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The Washington times., 1936-04-11
RITTER TAKES
STAND TODAY

Federal Judge HalSted L. Ritter
of Florida, was to take the wit
ness stand before the Senate'S
high court of impeachment today
in a dramatic effort to prevent
his dismissal from office.
The jurist's fate rested largely
upon his own personal explanation
of three major. charges, laid
against him by the House. These
were that:
/. He paid an exorbitant $780,.
900 fee to A. L. Rankin. his for
mer law partner, knowing 1t
was to be shared with other at
torneys in a receivership Suits
2. He paid this fee, knowing
he was to get and later accepted
$4,000 of it from Rankin in pay
ment Of a debt, growing out OF
the dissolution Of their partner
ship.
8. He failed to report $4,000
of the amount paid him by Ran
kin on his 1880 income tax re-
turn.
Both sides hoped to complete
the case and secure verdict by
tonight. There was q possibility,
though, that closing arguments,
the Senate'S secret debate, and
its secret vote on Impeachment
would be postponed until Mon
day.
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
NEGUS PLEADS
FOR PEACE

GENEVA, April II UN.SJ.
With an army of only $500 men
left to defend the route to Adds
Ababa, Ethiopia's situation is
desperate" Emperor Halle SelaS-
sic said in a personal telegram to
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden,
of Britain. Geneva newspapers re-
ported today.
The negus begged energetic in
tervention" by Britain and the
League of Nations.
Italy will send a delegation to
Geneva Tuesday "to talk about
talking about peace" it was pre-
dicted in League circles today,
but this was viewed as only an
other italian move to avoid o
showdown, forestall further sane.
tions and give Premier MuSsolini
more time to carry out his pub
licly avowed determination to
"annihilate" all Ethiopia's armed
forces.
The chief italian delegate,
probably Baron Pompeo Aloiso or
Fulvio Suvich, will repeat Italy'S
expression of willingness to nego-
tiate for peace, it is expected, but
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The Washington times., 1936-04-11
Police Hunting Three
For Purse SnatchinQ

Two colored boys are sought to-
day for stealing the purse Of Alice
Malaby, 2504 Tenth st. N. E., from
her automobile halted for a traffic
light at Ninth Street and Rhole
Island Avenue northwest last
night. The purse contained $40.
A colored man, who was wear
ing a white apron, is also sought
for Snatching the purse Of Minnie
Thompson, colored, when she an
swered the door bell at her home
at 1926 Eighth st. N. w. last night.
She told police she thought he
was a waiter from a restaurant,
and got out her purse to pay for a
sandwich. When she opened the
purse, the man grabbed it, and
fled. She lost $8.SS, she told
police.
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
5 ALLOWED
T0PRESENT
DEMANDS
FOR LAWS
Police Stand Ready;
3 of Demonstrators
Jailed at Bel Air

While several hundred Of their
sympathizers waited on the EllipSe,
David LASER, president Of the
Workers Alliance, today headed q
committee of five in a vain at
tempt to lay the alliances de-
mands before President Roosevelt.
Marvin H. Mcintyre, Mr.. Roose-
velt's secretary, received the dele
Cation. Meanwhile, police stood
guard over between 500 and 500
workers"
At Bel Air, Md, more than 800
recruits to the demonstration here
ran afoItI Of the law when a
restaurant proprietor there re-
fused to serve three colored mem
berS Of the party and q fight
started. The three colored men
were lodged in the Hartford county
Jail and State police we're rushed
to the town to aid in warding OF
q stone and stick barrage against
the jail by others in the party.
Demands for five specific meas
ures were presented at the White
House. They are:
l. A 5000 million dollar relief
appropriation including 1000 mil
lions for WPA, 1000 millions for
direct relief and 1000 millions to
subSidize State and city operated
factories where such factories
have been closed down and owners
refuse to resume operations.
2. Passage Of the FrazierLun-
deen unemployment insurance bill.
3. Passage Of a S0-hour week
law.
4. Passage Of the Benson-Amlie
American youth bill, which calls
for minimum salaries Of SIS for
student workers plus So for each
dependent.
S. Passage of the workers
rights amendment to the -Consti'
tuition, which would prevent the
possibility of the Supreme Court
voiding any Of the other four
measures if passed by Congress
and approved by the President.
The petition charged that
WPA workers have been, many
CONTINUED ON Page 3, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
PLANE HI 7 )
YACHT, ;
DROWN
y Rescued After
Port Of Spain
Collision

