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Of condemned criminals eating large meals
before their execution, but had always felt
that the proximity of death would take my
appetite away. I was wrong. my appetite was
splendid. and with superhuman effort dragged
myself to the table and began to eat and drink.
Ny waitress perched herself on the bed and
watched me for some time in silence. Finally
she exclaimed, But you are q strange one;
you do not eat with your knife; perhaps you
are afraid Of cutting your mouth"
was far TOO interested in the savory leg
Of well roasted lamb and the excellent wine
to answer. After l had finished my meal
ThereSina fetched q pack of cigarettes, my
cigarettes, so I took for granted that the poor
old donkey and all my belongings had been
confiscated.. However was thankful they had
at least left me something to smoke. AS my
watch had stopped I asked the hour.
Bedtime" was the reply, and, taking the
tray, my little companion bAde me goodnight
and withdrew 49,. go
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annual Cattle Trek.

THE annual trek Of cattle from the ranges
to the corn belt, where they are fatted for
market has fallen 20 per cent below the fig
ures of last year. Marketing experts believe
this IS due to the poorer prospects Of the corn
crop. the lower prices on fat cattle and the
absence Of speculation in cattle markets.
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Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
CITY PLAN Ming
EXPERT TO TALK
HERE TOMORROW

Arrangements have been made by
the local chamber of commerce 4
have Carol Aronovici, Of the city
planning commission of San ibrrnag-
dino and Beverly Hills, to address
the luncheon meeting Of the cham
Der to be held tomorrow noon a,
the Barbara Worth Hotel. Arono-
rici is an associate of j. o. Steven.
son, who gave a splendid talk oil
rity planning at the chamber lunch,
con two weeks ago.
Aronovici is an expert on city
planning and is on the staff of the
extension division of the CniVer-
sity Of California as IA lecturer ON
economies of real estate aud city
planning, which subject includes
values, kinds Of property, construc
tion, growth, city planning, and
methods of financing develorment
projects. His address promises Il
be full of interest to the people OF
III Centre, and especially ut this
time when the question of zoning
the city has become one of impor.
tancc in FL Centro'S development.
Although definite word has not
been received, it is hoped that Nj"
Aronoviei will arrive in FL Centre
carly enough that he can also ad
dress the Junior chamber of com.
merce at the breakfast meeting to-
morrow morning at G:30 O'Clock
The Junior division has given much
time to the question of coming f.
Centre and are desirous Of getting
further information ON the subject
Several matters of Importance will
be taken up at the junior break
fast in connection with the newly
adopted by laws and the coming
election of officers for the next
year. n. Il. Christian, president OF
the body, urges a strong attendance
Tomorrow evening the board OF
directors of the chamber of com
merce will meet in executive scs
sion at 7;S0 o clock.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
TORCH SLAYER
C0NFESSES TO
KILLING WIFE

MT. VERNON, n. Y, April so.
U.P)-Earl F. Peacox, well groomed,
youthful radio repair man confessed
today. according to District Attor-
ney Frank II. Coyne, to the murder
of his estranged wife, Dorothy
Hcinzelman Peacox, whose half
burned body was found off the
highway near Greenburgh last Sat
urday.
The confession according to
Coyne, was obtained after hours
Of questioning,
Not only did Peacox confess,
Coyne said, but re-enacted the muir
der for the police. PeacoX was for
mcrly booked ON charge of muir
der by the Mt. Vernon police.
According to Captain Phillip Nc
Quillan, PeacoX said he Killed his
wife in their apartment at - Edi-
SON avenue, Mt. Vernon, carly
Monday of last week, as the result
Of quarrel.
Then. according to the confession,
he carried the body to an automo-
bile, drove it to the Edwards es-
tate, near Grsenburgh, poured krro-
Sene oil on the body, set it afire,
and left.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
SAYS CHEMISTRY
BEST CHANCE TO
RELIEVE FARMER
BY HARRY WILSON SHARPE
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

