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Evening star., 1936-01-01
new HOPE GIVEN
EDITH MAXWELL
Judge Takes Plea for Retrial
in Patricide Under Con-
sideration.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WISE, Va, January Edith Max
well was given some measure of hope
yesterday in her bid for freedom when
Judge H. A. w. Skeen took under ad-
visement her second petition to set
aside the verdict which sentenced her
to Is years in prison for the murder
OF her father and grant her a new
trial.
Saying there were three points
which he wished to consider, Judge
Skeen told counsel that he would
hold the present time Of court open
until January Is for this particular
case. Previously, on December IL,
he had denied a motion for a new
trial-a motion based on six allega-
tions OF error by the court.
The question of new evidence was
one OF the three issues on which the
Judge said he had an open mind. He
wanted to consider, he said, whether
q microscopic study of the brain of
Trigg Maxwell, Edith's father, would
reveal new and material evidence.
M. J. Fulton, a Richmond attor-
ney, employed by the Virginia Branch
of the National Womans Party, ar
gued the question of new evidence and
constitutional points.
Evening star., 1936-01-01
YOUTHFUL BANDIT
TAKES NARCOTICS
Alexandria Hospital Physician
Held Up in Emergency Room
Last Night.
y a Staff Correspondent of The Star.

BY Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, January l.
Alexandria police today were search
ing for an unmasked youthful bandit
who walked into the Alexandria Hos
pital last night, covered a physician
with a revolver, helped himself to a
small supply of narcotics and fed.
The physician, identified by police
only as "Dr. Thurmin." told the off,
GERS the bandit was obviously a mar
Cotics addict.
Entering the usually busy institu-
tion on Duke street when only the
physician was in the emergency room,
the man appeared nervous as he drew
the revolver and helped himself to
the narcotics. the doctor said.
AS no one in the hospital heard
car, the bandit is believed to have
fed on foot.
Evening star., 1936-01-01
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Charles b. Kirby. as, 1890 North Caro-
lima ave. ne. and Cecilia g. Horan'
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Harry H. Cunning. 25. 2700 g St, and
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and Eleanor W. Gather. 20. Tousaloo.
Va; Rev. q. c.. r. Bratenahl
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Stokes 20. 1928 Virsinia ave. s.e.; Rev.
Isaac Bright.
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Ella L. Hunt.l 80. Northumberland. Pa;
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Evening star., 1936-01-01
LOOT $3.50 IN TEN
LOCAL ROBBERIES
Microscope Reported Taken From
DR.. w. ]. Manning-Woman
Loses Jewelry.

Ten robberies or attempted rob-
berries. with loot valued at more than
$500, were being investigated by po-
lice today.
Victims and the thefts they reported
included: DR.. w. J. Manning, jr., 2020
Columbia road, microscope worth
$27O; Mrs. Iris Packer. 1415 Van
Buren street, jewelry worth s100:
Michael Bailey, 729 Fourth street.
clothing worth $58; Ethel H. Burke,
1911 Sixteenth street, clothing worth
$58; Sarah Gregory, 1885 Ninth
street, clothing and bedding worth
$50; John W.. Clipper, 1919 Lamont
street, SIC cash; Percy Brown. 1886
Eleventh street, SO cash.
william r. Reeder, 460 o street, re-
ported he was attacked last night by
two men armed with knives. They
were trying to rob him, he said, when
he managed to throw one to the
ground. In the struggle Reeder was
cut slightly. His attackers fled.
Evening star., 1936-01-01
SERIOUS MISHAPS
FEW DESPITE ICE
Last D. c. Traffic Victim Of 1885
Is Pedestrian on Key
Bridge.

Despite icy streets and the New Yeer
celebrations, no serious trafic acct
dents were reported here during the
last "a hours.
Washington's last trafic death of the
old year occurred on Key Bridge yes
terday when Clarence e. Courtney, 50,
a street car conductor. was killed by
an Army truck. No date has been set
for an inquest.
Courtney, walking south on Key
Bridge toward his home in Rosslyn
Va, stepped from the sidewalk over q
snowbank and slipped beneath the
truck wheels. 1t was the District 5
113th trafic fatality of 1894.
| Pvt. Bernard e. Martin, ~, Of the
Quartermaster Corps. Walter Reed
Hospital, was driving the truck. He
was booked on a technical charge
pending an inquest, and released In rhe
custody of military authorities.
Evening star., 1936-01-01
BY WILLIAM BELL.

