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Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10
URGES STATE
LIQUOR SALE

NEW YORK, Oct. 10. U.P) - A
state liquor monopoly for the sale
of "heavier alcoholic beverage"
by package only was advocated to-
day in the third installment of the
report on liquor control sponsored
by John d. Rockefeller, Jr.
Such a system of control, en-
bodying liberal provisions for the
public sale and consumption of
beer and light Wines" makes it
possible adequately to meet an un-
stimulated demand within the lin
its of conditions established solely
in the interests of society," the re-
port added.
Detailing broad powers for a
estate alcohol control authority
the report cautioned that liquor
supply stores be established to
meet normal demand without vio-
lating the desires of individual Sec
tons of the state to have no such
stores in their localities.
1t is "neither desirable nor nee
essary for the state to assume
management of the manufacturing
side of the trade,' the report add
ed.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10
LINK CANISTER DEATHS WITH
OPERATIONS Of CRIME TRUST

powerful enough politically to pre-
vent a too close scrutiny of their
activities by city and state author
tiles.
Score Under Arrest
Under the direction of this mod
ern Fagin, according to revelations
already made, ring that included
at one time or another such no.
torious gunner as Harvey Bailey,
Fred (Killer) Burke, George (Ma-
chine Gum Kelly. Verne Miller and
Frank Nash, robbed scores of banks
and mail trucks and trafficked in
millions of dollars worth of stolen
bonds.
More than 4 score of men, sus-
pected of connection with the gang
already are under arrest here. War
rants have ben issued for at least
seven others.
The list of crimes attributed to
the gang includes several kidnap-
ings, the machine gun robbery OF
a Lincoln, Neb., bank of $4,000
in 1880, and the 100000 Chicago
mail robbery last December.
One man, listed as a suspect in
the Staying of Winkler, was arrested
today for questioning. He is DOM
inic Mariana. % years old. Police
were informed he was near the
scene of the killing five minutes be-
fore Winlker arrived.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10
STATE SCORES
NEW POINT IN
LAND HEARING

After two days of argument by
counsel for the defense and prose-
cution in the alien land law case
regarding the admissability of GER
tain documents to be used as evil
dence, Judge R. D. McPherrin, be-
fore whom the trial is being held,
ruled that these particular docu-
ments could be admitted by the
prosecution. This decision was CIV
en- late yesterday afternoon.
During this mornings session
the arguments continued, particu-
larly concerning certain contracts
alleged to have given beneficiary
rights to the Hindu defendants
placed on the land. The defense
objected to the introduction of this
document as evidence to prove the
alleged conspiracy on the grounds
that it is bona fide instrument
and does not give Labh Singh or
any other alien any control of the
land but puts him there only as an
employee with no possible control
over the land in question.
The court overruled the objec-
tions made by the defense and held
the admissability of the indicated
documents as evidence only in the
case in which each defendant might
be concerned and not generally.
Following these rulings the jury
was recalled to the jury box and
the the prosecution continued its
case, offering the allowed docu-
ments in evidence and proposing
for identification.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10

CHICAGO, Oct. 10. U.P)-A ruth
less gang car, believed to have Or
dered the Staying of two of his lieu
tenants he suspected of giving in
formation to federal officers, fought
desperately today to thwart the
government war against crime.
The deaths of Gus Winkler and
Edgar Lebensberger, known for
their gang connections, were order
ed, federal officers believe, because
of fear they might reveal the wide
ramifications of a gigantic crime
ring.
Winkler was killed by assassins
who fired 70 shotgun slugs into his
back few hours before he was to
have been questioned again con-
corning the $250,000 Chicago mail
robbery last December. Lebensber-
ger was found shot to death in his
palatial North Shore home last
Friday.
The deaths of Winkler and Leb-
ensberger remained as perplexing a
mystery as does the "high-up" from
whom they took orders and reiayed
them to hundreds of bank robbers,
bond thieves and raoketeers in a
dozen middlewestern cities.
Both were regarded as big shots"
among the gangsters because of the
reputed connections with someone
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10
WANT SCREEN
CODE TO CURB
BIG SALARIES

