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Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-25
Brothers Killed
In Plane Crash

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25. 0J.P)-
Two brothers, one an experienced
flyer and the other g novice, were
killed at the Dycer airport near
here today when their plane went
into a spin from a vertical bank
and crashed from a height of 500
feet.
The victims were Major Ernest
Tillmanns, about so years old.
holder of a transport license, and
his younger brother, Walter Till
manns, student flyer.
Witnesses said the brothers had
been practicing takeoffs and land
ings for about an hour before the
crash. 1t was said that Major
TillmannS was at the controls
when the plane went into the spin.
The plane, a new one, struck the
ground with such force that the
motor was buried three feet under
ground.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-25
Another Grave
Mystery Solved

LOS ANGELES. Jan. 25. U.P) -
Bleached human bones found in a
lonely grave near Altadena, came
from an old burial ground, deputy
Sheriffs said today as they COM
pleted investigation of what was
thought to be a possible murder
mystery.
The bones We're discovered yester-
day by two men hiking in the hills.
First investigation of the lonely
crypt led officers to believe they
had uncovered q murder.
Investigation by County Autopsy
Surgeon a. F. Wagner disclosed
the bones TO be that of a man. He
said they had been in the grave
for some time.
There were no clues to reveal the
mans identity except crude
tombstone with the name Carl
carved on II.
In the grave deputies also found
a womans shoe, q piece of a dress
and n coat. and n baby's shoe.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-25
VICTIM FREED
ON PROMISE TO
PAY ABDUCTORS

DENVER. Jan. 25. uP> - Kid
napers put the fear of death into
BENJAMIN p. Bower today.
The 62-year-old wealthy bakery
official, who was abducted from his
home last Tuesday night and held
blindfolded five days for $4,000
ransom, was freed unharmed early
Sunday, but the kidnapers said
they would see him III a few
days" to collect the ransom.
They threatened Bower with
death unless he paid.
Police guarded him closely.
The Rocky Mountain News. a
Scripps- Howard newspaper, in a
copyrighted story, said that a note
purportedly from Bower while ir
the kidnapers' power saying he was
TO be killed at p. m. Saturday
unless his wife paid the ransom
''uas a hoax designed to save tlo'
life of Bower
The story said the note was writ
ten in The News office by Manager
of Safety Carl S. Milliken and Chief
of Police Albert T. Clark while
Bowers life hung in the balance.
The note stimulated a genuine
note from the kidnaperS and was
designed to make the kidnapers be-
lieve that Mrs. Bower and the au-
thoritieS had not received the gen.
uine note but rather note from
a gang of eXtortionists trying to
muscle in OH the case to collect the
ransom.
Bower was so closely guarded
that his story of his 100 hours OF
terror in the kidnapers hands was
unrevealed, further than sketchy
details.
He said he believed he was held
in a mountain cabin near Denver
and Sunday afternoon he assisted
police in an attempt to find the
place.
Bower, his wife, his attorney,
James A. Marsh, and Chief Clark
denied any ransom was paid in the
negotiations which Mrs. Bower
had with the Italians.
The kidnapers never untaped his
eyes in the entire five days except
for the brief time in which he
wrote a note to his wife, the con-
tents of which police refused to
reveal.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-25
CONVICTS FAIL
TO BREAK FROM
ENGLISH PRISON
Rioting Quickly Subdued
By Arrival OF Rein
fGrcements To Guards.
BY w. C. QUISENBERRY
United Press Staff Correspondent

LONDON, Jan. 25.-Prison riot
ing which the press declared out
rivaled the imagination Of a Holly
unprecedented in British prison
history, failed TO free a single
convict.
One hundred long-term inmates
of Dartmoor prison in the lonlieSt
section of the Devon Moors at
tackled their wardens, set fire to
the warden's office and mail cell
block and were only prevented
from gaining control of the prison
by truckloads of police from Ply
mouth.
Damage was estimated at $4,000.
Some of the convictS were re-
ported maddened with liquor which
they seized in a raid on the prison
canteen.
Fifty Boobies" from plymouth.
arrived at the prison gates just as
the convicts, armed with sticks
stones and improvised weapons.
were inviting the wardens to come
and get it."
The policemen shed their great
coats. drew their truncheons, and
with shouts of come on, lads. ="
charged the mob A few minutes
later 10 convicts were unconscious
An official statement from the
home office said that 100 OF the
total Of 400 prisoners participated
in the movement.
Earlier unofficial reports said two
conyicts were killed, 95 injured and
one escaped.
All male residents of PrincetoWn
near the prison, were enrolled as
special constables, given rifles and
posted on roads around the prison.
During the turmoil some con-
victs raided the warden's canteen
and consumed gallons OF wine,
whisky and beer
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-25
Blaze Damages
Railroad Tunnel

