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The Washington times., 1937-02-05
Maryland Check Shows
Marriages of Children

Marriages Of juveniles around
the age when most girls are still
playing with dolls are not con-
fined alone to the current senSa-
tional cases of Tennessee and New
York, but have been found in the
neighbring State Of Maryland.
This came to light today fol
lowing a survey of the American
Youth Commission in the Free
State. Representatives Of the COM
mission in a Statewide inquiry per.
sonally interviewed 6,642 young
omen under the age Of "a. OF
this number. the interVieWerS as
certained. 2,216 were married and
PITT revealed their ages at the
time OF marriage.
The statistics revealed one mar
riage at the age Of 10 years, an
other at the age Of II, two at the
age of IL, IL at the age Of 13,
So at the age Of IA, and l25 at
the age OF IS. Other statistics
showed 205 marriages at 16, $50
at IT, 403 at 18, 800 at 10. 305 at
20, 1863 at 81, 121 at %, 65 at 23,
and az at "a.
The commissions survey also
revealed that in 80 States and
the District Of Columbiai statutes
have been enacted regulating the
age for contracting marriage.
Minimum for males in these
jurisdictions is Is in Missouri
The age for girls ranges from II
to 1s in the same jurisdictions.
DR.. Homer P. Rainey. director
of the commission, stated the sur.
vey showed that one-third Of the
girls interviewed were married by
the time they had reached II.
The Washington times., 1937-02-05
ASK
COMMISSION
ON J0BLESS
Murray, Hatch View
Emergency Passed
Ask New Setup
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
International News Service


The first move to take politics
out of relief" was under way in
the Senate today as Senators Muir
ray Cd Of Montana, and Hatch
CD of New Mexico, introduced a
resolution proposing creation of a
Federal commission to study the
unemployment problem and rec
ommend its permanent solution.
There was widespread opposition
to a permanent work relief sys-
TEN. The resolution would author
ize the President to name legiS
lators and social experts to the
commission and have it report
direct to Congress.
The resolution declared:
at is evident that the prob
lens of unemployment and re-
lief have passed the emergency
phase and these burdens now
appear to be long term charges
against the National Govern
ment."
DO AAGO w AAGNGD
Specific duties imposed on the
commission would include reports
on the extent and nature of un-
employment and relief needs. the
problem of work as against direct
relief, the question of assessing
the financial burden and admin
istrative responsibilities as be-
tween private charitable organiza-
tions and local, State and Federal
Governments, some plan for CO.
ordinating the long-term relief
program with existing govern
mental agencies, and the prob
able revenues Of greater private
unemployment and a general pro-
gram looking to the liquidation
of the entire relief problem"
"Priming" Near End
1t appeared Congress was ready
finally to determine a permanent
relief policy, instead Of merely
authorizing hundreds Of millions
Of dollars to be spent by a hand
full of governmental agencies.
Senator Hatch, coauthor of the
resolution. expressed this senti-
ment:
"The emergency has passed.
With it must go the indefinite,
haphazard ways in which relief
has been handled. Extravagance
and waste in the past can be for
given but the time has come
when Congress must adopt a per.
manent relief policy of its own.
1t cannot forever burden the
President with this great prob
lem"
An element of personal fear en-
tered the legislative picture, too.
Legislators reported privately that
they feared in the future they may
be judged by their celebrates on
the amount Of money they had &C.
quired from Uncle Sam for their
States or districts. If such q test
developed, they said, it would wipe
out party lines and destroy the
American system Of government.
The Washington times., 1937-02-05
i'm
Congress
SENATE

SENATE
Meets at noon.
Considers bills on calendar.
Public Buildings and Grounds
Committee begins hearings on
remodeling east front of Capitol.
HOUSE
Meets at noon.
Resumes reciprocal trade debate.
Appropriations su be o mmittee
considers Navy and Commerce
supply bills.
Banking and Currency Commit.
tee receives Roper housing report.
Interstate Commerce Committee
considers long and short haul bill.
Agriculture Committee considers
farm tenant bill.
The Washington times., 1937-02-05
JENCKES ADDS
SUPPORT TO
PAY BILL
Declares Government
Should Practice What
1t breaches

