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The Washington times., 1938-04-12

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The Washington times., 1938-07-28

Foreign Secretary ViScount Hall
fax, addressing the House of Lords
in an extended discussion of for
eign affairs, said Britain is con-
sidering possible action" if ner
interests in China are not re-
Spected by Nippon.
Lord Halifax made his declara-
tion in reply to an assertion by
Lord Elibank, conservative, brand
ing Japanese activities in China
as harmful to British trade i'll
tereSts.
Turning to the troublesome Eu-
ropean situation, Lord Halifax in
dicated Britain and Germany are
approaching negotiations toward
a friendship pact in which settle
ment of the Nazi-Czech crisis
would be included.
Halifax revealed the Sudeten
party, like the Prague govern.
ment, has accepted the services
of Viscount Runciman as medi-
ator of the Nazi-Czechoslovak dis
pute.
Meanwhile, it was learned that
Capt. Fritz Wiedmanns personal
emissary of Chancellor Hitler,
will come to London for a con.
ference with Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain this week.
end.
| Wiedmann is expected to bring
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
WILL REPLY
Presidents PdrtY Aids IL On Isle
Americans Get Food and Supplies

ABOARD THE U. S. S. HOUS-
TON, HOOD ISLAND, GALAPA-
Cos GROUP (Via Navy Radio),
July % G.N.SD.-While President
Roosevelt rested here early today
and studied reports from Wash
intgon. IL residents of Charles
Island were much the richer by
reason of the Presidents visit.
Members of the presidential
party. together with so volunteers,
officers and crew Of the Houston,
carried generous quantities of
fresh foodstuffs, newspapers,
magazines and medical supplies
up the mountainous trails to
Heinz Wittmer and his wife and
three children.
While ashore on this mission
they discovered Elmer A. Conway
and his wife, Americans, who put
out from California IS months ago
and for the past 10 months have
struggled for existence on Charles
Island.
BY signals to the Houston from
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
Ready tOAid
Hepburn
Search

VANCOUVER, British Co
lumbia, July 20 0.N.S0.
Premier T. d. PattullO, of
British Columbia, announced
here today that the British
Columbia government will
order a search for Premier
Mitchell Hepburn, of Ontario,
and party Immediately 1t
seems imperative"
I'm not worrying about
the party yet," he said. "I've
been in the same situation
myself in northern British
Columbia. Eighteen months
ago 1 was held up in a plane
IL hours at Juneau when fog
blanked out visibility"
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
81 Cities
Reduce
Deaths

more extensive safety work, on a
sustained campaign Of safety
propaganda. ..
Evidence of the general improve
ment was the fact that 81 States
and 287 cities cut their death toll
in the first half of the year.
Pennsylvania led the list with
a AZ per cent slash with an esti-
mated saving of 483 lives. Della.
ware was second in the percentage
column at 40, with Michigan rank
ing second in numbers with 343
fewer deaths.
There were SO fewer deaths in
Detroit, the largest numerical re-
duction of any city in the coun.
try. Evanston, ILL.,, was the
largest city to 60 through the
first six months without a fatality.
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X~X

Wittmers make up the islands
dozen aggregate population.
Another boatload of supplies
was sent ashore for them.
All the inhabitants who were
questioned about the mysterious
disappearance Of Baroness Eloise
Wehrborn politely refrained from
comment.
DEPARTURE DELAYED
Work Of getting off the addi.
tional supplies delayed departure
Of the Houston from >Pcstoffice
Bay for more than two hours.
WPA Administrator Harry Hop.
kins reported to Mr.. Roosevelt that
in the week ended July %, more
than $1,000 workers had been
added to WPA rolls as compared
with the previous week.
He said: "WPA rolls have shown
a rise Of more than 100000 since
June /, this increase being dis
tributed among 81 States and the
District Of Columbia"
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
Contract Is Awarded
For Woodridqe Church

