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Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15
WILL ABANDON
HOLLYWOOD DAM
AS CITY MENACE

LOS ANGELES. July Is. U.p - A
special board of two engineers and
a geologist, assigned to investigate
the huge Mulholland dam above
Hollywood has determined the
structure rests on live" fault and
should be abandoned. 1t was learn
ed authoritatively today.
The dam is visible in the hills
from a main section of the Holly
wood business district and looks
down upon many homes In the film
colony.
The report was made for the mu-
nicipal board of water and power
commissioners and was delivered IN
secret yesterday.
1t was learned. however. that the
experts found that the dam, with
out considering the rock foundation.
was sound as to structure: that the
foundation, under normal condi-
tions, probably would be safe 70
support the structure and the wa
ter it impounds; that the dam Is
built on a live" earth fault Of
comparatively recent origin as far
as geological ages are concerned:
that in case Of an earthquake there
would be danger.
The report, II was learned, pro-
duced very little difference OF opin-
ion. II being agreed that the dam
should be abandoned as pnycho-
logical menace to Hollywood as well
as on account Of the structural DIFF
ficulty.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15
START HEARING
RAILR0AD'SPLEA
FOR RATE RAISE

WASHINGTON, July Is. WP)-
The nations railroads, opening
their fight for increased freight
rates, brought to the interstate
commerce commission today story
of depleted earnings and of finan-
cial distrust which they said had
lessened their ability adequately to
serve the public.
The commissions hearings on
the railroads petition for Is per
cent general increase in freight
rates and charges began with the
main hearing room crowded with
auditors.
DR.. Julius II. Parmelee, director
of the bureau of railway economics,
was the first witness for the car
riers. He said that despite the most
rigorous economy and greatest
operating efficiency the railroads
had not been able to make a fair
living during the past decade.
Henry W. Bikle, acting as general
counsel for the railroads, before
putting on his first witness, said the
railroads had amended their origi-
nal petition for a Is per cent freight
rate increase to except coal and
coke. The railroads desire to main
tain existing differentials on coal
and coke.
Parmelee said if all factors re-
NAMED equal, fixed charges in 1881
would be earned only l.27 times.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15
YOUTH REVEALS
SUSPICION ON
MAS HUSBAND

LOS ANGELES, July Is. U.P -
While Mrs. Minnie Kennedy -Hud-
son, mother of Aimee Semple Nc
Pherson,, was on a motor honey
moon with uer new husband,
George Edward Hudson, today a
Los Angeles youth declared that
newspaper pictures of Hudson close
ly resembled a man who was mar
ried to his mother for seven months
The youth, Burton Newton, told
newSpapermen that his mother,
Mrs. L. Margaret Newton, married
a man named Guy E. Hudson of
Salt Lake City in Las Vegas, New,
on November %, 1929.
Seven months after the marriage,
according to Young Newton, the
man disappeared and his mother
never heard whether he had di-
vorced her or secured an annul-
ment.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15
ROLPH WILL Be
HON0RED GUEST
HERE TONIGHT
City Will Welcome States
Chief Executive At Mel
on Fiesta In Park.

Ell Centre and Imperial Valley
| seemed to be mobilizing today to
greet Governor James Roiph Jr.
with watermelons and plaudits
when the states chief executive ap-
pears tonight to take the part of
guest of honor at the First Annual
Imperial Valley Watermelon Fiesta
in the Ell Centre city park at Sixth
and Park streets.
Governor Rolph will arrive at the
Imperial Airport between and 5
o'clock this afternoon, to be met by
a special welcoming committee. He
will be escorted to the Barbara
Worth hotel from the airport.
Those in charge of the Fiesta
have issued a request to the public
to be at the park by 730 tonight,
when Governor Rolph is expected
to appear on the speakers platform.
w. A. Edgar, president of the Old
Timers Association, this morning
issued a call to all old timers to be
on hand at 7:30 to join the bugle
corps in greeting Rolph as he takes
the stand
Edgar appended a short comment
to his call 1t was, Bring your
forks unless you eat watermelon in
the old time way"
Members of the county board OF
supervisors will act as official wa
termelon cutters at the fiesta to-
night. Watermelons, stored on ice
since Monday, will be taken 10 Tie
park at $50 Several car loads of
melons are on hand. They were
furnished by the Maljan Fruit COM
pany, Sawdey and Hunt and Ben
Carter.
3. A. Harriean, county horticul-
tural commissioner, is in charge OF
50-pound melon which will be
sliced for the governor by Superyi-
sor Romeo Smith.
Mayor II. w. Fawcett today asked
all business houses in Ell Centre to
display flags on the sidewalks in
honor of the governors arrival
The city council will postpone its
regular meeting until next week in
order to attend the Fiesta.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15

