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The Washington times., 1936-11-12
TRAFFIC DEATH
TOLL MOUNTS
TO 73 HERE

WaShington's traffic death ton
mounted to 73 today with the
death Of Elijah Willbanks, colored,
IS, Of 939 F st. S. w.
Willbanks was injured about a
week ago when, according to po-
lice, he stepped from behind a
parked automobile into the path
Of another being backed up by
Arthur Thomas Park, of Glen
Echo, Md, in Water Street be-
tween Eleventh and Twelfth Streets
Southwest.
Hurt When Car Hits Tree
William N. Rogers, 43, of 4704
Hunt Ave-, Bethesda, Md, was in
Emergency Hospital today with
possible fractured ribs, head lac
erations and a fractured right leg
as q result of an accident last
night when his car struck a tree
on Massachusetts Avenue near OBJ
servatory Circle.
Head cuts and internal injuries
were suffered by Edgar B. Hilley,
38, of Hyattsville, Md, when, &C
cording to police, he lost control
of his car as he was driving on
Livingston Rd. S. E. and plunged
into an electric light pole. He
was treated at st. Elizabeths Hos
pital and later was removed to
Casualty.
Hit by Street Car
Steven Queen, colored, 49, Of
408 Fifty-eighth st. N. E., was in
Casualty Hospital today with a
fractured skull, internal injuries
and a broken leg and jaw as a
result of being struck by a street
car as he crossed Sixtieth st.
near Dix st. N. E. last night.
Police said the street car was
operated by Wilbur Shoemaker,
20, Of I'LL Staples st. N. E.
Hurt by a car driven, police
say, by Henry Grimes, II, of 1924
Bay st. S. E., Edward Jones, 4,
Of 1909 v st. S. E., was treated
at Providence Hospital for cuts.
The Washington times., 1936-11-12
Buried She'll Kills
2in Belgrade Blast

BELGRADE, Nov. 12.-An un-
exploded shell which fell during
the World War took two per
sons lives yesterday.
The accident occurred in the
village of Dole, near Semendria,
when a gardener, Stojan SrSkio,
50, and a woman helper, were
killed when a shovel Srskio was
using struck a hidden wartime
artillery shell,
The Washington times., 1936-11-12
Man, Wife, Mother
Found Shot on Farm

DENVER, Nov. IL GN.S).-Mr.
and Mrs. Carol Held and the lat
ter's mother, Mrs. Margaret
Berkes, were found shot to death
on the Berkes farm home today.
Police believe Held shot and killed
the two women and then turned
the weapon upon himself follow
ing q quarrel.
The Washington times., 1936-11-12
Make Thanksgiving
The Occasion for q NeV
DiningRoomSuite
Ten Pieces 81 SO

This ten-piece suite is one you will
want to consider. Attractively
styled 18th Century design in
sturdy MISREPRESENTATION
woods, beautifully finished. Yet
moderately priced to be an excep-
tional value.
The Washington times., 1936-11-12

If you have been intending to buy
a new dining room suite-now is
the time to get it and be ready
for the coming festive season.
Thanksgiving, Christmas n d
New Year. And to make worthy
setting for your meals for years to
come.
FURNITURE, SIXTH FLOOR
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
JUDGE KILLS
SUIT FILED BY
COMMUNISTS
Court Order Blamed
For Failure to
Guard Reds

Imperial county officers,
victorious in a federal court
cl a h wi it h Communists,
were central figures today
in a raging southern Cali
fornia controversy only few
hours after Federal Judge Nc
Cormick gave them permission to
enforce the law in Imperial Val
ley "as they see fit" and dismissed
an injunction suit against them
filed by Communist party agents.
There is no constitutional i'm
munity for conduct abhorrent to
our institutions" Judge McCor-
mick said.
Sheriff Robert w. Ware anu
Police Chiefs J. Sterling oswald
Of Ell Centre and Lon Cromer OF
Brawley, pulled out of Imperial
Valley Friday by a court order
obtained by Communists, were an
gered at Communist statements
blaming them for failure to pro
tect Esco L. Richardson and Mrs.
Bessie Keckler Friday night.
Blame Reds
The officers blamed the Com
munists for the trouble, declaring
that if they had not been hauled
out of the valley they would have
been available to forestall mob
violence.
How in the name of heaven
could protect them," Police hCief
OsWalt said, when I was forced
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
REDS PROTEST
TREATMENT IN
HANDS OF MOB
No Democracy Here
Says Egg-Stained
Com m unist

