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The Washington times., 1938-07-18
Tick FeUer
Takes I'd
Victim

Rocky Mountain spotted fever
dread malady that follows the
bite Of certain ticks, claimed its
second victim in the Capital area
yesterday when William M. Of.
futt, 80, of Garrett Park, Md, as.
sistant auditor of the Washington
Loan and Trust Company, died
after a Today illness.
His brother, A. Scott Offutt,
vice president of the City Bank of
Washington, reported Mr.. Offutt
had been bitten by a tick while
golfing several weeks ago, and it is
believed the fatal infection was
transmitted at that time. Posi-,
tive diagnosis was not made until
last Friday, however.
Surviving the victim are his
widow, Mrs. Lillian F. Offutt, and
two children, William M, jr., 7,
and Thomas Lee Offutt, S. Mr.,
Offutt was the son of the late
Hilleary L. and Katherine Peter
Offutt, Of Garrett Park.
Funeral services will be held at
the William R. Pumphrey funeral
home, 7005 Wisconsin Ave. N. W.
at $50 p. m. today, and burial
will follow in Darnstown Gene
terry.
The Washington times., 1938-07-18

Fire which started yesterday aft.
ernoon continued through the
night and was still burning today,
despite efforts of fire departments
! of eight cities and towns aided by
hundreds of volunteers.
THREE KILLED
The fire was accompanied by
series of explosions, one of which
hurled a 2,500-gallon tank high in
the air to come down 300 feet
away across the Genesee River,
killing three of the hundreds who
had gathered to watch the fire.
Two of the dead were identified
as Robert Powers, Al, and Eugene
Mccormick, AZ. The third man
as tentatively identified as Wal
ter Nader, 80, but the body was
so badly charred that positive
Identification was not immedi
ately possible.
SECOND BLAST
A second terrific blast early to
day hampered the rescue crews as
they worked with acetylene torches
to cut through the tangled debris
in search of other bodies believed
to be buried beneath the wreck
age.
Unable to cope with the blaze
local firemen appealed and re
ceived aid from surrounding
towns. At times more than 1000
The Washington times., 1938-07-18

affixed to a petition for a divorce.
The petition, she said, will be
filed in a Los Angeles court some
time this week, and Johnny will
not contest it.
This time it is not publicity"
the actress said. Il have tried
hard, but we just can't get along.
I love him and ne loves me, but
we are both much happier when
we are apart"
"A DIFFERENT GIRL"
while I was in New York
on the stage, away from him
and our constant quarreling, 1
was an entirely different girl"
The Washington times., 1938-07-18
PORK PALS
.26th Sandwich Ruins
Carlos Quest of SIS

DETROIT, July 18 Q.NS0.
It wasn't the quality but the lack
of variety in the taste at the half
way mark, that forced Carlos
Ventimiglia to lose his $5 bet he
could eat so sandwiches.
On the twenty-sixth pork sand
wich, 23Spound Carlos gave up,
saying:
"The taste got me. I wasn't
full. It wasn't that. But the
same taste, sandwich after
sandwich, got me. I had to
quit"
Carlos is II years old and ex-
plains he'll do better at this eat
ing business when he gets his "full
growth"
The Washington times., 1938-07-18

For once deadly CAIN, bupe SAID
that she and Johnny, seasoned
veterans of amazing domestic
battles and separations which have
become part of the Hollywood
scene, have fought their last battle
as man and wife.
JOHNNY SILENT
Johnny, as usual, said nothing.
But the finality of Lupe's an
nouncement would make futile
any expression of hope by her
husband of five and a half years
that matters could be patched up
again.
Lupe said a property settlement
with the ex-Olympic swimming
star already has been arranged
and that her signature has been
The Washington times., 1938-07-18
Jerseyite Exhausted
Seeking Swim Record

BAYONNE, N. j., July 10
G.N.SD.-Adam Majewski, 27-
year-old Newark factory worker,
today was treated for exhaustion
in a Bayonne hospital following
an unsuccessful attempt to swim
from Newark to the Statue of
Liberty.
Majewski had completed about
is of the % miles when picked up
by his convoy boat and brought
here. He was attempting to bet
ter his own mark of nine hours
for the distance made in 1892.
The Washington times., 1938-07-18
CLAW MACHINES
OUTLAWED HERE
BY HIGH COURT
Appeals Bench Decision
Calls Them Gambling

