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Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
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GANG LEADER IN
LOS ANGELES IS
SHOT TO DEATH

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 90. U.P) -
Ambushed as he stepped from his
automobile in the garage of his
home, Marvin Hart, said by police
to be big shot" gangster, rum
runner and hoodlum, was shot to
death last night by two unidenti-
fled assailants.
The killers escaped after an eight
block running gun battle with two
officers In radio patrol car, who
were attracted by the firing. The
Officers car skidded and the slay-
ers escaped.
Officers said Hart was known as
one of the "big shot" bootleggers
and gangsters Of Los Angeles, and
said he came here in 1926 from Chi
cago, where he was a lieutenant OF
George Bugs" Moran.
Police learned that Hart and his
brother, Lee, engaged in q heated
argument Monday night with other
asserted gangsters over bootleg IL
quor. They said that Hart, who is
said to have been selling between
100 and 200 gallons of alcohol a
day, wanted to pull away from the
others of the mob" and engage In
the racket" on his own.
Hart was constantly in trouble
with authorities. He was once ar
rested in July. 1890, with Frankie
Foster, notorious Chicago gangster
when Foster was held in connection
with the murder of Jake Lingle
Chicago reporter.
Underworld gossip credited Hart
with putting the finger on Foster
for the Lingle killing, and with hay
ing implicated others in the kid
naping of Zeke CareSs in Long
Beach, Calf These affairs may
have played a part in his murder
police said
In addition to bootlegging and IL
quor activities, police said Hart was
mixed up in the present cleaning
and dyeing troubles in Los Angeles
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
OFFICER CLAIMS
ABANDONED BABY
AS HIS CHILD

LOS ANGELES, Dec. %. UP
Casual reading of newspaper to-
day had led Deputy Sheriff A. c.
Myton of Martinez, Cal. TO claim
an abandoned baby as his own, ac-
cording to police.
Myton was here in search of his
wife, who left home. an expectant
mother, five weeks ago.
After fruitless day he was
reading a paper. when he saw a
story" and photograph OF an aban-
doned infant.
He rushed TO the office of Mrs.
Claudia Proffitt. superintendent of
policewomen. II don't know why
I think So" he told her. But I
believe that's my baby"
He was shown the blanket in
which the child was wrapped, and
identified it as the one missing
from his automobile at the time of
his wife's disappearance.
He will be given the child, and
has resumed the search for his
wife, whose departure from home
followed nervous illness.
The child was found on a door
step Monday morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
FEDERAL AGENTS
STAGE RAIDS ON
LIQUOR DEALERS

CONSERVATION, spreading from
group to group, held Imperial VAL
ley bootleggers and illegal liquor
dealers late yesterday afternoon and
last night as a group of federal
prohibition agents swept over the
county, arresting seven alleged Ii
quor law offenders.
The agents, sent here from Los
Angeles, procured search warrants
after only three days in the valley.
Dealers in Christmas cheer in the
vicinity of Brawley and FL Centre
were most hard hit, with three be-
ing arrested in each town Holt
vile contributed one to the roundup.
Other parts of the county were
visited, but the searchers found
nothing in the suspected areas.
What quantity of liquor was confis-
Gated could not be learned today
It is probable the prisoners will
be taken before justice courts in e
Centre, Brawley and Holtville today
for arraignment on charges of pos
session and sale of liquor.
Arrested in El Centro last night
were Toichi Nichi, 30, Juan Rodri-
guez, 80, and Callatano Gonzales,
38. From Brawley came Jesus Sc
pulveda, "a, Mercedes B. Lee, 40,
and Salvatore Garcia, 49, Jose
Rodriguez, AZ, was arrested in Holt
vile.
Confiscated liquor was mostly
home brew, saki and wine, with
small amount of whisky mixed into
the cocktail.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23

