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Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
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OtSsS. MsNaush, syadisasa. IN
FINNEY HEARS
ACCIDENT SUIT
WITHOUT JURY

Going to trial for the second
time, the automobile accident suit
of B. Yokayama against Mrs. Leone
Carey was being heard today by
Judge A. c. Finey, without the
hazard of a jury which, after the
first trial, returned a verdict in
favor of the Japanese but caused a
miS-trial by the recommendation
Mrs. Carey's drivers license be sus-
pended for six months.
The suit was first heard before a
jury in Judge Vaughn N. Thomp-
sons department of the superior
court, and resulted in an award of
$4,000 to Yokayama. The verdict,
however, was rendered void by the
recommendation which accompan-
led it, and by the act of the jury,
upon finding out the court could
not carry out the recommendation
in desiring to raise the amount Of
damages, or reconsider the verdict.
The suit is based upon an acci-
dent last May IL near the 101
Ranch on the Brawley highway, in
which a car driven by Mrs. Carey
struck that driven by Yokayama,
and the japanese was injured. He
is seeking $25 900 damages.
Yokayama is represented by Mar
ion Wright, while Ernest r. Utley
represents Mrs. Carey. Associated
with Utley is Walter Schell of the
the legal firm of Kidd, Schell and
Delemar.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
DEATH CLAIMS
VETERAN STAGE
AND FILM ACTOR

HOLLYWOOD, March 3. U.P)-
William Holden, veteran character
actor of the stage and screen, died
in his home here today after a long
illness.
Holden's death was not unex-
pected since he had been losing
strength since he suffered a para
lytical stroke last May.
He had not worked in pictures
after that but from 1923, when he
first came to Hollywood, until the
stroke he was one of the most
popular players in the screen COL
ony.
While active he averaged 10 pic
lures a year, an extremely high
record.
Holden, who was So was born in
Rochester, New York, and went to
the University of Rochester. He
first appeared on the stage when
he was 13 years old. He played
then in a stock company in Roch-
ester.
Previous to coming here in 1923
he had played on Broadway for 16
years straight.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
Japanese End Military Operations
STATE BUILDING
UP EVIDENCE IN
GARCIA Staying
Customs Chief And Inves-
tigatOr Principal Pros
ecutiOn Witnesses.

Building up step by step the
dramatic story of how Alberto
Garcia, Mexican rancher and for
mer chief of mounted police in
Baja California, met his death
at the hands of Daniel d. Marion
and Mrs. Inez Marion on a lonely
desert road three miles west OF
Midway Wells, December II, the
state today was in the midst of
the most important phase of prose-
cution evidence.
The trial of Mr.. and Mrs. Mar
ron yesterday afternoon and to-
day was interrupted several times
by bitter debates between District
Attorney Elmer w. Heald, D. H.
Wolford, his chief deputy, and
Edgar B. Hervey and M. w. Conk-
ling, defense attorneys, with Judge
Vaughn NJ Thompson now and
then interrupting to rebuqe the
attorneys for their heated words.
Fighting desperately for the
freedom of his clients, Hervey, in
cross-examination of states wit
nesses, exercised every bit of legal
wisdom he possessed. At two wit
neSses in particular did Hervey
direct searching cross-examination
only to bring out facts the district
attorney could not present, but
which aided the prosecution ma
terially.
Frank Goodell, customs chief in
Imperial Valley, and Tom Sharp,
investigator for the district attor-
rey, were the objects of battering
cross-examination as they told of
visiting the scene of the killing
with Marion, and of his state
ments, and as Sharp told of the
confessions obtained from both
Marron and his wife.
Amid practically continuous OBJ
jections from first one side and
then the other, the witnesses told
their stories.
Goodell'S name for the first
time entered the case in a most
important light when he appeared
from testimony, as one of the prin-
cipal causes of Marron's arrest,
confession and indictment by the
grand jury. Testimony of the GUS
toms chief was the center of a
heated debate after the jury was
excused yesterday afternoon, and
the officer himself was attacked in
croSS-eXamination when Hervey
attempted to prove him prejudiced
against Marion because he desired
to obtain the cooperation of Mex
lean officials who desire Marron's
conviction.
Saw MarrOns On Road
Goodell, however, brought the
examination to a halt with the
assertion he always tries to help
everybody
Goodell'S testimony also dis
closed publicly for the first time
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Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
Man Arrested On
Charge OF Theft
Dies In Station

