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Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25
WARDEN SMITH
WILL WITNESS
GAS EXECUTION

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 25.
(U.P)-Warden Court Smith of
Folsom prison will attend
lethal gas execution at the
Nevada state prison, Carson
City, next Monday, it was an
nounced today.
Whether this presages re-
newal of the effort to substi-
tute execution by gas for the
present death penalty by hang
ing, was a question revived in
penal circles here by the an
nouncement.
The 1881 state legislature
approved bill substituting
gas for the gailows, but Gov
ernOr Rolph killed the measure
by veto. Sponsors of the pro-
posal indicated they would re-
introduce the bill at the 1888
session.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25
ELLSWORTH Plane
Getting Try-Outs

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25. U.P)-
On its first long distance flight,
the Northrop Superg- plane built
for Lincoln Ellsworth's Antarctic
expedition, was enroute to New
York today, with the veteran pilot
Bernt Balchen at the controls.
During the next few months,
Balchen will fly across the contin-
ent in a series of full-load tests
in preparation for the departure
of the expedition for the South
Pole next September.
1t was Balchen who flew Rear
Admiral Richard E. Byrd over the
South Pole two years ago. He also
piloted Byrd on his transatlantic
flight.
The Northrop plane, all-metal,
has a cruising range of 5000 miles
at top speed of 2l5 miles an
hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25
No ROAD CAMP
PLANNED HERE

Instead of a road camp for I'M
perial Valley unemployed will be
sent to the road camps either at
Descanso or at Beaumont, there be-
ing two camps in the latter city.
This decision was reached as a
result of a conference between the
state highway division officials at
San Bernardino and local repre-
sentatives. Among those who were
present were Henry Jackson, chair
man of the board of supervisors, A.
Y. Preble, supervisor, and B. A..
Harrigan, agricultural commission
er
This afternoon members of ~
various relief committees in the
valley met with the supervisors to
discuss sending of unemployed to
these camps. Local relief agencies
have been asked to give these men
one meal only and then send them
directly to the camps.
Harrigan's office has also been
informed that Governor Rolph has
made application for Imperial VAL
ley to the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, asking the sum of
$4,000 to be used in providing en-
ployment in Imperial Valley.
This money will be returned to
the federal government by means
of deductions made after 1885 from
the federal appropriations for roads
in this county.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25
DISTRICT HAS
NO REPORTS

Failure of Imperial Irrigation
district directors and officials to
keep valley residents informed as
to the progress of conferences in
Washington concerning tentative
amendments to the All-American
canal contract is believed to re-
suit from the delicacy and import
ance of the problems being hand
LED at present.
Conferences with DR.. Elwood
Mead and his staff, Directors John
L. Dubois and Mark Rose, Charles
L. Childers, chief counsel, and M.
j. Dowd, chief engineer of the I'M
perial district and representatives
of the Coachella group began
November II. Since that date not
a word has been received at dis
trict headquarters here as to the
progress made.
Just what is transpiring behind
the closed doors of offices in
Washington is known only to those
who are present, as far as can be
determined here.
Upon results of present negotia-
tions depend the type of contract
under which the All-American
canal will be built and district di-
rectors and officials advanced the
opinion that those in Washing
ton will remain silent until some
thing definite is accomplished.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25

tulo Bayada (nephew of Gualto). :.
/ went out.
81 went to Jap store across street.
I guess I was loco. The Jap said
You monkey! You monkey, get
out of here' drive knife into him.
Had Two Knives
"I Just loco" cried Marcelino,
gesturing with his hands, his eyes
glaring wildly.
"First / remember when police
put handouts on me.
"I know now I done wrong. l
have only one life and strike so
many down. It's no good. Better
for me to die now,
Police who overpowered Marcel
ino after 18 persons fell dead or
crawled, bleeding into shops and
dingy restaurants, found two of
the jungle knives in his possession
Marcelino maintained, however, he
had taken only Teto's knife.
The heavy blades were of the
Moro type, shortened to the length
of 10 inches from the jungle bolo,
and excellently suited for the work
the Islander gave them.
Those who were killed outright
or died later from the flashing
blade were: w. j. Morris, go, a gro
Ger who was cut down as he stood
outside his store; Frank Johnson,
SIS, caught unawares on the side
walk near the hotel William Tene-
dor, %, Filipino; Teto Gualto, 48,
Filipino; Jimmy Jiminez, Filipino;
Bernardo Bonita, Filipino.
Marcelino ran his bloody path for
four blocks before patrolman Cor
don Jensen, in civilian clothes and
without gun, grappled with him,
evaded the sharp knife that ripped
his sleeve in shreds, and aided by
two patrolmen placed the madden
ed man in handouts.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25
Board Discusses
County Salaries

