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Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-09
STATE PROVIDES
PROTECTION FOR
MELON GROWERS

Wilson B. Woodburn, southern
deputy for the bureau of market
enforcement for the state depart
ment of agriculture, and Frank M
Kramer, supervising inspector OF
fruit and vegetable standardization
OF the state department, are in the
valley to conduct q survey of pro-
duce dealers In Imperial Valley.
Produce dealers are required by
state agricultural statutes to be Ii
censed and bonded and Woodburn
and Kramer are conducting an in
yestigation of several complaints
against Imperial Valley dealers
the growers alleging that they were
not given fair and honest returns
on shipments of lettuce, grapefruit
and cantaloupes.
The two state department men
are in the valley today and will be
here Wednesday, May IL, to receive
complaints from growers in regard
to dealers. They may be reached
at the agricultural commissioners
office at the court house.
Woodburn and Kramer stated
that thousands of dollars are lost
each year to the growers of the
state because of wild cat operations
of unlicensed and unbonded deal
ers. This service of the state is
free to growers and those having
complaints may file them with B. A.
Harrigan. agricultural commission
er, and the complaints will be for
warded to the proper authorities in
case growers are unable to see Kra-
mer and Woodburn during theil
Istay here.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-09
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1882, BY United Press,


Copyright, 1882, BY United Press
WASHINGTON, May 9.-When
congressman says he is for re-
ducing salaries and cutting gov
ernment expenses to the bone, it
should be understood that he is
not necessarily a fanatic on the
subject.
That is what has caused much
of the present criticism of congress
and drawn three sharp blasts from
President Hoover. Congress as a
whole prefers its economy with
reservations.
This is shown in repeated in
stances of the family payroll
racket disclosed by the United
Press in dispatches in the last few
days. Several of the most noted
economies adyacotes in congress
have relatives or absentee employ
ees on the congressional payroll.
One of the most distinguished of
these is Rep. Will r. Wood Rep)
Indiana. He was for years chair
man of the house appropriations
committee and is chairman of the
Republican national congressional
committee.
At the time the United Press
correspondent talked to him last
week, he still had an absentee clerk
on his pay roll She draws about
$25 a week. Wood said he did not
know where this employee could be
reached in Indiana as she was NOV
ing about his district. If she has
a regular office, Wood would not
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-09

DISTRICT
CHARGES
Water Tolls Assessment
Levied By Board Found
To Be Legal.
WEBB GIVES RULING
Attorney General Cites
Necessity Of Raising
Additional Revenue.

u. S. Webb, attorney general for
California, today handed down the
opinion that Imperial Irrigation
district may legally levy water
toll and withhold water from those
who do not pay the charge, ac-
cording to information received by
Charles L. Childers, chief counsel
for the district.
In response to Childers' question
as to the right Of the district to
discontinue the service where a
toll is delinquent, the attorney
general said:
THE irrigation district law ex-
pressly authorizes the imposition
of a charge of this character for
water service, and apparently au-
thorizes the discontinuance Of serv.
ice where payment therefor is not
made"
He then quotes section 18 of the
act as follows:
That when any rates of toll
and charges for the use of water
are fixed by the board of direc-
tors, as provided by section SIS OF
! this act, the water for the use of
which such rates of toll and
charges have been fixed, shall be
distributed equitably, as may be
provided by the board of directors,
| among those offering to make the
required payment thereafter.
Webb then continues:
THE direction that the waters
of the district be distributed to
those offering to pay, excludes the
idea that those refusing to pay
have the right to participate in
such distribution. Indeed, it would
be remarkable condition if those
who refuse to pay were entitled to
the same participation In the use
of the waters as those who paid.
1T has long been the practice
of water concerns to furnish water
to those who pay for the service,
and refuse it to those who decline
to pay and this practice has been
uniformly upheld in the courts.
Indeed, such power is essential to
the life of an irrigation district or
other water concern. The denial
of water to those who refuse to
pay for 1t is essential to the MAIN
tenance of the supply.
1T will be remembered, of
course, that the tolls and charges
fixed for the service must be reas-
enable, and am assuming that
the tolls and charges fixed by your
board of directors are reasonable
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-09
TARDIEU CABINET
WILL RESIGN TO
new PRESIDENT
BY RALPH HEINZEN
UNITED Press Staff COrrespOndent)

