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Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-04
Police Watching
L. A. Radicals

LOS ANGELES, March 4. <UP)-
Members of the police intelligence
squad, better known as the Red"
squad, clutched their nightsticks
bit tighter today, awaiting the an
nounced demonstrations of unem-
ployed
j. Dickson, organizer Of the un-
employed councils, which Police
Capt. William Hynes called "out
and out CommuniStic groups"
urged demonstrators to meet in
numerous places today TO demand
employment insurance and immed-
late relief
He added a delegation would pre-
sent the needs OF the unemployed
to the county welfare offices
Upon the last occasion of a dele
cations visit TO the welfare offices.
police used their clubs freely and
arrested number Of alleged ring
leaders" when trouble broke out.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-04
NeU Thriller
Booked At Fair

With the weather man co-opera-
ing and everything sitting pretty"
for the grand opening of the Con-
gress of Daredevils program at the
Imperial County F air, sunday
night, March and continuing
Monday, Wednesday and Thurs
day nights, the addition of another
thriller was announced with the ar
rival of Knute Fisher in the city.
He is president of the suicide
club" the man who for the past
two years has been earning his liv-
ing by permitting himself to be
shot out of a cannon before circus
audiences; and he has new stunt
for the Imperial Valley thrill fans.
He is going to drive an automo-
bile at so miles an hour, cramp the
wheels and turn it over and over
in front of the grandstand. 1t is
the same stunt that has boosted
the Imperial Valleys automobile
fatality score to a substantial peak,
but generally involuntarily per-
formed.
In addition to this thriller there
will be an auto polo game between
the American and Canadian teams,
a daredevil going through double
board wall with motorcycle at a
speed of 20 miles an hour and a
head-on collision between two au-
tomobiles with the drivers crash
ing at a speed of 40 miles an hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-04
Boy Injured In
Highway Crash

Arthur Deaton, Ell Centro youth,
suffered broken leg last night
when the bicycle on which he was
riding was struck by an automobile
driven by Joe Maggie on the Braw-
ley highway south of Imperial, ac-
cording to report at the Sheriff's
office today.
The youth was rushed to a local
hospital, where physicians declared
it necessary to amputate the leg
in an effort to save young Deatons
life. Hospital attendants today
described his condition as serious.
Another boy, Walter Stone, es-
capped injury. He was riding an
other bicycle. Maggio's sedan was
slightly damaged
According to the sheriffs report.
Maggie was driving south when he
Started to pass another car driven
by Albert Bennett. The two boys
on bicycles were travelling north,
without lights Maggie saw them
in time to cut back in front of
BENEFITS car. but in so doing
hooked the other car.
The rear end of Maggio's ma
chine swung around, hitting the
boy on the bicycle. He was taken
to the hospital for emergency
treatment.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-04
FAIR OPENING
DRAWS CROWD
Annual Mid-Winter Exhibit At
Imperial Gets Off To Fine
Start.

