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Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-17
Negro Radicals
Cause Shooting

DADEVILLE, Ala, July IT. up
A large force of deputies kept order
here today to prevent racial. dis
turbances after a negro had been
slain and four other persons
wounded. including Sheriff ]. j.
Young, in a raid on a negro mass
meeting, at which Communists were
reported scheduled to speak.
Armed posses also searched
nearby swamp for negroes involved
in the outbreak. Eleven negroes
were held IN Jail for investigation.
Reports of mass meetings recent
ly at Camp Hill near here, at which
racial equality was said TO have
been preached, caused Young to
raid the gathering last night.
More than 100 negroes ran when
the officers arrived. Random shots
were fired. Ralph Green. negro
was killed, and three others slightly
wounded. Young was the only
member of the raiding force shot.
The Alexander city hospital, to
which he was taken, advised he
would recover.
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Continued on page 81
COBEL TO FLY
AROUND WORLD
NEAR EQUATOR

LOS ANGELES, July II. U.p)-
Plans for a daring non stop flight
along the Equator over jungles of
South America, Africa and Asia
were announced here today by
Colonel Art Goebel and Harold
Byrd, wealthy Dallas, Tex, oil man
and relative of Commander Ri
chard E. Byrd.
The flight, according to Goebel,
is scheduled within the next two
months during the time that the
Jungles are in the grip of the rainy
season.
The plane, Goebel said, will be
powered by 450-horsepower, crude
oil burning Diesel engine.
Goebel, who was the winner of
the Inflated Dole flight from Oak
land to Honolulu, said the rainy
season had been selected in order
to subject the engine to the great
est possible test.
A facsimile of the engine now IS
being checked by the bureau of
standards in Washington, it was
announced.
Goebel and Byrd spent the day
in conference with Clarence S. Will
lams, prominent navigator, who
will check the course.
Goebel said the takeoff will be
somewhere in South America. He
said he planned to fly across Africa,
into Asia, and then return to the
starting point.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-17
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MOVIE CANCSTER'
ACTORS INJURED
IN TALKING FILM

HOLLYWOOD, July II. W.H -
Hollywood's desire for the ultra in
realism while shooting a gangster
picture today resulted in injury to
four actors and an innocent by
Stander.
The script of "Scarface" called
for reproduction of the Chicago
Valentine day massacre SO the sew
en- victims" were lined against a
brick wall. 1t was the idea of the
director to give an impression that
machine gun bullets were striking
the wall. To do this he placed dy-
Mantle caps in the bricks about
six inches apart. When the caps
exploded one by one the effect was
that Of bullets bounding off the
bricks.
The only catch was this.
All Of the dynamite caps explod-
ed at the same time.
Gaylord Lloyd, brother of Harold
Lloyd, who was watching the film
ing, was struck near the eyes by a
piece Of debris. Physicians declared
his injury was serious and that he
might lose sight of the eye.
Chance Ward. Frank Walsh, Rob-
ert Chapman and Chester Mays,
actors impersonating gangsters, suf-
fered minor cuts and bruises.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-17
HUNGARY MAKES
HEROES OF TWO
OCEAN AVIAT0RS

BUDAPEST, Hungary, July IT.
U.P)-George Endres and Alexander
Magyar transatlantic flyers, were
national heroes today.
Joyful, cheering throngs lauded
the men who spanned the Atlantic
in their monoplane, Justice for
Hungary. and narrowly escaped
death when they were forced down
Is miles outside Budapest, their
goal, last night.
Despite failure to land in Buda-
pest with their propaganda plane
the daring flight was inspired by
desire to call world attention to
purported injustices done to Hun
gary after the World war their
pluck in flying 1t until the gaso-
line tanks went dry and they
cracked up, fire popular imagina-
ton.
Neither was injured, but the plane
lost its propeller and one wheel OF
the landing gear in the perilous
landing in a soft field at Bickse
outside Budapest, &c hours and Is
minutes after taking off from Har-
Dor Grace, N. F. A passenger plane
was sent out and they were trans
ported to tumultuous reception at
an airdome in Budapest.
Magyar said they came down hard
in the field at about TAO D. m
GAO p. m. EST, covering 34OO
miles over the North Atlantic and
Europe in record time. Their av-
erage speed for that distance was
13o miles an hour, itself a remark
able feat.
1T was a grand Journey" Mag
var said. although we had to
struggle with the storm and fog
Immediately after we left Harbor
Grace, we made the flight without
incident"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-17
BANK ROBBER
SUSPECTED AS
AKRON SLAYER

