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Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
ARMY AVIAT0RS
ESCAPE DEATH
BY PARACHUTES

Ell. PASO, Tex, Feb 90 U.P)-
Two United States army flyers who
escaped death in a binding snow
storm by making their first para
chute jump, lay injured today in
William Beaumont General hos
pital here and recounted their ex-
periences.
The flyers, Lieut.. James A. Ron
in, 81, and Sgt. Everest F.. Waid,
38, from Rockwell Field, San Diego,
Cal, said they bailed out to pre-
vent crashing into Guadalupe Peak,
30 miles east of Ell PaSo.
Waid received broken leg when
his parachute carried him against
a hillside. Ronin was bruised and
shaken.
The flyers, in a bombing plane,
were enroute from Dallas to Ell Paso
on return trip to Rockwell Field.
Clouds came down to within
1900 feet of the ground" said Ron
in "Near Guadalupe Peake we
ran into a binding snowstorm. I
turned to 60 back to the emergency
field
>. "Then the clouds settled. to the
ground-the ground went out of
sight I was flying blind.
"I didn't want to kiss the peak.
We couldn't see over 80 feet. There
was nothing to do but bail out.
"Waid craWled out on the wing
and jumped.
81 set the ship level and crawled
out. ] dived head-first into the
storm. The wind caught me and /
started somersaulting. I waited a
long time to pull the cord and got
an awful jolt. I floated down
through the snow. heard the
ship falling-it's wires screaming.
/ saw its spiral close. 1t missed
me, but nearly hit Waid.
81 landed near a rancher who
was fixing a fence. 1 wasn't wor-
ried about the chute when
iumped-I just wanted to get out
of that plane
Ronin telephoned Ell Paso after
riding 10 miles on horse and after
sending the rancher to hunt for
Waid.
"Waid had crawled half mile
over the ground to the plane des-
pite a broken leg" Ronin said.
The plane, a twin motored Key
stone bomber, burned after crash
ing. --.---.. n. In LINER
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
Firemen's S Ball
On Friday Night

Friday night has been selected
as the date for the firemens an
nual ball which was postponed last
week on account of bad weather.
The event will take place at Veter-
ans Memorial hall with dancing to
begin at 8 o'clock.
Everything will take place as
planned for the first date, accord
ing to Fire Chief Tom Reams, even
to the music. The Pasadena Fire
departments 11-piece band today
announced that the organization
would be down Friday night pre-
pared to dipense some excellent
dance music.
Tickets purchased for the dance
last week will be honored Friday
night with no extra charge. Fire
men hope to be able to sell addi-
tional tickets this week and thus
increase the crowd.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
TWO LOSE LIVES
WHILE ENJOYING
PARTIES in SNOW

YOSEMITE, Feb. %. U.P) = Two
survivors of an Alpining party
safely descended the snow and ice
covered trial to Glacier point today
with reports that their companion
Henry Blank, 90, San Francisco
bond salesman, had fallen 5000 feet
to his death over a sheer wall OF
a cliff.
The other two, Henry Mannheim
San Francisco, and Edward Hicks
of Oakland, said they were tied
together by rope as they climbed
the steep trail. The line broke and
Blank fell before he could catch
himself.
Forest rangers, who had warned
Blank that the trail had not been
maintained this year for climbing,
recovered his body from the foot
of the cliff.
LONGMIRE, Wash, Feb %. UP)
"A showing party that ended in
tragedy was described today by four
companions of Richard Pierce, 28-
year-old University of Washington
instructor, who was swept to his
death beneath giant snowslide in
Rainier National park.
Pierce's body was recovered from
beneath five feet of snow where it
had lain almost "a hours. Rangers
expressed the belief that he lived
for a short time after being buried
but may have been unconscious
from blow against small tree.
His companions, Charles McDon-
aid and Earl Montgomery of Seat
tie, Palmer Koons of Spokane and
Leroy Lines of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, all university students, bare
ly escaped with their lives. The
five we're on skis trying to reach
Paradise Valley, disregarding warn
ings of rangers that the old sum-
mer trail was unused and danger
Gus.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
BY CHARLES NJ. MCCAIN
United Press Staff Correspondent

