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Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
SCORES KILLED
AS M0SLEMS AND
HINDUS BATTLE

BOMBAY, India, May 16. (U.P,t--
Three days of murderous strife be-
tween Hindus and Moslems, during
which British troops fired into the
rioters to restore order, had re-
suited in go dead and TOO injured
today.
Today's casualties were % dead
and $50 injured.
Hundreds of families were flee
ing the city.
Police fired five times in differ
ent places today into the crowds
which were looting and burning.
The entire northern city re-
sembled a battlefield in which
troops were handicapped by the
guerilla tactics of bloodthirsty
crowds.
The traditional rivalry between
Hindus and Moslems flared into
violence Saturday, touched of
when Moslem boys allegedly stoned
Hindu homes. Street fights began
pedestrians were stoned or stabbed
houses were set on fire, and soon
an entire street was in flames.
Police said many women and
children were in the blazing houses
and that numerous occupants pre-
ferred to die in the flames rather
than rush into the streets and be
attacked. Several deaths and In
juries were caused by persons
jumping to the streets from blaz-
ing buildings.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
GRAND JURY TO
PROBE SLAYINC
AT CALIPATRIA

While Joe Hatfield, Jack Williams
and Bob Roberts were taken to
Calipatria today for arraignment on
charge of numbering v. Gomez
Mexican laborer, last Wednesday
the county grand jury was prepar-
ing to take up an investigation of
the Staying, with possibility the
three may be indicted this after
noon.
Indications of the grand jury's
intention were seen when Subpoenas
were issued to all officers and 9TH
ers who had a hand in the inveSti-
CATION after Gomez body was dis
covered in the Alamo river, held to
the bottom by scrap iron weights
at the head and feet.
A grand jury indictment would
do away with the necessity of a
preliminary hearing in justice
court, and also would leave the
prosecution free of cross -examina
ton of witnesses at such a prelim-
mary hearing. Should the grand
jury return an indictment, the case
will go before Judge Vaughn N
Thompson in superior court.
At a coroner's inquest Hatfield
was named as the man who shot
Gomez in the back of the head with
a rifle, and the other two men were
listed as accomplices. The three
were drunk at the time of the slay-
ing, and had been drinking fol
/ several days. This was just south
of Calipatria.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
METHODISTS PLAN CAMPAIGN TO
RETAIN THIRTEEN DRY STATES

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., May 16.
(U.R)-Methodism marshalled it's
forces today to hold 13 states in the
battle against repeal of the 18th
amendment, admitting it was fight
ing with its back to the wall, out
generated by the vets in the past
decade.
A warning statement by the
mems council of the quadrennial
general conference was adopted
yesterday urging a crusade to hold
l3 states until the tide of public
opinion can be turned against the
opponents of prohibition.
The constitutional right and
power of IS states to veto repeal
has just now tremendous strate-
gic Importance, the council said.
UNLESS we can win our young
people forthwith we are lost"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
HITTING MULE
DISASTROUS TO
KELLY LIBERTY

LANCASTER, Calf, May 16.
W.Pl - When James B. Kelly, %,
drove his car into a mule near
here yesterday, he failed to stop
and render aid to the animal, so
today he was in the county jail
facing charges of suspicion of rob-
berry, grand theft and Jail breaking.
Kelly, who police said is wanted
in four states for automobile thefts,
was to be returned to the Arizona
state prison, from which he
assertedly escaped in December,
1923.
Deputy sheriffs were informed
that Kelly's automobile side-swiped
grazing mule, and then went to
the Lancaster hospital for treat
ment of his own cuts and bruises
The mules irate owner, seeking
retribution for the grave ills Of
his beast, called the sheriff's depu-
ties, who discovered that Kelly
was driving an automobile regis
tered to Arthur G. Greenleaf,
Santa Monica.
Kelly's incarceration followed.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
LENGTHY ILLNESS
BRINGS DEATH TO
CAPTAIN DOLLAR
Veteran Shipping Mag.
nate Expires At Ad-
vanced Age.

