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Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-29
YANKEE GIRL
QUITS CANDH|

LONDON, Nov. 30. U.P) - Mia
Cram Cook, American girl who
tried to sink her personality to be-
come one of Mahatma M. l.. Gan
dhis Three Graces, has appeared at
Luxurious hotel at New Delhi, In
ola, with a heart leaping for
thrills, the News Chronicle said to-
day.
Miss Cook disappeared from Gan
| dhi'S headquarters in October, and
was seen on a pilgrimage through
the country, walking barefoot from
city to city, and resting by the
roadside at night among the low
caste "Untouchables."
According to the News Chronicle,
Miss Cook announced at the New
Delhi:
Il want to speed-fly-dance."
She revealed, the newspaper re-
rorted, that she escaped FROM
Gandri's household and found her
way to the American mission house
at Muttra.
Il took my VOWS too seriously"
she was quoted as saying. II slept
FOR eight months on bed of ticks
With one blanket. I do not intend
TO return"
Miss Cook, who is 30, has made
several entrances and exits to Gan
dri's "ashram' or retreat. AT each
disappearance Gandhi has implored
her to return and repent"
An attractive. buxom brunette,
daughter of the late American poet
George Cram Cook, she forsook the
material world a year ago to fol-
low Gandhi She took the name OF
Mela Naghini Devi, or Blue Ser
rent Goddess, and adopted the Hin
du religion.
The pull of the world was 70
strong that Miss Cook left the Can
dhi household on one occasion and
caused the mahatma TO go on a
three weeks fast i'm order TO placate
he Hindu gods On other OCCASIONS
che has gone ON lone expeditions.
only to return TO Gandhis aahram
and announce final abandonment
|cf worldly pursuits.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-29
SMITH DE: E:NIE:S
MORGAN LOAN
Declares Charge Made By De-
troit Priest Is Absolutely
False.

NEW YORK, Nov. 30. (U.P)-
Father Charles E. Coughlin' 's charge
that the nti-administration mon
etary stand of Alfred E. Smith was
influenced by his dealings with the
house of Morgan, was denounced
today as absolutely false" by the
former New York governor.
AS the militant priest returned to
his Detroit home after his vigorous
support of the administration at
the Hippodrome Tuesday, Smith is
sued a statement denying he had
ever borrowed money from the Wall
Street financier, and denouncing
the clergyman for bearing "false
witness against thy neighbor.
Prominent Catholic clergymen
joined in the rebuke to Father
Coughlin, criticizing his attack on
Smith and the American Fedora
ton of Labor, and charging that
he had spoken here without seek
ing the customary sanction of New
York diocesan officials.
~ find no fault with Father
Coughlin when he disagrees with
my view concerning sound money;
that is his right Smith said. 81
insist on the right of free speech
for myself and I would be the last
one in the world to attempt to deny
it to anyone else.
1.-The country's monetary policy
is a subject upon which there may
be honest differences of opinion. :;
but I do very deeply resent any
statement about me made by Father
Coughlin which is not true, and
the charge that my position on the
monetary question was in any way
affected by any lean from J. P
Morgan is absolutely false.
$50, too the suggestion that L
borrowed money from the house of
Morgan to progress construc-
ton of the Empire State building
or for any corporation with which
am connected, is absolutely false >
Father Coughlin S address was
absolutely unWarranted. MGR
Thomas G. Carroll, chancellor of
the Roman Catholic diocese CT New
York said.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-29
FOUR HELD ON
VICE CHARGES

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 80. (U.P -
Three women and a man were held
in default of $4,000 bail today
awaiting trial in superior court
while authorities pursued their in
vestigation of a reputed white
slave" ring.
Pauline Leroy, and three accused
accomplices were bound over 10
superior court by Municipal Judge
Alfred E. Paonessa after they had
been charged with taking several
Los Angeles girls to Bakersfield and
Pismo Beach for immoral purposes
Her co-defendants were Art Ma
ron, her Filipino chauffeur, ard
Mamie Wells and Anna Taylor, her
Negro maids.
Attempts of the defendants to
lower tho bail were denied by
Judge Paonessa,
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-29
READ FACING
TERM IN JAIL.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20. tU.P) -
six months in jail faced Alfred C,
Read, Jr., today after he had been
convicted of charges he stole S11
from Claire Windsor, his former
sweetheart.
A jury in municipal court found
him guilty of petit theft charges
last night at the end of a fiery one
day court session during which the
actress denounced him as "a liar
and a cheap thief" The dapper
young broker, acting as his own
counsel, promptly applied for
new trial. A hearing on the motion
was set for December 7 and he was
released under $500 bail
Read whose affections were in
volved in a 100000 alienation suit
filed by his former wife, Marian,
against Miss Windsor, found a hos
tile witness in the actress. She ac-
cused him OF taking the money from
a purse which she said she pur-
poSely left lying on a table to test
his honesty. She referred to him
as a dangerous man."
why did you call me a danger
Gus MANI" Read asked smilingly.
Because, Mr. Read, you are a
liar and cheap thief Miss Wind
sor retorted.
Il object" he calculated angrily.
"Just a minute" said Dorothy
Garland, deputy city attorney, the
prosecutor, you asked the question
and you got your answer"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-29
SELF F-DES|GNATED LEADERS OF
SAN JOSE MOB To Be QU|zZED
Grand Jury Takes No Action While District
Attorney Gives Little Hope Of Punish
ment Being Administered.

