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Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
Santa Barbara Fire
Continues To Burn

SANTA BARBARA, Sept. IT. U.P)
The Santa Barbara national for
est fire was partially controlled to-
day on its north front in the Pine
Mountain-Reyes Peak section, but
was still out of control on the west
ern and eastern edges of the north
ern front.
On the west edge it swept down
Aqua Caliente canyon and was eat
ing into the far corner of the Glib
raltar watershed which stores water
for Santa Barbara.
This uncontrolled section includ-
ed sweep from Potrero Sacco to
Adobe Springs on the east, and it
was burning at will along the Topa
Topa range, far north of Santa
Paula.
No towns were endangered.
The fire is in its eleventh day,
and has burned over approximately
125,000 acres of land.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
'Hitch-Hikers'
Growing Bolder

MEDFORD, Ore, Sept. II. U.P)
State police near here recently
literally were beseiged with reports
from angry motorists of .transients
becoming too emphatic in thumb
ing" them for rides.
The walking transient sometimes
would stand in the middle of the
highway waving his hands to force
the motorist to stop, or, would
calmly lay what baggage he pos
sessed in the middle of the lane of
traffic causing the driver to dodge
into the other lane in the face
of oncoming traffic, stop, or run
into the baggage. Another trick
employed was wallet on the pave
ment and rob the person who STEP
ped from the car to pick up the
invitingly buxom purse. Autoists
were advised by state officers not
to stop under any circumstances,
unless safety demanded.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
HOPING
TO LURE BORAH
INTO CAMPAIGN

WASHINGTON, Sept. II. W.H-
Republican party managers have
turned their eyes toward Idaho
where Senator William E. Borah is
biding his time.
His endorsement of President
Hoover, party managers believe,
would do much to rally the party
in the face of the Democratic vic
tory in Maine.
An effort to smoke" Borah out
appears to have been started. At
ter a conference at the White
House, Senator Hastings. (Rep0
Delaware, said Borahs declaration
against the soldier bonus following
action of the American Legion this
week had definitely put him on the
Republican side.
HE is in at the back door" said
Senator Hastings, but that's bet
ter than not at ALL"
Borah, asked by the United Press
to comment on Hastings statement,
made light of the announcement.
II knew Senator Hastings had
many accomplishments. But i
didn't know he was a humorist," he
telegraphed.
He has said nothing about his
attitude toward the administration
since his speech in the senate just
after the Republican national con-
vention when he declared he could
not support Mr.. Hoover on the
Chicago platform.
Since then he has said that the
west was any mans fight and that
October was early enough to talk
politics.
The leonine senator from The big
potato country stands with rela-
ton to the Hoover campaign in
much the same position that for
mer Gov. Alfred E. Smith stands
toward the Roosevelt campaign.
Each is silent. Each is regarded as
able to influence large number
of voters.
With Governor Roosevelt swing
ing through the west, the Repub-
lican management longs for some
mighty voice there. 1t wants some
one to offset the pro-Roosevelt ut
terances of Senator George w. Nor
ris, (Rep.) Nebraska.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
ASSERTS CLERK
USED HURLEY'S
FRANK IN ERROR

PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. IT, U.P)
RESPONSIBILITY for the use Of en-
yelopes franked by the war depart
ment to distribute Secretary of
War Hurley's explanation of the
bonus army eviction at the nation
al American Legion convention mere
this week was assumed today by
Brig. Gen. Joseph P. O'Neil, re-
tired.
An error by a clerk in. the war
department in using the wrong
envelopes which resulted in the
Legion censuring the war depart
ment-resulted in the incident,
General O'Neil said
The officer said he personally
paid for having copies OF Hur-
iey's explanation of the bonus army
eviction mimeographed for distrib-
ution at the Legion convention. He
denied that all of the statements
were mailed under the franking
privilege.
The envelopes were never actual
lv put through the mails. They
were distributed by hand before the
convention session, and when each
delegate arrived he found one OF
the envelopes containing the state
ment. in his seat The envelopes
bore the printed frank of the war
department, but inasmuch as they
did not go through the mails the
frank was not used.
"By mistake one of my clerks
picked up the franked envelopes in
stead of the plain envelopes had
provided" General O'Neil said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
Reuua Attacks
Bourbon Policy

