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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-26
MID-CITY UNIT
SCORES POLICE
IN VAN PROBE.
Disappointed, Citizens
Plan to Push Case
BY A. J. DRISCOLL,
Citizens Association Editor


Expressing disappointment over
an investigation by Second pre-.
cinct police into charges that
parked vans were being used for
immoral purposes, the Mid-City
Citizens Association, meeting last
night in Thomson School, directed
its executive committee to take
the complaint up with higher Of
ficials.
The action followed an attack
by Frank C. Pooh, Of oil M st.,
charging general neglect Of duty
by precinct officers, including fail
ure to enforce regulations govern
ing traffic, lettering and soliciting.
URGE PARKING SPACE
Commissioners were petitioned
to compel all out-of-town vans to
provide off-street parking space,
and to carry the owners name
and address.
Citing the great increase in
traffic fatalities, the association
approved a proposal by Major e.
w. Brown, superintendent of po-
lice, to inaugurate a scientific
study Of traffic control similar to
that in operation in Evanston, Ill.
OFFICERS CHOSEN
A committee will be appointed
to appear before the Budget Blu
reau to request funds for reestab-
fishing the Second police station
on Fifth Street near M North
west.
For the twenty-third consecu-
tive time, A. j. Driscoll, was elected
president. Other officers were
elected as follows: Miss E. l..
Grosvenor, vice president; M. E.
Salisbury, secretary; M. T. Pines,
treasurer; C. T. Bowman, finan-
cial secretary; Frank B. Hoffman
and Nathan M. Lubar, delegates to
the Federation of Citizens ASSocia-
tons. New members elected were
Mary A. Dilger, Lois M. Yeck,
Ruth M. Buchert, Charles schnei-
der Baking Co., Mildred Green,
and R. 6. Campbell.
TRINIDAD CITIZENS MEET
The Trinidad Citizens Associa-
ton, meeting last night in Wheat
ley School, reelected all officers.
They are as follows: George j,
Cleary, president; Mrs. L. N. Selby
and Harry Shilling, vice presi.
dents: Martin j. Stecker, treas.
urer; Mrs. Max Kyber, secretary.
Cleary was named delegate to the
Federation Of Citizens Associa-
tions.
Resolutions were adopted op-
posing the business privilege tax
and any change in the present
method of appointing the Board
of Education. '
Commissioners were asked to ex-
tend the widening Of West Vfr-
GINA Avenue to Montello Avenue.
The Capital Transit Company was
requested to inaugurate a safer
system of bus turns at Fifth and
K Streets Northeast. Traffic
lights were asked on H at Twelfth
and Fourteenth Northeast.
OBJECT TO PLANES
Georgetown Citizens Association
meeting in st. Johns Church Par.
ish Hall last night, voted to send
a letter to Secretary Of Commerce
Roper, protesting low flying Of
planes over Georgetown. Double
parking of cars. on M Street west
of Twenty-ninth Street North
west was protested in another
action.
The resignation of John H
Small as president was accepted
He has returned to his home city
in North Carolina.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-26

Where Boys Have Lots Of Fun Play
ing ut the Game Of Death-A Strik.
ingIy illustrated Article Explaining
How the JitteFy Countries of Europe
Are Making Military Training Popular
With Youthful Cannon Fodder" Read
This Timely Feature in The American
Weekly. with Sundays Washington
Herald Times.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-26

TERrAINLY, Vicks Va-tro-nol
~ brings comforting relief from a
head cold. But you don't haze to
wait until your head gets all stuffed
up and miserable.
Used in time, Va-tro-nol helps to
prevent lot of colds-or to throw
off head colds in their early stages.
Vd-tro-,sol is SPECIALIZED medi-
cation for nose and upper throdt,
Wtere most colds begtn-dr'd grow.
So, at the very first warning sneeze,
sniffle, or irritation in the nose
quickl put few drops of Va-tro-nol
UP each nostril. You feel the tingle
Of its keen, stimulating action as
Va-tro-nol swiftly spreads through
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-26

by way Of the China Clipper.
She goes places and makes a
lovely home because she has a
special talent for good manage
ment, and making a little money
go long, long way.
Mrs. Haven took her A. B. at
Washington State College In
1928. and her A. M. at Columbia
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-26

In 1893. For graduate study she
selected George Washington Uni
versity and the University Of
Hawaii.
HOW TO DO IT
OF course the opportunity
doesn't come to everyone to pick
up the furnishings for their
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-26

