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Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-08
BANK BANDITS
ELUDE POLICE

NEW YORK, July 8. W2)-New
York City's radio car police patrol
system was given the greatest test
in its history after a bank robbery
today when the entire Island of
Manhattan north OF l4th street
was isolated within a few minutes
while patrols moved along every
avenue in search of the bandits.
A mistake in the supposed license
number of the bandit car appar-
emily made the search futile, and
hours after currency estimated at
from $4,000 to $4,000 had been
stolen no trace of the thieves or
their automobile had been found.
Five bandits, one wearing a po-
liceman S uniform, entered the
Corn Exchange Bank Trust Co.
branch while only watchman was
on duty. They trussed the watch
man and lay in wait until IA en-
ployees arrived to begin the day s
business. All were herded into
vault. When the assistant manager
of the branch arrived the bandits
forced him to open the safe, and
fled with their loot.
The alarm was sounded immed-
lately, and over the short wave
police broadcast system went an
order to every police car in the city
to race to position.
From the standpoint of radio
patrol test, the incident was a
great success. The system appeared
to work perfectly. Certainly no
other equal population area ever
was bottled up in SO short a period
of time. But the license mistake
apparently gave the bandits just
the start they needed to evade the
first furry of the search.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-08
STUDY BUDGET
FOR WELFARE

LOS ANGELES, July 8. W,RS-
A new budget for the state social
welfare department will be pro-
posed at the next meeting Of the
legislature, 1t was announced today
after Mrs. Rheba Crawford Spill
valo, department director, had con-
ferred with Lawrence Cobb, chair
man of the assembly's ways and
means committee, and other board
members.
Cobb's committee originally re-
duced the departments biennium
budget from $35000 $4,000, pro-
yoking a charge from Mrs. Splivalo
that assembly members were trying
to force her resignation. Cobb eX-
pressed no dissatisfaction with the
directors work in discussing a re-
vised budget plan.
Mrs. Splivalo, however, reiterat-
ed her willingness to resign If the
legislature appropriates 100000 to
carry on the work of her depart
ment. Every dollar refused will cost
the general fund 81, she asserted.
Every dollar saved by the state
administration in my department
will cost So of the taxpayers money
out of the general fund for un-
worthy cases" she said. There is
no possible way to keep down the
$1O,50O,O00 for which my depart
ment is held responsible except by
wise and careful supervisor"
Cobb said a special ways and
means committee will investigate
requirements of the department
when the revised budget is submit
ted
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-08
Wheat Rallies
After Decline

CHICAGO, July 8. WP)-Wheat
rallied sharply after an early de-
cline today and closed more than
2 cents a buShel higher. Corn and
oats moved up from their early
lows, but finished irregular.
Issuance of bearish cotton acre
age estimated by the census bureau
caused heavy sympathetic selling
of wheat futures by professions
and locals, but the market respond
ed readily to commission house
buying.
At the close wheat was to pa
cents higher, corn was up a to
off 4 cent and oats were IS cent
higher to % cent lower.
July wheat closed at SO; July
corn 6, and July oats Asa.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-08
BY DELOS SMITH

Unlteu .fTeSS SLdII Correspondent
TARRYTOWN, N. Y, July g.
John D. Rockefeller hobbled around
amid the splendors of his Pecan
tico Hills estate today delighted
that he had survived his con-
temporaries and was "a years old.
When Rockefeller was younger
he concentrated on building up the
greatest industrial combine the
world ever has known. In his de-
clining years he has concentrated
on achieving greater ambition,
and this day despite its
suspicious significance offered no
variation in the regulated routine
of his existence except that his
round of golf was cancelled.
Immediately after he aWoke this
morning his secretary read a few
of the many messages OF con-
graduation and the news items he
had selected from the morning
paper as suitable for the master.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-08
Car Loadings
ShouU Increase

WASHINGTON. July 8. up.
The American Railway association
announced today the freight car
ioadings for the week ending July
l totaled 634,074 cars, an increase
of 29,406 over the preceding seven
day period.
The total for the week was an
increase of 145,79 cars above the
same week last year, but was a de-
crease of 1856 cars under the COR
responding week in 1881.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-08
Federal Court To
Settle Dispute

LOS ANGELES, July 8. (U.R)-
The federal courts will settle a con-
troversy between the Pan American
Petroleum corporation and Kern
county over refund OF S35 900 In
taxes for a four-year period, ac-
cording to ruling today Of Federal
Judge william p. James.
Judge James gave permission TO
w. c. McDuffie. federal receiver IN
equity for the Richfield OIL com
pany, which acquired the Pan-Am-
erican organization TO bring the
recovery action against the county
for the taxes paid on the oil leases
during a four year period. 1fe
leases recently were ordered re-
turned to the government naval
oil reserve.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-08
Blaze Damages
S. p. SnoUshed

