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Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-05

Japes Whitaker, New York news
paperman. Her maiden name Is
Ina Pagan. She was born in Wash
ington, and appeared first on the
stage in vaudeville when "A years
old.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-05
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Every Monday night. 10 o clock New York rims
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HUSBAND AND BOSS
STRANGE ROAD TO HAPPINESS
SHE CAN NEVER ACCUSE HIM
MY FORBIDDEN LOVE
FOREVER HOPING
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
Situation Appears Best Since
Stock Market Crash,
Says Doak.
INCREASE PUT AT IA PCT,
WAGES rs PCT. HIGHER
Figures Based on Department Sta.
tistics Compare Favorably With
Years Preceding 1880.
az the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Secretary Doak today reported there
had been a general increase in the
volume OF industrial employment during
February.
Doak based his announcement on de-
partment statistics.
He said the increase constituted "the
first satisfactory indication Of general
upward trend since the stock market
collapsed in october. 1929"
He estimated the total number of per-
sons employed in industry had increased
Ia per cent in February as compared
with January, and that the wages paid
for February would be rs per cent
greater than in the preceding mouth.
Labor Gain Is IL Per Cent.
THE volume of employment index Of
Bureau of Labor statistics for manufac-
turing industries for February will show
a gain of Ia per cent in employment in
February over that of January Of this
year." the secretary's statement said.
THE volume OF payrolls viii show an
increase Of rs per cent in February
over January.
These figures are based upon a COM
parison OF 1887 identical manufacture
ing establishments employing in Feb
ruary 2,772,219 workers having q
weekly pay roll in February Of $685.
567, 283.
Upward Trend Seen.
Usually employment and pay roll
indexes show an upward trend in Feb
ruary, following the customary decreases
IN January due to INVENTOR and re-
pairs. The increase in employment,
however, in January, 1880, was only
tenth of per cent and the increase
in pay rolls only 3.5 per cent. The
present increase compares favorably
with those in years prior to 1880 and
is the first satisfactory indication of a
general upward trend since the stock
market collapsed in October, 1929"
Reorganization Begun.
A general reorganization OF the en-
ploynent service now rendered by the
Federal Government was begun today at
President HooYer's direction, under the
leadership OF John r. Alpine OF New
York City.
The enterprise was expected to con-
tinue for several days. It followed the
veto last week of the Wagner bill which
proposed both extension and recon-
struction Of the present organization
under the United States employment
service and cooperation with State
government activities in the same field.
Secretary Doak, who with the Presi-
dent, arranged for the reorganization
program, conferred today with Mr.
Alpine as he. took up the task.
1t was indicated a study of the pres
ent employment service organization
would be the first activity in the reor-
ganization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
PRIZE BEAUTY HELD
IN SPOUSE'S DEATH
Former miss st. LOUIS
Kills F.. G. Nirdlinger
in Nice, France.
IN the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NICE, France. March IA story
of her husbands nagging jealousy,
which he climaxed with an attempt
to strange her, was told police today
by Mrs. Fred G.. Nixon Nirdlinger, who
at midnight shot and killed the Phila-
delphia theatrical magnate.
Mrs. Nixon Nirdlinger. who was
Miss st. Louis and runner-up in the
1928 Atlantic City beauty pageant, was
arrested and held by police pending
a complete investigation of the Staying,
which took place in their fiat here.
In substantiation Of her plea of self
defense. she exhibited red marks on
her throat. which she said were caused
by her husbands fingers as he at
tempted to end a 'jealous quarrel by
choking her to death.
Casts Pail Over Colony.
The death of Nixon Nirdlinger and
the subsequent detention of his wife
today cast pail of gloom over the
Riviera's American pleasure colony, of
which both were popular members. The
slain theater man was 81 years old,
his wife 20. They were married in
1925 and had two children, one years
old, the other 10 months.
In her statement to police, Mrs. Nix
on-NTdllnger said she was sitting III
the salon of their apartment late last
evening when her husband asked her
what she was doing. She answered that
she was studying an Italian lesson.
Because you are interested In that
Italian fellow" he retorted. Words
followed and she retired to her bed
room, where her husband followed her
and continued to upbraid her as he
disrobed. She said he worked himself
up to high pitch of anger and then
grabbed at her throat
Kept Pistol Under Pillow.
She snatched at a revolver which she
always kept beneath her pillow and fired
wildly. Nixon Nirdlinger staggered
through the door into the next room and
fell in a heap, one bullet in his temple
and another in his heart. The two
babies, asleep in the adjoining room,
were not awakened.
Distraught, Mrs. Nixon Nirdlinger
hurried to the police station and burst
upon the astonished officers with the
words. II have shot my husband" When
doctors arrived at the fiat the man was
beyond help-he apparently had died
almost instantly.
Her account of the shooting. as given
Continued on Page ., Column ID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
SOVIET STRIKES BACK
AT BAN ON ITS GOODS
Congress Recommends Retaliatory
Measures Against All Countries
With Russian Embargoes.
b the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press
MOSCOW, March 12.-Resolutions
recommending retaliatory measures
against nations which, like the United
States, have impose" embargoes on
Russian imports, were approved today
by the sixth all-union Soviet congress
One such resolution, coming at the
close Of discussion on Premier Molo-
toff's opening speech last Sunday, ''in-
structs the government to take meas
ures restricting imports from countries
debarring our exports" The United
States was not specifically mentioned
but the resolution was presumably
aimed in that direction.
The congress urged the government
TO carry forward its policy of interna-
tional peace and to continue strength
ening trade relations with other ma
tionS, at the same time recommending
that more attention be given the army
In view Of the capitalist war threat
Complete collectivization of the farms
was urged, with elimination of the
Kulaks, or rich peasants, as class.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
PRESIDENT PLANS
TWO-MONTHS' TRIP
First Real Vacation Since En-
tering Office viii Be to
Pacific Coast.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.

