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Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-21
Yankee Flyer
Delays Trip

SHANGHAI, Jan. 81. W.p)-An-
nouncing further delay in his pro-
posed flight from here to Manila
G. w. Brophy, former flying In
structor Of Phoenix, Ariz., said to-
day he would not take off until FRI
day morning.
Earlier this morning Brophy set
Thursday as the time of his hop but
later he declared unfavorable
weather forecasts caused him to an
nounce the new postponement.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-21
Bay City Wants
Help OF State
CONTINUED from page y

may be worked out for the state
would not be impaired by his bill.
Although the voters refused to
pass measure as the November
election requiring proof of automo-
bile tax payments before obtaining
license plates annually. three SINH
lar proposals were before the legis-
lature today.
The last was by Senator H. c.
Nelson. of Eureka. providing that
motorists must submit their county
and city property tax receipts at
the same time they apply for their
license plates. Similar bills were
introduced by Assemblyman E. H
Zion, Modesto, and Robert Fisher
Carlotta.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-21
Former Chicago
Official Freed

CHICAGO, Jan. 81. U.P) = Charles
S. Wharton. former assistant states
attorney under Robert E. Grove, was
expected TO return here today after
his release from Leavenworth peni-
tentiary where he served year and
seven months in connection with the
$4,000 Evergreen Park mail rob-
berry in February, 1928.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-21
DANCER GRAVELY ILL

LONDON, Jan. 81. U.Pl-Anna
Pavlowa, famous dancer, is serious
ly i'll with pleurisv The Hague,
the Daily Mail sa4 today. 1t was
understood that her illness resulted
from a chill contracted when the
train on which she was travelling
to The Hague was involved in col
lision near Dijob, and Paylowa and
other passengers were forced to re-
main in the cold for a considerable
time.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-21
Press OF Nation
Criticize Report
CONTINUED from Page y

er utterance. I can see nothing in
1t but another report" .
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 81. U.D-
Editorial comment on the report of
the Wickersham commission ap-
peared today in Los Angeles only
in the Times. dry Republican. It
included.
That there will be substantial
agreement in all quarters with the
main recommendations of the Vic
kersham commission, is not to be
expected. The members of the COM
mission itself are by no means in
accord with them. ....
1T, (the reporD has the appear
ance of an effort to compromise
conflicting views, which cannot, in
fact, be compromised, and as such
Will suit nobody entirely"
AS TO modification of the 18th
amendment which the commission
suggests, 1T seems to the Times" to
be IAN insuperable objection"
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 81. UD
The San Francisco Chronicle,
commenting editorially on the Wic-
kersham report on prohibition, said
today that the boards findings
we're "a perfect picture of the state
of the public mind. In the con-
fusion and conflict of their opin-
ions the commissioners reflect the
public confusion and conflict over
the Noble experiment
If the Wickersham commission
was expected to be the Moses to
lead this nation out of the wilder
ress, it failed to find inspiration"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-21
City and County News Briesf

Sentenced To Jail - Thomas
Romero. 80, was sentenced to 60
Gays in the county Jail on a charge
Of petty theft by Judge H. B. Grif-
lin in Brawley yesterday afternoon.
Blackshire Dresses for the well
dressed lady to be had at Mrs. LIN
go's Smart Shoppe. Sizes 3s to Sc.
2Gt2.
immigration Prisoners
held at the county Jail today by
immigration officers are Jose Men,
doza, AZ, and Jesus Hernandez, 80.
Dr.. A. b. hanson, Dentist, Davis
Bldg. Extraction specialist.
Rancher Jailed-J. NJ. Murphy,
81, rancher near Calipatria. was
sentenced to serve so days in the
county Jail. on charge Of unlaw-
ful game shooting after hearing
before Judge Ware in Calipatria
yesterday afternoon. Murphy was
charged with shooting ducks which
he claimed were eating up his alfal-
IA crop.
Baby Rice-Bu,tered or sweeten.
cd pop corn, always fresh. 8, 10
and 25c box. Next to Stage Depot.
2ti
Valley Shipments Yesterdays
lettuce shipments from Imperial
Valley reached total of l56 car
loads. according to B. A. Harrigan.
agricultural commissioner. Four
teen cars OF carrots, one car of broc-
coli and one car of green's completed
the perishable shipments.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-21

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. ,U.Pl =
A report that President Hoover had
persuaded the Wickersham commis-
sion to abandon at the last moment
a tentative recommendation for re-
vision of the 18th amendment was
confirmed today in an authoritative
quarter. The report followed spec
ulation concerning discrepancies pc
tween the separate reports of the
commissioners and the commission S
general findings.
The commission in its general re-
port stated that if the 18th amend
ment is revised, it should be changed
to give congress power to "regu-
late" the liquor traffic instead OF
making prohibition mandatory as
now.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-21
RumOrs Claim
Report Changed
CONTINUED from page u

The White House, when questioned
regarding this point today declined
to either deny or confirm it, Chair
man Wickersham, however. issued a
34-word statement declaring the re-
port lis absolutely untrue and with
out any foundation whatever"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-21

er utterance. I can see nothing in
it but another report"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-21
Dr.. A. B. hanson, Dentist, Davis
Bldg. Extraction specialist.

