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Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-25
ELKS ATTEND
ANNUAL PICNIC

CALEXICO, May 25.-More than
100 Elks lodge members and their
friends attended the Elks annual
picnic Sunday at the Carl Fogel-
strom ranch near Manzanita.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-25

SAN FRANCISCO, May 25. (UP)-Assstant U. s..
Attorney A ZrpO announced today that special ses-
sion of the grand jury would be called to ndct two
victs for the murder of R. c. Cline, Acaraz guard killed
in Mondays attempted prison break
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-25
u. s. SHOULD MIND
ITS OWN BUSINESS
BELIEVES WELLES

BALTIMORE. Md, May 25. (UP) The American
people should mind their business regarding political
PHILOSOPHERS ideooges, Undersecretary of State
ner Wees said last night in speech American foreign
policy Addressing a dinner given by the Presbyterian
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-25
Bank Bandits Held
By Federal Agents

CLIFTON, Arlz., May .. IUP)-
Two men were held in Jail under
S25, 600 bond each on federal charg-
es of bank robbery today in cor-
nection with the S2632 holdup Of
the Clifton branch of the Valley
National bank here last Thursday.
The loot was not recovered.
The men were Robert Phillips,
S. a resident in this district for
25 years, and Sam Erwin, Solomon
vile, alleged accomplice in the rob-
berry. The complaint was signed
by w. E. Miller, Federal Bureau of
/ Investigation agent.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-25

Just Grand dam boom town. Disney Okla was
starting out under 3O-day "whoopee" government Deputy
Sheriff Jumped into the saddle and called "Hat The
officer also police shown above seated on his office
steps poster his utnatm Disney had at
publicity with trial between
administrations, but when Deputy Dunn
cracked whip, Miss Billy Baker mayor OF the
handed back the gold key to the city Dunn
is caught Ralph Roe recently escaped atraz
played prominent part in manutS of Suen
machine Gum Kelly pretty BOY
Floyd Clyde Barrow and Raymond Hamilton That's why Disney
would rather than allow him to resign
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-25
ROOSEVELT SIGNS
BILL FOR FUNDS

WASHINGTON, May 25. UP)-
President Roosevelt today signed
the $l,423, 098,240 independent Of
fices bill, carrying funds for opera
tion in 1899 of about 35 govern
ment agencies and commissions,
including the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority The bill includes an appro-
priation for President RooSeyelt's
$4,000 salary.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-25

YOU haven't read ALL the NEWS
until you've read ALL the ads.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-25
FABREEZE ) Room Size

Large size. all metal cabinet as illus
trated aboyel. ECU pped with a powerful
49, inch quiet fan This model has
a capacity of 1909 Gu. it. per minute
which viii czol all the rooms in the aver
age home. Complete at only ..-. ............. -
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
YECGMEN KILL AND
BURN, LOSING LOOT
Night Waterman Slain and $4,000
Fertilizer Plant Destroyed
At Richmond, Va.

Richmond, Va, Jan. 7-(AP)-Gun-
Cling safe-crackers today killed a
night Waterman and destroyed by q
fire a $4,000 fertilizer plant here in
a vain effort to open two safes con-
tanning $500.
The body of Charles Davis, So, the
night Waterman, was found beside hts
broken lantern at the Richmond
Structural Steel Company three hours
after flames had RACED the Bonedry
Fertilizer Company's plant block
away on Richmond's waterfront.
DR.. j. H. Scherer, Richmond coron-
er, found that the Waterman had been
struck behind the left ear and left to
die
Captain of Richmond Detectives A.
S. Wright said the thieves apparently
set fire to the fertilizer plant while
trying to open two safes in which
Edward Eppes, company president,
said was $500 and records.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07

the north to Teruel, and government
communicates proclaimed complete
defeat of insurgent troops. The in
surgents were seeking, by counter of
fensive, to break through government
lines into Teruel until December 81, a
strategic insurgent base in operation
toward government Valencia on the
east.
Within the provincial city, 100 miles
east of the city, remnants of an in
surgent garrison are still fighting a
snipers' warfare with government
troops. The garrison was cut off from
escape in the surprise offensive by
which the Madrid army fought its way
into the city.
Insurgent General Franco Frances
massive offensive Of infantry, artillery
and aviation was repulsed between
Concud and Teruel, Barcelona COM
munique said
Insurgents, however, held they had
established highly fortified positions
at heavy expense to the Madrid
enemy.
The latest insurgent attempt to
smash through to Teruel began on
Thursday morning, but Jagged in in
tensity at times during the day.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07