Fire IS raging in tunnel No 3 on
the san Diego and Arizona rail-
way between Tccute and Campo,
foTcing railway officers to route
traffic over the line through Los
Angeles
The FIRE In the 900 foot tunnel
was discovered az midnight last
nleht and crews Of fire fighters
Werr rushed TO the scene. When
last thF comm lnicated with local
officials today. the fighters had not
been successful in eXtinguishing
the flames.
Traffic will be tied up until the
nrs D. ex,iuguished. the wrcckage
eirapd away and the destroyed
tlmbcrs replaced. according to rail-
aav officials Two trains each way
u.u b. sent through Los Angeles
e.r-y day unt.l the repairs are
made
Investigations as to the origin OF
the fire are underway but no an
nounccmcnt has been made as yet.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-25

FOR DAM GETS
HUGE DECREASE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.UP)-
An interior department supply bill
slaShing more than S10,000.000 from
public works .unds was favorably
reported to the house today by the
appropriations committee.
Appropriation for the Boulder
canyon development were decreased
by S7,000,000 from that for the
present fiscal year; $8000,000 be-
ing recommended for work on the
worlds largest reclamation and
power development. This repre-
sents a S2,000,000 cut from Presi-
dent Hoovers budget.
The bill provides s50,43l ,432 for
all departmental activities - S18,-
91l,174 less than budget estimates.
In addition, several million dol
lars will be available under appro-
priations regulated by seperate
congressional acts.
The bill carries provisions deny
ing pay increases to department
employees and prevents filling OF
vacancies except those deemed
essential by President Hoover.
This is expected to save several
hundred thousand dollars.
The bureau of reclamation, which
has the Boulder dam and other
construction work under its juris-
diction, was the hardest hit OF de-
partment agencies.
Explaining the cut Boulder ap-
preparations, the committee ex-
planned it should not be construed
as opposition to continuing work
at a normal rate
However" the report continued,
"it will be seen that with $1,000,000
still uneXpended from 1881, and
Sl5,000,000 still available from 1882
and s8,000000 made available in
the pending bill there will be $24,-
100000 available for expenditure
between now and June 30, 1888
which amount the committee be-
lieces will be adequate to carry the
program through to the end of the
fiscal year"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-25
hint mrs. JUDD
KILLED VICTIMS
AS THEY SLEPT
State Presents Damaging
Testimony To Offset
Self-Defense Plea.

COURTROOM, PHOENIX, Jan
25. U.PeAenes Anne lie Roi, nurse
was shot TO death as she slept in
her bed, the state limited today as
it neared the finish of its case
against Winni Ruth Judd, accused
of murder.
McCord Harrison, police detective
testified that he found bloodstains
on the floor and one the base
board near the head of Mrs. Lt
Roi's bed
Also he said that piece had beer
cut from the carpet directly under
the head of that bed.
II found bloodstains on the floor,
Harrison said on direct examina-
ton, under the bed in which Mrs
lie Roi was supposed to have slept
Also there were stains OH the base
board.
Directly under the head of the
bed the rug had been cut and a
good sized piece taken out"
This piece of rug subsequently
was found in the luggage in which
Mrs. Judd assertedly shipped the
bodies of Mrs. LIE Roi and Miss
Hedvig Samuelson to Los Angeles
The trend of prosecution ques-
tioning indicated it intended to try
to prove the contention that Mrs
LIE Roi was shot as she slept and
that Miss Samuelson, too, was shot
in bed, although after she was
awakened by the report of the gun
that killed her roommate. They
occupied separate beds in the same
room.
DR.. Harry Goss was called tQ
substantiate Harrisons statement
that the spots he found we're blood
On cross examination, DR.. Goss
admitted he also found some blood
stains in the kitchen near the sink
III the LIE Roi-Samuelson apart
ment. Harrison had said he saw
no stains in the kitchen.
In the confessions she sold to
newspapers Mrs. Judd claimed she
shot the girls in the kitchen. She
claimed self-defense in those con-
fesSions.
Although there were frequent de-
lays because of legal disputes this
morning, County Attorney Lloyd
Andrews said he still felt certain
he could conclude the states evil
dence by nightfall.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-25
SHANGHAI
.EX Pc ct s
I R 0 UBLE
Large Forces Of Japanese
Marines On Guard To
Preserve Order.
FEELING is TENSE
Resignation Of High Chi
nese Officials Adds To
Difficulties.
BY III. II, EkINS
United Press Staff Correspondent

