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Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
CLARK OBTAINS
FREEDOM WHEN
BAIL IS RAISED

LOS ANGELES, June 4. U.P)-
Bail bond rushed from San Fran
cisco by airplane guaranteed today
the freedom of David H. Clark,
young former deputy district at
torney, until he goes on trial on a
charge of numbering two men
Clark was released shortly before
midnight when 100000 in bond
furnished by three companies was
accepted by Municipal Judge Carl
Sturzenacker. He had been held for
trial on a charge of killing Charles
Crawford, politician. and Herbert
Spencer, magazine editor.
Two local companies could fur
nish only $4,000 bond, and it was
necessary to obtain the remaining
$4,000 from San Francisco by
plane.
The date of Clark's trial has not
been set, but the prosecution has in
dicated it will use all 80 days per-
by law before filing a mur-
der complaint. The law provides
that date of the trial must be set
within 30 days after termination of
the preliminary hearing.
When he left the Jail, accom-
panied by friends and newspaper
men, Clark walked to a nearby
bonding company office, where his
pretty wife, Mrs. Nancy Clark, and
her two sisters were waiting. Clark
and his wife posed for photographs
as he signed bonding papers and
then left for their apartment.
AS Clark and his group walked
to the bonding office, one of a group
of nearby truck drivers shouted:
"Thattaboy Clark" The order for
his release on bond drew applause
in court Tuesday. The prosecution
failed to show definitely that he was
the man in Crawfords office with
Crawford and Spencer when the
shooting occurred.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
NONSTOP TRIP
OVER PACIFIC
IS POSSIBILITY

PARIS, June 4. U.P)-Dieudonne
Coste believes that the Pacific ocean
can be spanned by air in a stop
flight.
The French conqueror of the At
lantic from Paris to New York be-
lieves that a similar flight is pos
sible across the Pacific.
In an interview, he said that
conditions attending an attempt to
cross the Pacific without an island
stop are sufficiently like those faced
by him and his partner, Maurice
Bellonte. on the Atlantic flight.
Coste was led to discuss the pos
sibility of a tranS-Pacific nom
stop flight after it was announced
that a Toxic newspaper had estab-
lished a prize for a flight from the
japanese capital To the American
mainland.
while I have not made a minute
personal examination of data rela-
tive to such flight. I believe it can
be DONE" he said.
Coste denies he was personally in
terested at present in making such
a flight. but said the right man and
the right machine would have as
good a chance as Lindbergh had, or
as he and Bellonte had.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04

the time the Cherokee strip was
opened. He was employed then as
land agent for the Rock Island rail-
road.
He held a similar post with the
Great Northern railroad. He failed
in health in 1894 and came to Cali
fornia to recuperate.
First engaging in the jewelry
business in Los Angeles, he
branched out into real estate de-
velopment. His first venture was
on a 400-acre tract in what is now
Hollywood. His efforts in this de-
velopment turned a district devoted
to truck gardening into a beautiful
residential district. 1t was as a
result Of his success in these de-
velopments that he was given the
appelation of father of Hollywood"
Outstanding in his realty work
was the part he took with a group
of Los Angeles businessmen in de-
veloping $4,000 acres in the San
Joaquin valley. This same group
carried through similar project
in San Fernando valley, involving
$4,000 acres.
Besides his real estate enterprises
in Southern California, Whitley was
one of the founders of the Home
Savings bank. He was also iden-
titled with the organization of the
First National Bank of Hollywood;
the First National Bank of Van
Nuys and State banks in Owens
mouth, Reseda and Corcoran.
Surviving him are his widow, Mrs.
Margaret Whitley. who lives at the
family residence, 6643 Whitley Ter
race: his son, Ross E. Whitley, of
Van Nuys. and a daughter, Grace
Virginia Whitley.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
ASSERT
BLAIR PETITION
SIGNED In ERROR

