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Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13

lilt ouiIOl Wdo LdWlcllCt sOpI dSuci
29 wilful stepson of a society doc
tor, who picked up a gun and raced
here at IS miles an hour to the
house where Mrs. Carolyn told him
by telephone that their romance
was at an end.
Only few moments before he
rushed into the home of Mrs Tracy
Higgins. estranged wife of the mill
lionaire ink manufacturer, he was
stopped by police at Westbury, and
given a summons.
Mrs. Carolin was taken to South
side hospital in Bayshore with three
bullets in her body State Trooper
John Busch was hit in the left arm,
as he leaped across a bedroom in an
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Recreation Area
Bill Vetoed

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. IL (UP
President Roosevelt vetoed today
a bill that would have conveyed
to the state of Nevada between IL
and 13 square miles in the Boulder
Dam-Lake Mead area for use as
a state park and a public recrea-
tional center
He contended that it should be
n served by the Federal Govern
I.ent because it is endowed with
many features that appear to make
it worthy of consideration as a
possible national park or monument
site"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13

attempt to keep Sprague from kill
ing Mrs. Carolin.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Sprague, wife
of DR.. Shirley Sprague and mother
of the suicide, said bitterly that
she saw it coming when she was
informed of the shootings in a five
story mansion in New York City.
This sort of thing could not go
on" she said. Il was up at am
this morning, and went to Lolly's
bedroom. There I fund he hadn't
slept in his bed. I looked at the
bed and said, Please, God, end it
one or the other But why wasn't
ne a man about it To kill himself
Continued on Page 3, Col -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Bombers Head
Back toS.D.

SEATTLE, Aug. -. CUP,-Twen-
ty-seven u S. navy patrol bombing
planes headed for San Diego, Cal,
today from the Sand Point naval
air station.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
RIGGS WHIPS
CZECH ACE

RYE, N. Y. Aug. Il OUP)-- Bobby
Riggs of Chicago. defending champ
ion, played his best tennis of the
season today as he advanced to
the final of the Eastern Grass
Courts championship with a straight
set victory over Ladislav Hecht of
Czechoslovakia, Us, 1913.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
VALLEY TRIO INJURED near BAKERSFIELD D
p AMBLING
X EPORTER

Scraps in Passing
All the mystery of the Orient
can't compare with the mystery of
what other people are talking about
when you pass them on the side
walk and hear just scrap of their
conversation. RR tried it Satur-
day. He made no effort to hear any
complete sentence. just scraps. Ev-
cry one of them came from a diff
ferent person, in a different place.
Here they are;
Hold that boat you
gotta have more paddin' &. c. pretty
good fresh water fish you'd
better take two right now-in faucet
water :. hadn't done thing to
him =. it's the psychological re-
suit then she says to him &.
they hadta get out d. you're just
like me that way . E. I was gettin'
too fat , hello, you old jackass
=. we're just havin' beans . the
way l heared it she's sure
swell
X But the nadir was this, from
ianky youth evidently not long out
of the dust bowl
Her ma says she amt wuth
flghtln over
Depends on Viewpoint
Jack Oswalt. just back from a
Texas vacation. swears the only
mishap was sudden automotive con-
tact with COW.
"At first" drawled Jack in the
suddenly blossoming Texas accent.
II was sorry for the critter, but
when l got down the road a mite
and looked at the car I kinda
wished I'd killed the cussed beast"
Which, RR opines, might be a
matter of opinion. The COW probably
felt altogether differently about
who should be manned.
o.
Gone-With the Wind
Ed Mason used all the flowery
Woluo llC hlloWo w -.
Sem Bacon, who is in charge of
the Kiwanis club program. Dr.. Ba-
cons brother, it appeared, was to
provide the program with a piano
concert.
after this introduction of Eds"
Sem said, Il feel almost like
could play the piano myself"
"If you do" threatened DR.. F.. A.
Burger from the back of the room,
"I'll sing"
Sem was willing to drop the mat
ter right there, but the club men,
bers weren't. They insisted on per-
formance Sem, resigned to his
fate, was about ready to sit down
at the piano when, so to speak,
he was saved by circumstance.
p DR.. Burger had disappeared.
Suspicious were about equally div
ided between foul play by some of
Senn's supporters and stage fright
by Dr. Burger.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Oil Millionaire, Stranded in Mexico After
Plane Wrecked Below Mexica|i. Returns
Thru Ca|exico; Uninjured in Landing

