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Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
L. A. School Tax
To Be Increased

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10. U.P)-
Los Angeles county taxpayers will
have to pay "a cents additional per
$100 of assessed valuation for the
general county school tax in the
1928 under provisions of new
state laws, County Auditor Herbert
A. Payne informed the board of
supervisors at its public budget
hearing today.
Whereas the general county rate
for school purposes last year
crossed 48 cents, it will total 70
cents for the new year, to make
up the mandatory contribution by
the county to all school districts OF
$50 per pupil in elementary schools
for the year and $50 per pupil for
high schools.
Although members of the board
protested they would strenuously
oppose voting such an increase,
Auditor Payne informed them they
had no choice, the action being
mandatory under the law, and that
he would oe compelled to spread
such levy under penalty of NAL
feasance in office if the board did
not act.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
Film Star Wins
Point In Dispute

BEVERLY HILLS, Aug. 10. U.P)-
Gloria Swanson film star. obtained
at least q temporary victory today
as the sheriff's office was recruit
ing a crew to cart 100000 in furn-
ishings flom her palatial home
here.
Lloyd Wright, attorney, repre-
sentlng Miss Sv anSon VINO is in
England with Michael Farmer, her
husband, and her recently born
daughter, secured a restraining or
der which held up a writ of at
tachment until hearing on August
26.
The attorney filed an affidavit
declaring the amount of Judgment
held by William j. Saywor, Ltd,
who filed the attachment. was for
only $6,5O0, while the furnishings
were worth at least 10 times that
sum.
The importing company in ask
ing for the attachment declared
judgment in their favor was for the
balance OF $4,000 owed on pur-
chases in furnishings by the actress.
Wright also raised the issue that
his client was in London and was
not personally served in the pro-
ceedings.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
AIR DERBY TO
LEAVE COAST ON
CLEVELAND TRIP

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10. U,P-
the number of entrants in
the transcontinental sweepstakes
handicap air derby, Los Angeles to
Cleveland, O., was sWelled to So
today, of whom eight are women.
The new entrants are Leslie C.
Miller, E. G. Generaux, William j.
Powell and Al Larry, all of Los
Angeles.
All entries will meet today with
r. E. Dake, derby manager, to re-
ceive race instructions and rules.
The Pacific wing of the flight
will leave here Sunday afternoon
at l o'clock on the fi-st leg OF the
race, and join the Atlantic wing
at Bartlesville, Okla, for COM
bined derby to Cleveland.
A prize of $4,000 cash and two
automobiles is offered.
The start will take about an hour
Sunday and the slow planes will
be given their handicap advantage
first, so that all should finish the
first leg of the trip to Yuma, Ariz,
at about the same time
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
A|RPLANE
CARRIE
RESCUED
Saratoga Unharmed From
Collision With Bar Of
Sand Off Coast.
TO REJOIN FLEET
Big Vessel Pulled Off
Shoals By Tugs From
San Diego Base.

