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Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
Smith ENDORSED
FOR NOMINATION
BY N. Y. WORLD
Scripps Howard Syndi-
cate Turns From Sup
port For Hoover.

NEW YORK, June 10. U.H-The
New York World-Telegram, in a
front page editorial, endorsed Alfred
E. Smith for President today.
"In our solemn Judgment said
the editorial, which was repro
duced simultaneously In the "a
other Scripps- Howard newspaper,
"the election of either Hoover or
Roosevelt on November next would
be a blow from which this nation
would not recover in a generation" :"
In 1923 the Scripps-Howard news
papers supported Herbert Hoover.
Today they called for his defeat by
declaring:
I'VE have had about as much as
we can stand of government by
doubt. The times call for courage
and action. We have those quail
ties in Smith. There are other men
in the Democratic party who pos
sess them. Judged by performance
Roosevelt does not.
Lie OGl1lOtl dGlC dC1CSdVCo III
convention assembled will have 1t
within their power to name the
kind of man the country needs.
That man, as things now stand, is
Alfred E. Smith"
In its opening paragraphs the ed
itorial draws a parallel between
President Hoover and Governor
Roosevelt and says that between
the two it is a toss up" Smith is
described as a man endowed in
the very highest degree with those
qualities which both Hoover and
Roosevelt lack and which the coun-
try SO direly needs"
The editorial criticized the Pres
! ident and Roosevelt for yielding
when faced with political conse-
quences, declaring that Mr.. Hoover
signed the tariff bill when 'every
item Of his economic training and
/ his international experience cried
out against it. Governor Roosevelt
is accused of "temporizing before
Tammany when every instinct In
Franklin Roosevelt's makeup re-
volts against the New York City
revelations"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
DISTRICT
ANSWERS
CHARGES
Declares Water Tolls
Essential For Opera
ton.
LEGALITY DEFENDED
Denial Made That AS
sessments Raise Suffi-
cient Revenue.

If it we're possible for the I'm
perial Irrigation District to operate
this year without water tolls, on
the income at present derived from
assessments, the board of directors
would be forced next year to make
a great increase in the assessment
rate to meet the resulting deficit.
This was the official statement
carried today in an answer by the
district and its board of directors
to the complaint of Roy Westmor-
land, T. D. Mccall and others in
suit to test the legality of the 90
cent water toll levied by resolu-
ton adopted April l.
The legal document declares the
April resolution is in no way an
amendment to resolution of Sep
tember IS setting the annual as
sessrnent rate, but that each is
separate and distinct action by the
irrigation district board of direc-
tors. It was charged in the COM
plaint that the toll resolution
should have been adopted at the
same time the assessment rate was
set.
Repeating an assertion made In
recent affidavit by M. j. Dowd,
chief engineer, the answer declared
the toll is absolutely necessary TO
the continued operation of the dis
trict. II was further denied that
the assessment rate was set at an
amount declared by the board OF di-
rectors to be sufficient to raise all
money needed to operate the 1r-
rigation district.
Explain Assessment
The assessment levied September
Is was deemed sufficient to pay
fixed charges during the ensuing
year and to raise an amount which,
together with other revenue, would
be sufficient to pay in full all sums
which might become due, accord
ing to the answer.
An important matter taken up
in the answer was the denial that
the district, during more tnan 1our
years past, has raise all necessary
funds by assessments. Instead, ac-
cording to the answer, each year
substantial sums have been raised
by tolls and charges for the use
and delivery of water.
Other denials are that the bitches
and canals of the district have
carried sufficient water to meet all
needs during the past 10 years, that
the water toll is discriminatory and
that water has been refused the
plaintiffs in this suit. Water will
be furnished to them under the
same conditions as to any other
water user, the answer declared.
Plaintiffs in this suit are Roy
Westmorland, T. D. Mccall, Charles
Malan, Harry Stewart, j. L. Tack
er, John Andrews, Joe Noble, D. D.
Brownell, C. o. Hoober, H. A. Has
tain, R. w wilkinson, r. Will
kinson and w. C. Wilkinson.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
LINDBERCH CLUE
SOUGHT IN DEATH
OF MORROW MAID