CONTINUED from rage CEe.l
and feeble minded persons, especially
Negroes, are being kept in the Neck
lenburg county home.
The difficulty now is the lack of
quarters in the State hospital for the
insane and for the feeble minded.
When the point is reached, as it
will be in Time. where grants from
the social security agencies are suf-
.ticient to care for the aged, the de-
pendent children and the blind outside
of public institutions, there will, re-
main for institutional care only those
who are in constant need of that
Kind Of treatment, either by reason of
physical Or mental disability, s.,sz,
BY establishing some ten to fifteen
district hospital homes, each serving
several counties, it, would then be pos
sible to remove all the feeble-minded,
not dangerous patients, from the. pre-
sent hospitals for the insane, thereby
making room in. them for the insane
who now crowd county homes and
county jails,. Mrs .Bost said. .s -
The district institutions would have
sufficient capacity to care for the ply
sically and mentally disabled, she be-
lieves.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
u. S. Asking Rubens
Data Of Soviets
;continned from rage une.)

ed on the State Department. findings
that Mrs. Rubens was an American
citizen. Her passport was identified
by American officials here two days
ago as that of the "Mrs. Robinson"
who vanished.
The embassy expected a reply to its
note, in view of the written agreement
by the Russian Government to notify
American officials within u hours of
the arrest in Russia of any one trav-
cling on an American passport.
Hitherto the Soviet government has
withheld all information on the affair,
which created an international sensa-
ton.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
FUGITIVE. RACKET LEADER
LINKED TO RUSSIAN CASE

: New York. Jan. Z (AP)-Louis
! Buchalter, fugitive rackets leader,
sought by both the Federal govern
ment and District Attorney Thomas
. Dewey, was linked today to the puzz-
ling Robinson-Rubens passports in
trigue.. ~ rs.
, Buchalter. and his pal, Jacob Sha-
. MIRO, who have been missing several
months, are generally rated in, police
circles as the city's most important
racket chieftains, their operations ex-
tending into the garment, trucking,
flour and other industries on wide
scale. s..<s,,.@.s F--s.s-~ -.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07

munications officials who established
themselves yesterday in the offices Of
three foreign cable companies in
Shanghais international settlement,
began supervision of dispatches.
.Twenty-four Japanese planes raided
the Chinese airport at Marking, CAPT
tai of Kiangsi province, a naval spok-
esman reported. He said Chinese
filters tried another air attack on a
japanese airdrome at Wuhu, but were
unsuccessful when Japanese planes
took the air, and forced the Chinese
to drop their bombs in the Yangtze
and flee.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07

robbing the following banks: Bank of
Montgomery, Troy, N. c., March 10,
1888; Commercial State Bank, Laurel
Fill, N. c., May 7, $3.50; Bank of
Candor, Candor, N. c., September %,
$2,93o. !.
Turner told agents he participated
in the Troy and Candor bank robber-
les, and in the $1,851 robbery of the
Waccamaw Bank and Trust Com
pany's Clarkton branch at Clarkton,
N. c., May p.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
T. L. Smith greets Warden Frank Boswell on return

r. I. Smi greets Warden Frank Boswell on return
ee their ord of honor Graves majority Of
M prisoners penal pententaries have
granted Christmas hoay
paroles policy permitting inmates to pass the mondays
with wives carried out for 10 years
and onlv about one per their promise of
returning photo T. L. Smith, an inmate re.
his He pictured
turning money Frank Boswell of by prison
-Ce trail
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07

site. The operators had closed the hotel because
President Cardenas had stopped gambling there.
The workers, some of whom shown above NOV
ing their belongings into cottage formerly rented
to hotel guests, are members of the Aqua Caliente
Hotel Workers Syndicate of the powerful Crom
union. thrown out of employment by the closing
-Cehtfa Pres;
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07

Now that Northwestern university
has been bequeathed a stable Of race
horses, Zadok Dum5kopf expects any
day now that track dope sheets will
form part of mathematics study.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
TURNER LEADS OFFICERS
To SLAIN MANS PTSTO

Asheville, Jan. z (AP)-Sheriff Laur-
ence E. Brown announced today that
Wash Turner had led officers to
wooded spot in nearby Biltmore For
est and pointed out the hiding place
of a pistol which was identified as that
of Highway Patrolman George Penn
for whose Staying turner, and Bill
Payne face a murder trial here.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
PROFIT-TAKING' IS 80
DRAG FOR STOCKS
Many Leaders Hold Within Mario"
Bounds After Revival on Heels
of Early Sag