Declaring that the Government
should practice as 1t breaches,
Representative Virginia E. Jenckes
Cd, of Indiana, today announced
her support of the Connery Gov
ernment pay increase bill and the
proposed legislation to compensate
Federal and District workers fol
Declaring that the Government
overtime work.
Representative Jenckes, a mem
Der OF both the House District
and Civil Service Committees
stated that the Government is in
no position to request private in,
dustry to increase wages and pay
for overtime work unless it makes
the same allowances to its EN-,
ployeS.
Government Fails
She said:
The President and Congress
have been advocating the in
crease of wages in private buSi-
ness and, in some instances, pri-
vate enterprise has followed the
Government recommendations.
But how can we expect business
to go ahead with this policy if
the Government fails to do so?
1--WE have also in our labor
negotiations sought to influence
private business to pay their
workers for overtime or to give
them time off. 1 subscribe to
payment for overtime, and be-
lieve the Government ought to
pay its workers for the extra
time they put in"
APPALLED, BY REPORT
Representative Jenckes said she
was appalled," by the report OF
the Civil Service Commission
enumerating the amount Of over
time that has been put in by Gov
ernment workers in the last year
Increase Of Government salaries
should be pushed, she said, be-
cause loW.salaried workers in the
Government are not able to make
a proper home on their incomes.
At the present time, the pay In
crease bill introduced by Senator
Pat McCarran (D0, Of Nevada, Is
awaiting a report from the Civil
Service Commission. The Senate
Civil Service Committee. to which
the bill was referred, will not con
slider the bill until it has heard
from the commission.
Before Committee
In the House, the companion
pay bill, introduced by Representa-
tive William Connery CD, OF
Massachusetts, is before the House
Civil Service Committee.
Overtime legislation, to correct
the conditions which the commits
sion reported, is being framed by
Representative Robert Ramspeck
CDO, Of Georgia, chairman Of the
House Civil Service Committee
and Mr.. Connery.
The Washington times., 1937-02-05
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The Washington times., 1937-02-05
DEATH HOLDS FATHER

Ping, picked up his little son from
a crib and went out into the
snow.covered street. Neighbors
said they saw him carrying the
child.
Shortly after midnight, Daniels,
still nude. police said, appeared
at a tower of the LackaWanna
Railroad without his son.
The Washington times., 1937-02-05
WHAT s DONE
IS DID, SAYS
PAW JOHNS
9-Year-OId Bride Now
Reckons She'll Be a
Right Pert Cook

SNEEDVILLE. Tenn, Feb. 5
IN.SJ.-America S youngest bride
took her first lesson in house
keeping today. while in Nashville
an aroused State senate passed
unanimously bill barring further
child marriages in Tennessee.
The measure was expected also
to receive unanimous approval Of
the House.
Nine.year-old Eunice Winstead
Johns. a shy. pretty little girl in
a brief blue plnafore and a red
sweater. tied a voluminous apron
around her waist while Nav"
Johns, her indulgent mother.in'
law. taught her to make corn
pone,
Doesn't Know Why
Said the little bride, tossing
back her bright gold hair proudly:
Il reckon I'm goin' to be .
right pert cook"
Said Paw" Johns, the forth
right father-in-law:
I'D ruther she'd stayed to
home, but whuts done is did.
Her an Charley is married, and
nobody's Roin' to try to unite
the knot, but I'm beat if l know
whut fur they went and done II"
Twenty two year old Charley
Johns, the beleaguered bridegroom
of Clmch Mountain, paused in his
spring ploWing to remark:
81 amt payin' no mind to
whut they're dOin' down to the
legislator, nor whut folks Is
sayin'. Amt no new law goin'
to change things now.
MEN Eunice is married for
keeps and / reckon l can look
after her 'thout no help from
nobody"
Fixes Age at IA
The new bill. introduced in the
legislature as a result OF the ma
tion-wide furore stirred up by the
unprecedented child marriage, pro-
vides that no girl may be married
henceforth in Tennessee until she
has reached the age Of IA.
The bill passed the senate with
out a dissenting vote, and was con-
sidered certain also to pass the
house unanimously.
The Washington times., 1937-02-05
Legislation Spurred
To End Child Weddings

