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Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13
PARCHMENT
Of PRESIDENT
TURNED down
Resolution introduced By Rep
resentative Madden Meets
Cool Reception.
HIGH CRIMES CHARGED
Author OF Resolution Only Re-
publican To Vote Against
Tabling It.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. W.P-
An unsuccessful attempt to begin
impeachment proceedings against
President Hoover was made in the
house of representatives today.
After a half hour of tense con-
fusion, the house killed the move
by voting to table an impeachment
resolution offered by Representa-
tive McFadden, Republican, Penn
sylyania.
Speaker Garner announced the
vote was 361 to 8 in favor of tab
ling the resolution.
A loud cheer burst spontaneous
ly from both sides of the house as
the speaker made known the over
whelming vote of confidence in
the President.
Those voting not to table the
resolution:
emocrats-Blaton, Texas; Grif-
fin, New York; Patman, Texas;
Romjue, Missouri; Sweeney, Ohio;
and Black, New York; Hancock,
North Carolina.
Republicans = McFadden, Penn
sylvania.
McFadden based his lmpeacn-
ment charges upon the foreign
war debt negotiations conducted
by the Hoover administration.
There was an effort to have the
impeachment resolution take the
parliamentary course Of being re-
ferred to the house judiciary COM
mittee.
After hurried consultation of
house leaders, however, Chairman
Pou of the rules committee moved
that the resolution be tabled. Pou's
motion was adopted overwhelming
ly.
McFadden chose a moment when
the chamber was half filled and
the galleries almost entirely emp
| ty to make his sudden and drama
tic move He had been embroiled
in hot fights with the administra-
| ton before over the war debts and
international bankers, but he had
not intimated he would move for
an impeachment at this time.
President Hoover was at lunch
con when the resolution was offer
ed and had not returned to his
offices by the time it had been
tabled.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. UP)-
Representative McFadden (Rep)
Pennsylvania, today in the house
moved the impeachment of Pres
ident Hoover for "high crimes and
misdemeanors."
The resolution charged Mr.
Hoover had usurped congression-
al powers, was guilty of high crime
and misdemeanors, had dissipated
the financial resources of the coun-
try, forced bad legislation on the
people, and to the loss and detri-
ment of the nation and to the ben
eft of foreign nations attempt
ed to impair the validity of con-
| tracts.
The reference to contracts was
understood to concern the foreign
oebt agreements.
Another charge was that the
President has publicly shown dis
regard for the congress of the
United States, making him guilty
of high crimes and misdemeanors. ;"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13
Charges Drive By
Beer Proponents

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. U.P)-
Charges that the beer trade pro-
poses a national advertising cam
paign 'to make every man, woman
and child in America a beer con-
sumer' we're made before the house
ways and means committee today
as Prohibitionist leaders fought
to stave off Volstead act modifi-
cation.
Deets Pickett, secretary of the
Methodist Board of Temperance
Prohibition and Public Morals, was
the first of three nationally known
leaders to testify.
He marshalled economic and
moral arguments against modifica-
tion, and charged that beer inter
ests are prepared to expand their
trade "by exploiting boys and girls,
especially girls"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13
Habeas Corpus
Writ For Guy

LONG BEACH, Dec. 13. W.P)-
A writ of habeas corpus for Will
liam James Guy, suspect in the
murder of Walter Wanderwell, ad-
venturer, was obtained by his at
torney today.
The writ, returnable tomorrow
at 10 a. m, was issued by Judge
Elliot Craig in Los Angeles. A
similar writ was issued in behalf
of Edward De Larm, Glendale av-
iator, who is held as a material
witness in the case.
Meanwhile, the district attor-
ney's office delayed issuance of a
predicted murder complaint against
Guy.
"We'll issue a complaint against
Guy this afternoon Deputy Dis
trict Attorney William Grayton
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13
FOR
CANAL. VOTE

Preparation for the All-Amer-
ican canal election now is under
way at Imperial Irrigation district
headquarters where attaches are
checking election boards of the "a
voting precincts.
The date of the election has not
been set as yet and cannot be set
until after December 16, the day
upon which the securities commits
sion meets for a consideration of
that phase of the amended doc
ument recently prepared during
conferences with reclamation Of
ficials in Washington, d. G.
District directors and officials
are in Los Angeles today for a
continuation of conferences with
representatives of the bondholders
committee regarding payment of
bond principal and interest.
No word of the progress made
had been received prior to press
time here today.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13

