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Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-15

QISIIICI COUII, FtdtTaI Judge LtON
R. Yankwich late yesterday impos-
ed terms of one year in Terminal
Island prison near San Diego or
father and son and sentenced Mrs
Bravo to six months in the same
institution.
Narcotics agents testified they
found 100 marihuana plants, pack
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-15

caped and locked herself IN the
house 4 few minutes later the
Negro lied and she ran to a neigh
Dors home for help.
In less than an hour the posse
Of officers and ranchers had begun
the search. Soon after nightfaA
Miller was found hiding under d
bridge and brought to the jail. He
was booked for investigation pend
m- fling oi d formal cnaIee tooay
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-15

ing equipment and sack filled with
the dried narcotic on the Bravo
ranch.
The son assumed responsibility
for production of the marihuana.
testifying he planted the plants and
-zold six cans of the dried drug to
an unidentified man. His parents
insisted the marihuana was used
for medicinal purposes.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-15

molestir2 MIS- Waldo Glover O.
resident o. the Tulare district
Mrs. Glover told authorities Nil
ler came up To her farmhouse askine
for something to eat. When she
handed him a sandwich. she sale
he grabbed her by the arm am
pulled her out Of the house.
After a brief struggle during
which Mrs. Waldo said the NegIc
attempted TO assault her. she e.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-15
Hoob erHeads W.
Convention Group

{ . HOOber. state delegate rom
Imperial county. Charles Wieman.
president Of the Imperial county
u10 bureau. and Mrs. c. Z. Cooke
home department delesate. repre-
ea.ea Imperial Valley at the an
rHal ate farm bureau federation
ron ference in Sacramento this week.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-15
VALLEY SEA SCOUTS
10 JOIN MANEUNERs

SEA Scout ships from HoltyLle
aud Wesmoriand viii take part in
annual Sea Scout rendezvous at
Newport on Nov 25. 26 and -. ac-
ea.ding TO Hugh Wilcox. scout eX-
CuuYe
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-15
Labor Union, Public Officials Named
In Federal Indictment Charging
Monopoly in Chicago Milk Trade

CHICAGO. Nov. Is. (UP) - The government today
named 80 public officials union officials dairy coopera-
tives and companies in indictments charging mOnopoies
in milk and ice cream.
The federal GRAND Jury returned two indictments Nov
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-15
Marijuana Farm Owners Sentenced 10
Federal Prison for CuIf;vafing,
Selling Mexican Drug Plant

FRESNO Cal. Nov. Is. (UP)-Convicted on charges of
growing marihuana without license Jose Bravo 63 his
wife Sanova 54 and their Jesus Bravo, 49, all of
Livingston under federal prison today.
After hearing evidence and testimony United States
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-15
NRB Prevents Recovery by 0agelng
Industry; Social Security Funds
hisused by New Deal, Says Banker

HOUSTON, Tex. Nov. Is. (UP)-Orva W Adams OF
Sal Lake City, president of the American Bankers
ciaan attacked the Roosevelt administration today an6
charged that the national labor relations board has pre-
venle3 recOvery By binding and gagging industry.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-15
Rambling Rerorte.
Continued From Page u

1COntlnUed From Page y
Gsed 40 acres alfalfa on cement
highway there is the story of az
cd timer tells about a conversation
On the Imperial-Holtville stage line
A passenger called attention to the
late Nils Jacobson seeding a field
along the Wy and remarked:
" He won't get his seed back.
sam Robinson spoke up. saying:
You don't know that old Dane
lied get 30 sacks if he soWed on a
ment sidewalk.
Moral: More depends on the
Man tAan he farm!'
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-15

