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Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
CHARTER HITS
LEGAL SNAG
Failure To Order Publication
OF Draft Creates Confusion
Regarding Procedure.

Failure to publish the draft of the
Imperial county charter drawn by
the board of freeholders, within the
legal time limit which expired on
November Is, has placed the whole
matter on an indefinite basis, it
was reported today by supporters
of the charter.
The draft was filed with the
board of supervisors on October 81,
and under the law, it is explained,
it was the boards duty to order
publication within the specified
limit.
Order for publication in the CAL
exico Chronicle was issued on No
vember Is by mail, and therefore
did not reach the publisher until
the following date, November 16, zoo
late to be within the legal limit
specified by the law.
Attorney General U. S. Webb was
appealed to for decision as to
whether publication after the legal
limit would be permissible A tele-
gram received from him by the dis
trict attorneys office is somewhat
ambiguous, but as interpreted by
the district attorney urges him not
to advise the supervisors to take any
definite action in the matter pend
ing receipt of letter from the at
torney general which will give an
opinion in greater detail.
The telegram expresses the belief
that an application for a mandamus
hearing before the state supreme
court, to order the board of super
visors to permit publication of the
charter, would be in order.
Friendly Suit Possible
At the district attorneys office
it was explained that such a man
damus hearing would be in the ma
ture of friendly action against the
board of supervisors, brought with
the intention of settling the legal
ity of delayed publication. ..
Such a hearing might be held in
one of the lower courts, but in that
event the decision could be ap-
pealed, whereas a direct decision
from the supreme court would be
final.
Pending receipt of the attorney
generals letter and its suggestion,
matters are being held in allegiance.
Proponents of the charter
throughout the county have ex-
pressed considerable indignation at
the negligence which permitted the
final date to pass without publica-
ton of the charter draft.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
FRANCE ITALY
ACCORD SEEN

Copyright, 1892, By United Press)
PARIS, Nov. %. Renewal of
friendly relations between France
and Italy is in prospect, with
growing possibility of the long de-
layed meeting between the French
premier, Benito Mussolini, the
United Press was informed official
ly today.
France, anxious to restore neigh
borly relations, is waiting overtures
from Rome.
Premiers Aristide BRAND and
Andre Tardieu never sought active
ly to meet Mussolini, but the pres
ent Premier Edouard Herriot.
pleased by the Italian reaction to
his Toulouse and Paris speeches,
in which he praised Italy and ad-
mitted she had been unfairly treat
ed in the framing of the peace
treaties, is now anxious for Mus
Solini to respond.
Herriot apparently hopes for
some gesture from Mussolini in
v:ting the French to a discussion
of several issues on which the ma
tions have been divided, with the
press of both countries held guilty
of tanning the flames.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
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SAN JOAQUIN
FARM PRObED

MADEIRA, Nov. %. U.P)-Auth-
critics of two more San Joaquin
valley counties repeatedly had en-
tered investigation of an asserted
illegal operation farm near here
today.
1t was learned that Sheriff w.
c. Rhodes discussed possible Mer-
ced county angles of the case with
Sheriff w. c. White in Merced yes
terday and that Fresno city and
county authorities had expressed
themselves as interested in the
case"
Sheriff Rhodes, who began the
investigation after he had been
Informed tn 1t several deaths
among young women, listed as
caused by "peritonitis," were trace
able to the farm, was not in Ma
dera this morning. 1t was under
stood he planned to interview sew
eral women in other San Joaquin
valley towns who were believed to
have had dealings with the alleged
farm.
Unofficial sources said tha t
Sheriff Rhodes already has suffi-
cient evidence to seek a warrant
for the arrest of the asserted head
OF the "farm," said to be a woman,
and that he would take his in
formation before the county grand
jury on his return.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
CHICAGO GANGS REPORTED TO
Be LOSING FORMER POWER