ENGLEWOOD, N. j., June 10.
W.P)-Violet Sharp, maid in the
Dwight w. Morrow home, who was
under suspicion" in the kidnapping
and murder of Charles A. Lind
berg, Jr., committed suicide today
by drinking cyanide of potassium, a
quick and deadly poison.
Whether her death was due to
over strained nerves or to guilty
knowledge of the crime that
startled the world, authorities were
not certain.
Her act, coming a day after the
surrender in Detroit of Harry
Fleisher, wanted for questioning in
the case, brought the murder in
vestigation into full swing again.
State police sWarmed to the Nor
row estate, hoping that real clue
had at last been found to the baf-
fling mystery. Colonel H. Norman
Schwartzkopf, head of the state po-
lice, announced the girl had been
questioned about her movements on
the night of the kidnapping and was
to have been questioned again.
In her first examination she told
police she had been away from the
Morrow home from to 11:30 p. M,
the night of the kidnapping. She
said she had been riding with two
men and a woman whose identity
she did not know. Police said to-
day they had suspicious as to their
identity, declaring that of all the
servants questioned her story was
the only one which was not consid-
cred satisfactory.
Major Charles Schoeffel, who
went to Europe to investigate Ger
tain phases of the Lindbergh case,
said, however, that state police have
definite information about the iden-
tity of the persons with whom Miss
Sharp went automobile riding.
County authorities said that, so
far as they know, Miss Sharp left
no note.
She apparently swallowed the
poison in her room at the Morrow
home and then staggered to an
other part of the house, where she
collapsed and died.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
American Women
Win At Tennis

WIMBLEDON, England, June 10.
UR)-The United States scored a
clean sweep of the opening day
singles matches of the Wightman
cup tennis competition with Great
Britain today when Mrs. Helen
Wills Moody, champion of them all,
defeated Mrs. Eileen Bennett Whit
tingstall, go, Ga.
Prior to Mrs. Moody'S victory,
Miss Helen Jacobs, a sister Cali
fornian, had defeated Miss Doro-
thy Round, Cd, 6-3.
America hopes for a clean sweep
of the days events when Miss
Jacobs paired with a sister Cali
fornian, Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper,
in the doubles plays Miss Round
and Mrs. L. R. c. Mitchell.
Today's matches marked the
tenth renewal of the Wightman
cup series. The United States has
won five times to Great Britain's
four,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
COURT GRANTS
CONTINUANCE in
ESPIN0SA CASE

Threatening a habeas corpus pro-
ceeding unless a transcript of a
preliminary hearing which ended
Wednesday is delivered to him i'm
mediately, Fred Thompson, attor-
ney for Jose ESpinosa, this morn
ing secured a continuance until
next week Of the arraignment of
Espinosa on a charge of numbering
Jose Sayavera last Sunday night on
a ranch west of Brawley.
Judge A. C. Finney granted the
continuance, which was not opposed
by the district attorneys office.
The transcript, it was explained,
is in process of preparation.
Espinosa's case came up for hear
ing on the weekly law and motion
calendar.
Other cases brought five defend
ants before Judge Finney.
A hearing on the application of
Grady Butler for probation, after a
plea of guilty to contributing to the
delinquency of a minor, was con-
tinued until July 18 for further in
vestigation.
w. E. Abraham was appointed
attorney for Wilburn Rogers and
Earl Nelson, charged with forgery,
and their arraignment was con-
tinued until next Friday.
Arraignment of A. A. Campbell
on a charge Of failure to provide
for a minor child was continued
four weeks to determine if the de-
fendant will make arrangements
for the support of the child.
Edward B. Patterson was appoint
ed attorney for Chris Bucher,
charged with forgery, and the ar
raignment continued until next
week.
P. D. Pearce was granted proba-
ton after a plea of guilty to a
charge of non-support of a minor
child. He was placed on probation
for two years, given a suspended
sentence of six months in the coun-
ty jail, and directed to pay $25 a
month for the support of the child
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
BANK OPPOSES
ORDER OF new
CHILEAN REGIME
Refuses To Surrender
Funds AS Commanded
By Socialists.
BY JOHN VIDAL
United Press Staff Correspondent