ALBANY, Feb. 5.-Two meas
ures designed to insure prevention
of child marriages in New York
were before the legislature today.
They were inspired by the Johns
case in Tennessee and by the dis.
closure that Leona Roshia Backus
of Watertown was a 12-year-old
bride.
Senator Philip N. Kleinfeld.
Brooklyn Democrat, and Assem-.
blyman Harold B. Ehrlich, Buffalo
Republican, offered bill which
they said would correct current
flaws in the marriage laws Of the
State.
The Washington times., 1937-02-05
New Building Strike

NEW YORK, Feb. S Q.N.SO.
Some 1900 Manhattan buildings
without union working agreements
will be subjected to a new strike
Monday, James ]. Bambrick, presi'
dent of the Building Service EN-
ployes' Union, announced today.
He said these structures will bO
struck at the rate of so buildings
per daY next week.
The Washington times., 1937-02-05
IS INJURED
BY SNOWFALL

The first SNOWFALL" weather of
the winter quickly attracted one
group of youngsters in the South.
east section and sent one Of them
to the hospital for treatment Of
head lacerationS.
Victim of the SNOWFALL battle
was William Parker. 10, of 13731a
L st. S. E., who was treated at
Gallinger Hospital last night for
lacerationS after his head had
stopped a Well-packed SNOWFALL.
The Washington times., 1937-02-05
Police Head 10 Talk
Al Meeting Of Forum

Major Ernest w. Brown, super.
intendent Of police, will speak on
Law Observance and Enforce
ment" at session of the Young
Peoples National Forum, at the
Twelfth Street branch Of the Y.
M. C. A., 1915 Twelfth st. N. W.,
at 5 p. m. tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1937-02-05
Lindv DELAYS Hop

ROME, Feb. 5 GN.SD.-Flying
conditions were so poor today that
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
again delayed their hop-off to-
wards Egypt. Instead, they visited
the Vatican museum.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
RAIN OR SHINE,
AM ELLA WILL
START FLIGHT

OAKLAND, Cal, March II. Wp)--
Amelia Earhart Putnam announced
today that rain or shine" she
definitely would take off between
4 and pm. PSD on her flight
around the world.
Her takeoff for Honolulu the first
leg of her proposed 27,000 mile
flight, has been delayed since Sun
day because of adverse weather
conditions between here and the
Hawaiian Islands, 2,400 miles away.
No weather distractions were in
her path to Honolulu today and
local weather conditions we're per
feet for the flight.
Il will take off sometime between
four and five o'clock - probably
nearer five than four" Miss Earhart
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
TERRIFIC GALES
RIP OFF ROOFS
IN ARIz. TOWN

YUMA, AriZ., March II. UP)-A
terrific windstorm struck Roll, Ariz.,
SO miles east of here, last night.
ripping the roofs off warehouse
and two garages and stretching
trees and power lines to the ground.
according to reports received here
today.
A drenching precipitation and
hailstorm followed the wind, which
was reported of gale velocity.
The hailstorm left hills, 18 miles
west of here in California, covered
with ice.
Heavy rains in the mountains
sent muddy torrents down washes.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
MAN KNITTED
in Ell centric
FILIPINO FEUD
Shooting, Stabbing
Ends Wild Night
In Dance Hall

