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Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-19
NORFOLK DIVINE
KEEPSSILENT ON
CURTIS CHARGES,
BY CHARLES NJ. MCCAIN
United Press Staff Correspondent

NORFOLk, va, May ~. - Ihe
fate that thrust the Rev. Harold
Dobson-Peacock into the center of
the John Hughes Curtis kidnap
phantasy held him helpless there
today, his home under police
guard, at his own request, he him
self unwilling to reply in kind to
charges made by Curtis at Hope
well, N. j.
Unable to avoid the popular at
tention it attracted to him, Peacock,
dean of fashionable Christ Church,
prepared for tonight's big parish
supper, with pardonable absence of
eagerness to face the chattering
sympathy of the ladies who will be
there.
When Curtis issued his statement
last night, alleging that Peacock
urged and pressed" him to con-
tinue the mythical kidnapping ne
gotiations, the dean was at a YES
try meeting. He was informed just
before midnight of Curtis allega-
tions that he had violated conf
dences and manufactured news in
his avidity for front page display.
Admiral Guy H. 3urrage, brought
into the negotiations along with
Peacock, is a vestryman. Peacock
talked with him, then decided to
make no reply whatever. He did
send the following reply to Col. H.
Norman Schwartzkopf's invitation
to go to Hopewell. for question:
ing by state police:
Replying to your kilograms of
yesterday and today requesting my
presence in Hopewell, r stand
ready, at such time as you may
select, to meet at Norfolk you or
Governor Moore's representative
and will fully and freely give all
information in my possession per-
tanning to the subject"
Peacock later consented to ex-
plain his connection with the
$25, 900 deposit asked Of Lindbergh.
He said Curtis told him the myth
ical kidnaperS wanted $25,000 de-
posted in Norfolk in a joint ac-
count of Curtis, Admiral Burrage.
and himself. The money was not
to be paid over to the kidnapers,
Peacock said Curtis told him, until
after Colonel Lindbergh had ex-
pressed his complete satisfaction
that his baby had been returned
safely and we'll. At Curtis sug-
gestion, Peacock said he went to
Hopewell and put the proposition
to Colonel Lindbergh who was con-
vinced.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-19
OF Hearst's
Son Asks Divorce

LOS ANGELES, May 10. U.P)-
Mrs. Blanche Wilbur Hearst today
filed suit for divorce against
George Randolph Hearst, San
Francisco publisher, and son of
William Randolph Hearst, accus-
ing him of desertion.
Mrs. Hearst declared in her COM
plant that custody of their twin
children, George Randolph, Jr.,
and Phoebe Millicent Hearst, aged
s., had been provided for in an
agreement and property settlement
executed by the couple on May 16.
She added that the agreement
would be submitted for the courts
approval at the time Of trial Both
she and her husband signed the
agreement, the complaint stated.
The couple married April 2,
1923, at Martinez. She charged
her husband deserted her July 10,
1890.
Two other sons of the publisher
recently were divorced by their
wives. William Randolph Hearst,
Jr., was divorced in a Reno action,
while Mrs. Dorothy Hart Hearst
was given a decree from John Ran
dolph Hearst in Las Vegas, New,
several Weeas ago.
Mrs. Dorothy Hart Hearst since
has married William Paley, head of
the Columbia BroadcaSting system.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-19

and women of the Yuma tribe kept
ancient vigil according to the ira
ditions Of the tribe, which decree
cremation must be the earthly end
of a brave man.
A son of the dead man, himself
not young. stood like a statue in
the feather head dress that had
been his fathers, and holding the
old mans bow and sheaf of arrows
Now and then his lip quivered, but
he showed no other emotion.
Caehora was killed when his pony
bucked him off two miles south of
Ross Corner in the Bard district
yesterday corning, dying, as white
woman, Mrs. Hazel Livingston of
the district attorneys office here,
sponged his head.
frightened by Truck
The pony became frightened at a
water truck driven by j. A. Porter
Cachora was riding well, without a
saddle and with only gunny sack
pad for a seat, when the pony
slipped on mud made by the sprink-
ling truck, and the Indian fell. He
struck on his head under the pony.
D. H. Wolford deputy district at
torney and Mrs. Livingston, were
bound for Bard, where they were
scheduled to hold a preliminary
hearing They saw the Indian fall
and went to his aid. Tribesmen
congregated rapidly.
Coroner Bert Underwood was
called. but expressed the opinion no
inquest will be necessary.
The body was turned over to
stoical relatives, including wife,
son and daughter. AS the repre-
sentatives of the district attorneys
office were leaving the Bard dis
trict yesterday afternoon arrange
ments already we're under way for
the cremation and attendant rit-
uals. The son already had donned
his fathers head dress, and held
the bow and arrows.
Cachora's age was estimated by
his relatives at more than go, but
no definite information could be
obtained, since these people seldom
keep track of the years.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-19
WITNESS TELLS
OPERATIONS OF
MARKET KILLING

