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Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
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ST. LOUIS, March 25. U.P)-.
Louis E. Muckerman, wealthy ST.
Louisian and son-in-law of Bernarr
MacFadden, the publisher, was
killed in an automobile accident
late yesterday at McAllen, Tex, his
uncle, John c. Muckerman said
here today after telephone con-
versation with authorities there.
Charles Murray, New York, who
was riding with Muckerman was
seriously injured.
Muckerman was enroutes to Los
Angeles where he was to become
the west coast representative for
the MacFadden publications.
His wife, the former Byrnece
MacFadden, whom he married last
August, originally planned to go
to the coast with him but changed
her mind and returned to her par
ent's home in Englewood, N. j., af-
ter an automobile accident shortly
after they started.
Mrs. Muckerman planned to join
her husband later.
Muckerman, who is % years old,
married Miss MacFadden six months
after his first wife, Mrs. Laura
Willetts Muckerman, st. Louis, OBJ
tained a divorce in 1881.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
Girl Victim OF
Gangster Bullet

CHICAGO, March 25. UP) -
Dorothy Renshaw, %, sioux City,
Ia, a divorce, was killed in a
speakeasy today when a customer
fired at radio because he didn't
like the music and the bullet went
wild.
Miss Renshaw, the daughter Of
William Renshaw, deputy United
States marshal of Sioux City, died
in a hospital where she had been
taken by Frank Taggart, an ad-
mirer, who admitted he was one
of the owners of the beer flat.
Search was started for Earl Nc
Dowell, one of the patrons of the
speakeasy when Taggart told po-
lice that Mcdowell killed Miss Rem
shaw with the last of half dozen
shots he aimed in drunken anger
at the RADIO.
Taggart, who had seen Miss Rem
shaw often since she came to Chi
cago 10 days ago TO visit Mrs. Jean
Van Wissink, said Mcdowell OBJ
jected to the music of a night club
orchestra which was being broad
cast.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
PORTER OPPOSES
PLANS TO HALT
RECALL EFFORT

LOS ANGELES, March 25. fU,P,-
Over his own protest. suit was on
file in superior court today to
enjoin the city council and other
officials from calling an election
May 3 to remove Mayor John C.
Porter from office.
Brought by Fred V. Strong, a
taxpayer, the suit charged that
the recall petition was invalid be-
cause of fraudulent signatures.
The plaintiff obtained a temporary
restraining order, made returnable
before Superior Judge Walter S.
Gates, April l. A preliminary in
junction will be asked on that date,
to remain in force until the case
can be tried on its merits.
Porter was indignant
Il want this thing to be settled
once for ALL" he said. "I'm salts
fled that the result OF the election
will give me a clear mandate from
the people TO proceed in cleaning
up the government and driving en-
trenched privilege out of power"
Porter had just signed an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for the casts
of the election.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
hit AND RUN
SUSPECTS TAKEN
BACK TO ARIZONA

-Four young men wanted in Globe,
Ariz.. on a hit and run charge were
arrested on the Yuma highway this
morning by Harold Gillett and Fred
Elliott, deputy sheriffs, after pass
ing the quarantine station at Yu-
ma, and were Immediately returned
to Yuma, where they were turned
over to Arizona officers.
Names of the youths were not
available, as they were not booked
at the county jail here. but were
taken from the place of their ar
rest directly to Yuma. According
to information received here, the
four were in a car which struck
and killed a woman in Globe, and
failed to stop and render aid.
Another call from the Yuma
quarantine station this morning
sent Undersheriff Rodney Clarke
along the highway, searching for
two men who supposedly ran past
the inspection station, and who had
three guns in their car.
Clarke located their car, stopped
it, and freed the occupants when
he found they had stopped at the
inspection station, and that one
was a reputable Phoenix cattleman
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
RECEIVER
PROMISES
TO TALK
ShOwalter Declares Big
Story To Be Told In
Coast Scandal.
PUBLISHER is HELD
Threat Of ExtOrtiOn Is
Filed AS Side Incident
In Investigation.

