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Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-18
C()UNTY'S s
TAX RATE
GOING Up
Boost Of % Cents On
City Property Though
Rural Rate Same.
ROAD RATE CUT
Other Increases Offset
Gain Made By This
Move.

City dwellers of Imperial county
must bear the burden of an In
creased tax rate during the fiscal
year of 1892, while farmers, al
ready harassed by financial worries.
escape the necessity of contributing
more than in the past to the coun-
ty treasury.
This is the result of action taken
by the county board of superviS-
ors yesterday afternoon in raising
the elementary and high school
general tax rate according to rec
concentrations of the county super
intendent of schools.
AT the same time the county
farm bureau won a fight to have
the road tax reduced from 40 cents
per hundred valuation to II cents
per hundred. BY this action the
tax rate paid by the farmer re-
mains at S270 per hundred, as it
was last year.
Although the supervisors asserted
they cut every tax rate within
their Jurisdiction, final figures
showed the city taxpayer this year
must pay county tax rate of $2.53
per hundred valuation, instead OF
$3.50 per hundred, the rate last
year.
The county board of supervisors
could do nothing but increase the
elementary and high school general
tax rate, since it is required by
law to fix the rate at figure fin .
ally agreed on by school trustees
of the county, and the county SUI
perintendent Of schools.
Within the jurisdiction Of the
county governing body was the gen.
eral fund, which was cut 13 cents
nine mills, per hundred valuation
and the advertising tax rate, which
was cut one cent. Tabulated fig
ures, however, showed the tax rate
on salary, county highway bonds
and interest, county court house
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-18
Continued on page g.
SMITH CHARGES
NOT ANSWERED
BY ROSENWALD

CHICAGO, Aug. 18. U.P)-Frank
l.. Smiths charges that julius
Rosenwald offered him the equiv
alent of $550,000 to withdraw from
the Illinois senatorial race in 1926
stirred up reports of various kinds
in Chicago today.
RoSenWald, who has been i'll, did
not answer the charges and mem
bers of his family said he had not
even been informed of them.
Reports that men in Rosenwald's S
confidence admitted Smiths charg-
es were essentially true were pub
lished by the Chicago Tribune. The
paper said these men defended
Rosenwald
The Herald and Examiner said
Smiths charges were regarded in
political circles as presaging the
downstate leaders entry in next
years senatorial campaign"
Still another report came from
Attorney Leo F.. Wormser, counsel
for Rosenwald, who pointed out
that he had not seen the philan-
thropist for weeks and that what
he said did not come from Rosen-
wald.
Wormser characterized Smiths
charges as "a stale afterthought,"
and said he regarded them as rel
atively inconsequential.
Smith, who twice was refused a
seat in the senate because of scan
dalous" campaign expenditures.
charged that after he was nominal
ed by the Republican party, Rosen-
valid offered him $550000 worth Of
Sears Roebuck & Company shares
to withdraw.
The charges were made in an op-
en- letter addressed to Carroll d.
Wooddy, Chicago University pro-
fessor who recently published a
book condemning Smiths 1926 cam
paign.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-18
Vatican-Fascist
Peace Expected

ROME, Aug. l8. U.p)-Early set
tlement of the Vatican-Italy dis
pute was anticipated today as the
way was cleared for renewal of ne
gotiations.
Cardinal Gasparri, former papal
secretary of state, has been active
in smoothing the path to accord
and his conversations with Premier
Mussolini were expected to prove Of
great value.
While Pope Plus was believed
prepared to stand firm for official
expression of regret by the italian
government, the former atmos-
phere of excitement has cleared.
The trouble centered around Ital-
ian objections to the Catholic ac-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-18
DEMANDS
EXTREME
PENALTY Y
Former Office Mate Of
Clark Asks Jury For
Conviction.
QUOTES ROOSEVELT
Defendant UnmOved AS
State Declares Story
He Told Is False.
By GEORGE ii. BEALE
United Press Staff Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Aug. IL. CU.P)-
One of his former associates and
close friends today asked jury of
seven women and five men to send
David H. Clark, young attorney, to
the gallows for the Staying OF Her
bert Spencer, editor OF a political
magazine.
The defendant, himself q former
prosecutor for the district attorneys
office. sat quietly and apparently
unmoved as he heard Deputy Dis
trlct Attorney A. II. Van Cott ask
indirectly but Enthusiastically for the
death penalty.
Van Cott opened the final argu-
ments of the state by saying that
1t was not an easy thing for him to
speak against Clark, who admitted
he shot both Spencer and Charles
Crawford. boss politician, but who Is
charged only with 5pencer's muir
der.
II am one of the oldest members
of the district attorneys office"
Van Cott said, and while I was not
brought into contact with Dave
Clark socially he was fellow men,
Der of the district attorneys staff
for years.
Van Cott then read from the
autobiography of Theodore Roose-
welt. the following quotation:
"One of the most painful duties
Of chief executive of the nation
is the refusing OF pardons in cases
OF capital punishment. There are
times when one must steel his heart
and throw out all sympathy in order
TO do what is just and right"
And l feel" Van Cott said III
finishing the quotation, that in
this case before you, you jurors are
in much the same position as the
chief executive of the United States
when he must let convicted man
go to the gallows without interven-
ing
Clark Unmoved
Clark, whose steadineSs and poiSe
have caused continual comment at
his trial, gave no evidence that the
reference to the gallows bothered
him. He sat quietly in his chair,
alternately watching Van Colt and
the jurors.
Just behind Clark was his beau
tiful blonde wife, Nancy. In con-
trast to her appearance during the
sessions when testimony was being
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-18
Chinese Sentence
German Flyers

