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Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
Jury To Visit
Scene OF Crime

SAN DIEGO, July 80. W.D-Testi-
flying that Il heard a woman
scream in the Indian village the
night of May g." Mrs. Evelyn Myers
brought the trial of Moss f. Garri-
son for the murder of his sweet
heart, Hazel Bradshaw, TO It's final
stages today.
Mrs. Myers was the states last
surprise" witness and the only per-
son to testify concerning screams in
the Indian village where Miss
Bradshaw's body was found May 3.
Mrs. Myers said she and friends
we're driving by the village about
ll:40 p. m. May when she heard
screams.
Following Mrs. Myers testimony
the jury and Judge l.. N. Turren-
tine prepared to make tour of all
Of the places involved in the mur-
der case.
Garrison continued optimistic
over his chances for acquittal today.
Final arguments were expected to
begin this afternoon and the case
probably will be in the hands of
the jury by Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
BENBOUCH QUITS
AS POLICE HEAD
OF SAN DIEGO

SAN DIEGO. July 80. (U.P) -
Charging that the police depart
ment was being made "a political
football" Percy j. Benbough. chief
of police rendered his resignation
to Mayor Walter w. Austin today.
Benbough, appointed May to
reorganize the police department
after San Diego had four unsolved
murders in three months. has been
under fire for the past few weeks.
Councilman j. V. Alexander,
leader of Benbough's critics charg-
ed in open council meeting that
Benbough was permitting the town
to stay wide open" and succeeded
in having a resolution adopted by
the council Monday directing Ben
bough to put the lid on
Alexander also threatened to be-
gin custer proceedings against the
chief If the order was not carried
out before August 3.
Mayor Austin will leave the city
for 30 days in the near future and
Alexander, as vice-president Of the
council, will be acting mayor.
In his resignation today, Ben
bough declared he could not bring
himself to work under Alexander's
jurisdiction.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
son OF TIGER
AND CALIFORNIA
WOMAN MARRIED

PARIS, July 80. U.P)-Mrs. Anette
Smith Aiken of Los Angeles became
the bride today of Michael Clemen-
ceau, 52-year-old son of the late
Georges Clemenceau, at civil
marriage ceremony performed by
an administration officer at the
town hall of the Eighth Arrondisse-
ment.
Clemenceau, an engineer charged
with organization and operation of
railroad properties in the French
colonies, was the favorite son of
the old statesman. He inherited
none of the political characteristics
Of the war leader, and has still less
facial resemblance.
Mrs. Aiken, "A, is the daughter
of the late Jasper Henry Smith.
Her mother was Nancy Katherine
Leonheart, now resident of De-
troit, Mich. She was divorced from
Friano Martin Aiken on June 8,
1880. Although born in Hicksville,
Ohio, Mrs. Aiken has spent most of
her life in Los Angeles and now
owns extensive property in Mexico.
The bridegroom is the father of
two children by former marriage
to Mile. Jean De Clynssen of Bel
gium, from whom he was divorced
in February, 1880.
The younger son, Pierre, recently
was married to the granddaughter
of Sarah Bernhardt, and the elder
son, George, to Mile. Rosenau,
daughter of a wealthy diamond
merchant
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
SURVIVORS OF
DESERT TRAGEDY
FIGHT FOR LIVES
Three Victims OF Sonora
Disaster Rave Insanely
In Hospital.

NOGALES, Sonora, Mex, July 30
(U.P)-Four unmarked graves in the
blistering wastes and three men
who raved inssnely In Sonoita hos
pital provided real and tragic an
swer today to Thomas A. Edison S
famous question as to what a group
of assorted travellers would do if
marooned in desert with limited
supplies of food and water.
Edison's question was imaginary
This tragedy was real. In this
group there were Mrs. Rugina
de Oieda, 16-year- -old mother, and
her 45-day-old baby.
The party set out from Nogales
to Mexicali in a desert stage July
20. Five days ago. the stage broke
down, $50 miles from any town.
Besides the girl mother and her
baby, others of the party all were
men. Stranded as they we're In
the middle of desert with food and
water enough to last them only a
short time. they faced in reality al
most the identical problem which
Edison propounded.
Edison's question was directed to
man in his imaginary party
Who, he asked. should be given
the water, who given the chance to
struggle back to civilization, who
left to die?
This party of seven answered the
question by all setting out together,
tramping slowly across the sands.
The weak succumbed and fell by
the wayside to die. The others
struggled on.
Found BY Mexjcali Man
The tragedy was discovered by
Augestin Pinto. of Mexicali, who
was journeying from Lower Cali
fornia to the city of Sonoita.
He came first upon the broken
down stage, then found the body of
the girl mother, Mrs. Rugina NJ. de
Oieda, with her tiny baby clutched
to her breast. He buried them in
shallow graves scooped out of the
sand. Travelling on, he found next
the body of Jesus Orantes and still
farther on the body of Jesus bro
ther, Ramon. He buried both.
Still farther on he came upon the
three survivors, Vicente Gutierrez,
driver of the stage: his son. Vicente,
Jr., and Juan Ojeda, husband Of
the l6-year-old girl who had sue
cumbed to thirst and hunger under
the burning desert sun.
All three men were temporarily
insane. Pinto brought them to a
hospital here. where they fought
today to win back the sanity which
they had lost in the desert.
None OF the three survivors of
the party of seven could tell what
had happened, but Pinto said the
story was written clearly along the
desert trail. 1t was evident, he said,
that first of all desperate attempts
were made to repair the stage. that
the seven then set out together with
their limited supplies.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
CHANG PLACES
SHANGHAI UNDER
MILITARY RULE

