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Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
OF DRY
CAUSE in DOUBT
ABOUT SUPPORT

WASHINGTON, July IA. U.P)-
Leaders of the great national pro-
hibition organizations debated to-
day whether to give President
Hoover their open and unified sup
port in the presidential elections
The dry chieftains convened for
a two day council of war as the
National prohibition board OF
strategy. They agreed at the out
set that a third party was out OF
the question.
The leaders all lean toward Mr.
Hoover. The matter of an open
endorsement was in doubt because
the Republican national platform
while not nearly as wet as the DEM
ocratic, declares for submitting to
the states a substitute for the 18th
amendment.
Some of prohibition generals fav-
ored Withholding a decision until
Mr.. Hoover makes his acceptance
speech in August. They hoped he
would interpret" the party pro-
hibition plank in a manner that
would make their course easier.
Organizations represented in the
war council included the Anti-sa-
loon League, w. c. T. u, World
League Against Alcoholism, Nation
al Grange, and the prohibition
boards Of the Methodist churches
both north and south.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
ROBERTSON HOLDS CALIFORNIA
VETERANS ON CAPITOL GROUNDS

helmet peered eyes, strained and
bloodshot from need of rest.
1t was Roy Robertson, commander
of the California contingent -
fighting battalion of men who
swung into the capitol grounds two
days ago and announced they
would stay there until congress
either adjourned or acted on the
bonus bill. Occasionally veterans,
their shirts damp with perspiration
and their faces lined with fatigue,
sank on the lawn of the library
of congress, imploring Robertson
to let them sleep for 10 minutes.
Get up" he shouted, prodding
them with his boots. What do
you think you are, sightseers?"
Wrecking wagons of the police
department ratified across the pave
ment and began to drag away the
battered automobiles in which the
veterans trekked across the Rocky
mountains and the hot plains of the
midwest. Here and there a man
would break line, trying to retrieve
his car, but Robertson seemed to be
everywhere, now pleading, now COM
manding, and always pushing his
followers back into line and start
ing them on the march again.
Others Watch
American flags-drooping at their
staffs in the heat of this MINDLESS
day-headed the parade. Another
1000 veterans, attracted by tales of
fortitude of the Californians, idled
near the capitol, watching with
unsmiling faces while Robertson's
shock troops clawed at sandwiches
and leaned against one another's
shoulders in their attempts to keep
on the move.
Thousands of other veterans
spraWled on the outskirts of the
city in camps that resembled a sec
ond-rate circus with barkers, side
shows and lemonade stands.
Out of the B. E. F. headquarters
came Doak Carter, acting COM
mander, anxious to make an alli-
ance with Robertson and perhaps
to learn the secret of his power over
men when their muscles no longer
responded to marching orders.
Robertson did not halt his march
up and down the line as he re-
sponded curtly to Carter's overtures:
Nothing doing. I'm going to run
my own show"
He slapped comrade across the
shoulders and steered him back in
to line.
What are we going to do? Keep
marching, that's what. They won't
let us sleep on the grass, so guess
1t won't be long until they start
taking us away in ambulances."
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
Trunk Slayer's'
Brother Arrested
At Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, July IA. UH-
The persistence of Burton McKin-
nell, 25-year-old brother of Winnie
Ruth Judd, notorious "trunk"
murderess, in selling his booklets,
1.-The Truth About Winnie Ruth
Judd" resulted in his citation
again today by police.
The youth was charged at Gen.
trail police station with blocking
traffic and failure to show a
drivers license, after he had at
tracted a crowd of nearly 500 per-
sons in downtown Los Angeles with
his sales talk.
Last Friday, he and a room
mate were cited on minor charges
In a similar connection.
1--WE got to raise $4,000 for a
defense fund for my sister," Nc
Kinnell told police, "and this is
the only way have to do it," If
McKinnell accomplishes his aim,
he will have to sell 100000 of the
booklets.
Released after the citation had
been issued against him, McKin-
nell declared he was going back
land start in again"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
Banks Declared
In Good Shape

CHICAGO, July IA. U.P) = The
country's banks have emerged from
trying June, anc passed the June
80 bank call, with sharp improve
ment in conditions, Rand McNally
and company's Weekly Banking
Market" said today.
THE first two weeks in July"
said the report, show that new
and re-opened banks are maintain
ing the steady increase begun in
March. For this week, the increase
is SIS per cent over the same period
in 1881. Every month since March
the number of new and re-opened
banks has been greater than in the
same months year ago"
The bulletin reports bank closings
for the week ended at noon We'd
nesday showed a decrease of 26.8
per cent under those of the previ-
GUS week and 1872 per cent under
the 1882 weekly average.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
SEVEN YOUTHS
SENTENCED TO
COUNTY JAIL

