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Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
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MEASURE:
DELAYED
Assembly Defers Action
On Disputed Bill For
Another Week
VETS LOSE BATTLE
Attempt To Kill Wright
Act Is Rejected In Com
mittee
BY HOMER L. ROBERTS
United Press Staff Correspondent


SACRAMENTO, April 9. U.R)-
Still dodging showdown on the
amended Mckinley bill for assem-
bly, reapportionment, the lower
house today put off consideration
of the final vote for another week
At the same time the retaliatory
measure on congressional reappor-
tionment offered by Speaker Ed
gar c. Levey, San Francisco, was
reported out of the assembly COM
mittee with a favorable recon-
mendation.
Postponement of the Mckinley
bill was adopted by vote of 40 to
SO on motion of Assemblyman Harry
Sewell, Whittier, and seconded by
Assemblyman Milton Golden, Hol-
lywood
1t marked the third time that the
Mckinley bill, amended to contain
the provisions of the assembly bill
by Edward Craig, Brea, had been
refused consideration.
The delay. according to spokes-
men of both sides in the reappor-
tionment battle, was to permit suf-
ficient time for the Mckinley con-
gressional reapportionment bill to
come from the state senate.
The original Mckinley bill pro-
vided 30 assemblymen for Los An
geles county. Amended by the
assembly, the measure now provides
81 assemblymen for Los Angeles.
Prohibition, which strutted its
hour upon the legislative stage last
night, was dead issue today.
Measures repeating the Wright act,
Californias enforcement law, and
calling for a statewide referendum
on prohibition were killed in COM
mittee by vote of to l.
The senate public morals commit
tee sidestepped the prohibition
question after a public hearing at
which a galaxy of brilliant speak
ers appeared for and against the
anti-dry law bills.
Among the speakers in behalf of
the proposed referendum and repeal
Of the Wright act were Peter B.
Kyne, novelist; f. Clemens Horst,
San Francisco hop raiser; Senator
TimoUhy Treacy, San Francisco;
Mrs. Mary Ashe Miller, state secre-
.ary of the womens organization for
national prohibition reform; Mrs.
w. A. Brandeburger, Sacramento
club woman, and Assemblyman Will
liam Hornblower, San Francisco.
Two bills providing for establish
ment of four-year state colleges i'll
Sacramento and Fresno were to be
considered jointly in the assembly
as special order of business this
afternoon.
The measures we're introduced by
Assemblymen Jerrold Seawell, Rose
vile, and Lucious Powers, Fresno.
Although proponents of the college
bills are freely predicting favorable
action, the fate of. the two meas
ures appears to be tied up with the
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Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
DRUG PEDDLER.
CHARGED WITH
GORDON SLAYINC

NEW YORK, April 9. U.R)-Har-
ry Stein, 80, known to police as a
Broadway racketeer, dope peddler
and petty thief, was charged today
with the murder of Vivian Gordon.
The charges were placed against
him after police had thoroughly
questioned him on the strange slay-
ing of the red-haired woman who
apparently made a lucrative living
by preying on wealthy men at the
edge of the underworld.
Stein and three other men were
arrested last night and questioned
all night long. Finally this morn
ing police announced that the for
NAL charge of murder had been
placed against Stein and that the
three other men were held as ma
terial witnesses.
Robbery was the motive of the
Staying, police said.
The names of the three material
witnesses were given out by police
simply as Greenberg, Butterman
and Levine. With Stein they were
taken today to the police lineup to
be scrutinized by detectives.
Detectives said that during ques-
tioning, Stein made many damaging
admissions.
His effort to pawn $500 diamond
studded watch which was missing
from the dead woman's body led to
his arrest and the formal charge of
murder, police said.
Stein was seen entering an auto
mobile with Miss Gordon the night
she was killed, detectives said.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
CAREER OF LONGWORTH MARKED
BY ABILITY AND FRIENDLINESS

rendition of Down Where the
Wurzburger Flows"
Early in his congressional career
Longworth formed that unique
friendship with the man who is now
leader Of the Democratic side in the
house and who will be speaker If
the Democrats take control, Repre-
sentative John N. Garner of Texas,
an old fashioned, blunt spoken,
rough cornered plainsman. as com.
plete a contrast with Longworth in
his careless personal appearance
and background as could be found
in the house.
Their joking about the automo-
bile furnished the speaker has be-
come classic. Garner. because of
the even division of the house, has
called it "our car" In fact he rode
in it about as much as Longworth
because they were together SO
much.
Nicholas Longworth was perhaps
the foremost present day example
of how man born with a golden
spoon in his mouth can be states
man and good fellow to everyone.
His bittereSt political enemies were
among his best personal friends"
He made politics his life work,
and starting as precinct worker
in Cincinnati, he rose to the speak
ership of the house of representa-
tive-a place held by many to be
the second most powerful in the
federal government
Longworth was stalwart reg
Continued on page %
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
ILLNESS FATAL TO NICHOLAS L0NGW0RTH
R Final Showdown On Reapportionment Postpone,
ROGERS MAKES PLEA TO AID
NICARAGUAN QUAKE VICTIMS