EEtsS StdlI
PARIS, May 8. W.P)-The cabinet
of Premier Andre Tardieu, whose
parliamentary majority was wiped
out in the final voting in the legis-
lative elections, decided today to
submit its resignation to the new
president to be elected tomorrow.
1t thus appeared certain that
Edouard Herriot, leader of the vic
torious radical-Socialists, would be
called on to form a government.
The Tardieu cabinet decided it
would not ask the new president to
request the present government to
remain IN office until the new par
lament meets June l.
The radical-Socialists held a to-
tai of 156 seats, an increase of 43
over the last chamber, with only
results from the colonies missing.
Socialists gained % seats for a to-
tai of 129. This gave the left wing
parties approximately $50 out of
the total of 615 seats, lead of
100 over right wing factions favor
able to Tardieu.
The nationalist reaction to the
assassination of President Doumer
was reflected in the defeat of the
Communist leaders Marcel Cachin,
Jacques Doculus, and Andrew Mar
ty, who once led a revolt in the
Black Sea. ---.
Communists from the extreme
left" of the chamber and royalists,
the extreme right" In the last
chamber there were nine parties
between the extreme groups.
The left" the majority of which
support Herriot, is headed by the
radical-Socialists and includes Re-
publican-Socialists, left Indepen-
dents, left Radicals, Socialists and
| Communists.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-09
Flies Plane With
No Control Stick

BURBANK, Calf, May 9. U.Pg-
G. Wilbur Cornelius, inventor, had
proved to skeptics today that an
airplane may be flown safely with
out a control stick.
Before a huge crowd yesterday,
Cornelius took his "Fre-Wing'
monoplane into the air, held his
hands above his head, away from
the control stick, and landed easily
after flying for 20 minutes.
Cornelius directed the flight by
use of his feet on the rudder and
landed by reducing speed.
Wings like giant ailerons. re-
acting to air pressure, keep the
plane on an even keel and prevent
spinning, Cornelius said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-09
AKRON ON
LONG HOP
TO C0AST
Route OF Big Airship
West From Ell Paso not
Definitely Decided.
INTEREST IN VALLEY
Many Inquiries Seek Time
OF Possible Passage
Over This Section.

NEW ORLEANS, May 9. U.Et
The dirigible Akron arrived at New
Orleans shortly before 8 a. IN. to-
day on its flight from Lakehurst,
N. j., to the Pacific coast to par
ticipate in naval maneuverS.
The giant craft approached the
city from the east, circling over
the business district several times
and resumed its westward course.
The Akron was holding its course
on a route which took it down the
Atlantic seaboard, over Norfolk,
Charleston and the southern states.
The take-off at Lakehurst in
cluded spectacular aerial acrobatics
in which two navy aviators hooked
their fighting planes onto her
trapeze and were hauled aboard,
while their planes were slowed in
the ships hangar.
Departure of the big ship. COM
manded by Lieut.. Com. c. E. Risen
dahl, was an exhibition of clock
like efficiency. At O'Clock Sun
day morning, the ground crew of
marines trundled the Akron out
of her hangar. Two hours later,
the order to let go was given. The
Akron rose, carrying her full COM
plement of 30 officers and men.
Aboard with Commander Rosen-
dahl were Com. Albert H. Dresel,
who soon will succeed Rosendahl
as flight chief of the Akron, and
Lieut.. Com. G. T. Durgin. Dresel
and Durgin were listed as Officer
passengers
No officer would make a predic-
ton as to the probable length of
the trip. 1t was believed that with
good weather, the Akron may reach
Sunnyvale, near San Francisco, by
Tuesday.
The enlisted personnel aboard the
ship for the flight included %
riggers, 25 engineers, staff en-
listed men and four men compris-
ing the heavier-t -than-air units who
will care for the two planes the
Akron carries.
Much interest was shown today
throughout Imperial Valley in "a
possible visit to this section by the
giant navy dirigible Akron, en-
route from L'akehurst, N. j., to the
Pacific coast.
The Press office had numerous
telephone calls asking for the time
the ship is due here.
1t is not certain as this is writ
ten, whether the dirigible will visit
here, the route west from Ell Paso,
Tex, not having been decided.
This will be determined by weather
reports received aboard the Akron.
The dirigible may proceed to the
coast by way of the valley to San
Diego or may cut northwest from
Ell Paso to Los Angeles.
A United Press dispatch from
Commonder Rosendahl, too long
to be given In full here, stated
the ship was enroute across Texas.
having just passed Valley, west of
Beaumont, and expected to run
into storms in the west section of
the state.
Judging from this there is a
possibility that the dirigible. even
if it does come this way, may pass
over Imperial Valley during the
night or early morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-09
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Local Y. w. c. a. board, 6:3O,
10000 club.
f. and A. NJ. No. 384, 1880,
Masonic Temple.
American Legion auxiliary, 8,
Veterans hall
Glee club, S, Academy of Mu-
sic.
Troop 6. b. S. A., 1880, Chris
tian church.
Sea Scout Ship AZ, 1880, Elks
hall.
Valley theatre, Private Lives" /"
Fox Imperial theatre, Girl
Crazy"
TOMORROW
Liens CLUB. Barbara Worth.
w. G.. L. U., 10, NJ. =. church,
Brawley.
Presbyterian guiid,) 1, church.
st. PauPs guild, 2:3O, SIS
Wensley.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-09
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One KILLED In
AUTO ACCIDENTS
OVER WEEK lend

