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The Washington times., 1938-08-26

fucker
Rejoins
Md. u.

DR.. Adolph Fucker, who three
years ago quit the faculty of the
University of Maryland in protest
against the regime of DR.. r. A.
Pearson as president of the col
lege, has accepted a high faculty
position at Maryland for the COM
ing school term, it was announced
today.
DR.. Fucker, an internationally
known authority on modern Ian
guages, especially German, re-
signed as head of the department
of modern languages in May of
1885 during the sensational shake
up at the university which re-
suited in the later dismissal of
DR.. Pearson as president and the
subsequent appointment Of DR.. H.
C. Byrd to the post.
HIGHER IDEALS
At the time Fucker declared
that he was reSigning because he
was unable to work under the
Pearson administration and he
was quitting to accept position
at college where higher ideals
obtain"
He went to the University OF
North Carolina as professor of
languages and later accepted a
similar post at the University OF
Indiana.
TAUGHT IN PEKING
Fucker first started teaching at
the University of Pennsylvania in
1916 and in 1917 was head of the
languages departments at the
Using Hua College in Peking
China, and later at the Peking
Union Medical College. He came
to Maryland as head Of the Ian
guages department in 1928.
The Washington times., 1938-08-26
HUNGRY BOY EATS UP
MARINE BAND EXAMS

T Owe for music yesterday overcame gnawing hun
- ger and 18-year-old Eugene Graham, of Waukegan,
Ill., won himself place in the United States Marine
"A &C.,. Bandit he passes a physical ex-
WUS1CIdnS animation.
Cheer Work Young Graham had date for
~ ALno:sG addition with the band, but his train
~ ~DV got in late and he had no time to eat.
He rushed to the Marine Barracks from Union Station
arriving with his oboe and violin just the band
being dismissed.
Capt Taylor Branson, band leader reassembled his
men, called for Mozars oboe and the hungry
youngster went through it without mistake. Captain
Branson called for half dozen other selections and young
Graham proved equal to each task. At the conclusion
while members of the band gave the youth wedeserved
hand Captain Branson told him he had been accepted
providing he pass the necessary physical examination
The Washington times., 1938-08-26

&tors can literally be described as
being busy almost every minute.
GET "EM ALL"
With the exception of pro
nounced accents, especially those
from the deep South, and the for
eign accents, the operators have
no difficulty understanding their
callers.
When the telephone first came
into being, the operator and the
caller were "just folks" She
could tell Mrs. Smith Mrs. Jones
number, and visa versa.
Several years later when the
The Washington times., 1938-08-26

Start the grid season right. Kick
0ff with Capt. Turk Edwards, of the
World Champion Redskins, SUNDAY
In the Washington HeFald.Times. Tel.
n. 123& for Home Delivery.
The Washington times., 1938-08-26
Washington Times Staff Pilot,

eral thousand long-distance calls,
and calls from nearby sections of
Maryland and Virginia.
SEPARATE BOOTHS
The information" girls, who
are picked for their adaptability
sit in separate little booths.
Though there are more than 100
in the long room, you cannot hear
their voices, only the muted click
Of the switchboard as they con
meet and disconnect.
And another thing. The operator
NEVER listens in. She doesn't
have time.
The Washington times., 1938-08-26
DISTRICTS new
JAIL WILL BE.
REVOLT
Safe, Hygienic Building
Plan of Architects

