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OPERATION ON
LLOYD GEORGE
IS SUCCESSFUL

LONDON, July %. U.P)-David
Lloyd George, 68 year old Liberal
leader and war time premier, criti-
cally Ill, underwent severe opera
ton at his Addison road town resi-
dence today.
Lord Dawson of Penn, physician
to King George, conducted the
operation for kidney trouble at 9:45
a. m. The following statement was
issued:
"An operation was performed on
MIR. Lloyd George this morning and
the cause of the haematuria COM
pletely removed.
Considering the severity of the
operation, the patients condition
so far is satisfactory"
Lord Dawson was assisted in the
operation by DR.. Howard Hum
phries, an X-ray specialist; and DR..
j. Swift Jolly, a specialist in haze
maturia, the malady from which
Lloyd George is suffering. 1t is a
kidney ailment IN which LESSONS de-
velop, causing some loss of blood.
Three nurses were in attendance
during the operation on the popular.
shaggy haired Liberal party leader.
An ambulance was held waiting
outside the house, ready to rush
Lloyd George to hospital if neces-
sary. Oxygen cylinders arrived
shortly before the operation
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
LEADER OF DRYS
ISSUES WARNING
ON ROOSEVELT

WASHINGTON, July 90. W.H-
The Anti-Saloon League today
viewed antiprohibitionist endorse
ments of Franklin D. Roosevelt for
president as "a challenge and a
warning to the friends of the 18th
amendment"
From his Michigan summer home,
F. Scott Mcbride. general superin-
tendent of the league, telegraphed
statement which said in part:
when Mayor Cermak of Chicago
publicly asserts that Governor
Roosevelt is wet enough to be ac-
ceptable to the vets of the middle
west the question Immediately
arises as to whether he is dry
enough to be acceptable to the drys
of the middlewest, where the friends
of prohibition greatly outnumber its
enemies.
"a parallel statement of Joseph
F. Guffey. the old time wet Penn
sylvania Democratic leader pledg-
ing Franklin Roosevelt over 60
Pennsylvania delegates long before
there has been any suggestion as to
who might be chosen as delegates
to the Democratic national conven-
ton ought to put Democrats of
Pennsylvania on their guard.
The people of the country can
not be blamed for wondering
whether Mr.. Roosevelt's silence
means approval of the Cermak-
Guffey interpretations of his can
didacy."
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
COMMITTEE WILL
ASSIST ROLPH IN
CHOOSING JUDGES

LOS ANGELES, July 29-U,P)-
Governor James Rolph Jr., was ex-
pected some time today to choose
a committee to assist him in ap-
pointing Is superior and municipal
judges for Los Angeles county from
list of 1853 applicants.
The committee, comprising men,
bers of the Southern California
Legislative delegation and political
leaders, was to be selected before
the governors departure tonight for
Sacramento, and its personnel was
to be announced next month.
: 1t was understood the governor
had requested that the committee
eliminate all but 100 applicants,
from whom the final appointments
will be made.
1t was further reported that sew
eral incumbent judges were sched-
Nuled for replacement.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
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TWO MORE DIE
AS RESULT OF
N SEVERE HEAT

Bringing Imperial Valleys total
of heat deaths in the past few days
to 35, Homer F. McGowen, 40, died
late yesterday afternoon eight miles
northwest of Yuma, and Mrs. A.
M. Wilson, 79, 344 Hamilton street,
died in a San Diego hospital this
morning after being taken there
from Ell Centro Monday night when
she was overcome by the heat.
Mrs. Wilson had been in Ell Cen
tro five years. She was a native
of Scotland. Her husband is in
San Diego for funeral services,
which will be held at the Jackson
Saun funeral home at o'clock Fri
day afternoon, with burial in the
Greenwood cemetery, San Diego.
MCGOWAN died in the Bard district
yesterday afternoon Immediately
after bringing his automobile to a
stop in front of the Ross store.
He drove up in front of the store
and stopped at $50 o'clock Yuma
time. When the proprietor called
to ask him what he wanted to pur-
chase, .McGowen did not answer. A
short time later, the storekeeper
stepped up to the car to inform the
occupant that he was going to close
the place. He found McGowen
dead.
McGowen had been working as
flagman on the highway between
Yuma and Holtville, where con-
struction work is in progress. He
was a veteran of the World war,
having lost an arm in the service,
according to Bert Underwood, coun-
| ty coroner, who conducted an in
vestigation into the death. Under
wood reported that death was
caused by the heat.
| Addresses found on his person re-
veal that he at one time resided at
sos Van Ness avenue, Santa Ana,
or has relatives living there.
The body is at Johnson'S under
| taking establishment in Yuma
awaiting word from relatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
@kWILl