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. II.
U.Py - The fundamental questions
involved in the present national
political campaign transcend in
Importance ANY in the history of
the nation" declared Mark l..
Requa, Republican national COM
mitteeman from California, in
opening the presidential campaign
in the state today.
According to their own state
ments the smear Hoover campaign
of the past three years has cost
the Democrats more than $3,000,-
000," Requa said.
IF there is any one thing the
Democrats have done to discredit
themselves and to show their in
capacity as statesmen, it has been
this shallow campaign of villifica-
ton, aimed at the President of the
United States. Destructive criti-
cism has never yet provided a
single meal for a hungry man,
woman or child or added anything
to human happiness"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
Du BOis' Death
Solves Mystery
OF Wife's Fate

PLYMOUTH, Mass, Sept. IT.
W.R-Mrs. Edith Dubois heard and
possibly watched o. her handsome
gem-dealer husband dig the sub
cellar grave in which her own body
was found a few hours after he
solved five-week mystery by kill
ing himself, a letter revealed today.
Not many days before the
40-year-old wife of Charles Edwin
Dubois mysteriously vanished from
their Great Herring Pond summer
bungalow, she wrote to friend, a
Mrs. Gillot of Hastings -on-the-
Hudson.
The gist of her letter, as quoted
by Assistant District Attorney John
v. Sullivan, read:
Charlie has not been himself for
at least six months. He has acted
like a crazy man on account of that
woman. He would go down into
the cellar and dig and then come
up and not say word. He has
been working down in the cellar all
of the time"
The husband she acquired as re-
suit of French matrimonial mag
azine ad, was digging the grave
into which the Assistant District
Attorney was satisfied he placed
the body of his wife, killed that he
might remarry.
Dubois was in love with Miss
Grace Atwood, New York univer-
sity graduate and daughter of
wealthy Massachusetts, manufac-
turer. He had planned to marry
her, she said.
Assistant District Attorney Sulli-
van held today, however, that Miss
Atwood was the innocent victim of
a love affair whose tragic scenes
were unsuspected. He exonerated
her of any guilty knowledge of the
crime.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
Discharged Navy
Man Drugged And
Robbed By Couple

His story that two long drinks
out of a dark brown bottle made
him temporarily insane yesterday
afternoon won freedom from the
county Jail for William Thomas
Ivey, discharged sailor, who had
been held for investigation follow
ing his arrest at Holtville because
of his assertedly queer actions.
Ivey was taken into custody late
at night because he was exhorting
an imaginary populace ON the
streets of Holtville, promising that
the day of doom was at hand.
He told an investigating board
yesterday afternoon that he was
given a ride by man and woman
from San Diego, after he had re-
ceived a medical discharge from
the navy there. They offered him
a drink, and then another one.
and he took both, he said.
After that Ivey remembered
nothing until he awoke at the
county Jail Wednesday morning.
He also declared that he had $240
when he left San Diego, and had
nothing when he came to his
senses at the Jail.
Officials advanced the theory
that Ivey had been drugged and
robbed of the money given him on
his discharge from the navy hos
pital
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
READING PRISONS
MAIL PROVES TO
BE HARD WORK

CANON CITY, Colo, Sept. IT.
U.P)-William Thomas Is one man
who never watches eagerly for the
postman.
For the postman means work to
him.
Thomas, and corps of assist
ants, hold one of the most monoto-
nous, yet important, positions at
the Colorado penitentiary.
They are the mail readers.
Every piece of mail received for
the inmates, every letter written
by the prisoners to be sent out, all
packages, money orders, etc., are
scrutinized by Thomas and his
assistants.
The work, despite its monotony,
holds number of interesting
angles.
There is always the search for a
"code,' either from the inmate or
from the outside, which might lay
plans for a break.
Oftentimes the codes are easily
detected, when they are especially
clumsy. Sometimes a letter is
larger than others. The letters,
when put together, will form a
sentence.
Other times, peculiar phrases or
words lead the readers to investi-
gate, and most of the time they
find that it is a code system to
relay contraband information.
Some of the codes are very clev-
er, and it is only by a mere acci-
dent that their existence is un-
covered.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
TREES CHANGE SIZE

