail at Holdenville, Okla,
October 2A 1884. After committing
several new robberies, the pair was
6pied at Paris by Police Officers R. N.
Baker and H. R. Marks. Gooch and
Nix kidnapped the policemen, COM
nandeered their car and carried the
officers into Oklahoma, thereby violat-
ing the Federal kidnapping statute.
Special agents of the Federal Bureau
Of Investigation set trap for Gooch
and Nix at Okemah, Okla, where the
pair had friends, and on December
%, 1884, agents and cooperating po-
lice killed Nix and captured Gooch
when they approached the scene and
resisted arrest.
Gooch pleaded guilty to kidnapping
the officers, who were freed at Cloudy,
Okla, after one of them had been
severely wounded in the kidnapping.
Sentence Of death was imposed June
19, 1885. Gooch appealed to the
Circuit Court of Appeals, and the court
referred the case to the United States
Supreme Court to decide whether
the kidnapping of the policeman with
out demands for ransom was a viola
tion of the Federal act.
The Supreme Court, on February
3 last, ruled that Gooch had violated
the act, and when Gooch's attorneys
then questioned the constitutionality
of the Federal act, the high court up
held the law. y -
Evening star., 1936-06-08

Through the pattern Of Charles
Henry Davis practical plans for the
study and solution Of growing world
transportation problems runs a thread
Of idealism.
The 71-year-old engineer, inventor
and philanthropist, who recently con-
ceived a vast project through the estab-
lishment of a $100,000,000 Institute Of
Transportation at the University of
Maryland, revealed lifelong desire to
further world peace in an interview at
the willard Hotel.
It was this zeal for international am
ity, he declared, which prompted him
to bequeath a $500,o00 collection of
books on highway engineering and ex-
hibit Of road-building machinery to
the university as the first physical
equipment for the institute.
But although the New Yorker be-
lieves international cooperation is a
necessary corollary to the perfection of
international transportation, his scien-
tific mind cannot entirely escape the
practical.
World peace" he said, must be
maintained Just as order Is maintained
Evening star., 1936-06-08
FATHEROF SEVEN
TAKES OWN LIFE
Takoma Park Woman Finds
Husband Hanging by
Belt.
BY a STAFF Correspondent of The Star.


TAKOMA PARK, Md, June g.
Unable to find employment and about
to be dispossessed for non-payment of
rent. Jacob K. Wingo. 39-year-old
father of seven children. ended his
life last night in his home at 204 z
Allegheny avenue.
Mrs Beatrice Wingo discovered her
husbands body hanging by q leather
belt from pipe in the bath room Is
minutes after he had gone upstairs to
bathe before dinner. She ascribed
financial difficulties as a motive for
his act.
Police were told Wingo, who came
here some time ago after losing his
position as a rural mail carrier at
High Point, N. c.. recently was laid
of by laundry where a brother had
obtained him a part-time position as
driver.
On top Of these two reverses, rel
atives informed officers, Wingo had
received notification he would be dis
possessed and his family moved from
their nome some time this week.
The wife and neighbor cut Wingo's
body down and ATTEMPTED to revive
him while DR.. A. v. Parsons and the
Takoma Park fire rescue squad were
reaching the scene. Efforts to resus-
citate him were futile, however. and
a certificate of suicide was issued.
Members of the fire department
and friends of the deceased said to-
day that efforts will be made to So
licit funds to send Mrs. Wingo and
her children back to High Point,
where the wife's relatives reside.
In addition to his wife and seven
children, who range IN age from to
II years, Wingo is survived by two
brothers. Edward and Louis, both OF
whom reside in Takoma Park.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
0CA[LED IN PROBE
OF C|SSEL REPORT
County 0ffiiaIs Among Group
Summoned Before Mont
gomery Grand Jury.
y . stan Correspondent of The Star.

