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Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
BALANCE SHEET
OF NATION HAS
LARGE DEFICIT
Increase In Taxes May
Be Necessary Accord
ing To Government.

WASHINGTON, May 10. U.P)-
President Hoover's economy drive
was spurred on by realistic de-
velopment today when the treasury
balance sheet turned up with a de-
ficit of $973,870, ,592.23.
Visions of a possible tax increase
were raised by this mounting figure
as the bookkeepers of four govern
ment departments-navy, treasury,
post office and agriculture-made
ready to face Mr.. Hoover with their
budgets. They will be called to ac-
count individually at successive
weekend conferences at the Rapi-
dan camp before the end of the
fiscal year, June 80.
With two department conferences
already over, Mr.. Hoover's task
seemed a almost insurmountable
Hardly a scratch has been made in
the outlays for the war and inter-
ior departments, which already have
come under the presidential prun-
ing hook.
A little over 100000 is the
savings planned in the interior,
while war department economies
are hardly expected to boost this
figure above $l0,0O0,00O.
With $974,000,000 needed to make
the books balance, the $4,000 900
saving prospect has been somewhat
disheartening.
To dig deeper into federal ex-
penditures would interfere with the
expansion program to which Mr..
Hoover Is welded as step to
counteract the business depression.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
BOARD DISCUSSES
PARAGRAPHS in
CANAL PROJECT
Childers Explains Advan-
tage Of Having Power
Rate Fixed.

Discussion of Section 33, of the
tentative All-American canal con-
tract, occupied members of the
board of directors of the Imperial
Irrigation district at this mornings
session at which time Attorney
Charles L. Childers read and ex-
planned arguments concerning the
power rate which will be forwarded
to the secretary.
Section 33 of the tentative con-
tract, said Childers, was not con-
sidered complete and was left open
to further discussion and amplifi-
cation.
Childers explained to the board
that 1t is advantageous to have the
matter of the power rate fixed def
initely instead of permitting the
matter to be settled annually by
parties concerned.
The board took no action but
went over the various phases of the
question and left it open to further
discussion and explanation.
Another question brought up by
the attorney was that of the units"
as referred to in the tentative con-
tract in the payment of costs of
construction.
All parts of the area served by
the canal will be benefited equally,
said Childers. and upon that theory
payments for construction of the
canal are to be made.
Cuts Overhead
The plan of having the lands to
be benefited under one district was
instituted to cut down overhead
costs and to permit the handling Of
negotiations from one focal point.
The added cost of the district
involved lii payment for the COM
plete canal is offset by the fact
that the new lands, including
Coachella Valley lands, will partici-
pate in the repayment of the
bonded debt Of the present Imper-
ial district" Childers said In dis
cussing the matter with the board.
"As means of accomplishing that
aim, the contract provides for di-
vision of the enlarged district into
units"
Board members mentioned the
fact that this morning was the first
time within their directorate that
the board room was without petit
TONERS or an audience of any kind.
The board recessed at IL o'clock
for luncheon to meet again at l
o'clock for further discussion of
business.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
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FEDERAL AGENTS
CLOSE UP BARS
AT LAS VEGAS

LAS VEGAS, New, May 10. U.p)-
The town of Las Vegas, an oasis
where saloons ran wide open with
out a state liquor enforcement law,
was as arid today as the surround
ing sagebrush after federal agents
closed q saloons and arrested more
than 125 persons.
Acting upon instructions from
Washington to dry up" the Little
Juarez" of southern Nevada in ad-
vance of the rush of thousands of
workmen here for construction of
Boulder Dam, force of SO prohi-
bition agents descended late yester-
day upon the town, and for IL hours
staged the greatest cleanup" in the
history of the state.
There was no opportunity for the
bootleggers and saloon keepers to
escape, for warrants had been pre-
pared in advance on information
gained by undercover operators.
Roads leading into the town were
guarded to prevent the escape of
offenders.
Thousands of barrels of mash
were seized and dumped. Some one
touched a match to the pile. Fire
which followed threatened several
business establishments near the
center of town.
Going from door to door. agents
herdcd their prisoners to an impro-
vised bull pen" near the Brown
Derby saloon. The city Jail was
inadequate. Among the prisoners
were IL women. All were released
on bail
Among the saloons closed were
Liberty's Last Stand, Honolulu Inn,
Green Lantern, Motor Club, Blue
Goose, Brown Derby, Red Rooster
Night Club and Bungalow Inn.
The raiding party was headed by
Col. George Sievers, assistant pro-
hibiticn administrator, of San
Francisco, and L. w. Peters. deputy
administrator of Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
Hold Women In
Bank Robbery

