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Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05
LEGION WILL
BUILD ROAD

The Imperial Highway in Imper-
ial county is going to be reality
because the American Legion is
going 10 make it reality. Com
mander Harry Woodbury. has an
nounced the plan of Ell Centre
Legionnaires to blaze the road in
Imperial county on next Sunday,
leaving it level and wide and in
a condition for road equipment to
pass over it.
The executive committee has au-
thorized the work to be done and
Woodbury. has issued call for all
Legionnaires to join ir this import
ant civic undertaking next Sunday.
According to Woodbury., the Leg
ionnaires-and he wants 100 of them
will assemble at Veterans Mem
orial building at 7:30 o'clock Sun
day morning Equipment, trans
portation and chow have been
arranged for. There will be an old
time army feed at noon in charge
of old army cooks which should
awaken important memories in the
breast or palate of every Legion
naire.
Saturday night an. advance party
will take over the Butterfield tav-
ern at Ocotillo, which will be head
quarters for the next days con-
Struction work.
The work has been divided into
sections in charge Of the following
Legionnaires Elmer Heald, Charles
Bratton, Chan Livingston, Pat
Thaanum and Larry Duff. fore
men; Earl Maddux and Mac Mac
'Climans, equipment; Tom Creigh-
ton and Sam Maggie, transporta-
ton; Phil knights, John T. Rice
and Charles Delp, engineering de-
partment; Louis Kneitz and
Charles Ike, commissary John
Kuhn, blacksmithing and tool
dressing; Tom Creighton, clerical
work.
Work is now being done at the
San Diego county end and by the
time Sundays work is completed
there will be a very good, passable
road from Coyote Wells, through
Ocotillo, on to Vallecitos valley,
and thence to Warmers Springs
and the coast.
Commander Woodbury. said to-
day: Il hope the Legionnaires
respond 100 per cent to this call
to civic duty. This road is destin-
ed to become an important high
way and it has to be initiated in
some such way as this. San Di-
ego county is doing its part and
beyond San Diego county most of
the road is finished Besides there
will be some pleasurable incidents
connected with this Sunday out
ing. Motion pictures and still pic
lures will be taken by Leo Hetzel.
Some of the county's most staid
men will be reduced to the ranks
on this occasion Ex-bucks will
be in heaven when they behold
next Sunday former colonels and
majors wearing blue denims and
Dlistering their hands with shovels
and mattocks under the kindly
guidance of a hard boiled SER
geant" tSFHIh
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05
JUNIORS PLAN
TEA TOMORROW

Junior Ten Thousand club mem
bers are anticipating tomorrows
tea to be held between the hours
Of 430 and p. m. in the Ten
Thousand. club house.
These monthly teas are greatly
enjoyed by club members who drop
in informally during the afternoon
for a cup of tea and social hour.
Hostesses for tomorrows event will
oe Miss Margaret Eide, Miss Norma
Edgar and Miss Gene Edgar.
All members Of the club arc ill
vited to attend and promised q
delightful afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05
SOCIAL CALENDAR
TONIGHT

TONIGHT
b. r. o. E. No. 1925, 8, Elks
hall.
r. A. NJ. No. 1O9, s, Masonic
Temple.
Barbara Worth Rebekahs, 8,
532 Main.
Troop ID, b. S. A., 1880, Scout
hut.
Women of Moose, 8, Moose
home. :
Baptist volley ball, 1880, church.
Citizenship class, 7, high school.
Fraser concert, 8. Calexico
high school.
Junior DOCK section, 1880, 800
Olive.
Old time darce, $3.50, Veterans
hall.
Junior membership committee,
1880, 497 Hamilton.
Birch show, 8, high school.
TOMORROW
Kiwanis club, Barbara Worth.
Junior club tea, 1906, 10000
club.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05
PER)OnAL
PAPaCPnPHC

Mrs. B. j. Franklin OF Santa Bar
bara who has been visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. Don Hamilton of this
city, returned to her home yester-
day. Mrs. Franklin will be better
known to Ell Centrans as Miss Sue
Marsh for she attended the local
high school before her marriage. .
Mr.. and Mrs. George Englehorn
Of San Diego and Mr.. and Mrs. C.
Peterson of Los Angeles were Wis
itors in Ell Centro yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05
Junior Membership
Committee To Meet

Those wishing to submit names
for membership in the Junior Ten
Thousand club have been asked
% turn them in by O'Clock to-
night with Mrs. Byron Thurlow,
chairman of the club membership
committee.
That committee will meet at
7:30 tonight with Mrs. Thurlow at
her home. 497 Hamilton avenue.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05
Old Time Dance
At Hall Tonight