LOS ANGELES, March 25. (U.P)-
A. j. Showalter, one of the two de-
posed receivers of the defunct $18,-
100000 American Mortgage COM
pany, today decared he would "in
the near future break the biggest
story yet" in the scandal which al
legged that three superior judges ac-
cepted gifts from the two receivers.
Showalter made his declaration
after he had been arraigned in
court on charge of failure to pay
wage claims. He said that the
story would be in the form of a
signed statement and added that
when the true facts are known
they will be a credit and a. detri-
ment to the principals in this af-
fair"
LOS ANGELES, March rs. Up)-
Harold Robinson, publisher of a
weekly pamphlet Facts" who had
promised to publish "all' concern
ing the American Mortgage COM
pany receivership case, was held in
default of $4,000 bail today on a
grand jury indictment charging
eXtortion.
The grand jury paused in its in
veStigation of the receiverShip case
to hear George W. Van Brunt, vice
president of the Pacific States Saw
ings and Loan company, who test
flied against Robinson. Van Brunt
accused Robinson of having at
tempted to extort $4,000 from him
last Saturday.
Van Brunt saic that if loan"
of $4,000 was not Forthcoming,
Robinson had threatened to pub
lish an article of "scandalous ma
ture" involving the Pacific States
company in his Facts"
Robinsons connection with the
receivership included the assertion
that he had been living rent free
in an apartment house controlled
by Charles F. Allison, one of the
ousted receivers for the American
Mortgage company.
The grand jury was scheduled to
continue its investigation of the re-
ceiverships next Tuesday. 1t was
reported that charges of campaign
contributions on the part of Allison
and A. J. Showalter, his co-receiv-
er would be investigated.
A statement by Allison, purport-
edly the inside story" of the re-
ceivership, was said to have been
read before the jury yesterday.
Witnesses concerned in the case
were heard
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
NO CHANGE In
DEBT SITUATION
SEEN BY MELLON

WASHINGTON, March 25, U.P)-
Andrew w Mellon, ambassador to
Great Britain, said today that he
saw 10 immediate prospect Of any
change in the European and repair
ations situation.
Melon was interviewed after his
reception by the house foreign al
fairs committee prior to his de-
parture from Washington to assume
his foreign post.
Asked whether he believed there
would be any immediate develop
ment in the reparations situation,
Mellon said that he had mo knowl-
edge of any immediate change
The former secretary of the treas
ury said that he expected to sail
from New York April l and would
leave Washington next Tuesday ac-
cording to present plans.
He added that he didn't expect
TO be very busy at first but said
things might get buster in May
Melons reception by the house
committee marked the resumption
of an old custom which has recent
ly fallen into disuse.
Chairman Linthicum of the COM
mittee said that he hoped to es-
tablish a precedent whereby the
house foreign affairs group would
come into personal contact with the
important foreign representatives Of
the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
Wilbur Requests
Investigation OF
Land Fraud Firm

WASHINGTON, March 25. (U.Rl-
Secretary of the Interior Wilbur
has asked the post office depart
ment to investigate the Citizens
Land Association of Los Angeles
Ito determine whether or not it
may be prosecuted for frauds in
connection with old Spanish and
Mexican land grants in Southern
California"
Wilbur declared the association
had induced many persons to file
claims for valuable California prop
erty on the grounds that claims of
the present owners were illegal
and hence the land should be
thrown open to homesteading.
A senate committee recently re-
ported on the status of these lands
and found the promoters repre-
sentations to be without "founda-
ton in fact or law
when the United States ac-
quired California from Mexico, .
Wilbur said, 1T agreed to respect
land titles vested in old grants and
concessions. The boundaries of
these concessions had been estab-
lished by the department of the
interior and passed upon by the
proper courts, but the promoters
represented them as Illegal"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
BEER TAX
DEFEATED
BY HOUSE
Demonstration Staged By
Wets' Amid Demands
To Abolish Prohibition.
MEMBERS REBUKED
Mrs. Norton Flags Drink
ing Represent a tives
Who Vote Dry

WASHINGTON, March 25. tU.Pf-
A proposal for tax on beer was de-
feated in the house today after
vets had made a spectacular DEM
onstration with demands for the
abolition of prohibition.
The beer tax amendment was
defeated by a vote of 216 to 1872.
-prohibitionists injected the
prohibition issue during colsidera-
ton of the billion dollar revenue
bill, now being reshaped after elm
ination of its sales tax provisions.
Ringing demands for abolition
of prohibition were heard amid
cheers from the house membership
in the debate preceding the vote.
The high point was reached
when Mrs. Mary Norton, Democrat,
from Jersey City, garbed in plain
black dress, rebuked members who.
she contended, drink but vote dry.
The drys rallied their majority
forces with less dramatic display
and more precision. They mar
shaled behind the dry leader, Rep.
Thomas Blanton Dem) Texas, in
telling the house that liquor
ruined everything it has ever
touched"
The outcome was foregone con-
clusion from the start, but it was
pressed as part of the wet cam
paign being conducted by the anti
prohibitionists of the house. The
amendment was offered by the
Tammany leader, Representative
Cullen, New York. 1t proposed a
tax of three cents pint on all
beer, porter, lager and ale of less
than 2.75 per cent alcoholic con-
tent by volume. 1t would have
legalized that type of beer. The
Volstead act now restricts beer to
less than one-half of one per cent.
In a vote on repeal last Monday
vets mustered 1877 votes.
Acting Chairman Crisp of the
ways and means committee took
the floor in opposition to the
amendment at the close of debate.
Il have been against this beer
CONTINUED On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
GOVERNMENT OF
DE VALERA TO
RECEIVE TEST

