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Evening star., 1932-02-10
HOOVER STUDIES PLEA.
Labor Delegates Present Appeal for
Federal Relief.

President Hoover had before him to-
day a 3,000-wcrd petition, approved by
the American Federation of Labor and
appealing for Federal aid, including the
enactment of the La Toilette Costigan
bill appropriations S375 ,ooo, 900 for un-
employment relief.
A bannerleSS delegation OF 125 men,
representing 100000 men and women
workers, late yesterday quietly marched
from the Federation of Labor Building
to the White House The delegates had
gathered here from every section of the
country and on arriving at the Executive
Mansion they stood in respectful silence
as William Green and Frank Morrison
presented their appeal.
Later they marched to Capitol Hill
and presented their petition to Vice
President Curtis and Speaker Garner.
The Vice President promised to lay the
appeal before the Senate today just
prior to the vote being taken on the
controversial relief issues.
President Makes No Comment.
President Hoover received the petit
ton without comment The appeal was
couched in parliamentary terms, but 1t
was buttressed by an array OF facts
"and in the name and behalf Of the
hungry, suffering men, women and
children, whose plight is directly trace
able to unemployment"
Human values and human needs
should be given first rather than sec
ondary consideration" the petition in
formed Vice President Curtis. The
petitioners were referring to the recently
enacted reconstruction bill.
I'VE all realize the seriousness OF the
Evening star., 1932-02-10
SLAIN BY DRY AGENTS
Kentuckian Dies in Pitched Battle
With Officers.

JACKSON, KY, February 10 P.-
Luther Barnett, %, was shot to death
in a pitched battle with a Federal
prohibition agent and five constables
is miles south of here last night. Four
others escaped and were being sought
today,
B. L. Smith, an agent, with head
quarters in the Lexington, and the
constables reported they found Bar
nett and the other four men at still
in the woods and that when Smith told
them they were under arrest they
started shooting. Barnett was killed
and the others fled after about Is shots
had been fired. A coroner's jury ex-
onerated the officers today.
Evening star., 1932-02-10
ANNAPOLIS "KIDNAP"
STORY CALLED HOAX
Mrs. Sands, Arrested With Man in
Baltimore, ''Wanted to Leave
Husband"
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, February 10
Mrs. Esther Sands. rs, reported kid
naped yesterday after her disappear
ance from her disordered home here.
was back today.
Mrs. Sands was arrested in Balti-
more in company with man who ad-
mitted they had run away from her
husband, Charles Sands, and left the
home in disorder in an effort to lead
police into q belief Of foul play.
Both the woman and her companion
were released by officers. They said
there was no charge which could be
placed against them. Mrs. Sands said
She had no desire to return to her
husband.
Evening star., 1932-02-10
FIRE COMPANY SEEKS $1OO REWARD
VOTED BY COURT SO YEARS AGO
Winchester Volunteers, Hit by Lack of Funds, May Find
Old Order Outlawed by Lapse of Time.

