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Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-29
CURTIS SAID TO
Be NEGOTIATING
WITH KEDNAPERS.
Numerous Clues Declared
By Police To Be Entire
ly Worthless.

NORFOLK, Va, April 20. U.D -
Developments were expected today
in the negotiation of John Hughes
Curtis with a group of men repre-
senting themselves to be the kid
napers Of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.
Curtis and Lieut. George Z. Rich
ard, navy flyer, left Norfolk yes
terday afternoon by airplane for an
unknown destination.
Rear Admiral Guy H. Burrage,
U. S. NJ, retired, announced that
he had talked to Lindbergh at
Hopewell by telephone.
HOPEWELL, N. j., April 20. U.P)
Another possible clue to the kid
naping of Charles Augustus Lind
bergh, Jr., had been exhausted by
state police who admitted today
Il check of the ransom note hand
writing was futile.
Police also listed as valueless the
investigation of II babies, four
apartments, two boats, two automo-
biles and a hotel on information
from authorities all over the coun-
try.
RumorS of new intermediary,
Identified only as H. H. Entz, were
heard today. Entz was supposed
to be working with DR.. John Grier
Hibben, president of Princeton uni
verSity and close friend of the Lind
burgh family.
Another unexplained episode was
linked with the kidnapping case to-
day following an anonymous mes
sage broadcast to Harry Fleischer,
fugitive Detroit gangster. A letter
brought to station WOR by and un-
identified man was read at IL p. m.
last night. 1t said:
Dear Harry: Connect with me
through my attorney, Henry o.
Uterhart. Do 1t through a third
party. No danger of a tipoff.
am the party who was the main
mug in that Ohio joint where you
and Big Mike drifted. Remember
the 'souper' you and the Turk
gave?"
fSAoSAiSi Will iiio dlue, ADlc WaS-
ner has been sought for several
weeks for questioning concerning
the kidnapping.
LOS ANGELES, April 29.-U.P)-
Deputy sheriffs reported today they
had started search near Indio,
Calf, in the desert, for an auto
mobile containing 1our men and a
baby resembling the missing son of
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh.
E. H. Small of Los Angeles re-
ported to the sheriffs office that
the men covered the childs face
when he saw them in filling sta
ton.
The machine bore Texas license
732-0l5, it was said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-29
CONDEMNED MAN
STAGES RIOT TO
AVOID EXECUTION

EDDYVILLE, KY, April 29.-U.H
The final minutes before death
in the electric chair which engen-
der in most prisoners a religious
calm, brought only fury from WAL
ter Holmes, 31-year-old Chicago
Negro, who fought off his execu-
TONERS for an hour and half.
Holmes died in the electric chair
at state prison here at 2:12 A. M.
Tear gas fumes still lurked in his
cell as he was led forth, subdued,
smiling and smoking a cigarette
There had been a terrific struggle.
The Negro was to have died with
A. B. CPeg Leg Cooksey, Negro
who killed Police Chief John H.
Ashby, at Madisonville, and Charles
Rogers, %, Chicago, convicted with
Holmes of Staying Thomas Illery,
Hardin county farmer, during a
robbery and criminal attack foray
through three states.
Cooksey and Rogers died shortly
after midnight.
When guards went back for
Holmes he was running hot water
into a cup and sent them back
with a cry by hurling the burning
fluid at them. They closed in
again. The Negro wrenched a pipe
from the plumbing in his cell and
attacked them. The guards re-
treated for a consultation. The
Negroes curses rang out in the cor
ridors.
Tear gas was obtained. The
Negro relented when its stinging
fumes almost blinded him. The
prisoner some hours before had
stabbed Guard Claude Ramey with
a crude weapon made from a water
bucket handle. Ramey's wound was
not serious.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-29
WILL
! ROGERS
'S0ys:

HOLLYWOOD, April o.
The big writer's are hollering
now that congress soaked the
rich" by raising the rate after
it passed $1,O00,O00 to as per
cent. Why the holler? A man
making $4,000 pays almost
twice the rate of one making
$4,000. So why not the man
making 100000 pay twice the
rate of one with 100000, or
why not pay more on your
second million than on your
first?
You can't legitimately kick
on income tax, for it's one you
have made You have already
made it. But look at land
farms, homes, stores, vacant
lots. You pay year after year
on them whether you make it
or not. Every land and prop
erty owner in America would
be tickled to death to pay 80
per cent of his profits, if he
didn't have to pay anything,
if he didn't make 1t.
Ynurs
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-29
Mt& A1~~,
issa, hsNausht xynxlAasa. -
HAWAIIAN JURY
STILL UNABLE TO
RETURN VERDICT
BY DAN CAMPBELL
United Press Staff Correspondent