CHICAGO, July Is. (U.P)-PO-
lice were puzzled and hundreds
of persons stood in awe today of
what was declared to be mira
culous appearance of an image
of the Virgin Mary upon the
side of a three-stOry brick
building on the south side.
Everything was quiet and
serene in the 100 block of
South Ashland avenue last
night when a passerby sudden
ly noticed the image upon the
wall and dropped TO his knees.
Another passerby noticed him,
glanced up at the wall at which
the kneeling man was staring,
and dropped down beside him.
Others followed. Soon there
were so many kneeling figures
in the street that traffic was
blocked. The police and fire de-
partments were called out.
Officers found that the dim
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15
NATIONS CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CONDEMNED
Unconditional Annuity Payment Turned Over to France
He's A Disgrace
To All Caseys

KANSAS CITY, July Is. W.P)
State Senator Michael Casey
has some good race horses,
but it's costing him heavily to
find IL out.
He shipped Drastic Delight,
a 3-year-old, to LatOnia, but
the horse was such a long shot
that not even its owner would
back up his faith with money.
So Casey won nothing when
Drastic Delight took first yes
terday, paying S2G7 on a So
ticket.
Last week Drastic Water,
another of Casey's horses, paid
Sl65 on So ticket, and In
that case, too, the senator had
failed to bet.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15
SO THEY SNAPPED AND LIVED
HAPPILY FOREVER AND EVER

POMONA, Cal, July 10. U.H
Strange are the quirks of fate
which have their start in Ne
vada. but Perhaps the strangest
was the exchange of wives and
children of two Pomona cOu-
pies.
MIR. and Mrs. George b.
SpOtsw0Od, residents of POmO-
ma for eight years, and Mr.. and
Mrs. f. L. Stevens. who have
made their home on a nearby
ranch for nearly 20 years, were
the principals.
Three years ago the couples
met. II was not long before Mrs.
Stevens became enamoured of
SpOtswO0d, and he of her. They
decided to take the courageous
step they feared might break
up the families, and told their
respective spouses.
Mrs. Stevens, too, was the
mother of two children, Thelma,
Z, and Dale, 10. SpOtswood had
two children, Doris 10 and
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15
Texas SOlOns To
Aid Oil Industry

AUSTIN, Tex, July l5.-U.P)-
Foreseeing disaster to a giant indus
try, Governor Ross Sterling today
pleaded with the Texas legislature
to design laws curbing the activities
of persons who have wasted the
states vast store of oil.
In a trse, brief message, Sterling
set the legislators about the task
of pumping new life into the veins
of a nindustry sapped by overpro-
duction and attendant low prices.
The governors message set into
motion the special session of the
legislature, called to enact legisla-
ton to strengthen the conservation
clause of the state constitution and
to devise a unified program for con-
serving all natural resources.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15
MUSSOLINI SAYS u. S. MUST
ATTEND DISARMAMENT MEET

