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Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-20
FILE ADDITIONAL
ACTIONS AGAINST
M'CALL FAMILY

/ While two suits against them are
on trial before Judge A. C. Finney
in the superior cuort, two more
suits were filed yesterday after
noon against the Mccall Brothers
! company, the Pioneer Abstract and
i Title Guaranty Company, the Pho
/ Eeer Title Insurance and Trust
! Company, and other defendants
sued under fictitious names.
The Mccall Brothers Company IS
! the principal defendant N9med
as partners in it are Thaddeus D.
Mccall, Cora M Mccall, Mitchell
&C Mccall, John w. Mccall, Lena
g. Mccall. T. d. Mccall, Jr., and
Eloise Mccall. Suits filed yester-
day were by Hattie L. Lerom and
Evelyn C. Crandall.
Each Of the suits was brought to
rescind contracts for the purchase
Of land north of Imperial Charges
of fraudulent misrepresentation on
the part OF the Mccall company
are made il the complaints filed
n the county. clerks office.
Judgments for various amounts
are asked. In the new complaint;
filed yesterday Hattie Lerom asks
return of $2,04l64, and Evelyn
Crandall asks judgment for S2.426-
36. In the suits now on trial Har-
~ E. Griffin and wife are suing
for return OF $6,120, and Clifford
L. Craig for $4,970.
In the complaints filed yesterday
the plaintiffs stated that they
bought land from the Mccall
Brothers Company in 1925 after it
/ had been misrepresented to them
as grapefruit land The company,
asserted the complaint, promised TO
care for the land until the grape
fruit trees should begin to produce.
All OF the defendants admit that
they knew nothing, at the time of
the purchase, of farming.
1t is the contention of the plain
tiffs that the land purchased by
them is unsuitable for grapefruit
growing, that it is subject to frost
and cold, and that the defendants
nave nol AVed up to their part of
the purchase contract.
Before dividing their land into
small tracts for sale to prospective
grapefruit growers, charged the
complaint, the Mccall family
bought adjoining land. with intent
10 defraud' by re-selling it to per-
sons OF small means.
In trial OF the two earlier suits
before Judge Finney yesterday evi-
dence was introduced showing an
analysis OF the soil under question.
Judge Finney, the plaintiffs and
! defendants, and attorneys for both
secs, made a trip to the property
n question for the purpose Of max
ing personal inspections
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-20

Three hundred persons were
needed to pick the apple crop OF the
Mesa Orchards, Adams County
Idaho. FsSf
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-20

beach during the race regatta.
There is no admission charge
The West is determined to beat
the speed RECORDS established at
Middletown, Ct, in September
when 81 records were beaten. The
total national records to fall pre-
yious to the MiddletoWn regatta
was l07 The Salton Sea meet has
1873 records to shoot at. The inter-
est among racing drivers the
country over is very great over the
outcome. And the West Coast pl-
lots who will compete are deter
mined to bring back to the West
the speed records which Eastern
drivers now hold.
Beautiful cups have been donaC-
cd rs trophies for the winners In
each event, and individual rivalry
Tor them is assured.
More than 40 boats are expected
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-20
JUNIORS INVITED
TO PLAY GOLF

Barbara Worth Country club
members will be hosts to members
OF the FL Centro and Holtvillc Ju.'
nior chambers of commerce and
their wives on Sunday, November
%, according to special invitations
issued by the club.
Those intending 10 play are asked
to get in touch with Russell klie-
GEL president of the Junior cham
Der here and be on hand at the club
at a. m. Sunday.
Regular members OF the club will
divide clubs with Junior chamber
members not owning clubs. Those
who have clubs are asked to take
tham to the club.
Special playing privileges are 9
recent arrangement for the JUNO:
chamber members.
Attractive monthly and period
playing rates recently were estab-
lished for temporary resident cor
poration employees ana teachers not
permanently residing here. Those
interested in this phase Of the play
are asked to apply to the board OF
directors for such privileges.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-20
MAURITANIA BATTLES STORMY
SEA TO SAVE CREW OF VESSEL.

