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Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
DEMOCRATS NOT
ANXIOUS TO ACT
UPON DRY issue

WASHINGTON, March g. U.P)-
A rapidly growing volume of protest
against the Democratic national
committee attempting to commit
the party on the prohibition issue
has increased the complications to
be met Thursday at the committee
meeting called by John j. Raskob,
national chairman.
Southern Democrats who have
opposed what they feared was a
plan by Raskob to obtain an anti
prohibition commitment claimed to-
day to have reason to believe Gov
ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New
York, a leading potential presiden-
tial candidate, was in sympathy
with their opposition to any party
commitment on a national policy
at this time. The position is un-
derstood by some southern demo-
Gratis to reflect the view of Cover
nor Roosevelt. The situation re-
called current but unconfirmed re-
ports that the Raskob group favors
Owen D. Young as New York's pres
idential candidate next year.
This newest Democratic develop
ment came only a few hours after
a bipartisan independent group in
the senate and revealed plans for
meeting here March HIP to dis
cuss a legislative program for the
next congress.
The group served notice on both
major parties that fundamental
economic issues would be stressed
in the 1892 presidential campaign
but at the same time disclaimed any
intention to form a new party.
Senator Norris, Republican. Me-
braska, his dispatched invitations tc
Liberals of all parties to attend the
conference. Problems listed in the
invitation include unemployment,
public utilities, agriculture, tariff
and return to representative gov
eminent.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03

NAVAL ACCORD IS
MOVE FOR PEACE
BY RALPH HEINZEN
nited Press staff Correspondent

PARIS. March 3. U.R)-The naval
accord reached last week at PARIS
and Rome was merely the prelude
to the rapid ending OF all Franco
italian problems Foreign minister
Aristide BRAND said today IN de-
batting the foreign affairs budget III
the champer of deputies.
BRAND described the accord as
another move toward world disarm-
ament.
Publication of the terms of the
naval accord reached between
France, Italy and Great Britain Will
be delayed until Thursday or FRI
day, it was stated unofficially to-
day. because OF the time necessary
for the consideration of the agree
ment by the governments OF the
United States and Japan.
Changes in the terms OF the
washington and London naval
treaties will be necessitated by the
new tri-poWer agreement, 1t was
believed generally, although there
has been but one official reference
to this possibility Minister of
Marine Charles Dumont said that
the accord entails slight modifica-
ton of the London treaty.
The limitation of battleships to
a maximum OF $4,000 tons, UNDER
stood to be one of the stipulations
of the agreement may offer some
in obtaining the approval
of the United States and japan,
1t was pointed out that French
and Italian sacrifices in their pro-
posed building programs were most
ly technical, as far as could be de-
termined until the text of the
agreement is published. Their for
mer positions were relatively un-
changed, except that Italy post
poned her demand for naval parity
until 1895.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
SWING REVIEWS
OPPOSITION TO
OPENING BORDER

Congressman Phil D. Swing again
commits himself as being against
any arrangement to open the inter-
national line until midnight, pro-
vided open gambling in Mexicali Is
eliminated, expressing his opinion
in the following letter to the Press:
Permit me to thank you for your
editorial and approval of my stand
with reference to the city councils
proposal to open the border line to
II o'clock in return for Mexicos
promise to prohibit gambling.
1.-The trouble with such propo-
sal is that while Mexico might pro
hibit" gambling, it would not be
able to stop gambling-at least it
has not in the past. The trouble
at the best about the gambling would
be that it would be transferred after
6 o'clock to so-called private Clubs
The Mexican prohibition" of gam
bling has never been held applica~
BILE to private clubs, and as you
know, membership In these So-called
clubs can be had instantly for the
asking. The net result would there
fore ne that the Mexican resorts
would gain by the line opening until
midnight and American comruni-
ties would lose in every way.
IF sufficient support is given to
the proposal to close the line at 6
o'clock, l am willing to make the
fight and then there is a chance
to win.
Sincerely, PHIL D. SWING. -.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
Grain Market
Closes Higher

