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Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
SMITH IS
SWAMPED
IN POLL
Straw Ballot Among De-
mOcrats Shows ROOse-
velt Is Favored
YOUNG THIRD MAN
Survey Proves Governor
OF New York Is Over
whelming Choice

NEW YORK, March 30 U.p)-A
poll of the delegates and alternates
to the 1923 Democratic national
convention shows that among those
answering, Governor Franklin ID.
Roosevelt was an Overwhelming
favorite for the 1882 presidential
nomination.
The poll, conducted by Jesse Is
Idor Straus. president of r. II. Macy
and Company, gave Roosevelt 478
votes to l25 for Alfred E. Smith,
the 1928 standard bearer, who was
second choice. approximately 1000
men and women were queried, 942
replied and 844 expressed a prefer
ence. New. York state, which has
been expected to send Roosevelt
delegation to the next convention,
was not included in the poll.
Straus considers ths poii as an
indication of Democratic sentiment
throughout the country. He esti-
mates that from two-thirds to
three fourths of the 1928 delegates
and alternates will return as dele
gates or alternates 70 the 1882 con-
yention. About three-fifths OF the
replies were from delegates and
the remaining two-fifths from al
ternates.
Roosevelt led in all but four
states In Massachusetts, Smith
was in the lead; Governor Alfred
c. Ritchie Of Maryland, fourth in
the poll, was the favorite in his
home state; Senator Joseph 7. Rob-
inson, fifth, was the majority
choice in Arkansas and in Connect
icut Roosevelt and Smith were
tied.
Owen d. Young was behind
Smith in third place with 73 votes
Results of the poll indicate that
Governor Roosevelt will have strong
support for nomination in the south
Arkansas was the only state in
which he failed to lead. Georgia
where the governor has a winter
home, gave him % out of a possible
42 votes.
Several of those showing their
preference for Governor Roosevelt
said they held Governor Smith in
high esteem, but would hesitate to
vote for him, believing his nomina-
ton would be inexpedient as ii
might revive the religious issue.
Oregon. Wisconsin and Wyoming
did not answer the poll, and only
one reply was sent from Virginia
and two from California.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
Joliet COnvicts
Resume RiOting

JOLIET H., March 80. U.P) -
Hundreds Of convicts in old Joliet
prison hammered on the bars OF
their cells and yelled imprecations
today as the state parole board,
which they had condemned as the
cause of the recent riots in Joliet
and Statewide prison, met to con-
slider parole applications.
The uproar broke loose as four
members of the board opened their
two-day sessions.
Guards managed finally TO silence
the prisoners. many of whom had
made derogatory statements about
the board to the legislative commit
tee investigating conditions respon-
sible FOR the riots.
The beard planned TO hear today
relatives and friends of prisoners
making application for parole. The
applicants will be heard tomorrow.
Representative Michael Igoe, men,
Der of the Investigations committee,
expected to attend the hearings.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
WALKER SHOWS
INTEREST OVER
PARTY MEETING

PALM SPRINGS, Cal, March 80.
U.P)-Mayor James Walker, still
silent on politics, evinced particu-
lar interest today in press reports
from Albany tn At Democratic
chieftains and borough leaders
would back him to the limit in the
Forthcoming investigation of his
administration.
Walker said he had requested
further information on the report
ed meeting of the Curry Cooey
group at the home of Joseph Muir
ray, Rensselaer, county leader, at
which former Governor Alfred E
Smith was said to have supported
him for the first time since the
two became at loggerheads.
Although Walker, in his "off rec
ord" conversations with newspaper
men indicated he might issue q
statement when he had more in
formation on the conference, his
only words for publication were;
II cannot comment on it now; I
have no confirmation that the
meeting took place"
Walker took his summing yester-
day at Ell Mirador hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
SEEK CONVICTS
NEAR SUPPOSED
TREASURE CACHE

CHRISTMAS, Ariz., March 80.
'W.P)-Search for three of four con-
victs who escaped from the state
prison at Florence centered in this
district today after members of a
state highway crew Identified
Charles D. Barnes, bank bandit, as
q man who begged a ride on a
truck Sunday.
Eight prison guards were sent to
Stoneman Lake, near here, when
prison authorities recalled boasts
of Earl Nelson, who escaped with
Barnes, that he had $4,000 hidden
in the vicinity of Stoneman Lake.
Nelson, Barnes and Jose Salinas
were buried in a load of gravel late
Friday after which Juan Garcia
drove through prison gates past un-
suspecting gate guards.
Garcia and Salinas, Mexicans,
were serving short sentences. Nell
son and Barnes, who led prison
break last year, were serving long
terms for bank banditry and are
classed as dangerous by Warden
William Delbrudge.
Garcia returned to the prison
Saturday. Nelson and Barnes
forced him to accompany them, he
said. He told the warden that the
fugitives were going to Stoneman
Lake, this statement being support
ed later by word from Superior that
a man identified later as Barnes
had been given a ride toward the
Globe Miami district which Is on
the way from Florence toward
Stoneman Lake.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
WOMAN FORCES
HER HUSBAND TO
CONFESS. CRIME