as the heavy seas battered its roll
ing sides.
The cargo Of lumber with which
it had started from ST Nazaire,
France, had shifted in the storm,
causing the ship to careen SO bad
" that its propellors stuck out OF
the water.
! The Mauretania's passengers eX-
citedly crowded the rail as Captain
S. G. S. Mcneil circled his ship
! around the Ovidia. working as
closely up to the Swedish vessel as
he dared
With aid thus at hand. Captain
Alex Carlson of the Ovidia consld-
cred if there might not be some
final means of saving his ship
II soon was apparent, however
that the Oyidia was doomed, and
the crew was ordered to lower two
Of is lifeboatS. The radio operator
stayed at his post, continuing tc
send out messages, until the dyn-
amo became water soaked and dis
ordered Ee finally sent word tx
the nearby Mauretania that tax
ship would be abandoned.
Captain Mcneil then worked tht
big liner, bobbing in a dangerou.
swell, to within so yards Of The
Ovidia, and the passengers watched
breathlessly as the first of the life
boats descended from the lurching
Swedish ship into the sea.
Even Cat Saved
The SO yards that lay between
the two vessels presented the most
dangerous perils yet encountered
The lifeboats at times would seem
to have no chance against the on
rush of the tremendous wave
crests. Sometimes, as they disap-
peared from view in the troughs
passengers on tn MauretaHia
would be heard to cry they're
gone"-and then cheer would
rise as the tiny craft bobbed up
ward again.
At length the Mauretania was
reached and the crew c!ambered
up the rope ladders to safety
None of the survivors was injured
The rescue was so complete that
even the ships cat was saved. Il
was clasped, badly frightened, in
the arms of a friendly sailor
The Ovidia, her bow dipping into
the sea. was left behind as the res
cue ship steamed forward on its
course again. The ships officers
said it could not stay on the sur
face more than two or three hours
OF most.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-20
BANDITS FIRE ON
GOOD SAMARITAN

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20. U.P)-
Captain Harry Clayboune, veteran
Oh the Los Angelo fire department,
tried to be good Samaritan, but
won't try again.
Driving with his wife and son,
ne saw an automobile pull away
Irom grocery store, A carton of
cigarettes fell from the car.
Clayboune started pursuit. Ac
he drew alongside to inform the
occupants that they had dropped
the smokes, he was greeted by four
shots Tired by two business like
bandits who had just held up the
store.
Claybourne, unhurt, decided not
to tell them about the cigarettes.
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Minimum this morning -......... %
Maximum yesterday .....-.-..-........... 10
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MUCH INTEREST
IN SALT0N SEA
SPEED CARNIV

Programs for the SalUon sea races
November 20, 90 and 80, are expect
cd to be distributed next week.
Racers are testing the course and
trying out the turns while tuning
up their motors for the coming
events.
The Salton Sea Yacn: CLUB, with
the cooperation of Date Palm
Beach, is lending every effort to
handle the large crowd of specta-
tors expected. All visitors can be
assured of good food served at the
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-20
FORGOT TO USE POLE

VANCOUVER, Wash. UP) -
George Mailman. member Of the
yolunteer fire department was at
tending a meeting on the second
floor of the local engine house Az
alarm sounded Mailman jumped
through the hole to slide down the
pole. He forgot to take hold OF
the pole. He broke his leg at the
ankle when he landed on the floor
below.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-20
WALK TO CEMETERY FATAL

ROCHESTER,. N. z, U.P)-A
walk from his home to a cemetery
for the purpose of purchasing
burial plot proved fatal TO Lorenzo
Hill, 1903, Rochesters oldest resident.
The man collapsed at the cemetery
and died several days later in
hospital
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-20
PERFUME RECORD SET

WASHINGTON, UR-American
manufacturers set a record i'll ship
mentS and deliveries of perfumes,
cosmetics, and other toilet pvepar-
ations last year, it has been an
rounced by the Bureau of the Cen
suS, The total value of the pro-
ducts was 207,46l ,839.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-20
FISHING BOAT SAFE

SAN PEDRO. Nov. 10. UP>-
Sought for several days by coast
guard vessels, the fishing boat huel-
va, reported missing since November
the coast guard was informed. The
!. was safe at Santa Barbara today,
Huelya carried a crew OF six
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-20
RECEIVES CONSCIENCE FUND

LAWRENCE, Mass, U.p) - Eight
weeks after somebody stole the
spare tire and wheel from his auto
mobile, Alfred Tempest found in his
mail box an envelope containing q
$40 bill and message which eX-
pressed a hope that this money
would reimburse him for his loss.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-20
PHEASANT CAUSES CRASH

WINSIDE, Neb.. U.p)-Even a
pheasant may turn and Is minutes
after the close of the season in
Nebraska a pheasant flew through
the windshield Of 4 car driven by
Wayne county commission Stokes,
momcntarily binding him. The
commissioner lost control of the
car and it went hurting into a
ditch. Thoueh the machine turned
over twice. Stokes was unhurt. He
didn't find the bird.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-20
THE WEATHER

Los Angeles and Vicinity - Fair
and cool tonight and Friday with
frost in coolest places in the morn
ing; gentle to moderate northerly
winds.
Southern California Fair to-
night and Friday; local frosts in
the interior tonight; moderate
northwest and north winds off
shore
Imperial Valley press., 1930-11-20

to compete and the gallery can
look forward to many exciting mo-
ments during the battle for silver
trophies and the honor OF estab-
fishing new worlds records.
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ATTACHMENT is SET
70 to Enter Pleas Monday
Before Collins.