Operation of claw machines,
which a year ago furnished di-
version in several hundred drug
stores and restaurants Of the city,
is illegal and the devices must be
forever banned from the District,
the Court of Appeals ruled today.
The ruling of the higher court
affirmed previous action of the
District Court when a year ago
jury reported a directed verdict
upholding police seizure of three
of the machines on grounds that
as games of chance they were
"evil channels" and their opera
ton was illegal.
WOMAN PURVEYOR
Mrs. Freda Boosallis, reputed to
be the largest purveyer of claw
machines in the District, was
owner of the three seized ma
chimes and the test suit was in the
nature of a replevin action against
Howard E. Crawford, police de-
partment property clerk, as Gus
todian of the contraband devices.
Associate Justice Harold N.
Stephens wrote the higher court
opinion pointing out that the basic
question in the appeal was whether
the trial judge was justified in
directing the jury verdict.
JUSTICES OPINION
After detailing the operation Of
the machine, Justice Stephens
said:
Under these circum-
stances, no reasonable juryman
could reach a conclusion that
these machines were not gam
bling devices within the mean
ing of the statute. Even giving
the appellant the benefit Of an
assumption that the evidence
establishes that skill played q
part in suspending the claw in
the vicinity of a desired article,
no other conclusion could rea-
sonably be reached than that,
on the whole of the operation of
the machines according to direc-
tionS, chance predominated over
skill or was present in such q
manner as to thwart the exer.
else of skill. Under these facts.
the device operates as a game Of
chance"
The Washington times., 1938-07-18
Map locates WellsUille, N.
Y. (A), where fire ragged
in Sinclair refinery.

men were engaged in battling the
flames and early today checked
them to such a degree that nearby
property is no longer endangered.
The fire started in the wax
plant and soon swept to an area
in which several storage tanks
were located. Several detonations
followed, each blast sending
flames Skyward. These destroyed
the refinery's emergency system
forced the fire-fighterS to pump
water from the Genesee River.
The Washington times., 1938-07-18
Burden of Poor:
PARLEY HERE
TOLD TERRIFIC
DISEASE TOLL
Low Income Fami-
lies Chief Victims

Fifty million American families
receive less than $1,000 income a
year. In these, illness and death
have their maximum toll-for i'll
ness and death increase as in
come goes down. Medical care
decreases sharply in exactly the
spots where the most imminent
need for its mounts.
That was the statement made
this morning before the National
Health Conference, at the Hotel
Mayflower, by Miss Josephine
Roche, chairman of the Presi-
dents Interdepartmentl Commit
tee to Coordinate Health and Wei
fare Activities.
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
Miss Roche read message from
the President, in which he de-
clared:
'"The problems before you are
in a real sense, public problems.
The ways and means Of dealing
with them must be determined
with a view to the best interests
Of all our citizens"
Miss Roche told the assembled
physicians, public-health workers,
labor representatives, and dele
gates from citizen groups, that:
1.-The gross sickness and NOR
tality rates for the poor of our
large cities are as high today
as they were for the whole ma
tion a half a century ago. One
in every 20 family heads in the
relief population is unable to
work because of chronic disab-
ility, contrasted with only one
in $50 heads of families with in
comes of $4,000 or over"
LACK OF PHYSICIANS
Miss Katherine Lenroot, chief
of the Children'S Bureau, United
States Department of Labor,
who followed Miss Roche, de-
Clared:
I'm a Northwestern State
two-thirds Of the population do
not have funds for medical and
dental care and some counties
have no physicians. In a Middle
Atlantic State, county health Of
ficers estimated that one-third Of
the public health and nursing
effort in the State. is fruitless
because Of lack of adequate shell
ter, coal, food, clothing.
DR.. Thomas Parran, Surgeon
General of the United States
Public Health Service, reported:
"It is not unlikely that public
health may be the next great
social issue in this country. It
is true that if the economists
could show us how to produce
and distribute an income equal
for the health and other needs
Of every family, the need for
many public health measures
would be minimized.
UNSOLVED PROBLEMS
Though we are gaining
ground against infantile paraly-
sis, we do not yet have a uni
versally successful means of pre-
vention. A less costly treatment
for pneumonia would bring it
within the reach Of more family
budgets. Against many forms of
cancer present treatment is in
effective. We still are hopeless to
prevent the common cold and
influenza. The list could be ex.
panded, but it is enough to say
that medicine is art and not yet
q science in dealing with many
causes Of sickness and pre-
mature death"
The conference will be in session
for three days. and will hear many
noted lay and professional speak
ers on the special assigned topics
Of public health.
The Washington times., 1938-07-18
1000 Firemen Battle to Bring Flame:
Under Control; 40 Persons Hurt
international News Sound Photo

