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Seward daily gateway., 1932-04-09

Cl1IIll1ldCcO q Wl0COllSlI1 S1Oup OA 
 FACES DEFEAT
 BERLIN, April g, The presiden- tial campaign, which will be de- cided Sunday, waxed not Friday when Hitler began to realize he was looking defeat in the face; 150 arrests were made when rioting began flaring.
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 AVIATORS JUMPED SELFRIDGE FIELD, April g, - Two army pilots took to parachutes Friday when the motor of their plane failed and fire burst forth. They landed safely.
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 PROBING DEATH OF HORSE SAN FRANCISCO, April s.-1f "Phar Lap" Australian wonder horse, died as result of poison ad- ministered by some fiendish hand, it will be known within the next rev days, when the result of the autopsy is revealed.
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 MOSQUITO BATTLE PORTLAND, Ore, April g., The Portland Chamber of Commerce has decreed there shall be no mos quitoes to poster the people of this state and have assigned six men to engage them in battle and wipe them off the map.
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 NURSE BEATEN
 SAN JOSE, April 9.-Miss Betty Stout, 23-year-old nurse of the County hospital, was recovering to- day from beating administered by two men who slugged her, rob- bed her and left her lying beside the highway.
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 NAME TOO BIG FOR HIM" KANSAS CITY, April 9.-The IA inches and one pound of humanity that is Baby St. John today was we'll on the way to losing it's claim to distinction to worlds tiniest baby. For the boy, nameless as yet because as his Uncle Harold says: Any kind of name would be too big for him." The baby is con- Sum1ng sized food.
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 BATTLE FOR BONUS
 WASHINGTON, D. C., April g. Veterans organizations today car ried their battle for cash bonus legislation to the foot of the Cap itol steps. A parade of 1000 Leg ionnaires and members of the Vet erans of Foreign Wars presented to assembled Senators and Con- gresSmen petition said to contain more than 2,40O,0O0 signatures, de- manding payment of the bonus.
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 CUTS THIRD SET OF TEETH M1SHAWAKU, Ind, April g. When his gums began to hurt for mer Policeman John Weber he took out his false teeth and discovered that he was cutting his third set ot teeth. Weber is 66 years old.
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 NOT A STALKING HORSE" NEW YORK, April 9.-Alfred E Smith of New York made it clear today in a statement that he is ready to accept the Democratic Presidential nomination and is not merely a stalking horse" to shield or to stop any other candidate.
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 RECORD LOW LEVELS
 NEW YORK, April g. - Stocks were tossed overheard today as the market broke to record low levels in the various measures of it's fluc- tuations. Some short covering neal the close brought prices back slightly.
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 SMOKING BE PERMITTED SEATTLE, April 7.-Mayor John F. Dore has announced that wher he takes over the mayors duties for the city of Seattle that he in- tends to again permit smoking on Seattle street cars. He said that he intended to construct smoking rooms on each car large enough SC that even women could make use o1 them. Smoking has been prohibit ed on the cars for over 20 years.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-22
FRENCH-ITALIAN
DELEGATES ROW
AT PEACE MEET
BY STEWART BROWN

United Press Staff Correspondent
GENEVA, July 22.-International
bitterness broke out in the halls OF
peace at Geneva today and ply
sical combat was narrowly averted.
The French and Italian delegates
to a. meeting of the interparli-
mentary union, held in hall ad-
joining the world arms conference,
exchanged insults and the meeting
broke up in disorder.
Pierre Renaudel, French Socialist
delegate, insulted the Fascist re-
gime and Carlo Costamagna, Italian
deputy, spiritedly took up the de-
fense of Mussolini.
The meeting was adjourned while
peace efforts we're made by other
delegations, and in the meantime,
Italo Balbo, italian minister of air,
conferred with Mussolini by tele-
phone.
The Italians demanded an apol-
ogy, but Renaudel said he would
never apologize. He had disparaged
Fascist rule as being parliamentary
and in the heat of the dispute, had
referred to the Matteotti murder,
fighting words to Fascist.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-22
JUNE GASOLINE
TAX RECEIPTS
MAKE RECORD