LOS ANGELES, July IT, WP)-
James II. Cook, 81, arrested in a
rooming house here while he as
sertedly was counting money OBJ
tanned in bank robbery. is wanted
In Akron, Ohio, on suspicion of
murder, Lieutenant II. L. Barlow,
police fingerprint expert. declared
today.
While Cook was held in the
county Jail awaiting trial. Lieuten-
ant Barlow checked his fingerprints
against those on file and discovered
they corresponded with a set print
ed in the Los Angeles police bulle-
tin for January &c, 1920.
The bulletin. according to Lieu
tenant Barlow, said the fingerprints
were those of man who held up
an Akron cafe on January 13, 1920,
and shot and killed Steve Bosses,
proprietor, who resisted the BAN
dit.
Los Angeles police wired Akron
authorities that Cook was held here.
Cook was captured by detectives
who surrounded his rooming house
10 minutes after the man allegedly
held up the City Market branch Of
the California bank at 1l05 South
San Pedro street. Grabbing cur
rency, the bandit rushed from the
bank. He was seen by several wit
nesses to enter the rooming house
five blocks away.
Surrounding the place with rifles
and tear bombs, the officers burst
in upon Cook. 1t was said that they
found him counting money totaling
$l906.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-17
ma KENNEDY'S
ROMANCE GOES
ON THE ROCKS
Seeks Annullment Of Her
Marriage To 'What-A-
Man Hudson.

LOS ANGELES, July II. W.H -
Mrs. Minnie Ma" Kennedy, mother
of Aimee Semple Mcpherson, and
the Rev. G. Edward "What-a-Man"
Hudson, who was married to her
just three weeks ago, temporarily
pursued separate courses today after
the filing of an annulment suit by
Mrs. Kennedy.
The separation, Mrs. Kennedy and
Hudson agreed, will end just as soon
as Hudson's tangled matrimonial
adventures can be Strengthened out.
Pending that, Mrs. Kennedy warn
ed, those other James better leave
my man alone"
The veteran evangelist's suit was
filed late yesterday after it was de-
termined definitely that the Rev
Hudson, whose nickname "What-a
Man" was given him by Mrs. Ken
nedy, had failed to dissolve at least
one previous marriage before he
took the VOWS with Mrs. Kennedy.
1T was the only way out" sighed
Ma" as she explained the lega'
action. Another woman claims she
still is legally wed to my man. Sc
we will have our marriage annulled
live apart until he is freed, then ge'
; married all over again."
Isn't that right" she asked O
the Rev. Hudson.
Sure" replied the minister.
And, furthermore, added Mrs
Kennedy, II wouldn't want a maj
who couldn't interest other woman
He does. but just let those othe
James follow him until they fal
down in heap. They can't hav,
him! I'll. fight for him because he.
mine. He's going to stay mine, too
Romantic Wedding
I'm in for long siege of beine
lonely, but I'll put up with it unit
We can be together again. Their
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-17
BOMB EXPLOSION
CAUSES VATICAN
MUCH ANNOYANCE
Internal Machine Found
By Sections At Historic
Cathedral.

