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Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
Causes
Loss In FOrmOsa

TAIHOKU, Formosa, Aug. 25.W.P)
ALI of northern Formosa was re-
ported devastated today by a ty-
phoon which inundated thousands
of acres of farmlands and caused
an unknown number of deaths.
Twelve persons were killed and
two were injured when train was
overturned by the typhoon.
This city was inundated. Two
floating restaurants in the Tansui
river were washed away. Six watt
resses were swept into the river
and drowned.
Keelung also was inundated and
four steamers nearing that port
were reported missing.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
RACING PLANES
ON FINAL LAP
TO CLEVELAND

BARTLESVILLE, Okla, Aug. Is.
-(U.P)-Three score brightly hued
planes away from Phillips airport
today as the Cord air derby was
resumed.
The first plane to leave the
starting line took off at 8:15 a.
m. The next stop is Jefferson City
Nc. Other contestants comprising
the Pacific and Atlantic flights
which converged here, departed at
brief intervals.
The weather was favorable for
the hop to Jefferson City.
John Hardesty, Taft, Calf, was
the first of the western wing en-
trants to leave. Leslie Miller, Edith
Foltz, Neil McGaffey, Horace Hib-
bard and Cecil Allen left at short
intervals.
Roy Hunt, leader of the western
flight, was one of the last to de-
part.
A strong tail wind was expect
ed to result in fast time to the
next refueling stop. Airport off,
cials described the weather as ex-
cellent.
The last of the western contin-
gent cleared the airport here at
Gil a. m. when Gladys O'Donnell.
Long Beach, and Jim Granger,
having similar handicap, took
off.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
LEADERS OF BANK
ROBBERS TAKEN
in POLICE RAID
Nine Suspects Held In
Connection With Yes
terday's Hold-Up.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25. U.P)-
The alleged leader of a gang which
held up Bank of America branch
yesterday, during which two bandits
were shot to death and bank tell
er critically wounded, was captured
by police in a rooming house today.
The man, who, police said, con-
fessed his participation in the rob-
berry and also admitted the murder
of a bystander in a jewelry store
robbery month ago, gave his name
as Robert York, 38.
Captured with York was George
Turcott, 80, who was shot through
the abdomen by Detective B. G..
Anderson when the man reached
for gun.
In a police roundup early today,
nine suspected associates of the
gunmen were taken into custody.
One, Homer D. Rogers, "a, was
booked on a charge of suspicion of
murder and robbery after bank
employees identified his photo
graphs as resembling the fifth
member of the bandit gang.
The two dead gangsters, shot by
Wetzel Ord, manager of the bank
as they attempted to escape with
81 900 taken from the till, were
identified as Frank Alvarado, 36,
with a criminal record dating back
to 1915, and who had served one
term in San Quentin and two terms
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
Chaplin Asks Law
To EnjOin Sons

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 25.-(U.P)-
Charles Chaplin, motion picture
comedian, today stepped between
his two young sons and their pro-
posed screen career with tempor-
ary injunction restraining their
appearance before cameras at Fox
studios.
Chaplin obtained his order in
superior court, where hearing
will be conducted Saturday on his
petition for permanent injunc-
tion.
The comedian obtained the writ
after declaring that Sydney Earl
and Charles Chaplin, Jr., should
not appear in pictures because "at
their tender ages it would inter-
fere with their normal develop
mentS."
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
Valley Residents
Still SWeltering

Residents continued to swelter
today as g result of the high hu-
midity but received encouragement
from announcements that thunder
showers and cooler weather are
predicted for this section of the
state tonight.
Temperature at noon today was
104 degrees and the humidity re-
corded at the same time was 43
per cent.
The present siege of torrid
weather began late last week and
has continued in uninterrupted in
tensity since that time.
Electric fans hum day and night
throughout the valley, many resi-
dents seek the lawns nightly in an
attempt to gain rest and wearing
apparel has universally been re-
duced to the last uncomfortable
minimum.
The consensus of opinion is that
the present discomfort is to be ex-
pected at this season of the year
and cannot continue much longer.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
Former Banker
Sent To Prison

CHICAGO, Aug. 25. U.P)-John
Balm, who built up q chain of IL
banks which crashed, was sentenced
today to one to five years in the
Joliet penitentiary.
Two sons-Robert A., and John
H. Bain-and his son in law, w.
Merle Fisher, were ordered by
Judge John NJ O'Connor to pay
fines of $1,000 each.
The sentences followed convic-
tions of conspiracy in the collapse
of the bank chain with $13,Oo0,O00
loss to depositors.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
Relief Seekers
Riot In East

