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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-03
SETTLE FILM LIBEL
SUIT OUT OF COURT
Mother Of Late Alma Rubens Ac-
cepts Terms Of Magazine.


cepts Terms Of Magazine.
BIZ Unitcd Prcss
LOS ANGELES. Feb. 3.-An out
Of court settlement in the 81 900 900
SUIT Of Mrs. Theresa Rubens,, moth
er Of the late Alma Rubens, against
Pohotoplay Publishing Company was
disclosed Thursday when the case
was placed off superior court cal
endar.
At a trial sevral months ago
when a jury failed to agree, Mrs.
Rubens charged the magazine IL
beled her by saying she had not
notified her daughters husband,
Ricardo Cortez, Of Miss Rubens
serious condition, and thereby de-
prived Cortez of being at her bed
side when she died
The late James r. Quirk, publish
er Of the Fan magazine, testified
his company had obtained the in
formation from what it presumed
to be reliable sources, and that it
had no intention of libeling Mrs
Rubens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-03
STEAMFITTERS'
UNION ACCEPTS
PAY SCALE CUT
Wage Reduced 20 Cents an
Hour: Already Placed
in Effect.

Wage scale reduction Of 20 cents
an hour has been placed in effect
by the local plasterers and steam
filters union, it was learned today
This is the second reduction accept
ed by the union.
The plasterers and steamfitters
are the first locals among the build
ing trades crafts to agree to a pay
slash since start Of negotiations sew
eral weeks ago by contractors for a
general building trades scale reduc-
ton.
The reduction, which was placed
in effect Wednesday by the plaster
ers and steamfitters, is from S1.32l2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-03
MARCH WRITTEN IN
ROOSEVELT'S HONOR
Selection viii Be Played at
Inaugural Rites.
Tnifcd Prcss

. HFTfH I'TfFN
ELKHORN, Wis. Feb. ga new
march in honor of President Elect
Franklin D. Roosevelt was an
nounced today by L. H. CMact.
McQuestion. composer.
The composition. known as
''Rooseveltonian. will be played for
the first time by the national marine
band at the inaugural ceremonies in
Washington. March 4.
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NOTHING DONE
CONGRESS END
DRAWING NEAR
Even Appropriation Bills
May Have to Wait for
Special Session.
BY LYLE c. WILSON
United Press stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-Short
session congressional prospects were
confused today, with only four weeks
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-03
COMPETITIONIS
ANNOUNCED FOR
MODEL PLANES
Extensive Program to Be
Conducted Here by
Flying Group.

Extensive program Of competition
for boys and girls interested in
model airplane building was an
nounced to day by Herbert Fisher.
secretary Of the local chapter of the
National Aeronautics Association.
Youths under the age of q will be
eligible to participate in the four
contests which have been scheduled
for this year.
First on the program will be an
indoor scale model contest April 20,
probably at the Antlers. Cash prizes
Will be awarded.
An indoor flying contest. spon-
sored by the city recreation depart
ment, will be held during May def
mite date not having been set, at the
Butler fieldhouse.
Offer Cash Prizes
In June, an outdoor flying contest
viii be held at municipal airport.
Another indoor contest for scale
models will be held Sept. 9 and 10,
the number Of contestants being
limited to ten in each of six classes.
Contestants will be required to
build scale models Of specified types
Of planes. These types probably
will include the navy NC-4 round
the-World seaplane; autogyro, Clip
per, JN5, the Wright brothers
original plane and Doolittle's Gee
Bee racing plane.
Cash prizes will be awarded and
the winning models in this event
will become the property of the N.
A. A. and will be placed on display,
probably at municipal airport.
Records to Be Official
Herschel Knight, chairman Of the
model contest committee of the N.
A. A, is attempting to finance pur-
chase Of several miniature gasoline
motors for another model flying
contest.
Any records set in these contests
will be official because of the N. A.
A. sponsorship. Advancement of
aeronautics is the principle purpose
of the organization.
Last year it sent three winners of
local contests to a national COM
petition at Atlantic City, the local
delegation returning with one
world championship and several
splendid trophies.
Captain r. E. Whitehead is the
new N. A. A. governor for Indiana.
Local officers, besides Fisher are
Louis Schwitzer, president, and
Lieutenant Cecil F. Reynolds, treas
urer.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
Charge False
Claims Made

