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The Washington times., 1938-12-23

Scene in legalized gan,b-
ling house in Reno, NeO.,
which sOlUed its problem
with "wide-open" gaming
laW.
Sasscer added, would come from
Washington.
Plans for licensing bookmaking
under supervision of the Prince
Georges board of county commits
sioners were well under way when
Governor Nice vetoed the entire
relief bill because of the gambling
provision, and called the legisla-
ture back into special session.
In addition to the $4,000 lost
by Prince Georges county, the
State, it has been estimated, lost
at least 100000 which would
have been diverted to relief funds.
NCAG opportunity
The next opportunity Prince
Georges county had to express
itself on the subject of legalized
gambling came in the November
elections. The voters were asked
if they wanted to repeal the law
forbidding State lottery.
Voting in favor of legalized lot
teries were 6,341 Prince Georges
county citizens; voting against
were 1912. But when the votes
from all over the State were
counted it was found that the lot
terry referendum had lost by sub
stantial margin.
Frustrated in two attempts to
legally satisfy the uncrushable hui
man lust to gamble, Prince
Georges county citizens have been
forced to sit back and watch rack.
eCeerS caplCallZe on their tolerance.
Millions of dollars are poured
into the pockets of racketeers but
none of it is diverted toward low.
ering taxes imposed on home
owners. On the contrary. home
owners are faced with deprecia-
ton Of their investments by the
unsaVory reputation given their
county by racketeering activities.
But what is happening to the
$75, 900 gamblers who were willing
to pay If allowed to do business
unmolested as "Jimmy's Place is
operating today?
(TO be concluded tomorrow
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
First Lady to Join Army in Carols

} ;ributed by the army this year,
after preliminary ceremonies at
2 p. m. at the Army Temple, 606
E st. N. w.
The Rt. Rev. James E. Free
man, Episcopal bishop of Wash
ington, will make the principal
talk and will introduce Mrs. Roose-
welt. The United States Navy
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

Christmas cheer will be seasoned
by two carols at the Salvation
Army's party tomorrow afternoon,
because Mrs. Franklin D. RooSe-
welt, at last years party. ex-
pressed a wish that the crowd
might sing.
Mrs. Roosevelt will hand out the
first of 700 baskets to be dis
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

that no longer is it possible for
obscure little night clubs or res
taurants to exist with a limited
poSt-midnight patronage of
two or three extravagant,
party-minded playboys. The
people of the stage, cinema
and radio-earning these days
as much in a week as their
notable predecessors earned in
q month or half-year-are not
Spenders. You do not hear of
a Fred Allen, Jack Benny,
Eddie Cantor, Bing Crosby,
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

i per cent tax on establishments
in Prince Georges County turned
over to the County instead of the
State, but failed. Then when the
measure came up in the Senate it
was voted down.
SaSScer and his aides mobilized
their forces, called for a recon
sideration and the measure was
showed to passage after 18 coun,
ties we're exempted from its pro-
visions.
Almost Immediately Philadel.
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

can never be bridged.
The one thing that age has
taught me is, this is not an
tnfallible law and that today
we are bridging more seem.
ingly impossible gaps than
ever before.
The radio is one example of
this. Forty years ago, if any
Of us had suddenly heard a
strange voice from Europe
talking out of a little square
box, we would have been
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

Band orchestra will play. DR.
Peter Marshall, pastor of the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church,
will deliver the invocation. Dr.
w. L. Derby, secretary of the Fed
Grafton of Churches, will read the
Scripture lesson. Major Charles
Dodd, divisional commander, will
be in charge,
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

This is the fourth in series of articles in
tended to again focus att ention the breakdown
of la1O enforcement in Prince Georges county
and to andlyse the hopes of ciUic leaders for q
"ner deal" merit year aOlen neD States attorney
and board of commissioners take oUer the reinS
OF county government.
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

agreement that it is.
Twice the nty
has been given an
opportunity in recent
years to record its
view on the subject
and each time it voted
to take control of
gambling away from
the ack e t e ers and
place it under strict
legal supervision.
In each instance the
votes of the Prince
Georges County tax
naverS were OVerridden
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
My Say

ANY person on any street in any town
generally has definite and fixed opinions
that there are certain gaps in our world that
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
Better understanding
Voice of New York By Louis Sobol