Stating that they signed the W.
o. Blair recall petition through mis-
understanding. 70 signers filed with
drawal cards with the secretary of
the Imperial Irrigation district this
afternoon. This number is slightly
more than one-third of the original
number of signatures appearing on
the petitions.
Careful check of the signatures,
it is said, reveals that so signers
affixed their names to the petition
on the same day that they register
ed. Final announcement as to the
validity of the petition awaits legal
opinion upon this point in addi-
ton to several other legal phases.
Charles L. Childers, attorney for
the district, who has the maCter un-
der consideration. could not be
reached this afternoon but is ex-
pected to deliver an opinion tomor-
row.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
M& R1~~.
d tsss MsNsueAt eyndisaas. Ia
GOVERNORS In
FRONT POSITION
AS CANDIDATES
Recent Conference Un-
covers Several Presi-
Dental Possibilities.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, June 4. U.P)-
Governors have come into the
foreground in unusual numbers as
apparent presidential aspirants,
muscling into a field in which
United States senators usually are
the more conspicuous group.
Four governors made utterances
at the governors conference in
French Lick, Ind, this week which
stamped them in the minds of prac-
tically all politics as aspirants for
a presidential nomination next year.
Three potential contenders heard
from were Democrats-Governors
Franklin D. Roosevelt of New
York, Albert C. Ritchie of Mary
land, and George White of Ohio.
The fourth was Governor Clifford
Pinchot of Pennsylvania, an irregu-
lar Republican, who is being urged
by some ProgreSsives to oppose
President Hoover for the Republi-
can nomination next year. All four
broke through the restrictions of a
controversial agenda to talk
about depression. prohibition, power,
wheat and other national issues of
presidential size.
In the early presidential specula-
ton numerous senators usually
sprout booms but most of them
meet an early freeze. Senators are
in better position. because of un-
restricted senate rules, to make
what are in fact stump speeches on
national issues.
The nature of the senate's work
throws a number of senators into
strategic roles with regard to ma
tional policies. Furthermore, a
gallery Of newspaper correspondents
is in constant attendance to give
national prominence to senatorial
activities.
Then there is the modern con-
ception that senator ranks higher
in the scale than a governor. All
governors want to be senator's, but
no senator is seen going back to be
governor of his state When Sena-
tor Norris, Republican of Nebraska,
once talked about quitting the
senate to run for governor, it was a
political sensation.
In Second Place
With the growth of the nation
and the Welding of the units in the
federal system, the view of the
senate as practically a council of
ambassadors of the sovereign states
disappeared so that the governor.
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Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
GOVERNMENT TO
PROBE SHOOTING
OF RUM RUNNER

SAN PEDRO, Cal, June 4. U.D
"A federal investigation into the
sea fight between the coastguard
cutter Arrow and the rum running
Diatome, in which one member of
the latter's crew was killed, was
instituted today on the orders of
U s. Attorney S w. McNabb.
Instructions TO start an inyestl-
cation into the battle and conse-
quent seizure of the Diatome came
after a coroner's jury had brought
in a verdict that William K. Mil
likin's death was homicidal, but
from the evidence produced we are
unable to blame or absolYe any
person or persons"
Capt. G. A. Clark and William
Moore, members of the Diatome
crew, were arraigned before United
States Commissioner David B. Head
yesterday and released on bond OF
$500 each.
The Diatome was confiscated az
also were 300 cases OF liquor found
on board.
The investigation will probe the
reason why the coastguard cutter
was cruising the coast without
showing lights. Testimony given at
the inquest brought out the fact
that the Arrow did not show lights
when it challenged the Diatomc for
also falling 70 show signals.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
Staying Witness
Seeks Divorce

LOS ANGELES. June 4. U.P)-
Lucille Fisher, blonde stenographer
to the late Charles Crawford, mur-
dered politician, appeared in supe-
rior court today to file a divorce
complaint against Melvin T. Black
well.
MY husband gambled so much 1
often had to go to Mr.. Crawford for
advances on my salary" the girl
said. "He wasn't satisfied when Mr..
Crawford would give no money, and
got so deep in debt that he even
took my engagement ring and wrist
watch to pawn"
Miss Fisher said she married
Blackwell at Tijuana in November,
1929, and separated last April. She
charged non-support.
Miss Fisher is one of the most inn
portant witnesses in the Crawford
Herbert Spencer murder case.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
Wife TO
GO With
AVIATOR
Journey Will Be Made In
Easy Stages And Con-
tinue On To Orient.
STARTS IN MONTH
Flyer COnfers With Gov
ernment Officials Upon
Details OF Trip.