HO0VER'S
PROGRAM
Senate Passes MOratO-
rum Resolution After
Heated Session.
CONGRESS ADJOURNS
Recess Taken By Mem
bers Of Both Houses
Over Holiday Period.
BY LYLE {. WILSON
nited Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. %. W.P.-
The 1882, 100000 Hoover war debt
and reparations moratorium Is for
mally in effect today, with the con-
sent and ratification of congress.
The vote in the senate was 69-l2.
The senate completed ratification
late last night after an angry IL
hour session. Senators then voted
themselves and the house Of repre-
sentativeS a Christmas holiday un-
til January 4
The ratified moratorium resolu-
ton contained a reservation ex-
pressing congressional policy TO be
against cancellation or reduction OF
war debts owed the United States.
AS several senators remarked, this
reservation is scrap of paper.
because one congress had not, the
| power to bind another with respect
| to policy. @f
The moratorium had been rati-
| fled by the house some days earlier.
Speaker Garner, Majority Leader
Rainey and a few others stood by
during the hours of senate debate
to go through the motions of re-
! ceiving from the senate the Christ
mas vacation resolution, and for
| Garner to sign the moratorium res
olution. At HOS last night con-
gress was in holiday recess.
Oratorically speaking, it was (, q
bad day for Mr.. Hoover. --s ES
Senator Johnson, Repn., Calf.
said the President planned debt
cancellation or reduction, and that
he had violated constitutional pro-
| cedure in obtaining telegraphic ap-
| proval of the moratorium from con-
! gressmen.
Senator Blaine, Repn., Wis, deS-
cribed Mr.. Hoover as one who
forgetS he is not managing coal
mines in China"
| Amendments Offered
/ A series of amendments were Off
| cred to make the moratorium con-
! ditional on revision OF the Versailles
treaty, on American repudiation Of
the Allied thesis that Germany was
solely responsible for the war, and
on returning to Germany her lost
colonies. Nye offered rider to
extend years moratorium to bor-
rowers from federal farm land
! banks. Senator Gore, DEM, Okla,
wanted an 30 per cent moratorium
and would have devoted the 20 per
cent of payments received-approx-
imately S50,000 00o-to winter relief
Of the unemployed
A determined senate majority
knocked over those proposals rapid
ly until they encountered Nye's
proposal. 1t is difficult to vote
against aiding distressed agricul-
ture. Many senator's explained why
they voted against the amendment,
although they yielded to no man In
the intensity of their love for the
farmer. But Nye was voted down,
| so to Is.
Senator Cutting, Repn., N. NJ.
| sharply denounced the whole debt
and reparations structure. He said
the moratorium was the opening
wedge" TO destruction of the Yer
| sailleS treaty, the Dawes and Young
plans and the debt structure, and
| added, that is one reason am GO
ing to vote for it,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
Child Is Saved
BY InhalatOr

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 90. U.1 -
Two tired men rested here today,
happy in the knowledge that they
were credited with saving the life
of Carmelito Marino, 7, who was
seriously i'll from lobar pneumonia.
Stricken i'll five days ago,
7-year-old Carmelito Marino was
given up by physicians.
Hearing Of the case, Capt. Tom
Mason of the sheriffs office got
his friend, r. A. Combs of the fire
department, and the two went to
work with an inhalator. They
worked in three-hour shifts for
five days and nights, pouring oxy-
gen into the small crippled lungs.
The child was pronounced out of
danger today.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
kidnapping Hunt
Turns Eastward

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec. %. U.P)
Search for two men said by po-
lice to be the perpetrators of the
scheme to kidnap Mrs. Nell Quin-
Ian Donnelly, millionaire garment
maker. turned eastward today.
Police said the men, one a steam
shovel operator and the other an
Italian, had left here when clues
became too hot"
The steam shovel operator, Mar
tin Dewpew, was said by police to
have left with his wife on a bus
for ST. Louis. A picture of him
was identified by Mrs. Donnelly as
the man who forced her into
the kidnaper's automobile.
Her identification of the man
was supported by William Lucy
Browning, AZ, farmer, one Of two
men held by police without bond.
The other man is Paul Scheidt, %,
farmer Of Bonner Springs, Kansas.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
BRIDGE CONTEST
WILL MOVE INTO
SWANKY HOTEL
By II. ALLEN SMITH
United Press Staff Correspondent