The Districts new" jail
made possible by a $1,600,000
PWA loan-grant-will be revolt
proof, Ray Huff, head of munici-
pal penal institutions and ma
tionally-known prison authority,
said today.
AS city architects began to
sketch final plans for the thor
ough remodeling of the antiquated
structure on the southeast river
flats, Huff revealed prime con-
Sideration would be to ward off
any possible insurrection.
DANGERS CITED
Huff pointed out the present
jail is dangerous because of over
crowded conditions and because
Of grave disease hazards. The
remodeling made possible by the
action of PWA will eliminate
these conditions, he said, and give
the city a safe and hygienic struc
ture for the housing of prisoners.
AS District officials got down
to actual work on final plans
for the new jail, civic leaders
hailed the PWA grant as victory
for Which the Times Herald has
fought for several years. Re.
peatedly the Times and Herald
have revealed conditions at the
District Jail and also at other
city penal institutions.
Jubilant civic leaders also re-
called that Mrs. Franklin D. Roose-
welt visited the grim old building
on Nineteenth Street last year and
was shocked to see the prisoners
herded together under almost sick
ening sanitary conditions.
FEATURES LISTED
Outstanding among features of
present plans for remodeling the
Jail are:
Construction of four new cell
blocks. This will make possible
incarceration of prisoners in in,
dividual cells.
A new powerhouse and laundry,
features which greatly enhance
the sanitary and human comfort
conditions at the jail.
A woman's dormitory to be
built in the old east wing of the
Jail, thus solving a problem long
perplexing to District penal Of
ficials.
Penal officials and civic leaders
did not lose sight of the provision
of $250,O00 made for improve,
ments by the last Congress, para.
mount among which will be elm
nation of the dining room
electric chair.
The Washington times., 1938-08-26
Di-M 4-I-I, PuLeese-
By ELIZABETH oLDFIELD


"TF4IS is INFORMA-SHUN -. :"
Mary Elizabeth williamson Duty at Her Post
Before her several books One resembles your ee
phone directory except the pages tabled and
like dictionary 1t contains of all subscribers nclud
ing those Of the last 80 days.
The Washington times., 1938-08-26

the Brightwood Citizens Associa-
tion, and is also a member Of the
Board of Trade, the Columbia His
torical Society and the ASSoci-
ton of Oldest Inhabitants.
Tomorrow ]. Leighton CornWelO
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
Where, Oh Where
J MORE CASES
OF SMALLPOX
SW ELL TOTAL

Two cases of smallpox in Cali
patria constitute the latest devel-
opments in the epidemic sweeping
the north-end of Imperial county,
1t was announced Wednesday,.
A man and woman travelled by
automobile from New Mexico to
Calipatria. After they arrived
physicians discovered they had
smallpox, They were quarantined.
DR.. Warren F.. Fox. county health
officer. and his assistants vaccinat-
ed 400 Calexico residents Tuesday.
They also vaccinated rs prisoners
in the Imperial county jail. DR..
John Fountain of the state depart
ment of health, and public health
nurse, assisted
Fox will offer vaccination at the
county health office in the base
ment of the county court house in
El Centro from a pm. to 5 pm.
Wednesday, from l to Thursday
afternoon, from 4 to Friday after
noon, and from 8 am. to IL noon
Saturday.
The number of persons vaccinat-
ed since the epidemic began late
last week passed the 1900 mark
Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12

SleQS 10 tne Alfred MIKES ranch
and brought here in trucks.
Belt buckles watches and note
books helped to identify all 10 OF
the bodies-eight passengers and
two crew members.
Meanwhile, department of COM
merce investigators prepared to
make an inquiry into the cause
of the crash.
The crumpled plane lay in a
narrow gorge between two high
mountain ridges the tail jammed
up against the wing. The fuselage
was crushed into a tangled pile,
partly concealed by fresh snow.
Theories on the cause of the
crash were propounded by many
aviation experts.
One was that ice formed on the
wings cutting the planes lifting
power, but when the wreck was
found there was no ice on the
wings. 1t might have been melted
away however, by the explosion of
the gasoline tanks.
Others believed a sudden down.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
G>MEN NAB
PUBLIC RATS

