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Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
MRS. JUDD GIVES
new EXHIBITION
OF HER TEMPER
Snarls At MatrOn When
Told To Remain In Her
Chair.

COURTROOM, PHOENIX, Ariz
Feb. 2. U.P] = Winnie Ruth Judd
gave the courtroom another eXhi-
bition of her temper today when
she demonstrated with a matron
who asked her to keep her chair
temporarily when q recess was
called in Mrs. Judds trial on the
charge she murdered her former
friend, Agnes Anne lie Roi.
Quit telling me to be quiet, =
Mrs. Judd said bitterly to the
matron, II don't like to be ordered
around"
Her attorneys soothed the de
fendant and she resumed her
place at counsel table.
The outburst came during the
testimony Of DR.. E. H. Williams,
prominent alienist, who told the
court that Mrs. Judd was insane
and not responsible for her acts II
she killed Mrs. LIE Roi ana Miss
Hedvig Samuelson the night of
October 16, 1881.
Doctor Williams testified she was
suffering from dementia praecoX.
Doctor Williams said thai he be-
lieved that the defendants inheri-
tance from a family tainted with
insanity and her health, ruined by
tuberculosis, set the stage for her
ultimate breakdown.
In his opinion the breaking
point probably was an asserted at
tack upon her near Olney, Ill,
when she was l6 years old.
Another famous western murder
case got into the records when
Doctor Williams was questioned
about William Edward Hickman,
who was hanged for the murder ot
Marion Parker in Los Angeles.
In defending his opinion thai
Mrs. Judd was insane, Doctor Will
liamS was subjected to a sharp
cross-questioning bringing out the
inference that she was "malinger-
ing" he said he thought not, but
that in any case he had never
known persistent malingerer
who was not also insane.
How about William Edward
Hickman" he was asked.
well. he was sane, wasn't he?
I never hearo of his malingering.
well, how about those messages
from God lie SAID he received?'
He was a very religious boy;
maybe he did receive them"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
M& A1~<.
OtsSS. MeNaught syndisasA. Ia
SOUTHLAND IS
ASSURED AMPLE
WATER SUPPLY

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2. W.H-
With snow piled deep in the
mountains and streams running
full, ample water supplies for sew
eral years were building up III
Southern California today.
Although the weather was clear
ing around Los Angeles after 48
hours of rain, the southern end of
the state, particularly San Diego
county, reported rain still falling
this morning.
Meanwhile, snow plows and
highway crews fought rain, sleer
and a blizzard to open roads
into San Bernardino mountain re-
sorts, where several hundred per-
sons are temporarily marooned
Tourists and residents at Lake
Arrowhead and Big Bear lake were
completely showed in, with exits
blocked and telephone communica-
ZION disrupted.
Cajon pass and Rim of the World
drive were both closed by slides.
Traffic from the desert to the
coast was being routed through
Barstow and Los Angeles.
No alarm was felt for those
hemmed in by the SHOWS.
Occasional showers may fall in
the southland today, the weather
bureau said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
DOUBT JAPANESE
WILL ACCEDE TO
TERMS PROPOSED
Toxic Opinion Is That
Matters Have Now
Drifted Too Far.
By MILES w. VAUGHN
United Press Staff Correspondent

TOXIC, Feb. 2. U.P)-A plan de-
signed to restore peace in Shanghai
was submitted by the United
States and Great Britain, acting
together, to the government to-
day.
1t was doubtful, however, that
Japan would accept the proposal
because it contained a provision
that no additional forces be sent
by Japn to Shanghai.
The American plan for peace
was submitted by w. Cameron
Forbes, the United States ambas-
sador, and Sir Francis Lindley,
British ambassador.
They called again on Foreign
Minister Yoshizawa, and in ac-
cordance with his request Sunday
submitted their scheme.
1t was expected that the French
and Italian ambassadors would
take similar action.
The United States embassy has
no information of a new American
protest.
Members of the diplomatic corps
considered developments in Shang-
hal with the gravest concern. 1t
is generally felt that Japan is
ready to present to the powers a
new "fait accompli" and it was
admitted that peace efforts now
appear useless.
The United Press understood that
the diplomats carried proposals
centering on schemes similar to the
neutral zone plan for Shanghai
which would keep japanese and
Chinese troops at least five miles
apart.
To Send Army
Meanwhile, the cabinet decided
to dispatch strong army reinforce
ments to the battle zone. Marines
so far have been the only forces
used by Japan at Shanghai.
Admiral Taniguchi, chief of the
navy general staff, resigned and
Admiral Prince Fushimi immedi-
ately was named to succeed him.
A government spokesman said
the idea underlying British and
American protests so far seemed
based on the contention that
Japan's interests in the interna-
tional settlement were slight while
those of Britain and America were
great
Hence, it was pointed out that
Japan has nearly 10000 nationals
in the settlement, or more than
double combined British and Am
erican populations there. Japan
therefore feels her interests in the
settlement are the largest.
The Toxic stock exchange closed
temporarily after sharp slump
because of the reaction in Shang-
hais exchange, where market lead
ers were off 20 yen. Commodities
likewise showed violent fluctuations
doWnwards.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
japanese Sets
Chinaman's Leg