Contract for construction Of the
McKendree Methodist Episcopal
Church and Sunday School unit
has been awarded to Morrison
Brothers, of Bethesda, Md, church
officials announced today.
The church is to be built al
Rhode Island Avenue and Twenty
fourth st. N. E. 1t will house
parishioners of the Langdon ano
McKendree Methodist EpiScopa,
churches, which recently merged
Ground will be broken about the
middle of August.
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
Britain Investigates
West Indies RiotinQ

LONDON, July % GNS).-Ap-
pointment of a Royal Commission
to investigate labor troubles and
terrorism in the British West In
dies was announced today. The
Commission will study conditions
in Jamaica, scene of numerous
battles between native strikers
and police.
The Washington times., 1938-07-28

with him Hitler's reply to a COM
promise proposal secretly ad-
vanced by Chamberlain for settle
ment of the Sudeten- Czech con-
troversy. This formula provides
for eventual ablishment of an
autonomous Sudeten state or
province.
The foreign secretary expressed
optimism over the likelihood Of
easing Nazi- Czech tension.
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
Ndzi Peace Gesture
Given by Fuehrer

LONDON, July 20 N.N.S.).
Assurances that Germany
wants a lasting peace settle
ment with France as well as
with Great Britain have been
given by Chancellor Hitler, it
was learned today.
The Fuehrer conveyed the
assurances to French General
LIE ROnd, former high com.
missioner of Upper SileSia,
during a secret meeting, initi-
ated by Hitler at his Berch-
teSgaden mountain retreat.
The Washington times., 1938-07-28

to be COM
plet e d in the MotoFIn
United States, eLn~.e
according to an V"
a n nouncement Gain
by the National
Safety Council today.
1t was estimated that 4,460
have been saved in the e
month period from last Nove1
l through June Of this yea,
comparison to the fatalities OF
responding months in pre-
years.
And the reductions canno
charged off to a drop in mote
travel, according to the cot
which states that it actual,
creased 2 per cent in the first
months of the year, with jun
ureS still unavailable.
The June traffic toll Of
was still "a per cent under
of 1887 and slightly below tn
May, a trend that has occl
only once in five years.
Officials of the council a
uted the steady decline tn Sc
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
'38 Sea Serpents
Go 'StreamIined'

BOSTON, July 2S Q.N.SD.
Sea SerpentS have gone
Streamlined and modern.
The crew of the fishing
boat Giuseppe today avowed
. that 35 miles off Gloucester
they saw a sea monster of the
1888 model.
1t was so feet in length,
had a head like a horse and
a set of wings like an air.
plane.
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
MEXICO SEEKS
TO END BOYCOTT
OF PETROLEUM

MEXICO CITY, July % G.N.SO.
In an apparent offer of an eco.
nomic deal with the United States,
Mexican President Lazaro Car
denas said today his government
would pay foreign claims for ex-
propriated land, provided demo.
cratic nations keep their markets
open to Mexican products.
INCLUDES DEBT
This proposal, it was made
clear, includes the Mexican gov
ernment's debt to Americans
whose farm lands have been
seized and which were the subject
of a vigorous American note to
Mexico last week.
Cardenas told foreign cores
pondents he is seeking to end the
unofficial boycott in the United
States and Britain against Mexi-
can petroleum because of the ex.
preparation last March of Ameri-
can and British oil properties.
WILL REPLY
He intimated that assurances
Mexican oil could be sold in the
American market might induce
Mexico to make quick settlement
of the American land claims. He
added Mexico will reply to the
American note next week.
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
Bandits PaCify

PETPING, July % GN.sD,
Three-thousand members of the
Red Spear Society, formerly
classed as bandits, have Su1ren-
dered to the japanese and are now
aiding pacification agents in fight
ing communist elements in North
China.
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
Sell 'eza1 Ben Smith
L0Sf With Premier
Wall Street Figure
Has Checkered
Career
By WALTER KIERNAN