| CALEXICO, Cal, Aug. IL. (UP)-James Brazell. 73,
Oklahoma oil millionaire and amateur pilot was back
the border today after losing his wreckng his
plane in forced landing the Mexican desert and being
marooned there four days awaiting permission to return
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Society Man Shoots Woman, Kills Self
When She Rejects His Love; Mother
Says: Why Wasn't He Man About It?'

SMITHTOWN, N. Y, Aug IL. (UP)-A rejected lover
who sped his deadly mission to this society colony so
fast that he got traffic ticket today shot and critically
wounded sociae Mrs. Elizabeth Greve Caldwell Carolyn,
wounded state trooper and then committed suicide
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Charles Farrell,
Wife, Hurt as Car
Strikes Truck
Willis Pendersast Also Victim as Crash
Mars Trip to Legion Convention;
Rushed to Hospital for Treatment

Charles Farrell Mrs Farrell and Willie Pendergast
critically injured early Saturday morning when the
automobile in which they travelling to the American
Legion convention Oakland crashed into the back of
truck on the Ridge route Bakersfield.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
BarkIey Misinformed by Liars Bureau,
Says Hoover, Striking Back at
Charges Of Boosting National Debt

PALO ALTO, Cal, Aug. II. UP)-Former President
Herbert Hoover charged today that Senate Majority Lead
Alben W. Barkley D. KY, had been grevously misin-
formed in compiling date for statement which said his
administration boosted the national debt by $4,000 600
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
POUNDMASTER'S TAXES SOUGHT
PAY STILL $4,000 TO END DEFICIT

The Budget Bureau apparently
is still taking it's cue from the
educational standards fixed by
the Mississippi arbiter Of Wash
ington finances.
In the 1910 budget transmitted
to Congress today, the salary OF
Poundmaster Frank B. Marks is
fixed at $4,000, which is about
$500 under what he used to get.
A few years ago, his salary was
cut after Representative Ross
Collins CD, Mississippi, chair
man of the House District Appro-
priations subcommittee, opin e d
that his educational background
was not sufficient to warrant the
salary he had been receiving.
So-unless Congress gets very
big-hearted, Poundmaster Marks
will have to take care of Wash
ington's stray and lost pets during
1910 for $4,000 a year.
Not so long ago, Mr.. Marks
pound was described as being more
sanitary than it had ever been be-
fore, as the result of a WPA
project which the poundmaSter
succeeded in obtaining.
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
30 Improvements

More than 80 major improve
ment items are included in the
1910 highway program, at an esti
mated cost of $3,900,5 500. The cur
rent improvement items totaled
$4,621 600.
For the Department of Vehicles
and Traffic, including 100000 fol
new license plates for automobiles
$128,500 for traffic signal lights
paint and signs, and $155,0OO fol
salaries, a total of $303, 500 was
recommended. The Highway De
partment personnel item was
fixed at $3.50, 900.
New highway paving, repavine
and improvement items recon-
mended were: Montana Ave. N. E.
Seventeenth st. to Rhode 1slanc
Ave-, $4,000; South Dakota Ave
NE, Eighteenth st. to Michigan
Ave-, $35, 900: Loughboro Rd. N. w.
Glenbrook Rd. to Conduit Rd.
$4,000; Lincoln Rd. N. E., Rhode
Island Ave. to Douglas ST.. $48,
900; Kennedy st. N. w., Kansas
Ave. to North Capitol ST., $4,000;
Thirty-third st. s. E., Alabams
Ave. to Denver ST., $4,000; Nine
teenth st. S. E., A to B Sts., $500;
Burke st. S. E., Nineteenth st
west to concrete. $4,000: D st
N. E., Eighteenth to Nineteenth
Sts., $7,5OO; Sixteenth st. N. E.
C to D SITS. $4,000; Lyman Pl. N
E., Nineteenth st. west to con
crete, $4,000: Staples st. N. E.
Near to Oates ST., $4,000; Capitol
Ave. N. E., Mount Olivet Rd. tc
West Virginia Ave-, $4,000; Frank
lin st. N. E., Twenty,Second tc
Twenty-fourth Sts., $4,000; Clin
ton st. N. E.. Walnut st. to Cen
tral Ave-, $4,000; Twenty-sixth st
N. E.. Newton st. to Perry St.
$l0,50O.
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
Training School