NhoopS Boys
PaVloya wouldn't have had a
,Aanca and Isadora Duncan was
aiker alongside OF some of the bale,
technique tiled by Hans Merkleir
Noel Smith and Emogene Blackaro
during lntermlssion at the Ballet
Caravan MONDAY night.
RR hopes there were no strained
backs.
Evening star., 1938-11-15

transmitter on the plane. These
would be divided at their source. A
major part would 60 out into space.
to be received At the ground station.
A small portion would be diverted
to an automatically operating de-
vice on the plane itself to serve as
. standard Of comparison.
At a fixed point on the ground,
whose location was known to the
pilot, would be a receiving station
adjusted to receive impulses on the
wave length originally sent out by
the pilot. Here an automatic de-
vice would amplify them, change
their wave length by known mul-
tiple and resend them 80 that the
plane can receive back its own sig
Evening star., 1938-11-15

Doppler (principle). The wave
lengths of light, or any other form
of wave energy, emitted by any
moving object, such as q star, appear
longer or shorter to q stationary
observer, depending on the direction
in which their source is moving
The amount of this shortening or
lengthening depends on the speed of
motion.
Thus green light emitted by a
star moving away from the solar
system at the rate Of thousand
miles a second would be slightly
more yellowish when it reached the
earth than it was originally. Radio
waves differ essentially from light
waves only in that they are thou
Evening star., 1938-11-15

longer than they were when sent
from the plane. Consequently the
wave lengths which are resent are
multiples Of slightly longer wave
lengths than those the pilot Is re-
ceiving from the apparatus on his
own ship.
This results in an interference
being set up which manifests itself
in regularly spaced pulses-the in
tervals between those pulses being
measure Of the speed at which
he is moving. The speed Of the
pulses are indicated on . meter
which shows how fast the airplane
is moving away from or toward the
ground station.
The device could be turned around
Evening star., 1938-11-15

mails. This chain Of events Is equiva-
lent to q reflection Of the radio wave
from the ground station. The radio
signal received back on the airplane
is compared with the original stand
ard signal and the difference In fire.
quency indicated on a meter.
How Principle Operates.
Now If the plane were standing
still the signals in the pilots ear
phones from his own ship and from
the ground station would exactly
coincide. But he is moving away
from or toward the station. Hence
the Doppler effect comes into
play. If he is moving away. the
wave lengths which have been re-
ceived at the station are slightly
Evening star., 1938-11-15
New Device Measures Speed,
Distance of Planes by Radio

It possible for an aviator to orient
himself at any time with respect to
one or more fixed ground stations,
or for such a ground station as
division headquarters in the course
of a battle to locate all its planes
remaining in the air.
1t is based on physical principle
used chiefly in the past by astrono-
mers to determine the direction and
speed of motion of distant stars
and galaxies. This is the so-called
Evening star., 1938-11-15

sands Of times longer. They show
the same lengthening and shorten
ing effect
Determines Speed.
Radio impulses sent from a NOV
ing plane unquestionably are Of q
longer wave-length wlyen received at
I {? direction op-
posite to that Of the planes motion
than when they started: DR.. Gums
device detects this difference in
wave-length and this constitutes a
direct measure Of how fast the plane
is flying and one also can determine
by calculation how far away it is.
According to the inventor, pilot
would send out radio impulses of a
predetermined wave length from q
Evening star., 1938-11-15
Bv THOMAS R. HENRY,

A patent has just been obtained
here by United States Navy physi-
cist on a device for measuring the
speed, distance and direction of
moving objects-especially airplanes
by short radio waves moving with
the speed of light.
The device as described by its
inventor. DR.. Ross Gum, technical
adviser for the United States Naval
Research Laboratory, should make
Evening star., 1938-11-15

according to DR.. Gums description
in his patent application, so that
the determination could be made
from the ground station wishing to
keep track Of its planes. BY an
other calculation from the Same
data either the pilot or the observer
at the ground station could deter
mine the distance between the two
objects. Direction would be de-.
noted by the lengthening or short.
ening Of the waves.
Evening star., 1938-11-15

