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Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-27
BUILDING OF
HOMES IN {. {.
SHOW GAIN

F.H.A. loans in Imperial Valley
have brought the long-cxpected
building rush, contractors and ma
terialmen reported today as they
completed plans for several home
builders in the city and in rural
areas.
w J. Deaver, FL Centre con-
tractor, has started the Construc-
ton of a home for himself on
the corner of Seventh and Vino
streets. The home is to be a five
room frame structure with RED
wood sidines and composition
roof. 1t will be plaStered inside
and will be insulated, according to
Sandy Sanford, designer
NJ. r. Girard contractor. is
building an addition to the Lee
Nuffer home. A new bedroom and
bath with redwood siding will be
included in the addition. The
rooms will be insulated.
A three room frame house in the
rear of the Skinner residence is
being constructed in Ell Centro,
The new home of Dr. r. C.
ClemonS has been started on San
dalWOod between Sixth and Sew
enth streets. The CemonS home
will be a three bed room stucco,
Wall board will be used to finish
the inside of the home.
Mark McClelland announced the
Alice Harrison home on Tenth and
Olive streets was near completion.
Work has been started on the
Tony Fiore home on Len Rey ave-
nue., according to Aubrey Moody,
builder. The Fiore residence will
be a seven room home and is an
other home financed under the
FILA plan.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-27
BICYCLE SPEEDER

OKLAHOMA CITY, Mar. 26. CUP
Carl Spencer, state bicycle speed
champion, took a wild ride today
and pedaled through three stop
lights to the police station. Chief
of Police Granville Scanland, not
ing Spencer's recent appointment
to lead bicycle safety demonstra
ton, was undecided whether to
press charges.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-27
DWELLING PLANNED
IN Ell. CENTRIC

Ed w. Crandall Saturday obtain
ed a permit at the city engineers
office to build a $2500 dwelling at
1919 Hamilton avenue. Three minor
permits issued at the city hall to-
tailed Sis.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-27
Funds Received
For L.V. Schools

C 3. Collins, county superinten-
dent of schools. announced that
state money for Imperial county
schools was received Friday.
Apportionments have been made
as follows: high schools. S23,350.84
ana elementary schools, S5610666
You Haven't Read All the News
Until You've read the Ads
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-27
Modernized Building
TO Replace Present
Office Supply Store

Complete modernizaton plans for the Office Supply
company Main street announced today by Louis
B. McManus, store manager.
The Office Supply company, which has been in Ell
Centre for many years, will door west on Main
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-27

Committee Stresses
importance Of Clean
Yards i'm City Campaign

Chamber of COmmerce-Post-Press Identification COM
nttee members today rushed plans to organize judging
groups to inspect Identification contest homes when the
campaign closes May |.
The committee officials, who recently made nspec-
Evening star., 1938-01-12

and on the tracks" Mr. Pelley said.
production of materials they would
utilize would give employment to an
other $4,000 men outside the railroad
industry, thus supplying re-employ-
ment to total OF not less than 150,-
900.
Railway trafiic during the first nine
months Of 1887 showed q gratifying
increase over the corresponding
months of 1896, then turned sharply
downward during the remainder of
the year and is still at a very low
level. Revenues followed the trend
of traffic. while net earnings showed
an even greater relative decline.
"As result of their improved
financial position during the first nine
months of 1887, the railways employed
more men, bought more goods and
ordered more equipment than in 1896.
As a result of the sudden recession Of
the final three months, however, rail-
way managements found it imperative
to institute immediate and drastic
economies. They reduced their forces,
cut their maintenance programs. cur
tailed their purchases of material and
supplies to the greatest possible extent
and practically suspended their pro-
grams for new equipment and other
improvements to plant"
Evening star., 1938-01-12

glars, the whole roster Of the enemies
OF society. From them he has heard
stories confirming his belief that ply
chiatric care can help keep all men on
the proper path.
German by Birth.
DR.. Wertham was born in Germany,
studied all over Europe and arrived in
the United States in 1921 to teach
psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity under the great Adolf Meyer
From Johns Hopkins he went to the
court clinic and from there to Bellevue.
He admits that psychiatry cannot
solve all the problems of crime and So
ciety, and adds:
"Often psychiatrists do a great deal
Of harm. Too often a man arrested
for some sort Of disorder is turned
over to q psychiatrist for a quick
diagnosis
You can't make q quick diagnosis,
but many times such man is termed
= dementia praecox. That means he
is so mentally sick that he must be
sent to the insane asylum, from which
he may be released in six months, any
time soon.
"Terming such man a dementia
praecox just gives him a license to
kill. A sufferer from dementia prae-
cox won't be executed"
DR.. Wertham came to Washington
to address meeting Of the Institute
of Criminal Science, 1741 K street.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
u. S. TO UNDERWRlTE
GREENBELT SERVICE
Prepared to Extend $3.50 for
for 30.Day Trial of Bus
Line.