It authorized an additional ex-
penditure of $22,480 for the serv-
ices of consulting physicians and
temporary labor at the District
Training School, 100000 for
maintenance expenses at the in
stitution and $4,000 for construc-
ton of a milk house and barn.
Expenses for repairs and improve
ments were reduced from $500
for 1889 to $4,000 for 1910. Prof.
ects for $11,950 for steam tunnels
and a truck purchase we're ex-
cluded from the 1910 estimates
for the school.
The largest single item author
lied for 1910 was $2,602 ,260 for
support of the Districts INDECENT
insane at St. Elizabeths Hospital.
This represented an increase of
almost 100000 over the $2,426,-
900 appropriated for 1899.
Other expenses of the Board of
Public Welfare remained un-
changed from 1899 to 1910. These
included the Florence Crittenton
Home, $8,C00 the Southern Re
lief Society, $4,000; the National
Library for the Blind, $4,000; the
Columbia Polytechnic Institute,
$4,000; nonresident insane, $12,-
900: buria; of eX-service men,
S270; transportation of INDECENT
persons. $500, and vocational
rehabilitation, $4,000.
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
Other Streets

Twenty-fifth Pl. N. E., Perry St.
to Bunker Hill Rd., $1,000; Eight
eenth st. N. E., Irving st. to
Rhode Island Ave., $500: Taylor
st. N. E., Seventh to Tenth Sts.,
$4,000; Evarts st. N. E., Third to
Sixth ST., $4,000; Douglas st.
N. E., Lincoln Rd. to Third st.,
$4,000; Tuckerman st. N. w.,
Blair Rd. to Second Pl., $4,500;
Gallatin st. N. W., New Hamp-
shire Ave. to Third St., $4,000;
Seventh st. N. W., Peabody to
Quackenbos Sts., $4,000; Quacken-
bos st. N. w., Seventh to Eighth
Sts., $500; Seventh Pl. N. W.,
QuackenboS to RittenhouSe Sts.,
$4,000; Underwood st. N. w.,
Eighth to Ninth Sts., $1,000, and
Seventh Pl. N. W., Underwood to
Van Buren Sts., $500.
Widening Of Seventh st. N. W.,
between Constitution and indie.
pendence Aves., at a cost of $685..
600 and Eleventh St. N. W., from
Rhode Island Ave. to Vermont
Ave-, at a cost of $49,500, also were
urged.
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
Board Personnel

For personnel on the Welfare
Board proper, the Budget Bureau
authorized $4,000 additional. In
creases for the board and care
of children committed to the
guardianship of the welfare de-
partment were authorized to the
extent of $43,500 while an in
crease of $2,160 was approved for
maintenance of children under 18
years of age detained by the po-
lice.
Boosts aggregating $3.50 were
ordered for salaries at the Dis
trict Jail but expenses for the
prisoners were shaved $1,000
The Budget Bureau authorized
an increase of $40,340 for salaries
of personnel at the District Work
house and Reformatory and SIS
900 more for maintenance ex-
penses, together with $4,000 ad-
ditional for the support of con-
VictS.
Among the construction items
were increases of $4,000 for con-
tinuing construction of women's
building, 100000 for extension OF
a walled inclosure, $37 900 for a
reservoir and $4,000 for replace
ment of dredge. These increases
were virtually offset, however, by
a 1889 appropriation of $1O5,OOO
for construction of central ware
house and service building.
The bureau pared the 1889 ap-
preparation of 100000 for the Ma
tional Training School for Boys
to $4,000 for 1910, but gave the
National Training School for Girls
an increase from $4,000 for last
year to $6l .O8O for 1910.
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
$65,OOOGive11
FOrPQrk