are ragged, but honest If you
saw 1t you would dig again. I
have finally found somebody
poorer than a southern cotton
renter farmer. Our government
can't make the loan for food,
at least 1t wouldn't for our own,
SO 1t just falls where everything
else does, on the generous and
goodness of the American peo-
pie.
If you saw as did this MORN
ing, $500 mothers with babies in
their arms go by and get their
ration of milk you would say
there was some poor devil that
needed 1t worse than you do. We
promised to get the marines out
of here by June 1, and IL VIC
could get this sum and get
things Strengthened out we can
keep our promise, but we can't
leave 'em In this shape
Now, whether you believe the
marines should be here or not,
they have been gOdsend dur
ing the last week. They have
done some heroic work, but per-
sonally I don't think it's worth
leaving 'em down here just for
the sake of another earthquake.
We may dig a canal here some
day but we don't have to guard
the place we are going to dig it.
Nobody is going to sneak in and
dig it while we are away.
Send your donations to Mana
qua, Nicaragua, to American
Red Cross, in care of American
Minister Hanna. It's worth all
that just to get our boys back
home. Two were saved today
by a parachute jump, patrolling
a terrible country. Let's help
put 'em on their feet, call it a
day and all 60 home and tend
to our own business.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09

WASHINGTON, April 8. U.p)
The happiness, honesty and
courage of Nicholas Longworth
were praised today i'm a state
mcnt issued by President Hoov-
err soon after he received news
of L6ngworth's death.
The passing Of the prominent
OhiOan is loss to the nation,
Mr.. Hoover said.
The Presidents statement fol-
lows:
"Mr. Longworth served his
fellow w-countrymen in state and
nation for over 33 years-near-
~ the whole of his adult life.
In his service he contributed
greatly to the welfare of the
American people.
"His happy character, his
sterling honesty. his courage in
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Mooseheart chicken dinner,
Moose home.
Arts and crafts, 1880, a6o San
dalwood.
Revival services, 1880, Naza-
arcne and Foursquare Gospel
churches.
Masonic club, 7, Barbara
Worth hotel.
Night school, TO, high school.
B. r. o. 4. No. 1925, 8, Eiks'
hall.
r. A.. NJ. No. 1O9, s, Masonic
temple.
Pythian Sisters, 8, Davis hall.
Troop IL. B. S. A., 1880, Scout
hut.
Phi Chi, $3.50.
Citizenship class. I, high school.
Fox Imperial theatre, "Cimar-
ron."
TOMORROW
Kiwanis club, Barbara Worth
hotel.
Flower show, 1880, Hoitville
civic center.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
LONGWORTH'S CHARACTER GETS
HIGH PRAISE FROM PRESIDENT

public questions, endeared him
and held the respect not alone
of his myriad of friends but of
the country at large.
"His passing is a loss to the
nation"
The President also sent
personal telegram of coincidence
to Mrs. Longworth and within
half an hour he had dispatched
his military aide to Aiken by
airplane to assist her.
Word of Longworth's death
spread quickly on Capitol Hill.
In Is minutes all flags were at
half staff. Word was flashed
to LongwOrth's office from the
White House. Friends and as
sociates of the speaker had been
calling constantly there as well
as at newspaper offices.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
BY United Press