SHANGHAI, July 80. W.P)-Mar-
tial law was proclaimed in Shang-
hal today. The proclamation said
the decree would remain in effect
three days.
The order followed President
Chang Kai-Sheks recent declara-
ton of war against rebel forces in
Canton, to the far south, and the
Peiping and Tientsin area in the
north.
The rebellions in the north and
south have been aggravated by serf-
Gus damage and loss of life in the
worst floods in recent years
throughout the rich Yangtze Valley
area. Communications have been
disrupted, crops lost and hundreds
drowned. Unrest has grown in
Shanghai as a result and trouble
was feared.
Martial law also was proclaimed
in Hankow, badly affected by the
Yangtze floods.
The decree was issued in Shang-
hal, it was believed, because Chang
Kai-Shek plans to attend the fun
eral of his mother -in-law.
The international settlement and
the French concession, the large
foreign-controlled and inhabited
areas in Shanghai, were not affect
ed by the order.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
SEVERE STORMS
REPORTED FROM
ARIZONA CITIES

PHOENIX, July 30. W.P)-Storms
sweeping over Arizona in the last
"a hours flooded one city for few
hours, impaired communication
lines and caused an estimated loss
of $4,000, it was estimated today.
A flash storm inundated streets
OF Nogales. Ariz., and Sonora, for
several hours before dawn, causing
damage of several thousand dollars.
Highway workers repairing the
Tucson-Nogales highway, washed
out by the storm, severed all COM
munication lines with a powder
blast, 38 miles south of Tucson. It
was uncertain when the lines would
be repaired.
A United Press dispatch from
Nogales shortly before wires were
carried out by the blast said streets
of that city were covered with mud
and debris. Water ran from two
to five feet deep in some sections
of the twin cities on the interna-
tional border.
Arroyos carried the water off
within a few hours after daybreak.
Automobiles were carried down
the street by the torrents. A num-
ber of homes facing the generally
dry Santa Cruz river were threat
ened, the dispatch said, but the wa
ter subsidized before reaching floor
levels.
The storm started at IL o'clock
last night and continued until dawn.
There were no casualties.
Barometer Low
Phoenix weather bureau officials
reported a low barometer reading
for southern Arizona and northern
Mexico. A 20-mile an hour wind,
fairly strong for Phoenix" swept
through the city late last night,
leaving in its wake trace of rain.
Rains fell at Flagstaff and Tue
son, but the precipitation was light.
Damage of approximately $4,000
was caused when a hail and rain
storm, moving in opposite direc-
tions, met near Snowflake. in
northeastern Arizona. Roads were
damaged, trees blown on ranch
houses, damaging roofs. Barns and
poultry houses were either blown
away or seriously damaged.
A high wind of cyclonic propor-
tons, swept through Ajo, Ariz.,
causing an estimated loss of SIS 900
to property and livestock. The
Robles ranch schoolhouse was un-
rooted by the storm.
The storms broke a 30-day heat
wave, which has claimed Is lives in
Phoenix during the past week. Tenn
peratures throughout the state were
lower and weather officials expected
they might go lower within the next
"a hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
CONTINUED on page g.
dime SLAYER
DOOMED TO Be
HANGED FRIDAY