HOUSTON, Tex, Jan. II. CUP)-
Two Florida desperadoes, designat-
ed public rats number one and
two" by the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation, were prisoners today
of the Oman who caught them on
highway last night.
Director j. Edgar Hoover of the
F.B.I. in Washington, announced
that the pair, Hugh Cant, 36, and
Alva Hunt, 38, had been trapped
by Gus F. Jones of the San An
tonic bureau.
Jones. and two Houston detec-
tives, waited on the highway after
receiving word that the two former
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
MARCH 5 TO Is
SET FOR BEST
COUNTY FAIR
Livestock Show Will Be
Conducted on Biggest
Scale in History

Springing from the sound
foundation of last years fin
ancial success, the Imperial
County Mid Winter Fair
from March 5 to 13 this year
will be bigger and better than
ever, members of the fair board
told newspapermen gathered for an
informal dinner at the California
hotel Tuesday night.
Again this year, said President
Ben Hulse of the fair board, the
fair will be carried out largely as
an agricultural and livestock show
1t will give Imperial county an
opportunity, he said, to demonstrate
that it is an area unequaled for
agricultural advantages.
Success of the fair in calling I'M
perial county to the attention of
people in other areas was demon
Strated three years ago, said Sec
retary D. v. Stewart, when the
fair board was forced to cancel a
clipping service because hundreds
of clippings were received from
newspapers in all parts of the
country. Expense of the service.
which charges fixed fee for each
clippings, was too great.
Imperial county's Is the only fair
in the state operating with a 25-
cent gate charge, Stewart said.
Inquiries have been received from
as far distant as Australia as to
operation of the fair here, he added.
That this years fair will eclipse
any other was Stewards prediction,
based upon the necessity for en-
larged space for exhibitors. The
state has supplied $4,000 to build a
new swine barn and Judging ring.
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
CRASHES, CREW dead
WIFE CONFIDENT CLIPPER
PILOT SAFE DESPITE CRASH

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. IL (UP)
Mrs. Edwin c. Musick was con-
fident today that her husband,
commander of the missing SamO-
an clipper, is safe, despite official
announcements to the contrary.
Capt. Musick has been down
before. They will keep me in
formed. know he is safe," she
said.
Mrs. F. j. Mclean, wife of the
navigating officer of the clipper,
was reported prostrated at her
home in Alameda.
Mrs. Musick recalled thai her
husband, under the most hazard
Gus flying conditions, was always
calm.
In November, 1885, the Pan
American clipper was roaring
eastward OH the first survey
flight across the Pacific. The
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
CHINA STALKING
EVERYTHING ON
DEFENSE MOVE.
Million Soldiers Massed
TO Meet Attack of
Japanese

SHANGHAI, Jan. IL (UP)
-China's army leaders are
stalking everything they have
on a defense of the Suchow
area north of Marking, &C
cording to information today by
foreign military experts. 1t was
estimated here that 100000 Chi
nese soldiers had been massed in
the area to meet an attack by 500,-
600 japanese moving up in four
separate columns.
Foreign experts believed that if
the japanese smashed the Chinese
army on that front reorganization
of the Chinese army would be i'm
possible and that the japanese
would be able to free scores of
thousands of men to clean up guer-
rilla fighters drive southwark on
the Peiping- -Hankow railroad to
take Chengchow, and drive up the
Yangtse to Hankow.
TOKYO, Jan. II. UP)-Japa-
nese leaders as the result of an
Imperial conference, are complet-
ing a program of diplomatic and
military action which may include
a final effort to effect peace with
China it was announced today.
Copyright 1888 by United Press
LONDON, Jan. IL. (UP)-Within
one year Great Britain expects to
have a fleet of 10000 military
airplanes-more than equal to the
combination air strength of Italy
Germany and Japan on the basis
of available estimates-it was learn
eo today on high authority.
Within year the government
expects the royal air force to be
backed up by manufacturing Or
ganization capable of turning out
bombing and fighting planes at a
rate never before equalled, even in
the World war.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
FRIEND HELPS
SELF-AND HOW!

