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Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-05
POLITICAL
MAT TIERS
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Party Leaders Confused
On Issues AS Congress
Awaits Opening.
COURSE UNCERTAIN
Taxes And Tariff Prob
lens Expected To Cause
Much Wrangling.
By RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Dec. S. U.D-
Confusion in almost record break
ing measure marks the oncoming
congress.
1t will meet MONDAY attended by
greater suspense than has existed
in any congress since the war.
Democrats are uncertain what to
do with the new power they will
acquire in taking control of the
house. Though they have built
their party to q degrees on their
differences with the Republicans OH
the tariff issue, they are divided as
to whether to open this Pandora's
box.
Theoretically the Democrats are
for lower tariffs. Yet individual
members want protection for spe-
cial industries in their own states
some Democrats for instance hav-
ing voted for the Republican Haw-
ley-Smoot bill for local reasons.
Any attempt to revise the tariff
would bring out these differences
at once, which causes some Demo-
Gratis to prefer to pass over the
issue. Others, such as Senator Har-
rison. Democrat, Miss, prefer to go
ahead now. Any action must be-
gin in the house and John N. Gard
ner prospective speaker, has not in
dicated what his decision will be.
There is equal uncertainty as to
taxes. Democrats are waiting to
see what the administration will
propose before deciding upon their
program. General sentiment favors
increasing taxes on higher income
and inheritances. But there Is d.
vision over the taxing of luxuries
and semi-luxurieS through direct
SALES tax. There also is division as
to how much if any of the deficit
should be met by further borrow
ing
Opinions Divided
This situation is all the more del
icate because OF the sensitiveneSs
of business to tax legislation.
These two problems present the
greatest difficulties to both parties.
and the difficulties are aggravated
by the wide Emergencies OF opinion
within each party.
Prohibition also will cut into both
parties in a confusing way should
the question come to a vote, as
leaders in both houses are now
suggesting. No one expects ref
erendum or any other proposal
favored by anti-prohibition groups
to carry. The result however, prob
ably would show an increase In op-
position to the 18th amendment and
the Volstead Act, and force many
members to take definite position
for the first time-a matter that
Will cause widespread anguish
among certain individuals who
would prefer to face reelection CAM
paigns straddling the question.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-05
Identify Mystery
Auto In Desert

SAN BERNARDINO, Cal. Dec. S.
U.P)-A four-year search by Denver
police for william Sullivan had a
mysterious ending today in the bad
lands of the Mojave desert.
Authorities were summoned sew
eral days ago to investigate an
abandoned automobile almost buried
in sand drifts. The same winds
that piled sand about the car, how
ever, laid bare the license plates,
which had been removed, swathed
in an overcoac and buried nearby.
A search of the wreckage over q
radius Of 600 yards disclosed no hu-
man trace.
Investigation of the license plates
showed that the car was stolen
four years ago from the Mountain
Field club at Denver. Police have
sought Sullivan since. ..
Police were inclined to think
that whoever abandoned the car did
so deliberately rather than under
the stress of an empty fuel tank,
pointing to substantiate the theory
to the calm care with which he had
tried to remove all traces of its
ownership.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-05
Former Envoy
To Japan Dies

SANTA BARBARA, Cal, Dec. s.
U.P)-Arrangements we're under way
today for the funeral of Charles
MacVeagh, ambassador to Japan III
1925-l929. who died here yesterday
at the age of II. He had been in
failing health for more than a year
No date has been set for the
funeral.
MacVeagh leaves 4 widow, five
sons and a daughter, all of New
York City.
Born in West Chester, Pa, Mac
Veagh studied to be a lawyer and
after following that profession be-
came general solicitor for the
United States Steel company.
During the World war he was a
ranking official of the Fatherless
Children of France, Inc. He was
president of the Immediate Relief
to Italy Fund, Inc.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-05
MRS. MOONEY In
HOSPITAL AFTER
PRISON HEARING

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 5. UP)--
Mrs. Mary A. Mooney, 84-year-
mother of Tom Mooney, was in Il
hospital today overcome by the ex-
element of a hearing at which
Mayor Walker of New York pleaded
for the pardon of California's IA
nous prisoner.
Mother" Mooney, whose plea to
Mayor Walker brought him to SaC
Francisco for the hearing held by
Governor Rolph, probably will be
confined to bed for two weeks, Dr.
Charles R. Wright said.
Mayor Walkers two visits to her
home and the long hours of the
hearing proved an undue strain on
the aged patient. and she must
have a complete rest, according to
her physician.
She has had a complete physical
collapse and is suffering from the
shock of the past weeks events" he
explained. II deemed it advisable
to have her go to hospital, where
she will have good care"
Members of the Mooney defense
league jouInied to San Quentin
prison to inform Mooney that his
mother was i'll but not in danger.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-05
POLICE PICK UP
BOY FOR WHOM
MESSAGE SENT