CihtCu iCOo
URTROOM, HONOLULU,
April 29.-The jury in the Joe
Kahahawai honor Staying trial still
deadlocked, resumed deliberations
today under the watchful eye of a
heavily armed police Gordon aug
mented by radio patrol cars spiked
with machine and riot guns.
The police lines were drawn
about the old judiciary building,
scene of the deliberations, as a
precautionary measure.
I'VE are taking every precau-
ton to prevent demonstrations
against the jury" Police Chief
Charles F. Weber told the United
Press. THUS far there have been
no untoward incidents, but the
elements in this case carry poten-
tialitieS."
The police Gordon was SO vigilant
that even neWspapermen, armed
with identifying credentials, had
difficulty reaching the court house.
Meantime, IN a nearby hotel, the
four accused of killing Kahahawai
in revenge for an asserted assault
on Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie-
Lieut.. Thomas H. Massie, her hus-
band; Mrs. Grace Hubbard Forte
scue, her mother, and E. j. Lord
and A. o. Jones, United States
sailors-arose, facing another day
Of taut nerves as they awaited the
jury's report.
The jury, composed of cross
section typical of the racial mix
lures of the South Seas, began it's
deliberations Wednesday night 1t
was reported today to stand 10 to
2 for acquittal, with no definite
prospects of an agreement.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-29
Voters To Decide
On Wright Act

SACRAMENTO, Calf, April %.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. measures
will occupy the top positions in the
list of constitutional amendments
on the ballot at the general elec-
ton in November, Secretary of
State Frank C. Jordan announced
today.
No. has been assigned to the
initiative proposition seeking repeal
of the Wright act, the states en-
forcement law, and the proposal for
local control Of liquor in event the
Volstead act is repealed will be No.
2, Jordan said. Petitions qualify
ing both measures were recently
filed with the secretary.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-29
Family Unharmed
By Bomb In Home

SACRAMENTO, April 29.-U.P)-
Fred Banducci and five members
of his family escaped injury when
bomb thrown on the front porch
of the Banducci home here shortly
after midnight exploded with ter
rifle force and partially wrecked
the building.
Members of the Banducci family
told officers they had left the front
part of the house only a short
while before the explosion occurred
They could advance no motive for
the attack.
Banducci is proprietor of a down.
town store dealing in malt produ-
ucts and bottling apparatus sup
plies.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-29
Grower Attacks
Conn's Regime

FRESNO, April 29.-(U.p)-The
end of Donald d. Conn as a Cali
fornia grape industry leader was
predicted by A. Setrakian, packer
shipper, grower and a California
raisin pool officer, at small meet
ing in the Lone Star district last
night.
Setrakian attacked the recent
public statements of the managing
director of the California Vine
ya1 dists association as lacking the
support Of the states grape grow
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-29
ROOSEVELT HAS
UNDLSPUTED LEAD
in PENNSYLVANIA
Smith Adherents Assert
States Delegation To
Be Evenly Divided.

PHILADELPHIA, April 90. up
Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New
York maintained his lead approx
mately 10000 votes over Alfred E.
Smith as scattered counties re-
ported votes today on the Demo-
cratic preferential choice for presi-
dent.
In the face of returns came con-
flicting claims for the Roosevelt
and Smith leaders. The former
insisted they would have So of
the rs Pennsylvania delegates at
the Democratic national conven-
ton, while State Chairman John
r. Collins, who backed Smith, said
the district delegates would be
almost evenly divided"
NEW HAVEN, Conn, April 25.
W.P}-UninStructed delegations left
in doubt the result Of last nights
lical caucuses for the selection of
delegates to the Democratic state
convention.
Alfred E. Smith captured the
largest number of pledged dele
gates, 800 as compared with 40 for
Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The
remaining $50 delegates were un-
instructed. Both sides claimed to
control them.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 90.
(U.PN - Roosevelt "Shock troops"
reaching California today found
Smith and Garner camps ready for
lively contest to win Democratic
convention delegates at the May 3
primaries.
The arrival of James Roosevelt,
son of Gov. Franklin D. Roose-
velt, to tour California on behalf
of his fathers candidacy, brought
challenge from william G.. Nc
Adoo of the Garner campaign.
In the last of a radio series, the
wartime secretary asserted the
Roosevelt star clearly is in
eclipse pointing to Ex-Governor
Smiths Massachusetts primaries
victory and the latter's showing In
pennsylvania.
JUNEAU, Alaska, April 90. UP
AlaSka's delegates to the two ma
tional political conventions in Chi
cago will be pledged to Herbert
Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt,
it was indicated today.
Results of the territorial primary
showed Roosevelt and President
Hoover winning easily in the larger
cities and towns.
HONOLULU, T. H., April 90.
W.P)-Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt
of New York will have the sup
port of Hawaii's six delegates to
the Democratic national conven-
ton. A territorial convention voted
to support the New Workers. can
didacy
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-29
INFANT DEATH RATE DROPS