Agriculture has suffered little tO
date from the storm according to
B. A. Harrigan, agricultural COM
missioner, who states that the
greatest harm has been done to the
dairymen
Due to the act that cattle have
to be kept under shelter as far as
possible and fed in corrals instead
Of in pasture, and the general diff
ficulties involved in getting through
the muddy yards to milk, dairy
men have been caused considerable
inconvenience. For the greater part
the cream trucks were able to make
their rounds this morning although
many we're delayed due to bad
roads.
Those few alfalfa growers having
hay on the ground suffered but the
amount injured is relatively small.
Lettuce has been unharned by the
snow-in fact the cold weather is
better for it. than the late warm
weather experienced this season. The
pea crop was nearly at its end
regardless of the weather as the
picking has been carried on later
than ever before. Cold weather will
slow the crop but it has not been
cold enough yet, states Harrigan,
TO injure the vine.
Neither has the snow harmed the
citrus crop as yet, but if, as indi-
cations point, a heavy frost occurs
tonight, tangerines will undoubted-
ly be injured to quite a degree and
grapefruit orchards in the colder
spots will be in danger. Citrus
growers are anticipating a frost to-
night which may prove serious.
Roads between the valley and
San Diego and Los Angeles are
open today according TO informa-
ton received from the Southern
California automobile club. Last
night the highway between Los An
geles and the valley was closed at
two points, not from the road con-
dition but because snow was SO
binding that it was impossible for
motorists to see the road ahead.
The road was closed to traffic at
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13

Beaumont and again just outside
the entrance to Riverside.
Stages Delayed
The club received information
that the bus which left San Diego
at ABS yesterday afternoon did not
reach the valley until 1:30 this
morning, while the bus leaving Ell
Centre yesterday afternoon was
found stuck on the grade last night
at II o'clock, unable to proceed be-
cause Of the drifts of snow and
ice.
George L. Winwright, assistant
farm advisor, who returned last
night from a conference in Los An
geles, reports huge drifts of snow
along the highways and states that
many trucks, oil tanks and cars
were stranded in the snow.
G. B. Collins, county superintend-
ent of school said that he has been
notified that a number of county
schools have had to close today due
to bad condition Of the roads. The
city schools are in session but the
high school reported that one bus
was unable to make its rounds and
that several were unable to go over
their entire routes due to the mud
dy roads.
The power lines suffered consid-
erably from the storm, according
to Joe E. King, manager of the
Southern Sierras. Two transmission
poles burned down due to the ef-
fects of the storm and While the
effect was not felt in El Centro,
service was interrupted yesterday
in Brawley.
In the Telegraph pass beyond
Yuma, sleet an inch thick formed
on the lines interrupting service.
Small service troubles were. also
reported today but repairs have
been made and. service has been
restored.
Small Interruptions in telephone
service were reported to the office
in Ell Centro, due, in the majority
of cases, to the fact that trees,
broken by the weight of the snow,
fell against the lines, causing trou-
BILE. Some trouble was also eX-
perienced in the toll line between
INLAND and Calipatria, but service
crews are out and all damage will
be repaired today
Equals Heavy Rain
Total snowfall was 4.8 inches, ac-
cording to Fred A. Baughman,
frost expert and valley represent
ative of the government weather
bureau, and Howard Emmons, 10
cal observer.
AT 8 O'Clock this morning 80
inches of snow still covered the
ground. Precipitation, including
rain and melted snow was equiv
alent to a rainfall of 0.53 inches.
(COntinued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13
Suspension Of
Babe Upheld

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. Is. W.R)-
Suspension of Miss Mildred (Babe)
Didrikson, Texas wonder girl
athlete, on the grounds that she
sanctioned the use of her name
and photograph in an automobile
advertisement, was upheld today
by the registration committee of
the Southern Amateur Athletic
Union.
Lawrence Di Benedetto, chair
man of the A. A. U. committee, an
nounced after a session today that
until such time as Miss Didrik-
son can show further evidence
that she did not endorse the ad-
vertisement, the suspension will
remain in effect and she will be
barred from further competition in
amateur athletics"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13
GangSter Seeks
To Shift Blame

LOS ANGELES, Dec. IS. U.P)-
Defense counsel for James O'Keefe,
former East S. Louis gangster, at
tempted today to show that Virgil
Roach, busboy, rather than o.
Keefe fired the shot which killed
Charles N. Bozeman, dealer aboard
the gambling ship Rose Isle.
O'Keefe is charged with the
crime Roach is the principal wit
ness for the state.
Roach, under defense cross-ex-
animation, was asked point blank
if he had fired the fatal shot. He
with an emphatic MOI
The defense, however, was to call
nearly a dozen witnesses during
the next few days in an effort to
swing the blame from OKeefe.
Bozeman was shot to death in
his cabin on the ship after a quar-
rel with O'Keefe. Roach, admitted
ly intoxicated, was the only other
person present at the time Of the
killing.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13
Daughters Story
Acquits Father