PORT OF SPAIN. Trinidad,
April II G.N.S0.-Three persons
were drowned and 22 were saved
by swift rescue action today when
a greak 2O-ton Pan-Annerican clip.
per snip nosed over in the Gulf
of Para as the pilot attempted to
avoid 3 crash with stray motor
launch. ~
Taeshig plane, q four-motored
Sikorsky, was. taking off south
ward bound on It's regular run
from Miami to Para and Rio De
Janeiro, Brazil. when the accident
occurred. tj
Three Trapped
Two passengers, Eric Rattray
Brough, of London, England, and
Ramon Martinez, of New York
city, and a dining steward, Anna
dea Lopez, Of Miami, were
drowned in the crash.
Among the 16 passengers and
six members of the crew saved
were several prominent Ameri-
cans and Jose Iturbi, widely
known Mexican pianist and con-
ductor.
The big ship was speeding over
the water at a 50-mile-an-hour
rate, just ready to take the air,
when the small launch appeared
directly in the Seaplane'S path.
Plane SwerveS
Capt. Wallace Culbertson, Of
Miami, pilot of the craft, Swerved
quickly in an attempt to prevent
a disastrous head-on crash. AS
the plane reached toward the
launch a pontoon was caught on
the bow of the launch, tearing
a hole in the forward compart-
ment. 49,.
The, compartment rapidly filled
with water, and the big plane be-
gan to sink. Land crews who had
been watching the take-off imme-
diately set out in speedy motor
launches, and the % were taken
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
International News Service

A surprise "Showdawn parley"
between President Roosevelt and
Maj. Gen johnson Hagood ma
.terialized today when Hagood, dis
ciplined some months ago for his
outspoken criticism of WPA spend
ing policies, walked into the White
House and Immediately went into
conference with Mr.. Roosevelt.
It was the second Showdown"
meeting between the two. The first
took place about three weeks ago
when Hagood boarded the special
train carrying the President to
his Florida fishing vacation. Fol
lowing that conference Mr.. Roose-
velt issued a rather curt announce
ment that Hagood had been given
a three-months leave Of absence
on the expiration of which a final
decision in the case would be
reached.
AS Hagood entered the Presi-
dents office today reports that the
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
CLUE GIVEN
POLICE BY
COUNTESS
Husband in Collapse
After Hearing Of
Tragic Event
By JAMES L. KILGALLEN

NEW YORK, April II Q.N.S)
Clues were singularly scarce as the
police today strove to solve the
strangling of Mrs. Nancy Evans
Titterton, "a year old auburn
haired writer and wife Of a radio
executive, in her boudoir at fash
1Qnable az Beekman "Pl.
The slayer, after choking the
woman, flung her almost npde
body in an empty bathtub. J
A cheap fountain pen and q
neighbor's story Of a well-dresse6
stranger furtively prowling the
corridors of the apartment build
ing were the only clues. rs
Husband in Collapse
The woman's husband, Lou Tit
terton, head of the National Broad
casting Company's continuity de.
partment, could throw no light on
the crime. He was in state OF
collapse. He had been at his desk
in Radio City when the telephone
tangled with the first tidings Of
the mysterious murder.
Only the fountain pen links the
slayer to the scene Of the crime.
Left on one of the twin beds in
the Titterton boudoir, it was being
examined for fingerprints.
Countess Alice Hoyos, who lives
two floors below where the author
ess and editor of crime fiction was
Strangled, provided the other clue.
She told of the Secretive actions OF
Q stranger.
The scene of the murder is not
far from where Miss Vera Stretz,
the college bred blonde, shot and
killed her married lover, Dr.. Fritz
Cebhardt, German induStrialiSt,
last November IL. She recently
was acquitted by a jury.
Famed Persons Near
In the neighborhood live such
personages as Katharine Cornell
Alexander Woollcott, Lynn Fon
tame, william B. Leeds, and Mrs
Roy Chapman Andrew, wife of tht
famous explorer.
Countess Hoyos related that
Gleek and secretive man had runs
Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
Easter Millinery
|Safe,' Weather
Bureau Says

It looks as though mllady can
wear that new Easter hat and
frock with perfect safety tomor'
row and that the church parade
will be held.
For the Weather Bureau, after
scanning it's instruments and
charts, announced that while
there may be a few scattered
showers tonight-and a bare pos
Sibility of showers tomorrow morn
ing-in the afternoon it will be
fair and warmer, a really typical
spring day.
The mercury is expected to
reach a low Of about 4S degrees
tonight.
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
Fifth British Ship
Victim Of SABOTAGE

LONDON, April II CU.S)-The
fifth recent case Of sabotage
aboard British warShipS was dis
closed today when it was learned
a large Spanner was found under
the casing in the submarines
main engine room Of the Submar-
Inc LISA. Had it not been found.
the submarines machinery would
have been disabled when 1t put to
sea. So .,
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
Geraldine Fdrrar
Sells Father S Home