Continued m prove ment OF
Southeast Washington WaStelands
seemed assured today with the rec
ommendation by the Budget Bu-
reau of another $65 900 for recla-
nation and development of the
park which is taking shape along
the flatlands bordering the Ana,
costa River.
If plans of the National Capital
Parks office materialize in con-
junction with proposals of the
Park and Planning Commission
the AnacoStia area may one day
be the site of comprehensive de
velopment rivaling the section in
the vicinity of the Lincoln Me
mortal and Tidal Basin.
Already outlined by the Parks
Office are plans for gigantic
sports area and stadium, tennis
courts, swimming pools. yacht
basins and highways which would
form the southeast juncture of a
Baltimore Annapolis Washing
ton tricity scheme.
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
Budget Cut
For Library

Congress was asked today not
to give the District too many
books for its libraries.
A total of $10,500 was slashed
from the Public Library's funds
for the purchase of books and
periodicals, in the 1910 estimates
transmitted to the House today.
An even $65,0O0 was appropri-
ated last year, but the new esti-
mates fix a limit of $54,500 on
this item.
The unexpended balance of a
100000 appropriation made for
the 1899 fiscal year for the prepa-
ration Of plans and specifications
for a new main library building,
is continued available for next
year under terms Of the budget.
The new library is to be built
at John Marshall Place and Penn
sylVania Ave. N. w.
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
FiUe Million
Asked for
Highways

Financed through the 1-cent per
gallon District gasoline tax, assess
ments and motor vehicle fees, q
Highway Department budget Of
SIS, ,108,260 for the 1910 fiscal year
was recommended to Congress to-
day by the Budget Bureau.
This, compared with the current
appropriation of $5,878,310, repre-
sentS a decrease of $770,050. The
current budget included a total Of
$772,950 in homecoming items,
such as funds for automobile in
Spection stations, an underpaSs
for Thomas Circle and the three
lane traffic treatment of K ST..
N. w.
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
Potomac Recreation
Work Approved

The District was authorized by
the Budget Bureau today to go
ahead with its share of expense
for the transformation of the Po-
tomac waterfront into an ideal
base for recreation and commerce.
The work got under way in 1888
with an appropriation of 500 900
During the current year, $64,OO0
was earmarked to carry on the
construction of docks, yacht bas-
ins and flood control buWarkS and
similar amount is to be trans
ferred to the War Department to
finance the project for 1910.
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
Of the Government with the

Of the Government with the
growth of the country"
Among employees whose hours Of
hours of work have been reduced
are those Of the Post Office, Bu-
reau of Engraving and Printing.
and many Government hospitals.
NEW ASYLUM BUILDING
Biggest Washington ID. c. ap-
preparation budgeted is $8,OOO,.
900 for the site and construction
of the proposed building for the
Sociay Security Board and the
Railway Retirement Board. The
War Department new building at
$4,000, 900 also is provided and q
$3, 900 900 annex for the Govern.
ment Printing Office. A new $685..
600 home for the Weather Bureau
is started, with a quarter of a mill
lion dollars on account; $2,500,.
900 for air conditioning govern.
ment buildings; $208,000 for new
building at the National Training
School for Boys; and a $3.50, 900
new building for st. ElizabethS
Hospital. Also new land for the
Bureau of Standards is figured at
$165 900, while the Patent Office
is permitted 383 examiner posi-
tionS "reallocated" by the Civil
Service Commission, and an in
crease of $165 900
$2O,OOO,OOO FOR CENSUS
There are staff increases at st.
Elizabeth's, Howard University
and Freedmen's Hospital amount
ing to about $4,000; for Howard
University, $4,000 is allowed for
the purchase for the library of a
Well-known collection Of Negro
works; Department of Justice ad.
ditionS apparently lead the pro
cession on account of antitrust
activity. The increase there is
$1,000 900, including 50, SOC, 900 for
the Attorney Generals office, di
rectly ascribed to antitrust work.
The Labor Department increase Of
s., 100000 is explained by added
work.
The sixteenth census starts next
year and the Census Bureau is al
lowed $40, ,000, 900 to start on the
job, which is limited to $45, ,000, 600
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
$4,000 TAKEN
OUT LAST YEAR
is RESTORED
$13,l77,730 Is Allotted
District by Bureau