BERLIN, Aug. l8, W.H-Capt.
Johannes Rattle and Otto Koelber,
pilot and mechanic of the Eurasia
aviation corporation, have been
sentenced by Mongolian authori-
ties to five years Imprisonment on
charges of espionage, case SINH
lar to that of Pangborn and Hern-
don.
While plotting mail and passen-
ger plane between Shanghai and
Manchuli, on the Siberia-Man-
churia border, Ratje was forced
down in outer Mongolia July by
gunfire from Mongolian troops and
captured. The landing was made
near the line dividing Mongolia
and Manchuria.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-18
Session
To Be Avoided

WASHINGTON, Aug l8. up
President Hoover has no intention
of calling a special session of con-
gresS this fall for unemployment
relief or any other purpose, it was
learned officially at the White
House today.
The Presidents views were made
known in connection with recently
published rumors that he might
summon congress November Is to
permit early organization and thus
clear the way for unemployment
relief legislation.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-18
CHILDREN LEADER TO QUIT

SANTIAGO, Chile, Aug 18. (U.P)
The resignation of Juan Esteban
Montero, head of the government
since the recent overthrow of Presi-
dent Carlos Ibanez, was expected
today.
Montero, who has held the title
of vice-president, has accepted NOM
ination as a candidate for president
in the Forthcoming elections.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-18
Julian'S Home
Under Hammer

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. IS. (U.P) -
The home and personal effects OF
Mrs. c. c. Julian, estranged wife of
c. c. Julian, oil promoter, went un-
der an auctioneer's hammer today
1t was expected that some four
days will be necessary to dispose OF
the furnishings and the building
Mrs. Julian's whereabouts were
unknown. She issued a statement
yesterday saying she would not at
tend the sale.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-18

LOS ANGELES, Aug. l8. up
answering a similar suit filed by
Jack Dempsey in Reno yesterday,
his wife, Estelle Taylor. today sued
the former heavyweight champion
for divorce here.
RENO, New. Aug 18. U.P)-Adopt-
ing again the ring parlance which
he used when he was heavyweight
champion of the world, Jack Demp-
sey declared today he was just
"sparring around" so far in his di-
vorce action against Estelle Taylor,
his actress wife.
When the time comes I'll open
up said the Manassa Mauler in
much the same manner he predict
ed years ago how he would whip
Jess Willard, Louis Firpo. and
others.
81 can't tell you the details of
the cruelty charges" Dempsey said.
He smiled over reports from Los
Angeles that Miss Taylor, said the
trial would develop into the battle
OF the century, term which the
late Tex Rickard coined in adver-
tiSing some of Dempsey's fistic bat
ties.
Dempsey said he was unwilling to
show his strength until the pre-
liminary bouts were over and he ac-
tually was in the ring.
1T would give away my case to
Estelle, but there will be plenty to
give me a decree in any court where
there is justice" he said. I'm going
| ahead with my suit regardless Of
what action She takes in California.
Il made a property settlement
with Estelle which she later at
| tempted to repudiate and I am ask
| ing the Reno courts to affirm that
| property settlement"
| "She wants me to buy the house
gave her and l made an offer,
but she wasn't satisfied
| I'm going away on my barn
| Storming tour this week, as I
planned. 1 will come back to Reno
frequently and will stay here three
or four weeks to rest. The divorce
hearing will come during one of my
Homecoming jaunts.
I'm feeling swell and looking
forward to successful tour and a
lot of fun in my exhibition bouts.
Dempsey has been training in a
local gymnasium for his tour. He
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-18
LINDSEY IN HOSPITAL

LOS ANGELEJ. aug. 10. U.p -
Ben Lindsey, former judge OF the
Denver juvenile court. underwent a
major operation last night. Mrs.
Lindsey, who was with her husband
at Good Samaritan hospital, said
today that his condition. while not
reassuring. was as good as could be
expected. Lindsey recently opened
law offices here.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-18
HOOver's Son To
Join Faculty