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25.-U.P)
Motor patrolmen and mounted po-
lice swung riot clubs freely today
in breaking up a gathering of un-
employed men on Reyburn Plaza
near city hall.
A score of persons, including
some women, were struck with the
clubs as the mounted police charg-
ed through the crowd.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-(UP1-A
crowd of more than 200, seeking
home relief, rioted today in front
of the home relief bureau in
Brooklyn.
Fifty policemen dispersed the
mob. but not before 10 persons
were injured and five placed un-
der arrest.
The police were called when the
mob tried to storm the bureau.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
STATES AND MUNICIPALITIES
TO BE GRANTED RELIEF FUNDS

able for this construction work.
The board will endeavor to grant
loans as rapidly as practicable.
Applications have been received
for federal funds to finance con-
struction of new bridges across
San Francisco bay; slum eradica-
ton work in st. Louis and other
applications of the same general
description.
Officials. of the board renewed
their criticism today of the publ
city for bank, railroad and insur-
ance company loans. These loans
are now being made public by the
clerk of the house, acting under
a disputed congressional authori-
zation.
A member of the board ex-
planned that while the board felt
that SO per cent of these loans
might be made public without in
jury to the corporations concerned
the other one per cent might be
definitely harmful.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
Citizen Police.
To Be PrObed

SACRAMENTO Aug. 25. (U.P)-
A new law enforcement agency
known as the California Citizens
Constabulary," with headquarters in
Los Angeles, was under state in
vestigation today, according to
Clarence S. Morrill,, chief of the
bureau of criminal Identification.
The organization, Morrill, said,
provides "citizen constables' with
bright badges and cards proclaim
ing them members and investiga-
tors"-all for $3.50.
Members of this organization
have no more police power than
they had before they paid their
$780," Morrill, commented. I'm
fact If they tried to exercise police
power other than that of every cit
izen they could be prosecuted for
impersonating officers"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
To Help Farmers
Denied Water

SACRAMENTO, Aug 25. W.R-
Governor Rolph today took steps
to reliev California farmers whose
water for irrigation has been shut
off for failure to pay their bills
monthly.
He instructed Dudley Moulton,
state director of agriculture, to con-
fer with the state railroad COM
mission and designate represent
ative to call on farmers in the
areas most affected to determine
how serious the situation is.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
FOulds Predicts
More For Alfalfa

That the price of hay will rise
ST. a ton as a result of the adjust
ment of the milk war which has
been raging in Los Angeles and vi
cinity for the past week, is the
word received by Scott B. Foulds,
secretary-manager of the farm bu-
reau, in a telegram from the Los
Angeles farm bureau headquarters.
In coming to an agreement 1t
was stipulated that the war be set
tied by giving the producer whole
sale price of SIS cents pound for
butterfat instead of 80 cents he
has been receiving. That this will
materially affect the price of hay
is assured by the farm bureau Of
ficials.
The raise of 81 a ton will put
the price of Imperial Valley hay at
from So to $3.50 Foulds states.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
Fur Vessel Again
Disappears With
EskimOs Aboard

POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug.
25. U.P)-The Hudson bay fur trad
ing ship Baychimo had resumed her
ghostly wanderings In the Arctic
Sea today, apparently taking with
her a score of natives.
The steamer was enclosed in ice
bergs and apparently not badly
damaged by ice which imprisoned
her last November until Captain
Cornwell and a crew of 30 reached
shore, then spewed her out again
to drift untended.
Saturday she was sighted, for
perhaps the 10th or 18th time. AL
ways before she had escaped be-
fore anyone could go aboard to
salvage furs popularity believed to
still be in her holds. But this time
natives put out IN skin boats.
They did not return and the
Baychimo was lost to sight. She
was last seen late yesterday, about
Is miles from Point Barrow.
More natives padded away to
search for their fellow villagers.
They returned last night, reporting
the "Flyin Dutchman" of the Arc
tic had vanished, taking the ma
tives with her.
A strong southwest wind was
driving the phantom vessel. Fate
of the EskimoS was unknown.
Captain Cornwell and his crew,
transported to the mainland by air.
plane after the vessel became fast
in ice, revealed that the furs had
been cached ashore before the
Baychimo broke loose in a storm
and disappeared.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-(U.P)-
The Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration in the near future will
extend numerous loans both to
states and to municipalities for
unemployment relief and also for
so-called self -liquidating construc-
tion projects, it was learned today
at corporation offices.
Included among the states which
may be expected to receive federal
financial assistance for relief work
are Pennsylvania and several of
the western states.
Pennsylvania recently was refus-
ed an advance by the board on the
grounds the state had not done
enough itself in the way of relief.
However, this policy, it was
learned, will probably be reversed
within the next week or ten days,
and some loans madS. 1t was not
believed thai pennsylvania would
secure the full amount of $45, ,000,-
900 asked by Governor Pinchot.
A total of $500, 100000 is avail
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
Mrs. Mccormick
Dies At Chicago