SANTIAGO, Chile, June 10. -
Chiles new Socialist government
clashed directly today for the first
time with foreign business inter-
ests when the National City Bank
of York announced it would not
obey the governments decree under
which the state took over all for
eign currency deposits in Chile.
United States Ambassador Will
liam S. Culbertson made immed-
late representations to the govern
ment.
Meanwhile it was revealed that
Pedro Tore, president of the Bank
of Chile, and the directors of the
bank, had been arrested on gov
ernment orders for an alleged
transfer of foreign currencies
amounting to 1OO,0O0,oO0 pesos to
the National City bank. The di-
rectors were released but Tore
was detained at his home.
The diplomatic corps met i'm
mediately after the decree was
published. Culbertson informed his
colleagues that he had made repre-
sentations to the government. 9th
er ambassadors were watching de-
velopments closely because of the
great foreign interests in Chile.
The decree provided that all de-
posits of foreign money should be
taken by the state. In return, the
depositors will receive a similar
amount in Chilean pesos at the
last official exchange rates of June
3. That is the day before the So
cialiSt revolution. The rate was
1850 to the dollar.
Foreign and Chilean banks we're
ordered to send foreign deposits to
the government treasury for credit
in pesos at the rate named. The
state bank, the central bank of is
sue which was taken over by the
state yesterday, will direct the
transfer. Sums will be deposited in
the National Savings Bank.
The decree said the purpose of
the new order was ito halt the ac-
tivities of persons who are convert
ing deposits into foreign funds and
thereby weakening the central bank
converted into the state bank) by
devalorizing Chilean currency"
The policies of the new govern
ment caused further interference
with foreign firms when a Stan
dard Oil tanker that had been am
chored off Valparaiso for two days
refused to land its cargo pending
an agreement with the cabinet or
the transfer of moneys.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
Files Suit For
False Arrest

Because he was "caSt into a
den among a heterogeneous colle9-
ton of frowzy- and evil
smelling persois,' and forced TO
stay there 10 hours before he could
furnish bail, James L. Taylor OF
Brawley today filed suit against
C. j. Park asking for $4,000 DAM
ages caused by his aSsertedly false
arrest.
Taylor was arrested at Brawley
May 6, on the complaint of PARK
that he was operating a plumbing
business without a state license
according to his complaint. 1t was
then he was thrown into the "den.
commonly known to officers as the
drunk tank"
After a jury trial, Taylor was
acquitted and freed Park filed a
complaint and secured his arrest
maliciously and without probable
cause, Taylor charged
News of his arrest was published
in several newspapers, the conf
plant said, and TAYLOR stated his
belief it was through the procure
ment of Parks that this news was
published.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
Departure OF
Akron Delayed

SUNNYVALE, Calf, June 10.
U.H - Departure of the naval
dirigible U. S. S. Akron, for Lake
hurst, N. j., was postponed until
daybreak tomorrow by Lieut.. Com
mander c. E. RoSendahl after re-
ports this morning indicated un-
favorable weather along the south
ern route she expected to follow.
The worlds largest dirigible had
been scheduled to leave the Sun
nyvale mooring mast at dawn to-
day on the return flight across the
continent after having partici-
pated with the Pacific fleet in wal
maneuvers along the coast.
The 24-hour delay will be utilized
to take on additional supplies OF
helium gas, Commander Rosendahl
said
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
G. 0. P. CHIEFS
DRAW UP POLICY
ON PROHIBITION
Will Renominate Hoover
And Curtis With Re-
submission Plan.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent


CHICAGO, June 10.-tepublican
party leaders moved forward today
with their preparations to renomi-
nate the Hoover Curtis ticket on
prohibition resubmission plat
form when the national conven-
tion meets next week.
Differences over details have pre-
vented complete agreement on a
prohibition plank text. That the
party will declare for resubmis-
sion, no Republican leader Of sound
Judgment here questions.
Meanwhile the usual epidemic
of lobby rumors has started. One
wit played a prank on some Of
his friends by going around whis-
pering to each one mysteriously:
Have you heard about the
movement to draft Coolidge for
vice-president?"
Within a few hours the story
spread through the lobbies of the
Congress hotel and supposedly
well-informed persons were seri-
ously speculating as to whether or
not Coolidge would accept.
Convention managers expect that
Vice-President Curtis will be re-
nominated.
Considerable trouble is being en-
countered in deciding upon a new
chairman of the national commit
tee to succeed Sen. Simeon D. Fess.
Postmaster General Walter F.
Brown will continue to be Hoover
chief unofficial political advisor
He will remain where he is and
will be more active than ever in
assisting President Hoover politici-
cally. The chairman of the ma
tional committee probably will be
business man. The party needs
money and wants go-getting fund
raiser more than anything else. It
also wants to give a sound busi-
ness" flavor to the campaign and
desires window dressing in the
party Craftsmanship which will con-
tribute to that end. There will be
plenty of professional political tai
ent behind the scenes to do the
real political work of the campaign
Party leaders register considerable
pessimism over the outlook for No
vember. There is an unpre-
cendented absence of noise, excite
ment and circus enthusiasm.
Prohibition continues to be thu
dominating topic in every group
Some of the convention leaders art
resentful of the attempts of tn
senatorial group in Washington Il
shape the prohibition plank Jane
R. Garfield of Cleveland, prospec
tive chairman of the platform com.
mittee, is remaining in Cleveland
for another day or two while diff.
ferences are being talked over here
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
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BOWERS WANTED
BY SUPPORTERS
OF ROOSEVELT
BY LYLE C. WILSON


