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Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
BREAK ON
ECONOMY
PROGRAM
President And Senate
Disagree On Proposed
Cuts.
HIT SHAM SAVINGS
Claim System Would
Make Federal Workers
JObless.
BY HENRY F. MISSELWITZ
United Press Staff Correspondent


Copyright, 1892, By United Press
WASHINGTON, April 22.-Pres-
ident Hoover and leaders of the
Republican controlled senate ap-
peared to be approaching an open
break on the economy issue.
The administration resents the
senate's apparent determination to
make flat 10 per cent reductions in
the appropriation bills for all gov
ernment departments. High Off
cials term it sham economy" which
would cripple the government SER
vice and force the dismissal of
thousands of employees. The Pres
ident Is determined to stop it if
possible.
The White House attitude is that
the President, in his omnibus econ
omy bill submitted to the house
economy committee, presented an
orderly way of cutting federal ex-
penses by S225, 100000. Now, the
administration feels, the senate Is
plunging ahead with its own plan
without waiting for development of
the house program.
Tension is increasing between the
White House and the house econo-
my committee. The committee last
evening cast aside the Presidents
plan for staggering federal en-
itac tN 40
port flat reduction of 10 per cent
in all government salaries, with
ST. 1000 exempted. The Hoover plan,
however, will be offered from the
floor, so the house will have a
chance to vote on each. The house
is expected to take up the economy
bill next Wednesday.
The committee also dropped from
the Hoover bill proposal to sus-
pend payments of s8,500,000 to the
states for vocational education
work. It voted to include in the
measure the disputed proposition
for consolidating the war and navy
departments = plan vigorously
opposed by the administration.
These house developments ma
turally displease the administra-
ton, but it is worried most by the
senate's persistence in ordering the
flat 10 per cent cuts One official
asserted the senate reductions
would cost the jobs of 100000 fed
eral employees, while the Presi-
dents stagger system would create
10000 additional part-time jobs and
still keep the total payroll lower.
Chairman Byrns of the house ap-
preparations committee denounced
these figures as over estimates.
The President and his cabinet
officers are seeking ways to COM
bat the senate economy methods.
How the reductions work out can
be shown in the case of the interior
department.
This year it is spending S69000,-
900. Secretary Wilbur and the Pres
ident asked only s56000,000 for
next year. The house reduced it to
S50,000,000. Finally the senate lob
bed off another $5,000,000 to bring
it down to S45 100000.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
Moore To Head
Local Rotary

r. P. Moore will head the Ell Gen.
tro Rotary club next year as pres
ident, as result of the partial
organization made by the newly
elected board of directors. Moore
will succeed Ray Edgar. outgoing
president, on July l.
Other directors are Roy E. Breed
love, Lyman P. Robertson, j. E.
Brock, Carl c. Ernst, Ben Hulse
and Howard P. Meyer. This board
will elect its other officers and
will appoint committees in the near
future.
B. E. Hammond of Los Angeles,
supervisor of lubricating oil sales
for the Union Oil company, south
ern division, was speaker of the
day and discussed proper methods
of automobile fabrication.
Miss Genevieve Hinderks, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Hin
derks, entertained the Rotarians
with two piano solos.
Charles o. Barratt was chairman
of the day.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
ROBBER VICTIMS ARE LEFT
WITHOUT EVEN PHONE MONEY

Immediately after the report
was received at the sheriffs office,
Deputies Fred Elliott and George
Evans left for the scene of the
holdup and today are engaged in
further investigation.
The cash taken was composed of
dollar bills, silver dollars and
small change In the assortment
was one 81 bill and a collection
of pennies, according to officers.
One of the holdup men was said
TO have been garbed in well
pressed brown suit and cap to
match. tan shirt and good shoes.
The other wore a dark suit, a
black jersey sweater with white
around the collar and good shoes.
Descriptions immediately were
sent to all valley towns and tele-
type warnings were dispatched to
all connecting points,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
COUNTY HEADS
TO GET COPIES
OF RESOLUTION

More than 500 copies of a reso-
luton passed by the county board
of supervisors Monday asking that
all departments III the county
drastically cut budgets this year,
we're mailed from the court house
today.
Every county officer, department
head, all elementary and high
school trustees, each city council,
all Imperial Irrigation district dl-
rectors, the grand jury and the
press of the county are to receive
copies of the resolution.
1t was resolved that unless eX-
penses are reduced in an amount
the taxpayers can meet, the board
will arbitrarily set rate which in
its opinion will effect reduction
that the board feels will be ade-
quate."
The communications were pre-
pared by the county clerks and
district attorneys offices.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22

