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Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-18
BORROW QUIETLY

1t is not businesslike, to broad
cast your need of a Loan. Borrow
quickly, easily, from us. That is
the modern, sensible way . Loans
are made with no needless delay.
Repayn ent is spread over conven-
iently long periods. Come and
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Plan.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-18

while riding Tuesday with her son
and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace
Bassford of st. Louis. Mrs. Bass
ford came here five months ago
and was joined by her son last
week.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-18

the trail he has made within
Led by Elliott Ness, city safety
director, the raiders made a sortie
into the Cuyahoga mud flats early
today and rounded up SO squatters
from dismal shacks and novels.
The flats are near the waterfront
dump, where two dissected and
decomposed bodies, wrapped il
packages, were found Monday eve
ning-victims No. II and No. l3.
Two paper boxes, into which
parts of victim No. IL, an uniden-
titled woman, were stuffed had
been traced to public markets. They
had been discarded a month ago.
Changes Technique
THE killers changing his tech
nique," said Detective Peter Merry
10, who was assigned to the torso
murder cases when they began
appearing with battling regularity
in 1884. "For the first time since
the two bodies were found in Sep
tember, 1885, he has left two vic
Tins together again. And also
changing his method, he has left
the heads on the last two"
The river flat raid, announced
in advance and attended by news
papermen, was based on the theory
| that the flats were the logica.
| hideaWay for such criminal, and
also to allay the feeling of hope
lessness with a demonstration OF
police action.
The two latest victims yielu.1
many clues to their own and the
killers identity. These were a rag
ged blue coat, a patchwork quill.
a cracker box, a fish container anG
a sugar sack in which the pieces
were stuffed; enough skin left on
one thumb for a fingerprint and
dental work that might identify
one skull.
DuU CiuSo nav OSNii AooiiN
with every other body and to date
only three victims had been iden-
titled, only six heads had been
found, and all that was known OF
the killer was that he was a sexual
degenerate, because of the way he
mutilated the bodies, and probably
a butcher, because of the way he
cleaved them at the joints.
Check Prints
Ness said the roundup of hoboes
had a twofold purpose: to get the
hoboes fingerprints checked at F.
B. 1. headquarters in Washington,
and to clear out the "jungles' and
eliminate the mad butchers bait.
In almost every case, he has chosen
obscure persons without relatives
or friends who might report their
disappearance. This was evident at
ter two of the identified victims
were found to have been a prosti-
tute and panderer, and the others
had neither been reported missing
nor had anyone to identify them.
1t is believed that several of the
victims came from the hobo jun
giles.
by cleaning out the jungles,
Ness said, I'VE may be able to force
the killer to prey on more cooper
ative' people whose relatives cal
give us some information.
Many hours of inspection we"
necessary to determine that the
parts of bodies found in the dumb
were from two bodies rather thar
three, that No. IL was a woman O.
about 35 years, and No. 13 a man,
probably Negro.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-18
DIVORCE GRANTED

Superior Judge r. ID. McPherrin
Thursday had granted an inter-
,ocutory decree of divorce to Fred
Miles Wood from Beatrice Wood
on grounds of desertion.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-18
SIS Reward

Win be paid by the manufacturer
for any Corn GREAT CHRISTIE
PIER POSITIVE Corn Cure can"
not remove. Also removes WartI
and Callouses. 35c at Clements
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-18
wake UP YOUR
LIVER BILE
Without Calomel-And You'll JUMP Out Of Bed in
The Morning Rarin' 10 Go

The liver should pour out two pounds of
liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this BILE
Is not flowing freely, your food doesn tdigesc.
1t just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up
your stomach. You get constipated. Your
whole syst I'M is poisoned and you feel sour.
sunk md 6he world looks punk.
A mere bowel movement doesn't get at
the cause. 1t takes those good, old Carter's
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of bile flowing freely and make you feel
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-18

Other revisiOns permit persons H.
parade to keep in step when
crossing a bridge and showing of
motion pictures in private homes
without a license.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-08-18
IMPERIAL VALLEY PRESS Ell CENTRo, CALF.
Police Follow Red Trail
Of Med Butcher in Ohio.
Bodv Containers Traced

CLEVELAND, Aug 18. (UP)-Poce raiding squads
went into action today against the mad butcher of Kings
bury Rum confident that although he had eluded them
for four years and committed 13 MURDERS they on
the trail he has made within the past month
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
z MORE JUDGES
URGED BY SEAL

