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Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30
Badge Cleaning
Day At Jail

Deputy Sheriff Fred Elliott to-
Gay found a job which threatened
not only to relieve the tedium of
o quiet day at the sheriff's office,
but to keep him busy for many days
to come, if word of his activities
should .percolate to other law en-
forcement bodies in the county.
1t was during a discussion of
badges that E. D. Vaughn, prohibit
ton agent, decided suddenly that
his shield should be cleaned. He
used a rubber eraser for the task.
Elliott, who is gun cleaning ex-
pert at the sheriff's office, derided
the eraser.
The next step in Freds cam
paign was to assume control OF
the badge. He disappeared with it
into a back room. and in a few
minutes reappeared with the en-
blem of office shining like new.
That was the beginning. Don
Campbell produced his pet badge,
and Fred bathed it in his mys-
terious solution. Others followed.
The deputy still was cleaning
badges at a late hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30
Two Severe Fines
I'm Wilbur Case

That liquor in itself is bad
enough. but that gambling added
is an offense calling for additional
punishment was impressed on
Wilbur Williams yesterday after
noon when he was sentenced by
Judge H. B. Griffin of Brawley to
pay fine of $500 or serve 90 days
in the county Jail for possession of
liquor, and to pay fine OF $3.50
or serve rs days in jail for
gambling.
Judge Griffin ordered that the
sentences are to run concurrently.
Williams was confined to the county
jail when unable to pay the fines.
Williams was arrested at Braw-
ley Saturday night by E. d.
Vaughn and William Long, prof1i-
bition agents. and Lloyd Csstanien,
deputy sheriff. The federal agents
confiscated several cases of home
brew, and the county officer
scooped s24 from a blackjack table
which he said was in full operation.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30

tires unsafe to the driver and to
other drivers" Kennedy says. I'm
this country where you are travel
ing at high speed, tires should not
only be strong enough to safeguard
you against blowouts but should
have a safe non-skid tread to pre-
vent skidding and side slipping.
BE sure your brakes will provide
quick stopping in emergency with
out side thrust caused by unequal
action. Batteries must give de-
pendable starting and sufficient
power for the lights. Spark plugs
are the heart of the motor and
their proper performance will go
long way toward making your
motor dependable.
Kennedy announces that in con-
junction with free testing in each
of these lines his firm is equipped
for expert service and is supplied
with a complete line of Firestone
products, which are quoted at the
lowest prices in history, with extra
values and price range to suit the
needs of all motorists.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30
REV. SPENCER
WILL SPEAK AT
CHAMBER MEET

Rev. j. c. Spencer, who was in
charge of the health camp at Hi
pass this summer will be the speak
er at tomorrow nights FL Centro
Chamber of Commerce dinner.
Dozens of Imperial Valley children
were brought up to normal health
standard during their stay at the
camp, which was sponsored by the
American Legion and Forty and
EIGHT this year, and will be again
operated next summer.
Many parents who were unable
to take a vacation themselves sent
their children to HipaSs this sum-
mer. and many others were admit
ted whose parents were unable to
get their children away from the
valley during the warm weather.
Rev. Spencer reports that every
child gained in weight and showed
physical Improvement. Some over
came physical handicaps which
might endanger their future health,
others were merely built up to nor
NAL. needing no special treatment.
THE Hipass health camp has
been known several years for its
splendid work with undernouriShed
and run down children states M.
NJ. Munson. chairman of the cham
Der program committee, "but this
year more children attended than
ever before and the camp promises
to become more popular each year
for parents who are unable to leave
the valley but desire to send their
children out for the summer
Every person in El Centro
should know how the camp is
handled and tomorrow nights din
ner will be a splendid opportunity
to learn more about its activities
from Rev. Spencer"
Charles B. Jobes, chairman of the
Legion and Forty and Eight COM
mittee which raised the money to
maintain the health camp, will eX-
plain the financial side of the work
at the chamber dinner, to be held
at $50 o'clock at the Hotel Bar
bara Worth.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30
INDIAN RUNNERS
TO COMPETE In
MOUNTAIN RACE

