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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
STRONG PLEA
FOR BANKER

NEW YORK, June 10. tU.Rf-The
governments charges against
Charles E. Mitchell are "the most
unwarranted in history" Max D.
Steuer declared today in summing
up for the defense in the case OF
the former National City bank
chief, accused of evading $850,000 in
income taxes for 1929 and $780,
The noted lawyer breathed sar-
casm and scorn into his address to
the jury. In his customary court
manner, Steuer began his address
in a confidential, whispering tone.
Leaning far over the rail, he APP
peared to be taking the jury into
his confidence. His first words could
be heard only by the stenographer,
and Mitchell himself, hitching his
chair closer, cupped his hand be-
hind his ear.
Steuer outlined the three charges
against Mitchell-that he sold 49,
300 shares of National City bank
stock to his wife to establish fic-
tioral loss of $2,800,000, that he
failed to report $666, 666.67 he re-
ceived from his company's manage
ment fund; and that he made a fic-
titious sale of $500 shares of Ana
conda copper stock to establish a
loss of $750,000.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
Desert Tragedy
Claims Mexican

One Mexican is reported dead
and two others as suffering from
the effects of exposure to the des-
ert IS heat, according to story re-
ceived here this morning. Jose
Maria Dominguez died and Alfino
Sumaya and Domingo Vitorio were
found wandering about near La
guna Salada yesterday afternoon
by a party of relatives and friends
who had organized search party
for the missing men.
According to reports the three left
Alaska, Baja California, week ago
on trip to Sierra Prieta in the
lower peninsula. The men we're on
gold prospecting trip and travel
ed in an old Ford car. Disaster
overlook them when all their tires
blew out and they found them
selves without water for their car,
several days ago.
Deciding to abandon the car and
make for Mexicali on foot the three
met set out across the desert On
the way, Vitorio was overcome by
sunstroke but recovered. Domin-
guez, seeking a shortcut to the
highway left his companions but
never reached his destination.
When found yesterday the two
survivors of the Inflated expedition
were in pitiable condition. vitor-
10 was taken to Alaska for treat
ment while Sumaya was brought to
the hospital in Mexicali.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19

by-product. The recovery legisla-
ton is designed to increase consum-
er buying power by reducing hours
so that more people can work, by
insuring living wage SO that more
people can buy the products of fac
tories and by giving to the farmer
a fair price for his produce SO that
he can again become a purchaser.
This requires industry to main
tain minimum wage standards. In
dustries must be protected against
cutthroat competition or the whole
structure collapses. This is where
elimination of racketeering enters
as part of the program.
President Roosevelt himself en-
phasized that the government must
protect industries which play the
game.
1--WE must protect them from the
racketeers who invade organizations
of both employers and workers." he
said when he signed the industrial
recovery bill.
Attorney General Cummings al
ready has begun a fight to stamp
out rackets. He has been limited
chiefly to activities which interfer-
ed with interstate commerce. Now
he may act against any who violate
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
DRY LEADER
SEES VICTORY

WASHINGTON, June 10. W.P)-
Superintendent F. Scott Mcbride of
the Anti-Saloon League today dis
counted the clean sweep of wet
forces in the II state elections held
thus far on prohibition ropeai and
expressed confidence that the drys
can block repeal if they get out
and fight.
Mcbride charged that vets en-
gineered the elections SO the strong
ly anti-prohibition states would
vote first. OF the states that have
voted SO far, seven were wet before
prohibition, he pointed. But of the
81 still to vote, 20 were under state
prohibition when the 18th amend
ment was adopted. The drys need
to hold only Is states to retain the
18th amendment in the constitution.
None of the southern states has
voted yet and it is there that pro-
hibitionists are most hopeful of
victory. The first test in the south
will come in Alabama on July Is.
Three states are voting tomorrow
Iowa, Connecticut and New
Hampshire.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
Denies Plan To
Marry Pugilist

CAL-NEV, New, June 10. U.P)-
Madeline Force Aston Dick today
denied she planned to marry Vim
cente Fiermonte, 25, Italian boxing
instructor, after she obtained di-
vorce from her second husband,
william K. Dick of New York.
Reports that I plan to marry
Ehis boy are utterly ridiculous, >
Mrs. Dick sal today at the summer
estate she has rented on the shores
of Lake Tahoe.
Her eldest son, John Jacob As
tor, was reported Saturday at New
port, r. l., as confirming reports
she would marry Fiermonte, male
bathing beauty contest winner in
Southern California.
Jack John Jacob Aston would
never make such a statement Mrs.
Dick, the former Mrs. John Jacob
Aston, told the United Press. Its
too unuterably absurd"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
PROBE
To CONTINUE
More Big Financial Concerns
And Exchanges To Be Investi-
gated By Government.
By LYLE C. WILSON