A KNOWING woman no longer
oives-in to functional periodic pain.
tits rather old-fashioned to suffer in
silence, because there is a reliable
relief for such suffering.
Some women who have always
had the hardest time are relieved by
Midol.
Many who use MidOl do not feel
one twinge of pain, or even a
moments discomfort during the
entire period.
Don't let the calendar regulate
YOUR activitiesl Don't flavor your
SELF or Save yourself on certain
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-26

days Of every month"; Keep going,
and keep comfortable - with the
aid Of Midol. These tablets provide
q proven means for the relief Of
such pain, 50 why endure suffering
Midol might spare yOu2
MidOl brings quick relief which
usually lasts for hours. Its principal
ingredient has often been prescribed
by specialists.
You can get Midol in a trim
aluminium case at any drug store.
Two tablets should zee you through
your worst day.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-26

the nasal passages and helps Nature
to fight off the cold.
Clears Stufed-Up Heads. Even
when your head is all clogged up
from a cold, Va-tro-nol brings COM
forting relief. 1t clears away clogging
mucus, reduces swollen membranes,
and helps keep the sinuses open. 1t
lets you breathe again.
And Va-tro-nol is so convenient
so easy to use-at home or at work.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
10000 ATTEND
CONVENTION OF
LEGIONNAIRES


STOCKTON, Calf, Aug. 7. U.P)
Sessions of the American Legion
Auxiliary, the 40 and g." opened
here today with the expectation
they would be concluded for the
opening tomorrow night of the
10Th annual department convention
OF California Legion members.
Early registrations indicated more
than 10000 Legionnaires, their wives
and members of the sons of the
Legion would attend the sessions
which conclude next Wednesday.
The 40 and 81 and its auxiliary
the IS and 40" will present SO
candidates for initiation at grand
wreck" tonight followed by a mid
night show.
Joint convention sessions open
tomorrow night following a pageant
on stage constructed of barges
on Yosemite Lake and band COM
petitions.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08

are the Imperial Irrigation district,
the Bard Irrigation district, the Palo
Verde Irrigation district, the Uni
ted States Reclamation district con
the Yuma Indian reservation, and
the inactive inland Irrigation dis
trict in the northend.
4. Electric current now is sup
piled in Imperial county by the
Nevada California Electric Securi-
ties company, the Imperial Irri-
cation district, the. United States
Reclamation department from its
Syphon Drop plant), and the I'M
perial County Electric corporation
4, The townsite of Winterhaven
is supplied by electric current from
a California subsidiary of the Ari-
zona Edison company of Yuma,
known as the Imperial County Elec-
trio corporation.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
DEATHOF NOTED
CHEF BATTLES
FRISCO POLICE

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7. WR)-
Henry Chateau, SO, chef to the
notables of two continents, was
dead today, the victim of bullet
which police said was fired from
his own rifle.
Circumstances surrounding his
death, however, led police to believe
that he .had been murdered.
They reported that two men drove
to his home shortly before his
death and that one of the men,
neither of whom was identified,
spoke to the chef briefly at his
front door and then said he would
see him in the garage of his home.
In the interval during which
Chateau walked down an inside
stair to his garage to open the door
it was believed he obtained his %
calibre rifle, from which he pre-
viously had removed the stock.
The rifle, one bullet fired and
a she'll still in the chamber, was
found near him on the floor of
the garage. Chateau was shot thru
the head.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
j. s. CITIZENS
IN FAR EAST
ENDANGERED
Pittman Urges OK
OF Bill to Ban
Picketing

WASHINGTON, Aug. Z.
CUP)-Chairman Key Pitt
man, D., New :, of the Foreign
Relations Committee, t o | d
the senate today that a "des-
perate situation" exists in regard
to American nationals caught in
the China war zone.
Vainly urging senate approval of
bill banning pickets with ban
ners from approaching foreign en-
bassies in Washington, Pittman
said that "our government has
been striving for a month with
both the japanese and Chinese
governments to give our nation
safe conduct" from places of danger
in the war zone.
I'VE have not accomplished
much," he said, explaining that
both governments had lent every
aid but that the exigencies of war
made the problem difficult.
Sen. Robert M. LaFollette, P,
Wis, asking that the bill go over
for further study, asked Pittman
If he believed there was or had
Continued on Page 6; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
c 0 NJ M TEE
0kAYS WHEAT
C R 0 P BILL
Insurance Measure
To Face Vote
Soon

