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Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-12
DOUBLE TRAGEDY
IS RESULT OF
FINANCIAL Loss

Ell MONTE, Calf, Sept. IL. UP)-
Mrs. Edna Porte Killian, s5, and
her once wealthy husband, Howard
F. Killian, 80, were dead today, po-
lice believed. as the result of a
murder and suicide plan carried out
by the woman.
Authorities pieced together In
formation from friends and neigh
bors, and formed theory that the
woman had shot her husband in
his sleep and then taken her own
life, respondent over financial re-
verses.
Mrs. Killian was found dead In
the house, a bullet wound in her
head and a revolver clasped In her
hand. Her husbands body. also
shot through the head, was found
under a tree outside the house.
Officers believed he had been shot
but was able to run short dis
tance before dying. A trail OF blood
traced his movements.
Killian was a son of Scott Kill
liam, Los Angeles county pioneer.
He leaves a brother, o. C. Killian.
head of a Los Angeles bank, who
said his brother had invested
heavily in a financial and real es-
tate venture three years ago and
lost large sums.
Mrs Killian, who was active In
club and civic work and had served
as literary chairman OF the CalIfor-
mia Federation Of Women's clubs,
was a member Of one OF Southern
Californias Oldest families.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-12
Move To Block
Walker Election

NEW YORK, Sept. IL. UP)-
Court action to prevent election Of
a mayor November 8 was taken
today when a member of Mayor
Joseph v. McKee's former law
firm filed an application in su-
preme court for a writ OF manda-
mus against the board of election.
Harold r. Medina. member OF
the firm of Medina and Sherpick,
said he filed the application on be-
half of Mckee.
The board of elections recently
received certification of City Clerk
Michael j. Cruise that the office
was vacant as a result of the resig-
nation of James j. Walker 1t vot-
ed to hold the election this year.
The term to which Walker was
elected does not expire until jan
uary /, 1884
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-12
FARMERS WILL
RESUME PICKETS
ON IOWA ROADS

SIOUX CITY. Ia, Sept. IL. (U.R)-
Threat of renewed farm picketing
followed today the governors con-
ference at which representatives OF
nine midwest states suggested that
farmers voluntarily withhold pro-
duce from market until prices rose
to favorable levels.
Refusal of the conference to rec
ommend an embargo enforced by
martial law brought declarations
from leaders in the Trainers Holi-
day association that blockades OF
highways in this area would re-
sumo.
Pickets reappeared in full
strength on all Iowa highways
leading here. Picketing of roads in
this vicinity had not ceased during
the conference but had been prose-
cuted in a desultory manner until
today. ~.
j. F. Kriege, acting head of the
Nebraska Farmers Holiday asso-
citation, announced all Nebraska
highways would be picketed begin
ming September 20.
The program recommended by
the four governors and representa-
tives of five more who attended
the conference called for immedi-
ate aid to farmers through congress
sional action.
The conference asked tariff re-
vision, currency expansion, mora
torium on all farmer loans made
by government agencies, possible
state action to prevent mortgage
foreclosures, refinancing of loans
on low interest rates, extension of
the Reconstruction Finance corpor-
alton facilities to the farmer and
legislation to control crop surpluses.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-12
Tiger POloists
Defeat Riviera