Coincidence played a prominent
part in the life of William E. Rosser,
10, yesterday afternoon. when he
was being sought BY Sheriff George
L. Campbell, who held an important
message from his mother, and at
the same time was being arrested
by John Mayo, captain OF the FL
Centro police force, i'll the residen-
tial section.
Rosser was arrested at 230 yes
terday afternoon in company with
William Stallings, 81, at Eighth and
Hamilton streets. He was booked
for investigation at the police sta
ton.
Two hours later a member of the
police force, reading the Imperial
Valley Press, noticed story that
the sheriff held a message for
Rosser from his mother, Mrs. Edith
RosSer, in Los Angeles.
The policeman notified the sher-
ifs office the boy was in custody.
The message was delivered to RoSSer
in Jail, together with two checks
to pay his fare back to Los Angeles.
Both Rosser and Stallings were
taken before Judge j. E. Simpson
in police court this morning. Stall
ings was sentenced to 80 days IN
the county Jail for vagrancy, and
the sentence suspended on condition
he leave town.
No complaint had been filed
against Rosser. and he was taken
to the Sheriff's office to be held
pending word from his mother. Of
ficers wired to explain the checks
are personal, and cannot be cashed
here. She must send a money or
der for the money to carry her son
back to Los Angeles. she was in
formed The checks will be re-
turned.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-05
JUDGE DECLARES
CITY ORDINANCE
IS NOT VALID

That the ordinance recently
passed by the city council ordering
the closing at o'clock in the eve
ming OF all barber ships within the
city limits is unconstitutional was
decided today by Judge A C.
Finney.
The decision was made when
Judge Finney granted freedom on
a writ OF habeaS corpus to r. Okida
a Japanese barber who had been
sentenced TO three days in the
county Jail for violation OF the bar
Der shop closing ordinance when
he would not pay a So fine.
The case was tried in the nature
of test, with Charles Brown acting
as attorney for Okida in the peti-
ton for writ of habeas corpus.
The closing ordinance was passed
by the city council at the request
of a group of American BARRIERS in
Ell Centric, and over the protest of
a smaller group of Japanese bar
bers, of whom Okida was ono
The Japanese won their fight
when Judge Finney this morning
declared unconstitutional that part
of the ordinance limiting the work
ing hours of BARRIERS and farcing
them to cloSt their shops a. 6
o'clock on week days.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-05
FARMERS
ADJOURN
MEETING
Resolutions Adopted Sug-
....gest Remedies For Ills
OF Agriculture.
URGE TARIFF BILL
State Income And Modi-
fled Sales Taxes AdvO-
\ Gated By Convention.

SACRAMENTO, Dec. }. U.P) -
California farmers today had con-
cluded n three-day statewide con-
vention here with adoption of reso-
lutions expressing their suggested
remedies for the cure of agricul-
ture's Ills.
Chief among the resolutions
adopted by the meeting were meas
ures calling upon congress to enact
an emergency tariff bill for the
protection Of competitive farm
products and demanding state
tax levy on cruue oil and gas to pro-
vide funds for n statewide water
conservation plan on "pay-as-
you-go" basis.
Work OF the federal farm board
was endorsed by the farmers at the
closing session last night. while at
temptS TO bring the prohibition is-
sue TO the floor OF the convention
were twice unsuccessful.
Resolutions adopted at the meet
ing included:
Recommended adoption of state
income tax and modified sales tax
the revenues from which TO he
placed in a fund for school pur-
poses as a replacement for the tax
on real property. and asking repeal
OF the constitutional provision that
counties must levy a school tax to
equal the appropriation made by
the state.
Urged reduction OF power rates
for irrigation purposes and advo-
heated establishment of municipall,
~owned power projects in the event
the reductions are not received
Recommended that the fedora
farm board lend their aid anc
assistance TO the cling peach grow.
ers in view of the urgency of the
situation and condition OF the in.
dustry.
Memorialized congress and Presi.
dent Hoover to call a national con-
ference of real farmers" for thu
purpose OF agreeing upon a plan x
solve the problems OF, and restore
property to, the farmers.
Opposed making of further loan:
of American capital TO foreign
countries or allowing any made
quatc or preferential import tariff
to the Philippines. Cuba. or any
other foreign countries. until pros
perity has been restored to Amer
lean farms and labor.
Urged Governor Rolph and th'
state harbor board to provide mod
ern shipside storage facilities so tha'
California may have refrigeration
facilities second to none on the Pa
cific coast.
Endorsed the efforts of Director
Of Agriculture Dudley Mouiton il
behalf Of solving the marketing
problems of the farmers.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-05
TRANSMITS NOT
BEING HALTED BY
ARIZONA OFFICERS
Report Circulated In Val
ley Declared Erroneous
By Labor Officials.

