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Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06
APPLICATION Made
For Racing Track

LOS ANGELES, March 6. UP)-
The Hollywood Racing association
today had on file with the Califor-
mia horse racing commission a for
NAL application to operate a nom
profit track in San Fernando VAL
ley, a few miles from the film COL
ony.
The application listed Charles E.
Cooper, owner of the Rancho San
Luis Rey breeding farm, as presi-
dent of the association and A. T.
Jergins, oil magnate, as vice-pres-
ident.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06
Vic Ghezzi Captures
$500 Golf Tourney

HOLLYWOOD. Fla. March 6. uP
Big Vic Ghezzi. Deal. n. j., PRO.
today was $500 richer, having cop
ped first Monday in The $500 Hol-
lywood open golf tournament with
a four under par card Of 276 for
- holes.
Tony Penna OF Boca Ration, Fla
and Toichira Toda. little japanese
professional. divided second and
third place money as they tied with
277'S. one stroke behind Ghezzi.
Among the professionals. Bobby
Cruickshank OF Richmond, Va.
Willie MacFarlane Of New York.
and Light Horse Harry Cooper of
Chicaeo. We're tied at 278.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06
Tourney Confined
To Doubles Play

NEW YORK, March 6, WR)-Wlth
competition in the mems and Wom-
ems singles down to the semi-finai
round, today's play in the national
indoor tennis championship Will be
confined to doubles.
The feature match will pit VIII
mer Hines, Columbia, S. c., and
Henry M. Culley, Santa Barbara,
Cal, against j. H. Pitman, and Dr.
Lawrence Kurzrox, New York.
In the Women's doubles, the faV-
ored team of Mrs. John Van Ryn,
Philadelphia, and Mrs. H. c. Bru-
ME, New York, faced Florence Le-
boutillier and Norma Taubele, New
York.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06

he Slapped The Maskeu one an UVtI
the ring with Furnishing forearm
blows to the heart.
The world champion took the
first fall with a series of socks to
the heart in II minutes and then
breezed in to take the second canto
in two minutes.
In the most entertaining bout
of the evening Kiman Kudo. and
Casey Columbo fought to a draw.
The two grapplers flipped a coin
to determine the type of wrestling
they would employ. Columbo won
the toss and elected to use catch
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06

as-catch-can. Columbo won the
fall in 26 minutes. Then in the
second frame Kudo quickly threw
the Italian in four minutes.
In the third fall neither grap-
pier could gain an edge before the
time limit was up and the bout
was called a draw.
Gunda Singh licked Tony Felice
twice before the italian boy would
give up Singh threw Felice with
a series Of body slams to win a fall
and Felice said that he was unable
to continue the match. After the
Hindu was awarded the decision
and prepared to leave the ring,
Felice renewed the attack
Singh promptly pinned Felice
again with another series of body
slams and the Italian quit for keeps.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06

Bowl FOR three consecutive Years.
Grayson was chosen by the
Stanford board Of athletic control
last night to ill the assistant
coaching job vacated when Nevers
accepted the position as head
coach at lafayette university.
No mention was made of salary
or o. the other applicants who
sought the job as assistant u
Head Coach Claude E. Tiny
Thornhill.
The board did announce. how
ever. that Robert Bones Hamil-
ton. GraySon's three-year running
mate who opened many OF the
holes Grayson plunged through IN
reeling off the gains which twice
won him All-America recognition.
had not applied for the post as
reported previously.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06

PASADENA. March 6. UP)-Mrs.
Ethel Arnold scored a straight set
victory over Jane Sharp of Pasa-
dena. 6-l. Ga. in the feature of a
series OF professional tennis match
eS here last night
William Tilden easily downed
Bruce Barnes in mems singles, 6-l,
6-l. while Barnes and Miss Sharp
won over Tilden and Mrs. Arnold.
3-6. 6-1. Ga. in mixed doubles.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06

Lanky Locke, center of the
strong Marine Corps basketball
team, has scored on an average of
20 points per game this season in a
thirty game schedule.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06
Bench
WARMING
BY b. KINNE

