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Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
Japan Slashes
Postal Savings

TOXIC, Aug. 16. W.P)-A twelve
million dollar slash in postal saw
ings rates was decided upon by the
cabinet today when it announced
it would reduce the rate on such
savings from AZ per cent to 3 per
cent.
The reduction was to become ef-
fective in October, and 100000
depositors will be affected by the
order.
Postal savings deposits in Japan
last year were estimated to equal
4,105, 100000 yen. At the present
rate of exchange this would be the
equivalent of approximately $1,0l3,-
$4,000 and the interest reduction
would represent a saving of $l2,-
1920.
Postal savings have been popu-
lar form Of investment for years in
Japan.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
Trio OF Veterans
Under Indictment
For Bonus Riots

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. U.P)-
The grand jury which investigated
last months bonus army disorders
at the request of President Hoover
reported today with the indictment
of three former service men for
assault with a dangerous weapon.
There was no mention of radi-
Gals, reds or Communists in the in
dictments which were based on the
Pennsylvania avenue battle of July
% when federal officers sought to
oispossess squatters from areas
destined for public buildings.
The three men have been under
arrest since July 2S on charges of
assault. They are Broadus Faux
ner, Negro, Kentucky; Bernard
Mccoy, Chicago, and John o. Oh
son, Valparaiso, Neb. They will
be tried in October in District of
Columbia supreme court.
Judge Oscar Luhring expressly
instructed the grand jury to inquire
into the possible Communist origin
of the disorders in which two veter-
ans were killed. In handing down
the indictments today the grand
jury did not offer any supplement-
al report. The documents were of
routine character.
Mccoy, bricklayer, was indict-
ed on three counts, one charging
that he struck with a brick, Po-
liceman James E. Scott. Scott still
is in the hospital. Mccoy is fur
ther charged with assault with a
blunt instrument and with as
sault with intent to kill.
Faulkner is charged with assault
on policeman, John E, Winters,
with a brick and a blunt instru-
ment."
Olson is charged with beating
Policeman Richard o. Bankert with
table leg.
Since their arrest July %, the men
have been in Jail, lacking $4,000
bond each after preliminary hearing
in which Police Judge Ralph Given
held them for the grand jury.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
SON BORN
TODAY TO
.LINDBERCH
Famous Flyer Chuckles
AS He Confirms News
To Reporters.
SILENT ON DETAILS
Mother And Son Reported
Doing Well At Morrow
Residence.

Editors Note: The United
Press was advised by the Nor
row home that no information
would be given out at this time
regarding the baby's name,
weight, color of hair, eyes, etc.
Reasons for this action are OBJ
vious.
ENGLEWOOD, N. j., Aug. 16. U.D
Colonel and Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh today appealed to the
press 30 permit our children to
lead the lives ef normal Ameri-
cans"
"It is impossible" the colonel said,
"for us to subject the life of our
second son to the publicity which
we feel was In large measure re-
sponsible for the death of our first"
ENGLEWOOD, N. j., Aug. 16.
W.P)-A son was born to Mrs.
Charles A. Lindbergh, the former
Anne Morrow, at 730 a. m. today.
The mother and infant were re-
ported doing we'll"
Shortly after the birth of the
child, the United Press telephoned
the Morrow estate and Colonel
Lindbergh verified the birth of his
second son. He chuckled happily
as congratulations were given him.
This second son was born approx
imately three months after their
first child, Charles Augustus, Jr.,
had been found slain few miles
from the Lindbergh estate at Hope
we'll, N. j.
The first son was kidnapped from
the Lindbergh home on the night
of March l.
It was shortly after the first son
was stolen from his nursery crib
that it became known Mrs. Lind
bergh was expecting another child.
Mrs. Dwight Morrow, Mrs. Lind
berghs mother, told of the expect
ed baby, hoping the revelation
might soften the hearts of the kid
napers and induce them to return
the little blonde haired Charles, Jr.
The months Of search, interna-
tional in scope, went on. Mrs.
Lindbergh bore up as a true Spar
tan mother. She counseled with
her young husband and her moth
er, and helped manage the house
hold which suddenly had been
transformed into a police barracks.
Not once during that trying or
deal did she fully give way to her
pent up grief She was reported
verging on illness, but her spirit
did not falter.
Then, the body of her baby was
found. The body was left in mud
CONTINUED On Page g.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
Mrs. Mccormick
Slightly Better