New York, Jan. 7-(AP)-Stocks
found a little more rallying stimulant
in today's market, but profit-selling
after Thursdays sharp turn kept
many leaders within narrow bounds.
The list suffered a slight relapse at
the opening. Support soon appeared,
and early declines of fractions to a
point or so were reduced or, trans
formed into advances of as much.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
Roosevelt To Talk
To Business Men On
Production Excess
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long-awaited ruling that persons re-
ceiving unemployment compensation
cannot also get Federal relief. 1t was
estimated this would affect $4,000 or
10000 WPA workers in % states.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07


American Radiator ....... 10 -
American Telephone ........148 o-o
American Tob B ............... ~
Anaconda ..... 33 7-8
Atlantic Coast Line 80. ~ IL
Atlantic Refining =. 80. II liz
Bendix Aviation -. 1S IL
bethlehem Steel go. 81 "a
(.brvcler >. 50 3-8
Columbia Gas & Elec Co S-4
Commercial 8 3-8
Continental Oil Co ............ 81
Curtiss Wright -. 5-S
Dupont 80. -. ia 7-8
Electric Pow & Light -. 49,. IL
General Electric 80. -. -. 43
General Motors -. -. -. 80 IA
Liggett & Myers 3 ........... &C.
Montgomery Ward & Co 80 "a
Reynolds Tob B ............... 40
Southern Railway -. -. -. IL "a
Standard Oil N j ........... 40 7-S
u S Steel =. ... So 1-S
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07

In protest to Mexican government order expro-
priatng it for an aviation school, Mexican workers
and their families hold $1O,0OOOOO hotel at Aqua
Caliente, Mexico, which they seized in connection
with a sitdown strike against the government.
President Lazaro Cardenas of Mexico had acted on
the theory its American builders had abandoned the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07

Scene of Staying; Henry Baeste man. inset
hunted 21year-old hand following the
Staying Of all three members of the Henry Bauester family at
their farm at North Lima o. suburban Youngstown suspect
was reported driving away from Youngstown
wife, father Theodore were found cbbed to
the corn stalks IN the barn at the
farm
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07

top A. Ander Inflated Pamay American
gnbo which bombed sunk the Yane Japanese armen
hospital Shanghai He badly wounded in
the throat shell splinter Below James Marshall Eastern
correspondent the Shanghai hospital receiving
treatment for his wounds Ho the PGay during the attack
central Press)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
Jap Attacks Upon British
Officers Cause of Protest

tContlnuco from rage One.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07

Propheta Syard freshman New York C Hunter College,
three with ow
the MONTHS passed all
subjects highest honors membership
school
by doing housework. Central Press)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
Insurgents Have
Edges In Struggle

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
Oman Head Tells
About Confessions
BY Payne, Turner

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-07
District Hospital
Homes Are Talked

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-18
JEWISH RELIEF
PLAN REJECTED


News Service.)
LONDON, Nov. 18.-An emer-
gency plan of temporary relief for
175,000 German Jewish refugees,
suggested by George Rublee,
American member of TIE Evian
inter-governmental refugee COM
mittee, was rejected today by
Great Britain, France. Belgium,
Holland. Denmark, Norway and
Switzerland.
The plan was to have each of
the seven nations accept $4,000
German Jewish refugees. and to
house them in temporary camps
until permanent scheme for aid
ing the eXileS is evolved.
1t was rejected. according to in
formation here, because the ma
tons believed they might be sad
died permanently with the refu-
gees after they were admitted.
Representatives of all the seven
nations expressed their eagerness
to help the Jewish refugees, but
asserted that rather than accept
the Rublee suggestion, they pre-
ferred to await elaboration of a
permanent scheme.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-18
Odds 1875
On ApOStOIi

NEW YORK. Nov. 10 GN.sJ,
Fred Apostoli today weighed in
at 159 pounds and thus will SPOT
Young Corbett, Sd, one-half
pound in their 15-round bout to-
night for New York Boxing Com.
mission recognition as middle
weight champion. Corbett bal
anced the beam at 1912.
DR.. William G. Walker, boxing
commission examiner, pronounced
both lighters in perfect condition
and said he did not detect any
signs of the slightest nervousness
in either.
Odds on the battle remained at
Is to S on ApoStoli to win, and
Promoter Mike Jacobs said there
was a late rush for tickets presag-
ing a gate of $4,000 or more.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-18
BACK IN MONTH,
WILSON ASSERTS