WELLSVILLE N. Y. July 18 (IN.S).-With at least three
lives known have been lost and 40 persons injured
worked feverishy in the still burning and still exploding
of section of the Sinclair Oil Company refinery here
day, searching for additional dead or injured.
The Washington times., 1938-07-18

"In give you line" he said "A very good
line"
Here is the Lewis line:
"ActOrs, prizefighters and baseball players
shouldn't be consulted beforehand on the excel
lence of their performance. They are all uni.
form OptimiSt&"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08

L. Moore and Gordon Scriven. the
plan was held for further study.
Cages presentation was made
after Mayor Herbert Fawcett called
the adjourned meeting to order "for
the purpose of receiving any offers
or proposals for supplying power 70
the city, The Nev-Cal offer was
read and Cage commented, estimat--
ing the city's yearly power bill, now
approximately $4,000, would be re-
duced by $250O under the company's
plan.
Cage called particular attention
to the last provision of the proposed
contract which read:
"In the event that at any time
during the term of the agreement
=. a bona fide offer is made the
city by any other . agency ready
to furnish the city with a re-
liable source of power at a rate
below that effective under this
agreement, the corporation will meet
the lower rate or release the
city. :"
Cage said, "By this provision,
should any other power agency,
which of course means the district,
enter the power field in the mean
time, the Nev-Cal will either meet
ire 1Ouact offer Or retire ,,
Continued on Page 2; Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08
Railway Labor Takes Wage
Cut Fight Into Congress
Government Control of
Roads Proposed
By Workers
PosT-PREss PHOTO-ENGRAv1NG

WASHINGTON, June 8.
(UP)-Railway labor today
sought to transfer to con-
gress its fight against a Is
per cent wage cut July 1,
with proposal for government
operation of the railroads if media
ton fails to settle the controversy
The wage fight has thus far
blocked legislation to aid the rail-
roads in their financial emergency,
although President Roosevelt was
reported today to be bringing pres
sure to bear for some form of legis-
lative assistance.
Representatives of the railway
labor executives association, COM
posed of the heads of 81 labor
unions, conferred with Sen. Robert
Wagner, D., N. Y, and Rep. Robert
CrOSSer, D., o, on resolution to
provide for government operation
of the carriers if the wage dispute
can not be settled by mediation.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08
DEATH TAKES
DR.. J. B. NORTON,
PLANT EXPERT
Heart Ailment Fatal to-
Famous PathOlOgist
In SanatOrium

DR.. J. B. Norton, 81. plant
pathologist connected with
the county agriculture de-
partment for IL years, died
of a heart ailment at Para
disc Valley sanitorium Wednesday
morning.
He was afflicted with the heart
ailment four years ago. He was a
patient at the sanitorium for the
last four months of his life. During
his long residence in Imperial VAL
ley he devoted most of his leisure
time to experiments relative to
plant breeding and plant pest con-
troll.
DR.. Norton was born in Kansas
was graduated from the Kansas
State Agricultural college and later
taught there. After teaching al
Continued on Page 2: Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08

LOS ANGELES, June 8. tUP)--
The desire to obtain financial secur :
ity for himself and his family and
added opportunity for the future
which a state position does not
afford prompted the resignation
of State Insurance Commissioners
Samuel L. Carpenter, jr., it was re-
vealcd here today.
Carpenter received an annual
salary of $4,000 as insurance com :
missioner. AS San Francisco man
agel of the board of Fire Under
writer's of the Pacific, his new posi-
ton effective July Is, he will re :
ceive $4,000 annually.
Carpenter was appointed two
years ago as conservator and IL
quidator of assets Of the old Pacific
Life Insurance company of Cali
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08
First Offender Prison in San Berdu
VIII Be Started by July LIST

SACRAMENTO, June 8. (UP)-
Work on the new southern Califor-
MIA prison for first offenders may
begin by July l, State Director Of
Finance Arlin E. Stockburger said
today.
Approval by the prison site COM
mission of the location at Chino
in San Bernardino county has
cleared the way he explained.
Under terms of the agreement
present owners of the 1855 acre
site. the American Crystal Sugar
Co., of Denver, will transfer title
to the state. The price paid was
$650,000.
The prisons first unit will cost
$4,000,000 including the site. The
state will furnish $2.4O0 900 and the
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08
MODERN TREND CARRIED
OUT IN STREAMLINING
of mperidI.