LAKEHURST, N. j., Feb. o.
The navy's new dirigible, Akron,
was seriously damaged in freak
ish accident today that will keep
her on the ground for weeks, per-
haps months.
A sudden increase In wind ve-
locity caught the mammoth craft
as she was being walked out of her
hangar, jerked her out of the con-
troll of her ground crew, and
slammed her after part violently
against the ground.
A congressional committee in
vestigating charges that the Akron
was unairWorthy and incapable of
fulfilling her specifications, was on
the field and saw the accident.
The Akron was being taken from
her hangar to take the congress-
men on an inspection flight.
Damage was largely confined to
the lower stabilizing fir and the
auxiliary control room it con-
tanned. Both we're smashed. A
large section of the under cover
ing was ripped. 1t was feared the
internal structure was strained and
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
ALFALFA BILL
MAKES DECISION
TOBE CANDIDATE
By DAN ROGERS
United Press Staff Correspondent }

NoHlteu ITcSS Sta1I COTTeSpOHueHtD
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 90. U.P)
-Gallused, militant William H.
alfalfa Bib Murray, governor of
Oklahoma, today was formally be-
fore the voters of the nation as the
"grass-root" candidate for the DEM
ocratic presidential nomination.
Announcing his candidacy in an
informal conference with news
papermen over steaming cups of
his favorite beverage, Paraguayan
tea, Murray asserted he had de-
cided "out of duty to the great
middle class and little men, for no
one else seems to care to champion
their cause"
Il shall make as active a cam
paign as my limited time, the ardu-
GUS duties of the office of governor
of Oklahoma will permit" he said,
as he lounged in his chair at the
head of the long dining room table
of the executive mansion.
Saturday the state Democratic
convention called upon him to make
the race, the first time in history
of the state that any Oklahoman
has campaigned actively for a
presidential nomination.
With customary promptitude, the
governor acted in compliance with
the expressed wish of the conven-
tion.
Calling neWSpapemen to the
mansion, he received them without
formality, dressed in a Wrinkled
suit, his soft black hat perched
on the back of his graying head.
AS they sat around the long table,
he passed out copies of his 400
word statement, and then led a
breezy discussion of his candidacy.
His name has been filed in the
North Dakota primary, in opposi-
tion to that of Gov Franklin D.
Roosevelt of New oYrk.
He also entered the Georgia pri-
mary, sending the necessary papers
by air Saturday. There, too, Roose-
welt is entered.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
PAIR ARRESTED
ON CHARGE OF
LIQUOR SELLING

Because a hammer held threat
eningly over a gallon bottle of wine
did not fall quite fast enough,
w. S. Morris, 40, and w. G. Gid
lings, %, today are facing trial IN
federal court on charges OF pos
session, transportation and sale Oh
Intoxicating liquor.
Cooperation between the sher-
ifs office and the federal prohi-
bition department was responsible
for the arrest in El Centro Satur-
day np,ht of Morris and Giddings
Ernest Clay and Lloyd Castanien
represented the sheriff'S office,
while E. D. Vaughn, prohibition
agent, represented the federal
force.
Shortly after their arrest, Morris
and Giddings were released on
$500 bond by Dorsey Whitelaw,
United States commissioner. Each
posted bond.
The two were arrested, according
to officers, while making deliy-
cry OF one gallon of wine TO
Charley Green, %, Negro, who also
was taken into custody.
The officers arrived just after
the delivery had been made
Morris and Giddings we're starting
to back out when Castanicn drove
the official car behind Morris
machine. Just as Clay leaped out
of the car, Morris held up a gallon
of wine and started to strike IL
with hammer.
Clay grabbed his arm and took
possession OF the wine. A search
of Green's house disclosed the Jug
Of wine left there, assertediy by
Morris and GiddinQs.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
NAVAL D|R|C|BLE DAMAGED
SERIOUSLY BY SEVERE WIND

would need a thorough going over
No estimate of damage was i'm
mediately available, but it was
believed high.
Lieut., C. E. Bolster and two en-
listed men were on the after
bridge. They we're thrown to the
ground. Their injuries were not
serious.
The Akrons officers and the
congressional committee, haded by
Rep. James V. McClintic, Okla
homa, had been at the hangar
since dawn waiting for better visi-
bility and a clearing of threatening
skies. Commander Rosendahl an
nounced that under no circum-
stances would he take the dirigible
out until it was perfectly safe.
At 10 O'Clock the skies had
cleared and an easy 14-mile wind
was blowing across the field.
Rosendahl ordered the Akron at
tached to the portable mooring
stub. The hangar doors were
thrown open and with her nose
attached to the stub and hef tail
held down by the ground crew of
100 the Akron was inched out
onto the field.
She was barely clear when the
wind increased in an instant to 81
miles an hour. The Akron strained
and tugged on the mooring ropes
Then the steel cable that held
them snapped, her tail swung
around in half circle, then
bounced against the ground.
After furious minute
fight, the Akron's crew got new
lines aboard and turned her
around, nose to the wind. In this
position she will remain until the
wind does down. Commander
Rosendahl feared that any effort
to return her to her hangar would
throw too great strain on her
weakened parts.
The congressional committee was
plainly disappointed at the neal
tragic end of their investigation
Today's flight was to have made
the final chapter of their report
The Akron was to have gone
through speed and altitude tests
for their benefit.
Representative McClintic was
non -commital. He said his COM
mittee might be forced to turn In
an incomplete report of its
findings.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
Will Operate On
Screen Director