By Stan Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, June 8.-Eight
witnesses were to appear before the
special session of the Montgomery
County grand jury that convened here
today to consider a report on Capt.
Joseph C. Cissels administration Of
the Wisconsin avenue improvement
fund while counsel to the county
commissioners.
County Accountant Alexander Han
cock, Commissioner Robert D. Hag-
ner, County Treasurer ]. Forest Walk
er and Ira c. Whitacre. clerk to the
commissioners, were among those who
were to be called before the jury by
States Attorney James H. Pugh dur
ing his presentment of a report on
the fund.
Checks Given County.
- Others included John B. Diamond,
jr, and Lacy Shaw, former presi-
dents of the Board Of County Com
inissioners; Wilson Stewart. until re-
Gently an enploye in Hancock's Of
flee, and Fred L. Lutes, an official
Of the Silver Spring National Bank.
Two certified checks totaling ST.
789.75 were turned over to the COM
Inissioners by Capt. Cissel following
an audit Of the Wisconsin avenue
account made shortly after the recent
arrest of Edward Peter, another
former attorney to the board, on a
charge of embezzling funds in con-
nection with the purchase of rights
'ofWay for the improvement project.
-, 1t was explained by county officials
the checks were in adjustment of the
account which CiSsel handled prior to
his. retirement from office. Cissel in
formed the commissioners, board
members said, that his files had beer
Lost or misplaced and a complete
record of his transactions was moi
available.
The checks covered the sum or
which the records were missing, &C.
cording to Frank H. Karn, president
Of the present Board of Commission
Ess>
"a Also to Probe Robbery Charge.
Z Members of the inquisitorial body
also were to hear charges of robbing
a telephone coin box brought against
Theodore Baldwin, a convicted coun.
sterfeiter, and Samuel Morrison, both
sef, New York City.
- Judge Charles w. Woodward upon
fconvening the jury appointed Rowan
r. Erb of Rockville to serve as fore
man during the absence of Bernard
r. Cannon of Silver Spring, who is
III Cannon was named foreman dur
ing the regular session in March.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
ALCOHOLIC PYROMANIAC'
SOUGHT AFTER SIX FIRES
One Dead, 8 Injured-Two Blazes
set in Bronx and Four in
Manhattan.
pv tho Associoteo pras.

Iy the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. June 8.-An "alco-
holic pyromaniac" whose operations
have brought recurrent terror for sew
eral weeks, was sought yesterday as
six more incendiary fires, in which one
person died and nine were injured,
were chalked up against him.
First reported were two fires In
the crowded Bronx. Trapped in one
of the burning buildings, Mrs. Sarah
Siegel, 81, dropped her 13-year old
granddaughter from a third floor
window and then herself plunged to
the ground, her night clothing af1ame.
The grandmother died; the child,
Rhoda Fiber, was injured seriously.
Scarcely had more than 100 police
men started beating through the
Bronx than the search was extended
to Manhattan, where four fires oc-
CURED, resulting in injuries to Mrs.
Pauline Stricken, 80; her daughter,
Dorothy, IL; Peter Statako, IS.
Two firemen were injured fighting
the Bronx blaze and policeman was
overcome by smoke.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Old Customs House
In Massachusetts
TOBe Monument
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
The old Customs House at Salem,
Mass, where Nathaniel Hawthorne
worked when he was collector of the
port, has been transferred from the
Treasury Department to the National
Park Service for preservation as a
national monument.
Secretary Ickes has announced it
was the first move taken under a law
authorizing the park service to set
aside historic sites and buildings
worthy of distinction.
Others are under study by the
Historic Sites Advisory Committee Of
the park service, including the adjoin-
ing Derby Wharf at Salem, from
which the famous clipper ships set out.
Ickes said the Salem Customs House
would continue in use by the Treas
ury, and that the city and State of
Massachusetts, are expected to provide
money for purchase and restoration
of the wharf In cooperation with the
park service.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
WOMEN WILL URGE
CIVIL SERVICE PLANK
League of Voters to Ask Republic.
ans and Democrats to Adopt
Pledge.
BY the Associated Press,


CHICAGO, June S.-The National
League Of Women Voters said last
night it would ask the Republican
and Democratic National Conventions
to adopt platforms pledging both
parties to place all Government en-
ployes under civil service.
The league said in a statement 1t
would throw its full support behind
the proposal, limiting its recommen-
dations for the national party plat
forms to one plan - for the first
time in its history"
Petitions voicing the request already
had been signed by 250,000 voters in
Al States and the District Of Colum-
bia, the statement asserted.
Federal, State and local government
employees would get their jobs only
on merit basis under the leagues
proposed platform plank, which called
the patronage system In public service
"a party liability which "weakens
faith in government"
Partial support Of the women's stand
came from the National Federation of
Federal employees, the statement con-
tinued. The federation called for IAN
extension of the merit system to cover
all Government positions except those
Of policy making nature"
Evening star., 1936-06-08
BISHOP FREEMAN TALKS

Right Rev. James e. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, addressed SEN
iors of the Washington College of Law
yesterday afternoon in baccalaureate
services held at the Washington
Cathedral.
The fourth-year class at the law
school will be graduated Thursday at
8 pm. in services to be held in Memo
rial Continental Hall. Seventy-three
students will receive degrees.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Government Arms
Revealed Used by
Hooded TerrOrists
Black Legion Men Oh.
tanned Rifles and NUM-.
tiOns for Practice.
BY the Associated Press.