SACRAMENTO, July %. U.P)--
June receipts from California's s.
cent gasoline tax reached new
record total of $4,517, ,467.44, exceed
ing any previous month by a half
million dollars, Fred E. Stewart of
the state board of equalization, an
nounced today.
The June taxes represented a
gain of $1,129, ,901.05 over those of
May, an increase of more than 33
per cent.
In paying a tax on 152,603,277
gallons of gasoline during June,
distributors reported sales that
were 16,932, ,205 gallons greater than
June, 1881.
In explanation of the marked in
crease, Stewart said that on &C
count of the new federal tax of l
cent a gallon, "it is apparent that
a large volume of gasoline changed
hands in anticipation of the fed
eral. levy"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-22
VETERANS DEFY ORDER To
LEAVE NATIONAL CAPITAL

he had instructed his men to re-
main in their quarters until the
police put them out.
"If they chose to evict the MEM
bers of the B. E. F. from their
cantonment at Third and Penn
sylvania avenue, they will have to
evict them bodily, one by one,
Waters said. "If they chose to ar
rest them-well, the housing prob
lem will be taken from the shoul-
ders of the B. E. F.. and placed on
those Of the District of Columbia
and its jails.'
The eviction at the Third and
Pennsylvania buildings was order
ed by police today.
James H. Maurer, Socialist can
didate for vice-president, visited
the main bonus camp at Anacostia
during the morning and urged a
crowd of 450 veterans to oppose all
efforts to move them out of Wash
ington.
Your march or Washington and
encampment here" he said, "has
been one OF the few cheering signs
of resentment against the rotten
mess into which the rulers of the
country have led u.s."
The veterans administration was
thronged with veterans, but many
of them were local men taking ad-
vantage of the Bacharach bill,
signed by President Hoover. Mem
bers of the bonus army also were
borrowing on adjusted service certi-
ficates under the more liberal terms
now in effect.
The administration has approved
1929 applications for transportation
home from the bonus camps here.
This was an increase of 365 over
the number yesterday morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-22
CHARGE GAMBLER
WAS KILLED BY
ship EMPLOYEE

LOS ANGELES. July %. U.P)-
James O'Keefe, employee on the
gambling ship Rose Isle, was
charged with the murder early to-
day of Charles M. Bozeman, card
dealer aboard the ship, by Thomas
Cullen, chief investigator of the
department of justice here, after
testimony at -coroner's inquest
had closed.
Cullen made his announcement
of charging O'Keefe with the shoot
ing before a coroner's jury had re-
turned verdict of homicidal
death, blaming no individual, but
suggesting that O'Keefe and Virgil
Roach, mess-boy, be held as ma
terial witnesses.
Both Roache and O'Keefe had
been held for investigation since
the shooting, after it became known
both were in the cabin in which
Bozeman was shot to death.
Neither man testified today as
federal authorities strived to piece
out from testimony of witnesses,
the obscure story of the midnight
murder.
Police have pictured the slain
gambler as a fence" for stolen
gems, and held four men who they
claimed were associated with Boze-
man.
From William Gleason, part own
er of the gaming ship, Deputy Unit
ed State Attorney Gwyn Redwine
brought out that O'Keefe had access
to the ships office where several
pistols were kept.
II have seen O'Keefe in posses
sion of one of these guns at various
times" Gleason testified, "but the
pistol found in the murder cabin
was not one of them"
Redwine learned that Gleason. as
owner of the Rose Isle, was an Am
erican citizen, and that federal jur-
isdiction therefore had been estab-
lished over the ship, anchored sew
eral miles off Long Beach.
Because the ship was not under
the registry of any country, federal
authorities at first were puzzled as
to who had jurisdiction over the
gaming barge.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-22
Unknown Number
Drowned In Lake
(By United Press)

PONTIAC, Mich, July %. W.p)--
The waters of Pontiac lake wer'
dragged today for the bodies o
from four to Is fishermen sent y
watery graves when lightning. hal
and a sudden windstorm lashed th'
water into a fury.
More than 100 boats filled VIII
fishermen were on the two-mil'
lake when black clouds were fol
lowed by lightning, hail and rain
Another moment and wine
whipped the calm water into wave
six feet high, waves TINT swampet
rented fishing boats manned bl
inexpert boatmen.
At least five OF the scores O
boats were swamped.
One mans body was recovered
-Four others were known to hav'
been drowned. Sheriff Fred
Schramm, who led the search toI
day. said he believed eight had
been drowned. He added that 4
death toll double that figure would
not surprise him.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-22
MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION DESTROYS
GAMBLING BOAT OFF LONG BEACH

