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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
STANDARD
FIRMS TO
BE JOINED
Agreement Between New
Jersey And California
Companies Assured.
RESOURCES LARGE
Resultant Company To
Be One Of Biggest In
Country.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 81. W.D
Formation OF the worlds largest
petroleum company, It's nearly So
COO, 100000 in assets ranking with
the three leading industrial corpora
tions of the age, appears a certain
ty today as the Standard Oil COM
panies of New Jersey and Califor-
mia announced their intention to
merge.
From the seciuslon Of wooded
private estate near lake Tahoe, high
in the California Sierras, came the
announcement of plans by two pow
erful figures of the oil industry to
form the new giant and capture
sizeable share of the worlds trade.
President Waiter c. Teagie, Of
New Jersey Standard and President
Kenneth R. Kingsbury of California
ended two years of preliminary neg
citations with terse public state
ment that the merger "is logical
and feasible" The consummation Of
their coup, they indicated, rests with
the government and the public.
mo insurmountable obstacles
have developed in our discussions"
the two said after the week-lOng
conference at Lake Tahoe. Ar
rangements have been made to car
~ on studies of these questions"
The consolidation of two of the
strongest factors in the industry
would place the company second on
ly to the American Telephone and
Telegraph company in assets, eclips-
ing even United States steel and the
far-flung British and Dutch Shell
Oil company
Based on 1890 statements of the
companies, the proposed merger
! would assume control of approx
mately 10 per cent of the crude oil
production and Is per cent Of the
gasoline business, domestic and ex-
port, OF the United States.
Inspired BY Merger
The governments recent approval
of the Standard of New York-Va-
CUM Oil Consolidation was believed
to have given impetus to Teagle
and Kingsbury in reaching for this
plum Of power and prestige.
AZ OoiAAoA AAAel COMPANY I'LL
portant domestic crude oil reserves.
but no important foreign reserves
and only limited foreign distribute
ing facilities,' their statement said.
THE Jersey company has limited
domestic crude Oil reserves, but has
large foreign reserves and an i'm
portant foreign system of distribu-
ton"
The important" reserves include
Is subsidiary companies in North
and South American control by
California Standard, and vast re.
serves in Mexico, Roumania, Vene-
zuela, Canada and the Dutch East
Indies belonging to New Jersey
Standard.
Parents of the vast Standard Oil
group, New Jersey Standard had
assets of s730,986 ,692 at the close OF
1880. owning wells producing 27O.-
900 barrels of oil daily. 1t has 3,972
miles of pipe lines, owns 5000 gas
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
Rich Man Sued
For Seduction

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 81. U.p)-
Charging that he had seduced her
under promise of marriage, Miss
Susanna Hood, 26. today filed suit
for 100000 against J. j. Sousa
wealthy Beverly Hills oil man.
Miss Hood declared in the COM
plant filed by Attorney Joseph l..
Fainer. that Sousa began making
love to her last April, pretending
he was a single man. She declared
that he made plans for their mar
riage, and that she clearly and
greatly loved him On August Is,
last, Miss Hood asserted, that she
discovered for the first time that
Sousa was married, but that he told
her then he would get a divorce and
marry her.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
MN R1A~'
Q ,sse ns,sssAs ay.Asss< -
LAVISHNESS OF
SOVIET DINNER
AMAZES WRITER

NEW YORK, Aug. 81 W.p)-Sex
appeal among women of Soviet Rus
STA is shrouded in ungainly fashions
and the charwoman over there still
pass on the playwrights product,
according to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Malmuth, just returned after a
year in that country.
MaImuth is q writer and former
professor of the University of Cali
fornia. Mrs. Malmuth, Joan Lon
don, is a daughter of Jack London.
Last year in California, where
Malmuth taught Slavic languages,
he sued for divorce, charging his
wife preferred writing to cooking.
They were reconciled. Today she
preferred proudly to my kitchen"
Translator Of most Of the Soviet
novels reprinted in English. NAL
muth was regally entertained, one
indication to his mind of the cap
italist phase" through which the
Soviet republic is passing.
Officials of the foreign depart
ment," he said, give parties OH
ducal ware, with a butler standing
behind each chair. They serve
pheasants with their tails standing
up, and the choicest of wines.
"Of course the proletariat can't
even stick its nose in at these par
ties. The officials say they have to
give the foreigners what they are
used to, but I never was used te
anything like that in the United
! States"
They feel they must beat the
Bourgeoisie at its own game, but
they enjoy it, too. You never saw
any such barbaric luxury as you
find at the Soviet embassies"
The industrialization sweeping
Russia has had an adverse effect
on cultural life, Malmuth found,
with one of the greatest of the So
Wet stylists working as a village
scribe at 80 roubles a month.
Authors still producing are taken
under the patronage of factories
and read chapters of works in pro-
gress to the laborers who suggest"
changes to capture the proletarian
angle.
Similarly, he said, plays are pas
sed on by the charwoman and stage
hands before they are given to the
actors.
Mrs. Malmuth amplified the wo-
mans side of the Soviet scheme.
She deplored the lack of beautiful
women in Russia because people
were not eating what they should"
and the absence of sex and charm
because women were doing the same
rough work as men.
Women of the clinging vine type
are pathetic in their efforts to keep
in style with antiquated apparel,
she said.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
OF
WATER WILL BE
STARTED AGAIN

