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Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
BRITAIN STILL
Conf |DENT Of
EvAD|NG DEBT.
Continues Program Designed To
Avoid Payment OF Amount
Due Next Month.
FRENCH FOLLOWING SUIT
Nationalist Group Initiates
Movement In Assembly Seek
ing To Dodge Installment.
BY w. G. QUIsENBERRY
United Press Staff Correspondent

lOnlISd freSS stan correspondent
LONDON, Nov. 26-Postpone-
ment of British debt payments to
the United States and an ex-
change CT views on the world eco
nomic situation are necessary to
save the world from economic
madness" according to British
government officials.
The British government still
considers postponement of the debts
due December Is possible if the
two nations will have "a real meet
ing together-if both sides can put
themselves in the shoes of the
other" Prime Minister j. Ramsey
Macdonald sG;<..
I'VE hope the United States will
agree to postponement of the war
debt payments Macdonald said
in the first official reference to the
present stage OF the debts ques-
tion. I'VE asked that the date of
payment be postponed while there
is an opportunity for an exchange
of views on the general situation
:. While war debts are legal OBJ
legations, they are tantamount to
economic madness"
Neville Chamberlain, chancellor
of the exchequer, speaking at Bir-
mingham, said he appreciated that
President Hoover considers the re-
quest for further discussion of the
debt situation "a reasonable one."
The pronouncements by the two
! cabinet ministers confirmed the
growing impression that postpone
ment would be fought for with
Characteristic British doggedness.
The government will attempt to
convince the United States that
economic world recovery hangs i'll
the balance.
There was nothing in the remarks
of either spokesman to indicate
that President Hoover's war debt
note dampened in the slightest the
official conviction that the United
States will concede postponement.
On the contrary, the government
grasped the opportunity to pre-
sent new and detailed case fos
postponement, to be contained in a
note to Washington expected to be
dispatched Monday or Tuesday.
This new note was expected tt
be Britain's trump card in the wal
debts negotiations. The entire
country was intensively interested
in the negotiations. King George
took an active interest and sum-
| moned Sir Robert Vansittart, per-
manent undersecretary Of state for
foreign affairs, to Buckingham pal
ace last evening.
PARIS, Nov. IS. tUP)-National-
ist members of the French cham
ber of deputies took the initiative
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Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
Seek Compromise
On Trust Deeds

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Nov. &c.
tU.Py-A compromise plan" on the
trust deed initiative defeated at
the general election, will be offered
at the 1888 legislature, the legisla-
tive counsel bureau announced to-
day.
Senator w. E. Harper of San Di-
ego asked the counsel bureau to
drew up a bill extending the period
of notice for sale under trust deed
from 3 to months, and providing
that where property is sold on a
trust deed and deficiency judg-
ment pends, the borrower may have
a 12 month redemption period, as
under mortgage foreclosures.
The defeated initiative gave a
IL month redemption equity with
out qualifications, and the princi-
pal argument against it was that
it would force lawsuit on every
trust deed foreclosure.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
TOT SLAIN IN
POLICE BAT TIE

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26. U.P)--
Three-year-old Arthur Munoz was
killed when he walked into line
of fire during battle between po-
lice and bandits today.
The child ran to the edge of the
sidewalk while the battle was in
progress and was slain by blast
from policeman's shotgun.
Arthur had started to the store
with his older brother when the
bandit machine careened around
the corner, closely followed by a
patrol car. Officers Clifford
Trainor and Clement Rogney emp
tied their revolvers at the fleeing
car and as the machine reached
the front of Arthur's home, one
officer opened fire with a shot
gun.
The boy, excited, ran on the side
walk and received the full charge
of shot.
His brother, Jose, aged S, was
uninjured.
The two automobiles sped on,
their occupants presumably un-
aware of the tragedy.
Mrs. Maria Munoz, the boys
mother, heard the gun battle and
came out on the front porch just
after Arthur fell. He died in her
arms, without regaining conscious
ness.
The fugitive escaped but his pur-
suers believed he was wounded.
They learned of the child's death
only after they retraced the course
of the chase and saw crowd COL
lected around the Munoz home.
The officers said they sighted the
car several blocks away and rec
ognized it as a stolen machine.
The driver responded to their COM
mand to halt by stepping on the
gas.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
TEN GUILTY IN
LIQUOR TRIAL