WASHINGTON, May 10. U.P)-
Details Of a market killing in the
stock of Radio Corporation of AM
erica, in which John j. Raskob
and others split millions of profits,
were revealed today in the senate
stock market investigation.
Thomas E. Bragg, formerly a
member of the firm of w. E. Hut
ton and Company was called as the
first witness as the senate banking
and currency committee resumed
it's hearings. William Gray, COM
mittee counsel, announced he would
tell of the huge radio pool during
the boom days of 1929 and "ex-
plain some of the things that need
explanation"
With Bragg in the witness chair,
Gray read to the committee the
results of an investigation which he
had been conducting during the re-
cess in the committee hearings.
Raskob put up $1,000,000 in the
radio pool and won 1921, ITO, Gray
said. Others who profited were
Charles M. Schwab, Herbert B.
Swope, w. F.. Kenny, Nicholas F.
Brady, P. J. Moro and Mrs. D. Sar-
noff, wife of the head of the radio
corporation.
Gray said the pool participants
put up, through w. E. Hutton and
Company $9,667,500 for 551, 800
shares of radio stock and split an
aggregate profit of $3,217,570.
Got His Money
Gray read the syndicate agree
ment, limiting its. operators to
100000 shares at any one time
The managers were to receive 10
per cent of the profit.
Bragg said he was the pool man
ager. He was in Florida during the
pool operation however, and inti-
mated that M. j. Meehan actually
was in charge of the market trans
actions.
You were in Florida?" Gray said.
who got the money!
II got my share of it." Bragg said.
Bradley, Kenny and Raskob were
among those who put up the max
imum of $1,OOOOOO. Moro, whose
home is in New York, was said by
Gray to have profited $87,513, al
though he had put no funds into
the pool.
Percy A. Rockefeller and James
A. Stillman put up $75 900 each and
each profited by $29,171, Gray said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-19
CHAMBERS ISSUE
BOLD CHALLENGE
TO GOVERNMENT
Railroad Executive Lays
Business Crisis At Door
Of Bad Taxation.

SAN FRANCISCO, May Is. (U.Pl-
The federal government TO-DAY was
challenged by business to aid it in
passing its current crisis.
Fred w. Sargent, president of
the Chicago and Northwestern rail-
road, issued the challenge in speak
ing before the annual dinner of
the United States Chamber of
commerce, in session here.
He laid the major responsibility
for continuance of the depression
to the tax-eating governmental
system of the United States. He
bluntly declared that intelligent
reform of expenditures or economic
slavery were the only alternatives.
"'When economic freedom goes,
there will go with it political free
DOM he said, quoting Calvin
Coolidge.
After the loss of poiiUical free
dom there remain but two alter
natives-slavery or revolution"
The nations political and busi-
ness leaders, he said. are blindly
floundering, unable to accomplish
much to end the present economic
unease.
He denounced bitterly govern
mental experiments which added
to the tax burden without accom-
plishing relief.
Men who are not towards are
scared today" he said. "They
wonder what the government is
going to do next. Not knowing.
they are afraid"
'The lack of confidence felt by
business men, which is largely re-
Sponsible for continuance of the de-
preston, derives aid from wide
spread uneasiness because of the
increasing activities of government
in business and the constant in
creasing load of taxation"
He also denounced proposals for
huge-scale construction of public
works.
Like an octopus, the govern
ment'S tentacles appear to be
reaching everywhere" he said.
To-day every form of transporta-
ton, except railroads, is subsidized
in some fashion. The railroads are
penalized to pay the subsidies"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-19
McAdoo Expects
Plenty OF Fight

DENVER. May 10. Us)-William
Gibbs McAdoo, former secretary of
the treasury, left Denver at a. m.
today for Cheyenne, Wyo., and Salt
Lake City in a private airplane.
In interviews here McAdoo ap-
peared bit irritated over actions
of friends in New York who an
nounced recently he would soon de-
clare himself for prohibition refer
endum.
Commenting on the New York
announcement, McAdoo said:
"I have reached no decision.
When 1 do reach a decision, no one
will have to speak for me, can
do that myself"
He declared his belief that John
Nance Garner, speaker of the
house has IAN excellent chance" of
nomination by the Democratic con-
vention for the presidency.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-19
BAKER ASSERTS
U.S.. MESJUDGES
LEAGUES WORK
Former War Secretary In
Wilson's Cabinet Ex-
presses His Views.

