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Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
j, 8. To CONTINUE. TRADE
WITH DEFAULT|NG NATIONS

deficit for the fiscal year 1888 by
the amount they fail to pay he
said.
In declaring the United States
would carry on business as usual
with defaulting countries, Mills
cited the example of Russia and
declared:
Russian has never paid nickel
on debts owed many countries.
However, the entire world contin-
ues to do business with Russia"
Asked if debt revision conferences
would be held between the United
States and Great Britain, Mills re-
piled:
Its nice day"
The specific amounts defaulted
in payments due today included:
France, S19,261 ,432; Belgium,
$2,125, 900 and Poland, $4,427 $50.
1t was said at the White House
that President Hoover has made
no move toward starting the draft
of his proposed special war debts
message TO cOilSfeSS.
Retaliation Urged
Quick retaliatory measures
against the defaultorS were urged
in congress. Representative Knut-
son (Rep) Minnesota, introduced
a bill to prevent flotation of bonds
of defaulting governments. Repre-
sentative Schafer (Rep0 Wisconsin,
sought to stop further payments to
France for carrying United States
mail.
The default definitely weakened
Frances chances of revision OF her
debt. Many congressman felt this
country should not even discuss re-
vision with France until that coun-
try makes the $19, 9,261 ,432 install
ment it is refusing to pay today.
There was trend on the other
hand. toward more liberal treat
nlent of Britain. Congressman
were impressed by the fact that
Britain was paying, although it
has only $678,000,000 of gold re-
serves against Frances $3,250,000,-
anu dDOuG OLA do illuSli
unemployment as France. 1t was
reported that bill to reduce the
British debt would be introduced
soon in the senate.
Some of the smallest powers in
Europe are to honor their bond to-
day. Czechoslovakia, Latvia and
Lithuania announced they would
pay Italy is paying without hav-
ing even discussed the subject with
the United States Hungary and
Finland also were expected to pay.
Out of the current debt nego-
tiations, passion-rousing and dis
turbing to international markets, is
expected to come a final settle
ment of the debt problem. Secre-
tary of State Stimson has promised
each of the debtors that President
Hoover was ready to reconsider
their obligations. He admitted
that the depression had made pay
ment more difficult.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
HUNTERS BOAT
NOT LOCATED.

Almost the last vestige of hope
had disappeared today as Imperial
county officers and their aides went
about a routine search for U. H.
Tatman and R. S. Mcdowell, Los
Angeles business men missing on
the Salton Sea since early Satur-
day morning.
Harold Gillett, sheriff's investi-
gator, yesterday was unable to 10
cate an overturned boat sighted
Monday afternon by 1t. Pollard,
marine aviator, about mile from
shore where New River empties
into Salton Sea.
Sheriff George L. Campbell and
Gllett returned to the sea today
to renew the search for the over
turned boat, thought to be that
in which Tatman and Mcdowell
put cut from shore at dawn Sat-
urday, two hours before a sudden
strong wind whipped the sea into
high waves.
Discovery of the boat dashed the
last hopes that the men might have
navigated safely to the eastern
shore of the sea. 1t had been hop
ed that they sought refuge from
the storm there, and might not
have perished on the water.
Relatives of both men, at Los
Angeles, are being informed daily
of the progress made in the search
for Tatman and Mcdowell.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
ACTUAL GOLD
PAYMENT NOT
MADE AS YET
BY HERERT MOORE
nited Press Staff CORRESPONDENT


LONDON, Dec. Is. = Deep in
the vaults of the Bank of England,
gold bars to the value of $95, $50 900
were transferred from one storage
place to another today, marking
Britains payment of her debt in
stallment to the United States.
The momentous transaction,
which has been the subject of
International concern for weeks,
was carried out without ceremony.
The only outward evidence of the
transfer behind the massive, un-
windowed walls was sheet of pa
per which was posted, containing
the banks weekly statement.
The gold was earmarked as be-
longing to the federal reserve bank
of the United States. The Bank
of England notified the federal re-
serve they now owned the gold,
and instructed the federal reserve
to place the amount to the credit
of J. P. Morgan & Co., financial
agents of the British treasury in
the United States. The Morgan
house will pay it to the United
States treasury at once.
Brokers already were arranging
for shipment of the gold in small
consignments to the United States,
since insurance could not be ar
ranged for shipment of such a
large amount at one time. The
gold probably will be sent across
the Atlantic in about n dozen shin
ments, perhaps starting on several
liners due to sail in the next few
days.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE
United Press Gable Editor