Judge A. c. Finney this morning
closed the records of the north
ends most startling case of juve-
nile delinquency when he sentenced
seven WeStmorland and Brawley
youths to the county Jail as a part
of probation granted them after
their pleas of guilty to contributing
to the delinquency of two minor
girls.
The girls are at the detention
home, now being wards of the
court.
o. c.. Allison, Drew Lockhart,
Claude McKinnon, Vernon Sellers
and Marvin Adams we're each SEN
fenced to six months in the county
Jail. Frank Williams, because OF
a previous criminal record, was
sentenced to eight months in Jail.
Clifford Gruewell, II, was SEN
fenced to two months in Jail, but
the sentence was withheld on con-
dition he serve 80 days in Jail, and
then be placed in charge of the
probation officer for one year. His
case will be transferred to the
Jurisprudence of the Riverside
county probation officer.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
UTAH and IDAHO
FARMS DAMAGED
BY HAIL STORM

SALT LAKE CITY, July IA. W.P)
Utah and southern Idaho farm
ers disconsolately viewed damaged
crops and unroofed barns today, the
result OF a series OF thunder and
wind and hail storms that killed
two persons and injured several
others.
Ten year old Norman Neal Arco.
Ida, was struck end instantly killed
by lightning. The boy was riding a
horse across field when the bolt
struck His horse. also, was killed.
Jonathan Vivian Petersen, A,
Brigham City, Utah, met a similar
fate at the head Of Beaver cam
yon, near Huntsville. He was trail
ing flock of sheep when lightning
felled him. causing instant death.
Crop damage throughout the
northern intermountain country
was extensive. Near Garland, Utah,
a hailstorm laid low 10000 acres
of dry farm wheat and many hum
dred acres of sugar beets and al
falfa. Hailstones resembling min
iature golf balls punctured auto
tops and broke every window fac
ing westward.
A terrific wind at Soda Springs,
Ida, left IN It's wake heavy crop
and building damage and shattered
hopes OF farmers who looked for
ward TO a material profit this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
MRS. HUTTON in
GRAVE CONDITION
FOLLOWING FALL

LOS ANGELES, July IA. (U.H-
Mrs. Aimee Semple Mcpherson
Hutton, evangelist, was declared to
be in an extremely critical" condi-
tion today from concussion and a
possible fracture of the skull as
the result of an injury suffered
last week.
The leader of Angelus temple
was removed from her Moorish
castle at Lake Elsinore last night
to Los Angeles hospital after she
lapsed into a coma.
Mrs. Hutton was injured last
week when she fell and struck
the back of her head after being
informed that her husband, David
l.. Hutton, had lost the breach o.
promise suit brought against him
by Mrs. Myrtle H. st. Pierre, who
was given $4,000 judgment.
Mrs. Hutton has grown worse
since the fall" DR.. Edward H
Williams, her physician, said. "Yes-
terday she was in comatose con-
dition most of the time, although
at times she is rational.
"She is suffering from concus-
sion and there is possibility that
her skull may be fractured. There
is also strong possibility that
she may suffer cerebral hemor-
rhage which might prove fatal
1t was revealed that Attorney
Paul Schenck and his associate,
G. o. Bacon, had visited the evan
gelist at Lake Elsinore and that
she had neither recognized them
nor was able to talk coherently.
Mrs. Hutton has been seriously
i'll since she returned some weeks
ago from a trip to Central America.
Her condition was aggravated by
her husbands breach of promise
trial and the turmoil over the al
legged petty graft in the commissary
department of Angelus temple.
The commissary trouble became
acute when 20 charity solicitors
were discharged and the social
service commission ordered can
celled permission of the commits
sion to solicit aid for feeding Of
the poor, pending further investi-
cation.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
One KILLED AND
FOUR INJURED IN
AIRPLANE CRASH