CHICAGO, March 3. U.p)-Grain
closed higher on the board of trade
today when short covering regained
the early losses. Wheat averaged
lower during the day but buying of
July by shorts and spreading be-
tween May and September, the lat
ter being bought, firmed the mar
ket near the close. Corn went to
new lows for May early but reco-
vered promptly and held a fair gain
most of the session. Oats hit a new
low in March and firmed with corn.
Local industry was an active buyer
of March oats toward the last. The
late strength at Winnipeg helped
wheat.
At the close old wheat was 1sc
higher, new wheat was &c up, corn
was L to cent higher and oats
were sc lower to CSC higher. Pro-
visions were strong and higher.
March wheat old closed at .79as
March corn old at go; and March
oats old .296s.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
WISCONSIN ASKS
CALIFORNIA TO
PARDON MOONEY

MADISON, Wis, March 3. U.P)-
A joint resolution asking the gov
ernor of California to pardon Tom
Mooney and Warren K. Billings
was adopted by a vote of 81 to 39
today In the Wisconsin assembly,
and was sent to the senate for fur
ther consideration.
The house by so to Al, rejected
indefinite postponement of the res
olution as introduced by Assembly,
man Emil Meyer, Milwaukee Social
ist.
The resolution said that witness
es whose testimony convinced the
two labor leaders of murder in
connection with the bombing of a
preparedness day parade in 1916
have since either repudiated theii
testimony or have been proven per-
jurers. wholly unworthy of belief.
This case is a reproach to Am
erican justice and is regarded by
workingmen throughout the coun-
try and abroad as a demonstration
that powerful corporate interests
can manipulate justice to their own
ends"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
RUMANIAN TO
SEEK RECORD
PLANE TRIP

LOS ANGELES, March 3. tU.p)-
Sometime before next Sunday,
huge monoplane will soar out of the
skies bound for New York, Bremen,
Bucharest and Capetown, South
Africa, with Prince Jean Ghica, Ru-
manian minister of air, at the con-
trolls.
Prince Ghica, a cousin of King
Carol, was testing his new plane
here today, and expressed the hope
he would soon take to his native
country the worlds long distance
mark now held by Dieudonne Costes
and Maurice Bellonte.
For several years the prince has
been flying, with eyes for only a
nonstop flight between Bucharest
and Capteown. With his new Emsco
high wing plane, he hopes to under
take that flight this summer.
With him will go Roger Q. VIII
liams, noted pilot OF the New York
Rome flight of two years ago.
The new ship has a cruising ra-
dius of $500 miles and gasoline
capacity of 1900 gallons. The air
line between Bucharest and Cape
town is 500 miles.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
Blame Death On
Carbon MOnOXide

LOS ANGELES, March 3. QU.P) -
Death of Carl Demont, Chicago lin
en- importer, was due to carbon mo-
noxide poisoning, according to a
preliminary autopsy report today by
Assistant County Autopsy Surgeon
Frank r. Webb.
Demont, said to be wealthy, was
found dead in an automobile in a
vacant garage on an estate in Alta
dena. Deputy sheriffs assumed he
died of carbon monoXide fumes, but
were puzzled by the presence of sew
eral bottles which apparently had
contained liquor or drugs.
A complete chemical analysis OF
the body will be made in an effort
to learn If Demont was intoxicated
or drugged before arriving at the
garage.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
COURT IMPOSES
PRISON SENTENCE
ON COUNTERFEITER

PORTLAND, Ore, March 3. (U.H
knowledge Of chemistry, which
Joseph A. Falkner. %, used to man
ufacture counterfeit currency that
he might travel in style sand sup
port his widowed mother and Ill
brother, today had resulted in his
sentence to four years in Mcneil
Island penitentiary.
Falkner pleaded guilty to SIX
counts contained in an indictment
brought by a federal grand jury.
Falkner told authorities he be-
came vitally interested in chem
istry while in high school in a small
town in Wisconsin and that he
later invented a method of trans
fering characters of paper money
onto blank pieces of paper.
He admitted manufacturing coun-
terfeit currency and passing about
$4,000 worth in Milwaukee. Wis,
Springfield, ILL.,, Houston and Ell
Paso, Tex, Seattle. Portland, Los
Angeles and San Diego
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
Mail Plane Is
Forced To Land

