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Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
REDS RIOT
At SAN DIEGO

SAN DIEGO, May 81. d.H)-'5ipht
men were held in the city Jail to-
day as an aftermath to a Memorial
day battle between asserted Com
munistS and police in Newton Park,
near the center of the city.
Fighting broke out when police
attempted to disperse a crowd of
1,5O0.
All unidentified woman, believed
to have been bystander. suffered
a fractured skull in the melee which
injured Is of the alleged Commun-
lists and eight policemen.
Police used night sticks, tear
bombs and fists as they formed a
flying wedge and charged the
crowd. Park benches, brickbats
and other missiles were used by the
crowd, which had formed into a
parade.
Two of the men arrested. iden-
titled by police as Frank Young,
a Negro, and Sam Goldman, both
of Los Angeles. were booked on
charges of assault with a deadly
weapon.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
CAPTURED WARDEN RETURNED
HOME AFTER WILD EXPERIENCE

day baseball game, one of them re-
marked to him:
This is going to be your last
ride"
Il felt all along that you'd come
through okay," Mrs. Prather told
her husband. Wilbur Underhill
Qeader of the mutiny) sent me
word that you'd not be hurt, and I
believed him, and I thank him for
it,"
The message Mrs. Prather ex-
planned, was brought to her by a
convict a few minutes after the
break. 1t said. laconically:
Kirk won't be harmed"
Barely five minutes before the
return of Prather, his successor as
warden, Lacey Simpson, arrived to
take charge of the prison.
Fearing heavy loss of life if the
convicts opened fire in the packed
baseball grandstand, Prather said
he yielded to them momentarily to
avoid bloodshed and then attempt
to gain the upper hand before they
could get over the wall.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
QUIZ HUSBAND
On TRAGEDY
Mate OF Stanford University
Worker Stoutly Denies He
Took Life OF His Wife.

PALO ALTO, May 81. U.P) A
new figure entered into the Lam
son death mystery today when Mrs.
Uford o. Brown, wife of a STAN
ford journalism professor, told au-
thoritieS she visited the home a
few minutes after the body of Mrs.
Allen Thorpe Lamson was found in
a bathtub
SAN JOSE, Calf, May 81. up
"A new ordeal of questioning was
in prospect today for the husband
of the young Y. w. C. A. execu-
tive whose violent death shocked
the holiday quiet of Stanford uni
versity campus where they resided.
Almost within a stones throw of
the San Juan Hill home of Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Mrs. Al
lene Thorpe Lampson, %, met
death while in her bath. Her head
was crushed. Her husband, David,
30-year old sales manager of the
Stanford University Press, who
found the body, was held.
For several hours yesterday he
was questioned, All he knew, he
insisted, was that within the space
of an hour while he was puttering
in the garden, his wife was killed.
81 know she was murdered" he
exclaimed, "but before God, didn't
do it,
Authorities matted the question
ing to permit him nights sleep in
jail. While inclined to the theory
the victim was slain, possibly by
prowler, they also investigated the
possibility she may have been fatal
ly injured in a fall. After an au-
topsy, medical examiners said either
theory may prove correct.
Friends of the young couple
whose marriage five years ago CHI
NAKED campus romance, were
convinced the wife's death was ac-
cidental. They knew of no quar-
rels or marital difficulties, and said
they were devoted to one another
and their 16-month-old child.
Mrs. Lamson was an attractive
brunette. Her work kept her in COL
legiate circles where once she
moved as a leading figure. AS an
executive of the university pub
fishing house, her husband likewise
occupied a position of prominence.
Their small cottage is on the fringe
of the campus at the foot of San
Juan Hill.
1t was while he was beautifying
the garden, in which both took
great pride, that his wife was kill
ed, Lamson said He said he left
her in bed after preparing her
breakfast and drawing water for
her bath and went outside.
Discovers Body
Lanson himself discovered the
body as woman real estate agent
knocked at the front door.
Authorities held as possible
clue a stubby piece of iron pipe
which they said they found in the
ashes of a backyard fire. They also
asserted they found Lamson's bath
robe and pajamas, spattered with
blood, across the foot of his bed.
The husband said he flung them
there after entering the bathroom
with them in his arms to find his
wife'S body.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
CITES EVASION
BY MITCHELL
Former Banker Accused Of Not
Reporting Two-Thirds OF Mil
lion As Income.