CHICAGO, Aug. 16. U.P)-Phy-
sicians attending Mrs. Edith Rocke-
feller Mccormick were cheered to-
day by the improved condition OF
their patient.
Though little hope is entertained
for the permanent recovery of the
once wealthiest woman in America,
she was reported in much better
spirits than during the recent weeks
since her illness became critical.
The constant attendance at her
bedside of nearly all her immediate
family was believed to have done
much to aid the social leader strug-
Cling under the double burden of
critical illness and severe financial
losses.
Mrs. Mathilde Oser, Mrs. McCor-
mick's youngest daughter who mar
ried a Swiss riding master, will
land at New York today after a
hurried trip from France. 1t was
reported she would fly here with
John D. Rockefeller, jr, Mrs. Nc
Cormick's brother.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
Missing Airplane
Returns Safely

GLOUCESTER, Mass, Aug. 16.
U.P)-Four coast guard flyers, forced
down at sea on a rescue mission,
have been returned safely to the
Gloucester base, rescued by fellow
guardsmen about so miles off Port
land, Me. ~.
Adrift in foggy seas for Is hours,
the marooned airmen were found
by the destroyer Wainwright, one
of more than dozen coast guard
craft engaged in the search. The
powerful amphibian, which had
been forced down by a lack of gas
oline. was refuelled, and flown
here,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
'JObless Party
Plans Convention
At Saint Louis

ST. LOUIS, Aug, 16. U.H - The
threatened Intervention by the state
militia confronting the Jobless-Lib-
erty party on the eve of its con-
vention here to nominate candi-
dates for president and vice-pres-
ident was rescirded last night. :.
DR.. L. G. Obrock, county health
commissioner, speaking in behalf
of DR.. James E. Stewart, state
health commissioner, and for him
self, stated no interference would
be attempted because of unsanitary
conditions of the convention site
The announcement was made after
a conference with William Hope
(Coin) Harvey, 80-year-old leader
of the Liberty party.
Health officials became alarmed
when the probable attendance at
the convention was, advancely es-
timated at $4,000. Sanitary facili-
ties at the convention site, ar
abandoned race track overlooking
Creve Coeur Lake, are too meager
to accommodate crowds of this size
they cotended. However, after be-
ing assured the attendance would
not surpaSs 5000, Obrock rescinded
the order.
A few hundred of the "blue shirt
army of Father James R. Cox
Pittsburg Catholic priest, choice oi
the jobless party for President, al
ready were camped in the great
open convention hall"
Father Cox, who led a march Of
jobless to Washington to ask con.
gress for relief last winter, was tc
arrive here late today in. his "littlt
red truck" which he has repaintec
blue. He is being accompanied by
1000 delegates from Pittsburgh anc
intermediate points.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
DAMAGE CAUSED
IN TEXAS STORM
STILL INCREASES
Property Loss Expected
To Reach AS High AS
S3,000,000.

HOUSTON, Tex, Aug. 16. U.P)--
Full extent of damages wrought by
a weekend hurricane along Texas
gulf coast became known today as
relief workers penetrated stricken
communities.
Repaired communication lines
brought reports of additional
casualties setting the number of
known dead at 33. Damage in the
400 square mile area was raised
from $1,000,000 to 100000. Three
hundred persons were listed as hav-
ing received medical attention.
Trucks and freight cars carried
supplies of building materials, food,
water, medicine and clothing to
small coastal towns that bore the
brunt of the tropical winds. The
box cars, emptied of their loads,
were turned into sleeping quarters
for refugees.
Damage to rice and cotton crops
was set at $1,000,000. Demolished
buildings, twisted railroad tracks
and damaged highways added an
other $2,oO0,oOO.
Receding waters and crushed
buildings in Brazoria county, where
the storm struck hardest, were ex-
pected to yield additional bodies.
One thousand persons are in need
of relief in that county alone, ac-
cording to w. A. Paddock, Harris
county Red Cross chairman.
Sixty coast guardsmen were
rushing here from Fort Lauder
dale, Fla, aboard the cutter Nunal-
ga for relief work. Seven relief
workers were sent to the storm area
by the National Red Cross. An ap-
peal has been made for $4,000 re-
lief funds.
Houston municipal emergency
relief organization contributed 500
loaves of bread, HOO pounds of
bacon, 300 pounds of peas, 500
pounds of sugar and other food
stuffs. City engineers undertook the
task of restoring water supplies.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
GERMANY PLANS
CONFERENCE ON
DISARMAMENT
Seeks To Negotiate With
France For Revision OF
Versailles Treaty.
BY FREDERICK KUH
United Press Staff Correspondent