Secretary of State StimsOn In
Rome and following conversa-
tiOns which StimsOn had with
Muss0lini and Dino Grandi,
Italian foreign minister. Dur
ing the interview. the Duce
gave the United Press a strik-
ing statement of his feelings OIL
the arms limitation conference
to be held at Geneva next Feb
ruary. The interview Is particu-
larly timely and interesting in
view of the general European
economic situation and In light
of the fact that Secretary Stim-
son will continue in Paris and
Berlin his "sOundings" of SEN
timent among leading European
statesmen on the arms limita-
tiOn question.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15
REPORT
bLAME|S
C0UR s
Lower Tribunals ROundly
Denounced In Wicker
sham Document.
MANY EVILS CITED
Commission Urges That
Judges BE Removed
From Politics.
BY PAUL X. MALLON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July Is W.P)-
Throughout the nation scandal
marks the work of police, traffic
and magistrates courts, the Wick
ersham commission told President
Hoover in its eighth report entitled
Criminal Procedure" issued today
by the White House.
Taking the country as whole,
there has been and continues TO be
scandal in connection with these in
ferior courts in noteworthy contrast
with the almost uniformly clean
record of the superior courts during
q century of immersion in politics, -
the commission concluded, with the
exception OF one member.
Apart from all other considera-
tions, arbitrary methods. incompe-
tent magistrates, tribunals governed
by petty politics, and slovenly pro-
ceedings at the point at which the
great mass OF the population come
in contact with law enforcement,
give a bad impression of the ad-
ministration of justice as a whole
and most seriously affect respect
for and observance OF law generally.
I'm short the atmosphere of the
inferior criminal courts creates in
the minds OF observers suspicion
OF the whole process OF law enforce
ment which, no matter how un-
founded greatly prejudices respect
for the observance of law"
Cite Mooney Case
The commission urged that all the
courts be taken out of politics. It
suggested many changes in methods
of procedure-particularly selection
of more competent judges, enlarge
ment of Their powers in handling
cases, simplification of the system
of review, elimination Of the fee
system, and abandonment of the
frequent practice of trying to make
a criminal out of traffic law vio-
lator.
The Mooney Billings case in
California was cited as shocking"
example of the crudity of the law
in preventing the reopening of a
case after it once had been decided
The report deplored the system
which prevented both the defen-
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15
Bank Stuck Up
By Lone Bandit

LOS ANGELES, July Is. U.P -
A bandit held up branch of the
California bank at ll05 South San
Pedro street, shortly after noon to-
day and escaped with about S700.
+, H. E. SHED, manager of the bank,
reported he gave the bandit about
$500 when the latter produced a
pistol and demanded money
SHED and another employee pur-
sued the bandit on foot but were
outdistanced after a chase of five
blocks.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15

Billy, 8. This was the stumbI-
ing block in the way out of
their difficulties.
But strange to say, neither
Mrs. SpotswO0d nor Stevens
seemed particularly alarmed at
the announced intention of
their husband and wife to seek
n divorce. Instead, all four
seemed willing to make the
double break.
So SpotswOcd and Mrs. Stew
ems went to Las Vegas, New,
taking with them the four chill
dren. They were married i'm
mediately after they had been
granted divorces on grounds OF
mental cruelty.
Then Stevens and Mrs. Spots
wood went to Las Vegas, and
were married there June 30.
Now they are settled In their
homes here, the children In
each case with the mother.
But they'll all have dinner to-
gether Saturday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15

CLAREMORE, Okla, July ID.
(SpeciaD We'll, this was
great day for Gatty and Post.
1t was just an ordinary day for
Claremore, but it was big
thing for those boys. They never
saw town like ours. We built
a real airport in four days Just
to welcome 'em.
I was with 'em in Tulsa last
night and flew over here in the
Winnie Mae" with them today.
It's the combination of the two
that makes EN- so great. I'd
bet on 'em going around the
world endways and across both
poles. In all the excitement
and rushing about, you know
when they sleep? At the BAN
quets.
They said if 1t wasn't for BAN
quets they wouldn't have any
time to sleep at all. Smart fell
lows. Yours.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15
BY FREDERICK KUN
United Press Staff Correspondent


BERLIN, July 10. W.P)-Germany,
weakened by financial difficulties,
was threatened by nationwide
strikes today, urged by Commun-
lists for the good of the masses"
The Communist party, with a
membership of about 100000 per-
sons, issued a proclamation an
nouncing preparations for strikes
which would enforce a program Of
confiscation of capital and enforce
work regardless of profit
The party's program to stir up
industrial turmoil in an effort to
take advantage of the present eco
nomic strife to gain their ends. in
eluded the following major points:
l. Confiscation of savings depo-
sits exceeding 10000 marks.
2. Security, however, for small
depositors.
8. Confiscation of millionaire
fortunes.
4. Enforcement of resumption Of
work in all industries regardless of
profit.
5. Distribution free of food and
clothing to unemployed.
6. Immediate disarmament of
Hitler's Fascist storm detach-
ments" and the Steel Helmets, q
war veterans organization.
The Communists formal strike
program was accompanied by dis
ouieting word that Fascists at Neu-
Koellin mad attacked pedestrians
and injured several before police
disbanded the attackers, searched
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15
Ell CENTRIC PROPERTY SHOWS
FINE INCREASE DURING YEAR