COLUMBUS, o., April 30. U.P)-
The American Chemical S"cicty
meeting here today held out Il few
alluring prospects for the future
aluring according to one desires
and hopes.
For instance, the time may be
coming when a man won t have to
build his own character, but can
depend on chemistry to do it for
him.
Then persons owning cows, if
they re fortunate enough to have Il
little woodland, viii have the COW
food problem solved for all time
because cows will eat wood.
Still another prospect that
thieves will be changed into honest
men and the insane will be returned
to society, minus their affliction.
Lastly, the time is not far dis
tamt when ethyl alcohol viii be de-
rived for commercial consumption,
from woods, and finally, future
generations may become u race Of
giants. depending upon whether the
chemists can discover what makes
us stop growing.
l.. !. Labcr, master of the Ma
tional Grange, whose debenturc
plan for farm relief is opposed by
President Hoover, outlined new
plan in an address before an audi
ence at the farm symposium.
EARN relief that will endure
can come to agriculture through
proper research, directed by Ameri.
can chemists, in discovering new
uses for food products as the raw
material for industry" he said.
I'VE will find this type of as
sistancc. more permanent than any
legislation congress can pass. "
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
Mcdonald To Be
Milk Inspector

representatives of a number of
the valley town city councils met
last night with the FL Centre coun-
cimcn in an informal discussion at
the city hall in an effort to arrange
a schedule relative to the paying of
the milk Inspector.
Walter Mcdonald will take over
the position May l, Harry f. Beh-
ney, the incumbent 5 resignation
taking effect that date.
Or. r. P, Giangrich of the De
partment OF Agriculture was pres
cnt at the meeting and gave his
views of the situation as well as
discussing in general the rules and
regulations under which Mcdonald
win work and be responsible.
The visitors and the local council
did not come to a final decision but
agreed tentatively to apportion the
inspectors salary.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
GOVERNOR SIGNS
BILL CREATING
PEN0L0CY DEPT.
Crime Bureaus Of State
To Be Combined Under
One Head.

SACRAMENTO, Calf, April 80.
U.P)-Governor Young's program
for ccntralizing state government
moved anothcr--step forward today
when he affixed his signature to Il
bill creating the state department
of ptnology.
The bill, introduced by Senator
Edwin Mueller Of San Diego, com
hincs five existing divisions of the
state government under one depart
mont, the director of which becomes
member Of the governor = coun.
eli.
The state department Of penology
will merge the divisions Of prisons
and paroles, criminal identification
and investigation, pardons and com.
mutations, narcotic enforcement,
and criminology.
Under the new plans overlapping
and the Implications Of the actiVi
ties Of the several divisions will
be eliminated, Governor Young SAID
today.
James A. Johnson, chairman Of
the state CRIME COMMISSION dHu
former warden Of San Quentin peni
tentiary, is slated for appointment
to the head Of the new penology
departments, according to reliable
sources. Under the terms of Muel
lcr's bill the director Of the pen.
ology department would receive
IN annual salary Of $4,000.
More than 60 bills were automa
tically tabled by the senate judi
ciary committee when they voted
to close the doors on consideration
of senate bills. Among the meas
ures which died in this action were
II judicial council bills, the day
light savings act and Il repeal OF
the gin marriage' law.
Appointment Of 4 commission, OF
three members to study economic
problems of agriculture, system OF
marketing crops, method of finan
cing agricultural industry ant
methods of obtaining farm loans
was approved by the assembly way.
and means committee.
\ state appropriation of $4,000
/ to match an equal amount RAISED
/ by the University Of California TO!
construction of the Eshlcman Mem
| orial building on the Berkele,
campus was recommended by tn,
ways and means committee.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
PIONEERS NOT
TO HOLD PARTY
NEXT SATURDAY

Looks like T. D. Mccall, well
known leader of the Imperial Valley
Pioneers, is in for some tall explain.
ing, according to Arthur Edgar,
member Of the executive board.
ct. Do sent out notices to all
valley newspapers, announcing big
pow-wow of all the "old timers to
be given next Saturday at the Ira
Aten ranch. Glad to help out the
pioneers, the papers printed the news
only to have "Quartermaster-Gen-
cral" Edgar calling up today pro
missing to skin the editors alive fol
giving out false information.
Our pow-wow is not to be held
until May IS, two weeks from next
Saturday, and 'T. D. must be be
ginning to feel his years, says Ed
gar. 81 hope none of the boys anc
girls of 20 years ago will come skip
ring to Aten's ranch next Satuda!
Tor there win be nothing for then
to do but go to work for Ira. We
want them all to be on deck on May
Is but not before. We need a
! least two weeks notice to get pro
visions to feed the gang.
Arthur talked like he meant wha
he said, so the Press takes it TO
| granted the pow-wow is May Is
IT. D. has not yet been hear
from as to any change of date.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
No Clue On Two
Bank RObberies