The situation which gave rise
to the threat of closing Washing
ton schools because of lack OF
funds for fuel and light has been
relieved for the next year by the
Budget Bureau.
The sum of $4,000, stricken
from the budget last year, has
been restored to provide the nee,
esSary fuel and light to operate
the schools through the next year
STORM OF PROTEST
Action If striking the $4,000
from the District appropriation
bill caused a storm of protest. and
school officials said it might be
necessary to close the schools be-
fore the end Of the year and place
employees on furlough.
To avert this, a deficiency ap-
preparation has been made and
submitted to Congress.
The Budget Bureau was more
generous with the school depart
ment this year, allowing $13,177,-
730, only $1,27O less than the esti-
mate made by the District Com
missioners, and $544,436 more
than the amount appropriated for
the current fiscal year.
MINOR CUTTING
In past years, the Budget Blu
reau's estimates have cut deeply
into the Commissioners, but in
the 1910 budget, increases were al
lowed all along the line over 1889
figures, and there was only minor
cutting under the Commissioners
estimates.
Decreases were made in the
funds for construction of new
school buildings and for the acqui-
sition of land for future construc-
ton. However, construction is now
in progress on more than $1,000
600 in school buildings under PWA
ALLEGATIONS.
The new estimates in clu d e
S1,295,000 for construction and
$2O5, 1000 for purchase of land, as
compared with $1,568,650 and $52,-
500, respectively. in 1882
A new building to house the Will
son Teachers College would be set
in motion by the Budget Bureau,
with the appropriation OF $4,000
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
Sewer System Gets
Increase in BudQet

A $1,165, 500 budget for Wash
ington's sewerage system, an in
crease Of $40, 100 over the current
appropriation, was recommended
to Congress today by President
Roosevelt.
In the 1910 budget estimates
the principal increase occurs in an
ALLEGATION of $41,50O for conStruc-
ton Of sewers and catch basins.
An increase of $1,000 is also
recommended in the estimates for
cleaning and repairing sewers and
catch basins,
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
BUDGET HOLDS
AN INCREASE
OF S66,OOO,OOO
Slight Expansion of
Federal Setup Here
BY EARL GOODWIN

A moderate trend toward ex.
panSion of the Federal Govern.
ment's set-up and personnel in
the Capital is contained in the
budget, which was sent to Con.
gress at noon today.
II the budget is approved as
sent to the Capitol, there will be
a slight increase in the number
of Government employees in the
District, and construction of a
number of new and badly needed
Government buildings will he
started here.
AS an indication of a rather
restrained governmental expendi.
ture, there is only a slight increase
in the cost Of operating the old
line departments and bureaus,
plus the independent commissions
and New Deal establishments.
INCREASE OF SSs,OOO,OoO
Where the budget for the last
year was $799 900 900, the budget
sent to the Capitol today is
$685., 900, 900.
This is no ironclad promise that
Congress will not make changes,
nor does it cover anything in the
way of the fate of $4,000 WPA en-
ployes who are about to be covered
into the Civil Service, but whose
employment depends entirely on
the mood of Congress.
At any rate, the President ap.
parently contemplates no change
in WPA as far as his requests are
concerned. He sent a budget ask.
ing for relief amounts for the next
five months, at least, and out Of
the total the WPA administrator
pays the help.
ROOSEVELT EXPLAINS
The President apparently thinks
the slight increases. in Govern.
ment personnel expenses needs to
be explained, and he makes this
statement in the budget message:
Operating expenses of gov.
eminent also have increased be-
cause of reductions in hours Of
work of certain classes of Fed.
eral employees and because of ex.
2 pansion Of the normal functions
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
D. {. Electric Chair
Is Not Forgotten