SACRAMENTO. W.P>-California
is a veritable paradise for babies,
according to the state department
of public health. With fewer in
FAINT deaths in California last year,
the infant mortality rate dropped
from 68.6 to 56.5 per 1000 births,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-04-29
BAD WINE CAUSED sTABBIsG

BUCHAREST. W.R9-- Lieutenant
Petreanu entered a wine shop and
stabbed to death two walters whom
he claimed delivered 10 tiers Of
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Increasing Butter Sales

Surveys in rural communities In
butter-producing areas such as Kan
sas. Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin,
showed increased consumption of 20
to 80 per cent n localities where in
tensitied educational work by the
dairy council on butter has been done.
A checkup of some territories. such
as Tama, Iowa, in the spring of 1881,
where an increase of "a per cent in
butter consumption had been secured,
indicates that such results are per-
manent.
That these country results are wide
spread is indicated by a survey made
by the department of agriculture of
Iowa in the spring and fall of 1880
which indicated that in ten counties
where dairy council work was done.
selected at random throughout that
state. the sale of butter had increased
in like roportion.-Hoard's Dairy
man.
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Why Milk Flow Went Off

Drinking cups in the dairy barn
of Floyd Van Meter, Champaign
county, Ohio, are worth $3.50 month
each. Last winter one cup serving
two cows was out of repair 10 days.
The two cows fell off 2 pounds of
milk day each. Mr.. Van Meter was
getting cents pound for his milk.
The milk flow was decreased Il cents
a day or $3.50 a month
1.-The cups cost $3.50 apiece in
stalled said Mr. Van Meter. THAT
means that it takes them just 40 days
to pay for themselves. If you count 2
pounds a COW a day credit to the
cups. | think they are entitled to more
credit than that. I watered the two
cows from pail while the cup was
out of repair. If the cows had had
to go into the cold to drink | believe
the drop in milk flow would have been
twice as great."-Capper's Farmer.
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Three Hundred to One

NOWN in Oklahoma stands a monu
~ ment of native stone which COM
memorates one of the most remark
able stories of desperate valor in all
frontier history. 1t marks the spot
where Pat Hennessy bravely faced
odds of 800 TO l and true TO the
frontier code sold his life dearly"
Pat was an old-time Fort Sill freight
er and in the spring of 1876 was on
his way from Caldwell, Kan, TO the
fort with a wagon train. He was ac-
companied by three other men. When
"iumped' by a band of some 300
CHEYENNE warriors. his companions be-
came confused and tried to escape
north along the trail. Immediately
they were surrounded and cut down.
In the meantime Hennessy had
sought shelter among some rocks
a little natural fortress. from which
his rifle menaced the savages as they
approached Confident in their over
whelming numbers, the Cheyennes
swept forward TO within 20 yards of
PATS stronghold. Resting his rifle
on the rock in front of him and not
taking the trouble to aim, he cooked
If will. one hand and pulled the lever
and trigger with the other. A con-
tinuous hail of bullets poured into the
mass of savages. They broke and re-
treated.
But they came back again-this time
in front and at both sides. Again Pats
deadly fire in front caused them to
break and they swirled around TO the
side where they attempted to climb
I'D the everhanging rocks and get at
him from there. Failing in this they
tried another frontal attack and
surged up to within ten feet of the
white man. who fired his revolver point
blank into their faces until he had
emptied il. Picking up his rifle again,
he continued to fire. And then-the
gun jammed!
The rifle had become so hot and
dirty from constant firing that cart
ridge stuck fast and his desperate eff
forts TO extract it were useless. In an
other moment the Indians would have
been retreating. But when the firing
stopped. they believed his ammunition
was exhausted and press forward.
Hennessy met them with t'1bbed rifle
but the surging mass overps'wered him.
Infatuated by the toll he mad extract
ed. for 80 Cheyennes lay dead on the
ground. they scalped him, tied him
to the wheel of one Of his wagons.
emptied sacks OF oats around him and
set them on fire. For few minutes
there was writhing figure surround
ed by flames and then the spirit of Pat
Hennessy passed on to that Valhalla
reserved for warriors who know how
to die but not how to surrender.
&C. 1ssIswestern Newspaper Union.)
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DAIRY
lll1 FACTS Ipf5
OPTIMISTIC VIEW
ON DAIRY OUTLOOK
Feed Literally, Is Advice of
Colorado Expert.