VATICAN CITY, July II. U.P)-
A sensation was created in the Va
tican today by the explosion of
time bomb in the Vatican gardens
No one was hurt.
The internal machine was dis
covered in st. Peters cathedral last
night and removed to the gardens,
were it exploded harmlessly during
the night
The bomb exploded at a. m. as
guards stationed at suitable safe
distances watched and waited for
1t to go off.
The machine was discovered by
sections in ST. Peters cathedral. The
sections, inspecting the church last
night as usual after the closing of
the gates discovered tin box near
the famous tomb of Pope Clemente
XIII in the right transept.
The box was handed to the Pope's
guard, whose commander ordered it
carried to the Belvedere sections of
the Vatican gardens. 1t was care
fully placed in an open space and
left to explode.
The bomb explosion followed re-
cent verbal and published attacks
IN Pope Plus XI during the present
otter controversy between the
Catholic church and the Fascists.
Pamphlets we.r circulated in the
past few days in Rome denouncing
The Pope as an anti-Fascist agita-
tor and suggesting it would be easy
for the police to take him into Gus
tody.
On protests in the Observatore
Romano, Vatican organ, the Itali-
an authorities arrested four persons
charged with circulating the
pamphlets.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-17
Narcotic Peddler
Caught By Nail

LOS ANGELES, July IT. U.P) -
A nail which snagged his trousers
as he attempted to leap a fence led
to the capture today of Lee Shaw,
80, asserted narcotic peddler, after
he had lodged several bullets fired
at him by policeman.
Officer Burton Hames loomed in
to sight just as Shaw assertedly sold
a "bindle" of cocaine to an under
cover operative. Shaw ran. So did
Hames. The officer fired as he ran,
but the bullets went wild.
When Hames overlook Shaw the
latter was hanging on a fence, held
securely by nail through the seat
OF his trousers.
Shaw was taken to Jail and charg-
ed with violation of the Harrison
narcotic act.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-17
CRIME EPIDEMIC
CONTINUES WITH
RENEWED ENERGY
Pair Of Tramp Youths
Keep Up Attacks On
Valley Highways.

Holdups and robberies unprece-
dented in the summer history of
Imperial Valley continued last night
when Brawley's two ragged bandit
youths held up a store northeast of
Brawley and two Mexicans on the
Dogwood road near Ell Centre, and
when one man was robbed in El
Centre and another between Calexi-
co and Ell Centre.
Activities of the youthful bandits
last night netted a total of seven
robberies and four stolen cars
charged against them.
Lincoln Creek, so, was beaten
and robbed in Ell Centro by a young
man who had gained his confidence
by promising to get him job.
Creek lost s25, his trousers and a
new pair of black shoes.
K. L. Lasky of Ell Centro lost S65
while returning from Mexicali last
night with two casual acquaint-
ances, he told officers in the police
department. He gave a description
OF the alleged robbers.
The Holt avenue store OF Bowman
and Jeska, eight miles east and six
miles north of Brawley was held ul
by two youthful bandits and robbed
OF s25 in silver and currency. This
was shortly after o'clock last
! night.
Two Mexicans, who failed to give
their names in reporting to the
| sheriff's office, were held up by the
same youths at midnight on tbs
Dogwood road two miles north of E
Centre. Their automobile wa.
stolen.
| The dirty, ragged, holdup artist.
began their activities early las
night when they drove up to tn,
store northeast of Brawley in a ca
stolen two nights ago from @. S
Gill, Holtville, who was robbed
north of Brawley.
Entering the store, they threat
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Continued on page 81
NOTED FIGURE IN
LIFE OF CAPITAL
TAKEN BY DEATH

