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Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
THREATS TO AID
THIRD PARTY BY
VETERANS GROUP
Warn Democrats Support
Will Be Withdrawn I'm
less Bonus Paid.
BY JOHN RIECHMANN
UNITED Press Staff COrresDOndent)

WASHINGTON, June 20. U.R-
The bonus eXpeditionary force
threatened today to support third
party, or form a new one, unless
the Democrats come out for imme-
diate payment of the $2,400, 100000
monus.
"Unless we find an acceptable
candidate in the Democratic party,
we shall throw our strength behind
a third party" the bonus armys
legislative committee warned. THE
Republican party is definitely out"
The committee of the embattled
World war veterans dispatched tel
egrams to Democratic presidential
and presidential candidates,
asking written expressions Of their
views on the bonus and other vet
erans' legislation.
Harold Foulkrod of Philadelphia,
chairman of the committee, has
gone to Chicago to work for bo-
nus plank in the Democratic Ma
tional platform. Republicans re-
jected such a plank.
The committee began to formu-
late a general platform for the vet
Grams, including repeal of the 18th
amendment. 1t was considered pos
sible that Commander in Chief
Walter Waters might rule out the
prohibition issues, as likely to de-
tract from the fight for the prin-
cipal thing the veterans Want-the
bonus which congress has refused
to grant.
Waters sought the aid of all vet
erans' organizations in the bonus ar
my's campaign to defeat congress-
men and senators who voted against
the veterans payment. He sent let
ters to every post of the American
Legion and the Veterans of Foreign
Wars. The letter mentioned the
refusal of the platform committee
at the Republican convention to
consider a bonus plank, and added:
Our suggestions were laughed
down and our proposals were filed
in the waste basket Think it over,
veterans. Remember November"
Bonus army leaders continue to
claim a force of 10000 encamped in
the city. They said defections since
the senate defeated the bonus bill
last Friday had been more than
outnumbered by new arrivals. Po-
lice estimates jumped to 1850, an
upward revision of 5000
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
BORAH WILL NOT
SUPPORT HOOVER
HE TELLS LEWIS

WASHINGTON. June 20. U.P)-
Senator Borah (Rep) Idaho, said
on the senate floor today he would
not support President Hoover in
the presidential campaign if he
runs on the present platform.
The Idaho senator, one of the
Presidents most eloquent and pow
erful supporters in the 1928 cam
paign, made public his decision in
a speech on the senate flood dur
ing which he disavowed the Re-
publican prohibition plank and
said he believed most of the dele
gates to the national convention
favored repeal of the eighteenth
amendment.
Borah is regarded as one Of the
most potent prohibition leaders in
the country.
Borahs speech was interrupted
by Senator Lewis (Dem.) Illinois.
who asked
II will ask Senator Borah how
he stands since he has discovered
that the Republican plank is null
LITIGATION of the constitution. Will
he support President Hoover on
that platform?'
II will not" Borah replied.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
G.. @. p. Wet
BOrah Asserts

WASHINGTON, June 20. U.P)-
Senator Borah, leader of the senate
dry bloc. said today on the senate
floor the Republican party obvious
ly was for repeal of the 18th
amendment and charged that per-
sons who voted FOR the prohibition
plank adopted by the national con-
vention did so out of sheer po-
litical eXpediency"
Borah's speech was regarded as
particularly significant because of
his refusal to attend the national
convention, purportedly because he
did not agree with the administra-
ton upon a prohibition plank.
1T is perfectly clear to anyone
who has made any investigation -
he said, that a great majority of
those attending the convention were
for naked repeal If the voice of
The Republican party spoke there,
that party is for repeal"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
By DELOS SMITH
Tinted prece STAFF Carracna,

Oihttu TTtSS StaII correspondent
NEW YORK, June 20. - Amelia
Earhart Putnam, who flew the At
lantic alone, returned in triumph
today.
Gowned tastefully in brown
ensemble, she was smiling as she
stepped from the liner lie De
France to the city tug, Riverside,
and was escorted through a maze
of pleasure craft and tugs to ths
battery.
Miss Earhart carried a huge
bouquet of roses, presented by
Mayor James j. Walker, a strik-
ing contrast to the oil spattered
figure dressed in flying costume
who brought her plane down safe
ly near Londonderry, Ireland, sew
eral weeks ago.
She was in a gay mood, even as
she described the hardship of the
long flight over the Atlantic when
at times her plane was so close to
the water that she could see the
angry white caps, but she apparent
ly had forgotten the hardships to-
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
MEXICAN STORE
KEEPER ROUTES
NEGRO BANDITS
V. Martinez Suffers Six
Wounds In Battle With
HOld-Up Men.