LOS ANGELES, May 10. U.P)-
Miss jeanette Williams, 25, and Mrs.
Frances Stoddard, 25, were being
held by police under suspicion of
robbery in connection with the $500
holdup of the Bank of America
branch ct Santa Monica boulevard
and Western avenue yesterday.
A car was found by police a short
time after the bank had been held
up by bandit. The tire treads
were the same as those of the
machine used in the bandits get
away.
The women, according to Police,
drove up in a taxi and started to
enter the parked car. When ques-
toned they said they had left the
machine there early yesterday
morning and had gone to visit
friends.
Residents in the neighborhood,
however, said the car had been left
there late in the afternoon.
The pair will be questioned again
today as police say their stories
conflict.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
Voigt Winner
OF Third Round

WESTWARD HO, England, May
10. U.P)-George Voigt of New
York, and the American favorite
to win the title vacated by Bobby
Jones, moved into the fourth
round of the British amateur golf
championship today by defeating j.
r. Abercrombie of Royal Liverpool,
2 and l, in third round match.
Voigt played his iron shots poorly.
His putter. which stood him in good
stead in his first two rounds yes
terday, was not in good working or
der today. He required three shots
on the second green. Voigt made
one beautiful shot, placing his tee
shot five feet from the cup OF the
135-yard fifth. He was out in 80,
two over par.
He conceded the eleventh hole to
Abercrombie when his drive
reached some bushes. He played 4
provisional ball and tried to hack
out his original shot but failed.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
FORMATION OF
FIRE DISTRICT
GIVEN APPROVAL.
WestmOrland Area To Be
Given Protection For
Property.

Establishment of fire district in
Westmorland was approved by the
county board of supervisors yester-
day afternoon, and w. E. Gullett,
T. j. Schroeder and L. l.. Cochran
appointed fire commissioners.
By tbs action Westmorland is
authorized to take any steps
thought necessary to insure against
fire hazards, including formation of
fire department This work will
be in the hands of the fire commits
sioners.
Formation of a Westmorland fire
district was asked for in a petition
presented at meeting of the
board of supervisors several weeks
ago. The petition was referred to
the county attorney, who passed
favorably upon it.
Another action taken by the su-
pervisors yesterday afternoon was
authorization of the purchasing
agent to buy a lot in Westmorland
for $500. A combination Jail and
justice court building will be
erected on the lot.
Demands of John Cavanaugh and
j. H. Messenger for $1,000 and $4O0
respectively, were rejected. Cava-
naugh and Messenger demanded
the money as royalties on a gra-
vel pit near the Highline canal east
of Holtville, declaring they had an
interest in the land before it was
purchased by the county for a gra-
vel pit.
Edward Law, county clerk, was
instructed to return the bond Of E.
H. Conger, former Picacho justice
of the peace, to the bonding COM
pany
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
SOCIAL WORKERS
STRESS NEED OF
HELPING LABOR

BERKELEY. Cal, May l8. U.P)-
Unemployment and its cures were
discussed today by delegates to the
California Conference of Social
Workers at their annual convention
here.
The problem was regarded as the
most important now faced in the
state, and methods not only must
be devised to meet the present
emergency but to prevent recur-
rences, delegates agreed.
DR.. Louis Block, statistician of
the state industrial relations de-
partment, estimated the number
of unemployed in California at $780,
900. He urged a permanent agency
to study unemployment as social
epidemic" and offered three REM
edieS:
A longtime planning program of
public work by different states; un-
iversal adoption of a 7-hour day
and five-day week; maintenance of
high wages as a means of assuring
national buying power.
Herman F.. Swartz, president Of
the Pacific School of Religion here
and head of the conference, agreed
with President Hoover that waste
full military expenditures are one
cause of the business recession, in
addressing the social workers last
night.
ut is an insult to the intelligence
to claim that prosperity is the
function of the political party in
power" DR.. Swartz said. There is
no such connection discoverable In
our national history
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
PROGRESS MADE
AT CONFERENCE
OF WHEAT MEN

LONDON, May 19. U.p)-First
definite progress was achieved by
the international wheat conference
today when at the opening of gen.
eral discussions, delegates expressed
unanimous readiness to undertake
concerted action to solve the wheat
surplus crisis.
A declaration by Sam R. Nickel
vie, of the federal farm board, that
the United States had no intention
of pumping any portion of its sur
plus wheat but intended to dispose
of it on an orderly basis, was char
acterized by G. Howard Ferguson
of Canada, chairman of the meet
ing. as the most outstanding de-
velopment of the conference.
McKelvie said:
II am pleased with the reception
accorded the farm boards posi-
tion.'
In connection with the question of
surplus, the Australian, Polish and
other delegations suggested definite
proposals but their nature will not
be disclosed until the standing COM
mittee analyses them and reports
back to the full conference tomor-
row.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
MENACE
OF FIRE
REALIZED
Governor Appoints Emer-
gency Committee To
Meet Situation.
CONDITION SERIOUS
Thousands OF Acres Sure
To Be Destroyed If Care
Is Not Taken.