Copyright, 1892, BY United Press
BERLIN, Aug. 16.-Germany is
on the verge of opening direct dis
armament negotiations" w h
France, 1t was disclosed today, and
In the event of failure, is ready to
abrogate the military restrictions
imposed on Germany by the Ver-
sailles treaty.
On July 26, Gen. Kurt Won Schlei-
cher, minister of defense, an
nounced in broadcast speech that
Germany is prepared to remodel
her armed forces, since the other
powers are unwilling to reduce
to Germany's level.
The German government Is now
prepared to put those words into
practice, and on the return of the
French ambassador. Andre Francois
Voncet, from his vacation, intends
to start discussions, possibly next
week, looking to revision of the
Versailles military provisions.
In the impending conversations,
Germany will demand, first, re-
duction of the IL year term of army
service to six years. The Versailles
treaty imposed mercenary army
on Germany with IL year enlist
ment term, which experts regard as
psychologically damaging to the
troops.
Secondly, Germany will demand
the right to manufacture arms at
various plants which also will pro-
duce other products. Under the
agreement of the ambassadors con-
ference, Germany is now permitted
to manufacture arms at 33 desig-
mated factories, and the quantity
of arms is fixed.
LONDON, Aug. 16. U.P)-Arma-
ment experts of Great Britain and
the United States will confer short
ly, seeking compromise on the
Hoover plan calling for an all
around, one-third reduction of
arms.
Hugh Gibson, American ambas-
sador to Belgium. will have the
task of bringing the British into
line, it is understood. He is Amer
ica's foremost disarmament expert
Sir John Simon, British foreign
minister, considers the naval
clauses in the Hoover plan hostile
and indicated Britain will not ac-
cept the plan in its original form
Great Britain holds three major
points of opposition to the Hoover
proposal First is opposition to
the naval clauses, although the
empire will accept the land and
air clauses.
The proposed one-third reduction
would not be fair to Breat Britain S
naval ornaments, it is held, be-
cause the government has disarmed
long before other nations, and be-
cause her dominions require an ef-
ficient fleet.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
YOUNG TEDDY
WILL CAMPAIGN
AGAINST COUSIN
Theodore Jr., Will Aid
Hoover In Drive For
Reelection.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent

OhltCu ETcSS StdIt Correspondent
Copyright, 1892, By United Press
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. = APP
pointment of a lieutenant governor
of the Philippines apparently has
cleared the way for Theodore
Roosevelt, jr., to campaign in this
country against his distant cousin
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Demo-
cratic Roosevelt.
Republican strategists had wanted
Theodore because they felt he
would offset the Democratic can
didate's name appeal because of
his prestige with war veterans, and
because OF his stumping ability.
Difficulties, however, had pre-
vented announcement of definite
campaign plans for him on the
continent. The Filipinos didn't
want him to leave. There was nc
one on the island to pinch hit for
him as governor general.
An appeal to Theodore famous
sister, Alice Roosevelt Longworth
was understood to have been made
in an effort to bring Theodore
home. What passed between brother
and sister is not known, but the
appointment of. the lieutenant gov
ernor soon followed.
The office had been vacant for
months. Some Filipinos had III
dicated they hoped it would remain
vacant for economy reasons. The
appointee, John H. Holiday, has
for six months been legal advisor
to Governor Roosevelt and is in
position to pinch hit during the
colonels absence.
Brother Theodore always has
been closer to Alice than any of
the other Roosevelt children. She
is credited with having helped
smooth the way for senate approval
of his appointment as governor OF
Porto Rico. His successful record
there completely rehabilitated him
after a Disappointing start as the
assistant secretary of navy when he
carried the Teapot Dome orders be-
tween the White House and the
navy department and later as an
unsuccessful candidate for COVER
nor of New York against Alfred E.
Smith. His start in the Philippines
has been thorough and thus far his
successful Porto Rican record is
being repeated. He is a protege OF
Senator Borah who as chairman OF
the senate foreign relations COM
mittee has been able to help him in
his two posts. Borah was his
fathers floor manager in the ia
nous 1912 Republican convention
but refused to leave the party.
Sister Alice, while assisting In
the activities of the Republican
Roosevelt's this year, is not ex-
pected to take as conspicuous a
part as her former social rival
here, Mrs. Dolly Gam. The vice.
presidents sister will be prominent
on the stump. She is on her way
to Kansas now to attend her
brothers notification ceremony at
Topeka, Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
w. C. T. u. Not
To Help Hoover

SEATTLE, Aug. 16. U.R-The
58th national convention of the
Womans Christian Temperance Un-
ion will not follow the lead of the
allied forces of prohibition in en-
dorsing the Hoover-Curtis ticket,
Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, presi-
dent, said last night.
"This organization cannot en-
dorse President Hoover in the face
of his stand on the party's pro-
hibition plank" she said. The Re-
publican party has disfranchised us
by its stand en- prohibition issues"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
@H.nLdL1os
V 1says:

BEVERLY HILLS, Aug. Is.
(SpeciaD-You can always de-
pend on the old American Ne
gro to say the apt things in a
few words. UP here at the
ranch the other day a Negro
private of the famous 10th cav
airy (who are taking care of
the American horses) was lead
ing a tired horse around that
had lost in his particular COM
petition. He didn't know any
one was in hearing distance,
but we heard him say: "nevery
mind, old boy, you didn't win
nothing, but loves you"
Now let some educated diplo-
mat think of a more fitting
thing to say to our foreign and
native competitors than that.
Never mind boy or girls, from
what state or what country
you come and was defeated,
I'VE loves you"
Yours
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
Lady Luck Was
Right On Job

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16. U.R)-
An automobile containing three
men today plunged over a steep
embankment, hung for an instant
on high tension wires IS feet be-
low the edge, then spilled the men
another IS feet TO a roadway below
One man was knocked uncon-
scious, while the other two suffered
bruises and cuts
All three were arrested on charges
of intoxicetion Police said the
unique accident climaxed a hilar-
ious, all-night party.
The two men less severely in
jured, gave their names as Frank
WEIGH, 28, and Diego Beltran, while
the third was unidentified.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
STR R|K|NC
FARM ERS
-UNMOvED
Violence Used In Iowa
Milk War To Prevent
Deliveries.
ROADS PATROLLED
Extra Deputies Sworn By
Sheriff To Keep Order
On Highways.

SIOUX CITY, Ia, Aug. 16 U.P)-
One hundred unemployed men were
deputized by Sheriff John A.
Davenport today to enforce law
and order in Woodbury. and Ply
mouth counties where Iowa's farm
strike and milk war ragged with
renewed violence.
Showers of sticks and stones
smashed truck windshields and
bruised trucksters who sought to
run the gauntlet of pickets on the
nine trunk roads leading here, and
long sticks on which knives were
tied were used by strikers to en-
force their commands.
Traffic was virtually at a stand
still for several hours last night
as the pickets halted even tourist
cars to ask if they were carrying
farm produce. Trucks were turned,
back.
Flat refusals were given Daven-
port when he toured county roads
asking pickets to disband. Dayen-
port returned at once to his office
deputized so men, and asked U. S.
Employment Director T. L. Taggart
to enlist another so at dawn.
He announced that a grave Sit
uation" existed
The strikers also began making
new recruits during the night, as
the word spread that "the law
was taking a hand. Ready volun-
teers took the places of many of
the 1900 who had maintained a
vigil Of more than is hours, and
the crowd was expected to be
swelled to more than 1000 before
noon.
The armed deputies were to
patrol the roads, ride on trucks
which independents not In SYM
pathy with the strike are attempt
ing to use in contracting Sioux City
markets, and restore order.
One Shot Fired
Reports yesterday told of truck
ers being pulled from their seats as
the strikers turned trucks around
on the road. One shot was fired.
Strikers stood firmly in the face
of organized enforcement. They
worked feverishly during the night
dragging up heavy chains and logs
which were stretched across the
roads. Farm women tugged at
heavy timbers along with the men.
Youths and children looked on,
assisting in the lighter tasks.
I'VE are entitled to a fair price
for our farm products, and we IRE
going to get it, Sheriff Davenport
was told when he ordered a group
of more than $50 strikers to disband.
The sheriff countered, he said,
by insisting that the roads should
be kept open.
1--WE will not allow traffic to be
stopped nor commerce to be in
terfered WITH" he said.
Sioux City's milk supply was
brought in by train again last night.
Ninety per cent of the supply or
dinarily provided by local farmsrs
was given to unemployed and needy.
Attempts to arbitrate the milk war
repeatedly ended in failure.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
Courts Ruling
May Be Fought

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10. W.P)-
A ruling by Federal Judge Paul J.
Mccormick that the Guaranty
Building and Loan association is
entitled to acquire assets OF the
Elmer Oil Co., letd., probably will
be fought in higher courts by cred
itors of the oil company, Ivan q.
Mcdaniel, representing the credit
ors, said today.
Judge Mccormick ruled last Sat-
urday, following months OF litiga-
ton, that the guaranty company Is
entitled to all assets OF the Elmer
company, into which Gilbert II.
Beesemyer. now In prison for defal-
cations which wrecked the loan as
sociation, was said to have invested
near sl,000,000 Of guaranty funds.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
FILE PETITIONS
FOR RECALL OF
THREE JUDGES

