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Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
HUNDREDS TAKEN
IN POLICE : RAID
AT Los ANGELES

LOS ANGELES, Dec. c. U.P)-In
cne of the most spectacular raids
ever staged in this city, more than
500 men and four women were ar
rested early today at stag
party held on the l4th floor of a
storage warehouse. Charges rang
ing from vagrancy to gambling
were preferred against those taken
into custody.
d. Mac D. Jones, millionaire po-
iceman, appointed three days ago
to head the city vice-squad, led the
raiding party of y officers, dressed
in tuXedos.
At the height Of the revelry when
the four women were declared to
be dancing insufficiently clad, the
officers dropped DISCUSSES and lock-
ing the doors and elevators, stopped
the merriment.
Chairs crashed, bottles cracked
and dice games were thrown over
the parapet to the ground below,
but he police saved roulette
wheels, faro boxes and other gamb-
ling devices as evidence.
Police reserves Immediately were
rushed from the Hollywood, Will
shire, Central and West Los An
geleS divisions, and for two hours
patrol wagons in a steady stream
poured the prisoners into the four
stations, where they were booked
on charges of being vagrant and
OiccOlIlta Oarc0pc The wopopp
were charged with lewd conduct.
and 10 men, declared OF be dealers
and croupiers, were charged with
posSion Of gambling devices
Jones declared that the gather
ing was ostensibly for group of
wholesalers and their statesmen.
The quarters, he said, were rented
by men representing themselves to
be members of the Sigma Rho fra
ternity, but officials of that organ
ization here denied knowledge of
the party.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
SANTA BARBARA
ACTION SETTLED
BY LOCAL JUDGE

Judge A. c. Finney today returned
judgment i'll an action brought by
the city of Santa Barbara against
pany, and tried some time ago III
Santa Barbara. when Judge Finney
was holding court there.
Judge Finneys decision gave the
railroad company the right to hold
two city blocks in Santa Barbara,
granted them in 1886 under the old
Pueblo of Santa Barbara govern
n.ent, for period of SO years from
the date of the grant in accordance
with the pueblo ordinance under
which the grant was made. The
railroad holdings will expire April 8,
1886.
Julian F.. GouX, city attorney OF
Santa Barbara, and Henley C. Booth
chief counsel for the Southern Pac-
itic, were in Ell Centre this morning
to argue the judges findings. Fol-
lowing the arguments Judge Finney
returned his verdict
The case is of great interest to stu
dents of early California history.
The city of Santa Barbara brought
suit to recover from the railroad
company two city blocks near the
heart of the city, with an approx
mate value of $i,000000. The blocks
were granted to the company in
1886 as an inducement TO construct
a main branch of the railroad then
under construction through the city.
At the present time the main line
runs through the city. and the blocks
in question are used as railroad
yards.
Questioned Authority
It was the contention of the city
that trustees of the city in 1886 did
not have authority to grant the
lands in question to any company
for any other purpose than that Of
public parks. since the land had
come to the Pueblo OF Santa Bar
lara in a Spanish land grant, and
came under the head of public
lands, to be used for no commercial
purpose.
Judge Finney's decision was
hailed as a victory for the city at
torney of Santa Barbara, since it
was the contention Of the railroad
that under the grant the land in
question was the property of the
railroad for all time, to be used for
purposes of railroad business.
An interesting feature of trial OF
the case, said Judge Finney today,
was introduction of aged city ordl-
nances as evidence. Ordinances dat
ing back to the times Of Spanish
government were introduced, writ
ten in both Spanish and English,
and still later in English only.
The history of the land, and OF
land grants in general. was also
discussed in relation to the status
of the blocks held by the Southern
Pacific.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
HAS
OPEN MIND ON
TARIFF MATTER

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. WD-
Henry P. Fletcher, chairman of the
tariff commission appointed by
President Hoover during the recess,
appeared today before the senate
finance committe and outlined his
viewpoints.
Il believe I have an unbiased at
titude," he said, land if had. not
thought so I would not have taken
the appointment"
He said he held no general views
OH tariff policies and that he would
not necessarily call himself a pro-
tectionist.
Il was not applicant. The first
intimation 1 had of the appoint
ment was from the President.
first declined. I do pot know who
endorsed me and I do not ask
In answer to questioning by Sem
ator Harrison, Democrat, Mississip
pi, and others, Fletcher said he did
not believe either executive or leg
islative influence would affect my
policy
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
CAMPBELL Is
SWORN IN AS
NEXT SHERIFF

