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Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
ACTRESS WEEPS
AS She RELATES
STORY OF RIOT

LOS ANGELES. Oct. Is. QIP)-
Jocelyn Lee, film actress pictured
by the prosecution as "one woman
riot, who smashed 18 window panes
with wild swings of her French Slip
pers, today gave way to tears when
she was called as a witness at her
trial on a charge of disturbing the
peace.
Miss Lee had been asked to tell
OF her invasion Of the home of
Ivan st. Johns, writer, when she
assertedly smashed the windows,
scratched ST. Johns and shouted
swear words in an effort to see her
divorced husband, Luther Reed. pic
ture director.
The tears came when she whis-
pered word Reed assertedly called
her at that time.
Previously Miss Lee had cast her
eyes downward when she told a
municipal judge "a swear word-a
terrible swear word" one of the
women on the party had called her.
according to Miss Lee she went
to the st. Johns home, where Reed
was a guest, to persuade him to
keep a dinner engagement with her
and their two children. Miss Lee
said the children were in an auto
mobile outside the house. She add
ed that she only had Is cents in
her pocketbook at the time ard
SAID the children were hungry.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
ExtOrti0n Plot
FOiled By Police

RIVERSIDE, Cal, Oct. l6. U.P)-
Accused of attempting to extort
$4,000 from the Riverside Daily
Press by means of threatening let
ters, Kenneth Bailey, l8, married.
was held in the county jail here
today by juvenile authorities.
The letters were directed at Har-
ry w. Hammond, business manager,
and DR.. E. P. Clarke, editor. They
were instructed to deliver the mo-
ney in large bills to the unsigned
writer, who was to identify himself
at Riverside theater last night.
With Police INSPECTOR Paul Scott,
the two executives kept the appoint
ment and Bailey was arrested when
his actions caused suspicion. Auth
critics announced that he confessed
to the plot.
1t was also announced after Ques-
tioning of Bailey, former employee
of the newspaper, that he confessed
to an attempt to wreck the press
of the Daily Press by breaking into
the building and removing bolts
from the machinery. The attempt
was discovered by workmen before
any damage was done.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
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@ 1850 NeNsught syndieats. Ina
HANG OR FREE
CLARK IS PLEA
OF ATTORNEYS
No Middle Ground Exists
According To Defense
Lawyers.

! LOS ANGELES, Oct. lG U.P)-A
plea that the jury either acquit or
hang David II. Clark, former deputy
district attorney, came from his at
| torneys in their final arguments
today at his trial on a charge of
numbering Herbert Spencer, editor
of political magazine
Both w l. Gilbert and Leonard
/ Wilson declared there was no mid
/ die course and that Clark either
shot Spencer down in cold blood and
should be executed or he shot him
in self defense and should be re-
stored to his place in the COM
munity."
| AS at yesterdays session, micro
phones were installed in the court
room and the arguments were
/ broadcast over two local radio sta
tions. This was done through per-
mission granted by Superior Judge
Harry Falk and against the wishes
Of Presiding Judge Fleming and the
Los Angeles Bar association.
Wilson was the first of the de-
fense attorneys to address the Jury
and he contended that the political
machine built up by the late Charles
Crawford, prominent politician who
was shot with Spencer, was leading
the prosecution of Clark.
| Wilson condemned Buron Fits.
district attorney, for not conducting
the case for the state.
Fits didn't want to prosecute a
former friend, he said, in getting a
special prosecutor" Wilson shouted.
But Asa Keyes was his friend. too,
and he prosecuted him. There's
more behind it. There are unseen
hands reaching out from the grave
of Crawford. They are the hands
Of the underworld
Either acquit Dave Clark or
hang him. Wilson shouted in con-
clusion. There is no middle
ground. Joe Ford only suggests
that you compromise to satisfy his
own conscience for undertaking this
second prosecution.
Special prosecutor Joe Ford was
attacked by Gilbert, too. The de-
fense attorney dealt especially with
Ford's failure to voluntarily pro-
duce at either trial the bullets
found in Spencer's automobile a few
hours after the shooting May 20.
Smile. Brother joe" Gilbert
said and pointed at Ford, smile,
with the blood of another lawyer
on your hands and SNUG in the
knowledge that you deliberately al
lowed one jury to begin its delibera-
tions when you held in your pocket
those bullets, most important of the
defense evidence
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
MulhOland Dam
To Be Abandoned