Readers of the Press are here
with furnished with the annual re-
port of the county tax collector to
the state board of equalization,
showing the comparative assessed
values of non-operative property
in Imperial County for the fiscal
year 1930-31.
The report was delayed in arriv-
ing at the Press office, not being
received here unit this morning. In
vestigation by the county assessor
and postmaster resulted in the opin-
ion that the envelope had become
stuck in the mail box in front OF
the court house, where it was de-
posted Monday afternoon. We
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15
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Rain Fails To
Hinder Shriners

CLEVELAND, July Is. U.P)-Rain
failed to dampen the enthusiasm of
delegates 20 tvs North American
Shrine convention as they met to
install new officers.
George Olendorf, of Springfield,
Mo, was elected imperial outer
guard from a list of six candidates,
According to the Shrines order of
succession. Olendorf would be ele-
waited to imperial potentate in 1912,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15

feel this explanation is due our
readers in view of the fact that
other county papers printed the re-
port yesterday.
Ell Centrans should be particularly
pleased with the fine increase
shown by this city, amounting to
$401 ,9l9, almost as much as the in
crease in the entire territory out
side Of Incorporated cities.
The net gain of $518,626 through
out the county. is also gratifying
A letter from the assessor
accompanying the report states it is
the first time in several years the
rolls have been completed and turn
ed over to the designated authori-
ties in the time set by law.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15
By ROBERT J. BENDER
General News Manager United Press
COpYright. 1891. hY United Press

ROME. July Is. U.p)-'The pres
ence of the United States of Amer
lea at the disarmament conference
in 1882 is the most formidable guar
antee Of its success" Premier Be
nito Mussolini said to me in a pri-
vase interview granted after his
important conversations ON disarm-
ament with Secretary of State
Henry L. Stimson. II do not think
Mr.. Hoover's (moratorium propo-
sails are the final solution of the
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15

Editors NOte-RObert J. Ben
der, vice-president and general
news manager of the United
Press was received In audience
by Premier BenitO MussOlini Of
Italy after the recent arrival of
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15
RADICALS
THREATEN
GERMANY
Communists Seize Upon
Present Crisis AS Time
To Urge Revolution.
BERLIN HAS JUMP
HoOver's Plan Operative
Just In Time To Prevent
National Moratorium.

BERLIN, July Is. W.H-The
ministry of finance told the
United Press tonight that Ger
many had paid the uncondi-
tional annuity of $1,000, 900
marks due to the Bank for In
ternational Settlements today In
behalf of Germany's creditors,
and that the bank Immediately
had loaned Germany a similar
amount.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15

Following the tabuation showing the comparative figures
Comparative Assessed Values of Nom Operative Property
Imperial County for 1890 1881
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-15

Continued on page 81
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Continued on page g.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-02-05
TODD COUNTY COW TESTING ASSN.

Report of the South Todd County
Dairy Herd Improvement Assn.
for the month of January 1881.
There were 13 herds tested this
month containing 239 cows, these
cows produced an average of 821
pounds of milk and 1888 pounds of
fat per cow, the average test was
3.6% SO cows were dry this month.
Mr.. A. w. Strobeck had the high
COW this month, his COW No. 70
producing 1913 pounds of fat on
twice a day milking. The Nietfeld
Brothers had the high herd this
month with an average of 1907
pounds of butterfat per cow for
the month. 8 cows were dry.
Two separators were found to be
losing their owners butterfat this
month and one new separator was
installed.
There is still room for few new
members in our Association so any
one desiring to have their cows
tested may do so by getting in
touch with the tester at Sank
Centre, MINI.
List of the 40 pound cows for
Jan. 1881, ....
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-02-05
A SERIOUS PROBLEM
(Long Prairie Leader)