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.
U.P) - A policeman and two
pretty nurses were needed to
subdue Fong Choy, 36, Chin
ese, before he would allow
Walter Iraiki, Japanese in
terne, TO set his broken leg and
hip.
Taken to a hospital after an
automobile accident, ChOy
burst into a stream of native
epithets when Iraiki began to
set the bones. Ether was for
cibly administered.
Reviving, Choy surveyed the
repaired leg with favor. He
pointed to iraiki.
Him pretty good" said
ChOy. Maybe go school in
China, huh?"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
INDICT HENDRIX
AS SLAYER OF
W. H. MCCOY

A. L. Hendrix was indicted by
the county grand jury this morn
ing for the murder of w. H. Mccoy
near Holtville, January 10, afte-r
the grand jurors had argued the
indictment and various phases of
the case since early yesterday
afternoon.
This indictment will eliminate
the necessity of a preliminary
hearing, and probably will take
the trial of Hendrix into Judge
Vaughn N. Thompson's court,
since the grand jury this year re-
ports to Judge Thompson.
Hendrix probably will be ar
raigned in superior court either
this week or next, and his trial set
for the March calendar.
He is charged with the killing of
Mccoy on a highway north OF
Holtville during an argument over
cattle, which had strayed onto
Hendrix ranch, and which Hendrix
was holding until Mccoy paid
pasturage.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
BY WALTER BROWN
United Press Staff Correspond,

United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1892, By United Press
SHANGHAI, Feb. al watched
last Friday the aerial lombard
ment, without warning, of an open
and defenseless city, and saw how
japanese spectators capered in JOY
shouting banzai (hurrah) and en-
bracing as explosions spread fire
and death in Chinese territory.
It was a terrible sight, this drop
ping of bombs on a crowded terri
tory. Death and mangling were
the fate of many Chinese, caught
without a chance.
There were 100 or more of us
on the roof of the japanese club,
a stones throw from the Hongkew
police station, as the Japanese
planes swung aloft.
To the japanese sharing this
vantage point the spectacle seemed
to be an outing.
The awesomenesS and gruesome-
ness of the event did not appear
to touch them. They seemed only
to enjoy the horror, and 1 could
not help but think of the imbecilic
Nero who fiddled while Old Rome
burned.
For my own part, the sight was
appalling, and the cheering ard
clapping only added to my sense
of shock.
An uncounted number of Chinese
were killed or MANNED by the bonn
bardment and the ground fighting.
Friday morning, when the Japa-
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
GOVERNOR SAVES
TWO WOMEN AS
CAR OVERTURNS

VALLEJO, Calf, Feb. 2. U.P)-
Gov. James Rolph, jr., of Califor-
MIA was a swell guy in the eyes
of 5000 San Quentin convicts to-
day but he was a hero to two So
ciety women whom he saved from
drowning.
The 62-year-old executive plunged
into icy waters Of a deep slough
near here last night and rescued
the women as their overturned
auto began submerging. Opening
the car door, he pulled them out
and with other officials carried
them up the bank.
Mrs. Frederick H. Myers, wife of
the president OF the California As
sociation of Architecture, and Mrs.
Paul Hastings were driving along
a hail swept road when Mrs. Myers
lost control. The machine spun
around four times and dropped
backward into the slough.
Driving directly behind them,
Governor Rolph reached the women
just as the water reached their
heads. They suffered mostly from
fright and exposure.
Rolph and his party were return
ing from a visit to San Quentin,
the first made to the institution by
a California governor in 20 years.
He broke ground for a new $275 900
cell block, shook hands with hun
dreds of inmates, gave them a
CHEEKY word and made a short
speech to women convicts.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
FAIL TO PROVE
AMERICAN FLAG
WAS DESECRATED