"Dairymen can receive compara-
lively good income from dairy cows
this winter If they will feed the cows
liberal rations of hay and grain"
So states the November outlook re-
port on the dairy situation prepared
by the extension service of the Col
orado Agricultural college and the
Denver office of the division of crops
and live stock estimates of the de-
partment of agriculture.
''In some sections where alfalfa hay
is not available" the report continues,
''the grain ration should contain some
protein concentrate such as cotton
seed meal and bran Both are low
In price al present
"Butterfat prices will probably con.
tinue steady to stronger until the pas
ture season arrives next spring. The
present volume of dairy production is
expected to be maintained on account
of relatively low feed prices, increased
numbers of milk cows on farms. and
a tendency toward further expansion
In spite of a favorable cold storage
condition, butterfat prices are low be-
cause of a decreased consumer de
mand, it is added Although the num-
Der of dairy cows and heifers on farms
in Colorado has shown little increase
in recent years. the number through
out the country s the largest on rec
ord as the result of a gradual increase
since 1921. There were 22.975.W0
head on farms the first of this year.
compared with % 443.000 the year
before and 22.049.OO0, the average for
the past five years. This increase has
been due to favorable returns from
dairy products compared with returns
from other farm commodities
Heifers one to two years old that
are being kept for milk increased from
4.175.000. the average for the past
five years. to 4.679.O00 last year, and
4,6SS.000 this year.
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Forgotten
NJ r N Cd E S
BY
ELMO SCOTT WATSON
Forty Bushels of Wheat


nDEACE hath its victories. no less
renowned than war" And it also
has it's heroes, who do brave deeds far
from the sound of bugle or drum.
Come up TO the tiptop of Indian Hill In
HoldernesS, n H., and there in
grassy sunny nook look upon simple
granite monument which bears this in
scription "1771-Reuben Written
1S47-Son of a Revolutionary soldier,
pioneer of this town. Cold season or
1916 raised 40 bushels of wheat which
kept his family and his neighbors from
starvation"
Life was hard for the early settlers
in the foothills of the White noun
tains 1way back in 1910 when Reuben
Written moved his family from the
little village of Plymouth and began
pioneers life on a little farm near
Lake Asquam. In the summer time
they raised a little grain and few
vegetables but for the most part they
depended upon fish and game for their
food.
So when the summer of 1916 came
and it rained week after week they
did not worry even when their grain
and vegetables rotted in the ground.
The woods still were full of game and
the lake was still full of fish that
could be taken through the ice. Reu-
ben Written was more fortunate than
the rest. His corn and vegetables had
been a failure but he had raised 40
bushels of wheat and that was care
fully harvested.
There was no autumn that year.
Winter came in on an icy blast in Oc-
tober and for two weeks it showed
and rained and hailed. The whole
country side was deep in snow. Most
of the cattle persisted, as did much OF
the wild game. Asquam lake was
frozen over deep and the fish congre-
gated deeper in the warmer holes so
that fishing was futile. The specter
of starvation began to stalk through
the settlement.
Then came the word from Reuben
Written that so long as his little store
of wheat lasted all the others in the
settlement should share in it. II was
little more than enough TO carry his
own family safely through the winter
and whatever lay beyond. but he would
portion it out, a little each week to
other families.
The winter increased in severity. In
other parts of New Hampshire and
Vermont whole families were wiped
out others were 81 weakened by star
vation that they fell prey to disease !;
fathers and mothers went without
food 70 keep the spark of life in their
children. But in the Indian Hill set
Element Reuben Whitten's wheat with
what little fish and game could be Sc
cured kept the half-dozen families
alive till spring.
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galleries, the supreme effect is at.
tanned in the sarcophagus chamber.
There the pilasters and frieze are of
french black marble, as dark as mid
night, with walls of ST. Genevieve
golden vein marble. On the upper
portion of each jet-black plaster there
is bronze wreath.
The ceiling of the chamber is COW
cred with gold leaf, and the room, like
the rotunda, is lighted indirectly by
lights hidden by an ornamental cor
nice
There over the spot where Lincoln's
body lies beneath many feet of con-
crete has been placed a new sarcoph-
agus of solid marble of warm red hue.
en- it is the simple inscription:
abraham Lincoln,
1S09-1S65."
Directly above what formerly was
the north door, but now transformed
into window covered with a wrought
iron grill. there is cut in the marble
this famous tribute to the emancipa-
tor:
Now He Belongs to the Ages
Across from the sarcophagus in a
crypt sealed with slabs of marble rest
the bodies of Mrs. Lincoln and three Of
their sons, Edward Baker, William
Wallace and Thomas
Flags Form Honor Guard.
Arranged along the semicirculai
wall of the sarcophagus chamber,
thanking the sarcophagus, there is an
array of nine flags.
In the place of honor. at the right
of the sarcophagus, stands the Stars
and Stripes. The official standard of
the seven states in which the Lincoln
family lived from the time of their ar
rival in America until the end of the
emancipator's career-Massachuse
New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania,
Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois-occupy
the next seven positions.
President Hoover personally in
stalled the flag of the President of the
United States
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Simple Beauty
Marks Rebuilt
Tomb of Lincoln
Shrine at Springfield Now More
Worthy of the Great
President.