United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June 10.-Con-
gressional supporters of the presi-
Dental candidacy Of Gov. Franklin
D. Roosevelt are pressing him to
select Claude G. Bowers. author
and orator, to present his name to
the Democratic national convention
in Chicago
They are urging upon Roosevelt
the necessity for obtaining a man
of outstanding ability to offset the
prestige of nominating orators
chosen by some of the governors
rivals They also believe Bowers
might help restore party harmony
threatened by the Roosevelt forces
determination to ditch Jouett
Shouse as permanent chairman of
the convention.
Alfred E. Smith has chosen Gov.
Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts to
offer his name. The nomination of
/ John N. Garner, speaker of the
house, will be moved by Senator
Connally Dem0 Texas, who COM
bines forceful language with a ready
wit. Richard F. Cleveland, son of
President Cleveland, will nominate
Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Mary
land.
Governor Roosevelt has not yer
made the decision. But his sup
! porters here are confident the
choice will be Bowers, whose Jack
son day dinner speech here in
1928 stampeded banquet and won
for him selection as convention
keynoter at Houston in June.
Bowers is better known to the
public as the author of Jefferson
and Hamilton" a political biogra-
phical sketch Of the struggles be-
tween men which led finally to
struggles between parties as we
now know them.
Those urging Bowers selection
believe he is the speaker best cal
culated to smooth the feelings
which may be ruffled when the
Roosevelt forces get through doing
what they joyfully are planning 10
do to Shouse, executive director ot
the Democratic committee.
Shouse's refusal to surrender to
the Roosevelt demand that he re-
linquish his nomination as perma-
nent chairman apparently has
served to re-double the determina-
ton of the Roosevelt hackers to
oust him.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
AIMEE'S HUSBAND
CENTER OF HOT
LEGAL WARFARE

LOS ANGELES, June 10. U.P)-
Charges and counter charges flew
today in a verbal war between
David Hutton, husband of Aimee
Semple Mcpherson Hutton, evang-
elist, and Miss Myrtle st. Pierre,
plaintiff in a 100000 breach of
promise suit.
Hutton's assertions that he was
the object of an attempted extor-
ton drew District Attorney Buron
Fits into the case, with promise
of an investigation and prosecu-
tions 'if the facts substantiate the
accusations made by him."
Fits ordered the investigation af-
ter lengthy questioning of witness
es by several of his investigators.
Miss st. Pierre, who claimed in
her suit that Hutton failed to keep
a promise to marry her, charged
on her part that she had been
threatened with death unless she
dropped her action, and said she
welcomed an official investigation.
Hutton remained with his wife in
retreat near Santa Barbara,
where the evangelist was recover
ing from an ailment described as an
intestinal infection contracted dur
ing a central American tour.
Mrs. Hutton also participated in
legal activities, her attorneys fill
ing affidavits of physicians assert
inc she was too ill to appear in
court today to defend an action
in which Harvey H. Gates, scenar-
ist. sued for $4,000 alleging breach
of contract. Gates claimed he had
been employed to write story of
the evangelist's life for motion
picture, and that the agreement
had been broken.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
Official Forced
To Aid Bandits

ROCK ISLAND, ILL.,, June 10.
Bandits abducted Treasurer
E. Clifford Hall of Rock Island
county from his home in Moline
today. brought him to The court
house, compelled him to open the
vault in the treasurer's office and
rifled it of $4,000.
The three bandits burst into the
Hall home at a. m. and terrorized
the family with guns. They bound
and gagged Mrs. Hall and Halls
brother and left one of their num-
ber to stand guard over them.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
Actor Injured In
Protecting Child