The world, fighting the depres-
sion with efforts seemingly as fu-
tile as those of a fly in a spiders
web, was faced today with trouble
spots on every continent.
The threat of war was apparent
in several sectors, and in fact has
been actually in progress in South
America and the Orient.
Most disturbing element of all,
although involving no threat of in
ternational discord, was the default
of France and Belgium on their
war debt payments to the United
States, which were due today and
will not be met. Back of the news
lay the uneasy feeling that inter-
national agreements and the solemn
signatures of nations were so many
scraps of paper if they could be
repudiated at will.
Another serious situation was
the dispute between Britain and
Persia over PerSia's threatened
cancellation of the concession to
the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. The lat
ter is controlled by the British
government and is a vital link in
its naval chain to the Far East.
The dispute was referred to the
League of Nations, which already
has been striving unsuccessfully
for months to settle the Manchur-
ian and Gran Chaco disputes.
In the Far East, Japan defied
the leagues efforts to solve the
Manchurian dispute. There was a
lull in actual fighting after Gen.
Su Ping Wen had been driven
across the Soviet border, but Chi
nese sources threatened to continue
the fight TO the end Fire-eating
echoes were heard meanwhile in
Toxic over the resumption of rela-
tions between Russia and China,
the japanese fearing their position
against China would be weakened.
In Latin America, Bolivia and
Paraguay were in a death-struggle
over possession of the Gran Chaco
region. The battle is being fought
on the modern lines OF the World
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
HOOVER DAM
FUNDS SLICED

WASHINGTON, Dec. Is. (U.Pl-
The interior department appropri-
alton bill, slashed $23, 3,990,780 or ap-
proximately one-third below that
of the present fiscal year, was re-
ported out of the house appropria-
tions committee today.
Nearly every activity of the de-
partment in the next fiscal year,
including work on Hoover dam,
would be affected by the proposed
cut.
The interior bill carried $43 1922
904 for the department, compared
with an appropriation for the cur
rent year of S67, 1885, ,684 The pro-
posed appropriation is $2,891 ,025 be-
low the new budget estimate.
The interior bill provides $8000,-
600 for continuing construction of
Hoover (Boulder) dam, $2,000,000
less than budget estimates and
SIS 100000 less than the $4,000, 900
which has been supplied for the
huge project during the present
year.
The committee suggested that
because mo practical advantage
can be gained by accelerating prog
ress beyond a normal rate at this
time a normal program" should
be adopted for the dam, the $8000,-
600 proposed ALLEGATION to be aug
mented by $10,400,000 already ap-
propriated but unexpended.
The reclamation service would
be allowed $11,051 900, a cut of
more than $14,413,00 under appro-
priations for the current year;
$3,012,687 would be taken from the
Indian bureau appropriation to
bring its 1894 total to $220,065 less
, than budget recommendations
The committee proposes to spend
an additional $2,231, $50 from IN
dian tribal funds, an amount $59,-
670 less than is being expended
during the current year but $4o,8
more than was recommended by
the budget. The additional expend-
itures, would be to purchase farm
land and equipment.
The general land office would
receive $1,742,000, or $112,930 less
than the budget recommended.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
GIRL 8 FEVER
SETS RECORD

LOS ANGELES, Dec. Is. UP
A 20-year-old Mexican girl lay at
the brink of death in General hos
pital today with fever which for
three months has ranged higher
than any heretofore known to med
'ical science.
Almost daily, the girl, Alice To-
Ian, has run temperatures of ITO
and occasionally as high as lis,
her attending physicians revealed.
A temperature of 107 is normally
fatal.
A special thermometer, called in
physics a thermocouple, is neces-
sary for the frail, little patient who
is suffering from tumor of the
brain. Hope for her recovery has
been abandoned.
The tumor is located in the third
ventriole of the brain, the heat
center, which disabled can no
longer control the patients body
temperature. Curiously, her pulse
and respiration frequently remain
normal when her temperature is
soaring.
Insofar as we have been able
to learn said DR.. P. Berman,
medical director of the hospital,
temperatures have never before
gone as high as lot degrees in the
human body, except at the stage
Immediately preceding death. We
have found no record of such as
founding temperatures as this pa
tient has been running consistent
""
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
Palo Verde Farmer
Freezes To Death