SAN JOSE, Nov. 30. U.P) - The
Santa Clara grand jury met here
today and ignored the lynching
Sunday of Jack Holmes and
Thomas Tf;urmond, confessed kid
napers and Slayers Of Brooke Hart,
20, member of a wealthy San Jose
family.
Foreman G. L. Snyder said the
session was confined to organiza-
tion and the naming of commit
tees.
Nothing was said about the
lynchings," Snyder told newspaper
men.
Meanwhile, a squad OF police
guarded the funeral parlors OF Cur
rv and GrippenstraW as services
were held for Thurmond. Only
close relatives attended. NO men-
acing crowd appeared, as police
feared would be the case, and the
body was buried without incident
in Oak Hill cemetery, where Brooke
Hart was buried Monday.
A permit was taken out by
Holmes relatives for his burial in
Oak Hill. TEe funeral was sched-
ued during the day.
Funeral services for Holmes were
held from the Amos Williams pal-
lors shortly after Thurmond was
buried. Relatives accompanied the
body to Oak Hill cemetery where
cremation took place.
SAN JOSE, Nov. 30. U.P) = The
district attorneys office today di-
rected an investigation into the
"boastful stories of youths in
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-29
CWA PLACES
MEN IN JOBS

In the neighborhood of TOO men
were put to work on projects in the
county today and it is expected
that by next week some 500 more
will also be given work, according
to c. H. Edminson, director of the
county branch of the CWA.
These men were taken from the
lists kept by the RFC setup and had
worked for that organization in the
county within the last 80 days. At
ter December 6, however, all work.
ers for these projects will be taken
from lists compiled by the National
Unemployment office and must be
listed and checked over by that Of
flee
The projects upon which the men
were put to work consist of road
jobs in the various road districts,
drainage, grading and others of q
similar nature. B. A. Harrigan, coun-
ty agricultural commissioner, has
put a large number of the men to
work on weed pest eradication work.
The county board of supervisors
at a meeting yesterday afternoon
approved plans for putting the san
itary system at the county hospital
in better condition and this project
is expected to be presented to the
CWA tor it's approval with the pos
sibility that it may be included
among the other county projects
upon which this work is to be done.
1t was learned at the reemploy-
ment office this noon that work
here had been found for five men
today and that other workers NAV
be placed within the next few days.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-29
NEGRO VICTIM
Of MISSOURI
LYNCH|NG MOB
Militia Overcome In Desperate
Pitched Battle With Infuriated
Throng Of Citizens.
GOVERNOR CONDEMNS ACT
Demands Investigation OF Law
lessness And Promises To Pun
ish Guilty.
By DAN ROGERS
United Press Staff Correspondent