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16. U.P-
The municipal board of water and
power commissioners today approx
ed unanimously the abandonment
of Mulholland dam, situated in the
hills above Hollywood.
Instructions were voted by the
four members of the commission to
H. A. Van Norman, chief engineer
under which he is Immediately to
prepare plans for substitute water
system for the community. 1t was
decided by the commissioners that
the instructions were to exclude use
of Mulholland Dam as a part of
the substitute plan.
The commissioners said that only
financial arrangements prevented q
formal vote ordering Van Norman
to proceed with the s2,495, 800 sub
stitute plan he recently presented.
He was ordered to prepare a finan-
cial plan.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
GRAPE BRICK
SALE DECLARED
LAW VIOLATION

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oct. Is. UP)
Sale of grape concentrates which
turn into wine when the purchaser
follows simple directions was held
in violation of the prohibition laws
in a decision handed down today
by Judge Merrill E. Otis in dis
trict federal court.
The decision was in the case OF
Ukiah Grape Products Company,
Inc, of New York, against which
test case was brought charging
it with violation of the liquor laws.
In 81 page decision, Judge
Otis found the Ukiah company gull
ty in five counts of sale and in two
counts of possession of grape con-
centrate intended for use in the
manufacture of Intoxicating liquor"
A. E. Brunette, manager of the
Kansas City office of the company,
was found guilty in five counts OF
sale and in two counts of possession.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
EXECUTIONS AT
ILLINOIS JAIL
BADLY BUNCLED

CHICAGO, Oct. 16 (U.P)-Four
purderers went to their deaths today
in Cook county's new electric chair.
A fifth obtained a last-minute
stay on insanity claims.
Three deputies half carried Frank
Jordan, slayer of two policemen. in
to the death chamber at 1918 a. m.
When the first charge of electricity
hit his body his feet flew up. A
nervous executioner had forgotten
to strap them.
His legs were bound. The current
was turned on again. Five physi-
clans pronounced him dead at 1877
a. m. His body was taken to room
ironically labeled school"
Charles Rocco, who participated
in the killing of banker during a
holdup, followed him. The current
began to flow through his body at
1921 a. m. Smoke billowed up.
But he still lived. The electricity
was switched twice more at 1929.
Eight minutes later, the physicians
listened to his chest. His heart had
stopped beating.
Next was John Popescu, Rocco's
partner in the murder of Courtney
Merrill. Popescu quivered in the
arms of the guards. He sank into
the chair at 1882 a. M, died at
1898
Richard Sullivan, co-slayer of a
restaurant owner, was last. He
seemed almost to swagger, despite
the grasp of the deputies. The cleo
trodes were placed on his head and
right leg at 12;4l a. m. He died
six minutes later.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
DRY WINTER IS
PREDICTED BY
COAST EXPERTS

LA JOLLA. Cal, Oct. Is. tU.P) -
The Pacific coast region is due for
a dry winter, the Scripps Institu-
ton of Oceanography declared to-
day in a lengthy treatise on the
subject
The institution based its prediction
on a complex c:lart of ocean tenn
peratures, obtained over a 15-year
period.
High ocean temperatures, 1t was
found, invariably preceded periods OF
deficient seasonal precipitation
while low temperatures precede an
excess of precipitation.
The past summer, 1t was an
nounced the north Pacific high
temperatures were exceptionally un-
stable and the inshore seawater
temper ltures were excessively high.
While admitting that precipita-
tion records reveal cyclical changes
having various periods. the report
believes cycles do not appear well
adapted to furnish advance indica-
tions of the precipitation for a par
ticular season.
1t finds. however, that the maxi
mum of the Hellmann cycle, of five
to six year period, is due about 1888
when heavy rains again will fall.
1t warns, however, that not much
reliance should be placed on the
exact time thus indicated
The report also reveals that the
Bruckner cycle, of 1928 years, is
nowrising andthe next crest will be
reached aDou. 1899, coinciding with
the anticipated peak in sunspot val
ues, also believed to have a bearing
on rainfall.
The 193l-l932 season is the low
point of the long, or secular cycle
of 7O-90 years, the report indicates.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
President at Odds With Secretary of Navy
LINDBERCH'SSHIP
HURRIES TO HELP
STRICKEN VESSEL
President jefferson Turns
From Course In Answer
To Distress Call.

PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. l6. U.P)--
A final, frantic SOS-"We are now
sinking g"-probably wrote finis to-
day in the log of the Japanese
freighter Yonan Maru, about 500
miles southwest of Dutch Harbor,
Alaska.
The last call came at SAB a. m.
today Silence followed indicating
that the freighter sank, according
to Merchants Exchange Radio here.
The Yonan Maru carried a crew
of about 80, including 10 officers.
1t was not learned whether or not
they were able to put out safely in
small boats. The sea was running
strong under a stiff gale.
The liner President jefferson,
Yokohama to Seattle, radioed that
she expected to reach the scene at
about 8 a. m. today.
The Yonan Maru sailed from
Portland about two weeks ago with
8l00 tons of wheat for Shanghai
and about a million feet Of logs for
Yokohama She was 5179 net tons,
Ais feet long She was built by the
Osaka Iron Works in 1919 and own
ed by Nippon Kyodo Kissen.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16. U.P)-
Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh, Americas foremost adventur-
ers of the air, figured in an ad-
venture of the sea today when the
liner President Jefferson, bringing
them home from the Orient, turned
from her course to aid a sinking
Japanese steamer
In a dramatic race with death.
the Dollar liner steamed full speed
to the japanese merchantmen Yu-
nan Maru in hopes of reaching her
before she foundered.
Cracking out of the ether from
south of the Aleutian islands early
today, a distress call from the Yu-
nan Maru brought word that a
driving windstorm had left it in
desperate plight.
Excitement ran high on the Lind
bergh ship as the radio operator
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Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
WOMAN
IS ALSO
ACCUSED
Ten Counts Charge Viola
ton OF Federal Corrupt
Practices Act.
ECHO OF CAMPAIGN
Church Official Active In
Defeat OF Democratic
Nominee In 1928.

WASHINGTON. Oct. l6. UP
Bishop James Cannon. Jr., Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South, was
indicted by the federal grand jury
here today on 10 counts involving
alleged violations of the Federal
Corrupt Practices Act.
The same indictment names Ada
L. Burroughs, Cannons political
secretary. The charges are for vio-
lation of the Federal Corrupt Prac-
tees Act and growing out of the
activities of the anti-Smith Dem
ocrats in the 1923 presidential cam
paign.
Penalties to which the bishop
and his aide are liable under the
indictment total 10 years in prison
with the possibility of fines up to
$4,000.
The indictment was handed up to
Justice James Proctor of the Dis
trIct of Columbia supreme court at
. the opening of court this morning,
The indictment is based on the
disposition made of funds contrib
uted to the anti-Smith Democrats
by E. C. Jameson, New York capi-
talist. 1t is charged that Miss Bur-
roughs as treasurer of the anti
Smith organization, failed to ac-
count fully for funds in reports
filed with the clerk Of the house
OF representatives
The 81 rand jury action followed an
investigation concluded less than a
week ago at which an array Of
prominent persons who had been as
sociated with the political activities
-. aa ON
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
By 1. l. FEMRITE
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