BAR HARBOR, Me-. July II. W.D
The body of Mrs. John B. Hen
derson, 90-year- old Washington So
ciety woman who died at her sum-
mer home here last night, will be
taken to the capital for funeral
services at her famous boundary
CASTLE"
It will be kept temporarily In q
vault in Rock Greek cemetery.
Washington, and later taken to
Brooklyn, N. Y, to lie beside the
body of her husband. the United
States senator from Missouri.
WASHINGTON, July II. U.P -
An era long since ended In the
capital lost its lone representative
here when Mary Foote Henderson
died.
She was better known as Mrs.
John B. Henderson. Her husband.
long dead, was famous, too. but his
memory is but a faint shadow In
the picture OF the Civil war period.
His wife survived him to become .
social force. Mary Foote Hender-
son battled joyfully against those
customs which displeased her. such
as smoking. drinking by either sex.
and the wearing of short skirts.
Mrs. Henderson played the game
OF politics shrewdly and often won.
She loathed liquor and tobacco.
She wrote books against them and
against over eating. She was q
vegetarian. In particular. Mrs.
Henderson Stunned the monstrosi-
ties and caprices of fashion In FEM
mime attire" No maid servant In
the Henderson castle could wear
what her mistress was pleased 70
consider "scant or indecent clothes"
She knew all the presidents from
Lincoln to Mr.. Hoover. In her
swimming pool In the back garden
OF her home Mrs. Coolidge spent
many summer afternoons.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-17
bRUEN|N(
I 0 VISIT
IN PARIS
German Chancellor Will
Shatter Precedents To
Attend Conference.
DECISION IN DOUBT
Fear French May Require
Too Heavy Guarantees
To Extend Loan.
BY FREDERICK KUN
United Press Staff Correspondent

BERLIN, July II. U.P)-Depar-
ture for Paris tonight of Chancellor
Heinrich Bruening marks for the
first time since Bismarck that q
German chancellor actively in Of
flee has visited the French capital.
He Will be accompanied by Foreign
Minister julius Curtius.
Prospects for the approaching
Paris and London conferences
aroused hopes yesterday. but skep-
ticism became manifest today. 1t
was reported the French might de-
mand that a new big loan to Ger
many be guaranteed by an interna-
tional lien on customs revenues and
establishment OF a commission 10
control the lien.
An unequivocal rejection of such
a plan was Voiced today at Wilhelm
strasse.
In bygone days such measures
could be introduced in China, Tur-
key and even in Germany after an
era of initiation, but they are i'm
possible here today" 1t was said.
Whereas some Paris advices indi-
Gated that the French would modu-
late their demands for political
guarantees. the Wilhelmstrasse dis
played misgivings that the French
want To triumph through a degra-
dation of Germany.
The main purpose OF the i'm
pending conferences will be TO ef.
feet reconciliation OF France anc
Germany, but If the French succeed
In forcing Germany TO accept intol.
cradle conditions, the result will bt
10 breed new nationwide German
resentment scarcely calculated tc
cement Franco-German friend
ship"
1t was recalled that one of the
chief achievements of the Younf
reparations plan was abolition o.
the Dawes plan customs lien. Younl
plan experts argued that such 8
lien tends 10 damage, not to i'm.
prove credit, because pawning 6
country's customs as guaranty OF 6
loan implies that creditors distrus
the debtor, and credit requires con.
fidence.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-17

PHOENIX, Ariz., July l6.
(SpeciaD-If you want to see
lots of our country in one day
and all kinds of it, leave Fort
Worth in the morning from
their fine new airport, cross
Texas land, brother, you will
know you crossed something).
Abilene, Big Springs, Ell Paso,
Douglas, Tucson, Phoenix and
will be in Los Angeles at p. nj.
Had a great new dish last
night. Open all the cans of to-
matoes you have, all the cans
of cove oysters, lots of sliced
onions, raw, mix 'em in a big
bowl. It's a sort of soup salad.
It's called I'VE have scraped the
bottom salad You get it at
Shady Oak farm, Fort Worth.
Yours for the latest,
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Continued on page 81
Dogs Right To
Bark Is Upheld

