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Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-15

SUPPORT
IS BO0ED
Action Follows Bitter
Debating On Floor Of
Convention.
CENSURE is DROPPED
Criticism Of B. E. F.
Eviction Killed By
Committee.

PORTLAND, Ore. Sept. Is. U.H
The American Legion national
convention today demanded full
payment of the soldiers bonus and
repeal of national prohibition.
Both issues were embodied in
resolutions called from the conven-
tion floor ara adopted by viva voce
vote.
The vote on the resolution ask
ing immediate payment of adjusted
compensation certificates was 1167
to 109 against. The roll call fol-
lowed bitter debate and was fea-
tured by booing of anti-bonus
speakers.
President Herbert Hoover's anti
bonus statement, issued last night,
was not mentioned during the de-
bate.
The repeal resolution was passed
without debate. The vote was HAS
to 1873. Only one state, South Car
olina, cast unanimous vote against
| adoption
Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi and
Utah cast dry majorities although
each delegation was ;nterspersed
with vets.
With these issues disposed of the
convention took up two additional
controversies, the election of a
new national commander and ac-
tion of a resolution censuring the
administration for evicting the bon
us army from Washington.
The Pennsylvania delegation was
expected to bring up the latter res
olution despite the fact the resolu-
tions committee rejected 1t by a
vote of 35 to /.
Later however, it was indicated
the resolution would not be called
up.
Late in the session Commander
Stevens ordered the resolutions
, committee into session to consider
, fCouttuued I'm papa Sl
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-15
Admiral Pringle
Seriously Ill

WASHINGTON, Sept. Is. U.P)-
The navy department was advised
today that Vice Admiral Joel r
P. Pringle, one of the navy's high
est ranking officers, was critically
i'll aboard his flagship, the battle
ship West Virginia.
The West Virginia was ordered
to proceed Immediately under
forced draft to San Pedro and TO
summon specialists to attend the
officer.
The navy department was asked
to communicate with Mrs. Pringle
and her daughter and urge them to
meet the ship.
Pringle recently succeeded Vice
Admiral Luke McNamee as COM
mander of battleships of the Pa
cific fleet. His home is at Charles
ton, S. c. He had been mentioned
as the most likely successor to Ad-
miral William v. Pratt as chief of
naval operations when Pratt retires
next year.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-15
NEWS BRIEFS OF THE COUNTRY
PRESENTED IN TABLOID FORM

David Murray Anderson was today
appointed governor of Newfound-
land succeeding Sir John Middle
ton, whose administration was Sc
verely criticized last winter and
spring during serious rioting by
unemployed.
NEW YORK, Sept. 15.-Chair-
man James A. Farley of the Dem
ocratic national committee is en-
route to California where he plans
to confer with party leaders re-
,garding the Democratic campaign
there.
CHICAGO, Sept. is. Three
claims were filed today against the
estate of Mrs. Edith Rockefeller
Mccormick including one for $3135
for flowers for her funeral. An
other was filed for a grocery bill,
and another by the Civic Opera Co.
CHICAGO, Sept. Is. - William
Foster, Communist candidate for
president, was reported seriously i'll
here today and his headquarters
said all campaign speeches had
been cancelled. His representatives
said Foster was suffering from an
gina pectoris.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-15
RECEPTION BY
KANSAS PLEASES
GOV. ROOSEVELT
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
United Press Staff Correspondent


ABOARD ROOSEVELT SPECIAL,
ENROUTE DENVER, Sept. Is. =
Spurred on by the assurances of
Democratic leaders that he would
sweep the grain belt in November,
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt
headed for the Rocky mountain
country today intent on lining up
Colorado for the presidential tic
ket.
Roosevelt, his advisers said, was
amazed by the spontaneity of the
reception accorded him in Kansas,
where he offered a six point plan
for farm relief and arraigned the
administration for what he terms
its starvation" policy toward the
agrarians.
1t was estimated 10000 persons
heard him deliver his address at
Topeka, the home town Of Vice
President Curtis, and in substance
renew his plea for the forgotten
man. in this instance, the farmer.
The governor planned series of
brief back platform talks in small
Kansas communities on the route
to Denver. In Denver the special
will lay over for the night Roose-
velt will meet party leaders OF
Colorado and also discuss economic
problems with groups expected to
call upon him.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-15
Printers Discuss
Five Day Week

