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Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
Quake Brings
Building Change

: LOS ANGELES, June IL. sU.R-
An amendment to the building or
dinance, approved by the building
and safety commission, designed to
insure buildings which will resist
earthquake forces, was before the
city council today.
The amendment was drawn up
after several months study by two
committees following the March 10
earthquake.
1t requires that hereafter all
structures must be designed to re-
sist the horizontal strains and
stresses caused by tremblors.
''School buildings must be de-
signed and constructed to provide
even more safety than other struc-
tures,o the amendment specifies.
Alteration and additions to build
ings damaged by the quake must
meet requirements of the new
amendment.
One story or two story homes
having braced wood stub exterior
bearing walls are exempt from the
ordinance if there is no masonry
veneer other than stucco on them.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
ALIEN LAND
LAW CASES IN
COURT TODAY

Arguments on demurrers in the
alien land law case continued at
press time today with indications
they would continue the remainder
of the afternoon.
If demurrers entered by attor-
neys for Carroll Post, Frederick
Hauseur, j. Robbins, John B. Antro-
bos, Eugene Kelly, Ray d. john
sen, j. Labh Singh, NICOLA Singh,
Rolla Singh and Mihr Singh, ac-
cused of violations of alien land
laws, are upheld, the indictments
will go back to the grand jury or
district attorney for changes, at
torneys explained today.
If demurrers are overruled, it is
said, defendants will enter pleas of
not guilty.
These men we're named as de-
PENDANTS in an indictment brought
by the county grand jury and were
to have entered their pleas week
ago Friday AT that time attorneys
for these defendants filed demur-
rers and other papers and the court
granted an extension of time until
today for the consideration of these
documents.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
FERRY BOAT
STRIKES PIER

SAN FRANCISCO, June IL. [U.P)
Engine trouble was blamed today
for the crash of the Southern Pa
cific-Golden Gate automobile ferry
Mendocino as it entered its slip
here from Sausalito last night.
About $50 passengers escaped in
jury as the heavy craft sped at rs
miles an hour between the pilings
and rammed against the iron-clad
apron. Several women tainted.
Several of the 85 automobiles
aboard were wrecked, and wind
shields of others were shattered.
Officials said that injury to pas
sengers was averted because they
were in automobiles which absorbed
the shock
Captain Anton Smith of the
Mendocino said that he gave a sig
nal to reverse the engines, which
would have acted as a brake, when
the boat approached the pier, but
that they failed and the craft en-
tered at full speed.
Passengers said they heard the
bell signal for reverse, and later
heard it repeated
Damage to the pier and the boat
was estimated at $1,000. The Men
docino was able to continue her
Sausalito-San Francisco run.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
CHURCH RANKS
SHOW GAINS

NEW YORK, June IL. U,P} -
Church membership in America in
creased last year to its greatest to-
tai in history, the Christian Herald
announced today.
X In 1892, the publication disclosed,
churches and religious bodies gain
ed 929, ,252 members 13 years of age
or older, raising the total national
membership to 50,037, ,209. That rep
resented gain of 1913 per cent
from the 1900 total of 27,383, 900, as
against population gain of 65.8
per cent.
In spite of the depression per
capita contributions last year were
$19.02 compared with $22.62 the pre-
vious year.
The statistics were prepared by
DR.. George Linn Kieffer.
The publication declares that
growth in church membership has
steadily outstripped growth in the
countrys population. In one gen.
eration-from 1900 to 1933-church
membership increased from 1888, :
900 to 50,037 200. This represents a
gain of 82.2 per cent as against a
population gain of 65.8 per cent.
The Baptist church, with an in
crease during 1892 of BAT 1858, again
led all denominations in gain. 9th
er denominations which showed i'm
pressive gains were the Eastern Ca
tholicS. with an increase of 222 ,237;
the Methodists, with a gain of a.
GOT, and the Lutherans, with a gain
of 58,523.
In spite of the depression, chur-
ches made good financial showing
during 1882, the report states.
The Herald states, in summing
up the statistical survey that the
church sis still the nations great
est going concern"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
ROOSEVELTS ECONOMY PROGRAM
STARTS ON DIFFICULT TASK