George Campbell was sworn in
today as sheriff of Imperial coun-
", taking the oath of office admin
istered by Calvin q. MouSseau,
county clerk.
Campbell will assume his duties
as sheriff January 5, 1881.
Present at the ceremony in
Mousseau's office were all county
officers in the court house. The
oath was to be administered yes
terday, but was postponed until to-
day in order that the county off,
GERS might be present.
This is the second time the same
set of county officers have been
present to witness sheriff take the
oath of office, since they attended
the ceremony at which G. L. Gillett
took his oath.
Following the oath all OF the
officers congratulated Campbell
lie signed the oath with a number
of flourishes, in the hand that has
been admired by many penmen.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
Obtain Jury In
Officers Trial

KANSAS CITY. KansaJ Dec. 6.
(U.P)-A jury of Kansas farmers
and tradesmen was completed in
federal court here today to sit in
Judgment on Major Charles A.
Shepard. army surgeon charged
with numbering his wife.
S. M. Brewster, United States dis
trict attorney who is leading the
prosecution, began a statement of
the governments case in which he
will attempt to prove that Major
Shepard poisoned Mrs. .zenana Nc
Coskey Shepard.
Brewster said he proposed to
show that Shepard pursued q love
for Miss Grace Brandon, young
stenographer whom he met at San
Antonio, at a time when his wife
was dying at Fort Riley, Kansas.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL GIVEN
SPLENDID START LAST NIGHT

If valley residents are not i'm
bued with the Christmas spirit, it
is not the fault of local merchants
who last night displayed lavish
Christmas decorations prepared for
Ell Centro's annual celebration, giv-
ing the entire business section the
appearance of huge festival at
which men, women and children
were guests Of mercantile estab-
lishments maintaining open house.
Shops and stores never have been
SO elaborately adorned as for this
occasion. The windows were gay
with wreaths, stars, holly festoons
and the best each concern had to
offer in the way of merchandise.
While on a trip about the streets,
each window apparently was more
beautiful than the ones seen pre-
iously.
Store interiors were unbelievably
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
CalexicO Road To
Go In State Group

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 6. U.P)-
Companion measures proposing the
addition of 804 miles OF roads TO the
state highway system will be intro
6uced in the 1881 legislature by
Senator Nelson T. Edwards of Or
ange and Assemblyman Chester N.
Kline of San Jacinto. it was an
nounced here today
The measures follow out the rec
concentrations recently made by
Governor Young and Bert B. Meek,
director of public works, in a high
way survey entitled IAN orderly ad-
dition of roads to the state high
way system
Roads proposed include Ell Centre
TO CaleXico, 8,5 miles.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
EINSTEIN DUE
in new YORK
ON THURSDAY
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BY HENRlCh WllLEM VAN LOO
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ABOARD S. S. BELGENLAND
AT SEA, Dec. 6.-(By Radio to the
United PreSS)-ProfesSor Albert
Einstein, noted mathematician and
physicist, who is due to reach New
York next Thursday, looks forward
to his arrival with emotions some
what akin to those experienced by
a condemned man approaching the
electric chair.
1 talked with Professor Einstein
today and tried to give him bit of
historical consolation and reasSur-
ance. I pointed out to him that if
he were arriving in the United
States 500 years ago he would, in
all probability, be burned at the
stake.
AS it is, I explained, he risks only
a slightly uncomfortable experience
the pillory of publicity. But he
refused to be convinced He can
scarcely bear to think of the Ques-
tioning he must undergo at the
hands OF New York reporters when
the Belgenland docks.
The professor spends most of his
time in his stateroom working.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
BY LUCA RiZZARDI
United Press staff Correspondent