Hospitality of two friends pro-
vided an opportunity for Charley
Barton, 80, to help himself to some
of their possessions, so Barton
grasped the opportunity and the
possessions. "'"
Bob Wideman and Jack Harvey
invited Barton to wash and shave
in their room in an Ell Centro hotel
last week. After he left they missed
billfold, a gold ring, and pair
of overalls. Tuesday night they
found him in the county Jail serv-
ing a sentence for petty theft in
Holtville. They also found their
possessions there. Jail authorities
released their property to them.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12

theories came charge against
Francisco Adviento, 26, of carrying
a concealed weapon, and probable
vagrancy charges against Tony Ca
breras, 26, and Tony Peralta, 25
Adviento, police records said, was
prevented from pulling 38 cal
ibre revolver on Patrolman T. M.
Sharp only by the officers prompt
action in clamping his fingers
about Adviento's wrist as the Fill
pino moved his hand toward the
pocket where the weapon was con.
cealed.
1t was only when officers COM
pared notes Wednesday morning
that the mail robbery theory was
abandoned Tony Paralta, VINO is
only five feet, four inches tall,
took his friends to the station in
an attempt to prevent Christine
Tracy, 22year-old former taxi
dancer, from leaving town, Desk
Sergeant Jack Stark said. Paralta
wanted the girl to marry him the
officer said. On two previous occa-
sions he had prevented her from
leaving Ell Centre, threatening to
kill her if she got on bus or train.
Arrest of the Filipinos came when
Patrolman Sharp and 1echnician
Stillman Badger escorted the u.
S. mail truck from the postoffice
to the Southern Pacific depot Tues
day night. Seeing the three Fill
pinos in parked car, Sharp be-
came suspicious. He advanced to-
ward the car. Adviento stepped
out to meet him, jerking his right
hand toward his pocket Sharp
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
CAFE MANAGER
KNITTED DURING
VALLEY FIGHT
Brawler Arrested After
Eviction Struggle;
One in Hospital

One man was under a doc
tors care and another in the
county jail Wednesday as
the result of a scuffle Tues
day night at the Roma Cafe,
100 North Fifth street, in which
the manager was stabbed over the
heart when he attempted to eject
a drunken customer.
w. D. Hogel, 56, the prisoner,
was booked by police only after a
struggle at the police station in Ell
Centre. Louis Durante 553, man
ager of the Roma Cafe, was be-
lieved out of danger, although a
doctor pronounced the stab wound
over his heart critical
Durante told Patrolman T. M.
Sharp and TeohniJan Stillman
Badger, arresting officers, IN a t
Hogel and another man unidenti-
fled, had been elected from his cafe
for fighting at about 7 pm. Tues
day. The unidentified brawler left
the scene, but Hogel attempted to
re-enter the cafe, Durante said.
Durante attempted to push Ho-
gel out of the place. in the scuffle
Hogel drew his pocket knife and
stabbed Durante. The wound, about
two inches long, was deep one.
Durante was taken to physicians
office, and the police were called.
When officers arrived, the pocket
knife had disappeared. D. Singh,
81, subsequently was arrested in
the 400 block on Broadway on sus-
picion of obtaining and concealing
the knife.
Charges of assault with a deadly
weapon will be filed against Hogel,
police said
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12

convicts, had been seen in Jackson,
Miss, on Monday.
The men are wanted for a series
of bank robberies. They passed the
officers in an automobile. Jones
and his men forced them to stop.
Jones said both men were armed
but neither made any attempt to
fight.
Aileen Bledsoe, 20, who said that
she was married to- Hunt, was rid
ing in the front seat with Cant
when the F.BI. men halted the
bandit car. She was held for ques-
tioning.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
F.D.R. TO MEET
BIG BUSINESS