LIE HAVRE, France, Nov. la
GN.SO.-Hugh R. Wilson, United
States Ambassador to Germany
announced today that he will re,
turn to Berlin in a month. His an
nouncement was made as he sailed
for New York on the liner Man.
haitian.
Denying that his departure
from Germany amounted to a
breach of diplomatic relations,
Wilson said:
Il am definitely returning to
Germany. I shall be in the
United States for a month, then
go back to Berlin"
II am not a bit surprised" he
said when informed that Ger
man Ambassador Hans Dieck.
hoff had been summoned to Ber-
lin from Washington. IT was
expecting it,"
Wilson made it clear that he
would give President Roosevelt a
thoroughgoing report on Nazi &C.
ton against Jews, Catholics, and
some other groups,
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Taylor Sent
TOLOndOn
Farley
By JOHN benson

T.N.S.) The American Gov.
eminent, in a statement by Sec
rotary Of State Cordell Hull, to-
day rebuked the Nazi govern
ment of Germany for its latest
wave of persecution, and an
nounced that this has re
doubled the urgency of finding
new homes for hundreds of
thousands of Jews"
Simultaneously, it was re-
vealed that President Roose-
welt had ordered Myron Tay-
Tor, head of the American
refugee committee, to proceed
at once to London to seek a
means of mass migration of
Jews from Germany through
the international Inter-Gov.
ernmental Refugee Committee.
Taylor will sail November
26.
Secretary Hull's rebuke
against Germany was in the
form of a revelation that the
Nazl government has spurned
all attempts by the United
States and other neutral powers
to negotiate a solution Of the
Jewish problem.
NEW HOMES NEEDED
Hull, in a prepared statement
said:
Developments of the last few
days in Germany have redOubIed
the urgency of finding new
homes for hundreds Of thou
sands of persons.
This Government is already
granting admission to these un.
fOrtunateS to the full extent per.
mitted by law.
Il am confident that these
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-18
LEWIS ELECTED
Clio PRESIDENT

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 10 Q.N.SO.
John L. Lewis. the Iowa miner
who rose from a mule skinner to
head industrial union forces in
the United States, was elected
president of the Congress Of
Industrial Organizations today
after a wild CLIO convention
demonstration. lasting half an
hour.
His name was placed in nomina-
ton by CLIO Vice Chairman Phillip
Murray and the delegates turned
the convention into a storm of
noise, snake dancing and music
that banging gavels failed to stop
for 81 minutes.
Lewis, who sat beside his wife,
had to quiet the delegates in order
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-18
Debtor FIees State
To Escape Prison

CHICAGO. Nov. IS QN.S0.
Rather than spend an indefinite
term in jail for non-payment OF a
$4,000 debt, Raymond E. Proch-
now today planned to live the rest
of his life outside his native IL
Nnois.
AS soon as the State supreme
court ruled he must go back TO
the cell in which he already has
spent nearly three years. Proch-
now fled across the border into
Missouri. Legal authorities had
informed him he could not be ex-
tradited for the contempt Of court
sentence imposed when he failed
to repay the money.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-18
U.S.. Rebukes Germany For Jewish Atrocities
Speaking of FIimfIom

Mr.. Roosevelt undertook, this morning to the word
fmflam in describing efforts to stop the dissertation of
the Tidal Basin for the socalled Thomas jefferson
Memorial.
It's not nice word but it pretty aptly describes this
whole proposition. For instance: how did the memorial
proposal ever get this fart
Here's what Mr. Roosevelts uncle Frederic A. Deano,
the chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, says:
"The Park and Planning Commission did its best
in this matter Ohen it first up but told the
Fine Arts Commission had approved 1t. Under that
circumstance we had no right to interfere with the
architectural pan though l. personally, disliked and
opposed it..
"Atter aOe had accepted the modified plan and To-
cation. aOe learned the Fine Arts Commission had
not approved the thing IN the first place. By then,
1t s0as too late. Had knowm the Fine Arts Conn.,
mission had approved the thing IN the first
place. believe could haze stopped it,"
Somebody was flimflammed there, Mr. President
For flimam read the hearings of the House
Committee Appropriations concerning the second def
cheney appropriation for the fiscal year 1888 More film
fam and confederation of Mr. Delanos statement concern
ing the Fine Arts Commission.
Now, to how many cherry trees to be lost you
said today only So would 60 For your information here's
what the very highest authority of the Department of the
Interior advised this newspaper several days ago. before
public indignation had reached its present proportions
Three hundred and twenty-eight cherry trees
One hundred ana tWenCySN ems.
Twenty-three sycamores
Twenty two longleaf pines
Nine white birches. ... ...
Twentyseven naples.
Fifty of miscellaneous type.
Either you're being flimfammed Mr.. President, we
are and the gentleman who gave those figures had
earth to fmflam because he has nothing to
gain by it. Are you the be said concerning
the source of your data7
Now to the ladies who called you yesterday, and
sang "Trees to Mr. Marvin Mcintyre, your secretary
Those ladies serious mission to present you
with petition They dgnfed and in dead earnest
There fimflam in their hearts, you may be
They love the simple beauty of the Tidal Basin is,
and they love the cherry trees and the other trees too
They spoke not just for themselves but for all the people
of Washington, the public support they have received
clearly demonstrates.
The flimflam in this Thomas jefferson Memorial isn't
coming from the people of Washington who want to
their beauty and protect of its greatest business
assets from injury.
Once more, Mr.. President appeal to you to go
your facts and find out who's doing the fimfammng here
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-18
MARKET
OPENS QUIETLY