United Spanish War Veterans
ana Auxiliary will sponsor another
Of the old time dances in the Ve.-
Grams Memorial hall at $50 to-
night and invite the public to at
tend.
Good music VIII be supplied and
the favorite old time dances will be
featured. These affairs have prov
en- popular and it is anticipated
that many will attend tonight.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05

ers were Miss Mildred King and
Mrs. Josie Small
During the business meeting
committees were appointed and all
members were asked to donate food
to the dinner to be given on jan
uary 81 to the visiting teachers at
the Mt. Signal school. Proceeds
from the dinner will go to the home
departments treasury.
Eighteen members of the home
department and six children were
present at yesterdays meeting
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05
Miss Florence Glenn, home
demonstration agent, is COOP
Grating with The Press by Of
fering timely recipes.

Set the pared and sliced apples
in a plate lined with plain pastry;
sprinkle on the salt, sugar, and
nutmeg; add the cold water if
the apples cook dry. Otherwise
emit it. Add the butter, here and
there in bits.
Note: A little grated cheese may
be sprinkled over the apples.
Berry Pie
cups berries
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05
Social " etfare
Section Meeting

Mrs Harry Sones, 794 He'll av-
enue, was hostess last night te
members of the Junior Ten Thou
sand clubs social welfare section
who held their meeting at her
home.
After a brief business session the
group spent the evening in sew
ing on a quilt. Delicious refresh
ments were served, Miss Alice
Lund presiding at the tea table.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05
Postpone Meeting
Of Mothers Clnb

Regular meeting of the Harding
school Mothers club scheduled for
Friday of this week has been post
poned according to announcement
received today by The Press.
The club will meet next Friday,
December 13, at 2:30 in the school
kindergarten when an interest
ing program will be given.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05
Dubois To Seek
Office Again

John L. Dubois, president of the
board of directors of the Imperial
Irrigation district, will be a candi.
date for reelection to the director
ate from division No. l, he said to-
day.
Petitions of his candidacy were
circulated without his knowledge,
he said, and already a number of
signatures have been attached
thereto.
He has been in office for the
last 10 months and said he had
done his utmost to fulfill faith
fully the duties to which he was
elected and had worked to benefit
and carry out the wishes of land
owners of the district.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05
TEMPTING RECIPES GIVEN PRESS
BY HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT
2-3 cup sugar
4 teaspoon salt
l teaspoon flour
| teaspoOn butter

Line pie plate with plain
paste, fill heaping with berries,
dredge with flour, salt and sugar,
dot with small pieces of butter and
cover with top crust or strips of
pastry across top. Bake for about
45 minutes in moderate oven.
Other fruit pies may be made in
the same way.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05

ly fortunate in that she won the
high score prize at bridge and also
tho door prize. Second prize at
bridge was won by Mrs. Deinpster
Refreshments were served ut the
end of the afternoon.
The Altar society is planning an
ether card party in two weeks, on
Wednesday, January Ia
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05
MT. SIGNAL
GROUP MEETS

Mt Signal home department met
yesterday with Mrs. Myrtle Havens
to take up the project of nutri-
ton for the pre-school child. Lead
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05
SOCIETY
HAS CARD PARTY

Members CT st. Mary's Altar So
ciety were hostesses yesterday at
delightful card party held in the
parish hall.
Mrs. Glenn Klel:o1 Was unusual
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05

Afr using candles and oil lamps
for 81 years, Volcano, Amador
county, began using electric lights
on December 8.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05

Chapter AV, P.E.O., met yeSter-
day at the Harold A. Burnham
home on South Eighth street for
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-05

The Orland Grange is consider
ing plan Of building its own hall.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-28
OFFICER WHO
SHOT CAPONE
AIDE GUILTY