Baby Ece-Buttered or sweeten-
cd pop corn, always fresh. 8, 10
and csc box. Next to Stage Depot.
2tf
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-21

immigration Prisoners-Prisoners
held at the county Jail today by
immigration officers are Jose Men,
doza. AZ, and Jesus Hernandez, 80.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-21

Blackshire Dresses for the well
dressed lady to be had at Mrs. In
go's Smart Shoppe. Sizes 38 to Sc.
2Gt2.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-21
THREE TIJUANA
POLICE DROPPED
AFTER ATTACK

SAN DIEGO Aug. 81 U.nj-Three
Tijuana policemen have been dis
charged as a result of an iuvestiga-
ton by Tijuana officials into the
charges of Mrs. Katherine Malcolm
of San San Francisco that she was
beaten and robbed by an officer in
Tijuana Monday night, it was
learned today
Although the names of the three
officers were not announced and it
was said they had no connection
with the Malcolm case, their dis
charge followed closely the arrest
of Jose Puente, motorcycle officer,
identified by Mrs. Malcolm as her
aSsailant.
Other members of the force may
be released by Mayor Bibiano Ybar-
ra, it was learned.
Puente, who may face a Mexican
firing squad if convicted o. Mrs.
Malcolm's charges, was still held IN
the Tijuana jail
Mrs. Malcolm, in a complaint to
Tijuana police and American imni-
grafton officers, charged that Pu-
ente, taking advantage of her hus-
bands absence from their car, gave
her drugged drink, took her to a
hotel room and attempted to attack
her.
Her screams frightened the Off
Ger away after he had severely
beaten her and robbed her of $40,
she said
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-21
CUBAN REBELS
CONTINUE TO
MAKE ATTACKS

HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 81. W.P)-
Maurauding rebel bands harrassed
federal outpostS on several fronts
today in the persistent but so far
desultory revolution against the re-
gime headed by President Gerrardo
Machado.
A second revolutionary expedi
tionary force landed on the north
ern coast of Cuba and attacked the
city of Nuevitas, an important port
and railroad center in Camaguey
province. The rebel raid was sue
ceSsful, meager reports reached the
disturbed capital indicated.
These dispatches, like all news
from the provinces, lacked confir-
nation. A strict censorship pre-
walls under martial law. The gov
ernment sought to minimize fight
ing earlier in the week in the east
ern area around Gibara.
A communique issued insisted
that only 43 rebels and three fed
erals were killed in the battle of
Gibara, where the first expedition
ary force of insurgent reinforce
ments landed. Earlier reports had
placed the dead at 600 men on both
sides.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-21
Hawks Smashes
Another Mark

FORT WORTH, Tex, Aug. 81.
U.P) - Frank Hawks, former army
captain and author of Speed, list
ed another record today among his
many conquests of the air after
flying from New York to Fort
Worth in Z hours, 81 minutes.
Hawks left New York at $50 a.
m, yesterday, pointed his low wing
ed monoplane westward, landed at
Evansville, Ind, for fuel, climbed
back up into the sky SO high he
ran into a snow storm, and landed
here at 4:40 o'clock in the after
noon with copies of New York
morning papers under his arm. He
had Travelled l400 miles at a speed
of 1877 miles per hour.
The man who turned to setting
air records after a colorful career
as actor, lifeguard, banker, soldier,
rancher, transformer and oil field
worker, came here to meet his
mother, Mrs. Mae Hawks, who lives
in California.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-21
NARROW ESCAPE
FOR PARTY WHEN
BOAT IS BURNED