Two youthful Negroes held up
the Brown service station in Holt
vile shortly after 7 o'clock last
night, taking approximately $40
and leaving station operators with
out cent to telephone authorities
for help.
Both had guns, according to a
report made to the sheriff's office,
when they walked into the station
and demanded the cash. After
rifling the cash drawer and empty
ing the pockets of attendants, they
ran to waiting automobile and
sped in the direction of Ell Centre.
Attendants frantically searched
for money to pay the telephone
toll charge to summon officers but
finally were forced to charge the
call.
The Negroes were said TO be be-
tween IT and 10 years of age,
smooth faced and well dressed,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
Phillips Says
Probe Dropped

Ernest R. Utley, local attorney,
today declared M. Penn Phillips,
whom he represented during trial
here of the Lewis Hart insurance
case, informed him by telephone
last night the San Francisco grand
jury had refused to investigate the
Ensenada Hotel company and
charges that investors in the prof.
ect were defrauded of $4,000 by
its promoters.
A United Press dispatch yester-
day, however, said a complaint had
been filed naming Phillips and
three others as promoters of the
venture, and that an investigation
by the San Francisco grand jury
had been requested by five San
FranciscanS.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22

"Haden always had an aversion
to suicides. Even as a small boy
he would not play with toy
pistols" There was some evidence
to support her belief.
Notes were found, however.
which indicated suicide, and the
stories told during the night by
Lancaster and Mrs. Keith-Miller
which were in practical agreement,
also indicated suiSide.
A doctor and a funeral director
declared, however, that there were
no powder burns or marks on
young Clarke's head or body. A
blood-stained pencil was founG on
the sleeping porch.
1t was admitted by all that Mrs
Keith-Miller and Clarke were in
love, a love that developed within
recent months. 1t was denied that
she and Lancaster were anything
but pals" during an association
of many years of flying adventures.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
TUNNEL CRASH
MORE SERIOUS
THAN THOUGHT

SAN DIEGO, April %. W.PrAn
Easter morning landslide on the
San Diego and Arizona railway
east of here that was first an
nounced by officials of the line
as a minor occurance today was
discovered to have been a major
earth movement of almost earth
quage proportions.
Officials Of the line now admit
it was the largest slide they had
ever seem" Rebuilding of the line
is not expected to be completed
before June l. All trains mean
while are being re-routed through
Los Angeles.
The slide" occurred in the
scenic Carriso gorge about go miles
east of here in an area known by
engineers and biologists as a
"tremblor country" subject to al
most constant small earthquakes.
A section of the mountain, about
200 feet thick and 1000 feet long,
is now reported to have sunk
nearly $50 feet, shearing through
nearly 200 feet of tunnel.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
SCHOOL BUDGET
SLASHES ASKED
FROM TRUSTEES
r e col m m e n d alton Re-
quests Big Cut In Sal
airy Lists.

Drastic cuts in school costs which
will amount approximately to 25
per cent reduction in school budgets
are to be recommended tomorrow
to the school trustees at their an
nual meeting by the grand jury
committee on schools, the Imperial
County Farm bureau and the Tax
payers league.
These three organization met re-
Gently in Brawley and agreed upon
this program of retrenchment which
involves cuts in operating expenses
and which it is believed will not
impair the efficiency of the school
system.
The report sets out specific rec
concentrations which have been
worked out on data collected by
the various organizations. Salary
reductions have been planned which
ceived. Superintendents who re-
ceive salary of $4,000, according
to this plan, will be cut SO per cent,
and the reductions are lesSened as
the salaries decrease in amount.
These recommendations will be
presented at the morning session
tomorrow in the Wilson school and
it is anticipated that the project
will create much discussion. The
trustees alone have the power to
make the reductions, the other
bodies acting in an advisory capa-
city.
Vierling Kersey, state superin-
tendent of public instruction, will
deliver the morning address at the
conference. B. M. Gruwell, dis
trict superintendent, and j. l..
House, high school principal, will
be most affected by the salary cut
as both will, if this is carried into
effect, receive the maximum cut.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
MARINES KILLED
BY NLCARACUAN
REBEL FORCES