CHICAGO, Aug. 25-W.PS-Mrs.
Edith Rockefeller Mccormick,
daughter of John D. Rockefeller
and a notable of society and fin
ance in her own right, died today
in her Drake hotel apartment.
CHICAGO, Aug. 25. u.R) - Mrs.
Edith Rockefeller Mccormick, who
has been dangerously i'll for sew
eral weeks, suffered a severe relapse
today. Physicians characterized 1t
another collapse" and she was
near death for two hours before she
responded to stimulants.
One doctor said he believed the
collapse" had caused the patient
to lose most of the ground she had
gained since her original collapse
and subsequent recovery last Sat-
urday night and Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
AMELIA EARHART
CROSSES NATION
WITHOUT STOP

NEWARK, N. j., Aug. 25. U.P)-
Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam land
ed at Newark airport at 1880 a. M,
(EDT), at the end Of her transcon-
tinental airplane flight.
She left the Los Angeles mum
icipal airport at 4;27 p. m. (EDT)
yesterday. Her elapsed time for the
cross country flight was approx
imately 10 hours and minutes.
She is the first woman to fly
nonstop across the country.
The speed record is IL hours and
IL minutes, established by Major
James Doolittle.
Before departing from Los An
geleS, Miss Earhart said she was
not seeking to break the record. but
merely attempting to prove that a
woman could fly nonstop from
coast to coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
HITLER -BRUENING
FACTIONS UNABLE
TO CONSOLIDATE
Leaders Fail To Bring
About Pact Between
Two Parties.
BY FREDERICK KUN
limited Press Staff CorrpSnODdenf


BERLIN, Aug. 25. - Efforts to
unite the national Socialist party
of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich
Bruening's Catholic party against
the government Of Chancellor Franz
yon Papen, which sentenced five
Hitlerites to death, have failed, the
Berliner-Boersen Courier said to-
day.
Negotiations were carried on yes
terday at Stuttgart the paper said.
Reports that a pact was being
arranged beween the two parties
had been current. Failure of the
conference was attributed to the
Hitlerites' belligerent stand on the
Beuthen verdicts, in which five
Nazis were condemned for political
terrorism.
The Fascists and the Catholics
sought common ground to oppose
immediate dissolution of the reich
stag when it convenes next week.
1t has grown increasingly apparent
that President Paul Won Hinden-
burg will dissolve parliament.
Well-informed politicians ventur-
ed the opinion today that Won
Hindenburg would not attempt tn
violate the constitution because
such a precedent might encourage
Hitler and his followers to inaugur-
ate new and more violent demands,
and to resort to illegal methods.
The chief of Berlin police pro-
hibited publication of Hitler's Ber-
lin party organ, Der Angriff, for
eight days. He charged the news
paper had slandered Won Papen
and melted disobedience against
state autl 'ority. The suspension
was based on an editorial which
denounced the Beuthen verdicts.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
FLYERS LEAVE
NEWFOUNDLAND
ON OCEAN HOP
By JOHN T. MEANEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff correspondent
|. HARBoR GRACE, Md, Aug. 25.
- W.Rl Two young American
bachelors swept out of Harbor
Grace early today in their red
monoplane, the Green Mountain
Boy" on a nonstop ocean flight
intended to end in Oslo. Norway.
Clyde Allen Lee and John Boch-
kon clambered into their ship
shortly after dawn, and with their
motor roaring a last farewell to a
small group of spectators, left the
runway and headed into the misty
east at sol EST.
The two flyers took their plane
into the air with 460 gallons of
gasoline on board, enough, they be-
lieve, to carry them 1000 miles
They estimated the distance be-
tween Harbor Grace and Kjeller
Field, Oslo, at $3.50 miles.
Their ship has a cruising speed
of lis miles an hour with maxi
mum speed of 140 miles an hour.
They hope to be in Oslo within 30
hours. They left Barre, VT, Tues
day.
Lee, who is "a and chief pilot, is
from Oshkosh, Wis. He originally
intended starting his flight from
there. An offer of $1,000 from
Barre, however, led him to bring
his plane east and begin the jour
ney in Vermont. Bochkon is %
and from Brooklyn.
The Green Mountain Boy is
powered by a Wright Whirlwind
motor, capable of 220 horsepower.
The doors of the planes cabin
were sealed to provide more space
for fuel. A hole was cut in the
top of the cabin for entrance and
exit. The plane carries no radio.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
Mrs. Jessel To
Seek Divorce