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Nov 90. U.p)
The body of confessed Negro
attacker, lyncEed. by hate mad
oened mob of 5000 Missourians, to-
day smouldered for three hours in
a bonfire a block rom the wrecked
Buchanan county Jail.
The latest victim of mob ven
geance, Lloyd Warner, was dragged
from his cell, beaten into insen =
sibility, hanged. then burned.
He had confessed. only few
hours before, officers said, to at
tacking a young girl, member of a
prominent family here, last Sunday.
Her name was withheld by authori ..
ties. Her condition was reported
serious.
For two hours the tank corps Of
the 35th division OF tie Missouri
National Guard, Sheriff Otto THE
sen, II deputies, a hundred police
mer and special officers fought the
raging mob. They held the attack
ers at pay as lcng as the supply of
tear gas bombs held out. When the
gas supply was exhausted. Sheriff
Theisen surrendered the covering
prisoner.
This action was taken, he ex-
planned, TO prevent pitched battle
with perhaps high casualties. Only
one person was injured during the
melee. A national guardslnan, man.
ming one of the two tanks brought
into action, was beaten unconscious
by the infuriated mob leaders.
More than two hours after the
Negro had been hanged and his
body thrown on the fire, hundreds
of citizens surged about tie pyre.
shouting, laughing and jesting. A
festive spirit prevailed. Occasion
ally fresh fuel was added. Flames
leaped high, casting an eerie light
over the debris-littered battlefield.
The light enabled photographers to
snap pictures of the gruesome
scene.
Authorities did not interfere with
the mob after it had performed its
task. Most of the late hangerS-on
were women.
The mob was organized quickly,
soon after news of the purported
confession became known.
Follow San Jose Lead
Taking a cue, perhaps, from the
San Jose, Calf, lynchers, dozen
men obtained length of pipe and
battered in the side door. A detach-
ment moved inside shouting ana
cursing.
A call was placed to Gov. Guy. B.
Park at jefferson City. Adj. Gen.
H. w. Brown summoned the local
tank corps into action and COM
manded battery B, of the 128th field
artillery, to come here from Mary
vile, scene three years ago OF
similar outbreak A Negro was burn
ed atop of a school building there
after a sensational attack and kill
ing of a school teacher.
Officers unleaShed barrage OF
tear gas. The mob was held at bay
for few moments. Meanwhile, an
other group bombarded the sheriff's
home, adjoining the Jail, with rocks.
Two tanks rolled up to the jail
yard.
A hundred men singled out one,
swarmed over it. The driver,
World war veteran, was dragged
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-29
AllWgl-l-
~ ROGERS
w .S1yS:

BEVERLY HILLS, Nov. %.
(SpeciaD-Every once in so Of
ten America "goes serious.
One of these times is just be-
fore election. Anything that's
said the other side takes Of
fenSe.
Yet all our last presidents
have been elected by millions,
showing that all that heat and
perspiration is wasted. Then
after election is over you can
call the other side a yellow dog,
and they just laugh for they
have their sense of humor back.
Now we are going into anoOh-
er one of those serious tail
spins over this money racket,
and it IS just like the election.
Nothing you can do, nothing
you can say, will change a per-
son IS opinion. 1t will all work
itself out, without any person.
al lather from any of us. And
in few months we will regain
our humor and balance. It's
Just a serious spree that we
have every so often to get it out
of our system.
Yours,
Ms;e R1~~
G,s,, E,asssht " asIsAis, ls<
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-29
JUST Fancy His
Embarrassment

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2S.
W.P)-They were just a couple
of crOnies out for a ride when
one of them waved at a wOm-
an passing in another car. But
let Richard Stackleberg relate
IL.
81 was riding with Glen
Martin, friend, one day when
my wife passed us i'm another
car and waved" he told the
judge.
Martin waved back, so
asked him, do you know that
woman?
well, Judge, you could have
knocked me over with a piano
when Glen said, Sure, that's
my wife
"'How can that be- 1 asked
Glen, when she's my wife"
"Well, we got married and
never have been divorced
Glen told me. And SO that's
the way it was, Judge"
The judge granted Stackel-
berg an annullmcnt from Ruth
Cleo Stackelberg.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-29

their teens who claimed to have
led the mob which lynched two kid
naper-SlayerS OF Brooke L. Hart
here.
If we can find any one to cor
roborate these statements, of course
We will be forced to take some ac-
ton, - District Attorney Ere d
Thomas said.
In the statements several boys
claimed they had organized the
lynching party, directed the at
tack on the old brick Jail, and pro-
cured the ropes used to hang Thom-
as Thurmond and John Holmes
The prisoners had confessed to kill
ing Hart before they made ransom
demands on his wealthy father.
Thomas was doubtful that "any-
thing would come of the investi-
cation. He believed that no one
could be found to swear out COM
plants.
G. L. Snyder, foreman of the
grand jury which meets today,
awaited instructions from Thomas
on procedure. Snyder indicated
that the jurors could do nothing
unless the prosecutor laid some ev-
idence before them.
Meantime the community had re-
turned to its normal pursuite. Visits
to st. James Park where the hang
ingS occurred diminished. Repairs
were made to the county Jail which
the mob had reduced to a sham
bles.
Most Of the citizens of the city
apparently agreed with Governor
James Rolph, Jr., that the lynch
ing was "good job Rolph IS
attitude stirred up nationwide
censure and praise for his condon-
ing the summary action.
PALO ALTO, Nov. 90 U.P)-The
San Jose lynchings last Sunday
night became a much-discussed
question on the Stanford university
campus today when it was disclosed
that Ida Stauf, instructor in the
Romantic language department,
asked her students to applaud one
full minute Monday in honor of
due justice rendered"
Miss Stauf was quoted as saying:
Il was delighted. I was never so
pleased in my life. I am very
strongly in favor of lynching. After
all there is some justice"
Her students said she pointed out
that had the kidnapping and Staying
of Brooke Hart occurred in Ger
n1aOV lark Holmes and Thomas
Thurmond would have been freed
(Cantinuec On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-29
Long Marhu,,t
Ends In Death

