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Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
SAILORS ASSIST
AUCKLAND POLICE
TO SUBDUE RIOT

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, April
IA. U.P-Hundreds of shop windows
were smashed and the stores looted
tonight by unemployed along three
quarters of a mile of Queen street
| in the most serious rioting New
Zealand ever experienced.
Bluejackets from the depot ship
Pilomel ultimately quelled the dis
turbance with the aid of mounted
police. For a time the mob was
out of control. Numerous rioters
and police were injured.
The loss was estimated at 100000
pounds ($380,000).
JeWelry and liquor stores were
the particular targets of the riot
ers who armed themselves with
bricks, sticks, fence pickets and any
other implements they could find.
When the police saw that they
could not quell the rioters several
hundred citizens were sworn in as
special constableS. When the land
ing party of seamen augmented the
police and citizens the frenzied
mob was finally quelled.
Hospitals received about $50 vic
TINS, police and rioters alike. Thir-
ty-five of the ringleaders and the
most vicious of the rioters were
jailed. Police said Communists fig
ured largely in inciting the riot.
The rioting continued for two
hours with the crash of breaking
glass and the shouts and screams
of the vandals ringing from one
end of Queen street to the other.
A trail of broken glass and des-
troyed merchandise filled tn e
length of the street after it was
cleared.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
DISCUSS
SMITHS
SPEECH
Democratic Leader Causes
Sensation By Jefferson
Day Address.
PARTY WAR IN AIR
New Yorker Urges Recess
On Debts And Stages
Attack On Roosevelt.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April IA. =
Alfred E. Smith has overnight be-
come the center of Democratic
party discussion by his spectacular
proposal at the Jefferson day din
ner for virtual cancellation OF the
war debts under a plan designed
to promote international trade.
He suggested the United States
forget" its war debts for 20 years.
During that time, he proposed, the
| United States should erase the debt
each year one-fourth of the value
of goods bought by the debtors
At the same time Smith drove
in further the wedge which has
been slowly splitting him apart
from his former political ally and
present rival, Gov. Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Some construed Smiths speech
as a virtual declaration of war
against Roosevelt In a passage
interpreted as referring to an ad-
dress made by Roosevelt last week,
Smith said
Il will take off my coat and
| vest and fight to the bitter end
against any candidate who per-
sists in any demogogic appeal TO
the masses of the working people
of this country to destroy them
selves by setting class against class
of rich against poor
Roosevelt, IN assailing the
Hoover business relief program
week ago declared the administra-
ton has forgotten or does not
want to remember" the man at
the bottom of the economic
pyramid"
The absence of Roosevelt from
this gathering of Democratic lead
ers caused much private comment,
good deal of it critical. His tele-
gram excusing himself On the
ground of state business brought
only a weak burst of applause.
Though in delegate strength,
Roosevelt is far in the lead and is
gaining daily, his absence from the
Washington gathering left Smith
as the central figure. Smith, whose
Importance in the Democratic Sit
uation has been regarded as
steadily declining of late, appeared
to have rehabilitated himself to
some extent by his boldness in
striking out on cancellation plan
in face of overwhelming opposition.
Furthermore, his apparent yelled
challenge to fight Roosevelt to the
| bitter end instantly conjured new
/ possibilities in the minds of Demo-
cratic politicians. Many privately
discussed the possibility of Smiths
leading desperate fight against
Roosevelt on the floor of the con-
vention, openly appealing to the
delegates to defeat the man who
had placed him in nomination at
two previous conventions.
WASHINGTON, April IA. UP) =
Alfred E. Smith, Jouett Shouse,
chairman of the Democratic nation
al committees executive committee,
and John j. Raskob, Democratic
national chairman, met in secret
conference here today, supposedly
an outgrowth of Smiths startling
speech at last nights Jefferson day
dinner.
ALBANY, N. Y, April IA. UP) =
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt
smilingly refused to comment to-
day on former Governor Alfred E.
Smiths address last night at a
Jeffersonian day dinner in Wash
ington.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
COMMITTEE ON
UNEMPLOYMENT
MAKING SURVEY