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.
(UP) The house agricul-
ture committee today favor
ably reported the wheat
crop insurance bill which is
backed by the president and de-
signed to protect growers from
crop losses. The bill already has
passed the senate.
Changes made by the committee
in the senate draft included:
/. A provision that during the
first three years, insurance con-
tracts would be limited to one
year only.
2. That $1O,OOO,0OO be authorized
for administrative purposes but
only $2O,OOO,000 of the authorized
$lOO,OOO,000 capital stock set up be
issued the first year.
The committee authorized Rep.
Harold D. Cooley, D., N. c., to seek
a rule next week to expedite the
legislation on the floor
The bill, which would apply be-
ginning in 1888, has been tied up
in the house committee for many
weeks.
Under its terms, the farmer
would pay his premiums in wheat.
He would collect his insurance
either in wheat or its market cash
value
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
McCARY WINS II ONORS IN
"KNOW COUNTY" CONTEST

j. D. McCary, consistent winner
in the know Your County con-
test conducted by the Post-Press for
the last is weeks, finished first in
the last competition to win the
sweepstakes.
He consistently held the lead
gained in the opening weeks of the
contest and finished so far ahead
of his nearest contender that no one
else had a chance at the win
nings. His average for the last list
of questions, however, was not as
high as usual. McCa:y confined his
answers to the period of white set
tlement in Imperial county. The
contest editor went back to Indian
settlement days for his data. Thus
McCary may be said to be right in
his answers even when he did not
match the answers of the contest
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08

ultWtoJ, Ille Olllucu oIhlCo lCdi ilCo
from sources close to Lieut.. Gen.
Russell L. Hearn, young American
soldier of fortune and former Chi
nese division commander.
TIENTSIN, Aug. 7. (U.P)-Reports
reached TientSin from the south
today that Generalissimo Chang
Kai-Shek, Chinese commander in
chief, had formed an air fleet
today for threatened war with
Japan and had enlisted the SER
vices of 60 foreign pilots.
1t was believed that if the re-
ports proved true the Foreign Le-
gion would include a number of
Americans
Reports persisted, despite angry
Japanese army denials, that a mys-
terious Chinese war plane had been
scouting Japanese positions in the
Tientsin area.
The plane flew high and fast on
its daring visit, the reports said,
and eluded Japanese pursuit planes
sent out to chase it.
japanese army men issued alarm
ing reports of the Chinese troop
Continued on Page 6, Col. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
PLATE GLASS
SUFFERS AS
WOMEN FIGHT

A plate glass window in a Main
street store suffered the only dam
age from an encounter between
a white woman and Negro school
girl Friday night.
Mrs. Bette Page,32, housewife,
and Albert Miller, II, school girl,
were arrested because of the battle.
Mrs. Page said the girl jostled her
as they emerged from picture
show. Judge Lee Nuffer released
them after police court Saturday
after they paid the store owner for
the damage to the plate glass win
dow.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
MRS. ADAMS TO
ATTEND PEG.
NATL MEET

Mrs. j. D. Adams was scheduled to
leave Ell Centro for Oklahoma City
this weekend with the expecta-
tion of spending two months in the
midwest.
She will attend the national
PEG. convention in st. Louis Sept
ember 3 as a delegate from the
three chapters in Imperial county,
chapters AV and CIV of Ell Centro
and BS of Brawley. Mrs. Adams is
memer of the AV chapter.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
Unemployment Census
Act Given Approval
Bill Will Provide
Statistics For
Labor Dept.

WASHINGTON, Aug. Z.
(UP) - The senate t o d a y
passed the bill sponsored by
Sen. Hugo L. Black, D.,
Ala, providing for a census
of partially employed and unem-
ployed persons in the United States.
Black and Sen. James F.. Byrnes,
D., S. c., estimated that the cost
of the census would be around
$4,OO0,0OO or S5,OOO,OOO and that
the results would be available about
next April.
They characterized the proposal
which previously had been op-
posed by commerce and labor de-
partment officials-as of great
value in future determination of
unemployment problems.
The method and extent of the
census, including information to be
gathered, will be decided later by
a committee consisting of the secre-
taries of commerce and labor, the
WPA administrator, the chairman
OF the social security board, the
chairman of the central statistical
board and the director of the CEN
SuS.
The question of an unemployed
census had in the past been hotly
disputed in the senate with the
administration opposing such pro-
posalS by Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge,
jr, r., Mass; by Sen. Francis T.
MalOney, D.. Conn. and others
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08