One man fought against
death from a b d o m n a |
wounds Wednesday and four
persons were held = in the
county Jail here after gun
shots punctured a personal feud In
the Ell Centro Filipino taxi dance
hall Tuesday night.
The dance hall was thrown
into wild disorder. Fri & t.
tened Filipinos we're prevented
from escaping by quick police ac-
ton
The victim was put on the
spot" by white taxi dancer, the
asserted girl friend of his enemy.
police said. The girl is among
those in the county Jail. She Is
charged with sinking knife into
the victims shoulder Simultaneous
ly with the firing of bullet which
punctured his intestines.
Silverio Cesison, 28-year-old field
hand, was shot in the stomach
with 80 calibre automatic. He
was stabbed in the left shoulder
with large pocket knife. Doc
tors said he had all even chance
for recovery.
AT the county hospital, the VIC
tim identified Antonio Marquee,
"a, as the man who shot him, and
Dixie Lee, 23-year- white taxi
dancer, as the woman who stabbed
him in the shoulder after his
dance with her had been inter-
rupted by Marquee. Witnesses said
Cesison had slapped the woman.
Marian A. Cadawas, 26, describ-
ed by police as close friend of
the victim, was lodged in Jail on
charge of possession of con-
cealed weapon when 38 calibre
pistol found on the floor was iden-
titled as one he tossed away in the
confusion.
The. fourth prisoner was Maxine
Alvarado, 3d. another taxi dancer,
held as a material witness.
Marquee will, be charged with
attempted murder; Miss Lee with
assault with a deadly weapon;
and Cadawas with possession OF
concealed weapon. Miss Alvara-
do may be released after her tes-
timony is given.
Death of Cesison would change
the charge against Marquee to m1r-
der
The shooting eliminated a week.
long feud started by jealousy over
Miss Lee, police said.
Officer Jack Tackett, patroTiing
his beat on Broadway, was across
the street when he heard two shots
fired. With H. u. Willis, he ran
to the dance hall as Cesison stag
gered out, bleeding from his
wounds. AT the same time, George
Yoshida, Japanese, was telephon-
ing the police station to report
the shooting. Officers Floyd v.
Ackley and r. J. Harris answered
the call.
In a scene of wild confusion, the
officers pieced together the story
of the shooting A 80 calibre auto
matte. the one asSertedly used
by Marquee in shooting Cesison,
and .38 calibre pistol, allegedly
thrown away by Cadawas, were
found on the floor. Behind a coun-
ter was a blood Smeared pocket
knife, wrapped in a stained blue
handkerchief. Two holes in the
handkerchief indicated that Ces-
ison was stabbed through it.
The prisoners were taken to the
county hospital. where the victim
had been sent. There Cesison
identified Marquee and Miss Lee
as his assailants. officers said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
RAIN DELAYS CANAL JOB
WAR LOOMS
IN ASSEMBLY

SACRAMENTO, Cal, March II.
UP,-Open warfare between the
two houses Of the California
legislature was threatened today
after the senate had defeated
two pet" measures of the as
sembly democrats.
The senators blocked, by a
vote of 81 to 5, the assembly
resolution TO pardon Thomas J.
Mooney just day after they
had defeated, SO to 3, an as
sembly proposal to put demo-
cratic Sergeant at Arms Delwin
w. Smith on the state personnel
board i'm place of Legislative
Counsel Fred b. Wood.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17

PLANS WILL
BE DISCUSSED

Preliminary plans for harvesting
the spring cantaloupe crop and for
the handling of the migrant labor
problem will be discussed by the
Imperial County Labor board with
Harold Pomeroy, head of the SRA
at meeting next Tuesday at 1t
am. in the office of B. A. Harrigan
agricultural Commissioners, at the
court house.
Members of the labor board are
Argyle MacLachlan, o. j. Bradshaw
Evan T. Hewes. Bill Wilkinson
Harvey Hastain, w. j. Gregg B. M
Graham, Ike Schlatter, Hugh T
Osborne, Virgil Sims, Fred r. Bright
A. Y. Preble.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
STAGE DRIVER
REFUNDS FARE,
FACES CHARGE

