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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09
Record Of Convictions
LIN Traffic Court

John Jackson, 1904 Wisconsin
Ave. N. W., SIS.
Randolph j. Nelson, 214 L st.
S. W., IS.
John R. Bowd, 1911 B st. S. E.,
SIS.
Albert C. Wright, 1854 Mt. View
Pl. S. E., SIS.
Margaret Barnard, 2311 Connec-
ticut Ave. N. W., S..
James M. Barrow, jr., 61S Sixth
st. N. E., IS.
Tony j. Fimiani, 913 Third St.
N. E., IS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-09-09

.NoTE AMERICAN
The Washington times., 1936-01-20
Racket Definitions
Printed by Paper

NEW YORK.-The Federal
Juror, publication of the Federal
Grand Jury Association, Southern
District of New York, in an effort
to clarity the meaning of the word
racket" and it's derivatives
"racketeer" and "racketeering"-
printed several definitions offered
by law enforcement experts. "Sys-
tematic, 'strong-arm' extortion,"
submitted by Thomas S. Rice,
criminologist, was the shortest
definition.
Thomas E. Dewey, special prose
cutor, explained that modern
racketeering may be defined as
the business of successful intimi-
dation for the purpose of regu-
larly extorting money" while John
J. Bennett. jr., attorney general,
suggested that, with the growth
of organized crime, the harsh STAG
cato syllables of the word which
resembles the rattle Of machine
gun fire have appealed to speak
ers and writer's as a colloquialism
for all kinds of criminal activity"
The Washington times., 1936-01-20
SLAYER WAITS
EXECUTI0NBY
FIRINGSQUAD

SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, Jan.
20 Q.NSO.-Inmates nervously
paced their cells today as prepa-
rations went forward in the Utah
State prison for the death Of a
man before a firing squad.
Unless Gov. Henry H. Blood
or the board Of pardons inter.
veneS, Delbert H. Green, thrice
snatched from death by stays OF
execution that have prolonged
his life six years, will face some
time next Friday the muzzles Of
four rifles from which death
dealing bullets will spout. A fifth
rifle will contain a blank car
fridge.
Prison authorities began setting
the stage for the execution today
after Green's attorneys admitted
they had exhausted every legal
effort at their command and
would take no further action.
A black curtain, draped before
an open doorway in the prison
yard, almost within the heart o.
Salt Lake City, will mark the
stage set for death. Sitting man
acled to a chair on one side OF
the curtain will be the condemned
man, a paper target on his breast
to indicate his heart to the marks
men. From the other side Of the
curtain will approach the execu
TONERS, who will enter the prison
yard in a closed automobile with
curtains drawn. their identity
known only to the sheriff Of
Pennington, Utah, where Green
snuffed out the lives of his wife,
his mother.in-law, and his wife's
step-father, who also was his
uncle, as a climax to a family
quarrel.
The Washington times., 1936-01-20
GLASS
INVISIBLE

II you go window shopping
these days and come upon a store
which doesn't seem to have dis
play window between you and the
exhibited merchandise, don't try
to pick up the articles for in
spection. You might get cut, for
invisible" glass is now with us
This is a new development in
scientific window construction
The glass is arranged with
straight and curved surfaces
specially treated to remove
shadows, reflections and distor
tions.
woodward & Lothrop has in
stalled the first glass of this kind
in Washington, in the large win
dow east of the F Street entrance
to the store. Invisible" glass
windows require less illumination
than ordinary show windows and
appear to take daylight and di
rect it to the displays.
The Washington times., 1936-01-20

Among the more than 100000
Government employees in the Dis.
trict Of Columbia large percent
age are talented IN one way or
another. And among the talent
ed group is included Mary Re
gina Cooke, Of General Account
ing Offices Records Division.
Miss Cooke is painter Of abil
ity, particularly in water colors
which she learned while attend
ing Marshall College at Hunting
ton, w. Va. She has been in
Washington about q year, coming
to this city from her home in
Charleston, w. Va, to accept a
position in the office of Senator
Matthew M. Nicely CD of hel
home State.
Four months ago she accepted
a post under Comptroller General
McCarl, and is now assigned tc
the branch building at 119 D St.
N. E.. where she is popular with
the staff and is continuing q
course of Secretarlal work at
Strayers' Business College ir
order to facilitate advancement
in the service.
With the exception of hel
painting, Miss Cookies principa,
leisure activity is horseback rid
ing. She is also a popular mem
Der of the American Federation
of Government Employees and Of
the West Virginia State Society
The Washington times., 1936-01-20
MACHINE
FOES AWAIT
ELECTION