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 90. U.P)-A
19-year hunt for a murder suspect
ended tragically when Tiborio Con-
zales, 43, was killed in brief en-
counter with his purSuers, sheriff's
deputies reported today.
Gonzales allegedly drew a gun as
they entered his home to arrest
him as the accused murderer of An
drian s<ndoval in San Rica, N. M,
Feb. %, 1914. Officers opened fire,
killing the suspect instantly and
Wounding his daughter, Aurora
Guerrero, 81, and her husband
Conception, 80, both of whom were
asleep in an adjoining room. Guer-
rero was struck in the knee and his
wife in the foot.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-29
TENNIS QUEEN ANNOYED

BOSTON, Nov. 29 U.R) - Helen
Jacobs, women's tennis champion,
arrived at the federal building at
$50 p. m, today to confer with the
U. S. attorneys s office over threat
ening and obsceue' letters mailed
to her at Melrose, where she is
spending the winter.
81 hope you re satisfied now, >
the Californian said after posing
for newspaper photographers who
greeted her as she entered the
building.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-29
HE MUST BE LEARNING

SACRAMENTO, Nov. %. U.R)-
Governor James Rolph, Jr., who
approved the lynching in San Jose,
Calf, of two confessed kidnapers,
today refused to comment on the
lynching of a Negro in st. Joseph,
Mo.
1.-THE cases are not parallel, -
Rolph said. "There was no kid
naping involved in the st. Joseph
affair."
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-29
CRITICISM 0f
ROLPH SHOWS
No LE:SSE: MING
Various Bodies Throughout Ma
tion Condemn Governor For
Stand On Lynching.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. %. OPP
Governor Rolph S whitewash Of
the San Jose lynching was con-
demned today by the Presbytery Of
Los Angeles in a resolution voicing
ga sense of shame' at the COVER
nor S conduct.
The denunciation was coupled
with a proposal that the legislature
facilitate the administration of
justice by outlaWing long legal de-
lays and by removing the Z" judici-
airy from politics.
"The Presbytery of Los Angeles
expresses its modification that CAL
ifornia s 13-year record of freedom
from lynching has this week end
ed,' the resolution said in part.
"We believe that the terrible crime
of kidnapping can never be prevent
ed by kidnapping and lynching in
return.
eve feel intense distress at the
brutalizing effects on thousands of
thoughtless people who participat-
ed in the recent lynching.
"We feel humiliated that by the
action of one community the influ-
ence of our state has been thrown
against the anti-lynching movement
in which ouc ohureh has long shared,
a movement which, little by little,
has seen state after state set up a
clean record. We record our sense
Of shame that the governor of this
state has not only refused to take
necessary steps to prevent the
lynching, but has condoned it af-
terWardS.'
NEW YORK, Nov. 30. U.P)-Thc
Federal Council of Churches in Am"
erica today awaited a reply from
Governor Rolph of California, to
whom a message was dispatched
last night condemning his action
in approving the lynching of two
men in San jose, Sunday night.
"With all law abiding citizens
we condemn kidnapping. but cannot
condone attempts to wipe out one
Continued On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-29
MUST EAT AMERICAN

WASHINGTON, Nov. %. UP)-
The United States army today was
under orders from Secretary of
War Dern to eat only American
grown foods.
The order, issued as a measure to
aid domestic producers, applied to
all branches of the army, and the
CCC camps, within the continental
United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-29
|62I- THANKSGIVING -IQ33
BY BRUCE CATION