SAN FRANCISCO, July 8. W.Pj-
Train service through the Sierras
was delayed today when fire des-
troyed part of snowshed at Crys-
tai Lake, on the Southern Pacific
line.
The blaze, discovered at the east
end of the shed was brought under
control by crews of two fire trains
which were rushed there from
both sides of the fire, the South
ern Pacific reported. Normal SER
vice was expected to be underway
at noon. Approximately 500 feet
of the snowshed was burned.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-08
Woman Flyer On
Record Flight

AMARILLO, Tex, July 8. W.p)-
Amelia Earhart Putnam took off
from st. Louis at $40 a. m. today
after an emergency landing here
on her dash to beat her own trans
continental speed record.
A loosened hatch on the cockpit
of her plane forced her to make
an unScheduled stop here. Airport
mechanics quickly repaired the
hatch and she resumed the flight.
The famous woman pilot who
took off from Los Angeles at liz
a. m. (CSTO today for Newark,
N. j., landed here at 7:45 a. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-08
REPORTS ASSASSINATIONS

CALCUTTA, India, July 8. UR)-
Golap Singh, a returned California
University student, told newspapers
today the Gahdr party in the
United States was responsible for
at least Is murders in California
during the last two years, and that
he himself lived under a constant
threat Of death which had pursued
him to India.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-08
WILL RETURN
ACCUSED MAN
Long Beach Police Plan Extra
dition OF Lee Murphy For Sew
en- Year Old Staying.

LONG BEACH, July 8. up -
County prosecutors began dusting
off old police records today in pre-
paration for the return here of
Lee Daniel Murphy, under arrest
in Pittsburgh, Pa, for the assert
ed murder of his bride of q days,
seven years ago.
They said he would be returned
to face trial based largely on the
story of Mrs. Cornelia Buttles Muir
ply, then 81, gasped on the morn
ing of November 30 1926, when she
was found mortally wounded. She
died Dec. IL of the same year.
NeighborS found her in the apart
ment the young bridal couple occu-
pied. She had a broken jaw and
internal injuries, which, a coron-
er'S jury decided, resulted from a
beating administered by her hus-
band.
For two hours, Mrs. Murphy said,
she endured his blows and kicks
before she lapsed into unconscious
ness, according to police. They quot
ed her as attributing his outburSt
OF rage to drinking bitters. Accord
ing to officers, she said he boasted
of killing another girl in Fresno,
Calf, and threatened to kill her.
Mrs. Murphy was the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Buttles, who
then lived in Sanger, Calf, where
Murphy was said to have ranked
high in civic affairs as a vice pre-
Sident of the Fairfield Lions club
and as member of the American
Legion and Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
Police said after the death of his
bride his trail first reappeared in
detective story magazine which
published his picture. The photo
graph, they said, was recognized by
Jack L. Vaughn, an Austin, Texas,
private detective, who had known
him as J. R. Callahan in San An
tonic.
They said his trail was then fol-
lowed to San Francisco Banning,
and San Diego, Calf, before it
eIlOSu III oU. LOUIS dllu flIIoUuI Bll.
PITTSBURGH, July g. up =
The third wife of a man accused of
killing his second bride in Long
Beach, Calf, seven years ago, in
sisted today her husbands arrest
was all "a mistake"
Hes not guilty" Mrs. Bertha
Callahan, mother of 15-months
old boy, said after her husband,
Bob Callahan" was arrested as
Lee Daniel Murphy AZ, and held
for Long Beach authorities.
Callahan, who hitch linked here
with his wife and baby, was accus-
ed of beating fatally his second
wife, Mrs. Conelia Buttles Muir
ply, 27 days after their marriage
in 1926.
Mrs. Callahan said she married
Callahan in Rockville, Md, two
years ago. Since then they have
lived successfully in Phoenix, Ariz.,
Startled, Miss, Selma, Ala, Ell
Paso and San Antonio, Tex, and
st. Louis, Mo, she said.
The woman denied knowing any
thing of Callahan's past life. His
work as an advertising solicitor
frequently brought him in contact
with authorities, she said, and she
never suspected he was wanted by
police.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-08
Baseball Scores
American League