CHICAGO, Sept. %. ;U.P,-Har-
ny Lang, detective sergeant con-
victed by a criminal court jury of
assault with a deadly weapon on
Frank Nitti, "the enforcer' of the
Capone gang, today faced a pos
sible Jail sentence of one year and
81 900 fine.
Lang listened to the verdict quiet
ly and commented that amt so
bad" His attorney, however, moved
for a new trial.
The penalty, which may range
from a day to year in Jail or a
fine of $25 or 1000 or both, will be
fixed by the judge Oct. II if the mo-
ton for a new trial is overruled.
Nittie was shot during a police
raid on a hoodlum "hangout" in a
downtown skyscraper last Decem-
Der.
A relative of Alphonse Capone,
Nitti was shot thre times and Lang
was shot once, in the arm. Fellow
officers testified Lang shot Nitti
while the latter was being held with
his arms behind his back, and then
shot himself so he could plead self
defense.
The trial, one of the most unus-
ual in Chicago criminal history,
found the states attorney seeking
to send a policeman to prison for
shooting gangSter.
The detective testified in his own
defense yesterday he shot the for
mer Capone gang "enforcer" when
he saw him and Police Sergeant
Chris Callahan struggling. and be-
lieved the policeman's life was in
danger. ..-.....
Testimony at the trail revealed the
late Mayor Anton j. Cermak be-
leved a New York gangster had
been imported by the Capone syn
dictate to assassinate him.
Cermak ordered a bullet proof
vest and had Lang detailed as his
personal bodyguard. 1t was at the
mayors request that he went to
the gangster hangout to arrest
Louis Campagnia, known as Lit
tie New York." Lang testified.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-28
WASHINCTON REALIZING NRA
MEANS PLENTY Of HARD WORK
Idea That Movement Was Immediate Cure
For Nations Economic Ills Is Gradually
Being Dissipated By Actual Experience.

is gone. Now officials are pleading
for time and patience.
President Roosevelt apparently
has turned his interest somewhat
away from hammering at the NRA
drive. He is first of all preparing
for another winter of considerable
unemployment by expanding direct
relief activities as for instance his
ALLEGATION of 100000 for food.
He is seeking to bolster the steel in
dustry by heavy government fin
anced orders for steel rails. His
RFC is offering easier credit. He is
offering to loan cotton farmers 10
cents pound, practically the mar
ket price. These more recent moves
recall the tactics of the Hoover adj
on credit as depression cure.
ministration, which concentrated
All informed officials know that
business is not responding as had
been hoped. The stock market has
dropped to lower figures. Indus
trials are back where they were in
early August. Rails are at mid-June
averages. Utilities, loaded with top
heavy debt structures which have
not been pulled down are averag-
ing the lowest since the last of APP
ril.
Electric power production is off
slightly. Steel is not showing the
gain which should go with expand
ing business. Gerard SWope, OF
General Electric and a leading in
dustrialist who is lending hand
at MIRA headquarters finds bust
ness better than a year ago but
encounters a General disappoint-
ment that the improvement was not
more pronounced
Employment Improves
Employment has shown improve
ment. William Green, president oil
the American Federation of Labor
estimates that $4,000 men went
back to work in August. His fig
! ures indicate 100000 have re-
turned to work since March. Thai
is the outstanding achievement
which gives administration officials
their greatest Shope. YeS Green
says the number of families on re-
CONTINUED On Page 81
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-28
WHO SOAKED
SCREEN STAR
ON THE NOSE?

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 49, UP
The fist that bloodied the nose of
Clara Bow and gave her a severe
headache was sought today by stu
dio officials on the suspicion that
accidents do not always happen.
Clara was knocked out colder
than an igloo when fist, emerging
from a milling fight scene, caught
her square on the button"
At first regarded as an accident,
the incident aroused some suspi-
cion when it was recalled that the
sit" girl had thrown herself into
the same scene with such abandon
and enthusiasm on the preceding
day that one "bloodied" nose and
several scratched faces came out of
the melee.
Although Clara herself scoffed
at the idea she was the target of
retaliation, officials sought the own
er of the well-aimed fist.
In the scene, Clara was attempt
ing to rescue Richard Cromwell
co-starred in the film, from mob
of 200 struggling men.
Clara said she hoped to return
to the studio today, although her
doctors said she might require an
other day to recover from the knock
out punch.
Not only was her nose punched
but Clara inadvertently bit her
tongue as she received the blow
She said it was too tender for her
to talk fluently.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-28
HOOVER AIDE
ASSISTS MIRA

WASHINGTON, Sept. %. UP
Patrick j. Hurley, former secretary
of war, today became the first Hoo
yer cabinet member to speak pub
licly for the NRA.
In an address which he said Gen.
eral Johnson had asked him to
make, Hurley last night declared
Il gladly give my support to help
attain the detectives of the MIRA"
THE economic policies of the
chosen leader of the people are en-
Etled 20 cooperative action that
transcends partisan politics" he
said I'm these times we should all
give President Roosevelt a charac-
ter of non-partisan support which
in my opinion was too often denied
his predecessor.
Hurley asserted the industrial
codes represented the hig n e S
standards of business ethics yet at
tanned
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-28
OBTAIN JURY
IN LAND CASE