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16. U.P)-
Recall petitions against three su-
perior court judges, two of whom
allegedly accepted gifts from re-
ceivers for the American Mortgage
company, were filed with w. M.
Kerr, registrar of voters today.
The petitions we're drawn against
John l.. Fleming, Walter S. Guerin
and Daley s. Stafford, and con-
tanned more than 100000 signatures
each.
Proceedings we've instituted
against the three jurists by the Los
Angeles Bar association when they
refused to accede to demands that
they resign.
Stafford and Guerin were accused
of having accepted gifts of cloth
ing from Charles F. Allison and A.
j. Showalter, later discharged as
state receivers for the $13,000,000
mortgage firm.
Fleming was charged with per-
mitting deposit of receivership
funds in a bank in which he had a
financial interest.
Superior Judge Walter S. Gates
recently was quickly acquitted of a
charge chat he accepted bribe by
| appointing a publicity writer as his
campaign promoter in exchange for
receivership posts.
Kerr said he would immediately
have the petitions checked to deter
mine if there were sufficient names
of qualified electors to warrant a
recall election.
There were 107,571 signatures on
the petition for Stafford's remov-
al: 104,412 against Guerin and
104,341 against Fleming. Between
$4,000 and $4,000 signatures were
required.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
Indiana Lightens
Taxation Burden

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 16. U.P)-
Indiana's emergency session of the
legislature adjourned sine die to-
day with the states property tax
burden lightened between $12,000,-
900 and $15,000,000.
The Wright "bone dry" law, al
though battered by repeated at
tacks, was unchanged.
1t was estimated aggregate salary
reductions would be $8,7O0,000. In
diana's public official payroll is
approximately $s7,OOo,0oO.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
Illinois Miners
Remain At Odds

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. 16. U.P)
- Hostile coal miners flung
challenges at each other in central
and southern Illinois today as
armed civilians patrolled the roads
against invasion by pickets.
At Mount Vernon, group of
college students was turned back
from proposed coal fields tour.
Sheriff William Groves of Jeffer-
son county halted the party, four
of them women and the majority
from the University of Chicago at
the request of Sheriff Browning
Robinson of Franklin county.
"You are not wanted in southern
Illinois and you'd better stay out"
Sheriff Groves told the students,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
Consumption OF
Cotton Drops

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. W.R-
Consumption of cotton in Ameri-
car mills in July amounted to 276,-
656 bales. compared with 320,783
bales in June, and 450,884 bales in
July, 1881, it was reported today
by the department of agriculture.
Cotton consumed in the II
months ended July 81 totaled A.
869, ,103 bales against 5,262,974 bales
in the preceding season, it was re-
ported.
Export of cotton for July were re-
ported at 449,476 bales against
360,205 bales n June, while imports
were 1864 against 1901 bales.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
Eastern Jurist
Dies In Riverside

RIVERSIDE. Aug. 16. W.H-Judge
Nelson Y. Dung, 65, of Somer-
vile, N. j., dropped dead here at a
hotel last night.
He had come to Southern Cali
fornia three weeks ago with his
wife, daughter, Ruth, and a son.
Nelson, to attend the olympic
games, and had been visiting rela-
tives in Glendale, Calf.
Judge Dung was member of
the New jersey circuit court for
81 years. His body will be taken
east tonight.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
Return OF Kaiser
Denied In Berlin

BERLIN, Aug. 16. U.R)-Both the
government and the Berlin repre-
sentative of the former ruling fam
lily today denied sensational re-
ports that the ex-kaiser, Wilhelm,
has concluded arrangements to re-
turn and live at Hohenfels castle
near Coburg.
A Communist newspaper started
the rumors, declaring that both
Adolf Hitler and Chancellor Franz
Won Papen agreed to Wilhelm's re-
turn for the purpose of lending i'm
petus to a monarchist movement.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
Flu Epidemic
Not Dangerous

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16. W.P)-
An influenza epidemic threatened
1900 prisoners in the county Jail
today, with the number of prison.
ers confined by the illness to the
Jail hospital increased to so.
DR.. Benjamin Blank, county
health physician, said that none of
those who had contracted the sick
ness was in a serious condition. He
anticipated it would take nearly
three weeks for the epidemic to
run itself out.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-16
Garner COnfers
With AL Smith

NEW YORK, Aug. 16. U.P)-
John N. Garner, after a conference
today with former Gov. Alfred E.
Smith said he had "hope" that
Smith would support the Roosevelt
Garner ticket.
He added, however, that any in
formation on this point should
come from Smith. The former gov
ernor, when questioned, mad moth
ing to say"