MEXICO CITY, July IA. U.P)-
Carl w. Gilpin, president of the
Gilpin Air Lines, of Glendale,
Calf, was killed and four others
injured last night when a private
airplane piloted by Gilpin struck a
mountain 80 miles from Mexico
City.
James N. Crofton, president of
the Aqua Caliente resort corpora
ton; his wife, Mona Rico, motion
picture actress; Carlos M. Verdugo
of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Raymond
Allen, were injured.
Gilpin's plane was chartered last
Monday by Crofton to fly a party
to Mexico City for an official in
terview with President Ortiz Rubio
1t was first reported that Mrs
Allen was Mrs. Gilpin, but later
advices from Los Angeles showed
that Mrs. Allen was a member OF
Crofton's party.
Crofton and Miss Rico were mar
ried here several weeks ago, it was
disclosed today.
Original plans were for Gov.
Agustin Olachea of Baja Califor-
mia to join the flight but he was
detained and sent Verdugo as his
representative.
Crofton is associated with Joseph
M. Schenck in operating the Aqua
Caliente resort and race track.
The accident occurred at 7:3C
p. m. when Gilpin attempted to
land near Portezuelo mountain
state of Mexico, because of bad
weather and shortage of fuel. The
motor of the ship crushed Gilpin.
The injured were rushed to the
Red Cross hospital at Toluca, state
OF Mexico, where they were in a
serious condition. Crofton's right
leg and right hand were broken
His wife had severe cuts on her
forehead, chin and left shoulder.
Gilpin was widely known in avia-
ton circles. His company operates
between Los Angeles and Aqua
Caliente, Mex, near Tijuana. He
formerly was a pilot for the Pick
wick Air Lines operating in Mex
leo, and knew the country well.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
HEAVY Loss IN
BIG BLAZE AT
CONEY ISLAND
Ruins Searched For Pos
sible Victims At New
York Resort.

CONEY ISLAND, N. Y, July Ia.
W.H = Victims possibly trapped by
flames or crushed when 100000 ter
rified merry makers stampeded
were sought TO-DAY IN the ashes of
$4,000, 900 fire that started in
rubbish pile and swept Americas
most famous playground.
So far as known, no one in the
maddened throng that poured half
dressed from lighthouses, or that
scurried through the surf to the
beach, or were at work in conces-
sions, was reported missing.
But 5000 were believed homeless,
and many slept near here on the
sandy shores Of the Atlantic, or on
army cots rushed here by truck.
Steeplechase Park, Brighton
Beach avenue and Ocean Parkway
became cities of cots from which
sleepy, homeless families tumbled
today to begin their hunt for new
homes, or continue their hunt for
jobs with which to pay for new
| homes.
Other refugees were housed in
Loews theatre, the Shelby hotel,
Hotel Eleanor, the Tuxedo theatre,
and in vacant houses and bunga-
lows scattered along the white sand
beach that has been a paradise to
New York's sweltering millions.
Others caught by the swiftness of
the flames, could not return home
until morning. They were stranded
with little or nc clothing, or in
bathing suits, with no money when
| the roaring blaze cracked across
1000 feet of the boardwalk and des-
troyed most of four square blocks.
Many Injured
Firemen and police were on the
| job all night. Many were injured
or overcome by smoke More than
80 were IN the hospital at one time
or another during the night. None
was seriously hurt.
Two six floor apartment houses
| that burned after the tinder dry
boardwalk buildings were ruined
kept many fire companies on the
job.
More than 300 children were
lost. But police believed they had
restored them to their homes by
morning. unless in the confusion
some may have been trapped.
| So far as could be learned today
the rubbish bonfire that grew into
the greatest Coney Island fire sins,
| the $5,O0o,0OO blaze of 1911, left
this toll
Damage. $2,OOO,OOO, according tc
Fire Marshal Thomas P. Brophy
Boardwalk burned along a 1000
foot front, with all adjacent build
ingS.
At least so dwellings, two large
apartment houses, and several ten
ement buildings destroyed.
Nearly 200 automobiles parked
along streets bridged by the flames
consumed or damaged beyond re-
pair.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
1nglish Duz
Need Reform
WASHINGTON, July ID. U.D

WASHINGTON, July ID. U.D
Observation-Disclosures"
No, that's not Greek or Hin
dustani. It's just how the
good old word potato" looks
after Prof. J. G. ii. Buck, ar
dent advocate Of reformed
spelling, has demonstrated the
inconsistencies of English.
He demonstrates it this way:
In the word "hiccough", "gh"
is substituted for "p". In
dough, there is cough" for
the 90" sound. In "phtisic",
there is "pth" for "t". In
neigh, "eight" for "a. In
gazette, "tte" for st" and
"beaux", faux" for co..
"Now," says the professor,
Substituting these c0mbina-
tions for the simple sounds
in the word potato" and you
find it would go like this
observation-disclosures.
Professor Buck, 95 years old,
came here from San Antonio,
Tex, to try to get congress to
pass a simplified spelling law.
He says it would save the coun-
try Sl33,0O0.000 annually in
printing bills.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
AWAIT DECISION
ON PUBLICATION
BY POST OFFICE