County Circuit Court, who came across
the entry while examining court rec
ords. Minutes of the fire company
were likewise scrutinized, and also the
records of the county treasurer, and no
notation could be found to indicate
payment of the order of the court.
The order recited that the company's
engine had been damaged during the
fire and that also much of the hose
used had burst and the 500 voted was
designed to repay damages. Fire ON
cials said the company could use the
money with interest, II available, but
county authorities said it probably had
been outlawed long ago by the statute
of limitations.
Evening star., 1932-02-10
italian Says Peace Guaran-
tee Can Come Only as Re-
suit of Stopping Race Of
Military Budgets.
ENVOY AYERS JAPAN
is EAGER FOR SLASH
Matsudaira Says His Nation Wants
Size of Ships and Guns Re-
duced and Ban Placed on Air
Raids and Use of Chemicals
and Bacteria.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, February 10.-For-
eign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy
and Ambassador Tsuneo Matsu-
daira of Japan presented the last
two of the disarmament proposals
of the five great powers to the
World Conference today.
The young black-bearded Ital-
ian foreign minister, believed to
be the youngest delegate to the
conference, rejecting the French
theory of the necessity of security
preceding disarmament, brought
thunders of applause from the
floor as he tolled off a long list of
war implements Italy stands ready
to scrap. The list included capi-
tai ships, submarines, aircraft
carriers, heavy artillery, tanks,
bombing aircraft and chemical
warfare weapons.
He also proposed a revision of
the laws of war to protect civil
ian populations. In international
quarters afterward the Italian
plan was hailed as the first pro-
poSal for real disarmament"
Says Japan Wants Cut.
Ambassador Matsudaira, chief
of the japanese delegation, as
sured the conference, in the short
est speech delivered by the rep
resentative of any of the great
powers, that notwithstanding the
unfortunate situation in the Far
East Japan is as eager as ever to
further the cause of disarma-
ment."
He said the japanese delegation had
come to cooperate with all the powers
and that Japan favors a reduction in
the size of battleships and the caliber
of their guns, reduction of tonnage of
airplane carriers, strict limitation OF
the use of all classes of war vessels,
pI vi dir ana
OF the use OF poison gases and bacteria.
August zaleski, Polish representative.
presented plan for moral disarma-
ment" He said Poland would offer a
formal program under this head later
and that Ambassador Hugh Gibson of
the United States "forcibly reminded
lis yesterday the best guarantee of Sc
curity consists in our neighbors' good
will"
Would Prolong Treaty.
Signor Grandi's address brought
three especially enthusiastic outburSts
of applause when he said his country
was willing to prolong the London naval
treaty. to do everything possible toward
to abolish many Of the most important
items on armament programs. He de-
1ivered the address without single
gesture, resting both his hands upon
table.
He said Italy rejected the French
theory of security to precede dlsarma-
ment.
without disarmament" he added,
'there can be no security" He &C
cepted the German demand that other
nations disarm in the same proportion
as Germany is forced to do under the
treaty of Versailles.
He said Italy was in favor of pro-
longing the washington and London
naval agreements as proposed yeSter-
day by Ambassador Hugh Gibson OF
the United States. He said he viewed
the present conflict in the Far East,
not with the tragic irony with which
Evening star., 1932-02-10
Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, February TO-
Eighty-six years ago the Friendship
Fire Company was voted $1oo by the
Frederick County Court for their
valiant work at saving public build
ings during a fire in Winchester" but
records show no such warrant ever
was drawn on the county treasurer for
the amount, and now the firemen, feel
ing the pinch Of depression, want to
know what the Frederick County au-
thorities intend to do about It.
Attention Of the hremen was drawn
to the old court order by Julian w.
Baker, deputy clerk Of the Frederick
Evening star., 1932-02-10
GUNMEN KILL MAN
ON SCRANTON STREET
Companion, With Police Record,
Dying After Fusillade Is Fired
From Gangs Car.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SCRANTON. Pa, February 10
Gunmen riding in an automobile
through Scranton streets this morning
at 6 o'clock sent shower of lead from
sawed1of shotguns into the bodies of
two men, killing one and wounding the
other so seriously that he may die.
A man known as Jacob Levine, 80,
ago from either New York or Philadel-
phia, was killed.
Edward Weiss, as, Of Scranton VIZ
the man wounded. Weiss was arrested
here a year ago charged with the theft
of silk valued at $4,000 from the Erie
Railroad freight station,
Evening star., 1932-02-10
PRESIDENT IS GUEST
Hoover Attends Luncheon for Mel
lon at Stimson's Home.