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, July
30 U.P)--Benjamin F.. Brown. who
killed a young mother Tor 50 in
dimes, awaited IN the prison death
cell today for the march TO the gall
lows in the morning, his last hope
for a reprieve gone.
Brown resigned himself 70 his
fate when Governor James Rolph.
Jr., announced he would not inter
fere in the execution scheduled for
tomorrow. The executive, however.
said he will commute to life inn
prisonment the death sentence OF
Umichi Tanaka. japanese slayer OF
Los Angeles Mexican, who was to
have been hanged with Brown.
The dime slayer killed Mrs.
Merle Ellis of Los Angeles on the
promise of her husband. Emory
Ellis, to pay him $1,000. He con-
fessed that Ellis only gave him So.
The husband is now serving a life
term for his part in the murder,
Mrs Els was shot TO death as she
slept with her infant child.
Brown was removed from the
condemned row late yesterday 70 the
death house, a cage located Just
outside the prison gallows room.
He shook hands with Tanaka as
he left the condemned row, saying,
heres where cur paths separate"
A chorus OF farewell shouts from
other condemned men followed him.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
FLYERS
LAND IN
TURKEY
Northumberland Reach
Istanbul After RumOrs
OF Being Lost.
CLAIM NEW RECORD
Pangborn And Herndon
Continue Attempt To
Lower World Mark.
BY ]. ID. QUIRK
United Press CorresnOndent


ISTANBUL, Turkey (By Trans
Atlantic Telephone from London
U.P)-Two New England aviators.
after a flight of approximately 5000
miles through fog and wind over
the Atlantic and down through
Europe, brought their black and yell
low monoplane to earth here today,
claimants to the world record for
distance flying in straight line.
The flyers, Russell N Boardman
and John Polando, left New York
at SO a. m. EST, on Tuesday and
landed here at GIG a. m. EST today.
making the flight in 49 hours and
II minutes.
Their arrival at their destination
after what must have been thou
sands of miles of blind flying, was
a remarkable achievement of navi-
cation. The plane, probably flying
high and fast, was not sighted or
reported at any point along the
route, except when it passed out TO
sea over Newfoundland, and even
then it was not identified.
The Cape Cod came down at the
Yechilkey airdrome to be received
| by cheering throngs.
Joseph C. Grew, the American
ambassador, who had waited for the
| flyers since a. m, was the first
| to greet them and shake their
hands. The crowd closed in and
the flyers were taken to the center
of the airdrome, where they were
given an ovation.
The actual distance of their
flight was estimated at 4984 miles.
The flyers emerged from the
plane smiling modestly but delight
ed by their reception. They seemed
little dazed from their long hours
in the air.
Grew presented them to the gov
ernor of Constantinople, Miheddin
Bey, and other officials. The gov
ernor's spokesman, speaking in Eng
lish, said:
I'VE welcome you to Turkey. Our
state is pleased to have the honor
of receiving the heroes of a record
flight, and appreciates your making
Istanbul your distant objective
Boardman presented the governor
with sealed packet for Mustapha
Kennel, president of Turkey. The
packet had a parachute inserted un-
der its strings.
Polando described the trip as
most successful" The flyers
reached here almost exactly on
! schedule, within few minutes of
| the time they had set. Polando
said they lost much time crossing
Europe.
I'VE had to feel our way" he said,
"and fly low at times to negotiate
the passes"
"The wind helped us to make up
the time lost maneuvering for good
air POSITIONS Polando continued.
The Atlantic crossing, he said.
was extraordinarily smooth and
they had expected to arrive earlier.
but conditions over the continent
were rough and bumpy, impeding
their progress. A strong wind was
blowing last night.
Polando spoke briefly to the
crowd In Turkish. thanking them
for the reception and expressing
pleasure at the success of the
flight. The flyers then were taken
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
BAKER PRAISES
HOOVER'S WORK
ON MORATORIUM
Wilson'S War Secretary
Says People Had Pre-
viOusly Desired Act.

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass, July 30
-U.P)-President Hoover's mora
torium, completely at variance with
all the doctrines and fixed resolu-
tions proclaimed from Washington"
nevertheless demonstrated, by the
unanimous approval with which the
American people received it, how
far the people have gone ahead of
their government" former Secretary
of War Newton D. Baker declared
today in an address prepared for
the convocation of the Institute of
Politics.
After tracing the important part
played in world politics by the
American people and particularly
American financial and political
geniuses, Baker turned to the pres
ent situation as a dramatic instance
of "the subjection of the world to
democratic influences"
The former Wilson cabinet men,
ber lauded the work of great and
enlightened American citizens" who
have participated in and aided
practically all the constructive work
undertaken by the League of Nations
citing particularly Elihu Root,
Charles c. Dawes, Owen D. Young
and the experts grouped around
them, together with official and
semi-official organizations contri-
buting to world understanding.
"a striking instance of the effect
of this work." he said. was seen
when President Hoover suddenly
and without preliminary prepara-
ton of the public mind, announc-
ed his plan for moratorium upon
German reparation payments -
continuously for several years prior
| to this announcement official
Washington had set its face against
any consideration and modification
of the so-called debt settlement, and
it resolutely asserted that German
reparation payments had no re-
lation to payments under the Amer
ican debt settlement. There could
! be no doubt that Washington list
ened with an anxious ear when the
situation in Germany became such
that immediate and drastic action
became necessary to save the whole
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30