approved summers Dill, goes back
to that body for concurrence.
Senate foes of the presidents
original court program - having
forced abandonment of the pro-
posal for additional justices on
the high tribunal-took precau-
tions against possible house napve
to revive the administration mea-
sure. The house must either accept
the amendments or send the bill to
conference with the senate. The
conferees would have no power to
add to the senate bill.
The approval of the measure,
concluding six months of bitter
controversy that split the Demo-
cratic party and gave the admin
istration its most serious reverse
since the 1886 elections, was con-
sidered prelude to further judi
ciary legislation at the next ses-
sion.
The senate already has approved
a resolution authorizing a judiciary
subcommittee to study the ques-
tion of constitutional amendments
and legislation, particularly in re-
gard to retirement of justices, and
to report next January.
The bill as passed by the senate
provided:
l. Direct appeal from lower courts
to the supreme court on cases In
volving constitutionality of a fed
eral statute.
2. Mandatory intervention by the
attorney general in lower court
cases involving constitutionality of
a statute.
3. Requirements that three JUS
tices sit in lower court cases seek
ing to restrain enforcement of q
statute.
4. Power for the senior Judge of
each circuit to re-assign judges
within his circuit.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08

confession.
AS a WPA crossing guard. Dyer
knew the girls. jeanette Stephens.
8; Melba Marie Everett, 8, and her
sister, Madeline, 7. who were lured
from playground by a man who
promised to TAXI them rabbit hunt
ing in the hills 1t was part OF
Dyer's job to assist the children
across the street to safety. He also
was among the searchers who found
the children's bodies beside a camp
fire in ravine. where they had
been assaulted and strangled.
He was also said TO have Joined
voluntarily in a hunt for clues
to the slayer when police began 70
suspect him and extracted his con-
fession.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
L. A. COUNCILMAN
COMPANION DIE III
1900 FOOT PLUNGE

BIG BEAR, Cal, Aug. 7 CUP)-
Howard Dorsey, 80, newly elected
Los Angeles city councilman, and
Marian c. Lonabaugh, 90, were kill
ed today when Dorsey's automobile
crashed down a 130O-foot canyon
wall on the Rim of the World high
way near Lakeview Point, Is miles
from here.
A brush fire started by gasoline
from the wrecked automobile at
tracted forest rangers to the spot
and they discovered the tragedy.
Dorsey, tn city's youngst council
man, and Miss Lonabaugh, blonde
secreary of Councilman Baumgart-
ner, were thrown clear of the auto
mobile after it had plunged 1000
feet. The car rolled 300 feet farther
and burst into flames.
The accident occurred at appro-
ximately am. state highway pa
trolmen estimated.
Dorsey and his companion appar-
emily were killed instantly.
The councilman, nephew of Susan
Dorsey, former city superintendent
of schools, is survived by his wife
and two children.
Miss Lonabaugh, a divoccee, is
survived by two children. She told
her parents yesterday in Los An
geles that she planned to go to Big
Bear with Councilman Dorsey but
said she would return last night.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
Last Weeks Answers

editor.
Last Weeks Answers
l. Cotton, corn, beans and sew
eral other food crops were grown
by the Indians who inhabited the
river bottom lands IN the eastern
portion Of the county before the
coming of the whites. Most of the
farming of the Quechan CYuma)
Indians had been taught them
by the Pima Indians of the Gila and
Salt River Valleys.
2. The Quechan Indians had a
crude system of irrigation by flood
ing river bottom lands which they
had used for many generations be-
fore the first white men visited their
country
8. Farm lands in Imperial coun-
ty are supplied with irrigation water
by five separate organizations. They
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08

be relied upon for the truth in any
circumstance.
The public defenders, Ellery E.
Cuff and William B. Nicely. fire.
quently told prospective Jurors
whom they examined yesterday that
Dyer's confession should be taken
with a grain of salt" They re-
ferred to the term pathological
liar" and implied that it would
have an important place in the
trial.
Their inference was that Dyer
was in such close contact with the
atrocity and the shock it created
in the suburban community, and
was so impelled by his mania to
lie, that he made false confess
sion. Dyer later repudiated his
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
MORMONS PLAN
FOR CHAPELS
IN CALIFORNIA

SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. CUP)
Plans are under way for construc-
ton of five new chapels of the
Latter Day Saints (Mormon) church
in its California Mission area, Mic
holas G.. Smith who has just COM
pleted a term as president of the
Mission, said today.
New chapels are to constructed
in East San Diego, Fresno and
Pacific Grove, Cal, Superior, Ariz.,
and Reno, New, Smith said. Sites
have already been selected for the
buildings at Reno and Pacific Grove.
Smith estimated Ids. church
membership in the California Mis-
sion area at $4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
LOyalists Issue
Licenses to Priests