BEVERLY HILLS, July %.
(SpeciaD-I was pretty worried
last week. I am colonel on
Alfalfa Bill Murrays Oklaho-
ma fighting staff" I thought
he overmatched himself. Take
on Kansas till we get in prac-
tice, then Texas in the finals.
When l heard old Bill him.
self had hid O. long squirrel rifle
under his moustache and gone
to the wars, "in person." I said
to myself: Colonel Rogers,
you better go into rehearsal
So 1 got myself chemist and
we started to work. The only
way to lick a Texan is with bad
liquor. Any state than can
make worse liquor than Texas
can lick 'em, but it's hard to
make worse. That's why Tex
as licked Mexico. Texas had
the worst. They fattened on
Mexico's "tequilla." Yours,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
ATEN SUBMITS
HIS REPORT ON
DISTRICT WAGES
Takes Beal To Task For
His Indifference Upon
Committee Work.

Salaries OF employees of the irri-
cation district are materially lower
than they have been in past years, "
declares the committee report on
payroll Investigations as presented
to the irrigation district board by
Director Ira Aten, yesterday.
II am impressed with the loyalty
of the organization generally and
with the conscientious manner in
which the employees are trying to
cooperate to help the district meet
its budget requirements" Aten's re-
port said.
The report points out, however
that If economic pressure continues
there will have to be further re-
trenchments in payrolls.
| Aten called attention of the
board yesterday to the fact that
| w. F. Beal, one of those most en-
ergetic in asking for sweeping SAL
airy cuts, and member of the
committee, was unavailable at any
| time during the week for committee
meetings. His report cites a SINH
i lar failure of Director C. w. Brock
man to attend the meetings of his
committee to investigate salaries OF
the assessor collectors department
I'm view of these failures of both
| Directors Beal and Brockman to
share the responsibilities of these
investigations, and in view of theil
public announcements from time tc
time to the effect that the district
has been eXtravagant in its salary
payments and in other expenditures
! it is hard to understand their evi.
dent disinterest in the actual in.
veStigations by which we are to de.
termine what is fair and proper il
the way of payroll adjustments,
says the report.
| Aten's Investigations, according tt
his report, resulted in the discovery
that the 1881 payroll carries 81;
employees as compared to 1887 EN-.
ployed by the district in 1923, ont
of the closing years of the old re-
gime. The 1881 payroll total for tn,
first six months is S562,64 Aten'
report states. The 1923 payroll fo
the first six months was S917,150.
THE comparisons show reduc
ton in number of employee
amounting to about one-third o
the 1923 total. The salary total
show a reduction of almost one
half of the 1928 total. In othe
words, not only has the organiza
ton developed by the chief engi
neer and other officers serving thi
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
BROKERS' CASE
TO BE DECIDED
In NEXT WEEK

LONG BEACH, Cal, July 30. U.P)
Whether Irwin S. Burgess, real
estate broker. will be held for trial
on 81 counts of violation of the state
corporate securities act in connec-
ton with the sale of oil leases in
Tehama county, today rested with
Municipal Judge Wilbur S. Downs.
1t is believed the decision, which
is expected within week, will be
favorable ITO the real estate man.
In taking the case under SUBJ
mission late yesterday, Judge
Downs commented that no testi-
mony had been presented during
the hearing to show that Burgess
had shown any intention to sell
anything but a lease to property.
The defense contended that Bur-
CESS sold the leases on one acre par
cells of a thousand acre tract in
Tehama county without a corporate
securities permit.
The hearing resolved itself into
question of whether or not Bur-
CESS was selling a security or mere
ly a lease. The defense called w
D. Abel, of the corporation depart
ment. Abel testified that Burgess
had detailed his plans for selling
the leases and after investigating
Abel had decided the leases were
not securities and had Informed
Burgess that he did not need per-
nit.
1t also was the contention of the
state that Burgess sold the leases
at a time he did not himself have
title to the land. The promoter
declared from the stand that al
though he did not have a lease on
the thousand acre block at the time
his sales campaign started, he did
have an oral agreement with the
California Land and Cattle COM
pany of San Francisco, owners OF
the property, and that he had Sc
cured his lease from them later.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
Cotton States
To Hold Parley