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 Q.N.S0.
Initial stock market dealings to-
day were somewhat irregular and
relatively quiet, with minus signs
outnumbering plus.
Opening prices follow: Union
Pacific 941a, up /; Chrysler SO,
unchanged: General Electric 445s,
up h; Bethlehem Steel 1875. off
B: General Motors 1919, off %;
Consolidated Edison 1924, off "a;
Texas Corporation 44b, up "a;
Radio 814, up "; New York Cen
trail 1915, off "; Republic Steel
241a, off "; U. S. Steel 81, off / 70
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-18
Broker. Whitney
Omitted From
Social Register

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 G.N.s0.
The 1899 Social Register, out to-
day. definitely snubs Richard
Whitney, former president of the
stock exchange, and Ten Brock
Terhune, both of whom are serv-
ing sentences in Sing Sing Prison.
Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Terhune
and their children, however, are
included in the 1889 listing Of
Who's Who among the Blue
Bloods.
Whitney is serving a 5-to-10-year
sentence for misappropriating
funds and Terhune is serving one
and a half to three years for the
theft of $4,000 worth of jewelry.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-18
CHERRY I REE|
AID Refused
BY Pre- S|DENT'
He Calls Campaign
"Flimflam" Game

Describing the campaign to
save the Japanese cherry trees
ct the Tidal Basin as one Of the
most interesting cases Of a film
flam game he had ever known,
President Roosevelt today an
nounced that the trees would
have to go to make way for the
Thomas jefferson Memorial.
The campaign, the President
told his press conference, is a
complete deception of the pub
lie, and pointed out that, watch
ing it carefully himself, he had
asked his secretary, Stephen T.
Early, to get together a batch
of newspaper clippings cover
ing the cherry tree campaign.
Headlines Quoted
He fingered batch Of papers
on his desk and read hurriedly
some of the headlines, such as
900 Trees Must Give Way" 1928
Cherry Trees Doomed" Public
Aroused" "Ten-Million-D liar
Project"
He then repeated that, in his
opinion, it was the worst case OF
f1im-flam1ning that the National
Capital has been subjected to in
Q long time.
The President laid down the
clippings and said he must use
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-18
President Names Four
As Fiscal Advisers

A. Delano, chairman Of the ad-
visory committee of the National
Resources Committee.
The President characterized Sc
lection of the body as another
step in Administration efforts to
promote recovery.
The group will canvass the
broader problems in the fiscal
and monetary fields, particularly
in their relation to national in
come and production. They will
report to the President from time
to time.
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G.N.SO Appointment of tenn
porary board Of administration,
fiscal leaders to advise on the
Federal Governments monetary
and economic policies, was an.
nounced today by President Roose-
welt.
The board is composed of Sec
rotary of the Treasury Morgen-
THAI, chairman; Mariner EccleS,
chairman of the Federal Reserve
Board; Acting Director Of the
Budget Daniel Bell, and Frederic
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-11-18
Storm Warnings Up,
Texas 10 Florida

NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov. ID
UNsO-Small craft W arnin gs
were issued by the New Orleans
weather Bureau today east of Port
Arthur, Tex, to Pensacola. Fla
The bureau said there would be
fresh to strong southerly winds
shifting to northerly on the LouiSi-
ana coast this afternoon and east
of New orleans to Pensacola TO-
night.