Onlpt0 fTtSS StdII correspondent
NEW YORK, Dec. %. UP)-The
great Culbertson LenZ contract
bridge match will grow quite lap
doggy tonight when it is moved
into the new Waldorf-Astoria with
the Culbertsons leading by l0,705
points.
Sidney Lenz, who will be host to
the players from now on, let it be
known today that he won't stand
for any "dog-goned monkey bus
mess from Ely Culbertson now
that he is running things.
Further, Lenz said, "therell be no
fancy ceremonies tonight before we
get started. Well walk in there,
sit down and play bridge. If Ely
wants a brass band he can find it
someplace else"
Both Lenz and Oswald Jacoby
felt slightly more enthusiastic after
last nights session of play, in which
they managed to stem the attack
Of Culbertson and Theodore a.
Lightner, and even to reduce Gull
|bertson's impressive lead by Ais
points
The evening was fairly devoid oi
thrills for the boys were playing
straight bridge. Psychic bidding hit
new low and, even though Gull
bertson and Lightner managed to
boost their lead at one stage to
1880 points, Lenz and Jacoby
played their cards close to their
shirt fronts and captured the eve
ning's honorS.
The CulbertSon team won the
first three rubbers handily despite
set of 900 administered to Cul-
bertson on a pre-empting 5-dia-
mond bid-the heaviest set the Gull
bertson team has taken in the IS
rubbers played. Early in the fourth
rubber Lenz cut the lead some
what with slam In clubs, but a
set of 3 on a no trump bid, vul-
nerable but undoubled, and a set
OF one on four spade bid, both
administered by the Culbertson
team to the Lenz team, boosted the
margin to 1890.
Lenz and Jacoby, however, won
that rubber and the next, slicing
nearly a thousand points off the
lead. Then Lenz ran into trouble
on diamond bid, doubled, and
was set three, unvulnerable, put
ting the margin back above 10000
Lightner promptly went down
three on 3 no trump bid, un-
doubled and unvulnerable, and the
score was back to 1895.
Finally, with the score at II 1863
and both teams vulnerable, a hand
dealt by Jacoby was bid as follows
Jacoby bid a spade, Culbertson,
nursing wounds from those two sets
of four few minutes earlier
looked over his powerful hand and
made a "phychic pass" waiting to
see whether he could trap the Off
cial system team into an overbid
Lenz passed and Lightner said two
clubs as easily. Either would have
meant game and rubber had it
been bid.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
JAILED BOOTLEGGER MAKES
UNIQUE PLEA FOR CHILDREN

MUSkOGEE, Okla, Dec. %.
U.R)--An Indian bootlegger sat
in Jail here today and ran his
fingers through his thick black
hair as he wondered if his ap-
peal TO his friends and custO-
mers" would be needed.
NJ. NJ. Kid, known as n big
hearted bootlegger," sent a let
ter TO n newspaper. II was ad-
dressed TO his friends and GUS
TONERS" and asked that they
"see that my three children
have real Christmas"
He said his friends and Gus
toners we're scattered over
large territory and that he used
the columns of a newspaper "in
hopes Of reaching them ALL"
Kidd reminded them In the
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
ENTIRE FAMILY
WIPED OUT WHEN
TRAIN HITS CAR

SAN MATEO, Dec, %. (UH = A
train speeding 60 miles an hour to
make up time and an automobile
driver apparently blinded by rain
were believed responsible today for
a crossing collision i'll which five
persons were killed.
The automobile was struck late
last night at grade near the city
by the second section of the South
ern Pacific's daylight limited and
was carried nearly three blocks.
The victims, all of whom were
killed instantly, were Victor Con
zales. 40, his wife, Julia Gonzales,
50, their two children, Ramona, II,
and George, 9, and Mrs. B. Bruzzo,
35. All lived in San Mateo.
Engineer E. B. Whitehead and
Fireman E. A. Duncanson said their
train was As minutes late and they
were attempting to reach San Fran
cisco on schedule
II was raining heavily when the
automobile, driven by Gonzales, ran
upon the tracks. Police believed the
rain may have obScured Gonzales
vision, as there was evidence that
none of the occupants was aware
of danger.
Giovanni Comicia, the gateman,
said he lowered the gates when he
heard the train approaching. Police
who inspected the gates afterward
claimed neither bar was damaged,
leading them to believe they may
not have been lowered because OF
defect.
At the Gonzales home authorities
found lighted fireplace illuminat-
ing a Christmas tree around which
presents had been placed.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
CHARGES
MADE
MEETING
Irrigation District Board
Session Turns Into Live
ly Affair.
LIMITED TO WORDS
Claims Of Sabotage And
'BlackmaiP Hurled Dur
! ing Disputes.