AUSTIN, Tex, July %, U,P)-
Governors of Is cotton-growing
states today had invitations from
Gov. Ross S. Sterling of Texas to
attend a conference looking toward
reduction of cotton acreage.
This conference, called for Aug
ust i. was regarded as the first at
tempt to get all cotton states work
ing together in a fight against the
depression which has struck the in
dustry. 1t was called by Governor
Sterling at the request of the Texas
legislature.
States whose governors were in
vited to the conference are Okla
homa, Virginia, New Mexico, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana, California, Ala
bama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Missouri. North Carolina,
Tennessee and South Carolina.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
YOUNG PRODUCER HAS MOVIE
COLONY AROUSED OVER FILM

roll and Garrett Graham for a sum
reputed to be $4,000.
1t was claimed that the novel
dealt only with very small cross
section of Hollywood life and that
certain producers, directors and
writer's, all of them powerful, were
held up In most unfavorable light.
The story told of the experiences
of a reporter in Hollywood and
while fictitious names were used
the disguise was rather flimsy so
far as the screen colony was con-
cerned.
The identities of the persons who
flickered through high life in the
movie capital were guessed immed-
lately and those identified were
most bitter against the plan to
make a picture Of the novel.
Opposed By Writers
First open opposition came from
writer's, especially from some So
called chatter writer's" who seemed
to believe they were among the
characters used in the book.
To the great delight of most OF
Hollywood, these writer's discovered
and announced through their vari-
Gus columns that Mr.. Hughes could
not serve the best interests of the
film industry in making the pic
ture."
Hughes went right along with his
plan and these same writer's then
discovered that "Mr Hughes would
not be so foolish as to anger the
entire film colony
Hughes then announced the pic
ture would go into production late
in August.
Meantime, not so open as the
writer's. came the opposition of
producers and directors. 1t has been
reported that even Samuel Gold
wyn and Joseph Schenck, associated
with Hughes in United Artists, have
asked Hughes to "lay off" the story.
To date all this opposition ap-
parently has not ruffled young
Hughes, although he appears to be
having trouble getting a cast and
director.
The best guess today was that
cameras would start grinding on
Queer People" late in August.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
Mxe R~4~
. ,sss n.xs.sAs sy,AssAS.l,A
STATE PARK IS
BARREN WASTE
FOLLOWING FIRE

MARTINEZ, July 20. U.p)-Mount
Diablo State Park, one OF Califor-
MAS most famous beauty spots, was
barren waste of ash and black,
smouldering tree stumps today
after two days and nights of inter-
mittent fires.
The entire northern slope of the
mountain was burned over when
fire broke from control again last
night and ragged through Mitchell
Canyon, Mt. Dion and Deer Flat to
bring the total area burned by this
weeks fire to 5000 acres.
Before being checked, flames
raced to within one mile Of the
town of Clayton, on the edge of the
vineyard district. The summer
camp of John Stockfleth and Boy
Scout camp were destroyed.
Although the fire was only smoul-
dering today, it was feared that the
treacherous winds which whir
around the mountain might at any
time start it anew. Only brush ane
grazing land on the south side o
the mountain remain unburned
i Should the fire be renewed, tn,
plant of the Powell Lime and Ce
ment company and the Clayton sub
station of the Great Western Pow
er company would be endangered.
Fires this week and two wetk'
ago have burned over a total o.
35 900 acres.
MISSOULA. Mont, July 90. U.P
With army-like precision the for
est service today drove a major de-
fensive against the raging fire
sweeping prime timber of the Penc
Oreille and Kootenai national for.
ests of Idaho and Montana.
Roaring out of control, driven by
intermittent and shifting winds, the
engulfing blaze spread over a rag.
ged area, officially estimated to bs
IS miles in circumference. Thi,
was spread of Is miles since las
night.
Additional crews we're sent to thu
fire fronts today Mobilized from
the cities of three states, raw re.
cruits banded with seasoned lum.
berjacks in combating the blaze.
Aerial patrol observers estimated
the burning area today on the fire
lines approximately $1,000 acres
while half as much already has beer
scared over by the flames.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
Woman Tries To
Starve Herself

