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Continued on page 81
PAROLE HOPES
OF PAT KELLEY
SUFFER SETBACK

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal,
Sept. IA. UP)-The hopes of Leo
Pat" Kelley, Los Angeles slayer,
for early freedom had received a
setback today with the refusal of
the state prison board to grant him
parole.
Kelley, the butcher boy convict
ed of murder in connection with the
death of Mrs. Myrtle Mellus, Los
Angeles society woman, was sem
fenced to hang but obtained a re-
duction of sentence to one of man
slaughter from the state supreme
court.
Joseph and Leopold Blumen, con-
yicted of embezzling 100000 from
the Bank of Italy, in 1927, also were
refused paroles.
The board considered SO cases,
granted four paroles, denied 81, set
35 for future action, and postponed
%, among the latter being the ap-
plication of Herbert Wilson, San
Diego preacher bandit, now serving
life term for murder.
Paroles were given Roy l.. john
son, Los Angeles, burglary; Tony
Baquez, King county, grand theft;
George Selps, Sutter county burg
larry. and John Terez. San Mateo
county, burglary.
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Continued on page 81
Better Collect
All Your Pennies
From Fuse Boxes

Plugged electric light fuses are
not to be tolerated in Ell Centre on
account of fire hazard, and lights
will be cut off from residences and
places of business where they are
found, according to Fire Chief Tom
ReamS
Members of the fire department
are to inspect all fuse boxes begin
ming next week, said the chief, and
will confiscate all pennies and wash
ers substituted for fuses. In addi-
ton the lights will be cut off. PEN
nies may be collected by owners at
the fire hall.
"A fuse is a safety measure. When
penny, washer or what not is
substituted the fire danger is ap-
palling. the wires at times becoming
hot enough to start frie," the chief
continued
Residents are urged TO place fuse
boxes in order before the inspection
gets underway,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
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ARIZONA MURDER
HEARING STARTS
AS JURY CHOSEN
Aged Woman Invalid Goes
On Trial For Life
Charged With Staying.

NOGALES, Ariz., Sept. Ia. U.P)-
Selection Of jury by nightfall to
try Mrs Louise F. Marshall, To-
year-old invalid, for murder, was
indicated at noon today when five
jurors had been tentatively accept
ed by the prosecution and defense.
Much of the customary delay OF
a murder trial was eliminated by
Judge w A. OConnor who dis
missed in a body II persons ad-
mitting prejudice in favor of the
defendant.
Ths judge asked the group of II
persons to raise their right hand
If they could not promise to serve
without prejudice and II hands
were lifted. The court dismissed
them without questioning.
A packed courtroom was on hand
hand when Mrs. Marshall was as
sisted to the prisoners bench where
a specially constructed chair had
been placed. Her attorneys ex-
planned that the stopped and gray
defendant could not atteno the
trial, due to physical infirmitics
without the chair.
Arthur Laprade, assistant attor-
ney general, and William G. Hall
Pima county attorney directed the
selection of jurors for the prosecu-
ton. They asked each prospective
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
Sentenced Passed
After Prisoner
Charges Framing

LOS ANGELES, Sept. ID. UP
Nick RadoVich, former convict, to-
day was sentenced to a term of
seven years to life in Folsom pris-
on, on a conviction of robbing the
San Gabriel branch of the Califor-
MIA Bank.
Judge B. Rey Shauer imposed the
sentence after Radoyich dramatic
ally denied his guilt and said he
had been framed.
II have been framed and rail-
roaded from beginning to end,
Radovich shouted. mot only that
but that man is trying to send me
to the gallows for a crime about
which I know nothing"
The prisoner then pointed to J
L. Slough, deputy sheriff. He re-
ferred to q murder charge against
him on Oakland. Cal, where he is
accused of killing Deputy Sheriff
j. L. Fox during a robbery.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
DROP VALUATION
ON HOLDINGS OF
LOCAL DISTRICT

Although the total valuation of
Imperial Irrigation District dropped
off more than a half million dol
lars this year, it still tops the fifty
million mark.
With the conclusion of the ten
day sessions of the board of equaliz-
alton last week came compilations
of the corrected and final valua-
tions. The total announced is $50,-
046, ,458. The total year ago was
$50,587,177
According to irrigation district
officers, much of the decrease in
valuation totals this year results
from acquisition of property by the
irrigation district itself. That
property, of course, becomes exempt
from assessment until it is sold to
some private owner again.
Directors of the irrigation district
will meet tomorrow to fix the new
assessment rate. Although there is
no authoritative information as to
what the new rate is to be, it is pre-
dicted today that it will remain un-
changed.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
DECLARE PEACE
AFTER AUSTRIAN
REVOLT ATTEMPT
Leaders OF Revoluti0nist
Forces Submit Resigna-
tions After Peace.
BY ROBERT BESS
United Press Staff Correspondent