RIDGEFIELD, Conn, April IL.
Geraldine Farrar, famous opera
singer, disclosed today she has
sold the 40-acre estate Of her
father, Sidney Farrar, and ar
ranged for public auction Of the
household effects.
Farrar, once a widely known
baseball player, died May z, 1885,
leaving an estate Of $4,000 and
naming his daughter as executrix.
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
Canon Fletcher Left
$9O,472 10 Widow

Canon Joseph Fletcher, who
died March %, left an estate
valued at $90,472.81, consisting
entirely Of personal property &C.
uuired "by the careful saving
and investment of my salary and
other earnings Of the years Of
my priesthood" according to q
petition for probate of his will
filed in District Supreme Court
today.
His widow, Mrs. Henrietta
Fletcher, is the principal bene'
ficiary during her life. The
Prot e stant-Episcopal Cathedral
Foundation IS the residuary
legatee.
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
iQht-State Hunt
Made for LAWYER

ELIZABETH, N. j., April II
Q.N.SO.-Adrian De Mann, 48, for.
merly of South Bend, Ind, has
been missing since Tuesday morn
ing, police revealed here in broad
casting an eightState inquiry for
information concerning him. Po.
lice were told De Mann, an attor-
ney, left his Elizabeth home last
Tuesday to visit a Newark doctor.
He did not report at the doctors
office and has not been heard from
since.
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
Boy, 5, Dies Of Hurt
By Hagerstown Car

HAGERSTOWN, Md, April IL.
Conrad Norford, 5-year-old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Norford,
died last night Of a fractured skull
received earlier in the evening
when he was struck by an auto
mobile near his home.
Thomas Simpson, police say,
local business man, was driver Of
the car which hit the boy as he
was crossing q street.
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
4 Killed, | Injured
In Ontario Crash

LONDON, Ontario, April II
O.N.SO.-Four persons were
killed and another seriously hurt
yesterday when two cars collided
in suburban London. The dead:
Mrs. Vera E. McCue, of Detroit;
Lyle Pardee, 81, Of Cleveland, and
Hugh Lamont, of London, and his
wife. Homer Belts, 81, Of Syra-
cuse, N. Y, was critically hurt.
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
President and HagOOd
In Second Parley

former Eighth Corps Area COM
mander was to be given new post
in Chicago gained currency at
the White House.
It was pointed out Mr.. Roosevelt
could rescined the leave Of alb
Sence order and issue other direc-
tionS to Hagood if he so desired.
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
ST. Louis Suspect
Admits D. {. Term

ST. LOUIS, April 11.-Ray-
mond Boyer, 80, ex-convict
from Oklahoma, was held here
today as a suspect in, the Staying
OF Lieut.. W.. Dale Sanford, IS,
former commander Of various Mis-
souri, CCC camps: Boyer denied
the crime but admitted he had
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
Planning
Convention Aug. IS

CLEVELAND, Ohio, April II
Q.N.SO.-The first national con-
vention of Father Charles E.
Coughlin's National Union for So
cial Justice will be held in Cleve-
land from August Is to 16. It
was announced here today.
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
Ohio Boy Killed
Running Into Car

SANDUSKY, Ohio, April II
U.NSO.-Curtis Leidorf, IL. was
killed instantly yesterday when he
ran into a moving automobile near
his home at Venice, Ohio. r. w.
Cantley, of Pittsburgh, Pa, driver
Of the car, was exonerated.
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
Heads oil Institute

SHREVEPORT, La, April ii.
r. D. Risser, Of the Shell Petro-
leum Company, Iowa, La, was
elected chairman Of the American
Petroleum Institute yesterday, sue
ceeding C. E. Sutton.
The Washington times., 1936-04-11
WASHINGTON FORECAST
MEAN TEMPERATURES

Showers tonight and possibly tomorrow
morning, followed by fair.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-25
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
AND HOME ACCIDENTS

One thinks of the American Red Cross,
usually. as an agency called upon IN
times of great stress, in major catas-
trophies and in time of war. The COM
monplace, everyday activities of this
great organization are too often forgot
ten.
Imperial county representatives of the
Red Cross are engaged currently in
campaign to reduce the number OF ac-
cidents in farm homes, a campaign most
laudable in this county where distances
are great and physicians many minutes
awav from most rural homes. Only
through cooperation of the farmers,
themselves, can the campaign be sue
cess, however.
Accidents in homes are not subject
of joking. In the United States last
wear, there were $4,000 persons killed
in automobile accidents. In accidents at
home. 34,500 were killed. That is not
all. Home accidents brought permanent
injury to $4,000 more persons than were
crippled in auto accidents. 1t is readily
apparent that this is major field for
accident prevention.
The campaign in Imperial Valley Is
being conducted through various farm
home organizations, with the coopera-
ton of the farm bureau and affiliated
groups. 1t is drive worthy OF whole
hearted support.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-25
THE RAIN LEAVES
AN ARGUMENT BEHIND