~ innkeepers ruefully admit the day of the
lavish and ostentatious splendor is gone-and
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

frightened to death. If we Evalyn Walsh Mclean
had predicted such thing, we would in all
probability have been locked up Yet today, with
the turn of the dial you can get almost any city
or country in the world
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
H1But''

NHICAGO-I have been North South, East
timidty of the heads of private corporations in
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

'IegISIdIUIe 20 IegaIIIe DOOKInaKlng
The amendment provided a $4,000
State license fee and proposed to
tax bookmakers per cent on all
Wagers.
SasScer tackled on an amend
ment which provided that in
Prince Georges County it would
be necessary for bookmakers to
pay an additional $4,000 county
license fee.
SasScer struggled to have the
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

Is legalzation of gambling the only solution of
Prince Georges County's crime problem?
. The people of the county are in overwhelming
The Washington times., 1938-12-23
M0n.Made Miracles

TAN you imagine the faces of our grandparents
if they were told to pick up telephone in
the middle of the ocean and talk to shore?
am afraid the shock to them would have been
almost more than they could have stood Yet
today it is the common and ordinary thing to
put in telephone on your fishing boat
Our great airplanes hooking up one continent
with another our submarines diving in the
ocean, and countless other man-made inven-
tions that would take pages to enumerate-all
are miracles that we take so much for granted.
We don't stop to even consider them any more.
Better Understanding
THE great mass of humanity is spanning
L another gap, which to me is the most interest
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

Lansdale G. Sasscer, president
of the Maryland State Senate and
one of the Big Three" who rule
Prince Georges County politics
with iron hands, was the spear
head of the county's first thrust
for legalized gambling last year.
Under Sasscer's canny direction
the Prince Georges County delega-
tion sponsored an amendment in
the relief bill before the Maryland
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

once by the pocket veto of Republican Governor
Harry w. Nice and once by votes from counties
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

(Boake Carter'S opinions are his own and not
necessarily those of The Washington TtmesJ
The Washington times., 1938-12-23

Ito be concluded tomorrow
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
MussoIini Says
Italy Will Fight
In European War
II Duce Speeds Toward
Rome to Mobilize If
Zero Hour Comes

ROME, Sept. 26. (UP)-
Premier B e n t o Mussolini
definitely committed Italy
to participation in any Euro
pean war today and was un-
derstood to be speeding back to
Rome to take charge of italian
mobilization at the zero hour.
Addressing 100000 cheering Fas-
cists massed in the main square at
Verona, Mussolini thundered:
eff war comes, Italy will not
hesitate for one minute to partici-
pate in it."
While he was speaking, it was
learned from an un:mpeachable
source here that all pilots in active
service and in the air corps had
been ordered to remain on 24-hour
duty at their air fields, that all
leaves had been cancelled, that COM
manders had been told not to ap-
prove even temporary furlough.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Death Blamed on
Electric Current

BRAWLEY, Sept. 26.-Death by
electrocution was the conclusion
drawn Monday from an autopsy
performed on the body of Kenneth
SnodgraSs, San Diego electrician,
who died Saturday while working
at the diesel plant of the Imperial
Irrigation district here.
The electrician suddenly Slumped
over while working with an cleo
trio drill and physicians at first
thought he might be a victim of
a heart ailment. DR.. Claude F. Pet
ers, who performed the autopsy,
said he found no natural cause
for death.
Snodgrass had just turned on the
drill when he collapsed. his helper,
Harold Hargraves, said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Registration for
Nov. 8 Election
Closes Sept. 2qfh

Imperial county residents should
be certain they are qualified to vote
at the general election Nov. 8,
County Clerk w. j. McClelland
warned Monday.
Sept. 20 is the last day for regis
tration.
The classes of persons who must
register to become eligible to vote
in November are: those who will
complete a years residence in the
state by Nov. 8, the last 80 days
of which must have been in this
county; those who have moved or
who move into another precinct
before close of registration on Sept.
20; those who failed to vote in
1886 and have not registered since.
Failure to vote at the primaries
Aug. 80 does not disqualify anyone
to vote Nov. if otherwise eligible.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Column Studies
Life S Problems