SHANGHAI, Feb. 2. UP) - An
official inquiry by American con-
sular authorities has failed to
prove that an American flag was
6esecrated during the crisis in the
last few days.
The inquiry followed a protest
lodged at the United States
consulate general by the Rev. DR..
j. c. Hawk, presiding elder in the
Methodist Episcopal (South) dis
trict in Shanghai Doctor Hawk
said he placed two flags on school
buildings of the Young-Allen mis-
sionary institution.
A group of civilian japanese
watched him hanging the flags, he
said. A neighbor told him that the
flags won't be there long" A
little later, Hawk related, the
neighbor informed him the flags
had disappeared. Protests and in
quiry followed.
Nobody saw the flags disap-
pear" Edwin S. Cunningham, the
United States consul general said.
"All efforts to obtain testimony as
to what became of the flags has
been unavailing."
A flag previously was brought TO
the Hongkew police station by a
Japanese patrolman who said he
found the tattered Old Glory in
Young-Allen court.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
HART ARRESTED
In STOCKTON ON
VALLEY CHARGE

Lewis Hart, 80, asserted ringlead-
er of 16 men indicted by the 1890
81 county grand jury on charges of
criminal conspiracy, grand theft and
conspiracy to violate the corporate
securities act of California, was ar
rested in Stockton at 7:30 last
night, and will be brought to I'm
perial county Jail Immediately.
This was announced today in the
district attorneys office here after
Tom Sharp, investigator, left for
Stockton to assume custody of
Hart.
In the meantime Judge A. C..
Finney, on motion of District At
torney Elmer w. Heald, wired the
district attorneys office in Stock
ton that bond for Hart had been
raised from $4,000 to $4,000.
According to information relayed
to the district attorney here from
the Stockton prosecutors office,
Hart was engaged in organizing an
other insurance company in Stock
IOll, dllI Wdo III Ddil
cisco using his right name. He ad-
mitted his identity after being
placed under arrest.
On information furnished by the
district attorney here, the Stockton
prosecutors office was large re-
sponsible for the arrest of Hart, who
is classified by officers as chief Of
the alleged offenders indicted by
the grand jury because of asserted
fraudulent insurance stock deals in
this county.
S. L. McCrory, deputy district at
torney, said today it was Hart who
was introduced in Imperial Valley
as the largest stockholder and man
ager of the Associated Life Insur-
ance Company of California, while
statesmen were selling stock in the
Associated Insurance Underwriters,
Inc.
1t is charged in the grand jury
Indictment that the stock sold,
while represented as being shares
in the insurance company, was in
reality stock in the underwriting
firm.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
DECISION UPON
BR0CKMAN CASE
REMAINS SECRET

Whether or not the Imperial Ir-
rigation district may go ahead with
the C. w. Brockman recall election
has been decided, but the secret OF
the decision today rests with Judges
Vaughn N. Thompson and A. c.
Finney.
Officially. the decision has not
vet been made. but it was being
written today, and will be an
nounced tomorrow morning. Judge
Finney was unwilling this after
noon to make any announcement
regarding the trend of the decision.
The decision may hinge upon
any one of four points. One Is ju-
risdiction of the court to halt the
recall election once it has been
called by the irrigation district
board OF directors.
Others concern the sufficiency OF
signatures on the Brockman recall
petition the question of whether
voters in territory added to Subdi-
vision One by recent redistricting
may vote on the recall, and the
question of whether Brockman may
be recalled in the revised subdi-
vision, since he has not held office
within the revised boundaries for
a period of six months.
Should the decision favor the dis
trict, and direct that the recall
election be carried through, it is
probable. should Brockman be re-
called another court action will be
inaugurated to determine legality
of the election, stressing the same
points as those brought up in the
petition for a writ of injunction to
prevent it.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT

Scout Court of Honor, 1880,
Wilson school.
Revival services, 1880, First
Baptist church.
Basketball, :, nigh school.
1. o. o. F., No. 297, 8, 445
Main.
1. v. Commandery No. 81,
1880, Masonic temple.
Oasis Shrine No. 20, w. S. of
j., s, Masonic temple.
Band practice, 7:45, court
house.
Troop I, b. S. A., 1880, Elks
hall.
Choral club, s, Academy of
Music.
Troop S, B. S. A., !, Seeley.
Night school, 7-9. high school.
Unity class, 1880, 1877 Com
mercial.
Valley theatre, Daddy Long
Legs"
Fox Imperial theatre, For
bidden."
TOMORROW
Ladies' day, Barbara Worth
country club.
Junior chamber of commerce,
$3.50, Barbara Worth hotel.
Chamber of commerce, Bar
bara Worth.
Arts and Crafts section, 8.
1851 State.
Project leaders, 10, court
house.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
Blast Brings
Death To Four