Bleeding profusely and weaken
ing rapidly from wounds where six
leaden siugs from bandit revolver5
had entered his body, " Martinez
Saturday night routed three Negro
robbers who attempted to hold up
the Martinez Brothers store in the
east side district at Brawley.
Later, while a physician probed
for the bullets, Martinez talked to
officers, describing the Negro ban
dts. Hospital attendants said this
morning the Mexican will recover,
since none of the bullets which
found their mark in his body took
a course which would prove fatal.
The Negroes, frightened away
when Martinez Unexpectedly opened
fire on them after they ordered
him and his brother, A. Martinez.
to hold up their hands, got moth
ing in the attempted robbery.
Lon Cromer, Brawley police chief,
said this morning he is holding
several suspected Negroes, but has
4 nothing definite. The suspects
] have not been identified, and prob
ably will be released. Brawley Off
+ GERS, with the cooperation of the
sheriff'S office and the district at
torneys office, are carrying on a
searching investigation today.
Bullets which struck Martinez
when the bandits returned his fire,
lodged in his side and chest, two
finding a mark just under either
shoulder. Other bullets struck
Martinez in the chin, the back of
the head and the hand.
Evidence Found
A .38 calibre revolver supposed
ly used by the robbers, was found
in the alley behind the store by a
I Brawley officer. Sheriff George L.
Campbell found a sweater which
one of the Negroes apparently had
discarded in flight.
| In the store when the Negroes
entered were the two Martinez
brothers, R. Murillo, a clerk, and
/ M. Castenada and Cruz Landeros,
! customers.
The Negroes entered the store.
One made an order and placed a
dollar on the counter. AS Marti-
nez started to ring up the sale the
Negro produced revolver, order
ing those in the store to put up
their hands. Instead Martinez
snatched his gun and opened fire.
The Negroes returned the fire as
they fled
Martinez and his brother fol-
lowed onto the sidewalk, where
they kept firing. They were not
certain whether the three went cut
the front or rear door, or whether
they separated.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20

asites such as fleas which suck
the flood of the infected rats
and then bite humans.
For months DIR. Dyer worked
with the typhus-infected fleas
combed from rats and mice. In
his experiments he placed the
infected insects on his arms
and legs at night and over the
week-ends, at the risk of con-
tacting the disease.
To make the serum, fleas
which had been fed on infect
ed rats were crushed in a NOR
tar. This material then was
rubbed into scratches on the
bodies of two guinea pigs.
DIR. Dyer was to be awarded
an honorary degree today by
Kenyon College, Lambier, o.,
from which he graduated in
1907. He received his medical
degree from tine University of
Texas in 1915 and almost at
once began his experiments
with typhus.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
HUTTON'S BREACH
OF PROMISE SUIT
OPENS in COURT

LOS ANGELES. June 20. W.P)-
Trial of the 100000 breach of
promise suit brought against David
L. Hutton a few days after he
married Aimee Semple Mcpherson
Hutton, widely known woman
evangelist, opened here today.
Attorneys of the evangelist's
husband and for Miss Hazel Myrtle
Joan st. Pierre, attractive Pasadena
nurse, who complained in her ac-
ton that Hutton betrayed her un-
der promise of marriage immedi-
ately began to work on the selec-
ton of jury.
Despite his declaration to re-
porterS last week that he "loved a
good fight and that he would be
the first man in the courtroom to-
day, Hutton was not present when
the case was called.
His attorney, Mark Jones, said
Hutton, once called iron man" by
Mrs. McPherson-H -Hutton's mother,
Mrs. Minnie CMa) Kennedy Hud-
son, had changed his mind.
He had other business to attend
to-" Jones said, land there is no
need fo- him to be here until the
jury is selected"
Miss st. Pierre sat nervously at
counsel table as the attorneys ques-
toned veniremen. She was dressed
in black.
Aimee Worn Out
Hutton's attorneys told newsmen
that Mrs. McPherson-H Hutton would
not attend any sessions of the
trial. At present she is in SAN
itarium recuperating from nerv-
Gus breakdown and the ravages of
a fever she contracted on a recent
trip to Central America. One of
her physicians, DR.. Edward H. Will
liams, announced that she also was
worn out emotionally, having lived
at high nervous tension for so
long,"
Miss st. Pierres complaint
charged that she met Hutton at a
dinner party in January, 1929. At
that party. she said, he called her
adorable and asked permission
to call. He telephoned her three
times the next day and finally per-
suaded her to go automobile riding
with him.
Subsequently, she claimed, he
proposed to her a dozen times and
she finally accepted him after he
pleaded with her on his knees. She
alleged he betrayed her and then
The next thing she
heard of him he was married to
Mrs. Mcpherson Hutton, she said.
Hutton denied he betrayed the
nurse or that he proposed to her.
Questions asked prospective jurors
we're mostly routine. Miss st.
Pierre's attorneys made only brief
inquiries They seemed most inter
ested in whether any of those
called for jury duty belonged to
Mrs. Mcpherson Hutton's far famed
-Four Square Gospel. The eight
men and four women first placed
as tentative jurors denied any con-
nection with the evangelist's Or
ganization.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
SPECIAL SESSION
OF LEGISLATURE
STILL UNDECIDED