For a second time this summer
Imperial Valley faces a serious
water shortage.
Announcement comes from irri-
cation district headquarters this
morning that pro-rating is to be-
gin at once.
Every drop available in the Color
ado is passing into the Imperial
Valley diversion headgate today
and that small quantity is far shol
of the needs both in Mexico and IL
the United States.
Reports from up-river observa-
ton stations are not encouraging
from the standpoint of rainfall
prospects.
Chief Engineer M j. Dowd today
mailed letters to each of the cities
in the valley urging their coopera-
ton in conservation of the meagre
supply.
I'VE are actually diverting but
! 1850 second feet today in Andrade,' y
Dowd said. "Of that amount, Mex
leo receives half. Losses through
diversions, evaporation and long
distance transportation bring the
total actually available for applica-
ton to lands in the United States
down to less than $50 second feet
just about sufficient for domestic
requirements"
Dowd's appeal to the cities asks
that only the most necessary uses
be made of the water, and that
lawn and garden sprinkling be
abandoned until the critical condi-
ton modifieS.
we may as well face the fac
squarely that we have a real water
shortage. The obvious thing for
us to do is to make water conserv-
alton an individual responsibility
which we all will share. I am con-
fident there will be the same will
ingness to help that has been shown
on similar occasions previously, '
Dowd declared.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
Coast Welcomes
Globe Girdlers

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 81. W.P)-
Harold Gatty and Wiley Post,
around the world filters, returned
to Gatty's home city today to re-
ceive a tremendous reception.
The trim monoplane Winnie Mae
covered the distance from Oakland
to the municipal airport here in 2
hours 81 minutes. The around the
world plane was accompanied by a
Century Pacific escort plane carry
ing the wives of the aviators and
Gattys eldest son, Alan, 5.
A large crowd gathered at the
airport and other aviation enthu-
siasts lined the downtown streets
as Gatty and Post were escorted to
the city hall to be officially well
coined by Mayor John C. Porter and
Lieutenant Governor Frank Mer-
riam.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
Cotton Ban Is
Given Approval

BATON ROUGE, La, Aug. 81.
W.P)-The Louisiana House of Rep
resentatives assembled in extraor-
binary session, today unanimously
approved the Wilkins-Douglas mo
cotton" bill given Gov. Huey P. Long
his first real victory i'll the cam
paign for a cotton holiday in 1892
The bill was Immediately sent to
the senate.
Under terms of the measure
which will not be effective unless
three-fourths of the cotton pro-
ducing states take similar action
a heavy fine, and possible Jail sem
tence face any Louisianan who at
tempts to grow cotton next year.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
WITCH WOMAN
TO BE QUIZZED
ABOUT DEATHS

DETROIT, Aug. 81. U.P)-Bodies
OF nine men, believed buried with
cash from their own insurance pol
icies, may be eXhumed by police III
efforts to determine whether Mrs.
Rose Veres, 40, witch" landlady,
speeded their deaths.
The woman, tight Tipped,
shrunken figure, whose neighbors in
Detroit's Hungarian Colony blame
tor all manner of evil and Witchery.
was held today on technical
charge of numbering Steve Max, 60
Mrs. Veres' eldest son, William,
10, also is held. Their arrests came
quickly after Mak's death in a
plunge from a ladder propped
against an attic window at the
woman's rooming house.
Four witnesses said Max appeared
to have been pushed or thrown
from the attic window. Mrs. Veres,
insisted he fell. She was the ben-
eficiary of his insurance policies.
Police are chiefly concerned with
the manner in which nine other
men, either husbands or roomers
of Mrs. Veres, met their deaths.
In evidence uncovered by George
w. Stutz. assistant prosecutor, II
was assertedly learned that Mrs.
Veres made bank deposits of $4,000
in the IL year period during which
the 10 died.
In the woman's untidy dwelling
investigators reported Selling more
than 80 insurance policies. Mrs,
Veres, referred TO by terrified
neighbor women as the witch of
Delray", was the beneficiary in
most of the policies.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
Lisbon Revolt
Is ShOrt-Lived