President Hoover was a guest this
afternoon at "Woodley," home of Sec
retary of State Stimson, at a luncheon
given in honor of Andrew w. Mellon,
retiring Secretary of the Treasury.
The luncheon, which was attended
by members of the cabine and others
high in the Capitals official life, served
as a parting tribute to the former Sec
retary preparatory to his leaving for
London, where he shortly will assume
the duties Of Ambassador to Great
Britain.
This was the first time Mr.. Hoover
has left the White House for luncheon
since he has been President.
Evening star., 1932-02-10
Fox Captures Dog,
Hangs on to Foot
AS Victim HOwls
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PINEHURST, N. c., February
10.-The fox caught a dog in a
hunt Of Carolina hounds here
today.
The pack was nosing about a
swamp in which the fox had
taken shelter when suddenly
piercing howls of pain came
from a thicket.
Rushing up, huntsmen found
the fox had snapped on one
hounds paw and was holding on
desperately while the dog howled.
The master Of hounds released
the dog and took the fox alive.
Evening star., 1932-02-10
SIX NUNS AND IL PUPILS
FLEE CONVENT FLAMES
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED PreSs.
RUSTICO, P. E. l., February 10
Six nuns and IL pupils escaped in
night attire early today, when fire de-
stroyed large convent and Catholic
boarding school here. An early check
up indicated there were no casualties.
The fire started in the basement and
made rapid headway. For two hours
the entire countryside was lighted by
the flames.
The convent and school formed the
center of community life in this small
fishing village and residents worked
valiantly In q bucket brigade in q
futile attempt to save the two build
ings. They were successful, however, In
saving the church and smaller build
ings, which were threatened.
Evening star., 1932-02-10
Voices Republican Opposition
to Federal Aid as "Matter
of Principle"
DOUBTFUL OF NECESSITY
FOR GOVERNMENT TO ACT
There Will Be No End to De.
mands, He Says, Opposing
La Toilette Bill.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Republican opposition to direct Fed
eral relief for the unemployed, as mat
ter Of principle" was voiced in the
Senate today by Senator Fess Of Ohio
as the issue neared vote.
Fess opposed the La Toilette -Costigan
bill to appropriate $375, 900 900 for di-
rect relief. on the ground if the Federal
Government entered the field of relief
there will be no end"
He said he was not opposed to the
Democratic substitute, proposing ap-
preparation of $3.50 900, 900 for relief
loans to States and road construction,
as a matter of principle. but was against
1t because he was not convinced of its
necessity.
First to Express View.
The Ohian was the first member of
the Senate to express the administra-
tons opposition to direct Federal aid
for the Jobless. All previous speakers
during the 10 days of debate have been
IN favor OF one kind or a~other of Fed
eral assistance.
Meanwhile, from the Democratic side
new relief proposal was offered. Sen
ator Lewis, Democrat, of Illinois in
troduced bill to appropriate $500, ,0OO,-
oOO to be loaned to employers to en-
able them to provide increased work.
Advances would be made to "manufac-
turerS and employers of labor, indus
trial and agricultural"
FeSs began by lauding the level of
Senate debate on the relief legislation.
But he said he did not believe in Fed
eral relief until it is quite obvious
there in no other way
Doubts Time Has Arrived.
He said he did not believe there is
much difference between his viewpoint
and the views OF those supporting the
Democratic substitute.
The difference is whether we've
reached the place where local relief has
broken down and there will be starva-
tion unless the Federal government
takes hand" Fess said. Il don't be-
lieve that point has been reached"
The difference between us is one
of degree. But on the original bill for
district relief, the difference is one of
principle.
Il am opposed to the Federal govern
ment entering on this relief program,
because when it does there will be no
end.
Cites Earlier U. S. Relief.
Fess said when Congress first siAxted
appropriating for local disaster reli e.
-. the case of the Lawrence, Ma y,
i:fc-t the step was very reluctantly
taken. Then came the San Francisco
earthquake and fire, he said, and re-
lief fCS Ia sufferers of that disaster
was gisee.s Wore readily and with little
debate.
Once we start appropriating for the
unemployed" he said, ''the food gates
will be opened. We will come to the
place where the Federal Government
will be regarded as responsible not only
for unemployment sufferers, but we will
be called upon as duty to feed people
rather than make them self-support-
ing"
He said the tax burden would be
Simply staggering" if this precedent
were established.
Evening star., 1932-02-10
CUBAN OFFICE BOMBED

HAVANA, February 10 P.-The
post Office and telegraph center. in
Marianao, near Havana, was bombed
shortly after midnight this morning
Considerable damage was done to the
building.
Evening star., 1932-02-10
JOHN DRINKWATER ILL
Noted Playwright Suffering From

Bronchial Pneumonia.
LONDON, February 10 R-John
Drinkwater, the playwright, is critically
i'll of bronchial pneumonia at his. home
in Highgate, it was learned today.
His abraham Lincoln is to open
in a few days in London.
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every city block and the regular edi
tion is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as, the papers are printed.
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Dr. Herson was pastor of Hamline M.
E. Church, Washington, about 10 years
ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-10-25
Mayfield Observes
9th Anniversary

Twenty-seven years ago today a
putting dinky train of the Holton
Interurban railroad deposited its
only passenger at Carbarker juno
ton, where the interurban con-
tacted the Southern Pacific just
north of the present site of the
Southern Sierras power plant.
I. Mayfield, now Judge, took
a good look around at what later
became Ell Centre, and decided he
had found the place he came from
Kentucky seeking.
Since that day the eastern end
of San Diego county has been con-
verted into Imperial county El
Centre has been declared county
sea at the outcome of a now his
torical contest with Imperial,
Brawley and Calexico, and the
county has marched on to its pre-
sent prosperous state.
Most of those 27 years have seen
Mayfield as justice OF the peace of
the Ell Centro township, and an ar
dent civic worker.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-10-25
Sinclair Pardon
To Be Sought