SAN PEDRO. Calf, Aug. 10. U.P)
The U. s. S. Saratoga, giant nav
al aircraft carrier, sailed from port
shortly before neon today to resume
participation in navy maneuvers
off the coast.
The ship apparently had suffer-
ed no damage when it struck
sand pit off Sunset Beach late yes
terday, observers said.
Upon completion of the rnaneuv-
ers the Saratoga will return here
late tonight or early tomorrow, it
was said.
SAN PEDRO, Calf, Aug. 10. U.H
The $60,00o,000 airplane carrier
Saratoga was under orders to re-
sumo battle practice today while
the high navy command organized
an inquiry into an accident which
grounded the craft for three hours.
The Saratoga, naval authorities
announced, was pulled undamaged
into deep water by three tugs which
puffed and strained at the 10000
ton vessel until with aid of ris-
ing tide it was freed from the sand
off Sunset Beach.
The Saratoga, host to brood Of
100 fighting aircraft, was rounding
target in battle practice when
her knife-edged stem sliced into
treacherous sands which extend
mile offshore.
A dense local fog, less than a
mile in area, hid the shoreline as
the Saratoga, fleetest craft of her
size in the navy, proceeded toward
her anchorage from maneuvers in
waters south of here. Observers
said the ship was only about 800
yards offshore when it struck.
1t was only few minutes after
extreme low tide. Capt. G. w.
Steele, commanding the carrier,
notified the North Island naval air
station at San Diego.
Within two hours three navy
tugs from San Pedro were at the
scene, hawsers aboard and holding
the Saratoga in position.
AS the tide rose, the vessel was
refloated and resumed her way to
San Pedro under her own power
News of the ships safety and the
sight of the great craft steaming
back into the roadstead brought a
mighty blast of welcoming whistles
from scores of vessels in the har-
Dor. Piers and docks were crowded
with throng of men and women,
many of them relatives of the Sara
toga's crew of 16e officers and 1880
men. They had waited for hours
while rumors of major catastro-
phe circulated.
Reports of the accident sent
torrent of automobiles flowing
north and south over the coast
highway. The road was blocked
for miles.
The Saratoga is described as the
fleetest of United States battle
ships. A sister ship of the Lexing-
ton, the Saratoga carries powerful
machinery said to push her through
the water with the speed of a de-
stroyer.
She is $50 feet long, LOG feet wide
and was launched from the docks
of the New York Ship Building
company in 1925.
Besides equipment for housing
l20 planes, she is armed with eight
eight-inch guns, carried in armored
turrets, and IL five-inch guns.
Many of the planes were not
aboard at the time of the accident,
being temporarily stationed at
North Island, San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
ONE-FIFTH OF
NATIONS BANKS
GET u. 5. aid

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Aug. 10. U.P)
One bank out of every five in
the nation has borrowed money
from the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, Secretary of Treasury
Ogden L. Mills revealed today.
In an address at commencement
exercises of Bryant Stratton Col
lege of Business Administration the
cabinet member disclosed that in
the first six months of the corpor-
atoms activities, up to August l.,
loans totaling $1,219, 100000 were
authorized to 4947 institutions.
Of the authorized loans to banks,
$30,000,000 went to aid reorganiza-
ton or liquidation of 346 closed in
Stitutions, Mills said. Up to August
/, $976 100000 of the authorized
total loans had been disbursed, he
said, and Of that amount $110,000,-
900 had been repaid.
Answering charges that big city
banks were favored, he declared
that 10 per cent of the banks which
borrowed were in towns of less than
5000 population and 80 per cent in
towns of less than $4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
BY GIUSEPPE JACOMUCCI
United Press Staff Correspondent

OhitCu IECSo otdll SOTTCSpOfluclt
Copyright, 1882, BY United Press)
DESENzANO, Italy, Aug. 10. =
The eerie sensation experienced by
man who flew in a dark sky
during below zero temperatures
while people on earth sweltered"
was described today by Professor
August Picard after his 101s mile
flight into the stratosphere, high
er than any human being had gone
before.
Picard brought his gigantic bal
loon down near the village of Cav
allero di Monzanbano late Thurs
day. He told how he and his as
sistant, Max Cosyns, peered from
the portfolios of their cleaning
white gondola toward an earth they
could not recognize.
/. The scientist said the cold was
so intense they feared they would
freeze to death within the sealed
ball that hung from the giant gas
bag.
Far below, through the haze and
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
Mexican Divorce
Not Recognized