At Philadelphia Gst game)-
Chicago 800 00l 000- II
Philadelphia 900 $50 O0x-l0 Is 2
Lyons, Faber, Wyatt and CRUDE;
Cam, Walberg and Madjeskie.
At New York
Detroit ..,.................l1O 200 O0l-5 7 D
New York loo 001 000-2 8 l
Marberry, Sorrell and Hayworth;
Allen and Dickey.
At Boston
st. Louis ................l10 0l0 l00-4 8 0
Boston ....................000 600 010-l 8 3
Wells and Shea; Johnson, Kline
and Ferrell.
At Washington QSt game)-
Cleveland 100 OO1 10O-2 10
Washington ...,..010 O20 30x-6 IL
Ferrell and Myatt; Crowder and
Sewell.
At Philadelphia (2nd game)-
Chicago ......... 020 Ill 060-1I Is l
Philadelphia 100 04O 100 6 10 O
Gregory, Heving, Kimsey and
Berry: Earnshaw, Cain, Peterson
and Madjeski.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-08
Of
COTTON SLOW

WASHINGTON, July 8. U.H-
Close friends OF President Roosevelt
today said they were certain he
would direct an appeal within the
next 48 hours to cotton farmers OF
the south to get behind the acre
age reduction program in order TO
assure a fair price in the commod-
ity.
This projected action on the part
of the President would come, it was
believed as the result of the cotton
acreage report which today showed
an increase in planting. At the
same time farm relief officials in
dicated the acreage cut campaign
was tagging.
Senator Bankhead of Alabama,
was a White House caller, discuss
ing the cotton situation with Mr..
Roosevelt and expressed the con-
viction the farmers would fall in
line behind the administration plan
for agricultural recovery.
of they do not,' Bankhead
said, "it will mean that the cot
ton price will fab to about five or
six cents a pound. 1t is impera-
tive for their own economic good
that they support the federal gov
ernment's plan.'
WASHINGTON, July 8. U.P-
The administration S cotton Stabil-
ization program has passed the half
way mark in it's goal of 100000
acre reduction, according to a re-
port made today by Secretary OF
Agriculture Wallace.
Wallace said reports from IA OF
the 16 cotton producing states
showed that farmers have offered
a total of o,566,169 acres to be taken
out of production in exchange for
cash benefits to be paid by the
government.
At the same time. Wallace for
mally announced he would extend
the cotton sign up campaign now
in progress until midnight, July II.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-08
NEW REPORT
SAYS FLYER
NOT INJURED
Coast Guard Advised Mattern
Crashed In Plane Near Ana
dir On June ID.
HELP SENT BY RUSSIANS
Soviet Government Dispatches
Crack Flyer And Crew OF Men
To Aid American.
BY EUGENE LYONS
llted Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

SAN FRANCISCO, July 8. W.P)-
Further word OF the safety of
James Mattern, round-the-wor
flyer missing in the Arctic, was re-
ceived in a message flashed to the
coast guard station here today,
through the cutter Northland in
the North Pacific which had inter-
cepted the news from a Siberian
radio station.
The message read: Flyer Mat
tern on 14th of June met accident
30 miles west of Anadir. Plane
crushed to pieces. Mattern unhurt.
On 5th of July Mattern was found
and brought to Anadir, where he
is now Staying.'
The message was in Russian and
was translated by Alexander Mat
tison, dean of the Russian Trinity
church here, who said the phrase
ology, drought to Anadir'', indi-
Gated the Texas aviator became lost
in the rugged Siberian country after
his plane crashed and was found
nv searcherS in an exhausted con-
dition.
MOSCOW, July g. A Soviet
Russian Arctic seaplane, with a
crew of five, roared up the Siberian
coast today to the rescue of James
j. Mattern American round the
world aviator, reported safe at
Anadirsk, near the Bering Strait
The foreign office received word
that the motor of Mattern'S plane
was wrecked.
A later message said damage to
the motor had forced Matterns
landing near Anadyr, and that re-
pairs were impossible.
Coast guardSmen were giving
every possible assistance, the mes
sage said.
Prof. Otto Schmidt, famous polar
exployer and scientist in charge
of all governmental Arctic stations.
told the United Press today the
Seaplane was on its way from Kah-
abarovsk to the barren country
whence a telegram came yesterday
signed by Mattern and saying he
was safe.
Chief Pilot LevanevSky is in
charge of the heavy plane and has
four men with him.
II have instructed LeyaneySky to
find Mattern and render him all
assistance" said Prof. Schmidt. II
Mattern's plane was not wrecked
Levanevsky has capable mechan-
les who will be able to repair 1t
and permit Mattern to take off.
Certainly Levanevsky is in bet
ter position than anybody to estab-
lish contact with Mattern.'
There is a radio station at Ana
dirsk, but the town is cut Off
from civilization most of the year
and communication is most difficult
at all times.
Message Delayed
The message that came to MOS
cow by an unknown route was
signed by Mattern. 1t came % days
after he left Kharaborvsk, more
than 1900 miles east and south
to fly to Nome, Alaska, on the last
stages of his eight around the
world.
The message was sent July 5.
Mattern left New York June 3,
to better the round the world re-
cord of Harold Gatty and Wiley
Post.
Alexander Goncharov vice chair
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-08
(@Y&!S5S!satR, (Y!Sa @&|S5!;