The origin Of the Democratic donkey.
attributed by most sources to Thomas
Mast. the famous cartoonist, again be-
came IN open question today.
Monroe johnson, Q Department of
Justice attorney, revealed he has some
copper tokens, relics Of q stormy in
cident in Andrew Jackson's admins
tration, which indicate the party
donkey was born 20 years before
Nast's time.
The forthcoming Jackson day dinner
for good Democrats and true. who
have $50 to buy q plate. reminded Mr..
johnson of some copper pieces his
mother gave him long ago. They relate
to "Old Hickory's" action in removing
Government funds from the Bank Of
the United States, a torrid issue Of
1884, ct ante. ct seq.
The coiners, had they lived today,
PROBABLY would nave issued some kind
Of medallion or metal token ridiculing
or praising President Roosevelt's action
In taking the United States OF the gold
standard.
One Of Mr.. Johnson's pieces has a
donkey on 1t. but the owner doesn't
know whether it's the Democratic
donkey or just any old donkey, repre-
senting stubborness. Above the donkey
Is engraved Roman Firmness":; below
1t Veto" and around 1t The Con-
stitution as Understand It." It's
open to speculation whether these
legends are q jibe at Jackson or a
boost. On the reverse SIDE is q figure
supposed to be jackson with appraised
sword in one hand. bag of money in
the other and the Bank of the United
Evening star., 1936-01-01
FOOT BALLL|QUO
ABUSESATTACKED
Methodist Board Reports
Drinking General, B!am.
ing Fans.
ny the Associated Press

ny the Associated Press.
The Board Of Temperance, Prohibi-
ton and Public Morals Of the Metho.
dist Episcopal Church said today IN .
report that foot ball game drinking
was "very general" last season. with
the worst conditions noted Ut Eastern
contests.
The boards statement, coming close
on the attacks on drinking ut college
contests made . few days ago In New
York by school authorities. said ef{ec-
tive means to handle the problem had
been taken by many institutions with
the best results seen 'in certain parts
of the Middle West"
Unframed Fans blamed.
Blame was placed on "uneducated,
socially unframed fans" cheap sport
and gambler followers rather than
upon students"
The information, gathered from
nearly 100 colleges, indicated. the
board said. that drinking was very
general and exceedingly obnoxious at
some schools and In some sections"
Conditions seemed to be determined,
It said, largely by the attitude Of the
public In the immediate environment,
efforts made to discourage drinking.
and by the degree Of emphasis on foot
ball.
The problem is one Of "big time"
foot ball, 1t pointed out, saying small
schools and large institutions with un-
successful teams were not badly trou-
bled.
Among efforts taken to deal with
drinking, the report mentioned use OF
newspapers to request the spectators
to refrain, circular requests mailed by
schools along with ticket orders, CO.
operation Of police, election Of drunken
persons and refusal to admit obviously
drunken ticket holders.
Princeton Difficulties.
Discussing Princeton, the board said
difIicuities there we're undoubtedly
increased by the varied character OF
the New York population and by the
moral support given the drinking Gus
tom by anti-prohibition and anti
abstinence propaganda."
In an apparent reference to Dart
mouths twelfth man." 1t said lone
uncultivated friend intervened in the
Princeton Dartmouth game" On sey-
eral occasions In the East, the report
said, "the ceremony Of wrecking the
goal posts took the aspects Of o dan
gerous riot; this also occurred at New
Orleans"
Men are not the sole offenders"
the board said. Many ladies join the
gentlemen. drinking rather more than
their share and proving eonclusively
that q drunken woman can make
bigger fool of herself than any drunk
en- man."
Evening star., 1936-01-01
20 AMATEUR GROUPS
TO SEEK PLAY PRIZE
One-act Tournament Contests
Open February 4, With Finals
II DAYS Later.

Twenty amateur dramatic groups
will enter the 1886 one-act play tour
nament sponsored by the Community
Center Department, according to Miss
Dorothea Lewis of the Columbia
Players. chairman of the Tournament
Committee
The contests open February and
the finals will be held February Is in
the Roosevelt Auditorium. Groups
wishing to enter have been asked 10
register by next Monday with the
Community Center Office in the
Franklin Administration Building.
Fiyst prize will be $50. Miss Lewis
Is to invite judges for the finals and
Mrs. Maud Howell Smith for the pre-
liminaries.
Evening star., 1936-01-01
Neev Ancestor for Donkey
Copper Token Shows Party Emblem in
Existence in Jackson's Time.

