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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-02
Film Stars At
Taln,adge Rites

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 2. ,U.Pj - A
host of film stars paid final tri-
butte today to Mrs. Margaret Tai
madge.
Funeral services for the popular
mother of Norma, Constance and
Natalie Talmadge were held from
the chapel of Hollywood cemetery.
Ushers included Gilbert Roland and
Buster Collier. Interment was be-
side the grave of her husband, Fred
Talmadge, who died in 1925.
Mrs. Talmadge, whose close COM
panionship with her three daugh-
tiers was long a Hollywood tradi-
ton, died Friday of pneumonia.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-02
NURSE is PATIENT

WASHINGTON W.P)-Lois Chill
cote, of Hagerstown. Md, started
for Sibley hospital here to become
a nurse, but arrived as a patient.
She was injured when the rear
wheel of her car dropped off, caus-
ing it to overturn. Only slightly
injured, Miss Chilcote's first lesson
as student nurse was the treat
ment of cuts and bruises when
she arrived at the hospital. (
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-02
District Files
Suit Ouer Land

In complaint filed by the I'M
perial Irrigation district Saturday
against L. G. Heidner, Clara Held
ner, ct al, the court is asked to de-
termine that the plaintiffs are the
owners of the VIZ of TT. 200, T15S,
RAE. and that all adverse claims
be declared of no value.
1t alleges that the defendants
claim an interest in this property
adverse to that of the plaintiffs
and asks that they be required to
set forth the nature of such claims
and that such claims be determined
by decree of the court.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-02
DriUer Missing
After Accident

What happened to R. A. McNeece
of Santa Ana after he wrecked a
truck ad trailer this side of the
Highline canal Saturday morning.
could not be determined today, ac-
cording to a report at the traffic
office.
At any rate, officers said the
drived had been drinking and dis
appeared Immediately after the &C
cident.
The truck and trailer swerved to
the left Of the highway after
crossing the Highline canal east
of Holtville, skidded 100 feet and
turned over, the report set forth.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-02

tering in this cl:y, s:ioox ne major
part of Southern California at ITO
this morning.
Inc damage was surprisingly
small considering the force of the
temblor which aroused thousands in
the districts which suffered from
similar disturbances recently.
In Los Angeles people rushed
from homes and apartment houses
as windows crashed and pictures
fell from the walls.
A survey failed to disclose anv
deaths although minor injuries were
reported.
Mrs. Marie Benedict was treated
at an emergency hospital after she
was cut by shattered glass.
Louis Montay, 26, awakened by
the jar, leaped through a second
story window. He was cut and
bruised but. apparently not SER
iously hurt
Mrs. Charlotte Wilson cut her
feet on glass in fleeing her home
barefooted.
Miss Helen Apedca tainted from
fright and was treated at a hospi-
tai.
A wall of the city Jail building.
recently condemned, collapsed but
nobody was injured.
Long Beach, center of the terrific
quake which caused approximately
100 deaths last March 10, was lar
red severely but reported no dam
age. Thousands fled to the street in
their night clothes, fearful of a re-
currence of the previous catastro-
phe.
Santa Barbara, scene of a drastic
temblor in 1925, suffered no dam
age. Huntington Park, hit hard by
the disturbance of March 10, re-
ported only broken windows.
The seismologist at the Califor-
MIA Institute of Technology said
preliminary survey indicated the
quake was nothing extraordinary
A report, fixing the epicenter of
the disturbance. was promised later
today.
The severity of the quake was
told in the fact that the telephone
sWitchboards of Los Angeles news
papers were swamped with calls.
Also the streets still were crowded
an hour after the shock, with peo-
Pile who hesitated to return to their
dwellings,.
Cities that felt the temblor In
varying degrees included Ventura,
Long Beach, Santa Barbara, Hun
tington Park, Cotton, Riverside, San
Bernardino, Compton. Inglewood,
Pasadena and score of others.
The long lines department of the
Southern California Telephone COM
pany reported that it's entire sys-
tenn appeared to be intact" al
though the quake was reported by
test rooms from Santa Barbara on
the north to San Diego on the
south, and from San Bernardino
to the beach towns.
The company was calling the
roll of all its offices in the affect
ed area, but announced that APP
parently no town within the scope
Of its services had sustained major
damage.
United Press circuits up and
down California continued to oper-
ate without interruption. The news
service was at the hour of the
quake operating approximately
1000 miles of leased wires within
the state.
Scores of buildings in Los Angeles
were damaged The cornice of one
four STORY apartment house COLI
lapSed, demolishing a parked auto
mobile. The machine was empty.
The shock looSened the brakes
OF a Pacific Electric railway car,
sDaded with rock, causing it 20
roll over the end of an embank-
ment and overturn.
Several Ell Centre residents re-
ported feeling slight shock at 1858
this morning. 1t did no damage
and was unusually mild
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-02
Pair Held For
Superior Court