After nearly 10 days of questions
and challenges by attorneys IN the
alien land law trial which is being
held before Judge R. D. McPherrin
in superior court. agreement on
jury was reached shortly after 3
o clock yesterday afternoon. The
court then adjourned the case until
Monday morning at which time two
alternate jurors will be chosen and
the presentation of evidence Will
begin.
Seven times during the past week
and a half either the defense or the
prosecution would agree on the
jury and pass it as it stood at that
time, only to have opposing coun-
sci exercise the right OF challenge
and then a new juror would have
to be called. -Four times the defense
passed the jury and three times the
prosecution.
When the jury of six men and six
women was finally agreed upon
yesterday afternoon it was found
that the last name on the special
venire had been called, making
two venires in all which had been
used up. A special list is being
prepared from which to choose the
two alternates on Monday morn
ing.
The personnel OF the Jury as it
was agreed upon Yesterday is as
fellows: Mrs. Clara Raab, Calex-
leo; William Belford, Imperial; Mrs
Fannie Kuhn, FL Centre; Mrs. Ruth
Hart, Holtville; Mrs. Matte Tor
renee, Holtville; Mrs. Ethel Bear
up, Calexico; Mrs. May Williams
Holtville; Robert H. McKibben, FL
Centric; Anton Homola, Calexico;
Ollie Stewart, Holtville; Fred
Strahm. Holtville, and John F. Ma
hon, Calexico.
1t is understood that between &c
and Is character witnesses for the
defense will be brought down from
Los Angeles next week when the
trial really gets under way. Sub
poenas for seven of these witnesses
will be issued on Monday and CIV
en- to Sheriff Campbell to be served
| by him.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-28

TRIAL At END
State And Counsel For Noto-
rious Kidnapers Start Argu-
ments To Jury.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. %. U.P)
The fate of Harvey Bailey, AL
bert Bates, and eight co-defendants
in the famous Urschel kidnapping
was argued before the jury today.
The assortment of gangsters,
farmers, and northern business
men faced possible life imprison-
ment for a crime due to become
historic.
Defense testimony closed abrupt
ly when Bailey and Bates, who with
George machine Gum Kelly are
the accused leaders in the 100000
ransom plot, chose to gamble on
silence. They offered no defense.
Arguments started at $50 am.
on the ninth day of the sensational
trial in the fortified federal build
ing.
The government was allotted four
hours to secure convictions in the
first test of the new Lindbergh
kidnapping law The combined de-
Tense was given five hours to plead
it's case.
Over the whole drama still hung
the menace of reprisals or rescue
attempts from outlaws yet uncap-
tured.
Federal agents, machine gun
armeJ guarded prisoners and
prosecutors alike. Extreme pre-.
cautions we're taken, both here and
in Memphis where Kelly and his
red haired wife, Katherine, were
confined. Federal guards accompa-
MED Charles F. Urschel, the kidnar
victim in the most lucrative extor-
ton on record, and his family.
st-breaking developments rem
dered the outcome uncertain. AS
the case went to the jury of Il
men, four other persons were ir
government custody in connection
with the crime. Investigators fer
retted out further qualifications Of
the plot and limited that other ar
rests impended.
In addition to the Kellys in Mem
phis, Cass Coleman and Will Cas-
ey, Texas farmers, were held II
that state. Their arrest followed
discovery of $73,250 of the ransom
money buried in Coleman s cottor
patch.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-28
KILLED
IN EXPLOSION

WICHITA FALLS, Tex, Sept. %.
<U.H;-Three men were killed and
fourth was critically injured in an
explosion and fire which RACED the
$3.50 1000 Taxman refinery here early
today.
Charred bodies. dragged from
where the men had been trapped in
the cracking plant, were believed
those of Bob Finley, chief mocha
mic, and Ralph Spettel and Clyde
Holland, insulators.
Clyde Griffin, assistant operator,
was not expected to live. His clo-
thing was ignited by spraying gas
oline as he stood outside the plant.
Clyde Griffin, assistant operator,
and c. B. Ward, electrician, were
burned seriously.
The explosion occurred in a
cracking plant tower.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-28
FOUR SURVIVE
PLANE CRASH