NEW ORLEANS, La, Jan. 20
dN.S0.-Louisiana approached
the zero hour today.
Tomorrow, in a primary that is
tantamount to election. the Demo
cratic voters of the Pelican State
will furnish the answer to that
battling question which has been
asked thousands Of times during
the past few months:
"WilI the political dynasty
conceived in the mind Of the
late Senator Huey P. Long and
carried into effect by his bound
less energy endure without his
guiding hand at the helm"
WOR OR WRECK
There is a feeling of tenseness
in the air as the State awaits the
opening of the pollS-a tenseness
born Of a long and bitter cam
paign.
1t is not a contest between mere
individuals; it is battle between
factions.
Complete the work of Senator
Long" is the battle cry of Judge
Richard w. Leche, the State ma
chimes gubernatorial candidate,
and his words are echoed and re-
echoed by Earl K. Long, who
wants to be lieutenant governor;
by Governor o. K. Allen. who
seeks the unexpired term Of Sen
ator Long. and by Allen Ellender,
candidate for the regular term in
the Senate.
They don't mean complete
the work. they mean complete
the wreck" retaliate the home
rule" forces, headed by Representa-
tive Cleveland Dear, for governor
Clement Moss, for lieutenant gov.
ernor, Frank ]. Looney for the
unexpired Senate term, and Rep
resentative John N. Sandlin for
the regular Senate term.
Federal Question
Although the state machine,
which under the leadership of Sen.
ator Long was an arden foe Of the
national Administration, is op-
posed in this election by men who
have been loyal supporters Of
President Roosevelt. question Of a
national nature have been in
jected into the campaign only
when they have had a direct bear
ing in the State situation.
Chief Of these questions has
been the right Of the Federal Gov
eminent to investigate a State
election.
The State machine has bitterly
condemned the congressional COM
mittee for its investigation OF the
election machinery in Louisiana.
The Washington times., 1936-01-20
75CCC Workers
Given Discharges
After.Food Strike

BALTIMORE, Jan. 20 d.N.sJ.
Claiming the working conditions
were unbearable and the food bad.
IS CCC workers at Fort Hoyle
went on strike and were given
their discharges.
The flare-up occurred Friday.
The boys, all of whom were re-
cruited in Pennsylvania, had for
merly worked in California camps.
They said they were forced to
work in mud in their shoes where
as in California they were given
boots.
-Four boys got bus tranSporta-
ton after their companion, oscar
StreSser. II. of Patton, Pa, was
run down by an automobile at
Pikesville. His injuries were slight
and the motorist, after taking him
to a physician, gave the quartet
money to pay their fare home on
a bus.
The Washington times., 1936-01-20
76 Fewer Deaths
So Far This Year

Automobile accidents claimed rs
fewer lives during the first two
weeks of this year than during the
same period of 1885 in the coun.
try's IS principal cities. the De-
partment of Commerce Bureau Of
Census reported today. A total
of 348 auto deaths were reported
during the first two weeks of 1896
compared to 424 for the 1885
period. The fatalities decreased
from 1911 in the first week of 1886
to 157 in the week ended January
~. There were four deaths in
Washington.
The Washington times., 1936-01-20
WPA Starts Drive
On Fire Hazards

NEW YORK, Jan. 2O.-A city
wide project designed to eliminate
known fire hazards and other
building violations in charitable
institutions TO which the city
makes contributions from its
budgetary funds is to be started
Immediately by Works Progress
Administration workers, it was an
nounced by Victor F. Ridder, ad-
ministrator. The project, approved
by President Roosevelt, calls for
an outlay of $1,627 300.
The Washington times., 1936-01-20
Free School for Adults

Glasses for unemployed adults
were resumed at 10 a. m. today
at the Webster School, Tenth and
H SITS. N. w. Conducted as a
Works Progress Administration
project the morning classes will
be in commercial subjects and
the afternoon, beginning at
n. m, elementary.
The Washington times., 1936-01-20
Woman Heads Farm Beureau

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Jan.
2O.-Mrs. E. F. Bratton, of Mercer
county, was elected president of
the West Virginia Farm Bureau
at the annual business session.
Miss Hilda Lingamfelter, of this
county, was named vice president;
Mrs. Vesta Green, Upshur county,
secretary, and Mrs. J. Fred Heff-
ner, of Pocahontas county, treas
urer.
The Washington times., 1936-01-20
0verturning Auto
Kills n. Y. Trooper