SAN DIEGO, Cal. Aug. 81. U.P)
Nine persons, including Frank
Shaw, business manager for the r.
K. O.-Pathe Film Co., narrowly
escaped death in the bay early to-
day when their speedboat caught
fire after an explosion.
Hank Fisk, owner of the speeC-
boat, who was slightly burned in the
fire and explosion, charged that a
deliberate attempt had been made
to wreck his craft and endanger the
lives OF its passengers.
Fisk, Shaw and the others dived
overheard immediately following the
explosion and were rescued by the
cruiser Point Iona.
Just before the explosion I
smelled gasoline" Fisk declared
when he had been brought ashore
Il reached for the throttle to shut
off the engine just as the blast
let go.
The boat was Immediately
covered with flames and everybody
started jumping overheard. l tried
to beach the boat but things got
too hot. When I saw everyone else
had gotten clear, took off myself"
Fisk declared that before he left
the dock with his passengers, bound
for the motion picture location off
Coronado islands, he found that
small hole had been drilled in his
oil line.
Il believe there must have been
a hole in the gasoline line, too,' he
declared.
Bill Boyd, star in the picture
being shot off the Coronado islands,
and JaYies Gleason, another actor,
were scheduled to take Fisk's boat,
V-214, to the location this morning,
but went out in an earlier craft.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-21
GhWlnL1L->o
w ,S0N:

BEVERLY HILLS, Aug. 20.
(SpeciaD - Mr.. Hoover has
named another man to look
after the jobless. The latest
one is Mr.. Clifford, the very ef-
ficient head of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany. That's a terrible position
to wish on anybody. Here, you
go out and find six millions
work" Well, if Clifford can't
give you a job he can at least
put you on a phone so you can
call up your other idle friends.
Or he can use these six millions
to keep that other six million
off the line while you are trying
to talk. Anyhow, we got big
man in a big job and if he gets
away with it he IS our Moses.
Yours
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-21
Mx& R1~>~
. isas nsNsusAs sy,1sssss lnA
ARIZONA SLAYER
PAYS WITH LIFE
FOR HIS CRIME

STATE PRISON, Florence, Ariz.,
Aug. 81. UP)-Herbert Young, 20
year -old taxicab driver, was hanged
here today for the murder of John
Dye, a fellow cab driver.
Dye was beaten to death near
Tucson a year ago and robbed of
$75. Young was arrested before he
had spent cent of the money and
forfeited his life for the crime at
SOB a. m. by dropping through the
gallows trap. Three minutes later
DR.. H. B. Stewart, prison physician,
pronounced him dead.
Calm and composed to the last,
Young kissed a crucifiX and num-
bled a few words of prayer as he
stepped on the trapdoor and waited
for a guard to adjust the black
hood.
Warden William Delbridge asked
if he had any last word to say.
Nothing, DEL Young replied,
smiling family.
Young's one last request, that his
wife, a Miami, Ariz., girl, prepare
his last dinner, was granted last
night. Warden Delbridge permitted
her to use his kitchen, where
watched by a guard, she cooked ar
elaborate chicken dinner
The pair ate together, Young re.
naming on the inside Of the death
cell bars and Mrs. Young on the
outside. Two guards watched them
After dinner they conversed for
an hour, talking of details of their
home life in Miami before Young
left for Tucson, where he beat Dye
to death with a wrench after rob-
bing him. Young told his wife to
be sure her three children by a for
mer marriage received good educa-
tions. His impending execution was
not mentioned.
Toward sundown Mrs. Young
kissed him three times and stum-
bled from the prison. Young, SEEM
ingly Indifferent, never wavered.
That composure held up during
the night, and when the first pink
rays of a desert dawn cleaned
through his cell window he stood up
ready to go. Three minutes after
daybreak he was dead
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-21
Continued on page g.
NEARLY HALF OF
WORLD GOLD NOW
HELD BY j. s.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 81. U.P)-
Banking devices have failed to
check the surging flow of gold to
the United States. it was evident
today when stocks in this country
mounted to a new record for all
time, close to five billion dollars.
Gold stocks of $4,983 ,000,0 900, re-
ported today by the federal reserve
board, represent nearly half the
worlds supply, which is something
over $4,000 100000. France has over
$4,000, 100000, SO that the bulk OF
the precious metal is now in the
vaults of the two countries.
The continued increasing flow OF
gold to the United States, despite
efforts to halt it, appears to be due
to flight of capital from European
countries, where financial condi-
tions have been unstable. Such
tendency has been noted in recent
months.
Some economists never have put
any faith in artificial devices as a
means of controlling the gold move
ment, which took the form few
weeks ago of lowering the redis-
count rate In the United States and
increasing the rate of the Bank OF
England. This action was taken CO.
operatively by the federal reserve
system and the Bank of England.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-21
Hoover Supporter
Favors Repeal