BECKLEY, w. Va, Feb. 2. (U.P)-
A can of nitroglycerine was ex-
ploded accidentally at farmhouse
near here today, killing four per-
sons outright and critically injur-
ing a fifth. The explosion blew the
house to bits.
The dead we're: Wilmer and Ash
Bailey brothers; Emory Thurman
and his wife, Vivian, Miss Peachie
Parker was injured SO critically
physicians said she could not recov-
er All were occupants of the house.
Officers said they believed one
of the men found the explosive at
mine nearby. He was believed
to have attempted to open it with
a knife.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
EYEWITNESS TELLS STORY OF
BOMBING DEFENSELESS CITY

nese marines came ashore, 40 were
clipped off by Chinese soldiers and
snipers. From that moment the
unfortified city was doomed.
No advance warning was given
of Japan's intention to bomb the
city.
The first sign was when a Japa-
nese bomber dropped a flare over
the Jukong ROAD district. This
lighted the territory and gave the
aviator a clear view.
He left off small "fixer." Then
I could hear two high explosive
bombs. Down below 1 could see
houses and shops tumbling down,
with folks inside. There still are
bodies buried in those ruins.
The japanese watchers were
joyful.
Then their countrymen circled
again, dropped another light, and
a couple more big bombs.
All morning wounded and dying
were taken into st. Luke's hospital,
men, women and children, and
some babies. They had no bombs
or machine guns.
At daylight six planes were over
Chapel, each with a load of bombs.
Every time they circled, they
passed over the supposedly neu-
trail settlement.
They swarmed over the new
works of the Commercial Press,
China's largest educational pub
fishing institution, and let off in
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
LEAGUE COUNCIL
GETS ENGLAND'S
PEACE PROPOSAL
Dramatic Scene Enacted
In Presence OF Japan's
Delegate. !.
BY WEBB MILLER
United Press Staff Correspondent

OIItcu TTtoS StdII correspondent
GENEVA, Feb. 2. U.P) Great
Britain and the United States have
presented a demand to Toxic and
Marking that all acts of violence
and preparations for same cease
and that both sides at Shanghai
withdraw their troops, establishing
a neutral zone, the council of the
League of Nations was informed to-
day.
The announcement was made by
J. H. Thomas of Great Britain,
who said that the two powers had
also asked that negotiations begin
Immediately to settle the conflict
in the spirit of the Kellogg treaty
against war
The council met in sudden ex-
ira session, called by Great Britain
to consider the Chinese situation.
Thomas announced Britain feels
it is impossible that the present
state of affairs in the Far East be
allowed to continue.
War in everything but name is
in progress" he said. THE league
cannot be indifferent to such a
state of things. If it is allowed to
continue, the nine power pact and
other agreements will lose the con-
fidence of the world"
Britain and the United States,
Thomas said, are entirely in accord
on their move and Britain decided
on collaboration to the utmost
with the United States to bring
"the present lamentable state of
affairs to an end"
Assemblage flushed
Before Thomas declaration, An
drew Tardieu of France, presiding,
opened the meeting with brief
statement saying it had been called
at Britain request. AS Thomas
hurried into the chamber, the as
semblage was hushed and every
eye was on the British dominions
secretary.
Thomas arose and then, appar-
emily noticing it is not customary
for speakers to rise at council ses-
sions, reseated himself. He spoke
deliberately in a high, clear voice.
All around, intense delegates fol-
lowed every word and hundreds of
eyes were turned on Naotake Sato,
the Japanese delegat.
Sato sat immobil, leaning his head
on his hands. He seemed slightly
pale but his emotions were masked
The session was one of the most
dramatic in the history of the
league.
Britain feels it is impossible to
allow the situation in the Far East
to continue" Thomas said. New
incidents occur daily over a greater
area and the fighting at Shanghai
is most grave. At Shanghai war
is raging in the full sense of the
word, even if the word itself has
not been pronounced"
The council adjourned after
meeting a little less than an hour.
The statement by Thomas in the
presence of the japanese delegate
constituted the strongest action the
league has yet taken on the Chinese
situation.
Sato, in reply to Thomas, had the
interpreter read a lengthy note
which had been submitted to the
secretary-general on Friday. 1t
reviewed the events preceding the
Shanghai fighting, charging the
Chinese had violated the armistice
and attacked the Japanese. De-
failing the concentration of Jap
anese troops, the note said the Jap
anese understood China was pre-
pairing for a general offensive.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
JUDGE REVEALS SECOND OATH
ADMINISTERED TO COOLIDGE