NEW YORK, July 2s d.N.sO
Missing with Premier Mitchell
Hepburn today in a plane some
where in the Alaskan wastes was
Bernard Sell 'em Ben" Smith
Wall Streets most colorful figure
well known in world capitals as
in Manhattan's "Hell's Kitchen
which spawned him.
Ben Smith, at 48, had made and
lost half a dozen fortunes. He
has cleaned up 100000 on one
deal and dropped it on the next
but he always came back.
MEXICAN OIL
Sell 'em Ben" has cleaned ur
IN Persian and Ethiopian oil
Alaskan gold, British aviation and
at the moment is Mexico's best
oil customer.
Born on New York West Side,
in the district known as "Hell's
htchen," the aggressive, grinning
Irish kid grabbed himself a SO a
week job as an office boy. He
lived on that slender sum and
even managed to tuck a couple of
dollars away every week. When he
had a few hundred he began to
play the market, selling short and
cleaning up.
MADE 5 MILLION
He made a little and lost a
little for a time and then Lady
Luck came along, tapped him on
the shoulder and Sell 'em Ben"
cleaned up a reported five million
dollars on one play.
He pyramided that amount
again and again, occasionally slid.
ing back, but usually pressing for.
ward.
In 1929, when the market
crashed, Smith as not in town.
He got the bad news over the
telephone.
Sell 'em!" he roared, Sell
'em-sell everything!"
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CAME BACK AGAIN

He was reported Cleaned" by
the break, but if he was he came
back strong, and later was re-
ported to have made $4,000, 600
while other brokers were filing
bankruptcy petitions.
When Richard E. Whitney
appealed to Smith for financial
aid as his business was sinking
Smith told him, II don't like
you-1 wouldn't loan you a dime.
He told Charles S. Gay, then presi
dent of the stock exchange, that
Whitney Ought to be kicked out
into the street."
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
Pilot Unfamiliar

On the barest chance the plane
might have flown directly to
Campbell River, residents there
were contacted by Vancouver au-
thorities. They reported the
premier and his party were not
there.
Local fliers said there would be
no cause for worry If a northern
flier were plotting the plane, but
pointed out that Towne, pilot for
Bickell, who owns the plane, had
never flown over the Yukon
Alaska route before.
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
Treasury Condition

G.N.S.) Treasury balance as
Of July 26-$2, ,089, ,377 7,942.06. In
ternal revenue, $2,764, ,672.82; Gus.
toms receipts. $19,l30,157.61. Re
ceipts, $3.50, ,019, 1888: expenditures,
S678. .295. .561,
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
Japan Warned
BY British Lion

By KINGsBURY SMITH

LONDON, July % INS.).-Britains government was
bunty record today with firm warning Japan that the
British lion prepared protect her interests China
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
REPORT MONDAY

Announcement was made by
Senator Sheppard, CD, Texas,
committee chairman, that by Mon
day or Tuesday a finding would
be made on the Kentucky situa
tion.
Amid these developments in.
vestigators for the committee were
en- route to Indiana, California,
Illinois and Georgia to investigate
various complaints of corruption.
In Indiana, the charge of eight
citizens of Owen County was that
WPA supervisors there used their
jobs for political purposes in the
recent primary elections.
The Washington times., 1938-07-28

the shore, Commander Daniel ].
Callaghan, the Presidents naval
aide, made known the supply needs
OF the ConWays and five Eeua.
dorean Indians, who with the
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
LIVES OF 4,46O
SAVED THROUGH
SAFETY DRIVES
Traffic Record Best
In Last Decade

HICAG July 20 (INS).
The safest twelve-month on streets
and highways in q decade is about
The Washington times., 1938-07-28

factors. Among
them were safer
cars and high.
W VS.. drivers
lice nse laws,
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
Four in. Plane
Missing in
Alaska