Democracy does not exist
in Imperial Valley, in the
opinion of Esco l.. Richard
son, Communist party can
didate for congress from
this district, who was driven out of
Ell Centro Friday night after his
scheduled radio broadcast was stop
ped two minutes after it started
What can one man do?" Rich
ardson asked Il am an American.
1 was born here. The American
flag is my flag, too."
He mopped his battered face and
swelling eyes with an inadequate
handkerchief, stained with eggs and
vegetables.
Mrs. Emma Keckler, Commun-
ist candidate for the state assembly
from the San Diego district, who
was to have introduced Richardson
to the radio audience, joined in.
Il thought I still would be in the
Continued on Page 8, Col. 50
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25

WILLOW ulopldyo III Jllc VdIlOuo
stores, their wide open doors Of
fering glimpSes of fall merchan-
disc, contributed to the atmos-
phere of gaiety.
Booths lined the streets, facing
the sidewalks, and featured every
industry imaginable from tractors
to gold fish, from farm equipment
to labor saving devices for the
home.
Foods occupied a large place in
the industrial fair while dairy
products, bottled water, were fea-
tured in others. Several home
building displays, many motor cars,
trucks, tires, attracted interest as
did the booths devoted to drug
gist's products, to flowers, to mu-
sical instruments, TO soft drinks,
liquors, to such a wide variety of
products that the reason for I'M
pfial Valleys growth and prog
ress was plainly evident in the
many industries which make their
home here.
Store window displays were un-
usually we'll arranged, having a
decidedly metropolitan aspect Per-
hapS the most colorful were those
devoted to women's clothings,
smart fall gowns in every color
imaginable making decorative ex-
hibits. Furniture displays were al
SO excellent and those windows
devoted to new and shining home
equipment were most effective.
Every store was filled with WIS.,
itors, holding open house to Ell
Centro'S guests,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25

EScO IL. RlcharuSOn, Communist
party candidate for congress, and
marched Richardson from the radio
station to the railroad depot in a
shower Of rotten eggs and vege-
tables
Placed aboard a train for Los
Angeles, Richardson was met on his
arrival there by a telegram from
Communist headquarters in San
Diego, the United Press reported.
The telegram said:
Rush right to San Diego. We
must capitalize on this publicity
Press deadlne here is $50 am. :"
Before 10 am. Saturday the Of
flee of the Imperial Valley Press
had received, yard-long reports con-
tanning almost a thousand words,
publicizing the riot here, the views
of Communists in Los Angeles and
San Diego, and the opposing views
of Imperial county peace officers
who were in Los Angeles at the
time of the fray.
Sounds Keynote
The Communist keynote was
sounded by Richardson at Los An
geles Saturday morning.
'I'll go right back to Imperial
Valley the first time the party asks
me to- he declared.
Egg stains still clung to his cloth
ing when he made the statement,
the United Press said Those stains,
together with bloody nose and a
black eye, were tokens of his at
tempt to broadcast a Communist
party radio address over the Ell Cen
tro radio station while executives
of the county, Ell Centro and Braw-
ley police agencies were in Los An
geles, where they had been hauled
by court order at the request of
agents of the Communist party.
AS result of the court order, no
officers were on hand when Rich
ardSon and Mrs. Bessie Keckler,
Continued on Page 8, Col. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
BEN HULSE TO
SUPPORT DUNN

State Senator Ben Hulse, whose
retirement from his official position
will take place with the end of his
current term, will align himself
definitely on the side of w. S. Dunn,
Republican candidate for state sem
ate, in a radio address Monday
night, Republican party officials
announced Saturday.
HulSe was reported to be sup
porting Elmer Sears before the lat
ter withdrew from the primary
election race several months ago.
but since that time has not taken
a definite public stand
Hulse will speak on behalf of
Dunn between 6:15 and 6:45 Mon
day night. Another address, by
DR.. o. H. Van Eman, was sched-
uled for 6:l56:30 Saturday night.
ON Dunn's behalf.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25

