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Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
Steel Rallies
Falling Market

NEW YORK, Jan. 10. U.P)--.
United States Steel led a substan-
tial rally on the stock market today
after the whole list had moved II
regularly lower in the early trad
ing.
Steel rose to around l44 against
a previous close of 1427>, and good
sized rallies took place in American
Can. Vanadium. A NJ Byers. Sears
Roebuck, j. I. Case and a long list
of others.
Chemical shares made the widest
gains, Allied Chemical after maxi
ing a new low since 1923, at 1631 =.
rose more than points from that
level and Mathieson AlKali made a
gain of more than a point. Publi-
cation of downward reviSionS in the
prices of various chemicals relieved
the uncertainty in this field and in.
duced traders to take on new lines.
Short covering also was responsible
for the turn.
Steel shares were helped by re-
ports of increased production. The
Youngstown district next week is
to operate at Al per cent Of capa-
city up 4 from this week. Youngs-
town Sheet and Tube is up 10; Re
public up 5. Newton Steel is at 10
per cent of capacity, unchanged for
the week. and Mahoning Valley
Steel is TO operate at Is per cent
after two weeks shutdown.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
MAN SHOT WHEN
HE PICKS WRONG
HOUSE AS HOME
John Meluga Receives
Wound In Arm But En-
Onerates Shooter.

Shot through the arm because he
mistook one residence for another
John Meluga. 58-year-old German
is in the hospital today recovering
from the wound inflicted when he
entered the house of T. A. McChristy
in the mistaken opinion that it was
there he had rented a room.
Meluga was shot by McChristy
when the German came home at 9
o'clock last night to blunder into the
McChristy home while Mrs. Nc
Christy was in the front room, play
ing the radio. and her husband had
retired.
Seeing a strange man on the
screen porch, the wife ran through
the house and told her husband,
who procured his revolver and went
out the back door, circling the
house. Sighting Meluga on the
screen porch, McChristy fired
through the glass of the door,
wounding the intruder in the arm.
When questioned today by Chief
of Police Frank P. McCaslin and
Tom Sharp, special investigator Tor
the district attorneys office, Mrs.
Christy stated that she thought she
saw a gun in the hand of the man
on the porch.
Meluga told officers that he had
moved to Ell Centre from Calexico
just one day ago, and had rented a
room in the vicinity of the McChris-
" home. He entered thinking his
room was there, he said. The fami-
ly lives at 712 Broadway.
Meluga is 2 restaurant worker,
and was looking fo,Ayork in El Cen
tro. Police indicated today that no
charges will be filed. since the shoot
ing and the entry of the house were
both mistakes. Meluga said n holds
no grudge against McChristy.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
WITNESSES SAY
SHULER'S WORK
DECREASED VICE

LOS ANGELES, Jan. TO- UP
After securing the right to call ad-
ditional witnesses later, the defense
of Rev. r. P. Bob Shuler IL his
battle to renew the license of
KGEF, his broadcasting station,
rested about noon today.
The move came unexpectedly af
ter Francis Drake, president of the
police commission, Chief of Police
r. E. Steckel and DR.. Bruce Brown,
pastor of the South Park Christian
church, had testified in Shulers
favor.
Drake declared dscciisar.Ged that that vice III The
city had been reduced during the
last two years and that the general
tone of the minister's radio ad-
dresses had a good effect on the
citizens of Los Angeles.
George D. Lyon, chief compla.n-
ant, was the first witness called by
the prosecution.
Lyon said he had listened regu-
larly to Shuler's broadcasts and that
he had heard much unjust criticism
of public officials
Among those he has attacked
have been Superior Judges Keetch
and Collier. two OF the finest mem
bers of the Los Angeles bar Lyon
said Furthermore, I have heard
him attack these judges during the
conduct of cases."
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
EFFORT TO FREE
LINCLE SLAYER
PROVES FUTILE
Chicago Officials Take
Precautions To Retain
Custody Of Accused.