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26. UP)-
Ten persons, captured nearly a
year ago in a raid on fashion,
able "41" club, today awaited SEN
tence after they had been con-
yicted by a federal court jury on
various liquor charges.
Deliberating less than five hours,
the jury returned blanket ver-
dict of guilty with but one rec
ommendation for leniency.
Among those convicted were
George A. Hill, Jr., head of the
company owning the building. He
was found guilty of maintaining
a nuisance, misdemeanor. 9th
ers we're adjudged guilty of con-
spiracy and maintaing nuisance
with some of the walters convict
ed also of selling liquor. They
will be sentenced December 5.
Those convicted besides Hill
were George Distel, accused own
er; Harry Miller, manager; Joe
Lee, bartender; Maceo B Shelf
field, former Negro policeman;
Charlotte Meyers, hostess; Frank
E. Watts and Isaac Murray, wait
ers; Helen jefferson, cloak room
attendant; and Anita A. Whitaker,
cashier for whom the jury recon-
mended leniency
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
YOUNT To FACE
GRAVE CHARGE

His alleged assault upon H. G.
Miller, mayor of Imperial, which
was followed by a chase in which
he threatened at least one officer
with rifle, may result in a fel-
ony trial for Kelly Yount.
A complaint filed against Yount
charges him with assault with a
deadly weapon. A preliminary
hearing will be held at IL o'clock
Wednesday morning before Judge
Herman A. Conger of Imperial, to
determine if Yount shall be held
for trial by the superior court.
Yount visited Imperial Thanks
giving day. An. argument with
Miller ended when Yount beat
him severely. Then, with a rifle
in his car, Yount drove around
Imperial. George Wright, police
chief, tried to stop him, but was
forced into the curb twice.
Walter M. Walsh, state highway
patrolman, suffered minor injuries
when his car was forced from the
highway and the front wheels
wrecked after a six mile chase
during which Yount threatened
Walsh with the rifle. Deputy
sheriffs finally arrested Yount.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
CUPID BEATS
SECOND MOVE
FOR DIVORCE.

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 26.-(U.R
--Gretta Nissen, blonde screen
actress, and her husband, We'll
don Hepburn, actor, re-plight-
ed their troth today just as a
Mexican judge was preparing to
sever the ties of matrimony.
For the second time within
two months, the couple decided
to halt divorce proceedings and
start married life "aIl over
again."
"This time the reconciliation
is a permanent one" the blue
eyed actress proclaimed. The
pact was sealed with a kiss and
Hepburn murinured, 9TH never
happen again."
Their divorce, which had been
mutually agreed upon, was to
have been granted i'm Nogales
tcday.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
BELIEVE BOX
COFFIN USED
BY NORTHCOTT

RIVERSIDE, Cal, Nov. 26.-
W.P)-Discovery of a box buried
in canyon near the murder
farm of Gordon Stewart
Northcott today led to theory
the place was once the grave
of one of Northcott's victims.
Andrew Berg and Nick Bish-
op, prospectors, reported their
discovery to the sheriff's office
and an investigation was be-
gun. 1t was believed the box
had been used as coffin, from
which a body had been removed
and reburied when Northcott
became frightened. 1t contain
cd only a twenty-five cent piece.
NorthcOtt was convicted of
murder and hanged. His victims
were boys he had lured to the
farm.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
FARM OWNER
To BE TRIED

MADEIRA, Nov. 26.-UP)-Mrs.
Margaret Browning, So, prominent
Chowchilla club woman, faced ar
raignment here today on charges
of murder and of performing an il
legal operation.
Suspected by county officers of
having performed more than 400
criminal operations on women at
her ranch home during the past 10
years, Mrs. Browning was indicted
earlier in the week after the coun-
ty grand jury considered amazing
evidence assembled by state and
county authorities.
Officers hinted that they would
ask indictments against others sus-
pected of completely in the opera
tion of Che asserted death farm. =
Identity of the person Mrs. Brown
ing has been formally charged with
numbering has been withheld pend
ing her arraignment.
Sheriff w. G. Rhodes alleged
that investigation had revealed that
at least four women died after un-
dergoing operations at the farm.
The sheriff said that names of as
serted patients were found in a
lavender ledger" which, together
with surgical instruments, was
seized in a raid on the farm a few
days before the farm house was
mysteriously destroyed by fire.
Many of the persons whose names
appeared in the book will be sum-
moned as witnesses, the sheriff an
nounced.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
SLASH IN PAY
CAUSES RIOT