LONG BEACH, July %. U.P)-The
luxurious gambling barge Johanna
Smith was a smouldering hulk
burned to the waters edge today
following an explosion and fire
which sent 80 panic stricken men
and women fleeing for their lives
from the dance floor and gaming
tables.
All guests and crew were saved
by a fleet of rescue craft, led by
coast guard cutters and navy
launches from the San Pedro dread
naught anchorage F. Odette, ships
carpenter, was injured in rescue
work. Several of his ribs were
fractured when a lifeboat threw
him against the rail.
The whirl of roulette wheels,
clatter of dice in "chuck-a- luck"
cages, the call of the lottery man
and the conversation above black
jack and poker tables were sudden
ly stilled when flames broke out in
three places following an explosion.
AS dealers scooped up mounds of
silver dollars, rapidly stuffed great
wads of bills in sacks, the cry of
"fire!" brought sudden panic
throughout the vessel. Women
screamed and tainted in mad rush
for safety. Two men jumped over
board before they could be stopped,
but were picked up.
The gangway to float at the
waters edge, where water taxis
dock, was a mass of struggling hu-
manity. Evening dresses were torn
and trampled Then lifeboats were
lowered and the crowd was divided
among these. The crew quieted the
passengers. and rescue work went
forward more quietly.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-22
BRITISH TRADE
CONFERENCE TO
WORK in GROUPS
BY CHARLES M. McCANN
United Press Staff Correspondent

OTTAWA, July %. U.P) The
British economic conference divided
itself into committees today to dis
cuss details of its program of pre-
serving the trade of the British en-
pire for the British.
Most of today's session was spent
in formulating the five committees,
those on trade, commercial rela-
tions with foreign nations, customs
administration, currency and econ
omic cooperation.
Stanley Baldwin, Neville Cham
berlain, j. H. Thomas, Lord Halls
ham, Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister
Walter Runciman and Sir John
Gilmour, all cabinet ministers, rep
resented Great Britain on the COM
mittee on trade promotion, the
major group.
Premier R. B. Bennett and six
associates were chosen for Canada
and the other delegations all placed
their leaders.
1t is this committee, working on
a mass of demands and offers, that
will try to work cut plans for TAX
ing more of its trade within the
empire itself.
1t was learned today that Amer
ican lumber interests are working
to prevent any preferences that will
unbalance their trade. They are
said to be offering British Colum-
bian men re-opening to the west
coast market, closed under the high
United States tariffs, If Americans
are permitted to continue exports
to England 1t was pointed out in
this connection that England this
year had contracted with Soviet
Russia for much more lumber than
that on which Canada will ask pre-
ference.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-22
NO CANDIDATES TO
BE OUTSIDE OWN
DISTRICT LINES

In answer to a question caused by
numerous rumors and statements
current in Imperial Valley, County
Clerk Edward H. Law said This
morning that no candidate for su-
pervisor, if elected, will be caused
by a shift in supervisorial lines to
reside outside tine district repre-
sented by him.
New supervisorial lines, adopted
some time ago, will go into effect
Immediately after the election. In
some instances this will change the
boundaries of the districts. 1t is
this fact which has given rise TO
the rumors that some candidates,
if elected, would find themselves
the day after the election living in
another district.
This rumor, the county clerk
said. is false. Law has checked the
district lines on the new supervis-
orial map with the residence of the
supervisorial candidates, and finds
that all, after the election, will re-
side in the same district as at pres
ent.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-22
MANY CHANGES
ANTICIPATED in
73RD CONGRESS
Politicians See Chance
For Democrats To Con-
troll Both Houses.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July %. = De-
preston psychology and prohibition
will sweep many new figures into
congress in the November elections.
Thirty -four senators are to be
chosen and every one of the ABS
house members is up for reelection
The victors will take their seats
in the 73rd congress which meets
year from December.
The restlessness of the electorate
already has manifested Itself in
moving down in primary elections
numerous veterans.
Democrats are conceded a good
chance of capturing both branches
of congress. They now control the
house by a slender margin, the
standing being 220 Democrats, 214
Republicans and one Farmer-Labor.
The Republicans have a majority of
one in the senate, where the count
is 48 Republicans, At Democrats,
and one Farmer-Labor. Only a
slight tip-over thus is necessary to
give Democrats control of both
bodies.
The senatorial elections attract
interest because of the veteran fig
ures up for reelection. These in
clude Reed Smoot CRep) Utah,
chairman of the finance committee
and dean of the senate; James E.
Watson, Indiana, Republican floor
leader; George Moses (RepO New
Hampshire, senate wit and presi-
dent protein; Wesley L. Jones
(Rep) Washington, chairman of
the appropriations committee and
author of the Jones "five-and-ten"
prohibition law; Duncan U. Fletch-
er, Florida, a Democratic warhorse
of years of service. and Samuel
Shortridge (Rep) California.
Veterans Beaten
Among veteran house members
who have been defeated in the pri-
maries are Willis G. Hawley (RepD
Oregon, for years chairman of the
ways and means committee; c. Will
liam Ramseyer (Rep) Iowa, for
many years prominent among house
leaders, and Carl R. Chindblom
(Rep) Illinois.
Twenty five members of the pres
ent house have been defeated in
20 state primaries already held and
relegated to the role of "lame
ducks" for the December short ses-
sion.
Two senators have been defeated
in Is senatorial primaries-Brook-
hart (Rep) Iowa, and Morrison
(Dem0 North Carolina. Morrison
went down before a wet sweep in
his southern state which resulted
in nomination of Robert r. Rey-
nolds. A variety of issues, includ-
ing nepotism brought the defeat of
Brookhart by Henry Field.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-22
MONKS RETURNED
TO FACE TRIAL
In SAN DIEGO