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Sept. IT..
U.R) Trunks of growing trees
shrink during the daytime and ex-
pand at night during clear weather,
DR.. Raymond Kienholz, ecologist at
the Connecticut Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station has determined.
A dendrograph, an instrument re-
cording the contraction and expan-
sio of a tree trunk, showed the
diameter to diminish when the
sun withdrew moisture from the
tree and to increase when the store
was replenished at night.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
Brokerage Firm
Sues Exchange

NEW YORK, Sept. II. U.P)-The
New York stock exchange, its presi-
dent, Richard Whitney, and 40
members of its governing board,
were made defendants in a $2l ,000,-
900 damage suit filed in federal
court today by Pirnie Simons g.
Co., Inc, stock brokers.
The brokerage company charged
that the exchange had set up a
boycott and blacklist" against its
business and asked $3,000,000 ac-
tual damage, $4,OO0,OOO punitive
damage, and, under the Sherman
antitrust law and the Clayton acts,
which the suit seeks to invoke, a
total damage of three times those
figures, or $21 100000.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
Suit Follows In
Alleged kidnapping

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. II. U.R)
-Garret Schenck, Hopewell, N. j.,
fish dealer, who claimed he was
abducted and held captive in Penn
sylvania for 76 days in connection
with the Lindbergh baby kidnap-
ing, today filed suit for $4,000
damages against 10 men.
In the suit filed in federal court
Schenck named as defendants: j.
j. Devine, Chief of Police Russell
Love, Dubois, Pa; H. H. Cupp;
Paul Cupp; Ruben S. Rakestraw;
Joseph Havener, Charles Horner,
Ned Benshoff, Avery Connors, and
Frank Shugerts.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
Planters Change
Former System

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Sept. IT.
U.P Because SO many damage
suits were filed against plants by
pickers who were injured in wrecks
while being transported to and
from the plantation, growers have
abandoned the plan this year.
Hereafter instead of picking up
the workers each morning and
bringing them to the fields and
then returning them every night,
the planters will require that they
stay on the farm.
A house and wood is offered the
worker and his family. Rates are
so to 60 cents per 100 pounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
Cars Damaged In
Auto Accident


Considerable damage was done to
automobile owned by Antoine v.
CORDOBA of Oakland and Manuel M.
Rodriguez of Brawley when the
machines crashed on the Calexico
highway two miles south of El
Centro yesterday, according to a
report by Bill Tackett, state traf-
fic officer.
Cordoza's car had slowed and
stopped on the pavement, due to
motor trouble. Another automobile
was coming in the opposite direc-
ton, and Rodriguez, who was driv-
ing behind CORDOBA, could not
stop in time to avoid the collision.
Although the automobiles were
damaged, no one was hurt in the
accident.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
@AWllMLlL..
" ssoys:

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16.
(SpeciaD-Well, let's see what's
in the news that's fit to re-
print today.
Al Smith had one of the fin
est and most fearless articles
in this weeks Saturday Eve
ming Post. Why is 1t he is
about the only politician on
either side that can write on a
subject and you can tell where
he stands?
Roosevelt Is headed west.
Says, she is just out to meet
the folks" But he will give
preference to anyone of legal
age, and a registered voter,
Mr.. Hoover, who originally
wasn't going farther west dur
ing the campaign than the Fo-
tomac, has started looking at
time tables.
Politicians in order to hold
the real dyed-in-the-wool radio
nut, are grooming their speeches.
Yours,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
Seeks To Prove
WOman's Status

SACRAMENTO, Sept. IT, W.P)-
Legal action to establish whether
Dorothy Millette or Jean Harlow
was the lawful wife of Paul Bern
at the time the film producer COM
mitted suicide was threatened to-
day by Public Administrator Her.
man Koch.
Koch applied yesterday for let
ters of administration of the es-
tate of the authenticated "other
woman in. Bern's life, who appar-
emily leaped to her death from a
Sacramento river boat a few hours
after Miss Harlow's husband of two
months ended his life in Hollywood.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
Bandits Victim
Tells The Truth

