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The Washington times., 1937-02-23
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LAWYER
FIRED
Girl Repudiates Aid
OF Woman's Party
In Defense
BY CARROLL PEEKE

RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 23.-In a
surprise move on the eve Of her
appeal Of conviction of numbering
her father Edith Maxwell has
shifted her legal defense, the
washington Times learned exclu-
sively today.
The 22-year-old Virginia school
teacher, twice convicted of killing
her father, Trigg Maxwell, and
now facing a sentence of 20 years
in the penitentiary, has dismissed
one of her defense counsel.
Further, she has asked the Ma
tional Woman's Party, which came
to her assistance after her first
conviction, to stop work on her
behalf.
Smith Sole Counsel
Under the new setup, Charles
Henry Smith, noted criminal law
yer of Washington, D. c., and
Alexandria, Va, will be her sole
attorney when the argument to set
aside the verdict, grant her a new
trial and a change of venue, is
made at Wise, where she twice has
heard a jury find her guilty.
In a letter to the Woman'S
Party, Miss Maxwell directed that
they stop all work on her behalf
and stated that in the future her
attorneys would be Mr.. Smith and
A. T. DotSon, her uncle.
This order removed from the
case former State Senator M. j.
Fulton, who was engaged by the
Woman's Party and who played
an important part in the second
Continued on Page 2, Col. q
The Washington times., 1937-02-23
EDITH |MAxWE IL FIRES | lawyer
Realigns Defense
- Ptesident Signs Bill for Dc. Auditorium Board
EdithMaxwelI Rejects Aid of
National Woman's Party

WITH HER appeal from her second
cOnUictiOn on murder charge soon to be
heard, Miss MaxOelI (shOwn belOw)
thretO bOn1bsheH by asking the Ma
tional WOman's Party to quit her de-
Tense. She wants as her only counsel,
her uncle, A. T. Dotson (WhO, hOtOeUer,
has WithdrdWn) and Charles Henry
Smith, of Alexandria, Va. Also shOuUn is
State Senator Gail Laughlin, of Maine,
attorney retained by the WOnlan's 5 Party.
International NeuUs Photos.
The Washington times., 1937-02-23
Times Readers
Get Books Today

Emergency shipments Of the
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rived yesterday and today Wash
ingtOn Times readers may re-
ceive not only "The Last of the
MOhicans" and "Vanity Fair"
but "Franklin'S Autobiography"
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cents per volume. Your carrier
will deliver today. Books are also
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change Stations.
The Washington times., 1937-02-23
Valencia Is Attacked

VdI0IICId IS HIIdCK5U
VALENCIA, Feb. % Q.N.S).
Valencia was subjected to two
rebel aerial bombings today, but
damage was reported slight.
The first raid came during the
night and the second shortly after
daylight. Incendiary bombs were
dropped in the harbor section.
The Washington times., 1937-02-23
8 Detroit
Factories
Close

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. %
I.N.SD.-MartiaI law will end
in Anderson, Ind, this after
noon, Adj. Gen. Elmer F.
Straub announced today after
q conference with Gov. M.
Clifford Townsend.
General Straub said it is
gratifying that we have
reached the point where we can
restore power to civil authori.
ties"
DETROIT, Feb. % G.N.SO.
While the double sit-down strike
of boss" and workers in one plant
ended, new labor disputes ap-
peared on the industrial horizon
here today with three plants shut
ting down and seven sit-down
strikes still in progress.
A Sit-down strike was also called
at the Briggs body plant which
makes bodies for Chrysler and
Continued on Page 3, Col. y
The Washington times., 1937-02-23
HOUSE LEADERS
D|SCUSSCOURT
international News Service

President Roosevelt today turned
his attention to House leaders in
his continuing efforts to obtain
congressional support for his
court reform proposal.
Approximately half Of the Sen
ate already has been called to the
White House to debate the merits
of the plan and presidential aides
said conferences from now on
CONTINUED on Page 20, Col. II
The Washington times., 1937-02-23
WEATHER FORECAST

Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not
much change in temperature; minimum tenn
perature tonight about 26; moderate west
winds; highest temperature last "a hours, 43;
lowest, 80.
(Weather Details on Page u .'
The Washington times., 1937-02-23
Seeks Reno Divorce