LOS ANGELES, March 30 (U.P-
A wife's tears today had induced
Lawrence G.. Wendell, 36, of Whit
tier, Cal, to give himself up with
the confession that he had robbed
a branch of the Bank OF America
of 1865 last Thursday.
But the money was gone-loSt to
a couple of "sharps" in a poker
game, Wendell morosely told po-
lice, as his wife stood by with
trembling lips.
Out of work. and fearing his wife
and two children would suffer from
hunger, Wendell decided to rob the
bank, he said. He had met Clinton
w. Clough a few days before, and
together they laid their plans.
They secured the money without
much difficulty, and fled. Clough
was captured within short time,
but Wendell escaped.
That night he got into a poker
game in the hopes Of increasing his
stake" and lost every cent.
1t was then that he confessed
the story to his wife, who, amid
tears, induced him TO surrender.
Wendell was booked on a charge
of suspicion OF robbery.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
One Injured In
Three Accidents

Out of three accidents on CaleX-
leo highways Saturday night, only
one resulted in injuries to the per:
sons involved. although in two
cases automobiles overturned and
in another a small coupe stalled
on the railroad track in Heber was
knocked from the tracks by train.
Mable Endicott, Paul Endicott
and Betty Aires, all of Fontana,
were seriously injured on the CAL
exico to Holtville highway when
the car driven by Paul Endicott
struck an automobile driven by
Frank S. Alvarez of Ell Centro, ac-
cording to traffic Officers. Wit
nesses stated that Endicott was
driving at a high rate of speed
when he hit Alvarez car, breaking
its two front wheels. After the COL
lision Endicott's car turned over
three or four times. The injured
persons we're taken to the Calexico
hospital for treatment.
G. R. Cox of Heber escaped in
jury when a railroad train knocked
his small coupe from the tracks
damaging only the right front fend-
er and wheel.
Mabel q. Bosman's car turned
over on the Calexico to Ell Centre
highway, one-fourth mile south of
the Curphy turn. when she ran off
into a ditch at the side of the
road. The car was damaged and
the driver badly shaken up, but un-
injured.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
M& R1~~
q 1880 MeNsusAt syndieats. la
FORMER STAGE
STARS DEATH
WAS ACCIDENTAL

EzE, France, March 80. (U.H-The
police of Eze today described the
death of Mrs. Barry Townsend,
whose automobile plunged over a
400 feet cliff Saturday night, as an
accident.
The conclusion was reached des-
pite disconnected letter left by
Mrs. Townsend in which she be-
queathed 1000 franc (about $500 to
the nurse of her five year old
daughter.
1t was confirmed at the inquest
that Mrs. Townsend, who was known
as Peggy Davis on the New York
stage, was formerly Mary Margaret
Laird of Birmingham, Ala. She was
25 years old.
Her husband, David Townsend
is a native of Sydney, Australia.
The coroner at the inquest con-
cluded that death was due to the
fall over the cliff and was instan-
taneous. He said there was no
proof she was neuresthenic or had
been treated for nervous trouble,
although recently she had been
moody.
Townsend was in the care OF
physicians, who gave him sedatives
to enable him to rest Mrs. Town
send probably will be buried here
Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
DAVIS HELD in
COUNTY JAIL ON
Staying CHARGE,
Mexico May Seek Extra
dition Of Principal In
Border Tragedy