The Government is prepared to
underWrite to the extent OF $3.50 the
S0-day trial bus service which the
Capital Transit Co. proposes to in
augurate between Washington and
the model community at Greenbelt,
and further operations will depend on
consummation of an agreement under
which the Government would reim-
burse the carrier for any deficits ac-
cruing on the line.
This was shown today in proposed
order before the Interstate Commerce
Commission to put the bus schedule
into operation. The order, recon-
mended by joint board. would be-
come effective January 80, unless
halted by objections or the interven-
ton of the commission itself.
The contemplated arrangement was
reached in conference between the
Department Of Agriculture, which.
through the Farm Security Admins
tration, has control of Greenbelt, and
officials of Capital Transit. The $3.50
is to be paid irrespective of what the
receipts Of the projected operate
amount to, officials being convinced, 1t
was said. that the service will be a
losing one. The month test, it was
said, is designed to give an idea OF
just what may be expected as a regu-
lar proposition.
At present Greenbelt is served by q
shuttle bus. linking up with the
Branchville electric line. The through
bus service would be an auxiliary for
ruSh-hour traffic.
Evening star., 1938-01-12

Mr.. Whitney told the committee that
1t is fallacious to think business con-
fidence and durable goods production
are the prime necessities for recovery.
The only part which confidence
plays in this important problem" he
said, lis the restoration of the con-
f1dence of the working people of this
country. which will come from as
suring them Of jobs with fair pay
and thereby enable them to buy auto
mobiles, homes and other commodities
and services"
Mr.. Whitney, declaring the value of
the present railroad retirement act to
workers has been greatly overstated,"
was openly critical of notifications
made in the retirement law through
agreement between representatives of
railroad labor and management.
Heading the railroad labor conferees
in the discussions referred to was
George M. Harrison, president of the
railway clerks and vice president Of
the American Federation of Labor,
with whom Mr.. Whitney has been in
disagreement.
The modification to which today's
witness objected was that of lifting
the optional retirement age limit from
IS to 10.
Returning to the whole railroad
Evening star., 1938-01-12

labor problem, Mr. Whitney con-
demned also the agitation for further
consolidation Of roads as sure to be
harmful to labor and further curtail
the already inadequate service Of the
carriers.
Already, he pointed out, the in
dustry policy Of using heavier equip
ment and longer trains has cost them
the cream of the traffic" Which moved
to the more flexible motor carriers.
Yesterday the committee heard a
representative of the lumber industry,
Wilson Compton, manager of the Ma
tional Lumber Manufacturers As
sociation, advise the Government to
stop using a blunderbuss" on busi-
ness. He suggested modification of
the labor relations law and enact
ment Of the pending housing bill. with
out the Lodge amendment for payment
of prevailing wages.
Mr.. Compton suggested Government
aid in industrial planning. but said
that his own industry already Is taking
the initiative in mobilizing efforts for
large-scale low-cost residential build
ing. In this respect, he said they
could now build in Washington house
for two at $4,000 and one for six per-
sons at So, 400.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
Psyc1,iatrist Finds Society
Neglect Breeding Murders
DR.. WertI,an, KnO,us b,
Countless Interviews
Why Slayers Kill.