SAN RAFAEL, CALI, May 16.
WP1A world to whom he proved
the value of trade with the Orient
today mourned the death of Capt.
Robert S. Dollar, dynamic patriarch
of Pacific coast shipping.
Captain Dollar, stricken i'll three
weeks ago, died at his home here
at ITO a. m. today He was 80 years
old. He did not recover from the
coma into which he sank Sunday.
With him when the end came
were Mrs. Dollar, with whom he
celebrated their forty seventh ami
versary lost September; their sons,
A. Melville Dollar of Vancouver,
B. c., R. Stanley Dollar of San
Francisco and j. Harold Dollar of
San Rafael; their daughters-in-law
and grandchildren.
The end was not unexpected
Early Sunday, DR.. r. C. Duffigy,
Dollars physician, gave up hope
for recovery.
The family gathered several
months ago when Doctor Duffigy
expressed fears for his patients
life. Captain Dollar weathered
that illness, however, and returned
to his desk, where throughout his
long life he found much of his
happiness.
He contracted his fatal attack
while attending a Sunday school
meeting, which he addressed. He
was a devout churchgoer, and gave
much of his time and resources
to religious work.
Dollars body will be taken to the
Presbyterian church, of which he
was a devout and influential men,
ber, tomorrow and will lie in state
there until funeral services are held
Wednesday at 2 p. m.
Interment will be in the Dollar
family vault in the Mount Tamal-
pals cemetery.
Although Captain Dollars fame
was won in shipping activities, it
was as lumberman that he spent
many of his active years. He was
81 when he began his first shipping
venture, inspired by a desire for
better shipping facilities to and
from his California timber lands.
At his death he held an interest
| in timber companies but most OF
| the Dollar fortune was in liners
that piled the seven seas.
Born in Falkirk, Scotland, ir
! 1874 of a hardy seafaring family
Capt. Robert Stanley Dollar began
work at IL in a machine shop, leav-
ing school for pay of 80 cents a
week.
His mother died soon after and
his father took the family to Can
ada, where young Dollar went to
work at IA in stave factory and
then as cooks boy in a logging
camp. He rose steadily and when
young man invested his savings in
lumber business of his own. A
depression plunged him deeply into
debt, which he still faced when he
married Miss Margaret Proudfoot, a
thrifty Scotch girl to whom he Of
ten gave credit for much of his
success.
The Dollars came to California in
1887, engaging in lumber trade un-
til 1861, when the first Dollar ship,
CONTINUED On rage 81
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
SHORTRIDGE TO SUPPORT MOVE
FOR REFERENDUM ON REPEAL

WAS HINGT TON, May I6.
W.P)-Advocates of a referen-
dunn on repeal or modification
of the eighteenth amendment
gained recruit today from
President Hoover's home state
when Senator ShOrtridge (Rep.)
California, announced he would
support such a move.
Shortridge is considered one
of the most regular of admins
traticn Republicans.
81 favor giving the people
opportunity to exercise their
right to modify or alter or re-
peal the eighteenth amendment
to the constitution" Short
ridges statement said.
II believe and have always
believed that the people should
be given, and / shall vote to
give them, opportunity to ex-
ercise that inherent, constitu-
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
CELEBRATION TO
MARK OPENING
OF NEW ROAD

Elaborate preparations are being
made for the celebration of the
formal opening of the Kane
Springs-Julian road, according to
information received at the Ell
Centro Chamber of Commerce. The
opening is to be observed on May
80 at Dry Lake and Julian and
ceremonies will begin at 10 o'clock.
An invitation has been issued to
Governor Rolph and his staff to be
present and, according to present
plans, he is expected to come by
plane to Dry Lake, which is II
miles west of Kane Springs and,
after opening the new road, will
lead a motorcade of Imperial VAL
ley folk to Julian. where the cele-
tration which will begin at IL
noon.
The program, according to Geroge
E. Kruger, secretary director of
Joint Highway district No. II, will
include a free barbecue at noon,
addresses by prominent speakers
following the barbecue and at 2
o'clock a ball game. At 8 in the
evening there will be a dance at
the town hall at Julian, with music
furnished by the Escondido band.
Kruger has asked that those Ell
Centre persons planning to attend
the opening of this important road
notify the Ell Centro Chamber of
Commerce in order that those in
charge of the affair may be able
to make arrangements to adequate
ly take care of the visitors and the
Ell Centro chamber urges that ers-
ervations be made early enough to
| facilitate these arrangements.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
ELECTION
ORDINANCE APPROVED

Voting unanimously once the
ordinance had been presented to
them, the county board of super
visors this morning adopted the
ordinance which officially will call
an election July to choose board
of Is freeholders to draw up pro-
posed county charter.
The ordinance had been pre-
pared by S. L. McCrory, deputy
district attorney. 1t is to be pub
lished five times in order that
voters may know at what places
they are to cast their vote, and in
which precinct they reside.
1t is constitutional requirement
that, for such an election, the
supervisors fix the precincts and
name the election boards. Most Of
the arrangements for the election
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16

