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Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
BLAZE DAMAGES
LABORATORY AT
CENTRAL UNION

Fire of undetermined origin was
discovered at an early hour this
morning in the exhibit room in
the administration building at Gen.
trail Union High school, the flames
being confined by firemen to the
exhibit room and the adjoining BIZ
illogical laboratory.
The extent of the damage has
not been ascertained as yet as it
will be necessary to check all
equipment and supplies in the lab
oratory.
The flames were discovered by
Earl Brirnon and Frank Philbrick,
driver and helper on Sunland
Dairy truck, when they passed the
building on their rounds at 4:30
O'Clock. They turned in the alarm
and directed firemen to the scene.
Fire Chief Tom Reams said to-
day the flames apparently started
in cabinet in the exhibit room
and were well underway when the
firemen arrived at the scene. The
absence of electric wiring in this
area of the room and the declara-
ton that there were no explosives
or inflammable materials kept in
the place, led Chief Reams to list
the fire as of undetermined or
igin, he said.
Work of the department in
checking the flames and holding
the damage to a restricted area i'll
the center of the structure is said
to have been the best work &C
complished by firemen in the his
tory of the fire fighting group.
Two fire alarms were sounded,
the first the original alarm and
the second to summon a ladder
truck from headquarters.
Judging from appearances, high
school students were not at all sad
when they viewed the wreckage
this morning, especially those en-
,ollad IN tle biolOqy classes.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
COND0N'S
EVIDENCE
0FfE: RED
Jafsie' Readily Agrees To
Testify Before Grand
Jury Hearing.
WAVES IMMUNITY
A ged Investigator In
Lindbergh Case Quizzed
About Negotiations.

NEW YORK, May 20 U.Pa-Dr.
John F. Condor (Jafsie), in the
mysterious negotiations for ran
soming the Lindbergh baby, was
asked to and did sign a waiver of
immunity today when he went be-
fore the Bronx grand jury to tell
of his experiences.
Condor testified before the grand
jury for more than an hour and
when he came away said he plan
ned to go to Westchester county
this afternon and view other pic
lures in police galleries.
Authorities in touch with the
jury's proceedings told the United
Press that Condor, the aged edu-
Gator who paid $4,000 for Colonel
Lindbergh declared he knew about
that" when he waiver was pre-
sented.
Expressing his readiness to di-
vulge to the grand jury all he
knew of the tragic events which
ended in the first major disap-
pointment of the Lindbergh hopes,
Condor signed the waiver and pro-
ceeded with his revelations.
1t was said other witnesses had
not been asked to sign a waiver,
but authorities refused to comment
on the significance, if any, in this
procedure.
New Jersey authorities, the Bronx
district attorney, Charles B. Nc
Laughlin and Colonel Lindbergh
himself have spoken highly of
"Jafsie" and his work and Lind
bergh sent him a letter of appre-
citation for his assistance.
Condon's story for the grand
jury is already known in it's main
points. After revealing in an in
terview with the Bronx Home News
his readiness to spend his own
money to aid in returning the
baby, Condor received a telephone
call from a mysterious person. The
contact thus developed grew until
"Jafsie" and the supposed kid
naper were arranging for actual
payment of ransom money.
Saved Colonel Money
Lindbergh authorized his nego-
tiations and arranged to provide
him with money in $5, $40 and $40
bills. According to the Bronx Home
News, a district paper OF which
"Jafsie" made confidant, he went
TO a Bronx cemetery to meet the
kidnaper after a series of dramatic
and mysterious maneuvers. Lind
bergh waited in car nearby as
Condor negotiated. According to
the paper, $4,000 was ready for
delivery, but Condor by pleading
that Lindbergh was not wealthy
and found it difficult to pay, in
duced his cemetery contact to ac-
cept $4,000. The remaining $4,000
was quickly peeled off the package
and left with Lindbergh.
After Condor paid Lindbergh
made flights to the New England
coast assuming he would there be
put in touch with the baby. THESE
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Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
Bank Coalition
Plans Credits

NEW YORK, May 20. U.PI - A
powerful coalition of financiers
planned to put to work at once
millions in cash or almost three
billions in credit in places not yet
reached by the reconstruction fl
nance corporation or federal re-
serve credit eXpesion programs.
The formation of the committee
headed by Owen d. Young followed
widespread demands for speeding
up the credit expansion program,
for drastic means of boosting
prices, for speedy distribution Of
piled up idle funds in New York,
and criticism that financial lead
ers were taking care of the "big
fellows" only.
While members of the committee
of II would not comment on their
uncompleted plans, 1t was indicated
that credit for building and loan
societies and farm loan banks
would be arranged. This would
care for the little fellows" not
reached by the larger metropolitan
banks.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
Lovers Quarrel
Causes Suicide