ing for his expected designation to
administer the railroad reorganiza-
ton act just passed.
At the federal trade commission,
work of policing the issuance of
stocks and bonds under regula-
tions insuring full public informa-
ton was going forward
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
was at the center of a machine de-
signed to bring agriculture up to
parity 9TH industry, financed by
system of taxes on manufacture
ers of foodstuffs which will involve
control exactly like that provided in
the industrial recovery act for in
dustry generally.
Authority Disputed
There is dispute as to whether
the agriculture department or the
industrial control organization will
regulate food professors.
This closely related activity is
the core of the new deal. The eco
nomic control program is a cher
ished child of President Roosevelt
and his group. They do not believe
return of prosperity would result in
abandonment of it.
Alth slgh these measures all be-
gin by a declaration that a state
of emergency makes them neces-
Sary, President Roosevelt was said
to have opposed originally a two
year limitation on the industrial
control bill The limit was insert
ed to facilitate its passage and to
minimize chances that the courts
would hold it unconstitutional. Ac-
tually the administration does not
visualize a time when the industrial
control will be abandoned. The mea-
sure sets aside antitrust laws to
permit industries to abandon des-
tructive competition and agree on
wages, working hours, prices and
business practices.
Somein the Roosevelt group in
terpret the emergency program as
final legal recognition of de facto
situation which has existed since
the rise of scientific management
and large-scale production. They
regard the antitrust laws as apply
ing to the ninteenth century world,
to the days Of small individual in
dustries, not to the modern ma
chine world of billion dollar cor
porations reaching into every ham
let and actually concentrating pro-
duction in a given industry into
few gigantic corporations.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
|MAYOR-ELECT
URGES SUBWAY

LOS ANGELES, June IL. UP
A subway for downtown Los An
geles, comparable with those in
New York and Boston, was among
the public works to which Mayor
Elect Frank L. Shaw offered his
support today.
Back in harness after week s
vacation, Shaw spoke of the sub
way as one OF several projects the
construction of which would be his
first objective when he takes office
on July l.
"Los Angeles is the fifth largest
city in America" Shaw said, "but
it is years behind the times in its
transportation and general public
improvements. Since last Septem-
ber, millions of dollars have been
available for such projects, to be
financed by the federal govern
ment, and propose to take i'm
mediate advantage of these funds. 4"
Among other projects advocated
by Shaw were a union station and
a new court house.
Shaw said the erection of self
amortizing projects was the surest
way to end unemployment in Los
Angeles.
Within a year." he said, ".I ex-
pect every able-bodied man in Los
Angeles to be working for a STAN
dard wage.'
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
SAVINGS FOR
HOUSEWIVES

Attention of housewives is
directed to the Tuesday Spe-
cials'' full page advertisement
appearing in this issue.
The Tuesday Special fea-
ture, introduced to the mer-
chants of Ell Centre by The
Press, offers an opportunity
for exceptional savings in buy
ing.
Bargains are offered to the
buyers, but not the bargain
so often misnamed, which
proves to be anything but
real saving. The items listed
in the various advertisements
are tcp-nOtch quality goods,
merchants participating in the
advertising agreeing to put
only high class merchandise
on sale.
The Tuesday Special idea
has been used in other cities
and has met with excellent
success. 1t is believed it will
be equally successful here.
The progressive merchants
who have placed their adver-
tisements in the Tuesday
Special" page are anxious to
serve the thrifty housewives
who take advantage of their
advertisements. When visiting
their stores tomorrow tell
them you have come in re-
sponse to the Tuesday Spe-
cial'' and they will give you
their best i'll service and mer-
chandise.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
DEBTS STUDIED
BY ROOSEVELT I
President Reviews Latest De-
yelopments In Situation With
Expert Advisors.
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June 12.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt today reviewed the
latest developments in the war
debt situation as the time rapidly
approached for settlement of the
June installments by a dozen or
more nations.
Meeting with Raymond Moley, as
sistant secretary of state and chief
economic advisor, and Undersecre-
tary of State Phillips, the Presi-
dent brought himself up to date on
a situation that still left wide room
for speculation, especially concern
ing the action of Great Britain and
France in regard to payment.
While both Moley and Phillips
were reluctant to discuss the debt
situation, 1t was felt in some we'll
informed quarters that they talked
to the President concerning infor-
NAL gestures believed to have been
made by several of the debtor ma
tions over the weekend.
"There is nothing we can say at
this time" Moley said.
Have any new oyertures been
made in the last "a hours?" he was
asked
''There is nothing to be said along
those lines at the moment" he re-
piled.
1t was believed that a further
move toward acceptance of par
tial payment on the approximately
$75,000,000 installment would be
made by Great Britain tomorrow
at the conclusion of the cabinet
meeting in London which is sched-
uled to take up the payment at
that time.
Meanwhile, it was insisted by
close friends of the administration
that the President was standing pat
on the oft-repeated assertion that
payment was expected.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
.ROLPH SIGNS
RELIEF BILLS