LOS ANGELES, June 10. W.H. =
Ben Bard, 38-year-old stage and
screen actor, husband of Ruth Rols
and, actress, had a broken hip to-
day as the result of an accident
while attempting to rescue a child
from an angry dog
Bard, according to police, ran
across an intersection in an attempt
to save a little girl from the ami
mails attack. He failed to see an
approaching automobile and was
hurled to the ground.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
Foil Attack On
Cuban President

HAVANA, June 10. Up)-Havana
police today frustrated a plot on
the part of three youths TO assassin
ate President Machado.
A bomb was to have been placed
in the street where the President
was walking. The plot was dis
covered only a few seconds before
he arrived at the place where he
was to have met death.
President Maehado, upon being
informed OF the attempt on his life,
topped and shook hands with the
three boys.
why should you attempt 10 kill
ne?" he asked.
All three Of the boys arrested are
socially prominent.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
COOLIDGE DENIES ANY CHANGE
IN HIS PROHIBITION STATUS

PLYMOUTH, VT, June 10.
U,P)-Calvin Coolidge let it be
known here today that his
ideas on the subject of prohi-
bition have not been changed
that he is still dry.
At the same time he let it
be known that the reported
move to draft him as President
Hoover'S running mate is
futile, since he would not con-
slider the vice-presidential NOM
inatiOn.
The United Press learned of
COolidge's unchanged attitude
on the prohibition question
through checking report by
Representative Celler of New
York that the former presi-
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10

dent, in forthcoming issue of
Cosmopolitan magazine, would
come out against prohibition.
The suggestion that efforts
might be made to draft Cool
idge as President HOOver's
running mate in place of Vice
President Curtis, came from
Chicago, where ii was reported
movement along those lines
was under way.
Coolidge, who did not choose
to run again for president in
1928, also does not choose to
run for the lesser office this
year, and his friends in his
native Plymouth are satisfied
that his retirement is perma-
nent.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
DOG NAMED AFTER BRUENINC

BERLIN. U.P) National So
cialist resident of a Berlin suburb
has named his dog "Bruening,' ac-
cording to the "Frankfurter zei-
tung" This is in order to avoid
possible charges of slander when
he shouts "Bruening, you dogl"
The paper cites this as evidence Of
a psychology, it says, which will
tend to make governmental collab-
grafton between moderate parties
and Hitlerites impossible.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
Too Much Gets
Victims Goat

Los ANGELES, June 10.
U.H - There's a limit to all
mortal man can bear opined
Arthur A. Clark, cigar clerk,
today.
A bandit held up Clark last
night and walked off with the
days receipts of $238.
While Clark sorrowfully
checked up on his losses, a
man entered the store and
drew gun.
"Stick 'em up, guy" he
ordered.
Clark emitted a howl of
rage, swatted the gunman on
the jaw and was earnestly
attempting to dismember him
when the bandit broke away
and fled.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
Composers Check
Prevents Trial

LOS ANGELES, June 10. W.P)
With q payment of $1,000 to the
city prosecutor, Rudolph Friml, in
ternationally known composer, prob
ably has forestalled trial on charges
of failing to provide for his daugh-
ter, Lucille.
The case was to have, come up
in court today, following location of
Friml, sought for more than a year,
on a motion picture set last week,
He posted $500 bond.
His check for $4,000 was given to
the girls grandmother, Mrs. Emily
Baruch, and officers said the case
would be dismissed. llaI!
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
ACTRESS IMPROVES

HOLLYWOOD, June 10. (UPJ-
Marilyn Miller, stage and motion
picture actress, was reported to be
convalescing today from a minor
operation performed a short time
ago. Miss Miller has left the hos
spital where she was operated on
for slight jaw infection to rest
in hotel before continuing her
work.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-10
Sinclair Angles
For Richfield

LOS ANGELES, June 10. U.P)-
Two proposals to acquire control of
the Richfield Oil company, $780,
100000 oil company now in receiv-
ership, were under consideration
today.
Harry F. Sinclair, chairman of
the Consolidated Oil company, con-
ferred with bondholders and cred
itors on a plan to acquire control,
and the Cities Service corporation
was reported to be negotiating.
Sinclair was reported to have
made a tentative offer based on an
appraisal now being made for him.