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Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
POLICE SEEKING
WOUNDED BANDIT

LOS ANGELES, Nov u. U.P)-
Search for wounded gunman
whose companion was killed in a
gun battle in an exclusive West
lake speakeasy extended to Long
Beach and other beach cities to-
day after police reputedly had
been furnished his Identity
Detectives said the fugitive's
name was supplied by Lucille
Jameson. purportedly a friend of
Rollie D. McAllister, San Francisco
gangster, who was killed when he
and the unnamed gunman re-
turning to recover gambling losses
tortured the proprietor and then
turned on a deputy sheriff who
opened fire on them The deputy
Rudolph c. Vegar, is at the point
of death in a hospital from bullet
wounds received in the ensuing
battle.
Police said the fugitive gunman
had a police record in a number OF
beach cities and here he was be-
lieyed to have sought a hideaway.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
COUNTY PROHIBITS
SALE OF LIQUOR

That Imperial county, in spite of
the repeal of the Wright act and
in the event of the repeal of the
Volstead act, will still be dry was
the discovery this morning of
Judge I. Mayfield as he scanned
ancient county ordinances, one of
which prohibits the sale of any
kind of Intoxicating or alcoholic
beverage.
In an ordinance adopted in
March, 1916, written by Galen
Nichols, then district attorney, the
sale of intoxicating liquors within
Imperial county, outside municipal
corporations, is prohibited under
penalty of fine not to exceed 5000
or imprisonment in the county
Jail not to exceed seven months,
or both.
Unless this ordinance is repealed
by the board of supervisors, it
would prohibit the sale of liquor
in any form within Imperial
county, although leaving the pro-
position of sale within municipal
corporations, or towns, directly up
to the city authorities. Practically
every town in the valley has a
prohibitive ordinance of its own,
still in effect.
Terms of the county ordinance,
if anything, are more strict than
those of the Volstead act, although
not directly prohibiting possession
CT liquor.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12

with the 18th amendment, makes
il impossible for congress to pass
law which the constitution for
bids.
If a president, now in office or
incoming, were to sign a bill in
creasing the alcoholic content OF
! beverages above the u to l. per
cent legal limit, it would be high
treason against the constitution.
Nobody else has made this dec
/ laration, so far as l know, but l
( give it as a fundamental conStitu-
! tional fact.
! But of course, the vets care
nothing about the constitution. II
they attempt to outrage the con-
! stitution itself, by pouring illegal
beer on the 18th amendment,
| which forbids it, they will find
themselves not only thrown out OF
court by the supreme court, but
they will disgust the sober, second
! thought of the American people.
They will cause great many
members of congress, who nave
agreed to submit the 18th amend
ment. to reverse their positions.
| Liquor has always outraged and
violated every law of God and
man. 1 said here today, at the
East Tennessee school headed by
Sergt. Alvin C. York, outstanding
nero of the World war, in an Arm
istice day address on THE Soldier
and the Citizen:
ut is a travesty on Americanism
for Uncle Sam to abdicate a
throne of power and turn over to
the lawless liquor element the
constitution and the flag for winch
Sergeant York and all other heroes
fought"
Armistice day, indeed, is a good
time for a new dedication in sober
constitutional Americanism.
If the vets make such an anu
constitutional blunder as they ap-
near headed for in their drive 1or
beer they will throw away the
whole of the victory they seem
now to have won, and be thrown
out of court.
If they are determined thus TO
break faith with the constitution
of America. they will block their
own way to victory ~
saw to the vets, and to all
America. with millions in actuai
want for the bare necessity OF HE,
il is a barbarous shame for any
political party, any adInihlSCrd-
ton. to concern itself with peer
! an dbooze, instead OF preao'
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
ME Ro70'~'
q m1a. EeEsesht sysdia.AA ksA
JURY VERDICT
UNDER DOUBT