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. U.p) -
MIRA code makers puzzled today
over the problem of how to regu-
late salaries of Hollywood movie
queens and executives.
Aside from that question, Sol A.
RoSenblalt, deputy administrator,
had the motion picture code in vir-
tually the form in which he ex-
poets to submit it to Administrator
Hugh S. johnson.
Working with representatives of
producers, Rosenblatt hoped by to-
morrow to devise some scheme to
place limit on the earnings OF
stars and executives who have
drawn fabulous salaries and fat
bonuses which some consider out
of proportion with general salary
levels and returns to stockholders.
Placing a definite salary limit
alton in the code itself is out of
the question, Rosenblatt said.
Thought is being given, however, to
proposals for setting up some kind
of salary control board within the
industry The administrator pro-
missed that any action taken in re-
gard to stars salaries would also
apply to major executives.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10
FLORIDA To
VOTE TODAY

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, Oct. 10.
U.P)-Florida voted today on re-
peal of the 18th amendment. I'M
partial observers predicted she
would be the 33rd state to repudiate
national prohibition. If these pre-
dictions are proven, the repeal
clause will be within three states
of realization.
Wet leaders expected the doom of
the 18th amendment to be sealed
in less than month. Nov. 7 six
states-Ohio, Pennsylvania, North
and South Carolina, Utah and Ken
tucky-vote and unless the over
whelming repeal trend is miracu-
lousy reversed, they will give the
vets more than enough states to
put the 21st (repeaD amendment
into the constitution
The 18th amenament will remain
in force, however, until Dec. S,
when the seth ratification conven-
ton is held.
The Florida wet campaign, based
ldl SCly VII CllO1 VI W 6CO OuG IllC
vote, ended last night at Tampa
where Postmaster General James
A. Farley urged repeal as a part of
the National Recovery program and
predicted Florida would vote repeal
by 21a to l.
Dry leaders claimed confidence
of victory after campaign conduct
ed largely through the churches.
They admitted they were handi-
capped by a confusing ballot.
Polls opened at 8 a. m. and will
close at sunset, officially set at
6:03 p. m. EST.
A total of 176 names appear on
the long ballot. From the 176 can
didates Ct delegates were 10 be
chosen for the convention Nov. ID.
Wet voters had the comparative
ly simple task of putting *" marks
before the names of the CT candi-
dates pledged for repeal and listed
in one column.
But the drys have only eight can
didates pledged against repeal and
to vote for CT candidates must re-
member the names of 60 drys listed
with Al vets in the unpledged col
umn. The unpledged candidates arc
listed alphabetically with nothing
to indicate their personal senti-
ments.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10
GOVERNOR ON
SHORT WEEK

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 10. UP -
Governor James Rolph, Jr., has
been placed on a half-time work
day by his Sacramento medical
advisors in order that he may re-
ceive the rest necessary to COM
plete recovery from his recent
pneumonia attack.
Acting on orders from DR.. June
B. Harris, the governor did not ap-
pear at his offices yesterday, spend
ing most of the day resting in bed
at his home. The physician eX-
planned that while X-ray eXamina-
ton showed all pneumonia condi-
tons to have been cleared from the
governor s lungs, the usual post
pneumonia heart strain was evil
dent. Heavy work was therefore
inadvisable Dr. Harris said.
During the recuperative period,
Governor Rolph will be permitted
a half day daily at the executive
offices, usually after noon.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10
STATE CROPS
THREATENED
by STRIKES
Much Unrest Reported Among
Agricultural Workers In Let
tuce And Cotton Areas.
LEADERS MAKE THREATS
Strikers And Growers Report
ed To Be Armed And Pre-
pared For Trouble.
BY United Press

The great wave of unrest among
agricultural workers in CALIFORNIA;
bountiful harvest fields spread to-
day through the cotton region to
the sheds where lettuce is trimmed
and packed for the markets.
Leaders of vegetable packers as
sociations" in Salinas and Watson
vile called on their followers to
join $4,000 cotton pickers in de-
handing higher wages as their
share of President Roosevelt's new
deal.
Threats were made by the labor
leaders of statewide sympathy
strike to delay and perhaps ruin
one of the Golden States great
est harvests.
Trouble among the lettuce pack
ers started at Salinas where 1000
workers left their jobs. A smaller
group of 800 was to strike late to-
day in the Pajaro valley section
around jacksonville.
the packers association instruct
ed the strikers at Salinas not to
congregate in groups and not to
stage demonstrations.
Lettuce growers said they could
not possibly grant the increase
from go to rs cents an hour asked
by pickers and from 80 to SO cents
sought by trimmers. The only pro-
fits they had made in three years
were menaced by the strike, the
growers said.
The situation in the four county
cotton district remained virtually
unchanged. Growers rejected state
mediation efforts and decided to
hold out against increases if it
takes all year.
They're sitting on dynamite"
cried Frank Mcdonald, state labor
commissioner. They're ready to go
outside the law
Armed Aid Promised
The cotton growers formed pro-
tective associations and promised
armed aid" to ranchers who need
ed assistance. Vigilante committees
prepared to drive outside radi-
Gals" and other strikers from the
fields.
The state MIRA compliance board
stepped into the picture after state
mediation failed. When cotton
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10
NEW REVOLT
IN TAMMANY
Brooklyn Leaders Give Notice
They Will Not Support O'Bri-
en- For Mayor.