Pre-holiday masks of affability
disappeared suddenly in an ad-
Journed meeting Of the irrigation
district board this morning and di-
rectors exchanged blazing compli-
ments containing such dangerous
words as "blackmail", sabotage"
and the like.
The vocal boMosrdment followed
Mark Roses motion that the Cali
fornia Districts Securities comlnis-
sion be asked to submit to the board
the list OF names attached to pc
titions presented to tn a I body
Monday by opponents to the ALL
American Canal contract In order
that names might be checked with
tax rolls of the district.
BE certain to get in the reason
for the request" said Chairman c.
w. Brockman.
Il am going TO vote against the
motion" said Director F.. F. Beal.
because some people refused to
sign our petitions because they said
they would get the dirty end Of
the deal If the fact became known.
I am convinced their fears were
unfounded. Signers have right
to keep their names from being
kicked around in public. There is
no reason for them to be ashamed
but there are reports OF sabotage
in the north end"
Brockman then said that he knew
the names were being procured
for purposes of "blackmail'.
List Mentioned
During the discussion Brockman
said he at one time had seen a
list of names with red-pencil checks
which he said had something TO
do with blackmail. Rose wanted to
know all about the list but the
chairman refused to make furth-
er statement concerning 1t.
Rose and Aten resented the state
ment and said the board never had
engaged in such tactics and never
would as long as they were mem
bers I'VE do not approve of dis
elimination" they said during the
heated discussion. the names on
our petitions are public property
and anyone may have a list OF
them
Yes. and you can have a list Of
the names OH our petitions as far
as I am concerned said Beal.
Another heated discussion W a S
called forth by mention of the
amounts paid circulators of petit
tions favoring the canal contract.
I'VE didn't know the opposition
was going TO circulate petitions and
the people of the valley came to
our rescue when we decided TO start
ours. We could not expect the
people TO leave their plow handles
without some payment" said Aten
after Beal said he was going to
vote against the payment of the
bill. The vote stood. Brockman
and Beal opposed and Rose, Aten
and Blair favorable.
A laughable mix-up in votes took
place when Beal moved that the
Brockman-W. o. Blair recall petit
tions be taken off the table. The
motion threatened to be lost for
want of second so Brockman
asked Aten to take the chair in
order that he might voice a second.
When the roll was called, Brock
man was so accustomed to voting
yes and Aten SO accustomed to vot-
ing no that the two momentarily
changed places, the mistakes being
hastily corrected in both instances.
The meeting closed after the two
factions accused each other of lack
of courtesy and exchanged appar-
emily perfectly friendly Christmas
greetings,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
FOUR LIVES LOST
in COLLAPSE OF
VATICAN LIBRARY

VATICAN CITY. Dec. %. U.P)-
The bodies OF an artist and three
workmen had been recovered and
one missing workman was believed
TO have been killed in ruins OF the
Vatican library right wing in which
is the private office of Pope
Plus XI.
The roof and two floors of the
wing collapsed late yesterday.
The four walls of the wing, built
by Pope Sixtus V in 1888, remained
standing, preventing destruction of
many valuable objects. Workmen
were repairing the building when
the wing collapsed.
While searchlights played on the
debris 20 feet deep, faint cry
led rescuers to the spot where
Prof. Carlo Vattaso, a painter. was
buried. He was standing on a
Scaffold retouching a fresco when
the roof fell. Vattaso was alive but
died soon after removal to the
hospital.
A letter written by Martin
Luther replying to the warning of
Pope Leo X was recovered by
workmen. They were forced to go
slowly in removing the debris lest
they destroy some part of the Ii
brary treasury not totally ruined.
An accurate check of the persons
in the library when the wing col
lapsed was difficult, as the crash
occurred at dusk a few minutes
after most of the attendants had
finished their days work.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
WEDDING DEFERRED

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. %. U.p) -
Business comes before love for
jeanette Macdonald, motion picture
actress she revealed today in an
nouncing that plans for her we'd
ding to Robert Ritchie, her business
manager, were to be held in abey-
ance. Their engagement was an
nounced some time ago, but. con-
tracts made the wedding date in
definite. at least until a concert
tour abroad, she said today.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
Another Local
Home Robbed

BY the time honored method of
cutting the screen from a rear
window, a burglar last night enter
ed the house of j. Panjoyan at 203
Wilson avenue, ransacking h e
house thoroughly and finding only
$l.50
Going through the entire house,
the burglar or burglars passed up
clothing and other articles. Where
it had been deposited under a mat
tress they found the small amour:
OF cash.
Luckily, Mrs. Panjoyan was wear
ing her expensive jewelry at the
time of the burglary. Police be-
lieved it was this for which the
burglars were searching.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23

letter that when they asked for
credit that it was always good
and that TO keep il good they
should give his children "some
Santa Claus"
A recipe for keeping out of the
penitentiary was promised the
thieves who stole liquor from
me- If they "can find enough
homer to sell some of il to buy
presents for my kiddies."
He also asked those who
"hung around my joint and
mopped up liquor free" TO con-
tribute.
Kidd said he did not mind so
much being In Jail himself at
Christmas time, but that he
did not want his children to
miss Santa Claus,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
Post Victim OF
Hit-Run' Auto

