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PRECIPITATION

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Normal, this month to date .... 2.2l
Total. Jan. to date .......... 9.67
Normal, Jan. to date ........ TBS
Accumulated excess since Jan. 1.02
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Weather Report
FORECASTS

For Bismarck and vicinity: Fair
tonight and Sunday: little change in
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Weather outlook for the week be.
ginning Monday June 20 for the re-
gion OF the Great Lakes: Generally
fair except showers about middle OF
week: temperatures near normal.
For the upper Mississippi and lower
Missouri Valleys and the northern and
central Great Plains: Generally fair
except for a few scattered showers
during first half OF week and possibly
at end; temperatures near normal.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-18

Comparatively high pressure over
lies the Pacific Coast and the Rocky
Mountain region, and over this area
fair weather prevails. Areas of low
pressure cover British Columbia, up
per Alberta, Saskatchewan and Mani
toba. Heavy showers occurred over
the upper Red and upper Mississippi
valleys. Temperature changes were
small. except in the upper Red River
valley.
Missouri River stage, SO It. "a hour
change, -0.2 It.
Bismarck station barometer. inches
1920. Reduced to sea level, 29.97.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-18
GENERAL CONDITIONS

For Minnesota. Fair, cooler IN eaS
portion tonight; Sunday fair.
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FAIR
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
Spectators I'm
Grain Accused
OF False Yarns

WASHINGTON, March %. U.R)-
Chairman James c. Stone of the
federal farm board and President
c. E. Huff of the Farmers National
Grain corporation charged today
that "a malicious attempt to man
ipulate the market" had been
started by grain spectators.
The European trip of George S.
Minor, vice-president and general
manager OF the Farmers National
and head of the governments Grain
Sterilization corporation, has been
made the occasion for bear raids
through the circulation of false
rumorS, Stone and Huff asserted.
Stone denied for the second time
that Milnor had gone to Europe
for the purpose of dumping sta
bilization wheat
"TheSe rumorS are untrue and
they have the earmarks of being
a part of a malicious attempt to man
ipulate the market for the express
purpose of aiding those who are
specializing in grain" Stone said.
There will be no stabilization
wheat dumped anywhere"
Huff said Minors trip lis being
made the occasion for an attack
by bear operators on price levels
already too low, for personal gain
and TO discredit the farm board
and the cooperative groups"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
SEVERE STORM
SWEEPS OVER
MIDDLE WEST

CHICAGO, March 90 UP) = A
rampaging March blizzard roared
across the country today crippling
communications and hampering
travel with heavy blanket of wet
snow whipped into drifts by high
winds.
Thunder and lightning heralded
the approach of the storm as it
swept into central and eastern
cities taking toll of dead and in
jured in dozens of accidents.
The pilot and woman passenger
of mail plane were killed in a
crash on an island of the Ohio
river. Three other aviators were
killed in widely scattered crashes
not directly attributed to the storm.
A man was killed by lightning in
Indiana. Traffic deaths caused
when drivers and pedestrians were
blinded by the snow were frequent
The blizzard swirled out of the
southwest, struck Chicago and to-
day was centered over the Ohio
valley and Great Lakes. Roads
were impossible in Indiana and
Illinois where huge drifts were
piled up.
Urban transportation was hard
hit in larger centers. Hundreds of
men were given employment by
cities and transportation companies
to keep streets and tracks clear of
snow.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars
damage was reported due to the
wind and rain.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
ATTORNEYS SEEK
SHORT CUTS in
INSURANCE CASE