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April %.
W.P)-A patrol of the Nicaraguan
National Guard, led by United
States marines, was annihilated in
a terrific fight with rebels near
Apali, official advices said today.
Three marines were killed, while
the losses Of the Guardia were IL
dead, four wounded and one miss
ing
The marines dead are:
Lieut.. Lawrence G. Brunton.
Corporal Covington.
Pharmacists Mate Whitehead.
CoVington, leading supply train,
was attacked by the rebels four
miles from Apai. Brunton and
Whitehead went to his assistance
and were likewise trapped
Captain Johnson came to the res
cue with rowing patrol and drove
the rebels back. The wounded and
the bodies of the slain were brought
to Managua today.
Losses to the bandit forces were
not known.
1t was the most severe defeat
suffered by the National Guard
since it was organized
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
Warn Commission
KOO Not Desired

MUKDEN, Manchuria. April %.
U.P) - The Manchukuo republic
government at changchun today
warned the Earl of Lytton, head of
the League of Nations Manchuria
commission, that Wellington Koo
will be arrested If he accompanies
the commission outside the South
Manchuria Railway zone.
The new independent state re-
Gently protested Koo's presence IN
Manchuria as Chinese delegate to
assess damages for his country re-
sulting from the japanese cam
paign. 1t was understood the
warning to Lytton was caused by
the diplomats insistence that koo
remain with the commission.
The commissioners are now at
Darien preparing to enter Man
chuTia.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
FIFTEEN CARS
LEAVE TRACKS;
TEN DESTROYED
Ranch Worker Suffers
Injury In Disastrous
Train Wreck.

FIREBAUGH, Calf, April %.
U.PAFifteen cars of a Southern
Pacific northbound freight left the
tracks on the western outskirts Of
Firebaugh about 7 a. m. today,
broke an Associated Pipe Line
crude oil line and the wreckage
burst into flame.
Dave Myers, 80, Los Banos
ranch worker, was bruised and
suffered numerous cuts of the face,
hands and body when tossed about
in the wreckage.
Two other men on the same car
were thrown clear and were re-
ported unhurt
Ten Of the Is cars derailed were
virtually destroyed by the flames
that were still raging three hours
after the wreck. A car of oranges
and two other loaded cars were
saved by Firebaugh firemen and
the train crew. Several OF the cars
destroyed were reported loaded
with freight.
The derailment was reported to
have occurred when road ma
chinery loaded on flat car
jostled free and fell to the rails
between two cars, causing the last
section of the train to leave the
tracks.
The blaze of wreckage and Oil
threatened lumber yard near the
railroad but firemen successfully
protected the lumber.
Pipe line employees shut off the
flow of oil, preventing spread of
the fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
ALIENISTS MAY
TAKE STAND In
HONOR Staying
Prosecution Prepares To
Rebut Defense Evi-
dence Tomorrow.
BY DAN CAMPBELL
United Press Staff Correspondent


HONOLULU, April 22-Hawaii's
honor Staying trial was in ad-
journment today while prosecution
alienists made ready to testify
against Lieut.. Thomas H. Massie,
young naval officer and one of
the defendants.
The alienists, DR.. Joseph Cation
of San Francisco, and DR.. Paul
Bowers of Los Angeles may be
called tomorrow when they are ex-
pected to combat defense claims
that Massie was insane when he
killed Joe Kahahawai, half caste
accused of leading an attack on
Massies wife, Mrs. Thalia Forte
scue Massie.
Prosecutor John c. Kelley would
not say definitely he intended to
use them. He indicated he might
depend entirely upon DR.. Robert
P. Faus, city-county physician, to
oppose the insanity plea.
How Prosecutor Kelley will wind
up the case will be determined by
the nature of the findings of the
two psychiatristS. Kelley said he
might ask for an instructed ver-
dict of manslaughter against
Massie but added he would not
make up his mind definitely until
he learned what the two doctors
had to report.
Kelley said he had no plans con-
cerning the other defendants, Mrs.
Grace Bell Fortescue, Massie's So
cially prominent mother-in-law,
and A. o. Jones and j. E. Lord,
enlisted seamen. All are accused
of second degree murder.
Except for reports of Drs. Cat
ton and Bowers, chief interest in
the trial still centered on Mrs.
Massie's act of angrily tearing to
shreds a QUESTIONABLE that the
prosecution introduced.
A group of prominent island
physicians expressed indignation
at Kelley's action in taking the
intimate report into court and
passed a recommendation that the
next session of the legislature
make such questionnaires priv
ileged.
Many women were reported to
have protested to the University
of Hawaii, where Mrs. Massie took
the psychopathic test that was
produced in court. The women felt
that Kelley should not have had
access to it even though island
statues hold such material not
privileged.
Mrs. Massie's action in indig-
nantly destroying the document
was described by the defense at
torney, Clarence Darrow, as the
most unusual incident he ever wit
messed in a courtroom.
"I have seen spectators applaud
o verdict" he said, "but never be-
fore have 1 heard of spectators
such an action by a
witness"
The entire courtroom was swept
with noisy applause as Mrs. Mas
sic ended her appearance on the
witness stand by deliberately de-
stroying the document which the
intended using against
the defendants.
The only answer in the ques-
tionnaire Kelley intended to use,
he told the United Press, was one
that the lieutenant was mot dem
He intended to use
it to impeach Mrs. Massies state
ment that her husband always
was kind and affectionate," he
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
Carelton Joy
Leaves Valley