SACRAMENTO, Cal, May 19. U.D
Governor Rolph today announced
the appointment of a California
fire emergency committee to COM
bat the crucial fire situation expect
ed as result of the forthcoming
drought.
"A genuine emergency confronts
the state" the governor said.
Woods and fields are in powder
dry condition. The greatest drought
in California history has been pre-
dicted for this year. Fairgrounds
and watersheds are threatened. Un-
less drastic steps are taken to pre-
vent 1t the entire state may be
ablaze by the middle of the sum-
mer.
Il am, therefore, dedicating ev-
cry resource of the state govern
ment at my command to meet this
situation, and have appointed fire
emergency committee with full
power to coordinate all state and
private agencies to meet this SER
ious condition"
Members of the committee were
as follows:
Charles H. Howard. San Fran
cisco, chairman; State Forester NJ.
B. Pratt, ROLAND A. Dandegrift, d.
rector of finance; Colonel Walter
E. Garrison, director of public
works; E. Raymond Cato. superin-
tendent of the California Highway
Patrol; Dan H. Blood, director Of
national resources; Adjutant Gen.
eral Seth E. Howard, California
guard; Vierling Kersey, director Of
education; Avery S. Hoyt, director
of agriculture; Jay Stevens, state
fire marshal; I. Zellerback, fish and
game commission, and members OF
the state board of forresty; Major
Swift Berry, Canine; Herbert r.
Gilman, Los Angeles; Ernest @.
Dudley, Lindsay; E. Walton Hedges.
Jr., San Juan; B. A. McAllester,
San Francisco, and Robert C. Harb-
ison, San Bernardino.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 10. Wn-
Warm weather, low humidity.
northerly winds and the extremely
dry, tinder-like condition of the
countryside has resulted in an acute
fire menace, the weather depart
ment warned today.
Numerous fires. including score
of brush fires, kept California fire
fighters hustling during the night.
Brush and grass fires were report
ed at Five Mile House, Fort Baker.
Marin County, near Monterey, and
in several eastbay districts.
Wills college girls fought against
a fire on the campus. An Oakland
blaze destroyed 10000 feet of tim
ber A blaze between Stanford
University and Menlo Park burned
over 25 acres.
The low humidity and warm. dry
ing winds, abetted by the tinder-like
condition of the countryside, has
caused federal authorities to issue
general fire warnings for the state.
With a warm northerly wind drying
up the crops, the San Joaquin.
Santa Clara and Sacramento VAL
leys were asked TO be careful Of
fire.
Napa county fought two fires last
night, one of which burned over
$50 acres of timber. Lake county
was fighting 500-acre blaze. Fires
were reported in Glenn county, and
at Cache Creek, Yolo county.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
SANTA CLARA'S
COURT HOUSE IS
PREY OF FLAMES

SAN JOSE, Cal, May l9. W.p)--
The Santa Clara county courthouse,
California landmark since its
erection in 1858, was in ruins today
after a fire that destroyed the $780,
600 building and many valuable
public records.
The fire broke out in the old
wooden structure late yesterday and
a brisk wind soon spread the flames
to adjoining buildings. Firemen
concentrated on saving the other
buildings when it became apparent
the courthouse was doomed.
Seventy-four prisoners. four of
them women, were hastily removed
from the county Jail adjoining the
courthouse, and herded into a near
by garage. The Jail was not burned
and the prisoners were returned to
their cells.
Three firemen inside the building
saved themselves from death by
running out just as the big court
house dome, $50 feet above the
street, collapsed and fell to the
basement. The firemen had heard
the rumble Of the crumbling sup
ports.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
Grave Digging
Prices Scaled