States beneath. 81 Take the Respon-
sibility," says the sword-bearing Presi-
dent.
The other token Is definitely SLAP
at the party's, No. 2 patron saint. II
proclaifns: Perish Credit. Perish Com
merce." and my Third Heat" is
superimposed on an ugly boar or pig
evidently alluding to a rurnor that
jackson intended running for a third
term. The other side refers scornfully
to Jsckson's experiment"
Evening star., 1936-01-01

Medical treatment of "polypoid"
condition in his stomach. meantime.
will have a part in the Governors
schedule.
Official reports on the Governors
condition were awaited from DR..
Waltman Walters. operating surgeon
whose knife left untouched an "inac-
cessible" lesion high in the stomach.
or from DR.. william ]. Mayo.
Evening star., 1936-01-01

Physicians at
tending the Gov
ernor, convaleSc-
ing from an op-
Grafton here. de-
clined to amplify
previous reports.
The Governor
faced a schedule
of careful dieting
and hours, physi-
clans pointed out,
or perhaps, as
associates ug-
gested. an in
definite absence
from the political
arena.
Evening star., 1936-01-01
ICKES LEAVES SUNDAY
on PUERTO RICAN TRIP
Interior Secretary to Spend Ten
Days on Insular Journey-Win
Visit Virgin Islands.

Secretary Ickes will leave Washing
ton Sunday on q To-day official trip
to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands,
returning the morning of January II.
The trip will be the first ever made
to the islands by an Interior Secre-
tary.
Before leaving for the insular pos
sessions, which come under his juris-
diction, Ickes will speak in New York
Friday at ceremonies initiating con-
struction Of new housing on the $12,-
783 900 Williamsburg slum clearance.
Ickes will take of in an airplane
from Miami on Tuesday.
Evening star., 1936-01-01
ALIENS SPARED
TRICK QUESTIONS
Labor Department Limits
Citizenship Tests to
Fundamentals.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Labor Department yesterday
ordered its naturalization examiner to
stop asking :.trick questions in ex-
amining aliens on their citizenship
qualifications.
No longer is the prospective citizen
to be asked how many legs has the
Constitutions" or how many stars are
there on quarter"
Questions are to be designed to dis
close the petitioners inherent qualifi-
cations upon which good citizenship is
based, and to disclose his knowledge.
understanding and acceptance of the
fundamental principles Of our Consti-
tuition" The department set forth
In the order its definition of the Con-
stitution.
Simple Illustrations.
The order added:
IF the petitioner has difficulty in
expressing himself as to the funda-
mental principles of the Constitution,
simple illustrations of the manner in
which these principles affect him in
everyday life should be presented and
his attitude toward such situations
obtained"
The department said much of the
difficulty and confusion in examining
aliens in the past was due to confusion
of the requirements for naturalization.
The requirements for ability to write
and speak the English language have
been confused with requirement that
the applicant shall have behaved as
a person Of good moral character, at
tached to the principles of the Con-
stitution and well disposed to
the good order and happiness Of the
United States" the department said.
Analysis Principles.
Included in the order was an analyst,
OF the Constitutions general principles
One whole section. entitled "Constitu-
ton a Living Document" was devoted
to amendment. 1t read as follows:
The Constitution is a living. grow
ing document which provides within
itself the means for its amendment
and for such changes in the Govern.
ment as the people may find necessary
or desirable in order to keep pace with
needs Of the day. 1t provides fol-
peaceful and orderly change in Gov
ernment and in the Constitution itself
thus guarding against fundamental
change through force or violence.
Many of the most important prin-
ciples of the Constitution. particularly
those dealing with the liberty of the
individual, have been added to it by
amendment"
Evening star., 1936-01-01
TAX WARNING ISSUED

With the New Year comes q somber
note of warning from the Federal tax
collector.
Guy r. Helvering. commissioner Of
internal revenue. announced yesterday
income tax forms would be mads
available to taxpayers January .. He
said the returns must be hied by
midnight March 10.
March 16 was nxed because the
usual deadline. March Is. falls on q
Sunday.
Evening star., 1936-01-01
CARE FOR PETS URGED
Appeal Made After Dog Is Found
Sick in Snow.