Salaries of county officers were
under consideration today by MEM
bers of the beard of supervisors,
meeting in an unofficial capacity
to discuss recommendations to the
gland jury for that bodys consid-
Grafton in reporting to the state
legislature recommendations for
changes in the county government
act affecting Imperial county.
After due consideration of pro-
posed salary changes, and other
shifts in county offices, the super
visors probably will so before the
grand jury with their recommend
ations.
Other phases of proposed legis-
latiye changes, based on recon-
mendations by county department
heads, were being considered to-
day by the grand jury. District
Attorney Elmer w. Heald was
eloSeted with that body in the us
ual secret meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25
MA S[ASHES
MARITAL KNOT

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25. U.P)-
Mrs. Minnie (Ma) Kennedy Hud-
son, mother of Aimee Semple Nc
Pherson- Hutton, announced today
she had received a telegram from
her attorneys informing her she
had been granted divorce in No
gales, Son., from Guy E. (Whata-
NAM Hudson.
For the first time in my life, I
have something to be thankful for
in this" said Mrs. Hudson as she
gazed at a sheaf of handbills which
advertised the presence of her for
mer spouse on the vaudeville stage.
They advertised Whataman as Mrs.
Minnie Kennedy's husband"
Hes just my eX-husband now"
she said. I'll hear no more of an
actor called 'What-a-man'
Just last week Mrs. Hudson dis
missed a divorce action against
Hudson in Los Angeles courts. At
the same time she dropped her suit
for 100000 slander damages against
her former husband.
II don't want to give him any
more publicity" she said. ANY
way, he hasn't any money
Hudson, she claimed, had threat
ened "to rattle the skeletons" in
Mrs Kennedy Hudson's closet.
The elderly evangelist was mar
ried to Hudson on June 30, 1881, at
Lake Sacajewea, Wash. In the
months that followed, several wom-
en-, claiming to be former wives of
Hudson, appeared. Eventually he
obtained divorce from forgotten
wife, and remarked Mrs. Kennedy
Hudson in Las Vegas, New.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25
MSa Ro71/'~'
a mza. msHsasst sysssessA hss-
HELD AS
bUNCO ARTISTS

A bunco game which has victim
lied patrons Of the Ell Centro stage
depot internationally for more than
Two years was ended yesterday, in
the opinion of El Centro police,
by the arrest of James Gardner,
81, and Richard Mitchell. so, who
gave their occupation as walters.
Under that section of the law
governing confidence games car
ried on in public places, the two
men are charged with vagrancy,
and were to appear before Judge
Lee Nuffer this afternoon for a po-
lice court hearing.
For almost six months police
and attendants at the stage de-
pot have been furnished with
complete descriptions of the men,
but it WIS not until yesterday
their arrest was brought about
when stage drivers informed po-
lice the two men were again in
El Centro.
They were traced from the stage
depot to Broadway, where they
were placed under arrest by Frank
Smyer and Floyd Ackley. Taken
back to the depot, Gardner and
Mitchell were identified by a
stage passenger as the men who
attempted to entice him into a
matching contest
BY this same ruse, according to
police, two men whose descriptions
are the same as those of Gardner
and Mitchell have taken large
sums from many stage passengers
at various times.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25
FARM SCANDAL.
WOMAN HELD

MADEIRA, Calf, Nov. 25. U.P)-
Mrs. Margaret (Ma) Browning, ar
rested in connection with an al
legged illegal operation farm, re-
mained in the county Jail today
while her counsel planned to seek
her release on bail tomorrow.
They had planned to ask Superior
Judge Stanley Murray to set bond
today, but the jurist was out of the
city on a holiday trip.
Meanwhile the small lavender
notebook which Sheriff w. c.
Rhodes said he took from the
Browning ranch home at Chow
chillia two days before it was de-
stroyed by fire, held the attention
of investigators.
The notebook, which repeatedly
contained the names, addresses and
amounts purportedly paid by nearly
500 California women for the as
serted criminal services of the farm
was discovered 10 contain photo
graphs of some of the alleged pa
tientS."
Authorities planned to. use the
pictures to identify and subpoena
several of the woman as witnesses.
Witness who appeared before the
county grand jury during the hear
ing at which it voted secret indict-
ments, repeatedly were kept under
close surveillance to prevent what
Sheriff Rhodes said might be at
tempts to intimidate them.
The sheriff was reported to be in
Southern California today, inVesti-
eating new angles of the case.
He said prosecution of the case
against Mrs. Browning was the on
ly action planned at present, al
though additional arrests may fol-
low later.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25
BLONDE BANDIT
PUT TO FLIGHT
BY BRUNETTE

