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Evening star., 1937-05-15

Southern Maryland National Bank Of
La Plata, Md.
In addition to Buckingham, Para
mount Communities obtained a loca-
ton in Tenafly. N. j., where it \
planned to build a similarly planned
community.
Commenting on the plans for the
Arlington community, Freed, presi-
dent Of the company. stated: Every
praise possible Is due President Roose-
welt, Administrator Mcdonald and
Evening star., 1937-05-15
THREE TRACTS SOLD
IN FAIRFAX COUNTY
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Floyd Jennings
Dispose of SO Acres in
Lee District.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, May 15-A tract
Of land containing So acres in Lee
district has been sold by Mr.. and
Mrs. R. Floyd Jennings to Henry N.
Apperson. Viola K. Spilman and Law
renee H. Spilman.
Rev. Alexander c. Zabriskie OF the
Episcopal Theological Seminary, near
Alexandria, has purchased a tract OF
approximately 10 acres, located in
Falls Church district on Seminary
Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willie M. Jennings of
Washington have purchased tract of
approximately 20 acres in Providence
district from Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin
B. 1den.
Evening star., 1937-05-15
SALES STAFF EXPANDED

Moss Realty Co. Employs Eight
More Men.
Eight salesmen have been added to
the staff Of the Moss Realty Co., with
main Offices in the Tower Building,
Fourteenth and K street.
They are l.. F. Cunningham, T. A.
Cummings, c. R. Graham, w. A.
Lynch, A. L. Palmieri, w. A. Richard
son. j. E. Tucker and Maurice Toilstoi.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
WPA WORKER ADMITS BRUTAL
SLAYING OF THREE CHILDREN

girls, Dyer finally left the body
strewn ravine and hiked over the
hill to Inglewood. He said he ate
a good supper, changed clothes, and
went downtown to see if the girls
had been missed. Sunday he was
noSey spectator at the search, max
ing himself somewhat of a pest to
officers by repeated suggestions.
When the bodies were found Mon
day he rushed to the scene.
II wore my WPA badge and help
ed keep order" he said. Il told
the men they shouldn't smoke, out
of respect to the dead"
Dyer alternated between sobs and
fits of weakness in which he nearly
swooned He refused food.
Ravished Body
Dyer wept as he described the
grim walk up the canyon to the
body of the youngest child. He told
of stopping to ravish her body. He
then ravished the others in the
order in which he killed.
About one hour after he had kill
ed the girls, Dyer said, he lett the
canyon and returned to his home in
Inglewood.
II don't know what made me do
it," he moaned when he was asked
whethe rhe felt remorse. He throw
his arms about a detective for sup
ort as he slipped partially from his
chair in a paroxysm of weeping.
He tainted while being question
ed by alienistS and his examination
was interrupted half an hour.
Dyer confessed the crime after
being questioned in connection with
the investigation on two previous
occasions.
Suspicion was first directed to
him by George Thomas Ray, Ingle-
wood medical worker, whose son
narrowly escaped being kidnapped
eight months ago. A desire for
way, prompted Ray to take an active
part in checking clues to the triple
murder.
He first noticed Dyer while the
slim guard watched Semihysteri-
cally after five Boy Scouts found
the bodies.
He called attention of Detective
Sanderson to the man and San
derson set a watch upon Dyer's
movements.
The two previous times Dyer was
questioned he managed to divert
suspicion.
Alibi False
Then, from Dyer's wife, detectives
learned that he had not been work.
ing in his garden the day Of the
crimes as he had claimed.
Taken into custody yesterday
morning, he readily admitted the
falsity of his alibi.
Secretly, in fear of a possible
lynching attempt by enraged Ingle-
wood citizens, Dyer was taken to
the ravine in the hills and walked
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