1t was learned today that it is Presi-
dent HooVer's present intention to take
real vacation this coming Summer
and unless something unforeseen de-
velops he and Mrs Hoover will leave
the Capital the last week in June OF
the first week in July for trip through
the national parks in the Far West
to their home in Palo Alto, Calf.
Just as soon as the worries Of the
Congress were removed, M. Hoover's
mind drifted to thoughts of a vacation
With the exception of weeks fishing
expedition in Florida last Winter and
three days fishing in the mountains
near Williamsport. Pa, last Spring, and
his week end journeys TO his fishing
camp on the Rapidan River, Va, Mr.
Hoover has been in Washington strug-
Cling with the affairs of his Office ever
since he became President.
Plans Stin Indefinite.
Mr.. Hoover has not reached any con-
clusion as to the time of his departure.
Before anything definite Is agreed upon
the President must first make up his
mind regarding number of invitations
he has under consideration which call
for speeches. 1t is thought possible
that he might accept two or three of
these.
He has definitely agreed to speak at
the dedication of the memorial to War
rem q. Harding, at Marion, Ohio. The
date for this has been tentatively set
for June 16. He also has an invitation
to address the Grand Army of the Po-
tomac Encampment at Columbus, Ohio,
on the same day. Either a day before
or a day after that date he probably
viii make an address at the dedication
of the Lincoln Memorial in Springfield,
Ill. Former President Coolidge who
succeeded to the presidency on the
death of President Harding, also has
been asked to participate In the Hard
ing memorial dedication.
It Is possible that Mr.. Hoover might
accept the invitation he has had under
consideration for some time to address
the annual meeting OF the Indiana
State Editors Association, in Indian
apols, Ind, an ytin1e early this Sum-
mer suitable to the convenience of the
President. He has an invitation to
take part in the dedication Of the
canopy over the log cabin in which
Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, the
parents of Abraham Lincoln, were mar
RED, which has been placed in a park
at HarrodSburg, KY. Among some of
the other invitations to speak in the
Middle West is one from Chicago, and
another from Cincinnati, Ohio.
Speaks Here April IA.
The President already has agreed to
speak at the Pan-American Union in
this city, April IA, on the occasion
of the observance of Pan-American
day. 1t is understood that the Presi-
dent is considering Valley Forge, Pa,
Continued on Page ?, Column I'd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
WOLF ON ICE OUTSMARTS FLYER
BY DODGING SAFE LANDING SPOT
Canadian Aviator Tries Vainly Chase Animal on
Thick Floe to Get Pelt.