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10. U.P)-
Because the court refused to recog-
nize a Mexican divorce decree OBJ
tanned by Charles w. Anderson, 54
wealthy cattle dealer and oil man,
his wife, Mrs. Almira Anderson. go,
of Burbank, TO-DAY rejoiced in a
court order for 500 monthly separ-
ate maintenance and an equal di-
vision of community property.
She charged her husband associ-
ated with other women and told
her repeatedly that marriage was a
"man-made institution" and was
not a good one. His divorce was
obtained in Chihuahua, Mexico. In
another suit now pending, he is
charged with breach of promise
and betrayal of Mrs. Matte v. Gra-
ham, who asks $15O,O0O damages.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
PICARD NEARLY FROZEN ON
FLIGHT INTO STRATOSPHERE

the clouds. stretched what seemed
to be a murky. blue plain, seeming
ly flat. Though they were over the
Alps, the great peaks appeared to
have melted into the crust of the
earth, and the vista was one OF
flat, gloomy sameness.
Our ascent from Zurich" said
Professor Picard, was very rapid
We reached our maximum altitude
of about 16,50O meters between 1C
and II niles within three hours
At that time our instruments reg
istered SO degree centigrade below
zero.
"On last years flight we were al
most suffocated by the heat, be-
cause the gondola absorbed the
suns rays. That's why I painted
it white this time, and we suffered
terribly from cold, you see I was
wearing only a sports suit and ten
mis- shoes"
Recognized Land
When it became impossible tc
recognize any typographical marks
on the earth, Professor Picard said
his geographical charts were use
less. But finally there was a flash
and a sparkle below He knew ii
was the sun shining on water.
IT possess an expert Topographic
cal knowledge of Italy and recog-
nized we were over Lake Garda,
he continued.
Soon We were becalmed, and fol
two hours hung quite motionless
over Italy.
Our trip was excellent from all
viewpoints. The instruments worked
marvelously., I'm certain have OBJ
tained valuable scientific informa-
ton"
The scientist said he could moi
reveal the actual results of his OBJ
servations, in which he hoped tt
obtain new data on the cosmic ray
because he had not yet examined
the instruments thoroughly.
He rested at DeSenzano last night
while the balloon was being load:t
onto motor lorries.
I'm not certain yet as to oul
altitude, but I feel that it probably
was close to 1900 meters (ovel
10 and one-half miles," he said
"I'll know as soon as the instru.
ments are examined"
The balloon was in the air about
II hours and travelled in a circu.
lar route across the Alps from
Switzerland into Italy.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19

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SANTA BARBARA, Aug. 18.
(SpeciaD-This is Fiesta" day
in Santa Barbara. The other
days in Santa Barbara are,
"siesta" days. Of you don't
speak all these languages it's
not my fault.
Hundreds and hundreds of
beautiful horses in the parade,
and a man without a silver
mounted saddle up here is a
vagrant. Everybody in the Span
ish costumes. These big blonde
Iowans look kinder funny in
'em, but they have 'em on
sometimes backward).
Every town should have some
kind of yearly celebration. Il
am writing like Brisbane). 4.
Didn't Rome have its annual
bathing festival2 Didn't Cairo
hold some kind of female "ro-
deo?"
Albany, N. Y, is going to
make the Walker investigation
a yearly fall festival. So think
up something for your town to
celebrate Have a parade, Am
ericans like to parade. We are
a parading nation, "upluribus
paraditorious' tsome paraders) Z.
Yours,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
New Autopsy To
Be Performed In
Hawaiian Case