Virginia w. Sargent, president Of
the Animal Protective Association,
called on Washington dog and cat
owners today to show more considera-
tion for their pets. Her appeal came
after the finding Of dog, suffering
with distemper, tied in sack and
paralyzed by the cold.
The dog was taken to the associa-
tion headquarters, $500 Wisconsin
avenue, by members Of the Kensfng-
ton Volunteer Fire Department after
he had been found in the snow on
Connecticut avenue extended. He
later was killed.
Evening star., 1936-01-01
Island Gets Phones.

Islay Island, OF the coast Of Scot
land, has Just been connected to the
mainland by telephone.
Evening star., 1936-01-01
Sol0mons Island Students
Trduel to School IN Boats

there-how many Of these pupils will
get yen for the water, like their dads
have done for generations. and finally
follow the sea 2
Evening star., 1936-01-01
OLSON WILL DIET.
TO CURE A|LMENT
Minnesota Governor Plans
Rigid Schedule to Win
Health Back.
BY the Associated Press.

ROCHESTER. Mimi. January l.
Self discipline represented Gov. Floyd
B. Olson's hope today for health and
recovery from a stomach ailment.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-12
PAT 7 { R s N
OUT IN
ICE DISPUTE
mpany
Wins Permanent
Injunction

The Imperial Ice and De-
velopment company w a s
granted a permanent injunc-
tion preventing Joseph E.
Patterson, former employe
of the company, from soliciting
business from among residents OF
Ell Centro who were customers of
the company during the IL years OF
Patterson's employment, according
to judgment entered ,in superior
court Tuesday by Judge Vaughn N
Thompson.
Patterson further was enjoined
from purchasing ice elsewhere than
from the Imperial Ice and Develop
ment company for resale in Ell Cen
tro and was enjoined from deliver
ing ice to customers whose business
was solicited by him after he left
the employ of the company.
Finolngs OF fact and conclusions
of law also were filed by Judge
Thompson.
Patterson said he was discharged
by the ice company when he in
formed his employers that he was
going into the ice delivery business
for himself. His former employees
obtained a temporary restraining
order preventing him from deliver.
ing ice pending settlement of the
suit.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-12

1SOISG HdDdcQ, chairman OF the
Hollywood convention, was select
ed as the ether delegate-at- large
Van Eman is prominent in Le-
gion activities in Imperial Valley
and held the endorsement of valley
Legion organizations as we'll as
the district groups.
LegionnaireS who attended the
big conclave from Imperial Valley
began to return home Wednesday
Many of them expressed pride in
the splendid appearance the E:
Centro Junior Police corps made
in the parade down Hollywood
boulevard. They declared the youth
full policemen presented an i'm
pressive sight as they marched
in perfect time, each youngsteI
appearing to good advantage in
the dress uniforms in which they
were clad.
The corps was headed by Chief
of Police ]. Sterling OSwalt and
Police Officers Frank Smyer ano
Jack Tackett. Pat Thaanum Of
ficiated as marching director The
entry of the corps in the parade
was sponsored by the Boyce Aten
post.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-12
PRODUCERS OF
LIVESTOCK TO
HOLD MEETING

Range livestock producers are
scheduled to meet on the Berkeley
campus August IA to discuss the
range livestock program in relation
to the soil conservation and domes-
tic allotment act. Producers from
Dan sections of California are ex-
pected to attend what is said to be
one of a series of state meetings.
The purpose of the meeting is to
give livestock producers an oppor
tunity to discuss a program ano
Iontribute suggestions, according to
3. H. Cochran, director of agricul-
tural extension for the University
of California. Cochran called the
meeting at the request of George E.
Farrell. director of the western di
vision of the Agricultural Adjust
ment administration.
The meeting will be called to
order at 10 a. m. in 113 Agricultural
hall on the university campus.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-12
CASE
CONTINUED TO
NOVEMBER 6

Arraignment and plea of Alice
Coville charged with forgery, was
continued until November 6, in I'm
perial county superior court Wed
neSday.
The continuance was granted by
Judge r. d. McPherrin at the re-
quest of her attorney, E. B. Patter-
son, who said she was too i'll to ap.
pear in court. Mrs. Civille was re-
leased from the county Jail last
month on $500 cash bail.
She is alleged to have raised a
$3.50 check to $3.50. She was ar
rested near Jacumba by Frank P.
McCaSlin and Pete Kulinovich. I'm
perial county deputy sheriffS.
Charles Provence was appointed
by the court to represent Frank
Scholey, who is charged with bur
glarizing an Imperial wholesale
liquor store of $237 in cash. August
IA was set as the date for Scholey's
arraignment and plea.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-12
HACK SAW
BLADES SENT
| N 7 0 JAIL
Turnkey Discovers
Plot to Release
'BluebearR