LOS ANGELES, Sept. IL. U.P)-
The Tigers polo team defeated n
Riviera quartet IL to yesterday
under the leadership of Elmer
Boeseke and the goal shooting of
Herbert Winn.
The Tigers went on a scoring
spree in the seventh chukker, when
Boeseke tailed twice and Winn
and Beal one goal each.
Willie Drift, former captain Of
the University of Arizona team,
played for Riviera and was credit
ed with two goals.
Boeseke will leave wednesday for
South America to play with a
picked team on a tour through Ar
gentina.
In another game, the Reds de-
feated the Blues II to at the Up
lifters' field. Lionel Pedley of the
winners scored seven goals.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-12
ROOSEVELT TO
LEAVE TONIGHT
FOR FAR WEST
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
Inited Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. 12.-Gov.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic
presidential nominee, will board a
special trail tonight for his 5000
mile "stop, look and listen tour of
the west.
Friends of the governor insisted
that he would subordinate politics
on the trip to ian honest desire to
see way out of our economic dis
tress." They declared Roosevelt
wants to get first hand information
on the economic situation SO that
he will be able to formulate con-
structive relief policies.
Roosevelt, who will be gone "a
days, put the finishing touches to
the major speech on agriculture
that he will deliver at Topeka,
Kans, Wednesday. Three other
major addresses are scheduled for
the tour, one in Portland, Ore,
another at Sioux City, Iowa, and
the last at city yet to be selected.
He will be accompanied by his
son, James, and his daughter, Mrs.
Curtiss Dali. Mrs. Roosevelt will
join the party at Williams. Ariz,
for the return journey.
A seven car special train will
carry the Roosevelt party out of
Albany at midnight. The train, a
regular rolling hotel, will have a
car for the stenographic force, one
for newspapermen and photograph
ers, a diner, two drawing rooms and
lounge car, baggage car and
the Pioneer, the governors own
car
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-12
RAILWAY P. @.
CLERKS INJURED
in TRAIN WRECK

COLFAX, Calf, Sept. IL. U.P)-
Five clerks were injured, two seri-
ously, when a railway post office
car attached to westbound Southern
Pacific mail train No. rolled 1900
feet down an embankment after
seven cars left the tracks early to-
day near Crystal Lake, 35 miles
east of here.
The injured, all residents of Oak
land, were:
H. j. Black, broken ribs, cuts and
bruises; possible internal injuries.
M. E. Williams, badly cut face;
bruises and possible internal in
juries.
E. N. Piva, cuts about head.
q. L. Torgeson, injured knee,
bruises.
Frank MacNair, cuts and bruises.
All Of the injured except Mac
Nair were brought to Colfax hos
pital for treatment. MacNair was
given medical attention at Truckee
and returned to guard the mail car.
The train was running an hour
and a half behind time when the
accident occurred, according to
railroad officials. A split rail was
believed to have caused the cars
to leave the tracks, but because of
the double-track system used owe,
the Sierras, traffic was not tied up.
Post office authorities believed it
would be necessary to use automo-
bile trucks in removing the mail
from the wrecked railway car, which
landed on its side short distance
from the state highway after
bouncing down the hillside.
Wrecking crews from Roseville
and Truckee were sent to the scene
to replace the derailed cars.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-12
ANOTHER
CRISIS IN
GERMANY
Reichstag Dissolved By
Governments Order AS
Radicals Jeer.
Won PAPEN FLOUTED
State Of Emergency Sim
liar To Martial Law
To Be Enforced.
BY FREDERICK KUH
United Press Staff Correspondent