CHICAGO, Jan. 10, (U.P)-An at
torney who worked with and was a
friend of Alfred Lingle, Tribune re-
porter, was unsuccessful but de-
termined today in his efforts to Sc
cure release of Leo " Brothers,
charged unofficially with killing
Lingie for pay last June 9.
Blocked quickly and effectively in
his first effort to free Brothers, at
torney Tyrell Krum, who said he
was employed by Brothers mother,
sought other means OF forcing the
states attorney ana his men to
bring the accused from his secret
prison.
In every move, however, he iound
himself stopped oy the determina-
ton of states attorney John A.
Swanson and Pat Roche, Swanson's
investigator, that Brothers must face
trial for Chicago'S most sensational
gang murder and that he will dle
in the electric chair
Krum's first attempt was made
yesterday ",.an he filed a writ OF
habeas corpus tU" Prothc.. "'leaSe
in the court of Judge Philip J. III
negan.
The attorney who formerly work
ed for the tribune and sometimes
covered stories with Llngle. storm
ed and fused he pleaded and he
threatened, but the only satisfac-
ton he got was repeated iniorma-
ton that a hearing on the writ
could not be held until January "a
and that he didn't need to talk SO
loudly because the Judge was not
hard of hearing"
The United Press learned author
itatively the answer to the question
who killed Lingle? And why was he
slain?" was that Linglc was slain
because. welding his strange power
ever the unCe. worsd he made life
so miserable for a group of North
Side gangsters opposed to his own
friend of the South Side. Al Cap
one, that the gamblers paid to have
him slain.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
COURT DENIES
BAH RELEASE
TO RADICALS

Those who could nc. live by the
laws Of thu United states should
not expect any extra consideration
under those laws.
This. in effect, was -hc opinion
expressed ~ JIdg" Vaugnn Thomp-
son of the superior court here yes
terday afternoon when he denied
a motion Of II convicted radicals
seeking release from the peniten-
tiary on bond, pending the hearing
of their appeal from the local Su-
perior court to the Fourth District
Appellate court in Los Angeles.
In denying the motion for re-
-aa-a-on bond Judge Thompson end
ed hopes of the Communists for
freedom unless the appellate court
reyerses the local decision, which
would be a move entirely unexpect-
ed by local attorneys.
Considering that people are being
slaughtered in Russia by the hum
dreds of thousands for expressing
views against the Soviet govern
ment, said Judge Thompson, the
laws OF this country are exception
ally lenient and mild. He explained
that he used Russia as am example
because it is the country recognized
by all Communist workers as their
headquarters and model.
In argument on the motion TO set
bond for the II defendants Judge
Thompson asked whether they still
bore Communistic ideals. The re-
ply was that they do
It was the ayowec mention of
the convicted radicals, according TO
Their testimony during their trial
in superior court here last simmer.
to overthrow the present form OF
government in the United States,
confiScate all properties and set up
a form of government similar to
that of Soviet Russia.
Defendants whose motions were
denied were r. Hariuchi, Oscar
Erickson, Lawrence Emery Ed
wardo Herrera, Emelio AlonzO,
Braulio Orozco, Florencia Fumes,
Richard BriSsenden, Danny RoXaS,
Carl Sklar and Frank Spector
They were arrested last summer
after Communist outbreaks III the
northern part of Imperial Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
WOMEN FLYERS
SET new MARK
FOR ENDURANCE
Lady ROlph' Grounded
As IngIewOod Residents
Complain of Noise.

LOS ANGELES. Jan. TO- UP
The new worlds endurance airplane
refueling flight record for women is
100 hours so minutes, and was set
by Miss Bobbie Trout and Mrs. Edna
Mae Cooper.
After landing their Curtis Robin
plane. the Lady Rolph, at $50 p. m.
yesterday. the girl flyers estimated
they could have gone on for many
more hours had not their backer
Joseph L. Martin, ordered them to
stop because residents near the air
port complained about the incessant
roaring of the airplane motor over
head.
The new record is almost three
of 40 hours 16 minutes, set last sum-
mer by Miss Trout and Elinor Smith
of New York 1t is however, only a
little more than one fifth as great
as the mems record set by Forest
O'Brine and Dale Jackson of st.
Louis.
I'VE were just getting started.
said Miss Trout after the Lady
Rolph touched ground for the first
time since 2:30 p. m. last Sunday.
Naturally we are not the least
bit disappointed at the result of the
flight, but I feel we could have gone
on for a long time yet" she con-
tinued.
We're just q little ground-shy, "
Mrs. Cooper, formerly an actress,
said as she embraced her mother
Mrs. Mary May Cooper, upon land
ing.
Martin declared that the motor of
the plane was in excellent condi-
ton. Trouble which threatened yes
terday when smoke was seen pour
ing from the exhaust had entirely
disappeared, he said
With the exception of one stormy
IA = flyers enjoyed almost per-
feet we4tEer a"&9Q thir long stay
in the air. The Storm broke Wed
nesday, but they escaped it by fly
ing to Imperial Valley and remain
ing until the weather cleared again
here.
During the flight, the girls COM
pleted % refueling contacts, with
Mrs. Cooper handling all refueling
operations. They took aboard 1888
gallons of gasoline and "a gallons OF
oil. They flew approximately 740O
miles at an average speed of 60 miles
per hour. They alternated at the
controls
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
NONE SERIOUSLY
HURT IN FLOCK
OF ACCIDENTS