PORTLAND, Ore, March 3. (U.P)
Two passengers were slightly in
jured and small quantity of mail
burned when a P. A. T. mail plane
caught fire 20 miles east of Rose
burg at 11:l5 p. m. Monday and
forced Pilot Grover Tyler to land
in rough country
Herbert D. Smith. Seattle, was
shaken and bruised P. E. Hansen
of Seattle was bruised and slightly
burned. The third passenger, c. L..
Hansen, of Boston, was not hurt,
nor was Tyler.
Tyler was forced to land when
he saw smoke coming from the mail
compartment. A rancher named
Eckert heard the plane land and
took the passengers to Roseburg.
The mail was later put aboard a
relief ship sent from Medford.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
ANOTHER
VETO BY
HOO YER
President Turns Down
Muscle Shoals Bill
Passed By Congress
MEASURE WILL DIE
Chief Executive Says
Project Would Compete
With Private Business
BY PAUL X. MALLON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March g. tU.P)-
Viewing the Norris Muscle Shoals
bill as embodying the issue of gov
ernment ownership. President Hoo
yer today returned 1t to Congress
with his veto, accompanied by an
emphatic veto message.
This measure. providing for gov
ernment operation of the Muscle
Shoals property for production and
distribution of power and manufac-
tire of fertilizers. is based on prin-
ciples which would lead not to lib
eralism but to degeneration" the
President said.
THE power problem Is not going
TO be solved by the federal govern
ment going into the power business,
nor is it to be solved by the project
in this BILL Mr.. Hoover declared.
Adding that the remedy for in
dustrial abuses lies in government
regulation, not in the government
entering into competition with pri-
yate business, Mr.. Hoover said:
Il hesitate to contemplate the fu-
ture of our instructions, of our gov
ernment, and of our country If the
preoccupation of its officials is to
be no longer the promotion of JUS
tice and equal opportunity but is to
be devoted to barter in the markets.
That is not liberalism, it is degene-
ration"
Mr.. Hoover outlined a proposal
which he said would get a war
relic out of politics and into the
realm OF service
He suggested the states of Ala
bama and Tennessee, which are in
the Muscle Shoals power territory,
set up commission OF their rep
resentatiyes together with repre-
sentative from the national farm
organizations and the corps OF army
engineers. He recommended this
commission have full authority to
lease the Muscle Shoals plant in
(Cont'1ued on page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
CALIFORNIA NOT
TO ENTER RACE
( FOR DIVORCES
Committee Kills Bill Ell
iminating Interlocutory
Decree
BY HOMER L. ROBERTS
United Press Staff Correspondent

SACRAMENTO, March 3. tu.R-
CALIFORNIA; marriage and divorce
laws today claimed attention of the
state legislature.
An amendment to the states gin
marriage" act, proposed by Senator
George w. Rochester OF Los An
geles, was placed before the state
senate with favorable recon-
mendation of the judiciary COM
mittee.
1t would permit superior judge
marriage license when baby is ex-
pected.
California elected to stay out of
the fight between Nevada, Arizona,
Montana and o;:ler le-3aborlng
states for the nations divorce bus
mess when the assembly commit
tee on judiciary killed a bill abol-
ishing the interlocutory decree OF
divorce.
The measure, introduced by As
semblyman Arthur Honnold of San
Diego. would also have provided a
90 day interim between the date a
divorce petition is filed and the
date the action could be heard III
the courts.
The perplexing reapportionment
problems, pork barrel" appropria-
tions for highway construction, and
the Hayes-Fry election contest re-
NAMED the outstanding issues be-
fore the Legislature today.
A special sub committee is study
ing the various legislative and con-
gressional redistricting bills. and
endeayoring to coordinate the prin-
cipal features OF each proposal into
a bill satisfactory TO all factions.
With virtually all special appro-
priation bills doomed to meet death
by veto in the hands OF Governor
Rolph, the senate finance commit
tee began work separating the wheat
from the chaff In the list OF bills
seeking appropriation of more than
S43 100000 in state funds.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
G0FR!!S}!s:iR' GF!Sa