CONTINUED from Page II
Ben" Smith, who has made and
lost half dozen fortunes in his
48 years.
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
SENATE PROBES
DEMOCRAT RACE
I'm TENNESSEE.
Election Corruption Is
Charged

QCSCTlUSu NY ulCLlbCL VI VIC
Senate Campaign Expenditures
Committee as an exhibition worse
than gutter politics"
Examining evidence Of only one
investigator, the committee found
conditions in the hot senatorial
campaign between two m a o r
Democratic factions so extreme
that a formal statement was is
sued, declaring that the Senate
itself may be called on to deter
mine the victor. Additional agents
were Immediately dispatched to
the State.
FIVE CANDIDATES
There are five candidates for
the Democratic nomination to the
seat now held by Senator George
L. Berry, seeking denomination.
The main contest admittedly Is
between Berry and Tom Stewart,
of Winchester, Tenn, running on
a New Deal ticket.
The committee pictured the
Tennessee primary campaign in
these measured words:
Apparently every scheme and
questionable device that can be
used in a political contest to
raise funds to influence votes
and control the election result
is In full swing.
~maUy nD NAVrrD
Regardless of action that
may be taken in the courts to
punish those practicing illegal
election methods there are
indications that the Senate may
be called on to consider the
probability of excessive money
being used in behalf of victori-
GUS candidates"
SPEEDY PROBE
Meanwhile, Post Office Depart
ment officials indicated there
would be a speedy investigation
into charges that the Government
franking privilege was violated in
mailing Farm Security Admins
tration literature in South Dakota
for alleged political purposes.
The Senate committee asked
Postmaster General Farley to
make the investigation into what
the committee concluded" was a
scheme to boost the candidacy of
former Governor Tom Berry for
the Senate. Berry was recently
nominated by South Dakota
Democrats.
FILES CHARGES
Chan Gurney, Republican sena-
torial nominee, filed the charges,
saying that Ber1'y's connection
with the FSA two years ago was
lauded by the governmental
agency under mailing frank as an
attempt to win votes for him this
year. The FSA literature was
mailed from Yankton, s. D.
While Tennessee and South Da-
kota were live spots in the Senate
quiz, Kentucky, too, was being
combed for proof of charges that
Federal and State funds are being
used to fill campaign Golfers and
influence votes.
Supporters of Senator Barkley
have charged Governor Happy
Chandler with converting State
Federal-aid funds into campaign
ammunition. Chandler's campaign
manager has charged Barkley
forces are regimenting destitute
people on Federal relief rolls to
vote for him, under threat to cut
off food relief.
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
VISITING PROVINCES

VASA1ANO FhOV1NCES
Premier Hepburn had declared
there was no political significance
to this trip. During the inspection
tour he said he planned to meet
with premiers of various Canadian
provinces and Ito talk over mat
ters of provincial interest"
Transport department officials
at Toronto pointed to the fact that
the plane carried adequate radio
equipment and ''the party should
be able to communicate with the
radio station at White Horse un-
less they are grounded"
Hon. Ian Mackenzie, minister of
defense, conceding that the plane
possibly had landed, added:
Mitch has probably come
down in a fog, but I am issuing
immediate orders to search for
him. It may also be that he
and his party have stopped at
Mayo, Yukon Territory, or At
lin, British Columbia. I have
given orders to White Horse to
contact both of these points for
any word of him"
On Way to Mines
While the plane trip was an
nounced as purely holiday for
Premier Hepburn, for Bfckell and
Smith it was an inspection trip
to mining properties at Yellow
knife, Northwest Territory.
The plane hoped off from
Toronto leven days ago to Winni'
peg and then to Edmonton and
from there to Dawson, Y. T.
At Dawson, Hepburn announced
they had decided to fly south to
British Columbia after visiting
Alaska. The premier had planned
to fish at Campbell River. on Van
couver Island, not knowing that
forest fires had halted all fishing
there.
From Campbell River the party
was to go to Vancouver and then
hop east to Winnipeg, thence to
Toronto.
At Whitehorse yesterday Pre-.
mier Hepburn said:
Were having the time Of our
lives"
The Washington times., 1938-07-28

