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Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-01
PROTECTION FOR
WITNESS ASKED
in HUTTON CASE
Sister OF Plaintiff Says
Threats Made To Do
Her Bodily Harm.

LOS ANGELES, July l. U.P)-
Another principal in the st. Pierre
Hutton 100000 breach of promise
suit was given bodyguard today
Mrs. Gladys Cassill, blonde
widow who testified against her
sister, Myrtle st. Pierre, and for
David L. Hutton, husband of Aimee
Semple Mcpherson, was the one
that thought she needed protection
this time.
The bodyguard was added after
her attorneys said she received a
letter which read:
We'll throw acid In your eyes,
you little rat. Anyone who would
testify as you did against a sister
deserves punishment and we'll see
that you get it."
Mrs. Cassills testimony was
most damaging to Miss st. Pierre
in that she said Miss st. Pierre
frequently was not altogether cir
cumspect nor modest in the pres
ence of men.
This supported Hutton's cross
complaint contention that Miss
st. Pierre was not the chaste
woman she purported to be in the
suit based on the charge that she
was betrayed under promise of
marriage by Hutton.
Before the trial started, Miss
st. Pierre, with due public notice,
hired bodyguard She did this,
her attorneys claimed, because she
received threats of bodily harm.
Because Superior Judge Lester
Roth was attending a funeral there
was no session of the trial this
morning.
Arthur Graves, who admitted he
once spent the night in Miss
st. Pierre's bungalow, was the first
witness at the afternoon session.
Then, David L. (Iron Nam
Hutton, corpulent husband of
Aimee Semple McPherson-H Hutton,
took the witness stand in his own
defense.
Hutton intended to deny all
claims of Miss st. Pierre, including
the charge that he betrayed her
under promise of marriage.
The obese choir singer, who has
been forced to w oy for the past
week while he heard himself re-
ferred to as "a big fat slob,' "a
sissy" and "a mammals boy"
looked serious and determined as
he look the oath.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-01
BY LYLE c. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent


CONVENTION STADIUM, CHI
CAGO, July l. = Exhausted dele
gates to the Democratic national
convention tumbled out of this box
fight hall into the July sunshine
today after reaching an emphatic
deadlock in their presidential bal
loting.
Leaders were predicting and dele
gates were praying that a nomina-
ton would be had quickly after
the convention resumes its labors
at $50 p. m. From noon yester-
Gay until 9:10 a. m. today the dele
gates sat with but one three-hour
respite for dinner last night.
Officials and privates in this
army of democracy were fretful
but surprisingly good natured
through their ordeal.
After two ballots they hooted
down suggestions that they ad-
journ. A third deadlocked ballot
broke the spirit of the die-hards.
With believing chorus they
"ayed' themselves out of the hall
and home to bed for dreams of
oratory, hot dogs, bands and
parades.
Previously Tammany Hall and
the political cousins of upstate New
York treated the convention to an
old-fashioned back fence political
row as Gov Franklin D. Roosevelt
was stopped" on the first presi-
Dental ballot.
Roosevelt got 666A votes, short
103A of the required two-thlrds.
Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith
polled 201A.
1t was over the division of New
York, ga votes between these two,
that the delegation battled. John
F, Curry precipitated the incident
and amazed the convention by ad-
mitting that he, sachem and leader
of Tammany Hall, was unable to
say how the delegation would vote
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-01
MORE CHARGES
FILED AGAINST
MOVIE MACNATE

NEW YORK, July I. W.P) -
William Fox, movie pioneer, faced
further charges today growing out
of his alleged manipulation of his
own companies stock as a result
of two suits filed against him late
yesterday, one by the Fox Film
corporation, the company he once
headed, and, the other by his
sister-in- law, Mrs. Aaron Fox.
The company's suit, filed in
Mineola, L. l., involved an amount
estimated between $10,000,O0O and
$15,000,000 and closely follows a
suit for $5,0O0,00 by the Fox
Theatres corporation, another of
the former Fox companies.
In addition to Fox, the suit men
toned Jack Leo, a former vice.
president and director, and men,
bers Of the brokerage firm of
NJ j. Meehan e. Co. 1t asks to set
aside allegedly fraudulent contracts
and agreements between the cor
poration and Fox and an ac-
counting.
Mrs. Aaron Fox's suit, filed in
supreme court, asked the appoint
ment of herself as guardian for her
two children so that she could sue
Fox for $25O000 in behalf OF the
children. Fox, it was charged in
the suit had his brother illegally
confined in Connecticut insane
asylum to remove him from COM
petition in the motion picture in
dustry" and to prevent his ap-
pearance at Washington to testify
at the senate banking committees
investigation into Fox's stock deals.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-01
DIR. Judd's Trial
Again Postponed