LOS ANGELES, May 20. U.P)-
Eudora Winters, 16-year- old high
school girl, took poison after a
quarrel with her sweetheart last
night, returned to a dance hall and
danced until she collapsed, police
said today after questioning her at
an emergency hospital, where she
died a short time later.
The girl ended a quarrel with her
escort by asking fol- 10 cents to
take a bus home, police said. In
stead of that she went to a drug
store, bought ant poison and ate it.
they declared
She returned to the dance, ac-
cepted an invitation to step to the
tune of a love song and fell writh-
ing on the floor.
Detectives said she told them:
81 don't want to live. Please let
me die"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
Convicted Slayer
Is Hard Boiled

NEW YORK, May 20. U.P) -
William Turner, %, convicted of
killing a man in a speakeasy, ap-
peared to think his sentence of
death was a joke.
Imagine my embarrassment"
he observed, with a wink, when
sentence was pronounced.
In the course of his trial, he in
terrupted proceedings several times
by announcing: II want 20 f/Tn"
At one time he played solitaire in
the courtroom.
Reprimanded by the judge who
told him the proceedings against
him were serious, he retorted:
"Whatddya want me to do, sit
around and cry about it all day2'
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
FRIENDS OF CURTIS ATTEMPT
TO BOLSTER UP HIS CLAIMS

May as part of hum running
gang of "a men.
IF facts disclosed by the federal
agents warrant, Curtis will be pros
ecuted in this district" United
States Attorney Paul Kear an
nounced.
The theory gaining strength is
that Curtis, admittedly on familiar
terms with many rum runners,
knew some of this group, and that
possibly, for one reason or an
other, some member Of a rum rum
ing gang claimed to know where
the Lindbergh baby was, or claimed
to have been a member of the
gang.
Cite Suppositions
The purpose of such claim, as
coast guard officials pointed out
weeks ago. would be to gain free
dom of action in Virginia waters
for rum runners. All police Off
cials had been requested to give
negotiators for the baby'S return
the right of way" and had agreed
not to moleSt them.
Supposing, they say, Curtis had
been so approached, had told Dean
DobSon-Peacock and Admiral Bur-
rage of the incident, and had made
a preliminary move toward nego-
tiating the return. Suppose he
learned the story was a fake, or
suppose he actually was linked
with the rum runners in the fab
ricated story.
Then, finding himself a local
hero, financially harassed boat
builder whose creditors left him
alone while he remained a hero,
what would be more natural than
that he attempt to hold his place
in the sun by creating fictional ne
gotiationS, fictional desperadoes,
phantom ships, and a faxed hero?
That trail ended, Two courses
would be left to Curtis. One of
them would be to place the blame
on the rum runners who originally
suggested the idea of the Lind
bergh negotiations; the other
would be for him to admit the
whole story was faxed.
The reword, first, would be the
usual liquor racketeer reward
for squealers. The penalty for
the second course would be a mis-
demeanor charge, and a confessed
despicable role in a national trag-
edy for a man already bankrupt
once and threatened with bank
ruptcy a second time.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
Planes To Stage
Manuevers I'm Air

RIVERSIDE, May 20. U.P)-
Ninety airplanes of the first bonn
bardment wing, stationed at March
Field, will fly over Los Angeles
next Monday, Stimulating wartime
maneuvers in the protection of the
city from an imaginary attack.
The objective of the planes will
be the city hall, which has been
pressed into service to represent the
enemy fleet of Los Angeles.
The maneuvers were planned to
honor Major General George E.
Loash, chief of the military bureau,
who will be in Los Angeles attend
ing the Rainbow division reunion.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
Rescue Planes
Held BY Storm