SAN DIEGO, July %. U.R) -
Allan B. Monks, Boston remittance
man arrested in Long Beach
Thursday, was brought here early
today and placed in the psyche
pathic ward of the county hospital
for observation.
Transfer to the hospital was
suggested when Monks, appearing
considerably dazed, was taken be-
fore a justice of the peace for ar
raignment on a charge of issuing
worthless checks.
Although first reports from Long
Beach indicated Monks was under
the influence of narcotics at the
time of his arrest physicians later
said they believed him suffering
from post-encephalitis, a form of
sleeping sickness.
Despite denials by Mrs. Monks,
held in the county Jail here, the
man under arrest is Monks, two
policemen made positive Identified
tions today.
Arrest of Monks, which followed
arrest of his wife in San Francisco
and her uncle, Wiley B. Watson,
in Long Beach, ended a nation
wide search for the trio. All are
held on worthless check charges.
Search was begun several months
ago when trustees of the $2,00o,0 600
Boston estate from which Monks
draws his remittance expressed be-
lief he was dead
They claimed that when checks
were drawn on Monks bank by
Mrs. Monks, they ordered her to
produce him for an explanation
but that she failed to do so.
The trustees then stopped his re-
mittance and the check charges
here resulted when checks written
by Mrs. Monks were returned tc
local merchants.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-22
CURRENCY.
INCREASE
APPROVED
Hoover Signs Home Loan
Bank Bill Providing g
Moderate Initiation.
AIDS HOME OWNER
President Reads State
ment In Defense Of
New Measure.

WASHINGTON, July %. U.P) -
President Hoover today signed the
home loan bank bill, the second
of two bills which throw $4,922,-
100000 into the war against de-
preston.
Yesterday afternoon he signed
the first of the two, the relief bill.
The home loan bank bill creates
an aggregate of 800,000,000 Of
new credit and authorizes $1,000,-
100000 of new currency. 1t is ex-
pected to prevent foreclosure of
mortgages on thousands of homes
and to increase commodity prices.
The President personally an
nounced the signing of the home
loan bank bill. At his afternoon
press conference he read lengthy
statement in defense of the meas
ure, particularly the section gen.
orally regarded as Initiation" in
currency.
The Presidents statement point
ed out that the bill meant great
aid in solving the unemployment
problem through stimulating work
in the building trades and said that
therefore he did not feel like Veto
ing it merely because of the So
called initiation rider.
He quoted from a letter from the
comptroller of the currency which
described this currency section as
a backward step in currency and
banking legislation" but the comp
troller advised that 'in view CT the
fact that the provisions are limited
to a three-year period I do not feel
Justified in recommending that the
bill be vetoed"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-22
Head OF Olympic
Games Arrives

los ANGELES, July %. U.P)-
Baron Henri De Baillet-Latour, Bel
gian president of the international
Olympic committee, arrived here to-
day from New York, to take charge
of the 1882 Olympic games.
Il am more than satisfied that
the tenth Olympiad will be the most
successful ever held" he said.
There is so much participation
from all countries of the world. The
response from the European coun-
tries has been splendid, consider
ing the time in which we are liv-
ing"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-22
GERMANY NOW
CONTROLLED BY
PRE-WAR GROUP
By FREDERICK KUH
United Press Staff Correspondent