LONG BEACH, Sept. Is. U.P)-
Seeking to commit the Interna-
tional Typographical union def
nitely to the five-day week, dele
gates today listened TO arguments
for and against the proposal.
The five-day week, which has
been the theme of this years con-
vention since the start last Mon
day, has aroused heated discussion
from both sides.
Previously motion to establish
a compulsory fee for an unemploy-
ment benefit fund against those
members of the union working in
excess of five days week, had
been voted down.
Chicago was formally selected as
the 1888 convention city today.
The meeting is to be held in con-
junction with the Worlds Fair
there next year.
The printers were told by Charles
H. Carter, Washington, d. c., pub
lie printer, that printing establish
ments in federal and state prisons
was unfair competition with pri-
vate plants. He, with President
Charles p. Howard of the union,
predicted ultimate elimination of
these prison plants.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-15
Federal Building
Program Starts

WASHINGTON, Sept. Is. U.P)-
The treasury department, bent on
speeding the new relief act build
ing program, today began the work
of selecting sites for approximately
200 new federal buildings.
The departments construction
division expects to advertise within
two weeks for site bids for ali prof.
ects costing 100000 or more. Ac-
tual selection Of the locations will
follow as rapidly as possible.
Bids for some of the smaller
buildings will be called for by the
end of the month.
Whenever standard plans' are
suitable for one of the new build
ings, eliminating the necessity of
drawing new specifications, actual
construction work will follow speed
lily after selection Of a site. When
entirely new plans are needed, a
three to four month delay is neces-
sary.
Treasury officials stress the ne
cessity of cooperation from local
interests to speed the start of the
construction program designed to
provide employment for many
thousands. The plea for assistance,
they said, particularly applies to
obtaining a suitable site which will
meet government requirements at
a reasonable cost.
Site bids for public buildings to
be opened the first week in Octo-
Der, include Hollywood, Calf.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-15

CHICAGO, Sept. 15.-Four in
nocent bystanders were suffering
from bullet wounds today after a
running battle between an automo-
bile-load of gangsters and police
squad cars through the busy Chi
cago Loop. The chase, one of the
most spectacular in Chicago police
annals, ended in escape of the
gunmen Scores of shots were fired.
More than $4,000 persons witnessed
the battle.
LONDON, Sept. l5.-The Daily
Express understood today that the
British government intends to pro-
pose adjournment of the disarm-
ament conference Immediately af-
ter the conference reconvenes Oct
ober 81 in order that the powers
represented at Geneva may consider
the German demand for arms
equal equality.
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Sept. Is.
"A strong contingent of Bolivian
troops sent to Fort Boqueron, in
the Gran Chaco, was totally des-
troyed" by Paraguayan forces, ac-
cording to a war office communique.
LONDON, Sept l5.-Admiral Sir
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-15
NO REPORT FROM
PLANE MISSING
ON OCEAN TRIP
American Nurse Long
Overdue On Flight To
Italian Capital.
BY THOMAS B. MORGAN
United Press Staff Correspondent


ROME, Sept. 15.-The monoplone
American Nurse, enroute from New
York to Rome, was feared vic
tim of the Atlantic today, hours
overdue and not reported seen at
any point on the European coast.
Italian officials did not believe
that the plane had fuel for more
than 40 hours flight. This period
ended early today, while beacons
at airports from Rome to Paris
flooded the sky.
The veritable flying laboratory
aboard which physician hoped to
record the reactions of transat-
lantic flyers, left New York at 6
a. m. E.S.T) Tuesday. 1t was
known to have reached point $50
miles northwest of the Azores. The
plane had altered it's course to the
south at that time to take advan-
tage of favorable weather.
The liner France reported sight
ing a plane believed to- have been
the American Nurse about $50 miles
west of Lands End, England, but
if this was the flying laboratory"
the machine was we'll off its for
mer course.
Aboard the plane are William
Ulbrich, pilot; Miss Edna New
conner, nurse, and co-pilot, DR.. Leo
M. Pisculli, New York physician,
and "Tailwind,' a mascot wood
chuck.
Complete preparations were made
here late yesterday and maintained
throughout the night for reception
of the plane at Ciampino military
airport, just outside Rome.
Abandon Jump
Officials at LIE Bourget airdrome,
outside Paris, reported at 7 a. m.
q a. m. E.ST) that airport bea-
cons had burned all night through
out France with no word of the
plane. Reports the plane had been
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Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-15
legion Demands Bonus Payment and Prohibition Repeal
GENEROUS CHARITY ASKED
BY HOOVER IN RELIEF WORK