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. %. {U.P)-A
second operation to remove a
tumor will be performed on Eric
Won Stroheim, motion picture
actor and director, sometime today.
Won Stroheim underwent an OPP
Grafton for the same trouble last
week.
Other ailing screen colony people
were reported improving today
Edna PurViance, former leading
lady for Charlie Chaplin, was said
to be much better" Saturday
night her physicians expressed
fear for her life but this morning
they believed she was well on the
way to recovery.
Maurice Costello, father OF
Dolores and Helene Costello, ana
himself once a leading film star,
was removed to his home because
he recuperated quickly from the
cerebral hemorrhage he suffered
last week.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
TRUCE IN
CONGRESS
IS. ENDED
Garner Charges Republic
ans With Stealing Cred
it For Hoover.
AGAINST DICTATOR'
Speaker Will Not Support
Presidents Program OF
Reorganization.

WASHINGTON, Fep. 22.-Speak-
er OF the House Garner formally
| declared an end today to the truce
with the Hoover administration He
accused the cabinet and other
spokesmen of using legislation
passed only through Democratic
cooperation to promote Mr.. Hoover's
reelection.
The purpose is plainly to i'm
prove the Presidents prospects of
reelection by planting the idea that
he singlehanded has accomplished
everything that is done by con-
gresS." Garner said in a statement
Signalling counter move of the
Democrats.
He called upon President Hoover
to cooperate with the Democrats, to
give them credit for their copoera-
tion, to yield to their views occas-
ionally instead of accusing them,
when they differed with him, of
playing politics." The speaker
voiced the under current of Dem
ocratlc resentment evident at the
CopiuOl lOl OtktIdl QdNS.
"If he did that, he would cooper
ate; what he seeks instead is to
dictate, and nobody can dictate to
Democratic group in congress. y
declared the outspoken Texan, him
self a candidate for the presidential
nomination.
1T is well enough to talk of a
political truce, but let me tell you
that the kind of truce we intend is
not that the administration shall
continue hostilities while we abstain
from them"
The administration, Garner said
is claiming the Glass-Steagall fed
eral reserve and currency bill as its
triumph, whereas it is based or
legislation frequently sought by
Democrats and "as frequently We.
toed by Republican majorities."
No Blanket Power
The robust and vigorous Texan
told the President flatly that the
house would not grant blanket
power to reorganize the govern
ment, which Mr.. Hoover asked in
message last week-authority "tc
appoint a lot of new officers, ano
make the government anything he
pleases."
"We, too," Garner said, "have
our ideas as to how effect i'm
provements and economies in the
national administration. If the
President is sincerely desirous OF
such improvement there is no rea-
son we should not get together"
Democrats will bring before the
house this week the Douglass res
olution authorizing the speaker tc
appoint an economy committee
of seven members who shall inveSti-
gate duplication and overlapping ir
government bureaus and depart
ments and report recommendation
to the house.
Going further, the house expend.
itures committee will report favor
ably in a few days, the Byrns bill
for creating single department Of
national defense by merging the
war and navy departments, anc
take up a bill for a separate
department of public works to han
die public buildings and rivers
and harbors projects. The admin
istration opposes both.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
CHINESE SHELL|NC
is HEAVIEST YET
Terrific Bombardment Launched Against Japanese
Positions Causes CONSERVATION Among Foreigners
in Shanghai international Settlement.

Copyright 1882 by United Press
SHANGHAI, Feb %. - Chinese
artillery began heavy lombard
ment of the japanese positions in
Hongkew, just outside the interna-
tional settlement tonight.
At 8:45 p. m. the Chinese we're
pumping the heaviest shells yet
fired into the area. The reverbera- =
tions were terrific and foreigners
in the settlement were more alarm
ed than at any time in the last
two weeks.
Dozens of foreigners telephoned
the United rTess offices, asking
whether the battle was inside the
settlement.
simultaneously with the artillery
attack, Chinese infantry attacked
the Japanese positions on the XII
angwan road, which runs alongside
Hongkew park and the rifle range
just to the north of the settlement.
The Japanese were using machine
guns and rifles to maintain their
positions.
While the Chinese were attack
ing in Hongkew, the Japanese con-
tinued their encircling drive on the
Kiangwan sector, driving the Chi
nese to the west and south.
At 1880 p. m. Chinese eight
inch gun mounted on a railway ar
mored car near the North station
opened fire on the japanese con-
sulate general, in the center of
the settlement on the river front,
around the corner from the Astor
House hotel.
The heavy gun caused the worst
reverebreations the settlement has
yet felt Shells passed over the
consulate, over Admiral Kichisaburo
Nomura's flagship, alongside the
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
Military Party
Wins In Japan