Italy's production of aluminium, 50
important to Italian economy, Is
nearly one-third greater than last
year.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-02

just up the road. One of
the men started to get out
of the car, and I tried to
hold the door until Lucy
could get away.
"Then I let go and started
to run, and l was getting
under the fence when he
caught me and dragged me
back to the truck. They
forced me into the back,
where there was a third man,
and he put a blindfold over
my eyes.
eve drove off at high
speed-it seemed as though
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-02
BODY COVERED BY BRUISES
after BEATING BY 3 men
Exhaustion Only
SurCedSe From
Ordeal

It was just 80 hours after Mary
Brown had been abducted that
the young convent student, her
body mass of welts and bruises,
her clothing almost torn from her
beaten body, staggered up the
steps of her home and collapsed.
Despite the Gordon of police that
had been thrown around in the
vicinity of the kidnapping. State
troopers, Baltimore detectives,
county officers and hundreds of
posse members, the kidnapers man
aged to get the girl back by aban
doning the truck they had used
to snatch her and used a car,
which passed unnoticed along the
guarded roads.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-02
BROWN DOCTOR
RUSHED TO AID
OF GIRL VICTIM
Dressed Wounds, Gave
Sedative to May

AS soon as Mary Brown returned
home last night, DR.. Fred r.
Sanderson of Chevy Chase, the
family physician, was called to the
home and he examined the girl,
dressed her wounds and gave her
sedatives so that she might OBJ
tain rest after her narrowing ex-
perience.
The girl Is suffering from ex-
haustion and shock. he said.
When she entered the family
home, she was greeted by her
brothers and sisters as well as
her father and stepmother. There
are six children in the family,
Margaret, 20; Mary, ID; William,
jr., 16; Lucy, Is; Kathryn, -, and
Michael, 10 months. All except
the baby are children by the first
Mrs. Brown, who died several
years ago.
Graduate Student
The present Mrs. Brown has
been married to Brown for the
past eight years, and is devoted to
the children of his first marriage,
and they to her.
The Brown family has lived on
the 170-acre farm in the historic
Oxon Hill section, only a few
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Girl Sobs Story of kidnapping by 3

IL was DelleNeQ IHdG WHeu
the shack is found, finger
prints and other evidence may
be found.
Boldly driving to within half
mile from the Brown home,
the men fixed the bandage tight
over her eyes, put her out, and
warned her not to remove the
bandage for 10 minutes.
She heard them turn the car
around and drive away, and it
was only then that she dared
pull off the blindfold, and
found that she was on Box
Road, where she was kidnapped
on Wednesday afternoon.
VERGE OF EXPOSURE
With her shoes gone, she
made her way across the frozen
ground and was on the verge of
collapse from fright and ex-
posture when she staggered up
the steps and@into the house.
If the kidnapers are caught they
face terms of 80 years in the Mary
land penitentiary under the State
law. The death penalty could not
be invoked since the girl was not
criminally assaulted.
But residents of the neighbor-
hood, up in arms over the kidnap-
ing, are uttering threats If they
capture the kidnapers.
RAID CONTEMPLATED
One posse gathered early today
at the firehouse in Oxon Hill.
The heavily-armed men blew the
fire siren to draw a crowd, intend
ing to raid a house where they be-
lieved one of the men might be
hiding.
The projected raid was called
off when police urged the men to
defer any action until the authori'
ties had an opportunity to learn
more of the case.
The clue that resulted in pick
ing up the truck in Washington
came from two men who said they
saw the truck parked near Third
and E Streets Northwest yeSter-
day morning.
Two men, one dark with a
mustache-a description that an
swers that of one Of the kid
napers-and a second blond man,
left the truck and returned some
time later.
1t was after this that The
Washington Times published the
description of the kidnap truck
and urged citizens to be on the
lookout for the vehicle.
This morning, they saw the
truck drive up again, and the
blond man hurriedly leave, carry
ing a bundle they believed held
gun. It was then they called
police and the truck was taken tc
headquarters.
In the truck were found
blankets, canned food and mans
grey suit. The supplies made de
tectives believe that the truck was
being used by the kidnaperS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-02
Mary Br0U11
Still Gone
TOPOliCe