BEVERLY HILLS, July 7.
(SpeciaD-I always did feel
that Jimmy Mattern would
come through. This fellow Craw-
ford beat Vines playing tennis
in Australia, SO why the sur
prise?
We won the golf champion
ship of England, and run Sec
ond in the economic conference.
ut S on again today.
John D. Rockefeller is ga
years old. He set the rich a
great example by giving away
hundreds of millions. The 9TH
erS just as we'll have done it.
They lost it anyhow
Harvard, Yale and Cornell
are rowing out here tomorrow.
That IS the furtherest they ever
rowed away from home. II
they lose they are going to
make them row back through
the canal.
Yours,
MG R1~
N,sss NsRsssA, sy.<ssAss. -
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-06-29
BUSINESS LOOKS UP

The continued Improvement in bust
ness and employment conditions which has
been in evidence during the recent months.
has begun to convince even the most pessi-
mistic that we are really on the road to ma
tional economic recovery.
Many factors are contributing to this
most desirable result and it can not be
doubted that the bold legislative program
enacted by congress at the request Of Pres
ident Roosevelt is the most important of
those factors. This can be freely said with
ont the slightest political partisanship, be-
cause leaders of both parties have had
part in passing this legislation.
Among the measures recently passed
by congress and various state legislatures,
it is believed by many that the laws legal
izing the sale of 80 per cent beer have
been especially beneficial in affording
widespread unemployment relief, while at
the same time contributing to. the cause of
real temperance through curtailing the
consumption of vile bootleg liquor.
Many industries, including the manu-
facture of brewery equipment, bottles,
barrels and boxes, ice machinery and re-
frigeration facilities, and other supplies
have given q new market to products of
farm, forest and factory, as well as EN-
ployment to many men.
Taxes paid to the Federal. state and
local governments during the short time in
which the sale Of beer has been permitted,
have exceeded all expectations.
President Roosevelt himself is said
to believe legalization of beer to be an i'm
portant factor in his recovery program,
and to an unprejudiced observer, it seems
to be working out that way.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-06-29
SHOE AND TEXTILE
INDUSTRIES WORK
TO EXTEND TRADE
COTTON INDUSTRY REPORTS
ITSELF PREPARING FOR RE-
ADJUSTMENT NEcEssITAT-
ED BY RECOVERY Law
By EDWARD J. KELLEW
stiy ANneeIRteh l'ressp

BOSTON, June 20. New Eng
lands shoe and textile inductries.
stimulated by improved business
conditions are working hard to
improve their gains.
The cotton industry reports it
self preparing for establishments
necessitated by the national indus
trial recovery law, and already
thousands of mill employees have
been returned to work.
Textile manufacturers in this
section have reported that the
betterment to date was more an,
ticipatory than material. Most
of the Increased activity in New
England lis held due to the reduc-
ton of hours in the south and the
prospective national schedule Of
two 40-hour shifts.
Cotton consumption for May
showed a marked increase over
previous ntontihs this year and
the consumption, 90,453 bales, had
been ueequalled since April. 1881.
The wool industry has had its
rough spots during the present
year, but still is making a better
showing than last year.
Led by hides, leather has gain
ed in price so to SO percent.
Shoe Manufacturers in this sec
ton point to an increased produc-
ton that obviously has been more
than seasonal.
Wages have advanced among the
workers from 5 to Is percent and
it was estimated recently that SO
per cent of the available factory
help was getting some employ
ment.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-06-29
WEATHER CONDITIONS