REQ, New, Feb. % QN.SO.
Prince Valerie Pigmatelli, San
Francisco social registerite, today
had established residence at a
nearby "dude ranch" preparatory
to filing suit for divorce.
The prince denied he planned
to marry again and said he had
pledged his attorney mot to talk"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15

lesuue. But it's the same old dish
differently garnished Most of
them have been reopened with po-
tential Gypsy Rose Lees just as
daring as ever in that supreme
art of yokel yanking. the strip
tease. A cheaper Broadway diver
sion is to stand near these show
places and watch the old boys
saunter up, look up and down fur
lively. and dart in like frightened
rabbits.
My burlesque education was ac-
quired in celebrated Peoples Over
the-Rhine in Cincinnati. Where
the show began when the gallery
bouncer raped and yelled Hats
off, Walters paraded aisles be-
tween acts with foaming glasses
and year after year we hailed with
delight Billy Watson's Beef Trust
Blondes and Snuffy the Cab Driv-
er. 1t was packed with jovial
commonness such as whangs on
the conk with bladders and lisping
psychological lollipops who minced
about in their mignon way. But
with all the rowdiness it never
permitted such vulgaritieS as the
strip tease. Men of family on nights
out went to burlesque, with wives
consent, just to give them the feel
ing they were raising the very Old
Ned
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15
News Behind the News
- This Complicated Life

WASH1NGTON.-life gets to seem terribly
complicated when you sit and listen to lawyers
discuss the merits and dement's of Albert Levitts
suit to have Justice Hugo disqualified as a MEM
Der of the Supreme court.
Facally, Levitts case seems quite simple to
many laymen. The Constitution says that no
senator or representative, during his elected
term, shall be appointed to any office the emol-
uments of which have been increased during
that term.
This year Congress passed the Sumners-Mc-
Carran bill permitting justices to retire on
$4,000 a year providing they have reached 10
and have served 10 years.
Previously there was no provision for retire
ment pay for Justices although when justice
resigned Congress customarily voted him his sal
airy for life.
Levitt says the emolument of Supreme Court
office was increased and that Black hence is
ineligible Then he makes his second point,
which also has been made by Senator Borah:
Justice Willis Van Devanter's retirement did
not create vacancy on the court. So there
was no seat for Black 10 fill says Levitt
The Supreme Court itself has held that when
a circuit or district federal justice retres in
stead of resigning, he. under a similar law, does
not lose his status judge.
One of Mr.. Levitts points at time, please.
Did Congress increase the emolument of Blacks
new office? Granted, say some of the lawyers
that it did increase the possible emolument by
statute. But retirement is optional. And who
knows whether Black will ever retire?
Most of the other justices are old enough to
retire but still refrain.
If Black served on the court for the rest of
his life, it could hardly be said that the emolu-
ment of his office had been increased insofar as
he was concerned. The increase, it has been
contended by those who secuted LevittS chances
of success can hardly be called more than a
hypothetical increase"
AS to the other point-that there isn't any
cancy-it was definitely noted on the first day
of the courts present term that Justice (or is
it ex-Justice?) Van Devanter didn't appear and
that his place was taken by Hugo Black.
If Black hadn't been there the court would
be operating with eight justices.
And if all the justices over 70 had retired
and it had been held that their retirements caus-
ed no vacancies, there would have been only
three of them-Stone, Roberts and Cardozo-
left to do the work. In time, according to op-
ponents OF the Levitt-Borah theory, those three
might also retire, leaving the nation with no
court at all.
All of which gives some idea why most of
those who crowded the courtroom on BLACK
day" thought it looked as if Black were firmly
planted in his seat
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15
Famous Sayings -
Bruce Cation Says:
= Reviviinq an Issue That Died in 1920