NEW YORK, May 81. W.P)-
Charles E. Mitchell reported ap-
proximately $4,000 he received
from one bank management fund,
but ".inconsistently failed to re-
port the $666,666 he received from
another similar fund, the govern
ment showed today in its resump-
tion of Mitchell's trial for alleged
income tax evasion.
In 1929, the former chairman OF
the National City bank received
two-thirds of a million dollars in
the split up of a $2,000,000 fund
piled up out of surplus profits for
that year, today's evidence showed.
This sum, which the government
claims was "income was not in
cluded in his return.
In 1880, on the other hand,
Mitchell received $15,997.38 from a
management fund of the City Bank
Farmers Trust Company, Nation
al City affiliate, and this amount
was included in his return.
Frank w. Black, former partner
of Mitchell and once president
of the Chase National Bank, COM
puted Mitchell's tax returns for
1929, "with the help and advice of
MITCHELL" he testified
Sharp verbal engagements be-
tween Max D. Steuer, defending
the banker, and United States At
torney George 2. Medalie, over ad-
INSTABILITY of evidence took place.
The defense already has set up
the argument that the $666, ,666
Mitchell received from the Nation
al City Bank was not income, but
"an advance and that it was to
be returned to the bank.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
BOY ADMITS
K|DNAP HOAX

LOS ANGELES, May 81. <U.I} -
Reprimanded for fighting at school,
Irwin Granich, IL year old Leconte
junior high scllool studer,t, ran
away and invented an abduction
story to tell his mother, he con-
fessed today to police officers.
The youth yesterday told a story
of being abducted by two men while
enroute to school and then taken to
a shack. in the San Fernando val
ley. He said he was held until mid
night Monday when he made his
escape.
Irwin was requestioned today af-
ter Mr. and Mrs. Ralph KnoWlen
identified him from newspaper
photograph as the boy who was
given a meal at their home Mon
day. The boy told fantastic story
Of plans to go to Moscow, Russia,
to live with an uncle because his
parents had been killed, the Know
lens said.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31

large towns, including Bonner
Springs and Paola.
"The convicts were polite and
courteous at all times and we were
not harmed in any way.
"They used our car all the way,
and did not discuss seizing anoth-
er automobile.
Demanded Dinner
when we arrive at william
News home about $3.50 o'clock,
the men demanded that Mrs. New
fix dinner for us.
"We all went inside and Mrs.
New got up a meal of bacon and
eggs. The men said little during
the meal.
when they left they warned
us to stay inside all night, and
not to attempt to communicate
with authorities in any way.
"They cut the telephone wire
leading to the house. Then they
drove away.
'"This morning we came into
town and notified authorities that
we were safe.
How do I feel?
"Just like the morning after the
night before. We all feel that way.
We're still shaky and a trifle
bewildered by it all. Mother isn't
feeling very well.
Eyes. indeed we were frightened.
We didn't talk with the men-we
were too scared.
"All were armed and they seemed
to have plenty of ammunition"
Miss Wears added to the story.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
No Inquest Yet
In Death Case

Coroner Bert Underwood has not
as yet held an inquest into the
death of w. T. Hutchings, whose
body, with bullet hole in the right
temple, was found in cabin near
the brick yard south of the city Ii
mits early yesterday morning.
Through records kept in offices
here where Hutchings had worked
in past years, an effort is being
made to trace relatives. He had
been employed in Brawley as well
as in Ell Centre and before coming
to the valley had also worked in
Modesto, Watsonvilla and Fresno,
according to papers found among
his effects.
The body is still at the Arnold
funeral home awaiting possible
word from relatives before burial.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
BOARD HOLDS
No MEETING

Another meeting and another ad-
journment were recorded in the
minutes of the Imperial Irrigation
district board at 10 o'clock this
morning when E. T.. Hewes and w.
E. Young arrived to find the other
three board members absent once
again.
Signed by three members of the
board, Mark Rose, Ira Aten and
Burleigh E. Adams, an order call
ing special meeting of the board
was prepared at headquarters and
mailed this week to the two re-
naming board members, Hewes
and Young.
The special meeting is called for
8 a. M, June 5, and the order sets
forth what is to be taken up and
considered at the session as fol-
lows:
" for the purpose of acting
upon any or all land leases both
prospective and authorized and also
to consider the matter of sales or
exchanges of land in connection
with the creation of Salton Sea
area and also to audit and approve
the warrants of the district to COW
er general expenses and payrolls
and also to consider matters in
connection with the All-American
canal as may come before the
meeting.'
AS explained at headquarters
this morning, five days notice
must be given in the calling of a
special meeting. Nothing may be
taken up and considered, it was
explained further, unless all board
members are present and common
consent must be forthcoming be-
fore anything additional may be
considered
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
Seeking Damages
For Auto Crash