Los ANGELES, Nov. rs.
W.6-What happens when
belligerent blonde meets a be-
wildered brunette was told by
police here today, viz:
The blonde strolled up to
the brunette, Mrs. J. Z. Martin,
and gun In hand, barked:
stick 'em up, sister; stick
'em up"
Bewildered for a moment,
the brunette struck out with
the palm of her hand. The
blonde struck back, knocking
her victim down and then be-
gan kicking her. Mrs. Martin
seized the bandits leg and
tripped her.
The blonde picked herself up
and fled, kissing the single
epithet:
"Hussy."
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25
Hungry Children
March Is Failure

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. U.P)-
Two New Workers were held today
on disorderly conduct charges as
the aftermath of an attempt by q
handful of adults and children to
stage a Thanksgiving day "child
hunger demonstration" at the
White House.
Those arrested were DR.. Emil
Conason and Mrs. Gertrude Haess-
Ter. DR.. ConaSon described himself
as medical advisor to the child hun
ger marchers and Mrs. Haessler said
she was a social worker.
DR.. Conason, Mrs. Haessler, two
other adults and six children less
than II years old drove up to the
White House gates in two taxicabs.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25
FUGITIVE HELD

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25.-(U.Pi-
Arrested on a charge of suspicion
of narcotics possession, Charles
,Justus. wanted in Springfield, ILL.,,
through fingerprints as Charles A.
,Justus. wanted n Springfield, ILL.,,
for implication in a $4,000 bank rob-
berry there last June, according to
police authorities. Sheriff w l.
Bessman of Springfield advised
that he held warrants charging An
thony with robbery and assault.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25
To
CONCENTRATE
ON BEER BILL
To Be Coupled With Farm Re-
lief Measure For Prompt At
tention By Congress.
TO CONFER WITH LEADERS
President-Elect Will Remain
AT Southern Resort For Two
Weeks OF Vacation.
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
United Press Staff Correspondent

Il
WARM SPRINGS, Ca, Nov. 25.
President t-elect Roosevelt will
concentrate upon program of
beer legislation and farm relief in
his conference with party leaders
here, the United Press learned to-
day.
Mr.. Roosevelt, who plans to re-
main here for at least two weeks,
will begin his conferences within
q few days.
Although the governor has
maintained general secrecy on
what are regarded as pre-admin-
istrative matters, it was learned
that he was desirous above all
things of having constructive
agricultural bill, providing posi-
bility for the extension of farm
credits, passed before congress
gees home March 4.
The reason fer this, it was ex-
planned, is because of next years
crop situation which shows no
great hope at the present for an
immediate rise in the price of
farm products, and because it will
be a step toward the promise of
farm aid that was made during
the campaign.
1t was also argued that the pas
sage and approval of such meas
ure would have a tendency toward
stabilization of the agricultural in
dustry as a whole, and at the same
time provide the basis for a more
comprehensive program to be car
iied out later.
AS to beer, it was understood
Roosevelt would like to see legis-
lation calling for at least a per
cent beverage carried through, not
only from the standpoint of cam
paign promises, but for revenue as
we'll.
Still Private Citizen
In line with a copyright story
| carried by the United Press last
week, it was learned that Roose-
velt was practically convinced that
an extra session of congress would
have to be summoned shortly after
his inauguration March 4.
With Mr.. Roosevelt constantly
reiterating that his role at the
present time is one of private
citizen and that he is in no way
attempting to dictate to the pres
ent congress, his advisers looked
for Speaker John N. Garner, Vice
President-elect, to assume most of
the responsibility of talking for
the next administration between
now and March SO far as legis-
lative matters are concerned.
Observers felt Garner was being
primed for that position during
the war debts conference Roose-
velt had Tuesday in Washington
With President Hoover.
At that time, it was recalled,
Garner spent hours behind closed
doors with Roosevelt and was cred
| tied with the proposal that Roose-
velt stand firm against extension
of moratoriums and or his previ-
Gus uttered opinion that the i'm
mediate payment of war debts was
a responsibility that rested solely
with the Republican administra-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25
GALES WIFE DIES

