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Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
OFFICERS FOIL
BOLD ATTACK BY
THREE CONVICTS
One Prisoner Slain Dur
ing Gun Battle On Los
Angeles Street

LOS ANGELES, July Is. U.P)
One prisoner was killed and two
others probably fatally wounded
today when they made desperate
break for freedom and engaged in
gun battle with two deputy
sheriffs.
The three prisoners, robbery sus-
poets, we're being taken to Long
Beach by automobile to face trial
there.
J. P Brady, one of the trio, was
instantly killed when he was
moved down by the deputy's bull
let's, while Burt Mcbride and Roy
Brent were critically wounded.
Deputy Sheriffs Jack Wilmot and
c.. E. Pealer were taking the three
to Long Beach when the prisoners
suddenly attempted to overpower
the deputies at Eighty eighth and
Alameda streets.
Captain William Bright of the
sheriffs homicide detail said the
deputies had handcuffed the three
prisoners together in the rear seat
Informed of this Chief Deputy
Sheriff A. o. Jewel ordered an i'm
mediate investigation into this vio-
lation of rules. One officer must
always ride in the rear seat, he said.
The prisoners, Bright said, at
tempted to choke the two officers
into submission, but were hampered
| by their handouts.
The bullet-ridden tonneau of the
machine gave evidence of the ter
rible fusillade of shots with which
| the deputies met the attempted
break for freedom.
| Both Mcbride and Brent. %
years of age and said to be ex-con-
victs, had several bullet wounds.
The men were being taken to
Long Beach for sentence on robbery
charges
I Although deputies denied 1t, po-
lice said they had been informed OF
a purported plot by confederates
to aid the trio in escaping. The
alleged plotters had planned to
wreck the deputies automobile with
\ e' u I'm dAiNA CllCll W lClCdSC LIE SuS-
poets with an assortment of hand
cuff keys.
The three men had just been re-
turned here from San Quentin to
face additional robbery charges.
They previously had been sentenced
to serve from five years to life for
robbery, in Orange county on April
5, 1882.
On the prior conviction they had
been identified as the bandits who
robbed the Southern California Tel
ephone company office in Anaheim
the American Tobacco company
office in Long Beach, and the Kill
patrick Baking company in Santa
Ana.
Brady was So years old.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
SPANIARD HELD
FOR THEFT OF
CROFTON PURSE

MEXICO CITY July Is. tU.P)-
Marino Sordo Spaniard, was held
today in connection with the dis
appearance of wallet belonging to
James N. Crofton, official of the
Aqua Caliente Resort Corporation,
injured in an airplane accident
which cost the life Of Charles w.
Gilpin, president of the Gilpin Air
Lines of Los Angeles.
Sordo was said to have been one
of the first persons to reach the
scene Of the accident Police said
the wallet, containing $4,000 in
checks, was found on Sordo's per-
son, but that $4,000 and 500 pesos in
cash supposed to have been in the
wallet was missing
The accident, in which four were
injured and Gilpin killed, revealed
the secret marriage Of Crofton and
Mona Rico, motion picture actress.
Crofton, receiving the United
Press correspondent in the Toluea
hospital operating room said he
and Miss Rico were married at
Juarez, Son., April |, later repeat
ing the ceremony at Miami, Florida.
Crofton received broken leg and
hand and his bride was cut and
bruised.
Crofton's divorce from Mrs. Vera
Crofton Of San Diego became final
recently.
Selisardo verdugo Of San Diego
and a woman friend Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Crofton were seriously injured
IN the crash. The party was en-
route to Mexico City for an inter-
view with President Ortiz Rubio.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
Screen Players
Plan To Marry

HOLLYWOOD, July is. U.H-
The engagement of Evalyn Knapp
and Donald Cook, motion picture
players, was informally announced
by Miss Knapp today.
The couple met while they were
under contract at Warner Bros.
studios a year ago. Miss Knapp
injured her hip in a fall and daily
for many weeks Cook was a visitor
at her bedside.
Recently Cook was hurt in an au-
tomobile accident and Miss Knapp
became the daily visitor.
Il am very much in love with
Donald and he is with me-" said
Miss Knapp. "I guess you could
call us engaged. He gave me a
ring on my last birthday"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
FIRST RALLY OF
CAMPAIGN HELD
AT H0LTVILLE