SACRAMENTO June IL. (U.P)-
Governor Rolph today continued to
approve measures designed to afford
relief to owners Of real property in
special improvement districts.
One of these, ALB 500, provides a
new general law authorizing the le-
gislative body of city, city and
county, or county to extend finan-
cial aid to any assessment district
organized under the district i'm
provement act of 1925.
Another authorizes the use of
matured bonds and interest cou-
pons of districts formed under the
acquisition and improvement act of
1925 and the road district improve
ment act of 1907 in payment Of as
sessments levied to pay the princi-
pal and interest due on bonds of
the district.
Other bills signed which affect
districts include one setting up ma
chinery whereby an election may
be called on petition of 25 per cent
of the voters in municipal i'm
provement district to determine
whether unsold bonds should be
cancelled, and another permitting
owners, whose property has been
sold to an irrigation district prior
to April /, 1898, for delinquent dis
trict assessments, to redeem the
property through the payments of
four annual installmeiEs plus 7
percent interest ON all unpaid as
SeSsmentS.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
Agree On Bank
Reform Measure

WASHINGTON, June IL. U.P)-
House and senate conferees agreed
today on a compromise Glass bank
reform bill providing progressive
insurance of bank deposits begin
hing January l, 1884.
The insurance would become ef-
fective January l for all member
banks of the federal reserve sys-
tenn and for all non-member banks
approved by the insurance corpor-
alton.
Insurance effective on January l
would be on deposits up to $2,500.
On July 1, 1884 additional insur-
ance would become effective as fol-
lows:
l. One hundred per cent on de-
posits up to $4,000.
2. Seventy five per cent on de-
posits from $4,000 to $4,000.
g. Fifty per cent on deposits ov-
Ell $4,000.
Tremendous effort will be made
to jam the bank bill through to en-
actment before congress adjourns.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
MAY POSTPONE
MORGAN PROBE.
UNTIL AUTUMN

WASHINGTON, June IL. U.P)-
Decision whether to continue senate
investigation of j. p. Morgan g.
Co., this summer awaits action to-
morrow by the banking and cur
rency subcommittee in charge of
the inquiry.
Sentiment generally was for de-
lay until cooler weather. If hear
ings were resumed it probably
would be with Otto Kahn, head of
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., as the first wit
ness. Inquiry into Morgan g. Co.,
affairs has not been completed but
all that remains is the submission
of various reports sought by Ferdi-
nand Pecora, counsel oi the in
vestigating committee.
After Kuhn, Loeb, the commit
tee will investigate the banking
methods of Dillon, Read 81 Co. A
subpoena has been served on AL
belt H. Wiggin, recently head of
the Chase National bank. 1t is
returnable July IA, one week after
Wiggin returns from Europe, but
that inquiry, also, is more likely
to go over until the autumn.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
Woman Victim OF
Brutal Attack

LOS ANGELES, June IL. UP
Mrs. Kathryn Killion, l9, today was
receiving treatment for injuries she
received last night in an attack
which she described to police as an
attempt to kidnap and assault her.
Mrs. Killion said she was forced
into an automobile by two young
men when she was returning home
from a theatre.
The pair drove her to an isolated
spot near Ascot speedway and at
tempted to attack her, according
to Mrs. Killion IS story. After fight
ing desperately, wet cloth soaked
with chloroform was thrust into
her face. Police said her clothes
were torn from her body.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
TlUo Car Accidents
OUer Weekend

Two accidents resulting in
damages TO three cars but no per-
sonal injuries happened In the
county over the weekend.
The first Of these occurred at
1890 o'clock Saturday night. Reyes
Hernandez, SO, driving Ford
coupe. started to make a right hand
turn about five miles east OF Inn
perial but did not cut the corner
short enough and ran across the
road and into the ditch. His car
overturned but he was not injured.
At two o'clock yesterday morning
car driven by John Heidel. OF
Tucson. and another operated BY
Nettie Wingett, Redlands, collided
about 3 miles east OF Sea View. Nel-
ther party was injured and damage
OF about 500 was caused 10 both
cars. according TO the report Of the
affair at the office Of the COUP
traffic squad. -
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
Lan1son Hearing
Next Thursday