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. IT..
W.P)-Leonard Orris saved himself
a beating when he told a bandit
the truth.
Orris, young mechanic, had
just parked his car when the man
approached, drew pistol, and de-
manded money.
The young man handed him a
81 bill.
Listen said the bandit, I'm
going to search you. If you're ly-
ing and have more money than
that I'll brain you with this gun"
He searched, found nothing,
cursed, and went away.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
School Officials
To Halt Hazing

GOODLAND, kan, Sept. II.
U.P)-School authorities here have
taken action against hazing as the
result OF two damage suits for
$4,000 filed by Miss Georgia Hill,
Moline, Ill.
Miss Hill claims 10 high school
girls spanked her with a slipper
because she violated a school ira
dition against dating" to basket
ball game.
In her suit Miss Hill asked
$4,000 from the board of educa-
ton and a like amount from the
10 girls, her former schoolmates.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
NOW YOU TELL ONE

DOVER, Ark, Sept. II. tU.D-pe-
cause Of a drought ard unusually
hot weather farmers in this section
are having a hard time with their
pop-corn-the sun is popping It In
the fields.
Albert Williams, farmer, believes
he has the problem solved. He said
he was thinking Of -sprinkling a
little salt and melted butter over
the field and then sacking II for
sale,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
MARKET 7
INQUIRY
PENDING
BroOkhart Planning For
Probe Of Manipulation
Charges.
WALL ST. IS UNEASY
Stock Exchange Seeks To
Remove Any Sign Of
Political Activity.
BY LYLE c. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. i7.-Sena-
tor Brookhart (Rep) Iowa. told
the United Press today that he was
seeking a senate investigation be-
fore the election of alleged political
manipulation of the stock market.
Brookhart wants an investigation
by the banking and currency COM
mittee which conducted last ses-
sion's bear raid inquiry in which
John j. Raskob, Percy A. Rookie
feller and others testified. Brook
hart is a member of the commit
tee.
Senator Fletcher (Dem.) Florida,
another member, told the United
Press that if reports of political
manipulation were substantiated
they would warrant investigation
Fletcher referred to a recent ar
ticle by Louis Seibold, New York
political writer, in which it was as
serted that professional operators
would contribute heavily to Repub-
lican campaign funds from the
proceeds of manipulation.
Brookhart wrote Seibold for SUBJ
stantiating evidence and endeavor-
ed to interest in the investigation
two of the three senator's who were
given authority to act for the bank
ing and currency committee through
through the summer. The senators
are Norbeck (Rep) North Dakota,
Glass Dem) Virginia, and Town
send (Rep) Delaware. Glass has
been i'll and SO far the sub-com-
mittee has taken no action.
Delay Desired
The United Press understands
that committee sentiment generally
is to delay all further hearings un-
til after the election when the mar
ket investigation is scheduled for
resumption regardless ot alleged po-
litical manipulation.
Through James Stewart, a direc-
tor of investigation, the inquiry in
to the records of stock market
transactions, pools and alleged short
operations is continuing. Stewart
told the United Press that the COM
mittee had not requested stock ex-
change authorities to issue yester-
days call for all communications
passing through members offices
touching upon political subjects.
The call was for communica-
tions between September / and Is,
a period including the time of the
Maine elections. News OF Demo-
cratic victories in Maine was ac-
companied in New York by a
break in market values.
The market slump on the day al
ter President Hoover's acceptance
speech last month also was center
of capital interest.
NEW YORK, Sept. II. W.H -
Political comment was strikingly
absent from Wall street market let
ters today as the exchange busi-
ness conduct committee examined
replies to inquiries as to political
comment circulated earlier by
brokers.
An apparent drive to keep the
exchange free of anything even
remotely savoring of political COM
ment or influence was seen in the
committees latest inquiry.
The replies are nearly all in the
hands of the exchange now. Out
of town members have until Mon
Continued On Page 6)
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
Hutton Transfers
Desert Property