N. B. Keardy, alleged wildcat
stage driver, refunded the fares paid
by two men he left stranded in
Yuma Tuesday night but will face
prosecution in Arizona upon his
return.
The driver was, arrested by I'm
perial county officers at the reques,
OF Yuma officers. They found the
baggage of the passengers left in
Yuma. Charles Farrell of the board
of equalization arranged the set
tlement so the stranded passengers
could proceed to Los Angeles to
take positions awaiting them.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
Thousands Strike as
Protest in Shootinqs

PARIS, March II. WP--Guards
at the home of Premier Leon Blum
on the c2uai de Bourbon we're re-
inforced today as enraged left wing
elements of his supporting coalition
protested against shooting by mobile
guardsmen of demonstrants in riots
in the Clichy suburb last night
Between 1000 and 5000 COM
munist workmen at the exposition
grounds went on strike in protest
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17

III" PO'IV'OTI OoIIIe DIS StI1dCt JUUI-
ciary committee hearings on the
court plan resumed in an atmos-
phere of tension with members
studying the remarks made by the
75-year-old justice before a Phi
Delta Theta fraternity banquet
last night.
McReynolds denounced "wilful
opportunism" and declared elat
losers in judicial disputes should
be good losers"
Today the jurist explained his
remarks were extemporaneous and
spoken without any thought of
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17

shattering the supreme court ira
dition of standing aloof from pol
itical disputes.
"The supreme court Is like the
balance wheel of a watch" Nc
Reynolds said. Take it out and
the works will not function" He
added that "the courts decide on
ly the things that are submitted
TO Them"
There is a strange restleSsness
In the world today. strange de-
sire to break away from that which
is proved-to rule or ruin"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
800 CHINESE
DIE IN BATTLE

SHANGHAI. March II. W.D -
Military reports today from Sian
Flu, in western China, said more
than'800 Chinese communists under
their chieftain. Hsu Slang Chien.
had been killed in an engagement
with government troops in noun
tains near Nankou.
The government troops seized five
machine guns and large quantity
of rifles and started pursuit OF the
scattered communists.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
MUCK WASHED
D|TCHES
BY DOWNP0UR
No Serious Damage from
Breaks in Yuma
Canal

YUMA, March 17.-Work
on the All American canal
near Laguna dam was delay
ed Wednesday because of
muck and water washed in
to structures by Tuesdays rain
storm. Reports of serious damage,
however, were denied by r. B.
Williams, reclamation bureau en-
gineer in charge.
Lack of power for 10 hours Tues
day caused a cessation of work at
Laguna dam, Williams said, and
full crews could not start to work
Wednesday until the muck was
cleared away. Two breaks in the
Yuma canal on the California
side did not result in serious
damage, he said.
Between three and four feet of
mud was being cleared from the
Picacho syphon Wednesday after
a cut in the upper side permitted
mud and water to enter. Peterson
company structures between Araz
Junction and short distance
north of Yuma, were disturbed by
the muck but the clearing pro-
cess made good progress.
The road to the Gam was slick
but passable, according to Will
liamS.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
IMPERIAL COUNTY
DIGS OUT OF MUD

Imperial county dug out of the
mud and water Wednesday after
Tuesdays rain and thunder storm
to discover almost all the country
roads passable to slow traffic and
city streets drying under the rays
of brilliant sun.
Total precipitation for the storm
was 64 which brought the total
rainfall since January / to 81,
according to official weather bu-
reau measurements provided by
Howard Emmons. government
weather bureau observer at El
Centre. The total upon a similar
date last year was 63.
Road foremen warned against
fast traffic over the ungraveled
country roads until after mainten-
ance crews complete their work
later in the week.
Some country schools were
forced to close because transpor-
tation of pupils was impossible
school authorities reported.
END OF RAIN
LOS ANGELES, March II. CUP
An end TO the torrential rains
which turned some southern Cali
fornia streets into canals, was fore
cast today.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
Huge Loyal Air Fleet
Panics italian Troops