While they continue to guard their
own interests closely, attorneys for
state and defense in the Lewis Hart
insurance case are bending every eff
fort to shorten the lengthy trial
of nine Los Angeles business men
on charges of grand theft, criminal
conspiracy and conspiracy to vio-
late the corporate securities act
AS the trial continues along rou-
tine lines, the state today was con-
tinuing its policy of taking the
shortest method to introduce ali
necessary evidence, while the bat
terry of defense attorneys had set
tied down to an apparent under
standing which prevents a tangle of
legal complications.
A j. Mercier. former mayor of
CaleXico and former president of
the Associated Chambers of Com
merce, Inc, testified today they did
so with the understanding they
were to get stock in the Associated
Insurance company of California.
The testimony of both witnesses
followed the lines of those who
have held the stand during previous
days of the trial. First they told of
attending banquets at which Lewis
Hart spoke of the benefits to be
derived from purchase of insurance
stock, and then of the later visits
of statesmen
Stock certificates, receipts and
letters received by the witnesses
were received INTO evidence.
Defense attorneys managed TO
confus Mercler on -eXamina-
ton, when he asserted he did not
remember ever appearing before the
grand jury which indicted the de-
PENDANTS. He remembered only
making a statement to 5. L. Nc
Crory, deputy district attorney, he
said.
On direct examination Mercier
had testified Arthur Goldberg was
the salesman who sold stock 10 him.
Clarence b. Smith, one of the de-
fense attorneys, pointed out the
statement to McCrory was that
Mercier could not remember who
sold him the stock.
AT noon today the attorneys were
arguing over the admissabillty OF
certain documentary evidence, after
the jury had been excused by Judge
Arthur l.. Mundo.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
SNOW TRAGEDY
TRIAL OPENS
AT MONTEREY

SALINAS, Calf, March %.
U.Pl - Monterey countys grim old
court house was again filled to
overflowing today as Ed Estes,
59-year-old trapper and SNOW
madness slayer" went on trial for
the asserted murder of his partner,
Wesley Hickey, 40, at the lonely
cabin they used with Andrew
Baker far up in the Gabilan range,
late on the evening of January Is,
during the heavy SHOWS of last
winter.
Halls which once resounded to
the tread of Paul Brokaw, one
time society bootlegger, and his
crew who slew one deputy sheriff,
crippled for life the sheriff of this
county and wounded three others
in the now famous Battle of Moss
Landing" today knew the "clump,
slump, clurnp' of heavy boots worn
by both the mountaineers and their
wives who had been gathering here
since early yesterday TO be on hand
to hear the tale Of how and
whether Estes actually slew his
partner in the mountain cabin.
And a sordid tale it gave every
appearance Of being-a tale of four
men and one WCman-one of the
men the Woman's husband and the
other three all admittedly in love
with her. The woman is Mrs. Alex
Garcia, wife of another trapper,
born Gertrude Moran, a typical
wife of the high mountain ranges
1t was in quarrel over this
woman that the shots were fired
that took Hickey's life, according
to the story which Baker told the
officers after he had trudged
through the snow drifts, a score Of
miles or more, into the little town
of San Miguel, just across the
Monterey county line in San Luis
Obispo county on the evening OF
January Is, the Cay following the
shooting.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
JURY CONVLCTS
APACHE INDIAN
In DEATH CASE
Slayer OF Girl Univer-
sity Student Escapes
Death Penalty.

GLOBE, Ariz., March 90 U.R,-
Golney Mac Seymour, Indian
youth, was sentenced to spend the
rest of his life in a federal peni-
teniary, probably McNeils Island,
Wash, for the murder Of Henri
eta Schmerler, Columbia univer-
Sity coed
The sentence was imposed by
Federal Judge Albert S. Sames
after he had refused the motion
Of John P. Dougherty, Seymour's
counsel, for stay of sentence.
Seymour availed himself, through
an interpreter, of the opportunity
to make short, eloquent plea for
mercy that is not allowed under
the law.
Asked if he had anything to
say he replied, through an inter-
prefer:
Il have always been a good boy;
supported myself since l was a."
Sentence was then imposed.
AS Seymour walked from the
room he passed Elizabeth, his
small calm, 19-year-old wife who
had taken the stand in the defense
of the husband who admittedly
had betrayed her with a white
girl. He lifted his youngest child
from the basket in her arms, kissed
it twice and walked, weeping, from
the room.
Dougherty said he would appeal
if the tribe could finance it.
The jury found Seymour guilty
Of numbering Miss Schmerler after
he had assaulted her in a lonely
ravine on the White River reserva-
ton, 80 miles north of here.
The trial lasted seven days, dur
ing which time seymour sat and
heard a tribesman and his own
brother-in-law give government
evidence against him, then heard
his wife, the tribesman's sister,
testify in his defense.
He was near exhaustion when the
verdict was brought in, but
frightened as it was read, appar-
emily having developed a dread
that he would be hanged.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
DISTRICT BOARD
HAS DISCUSSION
ON COUNTY AID
Charges Of Rose Recall
Cause Bit Of Fireworks
AT Meeting.