BERLIN, July 22.-Ine famous
iron hand of militaristic pre-war
Germany ruled the reich today
with the possibility that Gen. Kurt
Van Schleicher, defense minister.
would succeed Franz Van Papen as
chancellor.
Politicians saw in the swift and
amazing death of the Prussian cab
met and declaration of virtual
martial law a definite plan to re-
model completely the cabinet soon
after the reichstag elections OF
July 81. And in this shakeup
Won Schleicher was seen as the
dominant figure.
There was no doubt of the part
Won Schleicher played in the over
night "putsch" of the junkers gov
ernment that ended states rights
in Prussia, ousted officials who had
controlled a Prussian government
and police force of 10000 since the
birth of the German republic, and
practically nullified the effects Of
the German revolution.
When Won Papen was named
chancellor succeeding DR.. Heinrich
Bruening, the military came back
in control with Won Schleicher as
its marshal.
Adolf Hitler's FasciSts were eX-
pected to take an important share
in the reich govrnment as a result
of the elections. Although Hitler's
enthusiasm has cooled for such in
flammatory phrases as heads shall
role in the sand" he remained one
of the most important figures in
a. complex political situation.
AS the political shuttle appeared
with the monarchists and militar-
lists again riding high, it was pro-
posed to give the Nazis the reich
ministries of interior, labor and
transportation. Won Schleicher
hoped by this move he could sue
cessfully skim the revolutionary
foam off the Fascist movement.
Success of the militariSts' plans
depended upon the attitude of The
Nazi leader, Hitler.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-22
Brawley Holds
Political Rally

A crowd of about 400 persons last
night gathered at the Brawley city
plaza to hear 20 candidates for var
ious county and state political
offices speak for a total OF two
hours on their qualifications for the
offices they are seeking.
Secretary 1. G. Adams OF the
county Democratic central commit
tee was in charge of the meeting,
in the absence of officers of the
Roosevelt Garner club, under the
auspices of which the meeting was
staged.
George Burnham of San Diego,
candidate for congress on the Re-
publican ticket, spoke briefly. Ern-
est R. Utley. Imperial Valleys DEM
ocratic candidate for the same pos
, ition, was not present.
Talks were practically the same
as those given at previous meetings
at Holtville and Heber. The next
meeting of this kind will be at
Calexico next Thursday. Ell Gen.
tro will re the scene of similar
meeting in two weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-22
Slayer's Brother
Causes Surprise
By His Queries

LOS ANGELES, July %. U.P)-
Attempts of Burton Joy McKinnell
to bring the case of his sister, Win
ME Ruth Judd, convicted Arizona
slayer, into his trial on charges of
blocking traffic, were summarily
halted today.
Rambling questions concerning
the truth" of the sensational MUIR
der case, and the integrity of a
superior court judge we're pro-
pounded to prospective jurors at the
youths trial.
Electing to act as his own attor-
ney, McKinnell was permitted to
question 10 men and two women
prospective jurors.
He was arrested recently while
selling a book, "The Truth About
Winnie Ruth judd, the proceeds
of which he will Use in financing
her appeal from a death sentence.
Charges of violation of city ordi-
nances governing advertising, and
parking too long, were placed
against him.
"If prove to you that someone
other than Winnie Ruth Judd mur-
dered Hedvig Samuelson and Agnes
Ann LIE Roi, would that prejudice
you against me?" was the first
question McKinnell shot at the jur-
orS.
I Before the astonished Judge
T'hurmond Clarke could object, the
youth continued:
"And, if further prove that a
certain superior court judge is in
league with the underworld, would
that prejudice you against me?"
AT this point Judge Clarke halted
the proceedings and, after inform
ing McKinnell that the court had
the legal right to appoint an at.
torney, ordered his bailiff to search
the corridors of the hall of Justice
for lawyer to represent McKinnell.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-22
Bolivia Citizens
Demanding War

LA PAz, Bolivia, July %. U.P)--
Popular demand for war against
Paraguay swept Bolivia today with
the country in a state of siege i'm
posed because the Gran Chaco
frontier conflict was regarded as
armed aggression which may COM
promise the national peace"
The government had the support
of the populace and the army in
declaring the state of siege and
recalling the Bolivian delegates
from a conference in Washington.