Speaker LongWorth's death oc-
Cured far from the scenes OF his
political and social triumphs.
His triumphs were those of a per-
sonality which cut through the fact
that he was a son-in-law of the
! dynamic Theodore Roosevelt, the
husband of the glamorous Alice
Roosevelt, a rich mans son, an cpl
cure. fond of spats, an artist on the
violin. piano and pipe organ, in ap-
pearance a natty clubman type, in
taste almost a dilettante-the whole
load enough to blight the average
political career.
Yet he fought his way up in a
| mans game where the rough and
tumble goes to the strongest and
quickest. He not only won the
speakership but promptly made it
again by force of his personality
much the same powerful office it
was in the days of Reed and Cam
non. though without the aid of the
old time rules which made their
czardom easier.
Had Longworth been a more SON.
bre character, this achievement
would have been most prominently
linked with him. But the good fel-
low in him. the playboy singing,
telling stories, playing the organ
and the piano in the drawing rooms
of Washington, the endless anec-
dotes-these so fascinated the capi-
tai by their contrast with the dull,
ignorant, witless run of hack poll
ticians that Longworth probably
will have to wait for historians to
fix his rank as parliamentary
| figure.
In the elections last November
Longworth had his troubles in the
first Ohio district and like some
| other Republican leaders OF con-
gress he came through. but without
the customary comfortable margin.
But his personal popularity con-
stantly increased.
Longworth had behind him as a
Cincinnati youth the tradition of
wealth. He was graduated from
Harvard University. attended Har-
ward law school for year and was
BIduudJtu ilOiIl tllC SlllClIllldbl law
school In 1894. -Four years later he
became member of the Cincin-
natl school board. He arrived in
the United States House of Repre-
sentatives by way of brief service In
the Ohio house and senate.
On February II, 1905. Longworth
was married at the White House to
Alice Lee Roosevelt, daughter of
the president. II was glamorous
occasion for the whole nation. They
went honeymooning with the good
wishes of a nation among their
gifts, which included costly trinkets
from crowned heads the world
over.
Democratic Personality
Since that day they have been
Nick and Alice" to the American
people and they were a combina-
ton which figured largely in the
life of the nation and the capital
Persons who met him for the first
time often to their delight and
.amazement were listening before
the end of the evening to the speak
er's classical piano repertoire or,
more amazing perhaps. to his vocal
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
FAKES ADMITTED
BY MEDIUM WHO
CONVINCEDD

NEW YORK, April 9. U.H - The
man who was instrumental in con-
verting Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to
spiritualism abandoned the business
of being a medium today, con-
fessed he was a faker and threat
ened to become cement salesman
so he could make decent living.
When Nino Pecoraro decided a few
days ago that there was a perman-
ent depression in the ghost busi-
ness, he went to Joseph Dunninger,
magician employed by the mag
azine Science and Invention to eX-
post fake mediums, wept on Dun
ninger's shoulder and told him this
idea of being a medium was all a
mistake. Last night Dunninger
summoned members of the press
and spoke as follows:
This gentleman is Nino Pecoraro,
whom l consider one of the three
best mediums in the world. Eleven
years ago he confirmed tn belief of
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in spirit
ualism by producing during a Sc
ance what was purpOrted 10 DC. tne
spirit of Sir Arthur'S dead son.
Subsequently, Sir Arthur wrote an
essay in which he said Mr.. Pecoraro
was the greatest medium he had
ever seen. Tonight, Mr.. Pecoraro
wishes to recant."
Mr.. Pecorora began recanting.
Sir Arthur, Pecoraro said, was ready
to believe in spiritualism if anyone
could summon the spirit of his
son. For Pecoraro, that problem
was elementary. After being tight
ly bound, the medium retired into
the cabinet while Sir Arthur and
his guests clasped hands, sang
Nearer My Got To Thee" and
darkened the room. Pecarao quick
ly squirmed out of the ropes and
handouts which bound him, wrote
perfect imitation of the hand
writing of Sir Arthur's son on a
pad of paper, reproduced the sons
voice and crawled back into the
ropes and handouts.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
BY WILL ROGERS
Copyright, 1881, Mcknight
Syndicate)

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April
Swell, here we are at Mana
qua, Nicaragua. They tell you
pictures don't lie, but the ones
you saw of this earthquake did,
for they din't tell that here
eight days after it happened that
there is from 100 to 800 bodies
still under those ruins. Sitting
here in a marine tent writing
this and am going to sleep here.
The doctor is coming around to
shoot me for typhoid and then
am going to learn to cuss and
will be a real marine.
Naturally what they need is
money. The government or the
people haven't got a cent. The
Rd Cross combined with relief
organizations here has done
great work as usual and still is.
They are feeding about 5000
now. We have a great minister
of American affairs here. Mr..
Hanna, no rich guy just ap-
pointed for the lark, but a man
who has given 25 years service
to us. Lost everything they had
but the clothes on their back,
he and the president.
Asks Donations
If through the Red Cross and
public donations from up home
they could get S250,00 it would
relieve the situation as to food
and get some roofs to cover
these people. Now what they
are afraid of is the rainy sea-
son, which starts in just few
weeks. Lord help you If you
have no cover when It starts.
Goodness knows you generous
folks have been asked till you
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
HEAT INDIRECTLY
RESPONSIBLE FOR
DEATHS OF SEVEN