DUBLIN, March 25. U.P)-Dem-
onstrations by the Irish Republican
army Sunday in commemoration of
the Easter rebellion of 1916 against
the British are expected to give
Eamon de Valeras Republican gov
ernment its first real test of
strength.
And while army leaders went
ahead with plans for the demon
strations, members of the Free State
executive council debated the Brit
ish position that abolition of the
oath of allegiance to the king and
retention of land annuities hereto
fore paid Great Britain would be
treaty violations.
Precautions were taken in Ulster
to prevent outbreaks possible if
over-zealous Irish patriots cross the
border. Republican demonstrations
of Easter were banned in northern
Ireland. The Ulster government
was confident it could control the
situation.
Members of the executive coun-
Gil were enroute to their homes to-
day for the Easter holiday with no
further meeting scheduled until af-
ter Easter Sunday. They are de-
batting the situation as discussed
last night.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
HUGE SHIPMENT
OF LIQUOR IS
SEIZED IN EAST

STANFORD, Conn.,, March 25.
U.Pl-A sea-going tug, many trucks
and automobiles and assorted
liquors valued at more than $780,
900 were seized today when police
surprised a rum runners landing
party. Fifty men were arrested.
Informed a suspicious landing
operation was in progress, police
squads rushed to the Stamford
Mason Supply company dock in
the east branch of the harbor.
>Stevedores were marching in a
steady procession from the hold of
the tug William H. Moody OF
Rockport, Me, to trucks. Seven
trucks loaded with champagne,
whiskey and assorted fine liquors
stood on shore. Other empty
trucks were ready to be loaded.
With a swift, encircling move
ment, police rushed upon the
scene. Most of the rum runners
surrendered at once, dropping their
sacks of liquor. Some escaped.
On information furnished by
Stamford authorities, Greenwich
Village police arrested Louis Pope,
46, of White Plains.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
COPPER BULLET
ONLY CLUE in
COAST SLAYINC

SAN FRANCISCO, March 25
(U.P>-A copper -jacketed bullet re-
mained the meager clue today on
which police depended in their
search for three bandits who shot
and killed Paul H. Hanson, 81, as
he tried valiantly to defend his
fiancee, Miss Alice Olson, 20, from
an attack.
The bullet, extracted from Han
sons body, sent officers on a
search of hardware and gun stores
in the bay district in hopes of
tracing the gunmen.
One search centered at DAILY
City when Lester Gerlach, 10, re-
ported he had been held up the
night of February 4 by three men
in almost the exact spot where
Hanson met death. Gerlach said he
succeeded in evading the thugs.
His principal clue was that one of
The bandits carried a rifle, as was
the case in the Hanson Staying.
Miss Olson, who escaped from
the bandits when they shot Han
son, was in a state bordering COL
lapse but offered to aid in the
search.
Police believed that the peculiar
type of bullet indicated the slayers
were hoodlums rather than pro-
fessional criminals, since the latter
would not use missiles which could
be traced.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
Children OF World
Flyer Are Guarded

SANTA MONICA, March 25.
U.Pl-Mrs. Harold Gatty, aboard a
Southern Pacific train scheduled
to arrive in Chicago Saturday, has
taken precautions to prevent pos
sible kidnapping attempts against
her three small children who ac-
company her, it was learned today.
Mrs. Minnie Darling, manager of
an apartment house where the wife
of the round-the-world flyer lived
with her children, said no threats
had been received, but the mother
was exercising care because of the
Charles A. Lindbergh, jr., kid
naping.
N. F. Mccarthy, special agent
for the railroad, said regular train
guards had been instructed to
watch the children, but that no
special guards had been employed.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
YOUTH
SHOT DOWN BY
BRUTAL.SLAYER

