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Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
INSURANCE CASE
IN ADJOURNMENT
OVER WEEKEND
Indications Of Lengthy
Trial Seen By Officials
OF Court.

A welcome break in the tedium
of the Lewis Hart Insurance trial
came at o'clock yesterday after
noon as Judge Arthur l.. Mundo
adjourned court until o'clock
Monday morning, when attorneys
once again will proceed with intro
duction Of evidence relating to the
activities of nine defendants in
selling insurance holding company
stock in Imperial Valley during
the summer of 1890.
When the afternoon session
ended, District Attorney Elmer w.
Heald and his aides had introduced
80 exhibits, some in evidence and
some for Identification. The eX-
hibits included stock certificates,
checks, receipts and business cards.
D. H. Wolford, chief criminal
deputy district attorney, hazarded
the guess yesterday afternoon 1t
will take a month for introduction
of prosecution evidence. AT least
another month will be required for
defense evidence and rebuttal by
the state, it was believed.
After the adjournment yesterday,
Judge Mundo left for San Diego.
He will return Monday. Some OF
! the defendants, out on bond, went
to Los Angeles to attend to busi-
ness there, as did some of the de-
fense attorneys.
A summing up Of the trial after
yesterdays adjournment showed
the names of most defendants
| linked with stock selling activities,
charged in a grand jury indictment
as grand theft, criminal conspiracy
| and conspiracy to violate the cor
porate securities act of California.
The name of Lewis Hart, sup
posed ring leader in the insurance
deal, was most often mentioned by
witnesses who had been called to
the stand. Other defendants are
William Leslie, Simon Nedman,
M. Penn Phillips, Leslie Rogasner,
Arthur Goldberg, Bernard Phillips,
Bert Bane and Percy Pickerell.
| Taeker Testifies
! ~ Il. 4dSChCi, 10
among those mentioned in the
grand jury indictment, as a pur-
chaser of stock, was on the witness
stand yesterday afternoon. He
testified he purchased shares OF
stock in the Associated Insurance
Underwriters, Inc, believing them
to be stock in the Associated Life
Insurance company Of California
According to the indictment
Taecker paid total of Sl4,750 fol
the stock he bought.
The witness told of attending a
banquet in an Ell Centro church
and of listening to a lecture by
Lewis Hart on the value of insur-
ance stock. Later a salesman called
on him, he said, and still later he
went to the Los Angeles office of
the company, where he bought 100
shares of class "a" and SO shares
of class "B' stock.
After he returned to Imperial
Valley, Taecker testified, Rogasner
called on him and sold him more
| stock.
In most details, testimony OF
Taecker was practically the same
as that of other witnesses who
have been called to the stand by
| the state.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
Crusaders Claim
Ohio Is Wet

WASHINGTON, March 49, (U.PG-
The Crusaders, anti-prohibition or
ganization, eXulted today over de-
velopments which it claimed showed
that Ohio has become "wringing
wet"
Gov. George White of Ohio
threw a bombshell into the ranks
of the drys last Wednesday night
when he told q gathering of the
Women's Christian Temperance
union in Columbus that he favors
a resubmission of the eighteenth
amendment to the American
people," said the Crusaders. This
unexpected announcement really
means that the home OF the Anti
Saloon league, and probably the
most pivotal state in the next elec-
ton, has become wringing wet.
The Crusaders said that three
months ago it counted 10 of Ohio's
% congressman as wet but that
Monday, 13 of them voted for con-
Sideration of the home rule" plan.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
'Bluebeard' Pays
Extreme Penalty
For His Crimes