of nation wide effort. He said that
within recent months between
100000 and 100000 grown boys had
fled their homes to the open road
because the path to gainful en-
ployment is closed to them.
About 300 persons were assembled
on the south lawn of the White
House when President and Mrs.
Hoover appeared on the temporary
stage which had been erected there.
Mrs. Baker accompanied her hus-
band to the stand.
Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith, an
nounced as one of those to attend
the conference, did not appear at
the White House gathering.
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor, one
of the conferees, told the United
Press he thought additional fed
eral appropriations for direct relief
would be necessary this winter.
Outlines Program
The Presidents program was as
follows:
Cd To see that no man, woman
or child shall go hungry or un-
sheltered through the approaching
winter.
CD To see that our great bene-
VIOLENT agencies for character build
ing, for disqualification, for care OF
children and all their vast number
Of agencies Of volunteer solicitude
for the less fortunate are main
tanned in full strength.
(3) To maintain the bed rock
principle of our liberties by the full
mobilization of individual and 10.
cal resources and responsibilities.
(4 Maintain the spiritual i'm.
pulses in our people for generous
giving and generous service-in the
spirit that each is his brothers
keeper.
In effect reporting on fedora
emergency relief efforts and the
recent economic conference, Mr.
Hoover said these projects com.
bined with private initiative "havt
shown evidences of success by the
test of increasing private employ
ment and rise in prices"
with these back logs behind
your effort and those of local au-
thorities," Mr.. Hoover continued
I'VE must make sure that no Amer
lean will this winter go cold OF
hungry"
Mr.. Hoover emphasized, however
that federal efforts must be sup
plemented by adequate public sup
port of private welfare and relief
programs.
Baker thanked Mr.. Hoover fol
his welcome to the conferees, anc
stressed the Importance of the con
ference.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-15
Seeking Record
On COsmic Ray

GLENDALE, N. D., Sept. Is. U.P)
Some % miles above the earth's
surface delicate electroscope
should record the imprints of a
bombardment of mysterious cosmic
rays from unknown regions of the
universe.
If weather permits, the electro
scope was to be sent aloft beneath
a 10 foot balloon by DR.. Robert
A. Millikan, Nobel prize winner in
physics. At the % mile point, the
balloon will burst and the electro
cope will settle to earth on a par
achute.
If the finder of the parachute
and electroscope return the instru-
ment to Millikan its recordings will
add to information he is amassing
as to the origin, source and char
acteristicS of the ray, which is
known to be the shortest and most
penetrating discovered.
Yesterday two balloons similar to
that he hoped TO launch today were
torn loose by winds and disappear
ed upward without the instruments.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-15
REVOLT in CHILE
COMPLICATED BY
AVIATION FORCE

SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. Is. U.P)
"A revolutionary movement against
the new Chilian government was
reported today from northern Chile,
where Col. Merton Benitez, chief of
the air force, fled by air yester-
day followed by Chile's entire force
of fighting planes.
Unconfirmed reports said the
garrisons of Iquique and Antofa-
gasta, totalling 5000 men, had
pledged themselves to Benitez. For
nation of a revolutionary gov
ernment" in the north also was re-
ported.
The attitude of the garrisons at
La Serena and africa was not deter
mined, the reports said.
The second day of the new gov
ernment headed by Gen. Bartolome
Blache, who ousted Carlos Divila,
found the air force and the army
in conflict bordering on open war
fare. Benitez challenged Blanche's
right to rule. The new provisional
president ordered federal troops to
march on Ell Bosque airfield, out
side the capital.
Benitez, with some so planes un-
der his command, ordered the ships
to fly to Colina flying field, north
of Ell Bosque. He evacuated Ell
Bosque with 300 troops enroute to
the field. The government erected
anti-craft defenSes on important
buildings in Santiago.
The government then assembled
land force and sent it to Colina.
Benitez again took the air and his
men flew north landing at Ovalle,
Antofagasta, and other cities.
The new minister of war, Gen.
Luis Otero, telegraphed officials at
Ovalle, where 26 planes landed:
Thirty planes departed from
Colima via Quintero, apparently for
Ovalle. Extreme measures are re-
quired to subdue and disarm them
Internationally if they arrive IN
your territory"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-15
Crisp Rejected
By CeOrgians