NEW YORK, Oct. 10. UP)-The
powerful Brooklyn organization of
John H. McCooey, Democratic ma
tional committeeman and co-boss
of city politics with John F. Curry,
mutinied today against Tammany
Hall.
The rebels demanded McCooey's
abdication unless he permits the
county executive committee to
throw it's support to Joseph v. Nc
Kee, the recovery party candi-
date for mayor in a bitter, three
cornered political battle.
Similar notice was served on John
Theofel, Democratic boss of Queens
county, who was informed that his
district leaders would GUST him I'M
less he accedes to sentiment for
Mckee.
Nineteen of the "a Brooklyn dis
trict leaders we're associated in the
revolt which flared into the open
with announcement they had de-
cided to ignore the notification
ceremonies today by Mayor John P.
o 'Brien, Tammany candidate for
reelection, an unprecedented divi-
sion within the party.
Loss of Brooklyn, numerically the
most potent borough in the city,
would be considered a death blow
to Tammany'S hopes in the COM
ing election. Declaration of the
McCooey organization for Mckee
would pile up an almost unsur-
mountable handicap for Florello H.
LaGuardia, Fusion candidate, it
was believed.
The rebellious Brooklyn leaders
were seeking conference with Nc
Cooey to inform him of their in
tentions.
To Notify O'Brien
Seemingly unperturbed by the
rising clamor of revolt in the ranks
or the desertion of prominent lead
ers, loyal braves donned silk hats
and swallow tails to formally notify
Mayor O'Brien that he would be
the Tarnmany mayoralty candidate
against Mckee and LaGuardia in
November.
O'Brlen, OF course. had known
all along, but an occasion was
needed to launch the Tammany
campaign.
The intense interest already
aroused by the three cornered race
was shown in first day registration
! figures. In virtually every district
of the city's five boroughs more
voters registered yesterday than in
the corresponding registration day
for last years presidential election.
O'Brien, who has been lampoon-
ed by the majority of the press al
most from the day he took office,
and who has been booed at prize
fights and parades, announced yes
terday that henceforth he will not
see reporters. Any questions from
the press will have to be submitted
in writing. The answers will be
dictated to stenographer, mimeo-
graphed, and proof-read by the ma
/ or himself. The idea is to prevent
; Interpretations.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10
NIX R1~~
oi,sS nshausA, syaaisats. L.
SALES
TAX SHOWING
ITS BENEFITS

That the state sales tax has
been of great value to California
during the short time it has operat-
ed in evident from information re-
ceived by Frank Weir, county as
SCISSOR from the state board of
equalization yesterday.
This shows that according to the
Riley-Stewart tax plan the sales
tax there has been a cash savings
of $40,928,017 in taxes for the state
to date with $448,017 of this amount
credited to Imperial County. The
actual reduction in the tax burden
per 500 for the county has been
$1.33 while the net tax reductions
after allowance for decreased val
uation both for cities and the coun-
ty has been $1.84. Additional saw
ings by means of reductions in as
sessed valuations for the county
are figured at $3,798,221 and for
the state at $756, 495,379.
These figures have been COM
piled from reports of county aud
itors throughout the state giving
the new tax rates and the new
assessed valuation rolls for the
1933-34 fiscal year, announced by
Fred E. Stewart, member of the
state board of equalization.
Home owners, farmers and bust
ness men, together with all other
owners of common property will
find the 40 million dollar tax
saving reflected in their new tax
bills which fall due the first Mon
day in November, according to
Stewart. Merchants and thousands
of other citizens will also par
ticipate in the relief, it was stated,
as the Riley-Stewart plan eased
the burden on personal property
as well as real estate.
ct is we'll that the people of
California keep in mind that the
sales tax, even though it may be
irritating at times, has made pos
sible this relief and averted a
catastrophe which might very well
have plunged government into
chaos and postponed economic re-
covery in California for many
years." Stewart said.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10
QUITS
: AS DIRECTOR