NEW YORK, May 10. U.Pl -
Current misjudgment of the
League of Nations by Americans
is due chiefly to its lack of precise
and dramatic action, Newton D.
Baker declared today in response
to a QUESTIONABLE.
1--WE efficient Americans" Baker
said, want the league to act with
the dramatic precision of a ma
chine tool, when, of course, the
whole value of the league lies in
the fact that it is neither dra-
matte nor precise, but flexible,
constructive and concilatory. The
technique which the secretariat has
developed in effectiveness and use
fulness."
The former secretary of war also
emphasized that prejudices have
been permitted to grow up about
the subject, saying:
"The ingenuity of Senator Lodge
is no longer available against us,
but he devised and left behind him
for others to use mechanism for
developing speculative doubts which
will long continue to paralyze ac-
ton by the senate"
Baker sounded a note of warning
concerning the far eastern situation
with the belief that the crisis is not
yet settled.
81 expect" Baker said, ito find
Japan presenting far reaching
plans with regard to China which
will impose severe tests upon the
craftsmanship of the world. But
for the worlds peace machinery,
Japan would have proceeded to
execute her will and the whole, face
of civilization in the Far Eas5
would be in the process of re-
making. with the consequences TO
the rest of the world difficult to
exaggerate.'
Baker believes the league was
handicapped in its efforts in the
Far East by the non-membership
of the United States. His state
ment was in response to a ques-
tionnaire from the League of Ma
tions Association, Inc.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-19
HEAVY CLAIMS
MADE AGAINST
TALBOT ESTATE

SAN FRANCISCO, May 10. W.D
Claims totaling $4,000, 900 against
the bankrupt estate of James A.
Talbot, Richfield Oil Company ex-
ecutive who was sentenced to
prison on a grand theft charge at
Los Angeles Wednesday, were in
vestigated here today.
Arron Cohen, attorney for the
trustee Of Talbot's estate, said sew
eral of the claims would be con-
tested.
The largest claim was that OF
the Richfield Oil Company, which
sought $9,500000 on charges Tai
bot was negligent as chairman OF
the Richfield board in ordering
dividends when the company was
financially unable to pay them. 1t
will be contested, Cohen said.
The federal governments claim
for 100000 alleged due in income
taxes also will be resisted, he said.
Talbot. Clarence M. Fuller, for
mer president of the Richfield
company, and Raymond w. Mckee,
former president, were SEN
fenced to from two to 20 years in
San Quentin following their trial
on grand theft charges.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-19
CONGRESS HEARS
WOMAN PLEAFOR
BIRTH CONTROL

WASHINGTON, May 10. gU.Pg-
Limitation of population is needed
at this time when poverty and un-
employment are rampant over the
country" Mrs. Margaret Sanger
asserted today in urging the house
ways and means committee to ap-
prove dissemination of birth con-
troll information.
Mrs. Sanger commended a bill
by Representative Hancock Dem)
North Carolina, which would re-
move long g-standing federal re-
strictions against transmission of
birth control information through
the mails. The bill would enable
licensed medical circles tc dis
seminate such information legally.
Today's hearing was the first
that a house committee had given
to birth control advocates since
1873. Mrs. Sanger, leader of the
movement, was supported by testi-
mony of doctors, social welfare ex-
perts and clergymen.
Passage of the measures would
directly benefit the large army of
women whose husbands are un-
employed and who have to apply
to hospitals and other public in
stitutions for their medical care"
Mrs. Sanger said. There they
should receive instruction which
will enable them to protect them
selves until their economic condl-
ton is more secure"
She reviewed the arguments for
birth control as a health protection
measure and also recommended it
as a means of marital adjust
ment."
Through it," Mrs. Sanger said,
"our young people could marry
early and adjust and establish
themselves in marriage before
assuming the responsibilities OF
parenthood. A proper adjustment
of two or three years after mar
riage, preceding parenthood, would
decrease the divorce rate and make
for a more wholesome companion
ship, sanctify marriage, assure more
permanent relationships and make
for happier homes"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-19
DEATH LIST IN
ship BURNING
FIXED AT 78

PARIS, May 10. U.P)-Seventy-
eight passengers and crew of the
liner Georges Philippar were miss
ing today, Messageries Maritimes,
owners of the ship, announced after
checking lists of survivors at Alden
and Djibuti and communicating
with ships which were at the scene
of the disaster.
Albert LondreS, famous French
journalist who was returning to
France from Shanghai, was among
the missing.
The ships owners said two life.
boats were missing which might
contain the 78 passengers un-
accounted for.
The Georges Philippar carried sos
passengers of four classes, "a Off
GERS, and 238 crew, total of 767.
The total number of survivors land
ed at Alden and Djibuti was 689.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-19
Earhart
To Fly Atlantic