Two persons were injured in an
automobile accident at $50 this
morning on the Los Angeles high
way one mile south of Kane Springs,
according to a report turned into
his office by Walter M. Walsh, pat
rolman for the California Highway
Patrol.
Pedro and Juana Rosario were cut
about the face by shattered glass.
Two other accidents were inveSti-
gated last night by Captain Frank
OSwalt of the highway patrol They
resulted in no injuries to the per-
sons involved.
In the accident this morning
which resulted in injuries to the
two MeXicans, Juan Carranza was
driving south when he got off the
highway into the soft dirt and ov-
erturned Pedro and Juana Rosar-
10 were riding with him. They were
taken to a doctor for first aid
treatment.
Two automobiles were completely
demolished in an accident on the
lHoltville highway one mile west of
Ho,.s' lie last night. None of the
drivers o. persons involved Was pre-
sent when Captain OsWalt arrived
on the scene. One of the cars was
registered to Brandenburg Broth
ers in Redlands, and the other bore
no registration.
From tracks it appeared that the
Brandenburg automobile had been
going at an excessive rate of speed
when it sideswiped the other car
After hitting the other car it went
300 yards down the highway before
overturning. No one was hurt in
the accident
A few moments later z. w. Hoke
CT Holtville, driving west, passed a
Wrecking car and ran into the aut-
Cmobile which was across the high
way where it was knocked by the
Brandenburg car Hoke was un-
hurt. He reported this accident to
the sheriff's office.
In another accident Annie L.
MoateS of Holtville, driving a truck
near Seal heights on the Holtville
highway, collided with a car driv-
en- by Mildred Burton Consider
able damage was done to both cars.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
JACK DEMPSEY
STILL HAS HIS
OLD WALL0PER

DALLAS. Tex. Jan. 10. up
Jack Dempsey. former heavyweight
champion, left today for Newark,
N. j., with an impromptu Knockout
over a 205 pound wrestler to his
credit as proof that he still is in
fighting trim
Billy Edwards, Kansas City, the
wrestler, suddenly turned fighter at
the conclusion OF a match which
Dempsey refereed here last night
and learned to his sorrow that the
Manassa Mauler is not, as has been
claimed too old to fight"
Before the match-Edwards VS..
jim O'Down-EdWards boasted that
he would take a crack" at Demp-
sey if he didn't like the way the
former champion worked lie won
the decision, but disl;ed Dempseys
work anyway, said so and swung at
Dempsey He missed.
With one terrific right punch,
Dempsey lifted Edwards clear of
the ropes into the arms of cheering
spectators.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
WOMAN INJURED
IN EXPLOSION AT
VALLEY LAUNDRY

An explosion in the office of the
Valley Steam Laundry at 345 yes
terday afternoon resulted in break
ing several bones in the foot of Ma
rie Belts, the only person i'll the
office. and complete demolition of
all office furniture with the ey-
ception Of two safes.
Throwing of lighted match on
the sidewalk outside of the office by
some passerby is thought to have
caused the explosion. A gas main
under the sidewalk was leaking.
Desks and other furnit Ire in the
office were completely smashed.
The fire department answered a
call, but fire did not break out. The
laundry carried no explosion insur-
ance
A new office will be fitted out
Immediately, according to officers
of the company.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
Rose Addresses
Center Meeting

Mark Rose, director of the Impe-
rial Irrigation district. was one of
the speakers at last nights meeting
OF the Alamo-Verde farm center
held in the Verde school.
The consolidation of the Imperial
Valley and CoacaeIla districts into
one water district was the theme of
the directors address. in which he
pointed out the advantages OF the
project.
j. c. Rouser, new president of the
Imperial County Farm bureau,
spoke on the plans for the coming
year and on the Importance of the
present membership drive that has
been, or is being, conducted all over
the valley.
A group of students presented a
charming children's play and the
community amateur choral club
was heard in a number of delightful
songs.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
SWINDLERS GET
ANOTHER VICTIM
AT STAGE DEPOT