Several rumors were dragged
into the open at Imperial Irriga-
ton district board meeting this
morning and many a subject re-
ceived a vigorous airing.
Among the first discussions was
that concerning the county loaning
money to the district or operating
district irrigation canals
Charles L. Childers, chief coun-
sci, when asked if he knew of any
law which would permit such ac-
ton on the part of the county,
said that he did not know of any
such law.
when I neard rumors to that
effect" said the attorney, Il did
some investigating and could find
nothing. While investigating the
subject. thought it would be we'll
to consult the district attorney and
therefore did SO. elmer Heald told
me he knew of no county funds
which would not be needed for
county purposes and at the time
knew of no law which would per-
nit any funds to be diverted to
district uses
Upon another occasion, 1 asked
him about the matter and he said
he would talk it over with his
deputy, Charles G.. Halliday, and if
the deputy knew of any such law
he would call me. Halliday has not
called me as yet"
The attorney went on to ex-
plain that he could discover no
basis upon which the county could
spend money on the district unless
it would be in flood control work
as a means of protecting county
highways. He also said there
might be a possibility that the
county could use its police power
to defend human lives and prop
erty in case of an emergency.
I'm case of an emergency such
as insufficient water for domestic
purposes or for the watering of
stock" said Childers, Il presume
the county could come TO the
assistance of the district. Since
no such emergency exists, I fail
to see how the county car divert
its own money to the uses of the
district"
What caused the most illuminat-
ing fireworks, however, was the
reading of an article clipped from
two valley newspapers.
Denies Recall Discussed
The secretary was instructed to
read an article which stated that
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Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
FLEET RETURNS
TO COAST FROM
WAR MANEUVERS

SAN PEDRO, Calf, March %,
W.P)-"The fleets in"
Fortytwo major units of the
United States battlefield dropped
anchor in the roadstead, includ-.
ing seven sleek, battleships, 145
speedy surface craft.
Back from Hawaiian waters, some
$4,000 men jammed the streets of
the city on their first shore leave
in three weeks.
In the early morning, the bat
tleship California, flagship of Ad-
miral Richard H. Leigh, command
ing the battle force. returned from
Hawaii, via the mid-Pacific war
game. She was followed by the
remainder of the battle ships.
The fleet will remain, along with
the 300 aircraft now concentrated
in the local area, until April 4,
when it will move out to sea for
tactical exercises and to fire annual
force practice. On April 10. 30 des-
troyers will come from the San
Diego base to join the fleet.
Two days later, rs ships of the
fleet will engage in the most con-
centrated maneuver of the eXer-
discs when the fleet will run
through all branches of practice,
aided by the air fleet. This man
euver will culminate in the fleet
sailing to San Francisco, returning
here on May IA. The next day the
Atlantic fleet will sail for the east
coast.
The battle force will remain at
San Pedro through the Olympic
games in the summer to permit Wis
itors to inspect the fighting force
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
WET BLOC In
SENATE STARTS
new OFFENSIVE
Petition Circulated To
Submit 18th Amend
ment To States.
BY LYLE c. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March %. UP)
Prohibition suddenly became a
live issue in the senate today as
vets started a surprise offensive,
campaigning on two fronts for
showdown wet and dry votes.
Senator Tydings Dem) Mary
land, one of the senate's handsome
bachelors, obtained in an hour ap-
proximately 20 signatures to a pc
tition for action on resolutions to
re-submit the 18th amendment to
the states. He will move that the
judiciary committee report them to
the floor.
All who signed were not anti
prohibitionists. Among them was
Senator Watson (Rep) Indiana,
majority leader Tydings is conf
dent of more signatures today. He
told the United Press he believed
re-submission resolution would have
80 to 35 senate votes.
Senator Blaine Rep0 Wisconsin,
captains the other anti-dry sortie.
He proposes motion to reduce the
justice department prohibition en-
forcement appropriation by SILL
100000. That would leave Col.
Amos w. w. Woodcock, dry direc-
tor, Just $369,OO0 Blaine says the
law is foolish and futile" and
money spent on enforcement is
wasted.
Senator Mcclellan Dem.) Ten
nesSee, who offered the 10 per cent
appropriations reduction program,
announced he would not apply it to
Woodcock'S millions.
Coincident with these develop
ments, Republican leaders tenta-
lively plan to adjourn June 10 by
scuttling most pending legislation
except tax and appropriation bills,
Well informed senate opinion re-
fleets the view that numerous SEN
ators on both sides are reluctant in
a presidential year to go on record
on some extremely controversial
questions.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
Cabinet
Having Troubles