WASHINGTON. Jan. IL. up
Secretary of Commerce Daniel c.,
Roper announced today that SO of
the nations outstanding business
leaders will meet with President
Roosevelt Jan. 10 to discuss CO.
operative efforts toward economic
recovery.
Roper's announcement followed a
White House discussion late yes
terday at which economic condl-
tions and government CO.
operation were discussed by the
president with five top industrialists.
headed by Chairman Alfred r.
Sloan. jr.. of General Motors Corp.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12

of the Earl Trey and James A..
Schofield families discovered GA new
.38 calibre bullets strewn through
the alley between State street and
Olive avenue.
Schofield, who lives at 848 Olive
avenue, said a prowler has been
operating in the alley between 7
and 8 pm. almost every night re-
Gently.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
GRANDMOTHER 'ELOpES' WITH
BABY IN PATERNITY PUZZLE

A Mexican woman took her
infant grandchild and disappeared
Tuesday without giving the cOur.
an opportunity to determine the
paternity Of the baby she and
Filipino both wanted.
The grandmother was just orr
step ahead of legal procedure
when she disappeared with the
baby. Judge Vaughn N. Thomp-
son issued an order for the ba by
to be taken to the county juvenile
home while the courts determined
to whom she belonged. She left
hcme 80 minutes before officers
arrived to carry out the order.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12

press asked the company for
something c0lorful, exciting from
the ship.
The company radioed Capt.
Musick. There was long silence
from the plane, then this message:
"The sun set at 6:32 tonight"
Capt. Musick was one of the
few men in the world licensed to
fly any kind of air craft. He
held 10 world aviation records.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
Thirteen Indicted
In Sweepstakes Case

LOS ANGELES, Jan. II. (UP)-
Floyd N. Howard, chief of police
at Santa Ana, and IL others were
indicted here today by the federal
grand jury on charges of custom
act violation in connection with
q gigantic Santa Anita sweepstakes
late in 1896.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
SPECIAL POLICE GUARD PUT
OVER Ell CENTRIC RESIDENCES

Residences in the 300 block on
Olive avenue will be under police
observation during the remainder of
the winter because of the opera
ton of dangerous prowler in that
neighborhood during the last few
nights, officers said Wednesday.
Official attention was concen-
trated on the vicinity when children
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
COAST GUARD
TO TAKE MAIL

WASHINGTON, Jan. II (UP) =
Capt. L. C. Covell, acting comman-
dant OF the U. S. coast guard, to-
day ordered his Seattle division to
transport U. S. mail and govern.
ment officials wherever neces-
sary" because commercial ship
operations have been halted by a
maritime strike at Seattle
AS a result of the order, coast
guard cutter will keep the mails
moving between Seattle and Alas
ka and from one Alaskan port to
another, since the latter service al
so has been suspended by the Seat
lie tie-up.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
Warm Weather
OF Great Blizzard

CHICAGO. Jan. IL. (UP)--Unsea-
sonably warm weather throughout
the plains states, upper Mississippi
Valley and Great Lakes region
marked today the 50th anniversary
of the most disastrous blizzard IN
the history of the west
Temperatures held below normal
in the central and northern Rock
les.
A storm. centered over the ne.
braska- Iowa boundary, has moved
slowly eastward TO the upper Mis-
sissippi Valley and caused light ~
moderate SHOWS In Iowa and Wis
consin. Temperatures generally
were above normal throughout the
nation except in the New England
states. -
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
Strikers Protest
Official Attacked

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. IL.
(UP)-Striking United Automobile
workers from the Ford assembly
plant protested today that their
financial secretary had been as
saulted by seven men a few minutes
after he left a conference with
Chief of Detectives T. j. Higgins.
The secretary. Pat Malone, 81,
was severely beaten last night. He
suffered scalp decorations and he
bled profusely.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12