ATLANTA, Ca, Sept. IS. U.P)-
Congressman Charles r. Crisp, vet
eran Washington political figure
who led the fight for the sales tax
in the last house and voted for a
consumer tax on electricity, has
been overwhelmingly rejected for
the Democratic senatorial nomi7
nation, won by Georgia's hoy gov
ernor," Richard B. Russell, Jr.
In another state contest of in
tereSt elsewhere, Representative
Carl Vinson of the house naval af-
fairs committee, had a command
ing lead over Judge Earl r. Camp
And in the race for governor, Eu-
gene Talmadge defeated Thomas w
Harwich, former governor.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-15
CONVICT BROWNS
In ATTEMPT TO
ESCAPE PRISON

FOLSOM PRISON, Calf, Sept.
Is. U.P)-Failure of an ingenious
homemade diving suit to function
during his attempt to escape from
prison today had cost the life of
Carl F. Reese, 30. sentenced from
Santa Clara county in 1890 for
robbery.
Reese was missed at lookup time
last night. Shortly afterward
guards discovered a hole in the
fence alongside the prison canal,
and further investigation disclosed
Reese's body encased in the diving
suit in Is feet of water.
The diving suit which failed to
work, according to Warden Court
Smith, had a hose attached to q
wooden float on top of the water
with one end leading to a helmet
constructed from an alright rub
ber bag. The helmet contained a
window" for vision and a valve to
permit egress Of air.
The valve failed TO function,
Warden Smith believes, and the
water poured in. Reese. who had
tied weights about his ankles, was
so heavily Weighted down he was
unable to reach the top, and
drowned.
Finding of a similar suit nearby
in the canal led prison officials 10
believe a second convict, also bent
on escape, witnessed the failure of
the contraption and returned to
the prison. An investigation was
being conducted.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-15
SEVERAL
RECEIVED
LOCALLY
Authorities Start Investi-
cation Of Suspected
Radicals.
BANKS ARE STRONG
Officials Declare There Is
No Truth In Claims
Made By Writers.

AS a part of what is believed to
be a general plan of attack through
out Southern California and pos
sibly Arizona, Communists, aiming
their shafts at the financial stabil-
ity of the country, today had
mailed to bank depositors in I'M
perial Valley false and anonymous
notes that the banking institutions
are about to close their doors.
Several letters written to Ell Gen.
ro depositors, at least six written
TO depositors at Brawley, and at
least 13 written to those at Calex-
leo have come to the notice Of the
district attorneys office here.
Officials here had known for
some time of the impending "red"
attack, but were powerless TO make
any move until the Communists
carried out their plans. Bank Of
ficials and those connected with
law enforcement were confident to-
day that depositors will not be in
fluenced by the false propaganda
emanating from governmental
enemies.
In a move to check the mailing
of these anonymous notes, Dis
trict Attorney Elmer w. Heald, a
representative of the sheriff's Of
flee and police chiefs of El Centro,
Brawley and Calexico were to
meet at the district attorneys Of
flee this afternoon to discuss a
counter attack. Bank officials also
may attend the conference.
May Be Federal Case
While city and county peace Of
ficers were keeping watch for the
Communistic workers, postal au-
thorities also were taking hand
in the investigation. In case Of
arrest it is likely that the crimi-
nails will be prosecuted under fed
eral laws governing misuse of the
mails.
A comparison of the notes re-
ceived by Imperial Valley deposi-
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Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-15
100 OF French
Legion Killed

ORAN, Algeria, Sept. Is. U.P)--
Survivors of a French Legion
troop train wreck in the wild coun-
try of the Atlas foothills feared to-
day that 100 Legionnaires had been
killed and another hundred injured.
The train repeatedly fell into a
ravine over $50 feet deep as it
passed through the mountainous
country of the northern African
coast.
The first trainload of injured ar
rived at Tlemoerf, 10 mics south
of here. Survivors were transferred
to hospitals. One officer was killed
and the other was seriously injured.
The troops were enroute to Oudja,
Morocco, scene of the battles Of
Abd-El-K against the French.
A shepherd was the only witness
to the wreck. He fled in his bare
feet to the nearest gendarme post
and reported the disaster.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-15
INSULL COLLAPSE
WILL BE- PROBED
BY AUTHORITIES
Stockholders Who LO s t
Billion May Demand
Grand Jury Quiz.