All roads led to Imperial today
as the county turned its footsteps
to the annual mid-winter county
fair, opening today for a nine-day
exposition which gives every pro-
mise OF being the most successful
in the history of the county.
Even before the formal opening
of the fair at noon, the fair
grounds were thronged by early
comers crowding through the ex-
position building and strolling down
the midway for a first view of the
scarcely completed preparations.
AT noon the number of automo-
biles parked near the fair grounds
indicated that the afternoon and
every day to follow until the fair
closes, will present something in
the nature of parking problem
to motorists. Traffic officers were
stationed at the fair grounds to
direct traffic and prevent confu-
sion.
The fair was to be declared for
mally open with a speaking pro-
gram in front of the grand stand
this afternoon. Charles Pitzer, vice.
president of the fair board, was
scheduled to make the first ad-
dress. He was to be followed by
Hugh Osborne, county supervisor
from the Ell Centro district, H. G.
Miller, mayor of Imperial, and
Walter Havekorst, president of the
Associated Chambers of Commerce.
Senator Ben Hulse, who was
scheduled to open the fair was un-
able to be here because of press
ing business at Sacramento in con-
nection with banking legislation
necessary to relieve the bank holi-
day.
The program will include several
entertainment acts and music by
the Ell Centro band. Tonight those
in the grand stand will be enter
tanned by "The Burning of Mos
cow a spectacular fireworks dis
play representing a city destroyed
by fire.
Fair officials were arranging to
care for one of the largest crowds
of the fair tomorrow, lured by AAA
automobile races in the afternoon.
Ernie Triplett and other famous
stars of the automobile racing
world will thrill patrons of the fair
in the Sunday grind around the
mile track. Always one of the fea-
ture attractions of the fair, the
automobile races this year are en-
joyed a renewed popularity, and
should play to huge crowd.
The evening session before the
grand stand tomorrow will bring
to Imperial county residents the
Congress of Daredevils," includ-
ing head-on collision between two
automobiles driven at 40 miles an
hour, a motorcycle and rider crash
ing through a board fence, and
automobile polo.
The fair grounds today was
rounding into final shape. Some
exhibits were still to be completed,
but by tomorrow everything con-
nected with the fair will be in its
finished form, demonstrating to
visitors and residents alike the de-
sirable features of Imperial Valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-04
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Marcn 4-Pres-
ident Franklin D. Roosevelt today
struck out for immediate and draS-
tic action if necessary to handle
the economic situation when before
thousands of spectators massed i'll
the broad plaza of the capito,
building, he declared that If neceS-
sary he would go so far as to ask
congress for the broad executive
power to wage a war against an
emergency as great as the power
that would be given me if we were
in fact invaded by foreign foe"
The Presidents inaugural ad-
dress. brief but sharply serious in
the face of the difficulties con-
fronting him, handled the financial
situation of the country fearlessly
practices of the unscrupulouS
money changers stand indicted in
the court of public opinion he de-
c]ared and then he set forth his
lines of attack:
l. "There must be strict super
vision of all banking and credits
and Investments;
2. There must be an end to spec
ulation with other peoples money;
3. There must be provision for
an adequate but sound currency
Detailed measures for fulfillment
of this program he said he would
urge upon the new congress and
ask the immediate assistance of
the several states.
If congress refuses to put through
measures deemed necessary, Mr..
Roosevelt said. he would then seek
broad emergency powers he had
referred to.
He said, however, he hoped the
normal balance between the eXecu-
tive and legislative authority might
be adequate
"But it may be that an unprece-
dented demand and need for un-
delayed action may call for tenn
porary departure from that normal
balance of public procedure" the
new President continued.
Il am prepared under my consti-
tutional duty to recommend the
measures that a stricken nation in
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-04
BIC CPROJECTS
PROVIDE WORK

LOS ANGELES, March A. U.P)-
A five-year dam construction pro-
gram, on which $8,600,527 will be
SPENT and which will give work
10 1000 men, was under way today
in San Gabriel Canyon, 25 miles
east of Los Angeles.
1t was one of a half-dozen pro-
jects in action in the southwest
which will put more than $400,000,-
600 into circulation during the next
five years.
The San Gabriel project is de-
clared to constitute the largest
rock-filled dam in the world. 1t is
being built by the Los Angeles
County Flood Control District.
The huge programs now under
way are designed to put idle men
back to work, and at the same time
bring water and power to the dis
trict, and to regulate the flow of
flood water through valuable farm
lands. trxI
Ground was broken late yester-
day for San Gabriel dam No. /,
seven and one-half miles up the
canyon from AzuSa. The dam, 1870
feet across and 80 feet wide at the
top, with 900-foot stream-wide
base, will be $40 feet high. 1t will
impound 10000 acre feet of water,
to be liberated through the dry
summer months.
A second dam, eight miles far
ther up the canyon, to cost $2,086,-
$50 is 40 per cent complete.
The work is being paid for
through bond issues voted several
years ago by the county flood con-
troll district
One of the greatest engineering
projects OF The country, now well
advanced in preliminary stages, is
construction of the Metropolitan
Water District aqueduct, designed
to bring the waters of the Colorado
river to the Los Angeles area at a
cost of $22O,O0O,O0O.
Work already has begun on one
of the many huge tunnels which
will pierce the San Jacinto noun
tains. Under direction of the Unit
ed States Reclamation service, a
diversion dam will be constructed
across the Colorado River at Park
er, Ariz., some 80 miles below the
site of Hoover Dam.
Hoover Dam, claimed to be a
greater engineering achievement
than the Panama Canal, will har-
ness the waters of the Colorado
River and deliver its cheap power
to Southern California and states
adjoining the mighty stream, at
cost of $165 900 900.
Still another project near fruiti-
tion is the All-American Canal to
irrigate Imperial Valley, Americas
winter vegetable and fruit garden.
The government already has
contracted with the Imperial r.
rigation District to aid in financing
this huge program, estimated to
cost approximately $32, ,5OO 900.
which also will tap the waters of
the Colorado, and divert the prec-
iouS fluid by circuitous routes to
all points of the otherwise arid val
ley.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-04
Near Contempt
Due To Name