John Studer is named defendant
in trial which opened before
Judge r. D. McPherrin in superior
court this morning. w. H. Arm
strong, Ell Centro, is the complain
ant and asks $4,000 for personal in
juries sustained in an automobile
accident which took place Novem-
ber 25, 1882. Cars driven by Studer
and Armstrong collided near the
McCabe school and gross negligence
is charged against the defendant
in the complaint.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
JAPAN CHINA
SIGN TRUCE
Toxic Confirms Report Hostil-
tiles Between Two Nations To
Be Concluded.
TOXIC, May 81. U.p)-A truce
was signed formally today between
China and Japan, the war office
announced.

TANGKU, China, May 81. UP)-
A document confirming the prev
ious verbal truce hating military
activities in North China was signed
today by delegates of China and
Japan.
The negotiations we're held at the
japanese military transport offices
here, well-guarded by both Japa-
nese and Chinese troops. General
Okamura, vice chief-of-staff of the
Kwantung army, and Gen. Hsuan
Ping, member of the Nanking gen.
eral staff, headed the respective
delegations. =.
After confirming the truce, the
delegates proceeded to a discussion
which was expected to be pro-
longed, involving the status of the
occupied areas and the status of
Chinese troops, as we'll as payment
of the costs of Japanese occupation
and recognition of Manchukuo.
The latter was thought likely to
cause rupture of negotiations if
the japanese insist on it.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
ALL HOSTAGES
Of PRISONERS
ARE RELEASED
Desperate Kansas Convicts OBJ
ject OF Intensive Search By
State Authorities.
NONE YET APPREHENDED
Warden, Guards And Women
Who Were Taken Declare Men
Are Heavily Armed.
BY RICHARD G. BALDWIN
limited procc CfafP ro.raov&ordo..,

United Press Staff Correspondent
LANSING, Kans., May 81. (U.H
was attributed today to IL
desperadoes fleeing from the Kan
sas penitentiary where they mu-
tinted yesterday.
Otto L. Durkee, night watchman
of Chetopa, Kans., was shot today
by unknown assailants who hid. his
body in an alley.
A few hours before the killing
one group of fleeing convicts was
known to be north of Chetopa and
another south of Chetopa, where
they released six hostages, who had
been seized as the mutineers fled
from the prisons.
LANSING, Kan, May 31.-An in
valid woman and two girls, the
last of six hostages seized by q
band of desperate penitentiary con-
victs who revolted yesterday, were
released today.
Word was flashed Immediately
to peace officers of four states to
shoot to kill in the search for the
fleeing mutineers.
While the women still were cap
tives, orders were issued to police
officers to withhold gunfire in case
of an encounter with the fugitives
because of the danger of striking
the women.
Three other hostages, Warden
Kirk Prather, and two prison
guards, were released last night
near WEIGH, Okla.
The women, Mrs. M. j. Wood Of
Kansas City, Kansas, the invalid;
her daughter, Louise Wood, II, and
Clorice Wears, IT, formerly of Hig-
gin, Texas, were set free unharmed
at the farm home of William New,
two and one-half miles south OF
Pleasanton, Kansas.
The women and their captors,
five cor1vfctS, arrived at the New
farm last night. The convicts de-
manded. "supper for eight.n
Brandishing razors and revolvers.
they forced Mrs. New to prepare
them meal Of bacon and eggs.
Having eaten, the convicts iso-
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
BANK CASHIER
UNDER ARREST

ALHAMBRA, May 81. UP
Benjamin F. Sewers, former assis-
tant cashier and chief clerk in the
main branch of the Bank of Am
erica in Long Beach, was in the
city Jail here today charged with
misapplying about $2400 of the in
stitution S funds. He was secret
ly indicted March l by a federal
grand jury.
Sewers brought to close the
three month search by federal au-
thorities when he voluntarily sur
rendered without explanation at
the federal building.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
Navy viii Bomb
Old Destroyers