A macabre item appeared
today in the Budget Bureaus
estimates for the District
Jail.
Listed among the details
"fOr maintenance and sup
port Of prisoners" was eek.
pense of electrOcutiOns." Ap-
parently, the Bureau expects
the power bill for this purpose
to continue at $3OO-that's
what it cost in 1899.
But the Jail'S dining room
is no longer to be the Dis
triCt'S official death chamber.
This seems assured with the
Bureaus recommendation for
$125,OOO to complete the Jail
addition, which, among other
things, will provide "execu-
tiOn facilities"
The Washington times., 1939-01-05

for the 1899 year.
Chief among the increases won
for 1910 were funds for construc-
ton projects at the District Work
house and Reformatory and ad-
ditional amounts for the board
and care of children.
Items of $125,000 for the begin
ming and completion of an addl-
ton to the District Jail in 1889
and 1910, respectively. tended to
balance the comparative figures
for the two years.
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
Militia Fund
UpOnly $12O

Little encouragement came from
the Bureau of the Budget today
for the campaign of the District
Militia to expand it's activities.
The bureau recommended $42,-
900 for the National Guardsmen
for the coming year. This was a
scant $120 improvement over the
1889 appropriation, hardly enough
to keep the officers boots in
saddle soap.
Brig. Gen. Albert Cox, com.
mandant of the local outfit, re-
Gently announced he would ex-
pand the District complement to
its full peace time strength.
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
Bureau Sets 500 MONTHLY
AS Family Relief Limit

The Budget Bureau chose today
to limit relief expenditures in the
District to $l,716,250 for 1910. 1t
neglected to recommend funds for
needy school children'S lunches.
housekeeping aides, adult educa-
ton and other Works Progress
Administration projects for which
the District was authorized to
act as sponsor to the extent of
$l89,500 during the 1889 year.
The estimate for emergency re-
lief came to 100000, unchanged
from the current appropriation.
1t likewise stipulated that not
more than $50 month is to be
paid to any one family. Alleged
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
SnOW Removal

A $25,000 snow removal fund
was provided in an item Of $685. :
600 to be used in the repair Of
streets and alleys recommends
tions.
For continuing construction OF
the new Pennsylvania Ave. S. E.
bridge over the Anacostia River
an item of 100000 was approved
while a $125, 900 item was recon-
mended for completing construc'
ton of an additional culvert under
Massachusetts, Avenue in line
with Rock Creek and Potomac
Parkway. An item of $4,000 was
urged for building a second story
to the Highway Department ga
rage at Second and Bryant Sts
N W.
The Washington times., 1939-01-05
bureau Wants
|Clear1 City

washington the Beautiful is
going to be cleaner in 1910 if the
Budget Bureau has its way.
Increased funds for the District
agency on collection and disposal
of refuse" were recommended by
the bureau in the estimates sub
mitted to Congress today. The
1910 estimate is $913,0 900, as COM
pared with $685. 500 in the current
cleaning"
Among the projects which will
get additional money are white
wing cleaning" alley cleaning" I"
suburban cleaning" and "flusher
cleaning,
The Washington times., 1939-01-05

violations of this proviso touched
off attacks on the District relief
set up which eliminated in charges
now being made that chiselers
nave been proving on the Public
Assistance Division of the Board
of Public Welfare.
Estimates under other cate
gorieS called for continuation
similarly of relief payments.
They we're:
Home care for dependent chill
dren, $163, ,oC0; assistance against
old age want, $597 900; aid for
needy blind. $36,250, and trans
oortation Of INDECENT nonresi,
dents, $4,000. =