Protection to bona fide residents
of the county who are seeking work
under the new CWA and other set
ups will be afforded to the utmost
extent by county authorities who
are working hand in hand with the
national unemployment service and
other agencies.
This was brought out today when
officers we're sent to the Winter
haven district to bring in four men
who had been discovered working
in the county under false affidavits
which had claimed that they were
bona fide residents of the county
1t is expected that they will be pros
ecuted on perjury charges.
These men, it was learned today,
had applied to Chan Livingston,
manager of the Unemployment SER
vice, for work claiming they were
residents of the county and pre-
sented affidavits to this effect. An
investigation of the case, however,
showed that they had but recently
come to the county from Los An
geles seeking work.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
RECENT LAND
LAW TRIAL is
BASE OF SUITS

Asking that receivers for the pro-
perty be appointed and that leases
now eXistant be cancelled, two suits
were filed in superior court yes
terday afternoon as an echo of the
recent alien land law trial.
Ada l.. Murphy filed an action
against the Preside Development
company; B. S. Sangha, also known
as Bawa Singh, agent and attorney
in fact for the company, ct al.
In this complaint the plaintiff al
leges that on September 26, 1881,
she entered into a lease agreement
with the defendant company
through Bawa Singh for certain
lands in Imperial County. After
this agreement was entered into,
plaintiff contends she was informed
OF the provisions of the alien land
law and because of this wishes to
have the lease agreement cancelled.
Another action similar in nature
was filed by Erlinda Ochoa Singh,
wife of Thaker Singh, living west of
Imperial, against Carl H. Bilger, Los
Angeles, owner of the land under
lease. The complaint asks to have a
receiver appointed by the court for
the property and to have the lease
cancelled
In connection with these actions,
it is understood that crops at pre-
sent growing on the lands in ques-
ton are to be protected, and that
the leases will be closed up just as
soon as the crops are harvested.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
Cattle DrogUned
I'm Drain Ditch

Seven head Of cattle, part of a
herd of 200 shipped III from Ocean
side for pasturage, were drowned in
drainage canal sCdth Of Meloland
during the night, according to w. V.
Truitt, county humane agent.
The cattle belonged ito c. G. Bor-
den of Oceanside and unknown to
him were left without caretaker
and with no supply Of water Many
of them wandered into the deep
drainage ditch where their cries
were heard by nearby ranchers who
summoned aid for them.
Truitt enlisted the aid of a local
garageman with a Wrecking car to
remove the cattle from the ditch
where many of them had begged
down, the work continuing through
out the greater part of last night
All but seven were rescued and the
owner was notified of their conf
ton. He promised Truitt to have
Their. cared for and to stand the
expense incidental to the humane
officers work.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
CLEANERS AND
DYERSObJECT
To NRA CODE
Government Threatens Criminal
Prosecution If Regulations Not
Respected.
By FREDERICK G. OTHMAN
BY United Press

WASHINGTON, Dec. IL. - The
government today threatened GRIM
inal prosecution of cleaners and
dyers who violate blue eagle price
fixing regulations.
Out of 100 summoned to a COM
pliance hearing, only one man, own
er of a shop in Warsaw, Ind,
promised to raise his prices high
enough to meet MIRA regulations.
William Davis, national compli-
ance director, called the others
"crazy'. He said they were
"fools'' and promised to turn their
cases over Immediately to the fed
eral trade commission for investi-
cation, leading to prosecution.
Cleaners and dyers from nearly
all the states alternately booed and
cheered while Davis threatened and
cajoled. He vainly sought to get
the cash and carry cleaners to prom
Use code prices in their establish
ments by tomorrow.
Charles F. Johnston, owner of a
Jacksonville, Fla, cleaning plant,
said he would not raise his prices,
on penalty of losing his customers
and closing his shop. Davis said
that possible $500 fine was
ga lot different from a 80 cent
cleaning job
I'D rather lock the place up
than raise my prices,'' Johnston
shouted. 81 didn It know there was
law denying me the right to earn
living. I can't believe it.
can IT,
"Nobody wants to starve you, or
your wife or your babies - Davis
replied 81 want you to telegraph
your people in Jacksonville tonight
to put the code in effect tomorrow
And $500 is lot of money!
eyes, said johnson, "$500 is a
lot of money, but I feel like I've
been terribly mistreated and I don t
see how I can comply
"You are young man. retort-
ed Davis, "a fool. You re making
a great mistake.
eff I'm wrong I'm sorry said
Johnston, with tears in his eyes
81 still can't believe there is a law
which can prevent me from earning
an honest living
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
SUNNY JIM
BARGES INTO
ANOTHER JAM