slowly past the places where the
girls bodies were found He cring-
ed at each of the three locations
but Stoutly denied his guilt and re-
iterated declarations of fondness for
the girls
A confession appearing near, he
was rushed to Los Angeles. Sheriff
Eugene Biscailuz said he feared the
prisoner would be taken from the
Inglewood Jail and lynched when
details of the confession were made
public.
Officers said Dyer denied COM
mitting the murders for revenge as
the father of one of the girls had
believed.
Dyer's 24-year-old wife refused to
believe his confession and charged
that officers had forced him to be-
lieve the story.
Il did it, I'm the man." Dyer
told her.
Mrs. Dyer admitted helping her
husband compile a scrapbook of the
crime. Dyer had collected clippings
from Los Angeles newspapers from
the day the girls first were missed.
The wife explained I'VE took the
same interest as every one else in
IngleWood in the case"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
New Manager of
Theatre Selected

A shift in Fox-West Coast theater
managers ii Imperial Valley. caus-
ed by the prolonged illness of Herb
Norris. former manager of the
United Artist theater in FL Centre
was announced Monday.
Ben deDici, recently manager OF
the Fox Capital theater at Calex-
leo, assumed managership of the
United Artists theater, and will
bring his family TO the county seat
to live. He is a British World War
veteran and well known in the val
ley
At the same time, John M Hill.
until now manager of the Valley
theater in El Centre, assumes man.
agership of the Fox Capital theatel
and Ray Dennis, formerly with the
Orpheum theater in San Diego. be-
comes manager of the Valley thea
ter.
Norris, now in the California
Lutheran hospital at Eleventh and
Hope streets Los Angeles, will mol
be able to return here.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

exploded and burned at Asbury
Park, N. j.
Attorney General and Mrs. Will
liam McGraw of Texas were in
jured in an automobile accident.
Accidents through northern Cali
fornia's Fourth of July weekend
took a toll of nine dead and scores
of injured.
Practically all of the injured
we're due to rirecrackers despite
stringent police regulations against
noisy celebrating.
Eight of the deaths were due to
automobile accidents on congested
highways. One death was caused
by a swimming pool accident.
In the bay region automobile ac-
cidents killed two persons. Fire
crackers caused a variety of injuries
to 40 persons. These injuries rang
ed from loss of fingers to slight
burns.
Firecrackers were also blamed for
the majority of SO fire alarms turn
ed in Sunday in San Francisco
alone.
Louise Crolle, 10, San Francisco
died of injuries suffered when she
fell from a Is foot diving platform
in a San Francisco public plunge
She landed on the concrete edge Of
the pool.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
1000 Troops Will
Aid Plants Reopen

Continued from Page ID
Truscon plants, all Republic sub
salaries, after Sheriff Martin l..
O'Donnell had issued proclama-
ton limiting pickets to IL at a gate,
ordering them to disarm and setting
up danger zones around each plant
where militia would have power to-
act. The proclamation guaranteed
peaceful picketing.
90
CHICAGO - Gov. M. Clifford
Townsend of Indiana received two
requests for troops 'to protect steel
workers" in the proposed reopening
of Youngstown Sheet & Tube COM
panys Indiana Harbor plant. The
Association of Steel Employees, in
dependent company union, tele-
graphed the governor asking for
the military because you are the
only source of protection since the
city police department and sheriff's
office have insufficient men to
handle the situation" The other
appeal was made by a group OF
clergymen who said a ballot they
conducted among strikers showed
86.8 per cent want to return to
work with safety, I. E., police or
military protection"
JOHNSTOWN, Pa.-Gov. George
H. Earle of Pennsylvania, address
ing a rain soaked crowd of 5000
strike sympathizers, urged the strike
leadership to stamp those damned
Communists out of the ranks" Of
organized labor. Earle sharply at
tackled steel operators who refused
to sign union contracts and said
his attorney general would go to
Washington to see whether opera
tors could be forced to hold N. l..
r. B. election. The crowd shouted:
Earle for president in 1940."
YOUNGSTOWN -Rainstorms re-
stricted a mass demonstration Of
strike sympathizers after Golden
had told a crowd of fewer than
1000 that "the next few weeks"
would prove that the strike had
not been lost. He said the COM
panies had lost the good will of
the people who work for them and
public opinion is going to turn on
them"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