RENO, New, Aug. %. W.P)-Mrs.
George Jessel, wife of the noted
comedian whose name has been
linked with Norma Talmadge, came
to Reno today and retained the
services of Lester Summerfield, at
tcrney, presumably as a preliminary
step toward filing suit for divorce.
Rumors have made the rounds of
theatrical circles that romancc
might develop between Jessel and
Miss Taimadge is the former actress
obtains divorce from Joe Schenck
film executive.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
GarbO Refuses To
Take Swedish Role

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 25. U.P)-
Warner Brothers First National
Studios announced today that Greta
Garbo, had refused the leading
feminine role in "The Match
King" picture to be based on the
sensational career of the late Ivar
Kreuger.
The blonde star cabled her re-
fusal from Stockholm.
Lii Damita will play the role in
tended for Garbo, the studio an
nounced.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
7 R0UBLE
WING
IN IOWA
Violence Flares Up In
Farmers Strike When
Deputies Use Gas.
SEVERAL INJURED
Officers Severely Beaten
AS Angry Men Launch
Attack.
BY 7. w. INGOLDSBY
nited Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, Aug.
25.-U.P)-Fearing a mass attack
upon the Council Bluffs Jail, where
go striking farmers were held,
Sheriff Percy Lainson today threw
machine gun barricade around
the structure.
Laison called in most of his 100
special deputies, and was ready to
offer strong resistance to any at
tempt to deliver the prisoners.
Three men with sub-machine
guns were posted at points of van-
tage, deputies watched all avenues
of approach. Council Bluffs furn-
ished its entire police arsenal to
arm the guards.
Arrests-66 in all-came during
night of violence in which the
strikers, their number increasing
hourly, emerged victorious in the
first pitched battle of Sheriff Lain
sons campaign to run every strik-
er out of Pottawatomie county"
In this engagement four officers
using tear gas in an attempt to
disperse a picket camp on high
way leading into Council Bluffs
we're injured by rain of clubs
and stones, and by broken glass
from the windows of their car.
The strikers fell upon them
when their car, carrying cans of
tear gas on the running board, was
forced by stalled machine to
stop in the midst of the crowd.
Gas Is Used
More than three thousand per-
sons, including many women and
children, watched as the strikers,
disregarding the choking gas,
rushed the car, hurting sticks and
stones against the windows.
The officers were showered by
broken glass and thrown missels.
Their own eyes streaking from the
effects of the gas pouring in
through the shattered windows,
the men finally succeeded in start
ing their car and disappeared into
the night amid the jeers of strik-
erS.
After midnight car was halted
on downtown street. Four men
were arrested. They said they were
"just looking the situation over"
officers said an array of clubs was
found in the car.
Then officers found truck car
rying 81 men parked on a dark
side street. All were arrested. They
said they were from Mapleton,
Iowa.
Six others were found near the
Council Bluffs Jail and were taken
to cells.
Strike leaders worked through
the night strengthening their
blockade. Not truck bearing live
stock or produce passed the lines
to enter the Omaha market from
the Iowa side. A few milk trucks
were permitted to get through,
since the producers association has
signed a new agreement with
Omaha creameries.
Picketing forces were increased
by arrival of recruits from several
nearby towns and counties, ac-
cording to leaders of the move
ment.
SIOUX CITY. Iowa, Aug. 25. U.P)
When picketing farmers on high
ways surrounding Sioux City re-
fused to obey orders to disperse, IS
of them were placed under arrest
and jailed.
The action was characterized as
the start OF campaign by Sheriff
Davenport against the picketeers,
who have succeeded in blocking
from the Sioux City market virtual
ly all produce carried in trucks.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
Chicken Thieves
Declared Guilty

Henry Gains, %, and Mckinley
Fisher, 80, Negroes Jailed for chick
en- stealing. were found guilty of
the charge in Judge w. H. Lorenz'
court in Calexicc this morning.
The mer refused to waive time
for sentence and we're instructed
to appear at 10 o'clock tomorrow
The district attorneys
office recommended a sentence of
six months, it is said. In the mean
time, they are occupants of the
county jail
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
BY MILES w. VAUGHN
United Press Staff Correspondent