Corporation Counsel Elwood H
Seal urged Commissioner Melvin
C. Hazen today to seek the ap-
pointment of two additional
Police Court judges as a means of
administering "surer and Swifter
justice" here.
One would be assigned to the
United States branch of the court
while the other would sit on the
District side. Both would be paid
$4,000 a year.
The Police Court formerly op-
Grated with two judges, but pas
sage of the Traffic Act in 1925
necessitated the employment of
two more juriStS.
Seal cited increases in the num-
ber of defendants demanding jury
trials since then and said con
gestion" in Police Court could be
relieved if two other judges
were named to sit on such cases.
District Auditor Daniel j. Dono-
van advised Seal his proposal
would require congressional action.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
URGES
ALASKA FORCE

G.N.SD. Strengthening of the
Navy's defense in Alaska and es
tablishment of fleet air bases on
the northeast and southeast At.
lantic coasts were recommended
to the House Naval Affairs Com
mittee today by Admiral William
D. Leahy, chief of operations.
TeSttfying on the proposed
$780, 100000 expansion program
for the Navy, the admiral said the
fleet had never held maneuvers
in Alaskan waters because it has
no base there.
Again he insisted that the Navy
is not sufficiently strong to de-
fend both the Atlantic and Pa
cific coasts at the same time. Even
with the proposed building, he
said, the fleet would not be strong
enough to wage aggressive war in
foreign waters.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
Packard Price Cut
To Spur Recovery

DETROIT, Feb. 4 Q.N.SJ.
Moving, it said, in a hope Ito
stimulate public buying not only
of motor cars but of all the prod
ucts of American industry" the
Packard Motor Car Company to-
day announced a reduction of
500 in the prices of all body types
of its Packard six. 1t marked the
first reduction in the automotive
industry in the prices Of 1888
models.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
Britain Followed
By US. in Housing

NEW YORK, Feb. 4 GN.SO.
The United States is taking a
leaf from Great Britain's book in
outlining its housing program, it
was declared today by Nathan
Straus, Housing Authority admin
iStrator. Stressing the success of
the small buildings" idea in Great
Britain, Straus said the basis of
the public housing program in this
country's major cities would be
two-story houses for two or four
families each on comparatively
Icheap sites.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
Another Paper
Increases Price

WESTERLY, R. l., Feb. 4
Q.N.SO.-Following the lead of
other New England newspapers,
the Westerly Daily Sun today an
nounced it would increase its
price from two to three cents, ef-
fective Sunday, February 6.
The increase was attributed to
incresed cost of newsprint. The
Daily Sun is one of the few news
papers in the United States which
publishes Sunday afternoon edi.
ton,
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
PRESIDENT SIGNS
BIG HOUSING ACT

President Roosevelt today signed
the national housing act, designed
to inaugurate the biggest housing
drive ever waged in America. The
act makes available three billion
dollars for construction.
Under the terms of the act,
persons desiring to build new
homes will have to pay only 10 PEI
cent of the total cost as a down
payment, with the balance in
monthly installmentS.
The Government will back the
mortgages with the three billion
dollars. 1t is anticipated that
the boom in building will affect
all business in the country and
do much toward ending the re-
ceSsion.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
Girl in Abduction
.Flees to Father

SAN JOSE, Calf, Feb. 4 QN.S0
Joan Fay Lawless, Glendale, Calf,
junior college coed, accused of the
airplane abduction of her 10-year-
old brother, has fled to her
fathers home in Peoria, ILL.,, ac-
cording to word received here to-
day from Glendale authorities.
The girls mother, Mrs. Cora
Peterson, of San Jose, swore out a
felony warrant accusing the girl
of conspiring with her father, Rut'
ledge Lawless, Peoria railroad ex'
ecutive, to steal her brother, Rut'
ledge, jr. Mrs. Peterson, former
wife of Lawless, told authorities
she was awarded custody of the
boy at the time of her divorce.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
LOANS TO help
SMALL FIRMS
,-.,--><->
BEING STUDIED
President Receives
Parley's Plans
BY ERIC FRIEDHEIM

u.N.S0 The problem of ex-
tending Federal financial aid to
small business men already is un-
der consideration by the Admin
istration, President Roosevelt said
today as he received the commit
tee presenting recommendations
growing out of the two-day confer
enCe of small business men.
At his press conference, just be-
fore the II committee chairmen
saw the President. the President
observed that he did not think 1T
was fair to ridicule either them or
their efforts.
WANTED TO COME HERE
The President was ske d
whether the "little fellows" as
sembled here at their own request.
Mr.. Roosevelt answered yes and
no, explaining that many letters
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
REBEL PIRACY
BRINGS THREAT
.OF BLOCKADE
Outbreak Seen AS
Franco Defiance
BY KINGsBURY SMITH