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. IL.
U.P)-GOvernor James Sun
ny JIM ROlph, Jr., of Cali
fOrnia, found himself in an
unusual predicament here to-
day when he became quaran-
tined for chickenpOx aboard
the Dollar liner President
Taft, locked on the San Fran
cisco waterfront.
The governor inadvertently
exposed himself to the disease
when he called upon his conf
dental secretary, Miss Amy
Dawson, who had returned
from vacation voyage to
Notwithstanding a case of
chickenpox with her.
There was no quarantine
sign on the door of Miss
DawsOn's staterOom and the
governor confidently strobe in
to the room. When he turned
to leave, DIR. X. ]. Mapes,
ships physician, blocked the
exit, pending an examination
by DIR. J. c. Geiger, San Fran
cisco public health director.
DIR. Mapes refused TO take
the responsibility for an cpl
demic of chicken pOx should
the governor happen to catch
the malady and spread it.
The incident was another
episode in the crowded calen-
dar of Governor Rolph, who in
recent weeks gained wild e
prominence by allowing con-
demned man to drink all the
whisky he desired before he
was hanged, and by officially
c0ndOning a double lynching
CT two accused kidnapers by a
mob in San Jose.
Finally, the authorities ruled
that the governor and Miss
Dawson might leave the liner
President Taft, which locked
this morning from Honolulu,
where Miss Dawson spent her
vacation.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
BALANCE
STATE BUDGET

POMONA, Calf, Dec. II. U.P) =
The banks of California ARE vitality
interested in supporting the finan-
cial structure of the state but lin
the long run the state budget must
be balanced according to telegram
from representative bankers today
in the possession of Ray L. Riley,
state controller.
The message, signed by William
A. Kennedy of Pomona, president
of the California Bankers associa-
ton, read in part:
at would be unfair to the banks
for the public to believe they were
not cooperating. The banks are vi
tally interested in supporting the
financial structure of the state and
are willing to go as far as legally
permissible. They realize, however,
that the issuance of warrants can
be at best a temporary eXpedient.
"In the long run the state budget
must be balanced"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
ROSE SCHOOL
WILL DECIDE
KNOTTY ISSUE

Saving does not always pay as
the trustees of Rose school have
found to their sorrow. For some
time they have been saving funds,
putting of making repairs to the
building, painting, ETC., SO that they
would have money on hand to meet
an emergency, according to C. B.
Collins, county superintendent of
schools.
Now, under the new law which
provides that a school district may
not exceed by more than five per
cent in its expenditures over the
amount spent the previous year,
Rose school district can not spend
money for needed work, even
though it actually has the cash
ready.
The only way in which this five
per cent increase limitation may be
overcome is by appeal to the state
board of equalization or by a dis
trict election. Consequently or
December ID, Rose school district
will hold an election on the ques-
ton. Tonight a meeting is being
held to discuss the pros and cons
of the question.
Superintendent Collins states that
he fears the new law may have
dangerous consequences and in
stead of working an economy, may
prove a boomerang, since it offers
schools an incentive to spend all
that they can so as to have high
err level the next year on which to
base their increase.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
GRE " SAVED
. FROM DEATH
BELOW RIVER

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec. II. UP
OF seven men who crouched 10l
feet below the Missouri river for an
hour and half with death SEEM
ingly inevitable, only one suffered
serious injurious effects, medical
examination indicated today. The
Workmen sinking concrete piers to
bedrock for bridge, were trapped
in steel caisson under highly COM
pressed air. A fire of undetermined
origin broke out below the sirlock
door. The fumes crept slowly down
ward until the victims lay on their
faces in the mud to escape them.
! A crew on the surface desperate
ly pumped air into the bottom of
the caisson, letting the fumes out
at the top as rapidly as they dared.
Sudden release of the pressure
would have engulfed the men in
| slime.
I. E. Hays, directing the surface
crew, finally solved the problem. He
attached water pump to a small
pipe leading to a door under which
| the fire was burning. Under high
pressure a small stream of water
was pumped, and spread slowly over
| the burning timberS.
Gradually the fire died out.
The men, j. j. Murphy, gang
foreman and his crew, we're brought
! to the surface gradually to avoid
any bad effects from their expert
ence.
Robert ODell, one of the victims,
was taken to a hospital suffering
from inhalation of smoke. His con-
dition was not dangerous.
Grim humor pervaded the mems
accounts of their terrifying expert
ence. They said when the fumes
enveloped their faces and they were
forced to lie PROSTATE, someone
started singing. Already they had
accepted the caisson as their death
chamber, they said.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
PACKERS NOT
IN FAVOR OF
RATE 81 A. H