VALENCIA, Spain, Aug. 7. U.H
The cabinet authorized today
the distribution of licenses to ap-
proximately $4,000 Catholic priests
and nuns remaining in Loyalist
Spain, permitting them to officiate
at private services.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
LAWYERS REPRESENT
MURDER SUSPECT AS
PATHOLOGICAL LIAR

LOS ANGELES, Aug. (UP)-Abert Dyer who con-
essed to the ravshment and murder of three little girls
IN the lngeWood hills, represented today by his
lawyers pathological ar-one of those persons with
an unbalanced overwrought Imagination who seldom
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
Just An Old Maid

Al Casner is the only person thus
far who has reminded RR that Fri
day was the thirtieth anniversary
of the formation of Imperial coun-
ty. Casner telephoned r. P. Moore
Continued on Page 6;3Col, 50
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!-

The noise heard throughout I'M
perial Valley Friday was not an
earthquake. 1t was only the Am
erican Legionaires getting off to
state convention. No one could get
along with any of the A.E.F. or
their wives. They were cross as two
sticks until they finally pulled out
and headed north. DR.. o. H. Van
Eman became so impatient he
changed his plans at the last min
ute and took a plane RR hopes
none of the boys rent rooms aboard
the house boats anchored in the
river at Stockton for use as float
ing hotels for convention visitors.
There are times when gangplanks
are mighty hard to negotiate.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
10000 OFFER
SERVICES WITH
YANK BRIGADE
Jobless Americans, Ex- Army Men,,
Soldiers of Fortune Volunteer
To Fight For China
-OO-

LOS ANGELES Aug. Z. Approximately 10000
Americans have volunteered for yankee brigade" in
the Chinese army fight Japan reliable disclosed
today Thousands of offers from young and
obess army pouring in chiefly from the mid
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
~ ~AMBLING
NEPORTER
It's Not He

It's Not He
In all fairness to Ernest Hibbard
of Ell Centre, RR must report that he
is no relation-even distantly-- to
the Ernest Hibbard of London,
England, who eloped with another
inmate from London mental ms
titution Friday. Friends of the Ell
Centro Hibbard have kidded him
considerably, it seems.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
4 Desert Bouquet

This is a good time to wrap up
a great big bouquet of special cac-
tus blossoms, adorned with sprink-
ling of yellow butterflies, for Miss
jeanette Underwood, who is recov-
ering from an appendicitis oper-
alton at Iona Linda.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
MEASURE SENT
TO HOUSE FOR
CONCURRENCE
Approval of Measure Concludes Six
Months of Bitter Debate Handing
New Deal Most Serious Reverse

WASHINGTON Aug (UP)-The senate today ap-
proved bill for reorganization of lower procedure
as substitute for President Rooseves original supreme
court enlargement program
The measure, offered an amendment to the house
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
Exit The William

Willis (Shorty to yoW Hogue
was thoroughly disgusted to learn
that police won't let juveniles play
pool in Ell Centro pool emporiums.
He decided to disguise his youth
full features behind a manly must
ache and hat worn low over the
eyes. A man must have his game
of pool now and then in spite of
ordinances, regulations and laws.
He made elaborate preparations,
Some false hair and bit of glue
soon became truly imposing adorn-
ment for the upper lip He put on a
large hat and pulled it down over
his starboard' eye. He carefully add
ed the false hair and bit of glue
to the vacant place between his
nose and month. He considered the
disguise perfect. Did he get his
game of pool? No. He couldn't
stand the smell of the glue.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
Remember When

Remember When
Buford Purl used to juggle sup
plies for the Nevada California
Electric company at the warehouse
in El Centre? He now lends grace
to the bureau of internal revenue
at San Bernardino.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
WEATHER

Maximum temperature 108, minimum IS; am.
nperature 81, humidity IS; noon temperature 102,
midity 38; pm. temperature 10l, humidity 3S
Imperial Valley press., 1937-08-08
MARKETS IN BRIEF

Butter: Los Angeles 3415; butterfat. Imperial
Valley, fob ranch, grade A, 49,; manufacturing
milk, 3S19c; route gathered cream Sac
L. A. Hay: u. s. No. leafy $2O-205O; u. s.
No S18-19; u. S. No. leafy S17-1750; us. No.
S15-155O; Minneapolis flax. July $2.O11s.