BY FREDERACk KUN
United Press Staff Correspondent
BERLIN, Sept. II. tU.D - The
Reichstag, amid tumultous scenes.
was dissolved by the Won Papen
government today but broke into
open rebellion and refused to con-
slider itself dissolved.
A "state of emergency" similar
to martial law, was expected to be
declared.
AS soon as the reichstag con-
vened to hear the maiden minis
terial declaration of Chancellor
Franz Won Papen, the Communists
and Hitler's Fascists declared war
OH the government.
Without awaiting Won Papen's
speech, Hermann Goering, the
speaker, who is q Hitlerite deputy,
called for immediate vote on Com
munist motions resembling Presi-
dent Paul Won Hindenburgs emerg-
ency decree of September 4, pro-
viding a rigid one-year plan of
economy to save the countrys fl
nances, and also of misconfidence
in the government.
Won Papen immediately read a
decree of dissolution. Goering re-
fused to leave the rostrum, how
ever, and insisted on q vote. The
Communist motions were passed,
513 to 80. with only five absten-
tions.
Amid thunderous cheers from the
opposition, Goering declared he
considered the dissolution DEGREES
invalid because they were presented
by a government which had been
overthrown by the reichstag.
The reichstag then adjourned
until tomorrow, despite the fact
that the government now regards
1t as non-existent.
Dramatic Scene Presented
The government was expected to
proclaim state of emergency this
evening, under which it would rule
much as under martial law. It
was thought troops probably would
occupy the reichstag to prevent it
from meeting tomorrow.
The dissolution order was pre-
ceded by the most dramatic scene
in German parliamentary history.
Won Papen walked to the rostrurn
with the familiar red government
proclamation, containing Won Hin
denburg's dissolution decree, under
his arm.
Goering brushed Won Paper
aside, exclaiming:
Don't you see the house is now
busy taking a vote?"
Such an open challenge to the
governments authority was greeted
with a stormy applause from vast
majority of the deputies. Won Pa
pen, outwardly clam but obviously
struggling with intense emotion,
opened the portfolio and handed
Goerlng a paper containing the
dissolution order.
Goering raised his hand with a
gesture OF refusal, Whereupon
Won Papen dumped the dissolution
order on the speakers desk while
all the members or the cabinet
filed out Of the hall amid Com
munist shouts of down with the
Won Papen government.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-12
FATE OF
A|RPLANE
IN DOUBT
Hutchinson Family Be-
lieved To Be Lost In
Strait Of Denmark.
HELP CALLS HEARD
Trawler Rushing To AS
sist Finds No Trace Of
Stricken Craft.

COPENHAGEN, Sept IL. W.P)-
Twenty-one hours search in the
waters of Denmark strait revealed
no trace of Col. George R. Hutch
inson and his Flying Family" of
eight persons. who made a forced
landing yesterday in their amphi-
bian airplane.
While officials and natives con-
tinued the search, the natives in
cluding women of the fishing fam
lilies in charge of large "wifeboats"
little hope was held for the sur
vival of the flying family, dropped
suddenly in the midst of treach-
erous ice floes.
The Greenland board asked Kind
Rasmussen, famous explorer to join
the search in his motorShip Thstau-
ming. Rasmussen was about 400
miles south of where Hutchinson
came down enroute from Juliane-
haab to Angmagssalik on a flight
by easy stages from New York to
Europe.
The distance overland from
Julianehaab to Angmagssalik is
about 450 miles. 1t Hutchinson
followed the coast and avoided the
dangerous overland crossing, as
Danish authorities expected him to
do, he would have added about 100
miles to his route. The amphibian
carried enough fuel for flight OF
between 300 and 900 miles.
Aboard the plane were Col. and
Mrs. Hutchison, their two young
daughters, Katherine, 8, and Janet
Lee, 6; Navigator Peter Redpath,
Mechanic Joseph Ruff, Radioman
Gerald Altissish, and Cameraman
Norman Alley.
Among the craft seeking the
missing plane were numerous
"wifeboats," large rowboats used by
the fishing fleet and usually in
the charge of women.
The radio operator aboard the
Hutchinson plane exchanged mes
sages with the operator aboard the
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-12
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.-Re-
suits of the state election in Maine
today were awaited by leaders of
both parties, seeking in them some
hint of what November holds in
store.
In addition to this preliminary
balloting, a week of heavy political
activity was in prospect. Primaries
were scheduled to be held in Col
orado, Michigan, Washington, Ari-
zona, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Washington and Georgia.
The American Legion today be-
gan in Portland, Ore, convention
of more than usual political signif-
icance. A majority of delegates
have been pledged by state con-
ventions to reverse the organiSa-
TONS attitude and placed it on rec
ord for a cash payment of the
bonus. The reaction of the Legion
to the driving out of the bonus
army in Washington on the basis
of the administration latest eX-
planation was anxiously awaited by
administration friends.
The voting in Maine for state
and congressional office is viewed
by both parties as an important
indicator.
Politicians will analyze the results
in the hope of detecting whether
there is a large silent drift of vot-
ers away from traditional moor
ings.
Democrats have little expectation
of carrying the state. They hope,
at most, to win one of the three
congressional seats. The signifi-
canoe of the result is expected to
be in the size of the Republican
majority. Past records show great
fluctuations. In 1924 the Repub-
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-12
PARAGUAY AND
BOLIVIA START
REAL WARFARE
Thousands OF Troops In
Fierce Battle In Gran
ChacO Area.