NEW YORK, Aug. 81. (U.P) -
Samuel M. Vauclain, dry supporter
of President Hoover in 1928, and
chairman of the board of Baldwin
locomotive works, has declared him.
self as favoring repeal of the 18th
amendment, according to an inter-
view in the current Outlook and
Independent.
Substitution of an Amendment
restoring to states the right to de-
termine their liquor policy, as ad-
vocated by Senator Dwight Morrow
of New Jersey, was suggested by
Vauclain in the interview.
Attempts to enforce the Volstead
act, he said, are impossible with
out the aid of the military, and 10
use the army and navy for such a
purpose would bring down upon this
country hardships worse than Rus
sia'S."
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-21
Nautilus Enters
Arctic Barrier

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug
q. U.P)-The submarine Nautilus
arrived at the ice barrier on its per-
ilous voyage into polar waters, the
newspaper Berlinske Tidende said
today.
The dispatch said that Sir HUI
bert Wilkins, in command, had de-
cided to Try moving onward toward
the North Pole tonight, on the most
dangerous phase of the daring
cruise.
The Nautilus was equipped with
special breaking paraphernalia
which wilkins said made under Ice
cruising safe. In case of emergen-
cy, he believed that it could ram its
way through the ice to the sur
face.
The submarine reached the ice
barrier after a frequently delayed
voyage from the United States.
Members of the crew said they
expected to return to Spitzbergen
within three weeks. wilkins, head
ing the expedition, hoped to return
with many novel as we'll as practical
contributions to mans knowledge
Of the polar regions.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-21
Demands Wounded
Senator Resign

PATERSON, N. j., Aug. 81. U.P)-
The resignation of State Senator
Roy T. Yates, was demanded today
by John McCutcheon. Republican
leader of Passiac county.
NEW YORK. Aug. 81 U.P)-Roy
T. Yates, New jersey state senator,
who was shot after a gin party in
New York apartment week ago,
had improved sufficiently today to
permit the release in bail of Miss
Ruth Jayne Cranmer, accused of
the shooting. Judge Michel Ford
held today.
Bail was fixed at $500. The girl,
a former cloak model, was held
pending arrangement of a bond.
A hospital report that Yates will
recover was accepted as indicating
that charges against Miss Cranmer
may be reduced to simple assault.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-21
ASSERT WRECKED
PLANE IN ARCTIC
NOT EXPLORERS

BERLIN. Aug. 81. W.p)-Soviet
authorities today discounted the
theory that the wreck of an air
plane photographed over Nova
zembla island offered clue TO the
fate of Roald Amundsen.
Advices from Moscow said Soviet
officials who investigated believe
the airplane picture was "a remnant
Of some transatlantic machine. II
had been reported to be the one
used py AmundSen in his fatal
search for the crew of the wrecked
dirigible Italia.
The Amundsen theory was dis
counted because his plane was two
motored, while the photograph In
dicates the plane wrecked had but
one motor. 1t was not a Soviet
machine.
The photograph was taken by
Professor Paul Molchanoff. Russian
meteorolcgist, a member OF the Graf
Zeppelin exploration party on q
recent flight into the north polar
regions. The film was exposed
over southern Nova Zembla, the long
island north OF Siberia.
Amundsen and six others were
lost in a French plane in June, 1929.
after starting a flight from Trom-
soc, Norway. toward the Italia.
wrecked returning from the North
Pole.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-21
JURY CONTINUES
TO DELIBERATE
CLARK'S FATE
Seven Women And Five
Men Show No Sign Of
Agreement Yet.
By GEORGE ii. BEALE
United Press Staff Correspondent


LOS ANGELES, Aug. 81. UP
Seeming TO be hopelessly dead
locked, the jurors who heard evi-
dence in the trial of David H. Clark,
33-year-old attorney accused of the
murder of Herbert Spencer, editor
of a political magazine, continued
their deliberations here today.
No official word came from the
chamber where the seven women
and five men carried on their con-
siderations but as hour after hour
went by the impression grew that
they would be unable to reach any
verdict.
AS the jurors filed out for lunch
a report was circulated that they
were balloting 10 to for acquit-
tai. The rumor was without any
official basis but it was widely dis
cussed in the courtroom.
At that time the jurors had had
the case approximately 81 hours
although only a little more than 7
hours had been used in actual de-
liberation.
Judge Stanley Murray refused to
comment on the matter but it was
believed he would keep the jury
out until late Saturday night, if a
verdict was not returned before that
time.
Only once during the morning
hours did the jury ring the buzzer
which connects its chamber with
the courtroom.
Then usual excitement prevailed
in the courtroom as everyone pre-
pared for a verdict. A bailifi
rushed to the jury chamber and
then returned to report that the
jury wanted some ice water.
Accused Nervous
During last nights deliberations
the jury rang once to ask when il
was to eat and then rang again
after it had eaten, to ask for aid
for jurors indigestion.
As the jury attempted to decide
the future of Clark, the admitted
slayer of both Spencer and Charles
Crawford, politician, he paced nerv-
ously in his cell in the county jail
He still expressed confidence that
he would be acquitted and claimed
that there was no unfavorable sig.
nificance in the length of time the
jury was taking in considering thu
case.
'"This waiting is a bit of a strain
I'll admit" he said. But there
nothing strange in a murder jury
being out as long as this one has
and I still feel sure III be acquit-
ted"
II had, of course, hopes for a
quick verdict" Clark said
One of the first persons to enter
Judge Murray's courtroom today
was the defendants wife. Nancy
pretty blonde.
She denied that she had collapsed
last night but she admitted she
was slightly i'll from the nervous
strain of the trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-21
LABOR PAYROLLS
OF NATION SHOW
GREAT DECLINE
Manufacturing Industry
Hardest Hit Following
Depression.