IDLLYWILD, Aug. 30. (SpeciaD
Five star distance unners repre-
senting Sherman Indian Institute
at Riverside will compete in the
second annual San Jacinto peak
climbing contest on Labor day, ac-
cording to word received here by
the San Jacinto Mountain Cham
Der of Commerce, which is sponsor
ing the event. Nearly so athletes
will leave the starting line at Idyll-
wild post office at a. m. and will
follow % mile course to San ia
cinto peak and return. At the peak
the athletes will reach an elevation
of 10,805 feet.
Officials for the contest were an
nounced by the chamber of COM
merce today as follows:
Harold Hicks timer; G. L. Emer-
son, starter; Lee Emerson, Jr., Neil
Weatberall and william Jolley,
checkers; Wick and william Poates,
course umpires
The record for the San Jacinto
peak climb is now held by Tom
Humphreys, young Hopi Indian mar
athon stal. who won last years
race in the remarkable time of 3
hours, SO minutes
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30
UNIQUE METHOD
USED BY HIKER
ON VISIT HERE

Walking around the world. and
walking backwards at that. IS the
job, or means of enjoyment taken
by Plennie L. Wingo. of Texas. who
stopped in this city over night on
his way east after having crossed
the country IL the past year. using
his unique method of locomorion.
Wingo, a quiet spoken and small
sized Texan, put FL Centre in his
book as a red letter" stop on his
travels, for here he met a former
schoolmate in the person Of
Thomas p. Creighton, of this city.
Creighton recognized Wingo on
the street and the two, who for
merly formed one-half of a quar-
tette in Capps. Texas, held a joy
Gus reunion. Wiley Post, the IA
nous flyer wno flew around the
world last year. was a third men,
Der of the quartette. The fourth
member the boys wouldn't mention
by name, but admitted he was
hanged in Texas some time last
year. And he was a good kid,
too" they both said, but full of
which eventually got him
into serious trouble"
Wingo left Fort Worth on April
Is. 1881, and has been all over the
since then. His log book
shows towns and cities in practie-
ally every state. Alone, he pur-
sues his backward march wherever
his course may teke him. Mirrors,
cleyerly fitted on the sides Of ordi-
nary glasses, help him to see the
road at his rear and keep out of
danger.
Walking backward is hard on
the shoes. Those he had on yes
terday were worn through, although
he had them reSoled in San Diego.
He makes a living by selling post
cards and by doing advertising for
various firms. but admitted pu5l-
ness is not so good now.
Out in the open, his own boss,
going places and seeing things,
With no cares as TO who is elected
1r what the tariff is, Wingo's plan
doesn't sound as crazy as at first
thought. And when he finishes his
rip he is going to write a book,
and live happily ever afterwards on
he proceeds.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30
Mellon And Mills
Hold Conference

NEW YORK. Aug. 30. Up -
Secretary Of Treasury Ogden Mills
and Andrew W. Mellon, ambassa-
dor to Great Britain. conferred to-
day at Melons hotel. and then eft
together for the financial district.
The subject of their conference
was not known. Rumers said it
was linked to the international fl
nance situation, because of the
presence in this country OF
Montagu Norman. governor of the
Bank of England.
Norman, who travelled to the
United States under the name of
Prof Clarence Skinner" until his
identity became known, was under
stood to have been in Bar Harbor,
Me, yesterday Financial circles
understood he is here trying to ar
range a $500. 100000 loan to Eng
land to liquidate war debts.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30
BANKHEAD-CARY
FILM WILL PLAY
AT FOX AIRD0ME

Two of the best Individual stars of
the movies. teamed up in a great
picture, is the offering at Fox I'M
perial airdome for three nights,
starting tonight, when Tallulah
Bankhead and Gary Cooper will
be presented in Devil and the
Deep.
Miss Bankhead, the girl who had
to go to Europe to get recognition
as a truly great actress, has risen
to the heights since her first film
picture. Cooper. a popular favorite
in the silent days, has also made
good in the talking pictures.
Devil and the Deep" tells the
story of a beautiful woman married
to an insanely jealous naval officer,
who turns into a veritable monster
when his jealousy overpowers him.
Learning that his wife has been
meeting one of his junior officers,
he plans vengeance on the officer.
The wife, learning of his inten-
tions. boards the submarine on
which both men are stationed to
warn her lover. The husband, when
he finds his wife aboard, orders the
vessel to sail ana deliberately rams
it into another vessel to wreak his
vengeance, unmindful of the inno-
cent members of the crew.
Trapped in the Sunken submarine,
all are rescued but the infuriated
husband. who loses his chance for
safety in a wild attempt to make
certain of the death of his wife
and her lover
Charles Laughton is cast as the
husband. Others in the cast are
Cary Grant, Juliette Compton, Hem
ry Kolker, Dorothy Christy and Ar
thur Hoyt. Laughton is an Eng
lish actor making his debut in
American films.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30
Hulse Telephone
Number Mixed