Washington police, who
have been spending much
time on the Mary Brown kid
MAPPING case, have not yet
been officially informed that
the girl is home.
Alth Oug h she returned
about 1O:45 last night, Mary
land authorities have not yet
told local authorities she is
back. William Brown, father
Of the girl, did telephone late
last night to the Eleventh
precinct to say his daughter
had returned, but, since no of.
fetal notification has been
received, she is still carried ON
] the reports here as missing. ;,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-02
Put Out in Field

They drove her up to a point
within three-quarters of mile
from her home, ana put her out
of the car in the field of farm
adjoining the Brown property,
Before starting. they had
blindfolded ner. ana when she was
put out of the car. The kidnapers
warned her not to be take off the
blindfold for 10 minutes.
But the terrified girl had no
sooner heard their car start away
than she pulled the bandage from
her eyes, and started across the
fields.
Her progress was slow, as the
kidnapers had taken her shoes
from her, aud she suffered as she
walked across the frozen, rough
ground.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-02
Nice Happy
At Return
OfGirL

One of the happiest per-
sons over the return of Mary
Brown was Governor Harry
Nice of Maryland.
Governor Nice, who has
been keenly interested in the
case and ordered the head of
the State Police, Captain
Edward Nick. johnson, to
take personal charge of the
investigation. teIephOned the
Brown home late last night
when he was informed of
Mary'S return, to express his
sympathy for the treatment
she had suffered and his
joy and that of the entire
State that she was back.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-02
Started To Walk

When only about a quarter Of
mile from home, truck pulled
up and asked If they wanted q lift
They said no, as they were alnost
home. The truck then drove on 6
way, turned and came back.
One of the men leaped out ariC
attempted to seize the girls, whit
jumped ditch and climbed
through a fence. Lucy escaped
but the man caught Mary, dragged
her back to the truck and
sped away. "Luey ran home ant
informed her mother, who calieG
police, and manhunt started
with more than 1000 citizen
| joining in the search. #
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Sirens, Church Bells Hdil
Return Of Mary Brown

Fire sirens and church bells used last night to in
form searchers that Mary Brown had returned home.
While hundreds of men were combing the woods and
guarding the roads hopeful they might find trace Of
the abducted girl and her kdapers last night the siren
and alarm bells brought them the that she home
Several hundred rushed to the Brown farm where they
informed by police that the girl safe and the
search was called off for the night.
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miles from the District Line, for
the past Is years.
A graduate of Notre Dame Acad.
envy last year, Mary has been TAX
ing postgraduate work this Sc
mester, and went to school each
day with her younger sister, Lucy.
Wednesday was Lucy's fifteenth
birthday, and their father had
given them each So to spend. In
stead of going shopping after
school, they decided to save the
money and returned home.
AS they were not expected until
later, the family car was not sent
for them at the bus terminal. A
friend gave them a lift to Oxon
Hill, and there they started to
walk home.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-02
G-Men Stand By

NV that the girl is safe at horne
and no ransom demands were
made, there is no violation of the
Federal law, and so the Depart
ment of Justice cannot enter the
case. However, two FTBI agents
were on hand during the night as
unofficial observers" watching de-
velepments in event the case
should have become one involving
violation of Federal statutes.
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Continued from Page u

shaver, and explained they had
parked the truck while they
went to a barber to be shaved.
The men will be held until
the arrival of Col. Elmer Mum
shower, superintendent Of
Maryland State police, and
Capt. Edward Mex. johnson,
who have directed the search
for the kidnapers and to whom
the girl related her story this
morning.
She related of having been
forced into the truck, and hav-
ing a blindfold put over her
eyes, but she was not gagged.
How Mary saved her
younger sister Lucy from the
kidnapers was revealed by the
girl today. Relating her ex-
perience in the hands of the
kidnapers, she said:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-02
Lucy Escapes