IabantleS-three droWningS, l9 traf-
fic fatalities and six deaths from
miscellaneous causes.
The nation appeared to be re-
cording one of the safest three day
midsummer holidays in years Traf-
fic and health safety campaigns
and rainy weather waicn dampened
celebrations IN some sections were
credited for the apparent reduction.
The national safety council had
predicted on basis of 1896 records
that deaths in all 48 states for the
entire three days would include SOC
in traffic and 300 in drowning.
Today. 81 states and the District
of Columbia had reported l0s
deaths in traffic and 33 drownings.
In addition, they reported % deaths
from miscellaneous causes. includ-
ing fireworks, murder and suicide.
Hospitals reported hundreds in
iured by fireworks. but few instan-
taneous deaths. New York report
ed ATS fireworks injuries, st. Louis
and vicinity 100.
Worst single tragedy Sunday was
in the Gulf of Mexico off PenSa-
cola, Fla, where five memioers OF
one family drowned when a fishing
boat capsized. A father, mother and
son drowned in Arkansas.
In Brooklyn, nine persons were
injured in a motor boat explosion.
Gov. Harold G. Hoffman of New
Jersey was rescued with others. un-
hurt, when a 40 foot pleasure boat
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
IEAVY TOLL FOR JULY 4TH CELEBRATIONS
ELECTRIC CORD +.
KILLS YOUTH

CONTINUED From Page One)
Centre department was called to.
the Jerry Asher home at $40 SAM
dalwood Drive, where flames which
started in the roof consumed the
upper part of the house and a.
part of the walls, doing considerable
damage The Asher family was.
away for the weekend. Fireworks
may have started the blaze, all
though the cause was not definitely
determined. -
Two other minor calls, one to q
trash fire and one to a blazing
motorcycle at Fourth and Main
streets were answered by the Ell
Centre department. No fires were
reported in Brawley, while Calex-a
ico's fire casualty was a used car
in a sales companys lot, into which
a firecracker had been tossed. The.
car was destroyed.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
Valley Press

Published every afternoon except
Saturday and Sunday Saturday
afternoon issue now succeeded by
The P9st-Press, Sundays) by the
Imperial Valley Publishing Com
pany, 625 State street, Ell Centro.
California.
Entered at FL Centro. California
post office as second class matter.
Paul Jenkins, publisher; A. c.
Johnston, vice-president and gen
eral manager; z. A. Fitzhugh,
secretary and managing editor.
West t-Holliday Co., Inc, National
Advertising Representatives.
NJ m b er California Newspaper
Publishers Association.
Subscription Rates: sc per copy.
In conjunction with the POST
Press (Sundays), per month, Coo:
Paid in advance; months, $1.65;
6 months. S325: one year 5000.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
Roosevelt Gives Indirect
Answer to Tax Charges

HYDE PARK, N. Y, July 5. UH
President Roosevelt gave an indi-
rect answer today to charges by
Rep, Hamilton Fish New York,
that the chief executive had no
right to deduct from his federal in
come tax returns losses suffered in
operating his $50 acre estate.
The President, without mention
ing Fish or his statement, explain
ed at Fourth of July picnic press
conference how he was attempting
to make his Hudson river land pay
through intensive, careful forestry.
Fish's charge had been made aft
er Mr.. Roosevelt dispatched a spe-
cial message to congress outlining
methods by which, he said, a small
group of wealthy people avoided
and evaded income tax payments.
The congressman had declared Mr..
Roosevelt should not deduct losses
from his Hyde Park land because
the estate really was his summer
home and not farm operated with
any though of profit.
The President told group of
newspapermen who crowded about
his little automobile in 10 acre
patch of Christmas trees, that his
estate was purely forest, not farm
with field crops,
He said he counted on a $40 an
acre return from 80 acres of land
planted with spruce and balsam to
sell as Christmas trees. He hoped
that 10 acres of trees costing him
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
&hbat!M[:

Local Temperatures
data NcOmpiled by Howard Em
mons, observer for the Official
United States weather bureau sta
fiOn at Ell CentrO.)
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

Continued from Page Onel
fore Aug. 81 he will be hanged; II
later he will die in CALIFORNIA;
new lethal gas chamber.
Establish Sanity
Attorney Fits called in DR.
Charles Decker, who helped estab.
lish the sanity of Robert S. James,
convicted 'rattlesnake murderer" of
his bride; DR.. Paul de River, Los
Angeles municipal courts pSychia-
trist, and DR.. Aaron Rosanoff in an
effort to prevent establishment of
an insanity defense.
Fits also called in DR.. w. C.
Cook, physician.
DIR. Decker was puzzled over the
reason why Dyer pulled off the
girls shoes and lined the three
pairs neatly on the sand. The
alienist said he believed it was
probably relieious ritual or some
thing akin to that
Detectives Immediately started an
investigation to corroborate Dyer's
confession and held his wife, Isabel
as a material witness. Officers were
sent to search for handkerchief
Dyer said he used to wipe his
bloody hands. He repeatedly tossed
it into bushes beside the road as he
walked back to Inglewood. Police
said they regarded this as "clinch-
ing evidence"
For the past year Dyer had
guarded a crossing at the Centinela
grammar school attended by the
three girls. One of his duties was
escorting children across the street.
It made the girls acquaintance
by helping them across the street.
l went about it deliberately for my
purposes" Detective Leroy Sander
son quoted him as saying.
Lust Alone
Dyer allegedly told officials that
day by day he noticed a growing
feeling for them that was more
than friendship"
"It was lust alone he told Off
GERS.
Usually I work in my garden
Saturday afternoon" he told po-
lice. But on this Saturday I went
to the park to play and talk with
them. I stayed until noon. When
I left told the girls to meet me
at 3 o'clock at a soft drink stand
near the hills"
The stand was about mile and
half from Centinela park where
the girls had gone for picnic and
met him.
'The girls met me at the stand.
We walked about half a mile into
the hills to hunt rabbits. They were
talking about hunting rabbits, so
told them We would"
Dyer told officers he led the little
girls over the hills and into the
ravine to the spot where the ioody
of Madeline was later found.
81 lett jeanette and Melba sitting
there" he said. Il tolk Madeline
up the bottom of the canyon to its
highest point. | choked her there
with my hands. After I choked
her, took a piece of rope and tied
it around her neck to make sure
she was dead"
The rope was a bit of that used
by his wife to tie up old newspapers.
ROped Neck
Then Dyer returned to the two
girls and took jeanette up the can
yon, but not to within sight of
Madeline's garroted body. He chok-
ed her and tied a piece of the rope
around her neck
He then returned to Melba and
repeated the procedure.
Dyer said none of the girls strug-
gled, according to officers. He said
Madeline gave a little scream" but
otherwise they made no sound.
They didn't have a chance" Of
ficers quoted him as saying. "They
died quickly"
In fit of remorse Dyer said he
took off the girls little shoes and
sandals and lined them up neatly
in rows on the sand.
Then / prayed over them" po-
lice quoted him,
One hour after he had killed the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
$4,000 DIAMOND
BRACELET MISSING