ASUNCION, Paraguay, Sept. IL.
DISCRIMINATION" of the 18th
Bolivian infantry regiment was
claimed by Paraguayan forces to-
day as thousands of troops bat
tied fiercely for possession of Fort
Boqueron, scene of several days
fighting in the disputed Gran
Chaco.
Announcement of the Paraguay
an victory was made soon after
midnight
An earlier communique from the
war department said fighting con-
tinues in the vicinity of Fort Bo-
queron and our forces have taken
number of prisoners"
two minute period of silence was
Public excitement was high.
Crowds paraded, singing the ma
tional anthem. Sunday morning,
observed in honor of Paraguayans
killed in the fighting.
An alleged description Of the first
air battle of the campaign was
printed by the newspaper Ell Diaro,
signed by the chief of the Para
guayan air force.
"Lieutenants Jocholl and Garcia,
pilot and observer of a bombing
plane carrying IL bombs, flew over
Fort Boqueron September g." the
description said.
"They were attacked by three Bo-
livian planes. Lieutenant Jocholl
was wounded in the arm but he
put the Bolivian planes to rout,
dropped the bombs on the fort, and
returned to his base. The plane
was hit by 80 bullets"
LA PAz, Bolivia, Sept. IL. W.P)
Five thousand Paraguayan troops
are engaged in an intense attack
on Fort Boqueron and Fort Aguar-
lea in the Gran Chaco, the war
department announced today, but
Bolivia still holds both fortifica-
tionS.
Reports here indicated that fight
ing was the most serious of the
Chaco campaign. Bolivians were
resisting the Paraguayan attack
from circular trenches dug around
the fort which is on an open pla-
teau. The Paraguayans were de-
ployed in dense jungles surrounding
the fort.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-12
CUSTOMS GUARDS
UNDER ARREST In
SHOOTING SCRAPE
Negro Declared To Have
Been Needlessly Shot
BY Officer.