The statement asserted that pub
lie opinion has been polluted by q
steady stream of mendacity about
prohibition" but warned political
leaders who desert the cause of
temperance that there are enough
Christian votes to dig their graves. /"
I'm this crisis" the statement
said, "Methodism expects every fol.
lower of John Wesley to do his du-
ty." 1t disclaimed any intention to
dictate, but added that "a Method
ist layman who is indifferent tc the
cause has forsworn his birthrigkt,
and a Methodist pulpit in which
the minister is no longer free to
denounce restoration of legalized
liquor traffic has ceased to be a
Methodist pulpit in principle and
should cease to disgrace the name"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
Japanese Flyer
Falls Into Bay

SAN FRANCISCO, May 16.
U.R> Failing 1000 feet into San
Francisco bay when the motor of
his seaplane failed, Seiji Yoshi-
hara, japanese aviator who plans
Pacific flight, suffered a broken
right arm and severe cuts and
bruises late today.
The plane hit the water near
Bay Farm Island. Ray Pratt, Oak
land airport mechanic, waded in
and fished Yoshihara and the me-
chanic, Tom Oishi, out of the
water. Oishi was uninjured.
The plane was salvaged.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
Alfalfa WeeviI
Survey Planned

An immediate survey to determine
whether or not any alfalfa weevil
exists in Imperial Valley will be
undertaken by B. A. Harrigan, ag-
ricultural commissioner.
The dreaded infestation has been
found in San Joaquin valley where
the infested area is quarantined
until eradication is effected. The
alfalfa weevil is extremely difficult
to eradicate, Harrigan states, add
ing that none has ever been found
in Imperial county and that he
does not anticipate that the survey
will reveal its presence.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16

SLAYERS
GIVE UP
Group Who Shot Premier
Of japan To Face Mill
tary Trials.
CABINET RESIGNS
Sundays Reign Of Terror
In Toxic Seen As Poll
tiCal Move.
BY MILES w. VAUGHN
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
TOXIC, May l6.-Assassinatio
of Japan's aged premier by mill
tarists planning dictatorship or
Fascist super party" and anti
peace government left them facing
execution today-at the end of a
brief reign of terror in which gov
ernment property was bombed.
several were wounded and one DO
liceman was killed
The assassins raced through
Toxic streets in motor cars as they
hurled their bombs, throwing the
populace into a panic.
Seventy-seven-year-old Tsuyoshi
1nukai, premier and the "old fox"
of Japanese politics, was executed
in his home by six men wearing
military uniforms who battered
their way past police guards.
They called Inukai from a room
where he was chatting with a Wis
itor Two men held the premier.
Another fired twice, one bullet en-
tering the temple and another
penetrating nostril The premier
died at midnight Sunday.
One policeman died of wounds
received at the premier's residence.
Two other policemen, Journalist,
and a guest of the premier were
wounded.
The quiet of Sunday in TOXIC
was disturbed by the roar Of auto
mobile motors and explosion of
bombs. They did little damage and
! apparently were aimed chiefly at
terrorizing the population, when
the extremists raced through the
streets. The latter hurled explo-
sives at dozen buildings, includ-
ing the Bank of Japan, the police
headquarters opposite the palace
where a bomb was thrown at the
emperor, the Mitsui bank. and the
residences of Count Maxine. lord
keeper of the privy seal; Foreign
Minister Kenkichi Yoshizawa, and
Admiral Kantaro Suzuki.
Offers to Farley
The premier fully aware of the
reactionists' plans, made O futile
plea to escape his own execution.
He walked toward the invaders
and said:
Don't shoot, I will listen to
your demands
One of the men started to speak.
He was interrupted by cries of
Shoot; Shootm from the leader.
Two men sprang forward and
grabbed Inukai. The leaders COM
mand was obeyed. And the victim
was the fourth within little more
than a year.
Eighteen men took part in the
various demonstrations throughout
the capital. All surrendered to po-
lice and will be tried by military
courts.
Emperor Hirohito accepted the
resignation of the cabinet, offered
according to tradition after the
death of a premier, but asked the
members to retain office pending
formation of new government.
The terrorists appeared to be of
the same group which planned
assassination of government Off
cials last October. Those plans
were spoiled by leak to the mill
tary police.
Evidence OF an internal war
among the reactionaries was seen
in the killing yesterday of q. Nish-
ida, member of the blood brother
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16

tional right with respect to the
eighteenth amendment.
"While the amendment re-
mains part of the constitu-
ton of the United States, il
must be upheld"
Senator Reed (Rep.) Penn
sylvania, and Shortridge are the
latest of several administration
senators who have joined the
referendum group.
ShOrtridge's statement was
interpreted as another indica-
tion that President Hoover
would not oppose a referendum
plank in the Republican plat
form to be drafted at Chicago.
In conversations with Republi-
can members of congress,
Hoover is understood to have
given the impression that he
would be sympathetic to such
q plank,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
Two Killed In
Airplane Crash