LOS ANGELES, April IA. UP)-.
State unemployment commission of
California was to. conduct here to-
day the first of six public meetings
called to seek remedies for unem-
ployment with a view toward legis-
lative action.
Emergency unemployment relief,
chronological unemployment, accu-
pational changes, age limits in in
dustry, restriction of hours OF
labor, public works, employment
offices, compensation and other
phases of the subject were to be
considered.
Witnesses may present their
views orally or in written form, ac-
cording to Will j. French, director
of the state department of indus
trial relations. Questions have
been listed by the commission to
bring out opinions as to various
employment difficulties.
The commission is directed py
state law to make surveys, studies
and Investigations of all problems
relating to unemployment.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
Hay growers, 1880, Barbara
Worth school, Brawley.
Old time dance, $3.50, Veter-
ans hall.
Mems brotherhood dinner, 7,
First Baptist church.
Rotary club, !, Barbara Worth
country club.
Night school, 10, high school.
h. p. o. E. No. 1925, s, Elks
hall.
r. A. NJ. No. 1O9, s. Masonic
Temple.
Troop IA, B. S. A., 1880, Scout
hut.
Phi Chi, 7:45, California
hotel.
Women of Moose, 8, Moose
home.
Citizenship class, 10, high
school.
Valley theatre, "The Squaw
Man.
Fox Imperial theatre, "The
Wet Parade.
TOMORROW
Kiwanis club, Barbara Worth.
w. c. L. u, 2:30, 654 Brigh-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
M& R1A<.
1854. nskavshr ayaAlAasA. -
MANY STRICKEN
BY ODD MALADY
IN SANTA PAULA

SANTA PAULA, Calf, April ID.
U.P)-City and county officials de-
voted every facility today to deter
mine origin and prevent the spread
of poisoning or disease which
struck wholesale throughout this
city yesterday, making 300 persons
i'll and confining most of them to
their beds.
Early yesterday morning the first
victims were stricken, and through
out the day the mysterious malady
spread, threatening close of the
schools as scores of pupils were
forced to leave their classrooms.
Many teachers also were ill.
One hundred and ninety students
of the grammar and high schools
went home i'll, and a nearly equal
number of adults were stricken.
Physicians said the victims suf-
fered extreme nausea and symp-
tens similar to those of ptomaine
poisoning. DR.. j. A. King, county
health officer, said children ap-
peared to be more seriously af-
fected than adults, although many
older persons were made seriously
i'll. "'fs EH1l
/ DR.. King, DR.. John Crawford, city
health officer, and Max Huntzman,
county sanitation officer, began an
exhaustive inquiry. Homes of vic
tins were visited and samples of
milk and water taken for analysis
in the county laboratory at Ven-
tura.
The possibility that vegetables or
fruit sprayed with poison might
have caused the epidemic also was
considered.
The victims showed improvement
today, but many were confined to
their beds.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14

by New Jersey state police in con-
nection with the kidnapping. A man
resembling Fleischer booked pas
sage on a coastal steamer enroute
to Boston. The ship docks at
Clark's harbor, a small port of
Nova Scotia, today. Royal Cana
dian mounted police have been dis
patched there to search the vessel.
AT the Englewood, N. j., home
of Mrs. Dwight w. Morrow, mother
of Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
there was a furry of excitement
with the arrival of two state police
motor cars. Col. II. Norman
Schwartzkopf, state police head, ex-
planned this visit, but the signifi-
canoe behind the activity remained
a mystery.
Schwartzkopf's bulletin stated
that man obviously in custody as
prisoner or an informer" who
was taken to the home of Mrs.
Morrow by the state police and lat
er spirited away" was the state
police photographer, who accom-
panied the investigators.
VIENNA, April IA. W.P)- Major
Charles Schoeffel of the New Jer-
sey state police revealed today that
the leader of the Lindbergh kid
napers was believed to be "a Ger
man-American." Schoeffels belief
was expressed in a statement made
through Vienna police. He said
however, there was no indication
the baby had been brought to Eur
ope.
The New Jersey officers arrival
here was unheralded. He revealed
that Vienna police had been at
work on the case.
LONDON, April IA. U.P)-Search
for trace of the Lindbergh kidnap-
ers was intensified throughout the
British Isles and Europe today by
hope that attempts to change part
of the $4,000 ransom would be-
tray them or their agents.
European police from Scandavian
countries south to Spain gave the
utmost consideration to every pos
sible lead. The search in the Brit
iSh Isles extended from South
hampton, in the south, north to
Glasgow and Edinburgh and across
the Irish Sea to Dublin.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14