LOS ANGELES, Dec. u. U.P)-
Efforts of midwestern packing firms
to reduce freight rates en- products
shipped to Pacific coast packing
houses were resisted today by the
coast packing industry at hear
ing before Interstate Commerce
Commission Examiners Ches e +
Stiles and Albert Parker.
The reduction would mean ruin
to the Los Angeles and coast in
dustry, j. A. McNaughton, general
manager of the local union stock
yards, said. He declared reduced
rates would "flood' the coast
market with middle western meat,
thereby imperiling investments that
run into the millions.
McNaughton S views were sup
ported by r. S. Sawyer, spokesman
for the associated jobbers and man.
ufacturers on the independent
freight and rate committee.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
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YOUTH CLAIMS
CRIME CAREER

LOS ANGELES, Dec. u. U.P)--An
amazing confession that he slugged
a number of victims, one fatally,
for sheer "thrill'', was linked to
18-year- Henry Boyington today
as he was booked on suspicion of
murder.
The boy, believed to be from Liv-
ingston, Mont, surrendered at Gen.
trail police station last night with
the statement his girl friend would
have nothing to do with him until
he made "a clean breast of every
thing" police said. They reported
that after hours of questioning
they connected him with Is recent
holdups.
He was booked on suspicion of
murder charges when he identified
himself, according to police, as the
footpad who fatally beat an aged
unidentified man in a holdup at
tempt nearly a week ago. The vic
tim died last night of fractured
skull without having regained con-
seriousness.
Wearing a dirty suede jacket in
Scribed with the words "Smoky
the Livingston Kid across the
back, Boyington sauntered into the
police business office and asked
Capt. Fred Parsons if he had any
reports of recent bandit sluggings.
81 got a thrill out of 'sapping
people, he was quoted as saying
81 liked to see 'em kick after
hit EN-
Police said the youth told them
he followed his girl friend here from
Montana several weeks ago.
While the suspect was being ques-
toned, police received a telegram
from Fresno police stating the youth
had sent himself a package through
the mails under the alias of "Le
Duke'. The package was forward
ed here for inspection on the theory
it might contain a blackjack, po-
lice said.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
NEARLY HANGS
TO YARDARM

SAN PEDRO, Calf, Dec. II. W.P)
Hal Jones, 80, Long Beach yacht
broken, nearly hung himself from
the yardarm early today.
A guest at party aboard the 150-
foot sailing yacht CORTLAND S.
Brown of Los Angeles, Jones decid-
ed at the height of the merriment
to explore the crafts rigging. High
above the deck, he slipped and fell.
A tangle of ropes broke his fall, pre-
venting probably serious injury, but
a rope became fouled about his
neck.
S. H. Douglas and r. w. Hunt,
wharf bystanders, heard Jones cries
before he lost consciousness, scaled
the mast and extricated him.
He was taken to San Pedro hos
pital, where his condition was re-
ported as semi-conscious several
hours later.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
Continue Hearing
On School Matter

Continued until December 18 at
o'clock for further hearing the queS-
ton of anneXing the Dixieland
school district to the Central Union
high school district was temporar-
lily disposed of yesterday afternoon
by the board of county supervisors.
j. L. House, principal of Central
Union in appearing before the board
yesterday stated that if Dixieland
is not annexed, nothing is paid to-
ward the expenses of several pupils
at Central Union high school from
that part of the county. House stat
ed that he desired an equitable ad-
justment of the matter and after
delegates from the DiXieland dis
trict were heard the matter was
continued until next Monday in the
hope that by that time some plan
might be worked out which would
solve the present difficulty.
The board authorized the cancel
lation of taxes on certain lots i'll
Holtville and adjournment was
taken until 2 o'clock this afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
DID LAW BANS
LIQUOR SALES

LOS ANGELES, Dec. IL. U.P) -
A musty, forgotten law was resur-
rected today to give the state pow
err to prevent the sale of liquor be-
tween a. m. and 6 a. m.
Fred Stewart, member of the state
board of equalization, revealed to-
day that the law, passed in 1913,
never was repealed, and lit solves
for us at once the problem of linn
iting the hours of sales, since the
new liquor law does not cover that
point"
$50 long as the people can buy all
the liquor they want, legally there
is no reason why they should break
the law" Stewart declared.
Stewart added he had 43 investi-
gators now at work in Los Angeles
county, and said more would be adj
ded this week.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
legislators VIII
Aid Tuna Industry