long I've forgot what one looks
like. In the old days 1 always had
a pocketful of grands $1,000.
"Things have been bad ever since
AL Capone went down to Atlanta.
We used to pay our beer drivers
and other help SIS to $1OO a week.
Now they get $25 week-some
weeks. There used to be a big
split for the rest Of us. Now we
can't scrape together enough money
to give the boys who are in stir
what they deserve Tor spending
money"
Phases in the revised gang situ-
alton, as observed by police, are:
Passing of the machine gun as
a weapon in gang warfare.
Infrequent use OF pineapple
bombs and the introduction of tear
gas bombs, which terrorize, but dc
not kill.
Tendency OF the veteran gang
leaders to establish some legiti-
mate business as a "side line" to
make enough to live on.
Gang killers no longer use ma
chine guns, it was explained, be-
cause public opinion has grown sc
strongly against them that the po-
lice press Investigations more in
tensively. Possessors of machine
guns are known and it is becoming
increasingly difficult to obtain new
ones.
While there still are one-way
rides and gangsters still are shot
, down ION the spot" the killings are
usually outgrowths of strife be-
tween minor gangsters battling ovel
what little revenue is left in the
beer and alcohol traffic, vice ans
gambling.
"Muscling in," on labor unior
funds promised to be rich pay
ing varient, but police the "secrei
six" and other agencies have fought
the labor racketeers successfully
A recent raid on an eXpensively fur
nished office suite in the heart ol
the financial district resulted II
the arrests of 10 gang leaders, in
cluding stalwart young Murray
Humphries, nominal successor tt
Capone as front man" for the SYM
dicate.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
AIR SERVICE
SPEEDED Up

+ LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22-U.P)-
Overnight air freight and express
service between Los Angeles and
New York City will begin within
the next two weeks, it was learned
today.
Eighteen hour daily schedules
between the coasts will be carried
out regardless of weather conditions
using fleet of Lockheed planes by
Air Express corporation, a new
transport organization which has
working headquarters in Detroit.
P. H. Philbin, James G.. Wooley
and George Lord, formerly asso-
ciated with Western Air Express,
head the organization, with Vance
Breese, veteran Boeing pilot, in
charge of the flying personnel.
The schedule calls for daily
flights in each direction, leaving
New York City at p. m, Eastern
time and arriving at United Air
port, Burbank, at $3.50 a. m. the
following day. Eastbound, the ships
will leave os Angeles at 1890 p. m.
and land in New York City the
following morning. Only one stop
will be made enroute, probably at
st. Louis.
The schedules will cut approx
mately five hours from the present
fastest air mail time. The planes
will carry express and freight only,
depending upon shipments of flow
ers, perishables, films, bank checks
and rush products. Each plane will
be able to carry HOO pounds of
freight.
Seven planes already have been
conditioned for the flights, and
two more ships, capable of speeds
of 220 miles an hour, are under
construction at the Lockheed plant
in Burbank.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
Doubt Hitler To
Be Chancellor

BERLIN, Nov. 22.-U.Pg-Adolph
Hitler's chances of becoming Ger
man chancellor were considered
slight today on the basis of con-
ditions Hitler was understood to
have made to President Won Hin
denburg. -
Hitler, who has held out for "all
or nothing" as far as the chancel-
lorship is concerned, repeatedly
suggested the President drop his
demand for majority government
and allow Hitler and his Nazis to
govern semi-dictatorially. Won Hin
denburg is known to believe that
no party leader, and only per-
sonality above the political parties
is able to form a presidential cab
met.
The president told Hitler after
their second conference to see if
he could obtain a parliamentary
majority that would support a cab
met headed by a Nazi Hitler con-
ferred with political leaders and
then sent the president letter
said to outline the terms on which
he would head government.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
ENVOY MAKES
PEACE PLEA

OSAKA, Japan, Nov. %. U.P)-
America desires permanent, inviol-
able world peace, Joseph Clark
Grew, ambassador from the United
States to Japan, told the America
Japan society at dinner here this
evening.
"A growing number of Ameri-
cans favor making war between
civilized nations as extinct as hu-
man slavery" the ambassador said
n explaining the purpose of the
Kellogg peace pact outlawing ag-
greSSive war.
The necessity for governments
to maintain balanced budgets was
emphasized by Ambassador Grew.
General economic stability cannot
be assured unless this is done, he
said.
/ ''I' believe the economic relations
between tht Japanese and Ameri-
can people assure continuation of
friendly relations between the gov
ernments of the two nations" he
said. His statement was warmly
applauded by his listeners.
The ambassador pointed out that
IA American companies have near
ly 100,000,000 yen invested in Jap
anese- American jointly owned fac
tories in Japan. Americans also
have approximately 900000,000 yen
invested in Japanese securities, he
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
YOUTHS HELD
FOR SLAY|NG