FRESNO, Dec. IS. W.H = Testi-
mony of 15-year-old widowed
mother today had freed her father
of blame for killing her 58-year-
old estranged husband.
The girl, Opal Crumpton Walters,
told a coroner's jury that her
father, w. M. Chumpton, So, beat
to death Tom Walters, 58, after
the latter attacked her following a
quarrel over their 4-month-old
baby.
No charges will be filed against
Crumpton, whose throat was
slashed by Walters during the
fight, county authorities said. His
condition was reported by county
physicians as improving.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13
Predicts SnolU
Again Tonight

Snow is predicted for Imper-
ial Valley again tonight, ac-
cording to Fred A. Baughman,
weather bureau representative,
and residents may prepare for
a repetition of last nights
unusual weather.
All Indications point to snow
again, he said, as atmospheric
conditions remain unchanged
from last night.
Sleet and snow fell at var
ious points in the valley this
afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13
EXPECT NATIONS To PAY AS
|NSTALLMENT DATE NEARS

vision of the fundamental debt.
Undersecretary of State Castle
handed the United States note to
Ambassador Paul May at the state
department. The reply was under
stood to be adverse, save for pro-
mise to later review the debt agree
lnent.
Payment by Italy of 81 ,245, ,437, its
current debt installment, was as
sured. Whether France would pay
on terms acceptable to the United
States remained in doubt as the
chamber of deputies considered a
new note. Payment by the smaller
countries of Europe likewise was
uncertain. Officials here expected
that some of the weaker ones would
default.
Making Speed
Secretary Stimson received the
latest British note at Woodley, his
home, as he prepared to retire last
night. Sir Ronald Lindsay, British
ambassador, arranged hurried ap-
pointment and presented his gov
ernment's note near midnight. Un-
Ger the pressure of time, the dip
Iomatic wheels are moving faster
now than ever in peacetime history.
Stimson studied the note before
retiring but did not call his asso-
ciates into conference on it. Off
cials at the state department early
today did not know of the docu-
ment until United Press dispatch
es containing it were shown to
them. Stimson arrived at his Of
flee shortly after 10 a. m. and went
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13
Ducks And Geese
Caught In Ice

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore, Dec.
10. U.P)-Rescue crews today went
to the aid of hundreds of wild
ducks and geese imprisoned in the
ice on upper Klamath lake.
Thousands of migratory fowl
were forced down in their flight
southwark Sunday. They were
trapped during the night when a
layer of ice formed on the huge
lake during the unprecedented cold
wave.
Hugh M. Worcester, federal game
warden, who discovered the birds
plight, said a majority of them had
periShed.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13
COUNSEL
PLANS FIGHT
Case Of Condemned Woman To
Be Taken Into Supreme Court
OF United States.

PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 10. U.P)
Counsel for Winnie Ruth Judd
prepared a last-ditch fight today
to save her from the gallows to
which she was doomed late yes
terday by action Of the Arizona
state supreme court.
The supreme court, sustaining
the verdict of a trial jury, ruled
that the stoical blonde tigress"
must die Feb. II Off the murder
of her friend, Agnes Ann LIE Roi.
Although also accused OF killing
Miss Hedvig Samuelson and ship
ping both dismembered bodies to
Los Angeles in her Luggage, Mrs
Judd was tried only on the charge
Of Staying the Phoenxv nurse.
News of the high courts action
reached her late last night in her
small gloomy cell in Florence state
prison where the court ruled she
must be hanged. In dramatic
scene when Warden William Del
bridge entered and bowed to the
doomed woman and her parents,
the Rev. w. j. Mckinnell and Mrs.
McKinnell, lowering solicitously
near her.
The warden delivered his message
briefly. Mrs. Judd stood as though
stunned. Finally she spoke.
MIR. Delbridge, am no mur-
derer," she murmured. Il fought
for my life when she MRS. LIE Rob
came at me"
1t was this plea of self lf-defense
that both trial and supreme courts
rejected.
The doomed woman turned to
her aged mother who fought back
the tears to comfort her.
Mother" she repeated, 81 am no
murderer. I am q good woman. I
have never associated with bad, low
or degenerate people. l never cut
up those bodies. I could not have
done it."
Plan Appeal
The desperate fight which the
convicted woman's counsel was
mapping may reach into the Uni
ted States supreme court. o. V.
Wilson, chief defense counsel, said
an immediate appeal for re-
hearing would be sought of the
state supreme court. If denied, they
plan on asking for a reversal from
the U. S. tribunal, on grounds the
defendants constitutional rights
were violated.
Another phase of the attorneys
plans was to request sanity hear
ing from Warden Delbridge. The
jury had found her sane.
In denying a new trial, the state
supreme court held that Mrs. Judd's
trial was fair and impartial and
free from the II alleged errors Cit
ed in her appeal. 1t overruled the
contention that the degree of her
intelligence should be considered as
a basis for leniency.
Should both state and federal
courts be barred to her, Mrs. Judd
had one more hope-that of eXecu-
tive ciemency. Attorneys said as a
last resort they would appeal to
73 year old Governor George w. P.
Hunt. who retires Jan. /, or his
successor, DR.. Edward Moeur to
save the woman from the galloWs.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13
BY JOSEPH III. BAIRD