SAN DIEGO, July 5. U.P)-Deputy
sheriffs today searched for an $1,000
diamond bracelet, reported lost or
stolen by Sharon Lynne, film ac-
tress wife of Benjamin Glazer, stu
dio producer.
Miss Lynne said she missed the
bracelet early yesterday after at
tending a dance at the Del Mar
turf club.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

about 500 to raise, would bring $500
into the Roosevelt treasury this De-
cember.
The President put another 300
acres in pines. larches, oak, black
walnut and tulip poplars. He esti-
mated they should yield $25 an acre
as posts, lumber and cord wood
The President enjoyed quiet In
dependence day. He attended
church and entertained at an in
formal picnic. Guests included
Emil Ludwig, who is writing his
biography, and the family of Hen
ry A. Mortgenthau, Jr.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

Los Angeles and vicnity-Fair to-
night and Tuesday; overcast in
morning; not much change in tenn
perature; gentle variable winds.
Southern California - Fair to-
night and Tuesday except local
-thunderstorms in east portion and
fogs near the coast; little change in
temperature; moderate northwest
wind off the coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
CALIFORNIA REPORTS
GREATEST NUMBER
BY UNITED PRESS

Violent deaths of 166
against traffic festivities incident the three Independence
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-05
LITCHFIEl.D Correspondent: Nellie s. Fair Erieve. Phone 5l3.
CATHOLIC CHOIR
 MEETS TOMORROW
St. AnthOny's Singers to RehearSe School
 Plans Minstrel

mind mass of requiem for Mrs. Den- his Hayes will be celebrated in St. Anthony's church Saturday morn ing at 9 o'clock. Choir rehearsal will be held Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock Members of the AL tar Guild will receive corporate communion Sunday morning at the 9 o'clock mass. Confessions will be heard Saturday afternoon and eve ming.
 COffiIl Tn Hospital
 No change Is reported in the con- dition of Joseph Cofiill, 8 pneu- monia patient at Charlotte Hun gerford hospital.
 w. w. Tileston VIII direct a group of Litchfifield high school seniors in a minstrel show for the benefit of the class. The show will be held in the high school auditorium Jan. l3 and will include novelty num- bcrs. Members of the class will be assisted by additional high school talent.
 Spains Entertain
 Mrs. Louis Kilroc and daughters. the Misses Marguerite and Gen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-05
MiDDLEBURY Eleanor Read
 Telephone l-674a
TEACHERS GOING
 TO MASS FARLEY
Instructors to Attend Mis- sion Service Tonight
 in Waterbury

Middlebury, Jan. 5-Tonight the Congregational teachers and young people are invited to attend mass meeting at St. Johns church in Waterbury, at 7:30 o'clock.
 Baldwin Funeral
 Funeral services for Irving F.. Baldwin, a Middlebury resident for many years, who died at the home Of his neice, Mrs. Edna Wheeler, of Milford. were held Saturday after noon at 3:30 o'clock at the Anderson funeral home in Waterbury. Rev. Ralph W. Rowland of the Middle bury Congregational church of- ficiated. Burial was held in the Middlebury cemetery,
 Rinaldis Entertain
 MT. and Mrs. D. 4. Rinaldi er- tertaincd at a New Years eve Pin, ochIe party at their home on North
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-05
Mary Firth Elected
 By Protective Unit
Anna Dubansky Resigns Secretaryship of Eagle Lock
 Co. Workers Association at Meeting Last Night
alarm of the new year answered by
al Church Meeting