PASADENA, Cal, Aug. 10. U.P)--
Herbert Hoover, Jr., son OF the
President, has accepted a position
on the faculty OF the California
Institute OF Technology. it was Of
ficially announced here today.
Young Hoover will serve on the
staff of the engineering and re-
search school as an assistant pro-
feSSor of business economics and
radio engineering.
He will begin his work at. the fall
opening late in September.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-18
GROOM FACES CHARGES

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18. U.H -
Edward Ennis White, the latest hus-
band of Mrs. Eugenia Bankhead-
Butt-Lee- White, daughter Of the
former senator from Alabama, will
face preliminary hearing on forgery
charges September 10. White Is ac-
cused of giving worthless checks to
Hollywood hotels signed Graham
DeVine."
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-18
Coast Schools To
Reopen August 81

LOS ANGELES, Aug. l8. W.P-
Public schools in Los Angeles will
reopen August 81, it was announced
today.
The date was advanced because of
the Fiesta de Los Angeles, for which
a holiday period will be granted.
An attendance of l75,000, increas-
ing to approximately 100000, is eX-
pected.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-18
CYCLONE CAUSES DAMAGE

ASUNCION, Paraguay. Aug 10.
U.PSA violent cyclone demolished
400 houses in the department Of
Villa africa. One person was killed
and many injured.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-18
DEMPSEY SURE
OF VICTORY IN
DIVORCE BOUT
Wife Also Files Divorce
Action In Court At Los
Angeles.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10. up
Answering a similar suit filed by
Jack Dempsey in Reno yesterday,
his wife, Estelle Taylor, today sued
the former heavyweight champion
for divorce here.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-18
.3R@S8SSs;

BEVERLY HILLS, Aug. II.
(SpeciaD Wasn't much hap
pened over the weekend outside
of Texas-put on little earth
quake which California papers
brought up to giant propor-
tions.
Winston Churchill made the
front page by hanging to Ber-
nard Shaw's whiskers and Nam
cy Astors petticoat. He is step
ping out of his class of wits
with those two. He has misfit
into too many prominent posi-
tions in England to shoot at
those two successes.
Borah says that France is
better off than any nation to-
day. Well, if you remember,
they are the only one that went
to work and saving the minute
the war was over. We're just
starting now. Yours,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-18

Continued on page g.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24
BROOKHART BITTER
| AT COLES DEMAND
Says Colleague Can Wait for
Explanation Regarding John
son Presidential Boom.

Senator Brookhart Of Iowa yesterday
sssailed his Republican colleague. Rep
resentative Cole of the same State, in
reply to the latter's demand for an ex-
PLANTATION of Brookhart's correspondence
with William Hale Thompson, eX-mayor
of Chicago. regarding presidential
boosting campaign for Senator Hiram
johnson of California.
Mr.. Cole was informed he could sit
and wait for the information asked in
his "discourteous and insulting" de-
mand. Did Andy Mellon and Bob
Lucas tell you to 90 it?' Senator Brook
hart asked
Il have no objection" wrote the
Senator, Ito showing these letters to
anybody interested in Iowa from Iowa'S
standpoint, but knowing that you have
always sucked eggs for the Wall Street
crowd and betrayed your own State to
the financial interests, I have no in
terest in disclosing anything to you
unless your dictatorship compels it.
IT want further to assure you that I
did not assume to speak for you or any
body like you. That is impossible. Mo-
body has ever been able to do that but
the Wall Street crowd. Neither have I
gone into any private alliances with
anybody, although I have felt until your
letter that I had perfect right to do
as I pleased without offending your
majestic sensibilities"
Brookhart asked Cole why he had not
called at his Office to see the CORE
Spondence, and concluded: L am sorry
I made you mad, but, notwithstanding,
you can have all the time you want to
get into a good humor again and then
some"
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last night. The play presents her as
a galvanic street lady who suddenly
finds herself married to a near-hun-
dred-per-cent fighter. The fighter,
becoming a "Softy," she leaves him
to straighten himself out with her
money at an Adirondack training
camp while she Solaces herself with
q Harlem partner in his place.
When finally the husband comes
back, sound in mind and in body
to put the fighting crown on his
head, his sweet little wife is there
to greet him with another man to
whom she has become indebted and
whom the husband Immediately
calls my pal"
The story, If it is q story, is so
tawdry and so lacking in even the
mildest demands of every day con-
ventionality that there is little need
to repeat all of it. If you are in
tent on an evening of muddy pleas
ure-acted handsomely to be sure,
and staged effectively-you may
find it. The lines have been lifted
word by word from the depths and
the characters who use them, for
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From the Front Row
Reviews and News of Washington Theaters.