D RESIDENT HOOVER dedicated a
transformed Abraham Lincoln
tomb at Springfield, H., June II, last
year.
When the monument over the spot
where the body Of the Civil war Pres
fdent rests was given to the world
again pilgrims to the grave found that
1t is a place of simple grandeur befit-
ting national shrine
For months it was closed to the pub
lie while skilled artists piled their
arts to repair and rebuild it and gave
1t beauty, simplicity and dignity.
The reconstruction was made pos
sible by the passage of a $4,000 ap-
preparation by the general assembly
in 1929
Much the Same Outside.
Outwardly the monument appears
the same, except that it has an air of
newness, of freshness. In a terrace
created at the south or entrance side
of the monument there is bronze
head of Lincoln by Gutzon BorgIum on
a pedestal of granite.
The great transformation is in the
interior of the monument. Under per-
senal supervision of C. Herrick Ham
mond, state architect and former pres
ident Of the American Institute of
Architects, the previously unused and
unfinished area at the base Of the
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Adversely Served Only
to Strengthen Lincoln

Against the hard blows Of adversely
Lincoln suffered as only sensitive souls
like his can suffer. His tragic love
affair, his struggle to overcome pow
erty and for educational opportunities,
his political reverses. his grief and anx-
ious concern during the Civil war Suf-
fering embitters and defeats the weak
man. 1t ennObles the strong man and
makes him stronger. 1t brings him to
a closer, more sympathetic understand
ing Of the needs of his fellowmen
Some one recently said that he never
knew a great character that had not
suffered. Perhaps this has not been
the experience Of all of us. But /
believe that we are quite agreed that
most great characters have suffered,
and that suffering had much to do with
their greatness.
Serious, Independent thinking was
another cause of Lincoln's greatness.
Somehow the myth has grown up
among US that Lincoln was an ON
nivorous reader. Is it likely that a
man who had to work so much of the
time for living should be much of n
reader? He doubtless snatched what
moments he could from his work and
read, as we like to think. by many a
dim fireside. but even this would not
equal the amount of time which the
average schoolboy is required to spend
in reading.
Some Of our clearest and most orig
inal thinkers have not been great
readers. Jesus, one of the clearest
and most profound thinkers of all
time, was probably not great reader.
Lincoln was a close observer of the
realities of nature and human life. and
thought much and deeply upon these
realities. Few men saw so clearly,
few have been able to think so clearly
Thus his speeches were so much his
own, so emphatically stamped with his
own independent thought and person
atty.
Lincoln's simple, apt, beautiful Ian
guage, his almost unerring insight into
human nature, and his strong, sympa-
thetic humanity partly escape explana-
ton. but partly they were developed
and perfected by adversely and seri
Gus. independent thinking. Bostos
Herald.