MOUNDSVILLE, Va, March 10.
Up)-Harry F.. Powers, calm as he
was the day police dug up five
bodies behind his garage at Quiet
Dell, was hanged last night for the
murder of Mrs. Dorothy Pressler
Lemke of Northboro, Mass.
Hers was one OF the five bodies,
all of which bore evidence OF haV-
ing been hanged or strangled.
The mail order Bluebeard"-so-
called because he wooed his victims
by mail through a matrimonial
agency-was asked if he had any
thing to say before he died
NO" he replied quietly. A slight
twitching of the lips was his only
indication of nervousness.
Powers was dressed in a black
suit with a pin stripe. He wore a
flashy blue tie and white collar.
He was led to the platform of the
state penitentiary gallows shortly
before 9 o'clock. At his trial IN
Clarksburg the state contended ne
had executed his victimS-tWo Wom-
en- and three children-in his gar
age. a windowless structure with
a moose and trap door.
Last night he stood high on a
platform over a trap door. A moose
of thick bull rope was passed over
his head. The trap swung open.
Powers squat body dropped heav-
ily. Eleven minutes later physi-
clans who applied stethescopes pro-
nounced Powers dead.
In addition to the murder OF Mrs.
Lemke, Powers was accused OF kill
ing Mrs. Asia Buick Eicher OF
Park Ridge, ILL.,, another widow
wooed by mail, and her three child
rem. Police believed he may have
been implicated in other murders.
Until the day of the execution,
Powers had maintained he was in
nocent of the crimes charged to
him. Last night, however, DR.. H.
H. Haynes, Clarkesburg physician
offered TO seel to a representative
of the United Press lengthy man
uscript which purported to be a
confession" of the murders charged
to Powers, and written by Powers
in long hand.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
EIGHT TO SEEK
PLACES ON new
CITY COUNCIL

Opposing lines were drawing up
their forces today, ready to set
their big guns into action in the
coming battle for posts on the city
council. three of which will be va
cant as present incumbents COM
plete their terms of office, April IL.
The three incumbentS will enter
the race again. Each filed in the
city clerks office yesterday after
noon, bringing the total number
of candidates at closing hours this
noon to eight. w. j. Clements,
Fred Gianola and r. E. Couch filed
within a few minutes of one an
other yesterday afternoon. D. L..
Zinn filed later.
Charles E. Anderson had filed
earlier in the day, adding his name
to those of A. N. Bucklin and
Charles Ike, who already had en-
tered the lists.
For other city posts, j. G. Neale
has filed to make the race for city
clerk, and G. H. H. Small, incum-
bent, and d. L. Goodrich, have filed
for city treasurer
How the various candidates will
line up, should they form tickets,
has not yet been officially an
nounced, although rumors of var
iouS connections have been heard
about the streets.
j. A. Hall, whose name had been
mentioned frequently in political
circles, late this morning filed for
the city council race, completing
the list of those whose names have
been prominently discussed
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
Quietness Reigns
At Court House

Strangely silent was the upper
floor of the county court house to-
day without the milling throng OF
witnesses, spectators and jurors
who have tramped its halls for the
past three weeks, during the course
of two murder trials and one in
surance fraud case.
An adjournment in the insur-
ance case made both departments
of the superior court inactive until
Monday, and gave those in the
district attorneys office a much
needed rest from the nervous
strain of long days spent in court.
Today was the first time in over
three weeks neither department of
the court has been active, and the
first day that a small group, at
least, has not paced the upper
corridors of the court house, wait
ing upon court business.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
L|NDBERCH QU|zzES SUSPECT
WITHOUT SUCCESSFUL RESULT

HOPEWELL, N. j., March 49,.
U.p) - Col. Charles A. Lindbergh,
taking an even more thorough per-
sonal direction of the search for
his kidnapped son, Charles A, jr.,
directed examination today of the
much-questioned Henry (Red)
Johnson. suitor of the Lindbergh
nursemaid, Miss Betty Cow.
Police officers in a position to
know, told the United Press this
examination had proved no more
fruitful of results than interroga-
ton of Johnson by Hartford Conn.,,
Newark and Jersey City author
tiles.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19