For Ell Centrans, the rain of early
this week was a not welcome break Ill
the monotony of fair weather-even
fair weather can become monotonous-
but it retained the one feature which
always makes rain more or less un-
pleasant in Imperial Valley. 1t caused
the usual mud and slush.
The clear skies of Tuesday brought
with them an argument that is unrefut-
ed after every rain. Ell Centro needs
some more adequate provision for drain
age of its streets.
Leaving behind puddles in the streets,
slush on the pavements and veritable
rivers in the cutters, the rain is over
long before it can be forgotten. The
city's cleaning bills alone, afer down.
pour, would go far toward financing
a storm drain project.
1t is fortunate that rain comes SO sell
dom to Imperial Valley. In fact, this is
the only reason some adequate drain
age facility has not yet been provided.
1t is needed so seldom.
The city's financial condition, although
good. will not allow immediate provi-
sion for a storm drain system, but it
is not too early to begin seeking means
by which such a system eventually may
be installed.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-25
on Sol says
FRANK WATANABE
b1 70 TIOLOEFN n
THANKSGIVING

Most of thankful thoughts are fas-
ened upon dinner. That why turkeys
were born. Here are a few rule for
Thanksgiving visits. FIRST: Arrive
empty but don't look it. SECOND: Cast
your hat off and start discussing the
following topics-little Willie, or any
other form of offspring. The smart dog,
or Auntie's sickness. THIRD: When sit
ing with own feet under friend table,
sure you do not nudging the wrong wife.
FOURTH: When host start donating
turkey on your plate please uttering
the following VERBS "Oh dear me, YOU
giving me too much" Utter it three
times first time very loud . second
time more softer and third time almost
invisible otherwise he might believe
you. FIFTH: If you wish second help
ing here are what you must vocalize
81 not limiting for more turkey, but when
it come to carving same you are a WIZ
ard" Then let nature take the course.
Remember Thanksgiving are best day
in year for stuffing.
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-25
Let Us Give Thanks

Our Father, Thy people in the lmpe-
rial Valley of California in this season
set aside for the giving of thanks, are
greatly blessed by Thy bounty. Thou
hast given unto Thy people here the
signs of Thy pleasure, and for this we
are humbly grateful.
For the leadership Thou hast provid-
ed. Oh Lord, we thank Thee, for it has
guided US through the times of trial and
along the way that is best for our feet
to travel. Thy pleasure has brought
our soil to fruition with the waters of
the rivers; and they have provided us
with the means for light that is trans
cended only by the Light of the Spirit
we NAV derive from Thee. In desert
that has blossomed even as the rose, we
see Thy hand, and for this we thank
Thee. and for the things we will receive
in the days to come.
In the days of this modern world
Thou hast made man Thy instrument
to bring water to the parched soil and
light to the darkened eyes; Thou hast
placed Thy people of Imperial Valley
in a place enviable in the eyes of men,
with wisdom to know Thy wish; Thou
hast provided our fields with plenty
and our minds with strength.
For all this, Oh Lord, we give thanks
now and forever.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-25
AUTOMOBILE FEES
DIE .LANUARY SECOND

Howard b. Deems, registrar OF motor
vehicles in California, is responsible for
a request which comes as a surprise
to many California motorists. Announc-
ing the preparation Of cards informing
motorists of the fees they must pay to
obtain licenses in 1887, he requests that
no one attempt to obtain new plates un-
til January 2, or after.
There is a very good reason. More
than 2.400,O00 motorists will receive the
cards. If they were returned to the divi-
sion of registration during the Christ
mas mailing season, Uncle Sans post
men would have just cause for COM
plaint. To avoid this, the state will not
mail the cards until Dec. 26, the day af-
ter Christmas.
Seemingly a small matter--but good
example of cooperation between state
and federal governments.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-25
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Worlds Biggest Sucker = The Wise Guy