Sam and Paul Maggie were held
to answer on charges of assault
with a deadly weapon and resisting
an officer when they appeared be-
fore Judge F. N. Kirkpatrick in
Seeley justice court Saturday.
Both men were held to answer
on both counts as result of diff
ficulty with a game warden in the
vicinity of Seeley last week.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-02
NEW RACKET
ON SALES TAX

SAN JOSE, Calf, Oct. 2. UP
Development of a new racket"
the fraudulent collection of state
sales tax receipts, wis disclosed here
today as state Officials ordered d
thorough investigation.
Swindlers, posing as authorized
sales tax collectors and armed with
forged credentials, called on several
merchants during the past week,
collecting sums ranging from s25 to
500.
Officials feared the practice would
spread unless drastic means were
taken Immediately to halt it.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-02
Stale Canned
Milk Is Fatal

LONG BEACH, Sept. 2. tU.pJ -
First believed victim of arsenic
poison, Richard Stanley Upper, ~
years of age, came to his death from
consuming stale canned milk, an
autopsy had revealed today.
Little Richard became ill early
Saturday, as did his two brothers,
and died short time later. County
health authorities suspected that
vegetables sprayed with a too-con-
centrated arsenic solution had
caused the illness. The child was
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Up
per.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-02
By LAWRENCE S. HAAS
United Press Staff COrreSDOnde

4 Un1ted PreSS starr Correspondent
HAVANA, Oct. Am American
citizen was killed today in battle
between enlisted men and "impri-
| soned" officers at the National no.
| tel.
The victim was R. l.. Lotspitch,
| assistant manager of the Havana
j branch of Swift and company. He
was killed while leaning over a ter
race in the Lopez Serrano build
ing.
Fighting between the rebellious
| officers and the surrounding troops
was intensified as the hours passed,
| and there were constant exchanges
! of machine gun and rifle fire, en-
dangering the entire zone in the vi
/ cinity of the famous hotel. Ameri-
cans fled the district.
Shots, ricocheting from nearby
buildings endangered large groups
of spectators and a Gordon of cav
airy had been placed around the
fighting zone. Hundreds of men and
women, nevertheless, climbed to
roof tops and galleries to watch
the battle.
American officials had left the
National hotel last night, when
they were warned of an impending
attack on the building where sever
al hundred officers, loyal to the De
Cespedes regime, had been beleag-
ured since Sept. 8.
LotSpitch was standing on the
eleventh floor terrace when stray
bullet struck him.
At the emergency hospital, where
casualties were rushed as the men
fell in the street, the records at
$3.50 a. m. showed IL wounded and
one dead, all soldiers.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. UP. -
Secretary of State Hull issued an
implied warning to American citi-
zens in Cuba today to avoid plac-
ing themselves in. position of dam
ger where they might be injured
during civil strife in the island.
The secretary after receiving a
report that an American had been
Internationally killed during the
fighting in Havana expressed the
hope that Americans would exer-
else extreme caution.
No change in American policy to-
ward Cuba is contemplated, Hull
said. He meant that while the Uni
ted States intended TO maintain
warships around Cuba to protect
American lives. it did not intend to
intervene in the Cuban turmoil.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-02
CONTRACTORS TO MEET

There will be a meeting of all gen.
eral and sub-contractors tonight at
s O'clock at Sones Lumber COM
pany's office, Fourth and CONNER
cial tor the purpose of forming the
Imperial County Builders Exchange
and also the adoption of an MIRA
code.
Journeymen carpenters and
builders are to meet at the same
place at 1880 o'clock to consider the
formulating OF code for carpen-
tiers.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-02
BY LAWRENCE S. HAAS
limited prpSS Staff CorreSnaudav