Denial that Arizona officers are
stopping transients into that state
from California, at Yuma bridge.
as reported this week by a valley
newspaper. and a declaration that
the unemployed transient condition
here is improving, was made TODAY
by Capt. w. M. Cunningham, spe-
cial agent OF the United States labor
service here.
There is no stopping of tran
sients at Yuma bridge by Arizona
officers" Captain Cunningham said.
"On the contrary, Arizona officials
are cooperating in every way with
California in seeking to solve the
transient labor problem
During November the Yuma COM
munity kitchen served 5000 meals.
Captain Cunningham learned yes
terday when he went to Yuma to
investigate the report that tran
sients were being stopped. There IS
an average of 800 per day, and In
the last week the average has taken
a drop to but rs persons day
A monthly check OF transients on
the Yuma -Holtville highway, made
by federal labor officials, showed an
average OF lao eastbound tranSientS
q day while only six were west
bound, indicating that the western
migration has dwindled heavily.
The Yuma police told Cunning
ham that they are having less
trouble from transients than at any
previous time, particularly as re-
CARDS theft and petty crimes. The
Yuma chief OF police stated that
the men evidently appreciate the
food which is given them and move
on If unsuccessful after making an
honest effort TO obtain work.
In Imperial Valley the transient
labor problem Is showing improve
ment, Cunningham said. A call
received at the local office from
Phoenix for 100 laborerS in the cot
ton fields near Phoenix would also
indicate that there Is not the large
number OF idle men at the Arizona
capital that has been reported in
newspaper dispatches. Several men
have been sent from the local Of
flee TO the cotton fields and all who
will accept work there are being
accommodated, Cunningham said.
Ralph Reynolds, in charge of the
labor bureau maintained by Local
service clubs, made new appeal for
Jobs for local workmen who want
them, advising that there are plenty
of men but few jobs for them. A
list of men skilled in various kinds
of work is kept at his office and
those desiring to employ them can
usually be accommodated
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-05
OF
KIWANIS MAKES
VISIT TO VALLEY

William o. Harris, international
president Of Kiwanis, was a dis
tinguished visitor in the valley yes
terday and was honored by an in
terclub banquet held last night at
the De ANA hotel, Calexico, by
the Ell Centre, Brawley, Calexico
and Yuma clubs.
International opjectives OF Kiwa-
mis- formed the theme Of the inSpir-
ational address given by President
Harris who outlined the three year
plan recently adopted by the inter-
national board of trustees, the aim
of the plan being the further de-
velopment Of KiWanis throughout
the United States.
Music for the evenings enter
tainment was furnished by the El
Centre club, a quartette composed
Of Ellis Rhodes, Russell Kliegel,
Ray johnson and S. o. Lingo pre-
senting a group of songs. Estelle
Livingston played all accompani-
mentS.
Jim" DUNCAN, president of the
Brawley club, presided at the meet
ing. Covers were laid for $50 guests
and the table appointments typified
the desert, bowls of cactus and
desert shrubs making unusual and
attractive decorations.
Ell Centro members and their
wives present were: Mr.. and Mrs.
w. l.. Apple, Mr.. and Mrs. H. r..
Anderson, DR.. and Mrs. Sem Bacon,
Mr.. and Mrs. Elton Christian, Mr.
and Mrs. J. L. Dubois, Mr.. and Mrs.
S. o. Lingo, Mr.. and Mrs. w. j.
Meagher, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Moody,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Reid, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. G.. Scott, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
H. Tyler, Mr.. and Mrs. Russell
Kliegel, and r. E. Couch.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Y. Watson. Miss
Roberta Edgar and Ray Edgar,
president of the Ell Centro Rotary
club, were special Ell Centro guests
at the banquet.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-05
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MARYLAND MOB
TAKES LIFE OF
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SALISBURY, Md, Dec. S. (U.P)-
A mob late last night invaded a
local hospital, abducted a wounded
negro and hanged him in the public
square. Then they soaked his body
with gasoline and burned it.
The negro, Mac Williams, earlier
in the day shot and killed his en-
ployer, Daniel J. Elliott, Ct, then
shot himself. He was taken to the
hospital in a serious condition.
A mob Of 400 stormed the hos
pital guarded by deputies, and then
lynched and burned the negro.
While the main body of the mob
menaced the sheriff and his depu-
ties in front of the Peninsula Cen
eral hospital, six leaders slipped in
side door, took Williams from his
bed and hustled him to the court
house lawn.
One of the mob tossed the end
of a rope over tree limb in the
yard and the other end was
fastened around the negro's neck.
Eager volunteers hauled him off the
ground, Where he hung for about
20 minutes.
Then the body was cut down and
carried to the edge of the negro
district. Gasoline was poured over
it and ignited. The crowd shouted
and applauded as the flames leaped
high against the black sky.
Officials said Williams was
dragged from his death bed to be
lynched. He was suffering from
wounds inflicted by himself as well
as by Daniel Elliott, Jr., son of the
man he killed.
Two other Eastern Share negroes
are now in Baltimore Jail as a re-
suit of mob threats. One is Yuel
Lee, charged with numbering a fam
lily of four at Snow Hill. The other
is George Davis, accused of assault
upon a white woman.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-05
BELL CONTINUES
TO ODENY HAVING
WED CLARA BOW
Las Vegas Records Said
To Show That Marriage
Ceremony Performed.

