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Evening star., 1938-07-08
CONTROLLERS WIN
TROPHY THIRD TIME
National Capital Group Holds
Victory Dinner-W. F.
Hisey Speaks.

More than 40 members of the Ma
tional Capital Group of Controllers
participated in a victory dinner last
night at the Raleigh Hotel to celebrate
the groups acquisition of the Alfred
Henry trophy for the third consecutive
year. This is the only organization
that has ever won it more than once.
The cup. established in 1898 by the
controllers Congress, was awarded to
the local group for being Of greatest
aid to the congress, which is affiliated
with the National Retail Dry Goods
Association.
According to Vice Chairman W. F.
Hisey Of the Palais Royal, the duty of
a controller is to place the functioning
Of retailing on a more scientific basis.
This is done BY carefully checking
goods. bills, expenses, income, profit
and loss statements and the like, SO
that no waste occurs. The controller,
he said. also seeks to bring about a
closer relationship between retail stores
so that all may function as a unit in
the community.
Abe Coonin Of William Hahn Il Co.,
chairman of the group, presided at the
dinner.
Evening star., 1938-07-08
Honesty Is Best Politics.

SYLVIA, N. c. R.-When occu-
pants of big motor car drove away
from . drug store without paying for
their drinks, soda clerk Tom Wilson
commented dejectedly he'd have to
charge it to experience"
But several days later the car came
back.
Out stepped Gov. Clyde R. Hoey,
who planked down the cash with the
explanation, Il had lapse Of
memory"
Evening star., 1938-07-08

kitchen on Wisconsin avenue in
Georgetown. To cover the cost Of
materials used, Congress included in
the last deficiency act an appropri-
alton Of t65, 900 Is the Districts con-
tribution to the w. p. A. project.
Onhcials said they believed about
$500 children would be eligible for the
program. This Is about the number Of
school children who were given free
lunches during the last school year.
The lunches served during the sum-
Evening star., 1938-07-08
MILK PRObERS
co BEFORE Jury
Leo F.Tierney and N. L. Igoe
Head Federal Attorneys
Handling Case.
ey the Associated Press.

sAecSSAo
CHICAGO, July 8.-Prosecutors
handling the Governments investiga-
tion Of milk prices in the Chicago
area-and whether Nationwide milk
trust exists-went before the grand
jury today, presumably to outline their
case,
Leo F. Tierney. special assistant to
the Attorney General and United
States District Attorney Michael L.
1goe, headed the corps of prosecutors
who entered the grand jury room, in
the first step toward presenting evi-
dence gathered during a years inquiry
Into business practices.
Federal officials have indicated the
grand jury inquiry would take weeks,
perhaps months, and that hundreds
OF witnesses would be called. A half
dozen Investigators have worked on
the preliminary stages of the investi-
CATION out Of Chicago and others out
Of Washington.
Truckloads Of Evidence.
Files and documents in Offices of
the staff here indicated the grand
jurors would be asked to examine
virtual truckloads of paper" evidence
IN support Of Federal claims Of anti
trust law violations.
Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson
Issued one subpoena requiring the In
ternational Association of Ice Cream
Manufacturers of Washington and its
Al afdliates throughout the Nation to
produce records July 18 for the grand
jury.
Another subpoena required the
Owens-Illinois Glass Co. of Toledo.
Ohio. to produce on July Is corre-
spondence concerning advantages and
disadvantages Of the glass milk bottle
compared with the fabricated con-
tainer. This correspondence was with
Dr.. Herman N. Bundesen, president
OF the Chicago Board of Health, and
various dairy associations.
Other Subpoenas to Follow.
Mr. Tierney has said 109 other sub
poenas for records and individuals
would be requested as needed.
Government officials said they
wanted to know why there was such
a wide spread between the IL cents q
quart Chicagoans pay for delivered
milk and the 3.74 cents a quart pro-
ducing farmer received in the Chicago
milkshed, including parts of Illinois,
Indiana. Michigan and Wisconsin.
In Washington Thurman Arnold.
Assistant Attorney General, said there
were indications "conspiracies and
agreements in restraint of trade" ex-
listed, rather than any accidental
condition" which would account for
the price spread.
Evening star., 1938-07-08
NEEDY CHILDREN
TO GET LUNCHES
W. P. A. Will Start Serving
Food on Fairgrounds
Next Monday.