M. K. "Coots" Davis, charged
with the murder OF William Pres
ley in Mexicali February 4, and ar
rested Saturday night by Mounted
Inspectors Eifler and Bump of the
Customs Patrol, was arraigned in
Justice court here today and held
without bond pending preliminary
hearing April 9.
Alfred Blaisdell appeared S
Davis attorney this morning, and
indicated that his client will make
a bitter fight against extradition
into Mexico. The accused man cam
not be tried in Imperial county,
since the knitting which resulted
in Presley's death early this month
took place in Mexico.
Davis is merely being held in the
county jail here while extradition
proceedings go forward.
The man who had been the OBJ
ject of state wide search for sew
eral weeks was found by the Gus
toms officers Saturday night two
miles north of the Ten Foot drop.
In Davis car was Jim Terry, with
whom Davis recently faced a charge
of grand theft in the superior court
here.
Terry and Davis were found not
guilty for lack of evidence. They
were charged with stealing large
number of chickens.
Davis offered no resistance when
officers placed him under arrets. He
was taken to the county Jail.
There Tom Sharp, district attor-
ney's investigator, and Hazel Liv-
ingston, reporter for the prosecu-
tor, grilled the accused man from
| 10 o'clock until after midnight.
They took a statement from Davis,
| it is understood, but what the state
ment contains could not be learned
A complaint charging Davis with
murder was signed by N. J. Presley
son of the dead man. Following
Presley's death March II coro-
ner's inquest here resulted in ver-
dict that the man had died OF
knife wounds inflicted by knife in
the hands of NJ. K. Davis. Another
inquest held in Mexico resulted In
the same verdict.
Davis, charge officers, stabbed
William Presley in the Bristol Bal
in Mexicali on the night of Febru
ary 4. Presley was brought to tn,
county hospital here, where ne diet
March II. The Bristol Bar is owne'
by Bob Davis, brother of the ac
cused.
Before Davis can be eXtradited T.
Mexico, papers must be signed b.
the president of Mexico and tn
president of the United States. I
will be some time before arrange
ments are comple.e.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
TEN INJURED BY
MANHOLE BLAST
in SAN DIEGO

SAN DIEGO. Cal, March 80. U.D
An explosion in a manhole at
Fifth avenue and Broadway, the
center of the downtown district OF
San Diego, injured 10 persons. sew
eral of them seriously at noon to-
day.
The cause of the explosion was
not determined.
An iron cover on the manhole
was blown 10 feet in the air and
split in two. One of the pieces fell
on Mrs. J. O. Rhyme.
Between 1000 and 5000 persons
gathered at the scene, making 1t i'm
possible for ambulances to reach
the injured for several minutes.
In addition to the 10 persons
Who needed hospital treatment. sew
eral score pedestrians were knocked
down by the force of the explosion.
The first explosion was followed
almost Immediately by a second
blast which sent flames out of the
manhole several feet in the air.
burning a number of persons who
had been Knocked down.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
Wrecked Company
Has Big Deficit

LOS ANGELES, March 80. tU.p)-
The Western States Building q
Loan association, one of the many
firms wrecked by the defalcations
OF Gilbert H. Beesemeyer, has
deficit of S3O1, ,S95.06, and is in such
a condition that "it is impossible
for the association to continue in
the function for which is was Gre
ated," according to report of R. E.
Allen, receiver, on file in federal
court today.
The next step in the receivership
will be decided April when Federal
Judge William P. James rules on the
report, Allen informed creditors of
the defunct institution.
The plan favored by stockholders
committee calls for the formation
of a corporation to act as holding
company for real estate properties
valued at 1894 1896, which is the
chief asset of the firm.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
F FAV0RS
LASH ON
C0NVCTS
Assemblyman Offers Bill
To Provide Whippings
For Unruly FelOns
BATTLE RESUMED
Reapportionment Forces
Line Up To Continue On
Division Row
By HOMER L. ROBERTS
UNITED Press Staff CorrespOndent)

SACRAMENTO, March 30. WR)-
Whipping posts at California's two
state prisons. Folsom and San
Quentin, were proposed in the state
legislature today.
The recommendation was made In
all seriousness py ASSemblyman
Harold c. Cloudman, Berkeley. who
indicated he would introduce bill
calling for such method Of punish
ment.
This move would be made as a
protest against measures designed
ito relieve the already over coddled
criminal Cloudman said.
The legislator was referring 70
bills calling for abolition of capital
punishment and extension of prison
labor in the two penal institutions.
The fight over reapportionment
in the state Legislature today reach
ed the stage of showdown.
After a weekend of strenuous ef-
/ fort to gain votes, assembly forces
headed by Walter j. Little of Santa
Monica expressed confidence they
had enough votes pledged to defeat
the amended legislative reapportion-
ment bill of Senator j. w. Mckinley,
Los Angeles.
Speaker Edgar c. Levey and hts
faction, on the other hand, declared
they were ready to meet the test"
when the measure comes up as q
special order of business in the low
er house late today.
Vote Is Close
The opposing groups. and the
measures they advocate are:
Levey faction-Favor passage of
Mckinley bill as amended, giving
Los Angeles county 81 assemblymen,
Orange county two, San Francisco
county TO- and Alameda county
eight.
Little faction-Opposes Mckinley
bill as it now stands, and advocates
a measure giving Los Angeles coun-
ty 80 assemblymen, Orange two, San
Francisco nine and Alameda seven.
The roll call on the amendments
Thursday gave the Levey group Al
votes and the Little forces &c. This
was identically the same vote by
which Levey defeated Little for re-
election as speaker of the lower
house, and bad blood has persisted
| between the two throughout the
present legislative session.
Reports were current today that
a compromise had been proposed
to the San Joaquin valley delega-
ton by the Levey representatives.
The offers, it was said. were to
| olive back m the San JoanIiif, va1Iav
the three assemblymen to be given
Los Angeles, San Francisco and Ala
media counties under the plan OF
Edward Craig. Brea, in return for
support of the 1910" plan of con-
gressional reapportionment which
would give San Francisco and San
Mateo counties new congressional
| district.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
Fits Returns
From Chicago