RED OAK, Iowa, May 19.
U.P)-There will be no rack
eteering In the grave-digging
business at Red Oak from now
on
The city council has award
ed all sepulchre making con-
tracts to the cemetery sexton
and has arbitrarily clipped
$3.50 from the price.
Henceforth rates for babies
will be S5 instead of $3.50; for
medium sized persons, $3.50 in
stead of $40; and for those of
generous proportions, $3.50
instead of SIS.
Lot owners may dig their
own graves, the council decid-
ed, without paying the usual
fees.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
Court Lenient
With War Hero

LOS ANGELES, May 10. UP
Marshall F. Brockway, son of a
Phoenix, Ariz., physician, began
serving probation of five years to-
day under an order made by Judge
Fletcher Bowron in superior court.
He was convicted on a charge of
burglary.
Brockway was twice cited for
bravery during the World War and
is the possessor of the Croix de
Guerre.
Brockway was cited for bravery
first at the Argonne and later at
st. Mihiel. He was said to have
suffered a nervous breakdown after
the war and to have taken to ex-
cessive use Of liquor. One of the
conditions imposed by the court in
granting him probation was that
he not touch intoxicants. At his
trial 1t was asserted he had stolen
several cameras from a Pasadena
photographers shop and sold them
in Los Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
WIND DESTROYS
TENT TO HOUSE
ANAHE!M SHOW

ANAHEIM, Cal, May 19. U.R)-A
desert windstorm struck Anaheim
and vicinity early today, ripping to
pieces a $4,000 tent which was to
have housed an orange show.
The wind uprooted several orna-
mental buildings, it was reported.
Citrus crops in the neighborhood
were reported to have been dam
aged but it was impossible to give
valuation on the fruit hurt by the
wind.
The tent, 670 feet long and 1870
feet wide, was to have been the
scene of the Valencia orange show
in June. Officials said the tent was
owned by Los Angeles concern and
was insured. The orange show will
not be delayed, it was announced.
Another tent will be secured.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
JULIAN SEWERS
ALLCONNECTION
WITH OIL FIRM

OKLAHOMA CITY, May 10. U.H
-Receivership action against the C.
C. Julian Oil g. Royalties company
was dismissed by District Judge
Sam Hooker today.
The dismissal was made when c.
c. Julian, who resigned yesterday as
sole trustee of the reputed $10,000,-
600 oil company, told Judge Hooker
he had severed all connection with
the company.
II am through" Julian said in
open court.
Il have appointed Judge Charles
w. Mason as my successor He will
have complete charge of the com.
pany."
Mason, a former chief justice OF
the Oklahoma supreme court, told
Judge Hooker that he would as
sumo complete management of the
company Immediately and would
operate it to the best of his ability.
With these two statements in the
record, A. M. Beets, Attorney for
Marjorie E. Bennett of Hollywood,
CAL, stockholder, withdrew his
clients petition for receiver.
Judge Hooker said that he had
received 500 letters from stockhold-
ers protesting the present manage
ment OF the company and request
ed that something be done to con-
serve the assets of the company.
Judge Hooker admonished Mason
to operate the company economic
ally and asserted his belief that OBJ
legations would be discharged in a
satisfactory manner.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
Expect Jesuits
To Quit Spain

MADRID. May 10. U.P)-All Jes-
uit monasteries in Spain have been
abandoned and. in the opinion of
Miguel Maura. minister of inter-
ior, the Jesuits may be forced to
leave Spain.
1.-The government has not decided
anything in this respect at present"
Maura said. THE Sesuits are gath
cred at Loyala, province of Guipoz-
ooa, and, according to my opinion,
they will have to leave Spain.
Anti-church rioting last week
was largely directed against the
Jesuits and they owned most of the
two-score buildings burned in the
disturbances.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
Reno Speeds Up
Divorce Actions

RENO, New, May 10. UH--New
standards for easy and rapid separ-
alton were established by the Reno
divorce mill today through court
order that resulted in SIS DEGREES
granted during as ingle afternoon
session.
The previous record of SO di-
vorces granted at the, first wash
day" session under the new six
weeks residence law was broken in
the rush to Washoe county's two
courts yesterday. The order of
Judges Ben .Curler and Thomas
Moran, that suits filed before noon
Monday may be heard in the after
noon, made possible many addition
al cases.
Heretofore only complaints filed
by Saturday noon could be heard
on Monday. 'washdays."
The ruling permits divorce seek
ers to reside in Reno six weeks, file
suit in the morning, obtain a decree
in the afternoon and remarry i'm
mediately. Three of the SIS who
were divorced yesterday married
again shortly afterward.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
Refer Treaty To
Court AT Hague