Murderers tell their secrets to DR..
Frederic Wertham. He knows from
first-hand accounts what terrible
forces sent Robert Irwin, Albert Fish
and Helen Tiernan to their acts Of
spectacular human destruction.
DR.. Wertham is in charge of the
mental hygiene clinic at Bellevue
Hospital, New York City's municipal
inflrmary. He arrived in Washing
ton yesterday to talk on crime.
"A community has the amount Of
crime 1t deserves" he told reporters
here.
II all the agencies in q community
able t. direct people into the proper
channels Of living co-operated to the
utmost, crime would be reduced to q
minimum, DR.. Wertham said.
With such cooperation, Irwin would
not have committed the Gedeon mur-
ders, nor would Fish have killed an
8-year-old girl. nor Mrs. Tiernan
burned to death her daughter.
Prevention Was Possible.
Each Of these murders could have
been averted." DR.. Wertham said.
The pyschiatrist examined Irwin in
1882 and forecast that II he were not
properly treated he would be impelled
to some sort Of violence. Irwin went
to = State hospital for the insane,
was released, and in 1884 DR.. Wer-
than saw him again, mentally sick,
penniless, sleeping in a park, unable
to battle normally against adversely.
Albert Fish, who went to the elec-
trio chair although DR.. Wertham in
sisted he was insane, had q record OF
many short incarcerations in institu-
tions for the insane, only to be loosed
on the community without proper
supervision and free to commit the
horrible crime which sent him to
death.
Society at Fault.
Mrs. Tiernan, DR.. Wertham recalled,
tried repeatedly and vainly to arrange
for adoption OF her two children. At
last, In frenzy OF desperation, she
killed one and planned to kill the
other. Had some society cared for
the adoption, Mrs. Tiernan's crime
would never have occurred, Dr.
Wertham believes
Very serious crimes don't happen
out of clear sky" he said. If the
community would accept the principle
that every man is entitled to PSYCHE
atric care great deal Of trouble would
be avoided"
DR.. Wertham has talked with hun
dreds OF criminals since he went to
work in New York in 1881 as head of
the psychiatric clinic of the Court
of General SeSsions-examining mur-
derers, arsonsts. sex criminals, bur
Evening star., 1938-01-12
HOUSING PROJECT
WILL OPEN TODAY
John Ihlder and Commissioner
Hazen Among Speakers at
Formal Exercises.

John Ihlder. executive officer OF the
Alley Dwelling Authority. was to pre-
side this afternoon at the formal OPEN
ing of the Authority's frst housing de-
velopment for white occupants located
on K street between Sixth and Seventh
streets SW.
Among those scheduled to speak
were Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen,
chairman Of the Alley Dwelling Au-
thority: Rev DR.. Arson Phelps Stokes.
president of the Washington Housing
Association. and Harry S. Wender,
president of the Southwest Citizens
Association. The dedication program
was to get under way at 2pm.
On this site, the Authority has
cleared an area formerly occupied by
alley dwellings and dilapidated houses,
and erected Is two-story, one-f family
houses. The development is the fourth
accomplished by the Authority, the
preceding three having been for colored
occupancy.
The project has removed the unac-
ceptable part of an otherwise fair
neighborhood. On 1 street. immedi-
ately in the rear Of the new develop
ment. is group of good houses, largely
occupied by their owners. The other
houses on K street also are in better
condition than those destroyed for
the new structures.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
PANAY CONSOLATION
GIFT MADE BY JAPAN
$4,000 Donation by Citizens Is
Presented to Grew-Use for
japanese Likely.
he Associated Press.

By the Associat ted Press,
TOXIC, Jan. IA donation Of
$4,000 by Japanese citizens for victims
OF the American gunboat Panay was
presented to the United States EN-
bassy today, but Ambassador Joseph
c. Grew indicated it eventually would
be used to benefit japanese.
The Ambassador agreed to hold the
sum in trust only until it was decided
how the money should be used.
Editors Of the newspapers Nlchi
Nichi and Mainichl took the fund to
the foreign office. It was raised as
consolation gift after the Panay was
sunk above Marking by japanese naval
planes Oh December -.
Mr.. Grew expressed appreciation OF
the apparent sincerity of feeling" in
which the donations were proffered,
but said "it is the belief Of the Ameri-
can Government that American ma
tionals should not receive nor take
direct benefit from sums Of money
thus offered.
1T is my expectation that shortly
prominent japanese will constitute
himself recipient for the gifts which
the japanese offer in evidence of their
feeling, to be devoted to something in
Japan that will testify to the good will
between the two countries"
Evening star., 1938-01-12
D. c. WOMAN SAFE
AMID CHINESE WAR
Miss Katherine Thompson
and 3 Other Missionaries
Near Kiangyin.

Four American missionaries in
China, including Miss Katherine
Thompson Of this city, who had been
isolated by warfare since mid-N
vember. sent word OF their safety to
the American Consulate in Shanghai
today, according to an Associated
Press dispatch.
Miss Thompson. whose parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel A. Thompson, live
at 1895 Illinois avenue NV, is q
missionary from the Central Pres
byterian Church. Fifteenth and Ir-
wing streets NV.
The message from Miss Thompson
and the other three--Mr. and Mrs. A.
Allison OF New Orleans and Miss NJ.
G. wilcox OF Elbcrton. Ga--said they
had taken refuge In Chinese villages
near Kianeyin. YanRtM River port
between Marking and the sea. They
were the last Of the many American
missionaries for whom apprehension
had been felt.
Miss ThompSon's father said today
he had received letter from his
daughter under date Of November %.
sarsne she had left kiangyin the day
tS,nrr and had travelled up the Yang
tse tN houseboat to TSiao Tien. 4
>nau >illasc about II miles away.
MNs Thompson has been mission
Any ~ NraS, hcr last visit here was
III 1881
Evening star., 1938-01-12
Unemployment