LOS ANGELES, March 30. W.P)-
District Attorney Buron Fits said
today after his return from Chicago
where he attended a conference OF
prosecutors from all parts of the
United States, that he intended to
keep Los Angeles the white spot
of the nation" as far as criminals
are concerned.
Fits disclosed that he brought
with him pictures, fingerprints and
data on 800 of the leading gang
sters of the east"
The district attorney admitted
that the city had suffered from "a
great deal of crime and attributed
the fact partially to the economic
depression.
Fits said he also returned with
a new "undercover man. presum-
ably from Chicago.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
Wheeler Hints
At Third Party

CHICAGO, March 30 U.P)-Sen-
ator Burton K. Wheeler of Mon
tana believes the country lacks
real political leadership" and that
there is a strong possibility of de-
velopment of a third party ''if the
two major parties continue to be
dominated by reactionary forces
Speaking before the Chicago Fo-
rum Sunday, Wheeler declared that
if Communism ever is, brought into
the country it will not be by "agi-
tators" but "by those who denounced
it the loudest."
He charged that industrial lead
ers dominated both press and poll
tics" in America.
Among the things he recommend
ed were prevention of "slush funds"
in campaigns and federal coopera-
tion with cities and states in feed
ing unemployed.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
PRICE OF CRUDE
OIL SLASHED BY
UNION COMPANY

LOS ANGELES, March 80. U.P)-
With an over supply OF gasoline and
the lowest prices in years prevailing
for the fuel, independent oil oper-
ators found themselves in position
today where they were forced to
sell their highest gravity crude oil
at lower prices than was being paid
for low gravity crude.
The unusual siti,ation arose when
the Union Oil company for the third
time in a month, posted a new
schedule effective this morning,
which reduced the price it would
pay for crude by an average of 80
cents a barrel.
II is from the higher gravity oils,
termed refinable crude, that gaso-
line is obtained, and with storage
facilities taxed and prices low,
Union smashed its quoted price to
35 cents a barrel for oil of 300 grav-
ity and up. Under q schedule posted
March Is, the price was 20 cents a
barrel for this product from Los
Angeles basin fields. Oil of IA
gravity will sell for 65 cents bar
rel, ranging down in price as it
grows in gravity.
San Joaquin valley fields a similar
cut if they wish to sell to Union.
High gravity oil will sell for 35 cents
barrel, and low gravity for so
cents. At Santa Paula, field pro-
ducing low grade oil, the price was
raised from 60 to IS cents a barrel
for crude used for fuel road surfac-
ing and fabrication.
AS In the past, other major COM
panies purchasing crude from indie
pendents, were expected TO join
Union in the price cut.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
More Charges
Made In Gotham

NEW YORK, March 80. U.P)-
Two more departments of the New
York City government were under
stood today to be due for a house
cleaning as soon as Mayor James j..
Walker returns from the west.
They are the Department OF Mar
kets and the Board of Standards
and Appeals, at which many civic
reform leaders have directed criti-
cism in the last Is months.
The Board of Standards and
Appeals particularly has been un-
der steady attack by Walkers op-
ponents, who charge officials of the
board with graft and fayoritism
In the Department of Markets var
ious inspectors have been accused
of exacting tribute from kosher
butchers and market men.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
AUTO CRASH FATAL

SAN FRANCISCO, March 80. U.R)
Garth Nelson, 10, of l444 West
42nd Place, Los Angeles, was killed,
and his mother, Mrs. Ella Nelson,
a newspaperwoman, and Archibald
Eyers, 35, of 1854 West l4th street,
Los Angeles. were seriously injured
early today in an automobile ac-
cident ON the Bay Shore Highway.
The automobile in which they
were riding from Los Angeles to
San Francisco collided with a truck
and overturned.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
Congressman Is
Visitor Here