Copyright, 1881, by United Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 81. U.P)-
Department OF labor satisticians
estimated today that the aggregate
payrolls of $4,000 odd manufactur-
iRg establishments reporting to the
department have been reduced 81
per cent since the stock market
crash of October, 1929.
Department officials said no esti-
mates were available for the actual
dollars and cents shrinkage in the
pay checks. They explained the
percentage figure had been obtained
by analysis OF payroll statements of
reporting manufacturing concerns.
Reports are received from 81 of
the chief manufacturing industries.
Officials said they furnish a good
sample OF the reductions that have
occurred in employment and wage
payments.
On the basis OF statistics availa-
BILE for the non-manufacturing
group of industries, department
economists said the reports indicat-
ed the great anthracite coal fields
of Pennsylvania, the bituminous
coal industry of West Virginia and
Kentuckp and the oil fields of
Oklahoma, Texas and California
have lowered wage payments as
much as manufacturers of New
England and the middle west.
In June, the last month of rec
ord, aggregate payrolls for the
Pennsylvania anthracite mines re-
porting to the labor department had
fallen more than 33 per cent below
the 1929 average. Government
statisticians also pointed to a Al
per cent decrease in the aggregate
payroll of the bituminouS coal fields,
compared with the 1929 average.
On the same comparisons, the la
Dor departments payroll average
showed 81 per cent drop for the
reporting crude petroleum producing
companies. Considerable reductions
in aggregate payrolls were recorded
in metaliferous mines, quarrying
and the canning and preserving in
duStries.
Industries which have maintained
payroll levels were listed by the
labor department as telephone and
telegraph, power and light, and no.
tells.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-21
CALIFORNIA GIRL
LOSES MATCH TO
BRITISH PLAYER

FOREST HILLS, N. Y, Aug. 81.
W.H-Miss Phyllis Mudford, youth
ful member of the British Wight
man cup team, moved into the semi
final round of the 44th annual
Women's national tennis singles
championships by defeating Mrs.
Lawrence A. Harper, Oakland, Cal,
second ranking American player,
4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
The English girl rallied after los
ing the first set completely to out
play her more experienced opponent.
The coast star gave the English
girl quite battle for the first two
sets, but blew up in the final. Miss
Mudford's tremendous forehand
drives were unstoppable.
Three times in the final set Mrs.
Harper threw her racket To the
ground as Miss Mudford left her
standing flat footed at the net with
beautiful passing drives.
Mrs. Harper was off to a flying
start in the opening set, taking the
first four games with the loss of but
five points. The Californians chops
were hitting just inside the lines
and their bounce upset the English
girls timing.
Miss Mudford braced at the open
ing of the fifth game and riding be-
hind her tremendous forehand
Ieeled off three games in a row. Her
rally was short lived however for
Mrs. Harper won her own service in
the eighth game, broke through in
the ninth with the loss of but one
point and took the 10th and final
game.
Miss Mudford came back to blast
her way to an easy victory in the
second set. The English woman S
forehand drive, by far the most
terrific of any in women's tennis,
kept the Californian close to the
base line.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-21
ROlph Studying
Unemployment

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. 81. (UP)
Governor Rolph today announced
that he was working out a program
for the relief of unemployment by
the extension of state public works
this winter.
A conference between the COVER
nor and heads of state departments
will be held at San Francisco Mon
day to discuss the problem.
Il am in constant touch with de-
partment heads who have charge
Of the states great construction
program Rolph said. There are
now more than 10000 men en-
ployed on state highway work. I
am also watching closely the oper-
alton of the law adopted by the
last legislature requiring that only
citizens be employed on public
works"