PHOENIX, March 25. (Gl -
Bloodhounds bayed thrAgh the
desert west of here today, on the
trail of man who early today shot
down a youth in cold blood, failed
in the attempt to kill his girl COM
panion, and escaped.
From the girls frantic descrip-
ton, the man was believed to be a
Negro or Mexican, and about so
years old.
Police were summoned by the
girl to the ditch on the edge of
town where the youths body lay
He was dead when they arrived.
As the girl, Wanda Lee Kirk, 13,
told of the tragedy, she rode past
midnight in the car driven by Bye
Oliver, %, and shortly afterwards
they parked in a clear space off
the highway on the edge of town.
They had only just stopped, she
said, when she thought she dis
cerned a movement in the sage
brush. She spoke of it to Oliver,
who said: TITS nothing; I'll see"
Oliver walked toward the spot, she
said, then came back and said: "It
wasn't anything"
A few seconds later, the man
walked out of the darkness to the
car, thrust a gun in divers face,
and commanded him to get out of
The car.
He did, under threats of being
killed if he moved, then half
turned toward the car. The man
shot, and Oliver dropped. The man
rolled him into a ditch, and bent
over him as though feeling for
his heart.
He then walked quickly back to
the car, told the girl to get out
and said he would shoot her if size
showed any fight. AS she stepped
out of the car she threw a pump
she had taken from the tonneau,
and the man fired. Missing, he ran
across the desert.
Mss Kirk ran to the nearest
house and called police.
1t was later found that the mans
exploration of divers body was
for purposes of robbery. His pocket
book was gone.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
VETERAN CRIME
CRUSADER MAKES
SERIOUS CHARGE

CHICAGO, March 25. U.P)-Frank
j. Loesch, 84-year-old president of
the Chicago crime commission, to-
day was invited to appear before
the federal grand jury on April 13
to repeat his charge that William
Parrillo, assistant United States
district attorney, is "a known par
tiSan' of Al Capone.
The invitation was extended by
United States District Attorney
George E. @. Johnson.
Loesch's accusation was contained
in a letter to Senator William E.
Borah yesterday, upholding nomi-
nation of Federal Judges James E.
Wilkerson, who sentenced Capone
for income tax fraud, to the U. S.
circuit court of appeals.
The veteran foe of crime, a mem
ber of the Wickersham commission,
asserted Capone and his political
allies were fighting Wilkerson.
He specified Parrillo as benefici-
airy of 25th ward election plot
in which he said five Italians op-
posing the prosecution for Repub-
lican ward committeeman were
forced at guns point to sign with
drawals.
"If Parillo is nominated" Loesch
added, 'it will give him the So
called liquor, vice, gambling and
political control of that ward"
WASHINGTON, March 25. W.P)-
Chairman Borah of the senate ju-
dietary committee considering
the nomination of Judge James H.
Wilkerson to the federal circuit
bench in Chicago announced today
after a committee meeting that
George E. Q. Johnson, federal dis
trict attorney, would be asked to
testify before the committee in con-
nection with charges that gang in
fluences were opposing Wilkerson's
confirmation.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
POLICE DISCOUNT NORFOLK
CLUE IN L|NDBERGH CASE

tial evidence has made several clues
appear to be genuine. but that all
have collapsed on careful inveSti-
cation.
The search for Harry FleiSher
and Abe Wagner, alleged members
of Detroits purple gang" con-
tinued. Authorities have not said
why they are wanted, except for
questioning as to their movements
before and after the kidnapping.
Schwartzkopf said Wagner had
been seen in New Jersey prior to
the kidnapping but has not been
seen or accounted for" since.
Statement Issued
At the morning press conference
the following statement was issued:
The Rev. Dobson Peacock ana
two other citizens of Norfolk, are
not negotiating for the return OF
the baby so far as police authorl-
ties know They visited Colonel
Lindbergh the night before last, and
gave him information which on
being investigated was found to
have no specific significance in
this investigation. There has been
no report made to the police as to
the finding Of any piece of the ba-
bys clothing.
I'VE have made no negotiations
with any underworld characters and
the police have no knowledge of
any arrangements made with them.
There is no positive evidence OF
any kind indicating that the kid
napers fled by way of the Della
ware river or Chesapeake bay. The
evidence discovered concerning the
departure Of the kidnapers has been
covered in previous bulletins and
reference to these bulletins should
clarity this point.
THE coast guard along the
Chesapeake has made no report to
these headquarters.
THE police at no time have re-
ceiVed any communication from 1rV-
ing Bitz and we have never been
in touch with him. The same ap-
plies to Spitale and other men of
this type that the press has re-
ferred to.
mo definite information has been
received as yet as to the present
whereabouts of Fleischner and
Wagner This investigation is be-
ing continued and every effort is
being made to determine their
whereabouts"
Reports circulated today that
Colonel Schwartzkopf had advised
Lieut.. Walter Couglin, in charge of
headquarters at Trenton, that a
new suspect had been found It
was not known who this suspect is.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
Will ReOrganize
Japan's Cabinet