CHICAGO, July II. U.P) - 1t is
a dogs inalienable right to bark
whenever he pleases, even in the
middle of the night, if he does so
"in the line of duty" according to
a ruling by Judge Leon Edelman.
The ruling was given in the case
of Albert Bloom, who owns two
police dogs. A group of Blooms
neighbors complained that the dogs
barked at night and kept them
awake.
Attorney Leonard j. Grossman,
representing Bloom, presented two
boys as witnesses who admitted
they tossed pebbles at Blooms house
during the night and that this was
what made the dogs bark.
THE dogs were merely doing their
duty-case dismissed ruled Judge
Edelman.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-17
Another Miner
Reported Missing

....Undersheriff Rodney Clarke again
took the road for the inland desert
this morning when j. M. Morgan,
Imperial Irrigation District warker,
reported the disappearance of a
second prospector in the north end
desert
Morgan gave no details of the
disappearance, not even the name
of the prospector. He could not be
located today for further informa-
ton.
He reported to the sheriff's office
early this morning the prospector
hod disappeared in the desert sew
eral days ago. No trace of him has
been seen since. The case is thought
to be parallel with the disappear
ance some time ago of Peter Gund-
erson from his camp near Peg Leg
Wells.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-17
STATE EXACTS
DEATH PENALTY
UPON TWO MEN
Executions First In Cal
ifOrnia Under ROlph
Administration.
BY earle ii. BENNETT
United Press Staff Correspondent

SAN QUENTIN STATE PRISON
July II. U.P The hand that
touched match to the oil-soaked
clothing of an elderly woman so
she would burn to death trembled
today as the gallows of San Quentin
was sprung and Charles Simpson,
10. was hanged.
Simpson plunged through the
trap at 1908 a. m.
Simpson walked up the l3 steps
unassisted and firm of tread. He
was accompanied only by his guards,
Arthur Fernley and Fred Hogo-
boom. He declined to permit a
priest to accompany him.
AT the gallows platform he gazed
at the ceiling. He was silent and
white-faced. He remained looking
upward until the moose was affixed.
Simpsons last words were:
Make it snappy, boys"
After this remark, which was ad-
dressed to his guards and spoken
in the condemned mans cage before
the march to the gallows started.
he was silent.
Eighty-one persons witnessed the
execution.
Some difficulty was experienced
in adjusting the black cap over the
boys head. He stood stoically. his
glance upturned, while the cap and
moose were slipped into place.
After he dropped through the
trap his body twitched violently
several times, and was quiet.
Simpson was the slayer of Mrs.
Albina VOORHEES,, 70, San Francisco
grocery store proprietor, a life long
friend OF his parents.
THE murder in which Mrs. Voor-
hieS was tortured was wilful. delib-
crate and premeditated and perpe-
trated in the commission of a rob-
berry Superior Judge Louis H.
Ward said when he passed sentence
on Simpson. The atrocity CT the
crime was SO great the governor of
California refused to intervene, and
IL was the first execution in this
prison for more than six months.
Simpsons attitude caused some to
believe he was seriously delinquent
mentally. Judge Ward ruled, how
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-17