CHICAGO, Nov. %. = U.Py - A
poor youth and a rich one faced
separate charges today of having
committed murders which police
and psychologists agreed were
among the most atrocious in the
city's recent history.
The poor youth, James Varecha,
II, who twice escaped from an asy-
lum, pleaded not guilty to charges
of numbering Frank Jordan in a
holdup. Police said that previously
he confessed not only to killing
Jordan but to shooting at least
seven other men and to attacking
at least two girls.
The other boy, Charles Bertrand
Arnold, 16, stared at the floor when
he appeared in court and heard a
grand jury's recommendation that
he be held on charge of beating
to death his stepmother's mother,
Mrs. Ellen SAKE, go.
Varecha, accused of carrying on
a reign of terror on the far south
side, had no attorney. A public de-
fender was appointed to represent
him.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
DEBTS OFFER
DOUBLE PHASE
BY JOSEPH III. BAIRD

WASHINGTON, NOV. Z2.-tU.Rji-
Two distinct problems arising from
notes written to the state depart
ment by four European powers con-
front President Hoover and Cover
nor Roosevelt today as they face
each other in the White House.
They are:
/. Shall Mr.. Hoover recommend
to congress that Europe be allowed
to delay payment on about $124,-
100000 due on war debts December
Is?
2. Shall the President ask con-
gress to reconsider the debt fund
ing agreements calling for pay
ments Of ,OO0,O0O00O in prin-
cipal and about the the same
amount in interest over 62 years on
account of their wartime IL
rowingS?
Affirmative answers to both
questions were asked with regard
to their own debts by Great Brit
ain, France, Belgium and Czecho-
Siovakia. Their obligations account
lOI dDOuL lOul -1llJll VI biiC WliOiS
debt. 1t is generally assumed here
that any concessions granted these
four will be passed on to the other
debtors, save, possibly, with the
revision of interest rates on some
of the debts, like the British, which
are unusually high in comparison
with others.
The two questions facing Mr..
Hoover and Governor Roosevelt
need not necessarily be answered
alike. For instance, the President
could recommend a further NOR
atorium on the December pay
men leaving the debt settlements
intact. Conversely, he might insist
on the current payment while ask
ing congress to revise the long term
agreements.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
.OLSONSFA
PRISON TERMS
Judge Convicts Los Angeles
Couple Accused In Staying Of
Former Benefactor.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22.-tUPH
I. Albert Olson and his wife, Lib
bic, today were convicted of the
murder of Charles j. Scull, wealthy
engraver, by Superior Judge Isaach
Pacht, who heard their trial with
out jury.
Judge Pacht decided their guilt
was of the first degree.
The state contended the Olsons
fatally shot Scull on his doorstep
to prevent his marriage, which
would result in Mrs. Olsop's disin-
heritance under his will.
The jurist said he would impose
senN-ece of life Imprisonment upon
the pair.
The verdict was based entirely
upon circumstantial evidence, the
court declared, and no consideration
was given testimony of two prison.
ers who had told of a supposed
"jail cell confession" of Olson.
One of the prisoners, James
Fudge, sensationally repudiated his
story of Olson's CONFESSION" yes
terday, but under direct examina-
tion he denied he had committed
perjury, and declared he wrote the
reputation under threats of cell
mates.
81 am convinced the testimony of
James Fudge and Eugene Bazlen
was utterly false and contrary to
human nature" Judge Pacht said.
ut was utterly unnatural that
Olson should maintain his inno-
cence through a 36-hour grilling
by police officers and then confess
the crime to utter strangers"
Rejects Alibis
The jurist refused to give Gre
dence to the alibis presented by the
Olsons, declaring they did not CO.
incide substantially nor were they
corroborated by other witnesses.
Defense witnesses were too indef-
mite about the time o. Gay in at
tempting to substantiate the ali
bis, he judge said.
The chain of circumstance
through which the verdict was
reached was carefully described by
Judge Pacht during a as minute
reading of his memorandum of
opinion.
Particular Importance was given
testimony of four witnesses that
a woman closely resembling Mrs.
Olson hurriedly departed from the
scene of the murder after the
shooting.
Beyond a reasonable doubt, it
was Mrs. Olson who was seen leav-
ing the Scull home" the judge said.
No comment was made other
than to note the fact that Scull was
reported to have eXonerated Mrs.
Olson in a dying statement.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
POLAND ASKS
DEBT DELAY