Seventy defendants will be ar
raigned Monday before Criminal
Judge James A. Collins to enter
pleas to charges brought against
them in indictments and affidavits
and to have their trial date fixed.
CAROLYN Crump and Mark w.
Bemis, officers of the defunct Indi-
ana Real Estate Securities Corpora
ton, accused of swindling Indian
apolis and Kokomo persons in a
stock selling scheme, will face a
charge of selling securities of an in
solvent concern.
Elmer E. Petty. former deputy
sheriff and former G. o. P. ward
chairman, will face Collins the Sec
ond time within five months when
he is arraigned on an assault charge.
He served thirty days at the state
farm last fall for driving sheriff'S
car while drunk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-31
SEEK CANISTER
IN TAXI Staying
Cops Hunt Cab Firm Heads
After Murders.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Jan. 31.-T'he presi-
dent and secretary of the Checker
Cab Company and Robert Frisco
Dutch) Schmidt, a gangster, were
sought by police today for question
ing in connection with the murder
of Barney j. Mitchell, company
treasurer, and Glenn Jackson, cab
driver.
The two were shot to death in
company cab in north side street
early Thursday, and hours later
police learned the driver had been
called to pick up Mitchell at the
home of Max Raifman, company
secretary. Robert Mclaughlin, the
president, lives next door.
A police order for the arrest of
Schmidt was issued early today.
Lieutenant John McGinnis said
Schmidt had been employed by an
official of the company. The gang
ster was linked in police records
with activities of Eugene Nc
Laughlin, brother of the taxicab
company president.
He was named in a dying state
ment by Joseph Wokrai, former
president, as the man who shot him
December, 1926. Schmidt and Eu-
gene Mclaughlin were acquitted on
a charge Of numbering Wokrai.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-31
DEATH THREAT
VANISHING IN
FLOOD REGION
Residents Fight to Recover
From Devastation of
High Water.
RIVER TANNED By ICE
Food and Medical Aid Are
Rushed to Families in
PoSey County.

BIZ United Press
MT. VERNON, Ind, Jan. 81
Flood-stricken southern Indiana to-
day was recovering from the devas-
tating effects of a severe midwinter
flood, which for three weeks has
held the lower Wabash river valley
under vast sheet of ice and water.
Desperate efforts of the Red
Cross, aided by national guard
planes and volunteer workers, have
at last overcome the threat of death
by starvation, exposure and disease.
Red Cross officials today reported
the situation much improved, with
all known marooned families in
Posey county given supplies to keep
them comfortable until the water
recedes sufficiently to release them
from bloodhound homes.
Better at Griffin
The situation at Griffin, where
several families we're trapped by
rising waters, was reported no long
er serious by the Red Cross.
While relief was carried from
family to family today, ice coming
down the Wabash river continued
to jam along the lower portion of
the stream. Today the jam was re-
ported to be ten miles long, the
worst in the rivers history.
Health conditions In the area
were not serious, DR.. William F.
King, secretary of the state board
of health, reported Thursday.
He recommended persons be vac
cinated against typhoid fever before
they return to their homes after the
water leaves the land.
One Case of Smallpox
Dr. King said he received a re-
port of only one case of smallpox
and several cases Of pneumonia. He
said pneumonia cases were to be
expected under the prevailing cir
cumstanceS.
Red Cross workers announced
Thursday that refugees in Gibson
county were safe.
National guard planes dropped
100 bags of food in the district be-
tween Crowleyyille and Shawnee
town.
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LARCENY RING
SUSPECTS HELD
Cops Brave Bulldog Guard
to Arrest Seven Negroes.