BATON ROUGE, La, Oct. l6
U.P)-Louisiana showed less interest
today in governor" and "leuten-
ant governors" and more in the af-
fairs of the state scheduled execu-
ton of three negroes, and a typi-
cal Huey Long defense of corn
pone dunking in potlikker.
Governor Long ignored two new
members of his official family
who had taken the oath of lieuten-
ant governor on the theory that
every governor needs a lieutenant
governor
And he ignored a verbal attack
directed his way by one of two pre-
tenders to the gubernatorial throne
In his state in which DR.. Paul Cyr
declared Long had a red nose, a
white stomach and a yellow back"
Dir. Cyr is the lieutenant governor
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Special meeting, 1880, First
Baptist church.
40 ct s, I, 500 Broadway.
Tennis tournament, 7, high
school.
Charity ball, 9, Elk's hall.
Jasper farm center, 7:45, Jas
per school.
l. v. tuberculosis association,
1870, Barbara Worth.
I. v. Pyramid No. 276, Masonic
Temple.
Troop 25. B.S.A., 1880, Nc
Cabe.
Troop 21, B.S.A., 1880, Nj. Z.
social hall.
Fox Imperial Theatre, "Palmy
Days.
TOMORROW
Chapter CIV, P.E.O., 1890,
w. w. McEuen home.
University WOmen's club, 2:30,
IIOltville high school.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
BUDGET
CAUSES
RUPTURE
President Resents Naval
Criticisms Appearing In
Nations Papers.
DENY RESIGNATION
RumOrs Adams Will Quit
Cabinet Declared To Be
Without Truth.
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Oct. Is. U.P) -
President Hoover's long standing
displeasure with the navy depart
ment and the departments equally
dissatisfied attitude toward the
chief executive today reached
critical point
A dispute over the naval budget
figures for next year assumed un-
expected Importance when Secretary
of Navy Charles Francis Adams left
the White House obviously per-
turbed.
1t is understood on reliable au-
thority Mr.. Hoover informed Adams
that arguments in behalf of the
navy's position appear in the press
too frequently to believe the admir-
ais are not inspiring them. The
Presidents position is said to be that
Adams admirals are seeking to Gre
ate public sentiment unfavorable to
the rigid economies Mr.. Hoover has
in mind
Mr.. Hoover and Adams have not
seen things eye to eye for some time.
Reports that Adams would resign
have been in circulation off and on
since last winter. Adams has stead
fastly denied the reports and Mr..
Hoover has publicly indicated his
confidence in Adams. The latest
denial from Adams came as recently
as last week
To the admirals Mr.. Hoover's or
ders for slash of SOL 100000 in the
1882 navy budget meant nothing
less than impairment of the eff
cheney of what they consider to be
the first arm of defense. To Mr..
Hoover, it looked as if the navy In
resisting his efforts to make the cut
has inspired stories that the Presi-
dent might ruin the navy.
Mr.. Hoovers feelings in the mat
ter are very strong. It has been Of
ficially indicated he might go to the
country in an appeal for the right
of the President to fix the expenses
(COntinuad on paua Sl
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
Laval Departs
For Washington

PARIS, Oct. 16. U.P)-Pierre La
val, premier of France and travel
ing salesman" of French interna-
tional policies, entrained today for
LIE Havre enroute to visit President
Hoover at Washington.
The premier's l9-year- old daugh-
ter, Josette, accompanied him.
A noisy crowd. mostly office
workers arrived by suburban trains.
filled the Saint Lazare station and
gave the premier a rousing sendoff.
Laval and his party were to sail
from Havre on the liner Tie de
France shortly after noon.
American Ambassador Walter E.
Edge accompanied Laval to lie
Havre.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
Body OF Slain
Man Recovered

FRESNO, Cal. Oct 16. WP)-The
body of James w. Kipp, one-legged
halfbreed Indian partner of w, A.
Fuller, 43, suspected of numbering
Kipp, was brought to the surface of
an abandoned mine near Raymond
late last night.
The finding of the body with three
bullet holes in the head, as pre-
dicted by Mrs. Fuller, was thought
to have completed the web of evi-
dence Sheriff George Overholt and
his aides had woven about Fuller
since his arrest last week.
Overholt believes Kipp was mur-
dered for his money and other pos
sessions and because "he knew too
much"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
JAPANESE ENVOY URGES NATION TO
WITHDRAW PROTEST AGAINST U. s.

dealing with this country's atti-
tude on the present dispute OF ia
pan with China.
There was feeling today that
Debuchi'S action considerably
cleared the situation and increased
the chances of United States &C
cepting the leagues invitation for
an American representative to sit
with the league council.
Debuchi yesterday received a
communication from his govern
ment pointedly discussing the AM
erican attitude. He replied with a
cablegram going into the matter
at length and containing his rec
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
Akron Departs
On Final Test

AKRON, Ohio Oct. 16. U.P)-The
U. S. S. Akron nosed away from the
airdock at $50 a m. today on a pro-
jected 48-hour flight of endurance,
probably her last test flight before
cruising to LakehurSt naval station,
her permanent home.
The sky cruiser circled over the
airport and slid through the early
morning skies to the southwest. Her
course was not announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. U.P)-
Katsuji Debuchi, japanese ambas-
sador to Washington, has recon-
mended to his government that it
withdraw its opposition to the pro-
posal of the United States to have
its representative sit with the
League of Nation Council while con-
sidering the Japanese-Chin Man
churian dispute.
He also has made a detailed ex-
planation of the position of the
United States and urged moderation
on the part of his government in
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
Gales Is Lone
Cabinet Member