Camden Masonic lodge but never
affiliated with local groups. He was
a member of the Baptist church.
The family is widely known, mem
bers residing in the North End,
Brawley and FL Centro. Survivors
are: seven sons, Everett, Bill, and
Sol Gullett of Ell Centro; George
Gullett of Brawley; Enoch Gullett
of Westmorland; Frank and Nose
Gullett of Calipatria three daugh-
ters, Miss Mary Gullett OF Los An
geles: Mrs. Frank Carter of Whit
tier and Mrs George Farris OF Cam
den. Alabama.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25

themselves TO watch saw nation
aliSt airplanes fly over the help
less city on what was believed to
be but a foretaste of what was to
come unless the. city surrendered
and it seemed to have no inten-
tion of doing so. Instead. the
capital made itself ready for the
raid.
Under clear blue sky a great
fleet of nationalist planes flew
over the city, singly or in forma-
ton.
AS the anti-aircraft and ma
chine guns popped, the great
bombers and darting pursuit planes
dipped and swooped Occasionally
would come the terrific explosion
of an airplane bomb, ear shatter-
ing or the staccato burst of a ma
chine gun. Not a loyalist air.
plane appeared.
The suburbs Jared worst. Bombs
dropped in the section adjacent
to the north railroad station, at
the northwest side OF the city
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25

Friday night and his last major
address Of the campaign will be
in New York City Saturday night,
Oct. 81 He will await election
returns at his home in Hyde Park,
N. Y.
While Mr.. Roosevelt last night
reaffirmed his faith in private
enterprise, he warned that the ma
ton could not go back to the days
of "individualism run wild" He
appealed to the nations employ
ers to refrain from coercion in
politics.
mo one in the United States
believes more firmly than l in
the system. of private business,
private property and private prof
it," Mr.. Roosevelt said. mo ad-
minstration in the history Of our
country has done more of it. 1t
was this administration which
dragged it back out of the pit
into which it had fallen in 1933.'
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25

oPkCoi W NNooNlc, DliL
made plans for whirlWind fin
ish of his reelection campaign in
Pennsylvania and New York, pivotal
states, next week.
Speaking over the radio from
the oval room of the White House
last night, Mr.. Roosevelt told 18
business mems dinners scattered
over the country that his admin
istration saved private business,
property and the profit system.
He is expected to continue this
subject, begun earlier this week
i'm his New England tour, in ad-
dresses next week.
His completed itinerary will take
him out of Washington Tuesday
night for New York to participate
in a statute of liberty ceremony
Wednesday. His speaking tour will
bring him back to Washington
Thursday night.
Present plans call for his de-
parture again Friday for New
York. He will speak in Brooklyn
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25

at the W. I. POOpeS IuneraI par
lor, Brawley, and burial will be in
Evergreen cemetery, Ell Centro.
Gullett was one of the best known
of the valley pioneers. coming to
the county in 1908 from Camden,
Alabama, where he was born
August 4, 1852.
He took up land seven miles
southwest of Imperial and later
purchased ranches in the North
End He was a successful farmer
actively engaged until 10 years ago
when he retired, making his home
in Brawley with his son, George
Gullett. He was a member of the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25

WHICH attracted 3O0 delegates from
irrigation districts in all parts of
the state.
Events of Saturday began with
visit to the BraWley standby
plant of the district as the first
unit of the Imperial districts pow
er development program.
AT a banquet at the California.
hotel Friday night more than 200
delegates heard M. j. Dowd, chief
engineer of the Imperial district,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
OF MOB
CAPITALIZES on
WIDE PUBLICITY
Stanley Hancock Orders Richardson Back to
Ell Centre After Speaker Is Driven
Out With Egg Barrage
RTTLLETTN

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 24. (UP)-Esco l.. Richardson UiH
return to the Imperial Valley next Friday to attempt
other radio speech Stanley Hancock Communist party
organizer, said today Hancock reported that scores
of Communists O accompany him. Hancock also said
that Leo Gallagher Los Angeles attorney UOud make
second attempt to obtain injunction to compel Imperial
county authorities "tO protect Communist speakers"
Communists throughout the western United States pre-
pared today to make the most of opportunity which
laid in their laps Friday night by mob of 500
who stormed Radio Station KXO used bullets to disrupt
service for 20 minutes and halt scheduled address by
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
Fred Hartman Will
Be Buried Sunday