FRESNO, Calf, April ID. U.P)-
In a modest two-story home on an
inconspicuous residential sire t
there was today an elderly couple
who quietly rejoiced in a bit Of
news that would send the average
citizen into joyful Mysteries.
The two were Milton D. Huff
man, retired sheepman and former
county supervisor, and his wife,
Laura.
A court decision has given them
complete title to Kettleman Hills
oil lands valued at as high as ST.
100000 an acre-and their title
is 100 acres. In addition, a niece,
Mrs. Idyll Hardie was given title
to 40 acres from the same quarter
section.
Huffman paid $700 for the prop
erty at a tax sale more than IL
years ago, selling share to Mrs.
Hardie. Today the Huffman prop
erty has two of the worlds most
valuable oil wells, one of which as
sertedly produces daily about $4,000
barrels of oil that is mostly gaso-
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
Three Killed In
Eastern Blast

COLUMBUS, O., April IA. W.H-
An explosion late today resounded
through the state office building
under construction here. tearing
out walls and piling debris high i'll
an adjoining downtown street.
After a hurried check police said
three men were killed and approxi-
mately 26 injured, although the lat
ter figure might increase.
Russell Neal, Columbus electri-
clan, and two unidentified men
were killed. Theodore Neb of Louis
vile, general superintendent Of
construction, was among the in
jured. Assistant Superintendent
Ralph Smith, Louisville, and Percy
Carter, Nashville, Tenn, also were
injured.
Estimates of damage ran as high
as $1,00O000.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
Girl Loses Case
Against Engineer

LOS ANGELES, April IA. W.P) -
Alice Polk, beauty contest winner
who claims to be a descendant of
President James Polk, today lost
her $4,000 suit against Robert
Nicholson, engineer, accused of as
.saulting her.
The jury vote was 8 to for the
defendant, sufficient to carry a civil
action
The case first was tried several
months ago but ended with dis
agreement of the jury.
Miss Polk contended Nicholson
took her into the Hollywood Hill;
and attacked her.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
STATE DEMOCRATS
MAKE BIG GAINS
in REGISTRATION

SACRAMENTO, April IA. U.PS-
Democrats gained 46 per cent and
Republicans lost IA per cent III
their party registration for the
May 3. presidential primary elec-
ton in California, it was officially
announced today.
The figures were contained in
the first compilation Of registra..
ton totals by Secretary of State
Frank G. Jordan.
Interest in the three -cornored
contest for control of the Demo-
cratic delegation to the national
convention in June was believed
responsible for the upset in regis
tration.
In this race the candidates are
Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Speaker John N. Garner and AL
fred E. Smith. In the Republican
party President Herbert Hoover is
unopposed.
California, normally a Republi.
can state by 2 to l lead over the
Democrats, showed a total registra-
ton of 2,377,710 for all parties, as
compared with 2,246,228 at the 1890
general election, and 3,849,979 at
the presidential primary in 1923.
The Republican party enrolled
1895, ,l80 voters this year, a loss OF
243,395 over the 1890 registration
Democrats registered 847,482, a
gain of 391, 1886 over 1890.
Other totals were: Socialist
13,5OO; Prohibition, 9,747; declined
to state, 110,198; Liberty, 1923, and
miscellaneous, $50.
Every county in the state scored
Democratic gains, Kern, Imperial
and Colusa showing more Demo-
Gratis registered than Republicans.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
Five Inmates OF
Preston Escape

SACRAMENTO, April IA. U.PSS-
Northern California police today
we're searching for five youths who
escaped from the Preston school of
industry at lone yesterday after
stealing an automobile to make
their getaway.
The five, all parole violators and
members of a discipline company,
are: Eli jenkins, 10, Orange
county, burglary; John Berdugo,
Is, Los Angeles, motor vehicle act
violation; Manuel Jardin, 10, Hay
ward burglary; Joseph Montabano,
10, San Francisco, burglary; Robert
Garcia, l8, Los Angeles, grand
theft.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
Eight Killed In
Eastern Blaze

HERSHEYTOWN, Pa, April IA.
.U.P)-Eight persons died in a fire
which destroyed the home of Mi
chael Dillon here last night.
The victims included seven chill
dren between the ages of 3 months,
and 10 years, and the young moth
er of the two youngest children. 1t
was believed the dead were over
come by smoke in their sleep.
NEW YORK, April IA. U.P) -
When young boy dropped a match
in a room in which benzine was
used for cleaning, the flames swept
through an East Side tenement and
brought death to six persons.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
Plans Race Track
At Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, April IA. U.P) -
Joseph H. Smoot, New York sports
man and founder of the Miami
Jockey club, was in Los Angeles to-
day with the announcement that
he entertained promotion plans for
a $1,500,000 race track in this vi
cinity.
Smoot said his plans included
1.-The finest jockey club in America.
Three sites, one of which is within
the Los Angeles city limits, are
under consideration, he said.
Local racing men said they knew
nothing of the project. They point
ed out that several eastern men
had looked. over the Los Angeles
field without reaching a decision
to build a track.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
Treat Prize Dog
For Snake Bite