Repeated with monotonous insist
ence as is the air in an old refrain,
the two elusive confidence men con-
tinue to ply their trade" with sue
cess among Pacific Greyhound Stage
passengers when they arrive at the
FL Centro terminal.
Yesterday afternoons haul" net
ted this pair of clever trickSters SIC
and left passenger irate and help
less. The same old matching scheme
suggested by the larger of the team
and interrupted by the smaller. Older
man. worked just as smoothly yes
terday as it did last summer when
activities of the matching artists
were reported for the first time.
Constituting himself a welcoming
committee of one, the "lead-on"
mingled with the passengers when
they left the o'clock stage from
Los Angeles and selected the VIC
tim.
There's a dumb old man with
some money" he whispered to the
victim, lets match with him and
get it" From this point on. the
farce was played through to the end
with as much precision as a ire
quently rehearSed drama. The cli-
max is always the same. The pas
senger discovers that he has given
his money to the large man and
that both the large and the small
man have disappeared.
Victims often wake up suddenly
and search the stage station, nearby
cafes and adjoining streets for the
men but so far as is known, no one
has caught glimpse OF them after
they accomplished their purpose.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
HIGHWAY CRASH
RESULTS IN SUIT

Edwina M. Rudisill and Richard
E. Rudisill today filed suit against
Ella Pringle Coyington for S8llO
damages alleged to have been sus-
tanned in an automobile accident
caused by the negligence of the de-
fendant.
The accident occurred on the
Brawley highway November %. AT
that time Mrs. Rudisill suffered
three fractured ribs and internal IN
jurieS. She was confined to bed tor
several weeks.
The plaintiffs ask $500 damages
for the mental shock and physical
pain suffered by Mrs. Rudisill. Sll0
for hospital bills and medical treat
ment, S450 for damage to the Rudi-
sill automobile, and the rest as at
torneyS fees and costs.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
County Divorces
Exceed Weddings

Hard times, If there are hard
times in Imperial Valley. have
struck a mortal blow at the mar
riage market
Blame it on Wall street or any
other branch of big business, or on
the waywardness Of the younger
generation. It is a fact that during
the year 1880 in Imperial County. l6i
divorces and aunulments have been
granted by the superior court here,
while only la marriage licenses
have been issued by the county
clerks office.
It has been suggested that Yuma
marriages out Of this valley will
more than make up a marriage total
to pass that OF divorces granted
Not all OF the divorces asked for
nave been granted While 1873 di-
vorce suits were :lled, only l6l di-
yorces were granted by the court.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
Flyer
TOCOme Home

TOKYO. Jan. 10. U.P)-Aviatlon
is a less profitable business than
chop suey in the opinion of Zen
saku Azuma. japanese pilot, who ar
rived in his home country last fall
after a solo flight from the United
States via Europe. The flyer went
to Yokohama yesterday to sail on
the Tatsuta Maru for Los Angeles
where he will resume his restaurant
business.
Azuma sold his chop suey restau-
rant in Pasadena a year ago before
setting out on his flight across the
United States, Europe and Siberia
He had hoped to establish himself
as flyer in Japan. He found no
satisfactory opening however.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
ACTRESS MAKES
PEACE WITH HER
FORMER SPOUSE

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 10. (UP -
Lima BaSquette film star, who en-
gagged in verbal warfare with Harry
NJ. Warner, president of Warner
Brothers Pictures company. over
the custody of her child last Iall.
has made her peace with the War
ner family, and may even be rec
onciled with her husband, Peyerell
Marley, cameramen, they admitted
today.
Miss Basquette secured an inter-
locutory decree of divorce from
Marley last September. which does
not become final TOR another Sven
months.
"Pey. always has been. and prob
ably always will be. the only one
for me- Miss BaSquette said, and
Marley, in turn, said, We admire
each other. and have been the best
of friends since our separation.
But as to reconciliation, time on
ly will tell, Miss BaSquette said. She
added: And of course, the divorce
decree is not yet final.
Miss BaSquette was reported en-
gagged to Harry Richman. night
club owner, and when Richman per-
mitted the publicity to be circu-
lated, she left his show to indicate
her displeaSure, she said.
Miss Basquettes small daughter,
the child of former marriage With
the late Sam Warner, was adopted
by Mr.. and Mrs, Harry Warner
Miss Basquette had charged that
the child was kept from her through
conspiracy. but since has spent
three months with her daughter.
and has changed her opinion, she
declared
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
Coast Stocks
Remain Steady

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Jan. 10
Trading on the Los Angeles
Stock and Curb exchanges today
was very slow, with the majority of
issues on the boards holding steady
to yesterdays closing prices.
BolSa Chica had 2000 shares al
ia, as did Transamerica at l3&l
Richfield common sold 1900 shares
at SIS, up Is; Southern California
Edison common sold 1000 shares at
49,; Union Associates sold Toe
shares at 24is Standard Oil at 49,
sold GOO shares. and Richfield pre-
ferred at 7 sold 800 shares Banks
were inactive.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
For
Jail Breaker