SAN DIEGO, May 81. U.P}-Live
bombs were to be used today in
spectacular bombing raids on hulks
of former destroyers Marcus and
Sloat, anchored off the coast south
of here, by squadrons from the air
craft carriers Saratoga and Lex
fngton.
Results of the operations were
to be kept secret.
DestIEyers padsolled areas ex-
tending two miles from the targets
to prevent possible damage to pass
ing ships.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
TWO DIE AS
PLANE FALLS

ARCADIA, Calf, May 81. U.p)-
Unable to pull his airplane out OF
a tailspin, Wayne Merrill, veteran
flying instructor of the Alhambra
airport, and his companion, George
o 'Bannon, student pilot of Sierra
Madre, were killed yesterday when
the ship crashed into truck gar
den near here.
Both men were dead when wit
nesSeS reached the wreckage.
Witnesses said the pair were
stunting at an elevation of approx
imately 1000 feet when the plane
came out of a loop and began its
spin.
Merrill, known professionally as
"Upside-Down' Merrill performed
last Sunday at Imperial county
airport as one of the attractions in
the Junior chamber of commerce
air meet.
He was a film "'stunt' flyer
and instructor at Alhambra air.
port, Central Airport" was the
last big film in which he appeared.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
COURT. GRANTS
|NANDA|M Us IN
RECALL CASE

SAN DIEGO, May 81. {U.Pl-
Directors of the Imperial Irri-
j. cation district were ordered to
receive a petition for. the recall
of Director Burleigh E. Adams
or appear before the fourth dis
trict appellate court here June
IL to show why they should not
do so, in a decision rendered by
the court today.
A quorum of three directors
necessary to consider the recall
petition and set recall election
has refused to meet, the petit
tiOn to the court alleges. The
petition for Adams recall bears
the signatures of 768 electors in
division No. of the Imperial
Irrigation district, it is stated.
Adams was appointed director
of Division No. 4 by the super
visors of Imperial county.
An alternative writ of man.
date, to compel calling an cleo
tiOn for the recall of Burleigh
; Adams, director of the Imperial
Irrigation District, was issued
this morning by the fourth dis
trict court of appeals, according
to information received here
today from Attorney S. p. Will
liams, who filed the application
for the writ.
The court set June 13 at 10
y a; m. as the date fSr a hearing
on the writ, at which time di-
rectcrs of the district will have
an opportunity to explain why
such election should not be
held. Failure to attend the
hearing, or a favorable decision
by the court ON the writ, would
force an election to be called.
Williams left for San Diego
yesterday to file the application
for the writ today, following
the, action of The state supreme
court in denying a writ Mon
day.
The action of the supreme
court was expected, williams
explained, as the local superior
court and the fourth district
court of appeals, both subor-
dinate to the supreme court
have jurisdiction in. the matter.
The supreme court, in denying
the writ, merely recognized the
jurisdiction of the two lower
courts Williams said. If the
writ is upheld by the appellate
court, he stated, no appeal can
be made to the supreme court,
though an application for re-
hearing may be filed.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
TRIES TO END LIFE

LOS ANGELES, May 81. {U.P)-
David j. Gonyer, 50-year- -old oil
engineer, who assertedly fired a
bullet through his abdomen in a
suicide attempt and also injured
his wife, Zoe, 38, with the same
shot, was in a critical condition to-
day.
The bullet DETECTED from Con-
yer's hip bone and inflicted flesh
wound on his wife'S stomach.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
GRADUATION IN
CITY SCHOOLS