Beating off attacks of seven large
bulldogs, a police squad under COM
mand of Sergeant Frank Riley this
morning broke into the residence of
Robert Hayes, 38, Negro, of 523 West
Michigan street, to recover a large
quantity of allegedly stolen goods.
Arrest of Hayes, on charges of
grand larceny, and Of six other Ne
groes, will solve a large number of
recent theftS of trucks carrying
meats, groceries and tobaccos, police
declared.
The raid and arrests followed
theft this morning of truck carry
ing $75 worth of meats, owned by
the Thomas A. Theard Company,
708 South West street, from the
rear of the Chamber of Commerce
building. The truck was found aban-
doned on West Michigan street with
the meat missing.
Broadcasting of facts over the
police radio station about theft of
the truck resulted In the arrests.
Motor patrols, with descriptions Of
the missing car, located it within
fifteen minutes. Discovery of a
Negro carrying meat scales also
speeded the investigation.
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FARMERS HEAR HYDE
0verproduCtion Blamed for
Low Produce Prices.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Jan. 81. 49,
Farmers the world around are beSet
by the same problem, overexpansion
and Overproduction.
It Is impossible to ascribe agri-
cultural distress to any one factor,
but there is no question that the
most important is that Of over
expansion, Secretary Of Agriculture
Arthur M. Hyde declared today at
the meeting of the Illinois Agricul-
tural Association.
1.-THE reason is plain" he said.
During the war production in
creased outside Europe to compen-
safe for reduced production in
Europe. When Europe largely re-
stored its agriculture, the other
countries did not correSpondingly
decrease theirs.
LAS result, the worlds output
ran ahead of market requirements
and prices inevitably fell"
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YOUTH is HELD
FOR BLACKMA|L
Extortion of SIS Not TO
Tell Is Charged.

Charged with blackmail, Norman
KaSSebock, 81, of IS West Twenty
fifth street, was bound over to the
Marion county grand jury under
$500 bond by Municipal Judge
Thomas E. Garvin today.
John Hill, 1922 North Capitol
avenue, testified Kassebock had ex-
torted total of $75 from him over
a period of several months.
According to Hill, he believed
Kassebock to be special police Off
Ger. Kassebock, Hill testified,
threatened to tell Mrs. KasSebock
that her husband had been guilty
of Indiscretions with other women.
Hill denied any guilt and told Judge
Garvin he paid KaSsebock sums of
money totalling $75 just to pre-
vent a scandal"
On Jan. 81, unable to pay more
money to Kassebock, Hill says he
pointed out the youth to a traffic
officer and KaSSebock was arrested
on vagrancy charges, Hill signed
the affidavit charging extortion.
Mrs. Hill was in court with her
husband today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-31
HOUSE VETS
TO SEEK AID
OF Al SMITH
New Yorker May Speak for
Modification in Hearing
on Capitol Hill.
WADSW0RTH GETS BUSY
Ex-senator Leads Attack
on DryS; Butler, Richie
Also on Program.

By Scripps-HOWdrd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.--Alfred
E. Smith may be asked by leading
vets in the house to head the list
Of critics OF prohibition to be heard
by the house judiciary committee
at the hearings beginning Feb. IL.
Smith based his fight for the
presidency on a personal platform
Of modification, and in several
speeches he cited his reasons for
taking that stand. House vets
think their cause would be helped
If they can persuade Smith to pre-
sent his appeal on Capitol hill. He
now is in Florida.
Sponsors of the attack on the dry
laws also plan to call on James w.
Wadsworth, former Republican
senator from New York, to be a
witness. Wadsworth is director of
the Association Against the Eight
zenith Amendment, and recently in
augurated move to Smoke out"
prominent Republicans throughout
the country.
Butler to Be Heard
Despite reports he might form q
wet" party in New York, Wads-
worth insists he will work within
the G. o. P. ranks.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president
of Columbia university, and Gov
ernor Albert Richie of Maryland
are two others whose aid will be
asked In convincing the judiciary
committee 1t ought to permit a
showdown on one of the seven bills
for prohibition change. Though the
committee is dry about II to 6. the
vets hope to force a record vote
on the floor.
Representative James M. Beck Of
Philadelphia, former Solicitor Gen.
eral and chairman of the wet bloc's
executive committee, is expected to
present the legal phases of the pro-
hibition problem, and to analyze
some of the law enforcement COM
missions recent proposals for re-
lieving court congestion and max
ing penalties more certain.
May Get Beer Hearing
Meanwhile, the vets were encour-
aged further by George w. Wick
erSham'S intimation that his COM
mission might give hearing to
Representative Dyer of Missouri on
the latter's proposal that 2.75 beer
be legalized.
WickerSham has told Dyer he will
ask his associates whether they care
to hear his argument that increaS-
ing the percentage of alcohol per-
mitted in the Volstead act would
cure many evils. Incidentally, Presi-
dent Hoover's letter defending the
manufacture of beer during the
war will be an exhibit at the ju-
dietary committees hearings.
With the bill transferring prohi-
bition from the treasury to the de-
partment of justice now before the
house, the subcommittee, headed by
Representative Christopherson Of
South Dakota, has asked Wicker
sham for further light on the pro-
poSal to increase the power of United
States commissioners to handle cas-
ual offenders"
Christopherson insists that the
bill providing this new judicial ma
chinery be clarified so that indi-
viduals first tried as casual Of
tenders" may not be indicted for q
felony when tn case gets before
a federal attorney.
eff it starts as a minor offense,"
said Christopherson, ut must re-
main in that category all the way
through"
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She Means NO
Mary Garden Turns Down
Foods That Fatten;
Weighs 100.