GIRARD. Kan, July ID. up
The August l issue of the Amer
ican Freeman was submitted for
mailing at the Girard post office
today, but officials refused to dis
patch the issue to subscribers pend
ing an opinion from the solicitor of
the department in Washington.
E. Haldeman julius, publisher,
asserted the action was taken be-
cause of 2 front page editorial crit
icizing President Hoover.
Previously the post office de-
partment had barred from the mails
the issues of June 25 and July is
on the grounds that articles on
unemployment contained matter of
an Objectionable nature.
Haldeman-JuliuS charged that
the action today bore out his con-
tention that the real reason for re-
fusing to accept the issues Of June
25 and July Is was the attack on
President Hoover, and that the un-
employment articles were con-
vention subterfuge"
WASHINGTON, July IA. W.P)-
Solicitor Donnelly Of the post office
department said to-day the new issue
of the American Freeman had not
been called to his attention but
that ruling would be announced
after he had been advised of the
magazines contents.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
Sailors Caught
Stealing Sloop

SAN PEDRO, Calf, July IA. U.P)
With two loaves of bread and a
jug of water, Herbert Barnes, 81,
and Charles E. Bowers, "a, sailors
who had been ION the beach" for
several months, set out for Mex
leo and Central America at dawn
today in the sloop Blue Water"
The sloop, police said, was owned
by Clayton G. Williams of San Pc
dro, who reported its theft as the
sailors were beating downwind past
the breakwater.
A coast guard cutter overhauled
the sloop at noon just two miles
east of the breakwater, and turned
the sailors over to police, who
booked them on charges of grand
theft.
Barnes and Bowers told officers
that they knew nothing about sail
ing sloops, but thought they could
learn easily, officers related. Their
main thought was to beat down the
coast to Mexico, stopping at small
towns long enough to earn a new
supply of food.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
BOND DEFAULT
WILL Be SMALL
ROSE DECLARES

Discussion of a refunding plan
for Imperial Irrigation district
bonds has been under way for
some time and recently M. j..
Dowd, chief engineer, was dele
gated by directors to place the
matter before the California irri-
cation districts securities COM
mission.
The plan considered is that Of
a friendly act of cooperation be-
tween the district and bondholderS
to permit postponement of prin-
cipal payments and a reduction Of
interest as a means of relief. 1T
is proposed to carry out the post
ponement without injury to the
credit of the valley organization.
while the default total will be
SMALL" said Mark Rose today" it
undoubtedly will be impossible to
pick it up under present economic
conditions. The reason the default
is expected to be small is because
taxpayers made definite effort to
pay their taxes and were able to
make a good showing in assess
ment payments. 1t is hoped the
bondholders will reward the tax
payers by agreeing to the postpone
ment. That would be fair to
everyone.
"The plan Dowd has to place be-
fore the securities commission
would place principal payments
several years ahead and reduce the
interest. 1t is provided that the
commission act as an intermediary
between the district and the bond
holders. We hope it will work out
successfully" Rose said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
ReverSes Cause
Double Tragedy

LOS ANGELES, July IA. W.H-
The strain of heavy financial re-
verses today caused E. M. Shut,
81, retired Oregon deputy sheriff,
to shoot and kill his blind son,
Laurence, 38, as they sat in a
parked automobile, and then drink
a bottle of poison and fire shot
into his own head which caused
his death within an hour, police
reported.
Witnesses to the shooting said
the two men were talking in the
automobile when the elder man
suddenly drew a revolver and shot
his son through the head. Shut
was a Glendale real estate man
and formerly served as a deputy
sheriff in Moro county, Oregon.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
CARNIVAL GROUP
FIRED UPON BY
IRATE FARMERS