NEW YORK, Sept. II. U.P)-Two
customs guards, according to stories
to police, shot a Negro they were
questioning, and forced two ships
officers and another Negro to stand
20 minutes with hands upraised
while the victim lay dying here to-
day.
Benjamin Fein, accused of the
shooting, is charged with felonious
assault. Charles Gathecole, his
companion, is charged with acting
in concert.
The Negro victim, Joseph Clarke,
who had been attracted to the
scene by the argument and wanted
to see what was going on, Is in
Norwegian hospital dying, according
to attendants there.
The customs guards were sur
rendered and charged only after
Brooklyn police led by Captain
MacGowan of the homicide squad
threatened to "arrest all Of you if
these men are not produced at
once"
Customs officials had told Mac
GoWan, In answer to question
about the men, that, "its none of
your business; this is a federal af-
fair"
The two ship officers held up by
the guards were Captain Percy
Reaveley of the Southern Prince
and purser Harold Frazakley of
the Western Prince. They had
been attracted to the scene by hear
ing, during the argument, a men
ton of their ships tied up at dock
nearby.
Victims Tell Story
The story as told police by the
men held up by the guards was
about as follows:
William Wood, a Negro who sells
neckties to seamen while ships are
in dock, got permission of customs
guards to go aboard the Prince
liners. When he returned to the
dock at Bush terminal, Brooklyn,
the guards had been changed, and
Fein and Gathecole stopped him.
The guards would not listen to
Woods story, and the loud argu-
ment attracted Clarke. Mention of
the liners drew the ships officers.
The ships officers were ordered
to lift their hands and line ur
with the two Negroes, with no ex-
planation accepted, it was stated
Suddenly Gathecole seized a chain
and moved as if to hit Clarke
Clarke raised his arm, and Feir
shot, the bullet striking the Negro
just under the heart.
The two guards kept the three
men standing with hands upraised
for 20 minutes, until just before
MacGowan, summoned by someone
who heard the shot, arrived. Mac
Gowan found Clarke dying. and
the guards and Wood missing.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-12
BERN'S WIDOW
SEEKS RELIEF
in HER CAREER
By RONALD WAGNER
United Press Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. IL. - Jean
Harlow, widow of the late Paul
Bern, dead by his own hand, will
seek ito forget the whole CHASTITY
business" by plunging herself into
her art.
Her stepfather, Marino Bello,
made this statement as he asserted
again that she did not quarrel with
her screen-executive husband prior
to his suicide, and added that she
is not interested in financial mat
ters connected with his estate.
Bern's brother, Henry Bern,
meanwhile continued his determin-
ed effort to pierce the veil of mys-
terry surrounding the tragic suicide,
despite his failure to obtain addi-
tional information in a second con-
ference with Miss Harlow.
Before the interview, Bern had
said he was convinced Miss Harlow,
"alone, knows why my brother shot
himself"
Though it was revealed that Bern
was host at a dinner party in a
private bungalow of the Ambassa-
dor hotel the Saturday evening be-
fore his death, the man and wom-
an who were his guests remained
unidentified.
The brother said that he was
convinced Dorothy Millette, the
"other wife" in Bern's life, who
disappeared last Tuesday or early
Wednesday from Sacramento riv-
er steamer, had ended her life.
Bern's safe deposit box in a
downtown bank will be opened this
week, possibly today. In the box
is believed to be his last will, of
which Miss Harlow was said to be
chief beneficiary. The document
will be offered for probate.
Bern had approximately 5000
life insurance in force and owned
some real estate, not including the
home which he had decided to his
bride.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-12
CRASH KILLS TWO

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10. WD--
DR.. Dan Burgison, police surgeon,
and Mrs. Elizabeth Weatherhead,
60, a pedestrian, were killed almost
instantly yesterday when two speed
ing police ambulances collided at a
downtown corner. 1t was believed
the sound of each siren drowned
out the other, so that neither driver
heard a warning. The ambulances
were answering different calls.
Norbert PAYNE and Arthur Throp,
drivers, were critically injured.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-12
Separate Trial
Granted Davis

NEW YORK, Sept. IL. U.H -
Senator James j. Davis today was
granted separate trial by Federal
Judge T. Blake Kennedy on indict-
ments charging violation of the
federal lottery laws.
Davis was indicted with seven
others in connection with alleged
lotteries conducted by the Moose
and Eagles.
Davis will go to trial September
19. On motion of defense attorneys,
Judge Kennedy instructed the gov
ernment to consolidate the two in
dictmentS pending against the sem
ator. am ~ xaMfl
NEW YORK, Sept. II. U.P)-Ar-
gument on motion for dismissal
of charges against two officials of
the fraternal order of Eagles, in
dicted for alleged operation of a
lottery was postponed today until
next week when the officials will
appear to plead to a new indict-
ment.
Albert c. Ottinger, representing
Conrad Mann of Kansas City, an
official of the Eagles, and Frank
Herring Of Southbend, Ind, editor
of the organizations magazine,
moved before Judge E. Blake Ken
nedy for dismissal of the indict-
ments.
Louis M. Tredwell, assistant
United States attorney, argued that
there was no reason for dismissal
because superseding indictments
were filed last week.
Judge Kennedy agreed with
Tredwell but, on the request of Of
finger, adjourned argument on the
old indictments until the men ap-
pear to answer the new indict-
ments.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-12
FEDERAL AGENTS
SEIZE MEN AND
PLANE In RAID