President Roosevelt's Chicago
speech compels Americans to take
another look at a question which
was supposedly settled once and for
all in the League of Nations elec-
ton in 1920.
For although this speech con-
tanned not the slightest hint that
this country should enter the Lea
que. it did point unmistakably in
the direction of international CO.
operation along the lines laid down
by Woodrow Wilson.
In 1920 the country turned that
idea down flat, and imagined that
its ghost was laid forever. But the
ghost proved restless. 1t stalked
abroad from time to- time during
the twenties, leaving its imprint
on the Dawes plan, the Young
plan, the German moratorium and
the series of World Court fights.
Now it is back again, as robust and
substantial as ever.
And it is about time for us to
ask ourselves whether the idea of
complete national isolation is a
sound idea to follow in a world
where the ties binding nation to
nation is as strong as they are to-
day.
The last few years have been
grimly educational. We have seen
the collapse, one after another, of
the treaties and unwritten laws
by which national security is but
tresSed. We have seen the triumph
of dictatorial gangs opposed to
every ideal We cherish We have
seen the world building up for a
new war that would be more dread
full and calamitous than the last
one.
Through all of this we have tried
to mind our own business: for we
want very earnestly to be allowed
to work out our domestic problems,
to find our way cut of the recur-
ring cycle of boom and depression,
to establish prosperity and justice
in our land SO that they cannot be
shaken. But to do this we need
a stable and peaceful world to work
IN.
So We are forced to ask our
selves, now, whether this peaceful
and stable world will take shape
of itself, in the condition things
are in now, Or whether we will
have to do something to help it
along.
The question answers itself. The
world is getting less stable and
less peaceful every day. Pious eX-
pressions of disapproval don't mend
matters any more than they kept
Italy from overwhelming Ethiopia,
kept Italy, Russia, and Germany
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15
Other Editors Saw
SPORTSMEN AN ASSET
Riverside Daily Press)


With the deer season on, attention is direct
ed to this and other seasonal periods that inter
est California sportSmen from time to time call
ing either for gun or rod and reel
That California hunters and anglers spent ap-
proximatey S8O000,000 last year in pursuit of
their quarry, is a report credited to the outing
bureau of the Automobile club of Southern Cali
fornia
During that period California sportsmen are
estimated to have travelled a total of $4,000 900
miles by automobile and another 100000 by
boat, airplane and pack train. Setting out on
the highways in search of sport and recreation,
these men and women released steady stream
of cash into the Golfers of resort keepers gasol-
inc station owners and sporting equipment deal
ers, it is pointed out.
Some OF the expenditures included S10500000
for transportation s11 ,248323 for lodging and
s24, ,429,203 for hunting and fishing equipment.
The angler, it is found, spent slightly more than
the hunter, averaging S11680 to the atter's
sl15.58 1t is an interesting fact that both
hunting and fishing licenses were purchased by
fifty-eight per cent of license buyers.
These figures, which probably cannot be du-
plicated in any other state, constitute Just an
other index of the varied pleasures that the
Golden State offers those who cab affordto
reside within its confines can visit it on occa-
sion, as well as one which yields some prosperity
dividends.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15

in billing AS press agent for his
shows. I used to watch him prac-
tise juggling on the old Frolic Roof.
He would show up at 8 am
unusual hour for an actor-and
work until the matinee. 1 see Bill
only occasionally in late years. But
in those days. too, on account of
his large red nose and speech,
everybody thought he was a per-
petual souSe. Yet he seldom drank.
Booze is fatal to juggling.
A restaurant picturesquely mel
low with days agone is the Smiths
at PoughkeepSie, where the famous
brothers got their idea for cough
drops and where they first manu-
featured them and started to bank
up a fortune. Pictures, the same
as those on the cough drop boxes,
hang on either side of the door.
One says: William Smith, born $780,
died 1913. The other. Andrew
Smith, born 1886, died 1898. Paddle
fans whirl above the tables presided
over by corn-fed looking waitress
the place has the pleasant
atmosphere of the cozy ice cream
parlors - those agreeable meeting
places in the prairie towns of the
Dos.
The raids and temporary closing
of the Minsky burlesque is to ap-
pearanceS only gesture. In the
version, law forbids the
name Minsky and the term bur-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15
The Pet Parade
Is Not Just a Gao