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 25. U.P -
Sonora Leonor Llorentes Gales,
wife of War Minister Plutarco Elias
Gales, dice az ; p. m, today at her
Mexico City home. She had been
in failing health since brain op-
Grafton in Boston and for the last
two days had been kept alive by
oxygen injections.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25
District Gets
SrOing's Papers

Papers and documents of historic
value are enroute to the Imperial
Irrigation district from the office
of Congressman Phil d. Swing IN
Washington, d. c., and are to be
filed along with other papers con-
cerning the Boulder dam fight
Among the papers are various
maps showing geological surveys
If the Colorado river from the gulf
20 the Boulder dam site.
In a letter received at district
headquarters t.ns morning, Swing
said he was forwarding a mail bag
full of the material which he
thought should be preserved by the
district on account Of it's uudoubt-
ed historic significance.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25
Continue Probe
OF KLan's Raid

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25.-U.Py-
The county grand jury resumed to-
day its inquiry into reputed Ku
Klux Klan raid on Long Beach
home last week when nine persons
were injured.
Several of the raiders, who al
legedly attacked David Milder and
his guests whom they accused of
being Communists, were to be ques-
toned with a view of determining
if the raid was staged under Klan
auspices. 1t was possible the jury
would complete its investigation
late today.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-25
@NIlnLdL-os
V vS0yS:

SANTA MONICA, Nov. "a
fSpeciaD-Say, a lot of you
birds sure take the hide off
me when I am wrong land
that's plenty constantly; but
give me credit when I do guess
right. You skinned me alive
when I said nothing would come
of the Roosevelt meet
ing. I said Mr.. Roosevelt would
say, Its your onion, and you
peel it till March A." How diff
ferent did it happen from that?
And as for the meeting, maybe
there is a doubt in both mems
minds if it wouldn't have been
better If it hadn't been held.
I don't see how folks figured
they could agree. They hold
two opposite views on the ques-
ton. That's why they belong to
different parties. Either one of
EN- might be right. We know
they are both sincere in their
beliefs. But how was one man
going to tell another man how
to run his business, until he
(the No. 2 NAM come in and
started running it for him? Pol
itics don't have to enter that;
that's just human nature. So
don't shoot me boys, till the re-
turns are all in on these af-
fairs.
Evening star., 1932-09-04

These are the private preseason shows
for the big buyers, the mass producers
of fashion. They buy model, feed it
into the machines and out shoot 10000
replicas which pour over the world.
Fashion, in fact, has ceased to be of
significance only to a small circle of
plutocrats, successful actresses, highly
paid courteSanS, and that section of the
aristocracy still able to buy frocks and
not yet reduced to showing them. La
mode has lost its exclusiveness and be-
come the affair of every woman.
Future historians may appraise the
exact psychological, sociological and
sexual significance of the fashion revo-
luton. It eludeS me. But the economic
aspect makes me think Vast fortunes
were made when short skirts went out
of fashion; and I am authoritatively in
formed that when long skirts are short
ened and frightened (an event we are
promised for this Autumn) it will cost
Mr.. Everyman around $5O0,OOO0 600 to
save Mrs. Everywoman the indignity of
appearing in public in an out-of-date
fg-leaf
Just when fashion was wrenched from
the hands of a small Paris clique and the
rich set and made available to all fem
lnlnity, one cannot say. But surmise
that the process began with the war
time discovery of the power of propa-
ganda over the human mind. Now,
Evening star., 1932-09-04

faShonableS who retire in pajama trou-
sers reaching to the heel, after it has
been revealed that no trouser leg can
be considered smart which does not re-
veal the ankle, are infallibly deprived of
sleep. Likewise the stenographer or
saleSgirl who goes bathing in last years
suit, instead of one whose peculiar side
Sits and absence of back betrays the
new seasons model, is assured of diff
culties with her inferiority complex.
Until comparatively recently the aver
age young woman would as soon have
thought of buying can-can skirt as a
beach pajama or sunbathing suit; while
an evening frock was about as much
in place in the wardrobe of a factory
or sales girl as top hat on the head
of gas station man. Yet, today the
idea is firmly implanted in the mind
of young womanhood that these items
are essentials of life; and they are hers
for dollar or two. Marvellous!
THE completeness of the revolution has
startled some of the fashionables.
When Lady Furness and her sister (Van-
derbiltS, BOTH and others of the much
publicized smart set in England began
to wear Empress Eugene hats, one
doubts that they had any idea of the
lightning speed with which the new idea
would be noted and exploited, and that
the new hat, complete with synthetic
Evening star., 1932-09-04