Authorities today expressed the
belief that Enrique Chacon, killed
near Kane Springs Wednesday
night, came to his death by reason
of an automobile accident, in spite
Of a coroner's jury verdict yester-
day that he died from a blow on
the head inflicted by a person or
persons unknown.
Sheriff's deputies and the dis
trict attorneys office concurred in
the opinion that Chacon's death
was caused by a hit and run driv-
er, probably in a truck. 1t might
be that the supposed truck driver
did not know his machine struck
the Mexican, officers believed.
Informed yesterday of the YER
dict of the coroner's jury, District
Attorney Elmer w. Head and Tom
Sharp, his investigator, probed the
details of the death, only to have
their belief in an accident con-
firmed by the nature of injuries
which caused the mans death.
Fred Elliott, deputy sheriff who
was the first to investigate the af-
fair, said today that, in his opinion
Chacon'S death could have been
caused in no other way but by a
car or truck.
The officers agreed that the
Mexican probably was struck on
the head by an overhanging load
as a truck or trailer whipped
around after turning out to miss
him. He was riding a bicycle.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
DOUBLE TRAGEDY
ENDS TRIANGLE

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12.-U.Rl-
A Jealous husbands nflamed rage
at finding his pretty wife and a
male companion together at their
home was blamed by police today
as they listed the deaths of Lola
Stott and her husband, Arthur, as
murder and suicide.
The young wife's companion, Her
man j. Siemers, 81, was reported
recovering is a hospital from bull
let wound in the leg.
According to police, Stott wait
ed in a doorway until his wife and
Siemers emerged from the apart
ment for an intended ride, He call
ed to her and as she approached
fired a single bullet into her heart.
After wounding Siemers, Stott DART
ed out to the FIRE escape, saw a
crowd gathering below and then
shot himself through the temple,
police said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
NEW GRAND JURY
NOT COMPLETED

Because a panel OF 30 did not
yield enough citizens to form a
grand jury, Judge A. G. Finney this
morning directed the drawing of
10 additional names to complete the
1928 grand Jury.
After several had been excused
from the original panel, only II
were left who were eligible to serve.
There must be 10 members on a
grand jury.
Those who are eligible and the
10 additional prospective grand
jurors will report in superior court
at 10 O'Clock Monday morning,
when the roster of the jury will be
completed and the jurors sworn in.
Additional names drawn today
were those of Herman Swink, w. E.
Hancock and Irwin Maupin of Ell
Centre, Roy Kincaid and Tom Dali
len of Calexico, w. I. Hopes and
R. C. Bristol of Brawley, Levi S.
Maggie and Stella Breedlove of
Heber and Roy M. Bellwood OF
Westmorland.
Those appearing this morning,
and who probably will be on the
grand jury, were Mrs. Margaret Du-
pont, P. A. Murray, Mrs. Hazel
B. Neale, Ralph Reynolds and
George Young of Ell Centre, G. c.
Bogue, Mrs. Virginia S. Griswold
and E. A. Perkiss of CaleXico, Lu-
ther Hughes, Mrs. Sue Miller, Mrs.
Virginia Shaw and Carey M. b.
lin of Holtville, G. A. Boren and
R. E. Baker of Heber, w. A. Nc
Fadden of Westmorland and Mrs.
Mary L. Brock of McCabe.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
OIL FIRMS GIVE
AID TO MEXICO

MEXICO CITY, Nov. II. up
Financial aid to the Mexican gov
eminent was advanced today by
three major oil companies which
made payment of $7,000,0OO as an
advance on future taxes.
They were the Standard Oil Co.,
of New Jersey, Pierce Oil Co, a
Sinclair subsidiary and the British
Eagle Oil Co.
The payments, on which negotl-
atoms have been in progress tor
the last six months, were made
through the Chase National bank.
Government officials said tn e
money would be used for invest
ments with the purpose of mproV-
ing the federal income.
Reports of an embargo by the
state of Vera Cruz against the
Huasteca Petroleum Co., subsidi-
ary of Pan American Petroleum
Co, came today from Tampico.
The state claims 100, 100000 pesos,
contending a fifth interest in the
company's properties as successor
to the original owners of the rich
oil lads controlled by the COM
pany.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
CHICAGO POLICE
ARREST CERNEY