BEVERLY HILLS, Mar.
2. al)-Well, let's
see what happened over
what the English fought
US to call the week-end).
We copped all their ex-
pressions, weekend, fort
night, plus four. We are
now adopting the street
busses that has been our
source of amusement over
there. We will cop their
monocle, yet, if they don't
watch us.
Bernard Shaw had us
right in the papers this
morning, I'VE do things
we'll when somebody shows
US how but with all our
monkey traits we are kick
ing along pretty good, our
congress is going to ad-
iourn next week, tn en-
watch things hum, if we
can only prevent another
drought and disarmament
conference.
Yours, WILL ROGERS.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
Texas Rangers
Clean Up Town

KILGOkE, Tex, March 3. UP)-
Ten Texas rangers, bent on remov-
ing the lawless element from this
mushroom oil boom town, found
speakeasies, gambling parlors and
rooming houses of i'll repute desert
ed today.
Three hundred suspicious char
acters, lured here by traditional
easy money and morals of oil fields,
were missing. They were arrested
by the rangers in a wholesale drive
yesterday.
Twenty were held in a Longview
Jail. The others disappeared after
they were fingerprinted by experts
from Dallas and released.
establishments of unsavory repu-
tation which were opened in the
wake of the towns sudden change
from a sleepy village of 600 in
habitants to boom center of 10000
were as decorous as a church.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
Jamaica Jinger
Paralyzes Vets

LOS ANGELES, March 8. tU.D =
Arrests were expected today OF
druggists and grocers who allegedly
have been selling Jamaica ginger
extract to residents of the national
home for disabled veterans at Saw
telle. as 80 old soldiers were in the
hospital, paralyzed from drinking
the extract.
One hundred and eight other cases
of paralysis have been found in the
county, with no cure yet devised.
The extract which the soldiers
had been drinking contained an
adulterant, phenolester, government
physicians declared 1t was also
pointed out that sale of more than
three ounces of any such drink to
uniformed soldiers was forbidden.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
CHICAGO BOMB
PLOT FAILS TO
MEET SUCCESS

CHICAGO. March 8. U.p) - Two
men were wounded, one critically,
in fight that developed last night
over an attempt to set off one of
the most powerful bombs ever seen
by Chicago police experts.
One OF the men underwent the
narrowing experience Of being
thrown into a basement with the
lighted bomb and escaped only be-
cause the bomb did not explode
Unlike hundreds of bombs that
have been exploded here just to
damage property, this huge bomb,
police said, was planted to kill.
Had it exploded, the officers said,
it would have completely demolish-
ed the brick building under which
it was placed and might have killed
persons III buildings block away.
Five men placed the bomb under
Blue Island building in which is
located a gambling place said to
be operated by James Hackett
William Mayer, 60, night watch
man at the place. was critically
hurt when he attempted to fight
the bombers. His legs were riddled
by machine gun fire.
Hilario Rodriguez, 35, a Mexican,
was an unfortunate witness of the
murder attempt. He saw the five
men drop the bomb, which was 26
inches long and contained pulver-
lied dynamite and shrapnel, into
coal chute under the Hackett
building.
To remove Rodriguez as wit
ness, the bombers beat him and
tossed him down the chute after
the bomb.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
Truce Near In
Indian Trouble

NEW DELHI, India, March 3. W.H
"A truce in the Indian civil disobe-
dience movement apparently was at
hand tonight with only one out
standing question to be settled.
The unsettled question, which
was the subject of consultations
which the Mahatma Gandhi contin-
ued to conduct, concerned return of
confiscated property of volunteers
in the independent movement and
reinstatement of dismissed govern
ment servants.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
Bank RObber
COnfesses All

OAKLAND, Cal, March 3. OPP
Charles R. Palmer, SIS, rancher at
Hayward, near here, confessed ear
ly today, police announced, that he
had robbed an Oakland branch OF
the Bank of America of $4,000 by
forcing an official of the bank at
guns point to authenticate his
check.
An hour later, he led police to
his ranch, where the money was
found intact.
AS the crowning touch in his
audacious kidnap-robbery, police
declared. Palmer produced tn
weapon" with which he had fright
ened Joseph R. Cardoza, manager
of the banks branch at Hayward,
into assisting him.
The revolver was of ancient make
and hammerleSS.
The money was where Palmer
said it was-placed in neat piles un-
der a boardwalk leading from his
ranch house to the henhouse.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
Many Attorneys
Draw Suspension