Frederick M. Davenport, congress
man of New York, was in Imperial
Valley short time today as guest
of the Imperial Irrigation district.
This is his second visit to the val
ley as he was here during the pc
riod when the Swing-Johnson bill
was before congress He was an ar
dent supporter of that bill.
He left for Coachella this after
noon in company with F., II. McIver,
district secretary.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
NIGHT CLASS in
CITIZENSHIP TO
START TONIGHT

Instruction in citizenship will be
given for those wishing to take out
naturalization papers according to
an announcement received today
from Glenn Kieffer, member OF the
high school faculty, who will hold
classes ON Monday and Thursday
nights at 7 O'Clock in room 20 at
the high school.
Kieffer conducted the classes
last year and has been instrumental
in aiding a number of foreign
born to become citizens of this
country. This worth while service
is available to all wishing to attend
the class and has proven to be Of
great value to those who have
taken the course previously.
The first session of the class will
be held tonight at Central Union
high school.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
FILIPN0S and
MEXICANSSTACE
RIOT AT BRAWLEY
Ranch Worker May Die
As Result OF Wounds
Suffered In Fight

Racial jealousy between Filipino
and Mexican workers on the Saw
dey Hunt ranch, three quarters of
a mile north of the San Diego high
way on the Rrawley main canal,
this morning resulted in a battle
that placed one Mexican in the hos
pital, his life feared for, and "a
Filipinos in the county Jail for in
vestigation.
Raphael Montoya, Mexican, is in
the county hospital possibly with ia
tai wounds i'll the abdomen and
about the head. Santiago Gamet,
81, Filipino, was treated at the hos
pital for cut lip, and later re-
moved to the county Jail.
Gamet and Pete Lukas. 90. an
other Filipino, are held as principal
offenders, while % other Filipinos
were held for questioning.
Harold Gillett and Fred Elliott,
deputy sheriffs, answered a hurry
call to the ranch this morning to
find the Filipinos and MeXicans
still battling. The Mexicans, out
numbered began retreat, sleaying
Montoya seriously wounded.
Knives, sticks, stones, hooks and
agricultural implements were used
in the fight. The MeXicans and
Filipinos were harvesting a crop of
carrots on the ranch, when some
difficulty arose over work. The
Filipinos apparently were trying to
frighten the Mexlcans away, said
officers.
A truck used on the ranch was
Communicated by the officers to
bring the prisoners to the county
jail, while an ambulance carried
Montoya to the hospital.
Believing that his injuries are not
of serious nature, the Mexican to-
day refused TO allow on operation
OH himself
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
@HlnL!L-,e
w SOS:

BEVERLY HILLS, Mar.
%. - Mr.. Hoover Just got
back from Port africa after
a call with our little dark
cousins. He told 'em he
would see that they had
the same opportunities we
enjoy here, so I guess he
is having Charley Otis and
company, stock brokers,
put in a branch down there.
That will give them a leis-
ure class, and the rest Of
'em employment working
for 'em.
The President didn't
think much of the Virgin
Islands; he thought we
were bunked on that deal.
| think myself we was per-
haps influenced by the
title. We are mighty good
colonizers. We ought to
sell, Cor give away to some
enemy our island hold
ings and concentrate en-
tirely on the old head
quarters ranch here at
home.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
McAdOO's Son Pays
Police Court Fine

LOS ANGELES. March 80. up
William Gibbs McAdoo, Jr., and
John w. Montgomery, today ap-
peared before Justice of Peace H.
E. Billings and paid fines of $40
each after pleading guilty to charges
of intoxication and disturbing the
peace.
The move was unexpected after a
continuance of one week had been
arranged for McAdoo, Jr, earlier in
the day.
The men were arrested Saturday
night by Sherman deputy sheriffs
while thev 5crtedis were engaged
in an argument with a taxi driver
over a fare.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-03-30
Score Of Reds
To Be DepOrted

SAN FRANCISCO, March 30. U.P
Deportation of 20 Communists will
be started within a month. it was
announced by U. S. immigration
Commissioner John D. Nagle.
Proceedings will begin, Nagle said,
as soon as the federal appellate
court received from the u. S. SUI
pleme court official notice that it
has refused to review the case OF
Sadaichi kenmotSu. Ordered TO
leave, Kenmotsu, admitted Commu-
mist, obtained a stay while he pre-
pared test case.
Arrested in 1929 with a score of
Fellow Communists, during a pa
rade, Kenmotsu admitted his affil-
iation, but denied the governments
right to deport him because of 1t.