HAVANA, Oct. 2.-Thirty of the
rebellious army officers who for
titled themselves within the Ma
tional hotel and for more than six
hours withstood terrific machine
gun and artillery bombardment
were killed, the secretary of the in
terror estimated today.
The war department previously
had admitted that more than 20
of the attacking soldiers were
killed, and estimates of wounded
ran as high as 100, including many
civilian spectators, caught in the
line of cross-fire.
A truce, arranged through the
mediation of Ambassador Sumner
Welles, to enable "a Americans to
evacuate the danger zone around
the famous hotel, enabled obser-
vers to check on the casualties and
the damage from the pounding of
the governments heavy guns.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-02
LOCAL MAN INJURED

John r. Salassi. 60, received en-
Urgency treatment at La Solana
hospital last night for a scalp
wound received in an accident on
the San Diego highway, according
TO report on file at police head
quarters today. Details of the ac-
cident were not included in the re-
port,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-02
NHlnLlL-,e
W SOS:

SANTA MONICA, Oct. l.
(SpeciaD-Roscoe Turner, who
just broke the west-east record
already holding the east-west,
was just out. Men like Turner,
Hawkes., Doolittle, Post, Mat
tern and others who have to
promote the money, risk their
lives, then do things that to-
day are considered a stunt,
but tomorrow are an everyday
affair. We used to think Jap
anese couldn't fly, but I saw
a weekly where it looked like
there was millions doing it.
Lindbergh says Russia has a
plane for every beard. So We
got to speed up railroads, air
lines, kidnapping jury convic-
tions and everything. Whatever
is going to happen to us, let 1t
happen quick. and get it over
with.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-02
OFFICERS RECEIVE REWARDS

MADRID. UP A reward Of
1000 pesetas was awarded to the
police inspector and detectives Of
the department of public safety
who went to Lisbon, Portugal. and
discovered the persons responsible
'I,r the counterfeiting of 500 peseta
t4ls.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-02
THIRTY CUBAN
OFFICERS DIE.
Refuge In National Hotel Sub
jected To Severe Bombard-
ment By Government Forces.

HAVANA, Oct. 2. U.P)-The
entire group of rebel officers
embattled' in the National ho-
tel surrendered this afternoon
after an intermittent lombard
ment by government forces
which began at 6 a. m.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-02

SOUGHT FOR
LAND TRIAL

Alternate jurors in the anti
alien land law case were ac-
cepted by attorneys for both
the prosecution and defense
early in the afternoon session
and after all jurors were sworn,
the hearing of testimony be-
gan.
The three alternate jurors
are: Mrs. Maude Owens, George
Townsend and Mrs. George
Whitcher.
After new venire of SO pros
pective jurors had been questioned
and qualified by Judge Vaughn
Thompson for jury service during
the next three months, the work OF
choosing three alternate jurors in
the alien land Jaw case now be-
fore Judge r. D. McPherrin was
continued in superior court this
morning.
This is the first action in the
case since Wednesday afternoon
when attorneys for both sides agreed
upon the jury and a recess was
taken until today 1t was expected
that the choosing of these alter
mates will be accomplished shortly
after the court reconvenes this af-
ternoon and that tile iirst evidence
will be introduced after the jury is
formally sworn in and the trial &C
tually gets under way
Ten defendants, four of them
HinduS, are being tried for an al
legged conspiracy to violate the alien
land law following an indictment
to that effect brought in by the
grand jury.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-10-02
CONTINUED On Page 81
Ian COUNTY
AN|[k GRADING

Grafton of the cities of the
will be sought by the board
~ isors in working out some
IN >r grading market milk, it
III ded at a board meeting
ming.
hoped some plan will be
~ ed which will result in
"A pection service without
1T was brought out at
u gs session.
recommended that all
-W ~,ounty come in with
VsrF. Ehelp defray the ex-
service.
expressed the hope
1 with all city coun-
Ell Gen LEY may be held IN
economy along these
.A--- n was taken this
yer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-07-27
6. B. CRICSBY, JR. DIES OF INJURY
 F ROM ACCIDENT
Son of Prominent Alaska Attorney Passed Without
 Regaining Consciousness

George B. Grlgsby, Jr.. who was seriously injured in an automobile accident in Phoenix, Arizona, early this week, died without regaining consciousness, according to Asso- ciated Press dispatches received by the Empire today. He was ln a critical condition for several days as the result of fractured skull received in the accident, of which the details are not known.
 His fiaIice, Miss Grace Westphal, of Piedmont, California, was at the bedside when MT. Grigsby died. They were to have been married in a short time.
 George Grigsby, Sr., who was in Ketchikan on business when noti- fled of the accident which resulted in his sons death, left that city yesterday for San Francisco, where the remains will be taken for bur ial
 MT. Grigsby is survived by his father, a brother, Melvin, and a sister, Mrs. Elwood Mcknight, liv- ing in Juneau, and another sister who makes her home in Berkeley, California. MT. Grigsby was a graduate of Washington State Col lege and made his home with an aunt in San Francisco when not in school.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-07-27