II DAYE. Franco-Spanish
Frontier, March II. (U.P) - Gen.
Francisco Francois Italian troops
on Madrids norJneasJern front
fled in panic before repeated at
tacks of an 85-ship Loyalist air
fleet which dropped more than
eight tons of explosives on them,
Madrid dispatches reported today
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
Former Federal
Judge Gives I Talk

Leslie Burr of Imperial, formerly
a federal judge in the Hawaiian
Islands, described his experiences
in that country for the members
of the Ell Centre Lions club at
their meeting Tuesday noon in the
Barbara Worth hotel.
Burr told of conditions in the
Islands in 1915 and of the types
of cases which came before his
court Cecil Ashley presided, in
Producing the speaker.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17

against the shootings. Communist
leaders said that the strike was not
ordered,
After an hour these strikers re-
turned to work but l.2OO metal
workers at the Lavallettc plant
went on sit-down strike.
An official inquiry was opened
on the riots, to inquire into charges
of murder violence and rebellion. /"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
Tribute Paid to
Famed Statesman

LONDON, March IL. W,R) -
Widespread sympathy and tri-
butes to his craftsmanship were
expressed today after the sudden
death of Sir Austen Chamberlain,
for A years member of the
British parliament and one of
its most respected elder states
men.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
SLAYER OF MATE
COMES TO, THEN
BACK INTO COMA

LOS ANGELES. March IL. UP)
Mrs. Helen Wills Love, con-
victed mate slayer, who went
into a coma nearly a week ago
in an attempt to commit suicide
by will power, regained consci-
BUSINESS for a few minutes today
and then sank back into her
stupor.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17

Supporting the air attack the
shock troops of Gen. Jose Miaia,
government commander in chief,
moved into Valdearenas, l6 miles
northeast of Guadalajara on the
bitterly contested Aragon highway,
one of the key points captured in
last weeks nationalist offensive.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
Driving Charges
Land Two in Jail

Reckless and drunken driving
charges placed two men In the RI
Centre Jail Tuesday night
Tony Guzman, 49, was sentenced
by Police Judge Lee Nuffer Wed
nesday morning to six months In
the county Jail for reckless driving
Charles N. Cole, 80, charged with
driving while drunk, was released
on SIS bail. He will enter a plea
! Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
Something is Wrong

r. j. Harris was just the least
little bit exasperated after he drove
the Ell Centre police departments
patrol car Tuesday night. The
gentle touch can be noted in his
report about venerable Black Maria
1T has he says, mo battery. no
lights; is bent, battered, chokes,
coughs, spits, rumbles, squeaks, and
will not run or roll without utmost
coaxing nursing and cajoling."
Sounds like spring fever
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
'Opporfunism' Hit
BY Judge Of U. S.
preme Court
High Tribunal Vital to Country, Says
McReynolds; Denies Taking Active
Part in Judicial Dispute

WASHINGTON, March II. (UP) = Justice James
Clark McReynolds today made it plain that he had no
intention OF breaking supreme court tradition by active
entrance into the controversy President Roose-
velts judiciary proposals. McReynolds Qualification of
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
% AMBLING
x\EPORTER

tPost-Press PhOtO)

No st. Patrick's day would be
complete without it! Herb Faw-
cett, who's Oh the wrong side of
Erin's geography to think much
of the green tint, telegraphed James
P. PaD Greene at Stockton We'd
nesday: Everything green today
Best Wishes" There followed a
remark about oranges which RR,
out OF respect to the day and its
followers. will omit.