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12.-UR)-
A nationwide search for Gus Ger
ney, "a, which started with discov-
cry of his girl-wife's body in the
Mojave desert Oct. %, was at an
end today in Chicago where he was
arrested while cashing money or
der in a Telegraph office.
Local police reported the hus-
band, who had been sought on a
fugitive warrant, had agreed to
waive extradition and return here
to face murder charges.
The battered body of Cerney's
wife, Adena, was found on a lonely
desert road near San Bernardino
by a prospector Investigation dis
closed her body had been taken
there after she had been killed in
her home here.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
BIC BREWERS
AWAIT ACTION
BY MARION F. COLLINS
United Press Staff Correspondent


NEW YORK, Nov IL. = Major
brewers in the metropolitan area
today turned to beer production
problems and the question of taxes,
accepting as a foregone conclusion
that malt beverages would be le-
galized by spring, at the latest.
The concenSus among manufac-
turers was that revival of the in
dustry and the boom it was to i'm
part to allied businesses virtually
would abolish the depression. They
cited purchases of grain, trucks,
glass, boxes, motor equipment and
coal in bulk as necessary for large
scale brewing.
The brewers viewed the tax pos
sibilities legalized beer would open
to the government with some ap-
prehension. Their opinion was that
if taxes go too high beer would he
pushed into the luxury class, in
spite of anything they could do.
Norman S. Goldberger, president
of the Fidelio brewery, placed 81 a
barrel as the maximum tax the in
dustry could stand AS to prices,
he said they would be moderate
Distribution would be through the
regular near beer buyers, mostly
restaurants, cafes and hotels, Cold
berger said.
I'm sure of beer by spring,
Goldberger declared. Our capa-
city would be about 100000 cases a
year"
Most of the New York brewers
were prepared to spend millions OF
dollars for equipment on short no.
tice. Piel Brothers brewery has
laid plans for 100000 expan-
sion program. William F. Piel,
president, said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
Carlo Planning
Island Retreat

PARIS, Nov. IL. U.P) - Greta
Carlo, the blonde Swedish picture
star, was reported to have arrived
secretly in France today from Lon
don, enroute to mountain retreat
on the Mediterranean Island of
Majorca
She was not expected to spend
any time shopping in the French
capital. She will have no use for
Paris gowns in her newly-leased
shack atop a mountain on the
island, where she hopes to find
the solitude denied her since her
arrival in Europe from Hollywood.
Friends said her retreat con
sists of a crude dwelling near VAL
ledmosa, which is immortalized in
literary and musical history as the
haven of George Sand and Fred
eric Chopin. The site of the shack
Is almost inaccessible, in a wild
setting of rock and cactus.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
YOUTHFUL BRIDE
KIDNAP VICTIM