SACRAMENTO, June 20. UP)-
water" was the first thought of
Governor Rolph, who was back at
his desk today after attending the
Republican national convention
where the principal worry was IL
quor.
He was informed that the Cali
fornia water resources commission,
which promised him a report on its
water studies as soon as he got back
from Chicago, was nearing the end
Of its deliberations.
The governor said he expected to
go to San Francisco late today to
discuss the water situation with
Judge Matt I. Sullivan, chairman
OF the commission.
Whether a special session of the
state legislature to consider a pro-
posed amendment adopted by the
commission will be recommended, is
problematical.
1t is believed the governor will
wait for reports of a special dele
cation of state officials, headed by
Col. Walter E. Garrison, director of
public works, which leaves Sacra-
mento today for Washington, D. c.,
to seek increased federal aid for the
1915 100000 water development pro-
gram.
Rolph was silent on his position
on the prohibition plank at the
You know what my attitude has
always been on this subject" he
said.
The governor arrived in Califor-
MIA 7 hours ahead of the train
which brought the first of the dele
gates home. He was here in time
to receive Fathers day congratula-
tions from his three children.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
DISABLED VETS
PLAN CUSTER OF
MANY MEMBERS
q ntt. HsssSshi ssaai.s.a- las

SAN DIEGO, June 20. U.H =
Demand that veterans who did not
receive their disabilities in actual
fighting during the World war,
resign from the Disabled American
Veterans organization will form
one OF the major issues at the ma
tional convention which opened
here today.
The fight to GUST the $1,000
members of the organization who
received their disabilities subse-
quent to the war will be led by
George Calvert, blind leader of the
Syracuse, N. Y; delegation.
"a billion dollars has been spent
for compensation, Calvert de-
clared, land Of this sum only
S200,000,000 has gone for war dis
abled. The balance has been paid
cut for peacetime disabilities and
administrative work"
Other issues which will form the
heavy firing" of the convention
| will be light wines and beer, ad-
vocated by the New Jersey delega-
ton; reiteration of the stand in
favor Of immediate payment of the
adjusted compensation certificates
and compensation economy.
E. Claude Babcock, national
commander of the organization,
predicted a nation wide movement
on the part Of the disabled vet
Grams to prevent federal economy
measures from slicing into the
compensation Of men who lost
their earning power during the war.
Approximately 1000 delegates
have registered for the D. A. v.
convention with another 1000 dele
gates attending the convention of
the Women'S auxiliary.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
DOCTOR PRODUCES SERUM WHICH
MAY ERADICATE TYPHOID FEVER

WASHINGTON, June 20. u.P)
I'm a serum made from fIeas,
medical science has found an
absolute preventive against ty-
phus fever, a plague dreaded
through the centuries.
The discovery, announced to-
day by the United States Pub
lie Health service, was made
after years of research by DR..
r. E. Dyer, a surgeon in the
health service, In the course
of the experimentation, DIR.
Dyer and his associates delib-
erately exposed themselves to
infection with typhus and dem
onstrated the effectiveness of
the serum.
IL had been known that ty-
phus is carried by rats and
mice. But ii was not until
early this year that DIR. Dyer
established definitely that the
dreaded disease is transmitted
to human beings only by par
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
Actors Son Held
For Girls Death

LOS ANGELES, June 20. W.R-
Harold L. Menjou, 20, adopted son
of Adolph Menjou, motion picture
actor, faced charge OF suspicion
of murder today after the death
of Marjorie Gauthier, l6, in an
automobile accident.
Motorcycle Officer D. Jones de-
clared Menjou's machine was
speeding at 80 miles an hour when
it turned over, killing the girl in
stantly. Menjou escaped with a
few scratches.
The charge was placed against
the youth several hours after the
accident. The motorcycle officer
said he was chasing Men1ou to
cite him as q speeder.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
Los Angeles Milk
Ruling Protested