4" HEY went to church, that day, in Plymouth town,
To thank God for His goodness. For they had
Known hunger. pain and want gone thnIy clad
Through iron winter, thrown the gauntlet down
To death himself, and let him take his toll,
And now they had through. And so they prayed
Their word of thanks, and stood up unafrad
And faced the future with undaunted soul.
+ ODAY we too look back upon a road
Bood-staned and dark haunted by panic tears;
And we, too, thank God, because He showed
Beyond the gloom and dusk of barren years,
Beyond the memories of pain and sorrow
The dawning of glorious tomorrow
z2a
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-10
FILM STARS IN JUNEAU ABOARD
 PRIVATE YACHT
Barrymores, Children and Guest Are Here = Sal-
 nor StrippingPl Planned

MT. and Mrs. John Barrymore well known stage and film stars, their two children, Dolores aged 3, and John, Jr., aged 16 months, and one guest, Miss Katherine Hunter arrived in Juneau yesterday after noon in the Barrymore's private yacht Infanta. After taking oil at the Union Oil Company, the yacht came up the channel and is moor ed at the Cole Dock.
 The Barrymores intend to spend few days in Juneau, where they have many friends made on a previous visit. From here they will cruise slowly north. possibly mak- ing Skagway. No definite plans have been made as to stopping places except that the Infanta- will go to Icy Straits and Lemieusurier Island, where Mir Barrymore wants to see his old friend and guide, Joe Ibach. They will also probably go to Glacier Bay.
 Many Bear Seen
 Many bear were seen on the way up at the various islands and coves where the Infanta stopped, and MT. Barrymore reports much good fishing both for salmon and trout. While here, he is going to try some salmon stripping. He says that this is the only place where he has ever done any of that kind of fishing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-10
ARE
 NOW PLANNING
 NEW MONARCHY
Family of 20-Year- Old Otto Claims Backing of
 Big Powers

THE HAGUE, Holland, Aug. 10 -Otto of Hapsburg, 20-year-old heir of the royal house which used to rule the Austro- Hungarian en- pire. again has been projected in- to the European spotlight.
 Emissaries of his widowed mo- ther, the ex-Empress Zita, have been visiting various European capitals and family sources hint that their plans for an Austro- Hungarian -Croatian empire, with the youthful archduke on the throne as Otto l., are going for ward.
 Hapsbuig lntimates assert
 that four capitals would not
 consider such a development
 mistake. In this category
 they list Rome, Vatican City,
 Paris and London.
 They hold further that four oth- CT countries, Czechoslovakia, Ru- mania, Poland and Yugoslavia, would acquiesce provided that prop CT economic compensations are of- fered.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-10
GOVERNOR TROY
 !. AND PARTY OFF ON NOME VISIT
Executive Making Thor. ough Inquiry Into Work
 to Aid Unemployed

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. To- Gov. John w. Troy and the mem bers of the official party, left here for Nome yesterday.
 A dinner was given in the Gov ernor's honor Tuesday night and before large attendance, he said:
 While I am Governor, no per- son in Alaska will want for food or shelter"
 The Governor Is making thor ough inquiries into unemployed conditions with view of making recommendations to the Federal Government for public works pro- jects for the Territory.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-10
MINE TROUBLE
 IS PATCHED UP
 IN WASHINGTON
Nationa al L al or Board Quickly Adjusts All
 Difficulties

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. = The National Labor Board yesterday brought the employers and miners together in the Pennsylvania coal strike, settling the matter of em- ploying check weighmen to the satisfaction of both sides.
 The National Labor Board has called the employers and employees involved in the Reading hosiery strike to appear today for a hear ing while the hearing in the Potts vile shirt mill controversy, another Pennsylvania industrial trouble, will be held Friday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-10
Irade Code for CrOcers
 Has Special Provisions

Secretary G. H. Walmsley of the Juneau Chamber of Com merce has received from &c., attle instructions on how re- tail grOcers and food stores on the temporary 48-hOur code should fill in the NRA com- pliance slips they file with pOstmasters. They were in- structed to write in the fol- lowing words:
 We have complied with certain designated provisions of the code of fair competition for the retail trade which has been substituted by consent of the NRA for designated pro- visions of this agreement"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-10
TRANS-PACIFlC
 AIRMAIL ROUTE
 TO BE STARTED
Three American Pliers to Be Used - Probably
 Means New System


 SHANGHAI, Aug. 10. AS the first move in the establishment of Shanghai-Manila airmail and passenger service, three American fliers, representing the Pan-Ameri- can Airways, announced they would take off Saturday for Hongkong and Manila in seaplanes.
 The fliers are H. M. Bixby, w. S. Grooch and William Elmer, all of- ficials of the Pan-American Air ways.
 The fliers said the route will probably become a unit in a trans Pacific route, probably via Hono- lulu.