SAN DIEGO, Sept. IL. W.P)-Im-
migration officers arrested two Los
Angeles men and seized ITS gal
Ions of liquor just after the men
landed their plane on field at
Fallbrook, near the Riverside coun-
ty line early today.
Booked at the city Jail on
charge of conspiracy to violate the
federal tariff act, they gave their
names as Robert E. Stevenson, 80,
and Sam Wise, 81. They were be-
ing held for customs officials.
The immigration officials were
looking for a plane load of aliens
expected to land during the night,
they said.
The plane, which was confis-
Gated by the federal agents, was
a passenger Buel cabin mono
plane which Wise, the pilot, said
he had rented in Los Angeles.
Wise told the officers he and
Stevenson had flown from across
the Mexican border but would not
reveal their starting point. He said
he had been flying several years
and received his training in Amar-
lilo, Texas.
Local officials stated today they
believe one of the men arrested as
mentioned in the above article is
Sam Wise, formerly a member OF
the traffic squad here and VINO
later went into aviation.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-12
GUERILLA
BAND ON
WARPATH
Chinese Bandits Wreck
And Loot Train Near
Mukden.
ACCOUNTS MEAGER
London Report Asserts
100 Killed And Many
Kidnapped.

MUKDEN, Sept. IL. U.D - A
bandit band destroyed a section of
rails on the railway between
Wuchia and Shuang Cheng-Pu,
causing the Harbin bound passenger
train to overturn at 10 p. m. to-
night, according to reports received
here.
The bandits killed five Japanese
and kidnapped 80 others after loot
ing the train, the reports said. 1t
was feared there were additional
casualties.
Only meager details of the at
tack were available here.
HARDIN, Sept. IL. U.P) - Four
persons we're injured and three
were kidnapped by a band of 100
bandits who attacked the Chang
Chun passenger train near here
today.
LONDON, Sept. IL. U.P) - One
hundred passengers were reported
killed or injured, 600 robbed, and
many kidnapped by bandits who de-
rallied and attacked passenger
train on the Chinese Eastern rail-
way south of Harbin, Sunday, the
Hardin correspondent Of the Ex-
change Telegraph company reported
today.
The bandits, protected by dark
ness, loosened the rails and
swooped down on the train after
several coaches left the track. They
were reported to have robbed all
of the 600 passengers and to have
carried many away prisoners. The
highest estimate of casualties was
100 dead or wounded.
Doctors and nurses were sent to
the scene from Hardin at 4 a. m.,
Sunday. The train was enroute
from Harbin to Changbun, and was
derailed about 80 miles south of
here, near Shuenchencu.
WATERFOWL, Conn, Sept. IL.
(U.H = Henry Hilgard Willard, son
of Oswald Garrison Willard, editor
of THE Nation" escaped uninjured
in the wreck and bandit raid on
a Chinese Eastern railway train
near Harbin, the younger Willard
advised his father by cable.
I'm train robbery. Lost suitcase.
Saved money and passport. Well.
No cause for anxiety. Proceeding
via Menchuli," he cable said.
Henry Hilgard Willard, 1892
Yale graduate, is studying the Man
churian situation at first hand in
order to write q series of articles
about the situation there.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-12
Seven Killed AS
Train Hits Auto

PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. IL. (U.R)-
Seven persons, including six MEM
bers of one family, lost their lives
when their automobile was struck
by a switch engine here yesterday.
Witnesses said the car turned
onto the tracks at street crossing
just as the engine reached the in
tersection.
The dead were Mr.. and Mrs. Ell
wood Lyon and four of their small
daughters, and Okiki Sasaka, 8,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. K. Sasaki,
Milwaukee, Ore.