united PrcsS Staff correspondent
VIENNA, Sept IA. U.P)-An hon
orable peace" was declared today
by leaders of the Nationalist Helm
Wehr after a fruitless attempt at
armed revolution.
Dr. Walter Primer, organizer of
then attempted "Putschp ordered
members of the Heimwehr, Aus
tria's counterpart of Adolph Hit
ler's German Brown Shirts to
return to their homes. He and
other organizers of the movement
submitted their designations to
HeimWehr executives.
The attempt of the Heimwehr to
seize control OF the government
had been heralded for months.
The Putsch began in the provinces
where control of city halls and
other official buildings was seized
in a dozen cities The main
strength of the Heimwehr lay in
Styria, Upper Suatria, and Salz-
burg. Troops, rural police and
gendarmes were modified quickly
and the government announced
the movement had been suppressed
with the arrest of between rs and
100 leaders.
Insurgents retreated without re-
sistance in Styria before the ad-
vance of three battalions of govern
ment troops. The center of the
Putsch was at Judenberg, an an
cient city of less than 5000 popula-
ton on the Muir river
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
By MARY FLORY
United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Sept. IA. U.P)-The
federal structure committee of the
Indian round table conference met
today to consider a constitution for
India, holding one fifth of the pop
ulation of the world.
The meeting convened at St.
James Palace. Mahatma M K
Gandhi, leader of the Indian Ma
tionalists, arrived II minutes late.
He was observing his regular week
ly day of silence.
Gandhi was accompanied by
Mrs. Sarajini Naidu, popular
ly known as India's Joan of
Arct and the only woman ever
chosen president of the Ma
tionalist congress, and his Sec
retary Nahadeo Desai. He rode
to the palace in the back seat
of n small car.
The mahatlna said, before his
day of silence began, that if hi,
opinion was needed today's meet
ing he would communicate 1t BY
note.
Mrs. Naidu carried a thermos
flask of goats milk and Desai a
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
Southern Capital OF Baja
California Loses Touch
With Outside World.
FEAR GREAT DAMAGE
Father OF Billy Silver Is
Consul At Devastated
City OF La Paz.

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Sept. Ia. UD
The Mackay Radio station here
was unable to establish communi-
cations today with La Paz, capital
of the Southern District of Baja
California, and fears we're expressed
that a serious storm had isolated
the Mexican city.
The Mackay station made several
attempts to raise radio operators
at La Paz but at 10 a. m. reported
no success.
Meteorologists here expressed the
opinion that the hurricane which
forced the liner Colombia on the
rocks off the coast of Baja Cali,
fornia Saturday night also damaged
La Paz.
Billy Silver publisher Of news
paper at Tijuana, repeatedly at
tempted without success to contact
his father at "a Paz. The elder
Silver is American consul there.
MEXICO CITY, Sept. Ia. U.P)-
Reports from Lower California in
dicated today that extensive dam
age was done by storm that
struck there yesterday.
A delayed radio message to
the newspaper Ell Grafico from
Santa ROsalia reported loss of
life there. although the casual
ties were not estimated and al
SO "incalculable material dam
age" The dispatch said the
water was three feet deep In
most of the streets.
A large part of the population
lacked the necessities of life and
suffering was severe, the dispatch
continued. Shipping was damaged
and harbor dredge washed ashore.
Santa Rosalia is about half way
up the east coast of Lower Cali
fornia from La Paz, the capital. and
opposite Guaymas. which also suf-
fered damage Good weather pre-
vailed over The Gulf of California
region today. including La Paz
from which no press dispatches
have been received Regular radio
communication with La Paz was
reported, however, and it was not
believed the city suffered severely
II at all.
The chief of National Telegraphs
confirmed the Grafico dispatch
that considerable damage had been
done in Santa Rosalia
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
MYSTERIOUS MIDNIGHT SHOT RINGS
MSILENCE; DEPUTIES SAY D0CC0NE

A sound of voices, as If two men
were quarreling. A momentary
pause, with the air over the coun-
try side-road as quiet as death.
Then a shot, followed by screams
and the threshing OF some body
In the underground.
Dudley Wright. Granvel Hunga.
Earl Mabry and Louis McElvany
leaped for their car where they
had parked it at midnight Satur-
day south of Handley's Corner on
the river bank. The accelerator
jabbing holes in the floorboard.
they drove at wild speed to the
sheriff's office.
There the boys told Claiborne
Poole, night iailer, how car had
passed their parked machine, stop
ped, and they heard the quarreling,
shot, and screams which inter
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
MANIAC ATTACKS
GIRL SEARCHING
FOR EMPLOYMENT