AS general rule. you will find
that the biggest sucker in the world
is the wise guy.
The wise guy has deep con-
tempt for suckers. He's too smart
to get caught in any of the ordin-
ary sucker-traps. So he goes his
way, forgetting that there is no
fool on earth like the tool who
doesn't know that he is Sol, and
sooner or later fate catches up with
him and lets him have it behind
the ear.
You will find a good scattering
of these wise guys in the country's
jails and penitentiaries = lodged
there because, in their worldly wis
dom, they figured that only saps
work for a living. And the biggest
suckers of all are the ones you find
in the death house.
The New York police recorded an
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-25

unusually striking case of this kin,
recently when they arrested
hoodlum named Anthony Garlaus
on a charge of murder. Garlaus
admitted killing an innocent by
stander during the holdup of a
barroom.
Il learned my lesson ~ years
ago. he calmly told the cops. II
stuck up a store in Jamaica and
the fellow behind the counter said
please don't shoot 1 gave the guy
break and then, when I was run
ming out, he started to yell for help
and there I was in Sing Sing do
ing a 10 10 20-year stretch because
/ was soft.
while I was up there, I made
up my mind I'd never give a suck
er break again.
Fortified by this high resolve,
Garlaus the other day set out to
rob a barroom. While the holdup
was in progress. there entered Isaac
Sheean. 55, who was stepping into
a bar for the firSt-and. as it turn
ed out, the only-time in all his
| life.
This old guy got in my way and
I plugged him. said Garlaus. HE
ran at me and I tripped him and
when he tried TO get up I said u
myself, I'm giving this guy I'd
much chance. So plugged him a
couple of times, and when he fell
down 1 gave it to him again.
Now, what was the result, for
Garlaus, of all of this worldly wis
dom, this wise-guy knowledge with
its contempt for softness and suck
ers?
The result is that instead of fac
ing a stretch in prison, he faces the
electric chair, before whose grim
tlnality wise guys and suckers look
just exactly alike.
X 4 X
Indeed, the prison and the elec-
trlc chair and the galloWs exist for
The stupid. Take this man as
sample. He was too smart to work
Tor living-and because of his
smartness he spent third of his
lie behind the bars. Coming out.
ne was too smart to give sucker
a break; consequently he is get
ting his feet in shape for a hike
through the green door and down
the last mile.
Could anything be dumber than
that kind of Smartness?
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-25
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF GUARDIANS SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AT
PRIVATE SALE,

No. 1925
In the Superior Court of the StaA
of California, In and For ~
City and County of San Francisco.
In the Matter of the Guardianship
OF the Person and Estate of
PHEBE HUNTER,
an incompetent person.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
that the undersigned C. NJ
HUNTER, Guardian of the person
and estate of PHEBE HUNTER. an
incompetent person, will sell at
private sale to the highest bidder.
upon the terms and conditions here
matter mentioned, and subject to
confirmation by the Superior Court
OF the State of California, in and
for the City and County of San
Francisco, on or after Monday. the
3Oth day of November, 1886, all the
right, title and estate of said in
competent person in and to that
certain lot, piece or parcel of land,
situated, lying and being in the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, and particularly described as
follows, to-Wit:
An undivided one-half interest
in and to Tract Ninety-six (96),
township Thirteen q3) South.
Range Fourteen Q4 East, Sa
Bernardino Base and Meridian.~
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF
SALE:
CASH in lawful money of the
United States; ten per cent 1O@S)
| OF the purchase price to be paid at
the time of sale; balance on con-
| firn1ation of sale.
All bids or offers must be in
writing and may be left at the
office of r. l.. Hustled, 1895 Mis-
sion St, San Francisco, California.
Attorney for said Guardian, or may
be left with said Guardian, at the
address of his said Attorney, at 2595
Mission St., San Francisco, Cali
fornia, or may be filed in the office
OF the Clerk of the Superior Court
of the State of California in and for
the City and County of San Fran
cisco, which is the place to which
return of said sale must be made at
any time after the first publica-
tion of this notice and before the
making of said sale.
Dated: November 10th, 1896.
G. M. HUNTER,
Guardian of the person and estate
OF Phebe Hunter, an incompetent
person.
r. L. Hustled,
Attorney for said Guardian, 1896
Mission ST., San Francisco, g.
Nl7-N27 ~
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-25
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
Tell Of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
November Is, 1911

The Ell Centro Parent-Teachers
association met at the grammar
school where Professor Nichols,
principal of the high school spoke
on discipline in the home and
school," Professor House, mathe-
matics instructor at the high school,
talked on How we shall prevent
the exodus of our boys from the
country to the city, The gram
mar school orchestra furnished the
music for the occasion.
Thirty three days, nine hours, and
six minutes is the time established
by a group of Garford automobiles
driven across the continent. The
caravan passed through Ell Centro
late last night.