"The truck passed us,
went up the road, turned
around and came back. AS
it slowed down, one of the
men called: Hello, girls, do
you want a ride"
I'VE said that we were
almost home, that we lived
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-02
Makes Way to Home

Wracked with pain, the young
girl made her way to the family
home on a 170-acre farm in the
historic Oxon Hill section.
Stumbling up the steps, she fell
into the arms of Robert Manning
retired Washington detective and
an old friend of the family.
Her father and stepmother,
worn by many sleepless hours
and worry, had gone upstairs to
try to get a little rest. They were
Immediately summoned, and the
girl threw herself into their arms,
Sobbing:
Daddy. daddy, daddy .
Mother, mother, mother ="
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Held Near Home

Mrs. Brown soothed the trem-
bling girl in her arms:
My baby. my baby, don't try
to tell us now. You're home
and safe, and that is all that
matters to us. Don't try to think
about it now"
But the girl could not get over
the horrors she had experienced,
until finally exhaustion sent her
off to sleep.
She did not believe, she said.
that she had been taken more than
five or six miles from her home
and this statement resulted in a
feverish rush of police activity.
More than a score of policemen
in cars and motorcycles were
drawn into a Gordon around this
area, with orders to let no car Of
truck through without stopping il
and getting satisfactory Identified
ton from the occupants.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-02
Doctor Called

Because of her condition, no
effort was made by the family
or police to question her. She was
given warm clothing, and a cup
of broth, the first food she had
had in almost two days.
Then she was given a Sedative
and a doctor summoned while
the girl told her story, broken
story that made her shiver with
apprehension as she told of the
horrors she had undergone.
There were three men, not two
as first believed, who held her
captive in the truck for all those
hours, abusing her horribly, she
related. But she said there had
been no criminal attack, and this
was born out by a medical exami-
nation
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Fights AttGcker

IT fought him off, and then
he hit me in tS>e stomach, and
I was knocked unconscious.
I guess I was unconscious
about eighth hours.
"Some time yesterday aft
ernoon-it was daylight
they put me in a sedan and
drove around until finally
they let me out"
The men conversed in whis.
pers, she said, and she heard
them discussing plans for OBJ
tanning ransom. 1t was ther
that she pleaded with them tt
release her, telling them hel
father did not have any money
to pay them.
When they finally became
convinced that she came from
a family that did not have great
wealth, they discussed the mat.
ter at length and finally agreed
"they did not want anything
more to do with her"
DRIVEN HOME
They put her in a car, she
believes, and started to drive
her home. The car was used
instead of the truck, authori
ties believe, because police were
guarding the roads looking fol
a light, black-panel delivery
truck.
As soon as she had com
pleted her story, all available
police were ordered to star
searching for the shack, which
is believed to be within a ra
dius of eight miles.
Scores of residents of tn
neighborhood were presseC
into service to aid police il
the search.
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it must be 70 mile an hour
and drove for hours, until
maybe 2:30 in the morning.
"Then they stopped and
moved me into a closed car.
a sedan it seemed to be, and
drove for about another
hour.
'Then we came to the
shack, and they took me in
side. They tore off my
clothes, and one of the men
attempted to attack me.
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Ground Inspected

With the coming of dawn today
the police and civilian posses
started to inspect every foot of
ground in this area, in an effort to
find just where the girl had been
held.
When word that the girl was
safe at home was given out, fire
sirens and church bells were
sounded to spread the news. But
when her condition was learned.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-02
Knocked Her Out

Ciinging to her stepmother, the
girl sobbed:
They hit me. They hit me
SO. they knocked me out sew
eral times. they kept me in
the car all the time and they
hurt me. :. / don't know where
they took me or how they
brought me back.
Il was blindfolded when they
put me out. they told me to
wait 10 minutes before I moved
L was terrified, thinking they
might hurt me some more.
When I heard their car go I
took off the blindfold and, when
I finally could see, found I was
back on Box Road. there was
nobody around. 30 I started to
walk it was so cold"