BLYTHE, Calf, Dec. Is. U.P)-
A man was frozen to death yester-
DAY in this Palo Verde valley where
the summer temperatures reach
100 degrees and snow is compara-
lively unknown.
The victim of the unusual cold
spell was Henry Petty Long, cot
ton farmer. He was found dead
in the brush near his home, nearly
buried by four inches of snow
which fell here Tuesday.
Records of the valley and lore
of old Indian tribes indicate that
the last snow fell here $50 years
ago.
The Palo Verde valley branches
off the upper end of Imperial VAL
ley, and borders the Colorado riv-
er in eastern Riverside county.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
Thrift Cor1pany's
Affairs Look Bad

LOS ANGELES, Dec. Is. (U.H-
The National Thrift corporation,
which carried on $80,000,000 worth
of business over. period OF 10
years, is faced with deficit of
So, $4,000, according to a report OF
the company's receiver, on file in
federal court here today.
Receiver Frank C. Mortimer said
despite the "hopelessly involved
financial condition of the concern
there was some hope for those in
vestors secured in three separate
trusts established before the COM
pany went into receivership, last
September 8. Unsecured creditors
were given "extremely remote
chances of recovering"
The concern had approximately
10000 investors throughout the
United States, most of them in
Southern California. Headquar-
tiers were maintained here.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
MX Ro7~~
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KANSAS IDOL
NOW SINGER

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. Is.
W.P)-James Earring JIM Bausch,
Olympic decathlon champion who
turned crooner this week, today had
no plans for vengeance against
Ira McCarty, University of Kansas
student editor who called the ath-
lete-crooner "pansy" and "a fall
len idol"
Though Bausch, singing Lone
some Road" three times a day at
a local theatre, thought a reply
to McCarty unnecessary, his friends
among the Kansas students and
fellow alumni rushed to his defense
with replies to the University Daily
Kansan editorial
w. F. (Junior) Coen, famous
Kansas tennis player, and Dan F.
Servey, president of the local Jay
hawk club, were among those term
ing the editorial unnecessary,
unfair" and silly
After you win decathlon what
can you do with it?' said one in
defending the 200-pound athletes
effort to bring home the bacon with
his baritone voice.
Another idol has fallen," wrote
McCarty who attended Bausch's
debut as a singer here. 1.-The young
man whom the world had acclaim
ed few short months before as the
greatest athlete, stepped before the
ofotlights of a vaudeville stage and
in honeyed baritone voice urged
his audience to look down that
lonesome road.'"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
Gunnsor Comes
To Wife's Rescue

LOS ANGELES, Dec. Is. U.P)-
Police today were seeking a mys-
terious "Sir Galahad" gunman who
responded to a wife's screams by
shooting her husband, Roy D.
Barnes, 80, local radio musician.
Barnes, shot in the head, was
given little chance to recover.
According to police, Barnes and
his young wife, Gloria, were driv-
ing with friend, Carl Long, when
an argument developed. AS Barnes
halted the car, his wife leaped
out and ran screaming down the
street, officers said. Two shots
rang out and the driver slumped
over the wheel.
Detectives believed the gunman
lived in the vicinity and fired, be-
lieving the woman was being
threatened. Mrs. Barnes and
Long were questioned and then re-
leased.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
MARKET PRICE !.
ON BUTTERFAT
NOT ADVANCED

Do they read The Press, or
don't they?
Evidently they do. Last
nights issue carrying the usual
daily market reports, listed the
price of butter as % cents,
which was an error i'm trans
mission by the United Press,
the price not having advanced
but remaining at 81 cents.
Today c. C. Bramkamp, man
ager of the Golden State COM
pany, had considerable diff
Guilty convincing dairymen that
the price had not advanced and
that they should not be paid for
yesterdays butterfat on the ba-
sis of % cents a pound.
The managers contention
was correct and The Press re-
grets any inconvenience caus-
ed him or the dairymen by the
unavoidable error and is GER
tainly pleased to know that the
market feature is SO closely fol-
lowed.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15

art shop in neighboring East
Orange.
Burns was understood to plan
fight on extradition. His book and
motion pictures royalties amounted
to a considerable sum and would
be used for legal talent.
Burns arrest was due to an in
tervieW in a Newark newspaper
that gave his background and his
East Orange address. Newark police
authorities ordered his arrest
should he come within their juris-
diction
His book was an expose of bru-
tai treatment allegedly administer
ed to convicts under the Georgia
penal system. He described flog-
gings. He charged that chains were
riyited to eonvicts' ankles for the
duration of their sentence and that
they were chained together at
night.
Burns went to Chicago after his
(Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
WRITER OF FAMOUS FUGITIVE
STORY CAPTURED IN NEW JERSEY