of the 1906 restored jobs under dis
cussion, $4,000 would be in the railroad
industry itself and the others In occu-
pations serving the railroads.
Offers No Solution.
Mr.. Pelley, in his prepared state
ment before the committee, made no
suggestions as to how this upward
trend and normal traffic might be de-
veloped. The industry itself has prac-
tically suspended any programs Of
equipment buying, he admitted.
Railway employment now is $4,000
under that OF January. 1887, the
committee was told by Mr.. Pelley.
Urges Rate Increase.
Under questioning about prospects
of new capital entering the industry,
Mr.. Pelley declared it to be very i'm
portant" that the I. c. c. grant the
pending request for increased freight
rates
Asked il this might not drive further
traffic to motor carriers, the witness
said he did not believe so since they
also are desirous of increasing their
rates.
Favorable action on the rate request
would open the buying DOORS Of the
railroads, he emphasized. Such buy
ing, he added, would be scattered
through the entire country since rail-
road purchases cover a wide range of
products.
An annual equipment program for
the railroads, the industry chieftain
said, could easily contemplate the
installation of 1000 new locomotives
and 100000 new freight cars per
year."
There are no better spenders than
we are" he added. When we have
the money we'll be in the market"
Removal of emergency rates and
rising wages cost the railroads $780,
100000 In revenue in 1887, Mr.. Pelley
said, but granting of the pending re-
quests on a basis Of 1887 business
would be worth $517 ZOO, 900.
Would Spread Employment.
If these men (75,O00) were
brought back to work in railway shops
Evening star., 1938-01-12
FIRE IN TENANT HOUSE
BURNS THREE CHILDREN
Left Home Alone as Parents
Worked, Trio of Youngsters
Trapped in Flames.

By the Associated Press
MECHANICSVILLE, Md, Jan. 10
Three colored children were burned
to death today in fire which tie
stroyed a tenant house on the farm Of
Amos Rollins, near Dentsville.
Arthur Day. father of the children,
a carpenter, was at work in La Plata
when the fire broke out and the moth
er, Ollie Day, was working in Rollins
home. an eighth of mile from the
tenant house Flames had virtually
destroyed the tenant house, hidden
from the Rollins home by a bank OF
earth, before the fire was discovered.
The La Plata Volunteer Fire De-
partment arrived too late to save the
dwelling, but took the bodies of the
children from the embers. The body
Of the eldest, Mary Margaret. S. was
found near the blackened stove in
what had been the kitchen. The
bodies Of Rose, 2, and Catherine. g.
were found in the wreckage of the bed,
where the fire had caught them asleep
Evening star., 1938-01-12
PAN-AMERICAN STATEMENT.
Tells of Two Searching Flights Around
Samoan Islands.

Tells of Two Searching Flights Around
Samoan Islands.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. II (P).-
Two searching flights have been made
around the Samoan Islands by Navy
plane without sighting the missing
Pan-American survey clipper, the air
ways company said today in an official
statement reviewing the disappearance
of the big flying boat.
The statement said:
"Pan-American officials advised that
their South Pacific survey plane, the
Samoan Clipper, after radioing that
1t was returning to port after develop
Ing an oil leak in one of its four en-
gines, 40 minutes after its departure
yesterday morning from Pago Pago,
en- route to Auckland, New Zealand,
has not been heard from since 1927
local Samoa time yesterday morning
Hoped Tuesday Morning.
'The Samoan Clipper, under COM
mand of Capt. Edwin c. Musick. on
the first regular experimental trans
port fight over the newly established
mail and express route between the
United States and New Zealand, took
of from the Samoan pase at $50
am. Samoan time Tuesday.
When SO minutes out, placing it
approximately IS miles from the har-
Dor of Pago Pago, the Clipper re-
ported that one of the four engines
had developed an oil leak, that they
had set the propeller brakes on that
motor and were returning toward
Pago Pago where they planned to
land at $50.
The Clipper returned northward as
far as Apia Harbor on the north coast
OF Upolu Island, from which the ap-
proach is made for a landing in Pago
Pago Harbor. The next messages from
the Clipper was received at 1927, when
1t reported leaving Apia Harbor and
signed off, advising that it was dump
ing its excess gasoline before return
Ing to Pago Pago.
No Further Word Heard.
mo further word has been heard
from the plane and naval authorities
Of Tutuila Island assisted in organiz-
ing search with the station boat
Avocet and Naval patrol plane.
In addition to the radio messages
received from the plane, which at no
time indicated that the captain an
ticipated any difficulties, they were
also guided by report from the COM
mercial radio operator at Apia that
he had seen the plane turning sea-
ward on its approach course to Pago
Pago at approximately the same time
as the clipper reported over that same
area.
THE naval plane made two search
Ing flights to and around the island,
returning to Pago Pago at nightfall.
Meantime the station ship was dis
patched to the vicinity of Apia. where
It was expected to arrive shortly after
dawn.
TT was planned that the naval fly
ing boat would proceed to the same
area at daybreak this morning to
guide the surface vessel in its search.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
U.S.-|TAL|AN TRADE
PACT STALEMATED
Hull Refusal to Recognize
Empire Forces End to
Negotiation.
~ the Associated Press.