JEROME, Ariz., May 16. {U.Py-
Funeral arrangements for william
A. Clark III, son of the late Mon
tana senator, and Jack Lynch, 43,
airplane pilot, VINO were killed yes
terday when their blind-flown
plane crashed near here, had not
been completed today.
Both bodies were to be sent to
Los Angeles tonight, arriving to-
morrow morning, it was learned,
and relatives or friends were to
arrange for sending Clark's re-
mains to Montana. 1t was not
known here what disposition would
be made of Lynch's remains.
Lynch, former transforming
comrade of Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh, was instructing Clark in
blind flying, of which Lynch was
regarded as a master, when the
plane went into tailspin and
crashed into a field. Both men
were dead when bystanders
reached the spot.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
C0umas' Son Calls
For His Father

STOCKTON, Calf, May 16.
(SpeciaD - Peter Coumas, 4-year-
old son of a suspected murderer,
was in the San Joaquin general
hospital today facing possible
death because of pneumonia con-
tracted while he was held at the
local detention home.
The boys father, Tom r. Coumas,
is charged with the murder near
here of Mrs. Olive Taylor, school
teacher, whose body was found at
the school where she taught. She
had been shot to death.
Physicians attending the boy
held little hope for his recovery,
although there is some chance nc
may win his fight for life. He calls
constantly for his father, hospital
attendants said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
WHAT'S DOING

TONIGHT
F. and A. M. No. 384. 1880,
Masonic Temple.
Glee Club, 8, Academy of
Music.
Troop 6, Il. S. A., 1880 Chris
tian church.
Sea Scout ship AZ, 1880, Elks
Hall.
Baseball, 8, Wilson school.
Valley theatre, platinum
Blonde.
Fox Imperial theatre, Trial
of Vivienne Ware.
TOMORROW
Lions club, Barbara Worth.
Christian Church Circle, 2:30,
632 Orange.
Barbara Worth Auxiliary, 3,
golf club.
Barbara Worth board, 3, golf
club.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
Ballplayer Held
On Theft Count

LOS ANGELES, May 16. (U.Py-
Elmer j. (DicD Cox, SO, said to be
the baseball player who three years
ago engaged in fist fight with
John McGraw, manager of the
New York Giants, was in the county
Jail today accused of decamping
with a fellow players salary.
Cox had recently been a member
Of the Phoenix, Ariz., baseball team
in the Arizona-TeXas league, but
when the club disbanded recently,
Cox was given part of the salary
due him with the understanding
he was to have split the money
with another player, according to
deputy sheriffs. This he allegedly
failed to do.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16

already are under way, with elec-
ton supplies being prepared and
election boards under process Of
selection.
Voting places and precincts are
fixed in the ordinance adopted this
morning. In numerous instances
precincts have been consolidated
for the purpose of the election.
Other business taken up by the
supervisors this morning was of a
routine nature. Election returns
finally were approved.
A contract with the department
of agriculture was adopted whereby
D. M. Downing is to be retained
for another year as state milk in
spector in Imperial county. The
county will pay to the department
of agriculture $185 a month for his
services.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
CONVICT
7 RIO OF
OIL men
Richfield Officials Found
Guilty On Grand Theft
Charges.
FACE PRISON TERMS
Sentence To Be Passed
Wednesday On Fuller,
Talbot And Mckee.