WASHINGTON, Nov. %. - Last
minute preparations were made by
President Hoover for his war debt
conference this afternoon with
President-elect Roosevelt, who was
speeding by train from New York
to arrive about $3.50 p. m.
Meanwhile Poland was added to
the list of European nations max
ing requests for postponement OF
debt payments due December Is
Ambassador Filipowica discussed
the situation with Secretary OF
State Stimson a few hours before
Roosevelt was scheduled to reach
tie city.
A payment of $3,3O2,980 is due
from Poland next month.
Vice President-elect Garner left
Washington at / p. m. to meet the
Roosevelt train in Baltimore and
return to the capital with the
Fresident-elect.
At the same time United Press
dispatches from abroad indicated
that Great Britain and France ap-
peared to have decided to pay
their December Is debt Install
ments in event the United States
declined to grant the pending re-
quests for postponement. T e
December Is payment is $124,000,-
GOO, including principal and inter-
est OF the allied debtors. 1t is the
first payment due on the l,0OO,-
100000 war debt since the Hoover
moratorium.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
Garner Predicts
Action On Beer

WASHINGTON, Nov. %. W.R)-
Speaker John N. Garner today
predicted passage of a beer for
revenue measure by the house of
representatives in the coming short
session of congress.
The vice president elect added
that passage of beer bill, coupled
with extensive economy in govern
mental expenditures, might pre-
clude y the necessity for revision
upward of taxation.
Garner arrived here from his
Uvalde, Tex, home to participate
in conferences tomorrow wit h
President-elect Roosevelt and DEM
ocratic congressional leaders.
Today was Garner's 64th birth
day, and he told friends he in
tended to celebrate it by getting
back into harness"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
ABANDON HOPE
FOR AV|ATORS

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. %. U.H
Hopes of finding the bodies of
two army aviators, believed to have
drowned when their plane crashed
in San Francisco bay during a
heavy fog Sunday night, was vir-
tually abandoned today.
Officers at Crissey field where
the flyers were stationed examined
bits of wreckage identified as part
of the plane and expressed belief
the men were pinned in the fuse
lage and carried to the bottom of
the bay by the weight of the en-
gine.
The flyers were Lieut.. jefferson
j. Davis, Woodlake, Calf, and
Lieut.. Robert w. Merrick, Port
land, Ore. They had taken off
from Visalia at 6 80 p. M, Sun
day for Crissy field but failed to
arrive.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
SUSPECT HELD
BY POLICE IN
Staying CASE
Filipino Taken From Freight
At Indio Believed Implicated
In Hindu's Death.
DESCRIPTION CORRESPONDS
Two Companions Who Fled
From Train Being Sought By
Deputy Sheriffs.

Dragnets put out by law en-
forcement offices in all parts of
Imperial county resulted in the
arrest last night of a Filipino at
Indio who is believed to be one
of the three men wanted for the
murder of one Hindu and the rob-
berry of another near Calipatria
Saturday.
The Filipino was taken from a
westbound freight train by immi-
grafton officials at Indio at mid
night and a Mexican taken from
the same train said two other Fill
ipinos jumped from the train and
ran.
On account of the description of
clothing and shoes, local officials
are of the opinion he is one of the
three wanted here for the brutal
Staying OF Bran Singh and the
robbery Of Sham Singh after he
was shot in the right arm and
beaten about the head.
Elmer w. Heald, district attor-
ney, Tom Sharp, investigator for
the district attorney, and Hazel
Livingston, shorthand reporter,
are in Indio today to assist in
Identification and questioning of
the suspect.
The rambling, inaccurate story
told by the Filipino added to the
conviction that he is one of the
three for whom officers have been
searching since Saturday. He said
he and two companions came from
Seattle to inland, the companions
departing for El Centro while he
Immediately started on the return
trip to Seattle.
After answering questions for
awhile, the Filipini finally re-
fused to talk further and remained
silent in spite of all efforts to get
him to talk, according to reports
from Indio officials.
Search Continues
The section near Indio is be-
ing carefully searched today for
the two companions alleged to have
left the train at the time the ar
rest was made.
Prodencio Rondaris, Patalion
Rengor and Gabino Manzino are
objects of manhunt. The Filipinos
took S444 in silver rolls and new
currency, mostly 81 bills, which
constituted the payroll for pea
pickers employed on ranch under
cultivation by the Hindus..
The three men had to abandon
the automobile in which they were
fleeing with the dead body of
Bran Singh when they were trap
ped on a blind road. Officers
found the car with its gruesome
occupant and attempted to trace
the fleeing men across the desert.
Sham Singh was thrown through
the rear window OF the car, his
assailants believing him dead He
was found a short time later and
his story of the murder and rob-
berry soon was brought to the at
tention of officials.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
LABOR SPLITS
On INSURANCE