LOS ANGELES, July 90. W.H-
Physicians worked carefully today
in an effort to thwart a poisonless,
weaponless attempt at suicide.
Growing years Of grief over the
loss of her l6-year son. adopt
ed in infancy by others, Mrs. Mar
garet Campbell Sunday morning
lay down to die beneath some
shrubbery in quiet Altadena
street. "
Summond by neighbors, police
removed her to a hospital, where,
though her condition was called
very grave, it was learned she had
taken no poison.
She had not eaten for days.
Method of attempted suicide was
officially recorded as starvation.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
Arizona Militia
Officers Accused

PHOENIX, July 10. U,P) 49, Col.
Josephs Pomeroy and Col Charles
w. Harris former adjutant general
of Arizona, were ordered held to
answer in superior court late Tues
day on charges of defrauding the
state of $53323.
They were released under bonds of
$3.50 each until their superior court
trial.
The charge was filed June by
Lloyd Andrews. county attorney, at
the request of Attorney General K.
Berry Peterson. The complaint
was signed by Harry Hegle, deputy
state auditor.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
Heavy Loss In
L. A. Blaze

LOS ANGELES July 20. U.p)-A
fire that razed the Globe Milling
company at Vernon causing dam
ages estimated at 100000 was
brought under control tooay, leaving
the huge structure an almost total
loss.
Starting supposedly from comhuS-
ton, the flames roared through
highly inflsmmable store OF cotton
seed so rapidly the automatic
alarm system itself was crippled be-
fore it "messaged' complement
tary sprinkler system.
Raising a high tower Of flame.
the blaze also enhanced last nights
heat, this proving no deterrent,
however, to several thousand spec
tatorS.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
Actress Loses
Bout To Horse

HOLLYWOOD, July 30. U.p)-
The efforts of Joan Bennett, film
actress, to ride an unmanageable
horse. resulted in her being con-
fined today in a hospital with a
broken hip. 1t was said she prcba-
bly, would have to remain there five
weeks.
Miss Bennett. while on location
yesterday, heard James Kirkwood
actor. decline to ride certain ami
NAL
Il know that horse" said Kirk
wood I've ridden him and he's
bad. I won't get aboard him
again."
Another man seconded Kirk
woods statement.
"You don't know how to ride.
Miss Bennett was reported to have
said, jokingly. "I'll ride him"
She climbed into the saddle and
moment later was thrown against
a tree by the plunging steed.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
'Hoppers' Causing
Immense Damage

LINCOLN, Neb.. July 20. U.H -
Ravenous grasshoppers of a nou-
migratory but exceptionally greedy
variety, swarmed in wriggling
hordes today over more than 46,875
square miles of farmlands in five
midwestern states and caused dam
age of which crop experts could
say only that "it will run into the
millions"
Every hopper" fighting device
known to man was brought into
play as farmers in Nebraska. Iowa.
Minnesota, North and South Da-
kota fought to save from the in
vaders what little was left of their
grain.
In many of the rs counties over
run, farmers marched into the
blackened fields with clubs, pound
ing right and left as they beat
down the "hoppers' with the fury of
men who had worked hard to plant
their crops, nurtured them almost
to maturity and then seen them
gobbled up by insect pests.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
Anniversary OF
Wars Beginning

LONDON, July 20. U,H -
Seventeen years ago today -
July 30, 1914--the first shot in
the greatest war the world has
yet known was fired.
In the IL years since it end
ed in 1918, the powers have
sought to gain peace perma-
nently through such efforts as
the League of Nations and
conferences on arms limita-
ton.
Efforts at present are aimed
at a world arms limitation
agreement, to be sought at the
arms parley in Geneva next
February.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
DESERT TRAGEDY
TAKES LIVES OF
FOUR MEXICANS
Victims EnrOute To Mexi-
cali Succumb To Heat
On Sonora Desert.