WASHINGTON, June 10. Thor
ough inquiry into the New York
stock exchange, investment trusts
and holding companies has been de-
cided on by senate committee investi-
gators, the United Press was in
formed today.
Investigation of private banks,
which began with spectacular rev.
elation of j. P. Morgan g. Co., bus
mess and income tax secrets, will
be resumed next Monday with Otto
Kahn of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., as the
first witness. Dillon, Read g. Co.
will be investigated afterward.
Beyond that Ferdinand Pecora.
senate banking committee counsel
projects hearing on the opera
tons of the Chase Securities cor
poration securities affiliate of the
Rockefeller Chase Ma
tional bank. 1t had been under
stood the committee would conclude
its inquiry there. But Pecora in
formed senators he intended to go
further.
eve will investigate the stock
exchange, investment trusts and
holding companies before we get
through" Pecora said. "We ex-
poet to go extensively into the ex-
change, its operations and practices.
I want to get complete picture of
the way it functions and the way
wheels. turn within ito
Chairman Fletcher of the banking
committee was asked if the Kuhn
Loeb investigation would touch up
on income tax matters.
cit is likely,'' he replied, "that
the inquiry will connect up with
their former income taxes. That
| is not the primary purpose of the
inquiry, but it will lead up to that.
The Morgan investigation reveal
ed j. P. Morgan himself had paid
no income tax in 1880, 1881 and
1882 and none of his partners had
paid income taxes in the latter
| two years. Details of personal
stock transactions whereby several
members of the firm took losses
| for income tax purposes were part
of the record which has gone tc
the justice department for scruti-
ny.
Return of the inquiry to the
New York stock exchange will bring
back to the witness stand the suave
president of that organization
Richard Whitney. He is brothel
of George Whitney, Morgan part.
ner, who was star witness during
the investigation of the Morgan
bank. Richard Whitney's broker.
age firm deals in bonds and is
closely associated with Morgan &
Co.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
COAST WOMAN
WILL BECOME
BUDDHIST NUN

LOS ANGELES, June 10. W.P)-
A former Follies chorus girl today
adopted the austere life of Bud
dhist nun, the second American
woman to become religious fol-
lower in the ancient oriental faith.
Renouncing her claims to worldly
pleasures, Mrs. C. 1. Chester took
the vows in a plain ceremonial in
which she received the name uf
Kwa-Sho, "a flower in the tree
tops" The ordination was admin
istered by DR.. Nyogen Senzaki I'M
der whose spiritual guidance she
had placed herself for 10 years.
Mrs. Chester was a veteran stage
performer. She began her career
at the age of IL when she appeared
as a concert pianist. She toured
the vaudeville circuits in a song
ambulance act and for three years
was in the cast of the ziegfeld
Follies as chorus girl. She de-
serted the stage in 1913 to marry
but was divorced IL years later.
She came here from New York
three years ago.
The plump, middle-aged woman
spoke with quiet fervor of her con-
version to Buddhism.
Fame is fleeting," she said. "One
minute the toast on everybody's
tongue, the next forgotten soul.
So the discovery that fame is not
all, that peace of mind and tran
guilty are of greatest Importance
in living the good life is a happy
one. This marks the beginning of
my life"
Before long she will leave for Je-
pan to enter the convent at Kyoto
Her mass of thick, dark hair will
be shorn and for years she will wear
the monastic robe before being per-
mitted to teach her new-found be-
liefs.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
FATAL CRASH
At BIG BEAR
Three Members OF Film Colony
Killed As Plane Crashes Into
Lake Sunday.