LOS ANGELES, March 4.
U.P)-Municipal Judge w. Il.
Mckay isn't used to being
"sassed
whats your name" he
asked of traffic viOlatOr.
"Guisset", was the response.
II won't guess it. Tell me
your name" said the court Sc
verely. a
"Tryon Guisset", said the
defendant, somewhat i'll at
ease.
With difficulty Judge Mckay
and his bailiff controlled
themselves.
'I'm not riddling YOU
that's my name, Tryon Guis-
set, he said as he spelled 1t
out. .
"All right" sighed Judge
Mckay. I'll give you a sus-
pended sentence.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-04
JEHOL TAKEN
BY JAPANE.SE
BY FREDERICK WHITEING

Gy FKEDEhRCA 1AEiNN
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1888, BY United Press
WITH THE JAPANESE ARMY,
AT CHENGTEHFU, JEHOL, March
A. Smashing through the last
Chinese resistance, japanese troops
under General Tadashi Kawahara
occupied Chengtehfu, capital of
Jehol, today, practically completing
the subjugation OF the great prov
lnce seven days in advance of their
program.
The advance columns, arriving
at the outskirts of the city through
an intermittent blizzard, found the
city practically undefended, and the
imperial army entered Lhe city
proper at 10 a. m. today.
The spectacular end of a mid
winter campaign in which the
Nipponese troops suffered bitterly
from cold came as a result of an
80 kilometer forced march from
Pinchuan under heavy equipment.
Tanks and armored motor cars
rumbled along with the main col
umn through the windswept high
ways. All resistance seemed to
have ceased.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-04
PRESIDENT FLAYS BANKERS
IN HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS
Declares Money Changers Have Been Driv-
EN- From Temple And Calls For New Deal
In National Financial Affairs.

the midst OF stricken world may
require These measures, or such
other measures as the congress may
build out of its experience and
wisdom. I shall seek. Within my
constitutional authority, to bring to
speedy adoption"
Speech Is Biblical
The natiCn, he declared, was
passing through no plague of To-
Gusts"
Prosperity, he as confident,
would return.
"This great nation will endure as
it has endured, will revive and will
prosper" President Roosevelt said.
The only thing this country has
to fear, he added, is fear itself
unjustified terror which paralyzes
effort.
IN every dark hour of our ma
tional life a leadership of franknesS
and vigor has met with that under
standing and support Of the people
themselves which is essential to
victory" he said. "I am convinced
tIldI JOu Will again give Iiie'o ouP
port to leadership in these critical
days."
Only a foolish optimist, Mr.. Roos-
evelt said, can deny the dark real
tiles of the moment.
Swinging into ringing denuncia-
ton of money changers he de-
clared:
Plenty is at our doorsteps, but
generous use of ii languishes in
the very sight of the supply. Pri-
marily, this is because the rulers
of the exchange of mankinds goods
fConiinued On Page 6)
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-04
UTILITIES WIN
IN TAX FIGHT

SACRAMENTO, March 4. W.P-
Public utilities of California were
victorious today in their week-long
fight to prevent passage of util-
ity tax equalization measure before
next Monday noon.
The Clowsley bill providing that
certain utility taxes should be in
creased to a level of that paid by
common property holders wa S
killed-insofar as being effective
this year is concerned-in the SELL
ate late yesterday. The measure
would have raised approximately
$12000,000 in additional taxes for
the ensuing biennium.
The bills Waterloo" came on
vote to suspend the constitution to
permit i,nal consideration. The
motion was defeated % to 10 after
dramatic debate.
Senator j. M, Inman. stubborn
legislative fighter and author of
one of the utility equalization bills,
served notice he would move for
reconsideration today. But legiSla-
tive leaders pointed out it would be
impossible to get the bill through
the senate before the Monday noon
"dead-line". To be effective, it
would have to be pasesd before that
hour.
Inman bitterly attacked the CAL
ifornja Farm Bureau Federation.
''If this Just and logical bill is
defeated, the farm bureau is re-
sponsible," he said
The senate fact-finding commit
tee submitted another report to. the
upper house recommending five
per cent reductions in state salar-
les OF $100 per month. All salaries
over $l00 per month would be cut
S3 La per cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-04
BraDley Resident
Expires Suddenly