had announced that johnson is
being brought to Hopewell for ques-
tioning and a check on his story"
The sailor, former deckhand on
the yacht of Thomas Lamont, Wall
Street figure and partner of the
late Senator Dwight Morrow, father
of Mrs. Lindbergh, had been re-
moved secretly from Newark city
Jail at 80 p. m. Friday. He was
taken to Jersey City. Why, was
not made known.
But early this morning a woman
with a baby in her arms was ques-
toned for several hours at the
Jersey City police headquarters, and
Immediately two men were ques-
toned One of them was believed
to be a brother of Johnson.
Johnson, it was learned, was to
be brought to Jersey City later in
the day from Hopewell, but no po-
lice comment in regard to that
move would be obtained.
johnson has been held on a war;
rant charging illegal entry into
this country, but has not been
charged with any definite connec-
ton with the Lindbergh kidnapping.
Colonel Schwarzkopf announced,
however, that this man was never
completely absolved from connec-
ton with the Lindbergh case"
A police bulletin earlier said mo
i,,f nc
yet concerning the European rec
ord of Henry johnson and Betty
Cow" Betty came to America from
Scotland; Johnson is a Scandinav-
ian.
Other Servants Cleared
The same bulletin, however, had
cleared other household1 servants
mentioned.
Johnson, who has recaptured the
limelight in the investigation, was
detained at West Hartford, Conn.,,
two weeks ago after it was learned
he had been with Betty Cow Sum
day and Monday preceding the kid
naping, and had not kept a date"
with her Tuesday, the night of the
crime.
Later it was learned that John
son occasionally had frequented
Long Island roadhouseS where he
boasted of his intimacy with the
Lindbergh family, and his knowl-
edge of their home. Racketeers
were known to have frequented the
same places.
The theory was advanced that
someone possibly used" Johnson
and Miss Cow in their plot, the
two unaware of the intentions of
supposed friends or casual ac-
quaintances.
Today it was believed that in
rounding up all known kidnapers
it had become advisable for Colonel
Lindbergh to personally check
Johnson's story, for some phases
of Lindbergh's own investigation
were not known to police. He
had promised immunity to the kid
napers, and assured them his chief
concern was safe return of the
baby, not prosecution of its kidnap-
erS.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
TAX BILL
DEFEA is
CONTINUE
House Leaders Severely
Beaten In Efforts To
Pass Measure.
PROTEST UNHEEDED
Adjournment Taken Over
Weekend With Battle
To Resume Monday.

WASHINGTON, March 10. U.p)-
Leaders of the house disrupted con-
sideration of the billion dollar tax
bill in mid-afternoon today and ad-
journed over the weekend.
The action was taken after the
leadership had suffered another Sc
we're defeat. Exemptions allowed
American corporation with branches
abroad, permitting deductions Of
foreign taxes, were stricken from
the bill over the leaders protest
by a vote of 139 to 103.
Representative Rainey Dem) ILL.,.
as soon as the tax bill was put
over, gained the floor under unan-
imous consent and began a ringing
speech to the house.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
ANOTHER BOLD
KIDNAPPING PLOT
IS FRUSTRATED
New Jersey Attempt Has
Great Similarity TO
Lindbergh Case.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., March
10. U.P)-Using methods similar to
those of the Lindbergh kidnapers,
a man today tried to gain access
to the nursery in the home of j.
Seward Johnson, millionaire hos
pital supplies manufacturer, but
was frightened away by a nurse
maid and watchman.
Diana Johnson, two months old,
was asleep in the room in which
the intruder sought entrance. The
nursemaid, Albertine Filiatratrault,
also occupied the room and saw
the man working to open the
screened window
Shortly after the man had been
frightened from the home, police
detained George Maiden Of New
York after finding him in South
Plainfield, N. j., lunch room.
The similarity between the John
son incident and circumstances OF
the kidnapping of Charles Augustus
Lindbergh. jr., was marked. The
ladder had been propped against
the second floor window and at
the base of the ladder was found a
chisel, just as in the Lindbergh
case.
Johnson, wealthy member of the
Johnson & Johnson Supplies COM
pany, told the police the attempt
was made about a. m. The nur-
sery occupies a suite on the second
floor in which the four johnson
children live. Besides Diana, the
children are Mary Lee, 5; Alanie
4, and Seward 3 The infant ano
nurse occupied one room.
THE window was open but il
view of the fact that we had &
| burglary here a few months ago the
window had been screened" John.
son said. Miss Filiatrault wa.
awakened by someone working al
the latch on the screen. She saw
a man on a ladder outside. He
had cut the screen and was trying
to get the latch open. But hi
trouble was that he had guessed
wrong on the way the latch opened
and was working it the wrong way
Miss Filiatrault picked up one o.
the telephones beside her and mott
fled John Shea the watchman. TIL,
man on the ladder outside un
doubtedly heard her telephoninl
for he stopped working but as sool
as she stopped talking he started
working at the latch again.
When Shea appeared the intrude
saw him, jumped from the ladde
and ran around the house. She;
fired one shot and the man re
turned the fire. Neither shot die
any damage. The man ESCAPED
across the field.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
M1& R1~~~
isst. hsNsush, syndiss.s. 10
FORMER BANKER
BELIEVED TO BE
SUICIDE VICTIM