A presidential pardon for j. C..
Sinclair, former Imperial county
deputy sheriff at Westmorland, is
the object of a petition which was
being circulated in Ell Centro to-
day, seeking executive clemency
for the man who gave himself up
at Leavenworth penitentiary two
weeks ago for a 34-year-old crime.
Persons who knew Sinclair in
1919 and 1920, when he was spe-
cial deputy sheriff at Westmorland
and owner of an automobile camp
there, started the petition asking
for a presidential pardon.
Sinclair appeared at the Kansas
federal penitentiary two weeks ago
to surrender himself as an escaped
prisoner who had been sentenced
to prison for robbing postoffice
in Indian territory 81 years ago.
He escaped from train when on
the way to prison in custody of an
officer, he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-10-25
HART CASE WILL
BE TRIED AGAIN
In LOCAL COURT

District Attorney Elmer w. Heald
is at Los Angeles today gathering
up the loose ends for a resump-
tion of a criminal action which
furnished Imperial county with the
most lengthy trial in its history
only to end in the jury room when
jurors could not agree.
The district attorney was to re-
turn to Ell Centro this afternoon,
after interviewing witnesses and
others in the now famous Lewis
Hart insurance case of grand theft
and conspiracy to violate the cor
porate securities act.
Hart and Is other defendants
originally were charged with sell
ing stock in a holding company
under the representation it was
stock in an insurance company
Many people in all walks of life
purchased the stock in Imperial
Valley.
More than SO counts were con-
tanned in the original grand jury
indictment, but the first trial re-
suited in the dismissal of all but
81 counts, which will be tried No
vember IA when six of the origin
al Ia defendants go to trial
Charges against the others were
dismissed.
Defendants remaining are Lewis
Hart, alleged ringleader, Percy
Pickerell, Louis R. Rogasner, Si-
mon Newman, Bernard Phillips
and Arthur Goldberg.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-10-25
Actor Will Fight
Return 10 East

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25.-(U.R)E
James Hall, motion picture actor,
will fight extradition to New Ha-
ven, Conn, where he is charged
With failure to pay alimony to his
former wife, Irene Brown.
Hall made his announcement as
he faced his former wife in NUM-
cipal court today. Mrs. Brown was
accompanied by her attorney, Jo-
seph Kcsetski, and a state officer
who was prepared to take Hall east
for trial.
Municipal Judge Wilbur C. Cur
It's said the court proceedings to-
day were a formality to hold the
actor pending decision of Gov.
James Rolph, Jr., on an extradi-
ton petition, and continued the
case to November 4.
Koletski declared Hall, whose
former name was Brown, had paid
only $50 alimony since last July 12,
although he was said to earn $3.50
weekly in motion pictures.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-10-25
Appellate Court
UphOlds Verdict

A opinion of the fourth district
court of appeals today affirmed the
judgment of the local superior
court in granting the cancellation
of deed executed by George B.
Brown to his son, A. F. Brown,
sought in a complaint filed by Mrs.
Alta Blanche Brown.
George B. Brown and his son
were named defendants in the
suit, but the son and j. Edgar
Ross, to whom the property had
been transferred by A. F. Brown
appealed from the superior court
judgment.
Mrs. Brown sought and obtained
cancellation of the deed executed
by her husband on the ground that
the property concerned was COM
munity property, and that the deed
was signed only by George B
Brown.
Judgment was given by default,
when the defendants failed to an
swer the complain after a demur-
rer had been overruled. They ap-
pealed on the grounds the demur-
rer should have been upheld.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-10-25
Prices Of Fruit
Crops Decline

FRESNO, Oct. 25 .U.P)-Cali-
fornia raisin and fresh grape grow
ers will receive about $16,500000
for their crops this year, leaders
of the raisin industry estimated
today.
The raisin crop, estimated at
225,000 tons, will bring in about
$8,325, 900 on an average of $37
per ton for all varieties, they said,
The average for last year was
about $50, they said.
Fresh grape shipments were es-
timated to bring in more than
$8,000,000. Shipments to date have
amounted to 33,523 cars, of which
all but 9,761 have been sold, re-
ports showed.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-10-25
Hyde EnrOute
To California