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 90.
U.P)-A fierce spring blizzard that
blotted out the mountain landscape
today halted temporarily the aerial
rescue of two scientists, one ma
rooned, the other missing on the
icy slope of Mt. Mckinley
Two of the three Alaskan Air
way pilots in the relief expedition
reported by radio the storm had
forced them to land on Muldrow
glacier where two members Of the
group studying cosmic ray met
death.
The planes are hunting Mich
olas Spadevecckia, New York SCI
enlist missing more than a week
in the desolate area, and Percy T.
Olton, Jr., who remained on the
mountain side to direct relief ef-
forts.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
CHAMBERS NAME
COMMISSION TO
STUDY DRY LAW
Plan To Submit Referen-
dunn On Subject To In
dividual Groups.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 20. (U.P,l-.
members of the United States
Chamber of Commerce today
studied prohibition with a view to
submitting a referendum on the
question to member bodies.
appointment of the committee
followed decision of wet and dry
members to refer the question to
members rather than commit the
national hody to a definite stand.
The member chambers will bal
lot on continued enforcement, re-
peal and several plans for modi-
fication.
The committee was appointed by
President SilaS H. Strawn of Chi
cago at the chambers annual con-
vention in session here.
1t will report to the chamber
later.
A program for restoring pros
perity to the nation was outlined
by Henry I. Hartman, Boston,
chairman of the board of the New
England Power association and
nominee for presidency of the
chamber.
Our agricultural and industrial
plant" he said, "is now capable
of producing all the commodities
required to maintain a standard of
living equal to that enjoyed in
1929 by a family with an income
of $50OO."
His program included:
l. Revision of banking laws tc
permit control of credit against in
flation in times of speculation and
deflation in times of depression.
g. Guaranteeing deposits in ma
tional banks for one to two years.
3. Amendment of antitrust laws
to permit industries to regulate
over production and disastrous
price-cutting.
4. Amendment of the federal
trade commission act to permit
associations to govern individual
industries, subject to federal super
vision.
5. Permitting business to estab-
lish an economic council to con-
slider problems affecting all in
dustry.
6. Adoption of a national agri-
cultural policy pointed toward re-
duction of farm areas and other
control of production.
7. Reduction of hours of labor.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
Traffic Captain
Attends School

In the traffic office they do it
differently.
The officers of the California
highway patrol get their experience
on the highways and byways of the
country, then go to school at Sac
ramento.
Most of the officers assigned to
Imperial county already have at
tended this state school, but today
their chief, Captain A. F. Oswalt,
received notification he was to
complete his education, leaving for
Sacramento Immediately after be-
ing notified.
The school is held only for traf-
fic officers of the state force, and
is intended to make them better
acquainted With the nature of
fheir du1ies on the highways.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
WHAT'S DOING

TONIGHT
Lions club, 1880, Barbara
Worth golf club.
Junior Senior banquet, Z,
Veterans hall.
Relief committee, !, city hall.
Jasper farm center, 7:45, Jas
per school.
1. v. Pyramid No. 81, A. L.
o. SciOts, s, Masonic Temple.
Troop rs, B.S.A., 1880, Nc
Cabe.
Troop 21, B.S.A., 1880, NJ. e.
social hall.
Troop IS, B.S.A., 1880, Pres
byterian church.
Herb Norris AirdOme, TOO
Many Cooks"
Valley theatre, shanghai
Express.
Fox Imperial theatre, But
the Flesh Is Weak.
TOMORROW
Chapter CIV, P.E.O, 2, All
Sanda IV00d
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
FIRM OF
BANKERS
PROTEST
House Of Morgan Seeking
Opportunity To Testify
Before Senate.
REVEAL PAYMENTS
New York Fin anci |
Writer Paid To Boost
Various Stocks.