SAN FRANCISCO, April IA
U.PS - Playgoer, $4,000 prize rae
ing dog, and his son, Happygoer
were treated today for rattlesnakt
bite at San Carlos Kennels, where
they were placed by Jack Mills
their owner, on arriving from
Miami, Fla
Playgoer was bitten when he in
vestigated something moving in
the grass. His yelps of pain
brought Happygoer and he was
also bitten. Both dogs will recover
veternarieS said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
Harrigan Gets
First CantalOupe


First ripe cantaloupe of the
season was brought in this
morning to the agricultural
commissioners office by
Charles Freedman, we'll
known shipper.
b. A. Harrigan, agricultural
commissioner, anticipates that
cantaloupe shipments will be-
gin the end of this month,
probably between the twenty
third and the twenty eighth.
The crop will not be as early
this year as last, when ship
ments began at an excep-
tiOnally early date.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
HAWKS HAS RELAPSE

WORCESTER, Mass, April IA.
U.pl - Injuries suffered by Capt.
Frank NJ Hawks in a plane crack
up last week will keep him in City
hospital for four or five more
weeks, according to his doctors. He
had another uncomfortable night,
after suffering a nose hemorrhage
yesterday afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
American Peace
Plan Endorsed

GENEVA, April IA. U.P). Great
Britain, Germany and Italy were
aligned with the United States, and
Japan supported France, when the
world disarmament conference
reached a showdown today between
the American and French thesis.
Premier Andre Tardieu showed
progressive discontinue as speaker
after speaker, with few exceptions
endorsed the American plans as at
least the first step in the right di-
rection.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
Consider Bids On
Highway Projects

SACRAMENTO, April IA. W.Pl-
Bids on three important highway
projects were under consideration
by the state department of public
works today. The projects and the
low bidders included
Riverside County-Grading and
paving with concrete six miles be-
tween Avenue IA and the south
erly county boundary on the FL
Centro-San Bernardino lateral,
United Concrete Pipe corporation,
Los Angeles; $286,806.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
GIRL SAFE AT HOME

SAN DIEGO, April IA. W.P$ =
Rosina Ellis, 13-year-old school
girl who disappeared from her
home here several days ago, was
back at home today. Her parents
notified detective of the girls re-
turn but refused to disclose where
she had been. A statewide search
had been waged for the girl.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
Japanese Thugs
Beat American

TOXIC, April ID. U.P1Albert j.
Beveridge, jr., son of the late
United States senator from IN
diana, was attacked and beaten by
Japanese gangsters today in an
underworld section of Yokohama
port city of Toxic.
Beveridge's head and face were
cut but his condition was not SER
ious. An investigation was ordered
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14
AWlLL-
~ ROGERS
Wy "SOyS:

BEVERLY HILLS, April ID.
(SpeciaD-Floyd Gibbons been
out here telling me all that I
missed in China The night
before I would leave all the
towns I would make a speech
to all the assembled Americans,
then the war would break out.
Then on top of all Floyd's val
liable information, why today
chat with Sir Victor Sassoon
who knows more about China
and India than any man, for
he is to those countries what
j. p. Morgan is to us. We have
to get his o. k. to see if we
can have sugar with our coffee.
Gibbons and Sassoon both feel
that Japan is holding Man
churia till Russia is in shape to
take it over. China returns to
Civil war now till some other
outsider shows up, so Pacifists
haven't much to look forward
to in the Far East.
Yours
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-14

ALBANY, N. Y, April IA. U.P) =
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt
smilingly refused to comment to-
day on former Governor Alfred E.
Smiths address last night at a
Jeffersonian day dinner in Wash
ington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-07
new BEDFORD TIP
ON LllDBERCH
BABY DWllDLES
Customs Inspector Viii
liam j. Fitzgerald
Denied Reports He Was
Working on Direct Clue