TOXIC, March 25. U.P)-Approv-
al by Emperor Hirohito Of a reor-
ganized cabinet appeared today to
have removed likelihood of an i'm
mediate government crisis or estab-
lishment of a militarist or Fascist
rule.
The emperor approved appoint
ment of Kisaburo Suzuki, former
minister of justice, as minister OF
home affairs, and that of Takeji
Kawamura, experienced diplomat
and former governor general of
Formosa, as minister of justice.
Difficulties developed several days
ago with resignation of Home Min
lister Tokugoto Nakahasi. Premier
Inukai asked Overseas Minister To-
, yosuke Hata to become home min
ister. Hata decided to continue in
his present office.
The cabinet was obviously in dam
ger of being overthrown when the
liet convened. The threat of Fas-
cist or military dictatorship was rec
ognized generally.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
H. Worth Banker
Enters Campaign

FORT WORTH, Tex, March 25.
W.P)-Whether he approves or not,
Melvin Alvah Traylor, "homespun
American" president of the First
National bank OF Chicago, was in
the race for the Democratic presi-
Dental nomination today.
Traylor r-for-President headquar-
ters here, organized without his
aid, have expanded activities to
nationwide scope and are con-
Quoting a thorough, persistent cam
paign to win support for the fl
nancier.
His old Texas cronies-men who
knew him years ago when he was
cashier, manager, night watchman
and janitor of one-room bank at
the little town of Malone-believe
he is the best man of the several
under consideration.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
BY BATES RAINEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

HOPEWELL, N. j., March 25. -
Reports from Norfolk, Va, telling
of an attempt to return the Lind
bergh baby have been investigated
and found to be of mo specific
significance, Colonel H. Norman
Schwartzkopf, directing official
search for the baby, said here.
The statement came in the COL
onel's latest bulletin on progress of
the search. 1t was in response to
a question regarding the visit of
Rear Admiral Guy Burrage, Dean
Harold Dobson Peacock, and John
II. Curtis to the Lindbergh estate.
The three are from Norfolk.
Schwartzkopf said:
THE three citizens of Norfolk
who visited Colonel Lindbergh last
night gave him information which,
on being investigated, was found to
have no specific significance in
this investigation.
Other officials connected with
the search also minimized value of
the report They pointed out how,
time and again, during the 24-day
search, the strongest circumstan-
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
Sen. BOrah Lauds
Sales Tax Defeat

WASHINGTON, March 25. (U.P)-
Senator Borah, (Rep) Idaho, said
today the members of the house
who defeated the sales tax had done
fine and patriotic" service to the
country. He called on congress to
substitute for the tax a regime of
economy and retrenchment.
1t was learned on good authority
that influential senate Democrats
have discussed the possibility of Off
setting the sales tax with a 25 per
cent reduction in federal operating
expenditures, plus salary reduction
for federal employees.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-25
MAN SOUGHT IN
DEATH OF WIFE
COMMITS SUICIDE

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March
25. U.PEThree weeks of mental
torture over the death of his wife,
Louise, in New YorW hote, ended
for Gerald Sturgis Greenlief,
Santa Barbara, Calf, in Masonic
temple here today, under circum-
stances which left no doubt of
suicide.
Greenlief, a man about 45 years
old, was found seated in a chair,
bottle of carbolic acid, drained,
lying nearby. On a table he had
left a profusion of notes explain
ing his act. In one of them he
said:
MY wife calls me and God does
not say no."
There were numerous newspaper
clippings from the New York Times
and New York Daily News of
March 4, detailing the mysterious
death of Mrs. Greenlief and ex-
planning that Greenlief was sought
because of notes he had left IN
their Graystone hotel apartment.
Our love was great and beauti-
full for years." he said in a note
written here and dated Good
Friday morning." In another note
he revealed he had wandered for
three weeks and found myself in
Jacksonville living under an
assumed name"
One of the New York newspaper
clippings told of a note Greenliet
had written in New York saying
that he had found Mrs. Greenliei
almost strangled by rope around
her neck; that he released it and
that later she ended her own life
with a revolver.