TOXIC, Feb. %. UP) - General
election returns today gave the
government of Premier Tsuyoshi
Inukai a substantial majority in
the lower house, indiating stern
support for the japanese military
campaign.
The government Sieuukai party
had 158 parliamentary seats, the
Minsito (chief opposition) 90, and
other parties nine. The total num-
ber of seats contested was 466.
In the last diet, the Minseito
party headed by Baron Reijiro Wa
katSuik held 251 seats, and the
Seiuukai Ill. Premier Inuka pre-
dicted that his party would win 230
or 235 seats.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
M<& R1~<
0tsas. hsNsush, syaaisssa. ~
STAGE DRIVER
CHARGED WITH
MANSLAUCHTER
Principal In Bus Colli-
sion Held In Jail Fol-
lowing Inquest.

PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. %. W.P)E
The condition of David Seeger, 70,
of Marshall, Mich, whose neck
was fractured Saturday when a
Transcontinental stage crashed
into an oil truck near Mohawk,
west of here, continued very crti-
cal today.
Dr. Louis Dysart Seeger's ply
sician, said the man had suffered
double fracture of the upper
vertebrae, an injury complicated
by shock due to his advanced age
r. H. Seeger, son, arrived to-
day from Los Angeles.
Seeger was among 18 passengers
of the stage who were injured in
the crash. Three persons were
killed.
George Blair of this city, driver
of the stage which crashed into o
gasoline truck early Saturday
morning, east of Wellton, when
three persons were killed and a
number badly injured, is held in
Jail at Yuma, Ariz., on a man.
slaughter charge.
This action was taken Saturday
afternoon, following an incomplete
inquest held at the Veterans serv-
ice station, scene of the wreck
The inquest was continued until
Tuesday as none of the stage pas
sengers was available as witnesses.
fo lyn
of $500. He is also held as a ma
terial witness for the coroner's
jury.
Cliff Banals, driver of the oil,
tank, was released under bond of
$1,000. He is wanted as a material
witness.
James F. Smithton, a hitch
hiker who was riding in the Dodge
car which caused the original diff
ficulty with the oil truck, is also
held in Jail at Yuma under $500
bond as material witness.
Smithton did not know the
name of the owner of the car in
which he was riding. The car is
registered from Texas. It side
sWiped the tanker in passing, dis
abling the rear wheel of the
tanker. The driver left Smithton
to watch the car and proceeded
into Yuma. He was being sought
there today by police.
Following the collision with the
Dodge car, Bannals had parked
his truck and was trying to make
repairs when the stage crashed
into it.
A third accident in which the
tank truck figured, occurred later
Saturday. A japanese, driving q
load of machinery around the
wreck, got too close and ripped the
tail-light and license plates from
the rear end. AS these figured i'm
portantly in the crash the Japa-
neSe was the subject of consider
able censure, but was not held.
Later, souvenir hunters picked
up the red glass from the broken
tail-light and disappeared with it,
Wreckage of the Independent
Stage company bus brought from
near Yuma Saturday afternoon
and parked on a lot in the 500
block on State street. attracted
more than hundred persons yes
terday.
The Independent line is not con-
nected with the Pacific Greyhound
Stage company, according to local
representatives of the company, the
Independent purchasing the old
Pickwick cars when the Greyhound
company placed new machines on
the routes.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
BY ID. G.. BESS
United Press Staff Corresponds