Resignation of Burleigh E.
Adams, as director of the Braw-
ley division, Imperial Irriga-
ton District, was rendered to-
day to the board of directors of
the district and to the board of
supervisors of Imperial cOun-
ty.
A note from Secretary F. H.
McIver, of the irrigation dis
trict, addressed to the super
visOrs, and received by them
this afternoon, merely advised
that Adams had rendered his
resignation to the district, eff
fective Immediately. The resig-
nation was submitted to the di-
rectors who certified it to the
board of supervisors.
An envelope, addressed to the
board of supervisors by Adams
was opened at this afternoons
meeting. Dated October 8 it
read: II hereby resign as di-
rector Of the Imperial Irriga-
ton District from the Brawley
or fourth division, to take eff
feet Immediately"
"(Signed), B. E. Adams.
Following receipt of this resig-
nation, the clerk Of the board
read an APPLICATION from Charles
H. Morrow Of Brawley for ap-
pointment to the vacancy Gre
ated by Adams resignation.
Pending any action the SUI
pervisors instructed Ed Law,
county c:erx, to telephone the
secretary of state at Sacrament
to, to find out if copy of
Adams resignation had been
filed there, requesting that tele-
graphic confirmation or denial
be forwarded here Immediately.
Resignation of Adams was
prompted by his arrest on a
charge of shooting o. c.
Buck Weaver, in Brawley
hotel on October S. Adams is
new held at the county Jail on
a charge of assault with a dead
ly weapon, preferred by Mrs. N.
F. Cole, sister of Weaver.
Following receipt of Adams
resignation at the district Of
flee, the directors adjourned
and went into executive session.
Al large delegation of citi-
zens, mainly from Brawley, at
tended the meeting of the
board Of supervisors.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10
By RAMONA CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent

ChecO FTcSS StdII correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1O.-Storm
warnings were hoisted in the path
OF the blue eagle today.
Senator Carter Glass, DEM, Va,
who refused to become President
Roosevelts secretary of treasury,
is preparing to challenge the con-
stitutionality of the National Re-
covery Act when congress meets.
The caustic diminutive banking
expert of the senate voted against
the recovery act last spring and
its workings thus far have only con-
firmed him in his original posi-
ton, it was learned.
This development came on the
heels of a declaration before the
American Federation of Labor by
Senator Robert F.. Wagner, one of
the authors of the recovery act,
who said that the MIRA program
had to be made stronger to bring
real recovery. He said that wages
would have to be made higher and
hours shorter than they are in ex-
listing codes to absorb the idle
which still number more than
100000, according to his esti-
mate.
Word of the forthcoming op-
position of Senator Glass develop
ed when inquiry was made con-
corning the absence of the blue
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10
SENATOR CLASS CHALLENGES
CONST|TUT|ONAUTY Of MIRA

eagle from his two newspapers at
Lynchburg, Va.
MY papers are not flying the
blue eagle Glass said. MY news
papers, seven months before the
MIRA was proposed, went on a five
day week basis, and my wage
scale is much above the require
ment of MIRA.
AS l understand it, no news
paper code has yet been adopted
I decline to sign any blank agree
ment to let anyone run my busi-
ness. When the code is adopted,
1 will then consider whether to
observe it or not"
Glass recently returned from a
trip to Europe with Bernard M.
Baruch. close personal and busi-
ness associate of General Hugh S.
johnson, recovery administrator.
One Of the most serious blows
MIRA has received came from Henry
Ford who did not sign the auto
mobile code and thereby failed
to obtain the blue eagle insignia
for his products. Some within the
recovery administration are said
to feel now that this incident in
terferred with the original hopes
for stamping the blue eagle so
thoroughly with the mark of pub
lie approval that anyone who lost
it would incur what General john
son referred to as sentence Of
economic DEATH"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10
FIVE CONVICTS
STILL MISSING

SALEM, Ore, Oct. 10. U.P)-Five
criminally insane men were at large
today in northern Oregon, led by a
man whom authorities said was
wanted for crimes in AT states.
Their information as to the iden-
tity of the leader of the sensation
al escape of the inmates of the
state hospital insane ward came
from Elmer Becker, 81. Becker was
the only one recaptured in the first
"a hours of the search.
He was taken when he sought
food at farmhouse near Gervais.
He told authorities the outbreak
was led by William o. Bowen, a
former inmate of Florida, Missouri,
and Washington institutions. The
others at large were Alvin Carter,
George Farrin, Adolph BowSer, and
Frank WEIGH.
Charles c. Williams, a ward at
tendant, was blackjacked when the
fugitives escaped.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10
Report La,,,son
In Good Shape