The plane followed the frightened
wolves for three miles, trying to drive
them on TO q section Of the lake where
the ice afforded a safe landing
But" Maxwell said, THE biggest
wolf, born leader, interpreted our in
tention and headed out onto the lake
to point where the slush was deepest
and dangerous There he formed his
platoon into single file ami Just ran
around In a circle. We couldn't bulge
him from this line Of defense and when
we gave up In disgust and veered OF,
there were the four of them, slowed
down to a walk, still playing ring around
rosy and giving us the laugh for our
wasted half honE."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
ARKANSAS HOUSE
MEMBER IS SHOT
Georgia Salesman Held in Wound
ing of w. u. McCabe,
State Legislator.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, March l2.-W.
y. McCabe. Representative from Baxter
County in the Arkansas State Legisla-
ture, was shot and seriously wounded
by bullet which passed through the
door Of his hotel room early today. H.
G. Lansdale, an Atlanta, Ga, travelling
salesman, was taken into custody after
the shooting.
Officers said they found small cal-
iber revolver in Lansdale's room. across
the hall from that occupied by McCahe.
McCabe's condition was 50 critical
officers. were unable to question him.
No charge was filed against Lansdale.
OficerS said he was held for question
ing after they were told by the hotel
clerk and those occupying nearby rooms
that McCabe was intoxicated and had
been creating disturbance just before
the shooting.
The clerk said lac had received sew
eial complaints about noise from Nc
Cabe's room.
Lansdale is reported to have told the
clerk:
IF you don't stop him, will"
The clerk was preparing to investigate
when he heard the shot and hurried to
the sixth floor, where he found McCabe
lying on the floor bullet wound in his
chest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TORONTO, March i2.-There is 8
wolf in northern Ontario who apparent
ly knows that 1t is dangerous for air.
planes TO land on slush ice.
Capt w. Roy Maxwell, director of the
provincial air force, was back from o
flight to the north country today telling
how this wolf out-maneuvered the plane
TO save himself and his three COM
panions.
-Four timber wolves were sighted on
Bromley Lake, north Of Cogawa. and
the flyers started In pursuit bent on
getting the pelts and bounty paid for
dead wolves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
WAGES CUT IN BELGIUM
AS WORKERS PROTEST
Senate and House Expected to Re
duce Own Salaries as Civic
Pay Is Slashed.

BY the Associated Press.
ANTWERP, Belgium, March IA
employees salaries and pensions by
per cent, commencing April II, was de-
cided upon by the government today.
Members of the Senate and House
are expected to reduce their salaries by
10 per cent to render the public Serv-
ants wage cut acceptable. This will
be followed by all-around industrial
salary reductions, starting with metal
and colliery workers. The latter are
preparing for a public demonstration on
March % in protest against the pro-
EoSal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
80 RUN FOR CONGRESS

HAMMOND, Ind, March IL Dr.
Gov. Leslie's signature Son the reap
portionment bill making Lake County q
separate congressional district signal
lied q mad scramble for the new seat
in Congress. Thirty candidates thus
far have appeared, among them several
women. Those who have formally en-
tered the race include Frederick Crum.
packer, son of the late Representative
e. D. Crumpacker,'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
special pispatch o rhe scar

Special Dispatch to The Star,
CUMBERLAND, Md, March l2.-
For the third day snow continued to
fall in the Garrett County territory
west Of FrostbuIg, with the wind blow
ing a gale and drifts piling high. At
some points the fall Is nearly 20 inches
on the level. The State Roads Com
mission has two lotion tractors and
10 trucks equipped with snowplows
keeping the National Highway open be-
tween Fr0stburg and the Pennsylvania
line. Drifts are as high as 10 feet. Tts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
GALE SWEEPS WESTERN MARYLAND,
PILING SNOWDRIFTS 10 FEET HIGH
2O-Inch Fall Reported in Garrett County as Blizzard
Continues; Tractors Clear Roads.

tEaflc at some points.
Twelve inches is reported at Thomas,
w. Va, with the thermometer at IL
above zero and a biting wind blowing.
AT Altamont, Garrett County, real
blizzard Is reported extending some
miles both east andn west. Frostburg
seems TO be the dividing line, with ITO
snow east At Bayard the mow blocked
operations at the coal mines ond large
forces are shoveling. Many lateral
roaB are closed and operation of
school busses has been Astopped:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
CHINA SHIPS SIS, 500, 900
IN GOLD BARS TO u. S.
Move to Bolster Silver Seen in
Transaction Surrounded
With Secrecy.
By Gable to The Star.