Service Of free lunches for needy
children will be started Monday at all
OF the Fairgrounds being operated by
the District Playground Department
and the Community Center Depart
ment. according to plans laid by Dis
trict Works Progress Administration
ofdcials.
Plans for summer operation of the
lunch program were started yesterday
after it was made known that Presi-
dent Roosevelt had approved a grant
OF $l69.995 for q 12-month w. P. A.
project.
This sum will 60 for the employ
ment of about 200 women on the w.
P. A. project, who operate the central
Evening star., 1938-07-08

mer on the Fairgrounds is to consist
Of fruit, sandwiches and milk. The
regular hot lunch program will be
resumed with the reopening Of the
schools in September.
All children receiving !he lunch
must have been certified by the prin-
cipals Of their schools. Most of them
Evening star., 1938-07-08

Mrs Nice and q bathing beauty con-
test will precede the address.
David Tilghman, chairman Of the
Republican State Committee. will pre-
side, and Thomas Parran, former
member of Congress, will welcome the
Governor and his guests.
Evening star., 1938-07-08
NICE MAKES FIRST TALK
IN CAMPAIGN TOMORROW
Governor Will Attend Rally at
Seaside Park-Beauty Contest
to Be Held.

Gov. Harry w. Nice, who last week
announced that he would seek second
term as Governor of Maryland, will
make the first address in his campaign
at a rally tomorrow at Seaside Park,
Chesapeake Beach.
A luncheon for the Governor and
Evening star., 1938-07-08
already have this certification from.
the operation Of the program the past
winter.

Production Of quick frozen foods In
the United States this year Is ex-
pected to total about 100000 pounds,
almost three times the output in 1885.
Evening star., 1938-07-08
Oxon Hill Democrats Meet.

OXON HILL, Md, July Especially.
The July meeting of the Oxon Hill
Democratic Club will be held at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. George N. Cox
here at pm. Monday.
Evening star., 1938-07-08

John Golden, American playwright
and producer. has composed more
than 1000 songs.
The Washington times., 1938-09-15

Printed and plains!
Combinations! 2
tones! / to 8. 7 TO
IA. Boys suits. !
to 8. Real buys!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
PASTOR FASTS>
ONLY'SPIRITUAL
FOOD ALLOWED

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. 13. (UP)
Dean Israel H. Noe of st. Mary's
Episcopal cathedral began his
twelfth day of fasting today con-
vinced that man may live by spirit
ual food alone and determined to
prove the fact of Immortality.
Dean Noe has eaten no solid
food since November 1886. He stop
ped drinking water in February
1897. Until II days ago he lived
entirely on orange juice and since
that time has taken nothing but
bread and wine of holy communion.
"I desired no publicity" he said.
1T is a personal matter of pioneer
ing nature. My ultimate aim is to
prove that the human body may
survive without material aids. I
hope to provide living proof of the
fact of Immortality and the fact
that man may live by spiritual food
alone"
The fast which Dean Noe began
Jan. 2 is the elimination of a Sys-
tenn of abstinence started 10 years
ago. Now he hopes to live a nor
NAL life without food or water,
gaining strength entirely from
spiritual sources.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
RESCUERS 60
THRU GAS TO
REACH VICTIMS S
Last of Ten Bodies Come
Out of Mine After
Tragedy

HARWICK, Pa, Jan. 13.
(UP) = Penetrating a wall
of deadly gas, rescue crews,
equipped with gas masks, to-
day reached the bodies of the
last two men who were among the
ten killed in an explosion at the
mine of the Harwick Coal and
Coke company.
Sorrowing relatives, unmindful
of the snow and cold, waited at
the top of the mine as the rescue
crews completed their task of re-
covering the last two bodies, those
of Charles Ciesilski, A, and Tony
Woinor 40, both of HarWick.
The deadly fumes of methane
gas and carbon monoxide had not
been entirely dispelled from the
mine as the gas-masked reScuers
reached the bodies at the scene OF
the explosion, 300 feet underground
and about a mile and half from
the one-shaft by which the dig
gingS are entered.
Eight other bodies had been
brought to the surface earlier. Thir-
ty six men of the maintenance and
repair crew which had been work.
ing in the mine yesterday morning
when the blast occurred, either
managed to walk from the coal bed
or were rescued alive.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
HOUSETR TRAILER
BATTLE LANDS
7 WO IN JAIL
One Man Fugitive After
Drinking Brawl Child
In Detention Home