SAN JOSE, June IL. U.P)-Attor-
neys for David Lamson, Stanford
Press manager charged with the
'bathtub murder of his wife,
Allene, will summon "a witnesses
for the preliminary hearing Thurs
day before Frandin Miller, justice
of the peace, they said today.
They hope to force the prosecu-
ton to reveal all its evidence, and
they were confident the case
against Lamson would be exposed
as so weak that dismissal of the
murder complaint would follow
Sheriff William Emig, whom the
defense will attempt to put on the
witness stand, countered with the
assertion he has important evidence
which has not been revealed, but
will be used if necessary to hold
Lamson for trial.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
PlaylUrighfs Wife
Amnesia Victim

LOS ANGELES, June IL. W.P)-
Eugene Walter, playwright, whose
young wife disappeared Saturday
while shopping, said today his fears
for her safety had been somewhat
allayed by statements of physicians
that she may have suffered tenn
porary amnesia.
Walter said his wife S physicians
said she was probably suffering
from such a lapse, and would re-
turn home when she saw her pic
lures in the newspapers and re-
called her identity.
Mrs. Walter used the stage name
of Mary KisSel.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
NINE DIE IN
PLANE CRASH
Visitors To Chicago Fair Vic
Tins OF Tragedy As Airship
Falls To Ground.

CHICAGO, June H. U.Pj-A gay
party of Worlds fair pleasure-seek-
ers were burned to death late yes
terday in an airplane crash SO de-
vastating that even the number of
victims and the identity of some
remained uncertain today.
Charred bodies of nine victims.
including the pilot and his mechan-
ic, were removed from the twisted
wreckage of Sikorsky amphibian
which plunged to the ground at
Glenview, suburb 80 miles from
Chicago.
Owners of the plane, which was
fighting toward an airport after
being crippled in an attempted
landing at the Worlds fair har-
Dor, believed tenth victim, possibly
a woman, was aboard
Six victims were identified. They
were:
Carl v. Vickery Chicago, a pilot.
Harry Jacobs, Wheeling, w. Va,
mechanic.
Edward Schaller, %, Storm Lake,
Iowa.
j. I. Robinson. 81, New York
Edward M. Fay, Chicago.
Miss Stephanie Ogorer, 20, Chi
cago.
Vickery, a veteran army flyer,
and Jacobs were found in the con-
troll room.
All the victims, trapped in the
cabin of the ship wnen it plunged
from height of 150 feet, were
burned beyond recognition.
Identification of the other VIC
tins, officials feared, might take
days. They were among the thous-
ands of weekend visitors at the
fair and may have been from dis
tant parts of the country.
Motorists saw the huge plane,
once owned by Samuel insult, wob-
BILE in the air and plunge to the
ground as wing crumpled. Vic
tins not killed by the crash died
when fire enveloped the torn ship,
sending flames nearly a hundred
feet high.
Witnesses rushed to the scene
but intense heat prevented rescue.
One woman apparently attempted
to leap from the cabin just before
the plane crashed, and arms of
others extended from the wreckage,
beckoning for help, witnesses said.
The plane, the Northern Light,
was making its second passenger
flight of the day. A sudden squall
had made Lake Michigan choppy
and rough.
Flight Completed
Vickery completed the flight and
came down into the harbor. A pom
toon touched the surface for a
moment and then Vickery shot the
ship back into the air. A moment
later he attempted second land
ing. This time a pontoon dipped
deep into the water, and the ship
lurched..
Attendants at the port said they
heard ripping sound At first they
believed a pontoon was damaged
but later decided the right wing
cracked.
Vickery apparently heard the crack
and, fearing pontoon was dam
aged, sent the plane back into the
air. He started for the airport at
Glenview, where he probably
thought he could make a safer
landing.
AS the plane neared Glenview, it
was flying at approximately $50
feet. There was a sharp crack and
the right wing snapped off. The
plane wobbled over housetopS, then
dived headlong into the field. The
two engines sank deep into the
ground and the wreckage caught
fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
Pleads Guilty To
Double Staying