WASHINGTON, May 20. U.PA-
The internationally famous bank
ing house of j. P Morgan & Co.,
today protested indirectly to the
senate banking and currency COM
mittee against implications regard
ing relationship of the organiza-
ton with involved financial trans
actions Of United Foods Corpora
tions in Canada and the United
States.
Chairman Norbeck received word
that a representative of Morgan
& Co. desired to be heard by the
committee.
Norbeck said an attorney of
Morgan & Co. was present at to-
days hearing during which Walter
E. Sachs, president of Goldman
Sachs e. Co., testified regarding
the transactions. An intermediary
brought to Norbeck the informa-
ton that Morgan & Co. desired an
opportunity to present their side
of the case.
The hearing was recessed today
after testimony purporting to show
that John J. Levinson, a trader.
had paid over a period of a year
more than $4,000 to Raleigh Cur
tbs, who in 1929 and 1890 wrote for
the New York Daily News a mar
ket column under the name Of
"The Traders"
William A. Gray, committee
counsel, contended Curtis was paid
for "puffs' and tips to purchase
stock in which Levinson was op-
Grating
Levinson denied that charge, ex-
planning that he and Curtis were
good friends and he sought merely
to help him by guaranteeing mar
ket accounts. 1t developed that
New York state officials had in
vestigated Curtis column and its
relationship with Levinson's trad
ing on complaint of reader who
had bought on one of "The
Traders" tips. Gray produced
checks payable to Curtis and these
Levinson identified.
1t was explained that Curtis no
longer conducts the Daily News
column nor does it suggest market
tips. The hearings will be resumed
tomorrow with Harry Warner of
Warner Bros. motion picture or
ganization subpoenaed to testify
regarding alleged publicity in con-
nection with deals in which he
made S9,000,0O0 to S1,0OO,OOO in
Warner stock.
WASHINGTON, May 20. U.P)-
More missing witnesses were named
today in the senate stock market
investigation when William A.
Gray, committee counsel, began de-
veloping the story of distribution
to the public of the stock of an
allegedly bankrupt company.
The company was Indian Motor
cycle. Gray revealed that process
servers had been unable to find
Lawrence R. Wilder and Charles L.
Mitchell, who profited from the
floating of Indian Motorcycle stock
in 1890.
M. j. Meehan, nationally known
broker sailed for Europe the night
before the investigation was re-
sumed and Gray said he had not
been able to reach Bradford Ellis
worth, pool operator, who is in
Canada.
Walter Sachs, partner in Gold
man Sachs & Co., was the first
witness today.
Since the committee resumed its
hearings testimony has dealt more
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
Balplayer To
Seek Probation


LOS ANGELES, May 30. W.H-
Pleading guilty to one count of
robbery in connection with the
spectacular robbery two months ago
of a jewelry shop in the exclusive
Biltmore Hotel, Jerry Downs, for
mer coast league baseball player,
today applied for probation.
Previously Downs had entered
a plea of not guilty to two counts
of robbery. He will be sentenced
June l, at which time Superior
Judge Charles S. Burnell will rule
on his probation plea.
Edward Carlson, alleged confed-
crate of Downs, was ordered to
submit to mental examination
on May 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
Seeks 70 Block
Big Oil Merger

WASHINGTON, May 20. (U.PN-
Citing an alleged proposal to con-
solidate the Standard Oil Company
of New Jersey with the Standard
Oil Company of California not
Withstanding supreme court de-
cisions and the antitrust laws,
Senator Wheeler (Dem) Montana,
today introduced a resolution re-
questing the attorney general to
advise the senate what steps his
department had taken to prevent
the merger.
Wheeler asked immediate con-
sideration, but Senator Moses
CRepD New Hampshire, objected.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
COLUMNIST BETTER

LOS ANGELES, May 20. (U.P) -
After a two-weeks rest in southern
California, recuperating from a
breakdown, Walter Winchell, news
paper columnist and radio broad
caster, with his wife and two daugh-
ters, was enroute today to New York
City.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
APPORTIONING FUNDS

C. B. Collins, county superin-
tendent of schools, is busy appor-
tioning the school funds to the
various schools in the county. No
complete statement can be made
as the notice of school funds COM
ING from county and school dis
trict taxes was only recently re-
ceived and work has just begun
~,
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
Woman Flyer To
Take Off Soon

ST. JOHNS, Md, May 20.
U.P)-Amelia Earhart Putnam
started on her attempt to span
the Atlantic alone at 4:5O p.
NJ, tEST) today.
The weather was good, with
the wind southwest.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
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COLORADO RIVER
CAUSES DAMAGE
At HOOVER DAM