HONOLULU, T. H., Aug. 10. UP)
The body of Mrs. Marion Shain-
valid Sewer, twice exhumed since
her death IN 1928, lay in a morgue
today while Sheriff Patrick Gleason
sought witnesses for a second in
quest to determine whether she died
not been poisoned.
The inquest, originally set for to-
day, was postponed to Monday
when witnesses notified the sheriff
they could not be present until
then.
Mrs. Sewer willed her $750, 900 es-
tate to her husband, Colonel Gran
vile Sewer, U. S. A., now stationed
at Fort Riley, Kansas. For three
years her brother, Ralph Shainwald,
prominent New York engineer,
sought positive proof that she had
not bee poisoned.
Major w. c. Whitmore of the
army medical corps, who attended
Mrs. Sewer before her death, at
tributed her death to nephritis and
Cllldl BCIlCilJ VI Tic IlcdIJ. LII bfle
death certificate he ascribed her
death to arterial sclerosis and at
tendant complications.
Almost one year after her death
naval physicians performed an un-
official autopsy. They declared
there was no trace of poison to be
found in the body, but Shainwald
later sought an official autopsy.
He claimed the fact certain vital
organs were missing when the first
investigation was performed nulli-
fled their findings.
Sheriff Gleason ordered the body
exhumed once more after Shain-
wald obtained a court order over
Colonel Sewers determined oppos-
ition.
Doctors who performed the 1929
autopsy, and naval physicians who
testified at that time she died of
natural causes, were to appear at
the inquest. II their testimony
proves conclusive, no official autop-
sy will be ordered, Sheriff Gleason
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
NOTABLE GROUP
OF SCIENTISTS
MEET ON COAST

PASADENA, Aug. 49, U.P)-Pas-
adena today was the unofficial as
Economical center of the world
with Is famous foreign scientists
augmenting the world-famous staff
of the Carnegie institutions Mt
Wilson observatory.
The visitors recently arrived
from Europe to inspect western OBJ
servatories while awaiting the total
eclipse of the sun to be viewed in
New England August 81.
DR.. F. w. Ashton, famous British
physicist, headed the group. DR..
Ashton made the discovery that the
same element may appear in varied
atomic forms.
The astronomers, who will leave
tomorrow Cor the east, were great
ly interested in the announcement
of DR.. Robert A. Millikan, head of
California Institute of Technology
here, that he would measure the
cosmic ray with newly designed
equipment in airplanes flying at
high attitudes.
DR.. Millikan, with Prof. I. S.
Bowen and Prof H. Victor Neher,
has designed a self-recording elec-
troscope, 10 times as sensitive as
any hitherto known.
Within a month, the astronomers
were informed, military airplanes
would be sent aloft at March Field,
Calf, Seattle and Minneapolis,
bearing these delicate instruments.
The noted physicist hoped to
learn more about the source of cos
mic radiations, whose short wave
length is equivalent in generating
potential of more than five hun
dred million volts.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
End OF Farmers
Strike Expected

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Aug. 10. W.R)
Milk producers who almost two
weeks ago struck for higher prices
and precipitated a general farm
produce embargo in northwest Iowa
reached the final stages of negoti~
ations with distributors today.
After seven hours of conference
dealers and dairymen had tenta-
lively agreed to end price cutting
which hammered retail prices down
to eight cents a quart, and had or
ganized virtually a complete cooper
ative in Sioux City territory, but
the question of wholesale price was
not definitely fixed. e
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
Convicted Couple
Seek New Trial

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10. W.P)-
Declaring that new evidence had
been found to prove their inno-
cence, Mrs. Flora Carter and Henry
A. Reese, mining promoters. con-
victed last week on grand theft and
corporate securities act violation
charges, today asked Superior
Judge Charles S. Burnell to grant
them a new trial
Judge Burnell allowed the couple
until August 90 to secure affidavits,
at which time he will hear their
reasons for seeking Il re-hearing.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
n ALLY N EW G
y IN TABLOIDS y