Fred Hartman, 30, pioneer I'm
perial Valley rancher, will be buried
at Riverview cemetery at Brawley
Sunday. He died at an El Centre
hospital Thursday after a long III
ness. He had made his home re-
Gently at a cabin near Westmorland.
Hartman had friends throughout
the valley and was well known,
especially among the pioneer set
tiers.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25

explain the All American can
al construction, Imperial dam and
deSilting works.
One OF the outstanding decl-
sions at the business session at
Veterans Memorial hall Friday af-
ternoon was that to take steps
to bring about repeal of the state
law giving the sale and leasing
of tax delinquent land.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25

blasted tracks. Several bombs fell
in the great Casa Campo park
on the west side. Many People were
wounded, principally by machine
gun bullets. Most of those wound
ed were in the suburbs.
Thousands crouched IN cellars.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
FOOTBALL
RESULTS
BY UNITED PRESS

Fresh upsets marked nation
al football encounters today.
An inspired Pittsburgh eleven
swamped Notre Dame &c to 0.
Princeton beeat Navy to 0
while Michigan took Colum-
bias measure 13 to 0. Harvard
went down 1926 before Dart
mouth and Colgate beat La
fayette al TO 0. Missouri beat
Iowa State 7 to 0.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
PIONEER RESIDENT
OF VALLEY DIES

j. A. Guett of Brawley, pioneer resident of Imperial
Valley, died Friday night at the home of his daughter
Mrs. Frank Carter of Whittier. Death resulted from a
short illness of two weeks duration
Funeral services will be conducted Monday at p M.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
U.S.. Can't Go Back to
Wild IndividuaIism>
Declares Roosevelt
Administration Pulled Business Back Out of the Pit
In 1888, President Tells Nation;
Saved Profit System

WASHINGTON, Oct "a. (UP)-Presdent Roosevelt
claimed for his administration today credit for having
dragged private business back out of the pit into which
it had fallen in 1888"
With improved business as the central theme of his
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
VISITORS CROWD
STREETS TO SEE
INDUSTRIAL FAIR
Main Street Lined With Booths, Displaying
New Fall Merchandise; Exhibits Show
Wide Range, Tractors to Goldfish
-OO-

All Imperial Valley thronged to Ell Centre Saturday
to attend the fall festival to watch the parade and
to visit the industrial fair the streets being crowded with
visitors from every section of the county.
Main street with it's effective booths, the entcing
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
DELEGATES TOUR
ROUTE OF CANAL

caravan of 40 automobiles containing delegates the
Irrigation districts association
Ameriacn canal Saturday visited
the Imperial Irrigation district headquarters
The concluding the twoday convention
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
THOUSANDS HIDE
INSIDE CELLARS
(COpyright 1896 by United Press)

MADRID, Oct "a UPMadrid a
air RAID All railroad service suspended Normal all
but parayed The capitals milon-odd
the sky For
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
War Planes Roar Over Madrid
OPEN BREAK IN
EUROPE NEARING
(COpyright 1886 by United Press

growing
Fascist
in politics reached the point today.
abruptly relations
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25

government.
Nazi Germany recognized Fascist
Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, it
was announced officially in Rome.
Communist Russia seemed ready
to speed arms to Madrid after
announcing that the non-inter-
vention agreement in the Spanish
civil war was IAN empty, torn scrap
of paper" and that Russia no
longer considered herself bound
by the agreement to any greater
extent than any of the remaining
participants ts'-meaning, to no eX-
tent at all.
Spanish nationaliSts made it
known they would fire on any
Russian arms ship which entered
Spanish waters
Copyright 1896 by United Press
LONDON, Oct. "a. U.P)-In a
note to the ncn-intervention COM
mittee circulated among the mem
bers today, the British government
charged that Soviet Russia is max
ing large scale deliveries of war
materials to Spain.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
Speaking or Professors

SlcdhffS VI ttOitSoOS-
Ira Aten, who's solidly behind
President Roosevelt, has not yet
quite recovered from the shock
During a conversation with Fred
Nebel-Thau the other day, Aten
received a Landon Sunflower in his
lapel from the hands Of Fred, who's
on the opposite side Of the fence
They joked a minute, then the con-
versation took another turn, and
the irrigation district director for
got about the sunflower badge. Not
until he appeared at district head
quarters, his buttonhole proclaim
ing him a Landon man, did he re-
member that he had not removed
the badge. He almost tore off the
coat getting it out.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
A Losing Proposition

Bill Averitt accidentally knocked
fire extinguisher from the wall,
then tried to stop the 300-pound
emission of chemical with his
thumb. He is reliable authority for
the statement that the human
thumb can stand only so much
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
More OF The Sam

Al Hayworth, CaleXico newspaper
reporter, closed in to interview Esco
Richardson as the mob pursued him
down the street Friday night. Just
as Hayworth got in position for his
interview, a kick aimed at the seat
of Richardsons trousers landed on
the seat of Hayworths (The kick
er was not an opposition reporter)
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
Who's lie FOOIing?.