the most part, had their birth there,
too.
Miss Vests art. however, is said
to be apart from all that. While
her favorite characterizations have
to do with shady ladies whose
speeches are a series of bar room
classics, she is said to yearn for
higher things-in fact, to next APP
pear as Lady Macbeth.
Judging from last nights perform
ance, Miss Vests peculiar genius
has to do with the way she walks,
the way she Kisses her SIS" and the
way she can pound out an earthly
remark. If she can squeeze these
into Lady Macbeth the lady should
be very, very good-but If she can't
the lady with the light may be
otherwise
There is something about Miss
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Club of st. Gabriels Church in st.
Paul's Auditorium, Fifteenth and v
streets northwest. 1t will be repeated
this evening for the benefit of the
new ST. Gabriel,s Church.
Guy Bolton and George Middleton
wrote this three-act comedy, in which
a Mr.. King, weighed down with the
trials of an extravagant family and
in-laWs by the score, succeeds in
escaping them all for a while by a
Sojourn to Brazil. Meanwhile Adam
Smith, a confirmed bachelor, who
has always longed for a home and its
joys, takes his place and tries to
manage this family in his own pecul-
lar style. His cure and their reac-
ton to it furnish a pleasant evening.
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West that gets them" however.
I'm just too fascinated for words"
said person on our right last night.
That seems to settle it-and the
balcony last night settled it, too
laughing its head off.
Other than Miss Vests perform
ance OF a sloppy person, there are
two really excellent bits done-one
by Russell Hardie, one of the best
OF our younger actors, who as the
hghtlng husband is inexplicably in
love with bis wife, and by Paul HUI
Der, as the lawyer. who paints
the wife so pure that she might
from that moment stand with a lily
IN her hand for the remainder of
the play. Incidentally. the inter
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College Heads Son WEEDS.

PLYMOUTH, Ind, November "a up.
-Thornwell Jacobs, jr., son of the
president of Oglethorpe University, at
Atlanta, Ga, and Virginia Hamilton.
daughter of Thomas B. Hamilton,
Chicago, vice president Of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, were married mere last
night by Rev. F. E. Kline, pastor Of the
Presbyterian Church. The couple OBJ
tanned a marriage license here a few
minutes before the wedding.
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Miss Eleanor Hopkins and Justin
Wrinkle in the leading role did ex-
cellently. Margaret Singerhoff.
Peggy Fallon and Rose Russell con-
tributed a high degree of amateur
acting. and the men of the cast, Jo-
seph O'Donnell. George Wrinkle. Ar
thur Van Heuckeroth, Francis
Schwoerer and Ralph Collins, ably
seconded their efforts, Mr.. ODon-
nelIs character role of Lord Andrew
Gordon, probably furnishing the out
standing Characterization of the per-
Torrance.
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Illustrated by a
series of Paris
ian post cards.
1t begsn in one
vein and ended
in the same.
One of the
few surprising
ly liIy-w h i t e
lines came when
Miss West said
I'D love to go
to Paris. Then
I can continue
my music les
sons"
Miss West, as
q matter of
fact, was busy
with things
o&LAarfI,anna 11Eir
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"The Constant Sinner"
At the Shubert- BelaScO.

- NE Of the largest first might
4 audiences of the season,
probably composed of hus-
~ bands without wives and,
perhaps, even wives with
out husbands, greeted Miss Mae
West and her play, THE Constant
Sinner" last night at the Shubert-
BelaSco.
It was not--as various fiamboyant
posters throughout the city have
hinted-an evening of pure delight,
but rather one best described as il
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mixture OF race in this play is not
q pleasant quality.
E. de S. MELCHER.
"Sliding" Billy Watson
Makes EN- Laugh at Gayety.
ONCE again Sliding" Billy Wat
~ son attracts the burlesque pa
irons with another of his famous
successes, the Big Fun Show" in
which, as of old, he is still that
funny fellow who slides and utters
gurgling noises much to the delight
Of the laughing audience. Sam
Green, Harry MARITIME and George
Monford are first aides of Capt.
Billy and at times make Billy Wat
son look to his laurelS. One of the
skits, Two Bad Boys" particularly
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Membership in British labor unions
has declined s.s14OOO. a drop Of AZ per
cent since 1920.
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abounds in laughter.


Evelyn Whitney, brunette of the
pleasing variety, adds color and
charm to the show. while the Smith
Sisters, proficient both in singing and
dancing, introduce an original note.
Josephine Flint, platinum blonde
does several comedy numbers quite
we'll and the Kane Brothers. with
fast-stepping feet, team up nicely
with the Smith Sisters. FL. C.
Stella Maris Club
Presents adam and Eva"
4 comedy prescribing the cure for
depression and furnishing
amusement enough for all the de-
pressed, Adam and Eva" was pre-
sented last night by the Stella Maris
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large lot and convenient TO stores. schools,
churches and transportation. This Is bar
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the northeast section don't fail to see this
before buying For details call Adams l0l54.