Imperial Valleys first political
gathering before the thunder storm
of the coming primary elections
went off quite peaceably at the
Holtville city park last night when
not more than 200 men and women
listened to every local candidate
but one whose names will be on the
primary ballot.
The lack of attendance at the
meeting was laid to misunderStand-
ingS relative to the date of the
meeting, which originally had been
set for Saturday. Notification of
in time to secure large attend
ance last night.
Every Imperial county candidate
except r, Y. Watson appeared on
the speakers platform. Scatter
ing applause for each speaker
swelled to greater proportions on
only one occasion, when Ernest r.
Utley, candidate for congress, told
of his trip to the Chicago Demo-
cratic convention and predicted
victory for the Roosevelt-Garner
ticket
Calvin c.. Mousseau, president of
the Roosevelt-Garner club, and
Denny McChristy, secretary, were
in charge of the meeting.
The second meeting of this kind
will be held next Thursday at the
Brawley city plaza, and the next
week at Calexico. A meeting will
be held each Thursday evening un-
til the campaign closes. Candi-
dates representing both parties,
and non-partisan candidates, are
given a chance to speak.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
FOUR NOT GUILTY
PLEAS ENTERED
BY ACCUSED PAIR

A hotly contested d battle on legal
points was foreshadowed in SUI
perior court today when Robert
Kloss and Jack Williams appeared
to enter pleas of not guilty to be-
ing accessories after the fact of
the asserted Staying of V. Gomez
by Joe Hatfield south of Calipatria,
May IL.
In addition to the regular plea
of not guilty, each defendant en-
tered three other pleas. These
were not guilty by reason of in
sanity, not guilty by reason of be-
ing twice placed in jeopardy, and
not guilty by reason of a former
acquittal.
Don c. Bitler and Lyman Robert
son, appointed by the court before
the duo, with Joe Hatfield, were
tried on a charge Of murder, ap-
peared as attorneys.
Judge A. C. Finney set trial of
the case for September IL, when
arguments will be heard on the
pleas. 1t is the contention of de-
fense attorneys that Kloss and
Williams cannot be tried as acces-
sories because they were acquitted
when tried as principals during the
same hearing which ended in con-
viction of Hatfield for manslaugh-
ter, and verdict finding Kloss and
Williams not guilty.
Defense attorneys also made the
technical contention that the two
were once acquitted of the crime
charged against them.
Evidence during the murder trial
was that Kloss and Williams aided
Hatfield in disposing of the body
by weighting it with scrap iron and
throwing it into the Alamo river,
after Hatfield Shot Gomez in the
back of the head as the climax OF
a drunken party
1t is probable that Hatfield, now
at San Quentin penitentiary serv-
ing a term of from l to 10 years,
will be returned to Imperial Valley
to testify during the trial of his
asserted confederates.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
GARNER STATES HOOVER
LOOKING FOR A PANIC

Hoover would not veto the bill
again even if it contained the
clause of which he disapproved.
Immediately after the White
House conference, Senators Wag-
ner Dem.) North Carolina, and
Glass (Dem) Virginia, conferred
with Speaker Garner and Majority
Leader Rainey of the house, seek
ing to obtain a promise from the
house leaders to recede on the pub
licity section.
"We told them we positively
would not" Rainey said later. "We
told them it would stay in or there
would be no bill"
Senator Wagner, however, die
not seem to be discouraged by de-
velopments and predicted final ac-
ton on the relief bill today and
adjournment tonight.
Looking for Panic
Speaker Garner declared that
President Hoover was attempting
to make publicity for reconstruction
finance corporation loans the "ex-
cuse" for "the panic which he is
expecting around the corner"
"The President is looking for a
panic around the corner" the
speaker added, land he is looking
for any excuse he can find to have
passed all the legislation which he
had asked"
The house, Immediately after
convening again, sent the relief bill
to conference with the senate, a
conference expected to clear up all
points in disagreement and speed
final passage.
Speaker Garner appointed the
following conferees to compromise
the bill: representatives Collier
(Dem) Mississippi; Rainey Dem.)
Illinois; Doughton (Dem.) North
Carolina; Hawley Rep) Oregon;
Treadway (Rep) Massachusetts,.
The White House statement
placed upon congress the final re-
sponsibility for the fate of relief
legislation. The text of it follows
"The President states that his
policy has been to give the fullest
publicity to all government activity
but that he wished the congress to
be fully apprised of its responsibility
in view of the emergency situation
and also of the unique relations of
the reconstruction finance corpora
ton with the insurance companies,
banks, financial institutions and
savings banks"
At the conference the reconstruc-
ton finance board members ex-
pressed unanimous opposition to
the publicity feature.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
Definite
POSITION
ON DEBTS
Hoover Advises Senator
Borah Nation Will Not
Be COerced.
HERRIOT EXPLAINS
French Premier Asserts
His Remark On Agree
ment Misinterpreted.
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD

United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1892, BY United Press)
WASHINGTON, July 15.-Presi-
dent Hoover has assured the Amer
lean people that they will not be
pressed into any line Of action"
on war debt adjustments by the
Lausanne side agreements.
The President, after an inquiry
by Borah, sent the latter a letter
showing clearly that the United
States was pleased at Europe COM
ing to an understanding on the
European question of reparations,
but making clear this government
would not look kindly on united
'front.' combined action of our
debtors"
His statement was prompted by
Chairman Borah Of the senate
foreign relations committee as a
result of the furore aroused by the
Anglo French agreement.
Meanwhile, this agreement was
interpreted to the United Press by
a competent diplomatic authority
as far more important than a prom
ise to present a united front" to
America on war debts. 1t is viewed
here rather as a British promise
not to combine with Germany in
surprise attack on the Versailles
treaty, basis of the French-fostered
status quo in Europe.
Ever since revelation of the
"gentleman's agreement" of the
Lausanne conferees certain sena-
tors have been bombarding the ad-
ministration. They feared not only
united front" in Europe, but that
the state department had promised
cancellation or revision Of debts.
Publication of the Anglo French
agreement intensified this concern.
Despite senatorial concern, the
state department did not believe
that the Anglo-French agreement
portended united front" on war
debts. That subject, officials
pointed out, was well taken care Of
in the "gentleman's agreement"
which provided that none of the
former allies should ratify the rep
arations settlement cutting Ger
manys payment from more than
$4,000 100000 to something over
S700,0O0,O00 until they reached a
debt settlement with the United
States.
The departments purpose is to
follow its original policy of treat
ing separately with each nation on
war debts, regardless of European
agreements.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
MINlnLlL-,e
V ,s0ys:

BEVERLY HILLS, July IA.
(SpeciaD-Well, let's see what
was staring us in the face from
the papers today. Nurmi, the
great Finnish runner in the
coming Olympics, run in here
yesterday from New York. The
other Firms arrive by plane this
afternoon.
Roosevelt has actually started
his presidential campaign. I
see pictures all over the front
page today of him fishing. Are
we never going to get an ORR
ginal candidate? Well, at least
he didn't stand in the creek
with rubber boots on. This cam
paign will be settled on fish. Do
you want deep sea fisherman
in the White House, founders
and cod, or a big trout and
perch man?
Yours
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
WEAT Their
Sc 7 TING
RECORDS
Tropical Temperatures In
Midwest Area Cause
Of Many Deaths.
RELIEF PROMISED
City Residents Flock To
Open Spaces To Escape
Terrific Heat.

CHICAGO, July Is. U,P)-The
equator .bulged up to the Great
Lakes today on the weather map,
bringing tropic temperatures to
most of mid-America.
Heat records for this date toppled
and all-time records for July NAV
be eclipsed
Early reports indicated that 16
persons died of causes attributable
to the heat and that 16 others
drowned. Prostrations ran into the
scores.
Caught in heat wave that only
q Sahara nomad or a Jungle black
is accustomed to endure. the pop
ulace sought relief by wearing few
est possible light garments and
flocking to beaches and parks. Many
were Frustrated and many drowned.
Hot winds from the southwest
added to the discomfort of a broil-
ing sun in a cloudless sky.
Relief was promised for the week.
end by G. A. Donnell, weather fore
caster of the Chicago Weather Bu-
reau, who said cool winds would
blow down from Canada. He ex-
planned that the hot wave is caused
by vast "sea Of stagnant air" over
the mid-continent, due to abnor-
mally high barometric pressure over
the South Atlantic coast and low
barometric areas m the northwest.
Today's heat was especially op-
pressive because it followed a hot
night. The temperature in Chicago
did not go below 80 during the
night, making it one of the hottest
nights here in 60 years.
Sleep In Parks
In Evansville, Ind, where the
mercury stood in the Goth most of
the night, hundreds of men, women
and children in pajamas and bath
ing SUITS Slept in the parks under
police protection. Acting Mayor
Newton Thrall ordered guards post
ed in all parks and invited all who
wished to sleep in them.
Prospects that the July is record
of 96, set last year, would be sur
passed in Chicago were all too
bright. The temperature rose stead
lily from 81 at 7 a. m. to IS at
8 and 90 at $50. The record for
July is 1o3 degrees, set July 81,
1901.
Elsewhere over the middlewest,
temperatures paralleled those of yes
terday, when 100 degree marks were
set at Evansville, Bloomington, Ind,
st. Louis, Sioux City, Omaha, Dodge
City, Kan, and Concordia, Kan.
Farmers in Arkansas worked from
dawn until II a. m. and then
sought shade. Hundreds of mules
and horses died at the plows.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
Hoover Defines
Debt Position