LOS ANGELES. Sept. ID. UP)-
After Christine Kane, 26, looking
for employment, had hurled her.
self through a French window, SER
iously injured by hatchet blow
on the head, a man believed to be
June Won Enden, a "psychother-
apist." shot and probably fatally
wounded himself.
Miss Kane, according to police,
called at the office" of the man in
answer to an advertisement for a
cigaret girl in "a fashionable Will
shire theatre
Miss Kane said she made an ap-
pointment and met the man this
morning, they talked for while in
one room, she said, then the man
asked her to come into another
room so they could talk better"
Made Attack
Once in the second room, accord
ing to her story to police, the man
attempted to attack her She
fought off his advances and was
struck on the head with hatchet.
Miss Kane struggled free and
plunged through 9 French window
into the street, a short distance be-
low.
Surgeons said she was in a cri-
teal condition from a deep hatchet
wound in the head and also srf-
fered other cuts and bruises from
the plunge through the window
Police were summoned and found
Won Emden" lying in a bedroom.
He suffered a bullet wound through
the head. A 80 caliber revolver was
found nearby. In the outer room
officers found the hatchet used to
strike Miss Kane.
Officers 0ere told that the man
first occupied the house at 720
South Coronado as an antique
dealer" later turning to psyche
iherapy.' Professional cards de-
scribed him as a German osteo-
path
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14

rupted their prospective weiner
roast.
Poole called Harold Gillett and
Ernest Clay, deputy sheriffs. Gill
lett and Clay jumped for car.
Throttle open and siren scream
ing, they raced over the highway.
They stopped at the scene of the
shooting. expected to find a dead
body and take up the trail of a
murderer
Where the body had threshed
about in circles in the underbrush,
the deputies found blood. The
brush was trampled. Then they
found the body and marked with
an x the spot where some unwanted
canine had met his fate.
They returned to the sheriff
office to end another wild mid
night ride with the terse comment
"a dog had been shot at that place
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
Bay City Police
Have New Puzzle

SAN MATEO, Cal, Sept. IA U.P
The nude body of a young ex-
pectant mother, found beside a
highway near Rockaway Beach,
provided the San Francisco bay
district with new death mystery
today.
San Francisco and San Mateo
authorities who investigated said
the woman apparently had been
beaten to death. They could find
no marks of Identification.
1t was estimated that the victim
was about 80 years old and that she
had been dead 43 hours when
found Sunday.
N. d. Austin federal prohibi-
ton agent whose 20-year-old daugh-
ter Mildred Austin, has been sub
ject to a weeks search, failed to
identify the body.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
Continued on page 81
CRIMINAL TRIALS
IN LOCAL COURT
STARTING TODAY

Corridors at the court house pre-
sented a scene of unusual activity
this morning when the regular PAN
ell of jurors filed into Judge Vaughn
N. Thompson'S court at the time
designated for opening the criminal
calendar.
Evidence of various types was
carried in from the sheriff's office
and prisoners were escorted to the
court room. Attorneys hustled about
and the entire scene gave indica-
ton that summers inactivity is a
thing of the past.
Judge Thompson, sitting in
the absence of Judge A. c. Fin
ney, was on the bench. Several
prisoners were presented for
plea during the morning hours.
The first case on the docket
was that of ]. H. Chant, to be
tried for possession of still.
His case was to be heard i'm
mediately after a jury was Sc
lccted. He was arrested August
IL.
1ulIleT SI6llOIl, poSSeSSloil
changed his plea to guilty and ap-
piled for probation. The hearing
was set for September 28 He OBJ
tanned fame by successfully operat-
ing still in hay stack.
The case of Louis Garcia was con-
tinued to September 16. He wa;
held on an escape charge.
Case Continued
On account of the condition o.
the complaining witness, Sam Fer
raris, trial of Ignacio Baldeo wa,
continued until October 5. Physi-
clans explained that Ferreri's ap'
pearance in court at this time woulc
result in serious injury to him. Bal
deo was arrested and jailed on {
charge of stabbing Ferreri.
Antonio Zabalza. charged witt
possession of a still, changed hi,
plea to guilty and was instructed tt
appear for sentence tomorrow
morning at $50 o'clock.
Ramon Rodriguez, held FOL
escape from the chain gang. hac
his case continued until tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
GERMAN FLYERS
SPEEDING WEST
ACROSS PACIFIC