Los ANGELES, April 80. U.D-
Police reported today that no clues
had been found to the identity of
two bandits who worked separately
yesterday and collected a total Of
81 900 in two bank holdups.
One Of the bandits entered an
automobile in which Arthur c..
Kooiman, collector for the Sea
board National Bank, was sitting
near the bank, and forced Kooiman
to drive several blocks away. The
bandit then took the car and Il bag
containing $l0,0n0 and drove
away
Another bandit walked into the
Santa Barbara avenue and Figuroa
street branch of the Citizens Ma
tional Trust and Savings Bank and
robbed the manager Of $1,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
COURT DEGREES
SLOT MACHINES
ARE PERMITTED

Slot machines in operation in FL
Centre must not be mOlested, confiS-
Gated, destroyed or interfered with,
according to restraining order is
sued by Judge a. G. Finney in su-
Perior court today.
Ed Bergman, the complainant, OBJ
tanned the Judgment against Chief
of Police Oswalt and the city coun-
ell. The order provided that the
city officials could not stop the use
Of the machines in the city provid-
ing they were operated in the man
ner set forth in the complaint.
Chief Oswalt and the council have
been waging war against the opera
tion of the machines here claiming
that under existing state, county and
city laws the machines were pro
hibited \ number were contiscated
and are now held by the police de
partment.
1t is expected that Bergman, who
it is understood, is the representa-
tive of Los Angeles concern, will
seek to obtain the release Of the
impounded machines.
Chief Oswalt stated today he
would necessarily abide by the or
der of the court but would proceed
Immediately to find some legal way
to keep the alleged gambling devices
out of the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
OFFICER WHO
KILLED WOMAN
NOT INDICTED

GENEVA, H., April 80. (U,R)-
The Kane county grand jury today
found no indictment against DEPUTY
Sheriff Roy Smith for killing Mrs
Lillian De King while raiding her
home for liquor last month, al
though II coroner's jury had recon-
mendcd that he be held for man
slaughter.
After a two weeks investigation
of the killing which aroused ma
tion-wide controversy over the
justification for the shooting, the
grand jury indicted only one man
Eugene Boyd Fairchild, the un
dercover informer whose false af'
fidavit that he had bought Liquor
at the De King home in Aurora led
to the fatal raid, Fairehild was
charged with perjury.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
Chamber Names
Board Candidates

Yesterday the nominating com
mittee of the chamber of commerce,
consisting of c. Ben Herring, G. {.
Jenkins, John Zurcher and Ira
Aten, met in executive session and
selected 81 persons to be voted for
as chamber directors. Ralph II.
Cary was also a member of the
nominating committee, but was un-
cXpcctedly called out of the city.
On May 10 the members of the
chamber of commerce will hold an
election and select II directors
from the list of 81, as the bylaws
provide. Those nominated by the
committee are:
DR.. Sem Bacon, Guy Bcyron, A.
w. Bunte, John Brunner, Perry 4.
Burke, IL, l.. "Joe' Bush, J. S.
Cameron, Il. II. Cary, A. V. Cazen-
ave, j. w. D0nohue, Lawrence l..
Duff, j. II. Fahs, Dave Goodrich,
Leo IIetzel, Neil d. Iickcox, John
II. Hunter, II. y. Hughes, Duke
Johnson, Earl Jones, NJ. O. King,
Earl Kraft, C. w. Mccullough,
Fred Nebel-Thau, Fred P. Nuttall,
II. Y. Osborne, Ralph Reynolds,
David b. Roberts, Ernest r. San
ders, w. A. Scheniman, Percie c.
Thacker, Pat Thaanum, w. H.
Tyler Jr., Roy II, Womack.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
EXPOSE
MELLON
DEALING
Senator Walsh Offers
Claim Cabinet Officer
Trust Official.
PHOTO PROD U G. ED
Asserts Treasury Secre-
tary Heavily Interested
In Aluminium.
BY PAUL r. MALLON
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