Two of the greatest hurdlers in
the west, both former Central stu
dents. will meet in the relay events
in the annual Long Beach track
meet Saturday
The two boys, Hartigan and Kirk
patrick both made outstanding rec
ords in FL Centre, and have gone on
TO win national acclaim in college
competition.
Kirkpatrick is regarded as the
man to beat in field that includes
Klopstock, Moore and Draper, but
we look for Hartigan to be in the
race all of the way and maybe beat
the whole bunch
Hartigan has been improving his
time in each race this year and
should he better his best efforts OF
the season he will pull out in front
OF the herd Saturday.
The tennis teams of FL Centro
high school have made great rec
ordS in the last few years winning
five championship in seven years.
Each year the Central METERS
boast one of the leading teams in
the valley, due almost entirely to
the unceasing duties of FL Centro
high and III his first year as mentor
OF the squad he turned out a cham
pionship team. losing only one
match while winning nine then
winning the valley tournament.
Burcham is to be commended for
his fine work and we predict that
he will be just as successful in his
efforts this season.
90
The big show at the El Centre
Athletic club Thursday night was
rather dull. The match between
the Black Knight and the world
champion, Lopez was one sided and
uninteresting.
The masked marvel was no match
for Lopez and a number of hard
ened spectators left the arena early.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06

The Tokyo Giants, who will play
in Ell Centro on March 80 Will find
the old baseball plenty hard to
find, for they will be swinging at
the offerings of one of Americas
No. l ball tosSers, Satchel Page,
great Negro chucker.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06
BASKETBALL RESULTS
BY United Press

Yale SO. Boston U. "a.
West Virginia Il, Georgetown 26.
w. &, L. Sc. Y. P. I. 20.
North Carolina 80, Virginia 21
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06
Champion FEatfens
Masked Marvel
In Straight Falls

Imperial Valley wrestling fans went away from the
Ell Centre Athletic club happy last night because Vincent
Lopez dished out some of the Black Knights medicine
to take an easy straight falls victory over the unpopular
Shrouded Marvel Lopez literally smashed the Knight as
Imperial Valley press., 1936-03-06
Noted Grid Star
Will Take Place
Of Ernie Nevers

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal, March 6. (UP)-
Bobby Grayson second only to Ernie Never in Sanford
football hall of fame followed in the big blond stars
footsteps member of the unversys football coach
ing staff which has Cardinal team the Rose
Evening star., 1936-05-10

found and its position accurately
measured, there can be no doubt that
the corresponding element was pres
ent in the light source at the time
the spectrum was recorded"
The findings of the spectograph ex-
pert, together with other evidence
linking the suspect to the hiding spot
of the bonds, are to be used against
him when he comes up for trial.
TOURTS once frowned upon "ex-
~ pert testimony" but in recent
years science has established itself
firmly as a vital aid to law enforce
ment and jutsice. The value Of
scientific evidence in proving guilt and
in establishing innocence is recog-
nized in every court of the land today.
Moulage is one of the newer scien-
tific aids to the law enforcement Of
ficer, but already it has demonstrated
its usefulness in recording and pre-
serving perishable evidence-Such as
appearance of wounds, tooth-marks
on food. footprints at the scene of a
crime, tire marks and the like.
Moulage is the art-the word Is
USED advisedly-of reproducing evi-
dence in wax or plaster. Laboratory
artists of the F. B. l. are skilled in
making casts of articles Of every con-
ceivable shape.
In the case of the mother who killed
Evening star., 1936-05-10

her rbaby-mentioned at the outset Of
this article-moulage enabled the law
to record and preserve for introduc-
ton before Q jury damning evidence
which otherwise could have been de-
scribed only by photographs and
words. It enabled investigators to
make careful and accurate study OF
the deep wound in the partly-decom-
posed head of the child, and paved
the way for Identification of the mur-
der weapon. The instrument OF
death, found in the woman's home,
fitted the fatal wound exactly.
Even a footprint in dust may be
preserved by the moulage artist. To
accomplish this he sprays alcohol
carefully over the impression with an
atomizer, until the evaporating liquid
has left a crust substantial enough to
provide the mold for regular plas-
ter cast
One of the outstanding cases in
which special agents Of the bureau
employed their technical experts to
good effect was that Of Odell C..
Boyes, extortionist, who, signing him
self 1.-The -Four Musketeers, sought
to collect $4,000 from the wealthy
Cannon family of Concord, North
Carolina, under threats of kidnapping
and death to various members OF the
family.
Evening star., 1936-05-10