There is world of entertainment to
be derived just from watching such pet
parade as that planned by the Post
Press Saturday, there is wholesome en-
joyment for adults and children alike
in such display, and there are lot of
laughs to be had along the way, but be-
hind it there is more than just gag.
Imperial Valley youngsters with their
pets-everything from prosaic dogs of
doubtful family to proudly ridiculous
ducks and geese-will have their field
day in an affair where ancestry does
not mean as much as brains, and appear
ance is somewhat less than affection. To
the most cynical of US, the pet parade
should prove that the human race would
be in a sad way, indeed, if it were not
for its friends from the so-called lower
brackets of the animal kingdom.
A child who grows up without pet
is one who reaches mature age with some
thing missing in his or her makeup. Since
the human race quit swinging around in
trees there have been pets in every COM
munity. Sometimes they have played
an important part in history and some
times they have been recognized by gov
ernments and dictators for their bravery
or other accomplishments. But most of
all, they have been loved for the devo-
ton they gave to their human masters.
The devotion of pets is something every
child should see, and understand, for it
makes of the child a better citizen.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15
You re Telling Me
BY WILLIAM RIFT

IT'S THRILLING to live during
historic times-if you can somehow
manage to live through them. -
The population of the United
States increases by about 100000
every year. If it doesn't lcok out,
the stork will outstrip the Sunday
driver yet.
japanese government official says
Japan will conquer all China in
month. thereby automatically WIN
ming the optimism championship
for 1887.
HallOwerh doesn't frighten us
this year. All those war scares we've
experienced have hardened us.
General Franco probably has
come to the conclusion his rebel
lion is hardly worth while He not
only has failed to conquer the
Spanish Loyalists, but he isn't on
the front pages every day any more.
Warmth and time mellows every
thing, says the poet. Oh, yeah?
Maybe that guy just dotes on burn
ed toast.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15
Photographs

OF the nine us. presidents prior
to Franklin d. Roosevelt, only one,
Herbert Hoover, is alive today Wi
doWs of six still survive, only Mrs.
Mckinley and Mrs. Harding having
died.
Thunder is the violent expansion
and contraction of air caused by
the heat of lightning passing
through it.
Approximately 1,700 railroad cars
have been air-conditioned in the
United States during the last IL
months.
Technically, peanuts are peas
rather than nuts. They belong to
the same group of plants as beans.
When examined microscopically,
coal often appears red, brown or
yellow instead of black.
Mexico City is 7,480 feet above
sea level-the highest major city in
the world.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15

rom interfering in the Spanish
civil war or kept Japan out of
China. If the world goes on drift
ing it will eventually drift straight
into disaster.
The alternative, of course, is to
take definite and positive action,
in collaboration with other nations,
to insure peace and stability. 1t
involves taking risks and making
enemies. 1t means concerning our
selves more directly and vitality than
ever before with the quarrels and
intrigues of the old world.
Do we want to do it? Probably
not. And yet We may have to- For
if it is risky to do nothing at all.
We must decide which of the
two risks we are to take and We
may well find that when the world
is catching fire, we can be safe
only by helping to put the fire out
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15
Barbs

There are said to be more than
10000 empty skulls in the Nation
al Museum at Washginton. Now
and then, unfortunately, a few of
them stray over into Congress.
Members of Mississippi States
1895 football team. which lost all
Of its games, will be the colleges
nests at its annual Homecoming
game this fall. The boys have been
forgiven at last.
TrickSters did a rushing business
selling four nickels for quarter to
New Workers lined up at subway
change booths during the World
Series. Isn't New York the place
where they think people who live
in small towns are easy marks?
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, has
called for boycott of all Japan
made goods. But how will that
hurt John Lewis?
The U. S. navy is said to be de-
veloping a 50-ton bombing plane
with an 3000-mile cruising range,
and we'd be lot prouder of it if
events in China and Spain hadn't
reminded us of what bombing
planes are generally used for.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15
Another Kind of
Price Profiteerinq