copyright, 1879, ny Iulleu IfeSS
WASHINGTON, April 80. UP)-
Senator Thomas j. Walsh, conductor
Of the Teapot Dome oil investiga,
tions, has discovered evidence in a
civil suit against the Aluminium
Company of America which he be.
lieves will have vital Influence on
the issue now being fought out in
the senate judiciary committee
whether Secretary of Treasury Mel
Ion is engaged in commerce be-
cause of his stockholdings and
whether this fact should exclude
him from office.
Walsh told the United Press TO.
day his evidence showed Mellon
signed one of the contracts in an
aluminium company merger in 1925
while he was secretary of treasury;
that he held n dinner attended by
all interested parties at his apart.
ment here where the merger was
consummated and that he took 4
trip to Canada to the power site
on the Saguanay river, to be operat-
cd by the merged companies. Walsh
has n photograph made on this trip
showing Mellon with Arthur V.
Davis, president of the aluminium
company, w. l.. Mellon, his brother,
the late James Il. Duke and Mr..
ALEX, associated with Duke.
The evidence, said Walsh, was
taken in n suit filed in the New
Jersey district court against the
Duke estate and the aluminium com
pany, by George d. Haskell, presi-
dent Of the Baush Machine Tool
Company, Springfield, Mass.
Haskell contended the merger
violated the antitrust law, injuring
him as consumer of aluminium and
asked $15,000,000 damages. He OBJ
tanned Judgment for $S,e00,0 900, but
the Judgment was later reversed by
the circuit court of Philadelphia.
A deposition of Melons was IN
troduccd in the case as evidence
Walsh added. 1t shows that the
parties who were in the photograph
lined at Melons experiment. here
and agreed or 5he merger whereby
the aluminium company would con,
troll eight-ninths of the associated
companies and the Duke estate one
ninth.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
BARBARA WORTH
COUNTRY CLUB
DIRECTORS MEET

Directors of the newly formed
Barbara Worth Country cluh met
last night in the offices of HickcoX,
lrude and johnson to discuss plans
for the immediate building CT the
IS hole golf course ON part of the
Harold Bell Wright ranch between
here and HoltVille.
The directors talked with a rep
resentative of the Arden Golf
Course Construction company of
Alhambra who gave them several
ideas and submitted tentative
plans for building the course and
the location of the club house. Th4
representative spent a full day 60
ing over the property yesterday.
The executive committee is eX-
perted to meet Thursday night to
frame and adopt bylaws and write
the constitution. The Incorporation
papers have not as yet been receiv-
ed from the secretary of state but
are expected the latter part of
the week.
Howard Jones, head of the mem
bti SlI ~ tplHllltitt, - NOW w VI hlll Z
on plans to increase the number of
members and it is understood will
start a campaign along this line in
the near future.
In a recent letter to the present
membership issued by the treas
urcr of the club, it was stated that
dues will not be assessed until the
course is open for play which is
expected to be early next fail.
Although nothing has been done
officially by the directors, il is un-
derstood that an informal suggest
ion has been made toward the pos
sihle purchase of the Wright home
by the club. 1t is expected that sew
tral pioneer organizations and
pioneer residents may be interested
in cooperating with the club in
this suggestion.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
KCves Confined
In Jail Hospital

LOS ANGELES, April so. W.H -
The shock of his conviction aggre-
waited a kidney aiment and Asa
Keyes, former district attorney of
Los Angeles county, now under a
sentence of one to IA years in San
Quentin for bribery, is in the hos
pital of the county Jail here.
Physicians said today that his CON
dition could in no manner be con
strUcd as serious but that his illness
neeesSitated medical attention.
Keyes is held here pending a de
eision on his appeal to conviction.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
Mystery Staying
BATTLES Police

SAN MATEO, Cal, April 80 U.P)
The body of Il well dressed man
found riddled with bullets in n
ravine near Rockaway Beach re-
mained unidentified today.
Evidently an Italian abont tho
ago of 25 years, it is believed tn,
man was "taken for a ride by
bootleggers or hijackers.
The murdcrers, to make sure thciI
intent was accomplished, had silt
their victims throat.
\. $. Rankin, surgeon who, per
formed an autopsy at DAILY City
where the body was taken, said h.
believed the crime had been com
mitted some time Sunday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
HOOVER NOT TO
BE- DRAWN INTO
SEX ARGUMENT