One man was killed and another
may die as the result of an auto
mobile accident IL miles west of
Winterhaven on the Yuma high
way last night, when the coupe in
which they were riding rammed
into the rear Of gasoine tanker.
Both were taken to a Yuma hos
pital, where one, whose last name
was given as BaShore, expired.
Homer Smith, son of a Yuma fruit
dealer, is near death in the hos
pital. Some difficulty was expert
enced by officers in learning the
identity of the injured men, since
they carried no papers.
Eddie Nett, deputy sheriff, was
on the highway and arrived at the
scene of the accident few mo-
ments after it happened. Two men
riding in a car which struck the
rear of a gasoline tanker were so
badly injured they could not tell
their identities, the officer said.
No registration certificate was
in the car, and neither man car
ried any papers which gave a clue
to their names. The coupe in
which they were riding, travelling
east, struck the rear of a truck
driven by Jack Barrett of Hunt
ington Park. Every bit of glass in
the coupe was shattered and the
radiator was forced back against
the cowling, Nett said today.
The coupe struck the tanker
squarely between its two rear lights
while travelling at an estimated
speed of SO miles an hour, but did
little damage to the tanker, ac-
cording to Nett.
Severe injuries were suffered by
three persons yesterday afternoon
when a car driven north on the
Calexico highway, two miles south
of Ell Centre, by Dorothy Chavez
went out of control and overturned.
Dorothy Chavez, Thelma Chavez,
Charles Anderson and j. D. Hall,
all of San Diego, were riding in
the car. Hall was the only one
who escaped injury. The others
were taken to the Ell Centro hos
pital for treatment. They remained
there all night.
Bill Tackett, state traffic Off
Ger, witnessed the accident.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-09
Army Airplanes
Visit In Valley

Twenty eight army pursuit
planes, including two regular army
Squadrons, passed owed the valley
today in practice flight from
Marsh Field.
Pursuit squadrons "a and 70 COM
prised the group which landed at
CaleXlco airport this morning.
Captain Douglas Of the "a said
.they we're not on their way to meet
the Akron but would return to their
base
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-09
Film Romance
Goes On Rocks

HOLLYWOOD, May .. U.PI -
Sally Eilers, motion picture actress,
and her husband, Hoot Gibson,
film hero in western parts, have
separated, friends said today.
Miss Eilers was staying AT the
home of friends and was said to
be planning not to return to the
Gibson home in Beverly Hills.
A definite break came at a dance
Saturday night. friends said, and
Miss Eilers returned home with
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Cline. Cline
is director
Gibson was quoted as saying that
his wife was different girl after
her success in Bad Girl" and that
he could no longer please her"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-09
LIGHTNING KILLS THREE

NASHVILLE, Tenn, May 8. W.D
killed one golfer and
two caddies as they ran for shelter
during a rainstorm here yesterday.
The dead were: Roy Woodall, %,
Roy Pugh, ID, and Elliott Skelly, l6.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-09
AWlLL
~ ROGERS
w .SOys:

SANTA MONICA, May 9.
(SpeciaD-Diary of a United
States senate trying to find
two billion dollars that they
have already spent, but didn't
have:
Monday-Soak the rich.
Tuesday-Begin hearing from
the rich.
Tuesday afternoon-Decide to
give the rich a chance to get
richer.
Wednesday-Tax Wall street
stock sales.
Thursday-Get word from
Wall street LAY off us or you
will get no campaign contri-
buttons"
So Thursday afternoon de-
eide I'VE was wrong about Wall
street"
Friday-Soak the little fellow.
Saturday morning-Find out
there is no little fellow. He
has been soaked till he is
drowned.
Sunday-Meditate.
Next week-Same procedure,
only more talk and less results.
Yours,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15
SPRING FARLEY TO BE
HELD BY P~RESBYTERY
Sessions at Tabernacle Presbyterian
Church to Continue.