Who is to blame i'm a broken
home?
What is a wife TO do when
her husband steps out?
Why do some men shirk sup
porting their homes?
When a girl is plain, should
she live uD hope of boy friends?
These questions and hundreds
of others will be answered in a
new daily column which will ap-
pear in The Press and The Post
newspapers. The column, Caro-
line Chatfield Says Today, is
already known to millions of
newspaper readers. II is based
upon the social problems .nat
each one of us faces in modern
life. Each column is Caroline
Chatfield's answer to real life
letters sent i'm from troubled
readers. The first column ap-
pears today on page 8.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26


people within racial frontiers.
Annexation of the Sudetenland is
"the last territorial demand 1 have
to make in Europe-but it is a
point on which I will not yield,''
Hitler said.
II sympathize with the Hungar-
ians, the Poles and the Ruthenians
(Ukranians), but I speak only for
the fate of my own countrymen,
the Germans" Hitler declared in
making clear that he was not ac-
lively fighting the battles of other
Czech minorities. Poland and Hun
gary have demanded that Prague
return their minorities coincident
with surrender of Sudetenland.
In a speech awaited by the world
as pointing the way toward war or
peace, Hitler declared that he spoke
for a united and determined ma
ton in reference to his demands
on Czechoslovakia to surrender the
Sudetenland by Oct. l.
"The problem that occupies us is
not so much Czechoslovakia as il
is, Mr.. Benes," he shouted. 1t was
the chancellor's first reference tc
Czechoslovak president, Eduaro
Benes.
"Germany's foreign policy is in
contradistinction to that of many
democratic states" he said. ''We
have no desire to suppress others
Our goal is strictly limited by our
racial frontiers"
But, the Nazi leader declared
Germany had raised herself from
the disaster of World war defeat
and was now an armed and pow
erful nation.
Peace OFFERS" he said, cannot
be unilateral. The other party can
not go ahead and say: I'll wage
war whenever it seems necessary
again
I'VE all hope that in England
those people will prevail who share
Continued on Page 2, oil. a.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
England
I'm Coll
To Arms
Wartime Program
Put Into Effect;
Air Force Called
BY WEBB MILLER
Copyright 1898 by United Press

LONDON, Sept. 26. (UP)
The British government
ordered partial mobilization
of Britains defense forces today
and started wartime control OF
food prices.
While Sir Horace Wilson flew
to Berlin and delivered a last
minute appeal from Prime Min
lister Neville Chamberlain to Adolf
Hitler, Britain made ready for war.
Chamberlain asked the king to
remain in London, and His Majes-
ty cancelled a proposed trip to
Scotland to launch the liner Queen
Elizabeth. The kings presence is
necessary to sign mobilization and
other papers in event of war. The
queen and two princesses will go
to Scotland for the launching.
After getting the kings assent
to remain on call in London, Cham
berlain returned to his office at
10 Downing street to await the re-
suit of Hitler's speech, which may
mean peace or war.
The high commissioners of Can
ada, Australia, South Africa and
Fire Qreland conferred tonight
with Prime Minister Chamberlain
and Malcolm Macdonald, acting
dominions secretary.
Chamberlain sent a message to
Washington thanking President
Roosevelt for his ''weighty mes
sage" on peace and promising that
every effort would be continued for
peaceful solution of the crisis
over Czechoslovakia.
Earlier, Premier Edouard Dala-
dier of France sent a similar mes
sage to Mr.. Roosevelt before re-
turning to Paris after the momen-
touS weekend discussions here. Gen
Marie Gustave Gamelin, chief OF
staff of the French fighting forces
followed him across the channel a
few hours later. Gamelin and his
staff officers carried with them
complete French-B British plan for
joint action in war.
Britain started the preliminary
machinery which may end in gen.
eral mobilization if the storm
breaks.
The orders to the troops included
calling out the anti-aircraft and
coastal defense units of the terri
torial army (similar to the Ameri-
can National Guard).
The air ministry cancelled all air
force leaves, called up the observer
force attached to the air force and
instituted an air raid warning sys-
tenn.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Czechs Refuse to
Meet Nazi Terms
In SudefenIand
Troops Reoccupy Border
Areas as Country
Prepares For War