MONTAUK POINT, N. Y, Jan.
20 G.N.S0 -Trooper c. w. Lewis,
of the State police. was killed
yesterday when a departmental
automobile which he was driving
overturned on the Montauk Park
way at Hither Hills, near here.
Lewis was pinned under the car
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-04-09
News Behind the News
Skull Practice For The Farmer
4AA agents Go On Tour s.. Many
Problems

WASHTNGTON.-Gentleme Of the AAA are
heading out Of Washington in all directions,
armed with portable backboardS and large sup
plies Of chalk. With these they will undertake
to explain how the individual farmer can par
ucipate in the soil conservation program of 1886
and collect his portion of the S47OO0O0O0 which
Congress has appropriated for payments for
such participation.
It is estimated that so per cent of American
farms viii be under the program and each farm
will be a separate problem, to be solved by COM
munity and county committees
Experts however, have been busy working
out examples which can be presented to state
and county committees now to show how the
regulation should operate under a given set of
conditionS-and there are as many such sets OF
conditions as there are combinations IN deck
o. cards
Some experts say it is all horribly confusing
and others say il is as easy as pie when you get
TO understand il. Anyway, given below is an
example" worked out for the cotton belt, which
may be Illuminating, although rates. types of
farming. productivity. and many other factors
present lnnumerabe variations.
A farm of $50 acres last year ION which
year the all-important soil-depleting base acre
age is computed contained so acres of cotton,
p in corn for home use, 10 in other grains for
home use. is in leSpedeza tbush clover, 25 in
woodland. and in building area. roads, and
wasteland The last 80 acres mentioned are
considered neutral and the 100 acres in crop
land only are taken into consideration.
Only the leSpedeZa acreage Is IN q SOl-cOn-
serving crop: the other S5 acres are in Soi-de
pleting ones Good farm management naturally
DEGREES that the farmer can't shift from his
grains. which he needs, so his shift must be
made from cotton.
He cap be paid for shftisg up TO IS per cent
of his cotton base, which in this instance would
be III acres. He is paid at the rate of cents
for each pound of the normal yield per acre
his farm. II his average acre yield is $50 pounds,
he will be paid S2l8l7.
corn belt farmer with soil depicting base
OF 140 acres might find himself asked this year
to put so acres in corn. 40 in red clover, 80 in
oats. and 80 in wheat.
The red clover would include 81 acres shift
ed presumably, from land which has been used
for corn. the q acres being equivalent to the Is
per cent of soil depicting base for which pay
ments are permitted. At the national average
of $40 an acre for such payments, he would re-
ceive s2l0 although it might be more or less
according to the normal rate of yield.
Assuming he does something to improve the
red clover 40 acres-such as lining, seeding,
terracing-he might also receive another $40 in
oil-buding payment, making total of $3.50.
On the basis of such examples as these,
which will soon be presented to them, millions
of farmers must determine whether it is to their
advantage to participate in the program and at
the same time build up their soil.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-04-09
Other Editors Saw
TAKING FUN OUT OF FIRE
salinas Daily POST

Next time you see a fire engine go by, dig
down into your change pocket and get out a few
cents. For the fire to which the engine is going
though It may be in a home you have never seen,
or place of business you didn't know existed it
is going TO cost you something. Every fire is
financial burden on you-and the total cost,
accumulated in the course of year. amounts to
a substantial sum.
How do you pay for fire? Well, for one thing,
you pay for it in cost of maintaining a fire de
partment, alarm and water facilities. The money
for that comes out of the taxes you contribute to
the public treasury.
Then you pay for fire in higher insurance
rates-over a period OF years, any community S
rate is predicated upon the fire loss sustained.
You pay for fire in higher taxes. If home
or factory is burned, property is removed from
the tax rolls All other property in the commu-
nifty must make up the loss.
You pay for fire in destroyed business
family loses its home, and perhaps moves away
from town. An industry burns-and men are
thrown out of work, their purchasing power
brought suddenly to zero. Everyone feels the
effects-the groceryman. the movie owner, the
doctor the drygood merchant, the insurance sales
man, the laborer.
Remember this-and perhaps you won't think
it's so much fun to watch the fire engine roar by.
DO your part to prevent fire, keep the engine IN
the fire house-and the result will be more dol
lars in your pocket.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-04-09