LOS ANGELES, June 20. W.P)-
Discrimination against Kern county
dairymen was charged in a protest
against Los Angeles proposed
municipal milk ordinance by the
Kern County Chamber of Com
merce.
The chamber objected in let
ter to the city council, to a pro-
posed tax of two mills per pound
of butter fat intended to pay the
expense of additional inspection
required by the ordinance. The
chamber contended present Kern
county inspections are adequate.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
Arizona Concerns
Stock Is Banned

LOS ANGELES, June 20. U.P) -
Sale of securities of Camp B Copper
Mines company, an Arizona con-
Germ, was banned today in an order
issued by the California state di-
vision of corporations.
Corporation Commissioner Edwin
M. Daugherty ordered Archie E.
Webb of Glendale, promoter and
principal stockholder of the COM
pany, not to sell or deal in the
stock.
Daugherty said sale of the securi-
ties has not been authorized in this
state. The commissioner alleged
Webb purchased the stock from an
Arizona estate for TIE cents and
resold shares at ST each.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
C0lima Damaged
By Earthquake

COLIMA, Mex, June 90. UP)-
Two severe earthquakes within Is
days and countless minor tremblors
had damaged practically every
building in Colima today, de-
stroying 10 per cent of them.
Colima was the center of recent
quakes. The number of deaths
was low, because the population
was warned by slight quakes. Four
deaths were reported. The injured
were estimated at several hundred.
Governor Saucedo told the
Unitde Press the city would be re-
built Immediately, as far as funds
permit.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
INSPECTING BARRIERS

S. P. Mccullough and B. A.
Lovett, inspectors for the state bar
bers' board, are in Ell Centre today
making an examination of local
barber shops.
They recently completed a SIM
liar inspection in Brawley, the state,
and six BARRIERS of that city were
fined for violating the state laws
governing barber shops.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
TAXAT
TO BEGIN
TUESDAY
Score OF Excise And Spe-
cial Taxes Become Eff
fective At Midnight.
BIG SUM EXPECTED
Over Billion Anticipated
From Revenue Bill Re-
Gently Passed.

WASHINGTON, June 90. U.P -
Americans tonight will begin to
learn the price OF balancing the
federal budget.
At one minute past midnight 4
score of excise and special taxes
become effective and the govern
ment will begin dipping into the
pockets of rich and poor for the
S1,118,500,000 of new revenue 1t ex-
poets to gain during the next year.
The love sick youth who calls his
sweetheart by long distance telc-
phone after midnight tonight will
find the cost of his call Increased
from 10 to 20 cents by a new tax.
Tomorrow the stenographer buy
ing a 50-cent filler for her face
powder compact is likely to find a
nickel added for tax.
The motorist will be charged an
extra penny on every gallon of gas
oline.
In brokerage offices everywhere,
stock market traders will have to
give Uncle Sam four cents for
every share of stock thE buy.
With each succeeding day, the
new taxes will be felt with increas-
ing severity. Strictly speaking, the
new manufacturers' excise taxes are
to be paid by the manufacturer
when the goods pass from him to
distributors. In many cases it is
expected the ultimate consumer will
not feel the tax until after retailers
have exhausted their present stock
of goods.
The new excise taxes apply to
lubricating oils, gasoline, wort, malt
| syrup, grape concentrate, tires and
tubes, cosmetics, furs, jewelry, au-
tomobiles, radios, Photographs, re-
frigeratorc, sporting goods, CAM
eras, firearms, matches, candy.
chewing gum. soft drinks, electrl-
city and imported oil, lumber, coal
ana copper.
Tax On Checks
The special tax Of two rents on
each bank check also becomes ef-
fective tomorrow along with special
levies on new issues of stocks and
bonds, transfers of stocks, bonds
and real estate, safety deposit
boxes, transportation of oil by pipe
line and sales of produce Tor fu-
ture delivery.
After July 5, it will cost three
cents to mail a letter. And next
March, income taxes will become
payable at sharply increased rates.
The new admission tax was one
of the most troublesome for which
the bureau of internal revenue had
to devise rules. The tax is cne cent
for each 10 cents which the adnis-
sion ticket costs in excess OF 10
cents.
The bureau decided thai the cover
charge imposed by night clGts, roof
gardens and cabarets was taxable.
1t also ruled that the food served
in these places should be taxed if
it is priced high enough to cover
the cost of entertainment. The bu-
reau cited this example:
"a man goes to a cabareI where
there is a general admission charge
of 80 cents. The entertainment is
very elaborate, and this is reflected
in the price of food. His bill for
food comes to S1237. In this case
there is an admission tax of eight
cents due on the 80 cents paid for
admission. But as this amount is
clearly inadequate, there is also a
tax of 38 cents based on the amount
paid for food"
But if you go to cabaret to dine
and leave before the entertainment
begins, you do not have to pay any
tax.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
ADOPT HOOVER PLAN