Miami, Fla, Aug. 19.-Offers of
many jobs are among messages re-
ceived by Captain W. N. Lancaster,
following his acquittal on a charge
he murdered Haden Clarke. He
plans to stay here week. Deporta-
ton warrants against himself and
Mrs. Jessie M. Keith-Miller have
not been served.
HAVANA, Aug. 10. - Physicians
attached to six cooperative society
clinics went on strike at midnight,
protesting refusal of some societies
to require financially able mem
bers to pay for extra medical treat
ment. Some 1000 patients are af-
fected. The physicians arranged
to have skeleton staffs stay on at
each clinic.
NANKING, China, Aug. 19.-Paul
Noulens, reputed agent for the
Soviet Third Internationale, was
sentenced to life Imprisonment to-
day for alleged propagandizing ac-
tivitieS in China. The court said
the death penalty should have been
pronounced under strict Chinese
law Noulens' nationality is un-
certain.
BARRE, VT, Aug. 19.-Clyde Lee,
Oshkosh flyer, does not expect to
take-off on his proposed flight to
Harbor Grace and Oslo before Sat-
urday noon, he said today. John
Bockhom of New York probably
will replace julius Robertson, Ne
gaunee, Mich, as Lees companion,
although Lee said there's room
for both and both may 60"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
WOMEN FLYERS
APPROACH new
FLIGHT RECORD

VALLEY STREAM, L. l., Aug. 49,
W.P)-Mrs. Frances Marsalis and
Mrs. Louis Thaden, in the "Flying
Boudoir" equalled the wosld's rec
orn for a womens refueling endur-
ance test at p. m. today, having
been in the air 124 hoors.
This record was set by Bobby
Troot and Edna May Cooper on
the Pacific coast January 8, 1881.
CURTIS AIRPORT, VALLEY
STREAM, L. l.. Aug. 10. U.P)-A
new women's endurance flight rec
ord was in the making today as
Mrs. Frances Harrel Marsalis and
Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden
took turns in plotting flying
bedroom" over Long Island.
The two women flyers, hampered
by heavy rain and illness, were con-
fident they would shatter a record
that has stood since year ago.
They must keep the plane circling
until $50 p. m. (ESTO, today to
beat the old record, 122 hours and
SO minutes.
The refueling plane, piloted by
Stewart Reiss and John Runger, re-
fuelled the gas tanks of the endur-
ance ship early this morning. G..
S. Casey" Jones and Viola Gentry,
who are managing the flight, pre-
pared a hot breakfast for the girl
aviators on the ground.
Mrs. Marsalis. suffering from
pains in her right side, took her
turn at the controls, determined to
let nothing interfere with the
flight. Her illness, diagnosed by
the field physician as probably an
appendicitis attack, developed on
the third day in the air.
The fifth day of the record-mak-
ing attempt begins at 200 p. m.
today. The flight started on Sum
day, August Ia. 1t was the second
attempt by the women to break the
record.
An earlier attempt, started a
week ago, ended in failure after 18
hours of flying. The two were
forced to land when the right wing
tip of the plane was ripped by
pail of food lowered from the re-
fueling ship.
Mrs. Marsalis and Mrs. Thaden
went aloft on Sunday, we'll equip
ped to make their flight a beauty
as well as aviation success. They
carried with them supply of cos
metics. Clean flying suits were an
important part OF their equipment.
Slowed aboard the plane alsb were
air mattresses on which to sleep.
Their plane has been nicknamed
the Flying Boudoir."
The present record was estab-
lished by Bobby Trout and Edna
May Cooper in Los Angeles, in
flight which ended January 8, 1881.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
DEMOCRATS SHOW
HEAVY INCREASE
In REGISTRATION

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 10. U.H-
CALIFORNIA; total registration for
the state primary election August
80 is 1865 $3.50, of which more than
a million are Democrats, Secretary
of State Frank c. Jordan, an
nounced today.
The Democratic registration was
1927, ,567, more than double the en-
rollment for the state primary in
1880. The Republican total for the
present election was 1,497,432, a
loss of 101 900 over 1880.
Comparative registrations for the
two elections are as follows:
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
OleOmargarine Fee
Declared Illegal

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10. W.P)
-Oleomargarine interests of Cali
fornia today had won their long
battle to defeat assertedly discrim-
inatory taxes collected as license
fees by various counties.
The district court of appeals
yesterday granted a writ of habeas
corpus to H. ]. Book, Marin county.
He sought release after being ar
rested for failure to pay the 5000
Marin county license fee assessed
on oleomargarine sales.
The court held the fee to be
partial to dairy interests. Similar
fees affected by the ruling were
those levied in Kern, King, Mer-
ced, San Luis Obispo, Shasta, So
lano, Stanislaus, Yuba, Marin and
Monterey counties,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
ATLANTIC
CROSSING
SUCCEEDS
Captain MOllisOn Lands
In New Brunswick Af-
ter Solo Flight.
PASSAGE DIFFICULT
Flyer Too Tired To Pro-
ceed To New York AS
He Planned.