SHANGHAI, Jan. 25.-The Chi
nese foreign minister and premier
both resigned today while 1400 Jap
anese marines patrolled the water
front here and 10 japanese war
ships lay off shore prepared to en-
force a japanese ultimatum by
drastic naval action"
Eugene Chen, foreign minister.
and Premier Sun Fo resigned, 1t
was announced. because they could
not break diplomatic relations with
Japan. could not invoke an inter-
national boycott against her, or
otherwise take positive effective ac-
ton.
Both are Cantonese leaders. Sun
Fo is the son of DR.. Sun Yat-Ser.
Their designations, and Chen'S si-
multaneous denunciation OF Mai
shall Chang Kai-Shek and his mill
tariSt allies, indicated definite fall
ure for a union OF Nanking and
Canton in a stable government.
The tense situation created by
the designations was heightened
when Gen. Cheng Mingshu, COM
mander of the crack 18th army
troops now stationed in Shanghai.
issued a statement that he would
support Chen and Sun Fo.
This was an indication of fur
ther breach between Generals
Cheng and Chang Kai-Shek, since
Cheng will refuse to obey the lat
ters orders and may act indepen-
IDENTIFY in the Shanghai area to re-
sist the Japanese chould they at
tempt overt acts.
Naval Force Increased
Japan's naval force of the Shang-
hal water front was increased over
the weekend by arrival of cruiser
and four deStroyers and landing of
additional marineS-part Of a move
by the Japanese to compel the Chi
nese to drop their boycott of jap
anese goods. The immediate ground
for the threat of drastic naval ac-
ton was a demand OF the japanese
for satisfaction for Chinese attacks
on Japanese monks and Shanghai
papers publication of alleged insults
against Japanese. Consul General
Mural, in a conference with Mayor
Wo-Teh-Chen of greater Shanghai.
demanded an immediate reply to the
japanese ultimatum. The mayor,
however, put him off with the PROM
Use to reply ''as soon as possible"
1t was learned authoritatively
that the japanese navy forces would
take no action until the return of
japanese Minister Shigemitsu to
Shanghai! Wednesday.
In event that solution of the
difficulties cannot be reached, 1t
was expected that the japanese first
would order their nationals now in
Shanghai to eVacuate.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-25
Police Captain
Declared Guilty

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25. W.p)-
Captain D. Macd. Jones. leader OF
Los Angeles police vice squad, to-
day was found guilty of contempt
of court in connection with his re-
cent sensational raids on the Greek
comedy, "Lysistrata," playing in u
theatre here.
The police officer was found
guilty by Suprior Judge K. S. Ma
hon, sitting here as a visiting jur-
ist from Sutter county.
Judge Mahon ruled that Captain
Jones was in contempt because he
raided the show a second time
while a temporary restraining order
issued after the first raid was in
force.
Captain Jones Is subject to five
days in the county Jail or $500
fine or both. He is to appear We'd
nesday for sentence.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-25
WILLIAMS HELD
As SUSPECT IN
Staying CASE

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25. U.P)-
William Williams, gambler, whom
police suspect of having betrayed
and killed his brothers wife, was
to confront that brother III the
county Jail today.
Coy Williams, invalid husband of
pretty Winifred Page Williams,
found dying Friday. arrived in Los
Angeles Saturday night by airplane
from Phoenix, Ariz., where he was
a tubercular patient.
He visited his -year-old daugh-
ter, Avon, at a Burbank tubercular
sanitarium and attempted to help
officers investigate his Wife'S death.
The woman was killed when she
was struck by, leaped or was thrown
from a speeding automobile. Uni
Identified for nearly a day, her
body lay in the morgue until Miss
Monte Taylor, her roommate, rec
ognized her clothing and made
known her name. Mrs. Williams
formerly lived in Fort Worth, Tex.
After she told police Mrs. Will
liamS was to have met her brother
in-law Friday to obtain money she
had given him for safe-keeping po-
lice placed him under arrest and
held him incommunicado on a
charge of suspicion of manslaugh-
ter.
Yesterday police found a new
witness, who they said might dis
prove an alibi Williams offered.
The witness name was withheld,
but police said he told them Will
liams visited the women's apart
ment the afternoon of her death.
Police said Williams had admit
ted improper conduct with his sis
ter in-Iaw.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-25
Mt& R7uu,
o 0isit. seNAusht syndies,.. iAs
SUPPORTERS OF
ROOSEVELT TO
BECOME ACTIVE
Plan Intensive Drive To
Get Nomination For
New York Governor.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent


WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-Friends
of Gov. Franklin y. Roosevelt of
New York are expected to move
quickly in every section of the
country, hoping to nail dowr the
Democratic presidential nomination
for him long before the national
convention meets in June.
The signal for Inauguration of
activity on a nationwide scale is
RooseYelts announcement of his
candidacy in a letter just sent to
F, w. Mclean, secretary of the
North Dakota central Democratic
committee. Immediate work to
realize the Roosevelt hope will be
seen all the way from New Eng
land to the Pacific coast and from
Wisconsin to Texas.
The strategy of the New York
governor is based on expectation
that the early candidate gets the
nomination. Sometimes this works,
as it did for Alfred E. Smith in
1923, and sometimes it doesn't, as
in the cases of William G. McAdoo
in 1924 and Champ Clark in 1912.
RooSevelt'S situation is pictured
here about as follows:
He now has reason to count on
approximately a majority of the
convention delegates. However, his
fate will rest with the remaining
votes necessary to obtain a two
thirds majority. Numerous party
leaders who oppose him are con-
centrating on chiseling away to
prevent this tWo-thirds, resorting
chiefly to setting up favorite son.
Smith In Background
In addition Roosevelt is threat
ened by increasing though appar-
emily unauthorized activity for AL
fred E. Smith. There is much
scattered talk for Smith and an
actual attempt TO obtain New
HampShire'S eight delegates for
him. If Smith permits this rumor
to continue Roosevelt will be SER
iously undermined.
The governor, therefore, cannot
wait to settle the issue at the con-
vention, for if the balloting be-
came prolonged he would be in
serious danger OF having to give
way to a compromise choice such
as Newton d. Baker OF Ohio or
John N. Garner of Texas.
Although his friends claim to
have nearly TOO votes in prospect,
as against no necessary to nomi-
nate, others are inclined to reduce
these figures materially, and regard
the Democratic race rs still very
much open.
Many party leaders here, nat
urally those less partial to Roose-
velt, believe the nomination will 60
to a compromise candidate. Most
of them regard Baker and Garner
as the leading possibilities in the
event the Roosevelt spring drive
fails.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-25
Missing Girls
Return Home

LOS. ANGELES, Jan. 25. (U.P -
Hatless, disheveled and untidy, af-
ter travelling thousands of miles in
n stolen automobile with two eX-
convicts, Marcella Clemons, Is, and
Maxine wilkins. Ia W." back hcme
today aftel having been missing
since January l3.
The girls alleged abductors, Lon
ME Russ who escaped from a couE-
ty road camp recently, and his
brother, Jaydeck, who had been
convicted of burglary, fled from
the auto camp where the quartet
had been living shortly before Of
ficers arrived.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-25
HUNDREDS
SLAIN Al 7
SAL LvADOR
UncOnfirmed RumOrs Re-
late Heavy Losses In
Communist Outbreak.
UNDER MARTIAL LAW
L. s. Warships Sent To
Scene OF Trouble To
Aid Americans.
limited PreeSl

Copyright, 1882, BY United Pres@
SAN SALVADOR. Jan. 25.-
Martial law was put into effect in
the republic OF El salvador today
to quell an uprising attributed to
Communists during which rebels
burned and looted towns in the in
terror, with an unestimated num-
Der OF casualties.
1t was feared many deaths had
occurred.
advice to New York, uncon-
firmed, said 1000 deaths bad oc-
CURED in the interior)
SAN SALVADOR, Jan. 25. U.Pl--
President Max Martinez issued a
manifesto to the country today,
calling upon all citizens to sup
port the government in putting
down "Yandahstic activities of the
Communists.
He lamented recent bloodshed
and the restriction of constitutional
liberties, but said they were neces-
sary TO preserve public order.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 25. UP -
Three United States WarShipS with
lis marines are steaming full speed
TO FL Salvador from Panama. under
orders to protect Americans in the
strife-torn republic.
The state department has been
informed of serious disorders, re-
putedly of Communistic tinge, in
the Central American nation.
A message from Charge d'Affairs
McCafferty at San Salvador, the
capital, told of an attack on Son.
sonati, fighting in San Tecia eight
miles from the capital. and in an
other town 10 miles away. Tele-
phone connections have been de-
stroyed and railroad tracks reported
torn up.
McCafferty reported the British
charge ana the Italian consul gen.
eral agreed warships would have
a beneficial effect
Destroyers Phillips and Wicks
were scheduled to reach west coast
ports of the republic today. The
cruiser Rochester is due at Aca-
putla. Wednesday night.
The British embassy has in
Termed the state department a
cruiser is enroute to FL Salvador.
Two Canadian dcstroyers have put
in at Ac2jutla.
The present Salavadorean re-
gime is not recognized by the
United States or any Central
American republics. United States
investments in FL Salvador were
estimated at S43,OO0,0oO in 1880.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-25
Bank Is Entered
BY Way Of Roof