Through "one of those things
an advertisement in last night S
issue of The Press. advised support
ers of Ben Hulse for senator, to
call sos today if they needed trans
portation to the polls.
Unfortunately, the number 695 in
Ell Centre, is the Imperial Ice and
Development company. Hulse-An-
derson's Brawley office carries the
number sos. The party telephon-
ing the advertisement to The Press
apparently forgot he was in Ell
Centre and gave the Brawley num-
her.
Bob Moore and his staff at the
ice plant were somewhat annoyed
today by unnecessary telephone
calls but took the mistake with
their usual good humor
Only one bit of embarrassment
arose from the mistake. Some of
the "red-hot" politicians unfortun-
ately seized upon it Immediately to
claim that the ice company was
supporting Hulse, when as matter
of truth, it was taking no part in
the campaign.
The local Hulse-Anderson number
is $40 if any voters still need it.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30
PROFESSOR HONORED

CAEN, Normandy, W.R)-Profes-
sor Charles Homer Haskins, of
Harvard University, was honored
recently with the degree of doctor
'honoris causa" by the University
of Caen for his work in Norman
history. The ceremonies were in
cident to the 500th anniversary of
the founding of the university. The
president of France, M. Albert Le-
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30
FAMILIES SEEK CABINS

COLUMBUS, o., W.P)-Hundreds
of families are returning to aban-
doned homes and log cabins in the
hills of southeastern Ohio, where
they may at least raise enough
food to live, survey recently con-
Quoted by J. II. Sitterley, Ohio
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30
Swing Comes Here
To Cast Ballot

I'm over to voCe and sav hello
to the folks wss the greeting of
Congressman Phil D. Swing, as he
called at The Press office this
moning.
The congressman, who has been
in San Diego for much of the sum-
mer, chuckled as he remarked that
he is nearing the time when he will
be "a free man, but made no COM
ment on his future plans. His term
of office expires next March.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Fair tonight and Wednesday but
overcast extreme west portion in
the morning; normal temperature,
gentle west winds offshore.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30

Bean paintings IN Stanislaus
County are only about half the
43, 900 acres planted last year.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30

LEWISTON, Me, W.R)-A rose
bush % feet tall is growing in the
yard of the Libby avenue home Of
&c. F. Dolliyer, here.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30
FIRE WEATHER FORECAST
ROSE BUSH ~ FEET TALL

Little change in temperature and
humidity: gentle westerly winds.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30
The Weather
LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY

Fair tonight and Wednesday
with moderate temperature; cloudy
or foggy in the morning; gentle,
changeable winds.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30

brun, witnessed the celebration
The honoree was unable to be pres
ent.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30

Edward Swain, Future Farmer of
Grossmont high school, San Diego
County, who started a bee project
in 1929 with five colonies, now has
over 100.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30

Eoi fwo inexpensive soiods
dolly and you, FOO, may re-
gain youthful slendernessl
Lily Damita keeps her slender
figure by eating two salads daily
covered with Best Foods May
onnaise.
Why not follow her example?
Only be sure you use Best Foods
the nayonnaise you can trust.
Watch out for products which
have been cheaPened.
Atyour grocer's. Best Foods May
onnaise, the quality mayonnaise
that you know is good.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-30

State University rural economist,
showed. Fifty-four per cent of the
abandoned cabins are now occupied.
Evening star., 1932-06-21
STUDY WILL BLOCK
FIVE MAPES BILLS
Bureau of Efficiency Unable
to Complete Report for
Present Session.