LISBON. Aug. 81. UP)-The gov
eminent of President Antonio OS-
car Camona appeared today to have
dominated a brief but bloody revolt
in the capital.
An official statement said the
revolt was quelled and order main
tanned throughout Portugal.
Loyal troops quickly routed the
revolutionists with infantry, artil-
lery, machine gun companies and
bombing airplanes.
Unofficial estimates placed the
dead at 40 and the wounded at
260. Prisoners numbered at $50,
including Col. Ultra Machado, for
mer minister of war.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
Wealthy Slayer
Will Go East

LOS ANGELES. Aug. 81. W.P)-
The date OF the return of Herman
w. Duker said to be member of
a prominent Baltimore family, to
stand trial there for the murder of
a milkman during holdup, drew
closer today.
At a city hospital where Duker
has been recuperating from gunshot
wounds suffered while trying to es-
cape arrest here, his condition was
reported greatly improved.
Detectives O'Dea and O'Grady of
Baltimore are at Catalina Island,
waiting t h e return of Duker' S
strength.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
FOUR MEXICAN
DEPUTIES GIVEN
PARTY CLUSTERS

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 81. U.P)-
Four deputies were expelled from
the National Revolutionary Party
today for alleged provocation in the
riot and shooting in the chamber
in which one deputy was killed and
two others wounded.
No arrests had been made in con-
nection with the shooting but police
were looking for the chauffeur of
Deputy Basurto Limon. The chauf-
feur was charged with firing one
of the seven bullets which caused
the death of Deputy Manuel Ruiz.
President Lozano of the chamber
issued a statement charging De-
putty Ladron de Gueyara with hav-
ing brought armed gangsters to the
chamber. The statement said that
Manuel Ruiz was also implicated.
Ruiz will be buried today.
SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug. 81. U.P)
Extra guards were placed in the
congress grounds today after a mob
of 1000 had entered the grounds
and attempted to force the doors
of the congress building.
Benches were overturned and de-
Stroyed and other property was
damaged.
Carabineers dispersed the mob,
whose leaders demanded that con-
gress be dissolved because 1t was
part of the regime OF former presi-
dent Carlos Ibanez.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
Stricken Judge
Reported Better

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 81. W.P-
Ben B. Lindsey, former judge of
the Denver Juvenile Court who has
been very Ill, was resting more
quietly today at Good Samaritan
hospital.
Following an ineXplicable attack
Of hiccoughs, Lindsey was weak last
night, but slept only fitfully.
His condition was described today
as reasonably good"
Lindsey underwent a second alb
dominal operation yesterday and
was later given a blood TRANSMISSION.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
FORMER KING
OF B0RAX DIES.
MINUS RICHES
Immense Fortune Dis
appears From Aged
Financier.

OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 81. U.P)-
"Borax" Smith died today a poo
man, his $200,000,O00 fortune dis.
sipated, his 81 800 900 mansion auc.
toned off, the Key System and thu
East Bay Water System, which hi
founded, no longer mis-.
Smith. whose initials were F.. M.
one time BoraX King of America
and East Bay utility magnate, dice
in hospital as a result of injuries
received three days ago when he
He was "a years old.
Suffering from a broken hip
complications set in and pneumonia
took his life. With him at the enc
was his wife, Mrs. Evelyn Eli:
Smith, who stood steadfastly by
him through the years that he bat
tied to regain his lost wealth ano
prestige.
He also leaves three daughters
and a son. One of the daughters
is Mrs. Walter Cole, San Mateo
whose husband, a prominent San
Francisco attorney, died month
ago.
1t was only year ago that
Smiths 81 100000 mansion in Arboi
Villa Road. Oakland, was auctioned
off. AS the years brought increas-
ing financial stringency, Smith Of
ten had said. If I only had youth
/ could come back. l see oppor-
tunities on all sides, but there Is
one bar. I am "a years old"
Smith. who forced the Borax de-
posits of Death Valley to yield him
two immense fortunes, tossed mil
lions into real estate developments
In Oakland and elsewhere through
out the East Bay.
Smith organized the Realty Syn
dictate in 1896, and in the follow
ing two decades it grew into the
5000 100000 United Properties COM
pany. When this crashed, the his
tory of Alameda county's develop
ment had been written in the
growth of the syndicate. Its finan-
cial collapse, however ruined Smith
almost overnight.
Staged Comeback
In "a hours Smith plunged from
the heights of the vests richest
man to its poorest. He was S24,
0OO, 900 in debt. and others had OBJ
tanned control of his Borax hold
ings.
Practically penniless, but with
spirit unbroken, Smith went again
into the desert seeking another b.
rax deposit. He found it, and fol
a time bid fair to recover his lost
fortune.
Then came a new disaster, ano
now too old to go into the desert
with pack on back seeking a new
fortune, he found himself broke.
Thirty years ago when the tide OF
fortune was at its full, he built Oak
Hall, with the idea of having it
dominate every other fine home in
Alameda county. 1t was larger,
more costly and more imposing than
any other mansion in the west. The
world was searched for beautiful
furnishings.
He became patron of the arts,
and Oak Hall, the scene of many
social functions, became a veritable
art gallery.
Everything in the mansion was
sold in September 1913, many ar
ticles going at but a fraction of
what they had cost, and his famous
collection OF paintings bringing on
ly $4,000.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
COAL PROCESSING
FIRM PROVES TO
Be LARGE STILL