Today this newspaper goes streamlined.
Living up to pledge made months to econ
stantly strive to give Imperial Valley better newspa
pers, the Press and The Post climax months of intense
scientific study with makeup designed to make
the papers easier to read in daylight egble by
artificial light, most appealing to the eye and quickest
to convey message to the reader.
Modernzation of the papers will be carried through
in all departments not on Page One alone The "beaut
fcaon campaign of the paper coincidng with city
wide Identification efforts will be extended to the back
yard as we'll the front Readers will find inside
pages far attractive from typographical stand
point than before.
Literally thousands of types were studied before
the present newspaper "dress' arrived at. When
the selection was finally made, types the most
modern obtainabe. Letters by their shapes,
readable
The publishers happy to take this additional step
in giving Imperial Valley the best newspapers within
their
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08


the casualties near the 10000 mark.
More than 5000 we're killed.
The incendiary bombs fell near
the International Settlement on
Shameen Island. Black smoke COW
cred almost every district at mid
night. The airplanes still were over
head.
In afternoon the japanese bomb
ed the American directed Lingnan
university campus.
The raiders came in from the
east They flew in formation of
three over the campus at 10000
feet.
Three bombs fell at the outset.
They missed the college buildings
but dug two huge craters at the
edge of adjoining fields, killing a
Chinese woman agricultural worker.
Two Chinese workers were wound
ed One of the bombs was dud.
japanese bombing planes cut
power lines, silencing the city's air
alarm system and leaving the peo-
pie helpless against merciless at
tackS. sss
Great fires burned in the Wong
Continued on Page 2; Col. s.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08
REAMS QUITS AS
FL CENTR0'S
FIRE CHIEF
Veteran Tells Trustees
He Will Take Up
Business

Tom Reams Wednesday
morning resigned as fire
chief of Ell Centro.
A member of the fire de-
partment "a years and chief
for IL years, Reams handed in his
resignation to Fire Commissioner
Harry Sones, explaining that he
planned to enter private business.
The resignation, effective July l,
will come up for acceptance at the
next meeting of the city council.
Sones declared Wednesday that
no official appointment for the va
cancy had been made, but that
Continued on Page 2; Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08
Legion Emergency
Call Pulls I'll

American Legion emergency mo-
bilization call at pm. Tuesday
summoned 271 persons to headquar-
ters in the seven valley towns.
Legionnaires, auxiliary members,
Boy Scouts, police, deputy sheriffs,
highway patrolmen, radio techni-
clans, firemen, ambulance drivers,
and physicians signed up in re-
sponse to the call. In Ell Centro
68 had signed by pm, in Brawley
81 by 6:12; in Calexico SO by TAO;
in Holtville as by $3.50 pm; in
Westmorland 30 by 6:18 pm, and
in Imperial 20 by $50.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08
Hit-Run Victims
Identity Unknown

Identity of the aged victim of
an automobile accident near West
morland Sunday, still was undeter-
mined Wednesday, Deputy Coroner
Herbert Hughes said.
He was tentatively identified as
Barney Jacobs, recipient of old
age relief. Imperial Valley residents
who have known Jacobs for years,
however, declare the traffic victim
is not Jacobs. County welfare de-
partment attaches insist the man
is Jacobs. Hughes said identifica-
ton probably would be established
at the inquest at the Lemons NOR
tuary at pm. Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08
Britain-to-U.S.
Air Route Ready

WASHINGTON, June 8. UP)
Gel. J. Monroe Johnson, as
sistant secretary of commerce,
announced today that trans
Atlantic air service between the
United States and Great Britain
probably would start in. Septem-
ber.
He said it had been hoped to
start the service, in which the
Pan American Always and
British Imperial Always would
fly two round trips weekly, In
August. Necessary structural re-
pairs to the big new Boeing boat
VIII delay Inauguration of the
service. ''
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08
US. Cruiser
Plans Discussed

WASHINGTON, June 8. (UP)-
A navy plan to seek competitive de-
signs from outside shipbuilders foc
construction of mosquito fleet
was discussed with President Roose-
velt today by Charles Edison. as
sistant secretary of the navy.
Edison said it was the intention
of the navy to seek competitive
designs from the smaller shipbuild-
ers of the country, the plans to be
compared with those being drafted
by the navy department.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08
Morals Trial Ends
In County Court

Bill Griffith's fate was placed in
the hands of the jury Wednesday
afternoon at the conclusion of one
of the most sordid morals trials
ever held in Imperial county.
The mother of the 11-year- old
girl in the case from the witness
stand accused the child's father of
a morals offense against his daugh
ter and attempted to clear Griffith
She denied that she left her hus-
band and children to accompany
Griffith to Texas, where he was
arrested.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08
No Whippinss.
Boys Sentenced