LAS VEGAS, New. Dec. 5. U.P)-
Clara Bow and Rex Bell, often
linked in headlines, were declared
by two witnesses and confirmatory
court records to be married but Bell
denied the ceremony and both were
in seclusion today.
A wedding license issued to Miss
Bow and Bell, movie cowboy who
has been her fiance for a year, was
on public record.
District Attorney Harley Harmon
and Deputy County Clerk William
Schuyler declared they witnessed
the marriage before Judge William
E. Orr. They even described the
dress of the principals. Judge Orr
would not comment. He had been
pledged to secrecy, he said.
Bell who has been the almost
constant companion of the tempest
uous Brooklyn girl whose spectac-
ular Hollywood career made her one
of the most widely known film
stars. denied Miss Bow had become
his wife. He said some OF her con-
tracts would be jeopardized by her
marriage.
Schuyler said he was aroused
from bed Thursday night and asked
to reopen his office to issue the
license, and the wedding followed,
with every precaution for secrecy
The license, necessarily a public
document, was revealed yesterday
Miss Bow, the witness said, wore
wine colored gown, Empress Eu-
genie hat and fur coat for the we'd
ding, while Bell wore a business
suit. The license gave Bells true
name as George F. Belham, age %.
The actress gave her name as Clara
Gordon Bow, 26. Neither had been
married before.
Immediately after the ceremony
the couple left by automobile for
Bells ranch which is 10 miles from
either telephone or telegraph.
Bell. virile and dark, has been
Miss Bows host at his ranch since
she suffered nervous breakdown
last spring, following the sensation
al trial which resulted in the con-
viction of Daisy De Voc, her former
secretary, of stealing a fur coat
from Miss Bow.
Bell was the latest of a number OF
admirers. Among these were Gary
Cooper, film star; Victor Fleming
director; Robert Savate, former Yale
football player; Gilbert Rowland
; wealthy Californian, and Harry
Richman. New York musical COM
edy star and night club owner.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-05
Crash Fatal To
Speedy Aviator

DETROIT, Mich, Dec. S. W.p-
Lowell Bayles, Springfield. Mass.
speed flyer, crashed at Wayne air
port here today while travelling
nearly 300 miles per hour and was
killed.
BayIes was 81 and learned his
flying in the socalled transformers
school.
He was the second largest prize
winner at the last national air races
at Chicago, gaining speed honors in
his small but powerful Gee Bee"
monoplane.
An apparent new land plane speed
record he recently made was disal-
lowed
Bayles was thrown clear OF the
plane, landing IN a muddy wagon
road 20 yards away from the flam-
ing wreckage. He was badly burned.
however.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-05
Veteran Actor
Ends His Life

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 5. U,Pl -
Harassed by money cares, which
had increased since San Diegos
last legitimate theatre closed last
month. Eddie Lawrence, veteran
San Diego character actor, ended
his life by taking gas in his hotel
room last night.
In the theatrical tradition. he
first kept a rehearsal date last
night before taking his life. AS di-
rector of an amateur play he told
his cast this is my last play. l am
going to a fair land where people
love me, where everything isn't
money, money, money"
A woman member of the cast
nearly succeeded in dissuading him
by a dramatic appeal to another
tradition of the theatre.
Have you ever before in your
life let show DOWN." she askej.
Lawrence buried his face in his
hands.
He leaves a son, Edward, Los An
geles sports writer, and two dangh-
terS. Patricia and Mrs. H, c. LNd
rand of San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-05
Attempt To Rob
Bank Is Failure