Rates By MAIL FOR VIRGINIA, MARY
LAND, WEST VIRGINIA AND
NORTH CAROLINA
The Washington times., 1938-07-28
MGM;s4zz7s
AGMES

RATES By CARRIER IN WASHING
TON. D C.. AND SUBURBS
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-30
CaIipatrians Report Deer Plentiful
In Modoc But Fail 10 Baq One

iously hurt in an automobile acci-
dent recently is able to be at his
place of business part of the time.
He is assistant manager of thu /.
" Hardware company in Calipa-
tria.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Miller and
daughter, Margaret, were in San
Bernardino over the weekend where
they visited Miller's brother and
wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Miller
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry Farmer drove
to San Diego Friday to bring home
their son, Jack Young, who has
just completed a four-year term
in the navy.
The American Legion held its
first meeting of the year Monday
night. Reports of the convention
were made by delegates R. E. Bed
we'll and C. A. Sperry.
Delegates to the county council
were elected as follows: r. E. Bed
well, Ebert Mead, and Norvel john
son with w. J. Young and Roy
Shaw, alternateS.
At the Auxiliary meeting the
new president, Mrs. w. w. Smith,
presided. News of the convention
were given by Mrs. w. j. Young
and Mrs. NJ L. McKendry.
Delegates and alternates were
suggested for the county council
and will be elected at che next
meeting. Delegates were Mrs. w. W.
Smith, Miss Julia Riley and Mrs
M. A. Short. AlternateS were Mrs.
w. j. Young and Mrs. j. G.. Writ.
A "Well Baby" clinic was con-
| Quoted at Fremont school on Sep
tember 20, with DR.. MacCoy, state
nurse, in charge. She was assisted
by Miss Sheppard, a county nurse
and by Mrs. George Taylor, local
nurse. Six mothers took advantage
of the opportunity to have their
children given a free examination.
These clinics are sponsored by
the Calipatria Woman,s club and
are free for all children under
school age. Diets will be prescribed
to develop better and stronger ba-
bies. Each child will be checked
for defects, and suggestions will
be given to develop better habits,
and exercises will be given for bet
ter health and posture.
The next clinic will be held on
October 18 a the Fremont school
beginning at nine o'clock. The Wo-
mans club invites all mothers with
children of pre-school age to take
advantage of this opportunity for
free examination for their chill
dren,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-30
Chronology Shows
How Hitler Made
Germany Power

BERLIN, Sept 30. (UP)-The
step by step program under which
Adolf Hitler has recreated greater
Germany and put the third Reich
on an equal footing with world
powers:
January, 1933-Named chancellor
by President Paul Won Hindenburg.
March, 1888 = Established Nazi
dictatorship.
August, 1934HProclaimed Fuehrer
= leader and chancellor of the
Reich.
January, 1925-Plebiscite return
ed the Saar district on French
German frontier to the erich.
March, 1885 = Repudiated Yer
sailles treaty by reintroducing COM
pulsory military service.
March, 1896 = Remilitarized the
Rhineland.
January, 1897 = Repudiated the
war guilt" clause of the Versailles
treaty.
March, 1888 - Annexed Austria,
$4,000 square miles, 6,7O0,000 popu-
lation.
September, 1888 - Annexed the
Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia by
international agreement effective
October /.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-30