PENNFIELD RIDGE, N. B., Aug
10. W.P)-James A. Mollison, Scot
tish flyer, ended a nonstop flight
westward across the Atlantic al
this airport at 1880 p. m. today.
"I came down because I was
tired" Mollison told the United
Press.
Mollison said he would continue
tomorrow to New York, which was
his goal on his nonstop flight.
He thought he would not start
his return flight eastward fol
about a week.
Mollison's little Puss Moth plane
in which he made the first west
ward solo crossing of the Atlantic
still had gas in its tanks when he
came down here.
Mollison, however, felt too ex-
hausted to continue to New York
Mollison said he encountered
trouble with fog, which made the
crossing bad, but made very good
time nevertheless. He passed over
Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, where
he had planned possibly to refuel,
in the dark.
He was sighted early this morn
ing over Halifax and continued
westward from there, finally de-
Gliding to come down at the airport
here.
Mollison asked the United Press
to notify his wife, the former Amy
johnson, English girl flyer, that
he was safe.
"Tell her I had very bad cross
ing because of fog" he said, "but
made surprisingly good time.
Tell her I am very glad have
justified her confidence in me and
am going to New York tomorrow,
where I will rest a few days be-
fore flying back across the water
Pennfield and Pennfield Station
are located on the Rocky FORE
shores of the Bay OF Fundy, arm
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-19
HOOVER TO MAKE
NO SPEECHES In
WESTERN SECTION
Belief In Washington Is
That President Will Re-
main In East.
BY HENRY F. MISSELWITZ
United Press Staff Correspondent

Z
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-There
was every indication today, al
though nothing official, that Presi-
dent Hoover has decided to deliver
campaign speeches at New York
and Boston.
The other outstanding possibili-
ties include Chicago and st. Louis.
The President apparently does not
intend to go west of the Mississippi
valley. He will rely on the press
and radio to carry his views to the
rest of the country.
The President originally intended
to confine his public appearances
to eastern cities. Party leaders be-
lieve New York City and Boston
are particularly important centers.
New York state is the home of the
Democratic candidate, Governor
Roosevelt. Massachusetts went
Democratic in 1923.
Persons close to the President
now believe he also will consent to
urgent requests by campaign lead
ers to go as far west at st. Louis
Furthermore, the Republican ma
tional committee has chosen Chi
cago as its headquarters, and the
President is believed to have agreed,
under pressure, 10 make one speech
| there.
| Demands from the middlewest
have become insistent since his
nomination at Chicago. Strength
ening COMMODITY prices, including
a slight rise in wheat and cotton
have admittedly helped the Hoover
campaign chances. bu5 the farm
ers have urged in increasing vol
ume that the President come out
and speak to them himself.
The reaction to the Presidents
acceptance address also greatly en-
couraged Republicans and is an
other factor which has made Mr.
Hoover and his advisors believe
speeches delivered in person may
swing votes in Crucial sections.
The first of his speeches probably
will not be delivered until the lat
ter part of September.
The President has not begun
work on his speeches. He spent the
first part of the week fishing down
Chesapeake bay and expected to
go to his camp on the Rapidan river
in Virginia today.
White house correspondents, press
photographers and newsreel mer
have been invited to visit thu
Rapidan retreat and have luncheon
Saturday with Mr.. Hoover If the
weather is good.