That part of Holtville represent
ed by d. A. Hibbner is up in arms
today over what is reported In the
Sheriff's office as a hit and run
case, when an unidentified man
IN maroon colored sedan struck
L post in front of Hibbner's store
Hibbner, in reporting to the sher-
ifs office last night, asked that
he car be stopped and the man
leld. The front end Of the car
was badly damaged, he said.
The store proprietor did not say
whether he would demand that tha
post be replaced. The post was
broken off near the ground from
he force of the crash.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
M'LEAN CHILD'S
SLAYER ELUDES
EXTENSIVE HUNT
Cincinnati Aroused Over
Brutal Crime Which
Cost Life OF YOungster.

CINCINNATI, o.. Dec. %. U.Pl-
A far-flung search into every quar-
ter of the city followed today the
discovery of the body of Marian
Mclean, aged 6. who was kid
naped and murdered as she JOY
ously awaited the arrival OF Santa
Claus.
The search, co-oroinating re-
sources of police and fire depart
ment, yielded two arrests of sus-
poets who were questioned.
The childs body was found In
the cellar OF a tenement house
yesterday morning. five days after
she disappeared in company with
a dark looking" stranger. her sus-
pected murderer. She had been
criminally attacked. These attacks
and loss of blood caused her death,
in the opinion of DR.. J. M. Patter-
son, deputy coroner.
The department: o. safety has
flung every resource into the search.
More than $50 firemen and police
men Systematically searched the
neighborhood near the tenement
which was less than 100 feet from
the spot where Marian and the
stranger last were seen. The quest
yielding few clues was extended to
a general manhunt OF the city.
Chief object of seach was for the
prison chamber where the pretty
fair-haired child had been held
captive. Death occurred, the
assistant coroner reported, less
than IS hours before the body was
found. The body had been carried
10 the tenement basement from
some place presumably in the
neighborhood, police said.
PHOENIX. Ariz., Dec. %. U.p)--
Although without word from Gin
cinnati authorities or his wife,
Joseph Mclean will board an
American Airlines plane today and
fly to the Ohio city where his
6-year- old daughter, Marian, was
murdered.
When first informed that the
body of his child had been found
Mclean broke down and mumbled
between sobs, Marian Is dead"
Today he had recovered some
what and said he was glad he was
going back to find the fiend who
killed his daughter. Then ht
added, but I sort of hate TO go
1t seems Marion is still like this.
and he exhibited a worn snapshot
OF laughing child.
Asked concerning messages from
the east, Mclean said he hadn't
heard a thing since Marian was
kidnapped and that the asst letter
from his wife was dated Novem-
Der II.
Mclean hitchhiked into Arizona
Is months ago. Unable to obtain
a regular job, he has worked for
months for board and room. Being
pennileSs, at first he planned to
ride the blinds" home but
"friendS" arranged the airplane
transportation.
Today it was disclosed the
friends" were officials of the air
plane company.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
NO ELKS MEETING

There will be no meeting of the
ElkS lodge tomorrow night, accord
ing to announcement made today.
Christmas baskets will be dis
tributed tomorrow and the annual
Elks show for the youngsters will
be held Friday morning, December
25, at 10 O'Clock, in the Fox I'M
perial theatre.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
Good Weather
For Christmas

Prospects for pleasant Christmas
weather, according to present indi-
cations, are bright, F. A. Baugh-
man of the United States weather
bureau, stated this morning.
The weather will be somewhat
cooler than it has been for the
past few days, but there is no i'm
mediate prospect of rain.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
inland Resident
Dies In Hospital

Rube Kelley, 50-year-old colored
resident of inland, died this morn
ing in a local hospital following 8
brief illness. He made his homB
in the county more than four yesfs
and is survived by three children.
Funeral arrangements have not
been made as yet. In the mssn-
time the body is at Arnold'g nm
eral home in Ell Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-23
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Sunday school party, 1880, st.
PaulS church.
Sunday school party, 1880,
Christian church.
Moose party, 8, Moose home.
Oasis lodge, +. and A. NJ,
1880, Masonic Temple.
Eagles, 8, 500 Broadway.
Troop 3, B.S.A., I, Scout hut.
Fox Imperial Theatre, Safe
In HelI".
TOMORROW
Rotary club, Barbara Worth.