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct.
Is. U.P)-Secretary of Agriculture
Hyde was enroute today for San
Francisco after pleading for the
reelection of President Hoover in
an address here last night.
The cabinet member, in an ag-
gressive speech, charged Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt with making
capital out of distress and with de-
liberate Misrepresentation of the
President.
Seventy per cent of the speech
es of Governor Roosevelt consist in
rolling the agonies of the people
unctuously off his tongue, in mis-
representing the President, and in
attempting to stir resentment" he
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-10-25
4 Late News

PARIS, Oct. 25.-Mrs. Ella Hyde,
recently divorced from James Ha-
zen Hyde, will be married in Rome
Saturday to Prince Alexandra of
Thurm, an Austrian. Mrs. Hyde is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Franklin H. Walker of Detroit. She
was divorced from Count Manfred
Matuschka of Silesia in 1926.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Oct. 25.-
Service on Bermuda's only modern
transportation system, dislocated
yesterday by a COW, was resumed
today. The single coach train that
runs from st. Georges to Hamilton,
ran into a COW. The train was de-
rallied. The COW died. A horse
drawn bus transports passengers
pending repairs.
LONDON, Oct. 25.-The house
of commons approved the Ottawa
financial resolutions early today
and then passed the Ottawa agree
ments bill, to make effective the
tariff agreements of the Imperial
conference, for the first time.
PARIS Oct 25 Mrs Rernard
Imperial Valley press., 1932-10-25
Citrus Clearing
House Assured

Clearing house for Imperial VAL
ley grapefruit marketing will be in
operation as soon as headquarters
are selected and a secretary cho-
sen.
A sufficient number of sigma
lures has been secured to the
agreement so that it can go into
operation for this season. The clear
ing house will have as its aim the
better distribution and advertising
of the local crop so that one mar
ket will not be over-supplied and
another, under-supplied, as has OBJ
tanned in the past If necessary,
shipments to certain markets
within the state may be limited in
order to prevent Cutting the mar
ket. Creation of new markets is
another function of the clearing
house.
B. A. Harrigan, agricultural
commissioner, states that growers
hope to interest Phoenix and Yuma
growers and shippers in forming
a similar organization as that is
the only way in which the local
clearing house can completely
function.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-10-25
BEYSCHLAG GIVES
SUGGESTION FOR
CITRUS GROWERS

Advice to citrus growers in re-
gard to fertilization is offered by
Frank Beyschlag, farm advisor, who
has returned from a meeting of
farm advisors and citrus experts
held this weekend at the River
side citrus experiment station in
regard to fertilization experiments
The most economical and eff
cient system of fertilization in line
with the low prices for fruit today
is to supply 112-2 pounds of ac-
tual nitrogen to full bearing cit
rus trees and to supply this nitro
gen from the cheapest source OBJ
tainable inl the community, ac-
cording to results demonstrated by
experimental plots, he said
Beyschlag states that in Imper-
ial Valley dairy manure or super
sulphate of ammonia, are the
cheapest sources of supply. Local
dairy manure has an average nit
rogen content of one per cent, thus
requiring from six to eight tons per
acre. Cover crops are also advis-
able particularly on heavy soil.
No beneficial results in i'm
proved yield and quality were OBJ
tanned from the use of complete
commercial fertilizers or from COM
mercial phosphates and potash
fertilizers, nor from such soil
amendments as lime, sulphur and
gypsum. Profitable results have been
shown by the use of bulky organic
fertilizers and commercial nitro
gen.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-10-25
By LYLE C. WILSON

United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-Police
departments throughout the Uni
ted States have been asked to CO.
operate with capital officers in
gathering information on proposed
winter 'marchers" on the capitol
Superintendent E. w. Brown of
the Metropolitan police told the
United Press today that he was
seeking such information through
other police departments and
through the treasury and justice
departments.
Brown said the policy to be fol-
lowed in dealing with hunger
marchers and others this winter
had not been determined. 1t was
dispute over the administrations
eviction policy against bonus
marchers last July that led indi-
rectly last week to the resignation
of Browns predecessor, Brig. Gen.
Pelham d. Glassford.
Il have had conferences with
the government officials Brown
said, ION the question of policy to
be followed here if there are
'marchers' this winter. We have
not decided anything yet but it is
being worked out"
The last official word on the
subject was uttered July 30 by the
District of Columbia commissioners
in an order to Glassford instruct
ing him that "in view of condi-
tions now existing in the district"
groups of persons seeking to enter
the capital should be prevented
from doing so unless it be estab-
lished that such bodies or groups