SAN FRANCISCO, March 10. U.P)
The body of Eugene Del Monte, 80,
former banker and broker here, was
found on the tracks of a freight
yard today under circumstances
that led police to believe he was
suicide.
Del Monte, former manager of
Bank of America branch here and
later head of his own brokerage
house, had been missing from his
home four days, relatives said.
Three notes, found in his shoes,
gave detailed instructions to Mrs.
Del Monte.
One said:
Edna Dear = Should anything
happen to me hold on to the TAG
(believed to refer to Transamerica
stock unless Walker and Cacigalupi
and the other traitors win the fight
Il know if APG (believed to re-
fer to A. P. Giannini, head of
Transamerica wins he will do just
like he has always done-give the
stockholders a square DEAL"
Leo Flynn, Southern Pacific yard
man, found the bankers mangled
body lying across a track in the
path of an approaching switch en-
gine. Del Monte apparently had
been killed by a train passing by
on the tracks a few hours earlier,
officers said.
Police Lieut.. Charles Pfeiffer re-
vealed that Del Monte had figured
in two previous disappearances
and that ne was believed to have
been under mental strain. He
was found on San Francisco
wharf two years ago in a badly
beaten condition. Six months be-
fore that he was found wandering
dazedly in the Presidio.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
@WILL-
~ ROGERS
w .S0yS:

BEVERLY HILLS, March l9.
(SpeciaD-One of the funniest
things 1 have heard in a long
time was the disarmament con-
ference in Geneva took a month
off to rest. That's like vice
president of a bank or a night
watchman asking for TIME to
recuperate.
The japanese have started
evacuatlng Shanghai. T h ey
claim they won a moral vic
tory by driving the Chinese II
miles back from Shanghai.
What good did that do? That
would be just like the Irish
driving the Jewish folks II
miles out of New York. What
would the answer be at the
finish?
Yours
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
Seven Uninjured
I'm Plane Crash

TIMMINS, Ont, March 19.
W.P)-Seven men, feared lost in a
cabin monoplane between here and
Toronto were found alive today
near their damaged plane.
They suffered only Slight injur-
les, advices said.
The plane was piloted by Ernest
Levine. Six prominent citizens of
Timmins, including priest, were
his passengers. The group set out
from Toronto Wednesday after wit
Messing a hockey game and were
not heard from until today.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
Plant Expert Is
Killed In Crash

LOS ANGELES, March 10. WR)-
H. E. Dolk, assistant professor of
plant phyciology at California In
stitute of Technology, Pasadena,
was killed instantly last night when
his automobile overturned near
Rosamond, Kern county.
The body was brought here to-
day for funeral services. His
widow and baby and his mother,
who were with him at the time OF
the accident, were slightly hurt,
deputy sheriffs reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
BY BATES RANEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