There will be no enactment during
the present session Of Congress Of the
bloc Of five Mapes Committee bills pro-
posing additional taxes on residents of
the District of Columbia.
This became an assured fact today
when Herbert D. Brown, chief of the
Bureau of Efficiency, to which the bill
had been referred, informed the Senate
District Committee 1t would require "at
least a month" to analyze the last of
the bills calling for repeal Of the inop-
erative law fixing a 60-40 ratio for
Federal contribution to District ex-
penses.
No Longer Any Chance.
Senator Capper, chairman of the Dis
trict Committee, previously had an
nounced that his committee would not
act on the bills except as a group. Now
that Brown is unable to report on the
fiscal relations bill before Congress re-
cesses for the Summer, which may be
within a week, there is no longer any
chance of the five bills being reported
at this session.
Senator Capper was informed that
the bureaus report providing a new
basis Of taxation for public utility cor
porations has been completed and would
be submitted to the committee probably
today
With respect to the other bills. the
reports are in the committees hands.
Mr.. Browns letter recalled the study
made in 1880 for the special Mapes
committee Of the House in which was
recommended a Federal contribution Of
more than 1000, 900 toward municipal
expenses, fixed as the sum of two items,
namely, the amount of the Govern
ment's liability as If it were an ordinary
municipal taxpayer, plus the amount OF
its liability on account of the fact that
Washington is the National Capital.
VIII Require Month.
"At the time this report was sub
mitted, the major portion of the tax
revenues of the District was derived
from real and personal property"
Brown wrote.
The bureaus study Of the bill has
been delayed awaiting completion OF
the report on the other measures. He
explained, The question Of fiscal re-
lations between the Federal Govern
ment and the District Of Columbia is SC
complicated and involved that its
further consideration by the bureau, US
ing careful study to the affect the
pending changes in the tax laws will
have on this problem, will require at
least a month
Evening star., 1932-06-21
GAIN IN CAR LOADINGS
REPORTED BY NJ. K. T.
Road President Predicts Business
Upturn During Next Six
Months.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, June 21-M. H. Cahill,
president of the Missouri Kansas Texas
Railroad, said today if business runs
true to form with other presidential
years, there should soon be an upturn
for the better.
"Our figures show that, with one ex-
ception, freight earnings for the last
six months of a general election year
have been greater than those for the
same period of the preceding year." he
said. apparently the improvement al
ready is under way, for since early in
June loadings over the Missouri-Kan-
sas-Texas have been showing an en-
couraging gain over previous months.
While the average increase since June
has been only about 200 cars a day,
it is significant because at this time last
year the trend was downward"
Gross revenues Of the MiSsouri-Kan-
sas-Texas for the first five months Of
this year, Mr.. Cahill said, showed
decrease of something less than $3,000,-
600 from the first five months of last
year. He reiterated that the road would
earn its fixed charges this year.
Evening star., 1932-06-21
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TORONTO, Ontario, June 21-Dr.
Forde E. MacLoughlin of Hamilton,
Ontario, has set disease to music and
called it "Influenza-a Tone Poem"
He believes he is the first person, liv-
ing or dead, to see a cadenza in a
cough, trill in a chill or fortissimo
in fever. He has composed Influenza
"a Tone Poem" in spare moments dur
ing his regular profession as physi-
clan.
DR.. MacLoughlin's music, in manu-
script, is one of the exhibits in the
"hobby display" feature of the Cana
dian Medical Associations sixty-third
annual meeting, which went into its
second session today.
Other exhibits of hobbies by doctors
include several oil paintings by DR.. F..
G. Banting, widely known for his in
sulin serum, and woodcarvings, etchings,
stamp collections and cartoons by other
members Of the medical profession.
DR.. MacLoughlin's Influenza" though
described as a tone poem, is in SYM
phonic form. The four parts of the
work. as described by the doctor-com-
poser, are:
First MISUNDERSTANDING symp-
toms.
Evening star., 1932-06-21
B0RAH'S REFUSAL
TO BACK HOOVER
ST|RS POLITICIANS
Senator's Rejection of Re.
publican Platform Comes
as BombShelI.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A furore Of political questioning rang
out today in the wake Of Senator
Borah's dramatic announcement that
President Hoover will not have his sup
port for reelection If he stands on the
Republican conventions platform.
Before Senate chamber tense in ex-
pectation Of an extraordinary pro-
nouncement from the Idahoan, this
leading dry spokesman yesterday de-
nounced the prohibition resubmission
plank, rejected the entire platform as
inadequate and unresponsive to the de-
mands of the people and then, asked If
he would support the President on that
platform, delivered his bombshell:
II will not" =.
The Importance of the utterance lay
in that Borah's driving campaign for
Hoover in 1928 has been regarded as
one of the greatest individual contribu-
tions to the Presidents election. A split
between the two has been in evidence
for some time magnified by the Sena-
vention when the party trend on pro-
hibition showed itself running counter
to Borah'S dry views.
Invitation to Personal Platform.
Yet, in the belief of many. the Sena-
tors utterance yesterday bore an un-
spoken invitation to the President to
write his own platform, with strong
personal prohibition stand in the ad-
dress accepting the nomination which
Mr.. Hoover is to deliver later in the
Summer.
Newspaper men who sought more ex-
plicit statements after the Senate speech
drew information that Borah had no
intention Of going into a third party
movement. The idea developed that
his thought was to ignore the presi-
Dental campaign and limit himself to
stumping for dry members Of Congress.
The full fury of his attack was turned
on the resubmission plank. which he
absolutely kicked aside, announcing he
would not be bound by it for "a single
moment" But he was no more kind
to the remainder of the platform, main
tanning that long before the election
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Evening star., 1932-06-21
DEMANDS FREEDOM
FOR NAZI TROOPS
Hitler, 1nfuriated by Parade Ban
in Bavaria, Gives Won Gayle
Ultimatum.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June 21-A fiat demand for
complete freedom for his uniformed Ma
tional Socialist groups throughout the
whole Of Germany was made today by
Adolf Hitler, Nad leader, upon Baron
Wilhelm Won Gayl, minister Of interior.
Hitler, who appeared before Baron
Won Gayl accompanied by three Of his
chief lieutenants, was infuriated over
the action Of Bavarian police at Munich
Sunday in preventing a uniformed pa
rade of his Na1 followers.
Baron's Position Difficult.
As a result CT the demand, the baron,
as minister charged with safeguarding
the constitution Of the Reich, has been
placed in difficult position.
On the one hand, the government Of
Chancellor Won Papen rests upon the
support given it by Hitler, whose price,
however, was the raising Of the ban on
uniforms and the dissolution Of the
Reichstag.
States Maintain Order.
On the other hand, the constitution
delegates responsibility for maintaining
peace and order to the states and their
police. 1t Is an open question whether,
when state government or local police
consider the peace endangered by the
wearing Of uniforms, the national gov
ernment has the power to override the
local authorities.
Baron Won Gayl summoned the min
listers of interior of all German states
here for a conference tomorrow.
Evening star., 1932-06-21
GETS 18 YEARS IN JAIL
FOR $40 ExTORTION
Prisoner Trapped Through Stains
on Hands When Bills Are Soaked
in Silver Nitrate.
BY the Associated Press.