LOS ANGELES, June IL. U.P)-
Richard Colyar, AZ, commercial ar
tist, pleaded guilty today to the
murder of his estranged wife and
sister-in-law, and threw himself
on the mercy of Superior Judge
William C. Doran.
Colyar previously had pleaded
not guilty and not guilty by reason
of insanity, and had announced his
intention of fighting the case.
The killings occurred last March
when Colyar called upon his wife
to ask her to return to him. Re-
fused, he drew gun and killed
his wife and her sister, Mrs. La
verne Num-, and wounded his
brother-in-law, William H. Num-, it
was charged.
Judge Doran later will take test
imony regarding Colyar's emotion
al strain, alleged insanity in his
family, and his degree Of intoxica-
tion on the day of the killing.
Judge Doran then will pass SEN
tence, which may be either life i'm
priSonment or the gallows.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
Temple To Have
No Nelu Pastor

LOS ANGELES, June IL. U.P)-
Angelus temple officials today said
the pastorship of the church would
remain untitled for the time being
after DR.. Charles H. Babcock had
preached his farewell sermon yes
terday.
Miss Harriet Jordan, manager of
the temple, announced that Reba
Crawford Splivalo, state director
Of welfare, would continue to speak
at the temple each Sunday evening.
The temple has been without
permanent pastor since Aimee Nc
Pherson- Hutton began world
cruise several months ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
Blaze Damages
G. C.. C.. Camp

FRESNO, CAL, June IL. <U.H -
Reconstruction of the Civilian Con-
servation Corps camp at Rush Creek
was under way today following a
fire which damaged the camp to
the extent OF $4,000 early Sunday.
The fire, which started in the
commissary and destroyed that
building, the mess hall and three
barracks, was of undetermined ORR
gin. None of the 200 men in the
camp was injured.
Bedding, tents and provisions
were being rushed to the camp to-
day as Lieut.. Gaylord Phipps, camp
commander, ordered immediate re-
placement of the burned buildings.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
Supervisors Ask
Aduice On Bill

Assembly bill No. %, passed by
both houses and vetoed by you for
some lgqod reason interests this
board. If some similar bill is Of
fered which will accomplish essen
TALLY the same results we request
you give it your favorable consider
ation."
The above telegram was sent by
the board of county supervisors to
Governor James Rolph, Jr., this
morning after Supervisor Graham
had introduced the subject and
moved that this action be taken.
The bill in question is known as
the Phillips bill and required the
payment of delinquent taxes in four
installments year.
The supervisors convened again
this afternoon for the consideration
of the county budget which has oc-
cupied their attention for the past
week.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
By RAYMOND CLAPPER


United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1888, by United Press)
WASHINGTON, June IL. = The
real test of the Roosevelt program
is about to begin.
Launched as a temporary emer-
gency plan, the far-reaching mea-
sures of the new deal are viewed
within the Roosevelt circle as being
likely to continue indefinitely.
They would be upset only by ad-
verse court decisions or by failure
of individual measures to function
as expected.
Application of these sweeping
powers is only slightly affected by
the delay in adjournment of con-
gress. This postponed final appro-
val of the industrial control bill.
But anticipating early action,
Hugh s. Johnson, retired army gen
eral and hard-hitting business man,
was assembling his staff today in
quarters in the department of COM
merce building. Activity resembled
the war days when he set up the
selective draft.
John Eastman, interstate COM
merce commissioner, worked at his
office over the weekend, prepar-
Imperial Valley press., 1933-06-12
NOME WATTS
FOR MAT TERN
Yankee Flyer Believed To Be
Enroute From Siberia To
Alaskan City.

MOSCOW, June IL. U.P)--Jimmy
Mattern, American aviator, was be-
lieved to have hoped off today
from Kahabarovsk, Siberia, on his
long flight to Nome, Alaska.
No news from the flyer came in
on the single telegraph line con-
Meeting the capital and the remote
eastern Siberian town. Important
kilograms often are delayed 20 to
80 hours. Officials believed he had
taken off because nearly SO hours
had elapsed since. he landed in
KahabarovSk.
NOME, Alaska, June IL. W.P)-
The airport here buzzed with ex-
citement today as time approached
for the expected arrival of Jimmie
Mattern, 'round-the-world flyer.
The weather was cool and the
sky overcast. A Slight southwest
wind was blowing but not enough to
cause Mattern any trouble.
Several mechanics were ready for
any necessary work on the plane,
and hangar was we'll lighted and
heated.
The wireless station here was
working "a hours as was the sta
ton on st. Lawrence Island. Coast
guard boats were patrolling waters
he must cross to reach here.
The flight from KhabarovSk to
Nome is probably the most difficult
phase of Mattern IS undertaking.
lBering Sea which he must cross is
rough at this time of year and
heavy fogs and storms rise quickly.