WASHINGTON. June 4. U.P)-
Charles A. Lindbergh. who won
fame four years ago by making the
first nonstop flight across the At
lantic. is making plans to fly across
the Pacific with his wife and tour
Japan and China, 1t was learned to-
day at the state department.
Lindbergh outlined his plans to-
day to the state department, ex-
planning he would cross the Pacific
by easy stages, avoiding a long
overnight flight.
His definite route has not been
worked out, but he is expected 10
follow the northern route.
Lindbergh told Under Secretary
Of State William r. Castle he ex-
pected TO use the low-wing mono-
plane In which he established a
speed record across the United
States. 1t will be equipped with
pontoons.-
Lindbergh emphasized his desire
TO make the trip purely for plea
sure and said he would proceed eau
tiously so as TO avoid exposing Mrs.
Lindbergh TO danger.
He expects to leave the United
States within a month and to spend
about three weeks flying through
Japan and China. His plans be-
came known today when he re-
quested the state department to Sc
cure permission for him to fly over
foreign territories. Castle immed-
lately dispatched a telegram re-
questing the necessary permission.
The state department said, should
Lindbergh find it necessary to fly
over or land on Siberian territory,
he would have to secure permission
directly from the Soviet government
due to lack OF diplomatic relations
with that country.
Aviators seeking similar permis-
sion in the past have made applica-
tlon through the Amtorg Trading
company Of New York or the So
Wet information bureau here.
Details Uncertain
Lindbergh has not yet determined,
he told Castle, whether he will re-
turn from the Orient by boat or
plane. Many details of the trip, he
explained, remain to be worked out.
In taking Mrs. Lindbergh, the
former Anne Morrow, daughter of
Senator Dwight Morrow of New
York, Lindbergh will have COM
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Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
OF
AIR over
ATLANTIC
Long-Interrupted Flight
To South America Un-
der Way At Last.
MAKING PROGRESS
First Radio Reports Bad
ly Garbled And Cause
RumOrs Of Disaster.

PORTO PRAI, CAPE VERDE IS
seaplane Dornier DO-X resumed
its long uninterrupted flight to South
America today and several hours
after her flight was making good
progress.
The British steamer Teresa re-
ported sighting the DO-x at 1855
p. M in latitude 10 north, % west.
apparently going at good speed and
with all we'll aboard.
Previously great excitement had
been caused here by false radio res
ports that the DO-X had fallen in
to the sea so miles from the Islands.
A tug was sent to the rescue, but
the reports subsequently were cor
rected by the radio stations which
appeared TO have received garbled
messages from ships, one announce
ment even saying that the DO-x
herself had radioed that she was
falling.
All subsequent information indi-
Gated that the reports were with
out foundation.
PORTO PRAIA, Cape Verde Is
lands, June 4. U.P9-The German
seaplane Dornier DO-X resumed its
long delayed flight across the south
Atlantic today, and a short time af-
ter starting was reported to have
come down at sea about go miles
southwest of here.
The report came by wireless, but
the same sources subsequently said
the DO-x had not met with an &C
cident
A tug was sent out from here and
it was believed news of the air.
planes whereabouts would be re-
ceived shortly.
PORTO PRAIA. Cape Verde
Islands, June a. UP)-The great
German seaplane DO-X fell into
the sea Is degrees southwest of
Port Praia. while resuming its pro-
iected flight to Brazil today.
A tug was sent to the rescue.
First news of the forced descend
of the DO-X was received from the
aircraft itself, which send a mes
sage to the Praia station saying:
Failing so miles from Praia"
Tugs at once left Praia under
forced draught to search for the
DO-X.
A local wireless station persistent
ly but fruitlessly sent out radio
calls to the DO-x.
(Few aircraft can communicate
except in flight, due to special gen.
orator and antenna arrangements)
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
Sailor Says Wife
Divorced Admiral

SAN FRANCISCO, June 4. U,P)-
Aubrey Willard Duncan, United
States navy water tender stationed
at Yerba Buena Island, charged in
an annulment suit today that his
wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Madeline Dun
can, had kept secret her previous
marriage to a rear admiral.
Alleging fraud, Duncan claimed
his wife had been divorced from
Rear Admiral Alfred st. Clair
Smith, now stationed aboard the U.
S. S. Rochester, near Panama, and
that she was the mother of Smiths
two children.
The sailor also charged his wife
failed to live within his $87 a month
income, of which he sent her $65,
and that she held parties in his abb
sence. The two separated in 1928.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
JEFFRIES-JOHNSON
BEFORE COMMISSION