on the current and, as the intense
heat of the electric arc turned the dirt
into vapor, photographed the light
through a prism. 1t sounds COM
pncated, but the entire operation re-
quired but a few minutes, as the
machine is almost automatic.
The resulting photograph resembled
a gray band crossed by many parallel
dark lines Of varying widths and
shades.
The process was repeated, using the
sample of earth from the burial spot.
A similar photograph was obtained.
When these two photographs were
placed alongside each other. it was
found that the lines crossed both
bands at identically the same point,
and that their width and shading also
matched.
To the expert this was positive
proof that the dirt Of the sweepings
and that of the hiding place of the
bonds were identical in every respect.
No other sample of dirt not from the
same locality could have produced
those duplicate photographs.
There are no two sets of finger
prints alike" the bureaus specto.
graph expert declared. Likewise,
there are no two elements that give
exactly the same spectrum. Their
differences or similarities are identified
by recording, measuring and compar-
ing the light rays emitted by the
volatilized substance itself.
Combined with sensitiveneSs and
speed, the spectographic Identification
leaves no room for doubt as to the
correctness of the findings. The wave
lengths of the characteristic radia-
tions from a given element are definite
and fixed. Therefore, once line is
Evening star., 1936-05-10

MORE than a dozen threatening
40 letters we're received. Several
were written in green ink of a type
not widely used. They bore post
marks of a small suburb of Atlanta,
Ga, close to Candler airport. In
vestisation at the airport disclosed
that the same kind Of green ink was
available in the airport building. The
field was placed under surveillance.
Meanwhile, q single fingerprint, in
visible to the naked eye. had been
found on one OF the extortion notes
after It had been "processed" to de-
telop latent prints. The print was
sent to the F. B. I. Identification
Division in Washington. but because
the millions of fingerprints there are
classified according to complete sets
Of ten fingers, an identification was
impossible. 1t was recorded for pos
sible future reference.
In one of the letters the -Four
Musketeers" had directed the Cannons
to leave the money at certain va
cant house in Hapeville. Ga.-on top
of a china closet This had been done
prior to entry Of the G-men in the
case, but nothing had happened. 1t
seemed extremely unlikely that the
extortionist would designate the same
house for another rendezvous, but G.
men overlook no chances.
Almost hopelessly. the agents Sc
cretly turned this Hapeville house into
q veritable electric trap. Working at
night by fiashlight, they wired the
house and installed in a nearby hide
out listening devices and alarms by
which they could learn instantly OF
Evening star., 1936-05-10

also a personal, basis. 1t Is the good
reporters way.
The men with whom he dealt first
admired Collier for his work, always
skillfully and accurately done. From
there, IN view Of their constant close
contact, it was but short step to lik-
ing Collier for himself. Thus was
the foundation laid for War on
Crime" the illustrated strip that
promises to be the sensation of news
paper features in 1886.
Some of the finest reporting of Col
lier's career came between the laying
of the foundation and the appearance
of the strip, however.
Much of it grew out Of the Lind
bergh baby kidnapping, the crime story
which made and broke many q news
paper man. His uncanny fair for be-
ing in the right place at the right time
enabled the author of WAR on Crime"
to score numerous beats on this, the
crime story of the century. The first
story on the ransom payment to John
Evening star., 1936-05-10
It Perceives Clues in Articles Which Criminal
Never Would Suspect Might Hold Com
plete Identification of Him as 2
petrator of Misdeeds.