LOS ANGELES, Dec. IL. up
Assemblyman John T. RaWls of San
Pedro today had aligned more than
20 Southern California legislators
behind his petition to President
Roosevelt to save the hard-hit Cal
ifornia tuna industry by an en-
barge on japanese tuna.
The petition was drawn after all
the local tuna packing plants had
closed because of professed inability
to meet cheap foreign competition.
Sixty craft are idle in Los Angeles
harbor and some 5000 employees
were reported thrown out of work
Thirteen canneries were reported
affected.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
QUICK TRIAL
FOR SLAYER

HUTCHINSON, Kans., Dec. IL. (U,R)
Plans for a swift trial of Jack
Wisdom, cowboy who confessed to
Staying a Wichita couple, were cut
short early today, apparently by or
der of Gov. Alfred M. Landon, who
feared a mob would seize the pri-
soner.
Wisdom had indicated he would
plead guilty and accept the Kansas
maximum OF life imprisonment, Of
ficers said.
When an attempt was made to
remove Wisdom from the Hutchin-
son institution, officials said they
had been ordered to hold him, 1t
was believed Landon inspired or
gave the orders.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
WALLACE: AND
PEEK ADDRESS
FARM BUREAU
Disagreeing Agricultural Ad-
ministration Officials Express
Divergent Views.
BY FRED MYERS
nited Press Staff Correspondent

OIntcu TTtSS StdII Correspondent
CHICAGO, Dec. IL. - The con-
trasting PHILOSOPHERS of Henry A.
Wallace, secretary of agriculture,
and George Peek, former AAA adj
ministrator, were presented today
in the forum of the American Farm
Bureau Federation.
The high administration agricul-
tural officials, whose clash over
policies led to the shifting of Peek
to a newly created export post,
spoke one after the other before the
powerful farm organization which
Claims to represent 100000 farm
residents.
Wallace pleaded for closest COOP
Grafton in carrying out the admin
iStratiOn IS crop reduction program
and urged the formation of a pow
erful midWestern "preSSure group
to supply the President with a
strong reservoir of support in his
recovery actions.
Peek emphasized the necessity of
controlling capitalism if it is to
survive as an economic system. He
devoted considerable portion of
his address to the possibility of ex-
port outlets for farm supplies.
Flags Leadership
Wallace sharply attacked miStak-
en-. leadership during the postwar
years which allowed agricultural
SURPRISES to pile up despite the
sharp curtailment of export mar
ketS.
lever since the war; said Wal
lace, eve have blundered along
refusing to reconcile our professions
with the realities. The failure to
adopt any nationally approved plan
during the postwar years has OF
course been disastrous fer all of our
major producing groups. -
Wallace varied agrioulturists
against the sniping' of obstruct-
ionists.
"There is nothing people of this
sort like better than to stir up ami
mosities, to SOW seeds of discord al
every opportunity said Wallace
"The fact that a group may be
fighting for its life apparently is
of no concern
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
Describes Alleged
Attack BY TuUy

LOS ANGELES, Dec. IL. U.P)-
Mrs. Violet ROBBERY, 10, tearfully
described today the alleged attack
upon her by Alton Tully, 23-year-
old son of Jim Tully, hobo-noveliSt,
at Tully S preliminary hearing on
charges of criminal assault.
She got out of her husband S au-
tomobile after an argument and
started walking home, Mrs. Robey
said, and young Tully picked her
up near Monterey park. He drove
another girl home first, she said,
then tried to attack her, beating
her about the face when she re-
sisted.
Young Tully was present at the
hearing and was expected to testify
later. 1t was his fourth arrest on
similar charges.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-12
LOW LIQUOR
TAXATION UP
TO CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, Dec. IL. (U.P) =
President RooSevelt's stand. for Ii
quor taxes low enough to wipe out
the bootlegger today gave congress
sional leaders the incentive they
needed to discard the $3.50 whisky
levy proposed by the administra-
TONS special alcohol control COM
mittee.
A majority of members of the
house ways and means committee
and the senate finance committee
favor a tax far below that recon-
mended, but reluctance to break
with the administration on the is
sue has been apparent. One group
has proposed continuance of the
present S110 excise tax until the
bootleg industry is exterminated.
Now with the President indicating
his willingness to have congress
tackle the liquor tax problem in its
own way, the various groups favor
ing taxes of So or under were free
to exert themselves.