BY kINGSBUkY SMITH
LONDON, Feb, 4 dNsJ.
Causing Great Britain to consider
plans for naval blockade Of
Majorce, two Spanish tnsurgent
planes bombed and sank the
1,387-ton British freighter Alcirs
off Barcelona today.
The crew of 25 men and an
officer appointed by the interna-
tional nonintervention committee
were saved by a Spanish fishing
smack.
Survivors from the Alcira said
the attacking planes were three.
motored Savoia-Santa Marias, Of
Italian manufacture. They were
clearly marked with black crosses
similar to those usually worn by
inSurgent planes.
BRITISH ANGER RISES
The new outbreak of Mediter.
ranean piracy occurred only few
days after the British freighter
Endymion was torpedoed and
sunk with a loss of IL lives and
served to increase British anger
to the point of apoplexy. The
Alcira flew the British flag and
the neutral emblem of the non
intervention patrol.
The new incident convinced
British authorities that measures
taken Immediately after the En-.
dymion sinking are insufficient to
cope with piratical assaults on
neutral shipping in the Mediter-
ranean.
BLOCKADE CONSIDERED
AS a consequence, members of
the government and the high
command discussed the possibility
of sending a naval expeditionary
force to blockade the island Of
Majorca in the Balearics.
The nationalist submarines and
airplanes held responsible for the
Continued on Page 5, Col y
The Washington times., 1938-02-04

Still armed, the killer made a
successful but only temporary
break for freedom. Two police
men overpowered him a short
time later as he strobe along a
street in nearby Lowell.
He told. with diSjointed phrases
of throwing his weapon into
brook that flows past the institu
ton. He was returned to the
infirmary while search for the
gun was started.
The m aniac is John Mack
Chelsea, powerfully built man over
six feet tall who entered the in
firmary last September as q
patient.
His victims, all over TO years
old, were:
Michael O'Keefe, instantly
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
Roosevelt Plans
Hyde Park Visit

Q.N.S) President Roosevelt ex-
poets to make a short trip to his
Hyde Park home over the George
Washington birthday holiday, he
announced today. 1t was under
stood he woIli leave Washington
the night of February 10 and be
back at the Capital on the morn
ing of February "a.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
TWO Rescued
From Auto
In Basin

"All can recall is the sound
of the car crashing through the
guard rail, and the sight of the
water rushing up to meet u.s."
That memory, a few minor
scratches and a slight cold in the
head remain with 18-year-old
Annie Elizabeth Hill today as,
tucked between covers in her
home at 1928 Elliott Pl. N. w.,
she recounted her narrow escape
from death in the chill waters OF
the Tidal Basin shortly after
midnight.
With the steering mechanism of
her employers convertible coupe
locked, the car catapulted into
about nine feet of water after fail.
ing to make turn near the John
Paul Jones statue In Potomac
Park. At the wheel was Curtis
Davis, %, of 2465 Eighteenth St.
IN. w., a private chauffeur, at
whose home Miss Hill is employed
as a maid.
AS the automobile came to rest
on the Basins muddy bottom,
Miss Hill said. Davis ripped
through the canvas top Of the car,
and, bracing himself atop it, pulled
her after him.
Miss Hill said she and Davis
were on their way to her grand
mothers home in Anacostia when
the mishap occurred.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04

had been received asking for a
hearing. It would have been i'm
possible to see so many men ndi'
vidually, so he turned the problem
over to Secretary of Commerce
Roper.
The President was queried as
to his position on hours and
wages, and reported quoting Sena
tor Wagner CD of New York, as
having said that if the Govern
ment undertook to fix the rate OF
pay of carpenters and bricklayers
by legislation, it would tend tc
destroy collective bargaining and
put the country on the high road
to Fascism.
CAUTIOUS ABOUT MEANING
Mr.. Roosevelt said he agreed
with those sentiments but eau
toned that they not be miSln
terpreted. The Administration is
attempting to establish merely a
floor below which wages may not
fall, he said. Above the minimum
figure, the worker would negotiate
his agreement with his employer
as heretofore.
The committee who presented
the President with the business
mems resolutions included:
Fred Roth of Cleveland, chair
man; James G. Daily of Columbus
Ohio; William D. Kimball, Lonl
Island City; Harold D. North
Cleveland; o. L. Roach, Danville
Va; B. F. McLain, Dallas, Tex.
w. K. Gunter, Gaffney, S. c.; D
E. McAvoy, New York; R. P
Hastey. Chicago; L. E. Sanders
Orlando, Fla; M. D. Mosessonn
New York.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
Little Man Tilt
Amuses Hoover