SAN BERNARD1No, Calf, Sept.
II. (U.P)-David L. Hutton, husband
of Aimee Semple Mcpherson Hut
ton, Angelus Temple evangelist,
transferred 10 acres of desert land
to his parents today following an
nouncement of Mrs. Myrtle Hazel
st. Pierre that she would seek an
attachment on any property he
might have to satisfy $4,000 breach
Of promise judgment.
The deed, filed in the county re-
corder's office, was signed by the
baritone David and his wife. The
consideration was $40 or at the
rate OF 81 an acre.
The property is IL miles north
west of the town of Adeanto in the
Mojave desert.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
TO REMODEL HOSPITAL

LOS ANGELES, Sept. II. W.D -
Plans for remodeling the Kings
county hospital in Hanford and
construction of a $4,000 annex to
the institution stood approved TO-
day by the state board of welfare.
The new unit will be a modern,
two-story fire proof structure, fur
nishing accommodations for A pa
tieptS.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
Retired Conductor
Seeks New Work

DETROIT, Mich, Sept. II. W.I)-
When John Blakesley, veteran con-
ductor of the Michigan Central
railroad, retired at the age of II,
after 81 years of service with the
company, he had few regrets but
no loss of ambition.
Shaking hands with William
Bracken, engineer of his train,
Blakesley announced that after a
short rest he was going out Ito
find me another job"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
NEEDS NEW LEG

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Sept. IT. U.H
e. M. McReynolds, Sc, is looking to
charity tor his third artificial leg.
Having recently worn out the
second, he now is using a peg.
Eighteen years ago one leg was
amputated because of blood poiS-
oning.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
REOPENS STUDIO

Mrs. Hazel Baker, local piano
teacher, recently opened her stu
dio and is enrolling pupils for the
fall and winter.
Her studio was closed during the
summer and Mrs. Baker spent
considerable time at various points
along the coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
BOTTLE CAUSES ARREST

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept. II.
U.P)-Pete Barnett's 30-day jail SEN
tence was brought about indirectly
by "shatter-proof" bottle glass.
Police who arrested Barnett told
the municipal court judge that he
broke cne bottle of alleged whisky,
but that the second bottle which
he threw into the street failed to
break. Police brought it into court
as evidence.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
Fall Fatal To
Coast Aviator

WHITTIER, Calf, Sept. IT. (UH
Paul V. Wall, 43, aviator, who
was injured late yesterday while
instructing a student in making
forced landing, died today in
hospital here.
A plane piloted by Wall and
carrying William Senter, Hollywood
student, struck power line. 1t
crashed and caught fire.
Wall was crushed and burned,
while the student escaped with
minor burns, bruises and lacera-
tions.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17
GOLF BALL KILLS BIRD

SHARON, Pa, Sept. II. U.P)-
Albert Beck, Sharon, drove from
the fifth tee at the Iceland Coli
course, here. A moment later, a
bird, struck by the ball while in
flight, fell to the ground. 1t was
dead.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-17

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Evening star., 1932-06-12
REDS IN CONGRESS
HIT BY PUBLISHER
Mccormick Says Members
Are like a Herd of Steers
Stampeded."
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 1.-THE asser-
ton that the Communists in Congress
intend to stampede the country" was
made by Col. Robert r. Mccormick,
publisher Of the Chicago Tribune, in an
address yesterday before a meeting
sponsored by the New York State Eco
nomic Council, Inc.
Congress" he said, lis like herd
of steers stampeded, group Of con-
fused men. led, dominated and di-
rected by a handful Of Communists
ably seconded by a crowd Of morons
calling themselves Progressives and Lib
erals. The Communists in Congress in
tend to stampede the country
I'VE can. carry on under this tax
bill for one Summer At the outside
we can carry on for one year. But if
the tax bill remains on the statute
books, our civilization will follow that
Of Rome"
George w. Wickersham, chairman Of
the board Of the council, said it was
extremely doubtful" that the tax bill
would balance the budget and asserted
the public demands retrenchment" in
public expenditure.
Evening star., 1932-06-12
Dental Society to Meet.

The District Dental Society will
elect officers Tuesday night at George
Washington University. and will hear
the annual report of the retiring presi-
dent, DR.. Herbert c. Hopkins. The
society will discontinue meetings after
Tuesday until Fall
Evening star., 1932-09-10
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