The suggestion is made as a move toward econ
omy in public administration that numerous coun-
ties be consolidated and likewise numerous town.
ships in the counties It is worth consideration Take
look at the map of Minnesota and you will be i'm
pressed with the number of counties which from
their small size, similarity Of industry, trend Of
merged We have 81 seperate county governments
in this state and several thousand townships within
the counties. It costs money to maintain the
CARNATIONS of these units and it must be admitted
that there is particular vital necessity for main
tanning them. Consultations would materially re-
duce expense and would in no way impair efficiency
of government. Stranger things have happened
than that before many years, there will be strong
movement for such mergers Governmental ex-
pense is getting to be enormous and statesman yet
has been able to figure out how to reduce it. In
fact the expense constantly increasing in spite
of all efforts and there is question but that such
effort is genuine and sincere. Distances are not
what they formerly were so that there is not the
need for the little county twenty thirty miles
across or the township of SO square miles.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-02-05
CITY NEWS ITEMS

Edwin Oletzke left for his home
in Browns Valley, Mimi, following
a couple of weeks visit with his
sister, Mrs. Herbert Saeger and
husband.
Sigurd Holme and Herman Ven
newitz motored to Minneapolis
Sunday and spent a few days
there transacting business and at
tending the auto show and market
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Beidleman
and family moved their household
goods from their home on Pine
Street to the house owned by Jos.
Dirnberger, located at the corner
of Fourth and Birch Streets, the
forepart of the week.
DR.. Paul Kramer, professor of
Greek at Seaberry College, Fari-
bault, will deliver the sermon in
the Episcopal Church next Sunday
morning. Lansing Kempton, who
has been serving the congregation
during the absence of a regular
pastor, will be unable to be here
owing to the fact that he has
charge of service at Carleton Col
lege. The Sacrament of the Holy
Communion will be celebrated at
the service that morning.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-02-05
1T ALL COSTS MONEY
DAIRY Record)

Constantly we are called upon as citizens of
these United States to support movement to ap-
propriate money for this purpose that; each time
Congress assemblies we read of money being auth
orized for one movement another; almost daily
there is demand for law governing
thing and the enforcement of these laws costs
money
Expenditures are needed, of course, to conduct
the business of government whether it be national
state local. It is equally true that laws need
ed, but there are, nevertheless, many which we
could do without. We cry for laws to aid prosper
ity forgetting that such laws cost money that such
money comes only through taxation, and that tax
alton, when it becomes burdensome, is the natural
enemy of prosperity.
If we would scrutinize the cost of demands,
we might be less inclined to make them. But most
of use regard money appropriated by the govern
ment, particularly by the federal government, as
something which does not very Intimately
When we read that expenditure of $4,000 900 has
been authorized by the Congress unconsciously
assign the job of paying that money to the large
corporation if, indeed give thought to it at
ALL We know that the notion is absurd when we
stop to think of it, since the in form
another, pays all taxes but seldom stop to think
of it.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-02-05

in fraction of second, making the stock ticker
old-fashioned the stage coach. Young Mr..
Vincent Astor catching turtles the Galapagos is
lands, could have his yacht instrument that
would show him, before any Wall street man could
know it, that he mad mistake buying sugar stocks.
Later television will be useful apart from stock
speculation. Some Enstein, Moses Maimonides or
Spinoza of the future may be and heard by
the whole world standing Mount Ararat, sending
out message of vital importance that nobody but
himself will understand.
Gandhi is freed by Britain after nine months in
comfortable Jail, and is said to find freedom OPP
pressive Leading 320OO00OO Asiatics is not easy
task, when 100000 of them insist killing the
others and there is particular place to which they
be led Drive Britain out of India and millions
would die off or be killed off every year. and Gandhi
intelligent and well meaning, knows it.
OF all scientific discoveries made accidentally one
of the stranges. from Joliet Ill Doctor Weav
ordered TRANSMISSION of parents" blood, in the
of ffteenyearold girl suffering from infantile
paralysis
Another doctor misunderstood him to say 'par-
rot's" blood and accordingly made TRANSMISSION of
blood from the heart of living parrot Doctors say
the child is getting WELL thousand doctors will
claim "bosh."
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-02-05

pound hog. and that's what will
happen when you Investigating
Committee get to my old State Of
Alabama. You won't find my peo-
pie are crooked. My people in Ala
bama are the finest people God
ever let live. love my people in
Alabama. I am not saying a word
against the great folk as Alabama.
I don't want any blot to be on
them. It's the crooked Poll
ticians that done it. It's not the
fine people Of Alabama. They are
the finest folks on this green earth.
They elected me. They done it
fairly. But the crooks counted ne
out, and that's why I want this
election investigated. You come
to Alabama and lift the kivvers,
and you will find the hog"