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25. U.P)-
Robbers drilled through Is inches
of concrete and steel on the roof
OF the Bank of America branch at
1921 South Vermont avenue to loot
the vault of $1,000, it was discov-
cred today when the bank opened
for business.
When the time combination op-
ened the vault, L. NJ. Nagel, as
Sistant manager, and H. c.. Durand,
manager, noticed light streaming
through hole in the ceiling of the
vault.
Police fingerprint experts were
called to the bank. 1t was esti-
mated that the robbers worked sew
eral hours Saturday night and part
of Sunday night to cut the hole
with an electric drill.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-25
Long Gets Off
On Wrong Foot

WASHINGTON. Jan. 25. tU.P) -
Sen. Huey Long CDem) La, began
his legislative career today by
smashing two senate precedents.
He was escorted to the vice
presidents desk by minority leader
Robinson instead of by his col
league and political enemy, Sena-
tor Broussard Dem) La.
The other precedent was shat
tered when the senator entered the
chamber with a lighted cigar. He
left his cigar on Robinson'S desk
when it was necessary to stand
before Curtis and burned his
fingers as he put it down.
Smoking is not permitted in the
senate.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-25
DOCTORS STATE
POISON VICTIMS
DOOMED TO DIE
Physicians Hold No Hope
For Recovery Of Mex
ican Group.

FRESNO, Calf. Jan. 25 U.p)-
Only the five adults in the group
of nine impoverished MeXicans
found suffering from thallium pois-
oning remained alive today as the
last three of the children died Sum
day.
The list of probable ultimate vic
Tins here was increased to II as
two more children who partook of
the tortillaS that poisoned the
group were brought to the county
general hospital The two latest
victims complained that their legs
were numb and they breathed with
difficulty.
DR.. H. M. Ginsburg, director Of
the hospital, despairs of saving the
lives OF any of the poisoned pa
tients. He said that despite a gen.
eral call by the United Press
throughout the country Saturday
night for remedy or antidote for
the poison, none not already tried
had been offered.
DR.. Ginsburg believes both of the
new child patients, Isaac, z, and
Ventura Deloa, 8, will eventually
die, although Isaac ate only single
bite of the fatal food made of bar
ley intended for poisoning squirrels.
Isaac and Ventura are the only
children of Alexandra and Celia
Deloa, two of the doomed poison
victims.
Question of Time
DR.. Ginsburg believes it is mere
ly question of time until the
poison shall have claimed every one
of the IL sufferers.
The children who died Sunday
were Lupe, 5, Manuel, 6, and Ig-
nacio NuneZ, 10, children OF Ysobel
and Nicholosa Nunez, two of the
five adult victims. The fifth strick-
en- adult is Bernard Ries, 90.
Lidia Nunez, 7, was the first
member of the Nunez family to
succumb. She died Saturday noon
Authorities today were still in
the dark as to the source of the
poisoned barley, obtained u days
ago and made into the fatal tortil-
las the same day, although Alex
andre Deloa-first identified as
Ajao Alexander-gave them a new
story of the way they got the grain.
He said they worked on the
ranch of an absentee landowning
doctor near Porterville, rs miles
southeast. His story was that the
man under whom they worked
gave them the 100-pound sack of
the grain.
The original story told authori-
ties only last Friday was that the
grain had been stolen from a
rancher near Upton.
FRESNO, Calf, Jan. 25. U.P)-
Fresno authorities were greatly re-
lieved today and ended a search
for IL migrant MexicanS when Un-
dersheriff Jack Tarr said SO pounds
OF thallium- soaked barley intended
for squirrel poison had been found.
1t had been feared the wandering
IL might have ground the barley
into a meal and made tortillas of
it. as did the II MeXicans of Selma
who now are dead or dying in
Fresno county's general hospital.