Spring meeting of the Presbytery
of indianapolis will be held Monday
and Tuesday at the Tabernacle
Presbyterian church, Thirty-fourth
street and Central avenue, with the
pastor, the Rev. j. A. Dunkel, as
host.
The meeting will open Monday
night with a sermon by the modera-
tor. the Rev. A. R. Miles, Elizabeth
town. At a business session follow
ing, q moderator and temporary
cle- will be elected.
-ssions will be held Tuesday
morning and afternoon. Five COM
mittees will be appointed, reports
submitted and a permanent clerk
elected during the morning At the
afternoon session. commissioners 10
the general assembly and delegates
for the preaSsembly evangelistic
conference will be chosen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15

Following is the explanation of
Ripley's Believe 1t or Not" which
appeared in Thursdays Times:
EIected by a Single VOte-In
September, 1880, the supervisor
of the Third district, Black Hawk
county, Ia, resigned and the va
cancy vas filled by appointment.
The law provides that such ap-
pointee shall hold Office until the
next election, that is, until Novem-
Der 4. Due to an oversight. the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15
Surrey eng, Jan. 1881

public, the law permitted convic-
tons on an unlimited number of
counts, the sentences to run con-
secutively. The result was that,
sentences of several hundred years
of Imprisonment were not infre-
quent. With overturn of the
monarchy, a new criminal code
was adopted, limiting the number
of consecutive convictions to
three.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15
aoZe AND HIS SHIP CRASHED IN RUNS

appointed supervisor, filing his
candidacy for a full term begin
ming Jan. 1, 1881, failed to file for
the remainder of the year 1880. A
single vote named John Boiler
for the short term, and the board
of supervisors announced that
Boeller was elected by that soil
tary vote, to serve from November
4 until Dec. 81, 1881.
A Record Conviction-Prior to
establishment of the Spanish re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15
ONLY z STATES
IN DRY COLUMN
or DIGEST POLL
North Carolina and Kansas
Show Slight Majorities
Against Repeal.

North Carolina gives Kansas
company in the dry column Of the
Literary Digest's nationwide prohi-
bition poll. according to the ninth
report Of the voting to appear in
Saturdays issue Of the magazine.
Like all other states, excepting
these two, Indiana is in the wet
column, the new report showing
1874 $40 Hoosiers ~favoring repeal Of
the eighteenth amendment, while
62,976 favor rentention Of the dry
law.
North Carolina goes bone dry by
a majority Of 81 votes out Of 61,463
reported returns from the Tar
Heel" state, and, in Kansas, the
drys have a lead of 272 votes from
a total Of 1873 polled.
Total Vote 1913 Per Cent Wet
A total Of 1929 16 ballots are re-
ported in the semi-final returns OF
which 1877 87. or 26.27 per cent,
vote for continuance of the prohibi-
ton amendment and 1892, l29, or
1913 per cent register their senti-
ments in favor Of repeal.
The dry vote shows a seventh
consecutive gain during the poll
rising from 1885 per cent OF the
total vote of the initial returns in
this straw" referendum.
Nevada casts a vote Of over Z
TO | wet.
The returns from Rhode Island,
Connecticut, New York and New
Jersey show a majority of over 5
to l for repeal in each OF these
states.
Three 4 to / for Repeal
Illinois, Louisiana and Montana
each show a sentiment of more
than 4 to / wet.
Nine other states are voting bet
ter than 8 TO l for repeal Of the
eighteenth amendment and four
teen more states show a vote OF
2 to / or more wet making a total
OF thirty-two out Of the forty-eight
states in which the wet vote is more
than double the dry vote.
The District of Columbia is poll
ing a vote for repeal of o than
81 to l over that for continuance.
The states nearest approximat-
ing a dry majority include Ten
nessee with 1880 per cent of It's
ballots for continuance; Arkansas
with 47.54 per cent for continuance,
and Oklahoma with 1923 per cent
of it's total vote dry.
Checks Support Poll
Newspaper checkup polls con
Quoted Independently in several
sections of the country show a close
parallel of the Literary Digest re-
turns in each given locality, the
magazine announces.
The ninth report in the 1880
Literary Digest poll giving three
options on the ballot instead OF
two. showed a total tabulation OF
1862, 761 votes OF which 1,386,216,
or 1898 per cent, we're for strict
enforcement while 1,340,441, or 1884
per cent, voted for modification to
admit light wines and beers, and
1885, O4, or 1924 per cent, regis
tered in favor of an outright re-
peal of the eighteenth amendment.
Vote Given by States
The current t%abulation:
Favor Favor
Slate Continuance Repeal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-15
Boon for Peanut Butter Fans