NEWARK, N. j., Dec. Is. U.P)-
Robert Elliott Burns spectacular
and widely publicized brushes with
the law came to a temporary halt
today as he awaited in a Jail cell
the arrival of officers who may
return him to Georgia chain
gang.
Burns escaped from the chain
gang in 1922, became editor of a
prosperous Chicago magazine, was
arrested and returned in 1929, es-
capped again in 1890 and wrote the
popular book, 'I Am a Fugitive
From a Georgia Chain Gang" pub
lished in January, 1882.
The book was basis for the mo-
ton picture Il Am a Fugitive From
Chain Gang The boasts in his
book and of his publisher, the Van
guard Press, the he was hiding
somewhere in the east, safe from
Georgia law" aroused police to an
extensive search.
He was arrested last night. He
had been operating successful
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
Exonerate Minister
In Death Crash

LOS ANGELES, Dec. Is. W.P)-
The Rev. Roy L. Laurin, San Ga
briel clergyman, today had been
exonerated by a coroner's jury of
negligence in the death of Mrs.
Gertrude L. Benton, killed Monday
night when struck by the minister's
car during rainstorm.
The young clergyman said a
passing car showered the wind
shield of his machine and an on
coming car blinded him when he
first saw the victim start across
the street.
''I swerved the car and jammed
on the brakes but it was too late"
he related. II brought my car to
stop, ran to her side and then
hurried to store and called an
ambulance"
Radio patrolmen testified Mrs.
Benton was hurled 70 feet along
the wet pavement but skid marks
of the drivers car showed where
he had applied his brakes.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
BY RALPH HEINZEN
United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, Dec. 15.-France even-
tually will pay her war debt to the
United States, Premier Edouard
Herriot predicted Today.
The fighting premier, retiring as
head OF the government after the
chamber of deputies overthrew him
on the debt issue, received me in
his private apartments at the Quai
D'Orsay today Immediately after
returning from. the. presidential
palace, where he refused President
Albert Lebrun's invitation to form
a new cabinet
Tired after days of ceaseless de-
bate, argument and conferences,
but his eyes alight with the fire of
conviction, Herriot declared en-
phatically that he is convinced
France will pay on the same terms
as Britain sooner or later He would
never return to power until France
respects her signature, he vowed
In giving this pledge, he made
an impassioned appeal to the AM
erican people through the United
Press to withhold judgment of
France, because he feels his coun-
try will reconsider the action of
the chamber.
He expects France will pay, with
the reservations he outlined to the
chamber, and that such payment
will facilitate an early solution of
the entire debt problem The next
step in the debt muddle must come
from France, he said.
AS retiring premier, relieved of
the burden of world problems, he
made a masterful summary of eco
nomic and political ills which he
feels only complete international,
governmental cooperative effort
can solve.
Personally, my position is un-
changed by the parliamentary over
throw" he said ST, as always, re-
main convinced that France must
should and eventually will pay.
Both France and America must
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
FRANCE FINDS
Ii TIE PEACE
IN NDEFAULT|NG
Paris Frankly Worried Over At
titude Maintained By Wash
ington Officials. -
REPRISALS ANTICIPATED
Bill introduced In Senate To
Place Heavy Fee On Visas For
Repudiating Nations.
BY RICHARD ID. MCMILLAN
United Press Staff Correspondent

BY RICHARD ID. MCMILLAN
United Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Dec. 15.-France found
little consolation today in her de-
fault on the 19,261 ,432 debt pay
ment due the United States, plac-
ing her with Russia, Turkey and
few other debtors subsequently
hard pressed in world financial
markets.
The French were frankly wor-
ried over Washingtons outward
calm over the default, behind which
they saw yelled threats that con-
gress might forbid further sale of
French bonds in the United States.
There were indications that the
next government would make early
overtures to Washington for re-
opening of debt negotiations.
President Lebrun speeded his ef-
forts to find a new premier, and
it appeared that France would
have new governments before
Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
Indians FollouU
White Mans Way

WINNEBAGO Neb., Dec. Is. W.P)
Joe Blackhawk and Harold Big
fire, Winnebago Indian braves,
were in the hospital here today
after going on the warpath in a
modern manner.
The two ran amuck in a high
powered automobile, moving down
several telephone poles of substan-
tial thickness.
Dick Hart, town marshal of
Homer, ran them down after a
pursuit along the highway, break
ing Blackhawk's arm when he re-
sisted. Bigfire was injured critic
ally when the car struck another
machine.
John and George Jackson, riding
in the second machine, also were
injured. They are in Sioux City
hospitals.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
Southland Gets
Touch OF Frost