| miles OF FL CenJrO StreeCS, lnurSuay
couldn't recall an article that at
some time someone has not ordered
him to buy.
"Telegrams aren't the only thing
we have to carry" the Western
Union messenger said. "I've an
swered orders to go and buy cos
metics, bath tub shoppers, hot water
bottles and bibles. Anything I can
tote on a bicycle"
The strangeness of an order how
ever, long ago ceased to astonish
Tommy.
IF someone asked me to go buy
them an ostrich I would probably
just say Sorry, but / don't go
outside the city limits. s."
The trust that his customers
place in the half pint bicyclist is
astounding. But it doesn't astound
Tommy. One Ell Centro woman once
a month entrusts him with several
hundred dollars. He takes the mon
ey, goes up and down Main street
paying bills for her.
wish somebody would turn over
a few hundred to me-" mused the
reporter with underworld inten-
tions.
"Get yourself a bicycle" said
Tommy.
Tommy's business gives him an
inside glimpse into the loves, hates,
family turmoil and happiness that
go behind the scenes of life in Ell
Centre. He plays his part with
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-30

were born.
The contract provided they were
to be shown at the Chicago worlds
fair.
Also named defendants we're the
S. S. Kresge and F. w. Woolworth
companies and Pathe News
The motion for dismissal was
entered Immediately on completion
of Spears evidence and was follow
ed by the order for acquittal.
DR.. Dafoe smiled and thanked
the court after reading of the or
der, and then gave autographs TO
members of the jury.
II am very pleased" he said.
"It confirms my belief in the justice
of America. And now I am anxious
to return to my babies"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-30
CALEXICO NOTES

Mrs. Roscoe Entrekin, president
of the Womans improvement club
held her first official board meet
ing, Wednesday morning at her
home on the Cudahy ranch.
The date of the home coming
luncheon was set for October 18th
at the De ANA hotel. The lunch
con is held on Saturday as cour-
tesy to public school teachers who
may wish to attend.
The resignation of Mrs. George
Kirk as director was accepted with
regret. Her successor will be named
by the board at an early date.
The club house committee will
meet soon to hear the architects
report on the plans and specifica-
tions under consideration for a
club house.
Attending the meeting were Mes
danes Earl Cavanah, Nelson Cor
rell, T. E. Bartholomew, Lloyd Lou
don, George Willoughby, and Le-
Roy Little.
Mrs. C. w. Brockman was re-
elected president of the Imperial
county WCTU for the eleventh
time It the regular fall convention
of the organization held at Holtville
Tuesday.
Attending the convention dinner
from Calexico were Rev. Harry
Cromer, Mesdames C. w. Brock
man, D. r. Kincaid, J. P. Carter
Dorothy Brown, o. P. Mandropo
Gilbert Willoughby, Ed Young, R
L. Glasby and the Misses Elsie
Lueck, Ruby nd Ruth Brockman
and Agnes Weed.
Mrs. j. w. Lawson, wife of the
superintendent of Calexico schools
entertained Monday afternoon il
honor of the women teachers oil
the local elementary and high
school StaffS.
The tea table was charming with
autumn flowers and gold taper,
above hand knitted doilies, heir.
looms of the family. Assisting Mrs
Lawson in pouring tea were Mrs
Dorothy Fitzpatrick and Ann Hor-
mola of the high school staff
Guess included Mesdames E. B
Covington, j. M. Ostrey, Laura
Shepherd, Lewis Smith, John E
johnson, M. l.. AShe, Katherine
Watts, Alden Maud, Charlotte Lang
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-30
Ca|exico Woman's Club Meets
To Form Plans for Year

ley, Addie Hale, Carrie Willoughby
Hazel Erickson, Daisy Pace, Con-
stance Holland, Helen Fugate, Mar
garet Edmunds, Ruth Going, Sydne
Halliday, Florence Stevens, Flor
ence Culver, Olivia Martin, Helene
Deaver, Helen Mains, Alice Ken
nedy, Edith Carmichel, Alice Marie
Rice, Irene Simmons, and Julia
Grant.
Misses Esther Lewis, Ruth Muir
head, Mable Reid, Adell Van Sandt,
Jessie McCulley, Roberta Gerber,
Molly Buckley, Bernice Langley
Marie Dobbs, Elsie Lueck, Barbara
Taylor, Winifred Cavanah, and
Flora Farrior.