Dy VIC hooUIIdlCu EIcoS.
BLOOMSBURY, Pa, June AL.
Clarence Thoman of Beaver Springs to-
day began sentence Of 1S years in
the Columbia County Jail for an extor-
ton attempt that netted him just $40.
Judge Evans sentenced Thomas last
night after he had pleaded guilty to six
charges of intimidating Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry L. Magee of Bloomsbury, from
whom he was alleged to have demanded
$4,000. The sentence also included a
$4,000 fine.
Thomas was charged with sending
threatening letters to Magee, wealthy
carpet manufacturer. directing that
$4,000 be dropped from an airplane
near a mountain hideaway
Magee dropped bag containing two
$40 bills which had been soaked in sill
yer nitrate. Police said the chemical
stained Thoman's hands and led to
his arrest, after he had passed one of
the bills. Thoman confessed also, po-
lice said, that he had sent threatening
letters to four other wealthy Pennsylva-
mans.
Evening star., 1932-06-21
SENATE TO HASTEN
RELIEF BILL VOTE
Leaders Hope to Clear Way
to Adjourn Saturday.
Chicago Asks Aid.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Speeding up in consideration of the
$4,000, 100000 Democratic relief bill, the
Senate today approached the vital vote
on the bond-issue section of the meas
ure.
Leaders were pushing hard for dispo-
sition of the tbill today, feeling that
achievement Or the Saturday adjourn
ment goal depends upon their success
in getting the relief question out Of the
way.
The first major vote was expected to
come on the La Toilette amendment to
increase the $500,000,OO0 public works
bond issue to $500, 900. Sponsors
The most ter battle was expected,
however, ona administration move to
eliminate al vision for bond issue
This was e2 ted to bring warm de-
bate and . pe vote.
Pref fnce to Veterans.
Hurrying. t2ougl> the comparatively
minor amef3 lentS. the Senate adopted
a provisiohS That preference would be
given to ex-service men with dependents
in the emplNyment of labor on projects
financed ht1he bill. There was not a
dissenting dce as the Senate agreed
to the anne nent, proposed by Senator
Tydings, o pcrat, of Maryland.
Meanwh Mayor Anton Cermak told
the House king Committee that un-
less Federi ief is forthcoming Il am
unable to What will happen in Chi
cago after gust l."
Cermak Aeared in behalf Of an
amendmentt6 the $500, 100000 Wagner
relief bill. which would permit loans to
municipalities for meeting their ex-
penses.
He was accompanied by q group of
Chicago officials and virtually the entire
Illinois Congressional delegation. in
cluding Senator Lewis.
Just before he began to testify, Rep
resentative Britten, Republican, of Il
linois, said:
Unless you gentlemen provide for re-
lief of the City of Chicago. within the
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