CLEVELAND, Dec. S. U.Pi -
Gunfire at the Threshold of a
bank here today prevented a rob
berry and left one of the bandits
dead on the sidewalk while sec
ond fled in terror.
The slain man was identified as
Richard Lohman, "a, Cleveland.
George Gerlach, drug store en-
ploye, was leaving the Pearl street
bank on the westside with $1,000
IN payroll money when the robbers
attempted to enter.
He met them at the door. The
robbers thrust pistols at Gerlach.
The payroll messenger jumped
aside, drawing his gun. He fired
and Lohman toppled forward, shot
in the abdomen.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-05
THIRD DEATH IN
BERKELEY BLAST
CLAIMS FIREMAN

BERKELEY, Cal, Dec. 5. (U.P)-
The toll of a fire and explosion in
the residence section here was
raised to three today when Acting
Fire Lieutenant Ray E. Hutton died
of internal injuries and third de-
gree burns.
Hutton succumbed in Alta Bates
hospital where four others are in a
critical condition from injuries and
burns received in the blast. They
are Fire Chief George Haggerty and
Fireman E. P. Claridge. Miss Mar
jorie Campbell, II, University of
California student, and Peggy
Syktte, 8.
The death of Hutton occurred
while the city was conducting an
investigation OF the explosion, which
was tentatively blamed on leak
ing dead end pipe" and the efforts
of two youths to make repairs.
The fire, starting in the home OF
Chief Pharmacist Normal L. Saun-
ders, navy petty officer, followed at
temptS OF his son, Walter, 10, to
repair leaks in a pipe leading to
the furnace in their home.
Walter Saunders and George
Whitley, l8, his companion, gave
the information TO police, saying
they tried to tighten a cap but that
gas pressure blew it off, and the
escaping fuel caught fire
Ernest Maxwell, one of the fire
men seriously injured in the ax-
plosion. died late yesterday after an
emergency operation. Sherman Pep
per. l6, son of University of CAL
ifornia professor, was standing near
the house at the time of the blast
and was killed instantly.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-05
@H,lnLdLro<
w ssays:

ABOARD S. S. EMPRESS OF
RUSSIA, Dec. 4. tSpeciaD--
Now don't get me mixed up on
this Oriental pilgrimage with
this fellow Floyd Gibbons. He
is a war man and is over to tell
you about them. That amt my
business over here at all. I am
a peace man. I haven't got anv
use for wars and there is 30
more humor in 'em than there
is reason for 'em.
Get your war news from Glib
bons and your geisha girl news
from Rogers. I am over here
scouting for Ziegfeld's Fol-
lies" and I want TO see where
they train those Japanese Dip
lomatS that go to an interna-
tional conference and bring
home everything but the desk
that the treaty was signed on.
That's all we got to show
for the Washington disarama-
ment conference was the desk
and we will perhaps lose it at
the next one.
Yours.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-12-05
DOG AND HOG
CAUSE MIX-UP
OF SEELEY MEN

A dog, a hog and two men are
principals in one of the queerest
justice court mixups Judge F. N.
Kirkpatrick of Seeley has seen for
many long moons.
1t was because OF the dog and the
hog that L. B. Dodge sWore out a
complaint charging S. A. CHAPMAN
with battery, and it was also be-
cause Of the hog and the dog that
Chapman swore out complaint
charging Dodge with cruelty To
animals.
Sheriff George l.. Campbell be-
came one of the parties TO the fuss
yesterday afternoon when he served
warrant of arrest on Dodge. and
the latter was arraigned before
Judge kirkpatrick on the charge OF
cruelty to animals. He pleaded not
guilty and demanded a jury trial,
which will be held January 4.
Dodge was released on $40 bail.
Chapman's story is that Dodge
set his canine companion on a hog
on his ranch six miles west of
Seeley, and after the dog caught the
hog, proceeded TO beat the former
animal
Here Dodge's story comes in. He
told officers Chapman came up be-
hind him, struck him on the head
and further attacked him after he
had been knocked down.
First. Dodge signed a complaint
against Chapman, then Chapman
retaliated by signing a complaint
against Dodge, and now the entire
matter is up in the air and still
pending.