PRAGUE, Sept. 26. (UP)
-Czechoslovakia today in
formed Great Britain that
Adolf Hitler's demands for
surrender of the Sudeten-
land by October l were unaccept-
able and should be subject to fur
ther discussions.
The governments decision, made
after a night of study as the ma
ton prepared for war, was under
stood to have been communicated
to British Minister Basil Cachrane-
Newton
The Czech refusal to accede to
the German demands had been
made known earlier in London.
The government listed its objec-
tions to the Hitler demands, en-
phasizing economic, ethnographic
and national defense reasons for
refusing to accept.
The objections were rushed to
completion SO that they could be
in the hands of Hitler before his
address to the German nation this
evening.
Meanwhile, the nation calmly
prepared for the fateful decision
of war or peace, confident that
she would have allies if war comes.
She had arrested Ernest Kundt,
Sudeten German deputy to par
lament and leader of the Ger
man minority (which Adolf Hitler
has pledged himself to protect, and
charged him with operating a secret
radio station here through which
ne informed Berlin of all develop
mentS.
Two German journalists were ar
rested at the same time.
Her troops had reoccupied the
Sudeten German region which Hit
Ter wishes to annex to Germany
and had dynamited bridges and
other passages leading into the
country from Germany. Over g.
000,000 men-every ablebodied man
manned the defense lines on the
frontiers and the anti-aircraft de-
lenses OF the interior cities.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Rhodes to Become
Boyce Aten Chief

New officers will be installed by
the Boyce-Aten post of the Ameri-
can Legion in Ell Centro Tuesday
night, Commander Mike Zavala an
nounced Monday.
Meeting at the Veterans hall at
8 pm, members will greet the new
commander, w. H. Rhodes; first
vice commander, Everett Murphy;
second vice commander, A. j. Shall
Ter; Les Conn, sergeant-at-arms; the
Rev. Floyd Johnson, chaplain; Fred
Riddle, historian; Barney Holbert
finance officer.
Installing officers will be w. S.
Dunn, fifth area commander, and
D. H. Wolford, 22nd district COM
mander.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26

Iney indicated Cley Wouiu Cdli d
national strike for next Saturday,
the day the reduction is scheduled
to go into effect. The strike call,
however, would not mean an actual
strike but would serve only as final
step toward a showdown on the
proposed cut.
AS a matter of fact, strike next
Saturday would be a violation of
the law. The national railway labor
act of 1922, designed to permit am
pie time for consideration and pos
sible settlement of such disputes,
requires that the question be sub
mitted to a presidential fact-find-
ing commission after the workers
have decided to strike. The COM
mission has 80 days in which to
make its report and the workers
cannot strike for 80 days after the
report has been made public.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Peace ParIeyin
U.S. Recommended

CHICAGO, Sept. 26. CUP)-U. S
Sen. James Hamilton Lewis, D.
ILL.,, a member of the senate foreign
relations committee. proposed to-
day that President Roosevelt sum-
mon the signatories to the Versail-
les treaty for revision of the
World war peace terms.
This is the time for the presi-
dent to summon signers of the Ver-
sailles peace treaty to assemble
here and to revise" Lewis said "As
signer of that treaty our jurisdic-
ton is complete"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Americans Told
To Leave France

PARIS, Sept. 26. (UP)-American
dollar bills were at a premium to-
day as the U. S. embassy advised
American tourists and American
residents to leave France at the
earliest possible moment.
The American express company
and American banks were selling
dollars in limited quantities to per-
sons furnishing proof of their needs.
There were no restrictions placed
on Americans who desired to trans
fer accounts to American banks in
the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
London Commits
Nation to Allies

LONDON, Sept. &c. (UP)-The
foreign office announced in a com
mmique tonight:
IF a German attack is made on
Czechoslovakia, the immediate re-
suit will be that France will be
bound to come to her assistance
and Great Britain and Russia will
certainly stand by France"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Copyright, 1888, BY United Press

Copyright, 1888, BY United Press
TIE SCHEN, CZECH POLISH
FRONTIER, Sept. 26. CUP)-Spor-
adic gunfire resounGed along the
Teschen border today after a sharp
clash between Poles and Czech
guards armed with machine guns.
Ore Czech policeman and three
poles seeking TO cross into Poland
were killed and l5 Poles were
wounded in fighting last night in
this district which the Warsaw gov
ernment demands be given up by
Prague.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Duel at Blank Range Brings
Death TO Two in Riverside Man Hunt

RIVERSIDE, Calf, Sept. 26. (UP)
Two men who aimed guns at
each other, II feet apart, were
dead today, each bored by the 9TH
er's bullet.
Jesus Garcia, who fled after stab
bing another man, and Frank Jones,
member of the posse that hunted
him, were killed in the point blank
duel that occurred late yesterday
at the tiny gypsum mining hamlet
of Midlands on the desert.
Eluding the posse, Garcia slipped
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Text Of Roosevelt Message Urging
Peace on Nations of Europe