CHICAGO, Feb. 4 U.N.SJ.
Wearing a smile as expansive
as his broad face, former
President Hoover today said
he was amused at news from
Washington about the meet.
ing of small American busi-
ness men.
On a brief StOp-Over here
en- route to New York, Hoover
said:
"This news from Washing
ton amuses me. Certainly 1t
is not without its humorous
side.
seriously, 1 think what
happened in the past few
days very closely expresses
the attitude of the whole Of
small business throughout
the country toward the Ad-
minIStratiOn."
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
Four Persons Die
In Maryland Crash

RISING SUN. Md, Feb. 4
QN.SO-Four persons were al.
most instantly killed today when
the automobile in which they were
riding crashed into truck-trailer
near here.
The dead: Mrs. Eliza Bial, 40
Brooklyn, N. Y; Abraham Kaplan
So, New York: Donald Allen, "a
Danbury, Conn.,, and Nick Coleo
New York.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04

killed by a bullet through the
chest.
Edward Mercier and James
Magee, who died a short time
later from bullet wounds in the
abdomen.
Probably fatally wounded are
John LENS, shot in the abdomen,
and Joseph O'Donnell, shot in the
chest.
The shootings occurred in the
old mems dormitory of the in.
firmary. More than 200 other pa.
tients in adjacent dormitories
were thrown into an uproar. Some
Of them fled in panic to the out.
doors, clad only in nightclothing.
The Shooting rampage shat.
Continued on Page 2, Col. A.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
Wire Employees
Oppose Merger

NEW YORK, Feb. 4 G.N.SD.
A resolution voicing union objec-
tions to any contemplated merger
between the Postal Telegraph and
Western Union companies was on
its way to Congress today follow,
ing a meeting Of 300 members of
New York locals of the American
Radio -Telegraphists' Association.
The meeting voted to petition
Congress for an investigation of
the communications industry. Mer.
vyn Rathbone, president of the as.
sociation, said a merger might
eliminate up to $4,000 jobs.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
TREASURY GIVES
FINANCING PLAN

G.N.S3. Secretary Morgenthau
today announced a new Treasury
shortterm financing operation.
Beginning February %, the
Treasury will sell weekly $5O,.
100000 in bills due June IS. The
total amount to be sold, in addi,
ton to the regular $4,000, 900
weekly refinancing issues, will
range between $2O0,O 100000 and
$500, 600, 900, depending on income
tax collection prospects.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
Eggs Get Facial Massage,
Stay Fresh Indefinitely

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 4 O.N.SO.
A highly scientific facial mas
sage" for eggs to keep them in
definitely fresh in storage was
described to delegates at the con-
vention of the American Ware
housemen's Association in session
here today.
First the eggs are placed in q
vacuum chamber which draws out
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
Arctic Explorers Rescue
Pushed as Storm Abates

MOSCOW, Feb. 4 UN.SO.
Hopes for the safety of Soviet
Russia'S four Arctic explorers
stranded on a dwindling ice flot
off Greenland rose today with re-
ceipt of radio message stating a
wild storm which had whipped the
sea was subsiding.
The message added that the
temperature was dropping and
The Washington times., 1938-02-04

that there was possibility of the
ice floes refreezing.
Meanwhile, efforts to rescue the
four explorers were pushed. The
ice-breaking Taimir, which left
Murmansk was making it's way
through the ice with a rescue ex.
petition and the ice-breaker Muir
manetz was steaming toward Jan
Mayen Island with another rescue
group.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04

all the air in them and then they
get bath in mineral oil. Carbon
dioxde is then released in the
chamber and "massaged" into the
pores of the shell which acts as
a SOFT Of storage chamber. Tests
made by U. S. Agricultural experts
showed a carload of eggs suffered
no deterioration after six months
following such processing. accord.
ing to the report.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
China Offers
Pilots High Pay

LONDON, Feb. 4 Q.N.S).
China is offering firstc.lasS for
eign pilots $4,000 a month plus a
bonus of $1,000 for every japanese
plane shot down for service in the
Chinese air force against Japan,
the London Daily Mail reported
TODAY.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
5 Killed, 8 Hurt
In Mine Accident