Pressure is moderately high
this morning from the Central and
East Gulf and South Atlantic
states northward over the eastern
lake region and middle Atlantic
states. and in the far west; while
a trough of low pressure covers
the plains states and southern
Rockies. Showers and thunder
storms have occurred in widely
scattered areas since yesterday
morning from the North Pacific
states and northern Rockies SOUTH
eastward to northern Florida. and
in Maine, being mostly light 1t
is cooler this morning in most
sections of the Rocky Mountain
region. but elsewhere temporal
ture changes have been generally
slight, and readings continue abb
normally high from the Plains
states eastward over the lake re-
gion and Ohio valley. Maximum
temperatures Of 100 degrees and
above were reported yesterday
from portions of Oklahoma and
Kansas.
G. s. KENNEDY.
Official in Charge.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-06-29
Al NATIONAL NUISANCE

Quite alot of crusading has been done
with q view to doing away with the barri-
cades of billboards which mar the beauty
Of our natural scenery, but in spite Of some
progress made here and there, the bill
board is still an, outstanding national nui-1
sance.
If this nuisance is ever to be effec-
lively abated it must be done through con-
yincing advertisers that their part in per-
pehaating it is bad business for them. APP
peals to sentiment and love of the beauti-
full are generally futile
Stake, county and city authorities can
aid in the movement very materially, how
ever, but it is often difficult to spur them
to action. An example Of commendable
activity in the fight against ugliness is seen
in Georgia, where the county commission
ers Of Fulton County, in which Atlanta is
situated, ordered the removal of all signs
and billboards along the highways under
their jurisdiction. The member who spon-
sored this measure said:
There is a proper place for every
thing, including advertising. Our high
ways are designed to give tourists and At
lanta motorists the most beautiful scenery
possible, but that scenery is being ruined
by the ever increasing number of bill
boards and signs
This is true for every country in
America where the sencroachments Of the
outdoor advertiser have been permitted
to have unrestricted sway. Billboards in
locations which render them offensive are
irritating to the public without benefit to
the concerns which pay for them with the
mistaken idea that they are building bust
ness good will.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-06-29
THE BALLOT or DEATH

Four ballots in an urn, three white
and one black. -Four mensto draw them
out. the three drawing white ballots to go
free, the one drawing the black ballot to
die. Strangely enough. the first three to
draw secured the white ballots. leaving
the fourth to draw the fatal slip.
This was the dramatic scene enacted
alta Paz. Bolivia, and came about in this
way Four men were convicted of the
murder of former President Pando, Under
the Bolivian law, only one person can be
executed for a single murder, no matter
how many may be implicated Soto de-
termine which of the four should pay the
penalty. the drawing was held At the Pal
ace of Justice.
Alfredo Jauregui. %, who had al
ready spent 10 years In prison. was the UNI
fortunate player IN the lottery Of death
He laughed when his fate was known and
declared his innocence. but refused 70 ask
for mercy. Guilty. or NOT. some admira-
zion i due man who ean play such grim
game and lose with smile
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-06-29

IN THE COURT OF THE COUNTY
JUDGE, MONROE COUNTY
STATE OF ELORIDA--IN Pro
Kate.
In re the Estate Of
f. w. RUSSELL, Deceased
FINAL NOTICE
Notice IS hereby given that the
undersigned will, on the 9Th day 81
July, Al ID. 1881. present to tbs
Honorable County judge Of M0nTus
County. Florida. my final return
account aud vouchers ms Executris
OF the Estate Of r. ". Russell. de.
ceased, and at said time, then and
there. make application tn the said
Judge TOR d final settlement 81 nv
administration OF said estate. and
for an order discharging me as such
ExecutFix.
"A. D. 1888.
GRACE L. RUSSELL,
As Executrix of the Estate Of y
w. Russell. Deceased
may4- II-IS.z5: junl-S-i6-22-2s' 1yt
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The Italian flying cavalcade

The Italian flying cavalcade at Or
betello has been ready for its flight TO Chi
cago for some time but unfavorable wea,
Their reports have kept it from attempting
the ambitious and positively perilovs aerial
undertaking. Taboo as provisions are
liquor and chicken. To Italian airmen
fowl is a ink. Perhaps some of the boys,
weary with waiting, and an uncontrolled
taste for the the gallinacious food, robbed
some nearby hen-coop that brought on che
iinx of bad weather
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USE FRENCH METHOD
TN TAPPING TREES
lRy As.ocIatea I.res.l

PENSACOLA, Fla, June %.
"A modification of the French
method of tapping trees for tur-
pentine gum has been used here
successfully by Capt. F. F. Bing-
ham, who says it does not dam
age trees so much as does the
American method.
Captain Bingham's tract con-
tanning 500 trees has produced
about $4,000 pounds Of gum in
the past five years. he says. His
method Of tapping them consists
of cutting only one narrow strip
from the tree trunk.