FITCHBURG, Mass, June 8. CUP)
Two boys were given indeterm.-
nate sentences in an industrial
school today after their fathers re
fused to horsewhip them.
The boys were charged with steal
ing wire from a railroad.
Harry j. Woodwork, father of IL
year old Harold Woodworth, and
Joseph Allen, father of Is year old
William Allen, appealed and the
boys were released on $500 bail each
pending superior court trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08
New Plan to Cool
|Canta|oupe Cars
In Transit Tried

In test of new device for
cooling refrigerator cars with fans,
without the necessity of the pre-
sent cooling system, a REFER
left Imperial Valley Tuesday night
via the Southern Pacific cotton
belt route for New York laden
with cantaloupes.
1t was packed by S. A. Gerard
company of Brawley. With it were
two other cars, pre- cooled in the
usual manner When they reach
New York, a comparison will be
made to determine which cars
load is in the best condition.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08

ening American Democracy.
In addition to Dies, author of
the resolution creating the COM
mittee, Reps, Arthur D. Healey
Mass, John j. Dempsey, N. NJ
Joe Starnes, Ala, and Harold c.
Mosier, O., Democrats, and j. Par
nell Thomas, N. j., and Noah NJ
Mason, Ill. Republicans, constitute
the committee.
Dies named New York, Chicago,
San Francisco and Miami as cities
where the. special committee had
been invited to conduct investiga-
tions.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08

tempting to find refuge in the ella
mountains.
Meantime, the other two prison.
ers who participated In the break
were held in solitary confinement
after they were captured last night
on a rocky knoll near Calva, Ariz.,
by one of the same guards whom
they beat in the escape.
j. T. Van Wrinkle, 90, reported to
have been the brains" of the break,
and Richard o. Johnson, 10, both
serving terms for robbery, were
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08
Posses Search Ariz. Hills
For Escaped Desperodoes

FLORENCE, Ariz June 8. (UP)
-Ranchers and mounted sheriffs
deputies were enlisted today to
hunt three of five convicts who
escaped from the state prison farm
here yesterday after beating three
guards and stabbing one.
The three still missing were be-
lieved surrounded in the San Carlos
Apache Indian reservation.
Warden John G. Eager said rein
forcements were being sent to the
reservation, so miles east of here,
in the belief the convicts were at
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08
UNAlAER|CAN ACTIVITIES INQUIRIES
WILL SPREAD FROM COAST TO
COAST DURING SUMNER

WASHINGTON, June 8. (UP)-
The house committee to investi-
gate "un- american activities" and
foreign propaganda in the United
States planned today a coast to
coast itinerary OH its probable
appropriation of $4,000.
Chairman Martin Dies, D., Tex,
= who called the sum disappointing
ly inadequate, will call together
mis- week the six representatives
who, with the power of subpoena,
will investigate the German-Amer-
ran Bund, Red" organizations and
other groups believed to be threat
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08

PCT KHUWdII IIUUI dJ dII COIIIIIdUBI
saving to the city of $2500 a year,
was presented by A. G. Cage, COM
pany president.
After Cage spoke in behalf of the
offer, M. j. Dowd chief engineer
for the Imperial Irrigation District,
pointed out to the council that the
district will be in the power busi-
ness in Ell Centro "by September"
No action was taken by the coun-
Gil on the proposed contract. On
recommendation of Councilmen P
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08
Smyer Reported ir
Fair Condition

Frank Smyer Ell Centro police of :
ficer injured in a spill from his
motorcycle Monday, is in fair con-
dition, Ell Centre hospital attaches
said Wednesday. His left leg, badly
smashed in an automobile accident
a year ago, again is in a cast. L.
was fractured twice in the spill
Monday. He has bad cash on the
head and severe cuts, scratches and
bruises all over his body.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08
Are sted Unionist
Held for Robbery

PHOENIX, June 8. (UP)-Marlin
S. Brown, 81, was held in Jail here
today pending arrangements for
$4,000 bond to release him until he
faces trial on a robbery charge
growing out of the beating of a
Phoenix truck driver assertedly be q.
cause he was unwilling to join a
union.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-08

the two captured.
Still missing were Tony Meyers,
%, James Bailey, 20, and Columbus
Reece, -year-old Negro.
Warden Eager said Bailey was
identified as the man who critical
ly stabbed Joe Lazear, guard Cap
tain, while Van Winkle. water
boy for the prison crew, held the
guards arms. Lazear remained
near death In the Pinal county
hospital here with star wound
near his heart and lungs.