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 12.-tU.R)-
Katherine guarantees, 19-year-old
bride, was sought by police early
today after she had been seized by
three men who attacked her hus-
band while the two were out for a
stroll late last night.
John guarantees, Sd told police
a small coupe drove alongside them
end three inen leaQed out ana
grabbed his young wife. When he
sought to interfere, he said they
knocked him down, pushed the
struggling girl in the car and sped
away. A fourth man and a woman
were sitting in the rumble seat,
Guarantees reported.
He furnished a description OF his
assailants but police said today
they had found no trace of them
or Mrs. guarantees.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
DEAD LIST IN
CUBAN STORM
STILL CROWS
Placed As High As 1000 Per-
sons As Reports Continue To
Reach Relief Centers.
REFUGEES REACH SAFETY
Many Injured Among Those Ar
irving From Scene OF Giant
Tidal Waves Fury.
BY LAWRENCE HAAS
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright 1882 by United Press
CAMAGUEY, Cuba, Nov. IL. -
The last contingent of the 1900
refugees from the stricken town of
Santa Cruz Del Sur, wiped off the
map by tidal wave in Wednes.-
days hurricane, was distributed
among the emergency hospitals
here early today
Most of them were injured. Es-
Inmates of the dead in the obliter-
ated town ranged from an unde-
niably conservative 1000 to as high
as 1000. IN addition, many more
dead were reported from other
parts of Camaguey province, and
from Santa Clara province. The re-
ports were still far from complete.
An official telegram to President
Gerardo Machado from Marisco
Onetti, secretary of public works
who is directing relief in Santa
Cruz, estimated probably 1000 dead
and TOO injured. Dario Castillo,
Camaguey attorney, who returned
here after aiding the relief work
Said
Il am sure 1000 persisted. The
site where Santa Cruz stood is a
soul-sickening spectacle that I will
never forget.
at is city of the past. Nobody
remains except a few distracted, OBJ
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Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
MORE NATIONS
DODGE DEBTS
Italy, Poland And Czechoslo-
vakia Expected To Ask De-
ferred Payments.

WASHINGTON, Nov. II. U.P -
Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia
were expected today to join Great
Britain and France shortly in a
campaign for relief from war debts
due the United States.
A French note regarding the debts
was delivered to Secretary of State
Stimson last night. The BRUSH
note arrived a day earlier.
1t was learned today the state
department plans to make public
the texts of the French and British
notes in morning newspapers next
Monday. President Hoover rs sched-
uled to reach Washington at 10 a.
m, Tuesday, on his return from.
the west coast.
While both Britain and France
want a readjustment of their whole
funding agreements with this coun-
try. it was not known whether their
notes advanced definite proposals
along this line. Officials intimated
the notes probably asked postpone
ment of $123 100000 due December
Is. pending reconsideration of the
entire debt question, perhaps next
spring.
Such postponement would delay a
new settlement until the Roosevelt
administration is established in Of
flee. 1t was predicted in Informed
circles that President-elect Roose-
Welt would be asked for his reaction
to the French and British notes.
However. under the existing debt
agreements neither Mr.. Hoover nor
Mr. Roosevelt can do more than
grant postponement of payments OF
principal.
LONDON, Nov. 12.-UPl-Lon-
don and Paris apparently expect a
protracted holiday on war debit
the Daily Mail said today under
a full page headline reading, signs
of a long war debt moratorium"
PARIS. Nov. 12-(U.P)-The Paris
press today supported the govern
ment's overtures against paying its
December debt inStallment.
Commenting on the negotiations
begun in Washington by Ambas-
sador Paul Claudel, the noted wri-
ter Pertinax commented in Echo
de Paris
"It is unimaginable that the
United States will continue to diff
ferentiate between commercial
loans and reparations. The Decem-
Der is payments, both by France
and England, would mean serious
economic disturbance
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
ACCIDENT ON
GRADE Fatal.
To TRAVELLER
Bad Spot On Mountain Springs
Grade Causes Instant Death
OF Ell PasO Woman.
DRIVER OF CAR INJURED
Numerous Accidents In Recent
Weeks Indicate Road Should
Be Given Attention.

One woman was killed and an
other injured in two automobile &C
cidents late yesterday on the San
Diego highway 300 feet east OF the
Boulder Park garage and service
station, where the new pavement
meets the old Mountain Springs
grade pavement.
Mrs. Louisa Tovar de Ramirez,
46, $40 South Virginia street, Ell
Paso, was killed instantly at 4:30
yesterday afternoon, when a car
driven by Adolfo Acosta, 1918 Full
lerton avenue, Chicago, left the
highway, overturned several times
and came to rest on a pile of rocks,
bursting into flame.
Mrs. Frank Harper of San Di-
ego, we'll known in Imperial VAL
ley, was slightly injured at the
same place later last night when .
car in which she accompanied her
husband and an clipping couple,
names unknown, overturned.
Warnings had been issued in the
valley that this particular place in
the highway is exceedingly dan
gerous because of the sweeping,
well-banked curve down to the
junction of the pavements, and the
sudden change to the old pave
ment, which is not banked and
which makes a sharp turn. During
one recent week there were rs minor
accidents there.
Automobiles in each accident were
travelling east from San Diego.
According to report by Under
sheriff Rodney Clarke, who, with
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
SENATE RACE
YET IN DOUBT