OHltGu IlCSS 0Odlt Co1t HbOiihNAAN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-Ac-
ceptance of the British debt pay
ment of $95, $50, 900 Thursday on the
terms laid down in London's latest
note was forecast early today by
a high administration quarter.
President Hoover and his cabin
ct met at 1890 a. m. to study the
note. An official announcement of
the American position in response
to London's latest statement On
debts was expected later today af-
ter treasury and legal experts have
analyzed the document
Stimson conferred With Presi-
dent Hoover for a short time as
the cabinet convened but hurried
back to the state department after
few moments. He left the cabinet
in possession CT MS information re-
garding the newest developments
in the debt situation.
The American government,
meanwhile, replied to recent re-
quest by Belgium for postponement
of its December payment and re-
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13
To Ask Clemency
I'm Narcotic Case

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13. U.P)-
An appeal for executive clemency
for Tony Parmagini of San Fran
cisco, serving a 17-year sentence
in Leavenworth penitentiary on a
narcotic charge, will be sought
within the next few months" his
attorney, Otto Christensen, said
today.
Parmagini has served two years
of his term.
The appeal for clemency will be
predicated on the dissenting opin-
ion CT Judge Frank Rutkin and on
the asserted "perjured" testimony
of Daniel Farrell, Christensen said.
Christensen said he would seek to
have Parmagini's term reduced to
the time he has served at Leaven-
worth.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13
@NlLL-.
I'OOGERS
W pSayS:

BEVERLY HILLS, Dec. II.
(SpeciaD - Well, the Demo-
Gratis made good out here. I
don't know what they prom
ised in the rest of the country,
but Roosevelt promised us rain,
and by golly, he made good.
The rest of the country can
be excited over prohibition,
disarmament, war loan or the
new cabinet. But this is a des-
ert country, and if we don't get
rain we are blowed up. We
can show you oranges growing
and flowers, but if you look
under the bush you will see a
hose. A sprinkling can is our
national emblem. Rain is new
er nuisance here, it's mir
acle.
So the Democrats have made
good.
Yours,
nia Ro7~~
& .srx. rss.ssA' svsss.sa4. Ass'
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13
WANT CHANGE
IN A|R MAIL

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. SJ.Py -
Tie house post office and post
roads committee voted today to
have a subcommittee frame a new
national air mail policy as the re-
suit Of charges by DR.. James Crane,
committee investigator.
Crane, who presented a report
recommending drastic changes in
air mail practices, charged that
some subsidized air mail carriers
were attempting to show increased
operating expenses to fight pro-
posed cuts in the subsidies.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. U.P)-
Scrapping Of the southern air mail
route from Dallas, Tex, to Los An
geles, and elimination of 20 short
feeder lines would save the govern
ment S2,900,000 annually, a COM
mittee investigator informed the
house post office committee today.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-12-13

Continued On Page 81
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-01
Aged Woman Expresses
Beautiful Sentiments

An interesting letter was received
this week by Mrs. Harriet Hastings,
97-year-old mother of Mrs. w. A.
Joyce of East Hanford, and the SEN
timents quoted therein are so beautiful
that the Spokesman has been asked to
record the letter in print. Mrs. Has
tings' descent from Revolutionary fore
bears entitled her name to considera-
ton when the Bicentennial Commission
was seeking to find the oldest living
mother in the United States to be the
nations guest in washington, D. c., on
Mothers Day last spring.
A story of her life, written by this
remarkable woman and printed in the
Seattle papers at that time, attracted
the notice of her recent correspondent,
herself n years old. The Seattle Wo-
mans letter follows:
My Dear Friend: Tho we have never
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-12-01
In-B-Tween