HASROUCK HEIGHTS, N. J.,
May 49, U.P)-Amelia Earhart. CO.
pilot on one transatlantic flight.
will attempt a solo flight across the
north Atlantic this week END, it was
learned here today
She left this afternoon In her
Lockheed-Vega monoplane accom-
panied by Bernt Balchen for Har-
Dor Grace, N. F.. II was announced
she would leave for Harbor Grace
on the ns-Atiantic attempt either
Friday or Saturday evening.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-19
COALITION GROUP
PLANS FIGHT FOR
TARIFF MEASURE
BY LYLE c. WILSON

WASHINGTON, May 10. - "A
tariff coalition of Democrats and
Republicans massed strength to-
day to force inclusion of tariff
rates in the tax bill and threatened
to filibuster the congress into a
summer session if thwarted.
Senate leaders who have con-
sistently defeated efforts to change
finance committee income tax rates
seemed powerless in the tariff
fight. Chairman Smoot of the fl
nance committee, who stood with
Senator Harrison Dem0 Missis-
sippi, senior majority committee
member, in opposing back bench
efforts to raise income taxes, was
opposed to Harrison today.
Smoot is pledged to copper
tariff To get in, he must support
other tariffs in the bill. Harrison
and an Influential group of Demo-
cratic senators cenounce such
processes as unqualified log-rolling.
But indications were such methods
would prevail.
The oil tariff vote comes first.
And if petroleum protection is
given, then lumber, copper and
coal tariffs will be voted.
Last nights session failed to OBJ
tain agreement to vote at speci-
fled time.
Confidence of tariff advocates
was growing hourly. But close
vote was expected. 1t will deter
mine largely whether congress will
adjourn before the convention or
return here in July.
The tariff fight hit the senate
yesterday after the futile effort of
anti-prohibitionists to legalize a
per cent or 2.75 per cent beer.
Senator Metcalf (Rep) Rhode
Island, complained that congress
was in mortal terror of the Anti
Saloon league"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-19
APPROVE
GARNER'S
PROGRAM
Speaker Presents Three
Fold Plan To Aid Relief
And Unemployment.
BIG SUM INVOLVED
House Leaders Comment
In Favorable Terms
And Indicate Support.

WASHINGTON, May 10. U.P)-
Speaker Garner today made public
a three-fold program for reliev-
ing distress and unemployment.
His plan includes enactment of the
so-called Huddleston bill placing
$100, 100000 at the disposal of the
President for relief of suffering;
an increase of 81 ,000,000,000 in the
capitalization of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation; and a billion
dollar bond issue to finance a huge
government building program.
Word of the Garner relief pro-
gram caused excitement in the
house. The membership applauded
as Representative LaGuardia CRepD
New York, read the plan and pre-
dicted strong support.
II for one want to congratulate
Speaker Garner on his statement
LaGuardia said II predict that
the membership will support the
plan of the speaker wholeheart-
edly."
Republican Floor Leader Smell
told the United Press the Garner
plan was quite complete pro-
gram"
The Democratic leader declared
that while he was "unalterably op-
posed" to the dole it was "appar-
ent" that before congress adjourns
real effort must be made toward
solution of the unemployment
problem.
Garner'S announcement follows
the general lines of relief plans
suggested in the senate.
WASHINGTON, May 10. W.P)-
Armed with 500 tariff amendments
and threat to turn the tax bill
into a real tariff fight" Senator
Millard Tydings (Dem.) Maryland,
returned to his fight on import tax
provisions of the billion dollar rev.
enue bill today, in what appeared
to be a filibuster.
He is opposing the oil tariff
which was written into the revenue
measure by the house.
His threat brought protests from
Senators Moses, N. H, and Fess,
Ohio, on the Republican side ana
from Ashurst (Dem) Arizona.
IF there is going to be a tariff
fight the people of my state are
going to have their say as we'll as
the people of the other states"
Tydings said.
Tydings explained he had re-
Trained from offering an amend
ment before the finance commit
tee to tax wood pulp although one
of his constituents had pleaded he
would go bankrupt unless given
some relief from foreign competi-
ton, because 81 wanted to hasten
balancing of the budget"
He said the treasury would only
gain s165,0o0,o0O from the taxes
proposed in the oil tariff while it
would cost the gasoline consumer
S412, 100000 in increased prices and
fuel oil consumers S73,212,000.
The difference, he contended,
would go into the pockets of the
big oil companies who now have an
eight-month supply of crude oil
and would not benefit the inde-
pendent producers.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-19
Grand Jury To
Probe Attack