HOPEWELL, N. j., March 19.-
Henry (ReO Johnson sailor who
failed to keep a date" with Nurse
Betty Cow the night the Lindbergh
baby was kidnapped, was questioned
personally this morning by the kid
naped baby's father.
1t was the first time since john
son was first detained two weeks
ago that Colonel Lindbergh had
seen or questioned the sailor. 1t
was believed this yas due to the
colonels determination not to over
look a single possible clue.
Earlier Colonel H. Norman
Schwartzkopf of the state police
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March 19. - The
victorious rank and file of the house
carried forward it's plan of heavy
duties on the rich by proposing to-
day to tap the stock market for
upwards of $125,00O,000 annually
more revenue.
Representative LaGuardia (Rep)
New York, offered in behalf of the
progressive group an amendment
, to the tax bill calling for a tax
of one quarters of one per cent of
all sales of stock.
The ways and means committee
bill provided four cents a share tax.
LaGuardias amendment calls for
one quarter of one per cent on the
value of each stock transaction, but
in no case less than four cents a
| share.
"On the basis of the $4,000 ,0O0,-
600 business in 1881, my amend
ment would raise $125, ,O00," La
Guardia said. THAT of course,
was an abnormal year. In better
times it would raise more than that.
Certainly that rate cannot be
considered exorbitant
LAS we are anxious to raise the
revenue for balancing the budget,
this amendment may be considered
as another way to producing the
money that the sales tax would
have produced"
WASHINGTON, March 19. UP)-
The sales tax appeared to be badly
battered if not beaten as the house
started the second day of voting
today on the billion dollar revenue
bill.
Leaders who sponsored the new
levy of 2A per cent on manufac-
turers sales were frankly detected.
A Republican leader privately ad-
mitted there appeared to be no
chance for its adoption.
The rank and file have taken the
situation out of the leaders hands
as at no time in the memory of
old house members. They are bent
on program of more drastic taxes
on the rich and elimination of the
sales levy. Their next move will
be to boost the estate and gifts
tax up to the IS per cent maximum
wartime level they fixed for sur
taxes. The sales tax probably will
be reached Monday.
If that is eliminated the bill will
be SO emaciated it may have to be
abandoned and sent back to the
ways and means committee for or
derly rehabilitation of its sched-
ules-the purpose announced today
by opposition leader. Representa-
tive LaGuardia (Rep) New York.
After the sales tax is beaten"
he said, "the bill ought to be taken
back by the committee and other
provisions for raising revenue calm
ly considered. We shall we ready
to cooperate with the committee to
balance the budget"
Republican Leader Smell and his
associates held a party conference
last night, trying to keep their
forces in line. The meeting was
called at the request of LaGuardia.
He made speech but the leaders
outnumbered him. No action was
taken
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
Officers Shoot
Alleged Thief

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, March 10.
W.P)-A man, who gave his name as
Ray Hall, 37-year-old transient, was
shot and wounded seriously after
he assertedly attempted to rob an
ice cream store in a southern sec
ton of the city last night.
Hall was brought down by police
officers hiding in the ice cream
store. The store had been robbed
twice before. ..l..-...,-
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Recital, 8, Academy of Music.
Valley theatre, Nevada Buc-
karOo".
Masonic meeting, 1880, Mas
Onic Temple.
Fox Imperial theatre, Ladies
of the jury.
Masonic dinner, 6, Barbara
Worth.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
TOMORROW

TOMORROW
Sunday services, churches.
Fox Imperial theatre, "The
Greeks Had a Word for Them.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-19
MONDAY

Masonic luncheon, Barbara
Worth.
Y. w. c. A. board, 2, 667
Wensley.
Chapter AV, P.E.O, 1880,
Barbara Worth.
Plentywood herald., 1932-09-29
Place of Beauty
Beyond All Words