COPPER CLIFF, Ontario, Feb.
4 G.N.SD. - Five miners were
killed and eight others injured to-
day while being lowered into q
new shaft at LeVack Mine. The
accident occurred when the car.
rier in which the men were being
lowered hit an obstruction,
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
PRODUCER HURT IN CRASH

BOULOGNE, France, Feb. 4
G.N.SO.-Bartley Cormak, Amer
ican film producer of Beverly
Hills, Cal, and his wife were
under treatment today for in.
juries suffered in an automobile
accident near Abbeville.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
WINS POST AT DUKE

HARTFORD. Conn, Feb. 4
U.N.S0.-Dr. Hornell N. Hart, pro-
fesSor of social ethics at the Hart
ford Seminary Foundation. has
been elected to a professional post
at Duke University, Durham, N. c.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
New Haven Plans
$2,OOO,OOO Outlay

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Feb. 4
GN.SD.-New Haven Railroad
trustees today asked the Federal
district court for permission to
spend 100000 for steel rails
and repair work.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
COUPLE GUARDED
MOTHER BEWILDERED


News Service.)
BERLIN, Feb. 4 QN.S0.-Be'
wildered and frightened, the work
worn mother of Baroness Erika
Won Blomberg refused today to be
lieve that her daughters mar
riage to the German war minister
had precipitated a cabinet crisis
1T Is no crime in the modern
Germany to marry a girl who
comes from honest people,"
said Frau Luise Gruhn.
Every day, while the bride Is
honeymooning with Field Marshal
Werner Won Blomberg on the Isle
of Capri, she writes to her mother,
Frau Gruhn said.
Frau Gruhn is still hard at
work trying to earn a living as a
maSseuse. The Baroness father,
a postal clerk, died five years ago,
forcing mother and daughter to
fend for themselves.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
Spanish Bombers Sink Another British Ship
Hospital in Panic
AS Maniac Stays
3 and Wounds 2
Giant Inmate, II, Goes Insane, Then
Opens Fire on Other Patients

TEWKSBURY, Mass, Feb. 4 (LN.S).-Shot by suddenly
crazed 7yearod giant who strobe past their cots firing
revolver three patients killed and two others wounded
probably fatally today at Tewksbury State Infrmary
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
Enjoy Free
Transportation
Until Spring

This is actually possible
for owners Of very old
cars who purchase q
modern used cor now,
because Of the great
savings 10 be made by
not waiting until spring.
Reud the special AUTO
GRAM message about
this great opportunity,
by E. M. Kupersmidt of
Coust-in, Inc, on the
u S g d Car Classified
Page.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
TO DISSOLVE EXCHANGE

CHICAGO, Feb. 4 G.N.S).
Chicago Curb Exchange Associa-
ton members today voted unani-
mously to dissolve the exchange.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
Won BLOMBERG|
LIFE IMPER|LED'
IN PLOT, hint.
Waiter Arrested AS
Suspect

CAPRI, Italy, Feb. 4 Q.N.S0.
An alleged plot against the life
of Field Marshal Werner Won
Blomberg, central figure Of the
German military crisis, was re-
ported here today.
Soon after Won Blomberg
arrived here with his bride, the
former Erica Gruhn, a waiter at
their hotel was arrested on sus-
picion of plotting to kill the couple
with a bomb. He was released
after investigation, however.
COUPLE GUARDED
The Won Blombergs are heavily
guarded, with five or six Italian
Secret Service agents and three
German staff officers assigned to
them.
In reply to a query from Inter
national News Service, Won Blom,
berg refused to confirm or deny
that he had resigned or was
under fire.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04

WASHINGTON FORECAST
Fair, lowest temperature tonight about
36; tomorrow cloudy, warmer, rain ct
night. "Details on Page 31)
The Washington times., 1938-10-28
Airline Passengers
Increased by $4,000

Airliners Of the United States
carried 139, 1905 passengers on regu-
larly scheduled flights during Au-
gust, he Civil Aeronautics Author
1tV revealed today.
This represented a gain of over
10000 passengers above the same
months a year ago. A total of
54,839, ,240 miles were flown during
August and express freight car.
ried was COS, 400 pounds.
The Washington times., 1938-10-28
Blind Boy and Dog
REGISTER for School

CHICAGO Q.N.SO.-Blind for
the past eight years, Robert Scan
lon, II, is registered as a student
1t the University of Chicago, and
80 is his dog. The dog, a German
shepherd trained at Minneapolis,
will guide its young master about
the campus and to and from class
rooms. Scanlon, who was given
the dog and a scholarship by a
religious organization, has ar
ranged for friend to read texts
Of his law course to him.