CINCINNATI, Nov. 22.-(UP9--.
Dissension today threatened to de-
feat labor leaders seeking to mass
organized labor behind a program
intended to eXtricate American
workmen from the slough of a ma
chine-age depression.
AS the SIND convention of the
American Federation of Labor op-
ened its second days program, a
trump" faction planned to open a
separate session for discussion Of
broader unemployment insurance
program than was proposed by the
A. F. of l.. executive council.
L. Weinstock, New York, lead.
er in the dissenting faction, said
ITO delegates were expected at the
separate convention. Their plan
provides for insurance paid by the
government and workers and dis
tributed by workers committees.
Leaders of this faction also have
attacked the salaries paid national
officers of the orgnization, claim
ing they should be reduced
Unemployment insurance appear
ed to be the chief issue before the
convention. 1t was proposed by Ia
bor leaders as means of provid-
ing relief for workmen who became
unemployed because of the wide
use of modern machinery. The eX-
ecutive council proposed that the
insurance be paid by the workers.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
DISCOVER Plot
To Poison Judges

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. %. U.P)
The Middlesex county court
house, was guarded today follow
ing the discovery of an alleged plot
to poison four superior court
judges and District Attorney War
ren L. Bishop.
The courthouse janitor diScov-
cred a white substance in the
drinking water of the five officials
shortly before Miss Alice Ward, 27,
of Boston was placed on trial on
charges growing out of a Com
munist riot at Newton city hall
October 26.
Because District Attorney Bishop
had received several threatening
letters in connection with the case,
the janitor became suspicious when
he discovered the substance in the
water pitchers. Samples of the
powder were sent to the state
house for chemical analysis.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
Lone Extortion
PIotter Held

PHOENIX, Nov. 22.-U.R)- An
alleged one man extortion ring"
was in Jail here today charged with
seeking to obtain $4,000 from
George c. Mueller, Phoenix busi-
nessman, under threat of death for
Mueller's seven-year- old son.
The man was arrested shortly af-
ter midnight when he called at a
lonely spot on the desert near here
to collect the money. Detectives
had lain in hiding nearby through
two nights. The suspect was un-
armed and offered no resistance to
arrest.
Although Mueller received four
letters, all warning him not to COM
municate with police and referring
to the sender as I'VE" police said
the prisoner accepted sole respon-
Sibility for the crime.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
Searchers Rescue
Missing Youngster

GILA BEND, Ariz., Nov. 90 U.P)
-Four-year Buck Fisher was
back with his parents today, ap-
parently none the worse for the
experience of being lost for three
days and nights on the Gila desert.
The tousled-haired son of Mr..
and Mrs. Jack Fisher, San Anton
10, Tex, motorists, was found fast
asleep beside a water hole late yes
tsrday by a posse of Indian scouts
and cowboys who had virtually
despaired of finding him alive. He
was ID miles from camp.
His clothes in tatters and his
face caked with alkali dust, Buck
smiled wan greeting at his res
cuers.
Hello, he said, Taken back to
camp and fed, he Immediately
lapsed into a sound sleep.
His parents with their other
five children, were enroute to Los
Angeles where Fisher hoped to
find work, when Buck disappeared
from camp last Friday noon.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-22
PETTY THIEVES
SENT To JAIL

Petty theft was responsible for
swelling the Jail population con-
siderably yesterday, seven men con-
victed on this charge having been
received to serve sentences imposed
in valley courts.
Bookings included Joe Rivas, 25,
Brawley, 25 days imposed by Judge
Ware of Calipatria; James Amado,
"a, given the same penalty for a
like offense in the same court; Ray
Jiminez, 38, given 80 days by Judge
Lorenz of Calexico; Innocente ST.
fuentes, 18, given 80 days, Lawrence
Marquee, %, given 80 days, Joe Gar
ca, 25, given 80 days and Paul San
doval, %, given 60 days, Judge
Griffin of Brawley imposing SEN
tences in the last four cases.
Variety in the new inmates at the
Jail was presented by Al Burga, So,
given rs days by Judge Lorenz of
CaleXico on a reckless driving
charge and d. A. Gargus, 80, ar
rested by Inspectors Casey and
Long Of the federal forces, for pos
SESSION OF TWO plntS OF liquor and
ID bottles of beer. Gargus was held
for later trial in Brawley.
immigration men contributed
four alleged illegal aliens to the
cause when they booked Teodore
Esquirra, 81, arrested at Brawley;
K. Nakao, 90, arrested at CaleXico,
and Antonio Garcia, 33, and Fur
tunato Maldando, 36, arrested at
Indio. ..