HORTA, Azores Islands, Sept.
IA. U.P)-Raging westward at a
speed of 10 miles an hour, two
German flyers. and Portu-
guese airman passed Horta at
$3.50 p. m. Sunday on project
ed nonstop flight from Lisbon
to New York.
Their Junkefs plane. "D-2072'
maintained an altitude OF about
1000 feet with good visibility and a
strong south southeast wind. The
aviators were Willy Rody and
Christensen Johanssell, Germans,
and Fernando Costa Vega, Por-
tugueSe.
They left Juncal airdrome, near
Lisbon, and averaged better than
10 miles an hour for the first $50
miles of their flight. They faced
an ocean flight Of approximately
1000 miles between the Azores and
New York.
If they maintained their average
speed. they should reach New YORK
about noon.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
AIMEE MARRIED
THIRD TIME BY
YUMA CEREMONY
BY GEORGE H. BEALE
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Sept. Ia. U.P)-
Aimee Semple Mcpherson, interna-
tionally known evangelist, was a
bride for the third time today
Once widowed, once divorced, she
took new husband yesterday when
she married David Hutton, her ESQ
pound voice instructor.
Always a superb show woman,
Mrs. Mcpherson staged her newest
wedding at sunrise in an airplanc
in Arizona, the state in which she
first appeared after her purported
kidnapping in 1926.
On the marriage license she
took ont in Yuma, AriZ., the
now blonde evangelist gave her
age as 3S. Hutton, who has
been soloist and music teach
er around Mrs. McPherson's
Angelus Temple for the past six
years, said he was 30.
Mrs. Mcpherson and Hutton, with
several Angelus Temple workers and
other friends, left Los Angeles in a
chartered airplane at a. N.
They flew TO Yuma, took our their
license, were married at sunrise at
the Yuma airport and then flew
back here in time for Mrs. McPher-
son to preach before a capacity
house at her -Four Square Gospel
temple Sunday morning.
Happy Today
Today Mrs. Mcpherson and Hut
ton were beaming with happiness
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
WRECK SURVIVORS
TRANSFERRED TO
ANOTHER LINER
Passengers And Crew Es-
cape Unframed After
Hurricane Strikes Ship.

SAN PEDRO, Cal, Sept. IA. U.P)
Having cheated death in a tropi-
cal hurricane, 234 survivors of the
liner Colombia. off Baja California,
today were enroute to San Pedro
aboard the United Fruit liner La
Perla.
Radio advices received here said
the survivors had been transferred
from the rescue steamer San Mateo
south bound, to the La Perla, sail
ing north to Los Angeles harbor.
The Colombia, veteran of the
Panama mail line. was driven to the
rocks last Saturday night as she
neared Cape Tosca as a storm OF
hurricane proportions drove out OF
the Pacific toward the coast OF
Mexico
Twenty-Five hours after the
Colombia struck at 11:55 p. m.
Saturday, the United Fruit liner
San Mateo drew along side the
grounded ship and completed
the rescue in heavy seas.
According to mcager reports
received by coast radio stations,
the rescue was extremely han
ardous, but accomplished with
out loss of life, or injury to any
of the passengers or crew of the
Colombia.
The ia passengers and most of
the crew had taken to the ships
eight lifeboats shortly after the ship
struck. For two hours the boats
bobbed on the swells until the
searchlights of the San Mateo
flashed through the darkness as a
sign that rescue was at hand.
Interrupted News
The plight of the Colombia was
flashed to the world by radio about
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
COAST GUARD SHIPS HUNT SEAS
FOR ALLEGED OPIUM SbIUGCLERS

SAN DIEGO, Sept. IA. W.P)-
Coast guard cutters of Southern
California and the navy at San
Diego have been ordered to be on
the lookout for an auxiliary schoon-
ner endeavoring to land on the Pa
cific coast with contraband from
China.
The vessel, according to dis
patches from the north, is the aux
iliary craft Marabelle. Her cargo
is said to consist of 124 Cinnamon,
six Chinese women, 500 cases of
opium and a quantity of Chinese
liquor.
This is the vessel believed re-
sponsible for the light cruiser De-
troit Weighing anchor Friday eve
ming under sealed orders to put to
sea. But before the cruiser cleared
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
WARSH|P
DISCARD
WAN TED
British Statesmen Renew
Proposal Battleships Be
Abolished At COnfab.
CALLED OBSOLETE
American Leaders Said To
Be Open-Minded; OPP
pOsed Plan Once.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright 1881, By the United Press