BRAZIL, Ind, April 15.-A cuisine
invention-peanut brtter that does
not stick to the roof of the mouth
has been announced as ready for
production by M. +. Livermore. local
manufacturer. Eleven years of ex-
perimentation, Livermore said. has
removed what many persons regard
ed as the delicacy's Objectionable
element-Stickiness.
Evening star., 1932-07-10
FILIPINO is HELD
Thefts From Rooming House
Charged to Jose Rivera.

Jose Rivera. 3o-year old Filipino, was
arrested last night and charged with
grand larceny in connection with tbs
theft of $500 worth OF clothing on July
3 from a rooming house at 1899 p
street. Rivera, a cab driver. is said by
police to have admitted the thefts.
Evening star., 1932-07-10
WORLD HOP PLANE
TO Be REPAIRED
Mattern and Griffin DiSman.
tie Ship After Crack.up in
Russian Bog.

BY the Associated Press.
BORISOV, U. S. S. r., July g.
James Mattern and Bennett Griffin,
American round -the-world flyers, who
had expected by this time to be winging
their way above the Pacific Ocean, spent
today in the mud of the peat bog where
their plane cracked up in landing
Thursday morning.
Mattern was limping with bruised
knee, Griffin had a black eye and
scratches on his forehead were covered
them kept their spirits up
When as Associated Press correspond
ent found them they were dismantling
their plane preparatory to shipping it
to Moscow for repairs.
Control TrubIe Claimed.
I'VE are very sorry that we failed to
set a new round-the- record" said
Mattern. Our landing was perfect. but
the soft ground caused the plane to
nose over and hero we are"
Their only exploitation Of their forced
descent was technical trouble with the
controls. They said they had thought
they could make the airport at Borisov
but they misjudged the distance and
volplaned into the peat bog few hun
dred yards away.
The plane was damaged extensively,
but they believed that after repairs had
been made in Moscow it would be ready
for the air again. They are going to
Moscow by train tomorrow and when
they get there will make up their minds
about their future plans.
Landing Hour Questioned.
The airmen insisted that they landed
In the darkness and denied they had
had any trouble with their motor But
an army transport corps officer on duty
here said the landing was made at
about 400 am, which at this time of
the year is almost full daylight, and
added that he distinctly heard a plane,
whose motor was missing, a few minutes
before they came to earth.
This officer jumped into an automo-
bfle and was the first to reach the
scene. He got there just as the Amer
loans, somewhat dazed, were crawling
out from under their plane,
He administered first-aid and then,
unable to converse with the aviators. he
summoned the chief of the district army
garrison, who speaks English. The chief
had the Americans brought to a hotel
here, where they had some food.
COmmisars Send Aid.
snort Time later they were taken
by automobile to Minsk, where their
superficial injuries were treated at a
hospital. Then they went to a hotel
for long sleep, returning here early
yesterday morning to work on their
plane.
A representative Of the Council of
Peoples CommiSars Of the White Rus
sian Republic-the division of the
U. S. S. R., in which the flyers landed
arrived today TO do what he could to
help them.
Both Mattern and Griffin expressed
great appreciation at the courtesy
shown them everywhere. Every one, they
averred. had been most helpful.
The transport officer who first found
the flyers said he reported the landing
to Moscow within an hour after 1t oc-
CURED. He was unable to account for
the fact that the news failed to reach
the proper officials in the capital for
many hours.