$2,0O0. Until we get definite reply from the National Govern ment, to whom an appeal for un- employment relief has been made, we are hardly in a position to say at this time how much of it's own money the City shall have to spend on Sindigent relief and on the inn provement of Willoughby Avenue, which is an important item in the proposed Government relief pro- gram. Other unforeseen expenses are bound to come up, but I am confident that by careful manage ment the City of Juneau will be able to retire 5000 of it's in debtedness in the next eight months"
 Based on the 1883 assessment roll figures, just released by City Asses sor R. H. Stevens, and assuming that there will be no change in the 18-mill levy rate, the taxes re- ceivable account will be approxi mately $5,oOO greater than last year, Mayor Goldstein declared. He pointed out, however, that tax payments are likely to show a fall ing off to an extent that may nulli- fly the gain in valuation.
 Tax Discount
 This year tax payers will re- ceive a two per cent cash dis count if they pay their taxes in full by the first Monday in Octo- Der, and I am hopeful that this arrangement will stimulate early tax collections" said the Mayor. "Citizens can materially assist in the improvement of the City's fi- nancial position by meeting their tax and license obligations prompt ly. With their earnest co-opera- tion and support the task of re- storing the City to a cash basis will be made much easier. 1t is my belief that if municipal expen- ditures be confined to the abso- lute essentials and the City prac- tise strict economy in all lines the City will be able, before Is months are up, not only to meet it's cur rent obligations thereafter without recourse to borrowing but to make substantial reductions in it's bond ed indebtedness, which is now $156,0O0."
 Delinquent Taxes
 The City Clerks office announced today that the delinquent tax total is now about $4.200. Every effort will be made it was said, to ma terially reduce this amount before 1 the new tax statements are mailed to property owners about August IS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-07-27
RADIO HILL PASSES
 OUT CIGARS; A GIRL

On the desk in the receiving of flee of the Signal Corps office. first floor, Territorial building, is a bog of cigars, or rather, at 2 o'clock this afternoon. half-box of cigars, with a label on the box saying smoke up-it's girl
 The cigars were placed there by Emil Hill, radio operator attached to the local office. Mrs. Hill gave birth to 6la pound girl baby at Il2:45 o'clock this morning in St. Ann's hospital. This is the sec ond child, the other being a boy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-07-27
FOUR SCHOOLS MAY BE CLOSED
 AND 3 TO OPEN
Custavus to oReopen-Hope and Clark's Point Ex-
 pected to Get Schools

Closure of four Territorial schools this year is probable, and three new ones are expected to be opened, it was announced today by A. E. Karnes, Commissioner of Educa- ton. In the list of schools to be suspended are three specials and one rural institution.
 Gustavus, discontinued last Fall, will be re-opened with Mrs. Mary Wynne Lamb as teacher, Commis- sioner Karnes announced. A special school probably will be opened at Hope, and another at Clarks Point, ha said
 Final decision will be made by the Commissioner on the latter two when he visits those communi- ties within the next few weeks. He plans to leave here about the mid de of August for trip that will take him to almost every section of the west. interior and far north.
 The school maintained for many years at Mile Seven on the Copper River and Northwestern Railroad has been closed. This action was taken after the abandonment of the Navy radio station at that point which took away the pupils of the institution.
 Premier, in the Matanuska coal mining district; Franklin, in the FortyMile district on the upper Yukon, are the other two special schools slated for discontinuance Attendance there has fallen below the required standard. Fairview, in Matanuska valley, regular rural school. probably will be discon- tinued for the same reason.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-07-27
President Urged to Grant Open Market for Cold;Open
 Letter Presented in "Adu. ,

FRANCISCO, Cal July 2-The gold mining interests gold market to the public by advertisements in the daily in which a mine executives stated their
 Open Message to the President" the heading the 
 urge the President to release the forgotten industry presumably by permitting the sale of gold the mines to the highest bidders
 Bradley President of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company ,dustry being injustice
 indicated that mining operations employment needing only fair gold market. r.sJ
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-07-27
CLAUD HELGESEN IS IMPROVED IN HEALTH,
 SAYS MRS. HELGESEN