BRAWLEY, J an. 13. =
Two persons went to jail,
one became a fugitive, and a
child was sent to the county
detention home as a result
of a drunken fight in a house.
trailer parked in the country near
here Wednesday night.
Frank Watson, 80, and his 27-
year-old wife, were arrested and
taken to the county Jail and Mrs.
Watson's youthful daughter placed
in the detention home while off
GERS search for an unidentified
hitchhiker with whom the Watsons
had been drinking and fighting.
The Watsons stopped in Braw-
ley with their car and housetrailer
while en- route to, the pea fields
from Somerton, Ariz. They added
the hitchhiker and some whisky
to their party before driving into
the country to park on private
property The two men fought over
Mrs. Watson, officers were told
and Watson accused the hitchhik-
er of stealing So and a billfold
from him. ...s
Imperial county deputy sheriffs
arrested the Watsons after owners
of the ranch reported Mrs. Watson
tried to force her way into their
home. They also accused her of
cursing, abusing and striking them,
officers said. The hitchhiker has
not been found yet.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
CLIPPER BLAST
HELD SIMILAR
TO HINDENBURG
May Have Suffered Same
Fate of Big German
Dirigible

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.
(UP)-Bureau of Air Com
merce officials said today
that Pago Pago reports in
dicate the Pan American
Airways' Samoan clipper may have
suffered the same fate that befell
the German dirigible Hindenberg.
Pago Pago reported that wreck
age of the clipper was found strewn
over a wide area, indicating that
the ship may have been blown to
bits in midair as gasoline was be-
ing dumped to trim" the ship for
the descent to the ocean surface.
The exact cause of the Hinden
berg explosion was never determin-
ed. However, the investigation
board cited the possibility that stat
ic electricity or sparks from the
exhaust of the engines might have
ignited hydrogen which the Hin
denberg was valving in a manner
not disSimilar from the clipper S
valving of gasoline.
Fred Fagg, jr., director of the
air commerce bureau, said that the
Pago Pago reports appeared to
have some foundation in view of
the fact that earlier Capt. Edwin
C. Musick, pilot of the Inflated
flying boat, had reported a leak
in the oil line.
In that case" Fagg said, there
undoubtedly was a good deal of
carbon, containing many live
sparks, coming out of the motor.
II is possible that as the gasoline
was being Waived, it might have
been ignited by one of the sparks
and caused an explosion in midair. -
Fagg said that there was no ban
against dumping gasoline from the
Samoan clipper because it did not
carry passengers. There is de-
partment regulation, he said, which
requires the sealing of dump valves
on planes carrying passengers.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
WOMAN KILLED
AS EXPLOSION
WRECKS HOTEL

COALINGA, Cal, Jan. 13. (UP)
"A terrific explosion in the Buck
ley hotel here today killed Mrs.
Barbara Buckley, so, hotel man
ager, and seriously injured two
men from Orange Cal, guests at
the hotel
Other persons in the building
escaped injury as the two-story
brick front of the hotel was blown
into the street. The blast occurred
when Mrs. Buckley lighted a gas
stove on the second floor of the
building.
j. Regan and w. C. Clement,
both of Orange, were taken to a
Coalinga hospital with serious sec
ond and third degree burns. Regan
tried to carry Mrs. Buckley from
the wrecked building but collapsed
from his own injuries.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
TWO WOMEN
BOUND, SLAIN

Ell MONT, N. Y, Jan. 13 (UP)-
Nassau county authorities investi-
eating the Staying of two women
here centered their search today
on an elderly man who threatened
II years ago Ito wipe out the whole
Waite family"
AS recently as last Thanksgiving,
police were informed. the old man
returned and quarreled with Mrs,
Lenida Waite, SO, who was tied
hand and foot with pair OF silk
stockings and shot to death in her
home yesterday.
Her young neighbor Miss Jean
Schuellain, Is, also was killed, pre-
sumably because she surprised the
murderer as he bound Mrs. Waite.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13