LOS ANGELES, March 3. U.P)-
Collapsing as he was being led to
a Jail cell after his arrest on
grand theft charge, H. K. Glover,
65, died while Jail physician
sought to revive him.
Deputy Sheriff c. E. Williams,
who had custody of Glover, said
the man stepped to water cooler
and swallowed a small pill.
Il have heart trouble and this is
q stimulant," Clover told the depu-
ty.
DR.. Benjamin Blank, Jail physi-
clan, ordered an autopsy to deter
mine if Glover swallowed poison.
Clover was charged with seven
counts of grand theft and five
counts of violation of the Corporate
Securities Act.
1t was alleged that Glover OBJ
tanned $15,800 from two investors
for promotion of a perfume form
ula he had invented. He allegedly
made false claims concerning his
prestige and backing and also as
sertedly sold interests in a business
without state permit.
According to the complaint, j.
Stuart Blackton, film actor and di-
rector, once invested money with
Glover and received no return.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
COUNCIL TAKES
INITIAL ACTION
ON SEWER BONDS
Resolution OF Public Nee
essity Passed At Last
Nights Meeting.

Taking the first step toward au-
thorizing a sewer bond election, the
city council last night adopted
resolution of public necessity, de-
claring the public good demands
acquisition of a right of way for
the sewer and its construction, at
an estimated cost of $185,000.
The resolution also declared the
necessity of a special bond issue,
since regular taxes will not finance
construction of the sewer, made
necessary by the decayed condition
of the present sewer line.
The city clerk was directed to
publish the resolution. This is
merely a preliminary step, before
an ordinance is passed putting the
bond proposition to the public.
Looking toward the April II city
elections, when the proposition
probably will be submitted, the
council last night designated the
polling places for various Ell Centro
precincts. Voters in precincts l, 2
and 3 will vote at the Veterans
Memorial hall, voters in precincts
4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 will vote at the
city hall, and those in 9, 10, IL and
IL will vote at the Lincoln school.
The State street crossing again
was taken up by the council last
night when Leo Hetzel and w. A.
Tondro appeared in behalf of the
State Street improvement associa-
ton, to present letter suggesting
that State street property owners
from First street to Imperial avenue
be assessed 65 per cent of the i'm
provements cost, while property
owners in the rest of the city be
assessed 35 per cent of the cost.
The council advised Hetzel and
Todro a map of the property in
question will be prepared for the
next meeting, when date for
special meeting to consider the
crossing will be set.
Mayor Reports
Mayor II. w. FaWcett reported on
a recent meeting in the Barbara
Worth hotel of mayors and coun-
cilmen of various Imperial Valley
towns, when problems of general
interest to the towns were dis
cuSsed.
One of the subjects discussed was
the necessity for consolidation of
assessing bodies of the various
towns and the county, the mayor
reported. This probably will be best
brought about through the Associa-
ted Chambers of Commerce, Faw-
cett said
Mark Munson appeared before
the council last night to report a
saving to the city of $28067 dur
ing February because of new rates
on electricity.
Other matters of city business
were discussed, and regular monthly
demands were passed.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
AUTHORITIES AT
LAS VEGAS DENY
BRUTAL CHARGE

LAS VEGAS, New. March 3.
UPN-Authorities today vigorously
denied charges of the American
Civil Liberties union that former
Boulder dam workers had been ar
rested promiscuously as vagrants,
forced to labor and treated brutally
IN prison stockade.
District Attorney Harley A.
Harmon began an investigation
after protests rtceived by Gov. Fred
Balzar of Nevada were transmitted
to him.
Police claimed that there were
no incidents of brutality at any
time, and were corroboraCed by
other city employees.
They claimed that all charges
originated with a radical who had
been arrested five times, "floated"
out of the city twice, served 32
days of 60-day sentence and had
been placed in a cell for melting
rebellion among prisoners, refusing
to work and general insubordina-
ton.
This man, they said, had been
placed in dark room" where he
refused to perform the work re-
quired of all prisoners to prevent
vagrants from obtaining free meals
at city cost.
The officers asserted that this
man went on a hunger strike and
after refusing to eat for several
days was released. They said that
although he had claimed to be
sick, physician examined him and
reported him fit for any light
work.
The city stockade is a fenced
enclosure with a galvanized iron
building containing cot beds, ad-
Joining which is q kitchen and
dining room for Red Cross charges.
Inmates are required to do work,
amounting to two hours a day of
light labor, according to the police,
who said the stockade was used
only for petty offenders.
Police said they welcomed an
investigation. Harmon's inquiry
will be completed and the result
announced within a day or two,
his office said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
Trial OF Police
Slayers Starts

LOS ANGELES, March 8. U.P)-
Selection of jury to try Joseph
Francis Regan, 25, and Jack D.
Green, %, on charges of numbering
Detective Lieutenant Hugh Crowley
during theatre holdup was started
here today.
Regan and Green assertedly con-
fessed Staying the officer when he
surprised them in a Westwood the
atre. Regan, who was wounded by
Crowley, was captured in San Fran
cisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
WIDE SEARCH FAILS
TO REVEAL CLUES
Intensive Hunt Narrowed Down To Thirty-Mile
Radius In Vicinity OF Home From Which Young
ster Was Kidnapped.