VENTURA, Cal, Sept. % .U.R-
Dan Emmett, former "flying as
semblyman, and three other per-
sons narrowly escaped death early
today when Emmett's airplarie
crashed to the ground after raking
power wire three miles east of
Piru.
Emmett suffered fractures of both
legs and Ernest Tallman. passenger,
was knocked unconscious. The ex-
tent of Tallman injuries was not
Immediately learned.
Mrs Emmett and the fourth pas
senger, Charles Wright, were I'M
hurt.
Piloted by Emmett, well-known
rancher, former assemblyman, and
Legionnaire, the plane had just
taken off from Ventura airport,
bound for Chicago, where the men
planned to attend the national
American Legion convention.
Flying low because of fog, En-
NETT said he suddenly saw the high
tension cable. He turned the nose
up sharply but the trailing tail
fouled the wire. The plane crashed
backward to the ground from a
height of approximately 80 feet.
The injured were brought to Eos
ter Memorial hospital here.
Wright is commander of the San
ia Paula Legion post, Tallman is
head of the Veterans hospital at
LiVermore.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-28
NIX R1~~
8 n,s,, neNaush, syntasass. l"<
FALL OPENING
DATE SET FOR
OCTOBER list

October 81 was decided upon as
the date of the annual fall OPEN
ing at meeting of Ell Centro's re-
tail merchants held at Chamber of
Commerce headquarters today. The
festival this year will be an all day
event and in addition to marking
the opening of the fall season will
be in the nature of NRA celebra-
ton as the MIRA drive will be COM
pleted in Ell Centre by that time
and will celebrate the fact that this
community has lined up behind the
blue eagle with the rest OF the
United States.
Merchants pledged themselves to
decorate their places of business
for this occasion and new fall mer-
chandise will be on display in all
the stores of the city. Special win
dow displays will be arranged and
the city will welcome fall with a
display equal to that of the larger
coast cities. ,
eliminating day of celebrating
will be a MIRA parade in which ev-
cry phase of community life will
participate 1uuuSIIldI lNIIS, IC-
tail merchants, churches, schools,
service clubs and women IS organic
ations. Boy Scouts, ex-service
groups, and all other organizations
will participate in this parade
which it is planned to make the
largest ever held in Ell Centre.
At today's meeting at which j.
Duke Johnson, chairman of the
chamber of commerce merchants
relations committee, presided, only
tentative plans were made but de-
tails will be worked out Immediate
ly by special committees. Commit
tees formed today were as follows
parade, John r. Robertson, w. o
Hinderks, Roland R. Wright; pub
lefty Robert Hays, w. c. Costello
George Bennitt, Dick Erickson; re-
tail merchants, Duke Johnson. Sam
Cox, Warren Currier, G.. r. Scriv-
en-, M. o. King. C. w. Ashley was
chosen as head of the entertain
ment committee with additional
members to be announced at 6
later date, and w. H. Tyler, Jr. was
chosen chairman of the finance
committee.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-28
EXPOSE HIGH
RATE ON MAIL
Investigation Of Contracts
Shows Stratling Figures Paid
By Government.
BY LYLE c. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.--Per-
sonal expenses of Henry Herber-
man, shipping magnate, regularly
included breakfasts, lunches and
dinners at S25 each about the time
the government was paying him
SOL 1926 per pound for carrying
transatlantic mail, records of SEN
ate investigators showed today.
The senate committee investigat-
ing Republican administration of
the United States shipping board
and especially the operation of the
Jones-W White shipping act of 1928,
will resume inquiry into Herber-
mans activities Friday.
Chairman Black has been trying
to discover the use to which Her
herman put huge sums during and
after the period of his negotiations
with the shipping board and post
office department.
"We have shown that he got 66
2-3 per cent of his insurance prem
iums paid by the government at a
saving of $457,000 to him." Black
told the United Press. mo other
steamship was so favored except
the Leviathan. And it was shown
that in 1881 Postmaster General
Brown changed his ocean mail con-
tract, raising the payment on four
of Herberman's Export Steamship
corporation vessels from $3.50 to
81 per mile for carriage OF mail. y
Black also put into the record
data showing that from 1928 to
May 1888 the mail subsidy to Her
berman's ships aggregated $6,740, 1893.
From August 10, 1928 to June 10,
1929, Black said, Herberman's YES
sells carried three pounds of letters al
cost to the government of 1924,
$50 or S81 1926 per pound. He said
that in 1929, II of his ships carried
one pound of mail for $115,3 1886. The
average subsidy per pound in 1925
was $66,083.
Herberman was much in Wash
ington during his negotiations with
the government and maintained q
suite at the Mayflower hotel at
cost of $4,000 annually He received
here in currency tens of thousands
of dollars but was unable to tel
the committee specifically what be-
came of the money. About the time
| he obtained ship construction
| loan, Herberman drew about $75,'
900 in currency.