BY Gable to The Star
SHANGHAI, China, March 12.-Gold
bars valued at $6,500,000 are to leave
here tonight aboard the President
Cleveland for San Francisco, according
to plans made by the Central Bank Of
China, the only institution permitted
by the government to export gold.
This shipment is designed to bolster
Chinas silver. The bank Is also hoping
to make profit on the exchange trans
action.
The utmost secrecy is maintained
over the shipment, though enough
erroneous reports leaked out last week
to enable spectators to reap rich re-
wards.
Copyright, 1881
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
Wooden Indian Found
And Editor Proposes
Him for L Legislature
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Miss, March IL.
Quest of Birney lines, editor
of the Daily Commercial Dispatch
here, for a survivor of the viz
tually vanished race of wooden
Indians has been crowned with
success.
Ronald H. Ferguson, city editor
of Manchester, Conn, wired the
local publisher he had located an
Indian and asked what must /
do with it?"
lines replied: run that wooden
Indian for Connecticut Legisla-
ture or send him to me and I'll
run him in Mississippi. He will
be better than anything any of
the States have now"
lines request came Of a desire
to learn what had become of the
disappeared sentinels Of cigar
stores in the days before Smoke
shoppeS" were heard Of.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
Wood Alcohol Kills Three.

GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia, March IL
(H9s--Wood alcohol poisoning yesterday
was determined by the authorities as
responsible for the death OF three men
and critical illness Of three others.
The source OF the supply was not inn
n1ediately ascertained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12
Gastonia Bank Reopens.

GASTONIA, N. c.. March IL tP.-
The First National Bank OF Gastonia,
which closed December Is, reopensd
today with 100000 new capital stock
paid in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12

Radio Programs ,On Page D-4
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12

90. 6. sweather Bureau ForecastJ
Fair tonight and tomorrow; slowly ris-
ing temperature tomorrow; lowest to-
night about 30 degrees.
temperatures Highest. 80, at noon to-
day; lowest, 40, at am. today.
Full report on page 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
Wall Street Briefs
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 16.-Fairfax Har-
rison, president of the Southern Rail
way System, has sailed for a siX-week
visit to Europe He declined to COM
ment on the outlook for the road, but
said that he would not be here for the
directors meeting June II, as all de-
tails Of action to be taken at that time
had been concluded before his depar-
ture.
Ralph Under Pope, president of the
Northwestern Leather Co. Trust Of
Boston, and Willis r. Fisher, president
of the A. c. Lawrence Leather Co. OF
Peabody, Mass, have been elected TO
membership in the New York Hide
Exchange.
Statistics show that baking has grown
from tenth to second place among food
industries, Joseph Wiltshire, president
of Standard Brands, Inc, said.
American Air Transport Lines flew
7,427,614 miles in the first quarter OF
1880, copyright report issued by the
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce OF
America shows. Express poundage
jumped 279 per cent and airmail
poundage is per cent.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway has
awarded to Boxley Brcs. Co. of Orange,
Va, a contract for construction of a
new double-track second creek tunnel
and bridge over Greenbrier River, also
a new single-track tunnel parallel to
the present Mann's Tunnel. The eSti-
mated cost of the work is 81, 564, 500
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, May 16 P-CattIe-
Receipts, 300 head compared week
ago medium weight and weighty steers.
20 lower; decline uncovering lowest
prices In years; liberal supply weightv
oullocks offered; extreme top, 9.25; bulk.
heavies selling at 700a8 90; yearlings
and light steers of yearling type, strong
10 70 higher; light heifer and mixed
yearIlngS, 25a40 higher; light kinds up
most: best long yearling steers 925:
helfer yearlingS, 8.35 she stock. uneven
butcher heifers, Is higher; light COWS
strong; heavy cows weak and low cutters
and cutters 15a25 lower; bulls, IOaI
lower; vealers, so higher; stocker and
Ieeoer trade very narrow; bulk. fat
steers and yearlings, 6.75a8. 90; average
cost this week being around 7.l5.
Sneep-Receipts, 1000 head; today's
market nominal; fer week "a doubles
from feeding stations, $500 head di-
rect; compared week ago fat lambs
mostly 25a50 lower; open market sup
ply smallest OF season; diversion from
oCner markets, however, a depressing
FACTOR; weeks top, old lambs, 9.S5: none
above 9.25; late bulk, good and choice
wooled lambs, 8.75a925; clippers, S.OOa
$50; desirable native Springers, II GOA
1l25; thin lightweight kinds down to
800; CALIFORNIA;, 10.O0a11.10 through
out week; fat wooded ewes, 3.O0a3. rs;
shorn kinds up to $40 early in week.
Hogs-Receipts, 5000 including 5000
direct: run mostly direct; not enough
fresh hogs to form basis for dependable
quotations; few sales 10a2O lower; most
medium and good, 150-22O pounds, $50
a6.90; few mixed. 260-340 pounds.
64Oa6.7O; most packing sows, 5.60a5. rs;
compared week ago lightweightS, 10a2O
lower haQViaS
shippers took no hogs today; estimated
holdover, 1000; light lights, good and
choice 140-160 pounds. 6.90a7.10; light
weights, 10000 pounds, 6.90a7 10;
medium weights, 20O-25O pounds, 6.8Oa
ITO; heavyweights, 250-350 pounds,
6.25a6.90; packing sows, medium and
good, 275-500 pounds. 5.50a6.00 Pigs
Good and choice. 6.65a7.1O; all outside
prices were nominal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
CURB PRICES HOLD
But MARKET DULL
Only 10000 Shares Change
Hands in Two Hours
OF Trading.
BY CLAUDE A. JAEGER,
Associated Press Financial Editor.