One arraignment and one trial
we're held in Judge L Mayfield's
court yesterday efternoon.
j. B. Terry was arraigned on a
charge of escape from an officer,
and January 80 set as the date for
his preliminary hearing. He escap-
ed while trusty on the local chain
gang.
S. Teguchi was tried for violation
of the state labor law governing
payment of employees wages. He
entered a plea of guilty and was
sentenced to serve 60 days in the
county jail, execution being sus-
pended on the condition that he pay
the labor claim against him and be-
have lawfully in the future.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
GIRLS EMPLOYER
UNDER ARREST

WEST LOS ANGELES, Calf.
Jan. 10. up - Eighteen-year-old
Mamie Williams sought to buy a
revolver at a hardware store here to-
day, but the storekeeper, alarmed
at her agitated appearance, instead
called the police. AS a result, her
employer Phil Emory, was III jail
on a charge of suspicion of statutory
offense.
The Williams girl told police that
she planned suicide because Emory.
by whom she had been employed as
housekpeeper, piled her with Ii
quor and attacked her last Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
SLAIN BURGLARS
RECORD BAD ONE

Another development followed the
shooting and killing of Jose Ohvas
by City Officers A. T. Atkinson and
Arch o Bratton recently, when
Charles Rosenquest, identification
expert here. received n telegram to-
day that Olivas was an escaped con-
vict from Florence State peniten-
tiary in Arizona.
Olivas, stated the telegram, had
only served a short time of a 10 to
14-year sentence for burglary when
he escaped from the Arizona penal
institute.
Other adviceS from California
authorities have stated that Olivas
had a prison record in this state,
and was well known in police circles.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-10
RESCUE
Of MEN
DELAYED
Score Held Prisoners By
Landslide In Tunnel At
Hetch Hetchy.
LABORER IS HER o
Risked Life To Install
Pipe Assuring EntOmb-
ed Men Fresh Air.

CAMP MITCHELL, Cal, Jan. 10.
U.P)-The 90 men held prisoner q
quarter mile inside the mountain
by a cave-in in Mitchell tunnel
probably cannot be rescued before
5 p. m, rescuers returning to the
portal said shortly after noon to-
day.
We've been slowed up again.
one of the rescue crew members
told the United Press.
Now were having to saw our
through chunks o. structural steel
as we'll as crushed timbering.
THE best part about it is that
the boys inside the trap aren't dis
couraged. We just told EN- through
the connecting pipe that we could
not get them out before about sup
per time.
THE said Don't worry. We're all
right. Plenty of air"
CAMP MITCHELL, Calf, Janl0.
W.P)-"We're all right. All of us.
Plenty of air, don't worry. Keep
digging t>- h
A thin, metallic voice. SOUNDING
like a single earphone of small
radio set, brought this cheering
news in jerkey phrases through a
four inch pipe line in Mitchell tun-
mel today.
On one end of the pipe was res
cue squad, working frantically to
remove a slide of rock, dirt and
broken timbering that completely
choked the bore.
At the far end were 20 men, held
prisoner since $40 last night, when
the cave-in imprisoned them at O
point 1900 feet inside the mount
ain.
The life giving pipe itself was laid
by 28-year-old Welby Morgan.
nozzleman. while the tremendous
cave-in was under way.
Morgan, credited with saving the
lives of all the imprisoned men who
otherwise might have perished Of
suffocation, saw the ground star.
to swell and heard the timbering
creak and groan.
his mind, thought of the length of
four inch pipe he had seen on the
floor, and charged toward the group
working farther back in the bore.
A piece of falling rock knocked
him down, but he stumbled to his
feet, dragged the pipe to a position
on the floor of the tunnel beneath
The roof section that was even then
disintegrating into a rain of rock
and shale. and escaped as the entire
wall and ceiling structure failed with
q tremendous roar.
Pipe Clears Rock
When the binding dust Of the
slide had cleared away and lights
were obtained, engineers found that
the ventilating system had been
carried away, but one end of Well
by pipe projected from the tons of
debris by two feet.
FcaTfully. they bent the pipe up
ward far enough to talk into it. II
the pipe cleared the other end, it
would carry air into the trap; if it
didn't, the 20 men beyond the slide
would probably die
Can you hear us? Can you hear
us?" the first calls of the rescue
squad echoed woodenly in the dark,
in-lit tunnel.
There was silence.
Then the thin, far away voice
which throughout the night brought
cheering news from the trap-was
heard for the first time.
Hi We can hear you! Just found
the pipe we're all right We count
ed up and we're ali herel"
A recue crew of 80 men, the larg-
est number that can work efficiently
IL the bore at one time, toiled ceas-
clegsly throughout the balance of
the night and this morning.