to other days recently when one of
those Green candy kitchens with a
window demonstration made an Old
fashioned bow for recognition. In
Herculean fashion, the demonstration
with Stranger Lewis bare shoulders
and handle-bar muStacheS, featured
lariating his thick rope of candy
around a wall hook to pull it white
Sidewalk crowds were attracted
noticed Jack Dempsey getting an
eyeful-but few evidently went in
side, and in a day or so a Fol
Rent sign was up,
-OOO---
They we're talking about the adj
vent of the gas stove. Baird Leon
ards parents installed one and Their
went on a six months tour of Eur
ope, leaving the house in charge OF
Mandy, the cook. Upon their re-
turn, Mandy was asked about the
stove. Il declare she exclaimed
that's the beatenist' thing ever
see. 1t amt gone out yit.'
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-04-09
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
April 9, 1916

The Ell Centre chamber of COM
merce transportation committee
of which Will S. Fawcett is chair
man, has taken the first step in
a plan to get a good road system
for Imperial County to connect
with the state highways being COM
pletCd
When the tie between d. l.. linn
and George Dixon is settled at
the Imperial Valley Gun club shoot
to be held next Sunday, the series
of shoots will be over until the
coming of cool weather in the
autumn.
At last the Valley has come in
for a considerable part of the
tourist business of the coast.
Tourists are attracted here by the
enjoyable climate.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-04-09
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
April 9, 1921

Despite the fact that consider
able trouble was experienced in
laying the pavement ON the Alamo
New River fill between Brawley
and Calipatria, nearly one and
a half miles of the pavement has
been completed and progress is
being made on the remaining por-
ton
The W.C.TU. met at the Chris
tan church Friday afternoon. Mrs.
Hodge called the meeting to order
and the devotional service was led
by Mrs. Gillespie, who used the
second chapter of Titus.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-04-09
on SU./
p says
WATANABE
by ED HOLDEN
MISSISSIPPI


Other day i arc standing on
top side balcony of Louisiana
State Capitol 500 feet in the air.
From same you can look see
Mississippi River for miles of
miles :. swOOping and bending
State of Louisiana are flat
as pancake and it are en-
tirely green. All year every
year they having too much
water as knowing what to did
with no irrigation necessity
please. One road travelling for
$50 miles . upon both sides
are nothing but swamps but
nice trees are growing there
as if cOaxing you in but
better not going because ALI
gators, frogs ,snappy turtles, and
poison snakes reside there in
bundles. 1t seem the nature of
LOuisina people arc not so flat
as the geography . they very
friendship. They OOze with hos
pitality and perspiratiOn. Eat
ing are favOrite indoor sports
and / not blaming them. l
thinking you have not eaten till
you come to New Orleans. Shall
telling you about them food
dishes tOmOrra.
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-04-09

writing along with the regular chore.
Irwin Cobb. I believe. obtained 1t
lust before he quit Park Row to
write solely for the magazines. So
did Bert Terhune.
%
This is a tip-top way to start an
argument. A man who knows much
of feminine beauty from an artistic
standpoint writes: The most beau
tiful women in the United States are
in Los Angeles, Houston and Salt
Lake City. The better dressed Wom-
en- are in Washington, d c." Flo
Ziegfeld when reigning supreme as
a beauty picker would always see
girls from the state of Texas, the
cities of San Francisco and Port
land. Three of his great beauties
who they were escapes me-came
from those localities. o, yes, Jessie
Reed came from Texas.
%
Obvious cartoon idea should Pres
dent Roosevelt be defeated: A de-
iected drawing of him under the
captain: THE Forgotten Mani
90
Thingumabobs: K c. B's daugh-
ter Betsy is writing a New York
theatrical column for Hollywood
Frank Menke. sports authority, was
once the tiddledewink champion of
his county David BelaSco had
SO in assets when he signed Mrs.
Leslie Carter and started his for
tune William Gillette has told
friends he expects to revive "Sher-
lock Holmes" at 90 :. Bob Wagner
is Charlie Chaplins best friend and
severest critic David Sarnoff,
next to Will Hays. is New York's
most prodigious long distance tel
phone user
One Of those sartorially unblem-
ished silver-haired Tories swung
jauntily out of the Racquet Club
entrance this evening. A huge car,
shiningly luxurious, purred up to
him with precise timing. He step
ped in and shot away. And Lois
Long, noting it all from the side
lines, exclaimed: That's the trou-
BILE with this country-everything
going Communistic'
90
Whiteman was the target for a
mean bit of rubbing during the most
rigid stretch of his diet several years
ago. Charlie Butterworth arranged
to have the ribber join them al
midnight when Paul was always
hungriest and permitted to nibble
only at a half apple. The ribber
bearing down on a TeXas-sized raw
hamburger with onions and a seide
of beer, told of arriving home the
night before, ravenouS. And built
up a great picture of going to the
ice box and finding a cold boilec
potato, a hook Of boiled ham and 6
bottle of chilled milk. Whiteman
mincing at his apple, could stand il
no longer, pushed back his deSser
plate and with tears trickling hi
cheeks walked out into the night.
Seventh avenue had a sWingback
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-04-09
Everyday Philosophy
THE MEANING OF SUFFERING
HAROLD L. DOTY
Pastor First Baptist Church
CoIumnist for This Week