NEW YORK, May 16-The curb
market showed a fairly steady tone
today in the dullest Saturday trading
of the year. Sales for the two hours
were only 10000 shares.
Prices tried to rally in the first half
hour, but interest was so stagnant that
the attempt was abandoned. Selling
pressure was largely absent. however,
and quotations moved narrowly, sagging
slightly toward the close, which was
irregular.
One of the active issues was General
Theaters Equipment preferred, which
rallied more than point on the 1880
earnings report. The maximum adj
vance was not fully maintained and
the issue finished higher. There was a
point rise in Parker Rust Proof. but
otherwise the specialties did little. Mead
johnson lost a point, Insurance Co. of
North America dropped pa to a new
low and Stutz Motor sagged "a. Con-
solidated Dairy yielded about a point.
Aluminium of America was dull but
firm.
Several of the utility leaders, includ-
ing Electric Bond, American Super
power st. Regis Paper and Associated
Gas "A" sagged by small fractions.
United Light "a was steady.
Changes in the oils were narrow.
Standard of Ohio lost a point and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
MANY CITY PEOPLE
TAKING UP FARMING
Past Year Witnessed Turn in Tide
Due to High Cost Of Urban
Living.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, May 16.-High city
wages are driving people to the farm,
says the Alexander Hamilton Institute.
This seeming paradox Is explained al
meaning that high wages artificially ne
cessitate high retail prices for finished
products Such prices restrict buying
by the unemployed and the farmers,
thereby reducing the physical volume
of business and the opportunities for
employment
The consequent movement of urban
unemployed during 1880, says the insti-
tute. has resulted in an increase of
farm population for the first time In 10
years. While the number of persons
leaving farms exceeded the number
moving to farms, the difference was so
small as to be more than Offset by tbs
excess of rural births over deaths
Meanwhile, the average daily wage,
without board, received by farm labor
in the United States at the present
time is $3.50, as compared with $243
in the middle Of 1929. This reduction
in wages has been made necessary by
q IS per cent drop in the prices of farm
products. The widely advocated wage
maintenance policy has thus been q
fat failure in the agricultural division
Of labor,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-17
PROFESSIONAL FINDS
HE ISN'T so HARD UP
Special Dispatch 10 The star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
NEW YORK. May 16.-ProfessionaI
sharpshooters, who work on the floors
Of the Stock Exchanges and who make
their living out Of / and point prof.
its, complained today that some active
leaders would not move either way far
enough to make a profit
We'll. even at that we are not as
hard up as the boys trying to make a
living out of exchange fluctuations,
commented a trader Look at this"
It was the ticker report on Canadian
Exchange and read, Montreal funds
1/16 of 1 per cent discount, or
999375, on 00O15625."
(Copyright. 1917