LOS ANGELES, July l. (U.H =
Trial of DR.. William c. Judd, hus-
band of Winnie Ruth Judd, on
charge that he practiced medi-
cine in California without a Ii
cense was continued today until
August 9.
The delay was granted because
DR.. Judd was reported still Ill in
an Arizona sanitorium.
DR.. Judd was arrested on the
count shortly after his wife sur
rendered here to charges that she
murdered two girl friends in
Phoenix. She subsequently, was
tried, convicted and sentenced to
die on the gallows. She has ap-
pealed the verdict.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-01
OFFICER DENIES
CURTIS RECEIVED
THIRD DEGREE

PENNINGTON, N. j., July 1.
U.P) = Harry D. Walsh, one of the
country's most famous detectives,
squirmed in the witness chair to-
day as counsel for John Hughes
Curtis undertook to prove their
client was subjected to the third
degree while staying at the Hope
well home of Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh.
e Curtis is on trial charged with
obstructing justice by telling false
stories of negotiations with the
kidnapers and murderers of Lind
berghs infant son. He confessed
but has since repudiated the con-
fesSion.
Lloyd Fisher, Curtis counsel, was
bitter in his examination. Walsh,
no stranger to courtrooms and
trials, like Fisher, made obvious
plays to the audience. When asked
if he had promised Curtis to keep
his confession secret, he declared
dramatically:
Il said I didn't know and that
anything that might happen to
him would be small payment for
what he had done to Colonel Lind
bergh." The packed courtroom ap-
plauded.
Walsh, who gained nation wide
repute as detective on the Hall
Mills case, was a friendly witness
under the tutelage of prosecution
questioning, but became truculent
and evasive when Fisher questioned
him.
did you know Curtis to have
slept in the cellar of the Lindbergh
homer" demanded Fisher.
why, sleeping in the cellar is
no hardship. I've done that my
SELF
But, what may not have been
hardship to man like you, may
have been hardship to Curtis"
why, he's no better than am"
retorted Walsh, flustered.
How do you know that?"
Fisher tried to get before the
jury that Curtis was confined to
the cellar, but repeated objections
stopped him. He did force Walsh
to admit that Col. H. Norman
Schwartzkopf, in charge of the kid
naping investigation, had ordered
Curtis detention" Walsh refused
to admit Curtis was under arrest"
or "in custody"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-01
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@ iaa., MeEsushs Syndicate. Iss'
DRILLING STARTS
AMONG MEMBERS
OF BONUS ARMY

WASHINGTON, July l.. UP)-
Soldiers of the bonus expeditionary
force lined up Immediately after
breakfast today and went through
stiff hours drill under hot sun.
Sharp commands of squads
right" and double time, march" !"
attested the strict discipline
clamped down by Walter w.
Waters, forceful commander-in-
chief, elected Wednesday and given
dictatorial powers. Waters is de-
termined to make a brisk military
unit of the $4,000 veterans who had
become little else but squatters
since the senates defeat of the
bonus bill.
At the same time Waters was
making plans to extend the B. E. F..
throughout the United States. If
his plan succeeds other cities may
harbor bonus armies similar to the
one here.
Waters proposes to send veterans,
schooled by underline experience at
the Washington front, TO various
localities to organize drill units.
These would remain stationed
where formed, providing an ever
present illustration of the plight
of unemployed veterans. Their
presence would be their plea.
"The bonus, of course, is the
main thing Waters explained,
"but we feel that such qualification
will be the first step toward the
relief of all unemployment.
mo reactionary groups will be
tolerated and these corps would
stand ready to aid in the enforce
ment of law and order"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-01
CONVENTION TO RESUME
BALLOT BATTLE TONIGHT