Charles Woods, 10 Brawley ROOM
ing house proprietor, died sudden
ly last night as the result of sud-
den heart attack while sitting on
the porch of his rooming house.
Coroner A. r. Underwood, who
was called to investigate the death,
declared that physicians exam
ination made an inquest unneces-
Sary.
Woods was stricken while in the
house last night, Underwood said,
and walked onto the porch, where
he sat down. There he died. Funer-
al arrangements have not been
completed.
Woods is survived by two sisters,
born at the same time as himself.
They were triplets. On sister lives
at Los Angeles and another at De-
troit.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-04
NEW CABINET
IS CONFIRMED
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, March 4.-Pre-
sident-Roosevelt'S cabinet, includ-
ing the first woman ever named to
advise with a President on affairs
of state, was confirmed by the sem
ate today.
The cabinet officers were under
instructions from the White House
to assemble there quickly to take
the oath of office from Mr.. Roose-
velt's old friend, Supreme Court
Justice Cardozo.
There were two delays before the
cabinet was confirmed. Vice Pre-
sident Garner was II minutes late
in returning from the White House
after going there with President
Roosevelt after the inauguration
Next, Senator Couzens, Repn..
Mich, raised the question of the
eligibility of William II. Woodin to
be secretary of treasury.
After assurances that Woodin
had divested himself of his busi-
ness interests, the new treasury
secretary was confirmed.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-04
HOLD SUSPECT
IN DEATH CASE
Lonjino Alvarado Arrested On
Suspicion Of Killing German
Burgues Near Westmorland.

Peering into the dark from the
lighted doorway of his little shack
on Lateral TIA three miles south
and mile west of Westmorland
shortly before midnight last night,
German Burgues, 48-year-old Mex
ican, met his death by pistol shot
fired by some person who had
summoned him to the door with a
knock.
Lonjino Alvarado, AZ, is held at
the county Jail under suspicion of
murder, while other witnesses are
held for questioning in a whirlwind
investigation started at o'clock
this morning when Sheriff George
L. Campbell received notice of the
killing.
Anastacio and Ignacio Alvaredo,
sons of the suspected prisoner, we're
grilled this morning by Tom Sharp,
district attorneys investigator, in
an effort to learn details surround
ing the mysterious killing Alvar-
ado was questioned later, through
an interpreter. He does not speak
English
Sheriff Campbell, Sharp, Coroner
A. r. Underwood and other investi-
eating officers, as we'll as witnesses
located by the officials, were to be
at Brawley at 3 o'clock this after
noon for an inquest at Thornton's S
mortuary.
At the inquest it was to be
brought out that Burgues was shot
with 38 bullet, taken from his
throat during an autopsy this
morning. Further evidence that
two .38 calibre cartridges were
found on Alvarado was claimed.
The gun with which the victim was
slain has not been located.
Besides Sheriff Campbell, officers
investigating the murder were Har-
old Gillett, Frank P. McCaslin and
Bob Cordell. The latter is a
Brawley police officer. Tom Sharp
was called in to question suspects
and witnesses rounded up by the
other officers. Statements obtain
ed by Sharp were recorded in short
hand.
Tragedy Followed Dance
Investigators discovered that the
Staying followed a Mexican dance
at the camp where Burgues lived
Those attending the dance, includ-
ing Burgues and Alvarado, had
been drinking heavily, and were
drunk when the dance broke up at
Il o'clock last night. officers said.
Arresting officers declared that AL
varado was still drunk when arrest
ed early this morning.
Before the dance ended those
attending it engaged in a free for
all fight, the cause of which could
not be learned. Evidence at the
scene indicated that the fight was
a bloody one, and that it included
more than one couple.
Burgues was preparing to retire,
according to one witness, when
there was a knock at the door of
his house. He stepped to the door
and threw it open. A pistol flashed,
and Burgues fell, a bullet in his
throat. Only one shot was fired
The murderer disappeared in the
darkness. without exposing himself
to the view of those who were in
Burgues' house.
Witnesses questioned today, be-
sides Alvarado and his sons, in
cluded Salvatore Villalpondo and
other MeXicans who had attended
the dance.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-04
COED SUES FILM COMPANY