MECHANICSVILLE, Md, July
ID. UP) = Twenty-Five persons,
members of a carnival troupe which
folded its tents here early today,
were shot last night from ambush.
Three are critically wounded in
Casualty hospital, Washington. An
other ''pitchman,' cut down Sat-
urday with three slugs in his
stomach, may die in Leonardtown
hospital.
State troopers claim the shooting
was done by enraged farmers who
had lost heavily on the "gigged''
wheels and raffles the carnival
folk operated.
Three automobile loads of men
drove past the carnival grounds
last night, it was reported, and
poured a blistering fire into the
grouped workers who were prepar-
ing to leave for Leesburg, Va.
State Troopers Harold Serman and
j. r. Miller of the Waldorf sub
station, said they learned trouble
had been brewing between the rus
tics and the carnival folk ever
since the show arrived in town.
There was brief flare-up Satur-
day, followed by the definite am
bushing last night.
In Leonardtown hospital is Will
liam Stanley, who ran a rattle
board. Doctors say he may die.
Clarence v. Hill, %; Frank Biz
zard, 80, and his wife, Anna, %,
are in Casualty hospital, Washing
ton. All are badly wounded
Mrs. Blizzard, wounded in the
head and upper body, tossed her
infant daughter to safety when the
shooting started. The child, Jared
and scratched by its fall into a
nearby bush, was unhit by slugs.
At least II of those wounded re-
ceived serious hurts, the state
troopers said, although only four
could be located in hospitals. They
would not talk.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
MORE TROUBLES
REPORTED FROM
SOUTH AMERICA
By United Press

A break in diplomatic relations
between Uruguay and Argentine
and an attempt at revolt in Ecua-
dor were added today to South
American political troubles.
Ecuador claimed the revolt was
quelled and that the country re-
mained loyal to the existing regime.
The Brazilian government ap-
propriated $l,450,000 to break the
revolt in the state of Sac Paulo.
President Vargas was said to have
refused anything but surrender.
Peru started court martial action
against instigators of the revolt at
Trujillo, one of the bloodiest in re-
cent years, in which death roll
of over 200 included $50. civilians
and army officers massacred in the
Trujillo Jail.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
STRIKING MINERS
In NEAR CLASH
WITH OFFICIALS

TAYLORVILLE, H., July ID
(U.P) - Bolstered by victory ovel
county police officers who allowed
them to pass through the city after
an initial refusal, 1900 Illinois
miners returned to their homes to-
day to fight a proposed wage re-
duction.
The caravan was returning from
a demonstration at Springfield
against mine union officials who
submitted the wage proposal. The
miners arrived here determined tc
show Christian county authorities
where to get off at"
But the threatened violence
aroused by refusal of county polics
to allow miners to drive through
the city enroutS to Springfield, was
averted.
The miners caravan was met by
a deputation of sheriff'S officers
and 1000 spectators. On the prom
Use of the men they didn't mean
trouble, the automobiles were al
lowed to drive through town.
The Springfield demonstration
broke up after a fiery meeting al
which district officers of the
United Mine Workers of America
were denounced for submitting q
proposal reducing the basic wage
scale from $6.10 to $5 a day. The
new scale which would reopen mines
closed since March by expiration
of the previous contract is now be-
ing balloted on by local unions
The miners decided to go back home
and organize to defeat the proposal
in the ballot.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-14
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NEVADA DESERT
BEING SEARCHED
FOR LOST PLANE

RENO, New, July IA. UP) = An
airplane search was underway to-
day for v. S. Davis, SO, Alhambra
insurance man, who was believed
lost on the Nevada desert between
Reno and Elko. q distance of 300
miles.
Davis was plotting a plane to Salt
Lake on business trip. 1t was
reported that he was accompanied
by his secretary Miss Opal Simp-
son, 80.
They arrived here Monday night
and left Tuesday. Davis planned
to make a stop at Elko for fuel.
Attendants at the airport here re-
ported that the planes engine was
sputtering when Davis took off.
Nothing was thought of it, how
ever, until reports came from Salt
Lake City late yesterday that Davis
had not arrived.
Elko airport officials reported
they had not seen Davis. The last
seen of the plane was when it
passed over Fernley, 35 miles from
here, shortly after 1t left Reno
Tuesday. bi
FRESNO, Calf, July ID. U.P)-
Mrs. Della Simpson, owner of the
Fulton hotel here. today confirmed
reports that her daughter accom-
panied v. S. Davis on a plane trip
to Salt Lake City.
"They planned to visit Davis
mother in Twin Falls, Ida, and
then fly to Seattle before taking a
vacation trip into Canada" she
said.
Miss Simpson has been Davis
secretary for two years. Mrs.
Simpson said the couple planned to
be married this fall.