Hoover first set up small laboratory
in one room Of a rented building. sew
eral blocks from the present fine home
of the Department of Justice, midway
between the White House and the
Capitol. Principal equipment consist
ed of microscopes for examination of
bullets and other articles Of evidence,
an ultraviolet ("black light) device
for revealing secret writing and identi-
flying stains, and a few chemicals for
developing latent fingerprints and
analyzing various substances.
Today the laboratory is housed in
a number Of large rooms especially
constructed and equipped to meet
the needs of the imposing staff Of
research experts engaged in the varied
phases of chronological study.
It was one of these white-coated
young scientists with which the bank
robber involved In Federal case
out West failed to reckon when plan
ming a clueless crime.
The robber placed his loot-a pack
age of bonds-in the back of his
automobile, drove to a secluded spot
under cover of darkness and buried
the bonds far underground. Acting
on certain information-the source of
which is not pertinent to this story
the F. B. I. agents found the buried
hoard some time later. The same
information directed suspicion upon
the man who had buried it-but evi:
dence for his arrest was lacking.
The G-men investigating the rob-
berry had not fogrotten some Of the
things they had learned in the lab
oratory during their intensive three
month training course at Washing
ton. One of these lessons was that
telltale clues sometimes hide in dust,
hairs. fibers and other debris.
They painstakingly swept some
particles of earth from the floor OF
the suspects automobile. sealed them
in special containers and sent them
to the laboratory in Washington. At
the same time they inclosed some
samples of the earth at the spot
where the bonds had been buried.
PLEASE advise if the dirt sweep
ings from the automobile are identical
with the earth samples submitted, ~
the Investigators asked.
THE bits Of evidence were turned
over to the spectographic expert
in the F. B. I. laboratory. He placed
an infinitesimally small quantity Of
the sweepings-to be exact, one three.
thousandth Of an ounce-on the eiec-
trode Of the spectograph arc, switched
Evening star., 1936-05-10
IN THE years Immediately preced-

IN THE years Immediately preced-
ing his assignment to the crime
front, he had covered such varied
"big" stories as the Mississippi flood,
in 1927, the Hoover campaign. in
1928, and the good will" tour Of the
President elect through South Amer
lea, in 1929.
It was early in the Hoover admin
istration that Collier found covering
the Department of Justice as part OF
his daily routine routine inter-
spersed with assignments to handle
currently important stories of a widely
varied type.
Most fascinating aspect Of his reg
ular beat" at the Justice Depart
ment naturally was the Bureau Of
Investigation. Like the thoroughgo-
ing reporter he is, he began at once
to faniliarize himself with every de-
tail Of its work and to become &C.
quainted with its personnel, the lat
ter not merely on professional, but
Evening star., 1936-05-10
/ Good Reporter Writes of Americas Bad Men
"War on Crime" Seeks to
Educate as Well as to
Entertain.

carried the Collier by-line. 1t was
carried in The Star the same day that
it appeared in the Bronx Home News,
which, of course, was oficially In the
case.
LIE WAS first, too, with the story
L. L of the appearance of Federal
revenue agents in the case, and their
fight with Lindbergh in search OF the
boat Nelly, with official details OF
the finding of the baby's body. and
the disclosure that Lindbergh saw the
stopped. masked figure on the night
of the ransom payment. Extraordinary
beats" these on the most extraor-
binary crime story Of modern times.
Two booklets, one bearing the title
Of the new illustrated strip, "The War
on Crime" the other Training Of
Personnel. Federal Bureau OF 1nves-
tigation," were issued as official doc
uments by the Department OF Justice
as the result of Golfers work during
the between" intervals Of one big
crime story and another. So search
ing and accurate were the feature
stories which Collier wrote on these
subjects that out of them the Gov
ernment was enabled to fashion two Of
the most authoritative documents
dealing with one Of its most fascinat-
ing activities.
When the G-Men's story became
the subject of radio presentation by
Phillips H. Lord, Collier wrote the
continuity, with every detail of which
he was completely conversant. In this
activity, he acted with the consent
and cooperation of ]. Edgar Hoover,
F. B. I. chief, and Homer s Cum
mings, Attorney General, who spon-
sored the broadcasts.
In all of his work with the G-Men,
Collier has conceived his function as
a newspaper man as twofold one;
first, the presentation in the fullness
of its dramatic quality the story OF
the happenings on the crime front;
second, that every chapter Of that
story is part of vital movement to
educate the American public in the
efforts to stamp out crime. The essence
Of his illustrated strip is to be found
in that two-fold conception.
Rex Collier 10 that kind OF news
paper man.
Evening star., 1936-05-10