TOXIC, March %. UP)-A new
crisis in the cabinet of Premier
Tsuyoshi Inukai, the second within
a week, developed today when it
was understood that the chief Sec
retary of the Seiyukai party, Kaku
Mori, is resigning in anger and that
other designations might follow,
Morris contemplated action was
caused by discomfort over the pre-
mier's failure to give DR.. Kisaburo
Suzuki, justice minister, the home
affairs portfolio when Tokugoro
Nakahashi resigned last week.
Both Doctor Suzuki and Ichiro
Hatoyyama. education minister,
may likewise resign, a situation
which would create a cabinet
crisis or at least compel reorgani-
zation.
The reports gave rise to discus
sion of a possible super party
government composed of right wing
elements and headed by Baron
Hiranuma.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
In
Paper Believed
Lindbergh Note
By BATES RANEY

HOPEWELL, N. j., March %.
W.P) - A classified personal ad
published in New York today hinted
that Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
has received evidence from kidnap-
ers of his baby but all other sources
indicated the % day search had
been futile.
Authorities declined to comment
on the ad, apparently one of a
series signed "Jafsie" which have
appeared in the New York Amer
ican and Bronx Home News.
The ad read:
Thanks. That little package
you sent was Immediately delivered
and accepted as real article. See
my position. Over so years in bus
mess and can l pay without seeing
goods? Common sense makes me
trust you. Please understand my
position. Jafsie."
This might be interpreted to
mean the kidnapers had sent some
article to Lindbergh but we're being
Informed he was unwilling to pay
the ransom until he saw the
goods" and was convinced he would
receive his own child back.
A cold sleet enveloped the desc
late Sourland mountain area to-
day, making the Lindbergh home
seem even more isolated than ever.
A raw wind hoWled outside, so Mrs.
Lindbergh spent most of her time
at the fireside
She was visited by her sisters,
the Miss Elizabeth and Constance
Morrow. Constance is at home will
her mother, Mrs. Dwight w. Nor
row at EngleWood, for the Easter
holidays. She is a student at Smith
College, Northampton, Mass.
All clues developed yesterday
were found valueless.
A quarrel between the various
police agencies working on the kid
naping was indicated when Elmer
Hand, chief detective of Hunterdon
county, announced the case would
be presented to the grand Jury
April II. Hand criticized the stu
pld barrier" placed about the Lind
bergh home by state police and
said the baby would not be returned
until it had been eliminated.
But Attorney General William A.
Stevens, VINO has charge of the
case, contradicted Hands statement
regarding the grand jury.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22

MANY injured, caught in falling
homes or buildings, or swept from
their feet and hurled into twisted
masses of wreckage as reported in
some communities, were reported
dying.
Storm Splits
Meanwhile, authorities charted
the course of the winds that
brought disaster to the state.
The storm was first reported at
Linden and Myrtlewood, two small
communities about 40 miles east
OF Meridian, Miss. They are
slightly south of the center of the
state.
AT this point the storm appar-
emily split, one part moving Is miles
directly north to Demopolis where
there was little damage, then on
40 miles to Northport where many
were killed and hurt.
The other section of the storm
headed northeast from Linden to
Myrtlewood, 10 miles on to Fauns-
dale, another Is miles to Marion,
and then it turned almost straight
east 25 miles to this town and
Thorsby. From here it moved
north to Columbiana, only 20 miles
from Birmingham.
The storm swept eastward into
Georgia where nine persons were
killed and approximately 40 in
Jured in communities near Carters-
vile. Before it reached the
Georgia town, however, the twister
claimed three lives at Paint Rock
and IA at Sylacauga, Ala.
More than $50 were injured in
the two towns.
One man was killed at Decatur,
Ga, suburb of Atlanta, when he
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
COR0NER'S JURY
FAILS To PLACE
Blame In CRASH