~ tuS ASoUCldIcu 1ISeS
Negotiations for trade treaty be-
tween Italy and the United States
have been suspended, it was learned
today. because Of Italian insistence
that Secretary Of State Hull admit
King Victor Emanuel's right to title
OF Emperor of Ethiopia.
Secretary Hull refused to Use the
latter designation in the trade docu-
ment. Informed persons said Premier
Mussolini turned down q suggestion
that a paragraph be inserted to make
It plain that the pact was not to be
construed as any form OF American
recognition Of Italy's Ethiopian en-
pire
State Department trade officials said
they were seeking some means of end
ing the stalemate.
Actual negotiations, however, were
expected to lapse at least for several
months during which the situation
might be adjusted. AS long as the
deadlock continues trade relations will
be governed by an extension of a
previous Italo-American treaty.
Since there was only one document
under consideration in the proposed
new treaty, the State Department
could not fall back on the formula of
address used in diplomatic exchanges.
Under this. Italian notes to the United
States spoke of the King of Italy and
Emperor of Ethiopia" and American
replies mentioned only the title OF
King.
Secretary Hull continued his inter-
national trade program, however, by
announcing that hearings will begin
February % on a reciprocal agreement
with Turkey. Interested business men
were given until February to file
briefs.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
ARCTIC IS HELD
'S0V|ETLAKE' NOW
Ice Menace Tanned by Con.
voy Methods, Stetans.
son Declares.
srecial Dispatch to The Star.


CHICAGO, Jan. l2.-How Russia
Is preparing for war and peace hy
converting the Arctic Ocean into a
Soviet lake. tanning the ice menace
to merchant ships by CONVOY methods
successfully used against submarines
in 1918, was described here by Vilhjsl-
mur Stefansson noted Arctic explorer
and author.
Early navigators of the frozen North
wouldn't know the old place now. ac-
cording to Mr.. StefanSson.
Radio stations dot every mainland
promontory. every island and group
of islands in the Arctic Sea. Scout
ing planes are based on airf1elds MAIN
tained where it's too cold for polar
bears. Boom towns, with electric
lights, movies and newspapers, rise
many miles north OF the Arctic Cir
Gle. Radio and plane service guide
freight ship conveys through ice
bound channels from Archangel, on
the east. to Vladivostok
The square-rigged. snowy-haired ex-
plorer-he once spent SO consecutive
months amid Arctic ice fields-com-
pared the ice watch" of his sailing
days to the protective system which
guards merchantmen conveying manu-
factured goods, including munitions.
from Russia proper to the Pacific coast
of Siberia.
I'VE used to navigate the broken ice
fields by blind chance" he said. "A
man in the lookout at the masthead
of the ship, 100 feet above the deck.
used his binoculars to guide us through
menacing fields of ice, with almost
momentary danger of a fatal collision.
Under the Soviet government S
general administration of northern
sea routes the Northeast Passage
has been marvelously developed
through the combined use Of radio
and plane intelligence service Fifty
seven radio stations have been erected
since 1881, some of them on islands
100 miles north of the northern
coast of Siberia. Some of the stations
also are air bases, with two Or three
scouting planes always in commits
sion"
lcopyrisht. 1898. by the North American
Newspa per Alliance. Ine0
Evening star., 1938-01-12
DISTRICT BUILDING
PICKETING is PLANNED

The District Workers Alliance an
nounced today 1t would form a picket
line around the District Building to-
morrow in protest against the proposed
cut in the 1899 District relief appro-
priation.
The picketers will parade from II 80
am. until pm. and from pm. to
S pm, according to report from the
alliance.