DENVER. Nov. IL. U.P)-Control
of the United States senate in the
Forthcoming short session was
claimed by Republicans today.
The claim was staked on d
United Press re-check OF the vote
in every Colorado county for the
short term senatorial vacancy
The Colorado election will break
the existing senate voting dead
lock of At Democrats, Al Repuoh-
cans and one Farmer-Labor mem
Der.
The re-check today showed Kari
C. Schuyler, Denver Repupncan,
leading Walter Walker, GRAND
junction Democrat, by 449 votes
The vote was. Schuyler, 2Ol,9lo;
Walker, 201 ,466. ,..
Approximately 5000 absentee
ballots and the official canvas VIII
definitely determine the result.
I'VE can expect at least an even
break on the absentee ballots, ana
the United Press tabulatlon SHOWS
SCHUYLER the winner" said Arch
Hahn. Schuyler campaign man
ager. ..
Under national law, absentee
votes are counted on the tenth day
after the election, or before II all
returns are in. Count OF the
Denver mail ballots will begin
Sunday. One-third of the state S
vote is masSed in Denver.
The United Press count is com
plete save for the absentee ballots
and two of the states 1889 pre-
cints. Debs precinct, in Hinsdale
county and precinct No. 2 in Huer-
feno county were unreported.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
Final Scores Of
Today's Games

Purdue 10, Iowa O.
Washington and Jefferson IA,
Bucknell 0.
Lehigh 6, Rutgers 81.
Oklahoma 10, Iowa State II.
Yale z. Princeton 7.
New York u. 0, Fordham 7.
Harvard 7, Holy Cross 0.
Army So, N. d. State 0.
Amherst 81, Williams 7.
Columbia 6, Brown 7.
Cornell 81, Dartmouth g.
Temple 10, Penn State H.
Georgia Tech 6, Alabama 0.
Notre Dame 81, Northwestern 0.
Knox 3, Coe 6.
Carleton 0, Cornell 0.
Drake o, Washington (St.
Louis 0.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
Bomb ThrolUn At
Hollywood Man

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. II. UP
The home of N. B. Restovich, pur-
portedly a wealthy real estate
man, was the target of a myster-
ious gas bombing attack today.
Restovich was sitting in his liv-
ing room when two chunks of
concrete were hurled through the
window and followed by a bomb.
Before it could explode, ReStovich
threw it outside where it went off.
Police said it was Chicago police
gas bomb, indicating the bombing
was the work of Chicago hoodlums.
Police said they knew of no
threats Restovich may have re-
ceiyed which would indicate rea-
son for the mysterious attack.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
DEBUCHI STARTS
FOR WASHINGTON

TOXIC, Nov. 12.-iU.Pl-KatsuJl
Debuchi, Japanese ambassador to
the United States, left Japan to-
day for Washington, travelling by
way of Siberia and Europe.
In an interview with the news
agency Nippon Dempo, Ambassador
Debuchi expressed confidence that
Japan and America will continue
their friendly relations.
Pointing out that Japan and the
United States have had friendly
trade relations for so years, Ambas-
sador Debuchi declared "the people
of the United States will gradually
understand why Japan has had to
take the attitude it has on Man
churian affairs
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
Throwing Gun
Hats Burglar