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calf, June 10.
W.p)-One of three bodies retrieved
from the wreckage OF an airplane
that crashed last night in the lake
was identified today as that of
Harry Sweet, Hollywood film direc-
tor.
The two other bodies were def
initely identified as those of Hal
Davitt, screen writer, and Miss
Claudia Ford, friend of the Sweet
family. Positive identification of
the girl as Miss Ford was hamp-
cred by lack of jewelry or other
distinguishing articles. The only
such ornament was a bracelet ini-
tailed with 3D..
Sweet, whose body was found in
the pilots seat in the rear cock
pit, apparently had been drowned.
The two passengers skulls had
been crushed, the thankful of fuel
apparently having exploded when
the plane nosedived and crashed
into the lake.
BIG BEAR LAKE. Calf, June
10. (U.p)-The bodies of three per-
sons, two men and a young woman,
were taken today from the wreck
age of an airplane that crashed in
the lake last night.
Two of the bodies-that of one
man and the wonan-were badly
battered when lifted from the fore
cockpit. The fuel tank apparently
had exploded Both skulls were
crushed.
The third body, that of the pilot,
was relatively unchanged. He seem
ed to have drowned.
Coroner's deputies set to. work
Immediately to attempt identified
ton.
The pilots description answered
that of Harry Sweet, motion picture
director, private pilot who owned
his own airplane.
The young woman was described
as apparently little more than 20
years old, blonde, CARRIED in riding
breaches and leather jacket.
The descriptions of the passen-
gers tailed fairly closely with those
of Hal Davitt, scenario writer, and
Miss Claudia Ford, with whom
Sweet left Glendale airport yester-
day afternoon in his plane, which
had not been see or heard from
since.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
Tuesday Specials
For Housewives

Second of the Tuesday
Specials inaugurated by The
Press, with the cooperation of
local merchants, will be held
tomorrow as announced in the
full page advertisement in
this issue.
First Of the sales, held last
week, was highly successful
from the viewpoint of mer-
chant, patron and this publ
cation.
Excellent opportunities for
saving money are to be found
in the Tuesday Specials"
and thrifty housewives are
urged to look through the spe-
cial offers. BY asking for the
Tuesday Specials at the
various stores participating in
the advertisement, patrons will
show that they are interested
in the merchants desire to
give them excellent merchan-
disc at money saving prices.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
BY FREDERICK A. STORM

United Press Staff Correspondent
WITH PRESIDENT ROOSE-
WELT, at Nantucket, Mass, June 49,.
EU.PS-Dmenched by sweeping At
lantic waves which blocked progress
of the vacation schooner Amber
jack II, President Roosevelt put
into this little port today after
battling northeast storm off Cape
Cod.
The President was enroute to
Provincetown on his vacation sail
up the New England coast when
the little schooner ran into sec
ond severe storm. Mr.. Roosevelt, at
the wheel, headed the vessel into
the teeth of the whistling wind for
three hours before he finally was
forced to abandon the attempt to
continue to Provincetown.
From the time Mr. Roosevelt left
Edgartown, at $3.50 a. m. until the
choppy waters of this harbor were
reached, the Amberjack rolled and
pitched heavily under shortened
canvas in a steadily increasing sea.
Waves that sent spray flying over
the President and his crew broke
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
Postal Employees
To Get Reduction

WASHINGTON, June 10. U.p)-
Postal employees throughout the
country will be laid off nine days
without pay during the three month
period beginning July l as part of
the drive to reduce the govern
ment's running expenses.
The furlough order applies to all
postmasters and employees except
rural mail carriers and post office
department workers in Washing
ton.
AS the rural carriers could not be
furloughed without disrupting the
service, reduction in their COM
pensation will be effected by cut
ting equipment maintenance allow
ance from four cents to 1.176 cents
per mile per day. Employees in
Washington also will take cut in
some form.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
An R1~-
@lss, MsNasshs Syndicate. -
NINETEEN DIE
IN HEAT WAVE

CHICAGO, Junue 10. U.p) = The
second heat wave of the summer
parched the midwest today. claim
ing at least 10 lives.
Six lives were claimed by drown
ings and heat deaths in Indiana
while another half dozen died in the
prairie provinces of Canada.
Other states 20 report deaths di-
rectly traceable to the heat wave
included Wisconsin, Q; Iowa, q;
Minnesota, 2, and downstate Illi-
nois, /.
Across the dry prairies of Kansas
and Nebraska, hot blasts swept on
ward with no prediction OF relief
from record high temperatures in
sight. Wheat, oats and corn crops,
already damaged considerably, will
be further injured in some sections
unless rain and low temperatures
bring relief this week.
CHICAGO, June 10. U.P) = The
second sizzling heat wave in two
weeks scorched the midwest today,
with thermometers soaring to the
high COS and over 100 degrees.
! Northerly breezes blew in from
the lake to afford some relief In
the Chicago area, but IN surround
ing sections the mercury rose above
the 100 degree mark.
The United States weather bu-
reau reported that relief probably
would arrive Wednesday night. To-
day and tomorrow, the forecast
said, would be almost as hot as
during the heat wave two weeks ago
when new records were set.
Temperatures of 100 degrees or
more were reported from Mime
sofa, Iowa, the Dakotas, Montana,
Indiana and several points in Illi-
nois.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
Hollywood Sick
List Improving