NOGALES, Sonora. Mex, July
30. UP) - The blistering rays of
a Mexican desert sun claimed the
lives of four persons 10 days ago
as they journeyed in stage to
Mexicali from Nogales, it was re-
vealed here today.
The victims, including a mother
and her 45-day -old baby, were bu-
ried in the desert wastes, $50 miles
west of here, where their bodies
were found.
The dead, all of Nogales, Son:
Mrs. Rugina M. de Ojeda, 16.
Consuela, 45-day-old daughter Of
Mrs. Ojeda.
Jesus Orantes.
Ramon GRANTEES.
The story of suffering and slow
deaths of the victims was brought
here by Rafaei Bracafnontes. Mex
ican immigration officer at Sonoita,
Sonora, where three survivors are
near death in a hospital.
Augestin Pinto of Mexicali, jour-
neying from the Lower California
city to Sonoita, discovered the des-
ert tragedy, ano~ buried the victims
beside the crude desert highway.
The body of Mrs. Ojeda, almost
nude, with her child pressed to her
breast, was found first. Along the
road few miles further, the bodies
of the GRANTEES, brothers, were dis
covered.
Near Sonoita, the three survivors
Vincente Gutierrez of Nogales, Son.
ora, driver of the stage; Vicente, Jr.
and Juan Ojeda, husband of the
dead woman and father of the chile
were found, almost dead
They were in critical condition
and hospital attendants said they
were partially insane from the con-
slant beating of the desert sun or
their foreheads.
From, them however, was gained
the short, tragic story-a drama en-
acted on the desert against certain
| death.
Leaving Nogales, Monday, July
20, the stage set out for Mexicali
About $50 miles west of Sonoita
the automobile broke down.
Efforts to repair it were vain, ane
the passengers and driver started u
walk back to Sonoita. They hae
no water, nor food. The sun wa
| terrific-forcing the mercury aroun'
100 to 125. 1t is not known hoy
long they trekked over the sun-bak
ed desert sands.
/ The mother collapsed with he
baby. She was left to die. Late
the two brothers dropped along tn
road, exhausted, and pleading, beg
ging for water and food. They diet
without advancing step farther.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
|OIL OPERATORS
GET ULTIMATUM
FROM GOVERNOR
Oklahoma Executive Will
Close Wells If Price Is
Not Raised.
BY RICHARD l.. HARKNESS
United Press Staff Correspondent

OKLAHOMA CITY, July %. UP)
While oil sells at 10 cents bar
rel in the great East Texas field,
we'll purchasing companies acceded
to the demand of Governor William
H. Murray of Oklahoma that prices
reach 81 a barrel in Oklahoma
fields by Saturday.
Does the governors threatened
shutdown of every flush field in
the state carry enough weight to
force the almost doubled price :lere?
Opinion was divided upon this
question today, as observers hope
fully awaited response of major
purchasing companies to the gov
ernor's drastic order, issued late
yesterday.
"Oil prices" said the governors
ultimatum, must reach 81 by Sat-
urday."
If they do not, he added, every
well in Oklahoma will be closed,
and state militia, modified at his
command, will patrol the fields to
sec that they remain closed.
that his motive in issuing the clos
ing order was conservation of the
states resources rather than to
force higher prices. Oil now is SELL
ing for prices ranging from 40 to so
cents a barrel. The higher price
was set Monday by the Sinclair
company, but only one minor pur-
chaser followed the boost yester-
day.
Operators Agree
One group, the Mid-Continent
operators and royalty owners,
found satisfaction in Murray's or
der. More than 1900 of them had
pledged themselves, at a meeting in
Tulsa only a short time before the
order was issued, to shut down pro-
duction until prices reached a point
where a fair margin of profit could
be made. That price is 81 a barrel,
they agree.
Another group. however, feared
that the governor order, which
they do not believe will result in
higher prices, will cause a shutdown
Vi Tie OkldllOI1ld 1leluS lOI l1ldily
months, thus cutting off all revenue
from operations.
They assert II is unreasonable to
ask the purchasers to pay 81 bar
rel in Oklahoma fields when oil is
selling so eheaply in the East Tex
as field, with plenty there for all
buyers.
One thing is certain, that the fu-
ture of the oil industry in the mid
continent area rests with the ma
jor purchasers and the East Texas
operators. Upon their decision, to
be made before Saturday, regarding
price advances. will depend the in
come of every operator and royalty
owner of California.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-29
BORDER MAYOR CLEARED

SAN DIEGO, July %. W,R-An-
gel Menendez, former mayor of IL
iuana. has been cleared OF homi-
eide charges in connection with 1ie
death of his secretary, L. l. s. oui-
jano, according to word from Tiiua-
ma today. Quijano was fatally In
iured IN clash between Mayor
Menendez and his party and a group
of Mexican laborites May z. Mem
endez resigned as mayor shortly
after the shooting.