LOS ANGELES, Nov. r. WP)-
r. M Walker admitted today he Is
a poor marksman but when IL
comes to Throwing gun he
takes his hat off TO no one.
Walker fired two charges OF
buckshot at Victor Mendoza, Sc,
whom he suspected of stealing a
tire. but Mendoza lodged In dis
gust, Walker threw the gun at the
suspect, bowling him over.
Mendoza was held today on sus-
picion OF petty theft
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
Seek To Identify
Victim OF Tragedy

LOS ANGELES, Nov. IL. UP
-Sheriff's deputies today sought
the identity of a large, one-eyed
man whose body, clad only in a
bathing suit was found on the
shore line yesterday, two miles
north of the exclusive Malibu col
ony of motion picture stars.
A bullet hole in the head indi-
Gated he had been murdered, Off
GERS said. They believed the body
had been hurled into the sea from
a bordering highway.
orders were given to search cot
tages in the area on the theory
he may have been killed in a
drunken brawl. The victim was
about SO years old, of huge ply
sique and had light hair.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
Chicago Names
Neu "Greeter'

CHICAGO, Nov. 12.-(UP)-The
husky right hand of George Brum-
lik, political figure and dance hall
magnate, was called to Chicago's
aid today to pinch hit for George
c.. Cav, the city's official greet
er."
Greeter Cav suffered an in
jury to his right hand during a
Halloween celebration which in
capacitated him from performance
of his duties.
Mayor Anton j. Cefmak an
nounced today Brumlik would take
over Gaw's creamy white automo-
bile and official duties until the
regular greeter was able to get
back into form.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
State May Get
Federal Jail

WASHINGTON, Nov. H. up
Officials of the prison bureau to-
day considered possible sites for a
federal Jail in California.
THE Jail must be constructed
at a cost of 100000 to $125,000, "
Director Sanford Bates said.
I'VE hope to find a site close to
Los Angeles or San Francisco, al
though San Diego is under consid-
Grafton too. The Jail is vitality ne
cessary and would serve California,
Arizona, Nevada and possibly Or
egon, Washington and New Mex
leo. 1t will be built to accommo-
date about 300 prisoners"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
Mosquitoes Guard
Jerseys Morals

PITMAN, N. j., Nov. IL. UP
Mosquitoes have prevented "petting
PARTIES" from becoming problem
in New Jersey, club women were
assured here at a conference.
Mrs. Charles A. Prickett, chair
man of the committee on mosquito
determination Of the New Jersey
Federation of Women clubs, argued
there we're mosquitoes in all parts
Of the state.
"Swarms of healthy, ambitious
mosquitoes" Mrs. Prickett said,
will see to it that there never is
an epidemic of 'petting' in New
Jersey" 4..-1.-.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
Gandhi Threatens
To Resume Fast

POONA, British India, Nov. H.
U,Py-The Mahatma Gandhi an
nounced today he would resume
his fast Jan, if Teuruvayur Tenn
pie is not opened to Hindus of the
untouchable caste.
He revealed his intention to a
United Press correspondent who
was received in his Jail cell. He
had not regained his strength from
his previous fast,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
Tanker Aground
On Wrecked Ship

MEXICO CITY, Nov. EUR
The German oil tanker Vistula
sent out SOS calls today after it
grounded near Tampico ON the
wreck of the sunken German ship
San Dustano, according to a Tam
pico dispatch to the newspaper Ell
Universal.
No rescue ships were immediate
ly available to answer the SOS
but the crew of the Vistula was
not reported to be in danger. The
ship, however, was expected to be
loss, as it was badly damaged.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-12
BY WILLIAM ID. UPSHAW
Prohibition Party Presidential
Candidate

Written for the United Press
Copyright, 1882, BY United Press
JAMESTOWN, Tenn, Nov. r.
Armistice day should have been
good time for a new dedication of
every patriotic citizen to obey the
constitutional Americanism.
The proposition to get beer be-
fore the 18th amendment is re-
pealed is unthinkable.
The Volstead law, which has
been declared constitutional along