WASHINGTON, April 30. U.R) -
As the mails hastcncd the much dis
cussed "Sex Side of Life pamph-
Let to the White House today, it was
disclosed here that President Hoov-
cr has no intention of being drawn
into the controversy raging over the
merits of the work
Friends of Mrs. Mary Ware Den
nett, the grandmothCr-autho of the
pamphlet, sent the work to President
Hoover yesterday, following assess
mcnt of $500 fine by Federal
Judge Warren b. Burrows in Brook
lyn.
\ group of the authors support
crs in her court battle agreed to
autograph the work and address it
to President Hoover, thus defying
the application of the obscene litera-
turc clause of the postal regulations
to "The Sex Side of Life.
Technically every sponsor of the
project to place the pamphlet be-
fore President Hoover is equally
guilty with Mrs. bennett Many
prominent names are in the list. The
suggestion the department Of jus.
tice might take some action against
the group in the event of Mrs. Den
nett's losing her appeal found no en-
couagcment among department Off
cials.
\ b;ll to amend the postal laws
as they apply to obscene material
viii be introduced by Sen. Copeland
Democrat, \. y, it was learned to
daV.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
Bury Victims OF
Plane Accident

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, April so.
W.H-Funeral services for William
X. Oviatt and Ray Scott, two of
the three members of the Hollywood
film colony who died in an airplane
"ioy ride early Sunday, were
held here today.
Rites for Max Fluker, %, motion
picture actor and third victim os
the crash, were delayed pending
word from relatives in New Orleans.
Oviatt, pilot of the plane, was
the son of wealthy theatrical
producer of Falmouth, Mass, and
the nephew of Charles Marray,
film actor.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
Scout Entries
End May End

All entries for the annual en-
caupment field day and water earni-
Val Of the Imperial Yuma Council,
B. S. \, whether individual or
troop, should be flied at scout head.
quarters at the court house not later
than Thursday, May ., at . clock.
If sent by mail, they should be
mailed Wednesday, May /.
The encampment, which Is eager.
ly anticipated by all scouts, will
take place in Brawley, May "a, at
the Brawley High school grounds
No limit has been set as TO the
number Of events in which a troop of
individual scout may enter, but the
field day and water carnival viii
be held as separate events and viii
50 be judged.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
Baldwin Fears
Movie Effect

LONDON, April 80. UP) - The
power of the motion picture and
the dangerous consequences to which
it may possibly lead if not properly
and carefully handled were empha-
sized by Premier Stanley Baldwin
last evening before the internation-
al council of women.
The premier said that certain
films shown throughout the world
now were a traveresty and one of
the great dangers to western civiliz-
alton. He said:
'It gradually will be instilled in
the minds of the somewhat more
backward peoples that our civili2a-
tion is only veneer and sham and
may imperil the stability whereby a
small minority of whites now live
peacefully. -
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
LOCAL INFANT DIES

Elsie Maria Burgi, 212 month old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Burgi, prominent in the Swiss
colony here, died yesterday and will
he buried from the b. f. Lemons
funeral parlors tomorrow morning.
Rev. A. j, Hurley of st. Mary 5
church will conduct the services at
10 o clock. Burial will be at Ever
green cemetery.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
TABLES TURNED ABOUT

CHICAGO, April 80. W.H-Mar-
tim Fitzpatrick, prohibition agent,
who recently led Il drive against
bootlegging hotel bellboys, was
charged with driving while intoXi-
Gated in a warrant sworn out by
three men who were injured when
their automobile collidcd with the
agents car The agent denied the
charge and was granted a contih-
uance.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-04-30
Stiff Sentence
For B0otlegger

oROVILI.E, Cal, April 3o.WH
"A sentence of 7 years in the
county Jail for possession and
sale Of liquor, the heaviest pen
atty ever meted out in Butte
county for such an offense, con-
fronted Glare Carmach of Chico
today.
Carmach was sentenced by
Superior Judge H. D. Gregory af-
ter lie had pleaded guilty, but the
sentence was delayed until May
6, when the prisoner 5 request
for probation will be heard.