PASSAIC, N. j., Aug. 81. (U.D ~
II the Anthracite Processing COM
pany had needed the motto OF Its
office door-"A moment of careless
ness may mean a lifetime Of regret"
it probably would be known today
as the coal brick manufacturing
company everybody thought 1t was.
But someone in the plant made
a misunderstanding tons OF alco-
holic mash through sewers empty
ing into the Passaic river.
The scent of the alcohol attract
ed II prohibition agents yesterday.
They found the sewer and traced 1t
to an old mill on the Passaic- Clifton
boundary.
Anthracite Processing Company"
read sign outside the plant. On
the office door hung the warning
placard. A thick layer of coal dust
Law over the entire works. outside
two trucks seemingly were loaded
with coal.
At the rear of the building was .
coal elevator. The agents rode TO
the top of the plant. There. lying
under thick layer of coal dust they
uncovered a still with a capacity o!
10000 gallons.
They found 10000 gallons Of mash
and valves for working the machine
cry secreted in inconspicuous places.
They found books, with all en-
tries In German. which indicated
the plant did a 100000 day busi-
ness. Evidence indicated the plant
had operated 6 year, with gross
income of sl8000.000
In the opinion OF the agents. coal
bricks we're produced at the plant
as a side line.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
mAMllL-.


BEVERLY HILLS, Aug. &c.
(SpeciaD - Everybody in Los
Angeles can die of the heat
but one lone man and he will
stagger to the typesetting ma
chine and report temperature
SO degrees" Their thermometer
is in frigidaire.
Sixty shots were fired In
Mexico's Congress while it was
in session and they were only
able to totally eliminate one
member and then people ask
whats the matter with Mex
icO?" After reading what tom
sis did for Estelle, Dempsey
will get his divorce.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
Gladys O'Donnell
First To Arrive

BARTLESVILLE, Okla, Aug. 81
U.P)-Gladys ODonnell led the ma
tional air race handicap pilots to
this night control stop this after
noon.
Miss O'Donnell, who moved into
fourth place at the Amarillo con-
troll, landed her speedy Waco plane
at 1873 p. m. She left Amarillo at
8 a. m. and arrived at Enid at 9:12-
:l8 a. m.
The flyers were aided by strong
tailwind.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
Tornado Ruins
Canadian Town

ESTEVAN, Sask., Aug. 81. U.P)-
Houses, barns and bridges today
blocked progress of hastily organic
ed group of workmen VINO sought
dead or injured in the ruins left
by a tornado which swept down
from the west last night.
One man was known to be dead
and others are believed to be buried
beneath the structures that were
crumpled by the high winds. AT
least two men were seriously injur-
ed.
Several other towns in this sec
ton of Saskatchewan were hit by
the tornado, but Esteyan appeared
TO be the center.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
BANK MESSENGER ROBBED

BURLINGTON, Mass, Aug. 81
UP)-Two highwaymen waylaid al
automobile carrying a bank treas
urer today and escaped with $4,000
The victim of the holdup was
George N. Harrigan, treasurer of the
Lowell Trust Co., of Lowell, who
was enroute from that city to a
Boston bank with a leather bag
containing $25 200.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
BANDIT SUSPECT SLAIN

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 81. (uP)-
Robert O'Donnell, burglary suspect
was dead today, shot by police as
he tried to escape arrest. O'Donnell
quit his car in Hollywood after a
three-mile auto chase and was kill
ed when he tried to flee on foot
after police had shouted to him to
halt.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27
five DEAD
IN PRISON
OUTBREAK
Four Michigan Convicts
End Lives AS Liberty
Dash Fails
SHOOT PHYSICIAN
Officials Quell Revolt At
ter Desperate Figh t
With Prisoners.