TOXIC, Aug. 25. = Japan's for
elgn minister, Yosuya Uchida, spoke
out boldly today in defense of her
Manchurian occupation, virtually
detying the League of Nations or
any other machinery of peace" to
Interfere with her policies, includ-
ing recognition of Manchukuo.
Uchida's address was co-incident
with the announcement that the
leagues special commission has
completed its report on the Sino-
Japanese crisis, and that the re-
pert will not be favorable to Japan.
He arose in the imperial diet and
announced the nations intention
of recognizing what was Manchuria
as a member of the Japanese So
ciety of nations.
Uchida's pronouncement includ-
ing criticism of American policies
outlined by Secretary of State
Stimson, and conflicting with the
leagues commissions findings, in
evitably will result in important
worldwide repercussions.
Stimson's assertion that japanese
dSBICooiOll COllSOlbulto d NlOHt-
tion of the pact of Paris aroused
indignation in official quarters
here.
Denies Pact Violation
There are those who argue" the
foreign minister said, "as though
the action of Japan were VIOLA
tion of the Kellogg BRAND anti
war pact. But such contention has
no foundation in fact. Japan has
been forced to. adopt necessary
measures for the prevention of
wanton attacks upon the important
rights and interests vital to her
national existence.
"The antl-war pact does not put
self-defense in such case. &. And
obviously the exercise of the right
of self defense may extend beyond
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
STRIKING MINERS DEFEATED
IN BATTLE WITH DEPUTIES

Pinckneyville met almost instant
failure. Some of the men were an
CRY, ready to go back and fight,
but most of the 1880 men who
joined the march yesterday had
suffered all they cared to and
wanted only to get back to their
homes. Many of them were hun
cry. Their trucks filled with food
supplies were among those wreck
ed in the mad flight after the bat
tie.
Rumors that several men were
killed when Sheriff Browning Rob-
inson and his deputies opened fire
at Mulkeytown last night were de-
MED. Many were hurt, however.
Six applied for treatments for cuts
and bruises at the Duquoin hospi-
tai. 1t was estimated that $50 per-
sons were given first aid for
wounds inflicted by clubs or fly
ing glass. Those injured by bullets
were treated here.
> MULKEYTOWN, Ill, Aug. 25.-
U.PA-Deputy Sheriffs opened fire
today on an airplane that swoop-
ed low over the battle ground
the 800 deputies had captured"
last night from striking miners at
tempting to invade Franklin coun-
ty.
1t could not be determined whe-
ther any bullets struck the plane,
flown by an unidentified pilot. The
plane zoomed and disappeared.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
BY GEORGE SCHUPPE
nited Press Staff Correspondent

OhitCu IICSS otSii SOitCopOhuChe
DUQUOIN, ILL.,, Aug. 25.-(U.P)-
Hopelessly beaten in a battle with
deputy sheriffs at the Franklin
county line, thousands of striking
miners retreated toward their
homes today across the strife torn
coal fields of southern Illinois.
Behind them the disorganized
horde of striking marchers left a
trail of wrecked automobiles and
trucks. In Duquoin they left four
comerades suffering from buckshot
wounds in their arms. Many of
them nursed bruised heads and
cuts suffered in the battle.
Attempts of leaders to reorganize
the strikers at Coulterville and
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
IOWA RACING PIGEONS

CENTERvILLE, Ia. U.P> - The
latest sport here is pigeon racing.
From Princeton, Mo-, to Center
vile, distance of SIS miles, is the
course, and races are held between
members. of the Racing Homer club.
The record was set recently by
E. M. P. c. 31-4865, who negotiated
the distance in an hour and 20
minutes, or an average of 1899 yards
per minute. The seasons thriller
will be a 10O0-mile race from Santa
Rosa, N. M
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
COLLEGE TUITION CUT

CHICAGO. W.PN-Tuition in the
college of liberal arts of DePaul
university has been cut to 5000 from
1920. 1t is payable in four quar-
terly installments. If paid in two
semester payments. a $40 rebate is
allowed. The reduction applies
only to full time students, accord
ing to Dean Rev. Emmett L. Gaf-
fney, G. M.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-08-25
Officials Named
By u. S. w. V.

MILWAUKEE, Aug. 25. U.P)-
Election of William j. Often, Enid,
Okla, as commander in chief and
installation of other officers ended
the 34th annual encampment of
the United Spanish war veterans
today.
Pittsburgh was selected as the
1884 convention city Next years
convention will he held in Los An
geles.
Mrs. Anna c. Jessmier, Los An
geles, was elected national presi-
dent of the auxiliary.