LOS ANGELES, May 16. U.P) -
Three former high officials of the
Richfield Oil company today were
found guilty of grand theft in ham
ding of the funds of the organi-
Zation.
They were j. A. Talbot, G. NJ
Fuller and r. w. Mckee, respective
ly former chairman of the board.
president and president.
The convictions were based on
their diverting $245, 1925 of the now
bankrupt oil company's funds to
their own use.
The men also were accused of
conspiracy of grand theft but Su-
perior Judge Leon Yankwich, who
tried the case without jury, &C
quilted them on that count.
Judge Yankwich ruled that Tai
bot was guilty on two counts OF
grand theft, Fuller on six counts
and Mckee on one count.
The jurist set Wednesday morn
ing as the time at which he will
pronounce sentence.
Talbot and Fuller, both Million
aires, and Mckee, their former ac-
countant who was elevated to q
presidency, were Immediately
remanded to the custody of Sheriff
William l. Traeger,
Talbot faces a possible sentence
of from to 20 years in prison.
Fuller, most severely dealt with
in the verdict, may be sentenced
to a maximum of to GO years on
his siX-count conviction.
Mckee, although convicted OF
one count liable to term of from
l to 10 years, was determined by
Judge Yankwich to have been a
notwithstanding orders from
his superiors.
Fuller alone received the verdict
unshaken. He nonchalantly flicked
the ash from the cigar in its ex-
pensive holder, which had been
much in evidence through the five
week trial.
A story of extravaganza and wild
spending was unfolded by the state
during the trial Of the three Oil
executives
The prosecution claimed that the
three men used company funds to
purchase and maintain yachts. to
buy costly presents for race drivers
and to landscape their homes.
Guilt Denied
The men, however, pleaded that
most of the money they spent went
to bolster the Shaky margin &C
counts in the market crash of 1929,
and that their cases were without
felonious intent, with the market
position of the company their only
worry.
Numerous other counts against
the defendants, in other indict-
ments, still await trial but Judge
Yankwich's verdict in the present
case virtually decided them all.
The prosecution admittedly pre-
sented all its evidence in this case,
with the outcome to determine the
status of other similar indictments.
In the trial just closed, Talbot,
Fuller and Mckee were accused OF
conspiracy and nine counts of
grand theft, all assertedly taking
place in October and November
of 1929.
The men were indicted Novem-
Der 5, 1881, and came to trial April
IL. Judge Yankwich took it under
decision last Thursday.
Fuller had been with the Rich
field company since its organiza-
ton in 1915. Talbot was named
chairman when he entered the Or
ganization with the merger of the
United Oil company, which he
headed, in 1926. Mckee, a young
accountant, was the last of the
three to join. He is the author OF
a book on oil company accounting.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
McIver Better
After Operation

F. H. McIver, secretary-treasurer
of the Imperial Irrigation district,
is recovering in a Long Beach hos
pital today, after an appendicitis
operation performed yesterday.
His condition today is said to be
satisfactory with his pulse and
temperature normal. Mrs. McIver,
who is with him, telephoned rela-
tives and friends here at noon.
The secretary has been ill for
about 10 days, suffering from a re-
currence OF attacks from which he
had at intervals for some time and
said to have been relieved by yes
terdays operation.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
PAINTINGS VALUE INCREASED

ST. LOUIS. W.P)-A painting Of
young patrician lady, which for
IL years has hung in the city ant
museum here as the work of Clam
pietrino, pupil of Leonardo da
Vinci, has been identified as the
work of Andrea Salai, another
pupil of Da Vinci's. The city paid
$4,000 for the picture, which, ac-
cording to Maurice Goldblatt, Chi
cago art critic, is worth $4,000, as
the work of Salai.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
HUNDREDS SAVED
AS ship BURNS
IN ADEN GULF

MARSEILLES, France, May i6.--
UP)-ReScue liners have saved
nearly 600 passengers from the
steamer Georges Philippar, aband-
oned in flames in the Gulf Of Alden,
the Jetee wireless station was in
formed today. No information on
the number of dead was available.
Wireless advices to the ships
owners, however, said all passen-
gers and crew had quit the burning
ship, which was still ir flames ard
considered a total loss.
The station reported four liners
and three freighters arrived mar
the burning vessel and picked up
the passengers as they took to the
boats.
PARIS, May l6.--U.P)-Seyera
lifeboats overturned when passen-
gers were leaving the steamer
Georges Philippar, the owners OF
the boat, Messageres Maritimes,
were informed in the only wire>,ss
message they received from tho
captain.
There was no indication Of the
number OF passengers or crew lost,
If any, officials OF the company
said.
The message said passengers had
taken 10 the boats and that the
line probably would have 10 be
abandoned due 10 the rapid spread
of the flames,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-16
@WILL-
~ ROGERS
w ..SQyS:

SANTA MONICA, May 16.
(SpeciaD-The big news in the
papers today was the different
beer parades" held over the
country. New York, the orig
inator of this unique enter
tainment, they had 100000 in
line. Then there was 100000
sitting speak naturallys' that
was drinking beer and watching
humorously the 100000 that
was perspiring and marching
Washington, D. c., had one.
Theirs was an inaugural pa
rade". They were inaugurating
% new congressional places.
Chicago broke the record.
they only had one man in their
beer parade. 1t was learned
afterwards he was a stranger
in the city. Marching for beer
is exactly like taking an umbel-
la with you in bathing.
Yours