James M Beck, then solicitor gen.
eral, and now Republican repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania. Beck
today said he felt the first oath
illegal, but would give no opinion
Beyond stating that his decision
was on file at the department of
justice.
Cross-checkS by justice officials
failed to reveal any record of such
an opinion. 1t was learned, how
ever, that Beck based his action
on certain formal points of law.
So thoroughly was he convinced
that he urged Coolidge to swear
a second oath.
The first oath was administered
at PAT a. m. by Coolidge's father,
Vermont farmer and notary
public, in the old family home
stead at Plymouth, VT Coolidge,
notified of the death of President
Harding lost no time in taking
over the reins of government. In
the old family living room, by the
light of an old-fashioned oil lamp
he swore to uphold the Constitu-
ton of the United States.
A few reporters witnessed the
historic scene. A flashlight boomei
as the thirtieth President raised
his right hand.
Coolidge returned Immediately to
Washington, sweltering in torric
midsummer. Fourteen days later
he took a second oath.
That meeting, that second oath
unique in presidential annals. to-
day was revealed by a participant
for the first time.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
Indian Slayer
Goes To Prison

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2. U.H-
Philip Garcia, 19-year-old Mission
Indian who last Friday interrupted
his trial for the murder of Felix
C. B. Moat, fellow tribesman, by
signifying to the court that he
wished to plead guilty, today was
sentenced to spend IS years in Nc
Neils Island prison by Federal
Judge William P. Jones.
Garcia was allowed to plead guilty
to a charge of second degree mur-
der. Evidence at the trial dis
closed that Garcia shot Moat to
death when the two men quarreled
during a rabbit hunt on their res
ervation.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02

Copyright, 1882, BY United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. U.P) -.
Calvin Coolidge may have been
President of the United States il
legally for IA days, II hours and
SO minutes in August, 1922, the
United Press learned exclusively
today.
This became known today wher
Judge Adolph August Hoehling, jr.,
former associate justice of the su-
preme court of the District of Co
lumbia, for the first time broke
silence and related the circum-
stances of the second and legal"
presidential oath taken by Cool
idge.
THE second oath was repeated
to me by Calvin Coolidge on August
II, 1928, at 2:45 p. M, III a private
suite of rooms on the fourth floor
of the New willard hotel in
Washington, D. c., Judge Hoehling
said in a telephone interview from
his home in Chevy Chase, Md.
mo one else was present but
the President and myself.
Il promised to keep the cere-
mony a secret. 1 have never men,
toned the incident to anyone. I
would not now give details of the
oath repeated by the thirtieth
President, had not Harry Daugh-
erty's book been published reveal
ing the fact that Coolidge took
two oaths to make legality of Of
flee certain"
Daugerty was attorney general
from 192l-24.
The legality of Coolidge's first
oath was considered doubtful by
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
@WILL


GENEVA, Feb. 2. (SpeciaD
We'll, we are all here ready
for disarmament. The first
laugh was when the japanese
delegation arrived. I don't know
but it just struck everybody
funny. They have a large
bunch and everybody expects to
see 'em take over the city and
have it under martial law by
morning. The younger mem
bers of their delegations that
started out to the conference
have been called back for mil
itary service. Our female del
egate. Miss Wooley, is the out
standing novelty. I had an
hour and a half chat with her
this afternoon. Didn't know
whether to call her Miss, Mrs.
Professor, Doctor or what, so
T just called her doc" and I
got along great. I had taken
an Interpreter, but l didn't need
him, but some of my stuff had
to be repeated to her.
She is very plain, likable,
broad in mind and body, feet
and plenty of 'em right on the
ground. You would like her.
She is not the type for college
president at all. Thirty million
women of the world have hope
and faith in her common sense
versus diplomacy. It's no jok-
ing matter getting the world to
disarm. Maybe a woman can
do it. It's a cinch men can't,
so good luck to you, Doc"