LOS ANGELES, Aug. IL.
(UP)-Two hack saw blad-
es were discovered today by
county jail guards as the
saws were about to reach
Robert S. James, convicted snake
killer" of his wife.
The blades were wrapped in a
newspaper and had been sent
through the mails.
The blades apparently had been
mailed by a woman.
They were wrapped in an old eve
ming newspaper mailed to the Blue
beard Barber" in Los Angeles last
night, UnderSheriff Arthur C. Jewell
said. The blades, new and unused,
were about foot long.
Experts said the wrapping around
the newspaper had been addressed
in a woman's handwriting The
wrapper was turned over to hand
writing experts to be compared with
penmanship of various women con-
nected with the James case.
n Gul llhCy lOullQ bllc OIdutS QuIlItS
routine examination of mail ad-
dressed to prisoners.
James is awaiting an appeal from
a sentence to be hanged for the
murder of his seventh wife, Mary
Busch James. A confessed accom-
plice, Charles Hope, told of watch
ing James shove his young brides
bare leg into a box containing a
live rattlesnake. She was bitten bur
the snake poison worked too slowly
and James drowned her in a bath
tub, Hope said.
The red-haired barber was con-
victed also of a morals offense in
volving his pretty 21-year-old niece,
Lois Wright. Investigators surprised
them together in the bedroom of
his bungalow and made dictograpn
records of their love- making.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-12

mountain passes, declared they had
captured Tolosa, key city on the
landward side of San Sebastian
The government, however, was con.
fident the strong loyalist forces of
foot troops, artillery and airplanes
would rout the insurrectionists.
Reports that the rebels were OBJ
tanning airplanes from foreign pow
ers caused the government to con-
centrate on strengthening its air
force. 1t was announced 80 addi
tional bombers were obtained and
distributed at strategic points.
The government was indignant
over reports of foreign aid to the
rebels. 1t was asserted the outlaw
Burgos government negotiated an
agreement with an unnamed west
ern European power for mutual as
sistance in setting up a new Fas-
cist regime.
Informed sources believed the
crisis of the civil war was approach.
ing. There was strong govern
mental hope that the powerful Cat
alonian government would cooper
ate to the utmost in efforts to main.
tain the leftwing republic.
Two leading rebels, Generals
Manuel Coded and Alvaro Burrie,,
were executed by a firing squad in
Barcelona.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-08-12


over the 400-meter course in
Olympic record breaking time to
defeat by more than a second
Shumpei Uto, Japan's premier 400
meter man.
Medica was clocked in 4:44.5
which bettered the Olympic mark
CT 4:48.4 set by Larry (Buster)
Crabbe in 1932-the only victory
America scored in mems swimming
that year. Medica's time also
lowered a new Olympic mark Of
4:45.5 which the chunky Uto had
created in his first qualifying heat
on Monday.
Shozo Maxine of Japan was
third and Ralph Flanagan, 180-
pound Miami star, fourth.
Medica's victory capped a day
of triumphs for the United States
in both mems and Women's swim.
ming and diving.
Earlier 13-year- r-old Marjorie Ges-
tring of Los Angeles, Katherine
RaWlS and Mrs. Dorothy Hill had
finished one-two-three in the
springboard diving and put Amer
ica in front in the team standing
with 81 points.
Miss GeString and Miss Rawls
staged a thrilling duel for the
title and unofficial tabulations in
dicated that but .83 points sep
arated them.
The gold medal hinged on Mar
jorie's final dive and she elected
a back one and a half somersault
one of the prettiest performances
On the program. 1t was carried
out with such precision that it
netted her 16 points and the mar
gin of victory.
Adolph Kiefer of Chicago lee
Is other qualifiers into the semi
finals of the l00-meter breaStstroke
with a world and Olympic record
breaking race. Taylor Drysdale
and AL Van De Weghe of the
United States also gained tomor-
rows semi-finals along with three
japanese swimmers.
Medica was first off the starting
platform and held the lead by
a meter for the first so meter
length of the pool. Then Uto
slammed into the lead and held
it down to the turn of the seventh
length.
For a time 1t looked as though
Uto was going to make a runaway
Of the race. Twenty five meters
from home. however, Medica
sprinted and IS meters from home
caught the japanese. They both
raced furiously with Medica grad
ually forging in front.