LOS ANGELES, June 4. U.P)-
The application of Ancil Hoffman,
San Francisco promoter, for box
ing permit. will not come up before
the state athletic commission at its
present Los Angeles meeting, DR..
Harry Martin, chairman, announced
at noon today
Hoffman's permit was suspended
shortly after he took Max Baer,
heavyweight fighter, on an eastern
tour. 1t was ruled that he violated
a commission ban on promoters and
managers being one and the same
person.
James ]. Jeffries, former heavy
weight champion, was before the
commission seeking a permit to
operate an amateur club in his
home town of Burbank.
Jack Johnson, who conquered
James E. Jefferies. former heavy
weight champion, was granted a
permit to fight in exhibition bouts
only.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
STATE STREET
CROSSING COST
TO BE- DISCUSSED
Special Session OF City
Council To Be Held For
Conference.

Dorsey Whitelaw, city attorney,
last night suggested the city coun-
Gil hold a special session to con-
slider an itemized list of State street
crossing expenses submitted to him
by Southern Pacific railroad Off
cials this week.
The city attorney promised to
notify the board when he has pre-
pared data in the proper form to
be submitted at council meeting,
Submission Of an itemized list of
expenses by the railroad people fol-
lowed the action of the council two
weeks ago in refusing to accept the
general estimate of the railroad that
work on the State street crossing
will cost 1856. and in asking for
a more extensive list of items.
The special session of the city
trustees will probably be held after
Whitelaw has prepared all necessary
data.
Another matter discussed by
councilmen last night was the plans
for a new Ell Centre outfall sewer
line. Chester A. Smith, of the Los
Angeles engineering firm of Burns,
Mcdonnell and Smith, was en-
ployed to assist Phil Knights, city
engineer, in drawing plans for a
new sewer line.
Minutes of the last meeting of the
city planning commission were read
and the council adopted a resolu-
tion to move the city maintenance
yard at Seventh and Sandalwood tc
some other location within so days
This was at the request of the plan.
ming commission.
Protests against set back lines or
! Olive street were oyerruled when il
appeared that most of the protesting
were under the impression the set
1 (Continiad oY, pooo cN
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
Harvard Declared
To Be Total Loss

SAN PEDRO, June a. U.p) 49, A
radiogram received from Capt. Rob-
ert Gardner, savage master, by the
Merritt, Chapman and Scott Sal
wage company today, indicated the
Iassco liner Harvard, aground off
Point Arguello, was a total loss.
The message said Harvard brok-
en- at forward mast and 25 feet for
ward of main mast. Heavy seas
continue"
The salvage company officials
said they felt some concern for their
own equipment which they had
placed aboard the stranded liner and
which was valued at $4,000.
SAN PEDRO, Cal, June q. UP
With heavy seas pounding its plates
and the hull sinking deeper into
the sand, little hope of releasing
the stranded Lassco liner Harvard
from the reef and sandbar off Point
Arguello was held by officials to-
day
Capt. Louis B. Hillsinger left his
command yesterday for the first
time since the vessel grounded
with nearly 500 passengers on board
early last Saturday.
All luggage stored in the bag
gage hold has been recovered by
the salvors and brought ashore.
The vessel, however, has not been
entirely abandoned. Two coast
guard cutters are standing by and
a further attempt will be made by
three tugs to pull the vessel into
deeper water.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
Kennedy Mixed Up
On Prize Money


LONDON, June 4. U,H-Over-
enthusiasm led Joseph Kennedy, a
member of the crew of the steamer
American Banker, to announce he
had drawn ticket on Cameronian
in the Irish Sweepstakes on the
Derby, officials of the United States
lines said today.
1t was explained that Kennedy
was over-eager to celebrate when he
read of the drawing of a ticket by
a Boston man with a name and ad-
dress similar to his.
The Kennedy of the American
Banker is a white man, not a negro,
as enormously reported at first.
The Boston Kennedy who drew the
ticket is a negro.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
FATHER OF HOLLYWOOD DIES
AFTER LONG AND ACTIVE LIFE

LOS ANGELES. June 4. U.P)-
The funeral of II. J. Whitley, 83,
pioneer California real estate man
and known as the father of Holly
wood" will be held at p. m. to-
morrow, it was announced today.
Death of Whitley at the home of
his son yesterday brought to an end
a career replete with the romance
of pioneering days. His end came
peacefully, while he slept. The last
year of his life had been burdened
with illness.
His career as a real estate broker
started back in Oklahoma during
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
Big Feet Come
In Quite Handy