Mrs. Jcsefa de Suarez insisted
little Maria. 18-month- old, is her
grandchild and was left in her
care by her dead daughter. Nj.
Ancheta, a Filipino laborer, in
sisted the baby is his daughter.
Mrs. de Suarez had the Filipino
arrested for disturbing the peace
because he took the baby from
her home after flourishing knife
to frighten adults in the place.
Later he was arres.ed on suspicion
of child stealing.
Now the complaining witness
and the cause Of the trouble have
vanished.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12

draft of air sucked the plane be-
tween the ridges, throwing the
craft into a stall when the pilot
tried to climb out.
Another theory was that the pilot
lost his radio beam strayed off
his course into the mountains and
crashed trying to make a landing.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
PLANE WRECK,
SKULL FOUND
AT OCEANSIDE

SAN DIEGO, Jan. II. CUP)-The
rusted wreckage of an airplane
fuselage, with human skull JAM
med among its twisted steel, was
washed ashore near Oceanside to-
day, the sheriff's office was advised.
Reports telephoned from the
beach said the fuselage apparently
was that of a small-sized craft.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
Mail Theft Turns
Out to Be Love
Truck Robbery Scare Turns Out to Be
Plot to Keep Dancer Here; Gun
Throwing FOiled by Officer

What El Cenro police at first believed to be an at
tempted mail robbery by three Filipnos proved Wednes
prevent white former taxi dancer from leaving town on
the O'Clock train Tuesday night Out of the confusion of
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
All Aboard Huqe
Plane Die in Fire


today that the Aet had 70 wreage positively
uding
D. c.,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
SLEDS CARRY BODIES
OF PLANE VICTIMS
Government Investigators Prepared for
Inquiry Into Cause of Montana
Tragedy; Theories Given

BOHEMIAN, Mont. Jan. IL. (UP)-The bodies of 10
who died in the Northwest Arner crash in Bridger
Canyon Monday night held in mortuary today
awaiting inquest Wrapped in tarpauns the bodies
taken out of the rugged mountain last night
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-12
II AMBLING
KEPORTER

Extra! Extra! Extral Harry Hor-
ton is in the doghouse. Harry's
being in the doghouse may not be
news in ITSELF but when he gets
in the doghouse because of the way
he plays bridge-that's news. He
trumped his partners ace at the
ElkS club Tuesday noon. The
bridge fiend was a little off his
game--and his partner is off of
him.
Caught
G. b. Smith, attorney, was dis
cussing an important legal paper
over the telephone
''Oh, yes" he said in his best
telephone manner, "I1l bring it
right over. I have it in my rat trap
now"
His rat trap, we. find, is large
flat board equipped with big clip
for holding papers.
The AccOlade-
If Paul Eyer, new Kiwanis club
president doesn't say something
nice about Gordon Scriven at the
clubs meeting Friday, he'll be
starting his year off all wrong, in
the opinion of RR. Gordon was in
charge of the meeting last Fri
day night at which Paul was in
stalled as president-and grand
meeting it was, too-and it seems
to RR one good turn deserves men
ton.
Hopes SPRINGS Eternal
Mrs. Tracey Sorensen, the Cali
patria publisher lady, has purchas-
ed a 20-acre farm near her city,
demonstrating that she's firmly
convinced there's something in all
this talk about Imperial Valleys
future. That Mrs. SorenSen's al
most as good a farmer as a pub
Usher was demonstrated in one re-
mark.
I'VE always believe" she confid-
ed, that we'll actually make the
place pay next year"
Hire That MAN.
Speaking of newspaper people, D.
v. Stewart ought to be one. He
made RR miss the first part of dim
ner Tuesday night when he i'm
parted the information there had
been a stabbing down the street. A
camera, he suggested, might come
in handy there And it did. We're
little bit shamefaced about it, be-
cause Stewart was sitting in the
same hotel lobby-and he heard of
it first.
Where, Oh Where
Wonder what ever happened to
the fiery tempered old mother owl
who used to make her nest every
year in a culvert at State and
Eighth streets, and frighten passing
women and children by beating her
wings against their heads?
Remember?