HOPEWELL, N. j., March 8. U.p)
The masSed forces of the law
were concentrated this afternoon
within a 80 mile radius of the
Lindbergh home, in the belief that
the kidnapped Lindbergh infant
never had been taken from the vi
cinity.
The search, the most rigorous in
criminal annals, was redoubled as
the hours passed without defin-
ite clue, and as fear increased that
Charles Augustus, jr., already i'll,
might be suffering and in danger.
The area was gone over foot by
foot and hundreds of residents
were questioned. Various persons
were made to put foot into the
plaster cast of the footprint found
under the window of the baby's
nursery after he had been stolen
on Tuesday night, almost 48 hours
ago.
The search was extended to all
lumber yards, in the hope that the
lumber from which the kidnapers'
ladder was made could be matched,
and the start of the so far hopeless
trail at last uncovered.
The vigor of the search indicated
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03

authorities were determined to push
it to the end and there was SO far
no thought of calling it off in the
hope of inducing the kidnapers to
open negotiations.
HOPEWELL, N. j., March 3. tU.H
Charles A. Lindbergh dramatical-
ly cleared the way today for des-
perate direct dealings with traf-
fickers in stolen babies for the i'm
mediate safe return Of his boy.
Definite results" were expected
today, Detective Sergeant Hausslin
of the New Jersey state police told
the United Press after conversa-
tion with Colonel Lindbergh.
Another source quoted Colonel
Lindbergh as telling a state troop
er.
II hope to have the baby back
home by noon today"
These statements, denied at po-
lice headquarters in Trenton, came
in the midst of spectacular and
stirring events which indicated the
statements were not fostered by
the wish alone.
About midnight, an airplane
zoomed down over the grounds. A
flare was lighted and cast over
board. It's eerie lights and shadows
intensified the interest of the cur
ious who watched from afar.
The plane was believed to have
been one used by cameramen, al
though it might have been en-
ployed for signalling as was one
piloted by Major Lamphier earlier
in the day
Planes of the goth century
swooped and banked and turned
above; trackers using the methods
of the red man centuries before
carefully trekked through the tim
ber and uncut underground that
have helped to isolate the Lind
bergh 400 acre estate.
They were tracking footprints.
left by the supposed kidnapers as
they worked below the windows of
the second floor nursery Tuesday
night, and from there carried 20
months old Charles Augustus Lind
bereh, Jr., away.
All day long an army of news
men and cameramen had massed
on the estate. Late in the after
noon they were requested to with
draw. And still later last night po-
lice patrolled the grounds and
forced all they found to leave.
The move was intended to facil-
itate secret negotiations that might
restore the Lindbergh baby to the
mothers arms. She has been
brave, but fearful ever since the
child was spirited away. The child
was clad only in its sleepers. It
has been suffering from a cold.
Colonel Lindbergh, it was be-
lieved, had been assured by the kid
napers that the boy was safe and
CONTINUED Orr Page a.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
Secretary reaks
Matrimonial Bond

LOS ANGELES, March 3. U.P}-
Mrs. Clara V. Ekstrund, charging
her husband, E. w. Ekstrund,
Whittier business man, of having
become infatuated with his secre-
tary, won divorce on file today
in Superior Judge Joseph L. Calls
court.
Testimony was given by a
woman neighbor who said she had
seen the secretary come to the
Ekstrund home in Mrs. Ekstrund's
absence and remain all day on one
occasion.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
Supposed Pauper
Leaves Big Sum

MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 10. U.P)
Salvation Army officials going
through the personal effects of vi
ola kaufman, about 76 years old,
who died yesterday as a charity
patient in General hospital, today
found a deposit book of the First
National Bank of Los Angeles cred
iting her account with $30,0O0
A purse found in the S1.50 week
room she rented at the Salvation
Army home contained $70O in cash.
The woman appeared at the home
last year, apparently broken in
health and destitute. She rented
the cheapest room available, taking
her meals elsewhere. Nothing was
known of her family or relatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
MAD MARKSMAN'
GIVES SELF UP
TO AUTHORITIES