Esco Richardson, the Communist
candidate, had just stepped down
from the bus with Mrs Bessie
Keckler, who made bee line for a
telephone booth. She's got to tel
ephone her mother in northern
California" Esco told RR. The fact
of the matter was, said someone
who overheard her conversation,
that she telephoned Communist
headquarters in San Diego and
asked, What shall we do noW?"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
Maybe He's Cured

Sam Danenburg, who likes to have
a box seat or at least a front line
view of events-all events-may be
cured of the habit. Sam, an inno-
cent bystander, received a nice egg
spang between the eyes as he
watched events Friday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-25
MARKETS IN BRIEF

MARKETS IN BRIEF
Butter: Los Angeles 341s; butterfat, Imperial |
Valley fob. ranch, grade a.; manufacturing
milk 80; route gathered cream 341k.
l.. A. Hay: II. s. No. 1, extra leafy S1920 |
u. S. No. S16-1650; U. S. No leafy $15-1550 |
U. S. No. 2 S145O; Minneapolis flax 203-219.
WEATHER
Maximum temperature 80, minimum So;
temperature 50, humidity 81; noon temperature 82, |
humidity 10; pm, temperature IS humidity 18. |
The Washington times., 1936-03-31
.auptmann to Carry
Secret to Chair.

in his custody for 13 months, says: !:
says:
"Hauptmann h told the
world all he's going to. He won't
change his story"
C. Lloyd Fisher. Hauptmann's
youthful lawyer who has fought
such a staunch fight for his client,
offers an entirely different reason.
He said: Z
''He won't talk because he has
told all there is to say. He has
nothing to confess. He has
been promised $4,000 and
many other things in exchange
for a confession. If he'd remain
silent then, what reason is there
to think he will say anything
nOw?"
Similar views were expressed by
Governor Hoffman and the Rev.
John Matthiesen, the doomed
mans spiritual adviser.
Wilentz Doubtful
Even Attorney General Wilentz
is doubtful now. During his un-
forgettable summation at the trial
he sent a shudder through the
court room when he cried:
"Oh, he's q man Of ice, all
right. But he'll melt. He'll
thaw when he hears that
SWITCH"
Today he shook his head when
The Washington times., 1936-03-31
Continued from Page u

thinking it, but all are convinced
no confession will pass through
those thin lips.
j. Edgar Hoover, head Of the
nations G-Men, long ago said:
"Hauptmann will never con.
fess. In the first place his ego
would not permit it. In the sec.
Ond place he will keep hoping
that silence will save him until
he Is strapped In the chair and
the switch is thrown"
Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf,
head of the Jersey State police,
said from the time Hauptmann
was brought to this State, in
october, 1894:
Hell never confess. He'll
gamble to the end Of his brains
and will"
TOLD ALL, SAYS LAWYER
Similar opinions were voiced by
Captain Lamb and Lieutenant
Keaton of the state police and by
Thomas Sisk, former head Of the
famous Lindbergh squad, who told
this writer before Hauptmann's s
conviction:
"He's as guilty as he can be,
but he will never admit a word
Of it. Never as long as he lives"
Col. Mark o. Kimberling. prison
warden, who has had Hauptmann
The Washington times., 1936-03-31

asked If he thinks the ex-
kaiser's machine-gunner will un-
burden his soul of the crime.
The jurors who decreed his
death doubt that Hauptmann will
tell his grisly story tonight. Fore
man Charles Walton expressed
their general opinion when he
told this writer:
"He thinks too much of him.
self to ever confess. He'd pride
himself on cheating the world
Of his secret. For that alone
he'd keep his mouth shut to
the end"
The Washington times., 1936-03-31
Benefit for Refugees;
Sen. Guffey Chairman

Senator Joseph Guffey, of Penn
sylvania, has been made chair
man Of the Honorary Committee
Of Congressman, which IS assist
ing in arranging for the flood re.
lief balls, to be given Thursday
evening at the Shoreham and
Wardman Park hotels.
All Senators and Representa-
tlves from States which suffered
from the floods, will be members
Of the committee. The balls are
being conducted by the combined
welfare groups of Government
workers and the proceeds will go
to the refugees of the devastated
areas.