Claud Helgesen, who left for the south, seriously ill, overl a month ago, is getting along splen- didly, according to Mrs. Helgesen, who returned on the Yukon from Portland, where MT Helgesen is receiving care in the Veterans Hos pital.
 'IHe is receiving fine care and lit is wonderful hospital. When We first went down the doctor in charge said he believed it would be nine months before Claud could leave, but he is improving so stead- fly that when I left, the doctor said he thought it would be six months before he would be suffi- ciently recovered to leave the hos pital,". Mrs. Helgesen said.
 1 AS nearly as the doctors can diagnose the case, MT. Helgesen is suffering from collapsed vertebrae, but there is no sign of tuberculosis as was feared when he left Ju- neau, Mrs Helgesen declared. l Mrs. Helgesen was called to, 'Se- attle soon after her husband had gone down for medical care, and
 accompanied him to the hospital
 in Portland. When he first entered the hospital he was seriously ill and Mrs Helgesen spent some time |with her parents, MT. and Mrs
 Peter Johnson, in Roseburg. Oregon
 until MT. Helgesen was sufficiently well to be visited.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-07-27
J. c. M BRIDE AND HIS FAMILY
 ON WAY SOUTH
Former Collectors of Gus toms, Wife, Daughter to
 Live in California

After many years of residence in Juneau, MT. and Mrs J. c. Mo Bride and their daughter, Miss Miriam Mcbride, left on the steam CT Aleutian to make their future home in California. erou S friends, made during their long years spent in the city, were at the ship to bid them farewell when it sailed on Tuesday evening.
 Here Thirty Years
 MT. and Mrs. Mcbride had lived in Juneau for more than thirty years and spent several years at Sumdum, before coming to this Icity MT. Mcbride was connected with the c. w. Young Hardware O., until nearly twelve years ago when he took office as Collector of Customs, which position he held until J. J. Connors succeeded him several weeks ago.
 The McBrides will visit for sev- eral days with MT. and Mrs. Harry Fisher and their daughter Rachel in Seattle before continuing tt Berkeley, Cal, where they vii spend some time with MT. Mo. Brides mother at her home there
 To Visit San Diego
 While their plans were not defi- nitely formulated when they Jeff here, MT. and Mrs Mcbride expect. ed to spend some time in Sar Diego, California, for MT. Mcbride. health.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-07-27
PROMINENT MINING MAN
 ON WAY TO PROPERTY

L. A. Levensaler, one of the out standing mining engineers on the Pacific Coast, passed through Ju- neau on the steamer Yukon Tues day evening on his way to inspect his mining property on Dan Creek, in the Copper River Valley. He will remain at the property until the next southbound Sailing of the steamer Aleutian.
 MT. Levensaler is accompanied by keir A. Campbell and Howard Hod- son on his annual trip this year.
 While the steamer was in port MT. Levensaler called Informally on Gov. John w. Troy, a friend of long standing, with his associates, MT. Campbell and MT. Hodson.
 
 The advertisements are your guide to efficient spending.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-07-27
MATTERN AND
 PARTY REACH
 HAzELTON,B.C,

HAZELTON, B. C., July 27.- Jimmy Mattern arrived here at 5:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Alexander and the other members of the relief expedition are here and will fly their original plane back to New York.
 Mattern is anxious to return to New York and continued here in in another plane accompanied by Mechanic Fetterman
 The Mattern party was landed on lake near Terrace by Pilo. Rob- ert E. Ellis in the Alaska Southern Airways seaplane Chichagof who flew them from Juneau to Terrace via Prince Rupert.
 ord papers at The Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-07-27
l.. L. TRIMBLE ARRIVES HERE FROM SEATTLE ON YUKON TO VISIT LOCAL EXPRESS OFFICE

L. L. Trimble, route agent for the Railway Express Co.,, arrived
 on the steamer Yukon to spend some time at the Juneau agency of the company, which is handled by
 the Alaska Steamship Co. office
 here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-07-27
MRS. C.. 7. HANSON AND MISS CAROL HANSON TO ATTEND
 EXPOSITION IN CHICAGO

Miss Carol Hanson, and her mother, Mrs. c. z. Hanson, who live on homestead on the Fritz Cove Road, are among the resi- dents of Gastineau Channel who will attend the Century of Progress Exposition at Chicago. Mrs Han son and daughter will leave Juneau on the steamer Yukon July 31.