VACAVILLE, Calf, Nov. 26. {U.PJ
Deputy sheriffs were held avail
able here today to avert further
rioting by striking ranch hands who
refused to work when wages were
reduced.
Two men were held for investiga-
ton after a furious battle on the
streets of Vacaville yesterday be-
tween 100 strikers and IA deputy
sheriffs. The strikers, their wives
and children attempted to stop a
truck loaded with Filipino strike
breakers, starting a pitched battle.
Stones and sticks were the weap-
ons used by the strikers in resist
ing efforts of officers to disperse
them.
j. B. Stadfeldt, a constable, suf-
fered head injuries and George
Fraser, deputy, was knocked down
during the battle.
The riot followed trouble Wednes-
day night when the strikers march
ed through the city protesting
against starvation wages"
All of the strikers were from
three large ranches near here, one
of which is owned by Congressman
Frank H. Buck. The ranches this
week lowered wages from $3.50 to
SIPS day and increased working
hours from eight to nine hours.
The two men held as agitatore
were Donald Bingham, former Uni
versity of California student who
figured in the hunger march" at
Winters, Calf, last summer, and
John Lopez, a laborer.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
Mexico Mourns
Wife OF Gales

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 26. U.P)-
The capital was in mourning to-
day for Sonora Leonor Llorentes
Gales, wife of the former Presi-
dent General Plutarco Gales, who
died yesterday afternoon. T h c
funeral will be held today.
All celebrations in honor of the
revolutionary anniversary were
cancelled. The senate and cham
Der deputies were closed and were
expected to remain in mourning
for several days. General Gales
received condolences from many
parts of the world and from the
local diplomatic corps, one of the
first messages of sympathy COM
ing from United States Ambassa-
dor j. Reuben Clark.
Friends of General Gales who
had been worried about his health
recently said he was holding up
we'll.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
Army Captured
By Notre Dame

YANKEE STADIUM, New York
Nov. 26.-tU.P)-Notre Dame bal
anced a mystifying aerial game
with a smooth running attack and
defeated Army today by the sur
prising score of 81 to O.
The gold helmeted cadets went
down under an avalanche of per-
fectly executed passes and a hard
running attack that kept them al
most constantly on the defensive.
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 26. U.P)-
The pupil outsmarted the old
master here today and "Jock"
Sutherland's University of Pitts
burgh football team defeated Pop"
Warmers Leland Stanford team
from the coast. The score was
7 to 0.
The game was played on a cold,
hard field before $4,000 spectators.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
@NylnLlL;-oe
W eSoyS:

BEVERLY HILLS, Nov. 25.
(SpeciaD - If you think this
Democratic victory brought on
harmony, you just wait till
they start to hand out those
postoffices down south. There
will be- more people killed in
the rush than in the flood.
Got some real debt informa-
tion first hand yesterday and
not from an editorial. Mr.. w.
@. McAdoo was out to visit me.
Incidentally all he did land
that didn't come from him
either. 1t comes from facts;
we'll, all he did was make the
next president of the u. S.
He says he will absolutely stay
in the senate and accept no
cabinet position, even if Offer
ed.
Later in the afternoon come
out Congresswoman Ruth Bry-
an Owen, daughter of w. j.
She was bred in the purple in
politics, and shows it. It was
the first Thanksgiving the
Democrats have celebrated
since B. C. before COOLIDGE.
Yours
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
Pair Of Bandits
Stage Robbery

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26. UP
Two men walked coolly into an
eastside wholesale candy and to-
bacco firm today, forced six per-
sons to lie on the floor, and
robbed the place of more than
$4,000 in cash and checks.
Three minutes from the time
they had entered, they walked out
of the front door and leaped into
a brilliant yellow sedan an accom-
plice had kept, motor running, at
the curb.
Besides $4,000 in cash and checks
the men forced a girl bookkeeper
to give them from the safe, they
robbed employees of several hum
dred dollars of their own money.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
Burning Trash
.Scorches Wall

Trash burning in an incinerator,
placed too close to a leaky gas
main at the rear of the telephone
office, set fire to the wall of a ware
house this morning when the gas
became ignited.
Firemen were summoned by an
alarm and extinguished the blaze
which caused only slight damage,
according to Fire Chief Tom Reams.
Repairmen from the gas company
were summoned to stop the leak
age of gas.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
CONTRACT FOR
POST OFFICE
SIGNED TODAY
Congressman Swing Sends Tele-
gram Announcing Award To
Union Engineering Company.
WAS SECOND LOW BIDDER
Date OF Construction Not Set
Depending Upon Arrangement
With ub-Contractors.