WASHINGTON, Sept. &c. CUP)-
The text of President Roosevelt's
message to Chancellor Adolf Hitler
and President Edouard Benes fol-
lows:
The fabric, of peace on the con-
tinent of Europe, if not throughout
the rest of the world, is in imme-
diate danger. The consequences of
its rupture are incalculable. Should
hostilities break out the lives OF
millions of men, women and chill
dren in every country involved will
most certainly be lost under cir
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26

Page Huck--
Tom Sawyers of other days were
pikers along side Of Charles Ray
Scroggs, 5, when it comes to in
genuity. Charles was taken to kim
dergarten the first time by auto
and on the second day his family
thought he should he able to go
alone.
Charles started out bright and
shining. walked as far as he thought
he had ridden the day before, saw
no school and returned home.
Blithely said he to his father, Pervis
Scroggs:
81 vent there but the tennis
garden must have been moved. 1t
isn't there any more
Questioned, it developed that the
yolngster was most interested in
being driven to school by car. He
explained
"It gives me more glamor."
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26

cumstances of unspeakable horror
The economic system of every
country involved is certain to be
shattered. The social structure OF
every country involved may well
be completely wrecked.
The United States has no politi-
cal entanglements Il Is caught IN
no mesh of hatred Elements OF
all Europe have formed It's civillza-
tion.
The supreme desire OF the Amefi-
can people Is 10 live In peace. But
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Poles, Czech Guards Clash on Border
In Skirmish Brinqinq Death to -Four

The clash was at Sryszat, about
two miles from the frontier and
two miles north OF Teschen. A
group of about 40 Polish fugitives
from Czechoslovakia tried to cross
the Olsa river into Poland and
were seen by Czech guards.
A Czech searchlight picked out
the fugitives. Police opened fire
with machine guns, according to in
formation received here. The fugi-
tives used rifles. Most of them es-
capped across the border.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26

back to a bunkhouse and got a
rifle. When the posse returned he
fired at Jones from only u feet
away but missed.
Jones pulled his gun and fired
simultaneously with Garcia's sec
ond point blank shot. Both bullets
struck vital spots and each man
slumped dead.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Line Break Halls
Water Service

A water line break early Sunday
morning halted water service in El
Centre on State street between
Fifth and Sixth streets. Reported
at a. M, it was temporarily re-
paired and service resumed by a
IN.
City Engineer Phil knights re-
ported the break was in old pipe
that has been in the ground 25
years or more. Final repairs, in
which a new section of pipe will be
installed, were slated for early
Tuesday morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Tavern Keeper Blamed as
Ha&chet Killer OF Women

the body of Miss Brown and bury
ing the parts.
Not until Wheeler told his story
did officers link the tavern opera
tor, the son of a respectable and
well known Texas rancher, with the
disappearance of women who had
worked for him as hostesses to en-
tertain guests at his tavern, which
is Is miles south of San Antonio
and drew many of its patrons rom
there.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26

Ell MENDORF, Tex, Sept. 26
UJP)-Officers were certain today
that Joe Ball, 46, had used his
hatchet to kill perhaps half a dozen
mere women as ruthlessly as he did
Bazel Brown, pretty young hostess
at Balls roadside tavern.
AT least six women were known
to have had affairs" with Ball and
then to have disappeared, just as
Miss Brown did. Yesterday Miss
Browns body was taken from a
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Pershins | caves
Under War Cloud

PARIS, Sept &c. CUP) Gen.
John j. Pershing, head Of the Amer
lean forces in the World war, de-
cided today 10 return to the United
States because OF the European sit
uation.
He ended his cure at Aiken
Provence and started for Paris by
automobile, intending to sail as
soon as he can get booking. His
health was greatly improved.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Belgium Calls in
Troops on lie ave

BRUSSELS, Belgium. SEPT. 26.
(UP)-The cabinet, summoned hur-
riedly, decided today to recall from
leave all officers and men of GER
tain army units, including the Ar
dennes Chausseurs, motorized cav
airy and fortress garrisons.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26

shallow grave along the banks Of
The San Antonio river, almost "a
hours after Ball had taken his own
life by putting a bullet into his
heart.
In an effort to learn more about
Balls victims police had taken into
cutody three of his employees, among
them Clifford Wheeler, 80, the Me-
gro who startled two deputies yes
terday by calmly relating how he
had assisted Ball in dismembering