when I say I'm through I mean
I'm through am burning my
bridges behind me-" said the
worlds worst criminal" before en-
tering Federal Judge James H. Will
kersons court to receive sentence on
his pleas of guilty to violating the
prohibition laws 5000 times and
failing to pay income tax on the
millions he admitted he had made
illegally.
In the only authentic interview
granted on the eve of his departure
for prison, the contrite Capone said
his greatest ambition was to raise
his son to be a good citizen. He
said he would be satisfied with any
punishment the government de-
creed, would ask no favors in pri-
son, and would emerge determined
to build up business reputation
of which his family could be proud
The interviewer found Capone in
dingy room of the Lexington no.
tel, an unpretentious, box-like
structure on the edge Of Chicago's
famous DlacR DelC.
SO1r On 'Racke;s'
For years the words and phrases
"Capone-gangsterism-pow wealth.
booze e-Seven men murdered in a
row. have been synonymous
throughout the world, but the man
found perspiring in this dingy re-
treat did not somehow fit into the
generally accepted picture. Neither
did the ancient, weatherbeaten
hostelry which he long had made
his headquarters.
THE racket business is not what
it is cracked up to be- sighed the
portly gangster.
Capone admitted he was "nerv-
Gus" at the prospect of several years
in prison. Time. after time he
mopped his face and slightly bald
head with a towel.
I'm ready to take my medicine -
he said. Il realize the charges were
just. That's why I pleaded guilty.
The officials performed their du-
ties honestly and efficiently. If the
government thinks it can clean up
Chicago by sending me to Jail, we'll
and good.
But when I come out, things will
be different. I'll miss the Worlds
Fair-(and I always wanted to see
one, too, but I'll be paying my debt
to society and when it's paid I'm
coming out to start all over, raise
my boy right and make my family
proud of me. I'm ready to go now
anytime. I'll pay my own way If 1t
will get me there any quicker. The
sooner in, the sooner out.
Has Conscience
In prison I'll have time to decide
what I'm going to do afterward.
1t will be something connected with
finances. Whatever it is, you can
bet it will be honest and legitimate.
Ten years ago I came here from
Brooklyn intending to make an
honest living. If didn't do it then,
l will now"
Capone, whose income from beer,
liquor and vice had been estimated
in the millions of dollars and who
has been accused of directing the
murders of more than 300 in Chi
cago'S liquor wars, denied he had
done all the things of which he had
been accused.
In my heart I'm not what people
think or read about me-" he said
The best proof that ] didn't COM
NIT the crimes they said 1 did is
that when the government got me
they didn't find me in jail. If I
had done them, that's where /
would have been. I have always
talked against wanton murder. 1
never liked it. After all, 1 have
conscience like anybody else"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
Lindberghs Off
On Long Flight

NORTH HAVEN, Me-. July 80.
U.P)-Colonel and Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh left their last United
States port of call at 2:10 p. m. to-
day and headed for the Canadian
border and Ottawa, first foreign
stop in their aerial cruise to the
Orient.
just before lifting their heavy
Lockheed-Sirius monoplane off the
placid waters of Penobscot bay, the
Lindberghs took fond leave of their
ID months old son and the family
of United States Senator Dwight w.
Morrow, Mrs. Lindbergh's father.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
.A Re7~~
LITTLE ITALY
SILENT ABOUT
STREET GRIM E