Carleton D. Joy, former owner
and publisher of the Imperial VAL
ley Farmer and recently resigned
publicity director for the Imperial
Irrigation district, left the valley
today for Los Angeles. He will sail
from Wilmington tomorrow aboard
the City of Los Angeles" for Hon
olulu, Hawaii.
He came to the valley eight years
ago and has a host of friends in
all parts of the county. AT one
time he was a member of The
Press editorial staff.
Joy will Join his brother, AL Joy,
who also is we'll known in the val
ley. Mrs. Joy and two children will
Join him in June.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
ARIZONA CONVICTS FAIL
IN BOLD ESCAPE ATTEMPT

a spot on the wall where battery
of searchlights had been mounted
without the prisoners knowledge.
The big lights flooded the yard
and guards spotted the trio run
ming toward the wall, carrying a
ladder. They opened fire and the
prisoners ran back to the cell
house.
minutes after disclosed no ready
minutes ater disclosed no ready
identification of the trio, Warden
Will H. Delbridge said.
Last Monday a 63-foot electric
ally lighted and walled tunnel was
discovered, dug within a few feet
of the prison wall.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22

FLORENCE, Ariz.. April %.
U.Pl - In the second attempted
break within a week, three con-
victs made a bold dash for free
dom late last night through a
prison yard they had plunged into
darkness, only to be met by auxil-
iary floodlights and a rain of
rifle fire.
They ran back to the cellhouse
and mingled with other prisoners
before they were recognized.
The attempted break occurred
just before midnight. An accom-
plice in the prison powerhouse
turned off the master switch light
ing the prison, but guards ran to
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
Prisoner Enters
Plea OF Guilty

Harold Fem, 36, pleaded guilty
to theft of approximately $14O
worth of cigarettes when he was
brought before Judge Lee Nuffer
in police court this morning.
He was arrested by police yes
terday morning and confessed to
the theft yesterday afternoon. The
cigarettes disappeared from Orr
Brothers grocery, it was brought
out in court. He will be sentenced
this afternoon.
Irving Dunjee, 43 year old
Negro, was given a 60-day sus-
pended Jail sentence on vag-
rancy charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
MOONEY
REVIEWS
BA 7 7 Ii
Will Conduct Future
Fight Along Different
Lines.
ALL HOPE NOT LOST
Governor ROlph Still May
Consider New Evi-
dence.

SACRAMENTO, April %. W.P)t-
Tom Mooney hasn't had his last
chance for clemency at the hands
of Governor Rolph.
The governor so declared today
just before taking off in his air.
plane at Mather field for Phoenix,
Ariz., in the first leg of his trans
continental trip to Richmond, Va.
IF new evidence is uncovered or
new witnesses produced, I shall be
glad to consider a new application
for clemency." Rolph said.
"Of course, it will be referred to
Judge Matt I. Sullivan, whose rec
ord of, the case I consider to be a
masterpiece of logic and legal
reasoning"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
Doctors Verify
Strange RumOrs

PORTO ALGERE, Brazil, April
%. U.P)-An almost incredible case
Of fecundity was reported today
from the town of Bacacay, where
a woman was said to have given
birth to 10 children at one time.
The woman, Mrs. Espinosa Nu-
mez de Antunes, was delivered of
eight girls and two boys, the re-
ports said, all the children dying
at birth, but the mother being in
perfect health.
Doctors, incredulous Of the story,
went by automobile from various
parts of the province to verify the
accounts.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
BY HOMER L. ROBERTS
United Press Staff Corresponds nj