Contract for construction of Ell
Centro's new $4,000 post office
and federal building was signed
today, according to telegram re-
ceiyed by C. C. jenkins, postmas-
ter, from Congressman Phil D.
Swing.
The contract was awarded to the
Union Engineering company, sec
ond lowest bidder. The lowest
bidder was unable to furnish bond
suitable to the government. The
Union Engineering company bid
was said to be slightly above inc
government allotment for the pro-
ject. Just what arrangements
were made for handling the differ
ence could not be ascertained to-
Gay.
Delays caused by the usual gov
ernmental red tape finally were
overcome but still no word was
received locally as to the status of
construction contracts. 1t finally
was learned that the lowest bidder
was attempting to furnish bond.
Date of actual construction was
not made known and is not expect
ed to be set until after the Union
company completes arrangements
with sub-contractors.
The new post office will be erect
ed at the corner of Olive and Fifth
streets on property donated by a
group of public spirited Ell Centre
citizens.
Plans and specifications of the
building long have been available
at the present post office and Ell
Centro Chamber of Commerce.
Many Ell Centrans viewed the
plans and commented upon the
beauty CT the building.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
Japanese Paper
Publisher Shot

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26. W.P)-
Sci Fujii, SO, publisher of the Cal
ifornia Japanese Daily News, was
attacked and shot in the cheek
early today by two assailants who
set upon him as he emerged from
his downtown office.
AT Georgia Street receiving hos
pital, attaches said the bullet had
inflicted only q flesh wound but
that his other injuries were serious.
Fujii told detectives he believed
the attack was provoked by SER
les of editorials published recent
ly, championing the cause of Jap
anese ranchers.
The two assailants, whom Full
believed were japanese, escaped.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
Former Pioneer
Resident Dies

Word has been received by
friends in Ell Centro of the recent
death at Riverside of Mrs. j. E.
Johnson, pioneer resident of I'M
perial Valley. +.
Pioneer residents, both in Ell
Centro and Holtville, knew Mrs.
johnson we'll and will be shocked
to learn of her death. She is sur
vived by her husband and three
sons, Rex, Ray and Bob john
son, the three sons being from
Corona.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
VIOLENT DEATHS GIVE MUCH
WORK To COUNTY OFFICIALS

a prospectors' camp near Peg Leg
Wells in the northern part of the
county.
Beginning at o'clock this af-
ternoon, witnesses were called to
Lemons mortuary here to testify
at inquests into the death of HeW-
lit; Clyde Oliver, Negro, shot and
killed Thanksgiving day by Henry
Kines, alias Taylor, another Ne
gro; and James M. Nall, 81, of
Brawley, victim of a hit and run
driver Thanksgiving night on the
Brawley highway five miles north
OF Imperial.
Witnesses with knowledge re-
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Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26

Another full chapter in the his
tory of violent deaths in Imperial
county was nearing close this af-
Gernoon as Coroner A. r. Under
wood presided over and District
Attorney Elmer w. Heald assumed
charge of three inquests at Ell
Centre, and investigators were
gathering evidence to be presented
ct another inquest at Brawley
Monday morning.
Another life was added to the
seven-day toll at o'clock this
morning when John Hewitt of
Brawley died in an Ell Centre hos
pital from a bullet wound in his
ebdomen, inflicted Thanksgiving
day by Raymond H. Niemeyer, A, at
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
VIOLENCE IN
MINE STRIKES

AUBURN. ILL.,, Nov. IS. UP
More than 1000 pickets surround
ed the homes of 40 union miners
here today and prevented the men
from leaving for work at the boy
cotted Cora mine of the Peabody
Coal company at Andrew.
The pickets were said to be mem
bers of the Progressive Miners of
America, the organization which
has opposed operation of Illinois
mines under the union wage agree
ment.
DECATUR, ILL.,, Nov. 26. WP)-
Two bombs tore off the front
porch from one union coal miners
home here today and damaged two
other homes.
The men whose frame homes
were damaged are Theodore Born,
Gotlieb Rasch and William Bra
zell. All have been working at a
mine which has been picketed by
members of the Progressive Min
ers of America.
Despite the bombings. the men
all appeared for work on time.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
GARNER MAY HAVE PLENTY
Of WORK At TER MARCH 4TH

to give the vice president rowing
commission to help the president.
His idea was to make the vice
president an assistant instead of
a social figure-head who dimes in
society by night and dozes in the
senate by day. Such change
would not necessarily require legis-
lation.
"If there ever was waste of
manpower it would seem to be
here" Roosevelt is quoted as say
ing in The Saturday Evening Post
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Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
Local Mexican
Resident Dies