Graduation exercises occupy the
center of attention this week since
the city high school, Junior col
lege, elementary school and the rur-
al schools in the Ell Centre high
school district will all conduct
commencementS this week.
.- Central junior college will gradu-
ate the largest class in its history
tonight at o'clock in the high
school auditorium. Twenty five
students will receive their diplomas
from j. E Brock, clerk Of the high
school board of trustees.
Dr. Harvey L. Eby, professor of
education at the University of CAL
ifornia at Los Angeles, will deliver
the commencement address.
v. E. Butterworth, pastor of the
State Street Christian church will
, deliver the invocation and the ben-
ediction; musical numbers will be
presented by the orchestra, the jun
ior college trio, Thelma jenkins, Ell
2abeth Van Etten Waterman, and
James B. Fisher. Martha jenkins
will act as accompaniSt for Thelma
jenkins and Ruth Teeple Reid for
Mrs. Waterman.
The public is invited TO attend
tonight's program.
Wilson school commencement eX-
ercises will be held Thursday eve
ming, June l, at O'Clock in the
high school auditorium when a
large class of graduates will re-
ceive their diplomas.
Complete program for the occas-
ion is given as follows. opening
number "LiebeStraum by the
school orchestra; song, Gland of
Hope and Glory, class of 1893;
violin solo, Calvert Moody. "Volga
Boatman boys chorus; piano
solo, Kathryn Surface; selection
from "Romeo and Juliet Geral-
dine Blake; cornet solo, Howard
Ch!lders; "Goin' HomeD, girls
chorus; presentation of class, Miss
Nora Epler; presentation of diplo-
mas, Mrs. Josephine Adair, of the
board of trustees; closing song,
"Now the Day Is Over", gradu-
atlng class.
Parents, relatives and friends
and others interested are invited
to attend the services.
East Side elementary school will
graduate a class of IL tonight at
the exercises to be held at p. m.
in the school auditorium.
Rev. G. H. Huston will deliver
the invocation, the school chorus
will give musical numbers, the class
prophecy will be given by Lubertha
Robins and William Moore, Lois
Craig will be heard in piano solo,
the graduates will appear in one
act play, and Myrtle Anderson will
give the valedictory.
w. A. Tondro. clerk of the ele-
mentary school board of trustees,
will present the diplomas.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
MgMlLL-


SANTA MONICA, May 30.
(SpeciaD - There is nothing
any more gratifying than to
have been away and get back
and get hold of some home
town paper. It's like meeting
an old friend and having a
glass of three times two with
him.
Knowing I had been to the
Morgan investigation, everybody
asked me on the way out,
"what's it going to lead to,
and will it do any good?''
Yes, it IS going to be very ed
ucational, not only the Morgan
investigation, but of all big
business. It's going to show us
just how "big business" got
big. 1t got big according to
law. But not according to
Hoyle.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31
Baseball Scores
American League

AT Washington (first game)--
New York ....010 020 400 7 IL .
Washington .0O4 100 25x-12 IL o
Ruffing, Moore, Gomez, Brown
and Dickey Jorgens; Crowder,
Stewart, Thomas, McAfee and Sew
ell.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-31

National League
Boston at Philadelphia, post
poned, wet grounds.
Brooklyn at New York, post
poned. wet grounds.
Evening star., 1933-06-17
FUND TO INSURE
DEPOSITS IN BANKS
S150,00O,O0O Appropriated
at Close of Congress as
Z $4,000, 600, 600 Nucleus.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
One of the last things Congress did
before 1t adjourned was to appropriate
$150,000, 600 to be used as a nucleus for
the possible $4,000, ,000, 900 fund that
will insure bank deposits under the
Glass-Steagall bank reform legislation.
The $150,000,000 is to be subscribed
by the Treasury toward capital stock
OF a new Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation. Federal Reserve member
banks will be required to subscribe to
surplus and if they become members
OF the deposit insurance fund must pur-
chase additional stock equal to l per
cent Of their deposit liabilities.
How Insurance Works.
The money raised in this manner will
be used, from next January l t. July
!, 1884, to guarantee 100 per cent of
deposits of $4,000 or less in banks that
belong to the fund.
Beginning July l all deposits will be
insured by the corporation on this ba@
sis: 100 per cent of deposits up to
$4,000; rs per cent from $4,000 to
$50,000; SO per cent Of amounts over
$4,000.
For two years from July 1, 1894,
State banks, upon presenting certifi-
Gates of solvency from State officials
and submitting to an examination by
representatives of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, may participate
IN the insurance fund.
Beginning July /, 1886, however, the
only banks admissible will be Federal
Reserve members or banks that have
applied for Federal Reserve member
ship.
Cause Of Controversy.
It was this State bank provision that
caused much controversy in Congress,
many members arguing that it would
force State banks out of business.
Proponents of the bill replied that
the effect simply would be to assure
membership only to sound banks, since
any bank that could satisfy the strin-
gent requirements for Federal Reserve
membership could benefit from the de-
posit insurance.
In the event member bank should
be found insolvent, it would be ordered
closed by the controller of the cur
rency, the Treasury or the Deposit In
surance Corporation.
Then the corporation would immedi-
ately pay off deposits on the schedule
provided, using money in the insur-
ance fund. The law provides, too, that
the corporation shall act as receiver for
the closed bank and "thereupon shall
organize a new national bank" that
would take over the assets of the closed
institution.