REDLANDS, Calf, March %.
W.P}-No blame was fixed for the
wreck of an American Airways
skyliner which killed seven persons
near here Saturday night in an
open verdict of coroner'S jury on
file today.
witnesses told the jury of how
the ship struck power line when
attempting to escape a sudden
fog which trapped it, and of how
it was wrecked in an apple orchard
and burned during an attempt to
land
American Always officials said
flying conditions we're good from
Phoenix. AriZ, to Burbank, CALI,
before the plane left Phoenix.
Officials of the air line attibuted
the cresh to a freakish, localized
fog in the Calimesa district, a
treacherous condition which could
not be foreseen.
According to Hugh l.. Smith, op-
erations manager for the company,
the fog formed SO rapidly that
Pilot H. j. Kelsey did not have time
to turn back. He gave as his opin-
ion that the plane crashed while
trying to find an emergency land
ing spot.
Joseph Lamay, first person to
reach the wreckage, told of seeing
the plane attempting to make a
safe landing after striking high
tension wires while flying under q
heavy blanket of fog.
It was Lamay who dragged
Arthur Thomas of Tucson, Ariz.,
fatally injured, from the wreckage.
The others died from the shock of
the impact, a physician testified.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
TORNADO'S DEATH
LIST INCREASING
Several Hundred Others Injured And Heavy Prop
erty Damage Caused By Storm Which Sweeps
Through Wide Area In Southern States

points in Kentucky, Tennessee,
eastern Mississippi and isolated
communities in Alabama.
Casualty reports were increasing
hourly. Sheriff w. H. Gillespie of
Chiffon county declared:
THE death toll in my county
will reach IS, with 500 injured
when final reports are in"
He based his estimates on the
fact that each new area penetrated
today by relief workers revealed
increased loss of life and property
damage.
Northport, just across the Black
Warrior river from Tuscaloosa home
of the state university, and this
community, go miles southeast of
Northport, were hardest hit.
Relief workers, neWspapermen,
public officials and others who
trekked through the splintered de-
briS that marked the path of death
dealing winds, reported that the
best estimates of the dead and in
jured, were as follows:
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
Eight Candidates
For City Council

Eight candidates for three posi-
tions on the city council will be
submitted to the will of the city
voters at the city election scheduled
for April IL, filing time having
closed at II O'Clock this noon.
Candidates include Fred j. Gia-
nola, Raymond E. Couch and w. j.
Clements dncumbents); D. L. zinn,
j. A. Hall, Charles Ike, Alvin N.
Bucklin and Charles f. Anderson,
for city council
For city treasurer, candidates are
Charles H. H. Small Gncumbent)
and D. l.. Goodrich.
John C. Neale, city clerk, is the
only candidate for that office.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
Store Burglar Is
Killed BY Fall

LOS ANGELES, March %. U.P)-
A suspected burglar who sought en-
trance to a market through a sky
light, plunged 20 feet to his death
last night when he leaped toward
the top of refrigerator, missed
his footing and fell to the floor.
Roy Mitemuro, japanese proprie-
tor of the market, today found the
burglar, tentatively identified as
John Claude Overman, 81. uncon-
scious behind a counter where he
had fallen.
The man, suffering a basal skull
fracture, was dead before reaching
the hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-03-22
@hNILL
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Wy 'sSQyS:

BEVERLY HILLS, March %.
(SpeciaD-Phar Lap sounds like
a mouth wash, but runs like
race horse. All American
horses saw of him yesterday was
his tail and his dust.
England, which holds man
date over Australia, now has
the auto, airplane, and Will
hams of Canada won the Olym-
pics.
Now this race horse makes
sucker out of us. But the
good old U. S. A. still holds one
international record.
Our international bankers
have loaned more of other peo-
pies money to foreign coun-
tries on less security than was
ever loaned before, even on Sc
curity.
Now. there is a record we
want to see beat, but no other
bankers are dumb enough to
beat it.
Yours,
M<& Ro71a<,
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