We all know that prices on foods, raw
materials and manufactured articles have
gone sky-high within the last six months,
and most of US know that labor disputes
IN industry, high taxes by government
and misapplied governmental interfer-
ence in business have provided the foun-
dation upon which these high prices are
built. In all of this, we should not forget
that, now and then, the individual bust
ness man himself is to blame for some
part of the increase.
Chicago housewives who went on a
buying strike against skyrocketing meat
prices won their strickland proved pref
ty thoroughly that the retailer in some
instances can reduce his price-or at least
hold it to a decent level-if only he will
The Chicago strike serves only to give
point TO the proof. We have better proof
right here at home.
In El Centro, prices are higher-but
the increase has not been as phenomenal
as it was, for instance, in Chicago. Our
own merchants are so much part of the
community, are known so thoroughly
and are governed so strictly by self
imposed code of ethics that the increase
in prices of commodities they sell can
be measured almost cent for cent by
the increased cost generated by taxes,
labor trouble and governmental regula-
ton.
In other words, the Ell Centre mer-
chants increases represent merely an in
crease in cost to him-not an increase
in his profit. The same cannot be said
of retailers in Chicago, and in several
other cities where prices are so high
one gasps to read of them.
In relation to the national economic
picture, it is unfortunate that there are
n ratc VIII ko o6x of
conditions to increase their profit over
an already increased cost, and then blame
the entire transaction on the boost in
costs. 1t is enough that the government
and highly organized minority group,
labor, have brought about higher prices
through additional burdens on business.
1t is altogether too much when selfish
individuals in business add to the con-
sumer's already great load by attempt
ing to wiring from him even greater prof
it's
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15
The Grab Bag

One Minute Test l
l. Who is British ambassador to
the United States?
2. Name the foreign minister of
Italy?
3. In what opera is the Anvil
Chorus" sung?
Hints on Etiquette
1t never is correct fer a man to
take a Woman's arm when they are
walking.
Words of Wisdom
The tendency is to be broadmind-
ed about other peoples security
BRAND.
TCday's Horoscope
Persons whose birthday occurs
today may be very psychic. How
ever they do not let their intuition
become confused with superstition
One Minute Test Answers
/. Sir Ronald Lindsay.
2. Count Galeazzo Ciano,' son-in-
law of Mussolini
3. III TroVatore".
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15

If you cant think of that Chinese
Generals name, listen to car wheels
going over rail ends: Chang Kai-
shek. If Gloria Swanson has aged
in the past Is years she doesn't
show it. Not many know that
Bugs Baer can draw pictures as
funny as his paragraphs. And that
means high hilarity.
For one of those English country
side squires jogging along in a
cob-drawn trap I'll take Oscar of
the Waldorf. What Hollywood will
do to dignity: Ray Noble becomes
one Of the crack silly ass comedians.
They say j. P. Morgan likes to
prowl around the pipe shops here
and abroad.
A new Gable come to the movies:
Stowkowski. For a neat, Sedate and
dignified dresser it's hard to tie
MeSSmore Kendall Memory: The
embroidered splasher back of the
wash bowl to save the wall paper.
And Ed Hill remembers when New
York had but three columnists.
Which is a nice hunk of remem-
bering.
Claire Luce, a town toast for her
dainty dancing in the Follies, is
making London sit up with her
roles as a dramatic actress She
has appeared in two hits in a
row without twinking a toe. And
still another deep drama is being
readied for her. Miss Luce is a
natural platinum blonde, best re-
membered for her entrance in a
Ziegfel1 show astride an ostrich
the same bird that once chased
w. c. Fields into 4lst street be-
cause in passing he playfully pluck
ed tail feather. +-5t
In those days Bill Fields never
chirped a line. He was an expert
juggler, with a comic routine. so
Superbly done Ziegfeld featured him
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15

Bob Burns. Gloo-
my monuments to
a dead paSt-the
World and Tri-
bune Buil1in gs
on p ark Row.
Learn one thing
each day: In Jap
anese O. hi %
means good NOR
ni11O
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15
New York Day by Day BY o. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, Oct l5.-Thoughts
while strolling: Octavus Roy Cohen
sounds like a parachute opening.
What a pal Joe Miller has been to
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15

Indias white elephants become royal
property at birth. In the United States
they are passed around and wind up as
public property.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15

Charlie Chaplin finally has cast off
his tattered trappings and Hollywood
tycoons are going to think it over before
trying to fill his Shoes
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15
thoughts for the Day

Whoever hateth his brother is murderer; and ye
know that nc murderer hath eternal life abiding
in him--,John 3:l5.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15

In those days Bill Fields cnever
chirped a line. He was an expert
juggler, with a comic routine, so
superbly done Ziegfeld featured him
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15

IT'S THRILLING to live during
historic times-if you can somehow
manage to live through them.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-15

resident Roosevets Chcagofrom interfering in the 81