WASHINGTON, July Is. W.D-
President Hoover today cut his
salary 20 per cent and ordered re-
ductions of Is per cent in the pay
of the yice-president and the cab
met members.
Instead of $4,000 yearly, Hoover
will now receive 100000 and the
president and cabinet mem
bers will get $12,750. instead of
$4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
BY LYLE C. WILSON

Uniteu PreSS Staff correspondent
WASHINGTON, July ,o.-Presi-
dent Hoover today bluntly warned
senate conferees on the $2,122, ,000,-
600 relief bill that the publicity
feature on reconstruction finance
corporation loans, the portion of
the bill that thus far has dead
locked the measure, would do in
calculable damage to the nations
credit structure.
A White House statement on. the
subject was issued after an hours
conference with senators who have
been comforting with representa-
tives of the house in an effort to
put the bill in final form, treasury
officials and directors of the re-
construction finance corporation.
1t was indicated by senator's who
attended the conference that
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
Menjou Arraigned
On Death Charge

LOSA NGELES, July is. WP)-
Harold L. Menjou, 20, adopted son
of Adolph Menjou, film actor, to-
day pleaded not guilty to charges
of murder and drunk driving.
The youth was accused of the
felony charges as the result of the
death of Marjorie Ann Gauthier, 16,
who was riding with him when he
crashed his automobile near Ingle-
wood.
Superior Judge B. Rey Schauer
set the trial for August %. Young
Menjou is at liberty on bail.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
New Border Hours
Upheld By L0wman

WASHINGTON, July Is. W.P)-The
treasury department will not alter
its orders to extend the closing
hours of customs ports at San
Ysidro and Calexico, Calf, to mid
night, despite a resolution passed
by the Los Angeles county council
asking modification, Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury Seymour
Lownan told the United Press
today.
THE closing hours we're ex-
tended to improve customs inspec-
tion," Lowman said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
Free State Passes
Emergency Bill

DUBLIN, July Is. U.H-The dali
passed the emergency bill retaliat-
ing for the new British tariffs by
a vote of 68 to 81 today. Govern
ment supporters cheered loudly.
Sean McEntee, finance minister,
assured William DAWN, Laborite,
that it would be replaced if an
agreement was reached with Britain
to arbitrate the dispute.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
SPEAKS EIGHT HOURS
PUNXSUTAWNEY. Pa. alt

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. U.P -
Attorney Charles j. Margiotti,
Punxsutawney, set a record in Lu-
zerne county recently, where he de-
Tended a man accused of killing
a labor leader four years ago. Mar
giotti's closing address to the jury
was the longest ever made in Lu-
zerne county courts. 1t required
eight hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
BASS HOLDS RECORD

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. W.H-
An 8h pound bass holds the sea-
sons record in Missouri for size OF
fish caught with hook and line.
1t was caught in Lake of the
Ozarks, and the size was officially
recorded at the state game and
fish department.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
LEADERS OF DRY
CAUSE FAIL TO
ENDORSE HOOVER
Inference Is That Presi-
dent Is Preferred Of
Two Candidates.
By THOMAS L. STOKES
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