NCitOi Vi Wiz AtsoSAe'SoS, SSoA SAA>AS ~
ported today.
The old U. S. minesWeeper Avo-
Get returned late last night from
an oily splotch of the sea IA miles
from the island where Capt. Edwin
c. Musick and his six companions
OF the clipper crew were lost Tues
day morning.
The Avocet found the clippers
Watery grave 16 hours after the
Pan American sky boat disappear
ed on a flight from here to AUX
land. New Zealand.
The wreckage that was left, Chief
BoatsWain H. S. Began of the
Avocet said, indicated that the
clipper was blown to pieces,
Bits of wood and paper covered
the sea. They seemed to be frag-
ments from the interior of the
plane All the pieces were from
one to six inches square. We found
nothing larger than that"
They also round a coat, Began
said, bearing the Pan American in
sigma. The coat was burned tull
of holes. A small piece of the
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13

way.
Outside the packed courtroom was
a struggling crowd of 200 men and
women, held in check by dozens OF
deputy sheriffs They were held
in double line by barricade erect
ed at the door and waited patiently
in the hope that someone might
leave the courtroom and give them
an opportunity to hear how Wright,
39-year -old aviation executive, shot
down his wife and Kimmel last
Nov. 9, when he assertedly found
them in a compromising situation
in Wright's home.
Mrs. Jesse E. Mcbride of Detroit,
mother of the slain woman, and
Mrs. Maureen Kimmel, wife OF the
other victim, were seated against
the wall at the back of the court
room.
The SLAYER had been out late and
brought Kimmel home with him to
prove to his wife that he had been
on stag party" She mixed drinks
| for them. and Wright went to his
bedroom for a nap. Awakened by
the piano. he walked into the living
room and found John and my wife
in each others arms. They looked
I'D. smiled. and kissed each othel
again. Things went white hot. Al
I could think of was to destro!
that thing"
But at the preliminary hearing
while. Wright sat silent his lawye
put two policemen on the stan'
to hint at abnormal erotlclsm OF
the part of the two victims. Unde
Giesler's questioning they testifie'
Kimmel's trousers were in disarra,
and his body exposed. Mrs. Wright
dress was not above her knees
however.
Giesler said he would put Wrlgh
on the stand to tell the true stor'
of the slayings for the first time
and invoke the "unwritten law O
the outraged husband, cltlne
Wright's claims that his wife play
ed around with other men, ane
Dragged to him about it. He alse
planned to stress the sterillzatlor
operation, claiming the slayer wa'
emotionally disturbed by 1t. Virgin
claims he sacrificed his fatherhoot
to spare his wife the peril of future
motherhood to a doctors advice
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
SHIP
TIEUP ENDED

SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. 49, CUP)
-Seattle's week-long shipping tie
up ended today as operators re-
sumed working relations with un-
ion longshoremen following uno-
ficial intervention between them
by Maritime Commission Chair.
man Joseph p Kennedy.
M. G.. Ringenberg, spokesman for
the Waterfront Employers associa-
ton, said an exchange of letters
led to the decision to resume rela-
tions but that Kennedy was very
instrumental in effecting the set
tlement."
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13

Pawn shops and secondhand stores
in Imperial and Yuma Valleys
Thursday were gradually giving up
stolen property sold to them by
three confessed burglars, Ralph
Ncrthum Thomas Phillips, and Jack
Donaldson.
The confessed burglars and own
ers of burglarized homes have iden-
titled articles stolen from homes in
widely scattered areas in Imperial
Valley in the last two months.
In two Yuma stores, Northum,
one of the men who confessed to
the series of burglarieS, assisted I'M
perial and Yuma county deputy
sheriffs in identifying a gun and
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
Peak Expected
Next Weel< K in
Pox Epidemic
3 More Patients
Discovered in
North End

The smallpox epidemic in
the northern section of I'M
perial Valley will reach its
greatest intensity late this
week or early next week,
health officers reported Thursday
Three additional smallpox patients
were discovered in Westmorland
Wednesday and a Brawley high
school pupil living in the country,
was found to nave the disease.
Persons who came in contact with
smallpox patients before the nature
of the disease was determined and
the sufferers quarantined, are ex-
pected to show evidence of the all
ment during the weekend or the
first of the week, health officers
said. The period for developing
the disease after contact ends at
that time.
Wholesale vaccinations are urged
by DR.. Warren F. Fox, county health
officer to stop the spread of the
disease throughout the valley. The
number vaccinated approXimated
1900 since last Thursday.
Fox pointed out that many per-
sons living in the northend work
in other parts OF the valley and
thus become a means for spreading
the disease.
A Business and Professional
Women's club convention schedul-
ed for Brawley this weekend, was
changed to San Bernardino be-
cause coast members refused to run
the risk of smallpox. Club members
from all sections of Southern Cali
fornia cancelled their reservatiosS,
thus forcing the change.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
BrawIer Admits
Knife Attack on
Cafe Proprietor

w. D. Hogel, Sc, pleaded guilty in
FL Centre police court Thursday
morning to stabbing Louis Durante,
proprietor of the Roma cafe on
South Fifth street, when Durante
attempted to eject him from the
cafe Tuesday night.
Hogel said he had imbibed two
classes of wine and one glass of
beer prior to the fight. and did not
remember any part of the scuffle
in which a inch knife wound
was inflicted on Durante, over his
heart.
Sentence was to be passed after
judge Nuffer interviewed witnesses
to the struggle Thursday afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
s. D. WOMAN
JUMPS FROM
HOTEL ROOM