Almost eTerE one Hho haS sAar
me Grand canyon has attemDfed r.
describe il, in words or in paint sF
nave failed and viii forever fan,
high-falutin writing should especial
ly be avoided.
Inc Grand canyon is a nafional
park fsince 1917. through and sr
the bottom of which fioKs r;xa~
me Colorado. Geologists tell ne
tand a geologist. Ike an astronoyue~
VIII say anything1 that the action
OF this river i'm cutting its w.w
through 100 miles of stone for mil
mons OF years has created a eanvon
gorge, valley, so immense in size
and so BEAUTIFUL in color as Ia 10
unlike anything else in the world
nave seen Ii described as "a
mountain chain reversed thar 10 =.
say, II this great work of nature
We're to be used as a mold ard
piaster cast made therein. vbera If
2as taken ont and set uu il H.,zss<s
pe IKE a chain of mountains 1fsp
mites long, from one TO ten miles
VIDE, and, In places. one mile hfgh
men all yon would have To do wonla
1e 10 paint il In every color v.s,
'onid conceive of. and you would
ave the Grand canyon i'm reverse
a. Edward Newton In the Atlau-
ic Monthly.
Plentywood herald., 1932-09-29
BY Jackson Gregory
Copyright by Charfss scrtbuers. sox,~
tWNu servfcel
SYNOPSIS

In the California sierra Marx
Ain9. proxpecfor. sees Andy Park
Killed by Sven Brodie. Park
outlaw companion King Is on
Ms way to the home OF his friend
zen Gsynor- King and Cavucr
mare with Brodie knowledge of
VAST store of hidden gold KEuw
meets Arx- Gaynor and ia i'm
dressed by her daughter GIoria'.
youthful beauty. He dI.IiE~s
nouse visitor named Grafton. with
uioIiA- King rides to Cofona. in
lending to sound Honevrutt N.
nnds Brodie with the old nrn.
pee1of. and animoxity fares Their
1ompanIonship for 4 day. draws
nk closer TO Gloria Gloria and
nef mother return to San Fran-
cisco King attends her birthdsv
party there and is. he feels ~nId.
~ received In \ spirit Of .aver-
ture dlorfa accompanies craffon ~.
nusinehs trip At CoIonax xhc
nnos her father badly hurt Ha
4Ivss her = messaKe and an.~L
aks Tor King. urging her tA ret
them to him II once CIcri. rAs1
lie. how she has comprom.~d 49,
ssH oy her Journey with Grafton
H. IeeiinE hs has her In his pow
81 proposes marriage. and f3iorf.
tearing inevitable gossip ann.rsrf-
accepts him. Grafton arr.nye~
..o aoI tno marriage BY \ cnunfrv
Juo9e King comes to the hnu..
unseen BY GIoriA-
Plentywood herald., 1932-09-29
The Everlasting Whisper

come; that she was fighting for DELAY
and could not help snatching at any
straw, though she knew that In the
end she would go down, overwhelmed
Dy circumstance. Circumstance and
Grafton Grafton also knew and
frowned.
III VIII take only minute" he said
over his shoulder as he went. Spald-
ing saw Grafton running toward him
You're wanted In the house a min.
ute, Spalding." he said curtly. Miss
Gloria She wants you right away.n
Grafton turned and FASTENED back
10 the house. Jim qufckening his own
pace as be sensed something out OF
Inc ordinary He looked from face to
iace with keen. shrewd eyes, ignored
Jarrold. who said mirthful ..Evenin,
Jim, : and turned to Gloria for explana.
fion-
I'm here. MISS" he said when
Gioria's white face only stared at him
You amt sick. are your
No, Jim, Il am going to no
married. and"
AArrfedl7 Jim looked incredulous
ana then puzzled as again his ewes
went swiftly from one to the other
OF the three mems faces.
fea. Jim- And | want you to be
Jim flushed up and shifted uneasilv
He had never been at wedding. he
aid not know what a .swftnesss had
10 do.
Right now7" he mutrered. You're
seffin' married right now7r
ies. said Gloria wearily. And TO
snmmeriing. Il am ready"
But / ain'ttn cried Spaldinr ua