MEXICO CITY, Oct. II. W.P)-
The only member of President Pas
cual Ortiz Rubio's cabinet in office
today was General Plutarco Elias
Gales, the president having ac-
cepted the designations of all civil
ian members.
Gales will be minister of war in
the new cabinet, which will not be
announced for several days.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
LABOR DEMANDS
NEW ECONOMIC
PLAN AT ONCE
BY DAN BOWERMAN
United Press Staff COrreSpOnden

I VANCOUVER, B. c., Oct. 16 U.P)
New economic principles, official
ly endorsed as "the only way out
of industrial depression and its at
tendant human misery" were rec
commended by the 51st convention
of the American Federation of La
Dor.
The convention adjourned last
night after two weeks of intensive
work. Economic policies which it
presented 70 capitalism and the
government call for a well ordered
and peaceful industrial revolution.
The alternative, William Green, Ia
boris chieftain warned, is posi-
bility of a social revolution.
Desperate, bloody, it would have
as its aim the overthrow of the gov
ernment and the capitalistic sys
tenn, said Green. 1t would be
frantic effort of jobless, hungry
men, he said, to get their share of
the industrial and agricultural sur
pluses which present maladjustment
has built up at the very time the
ldi4ho VI QIlCillp4OyCd ilaNS S"SASN
by millions.
Industrialism. the convention de-
clared, has done little save aggra-
vate the problem by wage cutting
and ruinous price wars. After in
dieting captains of industry for in
action and indifference, the con-
clave called on them to accept la
bor's plan and return prosperity to
both.
I'VE speak for organized labor
and for the voiceless millions of un-
organized toilerS in the overall and
white collar classes" President
Green said.
Adopt Program
The Labor program includes:
l. Reduce unemployment an d
balance increased machine produc-
ton with buying power by shorten
! ing the working week to five days
and shortening the eight hour day.
This, Labor declares, will make buy
ers out of men now forced to be
beggars.
2. Make possible continued oper-
alton of the important luXurypro-
ducing industries by maintaining
(COntipupd on mage 81
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16

ommendation that Japan agree to
permit the American representative
to sit at Geneva.
Debuchi explained to his govern
ment that the United States did
not propose to enter into negotia-
tions or discussions OF the League
of Nations Council excepting when
agreements to which the United
States actually is a party, were
brought up. The United States Is
party TO the nine power treaty
of 1922 and the Kellogg pact. both
of which may be brought into the
IContinued ON page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16
BISHOP CANNON INDICTED BY GRAND JURY
WS}R8!SS}s!;f

BEVERLY HILLS, Oct. Is.
See where Mrs. Morrow has
been offered her husbands seat
in the senate if she wants it.
Now in most cases those pos
itions are offered the wives just
out of courtesy, but Mrs. Nor
row is just about as unusual a
woman as her husband was a
man.
She was a tremendous item
in Mr.. MorroW's Mexico success.
She learned Spanish and be-
came a great favorite with the
Mexican people. If she goes in
there she will know what the
senate is all about. Well, Of
course, not exactly, but as near
as it can be found out.
Yours
Imperial Valley press., 1931-10-16

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Continued on page 81
Evening star., 1931-06-19

on more confidently, aware that she was
gaining ground, I'VE can't get away from
1t, we can't have any fun here unless
We take chancesl Nobody could get
away with anything in this town. Just
as soon as ! can I'm going to get out,
and advise you to! Why, what does
1t matter about Van Murchison-how
much he wants to fool around, how
young q kid he is. He's rich, he's go
ing to take his wife East and abroad
What do you care about the rest? He
never says sensible word or does q
sensible thing. What do you care? You
play his gamel You don't want to
change him; you want to marry him
Let him be giddy. Let him be wasteful
and frivolous, II he wants to be! What
Is 1t TO you? He gets you out of Clip
perSville and away from these gossipiug
old busybodiesl"
The river OF words daZed and terrified
Gan. This could not be delicate, ethereal
Ariel, pouring out this coarse and dam
gerous philosophy OF life or of death
Ariel, summarizing Van Murchison's S
character In these biting words, calling
him a kid! Ariel whom they had all
thought young, innocent, protected, con-
fesSlng her determination to grab the
flrst man she could, and escape-escape
from Clippersville.
Most terrible of all to Gail was her
little sisters easy air of conspiracy, her
casual, quick assumption that they were
both IN the same boat. Gail was fran
tic with alarm. II she told Philip there
would be domestic pandemonium, and If
she did not, she herself must assume a
most appalling responsibility.