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Jan. 13.
UP)-Mrs. Zina Kesner. 40. San
Diego. Cal. plunged seven stories
from a hotel room to her death
in a crowded thoroughfare today
She had registered at the hotel
about an hour earlier.
Police said they were told by the
desk clerk at the hotel that Mrs
Kesner inquired fol room, was
offered one on the fourth floor and
asked for one higher up"
Shortly afterWard her body land
ed on the sidewalk.
Mrs. Kesner's husband and two
children are in San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
PAWN SHOPS SEARCHED FOR
LOOT OF IV. BURGLAR GANG

an electric iron stolen in the looting
of the William Wendell home east
of Imperial Dec. 26.
Officials of the Jones-Smith
Furniture company in Yuma told
the officers the gun identified as
Wendell's by number. was purchas-
ed from Northum and Donaldson for
$40 An electric iron found at the
Lewis Second Hand store in Yuma
also was identified as Wendell's
property. The dealer said he bought
the iron from Donaldson for 81.
With the assistance of the trio
of confessed burglars, officers and
owners of missing property are pill
ing up evidence and recovering
property.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13

suit of the Generalissimo's visit,
Gen. Han Fu-Chu, military gov
ernor of Shantung province, was
arrested charged with failure to
make adequate resistance in the
area.
nese troops may lock with 100000
A battle in which 100000 Chi
japanese was expected to center
at SOOchoW
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13

alter an inspection OF The Japanese
as we'll as the Chinese lines order
ed a defense at all costs.
Four scout and four pursuit
planes escorted Generalissimo Chi
ang on his dangerous flight infor-
mants said. He flew over the actual
fighting lines in the Tsining Sec
tor.
Chinese sources here quoted un-
confirmed reports that as the re-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
NAVAL DEPT.
URGES MORE
SHIP BUILDING

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. CUP)-
The navy department has recon-
mended to President Roosevelt
that he ask congress for revision
of the Vinson- -Trammell act to per-
nit naval construction in excess of
treaty limits, Admiral William D.
kIeahy revealed today.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13

PARIS Jan. 13. CUP)-Premier
Camille Chautemps confronted by
cabinet crisis, the falling franc
and danger Of a depleted treasury,
appealed to the nation today for
United support.
Addressing the chamber of depu-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
CRISIS
NEAR IN FRANCE

ties, Chautemps proclaimed his op-
position to exchange control and
demanded a confidence vote on
monetary freedom and balanced
budget. .s
His appeal was intended to calm
fears and prevent the exodus of
frightened capital.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
Judge CardozO Shows
Slight Improvement

WASHINGTON, Jan. l3 tUPJ7~
Justice Benjamin N, Cardozo show
ed "a slight Improvement this NOR
ming, DIR. j. p. Earnest, jr., reported
today.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
Former Slave Dies
At Age of 120 Years

AUSTIN. Tex, Jan. i3. tUP,~~
Mary Ann Edwards. estimated on
the old age assistance rolls 10 be
100 years of age. died today, She
was a former slave In Mississippi,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
Vera Mae Shumard
Dies Wednesday Night

Vera Mae Shumard, Is. died We'd
nesday night at an Ell Centro hos
pital. The body was taken to the
Lemons funeral establishment pend
ing arrangements for the funeral.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
Chang Orders
A Last Stand

SHANGHAI, Jan. 13. (UP) Generallsslmo Chlang
Ka-Shek has ordered last ditch defense OF the Soochow
front in Central China, Chinese sources said today
Chang as commander chief of the army flew over
the entire front in an army airpane normant said and
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-13
Curious Crowd
Court to Hear
Murder Case
Aviation Executive Slated to Tell True
Story of How, Why He Killed
Wife, Best Friend

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13. (UP)-Crowds of curious,
hoping to hear sensational testimony jammed Judge In
gall Bulls courtroom today selection of jury to try
Paul A. Wright for the white flame Staying of his wife,
EVELYN 30 and his friend John Kimme 35 got under