LOS ANGELES, June 4. U.P)
y. A. Williams was acquitted
in traffic court on a charge
that he parked his automobile
too close to a fire plug when
he proved that IL feet make
10 feet.
II know i was 10 rect from
the hydrant, because 1 meas
ured it," Williams told Judge
Alfred PaOnessa. "My shoes
are IL inches long and the car
was IL of my feet from the
fireplug-tIlat makes 10 feet"
"You win," the judge said,
ease dismissed"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
WHAT'S DOING

TONIGHT
Band concert. 8. city park.
McCabe- Eucalyptus farm CEN
ter. 8, McCabe school.
B. p. o. E. No. 1925, 8, Elks
hall.
II. A. NJ, No. 100, s, Masonic
temple.
Barbara Worth Rebekahs, 3,
Davis hall.
Phi Chi, $3.50.
Fox Airdome, "SvengaIi."
TOMORROW
Kiwanis club, Barbara Worth.
Alam0-Verde home depart
ment, Barbara O'C0nnOr home.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
MOSTLY MEN IN OREGON

SALEM, Ore. WP)-Men outnum-
Der women in Oregon. OF the states
953,786 population, 99,672 are males
and 454,l14 are females, or ITO men
per 100 women.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
uNDbERCH PLANS TO FLY ACROSS PACIFIC
mIMIuL1L-.o

BEVERLY HILLS, June 3.
(SpeciaD-Yesterday our mum
icipal election ran true to po-
litical form. The sewer was de-
feated but the councilmen got
in. In our big murder case out
here, the fellow they are try
ing for a double killing came
pretty near being elected to
the office of judge yesterday.
Looks like if he had bumped off
three instead of two he would
have been elected.
I was telling you the other
day what a lot of "hooey' this
college honorary degree is.
My contention was borne out.
Didn't you see where Wicker
sham got one at Syracuse Uni
versity?
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04
MILLS ON STAND
AS WITNESS In
PANTACES CASE
Evidence Considered
Damaging Blow to De-
fense OF Theatre Man.

SAN DlEljO, Cal, June q. tU.H)-
Details of party given at the ex-
elusive Ell Cortez hotel last October
for Alexander Pantages. were re-
vealed from the witness stand to-
day by John p Mills. former bus
iness associate of the theatrical
man.
Nattily dressed. visibly nervous,
Mills testimony brought consterna-
ton the defense ranks. and was
permitted to stand in the record
only over violent objections of de-
fense attorneys.
A business deal involving an
100000 note signed by Mills, Pan
tages and Jesse II. Shreve, code
fendant with Pantages in the NOR
ais trial, brought the theatrical
man TO San Diego, Mills said.
Shreve. Mills said. indicated he
wanted some sort of entertainment
for Pantages, so Mills called Olive
Day in Los Angeles to provide two
girl companions at a cost of 5000
"'Pan still likes to play around"
Mills quoted Shreve as saying.
Mrs. Day and William Jobelmann
then brought Lydia Nitto and Helen
Livingston to San Diego for the
party, Mills said. While admitting
it was he who ordered the girls,
Mills denied attending the party
himself.
LOS ANGELES, June q. U.P)-'
Because the defendants are in
yolved in a similar case in San
Diego, preliminary hearing for Olive
Clark Day and William Jobelman
on statutory charges, arising from
the alleged operation of syndicate
which provided girls for parties, to-
day was continued until June 18 by
Municipal Judge William S. Baird.
LOS ANGELES, June a. U.P)-
The $1,000 900 damage suit brought
against Alexander Pantages. thea
tire magnate, by Eunice Pringle, as
a result of an alleged criminal at
tack upon the l7-year- dancer,
was set today for trial on July 30
in superior court.
The girl asks actual damages
amounting to $500,o00, and a SINH
lar amount for exemplary damages.
Pantages, now at liberty under
bond, was convicted several months
ago in superior court on the attack
charge, Miss Pringle. then II years
old, charged that on August 9, 1929,
she went to the showman's office in
a downtown building seeking
booking on the stage and that there
she suffered the alleged attack.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-06-04

CONTINUED op cage six)
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