MARQUETTE. Mich, Aug. 81
U.P)-Staking their lives on 6
chance at freedom. four desperate
prisoners today tried to shoot theil
way out of Marquette prison, killed
one man, wounded two and then
when surrounded and faced witt
capture, ended their oun lives.
Within two hours of the start OF
fighting, quiet was restored ano
prison officials said there was ne
danger Of a concerted outbreak. Al
investigation was started immedi.
ately.
The dead:
DR.. A. w. Hornbogen, Marquette
physician and former president OF
the Michigan Medical association.
Andre Germano, Detroit, convicted
Of numbering a policeman.
Frank Hohfer, Detroit, serving q
long sentence on kidnapping
charge.
Charles Rosenberg, Detroit, SEN
fenced for armed robbery.
Leo Duver. Chicago. sentenced
from Detroit for robbery.
Frank Allieslager. Detroit, q
trusty, was shot through the abdo-
men. His wound may prove fatal
Joe Cowling, guard, was shot
through the leg.
George Hurley, prison fingerprint
expert. first reported killed in the
fighting, later was found not tc
have been wounded.
MARQUETTE. Mich, Aug. 81
U.P) - Two prison officials and at
least four prisoners were reported
dead as the result of an armed out
break in the state prison today.
The known dead are DR.. A. w
Hornbogen, acting prison surgeon
and fingerprint expert. George
Hurley.
They were shot by three armed
convicts when rioting broke out in
the prison hospital.
Prison authorities summoned all
available assistance from the Mar
uuette area and state police and
municipal police with reserve forces
from Ishpeming joined in suppress
ing the outbreak, pouring shots in
TO the barricade erected by the re-
Voting prisoners
The dead prisoners are Andrew
Germano. kidnaper and murderer
serving IS to so years from Detroit,
Charles Rosbury, serving 90 TO 40
years from Detroit; Martin DIVER
Chicago bandit, sentenced from De-
troit and another unnamed yet by
prison officials.
The convicts appeared at the
prison hospital at a. m. today say
ing they were i'll. When DR.. Horn
bogen started to examine them
they drew pistols and started fir
ing, it was said. DR.. Hornbogen
dropped.
Leo Boiler and Frank Allieslag-
er. trustees. ran to the defense of
the surgeon, using their fists against
the armed convicts. Both were SER
iously wounded. Allieslager was
expected to die.
Guard Joseph Cowling then OPP
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1931-08-27

and operate them.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 81. {U.p)
An agreement between Fox West
Coast theaters and United Artists
today ended the war" between the
film concerns which led United Ar
lists to construct theaters in various
cities to compete with Fox.
Lou Anger, representing Joseph
M. Schenck, of United Artists, con-
firmed the agreement between the
two companies at his hotel here.
Healing of the breach will not,
however, mean any change in the
showing of United Artists pictures
at their own theaters," he said. But
in those cities where the United
Artists have no theaters, their pic
lures will be shown in the Fox West
Coast houses"
The United Artists charged last
November that the Fox company
was an arrogant monopoly sitting
endeavors of the theaters, other Ar
lists and producers.
This charge was made in a state
ment over the signatures of Charles
Chaplin, Norma Talmadge. Eddie
Cantor, Ronald Colman, Mary Pick
ford, Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria
Swanson, AL Jolson, Samuel Gold
wynn and D. w. Griffith.
endeavors of the theaters, other ar
the group organized a chain of thea
tiers Of its own.
Just what effect the above de-
cision will have on the building Of
the United Artists Theatre here, the
Press was unable to learn today.
A permit for the building was
issued last week and the city en-
gineer's office advised that it had
not been notified of any change in
plans.
Workmen at the site of the pro-
posed theatre were unaware of
any change in the Fox-United Ar
lists relations.
Work on the construction has
moved slowly, though considerable
equipment has been placed on the
lot.
Manager Norris, of Fox Imperial
Theatre, is on his vacation and in
formation regarding the agreement
could not be obtained from this
source.