Delegates, dog tired, streamed out
of the convention hall for baths,
breakfast and bed.
The third ballot showed Roosevelt
picked up, over the second ballot,
the following additional strength:
Missouri, 21A.
New York, IL.
Ohio, 2.
Pennsylvania, l.
He lost meantime:
North Dakota, /.
North Carolina, 96-100 (ninety-
six one-hundreths).
The vote on the third ballot was
Roosevelt, 682.79.
Smith, 1901.
Garner, 101A..
Ritchie, 2314.
Baker, 815.
T'raylor, 40A.
Byrd, 2496.
Reed, 2715.
White, 52h.
Rogers Gets Votes
North Carolina on the third wav-
cred to the extent of four-one hun
dredths of a delegate which shunt-
ed to former Gov. Harry F. Byrd
of Virginia. The chairman was
unable to figure the decimal reck-
oning-and let it go at that.
Pennsylvania gave Roosevelt one
and scattered its other votes among
Smith, Ritchie, Baker and White.
Oklahoma, DONG some political
acrobatics, gave its % votes on
the second ballot to it's famous
son, Will Rogers, after having stuck
with Gov. Alfalfa Bill Murray for
the first. Then on the third bal
lot, it jumped to IL for Reed and
II for Garner.
Garner showed the most second
ary strength on the third ballot
when he went to 1912 after hav-
ing had Texas and CALIFORNIA; total
of 80 votes and a quarter vote
from Illinois for the first two bal
lots. He picked up on the third
the IL votes which were leaping
about.
Smith meantime dropped from
201A on the first 1904 on the
third.
Smith on the third lost 21a votes
in New York; nine in Pennsylvania.
Ritchie, the white hope of the
stop Roosevelt forces picked up on
the third ballot 21a votes in Penn
sylvania and ended with a total of
231a. Baker, another potentiality of
the stop Roosevelt folks. went
through the three ballots unchang-
Continued ON Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-01
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent

CONVENTION STADIUM, CHI
CAGO, July l. The Democratic
national convention adjourned at
9:10 a. m. after a II hour session
which three ballots failed to OBJ
tain the necessary two-thirds vote
to nominate a presidential candi-
date.
Roosevelt gained strength slowly
as the balloting proceeded.
From 666A on the first ballot, he
crept to 677& on the second, and
to 682.79 on the third.
Roosevelt managers hoped they
could continue this chiselling pro-
cess in later ballots, but were
working nightly to swing over some
big state with rich block of votes.
After three ballots, in a session
which lasted from 9 o'clock last
night to 9:10 a. M, today, the con-
vention adjourned to $3.50 tonight.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-01
Home Protection
Urged On State

LOS ANGELES, July 1. W.P)-The
Los Angeles board of supervisors
today urged the state legislature
to enact a homestead protection
law similar to that of Texas for
protection of small homeowners
during the present economic crisis.
The proposed action would permit
the owner of small home or farm
to remain undiSturbed in possession
and free frondshe danger of fore
closure under Ftgage unless the
mortgage is az Npn Of the original
purchase price. 4
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-01
Declares Hills
Guilt Unproven

LOS ANGELES, July l. W.P)-
The state failed to prove the theft
of the $4,000, Attorney John Coop
er claimed today in his final argu-
ment in the case of Liberty Hill,
former chief deputy county clerk,
accused of embezzling that amount.
The personal testimony of Hill III
which he said he gave the money
to the late Charles Crawford, poll
tician, completely answered every
accusation brought against Hill
Cooper told the jury.
The state will conclude its fina
argument this afternoon and the
case will go to the jury. mt
The $4,000 was cash vi N
the case in which M s'@~''''''1'- -'..''a'-a
newspaperman, was az
torting from Crawford
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-01
Amelia Earhart
Starts Flight

NEWARK, N. j., July l. U,H-
Amelia Earhart Putnam took off
from Newark airport at ITO a. m.
today in the same airplane in which
she made her recent solo trans
Atlantic flight for possible nom
stop flight to Los Angeles.
With her as passengers were her
John Palmer Putnam, the
publisher, and his son, David Bin
ney Putnam, known as an explor-
er and author.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-01
TWO LARGEST
SAN FRANCISCO
BANKS MERGED

SAN FRANCISCO, July /. Ub-
Consolidation of two of San n n
cisco's largest banks, the AngiA &
London Paris National Bank tnc
the glo-California Trust q n
pany forming the Anglo-Califc lia
National Bank, was announced D.
Say. The merged institutions ire
9eaded by Herbert and Mort \,
west coast capitS Is
=Eerbert Fleischhacker was presl N
ii the Anglo London and Morl i,
PRESIDENT of the Anglo 'Calf} n
.Ierger of the institutions has /
for months. a
3 A statement of consolidated j
5sets, deposits and liabilities OF
5two institutions will not be ~
for several days, bank officials w
5clared.
Object of the consolidation, tIH
said, was to form an enlarged In.
ancial institution, Incorporating ths
principles of community serve,
which have always been observed
by each, and to increase the ser,
vice available to depositors and Gus,
toners"
The consolidation combined tn,
resources of 10 banks in San Fran
cisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-01
DRYS and
BORAH ON.
WARPATH
Idaho Senator Declared
Receptive To Heading
Third Party.
PLAN INDEFINITE
:, W. c. T. u. Takes Lead
s.. 8 ing Part In Discussion
~ Of Program.
By SAM KNOTT
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1892, BY United Press