SAN MATEO, Calf, March g..
W.P - joe Kraemer, whom police
call the Mad Marksman of San
Gregorio," surrendered to authori-
ties today after a three weeks
reign of terror throughout the foot
hill district.
Kraemer, who was the object of
a search by posses of ranchers and
deputy sheriffs, disappeared into
the hills after he assertedly at
tempted to attack Mrs. Louise
Brotherton and her 12-year- old
daughter, Lottie. They told au-
thorities he walked into their bed
room, seized the girl, beat off her
mother with an iron pipe, and then
slugged the girl when she fled out
side for help.
The night of February Ia, au-
thorities charged. Kraemer came
out of his hiding place to rain
fusilade of shots into the ranch
home of Mrs. Margaret Elliott
when members of the Brotherton
family gathered there.
They also said they believed
Kraemer fired on A. L. Silva, ga
rageman, last Saturday.
Kraemer, according to Mrs.
Brotherton, worked her ranch on
share basis following the death
of her husband more than a year
ago. His asserted attempt to at
tack her and her daughter, she
told authorities, came after he had
been drinking heavily.
Following his flight into the
hills, Kraemer kept the entire dis
trict in state of panic.
Dodging the posses sent out to
capture him, he allegedly forced
ranchers to give him food and
wine under threat of death. Au-
thorities said he levied tribute on
one rancher, and then held a
carouSal with an aged hermit,
boasting of his prowess as a rifle
man.
Lottie Brotherton today was still
patient in the San Mateo Com
munity hospital, under treatment
for wounds suffered when Kraemer
was said to have attempted to
assault her.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
CONTROL
AREA IN
DISPUTE.
Chinese Declare Terms
OF Peace Are Not Ac-
ceptable To Them.
LULL IN FIGHTING
Scene OF Recent Battles
In Complete Ruin Over
18-Mile Front.
BY HERBERT r. EEINS
United Press Staff Correspondent

Copyright, 1882, BY United Press)
SHANGHAI, March 3.-JapaneSe
military operations at Shanghai end
ed today with Chinese driven 12i3
miles back from the city and jap
anese holding all territory contest
ed in bitter fighting here since jan
uary %.
Cessation of japanese military
activities just after the Chinese
declared that the fight has just
begun" and the japanese submit
ted new drastic peace proposals,
was revealed in a brief announce
ment by Consul-General Kuramat-
su Mural:
japanese military and naval au-
thorities, having accomplished their
avowed object of affording protec-
ton to Japanese lives and proper
ty, ordered all military operations
to cease forthwith
The Chinese forts at Woosung,
and Woosung village were occupied
by the japanese shortly before the
operations were halted. A final
two hour shelling enabled the Jap
aneSe to take the Notifications.
The japanese military and naval
high command issued statements
identical to that of the consul-gen-
eral
The end of the japanese often
sive found the countryside in ruins
on an 18 mile battle line from the
international sediment to the Lion
forest forts on the Yangtze river
At the doors of the settlement,
the once prosperous Chinese city
CT Chapel was reduced to a mass
of blackened remnants of homes
and buildings. Fires still burned in
the ruins Of cotton mills in the dis
trict.
With danger over, hundreds visit
ed what a few days ago was a no
mans land of sudden death and
destruction.
The fighting began at Chapel
January %, then spread over the
18 mile front. Fierce combat con-
tinued until yesterday, when the
Chinese 18th route army announced
it was Withdrawing to Quinsan, 121a
miles from Shanghai. The Chinese
called the movement a tactical
withdrawal. The japanese claimed
it was a rout.
The Chinese refused today to
accept the japanese idea of a
neutral zone around Shanghai, de-
manoing immediate and complete
withdrawal of the japanese troops.
The Chinese later announced
officially that Chang KWang-Nai,
commander-in- chief of the nine
teenth route army, would order
cessation of hostilities tonight, un-
less the Japanese renew their
attacks.
WASHINGTON, March 8. UP
The japanese government, through
Ambassador Katsuji Debuchi, to-
day informed Secretary of State
Continued On Page 6)
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
Indicted Banker
May Be Freed