HOLLYWOOD, June 10. (U.P)--
Hollywood's imposing sick list was
threatened with assertions today.
Herbert K. Somborn, Dick Pow
,ell, Ruth Chatterton and Dorothy
Dwan all we're reported improving
from their sundry ailments.
Powell was described as consider
ably improved. He has been SER
iously Ill in Cedars of Lebanon hos
pital with influenza and pneumon-
la. Somborn, former husband of
Gloria Swanson, was said to be rail-
lying from an attack of kidney
trouble.
Dorothy Dwan, a film star de-
cade ago and now the wife of Paul
N. Boggs, Jr wealthy oil man,
was described as doing nicely after
undergoing an operation for APP
pendicitis Saturday Ruth Chatter
ton is still undergoing treatment
for severe attack of bronchitis
although she Is expected to return
to work within a few days.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1888, by United Press

WASHINGTON, June 19.-The
industrial recovery program has
provided new weapons for fight
to stop racketeering.
Broad powers granted by the in
dustrial recovery act, the farm adj
justment act and the securities
control bill include authority to
move against the underworld of
business that has preyed on legiti-
mate trade
They make it possible to reach
on one hand the heavy jawed rack
eteer who, with squad of thugs
at his back, wrings his tribute from
terrified milk dealers, for instance;
and on the other the glib stock
salesman with a brief case full of
worthless securities.
determination of racketeering is
not the prime object of the recov-
cry program, but it is an important
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
Dozen InuoIUed
In Sea Accidents

LOS ANGELES, June 10. U.R)-A
dozen persons we're recovering from
mild shock and submersion today
resulting from two accidents at sea
in one of which a power cruiser
collided with a rock-filled barge
and sank and a fishing boat cap
sized. sAs,l
Mr.. and Mrs. K. G. Robertson OF
Long Beach and three guests were
thrown into the Catalina channel
when their power boat rammed a
barge, which was being towed by a
tug. The Robertsons swan to the
tug which then put about and
picked up Edward O'Hara, Polly
Snyder and r. B. Greasy, all OF
Los Angeles A heavy fog was
blamed for the crash.
The fishing boat Elmer-Alberta
was five miles off Huntington
Beach when 1t suddenly turned over
and sank. Seven Los Angeles men
aboard we're rescued by the crew
of another boat nearby.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
To Boost Price
OF Cigarettes

NEW YORK, June 10. W.P)-Cig-
arctic prices soon will rise to pre-
depression levels, with the popular
brands selling for is cents pack
age under the terms of code OF
ethics adopted by tobacco retailers
and distributors.
A minimum profit schedule OF
five per cent on cigarettes, 10 to Il
per cent on cigars, and an increase
in wages If the code is enforced
were features of the jobbers' code
The retailers code entailed a diff
ferent profit schedule and outlawed
trading coupons.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
STORM FORCES ROOSEVELT To
SEEK REFUGE At NANTUCKET
Presidents Small Craft Unable To Make
Headway Against Worcester But Execu.
tive Thoroughly Enjoys Experience.

continuously over the schooner's
bow.
Finally, in a smother of foam,
the Amberjack was swung about for
shelter when it was seen that lit
tie or no Roadway northward could
be made.
President Roosevelt implicated
that he would remain here until
the weather cleared.
ut is better to study the weather
conditions in this port than off the
cape" he told newspapermen when
the anchor of the Amberjack drop
ped in the mud of Nantucket
How is every one?" he cheerily
inquired of correspondents, who
put out from their yacht, the Com
manche, TO see him.
Il became concerned about you
when I saw your boat pitching and
rolling.
1--WE had a cold breakfast before
we started from Edgartown, be-
cause the stove wouldn't work. We
got IT liked, however, ana now we
are going to have some hot coffee"
The Amberjack was turned for
the shore at the Handkerchief
Shoals light ship, which is near Hy-
annis, Mass.
The President wore oilskins over
heavy graw sweater and flannel
trousers. He wore no hat.
AS usual, the navy's escorting de-
stroyers, Ellis and Bernadou. ac-
companied the Amberjack to Nam
tucket.
WITH PRESIDENT ROOSE-
WELT, At Sea, June 19.-President
Roosevelt pointed the nose of his
sturdy schooner Amberjack II to-
ward Provincetown, Mass, today
eager to weather the blustery At
lantic off Cape Cod on the third
day of his vacation cruise.
Mr.. Roosevelt, who has described
his trip so far as grand" hoped to
make the 80 miles between Edgar
town, on Marthas vineyard, and
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
.LAMSON TRIAL
NEARS CLOSE