Mrs. Conception Antuna, 81,
died at the county hospital last
night following a long illness. She
was a resident of Ell Centro.
She was born in Mexico and had
made her home in Imperial county
for the last eight years. She is sur
vived by her husband and other
relatives. The body is at the Ar
mold Funeral home here. Funeral
arrangements have not been made
as yet.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
INTRA-sTATE AIRLINE SEEN

. LARAMIE, Wyo. W.P)-PosSibil-
ity of an airline between Laramie
and Casper was foreseen as a re-
suit of a request for information
on the subject made by Fred w.
Wahl of Casper to the state public
service commission Wahl desired
to know what was necessary to
obtain an intra- state certificate of
convenience and necessity.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
2 TYPES OF CORN CROSSED

CRESCO, Iowa U.P)-Warren B.
Perry, 73, after 90 years of experi-
menting, has crossed golden BAN
tam corn and pop corn, and is now
selling the product for seed at $43
a pound. For the discriminating
housewife Perry also offers pop
corn in black, blue, red, pink, yell
low, lavender and purple shades.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
ATTENTION Of
ROOSEVELT ON
FARM RELIEF
President Elect Hoping To
Have Legislation damned
Through Short Session.
MEETS WITH GRANGE HEADS
Recognition OF Russia Also
Being Discussed With Advisers
At Warm Springs.
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
tuEited Press Staff Correspondent

15 II n.
tuEited Press Staff Correspondent
WARM SPRINGS, Ga, Nov. 26.
-President-elect Roosevelt today
turned to the task of carrying out
his campaign pledge of new
deal" for the nations farmers.
Convinced agricultural relief
legislation should be jammed
through the lame duck session of
congress, Roosevelt planned the
first of series of conferences with
farm leaders this afternoon to ex-
change ideas on what advisers feel
VIII be an emergency program.
According to friends, the COVER
nor was represented as feeling that
something should be done before
the next harvest.
What this program will consist
of, no one was prepared to say, but
1T was felt that extension of farm
credits would be one of the matters
discussed.
The agricultural experts who
were to see him include officers of
the National Grange, headed by
Fred Freestone master of the New
York state Grange. Next week
Roosevelt will go over the farm re-
lief situation with members of the
house agricultural committee.
The PRESIDENT -elect was to re-
ceive his guests in miniature
white House deep in the pine
clad hills of Georgia where he is
.vacationing and taking treatments
in the pool of the Warm Springs
Foundation, an organization devot-
ed to care of infantile paralysis
sufferers
Studies Russia
Roosevelt will devote considerable
study to the question of recogni-
tion of Soviet Russia, but purely
from an academic standpoint. it
was understood.
While he would not comment, it
was said he was approaching the
recognition matter with an open
mind. For the past several months
the governor has studied volumes
dealing with the economic and gov
ernmental theories of the Soviet.
He also has talked with leaders of
American business in an attempt
to test their reactions toward the
reopening OF trade relations with
Moscow.
Roosevelt it was pointed out,
would want to study thoroughly all
matters pertaining to the Russian
situation now in the archives of the
state department at Washington.
He was said to feel that :.iose doc
uments would have to be digested
before any opinion would be reach
ed.
Newspapermen asked him whe-
ther he had received telegram
signed by the Rev. Edmund Walsh
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Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-U.P)+
If Franklin D. Roosevelt carries in
TO the White House one of his ear
lier ideas, he may make an import
ant man out of his vice president
John N. Garner.
When Roosevelt was running for
vice president in 1920, he was quot
ed in a magazine article as sug-
gesting that the vice president
should not be condemned to sit in
lonely grandeur, but instead should
be put to work. One suggestion was
Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-26

PARIS, Nov. IS. U.P)-National-
ist members of the French cham
ber of deputies took the initiative
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