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Call,
Oct. 10. U.P)-David A. Lamson IS
physical and mental condition is
excellent" DR.. L. l.. Stanley, pris-
on physician, said today after Civ
ing the condemned wife-slayer a
complete examination.
Lamson, former Stanford Press
sales manager, occupied a cell in
death row awaiting execution Dec.
is for the Staying of his wife Me-
mortal Day
The prisoners first exercise since
his arrival here took him into the
tiny yard outside his cell block. He
bathed in the sun for an hour, then
amused himself banging a tennis
ball against the wall, guards said.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10
COUPLE GETS
PRISON TERMS
FOR EXTORTION

NEW YORK, Oct. 10. W.P)-Nico-
lima de Palma, %, Yonkers nurse,
and James Medley, Is, filling sta
ton manager, were sentenced to-
day to five and ten years respec-
lively in a federal penitentiary for
threatening to kidnap Helen Batch
eller Dougherty, niece of a Morgan
partner.
The sentences were pronounced
by Federal Judge Alfred c. Coke.
Both had pleaded guilty to indict-
ments drawn under the new Lind
bergh kidnap law.
The defendants attempted to eX-
tort $4,000 from Franklin E. Batch
eller of Yonkers on threats to kid
nap his 23-year-old daughter, who
is niece of Russell c. Leffingwell
of the firm of j. P. Morgan and Co.
Their counsel sought today to
picture them as sweethearts whose
desire to run away together had
distorted their ideas of right and
wrong.
''It was my crazy idea,' he said.
81 had no intention of kidnapping
Mrs. Dougherty. Pm sorry for the
worry I caused Mr. Batcheller.'
Judge Coke commented that the
individual situation affecting the
defendants must "must make way
for the good of the public"
This is not an isolated case of
impulsive action" Coke said, "and
the way such a case is dealt with
is an indication to public mind of
the larger right of the public.'
The defendants wept as they
were led away to be taken to
prison.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10
COUNTY TAKES
LIABILITY IN
TRAGIC BLAZE

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10. U.P)-
Los Angeles county today assumed
liability for injuries and fatalities
arising on any relief project, and
ordered more than 5000 destitute
men to return to work tomorrow.
The decision was a direct out
growth of the Griffith Park catas-
trophe, which cost the lives of 20
workmen, with IL still reported
missing, and injured more than 100.
The relief workers were with
drawn from all projects Immediate
ly after the fire until the problem
of liability could be solved.
City council today passed a reso-
luton authorizing the board of SUI
pervisors to take over direction of
work in Griffith Park, thus legally
relieving the municipality of any
responsibility for them. The super
visors then ordered the projects to
proceed.
Resolutions of both bodies pro-
vided that during the next 80 days
not more than 5000 men. will be
employed each day in the park, the
county to supply the labor only.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-10-10
DOCTORS PLAN
CANCER FIGHT
Continued On Page 81
By HARRISON SALISBURY
United Press Staff Correspondent

ShieCN HICSS Skdil AOITcsEOApuCAlt
CHICAGO, Oct. 10. W.P) Like
field marshals studying battle tao
tics for a final assault on a hereto
fore impregnable fortress, America S
finest surgeons today revealed OUT
lines of crusade to remove cam
Ger as a mayor cause OF death.
Groundwork of the drive will be
laid at a special symposium tomor-
row of the clinical congress of the
American College of Surgeons which
will lead the campaign.
Emphasized as the first principle
in the struggle was the assertion
backed by best medical testimony
that cancer, if detected early, is
durable.
Data on thousands of cancer
cases has been assembled and will
be presented to show the ease and
success of cures in which the dis
ease has been recognized at the
outset.
Education of the public to the
fact that periodic examination by
physicians will enable them to dag
nose and eliminate conditions
which might develop into cancer
was named at the first step in the
drive by DR.. Burton j. Lee, COVER
nor of the college of surgeons.
DR.. Lee named cancer of the
skin, lips, tongue, breast, cervix and
stomach as durable in most in
stances by surgery. X-ray, and ra-
dunn.
off each individual in this coun-
try he said, "would make 1t q
rule to have careful, thorough
physical examination every six
months, the cancer problem would
be largely solved and many lives
saved each year.