CHICAGO, Sept. Is. W.P-States
( Attorney John A. Swanson said to-
day he would investigate thorough
ly the three billion dollar utilities
empire of Samuel insult which col
lapsed with a loss to investors and
creditors estimated today at over
81 900, 100000.
Swanson's announcement follow
ed new series Of startling revela-
/ tions in the complex affairs of the
toppled utilities pyramid.
The states attorney called con-
| ference of his chief assistants this
morning to map a program for the
! inquiry. He was also to be present.
ed with demand by stockholders
of certain insult corporations for
grand jury investigation OF the
collapse.
simultaneously 1t was learned a
federal post office inspector was
watching developments in the case.
u. S. District Attorney Dwight
Green was at Washington, D. c.,
but denied his trip had any con-
nection with the insult debacle.
Swanson said he felt it his duty
to fnvestigate insult matters.
1.-The insult affairs are the talk
of the town." he said, "All kinds
of rumors are being spread. I do
not mean to indicate I have any
facts at hand which call for act(n
but I feel it is my duty to investi-
gate these stories"
Revelation that an official in
quiry impended in the crash of the
vast utilities chain whose tentacles
lspread over virtually the entire ma
ton came as receivers for Middle
West Utilities Co., prepared to SUBJ
NIT their first report to the U. S
district court.
= Deficit Shown
! The Middle West Utilities Co.
twas the central holding corporation
of the insult interests and had a
capitalization of $3O0000,000. A re-
port on insult Utilities Investments
Inc, a sister holding corporation
! this week showed a 1926, 100000 de-
ficit.
However, many operating corpor-
ationS of the Middle West group
are reported in good shape and
hope has been expressed stockhold-
ers may eventually salvage some
thing out of this concern.
Receivers of Middle West shared
this belief in a statement accom-
panying announcement of appoint
ment of Grover G. Neff, Wisconsin
utilities expert, as president of the
concern, effective today
Neff succeeds Martin insult
brother of Samuel, in this post
which has been vacant since his
resignation at the time of appoint
ment of receivers last May.
At the same time it was reported
the final abdication of Samuel In
sull from all his vast holdings was
forced largely because TO his ef-
forts to aid his brother. insult re-
signed all his connections a month
after his concerns went into re-
ceivership. He had been named
co-receiver.
This version was to the effect
Samuel insult had protected stock
margin accounts of his brother by
authorizing withdrawal Of funds
from the treasury of one of the
large operating concerns. When
the other receivers discovered the
transaction, insults abdication re-
suited.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-15
BONUS PAYMENT
PLEA SCORED
BY PRESIDENT
Hoover Terms 1t Fatal
Blow To Economic Re-
cOyery.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPEK

/, WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-Sun-
moning the strongest words in his
vocabulary, President Hoover has
branded the proposal for immediate
cash bonus payment as one involv-
ing a fatal threat to recovery,
deadly blow" at the nations well
fare, and IAN act of moral bank
ruptcy."
Regardless of the American Leg
ions expected action in endorsing
it, Mr.. Hoover has given notice he
will oppose it to the end.
It's consummation, he believes,
would be a Calamity" to the other
81 100000 families not affected by
veteran grants and might wreck
the currency and financial system
of the country.
| Mr. Hoover set forth his views in
a statement issued while the Am
erican Legion convention at Port
land, Ore, was considering the cash
bonus proposal.
"The proposal to levy over two
billions of dollars and to pay 1t to
particular group constitutes a
fatal threat to the entire program
of recovery, to the success of which
all must look for their well-being.
security and happiness" Mr. Hoov-
er said. "In my Judgment the en-
actment of any such proposal into
legislation would be deadly blow
at the welfare of the nation.
II was elected to protect and pro-
mote the interests of all the people.
AS long as I am President / shall
continue to do so and to oppose
with all of my strength and influ-
ence at my command any demand
that runs counter to the common
welfare"
| Veterans Oppose President
AS first word came that the state
ment was being prepared leased
wires from the convention reported
Legion delegates were cheering crit
icisms of Mr.. Hoover's position on
veterans affairs.
Advance polls indicated before
Mr.. Hoover spoke that the Legion
was almost certain to endorse the
cash bonus proposal, and that 1t
was due to vote on the question
before the appearance of the state
ment in newspapers.
Therefore, although unexpected
delays at the convention put off
the bonus vote until today, Mr..
Hoover's statement was generally
regarded not as an attempt to in
fluence the action of the convention
but a considered appeal over the
head of the Legion to the country
! at large. 1t was regarded as q
hard-hitting stroke. Earlier this
week former Governor Alfred E.
Smith in a magazine article urged
the presidential candidates to state
their positions.
Mr.. Hoover challenged his Demo-
cratic opponents when he referred
to the leadership of Speaker Gar
ner, the Democratic vice presiden-
tial candidate, in the house when it
J passed the currency expansion bon
/ us bill last spring.