LOS ANGELES, Dec. Is. W.P)-
Southern California was touched
by frost early today on the heels
of cold rain and snowstorm of
immeasurable benefit to farmers.
While smudging was general
throughout the citrus district, there
was no loss to the growers, early
reports indicated. Minimum tenn
peratures ranged from % at San
Bernardino to 43 in Los Angeles.
1t was % degrees at Mt. Wilson,
80 in Redlands, Riverside and Cor
ona, 80 at Escondido, and SO at
Ell Cajon and Pasadena. Imperial
Valley reported a minimum of 80
degrees.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
Royal License
Series Dropped

SACRAMENTO, Dec. Is. W.P)-
The Royal R" license plate series,
hitherto reserved exclusively for
friends of Governor Rolph, is to
be discontinued, it became known
today.
That is, the plates in the "R"
series will be manufactured but
they will be issued to the public
the same as other letters in the
1888 automobile plates.
The announcement was made by
Russell. Bevans, registrar of motor
vehicles, who says the demands
made upon his department for spe-
cial license numbers and low num-
berS has created terrific burden.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15
MANY CHARGES
AGAINST PAIR

Jos ANGELES, Dec. Is. U.p)-
Accused of forgery, fraud and
grand theft of approximately $45,-
600, in an indictment returned sec
reilly last night by the county
grand jury, John C. Thorn, pres
ident of the California Thorn
Cordage. company, and Frank C..
Langdon, secretary, surrendered
for arraignment today.
Thorn and Langdon were joint
ly charged with 80 counts of grand
theft, 16 counts of fraud based on
their alleged manipulation of COM
pany records, and on one count
of forgery.
The district attorneys office
charged the indicted officials bliked
their own company, the Pacific
Capital, Inc, and the Commercial
Capital corporation out of $45, 900
by taking invoices on merchandise
which never had been shipped
Nine additional counts OF fraud
were charged in an additional in
dictment against Thorn, who al
ready is awaiting trial January 9
on seven forgery counts, 10 of
fraud and two of filing false
claims.
The latter charge arose from the
destruction by fire of the Califor-
nia-Thorn company plant a year
ago, authorities said.
The accused men surrendered to
Superior Judge Elliot Craig, who
set date for plea as next Monday.
Langdons bail was fixed at $4,000
while Thorn, at liberty on $4,000
bond already, was released on an
additional $4,000 bond.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-15

NEW YORK, Dec. Is. U.P)-Dr
William j. Walsh, physician to the
New York Giants and honorary
police surgeon, fought for his life
today SO he might explain why q
mysterious visitor shot him and
then fled to the street where he
was shot to death by police.
Solution of a most battling crime
mystery depended upon his story.
Dr. Walsh's assailant raced from
his office still brandishing his re-
volver. He battled pursuing po-
lice until five bullets killed him.
He was identified as Frank Clute,
an ex-convict of many aliases and
q long record.
DR.. Walsh was given only a
Slight chance to recover.
He had premonition of dis
aster. Tuesday night he was called
to the telephone. A man who said
he was John William Wilson told
him his brother suffered heart
attack. DR.. Walsh offered to CALL
The caller said he would bring his
brother the next night. Half an
hour later, after DR.. Walsh had
left, the man appeared at the Of
flee. The incident SO alarmed Dr.
Walsh he asked for police protec-
tion which was not withdrawn un-
til Wednesday afternoon.
Last night DR.. Walsh sat in his
office with a friend. The nurse
announced a patient and retired.
The patient was ushered in. A
moment later there were three
shots. DR.. Walsh was on the floor
wounded
The alarm was spread and Pa
trolmen Richard Hines and Thom-
as Rossiter followed the assassin.
Hines BULBS dropped Clute.
At the hospital Police Commits
sioner Edward Mulrooney stood
beside the operating table where
DR.. Walsh was receiving a blood
TRANSMISSION. In weak strained
voice, DR.. Walsh said
Commissioner, just before he
shot he said I'm desperate :"
AT that point Walsh's strength
left him.
What was Clute's motive? De-
tectives, thinking of vengeance. dis
covered that SO far as they could
learn neither man had ever seen
the other before.