Rev. l.. G. Krug and family, accom-
panied by Mr.. and Mrs. William Kirby
and son Billie, motored to Kennewick
last Thursday and had Thanksgiving
dinner with Mr.. and Mrs Albert
zarndt.
Jimmie Brown and his friend, Jack
Covert, University of Washington stu
dents who were visiting relatives and
friends in the valley over Thanksgiving
were dinner guests at the Kolar home
last Saturday.
Mrs. j. H. deVeuve, accompanied by
a friend, Mrs. Mealin, came over from
Seattle the first of the week to look
after business matters and while here
was the guest Of Mr. and Mrs. F. N
Hensley at the de Veuve ranch.
Mrs. r. N. Hensley has received a
card from Mrs. o. H. Luddington, who
with MIR. Luddngton drove to Iowa
early in November, saying that they
are now on their way back to Wash
ington
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Heard had as
their dinner guests on Thanksgiving
Day, the Dewitt Buckholdt family and
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Beene and little
daughter.
w. H. Meeks had the misfortune to
splinter bone in his arm while crank
ing his car last Sunday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mann had as
dinner guests Thanksgiving Day the
families of Keith Brooks and Merle
Metcalf
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Heard were Wis
itors in Yakima Saturday, making the
trip to take their little granddaughter
Shirley Jean Harris, home.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. T. Brooks had Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis Brooks as their dinner
guests on Thanksgiving Day.
Roy Beene this week moved his fam
lily and household goods from the Jay
Smith place, where he has been living
to the house on the Arthur Fairbanks
place, which he has leased.
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met, we are interested in you and en-
joyed the article in the Pr. recently
and thought you might like it for some
friend. My daughter has a clipping
bureau and thought your long life
story would make book of interest
Our milestones mark deliverance from
fears,
IT'S thus we count the swiftly passing
years.
Birthdays record our growth in grace,
not age,
Love writes with pen of gold on life's
fair page.
Months mark our progress in the
realms of truth,
BY which we realize immortal youth"
am II years old myself and realize
that age has it's compensations, no
less than youth itself, and as the eve
ming shadows fade away, the stars
come out, invisible by day"
mo longer forward or behind,
look with hope or fear,
But gladly take the good I find
The best of now and here"
81 wish you health,
For is that not wealth,
That is life's best?
And pluck, not luck,
That stands the test?"
Yours with love,
MRS. r. G. GLASS and FLORENCE.
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COLD CREEK

Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Bethurem had
as their guests Thanksgiving Day, Mr..
and Mrs. George Rockkan and two
children, and Malcolm Hall, all of
Kennewick.
Mr.. and Mrs G. l.. MCGEE enter
tanned Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Higley and
children of Kennewick with Thanks
giving Day dinner
Mrs E. E. Meeker and children were
Sunday guests at the L. A. Codding
home in White Bluffs
Chef MCGEE helped Brown Brothers
chop hay Tuesday, Mrs. MCGEE and
Shirley accompanying him to Priest
Rapids for visit at the Diamond D
ranch while he worked.
Clifford Meeker, who drove over to
Arlington last Wednesday evening with
the Nelson's of White Bluffs, returned
to Cold Greek in his own car Sunday.
Robert Schlosser drove over to Sum
nyside Wednesday morning, expecting
to be gone several days.
Mrs. L. E. Davis of Ellensburg visited
at the Rothrock ranch several days last
week.
The j. j. Rothrock family spent
Thanksgiving Day in Sunnyside, where
they were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Ralph Gatino.
Philip Fam and his nephew of
White Bluffs were guests at the Meeker
ranch from Saturday until Monday
A band of the Rothrock sheep ar
rived Saturday from their summer
range in the mountains, to winter at
the ranch.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart of Barrel
Springs were callers in Cold Greek
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Meeker and
family attended the welcoming party
given in honor of Sam Allard and
his bride, formerly Mrs. Hortense
Hirschbolz of Tacoma, at Allard Mon
day evening.
At large gathering of relatives
and friends, Mr. and Mrs. r. G. Sisk
and their household were hosts on
Thanksgiving Day at their home on
the Diamond D ranch at Priest Rapids
to Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Meeker and
fanny, Mr.. and Mrs. S. o. Drawn, and
family, and William and Robert Shell
ledy, of Cold Creek, and Mr.. and Mrs
Willis Armstrong, Mrs. Sisk, ST., and
Joe Picatti, of Yakima.
tiny wedding of tiny people. TOM
THUMB WEDDING, Thursday even
Ing, High School Auditorium.