mere YOU tCIH tsnd shanghai Lily,
sCith her clothes that compel attention"
ostrich feather, would be made available
to Lizzie of Liverpool and Sadie of
Broadway. Two millions were sold in
England in a month; in America, i've
millions. ),
Nor could the smart sets of Paris,
London, New York, Cannes and Palm
Beach have dreamed, as they switched
in disgust to the severe little black
Spanish hat, that in next to no time
such hats would be offered at a dollar
in stores from Frisco to Cape Town and
st. Louis to Colombo.
Whence come these new fashions,
which appear so abruptly, surprisingly,
like tidal waves out of a smooth sea?
Dress designers, half-showmen, half
artists, used to be mainly responsible
for them. But now no fashion lord can
launch new mode single-handed.
Scientists who have grown dense
whiskers in pursuit of the profounder
mysteries of chemistry are sometimes
responsible for new fashions which sweep
the world of women like a new religion.
new dye, new kind of stuff-and,
10! women must change their existing
fig-leaves for the new thing, or look
dowdy and dated. More often than not
momentous changes may be traced to
peasant modes in Mediterranean fishing
villages and Basque hamlets where the
blase sophisticates of the American and
the European continents have, since the
war, gone in search of sun and the SIM
pie life. Again, events in that half
world where sex is at once an art, q
craft and profession, have revolution
lied the external appearance of all
Western womankind for whole seasons.
A celebrated Partisan cocotte went or
Evening star., 1932-09-04

onville, no pantherine cocottes
supping with coffee magnates'
sons in the Bullion -the-Roof. Young
English matrons of the smart sporting
set, with hard profileS and left arms
jeweled to the biceps, have stopped COM
ing up from lie Touquet to dine at Vic
tors; young male members of the Amer
ican plutocracy are no longer to be found
in the Ritz bar. The city is empty And
yet, in the midst of this unreasonable
dead city, mannequins and the alchem-
lists of fashions are having their big
hours
Strange that, in the Rue de la Paix,
the Rue de Rivoli and the Rue Royale,
there should be these defileS, with all
Paris gone to the sea, and the queens of
the high and the half worlds busy not
clothing themselves, but stripping to the
limits permitted by tolerant police.
The explanation is that these are very
special defiles, for very special people.
If you are one of the brotherhood (or
siSterhooO you get a beautiful card,
signed, bearing the warning: ".
rigoureusement personelle ct sera exigee
Pentree." You go, in person. In the
luxurious salons the mannequins, muscu-
lar, sleek, patient, promenade like
jaguars in a cage. Everything is of a
mode in advance of the latest known
beyond these walls. Some of the girls
wear les tailleurs. Very smart. Others,
robes de NUTS. Ravishing. Then there
are girls in les robes d'allure sportive.
Sportive is right
RUT who looks on at this Babylonian
parade of groomed, massaged and
scented femininity? Paunchy men, cold
eyed business women-people thinking
not of single woman, spoiled, adorable
and irresistible, but of womankind
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-06-02
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trumpet duet, 1.-THE Flower Song
and the girls trio, composed Of
G~wendolyn Christensen, Lois Good
man and Mildred Hanisch, gave two
numbers, Evening Hymn" ana
10 a Wild Rose
Following this part Of the program
Supt. Stegner, on behalf Of the Am
erlcan Legion Auxiliary awarded
medals to two outstanding seniors
for their achievements during the
school year. Similar medals were
awarded by the Auxiliary last year
for the first time. The five points
considered in making the girls aw-
ard were: companionship, loyalty.
service, scholarship and character.
Points taken into consideration for
the boys award were: service, 10y
atty, scholarship, character and
courage. The girls medal was aw-
arded to GWendoln Christensen. and
the award for the boys went to AL
vim Gronvold.
Superintendent Stegner then made
the presentation Of the class Of 1882
to Mrs. A. O. Opgrande, chairman
Of the board of trustees, and Mrs.
Opgrande presented diplomas to the
thlrty-seven graduates.
Rev. Gale Anderson, pastor of the
Congregational church, pronounced
the benediction.