CHICAGO, Jan. 31.-The grace
~ fully slender figure of Mary
Garden, Chicago civic opera star,
was explained as the result of say
ing mo, thank you," when the
singer addressed an audience in
the Illinois Women's Athletic Club
here Thursday night.
Miss Garden admitted she
looked positively atrocious" in
1913, when she weighed 148
pounds, but the club women ap-
plauded the result Of saying mo"
to fattening foods. They saw a
tall, graceful woman, weighing
about 100 pounds.
when I get through with my
operate career" Miss Garden
said, 81 am going to a little house
I have on top of mountain and
eat everything I want to-"
''The new clothes are frightful,
she said. 'They are too tight.
I've never worn corsets in my life,
and never shall, style or no
STYLE"
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SON IDENTIFIES
MISHAP VICTIM
H. l.. Mann Injured Fatally
by Street Car.

The body of an elderly man, in
jured fatally when struck by a
street car Thursday night, was
identified in city hospital early to-
day as that of Harvey L. Mann, go,
OF 1921 West Washington street.
A son, Harry, viewed the body and
identified it. Mr.. Mann died several
hours after he stepped in front of a
West Michigan street car, at Shelf
field avenue.
Bruce Shinkle, 90, of 1884 West
Vermont street, motorman, was held
on assault and battery charges, and
may be reslated today on charges
OF manslaughter, Coroner G. H.
Keever indicated.
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RAID SHOWBOAT DANCE
HALL: MISS HUNDREDS IN LOOT

Deputy Sheriff Harry Kramis, who
makes the patrol of the section with
Deputy Sheriff Glenn Smith, was i'll
Thursday night and the patrol was
not being made.
Using a car owned by Gordon
Moore, of 1916 Baltimore avenue,
stolen from Meridian and Georgia
streets Thursday night, the two BAN
dts, one 5 feet II inches tall,
weighing about 225 pounds, and the
second but feet inches tall and
weighing about 135 pounds, entered
the Show Boat with a flourish of
guns, firing four shots at the CELL
ing.
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Failure of two masked bandits TO
carry out personal search of more
than thirty patrons of the Show
Boat dance hall at Keystone ave-
nue. and Thirty-fourth street, pre-
vented them from getting hundreds
of dollars in loot.
Women put diamond rings and
other jewels into their mouths
when the bandits entered at 1920
this morning and, with four shots
fired from blank cartridges, warned
the patrons to line up.
Obeying orders to throw their
money into the center of the dance
hall. male patrons surrendered be-
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tween SIS and 500, deputy sheriffs
today found.
John Fatau, grocer at Jefferson
and Michigan streets, threw only So
onto the floor. In his pockets were
store funds totaling several hum
dred dollars.
With the loot from guests and
$40 from cash registers, the BAN
dts escaped with slightly more than
5000. A watch was taken from one
victim when one Of the bandits be-
gan a personal search of their
clothing, but evidently becoming
nervous, the search was abandoned
after three patrons had been ordered
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-01-31
DR.. BUTLER DELEGATE
Crime Body Officer Is Named by
Stimson for Prague Session.

DR.. Amos w. Butler. one-time Sec
rotary of the state board Of chart
ties and now secretary of the state
crime commission. has been ap-
pointed by Secretary of State Har-
~ L. Stimson as United States dele
gate to the international prison con-
gress at Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, in
August.
upon appointment by President
Coolidge. Butler represented the
United States at a similar congress
In London in 1925. He was one OF
the chairmen at that meeting ana
was vice president of the congress
when 1t met in Washington in 1910.
Fifty-three governments we're rep
resented in London and more are
expected at Prague.