CHICAGO, April g. (U.P)--Cooling
showers were forecast today TO end
suddenly an unreasonable heat wave
which sent temperatures to an all
time midwestern record for the date
and which was blamed indirectly
for the deaths OF six children III
Chicago.
The children, ranging from 3 TO
i3, we're killed by automobiles as
they romped in the streets, enjoy
ing the premature summer weather
which so many motorists also were
enjoying that traffiee became un-
usually heavy.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
SPEAKER
EXPIRES
IN SOUTH
Had Long And Honorable
Career AS Politician
And Statesman
WAS PARTY LEADER
Headed House Of Repre-
sentatives For Three
Consecutive Terms
BY FOSTER EATON
United Press Staff Correspondent


AIKEN, S. c., April 9. Wk,-Nich-
olas Longworth, SPEAKER of the
house of representatives in the. 69th,
10th and list congresses, died today.
Death came within two days after
Longworth's serious illness with
pneumonia had become known.
The speakcr--a powerful figure in
the Republican party and beloved
by political friend and foe alike
was stricken while a guest at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. James F. Cur
tis at this winter resort.
Tuesday night his illness was
diagnosed as pneumonia and Mrs.
Longworth, Princess Alice Roose-
vclt," was summoned from Wash
ington.
For time the doctors were hope
fut But soon their bulletins became
increasingly alarming.
At 1852 a. M. today DR.. Robert
II. Wiltls. chief OF the medical staff
attending Longworth came to WIN
dow IN the Curtis old Colonial man
sion. He raised his hand in one
slow gesture to the waiting news
papermen. II was signal to the
world that the speaker of the United
States house of representatives was
dead
Back of the mansion Negro stable
boys were, exercising half dozen
OF the Curtis sleek hunting mounts.
Brilliant sunshine splashed over the
Carolina hills. flush with the ra-
dance of spring.
I,ongworth died in the kind OF a
setting he loved best, amid the ele-
gance Of millionaire's winter home
with it's Towering magnolias sweep
ing the windows, where sport and
laughter and ease reigned, an cpl
curean'S paradise.
Hour after hour Longworth had
inhaled air artificislly enriched with
oxygen. A physician stood almost
constantly by his bedside. Within
the Oxygen tent the labored BREATH
ing continued, but at last Long
worth was not equal to the strain
his illness forced upon him.
Hope Abandoned
Four nurses worked in relays to
save the stricken statesman. from
the calm confidence of midday
Wednesday the feeling changed
rapidly during the evening to anX-
iety and toward despair. There was
brusquc notice of the serious turn
in Longsworth's condition at 9 p. m.
last night. Subsequent information
added TO the gloomy prospect. II
became apparent Longworth had
small chance of surviving. Two ply
sicians worked over him as day
broke and still others came TO his
bedside near the end.
The body will be sent Immediately
TO Cincinnati, the family home, 1t
was learned.
Longworth had been an annual
YI.-t.-,nl StV1
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
KING GEORGE BETTER

WINDSOR. Eng, April 9. U.P)-
King Georges condition continued
favorably today and he maintained
the progress made yesterday.
An official announcement said
the king was still confined to his
room. 1t rained this morning but
it was believed the kings recovery
would be speeded by the return of
sunny weather.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
DAVIS CASE DISMISSED

A charge of murder against
Nj. X. "KoOts" Davis, as a result
of the death of william PRESLEY
following 2 saloon brawl In Mex
icali several weeks ago, was dis
missed today. Davis Is still
held for possible extraditicn TO
Mexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09

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CONTINUED on Page Six
Nogales international., 1931-07-18
| %qI,IXestQck Z 1{Q 3
III AEllyGETuNE ~

which had for its purpose:
'To make such lawful changes in
the rate structure of the country,
with the least practicable delay, as
will promote the freedom of move
ment by common carriers of the
products Of Agriculture affected by
that depression, including livestock,
at the lowest possible lawful rate
compatible with the maintenance of
adequate transportation service"
Nearly six-and-a-half years have
elapsed and we still are without any
decision, but we are now promised
some final word on this important
matter within short time. In the
meantime our civic structure has
changed so that instead of an acute
condition existing only with the
farmer, nearly all lines of business
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Three-F ourths :. :