SAN JOSE, Calf, June 10.
(UP)-David LamsOn was held
to answer in superior court to-
day for the alleged murder OF
his pretty young wife, Allene.
The Stamford University
Press executive was bound over
at conclusion of his prelimin-
airy hearing, begun last week.
SAN JOSE, Calf, June 10. U.p)--
Physical evidence, which the state
contends holsters its theory OF
murder, faced David A. Lamson to-
day as he began what was expect
ed to be the final decision OF his
preliminary hearing on charges OF
numbering his wife, Allene.
Deputy sheriffs, laden with racks
of clothing and waste baskets
wedged through the crowd jammed
near the doors of the courtroom
and piled the evidence on a table
directly in front of the witness
stand. Lamson merely glanced al
the pile as he approached his chair
at the counsel table.
The clothing, taken from Lam
son IS Stanford campus home the
day Mrs. Lamson was found dead
in the bathtub, was expected by the
state To add another link to the
chain of circumstantial evidence
enmeshing Lamson.
Undersheriff Earle G. Hamilton
was recalled to introduce the evil
dence. He identified, among Other
articles, a night dress found hang
ing in the blood-spattered bath
room. Lamson stared at the judge 4
desk, resolutely keeping his eyes
turned from the dress last worr
by his 28-year-old wife. He ap.
peared distressed and agitated al
the articles were unwrapped ant
exhibited.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
Navy Aids Search
For Lost Flyer

NOME, Alaska, June Is. W.P)-A
search by sea and air was underway
today for James Mattern, round
the world flyer missing in the Arc
tic since he took off from Khabar-
ovsk, Siberia, for Nome five days
ago.
The navy repair ship Argonne,
stationed in the Pribiloffs, was
ready to assist three coast guard
cutters in the search of the remote
islands of the Aleutian chain after
receiving instructions from Wash
ington.
Ensign William A. Moffett Jr.,
son of the late Rear Admiral Moi
felt, who was killed in the crash
of the dirigible Akron, was aboard
the Argonne, in command of Cap
tain Harry Daet.
Pilots of private and regularly
operated planes in the vicinity also
sought traces of Mattern who was
believed down on one of the small
islands in the Aleutians, where he
might live in safety for weeks be-
fore being found.
MOSCOW, June 10. tU.P)@The
Soviet instructed aviation officials
in Khabarovsk, Kamchatka, and
other Siberian towns tday to I'M
dertake detailed search for James
Mattern.
Alexander Goncharov, represent
ing the board of civil aviation, said
Soviet vessels in the BERN and Ok
hotsk seas had been asked to re-
port any sign of Mattern or his
plane.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
Produce Men To
Hold Conference

An important meeting for all pro-
duce buyers, shippers and brokers
is called for Thursday evening,
June %, at o 'clock in the Bar
bara Worth hotel by B. A. Harri-
gan, agricultural commissioner.
G. j. Carey, chief of the division
of market enforcement, state de-
partment of agriculture, will be
present to discuss and explain the
meaning of the new law signed
by Governor Rolph which sets up
new provisions regarding bonding
and licenses Ior cash brokers.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
Firen1en Get TWo
Weekend Calls

Fire destroyed the G. c. Hall res
idence at 173 Orange avenue last
night while the family was attend
ing church. The loss was covered
by insurance. according to Tom
Reams, fire chief.
Investigation revealed that the
flames originated on the outside OF
the house.
Firemen answered a call to the
owl pool room at 6:15 clock yes
terday afternoon when someone re-
ported trash fire. There was nc
damage.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
For
Loan Rejected

Word of the rejection Of the
test application for a federal
farm commission loan for Inn
perial Valley was received this
morning at the farm bureau
office at the court house.
Some days ago test appli-
cation was sent to the feder-
al farm loan commission head
quarters in Washington, d. c.
That office forwarded the APP
plication to the commissioners
office IN Berkeley, William H.
Woolf, who rejected it on the
grounds of the regulations set
up by the Washington office. :.