DETROIT, June 8.-Police Inspector
John A. Hoffman said today that some
members of the Black Legion had ad-
mitted they used Government rifles
and ammunition in conducting target
practice at pistol range in down.
town sporting goods store.
The men were members of the
Wayne County Rifle and Pistol Club,
Hoffman said, which obtained four
rifles and a large supply of ammuni-
ton from the Government through the
National Rifle Association.
Eight or ten members of the Black
Legion went to the range each Monday
night to improve their craftsmanship,
Hoffman said, some of them having
appeared there as recently as May l8
Hoffmans announcement came
during questioning of Andrew Martin
secretary of the rifle club, and his
brother, Ernest Martin
The two were detained Saturday or
information that they were Black Le-
gion officers and were ordered held fol
the grand jury investigating night
riding activities here.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
BLAZE FLOATING IN RIVER
NOVELTY FOR FIREMEN
Hose Dragged Across Canal for
Attack as White Smoke Rolls
Over Treetops.

The firemen attached to No. 5
Truck Company and Nos. and 20
Engine Companies agreed today that
nothing quite equaled dragging so
feet of hose across a canal to provide
them with water enough to put out
a driftwood blaze floating down the
Potomac River.
Headed by Battalion Chief Chris
Bartelmus, 20 firemen yesterday after
noon spent two hours in dousing the
flames, which poured columns of thick
white smoke over the trees lining the
river bank about miles above
Georgetown.
Crossing the Chesapeake Canal with
the hose proved the most difficult
part of their job. Eight Of the firemen
were wet to the skin, either from fall
ing into the river or canal, or from
being Splashed by their fun-loving
fellows.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Congress in Brief

TODAY.
Senate:
Considers routine business and re-
ceSSes for a week.
House:
Appoints conferees for tax bill and
recesses until next Monday.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Finance Committee meets, 1890
am.
House:
Interstate Commerce Committee
meets, 1880 am. vs.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
MORNING MAIL.
B. WEI L, assistant
District attorney, got the
funniest collection Of nail
the other morning.


The first letter he opened was from
the Secretary Of the Interior notify
ing A. B. Caldwell Of his appointment
to a $500 Job.
The second was from lawyer in
Utah threatening to sue A. B. Caldwell
unless he paid Immediately for suit
of clothes purchased in that State.
The A. B. Caldwell Is neither of the
chaps for whom the letters were in
tended He suspects they are the
same guy. though.
KEEP OUT.
When the Police Department
closes q street, 1t is really closed;
nothing halt-hearted in the pay
they do it.
One side OF G street between
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets is
closed for repairs, tDtth these signs:
"Detour," tUith arrot0s pointing in
tWo directions; Street Closed" and
"Do Not Enter"
REALISTIC.
HAD you heard the one about the
young woman who is subject to
fainting spells?
One of our operatives, who swears
he never had heard anything like it.
turns up with the story of how the girl
tainted recently in front of an uptown
florists shop. Passersby took her into
the shop and, for want of better
place, they laid her out as comfortably
as possible on a counter.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Man Lifts 302 Tons of Money.

w. T. Dagger of Blackpool, England,
Just retired from the corporation Serv-
ice, has lifted over 800 tons of money
in his 80 years Of collecting from
penny-in-the-slot meters. His collec-
ton, he estimates, has averaged $50
daily in coppers, or about $675,00 in
30 years. As SIS in copper weighs just
over five pounds, his aggregate collec-
ton totals 302 tons.
Evening star., 1936-06-08
Man Faces 80 Snake Mourners.

While reading his newspaper In the
living room of his home in Tarago,
Australia, Aired Wade glanced to the
floor and saw a big tiger snake at his
feet. Wade shot it with his gun. Thirty
young mournful motherleSs snakes
then wriggled into the room after their
parent. Wade had busy few minutes
disposing of them in the same way es
he had their mother.