New Bedford, Mass, April T.
Inspector William
j. Fitzgerald to-day denied pub
Usher reports quoting him as say
ing he was working on a direct
tip" in the Lindbergh baby kid
mapping case.
He said he went to Cape Cod
yesterday not on an official mis-
sion but merely to see If could
be of any assistance" in connec-
ton with an investigation OF sup
posed clues which was in progress
in the vicinity OF Waquoit.
White in WaQuoit he interviewed
John Jones, fisherman of that
village who yesterday reported
having seen man, a woman and
baby carriage landed from a big
white yacht. Inspector Fitzgerald
said Jones undoubtedly was a re-
liable man acting in good faith,
but that he (Fitzgerald) was not
the Lindbergh case.
Twenty state troopers from the.
M;ddleboro barracks ard a some
what smaller force from the Barn
stable barracks searched dwellings
In the Pinehurst summer colony
near Waquoit throughout the day
yesterday on the basis of Jones
report but found no trace of the
man or woman. 1t was said the
search would not be resumed this
morning. state police being satis-
fled that whoever the strangers
may have been. they had no con-
nection with the kidnapping case,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-07

year ago has been raised to 8 per
cent.
A new impost is a tax of is
per cent on gross premiums paid
by Canadian insurers to foreign in
surance companies other than life,
marine and farm mutual. A huge
volume of Canadian fire insurance
is held by United States companies.
A tax of one per cent has been
imposed on insurance premiums
payable to Canadian and British
companies.
Income tax increases amount to
as high as 100 per cent on lower
incomes, dropping down the scale
of 33 per cent on incomes of $50.-
900 and upwards. Under the new
schedule. an income of $4,000
which paid SIS tax under the old
tax schedule will now pay $S2; an
income of $4,000 which paid $232
will now pay 1854; one of $50, 900
which paid $6.7o4 will now pay
$500. a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-07
BABY ELEPHANT BREAKS ITS
LEG, WHICH is CONSIDERED
FIRST OF KIND ON RECORD

Atlantic City, N. j., April o.
(UP)-Zoobu, S50-pound. $4,000
baby elephant IS the first elephant
on record in America to suffer u
broken leg, and all. some are SO
prejudiced as to suggest, because
she was given pint of whiskey for
the collie. Her trainer, Karl
Dutch Rasquin, who confessed he
gave his ailing charge quart of
mineral oil mixed with the pint of
whiskey. denied the broken leg was
due to the whiskey. "zoobu never
got drunk BEFORE" he said. land
and she wasn't drunk this time.
She was just weak from collie"
which should be a good enough
story in any mans court.
The .baby's" believing could be
heard all over the Steel Pier where
the accident occurred. A hurry
up call brought X-ray equipment
from Philadelphia Geological Car
dens and the Ringing circus in
New York. The X-ray showed the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-07
.LETHAL WEAPON
WOULD DESTROY
WHOLE CITIES
Stamford Man Invents In
strument of Death That
Kills and Ruins at Dis
lance of 1000 Miles

Washington. April 7-(UP)-A
new lethal weapon able to destroy
whole cities and regiments thous-
and miles away has been developed
according to Senator Frazier, (r),
N. D., by Lester P. Barlow. SIAM
ford. Conn.,, inventor of a depth
bomb and other bombing devices
Frazier, convinced that Barlow
has what he claims" is author of
resolution to name committee
which would investigate the pur-
ported discovery in deepest Sc
crecy.
Under the Frazier resolution
two civilian engineers, a republican
senator and a democratic house
member would form a committee
to investigate his claims.
They would be permitted to dis
close their findings to the president
and the secretaries of war and
navy and to report to congress
without divulging the nature of the
invention. Existing defensive arm
aments including the heaviest bat
tleships, would be powerless to re-
sist the new weapon, Barlow
claims.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-07
REPUBLICAN DELEGATES TO
THE NATIONAL CONVENTION

7-(UP)-Here the republican deega
Hartford:
Bingham, New Haven
Walcott Norfol John Tson New Haven;
r.
Panvie James f. Walsh Greenwich Raymond f.
Windham.
Isl johnson, Manchester Fuller F.
Lowenthal Mddletown Theodore
London.
o. North Haven't John r. DEM
Comptroller william NJ Salmon. Westport Mrs
Bridgeport.
Congressman Edward w. Goss, Waterbury, Mrs
Iitchfed
Alternaes iarge Jarry Mackenzie Bethel; Howard W.
Robertson, New Milford; Miranda
Pomeoy Greenwich Warren B. Burrows
NJ Blackwell, New
Sanford Osborn, Reddng; and Susan Hub
Old Lyme.
w. H. Putnam, Hartford; Mrs Helen
Mcpherson Hartford.
John Reardon Tompon r. Leland keeney somers
Meriden Maltby Walingord
Charles williamson Dacn and Mrs John c. Downs,
Fifth. r.. Waterbury; william