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright 1881, BY the United Press
WASHINGTON. Sept. IA. W.D--
In anticipation of the Geneva dis
armament conference next winter,
British statesmen have renewed
their suggestion that the United
States join with them in abolition
cf the battleship, 1t was learned.
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDon-
aid made such suggestion at the
London Naval conference in 1890,
but it was dropped because of AM
erican opposition. Now it is learned
this suggestion has been renewed
informally, as a step which would
get the Geneva disarmament con-
ference off to a favorable start.
British statesmen advanced ar
guments that the battleship has
lost its major usefulness. but 1t Is
the greatest source of expense in
naval budgets. and the best place
at which to effect large economies
at one stroke.
Open Minded
Though this government opposed
such a suggestion at London, it is
said in official quarters that the
attitude now is one of wind
edness. There is a feeling among
some administration officials that
the battieship is obsolete.
The cruiser Is more practical
weapon, it is felt and far more
economical Sentiment in the
navy, however, is against abolishing
the battleship. Some officials feel
that American sentiment Is to
some extent swayed by the impos-
ing size and grandeur of a battle
ship, but that this feeling may
undergo change.
The administration had indicated
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Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
SECOND HURRICANE
SWEEPS ON BELIZE
Principal City OF British
Honduras In Path OF
Another Tornado.
DEATH TOLL RAISED
Three Die In Plane Carry
ing Photos OF Wreckage
In Central America.

BELIZE, BRITISH HONDURAS,
Sept. IA. U.P)-(By Pan American
Airways Radio)-Belize, devastated
and stricken by last weeks hurri-
cane, was threatened with another
storm today.
The new disturbance was report
ed moving up out of the Caribbean
and heading toward the city. The
word spread fresh terror among
the dazed people. Authorities
hoped, however, from the direc-
ton of the wind, that the storm
might pass to the north of the
! city.
Earlier estimates of the dead
from last Thursdays hurricane
were revised sharply upwards to-
day. and it was believed the official
count might reach 1000 or more.
The city was flattened by the
storm and thousands were
homeless. Authorities, doing
their best to preserve order,
we're apprehensive that the sit
uation might get out of hand,
but were relieved by the ar
rival of the u. S. S. Sacra-
mcnto, which landed party
of men for guard duty and res
cue work.
The Sacramento also landed med
ical supplies and doctors to care
for the injured.
Food and water were being dis
tributed by the authorities and SO
far there has been no acute short
age. Grave fear was felt, however,
of the start of an epidemic in the
low lying city and its marshy en-
yirons
MIAMI, Fla, Sept. Ia. U.P)-
Three Miamians we're killed in
stantly when their plane, bearing
| pictures of hurricane-w wrecked Be
| lize, B. H.. crashed in an electrical
storm at Oslo, Fla, near here last
night
The dead:
f. a. Edwards. 80, staff photo
grapher of the Miami, Fla, Her.
aid George H. Gibson. chief pilot
of the Curtius Wright Flying Serv-
ice, Miami
G.. r. McBroom. co-pilot of Cur
tiss- Wright Flying Service.
! The plane was making a night
(COntinued on Dape 81
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
RECOVER 20 BODIES
FROM TRAIN WRECK

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Sept. "A.
UP)-Twenty-two bodies had been
recovered today from the wreckage
of an express train blown from the
Biatorbagy bridge by two powerful
bombs. The bridge was demolished.
The train, speeding toward Buda-
pest with a heavy passenger load,
was in the center of the bridge
when a bomb was exploded at each
end of the structure. The express
was thrown from the bridge, with
the exception of three cars, and
rolled down a l20-foot embank-
ment.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
Prison Guards
Prevent Riot

JOLIET, H., Sept. IA. UP)-A
threatened riot at Statewide prison
was quelled by guards, it was
learned today, after two Of them
were severely beaten by six rebel
iious convicts.
The disturbance started when
Guard George Davis ordered con-
vict back to his cell and the con-
vict refused to move. Capt. Taylor
Davis was called Five other pri-
soners attacked the guards. Shouts
of convicts in nearby cells attracted
other guards VINO subdued the con-
yicts.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-14
@HHlLLz.e @HHndz.e
Wy 'SOD:

SANTA MONICA, Sept. 13.
tSpeciaD-France gives Jimmy
Walker the Legion of Honor
because he didn't bring nineteen
other mayors with him. Every
time the Republicans start TO
pin a rosette of poison ivy on
him in New York he is slipping
a stein of beer with Hindenburg,
shooting craps with Premier
Macdonald or doing an adagio
dance with Mussolini. No man
was ever SO investigated on one
continent and dined on the
other. He keeps just three de-
corations ahead of the investi-
eating committee.
Yours,