L
BRUSSELS, Dec. 6. Q.H The
Meuse Valley. wrapped in a dense
fog out of which mysteriously have
come almost three score deaths in
the last 70 hours, saw hope today
for lifting of the thick mist which
has darkened and terrified its viii
lagos.
The death toll in the wave of ia
talitieS was revised this afternoon
to 81 persons in the towns affected
over an area of some 35 miles long
and occupied by factory and coal
mine settlements.
The total deaths could not be es-
tablished definitely until author
tiles completed a more thorough
check of the region
Many persons are in hospitals
suffering from the effects of the
five days fog. which officials said
caused the deaths of persons al
ready suffering from bronchial,
heart or other troubles. 1t was be-
lieved the toll might be about three
score dead
Meanwhile. the fog was reported
lifting slightly at Engis and other
towns in Liege and Namur provinc-
es, bringing q simultaneous halt in
the wave Of deaths.
The queer similarity of the effects
Of the fog 10 those of poison gas re-
vived fearful vivid memories for a
time. but it was generally believed
today that the dampness alone had
caused or fastened the 42 deaths at
tributed to the fog.
Early reports that the deaths had
been caused by either leaking gas
shells buried in the district or from
fumes OF chemical factories, were
refuted by the government hygiene
commission. The commission told
the United States that the deaths
apparently were due TO natural
causes. since the wet, clinging type
of fog would be fatal TO persons sui
iering from diseases of the heart,
lungs or throat. Many of the deaths
occurred in Engis. Elemalle Hautc,
Elemalle Grande and Uccle,
Whole Family Dies
Five children. members OF the
SAINT .AiiN otbiAo 49, 80
from six months to seven years,
were found asphyxiated in room
at Uccle.
Residents of the district between
Ieige and Huy were thrown into
panic by the unusual number OF
deaths, and jumped to the conclu-
sion that they were due TO poisonous
gas, DR.. Eamdal. director general OF
the ministry of hygiene, told the Un-
tied Press.
government medical commission
This is not the opinion OF the
that investigated the disaster" DR..
Eamdal said. The preliminary IN
lestigation attributed the deaths TO
purely natural causes, due to an in
tense fog sweeping through a cold
damp, flat country.
Our Investigations are not final,
of course. An autopsy will be held
on. each of the victims, to enable us
to reach a final conclusion"
The theory that poison gases had
Continued or cage six)
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
WOODCOCK CALLED
BEFORE CONGRESS

WASHINGTON Dec. 6. (U.P -
Federal Prohibition Director Wood
cock is scheduled to appear before
the house appropriations committee
Monday to present estimates for
enforcement for the next fiscal
year, including an additional S2,000,-
600 for 500 more dry agents.
He will ask for total of about
$ll,500,000 for his bureau in the
justice department for its prosecu-
ton division.
With appropriations carried in the
treasury appropriation bill passed
by the house last night for the
coast guard. customs service and in
dustrial alcohol division. this bill
will give a total close to $50,O00.000
for all phases OF prohibition en-
forcement. :
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
PlOtters' Fate
Up To Judges

MOSCOW, Dec. 6. iU,P>-The fate
of the eight defendants in Moscow s
treason trial was placed in the hands
of their soviet judges today.
States Prosecutor Nicholas Kril-
enki demanded the lives OF the men,
all OF them, for their alleged activ-
ties in planning interventioniSt wars.
The verdict OF the judges was eX-
pected Sunday evening The court
adjourned today after the last OF
the defendants faced Klieg lights
and microphone to end the complete
confessions upon which the judges
were expected to sentence them to
death.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
Ask EXtraditiOn
From Arizona

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 6. --(U.p)
Governor Young today issued a re-
quest for the eXtrad.tion OF Mack
Moline, San Quentin parole vio-
lator held under arrest in Yuma,
Ariz.. and wanted by Los Angeles
authorities.
Mack Moline was sentenced on
June 10, 1927, to serve from one to
10 years for manslaughter. involv-
ing the death of Vera Schlegal in
Los Angeles. He was paroled in
July, 1929.
On November 25, Moline drove an
automobile into Yuma while in
toXicated, injuring two women 50
severely they later died.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
Motion To Free
Woman Refused

DENVER, Colo, Dec. tUP|-The
state today rested its case against
Mrs. Pearl OLoughlin. charged with
numbering her stepdaughter, Leona,
10.
The defense immediately moved
for directed verdict of acQuital.
The motion, presented Oy Chief
Counsel John A. Keating, alleged
that there was insufficient evidence
to support a verdict of guilty OF
murder.
The evidence was SO weak that a
conviction would be due solely to
prejudice against the defendant,
the motion alleged.
Judge Henley A. Calvert overruled
the motion without comment.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
Woman Dies OF
Heart Attack

Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, So, died
at Alamo yesterday as the result of
q heart attack. The body will be
sent to Ranger, Tex, for burial.
This place is her former home. She
had been in California only two
months.
Brief funeral services for the
family will be conducted at Lemons
funeral chapel prior to sending the
body east.
She is survived by her husband,
d. w. Williams; a brother. Frank
Young; two Sisters-in law, Mrs. S.
A. Cooper and Mrs. S. F.. Gort; a
niece, Mrs. Pearl Burke, and other
relatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
Chicago Bandits
Stage HOld-Up


CHICAGO. Dec. 6 U.P.-Four ban-
dts drove IS employees and 25 pat
ronS to the basement OF the State
bank in the village OF Clearing to-
day and forced Vice-president Lam
bert Bere to open the safe which
they then robbed of between s40.-
900 and $4,000.
Although the we'll dressed bandits
were armed with shotguns and pis-
tolls they executed the robbery with
out firing a shot
The loot was part of a deposit
which had pust been made by the
First National Bank of Chicago TO
meet Saturday payrolls in the indus
trial village when is on the OUT
skirts of the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
Lloyds Formally
Adopt Youngster

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, Dec. Cup
Little Gloria Mildred Lloyd,
has a new sister today, five-year-
old Gloria Gabrielle Freeman, who
was adopted by the film player and
his wife.
The second Little Gloria, howev-
er, had her name officially changed
to Marjorie Elizabeth Lloyd to
avoid confusion, when Superior
Judge Samuel r. Blake signed the
adoption papers.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
Text OF Bills
Will Be Secret

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Dec. 6.
U.P)-AnXious citizens of California
who want to know what bills the
next legislature will consider, must
curb their curiosity until the law
makers convene, unless authors of
the bills want to tell about them
before then.
Fred B. Wood, head of the legis-
lative counsel bureau, today de-
clared the bureau charged with
drawing up all bills will not reveal
their contents without the authors
permission.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
BANDITS ROB BANK
IN SAN JOAQUIN

HARDWICK. Calf, Dec. 6. U.P)
Officers of the San Joaquin VAL
ley today were searching for two
bandits who held up and robbed
the cashier of the First National
Bank of Hardwick of $1l50 late
yesterday.
The two men garbed in work
mems clothes made short work of
the holdup just before o'clock Of
Cashier j. L. Sharp. They took
Sharp's revolver from him at gun
point, took the $3.50 gold and $1,000
currency that was on the counter
and fled in an automobile.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
Charges Against
Levine Dropped

VIENNA, Dec. 6. W.H-Charges
against Charles A. Levine, Ameri-
can aviation enthusiast, who was
arrested here a few weeks ago in
connection with alleged counter
feiting activities, were dropped to-
day.
Levine was arrested after he had
visited an engraver here and
sought to buy what police claimed
were counterfeit dies for French
coins.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
WHAT'S DOING

TONIGHT
Evangelistic services, 1880,
NaZarene church.
Fox Imperial theatre, Africa
Speaks"
Brunk's Comedians, "YOur
Uncle Dudley"
TOMORROW
Sunday services, churches.
Elks Memorial services, 5, ElkS
hall.
Fox Imperial theatre. "War
Nurse"
Brunk's Comedians.
MONDAY
Membership committee, 2,
10000 club.
Twice Told Tales, 2:30, 10000
club.
County Ministers association,
1890, Nj. L. church.
Masonic luncheon, Barbara
s Woi III, ....,..,....... .'...
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
CAR KILLS NEGRO

Los Angeles, Dec. 6 UPl-While
walking along the car tracks, an
unidentified negro was killed al
most instantly today when he was
struck by an inbound Whittier car
at Sixteenth street and Long Beach
boulevard.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
Six Maniacs Still
Retain Freedom

NEW YORK, Dec. 6. W.P)-SiX
escaped maniacs still were free to-
day, more than 48 hours after
their liberation from Matteawan
State hospital for the criminal in
sane, by three gunner, including a
previously escaped inmate.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
MYS Terry
SICKNESS
KILLS 81
Various Reasons Ascribed
For Puzzling Outbreak
In Belgian Cities.
DOCTORS BAFFLED
Dense Fog HOvering Over
Wide Area Thought To
Be Responsible.