NEW YORK, July so. U.p)-Sici-
liam mothers wept and muttered
over their dead and wounded chill
dren today as tight-lipped neigh
bors, witnesses of whitening gunfire
Tuesday night that raked group
of playing children, kept their
peace.
Police alternately viewed the bar
rage of bullets in Harlems Little
Italy, that killed one child and
wounded four others, as the result
of warfare between rival bootleg
rings, and gambling or bookmaking
cliques. Several men have been
questioned, but police admitted they
we're without a single significant
clue.
Their commissioner, Edward p.
Mulrooney, issued statement di-
rected against sale of firearms; pub
lie officials were violent in their
attack on the gunmen; Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt said it twas
damnable but that won't help catch
them" Newspapers offered re-
wards.
| But witnesses of the shooting
, failed to help police identify the
! slayers. The neighborhood feared
the so-called gangdom code that
spelled death to "squealers.'
Among them all, residents of the
shabby, densely populated district
near East 107th street, where the
streets are the Fairgrounds of the
tenement youngsters, one mother
spoke her mind.
Mrs. Rose Bevilacqua, mother of
Michael, the four year old boy shot
while he lay in baby carriage,
said:
I'VE Italians are not courageous
enough to come out and tell what
we know. There won't be one per-
son in the street vholl tell.
Il wish to God I had seen that
car. If ever set hands on the man
who shot my Michael I'll cut him
to pieces. But my people will not
talk. We fear for our husbands,
and fathers, and brothers and sons"
Fourteen additional police pa
trolled the district, already heavily
patrolled
Cash rewards offered by newspa-
pers may bring clues.
The New York World Telegram
first offered $4,000 cash reward
with the comment that "if these
child killers escape, civilization
can't"
The New York American offered
$4,000 for information on the prin-
cipals in what it called dull,
witless butchery."
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
@NlnLdL-oe
Wy 1soy3:

BEVERLY HILLS. July 30.
(SpeciaD-Been reading of our
army survey of a new canal by
Col. Dan Sultan, but what you
haven't read is the wonderful
work that he and his crew did
during the Nicaraguan earth
quake. He moved in with his
whole outfit, among which were
some splendid doctors, and they
worked day and night there.
They and the marines were in
the right place at the right time
that time. He explained the ca
nal to me down there.
Folks that like to dig canals,
there is a good place to dig.
One there would cost $1,000
900, but Lord, the way we are
going what's 100000 more in
hook for us? We are sunk any
how, so let's get a series of ca
mails, then save the best one.
Yours,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
Woman Flyer On
Way To Japan

KAzAN, Soviet Russia, July 30.
W,P)-Miss Amy Johnson, daring
British woman flyer, left shortly
after dawn today on the next lap
of her proposed London-to-Tokio,
Japan, flight.
She departed in her light airplane
after spending the night here, set
ting course toward Siberia. She
intends to follow the Siberian
railway most of the way across Asia,
going thence southeastward across
Manchuria and Korea to Japan.
Kazan is 430 miles east of Mos
COW.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
Bow Booklet Is
Seized In Mails

LOS ANGELES, July 30. U.P) -
A booklet titled "Clara's Secret
Love Life as Told by Daisy to Fred
eric II. Girnau," was seized by Hol-
lywood postal inspectors today as
Girnau awaited sentence on two
counts of sending obscene matter
through the mails.
Girnau was convicted in federal
court as a result OF series of ar
ticles his tabloid newspaper pub
lished about Clara Bow, the film
actress. He will be sentenced to-
morrow.
Federal Judge Harry Holzer Or
dered the booklet turned over to
District Attorney Buron Fits.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
Two Helens Will
Meet On Courts

SEABRIGHT, N. j., July 80. U.P)
Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, cham
pion Of all the world, and her arch
rival, Miss Helen Jacobs of Berke-
ley, Calf, will meet once again on
Saturday, this time in the finals of
the 44th annual Seabright invita-
ton lawn tennis tournament.
Mrs. Moody advanced to the fl
nal round today with a Ga, 6-3,
victory over Mrs. Marion z. Jessup.
Wilmington, Del, veteran, while
Miss Jacobs won over Mrs. Law
renee A. Harper, another Califor-
nian, when Mrs. Harper defaulted
in the second set after losing the
first, 68.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
Have
Close Escape

LOS ANGELES, July 80 U.P) -
Sleeping peacefully in the expecta-
ton of continued fair weather;
low humidity" two Japanese were
nearly drowned early today when a
flood swept into their basement
quarters in the heart of Hollywood.
Their communal bed was touching
the roof when they awoke.
The deluge, caused by a bursted
water main in Yucca street, a few
hundred feet off Hollywood boule-
ward, flooded apartment house
Easements, uprooted new-laid pave
ment and stopped traffic in three
block radius before firemen stopped
the flow.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
Rich Gold Vein
Found In Mine

. NOGALES, Ariz., July 30. U,P)-
A vein of gold. assaying approx
mately $l00,l63 to the ton has been
found in the Victoria mine, in the
Altar district of Sonora, it was re-
ported here today.
The assay was made of a sample
several inches wide by Mark Wan
less, Nogales assayer. The quartz
was brought here by B. B. Bucker-
idge, Forth Worth oil promoter, who
recently acquired the property from
F. F. Saldamando. Nogales, Sonora,
druggist.
Other assays of the same vein
showed values in excess OF $500.