Copyright 1882 by United Press
SHANGHAI, Feb. %. U.P) --- A
vast theater of death and destruc-
tion spread before me today as I
watched japanese fighting men ad-
vance relentlessly in their conquest
of Shanghai.
Great waves of soldiers repulsed
by Steadfast Chinese defenders, kept
the attacking ranks from thinning
as the tide of battle slowly but
surely turned toward the forces un-
der Gen. Kenchiki Uyeda.
In front seat" on the Kiang-
wan front, vantage point selected
behind japanese lines, l watched
the wide flung battle for control of
Chinas great seaport Directly in
front of me lay the large Chinese
village of Tazang, today's objective
in the japanese attack.
To the left was Kiangwan village,
where Japanese and Chinese rifle
squads were engaged in bitter, hand
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
NATIONS
FOUNDER
PRAISED
President Leads Country
In Paying Tribute To
Washington's Memory.
SPEAKS AT CAPITOL
Government Leaders Hear
Defense Against Critics
OF Great Patriot.
BY HENRY F. MISSELWITZ
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Presi-
dent Hoover defended George
Washington today against those
who make him too human" and
called on the nation to draw in
siration from the great patriot as
"a founder of human liberty" and
1.-THE builder of a system of national
life"
Mr.. Hoover spoke in the rostrum
of the capitol to a joint session of
congress on the bicentennial ami
vcrsary of the birth of the nations
first chief executive. His speech
was a straightforward eulogy of
Washington, whom, he said sub
stantially, needed no canonizing yet
should not be painted with too
many human frailities.
Mr.. Hoover said he saw no reason
to canonize Washington, but had
little patience with those who un-
dertake the irrational humanizing"
of the man.
AS a mirror, his own writings
do him Indifferent justice Mr.
Hoover said, whilst the writing of
Others are clouded by their awe or
are obscured by their venom"
Showing impatlence as he flayed
the recent tendency toward IRA
tional humanizing," the President
said:
He had, indeed, the fine quail
ties of friendliness, or socialiabile-
ness, of humanneSs, of simple hos
pitality; but we have no need to
lower our vision from his unique
qualities of greatness, or to seek to
depreciate the unparalleled accom-
pliShmentS of the man who domi-
mated and gave birth to the being
of great nation"
The President waXed more elo-
quent in defending the sublimity of
Washington's character than at any
other point in his address.
Motives and men," he said, "were
measured by their stature when
standing in his shadow. Slander
fell harmless before him, sham
hung its head in shame, folly did
not risk to look him in the face,
corruption skunk from his presence,
coWardise dared not show its quak
ing knees"
Mr.. Hoover said that what we
have need of today in this celebra-
ton is to renew in our people the
inspiration that comes from George
washington as a founder of human
liberty, as the father of a system
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
CORRESPONDENT SAYS SHANGHAI
TIDE TURNS TOWARD JAPANESE

to-hand street fighting. There was
no time to reflect that below this
hotel roof men were dying by the
hundreds-it was too terrifying a
thought.
The slow rat-tat-tat of Chinese
machine guns called out the brisk
reply of japanese guns. The diff
ference in tempo was easily dis
cernable-first the sombre rattle of
deadly Chinese missiles, then the
sharp bark of Uyeda's hardy at
tacking weapons
I walked within half a block Of
Kiangwan village, which seemed en-
tirely deserted. But constant fir
ing from within the buildings re-
vealed the last defenders, who re-
manned isolated as on an island by
surrounding japanese troops.
To the west and north, smoke
curled upward far behind the fight
ing lines, revealing the havoc of
Japanese shell fire and possibly the
Continued On Page O.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
Robbers Plans
FOiled By Priest

LOS ANGELES, Feb. %. UP
Two men who boldly attempted to
hold up a Catholic priest in his
home, were captured in the act
by police today and assertedly con-
tessed other robberies, including
that of another priest.
The two men, John w. Norton,
81, and West Shuttleworth, 81,
assertedly admitted having forced
their way into the home OF
Father Peter T. Hanrahan, police
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
HYMN HUMMING GETS JOB

MILWAUKEE. U.P}-Edwyn f
Pfister Whitefish Bay policeman.
hummed hymns as he walked his
beat and did it SO we'll that he
obtained a position as baritone
soloist at a church. He resigned
his policeman's job to devote his
time to a musical career.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-22
@MILL-
WT3R3eERs R?S2t;

CHELSEA, Okla, Feb. %.
(SpeciaD-About time for my
anti-hoarding joke commission
to start operating.
I am picking the rest of my
commission. l got Mr.. Wick
ersham on it. l believe he de-
serves another chance to make
good on a commission so its the
Rogers Wickersham commits
sion. But Rogers is chairman.
Out on the Rogers ranch at
Oologah where I spent yes
terday, Herb McSpadden, my
nephew. had to take a milk
stool and beat an old cow over
the rear end. She was hoard
ing her milk.
A Jewish farmer at Clare
more named Morris Haas hid
$500 in bills in a barrel OF
bran and the COW eat it up.
He has just been able to get
$18 of it back up to now. This
hcarding doesn't pay.
Yours,