challenged human much as Ge
Why must suffer-
unvolunarly has not asked LOT
that existence IN suffering
ache
looking at the
o. lie Sha
Certainly if we do not lind IT, we Will
find it.
unacceptable suffer thaC
life itself There two ways to LOOK
at
life itself There two ways TO look
OF life
coupled with opportunity to come into better uaer
problems viewed in this light human suffer-
ing no longer but while is still
acrosst is We will with gladness and JOY
in look at the suffering we see
beneath
through
suffering others might have joy
Asongo OF through the
the
A balm to heal hurts of
A peace
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-04-09
TEN YEARS AGO
April Q, 1926

The final decision on the prize
awards for the old favorite song
is as follows. Ist prize, Mrs. E. o.
Carter, End prize, Miss Alice Cole,
Bird prize, Sadie Case. The judges
of the contest were, Judge Cole, A.
P. SHIRLEY and Dorsey WhitelaW
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-04-09

NEW YORK, April 9.-That lower
tip of Manhattan island known as
Battery Park erupts noontime ac-
tivity that suggests circus day in
Pomeroy, o. There are balloon sell
ers. ice cream, hot peanuts and
lemonade vendors and haWkerS of
emblem flags.
Pitch men set up tripods and even
the shell and pea game artists
whisper come-On Subtleties. News
boys make a killing with noon edi-
tions. For two hours the spirit of
usually bleak area takes on the
whoopla of the carnival. Somerset
Vaughan likened it to Trafalgar
Square.
The overflow is caused by the
suddenly released army of stem
ographers and clerks from the Wall
Street section who occupy the
benches and grass plots for luncheon
spreads and use the walks for a
promenade. Office boys play ball.
leap-frog and otherwise skylark
And even great figures, such as
the late George Baker. in finance
take a turn or so there. Just as
quickly as it erupts, it dries up and
back seep the human flotSam who
sit so immobile, looking constantly
TO sea. Also those pathetic old
women who have no place to go.
90
New York'S oldest active news
paper woman is Mrs Laura Com
stock Dunlap. who up until its sale,
was on the Globe. At 80 she has been
for three years teaching journalism
to unemployed young people, The
same course is served by mail to as
piring students in the state prison
at Dannemora. Mrs. Dunlap also
wrote a book on courtesy that is a
text book in metropolitan schools.
She takes lively interest in modern
journalism and often turns in a
bang-up Sunday feature story.
90
While it is still possible for the
free lance to dispose of newspaper
feature story now and then, the field
is rough going. 1t used to be an
alert reporter could double his pay
with Sunday yarn. In those days
the Sun, Herald and World were
ready markets. Paying as high as
SIS for an especially readable yarn
with pictures. I remember Charlie
Somerville causing a bit of eye
bullying in an under Brooklyn Bridge
lazaretto one Afternoon by flashing
three checks totaling slightly more
than $3.50. Clear and above his SAL
airy on The World.
90
In these opulent days of enormous
radio contracts on the side, the 5000
a-week newspaper writer creates no
splash whatever among his fellows.
But that figure was once a goal,
when writing was strictly a writing
game, and syndication unknown,
that few achieved. l know but two
who attained that mark and it was
accomplished, of course, by outside
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-04-09
YES, IT'S 4 QUIET
ELECTION.
It's quiet election ICIieR cOuncilRlanic
candidates are Offered publicity
but fail TO use il.

With only few days to go. the city
election pot hardly SINNERS.
Because most folks don't know what
the respective candidates advocate, nor
the record Of their qualifications, this
newspaper recently offered TO publish
the records and print the pictures if en-
date was set. As yet, out Of the seven
candidates for city council. only two rec
ords and nary picture has been receiv-
ed.
Yes. 1t certainly is a quiet election.