Weeks of preparation ended last
night and early this morning when
federal prohibition agents spread
CONSERVATION among bootleggers Of
Imperial Valley by sudden raids on
% alleged bootlegging establish
ments near Ell Centre, Brawley.
Westmorland, Meloland, Calexico,
Calipatria, Imperial, Heber and
Kane Springs.
Led by Agents Clements and
Allies the federal men began raid
ing late yesterday afternoon and
continued operations through the
night, making the last raid at 4
o'clock this morning.
Whisky, wine, beer, alcohol and
gin fell into the hands of the gov
ernment agents as they made their
rounds. From each place q quan-
tity of liquor was brought to the
county Jail, where it was locked up
in the liquor room. Other liquor,
amounting to several thousands
gallons, was destroyed by the agents.
Among others arrested was F. d.
"Blackie' Bell of Brawley, who
turned over S4O0 in cash to jailers
at the county Jail for safe keeping
when he was booked. Jack Geese
man, Santa Ana printer, was slain
at Bells place near Brawley April
| l8 in the course of hijacking raid.
No arrests were made in this affair,
but the sheriffs office now has the
| names and descriptions of the al
legged murderers.
Large fines, and perhaps peni-
tentiary sentences await the al
legged bootleggers should they be
prosecuted in federal court on
charges of possession and sale Of
liquor United States Commissioner
Dorsey Whitelaw will not be in Ell
Centro until Monday, SO that un-
less the cases are turned over to
the state the men arrested last
| night must wait until then for hear
| ing.
Work Under Cover
Undercover agents working for
the past month procured evidence
| on which the agents based their
| raids.
Brawley liquor dealers were hit
| harder than those in any other Sec
ton, nine places near there being
raided and nine arrests made. Four
| were arrested near Ell Centre; two
near Calipatria; two near Impe-
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-17
UnlOaded Gun
Fatal To Youth

PRESCOTT. Ariz., July II. U.P)-
John Roberts, 13-year-old Cleator
boy, died in Mercy hospital here
last night from a bullet wound ac-
cldentally inflicted by Phillip Pugh,
also 13, as the two were playing at
the Pugh ranch home near Clea-
tor.
The Roberts lad was operated on
late Wednesday shortly after the
shooting but loss of blood and shock
caused his death.
The boy suffered intensely from
the wound, which left a gaping hole
in his abdomen.
The Pugh boy found the revolver
in his fathers dresser. Thinking it
was unloaded, he pulled the trig-
ger.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-17
EARTHQUAKE in
SOUTH AMERICA
DESTROYS TOWN
Heavy Loss Of Life May
Result From Disaster
In Ecuador.

QUITO, Ecuador, July IT, W.H-
A sharp earthquake was believed
today have practically destroyed the
town of Latacunga, so miles from
Quito.
The shock struck at 3 p. m. yes
terday, reports here said.
The number of victims was feared
large.
Light shocks continued in the To-
eality and residents were fleeing
Latacunga, reports said.
The government planned relief
measures and rescue parties were
hurried to the scene. President Isl
dro Ayora and Colonel Carlos A.
Guerrero, minister of interior, plan
ned to proceed to the quake zone
to supervise the work.
Thousands of persons were re-
ported homeless in and near the
devastated town. Most of the in
habitants, however, were believed to
have escaped to the countryside,
warned of impeding disaster by
subterranean rumblings.
The tremors were believed to have
originated in the nearby Cotopaxi
volcano. The severe shocks were
confined to a radius Of slightly over
nine miles, although the disturb
ance was felt In lesser degree for
miles in all directions.
Latacunga, Ecuador, is the capt.
tai of the province of Leon, and
is on one of the main highways
so miles directly south of Quito, the
capital of the republic. The popu-
lation is about 10000 persons.
The stricken city has an eleva-
ton of 9118 feet in the Andes noun
tains, and is about 140 miles east oi
the Pacific. There are remains ol
the ancient Inca Indian civilization
in the vicinity.
The city was destroyed by ar
earthquake in 1897
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-17
Area In
Sweltering Heat

CHICAGO, July II. W.P) - Sizz-
ling heat waves beat down today up
on the midwest, drove thousands
of people to the beaches, killed
more than Is, and caused untold
suffering among sweltering millions
who toiled on under extremely high
temperatures in the cities and up
on the farms.
Although not so widespread or
extended as the record heat wave
which killed more than 1900 per-
sons as it swept the country sew
eral weeks ago, the present wave
has fastened its grip upon nine
midwestern states and predictions
today were it would continue many
hours.
Forecasts were that blistering
temperatures would thu e
through today in most of the nine
states in the heat belt, Illinois,
Iowa, Michigan. Ohio, Wisconsin,
Missouri. South Dakota, Minnesota
and Nebraska.