LOS ANGELES, May 10. UP
Patricia Park, %, who assertedly
was attacked and beaten last week
by white man and four Negroes,
today appeared before the grand
jury to tell her story of the affair,
described by the district attorneys
office as the most atrocious case
of its kind here in 20 years.
Frederick ]. Brynes, white, and
Jack Clay, Negro, are held as sus-
poets in the case.
Brynes, according to officers,
confessed a part in the assaults on.
the girl. He was said to have
lured the girl away from a BLACK
and tam nightclub and after at
tacking her took her to a place
where she was attacked by the
Negroes.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-19
DECE|vER
HELD AS
PRISONER
Curtis Jailed Following
Arrangement On Mis-
demean0r Charge.
CHECK STATEMENTS
Police Hoping To Unravel
Puzzling Threads In
Lindbergh Case.
BY DELOS SMITH
UNITED Press Staff CORRESPONDENT


HOPEWELL, N. j., May 19.U.p)-
The confessed Lindbergh faker, ar
raigned in the home of the grieving
parents he victimized, was prisoner
No. 13 in Pennington Jail today as
police tried to clear up puzzling
charges concerning his relations
with other "negotiators," and a re-
quest for $25,000 deposit.
John II. Curtis, the hoaxing boat
builder from Norfolk, wanted to
drop all Lindbergh negotiations
March Is, he charged last night just
before arraignment, but carried on
because 1 had been urged by Dean
H. Dobson- Peacock who was enjoy
ing the publicity"
And Col. H. Norman Schwarts-
kopf of the state police announced,
soon after the dean refused to come
to New Jersey for questioning, that
the minister had asked Colonel
Lindbergh to deposit $4,000 in a
Norfolk bank as earnest money"
Dean DobSon-Peacock has denied
that he asked for such a deposit;
in the cruelest deception in Ameri-
can crime. The dean cited the fact
that their negotiations" did not get
under way until March %.
other puzzling discrepancies.
charges, contradictory statements,
and theories also are to be investi-
gated, including the theory of Nor
folk police that Curtis has not told
all" Meanwhile there has been no
major development in the hunt for
the real kidnapers and murderers of
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., with
whom DR.. John F. Condor (Jafsie>
is believed to have dealt.
Among the puzzling statements,
unanswered questions and odd the
ories checked were these:
Colonel Schwartzkopf announced
that detectives sent to Norfolk,
could not verify the original story
of the negotiations told by Curtis.
Dean Dobson-P Peacock told police
of his reported mysterious trip to
New York where he said he was In
tervieW by gangsterS in hotel who
suggested a down payment of $500
and $4,000 C. o. d. He would do
the same thing again under the
same circumstances" he told the
detectives.
Curtis was in New York at the
time, and phone calls from
"gangsters' were traced to him.
Schwartzkopf told of the reported
trip to Hopewell April % during
which Dobson-Peacock suggested
the $25 900 earnest money be de-
posted in a Norfolk bank in his
name. The dean did not recall
such a suggestion, Norfolk re-
ported.
Police were checking movements
of Curtis the night the baby was
kidnapped, and the night OF April
when Jafsie CDR, John F. Condon)
paid $4,000 ransom money to al
legged kidnapers. Mrs. Curtis said
her husband was at home the night
of March /. He was supposed to
have been in a navy seaplane with
Lieut.. George l.. Richard, April 2.
A green car named by Curtis as
important" in the kidnapping mys-
terry was found to be his own. Mud
on it was checked to determine II
it were from near Hopewell. This
check was considered unimportant
after it was learned that both the
dean and Adm. Guy II, Burrage,
another Curtis associate, had jour-
neyed to Hopewell in the afternoon.
Peacock at Norfolk discussed these
questions:
If Curtis faxed his story to sell
Continued On Page g.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-19
Berkeley Chosen
By Boys In Blue

SAN DIEGO, May 19. U,Rl -
Members of the California and Ne
yada department of the Grand
Army of the Republic today voted
to hold their 1888 convention in
Berkeley, Calf. The convention
will be held the latter part of May.
The women's auxiliary of the
Sons of Union Veterans, convening
here with the GAR, elected Ma
hala Buckley, Pasadena, their presi-
dent today. Other new officers for
the group include Elya j. Corning
ton, Ontario, department council
three, and lola Hunt, Riverside,
treasurer.