alarm of the new year answered by the company.
 Annual Church Meeting
 The annual meeting of the Terry vile Congregational Church will be held in the social rooms Thursday evening at 80 o'clock for the pur- pose of accepting the reports of the officers for 1886; to elect officers for 1e37; to appoint committee to ar eange for suitable recognition of the tooth anniversary of the church, Fand to authorize the trustees to bor- row money. If needed, and to trans act any other business proper to come before the meeting. To Play Waterbury
 Due to revision in the schedule, St. Casimir's boys and girls teams will meet the St. Stanislaus' fives of Waterbury in State Polish league contests in the Town Hall this evening with the girls game to start at 7:30 o'clock. The big contest will get under way at 8:45 o'clock.
 The Thompsonville Polish fiyes were originally scheduled to appear here, but a change in the schedule has been made.
 Successful Year
 The annual report of the Imma- culatc Conception Church, as made by the pastor, Rev. Joseph Degnan, shows the church had a most suc- ceSsful year. Several thousand dol lars were paid off on the debt, made possible by the sale of the Lyceum building late in the fall There are 750 members in the parish. The vital statistics show there were IT bap- tisms, 9 deaths and marriages dur Ing the year.
 To Present Minstrel
 A minstrel show will be presented carly in February by the Fri Y Club, following plans made at a meeting in the high school last evening in charge of Miss Jerri Cimino of the high school faculty. Members of the lily Club will be asked to be in the cast.
 Officers Elected
 The following officers were elect cd at the annual meeting of the Russian American Citizens Club in their club rooms on Ames St. Presi- ident, John Klimkowsky: vice-presi- dent, John Muchka; recording sec- retary, John Markoyich; financial secretary, Louis Kopcha; treasurer, William Markovich; assistant treas- trer, John Kopcha: trustees, Paul Duke. Andrew Letitia and John Klimkowsky: comptrollers, Michael Lyga, and Andrew Lctitia: mana ger, Michael Mimchek: publicity, John Muchka, Jr.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-05

Thomaston, Jan. 5.-Although ptili maintaining hope the federal government grant for new high school building may be forthcom- ing members of the Thomaston school board at their meeting last night expressed anxiety in regard Co the S7.0O0 which is needed for repairs and Improvements to the Reynolds Bridge and the Brick ochoio buildings.
 Feeling these repairs must be made whether or not the town gets its new high school the school board voted to request the approval of the finance board to take the $7,000 necessary for the work from It's next year school budget.
 The advance to permit the neces- sary work being done during the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-05
SOCKET FACTORY
 WORKER SUCCUMBS
George M. Fohl's Death Shocks TOwn-Firemen
 Meet Tonight

- Cheshire. Jan. 5--Gcorge M. Foil, of Warren street, died suddenly at his home Saturday, after heart attack. Mfr. Fohl, who was 69 years old. had suffered with heart trou- ble for some time. He worked at the Ball and Socket factory and had been feeling well the day before while at his work.
 He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Behmann and Mrs. W. Earl Reilly; three sons George M. Jr., Lester and YOumar Fchl of Camden, N. 0.
 MT. Fohl was c charter member of Star of Comfort lodge, Shep- herds of Bethlehm. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon.
 Weekends Here :,
 Miss Grace Walsh. of New York. was the week end guest of Miss Bet ty Close of Ridgewood Place. Miss Walsh formerly resided in Cheshire. Cuinnipiac Tribe. Red Men, will hold a meeting in Shepherd hall this evening at 8 o'clock. Miss Betty Butler of West Main street has returned from . weeks
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-05
lNarket Much Ste0dier sAt Start OF Business.
Volume Began Increasing Leading Motors in Very
 Narrow Range-SteeIs, Oils, Were Very Steady

opened at 75 s-S unchanged; Beth lehem "A up 5-e; and Youngstown Sheet 6S Tube 76 5-B of ih.
 Standard Oil of New Jercc.y gain cd l.2 to 0o 7-e. Pure oil opened 5000 shares at 203-4 Up l-2; Con- solidated oil 1000 at 165-8 up 1-8; 6ocony-Vacuum IS 3-4 up 1-4; and Continental oil 43 unchanged.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-01-05
HEBREW JOURNALIST SISTERHOOD'S GUEST

"Highlights of the Palestine Sit- uation" will be the subject of an address today by Hayim Winer, Hebrew and Yiddish journalist at a meeting of the Beth Fl Sisterhood in the Beth El Synagog this after noon at 2:30 o'clock.
 The speaker recently returned to this country after a tour of Europe which included four years in PaJ- estine.