SEATTLE GU.Pl-Sylvia Thomp-
son, University of Washington
freshman, sued the Rainier Nation
al Park company and a news reel
company for $4,000 damages as
sertedly suffered when kicked in
the face by guides spiked boot
while motion pictures were being
taken.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-04
THREE-LEGGED CALF BORN

CHENEY, Wash. ORA three
legged calf was born here on the
Z. H. Dickens ranch. The shoulder
blade is perfect but there Is no
sign Of leg. Five years ago Dick
ems sold a five-legged calf with
six feet to a circus side show for
$3.50.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-04
SUPPRESS sHARPsHooTERs

CORVALLIS, Ore. U.Pl-An air.
rifle war is brewing in Corvallis,
police fear. In two nights, young
sters at target practice broke AZ
high powered arc lights in the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-04
mMlLL
tWyR}SS}'s;f

BEVERLY HILLS, March 3.
(SpeciaD bankers, this mora
torium you have asked for ev-
erybody is joining in good faith
and with fine spirits. The ones
that had a little money have
taken as their example the un-
employed who have grinned and
took it on the chin all this
time.
While being the victim of our
country, the unemployed have
been a credit. Now the bank
ers say if we will bear with 'em
they will work it out, and we
are going to give 'em every
chance, BUT (get that but in
there with capital letters) if
they are handing us the old
boloney, why then we will
know for sure what this coun-
try needs. 1t will need new
bankers.
Everybody is doing what the
bankers ask, but remember
they are watching you.
Yours,
.I& R1A~
0is,s keNaush, syndisa,s. Inc
Evening star., 1933-03-05

BILE individual It is the man, Franklin
D. Roosevelt, as well as the public Official
it has been my privilege to know. Let
us take look at him from this angle!
His forehead Is full and high and Is
creased by horizontal lines which, never
theless, do not furrow it. His nose Is
large and straight, his chin square and
heavy. When he is not smiling his mouth
is straight, even severe. HIS dark brown
hair is graying at the temples. His skin
is firm and Drowned. His eyes, OF intense
blue, are sharp and frank and penetrat-
ing. In conversation, they regard one
directly, cordially and invariably awaken
. friendly and disarming response. This
response is q curious and arresting indi-
cation Of his power to make people like
him, his unconsciously exercised power,
perhaps, to put his visitor upon an easy.
friendly basis, to establish warm con-
tact from the start, that an antagonistic
spirit must find particularly disconcert-
ing and dismaying. Indeed, doubt that
an inimical individual could long face
the kindly, penetrating blue eyes Of the
President. stand before that rare and
gracious smile and not know change
of heart, lifting Of animoSity, an In
voluntary response to the inherent good
ness Of the man.
". Kingland Macy, Republican State
leader, - said to have warned q friend
who was on his way to see the Governor,
Look out you don't make the mistake of
liking Roosevelt" Others have felt SINH
larly. Men with unfriendly intentions
Or those not kindly disposed toward him
for every public official comes in con-
tact with theSe-have left him smiling,
their hostile banners gone down before
the warmth and genuine cordiality Of his
welcome.
Presidents personality is his sincerity.
There Is no mistaking it; it finds express
sion IN every infection Of his hearty
voice, In his spontaneous bursts Of laugh
ter-of which his wife, Anna Eleanor
Roosevelt, said, ''his rude, crude and
vulgar laughter, thank Heaven!"-his
concentrated attention when listening
and he Is an excellent istener-in his
exurberant conversation, In his en-
thusiasm, tn the zest and genuine pleas
uFe he takes In contact with all sorts and
conditions Of people. It is that resonant.
ringing note of sincerity in his voice that
made his radio addresses the effective,
electrifying and convincing messages
they were. Like the grin, Franklin d.
Roosevelt's sincerity Is real, part OF
him, developed by life and character.
HIS personality is rooted deep in char