SACRAMENTO, April %. =
Denied a pardon for the fourth
time by a California governor
Tom Mooney began anew today his
fight for freedom that in 16 years
behind bars has brought only dis
appointment and defeat.
Governor Rolph's refusal to
grant the pardon because mo new
facts" were offered to support
Moneys plea led supporters of
the convicted labor leader to seel;
his liberation along entirely new
lines, possibly through a new trial
In the front lines of the re-
organized Mooney forces was
his 84-year-Old mother, Mrs.
Mary A. (Mother) Mooney.
She listened in dry-eyed un-
belief yesterday as Governor
Rclph read the decision which
doomed her son once more to
San Quentin prison.
Recovered from the first shock
of the decree (she had hoped for
at least q commuted Sentence)
Mrs. Mooney announced an at
tempt will be made at once to
have District Attorney Matthew
Brady try Mooney on a lone mur-
der indictment in San Francisco
superior court.
This indictment has remained
inactive since 1917, when Mooney
was convicted on related indict-
ments as one of the Preparedness
day ,bombers. The Mooney defense.
it was learned, will stipulate to all
evidence produced at the original
trial provided witnesses may teS-
tify to subsequent developments.
Believes In Acquittal
Convinced a jury would acquit
Mooney on a retrial, Mrs. Mooney
said thereafter the pardon appli-
cation would be renewed with Gov
ernor Rolph. This program was
outlined by. Attorney Aaron Sapiro
of New York when he and Mayor
James Walker pleaded a pardon
last December before Rolph, the
hearing on which the latest de-
cision was based.
Refusing to discuss the decision
which held Mooney was guilty of
the bomb outrage and, with War
ren K. Billings was justly guilty,
Governor Rolph prepared to leave
Sacramento by plane today for
the east.
With Gov. Fred B. Balzar of
Nevada he will attend a national
governors conference in Rich
mond, Va. 1t was learned that
Rolph was greatly concerned over
the reception he will receive on the
Atlantic seaboard as a result of
his decision.
Mooney was. at work in the
prison kitchen at San Quentin
when Warden James e. HOlO-
han summoned him to break
the news He was disappointed
but not surprised.
This makes me a worldwide
symbol of struggling labor" he
said. ut doesn't finish the Mooney
case. They force me to fight, and
fight I will.
II guess there are plenty of
people who will celebrate this de-
cision as a victory But 1 don't
think its a victory for anybody.
The question of my freedom or
incarceration isn't important-the
issue is whether one who believes
in the rights of the common man
can get a square deal in the
courts
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
Capone Appeals
His Conviction

WASHINGTON, April %. U.P,-
Attorneys for Al Capone today
filed an appeal with the United
States supreme court asking that
body to review his recent conYic-
ton on income tax frauds.
The appeal was filed by Michael
j. Ahearn and Albert Fink, as
counsel for Capone. The brief sub
mitted on behalf of Capone chal-
lenges the felony counts on which
he was sentenced to terms of i'm
priSonment aggregating II years
and fines totaling $4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
Guard Governor
On Air Journey

SACRAMENTO, April %. W,R-.
Gov. James Rolph, jr, and the
airline in which he is travelling
will be closely guarded by police
at every stop on the cross-country
flight to Richmond, Va, Pilot
Roscoe B. Turner said today, be-
fore taking off at 6;35 a. m.
The protection, it, was learned,
was insisted upon BY Gov. Fred B.
Balzar, of Nevada, Rolph's travel
ing companion, who feared vio-
lence at the hands Of agitators.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
Special Venire
To Try Hendrix

Because the present jury panel
has already been exhausted in Sc
curing a jury to try A. L. Hendrix
on a charge of numbering w. H.
Mccoy, a special venire of go names
will be chosen to hear the second
trial, made necessary by a hung
jury.
D. H. Wolford, chief criminal
deputy district attorney, said today
this step will be necessary because
new regular venire will not be
chosen until June. Hendrix trial
has been set for May 2.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
African Native
Dies In Florida

SARASOTA, Fla, April %. UPA-
Bangwan, royal chieftain of the
Ubangi tribe, saucer-lipped saw
ages from the French Congo
brought to this country by Ring
ling Brothers circus, died in hos
pital here today of brights
disease.
The disease was believed to have
been contracted in this country
following the change in mode of
life from the rigors of warfare in
the Congo
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-22
EWIlL
WyR9eERs |S2t;

HOLLYW WOOD, April %.
(SpeciaD-Country's been full
of jokes at the expense of the
radio announcers, but have
you caught any of these po-
litical speakers that are desc
Grating the ether?
Why, you actually want to
kiss the announcer when he
comes on after one of those.
Took three years of solid de-
preston to get the truth out
of dear old Charley SchWab.
Thirty-eight aeroplanes with
mail and passengers come and
go daily from Los Angeles air.
ports. Congress is just like us
individuals, they are finding it
tough to dig up the money
they spent last year that they
didn't have.
Yours,