LOS ANGELES, March 3. U.P) =
The state supreme court, meeting
here today, ordered the suspension
of ia attorneys from the practice
of law in California for failure 10
pay state bar dues within the time
prescribed by law
The order of suspension was one
of the first matters of business to
come before the court as 1t opened
a four-day session here with Chief
Justice William H. Waste presiding
over a tribunal of seven members.
Twenty -eight out of state attor-
neys were admitted to practice and
two other men, both of whom re-
Gently passed California examina-
tions, were admitted.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
IN
ALBANY
CAPITOL
New York Legislature In
Uproar AS Unemployed
Stage Demonstration
TROOPERS BEATEN
Invaders Ousted Follow
ing Lively Skirmish In
Galleries

ALBANY, N. Y, March g. W.p)-
Three hundred unereloyed, who
marched into the state capitol to
demand relief, rioted and cleshed
for as minutes today with state
troopers before they finally were
forced from the assembly.
There were a number of casual
ties, though none appeared severe
Captain John Kiely, commander of
the state troop force guarding the
assembly, was clawed and beaten
and was saved from falling from
the gallery into the assembly by
trooper who came to his aid.
William Bell, senate page, was
knocked unconscious and had to be
treated in an emergency hospital
after he had gone to the aid of
Trooper Spike Sullivan, who was
being pummeled by the demonstra-
tors.
Other state troopers were clawed
and scratched when they went into
the galleries to quiet the crowd
shouting, jeering and booing state
officers.
Demand Triple Program
The three hundred unemployed
composed groups who had marched
into Albany, mostly from New
York City, to present to the legisla-
| ture a program which included:
General unemployment relief, UNI
employment insurance, state wages
for jobless.
They marched to the capitol this
forenoon and filled the east and
west galleries and one small group
III men and three women-went
to the main floor and were separ-
ated from the legislators only by
a railing
Just as the clerk started reading
the journal, Jack Johnstone OF
New York City started shouting for
relief. He was joined by 20 others.
State troopers tried unsuccessful
ly to quiet them but the unem-
ployed clung to the railing, shout
ing Historically. They finally were
pulled away and forced from the
room.
The disturbance spread to the
galleries. Troopers went there to
oust the shouters When persua-
sion failed, the troops started using
their clubs. Several troopers were
clawed and few appeared severely
scratched and cut when they came
down from the west gallery.
Leader of the outbreak in the east
gallery was known as Emma Roll
Inns red haired woman who had
taken a leading part in the parade
to the capitol which preceded the
riot
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
MRS. KEYES MAKES
VISIT TO HUSBAND

SAN QUENTIN PENITENTIARY,
Cal, March 3. (U.p)-Mrs Asa Keyes,
wife of the former district attor-
ney of Los Angeles. returned to her
home in the south today after visit
ing her husband for the first time
since he was imprisoned on con-
viction of bribery charges.
Mrs. Keyes reported her husband
appeared in good health and was
optimistic over his prospects for an
early parole. He was eager for
word of his children.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
Einstein Talks
At Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 3.
U.P)-Dr. Albert Einstein SCOTS at
the idea that only a dozen men III
the world understand his theories.
Everybody who understands math-
mates understands them, he told
interviewers who greeted him when
he paused briefly here last night
on his eastward journey.
But the theory of relativity is not
practical, he admits; nothing fund
amentally scientific is practical.
1t means nothing to the man on
the street, who does not need to
know it, Einstein declared.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-03
Eastern Market
Remains Steady

NEW YORK, March 3. U.P-The
stock market today maintained a
steady to firm tone toward the close
after an early period of rather wide
movements.
Grains and cotton also were firm
and silver held unchanged. Rubber
futures spurted on talk of restric-
ton measures at forthcoming
London conference.