United Press Staff Correspondents
Copyright, 1882, BY United Press
CHICAGO, July l. = An appeal
for prohibition forces to unite be-
hind a dry third party with United
States Senator William E. Borsh
(Repo Idaho, as it's presidential
candidate, was made today before
a secret meeting of the drys' board
Of strategy, the United Press
learned.
Thirty-two leaders of prohibition
organizations heard DR.. d. Leigh
Colvin of New York declare in an
impassioned speech that Senator
Borah would be willing to be dry
third party's candidate for Presi-
dent if assured of support by "the
moral forces of America"
DR., Colvin said, it was understood,
that Senator Borah not only had
been approached on his willingness
to run, but that those who sought
the interview interpreted his rae
ton as receptive"
Senator Borah attacked the Re-
publican party's resubmission pink
in a senate speech recently an
nouncing he would not support
President Hoover for reelection on
that plank
Prohibition organizations genTal-
ly had withheld decisions on heir
course of political action, awaaing
the outcome of the platform tight
before the Democratic convention
With the Democratic party COM
mitted to a straight repeal-and---
\ modification policy, the dry leaders
kill have ". not ietermine on tnI
Z Today's meeting was called at the
instance of some prohibiap work
ers who feel that the way is now
clear for the drys to repudhte both
parties and form their owl political
organization, with its ownlbone dry
candidate to battle in the Novem-
ber election against any changes in
the 18th amendment.
CHICAGO, July l. U.H - The
National Women's Christtn Tenn
perance Union today dsavowed
association with DIR third
party convention called for In
dianapolis, July and 5.
Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, NV York
state president of the w. T. T. u.
Salled the Indianapolis conference.
NShe announced that the gather
..ag would adopt a platforn favor
ing retention of the eBhteenth
amendment and would nominate a
dry candidate for presiden.
Mrs. Ella A. Boole, national preSi-
dent of the w. C. T. u, sad mem
bers of her organization would be
at Indianapolis only as Individuals.
The organization positin in the
presidential campaign will be de-
cided, she said, at its convention
in Seattle, August II to II
Intimation that the w. G. T. u.
Will pursuit lJo oWh SOou DC, SEPARATE
from those of either Republicans
or Democrats, was given by Mrs.
Boole.
1.-THE two party conventions
have been politicians conpntions,"
she said. Nov will come the ac-
tion of tho loving women,
millions of whom abhor theattempt
to restore the liquor traffic
"The attempt to make II appear
women want repeal or prchibition
is ridiculous. The party opening
the door to liquor is doohled."
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-01

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Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-01
AWAIT OFFER
Of k|DNAPERS

RENSSELAER,, Ind, Dec. l. U.P)
Authorities suspended their in
vestigation today to give the kid
napers of 4-year-old Patricia
Pearl Tripp an opportunity for
presenting ransom demands which
were expected during the day.
Why he appeared to be so GER
tain that the abductors would at
tempt a contact Sheriff Tone
Kanne would not say, although he
admitted having made progress
toward establishing the kidnaper'S S
identities.
Sheriff Kanne's only previous
hint of a definite line of inquiry
had been request that Illinois
authorities aid him in the search
for the chubby, fair-haired, blue
eyed girl, who was snatched from
her grandparents home Saturday
by a stranger.
"We have several new clues to
the kidnapers' identity" Kanne
said, "but we cannot reveal their
nature.
1--WE will resume our plans to-
morrow if the letter we expect has
not been received by then"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-01
Daring Robbery
On Main Street

One of the boldest theftS ever
recorded in Ell Centro police rec
ords was narrated last night by I.
j. Delmer and E. Marks of Los
Angeles, who lost a bag containing
womens dresses and two boxes of
childrens' coats, valued at $3.50,
when three men broke the glass
from Delmers automobile on Main
street and made away with the
goods.
Delmer and Marks parked near
Edgar Brothers hardware store on
Main street at about 7 o'clock last
night, locked the car, and went in
to cafe to eat.
Witnesses later told police that
two white men and a Filipino in
a high powered coupe stopped,
broke the door and handles with
a hammer wrapped in a handker-
chief, took the clothing and drove
away. Attendants at a theatre
across the street witnessed the
theft, but did not realize that any
thing was wrong,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-01
F ANGUS STAR
QUITS FILMS