GENEVA, May 10. U.P) - The
Council of the League of Nations
unanimously voted today to refer
the projected Austro-German Gus
toms Accord to the Hague court for
an advisory opinion.
The action had been anticipated
after a concerted attack led by
France at the opening session of
the 63d convention of the council
yesterday.
DR.. Edouard Benes, foreign min
lister of Czechoslovakia, added his
voice to the disapproval of the pro-
posed union when the debate OPEN
ed today. 'Benes, first speaker,
agreed with Artistic, BRAND, French
foreign minister, that the "Ansch-
luss", or union, would prove an OBJ
stacle to the formation of general
European economic federation spon-
sored by France
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
Auto Accident
Toll Increases

SACRAMENTO. Cal, May 10. W.p)
"A sharp increase in the death toll
from automobile accidents In Cali
fornia during the last four months
today led E. Raymond Cato. super
intendent of the state highway pa
troll, to announce that drastic ac-
ton must be taken to reduce acci-
dents.
Unless concerted action is taken,
Cato said, California will have the
highest accident and death record
in its history for 1881.
A total of 566 persons were killed
and 10,717 persons injured In 8,058
accidents during the first quarter
this year, as compared with 1000
accidents in the same period last
year.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla,
May 10. W.P)-Will Rogers, the
cowboy humorist, does not
think that comedians should be
included among the targets In
the university honorary degree
giving open season.
The sage of Claremore
promptly refused an invitation
to accept an honorary law de-
gree from Oklahoma City I'm
iversity, adding that If he
couldn't get a I'D. A." degree
of applesauce), he didn't want
'nuthin'.
In a telegram to a newspaper
here regarding the proffered de-
gree, the humorist said:
What's all this mess over
some degree? The Oklahoma
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
ROGERS WILLING TO ACCEPT
DEGREE OF 'APPLESAUCE'

Chamber of Commerce has
been wiring me about it. They
are as bad as I am. A degree
would read as foreign to any Of
them as prescription.
"What are you trying to do,
make a joke out of college de-
grees? They are in bad enough
repute as it is without handing
'em around to comedians. The
whole honorary degree thing is
the 'hoOey'. I saw some college
giving Mellon one and he is a
billion bucks shot 1 got too
much respect for people that
work and earn 'em to see 'em
handed around to every motor
iOus character.
"I will let Oolagah kinder
garten give me one, a ID. A.
degree of applesauce)"-Will.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
Opposes Purchase
OF Cotton Belt

WASHINGTON, May 90. U.n)-
Denial of the proposed acquisition
of the ST. Louis Southwestern
Railway company by the Southern
Pacific was recommended today to
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion in report proposed by Exam
iner Thomas F. Sullivan.
Sullivan said the consideration
proposed to be paid for the capital
stock of the Cotton Belt was not
Just and reasonable and that no
evidence had been presented to show
that the acquisition was in public
interest.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
Eternal Youth
Seeks Divorce

MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 10.
U.P-An 84-year-old Civil
War veteran appeared In court
today, seeking a divorce from
his fifth wife. He charged
she snOred, drank and went to
dances.
The veteran, ID. J. Crisp, is
an "Old fogey," Mrs. Crisp, 40
year-Old grandmother, replied
to his charges. She blamed
his children by previous mar
riages for his divorce action.
Crisp testified that if di-
vOrced he would probably mar
ry again "as several girls are
interested in me-"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
Soldiers Confess
Train RObberies

OMAHA, Neb., May 10. U.P)-
Three passengers on the Los An
geles Limited were robbed while the
train was crossing Wyoming Mon
day night, Union Pacific railroad
headquarters here announced to-
day.
Two youths, who later were iden-
titled as Russell Howarth, 10, and
George H. Bachman, 18, soldiers
from Fort Francis E. Warren, Chey-
enne, were captured and have con-
feSsed. rail officials said.
Their victims who were chloro-
formed, bound and gagged. were
Mrs. Joseph E. Huber, 90. Mrs. M.
A. Johnson. 60, and H. P. Huber,
80, all of st. Paul, MINI.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-05-19
Third Death On
Dam Construction

LAS VEGAS, New, May 10. U.P)-
The third serious accident on the
Boulder Dam project claimed the
life of Fred Olson, AZ, Fort Bragg,
Colo. He was killed by a charge of
dynamite Barney layton, Olson's
helper, escaped with minor cuts.
Two men were killed at the site
of diversion tunnel on the Arizo-
ma side of the Colorado river Sun
day when an earth slide trapped
them. Three men were seriously
injured in a premature explosion
May 8.