BRUSSELS, Dec. 6. tU.D-
The official death role In the
fog covered Meuse Valley was
announced tOnight~as 60. The
ministry of health announced
that the deaths were caused by
log, and that all of the victims
had been suffering from lung
or heart troubles, which were
aggravated by the hevay mist.
Imperial Valley press., 1930-12-06
AID FOR
FARMERS
STARTED
Agricultural Committee
Of House Approves Bill
For S30,0O0,000.
ORIGINAL SLASHED
Sum Is Half As Large AS
Amount Recommended
By Senate Committee.
BY LYLE G. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. U.P)&
The house agriculture committee
today approved a S30000,000 ap-
preparation for seed, feed and fer
tilizer loans to drought stricken
farmers. This compares with a
s60,000,00G appropriation approved
yesterday by the senate agriculture
committee.
T e S30,000,000 appropriation
which represents an increase Of
$5,000,000 over the amount desired
by the administration, was ap-
proved by vote of II to 7. The
committee first defeated proposal
for S6C000,000 and then had voted
down in succession proposals to
make the figure S45 100000; $40
100000; $35 100000, and $4,000, 600.
The S30,000,000 measure is ex-
pected to be brought up in the
house early next week. 1t does not
contain the provision for human
food which the McNary senate bill
includes.
The vote against the S60.0OO, GOO,
sponsored by Representatives As
well, Democrat, Louisiana, was II
to 6.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. UH-
President Hoover grasped today for
support among house Republicans
after his party in the senate had
smashed and discarded his propos-
ais for drought relief.
The house agricultural committee
was summoned to meet today in
executive session and battle the
issue of whether drought distressed
farmers shall be aided with an ap-
preparation of $25,0OO,OOO or $780,
100000.
Mr.. Hoover wants the smaller
figure and has let it be known he
will fight to get it, The Presidents
determination suggests even the
possibility of veto if congress in
sists on more than doubling the
sum the budget bureau is prepared
to spend on drought relief projects.
Administration defeat in the
senate committee was overwhelm-
ing. All members of the committee
present voted yesterday to report
favorably bill appropriating $780,
100000. Chairman McNary of the
committee, who also is assistant
Republican leader led the rebellion.
He and the committee expect
the senate to pass the bill Mon
day. Both houses were in recess
today.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. U.P)-
The house appropriations commit
tee late today completed consider
alton Of the administration $780,
100000 unemployment relief bill
and will report it to the house eth
er Monday or Tuesday, assuring
action by the house during the
week
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-02-07

merely on economic force or bar
gaining skill" Both union and
management are represented in
the time study, conducted by an
engineering firm mutually agree
able to both sides. The Fedora
ton terms the study arrangement
most unusual and far reaching"
III II
Scabs don't believe in organiza-
ton, So they're easy for the boss.
At Salem, Mass, where the Ho-
siery Workers Union has been
carrying on strike against the
Ipswich yellow dog mill, scabs'
In the knitting department an
wages have been cut 1885 a week.
entirely new schedule Of rates was
posted, putting the Ipswich on a
par with some of the worst paid
southern full fashioned hosiery
mills. The schedule was put into
effect after a brief study by an
industrial expert. Earl White, the
union organizer has been threat
ened with violence, if he does not
leave Gloucester Immediately. He's
staying.
ii!llill
Hugo Cedarholm tramped ur
and down Times Square 10 hours
a day enclosed in a sandwich sigr
which read l Want Work. Because
he was 81, he was "too old to
work." employers said. So Cedar.
holm turned on three gas jets II
his room, lay down on his bed anG
died, leaving a note reading
"Please don't mistake this FOL
propaganda" On the same day
Newton Golden, 81, put a pistol Il
his head and killed himself be
cause there was common GOSSIP
in his office that Re was to be dis
placed by a younger man. Ant
Alexander, Finkelstein, so, unem
ployed for months, jumped from
the fourth floor of his home.