Continued From Page One)
based on a census as of Jan. 1, 1881.
World registration totaled 35, ,So5, ,632,
of which 26,697,39 were in the
United States.
If motor cars Of all sorts were
evenly distributed, every 54th per-
son in the world would have one,
according to the census In the
United States there is one for ev-
cry 4.59 persons. Per capita reg
istration for the world outside the
United States was 200.
France was second in registra-
ton, with 1,459, $50; England third,
with 1,308,272. Then followed Can
ada, with 1,224,O93; Germany, 679,-
300; Australia, 563,657; Argentina,
366,324; Italy, 291,537; Brazil, 199,-
$40; and Spain and the Canary Is
lands, 189,65O.
First place among foreign coun-
tries in proportion Of automobiles
to population went to Canada and
New Zealand, with 1 registration
for every persons. Australia was
next with l for every II.
Trailing the list were Yemen and
and Oman, in Arabia; China, Ethi-
opia, the Solomon Islands and
Spitzbergen. Spitzbergen had one
a truck.
Despite the depression during 1880,
world registration increased by 678,-
234 over 1929, according to Charles
F. Baldwin, assistant chief of the
automotive division. He pointed out
that there were 4,1O9,231 motor We
hicles produced in the world in
1890, leaving 3,430,238 to be ac-
counted for largely by scrapping or
other withdrawal from operation.
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are much in the same fix, including
the railroads who at the time the
hearing started were far better off
financially than today. We all rec-
ognize that the railroads must be
supported and it really doesn't
make much difference whether
their trouble comes from trucks op-
Grating over public highways or de-
creased tonnage from other causes.
The fact remains that they haven't
enough money to carry on and
there is but one source from which
all kinds of transportation get their
pay-the people.
The farmer and livestock growers
seem to be lost in the shuttle, with
a good chance of getting an in
crease instead of decrease in
transportation rates; but if it takes
as much time to relieve" the rail-.
roads as it has to s:relieve the far
mer", conditions will probably have
adjusted themselves.
Nogales international., 1931-07-18

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF ARIZONA IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
SANTA CRUZ
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PRO
PERTY
RAE F. LEEKER and S. LEEKER,
her husband, Plaintiffs,
n. r. CORNFORTH and MARY
VIRGINIA CORNFORTH, husband
and wife, Defendants.
Under and by virtue Of a special
execution issued out of the above
entitled Court on the 18th day Of
June, 1881, in the above entitled
action wherein the above named
plaintiffs, Rae F. Leeker and S.
Leeker, her husband, did on the 10th
day of June, 1881, in the above en-
titled Court obtain judgment a.
gainst the above named defendants,
III. r. Cornforth and Mary Virginia
'Cornfortll, husband and wife, for
the sum Of Two Thousand Seven
Hundred Eighty Three and 6S/1OO
($2783 .66) Dollars, current lawful
money of the United States of AM
erica, with interest upon Two Thou
sand Five Hundred Thirty and
60/100 ($25306O) Dollars thereof at
the rate Of ten (10%6) per cent per
annum from June 10, 1881, until
paid, and interest upon the bal
ance thereof at the rate Of six
(6@o) per cent per annum from
June 19, 1881, until paid, and Eight
cen and 60/100 ($18.60) Dollars
costs, and accruing costs, am CON-,
manded to seize and sell under ex-
ecution in satisfaction of said
judgment and the plaintiffs mort
gage lien upon the hereinafter de-
scrihed real property as the same
existed on the I'd day of April, 1926,
that certain real estate and prem
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Utilities Value :

tC1nt:nued from Page IL
would be the first witness to be
heard from, Attorney Malott for the
power company arose to his feet and
said: eve thoroughly agree that
some of the rates here are entirely
too high, discriminatory, unfair, too
high for certain class of consumers
and too low for others" He said
that the company expects to ask
for a revision in rates, and that the
company is not here fighting the
city.
Engineer Wilson was on the stand
most of the day yesterday and
was closely cross examined by At
torney Malott, counsel for the pow
er company.
Nogales international., 1931-07-18

Max Schmeling, undoubtedly the
champion of the world, comes out
of his fight with Stribling ready to
defend his title, and for his first
match they give him Primo Carnera,
ponderous man-mountain from
Italy. The bout is set for September.
It ought to be worth seeing. Car
nera has been razzed considerably,
but he is better fighter than some
of his critics maintain. Personally,
we see Schrneling as the better
fighter, and would expect him to win
against Primo, but, even at that,
wen say that Primo is apt to prove
q tough holnbre.
Nogales international., 1931-07-18
"SKIPPY" TO BE
AT LOCAL THEATER

There is an actual living and
breathing, in-the-flesh "Skippy'',
who, while he could not possibly ap-
pear in the Paramount picture YER
sion of this famous syndicate fea-
ture, opening next Thursday for a
two-day run at the Fox Nogales
Theater, nevertheless has imbued
the scenes with all the realism of
life permitted by his age and size.
The one-and-only, real "Skippy''
according to close friends, is none
other than Percy Crosby, cartoonist