LOS ANGELES. March 8. U.P)-
Maxwell A. Cox, former vice-pres-
ident of the Irvington Trust COM
pany, held here on an asserted in
dictment, will be released unless a
copy of the document is wired,
Captain of Detectives Robert Nc
Mahon, chief of the local fugitive
detail, today notified the Irvington,
N. j., police.
Mcmahon said he had been
threatened with a writ of habeas
corpus and unless New Jersey au-
thorities take immediate action he
will be unable to hold Cox. who
is in the county Jail.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
Admission To Bar
Is Refused Woman

SAN FRANCISCO, March 3. U.P)
May S. Smith of Compton, Calf,
who charged the state board of law
examiners Disseminated against her
because of her mature years." was
denied admission to the California
bar, without examination, by the
state supreme court today.
She had sought admission with
out examination under a law which
provided for that system in 1915,
when she entered the University
of Southern California law school.
designations of four attorneys
from the state bar association were
accepted by the court.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
Southern Pacific
Engineer Dies

SAN FRANCISCO March 3. (U.H
George w. Boschke chief engineer
for the Southern Pacific railroad,
died here today following a weeks
illness.
BoSchke. prominent figure In
Pacific coast railroad construction.
died without knowing his wife was
i'll, and she had not been In
formed of his death late today.
He entered the Southern Pacific
hospital here Tuesday. after in
forming Mrs Boschke he was go
ing out of town on business, She.
stricken with pneumonia few
days later, had him informed she
was well.
Boschke entered the Southern
Pacific service In 1895. He had
charge OF reconstruction work fol-
lowing the flood In Imperial Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
LAWYER Attacks
State Witness

LOS ANGELES, March 3. U.P)-
The story of Jimmie Doolen, who
turned states evidence against
Ralph Sheldon and two other al
legged gangsters, charged with kid
naping E. L. "zeke" Caress and his
wife, was attacked today by Leon
ard Wilson, attorney for Sheldon.
Wilson's final argument to the
jury contended that Doolen, who
cnce associated with Sheldon,
Louis Frank and Jesse Orsatti, the
defendants, was "pampered anc
treated like movie star" by the
district attorneys office in return
for his testimony which involved
the three in the CaresS kidnapping.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
HOltville Bank
Payments Set

Ed Rainey, superintendent of
banks, today authorized the pay
ment, in part. of money to deposit
ors of the Holtville bank, closed
last summer because its financial
condition was declared unsound,
and as a matter of protection to
depositors.
Rainey's order authorized the
payment of 20 per cent on CONNER
cial deposits, and 25 per cent of
savings deposits. Thus depositors
in savings accounts will receive 25
cents on every dollar in the insti-
tuition at the time it closed.
Checks will be mailed to depos-
itors beginning next week, the state
superintendent of banks announc-
ed.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
COLONEL LINDBERGRS BABY STILL MISSING
@kWlLL
yYR2So}'et'ERs Roc

BEVERLY HILLS, March 3.
(SpeciaD-Why don't lynching
parties widen their scope and
take in kidnapings? They are
10 times more premeditated
and performed by more normal
people.
1t wasn't enough for that
Morrow family to lose the
most able, fairest and broad
est of our public men, then to
have to be saddled with this.
I am sure nothing could carry
more sympathy.
What a shock to everybody
But how much more of one it
is when you have seen the
baby, seen the affection of the
mother and father, and the
whole Morrow family for the
cute little fellow. Two weeks
ago Sunday, Mrs. Rogers and
I spent the day with them.
The whole family interest
centered around him. He has
his fathers blond curly hair.
It's almost golden and all in
little curls. His face is more
of his mothers. He has her
eyes exactly.
His mother sat on the floor
in the sun parlor among all Of
us and played blocks with him
for an hour. His dad was
pitching a soft sofa pillow at
him as he was toddling around.
The weight of it would knock
him over. l asked Lindy if he
was rehearsing him for forced
landings.
After about the fourth time
being knocked over he did the
cutest thing. He dropped OF
his own accord when he would
see it coming. He was just
stumbling and jabbering around
like any kid 10 months old. He
crowled up in the back of the
Morrow automobile that was
going to take us nome. And
he howled like an Indian
when they dragged him out.
l wish we had taken him
home with us and kept him.
Yours
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-03
Public Invited To
Charter Meeting

Citizens interested in the charter
form of government are invited to
attend the open meeting to be held
tonight at 7:30 in the court house.
Members of the board of super
visors, the newspaper publishers of
Imperial Valley, representatives of
the Taxpayers League and both the
old and new charter commissions of
the grand jury will attend.
1t is proposed to discuss plans
for placing an election of free
holders on the ballot in connection
with the presidential primary in
May.