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. /. W.P)-
Her motion picture career possibly
behind her, Tallulah Bankhead
was on her way east today.
Miss Bankhead is headed for
New York, it was understood,
where she was to consider plans
for stage engagement either there
or in London.
Her departure was made sudden
ly, at time when she had been
expected daily to sign a contract
TO make pictures for Warrlr Broth
ers. The reason for the collapse
of negotiations was not definitely
known.
Miss Bankhead came to Holly
wood slightly more than two years
ago, after several spectacular sea-
sons on the London stage. She
made several pictures for Para
mount, leaving at the expiration
Of her contract two months ago.
Among her later pictures were
Devil and the Deep and Faith
less" her last.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-01
WALKER HELPS
ACCUSED GIRL

PASSAIC, N. j., Dec. l. W.P)-
Mickey Walkers verbal punches
sent divorce decree reeling today
and cleared the name of former
Broadway show girl named as a
correspondent by the suing wife
oe a star polo player
The "Toy Bulldog" of the ring
proved a star witness before a spe-
cial mastery in chancery in de-
Tending Laverta Mccormick Gou-
diss from charges of Mrs. Sally
Winn of New York City, who won
a divorce from Herbert Winn.
Colonel Edward Moore, special
master, decided Mrs. Goudiss, then
Miss Mccormick, was not guilty of
misconduct with Winn in the
Walker home at New Years
party in 1929.
Moore in his decision stated he
was influenced greatly by Walker
whose actions on the stand and
the frank statements, void of evas-
ion or mental reservations, lent
credence to his testimony" Mickey
gave his testimony soon after the
fight with Max Schmeling, and in
blunt words said nothing improper
went on at his house, which was as
inviolate "as that of the President
of the United States
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-01
BY LYLE c. WILSON
UNITED Press Staff COrrpsDondeu

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-The
justice department and the bud
get bureau have asked congress for
funds to continue prohibition en-
forcement as usual without regard
for possible modification or repeal
The budget estimate placed be-
fore the house appropriations COM
mittee asks s9,599, ,948 for the fis-
cal year beginning July L. THIS Is
the same as the enforcement fund
this year.
The United Press learned on un-
questioned authority today that the
justice department actually had
asked the budget bureau to increase
next years enforcement sum to
$11 ,221 BAL The smaller sum APP
proved by the budget bureau was
presented to the house committee by
Attorney General Mitchell and Pro-
hibition Director Woodcock.
They proposed it less than
week before Democratic leaders
will ask the house to vote Inquali-
fled repeal of the 18th amendment
and week to the day before the
ways and means committee begins
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-01
FORD MAKING
RAPID GAINS
Manufacturers Condition After
Serious Operation Said To Be
Remarkable.

DETROIT, Dec. l. U.P)-Henry
Ford today displayed greater pow
erS than normal in a man of any
age" in recovering from a major
operation, Dr. Roy ID. Mcclure, the
operating surgeon, declared.
'He was out of bed the day after
the operation and has been up
some every day since," the doctor
said. revealing also that the CO.
year-old manufacturers case was
one of only 90 such in medical his
tory.
Mcclure revealed in reply to
questioning, some of the details Of
Ford's illness and the emergency
operation in the hospital the pa
tient himself had financed.
1t was decided to operate after
Ford sum moned. Mcclure last
Thursday, and showed symptoms of
nciarcerated femoral hernia, with
a blood count that indicated infec-
ton.
Avertin, a comparatively new an
aesthetic well adapted for use with
nervous individuals, was used. Ford
lost consciousness in 10 minutes,
and was on the operating table an
hour after the four inch incision
was made.
The appendix, it was found, had
slipped into the femoral canal and
was strangulated and gangrenous
"The blood pressure remained at
1860, very unusual and very IA
vorable sign" Mcclure said.
Ford was not sick after the eT-
fects of the anaesthetic had worn
off, and is now on soft surgical
diet-fruiG juices, bread, honey
baked potatoes, spinach and tapio-
ca pudding.
"If we can keep him here an
other week." Mcclure said, land he
will go easy for another three weeks
I feel certain he will be more active
physically than before the opera
ton"
The manufacturers fine physical
condition,it was said, was credited
to his temperance-mod ir
diet, and abstinence from alcohoI
and tobacco.