! On1ted Press staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, July 15.-Presi-
dent Hoover will go into the COM
ing campaign without the formal
endorsement of the dry organiza-
tions which flocked to his stand
ard in 1928. This despite the
out-and-out "wetness" of his Demo-
cratic opponent, Gov. Franklin D
Roosevelt of New York.
Dry leaders constituting the "na-
tional prohibition board of STRAIT
egy' decided after hours of pro-
| tracted discussion against an open
endorsement of the chief execu-
tive, though he is the favored can
didate. In vain some members of
the board sought such open pro-
nouncement in his favor.
But veteran heads who have
fought through many campaigns
over-rode some of the newer ele-
ments who wanted to hitch their
campaign to the President because
of his record" and because he ob-
viously is the dryer of the two
candidates. The platform plank
upon which he stands calls only
for submission of a substitute
amendment which would let the
states handle the liquor problem
for themselves and declares for
outlawing the saloon.
Roosevelt stands squarely on q
plank urging repeal of the 18th
amendment and modification of
the Volstead act.
AS regards presidential candi-
dates, the board will point out. in
detail, the records of the two can
didates, leaving the inference that
President Hoover is the one for
drys to support, but without taking
occasion to endorse him as such.
Cannon Dictates
Bishop James Cannon, jr., who
conducted the 1923 anti-Smith
campaign which resulted in
break of four states away from the
traditional solid south, was one of
the chief influences in debating
this hands-off policy. Standing
with him were DIR. F. Scott Nc
Bride, legislative superintendent of
the anti-saloon league and success
sor to the late Wayne B. Wheeler,
and Dr. Clarence True Wilson,
head of the Methodist board of
temperance, prohibition and public
morals. 4As
The board was expected to de-
clare for retention of the 18th
amendment against all attempts
to repeal or modify it and against
modification of the .Volstead act.
II will be the campaign purposes
OF the dry organizations to work
for the election of dry members of
congress and dry members of state
legislatures, as well as local Off
cials, regardless of party.
The board of strategy today was
to consider formally a report pre-
pared by a committee of six which
was appointed to write declara-
ton of policy after members of the
board itself had argued all day
yesterday without being able to
reach decision.
Ernest H. Cherrington, chairman
of the board of strategy, headed
the committee. Sitting with him
were Cannon; Mrs. Ella A. Boole,
president of the w. G. T. u; Dr..
Edwin Dinwiddie of the World
League Against Alcoholism; DR..
A. j. Barton, chairman, department.
OF social service and temperance of
the Southern Baptist Church, and
President Walter c. Clippinger of
Otterbein college, Ohio.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
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MOTION PICTURE
STUDIO ORDERS
WAGE REDUCTION

HOLLYWOOD, July Is. U.p) -
The wage cut spectre today struck
at the last of Hollywood's major
studios to successfully withstand the
depression when employees of the
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer studios, from
the $50 per week clerk to the big
money" stars, received word that
salary slashes as high as 35 per
cent will be in effect next Monday.
The notice came to Hollywood in
the form of a brief memorandum
issued in New York by Nicholas M.
Schenck, president of both M.-G.-M.
and Loew's, Inc.
Louis B. Mayer, ice-president in
charge of production, declined to
comment on the order.
mo statement was the only
word to come from the huge film
plant, which boasts of many of the
leading stars and directors of the
screen.
1t was unofficially said here that
the memorandum automatically re-
duces the pay of non-contract en-
ployees, and that those persons
| under contract will be asked" tc
comply.
NEW YORK, July Is. U.P)-Stars,
directors and other employees of
the Metro-Goldwyn Mayer and
Loew motion picture interests earn
ing $500 or more a week will have
their pay cheeks cut by 35 per cent,
under general salary reduction
order effective Monday.
Reductions began at 5 per cent
on weekly salaries up to $50 and
end at per cent on all salaries of
$500 week or more, with a slid
ing scale for weekly earnings be-
tween the high and low figures. All
the M.-G.-M. stars are included in
the 35 per cent cut, it was said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-07-15
BY FREDERICK KUN

BERLIN, July Is. The "un-
gentlemanly gentleman's agree
ment," as the secret accord reached
between Germany's creditors at
Lausanne was called here, was re-
ceived painfully in official German
circles.
The added revelation of the
Franco-British consultative pact
was interpreted as clearly frustrat-
ing Germany's efforts to make
reparations settlement independent
of the debts of the former allies.
Chancellor Franz Won Papen
went to Neudeck, where President
lCapfix.uod lax, pana Oh
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Evening star., 1932-09-13

NOOlI.-ituSN ~ RON rlrSt rage
plane carried a hypodermic needle 4
stethoScope, a shaving outfit a signal
ing pistol, flare bombs. field glasses.
smelling salts, tea tablets, honey to
SWeeten the tea, three chickens. toma-
toes, fruit. two gallons of water. lambs
wool and almond oil to stuff the ears
and an aviation biscuit invented by
the doctor.
Ulbrich. former transformer and
AVIATION instructor, planned to sight
Europe first at Finesterre, on the
Northern tip of Spain. He is en- ey-
perienced pilot, with a transport license
and $500 hours in the air to his credit.
He said there was enough gasoline to
last 50 hours and that he expected to
reach Rome in Is or rs.
The plane is the one which Herndon
and Pangborn few around the world.
but has been refurbished and renamed
1t Is painted blue, white and orange
and bears the license number NR-796-W
DR.. Pisculli said that after landing in
Rome they would visit several Euro
pean cities. flying back from Ireland
IN the Spring.
by DR.. Pisculli. is to encourage nurses
and physicians to take up flying and
parachute jumping so they may be
prepared for quick emergency work in
floods and other disasters.
There is no radio aboard the Amer
lean Nurse.