the approach Of anyone to the china
closet.
A few days later the unbelievable
happened. The Cannons received a
final letter giving instructions for an
other attempt to deliver the $4,000
and the china closet in the same
vacant house in Hapeville was des-
ignated for the pay-of.
Heavily armed and hidden in places
Of vantage, the agents watched the
house for three days. On the fourth
day they saw woman enter the back
door. They heard her, by means Of the
listening devices, as she walked slowly
through the kitchen and into the
dining room. They knew when she
stopped at the china closet. She
lifted the package of money-and a
buzzer sounded the alarm.
Arrested as she left the house with
the package, the woman professed
ignorance of the extortion plot and
identified herself as the wife Of Odell
Boyles. Boyles was arrested a few
minutes later at his home. He, too,
proclaimed his innocence.
ROYLES was fingerprinted. A few
~ hours later Washington reported
that the fingerprint found on the ex-
tortion note matched that of the right
index finger of Boyles, and that q
search of the fngerprint files had dis
closed that Boyles was an ex-convict.
Moreover. it was learned that Boyles
was a parachute trigger" at Gambler
Airport. His discarded fountain pen
was found to contain green ink.
Confronted with these damaging
facts, Boyles made a complete con-
fession.
One of the bureaus early cases Of
science-versus- s-crime was the Pvt.
Adams murder confession at Fort Sam
Houston, and it remains one Of the
more interesting of F. B. I. cases.
The soldier killed his wife with a
wrench, placed her body at the wheel
of his automobile and sent the car into
q deep ravine near a bridge. Because
the accident" had puzzling angles
and the death had occurred on Fe< :
eral property, agents of the bureau
were asked to investigate.
They found that bloodstains on the
hood Of the car must have been there
before the machine went into the
creek. There were other indications
Of foul play. The woman's husband
was questioned, but he produced an
alibi.
Asked about several scratches on his
throat, Adams said he received them
N q friendly tussle with soldier.
Pressed for the name of the soldier,
he finally mentioned one. This man
denied that such an incident had
occurred. .-.-
Suspicious, the agents went to the
morgue and scraped some unrecog-
nizable debris from underneath the
dead woman's fingernails. Under the
microscope this substance was identi-
fed positively as human skin and
blood.
The report of the microscopic was
too much for the nerves Of the soldier
Evening star., 1936-05-10
His Long Stay on Crime
Front Brings G-Men
Feature Strip.

WITH q weapon no more deadly
w than a pencil, Rex Collier has
stalked the Nations greatest GRIM
inals for years. Dillinger, Baby Face"
Nelson, Hauptmann, Karpis and scores
of others whose names have screamed
terror from the headlines have been
his reportorial quarries.
Imperturbably he followed them and
their desperate deeds, figuratively
marching side by side with the G.
men in their dangerous journey
through the underworld of the great
est crime-ridden Nation on earth.
Whether or not the G-men got their
man, and sometimes there was a
long delay, Rex Collier always got
his story-and there never was any
delay.
That's why Collier is the author OF
"War on Crime" new illustrated
feature strip which, on May 18, will
take q prominent place in the pages
of The Star and many other Leading
American newspapers.
II YOU get your mental pictures OF
ace crime reporters direct from Hol-
lywood, you would not recognize COL
lier as one Of the best in the business.
However, If you were to listen to any
city editor describe his ideal man Tor
the Job, you might look around the
news room and select Collier as Mt
ting the specifications perfectly.
He is q quiet sort Of chap, OF me-
dunn stature and the possessor OF a
dron sense of humor. It would be
impossible to picture him shooting it
out with Dillinger, except verbally,
in which case the late and badly-rid-
died citizen of Indiana probably would
have lost. Nor would Collier have
used many nouns, adjectives and
verbs in the process. He is not that
kind.
It was the conventional route trav-
eled by the good reporter which land
ed Collier at the door Of the under
world several years ago at precisely
the same time that the Federal n1en
arrived heer. He had been on the
'best" stories for many years ano
when the war on crime climbed into
that category 1t was natural Collier
should be there.