WASHINGTON, June 20. U.P)-
The Sl50,000000 national economy
bill essential to the treasury bud
get balancing program, moved clos
er toward final enactment today
when the house adopted President
Hoover's "payless furlough" plan OF
cutting federal sa.aries.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
Dickson Seeking
Another Record

SANTA MONICA, Calf, June 20.
(UR)-Capt. James Dickson and
three passengers took-off from Clo-
Yer field here at 3:11:45 a. m. (PST)
today seeking a new transconti-
mental speed record.
Dickson's passengers were Arthur
NJ. Loew, Hal Roach and William
Melniker, motion picture eXecu-
tiyes. The plane is owned by
Roach
The flyer set a new east-West rec
ord last week when he flew three
men from New York to Los Angeles
in IA hours 40 minutes. The pres
ent west-east record is II hours Is
minutes, held by Lieut.. James Doo-
little.
PUEBLO, Colo, June 20. (U.P)-
Capt. James Dickson, flying from
Santa Monica, Calf, to New York,
in an effort to break the west-east
tranScontinental speed record now
held by Major James Doolittle,
made % minute stop here today.
Arriving at $40 a. m. (MST). he
refueled his place and departed at
9:02 a. m. He said the trip from
Santa Monica to Pueblo had re-
CURED four hours and 81 minutes.
Perfect flying weather prevailed,
he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
SEEK TO SELL BONDS

LOS ANGELES, June 20. U.P)-
The Los Angeles county board OF
supervisors today passed a resolu-
ton asking enactment by congress
of an enabling law to permit the
reconstruction corporation to pur-
chase the $220,000,000 Colorado river
aqueduct issue as means of un-
employment relief.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-06-20
.AsWgll-
~ ROGERS
W '.SQyS:

SANTA MONICA, June 20.
(SpeciaD-Mr. Hoover says he
is not going out and electioneer
for the job. That's kinder like
a pitchers "I don't even need
to warm up against this team"
I believe if some one of the
Democratic candidates would
say the same thing, he would
be nominated. For the Demo-
Gratis have lost many an elec-
ton between June and Noyem-
ber.
This is one year the more a
man promises the less he will
be believed. Voters are not going
to vote for a man this year
with any hope Of him helping
'em any. They are just going
to vote for hirn-well, 1 don't
believe they will even go to the
trouble of voting.
They have lost everything
else, so they are afraid they
might lose their vote.
Yours,
W<&2 Ke7%AA-
o "'s. Rss.ssA' svsal-..a- Ia.
Evening star., 1932-03-12
Critics Defended as Guides
To Selection of Good Plays

and the stage can use any amount of
saving"
1T is mainly the New York critics"
observes the Cincinnati Times Star,
whom DR.. Sirovich wished to confront
Let it be said in their defense that a
play is like a tart, and one sickens Of
tarts as steady diet. In the height
OF New York season, with each week
witnessing a number of first nights,
there is something like a case of criti-
cal indigestion in all the best aisle
seats. Let it be said also that the New
York critics see number of unsatis-
factory plays which never reach prov
inces to afflict the critics there. These
considerations may explain, but they do
not excuse, the ruling vice of metro
politan criticism. Its eXponentS tend to
be exhibitionists, writing about them
selves rather than about the show, and
scattering vicious wisecracks-the kind
sure to provoke an admiring giggle-in-
stead of aiming at a measured opinion. !"
1T is flattering to the critics." thinks
the Providence Bulletin, Ito attribute
such powerful influence to their opin-
ions. We doubt II even the proudest OF
them has suspected himself of such
power. And it is very decent indeed
OF Mr.. Sirovich to invite them down to
Washington to spend day with him at
the public expense. They might, to help
pay back the expense Of the journey,
give us their devastating opinions upon
the show which Mr. Sirovich and his
account 'em-434 fellow Representa-
tives are putting ON for the dear public"