LAS VEGAS, New, May 20. (U.PN-
A spring flood, swirling down the
gorge Of the Colorado river, caused
abandonment today of a trestle
used in Hoover dam construction
work and battered at protection
dams behind which 1872 men worked
in diversion tunnel No. l, &c feet
below water level.
At midnight, the river registered
a flow of more than $4,000 second
feet and was still rising.
Carrying on it's crest flotsam
and jetsam which collected around
piling of a treStle connecting the
Arizona and Nevada sides of the
river, the boiling water tore at
supports of the structure and made
it unsafe for use.
The trestles, 210 feet long and
80 feet above the normal level of
the river, were still standing, and
locomotive crane was at work re-
moving debris from in front of
the pilings in an effort to keep it
lrOIH washing away.
A few miles above the dam site,
the virgin river boiled into the
main stream, adding 10000 second
feet to its flow and sending a
vicious flood toward the dam site,
frothing in uncontrolled power.
The Colorado is normally in
flood at this time of year. Aside
from the Hoover dam project there
is no other. property to damage.
ESPANOLA, N. NJ, May 20. (U.Py-
Catastrophe threatened today as
floodwaters of the Rio Grande
river Tapped over the top of the
dykes which protect this New Mex
ican village.
Fed by melting snow in the high
mountain ranges Of Colorado, the
Rio Grande has risen rapidly in
the last two days For a time the
rise was stopped, but early today
it was reported that the water was
rising at the rate of half an inch
an hour at Embudo, another vii
lage a few miles above here.
The 400 residents of Espanola
were prepared to flee to the high
lands should the dyke break above
the town. Another inch rise in the
river, it was feared, would bring
disaster.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20

ST. JOHNS, N. F., May 20. UP
Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam, first
woman to cross the Atlantic by air,
arrived here from st. John, NJ B.,
at 11:30 a. m. eastern Standard
Time) in the Lockheed plane in
which she will attempt to cross
TO Europe alone.
Mrs. Putnam was expected to
remain here at least several days
for overhauling of her plane and
for the arrival Of the right weather.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-20
GAWlLL
~ ROGERS
w '.SOys:

BEVERLY HILLS, May 20.
(SpeciaD-See a lot of pictures
OF Mrs. Vincent Astor and So
Getty women of New York TAX
ing up nickels in the street to
aid anti-prohibition.
Such antics as that is sure to
win the small town and farm
women over. Yes, sir, right
over to the opposite side. I'll
bet there is more fool things
done for publicity sake that de-
feat their own purpose than
ever aided it.
There is but one reason that
prohibition won't be repealed,
and it's not numbers either.
It's because the wrong people
want it repealed.
Yours,
Evening star., 1932-02-03
Hoarding and Reasons for Saving
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

have wasted looking over the accumula-
ton, as you are sure to do when
ever you clean up the closet, drawer
or file where the things are kept. Also
you have robbed yourself of just that
much space (whatever 1t Isl that the
things occupy. Often a disordered
house could be kept orderly were 1t
not for the space wasted on things
kept for rainy day.
III the second case, it may be that
after saving things for years, using
your time to look after them, and the
sorely needed space to store them in,
you may find your purse is ample
enough for you to buy new things
more appropriate to your needs than
the old thing could be.
In speaking thus about saving
things, there is no intention of sug-
geSting a reckless discarding of articles
whose primary use has been finished.
The points of view have been given
with the hope that the habit of
boarding things will be not be formed,
or if formed that it can be somewhat
regulated. One of the ways Of doing
the latter is to put articles to i'm
mediate use, although perhaps for an
entirely different one.
Another way is to know when you
save things just what purpose you in
tend to put them to, and save for an
object. One thing in this line that
comes Immediately to mind is the saw
ing Of discarded stockings and gar
mentS for making rugs.
(CopyriGht, 1922
Evening star., 1932-02-03

others under there, too, Jimmy Skunk
and Mrs. Jimmy. Just outside was
Reddy Fox 1t had come about simply
because Peter had been so curious to
know where Jimmy was spending the
Winter, which really was no business
of his at all. He had followed Jimmy'S
footprints in the snow, over to q hole
unIer that porch, and there he had
made the exciting discovery that not
only was Jimmy under that porch, but
also Mrs. Jimmy. In listening to them
as they sleepily quarreled, he had quite
forgotten to watch for possible danger
and SO had been surprised by Reddy
Fox. There had been nothing for him
to do then but go under that porch
himself. which was the last thing in the
world he wanted to do. Now he was sit
ting as close to that entrance hole as he
dared get, while Just outside sat Reddy
Fox in the moonlight. The hole was
too small for Reddy 70 get through,
which was one thing to be thankful for.
You may as well come out now as
later" said Reddy. Jimmy Skunk isn't
asleep yet and is likely to discover you
any minute, and when he does you'll
come out fast enough. I am told that
Jimmy is very Short-tempered when he
wakenS from sleep in the Winter, and 1t
won't make him any better-tempered to
find that you have been spying on him"
Peter didn't need to see Reddy to know
that he was grinning as he said this.
The trouble was that Peter very
much feared that what Reddy said was
true He and Jimmy Skunk always had
been very good friends, for Jimmy, be-
ing independent and afraid of no one,